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Rain Continues to Fall in Stephens Co.

October 2, 2012

The chance of more showers remains today after more than a day of steady, sometimes heavy rain.

So far, downtown Toccoa has received well over three inches of rain from this rain event, which began on Sunday.

The rain could continue to help the dry conditions in the area.

According to last week’s release of the U.S. Drought Monitor, most of Stephens County remains in the abnormally dry category, with moderate drought conditions beginning around the Stephens/Franklin County line.

The worst drought conditions are located in the central part of the state, where 17 percent of Georgia remains in exceptional drought.

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Stephens Co. Commission To Meet This Morning

August 12, 2014

Stephens County Commissioners are expected to re-visit the issue of building permit fees at their meeting today.

County commissioners are scheduled to meet at 8:30 a.m. in the second-floor courtroom of the historic Stephens County Courthouse in downtown Toccoa.

The Stephens County Commission first discussed the matter last month, specifically looking at commercial building permit fees.

Also on today’s meeting agenda, Stephens County Commissioners are expected to consider awarding bids for numerous emergency communications items, including a recorder, phone system, radio console, and infrastructure upgrade.

County commissioners tabled awarding these bids back in May after a controversy regarding the county and Gunby Communications of Toccoa, who has provided that equipment to Stephens County.

Stephens County Administrator Phyllis Ayers alleged that Gunby Communications’ John Smith listened to and recorded five different conversations on the administrative line of Stephens County E-911/EMA Director Denny Folsom and played the recording for a county commissioner in what Ayers called an effort for the county not to change the current contract that was in place with Gunby, but was canceled by the county in October.

Smith denied the allegations.

He said he denies ever having listened in on or recording any conversation on Folsom’s administrative line or other line in the center and denies using any recordings to alter the outcome of the recording contract or any other contract with the county.

The matter was turned over to the GBI for an investigation, but no results of that investigation have been released yet by the GBI.

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Florists in Honesdale Get Ready for Easter

Now that Easter is less than a week away, flower shops all over are working fast to fill orders and have those baskets ready for Sunday.

Newswatch 16 went to Wayne County to find out how the flower shops there are doing this year.

Florists in Honesdale are busy trimming flowers and taking orders all to make sure their customers have a bright Easter Sunday.

Robert Frank, owner of the Honesdale Greenhouse Flower Shop, said a lot of work goes into making sure the arrangements are beautiful and perfect.

“We trim up our plants, we put bows on all our plants, we cover the pots with either a nice basket or some colorful foil. We make Easter baskets with fresh-cut flowers and center pieces of bright springy tulips, irises and daffodils and things like that, for people’s tables for Easter dinner,” said Frank.

Sara Else, a florist at Bold’s Florist and Garden Center in Honesdale, said around this time of year the deliveries start coming in, filling the shelves with vibrant flowers and business picks up.

“It’s a sign that spring is coming and people are coming for their perennials, their fruit trees, and you know, it’s the start of everything for us,” said Else.

Over the past few years Easter was a struggle for some of the local florists, but now things are starting to look up.

“We had a big drop about three years ago, then it’s been steadily climbing since then,” said Robert Frank.

Frank said he’s noticed customers who turned to discount flowers when the economy was rough, are now starting to come back to florists.

“We have a fair share of orders for this weekend, never enough as far as I’m concerned,” Frank added.

Both flower shops we visited in Wayne County say there’s nothing like beautiful fresh-cut flowers to help celebrate the Easter season.

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Ravens release Chris McAlister this afternoon

February 16, 2009 | Nestor Aparicio

As has been suspected, reported and speculated, the Chris McAlister era in Baltimore has come to an end. ProFootballTalk.com first reported that McAlister will be released. His $8 million base salary was too much for Ozzie Newsome and John Harbaugh to stomach. His antics at the team’s hotel in Miami were legendary and it was no secret that Harbaugh thought the team was better off without him. And, of course, the team came four minutes away from going to the Super Bowl without him.

Newsome met with McAlister earlier today in Owings Mills and told him that he would be released.

Here is the Ravens’ official press release:

Feb. 16, 2009

For Immediate Release

The Baltimore Ravens terminated the contract of CB Chris McAlister this afternoon, it was announced by Ozzie Newsome, the team’s general manager and executive vice president.

McAlister, a three-time Pro Bowl standout, played 10 seasons for the Ravens after being selected in the first round (10th pick) in the 1999 draft. A starter on the 2000 Super Bowl championship Baltimore team, “C-Mac” produced 26 career interceptions, good for third place on the franchise’s all-time list (behind S Ed Reed, 43, and LB Ray Lewis, 28). McAlister also scored seven career touchdowns – six by interceptions and one on a missed field goal return, which set a then-NFL record for longest play (107 yards).

McAlister, who will be 32 in June, played in six games in 2008, starting five, before being placed on Injured Reserve with a knee injury on Nov. 11. Before being hurt, he stole three passes and made 19 tackles (17 solo).

“First, we want to thank Chris for all he did for the Ravens in the past 10 years,” Newsome explained. “He was a major contributor to many big wins, including the Super Bowl. To play the type of defense we have used here, you have to have corners who can cover one-on-one. He was one of the best at that for us. He was physical, and he could run with the best.”

“All of us who had the opportunity to coach Chris for the first time this season have an appreciation for all the good things he did for this team through the years,” head coach John Harbaugh said. “He’ll be remembered by us and the fans as one of the best to ever play for the Ravens. He’s a tough guy and loves football. He’ll play again, and he’ll play well.”

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The $10-Per-Gallon Gas Has Arrived, In Paris

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In early December, Christophe de Margerie, CEO of Total, the Exxon à la Française, shocked the French when he said that there was “no doubt” that a liter of gasoline would reach €2 and that the only question was when. He cited the calamities in the news at the time to justify the skyrocketing prices of oil and gasoline—source of Total’s mega profits. He was talking his book, obviously, which isn’t illegal, not even in France.

And now, €2-per-liter gasoline has arrived! More precisely, it has arrived at a gas station in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris, not far from the Bastille, in the 4th arrondissement. I used to walk by it every day an eternity ago when I lived in “le Marais” as the arrondissement is called. It’s a tiny gas station with rip-off prices by a parking garage entrance. And now it had the audacity to be the first in France to charge €2.02 per liter. $10 a gallon.

It was reported on, a site that tracks gas prices across France, and then made the national news, though it must have done little to bring business to the station. The national average, which has been hitting all-time highs since late last year, was €1.62 ($8 per gallon) as of last week, also a record, according to the Ministry of Sustainable Development—they have a ministry for everything in France.

Fuel is taxed heavily in France (and in Europe), which explains part of the difference in price to the US. But now there is an additional reason. In 2008, when gasoline in the US hit all-time highs, the euro was strong against the dollar, and since oil is priced in dollars, Europeans got a sweet deal, or at least they didn’t feel the pain as much. But the weaker euro has changed the scenario, and record gas prices have been washing over the Eurozone for months.

The tab is rising. France paid a record €61.4 billion in 2011 for its energy needs, an increase of 32% over prior year. It amounts to 3.1% of GDP, up from 2.5% in 2010. Most of that increase is due to the rising price of oil as measured in euros. Electricity—the 59 nuclear power plants of mostly state-owned EDF generate 78% of the country’s power—played only a small role.

Consumers, who have to absorb the majority of the oil price shock, are reeling. And they might kick France into a recession. Even Mario Draghi, president of the ECB admitted it when he said that it could heat up inflation—after graciously handing a trillion euros to his banker cronies since he came to power in November last year. The goal of these “Long Term Refinancing Operations” was to drive up the value of sovereign bonds of debt sinner countries in the Eurozone. But it seems to be hitting oil as well.

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  1. luiza
    March 16, 2012 at 10:08 am

    Everything is ok and under control. VIP from politbiuro just called and price at 12 o clock would be changed to 1,99. The same witth Dow Jones today. It has to be up, and will be! – american economy is the best – five year plan will be accomplished in just 2 years. Hura, hura, hura.

