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Parents on the Go: Our Open Road
Parents on the Go: Our Open Road
2016-01-05 - In this series we get to know some adventurous families who are teaching their children about the great outdoors from day one. Meet the Harteau family, traveling the world in a van since October 2012.View gallery
"Traveling around California on our limited college budgets, we always dreamed of seeing the world at large," says Emily. "Our first international trip together was to Thailand in 2003, which lit an insatiable desire to see more of this magical planet."
"Adam spent tons of time researching and getting the van road ready, swapping the engine, designing a security system, installing a new fridge and building a children's front seat. Bursts of bright color and bold pattern add our personal touch to a small space."
"Our twists and turns are determined by many factors, both spontaneous and planned, in the grand scheme and on the daily. Weather and finances help determine what activities we do. Tuning into the energy of a place, we decide where to camp and how long to stay."
"We are in love with the breadth and diversity we've encountered on the road. We adore high mountains and warm oceans, the cultural delights in big cities and the slow charm of small towns, deep forests and vast deserts - so life on the road suits us quite well, wherever that may be."
"Home is a flexible word that is much larger than the confines of a structure. We call the van home, but mostly we are at home in the world."
In year one, the family traveled from Baja Mexico through mainland Mexico then Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama. In Panama, they shipped the van in a shared cargo container to Cartagena, Colombia and continued through Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Then the Harteau's border hopped to Chile and back to Peru where they flew back to the United States for a visit.
In year two, the family returned to Peru then on into Chile, venturing as far south as Northern Patagonia, crossing into Argentina and up into Brazil. They returned to Brazil after celebrating the birth of their daughter Sierra Luna in the United States with family, moving into Uruguay then bouncing back in Argentina and Chile, finally reaching the southernmost destination of Lapataia Bay. They recently spent time in Northern Patagonia, crossed back into Chile and explored the island of Chiloé.
What was supposed to be a one-year drive from their home in California to Tierra del Fuego in South America turned into an extended journey for the now family of four. This month marks the family's third year on the road and we caught up with Emily, Adam, Colette and Sierra as they make their way through Chile.
Travel has always been a part of Emily and Adam's lives. Adam, born in Southern California, grew up traveling California and the Pacific North-West before his family settled in the mountains of a desert of Juniper Hills, CA, where his father built their house and they lived off the grid until he was 15 years old. Emily,born in Santa Cruz, CA, spent summers traveling the Western US packed into the back of the family caravan, exploring National Parks and small towns. "The 'family road trip' is very much in both our blood and these early experiences are essential to who we are," says Emily.
The couple met in Los Angeles in 1998 while studying at the Otis College of Art & Design. While they dabbled in art and surfing (him) and the fashion world (her), they continued to dream about faraway places. They occasionally traveled to foreign destinations and filled their lives with adventures in their own backyard: California.
Then it all changed. In 2011, they were presented with the possibility to move to India and Nepal for Adam's work. When that fell through, they knew the time had come to plan their own grand voyage. It was to be a one-year road trip to Tierra del Fuego in South America, funded by a crowdfunding campaign, garage sales and fundraisers at friends' restaurants. In October 2012 it was finally time to go and Emily, Adam and Colette (who was 21-months-old at the time) set off in their repurposed 1990 Volkswagen Westfalia Camper.
Five months in they decided to embrace an unknown future and the rewards of slow travel. "We knew we were (are!) on the journey of a lifetime and rushing to check off places visited seemed very unlike the purpose of our departure." Currently, there is no end in sight. A sale of curated, fair trade, artisan goods, also known as the 24 Hour Bazaar, continues to finance their nomadic lifestyle (sign up for the curated catalogs here). They share their travels on their blog and on Instagram. They also contribute to various online and print publications, produce original photo content and exhibitions, and host pop-up vegetarian dinners inspired by their time on the road.
Their adventure on the road hasn't gone without a few hiccups. Emily shared one in particular: "At a remote wild camp in the Peruvian highlands, we were awoken one night by the sound of someone knocking on the front passenger window. It was a strong, urgent knock – the kind you know means business. Adam rolled over and looked out of the top triangle tent window to three machine guns with lights on the end pointed at him. After we gained enough composure to communicate, we quickly discovered they were policemen who were highly confused that we were just tourists, not the drug smugglers with rocket launchers on the top of the van that they thought us to be. Needless to say, our attempts to go back to sleep that night were in vain and we celebrated when the sun rose."
So what's next for the family? Will they ever settle down? Emily shares their dream of someday opening an eco-lodge with a garden, small restaurant and art studio. But that would require them to be in one place. "For now our hearts and our lives are on the road. Each day is still a thrill."
Thank you Adam and Emily for sharing your story. All photos by the Harteau family.
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I bleed Orange and Blue, which means that I'm having a great year. My Denver Broncos, who were completely out of the running just a few games in, somehow managed to tie for first place in the AFC West last week. And this week we -- yes, I'm a key component of the team's success -- had another amazing win in overtime to get first place on our own. I had already psychologically prepared for this week's loss. We were behind 10-0 with just minutes remaining in the 4th quarter. Unbelievable. I was fine with the Broncos picking Kyle Orton over Tim Tebow as starting quarterback earlier this year, but I think everyone agrees that the decision to hand the reins over to Tebow has made for some fun football. Fun, heart attack-inducing football. Week after week, Tebow pulls off some improbable come-from-behind scenario to send the game into overtime or winning in the last minutes.
But the weirdest thing of all about Tebow is how so many of his lovers and loathers are basing their feelings about him on his religious persona. I just like him because he wins, but apparently I'm in the minority. This weekend we saw tons of coverage of Tebow and much of it was focused on religion. Here's the Christian Science Monitor. Here's Frank Bruni in the New York Times (with a good column ending in a lamer-than-lame kicker). Here's Salon's "Hallelujah! The Liberal Case For Tim Tebow." Last week Grantland had Chuck Klosterman's analysis of Tebow haters. And since we're linking things, here's a nice non-religiony think piece from last month on what Tebow demonstrates about changes in the NFL. As I type this, Bob Costas is featuring Tebow-mania for his monologue.
I may be a tad biased, but Sarah Pulliam Bailey's Tebow Christianity Today Q&A from the summer is still a great read.
But the piece I rather enjoyed from this weekend -- and would recommend for anyone hoping to learn exactly why Tebow is loved and loathed both during play and after it -- is an excerpt from Patton Dodd's e-book "The Tebow Mystique: The Faith and Fans of Football's Most Polarizing Player."
That e-book has been getting a bunch of buzz recently and the Wall Street Journal featured a bit from it on the front page of the review section for its Saturday Essay. "Tim Tebow: God's Quarterback" discusses how "he has led the Denver Broncos to one improbable victory after another—defying his critics and revealing the deep-seated anxieties in American society about the intertwining of religion and sports." After describing one of the various improbable victories, we learn:
And when the shouting was over, Mr. Tebow did what he always does—he pointed skyward and took a knee in prayer. In postgame interviews, the young quarterback often starts by saying, "First, I'd like to thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" and ends with "God bless." He stresses that football is just a game and that God doesn't care who wins or loses.
This combination of candid piety and improbable success on the field has made Mr. Tebow the most-discussed phenomenon of the National Football League season.
Since I'm an expat living on the East Coast, yesterday was the first game I'd gotten to see instead of listen to on a live stream of KOA-850 (remind me to tell you the fun and delightful story about how Comcast failed to fix my cable for day after day surrounding the Monday Night game featuring the Broncos last month). If you watched the post-game yesterday, you saw Tebow do exactly these things in his interview.
The article discusses how sports and religion mingle regularly and how various players acknowledge their faith during or after games. But Tebow, we're told, "has never been content to leave his evangelical faith on the field." We are reminded of that Focus on the Family pro-life ad that ran during the Superbowl last year:
The ad takes the softest possible approach to the subject and never uses the terms "abortion" or "pro-life," but its intent was clear, and it generated controversy. Since then, feelings about Mr. Tebow have been a litmus test of political and social identity. If you think he's destined to be a winner, you must be a naive evangelical. If you question his long-term chances as an NFL quarterback, you must hate people who love Jesus.
I only feel safe saying this as a diehard Broncos fan who loves Tebow but these stereotypes have a basis. Of course, they also don't capture the entire range of thought, which we get to later in the piece.
Anyway, the piece gives some fascinating history about how basketball, volleyball and other sports were invented by Christians and a bit about the religious motivation that led them to do that.
One of the under-reported features of Tebow's popularity is that it's nice for parents to be able to point to an athlete who is not flaunting immorality in his day-to-day life. The piece gets into that, noting the career threats of defective character. To wit:
More recently, we have seen the disrupted careers of star athletes like Michael Vick, Plaxico Burress and Tiger Woods—men whose lives in professional sports have been undermined by character faults. Such stories are more common than we realize. For every Michael Oher (Mr. Lewis's subject in "The Blind Side") who overcomes harsh beginnings and makes it, there are many other promising athletes who are overcome by their own worst impulses. They lose, the game loses and fans lose.
