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Friday, May 31, 2019 to Friday, June 28, 2019
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Dates: Fridays: 5/31 + 6/7 + 6/14 +6/21 + 6/28
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The HRP Mamas New Moms Support Group
The HRP Mamas New Moms Support Group Series is a weekly facilitated support and discussion group for moms of newborns and infants (0-5 months).
These groups are a wonderful way to share thoughts with other mothers while receiving guided support from childbirth and/or parent educators.
The HRP Mamas New Moms Groups help mamas forge friendships with other HRP Mamas in a supportive and educator-led environment.
Share experiences with each other while getting support on:
Session 1: Understanding The 4th Trimester
Session 2: Infant Sleep (a.k.a. When Do We Get Some?)
Session 3: Becoming "Us" -- Changing Roles and Family/Partner Dynamics
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Each week we will leave room for additional topics that may arise based on the specific needs of the mothers in the group.
Whether you are a first time mama or a mama who has just had her second, third, fourth child, all mamas with newborns or infants are welcome to register!*
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"I absolutely loved the new mom support group. It was exactly what every new mom needs - meeting other moms with similar questions and concerns and professional guidance and answers to those questions. Vanessa leverages her professional knowledge and experience with her experiences as a mom of 2 to provide the best advice and guidance that is effective. She gets to know each baby and mom and tailors her recommendations and ideas on what actually works for you!"
"Vanessa was fantastic and was an invaluable resource to my family and we made our way through the first several weeks answering questions and giving suggestions from everything from childcare, breastfeeding and mom-care. Hearing that other moms had similar challenges and experiences we comforting and Vanessa did a great job moderating the group so we learned to help each other and establish a friendship."
"I absolutely loved this class! Vanessa creates such a safe place to be open and vulnerable during such a tremendously transitional stage in your life. The topics that were covered were so helpful but most of all, the relationships made with other moms has been the best part!"
"From the first week I was able to see what a difference it made in terms of getting through an overwhelming, confusing time with more confidence."
"All my questions and concerns were addressed from week to week, and for the ones I was too nervous to ask out loud, Vanessa made sure we dealt with them."
"When the internet and family advice left me in doubt, I knew I could come to this group and hear personalized information that made sense for my family."
"We were always encouraged to be real and honest, to come as we were, no matter what. I often showed up unshowered, in my yoga pants, vulnerable and tired, and left feeling rejuvenated."
"From discussing in-laws to the witching hour to guilt to pumping to contraception, this group helped me feel safe to deal with the big and little things on my mind."
"I'm so glad I invested in the support group. I picked up quite a few useful tips and techniques, but the best part for me was just having a pleasant, stress-free social activity to look forward to each week. Vanessa sets a very warm and genuine tone for the group."
Dates: Fridays:
5/31 + 6/7 + 6/14 +6/21 + 6/28
Time: 12:30 to 2:30PM
Cost: 5 sessions for $250
Location: Playgarden, 95 Franklin Street, NYC NY 10013
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Vanessa Aja-Sigmon, M.Div., CCCE, CLC, DONA-trained Doula
Vanessa is a mother to two boys, a Certified Cooperative Childbirth Educator through the Childbirth Education Association of Metropolitan New York (CEA-MNY), a Certified Lactation Counselor, and a labor support doula with the Doulas of North America. Vanessa's background is in the community organizing and human services fields. Vanessa also teaches childbirth preparation and parenting classes in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
*Please note: siblings older than 12 months cannot be accommodated at these sessions.
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Annoyed Librarian Sells Out, Starts Blogging for LJ
Library Journal has made a big linkbaiting move, and recruited The Annoyed Librarian to write at libraryjournal.com.
David Lee King and others, say "I Don't Trust the Library Journal." Over on twitter 2 LJ columnists "will need to consider [their] options as an LJ columnist."
DLK asked, "do you respect a publication that allows one of their writers to be anonymous, when that anonymity has been used in the past to attack other librarians and the work they do?"
I like the AL and will continue to read
Anonymity isn't bad - and I liked reading the AL even though I didn't always agree.
The fact that the AL decided to go to LJ doesn't surprise me, after all, if YOU were paid to blog, wouldn't you do it?
I think the library profession needs a devil's advocate - the AL does that, and now this individual can get paid to do it!
I don't get what this librarian has against anonymity.
DLK supports anonymous posting if you are very polite and nice and only try to make friends???
Then what's the point of being anonymous?
Either you support everyone's right to privacy or you don't; you don't make rules that privacy is only for anyone who has nothing to hide.
DLK should support everyone's right to keep their true natures to themselves,... unless he secretly doesn't. DLK, if that's your real name, what are you hiding??!!
read my blog post on this!!! leave a comment that it was funny!! even if you don't mean it!!!http://lisnews.org/fame_and_fortune_and_other_f_words
With this move LJ has gone
With this move LJ has gone from unreadable and irrelevant to slightly less unreadable and irrelevant.
He can't possibly be worse than the other columnists.
I'm a European librarian and
I'm a European librarian and have read the Annoyed Librarian with horror. Rude, bigoted, thoughtless and thoroughly unpleasant. I think I prefer the glasses and bun stereotype to be honest. Why do some people think it's so clever to hate, or be sarcastic, or try and pull others down? I have no respect for this individual or the LJ for the hire.
Rude, bigoted, thoughtless and thoroughly unpleasant. It seems someone's work is done.
And the AL says...
Can't wait to jump over to her site and read her take on this. Come on people, isn't the blogger-as-journalist issue all part of the great big carousel of Web 2.0 progress?
the AL's identity
I've got a pretty good idea who the AL is (or, if it's a collective of people--which I don't necessarily believe--who one of them is). She's given enough clues and made enough slip-ups that, once I figured it out, I wondered why I hadn't known all along. If the AL is who I think she is, she's young (but over 30), is fairly involved with ALA, and--horror of horrors!--was an LJ Mover and Shaker under her real identity. She's also one of the most attention-hungry people I've ever met in my life, and I figured it out when I thought "why does she not have a blog so she can get some extra attention...oh wait..."
And yep, she's just as smug in person as she is online. Some of her blog may be an act, but that part isn't. And it will crack my shit up when somebody outs her someday, but it's not going to be me.
It will be the AL who outs the AL
Read the monograph when it comes out.
You may think you know the AL, but who really knows the AL?
I know the real identity of "Elly Higginbottom"
... just kidding... but the attention was fun for a moment, wasn't it?
so do you think there is a reason my posts show up twice?
I wonder if it will do it again?
Named and belittled by Anonymous
I have been named and belittled in the AL blog. The few times I have posted I responded with my name. The article-- "On Anonymity in Libraryland Blogging" by John Buschman, Mark Rosenzweig & me; Progressive Librarian Issue no. 29, Summer 2007--pretty much sums up what I think on this.
-- Kathleen de la Peña McCook
I have been named and insulted on here.
Some people just don't like what I have to say. I don't get my knickers in a twist about it.
Some people think I am a putz, some don't; no matter if I am anoymous or not, so I just put my name on what I write, if you want to call me names you may as well know who I am. That sums up what I think on this.
The AL and I do share a number of opinions though. I have never been called a putz by the AL. I wonder why.
I find Al: amusing (oft time hilarious), informative, intelligent, stilted, thought provoking, reasonable, occasionally arrogant, definitely not stuffy or uptight, but direct & to the point.
Much of what she has to say is tongue in cheek but pretty accurate...which means I mostly agree with what she has to say. AL has me reading "professional" offerings, which I usually do not, for most other Librarian proffered blogs bore me to tears (all that old hat dogma). She gets me thinking about things that normally I wouldn't.
The fact she gets paid for writing her blog...well Hell I wish I was paid for the blog I publish (even if it is only on Yahoo 360) gives me hope that the library world is not as dowdy, uptight & stuffy as we present ourselves to be. Obviously she is widely read...my gosh have you seen the number of responses her blog gets?
Good for Al...let's stir the pot up more...whoo hoo.
