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In his speech at the Tipping Points Annual Event on 3rd July 2012 Professor Eric Abrahamson of the Columbia Business School talks about the many different ways in which blame is apportioned in the aftermath of catastrophic tipping point events such as the Global Financial Crisis. The research builds on the rich literature on theories of status, theories of reputation, Attribution theory, scapegoating theory and the literature on whistle-blowers and hero CEOs.
Professor Abrahamson points out that the main forms of what he calls "blame-gaming" are vertical, horizontal, diagonal and oblique blame-gaming. These groups encompass a wide variety of actors that are associated with the catastrophic event in one way or another e.g. the firm/corporation itself, the superior officers within it, subordinates, individual rogue traders, regulators, the press and even Business Schools. Also falling within the four main forms of blame-gaming are non-human objects of blame e.g. greed, corporate culture, herd behaviour, financial services, the financial system, etc.
Professor Abrahamson explains the concepts of scapegoats, sacrificial lambs, turncoats and whistleblowers. He uses Albert Hirschman's interesting and intellectually powerful schemata of Exit, Loyalty and Voice to describe the relationship between a corporation at the centre of a crisis and the members of the corporation who could be cast as scapegoats, sacrificial lambs, turncoats or whistleblowers [in the blame apportioning game]. He applies this theoretical framework to some recent scandals in banking and he shows interesting differences in the roles played by current or former employees in these recent banking scandals. While Jerome Kerviel (of French bank Societe Generale) was made a scapegoat by his former employers and cast as the only bad egg within the company, Fabrice Tourre of Goldman Sachs appears to be more of a sacrificial lamb blamed in public but supported by Goldman Sachs financially. Greg Smith can be cast as a turncoat or whistleblower blaming a concept [not a particular person] i.e. the culture of greed and disrespect for clients that he claims exists at his former employers, Goldman Sachs. Then there's Robert Wilmers (the CEO of M & T Bank, a bank viewed by many as a good bank) who can be viewed as an industry turncoat because of his criticisms of unsavoury practices at other banks.
Still using the financial crisis as a case-study Professor Abrahamson makes some other interesting observations. He outlines a hierarchy of acclaim where responsibility for the outcome of an event (in this case, success) is eagerly accepted by those at the top of the organization. He then contrasts this with a crisis event and observes that in such a situation the hierarchy turns into a hierarchy of blame where responsibility for the outcome (in this case, failure) is firmly rejected by those at the top and is diverted to those lower down in the organization.
On a more serious level, Professor Abrahamson's work is very important because it attempts to tackle some huge questions about blame apportionment in a Tipping Point society. He tries, for example, to address crucial questions such as: what predicts the level at which blame analysis is made? At what point does a blame game get going? What (or who) wins in these blame games? Why do they win? What are the consequences for the winners and losers in these blame games?
An important point Professor Abrahamson is keen to make (and which I wholly agree with) is that attributing blame to the weak or to 'abstractions' such as "the system" or "herding" is highly problematic. This is because it hampers our ability to learn genuine lessons from past crisis events and therefore does not enhance our ability to prevent or endure future crisis events. It is much better to focus on finding the human agent that is responsible or liable for the problem.


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The large ceremonial Temple Mound A basks in the March late afternoon sunlight.
The late night sky is lit by the glowing, misty full moon while a large bonfire participates at the Moon Over the Mounds Event.
Temple Mound A glows in the dark to lead visitors to the top during the Moon Over the Mounds monthly full moon event.
A group of young grade school students work with the wooden shake sifting machines under the guidance of the attentive archaeologist.
Striking a stone tool to a conk shell, the archaeologist demonstrates ancient tool making at the dugout canoe construction site.
Enthusiastic guests watch and raise hands about the Ranger's atl atl demonstration.
Enthusiastic guests watch and raise hands about the Ranger's atl atl demonstration.
Waiting for the visitors to arrive for an evening program, the amphitheatre bench seats gather beside the towering mound.
A carved lone jagged limestone stelae rock meets the path under its covered kiosk.

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The Bearettes (13-1) fell to Millbrook, N.C., on Dec. 29 at the Upward Classic in Roebuck, S.C., 45-38 and were looking to start a new winning streak with the new year.
So far, mission accomplished. Bradley Central jumped to an early lead and battled through a bit of layoff lag to get their second win over the Warriorettes, 55-45, Saturday.
The Bradley girls won their first meeting with White County (12-5) by a score of 67-50 on Dec. 7. The Bearettes were 4-7 all-time against White County before Saturday's win. It was the Warriorettes who defeated legendary coach Jim Smiddy in his last game as head coach of the Bearettes in sub-state play.
Slow, methodical basketball appeared to be the order of the evening as both squads looked for openings underneath. Three-point goals were hard to come by for either team with both sides rattling the iron early and coming up empty.
Bearettes coach Jason Reuter said slow and methodical is not the plan he had in mind for Bradley Central's 2013 opener.
"Well, a win is a win," Reuter said of the Bearettes' performance. "(I have) a lot of respect for White County. They play very hard. If they had shot the ball a little better we might have been in trouble tonight. I thought we had several chances to put them away, but we kept finding ways to leave them in the game."
Brooke Copeland, who led Bradley with 13 points, broke a 6-6 tie with a reverse layup and later added two free throws along with Baylee Carroll to put the Bearettes up 12-6. Rebecca Reuter lifted in her first two points of the night with 12 seconds left in the first quarter to make it 16-8.
