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Look, in the grand scheme of the world, OBVIOUSLY there are more important things than what stamps you put on your wedding invitations. But as a bride, I'll admit I would have been a teeeeeny bit sad to send off my gorgeous wedding invitations with a boring old flag stamp. (#firstworldproblems, I get it.) The USPS did have wedding-themed stamps when I got married (a flower-topped wedding cake or two white roses), but they felt pretty hokey. (We went with The Simpsons postage.) So I'm happy to announce that, as of yesterday, there's a new wedding-themed stamp in town. Ta-da!
Thanks to extra-heavy paper and all those inserts, wedding invitations generally cost more to mail than your average letter, so you can't slap a "forever" stamp on them and call it a day. To make sure your invites make it safely to their destinations, bring one wedding invitation, all packed up, to the post office beforehand, and have them weigh it and tell you the correct postage. Otherwise you'll end up with a billion "Return to Sender" wedding invitations in your mailbox, and that would suck.
If you can get away with using a "forever" stamp, here are two cute options, also good for save-the-dates and thank-you notes:
Do you care about what stamps go on your wedding invitations?
I was surprised, but after putting so much effort into the envelopes—gorgeous wraparound labels that I typed on a friggin' typewriter—I REALLY cared!


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Europe and Mankind—English translation
This is currently unfinished, but I want the public to be able to see the sections that I have translated so far. Europe and Mankind is an interesting essay written by Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy (1890–1938), who happens to be a first cousin thrice removed. He was primarily a linguist, but occasionally wrote on historical and sociological topics. I am not an expert in the meta-historical domain whatsoever, so I can't offer any informed commentary.
I merely stumbled upon this essay and found it extremely relevant to today's world. However, there doesn't appear to be an English translation available. I figured, I might as well translate it, and at the same time better understand the ideas of Nikolay Sergeyevich and others like him.
Europe and Mankind
By Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy, Sofia, 1920.
Translated into modern English by Alexandr (Sasha) Trubetskoy, 2018.
It is not without hesitation that I offer this work to the world. The thoughts expressed here already coalesced in my mind some 10 years ago. Since then, I have discussed these topics with many different people, wishing either to test myself, or to convince the other person. Many of these conversations and discussions turned out to be rather beneficial to me, since they forced me to flesh out and deepen my ideas and arguments. But they did not change my core ideas. Of course I could not possibly limit myself to casual conversations. In order to verify whether the theses that I am defending are actually correct, I had to open these ideas up to a broader discussion, i.e. publish them. This I have still not done. And I haven't done this because, over many conversations (especially early on), I got the impression that most of the people I came across simply did not understand what I was trying to say. They didn't understand—not because I wasn't expressing myself clearly, but because the majority of educated Europeans find these ideas inherently unacceptable, as if they go against some unshakeable psychological foundation that is the basis of European thought. People saw me as a purveyor of paradoxes, and my arguments as callously nonconformist. Needless to say, under those circumstances, I found debating neither meaningful nor beneficial, for a debate can only be productive when both sides understand each other and speak the same language. And since, at the time, I found hardly anything besides misunderstanding, I did not consider it timely to publicize my thoughts. I waited for a more opportune moment.
My decision to go to print is largely due to the fact that I am encountering more and more people who understand me; moreover, I am beginning to find people who agree with my core ideas. It turns out that many people have, completely independently, arrived at the same conclusions as I have. There seemed to have been a shift in the thinking of many educated people. The Great War and, in particular, the ensuing "peace" (which I am still forced to put in quotes), have challenged people's faith in "civilized society" and have opened the eyes of many. We Russians are, of course, in a special situation. We have witnessed the sudden collapse of what we had called Russian culture. Many of us were shocked by the incredible speed and lack of difficulty with which it all happened, and many have pondered the causes of this phenomenon.
Perhaps this pamphlet may help some of my compatriots to clear up their own thoughts on the matter. Some of my positions could have been amply illustrated with examples from Russian history. This might have made my writing more lively and engrossing, but such digressions would have made the bigger picture less clear. In offering the reader these relatively new ideas, my main concern is to present these ideas clearly and in a logical progression. Furthermore, my thoughts apply not only to Russians, but to all other peoples which have in one form or another taken up European culture without actually having Romance or Germanic heritage. When I release this booklet to the world in the Russian language, I do so only because charity begins at home, and above all I would like for my thoughts to be received and understood by my fellow countrymen.
In offering my thoughts to the reader's attention, I would like to remind the reader of a choice that they must personally make for themselves. One of the following must be true. Either the ideas that I am defending are false, and stand to be disproven logically; or these ideas are true, and we must draw practical conclusions from them.
Accepting the truth of the theses in this brochure obligates one to do further work. Having accepted these theses, one must develop and concretize them in order to apply them to real life, and to use this point of view to revisit many of the questions that present themselves throughout life. Many people nowadays are "reevaluating their values" in one way or another. For those who do accept the theses that I defend, the last ones will serve to indicate the direction in which this reevaluation should go. There is no doubt that the work that proceeds from the acceptance of these ideas, be it theoretical or practical, must be a collective effort. Any individual can abandon some idea or join a well-known cause, but it is the collective that must develop an entire system based on these thoughts and put it into practice. I invite anyone who shares my convictions to participate in this collective work. I am convinced that these people exist, thanks to a few serendipitous encounters. All they must to do is join forces in earnest, concerted effort. And if my brochure can serve as the catalyst to unite these people, I would consider my goal accomplished.
On the other hand, there are moral obligations that likewise befall those who reject my theses as false. If the theses that I defend are truly false, then they are toxic and must be opposed. But since (dare I say) they are grounded in logic, then their refutation must be no less logical. This must be done in order to save those who have tasted these ideas from getting lost. The author himself, without second thoughts, would forever toss aside these unpleasant, disconcerting thoughts that have haunted him for over a decade, if only someone would prove to him that they are logically false.
Part I
There is a fairly large number of positions that every European could hold regarding the question of nationalism, but they are all on a spectrum between two extremes: chauvinism on one side, and cosmopolitanism on the other. All nationalism is essentially a combination of elements of chauvinism or cosmopolitanism, a way of reconciling these two opposed notions.
There is no doubt that this is how a European sees chauvinism and cosmopolitanism—as two fundamentally, intrinsically opposite points of view.
