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Peter's Auction Picks of the Day: December 10th
Young(ish) Artists in LA
Today we look at a five great artists who have emerged from the
Southland in the last thirty years. Each possess some version of that
rebellious, post/anti-hippie alternative spirit that was sometimes too
jaded to fight the good fight against the dark days of the big
shoulder-padded, Gordon Gecko, "Dynasty" era.
Now residing in Venice, CA, Raymond Pettibon first made a name for
himself with the underground music scene of the 1980s. An entire
generation of punk kids know him for his Black Flag and Sonic Youth
album covers, among others. While Pettibon expanded to fine art
mid-decade, his punk spirit positively throbs with excitement in
Thinking of You (Lot 55) (with 46 added drawings).
The standard edition of his published tome raised eyebrows, among
other parts, by only depicting large–very large–silhouettes of male
members, accompanied by the artist's usual provocative text. However,
the version up for auction on Sunday is a very special copy of this
hardest of hardbacks–a one of a kind work in and of its self.
Pettibon (impishly? generously? both?) not only signed and dedicated
the book but added substantial text and filled dozens of the empty
opposing pages with ink and watercolor drawings of soaring, jaunty,
and yes, optimistic genitalia. Humorous as they all are, one senses a
master's hand furiously at work. Insert a large, firm bid and this
big boy could be yours.
Jonas Wood's Ewing's Card (Lot 199) from the artist's athletic trading
card portraits combines a LA denizen's natural tendency to worship
the physical and the driven with a child-of-the-80s' ironic distance.
In the words of art critic Roberta Smith, Woods' is a "highly personal
but impersonally observed reality." Ewing's form is at once idealized
and disjointed–employing a ball player who is an icon for an entire
generation just now exiting its youth. Sigh.
Tom Sachs, who perfected his fabricating skills during an internship
with Frank Gehry in Los Angeles, has a lifelong obsession with that
ultimate Gen X icon of hipster disdain: Hello Kitty (Lot 200).
Meditating on his–and our–fetishization of luxury goods, Sachs takes
a Gucci hat box lid and in its interior paints a striking, zen-like
portrait of his beloved feline's disembodied head. Sachs was
attracted to, as he puts it, the cartoon's "almost Buddhist sense of
nothingness," an apt metaphor for what Mike Nichols called, "the Los
Angelization of America."
Emerging from the MFA program for the California Institute of the Arts
outside Los Angeles and now located in Palm Springs, Jim Isermann is
represented by the Untitled (Lot 92). This acrylic painting of one
highly-stylized flower in bloom is unguardedly lovely, with soothing,
"pretty" pinks and oranges in a peaceful array over a life-giving
sunny yellow orb. But as with most of Isermann's oeuvre, this beauty
is double-edged. His works are always sincere in their optimism and
willingness to please, in their longing vision for a better day soon
to come yet… somehow–alchemically– a sadness creeps in. Isermann
verges on lamenting future Utopias past, paradises lost before they
were ever found. Always there is the fear that the current hope is
bound to disappoint.
This duality of reverence and remorse finds one of its most poignant
iterations in Tim Hawkinson's Untitled (Double Flags) (Lot 201). As
we mentioned in the catalogue, Hawkinson uses distinctly inventive
methods with the skill of a special effects wizard to explore
existential themes of human consciousness, the passage of time, and
our relationship with the objects we create and consume. While Double
Flags can be seen as a nod to recent art history–an homage to Jasper
Johns' own conflicted take on the American Flag–Hawkinson combines
visual audacity with technical mastery, allowing the intersecting Old
Glories to collide in a spectacular manner that mocks the worst of our
nation's kitsch and faux-authenticity even as it transcends it. The
red stripes of one flag smash into the white stripes of the other and
where they meet they form the schmaltziest symbol of Americana, the
quaint, "unpretentious" checkered table-cloth. Hawkinson attacks how
the flag has been co-opted by some who have wrapped it in
sentimentality until it has become a divisive annointer of who is a
Good American and who is not. And yet… like Isermann, like
Johns… this epic in miniature seems to long for that which it
deconstructs, and seems willing to embody all that it questions. Even
those of us lost in the endless summer of LA still pine for
"realness". Even for the Letterman-fed children of our most ironic
time, sincerity survives… hope survives.
Lot Information:
Lot 55
Raymond Pettibon
Thinking of You (with 46 added drawings)
Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago
Book with original ink and watercolor drawings
Special edition
Inscribed on inside of front cover
12.25″ x 9.25″ x 1.25″
Regular limited edition of catalogue for Pettibon's exhibition at the Renaissance Society in 1998 was 2000. This special edition features original drawings, overdrawing, and messages from the artist.
Estimate $18,000 – 25,000
Lot 199
Jonas Wood
Ewing's Card
Gouache and pencil on Rives BFK paper
Signed and dated with title verso
Image: 27.75″ x 20.25″; Sheet: 30.25″ x 22.25″
Estimate $4,000 – 6,000
Lot 200
Tom Sachs
Hello Kitty
circa 2000
Acrylic and pencil on gift box lid
16″ x 18.25″ x 1.75″
Estimate $8,000 – 12,000
Lot 92
Jim Isermann
Acrylic on wood board
Signed and dated verso
48″ x 48″ x 1.75″
Estimate $4,000 – 6,000
Lot 201
Tim Hawkinson
Untitled (Double Flags)
United States flags and gingham napkin on canvas
Signed and dated verso
22″ x 21″
Estimate $6,000 – 8,000


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Folk/Activist icon Pete Seeger, 93, surveys past, present and future on two new CDs. A More Perfect Union, which includes guest appearances by Bruce Springsteen, Tom Morello, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, and Dar Williams, contains 14 fresh songs that present Pete's and longtime friend and fellow songwriter Lorre Wyatt's responses to recent political, economic and environmental issues alongside gentler appreciations of life's good moments, meditations on the future, and exhortations to individual action.
Pete Remembers Woody, a two-CD set, celebrates the centennial birth year of Pete's friend, quasi-mentor and sometime musical partner, the late Woody Guthrie, through Pete's spoken, firsthand reminiscences as one of the last contemporaries of our country's first great topical songwriter. Interspersed are renditions of Woody's songs by Pete with Woody's son Arlo, other Guthrie-influenced performers, and Woody himself (from a vintage recording).
It takes one who knew one: firsthand spoken-word reminiscences about America's first great topical songwriter,Woody Guthrie, by his friend, compatriot, and successor, plus great Guthrie songs by Pete, Woody, son Arlo and others.
Pete Seeger recounts his vivid firsthand reminiscences, wide-ranging and frequently humorous, of friend and mentor Woody Guthrie's adult life – Guthrie's transmutation of his experiences and omnivorous readings into popular although often controversial songs, his tips on freight-hopping and saloon singing, encounters with musical contemporaries Leadbelly and others, and many of the life lessons Pete has subsequently used in his own career, still ongoing in this Centennial year of Guthrie's birth.
Interspersed with Pete's recollections of Woody are versions of some of Guthrie's most famous songs performed by idealistic links in the topical music chain.
A More Perfect Union, released on September 25, is a newly recorded collaboration between Pete Seeger and longtime friend and fellow singer-songwriter Lorre Wyatt, on which the duo is joined by newer generations of socially conscious musicians Bruce Springsteen, Tom Morello, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, and Dar Williams, among others.
