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Monday, October 1, 2012
»Marek Elzanowski and Serge Preston, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, organized the session Geometric Methods in Mechanics and Thermodynamics at the Algebra Geometry Mathematical Physics 8 meeting at the Technical University of Brno, Brno, Czech Republi
»Anmarie Trimble, University Studies faculty, authored "No Theory But for Practice: Born, Multimedia, and the Avant-Garde" published in the anthology The New Work of Composing, Computers and Composition Digital Press, Utah State University Press. The eBook
»Eric Mankowski, Psychology faculty, delivered a keynote address, "Better Practice in Batterer Intervention: What Does Research Tell Us?" at the annual conference of the Northwest Association of Domestic Violence Treatment Professionals, Vancouver, Wash.,
»Margaret Everett, Graduate Studies and Sociology faculty, was awarded a $23,000 grant from the Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund for a study, Healing and Gender in Urban Oaxaca: A Medical Anthropology Study of Mexico's Pentecostal Movement. The award is
»Nathan McClintock, Urban Studies and Planning, presented "Bridging University and Community through Urban Agriculture Education: Experiences from Portland" at the Urban Agriculture Summit in Toronto, Ontario, Aug. 17, and at the Sustainable Agriculture Ed
»Jill Rissi, Public Administration faculty, received a $225,223 contract from the Oregon Health Authority to evaluate the PEBB Health Engagement Model. She will be working with Leslie McBride, Community Health faculty, researchers from the Providence Healt
»DeLys Ostlund, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented "La prueba de los ingenios: En defensa del ingenio femenino" at the Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas, pre-1800 2012 Conference in Portland, Sept. 13-15.
»Jodi Lapidus, Mathematics & Statistics adjunct faculty and OHSU faculty, presented an invited talk, "A Variable Selection Method for Logistic Regression Models Based on the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve" at the Seminar on Applied Statistics spon
»Vicki Reitenauer, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Seanna Kerrigan, University Studies, presented "Facilitating Critical Thinking in Cooperative Education Settings" at the 9th International Conference on Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education
»Eva Nunez and Raven Chakerian, World Languages and Literatures faculty, authored an article, "A Comparative Linguistic Study Between Sicilian and Spanish," published in International Journal of Literature and Linguistics, (2012) Vol. 25: 249-274.
»Sully Taylor, Business Administration faculty, presented a paper, "Career Management and Social Capital in MNCs," at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, Aug. 3-7.
»Harry Anastasiou, International Peace and Conflict Studies faculty, was invited by the U.S. Department of State to present an up-to-date analysis of the Cyprus conflict and the effect of regional developments on the country. The event took place in Washin
»Christof Teuscher, Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty, presented the paper "Memristor-Based Reservoir Computing" at the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures held in Amsterdam, July 4-5. The work was done by graduate student
»Talya Bauer and Berrin Erdogan, Business Administration faculty, co-authored a chapter titled "Organizational Socialization Outcomes: Now and Into the Future" published in The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Socialization, Oxford University Press.
»Jon Holt, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented "'Thus Have I Heard': the Auditory Hallucination Poetry of Miyazawa Kenji" at the 2012 Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Sept. 21.
»Donald Truxillo, Psychology faculty, presented a workshop, "Age in the Workplace: Myths, Realities, and Emerging Questions for Employers and Society," at the 19th annual Oregon Diversity Conference in Salem, Sept. 12-13.
»Jennifer Dill, Urban Studies faculty and OTREC, co-authored an article with doctoral students Arlie Adkins (lead author) and Gretchen Luhr, and Community Health faculty Margaret Neal, "Unpacking Walkability: Testing the Influence of Urban Design Features
»Emily Ford, Library faculty, authored a blog post, "What Do We Do and Why Do We Do It?" for the group, peer-reviewed blog In the Library with the Lead Pipe on Aug. 8.
»Becki Hunt Ingersoll, Advising and Career Services, and James Ofsink, Student Financial Aid and Scholarships, authored an article, "Pushed Across the Finish: One University's Success in Helping Students Complete Their Degrees Despite Obstacles," published
»Richard Lycan, Urban and Public Affairs; Mark Sytsma and Rich Miller, Center for Lakes and Reservoirs; Will Garrick and Morgan Harvey, Academic Research and Computing; and Dave Banis, Geography, co-authored an article, "Developing the On-Line Atlas of Ore
»Leerom Medovoi, English faculty, authored "Dogma Line Racism: Islamophobia and the Second Axis of Race" published in Social Text, Vol. 30, No. 2, Summer 2012.
»Laura Schott, Athletics, was recently inducted in the Jesuit High School Hall of Fame. Schott is head soccer coach at PSU. While at Jesuit, she scored 116 career goals, helping to lead the school to four state titles.
»Lee Shaker, Communication faculty, authored "Local Political Knowledge and Assessments of Citizen Competence" published in Public Opinion Quarterly.
»Marion Sharp, Education faculty; Kellie Herold, Social Work faculty; and others in Oregon's services community, received a regional award for PSU's Therapy with Adoptive and Foster Parents program, which Sharp heads. The collaborative program was the 2012
»Vivek Shandas, Urban Studies and Planning, authored a paper with graduate research assistants Meenakshi Rao and Moriah McSharry McGrath entitled "The Implications of Climate Change on Residential Water Use: A Micro-Scale Analysis of Portland (OR)" publish
»Heather Burns, Education Leadership and Policy faculty, presented "Cultivating Integrative, Engaged and Transformative Learning: Lessons from the Learning Gardens Laboratory" at the Sustainable Agriculture Education Association national conference in Corv
»Michael J. Smith, Educational Leadership and Policy faculty, authored "Cooperation, College Knowledge, and Strong Parent Communities in the L.A. Concrete Jungle: The Case for Family-Centered Outreach" published in the Metropolitan Universities Journal, Vo


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The Dangers of Metal Fillings
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Not only are traditional metal fillings unattractive, but they are now believed to pose significant health risks, as well. Metal fillings may release toxic chemicals into the blood, and they definitely cause more tooth damage than new, composite resin fillings. Composite fillings, also known as white or tooth-colored fillings, are rapidly becoming the restoration of choice for patients and dentists alike.
Silver fillings are actually an amalgam material composed of up to fifty percent mercury, a metal that has been found to be more toxic than arsenic, lead, or cadmium. Mercury can leak from metal fillings over time, exposing the body to this toxic substance. Some doctors believe that even small amounts of mercury in body can lead to physical and psychological problems such as birth effects, mental disorders, and some neurodegenerative diseases. While the debate concerning the safety of metal fillings is ongoing, many dentists have stopped using this material and switched to a resin composite material.
Not only do metal fillings present a risk to the patient's health, but they also have the potential to cause tooth breakage. The metal in fillings expands and contracts with temperature fluctuations, and this can cause already weak teeth to crack. Often, a dental crown or even tooth extraction is the only solution when this happens.
Health risks aside, the main reason most patients opt for white or tooth-colored fillings is aesthetic: these fillings are crafted to match the color of natural teeth so closely that they are virtually undetectable. While the debate as to the safety of metal filings continues, dental insurance companies still consider white resin fillings to be an elective cosmetic choice, so white fillings are not usually covered by dental insurance plans. Still, many patients find that the added cost is worth it because tooth-colored fillings are not only the safer, but the more attractive restoration option.
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Welcome to the Catholic Medical Quarterly (CMQ) website. The CMQ is a medical journal set up to discuss key issues in medicine as they relate to and support doctors nurses and other health care professionals in their practice. It is the journal of the Catholic Medical Association (UK).
Views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the CMQ editor of those of the CMA(UK). The CMQ was originally published in 1947 as the Catholic Medical Gazette. The purpose of the CMQ is to provide and describe an evidence base that enables understanding of the teaching of Christ and his Church as requested by Pope Paul VI, St Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict and Pope Francis
CMA Annual Symposium 2019
Following Jesus in Healthcare. 4th May 2019.
The Annual Conference of the Catholic Medical Association will be held at Hull University Catholic Chaplaincy. Keynote speakers include
- David Quinn, Director of the Iona Institute and former editor of the "Irish Catholic". Bringing faith into public life
- Sr Andrea Fraile, Sisters of the Gospel of Life. Helping people in a crisis: the work of the Sisters of the Gospel of Life
Welcoming professionals and students of all healthcare professions, Chaplains and all who have an interest in a Catholic view of healthcare today.
- How can we keep a strong faith in a busy career?
- How do we bring hope?
- What is the purpose of healing and healthcare?
