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What A Swell Party This Turned Out To Be
When you live in a big city, you get lots of houseguests. It's just something that happens when you rent an apartment in a place where hotel rooms cost as much as kidney transplants.
People were always crashing on my couch in New York. Two of my friends even honeymooned in my apartment. While I was there.
If you're thinking that a group honeymoon situation sounds awkward, cramped, stressful, or otherwise not ideal, you are correct. My friends were perfectly well-behaved and lovely, but my apartment wasn't exactly a 30-acre Sandals resort. I had a mini-fridge, a hot plate, one extra pillow, a shower that didn't drain all the way, and a mouse who lived behind the radiator. The mouse's name was Stan. Stan eventually perished and I will never, ever tell you if he died naturally or if I killed him with a broom after he pooped in a box of my favorite granola.
Now that I live in Alabama with Scott, I didn't expect to get many visitors– especially since the whole internet knows we eat burpy cucumbers and decorate our house with gourd art.
I was shocked when our friend Dave said he was flying in for the weekend.
I warned him that the mosquitoes had started biting.
I told him that the pollen was so thick I could write my name on the front porch with my finger.
And I reminded him that our microwave might make him infertile.
But he came anyway. We were so glad.
We put him in the honeymoon suite.
We ate huge bowls of homemade granola for breakfast and walked down to the town square.
I had a beer at lunch, in the sun, and it made me so sleepy that I could have taken a nap right there on the picnic table where someone had written:
~What a swell party this turned out to be~
We read books. Scott and Dave played Connect Four competitively over the old barrel in the back yard while I made chickpea salad. When night fell, we grilled. We grilled heaps of vegetables and piled them on toasted bread. We devoured a rum cake that I'll never know how to make because Scott got it at a bake sale.
And then Dave left, and now I have that disappointed feeling I get when something good is over.
The house feels quieter.
The rooms feel emptier.
But what a swell party that turned out to be!
Balsamic Reduction To Drizzle Over Everything
{We put this stuff on almost everything we ate this weekend: grilled hearts of romaine sprinkled with salt, grilled zucchini and asparagus, toasted bread topped with goat cheese. . .}
There are a couple of ways to make it. Either way, you'll end up with less than 1/4 of what you started with, so choose your starting amount of vinegar accordingly. You'll probably want to turn on a kitchen fan, because the smell as it reduces can be quite pungent.
1) You can simmer balsamic vinegar by itself for a long time (like over an hour) until it reduces to a syrup.
2) You can speed the process up by adding sugars of some kind. We simplified a Beekman Boys recipe and used 2/3 c. balsamic vinegar, 1/4 c. orange juice and 1 tbsp. honey. We only had to simmer for about 5 minutes.


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About Philip Storry
The timing just couldn't be better.
Remember when the USA had export controls, and strong cryptography was thought to be a military weapon rather than an enabler of trillions of dollars of economic activity?*
Well, that stone-age view of encryption just came back to bite everyone on the arse:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/freak-flaw-in-android-and-apple-devices-cripples-https- crypto-protection/
The brief version: your TLS secure connections to websites can be forced into the old "export only" weak key. Generating keys is expensive, so webservers tend to do it only once at startup. Once you force a connection to work in export mode, you can break the encryption much more easily.
But wait! There's more! Now you're pushing smaller keys, you can break those keys more easily. So as well as decrypting the transmission, you can now EASILY pretend to be the website the user was going to, performing a Man-In-The-Middle attack.
All because weak keys were required once, and nobody removed the code to do that. And now in 2015 those weak keys that were "secure enough" for export in 1998 can be broken with about $100 worth of cloud computing time.
And yet backdooring or weakening encryption is still somehow attractive to those in power. How short-sighted.
* I do, as I'm in the UK so we got export versions of security software, backup software and communications software - interoperability with the full US version in big companies was a pain in the posterior.
On this next Tuesday, I will have the privilege of being at the British Library viewing the four surviving copies of the Magna Carta.
I doubt I have to tell any visitors to the website what the Magna Carta is, but for those who may wonder I will simply say it is the embryonic charter of all rights you assume you have today. You should undertake a study of it and its impact on the world.
On Tuesday, I will try my best to forget this news article. I will try my best to view those four vellums with the optimism and reverence that they inspire and deserve.
But this news undermines my ability to do that. And I am not American, and cannot legally protest or contest this news, and therefore I find myself simply offended by it - and unable to change it. This simply compounds my foul mood around this subject.
And that is why a British citizen feels he must forget news of an American abuse of justice, lest he weep when he views those four surviving vellums that sought to establish our rights so soundly.
Any tears in the British Library on Tuesday will be well deserved, and a sad reflection on how far our principles have drifted.
But I will try to forget this, so that there will be no tears.
I will try.
No matter how hard this, and so many other news articles, may make it.
I will try.
If only out of respect for the principles of that 800 year old charter, and the empty words that are still sadly spoken in its shadow.
I'm going to have to say you're doing it completely the wrong way.
Either that, or you're intentionally making life difficult for yourself.
Linux can indeed be compiled from source, and you can then download compile all your apps manually. But that's not how 99% of people use Linux.
Most people get Linux through a distribution, which pre-compiles everything into packages for them. The distribution's Package Management system then handles the installation of those pre-compiled binaries for you.
It will even handle the dependencies you mention - going back to its repositories and downloading/installing them automatically.
A decent Package Manager will even go so far as to know which packages can conflict (it's rare, but it happens) and refuse to install new software until the conflict is fixed - which may sound bad, but I'd rather have a system protect itself by not installing something than hose itself by trying to please me.
Better yet, if I install a package from outside the package management system's repositories, all of this still happens. So if I download and install Corel's Aftershot Pro software, and it needs a library for printing or colour management, then the package just needs to say so and all of the installation will be handled automatically.
(Even versioning.)
There are a couple of distributions - like Gentoo - which have a package management system that prefers to compile from source, but even then its package management is automating that for you. And those are very niche systems, which most users won't ever consider using. (For example, LibreOffice takes hours to compile on many systems, which is offputting - using a Red Hat or Debian based system which has precompiled packages suddenly becomes much more attractive!)
Basically, Linux doesn't work the way you think it does. It actually works in a very sane, very safe way to try to ensure that the complexities of software installation are something the user doesn't have to bother with.
Of course, some software authors may choose not to use the package management system. And in that case, you might get a self-contained .tar.gz file (or similar) which you just unpack and run the contents of. But that's hardly Linux's fault.
I'm unsure where you found your Linux philosophy, but frankly it doesn't match the experiences of any Linux distribution I know.
WINE is a different issue, as it's an abstraction layer. It should ideally be a last resort rather than a first port of call - which is why people want AAA titles on Linux, not on WINE on Linux.
Sadly, the DMCA's Safe Harbour part and takedown processes are still some of the saner parts of US copyright law.
But they're obviously broken when this can happen - so let's amend them.
Let's bring in game theory.
The issuer of a takedown has to declare the value of the material. This value is legally binding, and can be used in court when discussing damages. (Except statutory damages.)
Conversely, if the takedown turns out to be bogus, then the issuer is liable for an instant statutory fine of 10x the value declared, multiplied by the number of downloads/views the material has (if available).
(The multiplier hopefully prevents late claims or attempts at censorship.)
No value means no takedown.
A value below a certain threshold (set by the Library of Congress, based on combination of length & content type) means no takedown.
This should solve the problem. Those with genuine takedown needs get a takedown, AND for playing nicely they get to declare how much they think their goods are worth for the court's consideration later.
And those who are just trolling get their wallets emptied on a regular basis.
An interesting side effect means that we may actually get to see companies start to put realistic values on their goods, and that if the load for DMCA takedowns becomes too high the data is there to begin processing them in "most expensive losses" order first.
Which raises an entirely new dilemma on the part of the issuer. Submit high and get takedown sooner, or submit low and hedge against having made a mistake?
(There is a third option - submit low and go for statutory damages in court. Except that will mean that the figures will end up showing that statutory damages are too high, and give hard facts which allow the law to be altered there. A good short term option, but a very dangerous long term one.)
