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Newswise - Some fans of Star Wars, including fans of the newestentry, "Episode III: Revenge of the Sith," consider watchingthese films to be a religious experience. Two religionprofessors at different universities have studied the roleof religion in science fiction and say that movies like theStar Wars series can be more powerful than the Bible orother religious texts.
Tom Martin, who teaches at Susquehanna University inPennsylvania, sees the Star Wars religious themes as aclassic example of good versus evil. He says, "The Star Warsseries deals with the fundamental struggles of good againstevil, which is a deeply religious theme that carries over toall parts of life."
Jim Herrick, who teaches at Hope College in Michigan, hasbeen studying the role of spirituality in Star Wars foryears. Star Wars introduced audiences to Yoda, thediminutive master of The Force. Herrick says, "?LukeSkywalker studies under Yoda's direction until he is able tocontrol The Force?[the] source of spiritual energy emanatingfrom a unified field that is in all things. The Forceaffords all manner of physical and spiritual power,including the power to communicate with deceased individuals."
Martin thinks The Force is most like Chinese religion.Herrick agrees and says, "The closest religious parallels toThe Force can be found in Taoism. In Chinese spirituality,Tao is the ultimate force, or driving power, in all nature.It flows through all of us and everything. You learn to movewith this force rather than fight against it."
Lucas admitted he was making films with a religious theme ina 1999 interview, in which he said, "I put The Force in themovie to try to awaken a certain kind of spirituality inyoung people, more a belief in God than in any particularreligious system. I wanted to make it so that young peoplewould begin to ask questions about the mystery [of ourexistence]? I see Star Wars as taking all the issues thatreligion represents and trying to distill them down into amore modern and easily accessible construct."
More than 70,000 people in Australia say they follow theJedi faith. Almost 40% of the population say they believe inThe Force. Over 70,000 people wrote "Jedi" in response to aquestion about their religion on the recent national censusform and the internet there is filled with emails urging itsadoption as an official religion. Before thinking thissounds silly, remember that Scientology, which is amajor religion among actors such as Tom Cruise, started as ajoke created by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.
The Phoenix lights wereno hoax.In fact, they were the most important UFO event in history,and Dr. Lynne Kitei was the first person to notice them.What happened to Dr. Lynne is a template for future contactwith a positive and extremely valuable presence.
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Drupal Themes News
Wed, 09/18/2013 - 11:37
Berry theme is designed and developed by Drupar.com
Berry is very light weight but very powerful Drupal theme with modern look and feel. This theme is perfect for Business websites, Corporate websites, Personal / Blog websites.
Dependencies- No Core theme
Theme is not dependent on any core theme.
You can install and use any drupal supported module with this theme.
Main Features- Fixed width
- Support one / two / three column page layout
- Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Linkedin integration.
- jQuery Drop Down menu.
- jQuery Slider
- Use of Google Font.
- 11+ collapsible blocks region.
- Tableless
- Compatible on IE7, IE8, IE9, IE10, Opera, Firefox, Chrome browsers.
- Support custom logo and favicon.
- Custom Homepage
A complete documentation with screenshots on how to install and use this theme is available.
Berry theme documentation
Me and other members of drupar.com team will be happy to help you with any issue related to Berry theme. You can ask for support on our dedicated support forum.
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- Themes modifications and customization
- Server-side issues
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Clean Layout
Tue, 09/17/2013 - 14:58Sandbox of Clean Layout theme, which will be a compliment to the Clean Markup module.
Theme's main purpose will be to create a lean HTML5 layout that is super accessibility friendly.
Pure css theme
Sun, 09/15/2013 - 03:41Theme based on purecss.io responsive framework
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TechMaish Theme 1.4
Sat, 09/14/2013 - 04:41I am pleased to announce that TechMaish Theme 1.4 is now available for download. As promised, I have added more features inside the new version so that your blog looks more attractive and user friendly. If you have not used TechMaish Theme on your blog, then let me tell you that it is a completely free and search engine optimized theme. Which has several features and one of the premium theme available with no live footer link. i use this theme at my blog EduResult
Read the previous articles about the features already available in the previous version
Bootstrap UI
Fri, 09/13/2013 - 01:40Bootstrap UI
Wed, 09/11/2013 - 03:55An omega 4.x based subtheme.
naeluh mobile theme starter
Tue, 09/10/2013 - 17:40I am actively developing a mobile theme hopefully with will done soon
Tue, 09/10/2013 - 06:07An Omega-based theme for Drupal websites.
Classic Blog
Sat, 09/07/2013 - 17:47
Classic Blog is a great looking Drupal 7 theme that has a very clean, sleek and minimal design yet it is still pretty modern and elegant looking. This theme has a very minimalistic design that is ideal for bloggers, portfolios, freelancers, and entrepreneurs.
Features- Simple, Clean and Minimal Design
- Fixed Width (960px)
- 1-column and 2-columns layout
- Based on the 960 grid system
- Multi-level drop-down menus (Multilingual menu)
- Uses HTML 5 structural markup
- A total of 5 regions
- Supported standard theme features: site logo, site name, site slogan, user pictures in comments, user pictures in nodes, favicon
- Drupal standards compliant
- Use of Google Fonts and Nice typography
- Content source ordered, Tableless design and Heading optimization for SEO
- Detailed CSS rules for Typography, Forms Elements, Node Teaser, Comments, etc.
We will continue to maintain, improve and enrich our free themes with new features as they occur by discussions in the community. Members of our team will be always participating actively and help out in support requests to the maximum extent possible. Nevertheless, sometimes there might be needs related to a theme that go beyond the typical support and knowledge sharing and require either premium support or even implementation-on-request. In all such cases, do not hesitate to get in touch with us :)
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Sat, 09/07/2013 - 17:25
Volta started as a clone and is now a fork of Ohm, the demonstration theme bundled with Omega 4.x.
This theme is intended for hands-on educational and discovery purposes only. The goal is to facilitate tinkering and play toward developing best practices that you can carry forward into your next Omega 4.x project.
The drush omega-wizard subtheme process currently generates a blank slate of Ohm and Ohm remains in active development while Omega 4.x is production-ready. Use Volta as-is to play and mess around with some existing theme code to help you figure out how it works, how it differs from an omega-extended subtheme and what might work best for you.
Pull it apart. Move stuff around. Borrow an idea. Axe another. Break it and fix it and maybe start again in a different direction.
Prerequisites: Digging into Sass and Ruby with a dash of RVM.You could play around with the css and templates in this theme and completely ignore the Sass, though you wouldn't learn very much.