Reuter, who scored a career-high 19 against the Warriorettes in the first meeting this season, ended her night with 12 points. Kayla Withrow scored 10 for the Bearettes. White County's Allyson Quillen led all scoring with 20 points.
"Too many times we discredit the other team. White County had a plan. They zoned us, they matchup zoned us and they tried to keep the ball out of the hands of the big girls. If Brooke had shot a little better I think the game would have been over at halftime," said Reuter. "But, that's life. You are going to have ups and downs. We've got to keep improving."
Bradley Central hit on only 2-of-9 from behind the 3-point line and made good on 17-of-32 inside the arc. The Bearettes outrebounded the Warriorettes 27-21 and caused 17 White County turnovers.
Brandi Whitted beat the Warriorettes defense to make it 20-10 early in the second. Kayla Withrow lifted in the first 3 for the Bearettes from the left wing with 3:20 left in the half to make it a 24-12 game.
Back-to-back 3s by White County's Loren Foster closed the gap to 24-20. Copeland added two more for the Bearettes before the half to widen it to 26-20.
White County's Allyson Quillen and Bradley's Copeland captured the lion's share of scoring in the third quarter. Copeland got help from Reuter, Withrow and Carroll as the Bearettes stayed comfortably ahead of the visitors. Copeland's sky hook with just under two minutes left in the third put the Bearettes out front 41-31. Lindsey Davis added a running reverse layup late to send the Bearettes into the final eight minutes with a 45-31 lead.
The fourth quarter opened with a flurry of missed opportunities on both ends of the court.
White County finally broke the string of rattlers with back-to-back 2-pointers. Withrow answered seconds later with a 3 from the left wing to put the Bearettes on top 48-35.
From there, the Bearettes maintained the status quo and closed out the night with the their 13th win of the season.
"I'm not going to browbeat my girls too much — we won the game by 10 points. We know, they know and my assistants know we are going to have to play much better than that, or our season will come to a quick end come tournament time," acknowledged the Bearette coach.
"We took care of the ball a little better tonight. We only had 13 turnovers. But, we've got to execute and we've got to have that killer instinct like we've had in the past. When you get a taste of blood you've got to go ahead and put them away."
Game Summary
White County 10 12 9 13 — 44
Bradley Central 16 10 19 10 — 55
White County (44) — Allyson Quillen 20, Hudgens 2, Cash 2, King 4, Wilson 6, Foster 8, Roberts 2, Taylor.
Bradley Central (55) — Brooke Copeland 13, Rebecca Reuter 12, Kayla Withrow 10, Carroll 8, Whitted 6, Donaldson 4, Davis 2.
3-point goals: White County 2 (Foster); Bradley Central 2 (Withrow).
Records: White Co. 12-5; Bradley Central 13-1.
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The Bradley Central boys also notched a victory Saturday evening, downing the visiting White County Warriors by a 58-45 margin. Full details will be in Monday's edition of the Banner.


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(05-19-2012 08:09 PM)rybowski97 Wrote: First I want to say kct and buckunteer---you are responsible for me buying these older boxes from watching all of your breaks, i love the older stuff and have been drooling ever since seeing scans of all the hits you guys have gotten. Aside from lebrons and durants rookie year I have stayed away from any basketball wax but love the 90s stuff which is 90% of my collection. Today I had intention on buying another 12 bowman baseball jumbo box but opted a jumbo hobby box of 98-99 topps series 2, 97-98 hobby fleer series 2 and 96-97 ultra retail and 07-08 hobby fleer tradition. I will be busting these tomorrow evening and will post results. I talked the owner into giving me a deal for about the same price as the 2012 bowman jumbo box.


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The bride is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Michael Skinner ad Karen Cook, all of Nashville. She is the granddaughter of James Buford and Betty Buford, both of Franklin, and Commander Hugh Cook and Wynette Cook, both of Memphis.
The bridegroom is the son of Donald and Doris Stewart of Athens. He is the grandson of Ruby Stewart of Etowah and the late Willis Stewart, the late Charlie Wilson and the late Donnie Wilson.
Both are graduates of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. The bridegroom is a partner in the dental offices of Drs. DeAmond and Stewart.
The wedding was officiated by Michael Coleman, pastor of New Zion Baptist Church. Nuptial music was provided by Tim Jones.
The bride was presented in marriage by her father. Her maid of honor was her sister, Alaina Skinner of Nashville. Bridesmaids were Alison Nevels of Memphis, Catherine Carpenter of Ripley, the bridegroom's sister Annie Stewart of Athens, bride's sisters Shannon Skinner and Micah Skinner, both of Nashville, Caitlin Peterson of Springfield, Ill., and Laura Wood of Cookeville. Blair Reynolds of Franklin was also in the wedding party.
The bridegroom's brother, Wesley Stewart of Athens, served him as best man. Groomsmen were Cody McConkey of Etowah, Nick Watts of Athens, Matthew Stone of Cookeville, Jeff Mathews of Kingsport and Ashwani Sharma of India.
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1. Since the first slaves arrived from Africa in 1619, there was a tremendous need for the protection and enforcement of a person's civil rights.
2. In 1808, Congress bans the importation of slaves from Africa.
3. In 1863, President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within the Confederate states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
4. On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, declares that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional.
5. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger. In response to her arrest Montgomery's black community launched a successful year-long bus boycott. Montgomery's buses were desegregated on Dec. 21, 1956.
6. In early 1957, The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a civil rights group, is established by Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth.
7. Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Ala. He writes "Letter from Birmingham Jail," which advocated nonviolent civil disobedience.