I think that if those changes were made, DMCA takedowns might actually approach something which almost resembles sanity...
I think that we're seeing two worlds fail to understand each other.
Louis CK made money, yes. But he failed to MONETIZE.
By which it's meant that he failed to make the most out of the process.
Not the product, mind you - the process.
Louis had a very simple proposition: Pay me money, I give you something funny.
Louis CK viewed DRM as a cost that wasn't worth it, and that alone is a threat to the MPAA's reality. It's also what most people here have focused on, because of this guy's job title.
But we need to ignore the job title, and remember that this guy is steeped in an industry. Language shapes how you think, and I believe we can see more than just DRM being referred to here.
Louis CK didn't sell plushies, action figures, and clothing. Or re-release earlier goods with a little sticker on them that advertised the new product whilst pretending to be a reference of quality ("From the man who brought you...")
Louis CK didn't do that not only because he didn't have the rights to previous works, but because that would be a waste of time and money. He could - nay, should - be writing material or working on the new product.
He also didn't choose to get paid for holding a particular brand of soft drink whilst he did his act.
A smart move, because even if $sponsor were to pay for him to be using their product during the filming, the costs of lawyers to land the deal would leave him with little money.
And the sponsor would no doubt want some "creative control", to ensure he didn't say anything that they don't want their brand associated with...
Which is effectively self-censorship for the project. And when you realise that the deal will probably land him no more than minimum wage (given how long it will take to do the project), suddenly he needs more sponsors, which means a death spiral of more censorship...
Basically, Louis CK is smart. He saw what people wanted, he budgeted it out, he delivered JUST WHAT THEY WANTED, and didn't waste time doing much else.
But that's not what Hollywood does. Hollywood doesn't just sell films to customers, it sells advertising space in those films too. It doesn't just sell a film, it sells merchandising - or at least the rights to it. It doesn't just sell a medium with the film on it, it sells the rights to distribute those films.
THAT'S monetization.
That's how the MPAA thinks. Total control for maximum profit. Don't take risks, and do whatever it takes to get the most money from every stage of the process.
Who cares if the film is sanitised by sponsorship requirements? Who cares if the distribution chain creates artificial delays that encourage piracy? Who cares if merchandising is shoddy? Who cares if DRM means buyers are annoyed by unskippable adverts?
Not one of those is a concern to this man.
The business he lives and breathes in a "monetized" world. He may not quite understand how the new generation of Connecting-With-Fans and Reason-To-Buy artists can make money without doing this.
Subconsciously, he's almost certainly wondering why Louis CK didn't "monetize" as I've described. Because such monetization is all he sees, every day.
Which is slightly frightening.
But what's also slightly sad is that he probably hasn't even considered the downsides I've listed. He's not even capable of seeing them as serious downsides, because everyone around him sees only the upsides - the bottom line from the deals.
I've always wondered if Hollywood execs are just unscrupulous salesmen. They often seem to share one key quality - they only care about the money that they, individually, bring in. If the sale hurts business reputations, or damages future sales, then they don't care. "Just look at this quarter's bottom line! I'M ON FIRE!"
That's monetization. The pursuit of many individual bottom lines, with no care for the effect on the final product.

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A-level results 2014: Your guide to university Clearing
PUBLISHED: 14:25 13 August 2014 | UPDATED: 09:58 14 August 2014
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Teenagers are gearing up to find out if they have got into their chosen universities on A-level results day tomorrow - but what happens if students don't get the grades they need?
While Clearing may be a daunting prospect for many school-leavers, students can make sure they still leave for university in the autumn by following a few simple steps.
Clearing is the process where colleges and universities fill remaining places left on their courses, and is available for pupils who have rejected all offers, not received any offers, or missed the conditions of their offer.
A student's status on UCAS Track, an online portal which 'tracks' someone's university offers, must say 'Clearing has started' or 'You are in Clearing' before they can begin looking for courses through Clearing.
A list of colleges and universities which have courses with vacancies will go live on the UCAS website tomorrow morning, just after midnight, and students should contact institutions as soon as possible after they know they are eligible for clearing.
School-leavers should have their Clearing number to hand, which is available on UCAS Track, as well as their total number of UCAS points and GCSE and A-level grades.
Once students have made their Clearing choice, they can use UCAS Track to accept Clearing offers from 5pm tomorrow.
Clearing is open until September 30, but most places at universities will be snapped up quickly following A-level results day.
Helen Thorne, director of policy and research at UCAS, said: "There'll be thousands of courses available in Clearing this year – perhaps in subjects students might not have necessarily considered, and the scheme remains open until the end of September.
"Stay positive and remember to prepare thoroughly before calling universities and colleges for an intelligent discussion about the courses you're interested in. You'll find all the information you need about Clearing on UCAS.com."
Last year, 495,595 people secured a place at university or college through UCAS, with a record 57,100 accepted through Clearing.
UCAS advisers will be on hand from 7.30am tomorrow to answer questions from applicants on 0371 4680468.
Expert advice is also available on Twitter @ucas_online and Facebook at: facebook.com/ucasonline.
If you don't get the results you expected, whether higher or lower, and need advice about future options, students can also contact professional careers advisers on the Exam Results Helpline on 0808 100 8000. The line is open from 8am on results day.
Visit UCAS.com for the full list of courses with vacancies in Clearing tomorrow after midnight.
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Storm C Jackson has surgery
Canberra, Australia – Seattle Storm center Lauren Jackson underwent surgery earlier this week to heal a hamstring injury.
Jackson, a three-time WNBA MVP, is expected to make a full recovery. She will have three weeks of rest before starting a light rehabilitation program, according to Basketball Australia.


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A recurring article that will be posted every year
around the anniversary of September 11
with memories from anyone within our Fire/EMS Department.
Remember the Day so we will Never Forget
September 11, 2001
Compiled by
Mark E. Brady, Chief Public Information Officer
Prince George's County Fire/EMS Department
email@example.com @PGFDPIO
Originally Posted On September 6, 2011
As a tribute to honor the annual anniversary and memorial of this tragic event on September 11, 2001, I asked members of our Department to share their thoughts and memories. The Prince George's County Fire/EMS Department played a role that day in support of our neighboring jurisdictions while continuing to protect our own county. Prince George's County Fire/EMS eventually were involved in operations at the Pentagon.
In their own written words, people have taken the time to convey what I had asked.
This group includes the person responsible for Fire/EMS Department actions that day, career and volunteer firefighters and administrative personnel.
My intent is to maintain this as a live document. Any member of the Department that wishes to contribute their memories of 9/11/01 will be added to this document. Any pictures of personnel working that day will also serve to help us Remember the Day so we will Never Forget.
Remember the Day so we will Never Forget
Ronald D. Blackwell
September 11, 2001: Acting Fire Chief, Prince George's County Fire/EMS Department
September 11, 2011: Fire Chief, Wichita (Kansas) Fire Department
September 11, 2001 was to be a red-letter day for my family and me. I was scheduled for a County Council Confirmation Hearing. The Honorable Wayne K. Curry, County Executive had decided to appoint me the ninth Fire Chief of the Prince George's County Fire and Emergency Medical Service Department. Little did I know that morning that I would not be confirmed or what the day held. It was a Tuesday, and an absolutely delightful Maryland weather day. Temperatures were predicted to be upper seventies. I was anxious and excited. My mother and other family had come to Maryland for Ronnie's Big Day.
We left our home in Bowie and it was a very quiet ride to the County Administration Building (CAB) in Upper Marlboro. After we arrived at the CAB one our officers, a Battalion Chief (sadly, I don't remember his name) asked if I had heard about what had happened in New York City. I remember responding yes. I also remember thinking what a tragedy and that the Fire Department of New York would have a very memorable day. Entering the building my mind began to shift toward my speech to the County Council. My wife, children and mother as well as several people that are very important to me would be there and I didn't want to have a case of fumble mouth and embarrass anybody.
