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Make this Friday, Happy Friday. Friday is the day which comes to make you ready for the fun of the weekend which is just one day from you and your lives. So why not welcome this day in the most amazing day as it is coming to bring many joys and delights with it. Every day is important and every day should be spent better than the previous one. This is how you can make your life better every day, day after day. Your determination to make it better is your actual winning. This collection of Friday wishes is not just for representing the nature and importance of the Friday, the real meaning of this collection is to show you how much every day is important in our lives and how we should spend every other day of our lives. Go ahead read the collection and let us know what did you think about the collection of Happy Friday Wishes.
Happy Friday Messages
- Life is to learn lesson from every your morning and put away the mistakes of your previous day till the night of your next day. Happy Friday.
- Friday is not just a day it's more about to think what special you did in the five working days of the week. Analyze your progress and compare it with the previous week. If it's better then you are making progress every day and if it's not then you have to work more.
- The stars of the sky remind me of you because I see shining like these in the sky of success. I know that one day you will be a successful person that's not my perspective that's my belief in you.
- No matter how hard the circumstances remain you should keep growing and you should keep yourself stable as you are now. Because everyone has some sort of -properties which make them unique from others never lose these properties.
- Sun has risen and the a new day is welcoming us. Wake up leave the bed and get yourself ready for the victory of today. Try to make goals every day and try to achieve all of them. These goals are called short-term goals which lead you to your long terms goals. Happy Friday!
- Life is very little and there is no surety maybe this is the last moment maybe the next one. But the thing which matters is how this world is gonna remember you. Happy Friday!
- If this world remembers you in good words and they call you good in your absence too then you are the next role model of this world. Keep doing the hard work to let this world remember you in good words and make you live forever.
Happy Friday Quotes
- May you have a great day of Friday, may you get every comfort and may your every desire gets fulfilled. Hope you will remain always happy and smiling. Have a wonderful Friday.
- There is no surety that your every dream will meet its fulfillment. Because this is not the world where every dream come true. Hope you will be understanding, happy Friday!
- Your ethics are what make you live forever. If you wanna live forever in the hearts of people you have to pay a large amount of hard work for this purpose. May success follows you happy friday.
- Happy Friday to you, the morning of this day is charming and specializing in the nobleness of the sunlight's brightness. May this day keep blessing us and making our lives brighter and brighter.
- Since the last Friday to the this Friday many things changed in this world and there are a lot of things which changed even in your life some of them were noticeable but some of them were not. So if you remember the good things then you are doing well.
- Every day comes to make our lives better than the previous but it's our weakness that we fail every day and we fail to change us entirely. Happy Friday to you dear!
- There are many things which you should keep bringing to your life no matter how expensive they just think that they are to be in your life therefore they are. Happy Friday to you dear!
- What a nice day today is to end the last working day of this week. May the upcoming whole month goes best and the most amazing. Have an amazing Friday!
- Making and maintaining balance is very difficult. Because getting successful is easier but maintaining that success is difficult and time taking. May you be successful and remain successful throughout your whole life.
- None of the things can give you the happiness which a true friend of yours can give you. Having friends like these is one of the blessings of Allah on all of us. May you remain alright.
Happy Friday Wishes
- Everything is possible when you think of doing it. I wish you a great Friday and may you be successful in making the work you have thought of doing. Have a glad Friday.
- Every day is new opportunity and new key to open new vaults of happiness. Enjoy these days because every day which goes never comes back and every moment which has passed is never gonna come back. So surf it safely, good morning and have an amazing day.
- The loveliness of the day can be imagined by the morning of that day. Thank nature for all of which the morning of this wonderful day has awarded you. May this day turns into the brightest day of your life.
- You are like the spring of my season every happiness of my life blooms when you are with me. I hope that this spring will not be like the spring of this world which ends. May you always be with me. Have a glad Friday!
- The trustworthy person of your life is like the gold in your life and he or she possesses the importance. Everything in life is more than that person. Have the loveliest Friday of your life.
- This breathing day is filling our life with the fragrance of delights. This is really amazing to wake up every day and having a new day every day. Funny? isn't it?
- The most amazing day of the week is here because now the weekend is one day away from us. The whole calm and peace are standing opened arm waiting for us. Ah! love this day.
- When you start a day in the best ever mood there will be nothing which can stop you ending it in the same mood you started. Have an amazing day of Friday!
- The loveliness of the days are the part of life and the hardships of the days are also the part of the life. There is no person who can live always happily in his entire life. Happy Friday to you!
- I hope and I wish that may you always be happy throughout the entire day. May this smile which you had after reading to my text may it never goes off from your face. Happy Friday to you.
Happy Friday Greeting Messages
- In this world, there is no one who can lift you up for everything and there is no one who is always standing there for you to help you in every situation of your life. You have to be able to face every problem of your life on your own.
- To achieve a thing you have to struggle for that thing because if you want to achieve a thing you have to pay for that. Happy Friday!
- Everyone loves to be the best. But you can be the best by just doing your work with honesty and playing your part with honesty. May you have a great Friday!
- When you have the plans of high destinations you do not care about the small obstacles and small things which can stop you. Because when your morale is high there is nothing which can stop you of being successful.
- When there are good things happening in your life you should not care about the little bad things. Because good and bad moments both are the part of life.
- It's a universal truth that the only person who cares about you will stand with you in your difficult times. You proved it by giving me your hand in every my difficult situation.
- My days are good my nights are good and there is everything good when you are in my life with me. Thank you for being here by my side. May you have a great day of Friday.
- When the love of the relationships is there in every one of the relation holders then the breakage of that relation is impossible. May our relation always remain as it is now. Hope you will be having a great Friday!
- Nothing is more beautiful and worthy than the person who cares about you down from his heart and there is no heart more beautiful than the heart of that person. Have a lovely Friday!
- I can hope of good things, I can think of good things to happen to me. But if there is no friend in life like you this thinking is even hard. Happy Friday!
- I have heard this that the person who born of Friday is a normal person as like the persons who are born on any other day. So, there is nothing special in you, sorry, maybe happy Friday!
- Whenever there are sad moments in your life. You should sit with the person whom with talking is more fun than any other person then you should probably sit with that person and talk about your problem with him. Maybe he has a solution.
- Lovely things are only possible when you are looking forward to them. If you don't wanna have something how can someone give you that thing. Happy Friday to you dear!
- If you love someone you have to tell them before it gets too late. You should be working for your happiness and as well as the special persons around you. Happy Friday to you dear!
- If you find yourself around those persons who love you and care about you. Then trust me, my friend, there is no other person luckier than you. Happy Friday to you dear!
Good Morning Friday Wishes
- The week has to end a day has left and there are many works which are still to go but if you are ready for all of them then you will be performing great.
- One of the most amazing things ever happened to me were on the day of Friday. Therefore, this day is very close to me. Happy Friday to you dear because you are the most amazing thing happened to me on Friday.
- Morning of Friday is a little bit stressful and hope-giving too at the same time. Because one day ahead of it there is Sunday standing for us to welcome us with its blessings of calm, and peace. Happy Friday to you dear!
- You will have whatever you will need. Just keep on living in a good way and you will be getting the things you need and desire. Happy Friday to you dear!