And we get a look at the other side of the coin -- folks like Josh Hamilton and Tony Dungy who have support in religious communities. Dodd argues that many critics are driven crazy by "the equanimity and generosity that his faith inspires in him." We are reminded of his mercy and missionary work and given several anecdotes and data points.
Mr. Tebow's acts of goodwill have often been more intimate. In December 2009, he attended a college-football awards ceremony in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The night before, at another gala at Walt Disney World Resort, he met a 20-year-old college-football fan named Kelly Faughnan, a brain-tumor victim who suffers from hearing loss and visible, continual tremors. She was wearing a button that said "I love Timmy." Someone noticed and made sure that the young woman had a chance to meet the player.
Mr. Tebow spent a long while with Ms. Faughnan and her family, and asked her if she'd like to be his date for the award ceremony the following night. She agreed, and the scene of Mr. Tebow escorting the trembling young woman down the red carpet led much of the reporting about the event.
The piece looks at sites that highlight -- if not kid about -- Tebow piety. There's the obligatory reference to Tebowing and I loved learning that the Internet meme was started by a Jewish Broncos fan and that support for the site has come from rabbis who are pleased that prayer in public is being treated favorably. I also loved the mention of a young boy who Tebowed with an IV attached to his arm "Tebowing while chemoing." Also, if you haven't checked out the web site lately, there are some great recent Tebowing pictures uploaded, from wedding guests in front of a wedding cake to an airline pilot in front of his plane.
The discussion of Tebow's eyeblack actualy quotes various Scripture verses, including "Philippians 4:6-7, which reads, in part: 'And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.'" There's actually a really interesting graphic where three of the many eyeblack verses are explained (left).
I liked that the graphic accurately used the word Gospel. I did read one complaint on Twitter from Andy Crouch:
I am nearly sure Tim Tebow does not read the KJV. Why do national media keep quoting from it rather than a neutral modern translation?
I'm not entirely sure we know what translations a given Christian might read in their home but I'm interested in the view that the King James Version is somehow less neutral than another translation. I frequently use King James or New King James when I'm quoting Scripture in my writing even though it's not primarily what I use in my home or church. Not to mention that the particular verses quoted above are quite readable for having been translated centuries ago. Anyway, I wanted to mention this complaint because I'm very curious what other readers think about it.
The final part I wanted to highlight from the piece was a discussion of hypocrisy. I have this friend who is very upfront about his cynicism. He openly roots for both the New England Patriots and Tebow's eventual moral downfall. The article addresses this phenomenon and how we are all better able to handle moral failure than trust in anyone's goodness.
The essay does a nice job of hitting many elements and giving a solid overview of the Tebow phenomenon and the religious angles. (Go Broncos!)

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I'm looking for Japanese tisanes like leaves from bamboo (kumazasa), persimmon (kaki), chameleon plant / fish mint (dokudami), or loquat (biwa). I can find vendors for some of them by searching the web, but does anyone have first-hand experience and can recommend where to (not) buy?


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So, Sarin and I came up with the BRILLIANT idea of driving to Seattle, spending the night, going out, seeing the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and coming home for Franz Ferdinand.
Saturday, we drove to Seattle - which is, in our minds, bizarro Vancouver. We did a bit of shopping, went to the Experience Music Project and went out.
This was our night out:
Walk outside to smoke. A boy talks to us and asks us where we're going. He tells us of a different place, we go, and continue to get ridiculously intoxicated.
Sarin was a pimp and totally got us drinks all night. It was pretty sweet, I'm not going to lie.
As the bar is closing, some hot dude starts chatting with us, and from there on, the details are fuzzy.
What we know:
We got home ok.
So, really, all the fuzzy doesn't matter. We didn't lose each other. Yes, some questionable life choices were made, but in the end, all is well.
Sunday morning, however, was ridiculously painful.
The misadventures of an unapologetically inappropriate woman as she embarks on a Middle Eastern adventure.
Monday, September 07, 2009
Seattle Saturday
4 comments:
i want the full story. i'm at work BORED. call me!!!
- 07 September, 2009 08:40
- iris said...
If I could remember the full story, then I would gladly share.
- 07 September, 2009 10:59
- SBomm said...
hee hee. I was totally a pimp. and we're totally the coolest chicks alive!
So badass
- 07 September, 2009 11:15
- iris said...
I don't care that I have said that far too many times in the past two days, but seriously!
- 07 September, 2009 11:19
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Woman airlifted after 83-foot belly flop at Colorado cliff caught on video
DENVER — Emergency responders airlifted a woman to the hospital after she belly-flopped while attempting an 83-foot cliff dive in Colorado over the Fourth of July holiday, according to KDVR-TV.
Rachel Dukich, of Denver, recorded the incident at Paradise Cove Cliff near Florissant in Teller County, west of Colorado Springs.
She said the woman was reported to have a bloody nose and was "highly disoriented" after the dive.
"I think she jumped out far to be sure to clear the rock face and found herself in superman and instead of pulling her legs in to straighten out, she panicked, froze, and flailed," Dukich wrote.
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A Flight for Life helicopter was brought in to take the woman to a hospital. Her name and her condition have not been released.
Witnesses have posted videos on social media warning other cliff divers to use caution and to be careful.


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I tried to google the problem in various ways -- without success. But I had had a rough idea already that it was probably due to the detailled timing settings of the VGA output. In my Computer Monitor, there was an auto-adjust and a manual adjust function for such occurrences, but here it was missing. Today I googled again, this time using some additional terms and now I finally have the solution: xvidtune.
Update: Ok, it isn't quite that easy I see. You need/can do this via xrandr, though: You need to press show in xvidtune, then copy that mode and add and activate it via xrandr:
xrandr --newmode "1920x1080-5" 148.50 1920 2056 2100 2200 1080 1084 1089 1125 +hsync +vsyncNow it should work! ;)
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Island Beach State Park Fisherman Struck By Lightning
A lightning strike sends a Berkeley fisherman to the hospital.
The 48-year-old is in stable condition after a thunderstorm rolled in over Island Beach State Park yesterday afternoon around 1:15 p.m.
"As he was leaving in the ambulance, he was responsive and interactive with everyone," park manager Ray Bukowski told WCAU TV.
Environmental Protection Department spokesman Lawrence Hajna tells the Asbury Park Press that the beach in the process of evacuating the beach because of a fast-moving thunderstorm Tuesday when the unidentified man's fishing pole was struck by lightning.
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TransWorld Snowboarding's 2005 TransAm Series made its fourth stop at Bear Mountain Resort. The sun was shining as it usually does at that mountain. Smith Optics hooked it up with their custom limo, which came fully equipped with a 32-foot rail attached to the roof. To keep things flowing, High Cascade's camp director Preston Strout came and emceed the event. I don't know if you've ever talked with Preston, but this guy is nothing short of hilarious. With everything set we let the grommies begin.
I'm still blown away by the stuff these riders were pulling— busting frontside lipslides off the limo and even a couple kids straight gapped over the entire thing. With all the talent it was hard to say who should win, so we left the deciding up to our awesome panel of judges; riders Kellie Wright, Johnny Miller, and Preston Strout, among others. There were definitely a few groms who stood out, like Cory Whetstone who took best trick of the day with his cab 180 on frontside 360 off. Overall Cory Donoho took it for the guys and Jenna Klein for the gals. But what would a TransAm be if we didn't let you know who took the most prestigious title of all, Worst Fall. We are proud to announce Kieran "Seamus O'Connor is the winner of this.
Everyone walked away with a little something during the product toss thanks to TransWorld's very own Jardine Hammond and a little help from me, the intern. But it wouldn't have happened without our sponsors High Cascade Snowboard Camp, Smith Optics, Zumiez, DaKine, Ride Snowboards, and the kick-ass Bear Mountain staff— thanks Kim and Brad and all who participated. Check back for the final results of TransWorld Snowboarding's TransAm Series.
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3. Amanda Lapham
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Palpitations are feelings or sensations that your heart is pounding or racing. They can be felt in your chest, throat, or neck.
You may:
- Have an unpleasant awareness of your own heartbeat
- Feel like your heart skipped or stopped beats
The heart's rhythm may be normal or abnormal when you have palpitations.
• Narrowed arteries in your heart, called coronary artery disease (CAD)
• Heart failure
• Abnormal heart valves
• Abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmia)
Alternative Names
Heartbeat sensations; Irregular heartbeat; Palpitations; Heart pounding or racing
Normally the heart beats 60 – 100 times per minute. In people who exercise routinely or take medications that slow the heart, the rate may drop below 55 beats per minute.
