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Hello, I am a member of a very small group of professionals who are collectively developing a unique recruitment related website-business model aimed exclusively at members of our particular field (architecture & engineering). We are looking for a highly ambitious, genuine and technically competent web designer(s) who will build and maintain our website in return for an equity stake in our proposed company. I fully appreciate that an introduction like this will raise many alarm bells but please be assured it is entirely genuine. I also appreciate that were an agreement to be made, solicitors from both sides and a contract would need to be involved (though naturally funded by us). If there is anybody on this forum who may have an interest, or may know of somebody who may have an interest, please give me an email. I work in Central London and would be very happy to meet for a coffee after work where we can chat informally about the proposed business. I should note that our design for the website is pretty complex, we can't seem to find anything that compares. We do actually wonder if it is possible for it to be built. It is best described as a mix between LinkedIn and Monster, but with some very unique additions. As such, it may be too big a project for an arrangement such as this, but we would like to try. Hope to hear from somebody. Nick [email protected] 07582 228724 (Email would be preferable in work hours)
It would help if you provided some additional high-level requirements. The combination of Linked-In and Monster is too vague as both sites serve two different fuinctions. What is the purpose of the site? What do you need it to provide? Additionally sites like Linked-In and Monster are develped by teams of individuals as there are more things to take into consideration other than website design and functionality. These types of sites deal with a lot of personal information and thus privacy and security concerns come into play. Being that you are in the UK you should be already, if not you need to be, familiar with the EU Directive and the strict privacy laws under that directive. So in addition to functional and design requirements you will need some privacy and security requirements as well which may extend beyond the expertise of some web developers as privacy, security and web development are completely different fields of expertise. Just something to think about.
I see several of these posts every week on various fora and they don't seem to go down to well. I think the fundamental problem is that if the idea is that good, then it should be possible to pitch it to a venture capitalist and get the few thousand needed to pay a website developer.
Thankyou for the responses. To Big Secz My post is far too vague. The website is a jobs board but with some very unique elements that simply don't exist in the current market. The two largest elements are 1. A wide range of industry-specific, internationally-generic parameters, which will efficiently filter Building Designers on a global scale providing employers (our clients) with a drastically simplistic, time and cost efficient recruitment process, utterly revolutionary. And, 2. Once filtered the candidates will be presented to the employer in an organised and accessible manner, no mini-websites or profile pages, small profile 'slips' where the employer can go directly on the information they require. This really is a brief, general assessment though, hence the necessity for a Web Designer on board to advise. Fully appreciate there is far more to consider regarding personal information and privacy; this is one a very large number of issues we are tackling. To Pheno Fair point. The issue is that for any group to be prepared for Venture Capitalists they need to have a particularly strong, thoroughly thought through business model with no cracks to be picked up on; at present ours is based around a fictious website; we can only guess it can operate successfully. We need to work with a Web Designer partner far before getting to that kind of stage. Nobody would consider investising in a Web Design orientated group who were hoping to generate interest in a Construction-related business model, were they to have nobody from the actual industry invovled. Thanks again guys. Nick
Substantial well established lifestyle website needs help We are also looking for a web developer to take an equity stake in a large well established lifestyle site for single adults (not a dating site!) in return for work to develop the monetisation aspects of the site. Intimate knowledge of Joomla and PHP would be needed.
@cadop3. As has already been mentioned, this sort of project needs funding. Actually working on a similar project, but for trainees/apprentices. My client is a large not for profit organisation. They got their shit together to organise funding for the project. It also included an overhaul of their intranet too. Once we secured that, we convinced them to do a rebrand as well. These kinds of sites take a long time, a lot of infrastructure, and need to be managed successfully in order for them to be meaningful. If you cant convince a financial stakeholder on the benefits of having a website, i believe you are exluding the greatest calibre of potential developers, as these "cut of the profit" type jobs, dont exactly "value" our job very much.


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Some cute little shoes got left at my house after my weekend company hit the road. I put these pint-size sneakers on my dining table to ship back to my buddy but kept glancing at them as I went about my day.
And then I decided that I just had to have a picture of them.
I can't imagine what my poor neighbors think, seeing me laid out on the front yard with camera in hand, passionately taking pictures of plaid Converses.
But then I guess they're getting used to it.
There was just something about these small shods that I wanted to capture, a memory of my friend's child, not just his little face and smile, but the little shoes that are taking him everywhere right now.
And I began to think about all the little items and accessories that have been part of the mosaic of my children's worlds, the things I haven't necessarily recorded for the photographic record but have been such a part of the memories of the kids' various stages and seasons.
The little blue rubber boots that 5 of 8 wore everywhere, even when they developed splits at the soles and carried the unique scent of sweaty four-year-old boy.
The pink beaded slippers that 6 of 8 wore to a friend's wedding which were then dubbed "My Wedding Shoes." Eight months later, they were still her very favorites, scuffed, dirty and too small.
The technicolor knitted cap that adorned 1 of 8's head for several months when she decided it was the height of fashion.
2 of 8's first pair of toe shoes.
So you may find me in the front yard over the next few days, taking pictures of shoes that are in too bad condition to donate to Goodwill and too well loved to ever giveaway. You may see me taking photos of a knitted hat that has seen better days.
And you may see my neighbors peeking out of their windows trying to figure out what in the heck I'm up to now.
But can I just encourage you to pull out those lovies, blankies, slippers and shoes that have been the adored accessories of your children's childhoods? Can I just ask you to take a couple shots, to put to memory card a little photographic tip of the hat for the items that have meant so much to your baby, your toddler, your little one?
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Would you mind taking those photos out on your front lawn, laying on your belly and sending your lower back into cramps? It would just help me to know I'm not the only one.

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A Desert Full Of Dreams
The ruddy dirt road cuts through plains of black basalt stretching to the horizon. This harsh finger of land is part of the Badia, which encompasses 85% of Jordan and borders the furnace of the Arabian desert. It is semi-arid, with less than eight inches of annual rainfall. As brutal as it is, the Badia may be the key to Jordan's future. So dozens of government scientists and laborers, and employees of private companies are coming here, searching for ways to make it bloom.
Jordan's goal is not just to increase productivity but also to develop jobs for the nomadic Bedouins and one day, perhaps, to resettle many urban Jordanians here. "It is crucial to Jordan's future," says Salem Al Oun, assistant director of the Badia Research & Development Project.
The project, which began in 1993 and has a modest annual budget of $300,000, is a joint venture between Jordan and Britain. The project's first step analyzed the Badia's resources: land, water, agriculture potential, and energy deposits. Now, Jordan is funding efforts to develop those resources.
The project is critical to those brave souls clinging to a centuries-old way of life. Most are poor and uneducated, and their land yields little. Last year, the Badia was drier than usual--it got less than four inches of rain. Ironically, the area holds 60% of Jordan's underground water. But most of the water is pumped to urban centers, leaving less for the Bedouins than in former times.
The Bedouins have also been hit hard by modernization. Jordan has tightened its borders with neighboring Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, curbing the Bedouins' nomadic lifestyle. In order to meet guidelines for grants from the International Monetary Fund, Jordan also cut feed subsidies to Bedouin shepherds.
The Badia Project is beginning to make up for that reduced government spending. Researchers have discovered 13 deposits of zeolite, a natural element that helps the ground retain water. Now, growers here mix it with soil to increase grape and apple production. Scientists are introducing drought-resistant grass for animal feed. And engineers have installed solar panels that capture energy used to pump underground water to livestock.
