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SANTA CLARA — Not long before he died, Tom Martinez took Tom Brady out for one last practice session, running him through the type of demanding drills they'd been doing since Brady was a San Mateo teenager.
Martinez was in a wheelchair and clearly struggling with his health, so Tom Brady Sr. suggested that they call it a day.
"It's time to go home," Brady's father said.
"No, it's not," Martinez replied. "We're not finished yet."
Only later did the Brady family find out that Martinez, the longtime College of San Mateo coach, had battled his way out of a hospital bed to spend one of his dwindling days with his favorite pupil.
Tom Martinez died Feb. 21, 2012.
He lives on in every Tom Brady pass.
"Absolutely," the New England quarterback said this week. "I still have notes. His voice. He was a great teacher. A great instructor. And he always got the best out of everybody."
Brady returns to face his childhood team Sunday when the Patriots (7-2) play the 49ers (1-8) at Levi's Stadium.
Because it's a homecoming for the Bay Area kid, much has been made about Brady's early love of the 49ers. But that bond is long gone, forever fractured after San Francisco snubbed him in the 2000 Draft in favor of quarterback Gio Carmazzi, a third-round pick who never threw a pass in the NFL.
"We don't talk about the 49ers anymore," Brady cracked on a conference call with local writers Wednesday. "That's all we used to talk about. … We were part of the 49ers Faithful for a long time."
The bond with the Martinez family, though, remains as strong as ever. The relationship began in 1992, when Tom Brady Sr. took his son to CSM for some pointers. The lessons never stopped. As Brady blossomed into one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history, he kept Martinez close at hand. The coach became a national cult figure known as the "quarterback whisperer."
Even after Brady won multiple Super Bowls, he continued to summon Martinez whenever he felt out of whack. That sometimes meant flying him out to Boston on short notice so the coach could find whatever microscopic flaw in Brady's delivery was causing the trouble.
"He is a huge reason that I fell in love with the game," Brady said. "I learned so much about how to play quarterback, and the mechanics and techniques.
"He was so committed to me. And I'm forever grateful to him and his family. He was a special man. A very special man. He touched a lot of people's lives."
Hired at College of San Mateo in 1974, the former San Francisco State quarterback coached women's basketball, softball and football — becoming the first person in community college history to coach three major sports at the same time.
The school credits him with 1,100 career victories and 32 combined championships. Not one of his players, in any sport, ever experienced a losing season so long as Martinez was their head coach.
Martinez died on his 67th birthday when he suffered a heart attack during dialysis. He'd been rapidly declining from diabetes and kidney failure for about a year, and Brady launched a public plea for a kidney donation through matchingdonors.com.
These days Brady still posts sweet Facebook messages on his late mentor's birthday, keeps tabs on Olivia Martinez (the coach's wife of 46 years) and stays in touch with his three children, Tom Jr., Lisa and Linda.
The Martinez family's access remains frequent and immediate, no matter the insanity of Brady's celebrity status. A few years ago, before the Patriots faced the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl, Olivia sent the quarterback a good luck message about a half-hour before kickoff.
"I sent him a quick text so he'd see it after the game," Olivia said. "I said, 'Good luck, Tom Brady! The whole Martinez clan is here cheering for you.'"
Her phone pinged back immediately.
"He wrote right back and said: 'We're going to kick their ass."'
Olivia howled with laughter at the memory. The prediction was a little off, but the Patriots won 28-24 as Brady threw for 328 yards and four touchdowns. He was selected as the Super Bowl MVP for the third time.
Brady heads into Sunday's game at Levi's Stadium fresh off his 75th career 300-yard passing game. He did so last week in a 31-24 defeat to Seattle, but Brady also stumbled a bit with an interception and a mere 66.0 passer rating.
Those are the type of games that make Olivia miss her husband even more. She was in the crowd that night, attending the game as Brady's guest, and couldn't help but think that the quarterback could have used a few minutes with Tom Martinez.
"As the years pass, it gets more and more painful in many ways," she said. "I just felt like, 'If Tom were still around, I know he'd still be working with him. He'd still be helping him out.' I feel a loss for Tommy for that reason."
Because he sat next to his father for so many years, Tom Martinez Jr. also watches Brady's games with a critical eye.
Are the quarterback's feet too far apart? Where is his release point? What angle is the front shoulder?
"As far as a pure pocket passer, I think Brady is still the most fundamentally sound quarterback that's maybe ever played the game," Martinez Jr. said.
"I see all of the things that my dad taught him — and taught me when I played. The footwork. The elbow. The shoulder position. All of those things Brady does on a weekly basis."
For many years, Brady kept a crinkled page of notes from Martinez in his wallet. The quarterback later transferred the information to his Blackberry, and he'd scroll through the list of the coach's commandments just before kickoff.
Throw it down hall. … Keep your hips closed. … Keep your elbow high.
"The last time I spoke to him, he told me that he thinks about him every single day and every single time he steps on the field," Olivia said.
Brady also reminds himself of Martinez's ultimate lesson: The way he lived his life. You play hard and you fight all the way to the end.
The Martinez family is scattered away from the Bay Area now, and by Friday it was still unclear whether any of them would be able to be at Levi's Stadium. Olivia lives in Dallas with daughter, Lisa; Tom Jr. lives in Southern California, where he works at the Hollywood K&L Wines; Linda lives with her family in Del Mar.
But regardless of geography, they all have the same gameplan for Sunday. They'll watch Tom Brady fire pinpoint darts around the field and hear echoes of the quarterback whisperer.
"Tom always used to be so proud," Olivia said. "Of all the things that have happened to (Brady) — the fame and fortune and adulation — he's never, ever, ever changed. He's still the same humble, honest, sincere and kind person he ever was. Tom used to marvel at that all the time."


