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Chalet Cherry Humidor
Chalet Humidor- perfect desk-top humidor for the Everyman!
The humidor comes with a hygrometer and small puck for distilled water/ solution. There isn't any instruction on the conditioning process included but you can just look it up online and find a video with instructions. Nice cherry wood finish and small divider included. All- around a great purchase!
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Capri Black Glasstop Kit
Great Experience
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Capri Elegant Glasstop Kit
An excellent value for the LOW price.
The product is easy to use. The instructions and recommendations were easy to follow. It adds a nice piece to my collection.
Chateau Cherry Glasstop Humidor
Very nice for the price
Looks as good in real life as it does in the pictures. Very pretty. May get some more for jewelry, hair barrettes, tea, gosh!!!
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Il Duomo humidor (Groupon Voucher)
Item as promised...shipped the next day. I couldn't be happier with the humidor and the service. I have had big problems redeeming Groupons in the past, so it's nice to finally find a business that I will order from again. Keep up the great work, I'll try to send some people your way.
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Love it. Only downside is thre two round humiifiers are too large to mount on the sides of the humidor. Placing them bottom takes up too much space.
Aluminum Traveler Humidor Kit
Great introductory kit!
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Happy New Year everyone. It is not really the result of a New Year's resolution, but I'm back to blogging. Doing so is actually quite fun, but with trying to keep up with both Vice Provost and Dean duties I just fell out of the habit. I'm back to just being Dean now, having given up the Vice Provost duties in July. Periodically contributing to this blog is back on a front burner.
This post is one I've been planning for a long time, and so it is a perfect one to mark my restart. I have the pleasure of highlighting again one of the many multi-talented people in this college. This time it is Debby Alperin a research assistant in Vet Micro Path who also happens to be an outstanding photographer. Some of Debby's photographs were assembled for the latest show in our Art in the Library Series over the fall and winter. You can find more of her photos here, but she has allowed me to share one of my favorites with you in this post.
I have commented here before about how I love the clouds on the Palouse. Those of you who know this place know how the rolling hills change their textures and colors with the comings and goings of the seasons. And then the clouds... It is not just the clouds themselves, although they are often beautiful in their own right. But the interplay of their beauty with the textures and colors of terrain. I've wondered why the clouds always seem to be right on top of us much of the time, and I've speculated that it is because we live on a high plateau above the canyons. Whatever the explanation, the dynamic changes in weather, season, and cropping creates a myriad of effects of low clouds and terrain that are at times astounding. In the end, thoughts of explanation miss the point, ...just enjoy...
Tags: vetmed, dean, wsu, people, palouse
I am prodded out of my blogging torpor by this article in the NY Times. Readers know that I'm fond of cats. And, it doesn't get much better than when I can merge cats with science. Especially when it highlights their superiority over dogs...
These guys from M.I.T., V.P.I., and Princeton, used high speed video to study the hydrodynamics of drinking in cats. The study was incited by one of them observing his family cat, Cutta Cutta, drinking. Being a curious sort, the study was on. Once they figured out the basics, being engineers and scientists they had to generalize and predict, so they developed models and took more measurements on bigger cats (lions, jaguars) to test their predictions. Cutta Cutta lapped 4 times per second, with a tongue speed of 1 meter/second. Their predictions were that these would slow down in larger cats -- which is what they observed. In addition, they modified a robot to successfully mimick the hydrodynamics of this process.
Cool...and they even got a Science paper out of it, the summary of which reads in part: "...laps by a subtle mechanism based on water adhesion to the dorsal side of the tongue. A combined experimental and theoretical analysis reveals that Felis catus exploits fluid inertia to defeat gravity and pull liquid into the mouth. This competition between inertia and gravity sets the lapping frequency and yields a prediction for the dependence of frequency on animal mass..."
Tags: vetmed, dean, wsu, companion animals
That's new WSU Foundation Trustee and a Coug's Coug, Kyle Frandle, and me at our 30th DVM class reunion watching the Cougs give the Ducks a game at homecoming yesterday. Another 1980 grad, Adawna Windom, is huddled under her green jacket behind us, and peeking over our rain gear is former long-time CVM faculty member Duane Mickelson, celebrating his 40th reunion.
As always, Kyle was there to bail me out, as I had counted on the weather cooperating and had no impervious outerwear.
Go Cougs!
Tags: vetmed, dean, wsu, people, events
The people in this college are always a source of inspiration to me, in many ways, large and small.
Even in tough times, we work together as best we know how to keep moving ahead and taking care to celebrate our success. Sometimes this means overcoming obstacles put in our way by well-intentioned, but frustrating nonetheless, policies, rules, and regulations.
I recently had occasion to be really proud of our faculty, who stepped up to a challenge I issued as follows: Each year, our college's staff advisory committee selects four or five staff members, who have been nominated by others in the college, to receive a Dean's Staff Excellence Award. The recipients this year -- as always -- represent a cross section of our many great staff. This has always been a monetary award of $500 in recognition for jobs well done. This year the obstacle was a state law passed as part of the budget cutting forced on us by the severe economic downturn we have been in for the past two years. This law prohibits use of any university funds, regardless of the source of those funds, for cash awards to faculty or staff. In this tough time that challenges our collective morale, we felt that it was more important than ever to provide the recognition and cash that go with these awards, so the faculty stepped up and gave to me funds that I then used to provide five staff members with the usual $500 cash award.
From the bottom of my heart, I thank these faculty -- and some senior staff from across the college who gave funds even though they were not asked to. These were not donations to WSU. They generated no tax deduction. They were funds given to me personally in amounts from $20 to $200 and then passed through me to these five incredible staff members.
I not only thank these individuals for their generosity, but I thank them for trusting me to not use those funds to buy the spiffy new fly rods that I have my eye on.
Thanks so much!
Tags: vetmed, dean, wsu, people
A while back I commented on one of our recent displays of student art in the Animal Health Library.
Heather Brurud -- now in her fourth year -- is a talented photographer and this show included many of her best photos. Recently, the library held a contest to pick the favorite photo, which will become a permanent part of the art college for the Animal Health Library.
It appears that I was prescient (...insert pat on back here...) as the photo of seagulls I put in my prior post as one of my favorites was the winner! Now, I'll be able to continue to enjoy this long after Heather is out making her way in the real world.
Thank you Heather for sharing with us for these past few months. These are the kinds of things that make this college a better place.
Tags: vetmed, dean, wsu, students, art
Just a brief post to pass along yet another spot-on XKCD Comic sent to me by my son.
If you have spent any time trying to find information on websites (and who has not?) it will likely resonate. Institutions and organizations want to market ... users want to find information quickly and simply. This singles out universities, but the application is nearly universal.
Tags: vetmed, humor, dean
Air travel has been an integral part of my worklife for some time. Until becoming dean it was rather infrequent, but now there is considerably more.
Of course working while traveling has been part of worklife travel. One had to think ahead about what manuscript to review, grant to work on, and so on so that one had their work with them.
Not so much, any more. Now, in what I still consider a minor miracle, I have wireless internet way up here and so I simply remote desktop into my office and it is as though I am sitting there at my computer (without the view out the window). Better even...no phone and no drop in conversations. Just music on the MP3 player coming through the earbuds to help create the relative solitude of ignoring those seated around me as I use the internet, Excel, PowerPoint, email, Word, Acrobat, and all those other things that were not even in the dictionary when I started working on planes.
Intellectually, I see that the technology to do this is pretty straightforward (at least for those who understand its implementation), but for some reason the ability to sit here as though I were at my desk in Pullman creates a sense of wonder. It's odd, really. I think I shouldn't be so enthralled by this, but there it is...I am. So much so that the first time I used this technology, I think I sent emails to far too many people just because I could -- just because it was from 37,000 feet somewhere over the Midwest. (Thanks to technology, right now I know exactly where I am (Latitude 36.48 N, Longitude 91.67 W, over the Arkansas-Missouri border), headed SE toward Atlanta at 495 knots and 37,000 feet elevation.)
Perhaps someday this will be as old hat as everything else that seemed so very cool when it was new and fresh. But for now I still like feeling the wonder...
