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Derek Sivers' Switching Back To PHP Isn't Even About Languages
That's about it. If you're looking for all killer, no filler, Sivers' article won't deliver. There's one important point - integration is hard - and one cool insight - "languages are like girlfriends, they're better because you are better" - and there's also a whole bunch of extra words.
Last year Chad Fowler wrote about the Big Rewrite and why it always fails.
You've seen the videos, the weblog posts and the hype, and you've decided you're going to re-implement your product in Rails (or Java, or .NET, or Erlang, etc.).
Beware. This is a longer, harder, more failure-prone path than you expect.
Throughout my career in software development, I've been involved in Big Rewrite after Big Rewrite...In many cases, these Big Rewrite projects have resulted in unhappy customers, political battles, missed deadlines, and sometimes complete failure to deliver. In all cases, the projects were considerably harder than the projects' initiators ever thought they would be.
This is not a technology problem. It's not at all Rails-specific, but being in the limelight these days, Rails implementations are both very likely to happen and very risky right now.
This is exactly what happened to Sivers. He attempted a big rewrite in Rails and later abandoned it for an incremental rewrite in PHP. The Big Rewrite doesn't work. Incremental rewrites do work. But that doesn't say anything about Rails or PHP. You can fail with Rails and succeed with PHP for reasons that have nothing to do with either language.
For some reason, few people in programming study what other programmers have done before, and so, given that the majority of us don't study history, the majority of us are doomed to repeat it. That's fine. If you don't want to study history, go ahead and repeat it. But some of us do study the history of what we do, and some of us have already learned these lessons the hard way.
Personally, I think this failure to study history is a serious shortcoming.
When you think about the reams of money companies go through every time an inexperienced programmer or manager learns this lesson the hard way, and you put an actual price tag on that experience, and then you compare it with the price of a freaking book, you kind of have to wonder what's going on with people in our industry.
Anyway. For what it's worth, the next few days are going to be a good time to write code (or go to conferences!) but a terrible time to read e-mail lists and blogs. There's going to be a lot of discussion about what Sivers' post "means." I'm as guilty as anyone else of responding to the hot topic of the day, but if I see any more discussion of this post, I'm just going to read some programming history on Wikipedia (or even - gasp! - write some code). My suggestion: the moral of the story is that many programmers have a shallow and irrelevant fixation on languages, and don't spend nearly enough time learning the history of what we do.
Update: Raganwald noticed this too.
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More than once, I've thought about starting an interview with "Tell me about a good programming or software book you've read" and DYHAQFMing them if they don't have an answer.ReplyDelete
You could also ask if they've read any non-fiction book related to technology or engineering and what they learned from it. "The Myth of the Machine" series by Mumford has some good concepts every developer could learn from. For example, in "Technics and Civilization" you learn that it's how we think that matters. Technology can change our habits, but it may not measurably improve the situation if the people using it don't understand what it's good for. A great example is VCRs. Most people who bought them never used them to record much of anything, because they didn't understand how that function worked (most clocks on them flashed "12:00" all the time). They just used it to play movies.
Another example could be "Understanding Media", by McLuhan.
Anything that expands practitioners' understanding of how technology is really used would help.
All project managers should have at least heard of "The Mythical Man Month". If they haven't, watch out!
Right on, Giles. I read the article the other day, saw the hundreds of comments, and thought to myself, "why are all these people even bothering to comment on this"? The summary I came away with was "We ended up going back to PHP because we weren't ready to leave PHP". Somewhat of a tautology, but that's humans for you.ReplyDelete
(as an aside, I do think that in some situations [big technology shift + circumstances allowing it to happen without screwing up the existing system], the "big rewrite" actually can work--I'm nearing the completion of one right now--but perhaps in Sivers' case, their PHP technology isn't bad enough to warrant a change to Rails)


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Seventh Circle, HELL -- After a recent dramatic influx of dignitaries, officials in Perdition today announced that the indefinitely-suspended Tournament of Hell chess championship was on again, for the first time in six years. Held annually as a benefit for Hell's favorite charities, the Church of St. Manfred the Irrumator and Our Lady of the Wandering Hands, the yearly tournament was postponed in 2006, due to lack of interest. However, with the recent addition to the roster of such grandmasters as Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki, and today's surprise entrant Muammar Gaddafi, interest in the championship has fired dramatically.
Under a large banner reading "Better to Reign in Hell than Stalemate in Heaven!", tournament organizer Lucifer made a short statement in the Main Circle at around 5 p.m. ET, saying simply, "Play chess, bitches!" The announcement was greeted with the usual roars and shrieks of pain, although observers did note a slightly upbeat tone to the screaming.
Five-time champion Rasputin, speaking from Hell's Griddle Bar and Grill where the tournament will be held, expressed glee at the turn of events. Said he, "The past six years have been so dreary — frankly, sitting around and not playing chess has really been Hell. A-hem!" He then fell into a ten-minute-long fit of the giggles, and was unavailable for further comment.
Preliminary matchups in the single-elimination, non-FIDE tournament have some observers puzzled, with curious draws being the rule rather than the exception. Current champion Joe Stalin will go against Gaddafi in opening play, a matchup that wasn't expected until the quarterfinals.
Said Stalin, speaking through a translator as devils drove screws through his eyelids, "I hope Muammar will be a more worthy opponent than my last one, Hitler. As they both have bits missing from their heads, though, I can't think he will be much stronger against my Sicilian opening than Adolf was." Stalin's 2005 championship match against Hitler ended with a controversial forfeit, as Hitler spent the entirety of his 40-minute turn drooling on his own d4 pawn, before knocking it over with his rook — an illegal move.
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Surprise, surprise. In addition to the occasional commercial featuring a plus-size model, there is at least one program on television right now that is actually worth watching.
From the good people at PBS comes The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance, a series examining several centuries of European history though the perspective of one of Italy's most influential dynasties.
The term "Godfathers" in the title refers to exactly what you think it does. The program uses the conventions of a staple of popular culture--the "mafia family" film--to raise viewers' interest in a historical subject. But, as anyone who has even a passing acquaintance with European history knows, the exploits of fictional families like the Corleones pale in comparison to the real-life accomplishments of the great Medici dynasty, and the historical events that are covered by this series are far more thrilling, and bloody, than anything that one might find in a Coppola film.
So what does this series have to do with the topic of this forum? Everything. We have often likened the growing appreciation for timeless feminine beauty in today's culture to the Renaissance of Classical art that originated in Florence in the 15th century. And this television series illustrates, in an entertaining and accessible way, the vital role played by the Medici in bringing about that period of cultural rebirth.
