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OSU sends recruiting letter to toddler
(Columbus) - A two year old boy has already gotten a recruiting letter from Ohio State football.
The letter, signed by Coach Urban Meyer, was in response to a letter from Matt Busser about his son, Sullivan. Busser snapped some photos of his toddler on the field at Ohio Stadium during another event and thought it would be fun to put them together and send off to Ohio State.
"I got a couple of him throwing the ball. I got him laying on the ground looking like he recovered a fumble. I got a couple of him sitting in the stands eating popcorn," he said.
Busser says he's starting a tradition of taking his son to at least one game a year. He tried with the San Diego State game and ended up having to leave when Sullivan got a little fussy. When they pulled into the drive way that day Busser checked the mail and found the letter, addressed to Sullivan, in the mailbox.
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"Dear Sullivan:
Your parents sent us your future Buckeye recruiting information. We will look for you to make your collegiate football debut in 2029 - you will need to gain a little weight, but our strength staff will take care of that! Go Bucks!"
It was signed by Meyer.
"We did it to get a response. We obviously didn't know it would go viral like it has," said Busser.
The story has been picked up by several national publications and websites. Busser is saving all the stories and the letter for his son.
"If anything he'll have a story for the rest of his life," he joked.
Busser isn't too sure if his son will make it as a football Buckeye.
"Chances are that if he gets my height and weight he'll never see a college football field," he said.
He's not even demanding that his son go to Ohio State, but says if he picks Michigan there could be issues.
Busser also says they're pretty confident that Ohio State didn't break any NCAA recruiting violations because they sent the request for the letter. Even though, he joked that any gifts sent to his son trying to urge him to go to Ohio State will be returned.
(Photos courtesy Busser Family)
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By Chris Harris
Robin van Persie has challenged Arsenal to emulate the "best of the best" by sustaining their recent performances over a whole season.
Arsène Wenger's team are the Premier League's form side after reeling off five consecutive victories - with four of those secured from losing positions.
Van Persie has led the way with seven goals in that winning run and he's been impressed by Arsenal's resolve as much as their results. Now he wants those standards delivered consistently.
"If you look at the last couple of weeks, we showed we have a lot of character in our side," Van Persie told Arsenal Player.
"After the two defeats to Milan and Sunderland, everyone was like 'this is going to be a tough couple of weeks' because we had games against Spurs, Liverpool, Milan and an international week and then Newcastle. Yet we won every game, so we showed lots of character. We can be proud of that.
"Now we need to show that over a period of a whole year. That is very hard and only the best of the best teams have that in them. Look at Barcelona for example. They have a special team there, they are playing most games - 9 out of 10 - really well and working hard. We need to have a run like that for months and even win the ugly games.
"We showed signs that we can do it because against Liverpool we didn't play well but still nicked it. Sometimes it is necessary to win those games. We came from behind in the past four games and ended up winning the game. That shows we can do it, not only once or twice or three times, but lots of times. So why not show it 20 times or whenever it is needed?"
Van Persie knows that will be difficult, not least because he feels the Premier League is the most intense in Europe.
"It is very hard [to be consistent], especially in a league like England," he said. "In my opinion, if you look in a technical way, a physical way, the pace, the quickness of the game, all that stuff together, the Premier League is the hardest.
"I see lots of games from Italy and Spain, but overall it is the hardest league. It is tough to play the way we all want. We need to be consistent and get a win over the line, like at Liverpool. We did it now, and we can enjoy it, but we need to show it again [at Everton] and it may even be a harder game. But we have to give it our maximum and see where it ends."
Watch the interview with Robin on Arsenal Player.


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In case you did not know, that is German for "the storm." Why are we telling you that? Because sometimes, life turns into a storm. A storm of shit. Try not to lose your cool when it happens.
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PS Slaap lekker (which is embroidered in the light blue block) means sleep well/sleep nicely in dutch.
Slaap Lekker, dear J
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
PS Slaap lekker (which is embroidered in the light blue block) means sleep well/sleep nicely in dutch.
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- Mary :
It blows me away how creative YOU are!
- 4/20/2010 7:16 pm
- Fran :
Yay, it looks great! Finished is always good because now you can get on with something else.
Happy (belated) birthday to JW too, looks like you all had a ball at the party.
- 4/20/2010 8:01 pm
The quilt looks great. I love the "twister" game your kids came up with - very creative!
- 4/21/2010 12:07 pm
- ingrid :
It looks fabulous!
And I think the kids get their creative inspiration from their mumma!
- 4/23/2010 9:29 am
- Elizabeth :
Your quilt looks beautiful!
I found your blog thru your comment on Allconsuming... your comment about budgeting made me want to marry you!
Your blog is gorgeous. See you.
- 4/29/2010 1:14 pm
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I love that fabric line. Have you seen it in the wee print?
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I could never see the logic in not saying 'slaap smaakelijk' (it seemed 'lekker' was mostly used around food to this Dutch language newbie). So anyway, my Dutch friends still expect a slaap smaakelijk at the end of an email.
PS. Perfectionist tendencies suck anyway, but I happen to like that border. So ner.
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It'll be April 16th - April 19th 2015 in Anaheim, California.
It'll be April 16th - April 19th 2015 in Anaheim, California.
Hi guys
Just been to the closing of the celebration Europe 2 and it's official that the next celebration is in Anaheim, California in April 2015 so you heard the news here first guys, let's make it a good one.
Oh Boy...
OH YEH, thats way easier then Florida now that Im out west.
Tickets on sale August 7th at 7:00AM Pacific time!
Celebration, a new film, and a park expansion all in the same year... It's going to be a busy year for trooping...
