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One-string systems: The uncontrollable rebels of heating
A beam of spring's first sunlight falls through the basement window of the six-storey apartment building that Mads Kjær Birk manages in Aarhus, Denmark. He gesticulates enthusiastically. "This could really be the solution we have been looking for," he says. He's talking about the newest addition to the building's heating system – a pump.
But why is he so happy? Well, our story begins with an inevitable and persistent challenge for building managers of buildings with so-called one-string heating systems.
One-string heating systems are common in many parts of the world. Although they fulfil their basic purpose of supplying heat to the residents of thousands of residential buildings, they are difficult to control.
In a one-string system, all the heating surfaces (typically radiators) in the building connect to one single string (see Figure 1). The hot water from the heating plant enters the system at the top of the building and rushes down through the string, heating up radiators on its way down. When the water returns to the heating plant, it is either much colder than it was at the top, or almost the same temperature as it was at the top – depending on how many radiators were open in the building when the water made its way through the system.
That means that a one-string heating system is a system with very little control. Often, the system is designed to be a constant flow system – which means that pressure control offers little help, since the pressure in the system is constant, even though the demand for heat varies from day to day.
Delta T is the difference in temperature between the flow and the return flow in a heating system. A low Delta T is a symptom of a system that is not using the heat energy in the water efficiently enough. In a one-string system, the poorly regulated return temperatures result in a delta T that is often too low, consumers that lack comfort, and heating plants that are dissatisfied with the high return temperature. The consequence can be substantial fines from the heating plant to the building owner.
So if pressure control is not the solution…
The delta T challenge in one-string systems has been known for years. But the solution to the problem did not present itself until a new pump technology was developed, enabling the pump to adjust its performance based on the difference in temperature instead of the difference in pressure. In other words, pressure control is not the solution to this problem, temperature control is.
One-string systems are the result of a time when there was a big focus on fast installation times and inexpensive systems – and they exist in large numbers all over the world. But they are very hard to control, and the temperature-controlled solution could be a breakthrough in that regard.
Anders Nielsen, Application Manager, Grundfos
A new kind of control
The Grundfos TPE3 in-line pump is so intelligent that it can control a heating system's performance based on the differential temperature between flow and return flow temperature. So what does this mean for one-string heating systems?
In a typical, uncontrolled one-string system, a high return flow temperature can only mean one thing: The system's load is low, meaning the hot water from the heating plant is not cooled sufficiently on its way through the system.
On the other hand, a low return flow temperature means that the load in the system is close to 100% and the system is thus delivering return flow in the temperature that it is meant to deliver.
The TPE3's designers thus took up this one-string challenge. If a pump could measure the temperature of both the flow pipe and the return flow pipe and compare the two, it could automatically adjust its flow, because the differential temperature reveals the current demand in the system. And this is precisely what the TPE3 does (Figure 2).
Temperature control is the answer
So instead of relying on pressure control in a one-string system, you can now rely on temperature control from the very pump that controls the system's flow. This way, you have complete control of the delta T, which will increase comfort for the residents of the building, increase the system's energy efficiency and enable you to live up to your obligations with the heating plant.
"It's really a completely new way of controlling one-string heating systems," says Anders Nielsen, Application Manager in Grundfos. "One-string systems are the result of a time when there was a big focus on fast installation times and inexpensive systems – and they exist in large numbers all over the world. But they are very hard to control, and the temperature controlled solution could be a breakthrough in that regard."
Taking back control with TPE3
Mads Kjær Birk manages a series of buildings in Aarhus, Denmark. A few of them have one-string heating systems, and the challenge is the same across the board: One-string systems are hard to control, and the high return temperatures have resulted in multiple fines from the heating plant.
"To be honest, I had never heard of a TPE3 pump when Grundfos called," says Mads Kjær Birk. "But I thought it would be really cool to see if this solution could be the answer to our problems, so it didn't take much consideration to accept their offer to do a pilot project.
Almost like an iPhone
Grundfos installed a TPE3 pump complete with temperature sensors in the building's heating system in March 2015. The pilot project will run for a year, and the expectations are high.
"I do expect a lot from this project – in terms of system efficiency, customer satisfaction and a happy heating plant," Mads Kjær Birk says. "What I am very excited about is how easy the pump is to use – it's almost like an iPhone. The display tells you exactly what you need to know and the interaction with the pump is a pure joy. And you can perform some pretty complex things with the touch of a button.
Facts: The Langenæs building, Aarhus, Denmark
- Built in 1958-60
- 70 apartments
- Building Manager: Mads Kjær Birk
- TPE3 test conducted from March 2015
Facts on the TPE3: Grundfos' new in-line pump
- Low energy consumption – better than IE4 and above the efficiency at benchmark MEI rating
- Integrated ΔT control, saving the costs of a differential temperature sensor
- Built-in heat energy meter for complete control
- FLOWADAPT and other intelligent control modes ensure energy savings, easy commissioning, elimination of pump throttling valve and more.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Robert Heindel: "Illustration... a valuable creative tool"
I've included Heindel's remarks on each piece from the inside flap of the brochure. Be sure to read the last two paragraphs of the Heindel bio at the end of this post. David Apatoff spoke with Heindel in 2005, a few months before the artist passed away. Heindel had some harsh but refreshingly honest views about the state of the illustration business today:
"The business of illustration is literally nonexistent today.... When Bernie Fuchs and I did what we did, it was a different world. We had to make a lot of hard decisions as things changed. Where do kids starting out today take their talent if they want to do what we did? I would say they're fucked. There is nothing for them. They can't follow the path that Bernie and I followed any longer. And our society is pretty unforgiving for those who make the wrong judgments."
Although Heindel's comments from this Strathmore brochure are from a quarter century earlier than his discussion with David, they already hint at the same concerns. Illustrators, designers and art directors, especially younger pros, should give Heindel's entirely valid comments some very serious consideration. He was talking about all of our futures, but especially yours - only you have the ability to effect a change.
My Robert Heindel Flickr set.
*ALSO* Be sure to check out Charlie Allen's latest CAWS at Charlie Allen's Blog - most especially if you are a fan of aviation art!
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Around the same time as this brochure, Strathmore made an excellent promotional film showing the work of many top illustrators. I can't recall the title.ReplyDelete
Luckily for us there are now options for illustrators that didn't even exist in Robert Heindel's day - video game design, special effects design and graphic novels to name a few. We may not have his opportunities but we do have our own.ReplyDelete
Robert Heindel was always one of my top, top favorite illustrators when I was in art school. I collected many of his illustrations. His ability to pull a figure out of the shadows always completely intrigued me. He rendered his figures with sensitivity and vulnerability, and yet, I believe I remember reading that he was also a great business man. While I agree with him that things have changed drastically and are in the process of evolving in the field of illustration, it's crucial for artists to maintain a positive outlook. The art of illustration is an essential part of our cultural storybook and it will adapt and survive the transitions.ReplyDelete
Well I just had to comment on this one. I met Robert at ILM when he came to visit his son Toby who was a camera assistant/gopher back then. He definitely came off like he had a chip on his shoulder...right up there with Bob Peak.ReplyDelete
Hey, nobody paints traditional matte paintings like I had a chance to. Things change and as illustrators, change is built into the system. We adapt or perish.
He reminds me of Bob Dylan's harangues that there is no longer any good music being made. These are old men who can't handle the train leaving the station. There...I said it.
That film sounds tantalizing! Hopefully someone with more access will contact us...
Larry, Laurie and Frank; I applaud you for your positive outlook. I find myself going back and forth between optimism and pessimism on this subject. Recently I stumbled upon a post on art rep Anna Goodson's blog. It addresses one of the real hurdles in today's illustration market: the complicity of illustrators in devaluing their industry. The post is hereI'd be interested in getting your opinion after you've had a chance to read it. As Laurie says, there are evolving processes in the field of illustration - Frank makes the realistic point: adapt or die.
