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This personal account of Antipolo Project Coordinator Malou Navio's experience during Typhoon Ondoy (also called Ketsana) just arrived. Malou said the staff has to travel through alleys on balsa boats to reach CFCA families. Many of them are scattered in different evacuation centers. At present, the homes of 1,024 Antipolo families are submerged in floodwaters.
The downpour of heavy rains began at dawn on Sept. 26. Then it became unusual in the morning. I was working at the office that time. I and six other staff left our office to sweep away the rain water continuously pouring in and preventing access to the room of the community workers. Some staff moved the folders and documents hurriedly from the lowest drawers of the filing cabinets onto the top of the cabinets and desks.
The height of the floodwater on the street in front of our office was getting high. I left them while they were still sweeping to rush home because a niece of mine called telling me that our home was flooded. The place to pass through going home flooded to chest level. My niece and sister-in-law said they were trapped on the second floor of our home.
Then, on the street where I stopped, I witnessed peopleóchildren and older personsówet and chilled. People were helping to guide one another to where to pass safely. I saw people scampering to their rooftops. All were looking for elevated places to stand. Some women were crying with their children. I helped a mother with a newborn baby wet from the flood and brought them in the office until the rain and flooding subsided.
We are used to flooding but it was the first time we experienced that kind. Our town and many other towns turned into a water world. Three of our staff with seven ERPAT (fathers group) officers were stranded for two days in Teresa, Rizal, while conducting a seminar in school with parent leaders.
In the Antipolo project, eight of us live in different places. Our homes were inundated, and our streets are still flooded.
We appreciate the alertness of the leaders and ERPAT fathers for their effort to rescue. One of them is recovering now from severe injury.
I conducted emergency meetings with the staff and parent leaders to discuss strategy for rescue and relief. The staff and I with ERPAT leaders took turns cooking meals to bring to evacuation centers where sponsored members were staying. I went with other staff to the different communities where I was able to see the situation of the sponsored members and their devastated homes, and I listened to their stories.
I strongly believe, as do many of them (one of them is Ricardo, the father of Rachel, a sponsored girl whose story I shared), that this is happening because of the climate change and the global warming. We sustain the sponsorship program with a commitment to care for Godís creation.
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A picture is worth a thousand words, but a pie chart gets into the big numbers, telling people, for example, how their tax dollars are being spent.
Less than a month after launching Data.gov, a registry of raw government data, federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra announced a new initiative, the IT Dashboard now in beta on the USASpending.gov site.
The information on the site is nothing new. Data on how government will spend $76 billion on IT has been available online for some time, via the Federal Procurement Data System. What Kundra wants to do is present the data so it can be readily understood, even analyzed.
Using Adobe Flash, the site shows in pie charts how much each agency spends on IT. Click on one agency, and the site will reveal bar charts that show how well it is sticking to its budget and timelines for completing IT projects.
For Data.gov, agencies have placed thousands of data feeds as comma-separated values (CSV) files or Really Simple Syndication feeds. Although that is a good step toward greater transparency, agencies could also start thinking about ways to better present the data so people and fellow government employees can make better sense of all the material. A new crop of visualization tools is coming on the market to make that job easier.
"The whole point of doing data visualization is to take massive quantities of data and present it in a manner that helps the user get, in a single rapid reading, the story you are trying to tell in that dataset," said Andy Hoskinson, vice president of technology strategy and consulting at Unisys.
With the administration calling for more transparency, agency interest in visualization is growing, said Susie Adams, chief technology officer at Microsoft's federal division. "Agencies are being graded about how transparent they are, and a quick and easy win is to get some data and visualize it on the Web site," Adams said. As a result, visualization "is much more of a priority than it has been in the past."
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One of the big motivators for looking into visualizing information has been the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which will allow federal agencies to invest about $800 billion in areas of economic growth, such as health care and environmental technologies. The bill, signed into law in February, comes with stiff reporting requirements, which have spurred many agencies to look at visualization techniques that they can use to show the public how they are spending money.
"In the past, legislation around new categories of federal spending has generated reporting requirements for federal agencies, so agencies have always been keyed into doing this kind of reporting," Hoskinson said. "What is new about the recovery act is that now detailed reporting must be done with recipients."
After the bill was passed, Unisys pulled together a package that will help agencies present data to the public. Called the Recovery Act Reporting product, it can take stimulus act data and report it in Web-friendly formats such as histograms, pie charts, bar charts, score cards, dashboards and point maps. Unisys offers it as hosted service, or agencies can run it in-house.
The application is a Java Enterprise Edition-based Web application. The package can pull data about an agency from USASpending.gov and Recovery.gov, via an Extensible Markup Language-based data feed. "We pull the data down, parse the XML data structure and we put the results in a database," Hoskinson said. Once it is in a structured database, the material can be reconciled against the agency's internal records and subsequently put into visual form. Spending data can be placed in histograms or pie charts. Location data can be placed on a map.
As a result, people interested in knowing what stimulus projects are happening in their ZIP code or lawmakers who want to know where stimulus dollars are being spent in their districts can get that information quickly.
How does an agency visualize its data? In some cases, existing software might do the job. For instance, Microsoft has a feature in its Sharepoint collaboration software, called Excel Services, that can export the pivot tables, bar charts and other data-derived visual renderings created in Excel so that they can be posted on the Web. The company plans to boost this capability even further with the next release of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2010.
Office will have an extension called Office Web Apps, which will allow Web visitors to access entire datasets. Visitors will have the full capability of Excel to parse data without the need to have Excel on their own computers. Of course, the originators of the datasets will have full control of what privileges they can grant others in regard to manipulating the data.
"You can visualize the data not only in Excel but however you want," Adams said.
Other software, such as business intelligence software, can handle the task, too. Tableau Software's eponymously named flagship business intelligence application lets nondatabase administrators connect to a database and rerender the material in a more visual form. "Instead of knowing how to write a query or set up a report, you can drag and drop variables into a canvas," said Elissa Fink, vice president of marketing at Tableau.