- How can we "live our faith" at work?
More details at https://www.facebook.com/pg/cmaenglandandwales/events/
All are welcome. 10am to 6.30pm Saturday 4th May.
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For Bangladesh cricket, an era of upheaval has begun in the last couple of months. It all started with the impressive win of Bangladesh U-19 team over Australia in the plate final. Then came the much-awaited ODI win over Zimbabwe from the seniors, followed by two more fantastic close matches. Now, our A team has just bagged 2 back-to-back series against another test playing nation's A team. This is another milestone for our cricket. We never won a series before.
Time for a Recap
by Masum Billah
Published: 11th April, 2004
For Bangladesh cricket, an era of upheaval has begun in the last couple of months. It all started with the impressive win of Bangladesh U-19 team over Australia in the plate final. Then came the much-awaited ODI win over Zimbabwe from the seniors, followed by two more fantastic close matches. Now, our A team has just bagged 2 back-to-back series against another test playing nation's A team. This is another milestone for our cricket. We never won a series before. We've been enjoying a relatively good time in following our teams. Now we are even dreaming of snatching a win against the legendary West Indians in the upcoming series.
India is finally playing cricket with Pakistan. A few years ago, the avid followers of the game were upset with the Indian sports minister Uma Bharti's stern stance on no cricket with Pakistan. They argued that this ban would damage cricket in both countries. Well, if nothing else, the coveted series between these two opponents has definitely enriched cricket itself. We've enjoyed a tremendous ODI series. Records are being made and broken all over the place. In the long run this series is readily boosting the level of cricket in the whole region. Cricket fever has a tight grip on the subcontinent at the moment.
So, what else happened in these recent news-rich weeks? The list is full of "first-ver", "best" "best-ever" and even "worst"s. A look of other significant events that packed the cricket logbook in the last couple of months:
- Bangladesh hosted the most successful U-19 cricket world cup ever.
- Shane Warne and Muralitharan both crossed the 500 wicket mark in test cricket.
- Shewag set a new milestone with a first-ever triple ton by an Indian. The first innings Indian score of 675 was also the highest ever against Pakistan. Shewag also helped set the highest 3rd wicket Indian partnership record.
- New record has been set on highest aggregate runs scored in an ODI - 693 runs(India vs Pak, 1st ODI). As a matter of fact, the first 4 matches of the ODI were so exciting that the decider, despite being a competitive match, looked somewhat anti-climactic.
- West Indies dropped a home series to England for the first time in 36 years.
- India won their first Test on Pak soil in the 52 years of their cricket history.
- New Zealand won the first-ever home test match against South Africa.
- West Indies were all out for their lowest ever test score of 47 runs against England (2nd innings, 1st test, Kingston, Jamaica)
- Lara just tied Donald Bradman's record of 2 triple test tons in the last test of the series.
Other notable mentions are: Bangladesh' finding a number of promising, quality players for our national sides. Suddenly, we have some choices. Our Dav Whatmore has just turned the fifty young last month. Of the not so good news were Heath Streak's resignation or sacking as Zimbabwean captain, and the ensuing turmoil in Zimbabwe cricket. Also negative was the Rafique incident for Bangladesh in Zimbabwe.
This is high time for cricket fans. Thanks to the relative successes of Bangladeshi teams, this is a special exciting time for us. The sporadic bright spots are extra sweet in the pioneering years of our young cricket history. Surely as years go by, we will get used to routine victories against weaker opponents. We would also be assured of some level of consistency in our appearances. At present, however, every game is a coin toss for us. On a day when all of our chips fall right, anything can happen. Considering the drama unfolding in the international arena in the last few weeks, I say, enjoy the magic, people. Best wishes for our boys and Viva la cricket!
About the author(s): Besides authoring witty and informative articles on Bangladesh cricket, Masum Billah contributes and shares much more of his insights on our forums, where he goes by the nick "billah".
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Studded oversized denim jacket: Choies
Missing Unicorn tee: Urban Outfitters
Bandage leggings: eBay
I adore that shirt so much - usually I don't wear tees with "cute" or "childish" prints, but this one is simply amazing. I love the pastel colored tie dye print, the destroyed details and its cut. I wear it together with my oversized denim jacket I got from Choies several months ago and my bandage leggings. I can also finally show you my new favorite lipstick, it's a dark purple one. It's classy and I think it goes perfectly with light denim colors - I just recognized that I've never worn my denim jacket without wearing red or purple lipstick on my lips haha.


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10,000 Things | MOTE105
Rumour has it there�s a volcanic new scene waiting to erupt in the vicinity of Leeds, if that�s so then at its core must surely be 10,000 Things, a six-man explosion of riff and mischief who are stunning large, rowdy crowds every time they play in the city. This is the debut EP from 10,000 Things, recorded by Phil Brown, a man who was in the room when All Along The Watchtower, Stairway To Heaven and Sympathy For the Devil were recorded. It took one look at 10,000 Things live in a Leeds backstreet, to convince this venerable producer that here was the stuff of future legend. And yes, the sessions included a run-in with the law, a cross-country dash, a sideboard full of skunk and a lake of milky tea. And that was just day one. Out on Dusty Company/Domino.
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545 Ford Engine Dyno EZ-EFI Install - The Hot Rod Hauler
Our 545-inch Ford Gets EZ-EFI and Goes On the Dyno
We suspect that for just about anyone firing up a new engine on a dyno for the first time, the anticipation is something akin to buying a lottery ticket—you're not sure what to expect, but hope for the best. All we can say is we hit the jackpot this time around as our big Ford impressed everyone, including engine builder John Beck of Vintage Hot Rods and Design/Pro Machine, and John's not the easiest guy on the planet to impress, but we're getting ahead of ourselves.
When it came time to build a fresh engine for the Hot Rod Hauler, our first challenge was finding a good 460 block as our trusty truck's powerplant had been bored as far as we dared. Ironically a couple of Chevy guys came to the rescue-—Barry Giannoni and Steve Atherton of Barry's Chevy Parts donated a standard-bore block to the cause. Like the bottom, the top end of our engine had also outlived its usefulness, so we turned to Ford Racing and Performance Parts for a pair of their deep-breathing SCJ aluminum heads. Our goal was an engine that produced stump-pulling torque above all else, so we elected to bump up the displacement with a -inch Eagle stroker kit from Summit. The long arm coupled with a .030-inch overbore resulted in 545 cubic inches. We chose a mild Comp Cams roller hydraulic cam and roller rockers, Weiand intake manifold, MSD ignition and Hedman Hedders. All the machine work was done in-house at VHRD/Pro Machine by Russ Beck (no relation to John) and John did the assembly (the details of the build can be found in the October 2012 CCT).
Because we were looking for the utmost efficiency from this engine we topped it off with an EZ-EFI system from FAST. A number of factors influenced our decision, chief among them that no laptop is required and the system is self-learning—it will tune itself as you drive. FAST offers an array of fuel-injection computer kits that can be used to operate OEM factory systems (and ignition), FAST XFI port injection with ignition, 8-stack injectors, or the EZ-EFI with a 4150-style throttle body injector; we chose the latter.
Unlike a conventional four-barrel carburetor, the FAST EZ-EFI throttle body (which may be used in pairs for dual quad systems) operates the four throttle blades simultaneously. There is an electronic injector in each throttle bore and they "bank fire," which means that one side pulses, or squirts fuel, then the other fires. The computer controls the amount of fuel supplied by adjusting the pulse width, which is computer speak for how long the injectors stay open.
Like most EFI systems the computer relies on a variety of sensors to control air/fuel ratios:
Manifold Absolute Pressure Sensor (MAP)—senses load, by reading vacuum and is one of the parameters for adjusting mixture.
Coolant Temperature Sensor (CTS)—essentially the electronic version of a choke. It tells the computer a richer mixture and fast idle are needed to keep the engine running.
Air Temperature Sensor (ATS)—it provides one of the parameters for air/fuel ratio. Hotter air requires a leaner mixture; cooler air a richer mixture.
Throttle Position Sensor (TPS)—acts like an accelerator pump, and provides the computer with additional information. Also used to establish shift points for computer-controlled automatic transmissions.
IAC Idle Air Control—it controls an air bypass in the throttle body to maintain and adjust idle speed.
O2 sensor—Ron Turnpaugh from FAST describes it as the eyes and ears of the system. The computer looks at the target air/fuel ratios as read by the O2 sensors and adjusts the delivery of fuel accordingly.