Tags: vetmed, dean, wsu
I came across this story in the NY Times yesterday and it made me think of Barkley, about the sweetest old tom cat you ever ran across (unless you were another tom). Barkley (who our son named for the dog on Sesame Street) started out life as a feral cat living in the draw along side our house when we lived in Vermont. After spending a couple of weeks in the attic over the garage (a long story...perhaps for another post) he lived under the chair in the den for the next couple of months of domesticated life. He would hiss and spit upon any approach. To this day, I doubt if we would have tamed him except that he got deathly ill (one of those cat things that you never really figure out, provide support, and they get better or they don't; if they get better, they've used up one of their nine lives). He was so ill he couldn't effectively fend us off and so we were able to begin handling him. After about four months of this uneasy co-existence, in the late winter, he was at least tolerating our presence and so we decided we had to test whether he had adopted us or not. We put him out and left the door open. Several hours later he came back. A few months later he was on a plane to his new life in Pullman.
One of the things in the NY Times story that struck a chord with me was the end-of-life decision for Scuzzi that paralleled our experience with Barkley. The author's description encapsulates well the issues surrounding euthanasia for which veterinarians must be ready to engage their clients. However, it specifically resonated because of Barkley. He used up a couple more of his nine lives in the 13 years he lived in Pullman, but there came that time when he was about 15 years old that a lymphoma reared up, and spread rapidly. Our kids had grown up with him and so the decision was tough, but in the end he stayed home with us, getting general supportive care and fluids, until we agreed his quality of life was no longer there and if we kept him alive longer it would be for us and not him. And, like Scuzzi, he got the shoebox burial in the back yard so we all could say goodbye and keep him around close.
He'll always be a great cat.
Tags: vetmed, dean, wsu, companion animals, people
Lot's of good things to share lately -- but I only want to emphasize two in this post.
First, this week Provost Bayly announced that the School of Molecular Biosciences will move into the College of Veterinary Medicine, effective July 1, 2010. You can read more about this here and, from the College of Sciences, here. As I said in my announcement to our faculty and staff, I cannot overstate how important a step I think this for the future of our college and university. We have been presented with a tremendous opportunity and we will immediately begin to capitalize on it.
Second, our School for Global Animal Health has just announced the groundbreaking for their new building on June 25. This new building is a milestone in realizing the mission of this important strategic emphasis in our college. The building was made possible by a generous $25 million gift from the Gates Foundation as well as other private contributions and the help of the State of Washington. In addition to this physical growth, I am also pleased that over the next few weeks we will be interviewing candidates for the first new outside recruit to be added to the faculty in the School.
These two Schools, our three Departments, WADDL, and the VTH are all well positioned to move us ahead ever more apace -- and keep this dean hoppin'.
In follow on to my last post about our many talented veterinary students and faculty, I wanted to point out to you that the third "Art in the Library" exhibit is ongoing in the Animal Health Library in Wegner Hall. This time Heather Brurud of the Class of 2011 has put together an exhibit drawn from her many photographs. You can find out more about Heather and her photography here. For those of you in the area, there is an open house to meet Heather tomorrow (Friday April 30) from 4:30 to 6:00 pm. Here's one of my favorites from Heather's exhibit.
Our intent is to make this an ongoing series. The CVM Art in the Library series opened with Gudrun Gunther's exhibit of oil paintings last spring, and continued in the fall with an exhibit of oil paintings by Norma Duppler, the late mother of Lynne Duppler, another member of the Class of 2011. I am so pleased that Steve and Vicki were able to work with Heather to continue this new tradition in our college. Many thanks to those who generously contribute their time and talents to enriching our work and study place.
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I recently started meditating regularly (finaly! (again)). I have already done a 10 day vipassana retreat, so it's easier for me to handle more time reserved to meditation per day. On the other hand on dharma overground (which I visited very few times) I hear of a stage of the progression of insigfht where everything experienced is suffering and that it is almost unbearable. I think there are refferences to this in the book "In this very life", by Sayadaw U Pandita. Also there's the story of a member here who said he was practicing too much meditation and he ended up stoping the practice and suffer undeserved and heavy consequences. So, to a lay person, it seems that there is such a thing as an excessive amount of meditation.
So my questions are: 1- Has it been your experience that there is such a thing as too much meditation? 2- If yes,how much meditation is too much for a lay person?


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Data Quality Services is a very important concept of SQL Server. I have recently started to explore the same and I am really learning some good concepts. Here are two very important blog posts which one should go over before continuing this blog post about Data Quality Services.
- Installing Data Quality Services (DQS) on SQL Server 2012
- Connecting Error to Data Quality Services (DQS) on SQL Server 2012
This article is introduction to Data Quality Services for beginners. We will be using an Excel file
Click on the image to enlarge the it.
In the first article we learned to install DQS. In this article we will see how we can learn about building Knowledge Base and using it to help us identify the quality of the data as well help correct the bad quality of the data.
Here are the two very important steps we will be learning in this tutorial.
- Building a New Knowledge Base
- Creating a New Data Quality Project
Let us start the building the Knowledge Base. Click on New Knowledge Base.
In our project we will be using the Excel as a knowledge base. Here is the Excel which we will be using. There are two columns. One is Colors and another is Shade. They are independent columns and not related to each other. The point which I am trying to show is that in Column A there are unique data and in Column B there are duplicate records.
Clicking on New Knowledge Base will bring up the following screen. Enter the name of the new knowledge base.
Clicking NEXT will bring up following screen where it will allow to select the EXCE file and it will also let users select the source column. I have selected Colors and Shade both as a source column.
Creating a domain is very important. Here you can create a unique domain or domain which is compositely build from Colors and Shade.
As this is the first example, I will create unique domain – for Colors I will create domain Colors and for Shade I will create domain Shade.
Here is the screen which will demonstrate how the screen will look after creating domains.
Clicking NEXT it will bring you to following screen where you can do the data discovery. Clicking on the START will start the processing of the source data provided.
Pre-processed data will show various information related to the source data. In our case it shows that Colors column have unique data whereas Shade have non-unique data and unique data rows are only two.
In the next screen you can actually add more rows as well see the frequency of the data as the values are listed unique.
Clicking next will publish the knowledge base which is just created.
Now the knowledge base is created. We will try to take any random data and attempt to do DQS implementation over it. I am using another excel sheet here for simplicity purpose. In reality you can easily use SQL Server table for the same.
Click on New Data Quality Project to see start DQS Project.
In the next screen it will ask which knowledge base to use. We will be using our Colors knowledge base which we have recently created.
In the Colors knowledge base we had two columns – 1) Colors and 2) Shade. In our case we will be using both of the mappings here. User can select one or multiple column mapping over here.
Now the most important phase of the complete project. Click on Start and it will make the cleaning process and shows various results.
In our case there were two columns to be processed and it completed the task with necessary information. It demonstrated that in Colors columns it has not corrected any value by itself but in Shade value there is a suggestion it has. We can train the DQS to correct values but let us keep that subject for future blog posts.
Now click next and keep the domain Colors selected left side. It will demonstrate that there are two incorrect columns which it needs to be corrected. Here is the place where once corrected value will be auto-corrected in future.
I manually corrected the value here and clicked on Approve radio buttons. As soon as I click on Approve buttons the rows will be disappeared from this tab and will move to Corrected Tab. If I had rejected tab it would have moved the rows to Invalid tab as well.
In this screen you can see how the corrected 2 rows are demonstrated. You can click on Correct tab and see previously validated 6 rows which passed the DQS process.
Now let us click on the Shade domain on the left side of the screen. This domain shows very interesting details as there DQS system guessed the correct answer as Dark with the confidence level of 77%. It is quite a high confidence level and manual observation also demonstrate that Dark is the correct answer. I clicked on Approve and the row moved to corrected tab.
On the next screen DQS shows the summary of all the activities. It also demonstrates how the correction of the quality of the data was performed. The user can explore their data to a SQL Server Table, CSV file or Excel.
The user also has an option to either explore data and all the associated cleansing info or data only. I will select Data only for demonstration purpose.
Clicking explore will generate the files.
Let us open the generated file. It will look as following and it looks pretty complete and corrected.
Well, we have successfully completed DQS Process. The process is indeed very easy. I suggest you try this out yourself and you will find it very easy to learn. In future we will go over advanced concepts.
Are you using this feature on your production server? If yes, would you please leave a comment with your environment and business need. It will be indeed interesting to see where it is implemented.
Reference: Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)
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Thanks a lot for this valuable information. Here is also some more information about DQS in SQL 2012.
