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In terms of processing, the HSP archives department had a good 2009 and is off to a good start in 2010. In this time, staff processed and improved access to almost 50 collections. Following up on Cathleen's previous post, here are just a few highlights. Others can be found on our website.
HSP collection of Benjamin Franklin papers, 1628-1951 (Collection 215)
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was a printer, writer, politician, inventor, and one of the most well-known figures of early American history. He played a significant role in the founding of several Philadelphia institutions, such as the University of Pennsylvania, the American Philosophical Society, and the Pennsylvania Hospital. HSP's collection of Franklin's papers primarily highlight his later political life, particularly as a representative of Pennsylvania in England (1757-1775) and U. S. ambassador to France (1776-1785). The collection includes a wide range of materials including correspondence, copies of Congressional orders and resolutions, French manuscripts and memoires, certificates, writings, notes, clippings, and ephemera. This collection was supported by Mary Countess of Bessborough.
Christopher Marshall papers, 1744-circa 1971 (Collection 395)
Christopher Marshall (1709-1797) was druggist and chemist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His papers consist of his original diaries from 1774 to 1781 and 1783 to 1785; six bound volumes of photocopies of the original diaries; handwritten transcripts of his diaries from 1782 to 1783, 1786 to 1791, and 1793 to 1795; and two sets of extra-illustrated volumes (seven total) containing pages from William Duane Jr.'s Extracts from the Diary of Christopher Marshall, 1774-1781, illustrations by David McNeely Stauffer, and a variety of original documents. This collection was supported by Dr. Randall Miller.
Plastic Club records, 1888-2007 (Collection 3106)
The Plastic Club is the oldest club for women artists still in existence in the United States. It was founded in 1897 in Philadelphia and has included many illustrious members, such as Emily Sartain, Violet Oakley, Blanche Dillaye, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Cecila Beaux, and many others. It has sponsored exhibitions, lectures, and classes, and provided a place for women artists to meet and exchange ideas. The club has also played an active civic role over the years, for example conducting art classes for servicemen during World War II and donating art supplies to underprivileged children. Since 1991, the club has admitted men, who now form close to half the membership. The historical records of the Plastic Club go back to its founding and richly document the club's activities and members over most of the 20th century. The records include board minutes; annual reports; correspondence; exhibition programs, notices, and reviews; photos from events; directories of club members; files about early members' artistic activities; scrapbooks of clippings; early sketchbooks and preparatory drawings for a set of stained glass windows; maintenance reports about the building; and a recent graduate thesis about the history of the club that focuses on the building. This collection was supported by Dorothy Del Beuno.
John MacCarley collection of Willow Grove Park concert programs, 1904-1925 (Collection 3147)
Located just north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Willow Grove Park opened in 1896 and was a popular regional attraction and amusement park for several decades. This collection of several hundred concert programs dating from 1904 to 1925 highlights one of the park's main features that brought popular band leaders such as John Phillips Sousa to the area. This collection was supported by Carol. A. Ingald.
Corporal Edward Psulkowski letters, 1942-1953 (Collection 3123)
Corporal Edward Psulkowski served during World War II as Assistant Crew Chief, 864th Bomb Squadron, 494th Bomb Group, Army Air Corps. This collection consists primarily of a series of love letters between Edward Psulkowski and Gladys Kramer. The letters narrate the story of two pen pals who fall in love during World War II. The correspondence and greeting cards from relatives and friends reflect the married life of Gladys and Edward in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.
If you click on the links to the finding aids, you'll notice some variation of formats (pdf, xml, html). The MacCarley collection represents our most recent foray into Archivists' Toolkit and EAD. As you've seen in other posts, most collections being processed through HSP's Digital Center for Americana project are also being entered directly in AT. The output looks pretty nice, no?


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Soju 燒酒, literally means "burned liquor".
Most brands of soju are made in South Korea. Though it is traditionally made from rice, most modern producers of soju use supplements or even replace rice with other starches, such as potatoes, wheat, barley, sweet potatoes, or tapioca.
Soju is clear and colorless. Its alcohol content varies from about 16.7%, to about 45% alcohol by volume (ABV) for traditional Andong soju[1], with 20% ABV being most common. It is widely consumed, in part, because of its relatively low price in Korea. A typical 300mL bottle of soju costs the consumer 1,000 to 3,000 South Korean Won in South Korea (roughly $1 to $3 United States Dollars). In the USA, it tends to cost substantially more – $5 or more.
comes with "original" and "fresh" flavor!
tastes like vodka with a hit of gin...
with a streaking feeling at your throat just like tequila...
ended with an aftertaste of lychee or rambutan (in local flavor)...
costs: 94.50php at your local groceries...

subset: commoncrawl


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Multiplatform Tropical Cyclone Kinetic Energy and Intensity - Archive
To view a loop of all images from this storm, click any of the "Loop" buttons without selecting any specific images. To select a specific range of images click an option for "Starting Image" and "Ending Image", and then click any of the "Loop" buttons.
Clicking on an "Image" link will display the image for that specific synoptic time.


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As the world continues to learn more about coronavirus and its spread, it's vital to stay up-to-date on the latest developments. However, it's also important to make sure that the information being distributed is from credible sources. To that end, Between The Lines has compiled, [...]
By Lisa Keen
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's openly gay advisor on foreign policy resigned Tuesday, just two weeks after the campaign announced his role.
According to the Washington Post, which broke the story, Richard Grenell "resigned in the wake of a full-court press by anti-gay conservatives." But Grenell, in a statement to the Post, said only that his ability to "speak clearly and forcefully on the issues has been greatly diminished by the hyper-partisan discussion of personal issues that sometimes comes from a presidential campaign." Grenell's statement also thanked Romney for his confidence in Grenell's ability to serve the campaign on national security and foreign policy issues and for Romney's "clear message to me that being openly gay was a non-issue for him and his team."
The Post quoted Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades as saying the campaign is "disappointed that Ric decided to resign from the campaign for his own personal reasons."
"We wanted him to stay," said Rhoades, "because he had superior qualifications for the position he was hired to fill."
Most gay activists see Grenell as a victim of the Republican Party's strong right-wing base.
R. Clarke Cooper, head of Log Cabin Republicans, echoing Grenell's statement, blamed Grenell's departure on "hyper-partisan discussion of issues unrelated to" Grenell's national security qualifications. Cooper said Grenell "was essentially hounded by the far right and far left."
Stonewall Democrats' national executive director Jerame Davis said Grenell was "mercilessly hounded by religious conservatives." To Davis, Romney's appointment of Grenell was never serious, but just a "crassly cynical political move by Romney to fool LGBT voters into believing he's not as anti-gay as his statements would have you believe."
Davis criticized Romney for "silently (letting) the bigoted wing of his party, control his personnel choices."
Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese also criticized Romney for his silence.
"The fact that Grenell is gone so quickly after a right-wing uproar," said Solmonese, "is a troubling harbinger of the kind of power that anti-gay forces would have in a Romney White House."
Jimmy LaSalvia, head of the national gay conservative group GOProud, said, "I still can't believe that in 2012 there are still people like Bryan Fischer and Tony Perkins, who would rather keep a gay person from having a job on a presidential campaign than have Mitt Romney assemble the best foreign policy team possible."
"On a day when foreign affairs and national security are at the forefront, it's too bad that Governor Romney doesn't have the best spokesman possible speaking on his behalf," said LaSalvia.
Bryan Fischer, a policy official with the American Family Association, criticized Grenell's appointment, characterizing Grenell as a "gay activist" and suggesting he would be trying to promote a "homosexual agenda." Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, noted that Grenell publicly criticized President Bush for opposing the U.S. endorsement of a pro-gay statement by the United Nations.
Another right-wing anti-gay activist, Gary Bauer, criticized the appointment of Grenell, saying that it showed unwillingness by the Romney campaign to reassure conservatives in the Republican Party.
"Conservative pro-family leaders," said Bauer, in an April 25 email to supporters of his current organization, Campaign for Working Families, "are disappointed because Grenell has been an outspoken advocate of redefining normal marriage." He noted that Grenell "once caused a controversy by trying to have his partner listed as his spouse when he worked at the U.N." Grenell asked to have his partner listed, the same as the spouses of other U.S. delegation employees, in a United Nations directory.
But Bauer's criticism of Grenell's appointment was somewhat tempered by his acknowledgement that "homosexuals" worked in the administrations of President Reagan and the two Bush presidents.
And Grenell's own cryptic explanation – citing "hyperpartisan discussion of personal issues that sometimes comes from a presidential campaign" – left room for uncertainty about what was really behind his abrupt resignation.
Grenell, 45, lives in Los Angeles and was due to start work at Romney's national headquarters in Boston on Tuesday. Such a move would enable Grenell to marry his longtime partner, Matthew Lashey.
Personal issues were also a focus of early criticism of Grenell's appointment, as media reports gave considerable attention to Grenell's Twitter posts making unflattering observations about GOP presidential long-shot Newt Gingrich's current wife, Callista, openly gay Pulitzer Prize winning commentator Jonathan Capehart, and MSNBC's openly gay political commentator Rachel Maddow, among others. Those posts came to light just as the clamor was subsiding over a remark from openly gay Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen that Romney's wife, Ann, had "never worked a day in her life."
Grenell's qualifications to serve as a national security and foreign policy advisor to Romney seemed unquestioned. Grenell served the administration of President George W. Bush, as a spokesman for the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. He was also appointed by Ambassador John Danforth in 2004 to serve as an alternative representative of the United States to the U.N. Security Council. And he served numerous other prominent Republicans, including New York Governor George Pataki, former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, and San Diego Mayor Susan Golding.
The Romney campaign's willingness to appoint an openly gay man to such a prominent position also seemed to indicate that the campaign was prepared to go after the one in four gay voters who tend to vote Republican. Grenell's departure could make that task more difficult.