Installing the EZ-EFI couldn't be "ezier" with the exception of the coolant temperature and the O2 sensors, all the others come installed in the throttle body. The wiring harness is clearly labeled and the Electronic Control Unit, or ECU, is compact making it easy to find a mounting location. A new high-pressure fuel pump is required, and in our case plumbing dual fuel tanks does complicate things a bit, but we'll show all that when we install the engine.
The FAST throttle body will bolt in place on any manifold that will accept a 4150-style carburetor, and just like a carburetor, the injector's performance will respond to the manifold's design. For operating in the higher rpm ranges a single-plane manifold might be considered. For our purposes we opted for a dual-plane manifold for enhanced low- and mid-range power.
Once the system is installed the included Setup Wizard is plugged in—it's then a matter of answering questions and the ECU does the rest. With the target air/fuel ratios set the system starts out with basic closed-loop operation, which means ECU is comparing readings from the wideband O2 sensor to the targets established for idle, cruise, and wide-open throttle. What happens next is a testament to the sophistication of this system—the ECU then makes corrections by adding or subtracting an amount of fuel to make those two numbers match. The amazing part is the ECU then takes those correction percentages and makes a fuel map based on them. That's one smart little black box.
From the moment John started the engine on the dyno we all felt our goal was about to be met. After the first pull, saying we're pleased with our new engine is an understatement and the results speak for themselves. The peaks of 671 lb-ft of torque and 542 horsepower were impressive, but even more so for our purposes are the averages—from 2,500 to 5,000 rpm; 638 lb-ft of torque and 452 horsepower. That's the makings of a real Hot Rod Hauler. CCT


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Events / seminars / conferences
Lectures 13/06/2013
Modeling of hydrodynamics, biogeochemistry and chemical contaminants in the Bay of Marseilles, Gulf of Lions and SAR, GIS and Web technologies in oceanographic applications: Summary of recent results on local winds, oil seeps and oil discharges/spills
Remote sensing, GIS and web technologies
Seminar held by dr Andrei Ivanov, at Instiute on 27th October 2011
Climate and Ecosystem
International meeting, Split, 24th - 26th November 2011
15th International Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish
Split, 12-16 September, 2011, Hotel Radisson Blu
GIS Odyssey 2011
International Conference & Exhibition 5th to 9th of September 2011, Croatia: Lovran, Kvarner & Istria
80th Anniversary of the Institute
International Symposium on 80th Anniversary of the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries: Towards the Excellence in Oceanography and Fisheries
Phylogeny workshop
Phylogeny workshop 06.-10.09.2010. at Institute of Oceanography & Fisheries
Geographic Information Systems Conference and Exhibition - Croatian GIS Association - International Geographic Information Systems "GIS ODYSSEY 2010" , 3rd to 7th of September 2010 Conference & Exhibition, Croatia: Brijuni, Istra & Pula
Mediterranean Seagrass Workshop
5-10. 09. 2009. Hvar
GIS Odyssey 2009
Geographic Information Systems Conference and Exhibition ''GIS Odyssey 2009'', 7th to 11th of September 2009 Croatia: Plitvice, Lika & Zadar


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At Clonch & Associates, we are dedicated specialists to hospital and senior care / nursing home recruiting. We place candidates from Directors to CNO / VPs to CEOs. We will recruit for non-management talent when requested.
The advantage of this specialization is that we are able to build a large and highly talented candidate data base. We are able to stay in touch with candidates on a continuous basis as we have earned their trust and they look forward to hearing from us, and often gain more candidates through referrals. We average at least 20 active candidates and 1,500 passive candidates for each management title. Our specialization allows us to respond to clients needs quickly, and we know the status of our candidates at any given time which allows us to have them interviewing with clients in short order.
Our recruiters are easy to work with, intuitive, and highly communicative. We do not lock ourselves into a set procedure when working with our clients. We view each client as having individual needs and ways in which they want to proceed with their recruiting efforts. We understand that each client is unique and we work to match how they want to proceed during the recruiting process. Our flexibility assures a smooth process. We are always timely, we never leave a client hanging wondering where they are in the process with a particular candidate.
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The Lee County School Board has given its new superintendent five performance incentive goals for the upcoming year, all but one keyed to school or teacher achievement.
In addition to minimum job requirements and strategic plan goals, Dr. Joseph Burke will work to achieve:
A 4 percent increase in the number of schools earning a state-determined "A" or "B" school grade.
Maintaining the school system's status as a state-classified "A" district.
A 4 percent increase in the number of students identified as "college or career ready." The benchmark will be determined by the number of students who obtain a credit or credits in algebra II or higher-level math courses and by the number who complete career certification.
Implement a teacher evaluation system that provides for a compensation model that includes student learning outcomes and develop a career ladder options plan for teachers.
Present a revised student assignment plan that reduces the transportation budget by 6 percent.
The target date for accomplishment is Dec. 12, 2012 and each goal is worth up to $2,000 if fully achieved.
It's an ambitious scope of work and does target areas that are appropriately marked as top priorities: district achievement, a local option to state efforts to find an appropriate way to tie teacher compensation to the classroom, and the need for transportation efficiencies in a "school choice" district.
We are disappointed, however, that while there is an emphasis on school and district-wide "grades," strategic plan priorities that are student-specific were not among Dr. Burke's board-set incentive goals.
Goals not included? More graduates, fewer dropouts and, an area of particular lack, measurable academic improvement for minority and Exceptional Student Education students. Also not included were increases in the number of students achieving level 3-5 scores on the state-required FCAT or measurable improvement in student SAT scores.
It's nice to be an "A" school. It's nice to be an "A" district. There's lots of each in Florida, which is improving its ranking among the states in terms of academic achievement.
But let's not kid ourselves. Nearly a quarter of fourth graders are not reading on grade level. Math scores are just marginally better. For older students, standardized test scores do not improve. The number of students not meeting state benchmarks is, in fact, worse at higher grade levels.
Whether this measures up favorably against comparable districts or state averages is not the issue. The number of students leaving the district with solid reading and math skills - or not - is.
This is where we, and we suspect parents, will be measuring Dr. Burke's, and the district's, achievement of goals come next December.
It's too bad key student-based strategic objectives were not formally prioritized with incentive goal designation.
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Helen Clark: Closing Remarks at The Abu Dhabi Ascent Conference in Support of Climate Summit 2014May 5, 2014
Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator
Closing Remarks at
The Abu Dhabi Ascent Conference in Support of Climate Summit 2014
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
My task is to report on what has come out of the Abu Dhabi Ascent – with a focus on deliverables for the UN Secretary General's Climate Summit in New York in September.
In the course of the past two days, we have had stimulating presentations from keynote speakers.
We've also had:
- a very high level of engagement of governments in this meeting. I thank all ministers and senior representatives of governments who have come;
- strong representation of the multilateral system, led by the UN Secretary General; and
- strong participation from civil society and the private sector.
Among all here, there is genuine commitment to tackling climate change
One phrase we have heard repeatedly is that change is in the air – that solutions exist, action is being taken, real commitments are being made, and that there are broad and growing partnerships for the kinds of transformative actions which can drive human and sustainable development for all.
Yesterday. after addressing the opening session the conference, the Secretary General spoke at a press conference. He said that: "The planet is sending us clearly a message that nature is now sick. We must listen. That is why I am saying to world leaders: Don't be on the losing side of history. Change is in the air. Solutions exist. The race is on. It's time to lead." The Secretary General repeated these messages today.
The Abu Dhabi Ascent has been about accelerating momentum for taking the actions which will tackle climate change effectively.
Our host, His Excellency Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates said at our opening session: "The fact that this meeting is being held in the UAE is a tribute to the central role we now play in supporting practical actions to address climate change,"
Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State, described the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as "unsettling, yet encouraging. Unsettling, because we are running out of time, to reverse the effects of global warming. And encouraging, because permanent consequences can be averted."
The private sector has been highly engaged here too. We heard Paul Polman's loud and clear message that "Business needs three things from the political community: Clarity, Confidence and Courage."
And President Felipe Calderon reminded us that: "The trade-off between economic growth and action on climate change is a false dilemma"
Overall, speakers have emphasised that:
- the costs of inaction on climate change exceed the costs of action;
- economic growth and reducing emissions are compatible processes;
- business is moving to play a decisive role in areas from renewables to deforestation-free supply chains; and
- civil society and indigenous peoples must be fully engaged in the responses.
