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Comment on: Dynamiting homes as a TV stunt sends the wrong message
One more thing regarding whether or not the "...TV stunt sends the wrong message". Such a stunt might well send a, madly right, message that the world indeed cares desperately for those whom it's failed, who've perished, through falling prey to social circumstance in quite the wrong context; and not merely by mishap and the occasional disaster, which happens anywhere. Blowing up 5 famous examples together for show across the world won't make amends, but will allow us to commemorate and reveal our compassion for inter alia those we continually fail. If we grasped such an opportunity to reveal this compassion, such as "dynamiting" Red Rd - you said it first - then those we fail might be more likely to give 'despair and survival' a second thought at that crucial moment. Having a second thought can save a life!
Comment on: Dynamiting homes as a TV stunt sends the wrong message
The article is proverbially anti-council! In respect of the George Sq debacle, I'd be the first to rubbish replacing the red tarmac with a grey version and two extra zones of grass – a big disappointment as I've said previously, but nevertheless very welcome as an alternative to the controversial competition. It was actually none of the entries that were expressing a love to retain the square's full statuary, the council merely provided the privilege of a 'clean-slate' brief, so as not to restrict the design experts, which the most lucrative entries inter alia took too much advantage of; one in particular with such a severe kitch as I've said previously that it was fortunate to be shortlisted... This year, as with the last year's square, I am once again witnessing the macabre: the reaction against reason, particularly from our architectural community yet again. The extremely honourable and very clever 'light-bulb' moment and idea that Red Rd should bite the dust at the opening ceremony, is something I'm very jealous of (for not thinking up myself) as a sociably conscious architectural graduate. I hang my head in shame! I could imagine the likes of the Prince's Foundation not failing to dream such a plot up though, for more reasons than I would have had! I've nothing personal against a well architected/tenanted high-rise, whether of the utopian gardens-in-the-sky variety (in Toronto you can be on an open balcony 66 up); or of otherwise safer equivalents. However, the former type has suffered a cataclysm of some quite horrendous stories concerning lives lost, throughout the last few years, for social reasons rather than by mishap. Glasgow is bearing the brunt of having some of the most infamous. I hadn't realised by quite 'how much' until I Goolgled for the infamous Glasgow 'mother & son' case - that my generation of architecture students were told of during Built Environment studies - to find way too many examples worldwide. Notwithstanding a keen interest in the architectural possibility of high-rise as with any other typology, I was nevertheless still going to respond using the single lectured case source alone. Directing this not to the lack of 'commemoration' in the petitioners' plea per se, in my opinion, but rather towards the cold academia that's put architectural sensibility and related passion above that of commemoration and compassion. Especially as it's not the correct year in which to sideline, exclude, stifle, or protest over particular deeds of commemoration! My language would have been much stronger had I actually ever resided in a high-rise. We need to know when and when not to support various social concepts at the right time. An architect and architecture school are now on record for shooting themselves in the foot by being too unflappable over its own advocacies at the expense of others' once in a lifetime ones. 2014 was not the time to be meddling in what would have been one of the most heartfelt acts of commemoration in the world. Even without the architectural stance against it, the highly lamentable concept of the proposed Red Rd explosions would have been a Commonwealth related act and therefore not to be full-heartedly supported by everyone in the UK. The architectural community needn't have bothered inciting, if not spurring, Glasgow's would-be compliment of activists against this heraldic act. 2014 is as much to do with mourning as it is to do with celebration, especially in Scotland. If we can't blow up our failures when is best the time to do so, in such spectacular fashion as is feasibly the case here (despite the blockbuster-film connotations) then who are we kidding? Ps I wish I now hadn't tweeted to RIBAJ that "... will a legacy-acumen [also] filter into the redevelopment of Red Rd, which the games want spectatorially razed?" in relation to the "nice" athlete's village. Perhaps 'cold feet' has set in on too many fronts to mention. As readers may now know, the Games organisers have pulled the plug on the idea hours ago. Safety concerns from staging amongst activists being the contributory factor, or so it is said. I don't think any activists would try to spoil the show if the standpoint /declaration as to the purpose of the proposed stunt were better communicated. Glasgow 2014 now won't take the risk and expense: for the emotiveness that it failed to deliver or put over to the public.* Had it done so, critics would be fewer (they've had a heyday as it stands) and real activists wouldn't have bat an eyelid. [*Even Jonathon Meades on the concurrent AJ article - in order to slam it as a Brutalist sympathiser - cleverly hinted in advance that Glasgow 2014 wasn't selling the plot well enough.] Ps Apologies for the long post and for not proofing or editing it down! I call it chatting by myself – no one replies these days.