If your heart rate is fast (over 100 beats per minute), this is called tachycardia. A slow heart rate is called bradycardia. An occasional extra heartbeat is known as
Palpitations are usually not serious. However, it depends on whether or not the sensations represent an abnormal heart rhythm (
The following conditions make you more likely to have an abnormal heart rhythm:
Known heart disease at the time the palpitations begin
Significant risk factors for heart disease
An abnormal heart valve
An electrolyte abnormality in your blood — for example, a low potassium level
Heart palpitations are most often not serious. They can be due to:
Anxiety, stress, panic attacks, or fear
Caffeine and nicotine use
Cocaine or other illegal drugs
Diet pills
However, some palpitations are due to an abnormal heart rhythm, which may be caused by:
- Heart disease
- Abnormal heart valve, such as mitral valve prolapse
- Abnormal blood levels of potassium
- Certain medications, including those used to treat asthma, high blood pressure, or heart problems
- Overactive thyroid
- Low levels of oxygen in your blood
Home Care
- Reduce your caffeine and nicotine intake. This will often reduce heart palpitations.
- Learn to reduce stress and anxiety. This can help prevent palpitations and help you better manage them when they occur.
- Try breathing exercises or deep relaxation (a step-by-step process of tensing and then relaxing every muscle group in your body)
- Practice yoga, meditation, or tai chi.
- Get regular exercise.
- Do not smoke.
Once a serious cause has been ruled out by your doctor, try not to pay close attention to heart palpitations. This may cause stress. However, contact your doctor if you notice a sudden increase or a change in them.
When to Contact a Medical Professional
If you have never had heart palpitations before, see your health care provider.
The following symptoms require immediate attention. Call 911 or your local emergency number:
Loss of alertness (consciousness)
Chest pain
Shortness of breath
Unusual sweating,
Call your doctor right away if:
You feel frequent extra heartbeats (more than 6 per minute or coming in groups of 3 or more).
You have risk factors for heart disease, such as high cholesterol, diabetes, or high blood pressure.
You have new or different heart palpitations.
pulseis more than 100 beats per minute (without exercise, anxiety, or fever).
What to Expect at Your Office Visit
Your doctor or nurse will examine you and ask questions about your medical history and symptoms.
You may be asked:
- Do you feel skipped or stopped beats?
- Does your heart rate feel slow or fast when you have the palpitations?
- Do you feel a racing, pounding, or fluttering?
- Is there a regular or irregular pattern to the unusual heartbeat sensations?
- Did the palpitations begin or end suddenly?
- When do the palpitations occur? In response to reminders of a traumatic event? When you are lying down and resting? When you change your body position? When you feel emotional?
- Do you have any other symptoms?
will be done.
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A Bay Area rapper will face nearly 22 years in a sentencing in August for a 2012 homicide case.
Derek Ray Pittman, 29, also known as "Baygeen" pleaded guilty last week to voluntary manslaughter and admitted to the personal use of firearm in the shooting case that killed Danell Lashawn Stevens, 23, Solano County prosecutor Eric Charm said.
Stevens was shot multiple times on Fordham Circle and died at Sutter Solano Medical Center on April 14, 2012.
Pittman will face 21 years and eight months at the sentencing hearing set for Aug. 13. He turned himself in to police in April 2012, after being named as a suspect in the slaying. He also has a history of arrests for drugs, theft and identity theft in Oakland, Modesto, Fairfield and San Jose. —— (c)2014 Times-Herald (Vallejo, Calif.) Visit Times-Herald (Vallejo, Calif.) at www.timesheraldonline.com


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A roof is the covering on the uppermost part of a building. A roof protects the building and its contents from the effects of weather. Structures that require roofs range from a letter box to a cathedral or stadium, dwellings being the most numerous.
In most countries a roof protects primarily against rain. Depending upon the nature of the building, the roof may also protect against heat, sunlight, cold and wind. Other types of structure, for example, a garden conservatory, might use roofing that protects against cold, wind and rain but admits light. A verandah may be roofed with material that protects against sunlight but admits the other elements.
The characteristics of a roof are dependent upon the purpose of the building that it covers, the available roofing materials and the local traditions of construction and wider concepts of architectural design and practice and may also be governed by local or national legislation.
The elements in the design of a roof are:
The material of a roof may range from banana leaves, wheaten straw or seagrass to lamininated glass, aluminium sheeting and precast concrete. In many parts of the world ceramic tiles have been the predominant roofing material for centuries.
The construction of a roof is determined by its method of support and how the underneath space is bridged and whether or not the roof is pitched. The pitch is the angle at which the roof rises from its lowest to highest point. Most domestic architecture, except in very dry regions, has roofs that are sloped, or pitched. The pitch is partly dependent upon stylistic factors, but has more to do with practicalities. Some types of roofing, for example thatch, require a steep pitch in order to be waterproof and durable.[1] Other types of roofing, for example pantiles, are unstable on a steeply pitched roof but provide excellent weather protection at a relatively low angle. In regions where there is little rain, an almost flat roof with a slight run-off provides adequate protection against an occasional downpour.
The durability of a roof is a matter of concern because the roof is often the least accessible part of a building for purposes of repair and renewal, while its damage or destruction can have serious effects.
There are two parts to a roof, its supporting structure and its outer skin, or uppermost weatherproof layer. In a minority of buildings, the outer layer is also a self-supporting structure.
The roof structure is generally supported upon walls, although some building styles, for example, geodesic and A-frame, blur the distinction between wall and roof.
The supporting structure of a roof usually comprises beams that are long and of strong, fairly rigid material such as timber, and since the mid 19th century, cast iron or steel. In countries that use bamboo extensively, the flexibility of the material causes a distinctive curving line to the roof, characteristic of Oriental architecture.
Timber lends itself to a great variety of roof shapes. The timber structure can fulfil an aesthetic as well as practical function, when left exposed to view.
Stone lintels have been used to support roofs since prehistoric times, but cannot bridge large distances. The stone arch came into extensive use in the ancient Roman period and in variant forms could be used to span spaces up to 140 feet across. The stone arch or vault, with or without ribs, dominated the roof structures of major architectural works for about 2,000 years, only giving way to iron beams with the Industrial Revolution and the designing of such buildings as Paxton's Crystal Palace, completed 1851.
With continual improvements in steel girders, these became the major structural support for large roofs, and eventually for ordinary houses as well. Another form of girder is the reinforced concrete beam, in which metal rods are encased in concrete, giving it greater strength under tension.
This part of the roof shows great variation dependent upon availability of material. In simple vernacular architecture, roofing material is often vegetation, such as thatches, the most durable being sea grass with a life of perhaps 40 years. In many Asian countries bamboo is used both for the supporting structure and the outer layer where split bammboo stems are laid turned alternately and overlapped. In areas with an abundance of timber, wooden shingles are used, while in some countries the bark of certain trees can be peeled off in thick, heavy sheets and used for roofing.
The 20th century saw the manufacture of composition shingles which can last from a thin 20-year shingle to the thickest which are limited lifetime shingles, the cost depending on the thickness and durability of the shingle. When a layer of shingles wears out, they are usually stripped, along with the underlay and roofing nails, allowing a new layer to be installed. An alternative method is to install another layer directly over the worn layer. While this method is faster, it does not allow the roof sheathing to be inspected and water damage, often associated with worn shingles, to be repaired. Having multiple layers of old shingles under a new layer causes roofing nails to be located further from the sheathing, weakening their hold. The greatest concern with this method is that the weight of the extra material could exceed the dead load capacity of the roof structure and cause collapse.
Slate is an ideal, and durable material, while in the Swiss Alps roofs are made from huge slabs of stone, several inches thick. The slate roof is often considered the best type of roofing. A slate roof may last 75 to 150 years, and even longer. However, slate roofs are often expensive to install – in the USA, for example, a slate roof may have the same cost as the rest of the house. Often, the first part of a slate roof to fail is the fixing nails; they corrode, allowing the slates to slip. In the UK, this condition is known as "nail sickness". Because of this problem, fixing nails made of stainless steel or copper are recommended, and even these must be protected from the weather.
Roofs made of cut turf (modern ones known as Green roofs, traditional ones as sod roofs) have good insulating properties and are increasingly encouraged as a way of "greening" the Earth. Adobe roofs are roofs of clay, mixed with binding material such as straw or animal hair, and plastered on lathes to form a flat or gently sloped roof, usually in areas of low rainfall.
In areas where clay is plentiful, roofs of baked tiles have been the major form of roof. The casting and firing of roof tiles is an industry that is often associated with brickworks. While the shape and colour of tiles was once regionally distinctive, now tiles of many shapes and colours are produced commercially, to suit the taste and pocketbook of the purchaser.
Sheet metal in the form of copper and lead has also been used for many hundreds of years. Both are expensive but durable, the vast copper roof of Chartres Cathedral, oxidised to a pale green colour, having been in place for hundreds of years. Lead, which is sometimes used for church roofs, was most commonly used as flashing in valleys and around chimneys on domestic roofs, particularly those of slate. Copper was used for the same purpose.
