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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — When Haitians return to the polls for the final runoff for president Sunday, they will be choosing between two candidates they say don't excite them very much.
It is the first election since the January 2010 earthquake devastated about 20 percent of the country, causing more than 300,000 deaths and another 300,000 injuries while leaving 1.5 million people homeless and catastrophic destruction that has barely begun to be cleared.
The candidates include former first lady Mirlande Manigat and festival singer Michel "Sweet Mickey" Martelly. They were deemed the top two finishers in the first round of voting Nov. 28 that was followed by a controversial period over who would be in the runoff. The issue led to riots and a two-month delay in the runoff.
Still, almost to a person, Haitians told Catholic News Service they will vote no matter whose names are on the ballot.
"Even when you're skeptical you need to do your civic duty," Carrefour businessman Laguerre Fitzgerald, 42, said before allowing himself the opportunity to criticize outgoing President Rene Preval for his lack of concrete action during his five-year term.
"I am Haitian, I will be voting," said Lerisse Rezami, 59, as he prepared to sift crushed rubble from the quake for use in cement in Carrefour. "I am looking forward to a better future for this country. That's why I'm voting."
In Terrain Toto, 12 miles east of the congested capital, Auguste Marie-Sonie, 26, laughed when asked about the election, then became serious.
"The problem is most candidates, you pick them and once they get into power they forget their pledges," she said. "I have some hope that whoever is elected will do something for the country."
With his shaved head, Martelly calls himself "Tet Kale" ("The Bald") on thousands of pink fliers posted everywhere in the country. He has consistently led in polls and is regarded as the favorite among working class and unemployed Haitians largely because he uses populist language to which they can relate. Critics say he has offered few specifics, however.
On the other hand, Manigat's connections to Haiti's business and professional communities and her role as first lady seem to place her in a position to move quickly to implement government reforms and to jump-start the reconstruction effort, supporters say. Her critics contend she is part of Haiti's autocratic past and a part of the political system that has produced little for anyone but those at the top.
Complicating the picture is former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was whisked from office in a 2004 coup. Some believe the former populist leader, who left the Catholic priesthood to pursue political office, was forced out by Western governments who wanted someone more to their liking. He was succeeded by Preval.
Aristide may return from exile in South Africa to vote in Sunday's election, said one source who claimed a close friendship with him.
There's no word from the Aristide camp about his intentions other than that he wants to return to his homeland.
Despite what the candidates say, most Haitians wonder how much either candidate can do when faced with the enormous task of rebuilding what was lost in the earthquake, let alone move the country forward.
Matthew Accene, another earthquake victim from Port-au-Prince who recently was relocated to a transitional shelter in Terrain Toto, summed up the choice this way: "It's like seeing two oranges in the market and both of them are rotten. You buy them anyway and hope one of them will be good."


text: Astronomers may have found a cosmological missing link in the realm of galactic evolution. The early universe was a crowded place; galaxy mergers must have been much more common in the primeval universe than they are today. But studying those early collisions has been problematic; the immense distances involved over time and space mean that resolving clusters and individual stars are out of the question. Now, a team from the University of Western Ontario led by Sara Gallagher has published a study of an object which may serve as a living fossil of those early times; Hickson Compact Group 31. A cluster of irregular galaxies only 166 million light years away in the constellation Eridanus, this merger has somehow escaped coalescence over 10 billion years of cosmic history to just begin merging. Because HCG 31 is so nearby, Gallagher notes, we can indentify individual star clusters. In fact, two main components of HCG 31 approach visual magnitude +13 and have been snared by amateur instruments. HCG 31 is approximately 75,000 light years in diameter, and will probably one day form one huge elliptical galaxy. To conduct this study, Gallagher utilized time and instruments that spanned the spectrum, from Hubble in visible light to Spitzer in infrared to Galex and Swift in the ultraviolet. It is amazing that astronomers now have such capabilities in their bag of tricks at their ready disposal!

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Do you have a photo that captures the "Spirit of America?" The Observer is seeking submissions for its first online photo contest, "Spirit of America," on YourObserver.com. Upload your photos that celebrate America's birthday, the Fourth of July. The winner of the contest will be featured in The Observer's annual Fourth of July special section, "The Spirit of America."
Entering the contest is easy. Simply visit YourObserver.com and click on the "Spirit of America" photo contest rectangle, located on the bottom, right-hand corner of YourObserver.com's home page. Click on the "submissions" tab, fill out the form and upload your favorite photos. Submissions will be accepted from now until 8:45 a.m. Monday, June 15.
Reader voting for the best photo representing the "Spirit of America" will begin at 9 a.m. Monday, June 15 and end at 5 p.m. Monday, June 22. Registered users can vote up to 10 times per day. Get your family and friends involved, too, have them visit YourObserver.com to vote for your photo, or share your submissions on social networking programs such as Facebook and Twitter to help garner more votes.
The winning photo will be featured in The Observer's "Spirit of America" special section, which will be inserted into all three of The Observers — Longboat, East County and Sarasota — on July 2, as well as on YourObserver.com. The winner will also receive a PENTAX Optio T10 6.0 Megapixels digital camera with 3x optical zoom, valued at $329.99, and sponsored by Donovan at Wolf Camera.
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This week's featured entry is "Patriot Baby," submitted by Amanda Morris, of Sarasota. Morris took this picture of her son, Matthew, when he was 5 weeks old.
"While it might just look like a cute baby in a red, white and blue outfit, it really represents so much more," Morris says. "Even though it will be years before he discovers the value of being an American, he represents the 'Spirit of America' for all the hope and glory that this great land offers."
Matthew's patriotic parents are Rob and Amanda Morris. Rob is a native Sarasotan and Amanda grew up in Bradenton, as a third-generation Manatee County resident. In 2005, Rob convinced Amanda to move "south" from Manatee County where their family, including Matthew's big sister Ansley, now resides in the same Sarasota neighborhood where Rob grew up. Upload your favorite Fourth of July picture on YourObserver.com.


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This Land is Your Land
This Land is Your Land is a communist folk song written by Woody Guthrie in 1940, and initially recorded in 1944. It has been recorded by performer/liberal activist Bruce Springsteen, liberal folk singer Bob Dylan, and British socialist performer Billy Bragg. Despite the communist sympathies of Guthrie and this song, it is generally regarded as one of America's favorite folk songs and was at one point being considered as a suggestion to be the national anthem.[1] Communist Pete Seeger has stated that Guthrie was also a communist; however, Guthrie's membership in the Communist Party is debated (though he has always been associated with United States communist groups), and his daughter called him a "commonist, not a communist."[2]
One of the last verses of the song implies that there should be no such thing as private property.
- As I was walking, I saw a sign there;
- And on the sign said "No Trespassing";
- But on the other side, it didn't say nothing;
- This land is made for you and me.
An alternative is:
- There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me;
- Sign was painted, it said "Private Property";
- But on the back side it didn't say nothing;
- This land was made for you and me.
Another verse implying a need for welfare is:
- In the squares of the city, In the shadow of a steeple;
- By the relief office, I'd seen my people.
- As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking,
- Is this land made for you and me?
Complete lyrics[edit]
- This land is your land, this land is my land
- From California, to the New York Island
- From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
- This land was made for you and me
- As I was walking a ribbon of highway
- I saw above me an endless skyway
- I saw below me a golden valley
- This land was made for you and me
- I've roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps
- To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
- And all around me a voice was sounding
- This land was made for you and me
- The sun comes shining as I was strolling
- The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
- The fog was lifting a voice come chanting
- This land was made for you and me
- As I was walking' - I saw a sign there
- And that sign said "No trespassing"
- But on the other side .... it didn't say nothing!
- Now that side was made for you and me!
- In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple
- Near the relief office - I see my people
- And some are grumbling and some are wondering
- If this land's still made for you and me.
Chorus (2x)
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Woody Guthrie still inspires, 100 years on from his birth Ed Vulliamy, guardian.co.uk, July 7, 2012, retrieved September 13, 2012


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ZOLDER, BELGIUM (June 2, 2011) – Zero Motorcycles recently announced that their Zero S electric motorcycle received the prestigious "e-Bike of the Year" award at Europe's Clean Week 2020. During the four-day event, a panel of 13 leading European motorcycle journalists evaluated electric motorcycles from around the world. Ultimately, the Zero S was awarded with top honors and became the first electric motorcycle to win the newly created category title. Dubbed "the ecological heart of European mobility," Clean Week 2020 is an annual gathering that demonstrates advancements in electric and hybrid vehicle technology.
"The team at Zero has worked incredibly hard to develop electric motorcycles that consumers can own today that set the bar in performance, quality and overall riding experience. We are extremely proud to have been recognized as the winner by the Clean Week 2020 journalists," said Scot Harden, Vice President of Global Marketing for Zero Motorcycles. "This award highlights the innovation and enjoyment that Zero Motorcycles is bringing to owners around the world."
The second annual Clean Week 2020 was held at Circuit Zolder, where a variety of electric vehicles could be test driven and evaluated by journalists and consumers. At last year's event, the awards focused on automobiles. Recognizing growing public interest in two-wheeled electric vehicles, organizers added electric motorcycle categories to this year's 2011 event.