I have never been to California.......this seems like a good reason to go.
Hell yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have not seen pricing released as of yet.
I am definitely going this time. I haven't gone since CIII, so maybe it's time. Still kick myself for not going the two times it was close by in Orlando. But at least I have two years to save up and get ready.
I'm travelling over from the uk defo.
I missed the last 2 but won't miss this 1.
Oh maaaan. Was hoping to make the next Euro one. California is pretty much out of reach :-(
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Well I know after going to C6 and CE2 that I'm going to this one, with plenty of time to save for it and with everything else going on that year with the new movie and all its going to be amazing I cannot wait, also I know the TDH and RPF will have a stand on it and I wanna be in the middle of it with all you guys, I cant wait.
Yes, I'll finally be going to my first one!
Ticket price announcment Monday 5th august.
im in!!!! my daughter Leia will be 2!
4 Day adult pass: $140.00
4 Day child pass: $60.00.
I think the 4 Day adult pass for C VI last year was $130.00, wasn't it?
$135 I think. So they only went up $5.
Where will they be posted for sale?
Does this usually sell out?
Star Wars Celebration Anaheim - Star Wars Celebration
22, not sure if there's a limited number of tickets or not.
I have never been to a Celebration before - but in line with having my Boba done by that time, it would be a great experience!
Just thinking about what days to pick, or to do the whole thing.
From those that have gone before, is it similar to say...SDCC? All I remember from SDCC was standing in line everywhere. Also, I looked at the program for Celebration Europe and it seemed like every day was kinda the same, minus a few key panels. If I was to pick one day (because if you pick two....you might as well buy the 4 day for $140) I assume Saturday would be the best day?
Do the celebrities that come and autograph generally come for all 4 days?
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Let's face it. Despite all the buzz about New Urbanism and back-to-the-city movements, most Americans still prefer to live in a clean, safe suburb. What's more, they're even happier if their house is located inside a guarded gate and on the biggest wedge of a cul-de-sac. With clear, defensible boundaries, limited access, and a good view of approaching enemies, these gated "communities" are not unlike our ancestors' favorite real estate—the cave.
That doesn't sound very progressive, does it? Perhaps that's why architects, trained to think visionary thoughts and to design on the cutting edge, have largely ignored merchant housing. Sprinkled across the country are a few courageous souls who've dared the disdain of their peers by designing houses for the masses. But most production builders churn and recycle their plans in-house, without benefit of the talent and expertise of licensed architects. One place is different: Orange County, California.
Hugging the Pacific Ocean between Los Angeles and San Diego counties, California's third largest county is predominantly wealthy, white, and Republican. Before 1950, it consisted primarily of agricultural land, remnants of huge Spanish land-grant ranches. After the widening and building of several major highways between Los Angeles and San Diego and the founding of the University of California, Irvine, Orange County's building boom began. However, unlike building booms elsewhere in the country, this one was conceived and implemented by architects. Think Reston, Va.; Columbia, Md.; or Greenbelt, Md., but on a much larger scale.
The convergence of greenfields and greenbacks drew newly minted architects from San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego, eager to put their pencils to this vast sheet of blank paper. Many of those original pioneering architects, like Walt Richardson, Art Danielian, and Aram Bassenian, and members of the latest generation, like Mark Scheurer, Bob Hidey, and Bill Hezmalhalch, still live and work in Orange County, while also practicing their trade beyond county lines. They and their peers give the area the single highest concentration of expert production architects in the country and make it ground zero for innovations in merchant housing. Orange County architects are the masters of the suburbs, constantly honing and improving what Americans call home. And, with the current economic boom, they're having the time of their lives.
simply irvine
So why didn't Orange County end up paved in Levittowns like other post-War boom regions? The most important reason is the county's largest landholder, The Irvine Company. A family-held company until the late '70s, its principals decided to develop their land themselves, instead of selling it off piecemeal to builders. And even more crucial, they did so according to an architect-designed master plan. Acquired during the last half of the 19th century by San Francisco merchant James Irvine, the Irvine Ranch topped out at around 120,000 acres and stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Santa Ana river. Today, the company controls about a fifth of Orange County, including nine miles of oceanfront and 22 miles of inland property.
During the post-War expansion years, this land was like gold. But its canny owners understood the far greater value of keeping control and making that gold work for them. In a bold strategic move, they lured the University of California, which was shopping for a new location in the late '50s, with the offer of 1,000 acres for $1 and a new, master-planned city. In 1960, they hired architect William Pereira (who went on to design the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco) to plan the build-out of the entire ranch, including the university campus, the city of Irvine, several business centers, and more than 25,000 acres of residential property.
village people
Pereira's plan called for a series of 16 residential villages, each with its own clear boundaries and entrance, a school, a park, a church or synagogue, and a shopping center. To implement this vision, the company brought in a 34-year-old architect named Ray Watson.
The University of California, Berkeley-trained architect, steeped in Eichler houses and Case Study innovations, was excited at the prospect of building communities--of making places. "This family-owned company was the best-known agricultural company in the state and they owned land three times the size of San Francisco," Watson recalls. "I saw that, with all the development from L.A., things were going to change."
With open land and no architectural heritage to consider, the Irvine Ranch was the kind of blank slate every architect dreams of. "In L.A., we had fabric to deal with," says Barry Berkus, AIA, who designed houses at Turtle Rock, one of the earliest Irvine villages. "But Orange County was not inhibited by tradition. It was a new place. We invented things there that became common across the country: volume houses, zero-lot line, kitchen/family rooms at the back of the house. Orange County was an incubator for those ideas."
law of the land
Were it not for Ray Watson, The Irvine Company might have simply developed its "villages" with the usual builder boxes. But as the company's manager of planning and later its president, he laid down the law: "Since we owned prime land wanted by the builder, the first thing I said was, nothing can be built on our land without a design by a licensed architect."
