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When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore spacesuits crafted by seamstresses taken from the assembly-line of Playtex, maker of bras and girdles: This book is the story of that suit.
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Nicholas de Monchaux is an architect and urbanist whose work concerns the nature of cities. He is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at UC Berkeley, and has worked as with Michael Hopkins & Partners in London, and Diller + Scofidio in New York.
de Monchaux's design work and criticism have been published in Architectural Design, Log, the New York Times, and The New York Times Magazine. His parametric study of ecologically transformed "gutterspace," Local Code/Real Estates, was a finalist in the WPA 2.0 Competition in 2009 and was featured at the 2010 Biennial of the Americas.
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The most delightful and memorable new book I read last year...
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[a] wonderful material history...
Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo
is now the definitive investigation of this terrain.
... thoroughly researched and a joy to read.
The density of ideas and connections is intoxicating. De Monchaux swings masterfully between subjects, teasing out unexpected connections and spotting the seeds of contemporary life that were planted by the space race.
... a broad and creative appraisal of [the] suit's many contexts, encouraging readers to consider technology as design, shaped by the circumstances of its time, unfailingly and elegantly layered and crafted to serve a purpose.
"Woven, as befits its topic, with multiple and colored threads borrowed from an astounding variety of fields and domains--technology, politics, media, and fashion design, to name only a few--this path-breaking book provides an innovative reading of the space race. Above all, it illuminates the relevance of this race for designers from yesterday and today."
Antoine Picon, G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology, Harvard Graduate School of Design
"A layered tour through the interwoven histories of spaceflight and its clothing, rethinking the body's technologies in the cybernetic era. The first sartorial history of spaceflight!"
David Mindell, Director, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT, and author, _Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight_
"This surely is one of the most deeply researched books on design ever written. de Monchaux follows the history of--among other things--fashion, space travel, politics, and architecture to demonstrate an astonishing relationship between what the Apollo astronauts wore and the design of the built environment."
Ralph Caplan, author of _By Design: Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV and Other Object Lessons_, and and 2010 recipient of the Smithsonian's "Design Mind" National Design Award
"A veritable fantastic voyage! Not only along the intricate, infinite and incredible journey that it turns out links brassiere to stratosphere but deep inside the nebulous ether that allows architecture and fashion to form the miasma of contemporary life..."
Sylvia Lavin, Director of Critical Studies and MA/PhD Programs, UCLArchitecture
"Nicholas de Monchaux offers in this remarkable book a far-reaching and broad-based analysis of the spacesuit, interpreting it as far more than a functional garment protecting astronauts but also as an artifact at the nexus of society, science, and spacefaring..."
Roger Launius, Senior Curator, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
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foreword by elizabeth diller
...Within this multilayered history, we are not afforded distinctions between absolutes, rather the confusion and elimination of them. Within the controlled environment of the space race, the body proves to be an uncontrolled variable, precisely out of control. Our bodies, and the larger ecology, are much less controllable than our ideas of them. Technology, traditionally a tool for ordering the world, inevitably is unable to dominate nature. What is left after we understand this failure?...
1. Introduction
On July 20, 1969, the bodies of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were protected from a lunar vacuum by only twenty-one layers of fabric, each with a distinct yet interrelated function, custom-sewn for them by seamstresses whose usual work was fashioning bras and girdles. This book is the story of those spacesuits. It is a story of the triumph over the military-industrial complex by the International Latex Corporation, best known by its consumer brand of "Playtex"—a victory of elegant softness over engineered hardness, of adaptation over cybernetics.
tells the story of the twenty-one-layer spacesuit in twenty-one chapters addressing twenty-one topics relevant to the suit, the body, and the technology of the twentieth century. The book touches, among other things, on eighteenth-century androids, Christian Dior's New Look, Atlas missiles, cybernetics and cyborgs, latex, JFK's carefully cultivated image, the CBS lunar broadcast soundstage, NASA's Mission Control, and the applications of Apollo-style engineering to city planning. Through it all, the twenty-one-layer spacesuit offers an object lesson. It tells us about redundancy and interdependence and about the distinctions between natural and man-made complexity; it teaches us to know the virtues of adaptation and to see the future as a set of possibilities rather than a scripted scenario.
2. Definition of Space
After the introduction, the first subsequent layer involves the discovery—both intellectually and physically—of "space" as an environment hostile to man. Occurring in the late eighteenth century, discoveries of mankind's limitations were tied together with an interest in man's own inner workings, projected to be as machine-like as the clockwork automata that provided a parallel fascination to early aviation. Space became defined, crucially, as the environment we need technology to enter, and survive.
3. The New Look
From this backward glance, the next layer serves as a "new look" at the postwar twentieth century. Christian Dior's fashion innovations of 1947 are used to explore a variety of themes that will be referenced throughout the book: the lessons learned by postwar business from the war effort, the focus on surface culture and the fashion cycle as engineered by a postwar consumer economy, and the onsets of new materials and techniques in the manufacture of daily life.
4. the new look in defense planning
From the world of couture, the phrase "new look" became shorthand for a range of postwar transformations, not least the changes wrought by President Dwight Eisenhower in the management of postwar defense. Abandoning the standing army, Eisenhower committed the nation to a "New Look in Defense Planning," which emphasized nuclear technology and close collaboration between the military, industry, and academia. We are all too familiar with the legacy of this "military-industrial complex," but attention here is given to its particular institutional origins in the Atlas missile program, and the establishment therein of the standards of systems engineering and management that would serve as the institutional infrastructure of the entire Cold War space race.
5. Flight and suits
From the human origins of space-age management, we turn to the humble origins of human protection against altitude, and the birth of the latex pressure suit in the barnstorming aviation culture of the interwar years. Although associated from their origin with futuristic visions, these first high-altitude "space suits" were less technocratic achievements than feats of adaptation. In 1934 such a hand-formed "tire shaped like a man" brought aviator Wiley Post to the limits of the stratosphere.
6. Cyborg
While primitive suits inspired by Post's were investigated by the armed forces after World War II, more synthetic notions of man in space gained credence. Notable was the neologism "cyborg," a man-machine hybrid proposed by Nathan Kline and Manfred Clynes. Clynes, a mathematician and analog computer expert, and Kline, a psychopharmacologist, proposed that instead of carrying an earthlike environment with him, the biochemistry and homeostatic functioning of man should itself be adapted for space travel. Grounded in the same theories of cybernetic control that shaped parallel advances in systems management, the cyborg concept for space exploration was studied intensively before its eventual abandonment in 1966.
7. Flight Suit to Space Suit
Soon came the launch of Sputnik. With the Soviet achievement, the United States accelerated its space efforts, borrowing missiles and management systems from the armed services and hastily adapting high-altitude flight suits to serve in space. In pressure suit design, military green was (literally) sprayed silver, as the iconography of science fiction shaped space flight's swiftly constructed facade.
8. Man in space
Yuri Gagarin's 1961 spaceflight catalyzed that battlefield of the Cold War known as the space race, the establishing of missile superiority through the launch of man. However, the Soviet bureaucracy that had enabled the feat suppressed vital facts of the flight, including the fact that Gagarin landed only in his spacesuit, parachuting from the unstable Vostok capsule high above the earth. The particular history of spacesuits in the Soviet context is an essential and incongruous contrast to the American epic.
9. Bras and the Battlefield
Anticipating the space age, the International Latex Corporation (ILC), known by its consumer brand "Playtex," conducted basic research on adapting its latex expertise to pressurized suits. Initially ignored, its research gained it center stage in Apollo suit manufacture after startling advances in mobility and comfort.
In the moment of national commitment to Apollo, the artist Richard Hamilton depicted John F. Kennedy in a spacesuit, essentializing his central role in the space race, as well as his mastery of fashion and image. The image reveals an essential truth: Kennedy's pivotal decision to fund NASA's lunar effort, and to give it the urgency that shaped Apollo's realities, can be ascribed as much to the private frailties of his own body as to the oft-photographed facade it inspired.
11. Contractual Physiology
Instead of physiologically adapting man for space (as the cyborg model proposed), the groundbreaking research of the space age was into the real, and modest, limitations of the unaltered human body. After literally exhaustive tests, these limits were incorporated into NASA's design systems just as readily as booster thrust or orbital apogees.
12. Simulation
While the resulting landing on the moon shaped the visual language of our century, a greater influence arguably belongs to the virtual landscapes first crafted by NASA to allow the extensive simulation and training of lunar landings on the tight Apollo schedule. The race to the moon was a massive exercise in parallel real and simulated realities, from necessary advances in computing technology to the huge twin control rooms in Houston that alternately held real and virtual missions.
13. The Moon Suit plays football
In the midst of Apollo's tense timetable, ILC was fired. In the spring of 1965, many NASA engi-neers, as well as top administrators, favored the military-industrial expertise of the influential Hamilton Standard/United Aircraft Conglomerate, with which ILC had initially been partnered. However, a resulting three-week competition proved the Playtex suit not only better than its military-industrial competitors, but the only suit that could reliably preserve, and extend, human abilities on the moon.
14. Handmade
ILC's subsequent effort was one of adaptation, both physical and organizational. Handmade assemblages of fabric, latex, and nylon were hand-sewn to minute tolerances, and custom-fitted to each astronaut. Indeed, the production of the suits met both physical and institutional barriers within the military-industrial complex, from X-ray scans to uncover errant pins, to a spirited debate on whether and how clothing sizes, as opposed to serial numbers, could be used to describe variations in individual suits.
15. Hard Suit 1
After 1965, the most serious competitor to the ILC suit for later lunar missions was a hard, one-piece suit manufactured by the stratospherically successful (if ultimately disgraced) corporate conglomerate Litton Industries. Even as they failed to meet the standards for lunar use, the streamlined suits were staged by NASA as the future of space travel through the 1970s.
16. "We've got a signal"
As the lunar landing was a media event, so was it a feat of broadcast technology—particularly at the most-viewed American news source, CBS. Designed at the same time as Kubrick's 2001 (and by the same set designer, Douglas Turnbull), the CBS lunar broadcast soundstage incorporated more simulations, asynchronous sequences, and other trappings of modern broadcasts than any other television event of its time. As well as a cultural touchstone, it was the foundation for our contemporary, 24-hour news cycle.
17. Hard Suit 2
Sharing the sleek geometries of CBS's soundstage, the alternative suits most beloved of design historians are the AX series of experimental suits developed by NASA's Ames Research Center. The suits provide important clues to the culture, and contours, that form the most seductive face of the space age.
18. Control Space
The visual seduction of space systems leads to another vision of control, provided by the Mission Control Room itself. With its implications and mythologies, the multiscreen environments of Houston offer important clues into the architecture of our own mediated milieu.
19. Cities and Cyborgs
These lessons regarding the body in space could be extended to larger architectural contexts through a system of analogy alone. Yet important historical links exist as well. Systems engineers and policymakers of the late 1960s sought to literally apply the lessons of Apollo to the pressing problems of cities. In these efforts they followed not the soft surface of spacesuits, but rather what they understood as the hard truths of systems engineering. And so, as with the cyborg, the subsequent failure of these efforts was as systematic as it was superficial.
20. 21 Layers
A vital part of the 21-layered story of the A7L is provided by the idea of layering itself, and the related strategies of redundancy and interdependence. These qualities, shared by the chemical and physical reality of the A7L's 21 layers, also turn out to be essential concepts in examining the vital distinctions between natural and manmade complexity, and the qualities of robustness and fragility that define and separate them.
21. Conclusion
As we face the necessity of transforming our own relationship to our only enduring spaceship--the earth--the lessons of the Apollo spacesuit are particularly essential. As the impact of human civilization on our robust yet fragile planet becomes ever more apparent, we must resist the seeming simplicity of the systems solution (as in recent proposals to "solve" global warming through systematic and global geoengineering"). Much as the ILC A7L created a suitable space for man in the extreme landscape of the moon, so we must carefully—if sometimes radically—fashion a space for ourselves on earth.