8. On August 28, 1963, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is attended by about 250,000 people, the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital. Martin Luther King delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. The march builds momentum for civil rights legislation.
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10. In November 2009, Barack Obama, an African-American Senator from Illinois, is voted in as the 44th President of the United States. On February 2, 2009, Eric Holder is elected in a vote of 75 to 21 as the first African-Americna Attorney General of the United States.


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After nearly losing her life to a heart rhythm condition called sudden cardiac arrest, Helen Trimm came to the experts at UVA. Now, a defibrillator gives her peace of mind. "It's my security blanket," she says.
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The SAGAR Guest House is made up of 7 comfortable bedrooms individually decorated with private bathrooms and some bedrooms with common bathrooms shower and toilet. (Some rooms with AC) All this adds to the colorful character of the our property. We have great flexibility with sleeping arrangements according to the need of your group. Our friendly English speaking staff will help and guide you to get the most out of your stay in Varanasi, including organizing sightseeing tours, theater visits etc Featured Facilities Include: We have 7 clean, brightly painted private rooms. 5 rooms with private bathrooms, 2 rooms with shared bathrooms Large rooftop terrace with views of the sunrise &sunset Cold & Hot Showers is available 24 hours Centrally located within a 5 min walk from the Golden Temple, Monkey Temple, Nepali Temple & and main ceremonial Ghats on the Ganges River |
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The United States believes proposals Russia put forward for discussion by
the finance ministers of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
forum in 2012 as next yeara**s APEC chair are reasonable, U.S. Secretary
of the Treasury Timothy Geithner said.
Russia will for the first time host an APEC summit in the Far East in
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initiatives Russia submitted in particular include a proposal to increase
financial literacy for the population of the Asia-Pacific region.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will attend the APEC summit in Hawaii.
Medvedev will meet with his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama on November 12.
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Monday, 12 November 2012Just before Hurricane Sandy I started writing a new blog called Diary inspired by my reading of Witold Gombrowicz's more famous book with the same name.
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Just before Hurricane Sandy I started writing a new blog called Diary inspired by my reading of Witold Gombrowicz's more famous book with the same name.
During the summer I wrote another blog called The Clean Sheet which gathered together the odd bits of information I wanted to collect about soccer -- stuff that could be filed under the banner "Dancing Zu Qui Masters", the title of my work-in-progress about the beautiful game. Give that Catch & Release has lost its interactive capacity, I've decided to expand the remit of The Clean Sheet to include what had formerly been collected here. Also, if you use Facebook, you can find me there.
Yesterday, the company that hosts my web site decided to install new (and improved?) software without warning me. As a result, the web application that I use to maintain this blog was irreparably and irretrievably damaged. So the blogging experiment I started back in 2005 has been wiped out. I suppose that all the entries exist somewhere in Google-space, but I have been reminded of the ephemeral nature of web publishing: here yesterday, gone today.
There is a post on the blog Vertigo about Robert Macfarlane's book The Wild Places. Some of what Terry writes about and quotes from Macfarlane's books resonates with what I'm reading in Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost.
Solnit writes: "…that the world is wild, that life is unpredictable in its goodness and its danger, that the world is larger than your imagination…" [p. 132, taken out of context]
On the next page she concludes, "Maybe writing is its own desert, its own wilderness." And I remembered my own book, Wasted, about the week I spent wandering around the Salton Sea, another wild place.
What follows Solnit's meditation on wilderness is a recounting of the plot of the Hitchcock film Vertigo, a film which is connected with Chris Marker's films La Jetée and Sans Soliel. Chris Marker died a couple of weeks ago, a day after his 91st birthday on Monday, 30 July 2012. The Guardian published an obituary to commemorate Marker's artistic career.
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In introducing Shakespeare to elementary students, the best place to start is with the rhythm of the language in Shakespeare's songs. Children respond to the sound and beat of Shakespeare as much as they respond to his wonderful stories and characters. Shakespeare's songs are also short, self-contained (in terms of what's going on in the rest of the play), and often include vivid images and word pictures.
Shakespeare's predominant meter was iambic. A unit of iambic meter, called an iambic foot, consists of a soft stress followed by a sharp one: da-DUM. (A good example of an everyday word that acts as an iambic foot is toDAY.)
Shakespeare wrote most of his poetry in iambic pentameter, five units of iambic beat to a line:
"But SOFT, what LIGHT through YONder WINdow BREAKS." daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM
But a lot of the songs from his plays are written in iambic tetrameter, four units of iambic beat to a line:
You SPOTted SNAKES with DOUble TONGUE daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM
This meter is common in songs and in children's poetry. Dr. Seuss is a great example:
i DO not LIKE green EGGS and HAM i DO not LIKE them, SAM i AM
The first part of this lesson will engage children in a number of activities that explore rhythm and meter. In the second part of the lesson, students will create a series of "living pictures" to illustrate the song.
This lesson is divided into parts, but the whole lesson will probably take one to three block periods.
Part One: Rhythm and Meter
1. Ask the children to place their hands over their hearts and feel the daDum, daDum, daDum of their own heartbeats. Tell the students that Shakespeare used the rhythm of the heartbeat in his poems and plays. Have them practice beating out this rhythm on their desks, and tell them that this rhythm is called iambic.
2. Next have the students stand up and gather in a big circle. Tell them to face right and start marching around the room to an iambic beat. Starting with a softly placed left foot followed by a sharply stomped right, have the students circle the room twice, marching to the beat.