  2. Wolf Richter
    March 16, 2012 at 2:06 pm

    Luiza – do you have the VIP's number? I've got some requests….

  3. luiza
    March 16, 2012 at 3:38 pm

    Ask Wolf. I am in touch with these VIPs. And not only. With those as well. By the way, I am licenced expert of that system as well.

  4. Wolf Richter
    March 16, 2012 at 9:43 pm

    Awesome. I could use a licensed expert in that system. I need to get one of those Fed money spigots installed in my house.

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Female Founders To Watch Building Hardware Startups

Arduinos, circuits, and… robots? Women entrepreneurs push boundaries of devices, hardware startups.

By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

There are web startups, mobile startups, consumer electronics startups… Newest yet are the interesting device startups are cropping up at various intersections of previous industries, creating disruptive new technologies and businesses.

We watched Square, the free credit card reader that plugs into a phone or iPad, empower taxicab drivers to Girl Scouts.

To inspire more device innovation, hardware accelerator programs like PCH Accelerator and Haxlr8r, Lemnos Labs and Bolt have popped up to help prototype and scale your device to production.

Last year, Limor Fried graced the cover of WIRED magazine – the first female engineer on the cover of WIRED, in fact. She is one of many women entrepreneurs building, making and inventing devices and hardware solutions for expanded markets.

Here are a list of female founders to watch building new hardware startups:

Amy Sheng (Co-Founder, CellScope)
Mechanical engineer Amy co-founded CellScope to extend the reach of diagnosis with medical microscopy from your smartphone. Follow Amy on Twitter at @AmySheng.

Ayah Bdeir (Founder & Lead Engineer, littlebits)
Ayah created litteBits, an award-winning kit of pre-assembled circuits that snap together with tiny magnets. No soldering, no wiring, no programming. Follow Ayah on Twitter at @AyahBdeir.

Helen Greiner (Founder & CEO, CyPhy Works)
After founding iRobot and taking it public, Helen runs an early stage robotics startup developing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at CyPhy Works. Follow Helen on Twitter at @HelenGreiner.

Julia Hu (Founder & CEO, LARK)
Julia dropped out of business school to take her invention to the next level: LARK was produced thru PCH Accelerator and now in Apple stores. Follow Julia on Twitter at @ourlark.

Limor Fried (Founder, Adafruit Industries)
Limor founded Adafruit to create the best place online for learning electronics, making the best designed products for makers of all ages and skill levels. Follow Limor on Twitter at @adafruit.

Lisa Qiu (Co-Founder & CEO, Lower East Kitchen)
In ShenZhen participating in hardware accelerator program Haxlr8r, Lisa democratizes sous vide cooking with Lower East Kitchen. Follow Lisa on her blog at Q and Abe.

Mary Lou Jepsen (Founder & CEO, Pixel Qi)
The first CTO of One Laptop per Child, Mary Lou founded Pixel Qi to manufacture low-cost, low-power LCD screens for consumer products. Follow Mary Lou on Twitter at @PixelQi.

Monisha Perkash (Co-Founder & CEO, Lumoback)
An iPhone app combined with a lightweight sensor held in a thin band worn discreetly around your waist or lower back, entrepreneur Monisha Perkash co-founded Lumoback to monitor and measure your posture, sending vibrations to your lower back to remind you to sit up straight. Follow Monisha on Twitter at @mperkash.

Rachel Kalmar (Co-Founder, Senstore)
Rachel co-founded Senstore, enabling DIY healthcare with next generation smart sensors. Follow Rachel on Twitter at @grapealope.

Star Simpson (Co-Founder & Electrical Engineer, Canidu)
Star co-founded Canidu, channeling her knowledge of electronics into designing Canidus’s projects to be robust, safe, and friendly. Follow Star on Twitter at @starsandrobots.

Tan Le (Founder & President, Emotiv)
Tan founded Emotiv, a neuroengineering company developing interface technology for digital media taking inputs directly from the brain. Follow Tan on Twitter at @TanTTLe.

As the venerable Vinod Khosla wrote on TechCrunch regarding unhyped new opportunities in Internet and mobile (February 19, 2012), “Makers are enthusiasts who hack and modify the world around them in interesting and whimsical ways. Tools and services that used to be inaccessible to all but large manufacturers are now available to everyone. Foreign factories that were impenetrable before are now an email away. Design software costing thousands of dollars per seat is freely available (or very cheap). Hackers are mixing all of these elements together and re-imagining entire industries from the ground up.”

Let us know about more female founders of hardware startups in the comments below – thanks!

About the writer: Angie Chang co-founded Women 2.0 in 2006. She currently serves as Editor-In-Chief of Women 2.0 and is working to mainstream women in high-growth, high-tech entrepreneurship. Previously, Angie held roles in product management and web UI design. In 2008, Angie launched Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners, asking that guys come as the “+1″ for once. Angie holds a B.A. in English and Social Welfare from UC Berkeley. Follow her on Twitter at @thisgirlangie.


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Thursday, February 23, 2006

WoolfCamp: I Got Schooled

I have to admit that I was a bit leery of WoolfCamp. Badger and Mary and Grace assured met that it would be divine, but most group-type things I've attended have been full of insecure whiners, and I don't like all that competition.

Imagine my shock in arriving at Grace's groovalicious pad to find it chock-full of high test, beyond-cool blogganeers. (I probably still don't get how cool they all were, and are.) Imagine my relief at being the token gripey introvert! Yeah!

My daughter Iz (7) got dragged to camp with me so that her extroversion could be my shield. Turned out I didn't need it and she sure as hell didn't need me; she entertained herself effortlessly while Badger and Grace made certain that I got to finally meet cool people like Jen (whose existence I'd enjoyed reading about but had never physically verified).

Then I got to hang out with my blog acquaintances Mary, Minnie, and Grace, all of whom are tantalizingly not-quite-local to me because they don't live within my city limits. I was also introduced to asskicker after asskicker: Chris, Kristie, Amber, Debbie, Elithea (E), Sarah, Peter, Elke, Emily, Lisa, Debra, and Gwen. Wow.

Rook (Hero! Diaper changer without even being asked!) watched Mali and Iz so I could attend Debbie's session on feminist businesses, ethics, and blogging. Though I didn't really get what the session was going to be about before stumbling into the room with (because of?) a glass of port in my hand. Debbie, I apologize for all my tangent diving. Mostly I was blinky-eyed and confused about being in a room full of quite serious Writers, many of whom see their blogs as publication launching pads.

Whereas I am all about the love and community, baby. Plus I am a fortunate: I don't need writerly income, though it would be nice. I never set my sights on publication; in fact I believe that blogs are superior to books for special interests, like, erm, autism parenting.

See, parents of autistic kids frequently feel as though they can't find enough information, especially because the condition has no known cause or cure. No matter how many books a person buys on the subject, and because publishers won't give the authors more than 300 pages to tell their stories, the resulting "guidelines" are by necessity swiss-cheesed. Parents truly desperate for every scrap of information are left to figure out the backstories and connect the dots, themselves.

Blogs like mine comprehensively document years of the day-to-day reality of living with autism in a way I would have killed to access in 2002, after my son's initial diagnosis. Admittedly, readers have to do some wading (it's been 2.5 years, and I don't focus solely on my son and his autism), but I think my blog is still useful. At least I hope it is.

Anyhow, and despite my digressions, Debbie and the rest of the crew (Mary, Jen, Emily, Gwen, Badger, Sarah, Grace...did I forget anyone?) managed to get across good points about blog ads/blog revenue being cool if you're into it, about any publicity being good publicity, about how giving content away for free can increase both readership in general as well as real book sales. And I salute them all, even as I felt like a squid out of water (see cartoon below).

My favorite camp moment may have been 14-month-old Mali banging on the back porch's French doors, pissed off that she couldn't get inside and dance to Prince with everyone else.

My favorite person was, of course, un-hostess Grace. Where does your energy come from? Bottle it and send me some. Please! And thanks muchly and sincerely to you and Badger for bringing everyone together. I so very much hope to stay the whole time, and really talk to people, at the next local WoolfCamp.

