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The mechanics of gentrification
By Frymaster on November 19, 2014
In the introductory post of this series on housing in the Providence metro, I laid out some basic concepts in antithetical pairs. I sought to show how policy advocates and community activists argue their competing viewpoints within a zero-sum logic, usually to the detriment of both. This post examines the process of radical neighborhood change commonly called gentrification. […]
Posted in Economic Development, Featured, Housing | Tagged gentrification, Hayes Valley, Jonathan Lax, Mt. Hope, Providence, real estate, San Francisco, Stop Wasting Abandoned Properties, SWAP | Leave a response
Housing in Providence
By Frymaster on November 14, 2014
Housing is among the key requirements for human survival. And it is arguably the single greatest defining factor for a community. The urban landscape, particularly in the US, has seen any number of experiments and approaches. Many have been abysmal failures. Today, the "new urbanism" approach seeks to improve cities through a set of measures to increase density […]
Posted in Economic Development, Environment, Featured, Housing, Providence | Tagged new urbanism, urban development, Urbanism | 22 Responses
The mortgage debt crisis murders the American Dream
By Steve Ahlquist on October 31, 2014
The banks that stole from Remy didn't just take money, they took his very sense of self. Remy found himself asking his daughter to lie for him on the phone, and every knock on the door was met with the fear that this was the day he would be evicted. A good and honorable man, he began to feel like he was failing as a father.
Posted in Class Warfare, corporate greed, Economy, Featured, Housing, Poverty, Providence, Rhode Island | Tagged DARE, fannie mae, freedie mac, Mortgages | 1 Response
Just Cause: Six years to do the right thing
By Steve Ahlquist on July 10, 2014
Governor Chafee signed the Just Cause bill, which requires banks and credit unions to allow tenants in foreclosed building to continue to pay rent and live there under the terms of the lease they had with their landlord. Further, the bill requires lenders who foreclose to maintain the building, effecting repairs and keeping the property […]
Posted in Activism, Civil Rights / Liberties, Class Warfare, Economic Development, Housing | Tagged DARE, Foreclosure, General Assembly, just cause | 1 Response
New website opens door to city-owned properties
By Chris_Barnett on July 2, 2014
Four municipalities have launched an on-line database of government-owned properties that will enable them to better manage their real estate portfolios, promote transparency by giving the public easy access to the data and jumpstart community redevelopment by making it easier to find properties that need reinvestment. OpportunitySpace RI includes maps, info about taxes and zoning, […]
Posted in Economic Development, Featured, Housing | Tagged Central Falls, cumberland, land use, pawtucket, Providence | 1 Response
Rebuilding Rhode Island's Economy, Part 3: Densifying Downtown
By Brian Hull on February 3, 2014
Recently, it was reported that Providence has the 5th highest residential occupancy rate in the country. This is good and bad news. The good news is that an occupancy rate of 96.3% represents strong residential demand for Providence (this was validated by the market study of the Superman Building conducted by 4Ward Planning). This is […]
Posted in Business & Tech, Economic Development, Economy, Environment, Housing, Providence, Rebuilding Rhode Island, Rhode Island, Taxes | Tagged Economy, occupancy, Providence, residential development | 7 Responses
Barrington affordable housing project lives
By Bob Plain on August 7, 2013
Good for the Barrington Planning Board for unanimously approving a controversial affording housing project. I think. "Multiple conditions" were placed on the project, according to the Providence Journal, including that at least 10 of the 40 units only have one bedroom. This condition would effectively limit the number of families with children that could live […]
Posted in Class Warfare, Featured, Housing | Tagged affordable housing, barrington | Leave a response
Harrington Hall bathrooms not ADA compliant
By Bob Plain on June 21, 2013
As the legislature considers investing $600,000 in Harrington Hall, the overnight shelter in Cranston, it's worth pointing out that the conditions there are not only deplorable, they are also illegal. In November, when I spent the night at the homeless shelter, I learned that the showers are not handicap accessible. According to the Americans with Disabilities […]
Posted in Featured, Housing | Tagged ada, budget, harrington hall, Homelessness, state house | 1 Response
Students to legislators: help the homeless!
By Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless on June 6, 2013
Third grade students from the International Charter School (ICS) in Pawtucket told legislators that they needed to help the homeless this legislative session. 10 students, on behalf of their class of 39, spoke while their peers, teachers, advocates, and legislators watched. The ICS, which strives to integrate the language and cultures of the communities it […]
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Students lobby legislators on ending homelessness
By Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless on June 4, 2013
Students from the International Charter School's 3rd grade dual language class will present on homelessness to the Rhode Island General Assembly on Wednesday, June 5th at 10:30 AM. The students became aware of the issue when they created a simulated community for their class, with each student taking a different role in the community. But […]
Posted in Featured, Housing | Tagged Homelessness | 1 Response
Banks flout landlord laws when they foreclose on rentals
By Bob Plain on June 3, 2013
The foreclosure crisis hasn't only been bad for members of the ownership society, it hit renters hard too. Oftentimes, when landlords can't pay their mortgage, it's the tenants who lose their home. A bill before the General Assembly would change that by making banks adhere to the same rules that other people who profit from […]
Posted in Housing, State House | Tagged banks, DARE, foreclosure crisis, Housing, state house | 1 Response
More fake reasons for fighting affordable housing
By Bob Plain on May 15, 2013
Jim Hummel, an independent journalist who lives in Barrington, took a very different tack than me on the issue of affordable housing in Rhode Island's favorite suburban utopia. Last fall, he reported Barrington actually has a lot of housing that meets the state's definition of affordable housing, but that not much of it fits what […]
Posted in Economy, Featured, Housing | Tagged affordable housing, barrington | Leave a response
National report on public housing has a local link
By Bruce Reilly on April 30, 2013
I first encountered this public housing issue over a decade ago while living in Rhode Island, first in prison, then as a member of DARE. When I began inquiring about the precise rules regarding criminal convictions being a barrier to entry, and a cause for eviction, I got only a few vague answers. I even […]
Posted in Civil Rights / Liberties, Criminal Justice, Featured, Housing, Race & Racism | Tagged ACOP, admissions, Civil Rights / Liberties, criminal convictions, disparate impact, EEOC, evictions, FICPM, HUD, policy, Providence, Providence Housing Authority, public housing, Title VII | Leave a response
Jack Reed takes it to the banks and their regulators
By David Segal on April 15, 2013
There's been a surprising dearth of coverage in the local press of Jack Reed's exemplary work last week, as he stuck it to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) alongside Sherrod Brown and Elizabeth Warren. Here's a full transcript. Here's the rub, from Dave Dayen at Salon: The vast majority of borrowers – […]
Posted in Class Warfare, Economy, Featured, Housing | Tagged Banking, banks, jack reed, Wall Street | 4 Responses
Senate President Supports Rental Vouchers
By Bob Plain on April 4, 2013
Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed said she supports legislation that would allocate $3.25 million for rental vouchers and shelter costs to help address Rhode Island's increasing homeless population. But she said the spending proposal would likely be part of budget negotiations rather than stand alone legislation. She offered her support after a group of munchkins […]
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Local Homeless Left Out Of Economic Recovery
By Bob Plain on April 3, 2013
While the real estate and stock markets are ticking up and unemployment is ticking down, there's one group of Rhode Islanders who are being passed over by the alleged economic recovery: the homeless. The homeless population in Rhode Island has increased by more than 10 percent from 2011 to 2012, according to Dr. Eric Hirsch, […]
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Plea to Policymakers: Drive Down the Cost of Living
By Samuel G. Howard on March 12, 2013
The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) has released its Out of Reach 2013 report, detailing the state of housing affordability in the United States. As is to be expected, the report finds the state of housing affordability to be abysmal. To afford a two bedroom apartment at fair market rent (FMR) in the United […]
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Don't Be Afraid Of Diversity, Barrington
By Bob Plain on February 24, 2013
Dear affordable housing-hating Barrington, This is some friendly advice for you from your cross-Bay rival for best public education community in the state, East Greenwich. You might have higher NECAP scores but we have something you don't: diversity. A lot of people know us as a snobby suburb where affluent executives sleep and send their […]
Posted in Featured, Housing | Tagged affordable housing, barrington, diversity, eg | 1 Response
John Joyce and Cade Tompkins' Chair
By Bob Plain on February 21, 2013
Today is John Joyce's memorial service. He died way too young at age 50 and was a bona fide friend and hero to the people on the streets. His job, his mission in life, was to connect with the homeless people of Providence. Just to connect with them. After food, water and warmth connection is […]
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Remembering John Joyce
By Bob Plain on February 21, 2013