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Baguettes Are Us: What's Your Favorite
If you haven't already checked out the piece on the world's foremost baguettologist in New York Magazine, you must. This is all you need to know about Steven L. Kaplan: When he speaks of baguettes he says things like "a global sense of the moment of penetration" in describing mouthfeel; or that baguettes have "had intercourse" when they're packed too tightly in the oven; or, finally, "It's as if the female crumb has completely reduced the male crust to helpless impotence" when he describes a soggy bread.
The problem with the story is that we never learn the exact criteria he uses in judging baguettes. We learn he has a 21-point grading stystem, but we never find out how he applies it.
But the story did start me thinking about baguettes in New York and around the country, and in the last three days I have bought ten baguettes to sample. What have I learned? One is that a baguette from the same bakery can vary greatly from day to day. The baguette from Pain D'Avignon was great one day, and pretty awful the next. This makes sense in a certain way. Bread baking is affected by outside temperature and humidity and changes in both from day to day. It's like pizza. Also, mass-baking baguettes is the ultimate challenge for any bread baker. Any one of six bakers in New York can make ten great baguettes a day. The real question is whether they can make thousands of very good baguettes in a day. Also, a baguette is an extremely perishable food item. It varies in taste and texture according to how many hours it's been out of the oven. A baguette that's one hour old tastes very different from a six hour-old baguette.
This is a long-winded way of asking all of you to vote for your favorite baguette, either in New York or out.
Here are the candidates I know about:
New York:
Pain d'Avignon
Sullivan Street Bakery
Le Pain Quotidien
Outside New York:
La Brea Bakery: (originally LA, now nationwide)
Acme Bread: Bay Area
Bread Line (D.C.)
So cast your vote and tell me what you like about your favorite baguette. We're talking about regular baguettes here, not sourdough.
Vote early and often.
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"In the Kingdom of the Blind, the ONE EYED shall be King"[Eye of Horus Satanic/Lucifer symbol for the ever watching, all seeing Reptilians. Done with and without hand, see All seeing eye (people), just with hand: Eye (all seeing & hand. Subconsciously this would act like any Big Brother symbol (Subliminal Influencing). We have all had many previous lives where these sort of symbols were in use overtly, along with the fact we all know Big Brother exists subconsciously (Revelation of the Method), so you can imagine the effects.]
Symbol of the Enemy
Kali Eye on sword
What is really behind the Eye.
This is from an organization which will re-patriot you as a Jew and move you to Israel.
Quotes [Symbol quotes Symbol quotes (specific)]
[2011 Aug] Illuminati Inspect Every Hollywood Script Of course everyone wants to leap on the "Illuminati eye" as a blatantly repetitive symbol these days. That's a misguided judgment, and I'll get to that part soon. An example of a less obvious Signature Symbol is the gargoyle. Any film or other production featuring even brief glimpses of gargoyles is announcing that it has the Illuminati stamp of approval.
'The pyramid and the "eye of Horus" on the back of the dollar bill are Illuminati symbology. ... The eye is the all seeing eye of Horus and the fact that no one can escape his magical reach. This eye is considered a demonic eye in the group, or the eye of the deity, and in Illuminati mythology is either open or closed, depending upon the spiritual time of year and the state of the person psychically. Young children are given "psychic surgery" where the eye is placed inside, and they are told that Horus will snatch their soul if they ever try to leave, or if they tell, or that the eye will explode. The symbol on the dollar is reinforcement for every Illuminati child who sees one, and the reminder that they are being watched.' ---Part 4: The Illuminati - Freemason Connection
'The All-Seeing Eye was representative of the omniscience of Horus, the Sun God'.---Magic Symbols, by Frederick Goodman, p. 103, Satanic symbols book
"Called the 'mal ochio' (evil eye), this object is regarded by all Satanists as the symbol of Lucifer."--- William J. Schnoebelen, James R. Spencer Whited Sepulchers, p. 20
'In Egyptian Mythology, Horus IS Lucifer'. ---Former Satanist, William Schnoebelen, Masonry: Beyond The Light, p. 197
The All-Seeing Eye, The President, The Secretary and The Guru by Terry Melanson
The All-Seeing Eye is used to represent the planet Sirius. Sirius is important to the Hermetic magicians, and some of the programmers are deeply into hermetic magic. Satan is said to come from Draco or Sirius, esp. the dog star Canis major. Masonic programming may well have the "blazing star" portrayed in the programming as a pentagram, with the name Sirius. Sirius may represent the Master, the creator of the system in some systems where the programmer is steeped in Masonic philosophy. Deeper Insights 4. The Use of Hypnosis
But the real punch line here is this: as Glenn correctly pointed out to me, Longinus who pierced the side of Jesus with his 'Spear of Destiny' had only one eye! (He was blind in one eye, but was healed by Jesus' blood.) And, in the film The Passion [of the Christ, a controversial film about the final 12 hours of Jesus, released soon after the Super Bowl fiasco], Jesus is mostly... you guess it, one-eyed. Needless to say, this... relates to the Eye of Horus, or the 'All-Seeing Eye' of the pyramid capstone that you see on the back of the US dollar bill. It symbolizes Osirian resurrection, seed/sex, Mars, New World Order... etc. etc. all very relevant. Birth of Horus, birth of Antichrist - that would probably the strongest concept conveyed by all this.--The Lucifer Time Code Pt 2 By Goro Adachi http://www.goroadachi.com/etemenanki/lucifer-timecode-2.htm
The Eye of Horus comes from one of the many religions which came from Babylon because of Nimrod (aka, Baal, Osiris - represented by the pagan owl Molech) and the Whore of Babylon (aka Isis, the whore, even Lady Liberty).
Eye of Horus: According to Egyptian legend, Osiris was murdered by Set and Set was killed by Horus who lost an eye in the process, hence the Eye of Horus. The 33rd degree Freemason and Black Nobility president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, had this symbol printed on the dollar bill from 1933. It was a symbol of secret societies in Europe long before anyone heard of the United States and it is awash with Freemasonic and secret society symbolism going back to the ancient world.--David Icke
ALL-SEEING EYE -- The All-seeing eye originated in Egypt in those Satanic Mysteries which God physically judged during the time of Moses, when he lead the Israelites out of the land by the mighty hand of God. The All-Seeing Eye was representative of the omniscience of Horus, the Sun God, [Magic Symbols, by Frederick Goodman, p. 103, Satanic symbols book]. As one Masonic book says, "These considerations lead us to an interesting topic, the Eye of Mind or the Eye of Horus ... and conveying the idea of the 'All seeing Eye'. The end set before the Egyptian neophyte was illumination, that is to be 'brought to light'. The Religion of Egypt was the Religion of the Light". [Thomas Milton Stewart, The Symbolism fo the Gods of the Egyptians and the Light They Throw on Freemasonry, London, England, Baskerville Press, Ltd., 1927, p. 5]Anyone who knows their Scripture and thinks of themselves as "Christian" should feel right now like they have been slapped alongside their head with a two-by-four! This Masonic author has just told you that the Light to which Masons constantly refer, and toward which they are to constantly move, is the Religion of Horus! This is damning, because in Egyptian Mythology, Horus IS Lucifer [Former Satanist, William Schnoebelen, Masonry: Byond The Light, p. 197] http://cuttingedge.org/free19.htm
The pyramid and the "eye of Horus" on the back of the dollar bill are Illuminati symbology. The pyramid is an ancient form based on the holyness of the number 3 to the ancient mystery religions (it, not 6, is considered the most spiritual number), and a pyramid was a structure used specifically to call up the demonic, or occult, a point of psychic activity.
The eye is the all seeing eye of Horus (remember the emphasis on Egyptian magical religious practices? The book of the undead, etc.?) and the fact that no one can escape his magical reach. This eye is considered a demonic eye in the group, or the eye of the deity, and in Illuminati mythology is either open or closed, depending upon the spiritual time of year and the state of the person psychically. Young children are given "psychic surgery" where the eye is placed inside, and they are told that Horus will snatch their soul if they ever try to leave, or if they tell, or that the eye will explode. The symbol on the dollar is reinforcement for every Illuminati child who sees one, and the reminder that they are being watched.
The saying on the dollar, 'Novus Ordo Seclorum' also means "bringing in the new order", which is the Illuminati stated agenda. Just think, in the early 1800's, our forefathers already were looking forward to when the new order would be ushered in. Have I mentioned that this is a patient, forward looking group of intellectuals? That Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, FDR, and others were Illuminati leaders? Our country may have been founded on freedom from taxation, but it was also founded on the New World Order just as surely. Part 4: The Illuminati - Freemason Connection
In addition, here is a quote from John Todd, who belongs to the Masonic "Council of 13", in the magazine "Progress for All" from January 1991; an interview regarding the clarification of the Pyramid and the shining eye on the back of the US One Dollar Bill (see picture above): "The seal of the pyramid was created by the Rothschild family and brought to North America by Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton before 1776. The Rothschild family is the head of the organization in which I entered in Colorado. All the Occult Brotherhoods are part of it. It is a Lucifer Organization to install his reign in the whole world. The eye on the pyramid is the eye of Lucifer. Supposedly the Rothschild's have personal dealings with the Devil. I have personally been in his villa and have experienced it. And I know it is true."
- John Todd
Art Bell Notice the hidden messages, A.L. and R.T. Bel? Can you decipher them? Notice that a capstone is in place? Did you notice Bel is placed above the capstone by the flying arrow? Do you know what that means? Did you spot the all seeing eye?
Here is a clue... A.L. is the abbreviation for the Latin which translates Year of Light referring to the year 6,000 when the Illuminati believe Prometheus, Lucifer, Baal, Bel, Satan, the angel of light who was cast out of heaven, will triumph over God and mount the throne in the north (A metaphor for the triumph of socialism over religion, nation states, and the common herd). A.L. can be found by adding 4,000 to the current year, 1998 + 4000 = 5998. All who say they are Light Workers are engaged in the battle against God on Lucifer's behalf. --Cooper
Third eye (etheric plane)
Need to check this, mostly to see if it is Sanpaku eye.
Knights Templar [Knights Templar]
Templar Church
Zionist [Zionist symbols Zionism]
Colorado Seal
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) This is a patch for a NRO spy-satellite launch. Those familiar with this site will probably recognize this Illuminati 101 symbolism: An unfinished pyramid topped by the All-Seeing Eye. This All-Seeing Eye requires help: it needs spy satellites to be even more all-seeing. "LMA" at the bottom right most likely refers to Lockheed Martin Aerospace, which is the ultimate Big Brother mega-company working with the CIA, NRO, NSA and IRS. Above the All-Seeing Eye is written "Supra Summus", which can be translated to "Most Superior and Highest", which, if nothing else, indicates a healthy level of self-esteem. Other NRO spy-satellite launches have also used similar designs. http://universalmysteries.co/secret-patches-from-the-black-opps-world/
Desert Prowler. Looks like whoever's in charge of the Desert Prowler program is spending as much time making patches as they are on the project! Here are a few more patches from this project (there are two in the book). The patch on the left says "Flight Test" on it, which is unlike other versions of the patch. The one on the right has lots of symbols on it. If you've read the book, you should be able to decode them! http://www.paglen.com
This patch comes from some sort of UAV that was/is funded through the BIG SAFARI program. The patch has the BIG SAFARI shield above the eyes. There are a couple of BIG SAFARI patches in the book. http://www.paglen.com
Illuminati Pyramid in Blagnac, France
Zion Olympics
Zion Olympics
911 symbology
2012 zion part 2 Here the closing ceremony/ countdown to 2012, 2008 Beijing Olympics
Bad Krozingen's civic coat of arms.
British guards armoured division patch
Israel. (Free Masons Square) in the city of Eilat
Currency [Currency symbolism]
Sanpaku eye USA Notice Lizard skin and eye position.
Police [Police]
Saudi Arabian Police
Berne Police Station. 33 links All seeing eye symbol 33 Sun, Sun Gods, Halo [vid] The Pharaoh Show [ENGLISH] (2 of 2)
Illuminati card game
Buffett, Warren
A Union Bank ad for EON card
LucasArts Lucas, George
OsiriX, Advanced Imaging in 3D/4D/5D
Sony Erickson ad http://youtu.be/up7Tx1UDgnc
[vid] PUMA Illuminati Commercial Lightning The pyramid eye theme is seen near the beginning and clearly seen at the end. At 48 seconds you will see the eye change. There are some psychological techniques used as well, such as the two women and one man wearing brightly coloured tops; they did this so that your brain doesn't pay attention to what is above them. The elite want their symbolism to enter your brain subliminally.
Internet provider Alice (owned by Telecom Italia 100%)
New Earth Army
Obey Clothing
A Solid Foundation
Cancer Research Campaign
Wellcome Foundation Winged-Sun-Disk Eagle Sun
Rx Allopathy Inc Rx' symbol used by pharmacies and in medicine
Lightning bolt
Live Earth
Bambaataa, Afrika
13th Floor Elevators
Aguilera, Christina
Apollo 440
Art vs. Science
Beth Ditto
Bizzy Bone
Boyd, Brandon
Boney M
The Celibate Rifles & The Seminal Rats
Celtic Frost
Chapelleir, Fred
Chemical Brothers
Cliff, Jimmy
David Cook
Cranberries, The. The Cranberries - Bury the Hatchet (1999)
Storm says: 'I was both suprised and heartened that the Cranberries chose the design at all ... the Cranberries had previously used pictures of themselves, often on a sofa. Our image was clearly a departure, not a sofa in sight. The second miracle arose after we decided that red earth was paramount to contrast with a blue sky, which had to be empty (ie cloudless, to echo the empty landscape and to emphasise that the All Seeing Eye can get you anywhere).'
Daft Punk
DC Talk
Dreyfus, Francis
Duran Duran
Dream Theater
Dynamix II
Earth, Wind and Fire
Elton John
Erickson, Roky
Exile Radio
Florence and the Machine
French Jeans
Glastonbury festival
Grateful Dead
GPKISM (Japanese goth group )
Hackett, Steve
Joe Gallant & his band, Illuminati.
Ministry (industrial metal band)
Irreligious Horus
Jah Fame
Jessie J
Jonas, Kevin
Killswitch Engage
King Crimson
Kravitz, Zoë Isabella
Lambert, Adam
Lana Del Ray
Little Dragon
Lopes, Lisa
Masonic Youth Mickey Mouse Satanic hand sign (Music)
Minaj, Nicki
Mobb Deep
Pine, Courtney
Pink Floyd
Portugal. The Man
Prinz Pi
Randam Luck
Ray 7
Santana, Carlos
Schirach, Otto von
Sci-Fi Industries
Smith, Michael (i2 Eye) Eye name on top of triangle/pyramid. http://themurkynews.blogspot.com/2008/03/wolves-in-sheeps-clothing-research.html
Ssion (Cody Critcheloe)
Jeffree Star
Stewart, Dave
Syd Arthur
Urban, Keith
VH1. The stage of VH1's Diva Celebration. http://vigilantcitizen.com/pics-of-the-month/symbolic-pics-of-the-month-0112/
Walter Meego
Wavvez (King of the Beach)
White Stripes (You Don't Know What Love Is )
Williams, Robbie
Marco Aldany
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Fashion [Fashion Fashion symbolism]
Daphne Guiness
Model Ana Buljevic
Beth Ditto
Campbell, Naomi
Richardson, Terry shoot
Versace All seeing eye symbol [vid] THE VERY BEST OF VERSACE for H&M Winter 2011 (Spot)
Obey Clothing
"Cult of the Serpent" tee shirt being sold at Macy's department stores.
One Show
Art Bell
Magazine covers
Time covers July 20, 1953
Film covers
Brothers War
Clash of the Titans
Clockwork Orange
Eyes Wide Shut
The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
Lord of the Rings
Men who Stare at Goats
Pan's Labrinth
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Film, TV content
Agent Cody Banks
Movie: Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Band leader's name, "Pie-eye". Duke Ellington as Pie-eye leads a jazz band.
Back to the future
Bad Boys 2
Being There (1979)
Brazil (1985)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 2 (1997/1998)
Promo for new NBC mid-season series "The Cape".
Cité des enfants perdus, La (1995)
Movie: Citizen Kane (1941)
Conan the Barbarian
Movie: Desperately seeking Susan (1985)
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Bank manager Allard Pease, played by Bob Gunton, tells Dolores Claiborne, played by Kathy Bates, that her ex-husband has emptied their joint savings account. She replies: "Either he's buried it in a mason jar in the back yard or else he's opened up a new account."
Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century (1953)
Movie: El topo (1970)
Erin Brockovich (2000)
The cornerstone of the Barstow Courthouse displays a square and compasses.
The Flintstones
Episode 49. "Impractical Joker" First aired: 2/9/1962. Writer: Warren Foster. Director: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
Movie: Gangs of New York (2002)
Peter Gunn
Craig Stevens (Peter Gunn), Lola Albright (Edie Hart), Herschel Bernardi (Lieutenant Jacoby), Bill Chadney (Emmett), Hope Emerson (Mother). Season one, episode 2: "Streetcar Jones" (9/29/1958).
Movie: The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
Movie: Hard Core Logo (1996)
Movie: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
Lara Croft movie http://youtu.be/maUiHJYT0SU
Movie: Let's Do It Again (1975)
Movie: Mad Max III Beyond Thunderdome
Movie: The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
Movie: A Mormon Maid (1917)
Movie: Mystery Men (1999)
Movie: Ocean's 11 (1960) depicted in a funeral home catering to all denominations and faiths.
Prime Suspect 2
First aired: 12/15/1992.
The Prisoner
Episode 10: "A Change of Mind
Quantum of Solace
Samurai Jack (2003)
Samurai Jack. Season 3, Episode 13: Jack and the Labyrinth [XXXIX] 26 August 2003.
Movie: A scanner darkly (2006)
Movie: Sennen joyu / Millenium actress (2001)
Film: Sherlock Holmes http://www.pakalertpress.com/2010/02/20/the-occult-dajjali-symbolism-of-sherlock-holmes/
Movie: a shot in the dark (1964)
The Simpsons "Last Exit to Springfield" (1993) The Simpsons "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" (1993) "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" 514 1F012. Original Airdate: 2/17/94
The Simpsons, Season 4 Episode 76, March 11, 1993
The Simpsons "Burns' Heir" (1994)
"Burns' Heir". Original airdate: 14 April 1994
South Park
Spirited Away / Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
Peter Gunn
Craig Stevens (Peter Gunn), Lola Albright (Edie Hart), Herschel Bernardi (Lieutenant Jacoby), Bill Chadney (Emmett), Hope Emerson (Mother). Season one, episode 2: "Streetcar Jones" (9/29/1958).
Superfly (1972)
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
Movie: Twentieth Century (1934)
Movie: Twilight of Ice nymphs (1997)
The Twilight Zone (1964)
"Black Leather Jackets." Episode 138 (Season 5, Episode 18), January 31, 1964.
Robin Williams: Live on Broadway (2002) (TV)
Movie: Under the Volcano (1984)
TV logos
House of Anubis
Channel 5 "Big Brother" series
Vin Diesel
Roberts, Julia Snake
Ward, Gemma All seeing eye symbol
Religion [Luciferian symbols]
Gold pectoral cross worn by John XXIII with 'eye and triangle'.
Catholic church in Poland
Stained Glass Window in The White House Chapel Washington
"One Nation Under God" Notice George Washington on bended knee before the Great Seal
Catholic church in Zamosciu, Poland
Masonic triangle and Horus eye in a Catholic church
Triangle and Horus eye in Vilnius
Triangle and Horus eye on Orthodox altar
all-seeing eye of Horus, in a Catholic church. Coming out of the sun.
Piazza del Popolo in Rome
painted on the ceiling of the Orthodox Cathedral of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Eye of Horus on lintel of The Church of Anunciation in Nazareth
Eye of Horus over altar in the Church of Anunciation in Nazareth
front door of the Manila Cathedral in Intramuros
The eye of Osiris in a sexigesimal triangle on a Roman Catholic confessional in Milano, Italy. http://amazinghealth.com/albums/a/40/Symbols-of-the-gods
The all-seeing eye in the triangle shown on a wall in a Catholic cathedral. http://amazinghealth.com/albums/a/40/Symbols-of-the-gods
evil eye of Osiris is found on this Roman Catholic pulpit in Paris, France. http://amazinghealth.com/albums/a/40/Symbols-of-the-gods
Here we see the evil eye watching worshipers perched high above from the apex of the dome in the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
The Pagan eye of Osiris is found on this pendant that is used by a Roman Catholic youth group in the Philippines.
Pentagram Sun Triangle Pentagram Snake
Mormon [Mormon]
Salt Lake Temple.
Church History Museum across west temple street in Salt Lake City. It was built in the mid 1980's.
Authors and book covers
The frontispiece of The History of the World by Sir Walter Raleigh, published in 1614, is on display in the Tower of London. Thousands file past it every day, missing the Satanic Baphomet goat's head hidden in its design and other coded messages.
King, Stephen
Comics [Comic books]
Building/garden design
Israel Supreme Court
Parc de Bruxelles
Illuminati Pyramid in Blagnac, France
St. Andrew Sq., Edinburgh
GCHQ Albert G. Mackey, A Manual of the Lodge (New York: Charles E. Merrill Company, 1870): 56: "The point within the circle is an interesting and important symbol in Freemasonry...the symbol is really a beautiful but somewhat abstruse allusion to the old sun-worship, and introduces us for the first time to that modification of it, among the ancients as the worship of the phallus." http://amazingdiscoveries.org/albums/
The 2008 Beijing stadium called the "birds nest":
Campbell, Naomi new Eco house in Turkey
Century City http://www.secretsinplainsight.com/2011/07/04/all-seeing-eye-pyramid-in-century-city/
Hampton Court, the home of King Henry VIII.
United States Capitol
Germany's Supreme Court at Karlsruhe


