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The Benefits Committee serves in an advisory role to facilitate the Council's participation in the University governance process with respect to matters of personnel policy. The Committee conducts ongoing reviews of current personnel and benefits policies affecting administrative and professional staff and submits recommendations to University Administration relative to existing policies.
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Regarding the nasal focus, I suppose that you can explain that you're an otolaryngologist and look up people noses all day.
Regarding the nasal focus, I suppose that you can explain that you're an otolaryngologist and look up people noses all day.
Well, I guess now, based upon what my ex-girlfriend's sisters said: I'd be worried about my extroversion. . . because they both told her with my charisma and the way that other women admired it, I was a potential JFK in the fidelity department! They said I made her appear dowdy and uninteresting with my bright clothing and forward manner, even though I was polite and chivalrous. . . so. . . I guess I'd worry about that.
Sounds like you're the kind of person for whom the three-date rule would work.
One of the advantages of posting in the forums is, most people are pretty much who they are here. When you meet them in real life, you already have an idea of who is snarky, who is funny, who is belligerant, etc., which makes for few surprises.
The surprises do happen, though, which is very intriguing....
The only thing that offends me ever is really men who try to impress me by wealth or power. If you are a successful lawyer...great. I would love to hear about it, but don't act like what everyone else does is something lower. In otherwords, I don't like people who belittle others to make themselves big. I have known a few guys that I liked UNTIL I went on a date with me and they thought this was the way to impress me. However, one of my best memories is of a guy who learned that I liked theatre and had done quite a bit myself so he decided to impress me by trying out for a play. Even though he had never been in a play in his life. In otherwords, he made himself absolutely uncomfortable simply to try to show interest in something I liked. This was during our first week of dating. I still smile when I remember that. What was worse was he ACTUALLY got a small part. Which he accepted and endured weeks of endless practises and the director getting mad at him before telling me he really COULDN'T act....hahahaha
Ugh! The poisonous girlfriends posse.
My sympathies, bro.
Its okay, really. . . she didn't like my best friend/brother and family, and I didn't care much for her opinionated family after that came out, nor her other girlfriend (a 50 year old lady on marriage possibility number 2---meaning, not that anything's wrong with that, but that she wasn't the best advice giver considering my friend was 33). . . but yeah, it was awful. They focused SO much on the negative. She turned out to be very liberal on a number of church issues, so it was okay eventually, but very disheartening as she told me during a dance fundraiser. . . and I had to spend the rest of the evening with the posse. . .
At least that sounds like a lot better kind of worry to have than if the situation were the reverse with her relatives telling her that you were not worthy of her and she had better options. Probably there are some quite shy and retiring ladies, though, who are still very confident of their overall value because they possess other strengths that are not immediately apparent, but that might be more important than the more obvious ones.
She kept saying I was ahead socially as I belong to the golf club---its private, but not that expensive, so that was silly. . . couldn't get over foolish differences, and then when we did the big ones came out---liberal, believes in non-Christian faiths, abortion, etc. What?????? So we should have broken up over the bad family connection. . .


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Many types of massage and bodywork (shiatsu, acupressure, etc.) can be very helpful for pain from cancer. Depending on the cause of the pain, an experienced and well trained practitioner may be able to address the cause - but more often, the practitioner can treat the cumulative effects of chronic/acute pain, such as muscle tension, stress, shallow and rapid breathing, etc.
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Professor Schwarzschild teaches and writes in the areas of comparative law, constitutional law, public international law, civil procedure, criminal procedure, and evidence.
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Schwarzschild was an accredited journalist at the United Nations for five years, had White House press credentials during the Nixon administration, and served in the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., during the Carter administration. He practiced law as a barrister in London and with the Chadbourne law firm in New York. Schwarzschild was a visiting professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the Sorbonne in Paris. He joined the USD School of Law faculty in 1982.
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Schwarzschild is an English barrister as well as an American lawyer. He was called to the English Bar at Lincoln's Inn and is a member of barristers' chambers at Landmark Chambers, London.
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This makes me laugh.Rosso Rose wrote:It's not everyone from Anonymous.
Stanisław Lem wrote:I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.
Rosso Rose wrote:Doesn't the United States also owe countries a heap of money?
Stanisław Lem wrote:I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.
So Obama said the other day that "What Wall Street did was immoral, but it wasn't illegal" in response to a question about why nobody had gone to jail.
Really Mr. President? None of the following is illegal?
* Laundering drug money. Wachovia admitted to doing it in court. They got a "deferred prosecution agreement" and not only did nobody go to jail nobody other than a few bloggers like myself raised hell about it until days before that agreement expired. Then, magically, it got news coverage. This is a clear black-letter felony; where are the handcuffs?