Outside the Council Chambers I sat and watched as my wife made last second adjustments to our children's clothes and appearance as received several handshakes and well wishes. Someone mentioned a second aircraft had struck the World Center. I heard the comment but thought little about it as we waited. My excitement was building as I noticed Carla Blue, Fire Captain and Assistant to the Director of Public Safety walking briskly toward me. As she approached she said, "The County Executive wants to see you right now". I thought, right now? Certainly not, right now. I asked where? She responded in his office. I turned to my wife and mother told them I needed to go upstairs. but that I would be right back.
I rode the elevator up wondering what the County Executive could possible need that would require my immediate attention. Arriving at the fifth floor the elevator doors opened where a normally subdued security team member frantically waved me toward the County Executive's Office. The floor was quiet and not the usually very active floor and I had come to expect. I arrived at the County Executive's Office and found him standing and staring and at a television monitor. On the screen was the smoke of flames from the fire at the Pentagon.
I did not fully appreciate what had occurred at the time (both towers at the World Trade Center had been struck, a plane was down or on its way down near Shanksville, Pennsylvania and the Pentagon was also under attack). It was the largest attack of domestic terrorism in American history. The County Executive was subdued yet resolute when he said, what is our plan? I was a bit shocked and didn't respond right away as I mentally tried to process what I saw on the television and County Executive's question. Suddenly, every bit of experience, training and fire service coursed through me. America was at war, Prince George's County could possibly have been targeted and citizens and residents of the County were counting on us to insure their safety. I advised the County Executive the Fire and EMS Department was ready. I also let him know information would be forthcoming from the Council of Governments and other sources about what was happening in the District of Columbia and the Region. I then told him I needed to get to the Fire Services Building to initiate our response and coordinate planning. As I turned to leave I felt a bit of calm. It was as if I had trained and worked to be prepared for the day all my fire service life.
Outside the County Executive's Office my team of emergency service professional's had gathered. William (Bill) R. McGown, Lieutenant Colonel – Emergency Operations, Maureen Hennessey, Lieutenant Colonel – Special Operations and Tyrone N. Wells, Lieutenant Colonel – Management Services had begun the process addressing public safety in Prince George's County. I directed an emergency callback of all off-duty personnel, suspension of prevention maintenance activities so that all rolling stock that could be made available was to be placed in service, the hazardous materials and explosive ordinance disposal teams were to be placed on high alert and any potential terrorist target in the County should be identified. I further advised them we would meet at the Fire Services Building in one hour and that they should be prepared to provide an update. I then raced to my vehicle where Bill Hawkins waited to drive me across the County.
Over the course of the next several days all our attention was turned toward what had occurred. The men and women of our department performed at a very high level and in the highest traditions of the American fire service. Command and control, response to the Pentagon and filling of fire stations in the District filled several days. There was a feeling of unity during that time that is often rare. I am to this very day very proud of the combined career, civilian and volunteer emergency family in Prince George's County.
Although there was much work that remained to be done, Glenda Wilson, Chief of Staff arranged to have the confirmation hearing take place on September 13, 2001. At the conclusion there was a brief celebration on the fifth floor of the CAB and then back to work.
Thank you Prince George's County for opportunity serve and a special thank you to all who served during that period in our department's history.
Ronald D. Blackwell served as Fire Chief of the Prince George's County Fire and Emergency Medical Service Department from September 13, 2001 until August 4, 2004.
Remember the Day so we will Never Forget
Mark E. Brady
September 11, 2001: Public Information Officer – PGFD
September 11, 2011: Manager – Public Relations and Chief Spokesperson - PGFD
September 11, 2001, was to be another day of pomp and circumstance for the Department, the County Council would confirm another Fire Chief. To lead our combination Fire/EMS Department. The event is always a proud day for the new chief, family, friends and members of the Department. I serve the Department as one of two Public Information Officers (PIO) and I was responsible for broadcasting a Press Release about the Fire Chief's confirmation. I was sitting in front of a computer at home preparing the press release announcing the appointment of Ronald D. Blackwell as the County's Fire Chief. My wife had just dropped off our children at school and was on the way home when she heard on the radio that a "small" plane had hit one of the towers at the World Trade Center. I turned on the television and watched live coverage of one of the towers burning. My wife arrived home very soon after that and we both watched as the second plane hit the other tower. We both looked at each other in a state of shock and knew that we were being attacked. I called Chief Blackwell on the cell phone to ensure he knew what was occurring. He instructed me to report to the County Administration Building (CAB) in Upper Marlboro, the site where he was to be confirmed. Chief Blackwell was going to convene a meeting at the CAB to discuss the events occurring in New York.
Leaving my wife at home that day was one of the hardest things I have ever done as an employee of the Fire/EMS Department. I have left home and family countless times to report to duty for emergency incidents and weather events but this time it was different. My wife assured me that she was ok and encouraged me to go and do my job. She was not panicked, had her contingency plans made and was insistent that I leave. She was going back to school and pick up our children. Her mother called to say she was coming to our house and planned to spend the day with the family. This time was the most difficult to leave my home and family. Later in the day, hundreds of personnel were to do the same thing. I remained in contact with my family throughout the course of the day.
While I was driving to the CAB a plane hit the Pentagon. I parked on the upper level of the parking garage and could see the rising column of thick black smoke miles away; it was smoke from the Pentagon. Once inside the CAB I met other members of the Fire/EMS Department in Council Chambers, we did not have access to a TV and were learning of developments from phone calls. My wife called and told me that one of the Towers had collapsed. I could not comprehend what she was telling me and had her describe what she was seeing on the TV. I still could not imagine what she was describing until I saw the image throughout the rest of the day replayed on TV.
I remember vividly meeting with Ron Siarnicki who was scheduled to testify on behalf of Ron Blackwell before the council. Siarnicki was Fire Chief in Prince George's County when he accepted apposition of Executive Director of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF). Ron Blackwell had served as a Deputy under Chief Siarnicki and was replacing him as Chief. While we were aware of the attacks, the World Trade Center collapse had not yet occurred, neither one of us knew what the next hours would mean for Ron Siarnicki and the NFFF. For Chief Siarnicki the following days formed the foundation for his tenure as the Director of the NFFF. He gathered a group of firefighters and went to New York to help and provide assistance to the FDNY and surviving family members of fallen firefighters. What was once a one weekend a year memorial foundation has flourished under Siarnicki's leadership and is now a vital component of the fire service advocacy for firefighter safety and survival as well as providing services for surviving family members. The number of firefighters suffering a line of duty death has now started to decrease, in my opinion, as a direct result of Ron Siarnicki and the NFFF, however, that's another story in itself.
Chief Blackwell arrived in the council hearing room after meeting with the County Executive in his
office on the 5th floor and provided instructions for the Command Staff to report to the Fire Services Building in Landover Hills and open the Emergency Operations Center. The confirmation hearing was postponed.
Deputy Fire Chief Bill McGown instructed me to notify the media of a total recall of all firefighters and paramedics. Media outlets were informed by phone and they did a great job in alerting all off-duty personnel it was time to report to their duty stations. I recall telling my co-PIO, Chauncey Bowers, as we left the CAB and were going to our cars that we now know what it feels like to be attacked. This is the closest that either one of else had been so close to a war.
While en route to the EOC, I contacted Diane Cunningham, PIO Administrative Assistant, to direct her to bring our PIO notification books and enough office supplies from Fire/EMS Department Headquarters in Largo to set up shop at the EOC in Landover Hills. Once at the EOC, Chauncey, Diane and I monitored television broadcasts and made notes to bring up at the Executive Meetings being held every hour. Our first couple of hours was "rumor control" of buildings being struck in Prince George's County or reports of buildings on fire, etc. Many reports were variations on what was really occurring. For the most part PIO involvement at the EOC was slow as the media focus was at the Pentagon, New York and Shanksville. We continued to monitor television and radio reports and continued to make notes. We observed personnel coordinating the influx of firefighters and medics returning to work, career and volunteer, and the large contingent of apparatus that we were able to staff and deploy to fill in at District of Columbia Fire Stations. Some of those units were subsequently dispatched to the fire at the Pentagon and Paramedics Units were dispatched to a staging area in Arlington, Virginia.