One of the important aspects of the history of illustration that I try to emphasize on this blog is that "all of this has happened before - and will happen again." But adaptation is just one option, in my opinion... hopefully without coming off like a cranky old codger, I would like to see some element of the traditional illustration market preserved... hell - even nurtured! That is: it should be more than possible for illustrators to make a good living doing what we do. This seems to be tougher and tougher to accomplish as the years go by. Yes there is an abundance of illustration out there today - sites like Flickr and Deviant Art and Concept Art and the nearly infinite number of art blogs are a testament to the passion people have for expressing themselves 'on paper'. But how many of those (often extremely talented) artists are making a great (not just so-so, but great) living from their art?
Is illustration becoming the domain of the part-timer and hobbyist?
Thanks for another great post, Leif.ReplyDelete
For those commenters who construe Heindel's comments as arrogant or discouraging, I have to tell you that he was the complete opposite when I spoke with him. He was very self-effacing, joking about how whenever he competed with Bernie Fuchs for an assignment, he knew that Bernie was so good he was going to "kick the shit out of you." And he said, very poignantly, "You realize when you get to be my age that you aren't really as good as you wanted to be. You have to confront the question, 'how good am I? Why can't I be better?'" I was deeply impressed with him as a human being.
I think the important lesson from the language you quoted is that you can't come out of art school assuming you will be doing full page illustrations for fiction in the Saturday Evening Post, Colliers and McCalls. If you want a meaningful life, you are going to have to fight for it, and maybe reinvent yourself a few times and keep your eyes and mind open. The bottom fell out of the illustration market halfway through Heindel's career, but it drove him to invent his own new market, painting dance posters that were sold as limited edition lithographs. It was a gamble, but if it had not turned out to be wildly successful, he would have just tried something else, and kept on trying until he succeeded.
David's comments on Heindel are 100% right on the money. I would say the one thing David left out, having met Robert decades back myself, was Robert's lusty joy over the human body, and most especially his wife's!ReplyDelete
I agree with Leif and wonder many of the same things. One concern I often have is the fast deadlines (along with fees that haven't gone up in years).ReplyDelete
Does an illustrator today need to do a million illustrations a year just to make a living? Of course a million is an exaggeration but you get the point.
I don't know a lot about Robert Heindel but in some ways I think he's a good example for artists today. He adapted when the business changed.
First off , I read the Reps comments and part of me thinks she doth protesteth too much. Art reps are like a " Union Lite" they want to keep prices high. Sometimes , like Detroit unions , they can become part of the problem and stock art does serve a purpose for those company's that just need a budget image to sell a bolt and screw. But on the other hand, a great rep is also priceless.
Can you make a great living as an illustrator. If you mean living the life of Trump...then I don't know of anyone like that. But if you mean waking up next to the wife you love, typing smack on your laptop while some other guy is battling the traffic commuting to a job he hates making big bucks ...then yes.
Most of my Art Center buds are highly succesful. Some more so than others. But I have never heard them wish they would do something else.
Most of us have adapted. The key, especially for young illustrators, is to Create DEMAND for your work. I remember when Mark Fredrickson hit the scene. His work was so greatly unusual and good that he took the market by storm. I remember talking to him...he could not keep up with the demand!
Many people cry out...I need a job...where are the jobs? I say...create your job...create your market.
My friend and hero Jim Gurney, CREATED his market. He is dah man!
Thanks for that honest opinion. On the one hand, I'm inclined to agree with your free market capitalist philosophy. I think you have a brutally realistic view of the business as it fits into the larger picture of the entrepeneurial spirit.
Still, keeping the union rhetoric and rep-bashing out of it, don't you think its imperetive for older illustrators (and good reps) to work to maintain certain monetary standards for the business to continue to thrive?
Let me put it in personal terms: if tomorrow you wake up and find the market has shifted in a way where you are being consistently outbid on projects by extremely talented kids (and experienced pros from other countries with lower standards of living) who will do the same quality of work as you for a quarter of what you would normally charge, and 6 months down the road you discover that 1/4 of your usual rate has become the typical budget you are presented with, will you simply accept that?
I guess the answer would be, "what other choice would you have?"
The point being that as the erosion of budgets continues, we end up with the scenario Daniel proposed: that you have to do a million illustrations a year to maintain the same level of income you've built your standard of living around! This has actually come to pass for me and many of my friends with 20 or so years of experience under our belts.
Now, that being said, I've re-invented my style a dozen times, and found many ways to creatively market myself. I've connected with some decent and loyal clients in the process. But that doesn't discount what I see as a general steady erosion in the status and respect we and our clients and the general public have for this profession.
And I wonder how healthy that is for the entire next generation of illustrators. Because I don't see a thriving illustration business today - I see a lot of talented individuals lowering their expectations.
I guess we come from the same era as I have made a living from art and illustrating after graduating Art Center in 1980.
I hope I did not come off as a rep basher. I believe I said a good rep is priceless...but she put me in a sour mood with her mention of not blaming Republicans, insinuating all art types are dems.
Well, the art market is experiencing the same problems as home builders. My neighbor can get his roof done with a team of illegals for $9000 while a another contractor who pays legals and workers comp can't bid lower than $15000. Many are forced to hire unregistered workers just to compete.
That said, artists that under bid will always be with us. I guess I have been fortunate enough to have clients that need my services. I have accepted as a Darwinian truth that other than create an Art Union, there is no practical way to enforce pricing standards from art buyers.
I used to get $6000 for movie poster comps back in the late 70's. Those jobs are GONE for illustrators like me unless you go digital or have such a recognizable style ( demand again ) like Drew Struzan. I remember hearing a talk he gave where he was paid $35,000 for "The Name of the Rose" movie poster.
But I also share your concern that the playing field is not even and that what once seemed so attractive has changed. I have learned not to get bitter but I also have not taken work where I know I will spend alot of man hours for little money. Let the other guys do that.
I had so much fun matte painting traditionally at ILM. Boy was that great. That too is GONE now.Its all cut and paste photos.
But illustration and Art have been very good to me. I can't complain. What a privilege to be able to make a living painting pictures. Praise God!
Well put, Frank; And apologies if it sounded like I was suggesting you were rep bashing - I meant that in broader general terms to whomever might be reading, because I suspect this kind of discussion could easily go off-track on a topic like that. :^)ReplyDelete
I also feel very lucky to have the freedom to make my own hours and get paid to draw. Those of us who do are incredibly fortunate. I just hope that something resembling what I do now is still around in 20 or 30 years, because I'm not sure I want to keep learning new software and figuring out ways to work faster to accomodate shrinking budgets. Then I look at the history of the business and think, "but realistically, what aspect of this business is today as it was 20 or 30 years ago?"
And the answer of course is, "Very little!"
But don't you find that you are naturally faster now anyway? And that your experience gives you an edge.
The best advice I took was from an air brush artist , Fred Nelson . I was his assistant when I was first starting out and cutting frisket for him ( glad that thing is dead!) and he told me...Frank ...learn how to paint that way you don't end up like me slaveing over every job cutting and spraying . He was paid well , but he showed me a better way.
Hah - yeah, I am faster, that's true - but I don't always want to have to race through my jobs, which is becoming more and more the case.ReplyDelete
Even so, you're positive attitude is admirable, Frank. Thanks! :^)
I have been also known to be dillusional. ;v)...hey gang , if we all stand at the other end of the Titanic the force of our weight might keep it from sinking!ReplyDelete
Bob Heindel was one of my favorite artist.ReplyDelete
I just happened to find a limited edition print of his at Goodwill. Signed by the artist 3/1000. Poster of 1986 NCAA Basketball Final Four. He will be missed greatly!
Very interesting post - so happy to have come across it. I also was a huge fan of his work while in school, not to mention while still doing ballet regularly. I was fortunate that my father was close friends with him and his work was always prominently displayed in our home, and I have some pieces personally signed to me. @Hamlin Design - since the death of my father I am in possession of far too many pieces to display - I'd never drop them at Goodwill but if you are interested...ReplyDelete


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Father Robert Sirico could not have written a timelier book than his latest, Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy.
Father Sirico is a co-founder of the Acton Institute, a research institute in Grand Rapids, Mich., devoted to the study of free-market economics and religion. He is perhaps best known internationally for his moral-based argument that the free market economy is the economic model most compatible with the teachings of the Catholic Church and sacred Scripture.
