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Tiong Bahru Heritage Walk #26
It's the school holidays and we invite one and all to spend a Sunday morning walking around Singapore's oldest residential estate.
What stories lie behind this charming conserved neighbourhood dating back to the 1930s? Who are these streets named after? Explore the charming corners, picturesque alleys and great food offerings of Tiong Bahru with our heritage guides!
Each of our walks is guided by our passionate and experienced volunteers, some of whom have lived in Tiong Bahru for many years. Walk with us and learn more about the rich heritage of Singapore's oldest public residential estate. From stories of prominent businessmen such as Tan Tock Seng and Tan Kim Cheng, to residents who were born in the air raid shelter during World War II, to saying hello to our community cats.
MEETING POINT: Tiong Bahru Community Centre Admin Office (access from Seng Poh Road). Please note that the CC entrance on Eu Chin Street off Tiong Poh Road is closed due to major construction work.
Our walks are free of charge, but we gratefully accept donations that will go towards supporting renovation works for Tiong Bahru Community Centre.
Approximate duration: 2 hours
Please aim to arrive at least 10 minutes before start time.
Walks might be cancelled in the event of very heavy rain.
- Wear comfortable attire and footwear
- Use sunblock, sunglasses and insect repellent
- Have a bottle of water with you
- Pack an umbrella or poncho. Walks will continue in light rain.
- If you drive, please arrive early as parking spaces are very limited on weekends. Please use the car park behind Block 78 Guan Chuan Street.
For more information on Tiong Bahru and photos of our previous walks:
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Cover image: Urban Sketchers Singapore (https://www.facebook.com/usksg?fref=ts)
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Meeting Point: Tiong Bahru CC Admin Office (access from Seng Poh Road). Tel: 63235838


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Wow - now that didn't take long.
Barbara Bradley remembered Robert Watkins from her time in New York: "I wasn't sure if I remembered him from Cooper's or from Y & R, where my husband worked," wrote Barbara in a note to me yesterday. So I checked with Bob [Jones]. It was Cooper's. Here's this reply..."
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Here's what I know about Bob Watkins. He graduated from Chounards -- Pruett Carter was his mentor and his teacher in one of Bob's illustration classes. He came to Coopers in the early to mid fifties. Chuck hired him as an illustrator and his work was very inventive but was more in the graphic area. He then became a designer, art director with a wonderful illustrators ability. He and his family later on moved to San Francisco. There he became an award winning art director at one of the larger agencies in the Bay Area.
Getting back to the album cover. This work is a total departure from what I remember of Bob's illustrations at Cooper's in the fifties -- but you know what they say about old timers. They reinvent themselves to make it work.
Bob and I were close friends and I remember the great times we had working together at Coopers.
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(CNN) -- Claustrophobia was not a condition Bill Johnson understood.
Passengers on a Continental flight operated by ExpressJet sat on the tarmac for nearly six hours on August 8.
That changed on August 8 when he and his new bride, while returning from their honeymoon, found themselves among the 47 airplane passengers left trapped overnight on a tarmac in Rochester, Minnesota.
As the hours -- going on six of them -- passed, he said the air in the ExpressJet for Continental Airlines cabin grew rank. The two babies on board cried. The toilet filled and stopped flushing. No food was served and the puddle-jumper seats made sleep, for him, impossible. All the while, the airport was visible from the plane.
"I wanted to freak out and kick the windows out," said Johnson, 35, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. "I was just trying to keep my cool." Watch how pilot tried to set passengers free »
The much-publicized story of Flight 2816, diverted to Rochester because of bad weather while en route to Minneapolis from Houston, Texas, has brought to the forefront a growing demand to institute passenger rights.
Advocacy groups are fielding calls, gathering momentum and preparing for a September 22 hearing in Washington. One organization recently bought cable television ad time hoping to reach President Obama on his vacation and earn his support, just as a bill to protect fliers from such incidents heads to the Senate floor.
Since the Rochester incident, there have been other tarmac strandings. Passengers on a Sun Country Airlines flight were trapped for about six hours on August 21 while at JFK International Airport in New York. That prompted the airline's CEO to announce last week a four-hour maximum deadline for tarmac sittings, Minnesota's Star Tribune reported.
The first "massive tarmac stranding" to spark outcries and stir up calls for legislation came in January 1999, said Kevin Mitchell, chairman of the Business Travel Coalition. That was when about 3,500 passengers were trapped during a snowstorm for up to 13 hours on Michigan's Detroit Metro Airport tarmacs, he said.
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"Sangre Colorado: Carlos Fresquez Mid-Career Survey," open through March 24 at Metropolitan State University's Center for Visual Art, (a must-see for those interested in area art) is not only a …
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The Center for Visual Arts is at 965 Santa Fe Drive in the Santa Fe Arts district. There is a small parking lot in front of the gallery and street parking usually available.
Hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays; noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays; plus 6 to 8 p.m. on the first and third Fridays each month. For more information: msudenver.edu/cva, 303-294-5207.
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"Sangre Colorado: Carlos Fresquez Mid-Career Survey," open through March 24 at Metropolitan State University's Center for Visual Art, (a must-see for those interested in area art) is not only a portrait of a distinguished Denver artist and scholar, who brought Chicano culture into the classroom, but is also a picture of his art world during whirlwind decades of change, introspection, activism, experimentation and observation.
Influences in the more than 100 images (paintings, prints, drawings and three-dimensional images) reflect scenes from recent decades in America and Europe, from the artist's early years in the barrio near St. Cajetan Church where Metro State now stands — and from more than two centuries of family heritage, including santeros and spiritual traditions.
The extensive exhibit records impressions through the explosive La Raza Chicano movement and intellectual explorations of 20th/21st-century national and international art trends. Included in his symbolism: frequent referral to the Sacred Heart and Guadalupe, mission churches, low riders, roses, skulls and skeletons, brightly costumed characters staged against blue Western skies and traditional Southwestern architecture — plus an occasional pop culture figure that may be inserted in the scene.