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Studio Ghibli's beautiful new film The Tale of Princess Kaguya will come to America on October 17th, with the voice of Chloe Moretz as Kaguya. Based on the classic Japanese folk tale of the bamboo cutter, Kaguya was directed by Isao Takahata and will be released by Gkids, likely just in time for awards consideration.
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Liberal Arts, written and directed by Josh Radnor, tells the story of Jesse Fisher (also played by Radnor), a newly single university admissions counselor in his mid-thirties, who returns to his college alma mater for a retirement dinner honoring his favorite teacher (Richard Jenkins). While there, he not only comes across some rather unique characters, like the zen Nat (Zac Efron) and the brooding young depressive Dean (John Magaro), but also 19-year-old undergrad Zibby (Elizabeth Olsen), for whom he is both attracted to and torn about their age difference.
During this recent exclusive phone interview with Collider, Josh Radnor talked about what inspired Liberal Arts, what made co-stars Elizabeth Olsen and Elizabeth Reaser the perfect actresses for their roles, where he personally stands on the debate of whether you should read to be entertained or read to be enriched, and how filmmaking is equal parts challenging and enjoyable. He also talked about currently developing his next project, his desire to work on things that feel both professionally exciting and personally relevant, being in a confusing place with his TV show How I Met Your Mother (starting its eighth season on September 24th) because none of the cast or crew know if this is going to be the last season or not, and that it would be a real shame, if things weren't wrapped up properly. Check out what he had to say after the jump.
Collider: How did Liberal Arts come about? Was it something that you'd been thinking about writing for awhile?
JOSH RADNOR: It was inspired by a trip to Kenyon College, my alma mater where we shot the movie and where I went to show Happythankyoumoreplease a few years ago. It was just one of those times where you realize that you're considerably older than you were when you were in college, and you're considerably older than the rest of the students there. It was a little confusing for me and slightly unsettling, and I just came up with this idea of a guy who hadn't gotten over college and has a pretty uninspiring job and things aren't quite working out for him, when he's 35. He's idealized his college experience and goes back to speak at his favorite professor's retirement dinner, and meets and falls for this 19-year-old sophomore. And I started to think, "What would that do to someone?" I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level. The movie became a piece about aging and nostalgia and change, and all sorts of things that I didn't know it was going to be about. But, it was a great thrill to be able to write about this collegiate world that I knew very well.
Was there ever a version where Jesse wasn't torn over his attraction to Zibby?
RADNOR: Well, his inner resistance and the torment he goes through was always something that I knew was going to be a part of it. I don't want to give too much away, but a lot of movies are about justifying why he can be with her, and this movie is not that movie. The thing about the character of Zibby, that Elizabeth Olsen plays, is that she's not just this 19-year-old who charms him. She also represents something to him that he's longing for. There were a few lines that were cut, that I actually rather liked, but they just had to go because they were in scenes that had to go. But, there was this running gag about how he never could have gotten a girl like that when he was there, and that she wouldn't have paid him much attention, if they were in school, at the same time. I think that that's fueling it a little bit. She's the most sparkly, most charming girl in any room she's in and she's interested in him, and that really affects him.
All of the characters in the film really bring out different pieces of Jesse, through their interactions with each other. What was it about Elizabeth Olsen that made her the perfect Zibby, and then finding the perfect contrast to that with Elizabeth Reaser?
RADNOR: Well, both roles are delicate, in terms of having to be played right, or something would be off in the movie. Elizabeth Reaser's part has to be charming enough and really get across to the audience that she's a wonderful match for this guy because you spend 85% of the movie building up this relationship between these other two people. Hopefully, on some level, even though there's that age difference, the audience is rooting for Jesse and Zibby to be together. I've known Elizabeth Reaser for years. She was at Juilliard when I was at NYU. We've been friends for a long time, and I've always wanted to work with her. When I wrote this role, she was in L.A. and I was in Ohio, prepping the movie. We just had a Skype call and I remembered how much I liked talking to her. We really make each other laugh. I just figured that part of our dynamic would be translating to the screen, and I think that's correct because I'm thoroughly charmed by her performance in the movie.
And I share an agent with Lizzie Olsen. When I got an early draft of the script to our agent, she told me about Lizzie and said, "She's your Zibby, trust me," and this was before she had her big, splashy debut at Sundance with Martha Marcy May Marlene. So, I met Lizzie and I thought she was really perfect, and she was very keen on doing the movie. When things are right, there's an effortlessness that takes over, and it was that way with Lizzie. A lot of people think I wrote the role for her because she so embodies the character, but I wrote the role, and then she came on and I'm intensely grateful she did. I can't imagine anyone else in the part.
Without referencing any specific books, where do you personally stand on the debate of whether you should read to be entertained or read to be enriched?
RADNOR: I'm not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I'm told it should be good for me, I'll put it down. That said, most of what I read would be considered high-end or good for you, I suppose. But, I also think that reading should be enjoyable. The sweet spot, for me, is something that's both enjoyable and feels nourishing, but doesn't feel like junk food. That said, when I was writing that argument, I think that Zibby wins that argument. She demolishes Jesse and reveals him to be a cultural snob, for no reason other than just being a snob. I also think that, given what teenagers could be doing these days, in terms of entertainment, there's something touching about a kid who's reading a book that's printed on actual paper. I know that I didn't start off reading quality literature, and I found my way to it just because I developed a love of reading. So, I think that anything that kids start reading, within reason, can lead to other discoveries. I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life. I think it's interesting to argue about books, and I wanted to make a movie that treated reading with great seriousness.
As you learn more about how all this works, with each film that you make, does it get any easier or does it just make you realize how difficult and all-consuming it is?
RADNOR: Well, I think it's, at once, as difficult as they say it is and it's also more enjoyable than people tell you it is. There's all these stories about directors losing their minds and screaming and having temper tantrums. I've just found that I enjoy this process so much. Even during the really, really hard days, in the midst of it, there's this internal thrill, in the dorkiest way, that's like, "Oh, my god, we're making a movie! How cool is that?! What a great thing to do with your day, to work on a movie." My cinematographer, Seamus Tierney, is really enthusiastic, in a very childlike way, about what he does. Just being around him, he's just never happier than when he's on a movie set, shooting. It's infectious, and it taught me a lot about how great it is to make movies. But, each film is difficult, in its own particular way. There's a unique set of challenges on every movie. It is all-consuming and I would never say that it's not difficult, but there's also a great joy to it that I don't think people talk about as much.
When you're on a TV show, for as long as you have been with How I Met Your Mother, does it become that tug-of-war between wanting to move on to other things, but also knowing that those opportunities wouldn't be there without the success of the show?
RADNOR: Yeah, 100%. You don't really want to turn your back on the thing that gave you the other opportunities, anyway. None of us have suffered from being on that show. All of us have gotten a great boost. Also, we've had time to do other things. I wrote, directed and starred in two films, in the last few years, and it's because of the schedule we have on the show that I was allowed to and was able to do that.
Are you starting to see an endgame, at this point, or are you still excited about where the show is going?
RADNOR: You know, we're in such a confusing place because none of us know if the show is going to be ending this year or not. I think the writers really need to know more than we need to know because they need to start either wrapping things up or keeping the story going. If a deal could be struck for everyone, that made it attractive for everyone including the writers to keep going, then we'll see what happens. The studio has only recently engaged us in talks about it, so when we were asked about it, we really had nothing to report because no one had come to us yet.
And you want to be able to have that closure for your loyal fans.
RADNOR: Yeah. There's such a high degree of investment in the show, that I think it would be a real shame, if it was wrapped up in anything other than the most elegant fashion.
When you only have a small window between seasons to do other work, have you already started to think about what you'd like to do for your next film?
RADNOR: Yeah, I started taking notes and doing little sketches of scenes. That's what I do. I get the idea and I start thinking about the characters. I just daydream about it a lot and I let the characters formulate. The next step is to get them talking a little bit. I'll think of scenes or scenarios, and then start writing. Hopefully, something vivid starts to emerge, and then it's time to put it in a better shape. That's where I'm at, right now. I'm definitely in the early stages of something. I'm excited about this new one. I don't really want to say anything about it 'cause I'm superstitious, but hopefully there's something coming soon.
Is there a type of movie or a genre that you'd love to work or write it, but haven't had the chance to do yet?
RADNOR: It's interesting 'cause I love watching all sorts of different types of movies, but that doesn't mean they're necessarily movies I want to be making. I'm really interested in what's going on right now. Modern stories are interesting to me. I want to make some sense of what's going on right now, both individually and collectively. I'm not sitting around saying, "Man, I'd really love to direct a western." That's just not something I'm probably going to do, mostly because I'm allergic to horses. But, I'm just looking to work on things that both feel professionally exciting and personally relevant.
Liberal Arts opens in theaters on September 14th. How I Met Your Mother returns for Season 8 on CBS on September 24th.