You could also install prerequisites individually from each project or corresponding repository. Note that Omega offers a process that's smart, easy and manageable.
Easy? Sure. It's as easy as getting RVM. Making sure you can run it as a function from the prompt. Run 'rvm requirements'. Run 'bundle install'.
See fubhy's post for background information about getting set up with Sass, Ruby and RVM. https://drupal.org/node/1936970
See my follow-up post about getting set up on Ubuntu.
Here's a 3 min screencast that covers installing everything required via rvm, including ruby and bundler on Ubuntu : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDuSrP3w06Y
Inspect Sass from within a browser:- FireSass for Firebug on Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firesass-for-firebug/
- Chrome devtools See http://remysharp.com/2013/07/18/my-workflow-v3-full-coding-stack/ for an excellent how-to-enable and demo video. Fast forward to 1m58s to see how you will add your theme as a workspace so you can edit and save Sass and other files from within the browser.
This can be prone to breaking with browser and extension updates, or, more likely, incorrect configuration in config.rb. It is set in Volta's config.rb to work with the current dev't environment.
Because this theme isn't made via drush, the libraries won't be automatically installed. You don't necessarily need these to play around with the theme, though if you really want to, you can manually install them into /volta/libraries individually. Or copy them over from a subtheme created using drush omega-wizard:
selectivizr- https://github.com/fubhy/selectivizr/archive/master.zip
html5shiv- https://github.com/fubhy/html5shiv/archive/master.zip
respond- https://github.com/fubhy/respond/archive/master.zip
matchmedia- https://github.com/fubhy/matchmedia/archive/master.zip
pie- https://github.com/fubhy/pie/archive/master.zip
Fri, 09/06/2013 - 00:43SUMMARY
The Bella theme is designed to be more configurable and more user-friendly than most standard Drupal themes, with an emphasis on the "little things" that most themes lack. Some examples range from being able to (easily) customize the breadcrumb separator, to being able to set whether or not user pictures are displayed in "teaser" mode, all the way to telling the theme to scan for custom css files so that modifications can be made to the theme without having to hard-code said modifications (because when you hard-code something, the next time the theme requires an update, all modifications will be lost). Not to mention hard-coding is a big no-no. Never hard-code stuff. It may seem convenient at the time, but ultimately it will make things much harder.
INSTALLATIONInstall the theme just as you normally would any other theme.
CONFIGURATIONOnce installed, navigate to www.yoursite.com/?q=admin/appearance/settings/bella to configure the theme to your liking. At this point you should see the normal theme options at the top, and at the bottom you should see several additional options. See this page for a more extensive list of configuration options.
Nexus Theme
Wed, 09/04/2013 - 20:06
Nexus theme is an elegant and flat responsive Drupal theme design by Devsaran. This theme could easily be used for a blog, small business, portfolio or a variety of other websites. The theme was designed using flat elements for the header, navigation, buttons and more. This sharp design is elegant, modern and functional. The clean elements are easy for users to understand and make navigating your website a pleasure.
Features- Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Theme
- Simple, Minimal and Clean Design
- 1-column and 2-columns layout
- Mobile support (Smartphone, Tablet, Android, iPhone, etc)
- Flex Image Slideshow with Caption (Customizable)
- Multi-level drop-down menus (Multilingual menu)
- HTML5 & super clean markup
- A total of 12 block regions
- Drupal standards compliant and Supported standard theme features
- Google Font and nice typography
- Ideal for business, company and portfolio sites
- Detailed CSS rules for Typography, Forms Elements, Node Teaser, Comments, etc.
We will continue to maintain, improve and enrich our free themes with new features as they occur by discussions in the community. Members of our team will be always participating actively and help out in support requests to the maximum extent possible. Nevertheless, sometimes there might be needs related to a theme that go beyond the typical support and knowledge sharing and require either premium support or even implementation-on-request. In all such cases, do not hesitate to get in touch with us :)
Installation- Ensure that jQuery Update has been configured to a minimum version of 1.7 or higher.
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Bootstrap 3
Wed, 09/04/2013 - 09:12
Sleek, intuitive, and powerful mobile first front-end framework for faster and easier web development.
Mon, 09/02/2013 - 22:44Seamless Is a framework theme particularly for Drupal that seeks to create a seamless User Experience.
It's main goals are
- To provide complete flexibility from both the UI and use of CSS Preprocessors.
- To provide a seamless integration between the front-end and back-end in a single theme.
Mon, 09/02/2013 - 08:26
The base theme for the Open Aid Map distribution. Based on an original design by Naomi Menahem from SpatialDev.
This theme requires Omega 3.x.
Sun, 09/01/2013 - 04:01This is a sample project for my first Drupal 8 theme.
Mobile Boilerplate
Sat, 08/31/2013 - 18:23
Mobile Boilerplate is a professional front-end template that helps you build fast and robust mobile web applications. Spend more time developing and less time reinventing the wheel.
Mobile browser optimizations.
CSS normalizations and common bug fixes.
A custom Modernizr build for feature detection and a polyfill for CSS Media Queries.
Home page icon for Android, iOS, Nokia.
Cross-browser viewport optimization for Android, iOS, Mobile IE, Nokia, and Blackberry.
Mobile IE conditional switch.
Better font rendering in Mobile IE.
iPhone web app meta.
INSTANT button click event.
Textarea autogrow plugin.
Hide URL bar method.
Prevent form zoom onfocus method.
Mobile site redirection.
User Agent Detection.
Apache server caching, compression, and other configuration defaults for Grade-A performance.
Cross-domain Ajax.
"Delete-key friendly." Easy to strip out parts you don't need.

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If you're considered a beauty, it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around.
Cybil Shepard
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.
Sir Hugh Walpoe
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.
Sir Hugh Walpoe
There are times of great beauty on a coffee farm. When the plantation flowered in the beginning of the rains, it was a radiant sight, like a cloud of chalk, in the mist of the drizzling rain...
Karen Blixen
What then have I done? What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust.
Vicomte de Valmont
I'm a passionate believer in the inherent creativity possessed by all people and our inherent ability--if it's not clouded by convention--to appreciate authentic beauty in all forms, whether we like it or not.
Porter Arneill
Make books your companions; let your bookshelves be your gardens; bask in their beauty, gather their fruit, pluck their roses, take their spices and myrrh.
