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Saturday, December 26, 2009

High Maintenance

When I babysat for my friends' newborn baby, she and her husband gave me a pretty extensive run-down of her routine and her possible-deviations-from -routine and what to do if and how to work the very fancy baby monitor. They sort of laughed at themselves and their nervousness about leaving the baby for the first time. But I assured them that I understood completely. The note I had written for a recent dog-sitter was much longer and more involved than their baby-sitting instructions.

We usually take the dogs with us, but sometimes it just isn't feasible. They are such pampered little freaks that I hate the idea of kenneling them with their special needs. So instead of paying to kennel them, I rely upon the kindness of friends who are typically a bit reluctant but ultimately willing (my pouty face is hard to resist) to hang out at my house and spend the night with these guys.

Do we look high maintenance to you?

As I typed out dog-sitter instructions the last time we headed out of town, I realized just how complicated our little routines are. I guess we're used to it at this point--we try to balance the needs of a neurotic and anti-social almost-10-year-old pek-a-poo (Little Mac) with the emotionally needy momma's boy otherwise known as a 4-year-old puggle (Cooper).

I know I love them, but I think one weekend is plenty of Mac and Coop time for my dog-sitters. Perhaps this note, left for my most recent dog-sitter, will explain why:

The dogs will, of course, bark obnoxiously when you arrive. Please feel free to load them up with treats. Then they will like you immediately. If they continue to bark, just pop popcorn and share it with them. It is their favorite treat. (Do not be alarmed if they howl at the microwave during the popping process; they are just excited).

Do not feel like you need to hang out with them all day, although you are more than welcome to do so. Cooper's favorite spot is on the sofa and he will snuggle all day. When you leave, please put him in his house. He gets a treat on his way in and another treat before you shut the door. Little Mac also gets a treat at the same time (from the jar on top of Coop's crate).

Leashes are out if you want to take them for a walk. If Mac growls at you, that just means she doesn't feel like going. Don't take it personally--she does it to me all the time. Cooper loves to walk but if it's cold you really don't have to take him.

They've already had breakfast but they will want dinner at 5 o'clock sharp. Cooper gets the blue treat stick filled with diet food from the canister labeled with his name. He also gets a bit of extra food just dumped on the floor. Mac gets an almost-full scoop of senior food from her canister, with a generous helping of parmesan cheese sprinkled on top (see the huge-ass can of parm in the door of the fridge).

They will have the same for breakfast on Sunday morning, whenever you get up.

Cooper loves to snuggle at night (yes, we co-sleep with the furbaby) but if you want the bed to yourself, just carry a dog bed into the guest room with you and put it on the floor and he will sleep there. Avoid picking up or moving a dog bed that is close to Little Mac. She gets very cranky at night. We have put a bed in the guest room for her; she also has a bed in our room and she may choose to sleep in the living room. I would suggest you mostly avoid eye contact with her after 9pm and let her do her own thing. If she does attack her dog bed, don't be scared, she will just bite the bed (not you). She has special needs and a very large personal space (did I mention how much I appreciate you doing this?)

Cooper loves to play tug of war with his blankie but sometimes he also tries to eat the blankie. He should not do this, so if you catch him, please take away the blankie and give him a rawhide chip instead.

If Mac starts making a weird noise by the front door, that means she wants to go outside but she needs to be let out back. She prefers to go out front, so this may take some coaxing/patience (you might pretend you're going out back too and she will follow you). If she makes a weird noise in the kitchen, it means she wants you to refill her water bowl very full with fresh water.

This is my version of "normal life with pets."

Is it possible that they aren't all like Little Mac and Cooper?

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Bloggers and Butters

Since I started this blog, I've been interested in reading other blogs.

(Which makes sense, as my narcissism is likely to be matched only by my voyeurism.)

Anyway, I have made the following discoveries in my blog-trolling:

(1) I only like to read political opinions if they are in keeping with my own.
(2) There are a lot of ridiculously cute kids in the world.
(3) There are a lot of terrible writers writing on the Internets.
(4) The best blogs have good writing, a sense of humor, don't take themselves too seriously, and can make you feel like you are hearing the writer's voice when you read their posts.

My three favorite blogs (besides my own and my brother's, of course) are:

The Pioneer Woman

This is a woman in Oklahoma who lives on a ranch, is in love with her cowboy husband, has four children whom she homeschools, is a talented photographer, and just published a cookbook of buttery, belly-fillin', ol' fashioned homecookin'.

Amalah (that's pronounced AIM-uh-luh)

This is a woman who lives in the suburbs of Washington, DC, has two adorable small children and a chihuahua, a potty-mouth, and penchant for self-mockery and run-on sentences.

The Pink of Perfection

This is a woman who lives in New York City, has a knack for French cooking, a love for all things vintage, a knack for being thrifty and chic at the same time, and a whimsical prose style that is both thoughtful and witty.

I have little in common with any of these people except that we are of the same gender and we feel compelled for whatever reason to write things and put them on the Internets. I have never met any of them. They have remarkable followings (meaning lots of people read and comment on their blogs) whereas I still have my blog "unlisted" by google because, I don't know, people I know might read it and make fun of me. More than usual, I mean.

But despite the fact that we seem to have little in common, (aside from my love for run-on setences, obvy), I found myself returning to their blogs and now I follow them pretty regularly. When I'm feeling misanthropic, it's nice to know there are people out there I've never met whom I am quite sure I would like. They are smart, funny, and good writers. (And, yes, I bought the Pioneer Woman's cookbook even though it has a lot of meat recipes in it because the pictures are so pretty).

Recently, Pink of Perfection offered a give away for Shea Butter (give aways are a lovely thing in the blog world and something I shall do when I am so successful that people are begging me to give away their things or I am successful enough as to purchase my own give away prizes--like the Pioneer Woman does with Kitchen Aid Mixers [I know, right?]). I signed up for this shea butter thing because I want to be stylish like the Pink of Perfection writer, Sarah McColl, and because I was quite taken by the story of this butter.

You can find the full story on the website here, but in a nutshell, women in Ghana, West Africa make money by harvesting shea and it's basically an additional job to the many responsibilities they already have, so most of the harvesting occurs at dawn or dusk. This is dangerous because that is the time that poisonous snakes are most active and women are often fatally bitten by these snakes. The One Village Planet—Women’s Development Initiative is selling Just Shea and proceeds from the Shea butter go to buy boots, gloves, and coats for these women to protect them from getting bitten by vipers.

Note to Self: Reflect upon this when you are tempted to bitch about dissertation revisions.

Anyway, Sarah at Pink of Perfection had a give away for a thing of the Shea Butter in which she asked readers to comment about a random act of kindness they had performed or received and then selected winners at random. I told my pathetic Christmas party story which seems particularly absurd given the daily struggles of women harvesting shea, but, in my defense, it was a wake up call I needed to quit slouching about and pouting and to start feeling the Christmas spirit.

And I won!

I have high hopes that this shea butter will do good things for the scar on my arm.

At the very least, I think that this demonstrates the strange and beautiful way that technology and blogs can link women working in African to a sophisticated New York blogger and then a nerdy Midwestern girl.

The Internets. It can be a magical place.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Last weekend, I dropped my cell phone.

Actually, it fell out of my purse.

While I was running.

In the pouring rain.

And I didn't notice that it was gone until the next morning. When I found it face down on the front walk. In the rain.

I took it apart and dried it off and hoped for the best and sure enough! It works.

Sort of.

It still makes and receives calls. But the fancy little slide-out keyboard that allowed me to text with the speed and agility of a junior high kid? No longer working. Nor is the volume control.

I can technically live without these features. But considering that we're paying for unlimited texting, it's rather annoying.

Today we were out and about and decided to stop by the Mighty Cell Phone Store to see if they could maybe fix it. No such luck... water damage is an automatic FAIL and even if they could fix it, it would cost $100.

So they wanted us to upgrade.

We started out looking at the newer version of the phone I already have. Seemed fine to me. It was one of the least expensive models.

But then we started talking battery life, touch screen capabilities, the Fancy Super Data Plan and David also doing an upgrade and before I knew what was happening, David wanted to buy $200 cell phones for each of us and upgrade our plan so that it would cost an additional $25 a month.

