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Friday, February 27, 2009
Why We Hack: All is Still Not Right with the World
Apparently not, since the cashier, like all cashiers everywhere I guess, uses the top remainders after a pack of plastic shopping bags is torn off as a manual stop control for the belt. When he wants it to move, he slides the plastic wedge to the side. When he wants it to stop, he slides it forward.
When he takes your credit card, if it doesn't work, he wraps a small piece of receipt paper around the card and slides it through the machine again. It works. "Use some tape on the magnetic stripe to clean it off," he then tells the customer.
After I finish with my groceries, I go outside and unleash my dog from the shopping cart guard rails. To do this, I have to unhook the dog, take off the chain which I wrapped around and then threaded through the ring above the clasp, and re-hook the dog.
We hack because we must hack. Because all is not right with the design of our everyday things. Sometimes this is on purpose: a manufacturer thinks they know better than us, or a corporate policy has been substantiated into a physical barrier that is supposed to prevent us from doing things "the wrong way". Sometimes it's just by accident: the item was cheap, not available, we haven't figured it out yet, haven't got enough market for it, or haven't noticed that everyone else is struggling with the same nonsense that we are. Or maybe we just like hacking.
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- Gerald McD said...
How right you are! I am often frustrated by changes made in product or package design, all with the intention (I believe) of making "improvements." Many of these changes are not user-friendly, practical, or pleasing. I am sure, from experience in human resources work, that many such changes are the result of employee suggestion programs, for which employees are rewarded financially or otherwise, or are contributed by contract "experts" who must produce something to justify their fees. Some food companies have changed recipes of their mainstay products, losing me as a customer in the process. Everyone wants to invent a better mousetrap, even if there are no mice to eradicate. My motto: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Now, more to your point -- I think a lot of our "hacking" is just the expression of human ingenuity. It's fun to modify things to make them "better" for ourselves. It gives us a feeling of accomplishment to fit the world to our needs. Besides, few things in the world meet everyone's expectations or needs, except for clean air and clean water (where they are available).
- February 27, 2009 at 10:47 PM
- Yehuda Berlinger said...
Gerald, I think hacking will grow as the economy slows down.
- March 23, 2009 at 11:55 AM


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One Mango, Extra Salt and Pepper
This week's column will seem unusually familar to Zoilus readers, tho I think the points are taken a half-step further: A review-essay on M.I.A.'s show this week in Toronto. (And for what I don't cover: Enjoy your stay. Scroll to midpoint on that thread, from which the above pic is swiped [thanks!] if you are in the mood to debate the Tamil Tigers' terrorismness, tho I hope the piece below stages my suspicion that she leaves the point deliberately unanswered.)
Gilmore Girls gossip also gratefully accepted. Is Logan just Tristan redux? I think he's more, but maybe he's just cuter, if not as cute as, er, Pushkin? Um, relevance-stretch - recent soundtrack highlights? [Never mind, back to MIA...]
But where's she 'really' from, they ask
By CARL WILSON
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Saturday, February 5, 2005 - Page R5
It's easier to take in the scene -- the small, pretty woman in blue silk waving her arms and shaking out her long black hair on the lip of the stage; the gaggle of young things on the floor stretching out to her in response; the media cameras separating them, bobbing above the front row like robotic birds in a dance of their own -- by watching it all in the long mirrors that line the wall of the Drake Hotel Underground in Toronto. The dark liquid reflection seems more real, more coherent, somehow, than the actual event.
Maya Arulpragasam, the London-based singer known to a growing international following as M.I.A., feels the reality gap too. Once the cameras have done their thing and gone, she asks that the stage lights be brought down: "I feel like I'm in a school talent contest," she remarks. When the spotlight's glare is attenuated, the stiffness begins to melt out of her 28-year-old limbs and she settles down, settles in, at least as much as she will on this Wednesday night.
M.I.A. has the kind of looks and body language that command attention, the kind that get you signed to a record deal on the spot, for example, when you bring your homemade demos round to the record company down the block (London's XL Recordings).
If in Wednesday's set she sometimes seemed not to know what to do with her charisma, remember it was her first show in North America and, depending what you count, one of the first full-fledged concerts of her life. Her backing DJ (and rumoured new fiancée), the American producer Diplo, occasionally had to wind tracks back so she could find her cues. (After Toronto's warm-up, they headed to Los Angeles, and tonight they take Manhattan.)
M.I.A.'s career so far is a topsy-turvy one. After about a year in the business, she has hardly played live, but she has the ears of record execs, the press, even the marketing industry: Apple is running a contest in which you can win an iPod Shuffle that plays her upcoming debut album, Arular (due Feb. 22), and is decorated by hand with the art-school graduate's signature psycho-tropical graphics, which also were projected on the walls of the Drake as she performed. (Her entrée into show biz was doing graphics for Britpop band Elastica.)
Part of the reason she looks better in the mirror may be that she's more used to the cameras than to the crowd; she seems better scaled to a screen or a frame. People distrust that quality (as preshow chatter about "hype" at the Drake attested) especially in an enviably beautiful young woman with her own blend of musical genres and a ton of fawning reviews.
They ask where she "really" comes from, whose creation she is, even though the only bandwagon she is jumping on is one built of lumber scavenged from every sound she's ever heard, and booty repirated from pirate radio. (Many listeners first encountered her on a mix she and Diplo released last year called Piracy Funds Terrorism.)
When The New York Times asked her to name her favourite current tracks in a feature last weekend, she chose Jamaican dancehall, American hip-hop, British "grime" (a salad of harsh ping-ponging electronic beats and patois-laden rap) and Puerto Rican reggaeton. Her own music contains fragments of all those styles, stripped down to buzzing minimalist grooves over which she rhymes in a saucy schoolyard sing-song style.
But this is no rootless child of privilege browsing in some kind of global sonic supermarket. Rather, M.I.A. is a profoundly uprooted person. Until the age of 10 she lived in Sri Lanka, where the father she never knew was a leading figure in the Tamil Tiger guerrilla army, and she and her siblings lived in hiding with their mother, dogged by the Sinhalese government from village to village in secrecy and poverty. They made it to safety in England as refugees in 1986, where they lived in a housing estate and her mother took in sewing.
Music and art were key to Arulpragasam's process of crossing over into urban Western culture, and you can still hear the journey in her songs: She mixes references to civil war and revolution with lines about dating and sex and nonsense-syllable chants. This discomfits people. On the business side, MTV has demanded she clarify what she means in her single Sunshowers, which refers both to the PLO and to putting "salt and pepper" on her "mango," before they'll play the video.
Meanwhile, some fans complain that she doesn't seem to have a clear political agenda -- as if a straight political line has ever come across well in music, especially in pop music, a mixed-up, bastard form if it's anything. (Remember those early-nineties "industrial" remixes of Noam Chomsky lectures? Surely nobody wants to go back there.)
M.I.A.'s music is beguiling because it is confusing. Rather than embrace an existing genre or a given persona, whether sexpot or thug or Third World intellectual or sensitive painter, she asserts her right to all of them. She finds in pop's wild hybrid tendencies a readymade machine to take on all these questions of identity -- to belabour my metaphor, a mirror inside a mirror.
