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A potential alternative for Space Syntax analysis of urban form has been released by MIT's City Form Research Group. This will be of interest to many researchers and urbanists who wish to understand more of the factors that influence various attributes of urban form operation. It is especially useful that it operates within ArcGis and is available free. The following press release from MIT:
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — MIT researchers have created a new Urban Network Analysis (UNA) toolbox that enables urban designers and planners to describe the spatial patterns of cities using mathematical network analysis methods. Such tools can support better informed and more resilient urban design and planning in a context of rapid urbanization. "Network centrality measures are useful predictors for a number of interesting urban phenomena," explains Andres Sevtsuk, the principal investigator of the City Form Research Group at MIT that produced the toolbox. "They help explain, for instance, on which streets or buildings one is most likely to find local commerce, where foot or vehicular traffic is expected to be highest, and why city land values vary from one location to another."
Network analysis is widely used in the study of social networks, such as Facebook friends or phonebook connections, but so far fairly little in the spatial analysis of cities. While the study of spatial networks goes back to Euler and his famous puzzle of Königsberg's seven bridges in the 18th century, there were, until recently, no freely accessible tools available for city planners to calculate computation-intensive spatial centrality measures on dense networks of city streets and buildings. The new toolbox, which is distributed as free and open-source plugin-in for ArcGIS, allows urban designers and planners to compute five types of graph analysis measures on spatial networks: Reach; Gravity; Betweenness; Closeness; and Straightness. "The Reach measure, for instance, can be used to estimate how many destinations of a particular type — buildings, residents, jobs, transit stations etc. — can be reached within a given walking radius from each building along the actual circulation routes in the area", said Michael Mekonnen, a course six sophomore who worked on the project. "The Betweenness measure, on the other hand, can be used to quantify the number of potential passersby at each building."The tools incorporate three important features that make network analysis particularly suited for urban street networks. First, they account for geometry and distances in the input networks, distinguishing shorter links from longer links as part of the analysis computations. Second, unlike previous software tools that operate with two network elements (nodes and edges), the UNA tools include a third network element — buildings — which are used as the spatial units of analysis for all measures. Two neighboring buildings on the same street segments can therefore obtain different accessibility results. And third, the UNA tools optionally allow buildings to be weighted according to their particular characteristics — more voluminous, more populated, or otherwise more important buildings can be specified to have a proportionately stronger effect on the analysis outcomes, yielding more accurate and reliable results to any of the specified measures.The toolbox offers a powerful set of analysis options to quantify how centrally each building is positioned in an urban environment and how easily a user can access different amenities from each location. It introduces a novel methodology for tracking the growth and change of cities in the rapidly urbanizing world and offers analytic support for their designers and policymakers.The UNA toolbox can be downloaded from the group's website.
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Physicist John Schwarz speaks out in support of marijuana reclassification, and for prioritizing science over politics
By Kris Hermes | Published in Americans For Safe AccessPresident Obama has been silent regarding the available science on the issue of medical cannabis.
Taking his first public political stance, John Schwarz, co-founder of 'Superstring Theory' and a Theoretical Physics professor at California Institute of Technology, published a commentary piece in the Huffington Post, urging the federal government to put aside the politics surrounding medical marijuana and pay attention to the abundance of scientific evidence.
Schwarz has also invited his fellow scientists to join him in co-signing an open letter to President Obama at ScienceInPolicy.com, calling on him to uphold his promises to put science before politics.
Schwarz points to President Obama's emphasis on what he called, "free and open scientific inquiry," and asks "Why hasn't the long-running controversy over medical marijuana been resolved using science?"
In 2009, as one of the hallmark actions of his administration, Obama issued a memorandum to all executive departments and agencies, explaining that "Science and the scientific process must inform and guide decisions of my Administration on a wide range of issues, including improvement of public health…"
Recognizes that Obama "has improved the role of science in the decision-making process in many areas of government," Schwarz writes that his administration "is ignoring scientists' voices on medical marijuana policy."
Schwarz admits that a Romney Administration would "probably undo" what progress Obama has made in improving the role of science in policy decisions, but Schwarz laments that, "the federal government ignores scientific facts accepted around the globe – not to mention the will of the American people – to cling to outdated ideological policies and restrict marijuana research."
President Obama's March 2009 memorandum was followed up with another "Scientific Integrity" memorandum, issued on December 17, 2010 by John P. Holdren, the White House Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. The memorandum stated that, "Successful application of science in public policy depends on the integrity of the scientific process both to ensure the validity of the information itself and to engender public trust in Government." The memorandum directed government agencies to:
1. Ensure a culture of scientific integrity;
2. Strengthen the actual and perceived credibility of Government research;
3. Facilitate the free flow of scientific and technological information; and
4. Establish principles for conveying scientific and technological information to the public.
These tenets were subsequently adopted by numerous federal departments and agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is responsible for reviewing the scientific evidence on medical marijuana.
Instead of adhering to these principles, however, the Obama Administration has blocked research into the therapeutic benefits of marijuana and upheld the federal government's standing position that marijuana should remain a Schedule I substance. Unique and prohibitively high standards in the U.S., required of no other Schedule I substance, has severely hindered medical marijuana research compared to other countries around the world.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is the gatekeeper for the supply of research-grade marijuana and has a bias for studies that investigate the supposed negative effects of marijuana. Scientists trying to study medical marijuana claim that NIDA and other federal agencies have rigged the research application process.
The Schwarz op-ed and open letter for scientists comes as the federal government is being sued over its current classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no medical value.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeal for the D.C. Circuit heard oral arguments in Americans for Safe Access v. Drug Enforcement Administration, a case that is asking the court — based on overwhelming scientific evidence — to order the federal government to reclassify marijuana for medical use, in either Schedule III, IV or V. A ruling in the case is expected sometime next year.
Further information:
John Schwarz op-ed in the Huffington Post: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Open Letter from Scientists to President Obama: https://ScienceInPolicy.com
December 2010 White House 'Scientific Integrity' memo: https://www.whitehouse.gov/
With over 50,000 active members in all 50 states, Americans for Safe Access (ASA) is the largest national member-based organization of patients, medical professionals, scientists and concerned citizens promoting safe and legal access to cannabis for therapeutic use and research. ASA works to overcome political and legal barriers by creating policies that improve access to medical cannabis for patients and researchers through legislation, education, litigation, grassroots actions, advocacy and services for patients and the caregivers.

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Here's our next adult beverage in the Weekend Cocktail series - The Pomegranate Cosmopolitan
Looking at that blood red, makes me think this would've been a great cocktail for Halloween weekend. Oh well, it'll have to wait till next year!
For this, you will need, vodka, I recommend a citrus one but regular will do, and go ahead with your bad self and bring on the Grey Goose or Finlandia, if you like. Me, I'm on a budget.
You'll also need, triple sec, pomegranate juice, cranberry juice (or you can double up on the POM), and one lime.
You'll also need a shaker. You remember my fancy smancy one, right?
Pour everything in your shaker, top it off with some ice, give it a little shake and strain into a chilled martini glass. I actually like a bit of sweet with mine (surprise, surprise) , so I prefer the Rose's over the fresh lime juice here to add a bit of sweet.
Pomegranate Cosmopolitan
From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
4 ounces citron vodka
2 ounces triple sec
4 ounces POM Wonderful pomegranate juice
2 ounces cranberry juice
Juice of one lime or 1 ounce of Rose's lime juice
Lime or pomegranate seeds, for garnish, optional
Swirl ice cubes in both martini glasses to chill; discard the ice. Add all of the ingredients (except garnish) to a shaker, top with ice. Shake until thoroughly blended and strain into two martini glasses.