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Tracy Thorne-Begland's long trip to the bench
Remember Tracy Thorne-Begland? Nearly a year ago, Thorne-Begland, a state prosecutor, a father, and a former Top Gun fighter pilot, was a state judicial nominee in Virginia. His nomination enjoyed bipartisan sponsorship, but it was defeated anyway – Thorne-Begland is gay and several Republicans said that made him biased and unqualified for the state bench.
This year, the decorated Navy veteran fared far better.
The Virginia House and Senate elected interim Judge Tracy Thorne-Begland to a full term on the Richmond Manchester General District Court today, giving legislative approval to the state' s first openly gay judge after rejecting him last year.
The Republican-controlled House voted first, approving him 66-28 with one abstention, and was followed by a Senate vote of 28-0. Twelve social conservatives in the Senate did not vote.
That last line was of particular interest. Ben Tribbett reported that 12 Republicans in the state Senate "walked out" rather than vote on Thorne-Begland's confirmation. "You read that correctly," Tribbett added. "A majority of the Virginia Senate GOP – 12 of 20 Senators – walked out rather than vote for a gay judge."
That said, Thorne-Begland's nomination, which should have been approved last year, is now complete.


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Cassini orbiter investigators (2)
Stamatios M Krimigis
Stamatios Krimigis, of the Applied Physics Laboratory of The Johns Hopkins University (JHU/APL), is the Principal Investigator for the Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument (MIMI).
Charles Elachi
Charles Elachi is currently the Director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Vice President of the California Institute of Technology (also Professor of Electrical Engineering and Planetary Science). He is the Team Leader for the Radio Detection and Ranging Instrument (RADAR).
Donald A Gurnett
Donald Gurnett, of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, USA, is the Principal Investigator for the Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) instrument.
Arvydas J Kliore
Arvydas Kliore is the Team Leader for the Radio Science Subsystem (RSS). He is from the Radio Science Systems Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, USA.
Larry Esposito
Larry Esposito is the Principal Investigator for the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS). He is from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.
Robert H Brown
Robert Brown, of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, is the Team Leader for the Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS).
Interdisciplinary scientists
Michel Blanc
Michel Blanc, of the Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, France, is studying plasma circulation and magnetosphere/ionosphere coupling.
J Cuzzi
J Cuzzi from NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, USA, is studying the rings and dust within the Saturnian system.
T Gombosi
T Gombosi, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, is studying the plasma environment in Saturn's atmosphere.
T Owen
T Owen, from the Institute for Astronomy, Honolulu, USA, is studying the atmospheres of Titan and Saturn.
L Soderblom
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For those of you who haven't heard this shtick yet, I'll repeat, in broad generalities, the basic concepts that inform my Unified Theory of Human Existence. Essentially, it holds that there are really just two competing impulses and ideas that govern all of humanity, there's the, generally female, predilection for Security and the, largely male, desire for Freedom. Take any issue or epoch and you will find that battle lines drew up along these lines. Now, while I, of course, favor the forces of Freedom in this drama, I respect those who favor Security and understand the natural impulses that lead folks to yearn for it.
But, these are only the healthy impulses, there are a couple of other omnipresent ideas and desires that animate human affairs--to dominate and to be dominated--and I do not respect them; they are malignant pathologies afflicting the human body politic. These malevolent motivations arise at both ends of the political spectrum and are best illustrated in the theories of Fascism, on the right, and Communism, on the Left. Despite the perceived antipathy between the two systems, both are in fact based on the desire of some members in society to dominate their neighbors. In the case of Communism, the desire stems from the fear of the naturally unequal distribution of talent and capabilities to humans. Communism seeks to dominate the gifted in order to favor the weak. Fascism, on the other hand, presupposes that a certain group in society has special merit, typically a racial group, and then seeks to dominate that group or even opposing nation, for the benefit of the chosen group.
All of which brings us to Yukio Mishima's novel, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, which along with Robert Musil's Young Torless (see Orrin's review), is perhaps the best fictional effort to depict the rise of Fascist tendencies in the individual. Mishima was an extraordinarily troubled fellow. Raised by his domineering grandmother, he determined at an early age that he was a homosexual. He became obsessed with sadomasochism, the body, martial arts, bodybuilding and the fascist militarism of Japan's past. In 1968 he founded the Shield Society, a kind of private Bushido-based army. On November 25, 1970, he tried to inspire a national uprising by taking over a military complex. When this failed miserably, he committed ritual suicide, seppuku.
In Sailor, he tells the story of Noboru, a teenage boy who spends his days roaming around with a gang of vicious boys and his nights hiding in a wardrobe in order to spy on his widowed mother as she has sex with her lover, the sailor Ryuji. As he and the gang become more psychotic (at one point they kill and skin a cat) and his mother and Ryuji announce their plans to marry, Noboru draws up a list of charges against Ryuji. When Noboru is discovered spying and Ryuji decides not to punish him, the boys decide to execute him because he has become "a father."
What precisely is the nature of this crime--being a father--as the boys see it?:
There is no such thing as a good father because the
role itself is bad. Strict fathers, soft fathers,
Now, I don't know how much of this Mishima intended and how much of it his subconscious spewed forth, but this father hatred is central to understanding his pathologies. In a fundamental sense, morality is a male construct; just as laws and regulations are fundamentally expressions of the female. Legalism presupposes a willingness to yield freedom. Each law and regulation represents another chip struck from the tree of liberty. But when the entire skein of regulation is put in place, those whose central concern is for security can rest easy. Permissible behaviors are strictly delineated and a powerful security state necessarily exists to enforce them. Thus, the boys in Noboru's gang, determine that they must commit a murder now, before they are adults, because the law will essentially allow them to get away with it.
Freedom, on the other hand, requires a rigid personal moral system in order to function. For only if we can be confident that others will be restrained by an internalized understanding of right and wrong will we be willing to grant each other the freedom that we ourselves desire. Fear is the enemy of freedom, morality its ally. The father figure, representing as he does the imposition of internalized moral inhibitions, is a threat to the boys. Ryuji, in refusing to punish the boy, is confident that the lesson can be learned and internalized without external punishment. But it is this very attempt to transmute the boy's values that guarantees the gang's enmity and results in his death sentence.
This is an extremely creepy story. It offers a pretty disturbing glance into the psyche of a troubled genius and seems likely to remain the pinnacle of gay, fascist, Japanese literature.
Grade: (C)
See also:Asian Literature
-Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)(kijasto)
-Mishima Gallery
-The Yukio Mishima Cyber Museum
-Yukio Mishima (Fringeware, Inc.)
-Yukio Mishima: A 20th Century Warrior (New Dawn Magazine)
-The Suicide of Yukio Mishima (Mimi Hanaoka)
-MISHIMA, Yukio (Comptons encyclopedia)
-ESSAY: Seppuku and Jisatsu in Modern Japanese Literature (Daniel Brown)
-SPEECH: YUKIO MISHIMA: The Harmony of Pen and Sword (Ceremony commemorating the 70. Birthday Anniversary January 14, 1995 - - Clarence, N.Y. Address delivered by B. J. Zavrel)
-REVIEW: of Acts of Worship Seven Stories By Yukio Mishima Translated by John Bester (Herbert Mitgang, NY Times)
-REVIEW: SILK AND INSIGHT By Yukio Mishima. Edited by Frank Gibney. Translated by Hiroaki Sato (Mark Morris, NY Times Book Review)
-REVIEW: D.J. Enright: Peasants and Poets, NY Review of Books
Thirst for Love by Yukio Mishima and translated by Alfred H. Marks
Sensei and His People by Yoshie Sugihara and David W. Plath
Japanese Poetic Diaries selected and translated by Earl Miner
-REVIEW: Gore Vidal: Mr. Japan, NY Review of Books
Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima
-REVIEW: Hidé Ishiguro: Writer, Rightist or Freak?, NY Review of Books
Mishima: A Biography by John Nathan
The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima by Henry Scott Stokes
-REVIEW: Ian Buruma: 'Rabu' Conquers All, NY Review of Books
Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era Vol. I: Fiction by Donald Keene
Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era Vol. II: Poetry, Drama, Criticism by Donald Keene
-REVIEW: of MISHIMA A Vision of the Void. By Marguerite Yourcenar. Translated by Alberto Manguel with the author (Michael Wood, NY Times Book Review)
-REVIEW: Ian Buruma: Rambo-san, NY Review of Books
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters a film written by Paul Schrader, Leonard Schrader, and directed by Paul Schrader
Barakei: Ordeal by Roses photographs of Yukio Mishima by Eikoh Hosoe
Mishima ou la vision du vide by Marguerite Yourcenar
Well, i dont think you did this book justice in your review. Bad review. shame on you.