The normally cautious Bedouins are enthusiastic. One morning, with the temperature at 104F, I drink my fourth glass of hot, sweet tea with Abu Akef, a Bedouin shepherd, in one of two ramshackle buildings that house his family. Agronomists are experimenting with part of his land--a marab, or low-lying valley--to grow barley and wheat, instead of scrub vegetation. He keeps the produce. It's a good place to study, since winter rains flood the marab to produce fertile soil. While his seven kids play in the yard, Abu Akef lights a Viceroy and says: "God willing, this will be good for all of us, and we need the help since life is hard here."
BIG IDEAS. Bedouins like Abu Akef--who live in tents or simple stone houses--represent the seven tribes on the project's board, giving the people a voice and sharing their wisdom from generations of living off the land. Some propose their own projects. One has submitted a detailed feasibility study, complete with cardboard model, for a food-production factory. Project Director Muhammad Shahbaz says there's a good chance it will be funded. He wants commercially viable projects that won't compete with products already available in the local market. One idea he likes: fat-free margarine made from goats' milk.
Private industry is drawn here, too. Drugmaker Dar Al Dawa, based in Amman, is experimenting with local herb remedies--Arabic qaysum, for digestion, and sheeh, which is brewed in tea for malaise and stomach aches.
While the Bedouins hope the project will improve their standard of living, Jordan has something more in mind. It wants the Badia for possible resettlement. The nation's population is increasing at more than 3.5% annually. "We need to learn how to live in the Badia," says Shahbaz. But so far, there has been no rush to build housing here.
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One mixmaster recaps a celebrity-laden evening in NYC.
-DJ Martial
CBS held their post-Upfront event at NYC's The Collective last week. And the diversity of the crowd matched the cool mix of the décor. Imagine LL Cool J chillin' with his posse while Katie Couric chatted up a business exec and Neil Patrick Harris partied a few feet away with pals. I had the opportunity to spin for the vast crowd of celebs and (not to toot my own horn) make many famous heads nod to my beats.
The Collective itself is an art gallery/storage room with décor that has no rhyme or reason. You can find yourself eating dinner on the hood of a car, sipping champagne in a bathtub love chair, dancing under lamps made out of paper cups, pasta strainers and straws, or striking up a conversation in front of one-way street sign chairs or ironing board tables. Sound like a dump? It's tres chic!
I played everything from all the best classic rock hits, like She's So Cold by the Rolling Stones and a little Shake Down Street by the Grateful Dead, (which made Rupert Boneham from Survivor get up and boogie.) Oldies like Be My Baby, by The Ronettes, and Glenn Miller's In the Mood infused with Elvis' Rock Around the Clock and Wake Up Little Susie by The Everly Brothers had even William Shatner doing what I now call the Priceline Chop. Cobie Smulders, who plays Robin in How I Met Your Mother, looks amazing in real life. Her off-camera persona is even more dashing, especially when she's double fisting two beers to my perfectly placed rock set of Journey's Don't Stop Believing and Bob Seger's Old Time Rock and Roll. That's my kinda girl!


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Union College international rescue and relief students return early from Venezuela
Lincoln, Neb.—Students in Union College's international rescue and relief (IRR) program are taught to expect the unexpected. For 32 IRR students and staff, the unexpected conclusion to their semester of study in Venezuela included a week in protective custody while confusion created by questions from the Venezuelan government about the group's documentation was explored. Following clearance by Venezuelan officials on Friday, April 6, Union College welcomed the group in Miami on Tuesday morning, April 10 at 1:15 a.m.
"We are grateful and relieved that our students are safely back in the United States," said David Smith, Union College president. "Our highest priority, whether on campus or with traveling groups, is always the safety and wellbeing of our students. While there is much that can be learned from this situation, the most meaningful lesson for me has been the resilience and positive spirit of our students and staff while they waited patiently for the situation to be resolved."
On Feb. 8, the group of 21 students, seven staff and four staff children, arrived in the village of Maurak, Venezuela, for 10 weeks of training and service. From this site in the southeastern corner of the country, small groups of students, each led by a physician and in most cases also a registered nurse, traveled by plane, jeep, canoe or on foot to remote villages to provide medical services for two to three days. The groups then returned to Maurak for debriefing and continued study.
During the first half of the semester in Venezuela, IRR students were involved with more than 600 humanitarian contacts under a physician's supervision. In addition to tropical medical experience, IRR students were engaged in coursework through lectures and demonstrations. Mid-way through the trip, however, Venezuelan government officials questioned the validity of the group's permissions and paperwork pertaining to licensing of the two physicians in the group and accusations of using expired medications. Most of the medications in question were left at the mission campus by previous service groups.
"We do not know exactly who or what triggered the concern over our status in the country after several weeks of service," Smith said. "The goal of the international rescue and relief program is to train professionals who can relieve suffering through emergency service and caring for those in need. We in no way wish to interfere with government policies or provide help in a way that is not welcome."
Smith says that while launching the IRR program during the three years leading up to this year's trip, Union College representatives completed all paperwork and obtained permissions they understood that were as necessary and customary for the semester abroad.
Despite the unexpected confusion over documents, Michael Duehrssen, IRR program director and board-certified physician, said they maintained a positive relationship with the local village. "The people of Maurak and the remote villages where we served were extremely supportive and grateful for our work," he said. "The questions about our credentials came from officials beyond the local region."
After it became clear that confusion with the documents could not be easily solved, the Union College group agreed to voluntarily leave the country. However, even after this decision, more delays for clearance and the Easter holiday weekend prolonged travel arrangements.
"We are proud of our students and their positive approach to this disruption in their semester," said Linda Becker, vice president for Student Services who along with Jeff Joiner, chair of the Division of Health Sciences, met the IRR group at the Miami airport. "From what the IRR students have told us, even though they were not free to come and go for a few days as they might have wished, they were treated well and even shared meals with the guards who posted at the mission campus the last week. Other than having to find creative ways to overcome cabin fever, the group had the food and supplies they needed."
Alicia Archer, Union College student from Colorado agrees with Becker. "We were all very calm—very chill—with no extreme emotions," she said Tuesday morning on the phone from Miami. "After this trip, I am even more proud and passionate about the IRR program than before. I have rediscovered my goals and vision for my life on this trip." Archer plans to combine her IRR major with a degree in nursing and serve abroad again.
What was the purpose of the trip to Venezuela?
In the junior or senior year of the international rescue and relief (IRR) program, students complete 10 weeks of training in tropical medicine, preventative health care and humanitarian relief in a remote setting.
Who was involved in the trip?
The group of 32 from Union College worked with local health care professionals, translators and volunteers. Most of the students are juniors and seniors and all have completed Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) basic certification.
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Where in Venezuela was the IRR group located?
The Union College group was in the state of Bolivar on an existing mission campus near the village of Maurak, which is about 15 miles from the Brazilian border in the southeastern corner of Venezuela. The closest Venezuelan town on a detailed map is Santa Elena.
What type of training and service is involved in the semester abroad?
While in Venezuela, IRR students learned through a combination of lecture and hands-on training. The students were separated into small groups, each led by a physician and in most cases, also a registered nurse and a local health care provider. During the week, the groups traveled by plane, jeep, canoe or on foot to remote villages to provide medical services for two to three days and then returned to Maurak for debriefing and continued study.
Why were Venezuela and the village of Maurak chosen as the training site?
The program director, Dr. Michael Duehrssen, had previous contacts in the region including flight support through a group that has been established in the area for several years. This is the fourth annual service trip Duehrssen has made to the area which has allowed him to establish relationships with the local village captains and medical personnel in the region. In spring 2006, administrators from Union College also visited and met with local and regional officials. The village of Maurak extended an invitation and made land available for Union College to use for the semester of training. The rural setting provided access to rivers and mountains that were also ideal for jungle survival training and recreation. In addition, program leaders wanted students immersed in the Spanish language, which IRR majors are required to study and will likely be needed in future service settings.