One of Tableau's options is to take a report and publish it to the Web through the company's Tableau Server software. "Anyone with a Web browser can interact with my reports — do their own lightweight analytics, filter, sort and view underlying data," Fink said. "You can filter for data variables by number or category, create sets, bar charts, line charts [or do] geographic analysis."
The interactivity is an important component. "You get out of the paradigm of looking at data as numbers of rows and columns," Fink said. "You can look at a scattergram, see the outliers, select those outliers individually, exclude everything else, and find where the outliers came from. Visualization is not the end result; it's part of the analytical process, and therefore you can unearth the story."
The District of Columbia used this software for its CapStat site, which provides a series of visual summaries, such as pie charts, of how effectively the city's departments are performing. The city first started charting the response times of ambulances and other emergency vehicles but chafed at the limited way spreadsheets could display this data online, Fink said.
In other cases, entirely new types of software have been created to deal with raw government data feeds, such as Socrata's Social Data Player.
On Data.gov, much of the data is in CSV or XML files, which are not meant to be read by humans. "Forcing people to download data in legacy formats is a bad approach for the ordinary citizen," said Kevin Merritt, CEO and founder of Socrata. The company's software allows for "ad hoc use of the data in a fairly casual, lightweight way."
In June, the General Services Administration signed agreements with a number of Web-based technology providers, such as Google, for YouTube and the Vimeo video networking services. Socrata was one of the lesser-known companies to ink the deal with GSA.
As an example of how its technology could work, Socrata set up a page that rerenders information posted by the Federal Aviation Administration on the number of commercial aircraft that report being struck by birds. On the surface, the page looks similar to FAA's database-driven presentation. But the JavaScript player, which can ingest most commonly used data feed formats, offers additional capabilities, such as the ability to search and filter the results or order by one column or another. It also lets users report the filtered information on social-networking sites, such as Twitter or Facebook. Filters can be saved so others can use them.
The player itself is free, though Socrata is offering a turnkey platform that can allow agencies to stage and present their own data, either through the company as a hosted service or in-house. All data hosted on the platform is made available through RSS and application programming interfaces.
On the map
In some cases, the best way to present information is geographically, with maps. Cumberland County, N.C., offers one example.
The county, home to more than 300,000 residents and two major military bases, recently launched a Web site where visitors can find land-related information that the county maintains. The site is the culmination of many years of work not only in building online maps for public and internal consumption but also refining how data can be indexed by geographic identification.
With county residential growth on the rise, the mapping services on the site should be particularly useful for residents, potential residents, banks, developers and real estate agents. The site provides a central location for data that formerly someone would need to track down by visiting or calling multiple county and state offices.
The site features a number of maps with markers to pertinent data. For example, one shows the school district for an area when given an address, which could be handy for parents who might be moving there. Another service can alert real estate agents if a major state project is being planned near a particular property. Another shows the sex offenders who live around a particular location.
For land developers, another map can show plan details, zoning requirements, permitting and public work orders that affect a specific lot — information formerly spread across multiple county offices. Voting districts, bus routes, flood zones and mosquito spraying zones are also mapped.
Mapping data that real estate agents and developers require has reduced the number of phone calls the county typically receives by as much as 60 to 70 percent, estimated Mike Osbourn, the county's mapping coordinator. Until recently, Osbourn's office kept plans submitted by developers in paper form, stashed away in 25 file cabinets. Every time a bank or potential homeowner had a question, an employee would riffle through the cabinets to get the original plan. So the county scanned all of their plans — more than 10,000 — and made them available as links on the Web map.
The maps draw data from multiple databases. The county primarily uses software from Pitney Bowes Business Insight division, most notably MapInfo Professional.
Such mapping software can not only join material from multiple databases and display the results on a single map but also apply advanced filtering to refine the results, a feature that can't be done easily by reusing consumer-based mapping services such as Google Earth. Nor, until recently, could relational databases easily perform actions such as finding all entries that have a close geographic proximity to a given location, although the latest releases of the Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle database do have geographic-filtering capabilities.
"When you access the data, you're not just accessing in a tabular form, you are looking at the geographic attributes, and that allows you to visualize the data as maps and also do geographic or spatial queries," said John Winslow, global portfolio director for location intelligence products at Pitney Bowes Insight.
Geographic locations also can help even when the results are not displayed on a map. Cumberland County uses another Pitney Bowes product called SpatialWare that, when given an address, can return a list of items located within a specific geographic proximity.
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There's been much ado on the internet this week about "free" freelance. The current round was spurred by Nate Thayer, who was approached by The Atlantic, who wanted to "repurpose" a piece he'd written for NKnews.org – only, they weren't going to pay him. (Instead, they offered him "exposure" – something that Thayer, who says that several years ago The Atlantic offered him a $125K stipend for 6 stories, scoffed at.)
(Thayer, expressing the frustrations of a thousand freelance journalists, posted the exchange on his blog.)
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Narrative and Form: Cinema and Architecture
Arch 209, Special Topics in Design, 1 credit
Class meets on Tuesdays - August 29, September 5, 12, 19 and 26 from 3-5pm, Wurster Hall Room 370: also required are three Wednesday lectures/film screenings on Aug. 30, Sept. 13 and Sept. 27 at 6:30 pm in room 112, Wurster Hall.
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This seminar includes a series of sessions in which students will be exposed to different films that explore the relationships between narrative and space. The seminar will ask the question: How can one describe space and architecture via the vehicle of cinematic image? For example, how was Antonioni's cinema a promoter of modernity in Italy di-associating himself from the romantic/nostalgic of the Italian landscape.
We will present the four chapters of John Bergers Ways of Seeing in which he looks at forms of pictorial representation. Students will be challenged to choose a venue in Berkeley/Oakland and conclude the seminar by creating a short film that will represent some of the paradigms elaborated in the seminar.