It would be much more artificial for her to produce some kind of Sri Lankan roots music, or British dance music in some heavy "insider" style. In London she's a foreigner; in an airport line in the Blair and Bush era, she's once again the suspected terrorist she was as a child. Yet when she returns to the country of her birth with her education and her pop connections, she is a Westerner. She is only an insider to the outside, and she can't be "with us or against us" for anybody.
That's why, even in its current rough-draft form, her presence and sound have such urgency in 2005. More than ever in history, we live in a world of refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced and stateless persons -- tens of millions of them -- yet in culture and politics alike, we often demand proofs of loyalty or authenticity, the kind of identity card people like M.I.A. simply can't produce. Hence her stage name.
In such a mosaic, looking for coherence seemed the wrong impulse. So I turned my eyes away from the Drake mirrors to watch Arulpragasam do Amazon, a song in which she imagines herself kidnapped and held for ransom. Listening to it on Arular, and considering abduction was probably a real risk in her childhood, the song seems an act of defiance, turning a nightmare into a liberating action fantasy.
But, live, when she shimmied toward the crowd and sang the chorus, "Hello! This is M.I.A.!/Would you please come get me?" the plea began to turn into a pop star's love cry: Hello, world, this is M.I.A. -- come dance with me, come sing with me, come on to me, come and get it. And the room roars back to her.
In M.I.A.'s music, the displaced world calls out for company as much as for rescue, the outside teases the inside, and abduction is a sort of state of grace. It isn't blindly optimistic: She knows firsthand that any "universal language" is a myth, that every kind of music, just like every village or council estate, has its own codes meant to keep you in and others out. But as one of the millions with no home, no single idiom to call her own, she is almost forced to make pop, the music that's always found in translation.
And then, as for any aspiring pop star, our attention is her ransom.
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Hi I work at Jive records and I'm looking to get some contact information for M.I.A. and I figured you could help me with this. Please get back to me. Thanks.
Posted by JD on February 25, 2005 2:36 PM
Why are you all writing about this stuff? The Junos are coming! The Junos are coming!
Posted by Sean on February 7, 2005 6:24 PM
OK, here's some gossip for you:
There are rumours floating around that Marcia Cross, the actress who plays Bree (the red-head) on "Desperate Housewives", is going to be coming out of the closet soon (in real life, not on the show) with a cover story in The Advocate and a slew of talk show appearances.
To make the story ever juicier, she is also apparently going to reveal the identity of her partner, who is reported to be someone who plays the lead role on a show on the WB. "Sources" say that it is Lauren Graham.
Between this and Alexis Bledel playing a hooker in the upcoming film "Sin City", things sure are getting interesting behind the scenes in Star's Hollow...
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Florence Nightingale was one of the first women to do away with the bulky crinoline, and was universally looked upon as eccentric for it. In her Notes on Nursing, the legendary nurse remarked, Fortunate it is if their skirts do not catch fire and if the nurse does not give herself up a sacrifice together with her patient, to be burnt in her own petticoats. I wish the Registrar General would tell us the exact number of deaths by burning occasioned by this absurd and hideous custom. It wasn't as if there weren't alternatives to those dangerous, uncomfortable styles. In 1850, Amanda Bloomer created the ultra-practical (but ultra-ugly) tunic and pantaloon Bloomer costume, but it only drew ridicule and seemed to prove the inherent ugliness of comfort. The outfit, introduced by feminists as a protest against hoops and the burdensome weight of undergarments, consisted of a full jacket with baggy Turkish-style pants, gathered by elastic bands at the ankle, under a voluminous skirt falling slightly below the knee. It flopped. Women everywhere continued to suffer the restrictive hoop skirts for the sake of taste and style. In the latter part of the nineteenth century the crinoline gave way to the bustle. Also called the crinolette or pannier, the small cage supported the back of the skirt without requiring the full hoop. Many fashion historians credit Charles Frederick Worth, the English tailor in Paris who founded the first haute couture house, the House of Worth, with introducing the bustle in 1868, but variations had actually come and gone since the fourteenth century, being called everything from a bum roll to a cork rump to a pouf. The bustle trickled down from the elite to middle-class women, who began making their own at home from pads, springs, ruffles, wires, or curved boning. Women's magazines of the time touted the skirt enhancer as a must-have item. A snippet from Peterson's in September 1873 revealed that the best bustle should be long and narrow, and consist of twelve steel springs encased in muslin and kept in place with elastic bands. A. T. Stewart, who opened one of America's first department stores, imported and sold a Parisian pannier gown for $250, although it was suggested that black silk copies could be made for $125, according to New York Fashion.
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My family came up to Utah a few weeks ago and it was great to see them! Noelle and I hung out with our family Wednesday for lunch, then Aubrey came back to my apartment with me while my mom, Colin, and Yeong-Hye hiked the Y. It was my mom's first time! Aubrey is getting so old, its crazy. We walked from campus to my apartment (about 4 blocks) and she chattered the whole way and we actually had real conversation. She made me scrounge up every toy in my apartment (about 6) and I had to read a book I gave her 5 times. She may be demanding, but she's so cute! Friday after we all went to the homecoming spectacular we came back to my apartment again and I had to go around to ask my neighbors to borrow some cards so we could play scum, and Aubrey insisted on coming door to door with me :) It was a fun few days and we can't wait to see them over Thanksgiving!
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Dani tagged me in her blog, so here are 5 interesting things about me :)
I have a blanket (actually a fabric) that I take with me everywhere. Church, school, movies, you name it.
I got married on my 20th Birthday! Yay for May 3rd!
I love crossword puzzles and I bought this book this summer and I just finished it :( Sad day.
I go to school with my sister and we have a class together. It's fun.
I've kissed a dolphin! Luckily it was a male, unlucky for Colin, haha.
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I have a blanket (actually a fabric) that I take with me everywhere. Church, school, movies, you name it.
I got married on my 20th Birthday! Yay for May 3rd!
I love crossword puzzles and I bought this book this summer and I just finished it :( Sad day.
I go to school with my sister and we have a class together. It's fun.
I've kissed a dolphin! Luckily it was a male, unlucky for Colin, haha.
Now I tag Nicole, Shalon and Mitzi!