* The former chief risk officer for Citifinancial testified under oath before the FCIC that the company knowingly sold loans on to investors that did not meet their quality guidelines and published claims. In fact, he testified that by 2007 80 percent of those loans were defective. This is functionally identical to selling you a car and rolling back the odometer, peddling tainted medicine or selling melamine-laced baby formula. There is nothing complicated about this and there is under-oath testimony establishing that it was not an accident or an "error in judgment" as it continued for more than a year after it became known and was the subject of internal memos to corporate officers. This is not my conjecture or analysis, it is factual sworn testimony before a government body. Where are the damned handcuffs?
* Ponzi Schemes generally. Those are all illegal. They locked Charlie up for it (the originator of the name, natch) and more recently Bernie Madoff went to prison. Ok, Mr. President, how about all the stock analysts, the market callers, and pension fund managers along with the real estate industry that have been pumping 8, 10 or 11% annualized returns for the last three decades? These claims are all pyramid schemes and thus by the very definition of such a scheme are illegal. An 8% "annual return" for 45 years, the average working man's period of effort (20 to 65) produces a return of nearly 32 times the original amount invested. The 9% growth rate of medical cost over the last year (close to the premium increases over the last decade in annualized terms) for the person of age 50 that the government claims "will not see their Medicare harmed" has the annual cost of their medical insurance (assuming no increase due to age or greater risk) go from $5,000 a year to $100,000 by the time they're 85! The claims of Realtors that home prices would go up 10% "for the indefinite future" turns a $150,000 house into a $4.21 million house in 35 years. None of this was ever going to actually happen, and it still won't. Why did Charles Ponzi and Bernie Madoff go to prison when your administration, every member of Congress, those on Wall Street and otherwise in the "finance and investment" business community have not for the exact same offense?
* Jefferson County Alabama jailed several politicians and others for bribery and other crimes related to the infamous "sewer bond" nonsense. Why have no bankers gone to prison? It takes two people to commit bribery and similar offenses - someone who offers a bribe, and someone who accepts a bribe. One party went to prison while the other did not. No crimes in this case among the banksters? Pull the other one Mr. President; the damage here remains in that the water bills of these residents remains at ridiculously elevated levels as the financial harm done to the county was not forcibly returned from those banksters.
* Perjury is a felony in most circumstances. Banksters admitted to more than 100,000 instances of it by withdrawing perjured ("robosigned") affidavits. Just as with the testimony under oath in the case of Citifinancial, just as in the Wachovia admission of drug money laundering, in this case the violation of the law is clear. Perjury can only be cured at "no penalty" up until it is clear that the defective statement or filing will be discovered; once you're "caught" you cannot avoid liability by withdrawing the filing. Whether someone was paying their mortgage or not is immaterial as to whether filing a false affidavit is a criminal matter -- it is. Again, where are the damned handcuffs?
* Sarbanes-Oxley criminalized false accounting statements. There have been multiple bank failures by public companies that filed balance sheets under penalty of criminal prosecution were they to be false just weeks before they blew up -- balance sheets that showed perfectly-healthy institutions. The FDIC has documented dozens of bank failures, privately-held and publicly-traded, where those balance sheets were proved factually false, as the losses have been 20, 30, 40% or even more just a few weeks later. It is beyond comprehension that the assets in question could have actually lost 30 or 40% of their value within that period of time. The only rational explanation is that these financial statements were a work of fiction. Sarbanes-Oxley makes this a criminal matter. Again, where are the handcuffs?
I and many other bloggers and "alternative media outlets" have spent four years documenting these outrages and showing through simple mathematical analysis that the claims made by these charlatans, including yourself Mr. President, are mathematically impossible. That's the definition of a pyramid scheme. They're illegal because they cannot, mathematically, work. It is therefore illegal to hawk them to the public because they are by definition abusive; they will ultimately result in those who believe in them losing their money.
Your claim, Mr. President, that these acts were "morally repugnant but not illegal" is a lie. The simple fact of the matter is that your administration is intentionally refusing to enforce long-standing law and by doing so you and your administration have lent official support to an organized effort to defraud and rob the American public.
Nix wrote:Forget constructive dialog, debate or differing points of view; from now on I think we should all just throw shoes whenever we disagree with somebody. That's what civilized, responsible people do. Eat shoe, political detractors!
Jonathon Redley wrote:I'm gonna repost an article by a fellow named Karl Denninger, who's been following the economic situation (and heavily criticizing our responses to it, i.e. bailouts and the like) for some time:
The Market Ticker
However, any message of this kind coming from OWS is being drowned out by calls for 'free health care' and 'guaranteed jobs' and 'debt forgiveness'. The 'message' - if you can call it that, since the whole 'movement' is a cluster of disparate interests, saddled together by the backing of leftists and unions - a continuation of the 'something-for-nothing' mentality that has been fostered for years by the political and bureaucratic Eloi who keep trying their damnedest to stave off the consequences of their own policies.