P.S. I missed Jo Spanglemonkey, but was glad she called mid-camp.

Blogger misskrob said...

I was only there on Saturday and therefore our paths did not cross! I'm sorry to have missed meeting you. Perhaps another time (Woolfcamp summer edition???).

Glad you had such a great time. I, too, am not an extrovert and was in awe of those around me.

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Blogger Debra said...

I don't think we got a chance to chat, but I was the token gripy introvert.. and if you want that title, we will have to have a blog-off to determine the winner.

2:21 PM
Blogger ...e... said...

didn't see any gripy introverts there but, squid, did you use a digital tool to make the drawing, or did you draw and write on paper and then scan it, or what? artbloggers want to know.

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Blogger Mary Tsao said...

I love the cartoon.

I am one of those extroverts who still pictures herself a third grade introvert. Except every time I try and describe myself as an introvert, the person with whom I am speaking will stop me by saying, "No, you're not!" But I always find that odd because I actually feel that I am. or was.

Oh wait, were we talking about me or you? Sorry...

6:19 PM
Blogger squid said...

e: Drawn and scanned. Heard rumors 'round these parts about newfangled gadgets like tablets and all, but have yet to investigate them. Maybe when Mali goes to college and I have more than one free minute. Heh.

Mary: There is such thing as an ambivert, which means people like you who go both ways. Yeow, baby, come sit next to me!

misskrob: It would be an honor to hook up.

Debra: I would win by forfeiting the match due to extreme insecurity.

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Sustainable Design Program Director Rob Fleming Speaks on Earth Day Panel

Rob Fleming, M.S. in Sustainable Design program director, participated in a panel discussion on sustainable work spaces on Earth Day, April 22. The event, coordinated by Steelcase, Corporate Interiors, the International Living Future Institute’s Philadelphia chapter and the Delaware Valley Green Building Council, addressed environmentally sustainable building design and construction. The talk took place at the Cira Centre in Philadelphia.

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The Week in Translation

By Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren

what: PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature
when: April 29-May 5
where: NYC
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what: The Bridge Series: Turkish translators Erdağ Göknar and Aron Aji
when: Thursday, May 2, 7pm
where: McNally Jackson Books, New York, NY
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Lorca in New York: A Celebration: the largest-ever festival in North America celebrating the work of acclaimed Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca. With more than two dozen events throughout Manhattan, it focuses on the brief but prolific period (1929-1930), during which Lorca came to New York and wrote one of his most significant works, Poet in New York.

what: After Lorca: A Day of Poetry and Performance: Poets and performers LaTasha DiggsRob FittermanEileen MylesJudah RubinSara Jane StonerAynsley Vandenbroucke, the Aynsley Vandenbroucke Movement Group and others explore the tensions between urban and pastoral, foreign and American, mapped and experimental, as well as the often-unexamined queerness of Lorca’s work
when: Wednesday, May 1, 2-9 pm
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MotoGP Official Test - Sepang - Testing
Date : 06/02/2013 Weather : Sunny Showers Air : 34°C Track : 44°C Humidity : 71%

Repsol Honda Team continue to progress in Malaysia

After the second day of the three day test in Sepang, the Repsol Honda Team remain on the top of the time sheets.

Dani Pedrosa, who completed 37 laps, recorded the fastest time of the day of 2'00.549 on lap 29. Dani, spent this second day working on weight distribution - to find the ideal placement of the additional 3kg as dictated by the new 2013 rules. In the afternoon he had planned to test the new rear tyre compound from Bridgestone, but after only 1 lap rain arrived and halted his testing for the day.

Repsol Honda Teammate, Marc Marquez, began the day as he left off yesterday, lapping in the low 2'01's. Marc began to work with the electronics for the first time and continued to learn the braking point limit on the MotoGP machines. He completed 34 laps taking his fastest lap of 2'00.803 on lap 20, placing him 3rd on the time sheets.

The team will be back on track tomorrow for the final day of this first test.

Dani Pedrosa 　Dani Pedrosa - 1st - 2'00.549
"Today I was able to try some more things on the bike and we made a few positive steps forward from yesterday. The feeling is good, I'm happy and that's what's important. We had planned to try a few more things in the afternoon, like the hard compound tyres, but it started to rain early and we were unable to go out. We hope that it is good weather tomorrow so that we can try them out, as in the coming season it will be important to ride fast on that compound. We also hope to continue moving forward with our quest for the best bike setup"
Marc Marquez 　Marc Marquez - 3rd - 2'00.803
"I am happy, because we improved our pace a lot and that is what our focus was for today. The final stints on track were more consistent, which helped us to obtain better data. Today I started to work a little with the electronics and we have a few ideas to put into practice tomorrow or in future tests. This is making me learn new things and I am little-by-little understanding the way the electronics behave on this bike"

Testing Results

1 Dani Pedrosa 2'00.549 SPA HONDA Repsol Honda Team
2 Jorge Lorenzo 2'00.568 SPA YAMAHA Yamaha Factory Racing
3 Marc Marquez 2'00.803 SPA HONDA Repsol Honda Team
4 Valentino Rossi 2'01.038 ITA YAMAHA Yamaha Factory Racing
5 Cal Crutchlow 2'01.311 GBR YAMAHA Monster Yamaha Tech 3
6 Stefan Bradl 2'01.369 GER HONDA LCR Honda MotoGP
7 Alvaro Bautista 2'01.729 SPA HONDA Go & Fun Honda Gresini
8 Bradley Smith 2'01.931 GBR YAMAHA Monster Yamaha Tech 3
9 Nicky Hayden 2'02.110 USA DUCATI Ducati Team
10 Andrea Dovizioso 2'02.379 ITA DUCATI Ducati Team
11 Kosuke Akiyoshi 2'02.526 JPN HONDA HRC Test Team
12 Katsayuki Nakasuga 2'02.701 JPN YAMAHA Yamaha Factory
13 Ben Spies 2'03.002 USA YAMAHA Ignite Pramac Racing Team
14 Wataru Yoshikawa 2'03.156 JPN YAMAHA Yamaha Factory
15 Andrea Iannone 2'03.169 ITA DUCATI Energy T.I. Pramac Racing Team
16 Aleix Espargaro 2'03.251 ESP ART Power Electronics Aspar
17 Randy De Puniet 2'03.791 FRA ART Aspar Team MotoGP
18 Danilo Petrucci 2'04.284 ITA IODA-SUTER Came IodaRacing Project
19 Takumi Takahashi 2'04.559 JPN HONDA HRC Test Team
20 Hiroshi Aoyama 2'04.786 JPN FTR Avintia Blusens
21 Hector Barbera 2'04.989 SPA FTR Avintia Blusens
22 Karel Abraham 2'05.028 CZE ART Cardion AB Motoracing
23 Michael Laverty 2'05.417 GBR PBM Paul Bird Motorsport
24 Yonny Hernandez 2'05.656 COL PBM Paul Bird Motorsport
25 Claudio Corti 2'05.721 ITA FTR-KAWASAKI NGM Mobile Forward Racing
26 Colin Edwards 2'06.205 USA FTR-KAWASAKI NGM Mobile Forward Racing
27 Bryan Staring 2'06.898 AUS HONDA & FTR Go & Fun Honda Gresini
28 Lukas Pesek 2'07.015 CZE IODA-SUTER Came IodaRacing Project

Circuit information

First race 1999
GPs held 13
Laps 20
Race distance 116.508km / 72.387 miles
Track length 5.548km / 3.447 miles
Track width 25m
Longest straight 0.920km / 0.572 miles
Corners 15 (10 right, 5 left)
Pole position Left

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Pole position 2m 00.334s (165.978km/h) Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha, 2012)
Race lap 2m 02.108s (163.566km/h) Casey Stoner (Ducati, 2007)
Race time 41m 03.448s (162.153km/h) Valentino Rossi (Yamaha, 2010)
2012 Winner Dani Pedrosa (Honda)
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Archives For automated systems

cyborg integration

Stop me if you’ve heard any of this before. As computers keep getting faster and more powerful and robots keep advancing at a breakneck pace, most human jobs will be obsolete. But instead of simply being pink-spilled, humans will get brand new jobs which pay better and give them a lot of free time to enjoy the products of our civilization’s robotic workforce, create, and invent. It’s a futuristic dream that’s been around for almost a century in one form or another, and it has been given an update in the latest issue of Wired. Robots will take our jobs and we should welcome it because we’ll eliminate grunt work in favor of more creative pursuits, say today’s tech prophets, and in a way they’re right. Automation is one of the biggest reasons why a lot of people can’t go out and get jobs that once used to be plentiful and why companies are bringing in more revenue with far fewer workers. Machines have effectively eliminated millions of jobs.