- Arnie
- Apr-26-2006, 11:55
Those poor oppressed bastards, stuck being doctors and teachers and Microsoft founders--oh the humanities...
- oj
- Nov-12-2003, 07:53
Hard to reconcile the writer of Sailor and that of Spring Snow, an exquisite and sensitive tale. This is the real dichotomy you should investigate. I don't get your preamble: given your freedom-security dichotomy, how is democracy different from other political systems. Don't the rich seek security through money? To make money, don't they need cheap labor? The rich talk about democracy as if it were a system that applies equally to all American. But for the wealthiest, democracy is about power over others and the democracy sold to the common man/woman is only the "freedom" of ordinary people to become a teacher or judge or engineer or doctor. I.E., there is no such thing as democracy as an exact term or philosophy applicable to all. The tension in Michima is not female/male; it is heterosexual/homosexual. And that has been the stuff and strife of political systems and rulers almost without exception.
- Portia Jeffries
- Nov-12-2003, 03:25
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Philadelphia was America's first large city and served as the nation's capital for all but nine months between the inauguration of George Washington is the first president in 1789 and the capital transferred to Washington, DC in 1800. Before the early 1900s, the United States Census Bureau had not developed a metropolitan area (labor market area) concept. However, the website peakbagger.com has attempted to define earlier metropolitan areas based on concepts similar to those used today. In the case of Philadelphia, this is important, because it was somewhat unique in having virtually adjacent, highly populated suburbs that make comparisons of municipal populations (the only population data available) misleading.


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by Hugh Gilmore
Remember that column I wrote a little while back where I'd come across a corny LP album called "Music to Read By"? Remember what a hoot I thought that was? Boy, those people back in the 1950s and '60s sure were something. Always trying to come up with a way to make a buck.
Gather some tame, prepackaged, light classical or pop strings sounds into an album and call it "Music to Read By." Really, how un-awesome.
But I guess they don't read my column in New York, or don't take it as seriously as I thought – a matter I shall take up with our newspaper's promotional department. I say that because this week an upstart company named Booktrack announced with great fanfare that they'd be publishing e-books with soundtracks that play all through the book.
The soundtracks will be mostly musical, but don't be surprised if, for example, in a scene with a clock that you hear a clock ticking – or if a squeaky door creaks during a suspense story. Who knows: wind howling through King Lear's trees? Dah-dah. How superior to old time radio! I know, I know: the more things change, the more stupider they stay the same.
Not so, says Booktrack's 35-year-old co-founder and chief executive, Paul Cameron, according to the website Publishers Lunch, (quoting a New York Times interview during the launch party).
"It makes a new and engaging way to read and really enhances the experience and enhances your imagination and keeps you in the story longer," he said.
As if that weren't absurd enough, Mr. Cameron went on: "And it makes it fun to read again. If you're not reading all the time, it might help you rediscover reading."
What he's saying, in English-type-talk, is that he's hoping he can make a lot of money by getting non-readers to buy his e-books because they make sounds while you read them.
I know, you're thinking, this is what happens when a child is raised on those Push 'n' Speak toys that utter things when you push a button or pull a string. Well, let's read on and get a publishing industry take on the soundtracks for books.
In the Publishers Lunch bulletin, an editorial director for HarperCollins Children's Books, Tara Weikum, said, "We're learning that everything is up for grabs in terms of what people are going to respond to or be interested in, and the digital space is ever changing."
In person-speak that means they have no idea what they can do to enhance sales, so they might try anything – even Booktrack.
Ms. Weikum goes on, "If a reader falls in love with the book, they want more of it. And if we can give it to them in something like an e-book or the Booktrack edition, then it's pre-emptively anticipating what readers might be looking for."
That sounds, like, so cool. Anticipate customer demand.
Of course, it's true that if a reader "falls in love with" a book, they'll want, like, "more of it." But what's "it"? Aha. Sometimes it seems that readers really want another book by that author exactly like the first one, only with different names to the characters. Unless it's a series. Then they want the same characters, same plots, but different wardrobes.
In the case of children's and Young Adult series, a number of contemporary syndicates do exactly that: churn out title after title to feed the hunger. That's nothing new, of course.
By 1930 the Stratemeyer Syndicate had created and then fed the world's hunger for The Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift, Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys, among others. This dynasty, through the use of multiple publishers and ghostwriters, functioned like an assembly line throughout most of the 20th century.
Astonishingly, the existence of the syndicate remained a secret until a copyright lawsuit arose in the late 1970s. Simon and Schuster bought the syndicate in the 1980s.
But, if you can't give the public more books by the same author they love, or you can't get people to love the author in the first place, maybe you can motivate them to love your author by playing music for them while they read. This works as the equivalent of tying a pork chop around your neck to get the dog to play with you, as the folk wisdom goes.
Actually, the industry calls these bells and whistles books "enriched" e-books. Last summer, Simon and Schuster's "enhanced e-book" version of Rick Perlstein's "Nixonland" had 27 videos embedded throughout the text. When viewed on an iPad, a simple tap of the screen started the video.
Many of us read non-fiction with YouTube at the ready anyhow, so the concept wasn't as silly as it might sound to a print-centric Luddite. They sold a lot of copies. Other enhanced titles didn't do so well.
"Nixonland" was a history book. Would "enhancement" work for a work of fiction? The answer would have to be a qualified "eeh" for now. This summer, The Penguin Group released as an app for the iPad Jack Kerouac's "On The Road." (Penguin calls it an "amplified" edition, and it's only available at the App Store) They've sold a lot of copies.
The package includes sound and visual clips of Kerouac himself, a background documentary of life in America in the 1950s, interviews with other Beat personages, jazz soundtracks, and visual comparisons of the finished book with the original rolled typescript.
That's all nifty, but packaging documentary material with a historically famous novel does not enhance the act of fiction reading itself. And the gimmick won't work with a first-time novelist, and every classic began as a first edition. Somebody actually has to read it as a novel and not as an auditory sleigh ride.
If I were young, and I did iPads, I'd probably find the Kerouac app irresistible, but I'm not, and I do. I still worry that there's something lost here. I fear that the sacred, mystical link between author and reader stands in danger of dissolving. Maybe my hesitance arises from something equivalent to a tribesman's fear of flashlights after a lifelong fascination with the visual and auditory magic of fire.
I don't know about you, but I think we all need to know how to be alone with a book and let ourselves go where it takes us. I don't think a New York ad man or publisher's rep who needs to raise enough money to private school-educate his kid would be the most honest guide for what books I should read or how I should read them.
I have no idea what choice to recommend for a young person. All these enhancements seem so unnecessary to my generation.


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NEW YORK: Renewable energy accounted for more than 37% of America's new energy generating capacity last year, which is triple the total from traditional fuels.
Renewable energy sources, including solar, wind energy, geothermal and hydropower, made up over 37% of all new domestic electricity generating capacity that was installed in 2013, according to the latest Energy Infrastructure Report from the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Office of Energy Projects.
Reaching a total of 5,279 megawatts, renewable energy that came online in 2013 was triple that of traditional fuel sources, and now accounts for just under 16% of America's total installed operating generating capacity.
Solar power came out on top with 2,936 megawatts of new generating capacity, followed by wind with 1,129 megawatts. The new solar capacity in 2013 is almost 43% more than the same period in 2012.