Jonathon Redley wrote:*whole bunch of shit I didn't know about that supports my preconceived notion about the protests*
jenlan wrote:No offense, but with the way I've heard the mainstream media talk about it...
Stanisław Lem wrote:I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.
Grey wrote:jenlan wrote:No offense, but with the way I've heard the mainstream media talk about it...
Whatis6times9 wrote:It's amazing to me at times how much better a job foreign news services do about reporting about these issues.
Rival wrote:Hey hey, don't diss the masks. Alan Moore's V for Vendetta, mate. They may be posers, but the masks themselves are cool.
Then again most of those people probably never read the comic, and just go with the movie where V is a glorified hero, but oh well.
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A Spy Voice Activated Recorder; inside a fully functional double wall socket
This fully functional mains powered Double Wall Socket is cleverly integrated with a hidden voice recording chip-set which automatically records upon voice activation. The voice recorder is powered from the mains electrical supply so the moment the double wall socket receives power it is ready to work. This double wall socket is the next generation in discreet audio surveillance providing unlimited standby time and up to 576 hours (24 days) of voice activated recording time.
Simply switch the existing socket within the target location for this modified socket and all audio will be clearly and discreetly captured - whether that is an important meeting, interview, or general conversation there will be no indication whatsoever. This double wall socket uses a very high quality module combined with a highly sensitive microphone for extremely clear interference-free recordings.
The quality workmanship is unsurpassed in this industry - providing very clear recorded audio some 25 feet from where the double wall socket is fitted
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The double wall socket chip-set is designed to record upon voice activation once connected to any mains electrical power - automatically recording when it detects sounds above a pre-set threshold. Recordings will continue until the double wall socket is satisfied no further sounds are taking place and then automatically saves the audio file/s in WAV format to a removable Micro SD card hidden inside the unit. This cycle will continue until the Micro SD card is full - the larger the Micro SD card, the longer the recording times.
Voice activation is a great feature that records the relevant audio as and when required without the need to trawl through an entire recording.
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Ideal for discreetly capturing important meetings, interviews, dictation, or verbal slander audio for evidential purposes
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With challenging economic times came budget cuts. Within each internal department, travel budgets were likely among the hardest hit. In virtually all vertical markets—and mil/aero was no exception—attendance at industry conferences and exhibitions dwindled. At one point, roughly a year ago, Fortune 500 giant Intel Corp. put a hold on all trade-show exhibitions enterprise-wide; rather than exhibiting at brick-and-mortar trade show venues, the company opted to host their own virtual trade shows online.
I have attended many virtual trade shows, including a couple Intel e-vents. E-vents are not equivalent substitutes for brick-and-mortar events, but they do have their place. If you want to "chat" (instant message) with a product manager or engineer or grab some virtual brochures and data sheets, virtual trade shows provide ready access to key personnel and info. Call me old-fashioned, but I still prefer to put a face with the name, a handshake, and an actual, physical business card; and despite all the advances in online networking, perhaps nothing beats networking on the trade-show floor at the close of the day or in the hotel lobby bar, even. Many a business plan and relationship has been hatched at a hotel bar, and nearly as many contracts and agreements scribbled on napkins there.
I am, admittedly, not a very good e-vent attendee; I'm not sure who is, in fact. In my defense, I am attending these e-vents online while sitting at my desk at work; that characteristic or "convenience" is suppose to be a big selling point to virtual events, but it's not in my book. All the normal office distractions are present—phone calls, e-mail messages, colleagues and supervisors, etc.—and pulling me away from e-vent keynote addresses, presentations, round tables, and exhibitions. Sure, I can log on later and view the archived talk, but how many of us actually do that? I sure haven't.
Please don't get me wrong. I value Webcasts, podcasts, and the advent of remote, virtual/online meetings and collaboration. I celebrate and appreciate companies, product engineers, and industry pundits who invest time in crafting online presentations, tutorials, and the like. I do use those—ad nauseam, in fact. (Mentor.com is a treasure trove of easily digestible tutorials and Webcasts, by the way.)
I won't bore you with even my top 10 list of real-world trade show benefits (unless you insist, of course), but I have yet to attend a virtual e-vent as satisfying or productive as a real-world conference and exhibition.
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After 31 years hidden in the wake of one of the worst video game failures in history, thousands of E.T. and other Atari games were uncovered Saturday. The find ended the mystique of a great industry legend.
At SXSW, a team of filmmakers said they're ready to start shoveling garbage out of a New Mexico landfill in the hunt for millions of units of the buried treasure. Their film will document the whole tragic story.
The soon to be shuttered Xbox Entertainment Studios showed the first peek at the film about this spring's successful dig for thousands of Atari E.T. cartridges buried in New Mexico in 1983.
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Hiya Tom!