PIO operations wrapped up at about 11:30 pm that evening. As far as media operations, inquires and requests from our Department remained at a minimum.
I returned home to find everyone still awake and watching TV. I spent over an hour discussing what had occurred, what I had done that day and what I believed was to come in the days to come.
Remember the Day so we will Never Forget
Teresa Ann Crisman
September 11, 2001: Community Developer – Community Outreach Office
September 11, 2011: Community Developer – Community Outreach Office
That morning was like they said one of the clearest days of September a clear day that you could see forever. That weekend was great for the MDA softball tournament. As always we always have issues with it being too hot, too cold having to play 24 hours to catch up due to rain but that weekend was great. The finals had concluded that Sunday night with as always, our goodbyes and see you laters and hugs to the many friends that this tournament has brought together through the years.
On September 11, 2001 was to be a great day for the department. Chief Blackwell would be confirmed and sworn in as Chief of the Department. A proud moment for him and his family. A proud moment for this department. But like every day in the fire service our days our not marked by a simple routine. When the first plane hit the towers, I truly felt it was a fluke accident. It was a bad take off by the pilot; maybe something had gone wrong with the plane. I would not think that this would lead to the next tower being attacked at that point when the second plane hit the towers I knew that this was not an accident. That something was terribly wrong and at that moment our world changed.
I will remember as I was going to Upper Marlboro to the confirmation and swearing in of Chief Blackwell I called my brother John Michael. I said what do you think happened will the firemen be ok will my friends be ok and he flat out stated…"Firemen are going to die, people will die and get ready because it could happen here. I thought about the teams from the FDNY that had played that weekend and playing in the finals and sitting and talking with them and saying goodbye to another year. I thought of the many that would not come home to their families and cried knowing that something bad has taken place.
A couple of days after, I received an email from Jack Mowatt telling me that three guys from the tournament had died. When I read the names I was crushed. Tommy Casoria, Kenny Watson and Billy Johnston. Billy was great; he loved sports, football, soccer and loved softball. Kenny was a very funny guy. He loved his cigars and loved to laugh. And Tommy he celebrated his bachelor party that year at the tournament. He was to get married on October 13. He celebrated playing softball and just having a good time. On Sunday night Kenny had come up to the trailer and wanted to know what the winning team was to get. I told Kenny if you get me to the IF game I'd show you. Kenny and I laughed because his team was out and Billy's was still in. I said well make Billy get me to the IF game and we would see. The IF game didn't happen. Billy and I said a goodbye that night. Asked him if he had to work on Monday and said nope going to relax. Told him that he played a great game and had an incredible weekend and to stay safe. A couple of weeks later I heard from Billy's sister, Christine and she told me that Billy had gone to work on that Tuesday and never unpacked from the tournament. That he got called in after traveling all day Monday and that a friend needed help and an early relief so he could be with his kids that morning. Something that we do all the time. Making family first.
Each year as the Tournament celebrates another year of support towards Muscular Dystrophy it reminds us that there are three guys not playing. Three friends not there to celebrate and laugh with. That this tournament to me a reminder of that fateful day. A reminder that at points, the 11th of September falls during this tournament. And as the Tournament Committee we have made it known that the tournament will never forget those that have given the supreme sacrifice. That each year we will never forget the 343 firefighters of the FDNY. We will never forget September 11, 2001. A day that changed the fire service's history forever.
Remember the Day so we will Never Forget
Marc S. Bashoor
September 11, 2001: Special Operations Commander
September 11, 2012: Fire Chief, Prince George's County, MD
We were gathered at the County Administration Building (CAB), in support of to-be-confirmed Chief Ron Blackwell. I was assigned as the Special Operations Commander, with Fire/EMS Department responsibility to set up the County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) at the Fire Services Building (FSB).
As County officials determined whether the confirmation hearing would be postponed (which it was), Technical Specialist Jeff Callaway and I responded from the CAB to the FSB to setup the EOC, in my County-assigned Crown Vic. That was the longest and quickest ride of my life!
As we crossed the intersection of Route 202 and Central Avenue, the columns of smoke rising from the Pentagon 20 miles to the west were clearly visible above the horizon of the beltway - a site we will never forget.
We were lucky to get a cell phone call into the FSB to get staff setting up tables - although advanced in technology now; our EOC is still this hybrid setup today. With extra help, it didn't take long to get the EOC up and operating.
After completing that setup, I was assigned that night to organize and deploy staff as part of the Fire/EMS Department newly created Terrorism Response Unit, including the Hazardous Materials Response Team, Bomb Squad and the Special Events Unit.
We spent the next 4 months responding to thousands of suspicious package, white powder, and see-something-say-something calls for service.
Remember the Day so we will Never Forget
Chauncey Bowers
September 11, 2001 - Captain/Press Information Officer
September 11, 2011 – Retired as a Major from PGFD,
Executive Director, Security & Emergency Management,
Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC
First aware of the New York incidents – I was driving down Route 193 near the Newton White Mansion when several national news desks started calling about a plane crash in New York. Not long after that one of the networks called back saying a second plane crash had just occurred. Each plane had struck a separate tower of the World Trade Center.
Role/action on 9/11/01 – My first item of the day was the swearing in ceremony for Fire Chief Ronald Blackwell. We arrived at the County Administration Building in Upper Marlboro and could see a working fire off in the distance. We assumed that DC had a working fire underway. The only unusual item was the volume of smoke and the rich dark color of the smoke. At the time we were not aware of the incident at the Pentagon.
Once inside the County Administration Building, County Executive Wayne Curry discussed the D.C. and New York incidents with Chief Blackwell. Live television coverage was now being broadcast from both sites. The swearing in ceremony was cancelled and everyone went to work orchestrating the largest staff mobilization in the Department's history.
The rest of the day involved reacting to rapidly changing details that we all know very well now, but were unfolding at the time. Making the connections about what was going on in New York, then to D.C., then to Pennsylvania. In the meantime increasing our readiness to respond to anything in Prince George's County, and offer mutual aide where possible.
I don't recall the end of the day. I recall it more as a period of time that lasted for several days and changed the way we did business going forward. After experiencing the loss of 343 firefighters on September 11, 2001, it was clear that the fire/EMS service was now on the front lines of responding to terrorism threats as well.
Later I had the opportunity to testify before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, in Washington, D.C., chaired by Senator Susan Collins of Maine. We discussed the critical needs of the fire and EMS service including staffing and equipment. This was part of the process that lead to the initial SAFER Act funding and the continued FIRE act funding for Department's across the nation.
Remember the Day so we will Never Forget
Diane V. Cunningham
September 11, 2001: Administrative Assistant - Public Information Office
Prince George's County Fire/EMS Department
September 11, 2011: Administrative Assistant - Public Information Office
Prince George's County Fire/EMS Department
Carrie R. Blagburn
|Upon hearing the news that the Pentagon had been hit, I thought about all the people I knew who worked there. Mostly, though, I thought about my cousin, Carrie Blagburn, 48, a budget analyst for the U.S. Army who also worked at the Pentagon. I remember praying silently but fervently, as I and other family members frantically tried contacting her on her cell phone. With each unanswered call there was an increasing sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. Imagine what it must be like to have your loved one missing, yet still hear his or her voice on their phone message. Nevertheless, some of us continued to call because hearing her voice enabled us to hold on to her for a while. It gave us a semblance of hope. I remember the overwhelming sadness I felt as I empathized with her mom, husband and four children—especially her 22 year-old son, a soldier, who at the time was unable to immediately get home from Saudi Arabia.
Ten years have passed, and Carrie never responded to our calls. The U.S. Army lists her as "Unaccounted For."
Carrie's Bench, located in Arlington, Virginia, and is one of 183 benches dedicated in memory of the lives lost at the Pentagon on that fateful day, September 11, 2001.
