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A doubly unlucky great
Huw Richards
December 17, 2010
The 1912 Springboks fell to Harry Uzzell's Newport © Getty Images
Next Monday, December 20, will be the 50th anniversary of the death of Harry Uzzell, a fine player who was doubly unlucky in his timing.
He made the Wales team in 1912, just as the first golden age of Welsh rugby was ending. It meant that the two second places and one joint championship - which would have been a title under current rules - from the four Five Nations seasons he played were seen as failures rather than successes.
There should have been a lot more than four seasons for Uzzell, but five were lost to the First World War. It seems a fair bet that given those years he might have finished with around 30 caps - which would have kept him in the record books as the most capped Welsh forward until Rees Stephens topped that mark in the 1950s - rather than with the 15 he did secure.
He epitomised many of the virtues associated with his club, Newport. He was tough, versatile, athletic - winning Welsh national titles at 440 and 880 yards - and durable. This was a time when forward play was much less specialised. He is listed in some record books as a hooker, but was also as a tall man a serious line-out presence. He was picked at least once for Wales with the specific aim of using his athleticism as a loose-forward in the style of the exemplar of that breed, England's Charles 'Cherry' Pillman.
He might very easily have played alongside Pillman for England. Uzzell was born at Shirehampton in Gloucestershire, but was part of the influx into then-booming South Wales from the West Country, whose most famous rugby product was Gwyn Nicholls. In 1907 Uzzell was offered an England trial, but declined it on the grounds that 'all of the rugby players that I know are Welshmen'.
It was clearly an honest preference. It was not as if Wales were about to pick him - it took until 1912, when he was 29, for the call to come. Wales lost 8-0 to England in his first match, but the debutant clearly did enough to impress. He was to be a fixture until the end of the 1920 Five Nations, with only a single, rather bizarre break.
It came immediately after perhaps the high point of his Newport career, the 9-3 defeat of the Springboks in October 1912. Uzzell played a prominent part, appearing to have opened the scoring when he dived over from a line-out. The score was disallowed, but was rapidly followed by Fred Birt's drop goal, in those days worth four points, to give Newport a lead they never lost.
It is one of the mysteries of Welsh rugby that while Cardiff, Newport and Swansea had all beaten the Springboks by 1912, the national team failed to do so until 1999. One explanation for the 1912 defeat is bizarre selection, choosing nine new caps, including six forwards, to play the Boks. Uzzell was restored after a further defeat by England.
His two most memorable seasons were those either side of the war. In 1913-14 he led Newport. It was not one of their great seasons, but they still came close to going into club history as they won their first three matches against Cardiff before falling by only 3-0 in the fourth, just missing a clean sweep of the old enemy they never could quite manage.
For Wales he scored the only two tries of his international career in the hammering of France at Swansea and was a prominent number of the pack led by the Reverend Alban Davies, that was immortalised as the 'Terrible Eight'. Their most famous battle was against the like-minded Irish who thoroughly enjoyed an 80-minute Belfast brawl that with a less tolerant referee would almost certainly have pre-empted Geoff Wheel and Willie Duggan's dubious claim to fame as the first Five Nations players sent off by more than 60 years. Scotland were less amused, their captain David Bain saying 'the dirtier team won' after their 24-5 loss at Cardiff.
Uzzell was 36 when peacetime rugby began again in September 1919. His decision to play on was richly rewarded. In Newport's first match programme following the second war, he would recall the 1919-20 black and ambers as 'the finest team I ever played for'.
Demolishing Cardiff 29-3 at the Arms Park, he recalled, set the style for the year: "Newport's play that day was all that could be hoped for in clean, open and brilliant football, and some of the passing runs were the perfection of grace and rhythm." Defeats by Swansea and Neath stopped them adding to their list of invincible seasons - a feat they would achieve three years later - while a drawn return visit to the Arms Park averted the clean sweep.
With Newport team-mate Jack Wetter he was the only pre-war international in the team that began the post-war era for Wales and, at 37, was appointed captain. His single-season term began and ended memorably, with thrashings of England at St Helens and Ireland at Cardiff, but a shock defeat in Edinburgh, neither the first nor the last decent Welsh team to suffer that fate, meant a three-way title share with Scotland and England..
The Ireland match was his last international, but he played one more year for Newport, ending with an appropriately memorable occasion - the clash with Bristol on April 30, 1921 when the black and ambers fielded an all-international XV - 10 Welsh, three English, an Irishman and a Scotsman.
In retirement he was landlord of the Tredegar Arms in Bassaleg and remained a considerable figure in Newport rugby - that he was chosen, from all of their great names, to do the first article in a series of match programme reminiscences as peace returned in 1946 says something about his standing.
Sadly he did not live quite long enough to see great nephew Dickie Uzzell enjoy his own day of triumph against a touring team, dropping the goal that proved to be the only score in Newport's 3-0 victory over the 1963 All Blacks.
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I read another book for a class called Adrenaline and Stress by Dr. Archibald D. Hart (psychology professor at Fuller Seminary) where he links elevated adrenaline as one cause for sleeplessness (p. 156). His "rules" for better sleep include lowering that adrenaline before bedtime. The ones that particularly help me include not doing any activities to raise excitement levels, including strenuous exercise, not doing any work before bedtime, and avoiding caffeine altogether. In addition, I use moisturizers and anti-itch oils in the evening to reduce the irritation and itchiness on my skin. I also have started some breathing relaxation exercises to calm my body and mind down, especially when I fear my psoriasis getting worse or the physical discomfort is getting to me. I think this lowering adrenaline levels will be key to my ability to sleep with psoriasis.
In the Kaiser e-newsletter is a link to an online management program for conditions such as insomnia, depression, chronic conditions, pain, etc. I'm a guy so it's hard to ask for help, but I'm at a point where I will check those out on their website.
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Starting this year, we're all free, at no tax penalty, to withdraw funds from our traditional individual retirement accounts, pay ordinary income taxes due on those withdrawals, and then contribute the amount withdrawn to a Roth IRA.
After you convert, all future growth in the Roth is tax free. So down the road, when we withdraw our Roth IRA balances, we pay no taxes. Moreover, these withdrawals don't count as part of our adjusted gross incomes (AGI). So they can't push us above the nominal AGI thresholds beyond which first 50% and then 85% of our Social Security benefits become taxable under the federal income tax. Hence, coordinating claiming Social Security and Roth withdrawals matters. (Roth withdrawals also don't count for purposes of calculating whether you owe extra income-based Medicare premiums.)