Had to do quite a bit of digging before I finally found the original post(thank god for external hard drives!) this is the original as I wrote it six years ago...wow...time sure passes quickly! I uploaded an abridged version to writing.com under the name "Adrian Lightwolf"...had to make major changes just to make it fit in the space I was allowed, however, this is what I originally posted so many years ago here on the BV...been a few changes since then
Gotta say Frost..one hell of a memory and thank you so much that happy recollection is something from me
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Very humbly yours..
Black Friday
A True Christmas Story
It all began innocently enough when, during the Thanksgiving Day gorging and subsequent tryptophan induced coma, my wife asked me, in my moment of weakness, if I would take her to work in the morning and would I, while I was there anyway, pick up one of those" Three foot plastic Superman thingys" (her words)for our grandson?. I must have complied for I suddenly awoke from my coma (I had ALOT of turkey) to find myself standing outside at 4:30 AM, in 18 degree weather, in my slippers, brushing snow off the car, and my wife, yelling at me from inside the warmth of the car, to hurry or she'll be late, and I vowing, as I got in the car, that NEXT year we're having HAM dammit! I stepped on the gas and we headed for that special little corner of Hell...Wal-Mart.
When we pulled into the parking lot and slowly drove through the sea of cars and trucks, mostly trucks, that had arrived before us, my heart sank as I realized that this was going to be a STELLAR day and I was going to have to deal with a shitload of rednecks. Figures…
Now I don't usually have a problem with people in general as long as they are few, but a crowd like THIS!?, and at 4:45 AM? Great! I am not now, have never been, and will never be, a morning person, so lets' just say that "does not play well with others" is a pretty accurate description of myself, after all, I didn't learn to say "screw you" in 17 different languages for nothing, fortunately, I'm also fluent in Redneck and felt fairly confident that I could handle just about anything…
Yeah.. right…
We parked the car and as we walked into "The Store", my wife reminded me of my mission, gave me a peck on the cheek, then left me to clock in and start her day while I just stood in the doorway and stared in awe at the mass of humanity already in place, milling aimlessly about, patiently waiting for the "dinner" bell to ring promptly at 5:00 AM, and their chance to scarf up the goodies.
As I began moving through the crowd, I was thinking to myself, "Holy Spit! I MUST be insane! Here I am in the middle of the seventh circle of Hell at this ungodly hour, surrounded by a thousand rednecks, probably armed and ready to fight over ANYthing, and I'm going to try for a three foot plastic Superdummy!? Poke me with a fork people, I'm done! ..and me without my taser...
I slowly waded through the "great unwashed", pajama clad and smelling of yesterdays beer, turkey, and giblets, softly muttering to each other like a huge flock of vultures waiting for their chosen target to finally breathe it's last, when suddenly, there before me, in all its' plastic and paper clad glory, was the pallet upon which were neatly stacked those Superman (God help me) thingys. My relief was palpable and almost overwhelming for it was mere seconds before the "fun" started!
Be still my heart...
Just as I thought that my eyes, ears (and nose) could take no more of the constant, yacking, and scratching, and farting, I heard the loudspeakers ring out, "IT'S OFFICIALLY 5:00 AM CUSTOMERS...BEGIN!"
I have seen and experienced many things in my 47 years of life, some good, some not so good, but I can honestly say that I have never, ever before seen what I saw that day. The very second the word "BEGIN!" rang throughout the store, chaos of unbelievable proportions erupted all around me, and as I stood there, dumbfounded, witness to the ludicrous scene unfolding before me, I was suddenly reminded of Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" as a multitude of hands ripped and tore at the plastic and paper covering the pallets, quickly revealing the tasty delights hidden within, then watching as these once human "things" ran off, clutching their prizes to their bosoms and snarling viciously at those hapless souls that dared venture too close . The only thing missing was the blood, the gore, and the guts...well...almost.
When the feeding frenzy abated somewhat, I was finally standing beside the pallet that, mere moments before, had held one hundred of these Superman figures I was seeking and now there were but four. I reached down, picked one up and started to examine my acquisition when an elbow suddenly slammed into my side and I found myself staring into the angry eyes of a woman who was trying to pry the damn thing out of my hands! "I SAW IT FIRST!" she yelled at me, then promptly elbowed me AGAIN! While she pried at the box in my hands screaming, "MINE! MINE!" my vision blurred, I saw little red dots floating before my beleaguered eyes, as the mob mentality of everyone around me flooded my already overtaxed mind, I had a sudden and powerful urge to rip off one of her arms and beat her SOUNDLY about the head and shoulders with it, but came out instead with (in fluent Redneck) "Screw you Bitch!! Get your own!!" and knocked her hands off MY Superman...uh…plastic...thingy..