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Dynamic Domain Properties
compile "org.grails.plugins:dynamic-domain-properties:0.2"
grails install-plugin dynamic-domain-properties
This plugin enables domain classes to take on arbitrary properties. These properties don't have to be consistent across different instances, which lets you have (almost) arbitrary data attached to any given instance of a domain class. If you're considering spewing many child classes all over your domain to represent various different types of the same superclass, consider this plugin's approach instead.If you're used to/excited about schema-less persistence stores like CouchDB, you can think of this plugin as giving you all that same functionality while acting within a SQL context.This plugin also gives something vaguely akin to Rails's
has_many_through via its delegating usage.The basic implementation detail of this plugin is that there is a new domain class (DynamicProperty) which stores the dynamic properties in the database in a fairly human-readable way.
InstallationSee the installation tab above.
SimpleGiven this class:
You can then assign (almost) arbitrary values to arbitrary properties:
class Simpleton { static dynamicProperties = true }
def me = new Simpleton() me.foo = "Foo!" me.baz = [ list:[1,2,3], map:[robertFischer:'http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/'], domainObject:new Simpleton() ] me.save() // Now persisted to the database
DelegatingGiven these classes:
You can then assign (almost) arbitrary values to arbitrary properties on Simpleton and Delegator, and you can also set
class Simpleton { static dynamicProperties = true String reifiedProperty }class Delegator { static dynamicProperties = ['delegateTo'] Simpleton delegateTo }
reifiedProperty via the parent Delegator instance.
// Retrieve delegate's dynamic property value def me = new Delegator() me.delegateTo = new Simpleton() me.delegateTo.foo = "Foo!" assertEquals "Foo!", me.foo
// Set delegate's reified property value def me = new Delegator() me.delegateTo = new Simpleton() me.reifiedProperty = "Yup, reified!" assertEquals "Yup, reified!", me.delegateTo.reifiedProperty
New GORM MethodsThis plugin is primarily focused on the handling of the dynamic properties via propertyMissing. But if you're curious about more dynamic property details, there are a few new methods you can try out.Instances of GORM classes that have a Groovy-true "dynamicProperties" property will gain the following instance methods.
- hasDynamicProperties() — Returns true if the domain class has dynamic properties. Returns false otherwise. This method (returning false) is added to the Object class, so you can query everything.
- getLocalDynamicProperties() — Gets the DynamicProperty instances for this instance.
- addLocalDynamicProperty(DynamicProperty) — Adds a new DynamicProperty expressly on this instance (does not delegate, does not validate DynamicProperty).
- addLocalDynamicProperty(String, Object) — Adds a new local dynamic property (does not delegate, does not validate).
- getLocalDynamicProperty(String) — Gets the DynamicProperty instance for the give name, returning null if there isn't one.
- setLocalDynamicProperty(String,Object) — Sets or adds the local dynamic property with the given name to the given value.
- hasProperty(String) — Returns true if the instance (or its delegate) has a given property; returns false otherwise. No distinction is made between reified and dynamic properties.
- getLocalDynamicPropertiesMap() — Provides an unmodifiable map of property names onto property values for this instance's local dynamic properties.
- getLocalDynamicPropertyValue(String) — Gets the value of the local dynamic property with the given name (returning null if there is no property with the given name).
- hasLocalDynamicProperty(String) — Returns true if the instance has a local dynamic property with the given name.
- getDynamicPropertyValue(String) — Returns the value of the given dynamic property, querying delegates if need be.
- setDynamicPropertyValue(String, Object) — Sets the value of the given dynamic property, setting on delegates if need be.
Allowed Property Type DetailsThe following types are allowed to be dynamic properties:
- Primitive Types and their wrappers
- null
- Class
- Domain classes
- Any implementation of Collection
- Any implementation of Map (a Map is not a Collection in Java)
- Any class which has a static
fromString(String)method that can parse a call to
toString()and return an object of the same type.
More Info
RepositoryThe source repository for this project is on GitHub:https://github.com/vk77/Dynamic-Domain-Properties
Demo AppTo see how this plugin in action, pull down the GitHub repository, and then look into the
BasicUsage app. Take a look at the domain classes, and then see
./test/integration/BasicUsageTests.groovy for a demonstration of how the basic usage works.Note: the original plugin code that's Grails 1.2 compatible is here http://github.com/RobertFischer/Dynamic-Domain-Properties (+)


