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Pickles are among one of my favorite foods in the whole world (maybe only behind fried chicken and macaroni and cheese). And Claussen pickles are number one for me. They are so crisp and sour and garlicky and just delicious. We go through a jar a week.
So at that rate, I figured it was finally time to give a copycat version a try.
I have attempeted so many different homemade pickle recipes and have never been happy with the results until I tried this recipe. So many homemade version get soggy or don't pack that vinegary punch I adore. But these guys don't disappoint.
The recipe for homemade pickles was incredibly easy to throw together with the amazing cucumbers I picked up at the Minneapolis Farmer's Market. I think the best way to make homemade pickles is with fresh, local grown cucumbers. They have so much more flavor and crunch.
The pickles only took a few days to process so that made them all the better. They are super sour, a bit salty and really crunchy. They are the perfect little snack or accompaniment to a sandwich.
I see many jars in our future.
- 35 to 40 small to medium pickling cucumbers
- 1 gallon cold water
- 1 cup cider vinegar
- 2 tablespoons mixed pickling spices
- 2/3 cup canning or kosher salt (Do NOT use iodized salt)
- 4 cloves garlic or more, to taste
- 4 fresh dill heads or 4 tablespoons dried dill seed (not dill weed)
- Wash cucumbers but do not scrub them.
- Trim 1/8-inch from the blossom end of each cucumber and slice in half lengthwise or into quarters, depending on how large your cucumbers are and how big you want them to be when they're done. I left the super tiny ones whole.
- In a gallon jar (or large, wide-mouth, food-safe container) layer the dill heads or seed, garlic cloves and sliced cucumbers.
- In a separate pitcher or bowl, stir together the remaining ingredients until the salt is dissolved.
- Pour the brine over the cucumbers, taking care to make sure all of them are fully submerged. If needed, place a plate or mug or other non-reactive heavy item on the cucumbers to weigh them down and keep them under the brine!
- Cover lightly with a lid just perched on top or secure a piece of cheesecloth over the jar with a rubber band to keep fruit flies away.
- Leave out of direct sunlight on the counter for two to four days*, or until the cucumbers taste like pickles throughout.
- Fix your lid onto your jar or container and chill. These can be stored in the refrigerator for up to six months provided you keep them covered with brine.
- *If at any point in the proceedings "fuzz" or "foam" develops on top of the brine, use a spoon to remove it. If there is "fuzz" attached to any of the cucumbers, remove the ones affected and be sure the others are still fully submerged.


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Clips for the Creatively Maladjusted. Helpful Hints for radicals, intellectuals, strangers, artists, dreamers, readers, writers, speakers, activists, pacifists, fools, and professors. Extraordinary Discourse has been long in preparing. A multi-voiced thought adventure, around an hour a week. Its many themes converge in the theme of Play. Walt Whitman: "Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you."
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I do not subscribe to the chronological or historical illusion that events follow one another on a one-way street, in series. We think about them in that way because that is how we have decided to write and speak, and thus, if I am to communicate with you in words, I must "give you a line," and you must follow this string of letters. But of course, the world itself isn't strung out; it exists in many dimensions. I have, then, a preference for books that I can open at any place and begin to read-- books like a garden in which I can roam, and not like a tunnel, maze, or superhighway where I must enter at point A and come out at Point Z.
Alan Watts
In My Own Way,
An Autobiography
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The municipality of Iasi, a North East town of Romania, wants to demolish the tower of flats where few people lived there in pure misery. Most apartments have no doors and no windows, and residents are without running water, the sanitation being defective.
According to representatives of the City Hall of Iasi, the block is in an advanced state of decay.
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If you want to purchase wholesale clothing from overseas, particularly from China, you should consider some things when you purchase the clothing wholesale to ensure that you a satisfactory insurance policy that states the appropriate business principles that have been incorporated into the business process.
These days, the Internet is the initial and practically the only appropriate way to purchase wholesale clothes from China. To find the wholesale clothing that you want all that is necessary is for you to find the appropriate website on the Internet. You should try to find the website that has the wholesale clothes that you want. You should read the businesses' testimonials and their background prior to selecting the appropriate website for you.
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From our roots as Temple University's School of Commerce in 1918, the Fox School of Business has built a century-long heritage of innovation within business education. For the last one hundred years, we have prepared professionals to lead tomorrow's economy and advanced thought leadership in the world business through research.
Our research has far-reaching effects—from advancing academic literature to changing business industries—that demonstrate the high caliber of scholarship produced at the Fox School.
Highlights across Departments
The conservatism principle and the asymmetric timeliness of earnings
Basu, S. (1997)
Journal of Accounting and Economics, 24(1), 3-37
Conservatism has guided accounting practice and theory for centuries. This approach, which encourages anticipating possible future losses but not future gains while making financial statements, reduces the risk of overestimating a firm's value. Over 20 years ago, Sudipta Basu, professor of accounting, redefined the field when he proposed the now popular "Basu models" to measure conservatism in his award-winning 1997 article, "The Conservatism Principle and the Asymmetric Timeliness of Earnings." Basu's definition of one type of conservatism—now called "conditional conservatism"—captures accountants' tendency to require more verification to confirm manager-reported 'good news' than 'bad news' while determining the reported value of an asset. He argued that this counteracts data biases introduced by managers who can get larger bonuses and promotions by disclosing good news but hiding bad news. Because debtholders have asymmetric payoffs—meaning, they share in losses when a project does poorly but do not share in the gains above their loan when the project is successful—they value conservative reporting that warns them quickly about potential losses. Overall, this research, which has garnered over 4,000 citations on Google Scholar, has helped to reorient the conceptual framework of the International Accounting Standards Board, which sets accounting standards for over 100 countries.
Founding-Family Ownership and Firm Performance: Evidence from the S&P 500
Anderson, R. (2003)
Journal of Finance, 58(3), 1301-1328
Founding families are a prevalent and important class of shareholders in U.S. public. Until fairly recently, the widely held belief–based on anecdotal evidence and prior literature–was that founding-family ownership was an ineffective organizational form that resulted in poor firm performance. In the first large-sample study to examine the relation between founding-family ownership and firm performance, Ronald Anderson, professor of finance and interim dean of the Fox School, documented that the reality was in contrast to conventional wisdom. In his 2003 article, "Founding-Family Ownership and Firm Performance: Evidencefrom the S&P 500," published in the Journal of Finance, Anderson found that family firms performed better relative to nonfamily firms. His research was the most highly cited paper published in that year in the Journal of Finance and was nominated for the prestigious Brattle prize. The research also garnered coverage in the New York Times, Forbes, Economist, Business Week, Inc. Magazine, Washington Post, and the MIT/Sloan Management Review.
Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior (HRM/OB)
Tit for tat? The spiraling effect of incivility in the workplace
Andersson, L. M. & Pearson, C. M. (1999)
Academy of Management Review, 24(3), 452–471
A recent poll of the American public revealed that 90 percent of the respondents think workplace incivility is a serious problem. Nearly 20 years ago, Lynne Andersson, associate professor of human resources and management, introduced this new concept of workplace incivility in her 1999 article, "Tit-for-tat: The Spiraling Effect of Incivility in the Workplace." This research identified that subtle acts of mistreatment in organizations can potentially spiral to increasingly intense aggressive behaviors. The researchers argued that a person's hot temperament and an informal work culture facilitates the escalation of arguments, which can eventually affect the whole organization. Andersson's colleagues praise the paper, which "launched the entire field of workplace incivility."