Why do I say his book is timely? Because we are mired in the worst economic downturn since the 1930s, one that is all the worse for being global and that shows indications of worsening in the years ahead. All of this follows by a mere couple of decades the almost total collapse of Marxism throughout the world, with the fall of the Soviet Empire and its dependents.
As it turns out, many of the countries that were most responsible for the death of the Soviet Union (including the United States) have given themselves over to consumerism (in spite of warnings by Blessed John Paul II) and turned to neo-Keynesian economic policies that only produce widespread unemployment and (in increasing cases) the possible bankruptcy of entire countries. These formerly prosperous but currently struggling nations reached their current state by abandoning a market economy that was free, government spending that was frugal, budgets that were balanced and taxation that was low. In short, they encouraged what John Paul II referred to as a "circle of productivity" that, like "a rising tide," helped raise all boats. His encyclical Centesimo Anno presented convincing economic social teaching upon which Pope Benedict XVI has built his own social encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth).
Father Sirico has written a delightful book that is in part autobiography. Readers will be surprised and perhaps startled by his itinerary from Brooklyn to California (where he became a student radical), to his return to the faith, ordination to the priesthood, and equally complete reversal in his economic views as he absorbed the teachings of the Church, free-market economists such as Mises, Hayek and Friedman, and simple common sense.
This book draws deeply on Scripture and the social teaching of the Church, beginning with Rerum Novarum near the end of the 19th century and proceeding to recent teaching by Pope Benedict. The book abounds in anecdotes and observations that bolster Father Sirico's argument that the free market is the economic system that is most just, best at achieving prosperity and, in many cases, a means of growth in holiness. After all, according to Genesis, God created us to work and presumably to work freely for the good of all mankind and to God's glory with freedom.
Father Sirico quotes Alexis de Tocqueville — perhaps the greatest observer of the unique character of America — who observed, "Freedom is, in truth, a sacred thing; there is only one thing else that better deserves the name," and that is virtue. And then he asks, "What is virtue if not the free choice of what is good?"
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The purpose of Why Catholicism Matters, according to author Bill Donohue's recent interview on EWTN's The World Over, is to help those who would defend the Catholic Church with the facts, lest pride stem from mere tribalism; for those who are in danger of drifting away from the faith, that they may return; and to dispel some of the black legends leveled against the Church, like the Inquisition and the Crusades. It would be hard to find a timelier book for these times.
Donohue is widely known as a feisty, good-humored defender of the Church who never shies from confronting slander or blasphemy in the media, arts, entertainment, academia and government. Yet few know him as an academic capable of a scholarly book. With a doctorate in sociology, Donohue draws his facts from respected academic and ecumenical sources, and his ideas are fleshed out with an expansive knowledge of history, sociology, Church teaching and social policy.
Why Catholicism Matters contains a wealth of quotations useful in those discussions on the Church, where ordinary Catholics find themselves needing to defend the faith in the workplace or even after Mass in the parking lot. Because his book is so well cited and clearly written, it can be used by students of social sciences and theology. His citations are worth following as well: He uses unbiased, scholarly sources that reinforce Catholic social and moral teaching. There is no refuting Donohue's solid logic, as he makes the case repeatedly that not only did the Catholic Church promulgate the ideals which made Western civilization possible, but she continues to assert those same eternal principles that would rescue it from the brink of self-destruction — if intellectuals and political leaders would refrain from jeering long enough to listen.
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In this book, Donohue demonstrates his gift for explaining in simple terms the principles of Catholic social and moral teaching and discussing their application throughout history with an emphasis on present-day social problems.
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"Boyd and Josh walk down the aisle hand-in-hand. Everyone's smiling. Were it not for the absence of a bride, you'd have a hard time distinguishing the scene from any other wedding."
Maggie Gallagher writes: "My jaw drops when I read this sentence." Most readers' would. Indeed, the test of our cultural collapse may well be whether one finds nothing particularly askew that a bride is an optional extra in a "marriage."
Same-sex "marriage" is very much on this year's electoral agenda. Notwithstanding 31 straight defeats whenever the public has been asked about it, the incumbent president has plighted his political troth to the idea, and four states will hold referenda on it this November.
John Corvino, a philosophy professor, and Maggie Gallagher, the co-founder of the National Organization for Marriage, have teamed up to produce this point/counterpoint book. Both first make extended cases for (Corvino) and against (Gallagher) homosexual "marriage." Then each offers a follow-up essay responding to the other's arguments.
Does marriage have anything intrinsically to do with sex, and does sex have anything intrinsically to do with marriage? It is the nexus between marriage and procreation that same-sex "marriage" would legally sunder, with vast cultural consequences. Gallagher puts it this way:
Gay marriage undermines the presuppositions that marriage is sexual, is sexually exclusive, presumes joint parenting, is therefore inappropriate for family members, and requires two and only two people. Redrawing the boundaries of marriage in order to make same-sex unions part of "marriage" makes these presumptions less intelligible, less coherent and harder to defend. An institution with deep roots in human nature and human necessity becomes contingent and arbitrary, a product of will and politics, as the rational connections between its component parts are severed because we cannot both affirm these connections and also proclaim "marriage equality" to be our highest marriage value.
Some readers might object: Why do I need the pros and cons of this debate? I know where I stand. Perhaps, but do you know why? We stand at a critical juncture in American law and culture. Even St. Thomas Aquinas knew and engaged his opponents' arguments, because, like St. Peter, one must "always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope." We need to engage those arguments in ways that are not only right, but also appealing, because marriage entails "the sense of participating in the great chain of being itself, rooted in a natural call that is larger than any one person's desire. That is what you lose when you take the woman out of the wedding."
Readers have two good advocates to examine what's at stake and how it might be spun. How will it turn out? Trusting in God, but using the last words in the book: "We shall see."
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Post your feedback, opinions, ideas, and requests on anything from site support issues to suggestions on bobatl.com merchandise and anything in between, in this new thread.
Post your feedback, opinions, ideas, and requests on anything from site support issues to suggestions on bobatl.com merchandise and anything in between, in this new thread.
I LOVE the new album! Best B.o.B album ever! I just can't stop listening to it.
dark lyrics's atheist and skepticism, are awesome bands for you, b.o.b. you are a great american buddhist!
Im jammin hard out here in Htown bob
im very new to this i just wanted to say you are a really good artist. you are actually a real artist for real. i just want to say it's good to finally have a artist out there thats not just doing it for the fame and the girls. just to do it because you love it and god has blessed you with that and that's good. so enjoy every moment of it and thank him for every minute. stay encouraged.
Feel free to come back to England... any time... yeah!
Someone's gotta know!, where can i find the jacket from strange clouds? the black one from the checkered floor scenes, again great song! but NEEEEDDDDD to know!
I lost due the lyric contest while I have 63 likes? And number 5 has 58 likes, so how about that?
Please come to Detroit. I love you and just wanna see you live. You have inspired me to write myself. I own all of your songs on iTunes. I'm a 13 year old boy who just wants to see my favorite artist live. And also please get Where Are You [B.o.B. vs. Bobby Ray] ON THE FRIGGIN RADIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First i have to say (it's manditory) I LOVE YOU B.O.B !! and ... you should come to Philly ... or Jersey ... one of em ...
Whats up bobatl.com, this is yah boy Patrick Ken Robinson a.k.a Polo. Im a young artist trying to get signed.
I was just wondering where can you get that jacket (adidas originals) that B.o.B is wearing in his music video Beast Mode. It's on around the second minute, I have searched like the whole internet for it but it seems like it doesnt exist so i was wondering where i might get my hands on one of those jackets. :)
dude. you're one of my favorite artists next to lauryn hill and kirk franklin. you write, sing, rap and play instruments. there aren't too many artists in the music biz that does that. they either sing or rap and have other people write their material. you are unique and highly talented. i don't have many fav musical artists because many of them are in the biz for fame and money. thus far, you, ms. hill and mr. franklin have things to share lyrically and musically. i enjoyed your mixtapes and your first album. please don't go mainstream. now days all rappers talk about the same things.. money, cars, girls, and selling drugs. BORING AS HELL! rarely have i heard a rapper talking about not being from this planet. i thought that was weird but weird is unique. continue to be weird and not of this planet. i hope to hear more about your planet. i know too much of earth from most of these rappers. signing off Googie22
If you're lookin to make some country music let me show you what i can do. You got a style that i think would do amazing things for the genre. With your backing i could be a face and voice behind somthing damn good in country music. Somthin real that the people would wanna shake their country asses to...
please b.o.b reconise me you are the only rapper i feel that could understand me im a poet i do have a potentail and i do want to get signed or be apart of grand hustle lol but please rsvp me at my facebook search brandon mitchell itll say poetiv titan on the page please i will continue trying to get closer in contact with you
Where can i have an intelligent convo with mr. Ray privately about his unique an truth revealing facts?.