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Marketing Manager, Munich
At BCG, Explorers are unafraid to embark on new journeys. They try new solutions to untangle complex problems and drive transformational change. Stefan has the courage to take action.
A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.
BCG gives me the opportunity to combine my academic with my practical background. Besides the organizational part of event management, I am also responsible for the strategic approach of BCG events as well as the content of BCG's client events—the "big picture."
Additionally, I very much enjoy working together with BCG partners. They treat you with respect and they see you as a sparring partner and as an intellectually equal person.
Stefan holds a degree in business administration from University of Applied Sciences in Munich, as well as a hotel business apprenticeship.
Q: What do you like most about your job?
A: There are so many inspiring people at BCG with different backgrounds and diverse competences: diversity at its best. In my opinion, this is the ideal basis for being creative and innovative, which is essential for my job: designing and improving the event portfolio that BCG offers its clients.
Q: What is a typical day like for you?
A: The event management tasks I have to achieve every day vary a lot—from texting an invitation to finding the ideal speaker or choosing the best location. I also often have to react fast on current events politically as well as economically. Plus, the hierarchy within BCG is quite flat, and decisions are made quickly. This makes my days at BCG different every day, as well as unpredictable.
Q: How has BCG helped you grow and succeed?
A: BCG challenges you all the time and gets out the best of you. Good is never good enough, when you want to succeed within the best premium consultancy. In addition, there is also a great and constantly changing range of trainings for hard and social skills, which support your professional development.


