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Arriving in a new country, especially if it's your first time traveling, is almost guaranteed to be an intimidating experiencing. This is even more so the case if you're starting off in a mega-city such as Bangkok, Mexico City, Delhi or Sao Paolo, among many others.
It's one thing to 'force' yourself to get on that plane, often times alone, to head off to unfamiliar lands. But it's another thing to suddenly find yourself in the midst of a chaotic, intense and shockingly overwhelming city only minutes after your flight arrives.
No wonder so many travelers are not particularly fond of the world's largest metropolises! It makes perfect sense when our experiences in these massive cities tend to be of the 'holy crap, this is crazy, get me out of here!' sort, especially when our flight arrives at 2am, we don't have a hotel room booked and we don't speak the local language at all.
On my first independent backpacking trip, I remember all too well the 2am taxi ride from the Don Mueang International Airport to the Khao San Road area of Bangkok, where I immediately stepped right into the middle of what naturally appeared as a scene of indescribable insanity to my poorly traveled self at the time. The culture shock was instant and harsh and I found myself standing on the side of the road and on the verge of tears. I desperately wanted to hide in a hotel room but I had no idea how to go about finding one.
Tuk-tuks buzzed by me. Bar and restaurant staff yelled out to me. Vendors aggressively tried to sell me t-shirts and fake Ids. It was noisy, crowded, dirty and I was miserable.
Eventually, I walked into the first budget hotel I saw, paid the ridiculously inflated price they wanted to charge me and ran straight up to my room. And then I stayed right there in that room for 24 hours straight, staring out the window, too afraid to step foot outside once again.
I hated Bangkok. I really hated Bangkok. In fact, I wasn't so fond of Thailand in general either.
And yes, I understand how crazy of a statement that is considering that I had been in Thailand for only one day and had really only seen one street in Bangkok…from behind a window.
But often times, that's what happens when travelers arrive in such foreign destinations for the very first time.
In my earlier years of travel, I quickly began to notice a common theme taking place. I simply was not enjoying any of the major cities I was visiting and in the end, it was also affecting my feelings towards the countries as a whole where those cities were located.
Every time I landed in a new mega-metropolis, whether it be Kuala Lumpur or Buenos Aires or Ho Chi Minh City, I always found myself repeating that all too familiar phrase of 'get me out of here!' within a couple of hours.
Luckily, that all changed on that one fine day that I arrived in Delhi, India. As I roamed the streets only a short time after my flight landed, the only thing I could think about was my desire to be somewhere else. I simply didn't want to put up with the intense culture-shock and I was finding it very difficult to enjoy myself at all.
And that's when I realized that if I found myself wanting to 'get out of there', then I should just get out of there. Why was I forcing myself to stay in a city that was so overwhelming? Why should I be walking around the streets frustrated and just waiting to leave?
So, the very next morning, after only 12 hours in Delhi, I made my way to the bus station and boarded a bus to the town of Rishikesh, a small, spiritual town set in the beautiful foothills of the Himalayas, along the holy Ganges River. And as soon as I arrived six hours later, I realized that this had been one smart move. Life in Rishikesh is significantly more peaceful than in Delhi. It's not very crowded or chaotic, vehicles aren't even allowed in parts of the town, and I had no problem finding a simple guesthouse with great rooms right on the edge of the water.
Relaxed and finally excited to be in India, I then proceeded to spend one week in Rishikesh, which I then followed with one month of travel through the laid-back mountain villages, towns and small cities of the Kashmir, Ladakh and Himachel Pradesh regions of Himalayan India.
Far from intense, this one month was calm and awe-inspiring, with day after day of incredible mountain scenery, rewarding human interactions and visits to isolated Tibetan communities that have remained relatively unchanged for centuries. This experience was nothing like being in Delhi, but at the same time, it was still India.
By the time I made my way out of the mountains, and after a three day stop in the medium-size city of Amritsar, I felt more than ready to once again tackle Delhi.
And tackle I did. What had been such an extremely shocking environment the first time around, now seemed quite fascinating. I was no longer overwhelmed. In fact, I was remarkably comfortable, even while walking around the densely packed markets of Old Delhi. Now I couldn't wait to spend at least a week exploring every street and neighborhood I could find as every day turned out to be even more rewarding than the last.
These days, whenever anyone asks me about traveling overseas, I usually offer a piece of advice based upon my experience above.
Just because you are flying into a major city, doesn't mean you need to stick around upon arrival. In fact, it might be an infinitely better idea to get out of that 'crazy' city as quickly as possible and start your trip off by spending some time in a more relaxed atmosphere.
Not only will this help you adjust to the unfamiliar surroundings of a new country, especially if it's your first visit or even your first international trip, but it will also help avoid negative thoughts and experiences that may affect your travels as a whole. It would be a shame for a traveler to claim that they don't like India or Thailand or Turkey or Mexico simply because they become too overwhelmed upon arrival in Delhi or Bangkok or Istanbul or Mexico City.
So my advice would be to jump on a bus or a train or even a flight or a ferry to somewhere less intimidating as soon as you arrive. Wait until you're comfortable in this new country and until the initial culture shock has begun to wear off before you head back to the big city and all of its chaos. It might take a week or two or even a month before you feel ready, but I'm confident that you'll notice a major difference with this method.
Chances are you'll actually enjoy the time you spend in that city and instead of screaming 'get me out of here!', you'll be looking for ways to extend your stay even longer.
And as a side note, this method is not only for inexperienced travelers. I still skip past major cities upon arrival every now and then when I visit a new country. Sometimes I just don't feel like putting myself through a hard-core adjustment phase and so I much prefer to start my adventure in a more relaxed setting.
Does this idea make much sense? Do you think it would help lessen the initial culture shock of arriving in a foreign country?


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Just starting this for Neobie (or peach or anyone). I was hoping for the AR 18 teams to emulate original TAR route in honor of TAR's 10th Anniversary. Then with a Los Angeles start, I was thinking, "Maybe emulate the AR 14 route since it's basically TAR14: The Sequel & Friends"Instead, no NYC start, and no Switzerland first destination. I can't find a decent map right now for Sydney that best fits the ones Neobie has used over the past several seasons.
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Ann Patchett used to be a writer for Gourmet with a bottomless expense account. You never will be, because Gourmet is dead, killed partly by bottomless expense accounts. But Ann can give you a glimpse of Conde Nast's glory days.
Patchett's written a wistful remembrance of her ten happy years as a journalistic beneficiary of Gourmet's beneficence for the WSJ's new Off Duty section this weekend. No expense account request went unfulfilled! A small sample of what you missed out on:
When I was writing a novel about an opera singer who was taken hostage, I told them I really needed to go to Italy to tour the great opera houses. Never mind that the food in opera houses consists of boxed mints and tiny cups of espresso, they were behind me all the way. When I told Sertl the trip should include Venice, he reminded me that the opera house in Venice had burned to the ground ten years prior. I said that I still thought it was important, you know, spiritually. He understood.
And when I had a particularly endless stretch of house guests, I told Sertl I would like to check into a very fine hotel alone and not leave the premises for a week. He thought this was a terrific pitch. What hotel was I thinking of? I was thinking of the Bel Air in Los Angeles... My week as a hotel shut-in was wonderful.
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As the guy responsible for putting Louisville Sluggers in the hands of countless major leaguers, Chuck Schupp is far more than a mere salesman—he's also the guy who helps give pro ballplayers the means to be heroes
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Chuck Schupp is pacing a locker room in Surprise, Ariz., his blue eyes darting behind square black glasses. All around him, members of the Texas Rangers are lacing up their shoes, changing into blue-and-red practice uniforms, ribbing each other the way teammates do. Within the hour, they will take to the field for the first swings of spring training—which means Schupp has to move fast if he's to get any joy today.
But Schupp doesn't look as though he's feeling the pressure. With spiky brown hair and the loose-limbed gait of the minor league player he once was, he moves around the room with a politician's practiced ease. "How do you like that finish? Black barrel with a natural handle," he says, pulling a bat from his bag and offering it to Rangers outfielder Craig Gentry. "Now that's a good-looking bat."
Gentry inspects the bat and breaks into a boyish grin. "Cool," he says, and then orders one.