However, one cannot agree with this setup of the question. The moment you take a closer look at chauvinism and at cosmopolitanism, you will notice that there is no inherent distinction between the two. You will see that the two are no more than two levels, two differing manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon.
The Chauvinist takes a priori the position that the best people in the world happen to be his people. His people's culture is better and more complete than all other cultures. His people have the exclusive right to lead and dominate other peoples, who must submit—accepting the dominant faith, language and culture—and become assimilated. Everything that stands in the way of his Great People's final triumph must be swept away with force. This is how the Chauvinist thinks and, accordingly, acts.
The Cosmopolite rejects any distinction between ethnicities. If such distinctions do exist, they must be annihilated. Civilized human society must be united and have a single culture. Uncivilized peoples must accept this culture and join it, entering the family of civilized peoples, so together they may walk the single path of world progress. Civilization is the ultimate good, in the name of which we must sacrifice our ethnic particularities.
When formulated this way, chauvinism and cosmopolitanism really do seem strikingly different. In the former, supremacy is claimed by the culture of a single ethno-anthropological group, while in the latter—by an overarching, post-ethnic human culture.
But let's take a look at what European cosmopolites include in their definition of "civilization" and "civilized society". By "civilization", they mean to say the culture that was produced by the Germanic and Romance peoples of Europe. And "civilized peoples" refers, first and foremost, to those very Germanics and Romance, and only then to peoples that have accepted European culture.
And so we see that the culture that Cosmopolites believe should reign supreme, abolishing all other cultures, is the culture of the very same particular ethno-anthropological group whose dominance the Chauvinist dreams of. There is no fundamental difference here. In fact, the national, ethno-anthropological and linguistic unity of each of the peoples of Europe is only relative. Each of these peoples is a combination of different, smaller ethnic groups that have their own dialectical, cultural and anthropological features, but are related to each other by ties of kinship and common history that have created a shared stock of cultural values.
Thus, the Chauvinist, bestowing upon his people the crown of creation and deeming them the sole bearers of all possible perfection, is in fact the champion of a whole group of ethnic units. Moreover, the Chauvinist does, after all, want other peoples to merge with his people, losing their national likeness.
Those other nations that have already done this, forfeiting their national identity and taking on the language, faith and culture of his people, the Chauvinist will treat as his own people. He will praise the others' contributions to the culture of his people—but, of course, only if these other people have truly taken on a disposition that is sympathetic towards him, having completely abandoned their previous national psyche. To the people that assimilated with the dominant nation, the Chauvinists always take a somewhat suspicious attitude, especially if the assimilation happened not long ago. But no Chauvinist fundamentally rejects the newly assimilated—we know, in fact, that among the European Chauvinists there are many people whose surnames and anthropological characteristics clearly show that, by origin, they do not belong to the people whose domination they so vehemently preach.
Now let us consider the European Cosmopolite. We see that, in essence, she is the same as the Chauvinist. The "civilization", the culture that she considers to be the highest, to which all other cultures should bow down, also represents a known stock of cultural values common to a group of ancestrally and historically related peoples. Just as the Chauvinist ignores the particular characteristics of the individual ethnic groups that make up his own people, the Cosmopolite does away with the peculiarities of individual Romano-Germanic peoples and takes only those things that they share in common. She also recognizes the cultural value behind the activities of those non-Romano-Germanic peoples who fully embraced Romano-Germanic civilization, who discarded everything that contradicted the spirit of the dominant civilization, and exchanged their national likeness for one that is pan-Romano-Germanic. Exactly like the Chauvinist, who recognizes those aliens and foreigners that managed to fully assimilate with the dominant people as "his own"! Even the hostility experienced by Cosmopolites towards Chauvinists—and generally to those who separate the cultures of individual Romano-Germanic peoples—even this hostility has a parallel in the worldview of the Chauvinists. Namely, the Chauvinists are always hostile to any attempts at separatism by the separate parts of their people. They try to erase and obscure all regional particularities that could disrupt the unity of their people.
Therefore, as it turns out, there is complete parallelism between the Chauvinist and the Cosmopolite. It is essentially the same treatment of the ethno-anthropological group to which the person happens to belong. The only difference is that the Chauvinist takes a narrower ethnic group than the Cosmopolite. But in doing so, the Chauvinist nonetheless takes a group that is not entirely homogeneous—and the Cosmopolite, in turn, still chooses a particular ethnic group.
Thus the difference is only in scale, not in principle.
When evaluating European cosmopolitanism, you must remember that terms like "mankind", "human civilization", etc. are highly nebulous terms that act as cover for very specific ethnographic concepts. The culture of Europe is not the culture of mankind. It is a product of the history of a particular ethnic group. Germanic and Celtic tribes, having been subjected to various degrees of Roman cultural influence, and having strongly intermixed amongst themselves, created a well-known common way of life out of elements of their own national culture and Roman culture. As a result of shared ethnographic and geographical conditions, for a long time they lived a shared existence, with a common history and way of life. Their constant communication with each other made their shared elements so significant that they always unconsciously harbored a sense of Romano-Germanic unity. With time, like so many other peoples, they developed a thirst for studying the sources of their culture. The discovery of monuments to Roman and Greek culture brought to the surface the idea of a transnational world civilization, an idea that is very natural to the Greco-Roman world. We know that this idea was founded, once again, for ethno-geographical reasons. In Rome, the "entire world" meant, of course, simply Orbis terrarum—that is, the peoples that inhabited the Mediterranean basin or that gravitated towards it, who developed a set of shared cultural values as a result of constant contact, and who were finally unified by the homogenizing influences of Greek and Roman colonization and Roman military dominance. In any case, the cosmopolitan ideas of antiquity became the basis for European education. Falling upon the fertile soil of unconscious Romano-Germanic unity, these ideas generated the theoretical foundations for so-called European "cosmopolitanism", more accurately (and frankly) termed pan-Romano-Germanic chauvinism.
These are the real-life historical foundations of European cosmopolitan theories. The psychological foundation of cosmopolitanism is the same as that of chauvinism. It is a variety of the unconscious prejudice—the particular psychological condition—that is best called egocentrism. A person with a markedly egocentric personality unconsciously considers himself the center of the universe, of all creation; the best, the most perfect of all beings. When considering two other beings, the being that is closer and more like him is better, while the one that is more distant is worse. Therefore, if this person is a member of any natural groups, he would consider them to be superior. His family, his estate, his people, his tribe, and his race are better than all the others. Likewise, the species to which he belongs—the human species—is superior to than all other mammals; mammals themselves are superior to all other vertebrates, and vertebrates in turn are superior to plants; and the organic world is superior to the inorganic world. In one way or another, nobody is free from this kind of thinking. Even science has not yet fully freed itself from this, and any scientific conquest towards liberation from egocentric prejudices comes with great difficulty.