U'RE REALLY AMAZING TODAY, Bobby!!! When u jumped on the crowd, I touched ur sweaty neck.. OMG!
I also met u. I hugged n kissed ur left cheek *can u remember it? xD*
I also made a graffiti for ya but I hv no time to give it. I fainted n when I sober, u're gone :(
INDONESIA REALLY NEEDS U. So pls, come back to JEKARDHA! I alwas wanna b ur #TEAMBOB. Dont worry bout number or us but our heart for ya :D


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WASHINGTON - Another former Justice Department lawyer went before Congress on Wednesday with few answers for his Democratic interrogators and a spotty memory.
Hans von Spakovsky, who's seeking a full six-year term on the Federal Election Commission, deflected questions about whether he undermined voting rights laws, saying, "I was not the decision maker in the front office of the Civil Rights Division."
Time and again during his confirmation hearing, he cited either the attorney-client privilege or a cloudy memory for his purported role in restricting minorities' voting rights.
Von Spakovsky couldn't remember blocking an investigation into complaints that a Minnesota Republican official was discriminating against Native American voters before the 2004 election.
Under oath, he also said he didn't recall seeing data from the state of Georgia that would have undercut a push by senior officials within the Civil Rights Division to approve the state's tough new law requiring photo IDs of all voters. The data showed that 300,000 Georgia voters lacked driver's licenses. A federal judge later threw out the law as unconstitutional.
Von Spakovsky was among four nominees to the bipartisan FEC, which regulates federal campaign finance laws, to appear before the Senate Rules and Administration Committee. He and two of the others have had presidential recess appointments since early last year.
Nearly the entire two-hour hearing focused on von Spakovsky and on allegations from former career Justice Department lawyers that he was the administration's "point person for undermining the Civil Rights Division's mandate to protect voting rights" of minorities during his more than four-year tenure.
Citing a scathing letter from six former senior officials of the Voting Rights Section, Committee Chairwoman Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., told him bluntly: "It is really a problem for this body to vote for someone with this letter on the record."
Illinois Democratic Sen. and presidential candidate Barack Obama said this week that he thought that von Spakovsky should be rejected "unless he can provide legitimate explanations for his conduct." Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., expressed similar misgivings.
Whether Democrats can derail von Spakovsky's appointment is unclear.
Feinstein cautioned that "a very serious situation could develop if the Senate fails to confirm at least some" of the four nominees by fall because none of the current commissioners has won Senate approval for a full six-year term.
Another problem for foes of von Spakovsky is that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is pushing a home-state candidate, recess appointee Steven Walther of Reno, Nev., and Republicans are likely to put a retaliatory hold on Walther if von Spakovsky is rejected.
Feinstein and Illinois Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin peppered von Spakovsky with questions Wednesday about his Justice Department service.
Asked about the Georgia ID law, von Spakovsky declined to disclose the legal advice he gave his superiors, saying it was privileged, but he maintained that the department took the correct position because the courts didn't find that the law violated the federal Voting Rights Act. In overturning the law, the federal courts cited the 14th and 24th Amendments to the Constitution, he said.
Feinstein questioned von Spakovsky about allegations that he impeded an investigation of allegations that Minnesota Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer had wrongly interpreted a new state ID law to bar 200,000 Native Americans from using tribal ID cards to vote.
"I don't remember that complaint at all," von Spakovsky said.
Durbin, after listening to von Spakovsky's memory lapses, remarked that it was "an affliction to which many people in the Department of Justice suffer." He referred to recent testimony by other department officials who are facing allegations of partisanship.
Durbin asked von Spakovsky about a controversial article he wrote for a Texas law journal in 2005 under the pseudonym "Publius," expressing strong support for voter ID laws.
Weeks after its publication, von Spakovsky reviewed the newly enacted Georgia law requiring every voter to produce a photo ID. He testified Wednesday that he'd received clearance from a department ethics officer to write the article. He also cited a 1994 legal opinion by the department that said employees had a First Amendment right to author articles.
Von Spakovsky revealed his authorship of the article on the FEC Web site in 2006, but later deleted mention of it.
When Durbin asked why, he replied: "I took it off because the controversy was, frankly, interfering with my work at the FEC."
Feinstein said the committee would accept comments on von Spakovsky's confirmation until June 20, and she directed von Spakovsky to deliver a point-by-point rebuttal to the six-page letter signed by former Voting Rights Section chief Joseph Rich and five of his senior aides.
The other nominees are Republican David Mason, who's already served a full FEC term and whom Bush nominated for a second term in 2005, and Democrat Robert Lenhard, a former general counsel of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Mason also has a recess appointment.
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Gwyneth Paltrow deserved to be named the World's Most Beautiful Woman by People magazine today—and she made sure to silence any doubters tonight.
The actress showed off her sexy sculpted figure in a business-in-the-front, party-on-the-side Antonio Berardi gown at the Iron Man 3 premiere in Los Angeles tonight.
While certainly lovely, her black, dark teal and white ensemble didn't seem like much of showstopper from the front. But once Gwyneth turned to the side...


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Precision Micro-Machining Setup Features Horizontal Wire-Feed System
Makino, Auburn Hills, MI, introduces its UPN-01 ultra-precision horizontal wire EDM for micro-tolerance and fine surface-finish applications. Designed with a horizontal wire-feed system, the machine feeds wire as fine as 0.00078 in. Its oil dielectric configuration also makes the machine an ideal solution for high-accuracy machining of carbide and other hardened materials.
Says Brian Pfluger, Makino's EDM product manager: "The UPN-01 achieves a surface finish as fine as 0.17 µm Rz and accuracies to ±0.5 µm." Work envelope is 1.29 in. in the Z axis, with x- and y-axis travel of 6.29 in., with additional U- and V-axis travels of ±0.27 in. The UPN-01 will accommodate a maximum workpiece size of 5.90 by 5.90 by 1.57 in., with a maximum payload of 17.63 lb. including the tool holder.
The machine also is configured with a precision rotary C-axis to hold and index the workpiece, which provides rotational positioning accuracies of ±2 arc-sec. Due to the machine's horizontal configuration, the conventional worktable is replaced with a frame or clamp style tooling system, which also can be automatically exchanged using an optional 16-station automatic work-changer system.
Minimum start hole diameter: of 0.00118 in.; maximum taper-angle capacity: ±6 deg. with a 0.00393-in.-dia. wire and 1.57-in. plate thickness.
The machine's horizontal wire-feed system allows for automatic threading of fine wire diameters by using a combination of forced air through the workpiece, and simultaneously clean start holes to eliminate troublesome wire-guide maintenance.Makino: 800/552-3288; makino.com
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Tyler Colvin Out For Year: What WGN, FS-F viewers saw
Thanks to the telecasts of the Cubs-Marlins by Fox Sports Florida and the superb DVR service of MLB.Com's MLB.TV, we get a good, albeit blurry image of the incident this afternoon in Florida in which Cubs' rookie outfielder Tyler Colvin suffered a season-ending partial lung collapse when he was in the chest speared by a large shard of the broken bat of teammate Wellington Castillo:
He's being treated for pneumothorax, a puncture of the chest cavity, which allowed air into the chest wall and the potential of a collapsed lung. A tube was inserted into the wound, and Colvin is resting comfortably, but will remain hospitalized for 2-3 days for further examination, and manager Mike Quade said he will not play again this season.
With only 13 games left in the season it appears unlikely he will play again this year. Colvin is tied for the major-league rookie lead with 20 homers.
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Saw the update re: teh breathing tube. I do hope he is ok & recovers quickly from this injury! Rather shocking!
Was it a maple bat?
That's was my question too. Was he using a maple bat?