What documentation did Union College pursue prior to arriving in Venezuela?
Union College had signed letters of agreement with a local hospital and health officials, the governor of the State of Bolivar, the Civil Protection department for the State of Bolivar and had a letter of invitation from a recognized relief organization in the region. The group had the customary approvals by state and local authorities and when they asked about additional documentation, they were told that no further approval was needed. Also, because Duehrssen had traveled and served successfully with other groups using the same level of permissions with no concern, Union College leaders thought they had covered the documentation requirements.
What was the nature of the confusion with the government?
During the three years leading up to this year's trip, Union College representatives completed all paperwork and obtained permissions they understood as necessary for the semester abroad. However, in the second half of the 10-week trip, Venezuelan officials questioned the group's authority to practice medicine while in the country and the appropriateness of their tourist visas for the work they were doing. In addition, there were questions about expired medications that were found on the site of the mission campus, even though most of these medications were left in storage by previous groups. Union College does not know how the government initially became concerned about the group's purpose and permissions.
What was the status of the group once questions were raised by the Venezuelan government?
For about a week, the group was restricted to the grounds of the mission campus and a nearby hill/mountain for recreation. Officials described the term as "protective custody." During the day, three guards were on duty at the entrance to the campus. Students and staff were never threatened with violence or harmed. In fact, the students befriended the guards who often ate meals with the group and participated in worships.
What is the setting of the mission campus?
The mission campus where the international rescue and relief group was housed is about the size of one-and-a-half football fields. The grass-covered grounds include three block buildings (residence facilities and a main multi-purpose dining and meeting building) with more construction in process.
What did the students learn while in Venezuela?
Union College's international rescue and relief group was in Venezuela for more than a month before questions were posed by the government about their documentation and purpose. During these weeks, the group was involved with more than 600 humanitarian contacts under a doctor's supervision including assisting with wound care, treating abscesses and parasites, testing for malaria, improving unclean water systems, administering child health assessments and presenting preventative health education lectures. In addition to tropical medical experience, IRR students were engaged in coursework through lectures and demonstrations. Some of the most valuable lessons for the group this year also include understanding diplomacy, contingency planning and developing patience in the midst of unfamiliar circumstances.
What is the future of the IRR program, particularly the semester abroad?
With more than 100 students enrolled in this unique academic discipline, Union College is committed to the future of the international rescue and relief program. During the launch of the program over the last three years, Union College has received invitations from potential sites in multiple countries. In the weeks ahead, Union College administrators will continue to refine the process and criteria for locations best suited for the semester of international study and service. While local officials in Maurak have said they would welcome the group's return, details of this arrangement or other site possibilities will need to be explored in depth.
The international rescue and relief major at Union College is the only undergraduate program of its kind in the United States. This interdisciplinary major combines the study of health, logistics, search and rescue through seven emphasis options. The major, launched in 2004 with 32 students, now has more than 100 students enrolled.
The multi-track curriculum combines rescue and survival skills, emergency care, humanitarian relief, public health, disaster management and multi-cultural service training. Certifications include EMT basic and white water and high angle rescue among others. In order to prepare students for diverse environments and foster a global perspective, courses are taught in Colorado, Florida and a developing country in addition to the main campus in Lincoln, Neb.
This major is designed to equip graduates with specialized skills to serve in a world facing increasing natural and man-made disasters and growing refugee populations. More info available at www.ucollege.edu/irr.
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This week's American Idol finds us in the city of Jacksonville, known for gators and Randy Jackson. Except for seeing video of old-school Randy rocking out his sweet flat top with Journey, the show brought little to the table. Nice try, producers. But the first two weeks of "inspirational" auditions haven't made me forget about your promise to show more good people. Apparently in their minds, sob story = good. Not true, says all the TV critics.
Fancast has the good fortune to be home to Justin Guarini's American Idol vlogs every week, so it's always a good time to see a contestant compare himself to my sorta-co-worker. Unfortunately, Joshua Ulloa forgot to make sure he was as good-looking, poised, and talented as Justin. Then, Joshua tries to pull a Blake Lewis by making strange beat boxing noises. Two points for Justin and Blake, zero points for Joshua. But here's the deal… this guy actually had a semi-decent voice in between all the white noise. For that, he goes through to Hollywood. I'm expecting he'll make it a day or two and then get the shaft.
Someone had to do something to top Bikini Girl, so Sharon Wilbur decided to bring her adorable dog. Of course, the judges go gaga over puppies. So while little Sasha chills in Simon's lap, Sharon sings a little Karen Carpenter. She's OK, but could use some training. It was still not surprising when the guys let her through. For an unexplained reason, Paula tries to make out with Kara and then gives her vote for Hollywood. Girl on girl action is so hot these days.
We take a break from watching those pesky auditions to watch 45 minutes of Ryan driving a gold cart around some tall bushes. Oh noes! He's lost in the bayou! Oh wait, he's at a country club.
The first really bad singer of the day is brought to you by Kaneswa Finnie. Did someone forget to tell her that she's legally deaf? No, seriously. She's lost the ability to hear words and sounds and ambiance. Her mommy's not doing her any favors. Please, just go home. And stay in school.
The first really good singer of the day has to go to Julissa Veloz, aka Miss Florida Latina USA. She's a 19-year-old beauty queen with a flamboyant personality, so naturally we all thought she would suck. But she didn't! She even pulled off a Whitney song. Albeit, it was waaaay over the top. But she hit the notes, and that's really the biggest determining factor. She's off to Hollywood.
We've seen Darin Darnell a million times before. No, not specifically him… but auditions just like him. He's so excited beforehand, making friends, getting pumped. Then he gets into the room and bursts into tears before his audition ever starts. The fact that he was singing Boyz II Men was priceless, and I was half expecting him to sink to his knees and clutch his heart as the tears began to flow. Kara called it when she says that this biz is all about pain and heartache, so he better get out while he can. He should heed her advice.
Here's the deal with Naomi Sykes. She brings her friend in to meet Randy, the friend ends up on Randy's lap, Ryan is on Kara's lap, and Paula's on Simon's lap. It's a key party and everyone's invited. Naomi compares herself to Mariah and proceeds to sing "Lovin' You," complete with a note higher than I could ever play on my flute (and yes, I do play the flute. What up?). The judges look disappointed that their fun has been shattered and decide that it must be a joke. Only, Naomi claims it's not a joke and starts to cry. They try to comfort her to no avail and she leaves with teary eyes. Except… it was fake, people! Come on. It's so obvious. She just scored herself an A in Drama 101. She schooled all your asses.
Ann Marie Boskovich is the only commercially viable talent of the day. She's got a lady crush on Kara but dresses like a Mormon. So, Simon sends her out to get a little more slutted up. She comes back with heavy eye makeup, fewer clothes, and a selection of songs. Her version of "Bubby" goes over quite well and even puts huge grins on the judges' faces. She's got talent, for sure. But is it enough to win? We'll find out how she does in Hollywood.
T.K. Hash is a glutton for punishment. He auditioned last year but didn't make it, so he's hoping that singing "Imagine" will score him enough votes to get to Hollywood. Randy says his version was a little over the top and recommends that he stick closer to the melody. Paula just had to go and compare it to Muppet's version. Simon didn't see his appeal, but the other three were enough to send T.K. to the next round.
