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Mobile wireless services are in transition. Successful outdoor coverage has driven higher demand for mobile devices, and people now expect to use their phones everywhere. Many consumers are eliminating wireline phones from their homes, and enterprise workers are increasingly relying on cellular phones as their primary point of contact. At the same time, mobile carriers are offering new services such as video and GPS mapping in an effort to drive ARPU, but these new, bandwidth-hungry services are putting greater strain on cellular networks.
Carriers have spent tens of billions of dollars to build out their macro networks, but those networks dont always adequately support new high-speed data services and richer applications, and they dont consistently deliver coverage in buildings, subways, stadiums, and other locations. And when customers are frustrated by sporadic service, they switch carriers.
Enterprise and consumer subscribers have a different standard of quality for their cell phone service. Todays users rely more heavily on cell phones to do more things in more locations, and carriers must step up to boost service quality.
Equipment vendors have begun to address these challenges, and carriers have many options for specific problems. They often use distributed antenna systems (DAS) for enterprises and public facilities, remote radio heads for filling coverage gaps in outdoor networks, and small base stations for covering remote areas. In addition, carriers are now testing femtocells for consumer/SoHo applications.
But with these new coverage and capacity concerns and a plethora of products that address them, how can carriers plot a sensible course for the future? In this article, well look at the new challenges posed by emerging wireless services and applications, and review the requirements for a successful carrier strategy.
Moving Wireless Indoors
Since the first mobile networks, carriers have built macro networks that were designed to provide a blanket of outdoor coverage, covering the biggest areas possible with the fewest base stations and cellular towers. When mobile services primarily used 850MHz frequencies this strategy worked fairly well because such relatively low frequencies were pretty good at penetrating buildings. But three major shifts have caused this strategy to outlive its success:
Consumers whose mobile phone usage was primarily in cars or outdoor areas have now come to rely on them inside buildings and other structures.
Carrier roll out of 2.5 and 3G services, which generally operate at 1.9 or 2.1 GHz (with 2.5 and 3GHz WiMAX and LTE services in the wings). These higher frequencies dont penetrate buildings nearly as well as lower frequencies.
The advent of 2.5 and 3G services is enabling users to watch video, check e-mail, play games, and do other things that primarily take place in buildings and also increase the demand for bandwidth.
Filling Macro Gaps
In-building coverage challenges aside, carriers are also facing stiffer pressures to fill holes in their macro networks. Wireless signals like to travel along lines of sight, and typical macro network towers cant provide pervasive coverage in dense urban environments or in areas where the landscape or structures block or attenuate the signal from the nearest cell tower. Geographic features such as canyons, slopes, and dense forests are a challenge, as are urban centers with dense buildings that block signals.
Even in areas with an abundant supply of rooftop cell towers, users often find that signal strength tails off toward the lower floors of tall buildings. When on the upper floors of buildings, subscribers can experience poor service because signals from multiple towers may be visible to the phone and the phone constantly hunts from one signal to another.
Capacity is also a challenge outdoors. Macro networks that were designed to support an average user base five or ten years ago cant support current call volumes or the need for higher-speed data support. Most of us have experienced an inability to make or sustain a call in stadiums, on bridges, or even on crowded freeways or urban sidewalks simply because the nearest macro towers are overloaded.
To resolve these issues, carriers must find scalable and cost-effective ways to extend coverage in these shadow areas, and to increase available network capacity to support current and future user densities and services. The question is: whats the best way to do that?
No Shortage of Solutions
As these issues have become more prominent, the marketplace has responded with an ever-growing array of solutions. Heres a quick review.
DAS Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) have been used for years to extend mobile coverage inside buildings, subways, and public facilities as well as in outdoor areas of stadiums, parking garages, university or enterprise campuses, and other structures. The idea behind DAS is to minimize the number of backhaul connections and the expense of BTS equipment by relying on centralized base stations and then distributing their signals with more cost-effective remote antennas.
Remote radio heads Remote radio heads extend a base stations coverage by broadcasting its signal in a new area. In effect, these operate as an outdoor DAS (relaying the signal from a base station), which is far more cost-effective than adding more base stations. Traffic from radio heads can be backhauled via terrestrial networks or microwave links.
Micro base stations When remote or isolated areas require network coverage, it may not be cost-effective to extend a macro network out from its nearest edge. Islands, cruise ships, military bases, and other areas require dedicated networks, and micro base stations fill this need. Backhaul options include microwave and satellite links.