If a place like Heaven exists, I would liked to have been there when John Joyce checked in the other day. "So you overcame inner demons and homelessness to become a 24-hour-a-day advocate and activist for the most downtrodden people in all of society," St. Peter would have noted approvingly while perusing Joyce's impressive karmic […]
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Working at Owens feels like becoming part of an academic family. I have forged lifelong friendships in only 2 years. My supervisor not only did her job, but also became a trusted friend. Compensation for my non-tenured position was quite high for this area of Ohio. Owens encouraged a very strong bond between educators and students by constantly facilitating fun, engaging social events on campus. What job lets you make snow cones for students and then challenge those sane students to a ride on a mechanical bull?Cons
The biggest issues I faced at Owens was a lack of concern by upper management for doing the most important work of maintaining accreditation for its nursing program-a major revenue source for the college. This impacted all other programs as well due to budget cuts, decreased class sizes, etc. Highly qualified and effective individuals were let go along with the irresponsible upper management in the nursing programs.Advice to ManagementAdvice
I know of multiple students reporting highly unethical treatment of nursing students by an instructor yet no action at all was taken as she had the credentials Owens needed for nursing instructors. I watched 6 out of 10 of that instructor's students leave the already struggling nursing program yet no consequence for that instructor. I also watched as a few very vocal students caused highly respected instructors lose their positions in very sketchy situations. It seems that Owens was more concerned about the threat of lawsuits and therefore threw these long term, vested individuals 'under the bus' out of fear, yet let a well documented NEW instructor stay because she was needed for the failing RN program.RecommendsNegative Outlook

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Clearing work continues top-to-bottom at FairmontPosted: July 17, 2012
Fairmont Hot Springs remains a busy place as emergency workers continue to clean up the mess from a July 15 flash flood and landslide.
Regional District of East Kootenay emergency communications officer Loree Duczek said workers face a massive challenge and must approach their task with a well-defined methodology.
"When the initial event occurred on Sunday afternoon, the debris torrent carved the channel as it moved downstream. The debris has pushed water in numerous different directions and our main priority remains getting the original Fairmont Creek channel cleared of debris so that we can re-establish the channel and keep all the water flowing within it," she said, adding, "This is a massive job and has to be done from the 'bottom to the top.'
"The reason for this is that if you start cleaning out at the top of the debris field, you will open the channel and create more water flow. That increased water flow (which will still have sedimentation) will move downstream and hit the debris below – creating the potential for more damming and a repeat of the situation we've already seen where the pressure builds up and a large debris field lets go. As soon as the area was deemed safe on Sunday night, we had a contractor on site beginning the work at the highway. They've been working all day from dawn to dark since and we are making progress in that lower level (they have cleared from the highway to the area near the Pond at the golf course). This is going to take time, but we are working as quickly as we can," Duczek outlined.
"Unfortunately, the water upstream continues to find its way around debris outside the creek channel and is constantly shifting and changing. As it does that, it can lead to sudden and unpredictable changes in water patterns. Today near Marble Canyon, the bank eroded and the creek jumped its channel. The bank in this area is crumbling, so we are working to install some rock reinforcement. This work will be completed this afternoon, and the water will be directed into a temporary control channel. This will address the water that is flowing through downstream neighbourhood at the moment," she explained.
"We will also be keeping a smaller piece of equipment on standby to keep that section clean and keep water within the channel," Duczek said.
The Ministry of Transportation has been doing regular monitoring of the culverts to ensure any debris that accumulates near culverts is removed to keep water flowing.
Above image: Onlookers take in the cleaning and searching activity along Fairmont Creek above the resort July 16.
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Well, as many of you have also been, our house has been under the blanket of illness for the past week. Good thing January is my "off" month. I take the first two weeks to take a break and the last two weeks I work on demo cakes for that years Bridal shows. Well, that didn't happen this week as I spent all of my time nursing my son and then husband back to health. Tomorrow my son and I leave for a snow camping weekend with Boy Scouts so I was pretty determined to getting them healthy and not fall to the cold that took them both down. Thank goodness it wasn't the flu!
Our trip is just an overnight so if I get home early enough on Sunday I may still do the demo cake I'd planned just because it's a more simple design but I may well just let this week go and try to catch up and make another demo cake later in the year.
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Sorry to hear you have had an outbreak of Manflu in your house. I was lucky enough to quarantine off the sick members of the family this week and ban them from visiting. Most of them are pretty good about it as they know I have a compromised immune system as well as not wanting to infect my Mum.