Yikes! What a shame that such an impressive rookie goes out by a freak accident. Hope to see him back full strength next season.
Studies have already concluded that the maple bats, in combination with the narrow handles, have shown an alarming tendency to shatter and spraying shrapnel over the field; as opposed to the ash bats of previous years that, yes, would break, but still usually stay in one piece.
The only reason Bud Selig is not facing a major PR debacle of a dead player on the field appears to be a matter of inches.
Get rid of or fix the maple bats.
Why hasn't a solution like theBatGlove gotten a more serious evaluation. It seems like a simple, easy, cheap fix for this problem.


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This is the time of year when you notice all the blooming trees — they just seem to pop out of the landscape. Maybe it is time you added one or two (or all of them!) to your garden.
Small spring-flowering trees can be key elements in the design of the garden with their beautiful blooms and some very fine fragrances. They offer multi-season interest and are very significant in many of the smaller gardens of today. For this article, small spring-flowering trees will be those considered to be 30 feet tall or less at mature size.
These trees work well with bulbs, perennials, wildflowers and woody plants of all kinds. By combining with other spring-flowering plants, their spectacular blooms are enhanced even more. From a design standpoint, their size allows them to be important links to both tall and short elements in the landscape.
Many of the trees we will be discussing offer interest in several if not all of the four seasons here in the Midwest. Hopefully this will allow me the opportunity to introduce some fine but little-used trees to stretch the plant palette and to add interesting "bones" to your garden.
Here are some of my choices for you to consider.
Red Buckeye
(Aesculus pavia)
Zones: 4 to 8
Size: 10 feet tall and wide
If your goal is to attract hummingbirds, the red buckeye is one of the best to do so. The showy red 6-inch panicles are attractive on this single or multi-trunked tree. It does tend to drop its leaves early so placing around other plants is a wise choice.
(Amelanchier spp., aka Juneberry, sarvisberry, saskatoon, shadbush, shadblow)
Zones: 4 to 9
Size: 6 to 30 feet tall by 4 to 10 feet wide
One of the best four-season trees around, serviceberry offer many species and cultivars. Its showy white flowers are followed by purple edible fruits. Available as either multi-trunked or single-trunked tree form, fall color is a spectacular array of yellow-orange-red. As the bark matures, it becomes striped. I have
always preferred A. laevis but all are fabulous selections.
Common Pawpaw
(Asimina triloba aka custard apple)
Zones: 5 to 8
Size: 15 to 20 feet tall and wide
This small tree with its 6- to 12-inch long droopy leaves has the largest edible fruit native to North America. It is a native understory tree that needs regular watering during the growing season and does not tolerate heavy, wet, alkaline soils. Flowers are a unique maroon-dark purple in color followed by an edible berry of many shapes which is ripe when brown. Its soft orange flesh has a consistency of custard and flavors of banana and pear. Fall color is usually a spectacular yellow.
Eastern Redbud
(Cercis canadensis)
Zones: 4 to 9
Size: 15 to 25 feet tall and wide
A popular tree with showy long-lasting blooms, Eastern redbud is a strikingly conspicuous tree in the spring because its bright lavender flowers emerge before other tree leaves form. Best for naturalized, woodland (understory) settings, it is often multi-stemmed with distinctive heart-shaped leaves.
Recommended cultivars: 'Covey' has a weeping umbrella crown; 'Floating Clouds' offers a white variegated leaf; 'Forest Pansy' leaves emerge red-purple; 'Hearts of Gold' produces yellow new leaves; 'Royal White' has white flowers and is cold hardy.
White Fringetree
(Chionanthus virginicus)
Zones: 3 to 9
Size: 10 to 20 feet tall and wide
This is one of the best small native American flowering plants. Commonly multi-trunked, this can be pruned to a single stem form. White flowers have a slight fragrance and appear after foliage expands. The fleecy look is outstanding in drooping 6- to 8-inch panicles. It is dioecious so dark blue drupes appear on female plants only. This very adaptable tree also develops a nice yellow fall color.
Pagoda Dogwood
(Cornus alternifolia aka alternate-leaf dogwood)
Zones: 3 to 7
Size: 15 to 20 feet tall and wide
A small understory tree native to much of the Eastern United States, it gets its common name from its pagoda-like horizontal branching pattern. Attractive fragrant white-yellow flowers produced in clusters followed by blue-black drupes on bright red pedicels. Fall color may be red-deep red but rarely is outstanding. Seems to do best in colder climates and the key to success is keeping the root zone cool, moist and acidic. This is an alternative to flowering dogwood (C. florida).
Recommended cultivars: 'Argentea' has leaves with a cream white variegation and a compact form; 'Golden Shadows' has yellow variegated leaves.
Kousa Dogwood
(Cornus kousa aka Chinese dogwood)
Zones: 4 to 8
Size: 20 to 25 feet tall and wide
A handsome small ornamental four-season tree with layered branching, Kousa is more resistant to drought and slightly more cold hardy than flowering dogwood. Flower (bract) colors range from white, pink and red. Fruits are raspberry-looking drupes in the fall followed by terrific burgundy fall color. The bark becomes a mottled cream-gray with nice exfoliation. Many cultivars are available in the trade. There are new hybrids of Cornus x rutgersensis (C. kousa x C. florida) developed at Rutgers University by Dr. Elwin Orton which seems to be resistant to dogwood borer and anthracnose and are more vigorous and erect. They also have no fruit and have rounded bracts.
Recommended cultivars: 'Lustgarten Weeping' is a distinctive weeping form mainly on upper branches; 'Satomi' has pink-red bracts and is a slow grower; 'Wolf Eyes' has white margined leaves with impressive pink-red fall color; Cornus 'Rutcan' Constellation® has long white rounded bracts; Cornus 'Rutgan' Stellar Pink® has rounded soft pink bracts.
Cornelian Cherry Dogwood
(Cornus mas)
Zones: 4 to 8
Size: 20 feet tall and wide
In March when I see this fine yet adaptable tree in bloom, it heralds spring's arrival. The first spring-flowering tree is typically multi-trunked and its early yellow flowers give way to bright cherry-red oblong drupes in the summer. The bark also exhibits some ornamental exfoliation.
Recommended cultivars: 'Elegantissima' shows variegated leaves of yellow, green and pink; 'Flava' has yellow fruits; 'Golden Glory' shows an upright form with dark green foliage.
Carolina Silverbell
(Halesia carolina)
Zones: 5 to 8
Size: 30 feet tall and 20 feet wide
This small understory woodland tree has a native habitat on wooded slopes and along stream banks in the Central and Southern United States. It has a prolific midspring blossom of white bell-shaped flowers that hang from the branches. Its young branches are smooth gray-brown with prominent darker striations. This plant is surprisingly free of diseases and pests but prefers slightly acidic soil.
Recommended cultivars: 'Rosea' has light pink flowers.
'Butterflies' Cucumbertree Magnolia
(Magnolia acuminata 'Butterflies')
Zones: 5 to 9
Size: 15 to 25 feet tall and 10 to 15 feet wide
With lovely deep yellow flowers before the foliage, this hybrid magnolia (Denudata x acuminata) has an upright growth habit and a main trunk. Its pyramidal shape and star-shaped 3- to 4-inch blossoms make this one of the best among the plethora of new yellow-flowered magnolias in the trade.
Star Magnolia
(Magnolia stellata)
Zones: 4 to 8
Size: 15 to 20 feet tall and wide
Typically a small, upright multi-trunked tree with showy white flowers, this adaptable tree is also the most cold and heat tolerant species for ornamental usage. Slightly fragrant white flowers appear before foliage shortly after Cornelian cherry dogwood (Cornus mas).
Recommended cultivars: 'Centennial' exhibits wide flowers, is most vigorous and cold hardy, and can reach 30 feet in height; 'Royal Star' is a slow grower and has light pink buds opening to fragrant white flowers.
Flowering Crabapple
(Malus spp.)
Zones: 4 to 8
Size: 15 to 25 feet tall and wide
In the Midwest, there is no finer small flowering ornamental tree. Flowers can be white, pink or even red before foliage and are typically fragrant and single flowered. Malus has few competitors combining cold hardiness and spectacular spring-flowering blooms in Northern states. However, many flowering crabapples are susceptible to apple scab, cedar apple rust and fire blight. Modern cultivars below have been selected because they flower annually, have persistent fruit and exhibit tolerance or resistance to most of the pests and diseases that plague crabapples.