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|Uri Henis, Jerusalem
Uri Henis was born in Sassow, in Eastern Galicia, in 1899 and died in Jerusalem in December of 1966. He studied in the Beit Midrash of the Rabbi of Sassow, then in the Gymnasia and University in Cracov. He became active in Zionist affairs, and involved in founding He'chalutz and also Ha'shomer in Western Galicia. He married Mina, daughter of Israel Nathan Bruckenstein, and in 1924 they emigrated to Eretz Yisrael (first Oleh from Sassow), where they had two sons, Dov and Yig'al. After a few first painful meager years in Yafo and in Tel-Aviv he became an accountant, then a government official in Jerusalem, in the Finance Ministry. As a true Sassow scholar-learner, for years he used to say lessons and learn in his Jerusalem community synagogue's Bet-Midrash.
T'mimei Derech was published in 1959.
|Henis Avrahamtche family, Sassow 1939
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Admor- our lord, teacher, and Rabbi; title of a Hasidic rabbi.
Ayin Yafakov- Well of Jacob; a collection of legends of the Talmud, by the Turkish Jew Jacob ibn Habib.
Ba'al bayit- lit. master/owner of house; householder.
Beit Midrash- House of Learning.
Cheder- school where small children are taught reading and prayers.
Goy- nation; a non-Jew, or a non-observant Jew.
Goy-Shabat- non-Jew who does work forbidden for Jews on Sabbath.
Kapota- long coat.
Kit'l- special white robe worn by pious Jews, esp. the rabbi, cantor, and blower of the shofar, and on Yom Kippur; the leader of the Pesach seder wears it and some are buried in it.
Ma'ariv- evening prayer service, usually after sunset.
Maggid- Sayer.
Maskila- learned, enlightened; from Haskala = Enlightenment.
Melamed- teacher.
Mincha- afternoon prayer, usually before sunset.
Minyan- ten men mandatory for community religious services.
Mishna, Mishnayot (pl)- collection of the oral law.
Mitzva- divine commandment; good deed.
Mumche- expert, highly skilled person.
Naches- satisfaction, usually of parents or grandparents, through children.
Rabbi- teacher, my teacher; Rev, Rav, may mean simply 'mister'.
Rebetze, Rabbanit- Rabbi's wife.
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Sheketz, Shkatz- a non-Jew.
Sh'ma- Sh'ma Israel, Adonai Elohenu, Adonai Echad
Hear, 0 Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.
(Deut 6:4)
Shtreiml- fur-edged hat worn by rabbis and Hasidim on Sabbaths and holidays.
Talit k'tana- small four-corner fringed shawl worn under outer clothes by devout Jews.
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Ausubel, Nathan, Pictorial History of the Jewish People. New York, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1953.
Buber, Martin, For the Sake of Heaven. Philadelphia Jewish Publication Society of America, 1958.
Buber, Martin, Hasidism and Modern Man. New York, Harper and Row,1958.
Buber, Martin, Tales of Angels, Spirits, and Demons Hawk's Well Press, 1934.
Buber, Martin, Tales of the Hasidim (2 vols.), New York Schocken Books, 1947.
Buber, Martin, The Tales of Rabbi Nachman. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1956.
Dubnow, S.M. History of the Jews In Russia and Poland Philadelphia Jewish Publication Society of America, 19l6.
Fraenkel, Joseph, ed. The Jews of Austria, London, Valen- tine, Mitchell and Company, Ltd., 1967.
Grayzel, Solomon. A History of the Jews, Philadelphia Jewish Publication Society of America, 1947.
Henis, Uri, T'mimei Derech. Jerusalem, Achiever, 1959.
Marcus, Jacob R., The Jew In the Medieval World. Cincinnati, Sinai Press, 1938.
Margolis, Max L. and Marx, Alexander, A History of the Jewish People. New York, Harper and Row, 1927 & 1965.
Newman, Louis I., The Hasidic Anthology. New York, Shocken Books, 1934.
Sachar, Howard Morley, The Course of Modern Jewish History New York, Dell Publishing Co., 1963.
Scholem, Gershom G. Major Trends In Jewish Mysticism. New York, Schocken Books,1961.
Schwartz, Leo W. ed. Great Ages and Ideas of the Jewish People. New York, Random House, Inc., 1956.
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Zborowski, Mark, and Herzog, Elizabeth, Life is with People. New York, International Universities Press, Inc., 1955.
The notes on the purity of fish and on omens were suggested by Rabbi Herschel Matt.
Special thanks are due to my friend Yael Glaser, who helped me with the translations.
|Adaya Henis
|February 1970
June 2007. Note by Dov Henis, son of Uri, father of Adaya:
I inherited from my uncle Moshe (Morris) Henis, brother of Uri Henis, four books about Sassow:
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|Adaya Henis, Leonardo NJ
Adaya was survived by husband William Zagorski, by two daughters Netania and Amalia, and by her family in Israel.
Douglass College:
Adaya was a graduate of Douglass College, where she earned a BA in religion and a Masters in Library Science. Her first love was music as she performed at the New Jersey Folk Festival several times over the years. Accompanying herself on guitar and Appalachian dulcimer, she performed Anglo-American folk songs and ballads, as well as songs in Yiddish, Ladino and Hebrew. She was also a talented storyteller and her wonderful sense of humor made her performances a delight. She performed in many different venues including concerts for the NJ State Council on the Arts, Ocean County Parks and Recreation, folk festivals, libraries, elementary schools and coffeehouses.
Adaya's Jewish heritage was very important to her. She often did programs for Holocaust memorial, educational organizations and also loved teaching music to children. At the time of her death, she was a music teacher at the Monmouth Reform Temple in Tinton Falls, NJ. In 1987, she released an album called A Mol Iz Geven A Mayse, which is a collection of Ladino, Yiddish and Hebrew folksongs.
Monmouth Reform Temple:
Adaya's self-proclaimed title, as the "crazy music teacher" demonstrated a kindly, self-deprecating sense of humor. Her love for the children and her mellow approach toward her position as music teacher made every child feel welcome.
Some of us knew Adaya since we were tots and came with our parents to her monthly pre-school program. She taught us to embrace the inner message of music. We did not have to sing for her, just pay attention, listen and enjoy ourselves. She made us realize how much tradition is in our music.
Older students were amazed, relieved and eventually captivated by her unorthodox approach toward classroom singing. Most of all, Adaya understood and put into practice a belief that Jewish Religious School experience should be more about creating positive Jewish memories than about memorizing facts. She would say that she did her job well when students hummed a melody taught in music class on the way to the car pool.
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U.S. stocks posted strong gains in January, as the S&P 500 continued to trade near an all-time high.
The S&P 500 gained 5 percent in the first month of 2013, logging its best January performance since 1997. Similarly, the Dow surged nearly a thousand points or 5.77 percent, its largest increase since 1994.
With the markets on a roll, will January signal the market's direction this year? Since 1950, the "January Barometer" predicted the direction for the year with 81 percent accuracy.
The correlation is even stronger when the market finishes January in the black, proceeding with full-year gains 90 percent of the time.
Consider the last five decades, for example, when there were 11 other instances that the S&P 500 rose at least 5 percent.
In all of those years, with the exception of 1987, the index recorded double-digit gains of at least 16 percent.
Even in 1987, when stock markets around the world crashed during "Black Monday", the S&P 500 managed to finish the year positive, up 2 percent.
While past performance does not guarantee future results, investors often look at history as a point of reference.
Below is a look at the full-year gains when the S&P 500 was up more than 5 percent in January dating back to 1950.