The second episode in the series chronicles how Lorenzo de Medici, the family's greatest son, became the patron of Botticelli, Leonardo, and Michelangelo, and encouraged those masters to initiate a great revival of Classicism through the recovery of the beauty ideal of Antiquity. Readers of this forum who are puzzled by the emphasis that we often place on the companies that sponsor advertising campaigns which bring timeless beauty to the contemporary world would do well to remember that without the financial backing of the Medici, the Renaissance would never have existed.
But even more pertinent to our discussions is the series's characterization of the infamous monk Savonarola, a repressive fanatic who appears in the midst of the sunlit world of Lorenzo's Florence like a spectre of Death, inveighing against the secular humanism of the Medici, and denouncing the entire Renaissance project as insupportable heresy.
As the program vividly dramatizes, Savonarola's tirades sweep up the population of Florence in a hysteria of guilt and recrimination, and even prompt Lorenzo himself to renounce his own cultural achievements. In Savonarola's notorious "Bonfire of the Vanities," some of the greatest artworks of the Renaissance (even paintings by Botticelli himself) are immolated, depriving posterity of untold artistic masterpieces.
It takes but little effort to see in this grim, chastising figure of Savonarola the very likeness of the typical modern weight-control zealot, who finds it insupportable that women might allow themselves to enjoy food, and life, and beauty. Just as Savonarola (a "Dr. Phil" with no sense of humour) was certain of his right to be the moral arbiter of his society, so do today's self-appointed "weight experts" feel no compunction in sentencing women to starvation and physical punishment, aided and abetted in their mission by a compliant press corps, which spreads their dogma far and wide.
In asking ourselves the question, "Why does society continue to resist plus-size beauty?" we must also consider why, throughout the ages, humanity has produced "despisers of the body" (as Nietzsche termed them)--sullen ideologues who abhor the notion of life lived for joy, and espouse ideologies meant to suppress this possibility--and moreover, why so many people follow their doctrines. The modern media campaign against full-figured women is merely the latest example of the kind of mass moralistic crusade that includes movements as diverse as the "Witch Scare," Prohibition, and the political nightmare that covered Eastern Europe in shadow for the latter half of the 20th century. Perhaps the more significant question is not, "Why are there Savonarolas?" but rather, "Why do so many people follow them?"
But just as darkness ever precedes the dawn, so do we have every faith that our own aesthetic restoration will defy all attempts to suppress it.
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My husband Richard, our Hungarian Vizsla, Monty and I have been fortunate enough to spend almost half of the last two years travelling around Europe. We've driven nearly 32,000 miles, visited 19 countries and stayed in almost 200 campsites. So far we've made 4 trips, starting in July 2010 with a 3 month trip, 4 months in 2011, 4 months starting in March this year and finally a month in Ireland in September.
It all began in March 2010 when my husband, at 54, had the opportunity to take early voluntary retirement. I was 49, working full time and our only daughter, Emily was in her last year at school and had announced that she intended taking a gap year to travel before she went off to university. So after some discussion, we decided that I take a career break and we would buy a campervan and travel around Europe for a while. This was something we'd thought about before but didn't really think it would ever come to fruition.
In a nutshell, we now work in the winter and travel in the summer. I don't deny that we haven't had our share of luck in achieving this lifestyle. We don't have a bottomless pit of cash but are able to do what we want through a bit of planning. We saved money over the years to help our daughter through university so don't have to worry on that score and my husband has been lucky enough to get contract work through the winter months which has given us sufficient money to both fund our trips and pay the usual household bills.
So, having made the decision to buy a campervan, I stopped off at a small motorhome dealer in the Cotswolds one afternoon and saw a McLouis Glen for sale. I guess we bought it on a bit of a whim really, knowing nothing about motorhomes and what they had to offer. The McLouis had an over cab bed and a long bench seat and on that we made our decision or rather Monty made it for us! We wanted to sleep away from him and let him have his own space. So we paid the £20,000 asking price and the van was ours and the rest is history.
I'm not going to recommend places to visit and things to see and do because, as they say, ones man's meat is another man's gravy! What appeals to us probably won't appeal to you but I would like to share some of the practicalities of making a long trip on a budget and perhaps help you avoid some of the mistakes we made. If, however, you have a bottomless pit of cash to spend on your trip some of my tips won't be any help at all!
The World's Your Oyster But Where To Go?
Croatia: Lake Plitvice. A stunning lake although very 'tourisy' and busy. Crystal clear blue water teeming with large fish and spectacular waterfalls.
We start by making a list of places we've always wanted to visit, places we've read about, relatives to visit and places we want to revisit and start to rough out our itinerary based on getting as many of those in as the time will allow. We reckon on driving about 150 miles in a day and allowing at least two nights to visit a town.
Krk Island in Croatia, reached via a toll bridge from the mainland. The southernmost areas are the most scenic with pleasant beaches and interesting limestone rock formations.
Take into account the time of year you're going and look at what the weather may be doing. Believe me, traipsing around a city in 40 degree heat is not a pleasure. You need to take the temperature into account even more if you're taking your dog. Dragging them around through crowds of tourists in a city in the heat is no fun for them or you and neither is leaving them to fry in your motorhome a good idea.
Duga Resa in the north near the Slovenian border. An attractive rural spot away from the more 'touristy' coast and near the city of Karlovac where the most popular beer in Croatia is brewed.
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Set yourself a budget. We do four separate ones, fuel, spending money, ferries and campsites.
Work this out using your rough itinerary and calculating the miles using either a sat nav or a route planner. You can map out using camp sites or from a road map use distances between towns.
When you have calculated your mileage you can now find out the cost and for this you need two elements the miles per gallon that your van delivers (or miles per litre if you're rather younger than we are!) and the cost per litre in each country (which you'll need to convert to gallons, 4.54 litres per gallon. You can find this information on the AA website.
Sounds complicated but it's really not as long as you don't get hung up on the detail – it's just meant to get you a rough cost and mileage.
Spending Money
For us this covers everything bar camp site costs and fuel. We budget £25 per day and although this doesn't sound like enough it's been sufficient for us. Don't plan on eating out every night on this though as it won't stretch that far. We tend to treat ourselves to a meal out once a week or so but have fallen into the daily coffee and cake routine which is most definitely not too hard on the pocket but is not too good on the waistline!
Based on our itinerary we budget for £200 per one way ferry journey.
Camp Sites
We split our sites between Aires (free of charge), camping cheques sites and what we call luxury, which is basically anything that doesn't fit into the first two categories. Get yourself a few good camp site books, French Aires, Camping Cheque Directory (free when you order cheques) or use websites such as Eurocampings and map out where you might stay using your itinerary.
When choosing a camp site book make sure that each entry has a proper postal address and GPS co-ordinates. Having both is best as although we tend to use the GPS there has been several occasions when they have been wrong and have sometimes taken us miles from where we needed to be.
