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Roof Types
- ❖ Traditional roof forms
- Gabled
- Double (multiple) gabled
- Hipped
- Double (multiple) hipped
- Half Hipped
- Gablet
- Half hip and gablet
- Mansard
- Gambrel
- Outshut/Catslide
- Lean to
- Mono pitch
- ❖ Flat roofs
- ❖ Shallow roofs
- ❖ Dormers
- ❖ Parapets
- ❖ Curved
- ❖ Dome
- ❖ Specialized roofs
- ❖ Modern Roofs
- Saw-tooth
- Hyperbolic paraboloidal
- Folded
- Butterfly
- ❖ Unusual roofs
- ❖ Materials
- Clay Tile
- Slate
- Grit-stone
- Horsham slabs
- Felt
- asphalt
- Thatch
- Corrugated sheet metal
- Asbestos
- Lead
- Zinc
- Copper
- steel
- Green roof
- ❖ Further reading
❖ Traditional roof forms
The side wall continues up to the roof ridge.
Double (multiple) gabled
Double (multiple) hipped
Half Hipped
Also known as a Barn Hip in vernacular and traditional buildings.
Half hip and gablet
Not to be confused with Gambrel, the mansard is double pitched to all four sides.
Also known as double pitch. Often confused with the mansard (above).
Where a smaller lower addition is added to a building, the new roof makes one continuous roof with the main roof, and is often at a shallower pitch to the main roof.Side Outshut
End outshut
Lean to
Similar to an outshut with a small addition to the side of the building, however the roofs are not continuous with one another. Also known as a Pent roof
Mono pitch
A simple single pitched gabled ended roof.
Double mono pitch
❖ Flat roofs
Usually in mono pitch form, flat roofs are typically used in domestic house extensions, tower blocks, and service, public and council buildings where cost of build and ease of maintenance is a priority. This included such buildings as fire stations, schools and electricity substations. A roof is usually considered flat at 10° or less.
Popular due to their lower cost, low roofline and smaller volume, though not always popular in terms of aesthetics.
❖ Shallow roofs
Simple corrugated metal, plastic or asbestos flat or shallow roof, used on agricultural buildings and warehouses.
❖ Dormers
A Dormer, is separate smaller roofed structure protruding above a main roof, providing additional windows and space in the roof space or attic of a building.
Dormers are often retrospective additions to a building, the owner wishing to make more from their unused roofspace. In recent decades roof lights have often been added instead of dormers due to their low cost of build.
Dormer types;
Gable fronted dormer
Hipped dormer
Flat roof dormer
Sometimes known as a Box dormer
Shed dormer
A shallow pitch roof falling the same direction as the main roof.
Wall dormer
The main wall continues above the eaves line.
Round topped dormer
Circular windowed dormer
An Oculus dormer is typical of French classical architecture, brought to Great Britain.
Swept dormer
On thatched buildings.
Canted dormer
In recent decades it has become increasingly popular to install roof lights as a quicker and cheaper alternative to dormers. Made famous by Velux.
❖ Parapets
Used in combination with the roof types above. The main walls of the building continues up hiding the eaves of the roof. Often used on taller buildings, where maintenance to eaves is made more difficult. They were made popular in London after the building act of 1707 was introduced which banned the projecting wooden eaves to reduce the risk of spread of fire to neighbouring buildings. The style became fashionable during Georgian times.
❖ Curved
Agricultural buildings often used simple curved corrugated iron roofs.
They are now very popular amongst new buildings, particularly those on a large scale.
❖ Dome
❖ Specialized roofs
Conical Oast House roofs, designed to channel hot air up through the kiln.
Windmill pivoting roofs, often called 'Onion cap'
❖ Modern Roofs
Nowadays there are a large choice of materials used in roof construction, including different metals and glass which can produce interesting and imaginative shapes.
Hyperbolic paraboloidal
❖ Unusual roofs
Grid shell
Not particularly well used method of construction. The whole building structure is constructed from a lattice grid of thin wood or steel. It allows for more organic and unusual shapes.
❖ Materials
Clay Tile
Horsham slabs
A local variation of slate roof in Surrey and Sussex, sometimes with triple overlapFelt
Corrugated sheet metal
often used on churchessteel
Green roof
Also know as 'Living Roofs'
❖ Further reading
The traditional roof forms section is inspired and aided by "Traditional Buildings of Britain" by R.W. RunskillWikipedia: Gridshell
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Just what the world has been waiting for: A modern take on "The Ten Commandments." It was announced at the TCA winter press tour that The Weinstein Company is producing a 10-part miniseries, one per commandment, for WGN. Each installment will allow the director to give a modern interpretation of their particular commandment.
Lee Daniels ("Lee Daniels' The Butler"), Gus Van Sant ("Good Will Hunting"), Wes Craven ("A Nightmare on Elm Street"), Jim Sheridan ("In The Name of the Father") and actor Michael Cera ("Superbad") are all on board to helm and installment, with five more directors to be named later. The miniseries will be produced by Bob Weinstein and Bruce Cohen.
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The Only Way To Stop File Sharing Is To Stop Private Communications
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It is impossible to enforce the ban against non-commercial file sharing without infringing fundamental rights. As long as there are ways for citizens to communicate in private, they will be used to share copyrighted materials. The only way to even try to limit file sharing, is to remove the right to private communication. In the last decade, this is the direction that copyright enforcement legislation has moved in, under pressure from big business lobbyists who see their monopolies under threat. We need to reverse this trend, in order to safeguard the fundamental rights.Furthermore, he notes that when you look at the actual details, it certainly does not show an industry in trouble. Perhaps parts of the industry -- the parts betting on distribution over plastic discs -- have had some trouble. But the rest looks pretty damn good:
In the economic statistics, we can see that household spending on culture and entertainment is slowly increasing year by year. If we spend less money on buying CD records, we spend more on something else, like for instance going to live concerts. This is great news for the artists. An artist will typically get 5-7% of the revenues from a CD record, but 50% of the revenues from a concert. The record companies lose out, but this is only because they are no longer adding any value.Finally, he compares the way the entertainment industry today reacts to file sharing to the way book publishers reacted to public libraries:
It may well be that it will become more difficult to make money within some parts of the cultural sector, but if so, it will become easier in some other � including new ones, that we have not even imagined so far. But as long as the total household spending on culture continues to be on the same level or rising, nobody can claim that the artists as a group will have anything to lose from a reformed copyright.
When public libraries were introduced in Europe 150 years ago, the book publishers were very much opposed to this. The argument they used was the same one that is being used today in the file sharing debate: If people could get access to books for free, authors would not be able to make a living, and no new books would be written.But rather than learning from history, the industry still seeks to deny it.
We now know that the arguments against public libraries were wrong. It quite obviously did not lead to a situation where no new books were written, and it did not make it impossible for authors to earn money from writing. On the contrary, free access to culture proved to be not only a boon to society at large, but also turned out to be beneficial to authors.