- When you think of doing something good to anyone there will be a lot of persons who will become an obstacle in your way and they will stop you from doing it. But you should remain confident and helpful to others. Happy Friday to you!
- Wishing someone good morning can also bring you some good words early in the morning. If you want to learn new things every day you should keep getting ideas to do it so. Happy Friday to you dear!
- There are many persons whom you can talk with, even when they are not near you and even when you are not with them. Happy Friday to you.
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The event allowed tenants of Milton Park to learn about the importance of waste management and gave them the opportunity to ask questions about the disposal process. There was a fun competition running throughout the day, whereby you could win a bottle of champagne. The question, 'how many kilograms of recycling waste did MEPC produce in the last year?', was nearly guessed by Sarah Cook, Dow AgroSciences, who won the prize. MEPC produced 161,000kg of recycled waste in the last year, with Sarah guessing 167,000kg!
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QUINCY, Mass.- The Eastern Nazarene College women's volleyball team fell to Wentworth 3-0 Tuesday evening at the Lahue Physical Education Center.
Prior to the start of the match, the Eastern Nazarene College women's volleyball program recognized its three seniors and a graduate student playing in their final home contest: Kayla Dean (Lansdale, Pa.), Oksana DiCamillo (Eighty-Four, Pa.), Madisen Robinson (West Grove, Pa.), and Joanna Joseph (Brockton, Mass.).
The Lions move to 10-17 on the year and 1-7 in the Commonwealth Coast Conference with the loss. The Leopards improve to 24-3 overall and 6-2 in conference play with the win.
Courtney McCarthy (Merrimack, N.H.) paced the hosts with 11 kills on the night while adding five digs. Dean notched 19 assists and six digs. Joseph finished with four kills in the match while Robinson posted a season-high 10 digs.
The visitors captured the opening set 25-14 to gain a 1-0 advantage.
Wentworth widened the gap to 2-0 after cruising to a 25-7 victory in the second frame.
The Leopards prevailed 25-13 in the third to return to the win column.
Leah Rogoz registered 11 kills to lead Wentworth and Claire Quick chipped in with 10 kills.
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ADAM Audio A77X Active Studio Monitor
Active Near-Field Monitor
Equipped with the same advanced technologies as the A7X, it therefore is very similar to the two-way speaker. The A77X, however, distinguishes itself by much higher, compression-free maximum sound pressure levels and dynamics. Due to its power and radiation characteristics, it also is perfectly suited for both near- and midfield monitoring.
ADAM's A77X Active Studio Monitor features all of the same advanced technologies as the A7X but distinguishes itself with superior maximum sound pressure levels and dynamics without risking compression.
As with all models in the AX series, a key component of the A77X is its proprietary X-ART tweeter (standing for 'eXtended frequency response') which, thanks to Accelerating Ribbon Technology, can reach up to 50kHz. Furthermore, the X-ART tweeter has higher efficiency and maximum sound levels.
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Elliptical galaxies are smooth and featureless. They contain hundreds of millions to trillions of stars, and their shapes range from nearly spherical to very elongated in shape. Their overall yellowish colour is a telltale sign of their great age. Since elliptical galaxies contain few gas clouds they can no longer make new stars.
NGC 1132 is located approximately 320 million light-years away in the constellation of Eridanus, the River. This image of NGC 1132 was taken with the Hubble Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. Data obtained in 2005 and 2006 through green and near-infrared filters were used to produce a colour composite.
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The line on 2001's "The Fast and the Furious" — a slick, adrenalized take on L.A.'s underground street-racing scene — was it would come and go faster than a souped-up Skyline. But by the time the checkered flag waved, the sleeper hit had grossed $145 million and made a superstar out of chrome-domed lead Vin Diesel. Motor on to the inevitable sequel: Diesel and director Rob Cohen (who also teamed on last summer's "XXX") are out — reportedly because the actor wanted $30 million to reprise his role and Cohen refused to do the film without his star — and director John Singleton and his "Baby Boy" star Tyrese are in. And this time around they have a $100 million budget and a flashier setting (Miami) to race around in.
"This is a whole different movie because I'm doing it," declares Singleton ("Boyz N the Hood," "Shaft"), who says the sequel will have more action and humor than the original. "I wanted to do something that was straight popcorn. In the early part of my career I was very concerned with being taken seriously as a filmmaker and I accomplished that. So now I can just have fun." And that includes bigger, better, and mostly nondigital stunt sequences. "There's more money this time around," says stunt coordinator Artie Malesci. "We'll have 200 cars in one shot, all going and crashing."
The sole returning cast member is Paul Walker as erstwhile undercover cop Brian O'Conner, who was stripped of his badge and is now on the run for letting Diesel's character go free at the end of the first film. O'Conner infiltrates the Miami street-racing circuit in an effort to bring down an underworld kingpin (Cole Hauser). "On the first film we felt a lot of pressure because we were making a movie [about something] really obscure that no one had touched on before," says Walker. "Now I know we're making a movie people want to see."
Despite his basically filling the void left by Diesel, Tyrese (playing O'Conner's childhood buddy) says he felt no pressure — he hasn't even seen the original. "[I don't want to] be like somebody else…. I gotta be me," says the actor. "I try to keep a fresh head." It can't hurt that it's shaved.
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In the mountains the weather can be highly changeable and very brutal. When the sun comes out the brightness is amplified due to altitude. So if skiing or snowboarding at a very high altitude, then it's even more important to protect your eyes effectively. The sunlight also reflects off the snow, intensifying brightness.
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Many otherwise ambitious homeowners find interior design to be a subject from which they would prefer to keep their distance. In most cases, the only problem is a lack of knowledge of basic design concepts and styles. By utilizing the ideas in this article, it is possible to acquire an ease and understanding of interior design that will be the envy of everyone you know.
Whenever you are choosing wall colors for a room that doesn't have a lot of natural light in it, it is wise to choose lighter, natural colors. A lighter colored wall will distribute light around a room more evenly given the room a brighter look than if you used dark or bright colors.
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Wallpaper half of your wall. Redecorating walls can set you back a lot of money if not planned properly. To save cash, only wallpaper half the wall. Pick out a bold-colored border and then just paint the rest of the wall. Doing this is a great way to keep your home looking stylish, while saving money.
High quality paint is a good investment because you need good paint to do a good job. Cheap paint does not last as long and can even damage your walls, requiring expensive repairs. Have a design that lasts a long time by investing in quality paint.
Instead of replacing your bedroom and kitchen drawers and cabinets, get new knobs and handles. Just a hint of silver on a handle, or a bright new knob, can bring old pieces back to life. Think about the atmosphere you want, and choose little pieces accordingly. You won't have to spend a lot of money, and you will still see improvement.
When hanging pictures, try to group like subjects and frames together. The collection should be the focal point of the room and arranged within the bounds of an imaginary larger frame; incorporating each piece inside with the intent of complementing the other and all of them working in artistic harmony.
Try renovating your basement. Often times, basements are just used for storage and are kept dark and damp. With the same kind of attention, you give your other rooms; You could completely transform it into a place you'd like to spend time in. You could make it a recreation room, an office, or even a bedroom.
Use wallpaper to upgrade shelving. Assemble-yourself bookcases are an economical choice, but they tend to be boring and look a bit cheap. To make them more stylish, try adding a bold wallpaper on the back of each shelf. Arrange your books and knickknacks to show off the pattern. This simple trick will give a store-bought shelf some pizzazz without breaking the budget.