Seeger's abiding mission – to inspire sociopolitical involvement and personal inclusiveness through song and example – shines through the 14 songs newly co-written with Wyatt. The duo address recent and ongoing political, economic and environmental issues alongside gentler appreciations of life's good moments, meditations on the future, and exhortations to individual action.
There's more to this CD than political commentary. Among the more lighthearted songs are the delightfully self-deprecating "Old Apples" ("…still can make good sauce") and "Howling for Our Supper," a pet's-eye view of Pete and Lorre writing "another pointless ditty" when it's feeding time. On the heartwarming side, there are "Wonderful Friends," first heard in a different version on one of two of Seeger's Grammy-winning Appleseed CDs, 2008's "At 89," "A Toast to the Times," and the closing "Bountiful River."
Throughout the CD, Pete and Lorre share and split vocal duties; Pete plays banjo and acoustic 12-string guitar, while Lorre handles the six-string acoustic and additional banjo. Providing a warm instrumental bed are co-producers David Bernz (guitar, banjo, vocals, harmonica) and engineer-percussionist Jeff Haynes, and a host of musicians based near Pete's Beacon, N.Y., home. The use of a wide variety of percussives adds an exotic Third World tint to many of the songs.
Seeger, 93, and Wyatt, more than 25 years his junior, have been friends for more than 40 years and have co-written several dozen songs in that time. New Jersey-based Wyatt was sidelined for much of the last 15 years recovering from a stroke but has fully recovered and is "back on [his] musical feet again." Wyatt's best-known composition, "Somos el Barco/We Are the Boat," previously recorded by Seeger, Holly Near, and Peter Paul and Mary, among others, is reprised here in a new version that includes guest vocals by Emmylou Harris.
This CD is being released simultaneously with another new Seeger recording, the 2-CD "Pete Remembers Woody," a mixture of Pete's spoken, firsthand reminiscences of his friend and fellow musical activist, the late Woody Guthrie, and recordings of Guthrie-written songs by Pete, Woody's son Arlo, Work o' the Weavers, Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, and other socially conscious musicians.
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I found these cute little desktop calendars a few weeks back. It has a yarn quote for each day of the year. I bought one for myself, and an extra for one of you. Leave a comment below letting us know your favorite month of the year to be entered.*
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Outrageous Indulgences of Poker Millionaires
Let's take a look at some of the most ridiculous purchases of the poker millionaires club!
Phil Ivey, real name Phillip Dennis Ivey Jr. is widely regarded as one of the best poker players to ever grace this earth. His massive personality and phenomenal poker skills have taken him to the top of the poker world throughout the past 20 years. To try your hand at becoming one of the best, we suggest Carbon Poker for USA players. He was born in Riverside, California on Feburary 1st 1976, and started playing poker around his twenties were he got his first nickname "No Home Jerome" come from the ID he used to play at the local casino and later on he got the nickname "Tiger Woods of Poker".
It was from here Ivey started to hone his skills and slowly start to become noticed as a very scary opponent.
"The Corporation" vs Andrew Beal
Perhaps one of the most notable stories surrounding Ivey's poker career is that of his Heads Up battle with billionaire banker Andrew Beal back in 2006. According to several reports around that time, Ivey and Beal played three days of poker against each other, with Ivey coming out on top with a cool $16.6m profit. This whole saga stemmed from an ongoing battle between Beal and several top players for many years before that, in which the players then decided to club together, coin themselves 'The Corporation' and take on Beal. It was also reported that the $16.6m win meant that 'The Corporation' had won back $10m they had lost to Beal previously and added the $6.6m to their bankroll as a whole.
World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour
Phil Ivey have had a glorious poker carrier having won ten World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets as well as one World Poker Tour (WPT) Final and also appearing nine times at the final table.
Ivey was named Poker Players of the Year by "All In Magazine" in 2005 and 2009
As TheHendonMob reports Phil Ivey has accumulated more than 23 million dollars from tournaments alone, and over $10m in online winnings. A big percentage of this money came from other regular high stakes players such as Patrik Antonius, Viktor Blom, and Tom Dwan.
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Let's take a look at some of the most ridiculous purchases of the poker millionaires club!
It was never going to be easy to get Phil Ivey to return the almost $10million winnings from his now infamous Borgata baccarat case.
There are a few candidates for Dwan's bankroll/backer Mr Big role, but let's get the potential horror stories out of the way first...
Phil Ivey's recent run of bad beats in the courts continued when his appeal against a London casino over winnings of £7.7million was rejected by three Court of Appeal judges.
New Jersey judge found that Ivey and his partner in an edge-sorting plan had breached their contract with the Borgata casino in Atlantic City.
For some players, sum of $10k is simply pocket change – enough to pay for a weekend away somewhere or even fuel for their private jet!
You're only going to get them one time in several thousand hands, and when you do there are only two hands that can beat them, so folding quads seems like a very unlikely occurrence in any event. But it happens.
Everyone knows what high stakes poker is – its games where the dollars are thrown around in man-size bricks isn't it? But what amount would really make it high stakes?
Beating casinos at blackjack and winning big at poker would seem to be two entirely different disciplines, but for one young, bright and extremely beautiful woman it became her life.
The glory days of online nosebleed games may be over, but can we expect a comeback from the guys who made it the most fascinating and nerve-wracking high-stakes war in poker history?


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After Saudi Arabia felt some international pressure to send at least some female athletes to London this summer, the pan-Arab daily paper Al-Sharq al-Awsa has reported that not a single Saudi woman has qualified for the Olympics.
The AP cited a Sunday report in Al-Sharq al-Awsa (apparently a nifty tool for Saudi rulers) that announced there would be no "female team taking part in the three fields" that Saudi men have qualified for — track, equestrian events, and weightlifting. Saudi Arabia could still face sanctions from the International Olympics Committee after the London Games if women are excluded from the country's Olympic team. Two weeks ago, the Saudi Embassy in London said that women who qualified for the Olympics would get to compete, and just a week ago, IOC President Jacques Rogge expressed some premature optimism that Saudi Arabia would send women to the Olympics for the first time ever. Guess we have to wait another four interminable years for the Saudi women to get their shot on the international stage (Rio's probably way more fun than London anyway — no offense, English people).
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The U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved a last-minute deal to raise the U.S. borrowing limit to avert a catastrophic debt default by the world's largest economy. The bill passed 74 for, and 26 against.
The vote came on the day of the deadline to lift the debt ceiling . On Monday, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed the $2.1 trillion deficit-cutting plan. The House vote of approval had been considered the biggest obstacle to solving the crisis.
The legislation will now be sent to President Barack Obama, who has said he is anxious to sign the bill.
Raising the U.S. government's $14.3 trillion borrowing limit removes the risk of the U.S. not being able to borrow money to pay its bills.
The compromise plan calls for spending cuts over 10 years, but no new taxes, and creates a powerful new congressional committee to recommend a deficit-reduction package by late November. It also raises the U.S. borrowing limit into 2013.
The bill's passage signaled the end was in sight to a months-long partisan battle that had deadlocked the U.S. political system, alarming its international allies, shaking financial markets, and diminishing the country's global image.
Up to the last minute, financial markets worldwide had been rattled by uncertainty over whether the compromise plan could pass the House and Senate in the face of objections from conservative Tea Party Republicans and liberal Democrats.
Earlier Tuesday, the U.S. dollar fell against the Swiss franc to a new low, and gold hit another record, as investors flocked to assets considered safe, worried about a bleak outlook for the world economy and a possible cut to the U.S.'s triple-A credit rating.