As well as renewables growth, FERC's data shows America is still increasing its fossil fuel use, with a 7,270 megawatt spike in new natural gas installed in 2013.
On Tuesday night, President Obama delivered his annual State of the Union address on Capitol Hill where he reemphasized his Climate Action Plan, which includes utilizing natural gas. He said: "The 'all the above' energy strategy I announced a few years ago is working, and…one of the reasons why is natural gas. If extracted safely, it's the bridge fuel that can power our economy with less of the carbon pollution that causes climate change."
Amy Davidsen, US Executive Director, The Climate Group, said: "The President's remarks point to the fact that natural gas will only get us so far in terms of the significant emissions cuts that need to occur in the coming years. The President's Climate Action Plan is an important start, but we also need to work towards long-term solutions that will lead to net zero emissions by 2050."
See the data from the FERC Office of Energy Projects.
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What's that? You haven't been to Awesome Fest in San Diego? Well, I have—four times—so I'm kind of like the substitute teacher equivalent on the matter. A 36% attendance rate isn't bad for living about 2,000 miles away. Anyway, I hope you'll feel like you've attended one of these after reading this column. That is my goal.


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Cór blimey, guv'nor
Córdoba 1-0 Numancia (10:10:11)
We alighted the train before it chugged back out of Córdoba Central, onto the cobbled paths and into the heat of the morning. A day of sightseeing, interspersed with cañas and tapas, was on the agenda. But what was this catching my eye and shining like a beacon: a match day poster for a game? Córdoba v Numancia to be played this very evening? Yes sir. I'd only gone and done it again; landed in a foreign city on the day of a match, and with eight hours to spare until kick-off. You simply couldn't make it up.
I won't bore you with those hours spent sightseeing, there'll be 2000 words on Andalucia's most spectacular structure, the Mezquita over on our sister site 'European Cathedral Weekends' later in the week. The flowers and that were indeed lovely, but for now it was time us - my wife and I - to wave a little white hanky and give in to the culinary delights of the city and dive head first into some of those inviting Bodegas (wineries).
Aside from the obvious 'dos cañas por favor' the Spanish phrase I'd urge you to learn would be 'Que es tipico de la casa?' (what is your [food] speciality). Armed with that winning vocabulary, you won't go far wrong, not just here, but in all of Spain.
The legendary Bar Santos seemed as good a place as any to kick-off our gastronomic highlights package. Typical of this gaff is the tortilla de patata. They were roughly the size of a large hat and, fittingly, ours was served up by a chap called Jesus. Did Jesus want to appear on EFW - photographed with one of his prized trophies? You bet he did ....
Jesus and his prize-winning Spanish omelette, tick.
Next up we'd been recommended to grab a sought after seat at the "Casa El Pisto" Taberna San Miguel Bar.But seeing as that was a full four minute walk away, we called in for an intermediate swifty in Bar Correos which was in full swing with Cordoboses chewing the fat over an ice cold beer. Man alive, when it came, Casa El Pisto was worth the wait. After a couple of cañas I noticed a jug of something rather splendid on the bar. The local Moriles wine and I were about to have words. It was extremely moorish on a very hot day, and they began to sail down the hatch rather freely. Like many bars in the area, it was a shrine to bullfighting. Feeling well feed, not to mention a little merry, we called for the owners - Pepe y Lola - to pose for a photo. Well, Ricky 'chuffing' Stein gives the staff the recognition they deserve, doesn't he?
Pepe y Lola - I doff my sombrero to you both. Legends.
I've just been reminded that during my deep and meaningful conversation with Pepe, I'd told him "Tu marido es una cocinera fantastica," (Your husband is a fantastic cook). I meant his mujer (wife). Whoops. We all laughed. And he gave us a free glass of Moriles.
Onto the Taberna Salinas with a spring in our step. This place had been serving punters since 1879. Berenjenas con miel (aubergine with honey) was ordered, downed, and saluted. Who knew a trip to a Segunda Divsion match could be so much fun.
Just when we thought 'nothing could go wrong now', Tony 'reprehensible bag of feces' Blair reared his unwanted head. He'd previously paid a visit to the Bodega Campos, and as a result everything in the place had been upped in price. We boycotted the food in protest. Out the back, there were rows of oak barrels which had been signed by local and international celebrities. Blair's signed barrel sat atop that of a chap called, Curro Romero. Having heard a bit about Romero, I know who I'd rather share a beer with. He's a real character; a bullfighter obsessed with Real Betis, who on the odd occasion would stroll out into the bullring and declare that he couldn't be bothered with it all. The crowd didn't mind; some weeks he was good others, he was a disaster. There is a statue of him outside the bullring in Sevilla. I didn't see one of Tony Blair there last time I looked.
Tony Blair 0 Curro Romero 1
After one for the road in Regadena with its 21 flower pots hanging on its outside wall, it was time to negotiate the 36 degree heat and walk the ten minutes to the stadium. "Tu eres Danny de European Football Weekends," called a voice in the club's offices before I'd even opened my mouth. The staff there must have been briefed to expect an English lunatic with a bright red face and a beaming smile. They handed me over a folder with some information about the club, and a little press pass with my name on it. Good old life.
You'll find one of these trestle tables outside every Spanish football ground.
Willy Wonka's golden ticket
My first impression of the ground was that it looked to have about 15,000 seats too many. There was nobody inside just minutes from the start. And then, like in most Spanish grounds, there was a late rush and 5,000 fans strolled in with a minute to go. Small knots of supporters huddled together in what little shade was available. A group of around 60 or so ultras tried to raise an atmosphere in one corner of the ground, and Numancia, for their part, had brought with them 1 (one) travelling supporter.
The referee resisted booking anyone until the 14th minute; then, after the home centre forward Pinto had rolled a country mile after being clipped on his heels, the floodgates opened. Eleven players received a yellow card after that. I do get the impression that referees in Spain love booking players. Whatever, when there's not much to get excited about in terms of tiqui-taca it makes for thunderously good entertainment.
No goals at half time, so I was left to ponder what it would be like to fanny around a football stadium dressed as a crocodile in sweltering conditions - like the Córdoba club mascot does every other week. Better than going down the gym, I concluded.
The club mascot acknowledges the fans with a friendly gesture.
Blanco y verde, blanco y verde .... Córdoba
I'm no Michael Cox of Zonal Marking. Whilst he busies himself working out the formations of teams - clocking up one million hits in the process - I can't help but look around stadiums and giggle at women in hats made out of the matchday programme. I know this isn't possibly the best news in terms of my career, but boy does it make me happy. Having said that, even I could tell you that the single best player on the pitch today was Córdoba's Brazilian talisman, Charles. Caaaarlos, Caaaaarlos sang the fans. He missed a penalty; nice height for the goalkeeper and all that. A few minutes later he made amends with a 'smasheroo' from a fair distance into the bottom left hand corner of the net. 1-0. I'd suspected that Numancia's right back was there for the taking - heh heh ... just kidding, Michael.
Ingenious use of matchday programme, tick
Estadio Nuevo Arcangel
Andalucia loves you, apparently. It says so all over Malaga airport as you arrive, and I'm sure I've noted living legend, Miguel Ángel Jiménez with that catchphrase emblazoned on his golfing clobber as he sucks on an expensive Cuban La-Di-Da in between shots. I was beginning to feel the love for the place too. Not least because I was about to jump back on the train I'd arrived on, and continue en route to Sevilla and see Real Betis the next morning. Cruzcampo don't do European Football Weekends ......
Cór blimey, guv'nor. I had to end the report with this chap, my hero: the single away fan at the game.
Like this? This was that trip to Real Betis v RCD Mallorca.
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Here's the official Max Payne 3 promotional trailer, which premiered last night on ESPN during the Los Angeles Lakers-San Antonio Spurs game. I suppose I should have been watching that, but I was playing Trials: Evolution and swearing loudly.
Where was I? Well, the slow motion and the trails following every. single. round are rather in your face as to what this game is all about. That upturned empty bottle of booze also is unsubtle. But then, Max Payne never struck me as much of a subtle guy.