Makes 2
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On 19 December 2012, at 11am, the New York Public Library presented in outline the architectural plans for its Central Library Plan (CLP), a proposal to close the Mid-Manhattan Library and the Science, Industry, and Business Library and replace the bookshelves that house the 42nd Street building's research collection with a new circulating library. The library's president Anthony Marx and its chosen architect Norman Foster spoke. In the weeks since this press conference, architecture critics have begun to weigh in—some positive, some negative. I took notes, and though I've already written up my first impression, Marx and Foster released a number of details that don't seem to have made it into press accounts, and I thought I would share my notes here. (When I can't resist editorializing, I'll set off my comments with parentheses and italics, like this.)
"Our aim," said Marx, in his remarks at the press conference, "is to provide to New Yorkers and to all comers the greatest library facility in the world." The CLP, he said, aspires to "bring back to this building the two halves of this great library"—its circulating and its research missions. He described the new space, which is to be inserted in the space under the Rose reading room, where the bookshelves of the research library now stand, as "a brand-new state-of-the-art Mid-Manhattan Library and Science, Industry and Business Library," adding that because the future of all libraries, including the New York Public, remains unclear, the new space will be flexible.
Marx insisted that the 42nd Street building would continue to be a "great space for exhibitions." He said that the building's research collection was "currently housed in stacks with almost no climate control or fire safety" and that under the new dispensation, the books would be much better cared for—in fact, five times better cared for. (Though he didn't name it, Marx seems here to have been referring to the 42nd Street building's rating on the Time-Weighted Preservation Index, a measurement scale devised by the Image Permanence Institute. As I explained in an earlier blog post, the 42nd Street stacks are currently rated 44.5, which means that a book held there suffers as much damage in 44.5 years as a book stored at 68 degrees Fahrenheit and 45 percent relative humidity would suffer in 50 years. Under the CLP, by comparison, books would be stored in conditions where it would take 163 to 244 years for them to suffer an equivalent amount of damage.) The books will get what they need, Marx said, and the people, what they need. Marx claimed that the administration expects the CLP to make available to the library an additional $15 million a year. (There's a touch of spin here: The library's chief operations officer has estimated that the savings from consolidating three buildings into one would amount to only $7 million a year. The difference between $7 million and $15 million is to come from interest that would accrue on new funds raised for the CLP.) Marx promised that the renovated building would stay open until 11pm most nights, "revitalizing the evening experience in this neighborhood."
Marx acknowledged that the CLP had come in for criticism, and he asserted that "we heard concerns about the plans,… and we adjusted and improved them." He said that no public spaces in the building were going to change. In fact, he said, spaces not previously open to the public were going to be made newly accessible. In closing, he remarked that in the days just after Hurricane Sandy, visits to the "aesthetically challenged" Mid-Manhattan Library had doubled, and as proof of the library administration's commitment to serving the public, he pointed out that despite recent, unexpected budget cuts, the library hasn't closed branches or cut hours.
The architect Norman Foster then presented a slideshow, which surveyed the changes to the 42nd Street building over time and his proposed alterations to the structure. Foster began by noting that the Rose reading room is 51 feet high and that a visitor has to climb 50 feet through the 42nd Street building in order to reach it. Returning to this symmetry, somewhat later in his remarks, Foster observed that the volume that contains the bookshelves under the Rose reading room is roughly the same size as the volume of the Rose reading room itself. Foster pointed out that there had been a circulating library inside the 42nd Street building once before, in the space now known as the Bartos Forum, and that there had previously been a children's library in rooms on the ground floor currently used for administrative offices. At the moment, Foster said, 30 percent of the building is open to the public; the CLP would make 66 percent of the building publicly accessible. (It seems worth pointing out that the proportion of the 42nd Street building open to the public may not be the most pertinent statistic. The CLP calls for the closing of two other facilities: the Mid-Manhattan Library and the Science, Industry, and Business Library. I suspect that the total amount of floorspace open to the public will remain little changed. Also, it would be possible to open new writer's spaces on the second floor of the 42nd Street building and a new children's library on the ground floor without removing the building's bookshelves.)
Foster noted that in the 1980s, a space for an underground parking lot had been excavated beneath Bryant Park, next-door to the library, and after the city intervened, one of two levels in this space was devoted to book storage instead of parking. The second level was left empty for years, but thanks to a gift from Abby and Howard Milstein announced in September, soon this second level, too, will be able to hold books. (This is a significant alteration to the CLP, and a major concession to critics like me who were concerned that the CLP would drastically reduce on-site book storage. I, for one, appreciate it greatly.) Thanks to the Milsteins' gift, the capacity of the Bryant Park Stack Extension will grow from 1.5 million to 3 million volumes. The above-ground stacks in the 42nd Street building, meanwhile, hold 3 million books. In an animated diagram, Foster showed the books that used to be stored in the 42nd Street building flowing into the new facility under Bryant Park. (Foster was indulging in a little sleight of hand here. The 3 million books once stored in the 42nd Street stacks will indeed fit in the new Bryant Park storage facility—but only if the 1.5 million books that were formerly stored under Bryant Park are sent away to off-site storage in New Jersey. This is an improvement over the original plan—which was to send 3 million books to New Jersey and keep only 1.5 million under Bryant Park—and as I said, I appreciate the improvement greatly, but it remains true that the CLP will entail a loss of on-site storage.)
Foster then showed images, including a video "fly-through," of the construction he proposes for the space under the Rose reading room currently occupied by bookshelves. In Foster's fly-through, visible here, a viewer enters the building from Fifth Avenue, crosses the vestibule known as Astor Hall, walks through the exhibition space known as Gottesman Hall, and emerges on the third of five floors (or the second of four, depending on whether you count the lowest level) that Foster would like to insert into the space under the Rose reading room. These four (or five) levels looked to me a bit like loggias in an opera house. They're hollowed out in the center, as if around an orchestra pit. The proscenium that they face is the western façade of the library, which looks out onto Bryant Park.
Foster acknowledged that the Rose reading room is currently supported structurally by the cast-iron "stacks," or bookshelves, under it. He said that the engineers who would handle the removal of the stacks are those responsible for the recent creation of new spaces under Carnegie Hall and under City Hall, and that he was confident that they were up to the challenge. (Marx later identified the firm as Robert Silman Associates, and indeed they seem to have an excellent reputation.) Foster said that the delivery desk in the Rose reading room, the central point for receiving and distributing books, would remain unchanged. He said that it was still "early days" in terms of design choices, but that he expected the new space would be furnished in wood, bronze, and stone, materials "which age gracefully" and are used elsewhere in the building. He said that he hoped to recycle some of the existing book stacks as shelving in the new space. He asserted that the new space would be 65 feet high, and that as he planned for the ceiling, he was struck by the frosted-glass skylights elsewhere in the 42nd Street building—a hint that he was considering installing an artificially lit frosted-glass skylight.
During the question-and-answer period, Scott Sherman of The Nation asked Foster if he had any misgivings about the CLP in light of Ada Louise Huxtable's recent strong critique in the Wall Street Journal. "No," Foster replied. "The history of the building is one of change over time. The world today is not what it was in 1911," when the 42nd Street structure was built. "I respect your question," Foster continued; "I disagree with you."
