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Saturday, November 17, 2012, 10:00 am

10 Old Stage Coach Rd, Redwood City, CA | Get?Directions??
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Plants & People: Stories
Third Saturday Nature Walk at Edgewood Natural Preserve

Which herbs did the Ohlone use to treat a headache? How did chemists discover the allergen in Poison Oak? Do people really make ink from oak galls??? Join Friends of Edgewood docent Harry Cornbleet as he shares stories that illuminate the relationship between people and plants.?

The approximately three hour walk through grasslands, chaparral, coastal scrub, and foothill woodlands offers a surprising amount of biodiversity. Edgewood supports over 500 distinct plant species, four of which are federally listed as endangered or threatened.

Adults, seniors and families with interested children are welcome. We'll teach parents and children to identify poison oak, common along the trails.

Visitors can complement their docent-led walk by visiting the Bill and Jean Lane Education Center located near the main entrance.? Interactive exhibits explain Edgewood?s connection to the surrounding landscape and its history.

Where to meet

Walks start from the Bill and Jean Lane Education Center.

What to bring

Bring water, a hat, sturdy shoes, sunscreen, and a snack if you wish. We don't stop for lunch, but picnic tables are usually available after the walks in the Old Stage Day Camp area.

Restrooms

Restrooms and water are available only at the main entrance.

Reservations

No reservations are needed unless you have a group of 10 or more. For group reservations, please email events@friendsofedgewood.org.

More Third Saturday Hikes

Friends of Edgewood?s trained docents guide free nature hikes at 10am on the third Saturday morning of each month. The 3 - 4 mile walks vary according to the docent and the current happenings in the Preserve.

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People & Plants: Free Nature Walk

November 17, 2012, 10:00 am?1:00 pm

10 Old Stage Coach Rd, Redwood City, CA

Just off Edgewood Road, 1 mile east of I280. The parking lot can fill up early. Use extreme care when parking along Edgewood Road.

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Job openings slip slightly in Sept, quits decline

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Spurs beat Pacers 101-79 for first 4-0 start

San Antonio Spurs' Tony Parker (9), of France, looks to pass as Indiana Pacers' Sam Young, left, defends during the third quarter of an NBA basketball game, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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San Antonio Spurs' Tim Duncan, left, shoots around Indiana Pacers' Roy Hibbert (55) during the third quarter of an NBA basketball game, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Indiana Pacers' Gerald Green (25) scores over San Antonio Spurs' Stephen Jackson (3) and Matt Bonner (15) during the first quarter of an NBA basketball game, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Indiana Pacers' George Hill (3) is defended by San Antonio Spurs' Tim Duncan, left, and DeJuan Blair (45) as he drives to the basket during the second quarter of an NBA basketball game, Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

SAN ANTONIO (AP) ? The San Antonio Spurs have won four NBA championships, made 32 playoff appearances and captured 18 division titles in their 40-year history.

Yet for all their success, they had never opened a season with four straight victories.

Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and the Spurs finally did so Monday night, rolling past the Indiana Pacers 101-79 to remain unbeaten.

"I'm surprised we're still doing records," Parker said. "It seems like we did everything, but that's another one. That's great."

It's an unprecedented start for San Antonio, albeit one that left players scratching their heads.

"It's just a stat, not that important in the long-term," Manu Ginobili said. "(But) at this point we are enjoying it. It's curious that a team this successful hasn't started that well before."

The Spurs upended the Pacers (2-2) with what has become a familiar formula in recent years ? a little Parker, a little Duncan and a lot off the bench.

Gary Neal scored 17 points, DeJuan Blair 14 and Stephen Jackson 12 to pace San Antonio's reserves. The Spurs outscored the Pacers' bench 57-35.

"That's kind of been our motto," Neal said. "With Manu coming off and Stephen Jackson, those guys could be starting on any team in the NBA. We are a deep team. We've just got to maintain effort when the bench comes in."

Duncan added 14 points and 11 rebounds, and Parker finished with six points, seven assists and only one turnover.

Former Spurs guard George Hill led Indiana with 15 points. Paul George added 14 points and David West had 10.

The Spurs needed a boost from their bench after a sluggish start.

Both teams aggressively defended the point early, resulting in a combined 4-for-16 shooting from the field in the first 5 minutes.

The Spurs then scored nine straight points to take a 14-9 lead after sharing the ball more. Boris Diaw capped the run with a layup off a bounce pass from Parker with 5 minutes left in the first quarter.

