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Are Cities Organisms or Machines?
Nature has countless good lessons on how to sustain cities and towns… if only we would listen. Chuck Marohn's excellent Strong Towns post this morning flatly states that cities are organisms, not machines. I agree that it's more instructive to think of them that way. And that got me thinking about the fundamentally flawed things we do to (mis)manage them. Chuck traces the core disconnect to the transition from building, maintaining, and operating our towns and cities to paying others to do so.
Depending on the level of development in the area, it was only a century or two ago that the townspeople built and maintained the town. In my family, "house-raisings" were common occurrences, even in recent decades. My own house was built with much help from family and friends. But when we became wealthy enough, it seemed simpler to hire all the work done by someone else and spend all our productive time working on whatever our specialty was.
What we lost in that exchange is only now becoming clear: when we become experts in one thing and turn all other parts of our lives over to people who are experts in other things, we no longer have the authority to speak up when things get out of balance. And so the specialists get more and more efficient at doing their narrowly-defined tasks in near-ignorance of anything else. So we get arterial thoroughfares that are really efficient at moving cars, but nobody wants to live anywhere near them. We get volume builders that are really efficient at throwing up countless little vinyl boxes that cannot possibly be loved. And the whole mechanism of sprawl was one of the most efficient machines ever invented, but its excesses have literally become "cancer of the city." The good news is that there is a cure.
The time has come to question the underlying value that helped spawn all of this: efficiency. For decades, efficiency was used as a reason to do so many things that haven't worked out well. We now need to come to terms with the fact that, as someone once said, "an efficient Nazi is not a good thing." Efficiency simply means we're going really fast… but we could be going really fast in the wrong direction.
So if not efficiency, then what should we be looking for? How about looking for things that have been proven to work for a long time? The operating system of true sustainability that kept humans alive for all of human history before the Thermostat Age was something I refer to as a "living tradition." The heartbeat of a living tradition that pumps sustaining place-making principles to all the townspeople is four simple words: "We do this because…" If you put every pattern of place-making in these terms, then the streets, squares, and buildings we build might not be so efficient at moving cars or whatever, but they'll be far better places to live and work because you will have tapped the minds of all of the townspeople, not just the civil engineers, architects, and the like.
Put another way, if you want to tear down the gates to the specialties that their gatekeepers have guarded so jealously for so long, simply tell the people why. Why plant trees along the street? Why allow parking on the street? Why lift porches above the sidewalk, and by how much? Why set aside land for plazas, squares, greens, and parks, and how often? The answers to these questions aren't difficult… anyone can understand them. And once the townspeople know why, they'll take ownership of their neighborhoods and towns again… and we'll all be better for it.
I said that nature has countless lessons on how to sustain cities and towns, and re-starting living traditions is one of them. I have several more in mind, but what are the most obvious of nature's place-making lessons to you?
~Steve Mouzon
Four Unexpected Green Game-Changers for Earth Day
The best green measures are the ones almost nobody's talking about. If you're sick of hearing the same green building talk today on Earth Day, it could be because Gizmo Green is the only thing being discussed in most circles. Better equipment and better materials can never achieve sustainability for us because our consumption is increasing faster than the engineers can increase efficiency. Here are four unmentioned things that can do far more good than good engineering:
Drive Only on Special Occasions
The carbon footprint of your house isn't really meaningful until you achieve a good carbon footprint on all the things you do outside your house. Put another way, you could have a zero-energy house, but if you have to drive to work, drive to school, drive to shopping, drive to recreation, and drive to pretty much everything else as well, then you're not really achieving anything significant. So live near work to begin with, and then make sure you can walk to the grocery along paths with great walk appeal. If you can do these two things, then you can probably walk or bike to many other daily needs as well. And then what you do inside your home can be meaningfully green. Why would you want to spend a lot of money on green gizmos and then discover it's not meaningful?
Get People Outdoors
If you entice people outdoors into a great public realm or into a great series of garden rooms most days of the year, then the time they spend there helps condition them (whether they realize it or not) to the local environment so that when they return indoors, they may not need to turn the equipment on. If not, then they achieve a state I call "living in season," and it means that they can throw the windows open most days of the year. And when you do that, you discover that there is no piece of equipment so efficient as that which is off. There's nothing greener than being able to cut the equipment off for most of the year.
Go Drywall-Free
They call that boring white stuff we put on our walls "drywall" because so long as you keep it dry, you have a wall. But just as soon as it gets wet, it turns to messy mush. And even if it doesn't fall apart, it loves to host mold and mildew and make your family sick. This means that even if you get outdoors and want to live in season, you can't take a chance of leaving the windows open because if a summer thundershower pops up and blows rain in the window, you'll have lots of damage. We need to learn how to build durable and resilient buildings like our great-grandparents did so that the summer shower is no reason to call the insurance adjustor; you simply wipe down the walls that got wet and never give it a second thought.
Bigger isn't Better - Bigger is Worse - Smaller is Better
There should be no controversy here: if you build bigger, it simply can't be as good, but if you build better, it simply won't be as big. Spread $200,000 over 1,000 square feet and that's a $200/square foot house. Spread that same $200,000 over 2,000 square feet, and you've impoverished yourself to a $100/square foot house. But you can't just put people's lives in a vice… you must entice them by designing the smaller space so smartly that they choose it over the bigger, less intelligent design. And if they do, all sorts of good green things happen easily. To begin with, the space is a lot smaller, so it's easier to heat, cool, and light. But it's even easier because it's likely to be only one room deep in places, making daylighting and cross-ventilation no-brainers. It might even be more lovable as well. Embrace the luxury of small, and you'll be creating luxurious green as well.
Those are my game-changers… what are yours? What are the greenest things you know that nobody's talking about?
~Steve Mouzon
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The End of Architecture as We Knew It
Architecture has changed irreparably in the past decade, but those who know how to adapt just might find themselves in a far better place in a few years. It has now been 8 years since construction peaked in 2005, nearly 6 years since the subprime meltdown, and close to 5 years since the big meltdown that really kicked off the Great Recession.
