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I don't know if Rowan Williams has employed the services of a ghost-writer (a Holy Ghost-writer, perhaps) but his latest message to the nation, in the Times, contained none of his usual opacity. Clarity can be dangerous too, of course. His most headline-catching assertion, that "the continuing systematic humiliation of politicians itself threatens to carry a heavy price" for the future of British democracy, has been greeted in some quarters with a similar reception to that accorded Archbishop Nichols' ruminations on the "courage" of child-raping clerics in Ireland. But that wasn't even the main point of his column.
A word, first, on the denigration of politicians. There have been three main targets for public anger over the past couple of weeks. First, a number of particular MPs and ministers who appear to have milked the system. Not all are equally guilty; but some undoubtedly did treat the public purse as their personal piggy-bank, even if they were "within the rules", and a few appear to have committed something close to fraud. Many others fell into the category identified by Nadine Dorries - they were told that the Parliamentary allowance was "a pot of money with their name on it" in lieu of salary, because no MP "had the political courage" to raise MPs salaries. If true, of course, this would mean that all those MPs were complicit in a fraud against the electorate to disguise the true size of their salaries. I hardly think this redounds to their moral advantage, but hey.
(By the way, the Dorries Blog has now been taken down after the Barclay brothers' solicitors served notice on her server. It is exactly as I feared - though since the twins are famously litigious this hardly makes me a new Nostradamus. Can you libel someone by calling them "litigious"? Yes - but only if they don't sue you over it...)
Then there's anger at "the system". This is, potentially, at least, fruitful, even necessary anger. It has focused rather too narrowly on the issue of MPs' pay and allowances, but the fury isn't due to that alone. The spectacle of MPs feeling entitled to help themselves to what look like perks at the taxpayers' expense - perks denied to most members of the public - reinforces the belief that they belong to a pampered elite. And they do. The political-media class identified by Peter Oborne and others has over the past decade or so developed many characteristics of a self-perpetuating caste (including hereditary succession). Politicians and political journalists talk to each other, and to focus groups. When they address the public, it is in patronising soundbites. There has been a strong sense that questions of policy and public service (which for most voters, is what "politics" is really about) is far less important, to politicians, than the soap opera of personalities and fluctuating careers. This is what "they're all the same" really means.
The homogeneity of politicians, and of their messages, is something new - or at least something revived (there was a "political class" for most of the 19th century, after all, when many leading figures began as Whigs and ended as Tories, or began as Tories and ended as Liberals, or belonged to informal Parliamentary groupings). Gordon Brown let the cat out of the bag when addressing the Royal College of Nursing recently (his "apology") with his reference to MPs as members of the political "profession". Politics has, indeed, increasingly acquired the characteristics of a profession, including a conventional career-path (student activist; special adviser/lobbyist; candidate; MP; minister; has-been; lord), regulatory bodies (now to be greatly expanded) and, most importantly, a sense of professional camaraderie. And, as George Bernard Shaw said, all professions are a conspiracy against the public.
None of this means that all MPs are bad people, or dishonourable, or in it merely for themselves. This undifferentiated hatred aimed at the persons of MPs - the third of the "angers" - is dangerous and wrong, as Rowan Williams is correct to point out. Even within the limits imposed by a failing system, the majority of MPs do their best. Even the fact that they are to a large extent products of a conveyor-belt which detaches them from the public they are supposed to represent is not actually their fault. It is a consequence of the general hollowing-out of the system, and of the transformation of political parties from mass movements to centralised marketing campaigns. There is a danger that the collapse in faith in the system - an inevitable working out of Lincoln's maxim that you can't fool all of the people all of the time - will make the political class (once they get over the present difficulty) even more self-isolating and unaccountable.
Archbishop Williams' actual focus was much broader than the plea to hug an MP which was picked up by the headline-writers for an easy quote. He was writing about what he called "a basic problem in our moral thinking" - the tendency in many walks of life for people to do what they can get away with "within the rules", rather than instinctively doing the right thing, informed by a developed moral conscience. He finds the prevailing attitude to be a form of "moral myopia", and a consequence of people lacking self-respect - which he interestingly defines as "that sense of being glad to do certain things because they're the kind of things they are". Following the letter of "the rules" is, he finds, a poor alternative to acting from inner principle. And it's getting worse:
Regulation comes in, necessarily, when you recognise that you can't rely as much as you might hope on people's intelligence or goodwill. But this can turn into an excuse for failing to encourage intelligence and goodwill in the first place. Exhaustive anti-discrimination provisions, for example, get enacted when authority has found reason to suspect a comprehensive lack of charity and good sense. But they can also weaken the conviction that the best foundation for fairness is an ingrained habit of respect, bound up with one's own self-respect. And, once again, they create that disreputable atmosphere of asking how little you need to do to comply.
He thinks that politicians, or others, should recover a sense of "vocation":
We talk about people's vocations most readily when we see them clearly doing things that don't bring easy rewards. But if the culture is such that regulation takes the place of virtue, we shouldn't be too surprised if public figures show signs of the virus and take refuge in the "no rules were broken" tactic. We trust volunteers in various settings because we sense that they act out of gladness to be doing what they do, never mind the rewards....
It would be a tragedy if our present troubles spelt the end of any confidence that politics and public service could and should be a calling worthy of the most generous instincts.