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Ferocious nor'easter departs, leaving 2 deaths and injuries in its wake
Travel resuming as Patrick lifts ban; but outages still a plague
Pummeled by one of the worst winter storms in state history, much of Massachusetts spent Saturday digging out, waiting for power, and navigating a snow-shrouded landscape that proved both pristinely beautiful and savagely cruel.
Two people died and two were injured in Boston because of carbon-monoxide poisoning linked to the storm, which dumped up to 30 inches of snow on the state. Hundreds of coastal residents were evacuated from the North Shore to Cape Cod, and more than 400,000 people in Massachusetts awoke without power Saturday.
Begrudgingly but steadily, conditions improved throughout the day as power slowly returned and traffic-free streets became cross-country ski tracks. Governor Deval Patrick lifted the statewide travel ban at 4 p.m., 24 hours after imposing the first such prohibition since the deadly Blizzard of '78.
"We still have a little way to get through the rest of the storm,'' Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino said. "Please take care of one another.''
Despite its shimmering veneer, the snow continued to cause significant problems. Public transportation remained at a standstill in Boston and its suburbs, and the MBTA said it is trying to restore service by Monday morning.
Amtrak canceled train service to New York, and runways at Logan International Airport, which recorded hurricane-force winds of 76 miles per hour and 24.9 inches of snow, were not expected to reopen until at least 11 p.m. Saturday. The US Postal Service suspended mail delivery.
The snowfall, the fifth-largest to be measured in Boston, approached the city record of 27.6 inches set in 2003. The Central Massachusetts town of Spencer recorded 30.5 inches, apparently the highest in the state.
Elsewhere in New England, more than 38 inches of snow fell in Milford, Conn., and a gust of 82 miles per hour was recorded in nearby Westport. In Portland, Maine, 29.3 inches of snow fell, eclipsing the record set in 1979.
Carbon-monoxide exposure killed a boy in Roxbury and a man in Mattapan, both of whom were overcome Saturday while sitting in running cars with tailpipes blocked by snow, authorities said. The unidentified boy, believed to be 14, had been shoveling snow in the morning before he sat in a car to take a break, Fire Department officials said.
In late afternoon, an unidentified man in his 20s was found dead inside a car on Woolson Street in Mattapan.
Shortly afterward, a 7-year-old girl and her 4-year-old brother were taken to the hospital with carbon-monoxide poisoning after being found in a car on Porter Street in East Boston. The children are expected to survive, authorities said.
"People have not seen this much snow in a long time. They're not focused on making sure they clear the snow from the exhaust pipe before putting anyone inside,'' said Cheryl Fiandaca, the Boston police spokeswoman. "Carbon monoxide fills the car pretty quickly.''
Although the National Weather Service had yet to formally declare the storm a blizzard, it certainly felt that way to many people. About 50 people had to be rescued from cars stranded during the storm, mostly from highway ramps.
Along the storm-battered coast, many residents continued to suffer Saturday. In Salisbury, more than 40 people were evacuated from about a dozen homes because of flooding. A mandatory evacuation order had been issued for 1,000 people in the densely settled beachfront neighborhood.
"One tide went right through the surf side'' of a home, said Salisbury Police Detective Steve Sforza. "They said the ocean was inside their house, and they were right.'' Four adults and two cats were taken out.
On nearby Plum Island in Newbury, the building commissioner determined that six homes could not be occupied because of beach erosion.
In Quincy, which lost nearly all power, flooding forced dozens of people from their homes. Dozens more sought warmth, food, and a bed in emergency shelters set up at the two city high schools. By Saturday night, some of the power had flickered back to life.
Elsewhere along the South Shore, the National Guard helped rescue residents in Hull and assisted local officials in the hard-hit coastal communities of Marshfield, Scituate, and Weymouth.
In Scituate, a tidal surge breached a sea wall Saturday morning, sending water pouring onto streets and spurring frantic calls for help on Saturday morning. "I was just with the chief of police, and right now every other call is an evacuation,'' said Anthony Vegnani, vice chairman of the Board of Selectmen.
About 30 people sought shelter inside Scituate High School on Saturday morning, and Vegnani said they were expecting many more.
In Winthrop, the Point Shirley neighborhood was nearly inaccessible by car at high tide Saturday morning. Powerful surf breached a sea wall, flooding nearby streets with swift torrents of water that inundated cars and basements.
Several longtime residents, shoveling walks or attempting to save their cars, said they had not seen such flooding since the Blizzard of '78.
Joe McDermott leaned on his shovel and watched the waves crash over the sea wall. McDermott said he was grateful he had moved his 90-year-old mother out of the flood zone and into his own home two days before the storm, particularly because Point Shirley was bereft of power much of the night.
"I'm glad she didn't have to wake up seeing her breath,'' he said.
In addition to its help along the coast, the National Guard performed some unconventional storm duty, using a military field ambulance in the midst of the storm to respond to a 911 call in Worcester to assist in the delivery of a baby at 3 a.m. Saturday.
For all the damage caused by the storm, the snow provided a playful winter diversion for many.
The driving ban freed up plenty of walkable space in downtown Boston, enough for well-bundled pedestrians to stop in the middle of the street and take pictures with backdrops strikingly devoid of humans and cars.
Many people walked with snow shoes or used cross-country skis. A few snowboarders created their own slalom course, zigging through light posts on a hill at Boston Common.
Tiny ice crystals carried by strong gusts were a major nuisance, though, pelting the faces of people as they walked into the wind.
Although the traffic ban left some feeling fortunate they did not have to hike through knee-high snow on unplowed sidewalks, a few people faulted the governor's no-driving decree.
"We pay tax to use the roads, and we live in a city where this is to be expected, so I don't understand it,'' said Sonia Petersen, 29, as she walked along Shawmut Avenue.
Others thought the ban would make the city's streets navigable sooner.
"The snow removal has been much more efficient than I thought it would be. I wanted to go skiing on the streets, but they've gotten the snow off much faster,'' said Charlie Mamrak, 50, a biotech worker who was heading into the Common.
The deluge of snow left some feeling downright bored at home.
"There's nothing more to cook, there's no more cookies to bake, so we're going to take a walk and scope out the scene,'' said Jennifer Shea, 26, who was walking near Berkeley Street in the Back Bay with her best friend, Nicole Maras, 26. "This is fun. Just wandering aimlessly.''
In South Boston, residents of side streets dug out cars nearly buried in snow. Others took the storm as a cue to have fun.
"I felt pretty guilty, because everyone is out shoveling their cars and here I am walking to the bar,'' said Jan Thibault, 30, laughing outside the Lincoln Tavern on West Broadway. "My street isn't even plowed at all yet, so what's the point?''
In the Back Bay shopping district near Boylston and Newbury streets, residents flocked to the handful of grocery and convenience stores that remained open. With little room to push snow aside in the densely developed neighborhood, crews used heavy equipment to lift it into dump trucks, while police and transportation officials chased away cars that tried to park near the Prudential Center.
Nearby, outside the Ladder 17 firehouse on Columbus Avenue, firefighters placed a whimsical sign on a pile of snow that read, "FREE SNOW.''
The recovery was powered by more than 3,600 cleanup crews who continued to work on Saturday morning after a long night of battling the snow. They made the job easier for utility crews who slowly but steadily restored power throughout the day. By 9:30 p.m., the number of outages had dropped to 311,000, from more than 420,000.
The lack of MBTA service helped persuade the Boston Bruins to cancel their home game Saturday against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
State officials would not predict when power would be restored to all customers, including the hardest-hit areas of Southeastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod. National Grid said Saturday it expected all but customers in Norfolk and Plymouth counties to have power back within 24 hours. As of 4:30 p.m., the utility had roughly 131,800 customers without electricity.
Both National Grid and NStar had declared the snowstorm a "Level 5'' event — their highest designation — meaning the worst outages could last for three days or more.
"I'd like it to happen now,'' Patrick said of restoring all power. However, he added, ending the travel ban could affect the pace because traffic will make work more difficult for utility crews.
Overall, Patrick said, "we feel pretty good'' about the storm response.
"It's nature, so the forecast is always worrisome. Is it going to be as bad? Is it going to come when it's forecast? And is it going to last as long?'' Patrick said. "The forecasting here was pretty extraordinarily accurate and that helped. But it's not over. I mean, the storm is over. The recovery is what people will be focused on.''
Kurt Schwartz, director of the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, said the driving ban helped the state's recovery from the storm.
"The overnight travel ban worked extremely well for us,'' Schwartz said at a news conference. "We're very happy . . . that we're not dealing with clogged arteries, clogged secondary roads, and we can focus where we need to focus.''
In Boston, Menino echoed Patrick's assessment of the storm response. "I am happy to report the city so far has weathered this storm well,'' he said. "No major power outages. No severe flooding.''
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Archive for February 2010
Interactive visualization at your fingertips
With today's release of Tableau Public, Tableau Software has opened up infinite possibilites for researchers, corporations and enthusiasts alike to interact, explore and play with their data. More importantly, with Tableau Public one can now have 'interactive' visualizations online as opposed to static images. This is a step in the right direction for Data Visualization software, since increasingly one hears from domain experts who want to 'use' software and not have to write programs (however small or easy those programs may seem to the developer of the software). Tableau now allows researchers to explore their data and collaborate more effectively instead of having to share static 'screenshots' via email.
Such uses of visualization software have already been explored and shown to be hugely successful by the ManyEyes team in their CHI '08 paper, but the capabilities and strengths of both the products are in somewhat disjoint areas. For example, Tableau focuses on the Business Intelligence community and lacks certain visualizations such as Treemaps or Text visualizations (which ManyEyes seem to do really well). Other interesting and inspiring uses of Tableau Public can be found in their Gallery at http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/gallery. Dont forget to check out the NYC Graffiti workbook that they have online. Detailed training videos can be found at http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/training
ManyEyes – Reader s of this blog already know my fondness for IBM's Many Eyes. ManyEyes has been a pioneer in this field of online visualization software that facilitates data visualization without the need for programming. Research papers from the Many Eyes team detailing user interactions and unexpected uses of the visualization software can be found at http://bewitched.com/manyeyes.html
Verifiable is another such website that allows online visualization of data. So far the data visualizations that are possible are limited to bar charts, scatter plots and line charts but the trend is definitely promising and I hope they continue to improve the excellent service. A video can be found online at http://verifiable.com/screencast
Swivel is similar to Verifiable, where one can upload data and create online interactive visualizations. Videos for all the features in Swivel can be found at http://www.swivel.com/features. Unfortunately, they have a 15-day free trial that restricts the widespread use of their tools.
As I interact with experts and students from domains as wide as political sciences, biology, economics and so on, I am pleased to hear the awareness that they have for effective visualization but I am sometimes disheartened to have to tell them to learn programming to learn some of our nifty tools. Tableau Public, IBM Many Eyes and others are exceptional in the service that they provide. I envision more research groups, corporate websites and so on posting interactive visualizations with a 'Powered by Tableau' icon or something similar in the bottom right corner.