The End of Experienced Employees
Today, it appears that construction is finally beginning to pick back up, but it's too late for architecture as we knew it. More than half of the people working in architectural offices in 2005 aren't there anymore. Some are still unemployed, some have gone in business for themselves, but many have left the profession. And when people leave architecture, they rarely come back for three reasons: an architecture degree prepares you to do so many other things, it's such a stressful profession, and the pay is usually significantly lower than other professions like law and medicine. So if you're a firm owner, your former employees are likely either gone for good, or have started their own firms and are competing with you for work. So you can't simply gear back up with the same experienced people you once had.
The End of Trusting Clients
During the past 8 years that we've essentially been out of business, our clients have changed in several ways. A decade ago, clients were much more likely to accept the expert opinion of an architect. Now, they've all learned to Google. Just ask doctors about their experience with patients who know WebMD for a look at what a web-searching clientele means to another profession.
The New Frugality
Your one-time clients have become much more frugal over the past 8 years, and because the construction crash has now lasted twice as long as it takes to get a college degree, this new frugality is likely to stick. Just look at how the Great Depression transformed a generation of Americans almost a century ago, forever imprinting them with high frugality. When they do spend money, frugal people are more likely to buy products than services. They buy store-bought clothes rather than patronizing a tailor, for example. Frugal homeowners-to-be are more likely to buy a stock house plan than commission a custom design. Today, if you have only services to sell, you may want to start thinking about packaging useful things you've done into products.
Smaller & Smarter
When those homeowners-to-be build, they're facing a banking industry that has changed dramatically. Many banks have sworn off real estate lending entirely, whereas those who are still making mortgage loans are much more conservative. This means that your clients have a much better chance of getting a smaller project financed… so long as you design it to be smart enough that your client prefers it over a larger, less intelligent design.
Younger & Greener
Your clients have also gotten younger. A decade ago, most custom design clients were Baby Boomers, but they are now beginning to move out of the home-building market as they age, and are being replaced with GenX and GenY. These generations are much more concerned with building and living sustainably. As a matter of fact, if you're a Boomer architect, you may well be viewed as part of the sustainability problem because Boomers have consumed more than any generation in human history, not only because we were so large, but because we were so hungry as well.
Patience, Generosity, and Connectedness
Those changes would be enough to rock any profession, but there's more. Business is currently undergoing a change that I believe will prove to be as great as the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago. For that quarter-millennium, the prime virtues of business have been better-faster-cheaper, or quality, speed, and economy, if you prefer. I believe that the new age that is now dawning may come to be known as the Age of the Idea, and it appears that the three prime virtues of this time we are now entering may become patience, generosity, and connectedness. So this isn't just about remaking our marketing… it's about remaking ourselves.
The New Tools
Most marketing methods architects have used for decades don't work so well anymore for two reasons: First, the market is leaner, and the old methods worked best when there were lots of jobs to go around. Second, and less obvious, is the fact that we've all been vaccinated by spam against wanting to hear anything about your business. We turn a deaf ear to sales pitches just as quickly as we hit the delete key on a spammy email. The good news is that new tools are emerging that work much better, and again, for two reasons: First, you can reach far more people with tools like blogging, tweeting, online communities, video, etc. than you can by playing a round of golf. And these tools reach the places that are heavily populated by your younger potential clients.
I firmly believe that even though the Great Recession has been architecture's bleakest epoch of my lifetime, it also has the potential to be a great transformational event that can change the profession for the better. At least for those who adapt and transform themselves. What do you think?
~Steve Mouzon
Why Patient and Sustainable Neighborhood-Building is So Hard Today
The impatience of the development industry and its municipal regulators clearly contributed to the Meltdown, and a case could be made that impatience was actually the prime culprit. Developing impatiently means building large swaths of similar product efficiently and quickly. The public and private sectors each need to learn some lessons from the ways most great old places developed because those ways are far more sustainable and require a lot less debt, as we discussed recently. Here are the forces at work today that prevent us from building patient and sustainable places today:
Market Surveys
Bankers usually require developers to provide market surveys showing that there is a need for the developments they're proposing. Typical market survey firms do what seems like the logical thing and look both at what has sold in the past and also at economic forecasts for the market in question. But there are two serious flaws in the system: First, this "rear view mirror approach" will almost always predict some combination of the previous best-sellers. It is incapable of predicting what people would prefer if they were given a choice. So they usually call for small variations on the "sweet spot house." The second problem is that if a survey calls for 500 new houses in the market, 5 developers might take that same survey to 5 different banks and get approved to build 5 x 500 = 2,500 houses. So market surveys can be wildly deceptive, and they are a major force for homogenizing new housing offerings.
Appraisers base their work on "comps," which is short for "comparable sales" of properties in the same market in the recent past. If you're building a house type that hasn't been built in recent years (or ever) in your market, appraisers don't have any recent sales to compare it to, so they kick into their "dark side mode" of ultra-conservative appraising. When Wanda and I built our house in the 1980s that didn't need a conventional heating and cooling system because it conditioned itself passively, the appraiser assigned it a ridiculously low value of $25 per square foot, forcing us to finance a large part of the house on credit card debt, which financially burdened us almost to the breaking point for several years thereafter. Most people would have done the sane thing and abandoned their dream of building a sustainable homestead. The appraisal system, then, has a similar effect to market surveys: forcing the development industry to build what it has built before by severely discouraging anything new. And of course, building many of the same types of houses plays right into the industrial homebuilders' impatience because it allows them to carpet the land with subdivisions quickly.
Development Lending
Because we distrust new development, our city planning departments require developers to show exactly what the final development will look like. They are then required to build everything out to its climax condition from the beginning, burdening developments with millions in infrastructure costs before any real estate is sold. Many developments, including several well-designed ones I'm aware of (and more that I certainly don't know about,) have failed in recent years because of this huge front-end burden coming during the Great Recession. So it should come as no surprise that once that "interest clock" starts ticking on their loans down at the bank, developers have little choice but to be impatient in everything that they do to develop their property. There's no ill intention here; they simply have no choice.
