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Dedicated to the young man and his mother in line ahead of me, and especially to the woman who was ringing up their purchases.
Cashier: Oh, is this book meant to be the Christian answer to Harry Potter?
Boy: Uh, no. Not really.
Cashier: Did you read those books... the Harry Potter books?
Boy: Yeah.
Cashier: Did you want to read them or did you get forced to read them at school?
Mother: He and his father read them together so they could discuss them.
Cashier: They're just terrible. I heard that a girl becomes a witch and flies around the room.


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Free advice
His Awesomeness, who apparently is surrounded by incompetence too, gets some polemically paradoxical advice:
I am starting to understand why the Premier lashed out at Lorraine Micheal so harshly last week. He is frustrated, and who can blame him. It is hard to bear watching a decent, well meaning leader be utterly embarrassed this way.To which this corner would helpfully add: "and, most importantly, in the mirror."
Time to kick some ass Danny, the opposition is not making mistakes, look over shoulders and behind your back.
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This article is part of our Rising Star Portfolios series.
Forged hardened steel rolls. Strip mill cast rolls. Plate finned heat exchange coils. Don't these phrases just scream huge stock market profits?
As obscure as these products may be to most people, they are a big deal in the steel industry, which relies on products like these every day in production facilities all over the world. Many of those steel mills rely on Ampco-Pittsburgh
Big fish in a small pond
Ampco-Pittsburgh is the largest producer of equipment used in making cold-rolled steel, a niche type of steel used primarily in construction and in automotives. Its customers are the steel mills actually cold-rolling the steel, including some of the largest steel producers in the world.
All of Ampco-Pittsburgh's products are made custom -- the company takes an order and builds the equipment to given specifications -- which means they are not as exposed to the normal risks associated with holding inventory, such as obsolescence or falling prices. It also means that the company's order backlog offers pretty decent foresight into its business at any given time.
Cold-rolling steel is a small niche within the much larger steel industry. Making the equipment used in the process, as Ampco-Pittsburgh does, is a capital-intensive process that only makes economic sense when done on a large scale. Combined, these facts mean two things for the industry. First, steel producers are disinclined to make their own equipment, since they can get it more cheaply from Ampco-Pittsburgh, which has the cost benefits of scale. Second, the small size of the industry means that there is not room for many players to reach that scale. In my opinion, Ampco-Pittsburgh's No. 1 position in the industry is secure.
Like a (cold) rolling stone
Much of the growth in global steel production over the past five years has come from China. Even as steel tonnage in the rest of the world fell in the aftermath of the financial and housing crises, growth in China has kept strong. In fact, China is on track to produce almost as much steel this year as the rest of the world combined.
Ampco-Pittsburgh has been working to get in on that growth. The company has been selling rolls to Chinese steel manufacturers for years, but more exciting to me is the company's joint venture with the fifth-largest Chinese steel producer to begin producing rolls in China. Started in 2007, the plant should begin manufacturing this year (it takes a while to get these complex facilities up and running). The rolls the facility will produce are megasize, far bigger than anything Ampco could produce in its U.S. or U.K. plants, and represent a niche within their niche. In addition to selling the rolls to their joint venture partner, the company is also allowed to sell the equipment worldwide under its own name.
Built to last
Long-term projects like the deal in China are only possible with the right management in place. Ampco-Pittsburgh is very much a family business. Founder Louis Berkman, now 102 years old, is chairman emeritus. His son-in-law, Robert Paul, is CEO and chairman and has been on the company's board for more than 40 years. Two of Paul's sons are directors. All told, the family owns 15% of the company, and the way they run it tells me that they want it to be even more valuable when they hand it off to the next generation.
To that end, management has a strong track record of investing for the long term. For example, in 2008 the company undertook a three-year, $60 million capital expenditure program to improve the efficiency of its main factory. The investments made the facility more efficient and, more importantly, more self-sufficient -- but didn't add capacity. And I'd bet that Wall Street analysts looking for the company to hit short-term numbers would have slammed management for what was a smart long-term investment.
I say analysts "would have" slammed management because, well, no analysts even follow the company. Make no mistake; this is a small company. There are no analysts, no conference calls, no presentations or slide decks. When I called, the CEO answered his own phone. What does all this mean? It means that the stock may be volatile, but also that management has no distractions and no reason to chase short-term earnings estimates (because there aren't any estimates!).
Steel trap value
Ampco-Pittsburgh is a cyclical company, so my valuation is all about averaging out cash generation over the course of a cycle. My base case assumes 6% revenue growth for the next eight years (low relative to the past decade) and a 17.5% operating margin on its rolls. That might be a low-ball number -- despite low-cycle demand levels, margins have remained in the 23% range the past three years, thanks in part to the aforementioned efficiency investments -- but even at that lower level, my model values shares at $33, more than 30% higher than their price today.
Small, unknown, unloved -- Ampco-Pittsburgh is just the kind of company I love putting my money behind. At today's price, I'm happy to open a 3.5% position for the Young Gun Portfolio. You can stay fresh on all Young Gun Portfolio moves on Twitter.
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I'm a few weeks late for my annual review, but let's face it. Annual reviews are rarely, if ever, punctual.
2015 was a good year for me. Possibly the best I've ever had, both as a writer and a proper person (which requires clarification since most writers are dream-chomping Cthulhuian spawn).
Why was it so great? Well, let's start with the BIG, ~W I D E – A N G L E~ stuff and go from there–
With seven billion people on this floating space rock we call a home, awful things are bound to happen. Shootings. Earthquakes. Gas leaks. Shootings. Stampedes. Climate change. Terror attacks… Did I mention shootings?
And, as long as there is evil in the world, news agencies will prioritize, report, and profit from proselytizing fear. Occasionally though, despite their best efforts, they cannot help but comment on a bit of good news–news about how the world isn't all political trash and nightmare fodder.
On June 26, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in favor of marriage equality.
Twitter. Facebook. Instagram. The Guardian. CNN. MSNBC. Yes, even FOX NEWS. Everywhere I turned that day I saw inspiring images of love, liberty, and equality.
And what an epic day it was! Rarely have I felt such a pervasive feeling of triumph. The collective oppression of a centuries-long war finally came to an end. I will never forget the sheer joy I felt that morning as I embraced my partner and knew that everyone, regardless of who they loved, could now share what we had.
Since I'm on the topic—
At the ripe round age of 30, I fulfilled a childhood dream: I married a beautiful woman I met in Middle Earth.
I could write an entire post or three on the subject—on the wedding preparations, the stress-induced headaches, the marathon leading up to the sprint that was the wedding day—but there's no good place to start. The important details include Gandalf, a Stormtrooper, a baby dragon, swords, and a whole lot of fun. Hiccups and all, I could not have planned a better day.
Six months beforehand, I had moved to Orange County, where I found a job working for my former professors in the Classics department. It's yet another career move, finally graduating from small businesses to—if not big "business" in the traditional sense—a large and economically sound institution. I like being back on campus, though more than the buildings have changed in the intervening years.
After moving and failing to find a new place to practice my karate chops, I made an effort to start meditating as an alternative form of mental discipline. For the last six months I've been meditating for 20 minutes in the morning. I haven't reached Nirvana, but it's a great way to wake up, welcome the day, and do a few focus reps with the ol' mind meat.
Last year didn't top my travel log for 2014, but I still managed to wander afield from my comfy hobbit hole.
Minnesota – I celebrated the start of 2015 with indoor icicles and subzero temperatures in Minnesota. Not exactly my first choice of midwinter travel destinations, but it certainly gave me a new respect for the people who lived there before the widespread advent of central heating.
Las Vegas – Although I've driven through Las Vegas more times than I can recall, it wasn't until last year that I actually stayed in the city proper and experienced a taste of what the infamous Sin City has to offer. I'd elaborate, but you know how the saying goes.
Lightning in a Bottle – Following up my inaugural experience the previous year, I returned to the "Burning Man Lite" of music and arts festivals for an encore. This time I was much better prepared which, along with the company of a few close friends, made it all the more memorable.
Utah – For the first time in six years, I returned to my native state for a friend's wedding, driving from Los Angeles to Salt Lake and back in 48 hours.
'The Hideout' (NOT in Marin County, CA) – I traveled to a less-frequented region of the bay area in California for a friend's wedding only to find out that the venue was nowhere near Marin. Nevertheless, it was a relaxing getaway amid the premarital stress of my own wedding.
New York City – Nine years after my first visit, I returned to the crowded, over-heated streets of Manhattan. Back when I was 20 I wanted to move there. This time, good Art and great food aside, I was relieved to return to the less-crowded streets of LA.
A few other noteworthy events from 2015 include:
My first GoRuck Challenge, a twelve-hour grind of pain, perseverance, and self-evaluation.
Meeting Patrick Rothfuss (for a second time) and managing, somehow, to keep my cool.
Seeing Jerry Seinfeld perform at the Pantages.
My discovery of podcasts, which have become my primary means of audio stimulation (If you have not listened to "Hello from the Magic Tavern," your life is incomplete).