So last night Chase and I went to a Weezer concert up in Salt Lake City. They've been my favorite band for a long time and I have never seen them in concert before, and they're getting up there in years so I was worried I would never get to see them live. Well let me just say that last night was officially AMAZING. We got there at 7:30 and some lame band came out first, then Angels and Airwaves came out. They were pretty good and I'm glad we got to see them. Well after they left my heart started beating really fast because I was so excited to see Weezer in person! They finally came out and their whole set was awesome! First Chase and I were laughing because the whole band was wearing these white jumpsuits and Rivers had this white stocking-thing on his head! Then he had a mini-trampoline on stage and he jumped on that for awhile. Well then they started singing Perfect Situation and I was jumping up and down so excited that I started crying a little bit! Chase was laughing at me and told me I should calm down or I would be one of "those girls" at NSync concerts that cries when the band comes out, but I couldn't help it! (My eyes only got a little watery...) Well they took off their white jumpsuits and they had on all matching red tracksuits that said Weezer on the back. Then they starting singing Say It Ain't So and I thought I could die happy. All in all there was a lot of screaming on my part, laughing between Chase and I, singing along, and a few tears. We laughed a lot at the way Rivers was on stage. He walked around taking really small steps and every once in a while he would sort of hop and kick his legs back. Also when he wasn't playing the guitar or drums he would shake his hands back and forth like he had parkinson's disease... Chase called him a "weirdy," haha. They told some mildly amusing anecdotes and at one time Pat (the drummer) came down to sing and play guitar for a song and he said "I have also been to Salt Lake City before, and I went to the Salt Lake, and it was very salty. As I ventured forth into the lake, I lost my shoe, and I am sure it is still there. So thank you Salt Lake, for stealing my shoe." Ohhh Weezer. Some other highlights were when Rivers asked Tom (old lead singer for Blink 182, now lead singer for Angels and Airwaves) to come back on stage and sing The Sweater Song with them. Another when Rivers yelled, "If you can hear me yell 'Heck Ya!'" Also at the end of the show when they had about 30 Weezer fans come on stage and jam with them. The fans were playing a great variety of insturments including saxaphones, tubas, violins, cellos, that mouth insturment that make the twangy "boinging" sound, and a penny flute. It didn't sound perfect, but it was such an amazing concert expierence. I read a review somewhere of a weezer concert and the guy said that the show wasn't particularly amazing, and Rivers had some weird quirks, and they didn't banter with the crowd much, but it didn't matter because the fans of Weezer were so happy to see them and sing along that they pulled off an amazing show. I totally agree with that :)
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The highest award is the President's Award, only a few of which are presented annually. In 2015 three President's Awards were presented to three remarkable volunteers who have given over 100 years dedicated service between them!
Janet Gillespie, left in photo above, has been a volunteer for 63 years and Ann Robertson, right, has been involved for over 40 years. We were delighted to present the ladies with their awards at the Scottish Parliament. They received framed certificates and a gold poppy from Poppyscotland President, Lieutenant General Sir Alistair Irwin, and the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament, the Rt Hon Tricia Marwick MSP.
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Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Par-boil the potato slices for 2-3 mins. Drain and set aside in a large bowl.
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How on earth do you get a battery into one of these. No instructions at all!
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I think it has been a year or so since I highlighted my favorite bloggers, many of whom have fallen off the map. When they stopped updating my mind went to a very morbid place. What happens to a blog once the author stops updating? What happened to the author? Omg, did they die? Did they include their login ID and password in their will so their loved ones could continue their legacies? Most likely not. Anyway, I hope they are alive and well.
We are slowly creeping toward the end of another year, so I feel like I should recognize other bloggers who have inspired me, entertained me and/or kept me informed this year. Cheers, kids.
A Beautiful Mess – The artist most commonly known as Elsie Cake is a crafter and painter extraordinaire. She is the commissioner of cute. Seriously. Every time she updates, I feel like I just walked out of the Sanrio store with a bag full of goodies – so happy. Her posts warm my heart and her play lists kick ass and inspire you to create.
Games of Dissonance – This blogger is a good friend of mine who is an urban planning enthusiast (and graduate) and really knows how to soak up her surroundings and appreciate the history and design in the cities and sights that most take for granted everyday. She's also quite the philosopher.
i live here: SF – It never fails… every time I read this blog, I cry. Maybe not deep dramatic sobs, but I feel like each post is like a club that charges a one tear minimum. I'm a sucker for stories, people and romance. This blog captures all of the above, in very different ways than you may expect.
Just Creative Design – This Australian whiz kid is full of advice, creativity and techniques when it comes to the business of graphic design – all of which he is willing to share with the online community. He is incredibly talented and successful… and he's only 21!
Indexed – I have been really into infographics lately (maps, charts, younameit). This blog takes infographics and makes them really fun and makes fun of topical subjects. It's a place where math, art and humor collide.
NubbyTwiglet - I love Nubby's design aesthetic. She is a gal who has a hanker for typography and she is super chic. She's her own unique version of the gothic lolitas of Japan. I love her use of type, especially when she mixes fonts and uses just a hint of color… usually red. Absolutely beautiful. Her photos are always inspiring as well. And homegirl can work the platforms!
The Coveted – This blog serves two purposes, 1.) Fashion, 2.) Makeup. I usually skip the makeup updates, but I love jennine's fashion-related posts.
The Sartorialist – I have become such a fan of this blog, as has a friend of mine. When she came to visit we both realized that we shared a love of his photography and subjects and decided to "sartorialize" those who we thought were creatively or impressively clothed on the streets of San Francisco with our cameras. NERD ALERT!
Trailer of Life – These ladies are a bucket of comedy and trash talk. Their updates are few and far between, but I feel like their lack of updates keeps me hungry for more. I have HUNGER PANGS, ladies! Check out their post Cookies vs. Chicken: The Showdown.
WelshGrl2 – Jaime is a writer and crafter who lives just north of San Francisco. She loves monsters and photography, and I'm lucky enough to call her my friend! We bond over our shared love of knitting and making stuff. She finds inspiration in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Wales, and coffee.
What are some of your favorite blogs? What inpsires you? Do share.


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What can our experience designing urban places tell us about planning for the next chapter of healthcare building reuse?
By Brenda Bush-Moline and Steve Kearney
A hospital campus lends a community a presence while creating a hub of economic activity and jobs both on-site and through local businesses. When a hospital uproots and relocates, one might assume that a void is left. But rather than a void, is there actually an opportunity?
As anchor institutions, hospitals are predisposed to nurture "responsible" redevelopment in their community when they vacate a building. They have good reason to work with local governments and surrounding neighborhoods to seek input and build support for these plans. This benefits them as anchor institutions and their reputation as trusted community partners. But what are the design challenges when hospitals move out?
The OnMain District in Dayton, Ohio.
Truth be told, most older hospitals are inward-facing with only a tiny window (the main entry) facing the community. Most functions, even public dining, are located deep inside and don't invite interaction with the broader community.
So, perhaps when a hospital uproots, the space that's left has a second chance—an opportunity for a renewed, more vibrant relationship with the community. To investigate the possibilities and strategies that a former hospital site allows, Stantec's US East Health Sector Leader Brenda Bush-Moline started a conversation with Stantec's Steve Kearney from our Urban Places group.
Brenda: When a hospital is planning to shutter and relocate operations from an urban setting, what are some of the best opportunities for reuse? These hospitals can be bargains for organizations seeking a rehabilitation facility or a health-related reuse. What other purposes can they serve, realistically?
Steve: Finding a reuse for a hospital campus can be challenging for the reasons you mentioned and more: the inward-facing aspect, large floorplates, non-transparent first floors, etc. Importantly, before one can talk about reuse, one would have to understand what the economic and market realities and surrounding context are for each of these neighborhoods. Are they located in predominantly older, lower-income, residential neighborhoods? Or are they in or adjacent to downtowns where new housing, retail, and other signs of increased revitalization are evident?
Sacramento Downtown Commons Medical Offices in Sacramento, California.
With that said, these buildings can serve many non-health related purposes. Bed towers that have a width of 55 feet to 65 feet can be converted to housing—market-rate, if the demand exists, senior affordable housing, or possibly mixed-income. The width of the buildings would _q_tweetable:Seeing the campus change and open up will be a positive sign for the community, and it will benefit the hospital owners to be seen as a partner._q_likely only support one-bedroom units, so affordable housing for families may not be feasible. Many of these hospital campuses have existing structured parking, a great benefit to a residential development. Buildings with larger footprints could serve as combination community centers and workforce development training facilities or offer training programs in health care services. One opportunity may be partnering with a local university or other entity to create a maker space. The high voltage and larger gas lines and other infrastructure needed for the operating and emergency rooms could support the technology and equipment required by a makerspace.