Mohamed El-Erian, co-chief investment officer of PIMCO, which runs the world's largest bond fund, said attention would now focus on a possible U.S. downgrade "and all the detrimental effects of weeks of political squabbles on household and corporate confidence, economic governance, growth, employment, inequality and America's standing in the global economy."
Questions remain over whether the U.S. credit rating will be downgraded, deficit deal or not.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told ABC News in an interview that he didn't know whether the U.S. will be downgraded. "It's not my judgment to make," he said. Geithner also said he fears world confidence in the U.S. was damaged by "this spectacle."


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IBM is joining the OpenOffice.org development community, kicking off its participation by donating code it has developed for its Lotus Notes project and promising to contribute to improving the "feature richness and code quality" of OpenOffice.org.
IBM also said it will include the software in its own suite of products, a move some are interpreting as a direct challenge to the market dominance of Microsoft's Office suite.
OpenOffice.org founder, Sun, said it welcomed IBM's collaboration and extended an invitation to other companies to join in, too. John McCreesh, head of marketing for the open source project said that IBM's decision was great news for OpenOffice.
"We welcome IBM's contributions to further enhancing the OpenOffice.org product. But equally important is IBM's future commitment to package and distribute new works that leverage OpenOffice.org technology supporting the ISO ODF standard," he said.
"ODF is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the IT industry to unify round a standard, and deliver lasting benefit to users of desktop technology."
The great and the good of the open source community lined up to add their support for IBM's move. The company's press announcement includes quotes from Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu; Scott Crenshaw, Red Hat's VP of enterprise Linux; and HU Caiyong, CEO of Beijing's Redflag Chinese 2000 Software, a major contributor of code to the OpenOffice project. ®


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Koza Hanı
Bursa's covered bazaars, assorted galleries and lesser hans sell clothes, silk goods, towels, bolts of cloth as well as clothing, and furniture, all provincial specialities. The nearby bedesten is given over to the sale and warehousing of jewellery and precious metals.
The centrepiece of the bazaar, the Koza Hanı, or "Silk-Cocoon Hall", flanks Koza Parkı. Built in 1490, when Bursa was the final stop on the Silk Route from China, it's still filled with silk and brocade merchants, as well as a few jewellery stores. On the lower level, in the middle of a cobbled courtyard, a minuscule mescit (small mosque) perches directly over its şadırvan, while a subsidiary court bulges asymmetrically to the east; both hold teahouses.
Abutting the Koza Hanı to the west, though lacking access from it, the Eski Aynalı Çarşı, formerly the Bey Hamamı of the Orhan Gazi complex (note the domes and skylights), sells more tourist-orientated goods than the surrounding bazaars.
The Demirciler Çarşısı, or ironmongers' market – just the other side of İnönü Caddesi, best crossed by the pedestrian underpass at Okçular Caddesi – has also kept its traditions intact despite quakes and blazes. Stall upon stall of blacksmiths and braziers attract photographers; some expect a few lira for posing.
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The Wednesday before Thanksgiving each year, Burnsville's Heart of the City is set aglow during the community's Annual Winter Lighting Ceremony.
View the event calendar for details
More than 200,000 mini lights, 230 streetlight snowflakes and a 30-foot-tall tree will come to life again this November, and all Burnsville residents and winter-lighting enthusiasts are invited to attend.
Residents and visitors are invited to attend the ceremony and stroll through the lights. The ceremony includes a special appearance by Mr. and Mrs. Claus as well as entertainment by local school choirs.
Since 2009, Winter Lighting has used light-emitting diode (LED) lights - resulting in approximately 90% less energy use compared to traditional incandescent lights.
The Winter Lighting Ceremony is sponsored and paid for by the Burnsville Community Foundation through generous donations from area businesses and residents. Over the past 20 years, the Foundation has raised more than $600,000 to make this event a cherished Burnsville tradition.


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12 December 2014
Universal Health Coverage Day >>
16 November 2014
OECD and IMF to help monitor G20 commitments >> to boost economic growth and create jobs.
10 November 2014
At the ILO Governing Body's 322nd Session, there emerged a decision on 'ILO collaboration with other intergovernmental and international organizations in promoting the principles of the Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy' >>
6 November 2014
The FAO Food Price Index >> stabilizes in October.
5 November 2014
WHO-WIPO-WTO symposium >> focused on public health challenges.
31 October 2014
Information on the ILO's role >> and response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak.
30 October - 13 November 2014
322nd Session of the ILO Governing Body >>
29 October 2014
Oxfam published its report 'Time to end extreme inequality' >>
28-29 October 2014
An international conference on pension reform 'Thanks Otto! 125 years of pensions' >> concluded with 'The Berlin Communiqué on Pensions'.
23 October 2014
UNU-WIDER, ILO and UNCTAD convened the seminar 'Rising income inequality: trends - and measures ot prevent and reverse it' >>
(you can see ILO Isabel Ortiz' contribution here >>)
20 October 2014
The WTO released its 'World Trade Report 2014' >>
17 October 2014
The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty was celebrated under the topic of 'Leave no one behind' >>
16 October 2014
The World Food Day >> is under the topic of 'Familiy Farming'.
13 October 2014
Bill Gates on Piketty and 'Why Inquality Matters' >>
8 October 2014
This year's World Day of Decent Work >> is devoted to climate change. A statement of ILO Director-General is entitled 'There are no job on a dead planet' >>
7 October 2014
World Day for Decent Work - Justice for Workers Climate Justice >>
1-3 October 2013
WTO Public Forum 2014 'Why trade matters to everyone' >>
30 September - 3 October 2014
Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research >>
(Cape Town Statement >>)
25 September 2014
Tom Murphy asks 'What about a health systems development goal for Post-2015?' >>
25 September 2014
The MDG Advocacy Group released its latest report 'Accelerating Action: Global Leaders on Challenges and Opportunities for MDG Achievement' >>
24 September 2014
UNRISD published 'Social and Solidarity Economy and the Challenge of Sustainable Development' >>
24 September 2014
The ILO published 'Social Protection for older persons: Key policy trends and statistics' >>
23 September 2014
1st World Conference on Indigenous Peoples >> focused on climate change
22-23 September 2014
World Conference on Indigenous People >>
21-22 September 2014
5th Annual Social Good Summit >>
18 September 2014
The MDG Gap Task Force Report 2014 >> was launched.
16 September 2014
A new OECD report 'Geographic Variations in Health Care' >> finds that "governments should do more to improve their health systems to prevent unnecessary interventions and ensure that everyone has the same access to quality healthcare".
16 September 2014
The UN GA opened its 69th session, with a focus on the MDGs and the post-2015 development agenda >>
16 September 2014
The State of the Food Insecurity in the World 2014 >> was released by FAO.
16 September 2014
The 69th session >> of the UN General Assembly was opened.
(on the ending 68th session see http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=48719#.VBsp_Rasmil)
12 September 2014
The UK's International Development Committee released 'Strengthening Health Systems in Developing Countries' >>
12 September 2014
'Global Economy, Global Rights. A practitioners' guide for interpreting human rights obligations in the global economy' >> was published by the ESCR-Net Corproate Accountability Working Group.