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How is this the same movie?
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City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) hosted a town hall meeting with representatives of the MTA last week about extensive renovation to the No. 7 line that will mean some Long Island City stops will be out of order for 11 straight weekends.
"I wanted to have this town hall so people have an opportunity to get briefed," Van Bramer said.
At the town hall, held Jan. 11 at Sunnyside Community Services, at 43-31 39th St., the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Peter Cafiero said the agency will not run the No. 7 line between Times Square-42nd Street and Queensboro Plaza on all weekends between Saturday, Jan. 21, and Monday, April 2, to modernize the signal system.
The closures will begin at 12:01 a.m. each Saturday and end at 5 a.m. each Monday. In addition, the No. 7 section of the Court Square station will also be closed throughout that period for additional renovations on the platforms.
Demetrius Chrichlow, of the MTA, said the complete shutdown is necessary because the tunnel the No. 7 line uses to enter Manhattan, which is known as the "Steinway Tubes," was once created for trolleys and is extremely narrow.
"You must shut down in order to perform maintenance on any type of work within the tunnel," Chrichlow said.
Cafiero said the MTA was choosing to do the work in the winter so as to not interfere with riders going to New York Mets games, the US Open or any events in Flushing Meadows Corona Park during the warmer months.
"If we were to shut down on any of these weekends, the trains would be overwhelmed," he said.
Lois Tendler, of the MTA, said this work also cannot be done on weeknights, like the work that began earlier this year on the Nos. 4, 5 and 6 lines in Manhattan, because there are fewer alternate transportation opportunities.
Because of the reduced service, the MTA will run double the number of N and Q trains and will also extend the Q train into Astoria for those weekends. The agency will also run a shuttle bus from Court Square to the Vernon Boulevard-Jackson Avenue station and will offer free transfers for those who take the No. 7 to the G train.
Crichlow said the No. 7 train was built in 1904 and 63 percent of the system has not been modernized. Because of the signal problems, reliability of the No. 7 train greatly decreased last year. This caused problems, as the No. 7 line is one of the busiest in New York. On a typical weekday, it serves 425,000 riders, and No. 7 trains leave Grand Central Station every two minutes.
"Any hiccup is astronomical," he said.
Tender said updating the signals will cost $500 million. Work on the No. 7 train is scheduled into 2016.
Some residents requested that the MTA extend the shuttle buses into Manhattan, but MTA officials said it would be too expensive in the current economic client.
Van Bramer said he found the answer unsatisfying.
"I believe it's achievable and I have put money on the table to get it done," Van Bramer said.
Other resident requests included more accurate announcements of train arrivals at the 61st Street-Woodside station and better services for those who live at local stops which are skipped when the No. 7 line goes to express-only.
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CONCORD, N.H. — The man charged with kidnapping a teenager nine months ago is very bright, has strong opinions and thrives on conflict, according to a police officer who had two decades of contact with him.
Former Conway Lt. Chris Perley, who left the force in April after 29 years, has known 34-year-old Nathaniel Kibby since the kidnapping suspect was 12 years old.
Kibby was arrested at his Gorham trailer Monday and charged with kidnapping Abigail Hernandez on Oct. 9, a week before her 15th birthday. Abby returned home July 20, but investigators have been tight-lipped about the details surrounding her disappearance and return.
Perley said his most recent dealing with Kibby was over a summons for running a red light.
"He thought he should be entitled to (run the light) because he went to work at such early hours," Perley said.
"He was smart, but he was also brutally myopic in whatever view he had," Perley said. "You could not shake him or redirect him in the way he saw the world."
Kibby has a lengthy criminal record, including several assaults. Particularly disturbing, Perley said, was an arrest in March when Kibby was charged with criminal trespass and assault after following a Conway woman to her home after a minor car accident. Police said he pushed her to the ground in her driveway after she ordered him to stop taking pictures of her car.
"I remember thinking that was so over the top," Perley said. "You don't go to their home and get into a chest-bumping situation, especially with a woman."
Kibby grew up in and attended school in Conway, a tourist-dependent town of about 1,800 people in the southeast corner of the White Mountain National Forest. Although he'd lived in Gorham for a while, he returned to Conway to work as a machinist at two gun makers – Green Mountain Rifle Barrel Co. and E.M.M. Precision. Various news outlets have reported he was laid off this year for economic reasons.
Kibby was arraigned Tuesday and is being held on $1 million cash bond. He's due in court Aug. 12. His public defender, Jesse Friedman, did not return a call seeking comment.
Prosecutors have revealed little of what they have learned since Kibby's arrest, saying only that investigators continue to search his home and the surrounding grounds. It remains unclear where Abby was held for more than nine months. She attended Tuesday's brief hearing, wide-eyed but otherwise expressionless, and made no comments.
On Thursday, Abby stopped by the offices of the Conway Daily Sun, the newspaper that ran a daily box counting the number of days she had been missing and urging people to call police with any information. Abby's mother, Zenya, told the paper her daughter occasionally saw the box while she was in captivity, and it gave her hope.
Daily Sun reporter Daymond Steer said Abby and her mother seemed relaxed during the visit.
"They seemed like they were on the mend," Steer said. "They've been through a lot obviously, but she's getting better."
Court documents show Kibby has convictions on four trespassing counts, simple assault, providing false information to obtain a firearm and two counts each of receiving stolen property and resisting arrest. He faces up to seven years in prison if convicted of kidnapping. But Perley said nothing foreshadowed the kidnapping allegations.
"You're always hoping it's some stranger and that evil doesn't live in your midst," Perley said. "Certainly nothing he'd ever done would lead you to believe this is what he would do. If it is true, the depravity of the man knows no limits."
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This article is going to set the Designwala Site statistics on fire. That is the power of the word 'Porn'. But if you are a reader who expects to read about the Design revolutions taking place in the porn industry (savita bhabhi and 3d porn to name a few), I am sorry but that is not what this article is about.
What is 'Design Porn' then? How is it different from regular porn, you might wonder?
A few days ago, one of the interns at work who was ideating on a cosmetic project came up to me with his laptop. He showed me an image of something that vaguely resembled a balloon poodle and asked, 'Can this bottle be manufactured?'
I stared at the 3d rendered image of an absolutely unmanufacturable product. Being high on engineer's juice at that moment, I quickly decided to put this guy in place and bring his focus back on track before his mind wanders off into a fantasy world.
'No' I replied. 'There is no freaking way that anything like this can be mass manufactured' I added.
'I figured' he chuckled.
And then, in a moment of enlightened bliss I decided to impart some very sound advice:
'Design Concepts such as these are like porn' I said 'They should be used only for stimulation. Look at them, ogle at them, even dream about them but don't expect them to be part of your life in the real world!' I snickered.
He trudged off silently, holding a blank sheet of paper and a perfectly cylindrical shampoo bottle.
