ABSTRACT Dec-17-2012 A Comparison of Second Unit Strategies in Municipalities with Low Density Land Use Problem: The Town of Portola Valley is located just west of Stanford University and is considering efforts to meet its affordable housing requirements. As a town of low density land use with largely one single…
It’s very sad to see a scientific organization like the FDA give into political pressure that helps pharmaceutical companies bring a likely useless drug to market. Flibanserin is an anti-depressant that Sprout Pharmaceuticals is trying to get approved for treatment of low sexual desire in women*. I’m concerned about this…
First with my family, and now as empty nesters, my buddy and I take a lot of pride in our Halloween pumpkin carving. Over the past decade, I have amassed pumpkin stencils from websites, magazines, pumpkin carving kits, and Halloween books, as well as a bunch of tools. Below is…
Surgeon Atul Gawande has written a book “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,” and from which he wrote an opinion piece for the The New York Times on Oct-5-2014. http://nyti.ms/1n6EHLS This essay describes one thing he learned from a patient/friend’s end of life: strive for the best…
WordPress is not easy. If you came to this page because you’ve struggled a bit with WordPress (WP), don’t feel badly. Even though I used to be a software engineer and project manager at Hewlett Packard, it took me 2 weeks to develop my first WP site: SoccerMovieMom.com. That is…
In Spring-2011, I injured my back while doing yardwork. But in retrospect, I had pre-conditioned my back to fail. For 10 months, after my 90-yo mother broke her hip, I drove from the San Francisco Bay Area to Los Angeles every week. I tried to drive down Hwy 5 as…