Curator/CVA Managing Director Cecily Cullen suggests that the title — translated to "blood" and "red" — plays with the colloquialism "red-blooded American," referring to the family's long history in the country. Sly political comment surfaces throughout the exhibit — political junkies will enjoy that aspect as well.
The visitor feels as though she has stepped into a sunny, swirling fiesta scene, filled with color — with the sound of Latino music supplied through imagination.
Then, there is a "Cubist Chollo," per Picasso — a tough young character from a nearby street corner challenging the newcomer to his territory …
Fresquez has built numerous theater sets and the drapes that set off many paintings would seem to reflect that stage interest and sense of the dramatic.
Hispanic religious figures — santos, bultos and retablos, which are part of his family tradition — also frequently include draped fabrics. Brilliant color costumes traditional figures, with religious, literary and social references, as well as images of today's city residents — sometimes in the same painting.
One gallery contains two walls of murals painted by Fresquez before the exhibit opened that includes a handsome historic royal couple — he with the heart in his hand, plus a dragon, birds and architectural features. The other wall depicts that same couple in the city today, with a train, car, telephone poles, Mickey Mouse and that heart released, bleeding …
The front window gallery presents the artist's early work, as a student and beyond. Fresquez studied at Metro and received an MFA from CU-Boulder, returning some years later to teach. From the start, international, neo-impressionist style, executed with solid painting technique, presents Chicano subjects, including two zoot-suit portraits of himself and his father. On a side wall the visitor must stop to explore "Para Mi Esposa," a larger-than-life-sized three-dimensional depiction of Freida Kahlo and Diego Rivera that spins off a famous earlier European work.
"Los Supersonicos," a collective started with artist Frank Zamora in the late 1990s, resulted in works that include multi-layered paintings and a collection of bright banners with grommets in the unframed canvas. They command one to look up — away from the walls filled with images large and small. (The name is a Spanish version of "The Jetsons.")
Pop art influences tucked throughout include assorted Campbell soup-type cans of "Posole" per Andy Warhol and some playing around with American painter Robert Rauschenberg's "Erased De Kooning." Kids may have fun looking for them — or for Day of the Dead skeletal figures. In fact the whole visual effect should delight even a toddler — or a skeptical teen!
A walk on back to the Extra Credit Gallery presents a wall of works created by past students, including south metro area residents Laura Beacom, Centennial; Kellen Niemeier, Centennial; Christine Gish, Highlands Ranch; and David Reed, Highlands Ranch, according to the gallery (although there was a question about whether Reed's large work could be exhibited).
CVA has published a catalog of the exhibit, for sale at the front desk.
Additional views of the prolific Fresquez's work will be exhibited at the Chicano Arts Council Gallery, 772 Santa Fe Drive, in a show called "One of Our Own," with a book signing and reception from 6 to 8 p.m. on Feb. 16; at the neighboring Museo de las Americas, 861 Santa Fe Drive; and at the Arvada Center, concurrent with the CVA exhibition.
A Carlos Fresquez Artist Talk is scheduled at 5:30 p.m. March 7 at the CVA and a closing reception and poetry reading from 4 to 6 p.m. March 24. (Join Fresquez in a ceremonial repainting of the walls, erasing the temporary murals while reflecting on their content.)
The Young Artist Studio: Mural Painting is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. for ages 11-21 (open workshops).
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Bill Conover says he's a better listener than he was in the past. He's also more productive and focused, and he now has the ability to ride life's emotional rollercoasters with ease and balance.
Beloit's Spiritual Life Program director credits these changes to a mindfulness-based stress reduction course he took in 2006 at UW Health (the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health).
"The chief thing, though, is that mindfulness really helps me to enjoy my life while it's happening," says Conover, who was referred to the course because of his anxiety.
To share his expertise on mindfulness with others at Beloit, Conover began offering weekly "drop-in mindfulness" sessions in 2007, which are now offered twice a week and attended by an average of seven to 12 students. In 2012, he started teaching the Mindfulness Workshop, a course in the psychology department.
Rooted in Buddhist practices, mindfulness gained popularity in the Western hemisphere in the latter part of the 20th century with the work of Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn from the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Unlike other forms of meditation that focus on achieving relaxation, peace, or happiness, the goal of mindfulness is to train one's mind to stay present and to live each moment more fully.
"What I've discovered is usually our minds are unsatisfied about something that's happening. We want more of something or to get rid of something, and in mindfulness we practice accepting exactly what we have and then accepting exactly what that experience is in the moment and trying to respond to that with intelligence and care," Conover says.
According to Conover, benefits of the practice include increased concentration, compassion, and emotional flexibility (the ability to stay calm and keep perspective), and he says these effects can be felt instantly.
Ideally, Conover says mindfulness should be practiced every day for 30 minutes, although even five minutes a day can prove beneficial. He practices every morning for 30 minutes in addition to practicing mindful running three or four times a week. (Mindful running involves synchronizing one's attention with the physical sensations, posture, and form of the running stride.)
For beginners, though, Conover recommends setting a timer for one minute before gradually increasing the time. He also says a great beginner's exercise is to take three mindful breaths every night before you go to sleep and every morning before you get out of bed. These should be three fully aware breaths where you can feel yourself inhaling and exhaling.
Some may think they don't have time to practice mindfulness every day. To this, Conover asks, "Is it worth racing through everything you have to do and not actually living? If you feel a lot of stress in your life, are you willing to take the time and effort to try something truly new to see if there might be a shift?"
Kye Ingram'15 decided to take Conover's class because she wanted to experience some of the positive effects she has heard others say they have achieved through meditation and mindfulness.
"Mindfulness taught me how to love myself on a different level … it showed me how to get in tune with my emotions and really understand what I was feeling," Ingram says. "Mindfulness also impacted my life because it taught me how to have patience and tolerance for things that I couldn't change and to accept it and move on without judgment of myself or the situation."
Students have become such proponents of mindfulness that they launched a mindfulness club this spring.