I resumed my work, feeling contented at having saved a budding designer from the gates of Design Porn addiction.
But it took me less than ten minutes to realize my folly. Maybe I was a little too arrogant that day to compare futuristic concepts and brilliant ideas by many people to Porn? After all, Design is such a continuously evolving process right? So who was I to cap the creative outflow of anybody under the pretext of logic? After all, if somebody drew an iphone a hundred years back and claimed it to do all it does now, many would have dismissed it as Design Porn! But yet, it is a real product in today's world. So are the space shuttles and the robots. They were all products born out of many people's fantasies. It is a combined effort of dreamers over a period of time who kept their burning desire for something unachievable. After all, today's 'Design Porn' is tomorrows 'Funky Gadget'.
As a Designer, it is very important to fantasize and wish for something knowing very well it will probably never be achieved by you personally. But that shouldn't deter you from dreaming. It is that desire which transforms an ordinary man into a designer and it is an unrelenting pursuit to push boundaries and pluck something out of the fantasy world into reality that makes you a good Designer.
A word of caution however for Designers must be the fact that in the pursuit of the unachievable, do not lose focus on what you actually can achieve. After all, the endless stairway to the fantasy world is littered with precious pieces of the very world you want to reach. Pick them up as you go!
Now go and watch some 'Porn'!


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Latino Family Welcomes Quintuplets!
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By Amaris Castillo | 08/01/2013 - 12:09
A Latino couple from Nebraska has welcomed quintuplets to the world.
According to NBC Latino, Jose Garcia and his wife, Bianca, added five babies to their family on July 25. The couple already have two sons.
At a press conference held at the Methodist Women's Hospital, the proud father shared details of the day his wife alerted him that the babies were on their way.
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[survey] Developers' motivation
I'm a student at the University of Amsterdam and I'm currently performing research for my master thesis on Open Source developers' motivation. I need primary data on the subject and I would like to ask any of you who develop or have developed Open Source software to fill in a survey. It's a relatively short survey with less than 12 multiple choice questions and two lists of statements. Your ~10 mins of time to fill in the survey is greatly appreciated by me! I will post the results of the research here if anybody is interested! Link to the survey: http://bit.ly/surveymotivation Kind regards, Arjen |
AFAIK not many developers frequent this forum. For response of OpenBSD devs you could post on the OpenBSD misc mailing list.
For FreeBSD developers the freebsd-hackers mailing list.
You don't need to be a genius to debug a pf.conf firewall ruleset, you just need the guts to run tcpdump |
Bedankt voor de tip!
I'm a bit hesitant to send to mailing lists, would you think it would be appreciated by the subscribers? Should I be OK if I stick to misc lists? |
I have seen requests like yours on those lists before. Most developers have no time to click through forum messages, and rather prefer mailing lists. IMHO if you want responses, a mailing list is the only way to go
You are doing a short and polite request, with a scientific purpose. Instead of posting the complete survey in the message, you refer to the actual survey in a link, which is a positive point. I don't think people mind.
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Yep, Totally agree with DutchDaemon. Developers are much like cats and they tend to be a little particular, and very hard to hurd. soo just approch it with some tact and a little bit of you scratch my back, I will get yours attitude and you should get far.
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The winner of the Trop50 giveaway is #10 Danielle – "Tea!!! Hot or Iced, I'll drink it any time!" Congratulations! Please email me to claim your prize.
I am so incredibly sad to see this near perfect weekend go — alas, one more week until Spring Break!
I didn't have any major plans this weekend besides going to dinner on Friday night with a friend, and I really liked it that way. On Saturday, I cleaned our house for a total of 7 hours — and I am still not done with the spring cleaning. Oy.
That part might not be near perfect — BUT! Sunday was near perfect. We had a great day all around in the CEC household.
Our first stop after church included a Costco run. I didn't need too many things, but stocked up on some favorites like Sabra Hummus, Silk Almond Milk (when I don't have a coupon, it's cheaper to buy the 3 pack at Costco), and orange juice for the Husband.
Seeing as it was 80 degrees out yesterday (!!!!! please tell me it's never going to end !!!!!), I quickly changed into some comfortable shorts for the rest of the day. My current "I can go out in public with these on" shorts no longer fit — shopping trip in the near future perhaps?
The Husband worked hard at fixing up our grill this past week, and he finally brought it home on Saturday afternoon so we could grill out yesterday. It looks like a brand new grill! He painted it because some parts were rusting out and did some other things that I forget. Whatever, it looks awesome. I love grilling, although I think the Husband felt like I ripped his man card away from him — I let him flip his burgers.
Despite one asparagus casualty, everything turned out fantastic. I made asparagus, sweet potato wedges, tofu, and burgers for the Husband. We finished our lunch happy and quite satisfied. The best part about grilling?
No dishes to be washed!!!
After lunch, the Husband and I quickly made the decision to take Charlie to the dog park. Believe it or not, the Husband and I never go to the dog park together. One or the other usually takes Charlie so the other can get something done around the house without Charlie all up in their business. It was a nice hour to just relax and watch Charlie play with all of his "friends". I have concluded he's like the really annoying friend who doesn't leave you alone and/or understand social cues from other dogs. He's quite the incessant dog who loves to play.
The rest of the afternoon was spent reading, taking a quick cat nap, and putting away a ginormous pile of laundry that had been sitting on our guest bed for at least two weeks — hence the "near" perfect description. Why oh why do I always put off putting laundry away?
I also decided to head to a vinyasa class that started at 6. It was a donation based class that my favorite instructor decided to hold on Sunday nights — it really kicked my butt. Yoga has gotten harder since I stopped running, and I think it has a lot to do with my core not being quite as strong as before. My balance has totally been off, and I was challenged with the "birds of paradise" pose — my legs were shaking!
When I got home, I was sweaty, thirsty, and especially hungry. After downing two glasses of water, a piece of toast with an egg on top, I took a shower and sat down with a little bit of LOVE to end my night the right way.
I hope everyone had a great weekend. Have a wonderful Monday!
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KIMT News 3 – A semi-truck accident over the weekend involving a sleep-deprived driver, is raising questions into driving regulations.
Actor, Tracy Morgan is reported to be more responsive since being struck by the semi-truck driven by 35 year-old, Kevin Roper.
Several others were also injured in the crash including one fatality, comedian James McNair also known as Jimmy Mack.
The Walmart truck driver was said to have been awake for more than 24 hours at the time of the crash.
Some truck drivers say while they understand the need to be on the road, it's not worth the risk.
As an instructor with Northland CDL Training, Randy Grey helps students gain experience before they make it to the road.
Part of that instruction is how to handle sleepiness behind the wheel.
"We have an entire instructional unit on driver fatigue so that is presented to every driver that enters the market. Now of course we're all adults and everybody gets to handle that in their own way," said Grey.
When it comes to driving commercial trucks, Randy knows every minute truly counts.