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When Karen Morgan was diagnosed with celiac disease 10 years ago — a "deathly sick" form of it — she stared it down like a good Texan. Give up favourite foods? No way!
Adhering to her pleasure principle, she became a self-taught gluten-free baker — such a good one that her cookbook, Blackbird Bakery Gluten-Free caught my eye. The photos of her recipes would stand up in a chic Donna Hay food shot. She once sold her baking online but now sticks to teaching and talking.
I telephoned her in Austin to ask her how she beautified the world of gluten-free foods.
"All the gluten-free cookbooks were below par, in my opinion," she says. "They never had photos of any of the finished products because it was too embarrassing to show what the recipes looked like. Breads were like bricks, desserts ran all over the pan or were dry and crumbly. The [retail] food products weren't much better, with sandy, grindy textures.
"I was raised a foodie and I felt very patronized. Friends told me to buck up but I couldn't stand the thought that this would be my life forever."
She worked at re-creating cakes, cookies, tarts — all of it — and if it didn't look and taste as good as their wheat-based counterparts, she just kept at it until she nailed it. "I put the gluten-free cookbooks aside and didn't reference them at all.
"I needed something completely different."
She concedes, though, that much has changed and that those were the pioneer days when people with celiac disease were doing the best they could with the ingredients they had.
And she's not surprised at the growing numbers of people avoiding gluten. "Our bodies can only tolerate certain levels of gluten before it becomes toxic. We can't tolerate it. In Italy, the land of pasta, the government offers subsidies to people requiring gluten-free food."
She says today's wheat contains 50 times more gluten than the wheat of 100 years ago, and people eat much more of it to boot.
What's also changed, to the relief of many sufferers, is what's available in the gluten-free world in recent years.
Local holistic nutritionist and culinary instructor Andrea Potter agrees with Morgan. "It's come a long way in the past five years," she says. "I was gluten intolerant a few years ago. I called it a wheat hangover. I'd feel bloated and be mentally groggy and tired. I bought gluten-free breads that were like door stops. You had to toast it and then slather things on it. Now they're a lot better, not so crumbly or heavy. We do one in my class that everyone in the family will eat."
At Choices Bakery, Lisa Wagner, the bakery operations manager, runs two separate bakeries — one for traditional baking and the other, gluten-free, to avoid gluten contamination.
"We have constant demand for more and more product in our eight stores," she says.
The gluten-free bakery opened in 1999 and back then, it was called a 'rice bakery.' Now, it's a different story.
With gluten-intolerant and gluten-sensitive people joining the ranks of celiac sufferers, there's an ever-growing number of alternative flours to bake with and satisfy demanding palates: almond, aramanth, millet, sorghum, tapioca, chestnut, tapioca, arrowroot, buckwheat, quinoa, taro, teff and others. There are also varietals of them — glutinous rice flour (no gluten) is more elastic than regular rice flour.
Wagner uses garbanzo and fava bean flour for some cookies as well as coconut flour. "Basically any grain or bean can be made into flour," she says. "We're working on changing flours around and inventing new ones. We also grind up nuts."
Choices now offers about 100 different gluten-free baked products, including seasonal items.
"We make everything from breads, corn biscuits, pizza shells, hamburger buns, cookies, muffins, squares to a whole line of cakes," says Wagner.
Professional bakers have learned it's best to combine the flours to maximize flavour, texture and stability. Proportions depend on what it is they're baking.
In North America, the go-to substitute for wheat flour began with rice flour. In place of gluten, they use guar gum (made from the seeds of guar bean) and xantham gum (produced by fermentation of glucose, sucros or lactose).
Potter's business, Rooted Nutrition, offers alternative cooking classes including gluten-free baking. She says she can't keep up with the demand for gluten-free classes.
"The classes are over-filled. The last time, people signed on for dates have hadn't yet been announced," says Potter. "Now they can buy everything they need for gluten-free baking at places like Choices, Whole Foods and Famous Foods."
She says that at first, people followed good recipes closely. "The pioneers took it on themselves. Now professionals who understand a little more about the science and process are developing recipes. I found my pastry background helpful — if a cake fell, I could diagnose the problem. But it's still in a pioneering stage," she says.
Morgan's mission is to empower people with celiac disease or gluten intolerance and to sidestep the culinary helplessness she sees in the growing tribe of the gluten-free.
"You don't have to sacrifice everything you've known to be good. They can have a lifestyle that's about pleasure and joy and feel like they haven't given anything up."
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PDSWeb brauchte ein neues Kodierte Website Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 64 Designs von 12 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
We are looking for a template that includes the home page design and sub-page. All CSS. Screen and print stylesheet needed.
Public Defender Service For the District of Columbia
Desired Color Scheme:
You may use Pantone 117c and 2955c as a reference
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Professional, Legal, Clean
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Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); css, html
PDS is looking to give its website a new professional look and feel that is attractive to its main audience: attorneys, investigators and law students that are involved in the criminal justice process. The idea is to replace what we currently have with an ASP.NET application. Our developer will work on the application, so we need a cool, professional, creative template for it.
Here is the link to the logo:
- Need home and sub-page design.
- Home page should include provided logo, a horizontal menu, picture rotator as shown in the samples, organization's address and main contact information. You may use stock photos to include in home page design. Here is a link to one image you may use if you want: http://www.pdsdc.org/contest/PDS%202007.jpg. This is the organization's group photo.
- Please provide a two column sub-page that will act as the template for all other pages within the site. Please incorporate logo, bread crumbs, footer with the organization's address and main contact information, copyright. etc.
- For the sub-page you must provide formatting for different elements, like lists, tables, forms, quotes, etc. They all must match with the color scheme specified.
- Text color black
- Use Pantone 117c and 2955c as color references
- clean lines
- All XHTML and CSS (screen and print-view stylesheet needed) that renders perfectly on most popular browsers. Sites we like:
- http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/
- http://www.trinitybirmingham.com/
- http://contests.sitepoint.com/conte…ies/264694