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Michael T. Hughes
September 11, 2001: Assistant Chief-Branchville Volunteer Fire Company,
Incident Commander, PGFD Units at THE PENTAGON,
September 11, 2011: Branchville Volunteer Life Member, Past-Chief, Firefighter, EMT/B
As the PGFD Incident Commander, I had no idea what we were facing once inside THE PENTAGON. It soon became obvious this incident exceeded ANYTHING we'd ever faced.
The PGFD units that responded as DCFD's 3rd alarm all had been relocated to various DCFD stations were deployed as a group and directed to stage on Rte. 110 adjacent to the Command Post until given further orders.
Shortly after our arrival at the scene, we were led to our staging area - I395/Army-Navy Drive - where, as a group, we met and staged for approximately 20 minutes, after which we were directed to put all firefighters and officers aboard the four engines: E113, E352, E271 and E332, and were relocated to the main entrance inside the interior courtyard. It was there we developed our game plan: C11B would be the Incident Commander, C35 Operations and C2A (Mangum) and C27A (Fuller) the Team Leaders. Mont CO. DFRS BFC 1 was assigned with DFRS T6 (Bethesda) to complement their staffing and operated along with our personnel. It should also be noted that 4 personnel from DCFD E18 (where E113 was transferred) operated as a part of E113's crew.
With armed personnel manning the entrance ports, the 33 members under my command did their job selflessly and with the highest degree of professionalism, patriotism and sense of duty. All egos were left at the door. Our crews operated flawlessly as a cohesive, professional unit and did so under the most dire conditions imaginable. Most disconcerting, however, was what we didn't know. You see, for the duration of our operation, we had no knowledge of any other potential targets or what may have been happening throughout the Country.
But we operated without a hitch and followed verbal direction from the Pentagon Command Post as received. With our member's safety paramount, it should be noted that during interior operations - approximately 6 hours in duration - we incurred only one slight injury to a member of our team, that being eye irritation.
Without a doubt, in my previous 27 years, operating at THE PENTAGON on 9/11 was the most fulfilling - and challenging -- incident ever!
For all the wrong reasons a group of volunteer firefighters from Prince George's County were called upon to respond after our Nation's worst attack ever on home soil. And as a testament to their sense of Honor and Duty, they stepped up and put forth their best effort and did their job as proudly and honorably as humanly possible given the enormity and historical implications of the situation.
I will never be more proud.
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Robert H. McCoy, Jr.
September 11, 2001: Battalion Chief 1 for Prince George's County Fire/EMS Department
September 11, 2011: Fire Chief of York Area United Fire and Rescue
On September 11, 2001, I was attending a hearing at the Fire Services Building in Landover Hills. The meeting was to start at 0900 and I arrived at approximately 0850 to find personnel watching the North Tower of the World Trade Center burning. There was speculation as to the size of the plane and the reason for the crash and we continued to watch until we started the hearing. As we were preparing to turn the TV off, everyone in the room witnessed the South Tower hit by the commercial airplane ending speculation; we knew the United States was being attacked. We commenced the hearing and although it was on my mind, it was still a distant issue and one that FDNY would handle.
At approximately 0940, all pagers in the room were alerted that another plan had hit the Pentagon. The hearing was stopped and all Battalion Chiefs were ordered back to their Battalion. Leaving the building, there was a great deal of uncertainty and anxiety over what had transpired. There were many thoughts going through my head of being attacked, how many more planes, what additional targets are at risk. As I left the Fire Services Building, I came to the top of Webster Street and my first vision was a clear view of the smoke column from the Pentagon. At that point, I realized it was not just a New York issue; I understood the Capital region was hit and more attacks could be coming. I also realized that the resources of the Northern Virginia and District of Columbia Fire Departments were committed to the Pentagon, and we would be utilized if the incident escalated or additional attacks were encountered.
I returned to the Center of my Battalion at Station 8 and by then was notified of a complete Departmental recall. Personnel were contacted and told to report to their stations as soon as possible. We were receiving numerous reports that the amount of hijacked planes was unknown and one may be heading towards the White House and or Capitol. With the help of my officers we assigned personnel to apparatus and started to address resource needs, if we were to be deployed. I assigned Captain Gallagher to serve as my aide and we went to each station in the Battalion to ensure all stations were prepared. As the Battalion Chief, I could see the anger in personnel as well as concern for what they may be in for as well as their families. Many of the firefighters, including myself, were calling family members and making sure everyone was together, staying away from the District, pulling kids out of schools, etc.
The recall of personnel, the first in the Department's history, was very successful in my opinion. Although there was sadness and concern for the emergency workers involved at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, there was a great deal of pride in the career and volunteer members of Prince George's County Fire/EMS Department who reported to their stations immediately and prepared to respond to an unknown danger. At some stations we had more personnel than we had riding positions, which required the movement of some apparatus to maximize our resources. During the day, numerous units were alerted to and operated at the Pentagon to assist our partners in the Washington Metropolitan Council of Governments.
In 2005, I served as the Executive Officer for Fire Chief Lawrence Sedgwick and had the honor of recognizing all personnel who operated at the Pentagon with Certificates and 911 Uniforms Bars. I also had the privilege of working with the Fire Chief's Committee of the Council of Governments from 2005-2008 in addressing interoperability issues within the region, which many were identified as a result of 9/11.
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Victor Weatherford
September 11, 2001: Branchville Volunteer Firefighter and Past-President
September 11, 2011: Past-President, Life Member and retired firefighter as of 9/11/11
On September 11, 2001 I was in my office in Beltsville and I received a call from my wife stating an airplane had hit the World Trade Center- as with most people I took it with a grain of salt and assumed it was a small private aircraft- I hung up and went on with my work. Within a half hour I received another call saying another plane had hit the other tower, at this point I knew something big was happening. As my coworkers and I turned on the TV in the conference room the video of the second plane hitting the tower was playing. It was shortly after that when we started to hear of the Pentagon being hit and then the message on the bottom of the TV screen requesting all firefighters from all areas surrounding DC, career and volunteer, report to their stations for assignment.
As I arrived at the station Engine 113 had just left to be transferred to DC and Engine 11 was also out on a transfer within the county. Now we were getting calls over the red phone asking for additional crews and apparatus to respond to other buildings in DC that had been attacked. At one point there was speculation that a plane had hit the Capital, the State Department had been hit, and there was another plane heading towards the White House. John Gardiner, Thomas Ferriera, and I started to gather spare equipment, dropping hose from the hose tower, and actually entertained putting the old Open Cab in service if necessary. As it turned out this was not necessary as all of the additional attacks were false.
As the day moved on we were staying in touch with our crew at the Pentagon and we learned that after five hours of the Pentagon burning fire department crews were allowed to start emergency operations and E-113 was assigned to provide water supply for all interior attacks, setting up in the courtyard next to a café ironically named the "Ground Zero Café" long before 9/11. Because Engine 113 was in the courtyard, it was staying for the duration of this operation.
Mike Hughes was the ranking officer from Branchville at the Pentagon and at 7PM he called the station looking for a relief crew. John Gardiner and I headed to the fire ground. Upon arriving, we met our crew at the entrance to the tunnel leading to the courtyard and they looked drained both physically and mentally. John and I report to the incident commander on side one- directly in front of the impact zone. It wasn't until this point that the magnitude of the situation set in. See that gaping hole in the side of the most powerful building in the world was humbling to say the least.
As we worked our way into the courtyard, John took over pump operations first and I was assigned to take Military folks into certain areas away from the collapse zone for them to collect their belongings from offices. This went on for a while and then we were requested to set up a "collection area" in the courtyard- this, as it turned out, was a nice way to say set up a makeshift morgue. After that, we alternated between pump operations and taking military personnel into the pentagon we were assigned to an Engine company from DC to do an interior attack to knock down the rekindle that had taken place on the top floor. As we went inside there were quite a few scenes that stick with me today- from the collapsed two or three foot thick walls, to the exit point of the nose cone of the airplane between the "C" and "D" rings between corridors 5 & 6, the front landing gear that was at rest in the area between the "C" and "D" rings, to the handful of burnt bodies we came across inside the impact area- it was all a scene of mass destruction.