I think's that's almost spot-on. Williams believes that the best answer to this problem lies in "religion-based morality". He would, of course. Even if he's right (he isn't), I don't think that could be the solution for a society as deeply secular as modern Britain. In any case, there are severe problems with any religion-based morality. Quite apart from being based on probable falsehoods, religious systems are (or can be) morally just as lazy as rule-following. Indeed, they often are little more than rule-following; it's just that the rules are laid down by priests or found in ancient texts rather than being imposed by bureaucrats. That said, religion does often provide an effective short-cut to moral behaviour. Often, the religious answer is a good approximation to what a philosophically correct answer would be, and reaching it doesn't involve the complex ruminations for which only professional philosophers have the time, inclination or training.
Religion sometimes provides the wrong answer, of course: it can institutionalise oppression, create misery for those who don't fit in to a rigid social or sexual template, and demand perverse and immoral behaviour. And once religion gets into a position of power, whether in Iran or in Ireland, it tends to behave worse than almost any secular regime. I won't be voting for the Rev George Hargreaves. Nevertheless, we do, if we are to restore a functioning democratic system, need something like a sacralisation of political life. We used to have it - but it didn't owe much to religion. It was a creed rooted in the historical experience of British development, above all in the conventions that once governed public life but which, because they were largely unwritten, were powerless in the face of a ruling clique that saw no reason to abide by them. Indeed, Tony Blair made no secret of his impatience with the niceties of British (really, English) constitutional form. It is no coincidence that New Labour's trashing of ancient forms and liberties has gone hand in hand with the triumph of a disjointed, dessicated and largely cynical political elite.
In the phrase ironically beloved of our present rulers, British politicians generally used to "play by the rules". For the Tories, their inner constitutionality - their instinctive Whiggism - was bound up in their sense of themselves as politicians. Many Labour politicians who did not share this sense of an ennobling history (though many did, of course) had their own inner light, derived from the working communities from which they sprang and of which they often had personal experience. Such instincts still exist in many of today's politicians, but the culture and tradition of service that nurtured them has been destroyed. In its place, we will get "external regulation", more elaborate codes of conduct, more mutual suspicion and scrutiny. It won't work. Rowan Williams is right about that. For once.
Saturday, 23 May 2009
Praying Politics with Rowan Williams
I don't know if Rowan Williams has employed the services of a ghost-writer (a Holy Ghost-writer, perhaps) but his latest message to the nation, in the Times, contained none of his usual opacity. Clarity can be dangerous too, of course. His most headline-catching assertion, that "the continuing systematic humiliation of politicians itself threatens to carry a heavy price" for the future of British democracy, has been greeted in some quarters with a similar reception to that accorded Archbishop Nichols' ruminations on the "courage" of child-raping clerics in Ireland. But that wasn't even the main point of his column.
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- cabalamat said...
Then there's anger at "the system". This is, potentially, at least, fruitful, even necessary anger.
I would like to see some of that anger focussed on reforming parliament. This is a golden opportunity to reform the system.
It has focused rather too narrowly on the issue of MPs' pay and allowances, but the fury isn't due to that alone.
You're right. As you say, politicians are a "pampered elite". And instead of them being our servants, they are our masters. We need to redress this, to take power away from the political elite and put it back where it belongs, with the people.
- 23 May 2009 at 21:19
- cabalamat said...
When they address the public, it is in patronising soundbites. There has been a strong sense that questions of policy and public service (which for most voters, is what "politics" is really about) is far less important, to politicians, than the soap opera of personalities and fluctuating careers. This is what "they're all the same" really means.
There's a tendency for people to think that the expenses scandal doesn't really matter because it doesn't affect how politicans make decisions in governing the country. I disagree; I think politicians' greed leads directly to bad government.
- 23 May 2009 at 21:23
- valdemar squelch said...
Good on you for giving Dr W a fair crack of the whip. But is he wrong to tell people not to vote BMP? I have an uneasy feelng that some people will be saying 'Well, he's got a couple of palaces, hasn't he? He's not so different from that lot, spending other people's cash.' I'm sure that, morally, Dr W is a better man than my MP (David bloody Clelland) but there's some weight in the view that high priests of the state voodooe cult should be very careful not to tell us how to vote.
- 24 May 2009 at 07:38
The intercession for politicians in the Book of Common Prayer is as follows: 'Grant unto her (the Monarch's) whole council, and to all that are put in authority under her, that they may truly and indifferently (impartially) minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to the maintenance of thy true religion, and virtue.'
The fact that the British nation and indeed politicians themselves aren't praying that any more surely accounts for the decline of virtue in politics.
- 24 May 2009 at 09:13
- WeepingCross said...
Valdemar, instinctively I agree. I think (hope?) the Church of England is far further down the road of purging itself of its urge towards political power than some other denominations (I think of my brothers and sisters of the Roman observance, particularly), and Rowan is further down the road than most of his fellow bishops. But there's still a residual instinct in that direction which combines with combines with the CofE's basic liberal decency to persuade the bishops that they have a duty to wag their fingers at people and tell them not to vote for racists - as though anyone would care. To be fair, I think they're responding to the BNP's attempt to paint itself as defender of the sort of 'Christian' national identity which people who never go anywhere near a church believe in; but I suspect they would be better employed pointing that out. Tell people not to vote BNP and it becomes difficult to construct a case for refraining from telling them not to vote for the Tories, or something ludicrous like that.