The egocentric way of thinking permeates the entire worldview of many people. Very few manage to escape it completely. But in its extreme manifestation it is easily noticeable; its ridiculousness is apparent, and so it often elicits criticism, protest and ridicule. If a person is convinced that they are smarter and better than everyone else, and that they have everything going for them, they are usually mocked by those around them. And if that person is also aggressive, then they receive a well-deserved slap on the wrist. If a family is naively convinced that its members are all brilliant, beautiful geniuses, then they are laughed at by their acquaintances, who make amusing jokes about them. Such acute manifestations of egocentrism are rare, and they are typically met with resistance. It's a different story when the egocentrism spreads to a wider group of persons. Usually, at that point, there is also resistance, but breaking this kind of egocentrism is more difficult. More often than not, two egocentrically-minded groups fight it out and the winner is able to maintain their convictions. This takes place, for example, during class warfare or social struggle. The bourgeoisie that overthrows the aristocracy is just as convinced of its supremacy over all other classes as was the aristocracy. The proletariat that fights against the bourgeoisie also considers itself the salt of the earth, the best out of all the social classes.
But the egocentrism there is fairly obvious, and people with a clearer head, those with a "broader view", are usually able to rise above such prejudices. When it comes to ethnic groups, these same prejudices are harder to get rid of. In this area, people's sensitivity in understanding the nature of egocentric prejudices is far from evenly distributed. Many Prussian pan-Germanists harshly criticize those fellow Prussians who hold Prussian people above all other Germans; they consider such jingoism laughable and narrow-minded. Yet, at the same time, the pan-Germans have no doubt whatsoever that the German tribe as a whole is humanity's crowning achievement. So these people are unable to reach the level of Romano-Germanic cosmopolitanism. The Prussian Cosmopolite, meanwhile, resents his pan-Germanist compatriot, branding him a narrow-minded chauvinist. Yet the Cosmopolite fails to notice that he is very much a chauvinist himself, only a Romano-Germanic one, rather than a pan-German one. So it is only a matter of the scope of one's sensitivity; one person's egocentric chauvinist feelings are slightly stronger, the other's are slightly weaker. Either way, the sensitivity of Europeans to such questions is quite relative. We don't find very many people who rise beyond so-called cosmopolitanism, i.e. Romano-Germanic chauvinism. Do we know of any Europeans who would be willing to recognize the cultures of so-called "savages" as equal in worth to the Romano-Germanic culture? I don't think such people exist.
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From the above it is quite clear how a conscientious Romano-German should treat chauvinism and cosmopolitanism. He must acknowledge that one and the other are both based on egocentric thinking. He must acknowledge that such thinking is not logically sound, and thus cannot serve as a basis for any theories. Moreover, it should not be difficult for him to understand that egocentrism is inherently anti-cultural and antisocial, and interferes with cohabitation in the broad sense of the word, i.e. the free interaction of all beings. It should be clear to everyone that any kind of egocentrism can be justified only by force, and, as written above, it is only the fate of the winner. That's why Europeans do not go further than their Romano-Germanic chauvinism—any nation can be conquered by force, but the whole Romano-Germanic tribe in its entirety is so physically strong that it cannot be physically subdued by anyone.
But as soon as all of this reaches the conscience of our hypothetical sensitive and conscientious Romano-German, a conflict would occur in his soul. His whole spiritual culture, his entire worldview is based on the belief that the unconscious spiritual life, and all prejudices based upon it, must give way to the conclusions of reason and logic; that any theories can be constructed only on a logical, scientific basis. His entire sense of right and wrong is based on the rejection of those principles that hinder the free interaction of people. All of his ethics reject the resolution of differences by brute force. And suddenly it turns out that cosmopolitanism is founded on egocentrism! Cosmopolitanism, the pinnacle of Romano-Germanic civilization, rests on grounds that fundamentally contradict all of this civilization's primary mantras. The universal religion of cosmopolitanism finds, at its heart, the anti-cultural seed of egocentrism. The situation is tragic, but there is only one way out. The conscientious Romano-German must forever reject both chauvinism and so-called cosmopolitanism, and hence, the entire spectrum of views on the "national question" that lies in between.
But what position should non-Romano-Germans take in relation to European chauvinism, as representatives of those peoples who never participated in the creation of so-called "European civilization"?
Egocentrism deserves condemnation, not only from the standpoint of only European Romano-Germanic culture, but from the standpoint of all cultures, for it is a starting point that is antisocial and that destroys all cultural communication between people. Therefore, if among non-Romano-Germanic peoples there are chauvinists preaching that theirs is the chosen people, and that all others should submit to their culture, such chauvinists should be fought by their fellow countrymen. But what if individuals from a non-Romano-Germanic people appear, who preach not for the dominance of their own people, but for the dominance of some other, foreign people, offering their own countrymen to assimilate into this "world nation"? After all, there would be no egocentrism in such preaching—on the contrary, this would be highly allocentric. As a result, it is impossible to condemn this kind of preaching in the same way that we condemn chauvinism.
But, on the other hand, isn't the message of the sermon more important than the personal identity of the preacher? If the domination of People A over People B was being preached by a representative of People A, that would be chauvinism, a manifestation of egocentric thought. Such preaching should be met with resistance by People A as well as People B. But would the whole thing really change, if the voice of the preacher from People A were joined by someone from People B? Of course not; chauvinism is chauvinism. The main actor in this hypothetical situation is, of course, the representative of People A. His mouth articulates his will to subjugate, which is the true meaning of chauvinistic theories. Indeed, the representative of People B may even have a louder voice, but she is essentially less significant. Representative B merely believed Representative A's argument, took faith in the strength of People A, let People A take her over—or maybe was just bribed. Representative A stands up for himself, while Representative B stands for someone else: B's lips move, but it is essentially A who is talking. Therefore we are always entitled to consider such preaching as the same chauvinism in disguise.