Legal Studies
Adios embargo: The case for executive termination of the U.S. embargo on Cuba
Fandl, K. J. (2017)
American Business Law Journal, 54(2), 293-346
The United States and Cuba have a long history of tumultuous relations since the 1960s. Kevin Fandl, assistant professor of legal studies, argues that 1996 legislative embargo unconstitutionally interferes with the U.S. President's powers as the nation's diplomat-in-chief in his 2017 paper "Adios Embargo: The Case for Executive Termination of the U.S. Embargo on Cuba." Fandl asserts that opening trade routes with Cuba would benefit Cuba and the United States, but the embargo stands in the way of realizing these gains. He provides historical and legal foundation in support of the President's power to bypass embargos and act unilaterally in re-establishing diplomatic and possibly economic relations. His argument takes a deep dive into presidential power to act in the absence of Congress, an issue of significance in many areas of policy today.
Management Information Systems (MIS)
An empirical examination of the antecedents and consequences of contribution patterns in crowd-funded markets
Burtch, G. Ghose, A. & Wattal, S. (2013)
Information Systems Research, 24(3), pp, 499-882
Crowdfunding has now become a hugely popular source of capital for entrepreneurs. Gordon Burtch, FOX '13, and Sunil Wattal, associate professor of management information systems, presented the first empirical analysis of crowdfunders' behavior in their 2013 article, "An Empirical Examination of the Antecedents and Consequences of Contribution Patterns in Crowd-Funded Markets." They argued that information of the amount and timing of others' contributions significantly influenced crowdfunders while making funding decisions. They observed a partial crowding-out effect for projects that have already received ample amount of funds, as contributors believed their donation may not be valued as much by the recipient. More importantly, they also established a clear linkage between the marketing effort and the success of crowdfunded projects, as projects that were available for funding for a longer duration in the markets received more exposure for their plan and thus were relatively more successful.
Marketing and Supply Chain Management
What makes a helpful online review? A study of customer reviews on Amazon.com
Mudambi, S. M. & Schuff, D. (2010)
MIS Quarterly, 34(1), 185–200
Customer reviews are an integral part of most online purchase decisions. Susan Mudambi, academic director of the DBA program and research professor of marketing and supply chain management, and David Schuff, research professor and chair of the Department of Management Information Systems, evaluated the factors that contributed to the perceived helpfulness of a review in their 2010 article, "What Makes a Helpful Online Review?". Their interdisciplinary research provided evidence that helpfulness of a review depends on whether the product's attributes can be assessed before purchase, like a camera or a printer, or after being experienced, like music or a movie. The product type also influenced how extreme the reviews were and the number of people finding the reviews helpful. Overall, their research, which garnered over 1,520 citations on Google Scholars, found that extremely negative reviews are viewed as less helpful than moderate reviews, but product type mattered.
Risk, Insurance & Healthcare Management
Consolidation and Efficiency in the U.S. Life Insurance Industry
Cummins, J.D., Tennyson, S., and Weiss, M.A. (1999)
Journal of Banking and Finance, 23(2-4), 325-357
Life insurance can be an emotional but important subject for many. Three researchers in the Department of Risk, Insurance, and Healthcare Management took a close look at the U.S. life insurance industry in 1999 and accurately predicted changes in the field over the last two decades. In their paper, "Consolidation and Efficiency in the U.S. Life Insurance Industry," David Cummins and Mary Weiss, with colleague Sharon Tennyson of Cornell University, examined the relationship between mergers and acquisitions, efficiency, and scale economies in the life insurance industry. They found that that overall, mergers and acquisitions have had a beneficial effect on the efficiency of firms. The researchers accurately predicted that repeal of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act would lead to greater consolidation. In the decades following, researchers predicted that many firms would struggle to use technology effectively to create value for shareholders and policyholders, providing a further motivation for consolidation. Today, non-traditional competitors like GEICO and Progressive have outpaced traditional insurance companies.
The Simes method for multiple hypotheses testing with positively dependent test statistics
Sarkar, S. K. and Chang, C. K. (1997)
Journal of the American Statistical Association, 92(440), 1601-1608
Sanat K. Sarkar has been a staple of the Temple University statistical science community since his arrival in 1982. As Cyrus. H. K. Curtis Professor and current department chair, Sarkar has produced numerous publications that contributed and expanded to the field of statistical theory, including statistical inference, multivariate statistics, probability inequalities, categorical data analysis, and pharmaceutical statistics. In particular, Sarkar has become an internationally recognized leading researcher in multiple testing. In 1997-1998, Sarkar wrote a series of articles that first proved a conjecture related to the Simes test, one of the more powerful methods used in the context of testing multiple hypotheses. Sarkar's research broadened the scope of the Simes test's use to a wide range of statistical investigations, making his work well cited throughout the field.
Strategic Management (SGM)
Orchestrating innovation networks
Dhanaraj, C. & Parkhe, A. (2006)
Academy of Management Review, 31(3), 659-669
The competitive advantage of a company heavily depends on its "innovation networks" – the people or firms outside of the organization that can help it solve problems and find inventive ideas to bring new products to the marketplace. Over 11 years ago, Arvind Parkhe, Laura H. Carnell Professor and chair of the Department of Strategic Management, and Charles Dhanaraj, then-future colleague and current H.F. Gerry Lenfest Professor of Strategy, presented a set of deliberate actions that major companies can take to ensure maximum value creation from this innovation network. In their 2006 article, "Orchestrating Innovation Networks," they introduced three interrelated processes—knowledge mobility, innovation appropriability and network stability—that can improve the efficiency of the innovation network. High mobility increases the ease with which knowledge is shared, acquired and used. Innovation appropriability allows equal distribution of the value created to all the contributors. The combination of these processes ensures network stability, which promotes continuous collaboration and maximizes value creation for everyone involved.


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With the creation of the BRICS bank a couple of weeks ago, and the implementation of more than 23 Yuan swap lines forged within the past year, a domino effect is beginning to appear across the global financial system, with nation after nation preparing for a shift away from the dollar, and towards a new monetary paradigm.
On July 28, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) began selling Hong Kong Dollars (HKD), while at the same time buying dollars, to balance out a new phenomenon where a massive increase in domestic and foreign purchases of Hong Kong's currency has taken place. This swap was primarily done to ensure that the HKD does not strengthen too quickly, especially in light of how the HKMA's balance sheet has increased by more than 21% in the last two weeks alone.
The special significance of the Hong Kong Dollar is that it has been pegged to a foreign monetary currency since 1935 when it moved away from a silver peg to follow in lock step with the former global reserve currency, the British Pound. However, beginning in 1983 the HKD detached itself from the Pound Sterling and began a new peg using the U.S. dollar, and has used this currency as its baseline for the past 31 years. But as global confidence in the Fed, the dollar, and the U.S.'s ability to manage monetary policies has waned, nations in the East are looking hard at the Hong Kong dollar as a viable alternative for greater monetary stability, and this growing trust is opening the door for the HKD to very soon completely disconnect itself from the dollar and stand upon its own.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority bought $715 million (selling HKD) in the FX markets to manage its currency peg, injecting the money into the banking system (and expanding its balance sheet) to prevent HKD from rising above its permitted range. HKMA projects its balance sheet to grow to the end of July, but as Simon Black (of Sovereign Man blog) notes, this could well be the start of a bigger shift – an end to the US Dollar peg…"The US is no longer the undisputed superpower it once was. The US dollar is dragging them down. Hong Kong is easily strong enough to stand on its own." – Zerohedge
Hong Kong has been one of the most important financial centers in the modern era, and especially in the East when the British set it up as a conduit for trade in their vast empire. And even during the tumultuous times of two World Wars, and changes in regional economic ideologies (China), Hong Kong's independent nature has sustained it well, and has helped it become one of the world's richest economies.
If the dollar's dominance as the global reserve currency ended today, the Chinese Yuan would be the most agreeable alternative for the HKD, especially as their gold reserves assure a modicum of price stability with their international trade partners. And with the dollar devaluing at an ever growing rate thanks to the Federal Reserve's monetary policies of QE and debt creation, Hong Kong stands to lose much less if it chooses to peg its currency with the Yuan, and disconnect from the dollar just as it ditched the Pound Sterling in favor of the U.S. currency three decades ago.