I am waiting for a couple to turn up for a consult this afternoon , So it was just a defrost of cake samples this morning. I was really industrious last week and I now have 12 different flavours baked into nice little heart shaped cakes for tasting. It should get me through the next month or so of tastings I hope.
As far as real caking goes we have started planning our display for the Cake decorating associations big state show for our club , this year the theme is a Night at the Theatre ,, So we are doing Broadway , it should be fun .
Hope you all have a great week ,
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I hear you...most of this past week I spent in one corner of the house, used hand sanitizer all the time and took my vitamins like crazy. I was determined not to get sick.
It, sadly, never occurred to me to freeze samples for tastings. I usually just make up mini batches of 3 flavors and then my family happily eats up the extras!LOL! But you are right, if I just freeze a small sample cake each time I make a popular flavor then I would always have samples on hand. Brill!
I'm going to be diving out of here now. I'll catch up when I get back on Sunday. I have to get up at 5am so I'm going to go try to make myself go to sleep now<G>
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Well I just had a couple leave from a tasting and they want to come back next week and taste more flavours Of course they are a couple of the flavours I don't have baked in the freezer ready to go.
OH well I do have a couple of family birthdays coming up next week so they are not going to get to pick what they want .
Life's too short to make cake pops.
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This artist has hidden a portrait within a portrait. When placed in a normal position this looks like a portrait of a shipwreck but when it's placed in a cylinder, it's a portrait of Jules Verne.
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Actor Yuri Lowenthal moves from animation to video games to live-action projects with ease. The "Prince of Persia" voice actor today guest-stars on "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" in the first part of a two-part arc.
"The character I'm playing is Christopher Garland," Lowenthal said in a phone interview. "He's a sonar man on a submarine. He's also a member of the Resistance." The Resistance is the human resistance to Skynet in the future world on "Terminator." Lowenthal's two-part arc includes the episodes "Today's The Day Part 1," airing tonight, with the second part scheduled for next week. "It's in many ways a self-contained story within that world, that plays more like a movie than a TV show," Lowenthal said. "We felt like this particular crew formed a strong bond and had something really good going on." Lowenthal said he enjoyed the action-packed pace. "Stuff like this is why I got into acting in the first place: running around on a submarine in the future, fighting evil robots with a plasma rifle." Lowenthal's also a popular video game voice actor, who has portrayed the title role in "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time," as well as parts in "Halo 2," "Medal of Honor 2: Rising Sun" and "Rave Master.
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Though she refused to comment on what transpired during the meeting, it is crucial, coming after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's statement on June 5 that the Centre had refused to send 300 companies of Central forces sought by the State government for the polls. Ms. Pande told journalists earlier that she would think the government would abide by the Calcutta High Court order which directed it to provide necessary security.
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Latest content added for UNT Digital Library Collection: Texas Fashion Collectionhttp://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/TXFC/browse/?fq=str_location_country:Italy&start=20&display=list2014-03-07T07:40:23-06:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing UNT Digital Library Collection: Texas Fashion CollectionShoes2014-03-07T07:40:23-06:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277076/

Pair of woman's shoes of dull yellow/beige patent leather. Designed with square toes, the shoes have a large black patent leather bow across vamp, with oval brass buckle. The 2" high heels taper slightly to base, and are covered in black patent leather. Stamped inside each shoe: "Magli / Bologna / Made in Italy" Stamped inside shoe: "Z 293 78" Stamped on sole: "Made in Italy"; "7 / 1/2 / M"
Pumps2014-03-07T07:40:23-06:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277065/

Pair of grey crocodile skin pumps with rectangular pewter buckles across instep. Maker's stamp: "Merli / Bologna" Retailer's stamp: "Made in Italy for / Neiman-Marcus" Also stamped: "Hand Sewn" and "Made in Italy" Handwritten inside: "46133-IMI / m 7 B" and "N. Park 18" On sole of each: "7 / B" and "All Leather Shoe"
Evening Pumps2014-03-07T07:40:23-06:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277042/

Pair of reddish-pink or coral silk satin evening pumps. Square toe shoes which have a large open area on the vamp which is backed by clear plastic and edged by braid. The plastic is overlaid with a metal net or chain mail with rhinestones at the intersections. 2 1/4" square heel covered with same material. Lined in off-white/gray leather. Stamped inside each shoe: "Made in Italy / Espressly / For / Lou Lattimore" (Espressly rather than Expressly); and "Creation Mancini / Paris / Waltea made in Italy" Stamped on sole of each shoe: "8"