Someone else asked about the structural hazard that the demolition of the stacks posed to the Rose reading room, and Foster replied by shifting the question to a different danger: "The Rose reading room is currently at risk," he said. "It's the only public space in New York that sits on an un-fire-protected space…. If part of the story [of the renovation] is protecting the books, then another part is that we're also protecting the Rose reading room. I cannot speak for the engineers, but they're some of the best in the world." In response to a second question about the logistics of renovating without endangering the Rose, Foster explained that in an initial phase, the engineers would create structural elements between the stacks that would hold up the Rose. Then, once this new supporting structure was in place, the engineers would remove the stacks. Foster said that he expected the new facility to open in 2018, and Marx promised that the 42nd Street building would stay open during construction.
I raised my hand and asked how books would reach the Rose reading room from the Bryant Park storage facility, since the plans suggested that the elevator that formerly raised books to the Rose delivery desk would soon be no more. I gave an account of the exchange in an earlier post, and to save time, I'll repeat it here:
There's currently a conveyor belt that brings books from the Bryant Park Stack Extension into the library building, and in reply to my question, Marx said that a second conveyor belt would be added to it, and a new elevator built somewhere on the south end of the building. The architectural historian Charles Warren followed up my question with a few others: Would the new elevator be put where the Art and Architecture reading room is now located? No, it was to be to one side, probably in the southeast corner of the Rose room. How would books get from the southeast corner of the Rose to the delivery desk? There might be room to build yet another conveyor belt in the crawl space between the floor of the Rose Reading Room and the drop ceiling of the new circulating library. Was this crawl space large enough for a person to walk in it? No. Then how would the conveyor be repaired if it broke?
Marx and Foster assured Warren that they would be able to come up with an answer.
Another questioner asked about the project's funding, and Marx answered that the CLP was "self-funded." He repeated the claim that the CLP will improve the library's bottom line by $15 million a year, but he also said that financial gain was "not the driver of this project." (The finances behind the CLP seem to be growing more obscure. Until this press conference, the library had consistently said that it estimated the cost of the renovation to be $300 million and that it had been promised $150 million from New York City and expected to raise about $200 million more by selling the properties that currently house the Mid-Manhattan Library and the Science, Industry, and Business Library. Indeed, in June, the library quietly sold five floors of the science library for $61 million. In a New York Times article published the morning of the December 19 press conference, however, the library gave a new explanation for the sources of the CLP's funds. The library still says that $150 million is going to come from the city, but according to the Times, it now claims that $50 million is coming from the 2008 sale of the Donnell branch and $100 million from the sale of the Annex, an offsite storage space on West 43rd Street, as well as from the sale of several floors of SIBL. I can't quickly find the date that the Annex was sold, but I think it was before 2008. (UPDATE, 7 January 2013: I guessed wrong. It turns out that the library sold its West 43rd Street annex for $45 million in August 2011.) At the bottom of an ink-on-paper press release, the library adds this sentence: "The Central Library Plan is a unique public-private partnership made possible with generous support from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, the New York City Council, the Empire State Development Corporation, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Stephen A. Schwarzman, Abby S. Milstein and Howard P. Milstein, and an anonymous donor." The allocation from the city explains the politicians' names, and the Milsteins' names are accounted for by their gift for the Bryant Park storage facility. By also listing Schwarzman and an anonymous donor, the library seems to be suggesting that it considers their gifts, too, to be sources of the CLP's financing. If you add up all these sources of money, you get a sum twice as large as what the library claims that the CLP will cost. I doubt there's anything very fishy here. I suspect that the conflicting accounts mean only that the library plans to spend down its endowment—to which the sale of the Annex, the sale of the Donnell, Schwarzman's gift, and other gifts have contributed—in order to pay for the reconstruction, and then plan to replenish the endowment by selling the Mid-Manhattan and Science, Industry, and Business properties. One last financial note: In its press release, the library now concedes that "we expect the actual budget to be somewhat higher" than the previous estimate of $300 million.)
Asked about modifications to the building, including the possibility of an entrance directly into Bryant Park, Marx said that the cloak room at the north entrance of the building, on 42nd Street, would be "opened up." He said that four revisions to the building would require approval from the Landmarks Preservation Commission: replacing a stretch of wall on the south side of the building with a new loading dock, installing a new air conditioning unit on the roof, converting two windows on the west façade into emergency fire exits, and modifying several windows so that they could open during a fire if necessary. As for a Bryant Park entrance, Marx said he personally thought it would be a great idea, but that the library had decided against it, so as not to compromise the western façade and in order to be "mindful of the park's interests."
Someone asked what lessons the library had learned from Hurricane Sandy. Had the library taken sufficient precautions against flooding? Would it acquire a new emergency generator? Yes, Marx replied, the library will have a new emergency generator. As for flooding, he noted that the Bryant Park Stack Extension is built on the foundations of a 19th-century water reservoir, whose retaining walls are 16 or 17 inches thick. An inspection after Sandy discovered no leakage. Flooding from above is not a danger, either, he said; sea levels would have to rise 55 feet before they could reach Bryant Park.
A final questioner asked why the library couldn't simply improve the air conditioning in the stacks. Marx asserted that it would cost $50 to $75 million to bring the air conditioning up to the level the library wants, and that the stacks would in that case remain vulnerable to fire.
Further impressions
I'm still thinking about my position in this debate. As I've said, I'm grateful that the library has agreed to store more books under Bryant Park. Nonetheless, I still wish that the library were leaving the 42nd Street building alone and instead doing a stand-alone renovation of the Mid-Manhattan Library, as I suggested in the spring. There's a hint that such an alternative might be more feasible than ever. In October, the New York Times reported that Mayor Bloomberg is pushing to re-zone midtown so as to allow for more skyscrapers. The Mid-Manhattan Library is just outside the border of the proposed new zone, and if the city were to draw the new perimeter so as to include the MML, the library might be able to pull off on that site the sort of bold but money-making construction project that the Museum of Modern Art managed a few years ago. In any case, even if the CLP now has too much political momentum to be stopped, there's something to be said for continuing to pay attention and for trying to hold the library to its promise to sustain its research mission.
I'm not terribly impressed with Foster's architectural plans, but in his defense, it should be said that the constraints on his design are considerable. As Foster himself noted, the space of the Rose reading room is comparable to the space below it, so one way to imagine the new space is to stand in the Rose and consider how the space downstairs differs from it. The windows in the lower space are narrower than those in the Rose and admit less light. There are windows on two sides of the Rose reading room but only on one side of the space below. The windows in the Rose are raised well above the street, but those in the space below look out onto the backs of two restaurants that abut the library, blocking a considerable portion of the view, especially on the southern half of the western facade. The Rose has only one floor, but four levels will be sandwiched into the space below. The Rose is an echoey space, but visitors to it are asked to be quiet. Will noise be a problem in the space below?