Of course, he encountered resistance. With so much buyer demand, builders knew they could sell their houses without expensive design services eating into their profits. And they also worried that architects, untrained in penny-wise "value engineering," would design houses too costly for them to build. Watson was sensitive to their concerns. "I don't want to be remembered for the beautiful development that went bankrupt," he says, "or the ugly successful community." So he recruited architects he thought would understand the exigencies of merchant housing: commercial architects. "I wanted to bring in architects who were concerned with a house costing 10 cents more to build.
"I founded this company with some young Turks, among them Walt Richardson—I went to school with Walt--and Kermit Dorius," he says. "Walt helped design our first village, East Bluff." Dorius sold his firm, now called JBZ Architecture + Planning, to the next generation, but Richardson is still active with his 30-person, Newport Beach-based firm, RNM Architects/Planners. Known as the "dean of Orange County architects," Richardson, FAIA, refined his community planning skills by designing military housing after graduating from Berkeley in 1950. "I was in Long Beach working for Hugh Gibbs, whose firm was one of the first to really integrate design and land planning," he says. "But builders and architects started making pilgrimages to Orange County. We were in orange groves, but it all began to develop."
Many successful Orange County architects claim to have attended "grad school at RNM," where the special strength was and is in land planning. "We invented Z-lots in this country," says Richardson. "It was something I picked up in France 25 years ago." And his firm mastered high-density cluster housing, which it used to great success on many Irvine projects, including Pelican Point.
tyranny of the middle
Watson recruited architects from Northern California and elsewhere to design both housing and commercial buildings on The Irvine Company's holdings. Some came for just a project or two, others came for a lifetime. The bountiful work triggered a gold rush of would-be housing architects, who were thrilled to set up shop in an area with beautiful geography and perfect weather.
Art Danielian, FAIA, arrived in the mid-60s. "This is a place where everyone would like to live," he says. "Walt Richardson, Kermit Dorius, and I had the first three major offices. We were on the ground floor, looking at the vast property of an owner who really cared. They set a high tone for quality of life. And project by project, the villages got better."
Danielian's 45-person firm, Danielian Associates, based in Irvine, concentrates on the tricky middle range of production housing, much of it high density. "The least expensive house is a no-brainer," he explains, "and the most expensive house is easier, too, because there are no rules. But the middle range puts the greatest pressure on architects, because you have to engineer every dollar to make sure the builder can make money."
The middle range was Orange County's bread and butter in the first decades of its development. The aerospace industry and the university brought in predominantly white-collar, move-up buyers. "Builders in the '60s were not just building first-time houses," Watson explains. "People were upgrading and design became more important. As our work became more successful—meaning builders began to make a profit—merchant-built housing became better here than in other places. The success of it here became the role model to follow."
High-density land planning was key to making those middle-range houses affordable to the home buyer and profitable for the builder. Solving the density issue led to many innovative lot configurations and, consequently, fresh ideas about floor planning. Don Jacobs, AIA, who bought out Dorius' firm, thinks these are among Orange County's most important contributions to production design. "In other areas of the country, land planning and architecture are separate," he says. "But here, you have problems of land costs and a need for higher densities causing opportunity for great solutions. Architects are stepping in with some pretty creative land-planning concepts and floor plans."
In addition to zero-lot line and Z-lot houses, Orange County architects were among the first to pack houses in clusters. Mitigating the smaller lots were borrowed views from landscaped parks, man-made lakes, golf courses, and the Pacific Ocean. With all the architecture firms focusing on the equation, densities of single-family-detached dwelling units climbed higher and higher. Like the 4-minute mile, everyone raced to break the record: 4 to 5 d.u. an acre, 8 to 9, 14 to 16, and, yes, even 18. "Some of the too-dense projects are depressing. They're a sea of concrete. They're no more dense than where I live on Balboa Island, but there we have the amenity of the ocean as our yard," says Richardson. "You can do nice things up to 9 or 10 units an acre. The trick is privacy." "We've done 18, but we don't like the way they live," says Danielian. "I think we're making a mistake by pushing the single-family detached limit. But with land costs so high now, even those densities don't work for affordable housing."
condo attitudes
For-sale multifamily and single-family-attached projects are often a better way to do high density and they were a staple of The Irvine Company's early attempts at market segmentation. But lawsuits for faulty construction brought by homeowners' associations in the '80s scared nearly every housing professional out of this specialty and into super-density detached. The financial picture finally looks attractive enough to encourage builders and architects to try these projects again. But, aimed at the high-end-single or childless-couple market, these pricey units could hardly be called affordable housing.
Older and wiser, architects taking on this work again are doing so with great caution. Aram Bassenian, AIA, who started his firm, now Bassenian Lagoni Architects, Newport Beach, in the early '70s, established a separate business division to handle multifamily. Like several other architects with larger firms, he has an MBA on his 90-person staff to vet contracts. One firm that's specialized in high-density attached and detached work since its start in the early '70s is McLarand Vasquez Emsiek & Partners, Irvine. The 104-person firm balances its portfolio with 40 percent commercial work—everything but "penitentiaries and hospitals," says Rick Emsiek, AIA. The commercial projects and multifamily-rental work kept the firm going during the litigation years.