It was about that point that I started freaking out and saying things like, "Oh, gosh, I just don't know. Gosh."

My stomach started hurting and I suddenly felt the urge to cry because I hate making major decisions about technology and I hate spending large sums of money. Every time we make a major purchase, I cry. Even if I am excited about it! Our car. Our flight to London. Write the check, click "confirm" and then: tears.

It just makes me super anxious. I have no idea why I am such a freak but all of sudden I was totally spazzing in the Sprint store and I felt like an old fogy who couldn't handle new expensive technology and also like I wanted to hyperventilate to think about spending that much money on a stupid phone that doesn't even get service in my basement, windowless office.

At this point, I asked the girl (jokingly) if they had a Jitterbug (you know, the cell phone they make for old people, with big numbers and no extra features).

She didn't laugh. I'm not sure she got the joke. I laughed nervously.

Finally I told David we just had to leave and come back later because I couldn't handle it. I couldn't handle investing that much money in a phone, I couldn't handle making the decision without thinking it over.

I think that I am just tapped out at this point. Incapable of functioning under any level of stress, even the most mundane of circumstances. I am still in a holding pattern, waiting to hear from my advisor about whether I am seriously SERIOUSLY finished with the dissertation or if I need to make some final revisions. My grades are completed. My semester is, at long last, finally over.

But instead of feeling totally relaxed, I feel jittery, tense, and hung-over. I am incapable of doing anything but wearing a Snuggie and watching TV or reading Sookie Stackhouse novels. When I fully recover my decision making faculties, I will let you know. Until then, all decisions, beyond what channel to watch, need to be addressed elsewhere.

If you need to reach me, call me on the Jitterbug.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Look at the Cute

I had dinner with Beth and Jamie last night and we invited our new BF, Lilly.

She is at a convenient age where she laid on the kitchen counter on a blanket while I stirred the chili and the girls drank wine.

She accompanied us when we retired to the living room, where Cooper decided that she was also his new BF.

At first I thought he was jealous of the attention I was giving Lilly.

Then we discovered that wherever Lilly was, Cooper wanted to be right next to her.

Because, obviously.

Look at the cute!

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Tell Me How You're Gonna Breathe With No Air

When I was in third grade, my legs got kicked out from under me. We were outside playing soccer in PE, and I was participating enthusiastically, despite being one of the shrimpier kids in my class and not being particularly athletic. At one point I was battling for the ball against a boy in my class. He was no bigger than I was, but he managed to swoop his leg around behind me to kick the ball and instead, kicked my feet right out from under me. I fell down hard, flat on my back.

The game moved on down the field as the herd of kids followed the soccer ball, and I staggered to my feet, determined not to cry in front of everyone in my class. Another student asked me if I was ok, and I tried to say yes, but all I could do was make a weird guttural noise. This freaked her out almost as much as it freaked me out and she ran and got the teacher. I ended up having to lie down on my back on the ground while the PE coach pumped my legs to get air back in my lungs. So at the age of eight, I got a vivid realization of exactly what it mean to have "the wind knocked out of you."

Fast forward twenty years and I have pretty much managed to avoid soccer fields and other kicking-related sports that might put me in danger of reliving that experience. Between Jazzercise and Pilates and beginner yoga, I sometimes like to imagine that I have pretty good balance and that my agility and coordination have improved since I was a spastic little eight year old. Sure, the sidewalk can still sneak up on me sometimes, but for the most part I am capable of functioning in day to day life without putting myself in danger of having the wind knocked out of me.

Or so I thought.

Friday was a busy day. I taught my final class on the history of the British novel. I scurried over to the other campus to meet with my advisor, and then meet with a student. The department holiday party was that afternoon, and before I knew it, I was on the train heading home with not much time left before I needed to be changed and ready to go to the Christmas party we were attending that night. And I still had gifts to wrap and a cheeseball to make!

Once I got home, I was on a mission. Put on sequined top, skinny jeans, and boots (because, honestly, what's the point of a holiday if you don't wear sequins?). Decided time did not allow for the cheeseball so we would just bring extra booze and count on other people to supply the food (several of my friends have a flair for the culinary, so this is usually a safe bet, and that night was no exception). I edited David's outfit and made him change so that we were slightly coordinated without being too matchy (no sequins for him!) and then it was time to wrap the gifts.

I grabbed the roll of wrapping paper from its storage bin in the guest room closet and marched with it into the kitchen to use the big counter space for wrapping. I was really on a mission now, taking long strides and carrying the roll of wrapping paper at hip level, sort of like a jousting rod. David was sitting at the dining room table, so I walked by him, chattering about the party, the gift exchange, whatever. I lifted the wrapping paper roll to put it on the counter.

And that is when my hand-eye coordination failed me.

I made some kind of minuscule miscalculation and instead of placing the wrapping paper roll on top of the counter, it hit the edge of the counter and stopped. But I kept moving. I ended up jamming my entire body weight into the wrapping paper roll as it dug its way into my gut, just under my ribs on the right side.

Evidently it was a firm rather than flexible cardboard roll. And I was walking pretty quickly. So if this thing had had a sharp point, it would have impaled me. As it was, it simply knocked all the air out of me in a "whoosh" and I dramatically collapsed to the floor.

I was having a flashback to the third grade soccer game because I was gasping for air but it appeared that my lung had been entirely deflated. So there I was, on my hands and knees on the kitchen floor, unable to breathe in or out, wondering whether I needed to lie down on my back and start pumping my legs or whether I would just start to breath in a second. When I started making a noise that resembled a dog coughing, David got up from the table and came over to assist me. He put his hands under my armpits and dragged me up to my feet and told me to put my hands above my head.

I guess these are the kinds of things you learn to do in PE School, because it worked.

I was finally able to breathe normally again, although even that was a bit complicated because I was also kind of laughing and kind of wanting to cry. Sure, it was totally embarrassing and funny that I had just rammed my entire body into a wrapping paper roll, but it also seriously hurt and really knocked the air out of me. And I suspected that I had bruised a lung (which made for a great conversation starter at the party when I made that casual announcement, "So, I bruised my lung today," and then was forced to admit it was a self-diagnosis as the looks of shock and voices of concern compelled me to full-disclosure).

David continued to mock me for "jousting myself with wrapping paper" and making jokes about how I need to wear full body armor all the time. Until we were home putting on p.j.s and I discovered that there was a serious bruise and red mark on my ribs because I hit that damn roll of paper so hard. Then he felt a little sorry for me.

The point of this story is that my life has now been saved twice by PE coaches. And that it is, in fact, really hard to breathe without air.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

They say that stress can affect your memory.

And by "they," I mean "really smart scientific people." If blogger allowed footnotes, here is where I would footnote this article from Science Daily which I found while researching this phenomenon (and by "researching" I mean "googling." Of course.)

Science Daily reports:

If it's been a really, really tough week at work and you can't remember where you put your car keys, it may be that high levels of the stress hormone cortisol are interfering with your memory. In the June Archives of General Psychiatry, investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis provide the first direct evidence that several days of exposure to cortisol at levels associated with major physical or psychological stresses can have a significant negative effect on memory.

I wonder how a university could possibly find enough people experiencing major physical or psychological stresses to run such tests? Oh wait. Any major university would have a huge pool from which to select such subjects. They are called graduate students.

Whatever the scientific facts behind this, I happen to know for certain that when I am stressed out about something, I become a total space cadet. The worst semester I ever had was right after David and I got married. We were having some serious issues of the "OMG we just got married what the hell we were thinking?" variety. Things got so bad that now we simply refer to those few months as "The Bad Time." As in, "Remember The Bad Time? That really sucked." It didn't help that while we were sorting out our various mental/emotional/financial/whose turn is it to empty the dishwasher issues, I had the worst group of students I'd ever taught. Not in terms of ability, mind you, but in terms of attitude. They hated me, I hated them. They hated the text I was teaching, I hated the text I was teaching. It was honestly the only terrible semester of teaching I have ever had. But it was a doozy. (Seriously I asked them to fill out mid-term evaluations in class and one student--the most insufferable one--went home and typed up a f*&$ing list of things he thought I could improve on. Yes, he did. You'd better believe I shredded that shit in the copyroom on campus. What an asshat.)