Foster and Marx emphasized in their remarks that the new space will be built so as to be easily repurposed if the library's needs change. That flexibility is prudent, but it's disappointing that Foster's design gives little sense of his vision of the library's needs now. What function or functions is this form meant to serve? At the press conference, it seemed to me telling that Foster hadn't considered the problem of how to bring books into the Rose reading room. More than a few people I've spoken with have likened the new space to an airport lobby, perhaps because it's so little shaped by the purposes that people have when they come to a library. Where's the check-out? Where do you return books? Where will visitors access the catalog? If catalogs are not going to be a first resort, will there be other ways for visitors to discover what the library has to offer? It's been pointed out to me by several people that in the architectural renderings released by Foster, multiple copies of books are displayed on shelves face out, as they sometimes appear in bookstores, rather than single copies spine out, as they almost always appear in libraries. (See the image detail at the top of this post for an example, which displays a Norman Foster monograph next to one on the New York Public Library's original architects, Carrère and Hastings.) Will music and film be lent, or only books? Will there be computers for people who don't own one, and if so, where? Are there going to be places in the new library where book groups can meet, or where job applicants can learn how to shape a resume? Where's the information desk? Which shelves will be for ready reference, and which for books to be checked out, and how close will the two kinds of shelves be to desks? Or will the library encourage visitors to use online reference sources? Where are the librarians, and how will the design shape their interaction with patrons? I understand that preliminary sketches can't be expected to answer all these questions, but it seems fair to expect the general principles with which these problems will be approached.


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By Robin Luftig
With the Nepali Bhutanese refugee community growing each year in the Harrisburg Pennsylvania area, Kevin Brown, Pastor of Lighthouse Church, prayed for years to see a way to reach them for Christ. He tried entering their tight-knit communities, only to be greeted with fear and skepticism. So, he continued to pray.
On the other side of the world, Dawa Tamang, a young Bhutanese pastor in a Nepalese refugee camp also prayed for God's favor. He asked God to somehow…some way…bring him and his family to the United States. He promised to continue serving God with the Nepali / Bhutanese communities, but getting to the United States was the luck of the draw. So, he too, continued to pray.
"God just opened a door for us. How often do we get to reach another country—another culture? These people are in our own back yard."
Time passed. Denish Rai, a previous refugee from the same camp as Dawa who had come to Rochester, New York and pastored a church there, heard of the young Bhutanese pastor's desire to come to America. Denish contacted International Organization for Migration and told them about Dawa. And he too, prayed.
After time—and some effort from Denish—had passed, Dawa and his wife, Grace, were on their way to the United States. They met Michael Nerger, from Multiplying Church Planting Center of Pennsylvania, and soon were placed in Harrisburg. They didn't know the language, have any friends, or know anything about the area. But they knew one thing—God had heard their hearts and had blessed them. They were to build a church and reach their Nepalese and Bhutanese communities. For two years, Dawa studied English as he reached out to his neighbors.
God honored Kevin's and Dawa's prayers. Soon after Dawa arrived, Michael Nerger and his wife began calling all the churches in Harrisburg, looking for one that would connect with and mentor Dawa.
It was Michael's wife who reached Kevin and told him of Dawa's need. Kevin immediately shared the opportunity with the Lighthouse Church community. "God just opened a door for us. How often do we get to reach another country—another culture? These people are in our own back yard."
So Dawa spoke slower and Kevin learned to offer a slight bow. They both pushed through their discomforts because they had a common desire—to reach the lost Bhutanese and Nepalese for Christ.
He continued sharing the young Bhutanese pastor's needs. "They need a place to meet. Right now, their group gathers in a small two-bedroom apartment. Let's offer them our building—we're not using it after the services—and they can meet here. God has blessed us. Let's share that blessing."
So began the relationship between Kevin and Dawa. In the beginning they had their challenges. For Kevin, understanding Dawa's broken English took time and patience. And Dawa, who is slight in stature, had to explain to this boisterous six-foot American pastor that hugging Bhutanese people—especially women—wasn't such a good idea.
So Dawa spoke slower and Kevin learned to offer a slight bow. They both pushed through their discomforts because they had a common desire—to reach the lost Bhutanese and Nepalese for Christ.
Today, both church groups work well together. Lighthouse Church finishes their last message and are out of the building by 12:30, and Dawa's people come in at 1:00.
Dawa encourages those who ask for additional ways to reach other displaced people. "Talk to us. Teach us the English language. All my people want to learn, but there are few classes available."
Kevin Brown is thankful for the opportunity to be a part of a ministry that reaches people from the other side of the world. "Jesus tells us in Matthew 28:19 to go and make disciples of all nations. How many opportunities does a person have to do that without dealing with traveling … the shots … and upheaval of leaving home? A nation has come to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. And we have the opportunity to reach them for Christ."
He challenges other church leaders to do the same. "Look around your city. You need to decide what you're willing to risk … because it is a risk. Are you willing to allow people you don't know to use your building and equipment? Dawa and I needed to trust God to make this work. Dawa trusted him when he arrived in America, and I trusted that he had also brought Michael Nerger and Denish Rai to us if we had any questions "
It's possible to be a missionary and never leave your hometown. Look around. You may be surprised who you see.
If you have any questions, you can reach Kevin Brown at lighthouse.h[email protected] and Michael Nerger at [email protected].
About the Author
ROBIN GILBERT LUFTIG, founder of Renew Ministries, is a writer/blogger and national speaker. Her first book, From Pain to Peace: The Journey of Forgiveness After Divorce, promotes the act of forgiveness that lies at the heart of the process of healing after a divorce. She's been published in Leading Hearts For Christian Women Magazine, and is scheduled to appear in CBN.com in July 2019. She's an active participant of Word Weavers International where she also serves as a mentor for writers. Robin is represented by Hartline Literary Agency.
Article first published on Philly Christian Voice


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"The App Store revolutionized mobile apps," Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a statement. "We hope to do the same for PC apps with the Mac App Store by making finding and buying PC apps easy and fun."
Apple first announced the Mac App Store in October, during a special media event that previewed the next version of Mac OS X, codenamed Lion. Like the iOS App Store, developers can upload apps for distribution, with Apple handling the technical details of storage, servers, bandwidth, and payment processing. Developers also get the same 70/30 split of revenue. Users then get a single location—an application that will be included with Lion but available to Snow Leopard users in January—to find and purchase Mac OS X software, along with an automated install and update process.
Developers have mixed feelings about the Mac App Store. While some welcome the increased exposure and simplified distribution process, others are concerned that Apple's share of the revenue is too high, or that Apple's restrictions make it difficult for many of today's popular apps to be approved. Still others worry that the Mac App Store will become so popular that users never look outside of it for software. Bundles, discounted upgrades, and other common marketing tools could disappear.
Despite the concerns, developers have high hopes that the Mac App Store will prove to be an overall positive for the Mac OS X platform. "For all its flaws, the Mac App Store is a step in the right direction," developer Jonathan Rentzsch told Ars.
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choose vst's or patches carefully (some of those wavetable patches are heavy on my cpu) , draw automation instead of twiddling the knob (or at least redraw the curves to mirror the twiddling to get rid of a lot of whatever those little points on the curve are called), freeze as Dan said.
or just "Free-form plague poetry over a VCS3 freakout" as per suggestion in ilm thread.
― Tib, Monday, 30 March 2020 07:15 (three years ago) link
Live 11 is coming in Q1 2021.
The additions look useful but not enormously transformative. Better CPU performance would be good though.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 16:53 (two years ago) link
Comping is very welcome, have been waiting for that for years. Spectral fx looks fun but nothing I haven't got elsewhere. Probability means I will probably never use Renoise again as thats pretty much the main reason I occasionally use it. The macro stuff looks awesome, especially no longer having to piss around with ClyphX scripts and commands.All in all, looking forward to complaining for a few months then not being able to resist dropping £150 on an upgrade of Suite (again)
― (the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 17:22 (two years ago) link
I'd love lower latency from the software instruments.