Parker later fed a cutting Ginobili, who made a tip pass to Blair for a layup with 1 second left in the first quarter for a 26-18 lead.

"We moved the ball well," Ginobili said. "Gary was impressive today. But yeah, we changed the tempo of the game. We did good ? much better than the last game."

Parker had three of the team's seven assists in the first quarter.

Parker sat for 9 minutes in the second period after playing the entire first. With the All-Star point guard on the bench, Jackson and Neal combined for nine points in an 11-0 run that gave the Spurs a 37-18 lead to open the second.

Indiana did not surpass 20 points until West dunked off an offensive rebound with 7 minutes left in the first half.

West kept the Pacers in contention, scoring all 10 of his points in the second quarter while going 4 for 5 from the field. His 23-foot jumper cut San Antonio's lead to 47-38 at halftime.

The Spurs maintained a double-digit lead for nearly all of the second half.

The Pacers shot just 35 percent for the game. San Antonio forced 14 turnovers in the second half.

"Their continuity is evident just watching them play," Indiana coach Frank Vogel said. "Thirteen of their 14 guys were here last year and their core guys have been here for many years winning championships. It's a system they are familiar with. They are a well-oiled machine and they play extremely hard on both sides of the court."

NOTES: Indiana forward Danny Granger missed his fourth game with a sore left knee. Granger is out indefinitely. ... Former Indiana Pacers point guard Haywoode Workman was among the game officials. Workman played for the Pacers from 1993-99 and spent parts of four other seasons with three other clubs. His final season in the NBA was 2000 with the Toronto Raptors. ... Hill received a loud ovation during pregame introductions. ... Parker went flying over the first row of courtside seats while chasing down a loose ball in the second half. He landed partially on Ed Whitacre, bending the eyeglass frame of the former CEO of General Motors and AT&T.

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The Millions : Confessions of an Analogian Writing for the Webs


1.
I have to wonder how it happened. In early 2009, I wrote on my newly-minted blog:

It?s a pretty weird time on the planet ? the economics of everything, the tools of mass communication, the rise (rise? emergence? triumph? hard to say?) of self-publishing and DIY arts production and distribution. Everything?s spinning and turning ? exhilaratingly for some, nauseatingly for others.

I was leaning toward nausea at the time. In all things, I was analog.?I worked slowly, and I liked material, concrete things.?Like books, pens, paper.?My first novel was a year from release, and I?d been told, by everyone I knew in the literary world, that I should start a blog. Reluctantly, awkwardly, I did.

coverIn 2010, in an essay for the anthology The Late American Novel, I wrote:

Realistically: the printed book, in hard cover at the least, may well go by the wayside. By all accounts, digital technologies and the market are pushing print, as we know it, to the margins [...] All this may well be the reality of the moment [...] My hope, on the other hand is that the above trajectory is not a foregone conclusion; or if it is, not a permanent one.

I also wrote that I hoped the pendulum swing toward digital would swing back, to a future time where ?Those of us who write will write better books. We?ll pare back on blog-blabbing, will be freer from self-consciousness, quieter in our heads, slower and less distracted, more imaginatively limber and inventive.?

It is now the dusk of 2012, and I am going on my fourth year writing regularly for a major online literary site ? the one you are reading right now.?And in a few weeks, I will be involved in launching yet another digital literary venture? but more on that in a moment.

How did it happen? Mine is an unlikely Web byline, and yet, more often than I ever would have imagined, I have been ?recognized,? at a party, or in an email exchange, even at an artists? colony, for my essays and reviews at The Millions. You?re the one who wrote that piece about?

Seriously? I think. You read that? Part of me is still in 2009, dizzy and disoriented from all the spinning and turning.

2.
Back then, along with being told to start a blog, I was told to read blogs. At the time, I still had a paper subscription to the NY Times, and an iBook that had maxed out on hard-drive space (and thus loaded Web pages very slowly). I can?t remember exactly how I started: there was maybe one literary blog I knew about, so I poked around there. That blog led to another blog, and that to another. About a week into my explorations, I landed at The Millions. This was back when the format was still a single post daily, in vertical scroll. I found myself revisiting the site: something about it clicked (so to speak), it seemed to me both erudite and unpretentious, a place where I could hang out for a while. The content was interesting but not overwhelming, the pace of it rigorous but unhurried. It was the first blog on which I ever commented.

