A good reason to live tiny is to lower your impact on Earth's dwindling resources. The math is simple. If you've got a small space, the less input is needed to heat and cool it. Once you've decided to go small, the next step is to be smart about your design so that it requires the least possible outside input for it to be habitable (i.e. electricity for heat, fuel for heat or cooking, food, water, etc.). We're still building our initial design and we have new ideas we'd like to try, so it's been helpful to remind ourselves that this is a practice. Change doesn't happen over night and perfection is never achieved, but we're trying to be conscious of how our actions and lifestyle choices make an impact. This is a summary of the design concepts, relatively new to us a year ago, that guided us as we aimed to make our home as energy efficient as possible.
We started by thinking about the sun. It's a pretty powerful thing — the sun. It can warm you on a winter day and roast you in the summer. It's light can penetrate gloominess and inspire the soul. This is common sense, of course, but, as the saying goes, common sense isn't all that common. By code and culture, homes are often oriented to face the street, paying no mind to the solar cycle above. The sunlight that enters the typical home is often incidental and unplanned — and sometimes, as in the form of heat during the summer, it's unwanted. That unwanted heat necessitates costly cooling measures. The opposite is true during winter. There's great potential heat from sunlight, but most homes aren't set up to receive it. So, something somewhere needs to be burned to warm the place. It's a wasteful way to live. What's a better way? Passive solar design.
At it's simplest, passive solar design intentionally lets the sun in when it is most needed — during the winter — and keeps it out when it's hot. This isn't a new concept. It's how people, out of necessity, have built homes all over the world since we moved out of caves and started constructing our own shelters. It's only in the last century or so that we've elected to pay for and use irreplaceable resources in exchange for something we can get for free — if we plan for it.
And to plan for it, you have to know how the sun moves through the sky.
The typical orientation in passive solar design is to face your building south. This offers the most opportunity to capture the warmth of the sun during the winter. Then, to avoid getting roasted in the summer by light pouring into your home, create an eave that sticks out far enough to block the sun when it's high in the sky. As summer turns to fall, more and more light creeps into the house through the windows. This is how we designed our place. This spring, we'll add a small awning over the big window (and hopefully planting a tree) to have the same effect.
September 10th – the eave is nearly covering the window.
October 27th — BAM! Full sun for the cold months.
You can calculate and chart all this stuff on paper, but we just used Google Sketchup. Sketchup is free and very easy to learn. You can input your address, load a bird's eye view of your property, start putting down rough home shapes and see exactly what the sun is doing when. It's a crazily powerful tool — and amazingly accurate.
In Sketchup, you can set the exact time that you want to see sunlight in your building. Here, it's set for 8:08 AM on December 3rd.
This photo was taken at 8am on December 3rd. Compare the light from the window in real life and the digital version above.
In the winter, your home becomes a greenhouse. It'll warm nicely during the day, but will quickly cool down at night unless you create a way to store the heat. To do this, you have to build a thermal mass to store the heat generated throughout the day. Preferably, this will be where the light gathers most (i.e. the north wall). The most common thermal mass to use is earth. We opted to use an earthen plaster in the northeast corner which gets a lot of sun during in the late afternoon. Ideally, the north wall and possibly the east and west walls would be entirely made of earth. Indeed, the mother of modern passive solar designs, the Earthship, is often dug into a hillside. Other homes are made from cob (or a clay, sand, straw and water mixture that's been around for centuries) or straw-bale.
Check out this cob home built by our friends Greg and Danielle in North Carolina.
Our two to three inch thick plaster wall is a bit of a token, but it might mean a nice warm spot to gather just before bed in the winter time without needing to turn on a heater. We plan on using clay on the property to plaster and build cob benches early this summer.
This spot gets slammed with sun all winter. We decided a bench made of cob here might warm nicely and be a cozy spot to sit in the evening once the sun has left.
The flip side to keeping things warm in the winter, is keeping things cool in the summer. Our design will block the light from getting inside, but it doesn't keep it from battering the roof and the exterior walls. To limit the transfer of heat from outside to inside, we made sure the insulation in our ceiling and south wall was extra thick. Additionally, we planned for ventilation. Inevitably, our home will warm up. We've already noticed that, even in the wintertime, it can get hot in here. So, we made sure we designed ways for hot air to leave. Our neighbor generously gave us an operable skylight he wasn't going to use, and we installed opening windows on the east and west side to create airflow.
Well positioned windows are key for summer heat control.
The final thing to mention in passive solar design are trees. Well placed trees can do wonders to compliment your passive solar design. Instead of letting the sun beat down on the house all summer long, plant a nice deciduous tree to the south and/or west. During the hot months, it'll shade the house and when it's cold, it'll let the light through. If it's a fruit tree, it'll feed you too. We likely wont be living in our tiny home long enough for trees to mature, but we hope to plant some anyhow. Think of all the beautiful big shade trees or mature fruit trees you've grown to love. Someone planted it years ago and possibly never got to reap the rewards. Tree planting is about caring for future generations.
In an earlier post, we discussed our decision to build a permanent tiny home versus one on wheels. If you have an opportunity to build on a site permanently, you can more readily take advantage of all these energy saving design features.
Using passive solar concepts, we knew where to put our house and how to face it, and the rough roof line and where to put windows. But we still didn't know exactly how we'd function in the space. For that, we consulted one of our favorite books, The Hand Sculpted House.