Tackling interior design projects is something that many find to be an unappealing prospect. Most of those individuals simply need to spend some time learning more about the subject itself. By studying the tips above, even the most reluctant interior design newcomer can gain the skills necessary to decorate like a true professional.


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Welcome in the Year of the Rat in Manchester
Friday 24th – Sunday 26th January 2020
The UK's brightest celebrations. As the dark streets light up, welcome in the Year of the Rat. Featuring Manchester's famous red lanterns, a glittering golden dragon, live performances and the legendary Dragon Parade. This year there is a new parade route, starting from 12.30pm in St Peter's Square, outside Central Library, follow the fun around the streets to Chinatown.
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Scraper Burnishers That Work
People often ask me to recommend a burnisher they can buy for forming the turned edge to a scraper. When I suggest just using the back of a chisel or a nail set they seem either unbelieving on the one hand or disappointed on the other. Most often they want a brand, a one-size-fits all and a dedicated-to-task tool. Fact is, until I moved to live in the USA, I never saw a dedicated burnisher for developing a scraper's cutting edge and never knew such a thing existed. I thought everyone used the back of a chisel or gouge. That doesn't mean they didn't exist in the UK, just that I mixed in the wrong circles.
I remember when I first sharpened my first scraper. It wasn't called a card scraper because that was an Americanism too. It was just called a scraper. The old man I was working with was in his 80's and he pulled out a 1" gouge, stuck it in his mouth and whipped it along the scraper edges half a dozen times with quick successive strokes. Then he peeled off two dozen shavings a foot or so long and the job was done. On the next bench Merlin stopped mid stroke and picked up a 1/2" bevel-edged chisel, stuck it in his mouth in like manner and, using the back bevelled side of the chisel, also pulled up a half dozen strokes and started peeling off more oak shaving from his wood. To me this seemed like magic. Torn grain fibres in pockets of unrest around crotch grain and knots suddenly yielded to the deliberate strokes each man made and what I thought to be irreconcilable damage left from the machine planers or hand planes was immediately transformed into a silky smoothness that felt, well, like glass. So it is with skill when experience is married with real working knowledge and a man after the war years had little money spare for his family needs. Those with low income and higher overhead made do with what they had. The men training me felt nothing about stripping out their carburettors and replacing or restoring worn out parts at the same bench they worked wood on. It was nothing to remove the car wheel, tyre (tire USA) and fix the flat in the yard outside the timber racks. There was something about these men that managed their work and finances without compromising or wasting. Their lives spoke to me in my formative years about doing the best you can with what you have. I learned many a good lesson from them.
I never like the idea of people feeling they must have a special tools when there are often many options. So, you don't need a custom made burnisher to consolidate the edge to a scraper and turn it to form the hook you need for scraping awkward grain. In reality, almost any steel edge works just fine. I agree there is nothing wrong with owning a special burnisher, I own several myself, but it wasn't until I came to the US did I buy one. Before then and even today, I often reach for a bevel-edged chisel or the back of a gouge and get back to the work in hand.
Last week I took four tools and sharpened for corners to a card scraper. The results were the same, as far as I could tell anyway. All four 'burnishers' worked just fine. In a matter of seconds I consolidated the steel and turned four new and keen edges. I used my own home made burnisher made from some O1, 3/8″ steel round, a manufactured burnisher, a nail punch and bevel-edged chisel. They each produced a viable cutting edge quickly and easily. And actually, no one feels any better in the process than the other.
I would say one thing with regards to safe handling. My chisels and gouges are usually surgically sharp, so I would suggest keeping a spare chisel or gouge for sharpening a burnisher at an unrefined level of sharpness. The nail punch (set USA) or centre punch has no sharp edges and works fine as does a 10mm (3/8") twist drill, the safe edge of a file. The nose of a pair of needle-nose pliers, screwdriver blade and a dozen more different tool types.
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"Stuck it in his mouth" – I am really having trouble picturing this.
I am thinking they were moistening the tool before burnishing.
Ah – makes sense then. I thought these guys must really be tough if they can use a burnisher with the strength of their jaws alone.
The hardened steel bar that printer cartridges run on do an excellent job as a burnisher. Businesses, schools and most recycling centres always have defunct printers lying around so the cost is your time to dismantle one.
These bars are also machined to very high tolerances for print accuracy, so probably have a multitude of other uses too.
Thanx for the tip. Have two printers rotting away in attic and now they will have a little use before going to the dump. Now just need to turn a fancy handle.
A great post there Paul,
I can relate to your post because when I started at work there was this one guy who was very 'old school' and would try and repair most things – and he was the best tradesman in the place.
The Americans seem to have invented a tool for most things, I have used their plastering trowels a lot (Marshall Town) and they really are very good. And also lighter than the British equivalent.
Thanks for sharing your tips, and explaining things the way it is.
Best regards,
Paul sellers the last of the time served craftsmen. nice post
It seems there are people saying their interest is propagating woodwoeking. All I can hear from them is if you don't spend big bucks for your tools, you can't work wood. I read a long time ago that a Philips screwdriver shafts works great as a burnisher.
Keep up the good work Paul. I appreciate it.
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It's not true that any screwdriver shaft will work, what's more important is that the steel is smooth and harder than the scraper. You can't fight physics.
Some of the screwdrivers sold today will bend trying to open a tub of yoghurt.
Thank you Paul for another informative and useful article.
The use of scrapers would make an excellent video, as with all other tools we obtain them and are just expected to use them, but your videos explain the correct use perfectly.
Kind regards.
I watched a lovely film about a day in the life of Tage Frid, where he stated that some prefer fancy burnishers, but he was self-admittely "cheap" about such things and simply used the back of a chisel or gouge.
Venturing the internet, it is not hard to find those who extoll the virtues of this-or-that burnisher for its hardness and/or shape, spending (or charging) anywhere between $20-$60 dollars for a stick of hardened steel.
To each their own, I suppose, but I for one love the idea of a smaller kit, and that each tiny aspect of woodworking need not cost a king's ransom.
Thanks for confirming this!
Paul, did you harden and temper the O1 steel rod. I had some leftover drill rod and it didn't seem hard enough. But sure enough the nail set was. The scraper I had actually scratched the drill rod…
It was probably a Wal-Mart Grade drill bit. I remember Tage Frid. Before he came along I thought a scraper was this cheap piece of curved metal on the end of a wooden handle used to scrape paint. Got a Sandvic scraper and found out what he was talking about. Now a person in California is trying to say that only HIS burnishers with do the job on a scraper. May be that is because he does not know how to sharpner a burnisher.
I too am a bit confused trying to visualise how the old guys did it – what did they hold in their mouth? I've been using a three inch masonry nail embedded in a scrap of oak (and not putting anything in my mouth!) which works for me.
If you have trouble visualising that try this. When watching a doco on indigenous tribes in the North of Australia there was footage of a woman dispatching a snake by placing it's head in her mouth, biting down,yanking and breaking it's neck (the snake was for dinner). That is something I doubt I would ever try to replicate. A bit off topic I know (possibly offputting as well!) but ingenious all the same. A manual arts teacher of mine used to lubricate screws by running them through his hair! Having a pretty dry scalp I don't know if that would work for me. I ended up with some beautifully made but flawed hinges in a very hard grade of stainless- flawed due to the fact the pin was not fixed at all and dropped out under its own weight when hung. The pins make quite serviceable burnishers when mounted in a handle. I like the masonry nail, cheap, hard and easy to come by.