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Review of The Ghost of Neil Diamond, a novel by David Milnes
And an interview with the author. I spent money like water in Hong-Kong, the restaurants served the best duck I've ever tasted and the girls were glamorous and pretty. These days looking back I appreciate that I was almost certainly a disaster on two legs, long-haired with billowing red Harem trousers which I'd acquired on my journey thru India.Interviews, Writers


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It's been a while since the Dolphins have had many dominant players. But they had more than their fair share in the '70s, '80s, and '90s.
So many that it won't be easy to trim the list of all-time great Dolphins to four.
You get your chance below to help us identify the 12 or so that will eventually be trimmed to four.
Good luck now. Better luck later.
If you want to chime in on any of the other teams whose nomination process has begun, the full list of links is right here.


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Eating and drinking
- Try something new from our superb local producers
- Pick up something delicious at a farmers' market
- Tuck into a proper Welsh breakfast
- Try a glass of Welsh whisky at Penderyn Distillery
- Enjoy a delicious day out at Abergavenny Food Festival
In the Brecon Beacons, we take food and drink pretty seriously.
We've got all the right ingredients. Clear air on open hillsides. Fertile valleys. And an abundance of fresh water.
From gourmet restaurants with their own cottage gardens to cosy pubs serving local Welsh lamb for Sunday lunch, we have plenty of fine eating places to tempt you. Our traditional Welsh breakfasts are legendary. Our gorgeous cafés and tea shops are enough to make you sigh with happiness.
And you'll find some wonderful goodies for picnics and gifts at our delis, food festivals and farmers' markets.
We even make our own whisky.
Feeling hungry yet?
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It was lovely, quick and simple, the kind of wedding ushered through multiple times daily in a Strip chapel with a stunning bride in white lace moving through manufactured fog to take her place at the altar.
With her gold hair pinned back and her lipstick as red and perfect as the bouquet of roses in her hands, she emerged to a synthesized version of "Here Comes the Bride," a moment so convincingly over-the-top in a room filled with friends (decked out for the occasion) that when the groom failed to speak his vows, it was actually ... awkward.
But in the name of performance art, Lauren Adkins' marriage to the cardboard cutout of Twilight character Edward Cullen was a success—a Vegas themed, Hollywood romance-inspired MFA project of art imitating (and commenting on) life, a carefully crafted illusion of happily ever after with a nonexistent someone.
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Tufano's Vernon Park Tap was established in 1930 by Joseph DiBuono and his wife Teresa Tufano.
In 1971, Sam the "DA" DiBuono took over the restaurant. He worked side by side with his mother.
In 1980, Joe DiBuono began running the restaurant. He had the best cooks in the world helping him make the homemade dishes whom included: his mother Marie, his aunt, Rose Alecia, his great aunt Antoinette Tufano, and his grandmother, Teresa. Teresa worked in the restaurant until she was 90 years old.
Joe is now running the restaurant with his daughter Darci. He also has the help from his sister JoAnn. Occassionally you can catch his other sister, Teresa, and daughter, Disa waiting tables.
In 2008, Tufano's received American Classics Award from the James Beard Foundation.
The restaurant is still located in the same building in the heart of little Italy in Chicago.