Samuel Ben Judah Ibn Tibbon 1150
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
Henry Miller
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet]
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
Mahatma Gandhi
May the sun bring you new energies by day, may the moon softly restore you by night, may the rain wash away any worries you may have. May gentle breezes refresh your soul and all the days of your life, may you walk gently through the world and know its beauty.
To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.
Bernard Edmonds
Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott
The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.
Mary Wortley Montagu
I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside. - (Whitney Houston) --"The Greatest Love of All.
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Wednesday Mar 5 | WATE-TV Knoxville
Athens man accused of suffocating aunt, turning gun on self
6 News has learned the man arrested in connection with yesterday's school bus crash has faced DUI charges before.
Trending on the Topix Network
News of the sudden death of 17-year-old Katresa Rose sent a shockwave through Sequoyah High School Tuesday morning.
Studio 6 sets up shop on North Market Street
"Our merchandise is for everybody," said manager Andrea Tarter. "It's not just for young or for moms, it's for everybody."
Blue Raider Baseball at TN Wesleyan Feb. 26, 2014
Blue Raider Baseball at TN Wesleyan Feb. 26, 2014 Blue Raider Baseball vs. Tennessee Wesleyan at 1pmCT/2pmET, Wednesday, February 26, 2014, at the Jack Bowling Baseball Field, 204 East College Street, Athens, TN.
Good Faith Clinic hosts health fair
The Good Faith Clinic will conduct a health fair in cooperation with medical and nursing students from East Tennessee State University on Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 26-27, at the Good Faith Clinic, located at 18 S. Congress Parkway in Athens.
Turner, Hicks Get Lengthy Sentences In Federal Robbery Cases
Desmond L. Turner was given 111 months by Judge Curtis Collier in connection with the robbery of the Hardees on E. 23rd Street on Oct. 25, 2012.
We all scream for ice cream no matter what the weatherWe all scream...
This winter we have experienced falling temperatures and falling snow. It has been cold, but it's never too cold for ice cream.
A Tennessee Health Care Campaign, a nonprofit organization invites the public to an informational workshop to learn about the Affordable Health Care Act.
Opinion: Second Amendment lesson for El Dorado County from Athens, Tennn
The incidents of those couple of days in Athens are a perfect example as to why private citizens need to be able to arm themselves against a tyrannical government.
Sources: Winery owner wounds children, kills self
The owner of an Athens, Tenn., winery, whose wife died in an apparent robbery there in 2000, shot and wounded two of his children at the business before taking his own life Wednesday afternoon, sources told the Times Free Press.
Reunited '90s Band Mustard Joins the High Score in a Tribute to Dave Walker
Over the years, Chris Cook has considered more than once putting together a new version of his 1990s college-rock band Mustard.


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Kansas Expocentre
From a small, local fair to the Topeka Sate Fair to the Kansas Expo center, this 80-acre site in the center of Topeka has a long winding history.
Its use has been related to such varied activities as agriculture, farming, exhibitions, education and entertainment. Sightseers enjoy concerts, family shows, trade shows, consumer shows, horse shows, dog shows and all kinds of displays.
It is not unusual for six events to be hosted simultaneously in the Center"s facilities with bookings typically exceeding 600 event days annually.
Other than being home to the Shawnee County Fair, The Kansas Expo center is also domicile to the Topeka Road Runners of the North American Hockey League, the Kansas Koyotes of the American Professional Football League and the Kansas State High School Rodeo Finals.
Although well over a century has passed since the first trade fair was held at this location, yet the old fairgrounds continue to attract hundreds of thousands of people each year.
In 1998 the Capitol Plaza Hotel opened for business on a five acre site that had been reserved on the Expo grounds for the location of a privately built hotel.
Owned by John Q. Hammons, the hotel has 224 rooms, restaurant, lounge, pool, fitness center, ballroom, and a climate-controlled walkway connecting to the Expo centre. Maner Conference Center is now operated by the hotel.
The Kansas Expo Center has enjoyed a nippy rise to glory. In just a nine year interlude, the small local fair grew to a state fair and turned into an expo center. The earliest recorded event on this site dates back to 1871.
Fairgoers saw the newest farm equipment and the best agricultural exhibits in the state, as well as the finest livestock. The fair included a variety of entertainment, ranging from horse races and saloons to opera houses and fine arts displays. In 1879, some of the fair buildings were used to house hundreds of ex-slaves during the "Exoduster" movement westward through Topeka.
The original grandstand was erected during the last decades of the 19th century. However, it was not until 1909 that thought was given for the building of permanent structures funds appropriated.
The official state fair was transferred to Hutchinson in 1913, when a political battle erupted. The members of the fair board proposed to sponsor a new exhibition called the Kansas Free Fair, which opened in 1915. In 1917 the free fair sponsored a new grandstand, permanent livestock buildings and pony barns.
Despite the fact that the Kansas Free Fair went bankrupt in 1931 but within a year the fair was once again profitable and back to constructing new buildings. The late '30s were record-breaking years for the Kansas Free Fair and the boom continued until World War II.
During this period new attendance records were set and extravagant exhibitions were held new facilities constructed. The fair survived a few lean years then picked up where it left off. A new ultra-modern Appliance Hall was erected in 1948 and an impressive Exhibit Hall in 1950.
The fair was renamed The Mid-America Fair in 1958. The renaming was followed by a projected multi-million dollar expansion and the reinstatement of a gate charge. Yet fairgoers set a new attendance record in 1959, exceeding 410,000 people.
1974 witnessed the termination of the lease between the Shawnee County Commissioners and the fair board- citation being the deterioration of buildings and grounds, not utilizing the land to its fullest potential.
Over the next few years, the fair reappeared under a new name: the Sunflower State Expo. Formal scheduling began in 1978 for a new "Shawnee Expo Complex"; a 19.7 million bond issue was passed on April 5, 1983 to build the Kansas Expo centre.
By mid-year 1984, Agricultural Hall, Heritage Hall, Livestock Pavilion and Exposition Hall (now known as Maner Conference Center) had been refashioned while adjacent property along 17th street was acquired, demolished, and converted into parking space. Construction of the new exhibit hall and arena was completed in 1987.
To tie the old buildings to the new facilities, an indoor passageway was constructed between the conference center and exhibit hall. The community now utilizes the smaller halls for wedding receptions, parties, galas and dances.
The Grand Opening of the Kansas Expo centre was held on April 17, 1987 with a sold-out concert featuring Kenny Rogers, T. Graham Brown and Ronnie Milsap. Landon Arena - named after Kansas' elder statesman, Governor Alfred M. Landon (1887-1987) - hosted the first Expo centre event with nearly 9,000 people attending a Topeka Sizzlers basketball game.


