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Houston Chronicle
HOUSTON — Sanchez Energy Corp. has entered a $639 million deal to purchase 106,000 net acres from Royal Dutch Shell subsidiaries in the Eagle Ford Shale, the Houston-based oil and gas company announced Wednesday.
The move nearly doubles Sanchez Energy's footprint in the Eagle Ford region of South Texas to 226,000 acres. It would make Sanchez the fifth-largest, publicly-traded leaseholder in the Eagle Ford by acreage, based on fourth-quarter data compiled by Bloomberg. It's currently ranked 12th.
The deal also doubles the size of Sanchez's proved reserves to 119 million barrels of oil equivalent and is expected to nearly double its production later this year to as much as 49,000 barrels per day.
The assets include proved reserves of 60 million barrels of oil equivalent, according to Sanchez Energy, and production of 24,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, based on first quarter figures. The acreage, which is contiguous, is located in Dimmit, LaSalle and Webb counties.
Historic deal for Sanchez
It gives Sanchez "a substantial underpinning of cash flow and reserves," and it provides ample room for the company to use what it has learned already to boost the region's production through process efficiency and cost reductions like multiwell-pad drilling, said Tony Sanchez III, president and CEO of Sanchez Energy.
Sanchez Energy: Not as many Eagle Ford deals this year, CEO says
"There's quite a bit of running room for us to spend the next several years continuing to ramp production organically and generating a high competitive rate of return at the wellhead," Sanchez said in an interview with FuelFix in his Houston office.
It's by far the largest deal Sanchez has struck by value. The company spent $265 million on its second-largest acquisition, purchasing 43,000 acres of South Texas oil land from Hess Corp. That deal, struck last year, also doubled the size of the company, Tony Sanchez said.
Shell in the Eagle Ford
The announcement comes just two months after Shell announced that it would cut spending in its upstream Americas unit by 20 percent and try to exit several unconventional plays, including the Eagle Ford, amid disappointing results. Shell said it had lost $900 million on its North and South American upstream business in 2013.
The planned sale includes all of Shell's operating assets in the Eagle Ford.
A Shell spokeswoman said the acreage it has agreed to sell represents the company's primary assets in the Eagle Ford, but it has retained 147,000 acres of non-operated leases in Maverick County. That acreage is being drilled by BlackBrush Terrace LP, which has a 50 percent working interest.
Sanchez Energy said the newly acquired acreage has 176 producing wells on-site, but Shell hasn't added new ones this year. Because of that, production is expected to decline until the mid- to late-third quarter, when Sanchez's operations would begin having an impact.
While Shell has faced challenges developing its shale resources in the Eagle Ford and elsewhere, Sanchez said he's confident his company's more nimble approach will work in the region.
"I think what makes us comfortable with the asset is our experience with our nearby assets, and we felt that what we had seen from a development standpoint both on cost and well performance was something we could apply here in an efficient manner," Sanchez said.
"When we ran our models, we felt very comfortable we could generate a good rate of return," he said. "We think there's a lot of upside to be had."
'Low-cost producer'
Sanchez Energy Corp. was formed in August 2011 and completed its initial public offering that year. Since then it's acquired assets in the Eagle Ford Shale and the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, which extends from Louisiana to Mississippi. It's the only publicly traded company among five affiliated businesses.
In the company's annual report released earlier this year, Sanchez said he planned a strategic shift from growing by acquisition to developing existing assets. But, he also noted, the company would "consider opportunistic acquisitions if they complement our asset portfolio."
Tony Sanchez said the timing and location of the deal are optimal for his company since it already has operations just a few miles east of the newly acquired acreage.
"With the addition of this acreage, we have substantially increased our drilling inventory – positioning Sanchez Energy to be a leading low-cost producer in the Eagle Ford for years to come," Sanchez said in a statement.
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New Milford repeats as Class L wrestling champion
BRISTOL -- By placing four of its athletes in the weight-class finals Saturday at Bristol Central High School, New Milford won its second straight Class L wrestling championship and its third title in six years, with runner-up finishes in 2009, 2010 and 2012. Fairfield Warde, which won it in 2009 and 2010 and placed second last year, was runner-up this year by 27½ points and also got four athletes into the finals.
The Green Wave, the SWC champion, had three wrestlers finish in third place as well and won with 215½ points. New MilfordÂ's advantage over the Mustangs (188 points) in the consolation rounds, for wrestlers who lost before reaching the finals, was pivotal in providing the winning margin. All weight-class finalists advanced to the championships by not losing any matches on Friday and Saturday. The top six finishers in each of the four class championship tournaments Saturday advanced to the State Open next Friday and Saturday in New Haven.
"The key is (reaching) the semifinals and the wrestlebacks (consolations),"Â"said New Milford coach Chris Piel, whose team was rated second in the state. "It takes a big man who can accept a loss and wrestle his way back. It takes heart and maturity, and IÂ'm proud to say my guys have got it. We're going to make a run at the Opens."Â"
Ten Green Wave wrestlers placed in the top six in Class L and qualified for the State Open. Warde is sending eight to the Open. Bristol Eastern (160½) finished third, followed by Farmington (155½), Platt (134) and Fairfield Ludlowe (133½).
"It was a well-rounded, good day for us," Warde coach Jason Shaughnessy said. "We beat Bristol Eastern, and they were ranked ahead of us coming into this tournament."Â"
New Milford junior Kyle Lindner, the No. 1 seed, defeated Warde freshman Tim Kane, 11-7, at 113 pounds with a strong third period. Â"
"I let him score too much in the first period," Lindner said. "To win the Open, I'm going to have to wrestle better than that."
Lindner improved to 38-2 on the season but remained undefeated against wrestlers from the state. Kane, the second seed, will bring a 32-2 record into next week's State Open.
The rivals placed wrestlers in the 126 final, and the Mustangs' Dan Ebert evened the head-to-head, Green Wave-Mustangs matchup with a 6-4 victory over Niko Stefanatos. Â"
"It got a little hairy in the first period," Shaughnessy said. "He wrestled out of a scramble."
Ebert (35-1), the 120-pound runner-up last year, said: "I got myself into positions I wanted to be in."Â"
Halim Bourjeli placed third for New Milford at 106 pounds, freshman Charles Schultz was third at 120 pounds and Zachary Arnold won the silver medal at 138 pounds. Piel said he valued their victories in the consolation-round finals and the role they played in leading the Green Wave to the team title.