It's moments like this that make Schupp, 59, the subject of envy among his friends. "Everyone wants my job," he says in his soft Kentucky drawl. And why not? As head of professional baseball sales for Hillerich & Bradsby Co., Schupp is the face of Louisville Slugger, the iconic brand popularized by Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb
and Honus Wagner. His job is to schmooze with the biggest names in the game, and to help provide them with the means to become heroes.
After 33 years in the business, Schupphas become something of a name himself. Rangers equipment manager Richard "Hoggy" Price calls him "the guru of bats"—and certainly Schupp knows his stuff. He knows that Yankees star Derek Jeter always swings a 34-inch black ash bat. He knows the Rangers' Nelson Cruz is a maple man, while Angels slugger Josh Hamilton favors an extra-long barrel. Just as important, he knows how to hobnob with individuals who are part of an exclusive and rarefied profession.
Many of the players Schupp approaches today—his first sales call of the season—greet him with bear hugs, broad grins and inside jokes. "Hey, you come in here looking like a movie star," Price calls out as he spots the fastidiously groomed salesman. "The rest of us look like we were in a freezer for the winter." After teasing him for a few minutes, Price gives Schupp carte blanche to approach the players.
Over the course of an hour, Schupp racks up 15 dozen orders, including some from Cruz. "Let me know if you need anything else, dude," he tells the hulking superstar, smiling. And Schupp has reason to be happy. The fact is, he isn't here to sell a few dozen bats—he's here to sell a few million, and to do that he has to get his products into the right hands. Because as everyone in this industry knows, a big-game, 500-foot homer clouted off of one of your bats is worth more than a month of prime-time ads.
"Having stars like Derek Jeter, Buster Posey, David Wright and Josh Hamilton definitely influences purchases," says Rick Redman, vice president of corporate communications at Hillerich & Bradsby. "Kids want what their favorite players, the MLB stars, use."
It turns out that Schupp's job is going to be a little more complicated this year due to the fact that his company recently updated the Louisville Slugger logo, the first change in more than three decades. In the details-obsessed bat business, even a minor cosmetic adjustment is a gamble. He shows the redesign to Gentry, who examines it carefully, then nods. He likes it. According to Schupp, only one player, an Arizona Diamondback, has thus far complained about the change.
"Noted," Schupp says, rolling his eyes. "He is not Derek Jeter."
As company lore has it, the Louisville Slugger traces its origins to a day in 1884 when John "Bud" Hillerich, the 17-year-old son of a Kentucky woodworker, left work to watch a Louisville Eclipse game. Pete Browning, the team's slumping star hitter, broke his bat. Bud invited him to the shop to have a replacement made. In the next game, wielding his new weapon, Browning got three hits. Bud's father wanted to keep making stair railings and butter churns, but the young man convinced him to move into bats. Later that year, the company produced the Falls City Slugger. By the late 1880s, the bat had become known as the Louisville Slugger, and by 1894 the name was trademarked.
The Hillerichs were not without competition. Companies like Peck & Snyder, E.I. Horsman and Harwood were all producing big-name bats. By the end of the 19th century, Spalding, Rawlings and Adirondack dominated the industry. The Slugger didn't emerge as a real contender until 1905, when Pittsburgh Pirates star Honus "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner endorsed a model named after him. In 1918, the company entered into an agreement with Babe Ruth. As the Babe's star rose, so did the Slugger's. By the mid-20th century, it had about a 75 percent share of the pro baseball market.
If you peer inside the players' bat lockers today, Louisville Sluggers are everywhere. More and more, though, you'll see them mixed in with Sam, Marucci, BWP Bats and other upstart boutique brands. While the Slugger is still the dominant force, its market share recently slipped to between 55 and 60 percent. "My job has gotten harder, not easier," says Schupp. "We compete with 32 vendors. When I started, there were eight."
Worldwide, the Louisville Slugger brand sells 1.8 million bats a year. On a good day, Schupp might shift 120 or so, which retail for about $100 a pop. But again, his job is more long-term branding than short-term sales. And to do his job properly, he needs to inspire trust—both in the bats he's selling and in himself. So Schupp works hard to build and maintain personal relationships, traveling more than 90 days a year. Presumably, the most important time to be around the players is spring training, when hope runs high and season-long product deals are signed. Yet a midseason slump can present opportunities, too: As Schupp puts it, "If a guy is one-in-40, he'll try just about anything."
In a player's mind, there's an infinite combination of factors that can affect how a bat performs. Some believe they can "feel" the ball better with an unfinished surface. Others fixate on the dimensions of the bat, the shape of the knob, even the sound you hear when you put the barrel next to your ear and tap it, as though it were a watermelon. Chris Nelson, a third baseman for the Colorado Rockies, has said he doesn't know if a bat is right for him until he closes his eyes and picks it up before the game.
"You gotta understand that these guys fail 70 percent of the time," Schupp says. "And that's the good players. There's a lot of psychological and physical failure in this game. Hitting is huge."
And when players are hitting, their rivals want to know what they are hitting with. After the first round of the 2008 Home Run Derby, when the Rangers' Josh Hamilton smashed a record-setting 28 home runs using a Slugger, Schupp's cellphone lit up with texts from players around the country.
What is it? (Ash, 35 inches, 33 ounces, flame tempered.)
The decision-making process regarding bat selection is part logic, part faith. It's been this way for as long as Americans have been playing ball. "Nobody but nobody used Pete Browning's bat," says baseball historian and novelist David Nemec, referring to the recipient of that proto-Slugger, back in the 1880s. "He believed each bat had only a certain amount of hits in it. There was a mystique around it."
That mystique may have been intensified by the fact that 19th-century bats, heavier and sturdier than today's, could be with a player for his entire career. Modern pros, by contrast, might go through 100 bats or more in a single season. This fact, however, does not make their relationship with their bats any less intense. For most players, the bat is far more than a mere instrument—it is a talisman, an object of devotion, a source of superstition.
"Some guys sleep with their bats. Or they take them home and put them in the corner when they don't get a hit. It's like 'bad bat!'" says Rangers catcher A.J. Pierzynski. "Some guys are crazy about their bats. They rub them, tape them, put them on the scale and make sure they are all the same weight. You name it, they do it." Unsurprisingly, for an enterprise in which so much is at stake, baseball players tend to spot problems in the most minuscule, apparently trivial factors, and they rely on Schupp to help them sort these problems out.
Not long ago, over the course of 16 months Schupp sent sample after sample to Brandon Snyder, then the Rangers' first baseman, each with a near-imperceptible adjustment over the previous one. The process didn't end until Snyder entered a brief purple patch. "I hit two home runs with it that week," he says, referring to a bat with a slightly longer barrel than its predecessor. "It's the best."
And it will remain the best until Snyder hits another dip in form, which will likely necessitate another round of tweaks. Still, Schupp—described by one player as "a bat therapist"—is full of fatherly praise for the reformed flip-flopper. "The journey is over," he says, pointing to Snyder's bat. "That's a good day. I am telling you, guys spend a lot of time trying to figure that out."
Indeed they do. Willie Bloomquist, infielder for the Diamondbacks and a self-confessed "high-maintenance bat guy," is another player who keeps changing his bat almost to the point of obsession. Schupp is aware that constant switching can do more harm than good to a player's game (and, not incidentally, that such capriciousness may cause a player to jump to another brand), so he occasionally will offer counsel if he feels someone is going overboard. "I say, 'Dude, pick one and stick with it.' But sometimes it's not in their DNA."
A moment later, just before the Rangers take to the field for their first outing of the season, Schupp approaches catcher Geovany Soto, who's standing in front of his locker, apparently deep in thought. At the end of 2011, Soto switched from the Louisville Slugger to a rival manufacturer's bat, and Schupp is eager to flip him back. "We have a little better piece of wood," he says. "If you are good where you are, I understand. But it is something new. Just a thought."
His words hang in the air as Soto stares ahead. Schupp walks away, and shrugs.
"Noncommittal," he says, before moving on to the next player on his list.
Cristina Rouvalis is a writer based in Pittsburgh. She admits to being a little superstitious in her choice of ballpoint pens.


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X-rays negative, but first baseman gets stitches, not expected to play in finale
NEW YORK -- Mark Teixeira said that he wouldn't have changed anything about his eighth-inning slide into home plate on Wednesday, scoring the Yankees' final run in a 5-1 win over the Tigers. But the gauze covering his left pinky finger showed that it came at a price.