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VANCOUVER, BC -- (Marketwire) -- 11/02/12 -- Northstar Electronics, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: NEIK) has been working closely with Empower Technologies to negotiate the principal terms of existing loans to be assumed by Empower at the closing of the Northstar Network Limited (NNL) transaction. Following several months of negotiations, we are pleased to announce that a settlement agreement has been signed with NNL's major creditor.
The terms and conditions of the settlement are confidential, but both companies view this settlement as a significant and positive step for NNL in its path forward to profitability. With this settlement complete, Northstar Electronics can now secure consent from the major creditor for the sale of NNL to Empower. This consent will enable Empower to finalize all confirmations necessary to close out creditor guarantees as part of the sale.
Following the closure of this settlement, the transaction closing date has been extended to November 30, 2012, however, both Northstar Electronics and Empower are working toward garnering all approvals, including regulatory ones, and executing the transaction as quickly as is feasible.
About Echotec Sonar:
Echotec Sonar Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Northstar Electronics, Inc. The founders have over eighty combined man-years of expertise developing high frequency sonar products within the defense and commercial industries. Echotec Sonar is a world leader in this field through experience, technical acumen, and a team diversity, which understands the needs of many defense and commercial entities. http://www.echotec.ca
About Northstar:
Northstar Electronics, Inc., is a holding company with executive management specialized in design engineering, defense, advanced systems, security, sonar, systems integration, and prototyping fields. Northstar is actively pursuing opportunities through acquisition, joint venture, or merger to increase revenues and expand its base of subsidiaries. http://www.northstarelectronics.com or via new phone number 604-558-1199.
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I am Karen Kelsky, aka, The Professor. I've been a tenured professor at two universities (Oregon and Illinois) and a Department Head. I've advised many, many graduate and undergraduate students, and the students I've worked with have been very successful in their professional endeavors. I've also mentored junior faculty before and during their successful tenure cases. I can most likely help you if you are trying to navigate the rough seas of the academic world.
Here's a short version of my c.v.: kelskycv2011-doc
My (Uncensored) BIO:
I have 15 years experience as first an assistant professor, then a tenured associate professor, and finally department head in two major research universities, the University of Oregon and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I left my tenured position and the role of department head in Illinois because my family and I chose to relocate back to our beloved Oregon, and I had reached the point where I was ready to move on to a second career. Not because I hated academia–it's a terrific job, and I want to see others get into it–but because when it came down to it, it was more important for me to live where my heart is (Oregon) than to continue as a professor in the midwest, a place that crushed my very soul. (For more on that see my Worst Prof Ever guest blog post here).
And the fact is, I was always skeptical of academia, even as I moved successfully up through its ranks. I'm from Pittsburgh, only a single generation away from steelworkers. The people among whom I grew up had no interest in intellectual pursuits. My parents sent me to college, it's true–but with the goal of my coming home married to a doctor or an engineer. No one in my circle went to graduate school, let alone aspired to entering the professoriate! I have the true Pittsburgher's distrust of bullshit and posturing, and when I got into academia, my 'bullshit meter' instantly started ringing off the hook. But I am getting ahead of myself.
I went to college at the University of Michigan, majoring in Japanese Language and Literature, and graduating with honors. I got a cushy job teaching English in Japan at a college in the glorious Japan Alps, lived in Japan for two years, learned to ski, made a bucket-load of money, and then spent it all backpacking around Asia by myself for a year.
I started and dropped out of two public policy oriented graduate programs at the University of Michigan and Johns Hopkins before finally settling on a goal of a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology of Japan. I had successfully applied for and won the Three-Year NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. My plan was to study the cultural impact of Japanese company culture on Thai workers working at newly opened Japanese multinational plants in Thailand. I was offered a breathtaking (to me at the time) financial package at Cornell.
Then I went for a visit to meet my soon-to-be Cornell advisor, and he behaved to me like a dismissive toad. Apparently, in 1989, a "transnational" project was not considered legitimate in the hidebound world of Japan area studies. Welcome to academia.
So I turned on a dime, and went to the University of Hawai'i. I was enticed there by a generous East-West Center multi-year fellowship that, combined with my NSF, meant I had full and generous funding for my Ph.D. I had a well known advisor at the UH, a leader in the field.
While working on my Masters degree, I took up surfing, and got to noticing an interesting phenomenon on the Waikiki beaches—young Japanese female tourists picking up local white guys and financially supporting them over the course of short or long affairs. I wrote a paper that turned into a dissertation (and eventually my book). I went to major conferences every year, and I even got published in a major journal while still in graduate school. I had a great record, grants, and publications, and a high profile dissertation topic.
Then I went on the job market. And then and there discovered just how badly my advisor and department had failed me. I had no professional job training whatsoever.
I learned that no cultural anthropology Ph.D. from the University of Hawai'i had landed a tenure track job in living memory.
And that no one in the department cared.
Job training, cover letter and c.v. instruction, interview practice, technical skills, career advice….. these were non-existent in my graduate program. And I only understood that when I was actually finished and looking for a job.
With the job letter I'd written, I barely made a short list. The few times I did, I made a total fool of myself at the interview.
I had no. idea. what I was doing.
After a disastrous failed year on the job market, I finally said, "fuck you, useless department and useless advisor. I'm going to train myself to get a job."
I embarked on an intensive self-education process—I found out who got the jobs I'd applied for, where they'd been trained, what their grad programs were like, what kinds of things those departments did for their students. Using job data in the now defunct journal Lingua Franca, I found the top 5 departments producing successful job candidates in my field, and I studied the graduate curriculum, trendy jargon and department culture of those places. I sent my cover letter out to every single person whose arm I could twist for a critical edit. I spent hours upon hours writing out potential interview questions and their answers, and practicing them.
And then I went back out on the market. And I got a whole bunch of interviews, and a tenure track job offer at a fabulous research institution. I was on my way.
But I was pissed. Pissed as hell. Pissed that I'd had to do it completely on my own. Pissed that 25 people in my graduate department were getting paid really good salaries to completely neglect their advising responsibilities and abandon their graduate students. Pissed that I'd spent 6 years in a program that had never once mentioned the need for professional development.
Pissed as hell that the department head said to my incoming class of grad students, in our "welcome and orientation" meeting:
"You're never going to get an academic job, so don't even bother trying."