We budget £25 a night for 'luxury' which is a bit on the generous side for two people and dog but builds in a bit of leeway.
Good tip for buying camping cheques is to buy them in euros, using your prepaid euro card, (use www.campingcheque.fr and have the automatic translation on if you don't speak French) as its much better value for money. Based on this years' exchange rate each costs about £12.84 instead of the £13.95 if you bought them in sterling. We did this for the first time this year and it worked out really well, the cheques and site book arrived, to my surprise only a few days after placing the order.
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Polychaete worms are characterized by an elongated, metameric body usually bearing a pair of appendages called parapodia on each metamere (segment), as well as tufts of chaetae (spines served by muscles which typically can be extended and retracted; often the polychaetes are called bristle worms, and their name derives from the Latin for many bristles). Parapodia show vast diversity of form and function, serving purposes such as locomotion, gas exchange, protection, attachment, controlling water flow within a tube, or can be reduced or lost altogether. The polychaete head can be adorned with a multitude of sensory structures such as tentacular palps, antennae, and cirri. Predatory carnivores often have large pharyngeal jaws. At the end of the segmented body is the tail, called the pygidium, which houses the anus (Brusca and Brusca 2003)
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Reflecting the large diversity of lifestyles and degree of independence of body segments, polychaete circulatory and respiratory systems also show many variations among taxa. Gas exchange in many polychaetes is facilitated by distinct gills, but in others it occurs across the entire body surface (especially in small or sedentary taxa with no parapodia, or in worms with no or partial internal body septa to separate coelomic spaces). Some taxa increase surface respiratory areas with feathery protrusions of the body surface through which the coelom extends. In these taxa, the circulatory system is reduced, and most oxygen and nutrients are distributed in the coelomic fluid. Some taxa have pumping structures to increase blood flow, especially sedentary worms that do not use body movements to circulate the blood. Most (but not all) polychaetes have oxygen-carrying pigments in their circulatory fluid and coelomic fluid, usually a form of haeomoglobin. Polychaetes display a large array of different sensory structures, including touch receptors; photoreceptors which may be developed into one or more pairs of anteriorly positioned eyes or distributed around the body; chemoreceptors, and statocysts.
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Interim Superintendent Edward Malvey and Business Manager Julie Suprenaut outlined their plan for $700,000 in cuts to items, including supplies and services, special education teachers, fifth grade band, the high school bookkeeper and some benefits. The list also included a furlough day.
The news upset parents and teachers, who shouted from the audience about the fairness of the budget, but four school committee members said they would support the lower amount because it was what voters had asked them to do.
Vincent P. Cloutier said he is a supporter of education, but with voters having turned down override requests and a higher budget number at Saturday's district meeting, he supported the compromise.
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Observer Design Pattern: Define a one-to-many dependency between objects so that when one object changes state, all its dependents are notified and updated automatically. -- By THE GOF BOOK
When to use? Observer design pattern is useful when we are interested in the state of an object and want to get notified whenever there is any change in the state of the object. In observer pattern, the object that watch the state of another object is called Observer and the object that is being watched is called Subject.
For example: In GUI programming, event-driven is an important concept. Such as, when you do programming in java UI /swing, you may put a button on the stage, then you'll add a callback function to the button. The function will be called when there is some action play on the button, such as click. This is almost the same with the observer pattern.
Lets make it clear. Firstly, we care the state of the button; we want know when the button was clicked. Secondly, when the button state was changed, we want to do something, that's the callback function. Actually, you can consider as the function cares the state of the button. When the button state change, the function will do something. So here the button is observable, and the function maybe the observer.
Keep in mind, An observable object can have one or more observers. An observer may be any object that implements interface Observer. After an observable instance changes, an application calling the Observable's notifyObservers method causes all of its observers to be notified of the change by a call to their update method.


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Art Blakey, who visited Africa several times, has been cited as saying jazz couldn't have happened there, that it could only have happened in America when and where it did, but Blakey was also fully aware of where those polyphonic rhythms and call-and-response patterns that underscore all of jazz came from. In the mid-'50s he began experimenting with large drum ensembles that slid African and Latin rhythms beneath hard bop horn and piano structures, resulting in a kind of worldbeat jazz hybrid years before the idea of worldbeat became codified as a musical concept. Holiday for Skins has an even larger drum ensemble than the one that Blakey used for 1956's similar Drum Suite, consisting this time around of three jazz drummers (Philly Joe Jones, Art Taylor, and Blakey himself) and a host of Latin and African percussionists, including Ray Barretto and Sabú Martínez, as well as Donald Byrd on trumpet and Ray Bryant on piano. With the exception of Bryant's two compositions, "Swingin' Kilts" and "Reflection," all the tracks were worked out during one long studio session which ran from 11 p.m. until 5 a.m. the next morning. The end result sounds very joyous, tribal, and ceremonial, helped along in that regard by interspersed vocal chants, yelps, howls, and whistles with occasional bursts of straight jazz texture from Byrd or Bryant. Blue Note as two separate LPs labeled Volume 1 and Volume 2, and this CD reissue combines both into one seamless sequence running a little over an hour in length. As one might suspect, there isn't a whole lot of melody or harmony being worked on here, but the rhythms are extraordinarily interesting, with the various bongos, congas, and trap kit formations constantly responding to each other in ever expanding and overlapping circles. It may not be everyone's idea of jazz, but jazz it most certainly is, and many of the rhythm experiments Blakey was trying out at the time in albums like this one, Drum Suite, and 1962's African Beat are now standard approaches in contemporary jazz and pop, which is why all three of these drum-centric releases sound so eerily current years later.] ~ Steve Leggett


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Double joints are used to drive steerable rigid axles. Their main area of application is all-wheel drive goods vehicles. The dimensioning criteria below therefore relate to this area.
9.1 Axial Movement of Drive Shaft on Turning
In Fig. 27, 1 represents the fixed bearing driven shaft, 2 the mobile bearing drive shaft. A and B are joint bearings, 0 is the pivot pin axle.
If the joint is fitted such that rotation point 0 of the pivot pin axle agrees with centre point M of the extended joint, with the joint bent by deflection angle ß, unequal deflection angles ß1 and ß2 occur and hence unequal transmission as shown in Fig. 29 curve ß0 = 0° and y = 0.
Fig. 27:
Fig. 28:
Now by offsetting the centre M of the extended joint by a dimension y in the direction of the fixed bearing, a specific deflection angle can be made to give constant velocity (Fig. 28). A constant velocity angle ß0 of 32°-35° is favourable, as this gives the minimum unevenness the entire deflection angle range (Fig. 29).