When we get to the second part of this techno-utopian prediction, however, things aren’t exactly as rosy. Yes, new and higher paying jobs have emerged, especially in IT, but they’re closed to a lot of people who simply don’t have the skills to do these new jobs or for whom no position exists in their geographical vicinity. Automation doesn’t just mean that humans get bumped up from an obsolete job, it means there are fewer jobs overall for humans. And when it comes to positions in which dealing with reams of paperwork and mundane office tasks is the order of the day, having computers and robots in them eliminates internships college students or young grads can use to build up a resume and get their feet in the door. They’re now stuck in a Catch-22 where they’re unable to get experience and more education puts them further behind thanks to a machine. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that this is not what the techno-utopians had in mind.

Of course humans will have to move up into more abstract and creative jobs where robots have no hope of ever competing with them, otherwise the economy will collapse as automated factory after automated factory churns out trillions of dollars worth of goods that no one can buy since some 70% of the population no longer has a job. And at 70% unemployment, every last horrible possibility that sends societal collapse theory survivalists screaming themselves awake at night has a high enough chance of happening that yours truly would also start seriously considering taking up gun hoarding and food stockpiling as really good hobbies. Basically, the failure to get adjusted to the growing cybernetic sector of the workforce simply isn’t an option. Companies, no matter how multinational, would be able to eliminate so many positions that the robot takeover of human jobs with no replacements in sight that it wouldn’t start feeling the economic pain as they hit maximum market saturation and can go no further because no one can buy their wares.

But all these good news aside, just because we’ll have time to adjust to an ever more automated economy and feel the need to do so, doesn’t mean that the transition will be easy and people will not be left behind. Without a coordinated effort by wealthy nations to change the incentives they give their companies and educational institutions, we’ll be forced to ride out a series of massive recessions in which millions of jobs are shed, relatively few are replaced, and the job markets will be slowly rebuilt around new careers because a large chunk of the ones lost are now handed off to machines or made obsolete by an industry’s contraction after the crisis. And this means that when facing the machine takeover of the economy we have two realistic choices. The first is to adapt by taking action now and bringing education and economic incentives in line with what the postindustrial markets are likely to become. The second is to try and ride out the coming storm, adapting in a very economically painful ad hoc manner through cyclical recessions. Unlike we’re being told, the new, post-machine jobs won’t just naturally appear on their own…

The UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering recently published a report on the social and legal implications of using more and more automatic system in our daily lives. Some of its main questions ask who should be held responsible if one of these systems malfunctions with a lethal outcome. Is the machine its own entity that’s learning and making bad decisions as it does? Are the coders and designers to blame for its glitches. Do we need to separate machines from the humans who build them and if so, when? Can you haul a robot to court and charge it with negligent homicide or manslaughter?

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Admittedly when it comes to dealing with computer systems, my approach doesn’t linger in the realm of the theoretical. In fact, I’m not a huge fan of reports and essays like this because there’s a very fine line after which ideas about future technologies become philosophical navel-gazing and we lose the focus on how these systems will be designed, developed, tested and implemented. Practical brainstorming sessions identify problems and come up with creative solutions that are then critiqued for feasibility and give us new software, updates to systems we’re outgrowing and hardware that meets our demands. Theoretical philosophy tends to inspire transhumanism and Singularitarians.

So, from a practical standpoint, who should be responsible if an automated system makes an error and kills someone? Any automated system will have to use a software package to function and any software is a set of instructions carried out according to predetermined rules. You can update those rules as much as you’d like but every time the software needs to carry out an operation, it will do so according to the rules given to it by human developers. And when software makes mistakes, it does so because it trips up in the logic build into it, or lacks a rule to deal with something new and throws out an exception. That means any malfunction has to be attributed to the system’s development team and they’re the ones who have to fix it.

Computers can’t think for themselves. In fact, they never think and require designers and developers to do it for them. This is why we, humans, install cutoff switches, emergency overrides and manual controls. With every new technology, it’s our job to know that we may have to jump in and take over for the machines to solve a problem ourselves. To allow a computer to take complete and absolute control of anything and everything without an option for human intervention is just begging for trouble. In the worst case scenario, the end result is unintentional suicide by robot. This is why you’re not seeing too many drivers warm up to the persistent ideas for self-driving cars and people like me frown on vehicles that don’t let you turn off a feature that can be a bother in an otherwise great vehicle. It’s not because we’re technophobes. It’s because we know full well how machines can fail where we could make the right decision and avoid an accident.

But wait a second, you may ask, what about AI? What happens in the future, when computers can think for themselves? Like I’ve written numerous times, the hurdles to actual, unaided, creative problem solving from a box of plastic and silicon are immense. Any AI system will have to be developed in small stages, over many decades of work, and considering how real software is developed, it will be designed for a very specialized set of tasks. No BA or developer should be crazy enough to just suddenly decide to plunk billions of dollars and decades of time into a real world application that does anything and everything under the sun. That’s the IT equivalent of a Sisyphean task. At best, it would be a needless technical curiosity with a list of maintenance tasks that would keep the project gushing red ink.

Experimenting with AI software is great for academia, but don’t think it will be developed anytime soon or that it will be plugged into the world’s technical infrastructure on completion. Most likely, academic developments in creative computing would be spun off to solve very task specific problems because remember, the goal of software design is to make a system that solves a certain problem, not an OmniApp. And that means any future systems that will try to think for themselves within parameters given to them by their development teams, will come with a lot of documentation and will be mapped and scrutinized so much so, we’ll know how to deal with them.

Unlike theoreticians seem to worry, building automated systems in the real world is a very intensive process in which things like artificial consciousness wouldn’t just slip by during the QA process and suddenly emerge out of nowhere. The algorithms for it would have to be purposefully built in from the start and come with a set of business rules and functional requirements. And those are a lot more specific than just “build a self-aware machine that tells great knock-knock jokes and runs the planet’s energy grids.”


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  • Both Everton and Fulham are admirable clubs, both steeped in history, but it’s particularly odd that both Fox Soccer Channel and Setanta are, according to their TV schedules, scheduled to show Friday’s 2:30pm ET match. Who will broadcast the match, or could we have the first time a match will be shown by both networks at the same time? Oliver Tse, rescue us.

  • Looking ahead to this Saturday’s Premiership matches, we have one of the best well-rounded days on offer in quite some time. Each match on Fox Soccer Channel and Setanta Sports should be quality kicking off with Chelsea v Spurs (7:45am ET, Setanta), then Arsenal v West Ham (10am ET, Setanta), Reading v Liverpool (10am ET, FSC) followed by Portsmouth v Manchester United (Noon ET, FSC). When was the last time you had four matches like that on U.S. television?

  • It’s never too late to look to the end of the Premiership season on Sunday, May 13th. All of the matches will be shown at the same exact time, 10am ET, to ensure everything’s fair in love and war. But it does pose a difficult challenge for TV viewers who are only able to see two or three live matches on the final day instead of a typical Saturday where we can watch four to five.

    The TV schedule for the last day of the season hasn’t been finalized yet, but here are some of the matches we could expect to see:

    Manchester United v West Ham (could both of these teams’ futures be decided by this game, or will the match take on a huge importance if it decides whether the Hammers go down and United win the league?),

    Sheffield United v Wigan (battle for relegation survival on the last day of the season, anyone?)