Picocells and femtocells Within the past few years, vendors have begun offering smaller base stations that can provide cellular service for residences and smaller facilities. The advantage to these is that they provide coverage and capacity: rather than forcing carriers to use part of their macro networks capacity for users inside a home or office, they can provide dedicated capacity within the facility through picocells or femtocells. Picocells can even be grouped to deliver more capacity, which is then distributed with a DAS. The advantage to these options (other than offloading the macro network of the job of providing capacity to indoor areas), is that traffic can be backhauled over existing cable, DSL, or other IP connections in the home or office, further saving carrier OPEX.
Infrastructure Requirements
So the good news is that the marketplace provides lots of solutions that solve the specific coverage and capacity challenges outlined earlier. The bad news is that none of them fits every situation. Wireless infrastructure is in a state of flux, and new services and protocols are emerging. Carriers must respond to market demand, but they cant afford to bet the farm on the wrong technology.
Strategically, the best course is to think of the entire wireless network as a single infrastructure, and then use requirements dictated by that vision to qualify point solutions for inclusion within the infrastructure.
Here are some key requirements that can help carriers select products that deliver maximum flexibility for an uncertain future while minimizing the cost of management and upgrades.
Completeness Solutions must address any challenge, and they must fit within the overall architecture, ideally using similar backhaul technologies, requiring minimal integration, and supporting unified management.
Flexibility Every in-building or macro gap deployment is slightly different, and different solutions can easily be required depending on the number of carriers or protocols to be supported, services delivered, location, facility use, budget, and other factors. Carriers should look at a range of options and choose the ones that best meet service and business needs.
Investment protection As technology evolves, solutions within the architecture should accommodate upgrades with minimal cost or disruption. Carriers should be able to add WiMAX or LTE components without having to replace base stations or radio heads, for example, and these upgrades should not disrupt service or impact performance or manageability.
Support for prevailing standards While one of the challenges in wireless networks is the constant appearance of new protocols, it is generally agreed that the future of network infrastructure is in IP. Any solution should integrate with IP networking and management systems.
Integration and support Solutions should be broadly available in all service areas and should be well understood by service and support personnel.
Centralized management All solutions should fit within a common management system to minimize OPEX and maximize network up-time.
The Holistic View
As carriers plan to address the myriad challenges of providing new services with adequate coverage and capacity, its easy to get caught up in one particular solution or another. But the best course is to take a step back and look at todays mobile network evolution as an opportunity to unify the network infrastructure, to build for current capacity as well as tomorrows needs, and to choose solutions that offer the service flexibility to meet any market demand in any location.
John Spindler is vice President, Product Management, for ADC.
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The American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Imunocology states that eczema typically affects between 10 and 20 percent of children and roughly between one and three percent of adults. Eczema is also known as atopic dermatitis and is a common childhood skin disorder. Often it disappears before adulthood but can sometimes affect adults too.
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Often, eczema appears behind the knees and on the arms. It can also appear anywhere on the body including face, neck and chest. Often eczema patches are red, bumpy, flaky, itchy and scaly. Fluid can also leak from the bumps if scratched and form a crust. This condition affects children more than adults, and most people outgrow childhood eczema.
Flare-ups happen occasionally and in between flare-ups eczema can be manageable and even disappear. Some common triggers for flare-ups are hot baths or showers, experiencing stress, excess sweating, dry air, cigarette smoke and allergies.
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Not all eczema is severe and can be treated in a variety of ways. Medicine is not recommended as a first course of action but in some cases in necessary.
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Use non-irritating skin moisturizers
Use unscented soaps
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Many homeopathic remedies exist as well. Making homemade eczema creams and diet management are a couple of natural treatments for eczema.
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You probably knew I'd start with ESPN, who wouldn't? This international sports brand sits atop the Disney Empire and it continues to grow. Subscriber fees for the brand are growing every year, as are the number of people paying those fees. With the price of ads going up on the network too, I think ESPN has a lot of room to run upwards.
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Now, let's take a look at LucasFilm, another Disney purchase that brings with it some incredible brands. Disney has so much potential with the Star Wars series and they will likely make the big bucks at the box office despite fan outcry about the purchase.