Teixeira needed three stitches to close a wound on the inside of his finger after his pinky got caught on the spikes of Detroit catcher Bryan Holaday. Teixeira was initially ruled out on the play, but a video review overturned the call.
"The X-rays were negative, so that's good," Teixeira said. "There was only a little bit of plate available. I thought we had rules about that, but that's a different story. I slid and just got my hand in there, and his foot was right on top of the plate."
Yankees manager Joe Girardi said that he does not expect Teixeira to play in Thursday's series finale against the Tigers.
"It's unfortunate. It's a great hustle play on his part," Girardi said. "My real concern was that he dislocated it when I first saw it, because of the way they were holding his hand."
Teixeira said that he thinks the cut would affect him more from the right side of the plate, and is hopeful that the injury will not force him to miss much time.
"You play hard, that's what happens," Teixeira said. "I'm just happy about the win. That was a great team win. Hopefully, I won't be out long and I'll see how it feels tomorrow."
The play started as Brian McCann hit a ground ball that was smothered by first baseman Miguel Cabrera, throwing to shortstop Andrew Romine and forcing Carlos Beltran out at second base as Jacoby Ellsbury scored.
Romine threw wildly to first base, where the ball was tracked down by pitcher Blaine Hardy and fed to home plate. Teixeira got his left hand in under Holaday's tag and immediately protested home-plate umpire Tom Woodring's out call.
Teixeira also said that he thought Holaday was illegally blocking home plate.
"Oh yeah, but you're supposed to as a catcher," Teixeira said. "But you just don't know the rules now. Could I have run him over? I don't know. I was safe, that's all that matters."
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Denver's Peyton Manning is hit as he gets rid of a pass during the first of Super Bowl XLVIII between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ on 2/2/14. (Andrew Mills/The Star-Ledger)
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — It took Peyton Manning 37 years to build a reputation as the best quarterback in NFL history, and only 12 seconds in the Super Bowl to fumble it away.
Duck, Peyton.
As much as it hurt to be humiliated by a 43-8 loss to Seattle in the Super Bowl, the pain will be nothing compared to the heat Manning will take for flopping on football's biggest stage. The Broncos were so bad Sunday, the sun might be embarrassed to show its face in Colorado.
"The word embarrassing is an insulting word, to tell you the truth," an obviously irked Manning said Sunday.
Football is not fair, and then you die a thousand deaths as a quarterback when your team looks scared and unprepared on the game's biggest stage. With an 11-12 record in the postseason, Manning gets dissed for choking in the postseason.
This loss won't help. Rout is not a strong enough four-letter word to describe how poorly the Broncos played. After throwing two first-half interceptions that ignited Seattle's rout, Manning will take the brunt of the blame.
"A lot of people will put the blame on Peyton Manning. ... But this is a team loss. It's not Peyton Manning's loss. It shouldn't be a knock on his legacy," Broncos defensive tackle Terrance Knighton said.
Has the NFL championship game ever been lost in a single play?
Embarrassing might be an insult to everything the Broncos achieved as they became the first team in league history to score more than 600 points in the regular season, then beat San Diego and New England in the playoffs. But embarrassing is the only way to describe what happened to Manning and the Broncos on the first snap from scrimmage. It is destined to go down as the most embarrassing play in Super Bowl history.
Manning is known for having all the answers. He walked into MetLife Stadium for the big test. The first thing Manning did? Misspell his name on the paper.
Standing in the shotgun, Manning barked signals Denver center Manny Ramirez could not hear above the din of 82,529 screaming fans. "Nobody could hear me," Manning said. As the quarterback walked toward Ramirez to fix the communication breakdown, Ramirez launched the snap far over Manning's head. The football bounced into the end zone. Broncos running back Knowshon Moreno pounced on it, conceding a safety to Seattle.
When did Ramirez figure out Manning was in no position to take the first snap of the Super Bowl, a play the Broncos had two weeks to rehearse?
"They told me on the sideline," said Ramirez, who admitted he snapped the ball three seconds after Manning expected it to be delivered. "There's no explanation."
The most prolific quick-strike offense in NFL history scored two points for Seattle without the Seahawks even trying.
And the Super Bowl dreams of Denver? Gone in 12 seconds.
"When you're trying to battle back, it's really hard," Broncos receiver Eric Decker said. "And I think you could definitely feel the momentum of the game snowball on us."
From the opening kickoff, which saw returner Trindon Holliday slammed down at the 14-yard line, the Broncos were dominated by the first rule of the playground: Athletes stay. Losers walk. No amount of intelligence or creativity can overcome a clear and decisive difference in speed and strength.
Super Bowl XLVIII was not NFC vs. AFC. It was varsity vs. JV. Whenever Seattle speedster Percy Harvin touched the football, whether as a running back or a kick returner, time and the Broncos stood still. Their championship aspirations faded to black.
Panic set in for Denver shortly before halftime. Trailing 22-0, Broncos coach John Fox eschewed a short field goal in an attempt to gain 2 yards on fourth down. Manning's pass to Demaryius Thomas never had a chance.
After Harvin opened the second half by taking the kickoff 87 yards for a touchdown that put Seattle ahead 29-0, Fox decided not to go for it on fourth down, facing fourth-and-11 at the Seahawks' 39-yard-line with 10 minutes, 54 seconds remaining in the third quarter. The punt was a concession speech.
"We were on a national stage, in the biggest game in America," Decker said. "And to come out and play like that?"
It was super depressing.
Manning set a Super Bowl record with 34 completions. "Star Wars" numbers, but an unhappy ending. Fair or not, it's the dominant story of his NFL career.
Pardon John Elway for having a 1980s flashback for the lopsided Super Bowl losses he endured early in his playing career. "We just didn't play like we're capable of. I was disappointed," Elway said.
A year ago, a stunning loss to Baltimore in the playoffs gave the Broncos a sense of purpose and a motto: Unfinished business.
This loss to Seattle was worse. It shouted: As now constructed, the Broncos are not good enough to win it all.
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[FROM THE ARCHIVE] The AJ takes a look at John Winter's cor-ten clad family home in Camden
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Built by the Modernist architect, who died earlier this week aged 82, for himself and and his family, the house sits on a tight site and is designed around a rectangular grid plan with modules of 2.5m (8ft) by 3.6m (12ft) by 6m (20ft).
Split over three-storeys the top floor is an open-plan living-space and study accessed from a central stair and fireplace. The first floor contains bedrooms and bathroom and the ground floor an open-plan family kitchen, dining and playroom.
The steel framed building is clad with cor-ten, the first domestic use of the material in the United Kingdom. The external walls are entirely formed of double-glazed units that have narrow full-height pivoting openings on the upper floors, and sliding units on the ground floor.
Original building study: John Winter's house (AJ 26/08/1970)
John Winter has a private practice run in association withthree other architects. His House at Swain's Lane, Highgate, is the second he has built for himself and his family. To take aclvantage of a splendid view over London it is planned with the living room on the upper-most of three floors.
This house, completed in 1969, is a three-storey building, of 2220 sq ft (204m²) . The structure is steel with a 20ft x 12ft (6.09 m X 3.66 m) bay size; the steel frame is clad externally with cor-ten weathering steel and a similar material is used as the top laminate of the external wall panels. Glazing is double, and ventilation is through sliding doors on the ground floor and storey height flaps above.
The site is the garden of the superintendent's house at Highgate cemetery; it is to tho north of the old house, so the now house has a three-storey Victorian house to the south, the now derelict mortuary chapel to t he north and cemetery to the west and east, with fine views across London. Highgate cemetery is surrounded by a high brick wall 120 years old and this separates the site from Swain's Lane and give the privacy that makes a glassy house possible.
The house is for the architect, his wife and three children; it is the second h ouse built for themselves, so there was experience of living in a modern house.
Views from the top, plus the need to keep ground space for garden, led to the adoption of a three-storey layout, layered with quiet living on top, sleeping in the middle, noisy at the bottom. The ground floor is at ground level with a quarry tile floor running through to form a splayed external plinth to catch the rusty drips from the weathering steel above; this floor is for eating, cooking and playing-it is furnished in a comfy, informal way and can be opened up to the garden. In addition to family use, it serves a local play group of twenty toddlers; also on the ground floor is the spare room with adjacent bathroom, and the use of this room will change as the family develops.
