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This blog will will contain my rather pedantic ramblings on my experiences within the miniature war gaming hobby. There will be informative how-to's, thrilling battle reports and thought provoking editorials. I fully expect that history will one day view the contents of this blog on par with Homer's Illiad or Newton's Principalia. Or it's a complete waste of time.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
The Battle of Fuentes de Onoro
After two turns you can see the French line forming up on the right side. The British are fairly evenly distributed across the whole field but most of there elite troops are deployed on the far left. Perhaps our ploy has worked?
3 Divisions of French Infantry get organized for the attack. The 3rd division moves through the town to the far right while the 2nd and 3rd Divisions form up into grand columns for the attack. The attack is supported by a grand battery on the hill and another gun section near the town. We've concentrated about 60% or 650 figures of the French army here.
The 2nd Division's column is just about to make contact with the British line. Just off to the right of the picture s the 3rd division which is forming up to join the assault. To the left is the first division which is planning to make contact in a few turns. The 2nd divisions attack proved to be very successful and swept the British from the hill. All three divisions then wheeled in place and prepared to move up the line.
In the center there was a very fun Calvary fight - the picture at the left shows the state of affairs just at the start of it. 2 brigades of British calvary charged the exposed french dragoon unit in the center of the picture. Their charge routed the unit, but there momentum carried them into the big carabiniere unit which they essentially bounced off and all units ended the turn disordered. The next turn the french calvary commander charged his untouched Cuirassier unit into the disordered British calvary and routed them from the table. Our game system features command cards which players can play on either their forces or their opponents and the British player decided to play a "commander shot by a stray round" card which killed the Calvary commander and forced the cuirassier unit to draw a Calvary morale card. Most morale cards say things like "stand, shaken", "move back 100 paces", or rout" but every now and then you draw one that say charge nearest enemy and that was the case last night. The Cuirassiers raced off to charge the British line and managed to sweep a few infantry units off the table and essentially cleared out the British center.
On the left flank the 4th division was assaulted by the bulk of the British army and took horrendous casualties but managed to hold them off long enough for the main attack to drive home. The player who commanded this unit, Joey, was a great sport given that his command was a tough one and he had to listen to my boneheaded advice. He also had some bad luck in card draws as his light cavalry unit charged all those British behind the stone wall in the upper right of the picture. It wasn't a pretty outcome for the French
The game ended in a French victory and it was a grand evening. While my role did not involve pushing toy soldiers around it was fun and I got to see my miniatures on the table for the first time. I look forward to our next game.
11 comments:
- Donogh said...
Thanks for the report.
A fantastic table, and a very nice collection of miniatures indeed!
- January 24, 2010 at 11:42 AM
- john de terre neuve said...
Very nice Miles, it looks like it was a lot of fun.
I was curious about something, I always wanted to refight this battle. I see you have 4 french infantry divisions, a cavalry division and an unknown reserve. Which part of the battle were you re-enacting? Is it the VI Corps attack on the town?
- January 24, 2010 at 12:09 PM
- jmilesr said...
We're not that organized. We tried to simulate the entire battle rather than any specific aspect. I organized the french forces into separate units for each player to command and used the term "division" as a label rather than a historical unit designation.
Ernie did a great job setting the tabletop up to reflect the topography of the battlefield so that part of the game was a nice reflection of history. His scenery is amazing.
- January 24, 2010 at 12:47 PM
- Der Alte Fritz said...
Did I see Bob Giglio in one of those pictures?
I really enjoy your battle reports and the accompanying pictures. That has to be The Ultimate Wargame Room, bar none.
- January 28, 2010 at 1:13 AM
- jmilesr said...
It's an amazing game room and the host does a great job setting up the whole evening - a great game, dinner and, of course beer!.
His game room also serves as an excellent foil - my wife, Mary Beth stopped by during the game to do her usual eye roll and mutter under her breath "I married such a geek"- you know the usual spousal assessment of wargaming. But she did see Ernie's room and assembly of soldiers and scenery and remarked that my efforts seemed positively small scale when compared to his! Hopefully her observation will prove useful as I expand my own gaming floor space in the house....
- January 28, 2010 at 7:20 AM
- DeanM said...
Beautiful terrain and figures. Wow, it's better than dinner & a movie - awesome game, dinner & beer! I'm happy to see you included heavy cavalry - I plan to do the same. Thanks, Dean
- January 28, 2010 at 12:35 PM
- Doc Smith said...
I had a tear in my eye by the time I finished reading your excellent battle report.
But not because of the battle or its outcome, but your mate Ernie's beautiful games room!
I-want-one-just-like-that-one [sob]!
- January 29, 2010 at 8:28 AM
- jmilesr said...
"I-want-one-just-like-that-one [sob]!"
You and me both my friend. Ernie's terrain selection is astonishing - 28mm Peninsular, 28mm WWII, French and Indian Wars and a Warhammer Fantasy Castle - and that's just what I've seen!
- January 29, 2010 at 9:31 AM
- Consul said...
I wondered if you could tell me where the buildings in the first photo are from?
- February 6, 2010 at 5:56 AM
- jmilesr said...
The Buildings were made by "Barb's Bunker" which is no longer in business. They are really well made and include full interiors - top notch stuff.
- February 13, 2010 at 9:42 PM
- Mr. Mahon said...
Guys, such tabletop battles like the one shown here ALWAYS make me envious. The excellent scenery, huge boards (stop, they're not boards, they're dioramas!) and lots and lots of miniatures...
I wish to see something like this here in Poland one day...
That is one of the dreams of Polish wargamer :)
Keep up the great work!
- February 19, 2010 at 12:26 PM


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Michael Kazin, War Against War:
The American Fight for Peace, 1914-18
Earlier this month, Europe and much of the rest of the world paused briefly to observe the 100th anniversary of the day in 1918 when World War I, sill sometimes called the Great War, officially ended. In the United States, where we observe Veterans' Day without explicit reference to World War I, this past November 11th constituted one of the rare occasions when the American public focused on the four-year conflict that took somewhere between 9 and 15 million lives, including approximately 116,000 Americans, and shaped indelibly the course of 20th century history. In War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-18, Michael Kazin offers a contrarian perspective on American participation in the conflict. Kazin, professor of history at Georgetown University and editor of the avowedly leftist periodical Dissent, recounts the history of the diverse groups and individuals in the United States who sought to keep their country out of the conflict when it broke out in 1914; and how those groups changed, evolved and reacted once the United States, under President Woodrow Wilson, went to war in April 1917.