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I only outlined some of the 'biggies.' There are many more reasons why Disney will continue to grow for years to come. You have all of the local ABC networks that bring in ad money, all of the merchandising that Mickey Mouse, Captain America, and Yoda will sell and even the Pixar movies.
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The APSA and Brookings Institution Press has published Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It, by Stephen Macedo and eighteen other leading political scientists. The book resulted from the work of the 2004 APSA Committee on Civic Education and Engagement.
The APSA and Brookings Institution Press has published Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It, by Stephen Macedo and eighteen other leading political scientists. This book resulted from the work of and is sponsored by the APSA Committee on Civic Education and Engagement. The book examines and describes civic trends, locates the sources of our civic debility, and provides an agenda for reform.
Democracy at Risk examines the trend toward civic disengagement, locates the sources of civic debility in the United States, and provides an agenda for reform and rehabilitation.
"Historically, American political science did not content itself with describing our politics through magnificent charts and the ingenious use of statistics. It had a moral commitment to strengthening our democracy and expanding political participation. This important and exciting manifesto is true to both callings. It is brilliantly analytical but also eloquent and practical in proposing reforms to improve our practice of politics. At a time when our country is busily selling the democratic idea to the rest of the world, we need to tend our own civic life. Here's hoping that Democracy at Risk inspires the national and grass roots debate we badly need." -- E.J. Dionne Jr., syndicated columnist and author of Why Americans Hate Politics
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My Son Had a Febrile Seizure
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With the recent and tragic death of Jett Travolta, seizures are at the forefront of many parents' minds. While most seizures are not life-threatening, watching your child have one is terrifying. Here is one mother's account of what happened when her son had a febrile seizure, a convulsion in young children caused by a sudden spike in body temperature.
Guest Blogger Sara writes: The other night, my 23-month-old Asher had a cough, but it didn't seem to be anything major. He felt warm in the evening, so we took his temperature and it was 100.3, so we treated it with Tylenol immediately. He seemed a bit crabby throughout the day but never too sick or lethargic. We went through our normal dinner/ bath routine but ran a cooler bath than normal, thinking it would help bring down the fever. We also put him in footie pajamas since it was a chilly evening. Before bed, he drank his milk and brushed his teeth just as he always does. When my husband went to go put him up to bed, I noticed he was laying on his shoulder and his eyes were drooping shut. I figured he was just exhausted.
Upstairs, my husband sat down on the rocker to read him books as he always does before bed, and I could hear them talking. My husband said he noticed that Asher (who was sitting on his lap -- not facing him) sort of went limp -- the pacifier fell out of his mouth and when Asher didn't go to pick it up (as he always does), he figured he fell asleep and he should just put him in the crib. But as he picked him up and turned him around, he saw that he was completely limp and unresponsive. I heard him yell, "Asher! Asher!"
I ran upstairs and Asher's mouth was wide open. He was not responding to our screams. Every so often, he would gasp for air. I immediately called 911. The 911 person told us to lay him on the floor on his back and that's when he started seizing: Both arms seemed like they were involuntarily jerking. His head was going back and forth. The 911 operator asked me a bunch of questions and told me that as long as he is breathing to wait for the paramedics. About 2-3 minutes later, what seemed like a lifetime, the paramedics arrived and Asher was still seizing. Once they assessed him and took all his vitals, they knew immediately that he was having a febrile seizure. They said that this is relatively common in young children; when a fever spikes really high, some children respond by having convulsions. While I was relieved to hear this, I still didn't believe he was okay though -- he was just laying there and it almost looked like he was dead.
The paramedics assured me that after a febrile seizure, there's a period of time called the Post-Ictal Period where the brain is, in essence, rebooting -- it's kind of like a recovery period after a seizure, which It can last up to about 20 minutes. After about 5 minutes though, they transitioned him to the ambulance and he was still unresponsive. I kept asking the paramedics, "Is this okay? Is this all right? Is this okay?!" I just couldn't believe that he hadn't snapped out of it. He looked like he was brain dead, but the paramedic assured me that it's completely normal. He was shivering a lot, which was apparently a sign his body temperature was regulating.
When we got to the hospital, about 3 or 4 minutes later, he finally came to. He started to cough and open his eyes -- I was so relieved. I never thought hearing my son's cough would be the best sound ever. At this point, his temperature was at 103.5. Since this was Asher's first experience with a Febrile Seizure, the doctors wanted to run a battery of tests to check to see where the source of the fever was coming from (infections, etc) and to see if there was a greater disorder. They took blood, an X-ray of his chest, and also swabbed his nose for RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus).