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Kim Yu-na wins gold at World Figure Skating Championships
LONDON, Ontario (AP) The Queen has reclaimed her crown.
Back at the World Figure Skating Championships for the first time in two years, Olympic champion Kim Yu-na looked as if she'd never been away Saturday night.
"It has been very long," Kim said. "I'm very happy to skate well here in Canada again. So thank you."
It wasn't just her margin of victory - with 218.31 points, she was a whopping 20 points ahead of defending champion Carolina Kostner - but the stunningly simple beauty of her performance. There is a regal elegance to her skating, fitting for the woman who is nicknamed "Queen Yu-na," and no one comes close to comparing.
In fact, it's really not even fair to make anyone else try.
Kim is technically superior. She's like a bumblebee when she jumps, daintily going from flower to flower. Her spins are quick and tight, with intricate positions that don't seem humanly possible. But it is her presentation that makes her incomparable.
Figure skating is meant to be a blend of art and athleticism, and Kim poured her entire soul into her feet. She didn't feel her music, from "Les Miserables," she was part of it.
With each soft tilt of her head, she brought back memories of the little girl who began skating for the pure love of it, before medals or titles or the expectations of an entire country and sport ever entered her mind.
The audience was on its feet long before she finished her final spin, and Kim clapped a hand to her mouth as she looked around the arena. After getting her medal, she was serenaded with cheers of "Queen Yu-na!"
Kim's longtime rival, Mao Asada of Japan, was third.
The U.S. women didn't win any medals, but they got the next-best thing, reclaiming a third spot for the Sochi Olympics. They needed to finish with a combined placement of 13, and Ashley Wagner was fifth and Gracie Gold sixth.
"We got three spots back and we came here to do that," Wagner said. "Mission accomplished."
Having the maximum three spots at the Olympics and world championships used to be a birthright for the American women. But they lost the third spot at the 2008 world championships and have never gotten it back.
Wagner was most affected by the loss of the third spot, missing the Vancouver Olympics because she finished third at the U.S. championships in 2010. She'd made it her mission to get it back, saying she didn't want anyone else to experience that disappointment.
This certainly won't go down as one of Wagner's best performances. She two-footed and underrotated the second jump in her double axel-triple toe loop combination, and also got a deduction for taking off on the wrong edge of her triple lutz. She was so slow for most of the program the Canadian Mounties were considering giving her a ticket for loitering. And she tripped on her footwork, the equivalent of falling over a crack in the sidewalk.
But it was good enough to get the job done.
It's the best finish for the U.S. women since 2006, when Kimmie Meissner won the title and Sasha Cohen finished third. But that worlds is also the last time the Americans have been on the podium, their longest drought since World War II.
"I always said my main goal coming into this worlds was getting the three spots back. That was my goal," Wagner said. "Getting on top of the podium or on the podium would be icing on the cake. For us, what we accomplished, with this strong international field, is more than standing on top of that podium."
Gold tried not to focus on winning back that third spot - no easy thing, considering she and Wagner were asked about it constantly - but she did more than her share.
Gold has struggled with inconsistency throughout her career, but she was solid in her first appearance at worlds. As always, it was her jumps carrying her program. Asada might have better springs, but even she can't match Gold's ferocity.
She attacks each jump like a matador going after a bull, going full-speed into the takeoff and soaring so high above the ice the judges had to crane their necks to see her. That power put her on the edge of danger, but she fought for every single point.
She two-footed her double axel, but it could have been a lot worse after how crooked in the air she was. And cats are jealous of the reflexes she showed in saving the landing of her triple salchow.
Her spins were solid, though they were all done in the same side of the rink, a choreographic no-no. And speaking of choreography, she doesn't let the music bother her one bit. Pick a song on any iPod and she could have been skating to it for as much as she acknowledged it.


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Chris Cole necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 94 diseños de 29 diseñadores freelance.
The Black Tulip and The Bread Winner
I am an associate producer for the film, The Black Tulip.
Here's a synoposis:
After the attacks on the World Trade Center, U.S. Forces drive the Taliban leadership from Kabul. For the first time, the brutal Taliban Mullah Mohammed Omar and his followers are in retreat, most are in hiding.
Seizing this new window of freedom, Farishta Mansouri along
with her husband Hadar celebrate their independence byturning her father's destroyed bookstore into a restaurant called "The Poet's Corner." Along with an open microphone, a small stage and
an invitation to all to read their poetry, the people of Afghanistan
now have a safe home to tell their stories and to sing their songs.
But like a lightening rod, these voices attract the darkest
and desperate Taliban. In their efforts to silence the family and the movement they've inspired, they target the Mansouri family in the most horrendous ways imaginable. The Mansouri's are forced to confront the dangers and do whatever it takes to protect their family.
Against all odds, the Taliban are given a lesson of their own.
21 and Up.
European and American Market.
The audience is informed, educated, up on current events...an audience that appreciates Foreign Films, dramas, etc.
Reference links:
Th Black Tulip:
Breadwinner Productions
The design has to be elegant yet brutal. Something that reflects the feeling of Afghanistan.
Please send me an email ASAP to: email@example.com.
This way I can invite you to the dropbox folder with all of the photographs. I can also send you are press kit that is in DIRE need of your design services.
We also may need your services for our WEB DESIGN for the film.
I would like to make sure that there is continuity for the all materials related to the Film. Logo, Press Kit, Website, etc.
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Davestaz necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 106 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
Cheltenham Veterinary Clinic
We have just purchased a 30 year old established veterinary clinic in Melbourne, Australia. We see small animals (mostly dogs, cats, and rabbits). It has an old, outdated feel to it and the typical blue vet sign attached to the face of the building. No work has been put into defining its image, and lacks a formal logo. We are 2 men in our early 30's, energetic and enthusiastic about growing this clinic into a quality, caring, reputable business. We want to create an image that easily identifies us and sticks firmly in the minds of our pet owners.
Our clinic values - trust, caring, nurture, family.
The clinic is located in the inner suburbs of Melbourne and we see mostly young families and their pets. Also many young 30's couples who have pets instead of kids. We also deal with other veterinary businesses in retail and wholesale.
NO cartoon animals.
Logo should be abstract and simple. Modern, flowing and clean. Eye catching. We encourage originality.
Some ideas that could be incorporated into the logo but are not an absolute necessity are as follows:
---> An icon, or visual symbol--probably incorporating the text "Cheltenham Veterinary Clinic" but not necessarily in the symbol itself (i.e. below it)
---> an outline/shape of the three main small animals (dog, cat and rabbit) that are treated at the clinic
---> a human arm and hand /or an abstract version of a human arm/hand (a vets hand, perhaps with lab coat sleeve) outstretched towards/holding an animals leg/paw
---> a human hand/ or an abstract version of a human hand cupping/holding the images of a dog/cat/rabbit.
---> a human hand and an animals paw print (or several paw prints) revolving around each other
- May incorporate the word/phrases (but not an absolute necessity):
"for the human animal bond"
"nuturing the human animal bond"
May try a square logo such as the popular graphics currently used i.e. Mac graphics, Facebook etc.
Colour: blue is most commonly associated with vet clinics, but any colour combo to be considered. Try gray/charcoal with orange
Logo will also be used for letterhead, business cards, website. Should be able to use it full color or black and white. And be able to be shrunk down and maintain its clarity
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Video: Bose® Companion® 20 multimedia speaker system
Heads up!Welcome to this article from the Crutchfield archives. Have fun reading it, but be aware that the information may be outdated and links may be broken.
Zach, Sr. Director of direct marketing at Crutchfield, tries out the Bose® Companion® 20 multimedia speaker system at his desk and tells us what he thinks.
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Zach: This week I had an opportunity to try out the Bose Companion 20. I wanted to share a little bit about that experience with you.
I have it hooked into an iPad here. I've been listening to music, mostly through Pandora. Sound is great. I'm used to computer speakers where we have a separate sub, but even when I occasionally get a track with a little more bass in there, they've done very well for me so I've been happy with that.
One of my favorite features has been the control pod. It's a really convenient way to adjust volume or mute your music. I have a lot of people coming in and out of the office each day, also the phone ringing a lot. If you have to open up your computer settings to adjust volume, or if you're going to the iPad to adjust volume, even though it's not hard, it takes you, it just takes you a second. This is at a hand's reach. It's very simple just to mute quickly if you need to answer the phone. There's a headphone input. There's also a line in if I decided to bring my iPod from home. Haven't used that yet, but it's really nice that they have it.
So set up for this is very simple. Folks dropped a box off on my desk and left me with it to hook it up. I did it in a couple of minutes right before heading out to lunch. Speakers plug into each other, plug into the control pad, plugs into the wall. Again, takes, takes a couple of minutes and you're listening to music. Nothing complicated here.
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By John Hirtle, Beach News Staff
Beach News, Thursday, August 18, 2005
[The following article is courtesy of Beach News]
[Beach News Photo Courtesy of the U.S. Navy]
Twice the sealanes of the Atlantic were endangered by German submarines known as U-Boats.
Twice the threat was defeated.
And twice, the vanquished U-Boats arrived at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard to be carefully inspected, dismantled, and disposed of. It was the ideal place to do so, since the yard was a leader in submarine design and construction, and the naval prison provided a good place to hold the U-Boat crews.
Only one U-Boat arrived in Portsmouth following World War One - a typical example of the U-Boats in service at the end of the war. The shipyard learned a great deal from her technology, leading to the development of the "Portsmouth Compressor", a device American submarines used for two decades to blow ballast in order to surface. After inspections, this U-Boat was taken on a war bond tour before she was sunk in Lake Michigan in compliance with the terms of the peace treaty.
World War Two saw more effort put into thwarting U-Boat activities along the Seacoast, since the Nazi U-Boats had a much greater range than their predecessors. A tower on Appledore Island at the Isles of Shoals was built to keep watch for the submarines and enemy vessels. The stacks of decaying pilings you see between Kittery Point and Wood Island were part of an anti-submarine net to keep U-Boats out of the port of Portsmouth. Three lines of mines and another anti-submarine net guarded the main passage into the Piscataqua River.
Despite all these defenses, U-Boat captains would boast that they knew their way to the shipyard when their submarines were brought in to surrender. Added to the intrigue was a mysterious explosion of one of the mines guarding the harbor in late 1943, followed by a still unexplained salvage operation off Hampton Beach shortly thereafter.
In all, some nine U-Boats arrived in Portsmouth, where American engineers could discover the secrets of German technology before the U-Boats were destroyed as required by the peace treaty.
The most enigmatic of the these was the U-234.
The 1600 ton U-234 was among the largest in the Nazi fleet, and the largest to arrive in Portsmouth. A Type X minelayer, this 305-foot submarine could carry 45 mines which could be deployed while it was submerged. However, laying mines was not its final wartime mission when the large sub surrendered to the Allies.
Rather than a cargo of mines, the U-234 was carrying something far more valuable- assistance for Nazi Germany's lone surviving ally, Japan. Tubes which would normally hold mines were filled with precious cargo. Extra fuel tanks were added to extend the submarine's impressive range enough so it might make the arduous journey across the globe from a besieged Europe to a blockaded Japan. A snorkel had also been fitted on the sub to permit the running of engines underwater, although it didn't supply air to the most important part of the submarine -- its crew.
On board as passengers were two German scientists, three Luftwaffe generals, and two Japanese naval officers. For cargo, the U-234 carried a disassembled jet fighter, which Japan hoped to copy and deploy against overwhelming American air power. Radar and other technological innovations from the Nazi Reich formed part of her cargo. Plans for some of Germany's latest weapons were included on microfilms, making the submarine an archive of Nazi Germany's technological triumphs.
Raw materials were also on board. Mercury, an important war material, was used as ballast rather than lead. More ominously, the U-234 was carrying 1,000 pounds of uranium oxide, about one-tenth of what is needed to construct a working atomic bomb.
Word of the German surrender came as the U-234 was en route to Japan. Rather than risk destruction, she surrendered to the allies. Predictably, the two Japanese officers committed suicide, but the rest of the submarine's crew and passengers were interred at the Naval Prison.
Workmen began the long and intense effort of dismantling and examining the submarine and its contents Apocryphal tales of workmen examining the submarine who found the uranium 235 sealed in steel cylinders made the mistake of ignoring the warnings of these prisoners, and cut the cylinders open and handled the hazardous material. Those who did developed black spots on their hands, and a few would develop leukemia or cancer. Of course at the time, the dangers of radiation were largely unknown, and news of the submarine's atomic cargo was kept secret as a threat to national security. In fact, uranium oxide had often been applied to U-Boat guns during the war to help prevent rust.
The final disposition of the uranium oxide after it was unloaded from the sub remains a mystery to this very day.
The U-234 was examined from top to bottom tested, stripped of her cargo and technology, before she was taken out and sunk at sea by the USS Greenfish. She sank in 500 feet of water between the Isles of Shoals and Jeffery's Ledge.
While the U-234 gained to most notoriety due to its final mission and cargo, other U-Boats were closely scrutinized as well. U-3008, one of the last and most advanced of the U-Boats built was briefly operated by the U.S. Navy to fully evaluate her capacities. While her technology was advanced, it wasn't quite perfected, and she was decommissioned in 1948.
The peace treaty decreed that all U-Boats surrendered to the Allies at the end of World War Two be destroyed though - and so they were either sunk off the coast, or scrapped. All save one.
The U-505 was a typical U-Boat in every way, save one: it was the first ship captured by the United States Navy on the high seas since the War of 1812. The intelligence bonanza from her seizure in mid-1944 was priceless, and since she was captured, and not surrendered, she was deemed exempt from the treaty. Sadly, you will have to go to Chicago to see her on display, where she is on permanent exhibit
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Ancestry.ca let us know yesterday that the World Archives Project has already started in Canada with the soon to be released "Ontario, Canada Marriage Registers by Clergy, 1896-1948."
If you go on Ancestry.ca, a mnetion is made that the project is 80% done already, so I guess they are trying to make sure that people know about it and will help them make it over the top.
They have said that it will be free when completed, and will include approximately 24,000 names as registered by the clergy under the Resignation Act of 1896.
No where do they say that this is already available at the Ontario Archives by microfilm (it is) and is also available by the Mormons - but it will be available on the Internet for the first time when it is completed by Ancestry.ca.
You can go to the site to access the download page and for instructions on how to use the indexing tool.
As Karen Peterson, Marketing Director of Ancestry.ca says, "Historical record preservation and access go hand-in-hand so it is important that institutions, business and individuals all play an active role to ensure that as many Canadian records are preserved for future generations as possible."