The opposition to World War I was, Kazin writes, the "largest, most diverse, and most sophisticated peace coalition to that point in U.S. history" (p.xi). It included pacifists, socialists, trade unionists, urban progressives, rural populists, segregationists, and crusaders for African-American rights. Women, battling at the same time for the right to vote, were among the movement's strongest driving forces, and the movement enjoyed support from both Democrats and Republicans. Although the anti-war opposition had a decidedly anti-capitalist strain – many in the opposition saw the war as little more than an opportunity for large corporations to enrich themselves — a handful of well-known captains of American industry and finance supported the opposition, among them Andrew Carnegie, Solomon Guggenheim and Henry Ford. It was a diverse and colorful collection of individuals, acting upon what Kazin describes as a "profoundly conservative" (p.xviii) impulse to oppose the build up of America's military-industrial complex and the concomitant rise of the surveillance state. Not until the Vietnam War did any war opposition movement approach the World War I peace coalition in size or influence.
This eclectically diverse movement was in no sense isolationist, Kazin emphasizes. That pejorative term that had not yet come into popular usage. Convinced that the United States had an important role to play on the world stage beyond its own borders, the anti-war coalition sought to create a "new global order based on cooperative relationships between nation states and their gradual disarmament" (p.xiv). Its members hoped the United States would exert moral authority over the belligerents by staying above the fray and negotiating a peaceful end to the conflict.
Kazin's tells his story in large measure through admiring portraits of four key members of the anti-war coalition, each representing one of its major components: Morris Hillquit, a New York labor lawyer and a Jewish immigrant from Latvia, standard-bearer for the Socialist Party of America and left-wing trade unions; Crystal Eastman, a charismatic and eloquent New York feminist and labor activist, on behalf of women; and two legislative representatives, Congressman Claude Kitchen, a populist Democrat from North Carolina and an ardent segregationist; and Wisconsin Republican Senator Robert ("Fighting Bob") LaFollette, Congress' most visible progressive. The four disagreed on much, but they agreed that industrial corporations yielded too much power, and that the leaders of American industry and finance were "eager to use war and preparations for war to enhance their profits" (p.xiv). Other well-known members of the coalition featured in Kazin's story include Jane Addams, renowned social activist and feminist; William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State under President Wilson, three-time presidential candidate, and Christian fundamentalist; and Eugene Debs and Norman Thomas, successively perennial presidential candidates of the Socialist Party of America.
Kazin spends less time on the coalition's opponents – those who had few qualms about entering the European conflict and, short of that, supported "preparedness" (always used with quotation marks): the notion that the United States needed to build up its land and naval capabilities and increase the size of its military personnel in the event that they might be needed for the conflict. But those favoring intervention and "preparedness" found their voice in the outsized personality of former president Theodore Roosevelt, who mixed bellicose rhetoric with unadulterated animosity toward President Wilson, the man who had defeated him in a three-way race for the presidency in 1912. After the United States declared war in April 1917, the former Rough Rider, then fifty-eight years old, sought to assemble his own volunteer unit and depart for the trenches of Europe as soon as the unit could be organized and trained. To avoid this result, President Wilson was able to steer the Selective Service Act through Congress, establishing the national draft that Roosevelt had long favored – and Wilson had previously opposed.
Kazin's story necessarily turns around Wilson and his fraught relationship with the anti-war coalition. Stern, rigid, and frequently bewildering, Wilson was a firm opponent of United States involvement in the war when it broke out in 1914. In the initial months of the conflict, Wilson gave the anti-war activists reason to think they had a sympathetic ear in the White House. Wilson wanted the United States to stay neutral in the conflict so he could negotiate a lasting and just peace — an objective that the anti-war coalition fully endorsed. He met frequently with peace groups and took care to praise their motives. But throughout 1915, Wilson edged ever closer to the "preparedness" side. He left many on both sides confused about his intentions, probably deliberately so. In Kazin's interpretation, Wilson ultimately decided that he could be a more effective negotiator for a lasting and just peace if the United States entered the war rather than remained neutral. As the United States transitioned to belligerent, Wilson transformed from sympathizer with the anti-war coalition to its suppressor-in-chief. His transformation constitutes the most dramatic thread in Kazin's story.
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The issue of shipping on the high seas precipitated the crisis with Germany that led Wilson to call for the United States' entry into the war. From the war's outset, Britain had used its Royal Navy to prevent vessels from entering German ports, a clear violation of international law (prompting the quip that Britannia both "rules the waves and waives the rules" (p.25)). Germany, with a far smaller naval force, retaliated by using its submarines to sink merchant ships headed for enemy ports. The German sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915, killing more than 1,200 citizens, among them 128 Americans, constituted the beginning of the end for any real chance that the United States would remain neutral in the conflict.
A discernible pro-intervention movement emerged in the aftermath of the sinking of the Lusitania, Kazin explains. The move for "preparedness" was no longer just the cry of the furiously partisan or a small group of noisy hawks like Roosevelt. A wide-ranging group suddenly supported intervention in Europe or, at a minimum, an army and navy equal to any of the belligerents. Peace activists who had been urging their neutral government to mediate a settlement in the war "now faced a struggle to keep their nation from joining the fray" (p.62).
After the sinking of the Lusitania, throughout 1916 and into the early months of 1917, "social workers and feminists, left-wing unionists and Socialists, pacifists and non- pacifists, and a vocal contingent of senators and congressmen from both major parties," led by LaFollette and Kitchin, "worked together to stall or reverse the drive for a larger and more aggressive military" (p.63), Kazin writes. The coalition benefited from the "eloquent assistance" of William Jennings Bryan, who had recently resigned as Secretary of State over Wilson's refusal to criticize Britain's embargo as well as Germany's attacks on neutral vessels.
In the aftermath of the sinking of the Lusitania, Wilson grappled with the issue of "how to maintain neutrality while allowing U.S. citizens to sail across the perilous Atlantic on British ships" (p.103). Unlike the peace activists, Wilson "tempered his internationalist convictions with a desire to advance the nation's power and status . . . As the crisis with Germany intensified, the idealism of the head of state inevitably clashed with that of citizens whose desire that America be right always mattered far more than any wish that it be mighty" (p.149).
As events seemed to propel the United States closer to war in late 1916 and early 1917, the anti-war activists found themselves increasingly on the defensive. They began to concentrate most of their energies on a single tactic: the demand for a popular referendum on whether the United States should go to war. Although the idea gathered genuine momentum, there was a flagrant lack of support in Congress. The activists never came up with a plausible argument why Congress should voluntarily give up or weaken its constitutional authority to declare war.
In his campaign for re-election in 1916 against the Republican Party nominee, former Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Wilson ran as the "peace candidate," dictated as much by necessity as desire. "Few peace activists were ambivalent about the choice before them that fall," Kazin writes. "Whether as the lesser evil or a decent alterative, a second term seemed the only way to prevent Roosevelt . . . and [his] ilk from grabbing the reins of foreign policy" (p.124). By September 1916, when Wilson left the White House for the campaign trail, he enjoyed the support of the "most left-wing, class-conscious coalition ever to unite behind a sitting president" (p.125). Wilson eked out a narrow Electoral College victory in November over Hughes, with war opponents likely putting him over the top in three key states.