And, of course, STAR WARS. *pew pew* *beep beep boop* *BbbZzzZzzz* *woooosh* (after which I literally bumped into Jim Butcher and, after dismissing the possibility that it was him, said nothing /facepalm).
They say that a key element of success as a writer is to read ('they' being the grand council of master ink-slingers and book lords). If my calculations are correct, I read 45 books last year. Not my best, but still enough to cause a minor case of scoliosis. I'll write more about my favorites in another post, but a major highlight for me was seeing a publisher reblog a review I wrote for one of their books. It's not exactly publication, but it's a slice of external validation nonetheless.
As for my writing, which is what this blog is really all about, 2015 was a landmark–the year I adopted the attitude of a professional.
Fueled by self-inflicted dissatisfaction with my progress, I resolved to start and finish a book or give up the idea of ever being a legitimate writer.
At the beginning of January I woke up every morning at 5am and wrote until I hit a daily word count. With a few exceptions, I did this consistently for six and a half months until I finished the first draft of a 220,000-word novel. The experience taught me a lot, not the least of which is the importance of habitual perseverance in the face of perpetual self-doubt.
In addition to writing every day, I went back to school. I watched Brandon Sanderson's lecture series and took notes. I listened to over 400 episodes of the Hugo award-winning podcast Writing Excuses. I completed an online workshop with New York Times Bestselling author David Farland. I read books on craft by some of the best writers in Sci Fi and Fantasy. And I studied the industry, learned about agents, editors, publishers and imprints, and began to comprehend everything required to be a successful author.
Like Frodo arriving in Rivendale, I've come a long way, but I'm only now beginning to grasp the true extent of my quest. But I'm committed. I have a path. And come what may, be it Nazgul or a dwarven mine of skittering rejection slips, I'll get there.
You'll see.


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"It gets the mind going and encourages faith to soar." – Goodreads reviews (read more reviews here)
Brave Fish took me seven years to write. Upon arriving to Buenos Aires — surrounded by the tango, slums, 14 lane highways and the flat pampas — a deep intimacy expressed itself. I didn't write for seven years straight. For a time the story just sat waiting, and it was never my intention to let anyone read it.
I was too afraid.
Now I understand the time has come to share my work.
Brave Fish is a story about coming of age in America in the 80's and coming of age in faith.
Perhaps most of all though, Brave Fish is a love story.
Proceeds from book sales go toward supporting our ministry in Argentina.
You can preview and order Brave Fish from Amazon. Or you can visit my E-store to order.


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Track Teams Open Home Season
March 13, 2002
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Weber State-Montana Triangular
Location: Hayward Field, University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore.
Date: Saturday, March 16
First Field Event: Women's Javelin/Men's Hammer, Noon
First Running Event: Women's Steeplechase, 1:40 p.m.
Last Event: W&M 4x400 Relay, 4:10 p.m.
Scoring: Individuals 1st (5 points) - 2nd(3) - 3rd(2) - 4th(1), Relays 1st (5) - 2nd(3) - 3rd(0). Note: Teams can score a maximum of two finishers in individual events and one relay.
Results Web Site: www.GoDucks.com
Promotions: Free posters available for fans. Same-day home softball and track and field tickets are good for either event.
Tickets: SINGLE MEET: Reserved: $6, General Admission - $5 Adult, $3 Children (high school or younger) & Senior Citizens (62 or older). SEASON: $24 Reserved, General Admission - $20 Adult, $12 Children & Senior Citizens. Call 346-4461 (locally) or 1-800-WEB-FOOT. The meet-day ticket office in the Bowerman Building (off 15th Ave. near Agate St.) will open at 11 a.m., an hour before the first event.
Mini Meet Info: Cost: Free/Open to Public (Post-High School Age or Older) and hosted by Oregon Track Club Masters. Field Events begin at 9 a.m. (Long Jump, Javelin, High Jump, Hammer, Pole Vault, Shot Put, Triple Jump, Discus), Running events also begin at 9 a.m. (Steeplechase, 100/110 Hurdles, 1,500, 400, 100, 800, 400 Hurdles, 200, 3K/5K). *See schedule at bottom for exact times for each event.
OUTDOOR VOL. 1: Ducks Open Outdoor Season in Track City USA.
The Duck men's and women's track and field teams open their outdoor slates at home against Weber State and Montana in a weekend traditionally set aside for the Oregon Preview. The Duck men return home after a best-ever NCAA indoor finish (ninth), with the M&W teams combining for four All-America honors. The Duck men and women finished ninth and 60th outdoors last year in the NCAA Championships' ninth trip to Eugene, and fifth and eighth in the Pac-10 Championships. Individually, the programs sport 12 All-Americans (8 men /4 women) and four Pac-10 champions (Jason Boness (HJ), Kyley Johnson (HJ), Santiago Lorenzo (Dec.), John Stiegeler (Jav.).
MEN TO WATCH: Ducks Return All 27 NCAA Points from 2001.
With back-to-back ninth-place NCAA finishes indoors in 2002 and outdoors in 2001, the Duck men also set their sights on climbing the Pac-10 Conference outdoors. The squad is paced by two returning NCAA and Pac-10 champions -- senior Santiago Lorenzo (decathlon) and redshirt junior John Stiegeler (javelin). The sprints feature junior Samie Parker, fourth indoors in the NCAA 60 (6.63) and one of the football squad's top receivers in 2001 (41 rec., 18.2 ypc avg., 4 TD, long of 79). Senior Micah Harris leads the 110 hurdles unit after breaking the school record with his 13.73 best in 2001. The NCAA and USA Champs qualifier also locked up runner-up honors in his Pac-10 debut. Senior Simon Kimata clocked an 800 best of 1:47.92 last season and was fifth indoors at NCAA's in 2002 after a regular season best of 1:48.07. Two-time harrier All-American and redshirt sophomore Jason Hartmann tied the Ducks' second-highest ever finish in the 10K last year (third) after debuting in 28:56.06 last March. The field events should supply a majority of the team's conference scoring firepower, paced by a trio of All-Americans -- sophomore Trevor Woods, third indoors in the NCAA finale last week (pole vault, indoor PR 17-11 3/4), senior Jason Boness, a three-time All-American and school record holder (high jump, PR 7-5) and All-America senior Billy Pappas (decathlon, PR 7,488). Two other pole vaulters -- redshirt senior Cody Howell (17-1 3/4) and junior Jason Slye (17-0 3/4) -- scored their first NCAA provisional marks indoors with personal bests in 2002, and a trio of distance runners added last chance NCAA provisional marks indoors two weeks ago -- senior Adam Bergquist (3,000, 8:10.35), redshirt sophomore John Lucas (5,000, 14:16.40) and redshirt frosh Noel Paulson (mile, 4:04.31). Indoors in 2001, redshirt senior Rian Ingrim scored his first NCAA provisional honors in the shot put (57-5).
WOMEN TO WATCH: Field Events Will Fuel Championship Runs.
Returning all four of last year's NCAA participants, head coach Tom Heinonen's Ducks also return 14 Pac-10 finalists. The javelin unit looms as the nation's best, led by sophomore All-American and school record Sarah Malone (PR 174-0) who ranked fourth among collegians and eighth among Americans last year. Junior Charyl Weingarten made her first NCAA appearance last year thanks to her fourth-place Pac-10 personal best mark (155-6). Two newcomers, prep All-American Elisa Crumley (164-0 prep PR) and British Columbian Roslyn Lundeen (161-9 int'l implement PR), also have legitimate shots at NCAA invites in their collegiate debuts. In the pole vault, redshirt junior transfer Becky Holliday took seventh in her NCAA indoor debut in March (13-7 1/4) and shares the school record of 13-9 3/4 with All-American and redshirt junior Niki Reed who will redshirt this outdoor season. Last season the former Clackamas athlete Holliday ranked seventh in the U.S. with her NWAACC conference meet PR (14-4), and took fifth in the U.S. Championships (14-1 1/4) and eighth in the World University Games in Beijing, China (13-0). Among other field eventers, junior Amanda Brown nabbed Pac-10 points in the long jump in 2001 (seventh, PR 19-4), and the high jump returns Pac-10 finalists Jenny Brogdon (ninth, 5-7) and Rachael Kriz (11th, 5-5), and adds Clackamas transfer Mary Murphy (PR 5-8). Junior sprinter Janette Davis missed the Pac-10 400 final last year by one place and only .65 seconds (55.50 PR), and hurdlers Ann Sullivan (13.99) and Lucretia Larkin (14.25) rank sixth and 11th, respectively, in school history in the 100 hurdles. Sophomore Kirsten Riley and redshirt junior Georgette Moyle scored NCAA provisional marks outdoors in the Pac-10 pole vault in 2001 (12-7 1/4), with Riley raising her best to 12-10 indoors in 2002. Junior Eri Macdonald's 800 best and NCAA provisional mark of 2:07.08 last year missed an NCAA invite by a half-second. Moving up in distance, redshirt junior Carrie Zografos led the cross country team in four races last fall, with redshirt frosh Laura Harmon taking the lead in the other, and scoring the team's fastest indoor mile (4:55.03).