The middle floor contains the four family bedrooms and a bathroom/laundry which serves as a centre where the children's clothes are stored, sorted and put out to wear. The top floor has a study area separated from a living area by a big fireplace which also houses water tank and storage heater; this living room, with Mies furniture, an Albers picture and ancient carvings is a quiet place to work, and get away from it all.
At the present time, brick, timber, concrete and steel are more or less identical in cost for a house of this size and quality. We chose steel because we wanted some open floor areas, because we might want to change the internal layout, because we feel fenced in by solid walls and because of the architectural discipline it gives-and with this particular weathering steel at last there is a machine age material that really works, though rolled sections are not available in lots of less than five tons.
The steel frame-eight 6in X 6in (152 mm X 152 mm)wide flange sections connected by 10in X 4in ( 254 mm X 102 mm) beams-is clad externally with 1/4in (6 mm) plates welded to form a continuous cover 2in (51 mm) outside the frame, and the 2in (51 mm) gap is filled with insulation so that the mild steel frame is at room temperature and the cladding at external temperature with as few cold bridges as possible.
With this cladding material every overhang is a disaster, so the facades are as flat as possible, with a standard detail of a steel angle screwed to the frame to take glass, ventilator or wall panel. The glass consists of sealed double glazed units, the ventilators are storey-high centre-pivoted flaps of steel faced polyurethane and the walls are panels formed of 12 gauge steel sheet bonded to asbestos insulation board with a backing of 1!in (38 mm) polymethane insulation and 4in (102 mm) concrete block.
Floor slabs are concrete containing heating cables and internal partitions are concrete block to increase the thermal capacity, enabling the off-peak heating to work effectively and preventing the interior from overheating in summer.
Contractal arrangements
There was no general contractor, the architect/owner being in effect general contractor. Fifteen separate contracts were arranged totaling £12 421, the architect being on site most days; on the whole the different organisations co-operated well. In n1any cases there was a discount on the contracts, giving a straight saving. Against this, about £550 was expended on incidentals-hire of hoist and scaffolding, insurance, breakages, thefts, mistakes, delays, district surveyor's fees and so on.
For an architect building his own house, to break the contract down in this way is enjoyable, instructive and probably economical, but I would conclude that the normal general contractor who takes 10 per cent on the sub-contractors' cost for overhead and profit earns every penny of it.
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Stonefield development: Trader Joe's coming to town
Back in January, the Hook reported that the latest renderings for Stonefield, the 65-acre development formerly known as Albemarle Place, showed a Trader Joe's on the corner of Hydraulic and Route 29.
On March 9, developer Edens & Avant announced that it's true, folks.
"In addition to Regal Cinemas, we are extremely excited to introduce Trader Joe's to Charlottesville," said Jessica Bruner, Vice President of Leasing for Edens & Avant in a release, calling the chain, "a specialty grocer that we feel is a perfect fit for such a progressive community."
Bruner says the Trader Joe's will be 12,500 square feet. Construction on the development will begin this spring.
The release also confirms that a 135-room hotel and a 65,000 square foot Regal IMAX Theater with 14 screens will anchor the development. When finished, the development company states, the shops will offer 1.2 million square feet of retail and mixed uses and generate 722 new jobs in retail and hotel management, as well as 1700 new construction jobs over the life of the project. During a planning commission meeting in January, the company proposed chipping in $1 million to build a fourth southbound lane on Route 29 from Westfield Road to 29/250 interchange, and a second lane for the on-ramp onto 250 West.
The Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority is also in the process of replacing the aging sewage infrastructure called the Meadowcreek Interceptor, after discovering that it did not have the capacity to handle the new development, a $24.5 million project scheduled to be completed in August.
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I was hoping for a Wegman's!
I am sure the Charlottesville's city council will find away to stall it or run them off!
yea finally!! i appreciate not having to travel to spump with the icechest----looking forwrd to one of my fav staples from my recent move here to c-ville from so cal----thanks another great reason to be here in c-ville----missing ca less and less!!!
Rick, that corner of 29 and Hydraulic is in the county, not in Charlottesville (the boundary runs right through that intersection).
I like cheap wine, but with TJ and Whole Foods coming to that stretch, traffic will be even more of a snarl.
People in this town just can't wait to get in line to get rid of their money. Hooray!
The director of the RWSA tried to claim on Monday that the new enlarged pump station, which the county prefers to locate in the City Woolen Mills neighborhood at the entrance to Riverview Park is needed for rainwater infiltration --WRONG -- this is the reason COUNTY GROWTH . Get smart Charlottesville the County wants city residents to give up their parks ( Ragged Mt., McInitre, Riverview) and pay millions to subsidize new infrastructure that they want to grow. Let them put it in their own backyard, and let them pay for it.
Next city election only elect those who will stand up to the county and not get weak in the knees like Huja, Szakos, and Brown just did when they caved into the county dam water plan and abandoned the city owned Ragged Mt. Natural Area and dredging their own Reservoir at South Fork .
If the county wants to grow so be it, but let them pay for the infrastructure to support it; use their own land and their tax dollars.
@Maureen...I'm sure you would agree then that they City should forgo the annual $18 million (and growing) gift it gets from the County because of the foolish agreement from 1982, and thereby support its own growth by raising r/e taxes roughly 14% as well to roughly $1.33/$100.
Yeah for Trader Joes in C'ville! Now all that is needed is a Wegman's on Rt. 53 towards Palmyra. We have only a rather small and antiquainted Food Lion here for a county that is growing in population very quickly and Wegman's would draw customers from throughout all of Central Virginia.
Sorry, Larry, but that would be a goofy place to put a Wegman's. It's nowhere near the real population center. You guys do deserve at least a Kroger, though.
@Big Daddy G and would you be willing to allow the city to annex county land ? Remember county residents voted for this agreement.
The county could increase their tax base by the same amount they give to the city by ending their land use tax credit program to the wealthy, maybe that's where you should start if you think the county needs more money for their schools and other services.
What No Local Store??!! I was hoping for a local place so I could pay more be treated like crap support the local faux farmers(hucksters) did I mention pay more for low quality foods and of course be treated like crap?!?!?!
Yep a Wegmans would be great .There has to be enough central and western New Yorkers who live in the county to support a "WE WANT A WEGGYS" drive .Lets do it before the past a law that wont allow them in town
Sigh..i was wanting a Piggly Wiggly...
I thought Trader Joe simply re-branded food produced by large manufactures? Not sure it's a "specialty grocer." Now if they opened up an H-mart or another Asian supermarket, I'd be excited. That's where I see high quality meats and produce at reasonable prices. I should keep this on the down low, as the yuppies may have not figured this secret out already.
Why can't they build something downtown for once? 29N at that intersection in particular does not need more congestion. It's called planning.
Well, it hasn't been built yet and there have been other inception dates bruited over the course of several years. In today's economy with high rent commercial property vacancies high and many commercial developments nationwide "going back to the bank" it'll be interesting to see if financing will materialize to build this latest mega mall. Being skeptical, I'll believe it when I see it.
@rooster, TJ's is cheaper than the grocery stores we have.
I get the cmpettition of business' thing but doesn't Albemale County want to have sucessful business' in their county to bring in continuous revenue?? Putting a Trader Joe's "just up the street" from Kroger and Whole foods is setting someone up to fail. Wwho will it be?? Maybe we should rethink how much of one type of store goes into an area.. I hear ya, convvenience for the consumer but look at all of the empty real estate like Rio Hill.....Old Circuit city.. Please people aren't we inthe age of recycling??
No more trips to Short Pump. Yeah!
katesut Its not the business that fail its the way the county treats the business that does it . This is the most "business unfriendly place in the world" just ask Home depot or any Franchised business they tell you. This buy local stuff is just a bunch of good old boys (or rich boys) That just take care of each other and nothing else
his wife is right
I say bring on the Trader Joe's, take out the Hydraulic Road Kroger and put the drive-in theater back in its 1950-60s location. The terrain was perfect. A lot of fun for everybody.
katesut, I think the Whole Foods and Kroger (the full-fledged supermarkets) serve different customers and will continue to do so. Trader Joe's is a specialty store that is not a full supermarket. Trader Joe's has a terrific, eclectic mix of foodstuffs - often at great prices.