11-12 September 2014
High-level Stocktaking Event on the Post-2015 Development Agenda >>
10 September 2014
UN GA adopts resolution >> on SDGs report
9 September 2014
ILO, OECD and World Bank jointly prepared the report 'G20 labour markets: outlook, key challenges and policy responses' >>
5-6 September 2014
UNU-WIDER organised 'Inequality - measurement, trends, impacts and policies' >>
4 September 2014
Lawrence O. Gostin discusses the potential of an International Health Systems Fund to meet the Ebola crisis >>, in the Lancet
4 September 2014
The report 'Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing' >> has been released by UN DESA.
3 September 2014
The OECD's Employment Outlook 2014 >> says "Unemployment will remain well above its pre-crisis levels next year in most OECD countries".
31 August - 5 September 2014
World Water Week 2014 >>
31 August 2014
Jim Yong Kim (World Bank president) and Paul Farmer (Harvard University) state: "... the reality is: The Ebola crisis today is a reflection of long-standing and growing inequalities of access to basic health care. Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone do not have the staff, stuff and systems required to halt the outbreak on their own." >>
29 August 2014
UN-NGO forum >> concluded in New York and addressed the role of NGOs in the post-2015 development agenda
28 August 2014
The UN GA passed the resolution 'Towards the establishment of a multilateral legal framework for sovereign debt restructuring processes' >> (discussion at the Recovery with a Human Face List >>)
25 August 2014
Michael Clemens (Center for Global Development) argues that 'The Post-2015 Development Goals Need to Address Migration' >>
21 August 2014
The responses of the Campaign for Peoples Goals to the OWG outcome document are available here http://peoplesgoals.org/cpgresponse/
4 August 2014
'Corporate influence through the G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa' >> by Wolfgang Obenland has been published as a Working Paper of MISEREOR, GPF and Brot für die Welt.
30 July - 1 August 2014
Fifth Working Session >> of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing
30 July 2014
UNICEF released 'The Challenges of Climate Change: Children on the front line' >>
30 July 2014
An ILO Policy Brief 'Rapid Extension of Health Protection' >> was released.
21 July 2014
The final outcome document >> of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development with the list of proposed Sustainable Development Goals has been released.
A summary >> by iisd reporting services is also available.
21 July 2014
UNRISD published 'Social and Solidarity Economy and the Challenge of Sustainable Development' >>
15 July 2014
The 6th BRICS Summit: Fortaleza Declaration >>
14-18 July 2014
13th session >> of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals
10-11 July 2014
The ECOSOC 2014 Development Cooperation Forum is entitled 'Bringing the future of development cooperation to post-2015' >>.
10 July 2014
UN DESA's Population Division releases the latest urbanization trends >>
10 July 2014
The 2014 Revision of the World Urbanization Prospects report >> finds that more than half of world's population now live in urban areas.
9 July 2014
The Social Watch Report 2014 >> was launched
7-11 July 2014
High-level segement of the 2014 session >> of ECOSOC is themed 'Addressing ongoing and emerging challenges for meeting the MDGs in 2015 and for sustaining development gains in the future'
7 July 2014
UNCTAD's fourth Working Group meeting >> on the Debt Workout Mechanism took place in New York.
2 July 2014
The OECD published 'Perspectives on Global Development 2014. Boosting productivity to meet the middle income challenge' >>
1 July 2014
Launch of the 'Global Sustainable Development Report' >>
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Fig Balsamic Ice Cream
From Coolhaus
- For the ice cream base:
2 cups milk
2 cups heavy cream
8 egg yolks
1-1/4 cups sugar
4 ounces mascarpone cheese
Pinch of salt
- For balsamic candied figs:
1 cup balsamic vinegar
1/2 cup sugar
8 ounces dried figs, coarsely chopped
- Make the ice cream base: In a large saucepan over high heat, combine milk, cream, and 3/4 cup sugar. In a separate bowl, quickly beat yolks and the remaining 3/4 cup sugar until a smooth, heavy, pale yellow mix is established. Bring milk, cream, and sugar mixture to a boil; gradually add the mixture to the egg and sugar mix, whisking constantly until well blended to make ice cream base.
- Return the empty saucepan to heat and, while whisking, stream the ice cream base back into to the saucepan again, stirring constantly. Turn the heat to low, and continue stirring until the mix reaches 165ºF and has thickened slightly. Pour into a clean container, and chill immediately to 32ºF. After 12 to 24 hours, hand blend mascarpone and salt into ice cream base.
- Make the balsamic glazed figs: In a sturdy saucepan, combine balsamic vinegar and sugar; bring to a boil and reduce by half. Add dried figs, then reduce the heat to low, and cook figs in the syrup until syrup reduces and just covers the figs. Chill well; reserve until ready to stir into the ice cream.
- Freeze mascarpone ice cream base in ice cream machine according to manufacturer's instructions.
- Swirl figs into ice cream: Just before you remove ice cream from ice cream machine, incorporate figs into ice cream by very gently stirring in the fig glaze, alternating pouring in ice cream and fig glaze. Freeze for at least an hour before serving.
- Category
- Desserts, Ice cream
- Cuisine
- North American
- Yield
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Sharon K. Hull, MD, MPH, FAAFP, FACPM, Professor of Family and Community Medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) and Director of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Collaborative at Summa Health System in Ohio has accepted the position of Division Chief of Duke Family Medicine effective April 1.
Dr. Hull earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Evansville, Indiana, and is a Distinguished Alumna of the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. She completed a Family Medicine residency at Union Hospital in Terre Haute, a Primary Care Research Fellowship at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, a Master of Public Health degree in health policy and administration, and a Preventive Medicine residency at the University of North Carolina.
Dr. Hull has held leadership roles in multiple national organizations, including immediate past president of the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research, and the Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Academic Societies Innovation Working Group. She has been involved in medical student education, helping to develop curriculum in clinical skills, population health and preventive medicine. In Northeast Ohio, she led the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Collaborative across multiple clinical and social science disciplines with three health systems, four universities and various community stakeholder groups to develop a community-based, regional health services research platform.
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balzaccom wrote:Phil's been doing a good job with these questions, but it's about time he had a little help: My answers in ALL CAPS
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Day 1 - 24 Sep 2016
Depart the trailhead around 0900 at the latest. Our first night will be spent at Sunrise Lakes, the middle one to be specific. WHICH TRAILHEAD? FROM SUNRISE/TENAYA LAKE, THIS IS ONLY ABOUT FOUR MILES. YOU WILL BE THERE BEFORE LUNCH. GOT PLANS FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON? WANT MORE ADVENTURE, SOLITUDE, AND BEAUTY? KEEP GOING OVER TO ECHO CANYON AND X-COUNTRY TO ECHO LAKE....
We are using the Tenaya Lake trailhead. Your recommendation for Echo Lake is intriguing, but I am concerned about some of the folks in my group. I may have to do that one with a buddy or two on a different trip.
Day 2 - 25 Sep 2016
Depart around 0900 again and make camp just below CR. AGAIN, THIS IS ABOUT THREE MILES. IF YOU HIKE AT ONE MILE PER HOUR YOU WILL STILL BE THERE BY NOON. MOST PEOPLE HIKE FASTER THAN THAT. UNLESS YOU MEAN THAT YOU ARE GOING HIKE OVER THE TOP OF CLOUDS REST AND CAMP ON THE FAR SIDE? THAT'S A NICE WAY TO SPEND A DAY...BUT MAKES THE NEXT DAY CONFUSING TO ME.