Thanks for sharing. Really useful information.
Nice information,
But what are the practical use of it in production servers.
Joining the question above – I'd love to hear some 'real-world' examples of DQS usage.
Also, is it possible to use as an automatic process, or does it always have to be ad-hoc?
A very useful introduction to DQS. Do you find that the lines between MDS and DQS have blurred and have you written on this subject at all?
Very nicely introduced DQS, we are planning to implement this in production, we are a health care company and with recent health law changes we need to have an integrated view of our patients across multiple patient applications service different lines of business. In this scenario the biggest challenge is how do you match your patients across different applications and come up with one version of the patient when no two systems have the same unique identifier. To solve this problem we are planning on using DQS and train it with the rules at the end of which we are hoping to uniquely identify the patient. Do not know if there are any other better options out there if anyone knows please do comment. Option of trickling the cleansed data back to the source is not acceptable and cannot be enforced, not all source systems have SSN or Medicaid or Medicare numbers….
I understand your need for uniquely identifying individuals, but don't quite see how this solution helps you toward your goal. While I understand how it may standardizing things like city and state names, I'm not sure how it would help to define uniqueness between patients.
Thanks for the sharing this nice introduction to DQS.
Even when this kind of projects can reach an automatic execution, they will always need the human factor to decide which values are real and which are not.
That is why it is nice to see a tool that can really be used by power users, who will be doing this kind of stuff.
Thanks for sharing DQS knowledge.
Good to know about the new features ,but it seems a bit impractical since in database we have a list of valid entries for a column and users have to opt a valid value for a column from a combo box which is actually connected to a look up table ,so this kind of error will never happen.I would like to hear about useful use of this feature.
Nice introduction post indeed. However my question will be on the difference between DQS and MDS (Master Data Services). My other question is on the issue whereby you do not actually need to correct the source data but all you will need to do will be just map the incorrectly spelt data to the correct ones. For example if you have Jo, Joe, Johhny in the source and require all these three to just be mapped to the correct Master Data value John. Will it be possible to represent such a scenario using DQS or MDS?
Thank You Pinal. As always you bring new features to light with such simplicity and ease. Makes it more interesting to learn.
Thanks, Pinal,
Clear. Simple. Appreciated.
Have you used it with hindi language(nvarchar) with really large table of say 20+ lakh record for matching?? I am finding it difficult to prepare a correct knowledge-base. Any help would be appreciated
Thanks for sharing. Straight forward & clear. So appreciated.
Thanks Pinal for sharing info with us
Its realy nice feature for data cleansing.
Can we automate this process like auto creating knowledge base ?
Hi Pinal,
Your blog is very description and on the topic. I am a big fan of your blog. Thanks very much.
I am glad you liked it.
Hi Pinal,
I have been using your blog from very long time, and I must say your articles are very helpful.
I like you this artilce as well :) I have a question for you.
Can I use this Data Quality Service for between two tables.
I mean I want to map similar columns between two tables in to one table.
Thanks you for the post. It would also be good to have answers to interesting questions that have already been addressed above. Below I pointed out to the name, date and time the question was posted in this blog:
– yousef: October 25, 2013 12:32 pm
– David: November 6, 2013 6:58 pm.
– Gaurav Pareek: May 26, 2014 6:45 am
– Sudhir Pawale: February 4, 2015 12:24 pm
– Syed Asad Ahmed: April 8, 2016 8:06 pm
Good thing, worked like a charm (just like I did it two years ago … :)) … But what I missed at that time as well: after doing the actual corrections, I would have expected, that this knowledge is saved and will not be asked again, if I re-run the process. Am I wrong?
I think it should.
can you plz tell about some thing Master data services in sql server 2016 ?


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My friend Chris Chinchilla's 2nd band Mucaca Mulatta (he was originally in Art Brut before that), have put their one-and-only album, "AAA" up on Last FM for free download for anyone who is interested.
Music (MP3 files): http://www.last.fm/music/Macaca+Mulatta/AAA
Artwork : www.macacamulatta.com/aaa_artwork.zip
If you want to try one song before downloading the whole album, just to see if it's to your liking, try track 3, "Dancing On A Weeknight". Musically, I'd say influences include The Jam, The Clash, Buzzcocks, Billy Bragg etc.


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Fedora keeps the PowerPC faith
Registration is now open for SCALE 9X — register now.
Yes, it only comprises a half of a percent — that's 0.5 percent, if you're keeping score at home — of all the Linux users. Yes, that translates to a microcosm of Linux users within a microcosm of overall computer users. So I understand if Linux on PowerPC does not apply to you.
But it might.
Regular readers of this blog know I have a soft spot for PowerPC architecture. I was a Mac guy before I was a Linux guy, and I became a Linux guy using Linux on PPC architecture before I finally — finally — warmed up to Intel, AMD and others. You've probably read here how well this processor works, and how fondly I remember Steve Jobs doing the Adobe Photoshop demonstration during every Macworld keynote while the PPC processor kicked Intel's sorry butt time and time again.
While major distros have been making a bee line away from developing for the PowerPC architecture since Apple dumped the processor for the Intel one now in newer Macs, Fedora skipped its development of a PowerPC version of it's current release, Fedora 14. They joined OpenSUSE in recently saying a hasty "adios" to an architecture that, sadly, is being used less in the hardware world.
[Currently, I have two iMacs at Redwood Digital — a flavored G3 333MHz and an iMac G4 "desk lamp," both running Debian. Of all distros, Debian has remained consistent in its commitment to updating its PowerPC version of their distro. They also remain committed to developing for Commodore 64 and Atari architectures as well, while we're at it, but I digress.]
But there is good news for those who use the PowerPC: Fedora will be back in the PowerPC fold with Fedora 15, scheduled for release in May.
On behalf of the microcosm within the microcosm, thank you Fedora.
(Fedora ambassador Larry Cafiero runs Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, and is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)
January 6, 2011 at 12:28 pm
Larry, I'm glad you're writing about PowerPC support in Linux. On my now-departed G4-466, I ran both Debian (Etch) and Fedora (9, 10?) on it. Fedora had issues, mostly involving relative slowness and the graphics card not working out of the box.
But it was a great Debian platform. I got rid of the G4, but there are enough of them floating around my own personal PC ecosphere that I could acquire one at some point.
I'm back in Debian on my laptop, too. It's not a Fedora thing; Linux and Xorg currently hate my ATI graphics chip. Though not yet Stable, Debian Squeeze is old enough to not have this problem.
January 6, 2011 at 12:40 pm
PPC, see: Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, Cisco, Juniper, Xilinx, Altera…
The Wii cheats a *little* passing off some BIOS functions to an ARM chip on the side… But who can fault it, ARM is just cool!
The Cell architecture's PPEs are just 64-bit PPC chips.
The Xbox 360 doesn't have any excuses, it's 100% pure 64-bit PowerPC.
Both Cisco and Juniper routers have used MIPS, and, you guessed it, PPC.
Xilinx and Altera FPGAs have both featured hard PPC cores in their high-end FPGAs (Though that seems to be on a downward trend now that a soft OpenSPARC core can provide comparable power with a similar cost in chip space)
So, PPC is everywhere. Apple dropping PPC (which is old news) hasn't killed the platform any more than 68k chips disappeared off the face of the earth the moment apple switched to PPC, and in fact, 68k chips are still used today in the automotive industry (you might have one in your car)
So to call PowerPC dead and drop support for it is ridiculous, and I'm quite glad that Fedora is not dropping PPC for good. 🙂
January 6, 2011 at 1:01 pm
The first Linux install I ever did was on my kid's old Mac PowerPC. It wasn't pretty, but it did make all subsequent installs seem really easy.
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Reality was that we were shown a plug for the first fibreglass 12metre ever built. Then, as now, it was case of look, but we can't tell you much.
That was 27 years ago. It seems like last week.
Today, was a similar show, and minimal tell - with the invited media being left to join up the dots for themselves. A fraught exercise – even on a good day.
The tour began with a look around the Emirates Team NZ base, which now consists of the old Alinghi building and a lot of flat concrete. The rest has come down.
Emirates Team NZ CEO, Grant Dalton, says they didn't want to drop the old Team NZ base – which goes back to the 1993 era. It was built in part with the team's own crew – some of whom in pre-professional sailing days - had real jobs as builders and other construction related trades.