I kept coming back. I didn?t bother reading other blogs; I thought, okay, I?ll just stick with this one, it?s what I can do. About a month into my new and exciting blog life, I posted something on my own blog about former New Yorker staff writer Dan Baum?s Twitter-essay, wherein he had described (in Tweets) being fired by David Remnick. I didn?t really know what Twitter was (I still don?t have an account), but I?d read the essay (via?The Millions?) and was intrigued. It took me about a month, however, to get some thoughts together; which was, and still is, typical of me, i.e., I may have joined the digital commentariat, but no form of technology was going to make me a faster thinker. I was no breaking-news journalist.

Nonetheless, within an hour of posting, a comment appeared ? from Dan Baum. I stared at it. Really? This was my first experience with actual social networking. He wrote: Sonya, a lot of words have been spilled about my New Yorker twitterpost, but this one was the best. Thank you. I remember the rush, that thrill of being winked at from across a crowded (cyber) room. In that moment, I got it ? what all this fuss about social networking was about. Give the tools a try, just be yourself; write what you care about. Weird things will start to happen, some of them might be good.

Even weirder: Baum tweeted my post, and instantly, my little blog of 50 daily visitors was flooded with close to 1,000 visitors. I felt like a crowd had just burst into my home, where I hadn?t vacuumed or done the dishes, and I was wearing an ugly bathrobe.

But the light bulbs started to go on. I wrote first to Dan Baum, to thank him for his comment (and confirm it was in fact him); he was gracious and friendly. Then, I wrote to the editor of The Millions:

Dear Max,

I?m a novelist/blogger/fiction teacher and frequent reader of The Millions.

I recently posted on my blog a response to Dan Baum?s much-read Twitterpost about the New Yorker, and then received this comment from Dan Baum himself.

I copied and pasted the comment, then suggested that the readers of The Millions might be interested in the post as ?a curiosity.? To which Max replied:

Very cool! I?ll throw a link into our next roundup

Best,
Max

Emboldened, I wrote back, asked Max if by chance I might write for The Millions sometime. He replied that I should submit a draft of something, which I did. He worked with me on editing it, then published it, then a few others. After a couple of months of guest posting, I became a staff writer.

3.
Two years ago, at a panel on publishing that I coordinated for the creative writing students at Columbia University, someone asked how important did the panelists think blogging and social networking were for one?s literary career. A couple of the panelists said that they thought it was very important, that these days authors were more responsible than ever for their own publicity, not to mention connecting with editors and agents, and that social networking was the way to do that. One of the panelists, a well-published fiction writer, offered an opposing view: ?That stuff can be very distracting,? she said. ?If you?d rather focus your energy and time on your novel or stories, you should do that.? Afterwards, I thanked the panelist for her words. ?The students need to hear that,? I said to her. ?That no matter what, their creative work is most important.?

At the same panel the following year, which I also moderated, a published writer in attendance asked if the panelists had any thoughts for someone who didn?t write short-form. ?It seems like a lot of publishing connections get made through blog-writing, but what if you?re really a long-form writer, and you?re working on a book, and that?s really all you?re doing?? I found myself interjecting thus: ?I?m that kind of writer, as well. In an ideal world, I would be living in the woods, writing novels and long stories and nothing else. But at some point, I realized that I didn?t have that luxury; that it was a good idea to take advantage of all these outlets for short-form publishing.?

My reactions to these two authors are not in direct opposition, but the nuances have shifted. I still believe that long-form creative writers must determine and do what works best for them; to learn what is distracting versus what is nourishing; to make choices that get them to finish and publish their books. Over the past few years, there have been moments when I?ve considered ceasing to write for The Millions, so that, in addition to teaching (where I earn my living) I can focus exclusively on fiction. But I?ve come to realize that, for me, engaging in both long-form and short-form, analog and digital, work well together.

Strictly speaking, yes, the time I spend writing for online publication is time not spent writing my second novel; and yet it is still, for me, time spent nourishing my writing life. There is, it would seem ? needs to be for most of us in this publishing environment ? more to the writing life than manuscript word counts and book deals. One must be mindful of the stamina, and the supportive community, required for the long haul of long-form literary writing; which is, even in the case of relative ?success,? increasingly divorced from a viable livelihood and voluminous readership. Being able to write and publish short-form work, on a somewhat regular basis, has energized me to keep showing up at my fiction desk (mornings, no internet), which is, more accurately ? and perhaps appropriately in light of this notion of complementary activities ? not really a desk at all, but a spiral-bound notebook in which I write long-hand.