"That of course leads to the temptation of driving more hours than you're supposed to be driving and that's why the Federal Motor Carrier's Administration has issued hours of service regulations," said Grey.
Regulations say full-time drivers can drive ten hours with a 30 minute break but they can be on the road for a total of 14 hours.
Those rules are in place to keep drivers sharp while on the roads and to limit driver fatigue.
Truck driver Charles Roberts knows however that some, push those limits.
"If those wheels aren't turnin', then we ain't making any money," said Roberts.
As a seasoned driver, Charles puts in 500 miles a day on average, but says he knows when he's hit his limit.
"I try to go and put in 500 or 550 that I try to go and get each day but even if I don't make that mileage at the end of my day, I'm done," said Roberts.
It's a limit that he says will not only keep him safe, but other drivers as well.
"The way I look at it, I do everything I can and what needs to be done to get a load there when it needs to be there. On the same token, there isn't any load on there that's worth my life nor anybody around me," said Roberts.
Some truckers say they are hesitant about the idea of "big brother" always monitoring their movement, but most agree that it's not only in the best interest of the cargo, but about the safety of the other drivers on the road as well.
Tracy Morgan has been listed as "more responsive" since the accident.
Meanwhile, the driver of the truck, Kevin Roper, is being charged with vehicular homicide and four counts of assault by auto.
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A woman who never returned home from her walk on the North Shore has not used her mobile phone or accessed her bank account since Monday.
Police are baffled by the unexplained disappearance of 44-year-old Asian woman Bin Chen, who was reported missing by her distressed partner after she failed to return from her regular evening walk.
Ms Chen, who is known as Cissy, left her Torbay home about 5.30pm on Monday.
Large aerial, ground and shoreline searches have failed to find her and today police will investigate new areas to search, Acting Detective Senior Sergeant Megan Goldie said.
Ms Chen regularly went on hour-long walks in an area of Long Bay Regional Park, which was close to her home.
Ms Goldie said about 30 staff were involved in searching for Ms Chen and today they would look further north than where Ms Chen normally walked.
"I wouldn't say it's dense bushland ... but there are some steep areas, areas where if she has accidentally fallen into it would be hard for her to be located," Ms Goldie said.
"We are keeping an open mind as to where she went on Monday evening but ...
our concern for her welfare and well-being is certainly mounting."
Police have appealed for information from any residents in the Long Bay, Waiake and Torbay areas who were out walking between 5.30pm and 10pm on Monday.
"Any recent sightings of Cissy will significantly help our existing enquiries," Ms Goldie said.
"A police search and rescue team is canvassing an area north of Long Bay.
"The police helicopter Eagle made several sweeps over the Long Bay Regional Park location on Tuesday and [police launch] Deodar also carried out a search along the coastline.
"Further sweeps are being planned."
Anyone with information should call North Shore police on 09 477 5207 or Crime Stoppers no 0800 555 111.


text: In This Game, Even The Bus Can Kill YouLuke Plunkett3/02/11 6:30amFiled to: PCArma 2HumorVideo98EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink ArmA2 is a very serious military simulation that likes to kill people without warning and make them travel insane distances to do it. Which only makes this all the more awesome.AdvertisementA member of PC Gamer's multiplayer crew has flipped that seriousness right on its head, managing to code himself up a special bus. The Battle Bus.I think I can see fourteen machinegun emplacements. Two anti-air cannons. And the icing on the cake, two artillery pieces. All stuck on a passenger bus.AdvertisementWords don't do the thing justice, so just watch the clip.PC Gamer's terrifying Battle Bus is why you should play ArmA 2 [PC Gamer]Reply98 repliesLeave a reply


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The Bay Area is getting all worked up over the Oakland A's and their plans to move their stadium to San Jose. The City of San Francisco is threatening to sue MLB over alleged property rights. The Mercury News says it would take a vote of three-quarters of baseball's owners to terminate the Giants' territorial rights and allow the A's to move to San Jose.
At the same time, Oakland doesn't want the A's to leave, so they're considering a lawsuit against San Jose and the A's organization.
What's next? Is San Jose going to sue Oakland for trying to block the team's move? Or maybe San Francisco will sue Oakland because it sucks over there.


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I'm very pleased to announce the lucky winner of 2012
Christmas makeover giveaway goes to Cindy Rhicard!
Cheer's Cindy
Pour le relooking 2012
je suis très heureuse d'annoncer que la gagnante est Cindy Rhicard!
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Thamesis Welcome to the city of Thamesis, capital to a kingdom divided....
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This is our first creative submission to New Grounds.
It's Episode 1 of a new digital graphic novel / digi-comic The City Of Thamesis.
Please feel free to comment or visit our hub site at www.cityofthamesis.com and let us know what you think there.
Here is a short intro to the story of Thamesis:
Welcome to the city of Thamesis, capital to a kingdom divided....
Once the seat of power for an ancient, all-powerful monarchy, much of Thamesis is now run by the influential Britomart Corporation who use their seductive psychic technology to exert control.
It has become a city of torn loyalties as its inhabitants choose between life as a subject of the Crown or a Citizen of the Britomart.
Meanwhile down in the inner city streets, beyond the reach of either power, dangerous outlaws have successfully hacked Britomart's technology for their own gain, boosting its power exponentially. Some use it only to escape their daily grind while others maliciously spread terror on the streets.
As the city plunges towards civil war, can anyone bring order to the streets of Thamesis?
Discover how an ambitious young king (Jonathan of the Rose), a scarred ex-war hero a beautiful psychic (The Lion & The Unicorn), and a teenage scoundrel (The K.I.D.) find themselves caught up in the struggle for control of the city.
The story is only just beginning....
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new style, wonderful, just wow.
cant wait to see more work from you.
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This is so unlike everything else on Newgrounds. It looks awesome, like english noir or something.
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im being totally honest when i say this has got to be one of the best submissions yet.
it's graphics are brilliant, the music was perfectly placed, and the camera movement was excellent.
i dont really have anything else to say than well done.
i wont be surprised if this is in the top 100
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This is great
A really unique style. Great use of rotascope(?)
Story is a little confusing but I get the feeling you know what you're talking about / know where it's going. You've just got to make sure you let us know too!
Keep up the good work - can't wait to see where this goes.
p.s. Let's see some other cities of the world Thamesisified - New York, Paris, Berlin... I guess Tokyo is already there?


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Our problem with God, according to physicist Gerald L, Schroeder, is that we're trying to force him to stand still. According to this MIT-trained scientist, the ruling deity of the cosmos is a living, changing God. Dr. Schroeder uses biblical interpretation and scientific analysis to argue that, like us, God assimilates new information, experiences regret, and wants us to argue with him and gradually become his partner in creation. Schroeder's unique view represents a radical paradigm shift in the ongoing debates between science and religion.