Sure Maureen, annex the Trader Joe's site and then you shouldn't have a problem with the RWSA using the woolen mills infrastructure?
Dum-deee-dum...... If I charge you 50 cents for 6 eggs, how much should I charge you for a half dozen? I'll give you a couple of hours to figure that one out.
Those that pit the city's interests vs. the county's are not using their noggin. The whole point of a REGIONAL authority is to acknowledge the REALITY that the county and city are symbiotic. People in the city drink water and use the bathroom, just like people in the county do.
The 1982 agreement is also a reflection of this REALITY (oops, there's that word again). The municipalities share revenue and do not share real estate. What they also share is the need for a service authority. They therefore share the use of and overhead for its facilities.
To not realize this is to reflect a hyper-provincial obtuseness for which I have no use.
Maureen, one of the head-in-the-sand Charlottesville residents that are in a froth over imagined giveaways by the CVille city council, is parroting the party line: That the city's interests and county's interests are diametrically opposed and therefore there should be no cooperation between the municipalities.
This myopic and provincial perspective would be worthy of ridicule except for the fact that so many people have it.
Arpal Bite Me
I hear that A+P and Stop n Shop are merging. Fingers crossed!
Sounds like someone is newly single and a little bitter. @idontknowanythi(no more wife)...
Arpal Nope Im Happier than a pig in sh#t with my life
Since we are bringing back the drive-in, let's bring Barnaby's pizza back...
Of course, if we are to see a vibrant community for both City and County residents we need to co-operate where we can. I agree with the statement make by outgoing City Councilor Holly Edwards on this matter reported by Charlottesville Tomorrow :
" The water plan and the Meadowcreek Parkway have been two issues that have deeply divided city and county officials during Edwards tenure. In her remarks, Edwards called for "building bridges" in the city-county relationship.
"I was hoping for a closer collaboration [with Albemarle], even consolidation between our police force, to develop a metropolitan police force, and the consolidation of social services," said Edwards. "I do look forward to seeing the future collaboration of successful services between the two [localities]."
Edwards said she has learned a lot more about the "city-county dynamic" while serving on council.
"In many ways our goals are the same…but the city and county really have two different cultures and different sets of values," said Edwards. "I think because the values are different we are not really able to collaborate in some areas or consolidate in others."
"Some of the environmental issues that we embrace, the county may also agree with, but they don't have the level of passion that's in the city," she said.
Before this development goes any farther the transportation issues need to be resolved. We have seen enough development already without adequate transportation improvements and to move forward with this large a development without adequately doing this will not only hurt the businesses located there, but the general traffic flow for many many people who use this corridor.
We are already facing a traffic nightmare at Free Bridge leading to Pantops and this is headed in the same direction.
i'll bite you, but only if you werent raised knee deep in excrement like most grocery store feedlot meat. you're pig in sh#t comment wasnt too far off...no thanks
Arpal I love when you talk dirty to me ! Same time next week OK with you ?
I agree with the commenter who suggested that Trader Joe's use the old Circuit City building. We have lots of existing vacant retail space--the county should encourage businesses to use it before issuing permits for new construction.
Stop and P... Get it? hah ah ha ha
take that mwfm mess over to craigslist
@? Since we are bringing back the drive-in, let's bring Barnaby's pizza back.../good Lord, I remember both and they were both fabulous.
I've been to Trader Joe's in Marin County, CA; and I was unimpressed. Big yawn! I am, however, glad to see a good movie theatre coming to C'Ville, but this location is already too congested.
I vote bring the drive-in theatre back too!!!
Along with cold beer, and Lupo's steak and cheese hoagies!
There is a Barnabys pizza in South Bend. Was the one in Charlottesville a chain? If so maybe a road trip is in order!
"There is a Barnabys pizza in South Bend"
The pizza was thin-crust and rectangular. How is it the place in South Bend?
This project has been on the drawing board for quite a few years. The company builidng it is a well financed and successful company out of the carolinas and are paying millions in proffers. There are no more "studies" to be done as everything seems to have been addressd.
I find it amusing how people think they know of a better location for Trader Joes... do you think they became a national success by NOT doing any research?
I don't thnk they have had any failing stores.
If the county were to deny permits until the circut city space was rented they would be subsidizing some "rich" guy at the expense of someone who wants to spend millions creating hundreds of permanent jobs. Let the owner of the CC building lower his rent.. if it gets low enough someone will rent it.
I wonder what some of the people against development would do if they inherited a piece of land on 29 and someone wanted to give them a million bucks for it... would they just pay the 7000 dollar tax bill with no income perpetually or would they sell and have a nice life. I also wonder how they would feel after paying 7k a year for twenty years and then the county wants more when they finally want to build a Barnabys Pizza or a lupos steak house, or a vet clinic, or a clinic to serve the poor?
@Maureen: State has a moratorium on annexation...which is why the deal doesn't work. Albemarle is trapped in a horrible deal that could have been viewed as a good thing at the time. I'm not knowledgable about the history enough to judge whether the county could have foreseen the state placing a moratorium on annexation. What I do know is that they were foolish to not demand an out in the agreement for just such a scenario, and unfortunately the people who led the reversion drive a few years back screwed the pooch on the only other way out of the deal. Whomever the county attorney was when that deal was struck committed malpractice.
@everyone else: Barnaby's is a small chain in the Midwest, and I am all for bringing it back. (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=barnaby%27s+pizza) I loved the pizza, and more specifically the "pole position" game. I went to many a kid's b-day parties there back in the day, there's no place like that here now. Lupos was great, but it was a Kessler joint, and he ain't coming back.
The damage being done by RWSA in charge of the Meadowcreek Intereceptor to city neighborhoods is unbelievable . If this is the kind of oversight RWSA provides for putting in a pipe, how do you expect them to construct a dam and new pipeline thru Albemarle County ?
It was suppose to be a 40ft clearance but has gone well over that and clear cut trees in it's path. Now there are complaints of pits being left open.
"I wonder what some of the people against development would do if they inherited a piece of land on 29 and someone wanted to give them a million bucks for it... would they just pay the 7000 dollar tax bill with no income perpetually or would they sell and have a nice life"
I'd probably split the difference and use some sort of donation vehicle to help the community (local and global) by getting a darn grade-seperated interchange there.
More development on those corners -- where places have inflated rents justified by the number of eyeballs in cars held hostage at stoplights -- is insane. Can we have a more sensible traffic pattern? Oh, no there is a new vitamin store here, a new fast-food joint there. It is insanity.
seperated -> separated. probably other typos too this early in the AM.
But look at the development website, it looks like there are some traffic changes, including a new stoplight on 29 (roughly across from where the Boathouse restaurant is) and another new stoplight on Hydraulic (roughly across from the old ball field where I once played).
I've shopped Trader Joe's out west and loved it. It would be grand to have one here. So my earlier comments have nothing to do with TJ's, but with the current viability of the development paradigm typified by Albemarle Place or whatever they are now calling it. If the economy continues to sputter and resource constraints limit future growth, then the world of happy motoring recreational shopping may be in for a world of hurt, but a TJ's would be great and would give "Whole Paycheck" a reality check.
Chances are high that this project will never come to fruition as with many other shovel ready projects in this area
You can tell you've lived in Charlottesville too long when you remember:
(1) The drive-in theater
(2) Barnaby's
(3) Lupo's
(4) The Home of the Humpburger ("Two-Cheese")
(5) The Cavalier
(6) Dairy Queen (the one across from JPJ)
And the best of all:
(7) The Biff Burger (where KFC is currently)
Biff burger? Haven't heard that name in a long time. We always called it Kenney Burger.
The sauce they used on their burgers.... out of this world!!!
And they had some of the best fries in this town.
I would give $25 right now for two of their cheeseburgers and an order of fries!
Wasn't this development supposed to have been finished by now?
As to Wegmans, I can't imagine Rt 53 supporting this, even on the backs of people headed to WIntergreen - too many square feet filled with duplicative rows of massive quantities of overpriced food - tried to find oatmeal once and there was the store brand section, the organic section, the regular brands section, and probably more I didn't find so I walked out. My husband was impressed with the locked case of truffles in one of the multiple produce sections.....