I should say, too, that I spend relatively little time on either Facebook or Twitter. If a Tweet is 140 characters, and this essay is 11,000 characters, then you could say that this is what I do every month, alongside novel writing, in lieu of 80 Tweets.

Writing short essays and reviews are also a way for me to think. This past summer, I worked for two solid months on a long piece about psychic homelessness, i.e., geographic mobility, an unstable sense of place. The piece ranged and roamed, encompassing the essays of Emerson, the novels of Wendell Berry, the memoirs of Kathleen Norris, Jimmy Carter, and Donald Hall, the ?anxiety of influence,? reflections on my marriage and divorce, meditations on the legacy of immigration, questions of social class? it was a mess, and I trashed it, heavy with a sense of failure. This fall, I?ve had a chance to resurrect the piece ? fragments of it, that is ? in short form, in an online column at The Common, called ?Annals of Mobility.? I can think out the issues one at a time and, perhaps a year from now, look at them in the aggregate and understand what it is I feel and have wanted to say. In this way, ironically, Web writing has slowed me down and allowed me to take my time with a complex idea.

4.
Which brings me to Bloom.

In September 2011, The Millions graciously allowed me a platform for highlighting a group of authors, and, perhaps more significantly, a varied way of looking at and engaging in the writing life ? that of zig-zag paths, a slower pace, living multiple lives; and ultimately ?succeeding,? one way or another, in one?s own good time. I am referring to the ?Post-40 Bloomers? series, which I?ve been honored to write and edit over the past year.

In a few weeks, you?ll be hearing about Bloom ? a new site, originating from ?Post-40 Bloomers,? carrying on and expanding the series, with support from The Millions. Instead of monthly, you?ll read about a ?Bloomer? weekly, along with other great features related to later-life blooming. So far, Bloom is scheduled to feature Donald Ray Pollock, Peter Ferry, Deborah Eisenberg, Bram Stoker, W.M. Spackman, Kate Chopin, Shannon Cain, Karl Marlantes, George Eliot, Samuel Richardson, Penelope Fitzgerald, Joseph Kanon, Pauline Chen? this exciting list goes on and on.

The irony of it all delights and humbles me. Bloom is about taking one?s time, sometimes off the beaten path. We?re claiming the technology of fast-and-instant and using it to talk about the many different ways of living, working, creating ? fast, slow, direct, indirect, prolific, sparse. I won?t be moderating that publishing panel again this year, but if I were, I would say to the anxious student who asks about blogging and digital publishing ? who is worried about money and family, his messy creative process, and his prospects for literary ?success? ? I would say to him: Just be yourself. You will bloom in good time.

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San Antonio dog lovers fight cancer with puppy power

by Kens5.com staff

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Posted on November 4, 2012 at 4:29 PM

SAN ANTONIO ? A dog is a great companion to have in the fight against cancer, and dogs may say the same about his or her best friend, too.

Dog lovers came together at McAllister Park on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012 to march against cancer as part of the 2 Million Dogs Puppy Up! Walk.

Puppy Up! San Antonio raised more than $10,000 through donations and sponsorships collected by participants. The money will be used to explore common links between canine and human cancers through comparative oncology research.

The 2 Million Dogs Puppy Up! Walk was inspired by Luke Robinson, who walked his two dogs 2,000 miles from Austin to Boston. It was a promise he had made to his dog, Malcolm, who died from cancer.

Source: http://www.kvue.com/home/San-Antonio-dog-lovers-fight-cancer-with-puppy-power-177179341.html

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Housing rebound fails to recharge economy

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The U.S. housing market is on the mend, but the so-called "missing piston" of the world's biggest economy doesn't have enough power to get the broader recovery firing on all cylinders any time soon.

Construction and related activity will help rather than hinder U.S. economic growth this year for the first time since 2005. That was before the housing bust helped push the United States into recession, triggering the global financial crisis.

Higher sales, prices and building, albeit modest so far, are a welcome boost as other drivers of the economy falter.

Nonetheless, housing still accounts for only a small part of gross domestic product compared with the boom years.

The housing sector "would have to be on steroids to significantly boost GDP growth," Paul Dales, an economist with Capital Economics, wrote in a recent research note.

Neither presidential candidate has signaled any new plans to help housing, although the Federal Reserve, aware of the important role of the sector in underpinning the economy, is focusing its latest stimulus efforts in mortgage bonds.

Typically, housing leads the U.S. economy out of recession. But the vast equity losses have stymied the market this time.