Ludlowe was the only other FCIAC school among the top 10. The Falcons' previous highest team finish was sixth in 2008.
Warde senior Ahmed Hourani improved to 37-0 on the season, and 99-5 in his career, by pinning Bristol Eastern's Kyle Porter in 29 seconds at 285 pounds. Â"
"I've been practicing harder and been running," said Hourani, whose goals are to win the State Open, where he was runner-up in 2013, and the New England Championships. "I've wrestled him once, and I knew I wanted to start taking it to him."Â"
The next final was won by Ludlowe junior George Wales, who was fourth last year at 106 pounds. He defeated Ryan Pantalena, of Maloney, 11-8, and improved to 34-4 in 2013-14.
"The first time they wrestled, Pantalena dominated him with three takedowns," Ludlowe coach Nick Garoffolo said. "He stopped his best move, a double-leg takedown, this time and he was able to take him (Pantalena) down. That was the difference."Â"
Platt senior Marlon Argueta beat top-seeded Ludlowe senior Ben Batulanon 4-3 for the championships at 120. Batulanon's record dropped to 37-4 this winter, Argueta's improved to 33-2. That moved Platt into fifth place in the team standings ahead of the Falcons where each team stayed.
Warde junior Dylan Bender (35-1), the top seed, repeated as runner-up at 138 pounds, losing the final to Hand's Ashton Gyenizs 8-4. New Milford's Brett Leonard, No. 2, lost the 145 final to top seeded Ryan Rigney, of Farmington, 7-6, in a match that went down to the final seconds.
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Team scores
1. New Milford 215.5; 2. Fairfield Warde 188; 3. Bristol Eastern 160.5; 4. Farmington 155.5; 5. Platt 134; 6. Fairfield Ludlowe 133.5; 7. Middletown 125; 8. Hand 108.5; 9. South Windsor 97; 10. Newington 94.5; 11. Maloney 89; 12. Hall 87; 13. Bristol Central 85; 14. (tie) Masuk and Windsor 64; 16. Pomperaug 54; 17. E.O. Smith 50.5; 18. Bunnell 46; 19. Fitch 44; 20. Wilton 28; 21. Harding 26; 22. Norwalk 24; 23. Darien 20.5; 24. Wethersfield 18; 25. RHAM 16; 26. Platt Tech/ND-West Haven 4; 27. New Canaan 3.
Individual results
106: championship: George Wales (Fairfield Ludlowe) dec. Ryan Pantalena (Maloney) 11-8; third: Halim Bourjeli (New Milford) maj. dec. Joseph Miano (Farmington) 17-6; fifth: Robert Hartling (E.O. Smith) pinned Jack Price (Fairfield Warde) 4:58; 113: championship: Kyle Lindner (New Milford) dec. Timmy Kane (Fairfield Warde) 11-7; third: Eric Kirchgasser (Fairfield Ludlowe) dec. Daniel Morocho (Bristol Eastern) 3-1; fifth: Nghia Nguyen (Windsor) dec. Luke Schwartz (Norwalk) 6-0; 120: championship: Marlon Argueta (Platt) dec. Benjamin Batulanon (Fairfield Ludlowe) 4-3; third: Charles Schultz (New Milford) dec. Joshua Wilson (Bristol Eastern) 9-3; fifth: Drew Dahlberg (Farmington) pinned Nate Hunter (Maloney) 2:00; 126: championship: Daniel Ebert (Fairfield Warde) dec. Niko Stefanatos (New Milford) 6-4; third: Michael Ross (Bunnell) dec. Marcus Sherrod (Fairfield Ludlowe) 2-1; fifth: Robert Petry (Hall) won by forfeit over Mathew Pangle (Pomperaug); 132: championship: Conor Caffrey (South Windsor) maj. dec. Bryan Rojas (New Milford) 11-0; third: Jordan Baker (Middletown) dec. Aaron Beinstein (Fairfield Warde) 3-2; fifth: Robert Clark (Fairfield Ludlowe) dec. Tyler Burrow (Bristol Central) 5-1; 138: championship: Ashton Gyenizs (Hand) dec. Dylan Bender (Fairfield Warde) 8-4; third: Zachary Arnold (New Milford) pinned Zachary Thompson (Bristol Eastern) 2:41; fifth: Nathan Roy (Middletown) dec. Brian Goncalves (Newington) 8-5; 145: championship: Ryan Rigney (Farmington) dec. Brett Leonard (New Milford) 7-6; third: Youssef Saez (Platt) dec. Brendan Zotti (Newington) 9-2; fifth: Chase Lind (Fairfield Ludlowe) dec. Owen Gottlick (Hand) 6-1; 152: championship: Max Odell (South Windsor) dec. Christian Zotti (Newington) 5-3; third: Jophy Nieves (Maloney) dec. Anthony Rotz (Fairfield Warde) 7-2; fifth: Bernard Figuera-Velez won by forfeit over Anthony Ryan (Pomperaug); 160: championship: Harry Pacheco (Farmington) dec. Benjamin Onofrio (Hand) 2-1; third: Otton Velez (Masuk) dec. Colin Ventura (Fairfield Warde) 4-0; fifth: Billy Goff (Fitch) dec. Stefan Ceconi (New Milford) 4-3; 170: championship: Dovydas Simanskis (Farmington) dec. Jacob Grasis (Middletown) 5-0; third: Nick Koury (Windsor) dec. Bradley Marston (E.O. Smith) 7-2; fifth: Ian Gonzalez (Bristol Central) pinned James Pavelchak (Bristol Eastern) 2:29; 182: championship: Cody Carrillo (Middletown) dec. Jordan Kenyon (Fitch) 8-2; third: Jacob Skalski (Platt) maj. dec. Douglas Katz (Masuk) 10-1; fifth: Stephen Goodrich (Bristol Eastern) pinned Turner Ellis (New Milford) 1:12; 195: championship: Ogadinma Ikani (Hall) dec. Salvatore Longo (Masuk) 9-8; third: Dimitri Smith (Maloney) dec. Robert Crespo (Windsor) 4-3; fifth: Jordan Baggiero (Platt) pinned Justin Dwyer (Hand) 4:38; 220: championship: Cole Souza (Hall) dec. John Bernardo (Platt) 4-2; third: Jamar Jones (Middletown) dec. Jacob Pelletier (Bristol Eastern) 1-0; fifth: Thomas Mcilveen (New Milford) pinned Cody Mcquarrie (Bristol Central) 1:32; 285: championship: Ahmed Hourani (Fairfield Warde) pinned Kyle Porter (Bristol Eastern) 30 seconds; third: Joseph Fraccaroli (Wilton) pinned Vincent Stevens (Farmington) 4:34; fifth: Andres Del Valle (Newington) won by forfeit over Keith Benjamin (Windsor).