All of this discussion, in general, is rather pointless. These are not things that are worth proving logically at length. It is clear to everyone how they would treat their fellow tribe member if that member began to preach that their people should renounce their native faith, language and culture, and try to assimilate with a neighboring people, say, People X. Everyone would certainly consider this person insane, or duped by People X, having lost all national pride—or, finally, as an emissary of people X, sent to spread propaganda for some appropriate compensation. In any case, behind this gentleman's back, everyone would, of course, suspect him a chauvinist from People X, consciously or unconsciously controlled by their words. Our attitude toward such preaching would not depend at all on whether it came from a compatriot or a foreigner: we would see it without fail as emanating from the people whose dominance, in this case, was being preached. There is no doubt that our attitude toward such preaching would be strongly negative. No normal people in the world, especially a people organized into a state, could voluntarily allow the destruction of their national character in the name of assimilation, even with a "superior" people. To chauvinistic harassment by foreigners, any self-respecting people would answer as Leonidas of Sparta did: "Come and take them." They would defend their national existence with weapons in hand, even in the face of inevitable defeat.
All this seems obvious, yet there are many facts in the world that contradict all of this. European cosmopolitanism, which, as we have seen above, is nothing more than Romano-Germanic chauvinism, is spreading among non-Romano-Germanic peoples quite rapidly and with very little difficulty. Among the Slavs, Arabs, Turks, Indians, Chinese and Japanese, there are already very many of these cosmopolites. Many of them adhere even more strictly to the ideology than their European counterparts, in terms of rejecting national characteristics, in their contempt for any non-Romano-Germanic cultures, and so on.
What explains this contradiction? Why was pan-Romano-Germanic chauvinism such an undoubted success among the Slavs, when even the slightest hint of Germanophilic propaganda would set off a Slav's alarm bells? Why is the Russian intellectual vehemently repulsed by the idea that he may be a tool in the hands of German junker nationalists, while that same Russian intellectual is totally comfortable with subordinating himself to Romano-Germanic chauvinists?
The answer lies, of course, in the hypnotic power of words.
As stated above, the Romano-Germans were always so naively confident that they were the only people who could brand themselves as "humanity", brand their culture as "human civilization", and finally, brand their chauvinism as "cosmopolitanism". With this terminology they were able to cover up all of the real ethnographic meaning that makes up these concepts. In doing so, these concepts were made acceptable to representatives of other ethnic groups. When giving foreign peoples those products of their material culture that could be considered the most universal (military equipment and mechanical devices for transport), the Romano-Germans also slip in their "universal" ideas and offer them in exactly this form, taking care to gloss over the ethnographic essence of these ideas.
So the spreading of so-called European cosmopolitanism among non-Romano-Germanic peoples is purely a misunderstanding. Those who succumbed to the propaganda of Romano-Germanic chauvinists were misled by the words "mankind", "humanity", "universal", "civilization", "world progress", and so on. All these words were understood literally, whereas in reality they concealed very specific and rather narrow ethnographic concepts.
Non-Romano-Germanic "intellectuals" who were fooled by the Romano-Germans must understand their mistake. They must understand that the culture that they were presented under the guise of "human civilization" is, in fact, the culture of only a certain ethnic group of Germanic and Romance peoples. This insight, of course, should significantly change their attitude toward the culture of their own people. And it should make them think about whether they are right in trying to impose a foreign culture and eradicate the features of their people's national identity, in the name of some "universal" (in fact, Romano-Germanic, i.e. foreign) ideals. They can only solve this issue after a mature and logical examination of the claims of the Romans to the title of "civilized humanity". Before deciding whether to accept or not accept Romano-Germanic culture, the following issues have to be resolved:
- Is it possible to objectively prove that the Romano-Germanic culture is superior to all other cultures that exist or have ever existed on Earth?
- Is it possible for one people to fully participate in a culture that was developed by another people, while at the same time maintaining anthropological separation between the two peoples?
- Is inclusion into European culture (since such inclusion is possible) a good or an evil?
These questions must be posed and, in one way or another, solved by anyone who is aware of the essence of European cosmopolitanism as Romano-Germanic chauvinism. And only with an affirmative answer to all of these questions can a general Europeanization be recognized as necessary and desirable. If any answer is negative, this Europeanization must be rejected and new questions should be raised:
- Is general Europeanization inevitable?
- How do we deal with its negative consequences?
In the following discussion, we will try to resolve all of the questions that we've just posed. But in order for their solution to be correct and, most importantly, fruitful, we must invite the reader to temporarily, completely abandon egocentric prejudices, the idols of "human civilization", and in general the thought process that is typical to Romano-Germanic science. This abandonment is not an easy matter, for the prejudices in question are deeply rooted in the consciousness of every "educated" European person. But we must abandon these things in order to remain objective.
(End of Part I. To be continued)
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So basically, my universalism(Slavic Eastern Orthodox) good, your universalism(Romano German) bad! I wonder what he thought of Islamic universalism.


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When have you felt closest to God? When have you seen Him in the darkness? I'd love to hear your stories if you're willing to share.
"I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly." ~Madeleine L'Engle


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In response to last week's Perspective, a reader posted the following comment:
As you may or may not know, CVS is planning a new box store to replace the buildings on the northwest corner and when I pushed to have it built on the corner with the parking lot behind it, they balked.
CVS has been working for some time to assemble land and push through the zoning and permitting process for constructing a new store (the first CVS in Des Moines) on Euclid between 2nd and 3rd Avenues.
Note the small-scale pedestrian-oriented retail development along this block. It's not in great physical shape and has been radically altered over the years in ways that destroyed much of the original character of the buildings. However, this is one of the few blocks where traditional pedestrian-scale form remains on both sides of the street.
My return comment included the following, and I thought this morning, I would elaborate a bit...
To be quite honest, convincing box chains of any type to alter their property development formula is very difficult. The most successful instances are when the City supports (or is behind) the effort, and there are zoning regulations in place to provide "teeth" to the argument. In the absence of these, it is unlikely that neighbors will be able to exact much concession.
There are multiple competing interests here: the developer (often different than the business), the property owner (sometimes different than the developer), the business, surrounding property and business owners, and neighborhood residents.
To be quite blunt about it, private citizen/residents typically have little power during the "development" process, even when they are right. Much of the conversation happens outside of the public eye - by the time it appears in front of the City Council, it has been through the vetting process and there is little opportunity for substantive change. Public resistance may delay the process. It is difficult to muster sustained and successful opposition under the general rallying cry of "the proposed building doesn't really fit into the character of a pedestrian-retail district".