Triumphant, clutching my hard won prize with my left arm, I indicated with my free hand that she should look up as I pointed toward the ceiling with my middle finger, and with an evil grin on my face, I turned and made my way to the closest checkout as quickly as I could, paid my money and left the pits of Hell to those doomed souls still trapped within. With amazing alacrity, considering the state of my poor bruised and battered ribs, I made my way to my car, balefully watching everyone that came near me, clutching the prize under my arm ever so tightly with each person I passed.
A few anxious and rather jittery moments later, I reached my car, quickly popped open the trunk… ever so gently placed my painfully won bounty inside, and with this colorful, ridiculous, bit of plastic I tried so hard for safely ensconced in the trunk, I quietly shut the lid. I Took a cigarette from my pocket, lit it, and looked carefully around, making certain that no one had followed me, looking deep into the shadows, checking under the car (well...ya never know) and then, finding no wild eyed, psychotic female about to pounce, I was able to relax somewhat. I glanced down at my watch and discovered, to my utter amazement, that this entire fiasco had taken but 10 minutes. Unbelievably, It was exactly 5:10 AM!
Hotdamn! My wife owed me BIG time and believe me, I collected when she got home that night. She broke the Teddy out of moth ball limbo, dusted it off, and though it didn't fit as well as it use to, that didn't matter, she didn't wear it for long anyway,...if you know what I mean..*wink wink*.
There'll be no more "Black Friday" shopping for THIS guy!
Ho! Ho! Ho!
Merry Christmas my Ass!
Thomas A Rowe
A.K.A Adrian Lightwolf
And I swear in six years I have NEVER again been part of the "Black Friday" bullshite!


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Front porch of a mountain home,1930, Kentucky
Richard Cheek
West Quoddy Light Tower and Keeper's House, 1857, Lubec, Maine
Edward Caldwell
Straw Bale House, Santa Cruz, California, 2010. Architect: Arkin Tilt Architects
Carson House, 1884-86, Eureka, California; Architect: Samuel Newsom
Chet Frohlich
Turnberry Towers, 2006, Las Vegas, Nevada; Builder: Turnberry Associates
Maynard L. Parker
Family barbecue in Lakewood Plaza surburban development, circa 1950, Long Beach, California; Architect: Chris Choate with designer Cliff May
Jacob A. Riis and Richard Hoe Lawrence
Mullen's Alley, 1888, New York
Addison N. Scurlock
Julia Brooks' Wedding, 1947, Washington, D.C.
Underwood & Underwood
Immigrants waiting at Ellis Island, 1912, New York
Last spring the National Building Museum (NBM) launched House & Home, a long-term exhibition devoted to exploring the evolution and meaning of house. This year they've added docent-led tours to help visitors dive deeper into the philosophy behind the exhibition. NBM curators researched and discussed exactly what and how to present this show for years. If you go, you'll see wall sections showing architectural and construction techniques involved in creating a residence; as well as the people, activities, and objects that generate an emotional connection to the building. Museum curators first proposed the idea of this mega-exhibition exploring the built environment in 1997.
"This idea of an all-encompassing exhibition on our built environment was being planned long before I came to the museum," says NBM curator Sarah Leavitt, "but they decided to make residential buildings the focus because it's something that everyone can relate to, plus almost everyone can share a story about why they live where and how they do." Leavitt goes on to explain that this exhibition is organized differently than most. "It's not a chronological presentation, but instead we looked at creating visual interpretations of the meanings that the words 'house' and 'home' conjure."
Occupying seven galleries—more than a quarter of the museum's second floor—House & Home explores the design, objects, techniques, history, activities, influences, and emotions that go into creating these personal spaces. The first three galleries are combined into one immense space divided into house on one side and home on the other. "They are very connected ideas, but we tried to separate the words out to make visitors think about what it means when they say 'house' versus 'home,'" Leavitt says. "Is one more architectural and one more emotional for homeowners, like we assumed for this exhibition?"
The centerpiece of this main gallery reflects the exhibit's version of what house means. The NBM commissioned 14 scale models of iconic American residences and placed them down the center of the space. Famous houses were chosen for their architectural significance as well as the stylistic influence they provided and perhaps still hold for future residential design. Mount Vernon, Monticello, the John Hancock Center, Fallingwater, Philip Johnson's Glass House, and Frank Gehry's Santa Monica residence are just some of the models built for this exhibition.
Also part of the house display, six life-size wall sections invite hands-on exploration of prevalent residential construction techniques: adobe, timber frame, balloon frame, platform frame, glass curtain wall, and SIPs.
More than 200 objects from kitsch (1970s Farrah Fawcett poster) to luxury (handmade Tiffany lamp) adorn the home side of the space. Silent films, which show everything from celebrations, dinners, and holidays to people doing their laundry and watching TV, add an animated element to the home display. Curators collected items and images from myriad time periods and geographic regions for these presentations. "The home portion of the exhibition is about the activities that go on inside the house," Leavitt explains, "so objects were selected for their nostalgia and personal connection."