3. Now add words. Get out your Dr. Suess and read aloud sections of Green Eggs and Ham as the students continue marching around the room. The teacher calls out a line, and the students repeat it. Continue this back and forth until you feel you have fully established the rhythm.
4. Continue marching to the same beat while substituting the words to Shakespeare's "A Winter's Song" from Love's Labour's Lost. Again the teacher calls out each line and the children repeat it: When IciCLES hang BY the WALL, And DICK the SHEPherd BLOWS his NAIL, And TOM bears LOGS inTO the HALL, And MILK comes FROzen HOME in PAIL, When BLOOD is NIPP'D, and WAYS be FOUL, Then NIGHTly SINGS the STARing OWL, Tu-WHIT; Tu-WHO, a MERry NOTE, While GREASy JOAN doth KEEL the POT. When ALL aLOUD the WIND doth BLOW, And COUGHing DROWNS the PARson's SAW, And BIRDS sit BROODing IN the SNOW And MARian's NOSE looks RED and RAW, When ROASTed CRABS hiss IN the BOWL, Then NIGHTly SINGS the STARing OWL, Tu-WHIT; Tu-WHO, a MERry NOTE, While GREASy JOAN doth KEEL the POT.
At the end of this activity, your students should have a good sense of Shakespeare's meter and should be well on the way to memorizing one of his songs.
Part Two: Meaning, Movement, and Living Pictures
1. Give each student a copy of "A Witches' Spell" from Macbeth. (See handout section below.) Point out that Shakespeare often plays with the meter of fairy songs or witches' chants. Ask the students to beat out the rhythm of this poem on their desks. They may have a little trouble at first, but they may come up with something like this:
THE WEIRD SISters, HAND in HAND, POSters OF the SEA and LAND, THUS do GO, aBOUT, aBOUT, THRICE to THINE, and THRICE to MINE, And THRICE aGAIN, to MAKE up NINE. PEACE! the CHARM'S WOUND UP
Then have the students get up and gather into small circles of three, pretend to be witches, and move to this new meter. Encourage them to join hands, or to dance, or to change directions—whatever the passage moves them to try. Then discuss reasons why Shakespeare might have used a different meter for supernatural characters. Is the rhythm more chant-like? More spooky?
2. Distribute the handout for "A Winter's Song." (See handout section below.) Discuss unfamiliar words and anything that the students may have missed in marching around. Try to see if the students can guess the meanings of the words through context or sound. A few words or phrases that might cause problems for them are:
"blows his nail"—blows on his hands to warm them "keel the pot"—cool the contents of the pot by stirring or pouring in something cold "saw"—speech "crabs"—crabapples
Don't be a stickler for the exact meaning. Give your students the chance to use their imaginations.
3. Divide your class into six small groups. Assign one line from the first stanza of the song to each group; the refrain will be acted out by the whole class. Do the same for the second stanza.
4. Give the small groups 3-5 minutes to think about how to act out or pantomime their lines in front of the class. Tell the students that they are going to make a living, moving picture out of the poem as you read the poem aloud.
5. While the small groups plan and practice what to do, circulate around the room and encourage students to use their physical imaginations, space, sounds, and movement to stage their lines.
6. When all the groups are ready, discuss with the whole class what they want to do to act out the refrain. Practice once or twice.
7. Perform the "living picture" at the front of the room.
Did your students have fun stomping out Shakespeare's meter? Did they get a sense of how different rhythms can reinforce or affect the sound and meaning of different poems? Did they work together to use their imaginations and create a living picture to illustrate a poem? After working on all these activities on "A Winter's Song," do they almost have it memorized?
If any of these things happened, your students learned a lot and had fun with Shakespeare at the same time.
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Published on April 22nd, 2013 | by Jules IKEAHacker
29Big Besta Built-ins
Materials: Besta bookcases, shelf units, Dioder LED strips
Description: My wife desperately needed some bookcases in her rather large home office, and I'm neither a carpenter nor rich enough to pay someone $8K for custom units. But, I've done quite a few trim projects around the house and have previously transformed some other Ikea pieces, so I figured I could buy some basic Ikea bookshelves and transform them as well, using a lot of moulding and incorporating some other features found in custom cabinetry.
Initially, we had wanted to use the Hemnes pieces for this project because they are solid wood and thus easier to modify and 'dress-up' (solid wood is easier to paint and nail into). However, the Besta stuff was on sale and offered more options, like soft close drawers, a variety of glass doors, etc. Moreover, there was a large Besta wall unit that had been created and displayed at our local Ikea, and it was very, very close to what we were looking for.
The office wall in question is fairly large, so we decided on a double wide Besta shelf unit on each side, and a three wide Besta shelf unit for the bottom and for the bridge between the two bookshelves. This thing was going to be huge! I think the top of the center section turned out to be nearly 10′ tall.
Because I wanted to create the look of built ins, I had to find a way to raise all of the pieces off the floor so the baseboard moulding would fit along the bottom. So, after assembling all of the bookcases/shelves and measuring the finished size, I built a base using 2x6s, and this framework was nailed to studs in the wall. I then placed the Ikea units on top of the base. I also nailed some 1×6 trim boards to the face of the 2x6s, to create more depth and a finished edge.
This is where I encountered my first snag. Turns out that the Besta drawers and doors are flush with the top or bottom of the units. This meant that I had to raise the bookcases/shelf units off the base that I had just built, in order to keep the drawers or doors from hitting the base or crown when opened. I raised the bookshelves/shelf units with 1×4 trim boards glued to the bottom of each bookshelf/shelf unit (except the bridge). I did this with the unit upside down, and when the glue dried I flipped it over and placed it on the base.