The doctors told me that in the future if our child has a fever to dress them really coolly. Don't bundle him -- definitely no footies. They literally told us to put him in a T-shirt, diaper and maybe short pants. Bundling him up just exacerbates the fever. After a couple hours of being there, nothing turned up in any of the tests for a bacterial infection. The consensus and diagnosis was that he had contracted a virus -- anything that could create a high-rising fever in a short amount of time could have caused this. We were also told that children that have had one febrile seizure are at a higher risk for having another -- though it may never happened again. Children tend to outgrow them and we were assured that febrile seizures are greatly different from and not related to epileptic seizures.
Not knowing what was happening and truly feeling helpless was the scariest feeling in the world. Not knowing how to help my child was awful. Now that I understand it a little better, I feel more comfortable. But this was the scariest thing my husband and I had ever experienced. It's hard to believe that there was a moment that I actually thought my son was dying. The range of emotions that I went through for 10 minutes from the time it happened until we left for the hospital were so drastic that it took me a while to process and understand that he would be okay. For something that can seem so extreme and scary, it's hard to imagine that a febrile seizure is actually medically harmless and has no long-term effects. I'm hoping that this never happens again, but if it does, the only peace of mind that I have now is that I'll recognize it, and will know that we'll be okay in the end.
Check back in tomorrow when pediatrician Dr. Cara Natterson weighs in on febrile seizures and what you can do about them.
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Oh my God, thats the scariest thing Ive ever heard. I am so glad that he's okay though, I couldnt imagine going through something like that. Thank you for sharing with us though, I was always told by my parents to dress someone who had a fever in warm clothes to break it, but now I will think twice.
Oh my God, thats the scariest thing Ive ever heard. I am so glad that he's okay though, I couldnt imagine going through something like that. Thank you for sharing with us though, I was always told by my parents to dress someone who had a fever in warm clothes to break it, but now I will think twice.
My first born had them febrile seizures, she only had 2 episodes one the night before her 1st birthday and then then 2 on her 1st birthday. her temp. spiked at 105. the first time i was alone with her and i tell you that was the worst, i too thought my baby was not gonna pull out of it. called 911 they took her to the hospital and did nothing for her, or even tell my husband and i what to do if it happened again. i felt so scared for my little girl. the 2nd one we had to call 911 again they took us to a diff. hospital and the did test after test and gave us information about it and how to deal with it. my little girl is going on 6 in a few weeks now and she has not had any more since her 1st birthday. but it still haunts me that it could happen again to her or my other little girl.. its a scary thing to see happen to your child.
I know how you feel, my daughter had one at 14 months and quit breathing, it was the scariest thing. I was a single mom at the time, and Thank God for my parents, they met us at the hospital, and got me through it. I didn't know they could happen with high fevers, so it was really scary!!!!
I understand the pain of watching this happen to your child and feeling helpless. The worst/scariest day of my life happened just 4 days ago. My two and a half year old son came into my room at about 1a.m. and asked to sleep with me. I usually take him back to his own bed, but I was tired and let him stay. At 3:30a.m. I was woke up to him vilantly shaking next to me. We called 911 and he was taken to a small nearby hospital. They took his temp, which was only 101. They peaked in his ears and throat said he had strep throat and sent us home with antibiotics.I tolled them I was concerned about the fever, and he assured me they are common in toddlers who have illnesses such as strep throat which can cause a rappid fever. On the way home he had a second seizure. All in all he visited 4 hospitals and had 3 ambulance rides with a total of 5 febrile seizures IN ONE DAY. Oh by the way the final hospital actualy did do a throat culture, and he had no strep throat. Basically what I am saying is do not let ER doctors just dismiss the problem at hand by telling you it is common. Every child is different, and each case should be treated as such.
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My son just had a febrile seizure for the 1st time two days ago. It was one of the scariest things I've gone through & this is my third son. He's 19 months old, I just got up & showered since he was still asleep that morning, then got him a pop-tart, he was so excited & ran over to his chair trying to get into it alone, I put him in his chair & turned to go fill up his sippy, before I could even do that I looked over & he was starring blankly at the wall I called his name three times & he didn't look or move, I picked him up & he started shaking, I called 911 & they put him on oxygen & an IV, then took him to the er. I kept thinking will he be the same, will he still be my sweet boy. But after running test we found out he had pnuemonia & asthma, so now he's on all kinds of meds. But I'm happy I was there in the room when it happen, it was very scary though. I'm happy I know know when he has a fever to keep tylenol & ibprofen in him to regulate his temp.