Three films from Gitais work including: Kadosh, Kippur, Lullaby to my Father based on his Bauhaus-trained father and work from his series on architecture will also be screened.
About Amos Gitai (Ph.D Architecture '79):
Alumnus Amos Gitai is an acclaimed Israeli filmmaker who is widely known for making documentaries and feature films about the Middle East and Jewish-Arab conflict.
Gitai's work has been presented in several major retrospectives at the Pompidou Center Paris, the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Lincoln Center New York and the British Film Institute London. To date Gitai has created over 90 works of art over 38 years. Between 1999 and 2011 seven of his films were entered in the Cannes Film Festival for the Palme d'Or as well as the Venice Film Festival for the Golden Lion award.
He has received several prestigious prizes which include the Leopard of Honor at the Locarno International Film Festival (2008), the Roberto Rossellini prize (2005), the Robert Bresson prize (2013) and the Paradjanov prize (2014). His recent feature film, Rabin, The Last Day, was presented at the 72th Venice Film Festival.


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True to the promise he made to himself as an undergraduate, Elijah Johnson '00 has completed his medical and surgical training, and is committed to performing volunteer medical work in resource-poor nations. His first stop, in 2009, was in Kenya, the African nation where his father is also a surgeon.
A biology major with a chemistry minor, Elijah graduated from Washington College with honors and was offered multiple scholarships to attend medical school. He chose to study at George Washington University School of Medicine, graduating in 2004. After completing his training in general surgery at University of Nevada School of Medicine in 2009, Elijah headed to Kenya with a volunteer medical team. He hopes to make a trip to South America in the not-too-distant future.
As a general surgeon with Desert West Surgery in Las Vegas, Elijah works at several area hospitals, treating patients with issues ranging from abdominal pain to colon cancer.
Elijah always knew he wanted to be a surgeon, and used that goal to carefully plan his curriculum at Washington College. At his very first academic advising session with his premedical advisor, Professor Kate Verville outlined what he would need to do over the next four years to prepare for medical school. "I carried that handwritten schedule with me for the next four years," he says.
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Have you ever heard a terrible song and thought you could do better? Even though you don't know the first thing about music? Thanks to the randomness of the universe and this set of Chord Dice, now you can.
Each set comes with five eight-sided die that include all the chords in the key of G. (Plus the company's website listed on each one, you know, in case you wanted to buy them again.) They seem to take the infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters approach to songwriting, meaning that you could either strike gold on the first random roll, or not until the ten billionth. Worse comes to worse, for $13 you can just use the dice to cook up a rock and roll version of Dungeons and Dragons instead. [Chord Dice via Gizmag]


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Market Concentration
The Center for Global Business Studies has conducted a study on market concentration in several industries (1950-present) and has published its findings as the lead article in The Harvard Business Review (July-August 2000) , entitled "The Dubious Logic of MegaMergers."
Over the past ten to fifteen years, industries have been consolidating and fewer companies are dominating various markets. The results of this consolidation have been the creation of more oligopolistic behaviors in the industries studied. In addition to consolidation, various industries are also involved in strategic alliances, which have accelerated these trends.
In addition to continuing its market concentration study of several industries on a global basis, the Center has started to focus on regional markets to discover if there is regional concentration of industries. The Center is focusing on four regions, namely, North America, Europe, Asia, and South America, and has compiled data on four industries: oil production; oil refining; aluminum; and automobiles (1980-Present).


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The multidisciplinary management of thyroid cancer at Mount Sinai involves collaboration among surgical, medical/endocrinology, and nuclear medicine specialists. The thyroid surgical team at Mount Sinai's Department of ENT/Head and Neck Surgery includes Eric Genden, MD, Raymond Chai, MD, Ilya Likhterov, MD, Brett Miles, MD, Stimson Schantz, MD, Edward Shin, MD, Marita Teng, MD, Mark Urken, MD, Mike Yao, MD, and facial plastics and reconstruction surgeon Joshua Rosenberg, MD. Our team works closely with other experts and collaborates together to craft the least invasive, personalized treatment plan for each patient to minimize scarring and hospital stays.
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- Papillary carcinoma: The most common type of thyroid cancer, papillary carcinoma usually grows slowly and has potential to spread to lymph nodes in the neck. This type of thyroid cancer is overwhelmingly likely to be curable.
- Follicular carcinoma: Most often, follicular cancer remains in the thyroid gland and does not usually travel to lymph nodes, but can spread to other sites such as lungs and bones. When caught early, this type of thyroid cancer is also very often curable.
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'The Darkness' Sequel Announced, Original Dev Starbreeze Not Involved
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Johnson City, Tenn. -- The East Tennessee State women's tennis team defeated UNC Greensboro 8-1 today in Southern Conference action. The win improves the Bucs to 13-4, 7-1 in league play. UNC Greensboro falls to 5-14, 3-6 in the conference. ETSU wrapped up the second seed in the tournament with one match left to play with its sixth consecutive victory.
The Bucs won all six singles matches for a 6-0 lead, and won two of three doubles on its way to the 8-1 win. UNC Greensboro lone win came at #1 doubles, where Jenny Gonzalez and Michaela Quinn defeated Mami inoue and Rica Iida 8-2.
"This was a long day for us," said ETSU Head Coach Tom Russ. "With the extended rain delay, it was nice to see the team remain focused on the match. We are looking forward to tomorrow's match with Wofford and then it will be nice to have a couple of days to rest before the upcoming Southern Conference Championships."
#1 Paty Vega (ETSU) def. Jenny Gonzalez 6-2, 6-3
#2 Mami Inoue (ETSU) def. Christine Weber 8-6, 6-7, 6-2
#3 Rica Iida (ETSU) def. Michaela Quinn 3-6, 6-1, 6-1
#4 Megan Edwards (ETSU) def. Ashley Rimel 7-6, 6-4
#5 Eglantine Vitse (ETSU) def. Amanda Eutzler 6-1, 6-1
#6 Cara Prupas (ETSU) def. Kelly Edwards 6-0, 6-0
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Democratic and Pluralistic?