Staff recommendation at the initial appeal included the following:
Staff recommends that any vacation be subject to approval of a site plan concept by the City Council at the time of conveyance that demonstrates adequate pedestrian routes from the primary retail building entrances to the adjoining public sidewalk system. The plan should also adhere to all landscaping setback and plant material minimum standards while providing an enhanced urban edge within the setback and plant material minimum standards within the perimeter lot setback areas... This would include decorative site walls and fencing at a pedestrian scale... to help tie in from an urban design perspective to surrounding properties with a zero setback building character. This is similar to solutions that were derived for the Dahl's grocery store development on Ingersoll Avenue...
With all due respect to the City Planning staff, who I think get it right the vast, vast majority of the time, this is exactly what I was afraid would happen as a result of the Dahl's approvals. It is now being used as precedent to back removal of actual pedestrian-oriented form and replacement with suburban-style construction. What happens when a developer purchases the adjacent property and proposes a drive-thru (mark my words)? The standard is set: push the building to the back of the lot and build a "decorative site wall" to reinforce the urban edge. Sooner or later, there is no urban to the urban edge.
Not to mention the fact that a Walgreens pharmacy is located one block away. Note the plantings out from that hold the urban street edge... If only they had a decorative fence, too..
The best way I have seen to address redevelopment or uban sites, particularly those sites in pedestrian-oriented commercial districts, is establishment of what are called "form-based" zoning overlays. "Traditional" zoning manages change by strictly segregating use and setting up bulk requirements for abstract concepts like "floor area ratio", parking ratio, and units-per-acre. A form-based code guides redevelopment by, well, form. In other words, they regulate the actual form of the built environment to achieve specific urban planning goals. This approach has been used to guide redevelopment of urban areas in Denver, Fort Worth, Flagstaff, Peoria, and Ventura among many others.
Historic Rehabilitation Awards
I was fortunate to have designed and helped coordinate rehabilitation of an amazing mid-century modern home over the past year...
Just yesterday, this project received an "Excellence in Historic Preservation" award from the City of Des Moines! There was a whole team of people that worked diligently for a long time on this project, and we are all proud of it! There were several other pojects that received awards as well... THREE of them came from my friends in the River Bend neighborhood (one of which I helped with historic tax credits). I never fail to be inspired by the hard work they do: pouring their money, time, and sweat into restoring the awesome homes in that historic neighborhood. Your work is paying off, not just through the acknowledgement of these awards, but in the tangible and direct improvement of property values, outside perception, and strong communiy networks.


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10 deep dive questions to ask about LEARNERS before you start
Most methods of audience analysis focus on attributes such as age, gender, ethnicity and so on. Sure, you need to know whether you're learners are children or adults and at what level in the education system but you need to take a deeper dive to get to the issues that inform design. So these are not the usual questions about age, gender, educational background and diversity. That's dead easy – takes about five minutes. These are the questions that allow you to create, adjust and target your delivery to make it a success. These are the harder, more oblique questions that dig deeper.
1. Personas – mmm…
Personally, I'm not a fan of personas, named profiles of typical audience. You know the line, 'This is Matt, he's 23 and loves sports….." They tend to focus too much on the average, which is dangerous with a wide and diverse audience. I'd much rather get some concrete ideas that will really shape the experience. Nevertheless, they can be useful as a means to communicate intention to a team. Each to their own and if you think this helps – OK by me.
2. Why?
Why? That's a great question to start with. Why should they do this? Why should they learn this? Understand their motivations (or lack of) and you can respond accordingly. Is it compulsory? Do they care? Why should they take it seriously or even do it at all? Teachers and trainers tend to assume that people are gagging for learning – when much of it makes them gag.
3. What will they NOT like?
People love online stuff, that's why 1.7 billion are on Facebook and online time is soaring. Yet they often recoil when they get very structured online learning. Why is this? Have a look at these 20 reasons why online learning sucks. You may be surprised to learn that they don't want all of that jazzy graphics, animation, cartoons, beeps and gamification. Maybe they do. How can you find out what they don't like? Ask them.
4. What will they like?
What would your target audience like to experience? Do they want the light touch or more solid, challenging learning?
You may be surprised when a bunch of engineers come back and say they want it straight, no frills. How can you find out what they want? Ask them.
5. How distributed are they?
If you have a highly distributed, global audience, you may wish to seriously consider the social side of learning. Or are they all on one site – makes blended learning a lot easier. Different time zones, different cultures, different languages are all issues you may have to wrestle with. Do you really want virtual classrooms across seven time zones? Or should the design be more asynchronous, so that all can access the experience in their own time. What has one location got than another does not? Can you leverage their differences?
6. Language(s)
6. Language(s)
This matters, especially when learners are taking a course in a second language (often English). This doesn't mean dumbing it down but being smarter in the level of language you use and media mix. Take it easy on long sentences and jargon when it's in the target audience's second language. It may also influence media mix. Ultimately cultural and literal translation may be necessary. Think about this, as you can stay more culturally neutral. They may even want the learning in their second language, if that is the language of business or medicine.
7. Personality types?
Forget Learning Styles – they don't exist. Let me repeat that – they don't exist. Forget Myers Briggs – it's a Ponzi scheme. What does matter is personality types. Are you dealing with extrovert sales people, largely introverted IT types, sceptical academics? The OCEAN (openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) is a scheme that is well researched, stable and a good guide. Get a feel for this, as it will affect the language you use and media mix. This often uncovers features of the audience that relate directly to design in terms of language used, formality and images.
8. What went before?
How is training currently delivered? Are they used to full-day classroom courses? Do they have experience of online learning? People come with expectations and if you shatter those expectations, explain why. If this is a dramatic change you may have to consider marketing and change management issues.
9. Where do they learn?
Will they learn in a formal learning centre, at their desk, during class, in the library, at home, on the move, while commuting? It may be a combination of these. Know where they are likely to learn and tailor your design to that environment.
10. What time do they have for learning?
When will they learn? Do they have time off their normal work to do this? How much time will they have? This will determine the 'chunking' of the content as well as its target devices. If mobile, remember to keep the chunks short.