Yes, thank you Heresiarch for bothering to dig deeper than the headlines in the Abp's case. The new biography of him by Mr Shortt gives very good examples of both sorts of his prose - the beautifully lucid stuff and matter so clotted you'd think a scientist wrote it.
C's C, the sulphurous vigour of the Prayer Book indeed concentrates the mind wonderfully. But I think Elizabeth I, if nobody else, knew who between her and her bishops was in charge.
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In the main event of ESPN's Friday Night Fights at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Javier Fortuna decimated seasoned veteran Cristobal Cruz with a brilliant short left to score a 2nd round TKO. The undefeated Fortuna was head and shoulders above journeyman Cruz in the talent department and quickly went to work with a first round knockdown. Cruz — who has gone 0-2-2 in his last four fights — was wild and resorted to roughhousing tactics in an attempt to take the Dominican super featherweight out of his game. It didn't work though as Fortuna wrapped hooks around Cruz' gloves and slapped hooks to the body of his 35-year-old foe.
As the second round began, Cruz (39-14-2) appeared to mentally check out as he continued to swing wildly and try to push and shove Fortuna around. Cruz made the mistake of charging in with his head up and was crushed by a perfectly timed short left hook that sent him face first to the canvas. Although he would rise, referee Robert Byrd saw no use in Cruz continuing and called a halt to the contest at the 2:22 mark. With the victory, Fortuna improves to 20-0 with his 15th knockout. — Andreas Hale
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PROGRAM: exhibition area, auditorium, restaurant, cafeteria and offices
CLIENT: City of Biarritz / Adim Sud Ouest
SIZE: 40,903 sq ft
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The Cité de l'Océan et du Surf museum intends to raise awareness of oceanic issues and explore educational and scientific aspects of the surf and sea and their role upon our leisure, science, and ecology. The project, designed in collaboration with Solange Fabião, is comprised of a museum building, exhibition areas, and a plaza, within a larger master plan. The building form derives from the spatial concept "under the sky"/"under the sea". A concave "under the sky" shape creates a central gathering plaza, open to sky and sea, with the horizon in the distance. The convex structural ceiling forms the "under the sea" exhibition spaces. This concept generates a unique profile and form for the building, and through its insertion and efficient site utilization, the project integrates seamlessly into the surrounding landscape.
"The Cité (de l'Océan et du Surf) is already called only and justly that—Cité—in anticipation of its future role in becoming an identifiable piece or fragment which is more than a building that aims at continuing lines of public space, and, therefore, becomes a zone which can simultaneously reflect and engage Biarritz. At the heart of these transformations are changes in the relative functions and exchanges between programmatic and cultural characters and the realms of aesthetics that explore these new activities and eminently public connections. The architecture team was particularly interested in having an extended landscape design surrounding the building, which could extend and provide more potential for these linkages to evolve. These new relationships emerge as a reformation of that larger character that we know as the city—the reflection on its future role as an exchange center, and the ways in which there might be particular topologies that redefine the connections between the larger environment, institutions and citizens. It is for this reason that, at the Cité, the embracing wave design—which analogically suggests the continuation of folding topologies of the ocean further away—embodies important beginning movements not for its independent figuration, but for its attempt to exercise that continuity as a matter of fact."
– Carla Leitao, Huffington Post
"The energising sense of physical engagement with the sea is palpable in the wave-like forms of the architecture. It's an abstract seascape embedded in the landscape—a mesmeric swell of concrete surging around two glass rocks. ... Holl understands the visceral thrill of communing with the ocean's rollicking power. Such experiences feed through into the muscular yet sensuous architecture."
– Catherine Slessor, The Architectural Review
"Holl and Fabiao's design behaves in an iconic way that differs from architecture in neighbouring Bilbao and San Sebastian. The minimal profile of the building warps up from the land, while maintaining a visual connection to the ocean."
– Caroline James, Mark
"The focus of our attention should be on Holl's wonderful architecture, which is as subtle inside, an imaginative recreation of what goes on "under the sea," as it is outside, where the building encounters "under the sky" what is universally acknowledged to be one of the finest stretches of coastline in the world. This interrelatedness of interior and exterior gives the building an impressive directness of statement that visitors can see as soon as they enter the museum, cross the plaza, linger under the portico or walk off across the roof. Wherever they are in this complex they participate in the dialogue between sea and landscape. ... It is striking that Holl, who has already given us a number of site-sensitive buildings, listened so humbly to what the land and seascapes had to say, confirming the impression that his architecture also comes from a profound exploration of context."
– Federico Nicolao, Abitare
"Since architecture obeys the law of all works of art, which is the condition of being a miniature, here in Biarritz we are invited to contemplate the mystery of the ocean in an enigmatic miniature. It is this quality that gives this architecture its force and beauty. Glowing at night like fragments of fire at sea, reposing like a fragment of seaweed in the air swept up by the wind, one cannot remain indifferent."
