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Hello again everyone! I'm excited about this weeks reading, we are starting to see some good examples of the evolutionary process as well as some of the primary examples that helped Darwin shape his realizations. I found a few of the examples very interesting and I really enjoyed reading about the predictions that were made by two different people (Darwin & Wallace) around the same time periods, with limited knowledge of each others research. This, to me, was great to read about. Finding that multiple researchers were finding some of the same information at the same time shows me that there is a decent amount of merit to what they proposed.
When i was getting through the examples in the text there were a few things that stuck out to me and a few things I had some questions about.
1- The idea that the pollinators (Hummingbirds, Bees, etc.) had the same tendencies towards what we described as 'beautiful' flowers. Hence, causing the flowers that were more colorful and pleasing to look at to become pollinated more often and have better chances of surviving. Also falling under this same idea was the idea that the hens are more attracted to a mate that had a more flamboyant and colorful than others that looked a little more plain, again using the same presumption that they are seeing these colors the same way we see them.
2- Natural Selection. There are so many good examples of this in the book, and the way it ends up working always seems to be a cycle to me. The one i saw the cycle in the most was the Canary. The idea that the females were attracted to the males song and it caused a sort of arousal that caused the likelihood of them mating to increase. This, in turn, would help to develop more males to be born that had the more attractive song and would eventually cause more mating. This is the big concept behind Natural Selection, Right? I'm new to the details of Natural Selection and the majority of the ideas in this chapter include the female making a choice of its mate, so I wanted to clarify the process and what parameters constitute that it is indeed Natural Selection.
Okay, i don't want to take up all the main points, I hope to hear from everyone soon. Thanks again for joining me!
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Finally had time to finish the chapter and I guess I really don't have a lot to add to what you guys have said. Most of the chapter seemed pretty straightforward, not really much that seemed difficult to understand. Like Heather said, Dawkins sets the stage for getting down to business about natural selection by "softening us up" (lol) with his discussions of artificial selection and sexual selection. And I thought it was a nice transition when we moved from humans being the artificial selectors to birds and bees and insects (totally agree that it's truly amazing the way all these co-evolve.)
I guess there's 2 main points that really jumped out at me. The 1st is the discussion about the process of natural selection, while being similar in many points to these other processes, is unlike them in one very important way: there is no "choosing" agent in natural selection at all. I thought it was interesting that it was Darwin himself who, innocently, basically caused the problem by talking about evolution in a manner that seemed to attribute some kind of guiding design behind it. Like saying that "natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing..." obviously gives the wrong impression. I felt this was important because it still seems to be one of the big problems that people have when trying to really understand evolution. I watch a lot of programs that deal in one way or another with evolution and they are always saying things in such a way that it sounds like evolution is some force that is proactively acting on a species with end-result adaptations in mind. That is exactly not true.
The other point i was struck by is when Dawkins points out that "Artificial selection is not just an analogy for natural selection. Artificial selection constitutes a true experimental - as opposed to observational - test of the hypothesis that selection causes evolution." That was one of those "ah-ha!" moments for me :)
One example of the adaptations that plants have made that i thought was pretty incredible was the "bucket orchids", the ones where the bee falls down in the pot and the has to crawl out through a little side hole, where it's trapped while "pollinia" are glued to it's back, held in place till the glue dries and then is released to hopefully carry the pollinia to another orchid. Wow! that is quite a series of steps. Very cool.
First, it's really hard for me to know what a chapter is, since this is a talking book. So if I get ahead, sorry.
As you can tell from my avatar, I'm a dog lover. Dawkins goes into the idea that we probably (actually, he sounds pretty sure) didn't domesticate the dog. The dog is a result of natural selection. The artifical selection (fine tuning of different breeds) came later after we learned the concept of artificial selection.
I'm wild about this idea and had studied it in detail before Dawkin's brief description. But since we are reviewing this book I will stop here.
Dawkins does a wonderful job explaining how science measures time and age. It was a nice review for me. Since this book has creationists in mind, he built this all up to explain how the flood theory could never be. I'm guessing his younger self never thought he would have to explain how "Head for the Hills" couldn't have happened.
PS - his build up of artificial and natural selection and dating is to understand a concept in chapter 4.
I thought that whole section was very fascinating, well really everything in this book is, but anyway. A very interesting point about how when domesticated animals go feral that they very quickly sort of revert to something close to their pre-domesticated state. Yet, though we know that dogs are descendants of wolves, the state they revert to in the wild is more like "village dogs" than wolves; which implies that the wolf went through an intermediary stage where it was "self-domesticating" by becoming adapted to live closer to humans and feed off their refuse piles. Absolutely fascinating!
And also, though I don't think Dawkins said this, and it might be wrong, but it makes some sense to me [ah well, i guess it's all implied in the whole "village dog" thing]: tied in with what you mention next, Pleiotropy (hah, i'd never have remembered that term if you hadn't brought it up!) that in this long process of the wolves becoming adapted to this environment, selecting for that perfect zone of "flight distance," were selecting the trait that would lead to them being able to be domesticated; as well as indirectly (pleiotropically) selecting the genes that would change their appearance from wolfiness to dogness!
Maybe this could be the next book: "Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving: How Dogs Have Captured Our Hearts for Thousands of Years" by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
How do you start? First get a bunch of folks to agree to get the book?
Okay. Great. I am part of a Atheist Dog Lovers group on TA. I'll ask them over and then ask this group who is interested.
Sorry to go off subject.
maybe we should just post whatever further comments we want to make in the original thread "The Greatest Show on Earth" - Read Along!
I'm still reading the book and would like to post comments, it helps to retain the information.


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In a telephone survey of 1,400 people in 60 B.C. communities, 37 per cent of respondents said they were in favour of the refinery and another 35 per cent were "somewhat supportive."
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The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 per cent, 19 times out of 20. It was conducted between Sept. 10-20.
Last month, Black floated the idea of building a Kitimat refinery to reframe the discussion on the proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline by promising 10 times as many jobs as the pipeline and eliminating the shipment of oil off the coast.
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Heisey struggling to find consistency at plate
CINCINNATI -- Chris Heisey was handed a 14-karat golden opportunity for regular play in the Reds lineup when left fielder Ryan Ludwick injured his shoulder on Opening Day. Heisey hasn't really taken off and run with it, however.
After Monday's 1-for-4 performance, Heisey was batting .179 (12-for-67) with one home run and four RBIs while starting 13 of the club's 18 games. That included a 5-for-25 clip on the current homestand.