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Strategies Against Extinction
Michael Nye
Queen's Ferry Press
240p, $14.95
A review up of Michael Nye's short story collection, Strategies Against Extinction, up at PASTE.
The stories of Strategies Against Extinction do just that. The protagonists of Nye's tales arrive disillusioned, bored, alienated. In short, they're like most of us: living. We recognize these plots: A man loses track of his daughter at the museum. A girl passes her final summer of college in her hometown with her mother. A man struggles with the distance between his sons as he faces his own mortality.


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Today 7 Years ago, Matt and I created RimaSec Internet Services. I kept it running for the last 6 years alone. Today is time to shut it down and to restructure something new. I'll keep the company name that developed and ran World of Wars on the Facebook Platform. From here on out we shall see what future holds in store.
The web hosting accounts that just use static pages I'll keep hosting free of charge for the life of this server "nyc.rimasec.net". Don't expect any support from me if something breaks. I'm now focusing my energy on charitable work, such as Sophie's Dog Adoption and Wicca's K-9 Justice Foundation.
It was fun while it lasted, the web hosting economy is just not worth it anymore. I was running RimaSec as a hobby in the end and not as a business.


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On Sunday the 24th of November I'll be teaching an open seminar in Tilbury, Essex from 1pm - 5pm. The seminar will start a discussion on the history and nature of "karate grappling". We will then move onto cover basic "tegumi gripping" so students know how to control and manipulate the enemy. Next we will look at how those gripping skills can set up strikes, throws, locks, etc as found in the various kata The seminar will also cover "anti-grappling" from a self-defence perceptive so we learn how to escape and effectively keep ourselves safe from multiple enemies. Finally, I will show how all of the above can be practised in a lively, but safe, way which is inline with the writings and methodologies of the past masters.
The location of the seminar is The Gateway Academy, Marshfoot Road, Tilbury, Essex, RM16 4LU. The cost is £30 per person (£25 discount if booked by 30th September) and there is a group discount for 10 or more people (details from the host). MINIMUM AGE 16 YEARS. Places are limited to the first 50 bookings. Please check the event wall for current number of available places: https://www.facebook.com/events/213215568841155/?ref=22
The host is Richard Hang Hong (Seitou Ryu Karate) and he can be contacted via 07899 827 476 or firstname.lastname@example.com Please make cheques payable to "Seitou Ryu Karate" and send to the address below: Seitou Ryu Karate, 39 Heathercroft Road, Wickford, Essex, SS11 8YA. Please note that cheques must be received by Saturday 9th of November in order to be processed in time. Payments received after this date may not get a place. When sending payment please include the names of all attendees and contact info (a mobile number & email address will be sufficient) so that the booking can be confirmed.
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The Marketplace is more an open concept mall than a true market. Either way it in the largest of Kwandrivia commercial areas, thus, literally any goods one could find round Kwandrivia can be found here, sometime cheaper, sometimes lower. Shopkeepers may sometimes offer up unique missions to those looking to acquire goods or resources. Owners of shops around Kwandrivia also get a free both here to sell goods.
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Saddam Hussein rejected overtures from al-Qaeda and believed Islamic extremists were a threat to his regime, a reversal of the portrait of an Iraq allied with Osama bin Laden that was painted by US President George W. Bush's administration, a Senate panel has found.
The White House's version was based in part on intelligence that officials knew was flawed, according to Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee, citing newly declassified documents released by the panel.
The report, released on Friday, discloses for the first time a CIA assessment released in October last year that said that prior to the war, Saddam's government "did not have a relationship, harbor or turn a blind eye toward" al-Qaeda operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi or his associates.
As recently as a news conference last month, Bush said people should "imagine a world in which you had Saddam Hussein" with the capacity to make weapons of mass destruction and "who had relations with Zarqawi."
Democrats singled out CIA Director George Tenet, saying that during a private meeting in July, Tenet told the panel that the White House pressured him and that he agreed to back up the administration's case for war despite his own agents' doubts about the intelligence it was based on.
"Tenet admitted to the Intelligence Committee that the policy makers wanted him to `say something about not being inconsistent with what the president had said,'" Intelligence Committee member Carl Levin, a Democrat from Michigan, told reporters on Friday.
Tenet also told the committee that complying had been "the wrong thing to do," according to Levin.
"Well, it was much more than that," Levin said. "It was a shocking abdication of a CIA director's duty not to act as a shill for any administration or its policy."
Leaders of both parties accused each other of seeking political gain on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the attacks on Sept 11, 2001.
Republicans said the document contained little new information about prewar intelligence or postwar findings on Iraq's weapons and its connection to terrorist groups.
Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, a Republican, accused Democrats of trying to "use the committee ... insisting that they were deliberately duped into supporting the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime."
"That is simply not true," Roberts said, "and I believe the American people are smart enough to recognize election-year politicking when they see it."
Congressional elections will be held in November.
The report speaks for itself, Democrats said.
The administration "exploited the deep sense of insecurity among Americans in the immediate aftermath of the attacks on Sept. 11, leading a large majority of Americans to believe -- contrary to the intelligence assessments at the time -- that Iraq had a role in the 9/11 attacks," said Senator Jay Rockefeller, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee.
Still, Democrats were reluctant to say how the administration officials involved should be called to account.
Asked whether the wrongdoing amounted to criminal conduct, Levin and Rockefeller declined to answer. Rockefeller said later he did not believe Bush should be impeached over the matter.
According to the report, postwar findings indicate that Saddam "was distrustful of al-Qaeda and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime."


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text: Painter and illustrator Quang Ho is more interested in representing the mundane details of his immediate environment than in searching the world for preconceived artistic content. His diverse subject matter ranges from still lifes, landscapes, and interiors, to dancers and figures. "Realism and abstract—it's all the same to me," he has said. "The real essence of painting is the dialogue between shapes, tones, colors, textures, edges, and line. Everything else follows—including light, form, concepts, personal beliefs, and inspirations." Working primarily in oils, watercolors, and pastels, Ho is not tethered to any particular mode of expression; a single painting may be a color study, another a formal arrangement, and yet another an exploration of texture and surface.


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Does anyone know anything about pearl earrings from this era and manufacturer. These belonged to my great great grandmother who lived in India from 1895 onwards. Just wanted to know a bit about the qaulity of the pearls and what they would be worth at an estimate. They were made by Cooke & Kelvey of Calcutta, New Delhi and Lahore.


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The prevalence of camera phone means that we are now taking more photographs than ever before. Some people take the time to optimise their photos using one of the various image editing tools that are available, but this task has generally been limited to desktop platforms.
However, if you're working with an Android phone or tablet, you do not need to spend time transferring your photos to your computer when there are apps on hand to help you transform them into something truly impressive. Lithic is one such app, and anyone who's a fan of gothic graphic novels will love the style the app can inject into their photo collection.


