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This analytical study is about organisational structures. Organisations are in also kind of formal structures that always targeted to achieve some set goals. For that purposes organisations develop some structures that make organisations move towards achievement of those goals. These structures are can be said as structures with in a wide structure f organisation and these are always decisive in the organisational success. In this study we are going to see what the purposes of all organisational structure are and how the structures are developed. We will also study some set and well defined models for organisational structure development. We will start with definitions of structure and then will find what kind of important role different structure play in any organisation.
This study will follow theoretical and analytical approach as we are going to see the analytical study of organisational structures.
Definition and Brief about Organisational Structures
Organisation can be defined as "Responsibilities, authorities and relations organized in such a way as to enable the organization to perform their duties".
Organizational structure and organizational units defined to work and keep the flow to of work at unit level systems which have separate unit goals. We can say that all formal and informal framework of policies and laws, in which a regulatory organization under its power lines keeps the communications, assigns roles and rights. Organizational structure will decide the method and degree to which authority plays tasks are allocated, regulated, and managed. It's how the information actually flow between different management levels. This structure depends entirely on the objectives and strategies chosen to achieve them by the organisations. There are Centralized structures, where decisions on the top layer of management is focused and tight control over agencies and departments be applied. In a decentralized structure, decision making power is distributed among offices and departments with varying degrees of independence.
Structure analysis or assessment to determine how to develop structure and working strategy that can work together, to best benefit of company's productivity and its effectiveness to increase profitability. We can develop effective structure plans for the future of the organization based on understanding that
1 People focus on key aspects of their role
2 activities to be reduce as much as possible
3 eliminate the interference or duplication
4 reduce the number of management levels
5 increase productivity
Figure One: Organisational structures configuration
Source: http://www.provenmodels.com/files/12c0c714f6cde33bc307e678daadcf66/five_structural_configurati.gif
Organizational structure consists of such activities as task allocation, coordination and supervision, towards the achievement of organizational goals directed can also view it as a glass or perspective through which people view your organization the environment considered.
Many organizations, hierarchical structures, but not all. One other type of organizations were institutions. Organizations can be different in many ways, depending on the structure of your goals. Organizational structure in which the state will run it and do sets. Organizational structure allows to express allocation of responsibility for various functions and processes of various parties including the branch, division, workgroup and individual.
Organizational structure affects organizational action has two big way. First, it provides the foundation on which standard operating procedures and other routines. Second, it determines which individuals get to participate in the decision making process, and thus how their views have shaped the organization's work.Â
Growth, of big business as Ford Motor Company in America's which largest automaker of the 1920s. Just coming out from temporary suppression of the Great Depression they having their vertical axis, bureaucratic structures as public attention has emerged focused due to it was survived from the effects of World War II. They need the restructuring as reconstruction after war started new economic growth. Which was powering the organizations to increase the size of in terms of sales revenue, personnel, and geographic. With growth, however, came increased complexity. Problem in United States business structure was revealed and new ideas began to appear. Employee motivation studies raise questions about traditional models. Traditional ways to do a work gradually disappeared as the dominant logic started overcome. There was concern that the traditional organizational structure may hinder rather than help, was replaced by promoting creativity and innovation that both were necessary as the century wore on and the pressure to compete globally installed.
Assessing the Structure of Management Systems
Systematic evaluation of assessment of the structures is organized on bases of the company's conditions to internal and external environment and industry one is dealing with, and to what extent company has current and future needs. Output based management systems, structures, and processes review is taken in a written report (or series of written reports). Basic purpose of this is to make. Assessment of strengths and limitations of the current structure of the company (with respect to meeting long-term strategic needs) describe and evaluate alternative structures in the long term future of the company needs to meet recommendations to improve the systems needed to effectively support the implementation of the company strategy it is adopting
Step in the development and project management structure proposed and changing
qualifications of structure is intended to address.
We see it with questions like what kind of structure needed to support effective / efficient accomplishment of long-term company strategic objectives. How to structure assessment will be conducted? For this we need to see the structures of three levels.
1. Macro structure
2. Micro structure
3. Support systems
Basic steps in the structural analysis are as following steps:
Step one: Evaluate the company strategic objectives, work is ongoing, and has dedicated resources.
Step two: define the structural requirements for the company to meet strategic objectives.
Step three: propose alternative organizational structure and evaluate them against requirements to determine the structural strengths and limitations, and general "expenses" and "interests" of each structure.
Step four: Working with company management, selecting the desired future structure of the alternative analysis,
Step Five: Transfer a program to help companies move from their current structure next to the structure that will best support its strategic objectives.
Mintzberg's organizational design
Henry Mintzberg (1983) made analysis of organizational design and he identified five forms of organization. Though some ideal configurations of these designs do not exist in the real world, but it is good for the guidance of consultants and managers because it provides a framework for understanding organizational structure and design synthesis.
Mintzberg defined organizational structure, "the sum total of the ways in which the division of labour to specific tasks is made and then to achieve coordination among them."Â Each configuration includes six components according to him.
1. Main factors: it's about the people directly to the production of related products and services.
2. Strategic apex: it's about serving the needs of those who control the organization.
3. Middle line: its focuses that managers keep in touch with the top of the strategic core as operating needs.
4. technostructure: analysts who design, plan, change or instruct the core operating needs.
5. Support staff: professionals who provide support to organizations outside of the operating central activities.
6. Ideology: traditions and beliefs that make a unique organization.
Components of this division are related by four important aspects of Authority, Working materials, Information and Decision Processes.
All the Structure depends on its organization, its members, power distribution, environmental and technical systems. While the circles like the constellations work is independent of those decisions on the appropriate level in the hierarchy of their work. These groups range from informal to formal. Mintzberg made that these consultations are based on components used, contemporary needs of work and coordination mechanisms. He made the five settings:
Simple structure: Entrepreneurial setting: based on direct supervision of the strategic top, CEO etc.Â
Machine bureaucracy: in large organizations the processes rely on standardization work by the techno structure.
Professional bureaucracy: in Professional Services where there is Standards based professional operating in the core according to skills and knowledge.
Divisionalised Form: it's in Multidivisional organization that relies on standard output and where middle line is independent representative in conduct.
Adhocracy: its project based organization, very organic with little formal structure, relies on mutual adjustment as the key coordinating mechanism within and between these teams of project.Â
Later Mintzberg (1979 ) added two more forms
Donation Form: based on standardization of norms where coordination occurs normally is kept in ideology or faith based.
Political Form: There is no coordination predominantly and the formation is controlled by the union base.
There are also six coordinate base mechanisms that is mutual compatibility (among core, coordinated among his people, the only means under very difficult conditions) the direct supervision of (from top to core) standardization of work processes by technostructure core standard output (not what is done but what will the result) Skill standards (working standards) - standardization of norms (a set of shared beliefs)
While Some design parameters that can be changed there. These fall into several categories like Specialty Work, Official Behaviour, Compulsory Training, Planning always ahead of time and control. Whether it is vertical Decentralization or horizontal.
Factors effecting Structure Choice
There are some situational factors that influence choosing design parameters and vice versa. As if we see age and size the older, more formal the structures behaviour is similarly the larger more formal behaviour adopts.