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I am a straight woman. I have never tried IV drugs. I've only slept with guys who were my friends, thinking that would save me somehow from the dirty outside world. Apparently I was wrong. It doesn't matter who you sleep with or what they look like. Every time you hook up with someone condom-less, it's like playing Russian roulette.
It was January 8, 2010, and I was 11 weeks pregnant with my first child when I got the phone call to come in and go over my lab results. Hundreds of options whirled inside my mind about WHAT I had to go back in for.
"Can you bring your husband with you?" Her words echoed in my mind as I picked him up and returned to my OBGYN for the 2nd time that week.
We joked the whole drive there, wondering what box I checked wrong for a test I had failed. We just got married in November and found out I was pregnant less than 3 weeks later. The doctor informed us that I was pregnant at our wedding. So the baby had more than its share of alcohol before I had any idea there was a baby.
I had recently read that pregnant women are not allowed to change cat litter boxes. Prior to reading that I had changed 2 litter boxes at least every other day.
We pulled into the dark empty parking lot, gave each other a hug and began our walk to the door. We walked hand in hand, knowing it was something like that. I had marked NO on the form under recreational drug use. I didn't think it was a big deal, not like I smoke regularly or anything.
The doctor's office was closed and we were the only non-medical personnel in the office. I was brought into an examination room and my husband was seated in the waiting room. I was quickly told I would be taken care of and had the arm of a nurse around my shoulders. "WEIRD," I thought.
I was sat down. Handed a wad of tissues right off the bat. My doctor came in and began to inform me: I am HIV Positive.
I sat, frozen in an office full of strangers, listening to words I knew were NOT for ME. I'm not sick. Have not really been sick for years from what I could remember. I had Mono over 3 years ago, since then nada. HIV? Really?
My husband of 2 whole whopping months was brought into the room, and I had the doctor inform him of my diagnosis. We stared at one another as if we had been told I'm having a cow or something.
I didn't cry. He didn't cry. We looked at each other in disbelief. I had actually joked about HIV on the drive there. Sarcastically. Ironic? My friends in high school and college used to joke when anyone was sick that they "Had the HIV," something I've heard and repeated lightly for YEARS. Never ever realizing the reality that it was in fact REAL and people did get it.
I think we were both in shock and more afraid that we were going to have to tell people and what they would say or how they would react. Sad you are told something this horrifying, this life changing and are instantly AFRAID to tell the people who are your support system.
I was told I was not going to die. I didn't need an abortion. I did not need to look into adoption, she said that I will live long enough to be this child's mother. Okay WOW. Newly married, newly pregnant, and newly HIV positive. Talk about putting your relationship to the test right out of the starting gate. We didn't have a honeymoon phase in our relationship. We had just finished mailing out our wedding THANK YOU cards and were quickly thrown into baby and HIV research.
The first thing I noticed was the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS. Every doctor you see, every support group you find tells you how you don't have to tell people. My HIV doctor informed me on my first visit with him that sometimes people react violently, and I should make sure I had a support system when telling people face to face. This baffled me. You tell someone that YOU have an incurable disease, and they react with violence? Good to know.
I immediately put myself in this HOLE, hiding from incoming calls from EVERYONE. One of my best friends, who is more like my other brother since I have known him since I was about ten, is a gay man who also is HIV positive. He was the one I went to the night I was diagnosed. He was the only one besides my husband that I went to for weeks.
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Tomorrow marks two weeks since I began speaking only Spanish to mis niños. It's getting a little easier for me, but if I don't begin to mix it up a little, I think that by the end of the summer they will only learn verb tenses for making demands such as "Clean your room", "Behave and eat your food", and "Go play!" … I never realized that being a mother is akin to being a dictator at times.
One obstacle we've run into is that I have no privacy when speaking to the niños when Suegra is around. It isn't like I'm constantly bad mouthing her to the kids, but sometimes I want to tell them something that isn't her business. To do this, I switch to English, and Suegra is immediately suspicious and paranoid when I do that. It has created some tension, to put it mildly.
Yesterday, to escape the negative energy in the house, I took the boys swimming. Because thunderstorms were approaching, the pool was nearly empty which is a luxury I don't take for granted. I grew up in a house with my own pool and now that I'm subjected to the horrors of public pools, having it to myself is a rare and appreciated occasion.
The water felt cold under an overcast sky, but after a few minutes, we got used to it. We swam in relative peace under the bored gaze of three lifeguards for awhile and then some more people showed up. It was an Anglo guy and his son. The little blond boy was probably about 5 years old, and with that typical 5 year old energy, he bounded into the pool, splashing and squealing, shattering my hopes for a quiet swim.
"Want to play with me?!" he said to my sons. My boys are 8 and 11, but they're kind, so they obliged, at least for a little while. When they grew bored with the baby games, they swam out to deeper waters to join me. After a few minutes, the little boy began calling them earnestly from the shallow end of the pool.
"Hey guys! Come back! Come play with me!"
The father of the boy relaxed in a lounge chair, making no attempt to silence the boy as he called after us over and over again.
The boys looked at me pleadingly. "Don't make us go back, please."
I answered in Spanish, "Diga le que estas descansando y puedes jugar más tarde." (Tell him that you're resting and that you can play later.)
My 8 year old cupped his hands around his mouth to amplify the sound and called out, "¡¡MÁS TARDE!!"
My 11 year old and I burst into laughter and my 8 year old had no idea why.
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Toasted Sesame Tofu Caramelized with Agave Nectar, Wasabi and Soy Sauce
There are many sweet and sour flavor combinations in Asian cuisine, but I've gotten bored with the traditional hoisin plum sauce. For this preparation I added agave as the sweet element in the dish. I've been experimenting with agave nectar that I got on my last trip to Florida.
Agave has a complex flavor that is sort of a cross between honey and caramel, but milder. Tofu absorbs any flavor it comes in contact with and is perfect for the agave sauce. The dish is finished with some toasted sesame seeds for added crunch.