The plan was to stroll into camp below CR, not crest over and continue down. That is the plan for the following day. I was thinking of making camp in that sort of flat area just after the pack trail splits from CRT. That would keep us in the trees and not so exposed.
Day 3 - 26 Sep 2016
Depart around 0900 and make camp where the CRT and JMT intersect. I THINK YOU COULD CAMP HERE THE NIGHT BEFORE THIS...WHICH WOULD GIVE YOU AN EXTRA DAY TO DO SOMETHING ELSE....
I will look at my map again. My concern is pushing people too hard, but I'd like to explore this idea some more and have it in my pocket depending on how the group feels. What else would you recommend if you were doing the planning for this trip?
Day 4 - 27 Sep 2016
Depart around 0900 enroute the top of HD. Not sure if we will leave our gear at the base of HD. Plan to hike down to LYV and spend our last night there.
Day 5 - 28 Sep 2016
Depart around 0900 enroute Curry Village for a beer and some pizza, maybe a shower and then drive home. THIS WILL ACTUALLY BE YOUR LONGEST DAY, BUT IT'S ALL DOWNHILL, AND YOUR PACKS WILL BE LIGHTER, SO NO WORRIES. PLUS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO LOOK SMUGLY AT THE TOURISTS WHO ARE STRUGGLING UP ON THEIR DAY HIKE. BE SURE TO MENTION YOU'VE BEEN BACKPACKING FOR FOUR OR FIVE DAYS...
I will be leading the trip with 5 other folks that have little to no backpacking experience. They have all purchased backpacks, tents, bags, pads, and all sorts of other gear for the trip. At this point the crew is in fairly good physical condition, but they are all working on getting into better shape. I am planning to do a couple of warm-up trips before we make the trip listed above.
Any and all advice is welcome...
balzaccom wrote:Yeah--I meant to mention that, too. late September weather can be fabulous, but it can also bring the first big storm. With newbies along, you don't want to be trying to find the trail under a foot of snow...or sleeping in temps that are too cold for your equipment. Be prepared to bail to another route and still have fun.
CGSteve wrote:The plan was to stroll into camp below CR, not crest over and continue down. That is the plan for the following day. I was thinking of making camp in that sort of flat area just after the pack trail splits from CRT. That would keep us in the trees and not so exposed.
Phil wrote:One last thing- Who are these people you're guiding, Steve? Kids? Adults? I'm just curious.
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Syria Shifts U.S. Focus From Asia-Pacific
As the U.S. threatens military action against Syria, Washington's focus on Asian-Pacific security seems to be wavering. The WSJ's Deborah Kan speaks with WSJ Columnist Andy Browne about the changing dynamics of the Sino-U.S. relationship.
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Venice wants out of Italy
VENICE, Italy — Venice, renowned for incomparable Gothic architecture and placid canals plied by gondolas that make it one of the most recognizable cities in the world, may have had enough of Italy.
A movement for the Italian region that includes Venice to declare itself an independent state, as it was centuries ago, is gaining momentum here amid chaotic national economic policies from Rome and local pride in the region's 1,000-year history of achievement in the arts and merchant class.
"It bothers a lot of people to work hard and see the money just disappear, but I think that just feeds the region's independent spirit," said Angelo Alberti, 34, a coffee bar worker who said he supports the movement.
The region of Veneto, one of Italy's richest and the country's fifth-largest with a population of around 5 million, is preparing a formal referendum about whether to secede from Italy.
Constitutional experts say such a move would be illegal. But momentum is building: An informal online vote last month saw 89% vote in favor of breaking away. And last week, police arrested two dozen Veneto separatists on charges of terrorism for planning to take over Venice's iconic St. Mark's Square with a makeshift tank fashioned out of a tractor.
Venetians say they support the movement partially out of frustration at seeing their taxes used to support the underdeveloped southern part of the country. Campaigners say they pay out nearly $30 billion a year more in taxes than they receive in government benefits.
Locals mention frustration at the corruption and endemic tax evasion in other parts of the country, as well as the influence of organized crime. They say they feel disconnected from the rest of Italy, and that the Veneto mentality is an independent one.
"I have always felt like a Venetian first and an Italian second," says Sylvia Barbarigo, 49, a schoolteacher and supporter of secession. "We're just different from most other Italians."
Venetians take pride in what they call "La Serenissima" — the Most Serene Republic of Venice. A maritime power from the days of the Middle Ages, it was a center of intellectual, artistic and commercial innovation in Europe for more than a thousand years until the last doge, or leader, surrendered to Napoleon's troops in 1797.
Alessio Morosin, a Venetian lawyer and one of the leaders of the breakaway movement, longs for a return to those days. He says it is not so much about economics or history or politics but the right of a people to determine their fate.
"It's all about self-determination — a basic human right that trumps anything written on paper in the constitution," Morosin says. "Most countries, including both Italy and the United States, were created by this idea."
But Gaetano Azzariti, a constitutional law expert with La Sapienza University in Rome, strongly disagrees.
"It's egoistic and it's illegal," he says of the independence movement. "A referendum on independence is meaningless because it's illegal. We're in this together. There would be no end to it if any group of people could just decide on their own that they are independent. You'd need a war for that to happen."
Government officials would not speak on the record about the Veneto independence movement. But Italy has taken actions against it.
Italian special operations units on April 2 arrested 24 secessionists who were allegedly planning a violent campaign for independence, charging them with terrorism, subversion of democracy and making weapons of war.
"I don't think the risk is a full-out armed conflict but rather some rash acts by a small group of people," says Angelo Romano, a former army officer now a security consultant who has worked with the United Nations and with the Italian government but who has no role in what is happening in Veneto. "You need just a small core of true believers to make a lot of trouble."
The Venetians who support the movement insist their goals are peaceful.
"I don't think anyone wants to take up arms," says Alberti, the barista. "If that's what it takes, then it won't happen."
Andrea Soranzo, a 71-year-old clothing store owner who had a role in a similar short-lived movement in 1997 but who has not taken sides this time around, was philosophical about the latest developments.
"There's a difference sometimes between what you want and what you can get," he says. "I have lived my whole life here. I love Venice and I would love to see it return to its old glory. But that's asking a lot.
"I think we'll end up with a little more autonomy and a little more pride in our city," he says. "Maybe that's not too bad."


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WALTONVILLE, Ill. — The nation's widest drought in decades is spreading, with more than half of the continental United States in some stage of drought and most of the rest enduring abnormally dry conditions.
Only in the 1930s and the 1950s has a drought covered more land, according to federal figures released Monday. So far, there is little risk of a Dust Bowl-type catastrophe, but crop losses could mount if rain doesn't come soon.
In its monthly drought report, the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., announced that 55 percent of the country was in a moderate to extreme drought at the end of June. The parched conditions expanded last month in the West, the Great Plains and the Midwest, fueled by the 14th warmest and 10th driest June on record, the report said.
In the High Plains states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado and Kansas, the areas designated as being in moderate to exceptional drought rose to 84 percent as of July 10 from 74 percent a week earlier.
Topsoil has turned dry while "crops, pastures and rangeland have deteriorated at a rate rarely seen in the last 18 years," the report said.
The percentage of affected land is the largest since December 1956, when 58 percent of the country was covered by drought. It rivals some years in the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s, though experts point out that this year's weather has been milder than that period, and farming practices have been improved since then.