Congress has placed no time limit on the conversion option. Hence, if we don't convert this year, we can do so whenever we want and to whatever extent we want--assuming, that is, Congress doesn't change the law.
But there are two special things about converting this year. One, is that if you convert this year (but this year only) you have the option to recognize and pay tax on all the conversion income in 2010, or to spread it over 2011 and 2012, paying taxes at whatever rates are in effect for those years.
Why else is 2010 different? In past years only taxpayers (individual or couples filing jointly) with modified adjusted gross incomes (MAGI) below $100,000 could convert. Now, beginning this year, everyone can.
This sounds like a Passover question or a gift from the MAGI. But it's in neither the Old nor the New Testaments and has nothing to do with miracles. This policy is the result of Congress acting like Greece--selling a government asset (future taxes on regular IRA withdrawals) for ready cash (larger immediate revenues from taxes on the conversions) in order to announce a lower deficit.
Putting phony fiscal accounting and the national interest aside, is converting in your own personal financial interest?
The answer is not always obvious and is individual to each taxpayer. You pay more taxes in the short run--a bad thing. But you pay less tax in the long run--a good thing. In some cases the advantage is obvious. For example, young taxpayers, who have lower earnings now but expect to have high earnings in the future, are likely to benefit. So too are taxpayers whose earnings are temporarily depressed by special factors, such as business losses, and wealthy folks who want to leave a Roth IRA to children or grandchildren as an income-tax-free inheritance. (For "10 Reasons To Convert To A Roth IRA," click here.)
There are other folks who obviously shouldn't covert, such as those who are planning to move from a high-income tax state, such as New Jersey or New York, to one with no state income tax, such as Florida. (For "Five Reasons Not To Convert To A Roth IRA," click here.)
But for most taxpayers, the answer isn't so clear and can require complex calculations. One reason is that by using the conversion option to change the time pattern of when you recognize taxable income, you can change not only what money gets hit by what tax rates, but also the tax rates themselves. In other words, you can manage, and in some cases dramatically alter, your future tax brackets.
So you need to look before you leap, and very carefully at that. Indeed, to work this out on your own, you need to putatively file all your future tax returns, both federal and state, assuming you do and don't convert. If you're now, say, 55, and could live to 100, that's a prescription for a migraine.
One way to deal with all these calculations is to hire a CPA or financial planner with special Roth conversion software. But there's also a way to do some quick what if calculations on your own, for free.
With ESPlannerBASIC, the economics-based financial planning program our company provides as a free public service at www.esplanner.com/basic, you're looking, thanks to the magic of computers, at several minutes of initial data entry and a two-second calculation to consider the conversion option or a host of other decisions that can safely raise your living standard. (See the note at the end of this column for instructions on implementing the conversion and see www.esplanner.com/learn for tips on using the software to potentially raise your living standard.)
The program does your federal and state tax returns for each future year separately in determining how much you should spend (on a discretionary basis), save, and insure annually to have a stable living standard.
Your living standard is defined as your discretionary spending per household member adjusted for economies in shared living and the lower costs of children. Discretionary spending refers to the spending you do each year after paying your taxes, meeting your housing expenses, making your retirement contributions, and covering other "off-the-top" expenses, such as college tuition and Medicare Part B premiums (calculated based on the government's complex income-related formula).
It's easy to use the program to see if converting, in your case, is a tax blessing or a curse. But as our findings in the tables below illustrate, there's no simple rule of thumb to help every taxpayer. The U.S. tax code is highly complex (what mathematicians would call nonlinear and discontinuous) and small differences in your circumstances can make a big difference in determining whether converting is for you.
Plus you need to think about future tax hikes. Uncle Sam is broke. Indeed, the U.S. is probably in worse fiscal shape than Greece. Hence, higher taxes (of one sort of another) are coming. And future income tax hikes makes converting now more advantageous. Fortunately, ESPlannerBASIC lets you specify future tax hikes.
How do you measure the conversion impact? By running ESPlannerBASIC two ways--once assuming you don't convert and once assuming you do--and then comparing the program's suggested discretionary spending. If the program suggests you can spend more from converting, then converting is worth considering.
Let's consider two 55-year-old North Carolina couples: The 400Ks and The 200Ks. The 400Ks have current annual earnings of $400K, $400K in regular IRAs, and $400K in regular assets. They own a $400K home with a mortgage balance of $200K with 10 years remaining on the mortgage. They pay annual property taxes of $4K, homeowners insurance of $1.5K, and a monthly mortgage of $2.4K. Divide all these figures in half, and you have The 200Ks. Both couples are considering converting half of their IRAs to Roths. Neither couple has a traditional employer-provided pension.
The first table below shows how much each couple's discretionary spending rises or falls if they convert half of their IRAs and use their regular assets to pay the extra taxes.
The results, as you can see, are very sensitive to what's assumed. If there are no tax hikes coming, converting is a modest winner for The 400Ks. But converting is a modest loser for The 200Ks. Both couples, however, do better if they convert, wait until 70 to claim Social Security benefits and withdraw their Roth money last, after they've depleted their traditional IRAs. (For advice on Social Security claiming strategies, click here.)
The second table with a 25% hike (in all tax rates, deductions, exemptions, and other provisions starting when the couples are 65) shows bigger gains and smaller losses (where there are losses) from converting.
If The 400Ks take Social Security at 70 and withdraw from their Roth after depleting their non-converted IRA balances, the couple can spend 1.51% more for the next 55 years. That's a very major living standard gain given that it's all coming out of Uncle Sam's pocket. For The 200Ks, the gain is 0.99%--also nothing to sneeze about.