Recommended cultivars: 'Adirondack' has a vase-shape with crimson buds opening to white flowers and red fruits; 'Holiday Gold' is an open, rounded tree with pink buds opening to white flowers and yellow fruits; 'Louisa' is a weeping and spreading form with red buds opening to pink flowers and yellow fruits; 'Prairifire' is upright and spreading with crimson buds opening to red-purple flowers and red-purple fruits; 'Red Jewel' is rounded with white buds opening to white flowers and cherry-red fruits; 'Sargent' is a mounded shrub-like form with red buds opening to white flowers and bright red fruit.
Before you plant that new tree, find out where the underground utilities are.
The new 811 number is a national "Call Before You Dig" phone number designated by the FCC to eliminate the confusion of multiple "Call Before You Dig" numbers and help minimize damages to underground utilities.
One phone call to 811 begins the process of getting underground utility lines marked prior to your planting project. Local One Call Center personnel will then notify affected utility companies, who will send crews to mark underground lines for free.Visit call811.com for more information.
Photo Credits:
1 - Photos courtesy of Scott A. Zanon
2 - Photos in Public Domain
3 - Photo by Wendy Cutler
4 - Photos by Leonora Enking
5 - Photo by Bruce Marlin
6 - Photo by Melissa Burdick
A version of this article appeared in a print edition of State-by-State Gardening May/June 2012.


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Why You Need to Know Larry Kanter
The founder of Kanter Financial Forensics can help settle disputes.
Larry Kanter
Founder & Managing Director of Kanter Financial Forensics LLC
Why You Need to Know Him:
Because Kanter is not your average numbers cruncher. He has expertise in accounting, law, and business operations, and uses their overlap— forensic accounting—to help settle complicated business disputes. One of his most intriguing cases was a 1990s U.S. Senate Banking Committee investigation into the hoarding of Holocaust victims' money by 26 Swiss banks. Kanter led the forensic data-mining effort, unraveling a tangle of financial and customer identity information—all buried in paper documents. His team's work resulted in the restitution of more than $1 billion to the victims, their heirs, and beneficiaries.
Kanter began his career during the U.S. banking crisis of the 1980s, which involved the failure of hundreds of savings and loan institutions and varying levels of fraud, and went on to open the first forensic accounting and technology lab for the accounting firm now known as PricewaterhouseCoopers in Dallas.
Last year he launched his own firm, Kanter Financial Forensics where client work includes everything from uncovering fraud to quantifying lost revenue due to a breach of contract.
Kanter also teaches graduate and undergraduate classes at SMU's Cox School of Business. He says he expects his students will see dramatic changes in their careers, brought on by technological developments.
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The Center brings together over 90 of UCLA's faculty Middle East specialists across disciplines, along with students and visiting scholars, forming an intellectual community for scholarly collaboration on the region.
The Center's affiliated graduate students specialize in Middle East and North African topics in a wide range of disciplines spanning the humanities, social sciences, and professional schools. We have teamed with students from the departments of Anthropology, Applied Linguistics, Archaeology, Art History, Comparative Literature, Education, Ethnomusicology, French, Geography, German, History, Islamic Studies, Music, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Political Science, Social Welfare, Sociology, Spanish, Theater, Urban Planning, and Women's Studies.
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Emily Christine Cooper Cole, NELC. Dissertation: Interpretation and Authority: The Social Functions of Translation in Ancient Egypt
Alma Rachel Heckman, History. Dissertation: Radical Nationalists: Moroccan Jewish Communists 1925-1975
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Jared Norris Wolfe, NELC. Dissertation: ZU: The Life of a Sumerian Verb in Early Mesopotamia
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Matthew Kelly, History. Dissertation: Crime in the Mandate: British and Zionist Criminological Discourse and Arab Nationalist Agitation in Palestine, 1936-1939
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Josh O'Brien, Sociology. Dissertation: Growing Up Muslim in America: Managing Multiple Cultures in Everyday Life
Yehuda Sharim, Culture and Performance Studies. Dissertation: The Rise and Fall of Sephardic-Mizrahi Autonomy: Racial Identities in Palestine from 1918–1948
Sylva Natalie Manoogian, Library and Information Studies. Dissertation: The Calouste Gulbenkian Library, Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, 1925-1990: An Historical Portrait of a Monastic and Lay Community Intellectual Resource Center
Amy Tahani-Bidmeshki, Comparative Literature. Dissertation: In the Process of Shattering their Chains: The Emergence of the "New Man" on Six Post-WWII African American and Iranian Anticolonial Novels
Sabah Firoz Uddin, Gender Studies. Dissertation: Navigating between the Religious and the Secular: Responding to the Muslim `Woman Question' in Diasporic Britain
Melis Hafez, History. Dissertation: The Lazy, the Idle, the Industrious: Discourse and Practice of Work and Productivity in Late Ottoman Society
James Michael Petitfils, History. Dissertation: Mos Christianorum: The Roman Discourse of Exemplarity and the Jewish and Christian Language of Leadership
Dris Soulaimani, Applied Linguistics. Dissertation: Orthographies and Language Ideologies: Selecting a script for Berber in Morocco
Nahrain Al-Mousawi, Comparative Literature. Dissertation: Clandestine Mediterranean: Arab-African Migrant Literature
Sara Brumfield, NELC. Dissertation: Imperial Methods: Using Text Mining and Social Network Analysis to Detect Regional Strategies in the Akkadian Empire
Hoda El Shakry, Comparative Literature. Dissertation: Qur'anic Invocations: Narrative Temporalities in Twentieth Century Maghrebi Literature
Amanda M. Kenderes, Education. Dissertation: Facebook, Political Narrative, and Political Change: A Case Study of Palestinian Youth
Matthew James McKinney, Islamic Studies. Dissertation: Maintaining True Believers: the Evolution and Moderation of Extremist Movements
Krystal Victoria Lords Pierce, NELC. Dissertation: Living and Dying Abroad: Aspects of Egyptian Cultural Identity in Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Canaan
Susannah Rodriguez Drissi, Comparative Literature. Dissertation: Between Orientalism and Affective Identification: A Paradigm and Four Case Studies towards the Inclusion of the Moor in Cuban Literacy and Cultural Studies
Annette Suzanne Russell, History. Dissertation: In the World but Not of the World: The liminal Life of the Pre-Constantine Christian Communities
Mir Hayim Yarfitz, History. Dissertation: Polacos, White Slaves, and Stille Chuppahs: Organized Prostitution and the Jews of Buenos Aires, 1890-1939
Garabet Moumdjian, History. Dissertation: Struggling for a Constitutional Regime: Armenian-Young Turk Relations in the Era of Abdulhamid II, 1895-1909
Amanda Kenderes, Education. Dissertation: Facebook, Political Narrative, and Political Change: A case study of Palestinian Youth
David Bennet, NELC. The Spirit of Ahypokeimenonical Physics: Another Side of Kalam Natural Philosophy.
Benjamin Dale de Lee, History. Letters, Diplomacy, and Religious Polemic in Ninth-Century Byzantium: Niketas Byzantios and the Problem of Islam.
Marie Ellen Enright, Romance Linguistics and Literature. Bridging the Straits of Gibraltar: Nationalism, Myth and Gender in Contemporary Peninsular and Maghrebi Literatures.
Rachel Louise Kaplan, Social Welfare. Living with HIV/AIDS in Lebanon: Women's Perceptions of Meaning.
Shawki Ebeid El-Zatmah, History. Aha Gun!: A Social and Cultural History of Soccer in Egypt.
Aaron Michael Moreno, History. Arabicizing, Privileges, and Liturgy in Medieval Castilian Toledo: The Problems and Mutations of Mozarab Identitification (1085-1436).
Liora Russman Halperin, History. Babel in Zion: The Politics of Language Diversity in Jewish Palestine, 1920-1948.
Said Fares Ahmed Hassan, Islamic Studies. Reaching from Within: Establishing a New Islamic Jurisprudence for Muslim Minorities in the West (The Discourse of Fiqh al-Aqalliyyat).