In southern Illinois, Kenny Brummer has lost 800 acres of corn that he grows to feed his 400 head of cattle and 30,000 hogs. Now he is scrambling to find hundreds of thousands of bushels of replacement feed.
"Where am I going to get that from? You have concerns about it every morning when you wake up," said Brummer, who farms near Waltonville. "The drought is bad, but that's just half of the problem on this farm."
About a third of the nation's corn crop has been hurt, with some of it so badly damaged that farmers have already cut down their withered plants to feed to cattle. As of Sunday, 38 percent of the corn crop was in poor or very poor condition, compared with 30 percent a week earlier, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.
"This is definitely the epicenter — right in the heart of the Midwest," said climatologist Mark Svoboda with the Nebraska-based National Drought Mitigation Center.
It's a comedown for farmers who had expected a record year when they sowed 96.4 million acres in corn, the most since 1937. The Department of Agriculture initially predicted national average corn yields of 166 bushels per acre this year.
The agency has revised that projection down to 146, and more reductions are possible if conditions don't improve.
Already tight supplies and fears that the drought will get worse before it gets better have been pushing up grain prices, which are likely to translate into higher food prices for consumers, particularly for meat and poultry.
The report Monday was based on data going back to 1895 called the Palmer Drought Index. It feeds into the widely watched and more detailed U.S. Drought Monitor, which reported last week that 61 percent of the continental U.S. was in a moderate to exceptional drought. However, the weekly Drought Monitor goes back only 12 years, so climatologists use the Palmer Drought Index for comparing droughts before 2000.
Climatologists have labeled this year's dry spell a "flash drought" because it developed in a matter of months, not over multiple seasons or years.
The current drought is similar to the droughts of the 1950s, which weren't as intense as those of the 1930s, said Jake Crouch, a climatologist with the National Climatic Data Center. Farming has changed a lot since the Dust Bowl era. Better soil conservation has reduced erosion, and modern hybrids are much more resistant to drought.
But Crouch said it's important to understand that this drought is still unfolding.
"We can't say with certainty how long this might last now. Now that we're going up against the two largest droughts in history, that's something to be wary of," Crouch said. "The coming months are really going to be the determining factor of how big a drought it ends up being."
The federal government is moving to help farmers and ranchers.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack last week announced plans for streamlining the aid process. A major goal is to cut the time it takes to declare an agricultural disaster area. He also reduced interest rates for emergency loans and made it cheaper for farmers to graze livestock or cut hay on lands otherwise locked up in a conservation program.
Some state governments are stepping in, too. In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker declared a state of emergency in 42 counties last week to speed up the issuance of permits for temporarily using stream or lake water for irrigation.
During a visit Monday to a southern Illinois corn and soybean farm, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announced that drought-affected farmers would be eligible for state debt restructuring and loan programs in addition to the aid the USDA announced last week.
Not long ago, Brummer rejoiced along with countless other Midwest growers about getting their crops in the ground early.
"It looked really good until about a month ago," he said. "Then the concerns started, and it's been downhill ever since."


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Are Food Blogs Killing the Joy of Cooking?
I'll never forget attending the last tribute to Julia Child. It was organized by Boston's cohort of culinary historians, on a Sunday afternoon in Cambridge at Radcliffe College. The luminaries who spoke—her WGBH TV show producer, her suppliers, high-star Boston chefs—were local. The event was as low key as it could be, yet Julia put up a fuss and refused to come.
"I don't want to hear people talk about me," she told the historians. "I'm going to be too embarrassed sitting there." In the end, she boycotted the classroom with podium and microphone, but showed up for the tea reception.
The modesty of the event turned out to be its own tribute. Speaker after speaker stepped to the front of a dreary Cambridge classroom, took the microphone and said, with astonishing unanimity, that what made Julia Child exceptional was not just that she really did know how to cook. It was more her staunch refusal to use that cred to endorse a product, or sell a brand, or pitch a restaurant. The neutrality she so fiercely guarded endowed her with an undiluted integrity that made everyone totally trust her. They knew she had no interest in monetary glory or empire building, only in—as the title of her last book said—The Way to Cook.
Who can we say that about today?
Julia Child pioneered cooking as public spectacle and single-handedly made it sustenance for the media. But what she actually carefully concocted and served was instruction.
To her, a knife was strictly for kitchen work; she was on "educational TV" (as public television was then known) showing how to pare, bone and carve with one. She did not brand the knife, but brandished it—because her only agenda was to help us get a grip.
What would she think today's cooking/feeding frenzy? The media has monetized the public spectacle of cooking the only way it knows how. Cooking has become blood sport, like Roman bread and circus. If it isn't gripping "chopped" gladiator competitions, it's knives used to stab a fellow cook in the back with badmouth contests that make the likes of Gordon Ramsey more famous for tasteless retorts than tasty food.
The excitement of killer competition evidently creates such ka-ching that even the venerable New York Times in its early December's digital edition ginned up a catfight between two food reporters presenting their edible holiday presents. "These are the food gifts Julia Moskin and I decided to go to war over," Kim Severson explained. "Though we really are the best of friends, sometimes being right (especially about what's on one's plate) matters… ." Readers could vote by tweet or email for which writer gave the best food gifts. And 829 readers did. I ask those readers: What did you learn about cheese straws that improved your life or your skills?
If we want genuine thrills, homemade, handmade food gifts should be encouraged on a holiday that's supposed to be about caring, renewed life, and love. Jam, cheese straws and pickles are personal, a giving of yourself, and that's supposed to be the point. The only real point. At this moment of greatest darkness, we are meant to be bodies of light, which is to say, to help each other through the night. What makes edible gifts de-lightful is the effort made when fresh food supplies are scarce to remove the dark, primal fear of starvation. Gifts of life are the gift of love. Handmade food is local, sustainable and ecological. There should be no worries about size or color, no worries about how glamorous the end product is in a photograph, about broadcasting it to countless strangers.
You will not get these tidings of comfort and joy in a food blog, not even one entitled "The Year in Food" or "Food 52," whose title implies week by week food endeavors. Huffington Post Food tantalized us with an array of glossy photos and recipes for different holiday cookies. In many European countries, making cookies with the spices known to heat and thus help the human body—ginger, cinnamon, clove—is a longstanding, beloved Christmas tradition. At the same time as seeing that contest, I received an email from a friend in Frankfurt, Germany, telling me how precious it was for her to bake cookies with her 9-year-old granddaughter. "The house smells wonderful," she wrote. "It was so much fun being together with my little (very tall) grandstar."
There's the kind of family time we crave, the stuff of comforting bonds and joyful memories. But, jingle bells, the Huffington Post didn't put all those cookies on its printing plate to encourage that. It presented the cookies like everything gets presented nowadays: as a horse race. In our winner-obsessed culture, everything has to be competition, so the Huffington Post wanted people not to find joy in making holiday cookies that warm you, but to vote for the best one. Or use the cookies to create a competition among your friends. Hopefully you'll be Number One.
The Internet has made the most important kitchen tool no longer the knife, or the rolling pin, but the camera. If you can't take stunning, high resolution photographs of your work, you don't count as a cook. They are indeed stunning photographs: the luscious, carefully styled, pornographic kind. Those photos arouse you. They get your blood racing, your stomach pumping. You are excited and want closure, satisfaction… You want to eat that right now.