Supporters of mindfulness, however, extend far beyond Beloit.
Mindfulness is practiced by the U.S. Marine Corps and by some veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Also, according to Conover, the Madison (Wis.) Metropolitan School District is working to bring mindfulness into its K-12 classrooms, an initiative in which he was recently involved. Some prisons have even formed mindfulness groups, and high-tech Silicon Valley companies are offering sessions at work.
"I think it's awesome," Conover says. "I would bet that a company that teaches and encourages mindfulness practice for 20 minutes out of a workday would get more work out of their employees."
Besides the other benefits, mindfulness can also help those who suffer from ailments such as depression, psoriasis, and eating disorders.
While mindfulness is not meant to cure anything, Conover says it can help people suffer less.
"There's a big difference between being cured and feeling healed and whole," he says. "Mindfulness offers the chance of living with life's pains without getting as caught up in them. Mindfulness is about learning to live your life as it actually is."
For more information:
- Do some reading. Conover recommends Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn.
- Read a different view of mindfulness by Beloiter and medical reporter Dan Hurley'79 from the New York Times Magazine: "Breathing in vs. Spacing Out."
- Click here to listen to a recording of Conover leading a mindfulness session
Practice being mindful:
- Find a quiet, comfortable, secure room.
- Situate yourself in a steady position on a cushion or in a strong back chair.
- Close your eyes.
- Focus on your breathing and experience all the sensations that come with it, such as the coolness in the nostrils and the feeling of letting go.
- Shift your attention back to your breathing whenever a thought or feeling arises.


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Ionia County remains under a flood watch until Tuesday.
Although Ionia County remains under a flood watch until Tuesday, water levels in most areas are decreasing.
The Ionia County Office of Emergency Management, which continues to monitor flooding conditions throughout the county, reports the following as of Saturday evening:
- Grand River in Ionia has begun to recede, after cresting at 9 a.m. Saturday at 24.69 feet. It was at 24.37 feet at 10:45 p.m.
- Maple River has crested and is beginning to go down,
- Grand River in Lyons and Muir appears to be going down,
- Grand River in Portland has begun to recede,
- Grand River in Saranac is nearly as high as it is expected to go,
- Flat River in Smyrna is still rising.
The M-66 bridge and M-66 remain open. The bridge continues to be inspected by MDOT for safety, and there is no indication that it will have to be closed.
Residents have had questions about the opening of Webber Dam in Lyons. This is a pass-through dam and is always "open." Communications are on-going with dam operators, and the flow through the dam is decreasing, indicating that the river will be going down.
Ionia County Central Dispatch has fielded numerous calls from people who evacuated asking when they can return to their homes. At this time, that is not known, but will depend on how fast the water receded from each area. However, the water is expected to take several days to go back down.
The emergency shelter is open at the Ionia Armory at 439 W. Main St. for those displaced by the flood who need a place to stay.
Eastbound and westbound M-21 over the Maple River (between Muir and Pewamo) remains closed due to flooding. Eastbound and westbound M-21 at Jefferson Street in Lowell also is closed due to water over the road. Follow the posted detour route, as the "back roads" that many drivers use also may be closed.
For the most up-to-date list of roads closed in Ionia County, "like" the Ionia County Central Dispatch and Ionia Department of Public Safety Facebook pages, which are being updated regularly.


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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Animal Farm
Brave New World
The Foundation Series
The Foundation Prelude Series
The Robots Series (Read this series between books 3 and 4 of the Foundation series for the best experience. They're set in the same universe, but Robots books are set 17000 years earlier. Books 4 and 5 of Foundation series make references to this connection.)
The End of Eternity (Read between books 3 and 4 of Foundation)
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings (read The Hobbit first)
The Road
The Time Machine
The War of the Worlds
The Space Odyssey Series
A great Charity
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No doubt I'll have to edit this, and put in the many that I've forgotten about, but here goes...
Steven Pinker - How the Mind Works - Currently reading this and enjoying it
Ben Goldacre - Bad Science
Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins - The Greatest Show on Earth
Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time
Brian Cox & Jeff Foreshaw - Why does E=mc,² - OK, I'll admit that my brain did gloss over on a few occasions due to equasions, but I got through it still!
Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything - I'll also reccomend the Kids version for those of you who have spawned!
Jon Ronson - The Men who Stare at Goats
Jon Ronson - Them
Derren Brown - Tricks of the Mind
Steven D. Levvit & Stephen J. Dubner - Freakonomics
Dave Gorman & Danny Wallace- Are You Dave Gorman?
Danny Wallace - Yes Man atleast 7 times better than the film of the same name
Terry Pratchett So far I've not read a book of his that I've not enjoyed. I've been quite a late started in regards to Discworld, but I'm slowly making my way through the series
Stephen King - Hearts in Atlantis
Douglass Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Yann Martell - Life of Pi
|Fri Mar 25, 2011 10:20 pm
LaurensPosts: 2995Joined: Sat Mar 20, 2010 11:24 pmLocation: Norwich UK Gender: Male
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The Tell Tale Brain - V.S Ramachandran
Lost Christianities - Bart D Ehrman
Life - Richard Fortey
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Why E=MC2: (and why should we care?) - Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw.
Bad Science - Ben Goldacre.
|Sat Apr 16, 2011 12:49 pm
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Ayn Rand, Ann Coulter, Anna of Green Gables
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havanacat wrote:Ayn Rand, Ann Coulter, Anna of Green Gables
You have got to be a poe... or woefully undereducated ...
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Thou shalt not educate or improve the lives of the lesser classes, the lesser races, or women.
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|Tue Jun 14, 2011 3:34 am
australopithecusPosts: 4349Joined: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:27 pmLocation: Kernow Gender: Time Lord
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Schrodinger's Kittens - John Gribbin.
|Sat Oct 22, 2011 5:10 pm
NothPosts: 335Joined: Mon Aug 30, 2010 4:25 pmLocation: the Nether-regions Gender: Male
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I see that Pulsar already mentioned Seven Erikson's series, but I have to echo that statement:
fantasy lovers, read the Malazan book of the Fallen series. It is probably my favourite fantasy ever.