― DJI, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 19:26 (two years ago) link


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Ideal Home
Release date20 July 2018
Celebrity chef Erasmus (Steve Coogan) and his partner Paul (Paul Rudd) have a happy and rather self-indulgent life together. Their perfect existence is turned upside down when, at a dinner party, Erasmus is confronted by the grandson he never knew he had. With the child's father in prison it seems he has nowhere else to go and so, after much debate they decide to take him in. With changes and challenges on both sides, this could prove a recipe for disaster. Filled with heart and humor, this new family looks set to serve up one of the most deliciously funny films of the year
Steve Coogan & Paul Rudd
Maxime Rémillard, Maria Teresa Arida, Aaron Ryder, Clark Peterson, Gabrielle Tana
Andrew Fleming
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Man in court after police station shooting threat
Wigan magistrates heard that Robert Garry, of Atherton Road, Hindley Green, was trying to get his house keys back from the police after being arrested for burglary but became increasingly aggressive with the call handler.
The 23-year-old told the operator during a call while he was outside Leigh police station on September 9 that he was going to come in with a shotgun and said: "If I don't get my keys back today I am going to get a shotgun and shoot someone in the head."
He admitted twice breaching a restraining order and one count of persistently making use of a public electronic communications network to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
The court heard that Garry twice went to his mother's house in August and banged on her door to be let in, breaching a restraining order banning him from contacting her.
Tess Kenyon, prosecuting, said: "His mother said he was scaring her other children. She said they had been helping him and giving him food but it looked like he had started using drugs again and she had no other choice but to report him.
"The third charge relates to an incident at a police station where he had gone to retrieve his keys after being arrested. He telephoned the operator from outside the station and the conversation goes on for about 20 minutes during which time he says 'I will walk into the police station with a shotgun'.
"It goes on like this for 17 pages and ends with him saying he will 'shoot someone in the head'."
The court heard that Garry had breached the restraining order 13 or 14 times in the past.
Garry, who chose to defend himself, said: "I was put in the back of a police van and my keys taken off me and put on the side with my other possessions but then they led me into a different van.
"They took me to the police station for five burglaries but they didn't charge me with one. They told me to go to the police station to get my keys back but I kept going and they were closed.
"My life is a lot easier in jail, I'm not scared of anyone. I can fight and look after myself. I am not bothered about what you do today. I don't take drugs and I don't drink." When asked whether he had been taking spice (a synthetic drug similar to cannabis) and if that might have affected his behaviour, he said: "Spice is different, it affects different people."
Garry was remanded in custody to appear at Bolton Crown Court for sentence on October 10.


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Before approaching icon design, there are some guidelines and principles that are worth studying. If you want to create effective icon designs, then you should take a holistic approach to issues such as audience, size, simplicity, lighting, perspective, and style. This article gives you a good starting place for creating icons that work well together and fit seamlessly within your designs.
1. Approach Icon Design Holistically
Icons fit within graphic systems. Whether they are designed for desktop applications or Web sites, an icon is one of many graphic elements that need to work together harmoniously. Carry this logic across icon sets as well. Icons can be appreciated for their aesthetic solutions individually, but they don't function alone. Evaluate your icon designs relative to the graphic system you're using them in. Make sure that each icon differs from surrounding icons, while still working together as a whole.
In the article Designing an iconic language over at Turbo Milk the author Yegor Gilyov states, "If you need to draw several icons, you need to think over images for the whole set of icons before proceeding with illustrating activities." This is one of two major points made in this article on icon design. He goes on to explain how failing to plan how the whole set of icons will work together from the beginning will ensure a huge waste of time, as redesign will be inevitable.
2. Consider Your Audience
You will have different considerations if you're designing an intranet for a small company, rather than for a product that may be sold internationally. When creating icons, cultural considerations are important. Symbols may differ for common elements you may use for your designs.
Turbo Milk has another great article called 10 Mistakes in Icon Design. In it, they point out some clear examples of where many icon designs go wrong. They discuss national and social characteristics in point seven of the article. "It is always necessary to take into account the conditions in which your icon is going to be used. An important aspect here is national characteristics. Cultural traditions, surroundings and gestures can differ radically from country to country." They go on to give an example of how mailboxes differ greatly between countries. Apple uses the same example in its Human Interface Guidelines.
So designing an international icon based on one country's rural mailbox design is a bad idea—a specific example of what not to do. They point out how Apple's Mail icon is more recognizable as stamps have more cultural universality.
3. Design for the Size the Icon will be Used At
If you go vector and make your icon in Illustrator, there is an inherent temptation to scale the design, and try to use it at any size. This doesn't work with icons. What looks good at 512px looks like a blurry smear at 16px. Icons should have a base design that is used as a starting point, but each output size needs to have its own optimized design.
Icon design is not a one design equals scalable solution medium though. This is one reason that Photoshop is just as good a solution as other programs. For designers that make icons in Illustrator, they are still going to clean them up in Photoshop, or jump through some hoops to get their icons to look good at small sizes when being output directly from Illustrator. So, don't buy into the myth that icon design is a purely vector-based medium. We are outputting pixels here, after all.
There are also vector tools in Photoshop and masks that you can take advantage of that equal the scalable playing field between the programs. If you're equally versed with Illustrator and Photoshop, you may find a workflow that goes well between the two programs. Consider using Smart Objects. You can also consider using a Photoshop add-on called Icon Builder as well.
The approach taken for small icons and large icon design is immensely different. Firewheel has a good article that covers the scaling subject called Icon Design: Bitmap vs Vector. Also, review this article on Icon Design Sizing over at Mezzoblue. It covers some inherent issues with designing icons for small sizes.
4. Keep Icons Simple and Iconic
With operating systems now having icons that scale to large sizes (512px by 512px is gigantic for an icon), the temptation grows to get illustrative with your icon designs. While a level of realism can add interest to an icon design, it should not supersede its ability to function simply and effectively.
Smashing Magazine has a great summary of the Apple Human Interface guidelines on Icon Design. The section on Realism in Aqua makes some good points about the limitations of realism in icon design and points out when symbolism is necessary. This section discusses the issues at odds between realism and simplicity in icon design.
Try not to overcomplicate icon designs. Be wary of placing too many items into an icon design, or overly illustrating an icon. I'm sure everyone is familiar with the common symbol for RSS icons. View the example below from Smashing Magazine. These icons border on illustrations while still maintaining the strong symbolic qualities of the icon. Overly illustrating and dressing up icons results in lower recognition though, especially at small sizes. So, be careful with putting to much into an icon design.
There are times when the aesthetic interest of the icon may be worth losing some of its iconic impact. it's always a judgment call, and needs will vary with each design. Compare one of the icon sets below to a simpler RSS icon design, like the one here on Psdtuts+. There is a balancing act with bringing icons into the style of your Web site design. You want to add interest and compliment the design, but not loose the iconic impact of the icon.
The icons below look really cool. It requires a judgment, though, as to whether the loss of some of the quick recognition of the symbol is worth the added design around the symbol. At a large size it works just fine, as they function similar to illustrations. At smaller sizes though, a less-dressed solution may be preferable.
5. Cast Consistent Lighting, Reflections, and Shadows
It's important that the realism you add to your designs all function coherently. If you use a light source coming from one direction then stick with it. Or you risk losing the integrated design of your icons. Also consider the light source of the design your icons will be placed in. If the light source of the icons is at odds with the Web site or application design you're using them in, then the design will appear amateurish.