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The Aldrich Alert
A Publication of the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty
by Gary Aldrich - Volume 2, Issue 22
This article appeared on TownHall.com on Wednesday, April 24, 2002.
A major Washington, D.C. newspaper - not the Washington Times - published an article this week purporting that a growing rift is developing between the Bush administration and Conservatives who support him.
The article tells us nothing new but is a recycling of previously printed material about Conservative's disappointments in the areas of x, y and z. There are attempts to make a connection between a promise broken by former President George Bush, (i.e., Read my lips, no new taxes...) and his son George W. Bushs promises to veto campaign finance reform.
It can be assumed that other legislation objectionable to grassroots hard-liners, such as an education bill that failed to include school vouchers, is even more reason for the friction. But, lets examine their claim against history and in the light of current events to see if it holds up.
Recall that in 1992, then President Bush had enjoyed a 90% or better public approval rating because of his administrations decisive actions in the Gulf War. But then the war ended, and the nation slipped into a mild recession. You would not have known that the recession was mild if you listened to the hysterical way the mainstream media was treating news about the economy. But by economic standards, it was mild.
To be sure, not all was peachy keen for many households in America.
I myself was faced with heavy flak at family gatherings when out-of-work relatives hammered me because they could not get to President Bush - about the situation. But their complaints had more to do with the fad of corporate downsizing than the economic policies of the Bush administration. They knew I worked at the Bush White House and had nothing to do with policy, nevertheless, they expected me to pass along a message that things were really, really bad!
Well, of course things werent that good but only for a short time. The corporations around America used a mild recession to trim programs and managers deemed unnecessary and injurious to the corporate dollar bottom line. But soon, most of those who had been cut loose were able to find new jobs. Still others started their own businesses, leading to an amazing economic recovery.
But the liberal-leaning mainstream media made the mild recession look like a real crisis and made former President Bush look like a cold, uncaring lout by showing him fumbling at a grocery check-out counter that had state of the art technology. Never mind that few men or women who hold important posts ever shop for their own Cheerios. The mainstream media never lets the facts get in the way of a good story, and in this case, they were true to form.
Then the media played clips of President Bushs golf outings and sunny-day boating trips to make a point that while the starving population was sending sons off to market to trade the family milk cow for something to eat, President Bush was living high on the hog! He had fine weather, leisure time and plenty of high-octane gas to burn in his boat!
This slanted and inaccurate picture of President Bush did not go over well with the general public, but in all my years in federal government service I had never seen a harder working man than he. That he took a few days off to refresh himself should not have been used against him, but it was. George Herbert Walker Bush had put in 17-hour days for decades in the service of his country, but a population with a short memory seemed not to care. They didnt like being uncomfortable for a short time, and so they took it out on President Bush. The fact that he had agreed to raise their taxes was no real help to him at all.
Not coincidentally, the Clinton campaign had adopted the soured economy as their biggest hammer, and posted a sign, Its the economy, stupid on their campaign office wall to remind workers to stay on message. Ill leave it to the historians - if there are any honest ones left out there - to deny a connection between the dishonest news about the economy, the unfair cold-hearted portrayal of a good, decent, caring man, and the direction the Clinton campaign took.
The "grassy-knoll" side of me sees a connection.
Sadly, Bill Clintons administration got the credit for the suddenly recovered economy, along with the job of being president. Only then did our country get a hard working president. Not! I personally think that if Bill Clinton had spent as much time thinking about and chasing Osama bin Laden as he did trying to chase after Monica well, you know where Im going with that.
Have matters progressed to the point that President George W. Bush is in danger of losing the support of hard-line Conservatives in midterm elections or perhaps even down the road in 2004 when he faces his own re-election? That may depend on how long the war on terrorism lasts.
Its fairly clear that the economy is on the mend after another short, mild recession, so folks (and mainstream media) cant complain too much about the economy. The war has focused the country on real life and death matters, causing the health of the average sea turtle or the current state of the rainforest in South America to not hold such an attraction for those who normally use environmental issues as a hammer against Republicans.
During a time of war I dont think the country is going to want to make President Bushs job harder than it already is by giving him more pacifist Democrats to argue with, so I cant see anything but good news in the midterm elections, for that reason alone.
And, even if gas prices are on the rise, we have those terrible SUVs to blame for that, dont we? Having scared the average Joe or Janet with horror stories about the SUVs' terrible gas consumption, I imagine it would now be a good trick to try to blame rising gas prices on George W. Bush.
And now the Democratic controlled U.S. Senate has failed to allow oil drilling in Alaska, so whos to blame for even more dependence on foreign oil? Certainly not George W. Bush.
Can the mainstream media really be serious if it contends that hard-line Conservatives will not support the Bush administration and will stay home in numbers large enough to impact midterm elections?
Whatever has the mainstream media been smoking? Wait! Heres something to warm the hearts of Conservatives everywhere! Since George W. Bush has taken office and given us a real Attorney General, illegal drug seizures are going through the roof - this, after eight long years of nonstop illegal drug trafficking with the Clinton administration looking the other way.
Now, theres at least one issue that hard-line Conservatives can be happy about! The other reason is that everyone knows Republicans know how to wage and win a war.


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Campfire Tales
Summer is the season for camping and sleeping outside. And a campout wouldn't be complete without a night spent around the campfire roasting marshmallows and exchanging chilling stories. Check out our list of Campire Tales to find a story to share on your next outdoor adventure.
For something a little less scary, take a look at our Books and Reading page for more reading suggestions.
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Learn More About Logan
Did you know that the most snowfall Logan has ever received in one year is 71 inches? Did you know that life expectancy at birth in Cache County is 79.8 years? Did you know that 66.7% of Cache County residents own their home?
You can find these facts and many others in our Community Profile. The Community Profile is a collection of facts and statistics about Logan and the surrounding area. We have gathered and compiled these stats from authoritative online resources such as the U.S. Census Bureau, the Utah Department of Health, and many others. If you want to learn more about Cache Valley, the Community Profile is a great place to get started.
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Catch The Reading Bug
There is still one month left of our 2008 Summer Reading Program. If you're 12 and under, it's not too late to sign-up for the children's program. If you've already signed-up be sure to turn in your reading records to collect your prizes.
If you're over 12 you can participate in our program for adults and teens. Just fill out an entry slip for each book you read for a chance to win a free book.
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The gorgeous CHANEL Les Ombres Matelassées 51 Montaigne palette that I wrote about last week is available on Chanel.com (for US readers) and in Chanel boutiques now.
Comprised of five gold-imbued eyeshadow shades, this exclusive palette celebrates the opening of the latest Chanel boutique in Paris. Named for the boutique's street address, '51 Montaigne,' the elegant harmony brings together pearl, pale gold, gold, golden khaki and black tones, each embossed with the iconic quilted pattern. Easily blendable, the soft powder texture is luxurious to the touch, while the versatile shade range offers unlimited eye looks. The two darkest shades may be used as eyeliner. Includes one double-tipped sponge applicator and one dual-sided brush/sponge applicator.
The CHANEL Les Ombres Matelassées 51 Montaigne palette retails for $80 and you can purchase it here on Chanel.com.
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Our Woodhaven is such a wonderful community. We have transportation to Manhattan, to Long Island and anywhere through our elevated trains and our buses (including an express bus to Manhattan). Also, we have "walkability." You can go down to the avenue and buy anything you need. These stores also deliver to your homes, if requested.
Woodhaven also has affordable homes and apartments that you can furnish by buying what you need right here on your Everything Avenue. Yes, we are indeed fortunate here in our hometown.
There was filming of an episode from the television show "Unforgettable" on our Jamaica Avenue last week around New Pop's restaurant on a beautiful day. The actors Poppy Montgomery and Jane Curtin were spotted walking around.
I found out later that a local guy, Michael Matlak, was the assistant location manager on this shoot. This gentlemen graduated from Franklin K. Lane High School. It was nice that a hometown boy came home again in a very accomplished position.
Now to our GWDC-sponsored Spring Dinner Dance "Spring is Here," which always celebrates the Woodhaven community and who and what makes it great. Also the GWDC's 35th year anniversary. In this special year we are honoring special persons that have, together with the GWDC, assisted our Woodhaven.
This year our event will be held on Friday, June 6, at 7:30 p.m. at our own Woodhaven Manor with our own chef preparing the buffet dinner and with libation and dancing to a great DJ playing music for all ages. Our tickets are priced at a modest $65 each, this being a much needed fundraiser.
So mark your calendar for the social event of the year. In next week's article the suspense ends and our well-deserving honorees will be named.
May God bless our leaders, may God bless our armed forces, may God bless our disabled veterans and may God bless our America.