In the 19th century, iron, electroplated with zinc to improve its resistance to rust, became a light-weight, easily-transported, waterproofing material. While its insulating properties were poor, its low cost and easy application made it the most accessible commercial roofing, world wide. Since then, many types of metal roofing have been developed. Steel shingle or standing-seam roofs last about 50 years or more depending on both the method of installation and the moisture barrier (underlayment) used and are between the cost of shingle roofs and slate roofs. In the 20th century a large number of roofing materials were developed, including roofs based on bitumen (already used in previous centuries), on rubber and on a range of synthetics such as thermoplastic and on fibreglass.
Cameroon, a wattle and daub house, roofed with banana leaves.
Japan, rice straw thatch.
England, slate.
Hungary, terracotta tiles.
Namibia, metal roof.
Some roofing materials, particularly those of natural fibrous material, such as thatch, have excellent insulating properties. For those that do not, extra insulation is often installed under the outer layer. In developed countries, the majority of dwellings have a ceiling installed under the structural member of the roof. The purpose is to insulate against heat and cold, noise, dirt and often from the droppings and lice of birds who frequently choose roofs as nesting places.
Other forms of insulation are felt or plastic sheeting, sometimes with a reflective surface, installed directly below the tiles or other material; synthetic foam batting laid above the ceiling and recycled paper products and other such materials that can be inserted or sprayed into roof cavities.
So called Cool roofs are becoming increasingly popular, and in some cases are mandated by local codes. Cool roofs are defined as roofs with both high reflectivity and high emissivity.
The primary job of most roofs is to keep out water. The large area of a roof repels a lot of water, which must be directed in some suitable way, so that it does not cause damage or inconvenience.
Flat roof of adobe dwellings generally have a very slight slope. In a Middle Eastern country, where the roof may be used for recreation, it is often walled, and drainage holes must be provided to stop water from pooling and seeping through the porous roofing material.
Similar problems, although on a very much larger scale, confront the builders of modern commercial properties which often have flat roofs. Because of the very large nature of such roofs, it is essential that the outer skin is of a highly impermeable material. Most industrial and commercial structures have conventional roofs of low pitch.
In general, the pitch of the roof is proportional to the amount of precipitation. Houses in areas of low rainfall frequently have roofs of low pitch while those in areas of high rainfall and snow, have steep roofs. The longhouses of Papua New Guinea, for example, being roof-dominated architecture, the high roofs sweeping almost to the ground. The high steeply-pitched roofs of Germany and Holland are typical in regions of snowfall. In parts of North America such as Buffalo USA or Montreal Canada, there is a required minimum slope of 6 inches in 12 inches, a pitch of 30 degrees.
There are regional building styles which contradict this trend, the stone roofs of the Alpine chalets being usually of gentler incline. These buildings tend to accumulate a large amount of snow on them, which is seen as a factor in their insulation. The pitch of the roof is in part determined by the roofing material available, a pitch of 3/12 or greater slope generally being covered with asphalt shingles, wood shake, corrugated steel, slate or tile.
The water repelled by the roof during a rainstorm is potentially damaging to the building that the roof protects. If it runs down the walls, it may seep into the mortar or through panels. If it lies around the foundations it may cause seepage to the interior, rising damp or dry rot. For this reason most buildings have a system in place to protect the walls of a building from most of the roof water. Overhanging eaves are commonly employed for this purpose. Most modern roofs and many old ones have systems of valleys, gutters, waterspouts, waterheads and drainpipes to remove the water from the vicinity of the building. In many parts of the world, roofwater is collected and stored for domestic use.
Areas prone to heavy snow benefit from a metal roof because their smooth surfaces shed the weight of snow more easily and resist the force of wind better than a wood shingle or a concrete tile roof.
The flat roofs of the Middle East, Israel.
Steeply pitched, gabled roofs in Northern Europe.
The overhanging eaves of China.
Green roof with solar panels, Findhorn.
Newer systems include solar shingles which generate electricity as well as cover the roof. There are also solar systems available that generate hot water or hot air and which can also act as a roof covering. More complex systems may carry out all of these functions: generate electricity, recover thermal energy, and also act as a roof covering.
Solar systems can be integrated with roofs by:
Flat roof, Western Australia.
Mansard roof on a county jail, Mount Gilead, Ohio.
Temple roof Chang Mai, Thailand with a decorated gable end and ceramic tile covering.
The weather proofing material is the topmost or outermost layer, exposed to the weather. Many materials have been used as weather proofing material:
Reed thatch on the island of Sylt
Wooden shingles
A church roof under repair with terracotta tiles
Imbrex and tegula tiles, with a newly tiled roof in the foreground
Bitumen, USA
Corrugated iron, Australia
Sheet metal roof
PVC roof
Imbrex and tegula tiles on the dome of Florence Cathedral.
The marble dome of the Taj Mahal.
The hip roofs and dormers of Chateau Chenonceau.
The polychrome tiles of the Hospice of Beaune, France.
The copper roof of Speyer Cathedral, Germany. photo Wolfi.
The lead roof of King's College Chapel, England.
The glass roof of the Grand Palais, Paris.
The glazed ceramic tiles of the Sydney Opera House.
(For Amelia Josephine Burr)
The road is wide and the stars are out and the breath of the
night is sweet,
And this is the time when wanderlust should seize upon my feet.
But I'm glad to turn from the open road and the starlight on my face,
And to leave the splendour of out-of-doors for a human dwelling place.
I never have seen a vagabond who really liked to roam
All up and down the streets of the world and not to have a home:
The tramp who slept in your barn last night and left at break of day
Will wander only until he finds another place to stay.
A gypsy-man will sleep in his cart with canvas overhead;
Or else he'll go into his tent when it is time for bed.
He'll sit on the grass and take his ease so long as the sun is high,
But when it is dark he wants a roof to keep away the sky.
If you call a gypsy a vagabond, I think you do him wrong,
For he never goes a-travelling but he takes his home along.
And the only reason a road is good, as every wanderer knows,
Is just because of the homes, the homes, the homes to which it goes.
They say that life is a highway and its milestones are the
And now and then there's a toll-gate where you buy your way with tears.
It's a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far,
But at last it leads to a golden Town where golden Houses are.
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The fitness industry is booming and, with so many people passionate about fitness and health and so many people who need help generating their own passion, it's no wonder that there's growing interest in fitness careers. Being a personal trainer is one option, but there are other options out there. Expand your horizons and learn about other ways to help people get healthy and fit.
Health or Wellness Coach
While personal trainers focus mostly on exercise, Wellness Coaching goes beyond personal training. Wellness Coaches look at the big picture, working with clients to develop health and fitness programs by looking at the obstacles that stand in the way of success. This is often more of a collaborative experience, with the coach encouraging the client to come up with their own goals and ideas.
A Wellness Coach offers advice and guidance about:
* Fitness
* Nutrition
* Weight management
* Stress reduction
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* Barriers to reaching fitness goals
When meeting with clients, you'll get to know them--find out what it is they need help with such as weight loss, eating habits, exercise and fitness, stress reduction, smoking cessation, etc. You'll help people manage conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes and you can even choose to work with special populations such as teens, kids, families, seniors, etc.
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* Income - How much you make will depend on where you live and your experience and background.
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--Science Channel Takes Viewers Inside the Remarkable World of the 16th Annual USA Memory Championship on Monday, July 15 at 10 PM ET/PT--
(Silver Spring, Md.) - This summer the power of the human mind is put to the ultimate test as Science Channel broadcasts coverage of the 16th Annual USA Memory Championship in the world premiere of MEMORY GAMES 2013 on Monday, July 15 at 10 PM ET/PT. Last March mental athletes from all over the United States travelled to New York City to compete in the Olympics of "thinking" games. For the first time ever, Science Channel cameras were there capturing all of mind-boggling action as competitors raced against the clock to memorize hundreds of names and faces, a host of numbers and countless cards in the hopes of besting 50 other athletes and being crowned champion of the 16th Annual USA Memory Championship.
"The USA Memory Championship features our kind of athletes-the kind that do heavy lifting with their mental muscle," said Debbie Adler Myers, General Manager and Executive Vice President of Science Channel. "MEMORY GAMES 2013 is science as a sport at its finest, and we're excited to feature a competition that explores the extraordinary power of the human mind."
MEMORY GAMES 2013 features coverage of seven demanding rounds of the USA Memory Championship. The qualifying round requires athletes to memorize:
· More than 100 names and photos of faces in 15 minutes
· 500 random numbers in five minutes
· A shuffled deck of 52 playing cards in five minutes
· A 50-line unpublished poem including punctuation in 15 minutes
That's just to get the main event where the top eight scoring mental athletes take the stage for the final championship round consisting of:
· A round robin onstage recall of 200 random numbers. Miss one number and the athlete is out!