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Along with the DS for the center blocks, I outlined them in Kona gray and used Kona snow for the white. The back is just something I picked up in my travels. It was a no name, nothing special but because of the blues I had to have it.
guess what.. it matches, perfectly!
The contrast between dark and light picks up all the blue shades on the front
Here's a closeup..
As you can see I just did a simple straight quilting, because i'm still adjusting to this before I jump into the world of free motion quilting (i'm terrified).
Alright, one more picture with my FABULOUS backdrop.. totally had to take advantage when I was there!!
Till next time :)


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Dave's summer plans include hanging out with his best buddies Curtis and Victor every day, doing absolutely nothing. The boys figure it's their last summer before they have to get jobs. Their fathers drop the bomb on them just as vacation starts that all three of them are expected to get a job for the summer. The boys are stunned and not exactly thrilled with the idea of forfeiting their last summer of freedom.
Dave figures he'll get a job at the community pool since he knows his dad won't budge once he's made up his mind. Curtis comes up with Project Sweet Life where the boys will tell their parents that they got jobs but they'll actually hang out in their bomb shelter hangout just like they had originally planned. Victor and Dave don't think it's such a great idea since their dads are going to expect them to be earning real money and have cut off their allowances. Curtis doesn't see this as an obstacle. The boys will just have to come up with a onetime plan to earn the seven thousand dollars that they think they'll have to have by the end of the summer.
Once they have their "summer jobs" in place, their first money-making scheme looks like it's going to work out perfectly and earn them the money they need in order to fool their parents. Their plan goes disastrously wrong and the boys end up in debt. They have a few more schemes that will net their cash but they keep encountering obstacles that they couldn't have ever imagined. They find themselves up against robbers, crawling through hidden tunnels and making friends with some elderly ladies.
The ideas the boys come up with are a bit far-fetched but suspenseful and entertaining. The genuine friendship between the boys is obvious. Their banter and awkwardness in front of some girls that they are interested in endearing. Their devotion to one another is proven repeatedly, none more so than when they fear that their dads will discover their lies and not let them hang out together anymore.
The lies and elaborate planning start to take their toll on the boys and it becomes obvious that getting real summer jobs would have been the easiest thing they could have done. The harder they try to come up with the money, the more trouble they get in.
It is obvious that Hartinger has tremendous knowledge of the city of Tacoma. The history of the city that he sprinkles throughout the book makes the city the fourth character in the book. The history of the Chinese in the city is fascinating and adds a completely different element to the book. The history of the city is woven perfectly into the mystery the boys find themselves embroiled in. While the ending is a bit hard to believe, the boys remain likable throughout the book.
This is appropriate for ages 12 and up.
© 2009 Amy Ridley
Amy Ridley received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Boston University.
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Housing commissioner Robert C. Embry Jr. had visited Boston's popular New England Aquarium, which opened in 1969, and envisioned building a similar attraction for Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Aware that Chermayeff led the design effort for New England, Embry wanted to hire him for Baltimore as well. It was an enormous responsibility for such a relatively young architect, but Embry didn't consider it a gamble.
Chermayeff was a "very strong designer" with a good reputation for working in an urban context, Embry recalled recently. Plus, he already had designed one aquarium for a waterfront setting similar to Baltimore's. "It seems to me that it would have been a gamble to go with anyone else."
Embry's overture to Chermayeff led to the creation of the National Aquarium in Baltimore, the seven-story aquatic museum that recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. Besides forming the sculptural centerpiece of Baltimore's Inner Harbor, it's one of the most successful aquariums in the United States, drawing 30 million visitors since its opening and setting off a wave of aquarium construction around the world.
Now Chermayeff is back for an encore. With longtime partners Bobby Poole and Peter Sollogub, he's designing a $48 million addition to the Pier 3 building, a glass-enclosed structure that will extend the aquarium's global reach and give visitors new reasons to return. But this time he is no neophyte at aquarium design.
Since Baltimore's aquarium made its debut, the Massachusetts-based architect has become an international leader in aquarium design, with six major projects open and many others on the drawing board. Besides Boston and Baltimore, he has completed aquariums in Chattanooga, Tenn.; Osaka, Japan; Lisbon, Portugal; and, in collaboration with Italian architect Renzo Piano, Genoa, Italy. He is working on aquariums for Virginia Beach, Va.; Islip, N.Y.; New Bedford, Mass.; Hartford, Conn.; Coralville, Iowa; Homestead, Fla.; and Shanghai, China.
In 1998, Chermayeff left the firm he helped start in 1962, Cambridge Seven Associates, and established a new office that specializes in aquarium design -- one of the only companies in the world that does so. Its name is Chermayeff, Sollogub and Poole Inc., or CSP, and all three name partners played key roles in the design of the National Aquarium.
For the past 11 years, Chermayeff also has been president of a second firm, International Design for the Environment Associates Inc., or IDEA. It's a company devoted to the design, development, construction and operation of aquariums and other "nature related attractions."
After creating buildings for others over the past four decades, Chermayeff is now working to fulfill perhaps his most ambitious goal yet. He wants to own an aquarium -- one that he designed, filled with creatures and operates. After exploring numerous locations over the past decade, he finally may get a chance to do that in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Chermayeff's plans cross the traditional lines that separate architect, builder and client, and may lead to conflicts with some of the institutions with which he already works. That's an unavoidable byproduct of the stature he has attained since accepting the challenge to design Baltimore's aquarium -- and his desire to accomplish even more.
"Most architects would consider themselves fortunate to have completed one major public building in their lives," he observed during a recent visit to Baltimore. "We've been fortunate to have eight or more, with others to come."
In town to attend the aquarium's anniversary celebration, and looking not much different than he did the day it opened, Chermayeff said he'll always be grateful for the early support he received from Embry and then-Mayor William Donald Schaefer.
Even more than the New England Aquarium, he said, Baltimore's project propelled him on a career in aquarium design because he learned so much from his work here and so many key decision-makers wanted to replicate it in their cities.
Chermayeff says he's especially pleased to have been invited to work on projects such as the Lisbon Aquarium, a key attraction of the 1998 World's Fair in Portugal.
"When the leaders of another country and another culture want me and my colleagues from America to design a building that will be the centerpiece of their exposition," he said, "it's a great honor."
From tadpoles to aquariums
Now 65, the father of two, Chermayeff is the quintessential Boston Brahmin, in hand-tailored suits and round spectacles. Erect, proper, unfailingly polite, he has a trace of a British accent when he speaks, which is always eloquently and with great conviction. But there was a time when he wasn't sure he would practice architecture at all, much less specialize in aquariums.
The chief designer of Baltimore's aquarium was born in London in 1936, the son of Russian-born architect and educator Serge Chermayeff. He emigrated to America with his family during World War II, attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., and studied architecture at Harvard University, where his father taught the same subject.
The young Chermayeff was exposed to nature and the world of water in a variety of ways. As a boy, he spent summers collecting tadpoles and newts on Cape Cod, where his family had a vacation home. While at Phillips, he spent many weekends with his "second family," architect Walter Gropius and his wife, both serious birdwatchers.
Though he considered himself an "amateur naturalist," Chermayeff said, he took no college courses in marine biology or natural history. After graduation from architecture school, he seriously considered becoming a filmmaker.
Just when Chermayeff was at his most ambivalent about practicing architecture, a friend, Paul Dietrich, suggested that the two join with several others to form a design collaborative. The idea was to start a new kind of interdisciplinary firm that would combine architecture, urban design, graphic design, exhibit design, industrial design, landscape design and even filmmaking. Other prospective members were Alden Christie, Louis Bakanowsky, Terry Rankine, Tom Geismar and Chermayeff's older brother, Ivan, a well-known graphic artist. Chermayeff was intrigued, but decided they needed a project first.