Yields: 4 servings¼ cup agave nectar
2 tablespoons ginger paste, freshly grated
3 teaspoons wasabi powder
1 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon rice vinegar
2 tablespoons lime juice, freshly squeezed
2 cloves garlic, finely minced
½ cup shiitake mushrooms, sliced
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 teaspoon brown sugar
½ teaspoon smoked paprika
4 tablespoons canola oil, as needed
1 (12-ounce) package firm tofu
1 drizzle toasted sesame oil, optional
2 tablespoons toasted sesame seeds
2 tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped
2 green onions, chopped
Stir together agave nectar, ginger, wasabi, water, rice vinegar, brown sugar, lime juice and paprika in a bowl.
Drain any liquid from the tofu. Pat dry with a paper towel. Slice the block of tofu into 1 inch thick pieces.
In a wok, heat the oil and fry the tofu slices; transfer to a plate.
In the same wok, add a little more oil if necessary. Cook the minced garlic for about a minute until slightly golden. Add the mushrooms. Sauté them in garlic for about 1-2 minutes. Transfer to a separate plate. The mushrooms should be a little undercooked as they will finish cooking in the sauce.
Over high heat, add the soy sauce-wasabi mixture to the wok. Add the sliced tofu immediately. The tofu should be coated with all the sauce as it reduces and thickens. Add the mushrooms and finish with the green onions and cilantro.
Serve the tofu drizzled with the sauce and topped with toasted sesame seeds. Drizzle a little sesame oil on the dish.
Serve with wild rice. If you want to get some greens in your diet, add some steamed broccolini with hoisin sauce, quickly stir-fried pea shoot tendrils (delicious Asian baby greens) with slivered garlic and dried chiles or sautéed bean sprouts.
Eat with chopsticks and enjoy!
To obtain ginger paste, clean the root and remove any dirt. Peel the ginger root with a paring knife. Grate the ginger with a fine mesh microplane using the sliding tool. Gather about 2 tablespoon of grated ginger root.
Wasabi is a green colored horseradish powder. You can get it in any Korean store. I get mine at the Marina -10122 Bandley Drive -Cupertino, CA 95014. They also have a great food-court.
I didn't use the Thanh Son tofu brand as I usually do because I didn't find it necessary. I used the organic water-packed version. Just make sure the package says "firm".
If you like a darker color and a spicier flavor, you can add 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne powder to the sauce.
Agave nectar, sometimes called agave syrup, is a natural sweetener. In France, it's called Agave honey. Unlike honey, agave nectar has a long shelf life and does not crystallize over time. Agave nectar is made out of the purified sap of cactus-like desert plants. It is very popular in Mexico.
It is not heated during production and is considered raw, which make it very healthy like raw honey. Unlike raw honey however, agave nectar is easy to spread because of its consistency.
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Samsung Digital Imaging Company Inc., a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, announced the addition of two new models to its WB-series of high zoom, point-and-shoot digital cameras, that will be available on the Egyptian market during the month of March.
The 12-megapixel WB650 and WB600 offer the same wide-angle 24mm Schneider lenses as their predecessors, the WB550 and WB500, but extend the telephoto capability of the range from a 10x optical zoom to an impressive 15x optical zoom. In addition, the WB650 comes equipped with a super clear and sharp 3.0" AMOLED display and built-in GPS technology for the automatic geo-tagging of images from anywhere in the world.
"These cameras represent what consumers can expect from Samsung," M. Duke Park, General Manager of the Samsung Cairo Office. "From their powerful optics to the exceptional combination of features which make snapping perfect pictures every time effortless, Samsung's new WB-Series goes above and beyond what's expected from a point-and-shoot and raises the bar even higher for this class of high zoom compacts."
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DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — University of California students who drink coffee to get through the day will soon be able to study the science behind the beverage.
Next week UC Davis will host a research conference run by the university's recently founded Coffee Center.
The Sacramento Bee reports Friday (http://bit.ly/1jZj7Uj ) that the center is currently without a dedicated home. But J. Bruce German, director of the university's Foods for Health Institute, says the conference is first step toward establishing a dedicated coffee research study center — similar to the school's Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science.
German says UC Davis could eventually offer a major in coffee science.
The March 11 conference will cover topics such as the genetics of coffee, sustainability in coffee growing, and the sensory perception of coffee drinkers.
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This painting was made in Sweden during my 2016 adventure in Europe. In Scandinavia I was taken by their love for boating and the Viking's spirit of adventure.
While I have always used a lot of stripes in my artwork, this series simplifies my work and embraces the clean lines of the nautical style. Each piece begins with an under painting followed by a thick pour of titanium white paint which adds some depth and dimension. Finally I add the stripes to complete the look.
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It's not polite to kiss and tweet.
But for some, the attraction of social media apparently is second only to the lure of love.
A recent survey by Retrevo, a consumer electronics shopping site, found that 36 percent of Internet users under 35 tweet or go on Facebook after having sex. That's compared to 8 percent of the over-35 crowd.
It's not clear from the report exactly what the post-coital tweeters are microblogging about (though the finding that men are twice as likely as women to use social media after a passionate interlude might offer a clue). There are other signs, though, that social media is being employed to report on bedroom exploits.
A new website, with the says-it-all URL Ijustmadelove.com, allows users to click on a map of the world to mark the spot of the act – with cartoon pink and blue bunnies in the throes. The East Coast and Europe seem heavily represented, suggesting a surplus of Internet-connected braggarts on both sides of the Atlantic.
Pepsi, meanwhile, is under fire for an iPhone application tied to its new Amp energy drink that feeds men come-on lines aimed at helping them bed different kinds of women (represented in caricatures like the sorority girl, the punk rocker and the foreign exchange student). The service also encourages guys to report their app-aided conquests on Facebook and Twitter. (On Monday, Pepsi tweeted a classic non-apology apology, saying it was sorry "if (the app is) in bad taste," after offending at least half the population.)
This is all, no doubt, more fodder for critics who contend that the rise of social media has brought decrease in personal boundaries and an increase in narcissism.
But the Retrevo survey also points to how ingrained social media has become in everyday life, especially for the younger set. Perhaps more significantly, the poll results also suggest a rise in addiction to Twitter, Facebook and the like.
The survey found that 27 percent of people under 35 check Facebook 10 or more times a day, and that 65 percent use social media while on vacation. A previous survey by Crowd Science, as Mashable notes, found an alarming number of folks who admit to texting from the toilet (ugh) and from the driver's seat (yikes!).