· A tea party where real guests provide real information for the athletes to memorize and recall. If an athlete misses three pieces of information, he or she is out of the competition.
· The last three athletes memorize a double deck of shuffled cards and recall all of the cards before a live audience, round robin style. One miss and the last two remaining athletes face off in a head-to-head duel, where only one is crowned champion of the 2013 USA Memory Championship.
In addition, the one-hour special takes Science Channel viewers inside the grueling training regimens and assortment of impressive mnemonic devices participants use to prepare for the competition. MEMORY GAMES 2013 premieres Monday, July 15 at 10 PM ET/PT.
Tony Dottino and Marshall Tarley, co-founders of the USA Memory Championship, who also served as executive producers on MEMORY GAMES 2013 said, "We're excited to take this event to a national television audience so people will know that memory is a skill they can learn and develop at any age. Science Channel is a media pioneer in enlightening people to the unlimited potential of the human mind."
MEMORY GAMES 2013 is produced by Sharp Entertainment and Rize USA. Matt Sharp is executive producer for Sharp Entertainment. Sheldon Lazarus is executive producer for Rize USA. Tony Dottino and Marshall Tarley are executive producers for the USA Memory Championship. For Science Channel, Rocky Collins is executive producer and Kaitlin McIntyre is producer. Bernadette McDaid is Vice President of Production for Science Channel and Debbie Adler Myers is general manager and executive vice president of Science Channel.
About Science Channel
Science Channel, a division of Discovery Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK), is home for the thought provocateur, the individual who is unafraid to ask the killer questions of "how" and "why not." The network is a playground for those with audacious intellects and features programming willing to go beyond imagination to explore the unknown. Guided by curiosity, Science Channel looks for innovation in mysterious new worlds as well as in its own backyard. Science Channel and the Science Channel HD simulcast reach more than nearly 80 million U.S. households. The network also features high-traffic online and social media destinations, including ScienceChannel.com, facebook.com/Science Channel and twitter.com/Science Channel.
About Discovery Communications
Discovery Communications (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) is the world's #1 nonfiction media company reaching more than 1.8 billion cumulative subscribers in 218 countries and territories. Discovery is dedicated to satisfying curiosity through 155 worldwide television networks, led by Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Science and Investigation Discovery, as well as U.S. joint venture networks OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, The Hub and 3net, the first 24-hour 3D network. Across the Nordic region, Discovery owns and operates SBS Discovery Media, a top-three portfolio of 20 television brands that feature leading nonfiction content, as well as locally produced entertainment programs, sports and the best scripted series and movies from major studios. Discovery also is a leading provider of educational products and services to schools and owns and operates a diversified portfolio of digital media services, including Revision3. For more information, please visit www.discoverycommunications.com.


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Deloitte Recognized as a "Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality" for Seventh Consecutive Year
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NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2013 /3BL Media/ -- Deloitte has once again been named one of Human Rights Campaign's (HRC) "Best Places to Work," earning a perfect 100 percent rating on HRC's 2013 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) for the seventh consecutive year.
The CEI measures and analyzes inclusion initiatives, company benefits, and support made available for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) personnel and the wider LGBT community. Since 2002, the number of employers officially rated in the CEI has more than doubled.
"As our nation places increased emphasis on modernizing equal rights, this award demonstrates Deloitte's longstanding commitment to being a progressive leader in workplace equality," said Deb DeHaas , Chief Inclusion Officer,Deloitte LLP . "Inclusion is core to who we are as an organization and we strive to maintain an environment where all of our people are empowered to live and work openly with the flexibility to manage their unique work-life needs. This culture of commitment and mutual accountability benefits our people and our clients."
Deloitte supports the greater LGBT community through a number of both personal and professional ways. This year, personnel from the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited's US and Canada member firms shared their personal journeys in an uplifting video for the It Gets Better Project.
Additionally, through a variety of Business Resource Groups (BRGs) including the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender, and Allies BRG (GLOBE & Allies BRG), Deloitte offers its people opportunities to connect with each other, build strong networks at all levels across the organization to help navigate their careers, contribute to local communities, and provide feedback to leadership on related policies and practices.
As a result of Deloitte's efforts, Deloitte has earned numerous other recognitions for its leadership in promoting inclusion. Most recently, the organization was ranked in the top 10 on DiversityInc's "Top 50 Companies for Diversity" list.
About Deloitte's Inclusion Mission
At Deloitte, our inclusion mission is to assertively attract, retain and develop the best talent so that we bring innovative thought leadership and insights to our clients and foster a culture whose diversity and inclusion are self-perpetuating. This allows us to offer clients leading solutions and to help our people realize their greatest potential. Read more about our Inclusion. To learn more, visit www.deloitte.com/us/
As used in this document, "Deloitte" means Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries. Please see www.deloitte.com/us/about


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Episode 18: On The Bus
Ever since Nicholas was two years old I have walked him to school in the mornings. But had you been standing on a certain Upper East Side street corner a few weeks ago, you would have seen a grown man struggling to hold back his tears as he put his seven-year-old son on a school bus for the first time. (This being New York, the school bus is actually a six-seat Honda minivan operated by a private car service.)
"My heart and my hopes go with you," I said as I knelt down to make eye contact with him. Nicholas just scampered into the van in search of new friends. As I waved goodbye and took a photo of the vehicle's license plate, I was left to think about what my son is gaining and what his father is losing now that we no longer have our morning ritual. The simplest way to describe the trade-off is that Nicholas has gained independence, and I'm losing touch.
Nicholas is undoubtedly relieved to be free of this Old Gas Bag interrupting a crisp walk up Fifth Avenue to lecture him about how the Guggenheim's nautilus-like design was Frank Lloyd Wright's raising of the middle finger to the city's grid pattern. Never again will he have to stop and give me a kiss when we pass the Church of the Heavenly Rest - the church where his mother and I were married. (This is how we commemorate the spot where our little family began.)
He's mastering the art of making new friends - in particular a sweet little blonde girl whose fashion sense is as switched on as Nicholas'
I'll miss the touch of his cheek, but more importantly I'll miss the handle the walks gave me on what was happening in his life. Boys at Nicholas' age can confound any interrogator. If you ask one "How was your day at school?" you're lucky if you learn what was for lunch. On our walks, though, key pieces of information about the triumphs, hurts and fears of first grade would tumble effortlessly out of his mouth. I saw him interacting with his friends before the school doors opened. I had serendipitous moments of face time with his teachers. Bits of intel from the other parents at drop-off. Now all I have is a condescending car company owner offering me Zen koans. When I call to inquire why the driver took two hours to get my son home from school, the owner informs me, "Your attitude about the journey will become your child's attitude toward the journey."
When I look into the minivan that Nicholas boards every morning, I don't like what I see. No one is talking. Some are listening to music; others are playing hand-held video games and wearing giant noise-reduction headphones because if you are shooting Nazi-zombies, you apparently need really big headphones. "Hey, are you guys mixing an album in here?" I ask when I open the van door one morning. "Anyone know Rick Rubin?" My remarks are met with eye rolls. Another morning the van pulls up, and one of Nicholas' classmates is inexplicably crying his eyes out.
I've thought of trying to reassert some control over his early morning input by curating his drive time. I could always buy him an iPod Touch then load it up with great books, so he'd be forced to listen to selections of my choosing - say Sidney Poitier reading D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths, or Roald Dahl relating the story of Charlie Bucket and his golden ticket. Perhaps learning diplomacy and people skills at 30mph trumps any book I could trick him into, though.
Like Dennis Hopper in Speed, the bus bully has a captive audience, and the added threat that he might open a window and toss his victim to the ground
He's mastering the art of making new friends - in particular a sweet little blonde girl whose fashion sense is as switched on as Nicholas'. On their first after-school play date, she arrived in a white peasant blouse and long braids. He was in electric blue cords, Chelsea boots and a blazer. They look great together. They could pass for a pint-sized Terry and Julie in "Waterloo Sunset".
Regrettably, he is also learning about cruelty. Sure, he's encountered the odd playground bully, but the bully on the bus is a different species. Like Dennis Hopper in Speed, the bus bully has a captive audience, and the added threat that he might open a window and toss his victim to the ground. Instead of learning about the bully from Nicholas directly (as I would have in our walking days), another mother called my wife to tip us off to the miscreant in the middle seat. When I finally found a quiet moment with Nicholas, I asked him how the bus was going.
"Jason is a kicker, he likes to kick people and he likes to pull people's hair," he tells me. "James is scared of Jason so he does what Jason says. That way Jason doesn't do anything to him."
"So what do you do when Jason kicks you?"
"I tell him to stop it."
What Nicholas didn't tell me is that when Jason started pulling the hair of his girlfriend, he told Jason to cut it out and hit him back.
When the girl's mother called to thank us for Nicholas' chivalrous behaviour, I was proud, relieved and realised the iPod could wait.