diversify, diversify
Although many firms have specialties, there's so much design work in California right now that everyone is doing a bit of everything. For instance, MVEP broke free of their multifamily typecasting with the much-lauded project One Ford Road. The 110-acre community ("subdivision" is a dirty word in Orange County) in Newport Beach has a wide variety of "product type," says Emsiek. But what got people's attention when it opened in 1994 was a series of smallish alley-loaded houses, wrapped in recognizable, mostly New England architectural styles. With no attached garage and starter-home square footages of 2,500 to 3,000, the houses still managed to sell like hotcakes for close to $1 million apiece. "In retrospect, we wished we had done more alley-loaded product at One Ford Road," says Emsiek. "All the stars were aligned for this project: the opportunity, the vision of the client, the land. It was a think tank for us." T
hose stars are aligning more often these days, and Orange County architects keep pinching themselves, hoping the real estate boom isn't merely a short-lived burst. Some have just staffed up after the recession caused cutbacks in the early '90s; some vow never to get as big as they were in the '80s again. After all, the county declared bankruptcy only six years ago. "I keep looking over my shoulder, but I don't see an end in sight," says Bill Hezmalhalch, AIA, of Irvine-based William Hezmalhalch Architects.
After working for Art Danielian, Hezmalhalch started his own firm with a couple of partners in 1980. Now busting out of his current office space with a staff of 90, he's got more on the boards than he can handle. Like Danielian, his niche is high-density move-up housing and lower-end econo-box work. But the high times have brought in more land-planning jobs, an opportunity he's very excited about. "We're going back and looking at neighborhoods from the '20s, '30s, '40s—even '50s—to see what madethem work. They had a variety of housing styles; they were pedestrian friendly," he explains. "We're trying to design something authentic that hangs together."
He tried out a few of his ideas in his master plan and design guidelines for Ladera Ranch, a 4,000-acre development on the former Mission Viejo Ranch in south Orange County. Squiring all that wide-open land into a framework was a daunting task. But Hezmalhalch and his principal in charge of community design and land planning, Will Haynes, had a successful template right in front of them: the Irvine Ranch's village concept.
Armed with lessons learned there, they and the project's team of consultants launched the plan to build out Ladera Ranch's 8,100 homes in five villages. "Suburbia is not all bad," says Haynes. "In the past, it's just compounded its shortcomings through numbers. But that's what we do well—figure out what to use and what to dismiss." On the strength of Ladera, the firm has a number of other full-scale communities in the pipeline.
Others, like JBZ, Newport Beach, are expanding their repertoire to adult care and senior housing. "A lot of builders are looking into new divisions that cater to the active senior market," says Jacobs. And almost all of the established firms, including JBZ, have projects under way overseas, particularly among Pacific Rim countries with emerging middle classes. "We've been hired to do projects in South Korea, the Philippines, and now Turkey," he says. "It's much more difficult to deal internationally with housing than it is to deal locally. But they come over here and they see what we've done; they recognize its quality and they want it."
Difficulty notwithstanding, overseas jobs helped keep many Orange County firms afloat during the recession. They prevented Aram Bassenian from having to lay off much staff, and he still finds the work gratifying. "There's no question that housing here leads the world. We are the Detroit of the housing industry," he says. "Our plans are better, space relates to furniture better, function is better, and the introduction of light is more sophisticated."
out of the box
Orange County architects are certainly masters of the move-up house—or, to continue the automobile metaphor, they make a great Ford Taurus. They'd proven themselves indispensable to builders in land and floor planning, but until recently they had yet to demonstrate their designs could "add value" to a project.
Of course, curb appeal has always been important, but the conventional wisdom was that design came along for the ride while square footage really sold the house. Hence, the proliferation in the '80s of big, boxy houses atop three-car garages. "In the big box, space is the amenity," says Hezmalhalch. "We designed them at $29 a foot." But the price everyone paid was monotony. "As a design industry, we were in a trap," Bassenian explains. "We had cracked the plan: a two-story house, three-car garage in front, living room in front, family room in back, downstairs bedroom, upstairs master with secondary bedrooms. Without realizing it, we were all doing alternatives to that plan. There was nothing wrong with that plan—it worked. But then the massing on the outside became the same as well and the three-car garage became the dominant element. Every community suffered from sameness. And you really can't expect the buyer to move up to the same house."
Nearly everyone agrees it was Bob Hidey and his 38-person firm, Robert Hidey Architects, Newport Beach, who busted the box. With a project called Mahogany, he shifted the paradigm. Backed by entrepreneurial builder Taylor Woodrow, he spent a little extra money to move the garage off the front elevation and behind a motor court. He also bucked the prevailing "big bang theory" by de-emphasizing the front stair and entry hall, and tinkering with sight lines to build drama and interest. Those moves, combined with an extensive list of high-end options and flexible floor plans, caught everyone's attention—especially the buyers'.
The houses, which opened in 1995 at $450,000, sold out at $1 million. "Mahogany got a lot of attention from builders, because it was done very well and sold very well," says Eric Zuziak, AIA, of JBZ. "Flipping the garage around was something a lot of architects were trying to get builders to do. We were all drawing houses like that." Perhaps, but Hidey got it done. His diverse professional background, which included both the practicalities of commercial work and the indulgences of high-end custom, seems to have prepared him perfectly for the niche he helped create: the high-end production house.
Admittedly, it's a boutique niche, but one that's thriving in Orange County right now. His latest project, Watermark, in Crystal Cove, The Irvine Company's stunning hillside site overlooking the Pacific Ocean, has prompted bidding wars among buyers. Prices are at $3.5 million and still climbing. 'When I started, I never thought we'd see $1 million. Now, it's $3 to $4 million," he says. "It's just staggering." "I give Bob Hidey a lot of credit," says Richardson. "He broke the mold. There was a ready market for a different kind of house."
higher and higher
Yes, California's economy is booming and home buyers with real estate equity and stock market liquidity are moving up and into the stratosphere. And they don't seem to have the patience to build a custom home. They want to see and touch before they buy. They prefer to write a check and turn the key. "California is white-hot. The market has returned in a big way," says Bassenian. "We're at a unique position historically: We're at ground zero of the high-tech economy; add to that the connection with the Pacific Rim, the entertainment industry based here, and the general stability of the American political system. It's fueling a demand for unique, expensive homes."