Egypt could soon have a new political party. When the country's committee for the recognition of new parties meets at the end of October, it's possible that it might approve the Islamic reformist Hisb Al-Wasat (Centre Party). Jürgen Stryjak looks at Al-Wasat, which is often compared to Turkey's moderate Islamist ruling party AKP.
Al-Wasat's founder, the 46-year-old Abu al-Ula Madi, is optimistic about the chances for recognition this time, but he was optimistic twice before. "In this region, if you don't have a healthy optimism," he says, "you might as well stay at home."
The party has applied twice since 1996 without success for an official licence. Following each rejection, Madi and his colleagues have worked at revising and extended the concept of the party.
The state committee for political parties has rejected fifty applications for new parties in the last twenty-five years—mostly on the grounds that the new party did not have aims which weren't already included in the existing party landscape or that the country's laws prohibit parties which are based on religion.
Breakaway from the Muslim Brotherhood
Al-Wasat doesn't only stand for an explicitly Islamist agenda, it actually emerged as a breakaway movement from the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. For over fifteen years Abu al-Ula Madi was himself active in the Brotherhood, rising to a leadership position in the Brotherhood-dominated engineers' trade union.
In 1996, together with a few like-minded people, he turned his back on the Muslim Brotherhood. He says that was "after we'd tried for ten years to reform them."
Reaction to Al-Wasat is divided: some fear that Al-Wasat could serve as a Trojan horse for the Muslim Brotherhood, allowing their ideas a new chance in a new guise. Others suspect that Al-Wasat is an attempt by the government to divide the Islamist movement and thus weaken the Muslim Brotherhood.
Both sides, however, overlook the fact that Al-Wasat is viewed with suspicion by the Brotherhood and even with hostility by the state.
Support from a variety of sources
In spite of the scepticism, which is often founded on conspiracy theories, with which Al-Wasat is regarded, the Al-Wasat concept has been winning increasing support, especially over the last few years, as it becomes ever more credible as a political force.
According to Madi, the law requires fifty supporters before a party can apply for a licence. Al-Wasat could have gathered a thousand signatures but they decided to stop after two hundred, limiting themselves to prominent and exemplary figures of public life, among them lawyers, journalists, university professors, farmers and workers.
Madi says that about 15 per cent of the supporters come from the Muslim Brotherhood. The others reflect the whole range of society, including seven Coptic Christians, 44 women "with and without headscarves", business people and secularists—people from every one of the governorships in the country. In other words, it's a fairly widely based movement.
All of the signatories apparently find their interests represented by a party which calls itself "The Centre". "Religion is an important aspect of our society," says Abu al-Ula Madi. "No political project which neglects religion can be successful in Egypt. But we see Islam not so much as a religion—rather as a civilisation in which all social groups have a part, because they live within it."
And he points to examples of democratic parties in the West which call themselves Christian, even though they scarcely operate in primarily religious terms.
New interpretation of Islamic law
While the illegal but widely tolerated Muslim Brotherhood campaigns for the introduction of Sharia (Islamic) law and a religiously-inspired state, Al-Wasat also wants to see Islamic law receive a new status.
But the party specifically allows for new, democratic re-interpretations of the Sharia. It wants to see the issues subjected to debate and a wide consensus, involving all elements in society, including secularists and women, who would have the right to ensure that their interests are represented.
The Muslim Brotherhood, says Abu al-Ula Madi, is a religious group with a missionary character; Al-Wasat on the other hand is a party with civil political aims: "That's why the Muslim Brotherhood fights us."
Madi describes Islam as a large circle with few unalterable principles. Within this circle, there is absolute freedom, democracy, and pluralism with hundreds of options.
Equality of the sexes
The party's platform, which can be found on its website, emphasises freedom of belief, the protection of private and public property rights, and the protection of human dignity. It calls for a division of powers between legislature, executive and judiciary and the holding of universal free and fair elections.
No Egyptian should be deprived of civil rights, including the right to hold public office, on the grounds of origin, skin colour, sex or religion. The platform particularly emphasises the absolute equality of the sexes, including the right to hold the highest offices in the land, such as positions in the courts, or even the presidency.
So far it's absolutely unclear whether the Committee for the Recognition of New Parties, which is dominated by President Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party, will award Al-Wasat a licence or not.
The fear that parties like Al-Wasat could provide a stage for undemocratic Islamist political ideas, may influence the decision negatively, but it will never be possible to find out if the fear is justified unless Al-Wasat is allowed to prove itself in the full light of the publicity of normal political life.
"What's all this talk about political reforms worth," asks Abu al-Ula Madi, "if they don't even start out by allowing new parties?"
Jürgen Stryjak
© Qantara.de 2004
Translation from German: Michael Lawton
For more information about the new Al-Wasat party and the Muslim Brotherhood, click here.


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Rhode Island voters went all in to allow table games at an existing slots parlor, a move that could have implications for Massachusetts casinos, particularly the Mashpee Wampanoag facility planned in East Taunton, casino experts said Wednesday.
Rhode Island voters went all in to allow table games at an existing slots parlor, a move that could have implications for Massachusetts casinos, particularly the Mashpee Wampanoag facility planned in East Taunton, casino experts said Wednesday.
By an overwhelming margin of 71 percent to 29 percent, Ocean State voters approved adding Vegas-style table games like blackjack, roulette and craps at Twin River Casino in Lincoln, R.I. The question required a positive vote in the host community, where it did even better, winning by a 3-to-1 margin, according to the Lincoln town clerk's office.
Newport, R.I., voters rejected a similar proposal.