In his early quest for commissions, Chermayeff met with the director of Boston's Franklin Park Zoo about improving its property. The zoo had no money to hire an architect, but the director was impressed by Chermayeff and his colleagues and told them about another group that planned to build a public aquarium on Boston's waterfront and needed an architect.
Public aquariums have been around since the early1800s in the United States and Europe. Turn-of-the-century French writer Paul Claudel once described them as "the link between art and nature." One of the first was created in New York by P.T. Barnum, better known for his traveling circuses. In many cases, the early aquariums were housed in neo-classical buildings that resembled museums, with tiny fish tanks on the walls in lieu of framed paintings.
The Boston group wanted to break the mold. Its aquarium, planned for a pier near Faneuil Hall in Boston, promised to be the ideal commission for the firm Chermayeff and Dietrich were contemplating.
With the zoo director's help, Chermayeff and his colleagues landed an interview. The night before the meeting, they printed stationery for their new company. By far the youngest architects considered, they were up against some design heavyweights. To their amazement, they got the job. Cambridge Seven Associates was born.
When it opened seven years later, the New England Aquarium was a showcase for Cambridge Seven's interdisciplinary design approach. The exterior was a relatively subdued concrete box that fit in with other warehouses on Boston's waterfront. Inside was a burst of color and activity -- an aquatic show world. It was just what the sponsors wanted -- a building that took aquarium design in a new direction, artfully combining entertainment and education.
That's what impressed Embry, who was on the lookout for new ideas to try in Baltimore. At first, Embry said, Schaefer wasn't particularly interested in seeing Boston's aquarium. But after Schaefer toured it and realized its potential, he was hooked -- and wanted one for Baltimore. Happy to build on what they learned in New England, Chermayeff and his partners agreed to design it.
Although both projects were set for the end of a pier, Baltimore's aquarium had the potential to be much more dramatic architecturally than New England's, which was designed for "the reticent simplicity of Boston's old waterfront," as Chermayeff put it. "We decided that in Baltimore, we should be more boldly expressive of what we were doing."
The strategy worked. Even before it opened, the building won a national award for its design, which has been likened to the Sydney Opera House in the way it juts into the harbor. The interior was notable, too, for taking visitors on a simulated journey from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to the top of an Amazon Rain Forest. Again featuring Cambridge Seven's trademark mixture of architecture and exhibit design, the building became known for its one-way circulation sequence, back-lit graphics and dark, Piranesian spaces.
Chermayeff was particularly proud that Baltimore's aquarium was the first in the country to give a terrestrial exhibit -- the rooftop rain forest -- equal weight with aquatic exhibits. "It's not just a token exhibit stuck in the corner," he said. "It makes the point that all life is dependent on the water, and, in fact, unified by water."
Striking architecture and beautiful, immersive environments have always been keys to the aquarium's appeal, said former aquarium executive director Nicholas Brown.
"I think this aquarium succeeds because of the genius of Peter Chermayeff," Brown said shortly before his retirement in 1995. "He built it and builds his aquariums one way. There are other ways to build aquariums, and there are many other successful aquariums. But there are no successful aquariums that do not pay homage to the god of beauty."
Forerunner to a boom
In many ways, Baltimore's aquarium was to its industry what Oriole Park was to sports stadiums and Harborplace was to festival markets -- the project whose success spawned copies all over the country. It wasn't the first to be completed, but it was the best for its time -- and the one that got the most attention as a result.
It also addressed a need. City leaders liked the idea of building aquariums because they tapped into the spirit of the age in several ways. They spoke to the effort to rejuvenate cities, the push to protect the environment, the quest to increase tourism and provide a place where young parents can spend time with their kids. Zoos take up vast stretches of land, but aquariums are relatively compact structures that can be combined with other attractions, such as hotels and IMAX theaters, to become engines of economic development for their communities.
By the mid-1980s, cities were racing to open these "underwater zoos." Before Baltimore's opened, Chermayeff said, he didn't think Cambridge Seven would be commissioned to do many more. After Baltimore, he said, prospective projects "started to fall out of the sky."
With each project, Chermayeff and his colleagues got the chance to explore new directions and tell different stories -- freshwater environments instead of saltwater (Chattanooga), taking a regional focus (Seward, Alaska), interweaving human history with natural history (Genoa), working inside a recycled building (New Bedford), exploring the wonders of ice and glaciers (Islip).
In every case, Chermayeff found a way to take plants and wildlife that may seem ordinary in nature and exhibit them in such a way that they seem out of the ordinary. His buildings are not so much museums as theaters -- with living creatures as the featured players, performing not according to scripts but natural behavior. "The key," he says, is "to find the intrinsic interest, the excitement, in what seems ordinary but isn't."
The more aquarium design work Chermayeff did, the more of an expert he became. Others may have been considered for certain aquarium commissions, but they didn't have the design experience he did, or the penchant for taking an interdisciplinary approach.
"What sets us apart is our interest not in pure architecture but in the combination of architecture and exhibit design and graphic design and landscape design," Chermayeff said. "It adds an extra dimension to what we're doing."
For every aquarium that was built, many others failed to materialize. Cambridge Seven developed proposals for Denver, Moscow, Dublin, London, Glasgow, Hamburg, Toronto and Ottawa, among other cities. One project that Chermayeff regrets not completing was a plan to turn New York's Radio City Music Hall into an attraction called Ocean World, with legendary oceanographer Jacques Cousteau as a partner.
Whether the projects moved ahead or not, Chermayeff was gratified to have so much work. It combined the chance to create striking architecture and help renew cities with the chance to explore and celebrate nature -- an unusual mix.
"In many ways, what we've enjoyed doing is finding diverse ways in which urban settings, where people are often deprived of any contact with the natural world, can become better connected with nature" through realistic exhibits, he said. "The artistry of creating exhibits has come a very long way since the 1960s."
One underlying goal of his is to connect people with other living creatures by setting up encounters that stimulate an emotional response. The more varied and realistic the experiences are for aquarium visitors, he says, the more likely they are to be moved by what they see.
"The encounter is what it's all about," he says. "The aquarium is intended as an immersion experience, where visitors will be surrounded by the animals and feel their presence all around. We've tried to get the interior architecture to be so secondary it seems to disappear."
Changing message
Twenty years after the National Aquarium opened, the nature of aquarium design has changed significantly. There is less emphasis on creating settings in which dolphins jump through hoops, and more emphasis on conveying a message about the need to conserve the world's natural resources.
In many cases, the architects are reducing the amount of written information for visitors to digest, so they can concentrate on the living creatures. They're always trying to create more naturalistic habitats -- even if that means downplaying or eliminating architectural infrastructure. Many of their newest buildings are enclosed by glass, rather than concrete, as owners attempt to make exhibits more visible and accessible.
"It's not just about architecture," Chermayeff said. "It's about places. We're choosing less complex subject matter but getting more into it so we can go deeper. We don't just want to show dolphins. We want to find ways to show how intelligent they are and make the point that they have complex social lives. If we can pull it off, it's a richer experience for people."
Over the past decade, IDEA has assembled aquarists from around the world, including former staffers from aquariums that Cambridge Seven designed, to operate aquariums under its purview. In a sense, the aquariums that Chermayeff designed are becoming the training grounds for experts who will run the aquariums he's designing for the future.
For Chermayeff, the ultimate extension of that process would be owning and operating an aquarium. Architects have become developers in the past, for projects ranging from housing to hotels, but this would be a first. And it raises more than a few questions about the traditional separation between architect, client and builder. Who could he test his ideas against when he is both client and designer? Where are the traditional checks and balances?
Chermayeff said he understands the potential pitfalls. But he believes there can be advantages when the builder of a complicated structure or exhibit is the same as the designer. Ideally, he said, it could improve the way aquariums are designed and built -- and, ultimately, the experience for visitors.