The urge to text after sex might spur a different kind of reaction from recipients – more along the lines of wham-bam-spare-us-the-spam. But at least grabbing for the BlackBerry is healthier than reaching for a cigarette.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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NEW YORK (AP) — The author of the million-selling "The Hangman's Daughter" books has signed for a new novel.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced Thursday that Oliver Potzsch's "The Castle of Kings" is scheduled for the fall of 2014. The publisher says "The Castle of Kings" is a romance set in the 16th century and will feature a story of "forbidden love" between an aristocrat's daughter and a blacksmith's son.
Other books by the German author include the "Hangman" novels "The Beggar King" and "The Poisoned Pilgrim" and the upcoming "The Ludwig Conspiracy," a novel inspired by the 19th-century Bavarian monarch Ludwig II and due to be released this fall.


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With contributions by Stuart Bailey, Paul Elliman, Rob Giampietro, Angie Keefer, Bruno Latour, Isla Leaver-Yap, Leila Peacock, David Reinfurt, Bruce Sterling
Issue #10 of Bulletins of The Serving Library is a *TEST,* containing one choice bulletin from each of the previous nine issues. It is a compendium of sorts, a best-of double-album printed at 50% scale, a sample for what's next. This issue also includes 140-character summaries of every bulletin published previously. From now on, Bulletins of The Serving Library will proceed in full color and at half its former size—but will be twice as good.
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In 2006, Sun Microsystems unveiled the first container data center. Project Blackbox, an energy-efficient, water-cooled turnkey data center housed in an International Standards Organization (ISO) intermodal shipping container, was heralded as a cutting-edge solution for low-cost, rapid deployment of remote and rugged environments. It was adopted for select applications and locations, and soon afterward a few high-tech companies began their own experiments with containerized data centers.
However, when planning a container data center for enterprise applications, drawbacks to the container design became evident. Yet, the buzz around containerized data centers highlighted the change in design as the first major innovation of the basic physical infrastructure of the data center since the mainframe era. Furthermore, lessons learned from the design of the container data center have led to a potential revolution in overall data center design — modular and phased.
The most significant data center design trend of the decade, according to The Uptime Institute, the self-described data center authority, is modular and phased. According to Uptime Institute's spring 2011 survey, almost 50% of large data center operators interviewed are considering "going modular."
Recently, CyrusOne used its proprietary Massively Modular facility design strategy on the new building at its Houston West site, which is the fourth company data center completed in a record-setting seven months from groundbreaking to commissioning. The facility broke ground in September 2012 and will be completed this month. Other recent quick-build sites include Phoenix and San Antonio and Carrollton, Texas. Ground was broken in Phoenix on May 16, 2012, and was commissioned in December 2012. San Antonio and Carrollton broke ground in December 2011 and January 2012, respectively, with both sites completed in July 2012.
"We are commissioning our sites at record-setting speeds compared to the two or three year timeframes it typically takes an enterprise company to design and build their own facility," said Kevin Timmons, chief technology officer at CyrusOne. "Our speed to market and quick deployment times, are some of the key reasons that our Fortune 1000 customers mention when choosing to do business with us. The efficiency of our supply chain and engineering capabilities, allow our customers to easily grow with us and also enables CyrusOne to compensate for the planning uncertainties that confront today's CIOs."
The Massively Modular design method delivers energy optimization and uses just-in-time inventory management to quickly and efficiently build data center space just as customer demand requires it. "Massively Modular means sourcing aggressively to deliver economic benefits to our customers using immense scale and modularity of key infrastructure to deliver the ultimate flexibility of square footage, power, and cooling as needed by customers," said Timmons. "The supply chain efficiencies enable CyrusOne to build at a lower cost and minimize our own capital deployment, which translates into better costs and returns for our customers and shareholders. We can deliver new data center pods in less time than it takes a customer to order the computer gear from a manufacturer — which our customers love."
CyrusOne has Massively Modular data center locations across the United States, with 24 carrier-neutral data center facilities in total across the United States, Europe, and Asia that give customers the flexibility and scale to perfectly match their specific growth needs.
In addition, as part of CyrusOne's Sky for the Cloud product launch, the company is building in Texas the first statewide Internet Exchange in the country. Connecting all of its major facilities in Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio, the offering is scheduled to formally launch by the end of March 2013. CyrusOne facilities serve as the terrestrial home for dozens of cloud vendors, and CyrusOne's Texas IX will provide the common infrastructure required to support all the different cloud offerings currently being sold by the largest cloud vendors in the world.
For more on the history of containerized data centers and their shift to modular and phased design, see the March 2012 issue of EC&M.


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Holiday Inn® London - Regent's Park hotel offers easy access to central London's major attractions, with Great Portland Street and Regent's Park Tube stations just a few minutes away. The hotel is near the A501 and 45 minutes' drive from Heathrow Airport. You can head to the leafy grounds of Regent's Park or hit the shops on buzzy Oxford Street, both an easy walk from the hotel.
Family-friendly attractions like Madame Tussauds, the Sherlock Holmes Museum and London Zoo are all a stone's throw from the hotel. You can discover ancient treasures and learn about cultures from around the world at the British Museum, less than a mile away, or see an exhibition at the British Library. Theatre lovers can reach the West End in 15 minutes on foot, along with the bars and restaurants of vibrant Soho.
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Rafael believes he is playing the best football of his Manchester United career this season, but insists he can still improve.
The Brazilian has been a key member of Sir Alex Ferguson's side this term, making 31 appearances in all competitions, with only Michael Carrick and Patrice Evra featuring more often.
And when asked by MUTV if this is his best season yet at United, the defender responded: "I think so. I have played many games very consistently so it is probably my best season here.
"Of course, I think there are some games where I feel I could have done more - I should have done this or should have done that better. I definitely still want to improve."
Despite not playing every match, the defender believes he learns valuable information just by watching from the sidelines.
"I am just rested sometimes," he added.
"We have to rest so I'm happy because we won [against Reading last Monday] to stay in the FA Cup.
"I always want to play. I think every player wants to play in every single game but, when you're not playing, you can learn from things. I was there watching and can learn a lot.
"I think because it was a big game [against Real Madrid], I expected a lot more of myself and I thought I had to win every ball. I think I came out for the first half thinking like that. I thought, 'I need to win this ball' and, if I did something wrong, then I really had to win the next ball.
"At half-time, the boss came to speak to me and I realised: 'Come on, it's the same as it has been all season. I don't have to win every ball.' So I think I did better in the second half."
