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Sleek, lightweight ergonomically designed cordless clipper. A powerful, professional clipper with 2 quick-release battery packs. Rotary motor gear driven. Features snap on/off cutting head with 5 built-in length adjustments from .1 mm to 3.9 mm. Each battery has a 1-hour charge time and 1-hour run time. Charging stand also stores clipper, brush and oil.
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- Clipper
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- Color: Pink
- Includes: Clipper,Charge Stand,Cleaning Brush,Oil,(4) Attachment Combs
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"Cordless Arco Clippers"
I have had a set for approximately 10 years, once a year I have to order new blades, but other than that I have had no problems with it until this past year. Batteries not holding a charge much anymore, not enough power to run blades. Instead of ordering new batteries and blades I decided to get the whole set for the same price. I should add that I have been clipping a dozen toys and 3 standards along with their pups 3 - 5 times a year. These clippers are fantastic, but don't waste your money on the diamond blade, only got a couple of clippings out of it, did not laste as long as the regular blades.
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I have used these clippers for years now on all of my horses....and even a few others. Perfect for show clipping or just keeping your horse cleaned up. This clipper is also perfect for the horse that isn't so happy with clipper noise. These are probably the most quiet clipper I've found. This is not a body clipper but does well for face, ears, fetlocks and bridlepath. I'll buy these as long as they are available.
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I bought these clippers about 5 years ago. These clippers have done a great job for me for the past 5 years. I am still using the original blades and have not yet had them sharpened. I do only use them a few times a year to maintain my mare's bridle path and minor trimming on legs but I am very happy with them. Nice feature is that even if the battery is dead you can just use them as a corded clipper by plunging them in with the recharging cord. They hold their charge very well even when in storage and not used for a couple of months. Great clipper. Glad I bought them.
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Every year we look forward to the phone calls and door to door visits of the Girl Scouts in our neighborhood. It seems like we order more boxes each year, thinking that they will last longer, but in a matter of weeks our supply is gone and there is nothing to do but wait. Mimi Jr. found this recipe for homemade Samoa bars and knew it would be a hit with the other coconut lover, Boy Mimi. While nothing is ever quite as good as the original, these will definitely get us through until the next Girl Scout comes knocking at our door.
These bars were the right flavor combination, but we all agreed that the bottom crust needs to be a little bit thinner and crisper. I would add more coconut to the caramel mixture on top to really get that toasty coconut flavor. Although we usually keep our boxes of Samoas in the freezer, we thought these were best at room temperature.
Homemade Samoa Barsadapted from baking bites
Cookie Base:
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup butter, softened
1 large egg
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
Preheat oven to 350F. Lightly grease a 9×13-inch baking pan, or line with parchment paper.
To make the base, in a large bowl, cream together sugar and butter, until fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla extract. Working at a low speed, gradually beat in flour and salt until mixture is crumbly, like wet sand. Do not over mix. Pour crumbly dough into prepared pan and press into an even layer. Poke holes in several places throughout the pan of dough using a fork.
Bake for 20-25 minutes, until base is set and edges are lightly browned. Cool completely on a wire rack before topping.
3 cups shredded coconut (sweetened or unsweetened)
12-oz good-quality chewy caramels
1/4 tsp salt
3 tbsp milk or cream
10 oz. dark or semisweet chocolate (chocolate chips are ok)
Preheat oven to 300. Spread coconut evenly on a parchment-lined baking sheet (preferably one with sides) and toast, stirring every 5 minutes, until coconut is golden, about 10-15 minutes. Make sure to check often because coconut burns quickly. Cool on baking sheet, stirring occasionally. Set aside.
Unwrap the caramels and place in a large microwave-safe bowl with milk and salt. Cook on high for 3-4 minutes, stopping to stir a few times to help the caramel melt. When smooth, fold in toasted coconut with a spatula. (You can also use a double boiler, it just takes a little longer)
Put dollops of the topping all over the shortbread base. Using the spatula, spread topping into an even layer. Let topping set until cooled.
When cooled, cut into bars.
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Once bars are cut, melt chocolate in a small bowl. Heat on high in the microwave in 45 second intervals, stirring thoroughly to prevent scorching. Dip the base of each bar into the chocolate and place on a clean piece of parchment or wax paper (I skipped this step). Transfer all remaining chocolate (or melt a bit of additional chocolate, if necessary) into a piping bag or a ziploc bag with the corner snipped off and drizzle bars with chocolate to finish. * I just drizzled chocolate on the top*
Let chocolate set completely before storing in an airtight container.
As with most recipes I try to make them as written the first time. I can see that there could be some very tasty variation on this recipe. Ideas that we like were: substitute peanuts or toasted pecans for the coconut or for a German Chocolate Cake bar substitute some cocoa powder for flour in the base and add some toasted pecan to the coconut in the topping.
We are sending this along to Foodie Fridays party at Design by Gollum. You can still enter the CSN give away here.
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Two weeks ago, the conventional wisdom was that televised presidential debates weren't going to matter much this year.
Then a TV debate took place in Denver on Oct. 3, and we are still talking about Big Bird being threatened, moderator Jim Lehrer getting steamrolled, President Barack Obama under-performing and the polls flipping from "done deal" to "game on" overnight.
Voters knew the debates mattered, even as the media and political wise men and women were telling them they didn't. More than 67 million viewers tuned in for the first debate — for once making an event other than a professional football game the most watched show on television that week.
In Baltimore, 688,835 adults watched the University of Denver debate between Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney. By way of comparison, the largest TV audience for a Baltimore Orioles playoff game was 366,540 adults who watched Wednesday night's 12-inning loss to the New York Yankees. And it seemed as if everybody in Baltimore saw that game — or, at least, claims they did.
Obama and Romney will face off for a second time Tuesday night — this one taking place in a town hall format at Hofstra University with CNN's Candy Crowley as moderator, the first woman in that role since Carole Simpson 20 years ago. At first, Crowley says, she didn't think much about the gender aspect of her selection by the Commission on Presidential Debates. But public reaction has changed her mind.
"I was honored and happy and all of those things when they asked me," CNN's chief political correspondent said in an interview last week. "But I did not think, 'And I'm a woman.' Because it's not like you wake up in the morning and think, 'I'm a man.' It just is what you are, and you live your life."
But, she adds, "I came to understand that it does matter in a way that I didn't see at first. And I came to understand that through my emails, through folks who approached me in the grocery store, on the street, at the conventions, at the debates — folks who would hug me, young women, old women, their husbands, their sons, their fiancees or whoever who would say, 'We're so excited a woman's going to do this.'"
Crowley says she does not "play down the optics of this" any more now that she sees the larger symbolic import of standing on that stage Tuesday night.
"It matters to minorities that you can see someone doing something you want to do and, hopefully, succeeding at it," she explains. "It helps if you are a young woman to be able to look up on that stage and say, 'Wow, a female's doing this. I can do this, too.'"
It also matters in terms of age, says the 63-year-old anchor of the cable channel's "State of the Union" Sunday-morning issues show.
"And for older women, the sense I get from them is this kind of, 'Wow. I can still be at the top of my game. I can still get recognized. I can still contribute.'"
But don't such gender and generational issues add to what is already a lot of pressure? All eyes are going to be on this debate, to see how Obama responds after one of his few major TV failures. And Lehrer's poor performance has put the moderator's role under the spotlight in an already white-hot partisan media climate.
"In terms of pressure and all that kind of stuff, I'm self-pressurized," Crowley says. "I totally don't need other people to pressure me. I can do it myself. So, I don't think it's adding to the pressure."
Crowley, who says she will prep right up to Tuesday morning, is clear about her goals and how she expects to be judged.
"My goals are to have a debate or conversation or whatever you want to call it between these two guys that adds to the body of knowledge that voters have," she says. "And I want to have a debate that discusses issues of interest to the voters, so that they come away knowing more about what their choice is rather than being more confused."
She hopes people will judge her by that standard, but says: "People are going to judge under whatever their criteria are. Sometimes, it's a political criteria. Sometimes, it's just, 'Boy, she did a lousy job. She should have asked them this, that or the other thing.'"
Crowley says her situation differs from those of Lehrer and ABC's Martha Raddatz, who moderated the vice-presidential debate. Because of the town hall format, most of the questions will be asked by undecided voters in the hall who have been selected by the Gallup Organization. Still, she will have follow-ups.