Grace Jeongyeon Park, NELC. The Role of Ki'lm in Orchestrating Contrastive Focus in Biblical Hebrew.
Leila Pazargadi, Comparative Literature. Mosaics of Identity: Reading Muslim Women's Memoirs from Across the Diaspora.
Jennifer Susan Rashidi, Archaeology. Paleoepidemiology of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East: The Impact of Zoonotic Diseases and Population Demographics on Infectious Disease Patterns.
Mariam Medhat Saada, Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Edición y estudio del manuscrito aljamiado-morisco ms. 4963 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid.
Ryan Nathaniel Roberts, NELC. Terra Terror: An Interdisciplinary Study of Earthquakes in Ancient Near Eastern Texts and the Hebrew Bible.
Tamar Safratti-Piterberg, History. Les Egyptiens de I'an VI, and the creation of the Descriptions de l'Egypte.
Emily Jane Selove, NELC. The Hikaya of Abu al-Qasim al-Baghdadi: The Comic Banquet in Greek, Latin, and Arabic.
Heba Abdel Halim Sewilam, Islamic Studies. The Jurisprudential Problems of the Early Codification Movement in the Middle East: A Case Study of the Ottoman Mejelle and the 1949 Egyptian Civil Code.
Fiazuddin Shuyab, Islamic Studies. "Who's Better than God to Rule?" An Inquiry into the formation of the First Islamic State (622-32 CE).
Sevan Nathaniel Yousefian, History. The Postwar Repatriation Movement of Armenians to Soviet Armenia, 1945-1948.
Wendy Noel DeSouza, History. Scholarly Mysticism and Mystical Scholars: European and Iranian Intellectuals at the Dawn of Modern Sexuality and Gender.
Ayse Taspinar, Music. Identity and the Ottoman Empire: A Musical Synthesis at the Crossroads of East and West.
Saeid Atoofi, Applied Linguistics. Emotions In the Classroom: Teachers' and Students' Affective Practices in a Persian Heritage Classroom in Los Angeles.
Tamar Marie Boyadjian, Comparative Literature. Bridging East and West: A Study of Crusader Jerusalem in the Literature and Chronicles of the Early Crusades.
Michelle Huntingford Craig, Art History. Space: The Mellah of Fez, Morocco.
Thomas Henry Culhane, Urban Planning. Getting Into Hot Water Problematizing Hot Water Service Demand: The Case of Old Cairo.
Haleh Emrani, History. Marriage Customs of the Religious Communities of the Late Sasanian Empire: An Indicator of Cultural Sharing.
David Meron Gorshein, Theatre and Perfomance Studies. Bursting the Bubble: Queer Performances in the Jewish Diaspora.
Whitney White Kazemipour, Anthropology. Revolutions in Microcosm: Migration, Meaning, and Mothering by Iranian-Americans.
Kyle Henry Keimer, NELC. The Socioeconomic Impact of Hezekiah's Preperations for Rebellion.
Ammar Kahf, Islamic Studies. Syrian Authoritarianism: Persistence or Change.
Simon Nash Kenrick, Art History. Art, Medicine and Propaganda in Antoine-Jean Gros' Bonaparte visiting the plague-stricken at Jaffa, 1804.
John Albert Lynch, NELC. Gilgamesh's Ghosts: The Dead, Textual Variation, and the Mesopotamian Scribal Tradition.
Jason Sion Makhtarian, NELC. Rabbinic Portrayals of Persia: A Study of Babylonian Rabbinic Culture in its Sasanian Context.
Keelan Hall Overton, Art History. A Collector and His Portrait: Book Arts and Painting for Ibrahim 'Adil Shah II of Bijapur (r. 1580-1627).
Leyla Ayse Ozgur Alhassen, NELC. Qur'anic Stories: God as Narrator, Revelation as Stories.
Gulian Siassi, Comparative Literature. Un(der)writing Home: The Politics and Poetics of Belonging in Modern Literatures of Iran and the Maghreb.
Tristan Guy Sturm, Geography. The Future is a Foreign Country: Landscapes of the End of the World and Christian Zionists in Israel and Palestine.
David S. Yoon, History. The Restored Jewish State and the revived Roman Empire: The Transmutation of John Nelson Darby's Dispensationalism into Modern Christian Zionism.
Khodadad Rezakhani, History. Empires and Microsystems: Late Antique Regional Economy in Central and West Asia, 500-750.
Madelyn Mishkin Katz, Education. Defining Leadership for the Reform Rabbinate.
Zachery Adam Lasker, Education. The Camp Counselor as Educator and Role Model for Core Jewish Values and Practices of Conservative Movement.
Max Abrahams, Political Science. The Causes of Terrorism: A Reappraisal of the Conventional Wisdom.
Arshad Imtiaz Ali, Education. Finding Home: Formulations of Race and Nationhood among Muslim College Students in Southern California.
Carine Allaf, Education. An Exploration of Higher Graduation Rates: A Case Study of Women in Jordan.
Azzarina Basarudin, Women's Studies. In Search of Moral Communities of Muslims: Gender Justice, Intellectual Activism and Feminist Politics.
Brenna Reinhart Byrd, Germanic Languages. From Opfer to Gangsta: the Evolving Linguistic Representations of Turkish-Germans in the Media.
Julin Elaine Everett, French and Francophone Studies. The Homoerotics of Empire: Blanc-Noir Desire and Domination in Colonial and Postcolonial Francophone Literature.
Marian Helmy Gabra, Comparative Literature. Ethnic Entanglements: A Comparative Study of Arab American and Chicano Literatures.
William Edward Gordon II, NELC. Cultural Identity of the 25th Dynasty Rulers of Ancient Egypt in Context: Formulation, Negotiation and Expression.
Andrea Herschman, Political Science. The Politics of Oil Wealth Management: Lessons from the Caspian and Beyond.
Seth Corcoran Jameson, Comparative Literature. The Desire for History: Algerian Historical Fiction in the 1980s.
Peter Thacher Lanfer, NELC. Remembering Eden: The Reception History of Genesis 3:22-24 in Early Jewish Interpretation.
Ann E. Lucas, Ethnomusicology. Music of a Thousand Years: A New History of Persian Musical Traditions.
John McCampbell Marston, Archaeology. Evaluating Risk, Sustainability, and Decision Making in Agricultural and Land-Use Strategies at Ancient Gordian.
Susan Marie Mokhberi, History. France and Persia in the Age of Absolutism.
Therí Alyce Pickens, Comparative Literature. The Body Speaks: Interrogating the Material Body in Arab American and African American Literature and Cultural Production.
Lawrence Peter Rubin, Political Science. Why Arab States Fear Islamist Regimes: Threat Perception and Soft Power Politics.
Manija Said, Geography. Reinforcing the 'Sovereign' — A Requisite for Empire?: Interrogating the Geopolitics of US/NATO Intervention in Afghanistan .
Edward McCormick Schoolman, History. Civic Transformation of the Mediterranean City: Antioch and Ravenna, 300-800 CE.
Khanum Shaikh, Women's Studies. New Expressions of Religiosity: A Transnational Study of Al-Huda International.
Zeynep Turkilmaz, History. Anxieties of Conversion: Missionaries, State and Heterodox Communities in the Late Ottoman Empire.
Ramela Grigorian Abbamontian, Art History. Armenian-Americans: Art and Diasporic Identity in Los Angeles.
Nezar Ajaj Andary, Comparative Literature. The Consuming Fever of History: A Study of Five Urgent Flashbacks in Arabic Film and Literature.
Nurullah Ardiç, Sociology. Islam and the Politics of Secularism: The Abolition of the Caliphate (1908-1924).
Lisa A. Blaydes, Political Science. Competition without Democracy: Elections and Distributive Politics in Mubarak's Egypt.
Robert Raymond Cargill, NELC. The Qumran Digital Model: An Argument for Archaeological Reconstruction in Virtual Reality.
Stephanie Chasin, History. Citizens of Empire: Jews in the Service of the British Empire, 1905-1926.
Jean Louise Murachanian, Art History. Léon Tutundjian: Trauma, Identity, and Modern Art in the Aftermath of Genocide.