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Nordstrom Men's Shop King Twill Silk Pocket Square
Available exclusively at Nordstrom, the Nordstrom Men's Shop label offers modern essentials with timeless style and trusted quality. Every piece is designed to make the wearer look effortlessly well dressed—and ready for any occasion. Ranging from casual to formal, Nordstrom Men's Shop clothing, shoes and accessories go from work to weekend and beyond with ease.


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Improve Educational Research with the Diigo iPad App
Students and teachers can improve educational research on the web with Diigo. Diigo enables students and teachers to easily catalog web information for education. Diigo also works on desktop computers and mobile devices but takes a very different approach to saving and organizing web content than Reading List for Safari and Instapaper.
What differentiates Diigo is that it uses tagging, annotations, and highlighting tools to give you far greater control over how you manage and manipulate the content you save. Learning deepens when you connect new information to your existing knowledge and experience and see ways to apply it. There's that "aha" moment when you read something and the light goes on. Diigo lets you capture those moments with highlights and annotations.
To see if you like Diigo, install it and start using it by following these steps:
Go to the Diigo website and sign up for a free account.
Diigo offers a free upgrade to premium accounts for educators. Diigo Educator accounts have additional features such as the capability to create student accounts for an entire class and to automatically set the class up as a Diigo group so students can share bookmarks and annotations. It's a terrific way for students to compile, annotate, and share content.
Install Diigo on your browser toolbar.
As with Instapaper and other script-based bookmarklets, installing the Diigo button on your toolbar will differ slightly on desktop and mobile browsers.
Desktop browsers: On the Diigo home page, tap Tools in the top toolbar. Tap to select Diigolet under the Bookmarklets category, and follow the instructions to drag the Diigo button to your browser toolbar.
iPad (and mobile devices): Start by downloading the Diigo app. Tap to open the App Store on your iPad home page, and search for Diigo. Download the free app.
Once it's installed, tap to open it, and log in with your username and password. Tap the Settings (gear) icon in the lower-left corner, and tap the Install Web Highlighter option. Follow the directions to install the Diigo Web Highlighter on your browser toolbar.
When you find a page that you want to save, tap the Web Highlighter/Diigo button in your browser, and tap Bookmark.
You're prompted to add tags that help you find that page later. You can add multiple tags; just separate them with spaces. You can create multiword tags by using a character such as a dash between the words or by enclosing them in quotation marks. As you start typing a tag, Diigo will prompt you with any similar tags you've used in the past.
When you finish typing your tag, tap Save.
(Optional) Tap the Web Highlighter button, select any text in the article, and then tap Highlight.
You can also add a Sticky Note if you want (see Step 6). When you add a web highlight, Diigo adds a colored overlay. It's as though you used a marker to highlight it. That's a nice tool to help you scan the main points of the article when you come back to it later.
(Optional) Tap the Web Highlighter button and then tap the Sticky Note button.
A yellow note opens.
Type your notes in the body, and tap Post when you're done.
Diigo leaves a little yellow icon on the page that represents your note and opens it whenever you tap on it.
Whenever you come back to that page in the future, whether on your iPad or any other computer, Diigo remembers your highlights and notes and presents them to you when you tap the Diigo button.
To search for content in Diigo, open the Diigo app on your iPad or go to the Diigo website in any web browser.
You might prefer using Diigo in a web browser because it offers more options than the iPad app; however, the developers promise more iPad app updates soon.
Using a desktop browser, you'll see all the tags you've used in the left column, and you see how many times each has been used.
Tap (or click, if you're on a computer) a tag, or type it in the search field next to the My Library Tagged heading on the top left.
All the articles that use that tag immediately appear, complete with any highlights and notes that you've added to them.
Another part of the magic of Diigo is that it's a social bookmarking tool. That means you can follow other Diigo users and what they are saving, and you can also share with them the content that you're tagging.
For example, if you upgraded to an Educator account, you can set up a private group that includes your students. That's a great way to create and organize class research and to build a knowledge base for your course. You can also create subgroups that can share findings when working on collaborative projects.
What's the difference between tagging content and organizing it in folders? Folders use a linear, top-down tree structure for storing content. It's like keeping papers in a filing cabinet in which you organize in separate drawers, folders, and files. The problem is that our lives are flooded with information these days, and it doesn't always fit neatly into a single category.
For example, suppose you just read an excellent article about the Great Depression. Do you file it under a folder for Economics, History, Politics . . . or maybe Prohibition? Probably all of them. That's why tagging is such a great way of archiving articles. It uses the computer's capability to search content quickly and compile results for you.
You save content with tags that trigger your association to it, making it that much easier to find. When ou later search for prohibition for example, Diigo presents a list of all the articles you tagged with that keyword, complete with any highlights and annotations you made on the page.


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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born to a family of wealth and social position on January 30, 1882, at Springwood, the family's estate in Hyde Park, New York. It was here that Franklin, an only child, learned from his father, James Roosevelt, the things that a young gentleman of his class should know. Mr. Roosevelt shared his own love of the land and place with his son, teaching him horsemanship, rowing, fishing, sailing, and ice boating on the Hudson River, the farm, and in the woodlands that comprised his estate. Franklin's mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, supervised his tutoring at home, his activities, and social contacts. After her husband died in 1900, during Franklin's first term at Harvard College, she became the owner and mistress of Springwood and lived there until her own death in 1941.
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LONDON (AP) -- A Henri Matisse painting stolen in 1987 from a Swedish museum by a thief wielding a sledgehammer has been recovered, an art specialist and a dealer said Tuesday.
The Art Loss Register, which tracks stolen, missing and looted art, says "Le Jardin" was found when a British dealer checked the picture against the group's database before selling it.
Dealer Charles Roberts, who runs Charles Fine Art in southern England, said he was shocked to discover the painting was stolen.
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Roberts said the current Polish owner, whom he did not name, had bought the Impressionist artwork in good faith 20 years ago.
Christopher Marinello, a lawyer working with the London-based Art Loss Register, said the 1920 painting, valued at about $1 million, would be returned to Stockholm's Moderna Museet. It was snatched from the gallery during a nighttime raid in May 1987.
The museum's director, Daniel Birnbaum, said it was "extremely gratifying that the painting has surfaced after so long."
"We are reassured that the painting appears to be in good condition and look forward to having someone from the museum staff look at it," he said.
Birnbaum said he was in contact with the Swedish Culture Ministry about the formal return of the painting.