What a wuss. Seriously. This kid—Michael Perrelli—is apparently attached at the hip to his precious guitar. When he discovers that he won't be allowed to play his guitar in the audition, he nearly has a conniption. Uh, dude, this isn't Nashville Star. When did you get the idea that they'd let you play your guitar? When he finally sings "Jumper" by Third Eye Blind, he even did the fake English accent like Josiah Leming did on last season. Simon said he would never make it within the confines of the competition, and he's absolutely right. Michael begs, embarrasses himself, has to be dragged away, disses his mom, gets yelled at by Ryan, and goes home to his favorite sock. The end.
Only 16 people made it through to Hollywood from Jacksonville. Out of those 16, I'm presuming about five of them are any good. On a lighter note, tomorrow we encroach on Archuleta's territory in Salt Lake City. Can I expect the Von Trapp family singers to audition? Oooh even better… the Osmonds are here! Figures. And Simon gets humped by a bunny.


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Contributed by Jesse Ray a while ago but worthy of reposting…
I arrived on the scene with my gun and stoically loaded in some self-defense rounds (although I was clearly not in danger). I did not lavish the idea of slaughtering a lamb, but my friend and new-farmer, Pat, called and sheepishly asked for some help. I guess he thought I was qualified since I had butchered last year's deer with the help of my family.
It took a while for me to prepare the surroundings, I had never killed something so large, at such close range. During these few minutes I had time think about the gravity of what was about to happen.
Of course my mind took me back to the Jews and passover. Remember, the Bible is not just filled with stories, but with accounts of historical events. These events that we are familiar with actually happened. The Word of God prescribed, no dictated, the killing of a lamb. For the Jews, the lamb was not just dinner. The blood of the lamb was spread on the horizontal and vertical wood of the door frames (of course we recognize this as a foreshadowing of Christ's blood dripping from His wooden cross).
(Picture: Present day slaughter of Passover Lamb by Samaritans in Israel)
Exodus 12:21-22
Then Moses called all the elders of Israel, and said to them, "Select lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the passover lamb. Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood which is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
We all know that the consequence of sin is death, yet today we do not always see or feel that direct connection. Before Jesus, the Lamb of God, came as our final sacrifice, a cute, woolly lamb <baaa>, had to die in expiation for sins. The Jews symbolically placed their own sins on the head of the lamb before it was killed in Leviticus 1. The male sheep was chosen from the flock for its spotlessness, just as Christ, sinless and perfect, died for our sins.
We Catholics are blessed with the sacrament of confession, a very quick and clean way of cleansing sins from our soul. Well, let me tell you there was nothing quick or clean about killing a lamb. If we had to go through this every time we sinned I would expect people would either sin less, or would carry more sins around on their hearts.
I tell the following story, not for the sake of gore, but because it was a very raw and spiritual experience. You should stop here if the thought of blood makes you queasy.
I was compelled to pause, and say a prayer thanking God for this animal and for the gift of it's life. At first it all happened quite fast: The the gun popped, a red spot appeared on the lambs head, the lamb dropped. I was glad that was over with.
What happened next surprised me. All living things try to avoid death, and even after the lethal blow, the lamb was not going to die without a fight. I apologize, for the detail, but far more blood than I expected began pouring out of the sheep's mouth and nose. The famous painting "Adoration of the Lamb" by van Eyck flashed in my brain, (of course in the painting the sheep is standing, but the flow of blood is clearly key in the comparison).
My friend Pat, the instigator of this whole event, took action (and large knife) holding the sheep down with the full weight of his body and slit the throat. As more blood emerged it was clear that the bloody descriptions in the old testament will never be void of imagery for me anymore.
PETA people refuse to eat lamb chops or wear sheepskin because of (I assume) the violence of slaughter. (or maybe they just need some cause to distract them from the evils of abortion and euthanasia that many support). Before any scriptural lessons, I think seeing that this tasty protein-source doesn't start out in a Styrofoam package at Meijers is good to know.
But seriously, what kind of a "merciful" God would order His people to do something so violent and base? The answer points to the Eucharist, and is so deep that we need to understand God's plan of salvation is exposed in history and recorded in scripture. Now we just need to know where to look.
My dad, Steve Ray, teaches about the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, and its Biblical foundations; he can speak for hours about the beauty and reality. Enjoy this audio sample from a talk he gives entitle Defending the Eucharist: You are What You Eat. The whole talk can be found here, and is really a great listen.
I pray that you will all draw closer to our Lord and find joy in His Cross and Resurrection.
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They've got muck; we've got rakes. TPM Muckraker
Boehner Puts Bonner In Charge Of House Ethics Committee
"The American people have every right to expect the highest standards of ethical conduct from their elected leaders, and it is important for members of both the majority and the minority to work together to ensure that such standards are observed and respected at all times within the institution," incoming House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said in a statement. "A functioning ethics committee will be central to that effort in the 112th Congress."
The move almost certainly ensures that the Waters matter will be taken up in the next Congress, despite objections from a lawyer representing the California Democrat. It also puts Bonner, who has been critical of the operations of the House ethics committee under Democratic control, at the helm of the high-profile post.
In a move quite unusual for the normally secretive ethics committee, Bonner accused Committee Chair Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) of stalling on scheduling trials for both Waters and Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) in a letter he released to the media back in September.
Boehner touted Bonner's qualifications for the office.
"Jo Bonner is widely respected on both sides of the aisle and has a deep appreciation for the importance of both ethics education and enforcement in the House," Boehner said. "I am confident that as chairman he will work with the other members of the ethics committee to ensure there is accountability at all times in the people's House. I look forward to working with him, and I'm grateful for his willingness to serve."
The House ethics committee staffer manning the phones on Wednesday referred TPM to Blake Chisam, who was not in the office. Chisam announced his resignation earlier this month.


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Installed hinges on the control surfaces
I installed hinges on the elevator, ailerons, and flaps of my Diamond this week.