My grandfather used to talk about the nail through the hair method. Could be in those days men used hair product like Brylcreem which was pretty greasy.
Thanks again Paul for debunking the many sales pitches from everyone trying to sell you a better and more wonderful burnisher. I have always used whatever is handy, screwdriver, nail set whatever, but I have never put them in my mouth, I'll have to try it.
Thank you Paul. Makes you realize its not the burnisher its the manner in which its used that gets the job done. I never purchase a tool unless I research your blog first. You have saved me more money than I can even imagine. I now love to make my tools or refurbish discarded ones. Save them so to speak. I fell into that trap of having to get the best and newest tool out there. You have returned me back to what I new was right but had forgotten. I cant thank you enough. When I was a young lad I worked in an equipment rental company as a mechanic and we were had to make many of the parts we needed to repair the old equipment because many of the tractors were from the 1930's and 40's. We made due with what we had and I loved it.
I used to use a screwdriver shaft, but the scrapper would cause scratches in it. Now I use a hex key (Allen wrench). Works great, even better once the corners are knocked off.
Agreed! The barrel of a hinge is plenty hard enough and cost is almost nothing
You sir, just saved me $16.00, which I will now spend on spend on a couple of saw blades to make your frame saw. I looked in my tool box and found a perfectly suitable drift punch. Not sure what you call those in the U.K. 🙂 but they're used to knock out drift pins and it's about a quarter inch around with a knurled area for gripping. Looks like it will work just fine! Thanks for all the common sense knowledge you pass on to us beginners.
What is the 3rd tool in from the right, in the last photo? It looks like a vintage oyster knife 🙂


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One of the trickiest things about blackouts is that you don't necessarily know you're having one. I wrote a memoir, so centered around the slips of memory caused by heavy drinking that it is actually called "Blackout," and in the years since its 2015 release, I've heard from thousands of people who experienced them. No small number of those notes contain some version of this: "For years, I was having blackouts without knowing what they were." Blackouts are like a philosophical riddle inside a legal conundrum: If you can't remember a thing, how do you know it happened?
In the days leading up to the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, a theory arose that he might have drunk so much as a teenager that he did not remember his alleged misdeeds. The blackout theory was a way to reconcile two competing narratives. It meant that Christine Blasey Ford was telling the truth but so was Brett Kavanaugh. He simply did not remember what happened that night and therefore believed himself falsely accused. Several questions at the hearing were designed to get at this theory, but it gained little ground.
I want to be clear, up front, that I cannot know whether Judge Kavanaugh experienced a blackout. But what I do know is that blackouts are both common and tragically misunderstood.
Before the prosecutor Rachel Mitchell was mysteriously dispatched, she was aiming toward the above line of inquiry.
"Have you ever passed out from drinking?" she asked.
Kavanaugh's answer was dismissive but slightly confusing: "I've gone to sleep, but I've never blacked out. That's the allegation? That's wrong."
A few clarifications. First, I dare you to find the heavy drinker who hasn't passed out from too much booze. To say you were just sleeping is like my dad saying he's resting his eyes when he's napping. It's a semantic dodge.
Second, and more crucially, this answer tips toward a common conflation of the act of passing out — sliding into unconsciousness, eyes closed, being what drinkers often call "dead to the world" — and the act of blacking out, a temporary, alcohol-induced state in which you can remain functional and conversational, but later you will have no memory of what you did, almost as though your brain failed to hit the "record" button. This phenomenon remains unknown to many, even experts who ought to know better — doctors, journalists, judges.
Blackouts are caused by a spike in the blood-alcohol level. Crucial is not only how much you drink or what you drink but also how fast. People who don't eat before drinking are at higher risk for blackout. Shot contests, beer-chugging competitions, keg stands — the macho pre-gaming world of intercollegiate boozing — is a perfect setup for blackouts, part of why they're so rampant at universities. A 2002 survey conducted by researchers at Duke University found that approximately 50 percent of college drinkers reported having at least one blackout, though adults are no less prone.
There are two kinds of blackouts. The more common is fragmentary, where slivers of the night are missing. The more extreme version is "en bloc," where several hours can be wiped from the memory drive. Fragmentary blackouts start at a blood alcohol concentration of about 0.2, though they've been found at lower levels; everyone's brain is different. En bloc blackouts happen closer to 0.3, and it's worth noting that at 0.35, it is estimated that about half of drinkers will die, so blackout drinkers are getting up there.
A common bonding experience in drinking circles is "piecing the night together"— friends sitting around the next day, laughing as they scroll through text messages and camera rolls, trying to fill in the gaps in one another's memories. Some of the missing dots are easy to connect: Oh, that's right, we went to the bar! Others might be confounding: Wait, we went to a BAR?
"Piecing things together" is a phrase that jumped out at me when I read Judge Kavanaugh's 2014 speech to the Yale Law School Federalist Society, in which he describes drunken heroics as a routine part of campus life; Senator Richard Blumenthal also leapt on this at the hearing, although Judge Kavanaugh deflected the inquiry, as he did every question about any possible dark side to his consumption.
One particularly dastardly aspect of blackouts is that other people don't necessarily know you're having one. Some people in a blackout stagger around in a zombie state; others quote Shakespeare. I had friends who told me I got this zombie look in my eyes, like a person who was unplugged, but others friends told me, on different occasions, that I'd seemed fine.
It wasn't until this century that scientists really understood blackouts. For generations, experts thought they were the exclusive realm of alcoholics, a sign of troubled late-stage drinking. But non-problem drinkers black out all the time. In fact, that kind of drinker would be a good candidate for someone who might remain ignorant of their blackouts. You see this in sexual assault cases: A woman believes she passed out the night before, but she actually blacked out, leaving untold minutes or hours unaccounted for in her memory bank. This is hellishly confusing — because to the person who wakes up not remembering what happened, it feels like you must have been asleep. Disrupting that assumption requires some contrary piece of evidence: Cuts and bruises, strange clothes you don't recall putting on, a friend's testimony, surveillance footage. Today's young people are more aware of their own blackouts — in part because scientists have gained insight about them, allowing media stories to spread, but also because those kids carry around phones that record everything they do, making them much more likely to have that jarring moment of cognitive disconnect. Wait, when did I type THAT? Wait, when was THAT picture taken? Previous generations simply did not carry such handy data collection services in their pockets.
I suspect Mark Judge — if he were ever able to speak from the heart and not through sworn statements vetted by his lawyer and dispatched from a Bethany Beach house — would be able to speak powerfully on this topic. As a recovering alcoholic, Mr. Judge has gotten real about his drinking, something that can be tough for the people around you, who are not nearly so invested in staring down their high school keggers. I believe Mr. Judge when he swears he doesn't remember the incident that Christine Blasey Ford described. I also think that absence of information might have been why, assuming Dr. Blasey's recollection is correct, he had such a queasy reaction when he ran into her at a grocery store. I used to get a hideous gnawing sensation when I stumbled across people I'd blacked out around, because I did not know. What had I said? What had I done? The sheer unknowing rattled me.