WEBER STATE PREVIEW: Wildcats Leaders of the Big Sky Pack.
Head Coach Chick Hislop returns for his 33rd year in Ogden after winning the past three Big Sky men's team titles -- indoors in 2001 and 2002 and outdoors in 2001. Looking back at their recent Big Sky Indoor Conference effort, the men swept the top four spots in the 400 led by Todd Grunander (47.91). Trent Hooper and Wiley King added league titles in the 800 (1:51.71) and long jump (24-5), respectively, with King adding third in the high jump. However, the Wildcats' two indoor All-Americans last week -- Jeremy Tolman (mile, fourth) and Joel Atwater (mile, fifth) -- will not make the trip. Jim Blaisdell's women's squad has claimed conference titles indoors in 2002 and outdoors in 2001. The squad won't send NCAA indoor 800 qualifier Angie Beebe (13th ranked indoors at 2:06.69), yet still sports a deep sprint corps paced by indoor conference scorers Misty McConnell (55, first, 7.01, 200, fifth, 24.87), Kristin McKinley (60 hurdles, third, 8.15) and Cecille Day (60 hurdles, fourth, 8.24), and the 4x400 relay (first, 3:44.25). Other indoor league scorers to watch include Lanette Noble (high jump, third, 5-6) and Vanessa Wynne (shot put, fourth, 44-11 1/2), and Heidi Bouwhuis (mile, third, 5:03.34) and Ashley Winter (mile, fourth, 5:04.25).
MONTANA PREVIEW: Grizz Paced By All-America Decathlete Bork.
Grizzly decathlete Adam Bork raised his pole vault school record two weeks ago indoors to 17-0, and added points in the high jump tying for the win with teammate Dan Casey, and pole vault (third), 55 hurdles (fourth, 7.72) and 4x400 relay (third). Other scorers included Bryan Anderson (55 hurdles, second, 7.58), Cyril Burgiere (triple jump, second, 48-7) and Skyler Perry (800, fourth). One notable absentee -- the squad will rest their top distance runner, Scott McGowan, who ranked 10th indoors nationally in the mile (4:00.68). On the women's side, Renee Dunn claimed the program's first ever 19-foot leap (19-0) in the indoor regular season finale after a runner-up conference finish the week before. The squad features two talented pole vaulters -- Nicole Zeller (ranked 47th indoors, NCAA prov. 12-5 1/2) and Suzanne Krings. Other top conference-placing individuals included Anne Sheehy (triple jump, fourth, 38-0) and the 4x400 (fourth). Team-wise in the Big Sky Indoor Championships, Montana's men and women finished third and fifth, respectively, in February.
2002 NCAA INDOOR RECAP: Ducks Score Four All-America Awards & Top-10 Finish.
All six of the Duck men's and women's NCAA indoor qualifiers notched top-10 finishes, and five of them garnered All-America awards. Team-wise, the men's squad tallied 15 points to tie for ninth in the team race, and the women ended 40th with their two points. On the final day, sophomore Trevor Woods finished third in the pole vault (17-11 3/4) at the same height as the winner but with more misses. Simon Kimata and Samie Parker were equally on par in their NCAA debuts with fourth and fifth-place finishes in the 60 (7.67) and 800 (1:49.56), with Parker scoring a personal best of 7.63 in the prelims. High jumper Jason Boness just missed his fourth All-America honor with a 10th-place finish in the high jump (6-11 3/4). The Duck women sent a pair of pole vaulters -- redshirt juniors Becky Holliday and Niki Reed -- who finished seventh (13-7 1/4) and 10th (13-3 1/2), respectively, after raising the school record to 13-9 3/4 in February in Seattle.
ICEBREAKER RECAP: Javelin Throwers Score NCAA Marks at Linfield.
McMINNVILLE, Ore. (3/2) -- Two weeks ago, the Duck women got a jump on the outdoor season in the Linfield Icebreaker Invitational. Sophomore javelin thrower Sarah Malone popped her second best throw ever (first, 170-9) and won the competition by more than 11 feet ahead of freshman teammate Elisa Crumley (second, 159-4) and junior Charyl Weingarten (third, 146-4). Malone's mark easily met the NCAA automatic mark of 168-11, while Crumley's mark outdistanced the provisional standard of 150-11 and moved her to third all-time for the Ducks in the event. Other Duck winners included junior Janette Davis (100, 12.17), freshman Michelle Donovan (400, 60.18), unattached entrant and junior Alicia Snyder-Carlson (800, 2:19.50), redshirt freshman Laura Harmon (1,500, 4:48.90), redshirt junior Lucretia Larkin (100 hurdles, 15.27), junior transfer Mary Murphy (high jump, 5-6), freshman Clarice Hayward-Lee (triple jump, correct mark unavailable), junior Mary Etter (shot put, 44-7, discus, 160-0), junior Jordan Sauvage (hammer, 166-2) and the 4x100 relay (48.86). Among the Ducks' opening efforts, Etter (shot put, 44-7, discus, 160-0) earned Pac-10 invites in both events, as did the team's top trio in the javelin.
2001 MEN'S SEASON REVIEW: Ducks Return Two NCAA Champs and 11 Pac-10 Scorers in '02.
Last season the Men of Oregon sported a familiar foundation of homegrown talent interspersed with national-level additions, including the nation's top recruiting class according to the December 2000 issue of Track and Field News. In the NCAA finale, decathlete Santiago Lorenzo relied on five personal bests en route to a late surge and narrow 18-point win (7,889) after earlier victories in the Pac-10 (7,617) and Texas Relays (7,726). In the NCAA javelin, John Stiegeler broke the school record on his second throw (first, 252-10) and ranked third in the U.S. in 2001 -- a season that featured four meets past the 240-foot mark and seven of eight better than 230 feet. A sextet of other Ducks earned NCAA invites thanks to strong provisional marks during the year -- Simon Kimata (800, 1:47.92), Michael Kasahun (5,000, 13:56.04), Micah Harris (110 hurdles, 13.79), junior Jason Boness (high jump, 7-3), freshman Trevor Woods (pole vault, 17-4 1/2), and Billy Pappas (decathlon, NCAA prov. 7,342), while John Bello missed similar honors by less than a foot (shot put, 59-9 3/4). Several others were on the cusp of NCAA provisional marks, including Samie Parker (100, 10.45 nwi), Terry Ellis (110 hurdles, 14.04), Tim Overfield (400 hurdles, 51.74), Cody Howell (pole vault, 16-11), Rian Ingrim (shot put, 57-2 3/4), John Bello (discus, 180-1), Adam Jenkins (javelin, 218-5) and Ryan Keith (javelin, 217-2). Other returnees for 2002 that netted Pac-10 points last season include Ross Krempley (800, sixth, 1:51.48), Foluso Akinradewo (triple jump, seventh, 48-10 3/4) and Adam Kriz (hammer, fourth, 194-8). Jake Garlick led newcomers with Pac-10 qualifying marks in the 110-meter and 400-meter hurdles (14.51/52.40) and ranked third on the team in both events behind a pair of Pac-10 scorers. Leading a large class of distance newcomers that redshirted to maximize their potential, Eric Logsdon paced the nation as a prep senior in the 3,000 (8:10.66) in 2000, with another instate product, freshman Noel Paulson (8:18.72), also among the country's best milers (4:07.14).
2001 WOMEN'S SEASON REVIEW: Four All-Americans led a youth-heavy squad.
This year's Duck roster was paced by several talented field event specialists -- with all four NCAA qualifiers returning in 2002. All-American Mary Etter ranked second in the conference last season in the discus (NCAA prov. 175-9) and took fourth in the Pac-10 finale (168-8). Maureen Morrison tied her school record in the hammer (NCAA prov. - 186-6), and scored for the fourth and fifth times in the Pac-10 finale (hammer, seventh, 185-4, discus, seventh, 160-7). In the javelin, Sarah Malone was past the 167-foot line in her last three appearances, and raised the school record to 174-0 in the Oregon Twilight. Charyl Weingarten earned an NCAA invite of her own with her three-foot, three-inch personal best (fourth, 155-6) in the Pac-10 Championships. Two-time All-America pole vaulter Niki Reed matched her school record en route to the win at home (13-5.25) in the annual dual with Washington last April. The pole vault also featured an additional trio of NCAA provisional qualifiers that all cleared season bests of 12-7 1/4 or better in the Pac-10 Championships -- Holly Speight, Georgette Moyle and Kirsten Riley. Heptathlete Jenny Kenyon (PR 5,046) claimed her third Pac-10 points thanks to a fifth-place finish in the Pac-10 finale (4,911), and Ann Sullivan (sixth, 4,874) moved to 10th all-time in UO history. In the distances, Hanna Smedstad paced the Ducks in four events -- the 1,500 (4:26.79), 3,000 (9:35.57), 5,000 (16:52.95) and 10,000 (NCAA prov. 34:42.93). Eri Macdonald joined the NCAA provisional list in the 800 in May's Cardinal Invite (2:07.08) but was slowed in the Pac-10 finale because of a stress fracture in her leg. The hurdles featured Sullivan (13.99) and Lucretia Larkin (14.25). The pair rank sixth and 11th all-time in UO history and were former Washington prep titlists.