Installed six hinges on each control surface and used these "Super Light Pivot & Round Hinges D2xW8xL28mm" from HobbyKing. These hinges are extremely durable, but the nice thing about these hinges is you don't need to be concerned with keeping glue off the pivot joint. They are also pretty easy to install, but I made a metal templates (one each for elevator, ailerons, flaps) from aluminum flashing to ensure proper alignment of the two foam pieces. The aluminum flashing was from local hardware store and comes as 6"Wx50' roll, sold by foot (about $1.00USD per foot); I bought a 2 foot length. Each template marks the hole positions for the six hinges on each control surface. Here's the layout I used for the hole/hinge spacing… Ailerons: /---11mm--|----87mm---|---87mm---|---87mm---|----87mm----|----87mm----|--11mm---/ Flaps: /---12mm--|----85mm---|---85mm---|---85mm---|----85mm----|----85mm----|--12mm---/ Elevator: /---8mm--|----92mm---|---92mm---|---92mm---|----92mm----|----92mm----|--8mm---/ Before cutting off the control surface, I marked the first hinge location on one side. Then I used masking tape and a piece of aluminum flashing as the straight edge to guide the exacto knife. No sanding was required after making the cut. I prepared the hinges for installation by inserting straight pins through the pivot. This provides a position marker of the pivot after gluing the control surface back onto the wing. With the hinges installed, I butted up the two foam surfaces, so there's no way to see the location of the pivot without using the straight pins. After ensuring the hinge pivot is in the correct position, I removed the pins. You can't drill holes in the foam. To make the holes, I used a sharp pointer (1/16" diameter) to punch the holes. After placing holes on each end for the outer hinges, I inserted 1/16" brass tubing in them to hold the template while punching the other holes. It's important to make the holes at a 90 degree angle to the pivot line. Here's another view of the hole punching. After punching all the holes, I used my exactor knife to cut 45 degree slots at each hole to allow the widened area of the hinge to be inserted subsurface. For the glue, I used this flexible foam-safe glue….. This glue stays flexible after drying and doesn't seem to harm the hinge pivot at all. After a day or two, I removed small blobs of glue at the hinge points from both sides, further freeing up the pivots and hinge movement. The control surfaces are butted up (no gaps) so the hinges are hidden from view. The wings looks pretty much like they did before I installed the hinges. There's also much less resistance to movement. Here's some photos showing the control surfaces re-attached with the hinges. |
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I decided my D2500 had had enough time to think about what's it's done and I glued it back together. I'm finally figured out both how to fly, and more importantly, how to land this plane The secret is a wide open field Trying to land on the road just doesn't work for me, it's to narrow and I can't always land into the wind. The recently mowed Alfalfa field behind my house makes a great flying field. I've also learned that I need to use the rudder more. Aileron turns seem to cause a lot of side sliding, and as happened to me before, can lead to a spiraling dive if done without enough speed. I tried both crow and standard flaps, I actually like just the flaps better for landing. The crow works fine if I can come in straight, but if I have to do much turning it'll stall into the previously mentioned spiral. I had my trusty #11 keychain cam on the tail, although I forgot to turn it on for my longest flight. All in all, I successfully landed 5 flights today
Also, two VERY important things to watch out for: Put some heatshrink or fuel tubing over the clevises. One of my minor crashes was because an aileron link popped off, and the remaining aileron wasn't enough to level the plane. Also, while assembling the plane this time, one of the aileron servo plug pins worked loose from the socket, it would have stopped contacting in flight if I hadn't noticed it. |
They are quite capable of getting the box from their suppliers and posting it to the customer. The bad reputation shows itself when the customer has a complaint or needs them to help in some way (like replying).
I've purchased a few inexpensive replacement servos from HobbyKing for testing. They are a mix of digital, analog, metal gear, and nylon gear.
These apparently came from the same factory, as they are all 'exact fit' replacements with the Art-Tech AS-100 servos that came with my Diamond 2500. The only exception is that they come with wiring that's too short for use on the main wing without wiring modifications. Here's a photo showing (left to right) the HK-15178B (digital), HKSCM9-6 (digital), HK15178 (analog), and the Art-Tech AS-100 (analog)…. Taking them apart to see the gears or replace the wiring cables requires a special #000 screwdriver (Philips, PH000). In this photo, you can see the plastic and brass/steel gears. The plastic gears look interchangeable, but the metal gears look to have different ratios. The HK15178 (analog) has what looks like it could have carbon-composite output gears, but I'm not sure that's what they are. I have a Turnigy Servo Tester and also a digital watt meter, so I was able to make some electrical tests. Here's the test results… I've updated the above table with some additional servos that I tested. Here's a photo showing the Henge MD933 next to the Art-Tech AS-100. The Henge servos are slightly taller, but the same width and thickness. I installed four of the Henge MD933 on the main wing, and two of the Henge MD922 for the Elevator and Rudder. These are the same as what HobbyKing.com sells as HK-933MG and HK-922MG. I found that the Henge can be purchased from China on eBay for about the same price with shipping as buying from HobbyKing.com. I also upgraded all servo wiring to AWG-26. To fit the Henge servos, removed the mounting tabs by nibbling them off with a box cutter. I also widened the wing servo slot. I will provide details of these mods and the installation in a future post. |
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I run an external 5A BEC on 6v on my D2500. for a couple reasons. 1: if the ESC ever fry's, i'd like to dead stick my sailplane down safely. the couple of grams penalty is worth the insurance. 2: i've seen some of my little digital servos pull close to 1A at stall torque, so my general rule is #of servos x 1 = Peak Amp draw. i also regularly use digital servos on all control surfaces & analog on flaps (that sit at idle for the majority of my flight) cheers, Brian |
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Here is what I remember though. The motor (mounting plate) is screwed to a circular wooden motor mounting plate via 4 screws in the standard manner. The wooden plate is then screwed with 2 screws that look like drywall screws to the internal plastic mount which is glued to the foam. Hope this helps. |
That helps for sure BravoGolf, thanks!
Any idea if a 38mm motor diameter will fit there? As far as I know stock motor has an outside diameter of 30mm. Quote:
I'll take images tonight. I have my nose cone cut off at the moment & am willing to share!
cheers, Brian |
Here are images of the exterior and interior of the motor mount.
Cheers, Brian (odd how they are rotated... took them with the iPhone and they appear fine on my computer...sorry) |
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There can be little doubt that Jack Nicholson is one of the greatest movie stars in the history of the medium. He's had more Oscar nominations (twelve) and wins (three) than any other actor and has been an A-list star for over forty years now, remaining a legitimate box office draw in films like "Something's Gotta Give" and "The Departed" even in his seventh decade. He's worked with everyone from Antonioni to Scorsese, and given some of the most iconic screen performances ever, from "Easy Rider" to "The Shining."
Indeed, ask a cinephile for their favorite Nicholson performance, and the same few films are likely to come up: "Easy Rider," "Five Easy Pieces," "Carnal Knowledge," "The Last Detail," "Chinatown," "The Passenger" (an amazing, nearly back-to-back six-year-run), "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest," "The Shining." But this means that some of the actor's equally strong performances never quite made it into the canon, overshadowed by his better-known works. Jack turned 75 yesterday, on April 22nd, and to celebrate the occasion, we've picked out five underseen, undersung and underrated Nicholson performances that deserve to be talked about in the same breath as his most acclaimed fare. Check them out below, and weigh in with your own favorite Nicholson performance.
"The King Of Marvin Gardens" (1972)
By 1972, Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson were old collaborators. Rafelson had directed Nicholson's script for "Head" in 1968, before producing "Easy Rider," the film that made Nicholson a star, through his Raybert banner (soon to change its name to BBS), the following year. And in 1970, Rafelson took his place as one of the most promising young filmmakers around with "Five Easy Pieces," which won a number of Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor. Their follow-up, two years later, was far less well-received. Indeed, "The King of Marvin Gardens" was virtually savaged by critics at the time. But with a few decades of distance, it's gained far more critical respect, and if nothing else, stands as a early demonstration of Nicholson's range. Riffing on the same dysfunctional family dynamics as "Five Easy Pieces," the actor plays David, a late-night talk radio host sunk in a deep dark depression, whose brother Jason (Bruce Dern), a wild-spirited con-man, brings him into a real estate scam in run-down Atlantic City, along with his unpredictable girlfriend Sally (Ellen Burstyn) and her step-daughter Jessica (Julia Anne Robinson), with inevitably tragic consequences. The film (co-written by journalist & Carly Simon lyricist Jacob Brackman) is a decided oddity, a difficult, episodic watch with jarring, surreal scene after jarring, surreal scene. But even to those who don't respond to it, the relationship between the two brothers is complex and affecting, with Nicholson's introverted turn made all the more impressive when put up against Dern's, the friendship between the two giving the fraternal bond real heft. Despite the critical brickbats, the film was an impressive success — the thirteenth biggest-grosser of 1972 — and Nicholson and Rafelson would continue to work together many, many times, up to 1996's "Blood and Wine."