I was very opposed to the revenue sharing plan, but now that the county is about to take control of Ragged Mountain, South Fork Rivanna and Sugar Hollow from a naive (at best) Council I am all for it. It replaces the things that the county has duped the city into giving them under the name of "cooperation." Mrs. Edwards is a lovely person but she doesn't belong on Council. Neither do the rest of them. And take the new city manager with you - his only training occurred under Overrun O'Connell.
At least Ms. Edward didn't cave into the county and give away all the city owned water infrastructure like Szakos, Huja and Brown. I'd prefer her on Council to any of these three. I think she understands that the city and county have different interests in many areas and has stood up to the county when necessary.


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The Armory got a facelift (though it is still labeled as "beta").
New features that made me go "OH! COOL!":
1. You can see -your- character and pose it however you want. This pose can be saved and anyone who visits your character in the armory will see you in that pose. Now if it had a green screen background this might just be perfect for making screenshots 🙂
2. There is a customizable RSS feed of your recent activity AND that recent activity includes lots of interesting tidbits. Tidbits like, I had no idea I'd kill Ymirion 25 times.. it -feels- like a thousand. The data is nice but it does still have some oddnesses. MY feed shows that yesterday I downed "Trial of the Grand Crusade (10 player)" for the third time.. I happen to know I've -NEVER- downed ToGC-10 and that it seems to be counting any downs of ToC-25 as a down to ToGC-10. But still the data (to me at least) is interesting. I'm tempted to add it to a widget in the side-bar.. but I'm not sure if it's interesting to anyone -but- me.
3. Clicking the "Gear List" button will give you a quick character audit so you can check for gems/enchants and make sure everything is up to snuff. That said, I wish it would show a red X (or some other marker) on things that -can- be enchanted but are currently unenchanted.


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The bright-yellow F-150 emblazoned with TONKA logos at the Chicago Auto Show was hard to miss, even though it was wedged behind Ford's main display in the commercial truck section. The style's not for everybody, but the build quality was impressive.
The truck's made by a company called Tuscany, which has been building things like conversion vans, special shuttle busses, and specialty trucks since 1988. They're also an official Ford Quality Vehicle Modifier, and the TONKA is sold through Ford dealerships.
"Our sales guys go around to Ford dealers and sell them on the truck, then the dealer sets the price for the consumer."
That price is substantial; the MSRP on the example 2014 F-150 parked at Chicago was $50,078... before Tuscany's modifications, which were listed at $22,282. Some-75 grand sounded pretty ambitious for a body-kitted F-150 to me, but Tuscany President Mike Graber only aims to sell 500 TONKAs in 2014 and he said they'll move just fine.
"We started with 200 last year, and sold them in a couple weeks. We'll have no problem selling 500 in a year."
I guess in the world of officially licensed, premium build-quality, life-sized TONKA toys, he's got the market cornered.
Whether or not this is the big boy toy you need in your life, I gotta admit Tuscany did a nice job putting it together. The cladding, headrest embroidery, and badges are, well, really nice. There are no engine modifications, but a noisier rear-exist exhaust is fitted and ProComp shocks raise the rig up a couple inches.
Graber said he'd have us out to Detroit to get some time behind the wheel, so with any luck we'll be able to get you some driving impressions of the TONKA soon.
They do two other restyle packages, an "FTX" and a "Black Ops." They look like this, in different colors.
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A Liberian rights campaigner, the Liberian president and a Yemeni activist received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Saturday for their work for peace and women's rights.
"You represent one of the most important motive forces for change in today's world: the struggle for human rights in general and the struggle of women for equality and peace in particular," Norwegian Nobel Committee president Thorbjoern Jagland said before handing out the prestigious award.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian "peace warrior" Leymah Gbowee and Yemen's "Arab Spring" activist Tawakkol Karman were honored at a lavish ceremony in Oslo's city hall.
They received their gold medals and diplomas before an audience of dignitaries who included members of Norway's royal family.
Jagland said the laureates' work should serve as a warning to autocratic leaders such as those in Syria and Yemen.
"The leaders in Yemen and Syria, who murder their people to retain their own power, should take note of the following: Mankind's quest for freedom and human rights can never stop," Jagland said.
Karman, who at 32 is the youngest person to win the Peace Prize and the first Arab woman to receive a Nobel in any category, voiced unwavering optimism that the "Arab Spring" uprisings would succeed using peaceful means.
"People can attain all their goals ... by peace. You can't take down a dictatorship without peace," she said after the prize ceremony. "If they start with violence, they will end with violence."
The journalist and mother-of-three was instrumental in helping to push 33-year-ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh to agree to step down early next year.
However, in her acceptance speech, Karman expressed frustration at the lack of Western support for the Yemen uprising.
"This should haunt the world's conscience because it challenges the very idea of fairness and justice," she said.
She also deplored the lack of efforts to prosecute Saleh — who only agreed to leave once promised immunity — or to prosecute those responsible for the hundreds who have died in the Yemen rebellion.
"There should be no immunity for killers who rob the food of the people," she said.
Gbowee, a 39-year-old social worker who led Liberia's women to defy feared warlords and bring an end to her country's bloody 1989 to 2003 civil war, hailed the Nobel Committee for honoring their struggle.
"This prize could not have come at a better time than this; a time when global and community conversations are about how local community members and unarmed civilians can help turn our upside-down World, right-side up," Gbowee said. "It has come at a time when unarmed citizens — men and women, boys and girls — are challenging dictatorships and ushering in democracy and the sovereignty of people."
"It has come at a time when in many societies where women used to be the silent victims and objects of men's powers, women are throwing down the walls of repressive traditions with the invincible power of non-violence," she said. "Women are using their broken bodies from hunger, poverty, desperation and destitution to stare down the barrel of the gun."
"This prize has come at a time when ordinary mothers are no longer begging for peace, but demanding peace, justice, equality and inclusion in political decision-making." Gbowee said.
Gbowee, a mother of six, inspired Christian and Muslim women alike to wage a sex strike in 2002. They refused to sleep with their husbands until the violence ended.


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Corey Taylor on Slipknot's 'Antennas to Hell,' Stone Sour's Upcoming Album + More
While Slipknot are on the road headlining the Mayhem Festival, frontman Corey Taylor took some time out to talk to Loudwire Radio host Mike 'Sandman' Sanders. Taylor discussed Slipknot's upcoming 'Antennas to Hell' compilation, Stone Sour's forthcoming two-part album and more. The show will air this weekend, but here's a preview of Taylor's appearance on the program:
It's hard to peg you to any one single job description. You do so many things, such a renaissance man. You're an author, obviously a frontman for two different bands. Have you thought about acting or anything like that yet?
You know what? I've been threatening to do that for a long time. I've done some auditioning and what-not and I actually was very close to getting a bit part on Californication a long time ago. Circumstances didn't work. My schedule didn't really lock up. It's one of those things where, until I get a good chunk of time off somewhere, I'm not really going to be able to do anything like that. But the cool thing is me and Clown have our film production company, so even if I'm not acting in movies I'm going to try and start making them very soon.
Oh, I can't wait to hear more about that. Any particular genre or just whatever seems like good art?
Whatever the project takes, basically. I mean, that's what it comes down to is good art, you know. I'm a huge fan of movies, and Clown is too, and we come at it from such a different vibe. I'm very much the story guy and he's, like, the art direction and the film making kind of side of things. So, between us we really cover all the bases and what-not and that's what's going to be interesting. I'm sure everyone is going to expect us to just be very, very horror based. But even then it'll be more in the vein of a psychological thriller or anything like that, which we're huge fans of but we're not going to limit ourselves to one genre. We're going to really try and make the films that we want to see and hopefully everyone else does, too.
I know everybody's anxious to hear 'Antennas to Hell,' which is just a huge collection of Slipknot material. It's 2 CDs and one DVD that's kind of a 'best-of,' right?
Well, I mean, we're the kind of band that, you know, we cringe every time we hear 'best of' or 'greatest hits' or anything like that. To us, it's really, it's a compilation of the fan favorites basically, and in a way, I mean, for us it's kind of our tribute, or celebration, of what we call 'The Paul Years.' That was one of the biggest reasons why we wanted to put it out, so people could have that. Especially people coming in new, it's like "here you go" this is what [late Slipknot bassist] Paul [Gray] and the rest of us helped to build. And it was something that … once we figured out the right reason to do it it made all the sense in the world.