This is such a cool way to think about designing living space. Using a chart like this, you can plan your house in such a way as to have natural light follow you through your daily routines. Also, it helps you think about where to put rooms and spaces that don't necessarily need natural light. (i.e closets, stairwells, bathrooms). If you're letting the sun warm the rooms you're in, while you're using them, you wont have to pay to heat them or turn on lights. Next week we'll elaborate a little more on the cosmic clock and our design.
For us, there is a difference. A house is a physical structure, a possession, four walls and a roof, etc. A home may have those things, but a home is so much more. There are intangible qualities to a home, the way the light shines into the kitchen on a winter morning, your favorite place to read, the laughs shared by family and friends, the view out he window, the smell of the wind blows at different times of the year. We wanted our house to be an intentional home. One that we would enjoy now and hope that future generations will appreciate.
A question that comes up a lot : Did you build your tiny house on wheels?
To get at that question, we'd like to lay a bit of groundwork. Looking back, the fact that we're now tinyhome dwellers is somewhat incidental. Our main goals were to save money, pay off debt and simplify.
What do we mean by simplify? We wanted to cut out the middle men in our lives so that we might have a closer connection with the things that matter. For us, good food, a healthy place to live, family, friends, joyful work–those things matter.
Our first successes in feeling the freedom from simplification came from simplifying our food, by eating closer to the earth. Participating in feeding ourselves by keeping a garden, raising a few hens, fermenting foods, supporting local farmers/growers/food and beverage craftsmen. By making that shift, a lot of joy was felt!
We turned the similar philosophy to our shelter and imagined what that would be like. Could we build it ourselves? Could we use simple materials? Could we make friends with those that know how to do this? Could we share resources? We explored this further in NC, where we did a natural buildign workshop using strawbale, and clay harvested on site. It was incredible and empowering and we shared a really special ten days with people new to building but with similar desires in their hearts. We wanted to participate in the creation of shelter. We wanted to simplify that fundamental need by getting our hands dirty (literally).
Oliver at the strawbale workshop.
Denise applying a base coat of plaster.
There is anther aspect of simplicity that is important to us, and that is about balancing level of effort with the impact of effort. In that, we have rented for the last 10 + years, and we always made improvements to make it our own. It may be fresh coats of paint on the wall, or a sweet garden space (or a chicken coop) or smart built-in structures that make the flow of every day living more effortless. We like to live that way, it makes us feel good at the time, but we always had felt some sadness when we left and handed the keys over to a stranger. Would the gardens grow over? Would the additions be neglected? And sometimes, on a glum day—why did we waste our time just to do it all over again?
When we set out to simplify this was knocking around in the back of our heads, and definitely made setting up on family property a no-brainer. Let's put the effort in now for any number of people that we care about to enjoy after we inevitably move on to something new. Let's build a little place to call home for a few years, and hopefully one day we'll visit our nieces and nephews in the space, enjoying some newfound freedom! Let's build a big garden that the family can eat off of for years to come. Let's invest in fruit trees and berries. Let's build our little structure to get lot's of sunlight in the winter and nice shade in the summer.
So, back to the question about wheels. With all those feelings, putting wheels didn't make sense to us. We wanted to build roots so that our little home to grow old with property of which its a part. Our structure is more aligned with the "mother-in-law" unit or Accessory-Dwelling Unit (ADU) than it is with notion of a roving house on wheels.
But why are a lot of tiny houses on wheels?
There are two main reasons it seems.
How did we work with codes?
We knew we were building something fixed on family property. So, we started researching ADUs. These usually fall into three catagories : finishing unfinished space (attic, basement, garage, etc.), converting an existing outbuilding (which we considered), or building from scratch (which we did).
An early idea. Converting an attic space above a workshop.
We were pretty set on doing a strawbale structure. But we scrapped this. It was too late in the season to start a water vulnerable project.
During our research into county code, we learned that in our area, structures less than 200 sq ft could be built without a permit. The main other restriction in that code was that our structure couldn't be more than twelve feet above the ground. That's where we started.
Here is our first draft at a sub 200 sq ft design.
Next Time : We'll answer, why 183 sqft?
We aren't sure about how this blog is going to work.
It's been on our minds to share our tiny home building experience and we've been encouraged by the questions and interest we've had along the way. We also want to jot down for posterity as much we can while the trials and tribulations are still fresh on our brains. We hope these ruminations and anecdotes are inspirational and informative. If building a tiny house is something you've been thinking about, or curious about, we hope you'll follow along. And please jump in with questions and comments. We have a lot of topics we aim to discuss, but if there's something you're itching to know now, please interject. We will be happy to write on that topic. We have no agenda to follow.
As sort of a disclaimer, our tiny home is still in the works (now and forever). We're designing and building as we go and as we discover more about our habits and needs. We have a lot of work to do building storage and built-in seating and such. Plus, we plan to develop the surrounding property with outdoor living spaces and an edible landscape. More on that when we get there. Nonetheless, we're moved-in and the major work is done.
O: When did we start talking about building a tiny house?
D: I think we were both feeling burnt out on high rent and long hours while we were living in Brooklyn, and wanted a freer and more self sufficient lifestyle. We had both started to hear about tiny houses and then I gave you that tiny house book for your birthday! Ha! What really appealed to me was that creative and hardworking, yet inexperienced builders, were creating charming and livable spaces for themselves.