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Haldane Elementary Presented Winter Concert
The Haldane Elementary School Winter Concert was held on December 15th. The program opened with the grades 3/4 chorus singing
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I spend a good bit of my time writing historical fiction about brave men and women who have graced the pages of history, trying to bring more light to their legacies so readers of all ages will enjoy them.
My favorite things/hobbies: Writing obviously, listening to and playing Irish and Scottish folk music, practicing with all eras and types of historical weaponry, GOOD COFFEE, reading of course, dark (dark) chocolate, sketching/painting, hats and boots, collecting little old-fashioned things of all kinds, buying books, and don't forget dressing in period clothing!
My favorite kinds of books: Good adventure (sometimes with a little romance), Epic historical series, anything having to do with brotherhood or camaraderie--I'll read anything if it has a strong brotherly bond between two or more guys, time travel novels as long as they are traveling back in time (and not in their own lifetime), good steampunk novels (heavy on the clankers and none of the weird things), military adventure, historical fiction that's either well-written or has unique twists, meaningful or bittersweet war novels, occasionally a good funny book especially ones that are spoofs off old stories or fairy tales, and classics--always the classics!


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Surrey companies and businesspeople were among those honoured last week at the Greater Vancouver Home Builders' Association Awards of Excellence banquet, which was held at Coquitlam's Executive Plaza Hotel.
Surrey-based FortisBC was named corporate member of the year, while Graeme Huguet of My House Design/Build Team Ltd. was honoured as RenoMark Renovator Member of the Year. Peter Simpson, president and CEO of the GVHBA, was also honoured with the Chairman's Award of Honour.
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text: G4, Gamespy, Gamestats Reporting Imaginary VC Soul BlazerMike Fahey5/23/08 10:30amFiled to: vc updateSoul BlazerOriginalNintendoWiiOopsImagination76EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink GIF Back on May 12th, Nintendo decided to skip their weekly Virtual Console update in order to focus on the release of WiiWare. Having posted just about every VC Update since the service began, I decided to post one anyway, asking our readers what games would make up their ideal update. My choices were Soul Blazer for the Super Nintendo and Tiny Toon Adventures for the NES. Apparently I possess some sort of bizarre, mutant powers of suggestion, because somewhere between there and here, several websites began reporting the two titles as actual updates. I'm not talking tiny little sites like Wii60 either. IGN sites Gamespy and Gamestats ran with it...heck, G4 even went to the trouble of making a video about the imaginary update, which I am guess won't be up for too much longer, so enjoy while you can. Update - As expected, video went bye-bye. Advertisement Advertisement I don't suppose it counts as plagiarism if they don't read the article closely enough to realize it isn't real.Soul Blazer – The Virtual Console Release That Never Was? [Virtual Console Reviews - Thanks Aaron!]Reply76 repliesLeave a reply


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Rumor has it that a Killzone 3 closed beta is ongoing right now. According to Alexander Negron of GamesOnSmash, he saw one of his friends on PSN who was actually playing Killzone 3 earlier today.
How can this be when the game won't even be out till February of next year? Our question exactly. What this could imply then is that there is something going on right now for Killzone 3, but as to what it is, or how soon we can get our hands on it ourselves, remain to be a mystery.
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A man who shot his 3-year-old son with a BB gun has been sentenced to a year in jail.
Twenty-four-year-old John Wilfong Jr. of Hagerstown pleaded guilty second-degree child abuse Tuesday in Washington County Circuit Court.
Wilfong's children were visiting him last year when he called his estranged wife to say their son had shot himself in the face. She reported the incident to Child Protective Services and the boy was found to have two BBs embedded in his face and head.
The boy told investigators that his father had shot him.
The Herald-Mail of Hagerstown reports that Wilfong said in court that he was bipolar and needed medication for his anger.
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Cancer relapses tied to drug shortage
Young cancer patients who couldn't get a key medicine because of a national drug shortage were more likely to suffer a relapse than others who were able to get the preferred treatment, doctors report.
It's the first evidence that a longstanding drug-supply problem probably has affected cancer treatment results in specific patients.
The study involved more than 200 children and young adults with a blood cancer called Hodgkin lymphoma. Like childhood leukemia, it can be cured nearly 80 percent of the time. But a drug shortage that has worsened since 2009 is threatening that success rate, doctors report in today's New England Journal of Medicine.
Hundreds of drugs, including sedatives, antibiotics, painkillers and cancer treatments, have gone in and out of short supply in recent years. Reasons include manufacturing and contamination problems, plant shutdowns, and fewer makers and lower profits for certain drugs, especially generics infused during surgery or cancer treatment.
Doctors sometimes substitute different drugs for ones in short supply. But proving that the swaps led to poorer results has been tough, especially for cancer patients whose disease and response to treatment vary so much.
"We really couldn't put our finger on, did anybody really suffer?" said Dr. Michael Link, a cancer specialist at Stanford University and past president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
The new study, led by Dr. Monika Metzger of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, gives the best evidence so far that patients are suffering.
It focused on mechlorethamine, or nitrogen mustard, a drug that has been in short supply until last month, when more became available. Doctors compared results among 181 Hodgkin lymphoma patients who received the drug to 40 others who were given a different chemotherapy, cyclophosphamide, when the first choice was unavailable.
Only 75 percent of those given the substitute drug stayed free of cancer for two years, versus 88 percent who received the preferred treatment.
"We can think of no credible explanation for this dramatic difference" other than the drug substitution, the authors wrote.
No patients died, but those who relapsed were given more aggressive treatments, including stem-cell transplants that have more side effects and can harm fertility.
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December Caps@School Winners
by Staff Writer / Washington CapitalsThe Washington Capitals would like to congratulate Watkins Mill Elementary School from Gaithersburg, Md. They were selected as the December winners of the Caps@School contest. As last month's winners, reading intervention teacher Ms. Marquardt won a special Washington Capitals visit and Chipotle burrito party for her students who completed the Caps@School fifth grade reading lesson plan. Slapshot visited with the students while they enjoyed burritos, chips and salsa courtesy of Chipotle. Each student was also able to take home a puck autographed by one of their favorite Washington Capitals players.
Through the Caps@School program, the Capitals are making available to local educators a free, online curriculum-enhancing teaching tool for fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade classes. The Caps@School website features lesson plans with Alex Ovechkin and Mike Green, player fun facts, stories and more.
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Katiethinkdo needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 231 designs submitted by 93 freelance designers.
Clarity Procurement
We are a brand new business named Clarity Procurement and we need a logo! Our tagline is "Simplifying Complexity".
Our Brand personality - Creative, Belief in Expertise, Smart, Team-Oriented, Analytical, Accountable, Customer-Centric, Unbiased
Clarity Procurement is the expert consultancy that delivers print production efficiency through process reengineering, creative job redesign and guaranteed savings.
Our mission - Helping Canadian businesses leverage our expertise, relationships and service oriented culture to save money and implement efficient new print procurement practices.