– Yehuda Safran, The Plan
"From one West Coast to another, Steven Holl, who tells of having surfed on the Pacific beaches from Oregon to California, has taken on the Atlantic coast with his first building in France, more precisely in Biarritz. On June 25, the Cité de l'Océan et du Surf celebrates its inauguration. The New York-based architect designed the building with Solange Fabião and in cooperation with French architects Leibar & Seigneurin. Modest in size, the building boasts great spatial richness. With two thirds of it underground, it derives from the concept "under the sky/under the sea." As such, it plays on the concave outside curve to make its rood a public plaza. The ceiling of the exhibition areas is convex, reminiscent of the nearby sea and its waves. The metaphor is drawn out in this complex volume of finished raw white concrete, from which two glass blocks emerge, calling to mind the two large rocks that stand at a short distance. Surrounded by transparent or opalescent glass, these protrusions give off the milky light of paper lanterns. The relationship between the building and the sea is further strengthened in its continuation with the large lawns creating a promenade taking visitors up to the edge of the waves, the real waves that is."
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"When the museum opens in June, its striking architecture and hi-tech exhibits ... should attract over 450,000 visitors annually. Meanwhile, outside on the terrace, the rolling plaza seems to be in dialogue with the crashing waves in the distance. By keeping its eyes firmly on the horizon, Holl's Cite de l'Ocean seems right at home in Biarritz."
– Anya Pope, Wallpaper
"While big urban development projects have become a larger and larger part of Holl's practice, he's best known for inventive cultural buildings, such as the Cite de l'Ocean et du Surf, in Biarritz, France, opening in early 2011. ... the design revolves around a central plaza that Holl describes as 'open to sky and sea, the horizon in the distance.' It proves he's still capable of simple, poetic gestures."
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31 July 2012: Steven Holl Architects' Cite de l'Ocean et du Surf Wins 2012 American Architecture Award
07 March 2012: Cite de l'Ocean et du Surf voted winner in ArchDaily's Building of the Year Awards
08 December 2011: Cite de l'Ocean et du Surf Wins Award in 2011 Annual Design Review
22 September 2011: Cite de l'Ocean et du Surf wins 2011 LEAF Award
26 June 2011: Cite de l'Ocean et du Surf opens in Biarritz, France
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The notorious first year of teaching – Lauren Barnes describes it as the hardest, but the best year of her life.
Barnes, a student in the University of St. Thomas Gulf Region Academy for Catholic Educators (GRACE), spent the last year taking courses to earn a master's degree in education while teaching fifth grade at Resurrection Catholic School.
Navigating the unfamiliar classroom highs and lows, Barnes ended her first year earning an unexpected and unprecedented accolade – the Elementary Teacher of the Year award. A native of Kingwood, Barnes earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Dallas.
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Every once in a while I get the opportunity to completely immerse myself in one of my client's problems. This time, it was at an IT strategy offsite where a senior director of IT asked me one simple question: "How can we use information technology to help our company open up new streams of revenue?" I found the question refreshing, mainly because nine out of ten CIOs I talk to these days ask the opposite: "how can IT reduce costs?"
Fortunately for me, this client had invited lots of smart people from business and IT and outside experts into the room for two days to explore the revenue question. Challenges familiar to most life sciences companies got folks in the room in the first place: patent expiration foretold eroding profit margins for their blockbuster drugs, and expansion into emerging markets was an avenue for growth, yet one fraught with complexity and uncertain returns.
So this group's charter was to think digital.
Taking inspiration from morning TED talks, four working teams presented ideas for revenue opportunities created by emerging technologies in tech markets like mobile, big data, security, and consumer experiences. The teams cited creative ideas — like algorithms that use public data sources to reduce production forecast variance and improve distribution allocations; modern IT security models, pioneered in financial services, that would enable them to cut the time it takes to on-ramp a new manufacturing partner from months to weeks; company-owned data that could be sold or licensed and made available through public APIs to third parties; and many more.
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A noted German Muslim scholar has raised a storm of anger by questioning whether such a person as the Prophet Muhammad ever existed. Muhammad Sven Kaiisch, chair of Islamic Studies at the University of Muenster whose duties include training teachers for Muslim high schools in Germany, created a furor by stating his research has led him to believe that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have mythical origins. Police are worried his remarks might lead to attempts on his life. In addition, the Central Council of Muslims has said it will cease cooperating with his center. According to a spokesperson for the group, if Muhammad doesn't exist it means the Qur'an is a false document and one might then propose closing down the religion.
The traditional view is that Muhammad was born in Mecca about AD 570 and died about AD 632. However, according to Kalisch, "I believe neither the existence nor his non-existence can be proven. I, however, lean toward the non-existence." Unlike, most converts, Kalisch, has never ceased questioning his faith and has spent his life in the area of studying the Muslim religion.
Many scholars of Judaism and Christianity continually raise questions regarding the actual historical reality of aspects of their religion. They argue the core essence of their religion is what is important regardless if each detail is historically valid.


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The power of keeping a diary
26 May 2013 , 9:29 AM by Rob Minshull
Do you keep a diary? Or was it something you did when you were younger and you don't bother with anymore?
What about scribbling down a "to-do" list? Or maybe you write in a gratitude journal or jot down your dreams in a dream-keeper?
Some people argue that the rise of social media has meant the death of the diary. After all, very little remains private. But according to some psychologists, keeping a diary or journal of some kind can have both physical and emotional benefits.
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Did you all hear about the teenager that took down a 11 point buck that weighed over 300 lbs with a bow? Might be the biggest yet in North America. I don't think I could have killed it. I figure it made it this long I would have let it go but I don't blame the kid at all. I wonder if the meat is going to be that good?