I also recently received as a gift Ernest Cline - Ready Player One
He's a new writer and this is apparently his first book, but my oh my what a gem! Must have for anyone who's ever felt anything like a geek/nerd.
|Sun Oct 23, 2011 1:53 pm
DeanPosts: 593Joined: Sun May 22, 2011 1:49 pmLocation: United Kingdom Gender: Pinecone
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A new book by the eminent neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga will be released on the 15th of November
Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
Amazon.com Description wrote:The father of cognitive neuroscience and author of Human offers a provocative argument against the common belief that our lives are wholly determined by physical processes and we are therefore not responsible for our actions
This feature article about Gazzaniga's legacy appeared in yesterday's New York Times: Decoding the Brain's Cacophony
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|Wed Nov 02, 2011 5:44 pm
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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand!
HOLY SHIT, this book is amazing.
|Wed Nov 23, 2011 5:21 am
LaurensPosts: 2995Joined: Sat Mar 20, 2010 11:24 pmLocation: Norwich UK Gender: Male
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I got this for Xmas:
The Encyclopedia of Mammals
It's a really awesome reference book for anyone interested in mammal zoology and evolution etc.
It has some contributions from Richard Dawkins too, which is interesting to see in a more academic book.
I'd highly recommend it!
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|Sun Jan 01, 2012 5:00 pm
DeanPosts: 593Joined: Sun May 22, 2011 1:49 pmLocation: United Kingdom Gender: Pinecone
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Laurens wrote:I got this for Xmas:
It may not be your forté, bur I have recently compiled some cosmological / physical works that you may enjoy. Perhaps you'll want to pick up a copy of this book when it comes out ...
On the 10th January this year, a new book by physicist Lawrence Krauss will be released!
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing ... Free Press, 224 pages.
The reviews on Amazon -- from Neil deGrasse Tyson, A.C. Grayling, Sam Harris, Ian McEwan, Frank Wilczek, and Martin Rees -- are fairly glowing. Krauss's book is "recommended reading" by Scientific American, as you can see in this excerpt:
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|Tue Jan 03, 2012 6:18 pm
FrengerPosts: 831Joined: Mon Nov 07, 2011 12:50 pmLocation: Derby, UK Gender: Male
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That Lawrence Krauss book is on my IPAD waiting to be read. I loved his debate with William Lane Craig and his talk for Richard Dawkins.
Have you read it yet? I shall probably read it this weekend although I have just started "the better angels of our nature" and it is MAHOOOOOSIVE!
OH!!! And I forgot to recommend a book.
You should all read David Eagleman "incognito". I'm new to Neuroscience so it was a great and fun introduction. Of course if you know anything about neurology I'm sure you'd be fairly bored, but I don't, and I wasn't, so there
ANNDDDD in terms of fiction, I can't recommend Haruki Murakami enough. I read Norweigen wood, then Kafka on the shore, then the wind-up bird chronicles and now I have read nearly all of his. Dance Dance Dance is amazing.
Everyone read Murakami! You won't regret it. I would start with Kafka on the Shore.
|Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:29 am
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For all those recommending Nietzsche, and which of his books to read first, I'd recommend that those new to him read A Nietzsche Reader.
It gives as good an overview of Nietzsche's philosophy and works for which one could ask, by someone who's a renowned expert and translator - indeed, Hollingdale uses excerpts from his own translations..
Kindest regards,
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|Tue Sep 04, 2012 1:47 am
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Very interesting indeed. It was believed that Nietzsche was insane upon his death in 1900. If someone doesn't expect different results but merely hopes for better times.......Does that make them insane? Interesting concept, I think. But then I guess it sort of depends on what one person sees as the same or different result, no? And I suppose that it also depends on how other people perceive as 'the same' or different, no?
There is still light in the 'Earthly' darkness. Finding light in the darkness can be more satisfying than merely seeing the glaring light of our sun. It gives us a better understanding of light and a deeper understanding of our universe.
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HOUTSON, Texas - Tanner Sanders made an impressive debut for the Lipscomb Lady Bisons as she struck out seven batters on the way to a 4-0 shutout of Iowa from the Big 10.
Sanders, a right-hander, allowed only two hits. She walked two and hit one batter as the Lady Bisons opened the 2013 regular season Friday morning in Texas at the Houston Hilton Classic at the Cougar Softball Stadium.
She struck out the last two batters she faced.
"Tanner came out and threw really well," Lipscomb coach Kristin Ryman said. "She was hitting her spots and moving the ball around.
"She didn't really have a letdown. Sometimes, with freshmen, you have to stay on them to make sure they are keeping a good mentality the whole game. We really didn't have to do that with Tanner. She took control of the game early on and was as strong at the finish as she was at the start."
The Lady Bisons broke the scoreless tie with two runs in the bottom of the third inning. With one out Rena' Cothron walked. Heather Montgomery grounded out to the pitcher to move Cothron to second. Brittany Elmore singled to left field to score Cothron. Paige Neely singled and Elmore was safe at second. Kelsey Cartwright singled to right field to send Elmore home.
In the fourth inning, the Lady Bisons added two more runs. Mickey Bell opened with a single to right field. Brianne Welch replaced Bell as a pinch-runner. Kristen Sturdivant reached base on an error by Iowa's second baseman. Jordan Abell replaced Sturdivant as a pinch-runner. Bridgette Begle reached base on a bunt single. Cothron hit a sacrifice fly to right field to plate Welch. Montgomery grounded out to second base to bring in Abell.
The Lady Bisons scattered five hits.
"We found some ways to put the ball where it needed to be," Ryman said. "We didn't have a large number of hits to show for it in the end, but I really thought our bats got a lot better as the game went on.
"We produced in key situations. We took advantage of one mistake on Iowa's part. Overall, I was impressed with our approach at the plate and how we adjusted throughout the game."