My four month old recently had what we suspect to have been a seizure. She woke from sleep tense-red in the face almost seemed to forget to breathe kind of thing for no more than 5 seconds afterward she seemed confused like she didn't know where she was. It was extremely frightening I turned her quickly on her side I thought she was maybe choking I am still confused and waiting for her doctors visit to hopefully get some answers. I was wondering if any one has had a simular experience.
my son had his first febrile seizure @ 18 months old. He is now 5 and is still having them. He usually has two or three a year depending on how many times he is sick. It is something that I have never gotten use to and never will. There is never a warning and nothing I can do to stop it. His lips turn blue and he looks like he is dying. It is absolutely terrifying every single time. They tell me he will grow out of it by 6 years old. I certainly hope so but don't have alot of confidence that it will happen
My son just had his second febrile seizure -he is 14 months old - had his first 3 months ago. Its beyond the scariest thing to watch your toddler go thru. But now Im just scared to death to leave him in his crib. I am so scared that he will have one in the middle of the night and i wont hear him. Is anyone else having this fear? Please email me if so. I feel so helpless and I just want to be with him 24/7. He is only only child and I dont no what I would do if something ever happened to him.
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My son is almost 18 months old and the scariest thing I have ever seen in my life was watching helplessly while my son had a seizure. We were having lunch at a restaurant when I noticed his eyes rolled back and he went weak in his high chair. I picked him up and was screaming and yelling for someone to help me. He wasn't shaking but was stiff and had that dazed look. Everyone thought he was choking on food but I knew he hadn't put anything in his mouth. I ran outside with him in my arms and someone on the street told me he's having a seizure and helped me lay him on the ground and take his clothes off. By then someone had already called the paramedics and they immediately came and took us to ER. When I heard the word "seizure" from the stranger helping me, I immediately thought it was an epileptic seizure, i kept asking the paramedic if he's brain damaged. He assured me that he is not and that its from his fever. Basically the ER doctor told me that its very common and it might happen again since it happened once. I just cant believe that I never knew that seizures can occur in kids with high fever. I felt so guilty for not checking his temperature at home when I felt he was a little warm, thinking he was playing in the sun earlier. The next day I took him to his pediatrician for a checkup and he said something different. He said that a seizure does NOT happen because of the fever or the hike in fever. It happens when a child is sick and that this kind of seizure is genetic. He said that many kids have fevers up to 105 but don't get seizures. Apparently he is saying that there is a history of this type of seizure in our family after they get sick. He stated that my son had some kind of throat infection and that is what it was from. I had really learned my lesson that I will always take his temperature and give tylenol at the slightest raise in temperature to avoid any seizures. But now I'm not sure because my doctor is telling me that it wasn't from the fever, but he can get a seizure if he gets an illness, in which there is nothing I can do to prevent….Oh and his doc also stated that since fevers are there to help fight off bacteria from your body it doesn't make sense to give tylenol to bring down your temp..????? Has anyone heard this "theory" before?
My two year old son had a febrile seizure about 7 months ago.It was so scary!He had fallen asleep in my 16 year old daughters room like he and his twin sister loves to do and everything ws fine.He had been a little warm but I gave him motrin and went to bed until it was time for his next dose.Then my husband and I were awakened at 3 am by the sound of someone kicking in our bedroom door!I heard my daughter screaming"Mama something is wrong with Bear(his nickname)!Something is wrong with Bear!"When I cut the light on my son was laying in her arms limp and he didnt look like he was breathing at all.I grabbed him and started patting him in the back.(I didnt know what was happening at this time.)My husband called 911 and the dispatcher was asking all of these questions and i grew so impatient with them that i yelled at them.during that time he started coming to.Then he just kind of just looked at everybody.I called his name but he didnt answer,he just looked at me.anyway the EMt finally gOt there and explained that it seemed as if he had a febrile seizure. it.It was so scary I couldnt stop crying!Then what makes the whole idea of the seizures even scarier is he had his second one 6 dys ago and I was at work snowed in because of an ice storm and I had no way of getting to him at all!He has to see a pediatric neurologist and tnd hopefully we will find out some answers.