Sustainable Discretionary Spending--No Tax Hike
Take Social Security at
Don't Convert
Convert, Withdraw Roth First
Convert, Withdraw Roth Last
The 400Ks
$91,033 (+0.24%)
$91,397 (+0.64%)
The 400Ks
$86,967 (+0.27%)
$86,865 (+0.16%)
The 200Ks
$58,036 (-0.26%)
$58,086 (-0.18%)
The 200Ks
$53,938 (-1.33%)
$54,035 (-1.15%)
Sustainable Discretionary Spending--25% Tax Hike
Take Social Security at
Don't Convert
Convert, Withdraw Roth First
Convert, Withdraw Roth Last
The 400Ks
$89,025 (+0.86%)
$89,602 (+1.51%)
The 400Ks
$84,849 (+0.95%)
$84,832 (+0.93%)
The 200Ks
$57,450 (+0.83%)
$57,543 (+0.99%)
The 200Ks
$53,106 (-0.48%)
$53,262 (-0.19%)
ESPlannerBASIC provides details about each of your future tax returns that let you see where the tax breaks are coming from, when such tax breaks arise. Examining these details is enlightening. Most commentators have suggested that the advantage of converting is greatest for those who are in low tax brackets now and will be in higher ones later. Yet neither of the couples fits that rule of thumb. Both will be in lower tax brackets when they retire even if tax rates are raised by one quarter. But what ESPlannerBASIC also shows is that, by converting, both couples can lower their future tax brackets and, thereby, reduce their future marginal and average tax rates.
So our results urge caution. How much you gain from converting depends on your own economic situation, when you take Social Security, whether tax rates are increased, the general pattern of your marginal tax rates, and your ability to alter your future tax rates. And bear in mind that converting is not a simple decision. Just because your neighbor did it doesn't mean you should, too. If there is one thing we've discovered it's that the advantage to converting is extremely sensitive to people's circumstances. Rules of thumb in this context are rules of dumb.
Note: To use ESPlannerBASIC to evaluate converting, go to www.esplanner.com/basic and run the program assuming you don't convert. Then run it again doing these four things: 1. Reduce your regular IRA balance by the amount you will convert, 2. Increase your Roth IRA balance by the amount you will convert, 3. Enter, under Other Income, the amount you will convert (this other income is assumed to be taxable), and 4. Enter, under Special Expenditures the amount you will convert. Since special expenditures are assumed to be non-tax related, steps 3 and 4 tell the program that your AGI will be higher by the amount you convert. Considering conversions over multiple years in the future requires using one of our detailed calculators, which we sell at www.esplanner.com.
Laurence J. Kotlikoff is a professor of economics at Boston University, president of Economic Security Planning, which provides ESPlannerBASIC for free use at www.esplanner.com/basic, author of Jimmy Stewart Is Dead, and co-author, with Scott Burns, of Spend 'Til the End.
Daniel J. Royer, Ph.D., is chair of the Department of Writing at Grand Valley State University where he teaches professional and technical writing. He is a writer, content strategist and support specialist at Economic Security Planning.


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In 2010 the FRA initiated a pilot/pre-test study in six EU Member States to test the draft survey questionnaire in a combination of qualitative and quantitative interviews. Work on the full-scale survey started in 2011, and the data collection was completed in September 2012. During the project development the FRA consulted a group consisting of various stakeholder groups concerning the issues to be covered in the survey, and a group of violence against women survey research specialists on the details of technical implementation.
The survey interviewed in total over 40,000 women (approximately 1,500 per country), aged 18-74 years, in the 27 European Union Member States and Croatia. The interviews were managed by Ipsos MORI – in cooperation with the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United Nations (HEUNI), and the United Nations Inter-regional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) – based on an open call for tender and following FRA's project specifications. In each country a representative sample of respondents was drawn either from existing population registers or using the random route method. In both cases only one respondent per household was interviewed, and the interviews were conducted in a private setting with no other people present except the interviewer and the respondent.
The respondents were asked about their experiences of physical, sexual and psychological violence – including sexual harassment and stalking – by partners and other persons. With regard to incidents of violence, the survey asked a series of questions concerning the nature of violence, consequences, and ways in which the victims have coped with the incidents. While most experiences of violence that were asked about in the survey referred to the time since the respondent was 16 years of age, the survey also included a section on childhood incidents which may have taken place before the age of 16. Socio-demographic information was collected to enable a detailed analysis of the survey results. The same standardised questionnaire was used in all survey countries to ensure the comparability of the results.
A two-day training programme was developed to familiarise the interviewers – selected from among a pool of experienced survey interviewers in each country – with the topic of the survey, how to build a good rapport with respondents, and situations which may arise during fieldwork. FRA attended selected interviewer training sessions to monitor the delivery of the training.
All survey interviews were carried out face-to-face, and only female interviewers were used given the sensitive nature of the survey. At the end of the interview the respondents were offered the possibility to provide additional information in the form of a short self-completion questionnaire. Respondents were also provided with information about how to seek support, which was done in such a way as to ensure that they were not put at further risk.
The results of the survey were presented on 5 March 2014 at the high-level conference "Violence against women across the EU: Abuse at home, work, in public and online" in Brussels and are available on this website.


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Lovefood & Cottage Theme is clean restaurant and accommodation PSD template with homepage based on 12 column 960px. Template can be used for restaurants, food delivery, accommodation, hotels, or blog. There are two color versions – red and green.
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Welcome to the Singing Patient's webpage!
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CFTC Suing Corzine Over MF Global Failure
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission plans to announce civil charges related to the collapse of MF Global Holdings against Jon S. Corzine. Aaron Lucchetti reports.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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For a Linux distribution only a little over two years old, the uptake of Mageia has been impressive, with the distro now regularly being found Distrowatch's top five distros, along with heavyweights such as Fedora, Ubuntu and Mint.
However, although the distribution only launched in September 2010, it wasn't an entirely new project. Its core developers, and many of its early users, were drawn from Mandriva Linux (n?e Mandrake Linux) after Mandriva subsidiary Edge IT was liquidated, leaving many of the people who had worked on the Linux distribution out of a job.
A statement issued by Mageia's founders in the wake of Edge IT's liquidation explained that they intended to fork Mandriva: "As you may have heard, the future of the Mandriva Linux distribution is unclear.
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"Most employees working on the distribution were laid off when Edge-IT was liquidated. We do not trust the plans of Mandriva SA anymore and we don't think the company (or any company) is a safe host for such a project... People working on it just do not want to be dependent on the economic fluctuations and erratic, unexplained strategic moves of the company."
"Although it seems a little less oppressive this far along, a bunch of developers had just been laid off, and that worried everyone for the future of Mandriva; it seemed like a very important place to do the fork, and keep going," says Trish Fraser, a member of Mageia's communications team.
"People who enjoyed doing things the Mandriva way but were taken aback by the corporate attitudes were ready for a more stable place, and they found a great home in Mageia," she says.