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Does Alameda Need a Strong Mayor?
The city's weak-mayor form of government has been raising questions about who is really in charge in City Hall.
Jill Keimach
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When news emerged from Alameda City Hall last October that City Manager Jill Keimach had penned a memorandum brimming with pointed claims about alleged interference by unnamed members of the city council, it created a political firestorm. Keimach's letter subsequently led to an independent investigation into her allegations, and then, in a twist, led to the council later placing her on paid administrative leave in March.
In large part, the firestorm and confusion surrounding Keimach and the city council stems from Alameda's so-called weak-mayor form of government, say several of the city's leaders. (It's also known in some cities as a strong-city manager form of government.) Under Alameda's city charter, the city manager holds much of the power. He or she runs the day-to-day operations of the city and oversees the hiring and firing of all city employees.
Although the city manager reports to the city council and the mayor, the council and mayor hold mostly figure-head positions in Alameda. They set policy and allocate funds but have no authority over the conduct of city employees. In fact, the mayor is actually just a member of the council and the only extra power she has is to chair council meetings. The council and the mayor are also specifically prohibited under Alameda's charter from interfering in the city manager's duties. Keimach's letter concerned such alleged interference during her hiring of a new fire chief last year.
By contrast, under a strong-mayor form of government — like the one Oakland employs — the mayor is in charge of the city's bureaucracy, directly oversees the city manager, and has the power to hire and fire the police chief.
"The way this is set up, the public doesn't have a way to hold the city manager accountable," said Alameda Mayor Trish Herrera Spencer, of the Island's weak-mayor form of government. Spencer also said that she believes many Alamedans don't understand the city's governmental structure and the fact that she really isn't in charge. "A large majority of people I have spoken to have the perception that you vote for mayor, vote for the council — they make all the decisions. The reality is the city manager hires everyone, and we only get asked to fund the positions. I ask, 'Who is accountable to the city when important decisions are not made by the mayor and city council?'"
For her part, Spencer came under fire in 2016 for alleged interference of Keimach and the
police chief's responsibilities. And because Spencer is mayor, it may not be surprising that she has criticisms of Alameda's weak-mayor system.
She acknowledges this critique but adds that she has witnessed how a more streamlined power structure better serves the community. In early April, when a sinkhole on the Oakland side of the Webster-Posey tubes presented a transportation headache for both cities, Spencer said she was the first person to learn of the problem through a late-evening email from Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf. Oakland city government operates under the strong-mayor model where Schaaf is the city's chief executive, much like a governor or a president, while the Oakland City Council serves in a role somewhat akin to the state legislature or Congress.
In working with Schaaf on the sinkhole issue, Spencer noticed how well Schaaf was able to mobilize city departments to quickly fix the problem. "She reached out to her people: the city administrator, their public works, and to us," Spencer said. "I cannot do that. I have to send email to the city manager and others to expedite the process. It takes too much time. I started asking myself, 'How would this job be different as a strong mayor?'"
Councilmember Frank Matarrese, who is running this fall against Spencer in the mayor's race, also favors switching to a strong-mayor form of government. "Maybe the time for it is now? I tend to favor it," he said.
But John Knox White, a former planning board member and declared candidate for the city council this year, contends that the city doesn't need to change its system of governance and that City Hall dysfunction stems from personal dynamics. "The idea of this is downright silly," said Knox White. "Anyone who has watched one or two council meetings knows the system of government is not the problem. It is the result
of having a city council that doesn't work together."
Former Alameda Councilmember Barbara Thomas, a supporter of Spencer, raised the question of the city switching to the strong-mayor model in an opinion piece published in the East Bay Times in March. Thomas asserted that city's current staff is not serving the council, but, instead, the city manager's interests.
Thomas also called for an increase in the council's pay, which was last set shortly after World War II (Alameda elected officials only earn up to $250 a month). A decade ago, when the city removed salary restrictions on some department heads, including the city manager, the city staff did not broach raises for the mayor and council. "Why?" wrote Thomas. "Staff wants our leaders to be limited and controlled by staff."
Spencer said she favors a more professionalized city staff in Alameda, which is not surprising considering the fact that the mayor often grills city staffers during council meetings over information she believes is lacking in reports.
But Spencer's ideological opposite, Councilmember Jim Oddie, also questions the city staff's loyalty. Calling the idea of a strong mayor "interesting," Oddie said that under a strong-mayor system like Oakland's, councilmembers could have a staff member whom they believe is acting in their interests, not the city manager's. "That staff is not our staff. That's the city manager's staff," said Oddie. "We hear what they want us to hear."
Alameda Councilmember Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft, who is also a candidate for mayor this fall, believes the current system works just fine. "Alameda's experience these past three years makes me reluctant to endorse a 'strong mayor' form of city government, which could include the mayor appointing and removing department heads," she said, in reference to instances during Spencer's term when the council's progressive majority moved to block the mayor's appointees to various boards and commissions after deeming them inexperienced or too conservative. "I think the collective judgment of a city council provides important safeguards, regardless of who is mayor and also encourages collaborative decision making."
Of course, any change to the charter requires a vote of the Island's citizens, and the switch would be somewhat unusual. Among charter cities in the East Bay, the strong-mayor model is only employed in Oakland. Berkeley uses a hybrid model, in which the mayor has more power than councilmembers but also sits on the council.


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Here's the New Digg [SCREENSHOTS]
Social news site Digg is set to launch a large overhaul of its service very soon. The new site has already entered Alpha testing, and one such tester has leaked screenshots of the new interface.
Manmohanjit Singh uploaded the shots below, which we found courtesy of The Next Web. Singh claims he is not an Alpha tester, but that he received the images from a friend.
The screenshots appear to be legitimate, since they're almost identical to a video released by Digg to publishers (embedded below). The shots are a little less tantalizing than the video preview, however — thumbnail images appear to be missing from stories, for instance.
Nonetheless, this is further confirmation that Digg's new site is imminent. If successful, it could re-establish Digg's leadership in the social news space.