Marinello said it was up to Swedish police to decide whether to try to track down the thieves.
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|Miscellaneous (rug-related) Topics Opinions on books, articles, recent auctions, exhibitions, etc.
|Topic Review (Newest First)
|September 28th, 2017 06:02 AM
|Kay Dee
|September 27th, 2017 11:02 PM
|Rich Larkin
Hi Jeff,
You are half right. I did luck into a few goodies that would delight any good bottom-feeder. The T-shirt, however, says
|September 23rd, 2017 05:40 AM
|Kay Dee
|September 22nd, 2017 09:30 PM
|Rich Larkin
Hi Phil,
|September 21st, 2017 08:28 PM
|Phil Bell
Yes they are on my list. There is something of a north south divide and unfortunately the north is not great for rug hunting. I have found one good dealer so far. I need to head south and you should understand that although three hours is but a short trip for you in the US, here in the UK it is considered a serious journey for which I will need to make provision.
There is a danger that having made the trip that the proprietor doesnt really want to engage with me. I had a bad experience with a well renowned dealer last year. I was very excited to talk to him about rugs but it was clear he had fallen in love with money and fallen out of love with rugs. That's a risk I will have to take. I think I will head for the south coast and hit the Cotswolds on the way some time this Autumn. Hopefully my enthusiasm will fuel the journey and with my Talisman tucked in my pocket I will find a treasure.
|September 20th, 2017 06:51 PM
|Joel Greifinger
Aren't you only about a three hour drive from the Cotswolds? There are a couple there that I would love to spend some time in.
|September 20th, 2017 08:35 AM
|Kay Dee
Photo taken west of Mazir-I-Sharif, in Aqcha bazaar, Balkh Province, Afghanistan circa 1979 - just before the overt Soviet invasion.
|September 19th, 2017 09:48 PM
|Phil Bell
Its always handy to have a talisman when you are on a quest, so thank you Joel. The rarity of good quality rugs in my part of the UK means that I will require some supernatural assistance if I am to succeed.
This is a problem for me, learning from books is one thing but I need to see some more rugs in the flesh. It has been years since I had the opportuntiy to browse private collections and get to see and touch so many wonderful things.
I think I need a plan, find some online experts (ticked that one), find some like minded people in the UK I can visit, make a nuisance of myself in all of the best rug shops (have started that one), go see the V&A collection.
Any other tips welcome. I intend to gain a good grounding in tribal rugs and then turn my attention to caucasian rugs for which I will need a Talishman.
That's a joke by the way.
|September 19th, 2017 07:11 PM
|Chuck Wagner
Talisman ?
|September 18th, 2017 08:37 AM
|Kay Dee
I have put the cheapest price of the two that interest me, the only two I searched for on Bookfinder (arguably THE broadest book search engine on the web), below.
Vol.3 Afghanistan, Richard Parsons = (Deleted)
Vol.5 Turkoman, Uwe Jourdan = (Deleted)
And they go way WAY on up from the above prices for other copies of same!
Not saying you can't find them cheaper somewhere, but where I live I have to let my fingers do the walking.
Note: We don't discuss market values here (please see paragraph atop this page). It's our belief that the price someone paid or wants to get for something is a distraction from what we believe are the more important aspects.
That's as true for books as it is for rugs.
Steve Price
|September 18th, 2017 12:37 AM
|Joel Greifinger
Going after big game
Here is a Sauj Bulagh talisman to take with you:
Good hunting.
|September 17th, 2017 10:53 PM
|Phil Bell
Thanks to everyone for a great list of books. I have the Jenny Housego tribal rugs and Ian Bennett's caucasian rugs but the rest I will begin hunting for.
Its good to have a quarry and I mean that in the hunting sense. I feel a primaeval urge to begin the tracking of my prey now. It is a shame in some ways that the internet makes life so much easier when doing these things. There is something magical about hunting second hand book shops for specific tomes. I remember the thrill of finding the narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym in an old booksop on the mediaeval wall of Chester many years ago or a beautiful hardback of the Life of Samuel Johnson in a small Welsh Town.
My main prey this year is a Sauj-Bulach rug, that will be my quest. I think they are wonderful and since joining this site I know quite a lot about them.
Thanks again to everyone
|September 17th, 2017 07:53 PM
|Chuck Wagner
There is a series of books published by the Antique Collectors' Club; the book that Rich mentioned by MacDonald is the latest one. They are a bit dated with respect to current opinion on some attributions, but are chock full of good examples and are really useful.
The Oriental Rug Series
Vol.1 Caucasian, Ian Bennett
Vol.2 Persian, Erick Aschenbrenner
Vol.3 Afghanistan, Richard Parsons
Vol.4 Turkish, C Fritsche & K Zipper
Vol.5 Turkoman, Uwe Jourdan
and Brian MacDonald's Tribal Rugs
...are all on my shelf.
|September 15th, 2017 08:32 PM
|Rich Larkin
|In the interest of full disclosure, I should mention that my copy of Ford's book disappeared from my Rug Book Library Annex (aka, "my attic") quite a few years ago, so I haven't looked at it for that long. I am sure Joel's annoyance with its shortcomings is well-founded.
|September 15th, 2017 06:30 PM
|Joel Greifinger
Hi K.D.,
I agree with Rich that Jim Ford is one of the most knowledgeable folks out there and the book is filled with detailed and useful information. I didn't include it on the short list because I've found the book's organization, clustered into design categories (e.g. "universal designs", "geometric designs" and sub-categories, "geometric medallion-plain designs") awkward and off-putting. It ends up distributing information on rugs that were woven side-by-side all over the book.
However, at under $10, a used copy should undoubtedly be on the basic rug book shelf.
|September 15th, 2017 04:06 PM
|Rich Larkin
Hi Kay,
Anything by P. R. J. Ford is top notch. That book belongs in Joel's short list of the best and most useful works.
One of the curses of rug literature is that it is full of works by writers who simply did not know what they were talking about. They recycled unproven but widespread conventional wisdom, copied others, or just made things up. (A percentage of them compensated with nice illustrations.) The thing about Ford and Edwards is that they did know what they were talking about, and by and large, confined themselves to that. Ford was much like Edwards in that he earned his knowledge through long experience in the industry.