Table games give the Ocean State a huge jump on Massachusetts, where the state Gaming Commission has only recently begun accepting applications for two commercial casinos and a single slots parlor. Commissioners have said the first license will be awarded no later than February 2014, but it could take even longer for in Southeastern Massachusetts, which is Rhode Island's closest competitor.
That license remains in limbo because while the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe seeks to build a $500,000 Indian casino 40 miles from Twin River in East Taunton, as those plans face significant legal tangles. Gov. Deval Patrick and tribe leaders are renegotiating a gaming compact that was rejected by the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs. The tribe is also seeking to have the federal government take land into federal trust as an initial reservation.
In the short term, Rhode Island will recoup some of the $200 million that goes out of state each year to nearby Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, Clyde Barrow, a casino expert at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, said. Some Massachusetts gamblers are also likely to try Twin River instead of travelling all the way to Connecticut, he said.
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The commission, which has the authority to put the Southeastern Massachusetts license out to competitive bid, will likely have to set a deadline for the tribe to meet its federal obligations, he said. Barrow predicted by early next fall it will be clear whether the tribe has the ability to settle its land issues and has renegotiated a successful compact.
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More complicated, especially in light of the BIA's rejection of the tribal-state compact, is figuring out how the commission can ensure Southeastern Massachusetts can compete with the other two regions in the Bay State, he said.
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Anderson, Lotman share AVCA Player of Year
By Cindy Luis
Penn State's Matt Anderson and Long Beach State's Paul Lotman Share AVCA Men's Division I-II National Player of the Year Honors
Lexington, Ky. (April 30, 2008) – The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) is pleased to announce that Penn State University junior outside hitter Matt Anderson and Long Beach State University senior outside hitter Paul Lotman have been named 2008 AVCA Men's Division I-II Co-National Players of the Year. This marks only the second time that there has been AVCA Co-National Players of the Year in men's volleyball.
The presentation was made at the NCAA National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Championship Banquet on the campus of the University of California,Irvine. The banquet was held in conjunction with the NCAA National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Championship, to be played May 1 and 3 in BrenEvents Center at UC Irvine.
Matt Anderson
Anderson, a native of West Seneca, N.Y., has been instrumental in leading Penn State to a 28-1 overall record, a No. 1 national ranking, Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) Regular Season and Tournament Championships, and a berth in the semifinals of the NCAA Men's National Championship as the top seed. In the EIVA championship match, Anderson nailed 15 kills and added five blocks in a sweep of George Mason, en route to earning Championship MVP honors.
In addition to being named AVCA Men's Division I-II Co-National Player of the Year, Anderson is now a two-time AVCA All-American, having earned First-Team laurels in 2008 as well as Second-Team honors in 2007. He also earned the distinction of being named the EIVA Regular Season Player of the Year, is a three time All-EIVA nominee and was selected the Sports Imports/AVCA Men's Division I-II National Player of the Week for his efforts during the week of February 11.
Anderson has been consistently ranked among the nation's leaders in several statistical categories in 2008. His 5.64 kills per game average place him in the No. 2 spot nationally, and his 6.47 points per game also tie him for second on the national statistics report. The talented product for the Nittany Lions has also turned in an impressive .390 season hitting percentage, in addition to racking up 1.34 digs per game.
The 6'10" phenom on the outside managed to produce double-digit kills in 28 of 29 of PSU's contests during the season, including eight matches where he totaled 20-plus kills. He becomes the first men's volleyball athlete in Penn State athletics history to be named AVCA National Player of the Year.
Paul Lotman
Lotman, who hails from Lakewood, Calif., helped Long Beach State ascend to as high as a No. 2 national ranking during the season and a spot in this week's NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship semifinals with a 23-6 overall record. He also lead the 49ers to the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Regular Season Championship with an 18-4 mark in the highly-competitive conference. In the MPSF tournament semifinal match, Lotman was just one of two LBSU athletes to finish the game with double-digit kills, as he recorded 13, to go along with four digs in the eventual upset loss to Pepperdine.
On top of being named AVCA Men's Division I-II Co-National Player of the Year, Lotman has earned numerous other awards, including being recognized as the 2008 MPSF Player of the Year, while he has also been a two-time All-MPSF selection. In addition, Lotman earned Sports Imports/AVCA Men's Division I-II National Player of the Week laurels, the second such award of his career, for his outstanding play during the week of January 22. He becomes only the third men's athlete ever to earn National Player of the Year distinction in just their first year as an AVCA All-American.
Statistically, Lotman stood among the nation's best in several categories during the season. He was tops nationally with 60 service aces, was tied for second in points per game with 6.47, and his 5.46 kills per game earned him the No. 3 spot in that category. Additionally, Lotman averaged 1.34 digs and just under one block per game, making him an all-around threat to opponents.
Lotman was able to tally double-digit kill performances in 22 matches this season, while, even more impressively, 14 of those contests saw the weapon on the outside smash over 20 kills, including one outing against Hawai'i where he went over the 30-kill plateau. Lotman becomes just the second men's volleyball athlete in Long Beach State history to earn AVCA Men's Division I-II National Player of the Year accolades.
AVCA Division I-II Men's National Player of the Year2008: Matt Anderson (Penn State), Paul Lotman (Long Beach State)
2007: Jonathan Winder (Pepperdine)
2006: Jayson Jablonsky (UC Irvine)
2005: Sean Rooney (Pepperdine)
2004: Carlos Moreno (BYU)
2003: Costas Theocharidis (Hawai'i)
2002: Brad Keenan (Pepperdine)
2001: Costas Theocharidis (Hawai'i)
2000: Donald Suxho (USC)
1999: George Roumain (Pepperdine)
1998: George Roumain (Pepperdine)
1997: Ivan Contreras (Penn State)
1996: Yuval Katz (Hawai'i), Stein Metzger (UCLA)
1995: Jeff Nygaard (UCLA)
1994: Jeff Nygaard (UCLA)
1993: Canyon Ceman (Stanford)
1992: Brent Hilliard (Long Beach State)
1991: Bryan Ivie (USC)


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A biological warning sign of a life blighted by major depression has been identified for the first time in teenage boys.