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Filed under: Deep Green, Stop climate change | Tags: Deep Green, Ecology, Global Warming, Rex Weyler
Global warming is a symptom of human overshoot: the consumption and waste that exceeds the biophysical capacity of the Earth. If we attempt to reduce the fever, but ignore the disease, we will, at best, extend the suffering.
Most species, when confronted with abundant food and no predators, will outgrow their environment. Locust or pine beetles will devour their hosts and crash. Bacteria in a Petri dish will exhaust the food capacity and breed themselves to death. This is overshoot.
In 1944, the US military brought 29 reindeer to St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea as food for soldiers. However, when the war ended the Americans abandoned the island and the reindeer remained. With no predators and lots of lichen, the herd grew to over a thousand reindeer in 15 years. Biologists estimated that the island might have sustained this herd of a thousand reindeer, munching moderately within the island's carrying capacity. However, by 1965 the herd had grown to 6,000 reindeer. Then, in one winter, with the lichen obliterated, the herd crashed back to just 44 animals.
This is overshoot.
Humans at Earth-scale
The Rapanui on Easter Island, with a population of only a few hundred in 900 AD, had already degraded the island's capacity by cutting down trees to transport giant stone statues. As the Rapanui population grew to over 7000 by 1350 AD, their forest disappeared, they splintered into sects, and they fought over the remnants. When Europeans arrived in the 18th century – seeking resources to solve their own overshoot problems back home – only a few hundred Rapanui remained, scraping for survival on a depleted landscape.
Throughout human history, settlements and cities have overshot local environments – whether in Pleistocene watersheds, Mesopotamian floodplains or the American dust bowl. In these cases, communities could migrate, relocate, or shift food sources. Now, in the 21st century, the human enterprise has reached the scale of the planet. This time, we cannot abandon our watershed. We will not sail away to a new island or discover a new hemisphere. We're flat out of hemispheres.
The new dream for sustaining human consumption is 'innovation'. Our alleged leaders – political and corporate – denied global warming for decades. Then, they blamed it on sunspots or claimed it might me a good thing that would allow us to grow avocados in Norway and drill for oil in the Arctic.
Now, we hear claims that industrialists take global warming seriously. Witness the tsunami of proposals to create a 'green economy', cool the planet with sulphate aerosols, fertilise the dying oceans with iron, build hybrid cars, and construct giant 'green energy' systems.
Some so-called 'green' projects may indeed play a role in a human future, but not if we rush to treat the symptoms while ignoring the disease. A friend in Los Angeles told me: "You used to see Porsches everywhere. Now everyone has a Prius." In Washington DC, hip lobbyists drive USD 100,000 electric Tesla sports cars. Did trading in the Porsche for a Prius or Tesla help the planet? No. It cost the planet in metals, plastics, toxins, energy and CO2, the burgeoning throughput of human overshoot.
"Customers who embrace green products," says Sandy Di Felice of Toyota Canada, "don't want a radical change to their lifestyle." Therein lies the problem: the world's most voracious consumers cling to a hope that technology will rescue them from having to change their lifestyles. Tech-fix entrepreneurs, their academic apologists, and political cheerleaders scramble to create new 'green' products, but fail to address the cause of the fever: reckless human consumption of Earth's natural bounty. We need to produce and consume less stuff, not more.
The tech trance
The builder, who only has a hammer, treats everything as a nail. In the US, the earnest Obama administration has leapt to solve global warming with the tools it knows: money and engineering. In a world addicted to a growing energy supply, it seeks a cleaner, greener strain of the drug, while simultaneously and contradictorily launching 'shovel-ready' highway projects and applying Band-Aids over the inevitable consequences.
Obama science adviser John Holdren proposed blasting sulphate particles into the atmosphere to block the rays of the sun. In fairness to Holdren, he acknowledged, "It would be preferable by far to solve this problem by reducing greenhouse gas emissions." However, in April, Holdren claimed, "global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth's air."
In 1971, scientist Paul Crutzen first proposed the idea of cooling the atmosphere with sulphur particles, mimicking a volcanic eruption, to reflect solar energy and offset the effect of greenhouse gases. This plan treats the symptoms while ignoring the disease. Global warming is caused by burning hydrocarbons and depleting forests, not by the sun. The sun is not our enemy.
A programme to launch sulphates into the atmosphere will burn more fossil fuel energy – the source of the problem – risk depleting the ozone layer, and would likely dry the Mediterranean and Mid-East climates. Blocking the sun is going backwards to sustain the unsustainable.
Engineers at Columbia University are developing a 'carbon scrubber' that could remove over 300 tons of carbon from the atmosphere each year. The challenge with this approach is that humanity is currently emitting over 20 billion tons of carbon annually, and increasing at 3% a year. Capturing even half of this carbon in scrubbers would require over USD 6 trillion in initial costs, plus operation, maintenance, and eventual replacement of the scrubbers. If the public pays this, it amounts to a bailout of the energy companies on the scale of the current banking bailouts, and would contribute to another global recession.
More significantly, as Herman Daly pointed out decades ago in Steady State Economics, these 'geo-engineering' mitigations actually make us more vulnerable. Once we prop up our unsustainable habits with counter-technologies, we are trapped. We build up a dependence on the tech-fix, and when future generations can no longer maintain the fix, the impending crash will be worse.
Daly also pointed out that these are 'costs' of running society, not 'benefits', and these two get confused in our GDP analysis economy health. We must return to authentic quality of life rather that put hope in stimulating more unsustainable growth, more stuff, and more activity.
Reviving the oceans
Carbon emissions increase ocean acidity, devastating coral reefs and contributing to ocean species die-off. Adding powdered limestone to the oceans could theoretically reverse acidity. Fertilising the oceans with iron could stimulate phytoplankton photosynthesis, absorbing more CO2.
These 'solutions' could help, but they represent patchwork mitigations with added costs. Adding iron and limestone to the oceans mimics the natural process of wind carrying fine sand over the ocean, but there are problems. For phytoplankton to sequester the CO2, the organisms have to die and sink to the bottom. A study recently published in Nature magazine showed that the projects sequestered far less carbon than predicted.
Likewise, iron fertilisation tests conducted by the Alfred Wegener Institute "dampened hopes on the potential of the Southern Ocean to sequester significant amounts of carbon dioxide and thus mitigate global warming." The iron helped Phaeocystis phytoplankton increase slightly, less than natural blooms, but copepods quickly consumed the shell-free, soft algae. Then, the copepods became food for shrimp-like amphipods, which provided additional food for squid and whales. This was a positive result, but the experiment did not result in tons of CO2 safely sequestered on the ocean floor.
Grasping at tech straws
The American conservative think-tank, Enterprise Institute – which once denied global warming – has now joined the bandwagon and proposed building 'artificial trees'; giant towers that suck carbon dioxide from the air and store it. Like the carbon scrubber plan, this scheme requires more materials and fossil energy, the source of the problem.
Others propose fertilising trees with nitrogen to stimulate CO2 absorption, but high nitrogen concentrations create nitrous oxide emissions (a greenhouse gas), groundwater contamination, and water demands, since trees that consume larger amounts of nitrogen also require more water.
An episode of Discovery Project Earth tested a scheme to drop tree seedlings encased in biodegradable containers from the air, rather than plant trees traditionally by hand. The project failed. On Earth Day this year, Obama's Special Advisor for Green Jobs, promoting the social benefits of environmental mitigation, said live on CNN, "trees don't plant themselves." Mr. Jones appears to be a nice person and well-intentioned, but he exposes a fundamental misconception about natural systems ecology. News flash: Trees do plant themselves. They only require an intact forest. Dropping trees from airplanes and building giant 'artificial trees' represents industrialism gone mad.
The presumed tech-fix solutions suffer from fundamental errors because their designers do not understand ecology. They attempt to preserve a wealthy lifestyle that is not sustainable. They fail to perform necessary net-energy and carbon-cost accounting. They demand an ever-growing supply of material and energy, and they fail to account for total ecosystem analysis.
Humanity is in overshoot. Every day, without much comment from our 'news' media, we degrade the carrying capacity of the planet, add more humans, and extend ourselves farther out over the edge of the sustainability cliff, with nothing below to stop our fall.
Worse, the tech-fix proposals avoid genuine solutions: Humanity must consume less, not more. We should replace our petroleum-guzzling car cultures with light rail transport. We should be localising agriculture, preserving farmland, conserving energy, recycling everything, creating resilient communities, and developing a steady state economic system. If we are serious about global warming and preserving natural wilderness, we should be stabilising human population with non-evasive means such as women's rights and contraception. We should be leaving remnant wilderness alone to recover through natural processes.
These genuine remedies require the wealthy nations and consumers to drastically change their lifestyles, not buy hybrid sports cars. These changes prove politically difficult, but they represent the inevitable path back to paradise.
Rex Weyler
You can respond to "Deep Green" columns at my Ecolog, where I post portions of this column and dialogue with readers.
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It's the Easter weekend - a great time to make exciting treats to really impress your friends and family! I was inspired to make these cupcakes after searching Easter Cupcakes on Pinterest! There are so many creative recipes out there but I thought these looked super cute and it's a pretty easy recipe too. These are super fun to make with young children who can get creative with decorating. If you want to really get inventive, you can buy mini chicks from places like Hobby Craft and pop them in between the mini eggs.
The actual cupcakes are just a basic chocolate cupcakes, I used the recipe from Mary Berry's Complete Cookbook (this book is amazing!). If you think chocolate cupcakes are a bit rich, then you could always use a normal vanilla fairy cake recipe. However, I think the brown base makes it look more earthy and gives it more character.
The Grass is made from Buttercream icing, I used the recipe from the back of the SilverSpoon Icing Sugar box,and simply added Green food colouring. Now, I wanted a bright green but my food colouring made it look quite dull. I unfortunately had no yellow food colouring to brighten it up, but you could use Green food gel which I'd image to be brighter. Then to get the effect of grass, you need a Piping bag and a piping tip. The tip number you need is 233. I bought a set from eBay, years back, which has 15 or so different designed tips. Luckily one similar to the 233 was in there. I'm sure you can find these in Supermarkets but if you have a Hobbycraft near you then they'll definitely have it! You basically use the piping bag in a stippling kind of motion - start by squeezing your piping bag fairly near to the cupcake and begin lifting it up until you're about 1/4 inch away, then let go. It's as simple as that! You just have to repeat the motion all around the cupcake, until it is more or less covered. Don't worry if you can still see the cupcake, as I said before, it makes it look more natural!
To give it it's finishing touch, just add your mini eggs, or any other dinky Easter decorations and you're good to go. It's so simple to do and doesn't take long at all! I hope you all have an amazing Easter and if you recreate these cupcakes then definitely tweet them to me so I can see your masterpieces!


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April 11, 1960: State Cops Raid the Glass Hat!
It was an old-fashioned raid, just like the police did them during Prohibition. State police shut down the popular after-hours club, the Glass Hat, on April 11, 1960. "State Police Swoop On Nightspot Hi-Jinx," was the page 1 headline in the Daily Record.
The Back Bay was home to one of Boston's best-known after-hours clubs, upstairs at 336 Newbury Street. It was called the Club Vanity Fair in the late thirties and early forties when saxophonist Frank D'Avolio led the after-hours band, and the Glass Hat after that.
The Glass Hat opened in 1946 with occasional entertainers of jazz interest, such as Clarence Jackson. Good singers were the rule in the mid-1950s, like Jo Thompson from Detroit, and Dorchester's Margie Anderson. Then in 1955, all advertising and mentions on the entertainment pages of the newspapers ceased. And it got busy after hours.
There wasn't any hiding this operation. The building housing Division 16 of the Boston Police Department backed up against the Glass Hat, and the club was so successful it hired a police detail on weekends to keep traffic running smoothly. The pop singers working downstairs went home at midnight, and the jazz trio kept playing upstairs. Saxophonist Rod Bridges, who had a trio with pianist Charlie Bechler and drummer Don McBride, was popular there.
It all ended in the early-morning hours of April 11 when the state police raided the club, the first such raid in Boston in 20 years. There were about 150 patrons in the club at the time, two hours after legal closing, and the cops arrested everybody except the doorman. He had been out front with the key, and when he saw the raiders coming, he threw it in the street and took off. The police found the key in the gutter and let themselves in.
The Boston police were not told about the raid beforehand, and Boston Police Commissioner Leo Sullivan was of course shocked, shocked. He denied that officers in uniform were present in the club, or that an officer was directing traffic out front. Heads rolled in the BPD, and by the end of April, state and federal cops had raided joints in 50 cities and towns around the Commonwealth.
The Glass Hat was history a few weeks after the raid, its license revoked permanently. It was replaced by Trader Ed's, with a South Seas theme and a band called the Waikiki Trio. Trader Ed wasn't busy enough to merit an after-hours police detail to direct traffic.