Wilson's re-election "liberated his mind and loosened his tongue" (p.141), as Kazin puts it. In January 1917, he delivered to the United States Senate what came to be known as his "peace without victory" speech, in which he offered his vision for a "cooperative peace" that would "win the approval of mankind," enforced by an international League of Peace. Borrowing from the anti-war coalition's playbook, Wilson foreshadowed the famous 14 points that would became his basis for a peace settlement at the post-war 1919 Versailles Conference: no territorial gains, self-government and national self -determination for individual states, freedom of commerce on the seas, and a national military force for each state limited in size so as not to become an "instrument of aggression or of selfish violence" (p.141). Wilson told the Senators that he was merely offering an extension of the United States' own Monroe Doctrine. But although he didn't yet use the expression, Wilson was proposing nothing less than to make the world safe for democracy. As such, Kazin notes, he was demanding "an end to the empires that, among them, ruled close to half the people of the world" (p.141).
Wilson's "stunning act of oratory" (p.142) earned the full support of the anti-war activists at home and many of their counterparts in Europe. Most Republicans, by contrast, dismissed Wilson's ideas as an "exercise in utopian thinking" (p.143). But, two months later, in March 1917, German U-boats sank three unarmed American vessels. This was the point of no return for Wilson, Kazin argues. The president, who had "staked the nation's honor and prosperity on protecting the 'freedom of the seas,' now believed he had no choice but to go to war" (p.172). By this time, Wilson had concluded that a belligerent America could "end the conflict more quickly and, perhaps, spur ordinary Germans to topple their leaders, emulating their revolutionary counterparts in Russia. Democratic nations, old and new, could then agree to the just and 'cooperative' peace Wilson had called for back in January. By helping to win the war, the United States would succeed where neutrality had failed" (p.172).
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As the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917 (it never declared war on Germany's allies Austria-Hungary and Turkey), it also seemed to have declared war on the anti-war coalition and anyone else who questioned the United States' role in the conflict. The Wilson administration quickly turned much of the private sector into an appendage of the state, concentrating power to an unprecedented degree in the national government in Washington. It persecuted and prosecuted opponents of the war effort with a ferocity few in the anti-war movement could have anticipated. "In no previous war had there been so much repression, legal and otherwise" (p.188), Kazin writes. The Wilson administration, its allies in Congress and the judiciary all embraced the view that critics of the war had to "stay silent or suffer for their dissent" (p.189). Wilson gave a speech in June 1917 in which he all but equated opposition with treason.
The next day, Wilson signed into law the Espionage Act of 1917, designed to prohibit interference with military operations or recruitment as well as any support of the enemies of the United States during wartime. The following year, Congress passed the even more draconian Sedition Act of 1918, which criminalized "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the government, the flag, or the "uniform of the armed forces" (p.246). The apparatus for repressing "disloyalty" had become "one tentacle of the newly potent Leviathan" (p.192).
Kazin provides harrowing examples of the application of the Sedition Act. A recent immigrant from Germany received a ten-year sentence for cursing Theodore Roosevelt and cheering a Germany victory on the battlefield. Another served time for expressing his view that the conflict was a "rich man's war and the United States is simply fighting for the money" (p.245); still another was prosecuted and jailed for charging that the United States Army was a "God damned legalized murder machine" (p.245). Socialist Party and labor leader Eugene Debs received a ten-year sentence for telling party members – at a union picnic, no less – that their voices had not been heard in the decision to declare war. The administration was unable to explain how repression of these relatively mild anti-war sentiments was helping to make the world safe for democracy.
Many in the anti-war coalition, understandably, fell into line or fell silent, fearing that they would be punished for "refusing to change their minds" (p.xi). Most activists understood that, as long as the conflict continued, "resisting it would probably yield them more hardships than victories" (p.193). Those continuing in the shrunken anti-war movement felt compelled to "defend themselves constantly against charges of disloyalty or outright treason" (p.243). They fought to "reconcile their fear and disgust at the government's repression with a hope that Wilson might still embrace a 'peace without victory,' even as masses of American troops made their way to France and into battle" (p.243).
Representative Kitchin and Senator La Follette, the two men who had spearheaded opposition to the war in Congress, refrained from expressing doubts publicly about the war effort. Kitchin, chairman at the time of the House of Representatives' powerful Ways and Means Committee, nonetheless structured a revenue bill to finance the war by placing the primary burden on corporations that had made "excess profits" (p.244) from military contracts. La Follette was forced to leave the Senate in early 1918 to care for his ill son, removing him from the storm that would have ensued had he continued to espouse his unwavering anti-war views. Female activist Crystal Eastman helped create the National Civil Liberties Bureau, a predecessor to the American Civil Liberties Union, and started a new radical journal, the Liberator, after the government prohibited a previous publication from using the mails. Socialist Morris Hilquit, like La Follette, was able to stay out of the line of fire in 1918 when he contracted tuberculosis and was forced out of New York City and into convalesce in the Adirondack Mountains, 300 miles to the north.
Although the United States was formally at war with Germany for the last 19 months of a war that lasted over four years, given the time needed to raise and train battle ready troops it was a presence on the battlefield for only six months. The tardy arrival of Americans on the killing fields of Europe was, Kazin argues, "in part, an ironic tribute to the success of the peace coalition in the United States during the neutral years" (p.260-61). Hundreds of thousands of Americans would likely have been fighting in France by the summer of 1917 if Theodore Roosevelt and his colleagues and allies had won the fight over "preparedness" in 1915 and 1916. "But the working alliance between radical pacifists like Crystal Eastman and progressive foes of the military like La Follette severely limited what the advocates of a European-style force could achieve – before Woodrow Wilson shed his own ambivalence and resolved that Americans had to sacrifice to advance self-government abroad and preserve the nation's honor" (p.260-61).
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Kazin's energetic yet judicious work sheds valuable light on the diverse groups that steadfastly followed an alternate route for advancing self-government abroad – making the world safe for democracy — and preserving their nation's honor. As American attention to the Great War recedes in the aftermath of this month's November 11th remembrances, Kazin's work remains a timely reminder of the divisiveness of the conflict.
Thomas H. Peebles
La Châtaigneraie, France
November 16, 2018


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Summer is rooftop bar season, so this blogger set out to review the economics of same in the run-up to the 4th of July. (I know, hardship duty, especially when the general managers kept offering cocktails during the interviews, which naturally had to be conducted in person, not over the phone.)
We found an arms race, at least in Minneapolis, where the season is painfully short all the time and this year was clipped mightily by snow as late as May.
The Uptown Cafeteria spent nearly $1 million in 2010 to build the biggest rooftop in its neighborhood, said an exec at Parasole, its owner.
Then the operator of Crave, which is building restaurants around the country, put a nearly 6,000-square-foot rooftop on its new restaurant downtown. (But not quite 6,000, countered the owner of Seven Skybar up the street—his is the biggest rooftop bar downtown, he says, plus they've got a custom-designed fire feature that warms patrons on chilly nights.)