"We've always thought we could hold to a higher standard if we had more of a say," he said. "There could be tremendous benefits to the whole process."
Untiring worker
At a time when many architects consider retirement, Chermayeff is busier than ever and energized by his latest work. He said he's especially grateful that directors of the Baltimore aquarium came back to him and Poole and Sollogub to design the building that will be attached to the one on Pier 3.
In Boston, the New England Aquarium hired another firm to design an addition, and it dramatically altered (some would say marred) the look of the original. The National Aquarium hired another architect to design its Marine Mammal Pavilion. But on Pier 3, at least, decisions that will affect the look and use of the original building are being made by those who designed it.
That was never in doubt, said Mark Seely, senior director of capital planning and facilities. "We thought it was very important to have the original architects involved."
Although Chermayeff is too diplomatic to say which aquarium is his favorite, it's clear that he will always have a special place in his heart for Baltimore's.
"I feel this building and this institution have been the pleasure of a lifetime," he said. "I put my heart and soul into it, and it has remained dear to me ever since."
While he now operates on many fronts at once, he says he'll never tire of the work because it's always changing.
"I like to think that, with each project, we're achieving something new," he said. "That's the search, anyway. That's what keeps us going."


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On January 10, 1928 Minnie Buckingham Harper (R-McDowell) was appointed to succeed her late husband in the West Virginia House of Delegates, becoming the first African-American woman to serve in a Legislative Body in the United States. Harper was appointed by Governor Howard Gore to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, E. Howard Harper.
Prior to her husband's passing, Minnie Harper had been a housewife in Keystone. She did not run in the state legislative elections held later that year.
During the early part of the 20th century the southern half of the WV, and McDowell County in particular, attracted a relatively large number of African Americans from surrounding states who were looking for work in the coal mines.
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One of the most influential movements of the last decade is the Tea Party Movement. This political movement has created protests and led to support for certain conservative and libertarian political candidates. The main issues they are raising awareness of are: reduced government spending, an opposition to taxation, the reduction of the national debt, and a return to a strict interpretation of the Constitution. The name Tea Party comes from the historical event the Boston Tea Party which was a protest led by colonists who objected a British tax on tea in 1773. It has no central leadership or membership requirements. The impact on our culture has only just begun to be measured. In the 2010 election, Tea Party-endorsed candidates forced a turn over in ...
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Friday, April 24, 2009
Fridge Front Friday
Posting your list of goals and motivations on the front of your fridge is the perfect way to remind yourself to stay on track.
Please post your Fridge Front Friday List on your site and fill in the Mr. Linky below so we can visit each others sites to get some new ideas. If do not have a blog you can post your list in the comments or just post it on your fridge.
I will start us off with my Fridge Front Friday List for the week. I plan to print my list and put it on my fridge and read a few of these if not all of them each time I look at the fridge.
Jessica's Fridge Front Friday List
1. I'm in the 180's!!! Yippee!!!
2. You have to wear a bathing suit in a little more than a month.
3. Size 14 here I come.
1. You don't want to go back.
2. Are you tracking your points today? How many do you have left?
3. Exercise, Exercise, Exercise
4. Every bite counts. You need to take points for every single bite.
5. Don't give up. You can do it!
6. Stay away from the chocolate.
1. Are you really hungry?
2. Drink your water
Goals for the week:
1. Exercise at least 5 days this week.
2. Eat lots of veggie's.
3. Track my points every day.
4. Don't go over my points.
5. Drink lots of water.
6. Stay within budget.
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2 comments:
- Mimi said...
I've fallen off of the wagon today, but I'm going to hop back on!
- April 24, 2009 at 9:52 AM
- PMKU said...
I found you through Angie! I'm going to be here a lot more. We all seem to be working on the same goals of weight loss. I would love to be where you are!
- April 25, 2009 at 11:35 AM
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YWCA Lethbridge & District Women's Residence has 32 beds. Single and double rooms are available for women (and any dependent children) to rent on a monthly basis at reasonable rates.
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Unlike it's predecessor [1], Rainmap-lite does not require special services (RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Celery, supervisor, etc) to make it easy to install on any server. You simply need to install the Django application and add the cron polling task to set up a new scanning server. Nmap scans on the road for everyone!
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JOB SUMMARY Leader of global finance team located in US, Canada, Latin America, Asia, and Europe for a full service Global Workplace Solutions account. Responsible for the performance of all corporate real estate financial functions for the client and CBRE. Responsible for managing the following finance functions, but is not limited to: annual operating and capital budget preparation, monthly forecasting, variance analysis, project and fixed asset accounting, accruals, accounts payables and receivables, strategic planning, management reporting, and other special projects.
The Global Finance Director will also have direct responsibility for management of CBRE account P&L. In this capacity, the Global Finance Director will act as CFO to the Alliance Director and will work with the senior members of the account management team, taking a key part in discussions related to strategic direction for the account. Executive presence, presentation skills, leadership skills, previous experience in a global organization, internal/external client management skills are some of the key requirements for the position.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Responsible for the global budgeting process, forecasting process, strategic planning process, and standard management reporting. Establishes overall departmental priorities and ensures that all deadlines are met. Includes preparation of real estate and facilities budgets and forecasts for operating and capital expenses for multiple countries.
This responsibility requires coordination with multiple parties such as Client FP&A, CBRE employees on the account, client employees and 3rd party vendors. Working with client, CBRE team members, and 3rd party vendors to ensure client's balance sheet and P&L statements for corporate real estate are timely and accurate. Facilitate the client's month-end close process by ensuring that CBRE and 3rd party vendor invoices are submitted to the client in a timely manner and necessary accruals and journal entries are recorded.
Working with vendors, client and CBRE team members, lead preparation of periodic reporting packages including variance reporting for actual operating and capital expenses compared to forecasts and budgets. Reporting will be at various levels of consolidation (e.g., building level, sub region level, region level). Prepares final recommendations for budget and forecast to finance leadership.
Provides high quality financial advice to both the client and the CBRE senior management team for the client. Ensures complete knowledge of monthly results. Assists in presentation of results to senior finance management.
Manages all client deliverables globally in line with the contractual agreement, ensuring global consistency of approach and quality of output. Responsible for contract compliance and governance structure including key performance indicators, baseline budget management, savings forecasting and glide path reporting. Responsible for real estate occupancy cost allocations and chargebacks in line with client guidance.
Responsible for special projects and presentations to senior management. Effectively leads a strong global finance team. Leadership will include development and constantly evaluating department needs versus existing staffing levels/quality.
Manage client relationships and fosters trust, especially with the client's finance team members. Facilitates review and approval of capex projects in accordance with the company approval guidelines and capital request processes as well as acquisition earn-outs / deferred purchase payment obligations. Reviews submissions from the businesses and presents to executive management for approval.
Ensure that CBRE and vendors are compliant with client's and CBRE's processes and policies. Ensure that accounts payables and accounts receivables functions are executed according to the agreed upon P2P processes (vendor set-up, POs, payments, etc.) Create/maintain policy, processes and playbooks related to client-facing and CBRE responsibilities. Train and provide guidelines to CBRE team members, client employees and 3rd party vendors on finance processes and tools, as necessary.
Working with client and CBRE IT teams, support and maintain IT tools that enable client facing responsibilities. Directs quarterly consolidated financial statement preparation and SEC reporting processes (10-Q's and 10-K's, other financial filings with the SEC) Other duties may be assigned. SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES Leads a robust global finance team and indirect management of Real Estate Accounting Services located around the world.
Ensures constant team development with an eye towards progression and retention. Responsible for all aspects of HR in regard to department including: hiring, termination (when necessary), compensation, and performance evaluation. QUALIFICATIONS To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in Accounting, Finance or Economics from four-year college or university and a minimum of eight years of related experience and/or training.