Max Payne 3 arrives on May 15. This ad is going to be shown internationally through that date, for sure.


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OZW – 001: Introductions
Phew, the new comic strip is finally here. It will be in FULL COLOR! This is the beginning of all new material.
For One Zany World, I decided to keep the main characters of Captain Charlie and flesh them out more as the new comic continues. You can also check out some additional information on the Characters page with the link near the top of my website. Basically, One Zany World is the continuation of the Captain Charlie comic strip after some time has passed.


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What do Jammer, Calyx, The Bluesberry Brothers and the Sun Lion all have in common? They are the adorable mascots of Florida-grown fruits.
What do Jammer, Calyx, The Bluesberry Brothers and the Sun Lion all have in common? They are the adorable mascots of Florida-grown fruits.
Jammer and Calyx are animated characters that brand Florida's fresh strawberries. The Florida Strawberry Growers Association commissioned graphic artist Sean Sanczel to develop Jammer in 2009. It seems that children were having trouble grasping basic agricultural facts of strawberries. So, by using an animated character, the association found that the retention rate of strawberry facts increased significantly.
Surprisingly enough, adults also remembered the information after a lively presentation by Jammer and his friends. Both children and adults have shown to relate well to the characters instead of literature, and learning about Florida agriculture facts at the same time. You can find more information on Jammer at the Florida Strawberry Growers Association (flastrawberry.com), and watch a the video "Jammer Saves the Farm" at youtube.com.
The Florida Blueberry Festival in Brooksville branded its nutritious Florida fresh blueberries, too. It developed the mascots Bo and Elliot Bluesberry — The Bluesberry Brothers — along with Auntie Oxidant and Mrs. Highbush that are entertaining and informative. It is sheer delight to watch the animation with music and educational skits. Everyone comes away with understanding of the history of how the blueberry was developed in Florida, health benefits (reduces weight, improves vision, cancer preventer) and economic importance to Florida. The songs and animation are presented professionally and well-suited for children and adults of all ages. You can watch the video at floridablueberryfestival.org.
Recently, the Legend of the Sun Lion was developed for the 2012-2013 season. This Florida panther is the brand for Florida fresh tangerines. Proceeds from the sale of Legend of the Sun Lion tangerines go toward the protection of the Florida panther. This adorable panther resembles the young Simba from the Disney film "The Lion King." Lifetime Lake Wales area citrus growers Vic Story and Marty McKenna teamed up with local storyteller Dave Gornoski to develop The Sun Lion. Their aim is to help children eat healthier by eating Florida's tasty tangerines. By using the Florida panther, they can bring about awareness to protect this noble symbol of Florida's wildlife. What's not to love?
Gornoski also created "The Legend of the Sun Lion" storybook. It is a tale of a Florida panther cub that protects Florida citrus from evil night hogs. In the future, you may be seeing this cast of characters in your store. Go to mysunlion.com for details and updates.
The Sun Lion, Jammer and The Bluesberry Brothers serve as Florida's ambassadors to eat healthy, buy local and celebrate the fruits Florida produces.
Strawberry-Ricotta Bruschetta
From The Associated Presss; start to finish 10 minutes; serves 10
12-inch baguette, cut into 20 slices
1 1/4 cups part-skim ricotta cheese
1 pound strawberries, hulled and cut into 1/4-inch dice
honey, to taste
20 fresh mint or basil leaves, cut in thin strips (chiffonade)
Lightly toast the slices of baguette. Spread each slice with about 1 tablespoon of ricotta cheese. Divide the diced strawberries among the slices of toast. Drizzle with honey, sprinkle with mint (or basil) and serve.
Nutrition information per 2 slices (values are rounded to the nearest whole number): 270 calories; 34 calories from fat (13 percent of total calories); 4 g fat (2 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 10 mg cholesterol; 48 g carbohydrate; 11 g protein; 3 g fiber; 457 mg sodium.
Blueberry Crumble
Adapted from the America's Test Kitchen's "Family Baking Book"; serves 6
4 cups blueberries
1/3 cup plus 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon granulated sugar, divided
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
1 teaspoon lime zest
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup flour
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup chopped walnuts, lightly toasted (see note)
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons vanilla
6 tablespoons butter, cut in pieces and softened
Preheat oven to 350 degees. Place one rack in bottom position, and another in the upper half of oven. Coat 8-inch-square dish with baking spray.
Combine blueberries, 1/3 cup sugar, lime juice, zest, cornstarch and cinnamon. Pour into baking dish and cover with foil. Place on upper oven rack.
Combine flour, brown sugar, 1/4 cup granulated sugar, walnuts, salt and vanilla. Mix the butter into the flour by pinching with your fingers until the butter is evenly distributed and the mixture starts to hold together. Turn out onto a baking sheet covered with parchment paper and spread into an even layer. Place on bottom rack of oven and bake for 12 minutes.
Remove both fruit and crumble from oven, and uncover the fruit. Crumble the partially baked topping over the fruit and sprinkle with remaining sugar. Return to the lower rack of the oven and bake until fruit is bubbling and the topping is golden, another 15 to 20 minutes, checking after 10 minutes to make sure topping isn't browning too fast.
Walnuts may be toasted in a microwave oven on high for 1 to 2 minutes. Watch carefully so they don't burn.
Nutrition information per serving: Calories 414; fat 18g; sodium 184 mg; saturated fat 8 g; carbohydrates 61g; calcium 30 mg; protein 5g; cholesterol 31 mg; dietary fiber 4 g.
Arugula Salad With Tangerines, Almonds and Shaved Parmesan
From Florida Department of Citrus; serves 4
For dressing:
1/4 cup 100 percent tangerine juice
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 tablespoon honey
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
1/2 teaspoon finely grated tangerine zest
1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
For salad:
1/4 cup golden raisins
3 tablespoons tangerine juice
4 tangerines, peeled and sliced into rounds 1/8-inch thick
2 tablespoons honey
4 cups loosely packed baby arugula
1/4 small red onion, sliced into wedges 1/8-inch thick
2 ounces shaved Parmesan
2 tablespoon toasted sliced almonds
For the dressing, in a small bowl whisk together 1/4 cup tangerine juice, vegetable oil, 1 tablespoon honey, vinegar, tangerine zest and mustard. Season with salt and pepper to taste; set aside.
For the salad, in a small microwave-safe bowl combine raisins and 3 tablespoons tangerine juice. Microwave on high 20 to 30 seconds or until the mixture begins to bubble. Let stand 10 minutes; drain. Arrange 1 sliced tangerine around each of 4 salad plates; drizzle the slices with 2 tablespoons honey. Set aside.
In a large bowl combine arugula, onion and raisins. Drizzle with 1/4 cup of the dressing; toss to coat. Divide salad evenly in the center of each plate. Top with shaved Parmesan and sprinkle with almonds. Serve with remaining dressing.
Nutrition information per per serving: 300 calories, 16g fat, 4g saturated fat, 10mg cholesterol, 220mg sodium, 37g carbohydrate, 3g fiber, 32g sugars, 7g protein


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About Place Where The Black Stars Hang: I listened to it in bed with headphones one time and found parts of it very relaxing in a special kind of way, especially the fantastic track Metastatic Resonance. Personally I don't think it's a scary or creepy album.


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Take a journey through the world of chocolate, discovering how chocolate becomes chocolatey and how it started off originally being used as money. We're very pleased the Aztecs persevered with the acidic tasting little bean, and you'll understand why when we show you how chocolate was originally created into something gorgeously sweet and creamy as we know it today.
If you're feeling very adventurous you'll even taste cocoa liquor, cocoa nibs and the raw cacao beans themselves as you learn your own chocolate favourite, you'll then learn how this wonderful ingredient is made into the chocolate bar we think of today. During the process you will have a chance to come up with your own chocolatey creation and make your own little chocolate bar using whatever ingredients you fancy.