1. Technical systems
2. Is more, the more official and administrative work
3. More complex, more elaborate administrative structure
4. Bureaucratic structure of the core automation operating office moved to an organic
5. Environment: More dynamic than the organic structure
6. More complex, more decentralized structure
7. More variety of markets, greater tendency to divide the market based on units
8. Extreme hostility drives centralized structure temporarily
9. Differences in contact work environment for different constellations
10. Power
11. More focused and more foreign control of the official structure
12. Who needs the power boost centralized structures
13. Fashion Day benefit structure
In these six basic settings a simple structure: just some of the core operating and senior management - Machine Bureaucracy: Government with more detailed technostructure and support. - A professional bureaucracy: the standard of skill and not the processes, and hence greater support technostructure - Form divisionalized: Several dinner - Structure - adhocracy: This is for companies that need to structure the project, the creative team dominated the drag to work do. - Amount: Drag to evangelize, loose parts of the work, little expertise, often very young company
Each arrangement represents the force that makes the organization to be structured in different directions. For example, worker wants to drive in way of their control over work. Therefore, they favor a professional bureaucracy based on skill standards.
Structure selected depends largely on the powers within organisation. For Mintzberg (1983) this classification is based on the assumption that formal and informal structures are intertwined and often indistinguishable from one another. Formal structures evolve over time and changes in the structure of the official unofficial. This model provides a possible structural synthesis is important literature. Model does operational activities designed to help enterprise (again) to not offer it lacks a normative framework. This Model depends on the potential factors that affect the structure. Theory faces several possible methods of problems: for example how it may be just one factor out of the complexity of reality and how these factors do to one another. Most organizations work in a dynamic and complex environment, thus some limits of the relevance of this model operate.
Operational organization and informal organization
Organizational structure cannot be set simultaneously with reality, evolving operational in practice. Such a difference in performance is reduced when developing. Organizational structure work to prevent mistakes that may be a result of cooperation prevented the completion of orders in a timely fashion and within budget and resources. Organizational structure must be adaptive to the process conditions, and efforts aim to optimize input to output ratio. This is the main difference between operational organization and informal.
Hierarchical organization Flat organization
Organizational structure of ancient hunters and gathering of tribal organization through a very royal and religious power structures to industrial structures and post-industrial structure of developed today.
organizational structure matter of choice when the 1930s, riots began as a theory of human relations are known was intended, there is still denial of the idea structure is an artefact, but instead advocate a different type of structure, which requires knowledge, and comments employee may be given greater recognition. "However, different views emerged in the 1960s , shows that the organizational structure "foreign phenomenon is caused, rather than a result achieved." In the twenty-first century, organizational theorists such as Lim, Griffiths, and Sambrook (2010) again suggested that the development of organizational structure largely dependent expression strategies and behaviour management and employees as distribution of power between them limited and influenced by their environment, and outcome.Â
Types of Organizational Structure
The structures in majority of organizations are smaller and best work for solving simple problems. Strategic leaders of organisations can make important decisions and most times communication is made by one person in conversation. This is always practical for new business to make possible the growth and development under the control of founders. The charismatic power and conventional domination of the authority is defined by the Max Weber as feature of these early starts.
Bureaucratic or Administrative structures
Weber gives the relationship (1978) that "a fully developed administrative mechanisms compared with other organizations exactly as does the machine with non-mechanical modes of production compared." Accuracy, speed, non-ambiguity, follow stringent, reducing friction and material and personal costs in this highly bureaucratic system as state is good example of this. Bureaucratic structures a certain degree of standard. They are better for more complex or large-scale organizations is appropriate. They usually adopt a long structure. The thing about all the administrative structure is not. Very, very complex and useful structures, hierarchical organizations, primarily in organizations is long.
Functional Structure
Functional organization within the sector employees tend to perform a set of specialized tasks, for example, is the engineering department employees only with software engineers. This leads to operational efficiencies in the group. However it can also lack of communication between functional groups in the organization will lead the organization to build and inflexible.
As a whole, an organization is operating as the best producer of standard products and services in large volume and low cost is suitable. Coordination and specialization of tasks are focused on the structure function, which produces a limited amount of products or services effectively and predictably. In addition, further efficiencies can be realized as functional integration of their activities organized vertically so that the products are sold and distributed quickly and cost-effectiveness. For example, small business can start making the parts for their production instead of procuring it from outside organization. But not only benefit employees but also for religious organizations is needed.
Divisional structure
Also called "product structure", group divisional organizational structure, each function section. Each section within the divisional structure contains all the necessary resources and functions within it. Units can be from different parts of the classified. There could be made based on the distinction (section section United States and Europe Union) or on geographical product / service based (different products for different customers: the family or company).Another example, car companies may be a divisional structure, Department for SUVs, another division for cars subcompact, and the other part is for sedans. Each section its sales, engineering and marketing have.
Structure Matrix
Matrix structure, function groups by both staff and product. This structure can combine the best of both structures separately. Most organizations using matrix team of workers to do work, in order to take advantage of strengths, as well as make up for weaknesses, functional and decentralized forms. For example, a company that can produce two products, "product" and "product B". Using a matrix structure, the company functions within the company is organized as follows: "product" sales, "product" customer service "product" accounting, the "B product" sales, "Product B" services to customers Section "B product" accounting. Matrix structure is among the purest in the organizational structure, a simple network emulation discipline and order in Nature showed.
Weak / Functional Matrix: Project Manager, with only limited power is assigned to oversee cross-functional aspects of the project. Functional managers maintain control over their resources and areas of the project.
Balanced / function matrix: the project manager is assigned to oversee the project. Power equally between the project manager and functional managers is shared. However, as the most difficult system to maintain the power-sharing proposition is elegant.
Strong / Project Matrix: Project Manager primarily responsible for the project. Functional managers provide technical knowledge and resources as needed.
Among the matrix, not the best format there is always successful implementation depends on the purpose and function of the organization.
Circle organization
Planar structure is common in entrepreneurial start-ups, university spin-offs or small business in general. As the company grows, however, it is more complex and hierarchical, leading to an expanded structure, with more levels and offices.
Often, it bureaucracy, the most common structure in the past lead.It is still, however, related in the former Soviet Union and China, as well as most government agencies around the world. Shell Group is used to show the kind of bureaucracy: Top heavy and hierarchical. This includes various levels of command and duplicate existing services companies in several areas. All of these skins made concerned the market changes, leading to their incapacity to grow and develop. The main reason for the failure to change the structure of the Company became a matrix.
Starbucks is one of the large organizations that have successfully developed many supporting the structure matrix has focused its strategy. The combination of design based on product performance, with employees reporting to the ends. Build team spirit, because the company employees in their decision-making and training them to develop both hard and soft skills. That makes Starbucks one of the best in customer service.
Some experts also multinational design, common in companies, like global Procter & Gamble, Toyota and Unilever noted. This structure can be a complex form of the matrix is seen to preserve harmony among its products, functions and geographic areas.
In general, during the past decade, it has become increasingly clear that through the forces of globalization, competition and customer demand, the structure of many companies has become flatter, less hierarchical, more fluid even virtual.Â
One of the new organizational structures developed in the 20th Century is team. In small business, organization structure, the whole team can be defined. Teams can be both horizontal and vertical. While the organization formed as a collection of people's competencies synergize to reach newer and quality dimensions of organizational structure revolves around the competencies of the team total. For example, each Store all foods market, the largest natural foods grocer in the United States in developing a focused strategy, autonomous profit center composed of an average of 10 teams are successful, while Team leaders in each store and each region as a team. Large organizations can use administrative flexibility of the team and also benefit. Xerox, Motorola, and DaimlerChrysler all the companies that actively use teams to perform tasks.