Boys with a combination of depressive symptoms and raised levels of the stress hormone cortisol were up to 14 times more likely to be affected than those with neither trait, scientists found.
The diagnostic marker could help individuals most at risk of serious depression to get earlier treatment, the researchers believe.
"Depression is a terrible illness that will affect as many as 10 million people in the UK at some point in their lives," said study leader Professor Ian Goodyer, from Cambridge University.
"Through our research, we now have a very real way of identifying those teenage boys most likely to develop clinical depression. This will help us strategically target preventions and interventions at these individuals and hopefully help reduce their risk of serious episodes of depression and their consequences in adult life."
The scientists measured cortisol levels in the saliva of almost 2,000 young people aged 12 to 19 and studied self-reported data about experiences of depression.
Rates of clinical depression and other psychiatric disorders in the group were recorded between 12 months and three years later.
Boys with raised levels of cortisol in the morning and pronounced symptoms of depression were 14 times more likely to develop serious depressive illness than those with normal cortisol and few symptoms.
The trend was much weaker for girls, suggesting gender differences in the way depression develops.
Dr John Williams, head of neuroscience and mental health at the Wellcome Trust, which funded the study, said: "Progress in identifying biological markers for depression has been frustratingly slow, but now we finally have a biomarker for clinical depression. The approach taken by Professor Goodyer's team may yet yield further biomarkers. It also gives tantalising clues about the gender differences in the causes and onset of depression."
The findings appear in the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences.
Serious clinical depression is distinct from having occasional depressive symptoms or "feeling blue" and is regarded as a genuine illness.
Clinical depression is defined by a range of specific symptoms, including fatigue, feelings of worthlessness, loss of interest, and sleep disturbances.


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Kinetic Sculpture - Monumental Kinetic Commissions
A master kinetic illusionist, Jeffery Laudenslager tricks our minds with ever-changing geometries: even his static sculptures appear animated. Relying on unexpected principles of geometry, his works in stainless steel and/or titanium are captivating, yet contemplative.
Laudenslager's elegant kinetic sculptures are often compared to work by the late George Rickey. Rickey was fascinated with the subliminal tension that mounts as one moving element nearly misses another. He once commented, "These narrow escapes provide a sculptural equivalent to the tension suggested in painting...such as the hands of Adam and God on the Sistine ceiling."
Jeffery Laudenslager has taken these dramatic moments of perceived danger to an extreme, and he eloquently expresses the predicament of nearly colliding elements in his elegant work. The tension is enhanced by the speed made possible by his use of extremely light-weight and resilient titanium.
The movement of his kinetic works, which often juxtapose arcs with rectilinear shapes, is more unpredictable than that created by Rickey's majestic pieces. The widely varying speed at which the sculptures' elements respond to the wind always surprises, while their mesmerizing grace delights. But finally, it is the long, sweet release into graceful recovery that is Laudenslager's sublime signature.
In 1999, Laudenslager's 34-foot high kinetic sculpture Archimage, commissioned for the Torrey Reserve complex in Del Mar, CA, received the coveted Orchid Award in the Fine Arts category. This prize has highlighted the best in architecture, design, and fine art in the San Diego area for the last twenty-four years.
Laudenslager's sculptures can be found in corporate and public collections throughout the USA and in private collections in the USA, England, Switzerland, Germany, Taiwan, and South Korea.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1996 "Illusive Landscapes," Gallery Spagnolo, San Diego, CA
1995 Galerie Demenga, Basel, Switzerland (+1993)
1993 L.A. International Art Fair, Galerie Demenga, Switzerland
1992 Harcourts Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
1991 Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1990 The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
1990 Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, CA
1989 Harcourts Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
1988 Merging One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1987 Lizardi/Harp Gallery, Pasadena, CA
1983 San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
1981 Yuma Fine Arts Center, Yuma, AZ
1979 Grossmont College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
Selected Two-Person Shows/Invitational Exhibitions
2004 Karen Lynne Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2002 "Illusion/Allusion," Margeaux Kurtie Modern Art, Madrid, NM
1998 "ILLUSION—Trompe l'oeil and Slight of Hand," Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1996 "Six Galleries/Six Artists," Southwest College, San Diego, CA
1996 Riparte, Rome, Italy
1996 "Violencia," Gallery Spagnolo, San Diego, CA
1995 "Insights 95," An International Political Symposium, sponsored by Susan Golding, Mayor, City of San Diego, CA
1995 "Passion & Brutality" with Deanne Sabeck, Andrew-Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995 City of Carlsbad Temporary Art Installations, Carlsbad, CA
1995 Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
1994 "Drawings by Sculptors," Venice, Italy
1994 "Collectors Choice at Paladian," San Diego, CA
1994 "Artists Choose Artists," Downtown Arts, San Diego, CA
1994 "Review of Art L.A. '93," Galerie Demenga, Basel, Switzerland
1993 Malibu International Sculpture Exhibition, Malibu, CA
1992 Valerie Miller Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
1991 Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1991 Nemiroff Deutsch Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
1991 L.A. Art Fair, Valerie Miller Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
1991 IMC Gallery, Irvine, CA
1990 Zack/Shuster Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 "Kinetic Sculpture in 4 Movements," Sculpturesite Gallery, Glen Ellen, CA
2010-2013 "sculptureWALK," a new leaf gallery | sculpturesite, Sonoma, CA
2012 "41st Marin Designers Showcase," with a new leaf gallery | sculpturesite, Belvedere, CA