O: I think lifestyle is a key word in that description. For me, the cost of living and the job was one thing, but in my off hours I wasn't feeling like I could live the life I wanted to live.
D: And what was that?
O: I didn't feel connected to the natural world. I wanted to be more connected to my food sources and to trees and the places that you can't find in a city. And so we started talking about moving to a place that was basically the opposite of Brooklyn and North Carolina was an option with your job so we moved there. And I think we did find a lot of the things I was looking for.
D: Are we going to talk about our foray into buying a house?
O: Oh, right. That's important.
D: You obsessively started looking for houses to buy in North Carolina and we went down and were talking to real estate people and looked at a bunch of houses and we both felt like that wasn't the situation we wanted to get into – of having a mortgage. Partly because we were trying to lessen our financial responsibility for where we live and partly because we already have a bunch of debt from school. Especially me. And taking on a mortgage felt like something we couldn't do. We shouldn't do.
O: Yeah. It's crazy that I was so bent on buying something. I think I just wanted a big change–to get out of the city and be more connected to the land. Moving to North Carolina was going to be that. We made the decision to move there without knowing where we'd live exactly. When we were out looking at properties we found Saxapahaw. And it seemed like that spoke to us.
D: The small town. In the middle of bunch of farms.
O: With people our age farming and thinking about building a local economy and sustainability.
D: A community that cared a lot about food and building community around that.
O: So how did we get to the tiny house here?
D: We could talk about how we were deciding between settling there for a while or moving closer to our families. Or you could talk about how you started building and then we did that workshop.
O: Yeah. A lot of inspiration came from working as a carpenter in North Carolina. I felt empowered to build something of my own and was inspired by Logan's (Heirloom Builders) approach to building and the self-sufficient lifestyle he was creating. The strawbale workshop was pretty influential in our initial designs for the tiny house. And also the philosophy behind building your own shelter.
D: So then I think we flung out to the universe that we wanted to do that for ourselves once we landed in the Northwest. And we talked to my mom about converting the loft above the woodshop or the room near the carport using the natural building practices we learned.
O: Then, when we were still on the road, your mom mentioned that there was a shed that had to come down and that's when we first started to think about building from scratch.
D: We landed without much of a plan of what we were going to build.
O: And we started to build a week later.
Next week, we'll talk about our initial design ideas and how we settled on a design.
If you're looking for more info now, we have a section devoted to books that have inspired us HERE.


A freelance reviewer's workload is erratic. On the odd occasion one might have a few moments' respite, while at other times the coincidence of multiple deadlines for copy results in several weeks of panic. As I write this missive I have just completed one such overload period covering so much equipment that I thought that it would be worthwhile to look back and take stock at the audio in the past decade (footnote 1).
"How sour sweet music is / When time is broke and no proportion kept!"
It's said that your first experience on entering a space sets the tone for all that follows. At LP pressing plant Record Technology, Inc. (RTI), that experience is my encounter with veteran pressman Richard Lopez, who responds to my request for direction. As he leaves his vintage record press to lead me to owner Don MacInnis, Lopez reads aloud the sticker on a box of recently pressed LPs. "WORLD'S FINEST PHONOGRAPH RECORDS," he declares with pride. As I reflect on how few workers today feel so connected to the products they make, I sense that something special lies ahead.


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Mort Wright
BirthplaceNinette, MB
BornSeptember 8, 1935
Mort Wright played minor ball in Brandon, went to Washington Senators camp in Florida in 1953, but returned to play with Brandon Athletics, Greys, Cloverleafs. He pitched three no-hitters and played a prominent role on the Cloverleafs three Central Manitoba Baseball Association champions of 1955-57. Later Mort was playing manager of Cloverleafs teams of 1958-60, which won three more C.M.B.A. titles. After M.S.B.L. was formed, Wright managed the Cloverleafs to three straight league and provincial titles, from 1967-69. Wright later managed or assisted at Virden and at Riverside. Mort Wright retired in 1992 after 41 seasons of playing, coaching, and managing with teams that won six C.M.B.A. titles, five M.S.B.L. crowns, and two Manitoba championships.

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Luke Weaver and Nick Ahmed host fundraiser at Topgolf
By Christina Fuoco-Karasinski
When the St. Louis Cardinals traded Luke Weaver and his good friend Carson Kelly to the D-backs for Paul Goldschmidt, the 25-year-old pitcher saw it as a new chapter in his life, and a way to make his mark.
"I thought, 'I have an open slate and a clean slate,'" Weaver recalls. "My wife and I wanted to make sure we were making an impact. We want people in other parts of the world to know we haven't forgotten about them."
To further his cause, Weaver and his new teammate Nick Ahmed united to raise money for their respective charities recently at Topgolf Riverwalk at Talking Stick. The evening included food, drinks and competition.
Aside from admission, fans could pay $20 to swing against their favorite players, including Greg Holland, Robbie Ray, Carson Kelly, Merrill Kelly, David Peralta, Adam Jones and Blake Swihart.
Weaver and his wife, Olivia, recently launched The 22X Campaign, a multifaceted relief effort to aid Rohingya (Myanmar) refugees.
"We've already raised over $100,000 to provide emergency aid, medicine, food, water and training to the refugees and the people providing care for them," Weaver says. "Olivia and I are dedicated to this cause."