Finally Union Rooftop topped them all, this spring placing a rectractable roof that cost "seven figures" as part of a "multi-million-dollar buildout," its owner reveals, atop its new restaurant downtown.
Could the race escalate? Well, there's Dinner in the Sky, a new franchise dreamed up by two Belgian buddies, where 22 diners sitting on a platform and harnessed to their seats are hoisted up by a crane for dinner, dangling 180 feet in the air.
We'll cover that story in our August print edition. Meanwhile, the rooftop operators we talked to think that's going too far. "I get vertigo just looking at the images," said one.


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The first offering is timed to the magazine's 40th anniversary
In more mag print meets book print news, Outside announced a three-year book deal with publisher Globe Pequot. Just as with the New York magazine/Simon & Schuster deal Fishbowl reported on earlier today, the first product of the Outside/Globe Pequot partnership is also timed to an anniversary, Outside magazine's 40th.
The first book that will be published, a collection of photographs that have appeared in Outside's pages across the decades, is called A View from the Edge of the World and will be released in September 2017 to match the timing of the magazine's September 1977 launch.
"Globe Pequot is a partner whose high quality of work matches our own–in subject matter, mission, and visual standards," said Outside editor Christopher Keyes in a statement. "Globe Pequot has the platform and passion to deliver Outside stories in an exceptional manner."
Globe Pequot, publisher of books that "celebrate the unique or iconic characteristics of specific places," per its website's description, became an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield when it was acquired from Morris Communications in 2014. With nature, sports and outdoor recreation as some of its major focuses, Outdoor seems a natural fit for a partnership.


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Treat Your Future Self as Another Person… That You Like.
If the past is a foreign country, then the future is a foreign person.
Several studies conducted during the last decade via survey and MRI scans have revealed that we often treat our future selves like complete strangers.
That means a lot of us don't perceive our future selves as the same person they are now — and this lot is worse at achieving goals, saving, and planning than those who don't experience this strange disconnection. The reasons behind such discrepancy aren't clear yet, but in itself it explains so many things.
This is why we stay up late. It's someone else who has to wake up tired every day, not us. We get another couple of hours of fun, right?
That is why we procrastinate, because future us will deal with that project. Screw that guy, I am off to raid with my guild.
That's why college students go partying instead of working on that darn essay. Someone else is going to pull an all-nighter to meet the deadline.
That is why well-educated intelligent people live paycheck-to-paycheck but keep up with Joneses. The pain of social disapproval is something experienced right now, while debt will be someone else's problem.
No way out?
Default selfish mode of thinking is a vicious circle that keeps recreating itself.
Your past self has screwed you over once again — dumped all dirty chores on you or left you with a god-almighty hangover, or both. What can you do? You can't get back at your past self — that's not how things work, at least not in this universe. So the only one you can get back at is your future self. Yeah, screw that guy! He can live on fiver a day, and I will treat myself, I deserve it.
Don't think that sounds like you? Conduct a little experiment. You don't need an MRI scanner for that one.
Think about your workplace. Try to remember how that felt.
Now try imagining your workplace in five years (something they ask you to do during a job interview).
Notice a difference?
As for me and my colleagues I've quizzed, we imagined our present work in the first-person view. We saw ourselves from inside our head, doing our current job. We were ourselves.
Yet when we tried to imagine our workplace in five years, it was a third-person view. We saw ourselves as other people, from outside — how we would be dressed, how our haircut would be different, how we would lose or gain umpteen pounds.
Maybe that's how our brain is wired from birth and there are two kinds of people — evolution likes to have options. Maybe it's all about impulse control and delayed gratification like in a famous marshmallow test.
One linguistic research suggests that the grammar of your first language wires your brain a certain way and affects your saving habits.
That is, if your language has a distinct grammar form to describe the future (English, Greek, Arabic, and Romance languages), that makes your future self a bit harder to relate to. While speakers who use the same verb to speak about present and future (German, Chinese, Norwegian) are better at thinking about the future and, therefore, more inclined to save money.
On the other hand, maybe language only reflects the collective cultural attitudes, and the way we think about the future is learned from the people around us as we grow up. Science doesn't have a well-defined answer yet.
Change the attitude
Maybe we can change how our brain works and reconnect with our future selves. Or maybe we cannot. Yet what we definitely can do is changing our attitude towards that guy we keep screwing over.
We can empathize with our future self. We can like them. We can take care of them. It's a little attitude tweak, but it goes a long way.
I had a little epiphany some years ago. Back then I lived between my hometown and Seattle. I didn't give up my old room in the apartment I shared with a flatmate, but I pretty much lived at my fiancée's place in Seattle. I kept my room because I needed somewhere to stay when I visited my hometown on business, and that happened several times a year.
That time I came because my sister was at a hospital and needed my support. I was exhausted by the night bus ride, and I came to my place at the crack of dawn to leave the luggage and take a shower before I went to the hospital. I felt I needed a cup of coffee.
Among the stuff I hadn't moved yet, there was a vintage manual coffee grinder and I reached out for it. As I did, I thought that I would probably skip that because I was too tired anyway. I would probably just have a vile instant potion from the coffee machine on the way to the hospital. That's when I discovered that a sealed container was full of nice brown grind.
I almost teared up, I must confess. I was tired, sleep-deprived, worried sick about my sister, and here it was — something done for me, with care and love. Someone took care of me when I needed it badly. The fact that it was my past self didn't matter much. I felt genuine gratitude.
I remembered how I ground that coffee before leaving last time, thinking "I will probably be too tired to hand-grind it for myself in the morning after the trip." And it felt at present as if someone gave me a hug.
Now, I am not urging you to buy presents for yourself and send them with cutesy handwritten cards. That would be too close to personality disorder for comfort. Yet I ask you to think about your future self with affection as if it were your sister, brother, or a dear friend. Do something for them every day, just as you do for your loved ones. Put your future self on the list of people you care about.
This is the best you can do for your well-being.
You will see how suddenly it will become easier to put money away for a rainy day or to achieve your goals. You will see how you will get plenty of rest and eat healthier. How your home will become tidier and your schedule will be less full of chores and full of pleasant things to do.
Maybe that is the reason why we see how people who volunteer or donate to charities seem more content and prosperous. Some people would explain it with karma, or the Law of Attraction.
For me, it is much simpler. They are not selfish. They routinely take care of others. It's just that somewhere among those others are their future selves.
Linda Cartwright is a writer and an educator, who is currently working on her first book. She is a digital nomad currently based in Seattle with her family. Linda is in love with words and loves writing, whether it is a piece of fiction, a personal journal entry, or an occasional paper help for the students.


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The highlights:
- Putting your money in a savings account might seem risk-free, but you're likely to actually lose purchasing power to inflation over the long term.
- Investing gives your money the chance to grow over time, and there are many options that can help you invest in a way that works for your goals and your risk tolerance.
- The increased competition in the investment market is good news for you: You can invest your money with far lower fees than you'd expect, which helps you keep more of your money.