Mr. Judge describes this terror in his memoir "Wasted," where he tells the story of a wedding rehearsal dinner where he got so blasted he doesn't remember the evening's end. A friend informs him the next day that he tried to take off his clothes and "make it" with a bridesmaid. Mr. Judge's response cuts me. "Please tell me I didn't hurt her," he said.
Inside those haunted words I see a life and a trail of damage that could have been my own. I consider it nothing but a gift of biology, or temperament, or sexual dynamics that I never had to worry I had physically or sexually assaulted anyone in a blackout. I worried I was rude. I worried I was weird, dumb, deathly unsexy. As I grew older, and more risk-taking, I worried I'd had sex with someone I didn't know, a not-uncommon experience in my own daily calendar. But I have known men who drank too much, and I have loved them, and this is a fear that beats in their private hearts. I hope I didn't hurt her. I interviewed a blackout expert for my book, and he told me something I've never forgotten: "When men are in a blackout, they do things to the world. When women are in a blackout, things are done to them."
One of the most unforgettable moments in an unforgettable hearing came when Senator Patrick Leahy asked Dr. Blasey about her strongest memory of that night. "Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter," she said. The word Dr. Blasey used, hippocampus, is significant. The hippocampus is a part of the brain that plays a central role in memory formation. And damned if it isn't a part of the brain disrupted by a blackout. The hippocampus stops placing information in long-term storage, which means what happened, what you did, what you said, what hurt you might have caused another human — all of it turns to a stream of unremembered words and images that pour forever into the dark night.
So while Dr. Blasey's brain was pumping the epinephrine and norepinephrine that would etch the moment on her brain, it is quite possible that one if not both of those men were experiencing something like the opposite: A mechanical failure of the brain to record anything. Such a dynamic is breathtaking in its cruelty, which makes it no less common.
I suspect we'll never know whether Brett Kavanaugh experienced blackouts as a young drinker. I suspect he'll never know, because what I took from the man at his hearing was that he was not interested in going there. Those days are gone; he has closed the door on that era. But as a wise man once said, just because we are done with the past doesn't mean the past is done with us. You can ask Christine Blasey Ford about that. You can ask Mark Judge. I bet both of them would have a few things to say about the way memories splinter and implant in the body. How the past lives inside us, guides us, owns us. I have often wondered what the body remembers even as the mind forgets. And then there are other things. The ones that will and never can be forgotten.
Sarah Hepola is the author of the best-selling memoir "Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget."


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Eric Kripke> We have a five-year plan. It's in season six that things will start getting really hinky and there will start being weddings, and Raven-Simone will join the cast. But, we have a five-year plan that, by design, we keep huge gaping holes in the middle of, since you just don't know how things are going to evolve. You pull up certain story elements and you push down other ones. For instance, the psychic kid storyline was supposed to go deep into season three, but quite frankly, I personally got so sick of it that and said, "I'm getting tired of these psychic kids. You know that story we were going to do in the middle of season three? Let's go in the finale and just wipe them all out." But, certain things last longer because you start stretching them out, in terms of conflicts between the boys and whatever else. The general plan of the steps of this season is that we go to war, so that next season, we have an escalation in store. We're roughly keeping in line with that.
Eric> Yeah, it's a personal preference of mine. I think Lost is a terrific show, but personally my own taste isn't an endless mythology because the answers are never going to be satisfying, at the end of the day. I promise you, it's so hard to go season after season of mystery, and then provide an answer that's going to be satisfying. So, I was much more a fan of the early X-Files structure, and I thought Buffy did it brilliantly, of one mythology a year. Early X-Files is mostly made up of stand-alone episodes, interspersed with the mythology, which is actually probably more our structure. That just works for me. I like people to be able to join the party. I'm not into Heroes. I wanted to be, but I missed it, and now, I'm too intimidated to pick it up. Unless I watch the entire first season DVD, I feel like I'm out of the loop. And, we don't want viewers to feel like they're out of the loop, when they're watching Supernatural. We want them to feel like they can join the party anytime.
Eric> There will be the same amount as usual. There are three stand-alone episodes in a row, followed by a big mythology episode. But, I think we have a simpler mythology in season three. My own personal hindsight of the first three seasons is that, in the first season, we had a great mythology. It was a two-word mythology: find dad. It was simple, it was emotional, it was clean. Our stand-alone episodes were a little hit and miss. Season two, I'm very proud of our stand-alone episodes. They were unique and they were structurally interesting, and we found our legs. But, I wasn't as happy with the season two mythology. It was a little too dense and confusing. You needed a flow chart to understand it. We said, "Here are all the psychic children, and here's the yellow-eyed demon." For season three, we're trying to learn from that, and we're trying to have the intensity of the stand-alone episodes that we had in season two with a simple, pure, emotional mythology like season one. We're hoping this will be the best season yet.
Eric> Ruby is a hunter whose moral line is a lot further down the line than our boys. She is pretty ruthless, a little unhinged, very controlling and manipulative. She is not going to be who we thought she was, which will spin her story off in a different direction. Bella is a supernatural mercenary, created by (co-executive producer/writer) Ben Edlund. She is not actually a hunter. She's in it for the money. All of these talismans and amulets that the boys are always using to stop their monsters are very valuable and worth a lot of money, so she's interested in the buying and selling of these objects. She's in it for herself. She's only on one side: hers. Both of these characters have been introduced to mix things up a little bit, and just to provide trouble for the boys. They are much more antagonists than they are helpful. Expanding this universe is something that's always been very important to me, and expanding the universe means adding these additional characters, who move in and out of the story. There's a misconception that it's going to be the two girls in the backseat of the Impala, and it's going to be the Scooby Gang, and they're going to drive from town to town. That's not the case. These girls organically move in and out of the story, just like the other hunters and characters on our show have done.
Eric> Whenever we can, we attempt to be as authentic as possible. The mandate to all the writers, which we've continued, is that the show has to be Google worthy. We try very hard, and I can't say we're able to do it 100% of the time, but certainly the majority of the time, the references in the show are accurate, and the legends that they deal with do exist out there, somewhere. Even the throw-away references that they boys are always saying, as part of their dialogue, are always accurate, and are real stories that you can look up as well. It's only when we're backed into the ugliest of story corners that we find ourselves forced to fabricate something. But, we try to keep that to a minimum, as much as possible.
Eric> Every so often, we'll come up with something, and then it will happen in reality. Killer bees were happening, just as we were doing "Bugs." We have this troubling theory that we're actually coming up with ideas for Satan. I hope not. I hope we're working for the forces of good.
Eric> Yes. It's been a very fun, chaotic time, in the writers' room of Supernatural. We finally ended the storyline that was our two-season storyline, which was the search for this yellow-eyed demon that killed the boys' family, etc. And, it ended, flowing organically, into this war that's now begun. It's exciting because we got to wipe the slate clean and move onto the next escalation, which is a world at war. It's this secret war that's going on, and we try to draw as many modern-day parallels as possible because the demons operate in a very terrorist cell model.