The commission members "want this to be a town hall meeting," she says. "They want the undecided voters to get a chance to ask these candidates their questions. ... I can follow up or say, 'They asked oranges; you answered apples. Could you, like, try to answer oranges?' You know, sort of the enforcer kind of thing."
What about letting the candidates ignore time limits and other rules the way Lehrer did?"What I think Jim was talking about was trying to get them to engage with each other and not with him. … When the conversation's going, you can't just stop it, and go, 'Whoops, sorry, bell rang.' It's not school."
And if Obama or Romney is flatout lying?
"Look, these are two grown men," Crowley says. "And if there are two grown men who should know what's going on — or what should go on in this country — it's them. So, I'm not sure either one of them needs me to defend them or go after the other guy or whatever."
Crowley says such TV debates, like interviews on her Sunday morning show, "tend to be organic," and you can't predict or anticipate all that will happen — especially when it comes to live TV.
"Am I going to catch everything they say that is wrong?" she asks rhetorically. "No. Should I? Actually, I think, President Obama can figure out when Mitt Romney's wrong, and Mitt Romney can figure out when Obama's wrong."
But, she adds, "That doesn't mean I shouldn't. I'm just telling you it's an organic thing. That's the way it works on the Sunday show. ... You plan one thing, and something else happens. So, there's not a lot of promising you can do about what's going to happen until you see what happens."
The second presidential debate is scheduled for 9 p.m. Tuesday at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y.


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Hope finished 18th at the 2008 NCAA Division III
men's golf championships played in Braselton, Ga.
Hope finished 18th at the 2008 NCAA Division III
men's golf championships played in Braselton, Ga.
St. John's Minn. repeated as national champion with a 72-hole total of 1,192 strokes. Hope was 52 strokes off the pace (312-322-313-297--1,244).
It marks the second consecutive year that coach Bob Ebels' Flying
Dutchmen have finished 18th in the field of 35 teams.
Scores of Hope golfers thru the four rounds were senior Tommy Yamaoka (Zeeland/Zeeland East HS) 73 (72-81-79-73--305 strokes, 37th place), senior Matt Lapham (Brighton/Brighton HS) 71 (79-82-79-71--311, 57th place), junior Don Kring (Williamsburg/St. Francis HS) 75 (82-82-78-75--317, 87th place), senior Ryan Sheets (Saline/Saline HS) 78 (86-77-77-78-318, 91st place), and senior Steve Martindale 79 (79-86-85-79--329, 113th place).
The tournament medalist was Scott
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When Microsoft announced earlier this year that Double Fine would be making a Kinect-based Sesame Street game, many wondered if the developer studio behind Psychonauts and Brutal Legend were leaving their own original ideas behind for a lucrative licence. But Nathan Martz, project lead on Sesame Street: Once Upon A Monster, says that it was just the opposite. The game that became Once Upon A Monster actually started internally at Double Fine as an independent project. That fact and more came to light when I e-mailed Martz some questions about the creation of the new Sesame Street game. He discusses how he and his Double Fine colleagues came to grips with creating a game that would star some of the most recognisable characters in the world and why even the worst kids' video games are triumphs of a sort.
Double Fine could ostensibly have done a Kinect game without anchoring it to the Sesame Street characters. What did the licence make easier? What did it make harder?
That's true. In fact, OUAM was originally conceived as an original IP. The storybook world, the new monsters who live in it, and the core Kinect gameplay all predated our relationship with Sesame Workshop (though the storybook monsters were certainly inspired by Jim Henson).
Sesame Street made a few things easier. First off, it really helped make the game more visible, especially amongst non-gamer parents. Cookie and Elmo are famous the world around, and for a lot of mainstream media, the idea that they were coming to Kinect/Xbox 360 was big, interesting news. Sesame Street also gave us a curriculum and allowed us to be more educational than we'd originally intended to be. Both the curriculum and the great writers and educators at Sesame Workshop really gave the game educational depth it wouldn't have had otherwise. Lastly, Sesame Street gave us very memorable, funny companions for the journey. The original concept for OUAM was that all instruction and exposition would be given by a narrator. When we decided to partner with Sesame Street, we re-wrote that part for Cookie and Elmo, which guaranteed that all of the critical in game dialog would be memorable and funny.
The biggest challenge working with Sesame Street is the brand's visibility, not just commercially but politically and socially. There are plenty of huge brands out there, superheroes whose movies do hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue or sci-fi epics that sell boatloads of toys, but at the end of the day, only Elmo gets invited to the White House. The fact that Sesame Street is not just a commercial brand but a highly visible, mission-based cultural institution means that people inside and outside the Workshop scrutinize everything those characters do. Unfortunately, there are also people who would love to use them to justify political agendas like, for example, removing federal funding from public broadcasting. This exceptional level of visibility meant that we had to be extremely careful about virtually every aspect of the game. Sometimes that just meant we couldn't use a funny line we liked, but other times it meant big changes to story or gameplay to work around an issue someone somewhere might have a problem with. As creative people who have always owned our own IP and can basically do what we want with it this was a big adjustment for us. Thankfully, Double Fine, Warner Bros., and Sesame Workshop had a shared vision for what the game could be and, with a lot of hard work, were able to realise that vision in spite of all the challenges.
What are the most memorable Sesame Street/Muppets skits from your childhood? Did you try to pay homage to these sequences in any way?
Man, there are just way too many classic skits to count. It's hard to remember my favourite skits from childhood (being only four at the time), but as an adult my personal favourite is Mystery Box, with Kermit the Frog and Cookie Monster. It's a great example of comedic interplay between two memorable characters, how to pace a scene and just keep on ramping up the funny, and also of the great contrast between Cookie Monster's advanced vocabulary and his caveman grammar.
We constantly referenced Sesame Street during development. We used skits as reference for our writers of speaking style, cadence, vocabulary, etc. and for our animators to understand how the Muppets move, act, and even lip-sync. Pretty much the entire game is a Sesame Street homage, but there are a few direct skit references in OUAM. One of my favourites is Cookie's line in the intro of To Have and to Hug, where he says "Pshew, it's just a monster. Me thought it was something scary." That's a reference to an old Grover bit. Grover's outfit in the dance sequence at the end of The Greatest Party There Ever Wasn't is an homage to his suit in the Disco Alphabet song. We also work in a few references to Oscar's love of sardine sandwiches in From Seed to Sky.
I've just become a dad and I'm chomping at the bit to start playing games with my child. I have a personal canon of games that I feel like the kid will absolutely NEED to play for me to be a proud papa. To name a few: Metroid, Rez, Portal, Flower, BioShock. Do you and/or some of the folks at Double Fine have such lists for the kids in your lives?
Boy, that's a great question. It's really hard to think of a concise list. How many words can you dedicate to my answer? :) Most of us at Double Fine were part of that first generation to really grow up with video games, to play them from a very young age and at a very early stage of the medium's history. That makes for a very long list of great games. I think, as a parent, you want to share all of the best parts of your childhood with your kids, but the reality is that not everything translates that well. Video games, especially, often don't age well and, due to compatibility and copyright issues, are difficult to play years or decades after they are released. I think my approach, when the time comes, will be to try to make sure that my kids are playing current games, but good ones, ones worth playing. If their interest in games (or in my career :) grows beyond entertainment and they want to understand more about where these ideas came from, I'll be more than happy to fire up the 386, unbox the Atari 800 XL, and blow the dust out of my 8 bit cartridges to show them the great games that came before.
People who don't know better tend to think of video games as juvenilia or as inherently adolescent, but a high ratio of the actual games aimed at most kids tend to suck. Have you ever plodded through a game just to placate a young person? What kind of thoughts go through your head, from a design perspective about these less-than-stellar titles?
It's true that many people, especially in the US, equate video games with being disposable entertainment for kids. Unfortunately, as an industry, I don't think we do very much to prove that opinion wrong. Most games, even the ones with M ratings, are pretty intellectually immature. If you define maturity not in terms of how graphic the imagery is but how thought provoking or moving the experience is, very few games rise above the adolescence. It's a topic I think we should discuss more, but perhaps not the main question you were asking.
I've definitely played my fair share of not-so-good kids games, especially as early research for Once Upon a Monster. The thing that goes through my head when I play them is, honestly, that every time a game ships, even the really mediocre ones, it's kind of a miracle. For those who haven't done it, let me tell you that game development is extremely not-easy. Every day, there are dozens of obstacles that conspire against your game, from an executive staff shuffle at your publisher to big companies poaching your best programmers to changing consumer tastes to rabidly aggressive competitors to buggy hardware and the practical limits on your personal creativity and ingenuity. It's really hard. Very often, developers of kids games start out with the deck stacked against them, carrying the extra creative burden of a licence on a much smaller budget than "regular" games and with aggressive deadlines to boot. No developer at any company sets out to make a mediocre game, but there's also only so much you can do to change your circumstances. Given how heavily the deck is stacked against many kids and family developers, people who make budget kids games really deserve a lot more credit than they get.