I remember years ago when I lived on lake Tyler these people caught a 220 lb catfish. They were pretty drunk and had their pictures taken with it. I went back to see it and it was still alife after 30 mins. I pushed it back in the water and ran back to my dock. No one saw me and it kinda became a ledgin. They got their picture in a local paper and it stated that the cat fish got away by walking over 10 feet. (They said walking) It was more than 6 feet from the water when I set it free. I think that's why I like the movie free Willy. I did not like these people anyways, they did not feed their dogs so I had to so it was my pleasure.


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No matter what you think of Alex Jones and his performance with Piers Morgan on CNN last night, the most important point is that he was invited on the show to begin with. This is just further proof that the dinosaur mainstream media channels are dying and are being forced to invite alternative media personalities on their shows to increase ratings. The alternative media is becoming the media.
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Arsène Wenger intends to loan out Samuel Galindo as soon as the Bolivian midfielder arrives at Arsenal.
The 17-year-old from Real America clearly has qualities the Frenchman admires. However Galindo is unlikely to continue his football education in London for now. Instead he may move to abroad.
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Classic 'spray and pray'. :smt067
I recall seeing such an add-on for an AR-15 before. Talk about useless and incredibly ridiculous.
Wow, that is... interesting. I don't know why you would want that, not really any point when the MP-5 is already full auto. The most practical xtra weapon mount I have ever seen is a stockless shotgun under an M-16, Rem870 I think. http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/4...rkeyjd3.th.jpg I have also seen an Ithaca mounted the same way.
Gotta have a lot of money to afford all that ammo.
I do believe a shotgun with a barrel that short would get you a long vacation at club fed unless your in L.E.
It kicks a tad harder than a 12GA and I'm sure it's heavier than an M37 receiver. Could such a shotgun receiver be registered as a "pistol" since it'll never have a stock?


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Each summer, I teach a course through Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology for our training grant students in science communication. The course, Science Communication for Scientists and Engineers: Video News Release (EN.670.609), teaches students methods for communicating their research to a nontechnical audience. Topics covered include conveying your research in 60 seconds, scripting, story boarding and video camera filming and techniques.
Martin Rietveld, INBT's web and animation director, and the staff at the Digital Media Center on the Homewood campus, also play an integral part in this short summer workshop. The class meets four times for lecture and discussion, where they are shown many science videos and discuss case studies on what works in communicating technical information to a lay audience. They visit the DMC and INBT's animation studio. The student groups then have approximately five weeks to work independently on their projects. At the end of the course, students show their completed videos at the INBT film festival.
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I am confused.....you have a mold there, and then you also have a roller. the roller doesn't appear to have a comb imprint on it, so what are you then doing, using the roller to make a blank that is whatever thickness you wish, and then the mold to imprint the comb pattern? basically your roller is a tablet press machine in other words, not a comb roller or foundation machine?
Your craftsmanship is impeccable. The crank is cool.My sister owns a large litho/etching press. These have a movable bed (1/2"-1" steel !) that is gear or chaindriven in sync with the rollers. Typically only one roller (upper) is driven, the upper roller is are often a larger diameters, so upper and lower don't turn on the same rotation, lower roller is a snubbing device to apply pressure on the movable bed. The litho stone is moved through the press carried on the movement of the bed plane. This is different than the "pasta" roller design, were the material is drawn by the friction on the rollers. In an etching press, the active movement of the bed plane that carries the plate through the pressure (viz. Rembrant Press). Some litho presses have a floating bed, and the movement of the upper roller is the motive.You can look at the suppliers catalog to get an impression of the designs.http://www.conradmachine.com/conrad_machine_printmaking_catalog.pdf


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COPY THAT PRESS said:When you find a brave little zine traveling all by it's lonesome on a public train waiting to be found...
I think there should be more random zine stashing so other people can experience this joy. It's like a ninja zine attack and a great way to pick up new zine readers.
Zine dreams make me excited about zines! I haven't had that many, but I had a really cool one where I met my true love through my zine and Alex Wrekk helped me track him down! *waves to Alex*
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Edmund Blackadder, butler to the Prince Regent and antihero of the cult classic BBC TV series "Blackadder the Third," thought that actors "got drunk, stuck on silly hats and trusted to luck."
Of course, for serious actors and anybody who enjoys watching serious actors, which should be everybody there's a lot more to it. There's finding the right voice, the proper mannerisms and the perfect way to fill out the character as the screenwriter has written it and the director envisions it.
When that character is (or was) a real-life person, it gets even tricker as David Strathairn and John Hawkes, two of the best actors now working, discovered in their latest movies (both of which open today in Salt Lake City theaters).
In Steven Spielberg's drama "Lincoln," Strathairn portrays William Seward, Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of State and a trusted adviser in the president's political battle to pass the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery.
In Ben Lewin's "The Sessions," Hawkes (who also has a small role in "Lincoln") plays Mark O'Brien, the California journalist and poet who built a substantial writing career while also dealing with being a quadriplegic the result of contracting polio as a child.
Strathairn, in a phone interview last week, acknowledged that he didn't know much about Seward before researching his role. He knew that Seward was one of Lincoln's "Team of Rivals" (to borrow a phrase used by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin in the title of her book, from which screenwriter Tony Kushner derived part of his script). He knew Seward had been governor of New York, and he knew of Seward's most common claim to fame: "Seward's Folly," which is what political wags dubbed his 1867 decision to purchase Alaska from the Russians.