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I have just bought a slim tree for my little hallway..
get to decorate it soon..
Going out to get a tree skirt later on (we have never used one before so thought it might be a good change )
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that would be hard to figure out. No, I don't suppose you can display them all, depending on what they are, if you like them, and how much room you have, and how much energy you have and do you actually WANT them displayed. lol, enough questions? oh, my youngest two, that are at home, are from my second marriage. of the first three, my 'baby' was 13 when the oldest of the second set was born and there are 21 years between my oldest and youngest. I can't honestly say I'm old, but not young, either. Usually, though, I think at my age, most kids are grown and gone. So, the thought of and actually putting up all the Christmas stuff is getting more tiring than it used to be.
HaHa Steph535 and Marshmallow World - we must be triplets! I too am a perfectionist! Sorry that I was one when the kids were young becaue now they don't want to help me with Christmas Decorations, or just about anything I might change on them! Now I could use the help as I am I'm getting older and have bad knees!


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Aug. 25, 2007
Lady Bisons Fall to UAB in Game 2 of Magic Music City Tourney August 25, 2007
After winning the first match versus Samford of the Magic Music City Tournament, the Lady Bisons fell to the University of Alabama Birmingham 3-0. The Lady Bisons played tremendously well against the Lady Blazers, who went to the NCAA tournament last year all the way to round two.
"I think tonight was a good test for us against a very good team that went to the NCAA tournament last year," said head coach Brandon Rosenthal. "Their team is well established. I think 6 of their 7 starters are back. They are bigger physically than us, but that's just one of those things."
The Lady Bisons lost the first game 30-16, the second 30-18, and the third 30-26. They had a total of 6 team blocks; outblocking UAB 6 to 5.
"With bigger teams, we've got to just go out and fight for every point," said Rosenthal. "It's a matter of getting everything together and playing a little more carefree."
Perhaps the shiner of the game; Sarah Snider, a newcomer Junior transfer from the University of Alabama proved herself to her team tonight with a total of 17 kills for the entire 3 games.
"I think Sarah did a lot to show what she's all about. I think she is a good player who is going to do a lot of good things over the next couple of years."
The Lady Bisons will travel to Malibu, CA on August 31st for the Pepperdine Tournament. They will face Arizona, Pepperdine, and Nevada. The next home game is September 4th versus Tennessee Tech in Allen Arena.


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I've struggled with my weight ever since I quit smoking thirty years ago, going up and down 30 pounds several times. All I can tell you is that it's a helluva lot easier going up than it is coming down, though you probably already knew that.
In his capacity as a general service operation, Glenn Reynolds has occasionally cited science writer Why We Get Fat. Taubes recommends a low-carb/no-carb diet, as some of the popular diet books apparently do, both for reasons of weight control and overall health.
Taubes's first book on diet issues was Good Calories, Bad Calories. He returned to the subject in Why We Get Fat to condense his survey of the research and focus on obesity.
The second book is the place to begin if you want to give his approach a try. I'm on Day 25 and can only report that, as with smoking, the cravings mostly went away after 14 days. It is nevertheless a challenge. I'm shooting for a 60-day trial period and will share the results with anyone who might be interested.
Taubes first made a splash with his 2002 New York Times Magazine cover story "What If It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?" The cover story displays his heterodoxy and bravado, challenging the medical establishment and government authorities with gusto. You can find more along the same lines in his 2007 New York Times Magazine article "Do We Really Know What Makes Us Healthy?"
Taubes is a formidable science writer. His approach is serious and methodical, taking account of the changing nature of the conventional wisdom and the studies that have supported it. The approach is occasionally boring, although Taubes is an excellent writer with a flair for interesting anecdotes that illustrate his thesis.
In chapter one of Good Calories, Bad Calories, for example, he relates President Eisenhower's struggle with a low-fat diet following his first heart attack at the age of 64 in 1955. Eisenhower rigorously followed a low-fat dietary regime to decrease his cholesterol. As his cholesterol continued to increase, however, Eisenhower became so agitated and angry (annoyed in part by the diet itself) that his physician lied to him about the results.
Where does Taubes come up with a story like that? His footnotes cite Clarence Lasby's 1997 book Eisenhower's Heart Attack: How Ike Beat Heart Disease and Held On To the Presidency, published by the University of Kansas Press. When Taubes can locate the intersection of diet and the presidency, I declare that he is a man after my own heart (no pun intended).
Taubes disputes the connection between dietary fat and high cholesterol. He challenges the thesis that dietary fat is detrimental to our health. He rejects a balanced diet. He advocates a high-fat diet. He opposes dieting. He doesn't object to exercise, but he asserts that it makes you hungry. It's almost funny. He is the dietary equivalent of politically incorrect.
I don't know the subject and don't know what Taubes might be leaving out. Interested readers might want to check out Gina Kolata's review of Taubes's first book or John Horgan's Scientific American post on Taubes.
Taubes is a sober writer. I don't think he is ever intentionally humorous in the two diet books. For the humorous take we go to Woody Allen, who gives us something like the condensed version of the Taubes doctrine in his great comedy Sleeper (clip below).