It's also important to mention that most kids/family games are given low budgets and licenses not because publishers think "kids are dumb and won't know any better" but because the historical sales trends for that category of game make it really hard to make a profit on anything other than a shoestring budget. It's easy to blame publishers, but honestly, consumers shoulder a lot of the blame too. Anyone who has played a competitive multiplayer game recently with voice chat on knows that there are a lot of parents buying M rated games for their 8 and 10 year olds. If more of those dollars went towards age appropriate, original kids games then I think you'd see publishers rush to raise the bar (and budget) on games in that category.
In fact, these are all reasons why I'm personally extremely grateful that Warner Bros. shared our vision of a really high quality family game, and were willing to support that vision with great people, marketing, PR, and of course money and time. They really deserve a lot of credit for taking such a big risk on this kind of game, and I hope that it continues to do well not just for our sake but so that more publishers see the value in taking similar risks in the future. Our industry desperately needs it.
There is a legacy of fondly remembered kids' games-Oregon Trail, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?-but they've mostly been educational. How did they inform what you tried to do with Once Upon a Monster?
Ahh, yeah. The games from the golden years of edutainment. Like most people in our generation, I played all of those games growing up, but to be honest, I can't say that they had a big impact on Once Upon a Monster, except perhaps that they all share a spirit of trying to use games in a positive, pro-social way. If anything, these games served as a counterpoint to our goals on Once Upon a Monster. They helped us understand that while OUAM has educational elements, we really didn't see it as edutainment, as a game that was about education first and entertainment second.
Sesame Street's known for having great pedagogical structure underneath all the fun. What will kids learn from playing Once Upon a Monster?
Certainly that ability to be entertaining and educational at the same time is one of Sesame Street's great gifts. As I said earlier, Once Upon a Monster is not primarily educational, and it's certainly never didactic, but we felt like it would be wrong to make a Sesame Street game without having any educational material what so ever. We also wanted to use curriculum that was as age-agnostic as possible (traditional numeracy and literacy are extremely age/grade level specific). Fortunately, Sesame Workshop introduced us to their Whole Child Curriculum, which is all about what we like to call Life Lessons for All Ages. The lessons are about things like empathy, friendship, identifying emotions, cooperation, sharing, an appreciation for the natural world, etc. Basically, it's all the important things you learn growing up that aren't in a textbook. Each chapter in Once Upon a Monster deals with some of these themes, and we worked very closely with both educators and writers at SW to make sure that our material really worked with their educational aims in this area.
Was there ever a golden age for non-educational video games aimed at kids? What games would you throw in there? What will it take to create a new golden age?
That's a really good question. I'd have to say that the golden age of for kids games was the 8-bit and the 16-bit era (NES, SNES, Genesis, etc), maybe a bit before that with the Atari 2600. Those early console games used very few buttons, which made them super accessible, and their limited, sprite-based graphics encouraged more playful, bright aesthetics rather than the dark, hyper realistic ultra-violence that dominates a lot of gaming these days.
I think just maybe we're actually just starting a new golden age, thanks to smart phones and tablet computing. Touch interfaces are just amazingly intuitive, probably the easiest video game interface since the one button Atari joysticks of 30 years ago. I know so many parents who have 16 month olds, kids who are still barely talking, that know how to navigate their iPad UI, launch an app, and play it. It's pretty crazy. Also, the hardware and distribution channels for these devices are really developer friendly. They have much lower barriers to entry than modern console gaming, which means there's literally a whole world of developers who are creating amazing, original, games for people of all ages. I'm very optimistic that the combination of these extremely intuitive devices and open, developer friendly environments will create the perfect opportunity for a great new generation of kids games.
Costume Quest reminded me so much of a really good kids' show where there's stuff in it that's meant to ping off of both kids' and adults' brains. Was there anything you guys learned with that game that was also applied to Once Upon a Monster?
It's easy to label Costume Quest and Once Upon a Monster as "kids games" but internally we always thought of them as family games, as games that were for people of all ages, games that parents and kids could play together. Both games use humour, especially in dialog, to keep the adults engaged while using simple controls and a forgiving design to accommodate the needs of inexperienced gamers (like young kids or non-gamer parents). Lastly, both Tasha and I like wanted to make games whose overall aesthetic and emotional tone was positive/uplifting, and you can really see that in the character designs, colour pallets, and animation style.


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Interview: Michael Brand
The chatter of school kids bounces off the travertine floors. The Art Gallery of NSW is buzzing with visitors heading to three temporary exhibitions on a sparkling autumn morning. Amid the throng, a lean man in a cream jacket and owlish spectacles passes unnoticed.
The gallery's incoming director, Michael Brand, is not yet the instantly recognisable figure he will become. For now, he can wander past artworks or down the escalator to the cafe without being bailed up by visitors keen to share their opinion on what is - or is not - on display. Not that such a prospect bothers him. He is glad the gallery elicits strong views.
''That's good, they're paying attention,'' he says. ''They say, 'What's he doing? He's taken down my favourite painting - or my least favourite'. You want people to have opinions, have a dialogue.''
Surveying his new domain in civvies is something of a novelty for Brand. For the past two years, he has become accustomed to donning a hard hat and steel-capped boots as a consultant to the Aga Khan Museum under construction in Toronto.
We retreat to the director's bare corner office where, on a brief visit to Sydney before he takes up his role in June, Brand is camped out.
Beside the window, with its sweeping view to the Botanic Gardens and harbour, the bookshelves sit empty, a sight which must look to an intellectual such as Brand as incongruous as an empty fridge to a foodie. Brand is poised to make his mark.
The gallery is fortunate to have snaffled Brand. That was the consensus when it was announced he would succeed the ebullient Edmund Capon, who had retired after 33 years. Indeed, when Capon decided it was finally time to call it quits, one of the first people he told was Brand.
The two men share a specialty in Asian art - Brand is an India specialist - and a fondness for zipping about in Minis. Thoughtful and incisive, Brand is more scholar than showman. It seems safe to assume that a ''F--- off, I'm smoking'' sign will not grace his office door as it did that of his predecessor.
Canberra-born Brand arrives at the gallery after more than a decade in North America, including as director of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and with a dazzling international network that includes the heads of the Hermitage, Louvre, Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art and the Tate.
Brand, 54, is a man of the world. French, Italian, Hindi, Urdu and Persian are among the languages he speaks. His expertise is the art of the past but he is keen on contemporary art and plans to be on deck in Sydney in time for the Biennale.
He wants to connect the gallery internationally and to examine what this means in an era of instant communication and long-haul flights.
''I don't want to go back to the old-fashioned idea and say, 'Why should we be confined by our region? Let's go back to being interested in Europe and North America','' he says. ''… If Shanghai is meant to be more important because it's 'regional', what about Santiago? Shanghai might be a 10-hour flight, Santiago might be, what, a 13-hour flight? We have to be careful in the 21st century of still thinking - as if the boat is leaving Southampton - that Malacca is nearby but Los Angeles isn't.''
As a collection grows over 100 years it is reasonable to assume that some works will never be displayed.
Brand's background has shaped his international orientation. Growing up in Canberra in the 1950s and '60s, he recalls it not as a provincial, white-bread backwater masquerading as a capital but the place that first opened a window onto a wider world.
''It was such a small city but there were lots of diplomats … In your playgroups you had kids from all different parts of the world,'' he says.
Art, too, was part of the fabric of his early life. His mother took art lessons from John Coburn and the family attended small gallery openings.
''It meant I had works of art in front of me, of whatever quality,'' he says.
En route to Washington when his economist father became a director of the International Monetary Fund, Brand had his first encounter with international art - thanks to an unusual flight schedule that reached the US via Tahiti and Mexico.
''I think it was called the fiesta route instead of the kangaroo route,'' he says. In Papeete, he saw the Paul Gauguin Museum and in Mexico City his first international art museum, the imposing National Museum of Anthropology with its collection of pre-Columbian art.
''We arrived there on a Christmas Day … this great modernist structure with this amazing material in it,'' he says. ''I've had a strange introduction.''