Brenda: What are some general strategies toward making these buildings more usable?
Steve: Regardless of the future opportunities, an early focus would need to be reversing the inward-facing nature of the campus. Physical barriers such as fences and gates need to be removed. Where it is possible and financially feasible, selective demolition can be used to punch holes into the building facades to make it feel more open and to enliven connections with the streetscape.
Brenda: Often these city hospitals have a variety of retail businesses and health-related services offered in their immediate orbit, but if they close and move, those businesses and the immediate neighborhood are in jeopardy. What are some urban places interventions that can help these areas transition or recover quickly?
Steve: It's important to focus on maintaining active streetscapes with lights on in the buildings and pedestrians on the street.
A unique intervention we included in a recent plan was a restaurant incubator. In this community (and many others), there were restaurant entrepreneurs who were working out of a food truck or very low-rent locations. With support from the city through several grants, they are reconfiguring an existing building with a professional kitchen and three small restaurant spaces. By creating three options, community members have both choices and the comfort that there will be space available for them. As these entrepreneurs grow their business, the goal will be for each to move to their own permanent location in the downtown.
One could also investigate streetscape improvements and events programming to activate the street level.
Main street concept for Brooklyn Village in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Brenda: What urban places strategies can begin before the hospital closes down to soften the transitions?
Steve: Encourage the hospital owners to partner with the city and/or neighborhood organization to initiate a conversation and start planning for the future. We know any replacement facility envisioned by the hospital has a 5-to-10-year planning and construction horizon—so there is time to plan for the future. These campuses were deliberately designed into super blocks and are typically cut off from the surrounding street grid. Roads that have been closed off from the surrounding street grid could be reconnected. Green space, if available at the hospital can be a potent asset. Perhaps there are interior courtyards, lawns, or other green spaces that can be opened up and programmed for public use—actively drawing people back into the building. Reconnecting to the neighborhood is critical, and many infrastructure improvements are necessary to accomplish this.
Can the hospital work with the city to share costs? What projects can be identified and included on the city's capital improvement program (CIP)? The sooner these can start, the better. Seeing the campus change and open up will be a positive sign for the community, and it will benefit the hospital owners to be seen as a partner. In Urban Places, we can work with the hospital and city to identify local potential new tenants.
Brenda: What kind of buy-in from the community local government is needed to make this happen? What strategies for consensus building, listening, and engagement are most effective?
Steve: Transparency is key, as is engaging the community early on. And a collaborative relationship between the hospital owners and the local government is essential. Many of the public improvements can be done through government funding opportunities, and this can accelerate planning efforts and help attract new uses to the site. By providing a community with the appropriate parameters, they can work together to build a realistic vision that can be implemented.
A concept for a restaurant incubating space in Brockton, Massachusetts.
Brenda: There are some health-related buildings (old hospitals for tuberculosis), sanatoriums, and asylums that may not be in the urban core—perhaps in more pastoral settings but are still parts of communities and often passed over for reuse, often for irrational reasons like stigma for a population that no longer inhabits the institution (e.g. the mentally ill). What kind of possibilities are there for say, a suburban hospital from the early 20th Century? What can we do with these sites to address today's problems like loneliness?
Steve: Yes, these sites often come with histories. Plus, there are other issues such as patient burial grounds, environmental problems, and very high costs associated with rehabilitation of these historic structures (although federal and state tax credits can create real incentives). Yet there are numerous examples across the country of these historic structures becoming destinations in themselves or anchors of new developments. They have been converted into boutique hotels, learning facilities, and mixed-use redevelopments. These historic structures create a true sense of place, of authenticity. And the characteristics inherent in the buildings can inform the character of the new buildings.
They are typically surrounded by significant open space that can create opportunities for those living and working here as well as amenities shared with the surrounding neighborhood. Like urban hospital campuses, these long-isolated properties need to connect to and welcome in their surroundings.
With careful planning, research and consultation, retired sites—urban or suburban—offer tremendous potential for landowners and city officials alike to generate revenue and opportunities for the communities they serve.
About the authors
Based in Chicago, Illinois, architect Brenda Bush-Moline, AIA is the US Health sector leader for Stantec.
Steve Kearney is a project manager and senior planner with Stantec's Urban Places team in Boston, Massachusetts.


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Note: JC Penney is handling this recall. Yu Wei is no longer in business. The remedy has changed.
For additional information, contact J.C. Penney at (800) 221-0827 between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, between 8:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. ET Saturday and Sunday, or visit the firm's website at www.jcp.com and click on "Product Recalls" at the bottom of the page.
Recall Details
This recall involves Yu Wei full-size cribs sold under the Scroll and Lauren model names. The cribs were sold in antique white, pecan and dark cherry, and have the following model numbers and date codes listed on the inside of the crib's end panels.
|Model #
|Date Code Between
|Scroll Crib
|Lauren Crib
Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled cribs and contact JC Penney to receive a refund based on consumer use of the product.
CPSC and the firms are aware of nine incidents involving drop side rails that malfunctioned or detached, including one report of a child who sustained minor abrasions to the arm.
JCPenney.com and in the jcpenney catalog from January 2006 through December 2010 for between $300 and $450.
J.C. Penney Purchasing Corp., of Plano, Texas
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical or mechanical hazard. CPSC's work to help ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters and household chemicals -– contributed to a decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 40 years.
Federal law bars any person from selling products subject to a publicly-announced voluntary recall by a manufacturer or a mandatory recall ordered by the Commission.
To report a dangerous product or a product-related injury go online to www.SaferProducts.gov or call CPSC's Hotline at 800-638-2772 or teletypewriter at 301-595-7054 for the hearing impaired. Consumers can obtain news release and recall information at www.cpsc.gov, on Twitter @USCPSC or by subscribing to CPSC's free e-mail newsletters.
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Two Su-34 jets have accidentally hit each other mid-flight in Russia's Far East, according to the country's military.
The fate of their crews remains uncertain.
The jets "touched" each other in air while flying over the Sea of Japan, the Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed.
The crews of the planes ejected, and a search and rescue operation has been launched.
An An-12 plane and two Mi-8 helicopters are searching for the pilots, who apparently landed in the water.
The incident occurred during a training flight. The planes were not carrying any weaponry, the military said.
Source: RT
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K St. whore...
Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida has apologized for calling an adviser to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke a "K Street whore."
"I offer my sincere apology to Linda Robertson, an adviser to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke," Grayson said in a statement emailed to reporters. "I did not intend to use a term that is often, and correctly, seen as disrespectful of women."
"This characterization of Ms. Robertson, made during a radio interview last month in the context of the debate over whether the Federal Reserve should be independently audited, was inappropriate, and I apologize," he added.
"Let's be clear about the context," Todd Jurkowski, Grayson's spokesman, said earlier today. "The attack was on her professional career, not her personal life."