"I'm not surprised that he hasn't taken off but I'm a bit surprised that he hasn't done better," Reds manager Dusty Baker said on Monday. "But since Heisey has been here, I've sort of spotted him against certain kinds of pitchers. Everybody was hollering that they wanted Heisey to play every day but sometimes, matchups are better than playing against everybody."
Heisey, who has been the fourth outfielder since his first callup in 2010, had previously been spotted time against fastball pitchers where his swing has been more successful.
"I'm obviously disappointed with my start but at the same time, I'm trying to use it as a building block to consistency and be more mentally strong," Heisey said. "Sometimes, we let our struggles get us down or give us negative thoughts. I'm trying to use it as a positive, learn what's not working and the next time I don't feel so good, maybe I can get out of it a little quicker."
One thing Heisey has going for him is time. Ludwick, who had right shoulder surgery to repair a torn labrum, isn't expected to return until sometime around the All-Star break. Lefty hitting outfielder Xavier Paul has played well during his chances and rookie Derrick Robinson brings a lot of speed to the table.
If Heisey continues to struggle, could a platoon be employed?
"I don't know. It all depends on him," Baker said. "He's so good defensively out there, especially on the corners. I need his defense in there, not to take anything away from X or Robinson. I just need to play him behind certain pitchers on our staff [who throw fly balls]."
Heisey was dropped from second to seventh in the batting order last week, and is certainly aware of his need to produce.
"At the same time, I try not to put any more pressure on myself," Heisey said. "I go out there and play every day and do the best that I can."


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Palm Sunday procession
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My house as a life: When architects design for themselves
Driving around town, you've probably seen them: the louvered orange house with the terraces down by Riverview Park; the machine-like structure with the big green "V" over on Farish; or the three-story wall of glass brick gleaming in the woods above Meadowbrook Road. With luck, you didn't swerve off the road.
What do these eye-poppingly modern buildings have in common? They're all houses architects have built for themselves, places where the wildest theories of structural design are put into practice for the architects' own personal pleasure.
Now, before you classicists and fans of colonial brick roll your eyes at the results, consider this: Thomas Jefferson's Monticello was no less radical in its day.
In fact, Jefferson spent 40 years building, altering, redesigning, tearing down, and rebuilding what he called his "essay in architecture."
Visiting America in the early 1780s, the Marquis de Chastelleux remarked that Monticello "resembled none of the others seen in this country," and Jefferson acknowledged in an 1822 letter, "experience has proved to me that my place is considered as among the curiosities of the neighborhood."
Some even thought curiosity killed the cat. Thirteen years after Jefferson's death, the Niles National Register offered this assessment of Monticello: "We will venture to say that Mr. Jefferson had no distinct conception of any design when he commenced building, but enlarged, added, and modified as his ingenuity contrived, until this incomprehensible pile reached this acme of its destiny in which it stands at present, still indeed unfinished."
Monticello, an "incomprehensible pile"? It just goes to show that what seems architecturally outrageous today may be stamped "classic" tomorrow.
In the same way Monticello served as "the one place where Jefferson's ideas about what a house should be could evolve," as William Beiswanger writes in Monticello in Measured Drawings, the houses here are not only homes but also modern labs for testing their owners' philosophies of how life should be lived at a material level. Join The Hook as we take a tour of what architects build when they build for themselves.
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Owners: Carrie and Kevin Burke
Architect: Carrie Burke (Consulting architect: Kevin Burke)
General Contractor: Carrie Burke
Year started: 1998
Move-in date: 1999
Size: 2,200 square feet
Noteworthy materials: Copper siding and roof, poured concrete flooring, marine hardware and cables, birch and maple.
Hubbub: Featured in Architectural Record, 01.2003.
When Carrie and Kevin Burke first put the copper siding on their Park Street house, it raised a few eyebrows– and a few tempers. After all, who would build a modern house shining like a freshly minted penny amid the grand old mansions of a historic district? Believe it or not, a pair of architects dedicated to maintaining the integrity of the neighborhood.
What the Burkes knew, and some critics may not have, is the reflective orange would rapidly weather to a burnished purple on its way to an eventual green, allowing their house to recede almost unnoticed from the street. "Ultimately, we'd like to see this original Victorian block just read as the three original houses," says Carrie Burke, "and ours won't be, from a city experience, visible."
The changing color of the maintenance-free copper exterior is just one aspect of the architect's obsession with time. In fact, the entire structure functions as a sundial in what was once a section of the 1884 Duke House garden (current Duke House owner Marla Ziegler embraces the Burkes' design). Interested in light as a "style-less medium," Carrie Burke placed a skylight with an oculus in the roof of the new house, creating a beam of light that sweeps through the open interior in arcs and planes that vary with the seasons and illuminate the ceiling and stair forms.
Burke says, "Living here at first I was struck dizzy by just how quickly the earth is spinning and how fast time is moving... But after that initial crisis, now I have a real sense of peace about it." She revels in how the quality of light changes throughout the day as she works in her mezzanine-level studio overlooking the main floor.
Sharing the house with her husband (a design partner at William McDonough + Partners) and 10-year-old daughter, Burke may be heady with intellectual theory, but she's down-to-earth when it comes to practicalities, like poured concrete floors with radiant heat (able to be marked with chalk when charting light paths!), passive solar heating from south-facing windows, innovative sliding storage in the kitchen, and medicine cabinets incorporated in the vertical trim of the master bath's floor-to-ceiling windows.
"The only thing I really miss is there was one design that had a sky window over our bed," Burke says. "I've always imagined it would be great to fall asleep looking up to the sky."
Vickery House
430 North First Street
Owners: Mary and Robert Vickery
Architect: Robert Vickery
General Contractor: Smith and Robertson Contractors
Year started: 1994
Move-in date: 1995
Size: 2,340 square feet
Noteworthy materials: Red brick, glass brick, copper, white oak.
Hubbub: In 1996, received an honor award from the James River Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Mary and Robert Vickery like North First Street. Since moving to Charlottesville in 1969, they've lived in three different houses along its short stretch, including the 5,000-square-foot Gleason House. "From my viewpoint, this is one of two sorts of urban streets in Charlottesville. The other one is Second Street," says Robert Vickery. "This is where I like to live. I like an urban environment."
So when the couple decided to build a home for their later years, naturally they snapped up the street's last remaining lot, a tiny sliver of land with a steep grade. To meet the city's requirements for construction, they had to purchase a foot or two extra from neighbors on either side.