Weaver was inspired to give back by former Cardinals' teammate Adam Wainwright, who started Big League Impact. Big League Impact has collected over $3 million to support approximately 60 players' projects to provide clean water, food, humanitarian aid, health care, education, sustainable farming and infrastructure.
"When I was playing in St. Louis and coming up, he was a mentor for me in the baseball world," Weaver says of Wainwright. "I saw what he was doing outside of the field and being able to reach out to people in various countries and giving back. I was very inspired by that and we became very good friends."
The Weavers traveled to Haiti and the Dominican Republic to see Wainwright's efforts. Last year, Weaver raised more than $23,000 to help build two baseball fields and a sustainable farm in the Dominican communities of Hoyo Oscuro and Camarón.
"I tried to look and search for what was really hitting my heart. You can't really force something like this. This one called out to me for sure," Weaver says.
As for Ahmed, his pledge campaign raised $45,000 last season to build a water infrastructure and purification system for the people of El Mogote. This year, he and his wife Amanda are matching up to $75,000 toward their fundraising efforts to be split between helping build a community center in the same region in the Dominican Republic and in supporting the Phoenix Rescue Mission, whose vision is to transform lives of those struggling with homelessness, addiction and trauma.
"Amanda and I are committed to restoring and developing communities here and abroad," Ahmed says.
Prior to joining the D-backs, Weaver only casually knew Ahmed through their charity work.
"We thought this would be a cool thing," Weaver says about the fundraiser. "This is the part of the season where it's really grinding a little bit and it's getting a little tough. We just wanted to decompress and have some fun." ν


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The way we use words frame discussions, so I tweeted at Hume with the following analogy, which all pundits can grasp (I certainly can!): Imagine that I hire you for the next 20 years, and our contract limits your yearly salary "increase" to just 1% a year. Then, we let inflation play its magic. After two decades, when comparing your purchasing power in 2037 to the one in 2017, wouldn't you call that a "cut"? You'd certainly experience it as such, if inflation stays at its current level.
This isn't a great analogy —for one thing, I don't know if Medicaid increases take into account the rising costs of healthcare. However, I was just trying to illustrate the difference between absolute change and relative change, and the fact that "increases" are always relative to variables like needs. In the case of Medicaid it's not just inflation (if it isn't built in already) that may have pernicious effects in the future, but also predicted variations in population size, its composition, economic growth, number of Medicaid recipients (gross expense vs. per capita expense,) societal expectations, etc. I'm no expert, but that is what the CBO said.
His response unleashed a barrage of abuse from the troll horde that follows him, which also attacked Cohn. Some accused me of engaging in "liberal Math" and many xenophobic goons told me to go learn some English. Not a bad suggestion, I'll admit, but, as I'm busy, I decided not to waste time replying to each of them. I erased my tweet, and decided to write this post instead.
What the White House and its propaganda machine are doing —and I'm not claiming that Hume is part of it; he strikes me as a polite and professional fellow— is to twist the English language the aforementioned trolls claim to cherish. They do it to sugarcoat their message, as they know that cuts to the safety net —present and projected— are unpopular.
That isn't how money works. To quote Charles Wheelan's wonderful Naked Money, "it is a piece of paper with no intrinsic value." Here's how I reason about this: Let's say that I give my kid $10 dollars a week, which he uses exclusively to pay for his favorite hobby, ice skating. I drive him to skate with his friends every Friday evening.
Then, at the end of 2017 I decide to increase my kid's 2018 ice skating allotment to $11. Is that a real increase? It depends. In isolation, it sounds like it. My kid will be receiving 11 wrinkled sheets of paper instead of 10, after all.
But if the cost of an evening of ice skating changes to $12 and I can't drive him anymore, so he needs to pay $1 for the bus, my kid will lose purchasing power. And here comes the critical part, which is what companies and governments do all the time to control future expenses: If somehow I can predict —with the always unavoidable uncertainty attached to any long-term forecast— that ice skating will get that expensive next year, and that my kid will need to take the bus, I'll be doing something akin to cutting his allotment by adding just $1 to it.
That's why many are talking about future "cuts" to Medicaid, even people that —not like me— are native English speakers. See this explainer by the Washington Post, this critique of a White House graph by Vox.com, and Cohn's own tweetstorm.
That said, if Hume's problem is with the word "cut" itself, I'll agree to stop using it. In return, I'd ask him and the White House to abandon the term "rate of increase" in this case, as may be equally misleading. Let's call Medicaid's future reduction a "covfefe" instead. The underlying reality won't change, as numbers are stubborn creatures: Medicaid will be roughly 1/4 smaller on 2026 and more than 1/3 smaller on 2036 in comparison to the original baseline. Exactly what the chart represents.
You may argue that this'd be a good thing —I happen to be a moderate European-style fiscal conservative— or a bad one, but a covfefe is a covfefe.
—You tell your son that you are going to give him an extra 2 dollars every month to keep up with rising costs of ice skating (skate rental, ice time, whatever). He will get $10 in January, $12 in February, $14 in March, and so on. Over the course of the year, he will have received $252 in total allowance.
—You then decide you are not going to give him as much and instead you increase his allowance by $1 per month: He'll get $10 in January, $11 in February, $12 in March, and so on. Over the course of the year under this scenario, he will have received $186 in total allowance.