Another structure is a modern network. While the risk of becoming a giant business too clumsy to proact (like), behavior and react efficiently [18], a new network contract performance business organizations exist, which can be done better or cheaper. In fact, the structure of the network administrators spend most of their time coordinating and control of foreign relations, often using electronic.H & M clothing is outsourcing its network of 700 suppliers, more than two thirds of them low-cost Asian countries. Not having any factory, H & M can be more flexible than the large retailers to reduce its cost, which aligns with its strategy of low cost.Opportunities offered by recent advances in the management potential of complex network theory have shown, including applications to product design and development, and the problem of innovation in the markets and industries
Special form of virtual boundaryless organization. Hedberg, Dahlgren, Hansson, and Olve (1999) in the virtual organization, not as physical as it is available, but enabled by the software there.[23] There is a virtual organization within a network of alliances, using the Internet. This means that while the core of this organization can be small, but still the company's worldwide work could be a market leader in its niche. According to Anderson, because of the unlimited shelf space of the website, the cost to reach niche shops dramatically falling. Although none of the lots sold, many niche products that in total they make substantial profits there, and that's what made Amazon.com so successful creative
When any working group is small and often indulges in direct communication then formal structure may be unnecessary. Over all organizations should make decisions about delegation of tasks and powers through some methods. In many organizations size and complexity, their staff, responsibilities, and for managers who to report are defined.  Organizational structure that is best for some organization depends on diversity of the factors, including the nature of its work its size and geographic positions. Organisations can look for several structural changes based on few principals. Explanation of alternating organizational structures that included all those structures which are arranged by the product, function or geography and their future can be made through different means.
Never the less all parts of an organization need each other to work in a unit of organisation to achieve organisational goals. Important changes in organizational design that happened in last few decades have been demanding to understand the nature of this dependency so that organizational performance could be improved. Different perspective on this issue of interdependence can be compared in an organic organization with the mechanical one model can be easily seen. Traditional mechanistic structure is very complex as it makes an emphasis on job speciality, the bureaucratic structure strongly underlines definite actions and protocol and while power structure focuses on accountability. All the decision making and goal setting processes at any level must be shared and communication flows should be made free in the organization.
In first half of last century due to size traditional rule was fir for all organisational structures. Now in the new century a changed thinking about organizational structure is there though still there is an enormous management challenge but this change is necessary condition for success.


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Most observers of Afghanistan say the war doesn't have a prayer if the U.S. can't send a cadre of civilian experts — diplomats, engineers, farmers — to rebuild Afghanistan. But on Friday, the diplomat in charge of building that force quietly resigned. Uh oh.
John E. Herbst, a 31-year veteran diplomat, has been the State Department's coordinator for reconstruction and stabilization since 2006. Set up by the Bush administration in 2004, his office, known as S/CRS, sought to create precisely that legion of civilian reconstruction experts to send abroad when crisis strikes. Danger Room has learned that despite building the so-called Civilian Response Corps up from a handful of diplomats, Friday was Herbst's last day on the job. Ambassador Robert Geert Loftis, who helped negotiate the 2008 accord to get U.S. troops out of Iraq, started yesterday as S/CRS's acting coordinator; State's website just announced the leadership change today.
But there's a question mark around the future of the corps and the office. Not only has it been poorly funded, it's been a bureaucratic orphan, underutilized in actual crises like Afghanistan, Iraq and Haiti. "It's not nearly enough to make much of a dent compared to other agencies with more personnel and bigger budgets," says Robert Lamb, a reconstruction expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Experts expect that an internal State Department and USAID study due later this year, the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, will recommend a big restructuring.
Herbst dealt with a lot of challenges as S/CRS's second chief. Although the Bush administration created the office in 2004, Congress didn't really fund it until 2008, hobbling its goal of creating a standing interagency crew of governance, agriculture and building experts ready to operate overseas.
Since then, Herbst pulled together what's become an $800 million effort that claims around 1100 federal civilian employees. But in reality, only about 300 of them can deploy at any given time, fewer than two U.S. Army companies. And while the corps has sent civilians to Afghanistan, Congo and Sudan, the State Department's powerful regional bureaus, special envoys and embassies have largely sidestepped it.
Take Afghanistan. In the Obama administration's much-hyped "civilian surge," corps members have helped the U.S. embassy and the military write a key planning document last year. But Herbst has complained that it's been otherwise ignored. American diplomacy and development work in conflict areas remains largely a military job. In Afghanistan, U.S. infantrymen politic with local potentates on reconstruction projects. The Army is thinking about bolstering troops' negotiation skills on the expectation that the civilian diplomats will stay at home.
Herbst has eyed the exits for awhile. In July, the National Defense University named him its next director of its Center for Complex Operations. But the future of his now-vacated office and the corps he built is less secure. The Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, expected as soon as next month, will likely recommend a structural facelift for both.
"I woudn't say the experiment failed," says CSIS's Lamb, "but it certainly got off to a bad start — and at this point will need a thorough rethinking of its role and its place in the bureaucracy."
Photo: DOD
See Also:
- Wicked Problems for Afghanistan's Civilian 'Surge'
- Afghanistan's Civilian Surge Sputters
- Danger Room in Afghanistan: Rebranding the 'Civilian Surge'
- Time for a Civilian 'Surge' to Afghanistan?

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Opened 6 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
#9715 closed Bug Report - General (Invalid)
Mythtranscode stalls "converting frame #14 from P to I"
Reported by: | Phil <pmagnone@…> | Owned by: | beirdo |
Priority: | minor | Milestone: | unknown |
Component: | MythTV - Mythtranscode | Version: | Master Head |
Severity: | medium | Keywords: | mythtranscode, hang, stall, transcode, cutlist |
Cc: | Ticket locked: | no |
At first, I thought this was the same as Ticket #2077, but I never actually get the "deadlock detected" error. Instead, mythtranscode will just stall while transcoding a recording anywhere between 80-99% completion. If I run mythbackend from terminal, the last output it gives me is "Converting frame #14 from P to I" or something similar (different frame, and sometimes B instead of P). This happens on multiple recordings with cutlists.
I believe this began somewhere around mid-March with my latest "git pull", but I can't be positive on the exact date.
I've attached the output of "mythbackend -v all > myth.log". There's an awful lot of output there, so if you can tell me what to specify for verbose, I can shrink that down for you. For this particular log file, the transcode job stalled at 97.3%.
Please let me know what additional information I can provide.
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comment:1 Changed 6 years ago by Phil <pmagnone@…>
Sorry, the file was WAY too large to add as an attachment, so until I can be more specific with the verbose options to get a smaller file, here's a link to the file on my Dropbox:
comment:2 Changed 6 years ago by beirdo
- Owner set to beirdo
- Status changed from new to assigned
What type of file are you trying to transcode from and to?
comment:3 Changed 6 years ago by beirdo
- Status changed from assigned to infoneeded
I may need an example file to test with as well (cut to 100MB or so if possible, and if it shows the problem)
comment:4 Changed 6 years ago by Phil <pmagnone@…>
I'm doing a lossless transcode of an MPEG-2 TV recording (720P w/ AC-3 audio) just to snip the commercial breaks, at which point I usually use Handbrake if I want to archive the video with better compression. I've tried transcoding multiple shows from multiple channels, but I still get the same result. Each time it stalls at 80-90% and "mythtranscode" shows ~100% CPU usage in "top", and I have to kill the process manually.
Here's a 60 second, 99MB clip from near the end of one of those recordings (used "ffmpeg -vcodec copy -acodec copy -ss 00:31:45 -t 60 -i [input].mpg [output].mpg").