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IECQ certification saves time and costs
Because electrical and electronic products contain many, sometimes hundreds, of individual components and sub-assemblies, manufacturers want to be assured that the electronic components used in their products are of the required quality and reliability. To minimize incoming inspection costs and eliminate the need to carry out a quality audit on parts, they can choose suppliers who hold product approvals for their components.
IECQ, the IEC Quality Assessment System for Electronic Components, provides certification at the international level for a wide variety of electronic components. At present, there are eight families of components covered by IECQ:
- active components, including integrated circuits
- electromagnetic components
- electromechanical components
- electro-optic components
- hybrid integrated circuits
- passive components
- printed boards
- wires and cables
Then there are the processes and related materials that are incorporated in the electronic components and assemblies. But there is more to electronics than just the testing and certifying of components. IECQ is continuously expanding to address industry's needs: hazardous substances and avionics for example, or more recently ESD (electrostatic discharge).
Compliance with legislation made easy
Concern for the environment and the need to eliminate hazardous waste prompted IECQ to devise a new scheme to help electronic component suppliers prove that their products comply with the requirements to be free of hazardous substances. That was in 2005. Since then, the IECQ HSPM (Hazardous Substances Process Management) Scheme has grown tremendously.
Many countries have passed or are considering legislation restricting or forbidding the use of hazardous substances in electronic components. In the European Union, the RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) in electrical and electronic equipment and WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Directives took effect in July 2006. The revised RoHS Directive came into force in July 2011 while the new WEEE Directive was published in July 2012.
Through IECQ HSPM certification, electronic component manufacturers and suppliers can demonstrate that their electrical and electronic components and assemblies meet hazardous-substance-free specific local, national and international requirements. IECQ HSPM certificates have gained tremendous recognition in recent years and continue to do so, thus helping to reduce costs and time to market and eliminating the need for multiple testing.
Long-term supply control
The avionics industry is increasingly dependent on COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) electronic components. These are principally mainstream products, designed and manufactured not just for aerospace but for a wide variety of industries. But the sector has to meet its own requirements in terms of performance and durability.
The avionics industry also has to face a new threat in the form of counterfeit electronic components. Counterfeit prevention is essential for avionics applications, where reliability and safety are of the utmost importance. The IECQ ECMP (Electronic Component Management Plan) provides aircraft manufacturers with a global assessment and certification scheme covering their suppliers. Companies such as Boeing and Airbus are just two examples of those fighting against product piracy.
Presence at major trade shows
For many years, IECQ has been showcased at two leading events:
- electronica in Germany, where IECQ is invited and hosted by the VDE Certification and Testing Institute, one of the long-standing IECQ Certification Bodies. VDE and IECQ will again join forces and participate in the 2012 electronica show. Electronica, run every two years, is a major electronics trade show with thousands of exhibitors. Steve Allan, of the IECQ Secretariat, will be present at the VDE Stand.
- TAITRONICS (Taipei International Electronics Show), through the efforts of ECC Corporation (the US Member Body of the IECQ) and its Chinese Taipei representative,CTECCB (Chinese Taipei Electronic Components Certification Board). IECQ will again be showcased and David W Smith, IECQ Chairman, will participate as a key guest.
TAITRONICS is one of the most important electronics shows, attracting hundreds of manufacturers and suppliers not only from Asia but also from the rest of the world. It presents a great opportunity for IECQ to network and meet with professionals who have placed their trust in the System over a number of years, as well as to heighten its visibility in a very competitive market.
The IECQ website – www.iecq.org – provides detailed information of each of its schemes.