Fig. 29:
The offset y to be applied in order to achieve totally constant velocity at deflection angle ß0 is:
When the joint is deflected, an axial displacement of the drive shaft 2 occurs, so this must therefore have mobile bearings. The maximum axial displacement is:
With a constant velocity angle of 32°: y32º = 0,02 · l1 and x40º = 0,0641 · l1 at 40° deflection angle, x48º = 0,0944 · l1 at 48º deflection angle.
9.2 Axial Movement of the Drive Shafts with the Use of Offset Axis Universal Joints
This catalogue shows only double jointed shafts with offset angle universal joints. In the bent state, in addition to the movements described under 9.1, these also generate an axial movement which is performed twice every shaft rotation (Fig. 30).
In the 0° and180° positions of the double joint, the axis offsets l (AA' and BB') are added linearly to the joint spacing l1k (A'B').
Fig. 30:
In the 90° and 270° position of the double joint, the axis offsets l are added to the joint spacing l1k according to the directions of the individual deflection angles ß1' and ß2'.
The difference X of these sums is the movement described by the drive shaft of the double jointed shaft twice per rotation. This must be taken into account in the dimensions.
Movement travel X = X - X'
X is the displacement of the double joint in the 0° and 180° position as produced also in the double shaft without offset axis joints.
X' is the displacement produced when on deflection of the joint in the 180° and 270° position of the double jointed shaft with offset joints, due to the shorter joint interval.
With a constant velocity angle of 32°, assuming that l = 0,1 · l1 and thus:
l1k = l1 - 2 · L then X'40º = 0,0756 · l1k
Thus for movement travel X:
X40º = 0,0641 · l1 - 0,0513 · l1k X48º = 0,0944 · l1 - 0,0756 · l1k
The axial movement of the drive shafts takes place in the area of the axial movement of the deflection, i.e. the cardan shaft is "shortened" twice per rotation.
9.3 Centre Displacement of Fork Head (Carrier Ring) with Deflected Joint
When designing the space required for the yoke, it must be noted that, in addition to the deflection and axial movement, its centre is displaced twice per rotation. The centre displacement e is greater on the drive shaft side than on the driven shaft side.
For the drive shaft side:
emax = (l + X) · sin ß2'
where the input drive deflection angle ß2' is calculated as follows:
emin = l · sin ß1'
where the drive deflection angel ß1' is the difference between the total deflection angle ß and the input drive deflection angle ß2'.
So ß1' = ß - ß2'
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Conservative Media Darling Cuccinelli Flames Out In Virginia
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After months of support from conservative talk radio and other right-wing media, commonwealth Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli failed to win the race to become Virgnia's next governor. Even before Election Day, conservative commentators like Mark Levin had already begun lashing out at "RINOs" and Republicans like Karl Rove for not sufficiently supporting Cuccinelli.
Terry McAuliffe Elected Governor Of Virginia
Terry McAuliffe Elected Governor Of Virgnia. On November 5, Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe defeated Republican candidate Ken Cuccinelli to become the next governor of Virginia. [NBC News, 11/5/13]
Conservative Pundits Had Praised, Rallied For "Awesome" And "Courageous" Cuccinelli
Rush Limbaugh Identified Cuccinelli As One Of A Few "Fearless" Republicans Who Are "Exactly What Is Necessary." On his radio program, right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh identified Cuccinelli -- along with Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal -- as four "fearless" Republicans who are "exactly what is necessary" because they are "unafraid to define Obama and the Democrats as they are and for who they are and what they're doing." [Premiere Radio Networks, The Rush Limbaugh Show, 3/6/13]
Limbaugh's Newsletter Promoted Cuccinelli's 2013 Book And Touted Him As A "Fearless" And "Courageous" Politician. The March 2013 Limbaugh Letter featured an interview with Cuccinelli in which Rush referred to him as "courageous" and "fearless." [March 2013 Limbaugh Letter, accessed 11/5/13 (subscription required)]
Conservative Radio Host Mark Levin Rallied For Cuccinelli: "I'll Be Damned If I'm Going To Watch Terry McAuliffe Be Governor." Radio host Mark Levin endorsed Cuccinelli at a September campaign event. From The Washington Examiner:
Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli embraced his Tea Party roots Tuesday winning the endorsement of top conservative radio host Mark Levin who charged that Democratic opponent Terry McAuliffe wants to turn Virginia into Maryland where taxes are higher and liberal Democrats are in control.
"This is my county, this is my state, and I'll be damned if I'm going to watch Terry McAuliffe be governor Virginia. If he wants to run for governor of Maryland I'll understand it. But this is Virginia and we have to draw a line somewhere in this country and we're drawing it right here in Virginia," said the conservative firebrand.
"Do you believe low taxes, individual liberty and family values are a radical, extremist point of view? You want to look like the state of Maryland? Well then damn it let's do something about it," he urged about 150 Cuccinelli backers at a suburban shopping mall campaign event in Sterling in eastern Loudoun County.
Where Maryland has endorsed a more liberal approach to government, recently expanding its taxes, Levin said Cuccinelli will preserve Virginia's conservative roots. "This is the place of George Washington, not Terry McAuliffe," said the author of the New York Times bestseller "The Liberty Amendments." [The Washington Examiner, 9/17/13]
- According to Cuccinelli's website, Levin was also featured at a "Get Out The Vote Rally" for Cuccinelli the weekend before the election. [Cuccinelli.com, accessed 11/5/13]
Fox News Commentator Erick Erickson Raised Money For Cuccinelli: "Ken Must Win. We Must Help." In an August post on RedState.com, Fox News contributor Erick Erickson announced that "We Must Support Ken Cuccinelli" and challenged his readers to raise $10,000 for Cuccinelli's campaign:
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is running for Governor of Virginia. He is not just opposed by the Democrats, but by big business Republicans who want a Governor who will give them the taxpayers' money for their purposes. Ken has been very clear -- he will not use government to pick winners and losers in business. Big business hates that.
Ken Cuccinelli is for Virginians, not major corporations wanting their tax dollars. He is also, unlike Terry McAullife, of Virginia through and through. We need to help him. He is going to be outspent and we need to even the odds. If he loses, the left and Republican Establishment will together assail conservatives.
Ken must win. We must help.
How fast can we raise him $10,000.00? Just how fast? In the past, it has taken RedState one day to that. Can we do it again? Throughout the day, can you help us? Can you have your friends help us?
Donate now to Ken Cuccinelli. He is RedState's pick for Governor of Virginia. He needs your help.Give what you can. Send your friends to actright.com/ken.
Can we raise Ken Cuccinelli $10,000.00 today? Can we go back to our roots, open our wallets, and help Ken Cuccinelli? Will you, on your own website, in your own emails, with your own friends, link to the donation site and help make this a team effort?