My life really sucked that semester and I was so stressed out and worried all the time that I forgot everything. (Which, in case you were wondering, tends to add to the stress and worry.) I'd show up for class only to realize my lesson plans were on my desk at home. I'd go home and get ready to do some work only to realize the books I needed were in my office at school. I'd get started planning for class or drafting a paper, only to realize I had forgotten a meeting that had already started or a reading that I'd wanted to attend. I'll never forget the morning that I got about halfway through a travel mug of coffee before I realized that I had forgotten to put coffee in the coffee maker and I was just sipping on hot water with a hint of stale coffee flavor.

It was a bad semester. But it got better. David and I got over our newlywed freak out and he turned back into the wonderful person he had been before Bad David showed up during The Bad Time. We decided that I would do the laundry and he would empty the dishwasher. My students finished the semester and I half-heartedly graded their papers and washed my hands of them (this was the class in which 2/3 of them named The Da Vinci Code as their favorite book. I shit you not. There was no teaching those people. Lost causes.)

The point of that story is that I hate being forgetful. It makes me feel stupid and incompetent. That's why I make lots of list. I write things out in a planner. I keep two calendars. I plan ahead. I manage to pretty much stay on top of things as a general rule. I'm no where near perfect, but I did show up for class all semester with my lesson plans and I haven't left a crucial ingredient out of any food or beverage (that I know of). I guess what I'm saying is that I've pretty much figured out how to keep my shit together or at least give the appearance of doing so. Most of the time, anyway.

But now I am at this weird point in my dissertation where I am so close to finishing. So very close. And yet also so far away. Things are mostly written. Chapters are being proofread. And yet I'm panicking about what sources I made sure to cite. What exactly do I want to say in my little 5-page conclusion? Have I sufficiently accounted for the current criticism in my introduction? Are my footnotes ok? What about my font? Should I change the title of chapter three? I feel this terrible, tired, wrung-out feeling where I want to wash my hands of the whole thing and at the same time I am clinging to it because it is the sad little child of my brain and it needs more help and I know that I can still improve it and I am afraid to let it go because what if people are mean to it?

The result of this endless self-doubt, crisis of confidence, and general existential angst?

I am forgetful.

Instead of thinking about the task at hand, I'm fretting about the dissertation. I stood up a friend for lunch yesterday. Totally forgot. I e-mailed a student yesterday about the time we could meet tomorrow, totally forgetting that I still have to teach tomorrow morning and therefore cannot meet with students before noon. I showed up to a holiday party tonight, the highlight of which was to be a rob-your-neighbor gift exchange, and I forgot my gift. Then when I left, I left my little notebook on a table in living room. The hostess must think I am an absent minded maniac who needs my mother to write my initials on all my belongings because I just heedlessly run around leaving my things willy-nilly.

After a rough day of writing frustrations and scheduling errors and feeling like I got next to nothing accomplished even though I had so much to do, showing up at the holiday party empty-handed (well, holding a homemade cheeseball, which looked good but, frankly, did not taste that good--very disappointing)... It really felt like the last straw. The final nail in my coffin. Proof of my general incompetence and a total FAIL of a day.

The gracious hostess, however, happened to have an "extra" gift that she insisted I use as my own so I could participate in the game. So even though I started out feeling pretty miserable (I sat for a moment in the driveway and considered just turning around and driving home even though it had taken me nearly half an hour to get there), I ended up having a good time.

It made me realize that my worrying and fretting and stewing has really overwhelmed the holiday spirit and general goodwill that I usually feel this time of year. Instead of being excited about Christmas shopping and traveling for the holidays, I just feel tired and overwhelmed, which is totally unlike me. So I am going to make a conscious effort over the next week to relax and breathe and focus on one thing at a time instead of the big worries about the dissertation and the defense and the job market and all that stuff. One thing at a time.

It's easier said than done, but I'm hoping that I'll at least make it home for the holidays without forgetting my toothbrush.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Let's Talk Turkey

So this Thanksgiving I ate turkey.

I know, way to get crazy, right?

But this was the first Thanksgiving in years that I didn't subsist on side-dishes.

When I mentioned to a few people that I was going to eat turkey this year, they all warned me to "be careful" because they thought it would be really hard on my body to suddenly start eating meat again.

I found this strange because it's not like I was going to gorge myself on turkey. Of all the meat-items that I've really truly missed, turkey honestly hasn't been that high up on the list. It definitely ranks below greasy cheeseburgers and crispy bacon. (Although maybe that is somewhat psychological since beef and pork are forboden due to allergies and poultery is just a personal choice...).

So as I've mentioned before, I have serious qualms about the meat industry in this country and the only reason I was eating a bird at all was because it was a free-range turkey raised by a local organic farmer. This is not because I am a liberal elitist snob (although I can see why someone might make that accusation) but it is because I don't like the idea of torturing animals before we kill them and I think can safely assume that this particularly turkey was as happy as a turkey can be for the duration of its life. The fact that it was never frozen and therefore supposedly tastes better was lost on me because I haven't tasted any turkey for so many years that I am not sure I'd know the difference.

Anyway, I was still slightly skeeved by certain things. Like there was a vein that you can see through the skin of the raw turkey and the idea of eating veins makes me want to hurl. Also during turkey-prep time David was shoving his entire forearm up in the turkey's insides and pulling out internal organs (organs that my mother actually suggested we cook and feed to the dogs--this was before we took away the crack pipe she must have been smoking). Then David was stretching all the skin around which was pretty nasty.

And then he thought it was funny to shake the wings at me as though the turkey was dancing.

Seriously, he thought it was really funny. See how much fun he is having? Must haven taken up my mom's crack pipe.

In spite of the traumatic prep-work (and by "work," I mean "observing from bar stool while drinking wine") and some debate over cooking temperatures and appropriate cooking time, I managed to eat some turkey on Thanksgiving.

And it was good.

Don't it look good? Yeah, it do.

I've even been eating the leftover turkey in enchiladas and I had a sandwich and a turkey roll up. (It was a nearly 16 pound turkey--we had LOTS of leftovers.) And we went ahead and boiled up what was left of it to make turkey stock that we will use for cooking.

Was it worth the price per pound?

Well, if you're only eating turkey once a year, I think that such a splurge can be justified.

Was it so delicious that I wish I could eat turkey every day?

I think I'm perfectly content to be a vegetarian most of the time.

(I think this surprises some people, who must assume that vegetarians constantly feel deprived, thus prompting them to warn me not to over-indulge myself by eating copious amounts of dead bird in one sitting.)

So turkey for Thanksgiving seems to be a pretty good idea after all. Looks like this Thanksgiving propaganda might have the right idea after all. In fact, I just might try it again next year.


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Eight Distance Runners Turn In NCAA Qualifying Times at Stanford

PALO ALTO -- In one of the nation's premier track meets, BYU runners recorded three NCAA automatic qualifying times, and five provisional marks, in the distance events at the Stanford Invitational. The Cougar women's team automatically qualified one individual in the 10,000 meter run, and had two runners meet the standard in the 5,000 meters.

Senior All-American Tara Northcutt, the 10,000-meter champion at the 2000 NCAA outdoor meet, assured herself an opportunity to defend her title by turning in a time of 33:27.59 in her first race of the outdoor season. Northcutt was the first collegiate finisher and took third place overall in the event. Teammate Amy Bair finished the race in 35:24.09 to provisionally qualify for nationals. In the women's 5,000 meters, senior All-American Elizabeth Jackson recorded a time of 16:04.58 to finish first among collegiate athletes and third overall. Courtney Meldrum finished in 7th with a time of 16:12.45 to make it under the automatic standard of 16:13 as well. Sophomore Lindsay Thomsen (16:18.77) and senior Sharolyn Shields-Thayer (16:44.14) finished ahead of the NCAA provisional time of 16:48.

In the men's 10,000 meters, freshman Josh Rohatinsky turned in his best race of the season, finishing in 11th place with a time of 29:07.36, less than three seconds off the NCAA automatic qualifying time of 29:05. Senior John Hedengren completed the race in 29:48.53 to fall within the provisional mark.