You can use what you have harvested here in your blended and online learning design. Tell your audience what you learned from them and why you've responded with the current solution. That would impress me – it should impress them. Beyond that, be sensitive not just to who, what, when and where they are but their deeper needs – what they want and how they can help you design your learning experiences.
For a further 500 learning design tips click here.
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Most of us have suffered from it at some point in our lives – the dreaded holiday hair, and whilst more and more of us are becoming holiday savvy when it comes to our skin, few pay attention to our hair. Hair reacts differently in other countries, and whether you are traveling to someplace hot or cold, your hair will require specialist products, in order to be able to cope with the changing environment.
We've selected the best products within the beauty industry, to make sure that you keep your hair looking at its best, all throughout your holiday.
Hot climates
Dry environments literally suck all the moisture out of the healthiest looking hair, and as such, rehydrating products are a must, if you are heading off to sunny climes. You can start off protecting your hair from the sun's harsh rays, by shielding it with a conditioning spray, such as Philip Kingsley's Daily Damage Defence Conditioning Spray – £22. This leave-in protective conditioning spray prevents your hair becoming brittle and dry by adding elasticity and provides defence from daily heat styling, breakage and environmental effects.
To keep your tresses looking silky smooth and lustrous, try a deep conditioning hair mask, such as ESPA Pink Hair & Scalp Mud Mask – £31. This mask uses unique mineral rich red clays to nourish and revitalise your hair intensely, and you can use it before and during your holiday, for extra replenishment.
Cold climates
Hair still needs moisture in cold climates, and you can combat the dryness effect with a good quality conditioner. Try Garnier Fructis Triple Nutrition – 3-Minute Undo Dryness Reversal Treatment – £4.99, with three fruit oils that nourishes your hair to the core, reversing dryness in just 3 minutes.
Another problem when you are traveling in a cold country is the build-up of static electricity. Control it with Alterna Winter RX Anti-Static Spray – £22.55. This weightless spray instantly eliminates static, and works to seal and smooth the hair cuticle to reduce cling.
Humid climates
Frizzy hair is a major problem when the air around you is humid and damp. Tame your tresses with L'Oreal's Hair Expertise EverSleek Smoothing Anti-Frizz Serum – £7.99. The smoothing anti-frizz serum is specially designed for frizzy, overworked hair and gives your hair a sleek look.
A good hair mask also works well to combat frizzy hair. Alterna's Ten Hair Masque – £48.20 is a leave-in mask that adds softness to your curly or frizzy hair without weighing it down.
Pool holidays
Frequent swimming in the sea or pool can have disastrous effects on your hair, turning bottle blondes a drab green, and stripping out vital nutrients. Malibu Wellness Swimmers Wellness Kit Hair Care Product Sets – £25, is the ideal package to take with you if you plan to do a lot of bathing. Containing an advanced vitamin complex, these products help to nourish, moisturize, strengthen and protect your hair, while preventing damage and discoloration.
Hair that is constantly underwater can absorb minerals and salts, and make hair look brittle and dry. Try Ion Swimmer's Clarifying Treatment – £1.99, which safely removes swimmer's green and chlorine build-up, and helps to restore hair to its natural beauty.


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I've been reading old Marvel comics for, well, a few years now. And also the Marvel Ultimate reboot series, for about the same number of years. In that time, I've gotten through 10 or so years of the newer version and 13 years now of the older version. Over those "years", I've had characters I've liked and characters I've disliked, as you do. For instance, I will read as little about the Submariner as humanly possible, and I'll be glad of it. Anyway, my point is this: I've seen a great deal about Thor as an ensemble character, and only a very little of him as a main character in his own stories. Everything I've seen of the latter (except for a few Loki-centric stories in the Ultimate version) has led me to be bored at the idea of picking them up, even when virtually every other major Marvel character has eventually won me over.
All of this to explain that I had pretty low expectations when I heard that they had a Thor movie in the works as part of the build-up to the Avengers franchise. Often, of course, correctly lowered expectations are the key to enjoying something that you otherwise might have rolled your eyes at or even actively hated. But the thing is, I don't think that's the deal here. The opening narration doesn't give the slightest amount of delay in explaining that these aren't really Norse gods, they're just really advanced aliens who happened to choose Earth as a battleground, naturally confusing the natives. (Arthur C. Clarke is referenced so many times you'd think he got royalties.) And once that's out of the way and we're caught up to modern times, the story they're telling is pretty much exactly the story I wanted to hear, without any of Thor's old-school enemies who bore me so, without more than a smattering of his over the top formality that bores me even more; instead, it's a sibling squabble between Thor and Loki, of exactly the type that has so enthralled me in all the new Ultimate stories. Except, you know, with cosmic implications and a few interesting earth people involved.
But other than the Loki thing, and I have decided over the past couple of years that in the hands of a capable writer, I could happily read or watch him doing just about anything, the main draw versus the comics that I was so leery of is that they took an overly formal prig with a stick wedged so solidly up his ass that it made Mjollnir look about as unmovable as an empty plastic bag in an independent film about existentialism and turned him into a jovial, likable, and best of all, overly rash hero among men. If someone tries to convince me that the Thor in the (non-Ultimate) comics eventually turns into that guy, I'd probably be willing to pick up his stories. Not until then, mind you, because I just don't care enough about the backstory. Not this time.


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q-bit is a small indie studio located on the south shore of Montréal in Québec. We're two socially awkward dudes that love retro games and have a passion for making them. We're currently working on a side-scrolling game called Holobunnies. Holobunnies will be released on PC/Mac/Linux.
We started making games very early in our career; we can't remember what age we were but we were mostly working in RPG Maker. Our first game "Ale's Job" was about trading picture of naked ladies to get money. It wasn't received well by the critics (in fact, it didn't get received at all) so we moved on other projects. In 2012, we released an album called "flesh means nothing" and quit the music industry the same year. Around September 2012, Roméo cooked up a small prototype of a man on space, with a jetpack. This ended up being Machete, our first completed and released game.
Holobunnies: Pause Café - Action Trailer YouTube
Holobunnies: The Bittersweet Adventure - Kickstarter Trailer YouTube
Machete - Release Trailer YouTube
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Awards & Recognition
- "Best game ever!" Our moms
Selected Articles
Hé bo-boy. Ça promet!André Péloquin, Urbania (in french)
Leur première réalisation Machete rend hommage à l'esthétique 16 bits et à leurs souvenirs de gamers des années 1990.Clément Baudet, le mouv' (in french)
The Holobunnies are a bit like the rabbit version of the Teenage Ninja Turtles, in that they all kick ass[...]Chris Priestman, Siliconera
Additional Links
- OSTs
- The OSTs for our games can be found on our Bandcamp: q-bit.bandcamp.com.