HAYWARD FIELD PROFILE: NCAA Finale Made Ninth Trip to Eugene in 2001.
One of the most famous track facilities in the world, Hayward Field is named for Bill Hayward, who coached the Oregon's men's team from 1904-1947. The 8,300-seat stadium - originally dedicated in 1919 - again welcomed top national and international talent to a Triple Crown of great meets in 2001, the NCAA Outdoor Championships, Prefontaine Classic (www.preclassic.com) and USA Outdoor Championships. Eight previous NCAA Championships (1962-64-72-78-74-77-91-96) have visited Track City USA, along with three Olympic Trials (1972-76-80) and five past U.S. Championships.
AT THE HELM: Duck Head Coach Profiles.
The dean of Oregon coaches, Tom Heinonen begins his 26th season as women's head coach and has led the Ducks to one NCAA track crown (1985) and six conference titles since the meets' inception in 1983 (1983-84-85-86-92-93). For the men, two-time NCAA Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year Martin Smith has seen Ducks collect 18 All-America honors in cross country and track already in his first 3 1/2 seasons in Eugene, including NCAA titles by Santiago Lorenzo and John Stiegeler outdoors in 2001 in the decathlon and javelin, respectively. Prior to his arrival in Eugene in July 1998, his Wisconsin runners posted two cross country NCAA team titles (1982-88), five NCAA individual track and cross country titles and 78 All-America honors (44 track and 34 XC).
NCAA FORMULA: Dissecting the NCAA Qualifying System.
Athletes qualify for the NCAA Championships as individuals based on their best marks of the season in NCAA-sanctioned competitions. The two-standard system features an automatic standard which if equaled or bettered automatically qualifies those individuals for the collegiate finale. To fill out the remaining positions in each NCAA Championships event field (typically a total of 16-24 athletes indoors depending on the quality of the marks and the capacity an event can handle), a second list of individuals meeting a provisional standard are also considered, again based on their season bests. Although each event varies, often at least half of an event's entry are automatic qualifiers, while occasionally an entire field could come from the automatic list. Also to note, sprinters and hurdlers can only submit outdoor marks in wind conditions of +4.0 meters per second (mps) of less.
ALL-AMERICA EQUATION: Breaking down the NCAA Honor.
Based on their NCAA Championships performances, individuals are awarded All-America honors at season's end by the U.S. Track Coaches Association. The top-eight NCAA finishers from each event are honored regardless of citizenship, and any additional U.S. finishers that are among the top eight American finishers are also rewarded. If necessary, the U.S.-based honors can even extend to the top performances in the preceding qualifying round if there aren't eight Americans in the event final.
HEAD COACH COMMENTS: Duck Mentors Talk About This Weekend.
Head Coach Tom Heinonen: (Goals this week?) This meet will help us sort out who'll we take to Tempe for our spring break meet, and is the first chance for a lot of our athletes to compete at Hayward Field. Team scoring makes it more interesting to the fans, and adds a little more impact than the Oregon Preview, which we thought was important with only four home meets this season and none of them championships. The new NCAA scoring system also changes our entries since each team can only score a maximum of two places per event -- we'll borrow Annie Davis from the golf team just to get points in the steeplechase. Overall it'll create bigger scores, but also closer ones. We've never had a scoring meet this early in the season, but we're coming off an indoor season where we've got a lot done. (Review the indoor season.) We traveled to Seattle three times indoors, so athletes got to compete a lot, but we still have a long ways to go. Janette Davis ran really well in the sprints, and Amanda Brown showed promise in the triple jump. Laura Harmon had a huge breakthrough in the mile, and our pole vaulters showed that they're national class competitors. However, it's been several weeks since most of them have competed. (Key athletes to watch?) Our javelin group is excellent, although Roslyn is coming off a severe ankle sprain from a few weeks ago. It'll be the Hayward debut for Mary Murphy, Becky Holliday, Katie McKeever, Nikki Ferguson and our new javelin throwers, while Carrie Zografos and Laura will wear Oregon jerseys at home for the first time.'
Weber State-Montana Triangular
Hayward Field
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Saturday, March 16, 2002
Noon - W Javelin
Noon - M Hammer
12:05 - W Long Jump
1:05 - W Hammer
1:05 - M Javelin
1:10 - M Long Jump
1:15 - W High Jump
1:30 - W Pole Vault
1:45 - W Steeplechase
2:00 - W Triple Jump
2:05 - W/M 4x100 Relay
2:10 - M Shot Put
2:15 - W Discus
2:30 - M Pole Vault
2:35 - W/M 100/110 Hurdles
2:40 - M High Jump
3:05 - M Triple Jump
3:15 - W Shot Put
3:20 - M Discus
3:20 - W/M 400 Hurdles
4:10 - W/M 4x400 Relay
Cost: Free/Open to Public
Age: Post-High School Age
Date: Sat., March 16, before triangular.
Host: Oregon Track Club Masters.
Field Events
9 a.m. - Long Jump, Javelin, High Jump, Hammer, Pole Vault (2 pits)
9:45 a.m. - Shot Put (South ring)
10 a.m. - Triple Jump
10:15 a.m. - Discus (Hammer area)
Track Events
9 a.m. - Steeplechase (30-inch barriers)
9:15 a.m. - Steeplechase (36-inch barr.)
9:30 a.m. - 100/110 Hurdles (W/M)
9:45 a.m. - 1,500 - 2 races (W/M)
9:55 a.m. - 400
10:05 a.m. - 100
10:15 a.m. - 800
10:25 a.m. - 400 Hurdles
10:35 a.m. - 200
10:45 a.m. - 3,000/5,000 (combined)
M Head Coach: Martin Smith (4th Year)W Head Coach: Tom Heinonen (26th Year)
Returning All-Americans (12): Men: Jason Boness-9th indoors in HJ-'01,7th outdoors in HJ-'00, 10th outdoors in HJ-'99, Jason Hartmann-3rd outdoors in 10K-'01, Simon Kimata-5th indoors in 800-'02, Santiago Lorenzo-1st outdoors in Dec.-'01,5th outdoors in Dec.-'00, Billy Pappas-8th outdoors in Dec.-'01, Samie Parker-4th indoors in 60-'02, John Stiegeler-1st outdoors in Jav.-'01, Trevor Woods-3rd indoors in PV-'02. Women: Mary Etter-8th outdoors in Discus-'00, Becky Holliday-7th indoors in PV-'02, Sarah Malone-7th outdoors in Jav-'01, Niki Reed-4th indoors in PV-'00, 5th outdoors in PV-'99
NCAA Titles (6): Men-1962-64-65-70-84. Women (1)-1985.
Individual NCAA Champions (64): Men: 50, Women: 14.
All-Americans: 280 (M: 223, W: 57)
Pac-10 - M 5th (86.5 pts), W - 8th (35 pts), Indiv. Champs: Santiago Lorenzo, Dec., John Stiegeler, JT
NCAA - M 9th (27), W 60th (2pts), Indiv. Champs: Santiago Lorenzo, Dec., John Stiegeler, JT
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Journals and notebooks, fine papers and pens, inks and their ilks, a few other things, and the occasional rant
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Cavallini Mini Flora & Fauna Journals
Cavallini & Co. is one of the premier gift and stationery companies in the US, founded in 1989 and based in California. The notebooks and calendars (and other items) use old images to create modern stationery that just seems like it came from someone's attic or a time capsule. One of my favorite notebooks is this, a popular slogan these days but originally from World War I.
I recently picked up Cavallini's Flora & Fauna mini journals, a set of three pocket notebooks measuring 4" by 5.5" and decorated with beautiful vintage images of birds, flowers, butterflies, deer, and what looks like written pages from an old ledger. The covers are made from a very thick, sturdy, and smooth paper stock that definitely feels like it won't wear out too fast or fray/tear while bumping along in my handbag next to my 20lbs of lifestyle necessities. And the colors are striking, rich but not gaudy.
The notebooks have 96 pages and you get one black, one line, and one graph on cream colored stock that feels like it's about 70gsm to 80gsm. I haven't tried writing yet, as I'm already using several other journals, but I would guess that these are in the Moleskine category: not especially fountain pen friendly, with a touch of shadow using gel ink pens. Definitely check these out, I found them in a small stationery store on the Upper West Side but Cavallini is also available at Barnes & Noble, Anthropoligie, Dick Blick, and other online and bricks and mortar shops.