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Women's flat shoes with brown leather sole, patent leather cream insole with designer's marks. Cotton blended fabric covers the whole foot up to the cinched ankle where there are two small straps of the same fabric to tie behind heel with a vertical seam down center and a slightly pointed toe. The fabric has a printed pattern of colored squares in aqua, blue, purple and periwinkle, with scattered printed signatures by the designer, "Emilio". Designer's marks on each sole: "Creation / Albion / Florence / Made Expressly / For E. Pucci"
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Hat of royal blue velveteen felt. Somewhat in the cloche style, the hat consists of a cylindrical crown tapering slightly to the flat top. The sides of the hat are covered in a wide band of same fabric which wraps around hat and secures in a giant square buckle covered in same fabric. Hat is unlined, with black grosgrain inner hatband. Designer's label sewn to inner hatband: "Hazel Eller - Custom Made" Stamped inside crown: "Borsalino / Antica Casa"
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Hat of multicolor printed velvet. Geometric print with central section of circles and semi-circles. Circular crown with slightly domed top. Covering fabric has extending flaps at sides which come down over ears and secure under chin creating a wimple effect. Flaps secure with two snaps. Part of uniform for Braniff International Airways flight attendant's. No labels in hat. Designer's signature in print, under flap, "Emilio".
Hat2014-03-07T07:40:23-06:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277146/

Boater style hat of dark charcoal wide straw. High, flat crown with wide, slightly upturned brim. Hatband of black, sheer material forming bow on side. Inner headband of black grosgrain ribbon. 2 pins. Inside paper crown lining stamped with nude woman riding a stag leaping over a scroll work tree; stamped "Made in Italy".
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Hat of printed polyester/synthetic fabric. Cylindrical crown with slight domed top, and short, sloping brim, both covered with same fabric printed with "windows" design, some with central images of drums, harps, guitars, roundels, etc. Two bands of same fabric are sewn under brim to extend down and back to connect at back of wearer's head to secure hat. Inner green grosgrain ribbon hatband. Hat lined in dark olive green fabric. Part of uniform for Braniff International Airways flight attendants. Label inside at hatband: "Adolfo II / New York Paris". Designer's signature in print: "Emilio"
Beret2012-11-05T12:51:51-06:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc114845/

Beret of light beige or cream colored angora wool. Machine knit, hand-finished. Italian import. Label sewn inside: "Made in Italy"
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Pair of platform mules of pink, purple, and light green suede. Shoes have thick platform soles covered with pink suede, and rounded toes. Open-toe style, the wide vamp section created by color-blocks of suede. 3 1/2" high chunky heel, rounded at back. Stamped on inside: "Lujano / Hand Made / In Italy"


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a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Jan 30, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Thank you, Almanac, for this wonderful editorial. Those who have not seen Mr. and Mrs Engel's letter posted on Town Square Jan.22/08, should do so.
Using language designed to manipulate, it misrepresents the First Amendment "establishment" clause. As a result many people were fooled into thinking that church organizations should be barred from their lawful use of city facilities.
The issue of religion is so emotionally charged that people were ready and willing to trample on freedom of speech for an imagined violation.
I hope that our citizens learn from this incident and are much more careful in the future. Our rights and freedoms depend on it.
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on Jan 31, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Thank you, editors of the Almanac, for your uncommon, common sense! The city's current policy of nondiscrimination is definitely the only option.
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
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Well done Almanac! Would you please keep us posted on any developments? Will this issue be discussed at a future City Council meeting? Thanks.
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It's rare that two shows in a gallery compliment each other so exquisitely. Both Sohier's and Lee's photographs, though incredibly different in style, meditate on the profound stories told on the flesh and features of the human body.
In the front room, Lee's Torso Series use digital photography mastery to capture and lay flat the entire torsos of his subjects, like black and white human hides pinned to the wall, or, more fittingly, narrative tapestries of a life told through skin. The large images map the topography of the bodies—male and female, black and white, muscular and scrawny—until the torso becomes a landscape of flesh and contour and wrinkles that tell whole biographies in their form. In the more jarring bodies, tattoos, scars, stretch marks, and even violent scratch marks speak of individual events laid like fossils in the flesh. Others are more abstract and serene: two breasts rising from a milky smooth background, or nipples disappearing into a field of moles. Anonymous without faces, the bodies nonetheless are unique and full of character.