Another emerging star of the high-end niche is Mark Scheurer, AIA, of Newport Beach-based Scheurer Architects. Like Hidey, his projects are also skyrocketing in price between opening and build-out. A veteran of Dorius' firm, he's run his own shop since 1991. His fame came quickly with two multifamily developments, Trovare and Altezza, and the high-end single-family projects Castaways and, most recently, Strada. Patterned after Italian hill towns, sister projects Trovare and Altezza in Newport Beach sold out at close to three times their starting price. "My client, Taylor Woodrow, told me Trovare was the most profitable project they'd ever done," says Scheurer. "Then Altezza was even more profitable." Rob Elliott, head of The Irvine Company's urban planning and design department, cites Mahogany, Altezza, and Trovare as among the best of what Orange County has to offer these days. "Scheurer and Hidey are really great designers," he says. "They've raised the bar for everyone."
Most important, they proved to builders that good design can make money. Encouraging builders to take creative risks is tough, Scheurer says, but it's incumbent upon architects to do so. "I have no sympathy for architects who say bad work is not their fault," he says. "Every project begins with a builder deciding how far he wants to go. If architects only put on the wall what they think the builder wants to see, they haven't done their job." Maybe it's just the difference between old math and new math. "There are architects who think every day about how to save a dollar," Scheurer explains. "Our firm thinks about how to spend a dollar to make two dollars."
art and science
Fortunately, there are buyers right now willing to spend those two dollars. For architects interested in exploring new territory in production design, these are exciting and challenging times. Indeed, there's increasing pressure to do better and more creative work. And everyone's approaching the challenge a little differently. Hidey, for instance, is looking to older California towns, like Santa Barbara and Capistrano, for design inspiration. Another firm, Irvine-based KTGY Group, which does a variety of multifamily and single-family work in Orange County and the Sunbelt states, prefers a more systematic methodology.
Says partner John Tully, "When we design a project, we think about marketing that house to a particular buyer. We put you in one of 26 categories. If we know where you are in your life cycle—whether you're married or not, how old your kids are—we can tell what kind of car you drive, where you shop, and what kind of floor plan you like. Designing housing is not different from what retailing is doing or automobile manufacturers are doing. In Southern California, people move every three to five years. It's fashion driven. You move every time your life cycle changes." Hezmalhalch disagrees: "We're shifting from a market-driven to an architecture-driven business."
And Scheurer claims he "throws all the marketing research in the trash." Whatever the approach, it's relatively easy to do good work now. The real test, says Zuziak, is to keep the standards high when the economy starts to sink. "Right now it's very competitive in terms of creative design, which is great for buyers. And builders are much more apt to embrace creativity. In periods of contraction and recession, though, it's the opposite. Builders back down and build the typical box so they can get the price way back down," he says. "If you took those award-winning projects and laid them over a time line, you'd see that they happened during times of economic expansion."
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For all that progress, though, there remains a pervasive monotony in the architecture of Orange County. And the credit for that may also belong to The Irvine Company. Don Bren, who bought the company from the Irvine family in 1977, loves Spanish architecture. And every house built on Irvine's extensive holdings must pass through his planning and design department. Hence, most of what's filled the villages since Bren came to town is a variation on Spanish, Italian, Mediterranean. The sameness makes even the much-dated architecture from the late '60s and early '70s in Orange County feel like a relief.
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The inhibition is daunting, especially to the newer firms eager to make their mark, like Dawson Hannouche Pate of Newport Beach. Says Theron Pate, AIA, "We're still waiting for the opportunity to do a contemporary subdivision. We'd like to do Modern, but people don't understand Modern." Sad, but largely true. Bren, who's inhabited Forbes magazine's list of the 400 richest people in America since 1982, obviously hasn't gone broke underestimating the public's capacity to embrace new architectural styles. But thanks to some masterful Orange County architects, traditional architectural styles have never looked better. In their hands, the suburbs are alive and thriving.


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hi i have a 1990 chevy 305 and iv heard that 86 and later that the motors are external balanced and have a one peice rear main seal which mine does my question is what will happen if the motor has a internal balanced flex plate on it what kind of damage am i lookin at the engine has 3400 miles on it and i just found out that it might be the wrong flexplate but the plate that is on there has a good size balance weight that doesnt look like it would be small enough to balance just the flexplate itself but iv ben told it was internal balance but iv seen the same exact flexplate with the same wieght for external applications some help on this would be so great im loosing my mind on this one
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Hi everyone, my friend has just had a 383 built from a local engine builder......he was given the wrong flywheel for his Tremec 5 speed transmission. The problem is, we can't find the right flywheel weights. Can someone tell me exactly what to do?
I'm starting from a motor thats in the car, has been driven, now the tranny is out, we have no flywheel on the car. Can someone just tell me exactly what to do with the pressure plate, what flywheel to get, etc...I'm desperate. The engine builder built my motor too and he did a good job, but when we asked him questions he got very mad, and very busy all of a sudden. He proceeded to talk about my friend and I to the local car guys, and he even threatened us! we need some help here thanks a lot....
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You are correct in the fact that the balance will change.
Flywheel diameter of course would change the balance, so does the thickness of the flywheel but the thickness change is tiny compared to the length of the crankshaft...this is assuming a same diameter flywheel. Am I missing something from the original question? Is the flywheel a different diameter?