In the Windows Vista User Experience Guide there is a section on icon lighting and shading. The guidebook gives really specific rules for the Vista Icon set. This gives more exacting standards for icon designers and ensures a unified icon system. Following is a specific rule to see an example, "Use shadows to lift objects visually from the background, and to make 3D objects appear grounded, rather than awkwardly floating in space." There are many more rules in this guide.
6. Utilize a Limited Perspective
The range of perspective within your icon design set should work together. If you have icons being looked at from straight ahead then stick with that. If you place one at a specific angle, then make sure all the icons function that way. Imagine a camera being placed from a specific vantage point and looking at all the objects from the same perspective. This helps to maintain consistency in your icon designs.
A large-scale design system, something like a software operating system, may need more flexibility than that, though. Apple covers Icon Perspective in its Human Interface Guidelines. They have a more flexible use of perspective. "The various perspectives are achieved by changing the position of an imaginary camera capturing the icon." The image below shows the difference in perspective between an Application Icon (Top) and a Toolbar Icon (Bottom).
7. Create Consistent Icon Set Styles
Lighting and Perspective certainly contribute to the style of an icon, though there are many other factors that can contribute to the style as well. If you're trying to fit your icon into a grunge-style Web site design, you'll likely be adding texture to the style of the icon's design.
Icon sets have unique features that make them stand out. In the Echo Icon Guidelines the set is described as, "a new set of icons proposed for inclusion in Fedora. Designed with a dynamic perspective, Echo icons aim to appear more realistic while still maintaining a clean and simple design by utilizing high contrast and spots of vibrant colors." Another way that this set stands out is through the consistent use of outlines. See the image below for an example.
Get Started with Icon Design
Designing icons for Web sites is a good way to get started with icon design. Often there are only a few icons needed for a site design. Start simple with a small Web site design project where you are required to design only a handful of icons or less. This is a good way to gain some experience with icon design.
Start the icon design process with research. Consider the common symbolic metaphor used to describe the icon you're looking to make. Sketch as much as necessary to lock down the concept. Compliment the style of the icon designs with the Web site design you'll be using them on. Consider the color, perspective, and graphic look of the site.
Hicks design has a quick SlideShare presentation on Icon Design. One section of the presentation covers his design process. It gives some great visual examples. Below is an example of the sketching step.
Inspirational Professional Icon Sets
Once you've created a one-off or small set of icons for Web sites, you might consider creating application icons. Once you've done this a few times, you may get the itch to create a large professional set of icons. Selling icons can be a profitable endeavor for a designer. If you create a unique and professional set, you can then sell it. Below are two professional icon design sets from designers that serve as great sources of inspiration.
The Classic Pack Icon Set From Icon Drawer
This icon set has a combination of professionalism, great choice of symbols, cartoony realism, and fun design. When Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain of 31three used these icons for the redesign of Expression Engine, I was blown away. It's a great site design, and the icons fit really well with the style.
The Chalkwork Family from Mezzoblue
"Chalkwork is a visually unified set of carefully designed royalty-free icons. Built to cover some of the most common icon needs of Web and software designers, the entire Chalkwork family offers hundreds of computer and internet-related metaphors in a visually consistent style at 3 different sizes in up to 6 file formats." This is a well-designed set of icons from Dave Shea.
Psdtuts+ Icon Tutorials
Jump headfirst into icon design. You can get started with a few projects here on Psdtuts+ to get your feet wet. Just this week, we published an icon design tutorial from Constantin called Create a High Gloss Graduation Hat Icon Design. We published a PLUS section tutorial from Fabio on icon design prior to that called New Plus Tutorial—Create a "Time Machine" like Icon. Fabio also published a tutorial a while ago called Handy Web 2.0 Icons In Photoshop.
Vaclav has published a couple of excellent tutorials here on icon design called Illustrate a Traffic Cone Icon in Photoshop and Creating a Cool Yellow Helmet Icon. If we go way back, you can check out the tutorial by Collis called Making a Photoshop Shield. These are all great places to get started or practice icon design.
Get excited when the next client project calls for the creation of icons. Or practice making icons through the tutorials here. Once you've mastered these techniques, try making a small set of icons. Or go big and create a full set for resale. Let us know of additional icon resources in the comments below.
Extra Resources
You could take a look at icons on Envato Market.


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Compendium of National Juvenile Justice Datasets
--Select Data Set--
Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement
Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of the Lifestyles and Values of Youth
Uniform Crime Reports, Summary Reporting of Offenses and Arrests
National Incident Based Reporting System
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997
The National Youth Risk Behavior Survey
National Crime Victimization Survey
National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System Child File
Juvenile Residential Facility Census
Police-Public Contact Survey
Survey of Youth in Residential Placement
Deaths in Custody Reporting Program
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being
Survey of Youth in Custody
Children in Custody Census
Compendium of National Juvenile Justice Data Sets
is an online resource for researchers that is intended as an aid to investigations of juvenile offending, victimization, and contact with the juvenile justice system. It both publicizes data sources that users may find valuable and provides information intended to help with the practical aspects of obtaining and analyzing data.
The data sets described on this site cover a range of topics. They include, but are not limited to, the characteristics of violent juvenile offenders, student victimization at school, sexual activity, and substance use. Data sources include official records and self-report data from surveys. Many of the data sets are the product of collection efforts designed to produce nationally-representative data for juveniles of a particular age range.
For each data set, the Compendium includes descriptions under the following headings:
: initiating organization, goals, and the duration of the data collection effort.
: whether the data come from a sample rather than a census or public records and, if so, relevant features of the sample design, such as stratification and clustering.
Data collection procedures
: administration of the data collection effort.
: the protocol that guides data collection, such as forms, questionnaires, or record formats, including images of the data collection instruments, if available.
Key variables
: of particular interest to juvenile justice research.
Quality controls
: efforts to ensure the accuracy of reported data.
: whether and at what intervals new data are added.
: the population that the data describe. For example, the population described by the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey is public and private school students in grades 9-12 in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
Data access procedures
: from whom the data are available and restrictions on data access.
: links to a sample of publications that use the data.
: sources for further information about data content, structure, or availability.
The Compendium is a work in progress; additional data sets will be added over time. Users are invited to nominate data sets they think should be included; they may do so by contacting msickmund at ncjfcj dot org.


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Memorial Day: Reflecting On Heroes
By: Lloyd Marcus
A few Memorial Days ago, I recall myself comfy on the sofa overstuffed with cookout delights, watching a documentary on TV about conscientious objectors. The program portrayed these guys as moral superiors. I thought, "You guys are able to bloviate about the evils of war and pursue careers as American artists, college professors and so on because other brave young men went to war to fight for you; defending your freedom."
Another Memorial Day TV program featured WWII soldier and character actor Charles Durning. Durning earned three Purple Hearts. He was awarded the Bronze and Silver Stars for valor and the World War II Victory Medal. The French consul presented Durning with the National Order of the Legion of Honor.
At the 2008 National Memorial Day Concert, Durning stood at the podium and wept for his fallen brothers. Wow! Do they make character driven courageous men like that anymore? http://1.usa.gov/20mZ3yW
I served in the US Army stationed at Ft Bragg NC, drafted from 1969-1971. My entire battalion received orders for Vietnam accept myself and another soldier. Thus, I never experienced serving in a combat zone.
My buddy, Gerry "Boats" Milhollen experienced combat in Vietnam. He suffered night terrors for several years and other emotional issues which cost him his marriage. Gerry said what pained him and fellow combat vets the most is that unlike other US troops returning from war, they never received a welcome home. Quite the opposite. Vietnam vets were spat upon and called baby killers.