Ryman started three new outfielders - Montgomery in left, Neely in center and Elmore in right. Bell made her first collegiate start at catcher. The Lady Bisons did not make an error.
The Lady Bisons are back on the field today at 4:30 p.m. to face Houston. Sophomore left-hander Ashley Anderson is expected to make the start.
"It is a really great way to start the season," Ryman said. "They are exuding confidence right now. Whether they are confident are not, they are selling it.
"They are a fun group to coach. I thought our dugout was really into it. The players coming off the bench were ready. We have to come back this afternoon and pass another tough test with Houston."
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Veriunique Prod needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 130 designs submitted by 35 freelance designers.
Veriunique Productions
This is not a huge Company but I do have a group of talented people I work with on projects. All of the business seems to come from word of mouth but I need to get a Merchant Account and one of their big requirements is for me to actually have a web site of my own. We also do SEO work too if that matters.
This will be a logo to be used on that site. I can of course make my own logo but I love the different ideas that come from this whole crowd-sourcing stuff.
Please feel free to use any graphics or colors as I love the creativity you guys have on this site. Maybe something creative with the "V" & "P"?? Maybe there is a way to make it look like VIP...who knows??
Obviously, I want something sort of Unique :)
I look forward to your submissions.
I don't know if this would impact the look of the logo but we seem to cater to higher-end clients. We don't setup Wordpress sites for people, they are generally all custom sites from scratch.
I know you guys like to work with Illustrator files but I prefer a PSD file.
Most important, Spell the name of the Company correctly !!
"Veriunique Productions"
My last winner here spelled the name of the Company wrong in the file he gave me at the end (the submission on this site was spelled correctly) and since I approved and Paid, he never returned any more email from me :(
I'm going to be more careful this time and not get screwed again...
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009
LES CLASSIQUES DU CINÉMA BIS reviewed
The cover art alone sells it, but LES CLASSIQUES DU CINÉMA BIS (Nouveau Monde Éditions, 27 Euros) -- a new reference guide (in French, of course) to outstanding cult movies released between 1955 and 2007 -- keeps the promise of its outward design for 552 interior pages as well. It's a pleasure to page through, and there are important lessons to be gleaned simply by doing that.
What is "Cinéma Bis"? It is generally accepted to mean "low-budget genre cinema," but it seems to be quite an ornate French pun, at once referring to B-movies (Cinema B's) and the serial nature of much genre cinema (the French word "bis" means "encore"); it may be a lucky accident or inspired design, but there is also something punny going on there with the incorporation of the English word "abyss," evoking the very bottom of the barrel. This book scrutinizes no less than 500 gems of this genus, commencing with Edward D. Wood Jr.'s BRIDE OF THE MONSTER and concluding, appropriately, with Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez' GRINDHOUSE.
In between, authors Laurent Aknin and Lucas Balbo cover horror, pepla (sword-and-sandal), science fiction, pulp, superhero fantasies, spy thrillers, westerns, krimis, gialli, erotica (including the odd porn title like DEEP THROAT), Bollywood curios and HK actioners. Also included in the generous overview are films by those artists whose names evoke genres unto themselves: Steve Reeves, Jess Franco, Franco & Ciccio, Bruce Lee, John Waters, Laura Gemser, Tinto Brass, Jackie Chan, Weng Weng. Even with 500 titles, the book cannot be all-encompassing, but it does take care to include a fair number of British and American titles from all periods, inviting such diverse names as Bob Clark, Oliver Stone, Andy Milligan, Donald Farmer and Eli Roth to the table.
The text is not superficial; it looks under the skin of the movies under discussion -- describing the scenes and moments which make these selections particularly worth seeing. French release is an impotant consideration in what is covered, but readers will undoubtedly have quibbles about missing titles -- one of mine is Jess Franco's FACELESS, which I consider a bizarre, high gloss culmination of his work, but I cannot say that Franco is under-represented here. I've not read every word, of course, but after numerous perusals, I've noticed only one textual error: a still of Irene Miracle escaping from the rail car in Aldo Lado's THE NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS finds the actress misidentified as her co-star Laura D'Angelo.
At the close of their Introduction, the authors declare their book as (I translate) "a modest tribute to a fundamental work, LES CLASSIQUES DU CINÉMA FANTASTIQUE by Jean-Marie Sabatier (1973)." I own a copy of M. Sabatier's book, an encylopedia of essays devoted to the most important actors and directors of horror and fantasy cinema, and though I can't read much of it, it is one of the books on genre cinema I would never part with; I can only say that Aknin and Balbo have aimed high with their intentions but have struck their target nevertheless. Their book awakens the itch to watch movies almost indiscriminately, for the sheer crazy love of movies, and it closes on a commendably sentimental note with various French ad mattes and a photo of the façade of the legendary Midi-Minuit cinema -- the Ground Zero of French genre film reportage.
The cover art, incidentally, comes from the Italian poster for the British horror film JACK THE RIPPER, painted by the marvelous Sandro Symeoni.
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I'm not aware of any such plans, but I know that co-author Lucas Balbo speaks English.ReplyDelete
what would you think is the english equivalent of this book? there are many bad "cult movie" guides, but what are the good ones, that dig similarly deep waters? the pyschotronic guide maybe?ReplyDelete
Yes, the PSYCHOTRONIC ENCYCLOPEDIA would be the closest approximation, but this book is a more serious overview.ReplyDelete
You are right Tim : I'm French Canadian from Quebec and I read (again and again) as a kid my older brother's copy of LES CLASSIQUES DU CINEMA FANTASTIQUE and all I can say is that it has changed my life, turning me into a fantastic film fanatic for ever ! Gotta get my hands on LES CLASSIQUES DU CINEMA BIS as soon as I can !ReplyDelete
Au revoir, mon ami !
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We bought a jet ski to serve as our houseboats dingy last year. After ¾ of the boating season, weve found it worked better in theory than in reality. Older parents / folks dont want to ride the jet ski and we cant ride it at night. So, weve been looking into a good used runabout to fill this void now. What type of boat do you guys use to fulfill this service?