"She attacked the Congressman and his efforts to promote a Republican bill to audit the Federal Reserve," Jurkowski said of Robertson. "She actually questioned his understanding of the difference between fiscal and monetary policy. She had the audacity to attack a Congressman who used to be an economist. She's a career lobbyist who used to work for Enron and advocates for whatever she gets paid to promote."
K Street is where many Washington lobbyists work, and "K Street whore" is a derogatory – though not uncommon – phrase used to describe them in the nation's capital.
Just a few months ago, Grayson was a Florida House freshman with virtually no national name recognition. But he burst onto the scene in September when he suggested on the House floor that the Republican health care plan is "to die quickly if you get sick."
Called upon to apologize for those comments, Grayson instead apologized to "the dead and their families that we haven't voted sooner to end this holocaust in America."
Earlier this month he set up a Web site called NamesOfTheDead.com intended to draw attention to people who die without health coverage.
He also called the Republican party the enemy.
While I wouldn't go that far he is on the right track.
The Republicans gave the Criminal banking mafia,
$700,000,000,000 billion dollar bail out.
But not the poor Americans without access to
medical health services.
And people WITH OUT INSURANCE have a 40%
higher chance of dying, and the Insurance Cos have
increased profits 400% in the past 5 years.
And did you know the big not for profit Insurance
Cos. are gone, Blue Cross and Blue Shield were bought
out by the big insurance cos, and turned into for
profit Corporations.
That took care of the competition.
And every Republican, every one is voting
for the Insurance Cos and against the dying
American public.
Paradigm Intel says:
This will haunt the Republicans, they are
on the wrong side of history.
It will cost them seats.
Grayson is on target. He has his head on
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Across the bay, the city of St. Petersburg wants to force homeowners to add solar panels anytime they put on a new roof.http://reason.com/blog/2017/08/31/st-petersburg-wants-to-force-you-to-put
They might make an exception for existing homes, but any new buildings, the city council at wants panels. And the homeowner or building owner gets to foot the bill. For another $10K. That's about three times what I paid to put a new roof on my house last year. It's about double what my mom paid for her roof.
All the council wants to focus on is all the energy they think this will generate. They refuse to think about:
Solar isn't as efficient as they expect.
The cost to upgrade the grid to handle all that new energy generation.
It will slow down development in St. Pete due to rising costs.
People will have to take on more debt to do roof replacements. This will most likely lead to an uptick in foreclosures because some people will be unable to pay.
Those who have to save up the cash will forgo necessary roof replacements, which will lead to even more problems, and more drains on people's limited resources.
Of course, it's not their money. So why should they give a damn if their brilliant idea hurts people.


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Being a mommy can be really scary sometimes, especially when your little ones get sick. They're so small and helpless, and you'd do anything to help them, but do you actually know what to do when illness strikes?
If not, don't worry. Check out this list of some of the most common childhood illnesses and how to treat them:
Sore Throats and Tonsillitis
Sore throats and swollen uvulas are probably more common than tonsillitis, and they're easier to treat too. Encourage your kids to drink plenty of fluids, including soup and other warm drinks, get them to eat ice cubes, let them gargle with water and perhaps give them some age appropriate pain medicine as a starting point. If that doesn't clear up the problem, find out how to treat a swollen uvula and call the doctor if your child finds it tough to swallow, drools a lot, has a collection of pus at the back of the throat or has a sore throat for over a week.
Now, tonsillitis. This is a very painful condition, which can be caused by bacteria or virus, although a virus is the most common. Symptoms of tonsillitis include swollen and red tonsils, pain when swallowing, fever and headache. Children between the ages of 5 and 15 are most likely to get tonsillitis, and if you think one of your kids has contracted it, you should visit your doctor to have it checked out immediately. Treating tonsillitis means giving your child antibiotics, pain relief, and throat lozenges for the most part, but if they get it frequently, they may need to have their tonsils removed.
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A viral infection, chicken pox is extremely contagious and causes symptoms including an itchy red rash, fever and headache. Usually, it is children under the age of 10 who contract chickenpox, but you can get it well into your adulthood.
Mostly, you just have to let chickenpox run its course, but if you see any of the above symptoms in your child, it's still a good idea to see a doctor because other, more serious, illnesses can manifest similarly.
In terms of treatment, you really just have to ride it out. You can administer Tylenol for children to help with the fever and pain and you can use soothing lotions and loose comfy clothes to soothe their itches, but other than that, it's just a waiting game.
Gastroenteritis is very common in adults and children alike. It is caused by either virus or bacteria and causes those infected to suffer from bouts of vomiting and diarrhea. Again, this is an illness that just has to run its course, and it usually does within three days or so. One thing you must do, though, is keep your children hydrated. Diarrhea and vomiting remove a lot of moisture from the body, which you will need to replenish. Many electrolytes are also lost that way, which means you might have to give your kid rehydration drinks to keep them well too.
Whatever symptoms you see in your child, if you are even slightly worried, don't hesitate to take them to the doctor. They are the people best placed to help your child and put your mind at rest.


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Dale Carnegie always said that "actions speak louder than words," and a smile says, "I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you."
That is why dogs make such a hit. They are so glad to see us that they almost jump out of their skins. So, naturally, we're glad to see them.
Sincere smiles work wonders, but insincere smiles don't fool anybody. People know it's mechanical and resent it. (I won't name names, but a lot of politicians come to mind!) Rather, what Dale Carnegie is referring to is a real smile, a heart-warming smile, a smile that comes from within, the kind of a smile that will bring a good price in the market place.
The employment manager of a large New York department store once told Carnegie that he'd rather hire a sales girl who hadn't finished grade school, if she had a lovely smile, than to hire a doctor of philosophy with a sober face.
In his classes, Carnegie challenged men from all walks of life to smile at someone every hour of the day for a week and then come to class and talk about the results. One man gave the following account:
"I have been married for over eighteen years, and in all that time I seldom smiled at my wife or spoke two dozen words to her from the time I got up until I was ready to leave for business. I was one of the worst grouches who ever walked down Broadway. Since you asked me to make a talk about my experience with smiles, I thought I would try it for a week. (sic) As I sat down to breakfast (the next morning), I greeted my wife with a 'Good morning, my dear,' and smiled as I said it.
"(sic) She was bewildered. She was shocked. I told her that in the future she could expect this as a regular occurrence and I have kept it up every morning now for two months."
The man went on to say how smiling had changed his life in all areas. Even people who came to him with complaints were greeted with a smile and a cheerful manner. He found adjustments are accomplished much easier. He made more money and eliminated criticism from his system and replaced it with appreciation and praise. He became a totally different man, a happier man, richer in friendships and happiness, which rightly became the most important things in his life.
Next time you're tempted to frown upon a situation, try smiling instead. You may be surprised at the reaction you get.
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On June 4, I wrote that I like to play "stump the band" when it comes to my remembrance of hundreds of software companies past and present. I said that in the rare instance where I hadn't at least heard of an ERP or business process management (BPM) software company before, it was probably because it did not do business in North America. I also said, email me so that I can learn more about software companies from outside the U.S.