Permanently installing the bookcases and shelf units was next. I had spent some time looking at custom cabinetry at Lowes and Home Depot, and noticed that a lot of high end cabinet installations feature at least one cabinet that is taller/shorter, and/or deeper/shallower than the rest. I incorporated these ideas into my project by 'bumping out' the center shelf/bridge units 4″ from the wall, and the bridge was also raised about 4″ higher than the adjacent bookcases. These changes would create some architectural interest and allow for some really large crown moulding at the top.
Bumping out the lower piece was simple; I pulled it out 4″ and used construction adhesive to secure it to each adjacent bookcase. The bridge unit was more problematic. First, I had to glue the two pieces of the bridge together, because the bridge is only available as a single or a double. Thus, I glued a single unit to a double unit, to create one that was as wide as the bottom unit. Second, I had to find a way to 'hang' the bridge 4″ away from the wall. I did this by securing a two rows of 2x4s to the studs with large bolts, and then used the hanging brackets that come with the bridge to secure the bridge to the 2x4s. Worked like a charm! Sorry I don't photos of this step.
After getting the bookcases and the shelf units installed, it was time to tackle the crown. Normally, I would simply nail the crown to the face of the bookcase, but remember that the top of the Besta doors are flush with the top of bookcase. Thus, I glued/nailed some strips of 1×4 trim boards to the top of the bookshelves and to the top of the bridge. This gave me something to nail the crown onto.
I like large, built-up crown, so instead of just using one piece of large crown I used 4 separate pieces. The first piece is a strip of backband moulding, which has a rabbeted lip on it and sits on the 1×4 trim piece. On top of that I glued and nailed a 1×4 piece of basic trim board, followed by 1×4 baseboard (inverted). Finally, I capped it off with a fairly large piece of cove moulding. In this photo you can see why I raised and bumped out the the center bridge – it allows the crown on the bookshelves to terminate gracefully into the ends of the bridge. I was very lucky that the terminated end fit so well.
Wish I had photos of the base, because I think it's more beautiful than the crown. I used the same 5.25″ baseboard and shoe moulding used in the rest of of the room, but I also capped it off with a chunky piece of cove moulding that covers the 2×6 that forms the base. The cove profile is the same as the cove on the crown, so it ties everything together nicely.
After all of the moulding was primed and painted (luckily, the white paint I used is nearly a perfect match for the white finish on the Besta pieces), I turned my attention to the area behind where the TV would reside. Initially, I had wanted to use some faux stone sold by Lowes, but my wife found some silk fabric that she wanted, so I took several yards of that and nailed/glued it to a piece of 2″ thick foam insulation board and pressed it into place behind the TV. With that behind me, I installed the drawers, doors, and installed Ikea Dioder LED strips in each upper cabinet. I also installed 4 strips above the TV, secured to the bottom of the bridge and hidden by a piece of moulding. All of the LED strips were connected to a switched outlet so they all turn off/on at the wall switch.
Took me nearly a month and almost every spare minute. Great result tho.
~ D. Hale, Alexandria, VA
29 Responses to Big Besta Built-ins
Do you mind sharing how much this project cost you?
I think the Ikea pieces were around $900 and the moulding was another $300 or so. Not cheap, but far cheaper than paying someone to build it from scratch.
I think you are probably the best husband ever!
Thank you, I appreciate your kind words.
You got my vote for hack of the year. Amazing work!
I love it. How much though? My husband likes to hear #'s first lol
Please see my reply above.
Looks awesome! I'm going to be doing a smaller unit like this soon – what paint did you use that matched the white so well?
It's a Duron color. I believe it's Classic White.
mho: that's how you turn besta into worsta. Great craftsmanship, but nowhere near my taste!
Not sure if this qualifies as "built-in" since it doesn't look integrated into the wall behind it, but it does look very classy.
Wow, that looks fantastic. You should be very proud of your skills.
Looks really nice! Although I think if I had it in my living room it would need to be a little more built-in, as it still seems to take up some space.
Thank you. It definitely takes-up alot of space but the room was very large to begin with, so it fits our space really well.
@ Remmie, When it's connected to the wall, its built in. Built ins often times aren't between wall studs.
This is amazing! Do you happen to know the paint color/brand? I am wanting to retrofit some white Besta pieces but matching the paint scares me
Please see my reply above.
Love this!!
is there any way you could show the individual pieces like in this post: http://www.ikeahackers.net/2013/07/besta-built-in-family-room-bookshelf-and-tv-unit-2.html
I was just wondering what size of tv that is you have?
I also would like to know what the individual pieces you used were. This looks amazing, excellent work!
This is really beautiful for a very inexpensive price! I think it is very built in " looking". I would also like to do something very similar and would really appreciate a list of pieces used.
Great project! We are in the planning stages of something similar. What kind of glue did you use to attach the trim boards to the Besta units? Seems like the finish would prevent wood glue from being useful but something like gorilla glue might work?
I love what you have done. Amazing. I have searched for a year to find something that would fit my budget and looks custom. The only think I like so far is the besta group from Ikea. Are you available/willing to build something similar for me (must smaller scale).
I guess I should mention that I live in Arlington, VA that is why I asked if you would be willing to build something similar for me.
I LOVE this. You did such an awesome job. I'm trying to figure out the parts you bought by looking online. Any chance you can share? The parts/pieces that you bought? Would so much appreciate it. Also, can you share the final dimensions?