My concerns about getting a runabout are:
1) Must have wife drive the runabout out to the houseboat once Im anchored, so she wont be able to sail out to anchor with me.
2) Wont have wife to throw the bow lines at the dock when were returning. Could teach my 5 year old to do it, but thats a whole different problem.
3) Im already paying ~$6K a year for slip fees on the houseboat, so I will store the runabout at the house in my garage. Ill have to haul it to / from the lake each weekend, which isn't really that bad b/c our boat is only 15 minutes from the house.
a. Im asking Sailabration about mounting a 16 runabout on the back of my houseboat, so I could potentially leave it mounted on the back all boating season. Not sure what that would cost, if it could even be done.
4) Between cars, boats, and lawn equipment, I will have 11 different engines I must maintain!
I was thinking of buying a rigid inflatable, but those cant really be used comfortably as a ski / tubing boat.


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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (May 14, 2005) - The East Tennessee State University men's tennis team fell to No. 14 the University of Tennessee by a score of 4-0 on Saturday afternoon at the Goodfriend Indoor Tennis Center on the UT campus.
After a one hour and 40 minute weather delay, double's action in the first match of the day finally began. The No. 2 slot finished first with UT's Mark Dietrich and Morgan Wilson overpowering the ETSU duo of Felix Insaurralde (Asunci�n, Paraguay) and Lisandro Picardo (Mar del Plata, Argentina) in an 8-2 battle. Then Mois�s Serrano (Cartagena, Colombia) and Sebastian Serrano (Cartagena, Colombia) fell at the No. 3 slot in an 8-5 battle against UT's Bobby Cameron and Kaden Hensel to decide the doubles point. At No. 1 doubles, the Bucs' Oscar Posada (Valencia, Venezuela) and Fernando Fiuri (Villa Maria, Argentina) fought neck and neck with UT's Ockie Oosthuizen and Ben Rogers, ranked No. 9 by the ITA, with UT leading the Bucs by only one (6-5) before the Vols took the doubles point with the win at the third slot.
With UT leading 1-0 the Bucs knew every singles point was critical and they would need to come out fighting. However, the Vols would outlast the Bucs to take the first three singles points to seal the fate for ETSU.
The first singles point was decided on the third court where team captain Fiuri fought hard but fell 7-6, 6-0 to Tennessee's Oosthizen. Then in a grueling contest the Bucs No. 1 player Posada fell to No. 54 Dietrich 6-4, 7-0. The final point for the Vols came at the No. 4 singles slot where Wilson defeated M. Serrano 6-1, 7-6.
"It gets old, always making it this far and not getting through (to the second round)," commented ETSU Head Coach Yaser Zaatini. "Tennessee is a solid team, and you have to play well to beat them, and have all the breaks go your way, and we were not able to win any of the tiebreakers."
The Bucs finish their season with a 20-4 record ending an 18 match winning streak. Their season included their second consecutive perfect records in the Southern Conference in both regular season and tournament play, which led them to their fourth NCAA appearance. With the win Tennessee advances to face the winner of the OhioState-Brown match on Sunday, May 15 at 1:00 p.m.
1. Posada/Fiuri (ETSU) vs. Ockie Oosthuizen/Ben RogersNo. 9 (UT) DNF [UT leading 6-5]
2. Mark Dietrich/Morgan Wilson (UT) d. Picardo/Insaurralde (ETSU) 8-2
3. Bobby Cameron/Kaden Hensel (UT) d. M. Serrano/S.Serrano (ETSU) 8-5
Order: 2, 3
1. Mark DietrichNo. 54 (UT) d. Oscar PosadaNo. 70 (ETSU) 6-4, 7-6
2. Felix Insaurralde (ETSU) vs. Bobby Cameron (UT) DNF [UT leading 3-6, 6-1, 3-1]
3. Ockie Oosthuizen (UT) d. Fernando Fiuri (ETSU) 7-6, 6-0
4. Morgan Wilson (UT) d. Mois�s Serrano (ETSU) 6-1, 7-6
5. Lisandro Picardo (ETSU) vs. Kiril Tcherveniachki (UT) DNF [ETSU leading 2-0]
6. Luis Sebastian Serrano (ETSU) vs. Kaden Hensel (UT) DNF
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Too Much of a Gold Thing," with the Ducks' transport plane heading towards the camera this time. By contrast, Launchpad's "unsuccessfully successful" crash-less landing of the plane looks forward to the end of the series and the landing on the temple mount in "The Golden Goose, Part 2." It's safe to say that the version we see in "Cave" is less distinctive. In "Goose," the desperate Scrooge ordered LP to crash, because, with the future of the world literally at stake, there was no time to fool with a landing. LP's Duckbill Island descent, by contrast, is just a goofy incident. Even Scrooge's complaint that LP landed on the "wrong side of the island" is pretty weak sauce, since the island is very small to begin with.
Jymn Magon, Len Uhley, and Doug Hutchinson (how such massive combined talent could produce something as poorly thought out as this STILL baffles me) to liven up the ep's pre-Bubba antics with some good, old-fashioned Scrooge-LP banter. Thanks to the downplaying of Launchpad's role in the series' final 35 episodes, we won't be getting many more chances to enjoy that particular flavor of first-season goodness. Unfortunately, most of the palaver, which consists primarily of Scrooge hurling verbal barbs, is fairly mundane. GeoX mentioned one of the limper examples in his review.
construction robots than I would the Beagles ceding control over the object of their longstanding desires.
Greg, Bubba did take the marker with him. You can see it in his hand when he beckons to Tootsie to come and join him in the time machine and then runs up the ramp.)
Peggy Lee"-ish ("Is that all there is?").
UPDATE (2/2/14): Several alert readers reminded me that Bubba's cave CAN be seen briefly in "Bubba's Big Brainstorm." Sorry for the mistake.