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Nice post, but I have to make a correction. The Keep Calm and Carry On slogan was from 1939, early in WWII. It was intended for issue if the Germans invaded Britain.ReplyDelete
If you do get around to doing a pen test on the paper please can you post it. I love notebooks but find the ones that have bleed through almost impossible to use regularly.ReplyDelete
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Well you done done me and you bet I felt it
I tried to be chill but you're so hot that I melted
I fell right through the cracks, now I'm trying to get back
Before the cool done run out I'll be giving it my bestest
And nothing's going to stop me but divine intervention
I reckon it's again my turn to win some or learn some
But I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait, I'm yours
Well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and then you're free
Look into your heart and you'll find love love love love
Listen to the music of the moment people, dance and sing
We're just one big family
And it's our God-forsaken right to be loved loved loved loved loved
So I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait, I'm sure
There's no need to complicate, our time is short
This is our fate, I'm yours
D-d-do do you, but do you, d-d-do
But do you want to come on
Scooch on over closer dear
And I will nibble your ear
I've been spending way too long checking my tongue in the mirror
And bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer
But my breath fogged up the glass
And so I drew a new face and I laughed
I guess what I be saying is there ain't no better reason
To rid yourself of vanities and just go with the seasons
It's what we aim to do, our name is our virtue
But I won't hesitate no more, no more
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*cough* It's a 328i *cough* Good work though rocket It seems to get dirtier each time- are you competing with Boni?
Your times much different with the 2nd person in?
Looks so fast from the m3's view and just appears to stick around the corners, is it quite a handful to control?
Time for some tuition to break the 2 min barrier?Car looks cool, rugged! What sort of front spring rate are you running now, looks like there is quite a bit of roll in some of the photos...maybe a little too much (I don't know?)


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My first quilt, dated 1989, all little calico prints, now much faded. There is a pattern in there: each four squares pieced together of two in one color, two in another, then sort-of randomly sewn together. I was about 19 years old when I made it. I think it's entirely pieced and stitched by hand, such the purist that I thought I was back then even though I didn't have much of a clue what I was doing, checking out piles of books from the library on quilting. Not that I'd consider myself anything but a novice quilter now either. This poor quilt was showing so much wear and tear that it became a beach blanket for a couple of years and now it's in tatters. I guess I didn't put a binding on it, rather just folding under both front and back pieces and topstitching the edges together by hand.
I found these pictures from where I lived my senior year in college, this perfect little cottage with green shutters and glass paned front door, wood paneling throughout, furnished with old wood bed, dresser, table, desk, and craftsman style rocking chair, clawfoot bathtub (please ignore the gross shower curtain)....complete with garden gnome by the front steps, green shutters and screen doors, a chestnut and flowering cherry tree out front and white picket fence if I recall correctly, half a block from the university library on campus....all for only $150 a month, hot and cold water and laundry included! The keys were even the old fashioned kind.
The landlord was 94 years old and this was one of two cottages she rented in her back yard. Her two tenants and another neighbor who could see her kitchen window from their house had a system going: she pulled the shade down behind her kitchen sink when she went to bed at night and put it up again when she got up. She slept odd hours so if we didn't see it raised by noon we were to go and check on her to make sure she was OK. Fortunately, that never happened. The thought of paying more than double to rent someplace else not nearly so nice kept me there another 6 months or so after graduating, even though I wanted to leave the area.
Anyways, the point of this is to show the quilt in it's original state:
I made all the curtains, winged a slipcover for the old orange and brown flowered couch, sewed a plaid duver cover, built a bookshelf, and replaced the bedroom door with a curtain because the door swung out, taking up half of the living room. Ha! It's just like our bedroom
door curtain now. :)
Hey look, I had a red LeSportSac back then and that's my mom's old green sewing box under the bed. And that antique floor lamp: oh my, I loved that. So much so that I've since bought a similar one. (I have yet to find a glass shade to fit it. It's only been, oh, 10-12 years or more now. Mabye it's time to do something about that.)
These were just the beginning of my fabric store and thrifting days and there were a few false starts at knitting a couple of years before and around this time, including reading a lot of library books about it, swatching and playing around with different stitch patterns, but not really making anything in particular. This couldn't have been more than a year or so after receiving my first sewing machine. I had wanted a black velvet skirt to wear for the holidays but didn't like the prices I was finding so my mom took me to the fabric store, we picked out some fabric and a pattern and I sewed it on her machine, and then they gave me my first sewing machine for Christmas and paid for me to take a beginning sewing class at a local fabric store the following summer. When my mom sewed, by the way, it was the closest I ever heard her come to swearing, so she wasn't about to teach me much of it herself, I don't think. Wait. What am I saying, "first" sewing machine? It's the same one I still have, nearly 20 years later.
I've no clue who's cats those are in the pictures. I guess I was watching them for someone.


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Hutton, Alison (2008) The oral health needs of children, adolescents and young adults after cancer therapy for solid tumours. M.Phil. thesis, University of Birmingham.
Lea, Simon Christian (2004) The assessment of ultrasonic instruments in dentistry. Ph.D. thesis, University of Birmingham.


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A few weeks ago I told about how our Guniea Fowls (Arthur & Martha) hatched 15 chickens. This is a pic of some of them at one day old. Cute huh?
It was impossible to get a pic of the whole 15 as A & M are very protective (I have the peck marks to prove it).
The chicks were hatched in the garden and it was a mammoth effort to get them into a shed, but we went to Adelaide for a week and I was scared a fox would get them.
Unfortunately a rat got in the shed and now there are only 7 chicks left.
I feel really bad about it but the 7 are looking great and I'll have another pic soon…
Oh yes, in case you're wondering, and I got the rat..
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Very cute indeed!
So very cute: thanks for sharing.
[and glad you got the rat!]
I heard recently that Guinea fowl are not very good mothers, and chickens do a better job raising guinea fowl. Have you heard this?
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C2E2 2012: Artist Ryan Stegman Added to FANTASTIC FOUR
If you're the type to pay close attention to these sorts of things, you might have noticed that each one of artist Ryan Stegman's projects at Marvel has been more high profile than the next. First he was doing one-shots like Sif, then the She-Hulks miniseries, which led to a major tie-in to 2011's Marvel event series, Fear Itself: Hulk vs. Dracula. Before long, he was on an ongoing series — Scarlet Spider, which debuted this past January.
As announced Saturday during the "Amazing Spider-Man" panel at the C2E2 convention in Chicago, Stegman's next move is to pages of the "World's Greatest Comic Magazine." He's the new artist of Fantastic Four as of August's issue #609, just two months before the previously announced departure of Jonathan Hickman, who's been writing the book since 2009.
Newsarama reached out to Stegman via email to discuss working on Marvel's First Family, collaborating with Hickman, how his approach to Fantastic Four compares to his work on Scarlet Spider and the fact that he "loves drawing the ladies" — a not entirely shocking revelation given many of his early projects. [Newsarama note: No Fantastic Four art by Ryan Stegman was available from Marvel at press time. The above image is from the cover of April's Fantastic Four #605, by Ron Garney.]
Newsarama: Ryan, you've had a very steady rise in the past couple of years, and now you're coming on board the series that started the Marvel Age. How does it feel to be taking on a book with such a long and revered legacy?
Ryan Stegman: It feels amazing! I got to take a crack at Amazing Spider-Man and that was awesome because I view that as the greatest comic franchise ever. And Fantastic Four is no different. With the legendary Kirby and Lee run and John Byrne's run, it's just amazing to me that my name will be next to theirs. It's surreal.
Nrama: And to that end, how big of a Fantastic Four fan are you in general? Which of the book's main cast are you especially excited to draw? (Thing seems like an obvious pick, but I'm sure there are others.)
Stegman: More than anything I'm excited to draw the Four in cool team shots. I think one of the things that makes the FF so appealing is that their powers and sizes and shapes make for really interesting compositions. Mr. Fantastic is so stretchy that you can use him in crazy ways to fill out a drawing. And the Thing's bulk is really fun to play with. And Sue Storm... Well, I love drawing the ladies. So I think that it'll be really cool when I get to do that first iconic team shot.
Nrama: Jonathan Hickman's run on Fantastic Four has been characterized by a lot of heady, far-out concepts — what excites you most about working with him on the book?
Stegman: Haha, you said it in the question! The heady, far out concepts are why a lot of fans are drawn to Jonathan's work, and I'm no different. Though I will also say that I've really enjoyed the quiet family moments that Jonathan has written in the book. I am a sucker for that stuff.
Nrama: To play a little Six Degrees of Separation, I know from Twitter that you're pals with Nick Pitarra, Hickman's collaborator on The Manhattan Projects. Were you acquainted with Hickman himself before starting on Fantastic Four?
Stegman: First of all, I'd like to thank you for giving Nick a reason to bluster more via Skype. "They mentioned me in your interview. My star is so bright," he'll say, probably while flexing into the camera. But enough about him.
It really is sort of strange that I'm now working with Jonathan because Nick and I met at a signing I did in Houston for Scarlet Spider. And it seems like only a few months after that I was suddenly going to be working with Jonathan too. And I actually had never met Jonathan until the other day! I had proofread both of the first two issues of Manhattan Projects for them, but only through Nick. So it's all been kind of funny the way that it worked out.
Nrama: Clearly, Fantastic Four is a very different book from say, Scarlet Spider — how is your approach to this project different from what we've seen from you in the past?