—Under the new world in which he gets a $1 increase per month instead of $2, his allowance is still growing over the period (you could even make those increases rise with inflation, so there is no actual loss of purchasing power), but it's less than the original promise; in CBO-speak, the original is the baseline and the new world —where he gets the $1 increase— is the new policy.
—That's what's happening in the Medicaid debate. Under BCRA, Medicaid spending grows more slowly than the baseline. I can see Hume's point of not calling that a cut, because there is a connotation that the word "cut" implies a literal decline, which is not what happens in BCRA. That being said, there is a cut relative to the rate of Medicaid growth relative to the baseline, but not absolute dollars.
That is, I guess, if health care cost growth is indeed factored in already, and other aforementioned variables —possible population size, age composition, Medicaid recipients, etc.— are considered correctly. In any case, as I said, let's just find a new term we can all agree on, and call this a covfefe.


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a chat with Eau Claire County board member Zoe Roberts
Eric Christenson, photos by Andrea Paulseth | December 10, 2019
Zoe Roberts
In October, Zoe Roberts made history when she was sworn in to the Eau Claire County Board as the first transgender official at the county level in the state of Wisconsin, filling a seat vacated when former board member Brandon Buchanan resigned in September. Roberts was thrust into her duties in the middle of 2020 budget season, and hasn't looked back since. In her first few months as a public official, she's getting used to the ins and outs of the County Board and learning fast. We recently caught up with Roberts to talk about her inspiration, her experience, and her perspective going into the new year.
Volume One: How has it been going so far on the County Board? I know it's only been a few months now.
Zoe Roberts: It's been a good experience so far. A lot of people on County Board were like "I'm really sorry you have to start out during the budget process." But honestly, it might have been the best thing for me. It allowed me to see all the inner workings and how it all ties together. In that respect, I am actually appreciative of that – even though it was hard.
You kind of got thrown in the deep end right away (laughs). And this is your first time as a public official, but you had done some campaign managing on the Laura Benjamin campaign for City Council? What was that process like for you?
We went out Dec. 4 a year ago. We met at the Galloway Grill. It was me, Laura, Ann Francis, Joe Luginbill, and my friend Heather Lahr. The five of us met and hashed out whether or not Laura would want to run at that point. And so within that process, we decided that night that she would. I was the rookie, so I wasn't expecting to be put in charge or anything, but it kind of happened by default. So it kind of fell on me, and it worked out. I enjoyed it, and it was a good experience.
Again, getting thrown in the deep end for something …
(laughs) Yeah, that seems to be like a trend.
So then after that, you had some prompting from friends and stuff, but what inspired you to go after it yourself and step into the County Board position?
At the tail end of Laura's campaign, I had gotten into activism. Within that activism, I started learning more and more about the things I could do and make a difference on had I been elected or had I pursued it myself. So it took a little push from some people, but I went ahead and did it, and I'm not regretting it.
You had helped out with the Jeff Smith and Jodi Emerson campaigns as well, right?
Canvassing, yes. That's how I got into it. Joe Luginbill and Ann Francis, they had a canvassing signup form at Scooters one night. They talked me into signing up. So I went out after that and fulfilled my promise, which I always do. If I say I'm gonna do something, you can pretty much bet on that it's gonna happen. … Then on election night, Ann came up to me and said, "Zoe, why don't you run?" And I was like, "Oh gosh, not me." (laughs) "I'm not the one you want, but I know who is." Enter Laura.
And now here you are … You went from "Oh, not me" to "OK, well, maybe me."
Now here I am, 13 months later.
So what general experience do you bring to the table as far as County Board issues? You have a background in business, is that right?
I have a marketing degree. That's right, I'm a professional bullsh*tter. …
(laughs) Politics maybe is good for you then.
Truthfully, I'm more of an introvert. It's kinda helped me break out of my shell a little bit, to be honest with you. You have to when you do interviews like this, especially TV interviews. So it's been a learning experience. But I'm a really good researcher, I work hard at things, I stay focused on things, and I'm very resilient and tenacious. When Jodi in the Leader-Telegram described my "quiet tenacity," she wasn't lying. That's for real. She knows that through my activism.
That's a good trait to have for the position you're in. You know, not making a huge fuss, keeping your head down, and doing your work, and doing it well …
Hopefully well. (laughs)
So in general, all over the country now, we're seeing elected bodies become slowly less male and less white and less straight. I guess this is maybe an obvious question, but why is that representation important to you?
When you have a more diverse background and more diverse board or council, you come to better conclusions. You're reaching more people. You're not just focused on one group; you're trying to service the whole group of people under one big umbrella, rather than this one over here and this one over here. That's fundamentally how you start improving inclusivity within a community, by putting it all under one umbrella, rather than separating and segregating it all out.
Your influence is already being felt I think, too, with the City Council's proclamation for Trans Awareness Week and Day of Remembrance. That came from you, is that correct?
Yeah, working with Breana Stanley of the Chippewa Valley LGBTQ+ Center. And she also works with Citizen Action of Wisconsin, which I'm also a member of. So it was a kind of a combination of the two of us and bringing other people in.
Things like that kind of feel like a no-brainer sometimes. But for a community like ours that has a significant trans population out there, maybe they can find some solace and community in something like that. Was that your intention going into it?
That's always a part of the intention always with an event like that. But it's also the intention of raising awareness and bringing other people in. You know, bring in allies and let them see that we're not really frightening people, we're just people. And that we're human and that we're feeling everything around us, just like you do, just like anybody else does. So it's that ability to have compassion and empathize with somebody else at the same time.