To read Mr Brodie's previous columns, click here. Follow Mr Brodie on Twitter @jbrodieny


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Carly Rose Sonenclar's Family Furious Over LeAnn Rimes' Comments About 'X Factor' Performance
The drama surrounding LeAnn Rimes' duet with 'X Factor' contestant Carly Rose Sonenclar continues. After the less-than-perfect performance generated some criticisms -- like comments that the ladies had no chemistry and struggled to the suggestion that Rimes was drunk -- the family of Sonenclar, who placed second on the show, is hopping mad over the singer's comments. Rimes' statements seemed to lay blame on the teen.
Rimes said that Sonenclar, 13, was "nervous and had trouble hitting the right notes" during their rendition of the country singer's smash 'How Do I Live.' The ladies smiled at each other during the performance, and Rimes -- who first attained her success around the same age as Sonenclar -- even reached for the teen's hand when she met her on stage.
After chalking up the chatter about her being "drunk" to awkwardness created by the fact that she was "trying to help a 13-year-old girl who was having some trouble with the song," Rimes denied the quote, even though her rep provided it and said it was legit and useable.
TMZ reports that sources close to the Sonenclar family say Carly Rose's mother and other relatives are incredibly angry about the post-performance comments. They think Rimes threw the teen under the bus, which is made worse by the fact that she just suffered a heartbreaking loss on the show. As an extra sting, the Sonenclar family say they also feel that Carly outperformed Rimes on her own song.
Nevertheless, Rimes says via Twitter, "In my 18 years of performing, I have never been anything but professional onstage."


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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
this is a song off a free ep we are working on should be ready in july.
6 comments:
oh i like it very much :) looking forward to july, thank you for making it free.
- May 27, 2009 at 4:45 AM
- I got your stuff said...
Everything you make is gold!!!!! So much so I made a Blog about you, biggest bit of ass kissing ever...
- June 10, 2009 at 3:03 AM
- Ryne said...
this sounded pretty great live last night. Just outta curiosity, what was the cover you played at Mercury Lounge last night? Great show!
- June 11, 2009 at 6:58 AM
- Carlos Detres said...
Hey, Randolph. Great performance at Studio B on Friday. We met briefly. I was the guy who came back later and bought two of your records. I work for a publication that would like to do a quick interview with you asap if you want.
Please email me at lustgartenny (at) gmail.com.
I hope to hear from you soon. Sorry to leave this message on your blog but I can't find your personal email address.
- June 14, 2009 at 8:00 AM
- Candis said...
It's July!!
This can come out now!!
Because I've watched this video too many times and after seeing you play this song live last night, this video is not cutting it anymore.
So whenever you're ready... It's July. I'll be a-waitin'!
- July 1, 2009 at 10:10 AM
- Matt said...
ok, it's past july, where's my zilwaukee!?
- August 8, 2009 at 2:23 PM


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OFFF Barcelona 2012
designer: UpperFirst and Brosmind • comment
The OFFF Festival's annual opening titles have become somewhat of a landmark event in their own right. Every self-respecting motion designer and fan are looking out for these titles to debut online. It's that big of a deal. It's an even bigger deal to be invited to actually design the OFFF titles. In 2012, the honor went to two creative collectives; Upperfirst from Sweden and local Barcelona-based studio Brosmind. Watch the Titles editor Katy Yudin talked to both studios and penned down their story.
When Hector Ayuso, director of the OFFF Festival, tapped Barcelona-based Brosmind and Sweden's Upperfirst as the design team to develop the OFFF Barcelona 2012 Main Titles (and follow in the great footsteps of previous OFFF titles created by Kyle Cooper, The Mill, and Postpanic (featured at Art of the Title), he must have had some inkling of the potential showcase this collaboration could produce. Though neither had previously created titles, his instincts were beyond right on.
We talked with Juan Mingarro of Brosmind, and Erik Arheden of Upperfirst to find out just what magic sauce it took to produce this entertaining sequence. (Hint* communication, communication, communication!).
To kick off the collaboration both teams met to brainstorm at Brosmind' studio in Barcelona, 'a total playground for grown ups.' Since Brosmind had to create a comic which would serve as the main inspiration for the piece that UpperFirst eventually produced, The Mingarro brothers excitedly pitched the idea of SHE, "the first comic with action, drama, and unicorns." (!)
OFFF Barcelona 2012 titles, SHE comic book. More on Brosmind.com
Juan Mingarro explains the story: "Earth's nations developed due to a threat of a huge meteor, and the nations decided to cut the Earth into two fragments so that the meteor could pass through it. Planning the work from the very beginning, they avoid the impact of the meteor. But something fails and the two pieces of Earth never join again and get lost in the universe. The story then takes off with the main character of Lydia Lopez, who obtains amazing powers trying to find a vaccine to stop the use of gravity boots." Although they work as a short movie themselves, Juan tells us that these Titles end up being a kind of movie trailer of the story of the comic, showing some of the most important moments.
"When Brosmind shared the different shots of key frames they wanted to use in the comic, Upperfirst fell in love. From that point, each studio developed the work in parallel. Brosmind started creating the two volumes of the 28 pages of the comic, and back in Sweden, UpperFirst developed the script for the movie. The story had to be locked down early as the comic was to be produced parallel to the film. A true collaboration."
OFFF Barcelona 2012 titles, SHE masks distributed at the conference
Erik shares that "the script shyed away from the regular dark treatments of these types of titles." Instead, the Upperfirst team was inspired by the quirky titles reminiscent of variety shows that were created by Buck for the F5 conference in New York.
Looking at feature references such as Dr. Strangelove, Godzilla, Apollo 13, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet, Kill Bill, and anime, early on it became clear they'd have to do a mix of techniques and styles. Nixing an early idea where the dialogue was in English, Upperfirst decided to make it non-sense so that it'd be more obscure and less disruptive to the film, eventually arriving at a comic inspired tone with elements of the optimism of the 1960's space age. The dreamy French music accompanying the intro certainly sets that tone.
OFFF Barcelona 2012 titles, 3D renders and a (very cute) small scale model of the satellite.
A last note about the comic book. Juan of Brosmind explains that "the first two volumes of SHE were released exclusive for the audience of OFFF Barcelona 2012, and there will be a second edition made for OFFF Mexico 2012. But it will be made available for the general public very soon."
Taking their key from the retro feel of the 60s it was an organic process of integrating the illustrative style into real life objects. Upperfirst would often send lists of objects to Brosmind and had them come up with designs of e.g. cars and characters that they then turned into 3D. It was a continual back and forth flow of sketches and ideas, where one idea would emerge out of another.
OFFF Barcelona 2012 titles, Props: gravity boots
Since Upperfirst specializes in live-action, motion graphics, 3D and VFX ― and all hands were on deck for this one ― mixing styles was a given. There was no way to do all of it live-action or 3D. That reality formed the story in a way where it would make sense and play to their advantage. That and the fact that it should relate to a comic made the mix both natural and essential"
"Upperfirst had to start with a comic and turn it into a feature, and then take the audience from the live action story to the comic." In the beginning they used iconic imagery to put the audience in a lull, so they would get comfortable and recognize they were being told a story. Then they twisted the whole thing and let comic sensibilities guide the live action to introduce the unexpected, leaving the audience hanging.
OFFF Barcelona 2012 titles, still
With the constant struggle to get as rich environments as possible while having no money to build or rent, or time to do in 3D, how did they manage to re-create that authentic looking retro command center? Well, they didn't.
One morning Upperfirst got the (we think brilliant!) idea to call the nearby nuclear power plant, who, strangely enough, agreed to let them shoot in one of their rooms. Of course they had to be escorted everywhere they went and all the equipment and crew had to be scanned for radio active particles once the shoot was over.
OFFF Barcelona 2012 title shoot in a nuclear power plant, with Alejandro Mingarro as an extra in on the right
Shooting at the plant presented the perfect opportunity for both Brosmind and Upperfirst to take their cues as extras, since they couldn't bring an unlimited amount of people.
Brosmind's style was a given. With a love of doing lettering in their own illustrations, Brosmind took charge on showing the names of the 40 speakers attending OFFF and drew all the names that Upperfirst eventually integrated into the titles, as if they were the opening credits of a movie.
For those who want to follow the story of SHE, Brosmind is continuing the story of Lydia Lopez and next issues of SHE are coming soon!
Article: Katy Yudin, © Submarine Channel 8 August 2012. All images used with kind permission.
Year of production
Title designer
About UpperFirst and Brosmind
UpperFirst and Brosmind
Brosmind is a studio based in Barcelona founded by Juan (below, on the right) and Alejandro Mingarro in 2006. Their style is fresh and optimistic and always combines fantasy and humor. The brothers have work for clients such as Nike, Microsoft, Virgin, Gillette, Honda, Land Rover, Volkswagen… but their universe is not fully understood without their personal artistic projects, like Brosmind Army, Brosmind RV and Brosmind City.