His unorthodox entree continued when, as a 15-year-old, he travelled with his older brother, David, to India and Nepal. It was the pre-Lonely Planet hippie era when few other Westerners ventured to such then off-the-beaten track places such as Kathmandu. Brand was entranced. ''We got to see Hindu temples, Buddhist temples, Mughal [architecture], the Taj Mahal,'' he says. ''It was also seeing it in situ.
''We'd go to a temple and there were people worshipping and there was a level of chaos, a level of focus, a bit of chanting, a bit of music, incense, things with offerings poured over them and dressed up. It made a huge impact.''
It prompted Brand, who studied at Canberra's Australian National University and Harvard, to become an Indian art specialist. After he married a fellow ANU student, Tina Gomes, a food writer whose family are Malaysian Indian, the pair honeymooned in Lahore, Pakistan.
Brand had a Smithsonian Institution grant to research Mughal gardens. Much of the time was spent, tape measure in hand, in the city's magnificent Shalimar Gardens - as he dodged cricket balls lobbed by kids who found the World Heritage site an ideal pitch.
He was the curator of Asian art at the National Gallery of Australia from 1988 before becoming assistant director at the Queensland Art Gallery in 1996. He left Australia in 2000 for Richmond, Virginia, to become director of the Virginia Museum.
Before he has his feet under the desk or books on the shelf, he is not about to talk detailed plans for the Art Gallery of NSW. But on one potentially contentious area he is unequivocal. He regards selling works in the collection, or deaccessioning, as appropriate.
''When you think about what it costs to store works for eternity, as a collection grows over 100 years it is reasonable to assume that some works will never be displayed,'' he says. ''But you have to be very careful to know why you are deaccessioning and there are professional guidelines that money from deaccessioning can only go to acquire other works of art. But if you do it properly, it's entirely appropriate.''
His priority in Sydney will be getting to know the collection and talking to the gallery's curators.
''What have they acquired recently? What are they thinking of acquiring? Do they know any collectors who are collecting in certain areas who may be predisposed to supporting the museum in the future? Find out about past failures, things they were trying to get and didn't get and what happened. Look at funding options.''
He would also like more space. The building on its present site has reached capacity. He did not come with a defined brief to oversee the creation of a new building.
''But when I was talking to the trustees, we did talk about space,'' he says. ''They're thinking about those issues very actively.''
It is what will be on the walls that will command the public's attention. The gallery has a strong track record of scholarship and curating its own exhibitions, which Brand is keen to continue. He doesn't rule out taking the travelling blockbuster - shows that have typically come to our shores in recent years when an overseas museum has closed for renovations. But allshows need to have an idea behind them and to involve the gallery's curators, including visiting exhibitions.
''What you don't want is a couple of directors saying, 'Hey, we're closing down, we're trying to make some money, would you like to take our exhibition and show it for three months? We've packaged up 100 paintings to send to 10 different countries, if you want to be part of it you can'.''
Brand is himself a distinguished curator, including such early landmark shows as The Age of Angkor,The Vision of Kings and Indian Bronzes for the National Gallery of Australia. Would he curate himself?
''It would be very nice to and I think so, it's good to be part of the creative process. But I want to be wary of that. There's nothing worse than a director promising and six months later doesn't have time and says [to a curator], 'I've picked all the pieces, can you just finish it up for me and write the catalogue?' If you're going to do it, you've got to do it properly.''
He points out that at the Tate in London all senior staff, including director Sir Nicholas Serota, curate a show every couple of years. Serota was an adviser to the gallery on the search for Capon's successor and a factor in Brand's decision to accept his new role. Brand consulted Serota - with Steve Lowy's blessing - about the position. So what did Serota tell him?
''[To the effect that] 'This is in fact a great opportunity. It's a wonderful organisation and you have wonderful potential for collaborating with colleagues internationally','' Brand says. ''In a way I knew that but it was good to hear it from someone like Nick, who has very, very high standards.''
Brand didn't intend to stay overseas so long. Initially, he and his wife wanted to give their two daughters, now teenagers, an overseas experience. But way leads unto way.
''The cliche is you can't really plan your own career and what I've always tried to do is be open to interesting opportunities,'' he says.


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GOOD NEWS: Emily Ratajkowski is back with some new pictures and holy crap just look.
We bet this is the cover that will suck your eyeballs away from all the others at the magazine rack for at least as long as the newsstand guy feels like leaving it up. Which may be like a decade or something, if the guy's smart.
Then again, will we still be using our eyes to view paper images in 10 years? Who knows what technology will arrive within by then? Instead of eyeballs, maybe we'll have iBalls. (Wait, that sounds gross.) There could be hologram phones, healing nanobots … sorry, we got off-track there.
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Sheriff's candidate Patrick Gomez was a sergeant when he decided to take his first shot at becoming L.A. County's top law enforcement officer in 1998.
More than 16 years later, the now retired sheriff's lieutenant is still hoping for a chance to fix the department, which he said has been in decline.
"I could walk away and say, who cares what happens in the Sheriff's Department?" Gomez said. "But after 31 years, I hate to see where the department has gone."
When Gomez first pinned on a badge in 1981, he said, things were different. Deputies could served with pride and the public trusted its Sheriff's Department.
According to Gomez, he has personally experienced some of the agency's problems. After losing his bid for sheriff in 2002, he filed a lawsuit claiming retaliation, and won a jury verdict and a $950,000 settlement.
It's the mix seeing and experiencing the department at its best and worst, Gomez said, that makes him the best candidate for sheriff.
Some of the changes he hopes to implement will be as simple as restoring policies that were taken off the books, Gomez said. For instance, deputies were once required to count and log drug money so that it would not disappear. But the procedure was inexplicably dropped, he said.
Other matters, Gomez said, come down to sound fiscal management. Desk jockeys, whose day-to-day work doesn't require driving, he said, shouldn't receive taxpayer-funded cars and gas. The county vehicles, he said, are typically used for lengthy commutes between work and home.
Gomez also plans on looking to technology for help solving some of the department's problems. Deputies should wear cameras on their shirt lapels, said Gomez, who spent much of his career training deputies to work county streets and jails.
"Studies have already shown that's going to cut back on citizens' complaints, use of force and lawsuits," Gomez said. "The tape's not going to lie."
The department's leadership, Gomez said, also needs to change. If elected, Gomez said, he would surround himself with retirees he can trust.
Gomez and his leadership team, he said, would hold deputies accountable for their actions regardless of their rank and even if it meant firing them.
As for outside monitoring, Gomez said he wants transparency. The public, he said, would be granted full access. As for the Board of Supervisors' appointed watchdog, Inspector General Max Huntsman, Gomez said he wants him to be an independent investigator: one who carries subpoena power and performs his own investigation of misconduct cases. Simply reviewing the sheriff's investigation, Gomez said, won't suffice as internal inquiries can be flawed.
"That's what we need, somebody who has the authority to conduct an investigation aside from what we've done," Gomez said.
Age: 56
Residence: La Cañada Flintridge
Experience: Retired L.A. County sheriff's lieutenant
Website: patrickgomezforsheriff.com
Candidates were asked to briefly describe how they would reform L.A. County's jail system and whether they would favor building new jails to expand capacity. Here are Gomez's responses:
Raise hiring standards. Dual-track patrol/custody deputy. Ceiling and lapel cameras.
More supervisors. Ensure everyone is treated with respect, Hire more doctors and nurses.
Ensure inmates receive their medications within 24 hours of being booked into the L.A. County jail system.
No. nonviolent inmates will be placed on the work release program. They will work with Caltrans, county and city public works and nonprofit organizations removing graffiti, cleaning parks, beaches, storm drains and waterways which deposit into the ocean (Santa Monica Bay, etc.).
They will give back to the communities they have been victimizing.


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Taking a break from painting sexy portraits of cows, Swiss illustrator Gavin Patterson took a lap around Circuit de l'Anneau Du Rhin in Alsace with a BMW factory driver. On the way, he had to draw a Christmas card. Spoiler: He did not poke himself in the eye with a pen.
The bit was done as a promo spot for the 2012 BMW M5. The helmeted Patterson, wielding a fist full of markers, went at the page with the intent to scrawl a few typical holiday clichés: santa, reindeer, etc. What he ended up with was an abstraction of Christmas motifs by way of interruptive lateral g-force loading. The next big thing on the gallery scene, no doubt.


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A few simple guidelines, however, can turn a small space from Dilemma to De-Lovely.
Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, founder of the decor blog Apartment Therapy and author of "The Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces" (Clarkson Potter, 2010), thinks it's all about light.
"The single most powerful influencer in a room is the lighting," he says.
Every room should have three sources of illumination, which will bounce off walls and create a visual expanse, Gillingham-Ryan says. Track lighting is a good alternative to free-standing fixtures if space is a problem.
"Track has really improved in the past few years. You don't have to buy a big section with large lights; there are many smaller, attractive options," he says.
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Rather than buy adjustable furniture for a multi-purpose small space, "it's better to find good pieces that do what they're supposed to," he says. For example, instead of an ottoman with a lid that flips into a tray, buy a great ottoman and a great tray. "You'll appreciate both pieces so much more."
Gillingham-Ryan suggests limiting the colour palette of a small room. He likes off-white in all its iterations, with bright white on ceilings. "Keep floors dark — they're calming and grounding, and will make the walls seem higher," he says.
Use accessories, such as a great rug, to add colour. "You can't change your square footage, but you can change the way the space feels," he says.
Elaine Griffin, a New York-based designer and author of "Design Rules" (Gotham, 2009), says a welcoming foyer is near the top of her list for small spaces.
"It's an important part of the psychological experience of coming home. I like to create a 'faux foyer' by sitting a decorative cube or box adjacent to the door with a tray for mail, and perhaps a shelf above for keys, a flower and a fragrant candle. Mount a mirror above the shelf," she says.
In the living area, "avoid the temptation to put your sofa on the long wall. Put it on the short wall, and you'll have more room to create décor zones," Griffin says. Loveseats — popular purchases for small apartments — are "a no-no. Truthfully, they only sit one. Go for the better-proportioned 72-to-76-inch 'apartment-sized' sofa."
In tiny bathrooms, Griffin says, "I'm a big fan of wall-mountable, square mini-shelves, which I station in multiples behind the door. Save the most visible space above the toilet for art."
Janice Simonson, IKEA's design spokesperson, seconds that approach. "Often people only look at the 'footprint' of the room," she says. "Look for space on the verticals — railings, hooks and shelves on doors and walls can hold baskets and clothing, and serve as drying areas for laundry."
She thinks many people err by buying too much storage, ending up with more stuff that takes space.
"Take the time to plan; don't buy anything till you've moved in and unpacked, to see what's needed," she says.
Some other general tips:
— Downsize. What do you need and what can you live without? Rip all your CDs to a hard drive, then sell or donate them. Get rid of anything you rarely use.
— Sight lines are important. Benches, open shelves, furniture with legs, light materials — these help the eye perceive a room as more spacious.
— Mobilize. Rolling tables and carts can serve as dining, work or play pieces.


text: Sandalwood \San"dal*wood\, n. [F. sandal, santal, fr. Ar. [,c]andal, or Gr. sa`ntalon; both ultimately fr. Skr. candana. Cf. {Sanders}.] (Bot.) (a) The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree ({Santalum album}), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian {Santalum Freycinetianum} and {S. pyrularium}, the Australian {S. latifolium}, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood. (b) Any tree of the genus {Santalum}, or a tree which yields sandalwood. (c) The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather ({Rhamnus Dahuricus}). {False sandalwood}, the fragrant wood of several trees not of the genus {Santalum}, as {Ximenia Americana}, {Myoporum tenuifolium} of Tahiti. {Red sandalwood}, a heavy, dark red dyewood, being the heartwood of two leguminous trees of India ({Pterocarpus santalinus}, and {Adenanthera pavonina}); -- called also {red sanderswood}, {sanders} or {saunders}, and {rubywood}.


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February 16, 2010
With high unemployment, mounting government and private debt, and the United State's position as a world leader in jeopardy, times are tough. Monday night, five Wabash students attempted to solve this problem by taking equally tough stands as they addressed this year's Baldwin Oratorical Contest theme, "It's time for some tough love."
A gift from the late D.P. Baldwin endowed an award to be given each year to the three Wabash students who "compose and pronounce the best orations." The Baldwin Oratorical Contest is the oldest continuous public speaking contest west of the Alleghenies. Thus, each Spring the Wabash Rhetoric Department sponsors the Baldwin Oratorical Contest and determines the top three speakers.
In Photo: Rhetoric Professor Jennifer Abbott presents Bisbee with a copy of the works of Shakespear. Photos by Drew Casey '12


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Use your color wheel to help you create your own color scheme that best fit your your personality. The monochromatic color scheme uses tone on tone of the same color with the addition of white or black to lighten or darken the color. For example, in this scheme blue can become a pale sky blue or a dark midnight blue and all three hues of the same shade are used to create this effect. The analogous scheme uses colors that appear next to each other on the color wheel.
Test out your colors with paint swatches and fabrics. Draw out plans of your rooms and sketch in the colors. If they work on paper, try painting small areas of your walls. You can buy any color paint in a sample size specifically for this reason. When painting sample areas look other rooms and how they connect so that you can create a flow from room to room so that the colors complement each other. An adjoining room may want a non accent or a neutral color, or conversely you can work with contrasting tones as well as long as there is always a semblance of flow.
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Noodles are a staple food in many cultures made from unleavened dough which is stretched, extruded, or rolled flat and cut into one of a variety of shapes. A single noodle can be made, eaten, or extracted from a serving of noodles, but it is more common to serve and eat many at once, and thus more common to see the plural form of the word. A lot of food lovers crave for noodles of all kind once in a while. So the list below of Noodle Resto in Los Angeles, might be of help.
Orochon Ramen
Saigon Noodle Restaurant
Santouka Ramen
Wasabi Japanese Noodle House
Wat Dong Moon Lek Noodle
Chabuya Tokyo Noodle Bar
Asahi Ramen
Shin-Sen-Gumi Hakata Ramen
Noodle World
Ramen Jinya
Tsujita LA Artisan Noodles Annex
Pa Ord Noodle
Mandarin Noodle House
101 Noodle Express
Tatsu Ramen
Mr. Noodle
Ramen Nippon
Viet Noodle Bar (atwater)
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Noodle World
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Ramen Yamadaya
Mr Ramen
Ramen Restaurant Ko-Ryu
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Otafuku Noodle House
Tasty Noodle House
Noodle Cafe
Olympic Noodle Restaurant
Santouka Ramen Torrance
Myung Dong Noodle House
Tamashii Ramen House
Eboshi Noodle Bar
Pho Legend Noodle & Grill
Noodle Guy Vietnamese Restaurant
Ord Noodles 2
Phnom Penh Noodle Shack
Wasabi Japanese Noodle House
Hong Kong Noodle Co
Kyushu Ramen
Pasadena Noodle & Grill
Futaba Japanese Restaurant
Shin-Sen-Gumi Hakata Ramen
Benten Ramen
Mien Nghia Restaurant
Kim Ky Noodle House
Casa Noodle Teriyaki
Noodle City
Onkei Ramen
Ramen Yamadaya
Pacific Noodle House
Ajisen Ramen
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Cornell University Foundation—Donor Advised Fund
The Cornell University Foundation is a convenient, cost-effective alternative to commercial charitable gift funds or the legal complexities and expense of establishing and operating a private foundation.
What is the Cornell University Foundation?
A service for Cornell alumni and friends, the Cornell University Foundation—A Donor Advised Fund is a convenient and cost-effective option for individuals who make substantial gifts to charity and have a number of philanthropic interests. It offers an alternative to commercial charitable gift funds or the legal complexities and expense of operating a private foundation.
Once an account is established with contributions, donors advise Cornell of gifts they would like to make to eligible charities. The university handles all payments and administration, providing full documentation to donors and the charitable organizations that benefit from their gifts.
Why should I consider the Cornell University Foundation?
Enhance Your Philanthropy
- Follow your own timetable. Donor-advised distributions can be immediate or deferred until you are ready to make them.
- There are no minimum annual distributions to charity, unlike a private foundation.
- You can give your children or other family members advisory privileges to carry on your philanthropy. This can instill philanthropic values among your family.
It's Easy
- It's easy to establish and add to your account.
- Give to multiple charities with no checks to write.
- Cornell provides the administrative record keeping and tax reporting.
- Full documentation will be provided to you, your family, and the charitable recipient.
Tax Benefits
- Gifts are income tax-deductible in the year of your contribution.
- Avoid capital-gain tax on gifts of appreciated assets.
- Remove assets from your taxable estate.
Excellent Fund Management
- Making gifts of appreciated assets through the foundation is advantageous to you and to charities not equipped to sell stock or real estate.