I stand with Ken. You should too. Let's help Virginia avoid Terry McAuliffe. [RedState.com, 8/7/13]
Conservative Radio Host Ingraham Tells Cuccinelli: "I Obviously Endorse Your Candidacy Full-Throatedly And Wholeheartedly." On the September 26 edition of The Laura Ingraham Show, conservative host Laura Ingraham told Cuccinelli that "I obviously endorse your candidacy full-throatedly and wholeheartedly," adding, "I really want you to be governor." [The Laura Ingraham Show, 9/26/2013]
Fox News Host Sean Hannity Praised "Awesome" Cuccinelli While Ann Coulter Floated Him As A Possible A Future Presidential Candidate. On his Fox News show Hannity, after conservative pundit Ann Coulter suggested Cuccinelli as a potential 2012 Republican vice presidential pick, Hannity declared, "Cuccinelli is awesome" and labeled him "a good choice." Coulter then suggested Cuccinelli and fellow Republican Marco Rubio should "both run for governor of the state and then run for president some day." From the program (emphasis added):
HANNITY: Here's the next question. VP is going to be a very important choice. You obviously were in love with Chris Christie, I don't know if you gave his the, quote, "Obama breathalyzer or his inhaler back." But I like Rubio of Florida because I just think he's a natural leader, I've seen him speak, he's extemporary and he is funny, inspiring, and smart.
COULTER: Yes. Very good.
HANNITY: OK. So, but I keep hearing the establishment pushing Rob Portman. Nice guy. Boring. You know? I like Bob McDonald a lot, he did a great job. I don't want them to make a bad decision here.
COULTER: I am pretty confident, for one thing I'm always wrong in choosing vice-presidents, so I have no insight into who it will be, except that I think Romney will make a good decision if -- if -- if I were advising him, I would say stay away from the untested ones, the young ones. I mean, I would take another one in addition to Marco Rubio, and another one I think that's a huge future as Ken Cuccinelli, the Attorney General.
HANNITY: Cuccinelli is awesome.
COULTER: He brought the first lawsuit.
HANNITY: He's a good choice.
COULTER: To overturn Obama-care. He's very smart. I think both of them are maybe a little too young now. I mean, I think they should both run for governor of the state and then run for president some day.
HANNITY: I don't think Christie, and look, if Obama can be president, they can be vice-president.
COULTER: Yes, but we are Republicans. We take the presidency.
HANNITY: You're a Republican. I'm a registered conservative in New York. You may be a registered -- I'm a registered conservative. [Fox News, Hannity, 4/25/12, via Nexis]
Civil War: Cuccinelli Backers Have Already Started Lashing Out At "RINOs," Karl Rove For Not Supporting The Campaign
Levin Attacked "RINOs" That "Want A Terry McAuliffe Victory" And "GOP Bag Man Karl Rove" For Not Backing Cuccinelli On Fox. The day before the election, on the November 4 edition of The Mark Levin Show, host Mark Levin read a Facebook post he had written, arguing that "the RINOs want a Terry McAuliffe victory in Virginia," and that "GOP bag man, Karl Rove, is all over Fox without a word of support for Cuccinelli, while he schemes and whispers behind the scenes against conservatives nationwide." He added that "recent polls show Cuccinelli closing. This makes the Left and RINOs very nervous." [The Mark Levin Show, 11/4/13]
Levin Tells Followers The "RNC Is Trying To Punk Us" By Planting "Crap" At RedState.com To Pretend "They Have Been Vigorously Fighting For Cuccinelli's Campaign." In a November 5 Facebook post, Levin accused the RNC of planting a post at Erick Erickson's RedState website in order to convince people that it had been actively fighting for Cuccinelli:
Now RNC trying to punk us.
Look at this planted RNC crap. This is intended to persuade you that the RNC has been vigorously fighting for Cuccinelli's campaign in Virginia. They think you're so stupid that you'll buy this self-serving BS. Instead, it exposes their uselessness and deceit.
http://www.redstate.com/mvespa/2013/11/04/actually-the-rnc-invested-heavily-in-cuccinellis-campaign/ [Facebook, accessed 11/5/13]
The American Spectator's Jeffrey Lord Endorses Levin's Charge That "RINOs and Rove" Wanted A McAuliffe Win. In a November 4 post at The American Spectator, Jeffrey Lord reprinted Levin's Facebook rant, explaining that Levin has "done a superb job" of laying out why "The RINO wing of the GOP -- and Karl Rove specifically -- do not want a Ken Cuccinnelli victory in Virginia." [The American Spectator, 11/4/13]
Erickson: "Many People In The GOP Want Cuccinelli To Lose." In an October post on RedState.com, Fox News contributor Erick Erickson said he was "deeply disappointed in a bunch of Republicans who've decided to throw [Cuccinelli] under the bus," adding that "many people in the GOP want Cuccinelli to lose." [Redstate.com, 10/30/2013]
Limbaugh: "The Republican Establishment Would Not Mind If Cuccinelli Lost." On the November 4 edition of The Rush Limbaugh Show, host Rush Limbaugh told his audience that "the theory is that the Republican establishment wouldn't mind Cuccinelli losing" because "they get to blame the tea party." [Premiere Radio Networks, The Rush Limbaugh Show, 11/4/13]
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Longtime Wayland supporter, former professor dies
Dr. Dorothy McCoy, who spent 26 years teaching mathematics at Wayland Baptist University and retired as Distinguished Professor Emeritus, died Wednesday morning, Nov. 21. She was in her late 90s.
A graveside service is planned for 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 23, in Plainview Memorial Park. A memorial service will be held Tuesday, Nov. 27 at 3 p.m. in the chapel at First Baptist Church in Plainview.
For those who learned under her, McCoy is remembered as a professor who took her subject and the academic progress of her students seriously. She is also remembered for her dedication and support of the university long after she retired in 1975.
McCoy came to Wayland in 1949 from Belhaven College in Mississippi, then one of few women to hold the doctorate degree. From then on, she poured her love of learning and teaching into her students and dedicated herself to their growth and success.
"Whatever I did, I wanted it to be connected with students," she said in an interview earlier this year.
Wayland honored McCoy on Sept. 27 by dedicating an honors dormitory in her name in a renovated facility at 7th and Borger Streets, just a few blocks from the campus.
"She's one of those people who is the real cornerstone of a place," said Dr. Bill Hardage, vice chancellor at Wayland who was a student here during McCoy's teaching days. "She's done so much for so many, and we just wanted to honor her for all she's done." After retiring, McCoy spent six months in Malawi, Africa, teaching missionary children. After a year back in Plainview, she traveled to Indonesia to work at a school for missionary children for three months. That love of missions eventually bloomed into a mission interest group she started with a local missionary who was home on furlough. The group met in her home before finding its permanent location at First Baptist Church. She continued to coordinates publicity and speakers for the event until her death.