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|The Capitol Cove complex in Providence, R.I. was repositioned, changing
from 96 private condos to Johnson & Wales University student housing.
22. Commercial Properties Repositioned for University USE
Tocci Building Companies is finding success in repositioning commercial properties for university use, and it expects the trend to continue. The firm's Capital Cove project in Providence, R.I., for instance, was originally designed by Elkus Manfredi (with design continued by HDS Architects) to be a mixed-use complex with private, market-rate condominiums. The economy stalled those plans. The economy is also stalling university projects, preventing much-needed student housing from going up. The nation's colleges and universities have the capacity to house only about 25% of students, and since enrollment has a history of rising during a recession, the highered housing crunch could get much worse. Johnson & Wales University saw a solution to its housing shortage by leasing the 96-unit Capital Cove complex, locating students in Providence's historic Capitol District and in close proximity to public transportation, shopping, and cultural attractions. The university also sees the upscale property and its urban setting providing a s
|Six previously stalled Value Place hotels are being completed by Englewood Construction's new distressed property division.
23. Distressed Property Division Targets Stalled Projects
As a result of the slumping economy, there's a glut of distressed, semi-completed properties that started deteriorating soon after construction halted. Seeing an opportunity in helping banks or new investor owners salvage, complete, and reposition these languishing properties, Englewood Construction of Schiller Park, Ill., launched a distressed property division. The GC is licensed in 48 states, which gives clients a single firm and single point of contact to navigate the complexities of many different jurisdictional authorities, damage analysis, and cost estimates endemic to distressed properties. The new division's first contract involves completing six Value Place hotels in four states (Iowa, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Ohio), each one in a different stage of construction. The work involved in completing the Value Place hotels, which are all four-story properties averaging 121 rooms and 42,000 sf, adds approximately 100 construction jobs per building and, once open for business, the hotels will start cont
24. Bundle Communications and Data Services for Major Savings
We've all seen the TV commercials for AT&T and Comcast selling the cost advantages of bundling phone, cable, and Internet services. Shane Ketterman, network engineer and administrator with ZGF Architects, applied similar logic when searching for ways to cut costs and streamline communications at the 473-employee Portland, Ore., firm.
Ketterman found a partner in PATEC Holding Corp. to develop a customized solution to bundle and transmit all voice, video, Internet, and data services using a dedicated radio frequency line instead of traditional wire distribution. Radio antennas mounted on the roof of each of the firm's five offices transmit and receive voice/data three times faster than before, and at a fraction of the cost. Ketterman's solution will save ZGF $320,000 this year alone.
"Transmitting data via radio waves is much more cost effective and allows greater flexibility for increased bandwidth and additional services as the needs of the business change," says Ketterman. His solution is also much more reliable than traditional delivery methods—the dedicated FCC radio frequency cannot be interrupted or jammed—and it requires le
25. Revit Boot Camp
Patrick Callahan, AIA, LEED AP, a principal with StudioGC, Chicago, leads a group of interns from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the firm's "Revit Boot Camp." The month-long workshop provided eight UIUC architecture students with four hours of unpaid BIM training in the morning, followed by four hours of paid studio work in the afternoon. "I thought I knew Revit, but they really showed us how much it could do, how robust it was," said Caroline VanAcker, a junior from Palatine, Ill. Front row, left to right: Kimberly Wiskup, VanAcker, Christiana Symeonides, Fadi Salem, Daniel Martin. Back row: Maria Nikoloski (obscured), Jacob Oostema. Not pictur
26. Keep Your Subcontractors Happy and Save Big Bucks
As part of a companywide commitment to improve relationships with subcontractors, Farmington, Conn.-based KBE Building Corp. (formerly Konover Construction) developed a custom online resource center that provides 24-hour, real-time access to payment status, insurance information, compliance forms, and project details for subcontractors and KBE staff.
"Subs were frustrated with the length of time to get paid, and would frequently call for payment status and other information," says John Patterson, information architect with KBE and developer of the online resource center. He says KBE staff spent hours on the phone daily answering calls, returning calls, and fulfilling requests from subs, costing the company thousands of dollars a month in personnel costs.
After launching the resource center in late 2006, the company saw an immediate 75% reduction in phone calls, in addition to fewer faxes and mailings. Patterson estimates a productivity gain of 25%, saving the company $100,000 annually.


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THE SUSTAINABILITY OF SUPERINTENDENT-LED REFORMS TO IMPROVE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT by Rick Edward Bagley ____________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION December 2012 Copyright 2012 Rick Edward Bagley
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|The purpose of this research was threefold. First, the study explored the possible relationship between the tenure of public school district superintendents and the sustain-ability of their reform efforts to improve student achievement. Second, the study com-pared superintendents' perceptions of factors supporting or impeding sustainability of their reforms to elements identified in research. Third, the study sought to determine the extent, if any, to which superintendents considered sustainability when initiating reforms. A mixed-methods design was employed to combine theoretical and technical components of qualitative and quantitative analysis. Quantitative data from 51 southern California superintendents were collected via an online survey. Four southern California superin-tendents and 1 northern California superintendent were interviewed to obtain qualitative data. Analysis of the data indicated that, while the superintendents perceived a strong correlation between their tenure and reform sustainability, they noted that this correlation diminishes over time as reforms gain traction through broader support and acceptance. With regard to current reforms within their school districts, the superintendents recog-nized some but not all of the eight research-based elements deemed necessary for long-term sustainability. Finally, the data indicated that the superintendents considered sustainability when initiating reforms and were highly optimistic about their reforms lasting the test of time despite research and experience that might indicate otherwise. Implica¬tions for practice included efforts to minimize position turnover through differentiated strategies for recruitment and selection of superintendents, targeted
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On raising a son on the autism spectrum, progressive politics, pop culture, and coffee addiction.
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Sounds fishy to me
We were getting ready for bed, and Bud insisted that he wanted a bedtime snack. Spying telltale crumbs of American cheese stuck to his cheek, I pointed out that he'd already helped himself to a bedtime snack and I told him that he'd had enough for the night.
"But I'm hungry, Mama," he said.
"Sorry, Bud," I said.
"I want a SNACK," he implored.
"You're all done for today," I answered.
"PLEASE, Mama!" he pleaded.
"NO, Bud," I insisted.
Frustrated, he let out a low growl, pushed past me, stomped into the next room, and grumbled with exasperation, "Jesus Mackerel, you make me crazy!"
Jesus Mackerel?
Do you suppose that he meant to say -
Ah, never mind. I don't think I want to know.
19 comments:
This is great. Reminds me of my friend's child calling her a "little basket!" I'd say it's progress in a way.
- April 09, 2008 11:20 PM
- Jenn said...
I'd take Jesus Mackarel over what my 4 yr old said this morning. He dropped the f-bomb. A major no-no in our house.
- April 09, 2008 11:50 PM
- kristina said...
Fishy but, well, some other words can get a bit......fishier.
- April 09, 2008 11:53 PM
I read another mom's blog who just recently wrote about her 5 year old and her use of "God Damage". She wasn't quite sure how to respond, so she chose not to and enjoyed a quiet chuckle to herself.
- April 10, 2008 12:01 AM
- J said...
J's version of this is, "Oh, Barnacles!"
- April 10, 2008 12:39 AM
I think Jesus Mackerel is HILARIOUS. Our then two year old dropped the F word on us. Seems one of her little preschool classmates had... teenaged siblings!
I was trying to get her to hold her foot still so I could put on her sock. "Hold still,"I told her. She gave me a face full of perfect attitude and said, "F THAT!!"
I almost fell down the stairs.
Thankfully, that didn't reappear til she hit middle school.
- April 10, 2008 1:26 AM
Oh yes, we've had the fabulous F-word bandied about with all the appropriate attitude included. I'll take Jesus Mackarel over that any day of the week.
- April 10, 2008 7:02 AM
My son sometimes gets frustrated with me when I'm on the computer and he will go tell his mother "The pig is on the computer". I don't know where that came from but it was funny, the first couple of times.
- April 10, 2008 8:03 AM
- Drama Mama said...
I am totally stealing that.
Love him.
- April 10, 2008 8:57 AM
- Ange said...
ha! Bubba has taken to saying "Grommit!" when frustrated. I have no idea what that means. Moosie has been saying "Crap!" I think, but he has trouble with p's, so it comes out an innocent "Crab-uh!"
It's all fun and games 'til we're at a crowded place in public. ;)
- April 10, 2008 9:15 AM
- Niksmom said...
ROFL! Um, that is until I read the comments and realize that I am in some serious trouble when Nik starts talking. He's already got the attitude-intonation down! Sigh...
- April 10, 2008 9:35 AM
just take it for what it is. J siad his first curse during bible class! and there was no mistaking what he said...."God Da*n"
We don't say any thing remotely like that at home, I know it was from his severe echolalic period so he could have gotten it from anywhere but most likely TV.
- April 10, 2008 2:39 PM
- Daisy said...
So clever!
- April 10, 2008 5:16 PM
- mommy~dearest said...
Oh yes, I would take Jesus Mackerel over my son's latest. It's "what the fuck?"
But he says it real slow so you hear every syllable. It's like, "what the fuuuuuuck?"
Honestly, I don't know where he fuckin' got that one. ;)
- April 10, 2008 7:23 PM
- Maggie Rosethorn said...
Just a suggestion for all you moms of young children that worked great for me (our daycare provider taught it to me). When a kid starts saying objectionable language, DON'T react. Simply take his/her hand and walk to the bathroom, instructing him/her that "potty language belongs in the bathroom, not out here" Then walk away. Repeat as needed, but they get bored with it quickly because mom/dad/caregiver isn't giving any feedback, either positive or negative.
It worked great for me and all my friends who have tried it.
- April 10, 2008 7:58 PM
My then-3-year-old son was at his cousin's bat mitzvah and was not happy with having to eat a meal before dessert was served. He announced, loudly enough for many to hear, "I want some f---ing cake." We never did figure out where he had learned that word. DH and I are not angels, but I don't think we'd used the F-bomb around him.
Ah, memories. :-)
- April 12, 2008 1:19 PM
- David said...
Thanks for sharing this adorable new curse mom-nos! And blessings to your commenters for their fun curses too. I think I might try using jeezis mackerel and god damage at work as soon as I get the chance!
- April 14, 2008 6:31 PM
In my quest to someday speak only in "Budisims" because he seems to have the ability to vocalize feelings/responses I often have much more eloquently than I ever could... I now find myself with a vocabulary full of wonderful "bad word" alternatives. My life, my speech, and my expletives will never be the same again. Next time I stub my toe there is sure to be a tirade of "God Damage!! Jesus Mackarel!! BASKET!! Barnacles!! GROMMIT!!!!" Thank you Bud and thank you other brilliant friends... From the mouth of babes.
- April 16, 2008 11:53 PM
Stumbled upon your blog. Just wanted to say, Jesus Mackerel, this post cracked me up.
- April 23, 2008 9:43 PM