Public accounting experience preferred (varies depending on specifics of role). Minimum of two years of global experience required. CERTIFICATES and/or LICENSES CPA or MBA (graduate degree) preferred, but not required (depending on experience).
GLOBAL Experience in a global setting, managing/leading finance processes in multiple time zones, cultures, local regulations and currencies. COMMUNICATION SKILLS Excellent oral and written communication skills. Ability to comprehend, analyze, and interpret the most complex business documents.
Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive issues. Ability to write reports and manuals using distinctive style. Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with peers, business people and management.
Ability to motivate and work collaboratively with business partners, key employees, top management, and client groups on various projects. Ability to handle and manage multiple projects and work streams. Ability to build rapport and trust with external and internal clients, which are located in various part of the globe.
Experience with communications with senior management via emails or presentations. Ability to set and communicate timelines, roles and responsibilities to multiple stakeholders and hold these parties accountable for deliverables. Requires communication with multiple stakeholders in various time zones.
Due to time zone differences, there will be periodic and ad-hoc meetings that are scheduled for early morning or late evening local time. Ability to prepare business memos, emails and presentations within deadlines. FINANCIAL KNOWLEDGE Requires in-depth knowledge of financial terms and principles.
Reviews complex financial/business analysis and reports prepared by subordinates. Ability to analyze the most complex business/financial data and develop innovative solutions. Develops and implements financial policies and procedures.
Approves and oversees department budget. Broad, in-depth understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), concepts. Lease Accounting a plus.
SEC reporting experience desired (depending on the specific finance role). Requires knowledge of financial terms and principles such as NPV and Discounted Cash Flow analysis, weighted average cost of capital (WACC). Exposure to and reporting of capital projects and fixed assets is preferred.
REASONING ABILITY Ability to solve advanced problems and deal with a variety of options in complex situations. Requires expert level analytical and quantitative skills with proven experience in developing strategic solutions for a growing matrix-based multi-industry sales environment. Ability to problem-solve, both independently and working as a team.
Ability to accurately explain/report activity in verbal and written communications. Ability to analyze large amounts of data to decipher actionable outcomes a must. Ability to comprehend, analyze, and interpret various types of business documents.
Ability to summarize complex concepts and present meaningful commentary to senior level management. OTHER SKILLS and/or ABILITIES Strong computer skills, including specific knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.). Broad experience with other software and financial systems is desired (particularly HFM Consolidation, PeopleSoft Financials and Cognos Planning, SAP).
Knowledge of real estate service industry and terminology helpful. Strong work ethic and adaptable. Understanding of database structures and basics.
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It's wet and cold but your dog still needs to get out and move about. But where can you go when it's raining? Plenty of places.
Go to a Friend's House
A good way to avoid cabin fever when it's raining is to visit a friend—whether that friend is another dog or a favorite human. Bonus: a visit might help your own cabin fever too! This doesn't necessarily provide exercise, but it gives you both some variety and company.
Go Shopping at Stores that Allow Pets
Pet stores and pet bakeries are obvious targets, but other stores allow pets too. Hardware stores are often pet-friendly and also have the advantage of wide aisles and a variety of smells (especially if there's a garden center). Call ahead to check first, as some chains let local store managers decide whether to allow pets. Do your fellow shoppers a favor by remembering to bring your extra thick doggie waste pick-up bags. You might want to carry them around in a lightweight dispenser.
Visit an Indoor Dog Park
Like outdoor parks, this is a place where your buddy can run around and play—while you hang out, watch over the action, and clean up doggie poop as needed. You may have to show proof of vaccinations and flea prevention to get inside. Call or go to the park's website to learn the rules; some limit the kinds of food and treats you can bring, and they all have behavioral guidelines.
Wander Around a Parking Garage
While not quite as idyllic as your local park, parking garages do offer some covered space for pups who have a lot of energy and need to move around for a bit. Be extra watchful and keep your grip tight on the leash, since there will be cars backing in and out, not to mention speeding.
Stay Inside and Play Games
Maybe your furry friend doesn't like the rain, or perhaps the weather is just too treacherous to venture out. That's okay. There are ways to give your four-legged pal some activity and new experiences at home. Run up the stairs or down the hallway, set up an obstacle course, or play find-the-snack with some new treats, like these buffalo rawhide treats.
Go Outside and Enjoy the Rain!
The thing about getting wet? It's only temporary. And sometimes it's downright fun!
Visit the Groomer
This might be the perfect day for your dog to visit the groomer and get pampered. Especially if she's just enjoyed some good old-fashioned puddle-jumping while engaging in the previous activity. Timing is everything.
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While the publication of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring in 1962 has been cited by many as the dawn of the environmental movement, the celebration of the first Earth Day in 1970 demonstrated to many that the concern over pollution, overpopulation, and the abuse of our natural resources was no longer the task of a handful of scientists but something that had caught the attention of people all around the world. Filmmaker Robert Stone offers...more
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Weekly wellness: Are you flip-flopping this summer?
In the summertime, I love flip-flops! They are easy, cute, and can show off a pedicure. How can something so wonderful have such a potential negative impact on our feet? Unfortunately, they can. You may not realize it, but when you wear flip-flops, the muscles in your feet have to clench the entire time you're in motion. You may not even realize that you're doing it, but, trust me. You are. If you're just wearing your flip-flops to run a quick errand or to walk from the car to the pool, no biggie. It's when you are wearing them for hours at a time that issues can arise.
The "grip" your feet perform to keep footwear on can makes toe bones curl up and/or curl down; drives the end of some bones into the ground, creating higher-than-normal pressure—this can lead to toe contracture/metatarsal injury over time; drives the ends of some bones up into the top of the sandal, which can lead to corns and calluses over time if there's something for the toes to rub against.
All this gripping can lead to shortened toe muscles (called hammer toes), and gait and balance changes. In time, it can affect how your whole body moves.
Here are some stretches that might help:
Stretch the Top of Your Foot
· Stand up straight on your right foot and reach your left foot back behind you, tucking the toes of your left foot under and placing them on the floor.
· Work up to holding this stretch for one minute. If your toes start to cramp, come out of the move, rest, and return when you can.
· Toes just too tight? Try it seated.
Calf stretch
· Place the ball of your left foot on the apex of a half-foam roller or rolled-up folded towel. Drop the heel all the way to the ground, and straighten that knee.
· Step forward with your right foot. If you can't bring your foot all the way forward, take a smaller step.
· Keep your weight stacked vertically over the heel of whichever foot is farther back.
· Hold for one minute, then switch legs; do this three times on each leg.
Toe Spreading
· Sit cross-legged.
· Interlace the fingers of the right hand with the toes of the left foot.
· Gently spread your toes away from each other.
· Hold for up to one minute, then switch to the other hand and foot.
Still want to let your tootsies feel the sun in the summertime? Opt for a Greek sandal that is strappy on top, flat on the bottom, and still fully connected to your foot. Or find a sandal that has a strap around the back of your heal. Take good care of those feet. They need to last you a while.


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The Area stool is a new and innovative approach to furniture from Cane-line.
The Area side table/stool is both multi-functional and elegant.
Use it indoors or outdoors, either as a side table, or as a delightful stool.
When used as a seat, it works perfectly teamed up with the Area dining table or Go cafe table.
Alternatively, use it as a side table to accompany your outdoor lounge furniture, such as the Breeze lounge furniture.
A seat cushion is available (to order separately), which ingeniously fixes in to the stool by removing the centre wooden plug.
Pictured in the main image with a GO cafe table and the Defined outdoor rug.
Choose between a black or white aluminium top, combined with teak legs.
Please see here for furniture covers to give protection to your outdoor furniture, and to minimise the amount of maintenance required after the winter months.
If you have any queries about any aspect of the range, please phone our furniture help line on 0345 6052505 where we will be delighted to help you or, if you prefer, send us an email.