In contrast, Sohier's show includes color portraits of individuals suffering from partial facial paralysis caused by a number of afflictions—stroke, Bell's palsy, nerve damage—photographed over three years at a nerve clinic. Their paralysis ranges from almost unnoticeable, such as a girl whose only sign of loss of movement caused by Lyme's disease is a tear in one eye, to individuals whose faces appear to be two sides of a coin, displaying seemingly disparate emotions. Yet, shot with eyes staring directly into the camera and often with family members to the side filling the background with love, each subject displays a poise and dignity that challenges the viewer to suspend all preconceptions about appearance and its effect on the human condition. Sohier told me that she chose not to include the condition with any of the titles in order to make the audience experience the subject and not the syndrome, and it is a powerful choice.
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As longtime readers will know, I am extremely fond of the poetry of David Jones (see here, here, and here), so I was delighted to come across the latest post at Bebrowed?s Blog ("writing about writing (and reading)"), David Jones? ?The Fatigue?; the blogger feels as strongly about the oblivion into which Jones has fallen as I do ("I cannot understand why a poet of Jones? talent and originality should be known more for his work as an artist than as one of the great modernist poets of the last century"), and I recommend her discussion of Jones and his work.
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The Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan is a massive Mamluk era mosque and madrassa located near the CitadelCairo. Its construction began 757 AH/1356 CE with work ending three years later. At the time of construction the mosque was considered remarkable for its fantastic size and innovative architectural components.
Sultan Hasan's low profile seems inconsistent with the massive undertaking that was his mosque, but the mosque's grandeur makes sense given Sultan Hasan's dramatic life. Sultan Hasan ascended the throne at the age of 13 in 748 AH/1347 CE. Upon taking over the reins, Sultan Hasan placed people of his own favor into positions of power. This happened at the expense of dignitaries currently in position; it upset many of them and caused a mutiny within the empire. Discontented Emirs arrested the Sultan in 1351, held him in jail for three years, and promoted his brother Salih to the throne.
He returned to power and again reshuffled the ruling establishment attempting to solidify power, but Sultan Hasan was assassinated by his commander in chief of the army, Yalbugha al-'Umari, a Mamluk thought to be loyal.Because of the Sultan's extravagance in spending fortunes on women and other forms of favoritism, the commander rebelled against the Sultan.
Little information is available about the construction of the mosque of Sultan Hasan. The most substantial source available is al-Maqrizi writing six decades later. He had access to administrative documents that are unavailable to historians today.
The construction of the minarets is of particular interest. Plans called for four minarets, but only three were ever constructed. One of the minarets collapsed and three hundred people were killed. Al-Maqrizi noted that the minaret's fall ignited conversation across Cairo and Fustat about the impending downfall of the state.
The mosque was built close to the Citadel, on the site of the Palace of Yalbugha al Yahawws. This was meant as a pleasing site for the Sultan to look down on from his palace in the Citadel.
The sheer size of the mosque set it apart. Al-Maqrizi noted that the height of the large iwan was superlative. It measured 65 cubits, five higher than another notably large mosque, the Iwan of Kusraw at Al-Mada'in in Iraq. Several unique features about the mosque should also be noted. Al-Maqrizi noted that the great dome that was not equalled in Egypt, Syria, the Maghreb, or Yemen. Despite the thickness of the mausoleum walls, the dome was made of wood. The mosque's dome was of an uncommon shape, that of an egg. The positioning of the mausoleum between two minarets was quite novel.
The extravagant interior and the impressive facade of the mosque did little to hide the fact that it was built during a particularly hard time for the Sultan. Having undergone and experienced a particularly tough time the mosque is one of the few good reminders of Sultan Hassan's reign.


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While his activities are largely shrouded in secrecy, North Korea's Kim Jong-un must have done something to accumulate some bad karma, because SA Forum members can't stop picking on him! Last time, they depicted him looking at lots of different things, including a television. This time, the watcher has become the watchee, as Count Freebasie suggested inserting the Glorious Leader into assorted television programs. "Keep it to cable shows only; no network shit," he specified, but several Goons used network shit anyway, because Count Freebasie is not the dictator of them.
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Michael Brown's tragic death is a salient reminder that the United States is still far from being a racially just and equitable society.
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Microsoft's Vince Menzione (pictured), General Manager for Microsoft's partner strategy in the US public sector, has been underlining his company's "end-to-end commitment to cloud computing."