We focused here on 10 Climate Action Areas:
Energy Efficiency; Renewable Energy; Short-Lived Climate Pollutants; Forests; Agriculture; Cities; Transportation; Resilience, Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction; Climate Finance and Economic Drivers.
Energy Efficiency
Sustainable Energy for All is leading global public-private collaboration on energy efficiency which is designed to have made tangible progress by 2020, with its initial elements to be announced at the Climate Summit in September.
- A new global Energy Efficiency Accelerator platform is being created to drive action and commitments at city, state, and regional levels, in active partnership with those national governments which step forward to participate.
- The action group discussion here identified barriers to greater energy efficiency beyond money per se. One critical step is to create effective regulation at municipal, sub national and national levels to provide certainty and consistency.
Renewable Energy
We heard more about:
- The Lighthouse initiative, which aims to accelerate deployment of renewable energy in SIDS in order to strengthen their energy security and resilience in a climate friendly way.
- The Africa Clean Energy Corridor, which aims to accelerate the expansion of cost-effective renewable energy source through a regional approach to energy planning and development.
Short-Lived Climate Pollutants
Reducing short-lived climate pollutants must be part of the climate equation if we are to keep the world on a less than two-degree path. Multiple initiatives brought to the Ascent aim to tackle SLCPs in innovative ways, and showed promising momentum.
Reducing emissions from deforestation represents 22 per cent of the mitigation potential by 2030, with significant additional environmental and social co-benefits. Government, business, and indigenous and civil society leaders came together here to discuss practical ways forward.
In September we expect to see higher levels of ambition expressed and pledges for concrete action.
Deforestation can be slowed radically with strengthened commitment from tropical forest nations, supported as appropriate by financial and technical assistance from developed countries and action by the private sector, and where the rights and roles of indigenous peoples are fully respected.
Urgent action can also be taken to restore the planet's vast areas of degraded land to productivity, building on the 2011 Bonn Challenge to restore 150 million hectares by 2020.
These are distinct but linked areas for action, which are also extremely important for achieving climate smart agriculture, food and water security, and sustainable cities, as well as climate adaptation for resilient livelihoods.
The Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture aims to enable farmers, fishers, and foresters to adapt to changing climates in order to provide food security for nine billion people by 2050, while reducing the harmful impact of agriculture on our climate.
The action area session here endorsed inclusion of food and agriculture in the Secretary-General's Climate Summit, with the aim of enabling 500 million women and men farmers, fishers, livestock keepers, and forest dwellers to practise climate smart agriculture by 2030.
Deliverables are anticipated to include those from:
- NEPAD's African Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture (engaging 25 million farmers by 2025);
- the Climate and Clean Air Coalition initiative to reduce methane emissions from livestock and rice production (Twenty countries co-chaired by Canada and Nigeria are in the coalition)
- the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (which has forty country members); and
- sourcing climate-smart products by global food companies (two initiatives are ready, with others on the way).
Cities are widely recognized as critical players in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and rapidly adapting to the changes brought about by global warming. The dialogue here at the Ascent made key advances on (1) the Compact of Mayors and (2) Transformative Projects in Cities.
- The Compact of Mayors is envisaged to be a joint effort of city networks to accelerate and build on the existing work being done by cities.
- The Compact will include a wide range of cities which have set mitigation targets, and disclose their carbon inventories in a rigorous, transparent, and standardized way.
- At the summit, participating organizations, including C40, ICLEI, and UCLG, will announce how many cities are already in compliance with this standard, their total emissions reduction targets, and plans to expand the compact by getting more cities to adopt both targets and rigorous reporting standards.
If current trends towards private motorisation prevail, worldwide urban transport greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2025 will be thirty per cent above their 2005 level. Great strides need to be made on energy transformation in the sector, including by scaling up investment in public transport.
- The International Association of Public Transport (UITP) has invited its 1300 member organisations in 92 countries to double the market share of public transport by 2025.
- The International Union of Railways, with 240 member railway companies, has stated its intention to achieve a 75% reduction in transport carbon emissions by 2050.
Resilience, Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction;
Initiatives discussed here include:
- The Resilient Cities Acceleration Initiative: Through the Making Cities Resilient Campaign, 1,700 cities have committed to ten steps essential to making cities resilient.
- Climate Information from El Niño to Action: Through this initiative, farming and fishing communities and other economic sectors, and policymakers in regions affected by the coming El Niño will be enabled to access, understand, and act on seasonal climate predictions and related information.
Climate Finance Action Area
The World Bank Group, the Carbon Disclosure Project, the UN Global Compact, and other partners have agreed to work together toward the long-term goal of a carbon price applied throughout the global economy by:
- bringing forward and strengthening the implementation of existing carbon pricing policies to better manage investment risks and opportunities.
- enhancing co-operation to share information, expertise, and lessons learned on developing and implementing carbon pricing through various "readiness" platforms.
Success in the climate finance stream at the Summit would mean a significant group of actors in the financial system committing to act jointly to optimize the financial system's contribution to tackling climate change and lay out a roadmap on how to deliver this by the Paris COP in late 2015.
- Investors could articulate commitments on how to reduce the asset carbon intensity and the expectations of their investee companies in managing climate risk and opportunity, and support the design and dissemination of best practices on how shareholders assess and monitor climate-related actions by their investees.
- Investors, corporates, and the public sector could consider the use of Green Bonds as a low risk tool to build green credentials while expanding the investment base, and support regulation to recognize and manage climate risk in investment decision-making.
- The public sector could commit to support and develop domestic capital markets that facilitate access by cities and corporations to finance; ensure policy predictability over a reasonable time horizon, and support the timely design and substantial capitalization of the GCF.
- Double green bond issuances from last year could reach $20 billion by the Climate Summit this year and at least $50 billion by the time of the Paris COP.
The Abu Dhabi Ascent has brought many key actors from across sectors to look at concrete deliverables for the Climate Summit. The path to the top is beginning to emerge from the mist. We can now see many steps which need to be taken individually and collectively to achieve a successful Climate Summit on 23 September.
The coalitions which came to this meeting and have been built on here now need to redouble their efforts to finesse deliverables for the Summit which will contribute to a successful COP in Lima and then in Paris next year.
We must stay focused, action-oriented, and ambitious for a new global climate agreement which aims to see our world live within the two degree threshold.
For a more comprehensive summary of the action areas discussed at the Abu Dhabi Ascent please also see:


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Sallie Krawcheck, who used to run wealth management operations for Bank of America-Merrill Lynch (BAC) and Citigroup Smith Barney (C), says bank earnings are being hit — and hit hard — by government fines.
With the announcement that JPMorgan (JPM) had reached a $13 billion settlement over mortgage-backed securities early on Tuesday, Krawcheck was asked by Bloomberg TV when regulators might feel that "enough is enough."
"Probably not yet, is the answer," she said.
In her mind, the more important issue is what other banks will pay going forward for similar settlements, if regulators have "started to look at this as a source of revenue, a source of fines."
It's essentially become "a tax on excess earnings," Krawcheck explained. "It really does raise the question of the [bank's] underlying earnings power."
For investors, she advises them to "think pretty hard about what these returns are" and what the major bank's return on equity is. "You have some CEOs talking about 18, 19 and 20 % ROEs. That is a hard thing to think about … particularly coming out of this year."
How can banks improve earnings in the face of such fines?
"One [way] is to innovate and grow…, which Wall Street has not been great at. What they called innovation was, let's face it, increased risk wrapped in complexity," Krawcheck said. "It's not a great history of innovating in a way that helps consumers."
Alternatively, the banks can cut costs, or "ride a good market," she notes.
Dimon in the Rough
Krawcheck, who owns 85 Broads, a group for women in the financial services industry, laughed loud and hard when asked about what other bankers have learned from Jamie Dimon, head of JPMorgan.
"There are some macro lessons to be learned about really trying hard next time to not get into the group thing, for seeing a bubble as a bubble," she said.
She also urged banks to get "everything on paper" when it comes to discussing deals with regulators.
Wealth Management
Krawcheck stressed that what some observers once thought of as a "stagnant commission business has shifted to a true wealth-management business," highlighting improving margins in the advisor side of the industry.
"And with that, the profitability shifts over time," she added.
Since clients will compensate advisors for the service they provide. "It's a great business," Krawcheck noted.
Check out Krawcheck, Blayney: Top Financial Mistakes Women Keep Making on ThinkAdvisor.