McCoy received the Distinguished Lifetime Service Award in 1999 from the Association of Former Students. She also had a bust created by former WBU art teacher Bob Dunaway presented to her at a Board of Trustees meeting in March 2000. The bust is on display in the Mabee Learning Resources Center, near the Abraham Art Gallery.


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Research Highlights
August 2009
Studying Bond Formation Between Ions and Surfaces Gets Easier
Scientists develop new method, complete successful demo, obtain surprising results
Scientists can now determine if ions form the desired bonds to a surface, thanks to a modified ion soft landing instrument. The schematic shows (1) ion funnel, (2) collisional quadrupole, (3) mass filter, (4) and (5) two lenses, (6) surface, (7) linear motion feedthrough for positioning of the surface, (8) flat mirror, (9) and (12) parabolic mirrors, (10) MIR wire grid polarizer, (11) viewports. Enlarge Image
Results: For the first time, researchers can determine if large molecules and other charged particles that softly land on a surface form the desired bonds, thanks to a new approach built by a team at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. This method relies on in situ reflection-absorption spectroscopy to monitor the formation of a chemical bond between the ion and the surface.
Using this new approach, Dr. Julia Laskin and her colleagues made a startling discovery about the efficiency of bond formation between the ion and the surface. Using diamine, a linear molecule with nitrogen atoms at each end, as a model ion, they found that nearly every ion that hit the surface bonded to it.
"This is a very surprising result," said Laskin. "It absolutely threw us off."
Why it matters: In designing specialized sensors and other technologies, scientists want to prepare customized layers of molecules on specific surfaces. To build these layered materials, scientists must first understand the reactions involved. This new tool provides vital insights on the reactivity between ions and surfaces. Using it, scientists can study bond formation and the impact of the surface on the secondary structure and orientation of large molecules that land on it.
Methods: To study bond formation between ions and reactive surfaces, researchers previously had to expose surfaces to a beam of mass selected ions, then take the substrate outside the vacuum system and perform the analysis. But, as a general rule, researchers prefer to study reactions as they happen as exposure of surfaces to laboratory air can alter the structure of deposited molecules and introduce artifacts.
The researchers selected for their experiments a long chain-like molecule, with 12 carbon atoms in the middle and an amine group on each end. Ions of this molecule were selected using a mass filter and were sent to react with a carbon-based surface by forming an amide bond. This bond involves a carbonyl group (C=O) on the substrate and an amine group (NH2) of the ion each shedding off other atoms and bonding together. Surprisingly, the researchers found that nearly every molecule that hit the surface bonded. "We are thrilled by this finding and will explore the formation of other types of covalent bonds between ions and surfaces in our future studies", said Dr. Qichi Hu, a postdoctoral fellow working on this project.
In the past, studying bond formation between small proteins or peptides and surfaces using infrared spectrometry was difficult because the signals indicating the formation of a new amide bond between the surface and the protein were buried under strong infrared bands of the protein itself.
Now, scientists can study the reactions as they occur. The new approach allows researchers to unambiguously prove that bond formation indeed takes place and quantify the amount of amide bonds formed.
However, initial bond formation just one part of a bigger picture. Researchers can also study how the surface affects the material that land on it. For example, placing a large molecule that is happy in water on a surface that repels water will cause the molecule to reorganize. Because the conformation of a large molecules determines its function, understanding this phenomenon is essential for designing nanomaterials with controlled properties. This new technique will help answer questions about how such rearrangements occur.
The researchers developed this new approach in the Department of Energy's EMSL, a national scientific user facility at PNNL. Working in this facility allowed the team to combine different instruments and techniques to create the tool they needed.
What's next: In the future studies, the scientists will examine the effect of the substrate on the orientation and conformation of soft-landed peptides and proteins. In addition, they are continuing their work to understand the interactions between molecules and surfaces to arrive at the time when understanding leads to controlled preparation of functional materials.
Further, with this new method available at EMSL, scientists from around the world have another tool in their arsenal to study bond formation. Already, a scientist from the University of Arizona, through EMSL's rapid access program, is using the approach for his studies.
Acknowledgments: The work was done by Dr. Qichi Hu, Dr. Peng Wang, Paul Gassman, and Dr. Julia Laskin of PNNL. Dr. Wang was a postdoctoral fellow working on this research and has since finished her assignment at PNNL. The research was done in DOE's EMSL, a national scientific user facility at PNNL.
Sponsor: DOE's Office of Basic Energy Sciences funded this work.
Reference: Hu Q, P Wang, PL Gassman, and J Laskin. 2009. "In Situ Studies of Soft- and Reactive Landing of Mass-Selected Ions Using Infrared Reflection Absorption Spectroscopy." Analytical Chemistry. 81:7302-7308. DOI: 10.1021/ac901149s.


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In search of the perfect bagel . . . in Montreal
It started out innocently enough, as most obsessions do. At the Mile End Deli in Brooklyn, N.Y. — voted best deli in the world by New York magazine — we encountered a bagel that knocked our socks off. It was light, chewy — perfect in every way. And it was from Montreal.
Seriously. Mile End owner Noah Bernamoff had trucked these magnificent bagels all the way from Canada to sell in his deli. We took a bag home to Boston — these were some well-traveled orbs of dough — and devoured them far too quickly. Then it hit us: If these bagels tasted that good after all those miles, imagine how they'd taste warm, right out of the oven?
And so it was that we found ourselves driving five hours, and walking around Montreal for several more hours, battling Canada-frigid weather, in search of the perfect Montreal bagel.
We checked into our hotel and parked the car, figuring we'd make our bagel pilgrimage on foot to soak up the city scene along with the calories. Our first stops would be bagel bakeries that stayed open 24/7, so no worries about beating the clock. "Oh, it's too far to walk, but it's an easy trip on the Metro," the hotel's desk clerk chirped, handing us a subway map and circling our destination.
The Metro was easy enough, but when we disembarked, it was dark, and we didn't know where to go next. The GPS was no help — it thought we were driving and kept us walking around in circles to navigate the one-way streets.
The pastry gods were with us, though, and we eventually reached the Mile End district. Now a hotbed of indie music and cultural diversity, the neighborhood is also bagel central, thanks to a community of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who brought their bagel-baking traditions with them when they arrived before and after World War II. Two of those original shops are still going strong, Fairmount and St-Viateur.
Even though Fairmount Bagel (74 Fairmount St. West, 514-272-0667, www.fairmountbagel.com) is a hole-in-the-wall, it's a prime space for watching bagel-making. While you wait for your order, you can watch as they pound a giant slab of dough into submission, slice off strips, hand-roll them into circles, and then proof (boil) them in honey-enhanced water. Then the bagels are baked in a wood-fired oven, pulled out on a wooden paddle, and tossed into a giant bin. Of course, you won't have time to take this all in; the bin-to-bag process takes just a couple of minutes.