In a magazine interview this week Menzione declared: "All of our salespeople will be leading with cloud....Cloud is the way we lead our discussions with our customers."
Menzione, whose full title is General Manager of USPS Partner Organization and Strategy, is responsible for partner engagement within the U.S. Public Sector. He deals with businesses in the Federal, State and Local Governments, Healthcare and Education. Before joining Microsoft, Menzione Vice President of Government Sales at General Dynamics Itronix Corporation.
His sentiments echo Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer's, speech in April to computer science students at the University of Washington. He discussed what's ahead for computing, with a focus on how cloud computing will change the way people and businesses use technology.
"Twenty million businesses and over a billion people use Microsoft cloud services," Ballmer noted.
One of his slides in Seattle was headed:
"The cloud fuels Microsoft, and Microsoft fuels the cloud"
The most telling quote came towards the very end of Ballmer's address. "This is the time," he said. "It's the opportunity and the cloud forms the basis between the microprocessor and the Internet, we did give the gifts that never stopped giving. And they're giving us the cloud today, and as I like to say at Microsoft, for the cloud we're all in."
Right after giving his speech, Ballmer sent an internal email to all Microsoft employees, the full text of which is worth reading even now, two months later, since it gives chapter and verse on why Microsoft believes cloud computing to be one of the biggest opportunities in decades for the tech industry and for Microsoft. Here it is:
To: All Microsoft employees
From: Steve Ballmer
Today, I spoke to a group of students and faculty at the University of Washington to discuss how cloud computing will change the way people and businesses use technology.
My goal was to challenge people to look at the cloud more broadly and understand the multidimensional nature of the cloud transformation happening today. Other companies have defined the cloud in a narrow, one-dimensional way. Although these companies provide some interesting components, Microsoft is uniquely delivering on a wide range of cloud capabilities that bring increasingly more value to our customers.
In my speech, I outlined the five dimensions that define the way people use and realize value in the cloud:
* The cloud creates opportunities and responsibilities
* The cloud learns and helps you learn, decide and take action
* The cloud enhances your social and professional interactions
* The cloud wants smarter devices
* The cloud drives server advances that drive the cloud
This view fuels our investments across the entire company, from datacenters to cloud platform technologies to cloud-based development tools and applications. Today, nearly every one of our products has, or is developing, features or services that support the cloud. As I said today, when it comes to the cloud, we are all in. We are all in across every product line we have and across every dimension of the cloud.
Of course, this is not news to any of you. We have been making huge investments in the cloud for the past decade. Nearly five years ago, Ray's "Services Disruption" memo provided the outline for what we needed to do as a company, and with the delivery of Windows Azure at the recent PDC, we have made huge strides in making this vision real.
To keep our momentum, it is critical that every Microsoft employee works to deliver the full benefits of the cloud to our customers.
As a part of this, I request that you do the following:
* Watch the speech on demand here
* Learn more about our cloud offerings and how they relate to our overarching software plus services strategy here (unavailable outside Microsoft network)
* Review your commitments to ensure you are landing our vision with customers and partners.
Of course, there is more work to do. We have strong competitors. We need to be (and are) willing to change our business models to take advantage of the cloud. We must move at "cloud speed," especially in our consumer offerings. And we need to be crystal clear about the value we provide to all our customers.
To drive our message home even further, today you will see an ad campaign in the U.S. focused on our commercial and government businesses, a new website with consolidated content and case studies, and ongoing emphasis on the cloud from me and other members of the SLT in our upcoming speeches and presentations.
We have an enormous opportunity in front of us. We have great products and services in the market today and a range of new ones on their way.
All of our products make the cloud better, and the cloud makes our products better.
The major cloud platforms defy a simple, side-by-side analysis. Each of the major IaaS public-cloud platforms offers their own unique strengths and functionality. Options for on-site private cloud are diverse as well, and must be designed and deployed while taking existing legacy architecture and infrastructure into account. Then the reality is that most enterprises are embarking on a hybrid cloud strategy and programs. In this Power Panel at 15th Cloud Expo (http://www.CloudComputingExpo.com), moderated by Ashar Baig, Research Director, Cloud, at Gigaom Research, Nate Gordon, Director of T...
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The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
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ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it is bringing a greater level of control, security and flexibility to cloud-based application development and delivery with a single-tenant version of Bluemix, IBM's platform-as-a-service. The new platform enables developers to build ap...
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Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world.