Team & Repeating Collaborator
- Claude Jr. Labonté Lefebvre
- Co-Founder, Game Designer & Composer
- Roméo Jr. Labonté
- Co-Founder, Game Designer & Developer
- Inquiries
- firstname.lastname@example.com
- twitter.com/qbitgames
- facebook.com/qbit.games
- Web
- q-bit.ca
- YouTube
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I've never claimed to be an expert when dealing with cars, or anything mechanical, for that matter. However, I'd like to think I have a basic understanding of the general overview of a vehicle–i.e. how to check my tire pressure, how to check my oil level, and that vehicles run on gasoline or diesel fuel. Well, come to find out, I couldn't be more wrong about that third point—not all vehicles run on gasoline or diesel fuel. As a matter of fact, a vehicle in my very parking lot at the office isn't powered by either source, but rather propane, yes, PROPANE…the same thing that heats homes, fuels gas grills and even keeps swimming pools warm.
While parking my vehicle at work, day after day I was curious to know whose vehicle I saw with a small propane tank in the bed of its truck. Well, a few days went by and I finally figured out that Charlie Hallquist was the driver of this "propane pick-up." Of course this new technology intrigued me and I just had to sit down with Charlie to learn more.
|The bed of Charlie's truck houses a 50 gallon propane tank.
When I met with Charlie I didn't even know where to begin—I had so many questions to ask him, as this whole idea was completely new to me! But, as it turns out, propane fueled vehicles aren't a new thing at all. In fact, some 35 years ago Charlie worked for a company that had propane fueled school buses.
Fast forward to today and now Charlie is driving a pick-up truck fueled by propane. In June of this year he made the trip to Indiana to have his truck converted to handle propane as the primary fuel source of his vehicle. Since that time Charlie has been reaping the benefits of his "propane pick-up."
|There's not much difference under the hood of Charlie's truck since the conversion.
Perhaps the biggest benefit Charlie is seeing is his reduction in fuel costs. With current prices on gasoline verses propane, propane is approximately $1.60/gallon less expensive than gasoline. While there is a slight reduction in efficiency while using propane, Charlie will still see an ROI on his investment in less than three years, based on the miles he drives each year and the cost of the conversion system.
In addition to the much less expensive fuel costs there are many other benefits that Charlie will receive. A few of which include:
- Less carbon emissions
- Oil changes will last twice as long, as propane doesn't contaminate oil like gasoline does
- Government program rebate incentives
Furthermore, Charlie taught me that 78-80% of propane is a by-product of natural gas, which means it is becoming more domestic, thus not relying on foreign oils. Additionally, the conversion technology in Charlie's truck is liquid injected and runs on liquid propane, rather than vapor.
|One small button on the dash is the only changes to the inside of Charlie's truck.
Of course, in my discussion with Charlie I was curious to know if this propane conversion could be done on any vehicle. Boy was I excited to know that this can be done on any vehicle, no matter the age, make or model of the vehicle—even lawn mowers can have this technology. Diesel vehicles can also be converted to propane, however, their process is slightly different due to the diesel injection. And yes, that's right, even my little Chevy Malibu can be converted to run on propane. Charlie also informed me that the current conversion system in his truck can be transferred from vehicle to vehicle, when it's time for a new truck.
Now, you may be wondering where Charlie fills up his truck with propane. Well, that's easy, Landmark, of course! These new vehicles that are propane fueled can be filled straight from a propane truck, or any place that fills propane bottles, such as RV's.
|Charlie stands by his "propane pick-up."
By the end of my conversation with Charlie I was sold on propane fueled vehicles, and I can't wait to see where this new technology will go. With the significant cost savings, in addition to other benefits this sure seems like a win-win to me.
|Kristi Olson is Landmark Services Cooperative's Communication and Events Coordinator. She has a love for agriculture, which started when she was young, growing up on her family's 2,000 acre grain and show pig farm and carried through to her education at UW-Platteville studying AgriBusiness and Animal Science, and now in her career at Landmark. Kristi has a strong passion for telling the "agriculture story" and promoting agriculture education. Kristi can be contacted at 608.819.3126 or email@example.com


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Columbus, Ohio is known for many great things already. Being the capital of Ohio. Home of Ohio State University. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium (thank you, Jack Hanna). And now, Zeel, in home massage on demand – the best massage at home, from the top Massage On Demand® company.
Columbus is a charming and livable city –and catnip for top corporations too. No matter what brings you to Columbus, whether it's study at Ohio State University, work at DHL, Abercrombie and Fitch, or another top Columbus company, or residence in this delightful city, a Zeel Massage is always available, on demand.
Like all Zeel Massage cities, Zeel Masasge in Columbus is available 365 days a year, for start time as early as 8 am and as late as 10:30 pm. Plus, Zeel Massage gifts are the presents that everyone wants – choose a Zeel Massage gift card, or give a Zeel Massage Membership, the membership present that gives all year long.
Columbus joins other recent Zeel Massage launches in New Orleans, Baltimore, and Portland. See you in Columbus!


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TEFAL ActiFry Plus GH840040 Air Fryer - White
Product code: 162761
Product features
- Health fryer
- Food capacity: 1.2 kg
- Only one spoon of oil needed
- With odour filter
- Dishwasher safe parts
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- Health fryer
- Food capacity: 1.2 kg
- Only one spoon of oil needed
- With odour filter
- Dishwasher safe parts
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Delicious chips with only 3% fat
By adding just one spoonful of any oil – including olive and rapeseed oil – you can make up to 1.2 kilograms of your favourite foods in a much healthier way. Make crispy home-made chips easily, or cook from frozen without the need for any oil at all.
The GH840040 is 20% larger than the original ActiFry and can cook 4-5 portions of a range of foods. Perfect for both fresh and frozen meals, you can cook everything from curries and casseroles to stir-frys and risottos.
Patented hot air system and unique stirring paddle
Tefal's patented hot air system allows you to cook evenly without the need for excess oil. And with the stirring paddle there's no need to shake or stir your food during cooking.