Mid to senior level procurement, marketing, production, operations or finance managers seeking career advancement and job stability at Canadian packaged goods or pharmaceutical companies spending in excess $1,000,000 in print.
The aim of the logo is to show we are trustworthy and efficient. We want our clients to know that we are creative as well.
Tone & Manner of logo - Expert, consultative, smart, clever, clean, creative
Colours - you choose! but we would prefer it to be monochromatic
Images - we would not be adverse
Typeface - should be crisp, clean and modern
You will find some logos attached that we like - our logo does not need to look like these.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Metro is planning to close the south entrance of the Dupont Circle station in northwest Washington in order to replace three escalators.
The transit agency says the entrance at 19th Street will close on Feb. 1 and that the work will take about eight months. Metro chief spokesman Dan Stessel says crews will work days, nights and weekends to complete the work as fast as possible.
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text: Weird Prints and Pretty Hair at the Vanity Fair Calendar PartyDodai Stewart2/19/13 12:50pmFiled to: Good/bad/uglyolivia munnFashiontweetVanity FairGettypicKate MaraAngela LindvallGretchen MolKatie aseltonZoe lister jonesMary Elizabeth Winsteadali larterBrooklyn DeckerEllie kemperEstella WarrenLouise RoeMinka KellyHannah SimoneCrystal reedCelebrity37EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkAt the Vanity Fair party celebrating the Vanities Calendar, in which actresses pose as pin-ups, there were some cute party outfits hiding out amongst a lot of bizarre prints.Doing the sharp little jacket thing: Kate Mara, Angela Lindvall, Gretchen Mol.Funky springy prints on Katie Aselton and Zoe Lister Jones.Catty print for Mary Elizabeth Winstead. On board with everything but the shoes. Pretty hair!Somehow, weird/mismatchy/busy prints don't look terrible on Ali Larter and Brooklyn Decker.Hard, vivid, aggressive print on James King; Jurnee Smollett's is much softer and more delicate. Both are cool.Not as cool: the droopy print dress on Ellie Kemper. Not a fan of Estella Warren's long dress/high heel/jean jacket combo.Today in Tough Decisions: Louise Roe's outfit. The fact that she is wearing a short suit reminiscent of Blanche Deveraux's bedroom is kind of awesome, but it is a wee bit… loud. And it's February. Then again it's LA. Love or hate? Hate that I love it.No prints for Minka Kelly and Hannah Simone. Pretty hair, though!Love love love the romantic LBD on Crystal Reed. Pretty hair!Finally, Olivia Munn wins the night in a white and navy sailor tuxedo thingamajig that's sharp and flawless. Great lip color, pretty hair.AdvertisementAdvertisementImages via Getty.Reply37 repliesLeave a reply


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Wins: 62 Payroll: $52,270,349 Cost per win: $843,070 Efficiency ratio 51.4%
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Eggnog and rum extract add subtle flavor to always-pleasing cheesecake, while raspberry sauce provides pretty color.
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November 19, 2007
Don't Be Fooled:
Immigration is NOT the Real Problem
Edith Rasell
Minister for Workplace Justice, Justice & Witness Ministries
Many Americans have a love-hate relationship with immigrant workers. We sometimes hate immigrants who take "our" jobs. At the same time we love low prices, prices that may depend on the very low wages paid immigrants workers. But when native-born workers are in conflict with immigrant workers, we all lose. A good society can only be built on justice for all – for immigrant workers and for workers born in the U.S.
Chiapas is one of the poorest states in Mexico and the former home of many immigrants. A typical coffee farmer in the highlands lives in a tiny house with a dirt floor and a single dangling light bulb. Everyone is well acquainted with poverty and hardship. But as a tidal wave of economic destruction has washed over the highland villages, people have been forced to travel north seeking work. Loved ones left behind experience the destruction of their family and community life. When asked to identify their greatest problem, the villagers name immigration.
Coffee farmers in Chiapas and many other workers around the world are loosing their livelihoods and ways of life due to biased international agreements that favor corporations over workers. Skewed economic policies are forcing people to leave their homes to seek work and refuge from a tsunami of economic globalization.
Workers in the U.S. are also confronting this tidal wave of economic change and destruction. Globalization has brought stagnant or falling wages, a shift from well paid manufacturing jobs to lower paying ones, financial insecurity, and competition by immigrants for jobs.
Immigration has become a hot-button issue. But the real problem is not immigrant workers. They are often victims of a system that serves neither native-born nor foreign-born workers.
A few years ago, the U.S. Department of Labor found that none of the poultry processing plants they examined paid employees for all the time they worked. In meat packing, more than one in every ten workers has a significant injury each year. Both these industries employ large numbers of immigrant workers. And immigrants from Mexico are killed on their jobs in the U.S. at a rate 75% higher than that of workers who were born here.
The problem for American workers is not immigration but weak and poorly enforced workplace protections. Most firms do not exploit workers, immigrant or native-born. But some do. If these companies can pay less than is required by law, violate safety standards, fire a worker or get him deported if he tries to form a union, and do so with minimal penalties or none at all, then we will see more firms exploiting workers. Wages will continue to fall, benefits will continue to disappear, union membership will continue to decline, and American workers will become more financially insecure. The rich will get richer and the poor, poorer.
The answer is not hostility to immigrants. Instead, we must demand that politicians strengthen and enforce workplace protections for all of us. And politicians must revise biased international agreements that benefit multinational corporations and harm workers here in the U.S. and around the world.


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"Stuck online" - How do I stop the madness ?
Ever tried to bring a resource offline only for it to result in a state of "Stuck online" ? A "Stuck online" situation could also prevent a move request (failover) since the first step of a move is to stop/offline all resources that are in the scope of the move. Your first sign of a "Stuck online" situation will likely be from the output of the 'lssam' command. Here is some sample lssam output : Stuck online IBM.ResourceGroup:App-rg Request=Move Control=MemberInProblemState Nominal=... [More]
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Open Program for IBM Tivoli System Automation
The Open Program for IBM Tivoli System Automation started. We are developing the next version of our products: Tivoli System Automation Application Manager (SA AppMan) Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms (SA MP) In the Open Program, we are going to
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TSA Blog Series: High Availability Concepts - Do I need a TieBreaker?"