When you're saving up for a big goal, no matter what it is, it's tempting to stop there: save your money, and don't worry about investing.
But over time, especially when that time is measured in years, the returns you'll get from investing your money may outpace the interest you'd earn if you left your money in a savings account.
The faster your money grows, the faster you'll hit your goals.
So why don't more people invest their savings for longer-term goals? There are some big misconceptions out there about investing, so we wanted to break them down for you.
Specifically, we're going to look at:
- Can you actually lose money by sticking with a savings account?
- How different kinds of investments come with different amounts of risk—and how you can find the right balance for you
- How you can invest without it costing you an arm and a leg
Can You Lose Money in a Savings Account?
Here's a quick look at how inflation can wreck the best-laid savings plans:
Let's say that ten years ago, you set a goal to save up $10,000 for a dream vacation.
This year, you've finally saved up the cash, but when you go to buy plane tickets, you realize they're more expensive than you had planned—as is the rest of your trip.
That's because over the past ten years, inflation happened.
Prices went up, and according to the Department of Labor's inflation calculator, the $10,000 vacation you planned will now cost you $11,509. Thanks, inflation.
That's why it's so important to earn interest on your savings, and it's how you can essentially lose money in a savings account even when the balance keeps going up.
You need to make sure that your money is earning enough in interest to at the very least keep up with inflation, and it's very rare to find a savings account that pays that much interest.
Which is where the stock market comes in.
Historically, the S&P 500 (an index that tracks the biggest 500 stocks in the US, but more on that in a future lesson!) has returned 9.65% annually on average since 1928.
Investing in the stock market is the best way to make sure you're staying ahead of inflation, and not losing purchasing power in a savings account.
There's More Than One Way to Invest Your Money
But investing in stocks does come with some risks, and a 9.65% average annual return in the past doesn't mean you're guaranteed to earn 9.65% in the future.
The good news is, there are many other ways you can invest your money that balance your risks with your returns.
For example, the historical annualized return of a 10-year treasury bond (an investment backed by the US government, and generally considered to be almost risk-free) is 4.88%.
That's nothing to sneeze at, and much higher than you see on savings accounts, with less volatility than the stock market.
That's how most investments work: there's a trade-off between the amount of risk you're willing to take, and the returns you're going to earn.
Generally speaking, if you're comfortable with more risk, you have a chance to earn higher returns over time, but you don't have to take a lot of risk to invest your money.
You can choose a balance of low- and high-risk options to create a balanced portfolio, or create an overall low-risk portfolio if that fits your goals and your comfort level.
And that might seem complicated when you're just getting started, but there are lots of options that make it easy for everyone to do—and they're more affordable than ever.
Investing Doesn't Have to Cost an Arm and a Leg
While the words "investment portfolio" might conjure up images of swanky offices and thousand-dollar suits, you can invest these days for a fraction of what you'd expect.
Investments are typically priced on a percentage basis, called a management expense ratio (MER).
Many mutual funds and managed investments will charge 1%, 2%, or even more to build you a portfolio that fits with your goals, meaning that every year, they will take that percentage of your invested funds as a fee.
But these days, you can find comparable options for far less than 1%.
In fact, some exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and index funds will charge you less than 0.1%.
That's great, because here's a quick primer on ETFs and index funds. Both of them are a single investment (simple!) that give you exposure to hundreds of stocks or bonds all at once for a fraction of a percent.
Many of the world's best investors and economists agree that investing with low-cost ETFs that expose you to a wide range of investments is one of the best ways to invest your money.
And as a bonus, apps like Twine make it easy to invest in them from the comfort of your couch.
Investing 101: Let's do this
Investing doesn't have to be something scary and intimidating, and it's one of the most powerful ways you can hit your goals and build wealth over the long term.
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ALAMEDA — The Raiders picked up some reinforcements Monday returning from a week off during their bye week.
Foremost among them was veteran right guard Gabe Jackson, out since an MCL strain on Aug. 8, the second day of practices against the Los Angeles Rams during training camp in Napa.
Jackson's return heads the five most significant developments coming off the bye:
1. Is offensive line finally at full strength?
Jackson, along with center Rodney Hudson, were the two proven anchors to the Raiders offensive line going in to the season. After Jackson was injured, the Raiders went five games without the man they were eager to see paired with free agent tackle Trent Brown on the right side of the offensive line.
If all goes according to plan, it would be Kolton Miller and Richie Incognito on the left side, Hudson in the middle and 715 pounds of Jackson and Brown on the right.
Brown and Jackson can do more than throw their weight around. They're agile and technically sound, and the thought of running Josh Jacobs with Alec Ingold as a lead blocker is an appealing one.
Jackson said he plan is to play against Green Bay, but that's the player talking and not the coaching or medical staff. If Jackson can't go against the Packers, then Houston on Oct. 27 is in play.
"I'm excited to be back with my brothers," Jackson said. "It's been too long."
The Raiders never placed Jackson on injured reserve, and he's attended all meetings and said he's remained engaged mentally. Gruden said last week Jackson looks to be in the best shape of his life.
Even without Jackson, the offensive line has been one of the strengths of a 3-2 Raiders team that's even with Kansas City in the loss column in the AFC West. Jackson believes the Raiders could be as good up front as the 2016 team that went 12-4 in part because of a powerful offensive line.
Can the Raiders be the equal of the 2016 unit?
"I feel that we can be better," Jackson said. " Everybody just stick to it and stay the course and keep grinding out."
2. Johnson could help at cornerback, but not right away
Raiders fourth-round draft pick Isaiah Johnson broke a bone in his face during the exhibition season and after making the initial 53-man roster, was placed on injured reserve. League rules allow two players per season to come off IR and be "designated for return."
But while Johnson is back at practice, he can't play in a game until after Week 8 — and that means he won't be eligible to face either the Packers or Houston Texans on Oct. 27.
Johnson said he didn't feel rusty at all after not setting foot on the field in a regular season practice, in part by watching how his teammates operate.
"Once you learn how to be a pro, you keep watching the film, you start applying it to yourself and when you come back you know how to use that," Johnson said. "I kind of felt like that today. I was using stuff I learned over the last six week period I haven't been playing."
When Johnson does return, he'll give the Raiders the flexibility to move Daryl Worley to a hybrid position, which Gruden said last week was a plan.
3. Zay Jones is playing catch-up
Jones, acquired last week for a 2021 fifth-round draft pick from Buffalo, had couple of crash-course sessions with coach Jon Gruden last week to get familiarized with a new offensive system after playing two years and change with the Bills.
"We hit the playbook pretty hard, going over everything, trying to get me up to speed," Jones said. "The offense is very complex as far as what goes in to it. Guys have been here since training camp and I've been here only a few days so I'm trying to catch up to the pace that they're at."
It's similar to the cramming Trevor Davis did after arriving from the Packers in-season. Wide receiver has been a revolving door since Gruden arrived last season, with 13 different starters in 18 games.