"Reds" (1981)
As staggering as he can be in the spotlight, Nicholson's always shown an admirable willingness to take the back seat to other stars for the right people or project, and one of the best examples of that is his performance in his friend Warren Beatty's "Reds." An unlikely epic about the affair between radical journalist John Reed (Beatty) and socialite-turned-activist Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton), the film is an enormously ambitious, unruly affair, with moments of both transient brilliance and eye-rolling artifice. But one of the undoubted highlights is Nicholson, who plays playwright Eugene O'Neill (writer of "Long Day's Jounrey Into Night," among others), who had a long, tumultuous affair with Bryant. Nicholson's drunken turn is a neat contrast with Beatty's more earnest lead, but this isn't Jack off the chain: lost in an alcoholic melancholy, he's entirely aware of how destructive his relationship with Bryant is, but unable to do anything to stop it. The film is full of great performances (it was the last movie to pick up Oscar nominations in all four acting categories, with Beatty, Keaton and Nicholson joining the winning Maureen Stapleton), but Nicholson's is the one that lingers.
"The Border" (1982)
Perhaps the most underseen and underrated film, and performance, of Nicholson's career, "The Border" was ignored on release, and has pretty much passed into obscurity, falling between his two Oscar-nominated supporting turns in "Reds" and "Terms of Endearment." But the film, penned by Walon Green ("Sorceror"), Deric Washburn ("Silent Running," "The Deer Hunter") and David Freeman, and directed, atypically, by the great British helmer Tony Richardson ("Tom Jones"), is an overlooked gem, with some of Nicholson's very best screen acting. The star plays Charlie, a border patrol agent who moves to Texas at the behest of his materialist, social-climbing wife (Valerie Perrine, fun, if a little broad). He soon discovers that his colleagues, Cat (Harvey Keitel) and Warren Oates (in his penultimate role) are deep into corruption, and gives into temptation, but decides to atone for his sins by tracking down the baby of immigrant Maria (Elpidia Carrilo), which has been taken to be sold to a wealthy American couple. The actor is in subdued form here, a man being eaten up by financial pressures and the self-loathing at what he's doing to live up to them, who finds salvation through his desire to "feel good about something sometime," as he tells Maria (there's a beautiful dignity to how he plays the scene, in which the girl undresses, thinking that's the payment Charlie wants for his help). The film unravels towards the end, devolving into a too-neat shoot-em-up finale that stinks of studio interference, but Nicholson's performance is a marvel throughout. It's time it got its due.
"Prizzi's Honor" (1985)
It's hard to argue that "Prizzi's Honor" was undervalued at the time as the film was nominated for a brace of Oscars, and Nicholson himself got a Best Actor nod, although he was beaten out by Wliliam Hurt for "Kiss of the Spider Woman." But its critical reputation has shrunk a little since, and probably correctly so. One suspects that the Academy wanted to honor director John Huston one last time, and had they known he had another bona-fide masterpiece in him with "The Dead," they might not have fallen for an enjoyable, if slight, black comedy. But none of that changes how good Nicholson is in the film. The actor plays Charley Partanna, a mob enforcer for the Prizzi family, who falls for Irene, a rival hitwoman (Kathleen Turner, never better). They're soon married, but find that work and love don't mix, and thanks to the interference of Charley's one-time fiancee Maerose (Nicholson's then-girlfriend Angelica Huston, who won an Oscar for the part), soon find themselves tasked with taking each other out. Huston gives the film an enjoyably nasty, dark tone, but the treat here is Nicholson, who with padding in his lip that subtly shifts his look and voice, giving him the feel of Humphrey Bogart. And despite the broad comic tone, there's a grounded, deeply sad feel to Charley, even as he wrings laughs out of his less than towering intellect.
"The Pledge" (2001)
In the last couple of decades, Nicholson's given good performances, but has too often, like Pacino and De Niro, ended up giving mannered turns that verge on self-parody. But smack in the middle is not just one of his most undervalued performances, but one of his very best. Six years after their first collaboration on "The Crossing Guard," Nicholson reunited with director Sean Penn for "The Pledge," another grim tale of child death and revenge, in which the star plays Jerry Black, a detective who, just as he's retiring, promises the mother of a murdered girl that he'll bring her killer to justice. His former colleagues think that they got their suspect, a mentally-disabled Native American man (Benicio Del Toro) who kills himself in custody, but Jerry's not convinced, and becomes increasingly obsessed with tracking down the murderer. While Penn's direction is occasionally a little heavy-handed and look-at-how-serious-I-am, he assembled an astonishing cast who never showboat (small cameos from Helen Mirren and Vanessa Redgrave are among the highlights), but Nicholson is first and foremost among them, carrying the entire film on his shoulders. It's easily his subtlest, least mannered performance, the actor almost unrecognizable as a haunted man trying to do the right thing, but often in the wrong way, and unravelling as a result. Where he's left at the end of the film is heartbreaking, and it remains his most resonant turn, although we're ever helpful it'll be topped before too long.


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Addressing Uncertainty in Stackelberg Games for Security: Models and Algorithms by Zhengyu Yin A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (Computer Science) May 2013 Copyright 2013 Zhengyu Yin
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Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
Document type | Dissertation |
Degree program | Computer Science |
School | Viterbi School of Engineering |
Date defended/completed | 2013-03-05 |
Date submitted | 2013-04-16 |
Date approved | 2013-04-16 |
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Ordóñez, Fernando Ordonez, Fernando Sandholm, Tuomas W. Krishnamachari, Bhaskar Maheswaran, Rajiv McCubbins, Mathew D. |
Abstract | Recently, there has been significant research interest in using game-theoretic approaches to allocate limited security resources to protect physical infrastructure including ports, airports, transit systems, and other critical national infrastructure as well as natural resources such as forests, tigers, fish, and so on. Indeed, the leader-follower Stackelberg game model is at the heart of many deployed applications. In these applications, the game model provides a randomized strategy for the leader (security forces), under the assumption that the adversary will conduct surveillance before launching an attack. Inevitably, the security forces are faced with the problem of uncertainty. For example, a security officer may execute a patrol strategy differently from the planned one due to unexpected events. Also the adversaries may have different types in terms of their preferences, objectives, and capabilities. While Bayesian Stackelberg games for modeling discrete uncertainty have been successfully used in deployed applications, they are NP-hard problems and existing methods perform poorly in scaling up the number of types: inadequate for complex real world problems. Furthermore, Bayesian Stackelberg games have not been applied to model execution and observation uncertainty and finally, they require the availability of full distributional information of the uncertainty. ❧ To overcome these difficulties, my thesis presents four major contributions. First, I provide a novel algorithm HUNTER for Bayesian Stackelberg games to scale up the number of types. Exploiting the efficiency of HUNTER, I show preference, execution and observation uncertainty can be addressed in a unified framework. Second, addressing execution and observation uncertainty whose distribution is difficult to estimate, I provide a robust optimization formulation to compute the optimal risk-averse leader strategy for security problems motivated by the ARMOR application. Third, addressing the uncertainty of the adversary's capability of conducting surveillance, I show that for a class of Stackelberg games motivated by real security applications, the leader is always best-responding with a Stackelberg equilibrium strategy regardless of whether the adversary conducts surveillance or not. As the final contribution, I provide TRUSTS, a novel game-theoretic formulation for scheduling randomized patrols in public transit domains where timing is a crucial component. TRUSTS addresses dynamic execution uncertainty in such spatiotemporal domains by integrating Markov Decision Processes into the game-theoretic model. Simulation results as well as real-world trials of TRUSTS in the Los Angeles Metro Rail system provide validations of the approach. |
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Toledo police think they have a scoop on an armed robbery of an East Toledo ice cream shop.
Donovan Ryan, 43, of 753 Plymouth St. was arraigned on Wednesday in Toledo Municipal Court for one count of aggravated robbery.