Stegman: I plan on bringing a lot of what I did on Scarlet Spider to Fantastic Four. I've started to create or at least find my own voice storytelling-wise and I've injected a lot of cartooniness and bounciness into my work that I want to bring to this work. I never know how my style is going to evolve until I'm deep into a project, but so far I have no plans to dramatically alter anything. Just bring what I do to an already successful book and hope that people accept me!Got a comment? There's lots of conversation on Newsarama's FACEBOOK and TWITTER!


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New Year's Eve. This is a profoundly arbitrary designation---the end of the year, end of the decade---really, there is nothing about December 31st that's any different than any other day. But for historical reasons, this is the secular new year. Looking back on the last 12 or 13 months I can say that I'm happy we're marking a new year and hoping the next year is better.
Even though the New Year holiday takes place at an arbitrary time, as human beings, we look to it as a chance to improve, to change, to have hope.
My wish for the new year is better health for my family and friends.
What's yours?
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New Year's Open Thread
New Year's Eve. This is a profoundly arbitrary designation---the end of the year, end of the decade---really, there is nothing about December 31st that's any different than any other day. But for historical reasons, this is the secular new year. Looking back on the last 12 or 13 months I can say that I'm happy we're marking a new year and hoping the next year is better.
Food isn't medicine
The fake doctors at HuffPo are at it again. This time, Patricia Fitzgerald is writing about the "Top 10 Healing Foods of the Decade." The article has just enough correct information in it to be exceptionally wrong.
One of the more ironic aspects to this is her quoting Michael Pollan. I have problems with some of Pollan's ideas, but I like his little saying, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." When he first wrote this in a New York Times piece, he was arguing against "nutritionism", the idea that you can break foods down into their components and then consume the component nutrients for specific benefit. Instead, he argued, eating real foods in proper amounts is a healthier practice for individuals and societies.
Damned lies and idiots
Dr. Sherri Tenpenny is reportedly a doctor, although according to her website, she no longer practices medicine in any recognizable way. Perhaps that's why she utters completely idiotic statements such as this one pointed out to me by Brother Orac:
Study these numbers. We've had SARS, Bird flu and Swine flu. On average, approx. 190 children/year die from the flu. Considering there are about 62M kids under the 14 years of age in the US, this is NOT "statistically signficant" and should not even make the radar screen. See how they manipulate parents into vaccinations?
Next year, PLEASE do not be afraid of the flu. Ever person here should pass this on to at least 25 people! Please pass this to at least 25 friends.
Before we get to the above inane statement, let's see what Dr. Tenpenny claims about her own expertise:
Dr. Sherri Tenpenny is respected as one of the country's most knowledgeable and outspoken physicians regarding the impact of vaccines on health.
As a member of the prestigious National Speaker's Association, Dr. Tenpenny is an outspoken advocate for free choice in healthcare, including the right to refuse vaccination.
No. No, she's not. Paul Offit is a nationally known vaccine expert. Dr. Tenpenny is not. If you're going to call yourself an expert on vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases, you should probably have training in infectious disease or immunology and you should probably have published significant research. Tenpenny is a washed-up osteopath who has given up real practice to pursue the one vestige of quackery left in osteopathic education---manipulation. And being "a member of the prestigious National Speakers Association" only means that you are a member of an association of public speakers; it says nothing about your qualifications to speak on any particular topic. No physician with real medical expertise would list something like that rather than, say, their medically-related qualifications.
Raw milk---another spectacularly bad idea
I've never understood food fads. Michael Pollan's maxim, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants," has always seemed like reasonable, practical advice. Maybe it's a disease of plenty---we have so much food, we have to find new ways to conceptualize it. Unless you live in an inner city, you can go to any market and find large quantities of foodstuffs, both healthy and unhealthy. Food in this country is cheap and plentiful and, for the most part, safe. Self-"regulated" industrialized production has contributed to problems with bacterial contamination of meats and produce, but food- and water-borne illness is still relatively rare in the US compared to the developing world.
The industrial food production that has led to monsters such as "thousand-cow burgers" needs a lot of work. Mass production and distribution can introduce many different opportunities for contamination. Once a contaminated beef patty reaches the kitchen, opportunities for illness multiply. Even if you cook the burger thoroughly, you can still be sickened by contaminated counters and utensils.
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to my readers who celebrate this one. For those of you who do, you may sometimes wonder what those of us who don't are doing today. Well, I find that Christmas is a great time to work at the hospital. It gives my Christian colleagues a break. Here in Michigan Jewish groups have traditionally worked various missions and shelters to give Christian charity workers a break. This year local Muslims will be joining Jews to help out. Detroit has large and strong Muslim and Jewish communities, and anything that brings them together is generally a very good thing. Conflicts between these communities tend to center around things happening very far from here, so focusing on our own local problems and working together to help our communities is good to see.
Some non-Christians still celebrate the secular aspects of Christmas, but most of us do not. Because Christian establishments are usually closed, a tradition of going out for Chinese food on Christmas has developed in many urban and suburban Jewish communities. When we go to a movie and a Chinese restaurant on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, we see lots of people we know.
So whether you celebrate Christmas or not, I hope you all have a wonderful couple of days off with family and friends.
Gird your loins---please
Do you know how many people have chlamydia? Syphilis? No?
Me either. But it's a lot. Depending on the group evaluated, chlamydia rates among young women range from 7-15%. And with STDs, there is always at least one other victim.
The holidays tend to be a time of seeing old friends and drinking with them. I see a lot of STDs after the holidays.
Both men and women can carry STDs without symptoms, but in women, these infections can ravage the reproductive organs leading to ectopic pregnancies, infertility, and other long-term health problems.
If infertility doesn't sound so bad, you might want to think about the other STDs that travel with gonorrhea and chlamydia. HIV doesn't go away. Syphilis often isn't discovered until it's caused significant damage to the nervous system and blood vessels.
All of these illnesses can be easily avoided by proper use of latex condoms and by seeking appropriate health care. Men with penile discharge should see a doctor immediately. Women with vaginal discharge should as well, and they should make sure to ask their doctors for yearly gonorrhea and chlamydia screening when they get their pap smears.
Look, I don't mind stamping out disease---it's lots of fun. But the best way to deal with disease is to prevent it. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and when you run to the store for more booze, don't forget the condoms.
Fantasy is powerful, especially if you're a delusional idiot like Chopra
Wouldn't it be cool if after we died we didn't...die? Just like in the fairy tales, we could go to some place where we play harps on clouds and eat marshmallows for breakfast; we could play with our dead dogs, and somehow manage to live in harmony with all of our dead lovers. Unless we go to a place of flames and unending agony. Or maybe we become squid-like creatures in the oceans of Titan--all are equally (un)likely.
Except to those so mired in thanatophobia and fantasy that they can no longer reason properly. It's not like this is a new problem, but my eyes were bleeding after seeing Deepak Chopra on Larry King the other night (transcript here). Chopra launched into his usual vitalist idiocy. The reason I even care about this is that Chopra promotes himself as a doctor and often applies his dualist religious beliefs to medicine. Eww.
Chopra's approach is always one of unfounded assertion and ridicule. He asserts his belief, and then ridicules those who ask him what the hell he's talking about. Here, let him show you:
There's a lot of interesting science that our consciousness, which is the place where we perceive, think, emote, imagine, have insight, intuition, choice-making -- that this part of us is not a product of our brain.
You know, scientists have, until recently, believed that, you know, just like your gallbladder secretes bile and your pancreas secretes pancreatic juice, your brain secretes imagination...
Waiting is the hardest part
Human beings are an interesting mix of fragility and hardiness, and we have a tendency to overestimate both traits. We also tend to be somewhat over-confident in our own ability to make sense of patterns. This combination of traits often blinds us to the real magnitude of risks we encounter every day---we're often scared of airplanes, but very few people have cigarette phobias. And when we really do get sick, in our desperation our faults often become magnified. As patients we often cast blindly for hope; as doctors we look to give hope, but the hope we give must be qualified by reality.
I would love to tell a patient of mine, "hey, everything's gonna be alright, so don't you worry about a thing." But that's not the way life works. Finding new ways to prevent and treat disease is a slow process and no amount of wishing can speed it up. One of my favorite examples is the discovery of Gleevec, a drug for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). First, the mechanism of the disease had to be discovered. Then someone had to come up with a molecule to target. Then small trials had to be run to assess the drug for safety and potential efficacy. Then larger trials were done to get a better handle on efficacy and on less common side effects. And when all that worked out, the drug was marketed. Though not a common disease, CML does kill people, and lots of people died waiting for this drug. They also died before anyone knew the cause of the disease and before anyone had conceived of a way to fight it. And they still die, but not as many as used to. Many other candidate drugs to treat CML and other diseases have come and gone, and people have lived and died.
Multiple Sclerosis and Irrational Exuberance
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is fascinating illness that can range from mild annoyance to debilitating nightmare. The frightening nature and unclear cause of the disease makes it a magnet for questionable medical therapies (i.e. quackery). A piece published last week in (surprise!) the Huffington Post helps fuel the fires of suspicion and paranoia while failing to shed any light on the future of MS research.