Jones, who had 57 receptions last season, isn't sure why he was de-emphasized but was caught off-guard by the trade.
"I was shocked. I didn't know it was coming. I didn't know what was happening," Jones said. "I didn't ask to be out of Buffalo, but it's something that transpired. That's the nature of the business. I wish those guys the best but I'm ahpppy to be in this locker room and be wanted by this organization."
One sign that wasn't good for the Raiders — Tyrell Williams (foot) remains a spectator after not practicing all week in London, sitting out the Bears game and rehabbing during the bye week.
Raiders WR still not practicing as bye week concludes pic.twitter.com/8u3MUBlVFN
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4. Ferrell back in action
Defensive end Clelin Ferrell, who missed the Bears game while under concussion protocol, was back at practice and expected to be available to face the Packers this season.
Ferrell, the No. 4 overall pick in the draft out of Clemson, started the first four games of the season. While Gruden and defensive coordinator Paul Guenther insist they're pleased with Ferrell's progress, impact plays from the rookie have been few and far between.
His return means the Raiders can spell Maxx Crosby, the fourth-round pick out of Eastern Michigan, more often. Crosby played 57 of 58 snaps against the Bears, in part because the Raiders defense was on the field for only 15 snaps in the first half. The Raiders also will be without Arden Key for as much as a few weeks with a knee injury incurred against the Bears that had no structural damage.
5. Practice squad moves
The Raiders signed Anthony Williams-Ratliff to the practice squad (yes, another wide receiver) as well as running back James Butler. Butler played for the Raiders during the exhibition season. To make room for Butler, running back Damerea Crockett was released.
Williams-Ratliff assumes the spot of Marcell Ateman, who was promoted in the wake of the Raiders' release of J.J. Nelson.
Williams-Ratliff played in college at North Carolina, where he was recruited as a quarterback but became a wide receiver and a return specialist.
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Skin Perfect Medical's staff has been the most personable and authentic than anywhere else I have been. This company is not about making money, and more about what is going to be best for you, where most companies will agree, with whatever you say so that they can make a quick buck. For example, most companies will do a treatment you had been recommended by a friend, even though it may not be the right treatment for you and a waste of time and money and not going to produce any results. Skin Perfect will tell you the 100% truth on whether you may need a certain treatment or not. The key is to follow what they suggest, for best results!
by J.M.
I recommended it to my family5.0 stars - Written on June 6, 2019
I went in for a CO2 laser and micro needling treatment to treat my acne scarring. Yvette did the treatment, she was very professional and thorough. I had a few questions before and after and she answered all of them. Sometimes you can break out due to purging, so I was worried about it but I just called to let them know and they booked me to get it treated since it was a cystic acne so it wouldn't scar.
The front office and the medical team is really nice and personable. They made me feel really comfortable and at ease. So much so that I recommended it to my family who will also start getting treated with Skin Perfect.
by L.C.
This place is AWESOME!5.0 stars - Written on June 6, 2019
This place is AWESOME! Super knowledgeable and professional. If you want it done right in a caring, supportive, atmosphere, this is THE place! I LOVE these girls! (and of course you too Gideon!) From the receptionists and practioners to the doctors, and everyone in between, THIS PLACE has a WINNING TEAM!
by C.W.
I love this place5.0 stars - Written on June 6, 2019
I have made it a point to come here to get a massage or facial. With two young ones and a demanding career. This place gives me the opportunity to relax and allow myself to be pampered. I love this place. Skin perfect also carries amazing facial products.
by S.O.
My first time here was perfect!5.0 stars - Written on June 6, 2019
My first time here was perfect! I love the staff and the environment is great. Went in for Juvederm and I wanted to give it 2 weeks to see how it all heals, and I love it. I wanted a very natural subtle look on my lips and I got just that. I wanted to go to someone I knew I could trust, and I chose the perfect place I loved Kelly Choi! She's the best.
by N.V.
I highly recommend Skin Perfect for all your beauty needs5.0 stars - Written on June 6, 2019
Where do I start… had an appointment yesterday haven't been there for a long time. As soon as you walk in they make you feel at home. All staff is happy and very welcoming. It felt like I was a frequent customer. Vanessa did my hydro-facial she is the sweetest. She is also very knowledgeable and very informative. Vanessa made my appointment experience 10x better than it all ready was. Can wait for my next visit next month. I highly recommend Skin Perfect for all your beauty needs.
by A.D.
I was very impressed with all they do5.0 stars - Written on June 6, 2019
First at here, and let me tell you…. its absolutely beautiful inside! The staff was friendly as soon as I opened the door. I didnt wait long before being called in for my consultation, once medical forms were completed. THEY DO IT ALL HERE!!!Like seriously. I was very impressed with all they do, the cleanliness, and the customer service. There was ABSOLUTELY NO PRESSURE to get any services. I will diffinatly be back for my Cosmelan peel when my time permits. Thank you ladies for everything.
Bonus is the amazing music they play…. I was singing and dancing in my seat the whole time.
by M.W.
I travel from out of state to be blessed by those hands!!!5.0 stars - Written on June 6, 2019
The best injector hands down ever ever is kelly Choi. I get compliments on my lips all the time. All of my friends are extremely jealous.! I'm writing this review about 8 months after my last session and they are still stunning!!! I travel from out of state to be blessed by those hands!!!
by C.S.
I will definitely be back!5.0 stars - Written on June 6, 2019
Oh my gosh! From the moment I walked in I felt at home! This was my first time getting fillers and I was SO nervous. Kelly made me feel so at ease and really took her time to calm me down and make it a good experience. The whole process was maybe an hour and a half! I will definitely be back!
by B.M.
I had such an amazing experience5.0 stars - Written on June 6, 2019
I had such an amazing experience. Eva Perry was so informative and helpful. The facial felt so great and I instantly felt and saw the difference on my skin. I will definitely be back for another facial.
by J.B.
Look forward to a long relationship5.0 stars - Written on June 6, 2019
Love this place! Use to have all of my skin perfections done in Beverly Hills but I really am glad I found this place. It is so much closer and the staff is very clean , pretty and friendly. Look forward to a long relationship. Ask about FEM. you will love it.
by O.R.
I had a really great experience here!5.0 stars - Written on June 6, 2019
I had a really great experience here! The consultation was informative and they did not pressure like used car salesmen. I will definitely return! I actually got a consultation at another facility that recommended them and they are their competitors!! That says a lot about this place!! I highly recommend!
Side note, there is a blow out bar at this location! Super cool!!
by B.E.
Absolutely hands down the best place for anything you want5.0 stars - Written on June 6, 2019
Absolutely hands down the best place for anything you want. You want it done they have it. I have done lip fillers along with family and friends who have gotten Dysport and other fillers. Hands down KELLY is the best. Super light hands when injecting and if you have any questions and concerns she gives you the best options. Absolutely love my results. Customer service there is amazing IBEL is my go to girl and always able to accommodate me in last min and is great with anything I need. Prices are moderate but.. but again it's the quality not the quantity and every service I get is worth every penny. Exceeds all my expectations.
by C.M.