Before my move to Oregon, I created a Job Market Workshop for my sad little crew of peers in the department at UH, the rest of the neglected graduate students. I tried to teach them what I had taught myself. But for many, it was already too late. Some cried.
And then I went to Oregon. But I never forgot my experience. And lo and behold, there I found a second department, filled with good and decent people, to be sure, but where career preparation was non-existent, where technical job skills training was unheard of, where the whole question of "are our Ph.D.s employable" was never asked or answered. And I was pissed. Again.
I published, began to work with my own graduate students, taught hundreds of undergraduates, got several major grants, including the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and got tenure. I got recruited to a "bigger, better" job shortly after tenure and found myself in two new departments (joint appointment), where, lo and behold…. group after group of Ph.D. students were admitted and advanced without any thought or attention to their professional training and job market preparation.
There were some dedicated faculty advisors there to be sure. But by and large, the faculty egos were massive. The battles over getting "your" candidate admitted intense. And the investment in those same students' employment after completion? Minimal to non-existent. I was pissed.
It was here that I spent five years as Department Head. It was in that position that I finally learned about…money.
I learned with calculator in hand about the downsizing academic industry, and the financial (not intellectual) foundation for virtually every curricular, programmatic, and hiring decision made in a university setting. As Head I came to grasp at a visceral level that Ph.D.s are admitted to serve university teaching needs. Without their serf-like labor, the entire system would crumble.
And I learned that job lines are argued for and approved, again, with calculator in hand. For graduate students to be competitive for those lines, they must be mentored to sell themselves on a job MARKET, to package their ideas in ways that upper administrators can grasp, to be the job candidate who can explicitly demonstrate he or she is going to make or save the university money.
And these are the origins of The Professor Is In. At my first department, and then my second, and my third, and my fourth, I continued to teach an evolving version of my Job Skills Workshop. I changed the name over time to Professionalization Workshop. I intensively trained my own graduate students in what it takes to get ahead, think ahead, and plan for an actual career in academia instead of just a useless Ph.D. and a shit-load of debt. I even got an endowment to create a full-day retreat dedicated to professionalization training.
The fact is, I'm still pissed as hell. I am furious that the professoriate so shamelessly and unapologetically neglects its duties to train Ph.D.s for actual jobs. I am furious that academics put their egos first—by admitting huge numbers of new Ph.D. advisees each year–and the students' welfare second. I'm outraged that faculty know perfectly well that their students can't even hope for a tenure track job without an epic record of grants, refereed publications, and conference presentations, but all too often rarely lift a finger to help them accomplish these. I'm disgusted that faculty are so invested in preserving the illusion that their work is a "higher calling" that is "above" the concerns of filthy lucre, that they cannot acknowledge their own students as potential members of a labor force. Because doing so would destroy their illusion about themselves. This is what Thomas Benton/William Pannapacker called "The Big Lie of the Life of the Mind" in his now-famous Chronicle of Higher Education essay that finally blew the lid off of the shameful ethics of graduate education.
And to be sure, I am supremely irritated with graduate students who myopically obsess about this term paper, that dissertation chapter, the next meeting with their professor…. instead of asking real, hard, urgent, immediate questions, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, about their real potential for real, permanent employment.
Knowing what I do now, after my stint in administration, made it easy to walk away from academia. But it has not changed how pissed off I am and how committed I am to helping students and young faculty.
I created The Professor Is In to make an intervention for any ABD or Ph.D. who wants to be told the truth about academic work, who wants to get through the veil of silence around money and jobs, who is seeking an advisor who is focused on their professional, career success. They need it. I can do it.
I have no patience with "learning for learning's sake." I'm from Pittsburgh, for crying out loud. Who's paying the bills? If you're into spending 6-10 years and massive funds (assuming you're not fully funded, madness in itself) to pursue an intellectual goal with no thought to financial security…. The Professor Is In is not for you.
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Mar. 12, 2014
Saajid Badat, British operative for Al Qaeda, continues his testimony at trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith; says before abandoning plot to blow up an airplane, he flew from Pakistan to the Netherlands and then on to Britain while concealing a bomb in his shoe; offers a fairly intimate account of his interactions with Osama bin Laden and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, self-proclaimed organizer of Sept 11 attacks.MORE »
Mar. 4, 2014
Jury selection begins in Manhattan trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith on terrorism charges; experts say he is the most senior adviser to Osama bin Laden to be tried in a civilian court since Sept 11 attacks; trial may further the debate over whether international terrorism cases should be tried in civilian court.MORE »
Feb. 20, 2014
Federal judge in Manhattan clears way for terrorism suspect Sulaiman Abu Ghaith's lawyers to question, in writing, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, self-described architect of Sept 11 attack; defendant has been charged with conspiring to kill Americans and providing material support to terrorists.MORE »
Feb. 7, 2014
Defense lawyers for Walid bin Attash, one of five Guantanamo Bay detainees charged with aiding Sept 11 terrorist attacks, are seeking to muzzle chief military commissions prosecutor Brig Gen Mark S Martins; say his comments defending tribunals system are unethical and that they are undermining their client's right to fair trial.MORE »
Jan. 20, 2014
Op-Ed article by Judge D Randall Frye deplores scheme in which retired New York City police and firefighters sought to defraud Social Security disability system by claiming to suffer from post-9/11 phobias of airplanes and skyscrapers; says fraud cost federal government $400 million, making it largest theft in history of Social Security; calls for modernization of antiquated disability courts system that handicaps effective review of cases.MORE »
9/11 Architect Says Bin Laden's Son-in-Law Had No Role in Qaeda Military Operations
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed suggested that Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who is on trial in Manhattan, was enlisted to make fiery speeches for Al Qaeda because he was "an eloquent, spellbinding speaker."
March 17, 2014, MondaySentence Cut for Bin Laden Figure
A doctor, convicted in Pakistan of treason for helping the C.I.A. track down Osama bin Laden, had 10 years cut from his 33-year sentence.
March 16, 2014, SundayJudge Rules Terror Case Should Go Before Jury
A federal judge said on Friday that there was sufficient evidence that Sulaiman Abu Ghaith conspired to kill Americans to allow the case to go to a jury.
March 15, 2014, SaturdayInteractions of Bin Laden and Son-in-Law Detailed in an F.B.I. Document
Lawyers for Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who is on trial on terrorism charges, sought permission from a judge to present the document, a full summary of his interrogation, to the jury.