At the El Paso meet, while the Cougars women struggled on the track, the field events competitors took several of the top spots in a variety of events. In the women's shot put, BYU went 1-2-3, as junior Becky Beachler won the event with a toss of 47'04.25" (14.43m), followed by Cathy Fuailemaa in second (43'07.75"/13.30m) and Maret Komarova (42"02.00"/12.85m) in third. The Cougars also swept the javelin throw, with junior Carrie Sanders taking the event with a throw of 140'03.00" (42.76m). Teammates Komarova (134'07.00"/41.02m) and Missy Wood (131'06.00"/40.08m) finished in second and third, respectively. In addition, senior Analee Carter took first in the high jump, clearing 5'06.00" (1.68m) to win the event.

For the men's team, senior All-American Jim Roberts made an impressive return after missing one week of competition due to injury. Roberts wasted little time qualifying himself for the NCAA championships, surpassing the automatic standard with a toss of 63'01.25" (19.23m) in the shot put. Teammates Mikel Gough (48'07.25"/14.81m) and Matt Holcomb (45'02.50"/13.78m) took second and third, respectively, in the event. Roberts also won the discus by over 30 feet, with a throw of 183'03.00" (55.86m). Senior All-American Jeff Hansen (17'00.75"/5.20m) and sophomore Jeremy Kemp (16'06.75"/5.05m) took the top two spots in the pole vault competition. The Cougar men also fared well on the track. Daymon Visser (14.70), Eric Myrup (14.79) and Chris Kemp (15.07) went 1-2-3 in the 110-meter hurdles, and senior All-American Kenneth Andam turned in a time of 10.13 to win the 100 meter competition.

The Cougars will host the BYU Invitational in Provo next Saturday. In addition, several athletes will travel to Austin, Texas next week to compete in the Texas Relays, held April 4-7 on the campus of the University of Texas.

For complete results of the UTEP meet, go to http://athletics.utep.edu/xcountry&track/01springtime.htm

Results of the Stanford meet can be found at www.gostanford.com

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Even to ardent FC Barcelona fans, Paulino Alcantara is virtually unknown. He was the first Filipino and Asian ever to play professional football in Europe. He played for Barcelona, and became the only player to ever score 357 goals in 357 games. No other players from Camp Nou had come close to the half Filipino’s […]


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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's biggest opposition party introduced a bill on Monday that would make it easier for the French-speaking province of Quebec to secede, although the proposal has no chance of becoming law now.

The bill, from the opposition New Democratic Party, would allow Quebec to leave Canada if there were a simple majority vote on a clear question - 50 percent plus one vote, offering clues to NDP policy on the matter if it wins the 2015 election.

Current legislation says a "clear majority" is needed for a province to secede, an undefined number that is described as more than a simple majority.

NDP leader Thomas Mulcair said the side with the "largest number of validly expressed votes" should win a referendum, provided the question in the vote was unambiguous. His proposal won't become law because the Conservatives hold a majority of seats in the House of Commons.

Quebec secessionists came within a hair of winning a referendum to break away from Canada in 1995, gaining 49.4 percent of the vote to 50.6 percent for the pro-Canada side.

That squeaker prompted the federal government to pass the Clarity Act, which requires a clear majority on a clear question. It does not specify what is meant by a clear majority but says it is more than a simple majority.

The NDP, noting the arrangements for a Scottish referendum in 2014 on independence from Britain, would revoke that act.

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Information Systems Management, a company commonly referred to as ISM and a provider of ERP and CRM business software, signed a partnership deal with NetSuite (News - Alert), an American software company.

Through this partnership, ISM joined the NetSuite Solution Provider Program. ISM will now be able to launch a new cloud computing practice, offering their customers cloud-based business management and ERP software to more efficiently run core business processes including financial management, warehouse and inventory management, distribution, customer service, marketing automation, and CRM.

"Adding a cloud practice with NetSuite supports our responsibility to customers who view us as trusted advisors. To keep that trust, we knew we had to provide them with a real choice when it comes to ERP and accounting software - traditional on-premise or in the cloud," Stuart Blumenthal, vice president at ISM said in a statement.

Blumenthal also noted that their decision to add NetSuite was influenced by the fact that the product was developed specifically for the cloud - not adapted from an on-premise software code base.

NetSuite was also noted to be an obvious choice because it is a widely-used cloud ERP application. Even in a market with competing products, NetSuite offers a complete range of functionality for financials, CRM, eCommerce, distribution, and manufacturing in one integrated suite. It even supports third-party add-on applications through the SuiteCloud Developer Network.

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[ Bugs/suggestions ? Check the Forums ! ]

WordPress version 1.0.2 is now available for download. This is a bugfix release and fixes all known issues with the 1.0 series.

The upcoming version of WordPress (available in nightly builds) has sub-categories, advanced comment moderation, automatic image thumbnailing, and custom fields. All implemented with the elegance you've come to expect from WordPress. I'll post more about 1.2 when it's finished.
matt @ 19:10:17 173
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I just wanted to let everyone know that the latest and greatest WordPress is now out. WordPress 1.0.1 takes all the amazing features of 1.0 (including real search-engine friendly permalinks, multiple categories, trackback on edit, comment moderation, and more) and fixes all the bugs and makes it faster.

If you're feeling adventurous the nightly builds of version 1.1 has sub-categories and a few other improvements underway.

matt @ 05:03:36 585
36 comments, 1 trackback, no pingback

As they say on my island, Pace E Salute! : D
(That's happy new year in Corsican.)
michel v @ 01:58:24 457
26 comments, no trackback, no pingback

We wish you a merry Christmas!
We wish you a merry Christmas!
We wish you a merry Christmas!

... And [next week we'll wish you] a happy new year! : D
michel v @ 17:57:57 123
23 comments, 1 trackback, no pingback

Wow, its amazing I can still login to this...

You still have posting rights, heh. Just don't abuse them. ; )
- michel

Babymariah @ 00:45:58 406
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As you may know, spammers have started to invade blog comments, and this site has seen its share of it.
While many developers are working on ways to prevent comment spam (I know there's some serious work going on on the WordPress side, and other blog tools seem to get solutions aswell), and until I can apply one of these automated ways on cafelog.com, I will have to silently check the comments and delete the spam, as I have done these past two months.

So here's the policy:
  • If your comment definitely is spam, it is deleted.
  • If it looks or feels like spam, it is deleted.
    I don't care if your URL just happens to be cheap-ass-stuff.com or wowlookatgirlz.nu: if your comment is on topic but your URL leads to a site with a crappy URL and the site aims to sell something dodgy, tough luck. You should have commented without an URL, that's all: cafelog.com is not an advertising billboard.
  • If your comment is on a very old post, I may just delete it on sight. If it was a genuine on topic comment, blame yourself for commenting a post that no one is going to visit anymore, instead of bringing the issue on the support forums.
  • If your comment is a flame/insult, it is deleted.

This is not censorship, it's just keeping the spam out. So if you commented, and you don't see your comment anymore, you know what happened.

Fortunately, if you read and understood this post you are not likely to be affected by this policy. ; )
michel v @ 23:44:17 364
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NewsGator Technologies, makers of a great news aggregator for Outlook, released a posting plug-in for b2, allowing NewsGator users to post directly to b2 from Outlook. Titles and categories are supported.
If you are a NewsGator+b2 user, you can download the plugin on their website (it should also work with WordPress, b2evolution, b2++, or any b2-based blogware). : )

Note: This is a late post on my part, I'm sorry about it: the email about it had gotten shot as a false-positive by the spam filter -- proof that you should always check for false-positives in your email client!
michel v @ 00:34:21 398
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Things have been so busy that I almost forgot to mention that a new version of WordPress is available. Upgrading to WordPress from b2 is easy and in addition to all of the great things in the latest release there are plenty of other features already. Development is very active and the first beta of our next release should be available within a week or so.

Download WordPress from Sourceforge.
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Hello everyone. As some of you may be aware, a SQL injection vulnerability was reported and fixed in WordPress. As the same vulnerability effects all recent versions of b2, Michel asked me to put together a release for people who weren't ready to upgrade to WordPress yet and were still using b2. So b2 version is available. The only change from the previous version is in blog.header.php where the vulnerable code was located. Thanks to Seth Woolley for reporting this issue responsibly. Be safe and upgrade as soon as possible.
matt @ 07:32:36 647
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The Blogathon 2003 is over, congrats to all the participants especially those blogging with b2! : D
Now go get some rest, you well deserved it!
michel v @ 15:12:24 966
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Just wanted to wish Michel a very happy 24th birthday. : )  Thank you so much for b2. The bloggin' world would not be the same without it. ^_^

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Problem: There's a security hole in gm-2-b2.php and blogger-2-b2.php in the 0.6.1 release.