John and I stayed on site providing water supply and other duties until 9:30 AM the next day- At this point we too we drained.
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David Bradshaw
September 11, 2001 - Acting Assistant Shift Supervisor Fire Communications - Prince George's County Public Safety Communications
September 11, 2013 - D Shift Commander Fire Communications--Charlotte Fire Dept. Charlotte NC
I remember things starting to escalate after the second Plane hit the WTC; I remember asking Shift Supervisor Dianne Billings if we should go on Condition 2 because the incoming phone call level was going to escalate. In a matter of minutes we heard a broken broadcast from Ambulance-219 that here was a major fire visible in Washington DC. Almost instantaneously we received word that the Pentagon had been struck.
We received a request from Washington DC Fire Dept. to send 4 Engines and 1 Ladder and a Squad to DC for Transfers, within minutes, PGFD had those resources on the way as we immediately used stations reporting 2 crews. I am not sure of the time span of the request but rather quickly, I remember DC calling on the direct line asking that all resources we had coming to the DC to send them to the Pentagon. Before we knew it, on a Fire that given any other day we wouldn't have gone if it went 9 Alarms, we were suddenly part of the initial response of Units. I remember VC-11B Mike Hughes taking Command; I remember struggling with Radio traffic as there was basically no inter-operability with Communications.
Very soon after units being sent I remember receiving orders from the Fire Chief to announce over the Radio what I believe to be the first ever mandatory recall of all Volunteer and Career personnel in PGFD to report to their Stations. Very soon, extra Dispatchers flooded the Center, each being assigned different tasks. If I remember correctly Level 2 accountability was in effect at each Station and Communications kept a running tally of exactly who was in each Station at all times, by early evening, every single piece of in service Apparatus in the County was staffed.
On a side note, I remember Dispatcher Renee Patterson working on Shift in Fire Communications that Day. Renee operated flawlessly, worked hard under pressure, and not once during the Shift did I recall her mentioning that her Brother was stationed at the Pentagon. Tragically, Active Duty with the US Army, Renee's Brother was killed in the attack on the Pentagon. This was one of the finest examples of grace and dedication to Duty under pressure to the men and women of the PGFD and the County that I will ever have the honor of witnessing.
On a side note, I remember Dispatcher Renee Patterson working on Shift in Fire Communications that Day. Renee operated flawlessly, worked hard under pressure, and not once during the Shift did I recall her mentioning that her Brother was stationed at the Pentagon. Tragically, Active Duty with the US Army, Renee's Brother was killed in the attack on the Pentagon. This was one of the finest examples of grace and dedication to Duty under pressure to the men and women of the PGFD and the County that I will ever have the honor of witnessing.
Remember the Day so we will Never Forget
Danita M. Parkinson
September 11, 2001 – Operations Center (Watch Office)
September 11, 2014 – Operational Compliance
I remember September 11, 2001, as I was off that morning and sleeping. My son Michael was at school, and son Christopher was home sick from school. Christopher came into my room and woke me up telling me a plane had just crashed into the World Trade Tower in NY. I was expecting a small plane crash as I turned on the TV in the living room. I realized it was a jet liner not a small plane and watched in horror as the 2nd plane struck the 2nd tower. I jumped into the shower and got dressed, the 3rd plane then crashed into the Pentagon .I told Christopher "we are under attack , call your grandmother and have her go pick up your brother from school and to come get you and the dog and take you all to her house !"
My Nextel phone started ringing and pager started going off, the EOC was being activated to report to the Ops Center. I answered the Nextel and told them at the Fire Services Bldg., I was on my way, and should be there in less than 15 minutes tops! As I got into the FSB, I was directed into our office and told to staff the phones, as the guys were setting up the Emergency Operations Center. Watching the 5 televisions on every channel we could get, I couldn't fathom the reactions and feelings my fellow firefighters were going through.
Fire Chief Ron Blackwell, all the Deputies and other personnel started coming into the building from Upper Marlboro, as Chief Blackwell was supposed to get sworn in that morning. DC Fire was requesting units from Prince Georges Fire/EMS to assist; the CHAOS was now in FULL operation. The 4th plane en-route back to DC went down in Pennsylvania. Many units were getting equipment put on them, and placed in service; an ALL CALL back to DUTY had already been activated. The phones were ringing off the hooks both citizens and Fire Personnel asking what they were supposed to do. It sank in ..."we are under attack" ! I was now operating on sheer adrenalin, could this happen here in Prince Georges County? We were getting ready for anything imminent that would or could happen in our county.
Then it happened … the fall of the 1st tower in NY. I stood in front of the TVs in total disbelief, and did something I never do in public, I CRIED!! Then the 2nd tower came down. Our brothers /sisters were inside trying to rescue the people from this atrocity and the buildings have collapsed!! I was inconsolable, things had calmed down in the office and I had to step outside into the hallway to try to get my composure, That's where Chief Blackwell happened to be. The Chief was in conversation; stopped, opened his arms and he hugged me. I was then able to get it back together, and went back into the office. I just needed that hug!
Danita M. Parkinson
Prince Georges County Fire/EMS Department
Fire/Rescue Operations Rm 109
Operational Compliance
6820 Webster St
Landover Hills, Md 20784
Prince Georges County Fire/EMS Department
Fire/Rescue Operations Rm 109
Operational Compliance
6820 Webster St
Landover Hills, Md 20784
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Vivian Morgan Boyd
September 11, 2001: Capitol Heights VFD – Admin., CHVFDLA -Secretary, LAPGCVFRA – Historian
September 11, 2014: Capitol Heights VFD – Admin., CHVFDLA -President, LAPGCVFRA – Past President, LAMSFA – Recording Secretary
On September 11, 2001, 6:29 am, I pulled in the garage of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) in Laurel, MD where I work. About 9:05 a.m. my mother called me, she was crying, praying, screaming and when I finally got her to calm down she said to turn on the radio or TV to the News. I turn on the radio and heard the reports about what the airplanes had done. Just before she called I could hear co-workers screaming and yelling down the hallway.
My mother asked me to please come home because I worked in a tall building that is responsible for an important commodity to the public – WATER and she was very afraid. She said we could be next. COME HOME NOW! I promised her I would and I hung up. Suddenly, the Fire alarm went off and everyone was asked to evacuate the building. When that alarm sounded I put on another hat. I become one of the Safety Floor Coordinators at WSSC, responsible for assisting occupants to the nearest exit and making sure everyone had exited. Once outside everyone was told about what was happening and they could stay or leave for the day. Almost everyone decided to leave for the day. I remembered my promise to my mother and walked down to the garage to get my car.
As I entered everyone was rushing in their cars to the exit and it was chaos everywhere. I broke up an argument between two employees that thought they should be first to exit the garage. No one was moving they had caused a traffic jam in the garage. I don't know what came over me but I felt the overwhelming need to protect and serve so… I put on my reflective safety vest, got in the middle of the jammed up cars, got everyone's attention, and started directing traffic. After a slow start, everyone got out of the garage orderly and safely. Everyone thanked me as they left the garage and begged me to get into my car and leave. I did leave after everyone was safely out of the garage. I, along with all Americans will never forget.


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Chicago is known for its architectural splendor. Its skyscrapers are a site to behold. If you have wondered how these tall buildings influence art, mold our urban culture, and affect politics of terrorism, the current show Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago June 30 - September 23 is sure to provide valuable insight.
The intersection of architecture, art, and society is vividly exposed in this exhibition of varied perspectives by more than fifty artists who come from more than a dozen different countries including Republic of Congo, Puerto Rico, and Lebanon as well as US and Europe. Michael Darling, MCA James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator, and Joanna Szupinska, MCA Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow have assembled paintings, sculpture, photography, video, and installations to produce a provocative show.