Eric> For the foreseeable future, yes. He's no longer physic. The yellow-eyed demon is dead. He's not having visions. He doesn't have powers. He feels he's in a safe place. But, we have these demonic terrorist cells because they're hidden among us. They could be anybody. We don't know who they are. They're among the towns in America and they're waiting to wreak as much havoc as possible. You'll get to see how Sam and Dean react to that, and the secrets that are hidden among that. That idea of this world at war -- of hunters versus this demonic presence -- is a much cleaner mythology, so we've had a lot more fun exploring it. Quite frankly, by the end of the second season, I was really worried that the mythology was becoming too confusing, so I was really happy to end it in a, hopefully, satisfying way, and move onto the next story.
Eric> We really want people to join the party. Come on in, the water's bloody. For us, the sell has always been, "If you want to understand the show, the show is about two guys with chainsaws in their trunk, fighting monsters," and we have fun. That's really the idea. The mythology has always been designed to come in every four or five episodes. Our bread and butter are stand-alone episodes of these two brothers, battling the things that go bump in the night, in a cool muscle car. It's very much early X-Files, in that way. You could tune into any of the first three or four seasons of The X-Files, before it really started to get hinky, and pick up the show, and then pick up the mythology, once you got involved with the characters. And, that's our same formula here.
MediaBlvd> Would you ever explore an option where Sam and Dean meet a team that is the anti-thesis of them, who are killing the good spirits and the people who are possessed by angels?
Eric> That's certainly a really interesting idea. For us, the best episodes are always the ones that are about shades of grey, where the decisions the boys have to make are really morally troubling. We've had a hunter who was taking it to that level of being a fascist, who we sometimes like to call the human supremacist. The demons on our show, because they're always possessing other people, always raise those moral questions about how much collateral damage you're willing to take, in the battle to fight evil. They should continually be running across hunters whose moral line is much further down the line than our boys. It's certainly an idea that's sin the right real estate of the kind of stories we like to tell, for sure.
MediaBlvd> Who or what inspires you?
Eric> Beyond classic rock, which inspires me, my Midwestern roots are very prevalent in the show. I'm from a medium-sized town in Ohio. I'm from Toledo. Creatively, Neil Gaiman is a huge influence on Supernatural, with both American Gods and Sandman. And, the Hellblazer comic had a big influence on Supernatural. And then, movies like Poltergeist and American Werewolf in London were influences. The idea is that we took a Joseph Campbell hero structure and crossed it with American Werewolf in London. That's the best way to describe the tone of the show.
MediaBlvd> With a lot of the episodes being named after songs, which comes first, the title or the idea?
Eric> A lot of times, we've come up with the episode idea first, and then we pick the title later. Yes, a lot of titles last season, and a lot of titles this season, are going to be based on classic rock songs. My own personal preference is Led Zeppelin songs because that's my obsession. It's just because we love that music and because classic rock is such a part of the show that it seemed like a natural to name a lot of titles after those songs. Our titles were much better in season two than they were in season one. Season one, they were all one word titles, like "Bugs," or "Scarecrow," or "Nightmare." And, season two was more like, "Houses of the Holy," "What Should Never Be" and "Folsom Prison Blues." We got a lot more relaxed about our titling.
Eric> We have interesting debates about that all the time. Sam probably listens to whatever the cool modern music is. But, I don't know any of it because I don't listen to anything after 1980. He probably listens to Green Day. I don't know what's cool. Is Green Day cool, these days? Are Red Hot Chili Peppers? He listens to Red Hot Chili Peppers and Fall Out Boy, and maybe The Killers. I am such a stranger in a strange land, when it comes to those bands. That's why you never hear Sam's soundtrack. I don't know that music, and I would choose the wrong songs. All my friends call me Old Man Kripke because I don't listen to a band past 1980. That's why Dean's music always wins out. I hate so much modern music that I just can't bear to listen to it in the editing room.
MediaBlvd> Do you have songs that you'd like to use on the show that you either haven't been able to get, or haven't been able to find a place for?
Eric> There's a lot of classic rock that's too expensive. My dream of dreams, because classic rock is my obsession and it's the reason I care so much about it on the show, is Led Zeppelin. I'd love to use anything from Zeppelin, like "Traveling Riverside Blues" or "Ramble On. But, Zeppelin will not sell their songs to anybody except Cameron Crowe because he traveled with them when they were on tour, and they're also a billion dollars a song. That's just a rough estimate. We've tried to get Aerosmith, and Aerosmith is actually a little expensive. And, there have been a couple others. But, the songs that we are able to get, that are within our budget range, are songs that I grew up on and loved. There's nothing better than finding an obscure Foreigner song. One of the best pleasures I've had with this show, and one of the most gratifying moments, was when I was when I was online, checking out the blogs, and there was a 14-year-old kid who said, "What is this band, Foreigner, and what is this song, 'Hot Blooded'? I really liked it, and I went out and bought The Greatest Hits of Foreigner." I feel like I'm doing God's work. I'm introducing people to Foreigner. To be able to spread that sick obsession of mine has been very gratifying. This music isn't disposable. I hate every other song that's on every other show on the network. I like music that stands the test of time. It's cool, and cool is undeniable. People will hear it and, wherever they're from, they'll think, "That's cool. That's got soul to it." I think that adds to the texture of the show. I hope it does.
MediaBlvd> Supernatural has always been up against very rough competition in its time slot. When you set up the new mythology for the finale, did you know that the show would be coming back for another season, or did you set it up with the hope that it would return?
Eric> We did not know if we were coming back. We were hopeful, but season three was not a sure thing, by any means. Quite frankly, behind the scenes, there was some fighting going on, to make sure we came back for season three. But, you can't let that affect your storytelling. I can't say, "Well, I don't know if I'm coming back, so therefore, I'm going to wrap this up, or not wrap that up." I just have to tell the story I want to tell, at the pace that I want to tell it, and hope for the best. Very shamelessly, that's why I want to get the message out to the fans. We have the best fans in the world, and I just want to mobilize that army. We want to come back for season four, but that's far more in the audiences' hands and the fans' hands than it is in ours. So, tell your friends. I believe there have to be people out there who don't want to watch doctors banging in hospitals (like on Grey's Anatomy), or an endless procedural (like CSI). I know I'm in the minority of America, but I don't get those shows, and there has to be people like me. We're trying hard to live up to shows like Buffy and The X-Files, and we're trying to be a worthy show to these predecessors, and we think we're doing it. I just don't think a lot of people know that this show happens to be on the CW Network. We have a show that, in our opinion, is as cool as Battlestar, with an interesting and involving mythology, and we try really hard. We all care about the show and are passionate about it, we just happen to be on the same network as America's Next Top Model. But, tune in because we are there, and we'll have interesting conversations about death, revenge, immortality and suicide.


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I sure hope so, because I spent more time cleaning out the clutter, then I ever have.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Clean Studio Report...(finally)
I sure hope so, because I spent more time cleaning out the clutter, then I ever have.
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Your new studio space looks fabulous! I love how you've hung the puppets -- I'm sure they feel like they've been set free and will begin whispering to you any time now.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 17, 2011 at 7:54 PM
Hiya Steph,ReplyDelete
Love your blog. Great job in cleaning up your studio. Room to make more wonderful and whimsicle art. Again. bravo Dearheart.