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2008-2009:Named "Freshman of the Year" by the team. ...Earned a spot on the Atlantic Sun All-Freshman Team, becoming only the second Bisons player to accomplish that feat (Ryan Chastain was the first)., finishing the Atlantic Sun Championships (11/1) in Macon, Ga., with a time of 26:37.93, 32nd place in a field of 83. ...His 8,000 meters time of 26:07 was the second fastest on the team. ...Finished 60th infield of 239 runners in Evansville Invitational (10/18) with time of 26:11.97. ...Second finisher for the Bisons in the Greater Louisville Classic (10/4) with a time of 26:07.10 over the 8-K course, 147th overall. ...Placed 90th (26:45) in a field of 371 runners in the Sean Earl Loyola Lakefront Invitational (9/27). ...Finished 16th (27:18.57) in the 8-K Vanderbilt Invitational (9/20). ...Finished 14th (15:55.54) in the 5-K Belmont Opener (9/5).
High School: 12th Scholastic Nationals 5000m…2003-2008 All State XC/Track…2003-2008 All-Region XC/Track….2003-2008 All District XC/Track…4:22 mile…9:39 3200m… 15:39 5000m…. 6:24 2000m….2:00 mile…52.00 400m…State Champ individual 2006-07 and team 2007 XC.
Personal:Parents are Sarah Faw and Rod Brame. …Grandfather played Olympic beach volleyball… Favorite movie is Smokey and the Bandit….Favorite college athlete is Galen Rupp….Top music group ICP. …Major is Mechanical Engineering.
Why he chose Lipscomb: "Their academic program has a great mechanical engineering program and a great up and coming running program."


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Brazil's secret belle
If asked to consider the beauty of Brazil, Curitiba is not necessarily the first place that springs to mind. But the country's richest and greenest city has so much to offer. Join us on a walk around the city
It's a warm summer evening, and the streets are full of both Curitibanos and tourists. To be more precise – the streets of the old city center. Hundreds of people are strolling through the lanes and narrow roads, all of which are lined with art galleries, museums and antiques shops. In the pubs, bars and restaurants around Largo da Ordem square – named after the oldest church in the city – all the tables are full.
This square is the beating heart of Curitiba, a city with two million inhabitants. All the important sights are within walking distance: the late baroque Church do Rosário on Garibaldi Square, the Paraná museum and the university, the neo-gothic cathedral and Paço da Liberdade, the old city hall. Many of the Curitibanos walking around the Largo da Ordem have blonde hair, blue eyes and a pale complexion. Although the city was founded by the Portuguese in 1693, its growth was largely due to the German, Italian, Polish and Ukrainian immigrants who flocked to Paraná in the 19th century. Their influence remains tangible today: Curitiba is considered the best-organized city in the country. Waste disposal services function smoothly, the public transport network is efficient and offers good coverage. Curitiba is the city with the highest life expectancy in Brazil.
It doesn't get any greener than this
No other city in Brazil has quite as many parks as Curitiba, where statistically there is 50m² of green space per capita. One of the most beautiful parks is Parque Barigui – not only because you have a wonderful view of Curitiba's very impressive skyline. If you want to meet locals, then Barigui is the perfect place. Particularly at the weekends the Curitibanos come here to jog, cycle, gossip and picnic. And you're also very likely to meet one of Curitiba's very special inhabitants: the capybara. The world's largest rodent can be found here, leisurely grazing on the meadows around the large lakes in the southern part of the park.
The oldest park in the city is the centrally located Passeio Publico, which opened in 1886. In memory of the Polish immigrants, the Curitibanos planted the Bosque do Papa (Pope's Wood), which was officially opened by the Polish Pope, John Paul II. The descendants of the Ukrainian immigrants celebrate their folk festivals at the Park Tingui, where they have built a wooden Orthodox church in the Ukrainian style.
The German immigrants, who came to Curitiba around 1833, were honored in 1996 with their own wood, the Bosque Alemão. In the park on the grounds which once belonged to the Schäffer family, who emigrated from Germany, you will find the Oratório Bach concert hall. A winding trail takes visitors to the Enchanted House, which was inspired by the witch's hut in the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel. The house contains a children's library and fairy tale readings are held here at the weekend. On the German Culture Square you'll see a replica of a magnificent façade which once belonged to the palace of the Mila family. From the top of the Philosopher's Tower at 20 meters you can enjoy a fabulous view over the city.
A temple to modernism
Curitiba is a city with a modern skyline, dozens of office towers and apartment blocks can be seen from afar. You won't find the typical favelas here, though. The capital city of Paraná is the only major city in the country where there are no rapidly-expanding slums. The city's affluence comes from foreign investors, including the car makers Audi, VW, Renault and Volvo, which supply the South American market from Curitiba. They benefit from a pool of skilled workers who have trained at the city's universities and colleges. The University of Curitiba was opened in 1916 and is considered the oldest – and perhaps the best – university in Brazil. The city's primary schools also regularly head the national league tables. Art also flourishes in this environment, and there are numerous museums and galleries in Curitiba. One of the best is the Oscar Niemeyer Museum (MON). Brazil's most famous architect designed the "house" himself: it consists of a flat, rectangular building next to which a gigantic eye balances on a 20-meter pillar. The first exhibition rooms were opened in 1967, and Niemeyer added the spectacular eye in 2002. The museum exhibits countless sketches and projects by the visionary architect, who died in December 2012 shortly before his 105th birthday.
Culture lovers will also be fascinated by the Ópera de Arame. Like a UFO, the building seems to hover above an abyss on the edge of an old quarry in Curitiba. The concert and theater hall with 2400 seats is made entirely of thin steel tubing and glass. A 50-meter bridge leads visitors to the "Wire Opera House"; it crosses a lake with greenish water which was created by filling in the disused quarry. The fragile-looking structure is surrounded by lush tropical vegetation, and a waterfall tumbles musically close by. The opera house was designed by architect Domingos Bongestabs, a professor of architecture at the University of Curitiba. It was inaugurated in 1992, and took only 75 days to erect. Every year in March, when the International Theater Festival takes place, the Ópera de Arame becomes the most important stage in Brazil. The best theater companies in Brazil and from around the world come here to present their productions. Outside of the festival, the glass building is often the venue for concerts by Brazil's most famous and popular musicians. Tom Jobim, Chico Buarque and Marina Lima have all performed several times here.
Where time flies by
For tourists, according to a survey conducted by the tourist office Curitiba's Botanical Garden is the city's main attraction. Curitibanos also love the 28-hectare park, which every morning becomes a popular meeting place for mothers pushing prams. The Botanical Garden is laid out in the style of a formal French garden; a flower bed greets visitors just inside the gates and geometric paths lead them into the park. At the center of the gardens is the glass greenhouse which was designed by the architect Abraham Assad, who was inspired by London's old Crystal Palace. The iron and glass structure is the city's landmark. Hundreds of different species of plants and trees grow in the Botanical Gardens, including many indigenous plants and exotic plants from other countries. Behind the crystal palace lies a semi-circular pavilion which houses an exhibition of the works of Frans Kraycberg, a Brazilian artist of Polish ancestry. The 114 exhibits are a memorial for the environment and a warning for future generations: they were made of the stumps of illegally felled rain forest giants.


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PsyChucky wrote:BlueSteelAUS wrote:It has been stated a few times in other threads that Xavi is not home at the moment as its being renovated, he has little to no internet access at the moment.(he is due back towards the end of this month all being well) Yes the game is still actively being worked on. he has done some work towards the next version already and more is being worked on when he can, at the moment everything is everywhere as he and his family is sharing accommodation so not much room or place to work on the game, as well as his full time work.
So one year later maybe?
Admit it, we all have been screwed.
Xavi for whatever reason he may have has abandoned the game.
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Youth Olympic Games in El Salvador
Michael Landers (Old Westbury, N.Y.) and Ariel Hsing (San Jose, Calif.) return to action almost 45 days after they each turned in remarkable performances at the 2009 USA Table Tennis National Championships. They each claimed the U.S. Youth Olympic Games Team Trials title and reached the finals of the men's and women's singles. Now they are preparing to depart Jan. 31, for the first qualifying event for the 2010 Youth Olympic Games.
The table tennis tandem will compete Feb. 1-3 at the Pan American Classifying Tournament at the Sports Palace in San Salvador, El Salvador. The top three athletes in boy's and girl's divisions will earn the right to represent their respective country at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games.
Landers, who became the youngest athlete to ever win the men's singles USA Table Tennis National Championships, has been busy preparing and managing a host of media interviews on this feat. He hopes to qualify the United States boy's position at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. The 15-year-old athlete brings a two-winged looper attack technique to this event.