    Spurs v Manchester City (qualifying for the UEFA Cup or Champions League versus avoiding the drop?)

    Chelsea v Everton (Jose Mourinho’s last Premiership match?)

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    if Spurs keep it up they will catch Arsenal and earn the Champions League spot that was rightfully belonging to them last year.

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Kayfabe Commentaries released a preview of their “YouShoot” with WWE Hall of Famer Tammy “Sunny” Sytch on Thursday where the trailblazing Diva revealed that she had an affair with “The British Bulldog” Davey Boy Smith while the two worked together years ago in the World Wrestling Federation. Georgia Smith, the daughter of the late wrestler, addressed Sytch’s allegations Friday via Twitter.

“I have been contacted/tweeted about the whole Sunny “Affair” regarding my dad… I don’t want to give this topic any attention. But that is complete lies and with what my brother, my mother and what my family have been through, she should have more respect,” she wrote.

“Also, I don’t know What she gets out of boasting/bragging about sleeping with thousands of wrestlers? That is pretty sad/pathetic.”

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    Man Sunny is a slag, WWE should NEVER use her again, no-one should pay money for this crap, she looks awful, she’s a mess getting arrested 3 times in a day, talks crap about Bulldog, dragging his family through the mud, then gives away a secret handshake

    She has no class, no honour, just a trashbag whore

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    One word, just one word…WHORE!

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    so his daughter says that is lies??well hunny you weren’t on the road with him 24/7 so how would anyone know at this point?

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    No class at all, the guys dead have some respect

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    Her laugh makes me want to push myself down a flight of stairs.

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    She didn’t fuck Droz or Virgil, fascinating video. Actually on a more serious note it is interesting to think that a lot of the heat between Bret & Davey & Shawn was based around her, I could believe that. We’ve all been there haven’t we guys. Not with Sunny, just in general.

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    Maybe he can defend his self, he can come back as a zombie and eat her brains. course he would probably get high off them.

    Whats up with her blinking??

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It was the season of sauce, it was the season of toppings. It was the spring of onions, it was the sausage of despair. We had pies before us, we had crusts before us.

A Tale of Two PizzasNo lesser authority than The New York Times says artisanal pizza is on the rise. Just last week, the Gray Lady blew the trend up, making a case for the elegantly appointed pizzeria as a cost-conscious diner’s best bet amid rotten economic circumstances. In San Francisco, this sub-genre of the pizza form is currently encroaching on the Mission District’s once-fior di latte-less expanse with great success. Pizzeria Delfina and Beretta are delicious examples of what’s sizzling in Burritoland, though only the former would probably describe itself as a pizzeria first and foremost. Flour + Water just opened on Harrison in the last few months, serving pasta, salumi, and a familiar stripe of ‘za: smallish, thin-crusted rounds decked out in classic and occasionally inventive combinations of toppings with a traditional bent and heavy, local-centric nods to seasonality. As if that weren’t enough upscale crust and cheese to blanket a few square miles of coveted real estate, Pi Bar will soon start slinging (whole pies and cheese slices for, ha ha, $3.14) on Valencia near 25th, at a renovated space once home to Suriya Thai.

You might not have heard, but in Fall of 2008, Pizzeria opened its doors on a humming stretch of Valencia Street, not far from its intersection with 18th. As of press time, the establishment has garnered 45 reviews on Yelp, most of them quite positive. Yet, for all the times I’ve wandered past its wide windows, I’ve never seen a customer populating one of the dining room’s handsome circular wooden tables. I’ve stared at the menu. I’ve contemplated the helpful photographs of Pizzeria’s offerings pasted to the front window. I’ve watched cooks bustle, a waiter mop, and a manager meticulously refill and reposition jars of red pepper flakes on the long counter, but, never, not once, have I witnessed a person, sitting down, napkin on lap, actually tucking into a plate of anything.

And I’ve always wondered why. Location could not be the problem. Valencia is a major thoroughfare for night-time revelers and day-time shoppers. The product itself is not immediately suspect either. It’s pizza, after all; everyone likes it. Unlike Beretta and Flour + Water, and to a lesser extent, Pizzeria Delfina, purveyors of an ostensibly fancier kind of pizza, the vibe is not glamorous. Apart from the wood oven used to bake them, the wares are not authentic but fairly pan-pizza in approach, though, in this age of hyper-fusion frenzy, that shouldn’t deter the masses. You won’t find habaneros, chicken tikka masala, or barbecue on pizza in Naples, but, these days, in the United States, thanks perhaps to the influence of California Pizza Kitchen, they’re not exactly unusual toppings, and perfectly appropriate in the right context.

Pizzeria is also Halal. The pig is on a big muddy pedastal these days, and there’s a chance the absence of house-cured prosciutto, guanciale, and an occasional trotter special throws potential customers off the scent. In addition, Pizzeria sells no alcohol. One Yelper reports brown-bagging some brew, but the restaurant doesn’t specifically recommend doing so. Unless you’re willing to ask and perhaps plead, the closest thing to a dinner buzz or a perfect pairing you’ll get here will have to come in the form of a $2.50 soda. For many, this will prove a bigger sticking point than the pancetta non grata situation.

Could cost be the issue? Probably not, though, as far as pizza goes, Pizzeria’s is not particularly inexpensive. In fact, its pizza margherita costs a dollar more than a similarly sized version made by Flour + Water, when the ingredients are obviously the same: tomatoes, fresh basil, mozzarella, and olive oil.

Generally speaking, when a restaurant’s always empty, no passer-by wants to play guinea pig. Delivery customers write the majority of Pizzeria’s Yelp reviews, and they tend to gush about speedy delivery and the endearing customer service, signs a few people have been curious enough to phone in orders, and the business owners are working hard to amass devotees, one at a time if necessary. Pizzeria is not open for lunch, which seems like a curious choice to make, especially if the owners want bodies in the dining room. Walk-in customers are more likely at lunch-time, especially on the weekends, when weary shoppers from other parts of town, quivering beneath the weight of new purchases, and stoned folks staggering in from Dolores Park make impulsive dining decisions based on whatever is in front of them.

Unlike Pizzeria, Flour + Water, the sort of sleek, self-styled “neighborhood” restaurant that employs a publicist, has been hot. A dozen local press mentions and reviews popped up within days of its opening, many before, and over 118 reviewers have since weighed in, many charmed by the food, a number irritated by the crowds and clientele, and more than a few disparaging of the hosts’ demeanor. No one likes a line, and Flour + Water’s perpetually snakes out the door like links of runaway sausages. In shaping their doughy vision, the heads behind Flour + Water actually followed a pizza principle not unlike what was outlined in the Times piece, figuring rustic fare in a lovely dark wood-enhanced setting might rake in diners trying to scale back on spending without sacrificing the level of ambience regular restaurant-goers tend to favor. According to Flour + Water’s website, the restaurant’s design and construction “are all about the mantra of the triple r: refurbished, repurposed and reclaimed,” a triptych of buzzwords pretty much designed to make people feel as if they’re sitting down to something real, hip, and happening, yet non-indulgent, and even — gasp — responsible.

Pizzeria and Flour + Water don’t serve the same kind of pizza, so reviewing them in tandem wouldn’t make sense. I’m interested in why one restaurant is full, and the other is empty. Does the press machine get behind whatever they’re told to get behind by whomever gets to decide what should be gotten behind? Is herd mentality a lot of what’s keeping Flour + Water packed tighter than a jar of oil-cured anchovies and Pizzeria as forlorn and lonely as a marinara-deprived breadstick? Does a Halal pizzeria without a pizzaiolo or a publicist stand a chance in this city?