But working small was what Robert Vickery had in mind, having become convinced that architects were designing overly large homes. Given the site's limitations, he created a flat-faced, red brick, cube-like structure roughly half the size of the Gleason House.
"Some people say we violated the neighborhood by building this rather abstract facade," he acknowledges, "but in terms of scale and placement, we were very concerned about the context."
Vickery, a founding (but retired) partner of VMDO Architects, designed a street-level bridge as access to the house's front entryway, which features sliding red barn doors. Mary Vickery laughs that people often remark, "Oh, you have a moat."
Inside, a broad hallway opens onto a two-story living area, with a dining room table at the heart of its north-south, east-west axis. According to Robert Vickery, "The dining room is the most important room of the house. That's where everyone comes together."
A "floating" kitchen to the south allows socializing while cooking.
Except for the bathrooms and two lower-level studios, reached by a glass bricked stairwell, there are few closing doors within the house, which Vickery says makes the small space feel large by allowing rooms to open onto each other.
To accommodate an elevator, which he admits doesn't get much use, Vickery shifted the front hall's closet to an unusual location. "We moved the coat closet to the back of the toilet," he explains. "Everyone thought we were crazy, but when everybody's ready to go home..."
Pleased with the home's reduced scale of living, Vickery nevertheless says, "I'm convinced that if we did it again, we could take another 800 feet out of the house."
Waldman House
3260 Sutherland Road, North Garden
Owners: Nancy and Peter Waldman
Architect: Peter Waldman
General Contractor: Ace Contracting, Inc.
Year started: 1994
Move-in date: 1995
Size: 2,800 square feet
Noteworthy materials: Copper siding, poured concrete flooring, glass brick, concrete block, steel framing.
Hubbub: Featured in numerous publications. It was the only American house profiled in 1996 Japanese review of international architecture.
It would be easy to mistake UVA architecture professor Peter Waldman's brown copper-fronted house, with its attached silver smokestack rising above a concrete-block kitchen, for some sort of agricultural storage facility tucked in the woods above a gravel North Garden road. But a closer look would reveal occasional windows and deck furniture atop the concrete block half-moon.
It's an altogether different story inside. As you enter the kitchen (which has a drain in middle of the floor for hosing down after messy meals), concrete stairs rise beside an exterior wall of clear glass, arriving in one startlingly huge room. The south-facing front wall is jammed with art: Here's a birthday piece from Michael Graves; there's a photograph of a fallen tree; in the middle, an Indian miniature. A long stretch of floor-to-ceiling glass brick forms the back wall, ending at the edge of a bathroom with a step-down black-tiled tub.
In the middle of the concrete floor, beyond an arrangement of living room furniture, stands a giant circular sculpture that Waldman created in 1987 for the American Museum of Arts and Crafts. He explains, "It's a bit like the house, in that the outside can be beat up like the wheel, which is like a packing crate. The weather can leave its marks. But it gets increasingly more refined when you get into it."
Constructed of cut-and-fill concrete slabs topped with a steel frame, the house has all its plumbing and wiring exposed for easy maintenance. It gives Waldman and his wife, Nancy, what they were looking for: "We wanted one good raw space."
Since it's the first house he's built for his wife and himself, Waldman's interested in experimenting, and delights in the happy accident. For instance, a shallow trough of pottery shards runs through the floor, the result of some shelving that fell early on. Out back, the copper roof is now bleeding bluish-green streaks down the wall. Waldman observes with a smile, "It comes up with its own rhythm."
There are still a lot of projects left to do, including building a more private bathroom attached to the back by a glass hall, installing a roof garden, and creating a glazed room around a fireplace on the front deck.
Although he sometimes wishes the house had an attic or basement for storage, Waldman points out, "It's dedicated to materials... It's very low-tech, and it's very primitive.
Ewing-Hayes House
1900 Chesapeake Street
Owners: Allison Ewing and Chris Hays
Architect: Allison Ewing and Chris Hays
General Contractor: Craig DuBose
Year started: 1998
Move-in date: 1999
Size: 2,800 square feet
Noteworthy materials: Cyprus, reclaimed heartwood pine, Douglas fir, birch and cedar, Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs), Hardiplank siding (fiber-cement), Plycem flooring (fiber-cement).
Hubbub: Featured in Natural Home, March/April 2003.
Standing on his broad trellis-covered verandah, looking out across the backyard pond to the Woolen Mills church on the hill beyond, Chris Hays says, "I think what was really exciting for us was to find a place in town that felt like it was still part of the country." After all, Hays and his wife, Allison Ewing, both design partners at McDonough + Partners, had been looking a long time for the right city site on which to build a family home for their two young children.
As environmental architects, the couple wanted to design a sustainable house using an innovative combination of materials, such as cyprus for the exposed wood on the exterior and Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs, essentially a foam core sandwiched between two sheets of plywood) for the interior walls. Ewing says, "In general, I think our interest is how to build healthy and live in perhaps a different way than our traditional way of living."
The pair also wished to incorporate aesthetic ideas they'd admired in Italy and Japan. In particular, they liked the Italian tradition of first arriving in a garden, along with the appreciation of outdoor living areas, and the Japanese concept of "ma," or "the space between," which influenced their creation of a bridge connecting the two wings of the house and placement of large windows throughout to blur the line between within and without.
The result is a passive solar, light-filled, two-part house. On the left, beyond a pivoting gate fronting Chesapeake Street, stands a two-story living room that flows into a dining area with an open kitchen just above. Upstairs to the left, a small play area leads down the hall to the children's domain, two rooms connected by an internal window below and a play loft above.
To the right of stairs, a sun-drenched bridge provides access to the master bedroom and bath, which are over a separate studio to the entry gate below. Ewing points out with a smile, "It's a very rational plan, in that there's no feng shui going on."
Although occasionally they long for a little more space, Ewing and Hays are pleased with their collaborative effort, noting their biggest source of contention when designing the house was the color scheme. "Chris likes orange," Ewing laughs. "Everything's orange. He won."
Clark House
2013 Pine Top Road
Owner: W.G. Clark
Architect: W.G. Clark
General Contractor: Ace Contracting, Inc.
Year started: 1995
Move-in date: 1996
Size: 1,400 square feet
Noteworthy materials: Concrete block, poured concrete flooring, glass brick, birch plywood.
Hubbub: None. They did not publish on purpose in order to ensure privacy.