There's only counter service, so most people get an order to go, but few can resist pulling out a crusty chunk to nibble while it's still warm. We got a sesame bagel with cream cheese, and it was as delicious as we'd anticipated: slightly sweet, light but eggy, and with a bigger hole than its New York counterparts. (New York bagels, for the record, are boiled in water minus the honey, and baked in an electric oven, not cooked over hardwood.)
Fairmount's claims to fame: "Montreal's first bagel bakery," opened in in 1919, and in 1949 at this location, and "the first bagel in space." "These are the best bagels in Montreal. Absolutely positively," a woman in line said — but she was still kind enough to give us directions to St-Viateur, the next stop on our tour de bagel. After dropping about $3.40 at the Fairmount (bagels are a cheap obsession), we walked the few blocks to La Maison du Bagel (a.k.a. St-Viateur Bagel, 263 St-Viateur West, 514-276-8044, www.stviateurbagel.com).
"First time?" the young woman at the counter inquired, as we studied the list of bagel options. "Just try this," she said, thrusting a sesame bagel toward us. "We're famous for our sesame bagels." We soon learned that, while Montreal's bagel shops offer many flavors, including chocolate and "all dressed" (everything), there's only one variety that counts: sesame. (Poppy seed is a close second.) To order anything else is to brand one's self a clueless rube. St-Viateur Bagel, open since 1957, has counter service only (too bad, because we'd walked more than an hour), but we were on a mission, so we gobbled a couple more toasty, straight-from-the-brick-oven bagels — one sesame and one all dressed. The sesame one was wonderful, but the all-dressed version was kind of blah. They don't put salt on these the way they do at home, and we missed it — all that onion and garlic is super strong-tasting without a hit of salt. No salt is used in making Montreal bagels, in fact.
Bageled out for the moment, we trudged back to the Metro. Of course, the post-clubbing Saturday night crowds hadn't shown up yet; it was still pre-midnight. A bagel shop is a popular last stop after a night of revelry here — one dough ringlet soaks up a lot of alcohol.
Come Sunday morning, we couldn't wait to hit the bagel trail. Schwartz's Deli seemed like a classic option, but then we heard they had new owners, including Céline Dion. We gave it a pass.
Outside, we encountered something that should've come as no surprise: a freezing winter day. Locals were bundled in no-nonsense Sorel boots and puffer coats, with hats, hoods, and scarves pulled up to their eyeballs. Those Canada Goose-brand jackets, supposedly the warmest winter coats in the world, and very pricey, were out in force. We ran back inside and put on virtually every piece of clothing we had with us, including long johns. No biggie, though: Google maps said our entire bagel-lined route would take 40 minutes.
Indeed. An hour later we were still searching for Faubourg Bagel Place in weather that included crunchy pellets of snow. We eventually made it to 1616 rue St-Catherine West and . . . what a disappointment. The shop was set inside an indoor food court with a cement floor, with a sign that was missing letters (_a_el_uFaubourg.) There was no line. We ordered a bagel, and it was OK, but if you want the total bagel experience, this is not the place.
We had high hopes for Beautys Luncheonette (93 avenue du Mont-Royal, 514-849-8883, www.beautys.ca) in a neighborhood that was once the heart of the city's Jewish garment district. Walking into the biting wind, we were starting to question our sanity when we reached the circa 1942 diner, where long lines were spilling outside the door. Owner Hymie Sckolnick came out to survey the line and usher lucky folks inside, just as he's been doing for 71 years.
We eagerly agreed to a table at the counter and it turned out to be a good move: It was the perfect vantage point to watch cooks turn out the famous Beautys Special — the one we came for — a sesame bagel from St-Viateur, with cream cheese, smoked salmon, tomato, and red onion ($10). Maybe it was the lively vibe, maybe it was the long walk, or maybe it was the fact that we found a bagel place with actual seats, but we adored Beautys. "Come again! You're welcome!" Sckolnick said as we left.
Wearing our fat pants, we headed back to Boston the next day, satisfied that we'd sampled at least a few of Montreal's best bagels. Of course, we had to make one more stop: at St-Viateur's sit-down cafe at 1127 Mont-Royal East. Call it research, call it carb overloading, but we couldn't leave without a bag of bagels for the road.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 118 diseños de 31 diseñadores freelance.
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Polaris is a very small consulting business specializing the implementation and configuration of enterprise asset management (EAM) and computerized maintenance management (CMMS) software. We deliver both technology and business/functional solutions for our customers.
We specialize in heavy asset and process-based industries such as power utilities and refining/chemical companies. Our biggest percentage of clients are the power/utility business. This tends to be our area of expertise and focus. While we definitely weigh in on the technology side of the business, the majority of our interaction is with individuals working in operations and/or maintenance departments.
Our requirements are fairly open. We are looking for a graphic with 2-3 colors that has some visual impact and can provide a brand/identity imprint on clients. Our current logo includes our full name and is based upon the concept of Polaris as the North Star. This is not a requirement in the chosen new design but it would be very nice to maintain that theme. What we really are trying to achieve is something with a more contemporary and professional feel. I have attached the current logo for reference. I do NOT want to have a logo that uses company initials, such as PSI.
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A story about my first Home purchase…
My first home, was 4 houses ago, in Austin Texas; when I had just acquired my Texas real estate license. My parents' rode the California real estate wave, and gained financial stability because of real estate. So in 2003, clutching a business degree, and everything I owned in a Chevy Tahoe; I moved to the city in which I predicted was going to be the next California type real estate wave… AUSTIN TX. I can't say enough good things about this city, so I won't start; but let's just say I'm always going to own a piece of this city! Fresh out of college, with optimistic hopes, and not much money; I knew I wanted to invest in real estate, just like my parents had. I initially earned my REALTOR stamp because I wanted a better education and the benefit of collecting commissions from my own deals, turns out I'm a REALTOR, not just an investor.
My friend Jesse and I, bid on a HUD foreclosure, back when they were less popular and you could get a great deal. We put in an electronic bid for 106,000.00$ and we were worried we bid to low. The house location was in Austin Texas, off Anderson Mill rd and 183, below the water tower, with the 183 Hooters neon orange sign viewable from its' backyard. I don't know why we felt so strongly about this house, but we loved the mature neighborhood, and the 1974, 4 bedroom, 2 bath, 1600 sq.ft., corner house on NewBerry Dr, which needed some TLC and new appliances.