Home Mortgages
Bankers play a role at both the scale of the neighborhood and the scale of the home. If we built houses in small increments that we could afford to pay for at the time, then we wouldn't need home mortgage bankers very often. Thomas Jefferson, for example, built and lived in one of the two small cottages behind Monticello while he built the rest of the house over nearly a decade. But because our whole system is impatient, we are forced to build the complete house from the beginning. And so we're forced to make our biggest lifetime purchase: the home mortgage.
Because those mortgages on the big house we might never fully need are so large, the bankers have no choice but to force us to insure our homes against all sorts of threats. And because we're insured, we don't have the incentive to build durable buildings that would survive most of those threats. Durability is a special kind of patience, because it extends a building's life long into the future.
Mortgage Bundling
Once, you merely had to persuade your local banker to loan you the money to build your home, but no more. Now, mortgages are bundled and sold to investors, so the bankers are limited not only by their own judgement, but also by the investors' guidelines. Mortgage bundling is the biggest iron fist in the homogenization of housing into just a few house types. Bundling is also one factor broadly blamed for creating the Meltdown for several reasons that have been written about by many experts… just Google it if you're interested.
Real Estate
Real estate agents foster housing homogenization in a very direct way: Talk to most agents about buying a house and they'll steer you to houses with a whirlpool tub, for example. They'll tell you that you need it "for resale." In other words, even if you never get in a whirlpool tub, you need to buy a house with one anyway because someone else might want one. Never mind the fact that if you polled the public, only a tiny percentage use a whirlpool tub on a regular basis.
Combine all these factors, and it's crystal clear why we've built the way we've built in recent decades. But as we look at how the system is now so broken, it's also clear that American development needs a strong does of patience… don't you think?
~Steve Mouzon
PS: Here's how we got in this mess to begin with, and the story of a little town that bucked the trend with famous results.


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From the dawn of motion pictures, circa the late 19th century, people felt compelled to record and view each other during their most intimate of moments. Even throughout this early period, the fornication featured here easily dispels all the puritanical expectations of the era. Acts that one would assume to be taboo for the time, such as lesbianism, threesomes and orgies, occur regularly throughout each of these films, the company said.
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Police said the 39-year-old was hit by a green Chevy Lumina. Investigators believe the suspect was driving south on Broadway toward 91st Street when Jones was struck.
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After visiting the Frida Kahlo house on Tuesday, we went over to the markets and surrounding area at Coyoacán. The markets were filled with vendors selling things from bracelets and keychains to tattoos and piercings, which we sadly passed on. After buying some bracelets and ceramic mugs, we headed over to a famous churro place in Coyoacán, where they sell 35 different flavors of churros, including Nutella, caramel, condensed milk, and mango. Some people tried this corn dish (name?) made of corn, mayonnaise, cream, and cheese. The mayonnaise of it all made it not really my thing, but everyone who got it loved it. After this, we headed home to spend the evening with out host families.
After visiting the Frida Kahlo house on Tuesday, we went over to the markets and surrounding area at Coyoacán. The markets were filled with vendors selling things from bracelets and keychains to tattoos and piercings, which we sadly passed on. After buying some bracelets and ceramic mugs, we headed over to a famous churro place in Coyoacán, where they sell 35 different flavors of churros, including Nutella, caramel, condensed milk, and mango. Some people tried this corn dish (name?) made of corn, mayonnaise, cream, and cheese. The mayonnaise of it all made it not really my thing, but everyone who got it loved it. After this, we headed home to spend the evening with out host families.
Although this morning was our last morning in Mexico, it wasn't too late to learn more about everyone's cultures. We went to the very top of the school to their auditorium to watch presentations from Italy and Thailand. Italy talked about each city in their country and listed a few interesting facts about each one. Watching the presentation made me want to visit Naples and Venice! The Thailand presentation taught us a few words from their language in addition to telling us about the symbolism of their country. We learned that Thailand is the land of smiles and the elephant is a common symbol of their country. After we learned more about these 2 countries it was our turn to tell everyone about the US. For our presentation we made a PowerPoint that covered American music beginning in 1910 all the way to the current music trends. Each era included a few facts and as well as a video representing the time period through music. A highlight of our presentation was when the Italian teacher broke out dancing when we played a song by Elvis Presley!
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Since we are leaving tomorrow and we will miss El Zocalo, my host family did not want me to miss out on seeing downtown Mexico City. The Santillán family went above and beyond as exceptional tour guides of their city. Because Monday was a holiday here in Mexico, the traffic wasn't bad at all. However, typically the traffic can take as long as 2 hours to get downtown. We saw the cathedral which was very exciting because the Pope is visiting Mexico City, and holding a service in that cathedral in a month so everyone is very busy getting ready for his arrival. We also ate dinner at a resteraunt that is overlooking El Zocalo which is the town square. In the center of it is a huge Mexican flag. After dinner, my host family took Alex and I to a market where they helped us bargain for all the souvenirs we wanted. Our last stop was the giant Angel statue which is one if the most famous monuments in México City. Downtown México City is such a beautiful place full of tons of culture. A huge thank you to the Santillán family for being such great tour guides of their beautiful city!
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My first time staying with a host family was a wonderful experience. They provided me with everything I could think of needing and went above and beyond showing me around Mexico City. From learning ancient myths about the mountains, seeing a 360 view of Mexico City from the top of a building downtown, and bargaining in the markets, my family could not have made my stay in Mexico feel more at home. Last night after giving them their gifts, we made homemade tortillas, guacamole, and pico de gallo for some delicious quesadillas. My family then gave me their tortilla maker so that I can make them at home for my family. Raúl, my 9 year old host brother, gave me a paper airplane, 5 cough drops, and his favorite Star Wars action figure. My family was so caring and they are a huge part of what made my stay in Mexico so incredible!