Hawkes, in a recent phone interview, said he had "a very vague sense" of who O'Brien was based on what he had read after filmmaker Jessica Yu won a documentary-short Oscar for her 1996 profile of O'Brien, "Breathing Lessons."
Strathairn read up on Seward and visited the Seward House now a museum in Auburn, N.Y., that features many of Seward's belongings.
"He came from, as I learned by reading, a very well-to-do family," Strathairn said. "But he was also a man who was very committed to the slavery question, and also to education."
Seward's wife, Frances, was, in Strathairn's words, "the bowsprit" of the family's commitment to abolition. She arranged lodging near the Seward house for Harriet Tubman and made the family kitchen available as a stopover station for the Underground Railroad that brought escaped slaves to the North.
Hawkes said he "put in hundreds of hours" researching O'Brien. "I watched 'Breathing Lessons' 40 or 50 times. There was Mark in the flesh, onscreen. His polio-ravaged body, his literal speaking voice. That was a huge and beneficial tool to me."
Hawkes read O'Brien's poetry, essays and news articles to get a sense of his writing voice and his humor. Hawkes even practiced with a mouth stick, which is how O'Brien dialed a phone or turned pages.
Strathairn didn't have film footage of Seward to draw upon, as he did in his portrayal of broadcaster Edward R. Murrow in "Good Night, and Good Luck." He did have the words, written by playwright Tony Kushner, who researched 19th-century language patterns to capture the way statesmen like Seward and Lincoln would talk.
"A lot of it is guesstimation, and what you can deduce from the fact that people were speaking in the same vernacular," Seward said of finding Seward's voice. "That vernacular is so different than it is today. … It's what we call 'mid-Atlantic' nowadays, a combination of British sound and phrasing, a little bit tempered by American dialect."
For Hawkes, the pressure of playing a real 20th-century figure (O'Brien died in 1999; the movie is set largely in the late '80s) came from the people who knew O'Brien. "That's the first audience I would want to please, and the extra weight of playing a nonfictional person is that his friends would see it," the actor said.
Hawkes met Susan Fernbach, who was O'Brien's girlfriend in the last years of his life, as well as Cheryl Cohen Greene, the sex surrogate who took on the sexually inexperienced O'Brien as a client.
For Strathairn, there was a different kind of pressure: playing many of his scenes opposite the man Time magazine declared "the world's greatest actor," Daniel Day-Lewis, as Lincoln.
"That was extraordinary. It was one of the more special experiences of my career," Strathairn said of working with Day-Lewis.
Strathairn had some familiarity with Lincoln's speech patterns, having read books on the 16th president to prepare for work on an audiobook of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. So Day-Lewis' approach to Lincoln's voice, in a higher register than other actors have employed for the role, made perfect sense.
"When I heard Daniel speak [as Lincoln] for the first time, it wasn't shocking and surprising," Strathairn said. "It was one of those things where the tuning fork is hit just where you expect it to be."
Strathairn knows he learned far more about Seward than Spielberg would ever use in the movie. But "it behooves one to learn as much as possible," he said. "You never know what the director is going to want to add on the day."
"If I put a couple hundred hours of research and get an extra four or five seconds out of it," Hawkes said, it's worth it. "I love to overprepare and then forget it when the director yells 'Action!' "
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Hey guys I am new to the site and new to restoring old cars but basically I just purchased a 1957 Ford F100 with a 289 V8 and I was wondering if I could get some advice restoring the truck for daily driving.
welcome to the forums...feel free to ask questions... there are also about a dozen truck magazines on this site along with dozens of car specific magazines..you may want to look over at classictruck and customclassictruck sites here... there are tech and how to articles in both... and if you click thru enough pages of the link below.. you will find some of themhere are some articles on F100 trucks..http://www.classictrucks.com/sch/02/f100/articles/?searchSource=Grouptake some pictures. put them up on photobucket.. with pictures and questions... you will be amazed at the replys you get to almost ANY question there is not enough skin left on my finger tips to answer such a generic question without seeing detailed images of the truck and components..
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Zucchini Bake with Feta and Thyme
(Makes about 6 side-dish servings, recipe created by Kalyn)
4 medium-sized yellow or green summer squash, or a mixture of colors, sliced lengthwise and then into 1/4 inch slices (about 8 cups sliced squash)
1 T olive oil (or less, depending on the pan)
1 T minced garlic
2 T fresh thyme leaves or 1 T dried thyme (or less if you're not that fond of thyme)
2 large eggs
1/3 cup light sour cream
1 cup crumbled feta (not tightly packed)
2 T grated Parmesan cheese
1 T lemon juice
salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
Heat olive oil in large non-stick frying pan, add garlic and thyme leaves and saute about 45 seconds (just long enough to season the oil, don't let the garlic brown.) Add squash slices and saute about 4 minutes, turning a few times. Squash should be barely starting to soften.
While squash cooks, break eggs into a small bowl or glass measuring cup and beat until egg yolks and whites are combined. Stir in sour cream, feta, parmesan, and lemon juice.
Spray a 2 quart gratin dish or glass casserole dish with non-stick spray or olive oil. Layer half the squash in the dish, then season with salt and fresh ground black pepper. (Remember the feta is salty, so it won't need a lot of salt.) Pour over half the egg-feta mixture and use the back of a spoon or a rubber scraper to spread it over the squash. Repeat with another layer of squash and the rest of the feta-egg mixture.