That Black Shed was very much off limits to journalists in the early days. In its later years you could almost hear the walls talk. It was a special place. Like a church. But it is no more.
In its place will go a mobile shed – comprised of containers for walls, but each fitted out as a workshop and a white plastic roof. The first shed is already up, and houses the pieces for the wingsail, of which Emirates Team New Zealand will have two.
A look inside the wingsail shed is like stepping into an aircraft factory. The 40 metre AC72 wingsail is much bigger than the AC45 model. Emirates Team New Zealand's first wingsail was transported in pieces – a bit like a model plane kit and then assembled on site.
It's a two element wing, in that it has front and back rotating pieces, and is similar in many ways to the giant wing that powered USA-17 in the 2010 America's Cup.
The lower front two pieces are most impressive - standing maybe four metres high, on their leading edge. Trying to mentally assemble the package, to visualise the finished wing, is a daunting exercise and not for the first time that day we give up the mental visualisation gymnastics.
To go sailing, the AC72 wingsail will be dropped onto the hull platform using a mobile crane, and the whole boat transferred to the water in a similar way to the AC45's. Once afloat the boat will be assisted from the Viaduct by special inflatables, designed more as tugs than chase boats.
Talk turns to where the on-board power is going to come from, and how much a grinder can produce. 'Someone like Rob Waddell (a world champion rower and Olympic Gold medallist) can produce 1000watts for about 25 seconds max,' says Dalton.
'They then have to throttle back to about 800watts which they can maintain for a longer period. Everyone on the boat will have to grind at some stage, except for Dean (the helmsman).'
We recall the brave comment of Mike Drummond, Oracle Racing's lead designer who was tasked on a similar point question during a question and answer session on one of the many no-race days in the 2010 America's Cup. Drummond also talked about grinder output in terms of watts but added 'a grinder produces about the power of a domestic sewing machine' – putting things in their proper perspective. Fortunately there was only media in the room at the time.
The base tour over, it's out to Cookson Boats yard on Auckland's North Shore – about a 15 minute drive from downtown Auckland.
Inside the Cookson shed the AC72 awaits with her two hulls on the floor ready for the main beam to be attached.
It's an odd feeling. Somehow we expected the catamaran to be bigger, but maybe the slimness of the hulls are deceiving.
Next it's a quick take on the beam of the boat – which can only be imagined - with one hull positioned on one side of the shed area, and the other opposite.
There's a couple of plywood platforms in between the hulls, ready to support the mainbeam while the boat is preassembled. Mentally we place a large piece of curved carbon between the two support platforms and another mind picture begins to emerge.
The cockpits in each hull where the grinders and crew will work are a little unusual. Well, they're different from what they had on Alinghi 5, and different from the AC45 (on which they are non-existent).
Downstairs at Cooksons, we are shown the mainbeam sitting on a small truck waiting to be taken to the level above. It is an interesting piece of kit. Not the standard beam that we have been used to seeing on the AC45's, and again it's different from the Alinghi 5 approach.
Trying to mentally construct the AC72, from being shown a series of components spread across two locations, is not an easy task. All will be revealed when the AC72 is launched around 21st July in an evening ceremony, open to the public – and should be very spectacular.
Then it's back upstairs to the bows of the AC72 where the interviews take place with two TV crews working over Dalton and design co-ordinator, Nick Holroyd. Builder Mick Cookson is also interrogated on camera. Then it's our turn.
Grant Dalton: 'Expect 40kts'
Grant Dalton rattles off some statistics about the time to involved in the whole process – essentially it is about three times longer to build the AC72 than for an America's Cup monohull. He gets that by adding the 25,000 hours of wingsail build time to the 40,000 hours platform build time – 65,000 man hours. Plus about 50,000 design hours – an exercise which has been underway since October 2010.
Launch date is provisionally set down for July 21, and construction of the second boat will start soon after that.
This boat will be fully fitted at Cooksons, disassembled and taken to the Viaduct for final assembly.
Dalton opens the interview by saying says their AC72 will not be dissimilar in appearance to the AC 45 - aside from the scale of the boat.
With 55tonnes of righting moment – which translates directly to power – the AC72 is a lot of boat to handle. She will race just 11 crew, when 20 would be more appropriate.
Racing in the America's Cup in San Francisco will all be about efficiency, he says - given the AC72 is so under crewed.
Turning to the speeds of the AC72, Dalton says they are expecting to see 40kts in 20 knots of breeze downwind, and mentions 18kts upwind.
The glory days of the America's Cup, with two boats hitting into the breeze, bows prancing, as one tries to get ascendency over the other, are gone in the short course, fast boat, America's Cup.
'There has to be a premium on manoeuvrability,' Dalton explains. 'There is no point in having massive horsepower and massive complexity. You just won't be able to use it. If the boat is too complex, you won't have time to pull the wing in to get the power on.
'The crew have to be able to sail efficiently. The whole ergonomics of sailing the boat, or racing mechanics as we call it, is a really critical part of the boat. The most critical,' he says, emphasising the point.
In response to another question he explains there are no baselines for any of what has had to be done with the AC72. 'It's all whiteboard stuff', he says.
Nick Holroyd: '35 man years of design'
Then we turn to Nick Holroyd, design coordinator for the AC72 project.
He repeats the design team hours – over 50,000 thus far. Or put another way - 35 man years of design time, using 25 full time equivalent designers. 'Having a new class rule has shifted the balance a little. We dropped crew numbers from 25 in the monohulls to about a dozen, but gained on design team numbers.'
Given that the team have started with a white sheet of paper, Holroyd agrees that the trade-off has been on boat speed and cornering ability, and trying to gauge where the opposition might be.
'What Team New Zealand has been traditionally good at is working the design team and sailing team together,' he says. 'The SL33 platform that we have been running has been a really strong component of that and gives us a common language. We can design something theoretically and the crew can come back and tell us how it worked in reality. At the end of the day we are trying to give the sailing team the boat they are after, to do the job they think they need to be able to do.'
Holroyd says that the emphasis with the test program once the AC72 is launched will be strongly on racing. That initial period will be spent on straight line speed, getting systems reliable and the boat mechanically reliable.
'The power of these boats for the physical bodies on board is enormous,' he says. 'Understanding how to physically muscle them around the course is a huge part of the game.'
One of the biggest challenges for the design team has been what Holroyd calls 'weight accounting'.
'Exceed a certain weight and you don't have an AC72,' he explains. 'We have been working the weight budget to within 1%. We have a very, very tight control of engineering weights.'
Turning back to the SL33 campaign and the interaction between the designers and sailors, Holroyd says the design team always give the sailors the expected performance data ahead of the sailing team testing a new feature.
'Then they come back and tell us what they saw or didn't see on the water,' he explains before repeating the mantra about the role of the design team being to give the sailing team the product they need to do the job on the race course.
On that note the show is over.
We walk away, feeling much the same as we did in 1985.
Very impressed.


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By Liz McCarthy, email@example.com, 803-777-2848
There are plenty of books on the Renaissance. Students can read all about Niccolò Machiavelliand the history of Florence, Italy.
But there aren't many ways to really experience 16th century Florence and interact with its historical figures. That's where video games come in.
Students in history professor Joseph November's Computer Games and History course can, walk around the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, investigate social conflicts, learn about Florentine politics and meet notables in the city during that time by playing Assassin's Creed II.
"You can read about it. You can visit Florence today, but through the game you can be immersed in the Florence of the Renaissance," November says.
November, a longtime fan of video games himself, realized that many students who play games – like Civilization, Assassin's Creed and Railroad Tycoon -- were coming to his classes with an understanding of advanced historical ideas. While having fun these students had also been learning some important historical concepts, November says.
"They hadn't done any professional reading on these topics, on the one hand. On the other hand, they knew about the advanced ideas of history," he says. "I'm hoping a course like this could harness that."
In academia, video games haven't gained much ground as a way to study history, but November believes these games—which are now mainstream and played by millions—can be a gateway to getting more students into the study of history.
"Young people have been thinking about the ideas that the games speak to, and now they are looking for an outlet," he says.
These games, to November, should be treated like film and literature. Their history may not be 100 percent accurate but they can be taken seriously in a scholarly environment.
"It goes beyond just reading about or watching history. You're interacting with the past actively," he says.