On Saturday, I decided to seize the pizza by the box and give Pizzeria a real shot. At 5:15 p.m., I slowly and deliberately walked up to the door. I looked in through the smudged glass. I couldn’t do it. The prospect of being the only person in the place stressed me out. A lopsided ratio of cooks to customers makes for awkward dining, a rigid, uncomfortable experience, like at a show, when a band dwarfs the crowd. I turned tail and scurried back to my apartment where, furious with my lack of courage, yet quite relieved, I immediately dialed in an order for delivery: a $12 small “Popeye” pizza (baby spinach, slow-roasted garlic, and red onion) to which I, for an extra buck, boldly added beef pepperoni. Minutes later, Pizzeria’s pizza and I were face-to-face.

pizzeriaThe mystery was over. The crust’s bottom was black and blistery; the gnarled sides and top were beautiful, rutted in all the right places, tunnels of taste within, perfect pockets of air crunching, wafer-like, between teeth. The toppings were fine. I liked the cheese. The sauce was unmemorable. The thick slices of raw red onion didn’t do much for me. I prefer them cooked, semi-pickled, or, if raw, very, very, very thinly slivered. The beef pepperoni didn’t taste weird until I tried it cold on Sunday morning. Overall, Pizzeria makes a really good pizza in keeping with its intent: flavorful, timely, unpretentious, and very pizza-like. Everyone should go there … or at least get something delivered.

  • lolag606

    mmm, god i need to stop reading about such good food it’s making me salivate…like check out this burger contest, going to be a good story to follow i think!

    i think real burgers are the way forwards…this is going to be a good story i reckon

  • Caroline

    We’ve been searching for a good delivery pizza in The City for years…saw your post and decided to give Pizzeria a try last night. It’s obvious that the people at Pizzeria work hard to be nice to their customers; the delivery guy called me by name 3 times during our pizzas-to-money exchange. The Margherita had good cheese and the basil leaves stayed “fresh” rather than get dried out or burned. You are right about the sauce being “unmemorable”. I think they should go easy on the tomato paste in the sauce maybe. The Pizza Supreme (everything on it) was good too. I actually liked the thick slices of red onions that tasted just oniony enough and still stayed crunchy. Overall a good pizza experience.

  • Juned

    Actually here at “pizzeria”
    we do not use any tomato paste in the sauce at all.

    Thank you,

    Juned, GM

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People are increasingly turning to mindfulness mediation to manage health issues, and meditation classes are being offered through schools and hospitals.

But doctors have questioned whether this ancient Eastern practice really offers measurable health benefits. A fresh review of the evidence should help sort that out.

Meditation does help manage anxiety, depression and pain, according to the 47 studies analyzed in JAMA Internal Medicine on Monday, but does not appear to help with other problems, including substance abuse, sleep and weight.

“We have moderate confidence that mindfulness practices have a beneficial effect,” wrote the author of the paper, Dr. Madhav Goyal of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, in an email to Shots. He says the positive effects on anxiety, depression and pain can be modest, but are seen across multiple studies.

“It was surprising to see that with so little training [about 2.5 hours of meditation practice per week] we were still seeing consistent effects,” Goyal wrote.

One type of mindfulness training that was used in many of the research studies is called Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (or MBSR). It’s typically taught in eight sessions.

Think of it as Buddhist meditation “but without the Buddhism,” says Jon Kabat-Zinn, the father of MBSR. It’s completely secular.

The focus of mindfulness meditation is to train the brain to stay in the moment. To do this, practitioners are taught to let go of the regrets of the past as well as anxieties about the future.

This study reviewed earlier research that evaluated the effectiveness of meditation for managing a whole range of medical conditions — from breast cancer, irritable bowel syndrome and fibromyalgia to depression.

With diseases like breast cancer, meditation is not used as a treatment for the disease. It’s supportive care designed to help a person deal with the stress that comes with cancer.

In one breast cancer study, researchers enrolled 163 women with stage 1 or stage 2 breast cancer. The women were randomized to either an 8-week mindfulness-based stress reduction class or to other kinds of more standard supportive care.

Techniques taught during the meditation class included visualizations to help shift attention away from thoughts that cause anxiety.

One technique is called the body scan. This is where you lie back on a mat and the teacher has you check in with each part of your body

You’re told to relax all the tension in your jaws, then your neck, your shoulders, and so on, down the body. (Here’s an audio link to the body scan.)

The point is stop the mind from wandering off and to connect with your body. Do your toes feel colder than the rest of your body? Are you feeling resistance in any part of the body? The teacher guides participants to tune in.

After four months, the women who meditated experienced significant improvements in what the researchers called quality of life and coping outcomes, compared to the women in other groups.

Clearly, meditation is not for everyone. It’s a discipline that needs daily time and attention.

And in many of the studies meditation was no more effective than medications and other non-medical treatments, including exercise.

In addition, the meta-analysis found little evidence that meditation programs could help treat substance abuse, sleep or weight issues.

But the researchers concluded that meditation has no harmful side effects. And it’s free and something people can easily do at home.

Here’s my favorite mindfulness visualization: If you’ve got a nagging thought that won’t go away, just picture a cloud. Visualize that nagging thought being attached to the cloud. Now watch it float away.

What’s left behind? A clear, blue sky. And hopefully a clearer mind. At least for the moment!

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Students at Visitacion Valley School in South San Francisco observe 15 minutes of quiet time every morning.

By Kyle Palmer

On a recent morning at Visitacion Valley Middle School in South San Francisco, Principal James Dierke looked out over the school’s auditorium at more than 100 eighth graders. A restless din filled the large room. Bursts of laughter and errant shouts punctuated the buzz. Most of the students seemed disinterested in Dierke’s announcements about the spring’s impending graduation, upcoming field trips, and recent birthdays.

Then, Dierke struck a bell and said, “Okay, it’s quiet time.”

And just like that, a hush fell over the auditorium. Students straightened their backs and closed their eyes. Some bowed their heads. Others rested them on the backs of their chairs. The once-boisterous hall became silent and remained so for the next 15 minutes.

“Visitors are always amazed,” Dierke said afterwards, “but it works. It really is quiet time.”

“Quiet Time” isn’t just a slogan but a daily regimen at Visitacion Valley. The entire school—faculty, staff, and students—spend the first and last 15 minutes of every day in silence. Students are encouraged to use the time to meditate, but Dierke says students can simply clear their mind, think about schoolwork, or even sleep. Just as long as they are quiet.

“I’ve found that it makes people—students and teachers—more joyful,” Dierke said, “To have that time to reflect and be still is important.”

That is not always possible for his school’s students, Dierke said. He said the neighborhood around Visitacion Valley can be rife with violence and crime. “These kids hear gunshots on their way to and from school. That kind of stuff makes it hard to focus on algebra,” he said.

Besides dealing with problems outside school, Visitacion Valley faces challenges in school, too. Nearly 90 percent of Visitacion Valley’s students are classified by the district as socioeconomically disadvantaged and more than 40 percent are English Language Learners.

Dierke, who has been principal at the school for 13 years, said things reached a turning point about five years ago. “We were looking for a way to get kids to relax,” he said. “We saw kids with real post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms. I noticed a lot of them missing school, fighting, and getting angry a lot. They couldn’t concentrate on school.”

An assistant principal suggested the idea for quiet time after she saw Hollywood director David Lynch speak about the program and the accompanying benefits of transcendental meditation. Lynch runs a non-profit foundation that promotes meditation in schools and also sponsorsmeditation retreats for under-served students.

With the help of the David Lynch Foundation and the San Francisco-based Center for Wellness and Achievement in Education (CWAE), Visitacion Valley trained teachers on how to conduct Quiet Time sessions in their class. CWAE specialists counseled students on meditation techniques and five full-time staffers remain on campus to help maintain the program.

Since beginning Quiet Time, Dierke said things have improved: Daily attendance last year was more than 98 percent, and there have been fewer suspensions and higher test scores.

Angelica Mahinay, Visitacion Valley’s 8th grade student body president, said Quiet Time gives her more energy. “I get to school at 7 a.m. for softball practice. It helps me not be so tired during school,” she said.

Eighth grader Art Parkeenvincha moved to San Francisco from Canada in the middle of this year. “I can be really hyperactive,” he said. “I had never done meditation before, but now I do Quiet Time. I think of my mantra, and it helps me calm down.”