Entering W.G. Clark's house, a two-story wall of transparent windows to the east and a three-story wall of glass brick to the north create a strange sensation of still being outside. There's an obvious difference, though: Outside is messy and tangled, whereas Clark's interior is nothing if not clean and spare.
"I don't like clutter," he says, although he does enjoy looking at it beyond the window. "I have always loved this hillside, and one of the reasons I love it is because of its wildness, its unmanicured trees falling down, the changes with the seasons."
Located at the end of a cul de sac near Meadowbrook Road, Clark's small house at first appears to be a solid exercise in concrete block, although a hint of light plays behind the chimney visible through the glass entryway. It's the ideal façade for a man who values his privacy.
"First of all, I'm single," Clark says, "and so I built this totally with the idea that it's for a single person. And so you will see it is tiny."
Nevertheless, the living room, with its ceiling of birch plywood two stories overhead and railing overlooking a sliver of the bedroom below, feels large. "The trick is to build one room that has volume and space in it, and the others can be very, very small," Clark explains.
He points out that the guest area/study on the mezzanine level above has "the tiniest bathroom in the Western world," and jokes about its unusually narrow sink, "My son claims he couldn't shave in it and wasn't going to stay here anymore."
Likewise, he says of the kitchen, "It's a small room with generous spaces." Clark has indulged a few particular preferences in the kitchen, like putting a side-by-side refrigerator under the counter because he doesn't like hulking refrigerators out in the room. "Most people won't let me do that, but I will," he says.
Two things Clark especially enjoys about the space he's designed are the west-facing kitchen, which allows him to watch the sunset as he cooks dinner, and the way the glass block diffuses light when darkness falls. During the day, the north wall's translucence diffuses views of Bodo's, 29 North, and the 250 bypass, but Clark says, "At night, the effect of the glass block, all the cars and things going by, it turns into candles burning, and it's just beautiful."
"Dooms Bremo"
Red Hill School Road, North Garden
Owner: Walter Lundwall
Architect: Walter Lundwall
General Contractor: Walter Lundwall
Year started: 1998
Move-in date: 1999
Size: 850 square feet
Noteworthy materials: Concrete block, stucco, oak.
Hubbub: You're looking at it.
Down a deeply rutted red clay road in North Garden, standing next to a gnarled dead tree, Walter Lundwall's mottled grey stucco house looks like something out of a twisted fairy tale. Its lancet-arched front door, steeply pitched roof, and exaggeratedly long windows loom on a hill above hay fields stretching toward the last mountains of the Piedmont. "I want to grow all that into poppies," he says gesturing toward the fields.
Adding to the surreal feel of the site is an unfinished concrete block "arboretum" that Lundwall's adding to one side of the house. With more lancet-arched entries, its as-yet-unroofed walls currently rise 16 feet (Lundwall plans to extend them another eight) around a carpet of green grass. An enclosed catwalk will connect to the second floor of the main house, and, eventually, it will all bear the same mottled stucco façade. "I call it the bombed-out European look," Lundwall laughs.
Lundwall built a similar home in Batesville in 1990, but sold it "because it was a little too far out of town." Because he liked his first house, he essentially copied it in North Garden, with one significant improvement: "I put a closet in this one."
Although he lacks formal architectural training, Lundwall is rich in practical experience as a design/build contractor for his own company, Freighttrain. "And my grandfather was an architect, so I think it just bled through to me," he says.
"I literally built this entire house by myself," Lundwall points out. "The only thing I had done here was, obviously, I had a well drilled, and then when I did the excavation, I hired a backhoe."
His construction skills enable Lundwall to add and remove features as he pleased. The back of the house bears the scar of an aborted "room of zero meaning," which he tried out then rejected as too narrow to be practical. Inside the house, though, he decided to leave its cast-iron gate in place.
Besides finishing the arboretum, Lundwall is currently at work on an attic studio, and he eventually plans to build a 20 x 40-foot "great hall," where he plans to throw parties. Looking up at his house, he shakes his head, "It's a work in progress. It will never end."
"The biggest building lesson I've learned," he says, "is it's always way harder than you think it's going to be."
Ford House
707 Farish Street
Owners: Edward and Jane Ford
Architect: Edward Ford
General Contractor: Ace Contracting, Inc.
Year started: 1999
Move-in date: 2001
Size: 3,000 square feet
Noteworthy materials: Steel framing, girders, pine and oak.
Hubbub: Will be featured in The New American House 4 (Watson-Guptill Publications, June 2003).
Drive down Farish Street, and you can't miss the big steel V, painted brilliant bottle green, that provides structural support to the front of the house Edward Ford shares with his wife, Jane. If you were to walk around to the back, your jaw would probably drop at the glass table riding atop an orange girder that seems to pass through the dining area's glass wall. But pay too much attention to the industrial aspect of the house, and Ford will bristle.
"It uses a lot of different materials," he points out, "mostly wood framing. Wood floors. There are even some fairly traditional details in the house if you look for them."
Inside the front landing, there are, in fact, beautifully crafted oak steps descending into an expansive kitchen, with the inside half of Ford's unique dining table jutting into the room on the right. Ford says the kitchen, which features extensive counter space, a central island, and a glassed-in breakfast nook at the far end, was a priority because his wife grew tired of the their old house's tiny kitchen.
Passing through a small sitting area with its own fireplace on the landing between the kitchen and the main level, the UVA architecture professor explains, "I wanted to have something that had the character of a traditional house but that didn't have the sort of literal, Disney-like kind of imitation of a house." Admiring both traditional wood houses and contemporary steel residences, he decided to try to capture the character of both.
"We decided to build a house for us, not for resale," he says.
Since this was the first home Ford attempted, he threw himself into working on every aspect of the project. "If things got done wrong, it was my fault," he says. "It probably wasn't a very efficient way to work, but I enjoyed it."
Now after a year of living in the house, Ford has discovered no big regrets and points out, "I'm not very good at visualizing what if, like 'what if we had done that,' or 'what if we had built there.'"
He admits, "I have to say the first question everybody asks me is about the color," although he's surprised they're not more curious about the butterfly-winged roof.
"I don't think of this as a Virginia house," he says, "but I do think it's a very American house."