Bah, humbug. Those of us who can't make a dish look so perfectly luscious are probably going to feel inadequate and pass on learning to cook. This problem emerged in the '80s when "food stylists" surfaced on the glossy pages of slick food magazines to make food porn. Their spin and hype served the collective imagination sirloin steaks with perfectly painted black grill lines or desserts made shiny by varnish—all sorts of trumped up photos that made real people stop trying to cook because they just couldn't get that picture-perfect effect. Or worse, they complained to caterers and restaurant chefs who were serving up the real deal that their food somehow didn't look right.
Julia Child was widely revered for constantly saying: "Never explain and never apologize." She wanted us to simply serve the food and let it speak for itself. But today's bloggers don't just serve up recipes and techniques. They serve themselves, plating up explanations and apologies. "Bourbon, two weeks in a row? Well, it's December. It's December and I'm snowed under piles of work."
Bloggers whisper sweet nothings, so we get to know they're sitting on the kitchen floor desperately staring into the oven to watch the cannelé rise. Or they smite us with their issues: "My name is Deb Perelman and I have a fritter problem. And I really do. I pretty much want to fritter all the things, all the time …, I actually have to hold myself back, and try to evenly space my fritter episodes throughout the year, so not to pique your concern about my fritter consumption." Food blogs are not so much about cooking as about exhibitionists letting us peep at private lives in hopes we will be, ahem, smitten, a word usually applied to sexual attraction.
It's understandable that life in what's more often than not an impersonal, inhumane and isolating society makes us yearn for the warm humanity of the kitchen. There's so much joy to the world there. Food is life—the word hospital comes out of the word hospitality. If they blogged, the ancients could have told you: feeding people gives them health. That gives them comfort. Feel the love.
Food is our connection to the earth, sky and sea. It's feng shui harmonizing us with our surroundings. Food is our link to each other, to everybody out there, for food is the one same need everyone—regardless of their financial percentile, political state, geographical region, age, gender, dress, whatever—shares in common. And because even with supersonic jets and superfast electronics, we would not be alive if that need isn't met, we share food, share the labor and love of it, share recipes. Eating makes us all one big community, and people starved for communion are clicking away for that.
Julia's tribute was held at Radcliffe College, which had amassed the largest collection of community cookbooks in the world. The culinary historians saw these as sociological treasures: anthropological documents that revealed the inner secrets of a neighborhood. Their insight was that ingredients and utensils in recipes provide a financial, educational, and social portrait. This is also true of the Internet's food blog buffet. On full display is how hungry we are to be seductive and to be number one; how obsessed we are by excitement. Sadly, what's harder to see or taste is the way to cook.
Sandra Garson is the author of Veggiyana, the Dharma of Cooking and How to Fix a Leek and Other Food from Your Farmers' Market. She is the founder and president of the Buddhist food charity Veggiyana and maintains its news blog. She recently spent six weeks teaching vegetarian cooking in meat-obsessed Mongolia, and is working on a second helping of Veggiyana recipes and essays as well as a way to teach children the magic of cooking.
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Taiji: 10 remaining killing boats driving second pod of pilot whales in toward harbor ... then combine both pods toward cove #tweet4taiji
Coordinated action and visibility are key to success. Enough voices speaking with one voice can always make a difference.
134 were killed, 117 were released; 28 were live-capture and two additional animals died (one pilot whale after live-capture and one incidental death of a bottlenose following a drive).
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At cove, pilot whale cries are loud as they continue to huddle together near outer net. Fear, anxiety, as they await their fate. #tweet4taiji
"After being held captive in the killing cove overnight, 15 pilot whales were murdered this morning. 14 large adult pilot whales were brutally slaughtered for meat and 1 baby pilot whale drowned after struggling in the nets ... her mother was near her and witnessed her struggle. She remained at that side of the cove grieving for hours after.
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Technical Presentations: Be Prepared for Absolute Chaos
This is kind of random, but yesterday was such a surreal day I had to share it with someone, and today, that someone is you, Dear Reader.
I do a lot of
stand up comedy technical presentations, and have now for over ten years, so there's a number of things I've become pretty comfortable with. I'm usually pretty prepared and I've written a few posts with presentation tips. Here's the outline of my favorite tips:
- Have a Reset Strategy (One-Click)
- Know Your Affectations (Ssssssseriously)
- Know When To Move and When To Not Move (Red light!)
- For the Love of All That Is Holy, FONT SIZE, People (See that?)
- Speak their Language (Know the Audience)
- Be Utterly Prepared (No excuses)
- CONTENT, CONTENT, CONTENT (Have some)
- System Setup (Be unique, but don't be nuts)
- Speaking (Um…)
- Advancing Slides (No lasers!)
- Care (deeply)
But this post isn't about tips. This about panic, chaos, and miracles. ;)
The Setup
Yesterday I was in Seattle for TechReady8. It's an internal Microsoft conference, only for employees. It's like TechEd and Mix and PDC all rolled into one, meant to prepare the field for the coming year. It's full of stuff that I can't tell you or I'd have to kill you (not really). Folks fly in from all over the world and have a week of training and talks from Product Groups. It's not just developers, of course, there's piles of IT folks, mobile, etc.
DevDiv (Developer Division, where I work) is one "Track" of the larger conference. The owner is our Services CTO, Norm Judah, who you might remember from last year's podcast. (That was the same conference I met and interviewed physicist Michio Kaku.)
A month ago, my partner in crime, Chuck Sterling, and I were told I was to give the Dev Track Keynote. Chuck was my ghost writer and concierge, helping me with timing, demos, coordination, and a pile of other behind-the-music type stuff. We imagined a pretty complex talk, and it eventually ballooned into something we called an "Unkeynote." We decided it would go against basically all the rules (read: marketing) and we'd go crazy.
Fast forward a few weeks and we'd put together a 75 minute talk (which isn't a lot of time, it turns out) with myself hosting and five other speakers. Each would get 10 minutes to blow me away with a demo. I can't tell you all the details as much of it was internal stuff (that you'll eventually hear about later this year) but this was the general idea with some context as to the hardware, software and setup we needed. Remember, each one got 10 minutes.
Presenters and Hardware
- Brad Abrams - "Something Crazy with Silverlight"
- His laptop, running a daily Windows 7 build
- Lauren Cooney/Darth Vader - "/web"
- My laptop, running yesterday's Windows 7 build
- Chris Dias - "Unbelievable Visual Studio Addin"
- His laptop, running Vista and a daily of Visual Studio 10
- James Whittaker - "Worlds Wackiest Error Messages"
- A Hyper-V machine and daily build of a VM with VSTS
- Stephen Toub - "891 Billion Monkeys, in parallel"
- A quad-proc laptop and a 24-proc (yes, 24) Windows 2008 Server
All this was setup on the table on stage, along with my Dell Mini 9 that had one purpose - it ran the timer that comes with ZoomIt. It had a full screen display counting down from 10 minutes. I reset it after each speaker came up.
This was a lot of hardware running a lot of beta software. We had no "backup machines," it just wasn't feasible. We started setting up...
It was a miracle these folks agreed to help me, so that was cool. We all showed up at 8am for rehearsal. The talk was at 10:30. However, there are always catches and crazy stuff when you're putting together a parade of technology like this.
Here's some of the stuff that happened in the few hours before the talk:
- JamesW had never seen the demo. He'd literally just gotten off a plane from a week in Hawaii. We went over his demo 15 minutes before the talk.