While navigating my recordings directory, I noticed that there was a *.mpg.tmp file for at least some of the shows I tried to transcode. Near as I can tell, the transcode jobs actually finished (the files play back without any issue), but the mythtranscode process never exited correctly.
comment:5 Changed 6 years ago by beirdo
- Status changed from infoneeded to assigned
comment:6 Changed 6 years ago by beirdo
- Status changed from assigned to infoneeded
If this still occurs, could you please attach gdb to the process while it is using 100% CPU and get a full backtrace of all threads (on mythtranscode)? I think it may just be a case of unclean shutdown, but I'm not sure.
comment:7 Changed 6 years ago by robertm
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Review | A Tempo
Updated 9:59 pm, Friday, October 26, 2012
For the most part, dishes at A Tempo restaurant are good, but the bread is stellar.
It's made in-house and has a dense, chewy interior with a firm crust. It's one of the better versions of restaurant bread in town.
This location has housed several different restaurants over the past couple of years. First, it was Valentino's di Olmos and then it closed for a while and became the Olmos Park Bistro. Then it was briefly Et Cetera, before owner Martha McCracken opened the current incarnation.
This one, with its list of familiar-feeling dishes, may have staying power.
By far, the best place to dine is in the bar area, and it's a perfect setting to enjoy an afternoon or evening, especially when the weather cooperates and there's live music. The inside dining area perhaps works better during inclement weather, but it felt cavernous by comparison to the airy and open bar area.
On a Thursday during dinner, several of the tables filled with small groups, most from a generation that dressed for dinner and when men wore sport coats as a matter of course. The conversation and the wine flowed as easily as the Sinatra-era songs from a duo of a keyboard player/vocalist and a guitarist.
Many of the dishes here borrowed from the menu of Olmos Park Bistro, and that's a good thing. The result is dishes such as a nice version of a French onion soup, which was a bit salty and not as hot as it should have been, but with a deep flavor nonetheless.
But this restaurant has its own identity and it comes out in simple dishes, such as its version of fried shrimp. Served with a grilled lemon slice and a hollandaise made with brown butter, it's a lovely rendition, as was another seafood dish, the crab cakes with a Creole-style remoulade.
One of the most successful dishes, a coffee-rubbed rib-eye, started with an incredibly flavorful well-sourced cut of meat that was well-seasoned and cooked to the requested medium-rare to excellent results.
That steak was simply excellent and rendered the accompanying pan sauce superfluous.
That theme ran through many of the dishes. Most were quite good, but with a slight tweak — usually leaving off an ingredient or two — they would have been even better.
Another example was a chicken breast salad, which presented a hazelnut-crusted pan-fried breast atop a bed of baby spinach, with caramelized onions, goat cheese and cranberries. The Dijon maple-syrup vinaigrette dressing could have done without the maple syrup. Also, the kitchen went heavy-handed on this dressing.
Restraint would have been better in a pair of desserts, by leaving off a strawberry sauce that was an unnecessary and unwanted garnish on an otherwise satisfying apple galette and a flourless chocolate cake.
On the other hand, the watermelon-tomato salad with goat cheese needed just one more ingredient. Perhaps a touch of chiffonade basil or cracked pepper would have done the trick.
Other dishes showed competence with classics, such as a margherita pizza and an
A Tempo Burger that also included bacon, pepper Jack cheese and avocado.
It adds up to a lovely location with solid service, competent culinary execution and an often gorgeous atmosphere. With some minor tweaks in the kitchen, the cuisine here could equal the setting.


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(44 Posts)Have used Max Factor for years but want a more luxury base. Have normal skin (maybe a tad dry) but very pale. Even the palest shades in most ranges look yellow/tan at jawline even when blended.
Want decent coverage - don't really like dewy thin foundations (was looking at YSL Touche Eclat and reviews say it's very low pigment).
Esteé Lauder Double wear is out as according to all recent reviews they've discontinued the only shade that might have worked (shell).
Don't like Mac foundation or Bobbi Brown (too yellow).
Current possibility is Illamasqua Skin Base in 2. Highly recommended by Pixiwoo. Anyone used?
Happy to spend £30-£40.
Advice from other pale and interesting types gratefully received
No advice but i'll squeeze my arse into a corner and watch if I may. I have pale pink Irish skin and never wear make up because all foundation looks so crap on me.
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I swear by the Revlon DNA or whatever it's called. I've tried more expensive brands and always come back to this. The Lancome one I found too thick.
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wont I've never got on with No.7 but could be worth a go. I'm afraid that the machine, like the scary make-up ladies, will think I want to look like a TOWIE person!
I have this exact skin tone too. Bare minerals foundation in Fair works for me. Bobbi Brown has some good pale shades too. I really miss Prescriptives Custom Blend foundation though
I don't wear make up regularly and have a fear of looking orange but it wasn't. They recommended one shade lighter than I had guessed and gave me a sample to try at home and a little makeover. I came out looking fresh faced as if I had a good night's sleep.
I'm Scottish with reddy-blonde hair and my skin is so pale I'm verging on blue! I've tried everything over the years, and for a long time the best match was Vichy tinted foundation in porcelaine, but that seems to have been discontinued.
I now veer between a Lancôme one (appx £30) and an Avon one, that was cheaper and better. I'll post the exact shades when I next go upstairs.
Double wear light? I use it and love it; for less coverage I mix with a little liz Earle tinted moisturiser.
I have similar pale Irish skin with a pink undertone and I am currently using shisiedo and clarins foundations, also can recommend smashbox colour correcting primer under foundation, tones down the pink.
Illamasqua Skin Base is lovely. Dior Skin Nude, Laura Mercier Moisturising foundation, YSL Touché Éclat all beautiful too and come in v pale pink tones.
Thanks all.
In a moment of tipsiness inpulsiveness I've just bought the Illamasqua one
According to reviews it's quite full on but that's what I'm after.
Will report back!
I use diorskin nude in shade 010. Gives me a lovely complexion and still very natural looking. Irish and pale.
I've found the best one ever and you don't need to spend a fortune. Try the Maybelline FIT range. They also do matching concealers which are much better than Touch Eclat.
I have white skin+sun damage+freckles that all need evening out. It does the job beautifully without going darker IYKIM.
Oh and that lovely long grey haired model recommeded it privately ie not an advert.
Oh no! I have pretty much the exact same skin as you and have Illamasqua skin base in 2...
It's better than their old foundation which I think is meant more as theatrical make up, very very heavy and takes ages to apply. The old one made me look like I had snake skin skin, unless I exfoliated with a brillo pad...
If you are going to use Illamasqua and you have slightly dry skin, you will need to make sure you exfoliate very well first and that you moisturise. It works much better if you use a brush, far too heavy to apply with hands really.
Hopefully it works for you, skin base is very good when you get your skin up to decent condition to use it, it's more like a paint on mask than make up!
I was going to say, I love the covergirl/olay range, it's brilliant.
Interesting Schro
My skin is in pretty good nick. Exfoliate often and have found a good rich moisturiser so hopefully it'll work OK.
I wear mostly pin-up make-up and have been after a good full coverage porcelain base for ages.
Am watching YouTube reviews as I type and it sounds hopeful.
Ah sure, if not I'll keep it for Halloween and try one of the recommendations from this thread
I bought it as I was always in pin up make up too (can't be arsed with the effort now I have a toddler DS runnng rings round me) . It really is very good, mines is pretty good condition as well, only very slightly dry around my nose.