Hsing, who was the 2009 national championships runner-up in women's singles, dominated the girl's trials event and will bring her two-winged attack to El Salvador. Hsing is the youngest player to qualify for the U.S. National Team in 2009.
Lily Yip (Warren, N.J.) will accompany the duo to the Pan America's qualifying event. Yip is an elite-level coach for USA Table Tennis.
Based upon Team USA's performance at the qualifying tournament, the United States can qualify one boy and one girl to compete at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, Aug. 14-26. Table tennis will be one of 26 events contested at the inaugural multi-sport youth event. The international event will attract at least 5,000 athletes and officials from the 205 National Olympic Committees. The table tennis athletes will be between the ages of 15 and 16. The Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games aims to inspire youth around the world to embrace, embody and express the Olympic values of excellence, friendship and respect.
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About USA Table Tennis: USATT is the national organizing body for table tennis in the United States. Created in 1933 and headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colo. Its staff serves the 9,000-plus members and nearly 300 clubs that are affiliated with USATT. It oversees a wide variety of membership services, the national teams, rules of the game and numerous online instructional and historical articles. USATT is governed and run by the nine-member board of directors, committees and professional staff. USATT is affiliated with the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), the world governing body for table tennis, as well as the United States Olympic Committee (USOC).


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Hey, remember Ouya? You know, that newfangled gaming console that raised almost $8.6 million on Kickstarter a few months ago?
No longer content to be imaginary, Ouya has decided to become an actual thing. Its creators say that the new console will be shipping to developers at the end of next month, writing in a blog post today that the first wave of Ouyas will be ready on time:
To the hundreds of developers who backed us through Kickstarter to get their hands on our advance dev consoles: Mark your calendars! On December 28, they leave the factory and should arrive within a couple of days (we've heard that Turkey and Russia might take a bit longer). Yes, we are shipping these to you on time, as promised.
The dev consoles are an early version of the OUYA console and controller designed for developers to test their games on OUYA. Our Kickstarter developers are the first to get a crack at 'em! We're psyched to have you on board, and we can't wait to see what pours from your brain!
Of course, when the final consoles ship, EVERY OUYA will be a dev console. We told you that already. What we didn't tell you was that the advance dev consoles you ordered are pretty special—you'll know what I mean when you open yours. They're rare drops. :P
Exciting stuff. Although I've been skeptical about the new open-source Android console, it's good to hear that things are going smoothly over there. I'm looking forward to seeing it in action.


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I know it's tempting.
I know Texas has it coming.
But Californians, starting with Gov. Jerry Brown, should resist the temptation to diss Texas on job growth.
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Yes, Texas, and especially its dim-bulb governor, Rick Perry, have boasted for years about how their job growth surpasses that of California.
And yes, there's payback to be had in the most recent job numbers showing California now surpassing Texas and leading the nation in job creation over the past two months. The Golden State added more than 365,000 non-farm jobs over the last year, compared to Texas' 222,500.
But we should resist the temptation to do the sort of social-media touchdown dances that Brown and some Democrats have recently engaged in.
There are two reasons for caution:
First, California's job picture is still far from bright. The state still has unemployment well above 10 percent. So one reason for California's job growth is the depth of the hole out of which we're climbing. Given our current and past difficulties, it's no time to boast. And some of California's inland areas are badly hurting.
Second, boasting about job gains and state job comparisons has the potential to misinform the California public -- already a misinformed group -- about the nature of the state's economy and job challenges. For one thing, there is no real California economy -- the state is a collection of regional economies, some of which are doing well (Silicon Valley), some of which are not (Central Valley, Inland Empire).
Also, governors in particular should be sensitive to the idea of somehow linking their performance to job creation. There is very little evidence of a link between governorships and job creation, and so a governor who takes credit for good jobs news that he or she is not responsible for may end up taking blame for bad jobs news he or she's not responsible for.
So let's not break into the home run trot, just yet. California still needs to sprint.
Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
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On raising a son on the autism spectrum, progressive politics, pop culture, and coffee addiction.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Promising trend
I'm almost afraid to put it in writing, but if I don't put it in writing, then I'll have to climb on to the roof of my house and shout it as loud as I can and I don't want to have to do that because it's raining and the roof is slippery and I'm not particularly adventurous. So here it is, in writing:
Bud slept nine hours last night.
He slept ten hours the night before.
This is huge.
23 comments:
- mommy~dearest said...
Wow! That IS huge! Let's hope it continues...way to go Bud!
- November 15, 2007 9:28 AM
I don't blame you for being skeptical about sharing this info - but hey, let's celebrate at least these 2 nights, right?
- November 15, 2007 10:08 AM
- Drama Mama said...
Fantastic! May there be many, many more!
Go Bud!
- November 15, 2007 10:23 AM
That is wonderful. I hope that you were able to enjoy a couple of restful nights as well!
- November 15, 2007 11:01 AM
- kristen spina said...
Ah, how do you spell relief? S-l-e-e-p
I'm so glad for both of you!
- November 15, 2007 11:28 AM
Ooo I'm right there with you on the 'not wanting to jinx' but I'll keep my fingers crossed for you [both!]
- November 15, 2007 11:29 AM
- Wendy said...
You forgot..."Knock on wood!"
You must feel so rested!
- November 15, 2007 11:42 AM
- Niksmom said...
Ginormously huge! I'll celebrate quietly here so as not to wake you while you catch up on some much needed sleep! ;-)
- November 15, 2007 11:43 AM
- kristina said...
A slumber party? Get some 40 winks in fast!
- November 15, 2007 1:32 PM
- Marla said...
Awesome! I don't know enough history yet but I am sure this is to be celebrated! Our daugter never slept through the night until she turned eight! She was like having an infant for years. Except worse because she would stay up doing things for hours. So tiring as a parent! Congrats!
- November 15, 2007 2:00 PM
- Mom without a manual said...
That is great! I'm glad you put it in writing...I'd hate to hear that you slipped off the roof!!!
- November 15, 2007 2:56 PM
- Jen said...
Oh yay! This is fabulous!
- November 15, 2007 3:14 PM
Maybe he's in a growth spurt...not a bad thing just saying he may need to sleep to grow.
- November 15, 2007 8:22 PM
- Jenn said...
Wow! Hoping for many more!
Nick has always been our 'alarm clock.' We really haven't had to use one since he was born...he always had us up by 6:00 am.
This morning I woke to Nick standing at my bedside and opened one eye to look at the clock. It was 7:55!!!!! Imagine my surprise! It was the first time we had overslept in nearly 4 years, lol.
So I can relate. Savor the moment!
- November 15, 2007 9:09 PM
- Daisy said...
wow! Go Bud! Go Mom!
- November 15, 2007 9:42 PM
- KAL said...
Wow, I'M feeling sleepy... That's great, I hope this trend continues for you all.
- November 16, 2007 12:27 AM
Did you do anything different? I'm willing to try anything if Liv would just sleep a few hrs at a time! You must feel like a new woman with so much sleep lol xoxoxox - N
- November 16, 2007 7:01 AM
HUGE HUGE HUGE!! i'm doing the happy sleep dance over here! congratulations to you, dear MOM-NOS AND to dear bud! it must feel wonderful for both of you!
- November 16, 2007 8:42 AM
- Jennifer said...
Congratulations! I hope the trend continues.
- November 16, 2007 4:42 PM
- Stimey said...
I have my fingers crossed for more of these days for you!
- November 16, 2007 5:17 PM
- Unknown said...
Oh yay. That is so wonderful to hear. Now, how about you???
- November 16, 2007 11:19 PM
- MOM-NOS said...
N - I will send you an e-mail with the details, but I think it's due to a shift in the timing and dose of medication. And - knock on wood - the trend is continuing. I feel like a whole new person.
- November 19, 2007 9:12 AM
omg...how cool is that. Sweet...hope the trend continues!!!
- November 20, 2007 12:04 PM


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Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey
William Least Heat-Moon
592 pages, hardcover: $27.99.
Little, Brown and Company, 2008.
It's been a big year for aging adventurers; first, Rambo comes out of retirement, then Indiana Jones takes up another crusade. Now, road warrior William Least Heat-Moon returns to the nation's back roads, seeking out the hidden histories, chitchat memoirs and other nuggets of roadside nostalgia and mystery that he calls quoz, from a rarely used word meaning "something strange or absurd."