Schuyler House
Birdland, Orange County
Owners: Karen and Mark Schuyler (lighting designer)
Architect: Jim Rounsevell
General Contractor: Floyd Hill
Year started: 2002
Move-in date: TBD
Size: 1,700 square feet
Noteworthy materials: Galvalume (sheet steel with a zinc aluminum alloy coating), Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs), parallel strand lumber
Hubbub: TBD
Architect Jim Rounsevell respectfully refers to Mark and Karen Schuyler's house-in-progress as "Strawberry Field." Mark Schuyler calls it "The Chicken Shack." And Karen Schuyler laughs that it's the "Palais de Poulet."
Looking at the long, silver-sided structure, with a passage dividing it into two spaces, Mark points out, "Not only is it modernist, but it's a sly joke because it's all the southern thingsI t's a chicken shack, shed-roof barn, chicken shack with a dog trot in it which is actually pretty funny."
When the lighting designer and his wife, who works at the Nature Conservancy, decided to build a house, they had two major concerns: 1) it had to be within their budget, and 2) it had to offer a sustainable design. The choice of a lighting designer was obvious, but how to choose an architect when Mark works with so many? Karen says, "We decided to go with the one that I wanted, to get Mark off the hook."
Enter Jim Rounsevell, who had worked with Mark previously on Higher Grounds. "They really came with pre-conceived notions ideas about materials," Rounsevell recalls. "They like the corrugated metal and wood."
Given their conservative priorities, he created a modest open-floored plan, featuring passive solar heat conduction on the nearly windowless south wall (glass beneath the raised pitched roof provides light from all sides of the house), and a series of sliding transparent doors on the north, looking out toward the mountains in the distance.
The architect also incorporated some economical, efficient materials, such as parallel strand lumber for the beams and Structural Insulated Panels for the walls. The latter required Mark to nail his lighting design down early since the pre-fab panels had to be pre-cut for electrical fixtures and outlets.
Regarding the one picture window on the south side, which sheds light on a buried bathroom, Karen jokes it's "the go-go cage." Mark adds, "That's how we're going to pay the mortgage. Karen will go-go there on the first of the month."
Due to move into their new house any day, Mark is anxious to experience living with his own lighting design. Already, he says, the experience of building for himself has made him more sensitive to his clients' concerns, something he can ponder on the long commute to town.
"Doing a sustainable house and then driving to Charlottesville," he says, "there's something kind of ironic about that."


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There's an old yet hilariously inaccurate saying that people only use ten percent of their brains, but I'd like to suggest that it may have some merit in regard to library usage. Not that library members only use ten percent of their brains, but that the average material holdings of a library only stimulate ten percent of people's brains. In other words, rather than be supportive of the entire brain, the library focuses on a much smaller portion of it.
The relatively short neuroscience lesson is that there are three major areas that are used for reading: Broca's area, Wernicke's area, and the inferior parietal lobule. While current understanding indicates that the nerve impulses from reading are sent out to other areas of the brain, it still represents a small portion of the overall brain that is being activated. Consider these images of brain scans to the right taken in profile; reading is at the top. (The front of the brain is to the left. Click to embiggen.) From the color activity map, the major activity is focused towards the back of the brain where the visual information is received and processed. While there are some some spots of activity elsewhere, the brain is otherwise largely inactive.
Perhaps it is not mathematical equivalent to ten percent (lest someone gets stuck on that little detail), but to me it feels that the oft stated mission and goal of the library (literacy and reading) focus on just one particular part of the brain to the detriment of all the other wonderful senses and functions that have evolved from our primate ancestors.
I can't say that the average public library completely ignores these other brain areas, but I do think we give up on them over the course of the life of an individual. If we were to examine at the average program offerings of public libraries across the United States, I would surmise that the pattern you would see is that early childhood and kids programs represent the most brain stimulating programs with crafts, songs, body movements, and things to hear, touch, see, and possibly smell and taste. But once people age out of that early stage of development, the programs shift away from those deeply interactive offerings. Adult programming moves to the more passive activities like book clubs and computer instruction with a lesser offering of crafting and other creation based programs. To me it feels like a sad and perplexing narrowing of the focus from body and mind combined to simply the mind with only limited (if any) jaunts to the body. It's as if getting old meant you were beyond anything but intellectual activities. Why is this so?
As much as it is said that libraries are gateways to other worlds through the books that they carry, there is still a very real world that people want to experience with all of their senses and emotions. These are brains (and bodies) that are looking for more stimulation than just the printed word. If public libraries want to reflect life in their communities, a true reflection means more than just passive intellectual pursuits. It means having bodies in motion, multiple senses engaged, and reaching towards those other areas of the brain.
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Long Lance, Buffalo Child
1 Dec. 1890–20 Mar. 1932
Buffalo Child Long Lance, author and actor, was one of the best-known North American Indians of the late 1920s. In 1928 he vividly described his boyhood among his people, the Blackfoot Indians of the Western Plains, in his autobiography, Long Lance. The book, complete with his memories of the last buffalo hunts and the final intertribal skirmishes, received very favorable reviews and enjoyed considerable commercial success. Immediately after the book appeared, Long Lance was asked to star in The Silent Enemy, a motion picture about the Indians of northern Canada before the arrival of white people. When Paramount released it in 1930, the critics praised Long Lance for his interpretation of the role of Baluk, the Ojibwa brave who successfully guides his starving tribe to a caribou herd. Impressed by the book and the film, the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company asked Long Lance to design a running shoe for the firm based on his moccasins.
It was at this time—at the height of his fame—that the inexplicable happened. On 20 Mar. 1932 Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance was found dead in a friend's mansion near Los Angeles. The coroner's inquest ruled that his death was a suicide but failed to establish the motive. Only recently has the reason become clear. In reality, Long Lance was not a Blackfoot Indian at all, but rather a black man from Winston-Salem, N. C. His story is that of a person trapped within three cultures—Indian, black, and white, a man so torn that he took his own life.
Nearly half a century after his death, Long Lance's real identity came to light. His name was actually Sylvester Clark Long, and he was raised in a black enclave in West Winston, a predominantly white residential area. His father, Joe Long, worked as the janitor of the white West End School. Born a slave, Joe Long believed, and told his children, that he was half white and half Indian. But he had no legal proof of his ancestry. His wife, Sallie Long, was apparently seven-eights white and one-eighth Croatan Indian. Because Winston authorities classified the family as "colored," Sylvester could not attend the neighboring West End School; instead, he had to enroll at the Depot Street Graded School for Negroes.