Turns out we overbid the property by 6,400.00$ past the 2nd highest bid. Technically it was my third deal as a licensed real estate agent, and my first HUD foreclosure experience. I know now, there were some investors in that bidding pool laughing at me then, but we had already imagined the backyard parties and went forward with our over-bid on NewBerry Dr. 😀
My Dad was always remodeling our home growing up; so between my friend, who was a natural mechanic, and I; we decided to save the 250$ for a licensed house inspector, and knock out the inspection ourselves. We were pretty sure going into closing our construction budget for the planned updating was on point, and nothing major came up in our inspection. 😉 So we closed on our … "MY first home". Closing day was probably one of the most exciting days in my life. I still clearly remember that afternoon, like this big, sunny, surreal moment in my life. Leaving the title company that afternoon it didn't hit me till I got back to my post college apartment and plopped on the couch. I just bought a house. I'm a home owner… I own Austin Texas real estate! I just bought my first house!! I got in my car and went straight to NewBerry Dr, rush hour had no affect on my high. I called my business buddy (future roommate) to see where he was at. No surprise, he was already on his way there.
Now let's fast forward a few weeks through some remodeling, some drinking which auto-cancelled work on the weekends, some light arguing about who was suppose to do what in the remodel, a credit card maxed out thanks to our not so realistic construction bid… Add on the discovery of soggy grass, which turned out to be a broken septic tank, a small overlook on electrical standards with aluminum wiring, termite issue, slow draining foundation-buried pipes, and one of our large trees was really dead… it wasn't just a seasonal thing… There was definitely some good bonding time and some great construction lessons that came out of it. If you do not remodel on a regular basis, just know that carpenters are skilled craftsmen, and any construction work you do for the 1st time, will take you a long time because of the initial learning curve and not having all the right tools. Summing up, we incurred a 6,400.00$ loss from the initial bid, our construction costs came up to 17,500.00$. This is 10,000.00 over our initial estimate and planned spending was only suppose to be 7,500.00$ 🙁 (to our credit we did upgrade to hard wood floors, a great decision).
You would be amazed in the amount of things you uncover or just absolutely have to upgrade, when you start updating parts of your house. You keep telling yourself that you will get the money you're spending on remodeling, returned + interest, when you sell. A couple backyard parties, just like I had pictured, ownership of a cool place and a conversation piece… I was not paying rent, I received tax breaks, my credit score improved; I had an appreciating property in Austin. We were not sitting on that much equity, but we did raise the value of the house slightly pass what we spent in remodeling, and made a good name with the neighbors. Life was moving forward for me… and I was officially a home owner.
My reflective truth today, is I underestimated lots of costs in my first real estate transaction. My current self would have liked to reach through a time portal and shake some sense into my 23 year old self. It's a nice story of two rookie real estate agents, trying to take on their first investment; but my first house could have been a much better investment, if I had accepted advice from a veteran REALTOR. I assumed that the "foreclosure" label meant you are getting a great deal. When really, that's all it is, 'foreclosure" is just a label given to property which has been foreclosed by a bank. The price you get that property, vs. what it's really worth is your walking-in equity, and probably the most important initial factor in making a real estate transaction a 'great deal'.
IF someone could have been there to help me understand the levels of sliding value which are hidden in a house through its construction make up. If someone would have told me there are ways to escape the contract and re bid on the foreclosure even lower. If someone would have told me to just hire an experienced, licensed inspector (unless you build houses for a living, you should always hire an inspector); or let me know when I went to sell, that the buyer most likely will hire a licensed inspector, and problems will be discovered anyways; or that it's typical to have the seller get the septic tank pumped and inspected before closing. If someone would have given me better deferred maintenance advice, better lender choosing advice, better construction estimating advice; better building code advice, better dead tree and soggy grass advice, better neighborhoods to invest in… advice. If someone would have warned me that inexperienced buyers frequently underestimate time and money spent on labor, money spent on random trips to Lowes, the fact that becoming the remodeler, meant missing almost a month from my day job, which nearly lost all my sales momentum with my Real Estate Brokerage, Century 21. Lots of "ifs" would have been eliminated… IF I had used an agent with real estate investing experiences, who knew the market better than I did. I absolutely would have made a much larger profit when I sold in 2005. That I do know.
A home buyer is not saving money going home shopping with your "smart friends", with a rookie real estate agent, or Uncle Bob, the part time family REALTOR. Instead you are opening the door wide open to mistakes. When was the last time you signed paperwork having to do with a couple 100,000.00 DOLLARS involved? Big money means big financial swings; wouldn't you want to put yourself in the best position for an upswing? It is highly important to use the services of a real estate professional. Seller's sign listing agreements with selling agents, which in turn, offer part of that commission to the buyer's agent. When you sell your house, you are in a negotiating position with a REALTOR, not when you are buying. I go beyond most agents, and tell you upfront that I will rebate a portion of the buyer's commission I receive, back to you, improving your investment even more. You gain the full confidence in using a licensed real estate investor to help you find the best investment home for you, and our services are always taken care of by the seller. Using a professional when hundreds of thousands are being negotiated and mortgaged should just make sense.
I sold the NewBerry house easily, for 134,000.00$ in 2005, a year and a half after buying it. Not any type of profit to brag about, but a ton of first time home buying lessons. Fortunately I had the energy to make the right remodeling moves and as usual Austin carried my house's value with friendly real estate appreciation rates. The lesson here is: Utilize the right help when you are making any type of large investment. There are tons of valuable points, and realistic market knowledge, which the right real estate agent will bring to the transaction. A buyer's agent prescreens houses, has access to all types of properties available, qualifies the property and seller with your mortgage type, navigates through all the numbers, has the appropriate industry connections, calculates true value, and handles all the correct contracts/disclosures. When buying real estate you should always use a buyer's agent. That's the best initial home buying advice I can give.
The United State's housing market crashed in late 2007 and lingered around till summer of 2010, thanks to unrealistic subprime lending practices, and the natural cycle of our financial economy. Real Estate has been turning around in 2011, some U.S. cities are still double dipping negatively, but in general we are stabilized and moving up. Mortgage rates are currently at an all time low (April 2011), and in areas like Austin TX, we are starting to move in a positive direction. Owning real estate in Central Texas is a great investment assuming you receive the correct advice. Now is the time to buy in central Texas and first time home buyers are still my favorite type of client. Don't forget I offer commission rebates, I keep up with the changing government incentives for first time home buyers, and I'll make sure you are making a smart investment. Send me an email when you are ready to join us at the owner's table. 🙂
-Story by Mike Dee, Broker
The Construction and Real Estate business mix just makes sense to me. I can look at shelter from a general contractor's point of view and a real estate agent's. When you are ready to move from a lease, to a sound investment, and an attractive house, call the agent you have the most confidence in. Thanks for reading.