UpperFirst is a production collective that works at the intersection of design, film and digital experiences. We are a group of motion designers, directors, producers, 3d and vfx artists that believe in strong ideas with great execution, working hard and having fun. Work is life and life should be fun.
Robin Jakobsson (intern) and Jonas Persson (Compositor/VFX at UpperFirst) "backstage"
Full credits
The full credits are at the end of the video
PostPanic's Year Zero titles for OFFF
feature at Art of the Title


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City of Lincoln
Mayor's Office
2009 Media Releases
Local artists and teachers are invited to participate in a rain barrel art project to benefit the Pioneers Park Nature Center. The project is sponsored by the Friends of Pioneers Park Nature Center and the Watershed Management Division of the City Public Works and Utilities Department. A total of 25 artists will be chosen to paint rain barrels, which will be auctioned to the public in May. Rain barrels are above-ground containers modified to receive, store and distribute rooftop runoff for non-drinking uses.
"Using rain barrels is a great way to save water for dry spells, reduce runoff and stormwater pollution and cut your water bills during hot weather," said Nancy Furman, Nature Center Coordinator. "This art project is a fun way to educate the community about these benefits and to promote other ways we all can help protect our environment."
Applications must be submitted by January 30. They are available on the City Web site, lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: rain barrel); at the Pioneers Park Nature Center office, 2740 "A" St.; and at the City Watershed Management office, 901 N. 6th St. Applicants are required to submit a short summary of their intended designs. Teachers applying for their classes are required to submit a short description of how they plan to use the rain barrel project as a teaching tool.
The Friends organization will select the 25 artists and notify them by February 6. The artists will have four weeks to paint and return the barrels along with the title of the work, the artist's bio and a written description. Decorated rain barrels will be on display for about two months at local businesses and libraries. All rain barrels will be on display April 18 at the Nature Center at "Nature's Market," a special event conducted by the Friends organization. Photos of the barrels also will be posted on the City Web site, and visitors will be able to vote for their favorite.
For more information, contact Watershed Management at 441-7075, the Pioneers Park Nature Center at 441-8709 or visit lincoln.ne.gov.


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The Global Music Archive is a multi-media reference archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and the Americas. It is a public facility that promotes education in African and American traditional and popular music through its own activities and by supporting the activities of others. The archive is housed within the Anne Potter Wilson Music Library in Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music. It includes public rooms for the study of materials, and an audio and video listening and viewing facilities.
The GMA's primary mission is to provide access to sound recordings and images of indigenous music from communities in Africa and the Americas. Founded in 2003 by Gregory Barz, Associate Professor of Musicology (Ethnomusicology) at Vanderbilt University and the Anne Potter Wilson Music Library, the GMA recently launched its first database in a series of databases, the Digital Collection of East African Recordings which consists of over 1,600 discrete musical performances recorded by an East African ethnomusicologist, Centurio Balikoowa.
The Global Music Archive (GMA) at Vanderbilt University is a collaboration between the Blair School of Music and the University Libraries.


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I suspect that the reason nurses generally aren't very big on medical students is that as nurses, they take so much crap from doctors whom they can't fight much, so they might as well get us BEFORE we outrank them. This phenomenon isn't exactly restricted to the UK; nurses the world over pretty much have the same complaints. Only in the United States have I ever heard about nurse unions managing to make any real progress through strikes. (And if you guessed that my source of US healthcare news is the ever-reliable and extremely accurate Grey's Anatomy, then ding ding, you're right again! What are you, psychic?--Ed.)
Today, while I was mucking about with some poor guinea-pig's intestine trying to smooth-talk it into contracting for me, a friend of mine who is a graduate medical student started telling me about her clinical rotation at Addenbrooke's Hospital here in Cambridge. On her first day, upon walking into the wards:
Angry Overworked Nurse #1: Who're you?!
Medic: I'm...I'm supposed to start my clinical rota--
Angry Overworked Nurse #1: Where's your ID tag?!
Medic: Oh, uhm, it's in here...lemme fish it ou--
Angry Overworked Nurse #1: Why aren't you wearing it? You were TOLD to wear it at all times! Oi Angry Overworked Nurse #2, c'mere. Take this medic to Dr Snobbish Surgical Chief.
Angry Overworked Nurse #2: What? But--but she's a MEDIC. Why do I get her?
Medic: Um--
Angry Overworked Nurse #1: Because I said so! I've got lots of work here. I hate doctors anyway. Take her!
Angry Overworked Nurse #2: And you think I don't?! Right, you, follow me. And keep that bloody tag on!
Now I know that sounds like an exaggeration, but it's not that far off. My friend said that not only did the nurses hate her, they were also very open about WHY they hated her. They informed her in no uncertain terms about their disdain for doctors and openly bitched about them. Of course, my friend being the smart and sensitive person she is, recognised this bitterness for what it was, and eventually made friends with the nurses on her wards. But I was reminded of her when I came across this article in the Times, which got me chuckling.
King's College hospital NHS Trust in London is offering nurses free cappuccinos and chocolate chip biscuits to encourage them to smile at patients. They introduced the reward scheme after surveys raised concerns that nurses were not being nice enough to the sick.Any old idiot can see there's no shortage of material here to make fun of. In fact I'm quite sure several blogs have picked up on it and done exactly that (but no, I haven't found them yet, hence the absence of links --Ed).
But I'm not gonna do that today. That'd be a cheap shot. In fact, I rather agree with this method of reward. The article isn't pretentious about WHY the hospital has started doing this. It says quite plainly,
Trusts are introducing new initiatives to improve their "customer services" because, under government reforms, hospitals now need to compete for patients.No beating around the bush there. Government numbnuts mess up the system enough to make hospitals compete for patients, but out of the whole hulking mess comes something that finally benefits the patient (that's you and me, folks. --Ed). According to the article,
Matrons at King's College hospital hand special thank-you cards to nurses who are seen smiling at patients or relatives, chatting with patients, having a positive attitude or doing something to make someone's day better. Selina Truman, head of nursing in general medicine at the trust, said "This scheme is very motivating because matrons and ward sisters praise the nurses directly. It has put patients back at the centre of our work."Believe it or not, folks, competition's actually made things better for the patients. Anyone who's ever been in a hospital will tell you that the attitude of the attending nurses makes a huge difference in the quality of your stay. And while offering nurses free coffee and biscuits may seem like a cheap way of getting them to clean up their act, it's actually workable. It's one of those 'little things that matter' that everyone seems to go on about (married people will understand. --Ed) and, as everyone knows (including the nurses themselves! --Ed) nurses really could use some coffee.
But what move like this could stand without naysayers? Lo, already they appear on the horizon:
However, an editorial in Nursing Times magazine said nurses did not need bribes to be helpful and pleasant to patients. It said: "Excessive workloads and paperwork prevent nurses from spending time with their patients and caring for them properly. This is a fundamental problem that can never be rectified with a hot drink and a biscuit, or other such imports from industry."That's true, Mr Anonymous-Editor-Hiding-Behind-Anonymity-To- Avoid-Being-Skewered-By-Fantastic-Wits-Like-Mine, but it's a step in the right direction. I'm assuming the editor of the Nursing Times has been a nurse him/herself at one point, and I challenge them to find a single nurse who WOULD mind a free coffee and biscuits in return for ignoring their insanely depressing workloads long enough to flash a smile and a kind word at a patient.
Still, though, all's not well that ends well in this light-hearted tale. The article gives a taste of a more serious issue brewing:
Nurses who think above their stations. *gasp* Can it be? Are nurses becoming too highly trained to perform basic nursing care? Is this phenomenon unique to first-world Britain, which is so saddled with political correctness and human rights that nurses are no longer fit to nurse? Is this a good thing, giving nurses rights and powers without having them undergo further education, or is it a recipe for disaster?
In recent years there have been growing concerns about nurses who are "too posh to wash" and prefer to spend their time on administrative and technical tasks rather than basic care.Two years ago a resolution at the annual congress of the Royal College of Nursing proposed that nurses were now "too clever to care" and suggested that the compassionate part of their job should be delegated to healthcare assistants.
We may never know. Or we may find out someday. But when we do, I only pray that it isn't too late to salvage the National Health Service.


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Simple underbust corsets are a staple for corset wearers and makers. Here are the patternmaking tools and techniques to get you started right. (Updated 6/21/12 with clarified drafting instructions)
Guiding you through the process of designing and creating your own maternity corset from the Victorian era.
How to make your own personalised custom corset pattern, based on corset designs of the late 1870s... this might just be the best corset pattern you'll ever use.
Laura tackles the single most pressing frustration that FR readers tell us they face: just how do you fit a corset properly?
The home sewer's approach to leather corsetmaking, one part professional technique, one part broke college student ingenuity.