Andrea Tauschmann of inubit followed my suggestion. Her Germany-based company was one of the ones I listed in my post as not having heard of it before. The inubit BPM-Suite was and is the core product of inubit and is currently at Release 5.2. Its development started in 1999. As with many of the companies converging on the BPM value proposition, the original inubit software was focused on EAI and B2B-integration; it's based on J2EE. A 2002 release added workflow and SOA basics plus connectors to applications such as SAP, Baan, Oracle, and so forth. In 2003 the company added business process modeling and support for long-running transactions and runtime deployment and 2005 saw BPEL import/export/execution, WS-Security, UDDI support, ARIS/ADONIS/XMI imports, compliance to JSR168, and process simulation.
Andrea says inubit BPM is second generation BPM by which she means
"full support for all BPM phases (modeling, simulation, execution, integration, human interaction, activity monitoring and real-time reporting) in addition to a seamless and unique handling of external systems, business partners, services and humans while managing business processes purely end-to-end."
I hadn't thought of what she describes in generational terms but I absolutely agree that the convergence of various types of software into BPM as diagrammed in my recent BPM VIEWPOINT, So What Does BPM Mean?, signfies that eventually BPM will support process sets across as well as within the firewall, straight-through as well as workflow-centric, event as well as data driven.
As I had guessed in the earlier post, inubit is not yet marketing actively in North America (but this is the new world; go look them up on the Internet).
Thanks for the email, Andrea. If anyone else reading this has a BPM offering you think I am not aware of, send along the information.
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I'll be honest, I'm SO OVER self-appointed spiritual gurus and teachers shaming the ego. You might think that is weird for me to say — someone who is here to teach all about the importance of the soul. But I am. So over it.
You need your ego to be an effective and powerful leader. In today's vlog you'll learn:
- The spiritual elitist shaming technique I am so over
- How to find the right balance between your ego and your soul
- How to get your soul and your ego to support your desires and tap into your true power as a leader
Click below to watch the short video I made for you this week. If you're here to lead in a big way, this is one relationship you need to get into balance to unleash the full power of your gifts so you can serve at a higher level.
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ROME: April 27, 2016. Alitalia is to conduct due diligence with a view to purchasing a 49 percent stake in Air Malta following the signing of an MoU with the airline and the Maltese government.
In June 2012 the European Commission approved a restructuring plan for the airline with the aim of turning a €78 million loss in 2011 into a breakeven by 2015.
Last year Air Malta lost €16.4 million on revenue of €218.2 million - down from €234.2 million in 2014 - due to what it says were EU-imposed sanctions on Russia and the termination of flights to Libya.
Once the due diligence is complete the Boards of Alitalia and Air Malta will make a decision on whether to proceed with an offer, according to a statement.
Alitalia's CEO Cramer Ball commented: "There are strong cultural and commercial bonds between Italy and Malta, and this MOU is a first and important step, but we will only make a decision once we have completed an exhaustive examination of a possible deal. We will need to establish unequivocally that a deal with Air Malta (picture: IAC Aero) will not undermine the progress of our three year turnaround programme, or prejudice our financial position. Until then, it's business as usual.
"We are on track to become a profitable entity by 2017 and we need to look and plan for the future, which is why we have decided to look closely to see whether Air Malta can fit into our strategic growth, particularly how our networks can complement each other in areas such as southern Italy. The future of the commercial aviation industry has to be one of consolidation, and for us to prosper we must examine opportunities where we believe we can offer a wider reach for our customers," he noted.
Malta minister of Tourism Zammit Lewis said his government would now cease discussions with other airlines, adding: "This is one step of the process and there is still a long way to go."
Earlier this month Alitalia announced it would begin non-stop services between Rome and Beijing in July following new service to Santiago, Chile in May and Mexico City in June.


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One of the most common faults with pumps are the electric motors that drive them burn out.
If an electric motor burns out the solution for the repair would be a replacement motor as this would be the most effective and quickest way. However, some old motors have special shafts and cannot be replaced so easily, therefore a rewind can be carried out to get it back working.
Rewinding motors is a very specialized skill. The correct terminology of rewinding is Armature winding. Most motor Rewinders use the existing windings to gather the data to rewind the motor. Information such as connections, turns on each coil and copper size is recorded.
There are many different reasons as to why motors burn out, such as dead short to earth, short between phases, a complete burn out and more. Whatever the reason is that your motor has burnt out, the below should outline some of the steps you need to take to rewind it if necessary.
The inside of the stator has a spool, and this is made up of various pre-fabricated laminations which are stacked and welded together. The laminations have grooves machined in them which are insulated with a very high temperature material call Nomex.
The copper wire is normally pre dipped in a protective coating and comes delivered on a bobbing. Each motor is different to another depending on kW size, voltage, current, speed and many other factors. The copper wire is wound on a machine in a certain shape which is made up groups of coils. Each coil has a certain amount of turns and different wire sizes (gauge).
Once the coils have been wound in groups, they would then be manually installed inside the insulated slots on the spool. Each set of coils are independently insulated from each other to prevent any electrical shorts. Each motor has different number of coils and slots depending on the motors performances.
Once all of the coils have been installed, the next stage would be to connect the copper ends to leads. Again, each motor is connected differently depending on its performance. When the connections are formed they are braised together. What this ensures is that the connection is good and will not result in a high resistant joint, which ultimately could blow a hole in the newly wound coils.
The final process of rewinding would be varnishing the newly wound coils. The stator would be dipped in a specialized varnish; this would create a seal on the copper which would act as a protection. In some large stators they would need to be vacuum varnished as this would insure full dispersion of the varnish in every air gap possible. The stator would then be put in an induction oven that would reach temperatures of around 200 degrees. This process sets the varnish so it is hard and secure. It would take around 6-8 hours depending on the size of the stator for this to cure.
The motor would then have to be rebuilt and preliminary tests would need be carried out.
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The 64-bit version of Photoshop enhances performance, especially in the way it uses RAM. This document shows you the advantages of 64-bit Photoshop over the 32-bit version.
Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop only install a 64-bit version on Mac OS.
Photoshop CS5 installs a version that can launch in either 32 bit or 64 bit when you install on a 64-bit version of Mac OS (Mac OS X 10.5 or later). If you are using Mac OS X 10.4 or earlier, then Photoshop only installs the 32-bit version.
Photoshop CS4 installs a 32-bit version only.
Photoshop CS5 on Mac OS installs one copy of the application, and it launches by default in 64-bit mode. You can run Photoshop CS5 in 32-bit mode.
To run Photoshop CS5 in 32-bit mode:
- Quit Photoshop CS5.
- Navigate to Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS5 folder.
- Select the Adobe Photoshop CS5.app file.
- Choose File > Get Info.
- Select Open in 32 Bit Mode.
- Close the Get Info dialog box.
- Reopen Photoshop CS5.
The primary advantage of using the 64-bit version of Photoshop CS5 is to access amounts of RAM beyond what Photoshop can access as a 32-bit application. Photoshop can take the best advantage of more than 4 GB of RAM only if it runs as a 64-bit application. If you use files that need more than 4 GB of RAM, and you have enough RAM, all processing you perform on large images can be done in RAM. It's not necessary for Photoshop to swap out to the hard disk. Unlike on Windows, all supported versions of Mac OS can run Photoshop CS5 in 64-bit mode. When running in 64-bit mode, Photoshop CS5 uses all the RAM you can fit into your computer.