Visitors will move from the expansive opening space to smaller galleries that are focused on specific aspects of residential design, construction, ownership, government involvement, discrimination, economics, and the recent housing crash. In the final space, curators merged the ideas of house and home by showing how a house becomes a home and how a collection of homes make up a community.
Upcoming education programs in conjunction with the show include student apprenticeships in house design and construction; adult courses on various aspects of home life including kitchen design and buying a house; large-scale family festivals; and professional symposia for residential architects, builders, policymakers, and other industry experts.
"Our overall mission involves explaining to visitors what our residential built environment is and how it affects us," Leavitt says. "But we also hope to illuminate some of the motivations and influences behind why we live the way we do as a society and as individuals." Leavitt says she and other NBM curators believe there are specific reasons why our houses look the way they do, and she hopes "visitors will see something in the exhibition that shows them a new possibility in the way they live."
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In a recent article for PCB007 I discussed the definition of Design For Manufacturing (DFM). As a follow up to that article I will elaborate on the discussion in terms of the solutions that the Valor Division of Mentor Graphics can provide.
For concurrent design analysis, Valor vSure provides an un-paralleled capability to work in conjunction with the layout design tool to create, not just a physical representation of the design, but also a product that is optimized for both the fabrication and assembly processes. By addressing the needs of Fabrication and Assembly, DFF and DFA respectively, vSure optimizes the PCB layout. Furthermore, when used in conjunction with Expedition Enterprise and the standard format ODB++, this design analysis can be performed concurrently with the layout process. Under these circumstances, issues can be addressed as they come up instead of trying to address many different issues all at the same time once the layout has been completed. In the latter case, it will be virtually impossible to address these issues due to decisions that have already been made on the layout and the necessary design constraints without a fundamental re-architecture of the board. By running the DFM analysis concurrently with the layout process, the impact on manufacturing can be reviewed and addressed at each step significantly increasing the opportunity of a solution.
Using the DFM analysis of vSure concurrently during the design process or complementary analysis in pre-production through vPlan, enables those assemblers to get ahead of their competition in terms of time to market and product quality. Specifically, the Aberdeen Group found that overall manufacturability issues were reduced from 58% to 9% with the use of Valor DFM.
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43 of Martha Stewart's Best Christmas Cookies
Every year in the beginning of December, we engage in the time-honored tradition of cookie baking. Fill your house with the comforting scent of baked goods and wow your friends and family with these exceptional Christmas cookie recipes from lifestyle maven Martha Stewart.
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Christine's Lemon Wreath Cookies
Of all the cookies that grace Christine Albano's table at Christmas, the lemon ring-shaped ones — ciambelle, in Italian — are the most popular. Balance is key: Lemon zest is added to the buttery base, and lemon juice enlivens the nonpareil-flecked glaze. "We serve a big pile, and they're gone by the end of the meal."
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Collection and Black Gold Quest
This quest is automatic once you log in to your Monster Galaxy. You will meet Nova and she informs you that you are starting your collection of Mogas. And the more Mogas you capture, the closer you are to capture a Moga called Black Gold (see image below).
So not only are you hunting down Mogas Nova asks you to capture, but you are also hunting down Black Gold. biggrin
For each Moga you've captured, you will be rewarded too. So far, the rewards are repeated after Reward number 4. Here is the order it goes:
Reward 1: 1 Starseed
Reward 2: 1 Blue Coffee
Reward 3: 1 Starseed
Reward 4: 5 Whistles
Reward 5: Repeat the steps, starting Reward 1
Reward 2: 1 Blue Coffee
Reward 3: 1 Starseed
Reward 4: 5 Whistles
Reward 5: Repeat the steps, starting Reward 1
Below is the list of Mogas you have to capture that Nova requests you and to add into your collection. There are 75 Mogas in total you need to capture. Thanks to saved2serve, Melanie ******* (Facebook screenname protection), Jay ********* (Facebook screenname protection), and Guliana ********* (Facebook screenname protection) for participating the Black Gold quest and listing down the Mogas.
Rarity color code: Training/Beginner, Common, Uncommon, Rare, Super Rare, Epic
1) Lambo
2) Dinho
3) Wasabee
4) Chuuchilla
5) Munnin
6) Alyx
7) Nar
8 ) Colibri
10) Trolo
11) Peascorp
12) Owlreed
13) Munyu
14) Meh
15) Leif
16) Mimple
17) Messi
18 ) Siri
19) Barnetta
20) Normy Nomy is rare not uncommon
21) Starpops
22) Melodee
23) Crabao
24) Weeplet
25) Anee
26) Boogaleef
27) Leviathan
28 ) Staryak
29) Booly
30) Pudgy
31) Smok
32) Peafyx
33) Turtlenie
34) Yara
35) Twister
36) Eefree
37) Vuvu
38 ) Zomoo
39) Hakka
40) Yugure
41) Willo
42) Jor
43) Cathulu
44) Electrotter (If you're a new player and on storymode quest, I suggest you wait till you have Save Bruno quest. The Save Bruno will request you to capture Electrotter.)