It is the perfect coverage and tone for the vintage look, just takes some work because it is so heavy. I'm sure you'll get on fine with it, just hadn't noticed your name when I came on this thread so I thought it might just have been for a normal everyday look where you take 2 minutes to shove some foundation on. If you're used to spending time on your make up though you wont have any problems.
I hate MAC as well, makes me look jaundiced.
MAC is bad. I also went to an Estee Lauder counter last week and the lightest shade they had in the Double Wear was a yellowy sand. Eurgh.
Anyway, this chick has me convinced!
She's identical to me in colouring, is wearing/reviewing the No.2 shade, has blotchy red bits and a tendency towards dry skin AND is from N.I. I have faith
The Illamasqua skin base is actually really adjustable coverage. It can be applied to look very natural and sheer, believe it or not. It is very concentrated so the reason you're probably finding it very heavy and painstaking to apply is that you may be using too much at once. Try just a tiny blob at a time and add more as you need it. It's very easy to apply quickly and with your fingers if you're sparing.
In case anybody else needs one, max factor lasting performance in fair is very pale!
And the thread comes full circle!
That's the one I use now cereal It is great!
I've the same colouring.
The only liquid foundations I've found work are Revlon Age Perfect or Colourstay, but you need Ivory which you can't always find, since they discontinued Lucidity in Pale Ivory Estée Lauder are too yellow, so are all Bobbi Brown & Chanel.
I had the Boots matchy thing done & thought it was good, till I found the colour, I'm the palest Calico, isn't exactly the same in each formulation & some turn yellowish.
Best for colour match are Bare Minerals in Fair or Laura Geller in Porcelain, but they're both powder foundations.
I think I am lucky in that although I am pale I have yellow rather than pink tones.
Yes to Colourstay Aquelven! I found Ivory too pale even for my pale Irish skin but buff was a bit too dark, so I bought both and mixed them up, perfect!
Body shop's all one compact used to be good, (whatever the lightest shade was) not sure if they still do it.
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Other Horrible Stories
by Zack Whedoncollects Dr. Horrible one-shot; three digital comics from MySpace Dark Horse Presents ("Captain Hammer: Be Like Me," "Moist: Humidity Rising," and "Penny: Keep Your Head Up.") and features a new story, "The Evil League of Evil"
The Plot: Five
short stories that fill in the back-story on the major characters from the
beloved Internet musical, which if you haven't seen it tells the story of would-be
super villain Dr. Horrible and his attempts to find love with the girl at the
laundry mat, defeat arrogant super hero Captain Hammer and earn a place in the
Evil League of Evil.
Chapter 4 – When all of the A-list superheroes take a group
vacation the Evil League of Evil launches a massive attack on the city. Would
be heroes Johnny Snow and James Flame attempt to intervene, arriving
separately. Flame is taken down with ease, but Snow is able to thwart the
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too. Flame wakes up and thaws the pipes becoming the hero of the day much to
Snow's chagrin.
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there isn't much here. Let's face it, it is kind of hard to translate a comedy
musical into a comic book. Especially when that musical is a parody of the
whole comic book genre to begin with; it just creates some sort of infinity loop
like a snake eating its own head.
Anyway the first three chapters are all too short and thin
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The Evil League of Evil story is laugh out loud funny, and
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comic book way, but it never captures the tone of the original film.
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An Army Officer emailed me with a goal of dropping two minutes off his mile run pace. This is not a tough goal to achieve if you are presently running a 10:00 mile and have a goal of 8:00 mile pace. However, as you can imagine, it gets much tougher going from 8:00 mile pace to 6:00 mile pace or faster. But the 10:00 to 8:00 pace can actually be done in less than a few months as long as you are not new to running.
If you are a beginner, you should always ramp up distance, pace, and intensity over a six to eight week period as described in the chart below:
Running Plan I - Beginning Runners
Wk | Mon | Tues |
1 | 1-2 mile | Bike or swim |
2 | 2-3 miles | Bike or swim |
3* | Bike or swim | Bike or swim |
4 | 3 miles | Bike or swim |
5 | 2 miles | 3 miles |
6 | 2-3 miles | 3-4 miles |
Wk | Weds | Thurs | Fri |
1 | 1-2 mile | Bike or swim | 1-2 mile |
2 | 2-3 miles | Bike or swim | 2-3 miles |
3* | Bike or swim | Bike or swim | Bike or swim |
4 | 3 miles | Bike or swim | 3 miles |
5 | off | 4 miles | 2 miles |
6 | off | 4-5 miles | 2-3 miles |
*Do not run during Week 3 - bike or swim everyday. There is a high risk of injury to beginners.
For more experienced but slower runners, going from 10:00 to 8:00 mile pace is best done with the following recommendations:
Wk | Mon | Tues | Weds |
1-4 | 2 miles | 1/4 mile at goal pace 6-8x's |
No Running - |
5-8 | 2 miles | 1/4 mile at goal pace 4-5x's |
No Running - rest or PT, swim, bike |
Wk | Thurs | Fri | Saturday |
1-4 | 2 mile timed & 2 miles jog |
PACE DAY - 3 miles |
Long run: 4-6 miles easy pace |
5-8 | 2 miles timed & 2 miles jog |
PACE DAY - 4 miles of intervals at goal pace |
Long run: 4-6 miles easy pace |
Here is an explanation of the chart:
Run two miles, but try for as long as you can to run at your goal pace -- chart progress each week on how far you were able to maintain goal pace. The chart below will help you figure out your goal pace at the intervals recommended in this running plan:
Intervals | Goal mile pace: 8:00 | Goal mile pace: 7:00 | Goal mile pace: 6:00 |
1/2 mile intervals | 4:00 | 3:30 | 3:00 |
1/4 mile intervals | 2:00 | 1:45 | 1:30 |
1/8 mile intervals | 1:00 | 52 seconds | 45 seconds |
To ace the running portion of any PFT, it is most important to learn your pace. Recognize breathing, arm swing, leg stride, foot strikes and create muscle memory of exactly how you should feel when you are running at your goal pace. As you get into better shape, you should feel better throughout the running event.
Note: One day a week you should push the speed limit and do a series of faster than pace runs:
Six Week Running Program for the 1.5-2 Mile Timed Run Test
Intervals will help you build your VO2 max and foot speed to better learn your goal pace. On a few of the interval runs, try to run one to two miles at faster-than-goal pace just to push your limit. After each interval run, walk or slow jog for a recovery for one to two minutes. During the second month, increase your distance but keep the pace the same. Shoot for 1/2 mile intervals at goal pace.
Wednesday - Day off
Swim or rest. Do your PT exercises today as well as every other day as recommended in any of the PT articles in the article archive and at the Military.com Fitness eBook store.
Two mile timed run or two mile jog. Test yourself on Thursday, after a day off of running. If your PFT distance is 1.5 miles or 3 miles (USN, USCG, USAF, or USMC respectively), run that distance required for your services PFT followed by a jog of the same distance.
Learn your PACE. All runs no matter what the distance - 1 mile, 2 mile, 3 miles, 1/4, 1/2 miles etc are to be done at your goal pace. Work up to three miles of running for as long as you can at your goal pace. Once you fall off your pace, stop, walk and recover for two minutes and continue running shorter intervals until you reach a total distance of three miles.
Long run Saturday: 4-6 miles easy pace. Have a nice leisurely run at slow moderate pace and stretch well after each running session.
Sunday - Day off
As you can see, the best way to get better or faster at running is to practice running. This routine is aggressive but doable, and should only take 20-40 minutes on most weekdays.