These games aren't like Pac Man. They aren't even Oregon Trail, an early trailblazer of educational, historical gaming.
Take an entertainment series like Fallout, for example. These games reimagine what Americans in the 1950s thought about the future by setting the game in a '50s-era vision of future centuries. In CivilizationV, gamers play with what ifs and develop entire civilizations – cities, armies, technologies – to learn how and why certain historical events may have happened.
"What can Fallout tell us about postwar decision making? Why didn't we achieve that 1950s vision of the future?" he says. "These games have serious historical content."
So far, it's paying off. The class, which reached capacity, often talks about the games and the history before November arrives, he says. It's the only class he's ever had to ask students not to get ahead in the homework.
"The class is teaching us how to do history as opposed to just learning facts," says Travis Byrd, a junior history major. "Video games are just another way of preserving how we think about events or how we process the past or the future."
For November, it's more telling that the students know more about the material than he does.
"It is great to see them doing the teaching and sharing information," he says. "I'm just the facilitator."
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Re: Cured of CC
he was indeed suspended, but via temporary injunction he is allowed to resume surgery for the time being.
i found this article tonight:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleyi … 37317.html
it doesn't really go into specifics about the cause of the suspension. what is interesting though is the notion of a hospital trying to preclude it's own doctor from performing procedures.
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'"It's way too early to know if anything will happen," Regier said Monday during a pre-draft chat inside the First Niagara Center. "I think that there are a lot of teams like us, in similar positions. … At the start of the draft week, even the week before, you start to get a sense, and then as we get closer to the draft things have a way of materializing."'
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The Atlantic Commons redevelopment project will be a self-contained metropolitan neighborhood with lofts, terraced apartments, and townhouses. The project will also please passersby with retail stores at the street level. "We tried to create a neighborhood streetscape using the components of multifamily," says project architect Carl Malcolm.
The site, previously home to the Atlantic Steel Mill, contains four separate but adjacent parcels. Phase one of the four-phase project--scheduled to begin this year--will consist of high-end and mixed-income apartments, exercise facilities, and centers for business and entertainment. The one- and two-bedroom rental units will have island kitchens, unusually shaped floor plans, and loftlike interiors. Careful detailing and quality materials will highlight the facades and the elements of the streetscape.
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It's tight seyk. It deserves a blackbook instead of line paper. And some color. Keep it up.
Fight And Win Klique/Word Trafficking Nightly/ThrillSeekers
seykone i like that alot. not a big fan of the big curve in the S and theres a bit in the midfdle of the Y that looks a bit awkward. the hole in the O is a bit off. but its quality man, keep it up
Hi, I'm new around here... This is some shit of me... Hope you'll like it
the left bottom of the a is wackOriginally posted by toxus@Dec 19 2005, 03:59 PM
^nice t'^
any comments?
make it look like the right side
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comments plzOriginally posted by Sluts_r_us@Dec 19 2005, 11:27 PM
new sketch....i suck with Os
nice eye hektik, i swear iv seen it some were else.
comments?? critts??
oooo theres a great eye in spraypaint on a nice wall nearby here. ill get a pic of it 2 show u.
anyways. . .
aiight guys
i desperately need help here
so please
constructive crit
i did this fast
not that i could do much better if i took my time
any decent toys down for a battle? PM me *****s
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
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please comment
Nice sluts r us, I like it its looking good, thats the type of style I like. But yeah
And heres mine, i tryed something new but I dunno, I tryed some new letter styles, what do you guys think? Dont mind the coloring, sketchy lines
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Never enjoyed watching Fitch even as a hardcore fan i found him annoying/boring. But feel pretty bad for the British lads worked so hard for that dream and because a few results didn't go there way they are shown the door. Just hope they have good people around them to help them through what must be a huge low point in there life. Truly gutted for them But on a brighter note i will continue to look up to all 3 of them and I'm sure little boys and girls will still want to be a Paul sass Terry etim or Che mills when they grow up just like a lot us us wanted to be a Cantona or Ronaldo or Gazza. PS Dana letting Fitch go to a rival is a genius move Dana's new strategy don't buy out the competition give them Fitch and let him main event and watch the ratings pummel.
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Cage Warriors should be all over Mills, Etim, Sass, Thoreson, and Gomez.
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Fitch is obviously the most ridiculous cut, but Sass might be the most surprising since they are clearly trying to expand in the UK and he was arguably the most promising British prospect in the UFC. I mean he obviously needs some work, but are they not in the business of building fighters anymore? And they hardly wasted any time throwing him in there with vets like Volkmann, Wiman, Castillo, etc. Even had him scheduled to fight Dunham at one point. Strange call IMO, maybe they felt like they had to with some of the other ruthless cuts they made.
So it was Joe who made the cuts and not Dana according to Volkman.
^ His record update made me spit coffee out lol...
Loss to Dana White via Cut.
ah man, just saw on MMAW his last fight before Maia - he absolutely BATTERED Erik Silva, a big up-and-coming prospect, and he got fight of the night for that.
so, he destroys an up-and-coming youngster with big hype, gets dominated on the floor by one of the very best BJJ MMA guys in the entire world, still gets cut.
really savage. I read on another board that zuffa employees were allegedly celebrating after he was KTFO by Hendricks.
still, 'Broke' Fitch will no doubt fight like a wildman in his next contest.
'Go read a fucking book, you piece of shit.'
Sass and Etim will be back like Tupac- young, quality fighters. Jon Fitch can fuck off. The amount of boring shit that guy made me sit through is unforgivable... and his beard is unacceptably scruffy.
Fortunately Jim, Fitch has earnt a wedge fighting with the UFC over the past few years including that 70,000 bonus, I don't see his family being too worried at this moment about it especially as Bellator will probably snap him up.
The rest of the guys I feel for, a lot of people being cut, a lot of families potentially scraping by.


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I'm trying to get fired up about Kelly Osbourne and Paris Hilton hate Tweeting each other, but there is just no enthusiasm. It kind of reminds me of a Paris Hilton sex tape. A lot of talk and looking in the mirror, but not much action. With a lifetime of nothing more interesting to do than sit on a panel talking about what other, more famous celebrities are wearing, Kelly Osbourne has to find other ways to occupy her time. One of her favorite pastimes has been to pick fights with other celebrities. She gets to vent at them in a way she can't do on Fashion Police. I think the formula for Fashion Police is that if someone is an up and coming celebrity or not quite famous they can be raked over the coals. If the celebrity is someone pretty important, then they tend to back off any criticism at all, unless the celebrity is wearing a designer that none of the panel ever want to wear. Pretty much the same formula holds true for E! News. Watch it a couple of times. Everything and every one who has a show on E! is safe and beloved and can do no wrong. Famous people can do no wrong unless they have admitted wrong. The only shots fired situations happen to people that are down the list enough where E! doesn't really care what they say about them.
Anyway, Paris and Kelly supposedly got into a fight because Paris wanted to sit at a table where Kelly was seated and asked that Kelly be moved. Kelly took offense at that and Tweeted at Paris. For her part, Paris said she never even saw Kelly and would rather people talk about all the mirrors that Paris had installed in her new apartment development in the Philippines. Paris is taking all the credit for it right now, but when she gets sued in a couple of years for something related to it she will probably pretend she had nothing to do with it and never even saw them. Kind of like with Kelly over the weekend.


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|Sean Penn
LMAO! DewRag, I think the original poster meant "micro neighborhoods" but your take on it was hilarious and totally spot-on!
Speaking of Hollywood Microhoods, my favorite is Cahuenga Pass, right past the Hollywood Bowl. Backdoor of Runyon Canyon. If you're at the level where you're going to studio lots (to shoot or audition) its the perfect spot b/c you're within a few minutes of Warner, Universal, CBS Radford, and Disney I think. Plus easy access to the 101/170 and 134 or you can bypass 101 with Cahuenga/Ventura for miles and miles and miles!
The thing I hate about WeHo is that its NOWHERE near the freeway. You're locked in by neighborhoods and surface streets for miles! So that sucks for getting to an audition quickly.
Burbank is my second fav. spot. Its like young, unpretentious people who are doing cool things but don't need to spout their mouths about it You'll meet young fun editors, animators, etc. who just like to live their lives and have a good time.
Great thread!