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If you are on a budget then finding great teen bedroom designs in your price range might be a bit discouraging. However, you can get a great bedroom for your teen without having to take out a second mortgage if you are willing to do a bit of legwork and put in some elbow grease.
The first thing you need to do is come to an agreement with your teen on how the room should look. Do they like specific colors or perhaps a theme of some sort? Once you have a broad idea of what you want, you need to find an inspiration for the room. This could be a particular item like a chair or a lamp that you could base the design of the room around, or you could scour magazines for a room that appeals to you and your teen and try to replicate that as close as you can.
Now that you have a general idea of what you want, you need to think about color, bedding, furniture and accessories.
The cheapest way to totally change the look of the room, and one that will go with most teen bedroom designs, is to simply paint it. Pick a color that goes with the design you have chosen and get out your brushes. If you want to add some pizazz you could do some faux painting or paint stripes or different colors on the walls. There are plenty of interesting paint techniques that can really make the room look neat and the best part is that you can learn to do most of them for free down at your local home improvement store.
The furniture can be the most expensive part of the whole bedroom design but if you use your head, you can get great furniture your teen will love without spending too much. First of all, look at the pieces you already have – could the be repurposed by painting them and adding some new knobs? Just doing this can dramatically change the pieces and costs barely anything but a weekend of your time.
However, if they are not the style that you need for the new room design, you probably should look at getting something different. But who says you have to go out and buy something new and expensive? Take a look at your local consignment shops and on Craigslist to see if you can get a used set. Many times you can get a set that is just like new but for a fraction of the cost.
Matching bedding is easily purchased in sets and you can get these rather inexpensively but if you can't find anything that suits, you can buy separates. If you are handy with a sewing matching, you can embellish them with piping or ribbons to give them a custom look. When you buy bedding, remember to get pieces that match in color and style but have different patterns and textures for interest.
The accessories are the icing on the cake and here's where you can really save a few bucks on your teens bedroom by shopping at flea markets, yard sales and consignment shops. It might take a while to collect all the pieces you want, but you will end up with a unique and interest room that didn't cost a lot!
Teen bedroom designs can range from a retro look to a sports theme to a pink princess palace, but if you use your imaginations and shop wisely you can come up with a great designer look without having to pay the price.


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LAS VEGAS, Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) announced today the Company's Board of Directors has elected William Grounds to serve as a member of its Board of Directors.
Chairman and CEO Jim Murren said, "We welcome Bill Grounds and look forward to working with him as a member of our Board of Directors. Bill has tremendous international development experience. He has demonstrated his strong business background serving as the Las Vegas representative of Infinity World, while working with us during the development and opening phases of our CityCenter joint venture."
Mr. Grounds is a Director and President of Infinity World Development Corp. (Infinity World), an affiliate of Dubai World. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors for CityCenter Holdings, LLC; Infinity World; and Grand Avenue LA. Prior to joining Infinity World, Mr. Grounds served as CEO of Property and Finance for MFS Group and has held various senior positions in the real estate investment and development industry throughout his career.
Infinity World Investments LLC and its affiliates currently own approximately 5.3% of the outstanding common stock of the Company. MGM Resorts and Infinity World each own a 50% interest in CityCenter in Las Vegas.
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Whether he's releasing solo albums or with Giant Sand, performing with his Danish cohorts or by himself, switching deftly between guitar and piano, Gelb and Sand have been doing that ramshackle, unpredictable thing they do for more than two decades, and they show no signs of slowing down.
Featuring a pair of sisters on bass and vocals/guitar, and a male drummer whose crash cymbal is way too high in the air, The Beta Sweat update Jimmy Page's riffs and adapts them to the punk ethos. Add tension, dynamics and a soulful singer who can whisper or scream, and make you believe both equally.
Howe Gelb has also experimented with his sound over the years, while still putting his indelible stamp on everything he does. This time, he's grouped together a batch of new songs, some old Giant Sand nuggets and some tunes written by his late friend Rainer Ptacek, and added a Canadian gospel choir to make things even more interesting. It's the best thing he's done since Giant Sand's 2000 masterpiece Chore of Enchantment.
Love Mound has been one of Tucson's best live bands for a while now, using the powerful guitar playing of gentle giant Mike Mihina as an anchor for a winning mixture of blues and hard rock. Blackbird is the first time that power has been successfully captured on disc.
Howe Gelb's been writing songs for so long--and without suffering a diminishment of quality--that he could probably do it in his sleep. Come to think of it, since so many of his songs have the surrealism of the dream state, maybe that's his secret.
Primary Calexico songwriter Joey Burns' work has evolved in great strides over the years. He can write political songs that aren't ham-fisted, and he's learned the art of the turn of a phrase.
The term "desert noir" could have been coined to describe the songs of John Coinman, whose literary tales fuse the myth of the Old West with the modern reality of living in the urban desert.
Bob Log III could have made this list based on his musical chops alone--his punky, breakneck-speed slide guitar take on Delta blues is simply dazzling. But add in the jumpsuit, the helmet wired to a mic from an old telephone, the hilarious between-song banter, the leg rides--well, you get the idea.
They're powerful. They're engaging. They're easy on the eyes, and they just plain fucking rock. What's not to love about Beta Sweat?
Composed of veterans of bygone local acts such as Mala Vita and Pathos, Found Dead on the Phone manage to sound current even as they trade in the memes of '70s-era classic rock, arriving at what can only be described as sprawling rock epics.
An ensemble of American high school students performing polyrhythmic Afrobeat grooves may not sound so promising, but if you don't know why they made this list, you haven't seen them perform yet.
In an era of homogenized commercial radio stations, KXCI is a beacon of light, providing oodles of info about organizations and events around town, playing an eclectic assortment of music you won't hear anywhere else and--gasp--music by local artists. Don Jennings' weekly Locals Only provides not only recorded music exclusively by local bands, and an hour-long interview and live segment by a local artist, but also a plethora of info about the local music scene, courtesy of Jennings' extensive knowledge.
You tend to hear an awful lot about all the famous acts that have recorded albums with Craig Schumacher, but the main reason he made this list is because he offers local acts reasonably priced studio time to record--something many of them couldn't afford to do if he wasn't around. Plus, he makes 'em sound good, too.
A former member of Sugarbush and Galactic Federation of Love, Dimitri Manos has become a utility drummer of sorts, a go-to guy, if you will--though he's a permanent member of some acts, too. In the past year alone, he's smacked the skins for Golden Boots, The Fashionistas, Tom Walbank and the Ambassadors, Amor and Marianne Dissard.
Country-rockers armed with poppy hooks, The Wyatts are tireless self-promoters--not shamefully so; they just believe in what they're doing and want to share it.
Molehill Orkestrah bring an authenticity to exotic gypsy and Eastern European music--its quiet passages that swell into soaring climaxes--and they function completely as a unit. They make a difficult endeavor appear easy.
Each member of The Determined Luddites has chops out the wazoo, but it's their ability to bring that talent to such a wide array of styles that truly impresses.
Though Pork Torta gigs have become less frequent, you still never know what to expect. Musically, you know you're going to get absurd garage-funk, sure. But it's the band's attire that shifts from gig to gig--if there's any attire at all. Tutus, bubble wrap--these guys could craft silly costumes out of a paper clip and a pencil.
Ditto the costume element for Spacefish. Additionally, we've seen 'em do choreographed dance moves in tennis outfits and serve omelets from the stage. At last year's Great Cover-Up, they were U2.
While some complained the Calexico/Iron and Wine/Salvador Duran show, while entertaining, dragged on too long, think about it: In roughly three hours of nonstop music, how many boring moments were there? And who didn't get a bit misty when Duran pounded his chest because he was so overwhelmed at the outpouring of love from the audience?
From the wigs and polyester attire to the panties being thrown on stage to the music itself, The Jons' take on Tom Jones was nothin' but a good, good time.