From a very early age Sylvester fantasized about the West and about Indians. In 1904 the thirteen-year-old joined a Wild West show. Having inherited high cheekbones and straight black hair from his distant Indian ancestors, he discovered that away from Winston he "passed" as an Indian. While traveling with the show, he began to learn Cherokee from one of the Indian performers. As an "Indian" he could escape being treated as a "colored." On returning to Winston in 1909, he resolved to gain entrance to the famous Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. As luck would have it, his application, stating that his father was half Cherokee and his mother was half Croatan, was not properly checked. After appearing at the school and proving that he could speak some Cherokee, he was admitted.
Carlisle completely changed Long's life. Accepted as a Cherokee following graduation in 1912, he Indianized his name to Sylvester Long Lance. Having achieved an excellent academic and athletic record at the Indian School, he was admitted to Conway Hall, the preparatory school of Dickinson College in Carlisle. After a year's study there, he won a scholarship to St. John's Military School in Manlius, N.Y., where he remained for three years.
On leaving St. John's in 1916, Sylvester moved north to Canada. The war was on in Europe—the United States had not yet entered the conflict—and he wanted to fight. Enlisting in the Canadian army, he fought in France until severely wounded in the summer of 1917. On his release from the army in 1919, he asked to be discharged in Calgary, Alberta, where he spent the next three years working as a reporter for the Calgary Herald. When anyone in Calgary inquired where he was from, he would say that he was a "Cherokee from Oklahoma," separating himself from his true origins by nearly one thousand miles.
Leaving the Herald in 1922, Long Lance began to write for western Canadian newspapers in Vancouver, Regina, and Winnipeg. By the mid-1920s his articles on the Indians of western Canada also appeared in major American magazines like McClures, Cosmopolitan, and Good Housekeeping. After his adoption in 1922 by the Blood Indians of southern Alberta (members of the Blackfoot Confederacy), he began to use the name they gave him, Buffalo Child, in his byline and to present himself as a Blackfoot.
In 1927 Long Lance moved to New York City and a year later published his "autobiography," in which he brazenly described his "Blackfoot boyhood." Success followed success until early January 1931, when his world began to fall apart. On Monday, the fifth, he met his brother Walter after twenty-two years. The meeting took place because their father, Joe Long, was extremely ill and the family could not pay his hospital bills. Immediately Long Lance began to send money home, but he could not return home himself. Unable to resolve his inner conflict of being a black man masquerading as an Indian in a white man's world, he ended his life. He died as he wished, as Buffalo Child Long Lance, a Blackfoot Indian.
His life is a tragic example of the horrors of racism and of the distortions that it can cause in an individual's life. One is left wondering what this remarkable man might have achieved had he been able to apply all of his creativeness to writing, rather than to "passing" and trying to escape the southern color bar.
Ronald Jordan, "Famed 'Indian Chief' Really Winston Man," Winston-Salem Journal, 29 Aug. 1976.
Buffalo Child Long Lance, Long Lance (1928).
New York Times, 21 Mar. 1932.
Donald B. Smith, "The Legend of Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance," The Canadian, 7, 14 Feb. 1976.
Additional Resources:
Micco, Melinda "Tribal Re-Creations: Buffalo Child Long Lance and Black Seminole Narratives" Re-placing America: Conversations and Contestations. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i and the East-West Center. 2000. 74-81. http://books.google.com/books?id=4T3_j_9MSSAC&pg=PA74#v=onepage&q&f=false (accessed July 8, 2013).
Spencer, Richard. "'Long Lance': Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance Gives Readers an Authoratative and Dramatic Book on Indian Life." Lewiston Evening Journal (Magazine Section). September 23, 1928. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AfI0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=umcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4632%2C6096598 (accessed July 8, 2013).
"Colourful character, 'Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance' died Mar 21 1932." Calgary Herald. March 21, 2012. http://blogs.calgaryherald.com/2012/03/21/colourful-character-chief-buffalo-child-long-lance-died-mar-21-1932/ (accessed July 8, 2013).
Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance fonds 1911-1933. Archives, The Glenbow Museum. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. http://www.glenbow.org/collections/search/findingAids/archhtm/longlance.cfm (accessed July 8, 2013).
Smith, Donald B. Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance: the glorious imposter. Red Deer, Alberta, Canada: Red Deer Press. 1999.
Image Credits:
Kilroe, William G. B. "Studio portrait of Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, Regina, Saskatchewan, ca. 1908." (AJCP553-144a) Photograph. Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/4036 (accessed July 10, 2013).
Richee, Eugene Robert. "Blood—Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance." (Negative no. 313148). Photograph. Circa 1930. New York University/American Museum of Natural History. http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/hg26/amnhphotographs/2011/05/chief_buffalo_child_long_lance.html (accessed July 8, 2013).
1 January 1991 | Smith, Donald B.
I have found a signed studio
I have found a signed studio photograph of chief long lance what is the value of it I am not interested in selling it as it belonged to my great grandmother.
Hi Tammy,
Hi Tammy,
Thank you for visiting NCpedia and taking time to share this with us. That's an amazing artifact to have.
Unfortunately, we'ere not able to help with appraisals. You may want to consult an antiques dealer who is knowledgeable about photographs.
I hope this helps.
Best wishes,
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NY Illustrated – Saturday Night At Fort Apache – March 4, 1973
'Three types of people use the streets of the South Bronx after dark: Policemen, Criminals, and Potential Victims.'
One in this public affairs series devoted to issues that concern the greater New York area. This program profiles Police Precinct 41 in the South Bronx, nicknamed "Fort Apache" because of the frequency and severity of violent crimes committed in the surrounding area. Narrated by Norman Rose, the program begins with a clip of Sgt. Bill Taylor addressing officers of the precinct's anti-crime unit. Later, accompanied by Rose, Taylor tracks down and arrests a suspected mugger. In interviews with officers stationed at and previously assigned to the precinct, the following topics are discussed: the high risk of incurring severe injury while on duty and the ability to cope with fear; the reluctance among members of the police force to be assigned to the 41st precinct; completing tenure at the precinct as a step toward promotion; the high incidence of illegal weapons possession among area residents; and the factors linking street crime with drugs and poverty. Also included is footage of a typical night at the Lincoln Hospital emergency room, where the number of people suffering from gunshot wounds and stabbings often exceeds the hospital's nightly capacity. Among those interviewed are Deputy Inspector Matthew Neary and Officers James Finn, Bob Gardner, and Tony Imbimbo. Commercials deleted. (This series occasionally runs under the title "New Jersey Illustrated" or "Connecticut Illustrated"; series dates unverified.) – The Paley Center For Media
The Police Tapes (1977)
The Police Tapes is a 1977 documentary about a police precinct in the South Bronx. The original ran ninety minutes and was produced for public television; a one-hour version later aired on ABC. It won two Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and a DuPont-Columbia University Award for Broadcast Journalism,and became an influence on later television and film dramas.