Housing's most direct impact on growth is via construction, remodeling and associated services, known as residential investment. Its contribution to GDP has shrunk from a historical average of about 5 percent, and over 6 percent in 2005, to 2.5 percent in the third quarter of this year.

Economists expect residential investment will add two- to three-tenths of a percentage point to GDP in 2013, helping the economy maintain this year's pace of growth.

Americans are likely to spend more on home renovations - probably $134.2 billion in the 12 months to June 2013, up from $115.3 billion at the end of September this year, according to Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies.

That would still be 8 percent off the peak in mid 2007 when borrowing against home values was still soaring.

Now, homeowners remain wary of taking on debt. Most prefer to save for renovations rather than borrow, said Adi Tatarko chief executive of Houzz, a home remodeling online platform.

Jim O'Sullivan, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics says housing-related jobs have grown by an average of 11,000 a month this year. That contrasts with an average monthly decline of 1,000 in 2011 and they should speed up to 30,000 a month by early 2013 as new home construction picks up, he estimates.

Superstorm Sandy, which hammered the U.S. Northeast last week, could put more people to work in construction.

Analysts estimate the U.S. economy needs to create roughly 150,000 jobs a month just to hold the unemployment rate steady.

'Every little bit helps'

The influence of housing reaches further than just construction jobs; it can be a big jolt for consumer spending, which makes up two-thirds of the economy.

Michael Gapen, chief U.S. economist at Barclays Capital, said real estate wealth should begin to boost consumer spending again next year. That would mark an important turning point for households' finances, badly damaged by the housing market collapse and the drop in stock prices during the financial crisis.

"As the consumer goes, so will the broader economy," Gapen said.

The swath of homeowners who owe more on their mortgage than the value of their home is a big factor that has held back the housing recovery. Many "underwater" Americans have been unable to sell their home and buy something more expensive. Such upward mobility in housing has traditionally fueled the market.

More than 20 percent of U.S. mortgages were underwater at the end of June, amounting to 10.8 million homes. Of those, 1.8 million borrowers would recover if prices rose 5 percent, according to data analysis firm CoreLogic.

Price gains like that may not be such a tall order. Economists expect prices to have risen 1.7 percent this year and pick up a further 3.1 percent next year, according to a Reuters poll.

Rising home prices helped 1.3 million homeowners get out from under water in the first half of this year, CoreLogic says.

Those are more homeowners who could potentially refinance their mortgages, putting more spending money in their pockets.

A number of factors suggest the recovery will be slow and modest, like that of the broader economy. These factors include a backlog of pending foreclosures, the large amount of distressed homes up for sale, often at low prices, and the difficulty in getting a mortgage.

In the meantime, the Fed will buy $40 billion in mortgage-related debt each month as it tries to bolster the housing sector which Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has called the "missing piston" of the U.S. economic recovery.

"Every little bit helps," Scott Brown, chief economist at Raymond James, said of housing.

"People always ask, 'What's going to drive the recovery?' It's never usually one particular thing, but a lot of little things getting better at the same time."

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economywatch/housing-market-rebound-fails-recharge-economy-1C6859650

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Obama Opens Lead Over Obama In Pew Poll - Business Insider

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With less than 48 hours to go until voters cast their ballots, the presidential race is still in a dead heat, with national polls showing President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney virtually tied for the popular vote.?

But the latest survey from the Pew Research Center shows Obama has an advantage over Mitt Romney when it comes to strength of voters' support ??a key indicator that has historically predicted which candidate will win the popular vote.?

According to the survey, 39 percent of likely voters strongly support Obama, compared to just 33 percent of likely voters strongly support Romney. According to Pew's data, the candidate with stronger support among voters has gone on to win the popular vote in 10 out of 12 elections since 1960.?

Check out the chart below:?

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Along those same lines, a full 80 percent of Obama voters say they are voting "for" Obama rather than "against" Romney. By comparison, 60 percent of voters say they are voting "for" Romney.?

And there's even more good news for Obama in the Pew poll >?

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-romney-pew-poll-2012-11

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Carolyn Shepherd shared a profile on Twitter

IMGP4747.JPG??Emotional Baggage?Paper, paper ash ??Emotional Baggage? is that haunted box containing those precious documents that are too painful to be looked at. The box is kept closed, but its contents play out like an old movie in the minds eye. It contains love, suffering and death.? Its a burden, but it cant be destroyed - its?See More

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