Comment on: Last chance to fill out the survey: Should the title of architect be protected?
The £0.5M worse off that I am currently - having not managed to transfer from being an assistant to an employed 'architect by title' as yet - will have been in vain if 'title protection' were to be abolished! 2017 is a long way away, in terms of [expensively] working towards my objective, meaning further wasted earning potential yet to come, in spite of my experience.
Comment on: BBC slammed for 'bias' after Patty Hopkins is sidelined in TV show
Happy International Woman's Day today, themed 'inspiring change'! No men in this following article here, "The women who built the world" http://www.architectural-review.com/home/international-womens-day-/
Comment on: What does history teach architecture?
sorry: '...having choice that really matters!', i.e. choice in the knowledge of a full and complete timeline RE architectural history.
Comment on: What does history teach architecture?
It foremost teaches architecture its timeline, under the term 'architectural history'. Ideas, however baked, can indeed be studied in parallel. To what extent though (?) It's our prerogatives to a) not see the woods for the trees and vice versa; b) separate the wheat from the chaff and vice versa; c - y) well, feel free to make up some more of your own...; z) etc. I think one thing is certain: the timeline, and however it's studied, shouldn't be a contentious issue; and that what might be contentious is favouring or giving greater attention to certain lines of history over others... A "foundation" such as AE can debate this by all means despite ARB/RIBA control, but one would hope for this to be in an informed open forum manner - like we are doing now publicly on this thread - where such foundations that are curious and concerned for education can eventually educate/inform themselves, then inform others. It would hitherto seem that lambasting any particular branch of history is "half-baked" in itself. All branches are valid recyclable and disposable alike. Branches of history that are taught with added expertise shouldn't really be shunned, per se as above, provided all and other branches are equally part of the program. Students have the ability and right to switch off from the '...woods for the trees' and the '...wheat from the chaff' etc. if they so do wish. It's having the choice that really matters!
Comment on: Brutalism's return to favour
Casting favourites aside, I believed that Park Hill (which I chose for this AJ Poll) was the clear winner to be expected from architects as judges. That wasn't to prove the case here! Good discussion is on this at RIBA LinkedIn group, where I commented that I'd chosen a number to win per separate polls, but that my deliberated judgement was as per the AJ Poll. I suggested that the role of judgement be given over to the actual chartered and associate memberships of the RIBA, i.e. to decide by vote, rather than relying on a select few [supposed] masterminds...
Comment on: RIBA announces Part 1, 2 and 3 memberships in major shake-up
Anon Anon, Would you consider a 'Conservation Architect' who is not registered with ARB, but fully RIBA chartered &/or RIBA conservation accredited to be part of that gamut of 'this architect and that architect'. I feel your pain in spite of my last 2 permanent jobs entitled as 'Trainee Architect' in '88; and the same 20 years later. I was also brought up in the earlier mould of 'Assistant Architect' back in the 1980s as a teen. A little self esteem perhaps, but was quite happy to succumb to the rise/shift to the words 'Architectural Assistant' instead, which I've predominantly used on my CV for the last 2 decades. Ironically, the much tougher regimes in the US would have been calling me an Architect long ago. The UK system is quite belittling for those you have been blacklisted indefinitely as an 'architectural assistant' supposedly en-route to their Part 3 and registration. If you've had the patronage towards registration, which I suspect most 'architectural assistants' have within their first few years, I bet you & the others were agitated by having to gain merely the 1 year of post pg practical experience rather than [like me] the 1, 2 or more decade/s that I'll have to endure, sorry enjoy. I enjoy what I do, so I don't complain about it. I'm okay without self esteem and I don't even mind if I end up setting a world record without it, but what I do mind is some other aloof person reminding me that I'm a 'ural assistant, no more and no less. You tell me Anon Anon: What would be less than the 'Architecturinal Assistant' that I can't retreat from, without breaking the law about it? I think I know who's really been breaking the law, and it might very well be the profession that you and many 1000s of others wish to remain unchanged in any way. Well, that's the impression I'm getting from your reply. Like you, I would like the seeming elitism to remain, but not while I'm unemployed jobseeking for too long: try 'a half decade's worth' as of in 1.5 hours time. Yes, you heard right, 5 years long term unemployed, not counting a 1 week spell as a 'ural assistant approximately 2 years ago. Maybe I'll have some champagne tomorrow to celebrate my spell as the longest serving emeritus architcturinal assistant in the UK. I say play fair and let me at least be an 'assistant' if I'm not to be an 'architect', rather than have me uttering all this nonsense that brings the profession into disrepute. Don't wait for business confidence to return, let me swap desks please with someone. I've been the pauper for long enough thank you very much, and it's someone else's turn now. Knowing my luck, I'll have to wait another half decade or more. Yes, I'll have been made redundant - 5 year's ago - in 1 hour and a quarter hours from now. Apologies for going off on a tangent! [Ps If I'm lucky enough to get an assistant or technician job tomorrow, I could say that I was out of work for [not around] a half decade or 5 years but for 5 on the dot. I'll give you 5 million to 1 for those odds!]