Multiple sclerosis is a disease of the nervous system. Its victims develop symptoms based on what part of the nervous system is affected. For example, if MS attacks the optic nerve, a patient may experience blurry vision or blindness. If it affects the motor areas of the brain that controls the left leg, the patient will develop weakness in the left leg. Typically, the symptoms will last a certain period of time and then improve, but often not completely back to normal.
DC, same-sex marriage, and racial stereotypes
I was listening to Tell Me More yesterday and was drawn into the story.
The host interviewed Michael Crawford, a DC-based activist. He attempted to debunk the idea that black communities are strongly anti-gay marriage. They played a clip of former DC mayor Marion Barry explaining how he personally might approve of gay marriage but he felt he had to represent his constituents by voting against it. Crawford called him out on a couple of scores. First, Crawford pointed out that Barry gave no polling data. Then he pointed out that he has the support of a large coalition of clergy, contradicting Barry's claim that clergy don't support gay marriage. His most important point, though was this:
Traditionally we have not put the rights of a minority up for a public vote.
Really, there's no better argument. It leaves those who oppose marriage equality with nowhere else to go rhetorically. They are either bigots who want the law to support their own biases, or they are bigots who want cover from other bigots on a ballot.


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Thursday, November 25, 2010
Nostalgia Film as Ideology
"...Nostalgia art gives us the image of various generations of the past as fashion-plate images that entertain no determinable ideological relationship to other moments of time: they are not the outcome of anything, nor are they the antecedents of our present; they are simply images. This is the sense in which I describe them as substitutes for any genuine historical consciousness rather than specific new forms of the latter." - Fredric Jameson, Interview (1986) in Flash Art.
"Nostalgia films restructure the whole issue of pastiche and project it onto a collective and social level, where the desperate attempt to appropriate a missing past is now refracted through the iron law of fashion change and the emergent ideology of the generation. The inaugural film of this new aesthetic discourse, George Lucas's American Graffiti (1973), set out to recapture as so many films have attempted since, the henceforth mesmerizing lost reality of the Eisenhower era; and one tends to feel, that for Americans at least, the 1950s remain the privileged lost object of desire- not merely the stability and prosperity of pax Americana but also the first naive innocence of the counter-cultural impulses of early rock and roll and youth gangs. With this initial breakthrough, other generational periods open up for aesthetic colonization (e.g. Polanski's Chinatown, Bertolucci's Il Conformista)... [Nostalgia film] approaches the "past" through stylistic connotation, conveying "pastness" by the glossy qualities of the image, and "1930s-ness" or "1950s-ness" by the attributes of fashion, as for example, some Disney-EPCOT "concept" of China."
"Every position on postmodernism in culture—whether apologia or stigmatization—is also at one and the same time, and necessarily, an implicitly or explicitly political stance on the nature of multinational capitalism today." -Jameson (1984), "Postmodernism; Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism", in New Left Review
I must confess that I had an early (ages 8-12) fascination with nostalgia films about the 1950s before I had any inkling that they were, in the sense described above, nostalgia films. The Sandlot (1993) was a film that my family owned growing up, which I watched more times than I can count. Grease (1978) and Stand By Me (1986) were staples as well. Or, take Back to the Future (1985): think of the contrast between downtown Hill Valley in the 1980s (run down, with homeless people lying about) versus the 1950s. My thinking at the time was that the 1950s and early 60s was an era of "cleanliness", tight-knit communities, small neighborhood shops, block parties, stability, innocence and all the rest of it. I recall often wishing that I'd grown up "then".
It is striking, then, how much films of this sort shape contemporary consciousness of what we take to be the past. I'm not sure, but I wager that schools didn't have "decade day" before the 1980s. Would it have been possible, or even made sense, in the 1920s to hold a "decade dress-up day"? Could there have been intelligible, ostensibly distinct, stereotypes corresponding to "1910s-ness" or "1890s-ness"? My guess is that the answer is no. So what is it about the present state of affairs that makes possible the reification of decades into "glossy images" that track shifts in fashion? It seems to me that any answer we give must take seriously the third Jameson quote above.
There is, to be sure, a serious question here about how to critically understand the post-war era (e.g. as arising out of the reconfiguration of global capitalism and power relations after WWII, the emergence of a "consumer society", changes in the forces of production, a decline in class struggle, ruthless repression of the Left, violently enforced conformity, elimination of the memory of the 1930s, etc.). But critically understanding nostalgia film requires that we ask a different question: what was it about the ideological/political pressures of the early 1970s (and, to some extent, the decade and a half that followed) that cultivated this need to retrieve a "lost past"? Moreover, in what ways can we understand the objects of desire in nostalgia film as a projection of such pressures and needs?
Succinctly put, the question cannot simply be: were the 1950s/early60s really like that? Neither should it be: should we want to return to it? Our question must be: what is it about contemporary societies such that this nostalgic image, whatever its historical veracity, is the American "privileged lost object of desire"?
There are a couple of obvious things to say. The global economic landslide of the early 1970s marked the decisive end of the "long boom" of the postwar era. It marked a rupture, a tectonic shift in the conditions that grounded the social formations and cultural configurations of the 1950s and early 60s. If the active, conscious revolt of the late 1960s was a determinate negation, the early 1970s represented a structural, subterranean shift in the basic center of gravity. Suddenly the arrangements upon which postwar prosperity had been built no longer created the conditions for continued profit accumulation. Stagflation set in, and unemployment skyrocketed. The 1973 oil crisis struck at the heart of the manufactured obsession with ostentatious automobiles.
Unsurprisingly, this shift in the global conjuncture meant that the old ideological repertoire of postwar American capitalism went into crisis. The old ideological stabilizers were being undermined by new events; the old legitimating devices weren't able to do their work when faced with the landslide of the early 1970s.
But as Marxists are aware, ideological shifts don't immediately, mechanically accompany shifts in the economic structure of society. As Zizek noted after the 9/11 attacks, "On September 11th, the USA was given the opportunity to realize what kind of world it was part of. It might have taken this opportunity -but it did not; instead it opted to reassert its traditional ideological commitments: out with feelings of responsibility and guilt towards the impoverished Third World, we are the victims now!" Something similar accompanied the erosion of the postwar era (although I would want a less univocal and more internally conflicted analysis of "America" than Zizek offers). Rather than question the very ideological coordinates of the postwar era in light of counter-veiling evidence; the temptation was to cling hopelessly to the manufactured objects of desire appropriate to that anachronistic ideology.
But, and this is where the Jameson bit above is particularly interesting, the mode of interaction with this "past" is one in which the "image of various generations of the past as fashion-plate images... entertain no determinable ideological relationship to other moments of time: they are not the outcome of anything, nor are they the antecedents of our present; they are simply images". Here, Marx's analysis of the fetishism of commodities is operative in the background. Rather than encountering the past in all of its material complexity, we see only various objects on a shelf, shorn of history or ties to social relations. This is only more perverse when we note that the objects in questions are ostensibly about the past.
Another interesting question for me here is how race fits into this picture. It's clear that there is something deeply racist about the entire ideology of nostalgia here, insofar as it wears its white-exclusiveness on its sleeve. That is, the ideology simply couldn't be a fantasy for black people- it isn't even aimed at convincing black people to want such a return to this "idyllic past". The result is that the ideology doesn't even see black people as subjects in need of convincing here; they are non-persons who are best blotted out of this fantasy entirely. Seeing them as subjects to whom white American must justify themselves would be to accept the gains of the struggles of the 1960s; but this nostalgic ideology, of course, in part seeks to forget such struggles entirely. So, it's not that the ideology has an active anti-black theme per se, the ideology entirely erases and blots out blackness.
6 comments:
- JM said...
I think Zizek should've given post 9/11 a break back there. They can't think intellectually when their loved ones were freshly dead.
- November 26, 2010 at 4:10 PM
- JM said...
Furthermore, the reason for clinging to objects was that the world trade center was a landmark and for those who grew up on the idea of a city being a place of opportunity and hope, they can't help but attach their emotions to it.
- November 26, 2010 at 4:14 PM
- t said...
"I think Zizek should've given post 9/11 a break back there. They can't think intellectually when their loved ones were freshly dead."
I don't think Zizek's remarks were meant to apply to the families of victims of 9/11 in the immediate aftermath of the attacks.
What he's saying applies to the problem of how to make sense of the attacks after the dust cleared. Whereas there should have been a serious re-thinking of the role of U.S. foreign policy and power abroad, this isn't what happened.
As we now know, Washington made use of the fallout from the 9/11 attacks to put into practice it's foreign policy wish list. Instead of questioning, say, the role of U.S. power in the Middle East, Washington and the mass media gave the most brazen defense of strong-arm imperialism that we've seen in recent decades.
Instead of reflecting on the impacts of U.S. power abroad, the traditional "survivalist" narrative was trotted out: "we're the real victims in the international arena", "we must do 'whatever is necessary' to make the world safe", etc. etc.