Bob Roth, Executive Director for the David Lynch Foundation, said meditation is not just a way for students to relax but has real cognitive benefits. “Meditation strengthens the areas of the brain that control our ‘fear center’,” he said. “It helps kids reduce anxiety and increase their ability to reason and concentrate.”

Principal Dierke said, as a result of Quiet Time, the school’s image is changing. “This school used to be known as the ‘fight’ school,” he said. “Now, I have other principals asking me about Quiet Time. It feels good to have that reputation.”

Two other schools in SFUSD have begun their own Quiet Time programs and a district spokesperson said other schools have begun asking questions about Visitacion Valley’s success.

Visitacion Valley also got attention from actor Russell Brand, who visited the school just before Christmas on a trip sponsored by the David Lynch Foundation. “That was crazy,” Angelica, the student body president, said. “I got to sit right by him and the whole school meditated with him.”

In addition, Dierke said regular Quiet Time has also helped teachers relax. “Only two teachers have left in the past five years, outside of retirements and district layoffs. That’s amazing for an urban middle school,” he said. He attributes that to higher levels of job satisfaction.

Physical Education teacher Barry O’Driscoll agreed that Quiet Time has helped improve the staff’s quality of life. “I was very reluctant when it first started,” he said. “I thought it was just another fad. But now I meditate twice a day, and I do it at home. I think it’s helped my golf game, too.”

Visitacion Valley still struggles with significant challenges. This year, the school has had to integrate more than 100 new students onto campus after another nearby middle school was closed by the district. Likewise, test scores have increased in recent years but still remain low compared to other SFUSD middle schools.

“We’re not perfect,” Dierke said. “Quiet Time is just like an umbrella. When you have it up, it keeps the rain off, and you can focus on trying to build a culture with kids. That’s what we’re gradually doing here.”

The payoff might be most evident in students like Angelica Mahinay, who says, “Man, when I hear students getting an attitude, or they’re saying they’re going to fight, I say, ‘Hey! Just meditate!’”

This post originally appeared in KQED’s MindShift blog.

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  14 March 2013
Volume 14 Issue 3

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Executive Director’s Corner—New Challenges

Bart Bosveld, SETAC Europe Executive Director

A buzz of excitement came upon me when I learned that SETAC Europe was looking for a new Executive Director to replace Dave Arnold. Dave retired in November last year, and I am extremely happy to fill this position again.

You may know me because I filled this position before. However, due to a lovely pair of teenagers at home and a challenging new position near the place I live, I chose to leave that post in 2009. In the meantime, our daughters grew up. This allows me to spend some more time abroad again, and that is something you certainly need when working for SETAC.

The past years broadened my experiences in the field of pesticide regulation. The added value of SETAC for proper environmental management and regulation became even more obvious to me than it was before. Objective, multidisciplinary science with the input from the three sectors represented in SETAC is of great importance to solve environmental problems. And that is what I would like to dedicate myself to.

With that in mind, the year ahead is full of challenges. First, there will be the SETAC Europe annual meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, from 12–16 May. This is the biggest European scientific meeting on environmental toxicology and chemistry. The meeting theme “Building a Better Future: Responsible Innovation and Environmental Protection” reflects our vision that innovative use of chemicals and new technologies can co-exist with a sustainable environment as a part of our modern society. Sensible use, good management and regulation based on sound science are prerequisites to achieve this.

Other events to be organised in Europe in 2013 include the 19th LCA Case Study Symposium in Rome, Italy, the Young Environmental Scientists Meeting, SETAC Europe Summer Schools, and three of the very successful SETAC Europe Special Science Symposia (SESSS).

This year, special focus will be put on the development of a SETAC Europe post-graduate school for environmental risk assessment. With a variety of different courses to be taught at institutions scattered around Europe, the full programme will lead to recognition as a SETAC-certified risk assessor. In the future, this certificate should be internationally recognised as proof of comprehensive education and practical experience as an environmental risk assessor with a geographic focus on European regulations.

There are also many challenges at the global level. The geographic units combine forces to work on global science issues and collaborations with international organisations such as UNEP, IUCN, OECD, FAO, etc.

A special activity is the global treaty on mercury to be signed in Japan this year in October. In January, the wording was consolidated by the 140 nations represented at the international negotiations committee INC-5 in Geneva, Switzerland. SETAC was represented there as well to promote the use of sound science as a backbone to the treaty and to seek opportunities to make use of the SETAC network for the development of guidelines and capacity building once the treaty is implemented.

For all these activities I look forward to working together with my SETAC colleagues around the world. Together we are able to make a difference and contribute, through good science, to a better world.

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Taking the CRC debate underground.

Mayoral candidate Jefferson Smith has released a 1994 settlement agreement that got him off the hook for a misdemeanor assault charge. Smith, then a University of Oregon student, injured a woman   More
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 WW Editorial Staff

One Question: A Sustainability Center Or HQ Hotel—What Gets The Money?

Last month, the Portland Development Commission resumed negotiations on two long-debated projects requiring millions in public subsidies: an office tower in Southwest Portland without a carbon f   More
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 AARON MESH

Smith Releases Assault Diversion Agreement

Candidate admitted conduct "wrongful"; Woman needed stitches

Mayoral candidate Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-Portland) today released to WW a 1994 diversion agreement arising from an assault charge he faced after an off-campus party Smith attended while a University of Oregon student. (A copy of the settlement is here and here.)As WW reported yesterday, Smith scuffled with a young woman who was reportedly drunk and angry at him because she thought he had tipped her ...   More
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Jefferson Smith Was Cited for 1993 Misdemeanor Assault Involving a Woman

Charge was dropped after Smith's lawyer arranged for a settlement

Eugene police cited Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-East Portland) in 1993 for an misdemeanor assault charge stemming from an incident with a woman at an off-campus party when he attended the University of Oregon.Police and the Lane County District Attorney's office dropped the charge after Smith, then 20 and a sophomore at UO, settled out of court with the woman. Smith spoke to WW Monday about the incident ...   More
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Jefferson Smith Press Conference: The Liveblog

Jefferson Smith is holding a 3 pm press conference in Terry Schrunk Plaza, presumably in response to today's WW report that he was cited in 1993 for misdemeanor assault in an incident involving a woman. The conference was scheduled to be held in front of City Hall, but had to be moved because the TV series Portlandia is doing a shoot on the location. WW is covering the press conference ...   More
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One Question: Should the City End the 48-Hour Waiting Period for Police Involved in Shootings?

The city’s labor contract with police allows officers involved in a shooting or in-custody death to decline to talk to bureau investigators for 48 hours while they confer with union lawyers. O   More
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One Question: Should Portland Have OK’d Fluoridation Without a Vote of the People?

The Portland City Council voted unanimously Sept. 12 to fluoridate Portland’s water by mid-2014. Foes, seeking to refer the question...   More
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 AARON MESH

Failure To Comply

The feds have used independent monitors to reform police agencies elsewhere. But Portland leaders don’t want one here.

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The U.S. Department of Justice last week released a damning report about the Portland Police Bureau’s use of force. The details may...   More
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 WW Editorial Staff

Block Busters

The urban density Charlie Hales championed has arrived on Division Street. Why isn’t he celebrating?

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Judah Gold-Markel has trouble parking in front of his house these days.  He’s lived in his green bungalow on Southeast Sherman Street, two...   More
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 AARON MESH

One Question: What are you going to do about the Moyer Hole?

In 2009, Tom Moyer abandoned work on a new 33-story office and condominium tower in the center of Portland’s downtown retail district. The development mogul’s company has left us with a gaping   More
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Mexico climate law important step in the fight against climate change

13 April 2012

WWF today said that the approval of a climate law by the Mexican House of Representatives was an important step in the fight against climate change.

The House of Representatives passed the law with 280 votes for, 10 against and one abstention. When it is approved by the Senate, Mexico will be only the second country in the world to have introduced climate change legislation after the UK.

Sam Gardner, Senior Climate Change Policy Officer at WWF Scotland said:
“It’s great news that Mexico now looks set to join Scotland and the rest of the UK in committing in law to cut its climate emissions. This show of global leadership in the fight to tackle climate change will bring added confidence and momentum to the many other countries around the world poised to take similar steps.