- Your gift will be invested in the endowment of Cornell University, benefiting from professional investment management.
Who is an eligible donor?
Individuals, trusts, estates, and companies (a wise alternative to establishing costly corporate giving programs).
What assets can I contribute?
Cash, marketable securities, closely held stock, gifts-in-kind, real estate, stock options, pre-IPO or venture stock, retirement-plan funds, and insurance.
Can I transfer an account from a commercial donor-advised fund?
Absolutely. Call us for assistance.
What's the minimum contribution?
The minimum initial foundation gift is $100,000. All gifts are irrevocable. Additional contributions of any amount can be made at any time during your lifetime and through your estate.
What portion must I commit to Cornell?
For accounts under $500,000, 50% or more of the funds contributed must eventually be allocated to Cornell. For accounts greater than $500,000, 25% must be allocated to Cornell. The balance can go to any recognized charity in the U.S. For accounts greater than $1,000,000, there is no minimum Cornell allocation.
How does Cornell recognize my contribution?
You will receive gift credit for the portion of your gift allocated to Cornell. Also, you will be invited to join the Cornell University Cayuga Society. This is a society that honors individuals who have established a planned gift at Cornell.
How can Cornell's gift planning office be of assistance?
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Poly(methyl methacrylate), also called PMMA, is a low cost thermoplastic polymer with many applications to everyday life. Highly transparent PMMA is an ideal replacement for glass where impact or weight is a concern. PMMA is compatible with human tissue making it an important material for transplants and prosthetics, especially in the field of ophthalmology because of its transparent properties.
Reference Standard; soluble in aromatic hydrocarbons, chlorinated hydrocarbons, methyl ethyl ketone, ethyl acetateMw/Mn ~ 1.10
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Sullivan, Sawicki advance in primary
September 11, 2013
Incumbent John Sullivan took the most votes in Tuesday's primary mayoral election with nearly 36....
Sullivan can't keep track of who voted, did they vote, call the vote. Budget night was another classic example of how he loses his place when told, we already voted Mr.Mayor. Oh...well let's move on. You can't make this stuff up. Vote Sawicki.
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Sullivan is likely headed for defeat in November, seeing that nearly 2/3's of the voters didn't vote for him. Marni wasn't my first choice but she is head and shoulders above Sullivan in integrity and leadership. Sullivan's biggest bragging right is being able to divide different sections of our community (rate payers vs non payers, citizens vs employees, etc). His use of the mayor's chair to support Leetz and Deile in verbal assaults against other elected officials is almost criminal in my opinion. Not to mention his vulgarities into the mic, something we can be assured of to not happen with Marni. Vote for integrity and maturity. Vote for Marni!
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Have you ever seen Sully try to string three words together?
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@Angelsonly: Still dumping on people eh Chris?
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Congrats to Mayor Sullivan, too bad a qualified opponent did not place second. Doubtful the runner up could even complete a sentence let alone a original thought or idea.
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"Incumbent John Sullivan took the most votes in Tuesday's primary mayoral election with nearly 36 percent of the votes cast..." Remember, 64 percent voted for anyone but SULLIVAN. SULLIVAN will get 46 percent and SAWICKI will get 54 percent of the votes cast in the General Election. Bye-Bye SULLIVAN. And you take that to the bank! VOTE FOR SAWICKI!
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Vegetarians would like to see a world where no one eats meat. At least some feminists would like to see a world where men and women are essentially the same except for outward appearance. Conservatives think liberalism is wrong and vice versa.
Many people would like to stamp out capital punishment worldwide. Some people feel that everyone should be nice and politically correct at all times and never be angry or rude. Some people say that no one every should tell a lie; others think lying can be good sometimes. Some people think everyone should be (fill in the religion); on the other side are atheists like us.
Now, imagine a homogenized world. Everyone under the same laws. Believing the same things. Everyone having exactly the same rights and responsibilities. The same limitations and the same opportunities. And everyone's happy with it, including you.
Standing back from this world, would this be a good world or would there be something fundamentally flawed or wrong or dysfunctional with it?
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A world where everyone is happy? What more could anyone achieve?
A world where everything is right, perhaps?
The real question Doug, is in such a world, what can ANYone achieve? It has been need, and want, and dissatisfaction that has driven Humankind to do and create and invent great things. Without those, we'd have no motivation, much like a cow in a pasture of green grass, next to a stream.
Need drives the Human Spirit.
Need drives the Human Spirit.
Toward what? isn't happiness pretty much the end game here?
Not really, it's the pursuit of that rainbow that keeps us going.
Yes...says this Epicurist.
Would you rather be an unhappy human, or a happy pig?
So how would you explain the expression of joy as someone being in "hog heaven"?
I can see how the RESPONSE to environmental stimuli might be based on instinct, but I can't equate this to their feelings.
Would you rather be a "human in shite" or a "pig in shite"?
Data seems to have way too much face paint!
Do you mean like a flock of sheep is homogenized?


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Comfort-Aire BGE-123 12,000 BTU Thru the Wall Air Conditioner
- 12,000 BTU's of cooling
- Cools, dehumidifies, and ventilates
- Thru the wall air conditioner
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Comfort-Aire BGE-123 12,000 BTUH Thru The Wall Air Conditioner
Enjoy cooling and heating your living space safely and efficiently with the Comfort-Aire BG-123 12,000 BTU thru the wall air conditioner and featuring 12,000 BTUs of heating and cooling power that can cool from 300-350 square feet. What's great about this unit is that it also includes a washable air filter. So not only will the Comfort-Aire BG-123 room air conditioner cool the air, but it will also make it cleaner, which is good for you and your family's health. This AC works as a
- Air conditioner
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- Fan
- Heater
Optimal Airflow
You'll enjoy airflow that is set to your exact preference with the 2 different cooling speeds and 2 additional fan-only settings. It includes 4 way air sweep that create more even air distribution, and 4 modes of operation including fan only, auto, dry, and cool. Adjust the temperature, and this unit will cool as desired, all the while still operating very quietly!
The Comfort Aire room air conditioner and heater makes cooling and heating your home easy. You can set the 24-hour timer to turn on just before you get home from work so it's not running all day or have it turn off just after you go to bed.
Special Features Include
- 24 hour programmable timer
- Energy saver function, auto restart, sleep mode
- Remote control operation
- Solid construction, corrosion resistant paint, attractive styling
- Standard mounting frame adapts to any wall sleeve
Energy Savings
This unit benefits the environment and your pocketbook. Featuring an energy saver mode, you can be sure this AC is operating efficiently. It also includes additional features like a money saver setting that operates the fan only when cooling which ensures less energy use.
Installation is Easy
Installing the Comfort-Aire BG-123 air conditioner is very easy with standard mounting frame that allows the unit to adapt to virtually any existing wall sleeve. It's designed with the heavy-duty requirements found in commercial applications, but is versatile enough for home, commercial, or industrial use.
- Model: BGE-123
- Product Type: 12,000 BTU Thru the Wall Air Conditioner
- Product Dimensions: L: 20.31" x W: 24.25" x H: 14.56"
- Product Weight: 77.00 lbs.