MAN! If only we could CLONE you!! I'm trying not to be jealous! With all the compliments you're receiving surely your next project will be to enlarge the openings in your home so you can get you head through the doors, right? )
I'm going nuts on the IKEA site trying to figure out the pieces you used. Can you help with this? Thanks so much!! -
Looks Amazing! Could you explain how you finished off the bottom base. What pieces of molding did you piece together and how did you fill in the bottom to get it flush with cabinets? Thank you.


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Hardship and adversity only made Hyoung Lee more compassionate.
The oldest of six children, Lee grew up dirt poor in Wonju, South Korea, during the Korean War. His family often went hungry, and there was even a three-day period during which there was no food at all.
When he was 2, Lee began developing fevers and swollen joints. The one doctor who cared for the town's population of about 100,000 prescribed ice packs.
Later, when Lee was 12, he was treated with antibiotics. The arthritis was often so painful that he couldn't walk even to the bathroom. Doctors next tried cauterizing the skin around his joints, which did little more than leave scars on his legs.
Despite these struggles, Lee worked hard, persevered and went on to medical school at Korea University. In 1968, he emigrated to the United States, where he did his residency work and faced new obstacles — speaking very little English, having to moonlight during his internship to support himself and often facing emotionally painful discrimination.
Three years later, he opened a pediatrics practice in Oak Forest and soon moved it to Tinley Park, where he continued to see patients until his death in November.
Though he didn't talk much about his early challenges, the kindness Lee developed as a result of them was greatly appreciated by his patients, many of whom were second and even third generation and many of whom attended his funeral.
"We were overwhelmed by how many people came to his memorial service," said his eldest daughter, Grace Lee, an infectious disease doctor at Boston Children's Hospital. "Many of the mourners, including a 7-year-old girl, stood and spontaneously spoke about him. It was very touching."
"My father always supported those who didn't have as much as we did," said Joyce Lee, his youngest daughter, a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of Michigan. "He loved his patients, loved to work and loved his family."
Because they believe their father would cringe at the thought of his office equipment ending up in a landfill, Grace and Joyce have worked with South Suburban Hospital, where Lee was on staff, to re-purpose the vintage materials so Lee's legacy of giving may continue.
The daughters, both Sandburg High School grads, are donating his exam tables, cabinets, blood pressure cuffs and other items to another Southland physician who recently opened a 350-bed hospital in India.
In 2005, Prasad Neerukonda, an anesthesiologist at South Suburban Hospital, founded Anil Neerukonda Hospital in a poor rural village in eastern India, on the edge of the Bay of Bengal, near where he grew up. There was no hospital within about 25 miles, and people were in desperate need of health care, especially emergency services. He founded the hospital in memory of his son, Anil, a medical student who died in an accident in 1996.
Neerukonda saw the hospital as a way to allow his son to live on, serving the people he was preparing to care for. The Lee sisters feel the same about donating their father's equipment.
Jim Munz, coordinator of medical technology at South Suburban Hospital, organized the donation.
"Part of what we do is help doctors and their families decide what to do with equipment after retirement or, in this case, death," said Munz, a lab worker in Oak Forest when he first met Lee.
"Dr. Lee was a delightful man, a rock-solid member of the South Suburban community."
After Lee's death, Munz visited both of his daughters, who quickly embraced the idea of passing the equipment on to a colleague trying to make life better for less fortunate people halfway around the world.
"It would mean a lot to him to know he was helping people beyond his patient population," Joyce said.
Grace said, "We wanted to make sure he could continue to give. We think he'd be happy knowing someone was still able to use the equipment."
Two days before he died, Lee, 72, was in his office working.
"He loved being a pediatrician so much, he couldn't bring himself to retire," Joyce said. "Every year when it came time to renegotiate his lease, he'd consider retiring and then extend the lease for one more year."
The day before he died, Lee dropped off his wife of 41 years, Hee Ja, at the airport for a planned trip to Boston to visit Grace and her family. Then he checked himself into the hospital.
He forbade the staff to contact his family because he wanted Hee Ja and Grace to enjoy a Nov. 10 performance in which Grace's daughters, Naomi and Abby, were to sing.
The following morning, he let hospital staff contact his wife. She and Grace took the first flight back to Chicago. But, sadly, Lee died 45 minutes before they arrived.
Naomi and Abby as well as Joyce's children, Bruno and Stella, wrote letters to their beloved grandfather.
Grace recalled how he took his grandchildren every year to Winter Wonderfest at Navy Pier and bought them the spinning light-up toys they treasured.
"His expressions of love when we were growing up were not through his words, but through his actions," she said. "When Joyce and I could drive, he would wake up early every morning and brush the snow off our gray Lincoln Continental and warm it up for us before we went off to school."
Every year, when they came home from college for winter break, he'd be waiting with a flu shot in hand, Grace said.
Lee was the kind of physician who went out of his way to help his patients. He called them back in the middle of the night. It was not unusual for him to answer the office phone.
"He was a very generous and kind man," Joyce said.
And the throng of people who came out for his memorial service and funeral back that up.
A poem read by two of his grandchildren at the service sums things up for the Lee sisters:
"Not how did he die, but how did he live?
"Not what did he gain, but what did he give?
"These are the units to measure the worth
"Of a man as a man, regardless of birth.
"Not what was his church, nor what was his creed?
"But had he befriended those really in need?
"Was he ever ready, with word of good cheer,
"To bring back a smile, to banish a tear?