Bake at 375F/190C for 40-45 minutes, or until the mixture is bubbling, slightly set, and top if lightly browned. Serve hot.
This will keep in the fridge for a day or two. For best results, I recommend reheating in a toaster oven. Do not freeze.
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|Thanks Doc- this will be an incentive to me when I work on the tank for the Nash boattail- I appreciate it!
looks good.
i for some reason never thought about making my own tank (for under the bed of my 65 chevy C-10). my dad works at a custom fab shop, so i have access to the scrap stainless steel that they have a lot of up there.
hell i could probably build one in a few days and save about $200 on one already built.
thanks for the thread, and thanks for asking that question Larry so i didn't have to.
I go to NAPA...
and I get a new Stewart-Warner gauge, comes with a universal design sender. The sender is both height-and sweep-adjustable for any depth tank from about 5" to 24"... just follow the chart that comes with the unit. I used one of these senders minus the top plate for the 'sledd tank, there's a single mount stud/contact that holds the whole thing in place.
In the Cavalier 4x4 project I gutted the sender out of the original gas tank, and with a new plate fabbed up, adapted the unit to the stock '54 Ford 12 gallon tank, mounted where the spare tire well used to be under the trunk floor. The stock spare tire well was cut out and replaced with 16 Ga sheet., and I made the straps from 1/8" strip stock (shear tailings) from my local steel supplier.
With the tank turned sideways the Ford filler neck was aimed for the GM fuel door in the passenger quarter, but was obstructed by the floor/shock tower. I cut out the offending metal, and made a tunnel to weld in to cover the filler tube.
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ok. dumb question time.....
how come i always get to be first?....
how do you go about rigging up a fuel gage sender? does teh stock gm piece measure in in the design dimensions or what?
reason i ask is i have this old ford i want to kustom tank, but i don't want the hassle of adapting a gm sender, so i guess i need to figure on staying close to the same height as my old tank?
what do you do Dr. Chop?
Kustomsledd fuel tank, how I made it...
Thought some might find this of interest, I made a new gas tank for the '54 Kustomsledd project over the past few weeks, finished it up today. It's made of 16 Ga steel sheet, my local supplier sheared the pieces to size that I spec'd and made the 2 long bends with their large hydraulic press brake.
It all starts with a pattern...
The metal pieces I got from the steel shop. The bottom/front/back is up close, the top is sitting above it, and another 2 sheets for the ends and baffles...
Tank bottom/front/back, with ends welded on and baffles welded in place. The baffles started out as one large piece, there were 1" holes drilled along the scored line that makes up the bottom edges of each piece. This means when I cut thru the drilled holes to separate the bafles, each had half-rounds along the lower edge. These allow fuel to transfer slowly thru the tank, and not slosh.
The filler neck/sender. Yes it's the Cavalier engine oil filler, with the stick removed...
The tank all done with the welding...
...and installed in the '54 trunk. Check out the mounts...
I tested it for leaks by applying a little shop air pressure to a Schrader valve, hose-clamped on the vent line, with the supply/return lines spliced shut with another length of hose. I then sprayed all the seams with a mix of Dawn soap and water in a spraybottle, then gave it a couple short bursts of air, just a bit to pressurize the tank. I found a few bubbles around the sender, and a couple more along a top seam, and MIG'ed those shut. I checked all the seams carefully twice, looking for the tiniest of bubbles, especially along the side and bottom welds, as those welds must hold back fluid gasoline, or risk dumping the tank contents on the driveway, or worse. As a precaution, I double-welded these seams, outside and inside.
If you do not trust your welding ability, practice on something else like a patch panel or some scrap steel, or do the fab work and tack it and take it to a decent welder for the seam work. These must be fluid/fume tight, this is NOT the project to learn Welding 101 on... Safety is the #1 priority with this kind of tank building, if you have doubts, have a pro weld the seams.
Just goes to show you CAN do this at home. Save some money, build your custom gas tank like I did...
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Hey just want to say hi and say what a great site this is. I just purchased a 2004 w12 with 49000 miles it is being delivered this week from California.
Hey just want to say hi and say what a great site this is. I just purchased a 2004 w12 with 49000 miles it is being delivered this week from California.
Welcome & Congratulations on your Phaeton!
Hi Getty:
Congratulations on your purchase, and welcome to the forum.
We have a "Frequently Asked Questions" list that you might be interested in, it is here: Phaeton Forum 'Table of Contents' (FAQ by Category).
Also, to try and keep things on a friendly level, we usually sign our posts with our first name (makes it easier for everyone to know everyone else).
My name is Keith and thank you for the heads up about the frequently asked questions. I have been lurking for a while so I've seen a lot of the site. I'm sure when I finally get delivery of the car I will need all of what this site has to offer. Hello and thanks again
If you ever see a discussion thread that has missing pictures, just post a note on the end of it asking for the photos to be re-hosted.
I am presently working my way through the FAQ list, re-hosting the photos. So far, I've completed the first two sections (posts) of the 5 sections on the FAQ list. I hope to get photos re-hosted for the entire FAQ page by the end of October. But I am happy to do work 'out of sequence' if anyone wants the photos sooner.
Congratulations Keith on your purchase.
You are going to love your car and this site. It's been a great source of information for me and I find it very valuable.
At 49,000 miles, I believe your car is still eligible for the extended warranty called VW DriveEasy sold by VW dealers. (Someone else posted that age may exclude it - I am not sure about that.)