March 13, 2014, ThursdayAt Trial of Bin Laden Relative, Witness Describes Meeting 9/11 Mastermind
An operative for Al Qaeda offered an intimate account of his interactions with Osama bin Laden and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in the terrorism trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith.
March 12, 2014, WednesdayRemoving 9/11 Artifacts From New Jersey's Nest of Political Patronage
Steel from the World Trade Center site will no longer be handled by Gov. Chris Christie's political appointees at the Port Authority, but by the agency's professional staff.
March 12, 2014, WednesdayTimes Minute | Politicizing 9/11 Rubble
Also on the Minute, walking on a treadmill at work and rethinking Mexican food in Tulum.
March 11, 2014, TuesdayWitness Says Defendant Spoke to Qaeda Trainees
The testimony of Salim Alwan seemed intended to support the government's contention that Sulaiman Abu Ghaith played an important role for Al Qaeda before the Sept. 11 attacks.
March 7, 2014, FridayBin Laden Aide Began Qaeda Propaganda Day After 9/11, U.S. Says
A federal prosecutor in the trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith in Federal District Court in Manhattan said that Osama bin Laden had asked Mr. Abu Ghaith to help recruit new suicide bombers.
March 6, 2014, ThursdayU.S. Seeking to Keep 'Potentially Inflammatory Topics' Out of Terrorism Trial
As jury selection continues in the trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, the government asked the judge to bar the defense from referring to topics such as national security.
March 5, 2014, WednesdayJury Selection Begins at Trial of Bin Laden's Son-in-Law
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith's trial started on Monday in Manhattan; he is the most senior adviser to Osama bin Laden to be tried in a civilian court since the Sept. 11 attacks, experts say.
March 4, 2014, TuesdayDefendant in Terror Trial Gets Access to Detainee
A federal judge in Manhattan cleared the way for a terrorism defendant's lawyers to question, in writing, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described architect of the Sept. 11 attack.
February 20, 2014, ThursdayIn Terrorism Case, New Path to Testimony From 9/11 Suspect
Government and defense lawyers have agreed to allow written questions to be submitted to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described architect of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
February 14, 2014, FridayMotion Is Filed to Silence Prosecutor in Sept. 11 Case
A defense lawyer for Walid bin Attash has filed the motion, saying that a prosecutor's comments on a Sept. 11 case were undermining the right of her client to a fair trial.
February 7, 2014, FridayLawyers in Terrorism Case Seek Access to 9/11 Suspect
Lawyers for a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden accused of supporting terrorists have asked a judge to grant them access to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a key planner of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
February 5, 2014, WednesdayThe Best Time to Talk to Your Children About the Next National Tragedy? Now
If you don't choose how and when to have a tough conversation with your child, life is certain to choose for you.
February 04, 2014, TuesdayFixing Disability Courts
In my courtroom, it is far too easy for claimants to cheat.
January 20, 2014, MondayCharges for 106 in Huge Fraud Over Disability
Retired police officers and firefighters were among those accused in a decades-long scheme in which false mental disability claims cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, according to court papers.
January 8, 2014, WednesdayWhen a Court Said N.S.A. Spying Is Lawful
Two readers react to a judge's upholding of N.S.A. surveillance methods.
December 31, 2013, TuesdayMental Exam Set For 9/11 Suspect At Guantánamo
Prosecutors requested the evaluation of the prisoner, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who has repeatedly disrupted pretrial proceedings in recent days.
December 20, 2013, FridayRelease the Torture Reports
Official documents of interrogation abuses done in the aftermath of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, should be public.
December 20, 2013, FridayScarred 'Sphere' Is Moved, but Doesn't Go Very Far
A work crew arrived on Wednesday and began dismantling the surviving centerpiece of the original World Trade Center in Battery Park.
December 20, 2013, FridaySuspect in 9/11 Case Is Ejected From a Guantánamo Court After Outbursts
A detainee facing a death penalty trial complained of torture instead of answering a judge's question.
December 18, 2013, WednesdayCantor Fitzgerald Settles 9/11 Suit Against American Airlines for $135 Million
The Wall Street firm's settlement is another step toward the end of more than a decade of litigation that followed the terrorism attacks on Sept. 11.
December 18, 2013, WednesdayCantor Fitzgerald to Settle 9/11 Lawsuit Against American Airlines
The Wall Street firm, which lost 658 of its nearly 1,000 New York employees on Sept. 11, had accused the airline of negligence and demanded as much as $1.1 billion in damages.
December 14, 2013, SaturdayThe Mirror of Guantánamo
Even as Guantánamo fades from public concern, the fate of the 162 men still detained there still reflects on us.
December 12, 2013, ThursdayA Conversation With: Author Adrian Levy
The co-author of a new book on the 2008 Mumbai attacks, "The Siege: 68 Hours Inside the Taj Hotel," discussed whether the intelligence failure in India could have been avoided.
December 06, 2013, FridayA Conversation With: Prabhat Jauhari, C.E.O. of Mumbai Private Security Firm
Mr. Jauhari spoke about how people's perception about security has changed in the five years since the terror attacks in Mumbai.
November 26, 2013, TuesdayMore Than a Decade After 9/11, a Bull Market for Barriers and Checkpoints
In Lower Manhattan, the security continues to be very tight — too tight for some New Yorkers who remember living in a more freewheeling city.
November 19, 2013, TuesdayThe Demise and Afterlife of the 'Detroit Sleeper Cell' Case
A week after Sept. 11, three men were accused of plotting terror, but the case became a cautionary tale about connecting dots where they might not exist.
November 18, 2013, MondayJudge in Terrorism Case Orders Look at Secret Records
The judge, Col. James Pohl, has ordered the government to show him confidential correspondence about prison conditions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a defense lawyer said Wednesday.
November 7, 2013, ThursdayLhota's Strengths and Weaknesses, Exposed on 9/11
Joseph J. Lhota's approach to the unfolding crisis of Sept. 11, 2001, revealed a Boy Scout's obsession with preparedness and a bureaucrat's faith in the problem-solving powers of government.
November 2, 2013, SaturdayChurch Near Trade Center to Echo Landmarks of East
The design, which would draw inspiration from the great churches of the East, will almost certainly renew debate over the role of religion at or around the World Trade Center.
October 31, 2013, ThursdayIn New Book, Cheney Recalls 5 Heart Attacks and His Brush With Death
The former vice president describes, for the first time and in vivid personal detail, a four-decade medical struggle that he has largely kept secret.