"Not what did the sketch in the newspaper say,
"But how many were sorry when he passed away?"


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Get rid of the Monopoly, get rid of at least these problems for now..
And there you have solved the mystery. Lying (or deception) is a main ingredient in our political system. From election promises to excuses after getting caught in embarrassing situations, our politicians have perfected 'the dancing around the issue' to avoid consequences.
In the political game, it's not what you know or how you feel about an issue, it's who is paying the bills (with a little something extra for good behavior). Somehow, the explanation (for votes or actions) very seldom reveals the truth.
The biggest lie to date is calling our 'elected leaders' representatives. These puppets are not interested in doing what is best for the public (job description). They are bought, paid, and rolled up into a tidy little package, ready to 'sponsor' whoever brought them to the dance.
Next time any politician promises he/she will work for you, ask exactly how -- and watch the dance begin anew.
In the summer of 1933, shortly after Roosevelt's "First 100 Days," America's richest businessmen were in a panic. It was clear that Roosevelt intended to conduct a massive redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor. Roosevelt had to be stopped at all costs.
The answer was a military coup. It was to be secretly financed and organized by leading officers of the Morgan and Du Pont empires. This included some of America's richest and most famous names of the time:
Irenee Du Pont - Right-wing chemical industrialist and founder of the American Liberty League, the organization assigned to execute the plot.
Grayson Murphy - Director of Goodyear, Bethlehem Steel and a group of J.P. Morgan banks.
William Doyle - Former state commander of the American Legion and a central plotter of the coup.
John Davis - Former Democratic presidential candidate and a senior attorney for J.P. Morgan.
Al Smith - Roosevelt's bitter political foe from New York. Smith was a former governor of New York and a codirector of the American Liberty League.
John J. Raskob - A high-ranking Du Pont officer and a former chairman of the Democratic Party. In later decades, Raskob would become a "Knight of Malta," a Roman Catholic Religious Order with a high percentage of CIA spies, including CIA Directors William Casey, William Colby and John McCone.
Robert Clark - One of Wall Street's richest bankers and stockbrokers.
Gerald MacGuire - Bond salesman for Clark, and a former commander of the Connecticut American Legion. MacGuire was the key recruiter to General Butler.
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Contrary to popular belief, it's not so easy to make it in this town. Turns out, as they say in the cops, not everything in Sarasota is about money, social position or real estate after all. Take me, for instance. You'd think that someone who'd once been married to the Barley Baron of Britain, owned the best house on Martha's Vineyard, and also happened to be Margaret Wise's next-door neighbor on Siesta Key for eight whole years would be a social shoo-in. Alas, no.
When I returned to Sarasota after a four-year divorce hiatus in New York, no one was the least impressed by my second coming. In fact, large numbers of Important Sarasota People all the way from the Oaks to Siesta, Westway and even Longboat looked through me on multiple re-introductions, their eyes glazing over as if I'd morphed from caviar into chopped liver during my absence.
Even joining Bird Key Yacht Club did not raise my social standing to the tippy top. But thanks to Kathryn Carr, I made my stripes in the kitchen. Carr, who is so gung ho for Animal Rescue Coalition that she acquired the leash and collar of Eileen Curd's late Maltese at an ARC auction even though she has no pet herself, asked me to cook a Chinese dinner at my house for ARC's live auction two years ago. I was doubtful that an ethnic dinner chez moi would be a money maker, but I've learned it's useless to argue with a lawyer.
Who, I worried, would pay for Chinese in a little old Florida house without Phil Mancini, Paul Mattison, a bartender or valet parking?
Never assume, as they say in the cops. Sarasota happens to have a dearth of great Chinese restaurants, and although ARC supporters at the Hyatt the night of my auction might have been partying hearty on their designer martinis, pear salads with blue cheese, and filet mignon, deep down inside they must have been hankering for hoisin spare ribs, spicy Szechwan pickles, lobster Cantonese and homemade dim sum. A very swell crowd paid more than $4,000 for a homemade Chinese feast. Twice.
The first doggie dinner got a lot of buzz and drew eight more "guests" than had signed up. I had to set extra places at the last minute. Heaven knows I've never been able to count in anything but millions. Luckily, after the 10 courses and sake, nobody noticed I was a total wreck trying to get all that food out without benefit of a catering staff.
What is it about ARC that makes us do these things? Look at Sally Schule, who invited 100-plus canines to Saks for A Dog's Night Out in January. Four hundred humans also came, along with 20 heart-stoppingly cute foster puppies looking for permanent homes.
Imagine the scene. Martinis and champagne in the glasses, piddle on the floor. High- and low-caste pups were all over the place, rolling around on the marble and sniffing each other's privates. Ralph and Eleanor Graves were there without their Yorkies, but Eleanor said she'd give up her husband for Rowdie and Sophie any day. Ralph countered that he'd give up both his wives for them. Gil and Elisabeth Waters said they just couldn't live without theirs.
Janet Kane was there with her brand-new pug baby, Miss Otis. Linda and Dick Dickinson brought their two standard poodles, Monty and Torri. Unni Kaltenbacher had a tiny dachshund mixed breed attached to her shoulder for hours as she encouraged her husband, Philip, to adopt it on the spot. Pat Thompson loves Tux, her toy poodle-like Havanese, so much she was willing to dress up as Cruella de Vil for him. And Tux was willing to be dyed all over with black spots to look like one of Cruella's Dalmatians.