Photoshop CS5 and CS4 install a 32-bit and a 64-bit version when you install on a 64-bit version of Windows 7, Vista, and XP. If you are using the 32-bit version of Windows, then Photoshop only installs the 32-bit version. Photoshop CS6 allows you to choose one or both of these versions to install. Photoshop installs both versions. Photoshop CC (2014) and later installs the 64-bit version on a 64-bit OS by default.
Learn how to download the 32-bit version of Photoshop CC 2018.
If you are running Windows Vista, upgrade to Service Pack 1 for better performance.
Note: Photoshop CS6 supports Windows 8, 7, and XP. Photoshop supports Windows 8 and 7.
Note: 64-bit Photoshop CS4 was not thoroughly tested under Windows XP64. Although it is not supported, it should run.
Photoshop installs a 32-bit and a 64-bit shortcut into the Start Menu. If you need to manually run the application, the 32-bit version is the photoshop.exe file, in the Program Files (x86)/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop [version] folder. The 64-bit version is the photoshop.exe file in the Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop [version] folder.
The primary advantage of using the 64-bit version is to access amounts of RAM beyond what Photoshop can access when the 32-bit version is run. You can take advantage of more than 4 GB of RAM only when you are on 64-bit systems, using 64-bit Photoshop. If you use files that require more than 4 GB of RAM, and you have enough RAM, all the processing you perform on your large images can be done in RAM. It's not necessary for Photoshop to swap out to the hard disk.
This table lists the amount of RAM available to Photoshop with the different versions of Windows:
|Photoshop version
|Windows version
|Maximum amount of RAM Photoshop can use
|32 bit
|32 bit
|32 bit
|64 bit
|64 bit
|64 bit
|As much RAM as you can fit into your computer
Third-party plug-ins for 32-bit versions of Photoshop don't appear under the Filter menu when you run the 64-bit version of Photoshop. If it's necessary to use plug-ins that haven't been updated, run the 32-bit version of Photoshop. When you are done using the plug-ins, close the 32-bit version. Then, run the 64-bit version. Contact the plug-in manufacturer for information about any updates.
Although the 64-bit version of Photoshop speeds up some operations, it doesn't speed all of them. And, it doesn't speed the operation equally. Generally, operations run approximately 8-12% faster. Overall, processor speed is not the main advantage of using the 64-bit version, except when you run actions on large files. Photoshop writes data to the hard disk incrementally while you pause in Photoshop. When you run actions, there are no pauses for Photoshop to write to the disk. Therefore, Photoshop writes to the disk while the action runs. The increase in processor speed increases the speed of these processes.


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Skip to comments.Zogby Poll: Almost No Obama Voters Ace Election Test
Posted on 11/18/2008 6:26:44 PM PST by GVnana
Released: November 18, 2008
Zogby Poll: Almost No Obama Voters Ace Election Test
Survey finds most Obama voters remembered negative coverage of McCain/Palin statements but struggled to correctly answer questions about coverage associated with Obama/Biden
UTICA, New York -- Just 2% of voters who supported Barack Obama on Election Day obtained perfect or near-perfect scores on a post election test which gauged their knowledge of statements and scandals associated with the presidential tickets during the campaign, a new Zogby International telephone poll shows.
Zogby Statement on Ziegler poll:
Only 54% of Obama voters were able to answer at least half or more of the questions correctly.
The 12-question, multiple-choice survey found questions regarding statements linked to Republican presidential candidate John McCain and his vice-presidential running-mate Sarah Palin were far more likely to be answered correctly by Obama voters than questions about statements associated with Obama and Vice-PresidentElect Joe Biden. The telephone survey of 512 Obama voters nationwide was conducted Nov. 13-15, 2008, and carries a margin of error of +/- 4.4 percentage points.
The survey was commissioned by John Ziegler, author of The Death of Free Speech, producer of the recently released film "Blocking the Path to 9/11" and producer of the upcoming documentary film, Media Malpractice...How Obama Got Elected.
"We stand by the results our survey work on behalf of John Ziegler, as we stand by all of our work. We reject the notion that this was a push poll because it very simply wasn't. It was a legitimate effort to test the knowledge of voters who cast ballots for Barack Obama in the Nov. 4 election. Push polls are a malicious effort to sway public opinion one way or the other, while message and knowledge testing is quite another effort of public opinion research that is legitimate inquiry and has value in the public square. In this case, the respondents were given a full range of responses and were not pressured or influenced to respond in one way or another. This poll was not designed to hurt anyone, which is obvious as it was conducted after the election. The client is free to draw his own conclusions about the research, as are bloggers and other members of society. But Zogby International is a neutral party in this matter. We were hired to test public opinion on a particular subject and with no ax to grind, that's exactly what we did. We don't have to agree or disagree with the questions, we simply ask them and provide the client with a fair and accurate set of data reflecting public opinion." - John Zogby
"After I interviewed Obama voters on Election Day for my documentary, I had a pretty low opinion of what most of them had picked up from the media coverage of the campaign, but this poll really proves beyond any doubt the stunning level of malpractice on the part of the media in not educating the Obama portion of the voting populace," said Ziegler.
Ninety-four percent of Obama voters correctly identified Palin as the candidate with a pregnant teenage daughter, 86% correctly identified Palin as the candidate associated with a $150,000 wardrobe purchased by her political party, and 81% chose McCain as the candidate who was unable to identify the number of houses he owned. When asked which candidate said they could "see Russia from their house," 87% chose Palin, although the quote actually is attributed to Saturday Night Live's Tina Fey during her portrayal of Palin during the campaign. An answer of "none" or "Palin" was counted as a correct answer on the test, given that the statement was associated with a characterization of Palin.
Obama voters did not fare nearly as well overall when asked to answer questions about statements or stories associated with Obama or Biden -- 83% failed to correctly answer that Obama had won his first election by getting all of his opponents removed from the ballot, and 88% did not correctly associate Obama with his statement that his energy policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry. Most (56%) were also not able to correctly answer that Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground.
Nearly three quarters (72%) of Obama voters did not correctly identify Biden as the candidate who had to quit a previous campaign for President because he was found to have plagiarized a speech, and nearly half (47%) did not know that Biden was the one who predicted Obama would be tested by a generated international crisis during his first six months as President.
In addition to questions regarding statements and scandals associated with the campaigns, the 12-question, multiple-choice survey also included a question asking which political party controlled both houses of Congress leading up to the election -- 57% of Obama voters were unable to correctly answer that Democrats controlled both the House and the Senate.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
What a suprise!
The Constitution used to prevent our stupidity from being dangerous.
I watched this video today, it made me physically sick. These "idiots" didn't know who Pelosi is, what party is in power in Congress and they identified every dumb statement with Sarah Palin. It reminded me of the video Howard Sterns did in Harlem. I believe there should be a government test given before people can vote. This is scary...
His constituents are inherently ignorant people. It's difficult to disprove that statement.
When the buyer's remorse sets in, and his voters start realizing "They ain't gettin' no Free Sh.. Stuff", and will in fact be PAYING for Democrat corruption, things could get violent.
We need to deprogram these zombies one by one just as if they are coming from a cult.
If we only had a network we could get to these people, ONE network committed to the right wing view would spell the doom of the democrat party, where is the Billionaire to save us from Communism???
We are lead by the stupid.
>The Constitution used to prevent our stupidity from being dangerous.
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."