Comment on: RIBA announces Part 1, 2 and 3 memberships in major shake-up
[pps there's an option that one can call oneself a 'trainee' architect publicly, but It sounds so wrong for someone of my credence. Therefore maybe a 'RIBAA' affix for Associates should indeed be considered as an advanced late form of [developed trainee] architect, dependent on the number of post-grad years of recorded experience. The whole fiasco has hitherto made my CV too full of description because there's no such affix/description as yet - architect candidates have got to make up their own - long-winded - explanations.] Truth (& change) will out!
Comment on: RIBA announces Part 1, 2 and 3 memberships in major shake-up
David, since joining RIBA a few years ago, I've limited my use of affixes in case I give the impression that I'm an architect before registering as one. This was after reading [perhaps] a by-law or the likes - long ago - that qualification affixes must also not be used in conjunction with not using the affix of the professional body. I'm sure it was RIBA Bylaws if I remember correctly. I agree with this though. As I said earlier in my individual response to the survey, I'm happy to remain letter-less until registration to prevent giving the impression to the public that I'm otherwise registered. Simply because affixing whatever non-chartered category will confuse the public even more! That aforesaid bylaw that I read was nothing short of spot on. And, I hope it's still there in b&w. As for a potential RIBAA affix for RIBA Associates, well why not? If anything, a simple 'RIBA' affix will then become the veritable downgrade from the compliment of being potentially RIBAA for the longest time possible. However, personally I want to upgrade to RIBA rather than downgrade onto it from potentially RIBAA, because as I said: 1) the public need to confide without confusion and doubt on strong, and as streamlined as possible, affixes rather than a weak multitude; and 2) because I'm not seeking the self esteem that 'BArch DipArch RIBAA' would bring me when having to introduce myself in public from symposiums to the jobcentre and everything in-between. I also argue that other Associates should likewise refrain, let alone especially the student, graduate, fellow, and affiliate members being proposed to have affixes. Introducing RIBAA; sRIBA; gRIBA; FRIBA; affRIBA; or whatever in addition to simply RIBA is going to take immense public education, outreach and publicity, which I doubt we have resourced for. Let's stick with the wisdom of the old Byelaws: 'No affix until chartered'. [Ps A couple of days ago - nothing new this - I was tabled as an Architect at a stone course for architects engineers etc. I didn't say I was one; I used the word architecture for my discipline/designation. I'm most often called one than asked if I'm one, but I don't necessarily like it because of the current public confusion over qualification. I'm also not surprised that there's this confusion, even without a proliferation of affixes! ] You learn something new every day! I got a reply, and Owen's suggestion above looks likely as there's a number of stages before any such proposition can take effect. We're looking at somewhere during 2015 or '16 for this "shake-up" to materialise.
Comment on: RIBA announces Part 1, 2 and 3 memberships in major shake-up
i.e. as I can't call myself an architect in my own right. This is deplorable and scandalous after obtaining/devoting more credence than most qualifying architects. The profession surely can't leave people like me out on a limb at such a critical stage in one's career, having post-graduated in 2000 with 3 years' ug & 8 years' pg practical experience so far. Many 100s of you as businesses have my CV. Please give me a call please, or risk the profession more than falling as it stumbles to determine its [still] rogue qualifications agenda
Comment on: RIBA announces Part 1, 2 and 3 memberships in major shake-up
Pps: Ultimately (as compromises) none of this is great, for Associates, if being held back from being able to become or call oneself an architect, especially in times like these when or if you're made redundant in the interim...
Comment on: RIBA announces Part 1, 2 and 3 memberships in major shake-up
Ps: And a 2nd question if I may. Does this relaxation/compromise on 'affix use' also mean that I - and other Associates as RIBA labels us - will finally be able to use BArch DipArch (or other equivalent combination of architectural qualifications) after our names too? To my mind, although I don't know how others feel, there's no point being able to use an affix without being able to reveal what qualifications that affix pertains to.