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Yesterday we went to the Frida Kahlo's house or "the Blue House". There we learned all about Frida and her life. I was already aware of Frida Kahlo's chronic disabilities from having polio as a child and getting into a trolley accident when she was 18, but seeing all the casts and braces Frida had to use to prevent her pain was very eye opening. As someone who loves to paint, it was so amazing being able to be in the house of one of the most iconic painters. Frida created beautiful masterpieces but most people are unaware that these beautiful paintings were created out of her chronic pain and desperation to have a child.
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Yesterday the 11 comrades of Mexico ventured to the Teotihuacan pyramids in order to achieve the ultimate goal: making it to the top of the esteemed sun pyramid. It took nothing but blood, sweat, and tears (and also the overcoming of claustrophobia for the lovely Sarah Whitaker), but we all made it to the top. Once the top of the pyramid was reached, we were all able to bask in the glory of our recent achievement by looking down and trying not to have a panic attack about how high up we were. We also got to take unorganized group pictures, and who doesn't love that? Overall the pyramids were a fun and awesome experience, and also a great change of pace from sitting in the Model UN conference all day! Hoorah for exercise!
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Today we started the 7th session finishing the discussion on Syrian refugees. We had already come up with the proposals from the previous day and only needed to finalize and vote. After the simple and moderated caucuses we all voted on the proposal paper. The paper passed with every delegation voting in favor except for Syria. After the vote we closed topic a and went to topic b. However, time did not allow for much discussion of topic b and we went to the awards. We voted for awards for best delegates, best dressed, best smile, best looking and many more. Everyone had fun with the nominations and it was great to vote. Just like the previous sessions, everyone was uncontrollably laughing. Many times we had to stop because no one could get it together enough to speak. Our committee bonded through jokes and having to work together to find a solution. We made Model UN a fun experience and I am glad I went out of my comfort zone to be a part of a committee in Spanish. My committee was unlike anything anyone expected from a Model UN conference with break dancing, games and laughing attacks. I couldn't imagine being part of any other committee.
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My committee is the security council, which Megan is in as well. Today during our eighth session we finally came to a resolution for our first topic. Our topic was civil security in Syria. Once we finished that topic we started our next which was the Iran nuclear crisis. Unfortunately, it was our last session so we were unable to come to a conclusion. Megan and I made lots of friends during our conference and were sad to see it end, especially since that would be the last day we would see many of the other students.
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Kylie Jenner's New Blonde Hair With Black Roots Makeover — Love Or Loathe?
All eyes were on Kylie Jenner at 'Cosmo' magazine's 50th birthday bash when she hit the pink carpet with bright blonde hair and an off-white outfit that totally stood apart from her sisters' and mom's dark hair and all-black ensembles.
Kylie Jenner, 18, must have missed the memo on the all-black look her sisters, Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian and Kourtney Kardashian and mom Kris Jenner sported on October 12. The youngest Kardashian/Jenner girl traded in her brown locks for a bleach blonde style with dark roots just in time for the Cosmo party celebrating the magazine's 50th anniversary and November cover stars — the Kardashians.
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Even Khloe, who was the sole blonde Kardashian girl sported hair that looked darker thanks to its slicked back, wet look. Kim and Kourtney wore their dark hair parted in the center and slicked down, too, making Kylie the only sister with tousled blonde hair.
While Kylie was posting pics of herself with dark hair just days before the event (and appeared on the cover with her dark hair), the reality TV star has been debuting one dramatic hair makeover after the next as of late. She's gone back and forth with her blonde and dark styles since her 18th birthday, and earlier this fall even tried out a mint green shade.
Kylie Jenner's Blonde Hair With Black Roots Makeover — Love Or Loathe?
Kylie's blonde style included dark roots that we would normally take as a solid sign she made the bold move to dye her hair, but we did some sleuthing and found out it's just a very deceptive wig by hairstylist Tokyo Stylez.
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There are many great lenses out there and to pick the right one may be a real challenge. Of course, in order to pick the right one, we need to know what type of photography we are planning to shoot and what creative control we'd like to gain with our new lens. Without any doubt, there will always be a tradeoff between cost, size, image quality, speed, and/or weight. So, be picky! Ask yourself are you shooting mainly portraits, maybe landscapes, architecture, or wild life? What are your expectations and wishes?
Perspective control can be a powerful compositional tool in photography, and often determines one's choice in focal length. The following table provides an overview of what focal lengths are required to be considered a wide angle or telephoto lens, in addition to their typical uses. Please note that focal lengths listed are just rough ranges, and actual uses may vary considerably; many use telephoto lenses in distant landscapes to compress perspective, for example. Source.
Lens Focal Length / Terminology / Typical Photography
Less than 21 mm: Extreme Wide Angle / Architecture
21-35 mm: Wide Angle / Landscape
35-70 mm: Normal / Street & Documentary
70-135 mm: Medium / Telephoto Portraiture
135-300+ mm: Telephoto / Sports, Bird & Wildlife
Personally, I know that I mostly shoot portraiture photography and some still life. I also like landscape photography. I know that I am not interested in sports, birds, and wildlife. This limits my lens needs. Although I like to try out telephoto or extremely wide angle lenses and I think they are very fun to work with, I have no desire to purchase one. A friend of mine bought a 500mm lens recently. He paid big bucks for it. And what does he do? He shoots the mountain from his balcony. To me, that's the waste of money, especially since he does not own a business to deduct that costs. The point? The point is that you need to know your needs before you go out and purchase a lens just because someone else has it. I believe that the size doesn't matter as long as your lens fulfills your needs.


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Everyone has a pick for the worst advertisement from an utterly dismal crop of Super Bowl 2015 ads. The sense of gloom and dismay hanging over much of the advertising was so strong that even casual viewers took to social media to wonder what the hell was going on. There are always some outside-the-box ads that should have stayed in the box, of course, but even the misguided spots are usually good for a chuckle. This year, the ads delivered more downs than the Seahawks.
It's tough to beat the most popular choice of least popular ad, the utterly bizarre dead-boy Nationwide spot, but at least that one was hilariously misguided. Some high-quality black humor has been mined from that commercial.