If I were you, I'd look into this. Beware, however: there is a substantial markup on the price of these from most dealerships. You don't list your location, but if you are willing/able to drive to Langhorne, PA (outside of Philadelphia), you could save thousands of dollars by buying a warranty from Chriis Farnham at VW of Langhorne. He charges $500 over cost.
Welcome to the forum Keith!
I sounds like you got a really good car!
Hey victor, thanks its funny I have spoken to Chris already and I am in the process of getting the warranty hopefully. The car was checked out in California commonwealth vw and Chris is getting the report from them that the car checks out. I do have one question thought live on Long Island NY anyone know of a mechanic or dealership that is good out here. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you
That's great.
It also validates my point that what limits the availability of this warranty is mileage (under 67,000 miles), not age.
i also drive a 2004 W12, currently at 136000km and going strong. Save money for repairs. I put close to 15k USD cash into it in the last year alone. I think i got it all now
Enjoy the car, when it has no problems, it is a wonderful ride.
Hey Swiss that doesn't give me much confidence I guess the warranty is a must then.
Hello Getty,
oh yes, it is a must! Make sure it covers real parts like the tourge converter, transmission parts, engine dampers, rear sunshade, air suspension system parts and its controlers. Just to replace the rear sunshade, which was changed by design is over one thousand dollars.
Its a good car, look forward to it. But dont wear pink glasses, its another German Luxury Car full of motors, controllers and sensors. Its retail price was over 160k in Switzerland and to fix it, is not as cheap as a Suzuki. Some people sell it like a wondercar, this it is not. Its just a great car, when it runs.
PS: Let me show you what i had to fix and give you some pointers that can save you huge money.
1x Generator VW states that the engine has to be removed, this is NOT correct
12x Zündkerzen Spark Plugs - Normal Service, nothing serious
12x Zündspuhlen Ignition Coils - Normal Service, nothing serious
2x XENON Scheinwerfer XENON Bulps (Over 1500$)
1x Heckrollo Rear Sunshade (Remove Rear Seats and more. 1000$+
1x Drehmomentwandler (Noch 6 Monate Garantie) [B]Tourge Converter - VW States Engine Removal. This is NOT correct, the engine stays were it is[: Several thousands/B]
Alle x Magnetventile im Getriebe Transmission - Magnetiv somethings....
1x Getriebeölkühler Transmission oil cooler because the 2004 had a production bug but which leaked water into the transmission
3x Umlenkrollen I cant translater it but normal service sort of, had to take the front of the car aparts
1x Antriebsriehmen Belt that drives the generator (had to take front of car apart
1x Starterbatterie Left Battery.... dont need AGM batery. I got one with larger capacity for half the price and runs perfect
1x Comfortbatterie Same as above
1x Sitzgestellkabel hinten rechts Rear Seat Motors. VW Quote was 5600$ including controler. Fixed it myself for 60$
4x Reifendrucksensor Tire Preasure Sensors... dead battery, normal
1x Getriebeölspühlung Transmission Flush
4x Bremsbelege vor ca. 8000km Brakes, Normal
4x Achsmanschetten Axle Boots and Axle itself (2500$
4x Türenverkleidung aussen (Typische Krankheit) Door corossion
1x Kofferraum Kabel (Typische Krankheit) Cable for Trunk, over 1000$
4x Dunlop Sommerreifen Sport SP01 101Y (3 Monate Jung) Tires, Normal
4x Goodyear Ultragrip (1 Winter gefahren) Tyres, Normal
1x Frontscheibe (5 Monate Jung) Front Glas
1x Wasserpumpe Waterpump, engine stays
2x Unterbodenschutz Getriebe, Motor, Radkästen No idea how to translate it
12x Querlenker und Koppelstange Suspension parts, expensive and need replacement at this age
I repaired more in the meantime.... most likely you will have more luck. But make sure you got a savings account
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Hey Swiss it sounds like a lot of stuff happened with your car. I am getting the platinum warranty from vw I think it is the best warranty they have. I have a BMW 740i 2001 I kinda know what I'm getting into I hope lol. This car seems a lot more sophisticated and I hope all of you here in this thread will help me. I did have the car checked out at vw so I hope this helps and the car does have a trail of being maintained by vw so I hope this also helps but I know things happen
Very wise decision to get the warranty, get it for as long as you can and for as much mileage as you can.
You guys are scaring me lol
I didn't buy a warranty because there were too many sneaky exclusions in the UK policies, and 3 years would cost $7.5k. So far the Jeep and Hyundai have cost more on repairs than the Phaeton.
I didn't mean thar comment the way it seemed. I am a little nervous with everyone telling me I better get the warranty. Is probably a better way of saying what I wanted
Don't let the naysayers get you down. You're going to love the car!
You obviously did your homework. With the warranty, you should be covered against any catastrophic costs. The key for you now is to find a good service center that plays well with the warranty company.
Ah, but love is blind. Who cares about the Mean Time To Failure or the Cost Per Mile or the Parts Dept Markup when you are wearing that Phaeton Grin?One really shouldnt use pink glasses when looking at a Phaeton
PS - you are still saving 50% over a Bentley!
Hello Keith, welcome to the "club"..
I'm surprised you didn't drive the car back home yourself. You understand you probably missed the experience of a lifetime. Nothing like a W12 at speed, in the morning, on the open road. I'm sure I'll see this car back in California again.


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