"It's one of the most inclusive, friendly and communicating environments I've found in free software, and it's very global."
The distribution's third release, snappily dubbed Mageia 3, is due in April. Margeia 3 hit beta in December last year. In the lead-up to its release, Computerworld Australia caught up with Fraser to talk about the lessons open source projects should learn from the Mandriva experience and future directions for Mageia.
As a result of the experience with Mandriva and Edge IT, Mageia has a strong focus on community governance, "so that the stability of the distro won't be endangered by any particular corporation or group," Fraser says.
"The instability of the corporate environment was very uncomfortable for everyone, whether developers, users or other parts of the community."
The Mageia Board is elected at general assemblies by active members of the Mageia team, and Mageia.Org is a foundation incorporated in France.
Asked about other distributions that are closely linked to a single vendor, Fraser says there's always potential danger for a community in such situations.
"Perhaps I'm wary because of Mandriva, but I think there's always the possibility [of problems arising] when a distro is managed by a corporation rather than the community, if there's nothing built in to make sure the community's voice is heard," she says.
"It might not fall apart, but it could happen. Mageia won't fall apart in that way."
Mageia's popularity, according to Fraser, is as much about "Mageia-the-community" as it is about "Mageia-the-distro". Much of that community was readymade, with users and contributors coming over from Mandriva.
"To begin with, Mandriva users were coming over to see what the fuss was about; and then people liked what they saw (and the community they could be part of) and they stayed," Fraser says.
Since Mageia 2 was released, there has been a more general influx of users as the distribution received positive reviews
Fraser believes that Mageia has top notch team leaders around, and it has attracted a good collection of developers. A report on the state of the community issued in 2011 revealed close to 100 people had commit rights for the packages bundled in the distro. However, Fraser says she is keen to build up the Atelier group she is part of that brings together the distribution's Web, communication and design teams.
"Where we really need people is in our Atelier team," she says. "Most of the people in that team are wearing several hats. People who like to do artwork, communication, website stuff — that's where we could use some more people"
When it comes to the community around Mageia, Fraser believes its inclusiveness has been a key strength. "Teams are approachable, and support is friendly," she says. "This might be more difficult to sustain in a much larger community, but so far it's been a very strong part of our working modus.
"We don't have flame-fests, there's a better proportion of women (visible and active!) in the community than many other distros, we aren't particularly country- or language-centric — and people concentrate on supporting each other and getting the work done as well as we can.
Like Mandriva, Mageia is a desktop-focussed distribution. Release notes describe the distro as "agnostic" when it comes to desktop environment, letting users choose between KDE4 and GNOME 3, or from a range of other desktop environments and window managers.
"At the moment we're staying with the desktop," Fraser says, and there are no plans for a mobile install, although some people have been experimenting with touchscreens and there has been talk of an ARM port.
Mageia 3 hit its first beta release in December; a release candidate is due in early March. It adds newer versions of KDE and GNOME, the 3.7 kernel, and upgraded package management tools. Looking beyond version 3, Fraser hopes that Mageia 4 will have greater accessibility options and an accessible install based on Gnome-a11y.
Accessibly is a key area of desktop Linux that, in general, needs improvement, Fraser says. "For instance, for a blind or vision-impaired person, Linux generally is a minefield," Fraser says. "Desktop integration under the hood is still very messy; if you're using GNOME with KDE apps or vice versa, screen readers have a really hard time — and applications like LibreOffice or Audacity, for instance, have hardly been accessible at all, although newer versions of Orca are improving that."
Distribution: Mageia
Latest version: 2 (March 2012 — Mageia 3 due April 2013)
Website: Mageia.org
Rohan Pearce is the editor of Techworld Australia and Computerworld Australia. Contact him at rohan_pearce at idg.com.au.
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Pelini evaluating home routine
Nebraska coach Bo Pelini is evaluating everything his program does on weekends of home games. The Cornhuskers' 20-13 loss to Texas Saturday was not an aberration. Pelini's teams have played some of their worst games at home, such as this year's 17-3 win over FCS South Dakota State and last year's 9-7 loss to Iowa State following a 31-10 loss to Texas Tech.
"I honestly think there's less distraction on the road," Pelini said on Monday's Big 12 Conference call. "We're trying to think outside the box a little bit, maybe handling home games a little bit differently, trying to eliminate as much distraction as we can. If you look at the last couple of years, last year in particular, the games we aren't like ourself, that has crept up a lot more at home than it has on the road."
In other highlights of the conference call:
* Texas coach Mack Brown revealed his secret in stopping Nebraska quarterback Taylor Martinez. Among the nation's leaders in total offense and rushing going into the game, Martinez had only 21 yards on 13 carries and was only 4-of-12 passing for 63 yards.
"We put tremendous pressure on our secondary by playing a lot of man coverage and using the nine as much as we could to stop the running game because it's so good," Brown said. "And also (defensive coordinator) Will Muschamp grew up with the option and that's one thing you do in the South, the Southeastern Conference. You use power football and option. And we run some option here so we felt like at least we would know that."
* Kansas coach Turner Gill is contemplating a change at quarterback. The 2-4 Jayhawks are last in the Big 12 in scoring (17.17 points per game) and 11th in total offense (331.5 yards per game). Quarterback Jordan Webb is 11th in total offense (175.17). Kale Pick may get a shot this week against Texas A&M if he recovers from the leg injury that knocked him out the last two weeks.
"We haven't made a decision, but it'll definitely be discussed," Gill said.
Gill will reunite with A&M coach Mike Sherman, whom he worked for with the Green Bay Packers in 2005.
* Mike Gundy isn't terribly surprised his Oklahoma State Cowboys are doing better than anyone expected. Then again, most prognosticators picked them for last in the South Division. But 6-0 and 14th in the BCS rankings? That's something different.
"I was fairly confident the new players could compete for us," Gundy said. "They'd been in practices, on the bus, been on airplanes, been on football teams that have won a lot of football games the last three years."
* Texas Tech coach Tommy Tuberville knows what embattled Colorado coach Dan Hawkins is going through. Auburn nearly fired Tuberville in 2003 until the athletic director's plot to hire Louisville's Bobby Petrino backfired. When the pressure returned in 2008, Tuberville had enough and quit.
He didn't have any advice for Hawkins, however.