The most counterproductive spot was probably Nissan's "Cat's In the Cradle" ad, which told the story of an absentee race-car driver father reconnecting with his young son… apparently through the mere act of appearing behind the wheel of a shiny new Nissan. Plenty of advertisements seek to build an emotional response to the brand, rather than touting the features of the product in question, but this one seemed strangely obsessed with creating a negative emotional space and stranding Nissan in the middle of it. It seemed as if the ad's designers didn't actually listen to the lyrics of the song they chose.
Then we have the "Like a Girl" ad from Always feminine products, which is meant to send a message of empowerment, but comes off like a bit too much scolding directed at language that most people don't find all that limiting or insulting:
It's a more controversial choice of bad ad, because many have lavished praise upon its forward-thinking feminist can-do message. It's certainly better at building positive energy for the product, and more directly related to the product itself, than Nationwide's horror show or Nissan's melodrama of paternal estrangement. Surely most of us can agree that the overt message of the "Like a Girl" spot is fair enough: female athletes should not be discouraged, or their achievements disparaged. It would be a stretch to call anything going on in the Always spot "offensive." If it fills the target audience with good feelings about the company and its products, then Mission Accomplished.
But still: are we now supposed to retroactively erase the meaning of phrases such as "throw like a girl" or "fight like a girl" from our collective consciousness? The ad is premised on the idea that such phrases are absurd to the point of having no basis in reality; the first segment mocks people who perform exaggerated mincing pantomimes when asked to demonstrate what "running like a girl" would look like. Of course that's not even remotely how female athletes move.
However, I would guess that most women who are not inclined to athletics know perfectly well what throwing, running, or fighting "like a girl" means, and consider the expressions amusing, not demeaning. Sometimes they speak of fighting like a girl with pride. It's stereotype humor, not a brutal attempt by The Patriarchy to keep women down by emotionally abusing them until they give up on sports. Is there supposed to be something wrong with being a "girly-girl" now?
Our cultural overlords certain do seem to think there's something wrong with being a boy, particularly of the young and rambunctious variety. If there's anyone out there looking to use "you throw like a girl!" as an insult to intimidate people out of playing baseball, it's grade-school boys. They have a habit of exploring the world by insulting everything, and making note of what refuses to wither beneath their scorn.
The oddest thing about this defiant pushback against using "like a girl" as an epithet is that it's most commonly employed as an epithet against boys. When boys tell a young girl she throws like a girl, the most likely response falls along the lines of "well, duh!" Boys needle each other with this kind of language. Sure, the implication is that throwing, running, or fighting like a girl is inferior, but that's not really meant as an insult to women. Young boys have an entirely different arsenal of insults stockpiled for them.
We're supposed to view men and women as interchangeable now, even in the midst of a uniquely male sporting event. Our national sense of humor grows ever more strained. And we can't enjoy anything without various activists wanting a crack at our headspace – there's no way something as big as the Super Bowl can be allowed to pass without plenty of consciousness-raising. Taken as a group, the Super Bowl ads tell a story of a distressingly anxious nation, perpetually on guard against insult and injury.


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Master of Arts in Anthropology (MA)
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Kirstin Erickson
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JoAnn D'Alisera
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Eric Hoenes del Pinal
Philosophy, religion and theology, Social sciences, Anthropology, Methodism, Mission work
The last few years have seen the emergence of growing anthropological interest in short-term mission work, examining the phenomenon though a variety of denominations and mission locations around the world and analyzing the representations and experiences of both the host communities and mission teams traveling to them. This thesis explores how United Methodist short-term mission participants attempt to embody an ideal "mission self" while doing missionary work and the role that narratives about the experience at home played in this. I examine the ways in which members of a Louisiana based UMC team on a medical mission conceptualized their trip to Mexico in summer 2012, focusing on how they represented themselves in relation to their mission work. While much of their time in the field was devoted to processing patients and handing out medications, a significant amount of time was spent on reflexive discussion of what the mission meant to participants. In the construction of these narratives, participants describe their motivations, often the desire to follow Biblical commands of service and the hope for spiritual renewal, as well as their internal transformation, understanding that their actions would have the greatest impact on themselves and not the people that they aim to help.
Recommended Citation
Serio, Katharine, "Missionaries in Latin America: A Study on Short-Term Missionaries and the People They Help" (2013). Theses and Dissertations. 801.


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Blogetty Blog. Are you fed up with blogs? Do you read em ? Me neither, I have the attention span of a tired goldfish.
My kids say, 'Dad you gotta blog.' I say 'pfff there's too many words in this world already?'
Linens - some loomstate and some finished and some handwoven in Kerala.
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2nd Edition of La Salle Mini-Workshop 2014 – 2015 Seminar on Research Methodology
"2nd edition of Research Talks: Business, Technology, and other related organizational issues"
Sala de Graus, 6 February 2015 @ 4pm
After the success of the first edition held in December, PhD students take the opportunity once again to present their proposed topics, this time highlighting the advances of their research following the feedback received during the initial presentations. The objective is to generate a discussion forum where additional feedback is received and where new views and discoveries are shared ad discussed amongst all attendees.
The proposed research topics, which mostly relate to management and technology, have been further developed, so we expect to gain a more comprehensive knowledge on how these issues are closely related to customer, staff and leaders' behavior within any organization.
This initiative requires of active participation and diversity of opinions, so we, therefore, would like to extend the invitation to the wider La Salle research and teaching community.
This second edition will be held on the 6th of February at La Salle's Sala de Graus in St Josep building. The session will start at 4pm with Proff. Francesc Miralles introducing the seminar and welcoming all attendees. Presentations by PhD candidates and discussions forums will follow until final conclusions are drawn at 7pm.
We hope to see you all there.
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IQI has assembled an expansive collection of quilting and fiber arts resources, available at no charge to current members. Visit the library during regular IQI meetings (excluding potluck meetings). Materials are available for checkout before the meeting and during the break.