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PROMOS Study or Internship Abroad Scholarships
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Application Deadlines
For stays at partner universities via RWTHworldwide:
December 15, 2019 and August 15, 2020
PROMOS, a scholarship program offered by the German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD for short, is financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. It has been promoting the mobility of students abroad with scholarships for short term study since 2010.
Applications are accepted for all countries outside the Erasmus area. Switzerland is an exception: As funding through the Swiss-European Mobility Programme, known as SEMP for short, is possible here, only internships for which SEMP funding is excluded can be funded with PROMOS. Stays in countries or regions for which the Federal Foreign Office has issued a travel warning cannot also not be funded. Please refer to the Federal Foreign Office website for information about which countries or regions are affected. Here you can find a detailed list of countries and types of grants.
Who Can Apply?
RWTH students from any faculty who – in a country eligible for funding through PROMOS –
- are planning a semester abroad
- wish to finish a thesis or project
- or wish to complete an internship
can be funded with partial scholarships for their stay from January to the end of December from DAAD funds. Doctoral candidates, with the exception of medical students, are not eligible to apply for a PROMOS scholarship; however, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) offers various funding opportunities for doctoral candidates, therefore you should contact them directly if you are interested in taking advantage of this.
Further Application Requirements
- You have not received any funding from the PROMOS or Voss program so far.
- You have already received confirmation of your stay abroad.
- You are not receiving any other scholarships for the stay from German public funds, RWTH, the host university, or the host country. You can find more information under the Scholarship Details section below.
Scholarship Details
- The scholarships are awarded for periods of study or research abroad lasting for one to six months; internships must last longer than six weeks. The RWTH project coordinator will first determine the number of months funded after the selection period. The funding period can range from one to six months and depends on the availability of funds.
- A partial scholarship of at least 300 Euros per month and/or a country-specific travel stipend will be awarded. The PROMOS program is not responsible for any organizational support in planning your stay. It is solely a funding program. You may of course use one of the International Office's structured mobility programs and participate in the group advising sessions offered.
- Internships for which internship-specific funding offered by the DAAD is already accepted cannot be funded through PROMOS. This entails: internships with international organizations, such as the UN, EU institutions, institutions and organizations that manage EU programs, Germany's missions abroad, the German Humanities Institutes, the Goethe-Instituts, the German Archaeological Institute, and German schools abroad. You can find more information on the DAAD website.
- You may simultaneously apply for multiple scholarship programs. However you cannot accept multiple forms of financial support, for a scholarship for your stay that are funded by German public means, RWTH funds, the host university, or the host country. Double funding for a stay abroad from different RWTH scholarship programs, such as MOGAM, MIRAI, or UROP, is not allowed.
- You may use scholarships that finance studies at RWTH and are not directly related to your planned stay, such as a Deutschland scholarship or NRW scholarship, along with the PROMOS scholarship.
- If you receive a scholarship from any other public scholarship institution in addition to PROMOS, these institutions are to be notified of your PROMOS grant.
- If you receive the PROMOS scholarship and BAföG for abroad, you are required to notify the BAföG office of the amount of your PROMOS scholarship.
There are different ways of applying for the scholarship, depending on whether you are applying for an International Office partner placement by August 15 or December 15 via RWTHworldwide or you are going abroad via a faculty partnership or have organized a stay yourself.
If you are applying for an RWTHworldwide partner position by August 15 or December 15 and are interested in applying for a PROMOS or Voss scholarship, please tick the relevant section for this in your application. Scholarship holders will be chosen at the same time as the selection of those who are to be nominated for a partner position. Information on the application process can be found on the page on studying abroad at RWTHworldwide.
In all other cases – such as stays abroad organized by yourself or through a faculty or institute partnership – you can apply for a PROMOS or Voss scholarship by September 1 or May 1 via this online application portal. It will open one month before each deadline. All deadlines only apply to stays that start in 2019/20 and that have not already ended by the application deadline. It is therefore not possible to retroactively fund a stay that is already over.
Please upload the following documents to your application:
- Letter of confirmation or internship contract from the host institution. Alternatively: nomination from RWTH
- Tabular resume
- Evidence of proficiency in the language of your host country, for example through a language certificate such as TOEFL, and certificate from the Language Center or your Abitur certificate
- Current transcript of records
- For Master's students: transcript of records of your Bachelor's degree
- Academic progress certificate
- Other voluntary documentation, for example awards, volunteer involvement, etc.
In the online application, information about your motivation is requested.
The application documents must be submitted as one PDF file that must not be any larger than 5 megabytes. Applications must be received by the respective deadline. Incomplete applications and applications received after the deadline will not be considered.
PROMOS scholarship holders are selected by a university commission in the International Office about six weeks after each application deadline.
Selection Criteria
- Quality of application
- Academic achievements
- Quality of project abroad, that is the process and motivation from a technical-qualitative perspective
- Sufficient language skills
- Motivation
- Other qualifications
After Selection
If you are selected, you must submit the following documents:
- Confirmation from your host institution, "certificate" of your actual stay, as soon as possible after you return
- Two experience reports, immediately upon your return; DAAD experience report and a self-written report
After submitting the documents listed above, you can request a PROMOS scholarship certificate. For more information please contact Birgit Thun-Vié.
Students With Disabilities
PROMOS-funded students with a degree of medical disability of at least 50 percent may be able to receive a special scholarship if they can prove that they will incur greater expenses due to being abroad while not receiving any support from other responsible institutions. In this case, please submit the following paperwork in addition to your application – or, at the latest, after receiving confirmation of receiving funding
- Copy of the Disability ID
- Table of anticipated expenses
- Proof that no other responsible institution is offering financial support
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
DAAD Group Insurance
The German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD, offers a group insurance package for students and doctoral candidates which includes health, accident, and personal liability insurance. For further information, please visit the web pages of the DAAD.
PROMOS Scholarships in Australia and New Zealand
The Institut Ranke-Heinemann awards grants for study stays in Australia and New Zealand in conjunction with PROMOS. This means that PROMOS scholarship holders receive a discount of 10 percent off their tuition fees, regardless of the university, the course of study, or the amount of PROMOS funding. You can find further information on the IRH website.


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|This body is NOT gonna last, and I want to be okay with that.
A couple of weeks ago, I took my measurements before ordering a dress. Between late December and now, I have lost more than two inches in the waist; I'm smaller than I've been in a long time.
I've been caught between celebrating and being unnerved at my own celebration. In December, my doctor told me to lose ten pounds because I had high cholesterol, and at the time I rationalized that he said "lose ten pounds" because the steps taken to do so would restore my health. That it was all about health, not about size or weight on its own. But now I find that even as I worked so hard to love my body no matter the size, I really truly prefer how I look at a lower weight. I find this troubling.
I've been seeing shifts and new challenges in dealing with food and my body, as I've been getting healthier and realizing that I have it in my power to improve my health further through what I eat. This realization hasn't been good.
I've found myself questioning every food decision I make:
Am I eating this banana because it tastes good or because I want to be healthy?
Do I really need to use butter here?
Should I really be eating pasta all the time, even though it's cheap and easy to prepare?
I don't like that when I try to live healthier, food not only stops being a simple matter of eat what is filling and pleasurable, it becomes a moral issue. I don't count calories; therefore I'm less disciplined. I like pasta and meat sauce; therefore I'm a gross fatty. I refuse to give up chocolate, therefore I have a massive sweet tooth which must be reigned in and crushed.
I don't want to view food as either medicine or menace. I don't want to sacrifice deriving pleasure from eating for the sake of getting in my Five a Day. I want to be able to enjoy my food while not thinking about the fact that it's good for me (or not!). But the more I think about my health and consciously making choices to improve my health, the more my brain wants to take it too far. I don't like that.
I've never dealt with an eating disorder, so I'm not too concerned about developing one*. But I don't want my attitude toward food to sour because I can't trust it or myself.