Roger Sangburm Nam, NELC. Portrayals of Economic Exchange in the Book of Kings.
Ayman Shabana, Islamic Studies. Customary Implications in Islamic Law: the Development of the Concept of 'urf in the Islamic Legal Tradition.
Henry Sivak, Geography. Law, Territory, and the Legal Geography of French Rule in Algeria: The Forestry Domain, 1830-1903.
Laith A. Ulaby, Ethnomusicology. Performing the Past: Sea Music in the Arab Gulf States.
Walter David Ward, History. From Provincia Arabia to Palestina Terita: The Impact of Geography, Economy, and Religion on the Sedentary and Nomadic Communities in the Later Roman Province of Third Palestine.
Visiting scholars in residence at the Center set the scene for a fertile exchange of ideas with UCLA faculty and students. Scholars from around the world visit the Center to give guest lectures and pursue research projects using the UCLA library's rich array of Middle East resources.
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Kaleb Herman is a PhD student in the History Department interested in the history of capitalism in the Ottoman Empire, including parts of the Balkan territories, Anatolia, and the Arab world. His research relies on the tobacco trade and the financial apparatuses used to expand cultivation as a lens to analyze broader socio-economic and cultural trends in the region. Banking, trading, and peasant labor tie the project together thematically and analytically.
Suleiman Hodali is a Phd student in the Department of Comparative Literature. His research is
situated at the intersections of several disciplines and fields of study, including Arabic literature
and culture, British romanticism, comparative literature, philology and translation studies,
imperial culture, and the question of secularism. His dissertation traces the emergence of the
Crusades in the circuits of translation, adaptation and exchange between Arabic, English, and
French literature and historiography, from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.
Tim Hogue is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, where he specializes in the Hebrew Bible and its cultural context. His research centers on investigating the social motivations behind biblical literature. Tim's dissertation is a new analysis of the Ten Commandments based on recent theoretical work on monumentality from the fields of archaeology, art history, and sociology. Contextualizing the biblical text within the growing corpus of Northwest Semitic monumental inscriptions, he is exploring how the biblical text adapted monumental rhetoric from the surrounding cultures to present the Ten Commandments as a material anchor for collective memory, ideology and identity formation.
Nihal is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology with a focus on migration and political sociology of the Middle East. She is interested in how Syrian refugees in Turkey interact with state services, including healthcare and education. Her research examines how social policies are conceived of and implemented by the state as well as refugees' experiences accessing available services. She is particularly interested in the gendered dimensions of service access and utilization.
Zach is a PhD student in the Anthropology department, in the sociocultural sub-field. His research interests focus on political and economic arrangements the Nile Valley, particularly in the context of the geopolitical split between Sudan and South Sudan. He is also broadly interested in Afro-Arab racial formations, and the ideological separation of Sub-Saharan Africa from the Middle East.
Holly is a PhD student in Islamic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, with interests in Muslim social and religious history and the intersections of law and society in medieval Islam. Her research examines the theories and practices of imprisonment under Mamluk rule in Egypt and Syria, focusing on the ways in which prisons and imprisonment were experienced and thought about by various social groups.
Wisam is a UCLA doctoral student in sociology, whose research interests are comparative-historical sociology and political sociology. His work focuses on how religious and secular nationalism have affected state-formation and -reformation in Iraq. He hopes to contribute to an understanding of the difference between religion and ethnicity as principles of organization in politics. Wisam's study will investigate the Ba'th Party Records and the Islamic Fundamentalism Collection, both located at the Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
Alessandra is a PhD student in the Art History department, where she studies modern and contemporary Arab art with a focus on Palestine and Palestinians in exile. She is broadly interested in exploring the limitations of event-based historical narratives, questions of figuration and abstraction, and institutional links between Palestinian artists and their European counterparts, particularly in the Eastern Bloc during the latter half of the twentieth century. Her minor field is the history of photography.
Jesse is a doctoral student in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, with research interests in Late Antique and Medieval History, Literatures, Theologies, Liturgies and Manuscripts. He works primarily in Armenian and Syriac, with special attention to those branches of Christianity in their divergence from Latin and Byzantine norms, and how they interrelate and interact in Persian, Arab and Turkish milieus. He also is interested in modern Middle East Christianities and their diaspora communities.
A PhD Candidate in the Department of Education, Billy specializes in Comparative and International Studies in Education. His research interests lie at the intersection of education policy and political development in Turkey and the Middle East. Billy's current research focuses on the role of education policy in Turkey and its impact on both the students' political identities and the state's capacity for international and domestic public diplomacy.
Fredrick is a PhD student in the Department of History, with interests in the Modern Middle East, Ottoman Empire, and Ottoman Balkans. His research examines migrations and empire shaping in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Ottoman Empire. He is studying the political and social effects of the large-scale movement and resettlement of refugees from the Balkans into Anatolia and Arab provinces under Ottoman rule.
Evan is a PhD student in UCLA's Islamic Studies Program. His research focuses on the social and religious life in the Mamluk Kingdom in Egypt and Syria. He is studying the ways in which former slaves in Egypt and Greater Syria produced and modeled new forms of religious behavior, particularly through the use of drums in religious rituals and ceremonies. The project aims to understand how a group of powerful outsiders made a lasting mark on the practice of Islam in the region.
Michael is a doctoral student in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, where he is investigating the history and archaeology of the Hittite empire that flourished in Turkey and northern Syria during the second millennium BCE. He has worked as a field archaeologist in the excavations at Tell Tayinat (Turkey), Athienou-Malloura (Cyprus), and Idalion (Cyprus). Michael's dissertation examines queenship and power relations within the Hittite court. Drawing upon the rich array of texts from Hittite archives, he investigates the strategies royal women used to wield political and ideological power, and the ways in which the office of queenship was used to support and legitimize Hittite monarchs.
Nada is a doctoral student in the Sociology Department. Her research interests include gender, development, migration, and social movements in the Middle East, specifically in Egypt.
A PhD student in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Cameron is working with Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl in the field of Islamic law. Cameron's research pertains to the relationship between jurists and their followers. In particular, he is concerned with the role of the latter in interpreting the legal verdicts of the former.
Serap Ruken Sengul currently serves as Distinguished Research Fellow through the Promise Institute for Human Rights and the Center for Near Eastern Studies. She is an anthropologist whose work focuses on gender and sexual formations of sovereignty, nationalism, kinship, violence, memory and displacement in the Kurdish borderlands of Turkey, Iraq and Syria. During her two-year fellowship at UCLA, she has introduced several innovative and interdisciplinary courses to upper level undergraduate offerings in the Departments of Anthropology and Gender Studies, including "Gender and Militarism," "Gender, Kinship, and the State," and "Violence and Memory in the Middle East." Dr. Sengul earned her doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin, and completed her postdoctoral studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
Dr. Marc André is an historian and associated researcher at the Laboratoire de recherches historiques Rhône-Alpes/Lyon (LARHRA) in France. His work focuses on the Algerian migration, the Algerian war, military justice in the Metropole and traumatic memory. He recently published a book entitled Femmes dévoilées. Des Algériennes en France à l'heure de la décolonisation [Unveiled Algerian women at the time of decolonization], ENS Editions, 2016.
During his 2017 residency at the Center for Near Eastern Studies, Dr. André's research focused on Algerian women who came to France during the decolonization process and who struggled for independence in the metropole. He also worked on a new manuscript which studies Fortress Montluc, the military prison in Lyon. This prison is at the intersection of varied memories: that of Vichy, the Holocaust and the Algerian War.
Lorenzo Veracini is Associate Professor in History and Politics at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on the comparative history of colonial systems and settler colonialism. He has authored Israel and Settler Society (2006), Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview (2010), and The Settler Colonial Present (2015). Lorenzo is co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism (2016) and Editor in Chief of Settler Colonial Studies.
During his stay at UCLA, Veracini continued working on his 'displacement as method' project: a history of the ways in which collectively displacing elsewhere has been imagined and practiced throughout modernity as an alternative to revolution. He also gave a keynote talk at the UCLA conference on settler colonial studies in honor of the work of the late Patrick Wolfe. He partnered with UCLA faculty on an edited volume of the conference, published by Verso Press.
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