Materials are arranged in a broad subject classification. Each subject has a color code and the books are placed on tables according to color.
The color / subject designations are:
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|Sewing Projects – Clothes / Accessories / Dolls / Crafts
To borrow materials, your IQI membership must be current. Simply present your items to the librarians with your IQI badge (or proof of paid membership) to check items out. Books returned at a meeting will be available for check-out immediately. Material may be checked out until the following meeting with one renewal possible.
Books not returned at the next meeting will be considered overdue. Members are entitled to a one meeting grace period. A fine of $3 per book per meeting will be assessed after the following meeting if the material is not returned. The cost of damage repair or replacement value will be at the librarian's discretion. Books not returned by the May meeting, or damaged beyond readability will be considered lost. Members have the option of replacing the item with the exact same or newer edition. Items not replaced by the member will incur a fee of $10 in addition to the replacement cost.
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- 12 to 14 cups cubed (1/2-inch) day-old loaf French bread
- 4 cups milk
- 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/4 pound ground beef
- 1 pound chaurice or chorizo sausage, coarsely chopped
- 1 1/2 cups chopped onions
- 1 cup chopped green bell peppers
- 1/2 cup chopped celery
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 2 large eggs
- 1/4 cup chopped parsley
Preheat the oven to 350F.
Put the bread into a large mixing bowl and add the milk. Press the bread into the milk and let sit until the milk is absorbed and the bread is soft, about 15 minutes.
Heat 3 tablespoons of the olive oil in a large (12-inch) skillet over medium-high. Add the ground beef, and cook, stirring, until lightly browned, about 1 minute. Add the sausage and cook, stirring, until browned, about 3 minutes. Add the onions, bell peppers, celery, and bay leaf. Season with the salt, crushed red pepper and black pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are slightly softened, about 4 minutes. Add the garlic and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 30 seconds.
Transfer the meat mixture to the bread mixture and stir to mix well. Add the eggs and stir to blend. Remove the bay leaf and discard.
Grease a 9x13-inch (3 quart) shallow baking dish with the remaining tablespoon olive oil. Pour the mixture into the prepared pan and spread evenly with a rubber spatula.
Bake until bubbly and golden brown, about 1 hour. Remove from the oven and serve warm.


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Witches used to live in the dunes and would sacrifice people for Satanic rituals. Other people have died violently here through other means, and a burial site was even uncovered. While Roman Polanski was filming Macbeth here, many extras were shocked to see hands coming out of the sand… And further shocked to learn it wasn't part of the special effects. People feel like they are being followed and sometimes see shadows.
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Six rows of white folding chairs changed my former husband's Palm Springs living room into a wedding chapel. With soft organ music and joyous greetings, fifty guests filled the seats as the ceremony was about to begin. Beethoven's "Hymn to Joy" set the mood as a minister in white vestments led the couple to the front of the room.
Jim and his partner were sealing their commitment with a lawful marriage ceremony. With close friends and several family members present, they shared traditional vows "to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer,for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish until death do us part." Each repeated the familiar promises with sincerity and emotion, exchanging gold wedding rings to symbolize their vows.
This same-sex wedding was as traditional as any ordinary marriage ceremony I'd attended before, but it was singularly moving and significant to me. To my husband Dale and me and to my grown sons, it represented our complete acceptance of Jim as a gay man. Our presence as witnesses to his marriage demonstrated that recognition. We're still a family, though an unusually extended one--stretched in ways we never thought possible.
Truthfully, I had gone to California with trepidation. I didn't know exactly how it would affect me to watch Jim marry another man. I didn't know how my own husband would feel, though I was deeply grateful for his support during this emotionally charged life event. I had also worried about my older son, a religious conservative who surely must experience huge inner conflict between his church's teachings and our family ties. Historic tension between my two sons was also a concern. How would they respond to unaccustomed closeness during three energy-draining days?
I needn't have worried. Thankfully, those busy days passed without any unpleasantness. Everyone tried hard to make each person comfortable. The two families mixed freely, getting acquainted, sharing meals, overlooking differences in lifestyle and background. In fact, it was fun! This wedding was a benchmark. I believe that we all reached a new plane of understanding and openness. "It is what it is," Dale often says, implying simple, effortless acceptance.
Jim's October 30th wedding was a memorable experience for everyone attending. I'm thrilled that, like me, he is committed to his life-partner in a sanctified marriage. They are among the lucky ones. The rules have changed again. On November 4 California voters passed Proposition 8 to ban same-sex marriages and override the recent court decision legalizing them. The new constitutional amendment limits marriage to heterosexual couples. Enormous amounts of money were poured into this regressive action, the first time such a measure has passed in a state where gay unions had been legal.
Jim and his partner made it under the wire, celebrating their marriage just five days before it would have been impossible. Like 18,000 other gay couples married since the California Supreme Court legalized it last May, their marriage will remain valid, according to state Attorney General Jerry Brown. This battle between conflicting laws dramatically demonstrates that civil rights can never be taken for granted, even in our republic.
For a fuller discussion of the rationale supporting gay marriage, see my October 20 blog, "Gay Marriage Now Personal."


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Spore: Creation Corner / Re: Spore Boxart« on: May 07, 2006, 09:00:07 pm »
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lol... let's have a betting pool on how many "multiplayer" question threads will pop up between E3 and release... I go with a meager 3421How true that is
i have noticed that there has been a huge influx of n00bs latley, it won't really be so bad...I don't think we should do that since often, as I did, people will read the forums for a long time before deciding that the have something they want to say or contribute.
Is thier any way to make a fourum where yooou have to have seniority of at least a month to post?
I'd say ds for all. the stylus would really come in handy.Just what I was thinking, besides the fact that the DS isn't quite as powerful as the PSP, I think it will work better for DS overall.
i have a soloution nether mods nor expansion packs
i recently picked up zootycoon 2 well..theres a download thing that comes with the game every so often they have something for you to download new animals..buildings etc
i have a feeling spore will do something like that
and the downloads are made by the company
Really? Even when the mechanism for progress (natural selection) is removed?Natural Selection cannot be removed it is still effecting us, if someone has a deadly genetic disease they will die and their genes will not be passed on. That is part of evolution.