I have yet to find a middle ground. There's a voice of culinary judgment embedded in my psyche that can't just be pulled out so I can stop caring about the health value of food or care without feeling a lot of guilt when I indulge in bacon sandwiches. In this way, for now, I'm kind of stuck.
Meanwhile, as I worry that I'll see food as a means to health at the expense of pleasure, I'm concerned that I'll see health as a means to "good" appearance, not as a valid goal in and of itself.
I believe that no one should be judged for how big or small they are; I believe that there is no one ideal body toward which all women should aspire. Yet I still have a sense of what I want my body to look like, and when it doesn't look like that I'm kind of meh about things, and when it does (right now) I'm happy. It doesn't matter that I've surrounded myself with supportive friends, it doesn't matter that I have a partner who loves me no matter how big my waist is, I still feel like there's a way I'm "supposed" to look and I get frustrated when I find myself drifting away from that.
I remember looking at myself in the mirror after the Summer of Sitting on My Butt and Knitting All Day (aka last summer when I started this blog) and complaining to my girlfriend that I wanted my hourglass figure back. It's returned with a vengeance now, but I know that when I go home and I'm sitting around a lot, the stretch marks and rolls will re-assert themselves and I'll be back where I started.
I don't want to be only happy with my body when it looks a certain way. I want to be happy with it always. And the weird thing is, I usually am. Even as I gained weight over the summer from sitting on my butt all the time, I was still running around in shorts and tank tops like I had nothing to fear. I sit in my room naked with no discomfort about the way my body looks or the things it does. I don't have a constantly nagging sense of "must continue to look this way". Basically, I'm not very upset when my body is different from my personal ideal, but I'm much much happier when I fit that ideal, and that discrepancy is enough to worry me.
I really, truly want to love myself regardless of how I look. I want to be able to look at myself in the mirror in August, after a summer of car rides and DIY, and clutch my gut and say "I look goooooood". Not "I want my London body back". I just want to know that I look good regardless of my size and shape.
I know that not giving a crap about health isn't the answer, but I also know that obsessing over health isn't the answer, either. It's a matter of finding a middle ground.
Because that's such a simple thing to do.
*Though I did eat an entire can of Pringles in the space of an hour to cope with the stress of facing four months without my partner around


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Are Main Streets a thing of the past, or are they just getting ready for their closeup?
Are Main Streets a thing of the past? Kaid Benfield thinks they might be, run out of business by the big box store and suburban sprawl. He writes in the NRDC Switchboard:
He writes about the ones that survive:
One of the causes of the decline of real Main Streets is that the scale of the retail economy in our country has changed so dramatically since their heyday, with expansionist and successful superstores and national chains leaving little room for small, local businesses to prosper.
The places in America that still have successful Main Streets likely have special economic circumstances, such as a tourist economy, a truly remote location, or a surrounding or nearby wealthy suburb whose residents like the historic, walkable atmosphere for certain occasions but go to the mall or a big-box to buy clothing or electronics.
But I wonder if there isn't a reversal of this trend beginning to happen, a Main Street revival as more people ditch their cars. In cities that are doing well, like New York or Toronto, I see new retail shops opening up all over to sell to those who don't have a car to drive to IKEA. The big grocery chains are opening mini-stores to meet the demand of those who walk or cycle. Some of the historic character is being lost to intensification, but that is just putting more customers into the neighborhood to shop at those stores.
It's not just in the booming cities, either; smaller nearby cities are catching the overflow, leading to a renaissance on the main streets of Philadelphia near New York or Hamilton near Toronto.
I am loath to be critical of Kaid Benfield, who did such a lovely profile of me recently. But I wonder if it isn't the big box stores and the suburban malls that are in trouble, while the Main Streets are about to come into their own again. Kaid acknowledges this, noting that "Today, it is the suburban malls that are on the decline, and some of those disinvested urban districts are revitalizing and reclaiming their urban commercial streets". He's right that certain kind of main street uses are never coming back; nobody needs a Main Street insurance office anymore. But other businesses are coming in and filling the gap, businesses that didn't exist twenty years ago.
I really do think that Main Street is just getting started.


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|Gary Lightbody throws himself into Snow Patrol's set
MORNING! Ssssh, not too loud!
A bit of a sore head and the stupendous heat is back in full force in
for day two of V Festival. Chelmsford
Today's line up – to be honest – doesn't have quite the same appeal as yesterday, but there are a couple of must-sees on my list.
I start the day slowly, taking in a number of acts including The Stranglers, The Rifles, Shed Seven and a touch of Olly Murs. The latter occurred as I waited for one of those must-sees – Madness.
Despite being a fan since childhood, I had never seen them perform live and they were not to disappoint. It did seem the band – and especially lead singer Suggs – may have been at the free bar ahead of their performance at around 3.30pm, but it added to the charm and showmanship.
Indeed, so involved with the fun and 'banter' of the afternoon were the band that saxophonist Lee Thompson missed his solo in Baggy Trousers because he was off-stage kicking inflatable balls into the crowd.
Murs returned to perform It Must Be Love with the band, and despite the disappointment of Suggs not singing that one, the performance overall was superb.
Sadly, the other classic to follow them – Tom Jones – didn't have quite the same appeal or fun factor and my jubilant mood was dampened somewhat. A great singer, don't get me wrong, but he didn't do it for me on a festival stage.
I proved to be something of a disjointed running order on the main stage. Veteran Jones was followed by Tinie Tempah, who in turn was followed by Snow Patrol.
There are few similarities between the acts for them to smoothly follow one another, but I suppose the idea of a festival is that there is something for all.
|Olly Murs performed his set and then returned with Madness
Snow Patrol were, however, one of the highlights of the day.
I had heard some of their music when they stepped up as headliners after Oasis pulled out in 2009, but was surprised at how good they were and how many songs I knew.
This time round, I knew more of what to expect and was not disappointed. Gary Lightbody is such an enthusiastic frontman that the crowd cannot but believe him when he says how wonderful they are and what a good time he was having.
It was another triumphant set.
The Killers then followed as headliners and seemed to work their magic on the crowd. While they have delivered some exceptional songs – not least Mr Brightside – there is something about the band that doesn't pull me in. And while I listened and enjoyed a number of their songs, there was still not enough to make me 'a fan'.
And so a wonderful weekend ends on something of a downer, but there was still plenty across the two days that makes me want to return in 2013.


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Customizer Kitchens has been established since 1999, now with over 12 years experience and a team of professional kitchen makers and installers. Customizer Kitchens specialise is Laminex kitchens, Polyurethane kitchens, Vintage style timber kitchens and Polytec kitchens. Customizer Kitchens also specialise in Quantum quartz and ceasar stone benchtops.
As part of our kitchen making expertise we are also happy to be able to provide our clients with Bathroom Vanities, Hinge Door Wardrobes, Built-in Wardrobes, Entertainment units and other Joinery work. With this work we are happy to work with you in the design and concept of your built-in wardrobe or entertainment unit. Just contact our sales team and we will organise one of our staff members to start working on your wardrobe or custom made unit immediately.
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Relocating to a new city for a few months can be both exciting and stressful. You may be asking yourself questions like:
- 1. Will I find a great place to live that offers short term rentals and leases?
- 2. Will I have to worry about furniture?
- 3. Will I have to travel far to get to the jobsite?
These are all reasonable and often asked questions. Our solution to that problem is Fidelity Management's VIP Corporate Suite short term apartment rentals program, which offers:
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- Lease for as few as two months
- Fully Furnished Apartments, or bring your own
- Walking distance to train station, malls, and parks
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Thanks to the location of any one of our four apartment buildings, it is very easy to get where you need to go. You have streamlined, easy access to:
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- All of the move in documentation will be prepared and sent to you overnight mail with pre-paid return envelope.
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- Before you arrive, our staff will be working with a third party to ensure your apartment is fully furnished and ready for you to move in.
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