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By the time many eyes fall upon these lines, the gates to the Churchill Downs stable area will be open and Thoroughbreds will populate the barns in the historic track for the first time since December 31.
With the end of traditional winter break, during which the track's staff does repair and improvement work on its racing surfaces and stabling facilities, horses start flowing back into the barns on March 9 and training resumes the following day.
When it comes to harbingers of spring, the return of training beneath the Twin Spires ranks right up there with the first robin and jonquils and tulips that so vividly announce the approach of the season.
The rapid approach of spring coincides with the shrinking calendar for owners and trainers who hope to see their 3-year-olds in the starting gate for the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands on Saturday, May 5.
As the days quickly pass, the importance of each step on the road to Churchill Downs is magnified. And the missteps become all the more painful.
On the happy side of that equation are those connected to reigning 2012 2-year-old champion Hansen, who returned both to form and consideration as one of the most serious of Derby 138 contenders with a sharp victory in last Saturday's $400,000 Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct.
Hansen earned his championship honors and status as a major Derby contender in early November when he held off the favored and previously unbeaten Union Rags in a front-running win in the Grey Goose Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Churchill Downs.
But his star was dimmed in his first start of 2012 when he finished a soundly-beaten runner-up to Algorithms at the demanding one-turn mile distance at Gulfstream Park.
The flashy gray colt – a lot of Derby fans will call him white and bet on him because of that as the Derby draws near – got away from the gate poorly that day and rushed to the lead.
He ran out of gas that day, but lost to a very good horse in Algorithms and held off the late run of another nice one, My Adonis, to hold for second that day.
But the first loss of Hansen's young career produced doubts and questions.
Could trainer Mike Maker ever harness the colt's speed?
Can Hansen make it a mile and a quarter?
The latter question, of course, will not be answered by a member of this 3-year-old crop until the early evening of May 5, but the former posed a legitimate doubt.
And it loomed larger when Hansen drew an outside post in a full field of 12 horses in his return in the Gotham.
Maker, a soft-spoken former assistant to four-time Kentucky Derby winner and Hall of Famer D. Wayne Lukas, made some changes for the Gotham, the most obvious being the removal of Hansen's blinkers.
The tweaks, and the race underneath the colt, had a resounding impact and Hansen overcame the outside gate, a wide run around the first turn and then settled behind the leaders before moving to the lead and galloping to an impressive win over My Adonis.
The latter almost caught him in Florida, but never really threatened to do so in Saturday's stretch run in Queens.
The return to form, and the sight of the champion relaxing nicely off the lead, was great news for his Kentucky-based owners, Dr. Kendall Hansen and Louisville's Skychai Stable, a partnership headed by Harvey Diamond and Jim Shircliff.
Fans responded to Hansen's big effort by making him a solid third choice in last weekend's second of three pools in the Kentucky Derby Future Wager.
So as we welcome Hansen back to the roster of major Derby 138 players, the joy is tempered by the loss of Out of Bounds from the road to Louisville.
Darley Stable's winner of the Sham Stakes at Santa Anita suffered condylar fracture in his left front cannon bone during work out at the Southern California track.
It's a not a career-ending injury, or perhaps not even a season-ender. But it halted the Derby 138 dream of trainer Eoin Harty.
Now he joins the very talented Holy Bull winner Algorithms and Junebugred, who won the Smarty Jones at Oaklawn Park, on the sidelines for the Derby season.
Out of Bounds was a serious racehorse, though his pedigree was a bit questionable for a mile and a quarter on the first Saturday in May. My Derby Top 10 had Out of Bounds in the second spot behind Union Rags.
With his departure, here's my Derby 138 Top 10 for this week, viewable on www.KentuckyDerby.com:
- Union Rags
- El Padrino
- Sabercat
- Fed Biz
- Hansen
- Gemologist
- Creative Cause
- Dullahan
- Mark Valeski
- Alpha


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The ravage power of Hurricane Katrina has affected students, alumni, faculty, and staff in different ways. Professor Stephen Morillo was deeply anguished to watch his hometown of New Orleans go underwater but has been profoundly moved by the Wabash community reaction ever since.
"As the storm bore down on that Sunday night, I grimly assumed the worst, imaging the entire lake pushed by a 30-foot storm surge over the levees and into the city, putting everything under 20 feet of water," the chairman of the history department said.
Morillo's family has since moved from the New Orleans area but he did have many friends still living there. To date, most have reported being safely away from harm.
Morrilo gave the school year's second Chapel Talk and spoke of New Orleans' history with passion, humor, and a political swipe.
He talked movingly of areas of the city he had visited and known during his 27 years living there. He described the ninth ward, near the famed French Quarter area. He mimicked the 'nawlins' accent and his love for those people.
"It's musical, it's swampy, it's warm and humid … it's home. It was under 15 feet of damned flood water."
That brought the only visible emotional reaction from the Rhodes Scholar and Harvard graduate. The other strong emotion was expressed during his remarks.
"The day after the storm I'm thinking, 'my city is under water.' Then I started to see all these e-mails from students saying we've got to organize relief efforts," he recalled. "That was really moving and made me feel good about our community here."
The e-mail deluge was started by Josh Owens '07 a Sphinx Club member who organizes Chapel Talks. "There were all these e-mails out there so we talked about it in the club," he explained. "We talked about uniting campus. One thing Chapel is supposed to do is talk about our principles and what we stand for. We figured if we could use Chapel for what it's supposed to be then I think everyone is better off."
The Wabash community turned out in force with hundreds of students joining faculty, staff, and President Ford in the audience to hear Morrilo's remarks. A collection was taken for the disaster relief efforts spearheaded by the American Red Cross. The Wabash family contributed $2761 at the Chapel, with plans to continue to raise funds through Homecoming.
Morillo urged everyone to give what they could; calling New Orleans a great city that can and must be rebuilt. He even referred to it as the Atlantis that would rise again.
"Parts of the city are going to be an awful mess. It's going to take months to even get started. Some people haven't been able to get out, even now. Some people won't return. But most New Orleanians love their city so much they can't imagine not returning."
He had strong words for the federal government's response to the disaster and ended with a reminder bigger issues affect all citizens.
"More and bigger storms are coming. Global warming, a scientific fact, makes that inevitable. And in that sense, if we don't start working to repair our climate and our Earth, we're all new Orleanians, and we're all in for another disaster."
Hewitt is Wabash College's Director of New Media/Web Editor.
In Photos:
Above, Morillo talks about hometown New Orleans.
On homepage, A big bucket contains donations totaling $2761.


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Chapter 8: Trading Analysis
Chapter 9: Historical and Current Culture Media in North America (2013-2018)
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Chapter 11: Historical and Current Culture Media in Asia & Pacific (2013-2018)
Chapter 12: Historical and Current Culture Media in Europe (2013-2018)
Chapter 13: Historical and Current Culture Media in MEA (2013-2018)
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Chapter 15: Global Culture Media Forecast (2019-2023)
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|Canadian Corvettes, on antisubmarine duty while escorting a WW II convoy. National Archives of Canada / PA-115350
Library and Archives Canada has just announced the launch of a new online database, "Royal Canadian Navy Ledger Sheets (1910-1941)".
The LAC says that "Through this online database, researchers can access more than 16,700 references to individuals who served in the Royal Canadian Navy and the Naval Reserve between 1910 and 1918. It also includes some records for those who enlisted between 1919 and 1941".
The database is available at the following address:
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I had one uncle in the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War, and his name was John (Johnnie) Turner Barclay (b. 1916 – d. 1975) from Jordan Falls, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia. He was my father's brother, and his home base was CFB Halifax.
He often talked about the stormy weather that they had as they crossed the Northern Atlantic to fight off of the coast of England in the Battle of the Atlantic. He was in the engine room, and he said that there were cramped conditions in which they lived and worked during those long days at sea.
The navy lost 24 ships and 1,797 sailors in the war.
Admiralty House Museum, Halifax, NS http://psphalifax.ca/marcommuseum/convoys.html I have been at the museum in Halifax, and it is a beautiful place. The website says, "The museum has a library of over 50,000 volumes, archives, and a permanent collection displaying historical artifacts including model ships, weapons, photos, medals and much more".
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J.C. Penney is reporting massive losses and plunging sales for its fiscal fourth-quarter as the department store chain's plan to scale back most coupons and sales events has continued to turn off shoppers.
The results mark a full year of massive losses under CEO Ron Johnson, who took on the role in November 2011 to overhaul every aspect of Penney's business.
The company, based in Plano, Texas, says it lost $552 million, or $2.51 per share, for the period ended Feb. 2. That compares with a loss of $87 million, or 41 cents per share in the year-ago period.
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Revenue dropped 28.4 percent to $3.88 billion.
Analysts were expecting a loss of 23 cents on revenue of $4.08 billion.
Revenue at stores opened at least a year dropped 31.7 percent.
"There's really nothing that we've seen like it," Erika Maschmeyer, an analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co. in Chicago with a neutral rating on the stock, told Bloomberg of the decline. "They don't give much in the way of guidance, which makes it really hard to figure out how to think about this one for 2013, what is the base, and how well are these new promotions working."
The shares plunged as much as 17 percent in early trading in New York after the company announced its dismal sales, Bloomberg reported.
Johnson on Wednesday admitted that he had "made some big mistakes" and reiterated his plan to put 100 boutiques inside most J.C. Penney stores, according to Bloomberg. Penny's sales are well behind Gap Inc. (GPS) and shrank to half of those at Macy's Inc. (M), Bloomberg reported.