I asked Gerry to share his thoughts in a tribute I recorded a few years ago titled, "Welcome Home Brother." http://rvrb.fm/1kznUgL
I was in my late teens when my cousin Jackie's husband Norman Byrd was drafted and sent to Vietnam.
Norman never returned home. It was all pretty surreal. I found his name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington DC.
My daughter recently retired from the US Navy. She went in directly after high school and worked her way up to retiring as an officer. Her cousins on her mom's side lived in the mean hood of west Baltimore. Many became addicted to drugs. One of her cousins was murdered by thugs.
I remember my daughter telling me that when she came home on leave after basic training, she immediately noticed that she no longer had much in common with her friends. They were still kids and the military made her an adult.
My daughter said before she retired, it pained her to see what the Navy was becoming. The discipline which had molded and shaped her was being thrown out the window due to political correctness. She said rather than training sailors, she felt like a babysitter.
I heard a black preacher tell his congregation that he would love to see the government go through the ghetto scooping up fatherless young black men for the military. They would learn to shut-up, respect authority and receive a paycheck for a job well done. While the preacher's comments were tongue-in-cheek, I get his point and agree. Despite it being under attack by Obama http://bit.ly/1RkvWWJ, Leftist social engineering and political correctness, the US military is still a pretty good place to turn youths into responsible adults.
Traveling the country on Tea Party Express, I had the pleasure of meeting Debbie Lee, the gold star mom of Marc Alan Lee, the first Navy Seal to die in Operation Iragi Freedom. In honor of her decorated son, Debbie founded AmericasMightyWarriors.org which helps the families of fallen soldiers. I organized patriot music artists across America to record a song titled, "Taking Back America". We selected 44 songs from the artists to be included in a project titled, Tea Are The World". All the proceeds benefit Debbie's AmericasMightyWarriors.org. http://bit.ly/1YRLAPd
While enjoying your family cookouts, please reflect and give a nod to those whose courage and sacrifice made it all possible; the US military.
Have a happy and blessed Memorial Day.
Lloyd Marcus, The Unhyphenated American
Chairman: The Conservative Campaign Committee


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Taking some inspiration from the sucker-in-a-sleeve known as a Push Pop, Takara Tomy's Smart Han bento lunchbox lets busy office drones enjoy sticky rice lunch extruded from a large tube. It's not unlike the Sushi Bazooka, except that this contraption is designed to pump the food directly into your mouth.
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2004's annual Toy Fair took place February 14-18th in New York City. Rebelscum's own Dan Curto joined with TheForce.Net's Michael Spellacy to cover the event, reporting on all things Star Wars, as well as a few other companies. All the details from the companies listed below can be found by clicking on the links below. We'll be noting updates to the pages below as we often get back for more photos and information after the original posting. Coverage begins now!


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Arlington Growth always means more traffic and more headaches. Or does it?
Fact: traffic on many major Arlington streets is less than it was in 1970, even though our population has doubled in that time. This is a tremendous achievement, bringing more residents, more jobs, more housing, more visitors — and with them, more revenue and more services for our community — while actually reducing traffic on these streets.
How did we do it? What is the secret sauce?
The secret sauce is Arlington's commitment to "smart growth" planning — our commitment to transit-oriented development (TOD) that keeps density along our transit corridors, while preserving neighborhoods. In fact, more than half of Arlington's real property values are on just 11 percent of our land — our Metrorail corridors. It is a philosophy that is the backbone to Arlington's success, the envy of many in the region and the nation.
In 2010, the Arlington County Board and the Arlington community used these lessons to create the Crystal City Sector plan, a key element of the bold vision for Arlington's Route 1 corridor. Our plan transforms Crystal City to a more vibrant, walkable neighborhood. It also anticipates growth: 17,400 people live in Crystal City and Pentagon City today, but we estimate that by 2040, the two neighborhoods will have added a total of 8,500 residents and 35,500 jobs.
To support this vision, the Sector Plan calls for a new transit service, a streetcar. For a fraction of the cost of extending Metrorail, Arlington will be able to encourage high-quality, mixed use development, build community and increase transit use, all the while supporting the central business district and helping it mature into a vibrant, attractive, livable 24/7 neighborhood.
But we aren't going it alone. After all, at 26 square miles, Arlington is the smallest, densest county in the nation — we need to be good neighbors! As we have in the past, we're working with Alexandria and Fairfax to develop transit solutions that serve us all. The modern streetcar for Crystal City — a line that will initially connect Crystal City, Pentagon City and Potomac Yard — is an important first step.
Eventually, this "Route 1" line will meet up in Pentagon City with the planned streetcar line on Columbia Pike, providing riders with a one-seat option to travel from Potomac Yard to the Skyline area in our partner jurisdiction, Fairfax County. We hope it may even stretch further south into Alexandria one day.
A modern streetcar system will be a vital part of a larger regional transportation network of Metrorail, VRE and local buses. This transit network offers options for tens of thousands of residents and workers to travel to and through Arlington and the Greater Metropolitan area — and keeps thousands of cars off the road. Beyond the transit benefits, a Northern Virginia regional streetcar system will knit together neighborhoods and jurisdictions, supporting expected development as well as job and population growth in each of our communities.
Without these strategic investments, our streets could become clogged with traffic, our quality of life could decline, and our robust economy could be at risk — the exact opposite of what we've achieved since the 1960s and what we know is possible when a community plans carefully. In short, we believe streetcars have great potential to help Arlington maintain — and build upon — the "smart growth" legacy that has been the hallmark of our success story.


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I built a chu moy headphone amp a while back, but tube amps are getting my interest. Chu Moy released a nice writeup of a tube based headphone amp. Ironically, tubes are easy, getting the right transformer is the issue these days.
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thats really cool, and good write up. btw the first link does not work.
First link not working.
Ya, thats a nice little tube amp. I think the SOHA (also on that site) sounds better though. Easier to build too.
The MJ clone isn't a bad headphone amp… but pretty far behind the state of the art in DIY work. Since then a whole raft of other tube headamps have been developed… some with superior performance and many that are much easier to build.
I think the only that has received a full write-up is the SOHA (http://headwize.com/projects/cavalli2_prj.php) which is a low-voltage hybrid design that IIRC is not as well thought of as the MJ. But there are several other new designs out there…. dig around headwize forums if you want more info.
Also here is the original cmoy headamp link: http://headwize.com/projects/showfile.php?file=cmoy2_prj.htm . Not a bad amp for how simple/cheap it is but mine doesn't get much use since I built a PIMETA a few years back.
oh please, take it one step further & make a tube based ipod dock! what is there is already great!
but i once put my ipod thru my friends old tube stereo system & was amazed @ the warmth of sound!
Tube? TUBE??!! That amp thing has no internet connection at all!
Nothing like the warm sound of a tube amp. Solid state's all fraught with odd-order harmonics.
HAHA, I get steves post, because the internet is a series of tubes, but really, nice work on the amp, good to see simple tube amps for diy work.
realy good idea never seen this before think i trie my hand at this one . nice work hackaday
I highly recomend building a headphone amp. My first was a CMoy which I still use as a portable amp. My newest is the SOHA that blip posted and I highly recomend it. Combined with my Sennheiser HD555's, its probably the best sound I've ever heard (granted there are MUCH better and MUCH more expensive setups out there, I just don't have access to them yet).