Aside to Phil: Don't get too lost in this list of sound, practical references. If you take on a bad case of Baluch fever, see if you can find a reasonably priced copy of either one of Frank Diehr's catalogs: Three Dusty Dozen or Treasured Baluch Pieces.
|September 15th, 2017 03:40 PM
|Kay Dee
What about / what are your (your being an 'in general your') òpinions on the seemingly good(?) IMHO and now cheap book;
Oriental Carpet Design: A Guide to Traditional Motifs, Patterns and Symbols by P.R.J. Ford
|September 15th, 2017 03:05 PM
|Joel Greifinger
Hi Phil,
I realize that I should have been a bit more practical in my recommendations since some are very expensive (both the Brüggermann & Böhmer and the Burns start at about $250). I think the best and most comprehensive starting point would be the Eilands' Oriental Carpets: A complete guide (4e). You can find used hardcover copies for under $25. While this edition is now almost twenty years old, the unfortunate reality is that there has not been enough in the way of new rug scholarship to make it seem particularly dated.
I agree with Rich's assessment of the weaknesses and strengths in the Edwards book. It's an invaluable source on many details about twentieth century Persian rug production but would certainly not be the 'go to' reference on tribal rugs.
|September 15th, 2017 04:20 AM
|Rich Larkin
Hi Phil,
I respectfully decline the "expert" mantle, but I certainly did dissipate a good deal of my youth on rug books.
I agree with Joel's recommendations. I would suggest some caution in relying too much on Edwards (The Persian Carpet) regarding tribal rugs in particular. He is clearly the authority on Persian weaves, having spent a significant part of his adult life in Iran in the rug trade. Yet, he made some broad statements about tribal weaves that are clearly not accurate. The most conspicuous is that most South Persian tribal rugs (Qashqa'i excepted) and virtually all "true Baluchi" rugs are single-wefted. This is obviously not so, and it is difficult to understand how these things got into the book, as he was generally meticulous in his approach to his task as a writer, and provided much statistical detail about rug production throughout Iran during the time of his presence there. Yet, I have seen and handled a trillion Baluchi rugs, and very few were single-wefted. (I have one such Baluch khorjin face.) Similarly, I have seen very few South Persian rugs of the Arab Khamseh group that were single-wefted, though Edwards says the group is the most prolific producer in those parts, and they wove single-wefted rugs.
Edwards died before his book was published (ca. 1950), and his widow carried out the final editing and polishing of the manuscript, but given the context of the misstatements, it is hard to imagine how they could have crept in through those circumstances. I have wondered whether he observed the details of tribal and remote village weaving from a somewhat remote (urban) perch, and relied on hearsay for some of the background information. Nevertheless, I am not suggesting you disregard Edwards. Just take it with a grain of salt on the tribal material.
I ratify Joel's mention of Jenny Housego's Tribal Rugs. She was formerly in the textile department of the V & A and lived for a long time in Iran, making a point of associating with tribal peoples and studying their weavings. I heard her speak a few times at the Textile Museum in Washington D. C. in the early 1980s, and she came across as very authoritative, as well as especially good-humored about the whole business. Moreover, the book is probably available at relatively modest cost. It is small but packed with good and interesting information. There are three editions that vary only in minor secondary respects, and any edition at a good price would do.
I recently acquired Brian MacDonald's Tribal Rugs, Treasures of the Black Tent (Third edition, 2017), and have been very pleased with it. It addresses many of your preferred goals. Good (book) hunting!
|September 15th, 2017 04:02 AM
|Kay Dee
You bet!
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"One of the major problems between architecture and urbanism today," so declares Italian architecture theorist Pier Vitorio Aureli," is that ... the contemporary city is constantly researched, but it is no longer theorized." This quote, from Aureli's lecture at Yale School of Architecture this past fall, seems to act as a corrective (or tonic) to the current state of thinking that permeates architecture schools. Formalism and politics are linked together in Aureli's world view -- a point made more poignant by his observation that site has lost importance in the "recent history of architecture."
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This is precisely what makes Fred Scharmen's eloquent and passionate "love letter" to Baltimore so refreshing and so poignant. Here, in this short, sweet feature for Archinect entitled "Baltimore, Place of Yes and Yes", Scharmen does much more to resuscitate what Aureli sees as lacking in current architectural thinking. Here is a vital piece of writing that theorizes the city. Not Dubai. Not Beijing. But Baltimore.
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Baltimore is Postindustrial, Multilayered, Patinated. It's made of brick. Cold in the winter, hot in the summer, Baltimore is full of colleges, nonprofits, art schools, universities, bars, but also, according to the 2000 census, over 40,000 vacant housing units. There's a lot of crime and rent is cheap. The contradictions are there in the slogans: 'Bodymore Murdaland' aka 'The City that Reads' (or 'Bleeds'). 'Stop Snitchin' or just 'BELIEVE.'
What's the proper reaction to these conditions? Resignation? Hope? Irony? Is it possible to appreciate the aesthetic consequences of Urban Decay while decrying the socio-economic forces that have produced it? Is it possible to make a living city that retains its Authenticity without producing a Generic Monoculture?
As my first studio critic used to say, whenever we asked him an either/or question: 'Yes and Yes'.Scharmen then takes us through a photographic tour of his city. We see abandoned water fronts, dilapidated brick curtain walls, and various other ephemera that we normally associate with the (now here's a term) postindustrial. We even get to know Baltimore through the critically-acclaimed TV series, The Wire. It's all there: networked urbanism, infrastructural reckoning, and architecture. Yes, architecture.
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As many users of the Bowflex PR1000 Home gym have already pointed out, we were a bit disappointed with the fact that 210lbs is literally the maximum machine weight – period. There is no ability to add more rods or upgrade the machine once the maximum weight becomes your stock standard resistance.
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You do realize that many of the advantages on the list are simply powers/features? Close attack is simply enhanced fighting, offense only. Diehard, attractive, instant up, and many more are simply features that grant a circumstance bonus. And as I said above, there's plenty of examples of that in the power profiles.Doresh wrote:I'm not familiar with 2e. I just don't think it's much of a point to create new Advantages that have the same effect as a power.
Games require die rolls not writer's fiat to determine outcomes. When you're going into a combat knowing you have a 10-30% combat advantage because of pl differences it doesn't make for much playing drama. Why play at all if you know Wonder Woman can wipe the floor with Cheetah by rolling below average? When you remove the element of chance you take away a lot of the fun for players.The higher PL of heroes does make sense:
1. The heroes usually win.
2. The villains have lots of minions.
3. The villains usually have no scruples and use dirty tricks to exploit the heroes' ethics.