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Cutting Disability Risk Is No Sweat
by Matilda Charles
The British Medical Journal has reported some findings that will cheer
quite a number of seniors: We don't necessarily have to do strenuous
workouts to lower our risk of becoming disabled.
During the two-year study, 1,680 participants ages 49 to 83 in Maryland,
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island wore accelerometers to measure the
intensity and duration of their daily living activities. Key activities
included cooking, grocery shopping, making phone calls, walking across the
room, bathing and getting dressed.
All of the participants were free of disability but were either at risk
for knee osteoarthritis or already had it.
The outcome showed that the more time spent in light-intensity activities,
the lower the association with disability, as well as reduced progression
of existing disability. It appears that the crucial factor is the amount
of time spent in activities, not the intensity of an activity. So spending
more time during the day simply moving your body may reduce disability.
Granted, previous research indicated that 2 1/2 hours a week of moderate
to vigorous activity can reduce disability, but some of us just aren't
able to handle moderate exercise, much less vigorous.
So, just how long do we need to engage in light activities to give us the
edge in lowering our disability risk? That depends on how far you want
to reduce your risk. Spending four hours a day will reduce your risk 43
percent. The more minutes, the greater the reduction in risk.
But even light housework each day or getting up during TV commercials can
cut your risk of becoming disabled by osteoarthritis. All you have to do
is move!
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By Tim Jimenez
CAMDEN, N.J. (CBS) — Pope John Paul's canonization made mass at a Camden church extra special on Sunday.
St. Joseph's in Camden has long been a center of the local polish Catholic community, it even houses a relic from John Paul II. And on this Sunday, the pews were filled as his life and legacy were honored. Leading the service, the Bishop of Camden Dennis Sullivan, and around his neck, his connection to the man who would be saint.
"This cross that I'm wearing, I received that cross from John Paul II at the ad limina visit, I guess it was eight years ago when we were there," Sullivan said. "So, I took it out this morning. His name is on the back."
And part of the Bishop's message to those gathered at the church is to use the lives of the newest saints, John Paul II and John XXIII as an example.
"We need their prayer, we need their inspiration," he said. "So, both of those new saints can do that for the Church and for all people – even for non-Christians."


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Bruce Kirkby lives life on the edge. An acclaimed explorer, travel writer, and television host (with a degree in engineering physics), he uses his incredible adventures across the globe to provide real-world, practical lessons on risk management and change leadership. Kirkby's travels have taken him to the tip of the highest mountain and to the centre of the driest desert. He draws on these experiences to offer simple strategies to help people confront their fears and learn how to embrace change and growth to see lasting success, both personally and professionally.
With journeys spanning more than 80 countries and 2000 days, Kirkby's accomplishments include the first modern crossing of Arabia's Empty Quarter by camel, a raft descent of Ethiopia's Blue Nile Gorge by raft, sea kayak traverse of Borneo's northern coast, and a coast-to-coast Icelandic trek. He also spent six months travelling to and living in a Himalayan Buddhist monastery with his young family — an experience that was chronicled on Travel Channel's Big Crazy Family Adventure. Kirkby is also the former host of CBC's No Opportunity Wasted.
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My brother and I loved playing in the backyard of our childhood home, back in the days when kids enjoyed the outdoors. Probably the single most irksome thing about our wonderland was Mrs. Modell's black walnut tree hanging overhead. The tree was huge and jutted across a third of our yard. It wasn't so much the tree we hated, but those troublesome walnuts.
Throughout spring and summer the tree grows its fruit, or the nut and seed. The nut at this stage is encased in a lime green husk that's hard as a baseball. They gradually grow larger and resemble clusters of lemons or green apples. When they fell early (or we knocked them from the tree), we learned to let them alone because they left a foul scent on our hands.
In autumn the husk softens as it ripens and then falls to the ground. This is when the backyard became a little less enjoyable for us, for a number of reasons. The old car that sat under the tree made sure we always knew when the husks fell…every single time. Then, they rot and change from greenish-yellow in color to dark brown or black; and the liquefied mush stains anything it touches. Inside that mess is a tough, corrugated nut that looks like a round sea coral.
My brother and I usually didn't take the time to clear away the husks before mowing the yard, so whole or sharp pieces of nut were always a threat to our bare feet as we ran about. It was only when we became teens that we began to harvest the nuts for our mom and her friends. Drying out and removing the rotted husks required patience unless we were prepared to dive in and get dirty.
O, Taste and See!
That memory causes me to reflect on Philippians 3:14: "I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus"—not in the sense of any effort I put into harvesting those nuts. Instead, I notice the parallel of the subject: the goal…here the nut and fruit of the tree.
My brother and I learned that there was a useful and tasty goodness within those husks that made all that seasonal drama worthwhile, albeit in our yard and not on a farm. It was why the squirrels waited patiently as the seed ripened.
Similarly, living our lives with Christ in mind is like putting up with the annoying and unpleasant aspects of those husks knowing that something wonderful abides. Jesus compares the kingdom to a man who discovers treasure in a field, hides it again, and then quickly buys the field (Matt. 13:44). That field may have been the most miserable boondocks to him until then; but finding that treasure changed everything.
The anthem "Shout to the Lord" ends with a great affirmation: "Nothing compares to the promise I have in you." Do you believe that? That's where I stand. Christ is all the world to me—even if it means muck, stinky hands, and the constant thud of husks hitting the ground.