Comment on: RIBA announces Part 1, 2 and 3 memberships in major shake-up
The affixes are too long winded! I've just tweeted these quotes @RIBAJ here a moment ago:- ...'AssociateRIBA' is pretty long winded for an Affix. 'RIBAA' would be much better for me until fully chartered! ...alternatively 'ARIBA' would conflict in Scotland, where fully chartered RIAS members are in fact also Associates affixed as 'ARIAS' ps how about the following suggestions too:- ...Part 1 students would be better as 'sRIBA' ...Part 2 students would be better as 'gRIBA' Associates need capital letters, ergo my earlier suggestion of RIBAA Fellows okay as traditionally FRIBA I've one question though that I've emailed Anthony today as follows:- "...will Associates - not Part 3 enrolled yet due to unemployment; or no current patronage - have to temporarily withdraw from the membersip class until otherwise?..." ps If Anthony or any other RIBA colleague is subscribed to this thread, perhaps they can comment here too, as I may not be alone in the UK (or am I?) I know a quick tel call to RIBA will probably suffice shortly, but it would be good to discuss such things on here too, in an open forum situation, so that many can see and comment. The decisions on affixing can't be easy. The endeavour is to be commended including the survey work beforehand. Pps I recall writing in the survey that I was happy to continue to have no affix until chartered. Again, , I'd easily use RIBAA as an affix, but not 'AssociateRIBA'. The latter is saying 'something is wrong' or 'this is not a qualification as such'. Put simply: I want letters not words!
Comment on: What's behind the Walkie Talkie 'death ray'?
A couple of quick thoughts/questions! 1) Whilst white rather than black can deflect the problem at peak times - good call - another solution would be for receiving surfaces to be in a decent thickness of appropriate natural stone/s rather than any obvious intolerant materials..., now's the time to splash out – while things are hot, i.e. to up the ante, not that dark painted wood; plastic displays; or adhered tiles are bad. It's simply now inappropriate. 2) The upper floors are presumably safe for mid spring and autumn as there's no likelihood of an exceedingly high ambient air temperature; and also possibly if the rays don't even coincide at that level through any particular opening/s. On a different thread, I thought the height of summer sun might also be dangerous, but I imagine now that the angles of incidence are probably too obtuse or wouldn't even coincide, i.e. anywhere in particular (?) 3) While it certainly brightens up the street, for potentially/presumably up to 200 sunny days per annum (?), there may even be a greater amenity or boon 'ambient light wise' than an otherwise un-obscured sky, enough to perhaps prompt a change in lighting habits/usage during sunny days. Secondly: would there actually be any solar gain, enough to influence heating habits/usage, i.e. particularly during early/mid spring and mid/late autumn? [Ps I've been in London today and didn't even go along to this site, but I did have something more educational to attend: an excellent 1 day's stone course proceedings from the Stone Federation GB. I've tweeted it deservingly as a Favourite – a hard one to match, make sure to attend next year's if you can, highly recommended...] Apologies as unedited ad lib
Comment on: 'Poor value' HS2 should be scrapped, argues think-tank
Oh, almost forgot to say: my IEA comment - treading old territory - is all about engaging two of our newest cities. So do have a gander although I've mentioned it all before of course on previous article threads. By celebrating our newest cities, we might perchance begin to celebrate our older ones in better ways!
Comment on: Old War Office up for sale
If I may muse/confess for a moment on something that I'd have picked up on - moons ago - had my diploma thesis been more on architectural history rather than architecture. [My diploma 'special subject' was incidentally the other way round, more historically based, but not to worry. You can't do too much in a two year Diploma!] Here goes: It strikes me that this 1901/06 work by Young may have influenced how Sir JJ Burnet had seen the future development of his Clyde Navigation Trust building after its 2nd phase in 1905/08. It's too uncanny to dismiss in terms of the timing; the trapezoidal site; and the chosen style, which Burnet would have felt - could easily be harmonised with the 1882/86 1st phase, which had instead anticipated a campanile to mark the subsequent phase twenty years later. I trust there's few like examples of this kind of play on UK Beaux Arts works, which are more likely to be orthogonal in plan. Do let me know of any others worth note, any budding historians among you! You learn something new every day, thanks AJ!