A Network TieBreaker is a popular configuration option for a Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms (TSA MP) managed environment. But what is a TieBreaker and why is it needed ? To understand the what and why, you first need to understand the concept of "quorum" ... please see my blog titled "TSA Blog Series: High Availability Concepts - What is Quorum ?" https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/d6a38b59-943a-434b-a473-b408ed64847d/entry/what_is_quorum?lang=en ... in a nutshell, a group of nodes is... [More]
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"The Majority Rules !" In a nutshell, you have Quorum if you have the majority. Quorum is the number of "operational" nodes in a cluster that are required to control the resources, modify the cluster definition, or perform certain cluster operations. The main goals of quorum operations: - identify who has the majority when a cluster is broken up into sub-clusters - keep data consistent, especially when shared file systems are being used - protect critical resources … maintain HA control If critical resources are... [More]
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High Availabiltiy through Virtualization - Myth or Reality
Automation with Tivoli System Automation products family in virtual environments has been presented on the GSE Power-Systems conference in Munich on 21.11.2011. Virtualization technologies play an important role in datacenters – they also provide the base for currently hot discussed "cloud" infrastructures. There is a lot of focus on virtualization technologies for distributed server platforms like zVM, VMware, System p's Hypervisor, SUN Solaris Zones, and others. Of course, virtualization provides several benefits this presentation... [More]
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Besides logs, what else would TSAMP Support need to help you?
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First place to look for help for TSAMP
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Good day, i had asked some questions about this problem before and since then i have change some parts.
I have it worked on by a gmc master tech. with over 16 years experience. He diagnose it and told me that it needed a tune up and he did it. parts change (5 new coil pack, 8 ac delco spark plug and wires). He flush the fuel system and take out the injectors and check them for the right psi.
Over $1,000 dollars later and the problem still exist.
The hesitation is not as much but it still happen. One minute it will fight to pick up speed then the next it drives fine.
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The son-in-law of popular folk singer and Congress legislator Mohammad Sadique was arrested on Monday evening here for possessing a fake identity card of Mumbai Police.
The ID suggested he was undercover agent of the crime investigation department (CID) in Andheri East, Mumbai. The police at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) here registered a case against him of preparing, keeping, and flashing the fake police ID.
Mohammad Yasin (32), son-in-law of the legislator from Bhadaur, was arrested at a checkpoint near the Sidhwan canal. "He saw the police trap and tried to flee," said sub-inspector Gurveer Singh, station house officer at the PAU. "The police caught him in a chase. He put up a dominating face and said he was undercover police officer of Mumbai. On verifying, the police found the identity card fake."
Yasin lives in a rented accommodation at Adarsh Colony on the Barewal road here, opposite the house of Mohammad Sadique. After falling out with wife, he has been living in Khanna for the past 15 days.
The SHO said the investigation was on.


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- Featuring a compact wall mounting design, this 1.5-ton split AC measures 1020 x 320 x 230 mm.
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Simple but elegant, this dessert makes a refreshing finale to dinner on a hot summer evening.
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Thank you Epicurious! I was looking for a way to use 5 ripe plums that had been languishing in my fridge and did not feel like making a cobbler or baking anything. This recipe sounds weird with the rosemary, but it is excellent, tastes great, and very upscale (at least the taste I took while it was marinating). I didn;t have plum brandy/grappa, but threw in some Kirsch and can't wait to try it tonight!! Thanks again
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Very quick and simple -- I just used a standard mandolin to slice the plums but I have to admit they looked lovely. My main issue was trying to serve them, the plums are so soft after two hours (actually, after 10 minutes!) that moving them was difficult. I'd be tempted to slice the plums onto the dessert plates and put the boiling syrup on shortly before serving.


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It is midterm review for the six teams of Pratt students enrolled in ARCH 400.13, and they are presenting their ideas for the 21st century workspace. The studio's instructor, Michael Kubo, gave the students an option: either design an entirely new office prototype, or explore the potential of installing a skylit ceiling in the 1957 headquarters of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. (now Cigna).
Designed by Gordon Bunshaft, one of the most notable midcentury designers at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the Bloomfield, Conn., headquarters is considered an archetype of a suburban office complex. It remains an iconic example of the modernist open-plan office with its flexible space planning. Students who chose the Bunshaft challenge had to take into consideration a 2006 retrofit that altered one of the building's defining elements, its exposed modular ceiling, which was the first synthetic example integrating lighting, ventilation, and acoustic functions.
The project brief's emphasis on ceiling planes and illumination has added significance given that the studio's sponsor is Danish skylight manufacturer Velux. The students are invited to incorporate Velux products into their design solutions, and they may just broaden their understanding of daylighting in the process.
"I have a new appreciation for lighting designers because one can imagine certain lighting effects, but in fact it is much harder to fully realize and produce them," says fourth-year Pratt student Jerome Hord. "Over time we've all come to understand there are so many directions to go with office design, and it's interesting to think about how a ceiling skylighting system is crucial to an open office space."
Kubo, who is an architect and the New York director of Actar Publishers, has high hopes for the Velux studio. "The students are already exploring some very exciting ways to use skylighting to achieve complex environmental and aesthetic effects in their projects," he says. In the upcoming weeks, they will have to develop their ideas to a high degree of precision—in terms of the amount and quality of light the designs produce, as well as the coordination of ventilation systems, structure, space planning, and construction. "The students will have to shift from the abstract scale of the work so far, to a more detailed scale involving software to test lighting effects, large-scale detail models of their ceiling systems, and more sophisticated renderings that can show the qualities their systems produce," Kubo explains.
One Of A Series The Pratt course is just one of several design studios that Velux has sponsored in the United States. Launched in 2007, the studio sponsorship program expands on the company's existing student initiatives, which include the website architectstudent.net, and a biannual award founded in 2004 for architecture students around the globe.
"The Velux America studio sponsorship program draws inspiration from our international design competition in that it strives to get student architects thinking about daylighting in architecture, and takes it one step further by focusing students on the practicalities of implementing daylighting strategies that include skylights," says Tim O'Neill, a district sales manager for Velux. O'Neill is one of several sales managers at the company who work closely with the studios, instructing students about Velux's products and daylighting strategies, and participating as jurors in midterm and final reviews.
In the 2007–08 academic year, Velux sponsored studios at five architecture schools: Boston Architectural College (BAC), Carnegie Mellon University, Pratt Institute, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). The company's outreach concentrated on architecture schools in the Northeast because of their relative geographic proximity to the Velux America headquarters in Fort Mill, S.C.
For its first foray into academia, Velux collaborated with faculty members from each institution to customize the scope of the studio to suit the school's curriculum. At the BAC, for instance, students work during the day at architectural firms, so they participated in weekend design charrettes that challenged them to create two gallery spaces—one requiring direct natural lighting, and the other requiring indirect natural lighting.
At Carnegie Mellon, the students' mission was to create a light museum. More specifically, the brief called for an annex to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh for the display, study, and storage of art-work relating to light. The freestanding structure, located across the street from the existing museum, also was intended to serve a didactic function, increasing museumgoers' understanding of light as central to how we view art and architecture.


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The data between "|" need to be saved as it is without the spaces and data outside pipes need to be converted to ASCII. Can you explain this better, like give an example?
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The Horse Forum
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- - Staying away from the Tie Down?