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The total quantity of water per day is estimated based on the proposed occupancy and activities catered. Designer has to identify all the possible sources for augmenting the shortfall in water supply. The analysis of available water is done to decide the treatment for consumption and treatment process depends on the quality of water and the purpose for which it is used.
Projection of population for each building shall be made on the basis of its usage. Population for each type of building shall be estimated on the basis of information obtained from the users.
a) Residential buildings:
|Population Requirements
|1 bedroom dwelling unit
|2 bedroom dwelling unit
|3 bedroom dwelling unit
|4 bedroom dwelling unit
1 The above figures consider a domestic house- hold including support personnel, wherever applicable.
2 For plotted development, the population may be arrived at after due consideration of the expected number and type of domestic household units.
3 Dwelling unit under EWS category shall have population requirement of 4 and studio apartment shall have population requirement of 2.
b) Other than residential buildings:
|Population Requirements
|1 person per 10 m2 of floor area (see Note 1)
|Strength of school + Teaching and non-teaching staff
|Number of beds + 4.5 x (wardenâs residence) + staff
|Number of beds + Staff + Requirement of restaurant seats
|Number of beds + Staff + Patient attendants (generally population density per bed in secondary care hospital is 5, tertiary care is 7 and quaternary care is 9)
|1 person per 3 m2 of street floor and sales basement areas + 1 person per 6 m2 of upper sale floors (Total population may be segregated into 10 percent for fixed and 90 percent for floating/visitors)
|Traffic terminal stations
|Average number of users per day (Total annual passenger traffic/365) + Staff + Vendors
1 Wherever there are multiple work shifts, the number of users within a 24 h period may be considered as per actuals.
2 Population of 5 to 15 percent, depending on the usage of building, shall be considered for visitors and floating population likely to use the buildings facilities.
Water Requirements for Residences Buildings:
|Special Requirement
|Water requirement
|Up to 20,000
|Water supply through stand post
|40 lphd
|Water supply through house service connection
|70 to 100 lphd
|20,000 â 100,000
|Full flushing system
|100 to 135 lphd
|Above 100,000
|Full flushing system
|150 to 200 lphd
(lphd â Litres per head per day)
ï The value of water supply given as 150 to 200 litre per head per day may be reduced to 135 litre per head per day for houses for Medium Income Group (MIG) and Lower Income Groups (LIG) and Economically Weaker Section of Society (EWS), depending upon prevailing conditions and availability of water.
ï Out of the 150 to 200 litre per head per day, 45 litre per head per day may be taken for flushing requirements and the remaining quantity for other domestic purposes.
Water Requirements for Other Buildings
|S. No
|Type of Building
|Domestic Per Day in litre
|Flushing Per Day in litre
|Total Consumption Per Day in litre
|Factories including canteen where bath rooms are required to be provided
|30 per head
|15 per head
|45 per head
|Factories including canteen where no bath rooms are required to be provided
|20 per head
|10 per head
|30 per head
|Hospital (excluding laundry and kitchen) (see Note 2):
|a) Number of beds not exceeding 100
|230 per head
|110 per head
|340 per head
|b) Number of beds exceeding 100
|300 per head
|150 per head
|450 per head
|c) Out patient department (OPD)
|10 per head
|5 per head
|15 per head
|Nurses. homes and medical quarters
|90 per head
|45 per head
|135 per head
|90 per head
|45 per head
|135 per head
|Hotel (up to 3 star) excluding laundry, kitchen, staff and water bodies
|120 per head
|60 per head
|180 per head
|Hotel (4 star and above) excluding laundry, kitchen, staff and water bodi
|260 per head
|60 per head
|320 per head
|Offices (including canteen)
|25 per head
|20 per head
|45 per head
|Restaurants and food court including water requirement for kitchen:
|a) Restaurants
|55 per head
|15 per head
|70 per head
|b) Food court
|25 per head
|10 per head
|35 per head
|25 per head
|20 per head
|45 per head
|4 per head
|6 per head
|10 per head
|Cinemas, concert halls and theatres and multiplex
|5 per head
|10 per head
|15 per head
|Schools/Educational institutions:
|a) Without boarding facilities
|20 per head
|25 per head
|45 per head
|b) With boarding facilities
|90 per head
|45 per head
|135 per head
|Shopping and retail (mall)
|a) Staff
|25 per head
|20 per head
|45 per head
|b) Visitors
|5 per head
|10 per head
|15 per head
|Traffic terminal stations (see Notes 3 and 4)
|a) Airports
|40 per head
|30 per head
|70 per head
|b) Railway stations (Junctions) with bathing facility
|40 per head
|30 per head
|70 per head
|c) Railway stations (Junctions) without bathing facility
|30 per head
|15 per head
|45 per head
|d) Railway Stations (Intermediate) with bathing facility
|25 per head
|20 per head
|45 per head
|e) Railway Stations (Intermediate) without bathing facility
|15 per head
|10 per head
|25 per head
|f) Interstate bus terminals
|25 per head
|20 per head
|45 per head
|g) Intrastate Bus Terminals/Metro Stations
|10 per head
|5 per head
|15 per head
1 For calculating water demand for visitors, consumption of 15 litre per head per day may be taken.
2 The water demand includes requirement of patients, attendants, visitors and staff. Additional water demand for kitchen, laundry and clinical water shall be computed as per actual requirements.
3 The number of persons shall be determined by average number of passengers handled by stations, with due considerations given to the staff and vendors who are using these facilities.
4 Consideration should be given for seasonal average peak requirements.
5 The hospitals may be categorized as Category A (25 to 50 beds), Category B (51 to 100 beds), Category C (101 to 300 beds), Category D (301 to 500) and Category E (501 to 750 beds).
For Traffic Terminal Stations
Requirements of water supply for traffic terminal stations shall be as per Table-1
The water supply requirements of traffic terminal stations (railway stations, bus stations, harbours, airports, etc.) include provisions for waiting rooms and waiting hall
They do not, however, include requirements for retiring rooms
For Other Purposes
Air-Conditioning, Swimming pools, Water Bodies and Gardening, Treated water from sewage treatment plant, with suitable tertiary treatment, should be used for Flushing purpose (with dual piping system), Gardening purpose, Cooling tower make up, and/or for other non-potable usage
The water demand for landscaping purposes is generally taken as 6 to 8 litre/m2/day for lawns. For shrubs and trees the value can be reduced considerably
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ATSTORM storm detector is the perfect tool for preventive protection against the effects of storms and atmospheric discharges as it allows a time in advance of several tens of minutes for taking specific measures when the risk of a lightning storm is imminent, thus keeping people and equipment safe from its destructive effects
Power frequency overvoltages Protector (9)
Temporary overvoltages, which may last several seconds, are due to unpredictable causes such as failures of the neutral connection or sudden consumption drops. Because of such long duration, protectors have to disconnect the installation, directly or through other devices, for protecting the equipment. When the overvoltage disappears, then the device must be reclosed for restoring the power supply. . .


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Cisco Network Certification Explained
Cisco Corporation provides a wide array of certifications for technically minded people who want to specialise in supporting their hardware and networking equipment. There are three levels of certification in the General certifications path, from Associate to Professional to Expert, with certification paths covering Routing and Switching, Network Design and Architecture, Network Security, Service Provider, Storage Networking and Voice Certification.
While not directly comparable to college degree programs in all aspects, you can think of the Associate certification as being roughly equal to an Associate of Arts degree in the generalised technology area, the Professional as being just shy of a Science degree, and the Expert certification as being broadly comparable to a partial Master's Degree program.
Many professionals end up getting an Expert certification in one area, and branching out with Associates and Professionals in a few supporting topic areas.
Going beyond the generalised certification programs, Cisco also has Specialist Certifications, all of which require an Associate or better certification to take the exam. These get significantly more diverse, with subjects covering Advanced Routing and Switching, with field specialists (people who trouble shoot problems), sales specialists (people who are good at defining what range of Cisco products a customer needs and getting them in place) and solutions specialists (who design full architected systems for customers).
The most common Specialist certifications deal with data centres, and there are eight of them, usually split between Support, Design and Sales, for Application Services, Network Switching interfaces, and Network Storage Certifications. These build on several foundation skills.
The second most common Specialist certifications cover IP (Internet Protocol) Communications Certifications; these are, in effect, engineering certifications, and cover the range from Telephony Network Design services, Contact Centre certifications, generalised IP communications certifications and more. What these certifications do is give a baseline for setting up networking solutions for large organisations.
One of the most demanded sets of specialisation certifications include the VPN and Security specialisations, which cover everything from firewalls to generalised security technical's to architectural setup certifications. There are also specialisations covering wireless LAN and channel partner certifications.
All of these certifications (both General and Specialist) have
attended course requirements and exams; you can expect that a typical course will run from three weeks (at the Associates level) to six to eight weeks, and be followed by an exam; expect to pay a largish fee for these certification processes.
Unlike most of the professional IT certification programs, Cisco's tends to involve a hands-on approach with the class work and certification; this is a direct response to the watering down of competing certifications, many of which now have «cheat sheet» web sites to help potential students 'hit the books' for the tests. Cisco Systems knows that its certification program rests on the fundamental skills used by its students; people with certifications who can't do the work don't do a good job of promoting Cisco, nor are they assets to their employers. As a result, expect to work hard for these certifications.
The up side of these certifications is that they give you a leg up in the job market when working with this particular hardware set and these protocols. Therefore Cisco certifications are an excellent investment in your IT future.