A steel structure resembling a crumbling fire escape hanging in the museum's four-story atrium immediately captures visitors' attention and serves as an appropriate introduction to an exhibition which not only celebrates architects' achievements, but also explores the often grim consequences of high rise habitation. The MCA commissioned Monika Sosnowka, a renowned Polish artist, to create a piece for this show. It's titled The Fire Escape, but also might aptly be called No Escape.
Human aspiration to "touch the stars" has spurred design of ever taller structures, which have transformed skylines from Chicago and New York to Shanghai and Dubai, where Burj Khalifa shown in an exhibition copy of a photo by Ziad Antar holds the record (almost twice the height of Willis Tower). Chris Burden's Eitech toy model of the elegant Chrysler Building 1911 dominates an area dedicated to Verticality. Nearby Jennifer Bolande's Appliance House features an arrangement of Duratrans photos in light boxes stacked to resemble Lever House.
Vulnerability is acknowledged in several works memorializing terrorist destruction. Jonathan Horowitz's Recycling Sculpture (World Trade Center Memorial) connects their empty outline with the current moment during the exhibition by stacking daily newspapers at their base. This image overlooks Exploded City 2009 by Ahmet Ogut, an installation of maquettes of two dozen other terrorist targets.
Pausing to watch Fikret Atay's "Tinica" video of an itinerant drummer performing on a ledge overlooking bleak apartment blocks in Batman, Turkey gives visitors time to adjust to low light to view Untitled (skyline), 2007. Turkish artist Kadia Attia adorned discarded refrigerators with mirror tiles to reflect the glitter of high-rise skylines in this installation.
The exhibition concludes with a series of soft sculptures of Portable Cities by Yin Xiuzhen, who uses textile fragments to produce miniature replicas.
Film video works featured in the show include Andy Warhol's iconic 1964 film Empire -- a continuous, static shot of the Empire State Building - and the multi-screen video projection High Wire by Catherine Yass depicting the terrifying attempt of high wire artist Didier Pasquette to walk among three of Glasgow's Red Road high rise tower blocks, and Cyprian Galliard's Desniansky Raion, 2007. Jan Tichy's Installation No. 3, 2007 is worth the nine minutes required to watch the digital video projection "come alive" with moving figures among the light and shadow.
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Mark Elmore, Head of Industrial Design at Fisher & Paykel Appliances, has been designing kitchen appliances for decades. He is particularly interested in the physical and architectural changes that have occurred, and in the sociological and psychological ways in which kitchens have changed over the years.
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Head of Industrial Design at Fisher & Paykel Appliances.
The kitchen has not only evolved but it has also moved. No longer a place for one person at the back of the house or, in some cases, in the basement of the house, it has gradually moved forward to occupy the centre of the home. As well as this literal move, it has also changed in function. Not just the place where food is prepared and cooked, it is now also the place where food is stored. The kitchen has gained more functions: we use it as an office, we use it as a meeting place for the family, we use it to engage with the children, we use it to entertain, we use it to communicate social status. And sometimes we even prepare food in it - but even that is changing.
The range of things we cook in the kitchen has changed: sometimes we just want to heat up some leftovers or takeaways; other times we want to create gastronomic feasts to impress others. This range of cooking - from fast food to slow food and back again - affects the way in which we must design kitchens and the appliances that go in them. There is also a trend towards more fresh-food cooking but often this is paradoxical - as the interest in locally grown, organically grown foods increases, so does the interest in international foods. Our palates are much more global; we eat foods from around the world, cooked in authentic utensils with authentic ingredients. This paradoxical situation provides designers with opportunities to innovate and develop multiple right answers - after all, there is not one size that fits all. We are also eating more healthily - or at least trying to do so. This will have an impact on how we design spaces for different foodstuffs to take into account their requirements for storage, handling and preparation. Design trends have brought elements of the professional kitchen into the domestic kitchen but some of the design parameters can be quite different. The professional kitchen is often simple, built around reliability and efficiency of use, whereas the domestic kitchen has to be quite flexible, doing many things well. In the professional kitchen, it is the chef that is the master, whereas in the home kitchen, the technology sometimes has to work harder to make us look good. The amateur at home can have little knowledge and, with more children engaging with food, health and diet, the technology needs to be simple, obvious and suitable for small, large and elderly hands. It's not just about physical ergonomics but also about cognitive ergonomics - it's about how appliances make us feel. Domestic appliances are required to be multidisciplinary, not only performing multiple functions but also working with different people with differing skills. But we still want the same levels of control and precision. The appliances don't have the rigour or scale of working of the professional items, but they must be intuitive to use and have the capacity to flex and improvise.
I am sure everyone is familiar with the concept of the 'work triangle' in kitchen design - it was based on working between the key components of the hob/oven, the fridge and the sink. It was based on an efficient time-and-motion study - based on a production-line metaphor. This all seems to be a bit, well, efficient. A bit of a task: something we had to do as quickly as possible and get out. And there was usually only one person doing it at a time - certainly at home. But now we create, we experiment. The kitchen is now our metaphorical 'shed' where we tinker, perhaps making it up as we go along, perhaps following a recipe. We have heard that in some countries there are even personal trainers who will come in and work with the cooks. People are also coming into the kitchen - "you will always find me in the kitchen at parties". And now, rather than just sitting there and watching the theatre unfold, the visitor is picking up the knife and joining in. They are picking up the wooden spoon and giving the pot a stir. It is now a team effort. Cooking is a collaborative act. This means not only that kitchens are growing bigger but also that we have to rethink the concept of the working triangle. As appliance manufacturers, we have had a look at what we can do to respond to these trends. We have started to separate the components. Now it is possible to have a CoolDrawer for drinks by the dining table, perhaps a DishDrawer for crockery by the sink and one for glasses by the bar. The design concept is now about distributed appliances - allowing us to configure the kitchen to suit the way we work and live. Where do we want the vegetables, where do we want the utensils, where do we want the freezer? As kitchens evolve to be more like lounge spaces, the technology is becoming more embedded. Kitchen cabinets are looking more like furniture placed in the centre of a room and we need to make sure that our appliances integrate seamlessly. This has given kitchen designers much more freedom - after all, why don't we design the kitchen around the way that we create? And we all do work differently and we work with other people.
The kitchen has come out of the closet and its role in everyday life has increased dramatically over the decades. Children are being encouraged to take a greater interest in what they eat. We are all living longer. The users of the kitchen are now multiple and of considerably different abilities, both cognitively and physically. The usability of the kitchen has become a major challenge - design for everyone is not as simple as it sounds. We carry out a great deal of ethnographic research working with real people, observing how they work and how they live with the various design aspects of the kitchen, the appliances, the cupboards. This is not only ergonomic work - i.e. looking at body dimensions - but also looking at the psychological and sociological aspects of how the different components work together. We use this information to help us design better appliances and also to share design trends with kitchen designers.
For example, we have noticed that people live out of drawers. It makes sense that what we use most is placed at waist height in a kitchen; after all this is where our hands are. We have all had the experience, whether we're conscious of it or not, that if something is used less frequently we place it in the third drawer down. We are finding that people are opting to place the DishDrawers side by side in their kitchen cabinets rather than one above the other as they find it hard to bend down to access the lower drawer. This simple insight encouraged us to keep pursuing our thinking around the distributed kitchen. What if all our drawers could be appliances, each with a different function: one for washing, one for cooling and another set to pantry mode to keep dry foods at the desired temperature? With increased social activity in, and more prominence of, the kitchen, design aesthetics have become more important. The kitchen is no longer hidden away - in fact, it is the room on which we spend the most money and so expectations for quality are noticeably higher. We demand better quality and better-looking finishes. This means that we have to make sure that everything we design can be easily maintained and cleaned, always looks good and promises a much easier relationship.
The kitchen of even 20 years ago was a very different beast. The kitchen of today has an enormous amount of technology behind it and its components are starting to look more like furniture, becoming better designed for creative use rather than for tasks. The kitchen of today not only has to look good, it also has to make us look good. It has to fit into our increasingly more complex, integrated and multi-faceted lifestyles. It has to be the place for storage and the place for preparation - from weekday convenience to weekend gourmet. It has to be the place to play with the kids, the home office, the place where we hold family meetings, the place in which we entertain. The kitchen is a fundamental member of the family.