I know it's early in your political career, but do you see yourself as a role model? Maybe you're not thinking about that at all …
I really don't think about that. I just want to do the best things that I can do, and lead by example. That's the way I choose to do things. It's interesting though. For the Transgender Day of Remembrance event, a bartender actually thanked me for bringing that to Eau Claire. And I was like "Wow, OK that's different." It was kind of out of the blue. I didn't realize that I had made that influence. I didn't even realize people recognized me, to be honest with you.
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Posted on May 26, 2015 by Team Captain
Blissfully ignorant! That was us before our grandchild Declan was diagnosed with a childhood cancer called AT/RT. On diagnosis we were told that for Declan there was no hope — no cures, treatments, protocols. We were told this particular type of childhood cancer was deemed "rare" and there had been little to no research. Thus began our journey into the world of childhood cancer and subsequently recognizing the apathy on the part of those who make decisions about funding research.
For many childhood cancers not much has changed in decades. Research, reading, inquiry, everything seemed to say, that although billions of taxpayer dollars are provided to fund research programs, childhood cancer research is not even on the radar screen and certainly not a priority in the Federal budget. There have been various pieces of legislation related to childhood cancer, Congress appropriates billions of taxpayer dollars for research each year – but childhood cancer research does not get a fair share of those funds.
Childhood cancer is the #1 disease related killer of kids in the U.S., the incidence of childhood cancer in this country is rising; 1 in 285 children will be diagnosed with cancer before the age of 20; over two thirds of survivors suffer life-altering impacts of treatments; and, 95% of survivors will suffer severe health impacts before the age of 45. Let me say it again, the incidence of childhood cancer continues to rise in this country – we need research now! Despite gripping statistics, resources available and the fact that Americans proclaim our children to be our most valuable asset — childhood cancer research is not a priority and is vastly and consistently underfunded. Why?
In the 1950s almost all children who were diagnosed with cancer, like Robin Bush, were given a death sentence at diagnosis. Robin was the 3 year old daughter of former President George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara. During an interview a few years ago, former first lady Barbara Bush recalled when Robin was diagnosed with leukemia in 1953. Mrs. Bush was told by the doctor's, "she's going to die."
Today, thanks to research, childhood leukemia is no longer an absolute death sentence for kids. By the late 1980s, cure rates for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) climbed above 80%. Investment in research has changed the picture for childhood leukemia – still more to do but childhood cancer research has changed the diagnosis from a death sentence to a likely cure. According to a September 2013 report by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) leukemia/lymphomas account for about one-third of leading childhood cancers. There are 16 major types of pediatric cancers and over 100 subtypes.
CHILDREN'S HEALTH ACT OF 2000
The Children's Health Act of 2000 was signed into law on October 17, 2000. The Act intended to focus on children's health issues, authorized the formation of federal child health funding programs and included pediatric research initiatives. The legislation called on Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide services to children whose lives have been affected by diseases such as cancer.
The Children's Health Act of 2000 contains statutory provisions related to childhood cancer —
Title XI requires the Secretary of HHS acting through the NIH to study risk factors for childhood cancer and carry out projects to improve outcomes among children with childhood cancers and secondary conditions. Title XI states "Such projects shall be carried out by the Secretary directly and through awards of grants or contracts."
Title X creates the Pediatric Research Initiative requiring the Secretary to establish an "initiative" at NIH to conduct and support research that is directly related to diseases, disorders and other conditions in children. The "initiative" provides funds to enable the Director to increase support for pediatric biomedical research, to enhance collaborative efforts among the institute and increase "development of adequate pediatric clinical trials and pediatric use information to promote the safer and more effective use of prescription drugs in the pediatric population."
Section 1002 provides for "Investment in tomorrow's Pediatric Researchers." In order to ensure the future supply of researchers dedicated to the care and research needs of children, the Director of the Institute, shall support activities to provide an increase in the number and size of institutional training grants to support pediatric training an increase in the number of career development awards for professionals to support pediatric basic and clinical research.
A little overview on various organizations mentioned in this legislation. The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) is a cabinet level agency with a mission to "enhance the health and well-being of Americans by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services." HHS notes that they administer more grant dollars than all other federal agencies combined.
The National Institute of Health (NIH) is one of the 11 agencies that make up the Department of HHS. The NIH is "the nation's medical research agency – making important discoveries that improve health and save lives." NIH is the largest source of funding for medical research in the world, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs in research institutions in every state and around the globe. NIH indicates they are responsive to Congressional legislations that adjusts NIH programs to meet changing research needs. The NIH homepage indicates that they encourage and depend on public involvement in federally supported research and activities. (So let them hear from you.) The Office of the Director, led today by Francis Collins, is the central office at NIH. The Office of the Director sets policy for programs and activities of all NIH components. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is a component of NIH and they are a leader in the nation's cancer research.
The Children's Health Act was passed 15 years ago. During this time, the children wait. In 15 years we have lost more than 30,000 children to childhood cancer. While the children wait, tens of thousands of children receive treatments that often consist of down-sized adult protocols due to the lack of research and corresponding lack of pediatric protocols, treatments and cures.