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13.5 Representing Uncertainty in Climate Scenarios
13.5.1 Key Uncertainties in Climate Scenarios
Uncertainties about future climate arise from a number of different sources (see Figure 13.2) and are discussed extensively throughout this volume. Depending on the climate scenario construction method, some of these uncertainties will be explicitly represented in the resulting scenario(s), while others will be ignored (Jones, 2000a). For example, scenarios that rely on the results from GCM experiments alone may be able to represent some of the uncertainties that relate to the modelling of the climate response to a given radiative forcing, but might not embrace uncertainties caused by the modelling of atmospheric composition for a given emissions scenario, or those related to future land-use change. Section 13.5.2 therefore assesses different approaches for representing uncertainties in climate scenarios. First, however, five key sources of uncertainty, as they relate to climate scenario construction, are very briefly described. Readers are referred to the relevant IPCC chapters for a comprehensive discussion.
188.8.131.52 Specifying alternative emissions futures
In previous IPCC Assessments, a small number of future greenhouse gas and aerosol precursor emissions scenarios have been presented (e.g., Leggett et al., 1992). In the current Assessment, a larger number of emissions scenarios have been constructed in the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) (Nakic´enovic´ et al., 2000), and the uncertain nature of these emissions paths have been well documented (Morita and Robinson, 2001). Climate scenarios constructed from equilibrium GCM experiments alone (e.g., Howe and Henderson-Sellers, 1997; Smith and Pitts, 1997) do not consider this uncertainty, but some assumption about the driving emissions scenario is required if climate scenarios are to describe the climate at one or more specified times in the future. This source of uncertainty is quite often represented in climate scenarios (e.g., Section 188.8.131.52).
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Hark, All Ye Nations!
31243, Hymns, Hark, All Ye Nations!, no. 264
1. Hark, all ye nations!
Hear heaven's voice
Thru ev'ry land that all may rejoice!
Angels of glory shout the refrain:
Truth is restored again!
Oh, how glorious from the throne above
Shines the gospel light of truth and love!
Bright as the sun, this heavenly ray
Lights ev'ry land today.
2. Searching in darkness, nations have wept;
Watching for dawn, their vigil they've kept.
All now rejoice; the long night is o'er.
Truth is on earth once more!
3. Chosen by God to serve him below,
To ev'ry land and people we'll go,
Standing for truth with fervent accord,
Teaching his holy word.
Text: Based on German text by Louis F. Mönch, 1847-1916. © 1985 IRI
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New: Julia Morgan "Town and Gown" Architectural Tour This Sunday
Locals have the opportunity to look at some of the most interesting design work of famed architect Julia Morgan on a tour this coming Sunday, November 18, 2012. Organized by the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association (BAHA) the afternoon tour takes in ten buildings, including all the structures designed by Morgan standing on the UC Berkeley campus, the elaborate Berkeley City Club, and three off-campus houses Morgan designed as private homes which are now used as student living groups.
The self-guided tour costs $25 for the general public, and $20 for BAHA members (you can join BAHA on the day of the tour to get the discount). Tickets are for sale on line, and also on the day of the tour, starting at 11:30 at the BAHA headquarters on 2318 Durant Avenue, between Ellsworth and Dana.
The tour itself runs from noon to four PM for most of the buildings. Tour-goers go at their own pace and route, with a guidebook and map describing the houses and their history. All the buildings are within a few blocks walking distance of each other on or near the southeast corner of the UC Berkeley campus.
Off-campus, the City Club—which stands across the street from the BAHA headquarters on Durant—will be open for tour goers with its own volunteer docents. Three large homes, two on Piedmont and one on Bancroft, are also featured, including one where the Morgan touch is hidden behind a 1960s façade addition. The Bancroft Hotel, designed as the College Women's Club by Morgan protégé Walter Steilberg, is also included on the tour.
On campus, the tour includes the Hearst Memorial Gymnasium which Morgan designed in conjunction with Bernard Maybeck, Girton Hall (Senior Women's Hall) for which she donated plans just over a century ago, and 2232 Piedmont, originally a private home later purchased by the University and now used for academic offices.
Morgan graduated from the University of California in 1894 with a degree in Civil Engineering (there was not yet a formal architecture program at the time). She became the first woman to enroll, and earn a certificate, at the Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Paris. After completing that degree she returned to California where she worked on campus projects, then began her own design practice. Ultimately she would design some 700 buildings throughout the State and the western United States, and also become the favored architect of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst.
Morgan grew up in Oakland and lived in San Francisco as an adult, but had close ties to Berkeley both as a student, and during her design career. She designed many private homes and institutional buildings in Berkeley.
The tour also ties in with an exhibit on Julia Morgan organized by the Environmental Design Archives, currently on display in the Environmental Design Library in Wurster Hall on campus, which will be open on Sunday. Finally, tour-goers are invited back to the BAHA headquarters for cookies and an opportunity to shop in the BAHA bookshop.
The local tour ties in with a statewide celebration of Morgan, called Julia Morgan 2012, organized by the California Cultural and Historic Endowment. It was organized with the help of several departments and offices at UC Berkeley as well as the Berkeley City Club and Landmark Heritage Foundation.
For more details, see the BAHA website at http://www.berkeleyheritage.com/
You can still purchase tickets online. It's too late to order them by mailed in-reservation, but you can come on the morning of the tour, 11:30 or after, and purchase them directly at 2318 Durant Avenue.
Steven Finacom is the Vice President of the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association, and worked on organizing the tour.


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Food sorting at the Alameda County Coummunity Food Bank is a rewarding experience and a great chance to meet other Bay Area volunteers.The mission of the Food Bank is to alleviate hunger by providing nutritious food and nutrition education to people in need, educating the public, and promoting public policies that address hunger and its root causes.Volunteers sort and box food that is distributed to more than 40,000 residents of Alameda County weekly through our network of 275 member organizations. Come by and help us alleviate hunger in the Bay Area!
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Northside credit union robber sought by police
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Police are looking for a man they said robbed a credit union Tuesday afternoon on the Northside.
Jacksonville police were called to the Navy Federal Credit Union at 550 Airport Center Drive about 5:20 p.m.
They said the man went inside, walked up to a teller, demanded money, showed a handgun and fled on foot out of the business after he received money.
Police said they're also looking for the robber's truck (pictured above).
Anyone with any information on the man's identity is asked to call the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office at 904-630-0500 or Crime Stoppers at 866-845-TIPS.
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Prescription firm helps Goodwill
Goodwill Industries Manasota Inc. was named by the Sarasota-based Canada Med Services/Discount Prescription Services as one of 32 regional nonprofit organizations to participate in its 2013 "Charity of Choice" initiative.
When a customer places a prescription medication order, a donation is made to the customer's selected charity.
Other participating organizations include ArtCenter Manatee, Pines of Sarasota Foundation Inc., Sarasota Ballet, Manatee Players, Mote Marine Laboratory, Historic Spanish Point, All Faiths Food Bank, Women's Resource Center, United Way Suncoast, Tidewell Hospice and the Asolo Repertory Theatre.
McKechnie work a local effort
Bradenton's McKechnie Field, the Spring Training home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, received a thorough makeover this winter, with most of the work being done by local companies. More than 80 percent of the businesses and total workers involved in the $10 million renovation are from the Tampa Bay area, the Pirates organization said.
NDC Construction, of Bradenton, is the construction manager for the project. Fawley Bryant Architects Inc., with offices in Bradenton and Lakewood Ranch, designed the project.
Of the 39 businesses working on the renovation, 12 are from Manatee County, 11 are from Sarasota County, five are based in Pinellas County and four in Hillsborough County. Four additional Florida companies bring the total of in-state businesses used to 36.
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New Atomic Clock Boasts Groundbreaking Percision
- New study describes atomic clock with unprecedented precision
- Clock is made with atoms of the element ytterbium
- Device is at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Colorado
- Efforts are under way to make the technology small enough to send into space
If you follow scientific developments as if they were football games, this would be a good time to cheer "Tick-tick-tick-tick! Tick-tick-tick-tick! Go, clock, go!"