- My laptop blue screened in the display driver an hour before the talk, causing me to not trust it for anything. It didn't BSOD in the talk, though, which was a blessing. That's what I get for running dailies. ;)
- Neither Brad nor Stephen could get their laptops to recognize the projector and flip their displays. Stephen had the balls to install a beta ATI driver 45 minutes before the talk and it worked. We just about had heart attacks collectively when we saw him start installing it.
- I was told by the organizers that I HAD to run the PowerPoint on their computer, not my laptop. I'd included an audio file and a movie within my PowerPoint using "Insert Video", etc. When I advanced to a slide, the movie automatically played in the slide. However, when I copied the PowerPoint file over I forgot the movie file (it was a link, rather than an embedded movie), so that didn't work initially. Then I moved the movie file over, but it wouldn't play. The main presentation machine didn't have the video codec I needed! Rather than try to find the right codec, I literally trans-encoded my video file to Windows Media on my laptop and copied the new file over. But it still wouldn't play! (Keep in mind this is like 9:30am and we're on in an hour, and I'm messing with videos of dancing hamsters.) Well, it seems that if you have an embedded video in PowerPoint and you advance to that slide but you've never run Windows Media Player at least once to go their initial setup process, you get a black square where you video should be. Don't ask me how I knew this, I just knew it in my gut. Since they'd just built this machine from an image, somehow I knew they hadn't run Windows Media at least once.
- The network went down. Not the network on the laptop, or the hub for the stage, but the WHOLE FLOOR. And it was down for an hour. This sucked because two of the demos required RAS (internal) access back to the Redmond Campus to work.
Your Presentation Has Been Deleted
See that picture on the right? That says "Chuck Sterling deleted file...at 7:49am." That's the PowerPoint that Chuck and I worked on until late the night before. That time is 10 minutes before rehearsal. Live Mesh is telling me Chuck deleted our presentation 10 minutes ago and now it's been deleted from my computer as well.
We'd been collaborating on this presentation for weeks in the Mesh. I hooked up my computer on stage, opened the presentation folder and the file was gone.
I checked this log and turned to Chuck:
"Um, you deleted the presentation?"
"Um, no?"
"Um, YA!"
"I seriously didn't."
"This program disagrees with you, Chuck. Where's the presentation?"
(I can only assume I thought Chuck was holding it hostage or hiding it somewhere in his pants at this point.)
"I just copied it to the desktop."
"You dragged it with your mouse?"
"Dude, that's a move, not a copy."
"No, it's a copy when you drag between drives."
"But the folder is on your desktop, where did you drag it to?"
"Um, my desktop."
"And....MOVE. Can you put it back? Pretty Please?"
Yes, it was pretty freaking tense, this exchange, let's just say. Of course, when you're using File Synchronization technology like we were using and we were both Administrators (as opposed to read-only Reviewer) you can get into trouble. Chuck innocently moved the file into the folder required for the conference techs, and the deleted was sync'ed to my machine over the Mesh. We were panicked, to say the least.
Still, Crisis #13 averted.
Something Always Goes Wrong on Stage
Turned out that while trying to debug the network problem during rehearsal the network admins in the room had unplugged some cables and moved things around. Someone ended up plugging the network cable that ran from Chris Dias' laptop into another computer. Rather than from computer to hub, it was computer to computer, knocking both off the network. We didn't discover this until Chris came up on stage.
It didn't take long to notice the big red X over his network connection. The demo required network and he'd said it repeatedly. Without it, we had nothing.
Amazingly, we were able to quickly hook up to the public wireless network then RAS into work over while I did a little tap dance. The demo worked perfectly and we only lost about 1 minute (and audiences love a tight-rope act.)
"No Banter"
One of the presenters has a notoriously dry sense of humor and he/she had said something like "I've got a good script, so let's have no banter during my segment." (I tend to tease/play/smartmouth during team presentations. Just ask Phil.)
I knew I was going to have trouble remembering this, so I put it on my notes. We had five presenters so I made five large 8.5"x11" (A4ish) pieces of paper and wrote on them with a large felt pen...basically giant notes. Not small cards like you often see when public speaking. Giant. Like cue cards.
I taped these giant notes to the floor, so if I glanced down at my feet I'd be reminded of a particular point. (I do this tip a lot...keeps me on task.) On this guy's sheet, I wrote down the timing, some points he'd hit in the demo and then "NO BANTER" in large capital letters.
This note was, of course, discovered by the other presenters who had no end of fun with. Still, it helped me during the talk. :)
I have no conclusion.
All of this happened over the two and a half hours from 8am until 10:30am when we did our talk.
Here's the crazy part. It went great. Every demo worked, every presenter got laughs and felt good about their message. The audience stayed awake the whole time and applauded at the end. The presentation part really couldn't have gone better, even though the previous two and a half hours really couldn't have gone worse unless there'd been a fire or a someone had lost a finger.
Crazy crazy stuff happens in technical presentations. You can prepare all you want, but sometimes things just go wrong. Fuses blow, batteries die, microphones break, computers decide that now is the best time to defrag themselves, cats and dogs, living together, mass hysteria. My tip - don't get flustered. Have a plan. Make notes on big sheets of paper and tape them to the ground so you can see them when you talk. Bring a timer.
In terms of moving parts, this particular presentation was at least as complex as the talk I did at PDC this last year. Usually I do xcopy-deploy demos...really simple stuff that can't go wrong. Someone said after this demo that they'd seen the PDC talk and now this one and wondered if all my talks from now on would be like "Super Bowl Halftime Shows" with dancers and lights. I don't know if I have the stamina and emotional health to do one of these again! :)
But still, such fun.
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New service: retro video games to your door
SAN FRANCISCO -- A new monthly subscription service run by a pair of San Francisco Bay Area brothers aims to ease suffering for those with a serious case of Pac-Man fever.
With their rental service, All You Can Arcade, Seth and Timothy Peterson drop off hulking arcade machines to homes and offices around the state. Among the titles available are '80s classics, including "Ms. Pac Man," "Donkey Kong" and "Tron." And the machines are always set to "free play," so there's no need for quarters, the company's website states.
The Petersons launched their enterprise last month and say their plan is based on old-school economics. They rent the games out for $75 a month after purchasing the machines on the cheap and refurbishing them to their former glory.
"It's a lot of fun looking for the bargains, scoring them off Craigslist or eBay or through the Internet forums. Anywhere we can find them," said Seth Peterson.
He said he and his brother Timothy have been collecting the vintage cabinet games and fixing them up for years. He said they pay about $150 to $200 for the games and have developed a knack for "getting them real quick, taking them home and then doing what we need to do to get them ready for our customers."
All You Can Arcade operates across California. Customers can find out which games are available in their zip code through the company website. The Petersons hope to expand to the East Coast later this year.
With traffic buzzing by them on a busy downtown San Francisco street recently, the Petersons loaded a 250-pound "Galaga" machine into a seventh-floor office.
Seeing the game being wheeled in on a dolly, employees at the advertising firm 11 Inc. clapped and hooted with excitement, ready to zap pixelated bugs from outer space.
At a time when gamers focus on elaborate home video systems that feature cinematic graphics and realistic experiences, these low-tech games featuring simply designed cartoon characters level the playing field between generations, said Rob Kabus, president of 11 Inc.
"I feel relatively fearless challenging anybody here no matter what age," Kabus said of his company's new toy. "But when I go home, there's no way I can engage my son on Xbox. It's over in about 15 seconds on a good day."