When the factory builds engines they don't balance clutch engines different than automatic equipped vehicles, the flywheels are the part that accomodates that with weights placed strategically on it's diameter.
The amount is so tiny that it would probably entail drilling and removing less than a half gram. At some point you have to apply a tolerance to your machining operation? No?
I guess it all comes down to what tolerance for perfection you subscribe too.
[quote]Originally posted by Deuce Roadster:
I have changed flywheels (153 to 168) after balancing a assembly and the balance changed (still in the balancer) SO let's just agree to disagree.
Well if you move the same balance weights farther away from the crank center then of course the balance would change...is that what you're saying?
[quote]Originally posted by 4 Jaw Chuck:
 What about windage and the half pound of rotating oil mass attached to the crank at all times. All these are factors that affect balance that are not accounted for in a simple bobweight calculation.

IF you will go back and look at the Bobweight card...it has 3 grams added for oil on the pistons.
I cannot change your mind and I am satisfied with what I have said. I have changed flywheels (153 to 168) after balancing a assembly and the balance changed (still in the balancer) SO let's just agree to disagree.
Have a nice day !
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Without trying to sound like I'm trying to start an argument Deuce but what you have done with your 283 is make the crank lighter, thats all...and made the counterweight inertial masses equivalent for that particular bobweight.
We talk about balance like there are not other forces that affect the balance of the engine, combustion pressure, quench clearance, piston diameter, cylinder wall friction I could go on and on. How is your bobweight determined? By using half the rod weight plus the pin right? So essentially you are treating the rod as two separate pieces, not really very realistic since every one knows rods are one piece. What about windage and the half pound of rotating oil mass attached to the crank at all times. All these are factors that affect balance that are not accounted for in a simple bobweight calculation.
In real life of course this is all we can do with the mechanical components to effect any change, but really when you do flywheel calculations and bobweight calc you are assuming a great many things that have no basis in reality. The original engineers who designed your engine took a great many things into account when they designed the original crank throws and much of the knowledge and rules of thumb were developed in the rail era, funny many things have not changed all that much.
Did you notice that the amount of out of balance for your original spin was 200 pds at 6000 rpm? Funny but that just about coincides with combustion chamber pressure during compression and the max safe rpm the motor was designed for?
Have you ever read Smokey Yunicks book Deuce?
|If it is a 400 crank... you better put external balnce on it .. every 383 or 400 is identified by the balancer..i will
This is the paper on my little 283 for my 40 Ford coupe. This is the inital spin. This is with the 4 Bobweights, flywheel, pressure plate, harmonic balancer, lower front pulley and lower timing chain gear installed on the crankshaft. This is everything that rotates.
Now the sheet after the crankshaft, flywheel and harmonic balancer are balanced.
Notice that the out of balance at 1000 RPMS on the inital spin is 5.44 lbs. Then compare it to the 5000 RPMS out of balance after balancing the crank, flywheel and harmonic balancer (4.87 lbs.)
It is less at 5000 RPMS than before at 1000 RPMS. The Bobweight did not change. All the pistons, rods, rod bearings and rings were already made the same weight (Bobweight).
What did change was the crankshaft throws (drilled) and the flywheel drilled and the pressure plate rotated 120 degrees to a more in balance location.
To try to make this simple....... when you speed balance a tire and rim on your car.....you balance it to the hub and rotor also to get the best balance.
When you just spin the rim and tire on a tire machine...... it can be balanced but MAY not ride smoothly because it is out of balance after it was bolted to the hub and rotor.
I know of nobody who records the weight of a flywheel or flexplate after balancing.
A 383 is externally balanced. This means that the rotating assembly is balanced by the harmonic balancer and flywheel. Just try a 350 flywheel. HA HA HA
|I love this forum. Thanks guys for all tour input. I feel much better now, I was worried to death that my engine was gonna come apart from shaking. The general feeling I get from everyone is that he did it correctly or it's close enough.
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I think he is concerned that the thickness of the new flywheel would cause a dynamic imbalance due to the spacing of the weights between the two types. They are a different shape and he does have a point, but the effect is extremely small if you do the calcs (I used assist balancing GM locomotive cranks and blower rotors), I wouldn't worry about it. Balancing is not an exact art and the fact that a crankshaft is flexible except when installed makes it all really a guessing game of pin end weight percentage changes, over balancing and underbalancing blah, blah, etc.etc.etc.
Too much importance is placed on balancing engines especially in magazines, matching piston weights and rods is all you ever need and as long as your crank/rod combo is compensated for (you said he balanced the rotating assy) what more could you ask for, the flywheel is a non-issue if you ask me.
Correct me if I'm wrong on any of these assumptions.
Seems like there might be some confusion here over internal vs. external balance.
His 383 obviously uses the 400 crank (not a dedicated internal balanced 383 crank). It is EXTERNALLY balanced.
That said, I don't see why it would not be balanced by adding the same amount of weight that had been added to the flex plate since a flywheel with no balance weights is NEUTRAL
|4 Jaw Chuck
Deuce? how would the total weight of the flywheel affect the balance of the engine? There would be a change in inertia and harmonics frequency but not balance. Harmonics you can't do anything about and inertia is a fact of life, this would not change your balancer weight at all?
Can you explain, I'm confused?
the weight of the flywheel means nothing it is the amount of the imbalance that is recorded, if you have this figure you can balance a 14" flexplate to a 35" 100lb. wheel. its the amount of the imbalance that you are duplicating, not the size or weight of the object.
a good balance shop keeps records of all work done and all weights involved, using these figures a new component rematch is a breeze. In the case of the heavy wheel, it is mounted to a mandrel and spun up, then modified to match (drill or weld) the exact imbalance of the original.