Filmmakers Alan Raymond and Susan Raymond spent three months in 1976 riding along with patrol officers in the 44thPrecinct of the South Bronx, which had the highest crime rate in New York City. They produced about 40 hours of videotape that they edited into a 90-minute documentary.
The result was what New York Times TV critic John J. O'Connor called a "startlingly graphic and convincing survey of urban crime, violence, brutality and cynical despair". Cases followed include the discovery of a dead body on the street, the rescue of a mother trapped in her apartment by a mentally ill son, an attempt to negotiate with a woman armed with an improvised flail who refuses to stop threatening her neighbor, and the arrest of a 70-year-old woman accused of hitting her daughter in the face with an axe. There is some introductory narration at the beginning describing the neighborhood and the time the documentary was filmed, but some unifying commentary is provided by an interview with Bronx Borough Commander Anthony Bouza, who ascribes the crime rate in the 44th Precinct to poverty, describes the hardening effects of urban violence on idealistic police officers, and likens himself to the commander of an occupying army, saying "We are manufacturing criminals… we are manufacturing brutality".
The production was financed by the New York State Council on the Arts and WNET and cost only $20,000, thanks to the use of Portapak tape equipment; it would have cost an estimated $90,000 if film had been used. Special Newvicon tubes in the video cameras allowed them to tape with only streetlights for illumination, making them less conspicuous to subjects who might otherwise have fled from or approached the cameras.
The Police Tapes was an important source for Fort Apache, The Bronx, a 1981 film with Paul Newman and Ed Asner. It influenced the deliberately ragged visual style of the 1980s television police drama Hill Street Blues, which used handheld cameras to provide a sense of realism and immediacy—particularly during the morning roll call in each episode, which was based on a similar scene in The Police Tapes. Robert Butler, who directed the first five episodes, urged the camera operators to avoid carefully composed shots and to move their cameras frequently, telling them "If you're having trouble focusing, that's great." This mock-documentary style, in turn, influenced many other television dramas.
Another line of influence runs from The Police Tapes to the Fox Network reality TV series COPS. COPS, like its predecessor, closely follows police officers, suspects, and crime victims with handheld cameras. According to New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell, the style of COPS then became part of the visual language of feature films, so that "the DNA of [the Raymonds'] original has found its way into the film mainstream."
Fort Apache the Bronx (1981) Paul Newman
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Why Run, Walk or Dance against Cancer
I never thought supporting the American Cancer society and Stand Up To Cancer would be such an amazing experience. Last month I participated in The Rugged Maniac obstacle course run, and the Night Nation Run (which was really an unbelievable music festival).
I want to share my experiences because I think everyone should do this at least once. If you don't like running or obstacle courses, the Night Nation Run is more of a dance party than anything. Really, anyone could do it. Here's why:
These Events are super inexpensive:
Early registration or groupon registration is as low as $29. I've seen other races that go for over $100. If you want to donate to the fight against cancer, you have the option of paying more or starting a fundraiser page to get sponsors, but all of that is optional and isn't pushed on anyone. Plus, they are fully refundable, unlike other events.
It Appeals to all Fitness Levels:
If you're a crazy athletic type who likes to get rugged, you can participate in the Rugged Maniac Run. If you're not competitive at all and just want to have a workout or an all around good time, the Night Nation Run is for you. If you're a night person, do the Night Nation Run. If you're a day person, do the Rugged Maniac Run. You even get to choose the time you run. If you are a serious competitor, then there's a special run for you but you can also run for fun.
The experience is thrilling and amazing:
At the Rugged Maniac Run, I got to participate in 25 obstacle courses on a 5k course. You can also do a 10k if you like. Some of the obstacle courses are akin to what you would see in the military, like climbing over walls and crawling under wire but there were also inflatable water slides and a warped wall like in the show Ninja Warrior. Everyone was super supportive. It was a hot day, but the course had lots of water and mud so it kept me cool. There's also a festival with contests and prizes involving a mechanical bull, a pull up contest and a plank contest. I won a free t-shirt from winning the pull up contest and one for almost winning the plank contest. I participated with my son and we both received a ton of free stuff. Here I am leaping over a fire pit!
The experience is awesome and inspiring:
At the Night Nation Run, I felt like I was a part of something larger than myself. It was humungous! There was a huge stage and a dance party. It took place at Angel Stadium. Everyone got free neon necklaces and other glow in the dark paraphernalia. There were selfie stations everywhere. They riled you up before you ran, DJs and entertainers were everywhere, making it fun and throwing out free gifts. You don't even have to do the run. You can enjoy the atmosphere, people watch or participate in the huge dance party. The run took us on an amazing tour of Angel's Stadium. Some people walked, some jogged, some ran. There were dance stations and music everywhere which was motivationg. You could just stop and dance anytime you liked. We got to see the enormous stadium and go into the dug out, feeling what it must be like to be a professional base ball player. After the run, the party continued. Famous DJs kept us dancing. I probably burned more calories from dancing than I did from doing the 5k. Free glow in the dark toys were tossed everywhere. I did this run with my husband and it was one of the best dates we have been on. This is also a family event. Unfortunately, all my pictures were accidentally erased. :( But here's one from the website:
Life's too short not to:
We've all had friends and family who either survived or passed from cancer. As hard as it is on all of us, I've learned that life is just too short. We get caught up in our ruts and routines and we forget to truly live. Remember to take the time to do something different, even if its not one of these events. Sometimes its hard to break from routine, but once I do something like this, I feel so much better. Life becomes more meaningful and I'm glad to have spent quality time with my loved ones and fellow human beings. Isn't that what life is really all about?
It Fight's Cancer:
While all the proceeds from these events goes to fighting cancer, it fights cancer in other ways. First, it brings people together. Evidence has shown that people who have a strong support group are more likely to survive the disease. Secondly, it forces us to get exercise. Numerous studies have shown that exercise helps prevent many kinds of cancer. Third, it gets us out which means we're not inside getting depressed as depression can lead to more chronic health ailments.