"Everybody has their own ways that they coach," Tuberville said. "Dan's won a lot of games in his life. We are all under pressure. You just go out and coach the best you can. He doesn't need any advice form me, either. His teams play hard and that's the only thing you can ask each week. Get your guys to play hard and have fun. He'll win his share."
* Iowa State is 3-4 but it has arguably played the toughest schedule in the country. It has already played three teams ranked in the BCS in Iowa (No. 15), Utah (No. 9) and Oklahoma (No. 1). It next visits No. 19 Texas Saturday, gets No. 16 Nebraska Nov. 6 and finishes with No. 11 Missouri Nov. 20.
"We can't get away from playing it," coach Paul Rhoads said. "We're going to keep preparing and improving and try to find a way to win a game or two down the stretch. Kids 18, 19, 20 years old are certainly more resilient than coaches. We probably take it a little more personal."
* Sherman downplayed reports he's considering a quarterback change at A&M but admits backup Ryan Tannehill, also a backup wide receiver, will get more reps this week.
Jerrod Johnson averages 301.3 yards passing per game but he has nine interceptions to 14 TD passes and his efficiency rating of 125.9 is ninth in the Big 12.
"We have open competition every single week and this is no excedption," Sherman said. "I believe in J.J. He's a leader on our team and is averageing 300 yards a game. I trust him. I have confidence in him and I believe in him."


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– WWE has released NXT star Memo Montenegro, brother of World Heavyweight Champion Alberto Del Rio. His profile was removed from the NXT roster page earlier today and Raj Giri of WrestlingINC.com has confirmed his departure.
In a bizarre coincidence, WWE released Dolph Ziggler's brother, Briley Pierce, while Ziggler was World Heavyweight Champion in May.
Memo was signed by WWE back in 2012.


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How to Use the Images
The Assembly Room to the east of the central hall measures about 40 feet square, which was large for a room of that period. The furniture in the room today includes tables, chairs, green table coverings and other pieces that are representative of the time of the Continental Congress, but not original to the building. The National Park Service used surviving bills for furnishings purchased for the room in the 18th century as well as records for repairs to various items to help them create the present arrangement. The only original furnishings are the chair used by George Washington as he presided over the Constitutional Convention and the silver inkstand used to sign the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The inkstand, designed in 1752 for the Pennsylvania Assembly, includes a quill box and a shaker for sprinkling sand over wet ink to speed drying.
Questions for Photo 3
1. Based on Reading 2, describe the use of this room over time. What were some of the changes that occurred to the room physically?
2. How would you describe the room itself? How would you describe the furnishings? Do you think the room today could be an accurate portrayal of how it appeared during the time of the Continental Congress? Explain your answer.
3. Do you think it was important to have restored the room to this period? Explain your answer.
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the company,-meet-crowd dept
Sometimes companies and customers clash, more often than not because the former isn't treating the latter right. Such was the case this week when a UK mobile operator decided to tell users that they don't want unlimited data simply because they aren't maxing out their current data caps. Silverscarcat took most insightful comment of the week (and plenty of funny votes) by offering an analogy to improve on our own:
The real logic is this...
You get a group of people together who are allergic to peanuts and then serve them peanut butter-chocolate pie.
Since none of them eat it, obviously no one wants such a pie.
But that wasn't the big story in Customer Non-Appreciation this week. That honor goes to EA and their fiasco of a launch for the new Sim City game. Though many customers were upset at being unable to play their newly purchased game, Ninja won second most insightful comment of the week by explaining why he doesn't care, and why that's a bad sign for EA:
Good thing I decided I would never buy from EA again a while back. In fact I don't even bother with what they are releasing (ie: don't even download a pirated version).
When pirates are not bothering to pirate your game then you have a problem.
Situations like that one make it all the more worrying that DRM for physical objects may be a lot more common in the near future. While I can understand the reaction of our number one winner this week, silverscarcat, who also racked up plenty of insightful votes on this post with his reaction that DRM should be illegal, the better solution is closer to what Fentex proposed, which makes it our first editor's choice:
It doesn't need to be made illegal, it just doesn't need to be legislated and protected in anyway.
Let it survive or die on it's own merits.
Mikes argument is that as it lessens the value to a purchaser of any transaction it will not succeed in a market where people have options to make more worthwhile transactions.
The problem isn't that any supplier might try it but that legislators attempt to protect them at others expense.
And since the insightful side has been dedicated to chastising bad companies and practices, we'll finish things off with another hall-of-famer: HBO, which has finally realized it should probably make itself available online, around the world (just not at home). The weird part, as nospacesorspecialcharacters pointed out, is that they seemed to think this was some kind of herculean technological undertaking:
We cannae do it captian!
If only there was some kind of technology that could do that today, one that was fast, efficient and possibly peer-to-peer so it didn't tax the bandwidth on their own servers.
Imagine the possibilities if that kind of technology existed?
That bit of snark racked up plenty of funny votes as well as insightful ones, which makes it the perfect transition to the other side of things. When a misheard Will Smith lyric lead to a school going on lockdown and a student being arrested, mattshow won funniest comment of the week by suggesting that justice, in a roundabout way, was served:
The student's use of the theme song is clearly an infringement of the copyright in the Fresh Prince theme song. Even if he wasn't planning to shoot up the school, he still should have been locked up for this outrageous affront to the moral standards held by all hardworking recording industry shills.
But the real comedy is coming tomorrow, when everyone involved in the Prenda debacle has been ordered to show up in court where, among many other things, we may finally learn the identity of Alan Cooper. An anonymous commenter won second funniest comment of the week by musing about how that might go:
And next monday:
Judge: Ok, I have verified that both Alan Coopers are present. Finally this mess is starting to make some sen...
Suddenly, a man bursts through the courtroom door.
Man: Stop this charade. Those two man are impostors!
Judge: Who the hell are you?
Man: My name...is Alan Cooper.
Judge: Aww f***.
It just occurred to me—could Alan Cooper's real name be D.B.? Of course, another anonymous commenter suggested an alternative possibility, winning our first editor's choice for funny:
Would anyone like to give odds that the Judge receives a letter from Alan Coopers mother stating that Alan Cooper cannot attend court due to being sick.
Well, at least that would be confirmation that he exists.
Finally, let's not forget that private entities aren't the only ones who can jerk the public around—the government is good at that too, and to them we dedicate the final editor's choice. When the NSA asked a reporter to delete the photos she had taken of their new facility, another anonymous commenter suggested an appropriate response:
Any chance we could ask the NSA to delete the photos in their possession?