2011-2012 "Sculpture in the Garden," San Diego Botanic Garden, Encinitas, CA
2010-2011 "San Diego Contemporary Art Fair," San Diego, CA
2010 "Paper Work," Eric Phleger Gallery, Encinitas, CA
2010 "San Francisco Art Fair," with Sculpturesite Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 "Malibu Sculpture 2010 Exhibition," Malibu, CA
2010 "FADA LA Art Show," with Sculpturesite Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 "Unzipped, Eric Phleger Gallery, Encinitas, CA
2009 "Sculptures on the Plaza," Sculpturesite Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 "Kinetic Sculpture in the Gardens," A New Leaf Gallery, Sonoma, CA
2008 "Sculpture in Motion," curated by Sculpturesite Gallery, Atlanta Botanical Garden, Atlanta, GA
2008 "California in New York," Herbert Gallery, New York City, NY
2007 Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Beverly Hills, CA
2006 Ordover Gallery at Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA
2005 "Six Elements in Sculpture," Galerie D'Art Int'l, Solana Beach, CA
2005 "Vernissage," Sculpturesite Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
2004 Ashbord Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 "Invitational Sculpture Exhibition," Hyde Art Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
2004 "Wind & Water," A New Leaf Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2003 "Kinesis," A New Leaf Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2002 "Remembrance (9/11)," COVA Gallery, San Diego, CA
2001 City of Palm Desert, Palm Desert, CA
2000 "7+7 Sculpture Show," Flux Gallery, San Diego, CA
2000 "San Diego Salon 2000," Arts College Int'l, San Diego, CA
2000 "Art in Flux Open Studios 2000," Flux Gallery, San Diego, CA
1999 "Milange 2000," California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
1999 "The Art of Healing," Carlsbad Sculpture Garden, Carlsbad, CA
1998 Galerie Demenga, Basel, Switzerland
1997 Susan Street Fine Art, Solana Beach, CA
1996 Boritzer Grey-Hamano, Los Angeles, CA
1995 SOMA Gallery, San Diego, CA
1995 P.C.G., Santa Monica, CA
1993 "Men of Steel," SOMA Gallery, San Diego, CA
1993 Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 "Pacific Rim 1," Andrew-Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992 CA State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA
1990 "California Now," Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Public Collections
"Archimage," 34' kinetic sculpture, Torrey Reserve, Del Mar, CA (Orchid Award 1999)
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Laguna Beach Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Port of San Diego – 2 commissions at San Diego International Airport with Deanne Sabeck, San Diego, CA (part of group Orchid Award 1998)
Wolfstein Sculpture Park – 3 outdoor sculptures, Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, CA
St. Mary's Hospital, Grand Rapids, MI
Gani Art Garden, San Diego, CA
American Airlines, Los Angeles, CA
Best, Best and Krieger, San Diego, CA
U.C. Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA
"Sun Fish," 30' kinetic sculpture, Pacific Center office complex, San Diego, CA
Saddleback College, Orange, CA
Grossmont College, San Diego, CA
Vela Luka, Croatia
"Running Man," The Woodlands, TX
"Cleveland Bird," Beachwood Shopping Center, Beachwood, OH
Southeast Cancer Center, Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Colorado Northwestern Community College
Scripps Hospital Encinitas, CA
Lytton Casino, San Pablo, CA
Palm Springs, CA
Selected Publications
2012 San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles magazine, December 2012
2001 Direct Metal Sculpture by Dona Z. Meilach
1993 Malibu International Sculpture Exhibition catalog
1989 Harcourts Contemporary Catalog
1979 Grossmont College Catalog


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Next week is [VMworld 2010], so I thought today would be a good day to write a blog post about reporting and managing virtual guest images.
As the original lead architect for IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, I am no stranger to reporting and management tools. Needless to say, if you have lots of virtual guest images, it makes sense to deploy reporting and management software. I had never heard of Veeam before, but I decided to check out Veeam Reporter 4.0, an enterprise-level reporting solution specifically designed for large Virtual Infrastructure (VI3) and vSphere virtual environments that allows you to automatically discover and collect information about your VMware virtual environment. Their 90-page User Guide offered these helpful "First Steps" on page 9 which I used as the master plan for my evaluation.
(FTC Disclosure: I work for IBM, the leader in server virtualization worldwide, and the number #1 reseller of VMware. In this post, I review [Veeam Reporter 4.0] as my official entry for their blogging contest. IBM and Veeam do not have any business relationshiop that I know of, other than both being VMware business partners, so I am treating them here as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV). Veeam has not compensated me in any manner for this review, this review is not to be taken as an endorsement of Veeam or its products, and I was not provided any full or evaluator license keys. The review is based entirely on my experience using the "Free Edition" available to all for download. None of this blog post was pre-reviewed by anyone from Veeam. IBM, of course, also offers similar software, which I mention below for comparison purposes.)
At this point, you might be thinking, "Doesn't IBM offer something like this?" Of course it does! IBM is the leader in infrastructure reporting, monitoring and management software. Last October, [IBM unveiled IBM Systems Director VMcontrol] software. Not only does IBM Systems Director VMcontrol provide similar support for your VMware environment, it also manages Microsoft Hyper-V and Xen deployments, PowerVM on POWER-based serves, and even z/VM guest images on the System z mainframes. Combined with the rest of the IBM Systems Director, you can manage all of your physical and virtual servers with a single tool from a single pane of glass. How cool is that?
IBM VMcontrol comes in [three levels]:
To learn more, see the [VMcontrol Implementation Guide], take it for a test drive, with a [trial download], or talk to one of the many IBMers at [VMworld 2010] in San Francisco, August 30-September 2.
I would like to think Doug Hazelman, Senior Director of Product Strategy at Veeam, for organizing this awesome blogging contest. If you liked this blog post, click here to [vote for me] to get counted for this contest.