It's Fun:
I don't like to think of exercise as a work out. I like to think of it as play, a way to move, to get out and to connect with others. I also think of it as a meditation and as an experience that teaches us to overcome our many obstacles. People who suffer from cancer also need to overcome many obstacles. Let's lift them up by being there for them and doing something that makes us positive about living.
Here's a link to the Night Nation Run website, where there are events all over the World. There's also a virtual event:
Here's a link to the Rugged Maniac website, where there are events all over the US and Canada:
I'll be participating in the Night Nation run in LA in July 21 and in the Rugged Maniac run in SoCal, Temecula on November 17. Let me know if you'd like to join us. :D


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Q: My clothes, camping gear, camera and guitar were stolen from my car. Will my auto insurance pay for these things?
A: Maybe, but there may well be dollar limits for things like clothing, sports equipment, etc. that might be incidental to an outing or vacation. Your auto policy would specify those limits. (We had an odd fraud case a couple of years ago involving a man who kept claiming that his $33,000 collection of silk neckties was being stolen from his car.)
For things that are generally considered personal property, rather than auto-related property like a spare tire, jack, or roadside emergency kit, you might be able to file a homeowner's or renter's insurance claim. Talk to your agent or insurer -- and think about your deductibles. If you have a high deductible, it may not be worth it to file a claim for a small loss.
Note: This is one of a series of common -- or in some cases, particularly unusual -- questions received by our consumer advocacy staff, who answer questions from consumers.
Got a question or insurance problem of your own? If you live in Washington, feel free to give us a call, toll-free at 1-800-562-6900. We'll do our best to help. (And if you live in another state or territory, here's a handy map that lists the contact info for your local insurance regulatory office.)
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"Jill Bialosky slips Persephone's pomegranate seeds into her own poet's hand, then dives deep in Subterranean, locating fragments of girlhood and womanhood to assemble into a mythic underworld collage. If Beatrice herself were a suburban American girl who preceded Dante on his journey, these lyrics might be what she would tell us. You never get to heaven without the descent, as she, the Greek gods, and Jill Bialosky know very well–and we come to know through this alluring, surprising second volume of poems, where this poet comes into her own."
–Molly Peacock
"These wonderful poems call to us at first with their lyric surfaces. But the music of their language is really thin ice and not far underneath is the dark, chill power of the book's true themes: sexuality, regret, the loss of children, the tainting of childhood, the nature of erotic pain. It is rare that a reader can be enchanted and endangered at the same time. This is a book of splendid and disturbing ambition."
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"Bialosky takes certain essentialities–spring and winter, suffering and desire, the surface life and the sweetly subtle pull of the life below–and makes them achingly local. The poems in SUBTERRANEAN reveal one woman's psychic territory, lucidly and passionately mapped."
–Kim Addonizio
"Jill Bialosky's second book of poems, SUBTERRANEAN, is an advance in psychic depth and expressive eloquence beyond her distinguished THE END OF DESIRE. Her new work fully establishes her voice: poignant, perilous, overwhelmingly aware of the extent to which our lives, inner and outer, are deflected by contingency, and by drives of love and death that govern us."
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CONCORD, CA – Gensler has become the newest Advocate Firm for the Evidence-Based Design Accreditation and Certification (EDAC) program from The Center for Health Design (CHD). As a global leader in architecture, interiors, planning, and strategic consulting, with professionals networked across 33 locations on five continents, Gensler is now committed to having 25 percent of its health care division attain EDAC accreditation.
"Gensler prides itself on a research-based methodology to inform the design process," says Barbara Bouza, AIA, LEED AP, a principal at Gensler, Los Angeles, and leader of the firm's health care practice. "We fully support the EDAC program and are excited to become an Advocate Firm and collaborate with The Center for Health Design. Research gives us invaluable insight into user behavior and the dynamics of the health care environments that we design."
As a leading architecture and interior design firm, Gensler leverages its deep resources and diverse expertise in such areas as health care, hospitality, workplace, science and technology, brand design and retail. Gensler is committed to research and has published the results of its independent surveys in the United States and United Kingdom to determine how the workplace environment affects productivity, creativity and attitudes about work. Gensler recently facilitated focus groups, patient shadowing, family interviews and benchmarking for a leading academic medical institution to gain insights into the user experience from the patient and family point of view. Gensler's goal through innovative design is to balance the understanding of human needs, economic requirements and environmental responsibility.
"The EDAC program sets a standard of practice in design and pushes the envelope of innovation in the health care design industry," says Debra Levin, president and CEO of The Center for Health Design. "We applaud Gensler for taking on this commitment to become an Advocate Firm and continuing to lead the way for innovation in our field."
Through the EDAC program, CHD has defined and standardized the evidence-based design process as a way to educate and assess an individual's understanding of how to base design decisions on credible research evidence. Since the launch of the EDAC exam in April 2009, more than 300 individuals worldwide have been accredited. For more information about the EDAC program, visit www.healthdesign.org/edac.
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The Center for Health Design (CHD), formed in 1993, is a nonprofit research and advocacy organization of forward-thinking health care, elder care, design and construction professionals, and product manufacturers who are leading the quest to improve the quality of health care facilities and create new environments for healthy aging. Its voluntary board of directors guides the work of paid staff that manages and directs the organization's research, education, outreach, and advocacy efforts. For more information, visit www.healthdesign.org.
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text: Thursday, January 19, 2012 Most Women With Normal BMD Can Safely Delay Follow-up Scans Many women whose bones test normal at age 65 can safely wait as long as 15 years before having a second bone density test, says a New York Times article based on a study published today in NEJM. The researchers studied 4,957 women, 67 years of age or older, with normal bone mineral density (BMD) or osteopenia and no history of hip or clinical vertebral fracture or of treatment for osteoporosis. At 15 years, fewer than 1% of women with normal bone density when they entered the study, and fewer than 5% with osteopenia, developed osteoporosis in the following 15 years. The researchers report that osteoporosis would develop in less than 10% of older, postmenopausal women during rescreening intervals of approximately 15 years for women with normal bone density or mild osteopenia, 5 years for women with moderate osteopenia, and 1 year for women with advanced osteopenia. According to the Times, bone density screening became popular after Fosamax, the first bisphosphonate, was approved in the mid 1990s. Physicians were "overly enthusiastic" in prescribing it for women whose bone density was "lower than normal but not in a danger zone, keeping women on the drug indefinitely." Now they are more likely to prescribe bisphosphonates for older patients and recommend against them for most younger postmenopausal women with osteopenia. The study is expected to change the way physicians think about bone density screening, the Times says.


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