October 17, 2013, ThursdayIran's Foreign Minister Invokes 9/11 Attack to Argue for Collective Security
Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, told NBC News that one lesson of the Sept. 11 attack was "That an island of security in an unsecure world is impossible."
October 15, 2013, TuesdaySEARCH 16937 ARTICLES ABOUT SEPTEMBER 11, 2001:
Times Minute | Politicizing 9/11 Rubble
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Moving the 'Sphere'
A crew moved Fritz Koenig's "Sphere," New York City's interim Sept. 11 memorial, to another part of Battery Park.
In a Father's Footsteps
Ryan Blackwell, a new firefighter at Engine 62 in the Bronx, had his first rescue mission alongside some of his father's colleagues. His father was a firefighter who was killed on 9/11.
A Preview of the 9/11 Memorial Museum
Jarring transitions between the serenity of vast spaces and the grief of destruction and loss will meet visitors to the exhibition space.
A Peek Inside the 9/11 Memorial Museum
A tour inside the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York, as it unveils some of the exhibits that will go on display when it opens to the public at the World Trade Center next year.
Aiding the Victims
An overview of the funds that have been established to aid the victims of various tragedies since 2001.
Constitution Project's Report on Detainee Treatment
A sweeping 600-page report by a bipartisan, independent group held top American officials responsible for the torture of detainees after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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Vargas was drafted by Major League Baseball's Minnesota Twins with the 1,273rd pick in the 2001 Major League Baseball Draft. Jason declined and decided to go to Louisiana State University. As a freshman at LSU, Vargas went 1-1 with a 3.43 ERA in 13 games. However, Vargas decided to transfer out of LSU after the 2001 season to Cypress College for the 2003 season, picking a junior college so he would still be eligible for the draft. He was the Southern California junior college player of the year for his work on the mound and at the plate. However, as the season wore on, his arm slot dropped; and his velocity fell into the mid-80s. That, combined with Vargas' signing bonus demands, depressed his draft stock, so he went undrafted.
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Yukitoshi58 12-11-2005, 11:34 AM 89' Camry 3S-FE engine, 128K one ower (myself) self maintained. On initial cold start it idles well, also accelerates well. At normal operating temperature. In Park it stalls when I depress the gas pedal about a 1/4 of the way down. I restart with no problem and shift to drive and depress the gas again it hesitates to stall, shakes a little and goes back to normal. I feel like I have keep one foot on the gas and one on the brake in order to drive it. What could be causing this behavior? Thanx for the help!! FYI:18months ago I did a complete tune up, plugs, filters,(fuel oil air)cables, cap, points,. Don't drive it much, I do start it twice a week. Mike Gerber 12-11-2005, 12:38 PM Since it starts and runs well cold, 2 things come to mind. One is the O2 sensor. This is out of the loop until the engine reaches a certain temperature. Then it comes in to play. The other thing is the coolant temperature sensor. Toyota calls this an ECT sensor. It may be out of spec and telling the car's computer that the engine temperature is always cold. This would produce a rich mixture. A rich mixture is fine for a cold engine but could cause the problems you are experiencing on a warm engine. You will need a manual for the specs and a DVM to check these 2 things out. Mike Yukitoshi58 12-11-2005, 05:00 PM Hey Mike, Thanks for the quick response. I have a Chilton manual on order for this car. I can't find my Haynes manual. I'm curious about this DVM that you mentioned. What is it? Where can I aquire one? Thanks!! AccordCodger 12-11-2005, 09:58 PM DVM - digital voltmeter. Available all over the web, and at Radio Shack. InstallTech 12-12-2005, 01:16 AM I had that very same issue with my 93 5s-fe engine. Turned out to be the ignition coil buried inside the distributor. 40 bucks and a replacement later, and all was well. Been fine ever since. Yukitoshi58 12-13-2005, 06:08 PM Appreciate the response InstallTech, that's a new one to look into. I still haven't found time to check all the posibilities but, I'll keep you guys updated ASAP........ Thanks Again! Yuki~ Yukitoshi58 12-24-2005, 03:52 PM Great!!! This one is solved. Thanks everyone for all the imput. Very much appreciated. It was the O2 sensor.. Yuki~ Yukitoshi58 01-02-2006, 06:56 PM Hey, I went and bought an O2 sensor and put it in. At first it kind of acted the same then I got fed up with and let sit for a couple of days. I started it up, no problem, let it warm up took it for a spin and she rode well. Parked it for a couple more days then started it up again, warmed it up went for a spin and it stalled at the lite on acceleration. I changed the O2 sensor because the reading with the DVM came back at 0.86 - 0.65 it kept fluctuating between those readings. I'm still trying to figure out what is. Oh! It's also taking a little longer to start, 3 to 5 turns of the key. * P.U.L* Yuki~ Mike Gerber 01-03-2006, 02:44 PM Yuki, Is the problem you are experiencing worse in damp weather? Toyota had a problem with these generation 2 Camrys where the coil inside the distributor would develop a hairline crack and short itself out to any metal part inside the distributor. It was worse in damp weather. It may even act up when the engine is warm. You can check the coil with that DVM and the specs from most manuals. I notice InstallTech mentioned this part about a month ago. In addition, you didn't mention if you checked out the ECT sensor. If you didn't, check that out. Also, you mentioned in your initial post all the things you changed out about 18 months ago. I don't see a distributor rotor there. If you haven't changed that out, I would do it just to be safe. They are very cheap and are easy to replace. Then I would move on to the coil. Mike Toysrme 01-03-2006, 06:01 PM Check for vacuum leaks. Check that ignition components are giving consistant spark & have good readings with your DVM, check the AFM output. abrittis 01-03-2006, 08:56 PM I've had similar problems with my Toyota Celica and Mazda Miata. These problems can be difficult to diagnose - because it can be a fuel system, emmisions control system, or ignition system problem. Both times - my problem was caused by faulty spark plug wires. As they aged, and as the temperature under the hood increased as the engine warmed up -the wires were not delivering good a quality connection to the plugs - causing both cars to hesitate and stall under load. The Celica started having problems at about 145k miles. The Miata's original wire set was notorious for this problem and went at about 30k. On another note, In order to test the 02 sensor, it is much easier to use an analog DVM instead of a digital one. You will need to see the voltage fluctuate between .3 and .8 volts several times a second. 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Born | 19 October 1905 Berlin, Germany |
Died | 10 July 1983 |
Years active | 1940 - 1979 |
Wolfgang Lukschy (born 19 October 1905 – 10 July 1983 in Berlin) was a German actor and dubber. He performed in theater, film and television.