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As Venezuela mourns its lost leader Huge Chávez, Alasdair Baverstock describes the mood in Caracas and reflects on the country's reputation abroad.
Twelve hours after President Hugo Chávez died, the central square of Caracas was still occupied by his red-clad supporters. Through the television lens, broadcasting into homes around the world, the scene looked terrifying. Waving their arms and stomping their feet, the bereaved chavistas shouted out socialist chants, screaming "Long Live Chávez!" as grown men wailed openly beside them, for as far and as wide as the frame could see.
From where I was standing, just out of frame, the group was an annoyance rather than a riot risk. The crowd of perhaps fifty people followed the cameras wherever they went, competing to put on the most extravagant hysterics in order to have the news channel director point their cameramen towards them.
All photos by Alasdair Baverstock
As I spoke to the Chávez supporters about the death of their long-absent leader, others would join the queue to be next to talk to me, to shout into my recording equipment their radical views which I would later write down and send to my editors at the national newspapers, hungry for yet more Venezuelan madness. "It's for this reason, this fervour, this courting of a dangerous image bordering on insanity", I thought to myself, "that no tourists ever come to Venezuela".
Away from the zealous exhibitionism, Caracas was in a somber mood. People didn't want to talk to me about the future of Venezuelan socialism for my stories, they wanted to tell me about their personal grief at having lost what one resident described as "a part of herself". Speaking from Chacao, a district affiliated with neither political persuasion, Marela Contreras told me "It's a very great pain, he was part of us, we were part of him. My soul is hurting". There was no violence in Caracas, as the news channels portrayed, only hurt.
On the night Chávez's death was announced, I was on the streets of Caracas. The mood was not one of anger - although gunshots had been heard in the pro-Chávez western barrios immediately after the announcement - but of quiet contemplation. One anti-Chávez resident, José Sardinia, speaking from opposition stronghold Altamira in eastern Caracas told me, "today the country has lost the greatest man who ever appeared in Venezuela". Extremely high praise given the vitriolic hatred which emanated from those districts when the leader was alive.
I originally started work in Venezuela as a Rough Guides author to the country and seeing up closing an entire nation, as a job such as guidebook writing enforces, teaches one to appreciate all aspects of the culture. Venezuela is a country that lends itself to tourism with all its weight, boasting gorgeous people, distinctive food, a passion for partying and one of the widest ranges of physical beauty found anywhere. It was now that I found myself, as a foreign correspondent in the capital, aiding the country in perpetuating the dreadful international reputation that keeps the tourists away. The same reputation that made my father, on the phone from active service in Iraq years before, tell me "Alasdair, don't go to Venezuela. Hugo Chávez is not good news".
The amazement with which the western world received the news last October that Chávez had won yet another election, and by a considerable margin, displayed the misunderstanding that we have of Venezuela.
Chávez came to power in 1999 after an immensely corrupt government was ousted by a military coup. The then-imprisoned officer, who had spend the previous two years in prison following a failed military coup, was remembered for his speech to the nation from the presidential palace in Miraflores, Caracas before he was taken away to prison. He said to his nation, sincerely and honestly, looking into the camera as the chavistas throughout Caracas today have learned, "we have failed in our attempts. For now".
If Chávez's death encourages more visitors to the country, then the boost it will give the ailing economy and the education of international affairs it will bring to her people can only be a good thing. If there's a general trend of global tourism, it's that first the adventurers arrive, the backpackers follow, and then the parents of the backpackers bring up the rear, jealous of their children and keen to visit to a country which they describe as accessible. Venezuela is still stuck firmly in the first category. So if you're a backpacker, could you promote yourself to adventurer? Colombian tourism is booming, and the country is perfectly positioned to supply its neighbour with a steady stream of backpackers.
Chávez represented the voice of the people, to the people who listened to him. After years of oppression as Venezuela's vast oil reserves made the few capitalists richer, Chávez was a breath of fresh air. He came to power and began giving things to people who had nothing before, for free. He appeared every Sunday on his weekly television program Alo Presidente, when he would sort out people's problems live over the phone and wax lyrical for hours at a time.
He postured mightily against "the imperialists", the American government who he blamed for the immense suffering throughout the country before he came to power. Chávez was loved throughout Venezuela, and once we come to grips with the full force of the adulation felt towards the controversial leader, the immense grief that the country is feeling, and the shock of having lost so great a character, then we can begin to see why those Chavistas were crying in front of the cameras, because they were crying behind them too.
Explore one of the least-visited countries in South America in The Rough Guide To South America On A Budget.
Have you explored Venezuela? What were your impressions of the country and its people?


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In the first video (sorry we can't embed it) Robert Pattinson talks his very nonathletic self could beat Taylor and the worst part of trying for six-pack abs. Taylor responded to the thought of being sat on here.
In the second video (10 minutes long which is UNHEARD OF) rob dishes his dream wedding and more.
What do you think of Rob's signature humor here?