The reason for such enthusiasm? Researchers have released a study in the journal Science describing what they believe is the world's most precise clock.
You'd never need this level of precision for getting to work on time, but the clock could be used for scientific exploration and technological advancements in areas such as navigation systems, said study co-author Andrew Ludlow, researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado.
The rate of ticking of this timepiece -- known informally (and awkwardly) as the ytterbium optical lattice clock -- does not change by more than one part in 10^18, Ludlow said. In other words, if there is any variation in how a second is measured, it would be in about the 18th decimal place.
"The ytterbium optical lattice clock has demonstrated a groundbreaking, new level of clock stability," he said. "One could say that this is like measuring time over a hundred years to a precision of several nanoseconds."
In order to understand what's so special about this table-sized clock, it helps to have a little background:
How clocks work
Inside a clock is a mechanism that changes in some regular way, called an oscillator. Imagine, for example, a grandfather clock, whose pendulum swings back and forth denoting time. In a wrist watch there is often a crystal with an electrically oscillating signal.
A particular number of "back and forths" corresponds to one second.
An atomic clock makes use of an electromagnetic signal -- in other words, light emitted at an exact, known frequency. At the core of the system, there is an atom. The light is used to excite an electron in the atom.
In this model, the excitation and de-excitation of an electron corresponds to a pendulum swinging right to left, but in an atomic clock, the "tick" denotes an unimaginably tiny fraction of a second.
The current gold standard for time is the cesium clock, a type of atomic clock that an international body of experts has used to define what is the unit of one second: About 9.19 billion oscillations. In this clock, a microwave light source is used to excite electrons in cesium atoms.
But the new atomic clock at NIST, described in the Science study, uses a different element: Ytterbium, atomic number 70. Optical light -- specifically, yellow light from a laser with a wavelength of 578 nanometers -- is used to excite the electrons of ytterbium atoms.
Whereas scientists talk about billions of oscillations per second in the cesium clock, oscillations per second in the ytterbium clock approach one quadrillion per second, Ludlow said.
The new clock is akin to a ruler that has markers for fractions of inches, compared to a ruler that only delineates inches. The first instrument would make more precise measurements.
"You divide time into finer and finer intervals," Ludlow said.
In order to establish the precision of this clock, the scientists had to make two of them, to confirm agreement in the measurement of time.
The devices won't fit on your wrist, or even on your wall. Because of all the laser equipment and technology necessary for this level of precision, the atomic clock and all of its components occupy a space about the size of a dining room table, Ludlow said.
Efforts are under way to shrink the technology, however, particularly so that a version of it might be sent into space.
Potential uses
Researchers studying Einstein's theory of general relativity could make use of this clock to more precisely measure how time is different depending on the surrounding gravitational force.
Global positioning systems (GPS) already take this into account. Because they are farther from Earth than we are, and therefore experience less gravitational pull, their measurement of time as they orbit Earth is slightly different from what we perceive on the ground. A more precise atomic clock could measure the correctional factors even better.
Such clocks could also test alternative theories about the relationship between time and gravity.
There could be other applications for navigation and communications systems.
But you probably won't want one for your alarm clock. Ludlow said the total cost ranges on the order of a half-million dollars.
Although scientists have proclaimed that this is the world's most stable clock, they do not yet know as much about its accuracy. This is a subtle but important difference: The ytterbium clock has demonstrated incredible stability of measurement -- it always measures a second in the same way -- but we do not yet know if what it is measuring is a "true" second.
So, we'll have to wait to find out whether these clocks could be the most accurate in the world.
More research is needed. It's a story we hear time and time again.
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When the winner of the Best Film category is announced at tomorrow night's Bafta awards ceremony in London, there's a strong possibility it will be a literary adaptation. Of the five films in contention, three are based on novels: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (adapted from John Le Carré's classic cold war thriller), The Descendants (from Kaui Hart Hemmings' 2007 acclaimed debut) and The Help (based on Kathryn Stockett's wildly popular novel about African-American maids in 1960s Mississippi). Later this month at the Oscars, six of the nine nominees for Best Picture are adaptations.
Adapting works of literature for the cinema is not new. Breakfast at Tiffany's(1961), Doctor Zhivago (1965), The Godfather (1972) and The English Patient(1996) are just a handful of the great films that began life as novels. But 2012 is shaping up to be a particularly busy year. Next weekend sees the British release of one of those Oscar contenders, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, directed by Stephen Daldry, based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer and starring Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks. In the coming months it will be followed by the film of Paul Torday's bestselling 2007 novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, with Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, and big screen adaptations of Yann Martel's Booker-winning Life of Pi and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas as well as interpretations of older classics such as Great Expectations, The Hobbit, The Great Gatsby and Anna Karenina.
It's unlikely that all of these films will be classics. One common criticism of films of popular novels is that they are "not as good as the book". So why do so many filmmakers still believe it pays to reach for well-loved novels rather than search for original screenplays? According to Tim Bevan, co-chairman of Working Title Films, which has produced a string of big literary adaptations including Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding) and Atonement (Ian McEwan), and which was behind last year's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the key factors are ideas and money – and both are currently in short supply. "We're not in a great period for cinema at the moment," says Bevan. "There is a paucity of ideas, properly cinematic ideas. One of the reasons for that is that those that invest are playing it safe and that's because of the economic world we live in and because the economics of the movie business have changed considerably recently." The past year has seen a dramatic decline in revenues, largely owing to falling DVD sales. As this revenue stream dries up, big studios are making fewer movies.
In a relatively impoverished film landscape, it is tempting to assume adaptations represent a less expensive option than a film created from an original idea and script. Not so, explains Lesley Thorne who, as director of Film and TV Rights at the literary agency Aitken Alexander Associates, sold the rights for the recent BBC TV adaptation of Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong. "It's more expensive to buy a novel because you have to pay for the underlying rights to a book and then you have to pay someone to adapt it," she says. "Sometimes you're talking about twice the cost." This, of course, doesn't apply to adaptations of out of copyright classics, which may partly explain the attraction of remaking books by authors such as Tolstoy and Dickens.
In the UK, producers and financiers tend to secure an option to film a novel – usually for two consecutive 18 month periods – for between £5,000 and £20,000 per period. Producers taking on a big novel by a famous writer will often want to get a similarly big name screenwriter to adapt – someone such as Christopher Hampton (Atonement) or Tom Stoppard (Empire of the Sun). While a first-time screenwriter might expect to get between £10,000 and £20,000 for a first draft, a more experienced writer could receive £40,000. A writer of Stoppard's reputation, rather more.
When a director starts shooting, the author is paid a purchase price, usually between 2 and 2.5 per cent of the film's overall budget, according to an industry insider. On average this will be around £200,000. Contracts often include "back-end" deals that take into account additional factors such as profit share, though most films never officially make a profit.
So if adaptations can actually be more expensive than original screenplays, why do producers take them on? "When you make a movie based on a book you've got that head start," says Bevan. Audience recognition of the story or author behind it means that a movie is already part of the cultural conversation, he adds, pointing to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. "At least 50 per cent of people who saw that film had probably also seen the mini series" – released in 1979 starring Alec Guinness as George Smiley – "and read the book but were ready for a movie as well."
Working Title is currently producing a new Bridget Jones movie (Bridget Jones's Baby, due for release next year) as well as adaptations of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Bevan says that investors will always look at the whole package – script, actors and director. But a novel gives them a bit of confidence. "They feel, 'Oh yeah, that's safe because it's worked before,' which is not the most imaginative way to go and may well be a fault of cinema today," he says.
Independent filmmaker Rob Heydon first met the author Irvine Welsh, best-known for Trainspotting, his 1993 novel about a group of lovable heroin addicts, 12 years ago. The pair discussed the possibility of adapting Ecstasy, Welsh's 1996 book of three stories, and Heydon recalls that between 2002 and 2010 he "had financing in place about 10 times". The film, however, was not made until 2011 and will be released in April. Would it have been even harder to make happen without Welsh's name attached? "I think so, definitely," says Heydon. "Trainspotting was a very successful film and it sold around the world. His follow up [The Acid House] was a bunch of short stories that Film Four amalgamated into a feature and sold to 28 different countries. It made it a lot easier to show the commercial viability of another film based on one of his books."