"If we only had a network we could get to these people"
Well, the RNC could always hire ACORN...
(oh... Wait...)
Stupid is as stupid does.
That sums it up.
Aided by the intellectual dishonesty of the MSM, the dumbing down of America has reached a new low point.
The entire political process has become a travesty. Voter fraud, a-holes running congress, a closet muzlim and outed marxist who will rule with a fascist fist in the oval office, the pants suit as SOS, and the morons are in the majoirty.
I'm disgusted by it all.
I was just talking to someone who didn't exactly know what socialism was.
I sent her this
No surprise at all. The media went into full slant mode to inveigle voters about Obama, while they practiced mudslinging against McCain\Palin.
>believe there should be a government test given before people can vote.
DON'T say _that_!
Given how things are it would be something like:
Do you believe that guns are bad?
Is globalization a good thing?
Should Congress get a raise?
Will you bow to your Governmental Overlords?
Failure on any question would be grounds for disallowing your vote.
In other words, Obama has the mandate of stupid people.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Hosea 4:6
The media run America. Welcome to the idiocracy.
Actually, the Obama supporters were fixated on his halo. They missed many of the details.
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Death, be not proud — unless you happen to be on TV. Killing a character is one of TV writers' favorite devices for change — because it works. I mean, you have to deal with a death, even if the deceased character is going to come back time after time in various dimensions and times (I'm looking at you, Lost).
This week EW.com published a list of its 20 Most Shocking TV Deaths. (If you're behind on any shows, please slowly back away from the spoilers.) Most of the people EW chose did, indeed, come to a shocking end. But we can always improve on lists, right?
First, a few of theirs:
Agent Caitlan Todd (Sasha Alexander), NCIS (2005)
You hear about people who survive plane crashes and then die after falling in the bathtub. This was like that. Kate had just taken a bullet (in the vest) for Gibbs. When curmudgeonly Gibbs praised her, she said, "Wow. I thought I'd die before I ever heard …" POW! Right between the eyes. I honestly didn't forgive the NCIS writers until this week, when I read that Alexander got a new series. Not that I have a problem with taking TV personally or anything.
Ianto Jones (Gareth David-Lloyd), Torchwood: Children of Earth (2009)
I literally cursed at the television when Ianto died. He was one of the best characters on the show, not to mention the love of Captain Jack's life. The outcry from Ianto fans was immediate and intense — and I still can't believe it. They killed Ianto. B–tards.
Mrs. Landingham (Kathryn Joosten), The West Wing (2001)
Mrs. Landingham was one of the few people who could speak her mind to President Bartlet without hesitation. Her death in a car crash was sudden and devastating.
Rosalind Shays (Diana Muldaur), L.A. Law (1991)
The shocking death that set the standard for shocking deaths was when the antagonistic Roz stepped into an elevator that wasn't there and plunged to her death. The fact that it was sort of funny didn't make it any less jolting.
EW.com lists more bombshell deaths, including Rita on Dexter, Adriana on The Sopranos, Joyce Summers on Buffy and Dee on BSG here.
But I would be remiss not to mention some notable omissions.
Tara Maclay (Amber Benson), Buffy (2002)
The bullet Warren fired after he thought he felled Buffy was the shot heard round the lesbo world. The newly reconciled Willow and Tara are getting dressed as the stray bullet strikes Tara in the back. She dies in Willow's arms, ending one of TV's best lesbian relationships — and almost ending the world when dark Willow sought vengeance.
Dorothy Sheedy (Beth Grant), Six Feet Under (2004)
This is a personal favorite — one of the always-shocking deaths that introduced each episode of Six Feet Under.
Dana Fairbanks (Erin Daniels), The L Word (2006)
The L Word season we'd most like to forget culminated with the death of the series' best character. The show was never the same and we have never forgiven Ilene for killing Dana. And why should we?
I can't resist adding another name, but in the category of Least Shocking Death:
Jenny Schecter (Mia Kirshner), The L Word (2009)
We knew Jenny was dead before the season started. Then she died in the first episode of the season. The rest of the season was devoted to the events leading up to Jenny's death. By the time she finally drowned, no one cared. Sigh.
OK, your turn. Which TV character do you think had the most shocking death?


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It was a beautiful December day here in the Sunshine State. Days like today are why people spend their winters in Florida. We spent much of the day soaking in the warm rays of the sun, while also being delighted with a cool breeze.
For those of you who live somewhere cold, please don't hate me.
Around 1:00, the natives grew restless. I didn't feel right letting them watch a movie on a day like today, and in return they didn't feel right about letting me sit poolside and read.
So after an hour of hearing about the injustice of such imposed boredom and the true cruelty of expecting them to entertain themselves I packed up the antsy brood and off we went to the park where I planned to continue my lounging while they ran off pent up energy.
Upon arriving at the park, I rejoiced to find a long swinging bench mercifully vacant and I settled in for a bit of relaxation only to discover that the smallest of the children had different plans in mind.
"Hey Mom, wanna play house wif us?" Landon asked. I looked over at Tia who widened her eyes pleadingly, which is a completely unfair tactic. Puppy dog eyes are cruel and unusual.
"What do I have to do to play house?" I asked wearily.
"How about you be the Mom and we'll be the kids," Tia answered.
"Okay," I said. "Kids, go play and let Mommy rest for a bit!"
"No, Mom! That's not how you play!" Foot stomp.
Seriously?! Puppy dog eyes and a foot stomp? She's good, ladies and gentlemen.
"But I'm the Mom so I can tell you what to do, right?"
"No, Mom. You have to get up and come over here and drive us to school. Then you have to take us to the store and then you have to take us to Chuck E Cheese. That's how you play!"
Funny. I always assumed that playing pretend actually took us out of real life.
"Okay," I said. "But this swinging bench is my car so hop in." And away we drove. I dropped them off at school, then picked them up, then we headed to the store.
"C'Mon, let's go shop."
"Uumm…" I stalled. "Let's pretend I broke my leg and I have to ride in one of the motorized carts at the store. This bench will be my cart."
"Aw, yeah!" they yelled and away we went. Notice that so far, I haven't had to move from my bench.
Finally the "errands" were done and we arrived home. "Alright, you guys go play now," I said waving them on, stepping out of my role as pretend Mom and into my role as real Mom. It's all very confusing, I know…
"No, Mom! Now you need to make dinner!"
"Tell you what," I reasoned. "How about you be the Mom now and I will be the long lost Aunt who came for a visit, okay?"
"Alright! What's your name?"
"Uh…Toto? Oh and hey – let's pretend that I came from far, far away and I'm super tired so I have to lay down and sleep. How does that sound?"
"Hey, yeah!" they cried. "And this bench can be your bed and we will rock you while you sleep!"
So I laid down, closed my eyes and they rocked me back and forth, back and forth until I literally began dozing off.
"Mom. Hey Mom!" They shook me and I squinted up into their displeased eyes.
"This game is boring," Tia said with a frown. "We don't want to play anymore."
"Yeah," echoed Landon. "It's bowing."
"Can we go play on the playground?" Tia asked.
I looked at them for a silent moment then let out a small sigh. "Well, alright. If you really want to go play, I guess I don't mind." And off they ran, forgetting all about needing my entertainment. I laid back down then, my swing moving slowly back and forth in the afternoon breeze. Alone.
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