Staying away from the Tie Down? So I have heard people say that they don't see tiedowns as a good thing. and people say they do? I dont quite understand why they see them as a bad thing? What are advantages to a tiedown? disadvantages? and WHEN would you think it would be time to put a tiedown on a horse? .. I see some people using them and they are so loose it doesn't do anything.. at all.. Thanks Sorry if this a a stupid question lol.. Having a off not thinking day:)! |
I have a few finished barrel horses and several others that I run, each one can run a great pattern without the tie-down. However, a few of them run BETTER with one because they will brace on it in their turns. One horse braces coming out of the turn and one going in. Like I said, they can run a great set without it, but they can run a better set with it. I have an issue with slapping a tie-down on any horse because mostly people use them to cover up training issues such as, high head set, slinging head, or just because it matches their tack set. It shouldn't be used as a fix for training issues.. but to compliment an already finished and well-trained horse that knows it's job. |
Never used one, don't see the need to. Mind you, I am not by any means "pro barrel-racer"! :wink: |
I personally find the whole balance a foofoo story....just not gonna buy it lol. And that is about the only legit answer people have....or their horses heads are in the air. A lot of tie-downs I see on horses...shouldn't be on because I see a underlying training issue. I am probably just rambling.....but I do NOT like tie-downs...period. I did have TD on scrat for a couple months (ONLY when I ran...and it was NOT my choice...mother put her foot down and got tired of his nose in the air when I touched his face to move over). That didn't last long at all....but he was in a early midlife crises and his hormones were all over the place lol...he was a bit confused last year. This year I haven't put the TD on him and don't plan on too.... I find that their is ALWAYS a reason a horse is flipping their heads, taking their nose...ect. And a little digging and work you can fix that reason. All TDs do is create a front endy horses because they are bracing so hard on the TD turning....and it also creates a stiff running horse, because they are gonna be bracing. That is JMO.... |
I welcome anyone that knows what they are doing to come and run any of my horses.. well 2 that use a tie-down. Run them without it and then run them with it. None of my horses have a nose in the air, head slinging, light on the front end problem, none of it. But the bracing thing is real, and it does help some horses. Sherry Cervi and Stingray for example. And even though none of my horses are NFR money winners... the two that use tie-downs use them because they run best with something to brace on either coming in or out of their turns. Like I said, they can run fine without it, but their turns are better for the ones like like to brace on them. Both of the horses that run with a tie-down have no underlying training issues or holes or none of the crap other people use as a reason. I've also found that even if a horse sticks it's nose in the air, a tie down is NOT and I repeat NOT going to fix that or help with a head set issue... all it's going to do is make a hole in training even bigger. |
I don't see them as a bad thing unless they are used wrong. Most don't understand the use for them and just slap them on their horse because they complete the look or to cover up traning issues. I'm on the fence about the whole balance issue and bracing with TDs in general. My horses run without them. The only time I ever used one was when Charlie used to throw his head ALL the time. He could literally break my nose if he wanted to, I got countless bloody noses. Used the tie down for a few rides, realized it was wrong and fixed his holes the right way. That was when I first started riding and I don't really like to use them now, but I would if it really helped one of my horses run. The horse should run fine without though, and have no holes in training before a TD is put on. They may run better with it, fine. I just hate when they're used as a cover up. Seen one to many horses explode because the TD was cranked tight and they were NOT ready to be running at shows, let alone in general. |
The only places tie downs make sense is on finished rope horses, and maaaaaaaaaaaaaybe some finished barrel horses. |
I don't ever go to the tiedown unless I have to. I have, however, used it to balance up some horses on the barrel pattern and it has worked well. However, even the finished barrel horses I've had don't get the tiedown all the time. They'll get it to show in and maybe the day before a show. It's not tight either, it's just enough to give them something to reach for but not enough to constrict them. Ruger is the one exception to my tiedown rule. I was tired of getting hit in the face. With him, it was learned habit and NOT a pain issue. A black eye, bloody nose, and a bloody lip later...I was DONE. Of course, I think once he is finished up he will be a horse to run in a tiedown anyway. He pushes out okay right now going slow, but once the speed is added I feel, from my standpoint, that he could benefit from one for the balance. A horse that is soft in the face, well balanced, etc will never need one. One that is only running local playdays or gymkhanas loping around just for giggles will never need one. One that is only going slow will never need one. A horse who is so powerful they literally throw themselves off balance when they're trying to fire? They should have one, in neutral, to help them enhance their ability to push off. I have never had a horse get heavy in the front end from a tiedown. A properly adjusted one should have NO effect unless the horse reaches for it. I ride the same way with a tiedown as I do without one, I expect going slow my horse to be rounded up and working from behind, soft in the face, etc. Just because there's a tiedown there, I don't stop riding and let them hit it constantly. They are only going to hit it when I go to one hand. They lose the support of my hand and get the support of the noseband instead. |
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In basketball, 5 inches can make all the difference. The Soroco girls basketball team found that out Friday night.
North Park center Amanda Jones is 6-foot-2, and Soroco spent a majority of the evening trying to stop her with Nichole Wilson, 5-foot-9, and Hallie Shiner, 5-foot-8.
It didn't work so well, as the Wildcats defeated the Rams 61-28.
"That was a tough one," said Soroco coach Bob Johnson.
North Park is the favorite to win the league. And if the Wildcats have as much ease scoring down low for the rest of the season as they did Friday, they will run away with the title.
Jones and junior Sammi Schellhaas, 5-foot-11, combined to score 32 points for North Park. Junior Laura Hodgson added 15 from the perimeter, as well.
The Wildcats got out to a 12-point lead in the first quarter before Soroco senior Kaleyne Gneiser banked a three-pointer as time expired in the first.
The Rams turned things around offensively in the second, as Gneiser connected on another three right out of the huddle. North Park went on a 9-0 run shortly thereafter, but Soroco closed to within nine points with 3 minutes, 7 seconds left before halftime. The nine points ended up being as close as the Rams ever got to the Wildcats.
"We made so many bad passes," Johnson said. "We have to slow it down and get a good shot. Sometimes we just threw the ball away."
Soroco's lack of height was magnified against North Park, so it was essential for the Rams to value each possession they had and limit the Wildcats' offensive touches. Turnovers wrecked that part of the game plan.
Soroco's bid to upset the league favorite wasn't helped when starting guards Paige Iacovetto and Gneiser went down with injuries. Iacovetto's ankle hampered her most of the game, and Gneiser's injured hand forced her to leave in the third quarter. Senior guard Allegra Bonfiglio had to leave the game in the fourth quarter with an injury, as well.
Shiner, Iacovetto and Gneiser all had six points to lead Soroco.
Both coaches emptied their benches with five minutes left in the fourth quarter after North Park extended its 13-point halftime lead to 27 by the end of the third.
The loss drops Soroco to 3-3 overall and 0-1 in league play.
North Park returns to action at 4 p.m. today in Hayden in nonleague action.
Soroco has several weeks off before resuming league play at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 9 in Grand Valley.
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