- Application: Buiilders series by Comfort Aire is ideal for commercial, industrial and residential cooling
- Warranty: 1 year parts and labor; 5 years sealed system
- Type: Wall Air Conditioner
- Coverage Area: 400 square feet
- Heater: Yes
- Voltage: 230 volts
- Heating Capacity: 12000 BTUs
- Cooling Capacity: 12000 BTUs
- Frequency: 60 Hz
- Heat Pump: Yes
- Number of Fan Speeds: 2
- Programmable Timer: Yes
- Timer Length: 24 hour
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- Air Conditioner Type: Cool/Heat
- Air Filter: Yes
- Built-In Air Purification System: No
- Air Purification Method: Dust Filter
- Display Type: LCD
- Remote Control: Yes
- Energy Star Qualified: No
- Dehumidify Feature: Yes
- Compatible with Windows: No
- Includes Window Mounting Kit: No
- 4 way airflow allows users to direct airflow up or down and to the right or left
- Comes with fully featured remote and easy to use control pad
- Easy to remove, front mounted, slide-out filter is a breeze to clean
- Energy saver function, auto restart, 24-hout timer, auto and sleep mode
- Filter is designed to trap dust and other foreign particles
- Painted cabinet for protection form corrosion


text: Reducing energy consumption is one way to improve both the profitability and value of any property. To illustrate the benefits of such improvements, the National Apartment Association (NAA) developed a scenario in which a property manager of a typical 20-unit apartment community with an annual operating income of $98,000 retrofitted common-area lighting and upgraded the laundry room. Just these changes increased annual net operating income by $3,000 and increased the property value by $46,154 (assuming a 6.5 percent capitalization rate). As attractive as such benefits may seem, energy management in multifamily residences does present its challenges. The most prominent is the complexity that arises due to the different—and sometimes conflicting—interests of property managers and their tenants. Nevertheless, there are still plenty of opportunities for property managers to reduce energy consumption and improve the bottom line for their properties and clients. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that, as of 2005, multifamily units accounted for 15 percent of U.S. energy consumption, and that owners and tenants pay over $30 billion a year to purchase that energy. According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), utilities typically are 25 to 35 percent of overall operating costs, making them the single largest controllable cost in multifamily housing (Figure 1). Average energy use data Figure 1: Energy consumption by end use Space heating is the single biggest energy consumer in multifamily buildings. Top technology uses Space Heating Water Heating Lighting When it comes to reducing energy consumption in common areas, property managers typically face a relatively simple situation: They need only to gain the support of either the building owners or their investors. Reducing energy consumption in individual units is more complex and requires different strategies depending on whether energy costs are included in the rent—which, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, is the case in more than a quarter of U.S. apartments. Property managers for buildings where rent includes utility costs have a clear interest in investing in efficient building shell components, heating and cooling equipment, and appliances. Energy use in these units represents an uncontrolled expense for managers because there are typically few limits on the energy such tenants may consume. Retrofitting submetering equipment into such units is one way to encourage those tenants to take control of their own energy expenditures. In buildings where tenants pay their own energy costs, offering "green leases" is a way to enable tenants to share in the costs of those energy-efficiency upgrades that they benefit from (see the "Get Tenants Involved" section). A good place to start with any energy-reduction program is to observe the patterns by which your building systems and tenants use energy (Figure 2). Armed with such knowledge, a manager can improve how the common areas, lighting, HVAC, parking areas, vacant units, pools, and hot tubs are operated. For example, schedule common area services to be fully functional during peak demand and reduce their availability during low-demand periods. Figure 2: Multifamily load patterns exhibit early and late peaks The electrical load profile of a typical multifamily residence exhibits two distinct peaks. The first, smaller one occurs in the early morning and tops out around 9:00 a.m. The second, larger one is much higher, lasting until about 8:00 p.m. Quick fixes this section To ramp up your energy management program, first take advantage of small opportunities that require little up-front capital investment. For example, turning off equipment that is providing little or no amenity to residents is as simple and inexpensive as energy management gets. Once you've built momentum and experience, you can move on to more expensive and complex actions. Start with the basics Educate your residents. Let your residents know that there are a number of no-cost and low-cost improvements they can do to help save money on their energy bills, including: Turn off the lights. Turn off lights when leaving a room. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star program, turning off just one 60-watt incandescent bulb that would otherwise burn eight hours a day can save about $15 per year. Replace incandescent bulbs with CFLs or light-emitting diodes (LEDs). An Energy Star–certified light bulb—whether CFL or LED—uses 70 percent to 90 percent less energy than a traditional incandescent bulb, can last 10 to 25 times longer, and saves $30 to $80 in electricity costs over its lifetime, according to Energy Star. Residents can contact the local utility for details on lighting product rebates and giveaway programs. Prevent waste in water use and water heating. Ask the property manager to fix leaky faucets, showerheads, pipes, and toilets. Lower the thermostat on the water heater to 120° Fahrenheit (F) and minimize hot shower time. Scrape food off dishes instead of rinsing them, and wash only full loads of dishes and clothes. Install faucet aerators and low-flow showerheads to reduce hot water use, and use cold water for laundering. Avoid overdrying clothes. Clean out the dryer's lint trap before drying clothes, and dry only full loads. Control plug loads. Unplug small appliances like smart phone and tablet chargers when not in use. Other "plug-load" devices such as microwaves, televisions, laptops, and video game consoles can draw power through the electric cord even when the appliance is turned off. A no-cost solution is to simply unplug these appliances when not in use. Other options include plugging appliances into a switched power strip that can be turned off when the appliances aren't in use, or using "smart" power strips that automatically turn off plug loads when not in use. Clean refrigerator coils and check the gaskets. Vacuum dust from the vent beneath the door and from the coils behind the fridge every two months or so—more often if the household has pets that shed. Check for leaks around the refrigerator door; if gaps exist, ask the property manager to repair the gasket or install a new one. Seal gaps. Use caulk and weather-stripping to seal gaps around windows, doors, chimneys, and other structural elements. Make use of the sun. During cold months, open drapes or shades on windows that receive direct sun—let the sun's heat help warm the home during the day, but close the shades for extra insulation when the sun goes down. In warmer months, close drapes or shades to prevent heat gain from the sun and lighten the load on any air-conditioning units. Use fans in hot weather instead of air conditioning. Ceiling fans and portable fans use much less energy than air conditioners. If it's too hot to use a fan only, combine the use of a ceiling fan with the use of an air conditioner—the combination will enable the setpoint of the air conditioner to be turned up 4° to 5°F without a decrease in comfort. Consider an Energy Star–qualified room air conditioner—according to Energy Star, they use at least 10 percent less energy than standard models. In arid or semiarid climates where nights are cool, open windows at night, and then close them during the day to retain the cool air. Tune up the furnace and replace the filter. Get the furnace tuned up at the beginning of winter and change the filter twice each heating season. Avoid blocking air vents. Check air vents in the unit to make sure they aren't covered or blocked by furniture, curtains, or other objects, so air can circulate without restraint. Shut off registers in unused rooms. Install a programmable thermostat. Install programmable thermostats to automatically alter the unit's temperature settings when residents are sleeping or away. Energy Star notes that when used properly, a programmable thermostat can save up to $150 a year in energy costs. Educate your team. According to the DOE, educating employees to be diligent about energy use is one of the most effective means to reduce energy bills. Instruct building staff to turn off unnecessary lights, minimize the use of heating and cooling when possible, turn off computer equipment and appliances that are not in use, make sure model and vacant units are operated efficiently, and take notice of malfunctioning controls such as broken or maladjusted photosensors. Educate your vendors and any contractors working on the property of the steps being taken to save energy. Remove excess lamps. Reduce lighting in public and common spaces by removing lamps in areas where natural lighting is available or dimming lights in proportion to the availability of sunlight. Consider daylighting controls to automate dimming. Measure lighting levels and compare them to the recommendations of local building codes or national standards (a list of recommended lighting levels is available in the lighting chapter of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Building Upgrade Manual). Where lighting levels exceed recommendations, remove lamps and measure again. Turn equipment down or off Manage vacant units. Turn off breakers where freezing and security are not a concern, turn heating and cooling off or down to minimal temperature settings, adjust refrigerators and freezers to their warmest settings, and turn off water heaters. Regularly review vacant units' energy bills to identify unnecessary energy use and walk through them to ensure that lights and thermostats are off and that windows and blinds are closed. Set accurate garage temperatures and ventilation rates. Lower the thermostat setting in heated garages (and other low-use areas, such as service or mechanical areas) and accurately set the ventilation rate. Calculating the appropriate ventilation rate requires data collection, including the average rate of car emissions, the number of moving cars, the average travel time within the garage, and the average speed of cars in the garage. Hire an engineer to collect such data and do the necessary calculations. Lower the settings on water heaters. Turning down water heater settings by 10° Fahrenheit (F) can decrease heating energy costs by 3 to 5 percent, according to the DOE. Take care, though, that you do not expose your tenants to excessive risks regarding Legionnaire's disease. Legionella bacteria are widely present in potable water systems. To minimize the risk of contagion, ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers) recommends that water heaters be set at 140°F in high-risk situations (for example, nursing homes, but presumably anywhere that residents with compromised immune systems are present) and 120°F in all other situations. Install a timer on hot water circulation pumps. Shut off hot water recirculation during times