Heat-Moon's latest journey inevitably invites comparisons with the cross-country ramble documented in his 1982 bestseller Blue Highways, a work consistently counted among the great American road books. But unlike, say, Indy's physique or Sly's delivery, Heat-Moon's prose has grown neither soft-in-the-middle nor self-parodying over the last few decades. The world-wise author of Roads to Quoz is still quick-witted and keenly observant, if a little grandfatherly, and his notes from the American road still contain equal parts humor and wisdom.
What one might expect out of Heat-Moon in 2008, here at the apex of the Big Box Era, is a requiem for the golden age of Americana, those presumably long-gone days of mom-and-pop pie stands and chatty locals on porch swings. But while Heat-Moon mourns the occasional Burma-Shave billboard, he's not awash in nostalgia for simpler times. "Times are never simpler," he writes, "and the complexities of life don't increase, they just change. ..."
In fact, if the quasi-Rockwellian landscape Heat-Moon traveled in Blue Highways has been catastrophically diminished, you wouldn't know it from his encounters with white-jacketed waiters in small-town taverns and domino-playing old-timers in country stores. Sure, the open road has changed some in 30 years. Heat-Moon's musings, particularly as he passes through the Mountain West, are on distinctly 21st century topics: coal-mining and climate change; technology, self-reliance, and alienation. The author still encounters the kind of rural Western iconoclasm he documented 30 years ago, but no one in Blue Highways speaks as eloquently about overpopulation and overconsumption as the New Mexican eco-hermit grandma who commandeers two chapters of Roads to Quoz. It's interesting to watch Heat-Moon roll through a place like Steinhatchee, Fla., until recently, a near ghost town -- "unincorporated, unplanned, unpretentious, and for years unwanted. ..." In Blue Highways, Heat-Moon might've mourned the impending economic collapse of just this sort of town. Today, he finds in Steinhatchee a scenario familiar to Western readers: a hamlet hanging on with some help from a tourist economy, developers at the door. Heat-Moon faithfully depicts the battle lines as fisherman, conservationists and real-estate pushers square off, but again, he pines not for yesteryear. Instead, the author holds out hope for communities -- condos or no -- that integrate new economies with old traditions, ones that opt "not to continue fighting to resurrect doomed ways but to shape a future to honor and enhance the most salubrious aspects of their past." In general, Roads to Quoz reads like a ledger of impending hurdles for small-town USA. But it is definitely not a swan song; Heat-Moon suggests that the dominance of the strip mall is not yet final.
Where Roads to Quoz departs from its predecessor is primarily in structure and tone. The book isn't a true travelogue in the manner of Blue Highways, but rather a collection of loosely affiliated essays, as Heat-Moon and his wife set out on a series of "moseys" from their home near Columbia, Mo. The author is less a reporter than a raconteur, spinning a few more yarns and holding forth a bit more than in the often dialogue-driven Blue Highways. Heat-Moon still paints vivid portraits of the characters he encounters, but now his own biography frequently entwines with those of his subjects, merging and departing in the way that an old county road might join and abandon a newer thoroughfare.
Each of the book's segments has its own vague premise, each mosey a hazy destination, but the essays drift freely into tangents and asides -- mimicking the journeys themselves, as the author explains in wink-and-nod "apologies" to the reader. One quoz frequently leads to another, as when research about roadside "ghost lights" opens the door to a dark family secret, or when a trip along a storied Idaho rail line prompts an encounter with a charismatic squatter. This topical hopscotching prevents Roads to Quoz from reading like a manifesto, as Blue Highways sometimes does, a declaration on the state of the union and the sad march of progress. The new book, however, may offer a truer depiction of how we come to understand the world through travel: one thorny lesson at a time, with frequent detours. If the young wanderer of Blue Highways was searching for things broad and indefinable -- America, home, renewal -- then the Heat-Moon of these pages is seeking only the nearest detour, nursing fervent hope it will lead to yet another.


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Wind, water and wine
A glass of bubbles effervescing in your hand, water lapping at your feet – these are just some of the delights awaiting visitors to the Franciacorta region of northern Italy. We tour the area around Lake Iseo
Padre Antonio Santini has been looking toward Milan his whole life. From the terrace of San Annunciata monastery, his gaze falls upon endless fields of corn and sunflowers and the industrial chimneys of the Po Valley, which stretches before him like a tapestry. But Milan, that elegant and capricious signora, never looked his way, persistently ignoring her hinterland. After all, Franciacorta, where the 68-year-old padre lives and works, is different from the rest of Italy. It's not part of the millennia- old cultural landscape abounding with Roman ruins and medieval wineries to which tourists flock to gain a real sense of history. If a list of the most neglected and unappreciated parts of Italy existed, this northern tip of the country would top it. There are no ruins of note or traditional culinary delicacies in Franciacorta, just busy highways running through it.
But not long ago, the people of Milan did begin to take notice. They no longer make the trip north with the sole intention of dangling their feet in noble Lake Como but have taken to exploring the terra incognita between the monastery and Lake Iseo, northern Italy's fourth-largest lake. Why? Because now all of Milan wants to know the region that produces Franciacorta, the sparkling wine that is slowly but surely replacing Champagne at La Scala and Fashion Week events in the city.
Sparkling wine from Franciacorta is replacing Champagne at Fashion Week
Every visitor to Franciacorta passes Padre Antonio's monastery, a 500-year-old stronghold surrounded by vineyards and nestled into the hillside above the small town of Rovato. The monks began growing grapes here in the Middle Ages to make the wine they needed to celebrate mass. In 1570, Girolamo Conforti, a physician from nearby Brescia, published a treatise on sparkling wine in which he castigated the local juice of the vine for being too "acrid" because it "didn't soften the tongue like sweet wine." As late as the 1960, the padre tells us, four monks and 17 novices still worked the southern slope, pruning vines and harvesting grapes. Today, only Antonio and two other monks about his age remain; monastery life has lost its attraction and the vineyards have long been leased to local wine growers.
Stooped but firm of step, Padre Antonio descends a narrow staircase and walks briskly past a 15th century Madonna fresco into the 16th-century refectory. The table is set for 20 although only the padre and the housekeeper will be eating today, but habits don't die easily, and who knows who might stop by? Visitors from Milan rarely find their way up to the monastery, which is a shame because Padre Antonia knows a lot of local history. France and Venice, then an imperial power, fought for many years for control of Franciacorta's fertile soil and disrupted its development in the process. The crenellated towers and battlements built to secure the border region in the Middle Ages are still a typical sight and testify to those unsettled times.
North of the monastery, the ground rises. Thousands of years ago, melting glaciers left great mounds of debris behind them as they receded, creating a chain of hills around a horseshoe-shaped basin measuring roughly 20 square kilometers. And on this moraine landscape with its mineral-rich soil – ideal for growing Chardonnay, Pinot blanc and Pinot noir grapes – a divine hand appears to have randomly strewn human settlements: medieval-looking villages grouped around austere churches, magnificent family estates hidden away behind stone walls. Interspersed between them are vineyards and wine-growing estates, among them Castelveder, the estate belonging to Camilla Alberti. Clinging to a hill some 15 kilometers east of the monastery, Castelveder has been in her family for nearly 50 years. The 45-year-old vintner talks about the concerns of Franciacorta's producers: that the market will become flooded with Prosecco and other cheap sparkling wines or that Champagne, with its luxury image, will overshadow it completely; that Franciacorta with its roughly 2500 hectares is tiny compared with its French competitor – ten percent the size of the wine-growing region in Champagne. Alberti points out that the Franciacorta bubbly is really just as good as its French cousin because it's produced in the same way. In other words, the wine is fermented in casks for at least 18 months before yeast and sugar are added for the second phase of fermentation in the bottle. This is when the bollicine, the wonderful, small, sparkling bubbles appear.
Camilla Alberti climbs the slope to inspect her Chardonnay grapes. She has roses blooming in front of the vines; they're an early-warning system, not a decorative touch. If there are harmful pests present in the soil, they will attack the roses first. Alberti tells us that her family originally made its money building thermohydraulic systems. This is very typical of Franciacorta wine: It is mostly grown by people who gave up entirely different careers and turned their wine-growing hobby into a business. The region was only awarded DOCG classification in 1995 – a designation for controlled and guaranteed origin. Until then, producing Franciacorta was an expensive hobby and enjoying it a very affordable pleasure.
Down in the valley, the houses of Monticelli Brusati crowd around the church as though seeking shelter from an oncoming storm. When storm clouds gathered, her grandparents would burn consecrated olive branches to pacify the forces of nature, Albertini tells us. The region was considered backward and not even mentioned in textbooks when she was at school. Recently, though, she read in one of her son's schoolbooks that her home region was "known for its wines produced according to traditional methods." No doubt about it, that information has now spread throughout Italy.