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Matt Damon kind of endorsed Mayor Mike Bloomberg's reelection bid Wednesday, in a tongue-in-cheek campaign video posted on the mayor's Web site and now making the rounds on YouTube.
In the clip, Bloomberg, who shot a scene for Damon's upcoming movie "The Adjustment Bureau" on Tuesday, meets Damon by the waterfront to ask the actor to endorse his mayoral run because "people care about what [he] thinks," which is arguable.
Damon -- who, like Bloomberg, is famously from Boston -- acts skeptical and asks, "Do you focus-group this stuff?"
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"There are a lot of people who say that a star like you, with experience like you, somebody who is part of new york and gets it and makes movies here..." Bloomberg pleads.
Damon claims he loves the job the mayor does and the "progress" he has made, but says he will only do the endorsement if it's something "original."
Cut to a scene of a very stiff-looking Damon, now in a boring Navy blue suit, giving a very dry and forced reading as he says "I'm Matt Damon and I highly endorse Mike Bloomberg for mayor of New York City."
Democratic rival William Thompson responded by noting that Damon isn't a real New Yorker.
"While the Mayor is busy courting endorsements from out of state celebrities, the unemployment rate in the City just hit 10.3 percent. Unfortunately for him, people who actually live in New York will decide this election," the Thompson campaign said in a statement.
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BABEL is an immersive theatrical experience of truly epic proportions created especially for Caledonian Park. This spectacular outdoor production, with a cast of 300, combines storytelling, live music, massed choirs and state-of-the-art visual effects to celebrate what it means to be part of a truly global community, and the world city that is London.
David Jays
"The ensuing narrative is portentous and simplistic, but also an argument about cities: the creative team proposes a vision of the city as an endearing ragbag, rather than zoned and ordered. People are messy; so is Babel."
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Kate Bassett
"Unfortunately, the storyline is a shambles. It's the prologue that's inspiring. Touchingly greeted at the park gates by angels – who say it's time to build a new city – the audience enter the woods to find lamplit, eerie and funny domestic scenes among the trees. A woman vacuums in the bushes, students sketch in the boughs, a blind jazzman improvises on a battered piano. Before the dictatorship drama, you're free to potter around a communal fair too, with bars, a rocking band and a swaying choir. Here you can playfully contribute to model paradises: mould flora and fauna for a Plasticine landscape; knit the fringe of an all-wool London. The teenage participants were jiving in wellies as I headed home."
Susannah Clapp
"It has the Wildworks hallmarks of imaginative location and a large subject, but the detail is smudged, the morale-boosting thumpingly explicit: it is as if the company had caught Olympic gung ho."
Natasha Tripney
"Part of the problem with the production is that it never defines its terms of engagement. Are the audience being invited to resist, to fight back, to riot? It doesn't seem so. A bigger sticking point is the writing - the flimsy fable-like narrative on which the production hangs is incredibly simplistic and it's hard to feel invested in anything that happens. There's some impressive projection work but the potency of the crowd never really comes into play and most people just end up milling around in the mud, awkward and uncertain."
Charles Spencer
"The show ... struck me as a pathetically tame response to one of the most potent of biblical stories. There are some clever projections on the clock tower and for a couple of exciting moments it looks as though one of the evicted homemakers was going to be chucked from its 150 ft summit. But the show dwindles into anticlimax and tiresome platitudes in which we are instructed to "cherish the child that holds your hand." At this point I thought I might throw up."
Andrzej Lukowski
"It's essentially a riff on the Arab Spring delivered with the sanitised élan of a propaganda video or Disney theme-park ride."
Libby Purves
"Yearning to feel something, I did warm to the gentle final procession of singers carrying lanterns shaped like houses, but then got irritated by a bossy instruction to live for the day, love people who love me, and cherish the little child who holds my hand. Aaagh. It's rained a lot lately, and the lay cast members are absolute heroes to go through with it. But they deserved better from theatre professionals than a facile, preachy, smug script, iced with expensive son et lumière. Having your heart in the right place and a big budget is not enough."
Henry Hitchings
"The star of the show is the tower itself, an ornate Victorian structure. It's worth recognizing, too, the commitment of the non-professional actors. Yet the end product is a damp squib, whether or not the rain falls. "
Lyn Gardner
"At a time when the Occupy movement is examining new social structures created by and for the people most failed by the old ones, and when millions are displaced around the world because of the whims of the market, there has rarely been a more urgent need for a project such as Babel. But it fails Londoners and theatregoers. It is too politically naive, too lacking in complexity and texture; it never connects the stories of the city in a meaningful way. It may have brought its participants and performers together, but it doesn't involve its audience."
Holly Williams
"After 45 minutes, standing around on waterlogged grass is losing its charm. Sadly, when the play proper gets going, it's just as muddy. The tower "calls" the people, but security guards want us removed. House-shaped wicker structures are forcibly moved, evoking the struggles at Occupy camps or Dale Farm. But these resonances aren't really explored; instead the crowd is half-heartedly encouraged to bay at the nasty coppers. The whole thing lacks any real nuance or bite, as the struggles between the good people and 'the man' are rather limply played out."