45) Woolf
46) Marcuu
47) Chanho
48 ) Zeppelin
49) Lira
50) Blix
51) Weero
52) Unitaur
53) Ikki
54) Cactoo (EPIC)
55) Mars
56) Jag
57) Pengoo
58 ) Syrene
59) Roarstache
60) Crabone
61) Buffant
62) Knightaur
63) Radiojack
64) Nightmare
65) Titus
66) Alejandro
67) Sweetish
68 ) Orbz (EPIC)
69) Tiano (EPIC)
70) Skuzy
71) Umbranine
72) Zeit (EPIC)
73) Tippy
74) Tauron
75) BLACK GOLD!!!!! (You'll receive a different quest after capturing Tauron. Ignore the quest given to you. It is a glitch. Just head straight to Lobster Tornado and capture Black Gold.)
Worry about killing low level Mogas? No need to worry. The developers have upgraded the battle system to make it easier for those who have high level Mogas. The game is now "balanced" and you will be able to fight the Mogas. For example, your Moga is level 20 and you have to capture a Moga in Mega Hole (which is level 5). However, when going into Mega Hole, you will be facing a Moga that is level 15. So no need to worry about having a 1-hit KO.
Locations of where to find Mogas are still the same. You don't have to follow the location Nova has given you to find the Moga. For example: Nova asks you to capture Pudgy at Gerturde's House, but it's impossible due to the cutscene. You're better luck finding Pudgy at the locations it can be found in the forest than at the house.
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PUC lowers insurance requirements on taxis a day after UberX/Lyft bill clears
During their fight to continue to serve the Denver transportation market, UberX and Lyft officials have claimed that Colorado regulators are more focused on protecting the interests of incumbent taxi companies than embracing competition.
The latest move by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission would seemingly support that allegation. On Wednesday, a day after lawmakers sent to Gov. Hickenloper a bill that officially authorizes UberX and Lyft's ride-sharing services, the PUC granted an emergency request from taxi companies to lower their minimum insurance-coverage requirement from $1.5 million to $500,000.
The decision raises questions because PUC Director Doug Dean was adamant early on in the legislative process that Colorado mandate that Lyft and UberX carry $1.5 million in liability coverage – the same amount placed on taxi companies. The final version of Senate Bill 125 sets the requirement on so-called transportation network companies, or TNCs, at $1 million. Read more…


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Our sturdy bench gives kids a place to get their hands dirty as they mix soil and tend plants. Built of FSC-certified eucalyptus with a weather-safe finish, the bench has a removable aluminum bin for mess-free soil mixing.
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Keeping it stylish, New Cal style! Tom´s kitchen II is out!
Returning to your screens in a cloud of smoke donning a voluminous hair style is Tom Herbert, the high flying crazy cat from New Caledonia, back again with the second episode of his series Tom's Kitchen. A refreshing and comedic approach to a kiteboarding video Tom is all about style. In this second episode he takes simple manoeuvres such as the Back Roll, Tick Tac, Barefoot and Double Front Roll showing you how to add some showmanship to your riding.
When he was young, Tom always wanted to fly and kiting gave him the sensations he was looking for. This is immaculately reflected in his style on the water and his wish is to allow you to achieve the same.
Rocking the North Kiteboarding Evo and Team Series he'll have you perfectly tuned into the old school way of riding where going big will give you the ultimate adrenaline fix. So, next time you get out on the water and you are stunted for tricks to try, take a leaf out of Toms book a get some 'out of the ordinary' moves dialled in and under your belt.
...and remember, there are many ways to be stylish, so be creative. New Cal STYLE!!!
Catching Trade Winds - The EVO Episode out now !
Tom Hebert the uncrowned Red Bull King of the Air
Tom Hebert is one of the original Kiteboarders starting in 1998 and has been a North International Team rider for 3 years. Born and bred in New Caledonia he's the man who's put old school riding back on the map with his 25 m jumps, flair and monumental amount of style. We caught up with him after the Red Bull King Of the Air competition where he soared through the heats, dominating with his 'WOW' factor and crowd pleasing, it looked like he was hot competition for the podium. Unfortunately he had a heavy crash that took him out of the running but he was the name that everyone was talking about.
Hi Tom, how are you feeling after the event?
Not so good, (laughs) I 'm in quite a lot of pain.
Your crash has over 90,000 views and has gone viral. What was going through your mind at the time?