of low use (for example, 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.). When determining low use times, consider tenant habits—some might need a shower after returning late from a night out or a night shift. Adjust pool and hot tub temperature. The American Red Cross recommends 78°F as the optimal pool temperature. In warmer months, turn the heater off altogether. Set hot tubs to 96°F during warmer months and no higher than 102°F during cooler months. Cleaning and maintenance Clean and maintain HVAC equipment. According to the DOE's Energy Star program, a clean heat transfer surface can provide energy savings of up to 10 percent. Energy Star also recommends conducting regular preventive maintenance on heating and cooling equipment including checking and replacing filters regularly; cleaning dampers, blower units, housing units, and motors; inspecting fans, bearings, and belts; and making sure that terminal fan coil units and baseboards are not blocked. Maintaining and cleaning heating and cooling systems can yield energy savings of upwards of 15 percent, according to Energy Star. Keep lights clean and calibrate sensors. According to the DOE, cleaning light fixtures can boost light output by 10 percent indoors and up to 60 percent outdoors. Replacing discolored lenses will increase output by up to 20 percent. See Boosting Lighting Efficiency with Reflectors and Maintenance for additional cleaning tips. Calibrating occupancy sensors and photocells to restore correct operation can reduce energy use by up to 50 percent. The DOE's Federal Energy Management Program has created a fact sheet (PDF) that will help you save energy and money by maintaining lighting and controls. Longer-term solutions this section Once your energy management program has demonstrated success with the items above, you're ready for measures that require financial investment and detailed planning. Tune up building systems and O&M programs Track your energy use. Use the Energy Star Program's Portfolio Manager to track your buildings' energy consumption (if you need help, Energy Star has created a site specifically for multifamily housing). Once you've entered basic data such as building floor area and utility bill data, this tool calculates an index of energy consumption per square foot that will enable you to compare individual buildings, either across your portfolio or against their past performance. Armed with such comparisons, you can identify and prioritize the buildings with the biggest energy consumption problems, or track your progress for those buildings in which you've implemented energy-efficiency measures. Upgrade your operations and maintenance (O&M) program. One simple way to improve the energy efficiency of buildings with little or no capital investment is to ensure that the building shell—and the expensive systems within it—are properly operated and maintained. Implementing a rigorous O&M program requires the buy-in of senior management and O&M staff alike. Ensuring that O&M activities are thoroughly documented and that staff are well-trained and -equipped also helps. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published a workbook (PDF) that contains O&M checklists as well as suggestions for numerous other O&M measures. Commission your building. According to the Building Commissioning Association, commissioning is a systematic process for investigating, analyzing, and optimizing the performance of building systems by improving O&M procedures to ensure continued performance over time. Even for smaller buildings, according to a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) study, simple payback periods were usually less than 5 years, and frequently less than 10 years. LBNL found that most commissioning activities yielded simple payback periods of less than 3 years. Retrocommissioning can guide you through the process and help you decide whether commissioning is right for your building. Take control of lighting and temperature Replace incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescents. Lighting typically offers some the most rapid simple payback periods of any energy-efficiency upgrade—often less than three years. Compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) consume about one-third to one-quarter of the energy consumed by incandescent bulbs, put out less waste heat to be removed by the air-conditioning system, and require less maintenance because they typically last 10 times longer than incandescent bulbs. Install lighting controls. Install timers in areas where occupancy is predictable and occupancy sensors where it's not. See Lighting Controls for additional efficiency ideas. Install two-level lighting—which lowers light levels during low-usage times, when less light is sufficient—for corridors, stairways, or other areas that need to have the lights on 24/7. Check with building codes to determine what areas require 24-hour lighting. Install programmable thermostats. Lower the temperature settings in common areas during times of little or no use. Setting temperatures back by 10° to 15°F for eight hours per night may reduce heating costs by 10 percent, according to Energy Star. HUD estimates that renters with dedicated heating and cooling systems can save about $180 a year by properly setting and maintaining programmable thermostats. Install new equipment or replace old equipment Reduce pool losses. Install a pump timer so that the pool pump does not run during times of low usage. Purchase a pool cover to help maintain pool temperature and achieve energy savings of 50 to 70 percent, according to the DOE. For indoor pools, reduce energy costs by installing a humidistat to control the pool exhaust fan so that it does not run continuously. Upgrade HVAC equipment upon replacement. Prepare for replacement of failed HVAC equipment now. Contact suppliers and ask them to recommend high-efficiency replacements for aging equipment so that when the time comes you can quickly specify the equipment you want. New cooling equipment sometimes may be sized smaller than the original equipment if efficiency measures have reduced energy consumption and heat loads. Retain an engineer to do sizing calculations. Document the specifications for replacement equipment so that they can be readily accessed and updated every few years. Upgrade water heaters upon replacement. Plan for water heater replacements as you would the replacement of HVAC equipment. For multiunit systems with gas heating, upgrade to condensing water heaters, which can reduce water heating bills by about 30 percent, according to the DOE. For single-unit installations, a tankless water heater might be a good way to go. Where electric water heating is used, under some circumstances, a heat pump water heater can cut energy consumption in half. Energy Star maintains a list of high-efficiency products, including a variety of water heater types; it also provides estimates of how much you can save with Energy Star–qualified products. Replace old appliances with Energy Star appliances. An Energy Star refrigerator uses at least 20 percent less energy than required by current federal standards and 40 percent less than a conventional 2001 model. An Energy Star clothes washer can reduce energy costs by more than a third and water costs by more than half. An Energy Star–rated dishwasher uses at least 41 percent less energy than conventional dishwashers. Energy Star has created calculators to help you estimate how much an Energy Star product can save you. Reduce hot water demand. Low-flow showerheads and aerator faucets can be placed both in common areas and in individual units to reduce the flow of hot water and, thereby, the demand on water heaters. According to the DOE, low-flow showerheads can be purchased for $10 to $20 apiece and can achieve water savings of 25 to 60 percent. Take control of hot water recirculation loops. Install controls on recirculation pumps so that they don't run continuously—heating water and electricity for running the pump all the time can waste copious amounts of energy. Temperature-controlled systems are better, although systems that measure the water temperature at the return to the water heater can be improved by moving the sensor to the last riser (Figure 3). After all, there's nothing to be gained by keeping the return pipe after the last riser warm. Insulate the recirculation loop to minimize losses and keep the pump off longer. And even more energy waste can be eliminated by installing demand controls, which ensure that the recirculation pump only runs when hot water is needed. Signal demand at major hot water system end-points with buttons, motion sensors, or flow switches, and mount a temperature sensor at the last riser to turn off the pump. Figure 3: Controlling recirculation pumps Where recirculation loops are controlled by temperature, the sensor is frequently located right near the pump and backflow preventer, where water is returned to the water heater. A better way to control such loops is to locate the temperature sensor right near the apartment supply line that is farthest from the water heater. Such a location will enable the pump to turn off when heated water reaches the sensor location, and allow the portion of the recirculating loop that doesn't serve any supply lines to remain relatively cool. Insulate the heated portion of the recirculation loop so that it stays warm longer after the pump has shut off. Replace exit signs. According to current U.S. federal standards, all exit signs manufactured after January 1, 2006, must draw no more than 5 watts per illuminated face of the sign. To see what your building could save by replacing aging exit signs with contemporary models, use the Energy Star exit signs savings calculator. Get tenants involved Make green leases. Green leases provide a vehicle by which building owners can invest in efficiency improvements in tenant space and recoup the costs by raising the rent in the middle of the term. For example, assume a building owner invested in an efficiency upgrade that reduced a tenant's utility bill by $20 per month. The manager could then increase the rent by $18 per month, recovering $216 a year to pay for the investment. The tenant would enjoy both a small reduction in overall costs as well as any additional amenities provided by the upgraded property. So far, green leases are used more frequently in commercial properties than residential properties due to their complexity. Meter individual units. According to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority's (NYSERDA's) "Residential Electrical Submetering Manual," submetering saves energy and the savings persist over time. Furthermore, the manual makes the case that submetering benefits 60 to 70 percent of residents and is "eminently fair and ultimately benefits building owners." Installation costs for typical submeters (such as the one shown in Figure 4) can range from $150 to $700 per unit, depending on the meter selected and how and where it is installed. According to NYSERDA, electricity consumption usually drops by about 10 to about 20 percent when master-metered buildings are converted to individual submeters. Electronic meters combined with wireless communication make it feasible to retrofit such meters into a wide variety of buildings. Figure 4: Submeters empower tenants to manage their energy costs This submeter, manufactured by E-Mon D-Mon, is typical of many such products suitable for installation in multifamily buildings. Such submeters can be retrofitted into existing buildings using a wireless mesh communication network. Some tenants have resisted submetering, especially when their units were retroactively converted. One way to minimize such resistance would be to employ green leases that would enable managers and tenants alike to improve both building shell and energy consuming equipment in conjunction with the submetering implementation. Content last reviewed: 12/15/2014