Michelle Ann Harrison
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I agree with you. If you need to get to the 405, you have to take Santa Monica Blvd., which bogs down in Beverly Hills big time. If you need to get to the 10, La Cienega and Fairfax bog down. To get to the Valley and 101, you have to take Crescent Heights/Laurel Canyon-or you have to get over to Highland somehow(Fountain is best). It may be in the epicenter of everything, but it's not quick getting anywhere from there.
In Santa Monica, Venice, and Culver City you are at least close to the 10, PCH(1), and 405. Not that the 405 is ever a picnic...
|Robert DeNiro
I lived in North Hollywood for a couple years a few years back. I really liked it because it is actually strangely convenient. You are right next to many major freeways so can get to auditions in Hollywood and on Ventura Blvd. in the Valley (a couple commercial casting places there) really easily. You're only far away from the westside (santa monica/venice) but those areas are pretty inconvenient for anyone who doesn't live ON the westside. I lived in the part of North Hollywood called "Valley Glen." It's really quite decent with some nice streets. It's adjacent to Valley Village (even nicer) adjacent to Studio City (which is even nicer). Generally, the farther away you go from Ventura Blvd. the less nice it gets.
If you live near Ventura and Coldwater Canyon Blvd. or Laurel Canyon Blvd. you have the choice of taking the 101 Fwy OR Coldwater or Laurel over the hills to Hollywood and other areas you'd like to get to. It's nice to have several options to get through the traffic.
In North Hollywood, there's also an area called "NoHo." A few theatres and restaurants and things. Not SUPER nice, but good aspects. It's something to check out if you are thinking of that area.
I also lived for many years on the westside and Santa Monica and Venice are great (try to live West of Lincoln Blvd. if you can afford it). Culver City seems like a nice possibility as well. I also like West Hollywood, Los Feliz, Studio City, and Silverlake. Lots of people like Mt. Washington and Atwater Village too. Topanga Canyon is super neat, but far away from things.
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I've lived in the Valley (North Hollywood, Van Nuys) since moving here 3 years ago.
To be honest, I wouldn't move anywhere else in LA. I like the convenience and "out of the wayness" of living in Van Nuys. I'm personally not into the party scene or being seen and love the peace and quiet associated with living in a huge suburb. I'm from a big/small city (Washington D.C.) so living out here in the Valley is definitely my cup of tea.
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|Sean Penn
North Hollywood is fairly cheap and decently located. As with any neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley, the further north from the 101 you go, the more ghetto it is, but a lot of transplants end up there the first year because of the cheap rent. No clue if it is safe but anything more than 2 miles north of the 101 always skeeved me out. My friends who have lived there have never had problems though aside from being annoyed by the wannabe gangbangers.
The NoHo Arts district has become pretty trendy and I think its also showing that in the rent. For 3k a month for a 3 bedroom I'd personally rather live in Santa Monica.
Venice is a horrible place to live if you ever plan to have guest overs. The parking situation down there is atrocious.
Same with West Hollywood. Almost all the parking there is "permit only."
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When I first considered moving to North Hollywood in 1996, a guy told me, "Oh you don't want to move up there. It's all Mexican."
And so it proved to be (and Guatemalan, Colombian, etc.) Which for me, a white guy freshly moved from New York's Upper East Side, was, I'll admit, a tad disconcerting. One of the first nights I was here, a guy came out the side door wearing - I kid you not - a full dress sombrero. One of the younger guys living here was in a wheelchair - and yes, it was from a gang shooting.
But I got to know my neighbors, got invited to pinatas and carne asadas, sat around and chatted, amused the kids as I once amused my own younger siblings and soon was quite happy in what came to feel like a little village where everybody knew each other. Which among other things meant it was really safe (try breaking into a place when everybody in every apartment knows who's who). And quiet (people had to get up early, often very early, to work).
Over the years, the area has seriously gentrified - including my neighbors, who have all moved to nicer places, and in some cases bought homes, started their own businesses, etc. The place is very mixed now (one of the last original Latino residents, an old Colombian man, died last month, soon after his car got banged up in an otherwise harmless accident). Only some of us know each other and the few times there are parties in the courtyard, it's for the people holding them and their invited friends.
But, hey, the neighborhood's improved. It's even got a Starbucks.
In other words, it's pretty much become like everywhere else.
I'm glad I knew it when it wasn't.
Jim Chevallier
I love the time machine trip of Van Nuys Jim Southern California in general was rough during the 80's and 90's and huge props to those of you that were living here during those decades.
It's still really a predominate Mexican and Latin descent out here in the Valley, but it's more peaceful (in my eyes) than H'wood or West L.A.
I have a couple of gripes that really bug me such as cleanliness and overcrowding which I'm really not going to touch too much into as it's a pretty sensitive topic for some. Yes, I have had my car broken into while parked in the apartment complex secure parking, but that was it and can happen anywhere. If you think just because you live in a "safe" neighborhood, nothing like this will happen, guess again. Believe me, when I step out of the door everyday, "Gangbangers" are the absolute last threat that I'm looking out for. Watch the news and you'll understand.
This is L.A. and because of the economic climate, people are desperate these days and will do anything to get a quick buck. Unfortunately now-a-days you can't go to any neighborhood and not have to deal with "seedy" type individuals and all out "ghettoness",
I just want the transplants from middle america total town population 1,000 to know if you decide to move to L.A. there's really no one place that is the safest of all and to be prepared to deal with the harsh realities of living here.
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|Sean Penn
I've lived in Hollywood, North Hollywood, Sherman Oaks, West Hollywood, Los Feliz, and Pasadena. (Never have roommates you don't know, if you can avoid it)... The valley is pretty gross... all the cliches are true... though everyone is different. The beach cities are nice, but the marine layer makes everything cold and perpetually cloudy. Los Feliz/Silverlake area is very lovely, and WeHo the most convenient. Right between Bev Hills and Hollywood and take the Canyon into the valley. Hollywood was fun, but could get gross at times. Once you hit 25, you feel like you are living with a bunch of Paris' and Lindsey's...But, I would say I love Pasadena. After living here, everything else feels dirty. It is not technically "LA" but there really is no "Central" area. It has ample free street parking, a subway stop, and is convenient to three freeways. I have a great deal on rent, so not sure what the norm is... but people often dismiss it for being "far". Distance-wise, maybe, but with less traffic it takes less time than living many other places.
|Denzel Washington
It's funny that people don't understand that taggers have been known to kill people,
and are often gang members themselves.
If you want a clear crime comparison of the different areas, go to the LAPD crime maps and plug in
the zip code.
Nobody has mentioned that the valley tends to be MUCH hotter. I lived in Burbank for two
years and it was awfully hot.
Venice has crime and gang problems, same as the north parts of the valley.
The westside is cleaner, nicer, and cooler, but more costly.
Me, my wife and our buddy are moving out there in March. We plan to hit Studio City--several of my friends in the industry live there and recommend it.
We stayed in SC for a week once and loved it. Reasonable rent, nice area, good food, plenty to do, safe...
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"The question isn't whether the glass if half empty, or the glass is half full...the question is, does it have to be a glass?"
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"If you can dream, you can do. Making it happen is up to you!"
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If you are going to live in the valley make sure you have a car with air conditioning and your home/apartment has air conditioning and a pool. If you live in downtown/central/west LA/Santa Monica make sure you have parking or live in a parking permit area so your friends can visit you. It's not as essential that your car has air conditioning but it helps if you plan on using any freeway. Though in downtown/central LA the heat and air quality is not that much better than the valley.
|Nicholas Cage
Am I missing something about West Hollywood? I have heard of a lot of people living there, but when I drove around there, I was kind of freaked out. It's weird because I felt like I was looking for where weho really was. I looked at some places and some where very expensive, like 3000 for a br, but they were in a really crappy area. Is that what weho is like? Was I missing something?
|Sean Penn
Weho is more expensive. If you have money, it's also kinda nice. Keep in mind, some parts of weho are too gay even for some gay people.
Hollywood is good and central, preferably north of Sunset or north of Fountain even. Los Feliz is good, best if you are near Franklin Village, Vermont & Hillhurst, or in the Beachwood Canyon area.