I arrived late to the kicker which put me off balance straight away. At 25 meters high and mid rotation I saw that my kite was pointing down towards the water. I lost all orientation and had very little control. I tried to correct it and get it right but it was too late.
The event is called King Of The Air. With this style of riding being your forte and having a lot of experience, tell us about your ultimate equipment set up.
The Evo is the ultimate kite for me. I pair it with 24 meter lines and the Team Series board with straps. The Team Series is everything I look for in a board; it's fast and light. I ride the 140cm x 42cm as a bigger board is softer in the chop and offers more stability on the landings. I 'm not a huge fan of using a handle for board-offs so I like to put a bit of foam on the top edge of the board and patch of skate grip on the bottom. It gives me a firm grip especially here in the cold water where you can't feel your hands.
The Evo in my opinion, is the perfect kite from the North range. It provides the best lift and has a lot of hang-time especially with longer 24m lines aiding to deliver more duration to the jump.
How do you set your equipment up to go so high?
It's really important to get maximum power and output from the kite, even if that means riding with my arm extended and the bar all the way out. I gain height from a combination of sending the kite and pulling down on the bar. It's simple, you need to be overpowered to go big. I always make sure that I pump my kite really hard, this way it maintains it's form and reacts well to anything I initiate. I know that 6psi is ideal but I never put less than 8psi.
On anything smaller than a 10m kite, I move the back pigtails to the harder setting and then to the softer setting for the larger sizes. I also move the lines to the inside setting of the bar on any kite under 10 meters. This way there are no surprises with your kite moving too fast or being too responsive. 4.6cm fins provide me with the grip I need to go high, especially when overpowered and my stance is around 50cm. If it's too narrow you loose stability and it also looks a bit strange.
Kiteboarding started with a hang-time style of riding but, there has been so much influence from wakestyle over the past years with everyone riding boots. How do you think this sort of event will shape the future of old school riding?
I think old school riding is going to come back sooner than we think. Kiting is a sport that has developed through mirroring other board sports. Wakestyle is like wakeboarding and wave riding like surfing. However, kiting is an original sport where you can do tricks that you can't do in any other. The main reason I kite and where I get a lot of pleasure is by going high and performing tricks that I can't do in any other sport. I'm not saying that wakestyle is bad but it's just that I prefer to go 25 meters up. You name me another water sport where you can do that. Kiting needs to find it's own way and not copy other sports. You only need to ask a wakeboarder what they think of kiteboarding and they'll say that we are copying them, which is a shame as kiting is an original sport. That's why I like old school and it's nice to see the Red Bull King Of The Air supporting this. It would be great to have more events like this over the year as it attracts many spectators putting kiteboarding on their radar. It also helps those unfamiliar with the sport to understand it a bit more as the style of tricks aren't too technical. It's impressive.
There are not many people doing this style of riding anymore, it seems that old school got lost along the way in the growth of the sport. Where do you draw your inspiration from?
When kiteboarding started we didn't have a clue about it's potential. We just went riding and tried to invent new moves. Creativity is key and I draw a lot of this from talking with other riders. In New Caledonia we haven't given up on the old school and we still push this style of riding together and do new tricks. I suppose I draw inspiration from my home spot where there are many people still loyal to big air. For sure if you are alone it's hard, but with a group of friends there is competition which makes it a bit more challenging.
Is 'old school' the new 'new school'?
I think so, it's certainly making a come back. You need to incorporate manoeuvres that look dangerous and hard all the while keep the fluidity and style too. There are so many options so, for now it is an infinite side of the sport. There is always space for new tricks.
What do you think of the riding conditions in South Africa?
Cape Town is not the easiest place to ride, it's really windy with big waves. There are very few places in the world where you can go so high. Coming from New Caledonia, I'm used to 18-20knts and 25-30 degrees. Here the water is so cold it's hard to find the motivation to put a wetsuit on but, as it's rare to find somewhere with such perfect and massive kickers, it compensates for cold water that I'm not used to. The only problem is that it gets crowded, so you need to take a lot of care when going big as there will always be someone in your way.
Is there anything else you would like to add?
For anyone that wants to go high, do board-offs and rock the old school style then they need to ride the Evo. It's the ultimate jumping machine. Also with the new NKB Tracker app available soon the contest is on! My record is 25 meters so I accept the challenge wherever you are.


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Two sizes make our quilted bags ideal for travel. Place one inside your suitcase, and the other in your purse or carry-on for quick access to beauty essentials. A vintage damask wallpaper design adorns these carefully quilted bags.
Small: 7" wide x 3" deep x 4" high
Large: 9.5" wide x 4" deep x 5.5" high
Exterior is cotton.
Interior is solid ivory.
Leakproof vinyl lining.
Interior elastic pocket on one side.
Zipper closure.
Set of 2, one of each size.