A lot of casual fans may not know that Stone Sour was actually your first band, then Slipknot. And Stone Sour is working on a double album right now ...
We actually finished it about a week before I came out to start doing rehearsals [for the Mayhem] tour. It was insane. I mean, the good thing was we did it in Iowa; we did it in a really good studio in Iowa. Yeah, we wrapped principal recording for 'House of Gold and Bones' parts one and two right about the middle of June. Now it's just in the final stages. It's on the verge of being mixed and mastered and we're getting all the artwork together. I wrote a story for it that will be in two halves that will be featured in the discs themselves. Part One will drop in October. Part Two will probably drop in May of next year. We're really excited about it. It's probably one of the biggest, best things I've ever been a part of.
Well, I can't wait to get a chance to play some of it on the air, man.
The first single is looking like it's going to come out mid-August. Maybe end of August? Basically we're going to release the first two songs from the album and the cool thing is that they connect. So, if you put them together you really get a sense of how the album is going to begin and it's going to be really cool.
Slipknot are currently rocking the Mayhem Festival tour, while 'Antennas to Hell' drops July 24. As noted by Corey Taylor, Stone Sour's new album will be delivered in two parts, with the first disc dropping this fall. Tune in to Loudwire Radio this weekend to hear more from Taylor's conversation with Sandman.


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Mestrovic: Motherhood and the Victor
Today the golden statue known as "The Victor" towers above Kalemegdan fortress in Belgrade at the confluence of the Danube and the Sava. This statue has become the symbol of the Serbian capital. However it was never supposed to be here, having been part of a project by Ivan Mestrovic, the great Croatian and Yugoslav sculptor, for something else. Mestrovic was born in Dalmatia in 1883 and died in the US in 1962. His life, times and work encompassed many of the greatest moments of the drama of the Yugoslav story and today his work can be seen from Belgrade to Zagreb to the temple of Njegos, the Montenegrin poet and prince, which crowns Montenegro's Mount Lovcen. In 2008 a new book about Mestrovic was published, one which is rather different from any previous one. It is memoir about Mestrovic written by his daughter Maria Mestrovic who has lived most of her life in Argentina. It is a fascinating mix of the story of her father and of her reminiscences and it is valuable reading for anyone interested both in the sculptor and his life and times. The book was edited by Marcus Tanner, whose own history of Croatia is represented in this literary walk. Another extract about Mestrovic can be found here. This is the story of "The Victor" which began in the aftermath of the Balkan wars of 1912 and 1913 which saw Serbia take Macedonia and Kosovo. At the time Mestrovic was living in Belgrade. Nikola Pasic, then the Serbian prime minister, was one of the dominating political figures of the time, both in Serbia and later Yugoslavia.
For Mestrovic, the Serbian triumphs were a sign that the independence of the Croatian people was at hand. It was this that drove him to support the project of a future confederation of southern Slavs united to Serbia: a Yugoslavia that would span from the frontier of Italy to Albania, encompassing Dalmatia's coasts and islands.
Pasic invited Mestrovic every week for lunch or tea at his residence to discuss the political situation. Since these meetings only included the two of them, the conversations were confidential.
To celebrate Serbia's victories in the Balkan wars, the government commissioned Mestrovic to design a monumental sculpture, the imposing Fountain of Terasije, which would be erected in Crown Prince Aleksandar Square and tower over the Hotel Moskva.
Because of its huge size, the municipality of Belgrade had a hard time finding a large enough space in which to build it. Finally a gymnasium at a primary school solved the problem. There, Ivan, working intensely for eight months, created a number of figures, some cast in bronze, others in stone. The column of the huge fountain and the rim of the shell would be decorated with masks and lions in bas-relief. The central figure, the Victor, would be a warrior standing 15 feet tall, an eagle in his hand. According to the contract, the sculptor had to pay all his expenses including his salary. When he received his first bank disbursement, most of it went on materials and labour.
The composition never appeared. After the outbreak of war in 1914 halted all construction, the figures were destroyed except for the statue of The Victor, which was erected in Kalemegdan Park in 1928.
What makes this book particularly valuable are its insights into Mestrovic the man, as opposed to just the artist. These are some of Maria Mestrovic's reflections, sparked by her account of when her father met Ruzena, the "gorgeous" Czech wife of the Russian diplomat Vassily Khvoshnisky, in Rome at the time of the World Exposition in 1911. Ruza Klein, who is referred to here, was Mestrovic's wife. The scene took place at an evening with friends as Ruzena began to play Debussy on the piano:
As she placed her hands on the keyboard, Mestrovic observed her gestures while Ruza, by his side, tried to monopolize his attention. Seated behind Countess Khvoshinsky, he took in her long nape and generous hips. This was his idea of femininity, for Mestrovic was not attracted to intellectual women, saying intellectuality diminished women's sensuality and extinguished physical passion. For that reason, Mestrovic avoided talking to women about politics, philosophy, or theology. He did not take their talents too seriously. To him, feminine inspiration expressed itself most purely in motherhood. Motherhood and artistic creativity were on a level plane. The product of a deeply patriarchal society, Mestrovic could never, deep down, admit that women could be as creative as men. That would have meant admitting the equality of the "weaker" sex. As for a sterile woman, that was really a tragedy. Such biological failures best redeemed themselves by devoting their time to loving other children.
Mestrovic: The Making of a Master. Maria Mestrovic, edited by Marcus Tanner. 2008.
[pp. 72-73 & p. 63 / Stacey International]
January 2009
Tim Judah


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Mentor Graphics has invested $825,000 in Portland State University's Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science to advance the study of integrated circuit design in the new Mentor Graphics Design Verification and Emulation Lab.
The support will allow the Maseeh College to expand its expertise in the growing and relatively new field of chip verification by emulation, a cost-effective way of testing complex new chips.
"This investment will advance PSU's goal to become a national leader in the field of chip design," said PSU President Wim Wiewel. "It is a wonderful example of a public-private partnership that blends philanthropy and education with an outcome that will have a positive impact on the economy."
The growing partnership with Mentor Graphics, a worldwide high tech company headquartered in Wilsonville, Ore., enables PSU to enhance its relationships with chip design companies. The program expansion will offer students more state-of-the-art education and more opportunities in industry. It will grow enrollment and improve the quality of research and instruction in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
"We greatly appreciate PSU's commitment to partnering with private industry to ensure that its curriculum delivers graduates skilled in the most advanced technologies available in the world," said Gregory K. Hinckley, president of Mentor Graphics. "This donation will enable a unique partnership between Mentor Graphics and PSU and ensure that the students who graduate from this program will be able to immediately contribute to their employers."
Mentor Graphics makes software and hardware products to automate electronic design tasks, enabling engineers to develop electronic devices more efficiently. In 2009, the company gave PSU an emulator worth approximately $1 million, a piece of hardware that simulates how a new chip will behave before it is actually manufactured to enable design errors to be discovered before manufacturing costs and time are committed. PSU is the only university in the country to receive a Mentor Graphics emulator donation for research and instruction, giving students a rare opportunity to learn on cutting-edge equipment and making them valuable to future employers.
This new investment includes a $700,000 gift over five years for a new faculty member, to be hired by June 2013, and $125,000 for options for exclusive access to intellectual property based on research conducted in the lab. Two PSU professors are already working in the emulation field, and PSU plans to hire an additional faculty member using PSU funds for a total of four faculty members in the lab.
"It's such an important gift to advance our teaching and learning and build a cutting-edge program in chip design," said Renjeng Su, dean of the Maseeh College. "We can benefit a great deal from working with Mentor Graphics, because they are one of the top companies in the world."


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Join pioneering excavations of prehistoric quarries in the Valles Caldera and discover how humans interacted with this volcanic landscape 10,000 years ago.
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The remote Valles Caldera, formed by volcanic activity millions of years ago, provides a one-of-a-kind glimpse into human history.
Help archaeologists investigate prehistoric obsidian quarries and travel routes in New Mexico's stunning and remote Valles Caldera National Preserve. Your work will help reveal how, exactly, past people used the land and its natural resources.
If you join us in 2014, you'll spend most of your days in Obsidian Valley, an intensely quiet, beautiful site that conveys a palpable sense of the ancient past. As the occasional eagle glides overhead, you and your team members will dig into the valley floor, then sift through the removed dirt to find artifacts.