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Without a lot of fanfare the South Dakota State Fair has made its way back to an enjoyable event. Twenty years ago it struggled. The 1994 re-re-re-election of Bill Janklow to his third term as governor helped the turnaround. The fair still struggled despite the efforts of Janklow, then-Secretary of Agriculture Larry Gabriel, then-Gov. Mike Rounds and then-manager Susan Hayward who began in 2003, but they put a new emphasis on improving the fairgrounds, rebuilding facilities, attracting donations and making the grounds a year-round destination for other events. Under Rounds and then-Secretary of Agriculture Bill Even, the next step came in 2008 with the appointment of Jerome Hertel as the fair's manager. Hertel grew up across the street from the Turner County fairgrounds and worked there. Before taking the state job in Huron, he spent eight years at the Sioux Empire Fair in Sioux Falls. In the past six years there has been strong growth in fundraising for improvements. The latest example: An announcement is set for Sunday regarding Dakota Turkey Growers' donation to the new Nordby 4-H exposition center. The 2014 State Fair runs through Monday.
I enjoyed three to four hours there Friday afternoon and evening. Standard price for fried cheese curds appears to be $6 and a "pounder" aka 16-ounce can of good cold American beer cost $4. I was fairly successful at ducking most of the politicians and had a couple of good social conversations; I learned that if your wife is with you, there isn't much talk about "issues." We somehow lucked into one of the best parking places and the fellow running the lot didn't stick around to collect the $5. I looked for him when we parked and I looked again when we left. If I see him next time, I'll pay him $10. It rained, hard, for a while, and we ducked under the porch at the Dakotaland Museum, and the time was truly relaxing. The museum rightly lays claim to Hubert H. Humphrey and Gladys Pyle as political figures from Huron. Someone really, really needs to do a strong biography about Gladys Pyle and her parents and their roles in changing South Dakota politics, including the drive to grant women the right to vote, and about how the Republican nomination for governor was taken from Pyle at the party's state convention. But I digress… If you haven't been to the State Fair this year, or for a few years, or ever, get there. It's $5 to get in, and I have to tell you, the horticulture building has some amazing vegetables and flowers and fruits to see. We didn't get to the pigs, unfortunately, and I lost the vote on touring the rabbits and chickens. The sheep looked good and the cattle too. Did I mention fried cheese curds are $6?


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The term "laid-down lover" has picked up momentum in the Apostolic/Prophetic movement in recent years. Some have said it is a reference to "laying down our lives" (c.f. John 15:13) other's have posited that it is perhaps sexual in nature. I would suggest, that depending in the speaker, it can have either or both meanings.
The harvest is ripe! God is calling forth a new breed of missionaries, a generation of laid-down lovers who will run into the darkest corners of the earth, call in the outcasts, bring in His Bride, and compel the poor to come to the wedding feast. -Heidi Baker
Heidi Baker has been using this term for quite a few years and is generally given credit for coining this phrase. Seen here at 06:45 (video) Baker uses the term "laid-down lover" at a Toronto (TACF) meeting. In the context of how she was using it, and in the context of her life (and I'm not endorsing some of her theology and practices), I think she is using it in the form of laying down our lives.
However, comments like the following, by Carol Arnott, co-leader of TACF, generally serve to muddy the waters. Arnott is cited as having said, regarding her so-called "bride experience" that she was taken into the very presence of Jesus and the love she experienced was "better than sex." Eewwww!
The phrase gained popularity at the so-called Lakeland Outpouring. One of the musicians at that show was Heather Clark, who performed a song called "Laid-Down Lover." Taken out of context, the lyrics are rather suggestive.
I want to be a laid down lover
I want to be a laid down lover
I want to be a laid down lover
filled with you
In the video, it doesn't help that philanderer and alcoholic Todd Bentley is seen twitching on the floor while Clark sings over him.
Regarding the phrase, Heather Clark states:
The scripture that I think of for this year is from Psalm 23 "He makes me lay down in green pastures." God comes to us and refreshes us in a place of plenty. His yoke is easy and His burden light and it's a time to rest in His promises, knowing that He is in charge and will take care to do what He says He'll do.
Indeed, Clark's song did much to popularize the phrase. One Bentley apologist states on her websiite that "Laid Down Lover is a phrase I picked up during the Lakeland revival. Heather Clark sang a song by that name and it's stuck with me."
Rick Pino, another worship leader at Lakeland, was also impacted by the use of the phrase, and penned this song in 2009. Although with a strong MSoG flavor, the song conveys the concept of laying down ones life.
They overcame by the blood of the Lamb
And by the words of their testimony
They loved not their lives even unto death
They loved not their lives even unto death
Raise up an army of laid down lovers
Raise up an army of laid down lovers
If we die with Him, we will live with Him
If we move with Him, we will rule with Him
If we lay down with the Lamb, we'll roar with the Lion of Judah
We'll roar with the Lion of Judah
So what do we make of it?
The charismatic movement (now Apostolic/Prophetic) has long been confused in the whole intimacy thing, probably no thanks to Carol Arnott. I remember many years ago a really annoying "worship" song that used the phrase "sweet release," whatever that means. Mike Bickle has popularized what some have called the "Jesus is my boyfriend" interpetation of the Song of Songs, and in spite of their denials, it has confused a lot of the young 'uns.
Javanut, over at the Coffee Talk with Java blog, has shown us where this all ends up. Go there (easy return). She also makes a good point in showing who this gal in the video above is tied in with. It's mainstream Apostolic/Prophetic. Well, as mainstream as the A/P can get.
The Grey Coats blog asks us "Well, Who didn't see this coming??"
I think it's sad, because it has destroyed the possibility of a rational, theologically-sound conversation about the concept of intimacy with God.
I come to the garden alone
While the dew is still on the roses
And the voice I hear falling on my ear
The Son of God discloses.