Downtown is a counterintuitive choice but if you are an openminded person, it's the hottest frontier. Also lots of jobs there in service. Best and least pretentious nightlife/cocktail/dining scene. I wouldn't live there for location purposes but it is pretty awesome. Not like it used to be.
|Kevin Bacon
If you are looking at $3K apts in weho you are probably looking at new construction. The housing boom is long gone but the builders are still trying to make back their investment. Though some of the historic landmark buildings can go that high too. Most 1 bedrooms in weho average $1.2 - 1.5K Also you definitely need to have a dedicated parking spot in weho. Though most streets have permit parking even that goes fast.
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A couple of weeks ago Dolce Designs Studio opened up the doors to our new studio space on Melrose Ave, and threw an opening reception for all of our former clients, colleagues and friends. The event itself was beautiful and the turnout – just what we had hoped for. It was a huge success!
Upon arrival, our guests were greeted by our staff before passing through a threshold of fresh green Christmas trees into a courtyard that we had tented off, filled with warmth, tasty libations, live music, and sweets provided by one of our favorite bakeries in Los Angeles; Cup Cakes Couture.
From the courtyard our guests were able to see our studio itself. Get a drink. And take in the environment for a while as they admired the setting we created through the huge store-front window of our studio.
Inside, the ceiling was covered with snow flocked curly willow branches covered with moss accented with recycled doors and windows that we hung as elements. Which complimented the table that we refinished and adorned with a wide range of live plants and cut flowers. A California Winter Wonderland collection of fresh orchids, Narcissus, Hydrangea, Parrot Tulips, Garden Roses, Mood Moss, Deer Moss, Monkey's Tail, and Hyacinths – among others.
It was gorgeous.
With New Years on the way and the busiest time for brides and grooms to be right around the corner it was a very special evening for us. A significant moment of recognition and appreciation for the work that has gone into becoming the full service event production studio that we have become and the amazing response that has come of it.
When big things are happening it is way too easy to get caught up in them, as great as they are and not take a moment to step away, breathe, take in the scenery and appreciate the moment. This is something that we tell all of our brides and grooms to do on their wedding day. Walk a ways off, grab a bit of bubbly, and marvel at the loved ones around you and the moment.
So, in the spirit of this and the upcoming days we wish you Happy Holidays and the best into and through the new year. And if you need some support for any of your celebrations. Now or in the future. We'll leave the porch light on for you, friends.
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Frank Jackson kicks off re-election campaign
(Cleveland) - Mayor Frank Jackson kicked off his campaign for a third term in office. A rally was held at the mayor's campaign headquarters on Prospect Avenue. Attending were many members of Cleveland City Council, state lawmakers, local clergymen, and community leaders.
Jackson told Newsradio WTAM 1100 there is a lot he wants to accomplish in his next term, and that many of the reforms and programs he has started need to be completed.
Jackson explained to supporters that he's "one of them", he lives in the Central Avenue area where his family grew up, and that he has never forgotten his roots.
The former city council member who was first elected in 2005 has been praised for trying to turn around the Cleveland's schools.
However, standing in the bank of the room was Democratic rival Ken Lanci. The Cleveland businessman says he was surprised Jackson claimed to be a simple man, when he makes $135,000 a year in a city with a 35% poverty rate.
Lanci told Newsradio WTAM 1100 he wanted to meet and greet Jackson's supporters because he expects to be serving them as mayor.
Lanci criticized Jackson for the district's low grades on the state's education report card. He runs a printing business in the city.
Both candidates are Democrats. Normally, a nonpartisan primary trims the field to two candidates, but they are the only ones running and will face off on the November ballot.
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Chris Brown sneaks into jail
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(TMZ) - Chris Brown pulled a fast one Monday ... turning himself in at an L.A. jail for his hit-and-run case - a day ahead of schedule, TMZ reports.
TMZ has learned that Brown showed up at the Van Nuys jail at around 2 PM. His lawyer, Mark Geragos, engineered it all and the purpose was to make it happen without any photogs present.
According to TMZ, Brown was booked and released on his own recognizance - no bail. The whole thing took around 45 minutes.
Now here's what's interesting ... Just a few hours earlier, there was a gaggle of photogs at the courthouse which is connected to the jail, because 50 Cent made a court appearance. When the cameras were gone, Chris appeared.
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News about Cocoa, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Ousting Squatter Farmers to Save Forest, Ivory Coast Sets Off New Crisis
Squatters using protected land to grow cocoa have helped strip the country of four-fifths of its woodlands. Now evicted, many of them are struggling to survive....
December 1, 2016, Thursday
MORE ON COCOA AND: Ivory Coast , Cocoa , Agriculture and Farming , Forests and Forestry , Squatters , United Nations , World Food Program , Chocolate , Land Use Policies , Rationing and Allocation of Resources
Colombia: New Drug Tactic Announced
Colombia's strategy against drugs aims to bolster voluntary coca eradication....
September 23, 2015, Wednesday
MORE ON COCOA AND: Colombia , Cocaine and Crack Cocaine , World Health Organization , Santos, Juan Manuel , United States , Cocoa
Of Drought and Man in the West
Documenting the water crisis in the West, a photographer confronts distress, beauty and man's complicity....
July 7, 2015, Tuesday
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Valentine's Day Chocolate Will Cost More This Year, as Cocoa Prices Rise
Higher demand in Asia, difficult weather in the major cocoa-producing countries in West Africa and attacks of fungus are contributing to the price increases....
February 12, 2015, Thursday
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In New York, an Haute Cocoa Cart
The chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten will open a Cocoa Kiosk at the Mark Hotel in New York City featuring his grandmother's recipe....
November 21, 2014, Friday
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When Is a Chocolate Shortage a Good Thing?
There may be less chocolate to go around and more people going for it, but there is a silver lining....
November 18, 2014, Tuesday
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Hot Chocolate With a Kick
This recipe is on the opulent end of the hot chocolate spectrum, as rich and satisfying as it gets, with a very mild chile bite....
February 10, 2014, Monday
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Treat Greed in Africa as a War Crime
Corrupt heads of state are only part of Africa's problem. Avarice and exploitation are root causes....
January 30, 2013, Wednesday
A Chocolate Tour of the Caribbean
Along with sunny spa-filled days, cocoa tourism takes visitors island-hopping from bean to bonbon....
November 11, 2012, Sunday
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Commodities Prices Rise Broadly for a Monthly Gain
Commodities rose broadly on Friday, ending August with a third consecutive month of gains, after strong rallies through most of the month in oil, soybeans and cocoa....
September 1, 2012, Saturday
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Less Acreage in G.M.O. Crops
The total worldwide acreage of genetically modified crops fell slightly in 2015. The United States had the highest acreage, followed by Brazil.
A Tropical Trail of Chocolate Treats
A cocoa-themed tour across the Caribbean could change your whole idea of chocolate.
How a Strongman Keeps His Grip on Ivory Coast
President Laurent Gbagbo, who has refused to step down, is intent on paying two groups vital to his power: the military and civil servants.
Peru's Coca Conflict
After intensive American-funded eradication efforts in Colombia, coca cultivation has shifted once again. Now Peru is on its way to reclaim its title as the world's largest exporter of cocaine.
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Hats off to You
Ah, got a promotion? Score an amazing find in your favorite store? Well, "hats off to you" for a job well done. Taking off or tipping a hat demonstrates respect or approval, so lots of times people use this phrase to offer congrats. Hold on to your hats ladies, because we've lined up a few we can't resist:
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Cute as a Button
I've often wondered about this one. I mean, kittens (shout out to my 7-month-old tabby, Mango), yes. Babies, of course. But what's so special about a button that makes it cute? I don't see pictures of buttons making the rounds on Facebook with the option to "like" if it's cute. I digress. Anyway, looks like the phrase comes from the idea that small = cute (ah, back to kittens and babies again). There's also info floating around that this has nothing to do with clothes buttons, but instead, the flower called a "Bachelor's Button." Supposedly, the bud was considered cute and well, the rest is history. Here are a few places we like seeing buttons:
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Flying by the Seat of My Pants
Thank goodness for technology. Back in the day, before airplanes had fancy control systems, pilots often responded to a plane's reaction based on feedback they felt (get this) from the seat of their pants (the largest point of contact a person had with the plane). Seriously. Well, we have to agree . . . at least when it comes to fashion. Depending on where we're going, it's all about the pants.
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O'Reilly Exploits Story Of Formerly Homeless Veteran To Call For Spending Cuts
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Bill O'Reilly seized on the story of a shoeless man who was helped by a New York City police officer to call for cuts to government programs that help the poor.