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Psychosis is a severe mental illness, characterized by hallucinations, delusions, social withdrawal and a loss of contact with reality. Genetics and environment, including emotional or physical trauma, can both play a role in its development.
The Penn researchers assessed the brain behavior of a cohort of about 10,000 patients between the ages of eight and 21 at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia from November 2009 to November 2011, including 2,321 who reported psychotic symptoms. Of those, 1,423 reported significant psychotic symptoms, 898 had limited psychotic symptoms, and 1,963 were typically developing children with no psychotic, mental or any medical disorders.
Researchers administered a structured psychiatric evaluation, looking for symptoms of psychosis, anxiety, mood, attention-deficit, disruptive behavior and eating disorders; for the younger children, independent interviews with their caregivers were also conducted. The team also administered 12 computerized neurocognitive tests to evaluate each child's brain development across five domains: executive function, testing abstraction and mental flexibility, attention and working memory; episodic memory, testing knowledge of words, faces and shapes; complex cognition, evaluating verbal and nonverbal reasoning and spatial processing; social cognition, looking at emotion identification, intensity differentiation and age estimation; and sensorimotor speed, to understand the workings of their motor and sensorimotor skills.
The results were analyzed to predict chronological age for each child.
They showed that those with the most extreme psychotic symptoms had a lower chronological than predicted age, compared with the typically-developing group and the group with other psychiatric symptoms. They also had a greater developmental lag than the psychosis-limited group, with the lags most pronounced for complex cognition and social cognition and smallest for sensorimotor speed.
"Broken down further, we found that boys on the psychosis spectrum showed an early decline in memory, complex and social understanding, compared with typically developing children, while girls showed minimal lag in memory across all ages groups, with a lag in complex cognition appearing later in development," explains Gur. This seems to follow the differences in how disorders such as schizophrenia manifest themselves across the sexes.
Further, the team used the results to conclude that delays associated with psychotic symptoms appear to be between six and 18 months, and students are almost a year behind already by age eight. After age 16, the lag widens across all domains, which echoes literature showing cognitive deficits in school-age children eventually diagnosed as having psychosis.
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Additional Penn Medicine researchers include Monica E. Calkins, PhD; Theodore D. Satterthwaite, MD, MA; Kosh Ruparel, MSE; Warren Bilker, PhD; Tyler M. Moore, PhD; Racquel Gur, MD, PhD, from the department of Psychiatry; and Hakon Hakonarson, MD, PhD, with Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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Ruby on Rails apps run on a separate port than the standard HTML port 80. They are also sometimes developed on other servers such as Jefferson. Because Ruby on Rails apps are integrated systems, they cannot be used to output HTML which is then inserted in a THL page using AJAX and JQuery. Instead, a mechanism has been devised where the Ruby On Rails app reads a THL page template and uses the different parts of the template (header, side-column, etc.) to create the applications view.
Two things needs to be done to achieve this. First, a THL page that serves as a template much be created. This page has the appropriate banner, side-menu, etc. Second, the view rhtml pages of the app need to be configured to use this template.
The template page, which resides in the appropriate place within the THL folder structure, needs to have a header and side menu with all the links in the navigation bar, side-menu, and site-map made absolute so that the Ruby on Rails app page can link to them. However, most of this is automated. What one needs to do is to create a special shell of a page in the appropriate part of the site.
An example is at: http://staging.thdl.org/reference/dictionaries/tibetan-dictionary/dictionary-offsite.php
The template needs to be configured in the following ways:
At the top of the PHP template page, a variable needs to be set to the present server. The code is:
< ?php $droot = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; $server = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']; ? >;
This is used to insert the server name, whether it be "staging.thdl.org", "www.thlib.org", etc., into the page as a JavaScript variable.
The PHP $server variable is then used in the $add_header section to declare a JS variable called 'pgserv' to be used by the Javascript in the page. This is coded as:
$add_header = … '< script type="text/javascript">var pgserv = "http://' . $server . '"< /script>' …;
The ellipses (…) above indicate that this may be only part of the $add_header declaration as is the case in the example page above.
Note: in the dictionary site, further JS was needed to ensure the proper functioning of the nav-bar buttons and the like. This was included in a separate script called tibdictionarytemplate.js. The call to extra scripts also needs to be added to the header so that the full header definition becomes something like:
$add_header = … '< script type="text/javascript" src="/reference/dictionaries/tibetan-dictionary/js/tibdictionarytemplate.js">var pgserv = "http://' . $server . '"< /script>';
 $add_header .= … '< script type="text/javascript">var pgserv = "http://' . $server . '"< /script>';
In order to make the THL sitemap work a special version of the masthead-utility.php file needs to be used. This requires a separate version of the masthead for the template page. Rather than creating a separate masthead just for the template. It is more concise to copy the masthead used by other pages of that portal and paste it into the template in place of the include. That is, right after the open  tag.
In this masthead section, the masthead-utility include needs to be changed to the following:
< ? include_once "$droot/global/php/masthead-utility-offsite.php" ; ? >
Note: With the dictionary template, there were some irresolvable problems with the automatic side-column include parts of the PHP template page, which were only solved by actually pasting the side-column code into the template.
The Ruby on Rails app uses parts of the template to build its view pages, through the THL Integration plug-in developed by Andres Montano.
The thdl_integration_plugin is well documented in the README file located at http://ndlb.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ndlb/portal/ror/plugins/thdl_integration/trunk/README
The suggested way of installing it is as an svn external:
script/plugin install -x https://ndlb.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ndlb/portal/ror/plugins/thdl_integration/trunk
since it is expected to change as the thl template gets refined, and that way you will always get the latest changes. For your case it is a bit different because you want to point to a different template. Not designed great, the URL is simply hardcoded in the https://ndlb.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ndlb/portal/ror/plugins/thdl_integration/trunk/lib/helpers/thdl_integration_helper.rb file under the load_attributes method. One cannot change svn externals.
One thing I can do to keep the design clean is for the plugin expect a method in application_helper.rb such as template_url (just as it expects there to be there the side_column_links, stylesheets and javascripts methods).
Remember that the custom side_column_links, stylesheets and javascripts are set dynamically. Especially with the side_column_links they were designed like that to display different links depending on the state of the application (user logged in or not, etc). So are the attributes to body (to highlight the correct tab through the html class attribute). I guess the only reason you would need a separate template is for banner. Or is there something else different about the template? Maybe we can simply just load the banner dynamically too to eliminate the need to have different templates.
The plug-in is installed by executing the following command in the Ruby on Rails app:
script/plugin install -x https://ndlb.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ndlb/portal/ror/plugins/thdl_integration/trunk
Once the plug-in is installed the URL is simply hardcoded in the helpers/thdl_integration_helper.rb file under the load_attributes method. However, the plug-in does not make a URL call directly to the template location. The template needs to be "fed through" a PHP script that absolutizes all the URLs. An example of the call that plug-in would use is:
The documentation for the plug-in is at http://ndlb.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ndlb/portal/ror/plugins/thdl_integration/trunk/README.
From the Ruby on Rails side, the programmer has to use the gem "hpricot". Using the hpricot gem, one creates helper functions that target parts of the template page and return it to the layout in Ruby on Rails. An example of this is:
  def get_content(url)
     begin
     doc = Hpricot(open(url))
     yield doc
     rescue Errno::EHOSTUNREACH
       "Can't connect to #{url}"
     rescue Errno::ETIMEDOUT
       "Can't connect to #{url}"
     rescue SocketError
       "Can't connect to #{url}"
     end
   end

   def menu1
     get_content('http://staging.thdl.org/global/php/offsite.php?url=/reference/dictionaries/tibetan-dictionary/dictionary-template.php') do |document|
       content = document.at("//div[@id=thdlmenu-link-1]")
       content.to_html
     end
   end

   def menu1content
     get_content('http://staging.thdl.org/global/php/offsite.php?url=/reference/dictionaries/tibetan-dictionary/dictionary-template.php') do |document|
       content = document.at("//div[@id=highslide-html-1]")
       content.to_html
     end
   end
This is included in the layout for the Ruby on Rails app in the following way:

 <%= menu1 %>
 <%= menu1content %>
Note: When this was done for the Tibetan Dictionary, the HTML  has to be fully coded within Ruby on Rails so that it can include the Javascript include necessary for the app, i.e. <%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %> .
With Ruby on Rails apps, one wants the side-column to be hidden by default. To do so, one has to include specific JS code within the app to hide the side-column upon loading the page. This code is:
document.observe("dom:loaded", function(){
Wiki links in side-columns etc for Ruby on Rails apps will only load when the root domain for the app and the rest of the site is the same. This is because the Ajax call to load the wiki page calls upon a PHP page on the THL site (www.thlib.org). The root domain is the last portion of the URL (thlib.org). For instance, the knowledge maps app URL is http://tmb.thlib.org. It's root domain is thus "thlib.org", which matches the site, and the wikis will load. On the staging version of the app (http://staging.tmb.thdl.org), the root domain does not match the rest of the site and the Ajax calls to wikis will fail. For the Ajax calls to be actually triggered, the class_external.js file needs to be included in the web-pages for the app, which, if the THL template is being used, happens automatically.
This method was proposed by Matt Mitchell and has not been evaluated for effectiveness.
I did find a way to wrap the contents of any Rails page into the THL layout. I've posted the code below - really didn't spend too much time on it. And I'm not even sure how the remote php template is supposed to work. What kinds of problems are you guys having?
One solution would be to provide a very simple re-usable template that would just provide the basic THL, look-and-feel. No java-script, but basic CSS/images. That way each of the applications that are using the template could still have the THL look, but the method of building the page wouldn't have to be so complicated and fragile. Also, there may be times when the template's java-script (and even css) could cause problems within the applications. Just a basic shell seems ideal?
For this code to work… You need to specify a layout in your application controller:
ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  layout 'main' # for example
Put this in your helpers/application.rb helper:
require 'net/http'
 require 'uri'

 def thdl_wrap(content)
   Net::HTTP.get(
     URI.parse(
       'http://staging.thdl.org/global/php/offsite.php?url=/reference/dictionaries/tibetan-dictionary/dictionary-template.php'
     )
   ).sub(/
Content here
/, content)
 end
And finally, in your layouts/main.rhtml file:
<%= thdl_wrap(yield) %>