Sounds fair to me, so I'm sure they aren't interested. See you next week, folks (and so will the NSA)!


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BASTAD, Sweden – At the conclusion of the opening day's matches at the fourth biennial PING Junior Solheim Cup Tuesday, the European squad holds a 7-5 lead over the United States. The afternoon's four-ball matches proved to be the difference as the Europeans claimed four of the six points after the morning foursome matches ended in a 3-3 draw.
Patterned after The Solheim Cup, the PING Junior Solheim Cup features the top-12 girls from the United States against those from Europe. The event is being played on Bastad Golf Club's par-71, 5,880-yard New Course in Bastad, Sweden Sept. 10-12. Players competed in foursome and four-ball matches Tuesday and will battle in singles matches Wednesday. The United States holds the Cup and needs to reach 12 points to keep it, while the Europeans need 12.5 points to reclaim the PING Junior Solheim Cup after winning it in 2003.
The morning foursome matches were halved with both teams earning three full points. The European tandem of Carlota Ciganda of Spain and Nicola Rössler of Germany never trailed in their match against Sydney Burlison of Salinas, Calif., and Allie White of Lancaster, Ohio, and won the day's first point 1-up.
The United States rebounded quickly by capturing the next two matches to take an early 2-1 lead. In the second match of the day, Jane Rah of Torrance, Calif., and Vicky Hurst of Melbourne, Fla., teamed to defeat Sara Monberg of Denmark and Caroline Hedwall of Sweden 4 and 3. Through 15 holes, the two Americans were 1-under-par in this alternate shot format.
"Our games really fit well together," Hurst said of their three-birdie, two-bogey round. "We took advantage of my length and Jane's accuracy and short game."
In the third match of the day, after building a four-hole cushion heading to the back nine, Isabelle Lendl of Bradenton, Fla., and Courtney Ellenbogen of Blacksburg, Va., saw their lead dwindle to one when Henrietta Brockway of England and Sally Watson of Scotland made eight consecutive pars on Nos. 10-17. Lendl and Ellenbogen held on for the 1-up victory when both teams carded par on No. 18, a 353-yard par 4.
The United States' 2-1 lead did not last long as Europeans Marta Silva of Spain and Florentyna Parker of England defeated Hawaiians Kimberly Kim and Stephanie Kono 5 and 4 and Audrey Goumard of France and Nathalie Månsson of Sweden beat Brianna Do of Lakewood, Calif., and Tiffany Lua of Rowland Heights, Calif., 3 and 1 in the fourth and fifth matches, respectively.
The U.S. pairing of Kristen Park of Buena Park, Calif., and Mina Harigae of Monterey, Calif., trying to even the morning matches, found themselves three down through 12 holes. Six consecutive pars later, the two had defeated Charlotte Kring Lorentzen of Denmark and Jacqueline Hedwall of Sweden, 1-up, when the Europeans made bogey on No. 18.
"Winning that match gave the whole team a lot of confidence," Harigae said. "We were all pretty pumped heading into the afternoon matches. It's matches like this that teach you never to give up."
During the afternoon's four-ball matches, Ciganda and Silva remained undefeated by winning Europe's fourth point, a 3-under-par team performance good enough for a 4 and 2 victory over Rah and Kono.
Parker and Rössler also remained perfect for Europe when they defeated Burlison and Ellenbogen 2-up. The two Europeans posted a 4-under-par 32 on their opening nine to take a three-hole lead. They then combined to make par on nine consecutive holes to close out the Americans, whose 35-34—69 was still not enough.
After the Europeans built a 5-3 lead, White and Lendl posted the first American points of the afternoon when they took down Kring Lorentzen and Monberg 2 and 1. The United States then quickly squared the PING Junior Solheim Cup when the sixth match of the afternoon saw Hurst and Park defeat Goumard and Brockway 5 and 4. When this match ended on the 14th hole, the two Americans had combined for six birdies.
"We did really well together in this format," Hurst said of her pairing with Park, the U.S. Girls' Junior Champion. "Kristen and I were having fun and laughing a lot. Everything was really positive, no matter what happened."
With two matches left on the course, it looked like the day was going to end in a draw when sisters Caroline and Jacqueline Hedwall defeated Kim and Do 3 and 2 while Americans Harigae and Lua held a two-hole lead with four holes to play. Things changed when the United States posted a bogey on No. 15 and Månsson made birdie on No. 17 to square the match with one hole to play. Månsson then completed the dramatic comeback by draining another birdie putt on No. 18 to secure Europe's 7-5 day-one lead.
"That was a rough way to end things," U.S. Women's Public Links Champion Harigae said. "It just wasn't our day and our late bogey gave them the moment to finish stronger than us."
With singles matches deciding the PING Junior Solheim Cup Wednesday, U.S. Team Captain Donna Andrews hopes to draw off previous singles success to give her team the boost they need to overtake the two-point deficit. She said she will be sure to remind her squad of the 10-2 singles record the Americans posted in 2005.
"We need to keep our chins up and remember to have fun," she explained. "I've always felt, whether it be the big or little girls team, that we have more depth than the Europeans when it comes to this format. I think we have the talent to go out and win all 12 singles matches."
Past U.S. Team PING Junior Solheim Cup participants include Paula Creamer (three-time LPGA Tour champion), Brittany Lincicome (champion at the 2007 GINN Open and 2006 HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship) and Morgan Pressel (champion of the 2007 Kraft Nabisco Championship). Creamer was the first player to make the move from the PING Junior Solheim Cup to the Solheim Cup Team where she helped lead her team to victory in 2005 with a 3-1-1 record.
The United States leads the all-time series 2-1-0. The team hosting the event has won the PING Junior Solheim Cup in all three instances.
PING designs, manufactures and markets a complete line of golf equipment including metal woods, irons, putters and golf bags. The family-owned company was founded in 1959 by the late Karsten Solheim. Solheim is the only person to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame as a golf club manufacturer. Today, the Phoenix-based company is under the direction of Solheim's youngest son, John A. Solheim. PING game-improvement products can be found in more than 70 countries. For more information, visit www.pinggolf.com.
Day One: MORNING FOURSOME MATCHES
Carlota Ciganda, Spain & Nicola Rössler, Germany (EUROPE) def.