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May 17, 2012
Christopher's closed today
Christopher's, the student-run restaurant in Hospitality Management, will not be open for dinner tonight.
The new Book Allowance explained
Get answers about how and why the financial
aid book allowance is changing.
Whenever changes are made to the way financial aid is
distributed, there are sure to be lots of questions and
concerns. Beginning Summer Quarter, Columbus
State will implement a new procedure affecting how
and when funds will be distributed for the purchase
of textbooks and course materials/supplies prior
to the start of classes. And student questions
are rolling in.
Students are asking: "Will I still get my money?"
"Do I have to shop at just one place?" "What if
I don't use all my allowance on books?" "Why
are you making this change?" ... and a myriad of
other questions.
If you work directly with students, you
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Attend an upcoming Financial Aid Disbursement - Book Allowance Information/Training Session and learn all the ins and outs of how the process is changing, and why Columbus State is making this change.
Sessions will be a half hour in length, and held from May 21-25 at a variety of times. They are designed to prepare staff and faculty to help students understand and navigate this change. All Columbus State employees are welcome to attend. Register online here.
For more information on the book allowance disbursement changes, visit www.cscc.edu/disbursement.
Leadership Institute Class of 2012 graduates
Congratulations to the Leadership Institute Class of 2012 on their graduation May 1. Class members include: Mikhail Shmukler, Judith Cockrell, Amanda Jennings, Darrylene Mason, Todd Taylor, Patricia Fabrisi, Christina Stillion, Murray Holmes, Michael Johnson, Kimberly Brazwell, Lydia Gilmore, Pat Campbell, Mark Jackson, Dana Knott, Darrin Albaugh, Alexis Sherman, Cathy Ritterbusch, Hari Ruiz, LaVada Washington, Teddi Lewis-Hotopp, Doug Gray, Angie Schreiber, Patty Gabrenya, Jon Moorehead and Sandy Kellam
The Leadership Institute focuses on exploring and building leadership skills and competencies related to leading change. Participants must commit to a nine-month program that requires the completion of assigned readings, attendance at leadership development sessions, and completion of a group project. The group project reports are available online here. http://www2.cscc.edu/about/hcd/LeadershipInstitute/LI2011-12.shtml
Spring Symposium to be held May 22-24
The annual Arts & Sciences Symposium for Spring 2012 will be held over three days this year, on May 22-24 in the Library's new Multimedia Studio from noon to 2:00 p.m. The Symposium spotlights the academic work and interests of the faculty in the Arts & Sciences. The event is free and open to the public. A schedule of topics and presenters can be seen here
Bike Month: Ride tomorrow on the Jack Gibbs Trail
Glenn Smith led last Friday's lunchtime ride on the Olentangy Trail.
Join the Cougar Cranks on a Bike Month Friday ride, starting at 11:30 a.m. at the Columbus statue. The ride will go at an easy pace on the Jack Gibbs trail out to Wolf Park and back, led by Paul Rehg from Institutional Advancement.
Bike Month tips
Here is the next installment in a series of tips and resources to encourage you to ride a bike for your health, the environment and the sheer fun of it!
How to Lock Your Bike – The EcoVelo blog walks you through some important considerations and choices when choosing a lock and locking your bike.
"Like" Cougar Cranks on Facebook to discuss this article and stay connected to college and Columbus cycling news.
The Next Big Thing: "Spoke and Wheels"
What do you get when you combine the insight of TED Talks, the creativity of Pecha Kucha, and wrap it up in Bike Month? You get: The Next Big Thing: "Spoke and Wheels" an event to creatively share an idea or story connected to the bicycle.
Thursday, May 31, is the culmination of Bike Month and the Ohio Bike Challenge. At 6:00 p.m. in CT 107, members of the college and Columbus communities will work within the creative constraints of 20 slides lasting 15 seconds each to share a compelling message. Topics will include:
Bicycling Makes You Smarter
Bike Propaganda Art
The Fascinating History of the Bicycle
The Wheels of Change
Engaging Students through Recreation
The Gift of a Bicycle
and.... there is still time to add your talk!
Submit a title and brief description of your presentation to Rich James. If you know you will attend, please RSVP at The Next Big Thing. Also check out Cougar Cranks on Facebook for bike news and discussion and the college bike page for more resources.
Meyers writes book on jazz music in Ohio
David Meyers, data analyst in Community Education & Workforce Development (CEWD), is the lead author of a new book, Ohio Jazz: A History of Jazz in the Buckeye State (The History Press), which endeavors to put Ohio's contribution to jazz in its proper perspective. "The history of jazz is largely the story of a few key cities--none in Ohio," says Meyers. "As a result, most jazz historians give short shrift to the Buckeye State, regarding it as a go-through rather than a go-to place. However, the fact is that jazz has long been practiced in Ohio and with a vengeance."
Drawing upon materials collected for their 1999 "Jazz Ohio!" year-long exhibit at the Ohio Historical Society, Meyers and his co-authors (Candice Watkins, Arnett Howard, and James Loeffler) chronicle the development of jazz in Ohio from its roots in ragtime through its insinuation into all musical genres. They also provide 60 mini-biographies of some of the jazz greats who have called the Buckeye State their home. The quartet previously collaborated on Listen for the Jazz and Columbus, the Musical Crossroads. Ohio Jazz is available from any major bookseller.
Cougars claw their way through Regionals
Earn trip to the NJCAA DII National Tournament
It took a solid team effort in order for the Cougars Men's Golf Team to earn their first trip to the National Tournament in NJCAA Division II. Led by a quartet of local players Hayden Pyles (Dublin), Nathan Young (Sunbury) Ash Alstadt (Columbus) and Jacob Stasiuwelicz (Galena), the Cougars rebounded after finishing the second round in third place. The Cougars, coached by Rocky Nelson, would need to make up five strokes in the final round in order to secure at least a second place finish in the NJCAA Region XII Tournament and a berth to the NJCAA DII National Championships held at the Swan Lake Resort in Plymouth, IN next week. Finishing with a final round of 303 the Cougars beat out Muskegon Community College (MI) by two strokes in dramatic fashion.
The Cougar Golf Team, back row from left: Kyle Gardner, Hayden Pyles, Lance Clark, and Kevin Kwiatkowski. Front, from left: Nathan Young, Jacob Stasiulewicz, and Ash Alstadt.