(1) Mark Zaslove's contribution to the success of "Treasure of the Golden Suns" may have been more significant than we imagined. Jymn Magon may have been better versed in Barksian lore, but Zaslove may have been the prime reason why "Golden Suns" held together in a logical sense. Anyone who's watched "Sir Gyro de Gearloose" knows how "tight" an episode script Zaslove could deliver at his best. Sound logic in "Time is Money," by contrast, was conspicuous by its absence.
(2) It's quite possible that "Time is Money" was a literal rush job. I'm not sure exactly when the decision was made to produce more than 65 episodes of DT, but the fact that the only DT releases of the 1988-89 season were "Time is Money" and "Super DuckTales" is suggestive. Between the continued production of DT eps, the early work on Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers, and other projects in the process of development, WDTVA must have been in a considerable state of flux at this time. Not wanting to let an entire season go by without new DT episodes, WDTVA may have gambled that it could pump out the stories introducing the new regulars on the cheap, at least in terms of the time expended. "Super DT" fared better than "Time is Money," not just because Fenton Crackshell/Gizmoduck was a better character, but also because Ken Koonce and David Weimers were in charge of the project from the start and were able to maintain a certain consistency of vision (as screwy as said vision might sometimes have been). Falling into an "assembly-line mentality" frequently plays havoc with quality, as fans of long-running animated series well know, and "Time is Money" may have been a harbinger of the problems that the increasingly bureaucracy-bound, less self-confident WDTVA would run into in the mid- to late 1990s.
Onward to "Super DuckTales"... and the one cast addition that unquestionably DID deserve better!
Before "Blurbing," I thought I'd briefly pick up on a train of thought I left parked on a siding during my comments on "Bubba Trubba." What of Bubba's comics career? In how many stories did he appear? The answer, I think, speaks volumes as to the general consensus regarding this character's usefulness:
Four. FOUR!
And, had it not been for DUCKTALES ACTIVITY MAGAZINE, DISNEY ADVENTURES DIGEST, and that one-panel appearance (along with every other Duck-comics and DuckTales bit player) fighting the "slime" in "Dangerous Currency," the count would have been zilch. I must confess to being surprised by this. Surely, I thought, Egmont would have commissioned at least a couple of stories featuring Bubba, but it did not. After DT MAG published Don Rosa's "Back in Time for a Dime" in 1990, Bubba made bows in two eight-page DISNEY ADVENTURES tales in 1991: "The Family's Shrewd" and "Slugga Bubba."
Take Me Out of the Ballgame," which isn't saying much, but I'll take what I can get. Contra Inducks, "Slugga" also features the only comics appearance of Tootsie... with one decidedly peculiar exception: the cover to a 1995 Brazilian comic that reprinted "The Family's Shrewd" (Scrooge's family vs. the badly disguised Ma Beagle and her boys in a parody of one of those "messy" Nickelodeon game shows).
Bubba's slime-busting moment in "Dangerous Currency" will almost certainly be his last appearance in comics... though one can only hope. If "hope" is the right word, that is.
(GeoX) Anyway, oh no, Glomgold and the Beagles have, um, constructed a barricade in front of the diamond cave! What to do! Well, first, we could step back and contemplate the fact that we're expected to swallow the idea that Glomgold can engage in all of this blatantly illegal stuff, right out in the open, and nobody's gonna do anything about it. He can get away with all that, no problem. But his contract with Scrooge, boy--that's iron-clad, and it has to apply no matter what and if Scrooge is late by ONE SECOND with the payment, Glomgold gets everything he wants absolutely no question THE END.
The Duckburg legal system, ladies and gentlemen. Cornelius Coot would be proud.
(GeoX) So what, Bubba has no tribe? No family? No nothin'? I suppose that makes it easier to justify transplanting him like this, but to just have this be the case with NO explanation seems kind of dubious.
Perhaps Bubba had a tribe, but the T-Rex we saw in "Marking Time" killed them all and was trying to "complete the straight" with Bubba when the "Millennium Shortcut" dropped in. Wouldn't THAT have given "Time is Money" a bit more gravitas?
(Greg) Opening Moment #1: The title card for this one is Ali Bubba's Cave. That pretty much gives away the ending right in advance doesn't it?
Well... no. That's the major problem with the title: it doesn't relate in any way, shape, or form to what happens in the ep. BTW, did you notice the bit in Will Ryan's recap voiceover in which Scrooge is described as returning Bubba to his "rightful home"? The series sure did a 180 in that respect, didn't it?
(Greg) Scrooge wants LP to nudge the plane a bit to get the crack opened. Ummm; what crack Scroogie? I don't see a crack anywhere. Logic break #1 for the episode four minutes in.
Oh, it's there, all right. Note the light shining from it in the scene below.
(Greg) Huey refers to the LIBERAL RED BOOK OF LIES THE KIDS EDITION~! POW! OUCH! Ummm...I mean the Junior Woodchuck Guide Book which states that there are animals on Duckbill Island that they won't find anywhere else.
"On the island? No! In the island? Ah! But definitely!"
(Greg) So we logically head to Egypt to a constructed Sphinx (I didn't know that their construction was like us with scaffolding and all) as a dogsperson in a white robe (Terry McGovern); sandals and black hair is sculpting the final touches to the Sphinx and humming a tune. He does some chiseling (with a metal chisel?) and then proclaims that after years of work; the Sphinx is perfect see.
It is known that the Egyptians used large ramps while building pyramids to move stones up to various levels, but some sources credit them with using scaffolding as well (though probably not the modern type seen here).
Next: Episode 71, "Super DuckTales, Part One: Liquid Assets."


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JAL to Enhance Operations with AirportConnectApr 04 (Thu ), 2013
Japan Airlines is reducing passenger queues and increasing its flexibility with SITA's common-use passenger processing platform, AirportConnect Open.
SITA delivered the new platform to seven Japanese airports as part of a five-year agreement.