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Amanda Lepore Calls Caitlyn Jenner's Support For Trump 'A Slap In The Face'
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The airline said it received more than 300 submissions from happy couples eager to marry on December 6 on a flight to New York from Stockholm.
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You've heard of 'Awkward Family Photos'? Well, here's what all those people are doing before they have a chance to throw their kid into a ugly matching sweater: Really Bad Maternity Photos
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05-12-2011, 05:41 PMUugh,
Some of that was baaad.
Actually, this girl is kind of hot:
She looks like a mix between Allison Sweeney and Reese Witherspoon.Deplorably Proud To Be An American
I don't understand the point of maternity pictures. A friend of mine just posted hers on Facebook. I got to be honest, they are not all that pleasant to look at. Do new moms frame these? Look back fondly at them as their kiddos grow up?
Please explain, CU moms! :)2011 CU Fantasy Baseball Champion
I'm not a Mom but I think it's just an extension of the "I'm-so-hot, I-look-good-constantly" fake self-esteem thing some women have. It explains eye-blinding muffin-top, extra-large belly shirts, and women who pour themselves into a size 20 and talk about their "curves".
It's really just a kind of narcissism. It's also a very defiant way of saying that women should be highly sexually attractive/sexually available under any circumstances. These women are sort of objectifying themselves in a lot of those shots.
Pregnancy is nothing to hide but it's nothing to visually share with random strangers anymore than a loss of virginity or menopause would be.
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05-12-2011, 11:37 PMMy girlfriend is a photographer and does several maternity sessions a week. She has a very artistic eye and poses her clients as flatteringly as possible, but admits that it is not easy sometimes.
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Author Jeff Chang: Hip-hop Predicted the L.A. Riots
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[Editor's note: Over the past week West Coast Sound has been speaking with rappers and writers whose work has been influenced by the L.A. riots, to coincide with their 20th anniversary yesterday.]
Jeff Chang is the author of Can't Stop Won't Stop, perhaps the most important book about hip-hop ever written. In the tome he explores West Coast rap through the lens of the riots (among other subjects). We spoke with him about how politics and hip-hop affected, and were affected by, the riots.
Where were you when you heard about the riots?
I was actually working in Sacramento at the time. I remember coming home and turning on the TV and hearing about the verdict coming down. I remember just being glued to the TV all night, watching the fires, and just thinking about how hip-hop predicted the riots in so many ways. I wasn't actually in Los Angeles at the time. I was working in the state legislature. But I knew it was going to be a turning point in my life and a lot of people's lives.
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You titled the book Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of The Hip-Hop Generation. So hip-hop culture, not hip-hop music, inspired the riots?
No, hip-hop culture didn't inspire the riots. The hip-hop movement didn't inspire the riots. What inspired the riots were the conservative politics that Democrats jumped on board with. With neoliberal economics, there was a whole shift in the state where it was abandoning the folks in society who needed [social services] the most.
Hip-hop was just a way for people to express what was happening, and do so in their own voice. And not have to be pleading to politicians, journalists or civil rights leaders to articulate their views. It was like "I'm gonna say what's on my mind, and this is how I'm feeling."
So to clarify, hip-hop predicted the riots, not help start them?
Hip-hop was a way that young people had to be able to express themselves. And what we heard in hip-hop, in the late '80s through 1993, was a lot of youth under a lot of pressure. We heard a lot of raw stuff. We heard a lot of stuff that didn't fit our political notions of what liberation looked like. It had challenged a lot of people on the left and on the right. On the right, obviously it started a whole set of culture wars. After the riots, you have Actor Charlton Heston taking Ice-T to task about "Cop Killer."
But Body Count's "Cop Killer" was punk, not hip-hop.
Exactly! And that was the whole thing. They came down on hip-hop, but that was Ice-T's heavy metal experiment...So the labels didn't feel the pressure to get rid of other heavy metal bands. They felt the pressure to drop a bunch of rappers.
You write that hip-hop targeted president George H. W. Bush, who was serving at the time.
There was a huge recession beginning in 1991 that preceded the riots. And Death Certificate was dropped right into the middle of this. [Bush] had gone to war in the Persian Gulf in part to draw attention away from the huge decline in the economy and the rising unemployment rate. And of course, this was felt most intensely in the ghettos, in the barrios, and the poor neighborhoods of Los Angeles of predominately young people of color. Bush was a huge target on Death Certificate. He was a huge target on a lot of these records. There was a song out that a rapper named Paris had written called "Bush Killa."
Do you believe NWA's phrase "fuck the police" seeped into the culture?
Yeah, it was deep. The weekend after the riots, there was a huge rally in Koreatown. Like hundreds of thousands of Korean Americans rallied. And their essential message was not "Fuck the police," but was pretty much like that.
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2008 New Zealand Tourism Finalist Winner - Boutique Accommodation. 5 star Qualmark. Stafford Villa is a convenient stress free location for visitors or Aucklanders who want a hideaway in the city. An easy 10 minute drive from Downtown Auckland takes you to the leafy North Shore Suburb of Birkenhead Point. This charming heritage luxury bed and breakfast offers just two luxurious rooms overlooking a serene garden full of flowering trees and native tropical plants.The house is a Victorian Kauri Villa which has been restored and sympathatically updated to offer every modern convenience.Utterly romantic, sumptuously furnished. Lavish breakfasts served with the family s heritage silver, luxurious guest rooms with exotic names - Tuscany Summer and orient inspired China Blue suite. King beds, crisp bed linens, handmade soaps, exotic toiletries,pillow menu and evening port and chocolates with an abundance of fresh flowers, make Stafford Villa an ultimate romantic break. Award winning restaurants a five minute walk from the villa eight.two and The Engine room,or stroll down to the Birkenhead Wharf and catch one of the regular ferries to the city, this 9 minute cruise is a spectacular way to approach the city at night passing under the harbour bridge before swinging into the ferry terminal with its backdrop of illuminated city sights.Experience a truly luxurious heritage retreat in Auckland City.


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DURHAM, N.C. – The fourth-ranked Duke women's basketball team used a stellar defensive effort on Sunday afternoon to down Georgia Tech, 60-34, to win its 15th straight game this season and 29th straight contest against the Yellow Jackets. The Blue Devils held Georgia Tech to its second-worst single-game output in school history, while holding the Yellow Jackets to only 25.5 percent shooting.
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Would you rather buy a pair of patterned wellies, or turn your car into a "seed bomb"? That's the question this week for fans of horticulture. The traditionalists will be heading for Chelsea Flower Show, where a premium ticket will cost you £400. Add to that the cost of some twee accessories and lunch in the restaurant (£70), and you're into super-exclusive territory.
But what if you'd like to look at beautiful plants and soak up ideas without spending a fortune? Luckily, there's the more innovative Chelsea Fringe, which launched on Friday, promising an alternative festival that is as much about people as plants.
Chelsea, 101 years old, is the world's most prestigious flower show, attracting exhibitors and visitors from all over the world. But the Fringe, now in its third year, can also boast an international audience – ingeniously via the internet and satellite links – for its 250 events and installations. Best of all, most of them are free. It is designed, said founder Tim Richardson, to be an alternative to Chelsea, but not a competitor.
Many of the events are taking place in London, but there are others being held elsewhere in the UK and Europe. Ljubljana, in Slovenia, has 30 projects allied to the Fringe, including a National Crop Swap Day, and Vienna has registered 60 projects.