The results I'm looking for5.0 stars - Written on October 20, 2016
*I have been going to Skin Perfect for a year now and have received about 5 or 6 different treatments. I'm 58 years old and experiencing the typical aging issues and Skin Perfect has been instrumental in helping me develop a skin improvement plan I can afford with the results I'm looking for.
by Y.U.
Great Service!5.0 stars - Written on August 12, 2016
*The lady was very professional and took her time to explain everything.
by J.J.
100 percent satisfied5.0 stars - Written on April 6, 2016
*100 percent satisfied. I love skin perfect. Staff is very nice & great products.
by M.S.
My experience has been Amazing5.0 stars - Written on September 26, 2015
*I have been a client at Skin Perfect Medical Aesthetics for over 3 years, and my experience has been Amazing. Great customers service, great pricing, and the staff is very polite, competent and professional. What I like the most from Skin's staff, it's that they treat you very well, and care about you!
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The Pentagon plans to tear down Camp X-Ray, a weed-filled warren of chain-link-fence cells where the Bush administration held its first 311 war-on-terror prisoners at Guantanamo -- and famously released a photo of kneeling captives in orange jumpsuits that stirred allegations of torture.
Detention Center commanders had said for years that the site was under a federal court protective order and could not be razed. But Justice Department attorney Andrew Warden on Monday wrote lawyers who represent Guantanamo captives that "the FBI has created an interactive, simulated three-dimensional, digital virtual tour of Camp X-Ray that shows all areas of the camp where detainees were held, interrogated, or otherwise present." Trump administration attorneys consider it a suitable substitute.
The prison opened Jan. 11, 2002 with the arrival of the first 20 captives airlifted from Afghanistan, and the military declared it closed with the late April 2002 opening of Camp Delta.
But after it supposedly closed, one captive, a Saudi named Mohammed al Qahtani, would undergo such horrible mistreatment there that a senior Pentagon official declined to have him prosecuted as an alleged 9/11 attack conspirator because he was tortured at Camp X-Ray with sleep deprivation, growling dogs, sexual abuse, forced nudity, harsh shackling and beatings.
In addition, a Saudi captive, Ahmed al Darbi, who got to Guantanamo in March 2003, testified at a recent deposition that guards threatened him with time at Camp X-Ray for failing to cooperate with his captors.
Warden said in Monday's email, obtained by the Miami Herald, that "Camp X-Ray operated as a detention camp for several months in 2002 and 2003. It has been vacant and unused since that time. Since its closure, Camp X-Ray's collection of rudimentary wooden guard towers and huts, chain link fences, concrete slabs, and holding areas have significantly deteriorated. The facility sits on property that could be utilized more effectively for a number of purposes."
He did not specify what the U.S. Navy might want to build atop the site. It is along the base's main street, Sherman Avenue, just north of base housing in a neighborhood called Nob Hill and not far from a scrapyard. It is also south of the Northeast Gate connecting the base to Cuba, where for two hours last month Cuban military came onto the base to help Navy firefighters put out wildfires that had ignited Cuban minefields.
For years, Guantanamo military showed visiting civilian reporters the site as a fixture of media tours that boasted "safe, human, legal, transparent" detention. In January 2006, for example, an Army major took reporters visiting the base for a war court hearing through the weed-choked site and suggested that the journalists "grab some souvenir locks."
The initial idea was to illustrate it was no longer in use in a failed bid to persuade news organizations to no longer use the prison's most iconic photos of 20 men kneeling in a cage in orange jumpsuits, taken the day the prison opened.
In the past two years, however, successive prison camp commanders dropped the site from detention center media visits -- along with the terms "legal and transparent" from its motto -- declaring the site was no longer part of the story the Navy admirals in charge of the prison wanted reporters telling.
The most infamous photos of the place were taken by a Navy photographer, Petty Officer Shane T. McCoy, and released by the Department of Defense four months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. And they became iconic, prompting London newspapers to call the conditions torture, in part because British men were among Camp X-Ray's captives. All of those men are gone, and of the 41 captives at Guantanamo today, more than half arrived after the Pentagon declared Camp X-Ray closed.
Years later, McCoy told the Herald that soon after those photographs caused a stir -- people looked at them and thought the captives were being tortured -- he called his mother and told her his photos "had caused an international incident." He was surprised, he said, because the photos "made sense" at the moment because of the way the men had been transported in cargo planes from Afghanistan.
Monday's notice is the latest in a Trump administration effort to consolidate operations at the Detention Center of 41 war-on-terror captives and a staff of about 1,700 troops and civilian contractors. In August, the military tore down Camp Iguana, a prison within the prison of wooden huts where the Pentagon housed captives who had been ordered released by the courts as unlawfully detained. Then in January the prison commander, Navy Rear Adm. Edward Cashman, notified the court of his plans to demolish Camp Four, the Pentagon's first POW-style prison at Guantanamo.
The Detention Center has also dismantled a cellblock of Camp Five and is transforming it into a health clinic and psychiatric ward for the two dozen low-value detainees held in an adjacent prison building called Camp Six. That process began in December 2016. ___
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Why do I have this feeling that as soon as I clean out a few bikes in my barn that a Norton someone else doesn't want is going to have a new home. Lately I seem drawn, pulled, pushed (?) to vintage Norton's. I have been part of a race team running Norton's, I have ridden Norton's on the road, I have rescued a Norton off the side of the Hiway, posted numerous Norton's on this website, and spent time with the CEO of Norton Motorcycles…the planets must be aligning themselves to give me no choice but to become a Norton owner. But which Norton?
I will say that my first choice would probably be an 850 Interstate, my last choice would be a Hi-Rider…boy did Norton screw up there!!!. I wouldn't choose a Combat Commando because there were too many issues with that motor that I don't want to deal with. A standard 750 would be just fine. A 'Fastback'? No, I just can't get used to that tailpiece.
I like the 850 because even though the 750 has a bit more responsive motor (quicker throttle response), the tuning of the 850 motor made it easier for me to ride fast. Why do I like the Interstate model? I like the shape of the tank and I can ride more miles before stopping. And riding the Norton, I want to put a bunch of miles on each ride.
Norton's also make perfect Cafe Racers, my absolute favorite is the John Player Norton replica model of 1974, Norton's factory Cafe Racer. The JPN was / is a beautiful motorcycle, the twin headlight fairing actually reminds me a lot of the fairing on my '95 Triumph Daytona Super3…good designs never go bad.
The 850 Commando's had a respectable 60hp, a top speed of around 115mph, and it weighed a pretty svelte 420 lbs. In 1974 it was still kickstart only but that really wasn't a problem, in '75 the bike came with an electric starter that was at best, a bit 'dodgy'. I'll take the kickstart model thank you. The '74 model came with a disc brake in the front but retained the drum in the back. You still had the Isloastic engine mounting system which you really need to maintain regularly and knowledgeably. If you set the system too tight the bike vibrates; if you set it too loosely, the whole system becomes sloppy and can dangerously affect handling. When it is set right though, it is a wonderful system.