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Children 2-5 and their parents, grandparents, or guardians are invited to play in our Children's Room. The children's room depicts Gloucester Harbor and includes 14 wooden buildings, 6 piers, 5 schooners, a dory, Ten Pound Island Lighthouse and various wooden people. Not surprisingly, a 3-5 year old can play in this room for hours. One of our educators will also read a seafaring children's book during this weekly event. We hope you can join us.
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As I wrote yesterday, I had prepared a binder with all of my documents proving lineage back to my patriot ancestor, John Cash (A020406), and had already sent in a pedigree chart. The first thing the ladies wanted to know was whether this line connects with the singer, Johnny Cash, which it does (he's my third cousin, twice removed).
The Registrar has looked up my ancestor in the DAR's Genealogical Research Database, where other members had joined through John's son, Moses (my 5th Great-Grandfather). They had not, however, joined through Moses' daughter, Elizabeth (my 4th Great-Grandmother). I paged through the binder I'd brought, browsing through each generation of death certificate, census records and wills, proving the lineage from myself to Elizabeth, and then Elizabeth to Moses.
The DAR ladies seemed very pleased with my records and, based upon the meeting, feel that I have everything that I need. I left my binder with them, and they will start work on my application. Apparently, I have to be voted in, but the way they mentioned this it seems like a technicality. Also, because I'm under 36, I would be a junior member. From some of what they said, I got the feeling that the DAR in general is short on junior members, who have certain rolls to fill within the society. She said that they're a very active chapter, though didn't go into great detail on what all they are active with.
And in a moment of genealogical serendipity, as we were discussing nearby research repositories, the Registrar mentioned a great map she found at one library. The map included a road that lead to the property of one of her husband's Burkhalter ancestors. I had to stop her there and bring up my Burkhalter ancestors, who were from the same area. I haven't done a ton of research on this line, so I had to pull out my phone to look up the family, but it looks like I found a new cousin!
The Registrar thinks that I could be a full member by the end of January. I'm looking forward to moving forward with my application (though no so excited to part with the $150 in fees and dues) and plan to attend the next society meeting in January.


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Roy Phillips, Managing Director of Intelliconnect, commented, "The Intelliconnect multi-pin circular connector range has evolved from a number of custom connector designs we have undertaken. It features a range of signal, power and mixed configurations available in many different pin and socket combinations and housing materials, and offers a compact and flexible waterproof connector solution to system designers."
Up to 13-way connectors are available in industry standard shell styles which simplify control panel design and improve ergonomics. Intelliconnect also offers a cable assembly service for terminating cables to their multi-pin connectors, simplifying customers' design and purchasing requirements while ensuring the integrity of the connector assembly is maintained.
These high quality UK manufactured connectors are waterproof to IP 68 in the unmated condition and for more demanding environmental requirements hermetically sealed versions are also available. The connector body may be specified in a number of materials and finishes to suit environmental conditions and design aesthetics. For any requirements not available from Intelliconnect's standard range, custom designs will be undertaken with prototypes available in eight weeks from design drawing acceptance.


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Al Capone, with raised eyebrows, appeared to be taking a curious sideways glance at the two-minute video of soccer playing and talk about corruption and crooks.
The same Las Vegas museum that has chronicled Sin City's mob beginnings led by the likes of Bugsy Siegel hopes to score with a new exhibit looking at the wide-ranging criminal investigation into soccer's governing body, FIFA.
The Mob Museum debuted the exhibit Tuesday morning, the first of a rotating crop of exhibits to explore more modern examples of possible organized crime that may not involve fedora-wearing wiseguys and tommy guns.
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"It just looks a little different," said Geoff Schumacher, the Mob Museum's director of content, saying future exhibits may likely delve into drug kingpin El Chapo's recent escape from prison, human trafficking and cybercrime.
"You don't have Lucky Luciano or Meyer Lansky. These are not household names today," he said.
But "The Godfather" mystique has lived on in news coverage following the FIFA investigation including the "FIFA Nostra" headline on French newspaper Liberation and a political cartoon portraying FIFA President Sepp Blatter wearing pinstripes and labeled the "Mafifa Don."
U.S. prosecutors indicted top-ranking FIFA officials in May and have sought their extradition on charges of bribery, fraud and racketeering. Prosecutors allege the defendants plotted to pay bribes of more than $150 million tied to the award of broadcasting and hosting rights for major tournaments.
At the Mob Museum, the image of Capone, the notorious gangster dead for more than 68 years, looms large two doors down from the new FIFA exhibit.
In between a room filled with black and white family photos of infamous mobsters and an area where visitors can simulate shooting bad guys, the small FIFA wall display is primarily a collection of news coverage, photos and captions set against wallpaper with a pattern of cash and currency symbols.
Admittedly, exhibits "ripped from the headlines" offer few artifacts beyond the literal newspaper and magazine covers, news photos and video clips because any evidence is tied up in ongoing investigations, Schumacher said.
Text explaining the exhibit that's being called "The 'Beautiful Game' Turns Ugly" states soccer's status as the world's most popular sport.
"It's also the most corrupt," the text continues.
FIFA officials did not respond to an email seeking comment about the new exhibit.
Those accused in the conspiracy haven't been convicted, and Blatter isn't among those indicted. Former official Chuck Blazer has pleaded guilty to racketeering, conspiracy and tax evasion, and he wore a wire to assist the investigation.
Blazer's photo is among several others that fill the small display case including longtime FIFA president Blatter, who has promised to resign; U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch, who brought the indictments; and former FIFA official Jack Warner, who famously cited a story from parody news site "The Onion" during a news conference after indictments were announced.
The display also features Scottish journalist Andrew Jennings and his press passes. "The crooks controlling the FIFA got away with it for so long because there was no real scrutiny," Jennings says in a video interview.
Where there's smoke, Schumacher said he sees plenty of fire worth highlighting in the museum.
"We've been very careful to not convict anyone," said Schumacher, a former reporter and editor for Las Vegas-based newspapers. "We're trying to be very responsible."


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hi , this is my writing...it's an article about a woman living in hcm city, in VN
Entering the showroom at the artist resident 52AB BauCat, room 13 , Tan Binh Dist, HCM city, Vietnam visitors will bewitched by charming glasses with sand- paintings inside. The first idea of a sand-painting came simply when she put sand in to glasses to arrange some flowers, thinking of colorful sand that she often saw in nature, she asked herself to make some thing further.
The author of the sand painting is Tran Thi Hoang Lan, a woman of her 40, used to be the principal of Domestic arts and feminin ocupation school, With a close name as " Y Lan" she's also known as 3 times won prizes for " Beautiful woman".
Little by little, a lanscape of her fatherland starts to appear as the woman arranges layers of sand. It's a row of coconut trees in Ben Tre, leaning onto the river, or the figure of a young girl in traditional Ao dai and Hue cone hat. Watching her carefully and meticulously sprinkles with sand and trim to draw the veins of a coconut leaf, we can understand how care and pains and the constancy in her to finish such painting.
Her working impliments is very simple, it's a spool to sprinkle sand and a small stick to dig slots. At first her sand paintings were all about some repeat designs and uncomplicated decorations. Gradually, she became well up to do a fully done painting represented scenery with people, and has just finished a painting of an Earth god- her first work of designing a human being with many precise strokes. Painting with sand is not an easy work because u can not have a draft for this kind of painting, and when sprinkle a little obliquely, it's sure u will have to do it again. How to control sand as u like, how to tame the Sand to make it fine paintings, it's not easy to answer eventhough u have spent time trying with sand.
Today, sand painting is one kind of an beloved souvenir with prize from 50.000 VND to 200.000VND, For glasses is an fragile material sand- painting still needs some technique solutions to make it more durable, deserving the time and care the artist spends for it.
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