Solution: Delete these files once your blog conversion is done, or edit them.

A fixed release will come shortly, and the CVS will be updated.

  • Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little are leading the new WordPress branch of b2, that is going to become the new official branch once they get a release out. If you want to help with WordPress, don't hesitate to contact either of them!
  • This website will get a minimalist redesign soon. A lot of sections are going away, including the "powered by b2" list. That list hasn't been updated for months on end, and with only 592 weblogs it makes it look like b2 isn't used by as many weblogs as it really is. Judging from the emails I get and the forums' activity, I estimate there are around 2000 b2 weblogs. This is a great accomplishment for me, and for everyone who supported me and the project.
  • The "recently updated b2" lists will disappear from the main page and wait for a maintainer to get back on the front. If you feel that you're up to the task of processing emails to add websites to this list, please email me and I'll give you the keys to the list's admin section if I feel that you are serious enough.

Now for the offtopic banter:
  • I am still jobless. My evil plans to conquer the world, that kept me busy for the past months, have been put to an temporary halt. This is the cause of much troubles in my personal life.
  • I am slowly but steadily redesigning my own website. I'm not opening the doors until I have more than just a weblog to show for it. By the way, the redesign will be based on standards as usual, but will also look different on everyone's computer.
  • With some of the money that I made by taking over the world (a small piece of it, for starters), I bought a digital camera, and proceded to photograph various things. I hope to get better at it than I am at PHP.
  • The current state of RSS is scaring me.
  • Elvis says hi!

Now for some shameless promotion of my beginner photographs:
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michel v @ 02:38:51 443
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Michel was last seen more than two months ago. A lot of people, like myself, is looking for him.
If anyone has any information about him, please share it.

In any case, please stop testing stuff here.
Ricardo @ 02:03:31 460
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While all browsers support Last-Modified and ETag headers properly, MSIE seems not, it wouldn't let you refresh a page generated by b2 0.6.1. And that sucks, I know.
Here is the fix: clickie!
(This fix will be included in the releases asap.)
michel v @ 20:33:14 231
35 comments, 10 trackbacks, 1 pingback

b2 0.6.1 is out, waiting for you to download it! : )
What's new:
  • TrackBack 1.1 (adds compatibility with newer MT versions' TrackBack).
  • RSS 1.0 (b2rdf.php) and 2.0 (b2rss2.php) feeds. For those who upgrade, writing to b2rss.xml is still supported but you're encouraged to just use b2rss.php.
  • b2 now generates Last-Modified and ETag headers based on your last post's date (very useful for aggregators).
  • Improved paged presentation when using next_post() and related tags.
  • Clearer PingBack excerpts
  • Various bugfixes, as usual.
Also, w.bloggar 3 is out too!
michel v @ 01:27:22 435
35 comments, 5 trackbacks, 6 pingbacks

As some of you may have noticed, the calendar may show October 27th twice on some timezones.
This bug is there because of daylight savings, but there's a fix for it! : )
(Needless to say, that fix will be in the next version.)
michel v @ 00:12:26 341
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b2 v0.6 is out !
It halts a serie of pre-releases, fixing pretty much all the remaining bugs.
As usual, downloads are on Sourceforge.

What's new:
  • right-click bookmarklet for Windows IE users: just check your profile for this option
  • various bugfixes: no more pingback glitches, file upload dialog now checks for duplicate files (and renames them accordingly), ...
Now all the work has shifted to 1.0 !
By the way, there's no big difference between 0.6pre5 and 0.6, so you only need to upload the new files (except the empty config and your templates, of course).

Update at 2:40 (gmt+1):
There was a last-minute bug in this release, that I just fixed.
For those who already downloaded 0.6, no need to re-download it, just apply this fix.
michel v @ 00:13:42 342
13 comments, 11 trackbacks, 7 pingbacks

b2 v0.6pre5 is out !
Check out the b2 downloads on Sourceforge for the release.

What's new:
  • TrackBack support (not MT's standalone trackback)
  • Pingback support: Pingback is a new way to put the 'web' in 'weblogs', as it allows your blog to automatically notify other pingback-enabled blogs that you linked to them in an entry
  • some new template tags
  • many bugfixes
...and more than could be listed : )
michel v @ 01:14:21 384
45 comments, 13 trackbacks, 16 pingbacks

I'm at a stage where I have to decide whether to support old versions of PHP, with all the tricks and limitations this would involve, or use new features from PHP 4.1.x and newer.

So I need you to answer this important poll about which PHP version you're using.
Thanks in advance !
michel v @ 23:57:09 331
8 comments, no trackback, 9 pingbacks

Tim Conner just released version 1.3 of BlogApp, a Mac OS X blog client, now with support for the b2 API (note: you need a little tweak in b2 for that, that will be fixed in the next b2 release).
I really wish I had a Mac with OS X : P
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[powered by b2.]

march 2004
january 2004
december 2003
november 2003
october 2003
july 2003
june 2003
may 2003
march 2003
november 2002
october 2002
september 2002
august 2002
july 2002
june 2002
may 2002
april 2002
march 2002
february 2002
january 2002
december 2001
november 2001
october 2001
september 2001
august 2001
july 2001
june 2001

What is b2 ?
A classy news/weblog tool (aka logware).

How does it work ?
You type something and hit "blog this" and in the next second it's on your page(s). You can write extended entries, or even entries that span multiple pages. You can also use BloggerAPI clients to post to your b2 weblog.
What's original in b2 ? Pages are generated dynamically from the MySQL database, so no clumsy 'rebuilding' is involved. It also means faster search/display capabilities, and the ability to serve your news in different 'templates' without any hassle.

Requirements ?
A server that can run PHP4, and a MySQL database (you can install b2 in an already existing database, and you can put several b2's in one database).

Where can I download it ?
b2 0.6 is the latest public release.
You can also visit the CVS server for the latest code, at your own risks.
See the ReadMe file for requirements and installation instructions.

Contact info ?
E-mail: m@tidakada.com
Forums: over there. :)

Post categories:

They are powered by b2:

e-mail me when you install b2 on your site, include your URL to be linked here.

Recently updated b2 weblogs:

To be included in that list whenever you post to your weblog, please use b2 v0.6 or later, and then e-mail update@tidakada.com with: your site's name, URL, e-mail, and a password. You will then receive an e-mail with an ID string that you'll have to paste in your b2config.php file. And then you'll be linked there :)

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I'm glad that Justice Benke decided to publish this opinion.  Not because it involves anything doctrinally complicated, and certainly not because the legal issues were exciting enough to be worth wading through sixty-seven pages of text.  No, that's not it.

Rather, I was interested in the case because of the facts.  It's a murder case.  The opinion includes a bunch of wiretap transcripts and details about the relevant gangs in the area.

Which is not totally unusual.  Not surprisingly, I read lots of cases about murders.  Today's a day that ends in -y, after all.

But this particular case is interesting because the relevant gang is located in Linda Vista -- a particular community in San Diego.  A particular community that just so happens to also be the location of the University of San Diego, at which I am employed.

So I get to learn all about the gangs in the area and the murders committed therefor.  Which is nice.

So I didn't know, for the example, that I'm employed in an area controlled by the Tiny Oriental Crips.  Which means I probably shouldn't wear my "Tournament of Champions" t-shirt around campus, since it prominently displays the abbreviation "TOC."  Don't want anyone thinking that I'm advertising the wrong TOC.

Plus I know something about the TOC's rival, the Asian Crips.  Who are apparently derisively referred to by TOC members as "Ass Cracks."  Creative, those Tiny Oriental Crips.

I could go on.  But given my proximity to their turf, I'll probably keep my comments on this issue somewhat limited.

Suffice it to say that there are two TOC members who will not be coming around the University of San Diego anytime within the next 96 years to life.


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            On April 9, 2013, Debra Quayle Travis, M.F.A., M.F.T., is guest speaker for “The Art of Meditation: From Stress Reduction to Bliss to Liberation.”   Location is the East Tennessee Room, D.P. Culp University Center, at 5:00 p.m.