Police allege that he went to Deb's Soft Kreme, 1326 Navarre Ave. on July 21 and, at gunpoint, robbed the shop. The suspect was arrested Tuesday; he remained in the Lucas County jail in lieu of $75,000 bond. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Aug. 6.


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Registering with FEMA
Governor Dannel P. Malloy has announced that residents in those counties (including New Haven county) who suffered damage as a result of Hurricane Sandy must register with FEMA by phone or online to access that aid.
"This declaration will bring much-needed financial assistance to residents who were impacted by Hurricane Sandy," said Governor Malloy. "But it is critical to note that you must register with FEMA to begin the process of accessing possible federal assistance. We will continue to work to get the rest of the counties in the state declared."
To register by phone, residents can call 1-800-621-FEMA (3362). The TTY line for people with speech or hearing disabilities is 1-800-462-7585. The line is open from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., seven days per week.
To register online, applications may be completed at www.disasterassistance.gov.
If you have disaster assistance questions, you may call the FEMA Helpline at 1-800-621-3362.
In the coming days, state officials and FEMA will be conducting damage assessments to determine if additional counties may be eligible for assistance. Residents and businesses in the non-declared counties (Litchfield, Hartford, Tolland and Windham) should dial 2-1-1 or go online at www.211ct.org to report their damage.
Have Fun with Halloween!
Halloween Fun at Miller Library, October 31, 2012, 5 pm
Wear your costume! Make a treat bag or a ghostly chain in the children's area. Then stop by our service desks for treats and prizes.
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National Book Award Finalists 2012
The National Book Foundation has announced the 20 finalists for the National Book Award. The winners for each category will be named November 14.
This Is How You Lose Her
by Díaz, Junot
A Pulitzer Prize winner turns his prodigious talent to the haunting, impossible power of love. Hilarious and devastating, raucous and tender, these stories lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weaknesses of our all-too-human hearts. …More
A Hologram for the King
by Eggers, Dave
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In "A Hologram for the King," Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment -- and a moving story of how we got here. …More
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
by Fountain, Ben
A ferocious firefight with Iraqi insurgents has transformed the eight surviving men of Bravo Squad into America's most sought-after heroes in this riotously funny and exquisitely heartbreaking portrait of our time. …More
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The Round House
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One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared. …More
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
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The fourth volume in Caro's monumental biography of Lyndon Johnson follows Johnson through his volatile relationship with John and Robert Kennedy in the fight for the 1960 Democratic nomination for president and through Johnson's unhappy vice presidency. …More
The Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir
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A lyrical and authentic book that recounts the story of a border-town family in Brownsville, Texas in the 1980s, as each member of the family desperately tries to assimilate and escape life on the border to become "real" Americans, even at the expense of their shared family history. …More
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
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In a compelling saga of redemption and renewal, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner tells the story of rebuilding his family's ancestral home in Lebanon amid political strife, and his eventual understanding of the emotions behind the turbulence in the Middle East. …More
Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
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Borrowing eBooks from the library just got a whole lot easier for users of the NOOK HD, NOOK HD+, NOOK Tablet™ and NOOK Color™. Last week, Barnes & Noble added the OverDrive Media Console app to the NOOK Apps™ storefront. This NOOK app enables users to wirelessly borrow eBooks audiobooks from the library.
All NOOK devices, including NOOK 1st Edition, NOOK Simple Touch and NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight, have always enabled users to read eBooks borrowed from libraries and schools, but the process required sideloading the files from a computer using Adobe Digital Editions and a USB cable. Now users of NOOK HD, NOOK HD+, NOOK Tablet and NOOK Color can borrow eBooks wirelessly using the OverDrive app.
Users can visit the NOOK Apps storefront to install the free OverDrive Media Console (OMC) app. The app enables users to locate their library, browse or search their eBook collection and, after entering a valid library card number, check out and download the title for a lending period of one to three weeks. At the end of the lending period, the title simply expires.


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The Internal Revenue Service's Tax Talk Today program returns on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 2 p.m. with a Web cast on Retirement Plan Pitfalls.
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Attend this program to learn how to use the IRS Fix-It Guides to identify and correct frequently encountered errors the IRS sees in retirement plans. These correction programs help retirement plans operate within the law and protect participant benefits. And they provide real incentives to identify and correct mistakes sooner rather than later. In addition, the IRS will provide tips on how these mistakes can be avoided in the future.
Moderated by Les Witmer, the show's panel of experts includes Avaneesh Bhagat, IRS, Program Coordinator, Employee Plans Voluntary Compliance; Dan Morgan, Partner Dickstein Shapiro, LLP; Thomas G. Schendt, Partner, Alston & Bird LLP; and Monika Templeman, IRS, Director, Employee Plans Examination.
Tax Talk Today is a Web cast aimed at educating tax and payroll professionals on the most current and complex tax issues. Tax professionals are encouraged to watch and submit questions.
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The bucolic burg of Charlottesville, Va., isn't the first place you'd look for an internationally known architecture practice like William McDonough + Partners. But then, the eco-minded firm has never been one to play by the rules. The unconventional philosophies of its founding partner, Bill McDonough, FAIA, have redefined both green building design and the greater environmental movement. The firm has turned commissions from mainstream corporations like Ford Motor Company and Gap Inc. into leading-edge green buildings, garnering glowing press for both itself and its clients. "By creating structures that make oxygen, store carbon, harness energy as fuel, and provide habitat for hundreds of species, William McDonough + Partners is slowly but surely transforming the once lifeless and inefficient buildings that house corporate America," reads a typically fervent accolade, this one from Outside magazine in 2001.
Despite its enviable success with large-scale work, there's always been a place at McDonough + Partners for custom houses. "There's something about working directly with someone on their home," says McDonough. "You get to the level of the visceral experience of living there--the color of light on the walls, the sound of feet on the floor. It's an intense personal connection." Lately the firm has also turned its attention to single-family and multifamily developments, designing housing in Canada, Spain, and China, among other far-flung places. As usual, it's going about the process in its own distinctive way. "Unlike many out there, they have an established framework of thinking," says Pliny Fisk, a well-known green architect based in Austin, Texas. "It's all very clear and logical."
no limits
Much of this clear and logical thinking takes place inside an unassuming red brick building in downtown Charlottesville. McDonough + Partners moved into the space, which formerly served as the U.S. Army's National Ground Intelligence Center, in September 2003. The new digs boast a more efficient configuration than the old office, a former warehouse across town, and the open floor plan suits the firm's interdisciplinary nature. Many of its 30 employees have backgrounds in urban or landscape design as well as architecture, and they float among four studios--residential, community design, commercial, and industrial--rather than specializing in one project type.
Take design partner Allison Ewing, AIA. Of the firm's five current partners, Ewing is the one most associated with the residential studio. But she's also played a key design role in commercial and institutional projects like Gap Inc.'s grass-roofed corporate campus and an unbuilt education center and panda habitat for the National Zoo. Diane Dale, another partner and the firm's director of community design, holds degrees in landscape architecture and law rather than architecture. Her studio handles jobs as varied as a master plan for housing at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif.; a framework for brownfield regeneration at Ford's Rouge Center assembly plant in Dearborn, Mich.; and a set of sustainable design principles for the city of Chicago.