Sydney Burlison, Salinas, Calif. & Allie White, Lancaster, Ohio (USA), 1-up
Jane Rah, Torrance, Calif. & Vicky Hurst, Melbourne, Fla (USA) def.
Sara Monberg, Denmark & Caroline Hedwall, Sweden (EUROPE), 4 & 3
Isabelle Lendl, Bradenton, Fla & Courtney Ellenbogen, Blacksburg, Va. (USA) def.
Henrietta Brockway, England & Sally Watson, Scotland (EUROPE), 1-up
Marta Silva, Spain & Florentyna Parker, England (EUROPE) def.
Kimberly Kim, Pahoa, Hawaii & Stephanie Kono, Honolulu, Hawaii (USA), 5 & 4
Audrey Goumard, France & Nathalie Månsson, Sweden (EUROPE) def.
Brianno Do, Lakewood, Calif. & Tiffany Lua, Rowland Heights, Calif. (USA), 3 & 1
Kristen Park, Buena Park, Calif. & Mina Harigae, Monterey, Calif. (USA) def.
Charlotte Kring Lorentzen, Denmark & Jacqueline Hedwall, Sweden (EUROPE), 1-up
Day One: AFTERNOON FOUR-BALL MATCHES
Marta Silva, Spain & Carlota Ciganda, Spain (EUROPE) def.
Jane Rah, Torrance, Calif. & Stephanie Kono, Honolulu, Hawaii (USA), 4 & 2
Florentyna Parker, England & Nicola Rössler, Germany (EUROPE) def.
Sydney Burlison, Salinas, Calif. & Courtney Ellenbogen, Blacksburg, Va. (USA), 2-up
Allie White, Lancaster, Ohio & Isabelle Lendl, Bradenton, Fla. (USA) def.
Charlotte Kring Lorentzen, Denmark & Sara Monberg, Denmark (EUROPE), 2 and 1
Caroline Hedwall, Sweden & Jacqueline Hedwall, Sweden (EUROPE) def.
Kimberly Kim, Pahoa, Hawaii & Brianna Do, Lakewood, Calif. (USA), 3 & 2
Nathalie Månsson, Sweden & Sally Watson, Scotland (EUROPE) def.
Mina Harigae, Monterey, Calif. & Tiffany Lua, Rowland Heights, Calif. (USA), 1-up
Vicky Hurst, Melbourne, Fla. & Kristen Park, Buena Park, Calif. (USA) def.
Audrey Goumard, France & Henrietta Brockway, England (EUROPE), 5 & 4


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Boortz suggested that Katrina victim turn to prostitution
On the October 24 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio program, Neal Boortz suggested that a victim of Hurricane Katrina currently housed in an Atlanta hotel consider prostitution. "If that's the only way she can take care of herself," Boortz posited, "it sure beats the hell out of sucking off the taxpayers." The woman was featured in an October 23 Atlanta Journal-Constitution article; Boortz repeated her first name on the air.
From the October 24 edition of Cox Radio Syndication's The Neal Boortz Show:
BOORTZ: Somebody just put a story in front of me. Let me tell you, aside from the looters, one of the things I was talking about earlier this morning was a huge article in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which is a left-wing rag, about Hurricane Katrina evacuees in a hotel in Atlanta. Her name -- the female is Rolanda. She has a 1-year-old baby and her boyfriend, who apparently likes to lounge around on the bed without a shirt on. Well, at least that was the picture in the newspaper. And the whole story was about how worried Rolanda is that she'll be kicked out of her taxpayer-paid hotel room. She might get kicked out. I mean, it says right here, "Rolanda is worried about being evicted from the hotel. She says, 'We have a place to stay. We have food. The only worry is how long it will last.'" That's all she's worried about, the only worry. And it goes through the whole article here talking about how fed up Rolanda is with FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] and how she spends all this time on a computer looking for more free housing. Not one mention in the entire story anywhere about the "W" word, W-O-R-K, work, job. I dare say she could walk out of that hotel and walk 100 yards in either direction on Fulton Industrial Boulevard [the street on which the hotel is located] here in Atlanta and have a job. What's that? Well, no, no, no --
ROYAL MARSHALL (Atlanta radio host and former engineer of Boortz's show): Watch out, Neal. Those people who know Fulton Industrial Boulevard think you might be suggesting something a little risqué.
BOORTZ: Well, that's true. Well, you know what? [laughing] Now that you mention it --
MARSHALL: That's not the way.
BOORTZ: If that's the only way she can take care of herself, it sure beats the hell out of sucking off the taxpayers.
MARSHALL: Watch out, man. It's the same thing, technically.


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The husband and I traveled to Chicago when we were dating waaaay back in the stone age (it seems like that long ago that we were carefree childless travelers!) I loved the feel of Chicago. The energy of the city is electric- like a friendlier version of NYC. And best of all, the diversity of Chicago and it's neighborhoods is incredible! It was quickly decided that it would be the perfect destination for our weekend getaway.
Our children were so excited about going to the "big city". When you come from a one stoplight town, any town with tall buildings is amazing- but Chicago! Chicago is massive! We were surrounded by a sea of different cultures, different races, different languages, different architecture, and all sorts of new experiences. My kids rode in a cab for the first time and they were floored. We loved asking all of our taxi drivers how long they've been in Chicago and (if they weren't originally from Chicago) listening to the stories of how the came to live in the windy city. Talk about diversity! If you ever want to give your children a lesson in world cultures- talk to some Chicago cab drivers. Most of the drivers we talked to were first generation immigrants to the US who traveled around and decided to call Chicago home. They discovered long ago what we were learning over the course of the weekend- Chicago is accepting.
In a small town like ours, we can't leave the house without getting double takes. People look at our son who's skin doesn't match ours and most of them smile- a few of them stop to ask questions, but all of them notice. In Chicago, no one looked twice at us. We were the norm. We were a family of mixed up colors and no one cared at all. It was glorious!
Just as importantly as it is for an adoptive families to be around other adoptive families, I think it's also important for our minority children to not always be in the minority. We need to give them opportunities to not always be the "odd man out" and that includes the way we travel. We need to make sure we are visiting places that are not hostile to other races and that are inclusive. We found Chicago to be a perfect place to do this!