“Scotland should be proud that its world-leading climate legislation is being emulated by others. However, if this is to remain the case then Scotland must deliver on its targets. This means tackling emissions from transport, saying no to new coal at Hunterston and improving the energy efficiency of our homes.”

Keith Allott, Head of Climate Change at WWF-UK said:

"This is great news from Mexico and a really important step in the fight against climate change. It’s all the more significant because Mexico is set to become one of the world’s biggest economies, but is not a rich country, with some 40% of the population living in poverty. Yet its government and Congress can see that ending poverty and growing the economy will be that much harder unless they cut greenhouse gas emissions and embrace renewable energy.

“It also shows once again the global significance of the UK and Scottish Climate Change Acts; the UK has taken a bold lead on this issue and other countries are now following us. David Cameron now needs to ensure that the UK act is implemented vigorously, and that the UK embraces its huge potential to save energy and develop new, clean renewable energy sources.”

Notes to Editors

1. Mexico's climate law requires the whole country to reduce carbon emissions 50% by 2050. When it becomes law, the government will make rules to phase out fossil fuel subsidies; make renewable power fully competitive with oil, gas and coal; cut carbon emissions 30% by 2020 with international support; and ensure that 35% of Mexico's electricity will come from clean sources by 2024. There will also be a strong focus on equity, conserving Mexico's environment, and making sure there's full and broad citizen participation. Mexico is currently the world's 11th biggest greenhouse gas emitter and also its 11th biggest economy. By 2050 it is projected to be the fifth largest economy in the world.

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Nebraska wrapped up its preseason work for the 2012 season on Saturday morning with a one-hour walk through at Memorial Stadium. The Huskers will now turn their full attention to preparing for next Saturday’s season opener at Memorial Stadium against Southern Mississippi.

Following Saturday’s workout Head Coach Bo Pelini briefly discussed the difficulty that lies ahead in facing the Golden Eagles, who are under first-year head coach Ellis Johnson.

“There are a lot of challenges that come with it (facing a new coaching staff),” Pelini said. “We don’t know exactly what they are going to do on either side of the ball. You have your guesses, but it does become even more of a challenge. That’s part of the deal when you are playing a new coach. There are a lot of unknowns and a lot of things you’ve got to get ready for.”

Pelini looked back on the past three weeks, a time span in which the Huskers have had 24 practices over the past 22 days.

“It has been a lot of work getting ready to play. I think the team is anxious to stop hitting each other and get ready to play a real game. It’s about that time.”

Pelini also discussed the Huskers’ depth at I-back heading into the season. The group is led by senior Rex Burkhead who piled up 1,357 yards and 17 touchdowns en route to All-Big Ten honors in 2011. Sophomores Ameer Abdullah and Braylon Heard each saw reserve duty last year, while true freshman Imani Cross has made a strong impression during fall camp.

“We have good depth at running back. You are going to see a lot of them out there. You have Rex, Braylon, Ameer, Imani…we have a lot of options and a lot of guys that we want to get carries for.”

Pelini said the Huskers are in good health heading into the week of the season opener, with no top unit players ruled out of the contest. Pelini also announced following Saturday’s practice that cornerback Jonathan Rose arrived in Lincoln earlier this week and has joined the NU program. Rose spent his freshman season in 2011 at Auburn and appeared in nine games for the Tigers. He will sit out the 2012 season as a redshirt.

Nebraska will return to the practice field on Monday afternoon to continue preparations for Southern Miss. The season opener will be televised nationally with a 2:30 p.m. kickoff. The game can be seen on either ABC or ESPN2 depending on location.

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Bobby Petrocelli's story is one of personal triumph and hope following a devastating tragedy in his life. One night he went to bed in suburban America, a happy man with a loving wife. But when he woke up dazed in his kitchen, his wife was dead and his life forever changed. The pickup truck that crashed through his bedroom wall was driven by a man who was more than twice legally drunk.

Bobby Petrocelli, Certified Speaking Professional

Bobby often shares how he fought through the darkness to triumph; how he drew upon his faith and friends; and how he came to love again. As a high school teacher and coach, his love for youth inspired him to take his dramatic story to audiences nationwide.

He is the author of several books, including 10 seconds Will Change Your Life Forever. He is now a motivational speaker who shares with people of all ages about the power of their decisions and how to build a strong foundation for their lives.

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BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — An outbreak of whooping cough in southwestern Montana includes 22 cases in Anaconda-Deer Lodge County and one in Butte.

Butte-Silver Bow County health officials say the Butte case involved a person at Butte High School who had been vaccinated against the upper respiratory infection that causes intense, uncontrollable coughing. It is spread through direct contact, sneezing and coughing.

The Montana Standard reports (http://bit.ly/Xac7FN ) four new cases were confirmed Wednesday in Anaconda. Forty people have been tested.

Butte-Silver Bow nurse Karen Maloughney says the health department has treated people who were in close contact with the infected person. Normally, agencies wait for two confirmed cases before raising concern, but Maloughney says the department is treating this case aggressively because of large outbreaks in the state in recent years, including some that closed schools.

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Ex-'Scandal' actor pleads not guilty to battery

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former "Scandal" star Columbus Short has pleaded not guilty to felony battery for a fight that seriously injured a man at a West Hollywood restaurant earlier this year.

The actor appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom on Thursday for his arraignment on the charge.

The case is one of several involving Short and allegations of violence. He faces a misdemeanor spousal battery case and his estranged wife has a temporary restraining order against him.

The actor's attorney Jeff Jacquet has said Short will contest the restraining order and it will require a lengthy evidentiary hearing.

Short announced last month that he wasn't returning to the hit series "Scandal" for its fourth season.

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UNDATED (AP) -- Prospects for new college graduates looking for work, especially those with associate degrees, are expected to increase next year, but not so for people with MBA degrees.

A new annual survey from Michigan State University's College Employment Research Institute finds employers expect a 5 percent increase in hiring of new 4-year college graduates next year. Demands for associate degree holders from two year schools could rise sharply, by about 30 percent. Hiring of MBAs is expected to decline.

The 42nd annual survey paints a mixed picture reflecting an improving economy but also uncertainty over whether Congress and the White House will carry the country off the fiscal cliff in January, potentially sending the economy back into recession.

Survey director Phil Gardner attributes the results to the political situation as well as weakness in sectors like defense.

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MARIETTA, Ga. -- Tuesday morning, Joanna Landrum did what many people would do when seeing someone in trouble: she stopped to help.

But she had no idea how much she would have to offer.

Landrum was driving on South Marietta Parkway at around 7 a.m. Tuesday when she noticed a woman walking across the street in her rear view mirror.

It wasn't long before the first car hit that woman.

Marietta police spokesman David Baldwin said the woman was walking in the center turn lane near Lake Drive when she was clipped by a dark-colored passenger car.

The pedestrian tried to get out of the street, but was hit by a van before she could make it out of the way.

Baldwin said the passenger car drove away on South Marietta Parkway, but the van stayed on the scene, and its driver spoke to emergency responders.

Upon seeing the accident, Landrum says she immediately pulled over and called 911.

"There were already three people standing around her, and as I was walking up, they were saying 'she's deaf, she can't hear,'" Landrum said.

In 10th grade, Landrum chose American Sign Language as a high school elective. Twelve years later, she was able to recall enough of her skill to act as the victim's translator.

Baldwin said paramedics requested to keep Landrum on the scene because she was the only one who could communicate with the victim.

Landrum says she spent the entire day thinking about her unlikely encounter. She wrote Psalms 9:9 on her hand:

"He is shelter. A refuge in times of trouble," she read. "That's what I've held on to all day. I'm so thankful that she's safe and OK now."

The pedestrian was taken to WellStar Kennestone Hospital with serious injuries. Her name was not released. Baldwin said she is in stable condition and her injuries are not expected to be life-threatening.

Baldwin said the van driver will not face charges, but police are looking for the passenger car.

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