Easy to clean, removable parts
Once everything is cooked, you can easily remove the lid, pan and stirring paddle and put everything in the dishwasher along with the spoon.
The scratch-resistant pan is coated with durable ceramic so that any leftover foot inside can be washed away without any hassle.
Convenient design for ease
Sit back and relax while the ActiFry cooks, safe in the knowledge that the timer will alert you when everything is done. And if you want to keep an eye on your food, the large steam-free viewing window ensures your food is cooked just the way you like it.
With its own recipe booklet, as well as a huge range of recipes and videos available on the My ActiFry App, the ActiFry Plus is ideal for making a variety of meals for the whole family.
The Tefal ActiFry Plus GH840040 Air Fryer is temperature controlled for the perfect crispy chips every time, which requires no pre-heating so that it's ready when you are.
Technical specifications for TEFAL ActiFry Plus GH840040 Air Fryer - White
|Health fryer
|Frying capacity
|1.2 kg
|Oil capacity
|1 spoonful
|Digital display
|Adjustable thermostat
|Non-stick basket
|Removable basket
|Dishwasher safe parts
|Cool wall exterior
|Non-slip feet
|Other features
|- Viewing window
- Rotating paddle
|Box contents
|- Tefal ActiFry Plus GH840040 Air Fryer
- ActiFry spoon
- Recipe book
- Instruction booklet
|240 x 320 x 440 mm (H x W x D)
|4 kg
|Manufacturer's guarantee
|2 years
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Using the System Plan
Warning: Single Sign‑On for Pivotal Cloud Foundry v1.5 is no longer supported because it has reached the End of General Support (EOGS) phase as defined by the Support Lifecycle Policy. To stay up to date with the latest software and security updates, upgrade to a supported version.
This topic explains how to use the system plan for the Single Sign-On (SSO) service for Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF). The system plan is the default plan meant for developer apps, not end-user apps.
SSO for PCF comes with a default
system plan that has the following features:
- Read-only
- Minimal configuration options
- Not deletable
- Allows developer-level access to system components like Elastic Runtime and its APIs
- Available only to PCF administrators
Restricting the visibility of this system plan to a single, developer-apps only org secures system components, following the principle of least privilege.
Examples of developer apps include scripts or pipelines that push other apps and services. Any app that uses the Cloud Foundry API is a developer app.
System Plan Best Practice
Pivotal recommends configuring your orgs and SSO plans as follows to prevent anyone from applying the system plan to end-user apps:
Restrict all developer apps to a single org.
Make the system plan visible only to the developer-apps org.
Configure other orgs with SSO service plans of their own.
Developers can then self-register their developers apps in the developer-apps org for use by other developers.
Administrators: Configure the System Plan for an Org
PCF administrators follow the steps below to enable the system plan and provide access to app developers:
Log into the SSO dashboard at
https://p-identity.YOUR-SYSTEM-DOMAINusing your User Account and Authentication (UAA) administrator credentials.
In your Elastic Runtime tile in Ops Manager, the Domain settings show your system domain, and the Credentials tab shows the UAA Admin Credentials.
Navigate to the System Plan and enable the plan in the relevant org(s).
Developers: Create a System Plan Instance for your App
Follow the steps below to create and use the
system service plan with your developer apps.
Follow the steps to Create a Service Instance of SSO.
If your app runs on PCF, bind the application with the service instance you created. See the Bind an Application Hosted on PCF topic for more information.
If your app is a pipeline or a script that runs external to PCF but calls PCF APIs, do the following:
- Follow the instructions to Register an External Application and use the guidelines below:
- Choose Native App for your application type.
- In the app configuration, set a value for the Refresh token lifetime based on your use case for automated access.
- To give your your pipeline or script access to your resources without your presence, embed a refresh token instead of hardcoding your credentials:
- Run
uaac token sso get.
- At the prompts, enter the Client ID and Secret from the Next Steps section of the SSO dashboard. Copy the authentication URL from the command output.
- Paste the authentication URL into a browser, and log in using your UAA Admin Credentials.
- Copy the Temporary Authentication Code from the browser into the UAAC to finish the authentication.
- Run
uaac context.
- Copy the value of the refresh token and use that in your code to get a new token based on your client id and secret using the standard OAuth refresh token flow as described in the UAA API documentation.
- Run
- Follow the instructions to Register an External Application and use the guidelines below:
Developers: Revoke System Plan Access for an External App
To revoke system plan access from an app that is external to PCF and is registered with the system plan to access PCF components, do one of the following:
Regenerate the App Secret
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The sheep and goats love eating burdock leaves — but god forbid the sheep get into a patch of mature burdock toward the end of summer. Their wool will be jammed full of burs, all of which will have to be removed before the wool can be processed. Something similar happens to the goats: their "beards" will get so loaded with burs, it can become one solid mass (not to mention the stray burs that cling to the rest of their coats).
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The burdock seed heads are just now beginning to develop, which has gotten me thinking about this issue. It's also led me to get out the pruning shears, and go on a massive burdock hunt. Over the last week or two, I've taken down several large stands of the stuff. The sheep see me lugging armloads of it toward the pasture, and word spreads quickly. They come running, and soon the whole flock is feasting as I toss the cut plants over the fence.
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After earning a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and then completing his Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting at Carnegie Mellon University, School of Drama, Stepakoff moved to Hollywood and began writing and producing film, television and digital entertainment.
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Stepakoff has worked for numerous entertainment companies in the research and digital arts space, such as SimEx-Iwerks Entertainment, HarperCollins Interactive, Citicorp Transactional Technology, Digital Pictures, Inscape (HBO/Time Warner), and Universal Studios. He wrote the popular videogames Quarterback Attack with Mike Ditka. Creating a new storytelling model as one of the first "webisodic" shows, and the initial original content project for the digital media division of Paramount Studios, he developed and wrote Perspectives, an interactive drama series for the internet.
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On February 10, 2011, Governor Nathan Deal and the Georgia General Assembly honored Stepakoff and his work with privileged resolutions (Bills HR261 and SR 130) made in both houses of the legislature.
Since 2006, Stepakoff has held a professorship in Film and Television Writing at Kennesaw State University. He has also taught at Carnegie Mellon, UNC- Chapel Hill, Clemson, Notre Dame, CCNY, and Emory.
Stepakoff lives in East Cobb County with his wife, actress Elizabeth Miller, and their three children. In his spare time, he builds forts in living room with sofa cushions.
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