He made over 75 film and television appearances between 1940 and 1979. Possibly his most noted performances worldwide were his roles as Alfred Jodl in the 1962 American war film The Longest Day and as John Baxter in Sergio Leone's 1964 production A Fistful of Dollars alongside Clint Eastwood and Gian Maria Volonté.
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Project by Cody Lee Rockafeller | posted 1058 days ago | 1155 views | 1 time favorited | 3 comments |
Queen size bed. Birch and pine. Two coats of black latex paint. Quick sand with 80 grit. Extensive sand with 220. Coat of Minwax dark walnut stain. Wipe off excess. Sit for one day to cure. Final 2 coats of water born poly.
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#1 posted 1057 days ago |
I seen this project soon after you posted it and had to come back to see if anyone had asked. Since noone has, I guess I'll be the one to ask dumb questions. Please tell me more aout the use of the black latex paint. I don't think I've heard of using paint, walnut stain, and poly all on a bed unless different parts were of different finishes, which I don't see in the photo. |
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William, I will post more pictures today of this bed and other with a similar finish but with different colors. It would only let me upload one picture the first day, it said the post was under review? The key is when you stain the bed, dont stain just the parts that have exposed wood. Stain all the bed, paint included. Even though it doesnt really change the color of the black paint, it gives the paint the original rich color that it was before sanded ( sanding it of course reduces the black color to a charcoal color). After wiping off the excess, let it sit for 4-5 hours and poly. I used to just brush on water born poly but now I spray it. Either way works fine. -- Cody Lee Rockafeller-BlueGooseCustomFurniture |
#3 posted 1056 days ago |
Looks great, would love to see more pictures as well, I have a bed to make, on my to do list. |
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Sept. 6, 1995: Cal Ripken Jr. plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking Lou Gehrig's major league record that had stood for 56 years. Fireworks explode around Camden Yards as Ripken jogs a victory lap around the field. A sellout crowd of 46,272 — including President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore — demand four curtain calls from the Orioles' Iron Man. Ripken responds by hitting a home run as the Birds defeat California, 4-2.
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Sept. 4, 1970: For the second time in his career, Brooks Robinson goes 5-for-5, including two homers, one of them the game-winner as the Orioles defeat the Boston Red Sox, 8-6. The victory is No. 88 against 49 losses for the Birds, who lead the AL East by a whopping 11 games.
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It's a technical problem (or a very poor instrumentation choice). The chorus in particular is lacking a lot. It's nothing but drum and bass, and that makes the song feel noticeably emptier. Compare this to their performance on Letterman a couple months back and you can hear a clear difference.
Although Tegan's vocals definitely aren't great here either. She's always been a more emotive, messier singer, which the polished pop songs they want to perform now just don't allow for. Sara's always been more precise about that kind of thing, especially in recent years. I'm sure she doesn't want to bully Tegan around too much, but sometime soon, she should really probably sit her down and tell her she needs to try harder to actually hit notes on purpose.
And that may sound mean, but it's the price you pay when you shoot for this kind of exposure. When you ask for this much attention and start to actually receive it, you've got to be ready to show everyone your best effort. I want T+S to take over the world this year, but they aren't going to do it with sloppy TV performances like this.
It's pretty silly that you're basically dismissing any T&S fans who like the direction in which they're moving as "fans who worship them and will accept whatever they release as being great." Is it so unfathomable that some (even many) fans of the band could actually be hungry for something new, just as the band clearly is? And that they could think that the Quins are actually successfully pulling off the transition?
If you're not into it, that's cool. But some of us legitimately are. It would be neat if people would just accept that it's actually possible to continue loving a band even when the band changes its sound. It get annoying to see this sentiment so often.
In related news, I love this song.
Definitely not feeling this one as much as Angels (which I fucking love; beats or matches most of the tracks on xx, imo). At least right now.
But I gotta disagree with the people saying it sounds like every other song from this band. This one has way more spring in its step than anything on the first album. Wouldn't have gelled with the flow of that one at all.
Well, aren't you a badass!
And by "badass," I mean troll.
She looks exactly like she always has. Except her hair looks a little more Tresemmé than it usually does.
It is indeed a very good new single.
Not with that attitude, one doesn't.
Someone's going for best comment of the week with that one.
"That she-he from La Roux?" Well, aren't you lovely.
He has the right to accept or decline whichever gigs he wants, but I'm definitely over his attitude about it.
You didn't want to do what the Grammy people wanted you to do, so you didn't do it. Cool. Leave it at that, man. We don't need a lecture on what a total rebel that makes you.
I generally don't mind Nicki, but I can't hear a single redeemable quality to this song. Nothing about it works for me.
But "Roman in Moscow" is a great title for a thing to have. Song or otherwise.
You're jumping to conclusions. All he said was that he didn't like Drake's contribution, which is a completely legitimate opinion to have. He didn't say "fuck mainstream artists like Drake; they ruin otherwise good music."
Don't pick fights.
Real bad. Real, real bad. They couldn't even bother coming up with more lyrics than "I'm a goner?" It's in almost every single line of the damned thing. Talk about overselling. Was sick of it before I got halfway through it.
I don't know what either of you are smoking. I just finished listening to the song and I can hardly remember what it sounds like. That riff is super forgettable, and the song as a whole seems to be one of the most banal, meaningless songs they've written yet.
Your penis must look much more like an elephant trunk than mine does.
Song makes me want album now.
Seriously, Smother has been making a run for my AOTY since it leaked, and it's hardly slowed down since. That album is too good.
Surprised they let them play for 5 whole minutes.
You should get a physical award for this comment. Perfect.
In all seriousness, dropping down in the middle of that highway intersection was a huge dick move. People have places to be….
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"Da bomb" of frozen dessertsAn ice cream bombe only looks impossible to make. We show you just how fun and easy this frozen dessert can be. What is an ice cream bombe?An ice cream bombe is an impressive yet easy-to-make French frozen dessert, made of layers of ice cream and frozen in a spherical mold such as a bowl. Any flavor of ice cream will do but you can also make bombes with sorbet or a mix of ice cream and sorbet. We love bombes because they are far more fun to serve than simply dropping a scoop of ice cream into a bowl, and they immediately get rave reviews because of their shape and layered deliciousness. Once you master this basic bombe recipe, you can try any number of variations to match your mood, use up the ingredients you have on hand and delight your ice cream craving loved ones. Basic ice cream bombe recipeServes 16 Ingredients:
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