In 2015, the researchers will take off in an exciting new direction. Join them as they begin surveying and excavating the preserve's Valle Entrada, part of key prehistoric trading routes. It may even have been on Coronado's path as he made one of the earliest European explorations of the region. Valle Entrada has incredible potential to reveal information about many different people throughout the long span of prehistoric and historic time.
For almost two weeks, you'll live the life of an archaeologist. Take this unparalleled opportunity to get to know the caldera, and build our understanding and appreciation of how people have enjoyed this landscape across the millennia.
You won't find the typical Southwestern archeological sites in this volcanic landscape. Help researchers decode completely different evidence from our past.
Humans have shaped the land of the Valles Caldera for over 10,000 years—but only 15% of the preserve has been checked for archaeological sites.
We still have a lot to learn about how ancient people used this land and how the environment may have shaped their communities. We do know that the archaeological record in the Valles Caldera National Preserve is dramatically different than in surrounding areas: instead of the iconic adobe cliff dwellings, pueblos, and pottery—the remnants of early Pueblo agrarian societies—that cover the rest of the Southwestern U.S., the surface of the caldera is dotted with both large and small scatterings of prehistoric obsidian artifacts.
An excavation unit that may contain prehistoric obsidian artifacts.
The unique archaeological record in the preserve, then, could help us understand not only the broader geographies and economies of the area's people—for example, when and why did they use the land in the caldera? Who might they have traded with there?—but also to explore how people lived in the Southwestern U.S. for many thousands of years before the relatively recent Pueblo farmers. Ultimately, a better understanding of both ecological and cultural history of the place will help us preserve and share the lessons learned from its invaluable cultural resources.
Northern New Mexico is famous for its archeological heritage. But even within this culturally rich region, the Valles Caldera, in the middle of the Jemez Mountains, stands out. Long a site of earthly and spiritual importance to native Pueblo people, the caldera has more recently hosted ranchers, hunters, miners, scientists, and moviemakers looking for authentic Western scenery. The preserve is also home to a great diversity of wildlife, including elks, black bears, lynx, weasels, prairie dogs, and eagles (not to mention five species of slime mold!).
Jemez Springs (population 250) boasts gorgeous canyon views and natural hot springs. The village runs a bathhouse with hot springs access and massage services, and there are many other interesting sights: two churches, a cloistered nunnery, a Buddhist retreat center, art galleries, and several dining options, including a French bakery and an Old-West-style saloon and restaurant.
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Each morning, you'll drive past herds of elk and chattering prairie dogs into the heart of the Valles Caldera National Preserve to begin fieldwork. You'll usually stay outdoors from the morning through early or late afternoon, and then spend some late afternoons in the lab.
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In the evenings, you can relax at the lodge or attend optional evening talks from both project scientists and guest speakers. You'll also likely see a live demonstration of flintknapping (the process of making a stone tool). You may even get to try your hand using an atlatl, a prehistoric spear launcher.
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Join Dr Steffen and help uncover ancient artifacts in New Mexico's beautiful Valles Caldera National Preserve.
Anastasia Steffen has led inventory of cultural resources at the Valles Caldera National Preserve since its creation in 2000. Her research interests include prehistoric stone technology, debitage analyses, and landscape-scale management of cultural resources. Ana is passionate about all things related to fire, obsidian, volcanoes, and hot springs.
You'll stay at the Baca Lodge, which overlooks the preserve's Valle Grande (Big Meadow). The lodge offers eight comfortable bedrooms, each with two twin beds, and four shared bathrooms. It also boasts a full kitchen and spacious dining room, where you'll share home-cooked meals featuring Southwestern American and Mexican cuisine with your teammates. For lunch, you'll pack sandwiches, fruit, and other staples at the lodge to take with you into the field. In the evenings, you can sit in the lodge's living room by the impressive stone fireplace and watch the elks graze in the meadow.
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This was a great expedition with wonderful scenery, an abundance of wildlife and native prairie flowers. The scientists were great to work with! It will be even better now that the volunteers are staying at Baca Ranch. In 2012 we stayed in Jiminez Springs so had a long drive each way every day. The drive was always interesting, but it left us no time to clean up and relax before dinner. I am intrigued by the new site proposed for 2015 and hope to sign up for one of those teams!
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What archaeological treasures await researchers at the Ikh Nart Nature Reserve in Mongolia?
What can we learn about Italy's ancient people from the ruins they left along the coast of Tuscany? Help us dust off clues.
Dig for clues into resource use, sustainability, and long-term impacts on ancient communities.
Climb aboard a motorboat and sail a tropical "inner sea" in search of endangered dolphins and whales in Costa Rica.


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With Windows 10 recently released, students that can obtain these certifications will have a considerable advantage in the marketplace as companies start to migrate over to Microsoft's new OS. Microsoft is expecting to put Windows 10 on over a billion devices. Windows 10 contains many new features that have revolutionized Microsoft's platform. The start button is back, more security has been added, a new browser has been integrated and Microsoft has even added their voice based personal assistant, Cortana. This ITU course will prepare students for the Microsoft 70-697 Certification for Windows 10. This training course will cover topics such as Windows 10 deployment, OS management and device management, and many others.
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Module 1: Introducing Windows 10
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2.1 Preparing For Installation
2.2 Installation Options
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3.1 Overview Of Configuration Tools
3.2 Common Configuration Options
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3.5 Using Control Panel
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3.7 Using Windows Administration Tools Part 2
3.8 Using Windows Power Shell Part 1
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6.3 Managing Microsoft Edge Web Browser
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In support of its innovative course of study, the University's design included some very unusual buildings. Shortly before his death in 1826, Mr. Jefferson designed an Anatomical Theatre where human cadavers could be used as the basis for anatomy lessons. This building, one of only three such structures in the nation at the time, was built in 1827 and stood on the campus until it was demolished in 1938.
Questions for Drawing 4
1. What does the name "Anatomical Theatre" tell you about the way this building was used?
2. At the time, no other university campus had a building of this type. Why do you think Jefferson felt the need to build such a structure at the University of Virginia?
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Cantaloupe and Honeydew: The Sweet Flavors of Summer
How it's grown:
- Cantaloupe and honeydew are part of a family known as muskmelons. These melons are grown in hot and dry climates with moist soil.
- About 75% of all cantaloupes available in the U.S. are grown in California.
- Melons are in season from April through December.
- Honeydew melons are mostly grown in California and Arizona, and are also imported from China and Turkey.
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- Melons should smell sweet and musky, a good indicator of ripeness.
- Pick melons that are firm, yet which give slightly when pressed.
- Avoid melons with visible bruising or discoloration. The netted rind of the melon should be a rich cream color.
- When cantaloupes are ripe, they gradually slip from their vines, so choose fruit that does not have any part of the vine intact. The stem area should be smooth.
How to store it:
- Uncut melons can be stored on the counter at room temperature for up to one week from purchase.
- If cutting melons for later use, store slices in an airtight container or plastic bag, then place into the fridge immediately. Use within one week.
How to prepare it:
- Clean the outside of the melon under running water, using a soft scrub brush if desired. You can also use a mild fruit wash, or a solution of 5 parts water and 1 part vinegar.
- Use sharp, clean paring knife to cut the melon into quarters, so that each piece of fruit faces upwards on the cutting board.
- Cut the fruit away from the rind where the flesh starts to turn pale.
- You can then cut the slices into cubes, balls (using a melon baller) or simply serve them as they are.
How to eat it:
- Melons are delicious on their own, added to fruit salad or as an ingredient in salsa or gazpacho.
- Honeydew tastes great alongside tea. Try pureeing ÂĽ cup of honeydew, then add 2 cups green tea and ice. Blend to desired consistency and add dairy or nondairy whipped cream if desired.
- Puree 1 cup honeydew or cantaloupe with ÂĽ cup agave nectar and pour into popsicle molds with a stick. Freeze overnight for a refreshing treat.
- Pureed honeydew can be combined with mint, lime, cucumber and dairy or nondairy milk for a light, chilled soup.
Nutritional highlights:
- As with most fruit, cantaloupe and honeydew have high water content and are a low-calorie choice.
- Melons are fat free, cholesterol free and very low in sodium.
- Cantaloupe is high in vitamin A and beta carotene, and contain potassium. Honeydew and cantaloupe are high in vitamin C.