And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own;
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.
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Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : Journal of Development Economics, Volume 73, Issue 1, February 2004, Pages 55–74
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In this paper we investigate the long run relationship between financial depth and economic growth, trying to utilize the data in the most efficient manner via panel unit root tests and panel cointegration analysis. In addition, we use threshold cointegration tests, and dynamic panel data estimation for a panel-based vector error correction model. The long run relationship is estimated using fully modified OLS. For 10 developing countries, the empirical results provide clear support for the hypothesis that there is a single equilibrium relation between financial depth, growth and ancillary variables, and that the only cointegrating relation implies unidirectional causality from financial depth to growth.
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A large and expanding literature tries to shed some light on the roles of policy or "ancillary" variables in the determination of economic growth. Most of this literature has mainly focused on the role of macroeconomic stability, inequality, income and wealth, institutional development, ethnic and religious diversity and financial market imperfections. For an extensive survey of this literature, see Levine (1997). Among these factors the role of financial markets in the growth process has received recently considerable attention. In this framework, financial development is considered by many economists to be of paramount importance for output growth. In particular, government restrictions on the banking system (such as interest rate ceiling, high reserve requirements and directed credit programs) hinder financial development and reduce output growth, see McKinnon (1973) and Shaw (1973).
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In this paper we have combined cross-sectional and time series data to examine the relationship between financial development and growth in ten developing countries. Previous studies have used either cross-sectional or time series data but both approaches have drawbacks. Using cross-sectional data leaves open the question of spurious correlation arising from non-stationarity, and does not permit an examination of the direction of causality. Using time series data, may yield unreliable results due to short time spans of typical data sets. We have made use of panel unit root tests, and panel cointegration analysis to conclude that there is fairly strong evidence in favor of the hypothesis that long run causality runs from financial development to growth, that the relationship is significant, and that there is no evidence of bi-directional causality. We have used fully modified OLS to estimate the cointegrating relation, a method that deals with the problem of endogeneity of regressors. Time series evidence is also supportive to the idea that there exists a unique cointegrating vector between growth, financial development and ancillary variables (investment share and inflation). The empirical evidence also points to the direction that there is no short run causality between financial deepening and output, so the effect is necessarily long run in nature. The important policy implication is that policies aiming at improving financial markets will have a delayed effect on growth, but this effect is significant.


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Wild Creatures and Vet's
I recall a few years back taking a Hedgehog to the Vet's and I didn't have to pay.
Could anyone confirm that Vet's are obliged to treat a wild species should you take one in ?
Or is it just the RSPCA?
If so, it's quite useful info.
Thanks, Richard
Now as you mention it, I do recall the Vet saying something when I took the Hedgehog in.
I found him stationery in the garden for hours.
I forget what the Vet did to it, but I took it back and put him in a really warm cardboard box with loads of straw etc. (it was late Autumn), but he only lasted a couple of days.
Yes, I have had to take two pigeons to the vet this year, at different times and they took them in without any problems
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Don't know what the deal is here either, but I've taken lots of found animals and birds to the vets. They have treated them and arranged for them to be taken in by a wildlife shelter if they are strong enough - or in one case, a zoologist who specialised in parrots and birds of prey. I've never been charged.
They'd have to be pretty awful to charge someone for doing the right thing by an injured animal wouldn't you think?
Hi Richard,
Thanks for that useful bit of knowledge. It would be interesting to tackle my local vets' over that!! My husband found an injured hedgehog a few years ago, rang the RSPCA who said they would probably just put it down(!!) After a few phone calls he managed to find a local wildlife rescue place and delivered the hedgehog to them. Can't remember if he bothered asking the vets for help.
In a perfect world every dog would have a home, and every home would have a dog - Anon.
The RCVS have an agreement with the RSPCA to take in wildlife and treat.
The RSPCA collection officer told me this when I found the baby Jackdaw and then the Pigeon which was injured. Although our vets obviously didnt know about this agreement as when I rang them re the Jackdaw the receptionist said if I took it in they would pts! So, didnt bother ringing them re the pigeon, just phoned RSPCA who came out and took it to a wildlife rescue centre at Lincoln.
Must say I have been very impressed with the RSPCA on these two occassions and how swiftly they acted. Maybe they are changing?
That's great that they do that.
Here in Aus the RSPCA doesn't deal with wild animals, well not in WA where I lived and I haven't had to find out here in Tassie yet.
It's up to the volunteer run wildlife shelters and the State Govt does a bit towards it as far as co-ordinating the shelters with a telephone helpline.
As far as vets go I am not aware of any compulsion for them to treat for free. I have taken a couple of things in personally but unfortunately they had to be euthanised, and they did not charge me.
The wildlife shelter I used to volunteer at had a particular vet they used, as most vets here have limited knowledge of native animals. I am not sure what fees they were charged but I am pretty sure it was not done completely free of charge. They may have done the consultation for free and charged for any dr-ugs etc used.
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Looks like the Eli Manning will be staying with the New York Giants for a while longer as they have agreed in principle to a four year contract extension worth $84 millions. The contracts which had been held up for some time was held because of a no-trade clause which is now plart of the new contract.
As mentioned last Tuesday, Manning had hoped to get the contract finalized before the Giant's first game of the regular NFL season as he is not a "big fan of keeping negotiation going during the season. I'm hoping that if this thing is going to get done, it's going to get done very quickly.
Earlier this season, there was a rumor going around the online sportsbook world that Manning was comfortable playing out his final year of his 6 year, $97.5 million contract extension but that he wanted to be paid more than any quarterback in the NFL.
These rumors where of course denied by Manning saying that these reports were wrong.
Timing is everything as his contract extension comes at a time when many other quarterbacks have also been in salary discussions with several of them seeing significant increase in their pay. Some examples are Rogers with $22 millions and Roethlisberger with $21.8 million.
Manning is of course a solid part of the New York Giants thanks to his leadership, he has gotten them to two Super Bowl Victories and his stats have always been high.