In the UK, Brighton offers a Handlebar Garden bike ride, with baskets decorated with flowers. An evening of poetry inspired by gardens and wildlife is one of about 30 events taking place in Bristol. In London, you can go moss-hunting at Kenwood House in Hampstead, have a Herbal Hair Experience in Battersea courtesy of Lush, the handmade cosmetics manufacturer, or find out about astrobotany at Oxford House in Bethnal Green.
For Matthew Wilson, the managing director of Clifton Nurseries in Maida Vale, west London, the Fringe offers a serious commercial alternative. Clifton's exhibit is entitled "The Greening of St Pancras International Station", and it is a provençal garden, complete with lavender and olive trees.
Mr Wilson is a former curator of Harlow Carr, the RHS garden in Yorkshire, and a regular panellist on Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time, so he is more familiar than most with British gardening habits. "We could have a trade stand at the Chelsea Flower Show, but we are selling ideas, not plants or sundries."
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Samenschleuder, Vienna
Roughly translated, Samenschleuder means "seed bombs", and these are packets of seed that can be applied to the wheels of a bicycle or car, using a clay paste. Studies of roadside verges show that one of the most efficient ways of spreading seed is via vehicle wheels.
Tiny Taxonomy, London
This installation by Rosetta Elkin brings the small flowers of the woodland floor up to eye level so that their delicate beauty can be appreciated. Elkin collected most of the material for the Belgrave Square installation from Highgate Cemetery.
Vertical Tea, Ljubljana
The Bikofe will be making their favourite tea recipes, brewed from the vertical herb garden that grows on the wall of the café.
Handlebar Gardens, Brighton
Starts at 11am today. A family-friendly bike ride, in which cyclists are invited to plant bicycle baskets and deliver them around the city for replanting.
Flowered Punt, Leeds Castle
On Thursday, a punt designed by Louise Roots, the florist at Leeds Castle, will float on the moat, decorated with flowers found in the gardens of the castle.


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November 27th, 2010, 05:24 PM | #1 |
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i was looking into lifting my truck a little in the spring. i noticed i cannt seem to find a long arm kit for my 99 cummins. they only make long arms for the newer body style 03 plus.
are the frames much different of the axle position to where i couldnt make it work and just change the frame mount to whats needed? i guess i may even just consider adding bigger springs and making my own arms? may be worth it in the long run |
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Fabtech has a long arm kit for 94 up dodges. I had one. Im pretty sure bds does also. Call them
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November 28th, 2010, 06:11 PM | #6 |
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What about this kit?
http://www.truckaddons.com/Catalog/s...-dodge-8-8.htm A friend of mine bought a kit from some no name place for his 01 ram 1500. It wasn't very well build and we could have built it better but he's scared to build stuff himself he'd rather buy it already built.
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November 28th, 2010, 06:23 PM | #7 |
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skyjacker and bds both make a long arm kit. both are kinda high on price but bds is made right here in mi and has a lift time warranty.
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i knew bds made one and i would like to go with them but from what i see all the long arms kits are like 24 inchs long. not very long and arent adjustable. i think bds may be adjustable but need to call monday morning to find out. i see that a few companies make a long arm for the 3rd gen trucks with a radius arm style too replace the upper arm like a 3 link or anything like that. what do you guys think will work the best for a long arm set up. im thinking about building my own kit to get just what i want. but since the cummins is so tall i cannt do a 4 link under it cause i wont be that high. im just looking for a little taller truck with a much better ride. i am running 35s on stock truck now with a leveling kit. most of these 6 inch kits say that can clear a 35. whats up with that. just more up travel i suppose. this truck wont be wheeled so thats not important to me
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all lift kits say you can clear XX" tire when infact you can clear a far larger tire. like a leveling kit for a 2nd gen half ton says you can clear a 33 when one can clear a 36 with the right offset wheel as i have done it, but didnt have much flex. check out pavementsucks.com or ramchargercentral.com. pavementsucks has ALOT of info on the 2nd gens and alot of guys have made there own long arms.
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Thought I?d share some of the modding highlights I?ve seen in the last month for Fallout 3 and Oblivion.
Earlier in the year, we highlighted piratephil?s Survival Perk Pack. Recently, he let me know that his latest project, Vault Dwellers Survival Cooking Guide, is now available. As the title would indicate, the mod adds a new cooking element to the game with the following features:
- The Cook-o-matic 3000 ? a new house item which you can be purchased from the stores in Megaton and Tenpenny.
- Two new books ? The Joy of Cooking for One and How to Eat Rat.
- Five new food items, along with the ability to create two recipes already in-game (Mississippi Quantum Pie and Mole Rat Wonder Meat).
- Master Chef ? A new quest perk which you gain once collecting all the recipes.
- Two new loading screens.
- Plus VDSC-Manual.pdf, game manual (see screenshots for images).
More modding news after the break?
At Planet Fallout, Blinzler continues his State of Modding series. In his latest interview, he talks with Drag0ntamer ? creator of the popular mods TUPAM - The Ultimate Power Armor Mod and UWWUT - Unique Weapons With Unique Textures. Here?s an excerpt from the interview:
[quote]What do you want to learn to do or do better next?
Dragontamer: Model. I can model characters and creatures, but I have no idea how to get them properly rigged and in game when I am done. I know how to rig/animate in Maya but there is no Maya Nifscript support at the moment. I also suck at modeling inorganic things like guns and armor. Learning to do that better would be awesome![/quote]
Speaking of Planet Fallout, the current most popular mod on the site is Mini Hideout - Player Home - Katanas by Rayek. The house has plenty to offer ? a new Bobblehead display stand, barber, and most importantly, a jacuzzi!
Wrapping up our Fallout 3 modding coverage, if you?re in the UK, check out pages 104 & 105 of the September issue of PC Zone. They highlight several community favorites, including Fallout Script Extender, Fellout, Mart?s Mutant Mod, Alternate Start, The Global Tarvel System, GNR: More Where That Came From.
Someone say script extender? The OBSE team has put up a new update for Oblivion Script Extender?download it here.
While it doesn?t have a jacuzzi, mr._siika?s Castle Seaview has one hell of a view, an animated roasted pig in the kitchen, and yes, even a bathtub. For discussion on this beauty of a mod, visit here.
Finally, there?s new screenshots for Nehrim ? a total conversion project for Oblivion that we?ve been tracking for some time. For the latest news on this ambitious project, visit here.
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text: This is What a Video Game Museum Should Look LikeRichard Eisenbeis3/08/16 6:00amFiled to: Game OnMuseumkotakueastJapan6529EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Game On, the video game history exhibition that explores why we love games, has finally made its way to Japan. It's an impressive collection of games and systems—from arcades to home consoles and everything in between. But the best part? Over 120 of them are playable. Advertisement But if you can't come see it yourself in Japan (or any of the other countries Game On visits in the future), I can at least show you some of this nostalgic walk down memory lane. Check out the gallery below. Stage 1: The Birth of Play — Computers and the New Entertainment Computer Space Space Wars Stage 2: Arcade Play — Video Game Arcades Stage 3: Play Patterns — The Diversification and Evolution of Game Design Steel Battalion Stage 4: Home Play — The Evolution of the Console The Brown Box Prototype Stage 5: Ubiquitous Play — Handheld Games and Kids Stage 6: The Art of Play — Music, Image, and Character Design in Video Games The Core Pokémon Series Dragon's Lair Cel Color Key Drawings and the Finished Cels Stage 7: Make and Play — Indie Games as Platforms Stage 8: Collaborative Play — Communities and Multiplayer Games Saturn Bomberman Next Stage: Playing the Future — Games as Reality, Reality as a Game Gran Turismo 6 PlayStation VR The Game On exhibition will continue its run at the Miraikan in Tokyo until May 30, 2016. Ticket information can be found here. Advertisement Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am.To contact the author of this post, write to email@example.com or find him on Twitter @BiggestinJapan.Reply65 repliesLeave a reply


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NEW YORK – Joe Scarborough knew nothing about Rolling Stone magazine's profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal until he was on the air Tuesday, asked to read a "tease" promoting the story as 'Morning Joe' headed into its first commercial break after its 6 a.m. start.