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An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
Nov. 22, 2014 05:30 PM EST Reads: 1,158
Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
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Technology is enabling a new approach to collecting and using data. This approach, commonly referred to as the "Internet of Things" (IoT), enables businesses to use real-time data from all sorts of things including machines, devices and sensors to make better decisions, improve customer service, and lower the risk in the creation of new revenue opportunities. In his General Session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Dave Wagstaff, Vice President and Chief Architect at BSQUARE Corporation, discuss the real benefits to focus on, how to understand the requirements of a successful solution, the flow of ...
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The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
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"BSQUARE is in the business of selling software solutions for smart connected devices. It's obvious that IoT has moved from being a technology to being a fundamental part of business, and in the last 18 months people have said let's figure out how to do it and let's put some focus on it, " explained Dave Wagstaff, VP & Chief Architect, at BSQUARE Corporation, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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Focused on this fast-growing market's needs, Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: VTSS), a leading provider of IC solutions to advance "Ethernet Everywhere" in Carrier, Enterprise and Internet of Things (IoT) networks, introduced its IStaX™ software (VSC6815SDK), a robust protocol stack to simplify deployment and management of Industrial-IoT network applications such as Industrial Ethernet switching, surveillance, video distribution, LCD signage, intelligent sensors, and metering equipment. Leveraging technologies proven in the Carrier and Enterprise markets, IStaX is designed to work ac...
Nov. 20, 2014 09:15 PM EST Reads: 1,328
"There is a natural synchronization between the business models, the IoT is there to support ," explained Brendan O'Brien, Co-founder and Chief Architect of Aria Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 15th International Cloud Expo®, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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C-Labs LLC, a leading provider of remote and mobile access for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced the appointment of John Traynor to the position of chief operating officer. Previously a strategic advisor to the firm, Mr. Traynor will now oversee sales, marketing, finance, and operations. Mr. Traynor is based out of the C-Labs office in Redmond, Washington. He reports to Chris Muench, Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Traynor brings valuable business leadership and technology industry expertise to C-Labs. With over 30 years' experience in the high-tech sector, John Traynor has held numerous...
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Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
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The 3rd International @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that it is now accepting Keynote Proposals. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago. All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades.
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The Internet of Things is not new. Historically, smart businesses have used its basic concept of leveraging data to drive better decision making and have capitalized on those insights to realize additional revenue opportunities. So, what has changed to make the Internet of Things one of the hottest topics in tech? In his session at @ThingsExpo, Chris Gray, Director, Embedded and Internet of Things, discussed the underlying factors that are driving the economics of intelligent systems. Discover how hardware commoditization, the ubiquitous nature of connectivity, and the emergence of Big Data a...
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Almost everyone sees the potential of Internet of Things but how can businesses truly unlock that potential. The key will be in the ability to discover business insight in the midst of an ocean of Big Data generated from billions of embedded devices via Systems of Discover. Businesses will also need to ensure that they can sustain that insight by leveraging the cloud for global reach, scale and elasticity.
Nov. 18, 2014 09:00 PM EST Reads: 1,993
SYS-CON Events announced today that Windstream, a leading provider of advanced network and cloud communications, has been named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9–11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York, NY. Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN), a FORTUNE 500 and S&P 500 company, is a leading provider of advanced network communications, including cloud computing and managed services, to businesses nationwide. The company also offers broadband, phone and digital TV services to consumers primarily in rural areas.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that IDenticard will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. IDenticard™ is the security division of Brady Corp (NYSE: BRC), a $1.5 billion manufacturer of identification products. We have small-company values with the strength and stability of a major corporation. IDenticard offers local sales, support and service to our customers across the United States and Canada. Our partner network encompasses some 300 of the world's leading systems integrators and security s...
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IoT is still a vague buzzword for many people. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Mike Kavis, Vice President & Principal Cloud Architect at Cloud Technology Partners, discussed the business value of IoT that goes far beyond the general public's perception that IoT is all about wearables and home consumer services. He also discussed how IoT is perceived by investors and how venture capitalist access this space. Other topics discussed were barriers to success, what is new, what is old, and what the future may hold. Mike Kavis is Vice President & Principal Cloud Architect at Cloud Technology Pa...
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Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world. The next @ThingsExpo will take place November 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California. Since its launch in 2008, Cloud Expo TV commercials have been aired and CNBC, Fox News Network, and Bloomberg TV. Please enjoy our 2014 commercial.
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