The legislation requires that the Secretary "carryout projects to improve outcomes among children with childhood cancers and secondary conditions," it requires NIH to support research directly related to disease, it requires NIH to invest in pediatric research to increase the number and size of pediatric training grants. Since childhood cancer is the #1 disease related killer of kids in the U.S. a "reasonable person" might assume that based on compelling facts and statutory legislation, childhood cancer research would be a PRIORITY for HHS, NIH and NCI. Of course there is a great lack of transparency in how they set priorities, outcomes, budgets, etc. For many of us dealing with childhood cancer and trying to get the facts, it does not appear that childhood cancer research is any kind of priority for HHS or its components. Any mention of childhood cancer is scarce in the myriad of budget documents prepared by the HHS, NIH and NCI. Childhood cancer is rarely mentioned if at all in testimony and hearings. Although there was rather cavalier discussion of childhood cancer research by the former NCI Director during past budget hearings — childhood cancer is rare, NCI has it covered, NCI could do more with more money, but basically it's not a priority for them.
It appears that NIH deems it statistically acceptable that over 2,000 children a year die. How many children will it take, how long will children have to wait before childhood cancer research becomes a priority in the Federal budget?
Subsequent to passage of the Children's Health Act, NIH launched the National Children's Study (NCS). The study was funded by Congress for over a decade and intended to provide information on health and development of 100,000 children across the U.S. Part 2 discusses the NCS, the collapse of the study and the investment of $1.2 billion of taxpayer dollars.
Author: Donna Carroll Carmical
As Our Children Wait, Part 2
Want to help make childhood cancer a priority? Ask lawmakers who help determine the budget for the National Cancer Institute for more than 4% of the research budget is one way to show support.
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Bill Hayden says:
Thank you for this post. Informative, fact-filled and to the point. Will forward to NCI. Keep up the fight!
PAC2 says:
Thank you Donna for providing such important information, and the perspective that 43 new sets of moms and dads gain, every single day….
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Hi, I run an online support group specifically for grandparents of children who have, or have had, cancer. My grandson was diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma in 2010, and I couldn't find any groups that specifically supported grandparents, so I started my own. If you or anyone you know is in need of some support, please share this link. Thank you, Pat Hayes
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Mike Moser returning to UNLV
By Rob DausterApr 1, 2012, 3:38 PM EDT
Mike Moser has decided to return to UNLV for his junior season.
The 6-foot-8 forward averaged 14.0 ppg and 10.5 rpg in his first season with the Rebels. Moser transferred in after spending one season at UCLA.
"I went through the process, talked with my mom, my AAU coach and coach Rice and the staff at UNLV," Moser said. "We looked at all of my options, and in the end I decided it would be best for me to stay in school. We have a great team coming back and a great fan base. I believe in our program and I love playing in Las Vegas and for UNLV."
Moser probably would have been a second round pick had he left this season, but with his versatility on both ends of the floor, he has a shot to play his way into the first round of the 2013 draft.
This is big news for UNLV, as the Rebels look like they will have a shot at being very, very good next season.
Moser will be joined up front by junior Carlos Lopez, Pitt transfer Khem Birch and USC transfer Bryce Jones. The back court will consist of Anthony Marshall, Reggie Smith, Justin Hawkins and freshman Katin Reinhardt. That's a solid core.
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By Brian P. Rubin Internet, Security January 19, 2015
So how did the United States know that North Korea was responsible for hacking Sony Pictures Entertainment last year? Well, it seems that's because the United States had actually hacked North Korea first, back in 2010, and left monitoring software that our government's cyber-spies could track back to the nation.
The New York Times reports that the NSA, in cooperation with South Korea and other allies of the United States, hacked its way into "Chinese networks that connect North Korea to the outside world," and "picked through connections in Malaysia favored by North Korean hackers" to penetrate "directly into the North." In short, it seems as though the intelligence that pointed the finger at North Korea for the now-infamous hacks on Sony Pictures Entertainment came as a direct result of our own hacks four years ago. That doesn't seem to give us particularly high moral ground in this situation…
The article cites James A. Lewis, who's called a "cyberwarfare expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies," who explained the connection between the United States' cyber-activities and its ability to recognize North Korea as the Sony hack culprit:
"Attributing where attacks come from is incredibly difficult ans slow. The speed and certainty with which the United States made its determinations about North Korea told you that something was different here – that they had some kind of inside view."
Now that we have that information out in the open, we need to face the question of what happens next. Will North Korea continue its efforts in cyber-attacks one way or another? Will there be a retaliation online – or offline? Or are things going to go back to the way they were before the Sony hacks, an uneasy stare-down across the Pacific Ocean? And who else has the US been hacking?
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American painter, designer, photographer and typographer, of Austrian birth. After serving in the Austrian army (1917–18), Bayer studied architecture under Professor Schmidthammer in Linz in 1919 and in 1920 worked with the architect Emanuel Margold in Darmstadt. From 1921 to 1923 he attended the Bauhaus in Weimar, studying mural painting (with Vasily Kandinsky) and typography; it was at this time that he created the Universal alphabet, consisting only of lowercase letters. In 1925 he returned to the Bauhaus, then in Dessau, as a teacher of advertising, layout and typography, remaining there until 1928. For the next ten years he was based in Berlin as a commercial artist: he worked as art manager of Vogue (1929–30) and as director of the Dorland advertising agency. Shortly after his first one-man exhibitions at the Galerie Povolotski, Paris, and at the Kunstlerbund März, Linz (both 1929), he created photomontages of a Surrealist nature, such as ...