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The organisations note that Sweden, the first European country to criminalise the purchase of sexual services, has witnessed a 50% drop in street prostitution as a result.1 Prostitution did not increase in Sweden from 1999 to 2008 as it did in neighbouring countries, and according to the Swedish national police, the ban on the purchase of sexual services has created a barrier to sex trafficking in the country.2 An important part of the Swedish law is to help women to leave prostitution, along with preventing men from purchasing sex. Norway and Iceland have recently followed in Sweden's footsteps and passed similar laws.
The organisations note further the findings of the German Federal Government that legalising the sex industry in Germany has made no actual improvement to the social protection of prostituted women, nor has it recognisably improved women's ability to leave prostitution or reduced crime in the sex industry.3 The German Federal Government has concluded that the responsibility of those creating the demand for prostituted sex should clearly be addressed.4 The most recent report of the Dutch National Rapporteur on Trafficking acknowledges that "whereas several years ago the predominant view was that prostitution should be regarded as an ordinary profession and the ban on brothels was lifted, there is now a wider realisation that prostitutes are highly vulnerable to exploitation and that human trafficking occurs even in the licensed sector of the prostitution industry."5
Equality Now and its partners call on the EU to remain firm in its commitment to gender equality. "Criminalising the purchasers of sex while decriminalising women in prostitution would demonstrate that women and girls are not commodities or services for sale", say the Lithuanian organisations. "Such an approach would improve public health by promoting equality in sexual relations and views on sexuality", adds Iluta Lace, Director of the Women's Resource Centre "Marta" in Latvia.
The organisations call on the EU to acknowledge, and vigorously investigate and prosecute, all perpetrators of sexual exploitation. In parallel, the organisations urge governments to work for equality between women and men and to implement programmes to promote alternatives for women in prostitution.
Organisations joining Equality Now:
Kaunas Women's Society (Lithuania)
Klaipėda Social and Psychological Services Centre (Lithuania)
Lithuanian Caritas (Lithuania)
Missing Persons' Families Support Centre (Lithuania)
ROSA (Norway)
Stígamót (Iceland)
The Resource Centre for Women "Marta" (Latvia)
Woman to Woman (Lithuania)
Women's Issues Information Centre (Lithuania)
1. Swedish Ministry of Justice, English summary of the Evaluation of the ban on purchase of sexual services (1999-2008), 2 July 2010.
2. Ibid.
3. German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, Report by the Federal Government on the Impact of the Act Regulating the Legal Situation of Prostitutes (Prostitution Act), July 2007 at 79.
4. Ibid at 80
5. Dutch National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings, Seventh Report, October 2009 at 30.


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The University of St. Thomas William J. Flynn Center for Irish Studies, rated among the top 10 Irish Studies programs in the country, celebrated the contributions of well-known members of the Houston Irish and Irish American communities at its annual Irish Gala held Nov. 9 at The Houstonian Hotel. The honorees were recognized for their contributions to the Center's mission of preserving Irish heritage and culture.
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yea i know that whole deal about not fighting the rail/box. my friend keeps telling me to get off when its over and to not fight it. its mostly me. idk why but i have this tendency to want to finish it no matter what even if it means eating it hard. i've bruised up my fair share of shins trying to ride it out.
well i had a good time at the top of the mountain battling the 50-60 mph winds, it was kinda scary since the path was so tiny, as well as the flaming gays up on the mountain during "elevation week", pretty much gay skiing week, i got hit on a few times, mostly by old men...*shudder*, which just made it even funnier.
jumps im just starting to master, landing on the transfer and not the knuckle or tabletop, but am still scared shitless by. even when i do land it im still really sketchy coming down those big transfers.. >.<
I'm not into the whole bombing the trail thing, so I've been spending a lot of my time in the park. Yeah, it's easy to psych yourself out either before you drop to hit a feature or while your approaching a feature. Just start as small as you can and gradually work your way up. Don't feel pressured to try something you feel very uneasy about because of your friends. Also what helps me a lot is learning to control yourself when you fall. When I slip off the heel side of the rail, I always try to use my hands to feel where the rail is on the way down. If I start a grind and I know I'm not going to ride the whole rail, I don't fight the board and try to keep it on the rail (well, I did try to fight it once, and I split my shin open on the rail). Hopefully that didn't just spook you some more, but that was only because I was getting greedy on a down/flat/down rail that I should have just hopped off when I felt iffy about the approach.
If you keep trying and trying and things just don't get better, then perhaps freestyle just isn't for you, the same way bombing blacks and riding through trees isn't for me. I feel like i'll never get comfortable straight-lining a black, so I've happy accepted my place in the park
|When you go to the park you need to have good protective gear for ALL of your body, just dont think of what will go wrong because when you do you are 90% likely to fail or get hurt, just think on how it is done and what is coming up next, also tuffin up because if there was no pain to be givin then there is no reward to be haved, ask your friends for help and info on what to do if you have trouble and Get some more body gear! Just keep on going and trying and if you suck, start to hate it, or just dont think it is for you then most likely it is not, so then just start doing what you like and have fun!
i have the same problem... rails and boxes scare me shitless mostly because i always end up imagining everything that could go wrong on them haha...
jumps scare me too but mostly because im not really used to them yet
however, i still ride a decent amount of park because i love the feeling i get when i land something i was scared shitless to try, it just feels so rewarding. i would never spend my whole day there though, because bombing runs is one of my favorite things to do
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SOOOOooo just got back from mammoth...and i kinda had this whole turn of style. it was the first day on the trip and we were hitting up the park and i was attempting a fat kink rail, which i ate it hard on and smacked my knee which is all inflamed lol, when i realized that i'm scared shitless of stuff like that. whenever im on my way to to a hill im flippin out but when it gets down to it and the rail/box/jump is in front of me im shaking in my boots...i need help
it was at this point in the trip that i started to just ride around instead of the park, i did do a couple boxes and jump runs though, i just didnt spend my entire day there. the rest of my bunch of friends are all into the whole freestyle deal and i, who up to this last week, was totally into it as well.
has any1 else had this like happen to them? by that i mean the whole realization about freestyle and freeriding. i don't know if its me being a chicken shit about the park or just finding what i really like about snowboarding...soooo twisted!