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Keeping the Faith: Choose the Future
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Last year the Old South Congregational Church in Boston began to unravel itself from a quandary. They had been the longtime owners of an exceptional church hymnal, one of the first books produced in North America, printed in 1640. After years of deliberation, study groups, and business meetings, the church finally voted to sell the hymnal.
Because of the age and historical importance attached to this hymnal, selling it was much more than jettisoning a tiny sliver of American nostalgia. The hymnal has incredible value for collectors, and those collectors were salivating to sink their teeth into this ancient book. Thus, when Sotheby's auctioned the hymnal last month, it brought a hammer price of $14.2 million, a record for a single printed book.
The sale price, with that long string of zeros, did not free the church from controversy. On one side were the church historians and those members of the congregation who felt they had been called to preserve the church's history and legacy. On the other side were Pastor Nancy Taylor, the majority of the leadership, and those who felt that faithful stewardship demanded that the resources of the church not be preserved but repurposed to continue mission and ministry.
One side said it was about symbolism, while the other side said it was about service. One side said it was about the past, while the other side pointed to the future. One side said it was about greed on the behalf of the church's leadership, and the church leadership said the dissenters were moored to traditionalism.
I watched this story unfold for over a year, and was sympathetic to both sides until I heard the church historian say that the church had two of these exceptional books and if this one was sold, "You would never be able to hold one in each hand ever again." Of course, he had to admit that holding them was not really practical -- they are much too fragile for that.
Then he further revealed that the hymnals weren't even in the church's possession! They were stored in the rare books department of the Boston Public Library. Most church members -- and certainly 99% of the community -- have never even laid eyes on these items. Are they ancient? Yes. Significant? Absolutely. Do they remain instruments of worship and service? No, they haven't served that purpose for a long time, and they will never do so again.
That these hymnals are a part of the past, not the future, appeared to be the final motivation in the sale. One thoughtful woman in the church said, "I have two young sons, and looking forward I want my sons to learn that it's not about objects. We can take those objects from the past and turn them into fuel for tomorrow."
What a fantastic perspective, and what an applicable lesson for us all. As one year ends and another begins, a profound choice is put before every person: Will we hold on to the past -- preserving, protecting, and perpetuating it -- even when doing so becomes much more work than it is worth? Or will we use the past, its gore and its glory, as fuel for the future? Will we take all we have learned, all we have been blessed with, and yes, even all that has hurt us, as the means to continue moving forward?
I am certain that a church older than the Constitution, old enough to have baptized the infant Benjamin Franklin, and solid enough to withstand everything three centuries has thrown at it, will indeed weather this current situation. I just hope that the resources from the past will get put to today's use, and not be locked away in a vault or collect interest in some obscene-sized endowment.
I hope the same for all of us. Let's not make life a museum built to what used to be, but a mission to bring about what can be, for life is not so much about preserving the past as it is living with power and purpose today.
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If you want it to look very professional, it will be tricky. The mitered corners are hard to do neatly, and getting it to wrap around the rabbetted edge where the actual mirror fits could get fussy too, depending on how thick your fabric is.
I would skip the tufting shown in your photo. That's the kind of thing that a lot of DIYers attempt but hardly ever finesse. On the other hand, if you're ok with a DIY look, then go for it.
Are you planning to buy a ready-made framed mirror or are you going to make a frame yourself? The former will cut out a lot of steps and also the need for some tools that most people don't have laying around, like a router.
check out little green notebook blog - she uses peg board to make a button tufted headboard. Im sure that concept could work for this, provided you have to tools/materials to cut a hole in the middle (to make it a frame) and back it with some sort of board?...
Go for it. What's the worst that can happen? I've done all kinds of difficult things by just ... doing them. Google is your friend. Take it step by step, go slowly and be careful. Google when you are stuck.
I don't think mitering the corners will be that difficult. Fabric is very forgiving, you just fold it until it looks right and then staple.
The rabbetted edge will be a bit trickier, but I would staple and cut away as much as possible and then glue felt or something over the whole thing to protect the mirror.
Alternatively, don't use a rabbetted edge. Just cover a square with fabric and then add a molding strip around the back, just the size of the mirror, to serve as a rabbet.