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At the Crunchies, comedian T.J. Miller, a star of the show "Silicon Valley" (which I watch and love), threw out a bunch of playful zingers in his opening act. But then at one point, he engaged with a woman (Gabi Holzwarth) a few rows in front of me by calling her a "bitch". She responded increduously, "Did you just call me a bitch?" He then said, "Bitch, Asians aren't supposed to be this entitled in the U.S. … Is this bitch from Palo Alto?" The audience laughed nervously. I was so uncomfortable I wanted to leave, but of course I couldn't given that our award was coming up. [...] At Crunchies I saw a woman get called a "bitch" onstage, then I did AOL TV & the host mocked me for being pale and made fun of my purse. [...] [ << Show of insecurity by taking the cheap road. Carlin was the last intellectual(?). ] &! bit.ly/1LUTHpj &! &! >> bit.ly/1kegniL - Reclaiming Critical Analysis: The Social Harms of "Bitch"insensitive Comedy Silicon Valley everyday sexism sexism sexismus gender-based harassment gender-based discrimination Political Correctness offensive jock culture brogrammer Campus feminism feminist STEM masculinity Patriarchy diversity social discrimination racial discrimination ethnic discrimination prejudice bias stereotype ethical machine TechCrunch Crunchies status quo abuse of power Play Politics slur slut shaming hate speech hate crime white male privilege male privilege
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Spyware removal checklist
A step-by-step guide on how to remove spyware using antispyware tools including Spybot -- Search and Destroy, and HijackThis.
by Michael Cobb
This checklist is a companion piece to the primer, Locking down Web applications, part of SearchSecurity.com's Intrusion Defense School lesson on Web attack defense and prevention.
Trying to remove spyware can be a fruitless and frustrating experience. The following checklist should enable you to clean an infected system, but it isn't a two-minute task. Check that you understand how to complete each step, download all the necessary programs and allow yourself plenty of time to complete the entire procedure.
|Spyware removal checklist
|Backup the system on to separate storage media.
|Start the infected PC and boot into Safe Mode with Networking, as some spyware can only be removed in Safe Mode.
|Turn off System Restore on Windows XP/ME systems.
|Open Add/Remove programs and remove any application that you do not recognize and/or deem to be spyware.
|Install a licensed antivirus product. Update and run it on the infected system.
|Install Spybot–Search & Destroy (freeware available at safer-networking.org/en/). Update and run it on the infected system.
|Install one, if not two, antispyware products such as Spy Sweeper from Webroot Software, Microsoft Anti-Spyware, eTrust PestPatrol or Ad-Aware from Lavasoft. Update and run them on the infected system.
|Download HijackThis (freeware used to detect browser hijakers that's available at hijackthis.de/), start it and click the "Do a system scan and save a logfile" button.
|Analyze your HijackThis log at the HijackThis Web site above.
|Use HijackThis to remove anything in the "Nasty" category.
|Reboot and run Spybot-S&D and the antispyware products you've installed until the system is clean. You may have to run them more than one.
|Launch Internet Explorer and browse the Web to verify your Internet connection was not broken while removing any spyware. If you cannot browse the Web, run LSPfix (a free utility from cexx.org) to repair Winsock 2 settings. Perform another test.
|Turn on System Restore.
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{Recipe} Perfectly Chocolate Cupcakes
I love chocolate…
So naturally, when I started experimenting with baking cupcakes from scratch (several years ago) I began a quest for the perfect chocolate cupcakes. I worked through several dozen recipes and of course, didn't have too much trouble finding people willing to eat my "experiments."
I finally found a recipe titled Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" Chocolate Cake, hmm, "…Perfectly Chocolate", sounds about right to me! The first time I made it, I used Hershey's unsweeted cocoa (as the recipe calls for). They turned out pretty good. The next time I made them, I used Ghirardelli brand unsweetened cocoa, and… perfect! The Ghirardelli brand gave a much deeper chocolate flavor. So I'd highly recomend using either Ghirardelli brand unsweetened cocoa, or the best quality brand you can find. You can really taste the difference. Since discovering this recipe, I've made it dozens and dozens of times. And every time, it's delicious! The cake has a nice light and fluffy texture and a rich chocolate flavor.
Perfectly Chocolate Cupcakes
(makes 24-27 standard sized cupcakes)
2 cups sugar
1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa (best quality available)
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 cup whole milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract (best quality available)
1 cup boiling water
Line muffin tin with paper liners. Heat oven to 350*F.
In a large mixing bowl, stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla. Beat on medium speed for one minute.
Stir in boiling water (the batter will be thin, don't worry, this is right).
Fill liners 2/3 full with batter. (I usually put the batter into a large measuring cup with a pour spout, and then pour the batter into the liners.)
Bake cupcakes for aproximately 18-22 minutes.
Cool completely on wire rack before frosting.
Recipe source- Hershey's
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HAPPY FALL: Autumn in Yosemite is famous for summoning foliage-seeking photographers (but, let's be honest -- if it is a time of year, people are in the national park snapping photos). But the fall also has a way of drawing those fond of the pleasures of the plate and the glass, and enjoying the pleasures in a grand old lodge. Those particular revelers are in town -- or in park, if you prefer -- for Vintners' Holidays, a multi-week, multi-session event that spotlights winemakers. But the Vintners' Holidays, which are based at The Ahwahnee, aren't simply about sitting and eating and making small talk about tannins with others at your table; it is actually about learning from the people behind the labels. The first session happens from Sunday, Nov. 6 through Tuesday, Nov. 8 and the final session runs from Dec. 7-8.
ON BOARD: Each two- or three-day session will feature representatives from a quartet of wineries; Session V, which is on from Nov. 27-29, will welcome Handley Cellars, Dutton-Goldfield Winery, Simi Winery, Terre Rouge and Easton Wines. There's a Meet the Vintners reception and a dinner with food prepared by The Ahwahnee's team. Oh yes. We did mention The Ahwahnee, yes? All of this happy hobnobbing and sipping and discussing takes place within its pretty confines. There are hotel packages, too, at both The Ahwahnee and Yosemite Lodge. Maybe you should surprise the wine fan in your life with a special trip in advance of the holidays? See a bit of the park in autumn, too? Yeah. A glass of merlot sipped while gazing at Half Dome doesn't sound half bad. Get pricing and package info now.