Many corsetieres would have you believe that a "real" corset is only made from coutil. However, other fabrics can be used, if they pass a series of tests.
Kim discusses the Welt Seam or Folded Seam method of corset construction, which is quick, precise, and produces a very durable corset.
In this free article, professional corsetmaker and owner of Sparklewren Bespoke Corsetry gives us a solid foundation overview of how to make a corset.
What makes a corset, a corset? Jenni shares her basic six rules of "good" contemporary Victorian corsetry.
Addressing issues on the positioning of boning channels, discussing the reasons for boning a corset, and providing ideas for experimentation.
Lots of people have asked how to get perfectly straight and even boning channels. Here are a few tips and tricks that'll help you tame unruly stitching.
What are the correct tools for corsetry, when some swear by tools that others avoid? I'll share what's in my toolbox, what has been relegated to the scrapheap, and why.
A tricky skill to master: Laura details a few techniques on how to do it right first time, every time - and how to keep your stitching straight.
Many makers find inserting gores and gussets tricky. Two easy step-by-step techniques that will insert them neatly, producing a nice crisp V shape at the bottom.
Laura shares her step by step corset construction worksheets for making a two layer corset with and without a waist tape. Never miss a step again!
Laura shares her foolproof system for preventing wasted time and effort with some simple organizational tools.
Professional corsetmaker Alexis Black shows you how to lay out and pattern match a corset made from asymmetrical printed fabric, with stunning results.
Step by step to creating simple and complex flossing designs: different threads to use, the right needles, basic stitches and making your own decorative, yet functional, flossing designs.
Astrida gives us the facts on some corsetting myths that simply refuse to die, thanks in part to Hollywood, and also to popular fiction.
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Catherine Cookson Classic TV Show
Lavish adaptations of the queen of forbidden love, Catherine Cookson. Some of the biggest names in TV history star in steamy period dramas of life behind closed British doors.
Catherine Cookson Fan Tributes6 Pam Somerville from Warwickshire: I have been reading catherine cookson books for years and then i started my family tree and realised i was related to her stepfather in Law Percy Gusterson who was step father to Tom Cookson her husband I was amazed that along the family tree she was part of my mothers side of the family i have since collected the majority of her books and i am still collecting
5 Margaret Mercer from Australia: I have not only read all of Catherine Cookson's books, I have every one of them. There is, and won't every be anyone to equal her.
4 Rosemary Strasburg from Wisconsin USA: I thought I read all her books but every so often one appears I haven't read. I am spoiled she is the best story teller ever. I re read her books and I have her DVS. just brought Vol 2.
I once sent her a letter telling her how much I enjoyed her books. She wrote me back. I couldn't believe it. What a down to earth person. No other author will ever take her place
3 Patsy Norman from Northumberland: I have read Catherine Cookson books since I was 15.. The First I read was "The Fifteen Streets" and it was like reading about my Terrace House Life on Tyneside.....I bought all the books & video's and now I am starting on CD's and I live in the Village where A dinner of Herbs and The Girl were made.....I still visit Canny Tyneside and through Catherine's Story Telling...My Family Tree on Tyneside comes alive.....
2 Margaret McLarty from Canada: I have read and kept all of Catherine Cookson's books. I was so sad when she passed away. I could go on reading her works forever. I have even reread alot of her books. No one will be able to take her place.
1 Patsy McQuitty from California USA: I have been a fan of Catherine Cookson for many years, she's my favorite author ever. Was so sad when I heard she had died. I never really knrw how old she was but hoped she'd live longer than me so I could enjoy reading her books til I died. It really upsets me that she is gone' so sorry. Am currently getting some lists from the computer of all her books and I see there are several I've never read so hopefully I can get copies somewhere. Thank You Patsy McQuitty
Catherine Cookson
Genre: Drama
Year: 1994-98
The Cinder Path
Lloyd Owen as Charlie MacFell
Polly Adams as Florence Chapman
Catherine Zeta-Jones as Victoria Chapman
Tom Bell as Edward MacFell
Victoria Scarborough as Betty MacFell
Antony Byrne as Ginger Slater
Ralph Ineson as Arthur Benton
Alison Ambler as Nurse
Rosalind Ayres as Polly Benton
Alan Bird as Old Arnold
Jeremy Child as Colonel
Gareth Forwood as Surgeon
David Hounslow as Sergeant Timms
Nicholas Hutchinson as Doctor
Rod Jinks as Private #2
David MacCreedy as Private #1
Maria Miles as Nellie Chapman
Michael Parkhouse as Major
Mark Wharton as Private Harkness
Rupert Wickham as Lieutenant Radlett
The Dwelling Place
Tim Barker as Morris
Leanne Bradford as Bella Brodie
Lucy Cohu as Isabelle Fischel
Luke Conway as Jimmy Brodie
Fiona Dixon as Mary Brodie
James Fox as Lord Fischel
Mark Gatiss as Bowmer
Julie Hesmondhalgh as Rose Turnbull
Danny Lee as William Brodie
Andrew McWilliams as Joe Brodie
Charles Pemberton as Hatton
Edward Rowie-Hicks as Clive Fischel
Ray Stevenson as Matthew Turnbull
Jack Thompson as Richard
Philip Voss as Cunningham
Tracy Whitwell as Cissie Brodie
The Glass Virgin
Nigel Havers as Edmund Lagrange
Christine Kavanagh as Rosina Lagrange
Brendan Coyle as Manuel Mendoza
Sylvia Syms as Lady Constance
Emily Mortimer as Annabella Lagrange
Jan Graveson as Betty Watford
Hywel Berry as Danny Dinning
Avril Elgar as Alice Piecliff
Lucy Fletcher as Poor Older Girl
Sammy Glenn as Young Annabella
Jean Heywood as Amy
Bidi Iredale as Cook
Jack McBride as Armourer
Adam Pearson as Poor Boy
Harrison Philips as Big Fellow
Crispin Redman as George Boston
Jean Southern as Mrs. Page
Anthony Walters as Stephen
Denise Welch as Jessie
The Girl
Siobhan Flynn as Hannah Boyle
Jonathan Cake as Ned Ridley
Mark Benton as Fred Loam
Susan Jameson as Mrs. Daisy Loam
Jill Baker as Anne Thornton
Kerry Angus as Dickinson
David Auker as Walters
Charlotte Barrymore as Young Margaret
Oliver Cheetham as John Thornton
Jon Croft as Mr. Beaumont
Denny Ferguson as Dapper Man
Scott Frazer as Dandy Smollett
James Garbutt as Grandad
Donald Gee as Reverend Crewe
Daphne Goddard as Miss Barrington
Emily Hamilton as Margaret Thornton
Laura Harling as Young Betsy
David Hartley as Gentleman at Ball
Steven Hawksley as Shields
Brendan P. Healy as Bill Nicholson
Nancy Lodder as Betsy Thornton
Guy Manning as Solicitor
Lizzie McKenzie as Bella
Annie Miles as Sally Warrington
Ursula Mohan as Miss Rowntree
Cheryl Moody as Young Hannah
Stuart Piper as Young John
Lesley St John as Nancy Boyle
Malcolm Stoddard as Matthew Thornton
Stephen Thirkeld as Bill Warrington
Ian Thompson as Dr. Arnison
Sarah Turnbull as Jessie
David Wheatley as Pearman
The Moth
Christine Anderson as Mrs. Walton
Juliet Aubrey as Sarah Thorman
Alan Bird as Solicitor
David Bradley as Dave Waters
Paul Brennan as Boswell
Jeremy Clyde as Reginald Thorman
Carmel Cryan as Mother Superior
Desmond Cullum-Jones as Magistrate
Neil Daglish as Sergeant Fenwick
Janet Dale as Alice Bradley
Jack Davenport as Robert Bradley
Julia Dearden as Sister Cecilia
Judi Earl as Mary Taggart
William Gaminara as Mr. Quinton
Sally Grey as Carrie Bradley
Michael Gunn as Greg Hubbard
Harry Herring as Arthur Bloom
David Howey as John Bradley
Dave Johns as Man
Delena Kidd as Peggy Waters
Valerie Lilley as Sister Mary
Val McLane as Aggie Winkovski
Claudia McNulty as Mrs. Quinton
Aedin Moloney as Maggie
Alec Newman as Ben
Rupert Penry-Jones as Stanley Thorman
Steve Ramsden as Schindler
Leslie Schofield as Billy Taggart
Margaretta Scott as Lady Clinton-Smyth
Leonie Sooke as Annabel
Lyndsey Todd as Rosie
Justine Waddell as Millie Thorman
Tracey Wilkinson as Nellie
The Gambling Man
Robson Green as Rory Connor
Sylvestra Le Touzel as Charlotte Keane
David Nellist as Jimmy Connor
Stars include: Catherine Zeta Jones, Nigel Havers, James Fox and Jack Davenport.
Catherine Cookson was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1993.
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