The rest is history. Dissenters were blasted for being "un-american", Muslims were scapegoated, the U.S. rushed into a haphazard invasion of Iraq amidst global uproar. This wasn't inevitable after the attacks occurred- but that it happened clearly represents a serious failure to re-think the basic coordinates of U.S. power in the international arena in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
Incredible though the towers were, architecturally and technologically speaking, I wouldn't be so quick to unproblematically ascribe to them that meaning. They were built at one of the lowest points in NY history. The city was bankrupt, the big banks launched a coup against the city by refusing to roll-over its debt, unions were smashed, infrastructure crumbled, living standards for working class New York plummeted. The decades that followed, to be sure, provided opportunity and hope for some, but at the cost of gentrifying neighborhoods and expunging working people from Manhattan (which, today, threatens to become one big gated community for the rich). Saying that the towers unproblematically meant "opportunity and hope" seems to close to Giuliani/Bloombergian triumphalism for my taste.
- November 26, 2010 at 9:57 PM
- JM said...
Okay, sorry for misunderstanding. The one time I went to New York City, three years ago, I liked it personally but with the closing of CBGBs, I can understand the issue of Manhattan turning into a full wealthy people only community.
- November 26, 2010 at 10:19 PM
- JM said...
I also must say that I'm quite fond of the original Back to The Future movie despite the unfortunate touches of 80s conservative era political incorrectness (the handling of Biff raping Marty's mother, etc.) That said, I'm glad to hear you're a fan of David Lynch- I too enjoy Blue Velvet and Eraserhead, my mom used to watch Twin Peaks too.
- November 26, 2010 at 10:51 PM
- Richard said...
Nostalgia may well be an essential feature of cinema. It is a prominent feature of the works of many of the great directors, their crews and casts. Fassbinder, Godard, Jia Zhangke, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Josef von Sternberg, John Huston, even modernists like Fritz Lang and Eisenstein, all manipulated nostalgia in the service of their art. Even some of the brilliant Japanese directors of the post-war period known for their lack of sentimentality, like Imamura (in his pre-1990s films) and Oshima, rely upon it to some extent to engage the audience.
Fassbinder, Hou and Jia, just to name three, relied on it extensively to critique the social experiences of the characters that populated their narratives. After all, Fassbinder was inspired by the 1950s melodramas of Douglas Sirk. Like Fassbinder, Wong Kar-wai, the Hong Kong arthouse director, lays in on thick (see, for example, "In the Mood for Love").
So, it would appear that the problem is not the presence of nostalgia per se in film, but the mendacious and coarse exploitation of it to the extent that it induces people to reminisce about a past that never existed. Of course, there are usually political and social motivations for doing so.
- November 28, 2010 at 11:42 PM


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Court of the Bishop of Bristol in the Deanery of Bristol (Episcopal Consistory)
Step By Step
1. First search each index (see below) to help you more quickly find the will, writing down each detail cited in the indexed entry.
2. Proceed to "Records" (below) to determine what probate records exist for this court. Also see "Probate Records of This Court in The Family History Library".
3. Contact or visit the Bristol Record Office or, hire a professional record searcher to view these records on your behalf. Officials may send upon request a list of record searchers.
4. Visit The Family History Library, or, one of its 4,500 satellite family history centers worldwide and search indexes to probate records then with the information obtained from the index[es] you can search more quickly the original wills and admons also on microfilm via any centers near you.
Online Index
Here is an online index of Gloucestershire wills 1541-1857
Printed and Published Indexes
Wills [index] 1572-1792 by Index Library vol. 17, & 22
Administrations 1770-1792 by Index Library vol. 17
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Index of administrations 1770-1854
Archive Location
Bristol Record Office
'B' Bond Warehouse
Smeaton Road
Bristol BS1 6XN
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Archive Records
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- Original Wills 1546-1858
- Copy Wills 1677-1721
- Register Copy Wills 1767-1857
- Administration Bonds 1661-1857
- Registers of Administrations 1767-1857
- Inventories 1611-1767
Family History Library Records
The Family History Library has some of the probate records for this court on microfilm. Here are:
- Wills, 1560-1858
- Probate records, 1726-1857
- Original Wills & Administrations 1571-1857
- Registered Wills 1767-1857
- Administration Bonds 1661-1857
The Family History Library has very few original probate records for Bristol on microfilm. Most of the what the library has is various published abstracts. These include:
- Estate Duty Wills 1805-1811
- Estate Duty Wills Index 1812-1857
- Death Duty Register for Abstracts of Administrations and Probates of Wills 1796-1811
The Society of Genealogists in London has copies of published abstracts of wills and other probate documents for Bristol. To see a list of titles, search their library catalogue for the Subject of "Gloucestershire - General: Wills."
The court held jurisdiction over the parish of Abbotts Leigh in Somerset (and held concurrent jurisdiction over just about all of the City of Bristol parishes and several surrounding parishes as well). Before the formation of the Diocese of Gloucester in 1541, this court came under the Diocese of Worcester and had jurisdiction over the Somerset parishes of St. Thomas, St. Mary Redcliffe, Temple or Holy Cross, and Abbots Leigh. After 1541, it had jurisdiction solely over the parish of Abbots Leigh.


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The ADVANCE Scholar Award is a prestigious award program and lecture series that encourages research leadership and outreach to underserved communities and/or mentorship of underrepresented students, and highlights and celebrates the contributions that women STEM faculty at the University of California, Davis have made to their respective fields.
On January 6, 2016 UC Davis ADVANCE and the Office of the Vice Provost-Academic Affairs co-hosted the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) Workshop on "Rethinking Mentoring: How to Build Communities of Inclusion, Support, and Accountability."
The workshop was presented by Mindi Thompson, PhD, HSP, the NCFDD Faculty Success Program Head Coach. Dr. Thompson started a new type of discussion about mentoring by describing the common problems that pre-tenure and post-tenure faculty members experience and why traditional mentoring programs fail to meet those needs. She proposed an alternative framework for mentoring that focuses on needs assessment and shifts the idea of mentoring from a relationship between two faculty members towards building a broad network of support, community and accountability. In addition. Dr. Thompson presented best practices in mentoring pre-tenure, under-represented and mid-career faculty.
Over 100 faculty members attended the UC Davis Welcome Reception for Women Faculty, on October 26, 2015. They were provided with an opportunity to welcome new faculty members to campus and reconnect with colleagues from across campus. This event was sponsored by UC Davis ADVANCE and the Office of the Vice Provost-Academic Affairs, and was hosted by Chancellor Linda PB Katehi.
The National Science Foundation began supporting ADVANCE initiatives in 2001, and has awarded over $130M in funding for a variety of programs. The most significant efforts seek to create permanent institutional transformation.
Professional disciplinary groups allow members to meet, engage, and share knowledge. This effort is particularly important to foster supportive, collaborative networks among scientists from under-represented groups.
We have compiled multiple publicly available databases of the published research related to NSF ADVANCE program efforts to increase diversity in STEM education and the STEM labor force. These include the literature on implicit bias, mentorship and other topics.
Balance is real challenge facing many faculty, particularly women with children. The perception (and reality) of the inflexibility and rigor of an academic career is one cause for the lack of diversity in STEM disciplines.
Through ADVANCE, UC Davis is working to become a destination campus for diverse STEM scholars. Learn more about our recruitment process and available recruiting resources.


text: Wow, what a surprise. The other day PHP and today Python. This is great. Do you want me to link this from the MogileFS website? You going to make a page for it? - Brad On Fri, 6 May 2005, Justin Azoff wrote: > I'm mostly finished porting the perl client to python. I started with a > pretty literal translation and then redid how some things worked, like > exceptions and default arguments. > > It is almost identical to the perl api, I think the only real change I > did was add a file argument to get_file_data so you can do > > tmpfp=open("/tmp/file", 'w') > c.get_file_data('file', fp=tmpfp) > tmpfp.close() > > or > c.get_file_data('file', sys.stdout) > > that was easy to do since I used pycurl. > > All that is left I think is to implement MogileFS::Admin(and lots of > unit tests...), but that looks easy enough. I also want to port > mogtool.. I am not sure if I should put the big file chunk handling in > mogilefs.py itself, or leave it as separate code. > > I've stashed it at > http://www.albany.edu/~ja6447/mogilefs.py > for the time being. > > Some things might not work right, testing the failure handling will be > tricky.. I need to get more nodes running where I can easily turn off > ports or killall mogstored and see what happens. > > -- > -- Justin Azoff > -- Network Performance Analyst > >


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Yakima's Gang Free Initiative Ready to Go to Work to Save Kids
Nearly three years in the making, the City of Yakima's Gang Free Initiative was officially adopted this morning at a council study session. The initiative represents the city's commitment to helping prevent and intervene in the process of kids becoming gang members. It's often been said that we "can't arrest our way out of this problem".
Now the city has a federally approved comprehensive approach to derail the next generation of gang wannabes. Suppression efforts will continue for today's gang bangers but the hope and plan is to redirect the young people that would otherwise grow up to take their place. A great effort and a great day for Yakima. High fives to Kathy Coffey, Maureen Adkison, Lt. Mike Merryman and coordinator Steve Magellan for steering the ship and to many concerned Yakima residents who helped make it happen.