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Summary Meeting Notes: March 21, 2013 Neighborhood Centers PEG meeting
Meeting #10 Summary Notes
Neighborhood Centers Policy Expert Group
Meeting Date: March 21, 2013
Time: 8:00 to 10:00 a.m.
PEG Attendees: Lisa Bates, Andre Baugh, Kristin Cooper, Alan DeLaTorre, Ivy Dunlap, Gabe Genauer, Bob Granger, Denver Igarta, Carol Mayer-Reed, Rick Michaelson, Jennifer Moore, Mark Raggett, Nick Sauvie, Alison Stoll, Kim McCarty.
Key Points and Outcomes
- PEG members generally supported the draft housing policies, but felt there should be a stonger focus on affordable housing for low-income households, housing stability, and on aligning other Comprehensive Plan policies with affordable housing goals.
- PEG members would like future work on the the Growth Scenarios Analysis to help identify what efforts and investments could do the most to improve outcomes in deficient areas, acknowledging the need to use limited resources as strategically as possible.
Welcome, Introductions and Overview (8:00 a.m.)
Presenter: Steve Faust, Facilitator
Summary: Following introductions, Steve welcomed everyone and reviewed the agenda. The group is continuing last month's discussion of Comprehensive Plan working draft policies, focusing on Housing Affordability. Following that discussion is an update on the growth scenarios last discussed at the October Meeting.
Several PEG members shared observations of site visits to East Portland: Gateway, 122nd & Burnside, and theParkrose Main Street. Some comments:
- The street system in Gateway is challenging and makes it difficult to walk from one area to another. Connections between buses and the I-205 light rail station near Mall 205 are not good. There is a lot of vacant land that could be consolidated for a large development with some investment.
- The Gateway area needs to be activated through investment in ways that are responsive to its culturally-diverse population and develop entrepreneurial opportunities. The area is much more diverse than many parts of Portland– how do we prevent this from developing into segregration?
- The heavy traffic and design of Sandy Boulevard is not conducive to making the Parkrose Main Street a place where people want to stop at businesses.
Review of Draft Comprehensive Plan Policies: Housing (8:15 a.m.)
Presenters: Uma Krishnan, BPS
Summary: As with policy discussions at the February meeting, BPS is looking for some indication of support for various policies and recommendations in addition to any comments PEG members may have. PEG members were asked to indicate their level of support for various policies and PEG comments throughout the discussion.
Uma started the discussion with a reminder that the group last discussed housing policies in July. The policies respond to Statewide Planning Goal 10 and Metro's Housing Rule which requires 50% of new residential units to be attached single family or multi-family housing. Policies 2.8 to 2.12 focus on Housing Affordability. The City's approach has evolved in several ways since the last Comprehensive Plan, some changes and emerging issues include:
- How we think about affordability is not just housing cost in isolation, but includes housing, utilities and transportation expenses together.
- Many affordable units expired and were transitioned into market rate housing. The City is exploring ways to create more permanent affordable units.
- Homelessness is not just single men, but families with children. A key factor in homelessness are mental health issues.
The following is a summary of comments from the PEG regarding draft housing policies:
Priorities with Broad PEG Support
- Policy 2.8 should be more narrowly focused on serving low income households.
- The Housing Affordability policies should work in conjunction with policies in other chapters to ensure housing stability and affordability. Policies should work together to support allowing people to remain in their homes over time (street improvements, LIDs, etc., should not result in costs that overburden and displace residents).
- Other Comprehensive Plan policies and implementation approaches need to be evaluated in terms of their impact on housing affordability, including the compatible design policies, seismic safety and infrastructure policies.
- Rename the Housing Discrimination section to "Housing Opportunity" or "Housing Equity."
- The Fair Housing policy (2.4) should require analysis of disparate impacts of land use planning, regulations, and infrastructure improvements on protected classes. The Fair Housing policies should have a connection to the Plan for Fair Housing Choice and something about avoiding/reducing segregation.
Other Comments
- There should be a policy that encourages the use of all available tools to provide permanent and affordable housing. Use development bonuses to incentivize affordable housing.
- Need to find creative ways to build up the supply of long-term affordable housing. One possibility could be to purchase existing market rate housing and then limit rent increases to 1% per year, instead of just focusing on building new units.
- Definitions of "affordable housing" and "low-income" housing should be included in the commentary as well as in the glossary.
- Need to consider impacts of city investments and other actions on housing affordability.
- Policy language should call on the City to anticipate disparate impacts. The current updates to parking requirements do not seem to be considering the potential for disparate impacts.
- Remove reference to floating homes in policy 2.2, since new floating homes are no longer allowed.
- For the accessible housing commentary, use ¼ mile to define what "close proximity" to services means to account for people who are elderly or disabled.
- Need to define what "accessible housing" is, and account for differing levels of accessibility.
- Define what an "adequate" housing unit is.
- Reconsider the organization of policies 2.8 and 2.10.
- Define "workforce housing" – the Housing Bureau can provide a definition.
- 2.13 should include housing that facilitates independence, promotes living within community and reduces isolation as elements of Healthful housing.
- Policy 2.2a should mention a goal of encouraging a variety of housing types is to prevent a monoculture of development.
Other Comprehensive Plan Policies
- In the Chapter 5 Centers policies, need to identify benefits for neighborhoods in accepting higher densities. Consider incentives for development to include desired commercial and community services and other amenities, such as height and density bonuses.
Bill Cunningham reminded PEG members that they can submit comments regarding all of the draft Comprehensive Plan policies online at: http://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/60986.
Growth Scenarios Update (9:10 a.m.)
Presenter: Tom Armstrong, BPS
Summary: Tom explained that Metro's population projections forPortlandwere distributed geographically according to the various growth scenario patterns and the development capacity of existing zoning. The scenarios were evaluated according to how well they achieve City objectives. Preliminary findings show that the difference in outcomes among the various scenarios is marginal. The analysis indicates that growth management alone will not achieve City objectives. A large percentage of 2035 households are already here today, so where the new housing is located has only a limited effect on outcomes, such as goals for complete neighborhoods. The answer in this case is to expand the completeness of neighborhoods in east and southwest Portland that lack access to local services and sidewalks, together with locating more housing in areas that have good access to services and other opportunities.
During this phase of the growth scenarios process, BPS is evaluating the alternative growth scenarios against performance measures, given existing conditions. The next phase will focus on identifying what investments, such as improved transit corridors and centers, would do the most to improve the outcomes. The analysis considers how infrastructure investments impact the results and how addressing one objective impacts the others. The Centers PEG may want to consider a cross-PEG discussion with the Infrastructure Equity PEG on prioritization of infrastructure investements.
Housing Choice
The growth scenarios analysis indicates that Portland has adequate zoning capacity to meet future anticipated housing growth, but there are challenges to providing affordable housing for the lowest income households.
The analysis of housing mix shows that the majority of future housing construction will be multifamily development, although the majority of residentially-zoned land will continue to consist of single family housing outside of corridors and centers. The analysis identifies three basic housing types in the City: single family residences, corridor apartments and mid-to-high rise apartments. There are 11 specific housing unit types that fall within the three basic types. The analysis looked at how the mix of these housing types vary in the different scenarios. PEG discussion included:
- The City should consider approaches related to infill development that makes it easier for existing homeowners to benefit directly from growth. Land development is too complex and expensive for property owners of modest means to pursue themselves. The group agreed that this may be an opportunity for assistance from a nonprofit developer.
- The housing allocations should consider changes in racial and ethnic distribution, especially in light of differences in household size between different populations. The larger households inEast Portlandand continued growth of minority populations there will result in even worse outcomes in relation to our objectives if population (rather than households) were to be used as the measure. Concern was also raised about the inappropriateness of the household type labels used in the analysis.
- Reducing system development charges for SROs could be an incentive to develop more of this type of affordable housing. Seattlehas done a lot of work in this area.
Access to Family Wage Jobs
In response to comments from the Centers PEG and others, the City conducted an analysis of access to family wage jobs, adopting a methodology used in a study by the Brookings Institute (this analysis found that 95% of commute trips to family wages jobs are within a 60 minute transit trip). The BPS study considered TriMet's service enhancement plan forEastCounty(East Portland andGresham) and Census commute data. Many trips fromEastCountyare to the Columbia Corridor and Gateway. Data indicates that 60% ofPortlandresidents work inPortlandand that 40% of those who work inPortlandlive inPortland. The next step in the analysis will be to look at access to family wage jobs for vulnerable households. PEG discussion included:
- Consider reducing the commute time used in the analysis to 30 or 45 minutes. A 60-minute commute each way is too long for most people.
- With the large numbers of westside jobs (Downtown and inWashingtonCounty), should we focus more housing inWest Portlandto provide more people with access to these jobs?
- We have limited resources and need policies, growth and investment strategies that are responsive to this. Can we get jobs and housing closer together? What are the centers or corridors where jobs could be located to improve access to jobs?
- Is East Portland the best place to intervene to improve the measures?
- This analysis needs to help us craft a long-term investment strategy to make the most effective use of our limited resources.
Meeting Handouts and Presentations
Public Comment (9:50 a.m.)
This process should consider the evolution of corridors and what makes a corridor complete. Daily needs go beyond restaurants to items like clothing.
Next Steps (9:55 a.m.)
The next meeting of the PEG is scheduled for April 18th and will include review of public feedback on the draft Comprehensive Plan policies.
Adjourn (10:00 a.m.)
For more information, please contact Bill Cunningham, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability at 503-823-4203 or firstname.lastname@example.com or Steve Faust, Facilitator at 503-278-3456 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Nekkid Tech: Where are the new enterprise bibles?
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Podcast The previous Nekkid Tech outing quizzed HP storage bigwig David Scott and discussed changes at the tech titan.
Now, back with episode 11, Nekkid Tech host Greg Knieriemen chats to guests Greg Schulz of StorageIO (@storageio) and Gina Minks, storage evangelist at Dell (@gminks). Here's what to expect in today's podcast…
Nekkid Tech Episode 11
- More Infosmack mashup mess
- Dell Storage Forum
- Words with Alec
- Greg Schulz's new book Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking
- The building blocks of tomorrow's IT department
- How the role of the IT administrator is changing
- The process of writing a tech book
- Pitching an audiobook and ebook
- Being technically bilingual
- Big New England VMUG coming up in January
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I would like that this will be just a poll, to see how many people here prefers one or other approach. So, please give only short explanation why you prefer what you prefer, if want to post and not only to vote. Really no need for some new heavy discussion about what is discussed already many times.
I was always for choice # 2 - because I was able to do it myself, and usually it took really not much time. I like when it loads fast, and copy protections slow it, of course.
To add - this is only about floppy releases (usable with floppy drives, HW floppy emulators), don't want here talk about hard disk adaptations/patches.


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About Bernadette Martin & her Blog
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Bacon Wrapped Cauliflower with Dark Chocolate
Cauliflower wrapped with bacon, roasted and drizzled with dark chocolate makes the perfect appetizer for your dinner party.