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Today the National Academy of Sciences has been conducting briefings on whether corrosive tar sands oil can be safely transported through pipelines. Recent history affirms that tar sands pipelines are a bad idea, as documented in the July 10, 2012 report from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on the 2010 Kalamazoo tar sands spill. That spill, from the tar sands Enbridge pipeline, released a million gallons of dirty tar sands oil in to the Kalamazoo River watershed.
Two years later, the river remains highly polluted and we still lack the level of transparency needed in terms of pipeline reporting. The NTSB report raises serious concerns about whether tar sands oil can ever be safely transported via pipeline. The report findings make development of the Keystone XL, the Trailblazer, the Northern Gateway, the Enbridge Midwest Expansion — any tar sand pipeline — all the more dangerous and absurd.
Robert Sumwalt, an NTSB board member, stated, "It's evident that this accident did not just occur because of corrosion in a pipeline. What this investigation has shown is that this accident was the result of corrosion throughout many vital safety aspects of the Enbridge organization."
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The IP block is only on the launcher, so you can bypass it using proxifier or OpenVPN.
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Edit: to add to this, while playing via OpenVPN I got too much lag. It made combat against PVE-targets unbearably bad and I cringe thinking about how it would work with PVP. Hopefully we can figure out a way to get in with a better service that doesn't cost very much, or how to get into a game with a VPN and then continue on with regular connection.
I'm debating on whether or not request a refund. I'll sleep on it and see how things are going in the afternoon when I wake up.
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Try to proxify the launcher with a Russian IP then shut down once you ingame. OpenVPN lags too much yeah.
The IP ban has been lifted for existing accounts.
But It seems theyre trying to drive us out without having to refund anything.
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Hope you guys get some epic stuff Karnage! My time playing Archeage is over unfortunately i don't wanna get any further in the game and ruin my first experiences in the official US release, games truly amazing and im for sure going to be paying for it once it comes out in the US
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I'll try to stream some AA some more in a few days, but for now, I'll be streaming Mobile Suit Gundam Online for anyone who is interested. Go ahead and enter my stream now. I'll be starting in a few minutes.
Sorry guys, but still no AA for awhile. With that said, I'll be streaming PlanetSide 2 within the hour with a gentlemen by the name of Popcron for anyone who is interested. Go ahead and head to my Twitch and wait for the stream to start up.
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Would have thought AHB would be a problem in your area? :?
You would think so, right. AHB is something that has to be closely watched around here. Furtunately, I have not had any issues, but again I've only been at it for a year. All my queens are open mated and some are at least third generation. All my original stock comes from local beekeeper how also open mates. So far, the only trait that I can see in some of my bees that is AHB typical, is runniess (sp?) and I try (or at least think that I am) nip that in the bud, ASAP. I think that most of my bees are quite gentle and stay on the comb well. Go figure...
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Working outside in sweltering summer heat with sawdust stinging your eyes is not a recipe for a fun time. Senior chemistry major and pre-med student Yussr Ibrahim says otherwise. Ibrahim, along with nearly 20 other University of St. Thomas students and faculty advisor, Dr. Elmer Ledesma, helped construct a home with Habitat for Humanity in northwest Houston on July 27, and had fun while doing it.
This was the first build for UST's Habitat for Humanity club since its inception by Ibrahim, the club president.
"I wanted to start a club on campus that was focused on volunteering," Ibrahim said. "I saw a lot of clubs on campus, and am part of several clubs that are designed for one major, so I thought, why not start a club for anyone who is passionate about volunteering and help them give back to the community?"
Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit, Christian housing ministry that believes that every man, woman and child should have a decent, safe and affordable place to live. Volunteers build and repair houses all over the world using volunteer labor and donations that partner families purchase through no-profit, no-interest mortgage loans or innovative financing methods.
This mission is what attracted senior pre-pharmacy and biology major, and club secretary, Jennifer Le to Habitat for Humanity to begin with.
"I know that Habitat for Humanity does so much for deserving families, and it is fulfilling to be a part of an organization that is always giving," Le said. "I know it is my responsibility as a human being to help others whenever possible, and Habitat gives me the opportunity to help in ways that I cannot achieve by myself."
On the day of the build, students installed roof trusses and hurricane clips. They worked as a team, some on ladders hammering, others holding those ladders in place and still some transporting equipment. Though this was a new experience for many of the students, their sense of accomplishment quickly eclipsed their initial concerns that they did not have construction experience.
The club has plans to grow in the coming year. They hope to raise $5,000 by October to partially sponsor a house, but their long term goal is to raise $60,000 to sponsor an entire home.
Ledesma, assistant professor of chemistry, said he thinks the club will make real improvements in the community.
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The Habitat Humanity club is scheduled for a second build on Sept. 28. They welcome anyone who is interested in volunteer opportunities and encourage students to give back to the community. To get involved sign up during club fair on Aug. 22 or visit facebook.com/ust.hfh.
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