If you ever go, here are our top 5 favorite things to do in Chicago:
The Shedd Aquarium: This was hands down the children's favorite place in the city. We could have stayed there all day. The habitats that the animals are in are beautiful. There is a new jellyfish exhibit that is probably one of the neatest animal exhibits I've ever seen. I had no idea that there were so many species of jellyfish- each one more beautiful than the last. This exhibit was a little bit extra- but worth every single penny.
The kids' favorite exhibit was the giant shark tank that is home to five different species of sharks. The keeper's presentation was so fascinating, that we went back to hear it a second time! As a parent, I love that the exhibits are from floor to ceiling, so that even our little ones could see everything without us having to hold them up.
|That giant green eel behind Noah was every one's favorite animal. That thing was enormous (and creepy)!
|Learning all about sea creatures!
Usually anything involving water throws my motion sickness into a tailspin, but the cruise never went above an idle speed. I've seen Chicago from foot, by taxi, and from the top of a tall building, but seeing it from the river was truly the most unique (and most fun!) way to see the city.
Chicago Children's Museum: This museum was a mecca of fun for our kids. The museum is fairly small- which I love because it is easier to keep up with everyone! Unlike some of Chicago's other amazing museums like The Field and The Museum of Science and Industry, this one was all structured around play. They hit every single major love that our children have- water, dinosaurs, heavy machinery and climbing. Our intellectual 7 year old and our rambunctious 3 and 4 year olds were all equally enthralled and engaged with this museum. Noah was over the moon about the dinosaur dig exhibit. As a mom of a sensory seeker, I really appreciated how many different tactile experiences the designers packed into every exhibit.
Miles was very into how many huge pieces of equipment there were to climb on- including a backhoe and a fire truck!
All of the kids were into the super cool water exhibit. What I loved about it is that most museums we go to that have water exhibits just have cups and toys to splash around in. While that would be great for our littler kids, we also have one who wants to know more and think more while she's playing. This exhibit was great for both ages. There were pipes and pulleys and ways to manipulate the flow of the water that kept every one of them entertained and challenged for a loooooong time.
The Navy Pier: If you ever need some excitement in your life, go to the Navy Pier. It is such a giant conglomerate of fun and food and complete overstimulation. Truly- where else in the world can you walk down the street and see this?
Sadie shocked us all by riding on the big swings which she said was "the funnest thing ever!"
There are so many wonderful restaurants on the Navy Pier (Harry Carry's, Bubba Gump) and it's a great place to people watch. It really did all go back to being able to look around us and see people of all colors and nationalities and feel right at home with our our multi-cultural family- which for us, is so refreshing!
|visiting "Sue" the t-rex at The Field Museum
|Checking out the animals at The Lincoln Park Zoo (which would have been one of our favorite things, I'm sure, if they hadn't closed down all the animal exhibits 20 minutes after we got there!)
*This post was written in conjunction with the Chicago Board of Tourism.
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If you wanna hit sometime, let me know. I think my NTRP would be a 3.5. I can play in the northshore.
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Jose Fernandez invites kids from the local neighborhood for every Sunday home game at Marlins Park to enjoy baseball and spend time with him during the pregame. The kids receive a "Los Lanzadores" shirt and are welcomed by Jose Fernandez prior to the game in the Marlins dugout followed by an on-field tour with a visit to the Marlins bullpen.


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From the Archives
We're excited to present our new FLEXAHOUSE plan, commissioned from San Francisco architect Nick Noyes and inspired by his recent AIA-Sunset Western Home Award-winning ranch house in Healdsburg, California, shown below, photographed by Cesar Rubio.
Below is a view of our FLEXAHOUSE Great Room looking in the same direction, from the kitchen to the living room.
Note how Nick kept the vaulted ceiling, window wall, French doors, and general feeling of airiness, while adding a brand new feature we call the "Flexawall," which provides storage and display along one side of the Great Room. It's a flexible feature because it can open toward the Great Room and to the entry hall behind it.
FLEXAHOUSE is a "kit-of-parts plan" because the key elements — Great Room, Master Suite, Bedroom and Bath Unit, Guest Suite, Garage, Flexawall, Entry, and Trellis — combine to form three different layouts (I-shape, L-shape, and T-shape) to suit various lot configurations.
Start with the core of the plan, which is the Great Room,
Then add the Master Suite,
Bedroom-Bath Unit,
and Garage
and you have the basic house. Here's the T-shape example in elevation (for a wider lot),
and plan.
FLEXAHOUSE comes in 3- and 4-bedroom variations for a total of 6 different plans, ranging from 2,254 sq. ft. to 2,580 sq. ft. You can change the orientation of the garage to enter from either side, instead of the front. Exterior siding options include stucco, shingle, and board-and-batten.
Roof options are standing seam metal and composition shingle. The plan starts at $2,500. It has been engineered for seismic, snow, and hurricane zones.
"The idea," says architect Nick Noyes, shown above, "is to create a design that's almost a custom home plan because of the many options you can select. All sites are different and require different design responses. The opportunity with FLEXAHOUSE was to create a design that was flexible enough — with three different arrangements of the basic elements — to conform to varying site conditions such as local solar orientation, views, and other particularities. By adding more bedrooms, changing the orientation of the garage, or choosing siding and roofing options you can create still more variations." It's also an eco-friendly house: Nick designed it on a 16-inch grid for maximum construction efficiency and minimum construction waste.
I think it's an ingenious contemporary reinvention of the ranch house, bringing easy indoor-outdoor living ideas from the past into the 21st century. The design is informal and elegant at the same time, like Nick's Healdsburg house,
with it's warmly inviting kitchen at one end of the Great Room (Cesar Rubio photo), which was our muse. Let's wrap a FLEXAHOUSE up for you!


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Hunter Highland DK - 20g Mini Skein- 2019 Fall- Denim Jacket
100% Peruvian Highland Wool
4ply construction
49 yds/20g skein
Hunter Highland DK: This yarn was named after Catlin Hunter because it is the perfect yarn for her designs! And it is also the perfect yarn to keep your hunter nice and warm in the woods. It is a non superwash highland wool so it has that great squish factor. It is the perfect yarn for all your color work projects.
Disclaimer: since this is more of a wooly wool be mindful that it has more of a natural texture then fine superwash merino wools.
Each hank is unique if using more then one its best to alternate hanks every few rows.
Care: THIS YARN WILL FELT! Hand wash COLD and lay flat to dry.
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