            Travis’ talk will focus on the immediate and long-term benefits of walking a spiritual path with emphasis on the benefits of meditative practice. During her presentation there will be time for questions and answers, discussion, and hands-on meditation practice.

            Travis has been on the Buddhist path for almost thirty years.  She has a firm foundation in the Theravadan tradition and, while living in Asia in 2005 and 2006, she began her study and practice of Vajrayana.  She has taught many meditation classes and retreats to students in a variety of settings, including in her private psychotherapy practice, in hospitals, universities, at professional conferences, in prisons, and in foreign countries.  Travis is a student of Lama Tsultrim Allione who has authorized her to teach.  She is Tara Mandala’s program director and a resident teacher. She also is the guiding teacher for the Tara Mandala Pagosa Sangha located in Pagosa Springs, Colo.

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First Tea Cuttings Arrive at the Tea Farm

Today I worked on the newly arrived tea cuttings with Juan and his friend Pablo. We took large cuttings and trimmed off excess leaves, dipped them in root starter, and planted them in small heated germination stations for easy control. If this works we will expand the operation (currently 250 cuttings) to 1,000 plants or so, move them into pots, and place them in the large green house once they take root.

I may postpone planting until the fall and keep all of them in the greenhouse; we'll see what happens over the next few months. Right now I am waiting for a break in the rain so that we can start work on the hillside where the tea plants will eventually go in. We need to compost and plant more winter cover crop. This tea farm is starting to happen and I am excited...

Photo descriptions, from top: A fresh batch of tea cuttings; trimmed cuttings ready to go into germination stations; a filled germination station.

Alex Zorach said...

Does tea grow easily from cuttings?

In the long-run, you may want to consider getting some diverse genetic stock and growing more plants from seed. Especially, given that you're growing tea in a new area outside the ideal growing conditions for the plant, if you grew successive generations from seed, they would begin to adapt to your local conditions.

You also might create some variation which could be a valuable innovation, you might stumble upon some particularly interesting or useful varietal.

But I think it's exciting that you are actually starting a tea farm, regardless of how you get the plants propagated!

nigel said...

Alex: It's reckoned that only one plant in 40,000 seed derived bushes is worth propagating by cuttings - that is why the tea industry has embraced VP - vegetative propagation- from elite selections (they take 15-20 years of selection evaluation before becoming certified cultivars).

Roy: cuttings are best made with just one leaf and one internode. Means there is much more room in your propagator for more cuttings. Rooting hormone is not necessary of teh right section of stem is utilised - just between red and green wood. Best to douse the young cuttings with Dithane 45 and keep them in saturated humidity/deep shade.

Good luck with rooting.

Nigel at Teacraft.


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As Katie reported earlier in the week, Sen. John McCain will be attending a fundraiser in his honor hosted by conservative golden boy Ralph Reed. Ralph Reed, if you remember, was an integral part of the Jack Abramoff scandal, receiving $5.3 million in consulting fees to do his bidding.  So, why would "reformer" Sen. John McCain, who once investigated Reed and his work as chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, rely on Reed to raise campaign cash? Well, as David Donnelly writes in the Atlanta Journal Constitution today, "McCain has lost his way." Here's more:Whatever the reason, one thing is clear: McCain’s ambition to be president has overwhelmed his desire to fight for campaign finance reform. While his willingness to accept Reed’s help may be the most shocking rejection of the “reformer” label, it isn’t the first. When McCain began gearing up for his 2008 White House bid, his name disappeared from a bill he once authored that would have fixed the presidential public financing system. After deriding lobbyists for years, he assembled a team of paid staff, advisers and fund-raisers that reads like a who’s who of special-interest lobbyists he once criticized. The list goes on. When you need money to win an election, I guess you have to do whatever it takes.


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U Maryland Emergency Alert Technology Links Caller with Campus Police Dispatch

University of Maryland researchers have created a new emergency alert technology for cell phones and PDAs called V911, which they say could help improve campus safety. Created by scientists from the UM Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), the V911 technology is one tool in MyeVyu, a downloadable software package still in prototype for cell phones and PDAs that provides a direct link between the user and campus police dispatch. With the touch of a button, a user in distress can alert campus police of their identity and location, and stream live, GPS-enhanced video and audio.

"MyeVyu is the kind of innovative technology that we can really use to substantially reduce and deter threats to those we are asked to protect," said Kenneth Krouse, the university's chief of police and director of the UM Department of Public Safety. "It seems appropriate that it capitalizes on technologies developed through the university's own resources and assets. It's very much in the spirit of the department's mission, of community and campus service and safety, integrated with quality of life. Everyone who is concerned with security and well being stands to benefit."

The V911 application, created by Ashok Agrawala and a team of researchers and students from the department of computer science, is one of several features in their new MyeVyu system. In addition to immediate contact with police dispatch, MyeVyu permits dispatchers to forward the device's audio and video to any squad car, including additional streams available from nearby security cameras, and automatically records all data streams involved. All of this information is integrated so that first responders can better prepare for the emergency situation as they are on their way to the scene.

In addition to the V911 technology, the MyeVyu program can provide up-to-date campus alert information, one more way to disseminate emergency information to the university community. Already available for iPhone, HTC Pro, and Nokia's N810, the product may soon be available for similar handheld devices.

"We are collaborating closely with campus police, campus transportation, the Office of Information Technology, and facilities management to acquire the necessary operational support and have this technology available to students and personnel as soon as possible," said Agrawala.

MyeVyu and V911 are part of a pilot program on campus called the Mobility Initiative that is designed to see how handheld devices like the iPhone--loaded with advanced technologies like MyeVyu--may be able to improve the education and college experience of students.

Non-security features of MyeVyu include access to real-time campus information like scheduling and information regarding classes, building locations, activities, transit tracking, and schedules.

Agrawala said he and his team next expect to have applications for such things as accessing social networking Web sites and campus event schedules, and mapping handicapped routes from point to point.

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Process Automation | News

U Cincinnati To Share Research Management Platform

The University of Cincinnati in Ohio will be tapping into a research management system already in use at its affiliate, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. The university will share the eResearch Portal platform from Click Commerce that Cincinnati Children's is using to automate processes related to grant applications, institutional review board (IRB), and institutional biosafety committee administration.

The institution currently has about $378 million in research funding. Access to the eResearch portal will help the university to automate much of the work done by its investigative teams and ancillary committees in their collaboration and management of IRB proposals. The software provides electronic creation, submission, and review of research projects.

The vendor's professional services division will also provide training and tools to help the university configure the system and improve its internal research management processes.

The "application sharing" aspects of this initiative required that the software be able to process data separately for each organization. According to the company, eResearch uses a security model that allows disparate user sites to implement a single system while permitting data sharing to the extent desired and restricting data access as confidentiality needs dictate.

Click Commerce said a similar arrangement is in place between the University of Southern California and the Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Those two entities have used a shared approach since 2003. "In every instance, each organization enjoys both complete autonomy in application deployment and economies of scale," said Nick Stier, company president.

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Hurricanes rally for OT win vs. Canadiens | Tuesday, 12.31.2013 / 10:27 PM

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Carolina Hurricanes forward Alexander Semin scored on a snap shot from the left faceoff circle with 1:33 remaining in overtime to cap a dramatic 5-4 comeback win against the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday night.

The Canadiens seemed to be on their way to an easy win, leading 3-0 after two periods, but Hurricanes forward Jeff Skinner scored a pair of power-play goals 37 seconds apart before setting up Eric Staal for the tying goal less than two minutes later.

Manny Malhotra scored at 8:16 to give the Hurricanes a 4-3 lead, but P.K. Subban answered two minutes later to even the score at 4-4.

The Hurricanes killed off a double minor for boarding against Staal at the end of the third period and early in overtime before Semin's game-winner.

Skinner put the Hurricanes on the board at 1:38 with a nice move in the left faceoff circle to beat Canadiens goalie Carey Price to the far post; he scored again from the right circle at 2:15.

When Staal finished on a loose puck in front at 4:07, it completed a three-goal comeback in a span of 2:29.

Until the wild third period, Montreal had controlled the game, despite killing 10:14 of Carolina power-play time through two periods.