O'Reilly opened his Thursday show by recounting an incident in November in which Officer Lawrence DePrimo bought a pair of boots for Jeffrey Hillman, a man in Times Square who had bare feet. A tourist took a picture of the DePrimo giving the boots to Hillman, and the image was widely circulated on the Internet.
While Hillman was initially said to be homeless, it has since been reported that he has an apartment. O'Reilly presented this fact as if it were a devastating revelation -- "here's the sad truth," he said before informing his viewers that Hillman has a home. O'Reilly also claimed that Hillman "has enough resources to live his life in a dignified manner."
What O'Reilly did not tell his viewers is that Hillman was homeless prior to last year. Nor did O'Reilly mention that Hillman uses veterans benefits to help keep his apartment.
NBC New York reported, "Hillman used to be homeless, but entered shelter in 2009 before moving into an apartment secured by Veterans Affairs in 2011, city officials said. He pays his rent using a lifetime voucher for homeless veterans and his Social Security income."
O'REILLY: Obviously, Officer DePrimo is a patriot, but here's the sad truth. Mr. Hillman's not homeless. He has an apartment, paid for by you and me. He's on government assistance. He has enough resources to live his life in a dignified manner. Yet Mr. Hillman doesn't do that. He prefers the street. And the boots Officer DePrimo have gave him have disappeared. Now, I'm not judging Hillman. Most cases like his involve substance abuse or mental illness. However, we must be honest. The government cannot provide a decent life for Hillman, no matter how much money it spends. We're already giving the guy tens of thousands of dollars a year, and it is doing nothing. There are millions of Americans like Jeffrey Hillman, and we all need to understand that some people simply will not -- will not -- save themselves.
While O'Reilly claimed not to be "judging" Hillman because most "cases like his involve substance abuse or mental illness," he began the segment by saying that "[a]ll of us need to wise up, and fast," and went on to use his abridged version of Hillman's story to demand cuts to entitlement programs.
O'Reilly alleged that Americans who receive food stamps and Medicaid, along with those employed by the government, are being "subsidized" by people employed in the private sector and that this relationship is unsustainable. (This is classic Fox News "makers vs. takers" rhetoric.)
Of course, O'Reilly's assertion omits a basic fact about food stamps: Many beneficiaries of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program already have jobs.
O'Reilly also issued a dire warning: "If the federal government doesn't wise up and impose some discipline on the incredible, incredible entitlement spending, America's economy will eventually collapse."
In presenting cuts to entitlement spending as the top priority, O'Reilly ignores that federal revenue is at a historic low and that most economists agree that the best way to address the deficit through both higher taxes and reduced spending.
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"Farm to Table" Goes Luxe in Orlando — With No Mickey in Sight (Really!)
Orlando resort Grande Lake's new Whisper Creek Farm brings a new a luxurious meaning to the phrase "farm to table." Get the inside scoop here!
-Courtney Cachet
"Farm to table" is definitely a buzz phrase that shows no sign of slowing down. But why not take the table out to the farm?
Orlando resort Grande Lake's Whisper Creek Farm recently opened a 7,000-square-foot fruit and vegetable garden with an adjoining 6,000 square foot outdoor event space. The farm sits on the 500-acre Grande Lakes estate and is a totally authentic farm-to-fork experience for groups of up to 250 people. Products from the farm are already used throughout the resort at both of its hotels, the Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott, in restaurants and even in some spa treatments at the Ritz-Carlton Spa. They have created a luxurious and very unique dining experience, where you are encouraged to peruse the garden and even pick and taste the products.
If you want to dine there, Whisper Creek will be available in four different ways to the public. First, there are plated dinners for groups of 100 or less served tableside by the chefs themselves. For groups of up to 250, there are long, communal family-style tables. There's also an Argentinian and Uruguayan outdoor barbecue grilling option; and then there's the most exclusive pick, a Chef's Table with seating (and hammocks!) for up to twelve diners. I experienced the Argentinian outdoor barbecue and it was pretty amazing. I've traveled extensively through Argentina, so believe me when I say that I can tell you it was pretty authentic, too. Here I am at the farm, chatting with the chefs and getting the story behind the concept. See for yourself!
Shuttles chauffeur guests from the hotels to Whisper Creek Farm, which is situated right next to the sixth tee box on the resort's Greg Norman-designed golf course. Surrounded by a perimeter of 120 pineapple plants, Whisper Creek Farm is also a working farm. It will produce cucumbers, acorn squash, collard greens, avocado, mango, sweet potatoes, and herbs—and it will even have a pumpkin patch.
While the farm is already up, running, and ready for business, plans for more features are already in the works. On the slate are a chicken coop, a composting area, cows and chickens, Argentinian grilling classes, a communal fire pit, and a barn-style event space.
So, when you hear the words "farm to fork," at least here, it feels especially authentic—but still undeniably luxurious. As a wise man once said, "Whenever you do something right, it always feels like luxury!"
Check your local TV listings for more of Celebrity Style Expert, Courtney Cachet's ideas and tips. You can catch her frequent appearances nationwide on TV and online, where she dishes out all the latest in celebrity home and lifestyle! Keep up with her on www.courtneycachet.com or Facebook and join the conversation!


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Thursday, April 14, 2011
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7 comments:
- Rissa @ Hazel and Honeysuckle said...
Nice idea, they look great! I love that you save all your leftovers to use up as well <3
- April 14, 2011 at 7:32 AM
- Mallory said...
Great idea! You really showed that ghost! I think I have the same one! He also comes and shrinks all the clothes in my closet on occasions! Silly ghost!
- April 14, 2011 at 8:25 AM
- Shore Girl said...
Love the fabrics you used!!! So pretty!
- April 14, 2011 at 9:58 AM
- Trisha said...
Love this idea!! I have so much left over odds and ends of fabric this would be a great use!
- April 14, 2011 at 11:38 PM
- muminsearch.com said...
What a great idea! I am a new follower from Boost Your Blog. I've been really enjoying creative blogs lately, so the name of yours got my attention straight away.
- April 15, 2011 at 5:36 AM
- alison said...
these are adorable...would love for you to link this post to fridays unfolded @ http://www.stuff-and-nonsense.net/2011/04/fridays-unfolded-14.html
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Brad Paisley launching fall tour
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Brad Paisley is back on the road. The country star is launching the fall leg of his "Beat This Summer Tour" in Canada, with a show in Hamilton, Ontario Thursday night.
The singer will spend the rest of the month north of the border, playing six more concerts before returning Stateside. His first U.S. show is set for Omaha, Nebraska on November 14th. Brad will wrap up the trek in Auburn Hills, Michigan on November 23rd.
Chris Young, who toured with Paisley over the summer, is also on board for the latest dates. Lee Brice is also joining Paisley for his shows in Canada, while Danielle Bradbery will take over for him in the U.S.
Brad Paisley "Beat This Summer Tour" Dates
October 17 - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, at Copps Coliseum
October 18 - Ottawa, Ontario Canada, at Scotiabank Place
October 19 - London, Ontario, Canada, at the Budweiser Gardens
October 23 - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, at the MTS Centre
October 24 - Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, at the Brandt Centre
October 25 - Calgary, Alberta, Canada, at the Scotiabank Saddledome
October 26 - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, at the Rexall Place
November 14 - Omaha, Nebraska, at the CenturyLink Center Omaha
November 15 - Rockford, Illinois, at the BMO Harris Bank Center
November 16 - St. Paul, Minnesota, at the Xcel Energy Center
November 21 - Springfield, Illinois, at the Prairie Capital Convention Center
November 23 - Auburn Hills, Michigan, at The Palace of Auburn Hills
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Brevard, N.C. - The BC men's soccer team lost 1-0 to the Eagles of Carson-Newman after a second-half goal by Lucas Siqueira on Wednesday evening.
Siqueira gathered the rebound of a free kick that deflected off a wall of BC defenders to score at 68:04, punching the ball into the left side of the net.
Both teams put six shots on goal in the game, with the Eagles outshooting BC 14-10. Junior Montano put a pair of shots on goal in the first ten minutes as part of an early offensive barrage from BC, but Eagles keeper Rumwald Le Gueval was perfect in recording his fourth shutout of the season.
The match was extremely physical, with 28 fouls and four yellow cards called between the two clubs.
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