Linda DesMarais said her dog, Daisy, is her child: She loves her more than anyone but her husband, Doug Barker. Yellow Lab Smooch was dragging Lisa Morris all around cosmetics, and Lisa didn't care. Emily Walsh loves Sexy Bitch so much she lets her sleep under the covers. And Sally Schule beamed as Saks took on a whole different odor, I mean aura. But then she wasn't doing the cooking.
ARC was founded by Ira Barsky and Ed Sarbey four years ago to stop the wholesale euthanasia of abandoned animals. At that time, more than 6,000 Sarasota cats and dogs were being put down every year for lack of a home.
Mary Lee Richey, executive director of ARC, believes euthanasia is down 20 percent as a result of ARC's spaying and neutering, foster and adopt-athon programs, many of them operated in partnership with other local animal rescue and shelter agencies. And it's not like the old days, when all you could take home was whatever mutts happened to be in the place that day. Pet seekers can now place orders for a particular breed. This inspired me to start thinking about getting a dog for Kathryn Carr as a thank-you gift for launching me socially through that Chinese dinner.
Since I wasn't up for sale or adoption this year, I couldn't wait for ARC's gala, the HairBall. At the party, Ed Sarbey announced ARC had passed its 10,000th spay/neuter benchmark that very week. When he mentioned the little faces in shelters looking at us with such hope for a loving family, there wasn't a dry eye in the place.
Comedian Brendan Healy came all the way from England to help boost the bidding, and it seemed to work.
The Dickinsons got a third standard poodle puppy. Although Unni Kaltenbacher didn't adopt her dachshund-mix friend from Saks, she did find a home for it. Eileen Curd was motivated to start looking for a new Maltese. As for me, well, I spent some quality time in the Hyatt lobby with the dogs, cuddling and shopping the adoption puppy playpen. Kathryn Carr is going to need that leash and collar, after all.
Leslie Glass is a playwright and the author of 14 novels, including the bestselling crime series featuring NYPD's April Woo.


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Mark SubbaRao, director of the Space Visualization Lab, demonstrates the tile wall, which is used to preview and test visuals for upcoming exhibits at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, Ill., on Tuesday, May 7, 2013. | Andrew A. Nelles~Sun-Times Media
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As a pulsing nebula races toward the watchful audience, a hand shoots up to touch it. More hands follow suit, straining skywards.
For the children taking in the Adler's newest show, "Cosmic Wonder," outer space is just out of reach.
It's an illusion created by the latest technology: The Crab Nebula or stars in Orion seem to graze heads when, in fact, they're projected on a dome nearly 40 feet above the audience.
As the image gets larger, it appears closer and flatter—"or like the objects are dropping on top of you," Mark SubbaRao, Adler astronomer and show creator, said.
Even the planetarium's president, speaking at an early screening, was initially fooled: "When I first saw the technology, I reached up." Michelle Larson embraced her gaffe, "I don't want to lose that sense of wonder."
The aptly named "Cosmic Wonder," which opened May 17, is the most recent show created by the Adler for its revamped (in 2011) Grainger Sky Theater. The 190-degree domed theater contains 20 military-grade projectors, which produce images so sharp that they appear to be 3-D.
In the ever-upgrading technology world, it's still an unprecedented feat of imaging and power two years after installation.
And with three shows plus plans to travel the last space show, "Welcome to the Universe," the planetarium is charting new territory.
It has quietly emerged as a mini Hollywood of sorts, a global leader in creating space-themed educational entertainment.
"There's not much competition," said SubbaRao, who's been overseeing productions and helping lead theater efforts since before it opened.
He points to New York City's Hayden Planetarium, which owns the same projector, but with less resolution.
A few world expos in Asia have unveiled high-contrast or full-sphere projections, but at great financial cost.
For Adler, the theater upgrade was a long time coming. The Zeiss Mark VI projector had aged, and the planetarium started a campaign to replace it.
But the Zeiss' opto-mechanical technology, as old-fashioned as it was, created pinpoint-size stars with great contrast, an important factor when screening space objects against an inky-black background.
Finally a 2008 technology show unveiled an ultra-high-contrast digital projector with five times the pixels of a digital cinema display. The Adler took the leap.
But perhaps the biggest overhaul to its programming came when the Adler tore down the traditional space-show model.
Instead of using recorded video footage, show creators relied on rendered National Aeronautics and Space Administration data — in the case of "Cosmic Wonder," Hubble Space Telescope's imagery — to create an accurate, and often mind-blowing, view of space.
Rendering this data is no easy feat, and the Adler's relationships, like one with Microsoft WorldWide Telescope, bolster production efforts.
For all its technological accomplishments, audiences will notice the imperfections in when "Cosmic Wonder."
There's something homespun about it: The contrast still lacks sharpness, SubbaRao and Larson share writing credits, the show presenters occasionally improvise. "We don't have a feature-film budget," SubbaRao acknowledged.
Madeline Nusser is a local freelance writer.


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Jewelry designer Rachel Blumenthal cut her fashion teeth as a publicist for Yves Saint Laurent. At the suggestion of fashion editors and buyers, she launched her own "new look" in 2004: Rachel Leigh, a bold line that's chic and well ahead of the style curve. Rachel Leigh cuffs, drop earrings and chain necklaces are constructed from a mélange of materials — satin ribbon, seed beads, snakeskin and antique gold — and she strikes an elegant note with her gorgeous enamels in of-the-moment colors. The line has garnered much-coveted editorial space in Vogue and Elle, and is a fave of downtown-uptown Gossip Girl Blake Lively.