An alternative theory is offered by Stephen Daldry, who has directed three adaptations: The Hours (from Michael Cunningham's novel), The Reader (from Bernhard Schlink's) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. He suggests that we could actually be witnessing the end of producers' and financiers' willingness to invest in literary adaptations. "There's a retraction and a fearfulness, given the change in the marketplace, to do with the digital revolution and the collapse of DVD sales," he says. "The films that are being made now were green-lit years ago. I'm not sure they'd be made now."
Daldry explains that in the past six to 12 months there has been a huge decline in the number of films being made because money is tight. If film executives need to make money, it is unlikely they will go for relatively expensive prestige literary projects over sequels or more mainstream crowd-pleasers.
What's more, he argues, the idea that a film adaptation brings with it a ready-made audience of those who loved the book only goes so far. "The chances are that the number of people who read the book would fill a restaurant," he argues. "Unless it's Harry Potter and a brand in itself, you can't guarantee that making a film of a more high-end novel will translate into a popular audience."
Even so, the desire for "hot property" books with a literary cache – even if readership figures aren't huge – means that, according to one insider, big producers will often pay publishing assistants for an early copy of the next big thing so they can snap up rights even before publication.
"I think in the States they have a slightly different attitude towards books," says Thorne. "It's much more to do with how hot a book or an author is and whether that book is in the bestseller list. I don't think that many books in the US market get optioned simply because they're fantastic stories, whereas I feel that British producers and financiers are much more open to optioning books that don't necessarily have bestseller track records." Two films from 2006 illustrate this contrast: The Last King of Scotland, based on Giles Foden's sleeper debut novel and adapted by a small independent UK production company, and The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger's bestselling novel based on her time working at Vogue, which was turned into a film by the Hollywood studio 20th Century Fox.
Once a film is released, literary adaptations, unlike original screenplays, can offer cross-promotional possibilities that are hard to ignore. With Ecstasy, says Heydon, Irvine Welsh's publisher Random House "is promoting the book and the film and we're promoting the film and the book". Also, Ecstasy is appearing just a couple of days after the publication of Welsh's new novel, Skagboys, which is written as a prequel to Trainspotting. There will be film tie-in editions ofEcstasy, poster campaigns for the book and the film and interviews with Welsh in the media, all of which helps to generate the elusive "buzz" a film needs to survive – and make money.
Even for the safest-looking adaptations this is no easy task. Susan Hill's gothic ghost story The Woman in Black was published in 1983. It was adapted for the stage in 1987 (and is the second longest running West End play after The Mousetrap). It was also made into a TV drama in 1989. Last weekend the film of The Woman in Black opened in the US, taking $20.9m at the box office. Yet consider that the film, which stars Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame, had a budget of $13m and was backed by a US marketing campaign reported to have cost around $14m. It opens in UK cinemas this weekend.
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So what determines whether an adaptation is successful? James Watkins, director of the latest The Woman in Black, believes it would be a mistake to simply copy what previous adaptations have done. "They all work in different ways," he says. "You have different storytelling weapons in your armoury. You need to evaluate in some way what it is people respond to in the book, the core values."
Daldry, whose adaptations have been of novels that would not obviously translate to film, offers an even clearer distinction: "I was not making a film of the book but a film of the story. They exist in entirely different spheres."
Literary purists may regard adaptations as a "bad thing", but it seems there are some stories so powerful and with which we connect so readily that we never tire of reading or watching them. This year sees a particular trend for adaptations of some of literature's best-loved "classics". The Great Gatsby will get the Baz Luhrmann treatment with Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby and Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan; JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit becomes the nextThe Lord of the Rings, as Peter Jackson adapts this prequel with Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins. With Gatsby, a classy adaptation already exists, starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow. But that 1974 version looks dated; film language and technology has changed and anyway, the filmmakers would argue, we need a Gatsby for our age, one that speaks to the current concerns about wealth and poverty and a world in flux.
One of the most adapted classic novels of all time is Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. It's had more than six major adaptations, including a Russian mini-series, says Tim Bevan of Working Title. Why, then, is he bothering to make a new version? The idea, he explains, took hold on the set of Atonement when Keira Knightley was reading the Tolstoy novel and said she thought it would make a good film. Bevan and the director Joe Wright asked the playwright Tom Stoppard whether he thought Anna Karenina would work as an adaptation and he reread the novel and watched all the previous versions before, says Bevan, declaring, "that none of them got it right". "When it's Stoppard saying that you know you're on to something," he says.
Ultimately, the trend for adaptations exists because, give or take the inevitable exceptions, it works. Investors can make money from adaptations because audiences enjoy them. Where one story is a demonstrable hit, filmmakers are keen to follow up with something similar, or even the same (Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has spawned two film versions in just a couple of years). The success of Harry Potter led to a scramble for "the next Harry Potter" – that turned out to be Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series. With that multi-million dollar franchise now at a close "the next Twilight" (or "the next-next Harry Potter") is Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. The first film is out in March and a crossover audience is expected for this young adult trilogy: expect to see office workers devouring it on the commute to work.
Is this laziness on the part of filmmakers? Or commercial expediency? Perhaps it's simply to do with the form; a novel will always offer a greater depth of characterisation and more subtlety in its themes. And having a novel as well as a script allows actors to tap into a wealth of backstory and subtext that you'd be hard pressed to find in a 120-page script. Economic conservatism may be playing its part but, as Thorne says: "It's mainly to do with truly compelling storytelling, and novelists are fantastic storytellers."
From book to the big screen: David Mitchell on turning his novel 'Cloud Atlas' into a film
"With adaptations, I think the trick is to resist the temptation to compare them on a single 'Enjoy-o-meter'," says David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas (2004), which is due for release later this year starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Hugh Grant.
Cloud Atlas was optioned in 2005 by the filmmakers Andy and Lana Wachowski and Tom Twyker. "If the makers of theMatrix trilogy and Run Lola Run wanted to film a novel you had written," says Mitchell, "how long would you agonise over the decision?"
The book is an elaborately structured Russian doll of a novel, featuring books within books within books that cross time and space. What was it like handing over such a carefully wrought work to filmmakers who would undoubtedly take some liberties? "I don't really feel that the story has been altered to please a broader audience," says Mitchell, "rather, it has been disassembled and reassembled in order to make the story work in film format, and to play to the strengths of cinematic storytelling. The book's semi-hidden reincarnation motif, for example, is brought into the film's foreground by using the same actors playing different characters (genders and ethnicities) in different time-zones – the clear implication being that they are the same souls in different bodies. I'd feel differently if travesties had been committed, but in my opinion that hasn't happened here. Seeing the interpretations they've come up with, and just standing back and thinking 'God, that's ingenious' has been an enormous, ticklish pleasure."
Mitchell met with the filmmakers in 2009 to discuss their plans and since then, bar a visit to the set, has been "a fascinated spectator".
While the filmmakers have adopted what Mitchell describes as a "mosaic structure", they've also had an impact beyond the adaptation itself. The film gives one of the novel's characters, a publisher called Cavendish, a "slightly warmer ending" than the novel suggests.
"As Cavendish also appears in the new novel I'm working on," says Mitchell, "I'm going to weave his film ending into the character's personal history and make it 'canonical'. Many a lonely novelist has a secret longing for like-minded collaborators."
There will no doubt be some for whom the book is better than the film, but Mitchell is open-minded: "Wouldn't it be perverse to stick doggedly to aspects of the book for the sake of 'authenticity' if that authenticity then kills the film?"


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Two grown ass men fought each other for a cab yesterday in New York. These are the people running this country.
The two men, who outwardly resemble responsible adults, shove each other until one slips into the cab and the other slams the door shut. The guy exiting the taxi on what appears to be Park Avenue tries to calm things down in the middle saying "guys, guys," but he is talking to man-children.
This town is getting rough.