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I found Copenhagen an interesting mix of the old and the new, tradition and subversion. For example, the Church of Our Saviour is a traditional Baroque church situated near the hippie commune of Christiania. In another example, the Royal Library is a complex of two very different buildings – one traditional and the other strikingly contemporary. Amazingly, all these contradictions exist side by side with no apparent tension between them.
Royal Library
The Royal Library in Denmark houses every book that has ever been printed in Denmark since the 17th century. Founded in 1648, and situated over four sites, the library building in Copenhagen harbour was built in 1906. In 1999, however, an addition was built which is striking and very contemporary. Designed by Danish architects, the addition is known as the Black Diamond because its exterior is made of black marble and glass. The two parts are connected by bridges and each part is equally striking.
The Church of Our Saviour
The Church of Our Saviour is a Dutch baroque style church in the Christianshavn section of Copenhagen built in the late 17th century. It is famous for its spire which has a winding staircase on the outside which can be climbed by intrepid visitors.
You have amazing, vertigo-inducing views over Copenhagen from the spire.
The spire is black and gold with stairs that turn 4 times anti-clockwise around it. With each turn, the stairs get narrower and then at the end it just stops (with no warning). At least there are railings on the side of the stairs.
You climb a total of 400 steps to the top of the spire and the last 90 steps are outside. The inside steps take you past all the church bells which are also famous for the melodies they play every hour.
We were a little stunned that you can bring children on this climb including the outside. All patrons are advised that they are proceeding at their own risk. There are, however, no security guards at the top of the spire. You really are on your own with a bird's eye view of Copenhagen.
Christiania is an 84 acre self-governing zone within Copenhagen established in 1971 by a group of hippies and artists who took over an old, disused military base. They wanted to set up a community where people lived by the rules of freedom and tolerance. Today, the commune is thriving with approximately 1000 people. With no cars, the preferred mode of transportation are bikes. All this 70's style peace and love is about 10 minutes away from central Copenhagen and down the street from the Church of Our Saviour.
You are cheekily reminded that Christiana recognises no law other than its own (and that goes for the EU too!). I am really impressed with Danish tolerance of this mild rebellion. If it were the USA, the FBI would have stormed the grounds decades ago.
Photography is not allowed on the main drag, aptly named Pusher Street, because drugs are sold openly. The sweet smell of pot wafts through the air but not any more so than Camden Market in London on the weekend.
Christiania is actually Copenhagen's second most-visited tourist site (after Tivoli Gardens). Slightly puzzled looking tourists wander around the area inhaling second-hand pot smoke. The locals are either going about their business or chilling in their own happy buzz. Apparently, Christiania has its own currency but I was able to purchase a Pepsi with Danish Kroner. Christiania appears to set itself apart from Copenhagen and, yet, is sensible enough to still be a part of it.
I would love to see more of Copenhagen. I was in the city for a long weekend as part of the Hive 2014 European Bloggers Conference and didn't have much time to sightsee. Next time, though, I will definitely take the family. Mr. N will like all the great restaurants and the children will love the canal tour and Tivoli Gardens. I am not brave enough, however, to take them up the spire of the Church of Our Saviour!


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The primary aim and goal of PARK ASSOCIATI, the architecture firm set up by Filippo Pagliani and Michele Rossi in 2000, is to constantly move beyond the compositional and typological bounds of architecture; its projects draw on the kind of free and open exchange of ideas characterising the work carried out by its partners and collaborators; they are based on stylistic-compositional input coming from context, technological research and a combination of materials and methods; they are structured around the handling of design complexity and always focus special attention on the issues of sustainability and energy saving. Featuring a constantly changing yet highly distinctive stylistic approach, PARKs works are aimed at constantly moving beyond the compositional and typological bounds of architecture: by experimenting with different building scales and different realms of design, they challenge building conventions and stand out on the Italian and international cultural scene for their formal, technological and functional innovation.
Examples of these projects are the Nestl Headquarters in Assago, the restructuring of the Serenissima or Gioiaotto, The Cube by Electrolux travelling restaurant, Salewa Headquarters in Bolzano and the latest international stores for Brioni fashion company, all projects that have helped build the firms reputation and are frequently published in specialist magazines and invited to take part in leading national-international architecture exhibitions.
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Awesome Joe…he was a wonderful ambassador for our team in so many ways on and off the court…the kind of guy you want to stick around even in a transition to a player-assistant coach kind of guy. The fact that he was a professional and respectful gentleman made him even easier to like, and probably why he was my daughter's favorite Hornet/Pelican! I had a feeling he might be gone but wished against it as I felt his presence meant more to the team than his production, which is not often the case. It is a shame that his injuries kept him out so often, but it was almost a by product of this 150% playing style. I'm sure he'll bring some stability to that Knick group, and knowing that big Phil approved of his presence speaks well of him in regards to his ability. Hoping he does well, just not against us. Maybe we'll see him again since the brain trust here really seemed to like having him around.
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Farewell to a True Pelican, Jason Smith
Saying goodbye is never easy, especially when you're doing so to the longest tenured player from your favorite team. Jason Smith has given us so much on and off the court that it's going to be hard to see him in anything besides a New Orleans Pelicans jersey, but especially one that says Knicks.
When Smith showed up in New Orleans expectations were fairly low, as they rightly should have been. He came over from the 76ers along with Willie Green for Darius Songaila and Craig Brackins. Not exactly a star-studded trade…
After a his first season, few were sold on Smith as an integral part of moving forward. To paraphrase myself – There isn't much use for a jump shooting big man who is a subpar defender and really can't shoot that well. Fortunately management knew better than to let him walk, signing Smith to what wound up being a pretty sweet three year deal worth a mere 7.5 million.
Oh boy did I enjoy eating my words throughout the next three seasons. Smith turned a corner after his initial year in New Orleans; Improving on defense, establishing himself as a locker room leader, and excelling on the offensive boards. Outside of his contributions to the basketball side of things, Smith became one of the main faces of the franchise. He was used in all sorts of team oriented advertising, as well as the rebrand, and was arguably was the most recognizable Pelican to New Orleanians prior to Anthony Davis coming aboard.
Playing 199 games over his four years with the club, Smith finds himself all over the new New Orleans all time leaderboard (2002-2014) in games played (9th), offensive rebounds (10th), offensive rebound percentage (10th), total rebound percentage (10th) blocks (8th), blocks per game (8th), block percentage (5th), field goal percentage (5th), free throw percentage (9th), and personal fouls (8th).
Speaking of fouls, who could ever forget Smith laying out Blake Griffin in one of the most epic Hornets games in history. Let's take one more look at that for old times sake–
Speaking with Smith after that foul it was clear that although it likely earned him the largest ovation he's ever received, making him an instant fan favorite to Nola fans and Blake-haters across the league, he was not proud of it. In fact, he called it one of his most regrettable moments ever on the court. I will always remember the look on his face when I asked him what it felt like having that play be his most famous to date.
While some athletes would play it off as something that Blake deserved, or simply an inadvertent mistake, Smith took the blame for it entirely. He did it, he meant to do it (although not that hard), and he would take whatever punishment came his way. Nay, he deserved whatever punishment came his way. I've never seen such a huge disparity in how a fan base felt about an action compared to how the player himself felt. He took no joy in the hard foul, regardless of the consequences it had on the game (a victory).
Jason Smith was a kind and compassionate human being in a league overflowing with hubris. He was always willing to give an interview, regardless of how tough the questions were going to be, regardless of what he'd done or not done recently on the court. Every Pelicans reporter will miss how easygoing he was in the locker room, and as far as I know there was literally not a single time that he was anything but helpful.
Stories of fans running into Smith off the court yield similar stories of his character. If you have a particularly good one please leave it in the comments as a lasting testament to just how much we enjoyed having him in New Orleans.
Always working at his game, he was a favorite of Monty Williams who once called him the backbone of the bench unit. To this day I still can't think of a negative thing Monty ever said about Smith as a person, or a single time his effort was questioned by anyone– coach or fan.
When I fantasize about the basketball player I may have been had I not mysteriously stopped growing at just under 6'0, Jason Smith was who came to mind. Perhaps that's why I liked his game so much. It wasn't that he was the most naturally gifted player, or the biggest guy on the court. He didn't wow you with his ball skills or dunk like a boss. Smith just cared about what he did, worked to get better, and gave it the full 100% every single time he stepped on the floor. He never backed down from a challenge or gave up anything without a fight.
I'll miss Jason Smith, the original Pelican.
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I think he nailed it.
What a great article! As Jason's high school coach, I've known Jason since he was a little kid. Always a person with a great attitude and the hardest worker on the team. Good luck in NYC Jason!
Great guy! He will be missed. He epitomized all that we wish for in attitude for a player.