SITA is also providing Japan Airlines (JAL) with fully-managed services and a total of 169 integrated common-use workstations across Fukuoka, Sendai, Niigata, Komatsu, Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Okinawa airports.
Keiichiro Sato, Vice President and Deputy Manager, JAL, said, "We have collaborated with SITA for more than 50 years and are pleased to extend our partnership to this part of our business. SITA's AirportConnect provides us with a platform to manage our applications effectively across all seven airports. This will help us provide more consistent passenger processing and give us the flexibility to cope with peaks in passenger traffic. With SITA's fully-managed services, we can also better manage our costs and budgets."
Ilya Gutlin, SITA President Asia Pacific, added, "Airlines, airports and governments have increasingly complex requirements. They need to improve passenger processing, reduce congestion, and better manage passenger flows. We are collaborating with JAL to support all these needs through the successful deployment of AirportConnect Open."
AirportConnect Open helps airlines save money by allowing them to use their applications on the CUTE infrastructure. It also helps airports increase revenues and save time and resources by maximizing the use of check-in counters and gate resources. And it is future-proofed to support CUPPS, IATA's common use standard for agent-facing common-use implementation at airports.
SITA has provided CUTE services at Japan's Kansai airport since 1994 and at Chitose Airport since 2010.


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The statement issued late Tuesday by Cowboys offensive coordinator Bill Callahan came not from the Cowboys. Instead, the statement apparently was issued by Callahan's agent, the ubiquitous Bob LaMonte.
That's not to say the Cowboys have an issue with Callahan. Typically, however, assistant coaches operate more discreetly. At a minimum, it would have been prudent to give the Cowboys a head's up before issuing the statement, and perhaps to give the team a chance to read it and to provide suggestions.
There's also a chance that the Cowboys would have preferred that Callahan handle the situation privately.
For whatever reason, Callahan and LaMonte decided that they needed to go on the offensive ASAP, without consulting the team. If the goal was to get former Raiders receiver Tim Brown to slam the "sabotage" bus into reverse, it worked.
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Author: Sherlyn
Date: 4/27/2008 12:57 am EDT
We are in the procaess of re-doing our bathroom and are considering avaire tile as a flooring option. We have pulled up 2 layers of lino, and underneath all of that was tile (from back in the 50's) with black tar glue...of course the paper from the back of the tiles is now stuck to the floor. Would we be required to add another sub-floor? I really don't want to because of height difference, or how much of this paper/tar etc. needs to be removed in order to install avaire tile?
Author: Jonathan
Date: 4/27/2008 3:49 pm EDT
Wow, sounds like an interesting archeology project....
If I read the situation correctly, there is a layer of sticky tar/glue exposed. You won't want to install Avaire tile directly on the tar/glue. If the floor is flat enough, you could install a very thin layer (1/8") underlayment that would isolate the tar/glue from the Avaire tile. That won't add much height, but will give you a smooth, flat, clean surface for the Avaire tile.
Three reasons you don't want to place Avaire tile directly on the glue. First, without knowing the composition of the glue, there could be an interaction between the polymer tray and the glue. Second, it may be difficult to properly install the Avaire tile over a sticky substance since the installation method requires the tiles to interlock while flat. Last, since the floor is designed to float, you might hear the tile "sticking" and "unsticking" to the glue below when you walk on it.
Let us know what you end up doing.
Thanks for considering Avaire.
Author: Sherlyn
Date: 4/27/2008 4:32 pm EDT
We have scraped most of the glue and paper off, and it is not sticky at all any more, just mainly a very very thin paper. Do you think a sub-floor need to be added?
Author: Journeyman
Date: 4/27/2008 5:28 pm EDT
That black sticky adhesive is known as "cutback" used for many years for vinyl floor installations. It shouldn't be a concern in your case and it is impossible to remove all of it. Leave it alone after scraping what you can.
You CAN NOT install a subfloor material over the old tile you found there, that wouldn't be a good idea, no real way to attach it.
If your floor is within the recommended tolerances of any tile floor which is flat within 1/4" in 10 feet your Avaire tile installation should be fine.
Go for it and enjoy your new tile floor.
Author: Sherlyn
Date: 4/27/2008 5:47 pm EDT
Thanks for the info.
Author: Chris
Date: 4/27/2008 7:21 pm EDT
I think journeyman is correct in saying the cutback (black tar)adhesive should be fine to go over. any home center will carry a cement based patching compound that could be used to skim over the old adhesive to encapulate it if needed.
The big thing were not addressing it old resilient flooring with cutback from the fifties most likely contains asbestoes and care should be taken when any removal is performed.codes vary by location, but most will allow homeowners to perform the work themselves without penalties.your local health and human service office should be able to give you advise on how to handle the removal or if its appropriate to have a professional to the work.
Avaire tile is a perfect product to go over old asbestoes products, and it will last for many many years. so protect your health and saftey so you can enjoy your new floor for many many years.
Author: Journeyman
Date: 4/28/2008 9:47 pm EDT
I intentionally didn't mention the possibility of the asbestos presence in the old adhesive but now that it has been brought up I'll also mention that asbestos in that particular product isn't usually a concern. It is only when asbestos becomes air-born that health issues could result and even then adverse situations would be arguable.
Those products should not be sanded or vacuumed without a HEPA filter and in most states where property owners are allowed to remove their own asbestos flooring products it is recommended that the floor be kept wet during scraping and the residue be deposited in plastic trash bags and closed tightly before going into the trash.
Author: leslie fasteen
Date: 5/18/2008 11:27 am EDT
can you install over ceramic tile.
What do you use to cut?
Author: Jonathan
Date: 5/18/2008 5:43 pm EDT
Ideally, you'd want to remove the old tile before installing Avaire tile. However, we've seen some installations of Avaire tile directly over existing ceramic tile. You'd want to ensure there weren't any loose tiles, or high edges that would serve as a "lever point". The key is you need a flat and stable surface for a successful Avaire tile installation.
If you try it, please send us pictures "before", "during" and "after" the installtion to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Thank you for considering Avaire tile!
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