Aloha, Dennis
I love your puppets! :) I am cleaning my clutter today (hopefully). I stared at it (oops, I mean planned) all day yesterday. I feel inspired after seeing you get yours together.ReplyDelete
I found your blog recently and we live in the same area and go to all of the same places. I loooove the Tin Shed and the artichoke sandwich. Now I will crave that all day. That, and a stop at Collage. ;)
When is the puppet show? (grin)
Steph, your studio looks great and gives me more incentive to get mine cleaned upReplyDelete
Yay, Steph! This was very inspiring to me, as I need a major studio overhaul, too. Like all of your suggestions, and am anxious to see that puppet theater.ReplyDelete
I love looking at all your stuff I bet you do too, it looks great Steph now I need to clean mine. Damn you cleaning people.ReplyDelete
That certainly is a lively looking studio - I ought to start crafting little friends like that. Looks fun.ReplyDelete


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Report: Grizzlies now interested in trading Iguodala
The Memphis Grizzlies are looking for trade partners in order to deal new forward Andre Iguodala and do not intend to buy him out before the season, ESPN reported Thursday.
The Grizzlies acquired Iguodala this week in a trade with the Golden State Warriors, who were looking to shed his $17.2 million salary for the upcoming season in order to acquire D'Angelo Russell. A contract buyout of Iguodala, which would allow contenders to court him, was speculated for the rebuilding Grizzlies.
But the Grizzlies are reportedly now looking at the 35-year-old veteran as a way to add young players in a trade as they rebuild their roster.
Memphis also acquired a first-round draft pick along with Iguodala as Russell went to the Warriors and Kevin Durant went to the Brooklyn Nets. The Grizz also acquired Grayson Allen, Kyle Korver and Jae Crowder from the Utah Jazz in a trade for guard Mike Conley earlier this offseason.
Memphis then shipped Korver to the Phoenix Suns for Josh Jackson, De'Anthony Melton and two future second-round picks on Wednesday. Korver is expected to be waived by the Suns.
The Grizzlies are likely to explore other young players or draft picks in a trade by including Iguodala, who is known for his perimeter defense and helped the Warriors to five consecutive NBA Finals appearances and three championships in that stretch.
Iguodala, 35, averaged 5.7 points, 3.7 rebounds and 3.2 assists in 68 games (13 starts) for the Warriors last season, his sixth with the team and his 15th in the NBA.
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FDC focuses on the latest policies introduction, development trends, new technology in the fenestration industry and technical difficulties for curtain wall construction. It is the annual energizing gala that technical personnel and chief engineers cannot afford to miss in the fenestration industry.
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Industry Trend Forum on November 3
Policy | Standard | Trend | Prospect
Session Ⅰ: Fenestration Standards and Industry Prospect Analysis
At present, China is at a critical juncture to promote the development of buildings. Green buildings, ultra-low energy consumption buildings, nearly zero energy buildings, energy-saving doors and windows, innovative curtain walls and so on are the topics of great concern in the development of the industry. The promulgation of Assessment Standard for Green Building GBT50378-2014, Technical Standard for Nearly Zero Energy Building (the first guiding standard of building energy saving in China), Ultra-Low Energy Consumption Building Standard and a series of building door and window curtain wall standards provides a clearer direction for the development of the industry. The latest policy of industry development and the most comprehensive standard interpretation will be presented in this special session.
Proposed speech topics:
- The interpretation of Assessment Standard for Green Building and the guiding requirements of the fenestration industry: China Academy of Building Research
- The interpretation of Technical Standard for Nearly Zero Energy Building (a national standard) and the development trend of the application of building parts: China Academy of Building Research
- The problem analysis of the quality supervision of construction engineering and the publishing of the standards of the fenestration industry: China Academy of Building Research
- The Interpretation of Curtain Wall Standard (the latest national standard): well-known institutions in the curtain wall industry in China
Session Ⅱ: The Sharing of the International Prospective Trend in the Fenestration Industry
The future development of building is not only a transformation of technical application, but also the disruption of traditional building modes and the open-up of the brand-new production application modes: bringing about the promotion of product technology and the perfection of management process with the intelligent way of building an intelligent production line; giving more future development space to buildings with the application of the intelligent products of doors, windows and curtain walls; How should the fenestration industry make technical changes according to industry trend with the advent of the aging era? What kind of future development trend of doors, windows and curtain walls will the wave of 5G usher in? How should the recycling of the abandoned materials of doors, windows and curtain walls boost the sustainable development of buildings? A feast of technical exchange about future black science and technology of doors, windows and curtain walls will be interpreted in this session.
Proposed speech topics:
- Trends in the development and application of ultra-low energy consumption buildings in Europe: ift Rosenheim
- The intelligent innovation and development of European doors, windows and curtain walls: Schüco International
- The aging–friendly trends and reconstruction and application of doors, windows and curtain walls: international system door and window enterprises
- The technical development trends of 5G and Future Window: Alibaba Smart Home
- The reconstruction and sustainable development of abandoned materials of doors and windows: European door and window enterprises
November 4: Fenestration Sub-forum
Livable | Fireproof | Reconstruction | New Materials
Door and Window Session Ⅰ: Elderly-Friendly, Livable and User-friendly Design of Doors and Windows
The creation of livable environment and user-friendly design have gradually become an important indicator of the choice of building parts, and doors and windows are exactly the key to realizing or giving more possibilities to building. How to make the building environment reach the best of "human centered" state through the application of design concept and key technology while ensuring the performance of doors and windows, such as acousto-optic thermal comfort, barrier-free access or opening, ultra-low energy consumption and automatic adjustment, safety and livability, etc.?... Doors and windows will become the key to user-friendly design and livable environment, and wonderful topics will be systematically interpreted in this special session.
Proposed speech topics:
- Future building requirements and livable settlements solutions: themed real estate developers
- The aging-friendly design and user-friendly space of doors and windows: system doors and windows/hardware enterprises
- The creation of the buildings with ultra-low energy consumption and the livable environment: the passive door and window enterprises in China
- Intelligent safety design and solutions of building doors: well-known European door enterprises
Door and Window Session 2: Door and Window Fire Prevention and Building Safety
Fire prevention of building doors and windows has always been a topic of great concern in the industry. The revision of fire prevention standards, the perfection of inspection and acceptance code and the promulgation of fire resistance standards provide a clear development direction and professional reference for the whole industry to improve the fire prevention consciousness, improve the fireproof performance of doors and windows, and study high-quality fireproof products. The special session will discuss the fireproof standards, fire resistance standards, testing points and product technology of doors and windows, and analyze and interpret the key technologies of high-performance fireproof door and window products, so that the industry can get to know fire prevention in its real sense, and extend to more building door and window security and other cutting-edge topics.
Proposed speech topics:
- "Fire Resistance Integrity Test Method and Judgment Requirements for Building Doors and Windows" (National standard): Zhang Xichen, China Academy of Building Research
- Fire protection standard for doors and windows and the development trend of the industry: Shandong Shulong Door and Window Technology Co., Ltd.