The firm's willingness to reach across disciplines has enhanced its relationships with collaborators like Pete O'Shea, director of the landscape studio at VMDO, an architecture firm in Charlottesville. "They recognize when they need outside expertise, but at the same time they don't compartmentalize," says O'Shea. "There aren't a lot of boundaries. If I have something to say about the architecture, I'll say it and they'll listen." Such flexibility has helped McDonough + Partners win commissions for project types it hasn't done before, all the while strengthening the versatility of its individual designers.
hands on
The staff's freedom to work on different project types comes straight from the top, since McDonough likes to have a hand in every job the office takes on. He teams with the other partners, associate partners, and associates to come up with overall concepts, and reviews jobs periodically throughout the design process. "It's like writing a piece of music," he says. "The composer decides it's a concerto, and in what key." Having built a couple of houses himself while still in architecture school at Yale, McDonough takes a particular interest in the high-end private residences the firm designs. Before he had his own family, he'd arrange to spend a week or so living in each one before the owners moved in, just to make sure everything was perfect. "It was like tuning the house," he says, continuing the music metaphor. "I could do things like make sure the doors closed beautifully. I still like to do it, but I can't so much anymore."
Now McDonough is a giant in the field of environmental design. He helped found the U.S. Green Building Council and the AIA Committee on the Environment, and trots the globe giving speeches about sustainability. The firm's 1994 move to Charlottesville from New York City, where he started it in 1981, was precipitated by his selection as dean of the University of Virginia's School of Architecture, a position he held until 1999. He leaves listeners bowled over by his vision of a world where all manufacturing processes and products--not only buildings but also shoes, cars, books, and virtually everything else--replenish the environment rather than poisoning it. In fact, most of the firm's clients first took note of McDonough + Partners after hearing McDonough lecture. "Bill is not only a visionary architect but a great communicator," says Alex Wilson, founder and executive editor of Environmental Building News. "He's inspired a whole legion of architects, and his communication skills can be understood by a lay public."
green goals
While McDonough brings in the clients and provides big-picture design input, his staff makes sure the essence of his teachings permeates every pore of the projects they design. They're not simply carrying out assignments; they believe in their mission as much as he does. "Bill's philosophy is all about abundance," says Ewing. Thus, instead of trying to talk clients into designing a smaller house, as many green architects do, she'll focus on making it as sustainable as possible, no matter what the size. If a home's water is heated with a renewable low-emission source like solar energy, goes the thinking, then why should its owner feel guilty about enjoying a long, hot shower? "The idea is 'Do more good, not less bad,'" says associate partner Mark Rylander, AIA, invoking a phrase McDonough often uses. "With his vision of 100 percent sustainability, Bill keeps us from resting on our laurels."
Of course, the technology isn't there yet for a home to realistically achieve pure sustainability. So McDonough + Partners practices anticipatory technology, building in options for systems to be put in place when they become available. "At a house we designed in Virginia Beach, the curve of the roofs is south-facing," says Ewing. "When the technology is more affordable, they'll be able to hold photovoltaic panels." At Courtyard on Bear, a mixed-use project under construction in Banff, Alberta, Canada, the costs of running the building entirely on wind power were prohibitively high. So it will function on a hybrid of gas and wind, with the gas systems convertible to wind in the future.
Courtyard on Bear and its all-residential sister project, Cave Avenue, represent the three components of McDonough's holistic environmental strategy: ecology, equity, and economy. The firm's constant goal is to satisfy all three concerns while creating beautiful buildings. The ecology side of the triangle has its roots in what McDonough + Partners calls an "essay of clues": a thorough examination of each site's topography, geology, wildlife, historical and built context, and water systems. "The essay of clues is a way of imbibing the site so we can make decisions intuitively," says Ewing. "Out of this, the design develops." At Bear and Cave, for example, the flow of harvested rainwater from rooftops down to courtyards and basement cisterns reflects the natural hydrology of the surrounding mountains and valley.
The social value of the Banff projects--the "equity" part of the firm's goal--lies in the fact that they provide housing priced within the range of the resort town's many retail and hospitality industry workers. At the same time, Ewing maximized Courtyard on Bear's floor-area ratio, allowing the developers as much leasable space as possible. "The project needed to be economically replicable because the client wanted to influence other developers," she says.
making waves
The question of McDonough + Partners' influence on housing outside its own projects is an interesting one. McDonough himself has undoubtedly affected the way people design, as has the firm's high-profile corporate work. But what about its residential architecture?
Environmental Building News' Wilson, for one, thinks the custom homes pack a more powerful punch than many might guess, with their use of low-VOC materials, sustainably harvested woods, and other green elements such as geothermal heat pumps and sod roofs. "The houses McDonough and other green architects are doing provide an opportunity to try new systems on people who can afford to try them," he says. "They're also creating a market for green products. A few orders for a 6,000- to 10,000-square-foot house can make a difference as to whether the businesses that make these products get to the next level."
From a planning standpoint, the 1998 master plan the firm designed for the New Urbanist development Coffee Creek Center in Chesterton, Ind., has altered conventional wisdom on larger-scale sustainability. It features natural storm drainage and wastewater treatment systems, a material selection guide that optimizes indoor air quality, and buildings sited to facilitate collection of solar and wind energy. "Coffee Creek Center showed that a green community infrastructure works, is practical, and doesn't cost that much more," says Patrick Condon, professor of landscape architecture at the University of British Columbia and an expert in sustainable communities. "It's had a great impact on adding environmental sustainability to advances in New Urbanist design."
The biggest measure of McDonough + Partners' effect on housing, though, is probably yet to come. Acting on its growing interest in blending community design with architecture, the firm is working on several projects that synthesize the two. In Barcelona, Spain, it's designing a mixed-use complex that includes two office buildings and an extended-stay hotel. In Benxi, China, the firm is planning an eco-village and designing prototypes for model homes. Among its other housing-related commissions are a master plan for a new town in England and a recently completed study for residential building strategies at the University of California, Davis. And several of its completed office buildings may someday be transformed into housing: The firm has designed them with operable windows and proportioning that allows eventual conversion to residential use.
While they routinely jet to the West Coast, Europe, and Asia on a few days' notice, the architects at McDonough + Partners always come back to Charlottesville. "I had all my people here," says McDonough, explaining why he kept the firm there after stepping down as U.Va. dean. "A lot of families were connected with the company. My children were born here, and it's a delightful place to live." Also, the city's rich history dovetails with his desire to change the face of design. "There's a tradition of revolution in Charlottesville," he says. "It's appropriate, since we're trying to start a revolution, too."


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Mad Men style files #5 – Peggy Olson
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I absolutely love Peggy's style! I definitely relate to it and think I'd dress like her if I lived in the '60s. I especially love all of those neckline details she sports. She was my runner-up inspiration wise for Julia Bobbin's Mad Men challenge.
Speaking of... I cant WAIT to see how your dress turned out! From the sneak peek you've shared, I know it must be adorable. :)I've so loved seeing your Mad Men style files & it's really helped differentiate each wonderful lady's personal style. (I know, that's why you've done it!) But I find that my jaw is dropped for the whole of each episode as I take in the whole & miss individual details. So a big thank you. Fab. Looking forward to seeing your reveal!
ReplyDeleteGreat post Marie! I think Peggy's the dark (clothes) horse of the Mad Men crew. She's got some classic looks going on and definitely gets better throughout the seasons as she gains confidence. Ooh am intrigued at that beautiful bow! Exciting!
ReplyDeleteI love the color of your sneak peak! I can't wait to see the finished dress!
By the way, I nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award! Participation is optional. Details on my blog :-) The Musings of a Dedicated HousefianceeI love these posts, they really help in getting a sense of each characters person style for non-Mad Men watchers like me. I have nominated you for the Versatile Blogger award over at my blog :)http://sorbetsurprise.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/my-first-blog-award.html


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