I found a really nice 850 Commando on ebay this morning that has had a very modest cafe' treatment. The seller went the Dunstall route, which is normal when you own a Norton, the fairing, the mufflers (which look and sound great), foot controls and a nice set of Tommaselli handlebars, the stock seat was retained. The owner did keep the original parts as well…lucky you. The Commando has also had a good going over with important maintainance items.
This is a really nice bike and if I only had the room…
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|Project by jburklow
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Here is a newly completed commissioned piece. It is three separate pieces. The towers are 20" X 20" X 48", the main cabinet is 24" D X 36" H X 70" L. The finish is a custom blend using dye, danish oil, de-waxed shellac and general finish top coat. It was a great project to build and quite a challenge at the same time due to its size and getting the three pieces to fit together in uneven flooring. I used leveling feet on each piece so it can be placed anywhere and be level. It is made from quarter sawn white oak. Thanks for taking the time to look!
-- Jeff Midlothian. Texas. https://jeffscustomfurniture.com
10 comments so far
#1 posted 02-28-2018 02:50 PM
Thats a great looking piece. I like the detail of the feet, and the look overall. Nice!
-- Douglas in Chicago - https://dcwwoodworks.com
#2 posted 02-28-2018 04:43 PM
Looks great Jeff.
#3 posted 02-28-2018 06:36 PM
Looks like a lot of work!
Nice finish and styling. Are the tower drawers sized for CDs/DVDs?
#4 posted 02-28-2018 06:43 PM
thanks! Yes they have grooves milled into the drawers and there is a quarter inch partition that can be placed to accommodate different size cases.
-- Jeff Midlothian. Texas. https://jeffscustomfurniture.com
#5 posted 02-28-2018 09:53 PM
That is a great looking A&C entertainment center! I really like the styling of it, and the towers!
-- Dean -- "Don't give up the ship -- fight her 'till she sinks!" Capt James Lawrence USN
#6 posted 03-01-2018 03:09 AM
#7 posted 03-01-2018 07:06 PM
How did you draw the curves? Drawing bow? And how did you cut them, band saw, scroll saw?
#8 posted 03-01-2018 07:15 PM
Curves were all drawn with a home made drawing bow and cut out on the bandsaw.
-- Jeff Midlothian. Texas. https://jeffscustomfurniture.com
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Adobe has released upgrades to its Primetime Digital Rights Management platform that bring content protection across apps on connected devices like set-top boxes and through HTML5 on major Web
browsers. The company has been working with AMD, Broadcom and Intel to enable hardware-based DRM that protects premium high-definition and 4K content across tablets, smartphones and desktops.
DRM has not always worked in the past to protect content, but technology continues to improve. Adobe has made Primetime DRM available on apps without a Flash Player plugin, as well as via HTML5 on some Web browsers. Protecting licensing content becomes necessary to restrict illegal copying.
Security and piracy concerns in browser plug-ins continue to push the industry toward browser-based video technology.
The technology aims to protect content as more people take viewing across a variety of devices and screens, such as mobile, TV and desktop. Jeremy Helfand, vice president of video monetization at Adobe, points out in a blog post that Adobe is the only non-browser vendor offering a cross-platform DRM product that enables content owners to protect their premium video content regardless of what browser or operating system viewers are using.
Netflix signed up as one of the first customers to use DRM with HTML5 in the Firefox browser, explains Anthony Park, vice president of engineering for the streaming video site.
Netflix is the latest company to join more than 100 major content providers worldwide using the content protection system. Others include BBC Broadcasting, Comcast, HBO, Hulu, M6 France, NBC, Time Warner, Turner Broadcasting, Walmart (Vudu) and Yahoo.


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October 15, 2016
Show Report from Ron
I followed the Yugo Junkie, aka the Red Rocket, and, wow, is it a gasser. The EPA is going to shut him down soon. Thomas Trejo was Mike Lake's copilot in the Red Rocket and we arrived at The Gregory School for the car show around 8am. The Rotary Club people know how to put on a show It was very will organized and the people were very polite. They walked and guided us to our parking place. All the cars was parked straight with plenty of room between cars so you could open your doors with out causing damage to someone else. There was one tree in the middle of the field and Mike and I got to park under it, so we had a little shade though out the day. It was a good turn out around 400 cars. Lots of muscle cars that make noise and are as gassy as the red Yugo. All kinds of makes and models and colors...something for everyone. Mike and I received many nice comments on our Corvairs: the engine is in the back! There were who either had one or knew of someone that had one.
The one car that stood out, well maybe two, to me was a '27 Packard, straight 8 producing 36 HP from the Franklin Museum that sold new for $7,200. there was also a '29 Cadillac 4-door. I am always amazed at the workmanship and the quality of how things were built and the beauty that radiates from these older cars. Jim Wheeler was there with his '56 Chevy and took home a plaque. Frank Pella was there without his '67 passing out flyers for the Chevy Showdown. The vendors gave us three choices of food: BBQ, Subway sandwiches or bratwurst. We choose the latter which for me was very tasty. Sometime after that Thomas took off and walked home hopefully he caught a ride. Bob Molten was there with a restored bus and walked around a metal rod that he said he uses to check the level of fuel in the bus gas tank. He also complained about the 50's music. Now you would think ,,, well that's Bob! The weather was nice a slight breeze and in the low 90's. The raffle for the Corvette must have been rigged as neither Mike or I did not win. The plaques were awarded very quickly and very will organized. When it came time to depart, oh my, lots of muscle cars fired up with lots and lots of horsepower rumblin', but it was all very orderly. I beat Mike out of the show, must be he had trouble maybe getting his Junkie started.
Opposing view from Mike
The Red Rocket made it to the show under it's
own power, even though it was forced once again to tow the Purple Rain.
The owner of the Purple Rain was in tears as I started to leave for the
show and he was stuck in his driveway, gas pedal on the floor board, and
still standing still! To prove I have a heart, I circled back to tow him.
The Red Rocket performed as if nothing was attached to the back of it. I
found that quite odd, as every time I looked in the rear view mirror I saw
tire smoke and the look of desperation on the owners face. It seems he
flat-spotted all four of his tires out of fear of going over fifteen MPH,
a place he has never been in one of his Corvairs before. The proof was in
the pudding, when we arrived at the show, he climbed out of the Purple
Rain without any shoes on. When I asked him where his shoes were, he
simply pointed to a place under the dash. Lord behold, there they were,
both stuck to the brake pedal! This just goes to show that the Red Rocket
will put the fear of God in you, whether you ride in it or behind it.
Red Rocket to the rescue! Go Red Rocket! Go Red Rocket!
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Mike Lake