- Technical interpretation of international door and window fire protection and building safety system: Forster
- New materials for fireproof doors and windows, new technology: fire-proof door and window / material enterprises
- New technology and new trend of fireproof glass: Hero
- Bulletproof and Pryingproof standard and product technological innovation: European hardware enterprises
Curtain Wall Session Ⅰ: The Reconstruction and Function Upgrade of Existing Building Curtain Walls
The reconstruction of existing buildings has been attracting more attractions in recent years. From the "Comprehensive renovation of existing buildings" proposed in the 11th Five-year Plan, the "Green energy-saving reconstruction of existing buildings" proposed in the 12th Five-year Plan, to the reconstruction of existing public buildings and residential buildings and the reconstruction of the industrial area, and to the strong signal transmitted by the Government Work Report of NPC & CPPCC sessions in 2019: "The area of the old communities in cities and towns is large, and the improvement and reconstruction should be carried out vigorously"…. It can be seen that the comprehensive reconstruction of existing buildings will become an inevitable trend of the development of cities. The design concept and construction process of the newly-built buildings cannot be applied to existing buildings without adaptations. Therefore, the reconstruction of the existing building curtain walls is still in the stage of continuous exploration and summarization. How to improve the structure and function by the reconstruction of the existing building curtain walls? Which are the categories and technologies of the reconstruction of the existing building curtain walls? How to put an end to the potential safety hazard through the technology construction of high-performance envelopes? Those questions need to be discussed by the colleagues in the whole industry of building curtain walls and engineering?
Proposed speech topics:
- The status-quo of existing building curtain walls in China and the exploration of maintenance reform.
- Analysis of international innovation technology on the reconstruction of existing building curtain walls
- Requirements for the safety detection and new building of existing building curtain walls
- Analysis of comprehensive technology for the reconstruction of existing building curtain walls
- Systematic interpretation of the classification of the reconstruction of existing building curtain walls
- Key points of design for the reconstruction of existing buildings
- The function and safety reconstruction of the envelopes of the existing buildings: seismic reinforcement, thermal insulation, film sticking transformation, etc.
- Innovative reconstruction and performance improvement of existing building curtain walls: photovoltaic curtain walls, photothermal curtain walls and power generation curtain walls, etc.
Curtain Wall Session Ⅱ: Analysis of Technical Difficulties in Design and Construction of Building Curtain Walls
- Design and construction of irregular-shaped curtain walls
- BIM technology and construction difficulty analysis of curtain walls of complex skin buildings: Zeng Xiaowu
- The application of new materials and new techniques for building curtain walls
- The sharing of the design concept and construction technologies of international curtain wall cases
- The integrated technology of digitalization, parameterization and informatization of building curtain walls
- New technology application and material reform of curtain walls


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MOSC POPS - A Rodgers & Hammerstein Celebration
Featuring Broadway performers Sarah Jane McMahon, Gary Mauer and William Michaels along with the MOSC Symphony Chorale performing show-stopping Broadway tunes such as Climb Every Mountain, Oklahoma, Some Enchanted Evening, All The Things You Are, and many others.
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Burnham Library in Bridgewater will present a program, "No More Pink Teas: The Militant Surge for Woman Suffrage," March 16 from 11 a.m. to noon.
Progressive-era suffrage historian Joanie DiMartino will discuss how national and Connecticut suffragists participated in a surge of militant political activism that led to women gaining the right to vote in 1920.
DiMartino is the Connecticut representative for the National Votes for Women Trail, a project managed by the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites to identify and mark sites throughout the nation integral to the woman suffrage movement.
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Christmas songs are great. Even the bad ones are fun during the holidays (but don't try listening to them in July, whatever you do).Here are some of our favourites, both new and old:
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GOP gains one seat on Board of Representatives
STAMFORD -- City Democrats held on to a wide majority in the 40-member Board of Representatives after Tuesday's election, but lost a single seat to Republicans, who were bolstered by a strong showing at the top of their ticket, candidates and Democratic party officials said.
Democrats now have 24 seats and Republicans have 16, one more than the last election. Ellen Camhi, chair of the Democratic City Committee, said the victory of Republican mayoral candidate Mike Pavia helped the GOP take one seat from her party. Chris Munger, head of the Republican Town Committee in Stamford, could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
In District 1, long-time city representative Richard Lyons, a Democrat who is leaving his seat after 10 years, lost to Republican Mary Uva. Patrick White, a Democrat, got the second most votes and held onto his seat. Uva had 979 votes compared to Lyon's 702.
Lyons credited his defeat to the vote totals in the top of the ballot in his district, where Pavia beat Democratic candidate David Martin by nearly 450 votes, according The Advocate's unofficial results.
"We did fundraisers," Lyons said. "We did mailings. We campaigned well."
City Rep. Philip Berns, D-16, an immigration attorney who served on the board since 2005, was ousted from his seat by Republicans Salvatore Gabriele and Michael Molgano, a former city representative who moved from District 15. Molgano got 1,183 votes, exactly 400 more than Berns, according to The Advocate's unofficial vote tallies.
Republican minority leader Robert "Gabe" DeLuca said the sweetest victory of the night for Republicans in the Board of Representatives race was taking back a seat in District 16.
Gabriele said Pavia's victory helped bring success for Republicans on the board, but the upset wasn't earned without putting in hours getting to know the voters on a personal basis.
"You have to go out there and work," Gabriele said. "If people don't know you they're not going to vote for you."
To some the election lacked the fervor of years past.
"It was sort of quiet," said Phillip Giordano, a Democratic incumbent who retained his seat in District 10. " The whole election was somewhat quiet. There didn't seem to be much interest."
Giordano and Carolyn Young, another Democratic incumbent, carried their district without much traditional campaigning.
"We were able to win our election without putting out lawn signs and without putting out a mailing," he said. "We're happy we were able to do that."
Voter turnout was 39 percent, according to the registrars.
Fifty-seven candidates ran for 40 board seats. Republicans had 29 candidates in 19 districts; Democrats had 28 candidates in 16 districts. The city has 20 voting districts.
Thirty-one incumbents ran, including 11 Republicans and 20 Democrats.
Candidates in six districts ran uncontested. Republican candidates ran uncontested in four of the districts, securing eight seats for the party.
In District 6, Democratic incumbents Annie Summerville and Polly Rauh -- who also won a seat on the Board of Education -- ran without opponents. Summerville, 64, has been on the board since 1977 and chairs the Appointments Committee. Rauh first was elected in 2004 and chairs the Education Committee.
District 7 candidates Cynthia Martin, a Democrat, and Republican Jerry Pia -- who also won a school board seat -- ran uncontested.
The following Republican incumbents ran unopposed: Scott Mirkin and Harry Day in District 13; Robert "Gabe" DeLuca and Carl Franzetti in District 14; Mary Fedeli and Arthur Layton in District 17; and Jim Caterbone and Michael Raduazzo in District 18.
Representatives serve four-year terms. The board has final approval over the budget and the last word on accepting grants and appropriation requests from the mayor's office. Representatives approve ordinances and contracts and set fees.
Donna Loglisci, the 59-year-old Republican city and town clerk, ran uncontested and secured her third term as chief keeper of public records. City clerks serve four-year terms.
In the race for seven open constable positions, eight candidates campaigned, leaving only one without a seat -- Democrat Morton Klein. Constables are elected officials hired by lawyers to serve legal documents such as evictions notices and subpoenas. They serve two-year terms, and some earn an income as constables.
-- Staff writer Jeff Morganteen can be reached at email@example.com or 203-964-2215.


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The excitement that builds around the holiday season is tangible and is largely due to the preparations required to get your living areas and bedrooms ready for out-of-town family and friends.
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