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Kamelot Auctions Inks Deal With WorthPoint
Reston, VA – January 30, 2008 – WorthPoint Corporation, the premier website for art, antiques, and collectibles, announced today that Kamelot Auctions has selected WorthPoint as a data publishing partner. Under the new agreement, Kamelot will provide WorthPoint with upcoming and historical auction data to be published on the WorthPoint web site. With information provided by Kamelot, WorthPoint is now able to provide more comprehensive data than ever.
"We are very excited about our partnership with Kamelot," said Will Seippel, CEO and Chairman of WorthPoint. "With this new relationship, we add the sales of notable pieces of 19th and 20th century furniture to our database, from an auction house with an excellent reputation and with a history of impressive sales. WorthPoint is proud to include Kamelot's records in its data collection."
WorthPoint is a collector's social network and search engine rolled into one. The website is changing the process of assessing worth for collectibles by providing a vast database of sales records wherein an individual can assess the worth of their own collection. Through Worthpoint, collectors connect with experts to learn more about authenticity and value in art, antiques, and vintage items. Through the WorthPoint online community, members can contact other collectors interested in buying, selling, or swapping stories, and they can share their insight and knowledge through the forums and wikis.
Kamelot is Philadelphia's premier auction house. Kamelot Auctions offers clients a full-range of auction and appraisal services including start-to-finish trust and estate liquidation support. The partners and experts at Kamelot bring integrity, enthusiasm, and an unsurpassed level of personal service to their clients. As host of the annual Philadelphia Antique Architectural Sale, Kamelot adds experience with stained glass windows and doors, mantles, and the best in rare architectural antiques to their resume.


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Most missionaries have packed up their belongings and made a huge life-altering move to another side of the world—their change of address is transcontinental. They've likely fundraised from multiple churches and individuals, invested months and even years of their lives discerning their calling before going all-in to a missions organization—all because they are certain it is good and right and true to give up all that you have (creaturely comforts, family support system, familiarity to your own language) to gain what you cannot lose (the eternal salvation of those you try to reach.)
I know, because I did it.
No one makes a decision to become a missionary lightly, because the cost is high. In fact, the high cost is the point, it is a demonstration of how loosely you hold things that are valuable to you in this world in order to serve God. It may cost even the ultimate price—your very life, and again, that is exactly the point.
This radicalizing message is likely what compelled John Allen Chau to risk his own life by trying to reach an island protected by Indian law, inhabited by the tribe of the Sentinelese people, to share the gospel with them.
Sadly, John was killed by the Sentinelese.
Killing him can be justified as self defense, as his arrival on the island had the potential to bring diseases the Sentinelese people are not immune to, which could threaten their very survival.
It is worth noting that they had injured him with arrows on his first trip, and he returned a second time to meet his demise.
As much as I want to respect a loss of life, this news story is an opportunity for us to have a conversation regarding whether the missionary enterprise is bringing healing or harm to the world.
To me, the story of John Allen Chau is a tragedy—a story of hubris and arrogance that unfortunately didn't leave him time to learn from his mistakes.
It is an example of how the Great Commission, and the accompanying theologies that teach our goal in life should be to convert everyone to Christianity lest they face eternal damnation, leads to the logical conclusion that in light of eternal consequences, human laws like the very sensible ones the Indian government set up in place to protect the Sentinelese, should be ignored.
It allows the sanctity of the missionary calling to disregard common sense and respect for these people's choices to live the way they desire.
In the history of missions, this has translated directly into colonization: the act of establishing power and control over indigenous people in the name of Christian conversion. It is abhorrent and yet colonizing attitudes continue to prevail even in modern missions.
Inherent in the history of colonization is white supremacy: the idea that the white man has superior ways of living while indigenous people are "savage," and needs to be forcefully "civilized." Therefore, in order to decolonize missions, we have to dismantle white supremacy, which requires a massive upset of the status quo.
And yet, I find there is very little subversion happening in missionary communities because of those stakes I mentioned earlier. It's hard to begin to challenge the very foundations of missions (The Great Commission) when you've given up so much for the missionary life.
It's hard to upset the sending organizations and churches who have become your livelihood, and trust me I know from personal experience that jobs are not readily available for ex-missionaries.
But mostly, it is hard to critique missions when so many of your missionary friends, whom you've partnered with, watched their children grow up, lived through difficult and bonding times of cross cultural living, are well intentioned people who are doing their best to love those whom they've come to serve.
There's something beautiful and poetic about devoting one's life to another in a foreign land. I have personally encountered many of these people who are frankly, far more loving than me.
But well intentions does not and should not blind us to what's problematic about the system of missions the way it exists.
And it is problematic. Not just in the dramatic tragedy of John Allen Chau, but in the ways white people plant churches according to their western customs, theologies, and methods.
In the ways white people harm with their white saviorism, unwittingly crippling local economies by making them dependent on western resources. In the ways white people center their experience of the gospel and universalizes it for the people they claim to serve.
In the ways they prosletyze the children without the consent of their parents because children are easier to convert. In the ways white people export the culture war rhetoric of their home country to societies with their own social problems that are best solved by locals who understand the issues of their own nation. And the list goes on.
This is why I am pessimistic about whether it's possible to decolonize missions. I have personally chosen to leave that vocation and every year since then, I become more certain my choice was the right one, because I haven't seen compelling change in the system but a continuation of the cycle of harm adjacent to colonization if not outright colonizing.
I want to be clear I'm not saying Christians can't travel and live and work cross culturally. This would be a silly suggestion given globalization trends and ease of travel. And I am well aware that missions is not the only colonizing force.
But until I see evidence that Christian sending churches and organizations are actively dismantling white supremacy and white saviorism, I maintain my pessimistic view that the missions enterprise is anything but Good News for the world.


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I'll see if I can recruit a few people to help bring things up from the moving container in exchange for food and games. In the mean time I'll need to schedule the delivery of the storage container itself, and utilities.


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Axxerion is an important tool for handling all reports in a structured way, at all our branches in the Netherlands.
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Following a detailed selection process, many years ago VodafoneZiggo started using the modules for notifications and reservations for the service desk. Other modules were later implemented step-by-step. Liberty Global is now also connected up to Axxerion. Via different mergers, Axxerion and VodafoneZiggo continue to develop further in this dynamic market.
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Multi-lingual, flexibility and ease of use are key words for VodafoneZiggo. Employees can easily structure their own screens without this requiring technical knowledge. More major adjustments are executed by our own employees, who can do so themselves after following training courses.
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There is such a thing as too much multitasking, but we understand the urge to make the most out of your gadgets. Listening to music and taking calls while working out is just one of many possible combinations. For that, you need a music phone and an active-style headset with an inline mic and a secure fit.
The $30 Coosh Headset fulfills that last requirement nicely, although it's neither the most comfortable nor the best-sounding set of earphones we've come across. Still, it gets the job done at a fair price.


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