Lars Eller's ninth goal of the season put the Canadiens on the board 1:20 into the game. Alex Galchenyuk forced a turnover behind the net then pushed a pass to Eller, who slipped the puck past Hurricanes goaltender Cam Ward on the backhand.

Pacioretty made it 2-0 at 7:46 when he redirected a pass from David Desharnais from the right circle. The goal came on an abbreviated power play after the teams had skated 4-on-4 for 1:20.

Montreal didn't show much discipline in the first 20 minutes, taking four minor penalties. Price was sharp though, especially during a 37-second sequence of 5-on-3 when he stopped scoring bids by Semin and Jordan Staal.

The penalty-box traffic continued in the second period for Montreal. A bench minor for too many men on the ice quickly followed a slashing penalty by Galchenyuk, leaving Carolina with 1:45 of a two-man advantage. But Montreal was equal to the task, blocking shots and keeping the Hurricanes away from the crease.

Pacioretty's second goal of the night at 14:24 pushed the Montreal lead to 3-0.

Desharnais earned his second assist of the night by winning the faceoff, and Subban stickhandled from the left point to the goal line before laying a backhand pass to Pacioretty at the top of the crease.

Hurricanes forward Riley Nash left the game in the first period with a lower-body injury and did not return.

Carolina outshot Montreal 42-25, including by 30-12 over the final two periods.

Scoring Summary
1st Period
01:20MTL Lars Eller (9) ASST: Alex Galchenyuk (13) 1 - 0 MTL
07:46MTL PPG - Max Pacioretty (16) ASST: David Desharnais (12), Andrei Markov (18) 2 - 0 MTL
2nd Period
14:24MTL Max Pacioretty (17) ASST: P.K. Subban (23), David Desharnais (13) 3 - 0 MTL
3rd Period
01:38CAR PPG - Jeff Skinner (15) ASST: Jordan Staal (11), Andrej Sekera (15) 3 - 1 MTL
02:15CAR PPG - Jeff Skinner (16) ASST: Andrej Sekera (16), Eric Staal (22) 3 - 2 MTL
04:07CAR Eric Staal (10) ASST: Jeff Skinner (11), Brett Bellemore (2) 3 - 3 Tie
08:16CAR Manny Malhotra (2) ASST: Zach Boychuk (2), Tuomo Ruutu (5) 4 - 3 CAR
10:16MTL PPG - P.K. Subban (6) ASST: Andrei Markov (19), David Desharnais (14) 4 - 4 Tie
OT Period
03:27CAR Alexander Semin (5) ASST: Ron Hainsey (7), Eric Staal (23) 5 - 4 CAR
Three Stars of the Game
Jeff Skinner
Jeff Skinner
G: 2Shots: 5
A: 1Hits: 0
PTS: 3PIM: 0
+/-: 1TOI: 22:41
Alexander Semin
Alexander Semin
G: 1Shots: 9
A: 0Hits: 1
PTS: 1PIM: 0
+/-: 1TOI: 25:31
Eric Staal
Eric Staal
G: 1Shots: 2
A: 2Hits: 1
PTS: 3PIM: 8
+/-: 1TOI: 24:31
Penalty Summary
1st Period
03:00CAR Eric Staal  Interference on goalkeeper against  Carey Price
05:22MTL Lars Eller  Tripping against  Alexander Semin
06:02CAR Justin Faulk  Slashing against  Travis Moen
12:34MTL Tomas Plekanec  Holding against  Nathan Gerbe
13:58MTL Alexei Emelin  Holding against  Jordan Staal
15:35CAR Justin Faulk  Hooking against  Lars Eller
19:35MTL Josh Gorges  Interference against  Tuomo Ruutu
2nd Period
02:23MTL David Desharnais  Tripping against  Tuomo Ruutu
09:23MTL Alex Galchenyuk  Slashing against  Brett Bellemore
09:38MTL Michael Bournival  Too many men/ice - bench
19:39MTL Josh Gorges  Roughing against  Eric Staal
19:57CAR Eric Staal  Delay Gm - Face-off Violation
3rd Period
00:11MTL Andrei Markov  Hooking against  Alexander Semin
01:38MTL Brendan Gallagher  Abuse of officials - bench
09:24CAR Tuomo Ruutu  Interference against  Brandon Prust
16:31CAR Eric Staal  Unsportsmanlike conduct
16:31CAR Eric Staal  Boarding against  Travis Moen
OT Period
shots by period
Team Stats
Power Plays2/62/10
Faceoff Wins2958
Blocked Shots349
Penalty Minutes2014
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27A. GalchenyukC0111211:37
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49M. BournivalL000007:23
51D. DesharnaisC03-10216:49
53R. WhiteC000208:44
55F. BouillonD00-11015:07
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74A. EmelinD00-21216:19
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79A. MarkovD02-10227:37
81L. EllerC1013214:11
31C. Price3742.88163:27
4A. SekeraD02-27029:20
5M. KomisarekD001109:37
7R. MurphyD0011014:32
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12E. StaalC1212824:31
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32Z. BoychukL0110011:38
39P. DwyerR0001014:39
53J. SkinnerL2115022:41
65R. HainseyD0120023:57
73B. BellemoreD0110019:58
30C. Ward2125.84063:12


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One time only - NHL Game

Tuesday, 11.24.2009 / 3:50 PM PT / Features
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One time only - NHL Game

It's a milestone they will only achieve once in their career and something they'll never forget.

In hockey, like in everything else, there's a first time for everything and players remember some of those like it was yesterday.

After hours of practice, years of perseverance, and countless games, they've made it to the NHL and their first game is something that will remain with them forever. Players talk about their experience.

Left wing, 391 NHL games

TEAM: Atlanta Thrashers
FIRST GAME: January 12, 2001 vs. Montreal Canadiens
AGE: 20
SCORE: 3-0 L

Darcy Hordichuk has earned the reputation as a tough guy in the NHL and it's something he's had his whole career but in his first NHL game as a 20-year old, he wasn't shy to show people what he could do.

"All I remember is the guys telling me to relax out there on the ice. My first shift of the game, I got Oleg Petrov with his head down behind the net and the hit made the Gatorade commercials with that. I got in the Gatorade commercial with that hit. It was a good first shift for me and it was an exciting moment in my career."

Hordichuk went on to play 11 games that season with the Thrashers and split the rest of the season in Orlando with the Solar Bears in the last year of the IHL.

In 11 NHL games with Atlanta in 2000-2001, he had 38 penalty minutes, which included six majors.

Biggest wow moment: Just getting to play against some of the people you grew up idolizing and just being part of it and playing in the NHL, the best league in the world. I think Jeff Odgers, he was really good with me and kind of took me under his wing. He’s a great guy and he’s another one from my hometown. I owe a lot to him.

Looking back on it now, I can’t believe... That I’ve been in the NHL 10 years

Goaltender, 561 NHL games

TEAM: New York Islanders
FIRST GAME: November 28, 1999 at Boston Bruins
AGE: 20
SCORE: 2-1 W

Getting your first start in the National Hockey League as a goalie isn't easy to come by but the 20-year old Roberto Luongo didn't even know it was coming.

"It was an afternoon game and I didn’t even know I was starting until about three hours before the game. I was kind of just thrown in there but it was a great feeling and it was awesome."

There wasn't even a morning skate to ease him into game day. Coach Roberto Goring opted to give the news to Luongo following the team lunch and choosing to sit, then starter, Felix Potvin.

Starting the year in the AHL with the Lowell Lock Monsters, Luongo got his call a couple days earlier before making his debut in Boston and earning his first win.

In his rookie year with the Isles, Luongo continued to play in 24 games and finished with a 4-14-1 record.

The startling news, the unexpected situation, and the excitement of starting in his first game is enough to get the blood flowing but to top off the day with a win made it that much better.

"There were a few really memorable moments but just the feeling after the game, winning in my first game and the emotions that you go through because finally your dream has come true."

Biggest wow moment: I think the national anthem, standing there and you look at the building that’s sold out and you realize it’s your first NHL game. It was pretty overwhelming.

Looking back on it now, I can’t believe... It was 10 years ago already. I still can’t believe and it was a long time ago.