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Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968. The group consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham. The band's heavy, guitar-driven sound, rooted in blues and psychedelia on their early albums, has earned them recognition as one of the progenitors of heavy metal, though their unique style drew from a wide variety of influences, including folk music.
After changing their name from the New Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin signed a deal with Atlantic Records that afforded them considerable artistic freedom. Although the group was initially unpopular with critics, they achieved significant commercial success with albums such as Led Zeppelin (1969), Led Zeppelin II (1969), Led Zeppelin III (1970), Led Zeppelin IV (1971), Houses of the Holy (1973), and Physical Graffiti (1975). Their fourth album, which features the track "Stairway to Heaven", is among the most popular and influential works in rock music, and it helped to secure the group's popularity.
Page wrote most of Led Zeppelin's music, particularly early in their career, while Plant generally supplied the lyrics. Jones' keyboard-based compositions later became central to the group's catalogue, which featured increasing experimentation. The latter half of their career saw a series of record-breaking tours that earned the group a reputation for excess and debauchery. Although they remained commercially and critically successful, their output and touring schedule were limited during the late 1970s, and the group disbanded following Bonham's death from alcohol-related asphyxia in 1980. In the decades that followed, the surviving members sporadically collaborated and participated in one-off Led Zeppelin reunions. The most successful of these was the 2007 Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert in London, with Jason Bonham taking his late father's place behind the drums.
Led Zeppelin are widely considered one of the most successful, innovative, and influential rock groups in history. They are one of the best-selling music artists in the history of audio recording; various sources estimate the group's record sales at 200 to 300 million units worldwide. With RIAA-certified sales of 111.5 million units, they are the second-best-selling band in the United States. Each of their nine studio albums placed in the top 10 of the Billboard album chart and six reached the number-one spot. Rolling Stone magazine described them as "the heaviest band of all time", "the biggest band of the Seventies", and "unquestionably one of the most enduring bands in rock history". They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995; the museum's biography of the band states that they were "as influential" during the 1970s as the Beatles were during the 1960s.
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Q: VBA Delete userform control object that is off-screen I added an Option Button to a userform and it has disappeared off-screen.
I know it is still there, and I can access it though code.
It's not the end of the world, but for completeness, I'd prefer to delete it. I just can't access it in the UI. Obviously, if I could click on it in the IDE Userform window, I could easily delete it.
My thought was that I could change its location :
Dim x As Variant

For Each x In Me.Controls
    Debug.Print x.Name
    If x.Name = "OptionButton1" Then
        Debug.Print x.Left & ", " & x.Top
        x.Left = 1
        x.Top = 1
    End If
Next x

This works, but only during runtime. It goes back to its original location as soon as the program ends.  FWIW, it's current location is 240, -528.
Does anyone know another way to access the object? I've also tried
Me.Controls.Remove "OptionButton1"

which also only works during runtime.
Any thoughts?

A: On the "Properties" window (F4) in the top dropdown list select the OptionButton1 then change the values in the Left and Top properties.

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When you create a report that summarizes data, each row within your report represents several rows from the original data source. If you want to display the data that provide the value for the summary value displayed in the report, you can do so by creating a drill-down report. Drilling down to the underlying data provides details on the specific values generated by your business operations.
- [Voiceover] When you use groups to organize and summarize your data in Crystal Reports 2016, you see the values within each of those groups. If you want, you can hide the grouping level, in this case the city headers that we have here, such as Arlington, Atlanta, and Boston, and look at the data in a set of rows without those headers breaking them up. You can then drill-down to find the individual rows for each of those cities. I'll demonstrate how to do that using the drill-down report, which you can find in the chapter four folder of your exercise files collection.
So I have this report organized and I have used a group that takes each of the property cities and uses it to organize the data within. If I want to hide these labels without removing the grouping field, then I can go over to the left edge of the preview window here and right-click GH1 which is Group Header One for property city. So I click that and then click Hide (Drill-Down OK). So there's that. And then, I will also hide the Group Footer One.
So right-click that and click Hide (Drill-Down OK). And there we go. So what I see in the body of the report is records that are sorted first by city and then by record number, or in this case, order ID. And over in the groups panel, I see a list of all of the cities that make up the group. So we have Arlington, Atlanta, Boston, and so on. If I want to find a value for a particular city or find the values for that city, for example, for Las Vegas, I can click it and Crystal Reports creates a new tab, which you can see here on the report tab bar, called Las Vegas and it displays all of the orders for that city.
So I'll go ahead and clear that tab by closing it, clicking its close box, and I'll do the same thing for Phoenix. And there I see those three orders. And all it has to do to bring all of the records back is to clear the Phoenix tab by closing it, and all of my records are back. If I want to reinstate the group headings, I can't do it from here because they're hidden. I need to go to Design view, and then, over on the left side, where I have my section titles, I right-click Group Header #1 and click Show and then right-click Group Footer #1 and click Show.
There's one other option available to you. If you right-click the group header or group footer, you'll see Suppress, which doesn't allow drill-down. In that case, it's like the groups aren't even there. But in most cases, if you're working with a report to which you've added groups, you don't want to suppress them entirely, hiding should be fine. When you're done, you can click Preview to go back to the main body of the report, and the group headings are restored.