Continuing northward in Franciacorta, we arrive at Lake Iseo, the region's natural boundary. Thick-walled houses line the shore in Clusane, where fishing boats bob on the water along the pier. This is where the Bellini family plies the unusual trade of buying, selling and restoring classic yachts. Grandfather Bellini, who founded the company in 1960, built the fast, elegant wooden yachts himself. But on his deathbed, he forbade his son from continuing in the business: It's too hard, my boy, there's too much competition. His final advice to his successor was to put his passion for wooden boats into restoring them. Who could deny a patriarch his final wish?
Battista Bellini, the founder's grandson, is just as deferential to the old man's wishes. "It takes nine months to fully restore a classic boat," explains the 29-year-old craftsman sporting Prada sunglasses and a tailored shirt. He keeps his smartphone in a case that simulates the wood used to build boats. Battista and his younger sister Martina climb on board a 1972 Riva Aquarama with two 320 HP engines – a mahogany dream. Riva, the company, still exists. Its headquarters are on the other side of the lake. But a few years ago, when the Chinese acquired a majority share in the old-established company, it stopped building wooden yachts. If you're looking for a classic, you have to come to the Bellinis.
Martina, 23, starts the engine, which growls like a lion and then purrs like a cat. She carefully guides the Riva out of the Bellinis' marina, past modern red-and-black yachts waiting for their Italian, Swiss or German owners to take them for a spin across the lake. "Che bello," sighs Battista, as the wind ruffles his carefully styled hair. Great crested grebes fly up in alarm as the boat rushes toward them at a speed of 20 knots.
Lake Iseo is deep. It has a stony shoreline and very few beaches, which is why even on hot days, there are not many swimmers to be seen. Our eyes are drawn to the foothills of the Alps that tower 2000 meters in places on the northern shore. Monte Isola – a rocky promontory in the middle of the lake – looks almost dainty in comparison despite rising a good 400 meters into the sky. Two years ago, the installation artist Christo built a shimmering yellow, three-kilometer walkway around Monte Isola. Entitled "Floating Piers," it gave visitors the feeling that they were walking on water. Close to 1.3 million visitors came and nearly brought the traffic in the region to a standstill. These days, the islanders are worried that the Christo effect could fizzle out. "Remember the Piers" has been written in large letters on the photographs of the installation that decorate the ferry landing.
Back in Clusane, Martina Bellini takes us to a warehouse outside the town center. The ground floor is dedicated to the boat-building workshop, but the upper floor contains her private collection of Rivas: 16 models dating from the 1920s to the late 1990s. We visitors admire the fine lines and elegant curves of the classic yachts while Martina opens a bottle – of Franciacorta, naturally.
Explore Lake Iseo
The bathing beach at Lago di Endine is still a well-kept secret.
Bike the mountainous country near Marone on a guided tour.
The Due Colombe in Borgonato boasts a Michelin star.
yacht exhibit
The Bellini Nautica boatyard has vintage Rivas on display.
Guests at L'Albereta will enjoy a panoramic view of the lake.
Getting THERE
Lufthansa flies up to six times daily to Milan-Linate (LIN) from Frankfurt (FRA) and to Milan-Malpensa (MXP) from both Frankfurt (FRA) and Munich (MUC). Use the app to calculate your miles. Download here: miles-and-more.com/app


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I love the picture over the mantle and the bookcases beside it are decorated so beautiful.
Look at this chase lounge...love the fabric and cat pillow!
Posted by Kristens Creations at 7:05 PM
BEAUTIFUL!! That is the most amazing outdoor space...I LOVE it!! Thanks for sharing!
Oh, Kristen! This is a part of your aunt's house I don't think I've seen. It's so beautiful! Wow! I really don't have words to say how beautiful it is. I'm sure you had a marvelous time!
Be a sweetie,
Shelia ;)
WOW!! Love it all, thanks for sharing. I can't wait to see more pics of the backyard and when they enclose it.
It looks like your home, Kristen! I can't help but think "I hope they never move. That would be a LOT of work" :) beautiful home!
Wow, fabulous!! Everything is gorgeous every detail love it all
HOLY CANNOLI, this is one of the most BEAUTIFUL homes I have EVER seen! Your Aunt has FABULOUS taste and her home is filled with gorgeous treasures. I LOVE her style and how she decorates. I love her use of furniture pieces and that outdoor space is amazing! I have saved this post to go back to again and again. I saved the first one too. Please THANK your Aunt for allowing you to share her home with us. I am SO inspired. XO, Pinky
Gorgeous home....love all her fabrics and colors
Their home is stunning, Kristen! I'm so glad you were able to share it with us. You'll have to thank your aunt. : )
Kristen, what an amazing home!!! And beautifully decorated! The outdoor space is just amazing!!! I really enjoyed the tour.
Wow, absolutely stunning and spectacular Kristen. I can see why she is your decorating inspiration. Amazing! So many details to see. I could spend all day studying each photo. Thank you for showing us.
I hope you have been well my friend. I know you are about to get super busy decorating the trees and homes.
Warmly, ~Melissa :)
I could just lose myself in a home like this....I wish you Aunt could decorate my home like that.....it's so warm and comfortable....elegant and beautiful....thank you so much for sharing....I think I'm going to hang out it for awhile...I think it call stalking....LOL...
That is the most AMAZING outdoor space and I wouldn't change a thing, it's my favorite part of the house!! I'm in love with the Outdoor Grill/Kitchen Area! If I had an outdoor space like this I would spend every waking moment there without hesitation!!
Thank you so much for sharing their beautiful home with us.
P.S. I KNOW you enjoyed those awesome looking steaks, too!
Oh my goodness, I can't imagine living in such a beautiful home. I have a very nice home and love to decorate it and keep it clean, but...never in my life could I see myself living in a house like that. Your aunt and uncle should be very proud of what they have. BEAUTIFUL is not a strong enough word for that house.
Hope there is a part #3 to this house. Love all the pictures.
thanks for sharing. we all drive by houses and wonder what it really looks like inside. thanks for the tour.
WOW! What an absolutely perfect house!! Your Aunts decor is impeccable. I could look at their home all day long and study all the little elements. Perfection!
Lovely home and amazing outdoor space!
Wow! Beautiful home and I love the outdoors...What I want to know is how do they protect all that outdoor decor if they get a rain storm?? I can't sit on my patio furniture for days if my cushions get wet and they have actual furniture.
Denyse, They have decided to glass it in. I'm the same way with my patio furniture...it stays wet for a while. Also, the leaves and pollen will be a pain in the fall and spring. I believe they are having an architect draw up plans to enclose it now.
Beautiful home. Love all the furnishings and decorating. Someone has good taste.
WOW and DOUBLE WOW! I have no other words!
Your Aunt and Uncle have done a great job making a huge home look cozy. When I visit friends and relatives with such nice homes, I'm always depressed when I get home. They are so lucky to have such nice things. enJOYed the beautiful tour.
I am a summer girl. The whole house is beautiful. However, I would live in the outside. I can see myself cooking every night in that stunning outdoor kitchen. I don't like cooking because I don't like to mess my kitchen. But, the outdoor kitchen at your aunts house...I can really have some fun out there.
We get a lot of wind here in California. Does your aunt get wind there. Our outdoor space is really pretty but I wish I could decorate with candles and vases like your aunt did. If I did. My stuff would either blow into the neighbors backyard or break. Ha! The only way I can put some pretty stuff out there is if I fill it with cement to save it on windy days.
Beautiful home!
Gorgeous! Gorgeous! Gorgeous! All of it! Thank you for sharing, Kristen.
I am so in love with everything about this house. I really like how a variety of colors are used perfectly together. Every pic is so cozy and inviting and the outdoor space has such a WOW factor. Thanks for sharing, you have my mind racing with ideas!!!!
Classic house! The interior is so sophisticated, and the living room is pretty cozy. Love to take a dip on that pool!
Where did that beautiful towel bar come from in the bathroom. It is a must have.
Renee richardson
Beautiful. Would you possibly share where I could find the towel bar in the bathroom. I cannot find a decorative towel bar that is flush to the wall. I have searched everywhere. Thanks, CPetty
Beautiful. Would you possibly share where I could find the towel bar in the bathroom. I cannot find a decorative towel bar that is flush to the wall. I have searched everywhere. Thanks, CPetty


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