Does anyone know if this unit could double as a phono pre-amp, like the one produced by bellari for $225. IF so this would be an amazing and more economically viable alternative.
Forgive my ignorance, but why use a headphone amp at all?
What's wrong with the signal source?
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Happy Christmas to all my readers, as they say!
I left off last time just before the annual dinner of the Australia-Britain Society. I used that speech partly to tell some anecdotes of life in Number 10 but also partly to talk about "Britishness." I used Gordon Brown's Spectator Lecture last year - and I think many of the audience were surprised at his views. Most would have known about his Scottishness but not about his belief in combining that with Britishness too. I was confident no one would have heard of Gordon Brown's speech since it took me huge efforts to find it! I had to get a copy e-mailed direct from the Treasury.
Then a rather mixed week - not untypical. A lunch with Telstra (BT equivalent), a dinner with the Danish Foreign Minister who was visiting, a trip to Sydney where Sir Ralph Robbins (head of Rolls Royce) was making a speech in his role as one of the 'ambassadors for British business', the opening night of a play, a reception for the Royal Commonwealth Society, a Thanksgiving Dinner with the Americans, and a trip to a St Andrews Day dinner in Melbourne.
The Melbourne Scots dinner was interesting: it attracted a large crowd (350 or so) with two Australian Ministers on the top table. It was in some ways more Scottish than the Scots, complete with pipers at every opportunity. It is much more fashionable to acknowledge Scottish or Irish roots than English or British ones - a point I had made at the Australia Britain Society. I wasn't required to speak on this occasion - but it was made clear I was expected to do so next time.
Into December, with the English cricket team already struggling. We hosted a reception to launch an expanded scheme for young Australian politicians to visit Britain. We had invited all the new MPs, plus quite a lot of others, but were unsure who would turn up given the vagaries of Parliamentary business. For five minutes after the scheduled start-time we had no one, and I was getting worried: perhaps none would turn up? But then people arrived in a rush and we had a good evening - though trying to remember who was who was taxing since I'd hardly seem any of them before.
Katie had a private view of her Western Sight and her Gardens portfolios, plus some of her own work, in the gallery where her studio is. Lots of interest and she sold quite a bit. She's continuing work on her new 'dam' series and planning for her residency in March next year on the Shoalhaven River where Arthur Boyd used to live, when she hopes to get a lot of new work done.
The off to Northern Tasmania. We flew to Launceston and spent the night in a B&B before I paid some official calls the next day. Tasmania suffers from a slowly declining population and a problem attracting new industry, though tourism and aquaculture offer potential. In the afternoon we drove slowly along the coast to Devonport for the next night and then on to Stanley on Saturday morning. The coast is stunning, and with wonderful gardens since Tasmania has a more temperate climate than the mainland. Our main reason for going was the 200th anniversary of Bass and Flinders circumnavigating Tasmania and proving it was an island. We had been invited to the commemorations at Circular Head, a spectacular headland that they'd seen and named in 1798 - Stanley is a small town that nestles at the base.
We went first to the Stanley agricultural show. Fun seeing all the sheep and cattle, but the highlight was the wood-chopping. Tasmanians and Kiwis always seem take out the prizes at the Sydney show and there's quite a tradition. It always amazes me to see how quickly they can chop or saw through massive tree-trunks - it makes me tired just to watch it! The weather wasn't great, with a biting south-westerly from the Antarctic and occasional rain - Katie had to buy a sweater. Then a concert in the town hall in the evening, with naval brass bands and singers from Sydney, followed by jazz in the pub. Very different from Canberra.
Sunday saw the main commemorations. We were staying at a B&B out on the peninsular - the old cable station in fact. Very friendly. We had a wild walk along the beach in the morning - a shame we couldn't have brought Holly. We then had a chance to look round Stanley. It's very small (500 odd population, though swelled considerably for the occasion) and picturesque. But it has the same problems of many other small communities in Australia of keeping services like banks or shops. I climbed Circular Head, which provided some spectacular views, and did a radio interview with the local ABC station who was broadcasting live from Stanley. There were various events on - and we met up with a local wood-worker who made fantastic tables, which gave us ideas!
In the evening we drove back to Launceston (about 2 hours) and then took a dawn flight back to Canberra via Melbourne. As always at that time, the Melbourne airport lounge was full of politicians returning to Canberra for the Parliamentary week, so I had some rather bleary-eyed conversations.
Quite a lot to do in Canberra in the run-up to Christmas, but fairly bitty and not worth recording in detail. A big lunch for the visiting Italian President at which I sat next to Kim Beazely - in good form but looking forward to the Christmas break (likely to be disrupted by the puppy they were picking up from Sydney and taking to Perth).
Off on Friday to the first day of the Adelaide Test Match - on the same plane as lots of MPs who had just finished the Parliamentary session and were returning home. It was 42 degrees (108 degrees Fahrenheit) in Adelaide - definitely a day to bat not field. I had to go out on the pitch to hand Mark Taylor the coin to toss, and sadly Alec Stewart called wrong. England didn't do badly in holding Australia to about 260-4, but it must have been really draining. As it happened, the English team were staying at the same hotel, and I met up with some of them in the pool that evening - needing to cool down.
Back to the cricket on Saturday. I was getting into the rhythm - it's very relaxing to sit watching the cricket and chatting to whoever you're sitting next to. It was an up-and-down day on the field, with England getting wickets, then letting the Australian tail score too many runs, losing some early wickets themselves but then fighting back. Sadly, it was a different story after I headed back to Canberra and England lost and went 2-0 down in the series.
The week was spent getting tidying things up before Christmas - and reacting to the US and British bombing raids on Iraq. The England cricket team were in Canberra for a match against the Prime Minister's XI, something John Howard takes a personal interest in. He hosted a reception at The Lodge (his residence in Canberra) for both teams the night before the match - with Katie getting a call on her mobile during it from the American ambassador's husband saying we must come to the Beach Boys' concert that night. So we dashed off after the reception rather over-dressed. My expectations weren't that high - the last time I had seen the Beach Boys their singing was poor. But this time they had ten in the band and eight who sang, so all the high harmonies were there.
The next day was the PM's XI match, and the start of the bombing of Iraq. I rang Number 10 to get an update, which worked well since I was sitting next to John Howard for the first part of the match, before he went off to do a press conference. (When I got back to the office, we had a telegram instructing us to make various points "at the highest level" - I was able to reply saying "already done that!"). We had Michael (Lord) Levy coming to stay that night, so I went and picked him up and brought him to the cricket, where he had a chance to speak to the Prime Minister after lunch - John Howard seemed at his most relaxed, and must be heading off for Christmas feeling that things could hardly have gone better for him over the past three months. I took Michael Levy home and he thrashed me at tennis.
We had a barbecue that evening for some of the English management and team - very relaxed and informal, with as much of the conversation being about horse-racing as about cricket (our horse Avvocato flattered only to deceive, winning a maiden at Goulburn but then coming near-last in three races since then).
Last weekend was the High Commission staff Christmas party here - another barbecue but this time for about 120 people plus 30 children. We put on a sketch with me playing the butler, our driver playing the High Commissioner, the housekeeper playing Katie and Katie playing a kangaroo!
After finishing things off in the office we're now off to Sydney to see Katie's family, then back to Goulburn for Christmas Day with cousins, then to Melbourne for the Test, then back here, then to Katie's mother at West Wyalong, then to Sydney for the Test, then back here - then we'll need a holiday!
Once again Happy Christmas and New Year to everyone.
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