That changed, very quickly. Off the air, he grabbed an Associated Press account of what McChrystal had said, asked if NBC's Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski could be found to speak on it. He essentially made the magazine story and its implications the show's chief topic moving forward.
Barely more than a day later, President Barack Obama fired the Afghanistan war's top commander.
While it's simplistic to think MSNBC's morning show influenced that result, it's no stretch that 'Morning Joe' helped put McChrystal's words at the top of the national agenda. 'Morning Joe' may not have a lot of viewers, but the show tends to be on in important places.
Mike Allen, chief White House correspondent of Politico and a regular on the show, said that a senior Obama administration official told him, "I saw the funnel cloud forming on 'Morning Joe.'"
A phone call at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday startled Rolling Stone editor Eric Bates, telling him that a car would be by in 20 minutes to take him to the MSNBC studios. Bates had been booked for the show on Wednesday, to talk about a BP story and a "foreign policy story" that Rolling Stone had upcoming that he didn't identify beforehand. It was the McChrystal story, and it was breaking fast: The general and his aides had been quoted disparaging Obama and his national security aides.
During the hour he appeared, the 'Morning Joe' audience of nearly 600,000 viewers far outpaced the season average of 377,000, the Nielsen Co. said.
"If the lights flashing on my phone when I got back from the interview is any indicator, a lot of people saw the interview and wanted to get on it," he said.
Bates is an occasional visitor to the show, a breakfast salon of people kicking around the news of the day. Scarborough, a former Republican congressman from Florida, and ex-CBS newswoman Mika Brzezinski are the mainstays, adding the droll humor of Willie Geist and rotating semi-regulars. Mike Barnicle is on three days a week. Pat Buchanan, Time magazine's Mark Halperin, Newsweek's Jon Meachem, Tina Brown and the Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart and Eugene Robinson visit frequently. So does Mika's dad, former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski.
An affiliation with Politico that began about six months ago helped cement the program's status as an important wake-up call for political and media leaders. That gives a public face to Allen, whose "Playbook" is an essential online map to what's going on.
"The other morning shows on the networks are largely fluff now," said Mike Shanahan, a journalism professor at George Washington University. "There isn't a lot of serious television interviewing or commentary any more, so there is a vacuum there."
Despite his affiliation, Scarborough's opinions aren't predictable. He criticized former President George W. Bush and praised Obama, and vice versa. Brzezinski has a more reliable liberal viewpoint. The two can often look like an exasperated married couple, but no one screams. And people are given the chance to talk.
The show walks no rigid ideological lines, and that's part of its appeal, Barnicle said.
That doesn't mean there aren't strong opinions. MSNBC chief Phil Griffin had to step in and scold his stars earlier this year when Scarborough and Keith Olbermann went after each other.
Fox News Channel's 'Fox & Friends' has more viewers (a 1.06 million average so far this year), but offices in a Democratic White House are more likely beaming 'Morning Joe' as an indication of the day's news flow. Barnicle said he senses growing interest anecdotally — when a senator tells him he watched in the congressional gym, for example.
When the show started in 2007, Scarborough recalled coming in at 4 a.m. to prepare segments and often found the show fell flat as a result.
He prefers a "free form" approach. "We go where the news takes us," Scarborough said.
One regular guest would complain frequently of not being prepped about what would be discussed. Finally, Brzezinski tossed her a copy of The New York Times. That was her prep.
Scarborough said 'Morning Joe' isn't out to set the day's news agenda, and it would be dangerous if it tried.
"I love news," he said. "I love politics. I love foreign policy and I love the fact that we've got a group of people who share that love. It's just like we're sitting around a breakfast table talking about what interests us."
He didn't get a chance to read Rolling Stone's McChrystal article until about more than an hour after talking about it on television, relying on the AP account. Scarborough said that was enough for him to realize its importance. He had to think back 60 years to President Harry Truman firing Gen. Douglas MacArthur to find a more significant act of insubordination toward the commander in chief.
On the air, he talked about how his contacts with the military impressed on him the seriousness of the breach of discipline. He quickly advocated that Obama remove McChrystal.
"A lot of people (in the military) didn't like Clinton," he said later. "But they saluted and they did their jobs. This was something extraordinary and it was troubling."
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Manage, organise and develop museum collections, and conduct related research.
As a Curator, you would seek positions in museums and art galleries, although you may be required to travel to seek work.
Gallery and Museum Curators:
- acquire items for the collections in their care
- examine items to determine condition and authenticity
- identify and classify specimens, and arrange conservation and restoration work
- keep and maintain records about all items in the collection
- organise and participate in display teams which may involve travelling or arranging for loan exhibitions
- initiate and maintain research and publication programs, and establish networks and assist other professionals on request
- lecture and write about the collections, and answer public enquiries
- supervise support staff and organise administrative duties associated with the use and care of the collection
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I think that my studies in history are at the core of what I have done over the past two decades or so. After completing second year at UWA in 1985, I worked as a newspaper journalist in Perth and Kalgoorlie. Later, I travelled through Africa, Asia and Europe, working as a journalist in London.
I came back to Perth and completed Honours in History before starting a PhD in the 1990s, tutoring in the History Department and working as a contract historian on heritage projects, public histories and documentary films. Then, I took a job as a curator at the Western Australian Museum before moving to the National Museum of Australia, in Canberra. Studying history is the best work experience you can get – it sets you up for a wide range of jobs and experiences.


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This unusual wall sculpture is titled "The Golden Gate". This piece has thick layers of paint in a variety of colorus, rhinestones, twigs, modeling and crackle paste. I have always felt that the most amazing forms, structure, colour and textures are found within nature and that exposure to these elements have been my inspiration and teacher. Sketching is the inception of the thought; It brings an idea to a page that then allows me to move forward to transform the modelling paste to reflect the original conceptual thought.My studio is filled with interesting natural objects. Porcupine quills, fossils, stones, feathers, wood and shells are incorporated into the piece, again enriching the visual and intellectual experience."Space Odyssey" is one of a kind, and measures 12" x 36".Ready to hang, no need to frame.Would you like it in a different size or color?Please contact me, I'll be happy to create a customized item!The work will be ready within two weeks because of the drying-time, then I send you a picture of it for your approval.Please message me for international shipping rate. Thank you!
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A stainless steel clevis that is part of a fence.
The definition of a clevis is a U-shaped fastening device with two holes at the end for a pin or bolt to pass through.
An example of clevis is what is used to attach a trailer hitch to a vehicle.
a -shaped metal fitting with holes in the ends through which a pin or bolt is passed in order to attach one thing to another
Origin of clevis
ultimately akin to cleaveclevis
A U-shaped metal piece with holes in each end through which a pin or bolt is run, used as a fastening device.
Origin of clevis
From clevi, possibly of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse klofi, cleft; see gleubh- in Indo-European roots.clevis
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First attested in 1590s. Origin unknown; probably derived from the verb "to cleave". If so, the word ultimately may stem from Scandinavian: cf. Old Norse kljufa (to split).