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I shoot a Rem 700 XCR Tactical in .300 WinMag and its a great rifle . When I found a Rem 700 SPS in .300 AAC I bought it on the spot and it is a very accurate rifle as well . I read several comments on the web about ejection problems . The only problem I noticed is If you don't work the bolt like you mean it the empty case will just clear the reciever or even stay in the ejection port wich does not bother me because I usually work the bolt slow and manualy remove them . The new Remington trigger is nice when they came out with the "safer" ones a few years ago I thought it was over for the standard 700 trigger but I think they worked the buggs out on this one .
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Hmm, never heard this before. My last 700 I bought (sps varmint 308) has an awesome ejector. Even if I work the bolt as slowly as possible, it will toss the empty case a couple of feet; working the bolt hard and fast, it will nearly hit the guy at the next bench over! The old BDL 3006 I had wasn't quite as strong, but never did what you are describing. I did initially have a problem reliably feed cartridges from the left side of the stack, but a little flitz on the rough metal edge fixed that right up.
BTW, '700 snipers' is a very poor wording. Do you mean rem700 sniper rifles? Or snipers who use 700's? Either way many people will have issue with your incorrect use of terms. Just fair warning before the flames start...
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I have only fired 10 shots from this rifle so far it shold losen up on its on . Great litle rifle otherwise . 6 shots to zero then a 4 shot group at 100 yards I could cover with a nickel . I will watch my wording . I was refering to the rifles as they are Tactical models . Thanks for the warning , do not see any offense in the wording either way I will chose statments better but I'm not good at walking on egg shells .
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Harris: Welcome To Populist NASCAR
By Mike Harris | Senior Writer
Concord, N.C. – It seems there is some kind of populist movement under way in NASCAR.
Over the years, the wheels of NASCAR's hierarchy have tended to turn a lot slower than the wheels on its race cars.
Part of the reason for the sanctioning organization taking its good old time making changes was because those in charge – notably Big Bill France and his son Bill France Jr., who succeeded NASCAR's founder – were very conservative in the way they approached change. Any change.
And, folks, NASCAR was no democracy under those two.
Each change over the years has come after long deliberations and, often, without consulting anyone outside of NASCAR headquarters.
And a lot of things have remained the same because NASCAR felt it was a way to keep things under control.
Case in point, the fact that NASCAR still uses carburetors instead of electronic fuel injection, which has been around for decades. Low-tech carburetors are considerably easier to police.
Brian France, the latest leader of the stock car sport, is in the process of changing that kind of thinking.
Citing meetings with drivers and owners, as well as responses from NASCAR's fan council (a group of about 12,000 of stock car racing's most rabid supporters) as the catalyst, France and the rest of the sport's leaders announced a series of significant changes and decisions for the 2010 season Thursday during the final stop of the annual NASCAR Media Tour sponsored by Charlotte Motor Speedway.
The purpose of the changes, NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France said, is "To get the car to drive as good as it can."
NASCAR, France said, is a "contact sport" and leadership intends to let drivers, "mix it up".
"We're going to open it up. We want what you want," France said to fans.
Those changes, revealed at the NASCAR Research and Development Center in Concord, N.C. by series vice president of competition Robin Pemberton, included:
* Elimination of bump drafting rules. "Boys," Pemberton said, "have at it, that's all I can say."
* Larger resrictor plates will be in place at Daytona. The size of the holes in the plates will be 63/64ths of an inch, which makes them the largest since the 1980 Daytona 500 and gives the drivers more horsepower and better throttle response to go with some announced aerodynamic changes.
* Rear wings will disappear this coming season and blade spoilers will reappear. It is hoped that will be accomplished in time for the race at Texas Motor Speedway on April 18.
* Beginning with the Feb. 13 season opener at Daytona, NASCAR Nationwide Series teams will be limited to 15 crew members, including the driver, crew chief, spotter and seven over-the-wall pit-crew members. Teams also won't be required to provide a scorer. Last year teams had no limit on at-track crew members.
* NASCAR Nationwide Series teams may run no more than two races in 2010 without using an engine sealed by series officials. Last year they could run three races before using a sealed engine.
* NASCAR Camping World Truck Series teams will use double-file restarts "shootout style" in 2010, making restart rules uniform across all three national series. Teams also will return to traditional pit stops, eliminating last year's procedure of refueling and changing tires on separate stops. Teams also may use a new, vented fuel dump can, eliminating the need for a catch can.
Not changing will be the existence of yellow no-passing lines at the plate tracks of Daytona and Talladega.
Pemberton said the erasing of the yellow lines was discussed with teams and drivers and the reaction was, don't do it.
"We threw it out there," Pemberton said. "I wouldn't say it was 50/50. Probably not 70/30. Most drivers said we've got enough changes" for the upcoming season.
The announced changes stem from a desire by NASCAR to start "Putting things back into the hands of the drivers. We intend to loosen up," France said. "We want to make very good racing, better."
As for the change from wings to spoilers, he said, "They want to go back to a more traditional handling car, and that's what we're doing.''
NASCAR president Mike Helton said that the series will allow drivers more freedom to express themselves in 2010.
"We will continue to let the drivers be themselves,'' Helton said. "It means we are encouraging the people in the sport (to show) their characters and personalities, but we have to be sure we don't step too far in that direction.
"We know today the car is safer than it was five years ago – much safer – and the racetracks, too.''
France said NASCAR got a tremendous amount of feedback from its town hall style meetings with owners and drivers last May, but got even more at smaller, team-by-team meetings in recent weeks.
"What surprised me, if anything, was there was a lot of opinion," France said. "In the town hall meetings, a lot of people didn't want to speak up when there were 12 other drivers or something like that, and they didn't feel comfortable. There was a lot more of an exchange of what we had to say to them and their reaction to that."
As for the fan council, France said NASCAR is listening.
He noted that reaction from the fan council and other research has been at least partly responsible for the advent of the double-file restarts last season, the upcoming swap of wings for spoilers on the Cup cars and the uniform race starting times that go into effect this season.
"We're listening to what our fans are saying,'' France said. "The way you communicate with people is different now, and we have to change with the times.''
Want more proof?
Pemberton said NASCAR is even studying a change from carburetors to electronic fuel injection.
"We're already testing fuel injection systems,'' he said. "Some teams already have prototypes in testing and our goal is to shoot for 2011.''
Times have certainly changed.
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The dollar is continuing to gain against world currencies following the latest signs that the U.S. economy is strengthening.
The Labor Department reported that applications for unemployment benefits fell to a five-year low last week.
The euro declined to $1.2948 from $1.2961 late Wednesday as European Union leaders gathered for a summit beset by anti-austerity protesters.
The dollar rose to 96.34 Japanese yen from 96.10 yen. Japan's lower house of Parliament endorsed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's choice to lead the nation's central bank. Haruhiko Kuroda is expected to ease Japan's monetary policy.
The British pound was one of the few major currencies rising against the dollar. It increased to $1.4992 from $1.4914.


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Fusion Rocket Could Hurtle Astronauts to Mars in 30 Days
Apr 11, 2013 8:00 AM PT
Scientists from the University of Washington and MSNW are working on a fusion-powered rocket that could slash the estimated four-year round trip from Earth to Mars to a maximum of 90 days.
The technology might also make flights to Mars affordable. The launch cost alone of a manned flight using chemical rocket fuel would be about US$12 billion, according to UW.
The project has received two rounds of funding from NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts Program. It's led by John Slough, an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at UW who is also president and director of research at MSNW.
Project Details
The project uses powerful magnets to implode lithium rings, which collapse a conventional deuterium-tritium mix of fusion plasma into a fusion state about once a minute.
Lithium was used because it is the lightest metal, meaning it has the smallest atomic number, Slough told TechNewsWorld. "For a given fusion energy yield, the lightest atoms result in the highest exhaust velocity -- important if you want to go fast."
One set of three rings weighing about 350 gm will be used for each implosion, Slough said. The pressure inside the rings will reach 600,000 atmospheres for a few microseconds, vaporizing the rings. The resulting superheated ionized metal will be ejected out of a divergent magnetic nozzle at high velocity.
The magnetic field will peak at about 12 tesla, he said. However, it will not affect the spacecraft's onboard computers because "a thin metal sheet is sufficient to screen out a pulsed magnetic field. The field from MRI magnets is of equivalent strength, and it is on steady state in the presence of very sensitive equipment."
Solar energy will be used to charge the capacitors that generate the magnetic power. "Modern capacitors can easily store two kJ (kilojoules) per kilogram," Slough pointed out. "For two MJ (megajoules) of storage, the cap mass is 1 ton. No big deal on a 134-ton spacecraft."
Volume won't be an issue, as the capacitors have roughly the same density as water -- one ton per cubic meter, he added.
"The propulsion aspects aren't necessarily new," Ben Corbin, a Ph.D. candidate in aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told TechNewsWorld.
Getting to Barsoom
The fusion rocket will be activated for roughly 10 percent of the total trip, split between start-up and braking, Slough said. About 200 gm of plasma would be required to fuel a trip to Mars and back.
Roughly 80 metric tons of lithium rings would also be needed, but storage space won't be an issue because "the propellant amounts to less than 50 percent of the spacecraft mass," he said. "Rocket launches from Earth are typically 98 percent propellant."
NASA's Role in Fusion
Slough's team presented its mission analysis for a trip to Mars -- together with detailed computer modeling and initial experiment results -- to NASA in March. All portions of the process have been tested successfully in the lab, and the team now has to combine all the tests into a final experiment that actually produces fusion using its technology.
NASA's two rounds of funding totaled $600,000, Slough said. A NASA spokesperson was not immediately available to comment for this story.
Slough's project isn't NASA's first involvement in fusion. In June 2011, John Chapman, a physicist and electronics engineer at the agency's Langley Research Center in Virginia, presented his idea for a motor that would extract energy from boron fuel instead of the more regularly used deuterium-tritium mix.
Fusion engines are far more efficient than conventional chemical engines. Other approaches to fusion engines include the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMIR) and the Gasdynamic Mirror Thruster.
Physicists at the University of Alabama in Huntsville are using the Decade Module Two, a pulsed power design used by the U.S. Department of Defense for weapons effects testing in the 1990s. They are trying to fuse lithium and hydrogen atoms and turn some of their mass into pure energy to see whether the theory behind the pulse fusion propulsion model is valid.


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Novato, CA
John L. Garvey III
March 23, 1945 - March 19, 2013
John L. Garvey III, 67 years old, passed away at home in Novato, California on March 19, 2013 surrounded by
family. John was born to the late Rosemary S. McEntee and
the late John L.
Garvey, Jr. of Stockton on March 23, 1945. John was a concert pianist who performed the great classical masterpieces by Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Chopin, Bach, and Scriabin to audiences across California; his favorite pianist was Vladimir Horowitz. John taught piano to students throughout Stockton. John was early recognized as a music prodigy and student of Russian Concert Maestro and former pianist of the San Francisco Symphony, Lev Shorr. John also was a painter and during his honorable tour of duty in the US Army, received a medal of distinction for having painted a mural on the walls of a military base in Texas. His oil paintings of coastal scenes along the Sonoma Coast also hang in private collections.
John is survived by his devoted sister, Rosemary Garvey, brother-in-law Dominick Wall, of Novato, brother Henry Garvey, sister-in-law Thelma Garvey of Alameda, daughter, Danielle Garvey Blake, son-in-law Ken Blake of Guerneville, son Jonathan Karl Garvey of Florida, and step-son, Andrew Murray, of Sacramento; grandchildren Skyelar Garvey,
and Leif Garvey of Belgium, granddaughters Shelby Augusto, and Emily Blake of Guerneville, grandson Austin Blake of Stockton, nephews Cohn Garvey, and Austin Garvey of Alameda.
Memorial gifts may be made to Hospice by the Bay, 17 E. Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Larkspur, CA 94939.