If you are really worried and the fabric you are using is precious, experiment with muslin first.
My mom used to tell us,'You have two strong hands, two strong legs and a good mind. You can do it.'
Instead of diving in with the special embroidered fabric, practice with some cheaper fabric first. You can get a hang of technique and get your rookie mistakes out of the way.
First thing came to mind was to use a wood stretchers for a painting as your base. They come in plenty of sizes, aren't too expensive, good base to staple into. And while tufting is a pain, maybe you could use nailhead trim or individual nailheads to add interest. Hope that helps. :^)


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Is the drama of HGTV's 'House Hunters' fake?
A participant's report that the houses they toured were neighbors' homes that weren't even for sale raises questions. Surely, you didn't think anyone could buy a house that easily, right?
We'd be remiss if we didn't bring you news on the latest scandal rocking the housing world: HGTV's show "House Hunters" reportedly is faked.
You're not surprised? Neither are we, though that's partly because we have read a number of posts by Julia Sweeten at "Hooked on Houses" about how the show is done, including this 2010 post that pointed out that the homeowners really have already chosen a home before they start filming.
In case you've never seen the show, here's a quick recap: Prospective homebuyers tour three homes they supposedly are considering. At the end of the show, they choose one. This show always has a happy ending.
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But apparently, some of the "drama" of this reality show is staged. (We are shocked, shocked, to hear that reality TV is not real. But really, how seriously can you take a would-be buyer's worry that a house priced at $176,000 is over his $175,000 budget?)
The scandal came to light after a post last week in which Sweeten told the story of a Texas couple with two children who appeared on the show in 2006.
Bobi Jensen of San Antonio, who has her own Western Warmth blog, said to Sweeten:
The producers said they found our (true) story – that we were getting a bigger house and turning our other one into a rental – boring and overdone.
So instead they just wanted to emphasize how our home was too small and we needed a bigger one desperately. It wasn't true, but it was a smaller house than the one we bought so I went with it.
Jensen told Hooked on Houses that "House Hunters" didn't accept the couple for the show until after they had closed on their new home. And the couple themselves had to find the two other houses to tour. During the hot real-estate market of 2006, they couldn't find real sellers who wanted their homes on the show, so they toured two friends' homes and pretended to consider homes they pretended were for sale.
Jensen told USA Today that HGTV makes it clear during the selection process that only couples who have already closed on a home will be considered "because they don't want to waste their time on anyone who's still in the decision-making process." But the buyers can't have moved into the home yet because they will need to tour it and pretend to be debating whether to buy it. The participants get $500 for four days of filming.
HGTV did not comment specifically on Jensen's story or on how often the homes toured by the buyers not only never were considered but also may not even have been for sale. But HGTV programming executive Brian Balthazar said in a statement to USA Today:
We're making a television show, so we manage certain production and time constraints, while honoring the homebuying process. To maximize production time, we seek out families who are pretty far along in the process. Often everything moves much more quickly than we can anticipate, so we go back and revisit some of the homes that the family has already seen and we capture their authentic reactions.
Since the show aired, Jensen and her husband have added two more children to their family. All six of them lived in a considerably smaller townhouse in Omaha, Neb., while her husband, who was the real-estate agent in the TV episode, went to law school.
She still likes HGTV and is bemused by all the furor her story has caused. She writes:
I think their practices are the only efficient way to handle a show such as this. Could they really follow a couple around who looks at a few houses every weekend and six months later decides on one? What if they changed their mind and decided to rent a few more years? … NO ONE looks at three houses and then picks one and "gets the call" that it is theirs, without at least a little more drama. I assume people know this. How could HGTV afford to keep flying the producer out, etc? I think people just haven't realized this is purely entertainment and have a lot of expectations of "reality" for reality TV that would be nearly impossible or unaffordable to pull off.
What do you think? Are you surprised? Outraged? Or did you suspect that this was how the show was organized all along?
It's an absolute scam and they should all be shot!
All "reality" TV is a scam in one way or another. That's why it is so stupid and why so many people watch. We love stupid TV and, if the producers can force some drama out of a situation (you know like by stealing one of the model's food on America's Next Top Model to make it look like a hated roommate took it) then we love it even more. Why? Buster Keaton summed it up best when talking about humor, "they laugh at me because ti isn't happening to them". Same applies to almost reality TV.


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