Right wing, 64 NHL games

TEAM: Vancouver Canucks
FIRST GAME: April 13,2007 vs. Dallas Stars
AGE: 21
SCORE: 2-0 L

For Jannik Hansen, his first game in the NHL wasn't just any other game. It was the game after the Canucks, now infamous, four-overtime game one of the 2007 playoffs against the Dallas Stars.

Hansen didn't have time to adjust to the pace and level of the NHL, he had to get right in there and play at the highest level during the most important time of the year.

He didn't have a whole lot of time to process the situation and when he got out there, it was just another game on the ice.

"Probably my first shift was the most memorable for me. After that, it was kind of like, ‘okay, now it’s a game’. But in that first shift, you start to really realize that you’re actually playing and try to take it all in but after that, it’s back to business."

The Canucks lost Matt Cooke and Alex Burrows in game one and found out that Ryan Kesler would be out the next game but Hansen wasn't expecting to be suiting up for game two.

"We were a couple of games away from [the Manitoba Moose] playoffs too so I was getting ready for that and I was walking through the mall in Winnipeg. [Scott] Arniel called me. We saw the first game and a couple guys went down in that game, somebody had to get called up and I didn’t expect it to be me. I got the call and got on a plane."

Hansen played 10 games and had an assist during the playoffs with the Canucks that year.

Biggest wow moment: The warmup on the ice before the anthem.

Looking back on it now, I can’t believe... It was 3 years back.

Defenceman, 364 NHL games

TEAM: Vancouver Canucks
FIRST GAME: October 9, 2003 at Edmonton
AGE: 21
SCORE: 5-2 L

After four years of playing hockey in Germany, Christian Ehrhoff took his first onto the North American ice in 2003 with the San Jose Sharks.

Making the team straight out of the training camp, the rookie debuted in the Sharks first game of the season in Edmonton as one of just five German players in the League that year.

"It was just a great feeling to be there and to have gotten to that point after dreaming of that for such a long time."

Ehrhoff turned heads as the second youngest player to play for the German team in the 2002 Olympics (Marcel Goc was the youngest) and was ready to show what he could do on the smaller NHL ice.

He played in 41 games in 2003-04 registering a goal and 11 assists in his rookie campaign.

He finished that year with the Cleveland Barons of the AHL.

Biggest wow moment: Maybe walking into the dressing room with all the jerseys hanging up and seeing your name on the back on an NHL jersey.

Looking back on it now, I can’t believe... We lost that game.


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Rome to Lisbon Cruise with Paul Cullen

By Paul Cullen - Tune Your Palate | Mar 13, 2014

Cruise Chat on April 6th at the Spice and Tea Exchange 10 Rehoboth Ave at 5:00 for a 1/2 hour. RSVP if you want to join us.

Limited Time Offer!!

Pre-Paid Gratuities ($30.00 a day)

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Plus $100.00 Stateroom Credit

Deposit Reduced to 475.00 pp

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Former Bad Company Bassist, Paul Cullen and his wife Bonnie will be hosting the ultimate food, wine and music cruise aboard Oceania Cruise Line's, Marina. With a plethora of private wine tastings, gourmet dinners, musical performances, winery and food tours, it promises to be the trip of a lifetime.

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Explore Tuscany, Monaco, France, Barcelona & Lisbon.

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Creation Date: 2010/01/04 06:26:11
Expiry Date: 2010/02/03
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Employee Benefits Executive (UAE National)

Job Purpose

Administer various employee benefit programs, such as group life, medical insurance, loss of license insurance, etc. Ensure that various employee benefits are performed promptly, accurately and efficiently in accordance with company policies and procedures.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

1) Administer group life insurance, medical insurance, loss of license insurance, etc. in accordance with company policy and agreements. Administer benefit inclusion and exclusion; and facilitate medical examinations for beneficiary above free limits.

2) Process and provide employee benefit orientations, enrollments, claim processing and billings of insurance. Process and follow-up medical claims outside network reimbursements.

3) Administer accident leave and adjustment with sick leave in accordance with company policy. Maintain complete and accurate records of industrial injury and accident.

4) Initial update of all employee personal data including identification of Point of Origin (POO), dependant listings, UAE and GCC pension enrolment documentations, update contact list and new joiner or resignation notifications.

5) Administer contract amendments to payroll to update compensation. Coordinate all eligible benefits with change in employee status, employment status (as per contract amendment).

6) Coordinate resignation acceptance, separation notice; and coordinate to create vacancy of position.

7) Link employee data on HRMS (Oracle) for employee intranet (SAWA) display - active directory updates, etc. Ensure that employee benefits information provided to employees are current, complete and accurate.

8) Serve as first and point of contact (UAE National representation) in employee intranet help desk. Serve as UAE National representative for various academic activities, e.g. career fair, Emiratization activities, etc.

9) Perform other duties and responsibilities delegated by the Management.

 Planning and Organizing
 Problem Solving and Analysis
 Action Orientation
 Quality Orientation
 Creativity and Innovation

 A minimum of 2 years of progressively responsible experience in a variety of human resources functions preferably in benefits or related benefits administration
 Experience in Word, Excel, MS Share Point, HRMS and other applicable database programs
 Knowledge of company policies and procedures, particularly in the application of company employee benefit programs

 Educated to a minimum of a degree level, ideally in the human resource management or related field

Job Details

  • Job Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
  • Job Role: Human Resources/Personnel
  • Joining Date: 2010-02-01
  • Employment Status: Full time
  • Employment Type: Employee
  • Monthly Salary Range: US$4,000 - $5,000
  • Manages Others: No
  • Number of Vacancies: 1

Preferred Candidate

  • Career Level: Entry Level
  • Years of Experience: Min: 1
  • Nationality: United Arab Emirates
  • Degree: Bachelor's degree


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Title Control Systems Engineer or Technologist
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Position Overview Our client is seeking 2 Controls Systems Engineers/Technologists - for a long-term project and possibly full-time employment.
Responsibilities Design, programming, commissioning, start-up and maintenance of control systems
Requirements • A Degree or Diploma in control systems
• 1-5 years’ work experience designing, programming, commissioning, start-up and maintenance of based control systems projects.
• PLC experience: either Modicon or Allen Bradley
• HMI experience: either Wonderware or Citec
• Must have excellent verbal and written English communication skills.
• Must be comfortable working in a fast paced dynamic team environment.
• Must be willing to do field work in remote locations; primarily in BC

Candidates must have Canadian Citizenship or Canadian Permanent Residency status.
No relocation is available and only local residents will be considered at this time.
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Peak Car Use and Burgeoning Cycling Volumes in Baltimore

Ever get the feeling that people aren’t driving as much as they used to? CEOs for Cities compiled national Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) data which shows the usual post-recession “bounce back”  is not happening this time. You can see their graphs here. With a struggling middle class which was hit especially hard during the last recession, fewer people can afford to keep paying for gas, insurance and repairs on a depreciating asset. Even if you’re living in a place which requires a car, maybe you’re driving less and making shorter trips to cut costs. It makes sense.

Driving is falling out of fashion (click to enlarge).

On a local note, State Highway data shows flat and gradually declining VMT levels in Baltimore City, depending on what types of roads you look at. According to SHA’s data, on average, Citywide VMT has grown 0.08% annually over the past 15 years and is up a total of 1.09% during that time. Non-Freeway VMT (which makes up about 95% of our street network) has gone down an average of 0.47% annually over the past 15 years and is down a total of 6.5% during that time. Assumed VMT growth rates used in traffic models is usually 1%-2% annually, but according to SHA’s data, this assumption wildly over estimates future volumes.

The State Highway data may not be completely accurate, but their numbers are showing volumes in the City to be consistently flat or declining, especially on neighborhood streets. This clearly isn’t representative of all communities or intersections within the City, but it may be representative of VMT citywide.

On the other hand, from all measures bike ridership is growing dramatically. Bike counts at Guilford & Mt. Royal and Aliceanna & Broadway show ridership up 100% and 60% since Spring ’09 and Fall ’10 respectively. Bike to Work Day registrations are up 347% over the past five years, and Census data shows bike commuting in Baltimore up 228% from 1990 to 2011, and up 104% from 2005 to 2011. The absolute numbers are still relatively small, but the increases have been dramatic and consistent.

So, if someone is looking for empirical reasons to invest in more biking infrastructure, complete street alternatives, and transit, there you have it.


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