Comment on: 'Poor value' HS2 should be scrapped, argues think-tank
I've commented on this subject before with the same recurring theme, but as always, with zero feedback; and possibly because any architectural readership portal is not really the place to discuss visionary/budgetary transportation matters, i.e. for what is ultimately in political hands or in other words influenced and controlled by democracy and law respectively! I've therefore commented on the IEA's site itself, perhaps likewise too wishfully. My notion/argument is that economic growth can indeed be possible through lateral and inventively long-term thinking. My opinion is that the 10 or so post industrial cities, scrabbling for a cut, will be better off (and more focussed) being proximate rather than engulfed/smothered by such an international infrastructure. Railways cannot work internationally - on a per city basis - in the same way that airports can. The sooner that we can comprehend this - the embarrassment that says otherwise - the better! The Monopoly that we're playing simply needs to improve, et viola: to be truly capitalising! The impetus to capitalise is there, on an expectantly irrational and dysfunctional basis as per the above report's findings, but the sense to capitalise isn't, it's helplessly absent as yet... Here's a link to what I've posted on the IEA site, see comment #2: http://www.iea.org.uk/blog/high-speed-2-and-the-logic-of-collective-action-0
Comment on: Five views on sustainability in architectural education
I'm with Austin on this. Somewhat reiterating my comments on the related thread "Who should be taught in the architectural canon?" the education of architects is quite simply too important to jeopardise with such errant syllabi as that stated. Syllabi that indoctrinate views on architecture masters, theorists, sustainability or whatever else, is rather for researchers, not architects. Unless of course it's again part of that prerogative that get's 1000s of names (not really architects) or in a word 'false-livelihoods' onto the ARB Register. Saying 'sooo-naa' instead of 'saw-na' for 'sauna' might have fooled someone's perception of an architect in the 1990s, but linguistic corruptions won't work now! The newer generation of staple architects in the UK will indeed need to sift for those with a command on research vocabulary: the new black for architects' livelihoods, tinged with accent & red trousers for additional security by all means... RIBA/ARB, I'll bring my fee down to help you differentiate the difference between researchers' and architects' courses. I said £50/hr: I'll go £40/hr now. I don't want the UK embarrassing itself anymore! I know the NHS is bursting at the seams as Earth's 6th biggest employer (source BBC), but throwing livelihoods, for livelihoods sake, into the architecture profession is no way to go about manufacturing affluence, or taking the weight off the NHS. It's not working! We'll need real architects (if not real doctors and nurses) to get out of this recession, so give that call RIBA/ARB and I'll sort it out. I'm not going less than 40 on this: I need to make a living too! Apologies for not editing as it's Saturday night for crying out loud!
Comment on: Who should be taught in the architectural canon?
When I was at the Mac this kind of stuff (viz. 'who' or 'what' should be taught) was left up to the students to read up on, i.e. via a booklist: e.g. Frampton's Modern Architecture: a Critical History. When a tutor/lecturer talks with the same language (conviction) as in these literary works, it's time for either: the student (training architect) to choose a different course provider; or for the course to be invalidated/un-prescribed by the RIBA/ARB. Dissemination/debriefing from the lectern, studio &/or crit-space shouldn't involve too many syllables/letters per word per sentence. I was lucky in getting exactly this, excepting one part time studio tutor whom I didn't mind. If I didn't read up*, then my loss! If conversely - for instance in the language to be found in this article, which I hope and trust is specifically reader orientated jargon - was ever to be found in class, i.e. regurgitating, substituting or even supplementing that expected to be found in booklist textbooks, students wouldn't then bother to read or absorb important critical awareness within actual architecture discourse on their own account/accord. Discourse simply provides hymn-sheets for all of us to make what we will of it. Students shouldn't ever be distracted/de-railed from this quite adequate resource – a good booklist and library suffices. This frees up the teacher to teach: a good thing these days given the increased admin duties etc. Students are at school to learn, not there to clone the teachers scripted understanding or knowledge! They are not apprentices of budding or would-be theorists/discourse-makers. The RIBA/ARB should again not be accrediting/prescribing this type of training/schooling for architects. A Masters, Diploma, PgDip, MSc, etc. is fine to support for this kind of education, but it must not be confused with the BArch and DipArch awards that are ascribed as actual architects' qualifications, but instead as research courses. Where dissemination does take the form of such jargon it simply replaces actual teaching time on a genuine BArch/DipArch course. I therefore disagree with the sentiment behind the quoted passages that 'teachers should pass on their understanding of discourse with conviction'. Passing on knowledge of discourse in terms of references is fine, but nothing much more to promote/maintain the learning faculties of potential architects? A teacher's own understanding of discourse, even where tremendously scholarly, should quite simply not come between that of a developing architect's. It looks like the RIBA/ARB now have to seriously see where this kind of - research orientated - teaching is present and disassociate it with the accredited architecture degree/diploma for architects. I'm sure this has already happened to an extent (given the breadth of courses that schools are now beginning to offer) in recent times. There's obviously a market for research based architecture, but again, the profession of architecture must understand what courses are developing 1) architects & 2) researchers. I'd help them differentiate if my fees weren't so high (£50/hr)! * The irony is IMO that for a better grasp of architecture discourse and theory, the best thing is to be schooled as an architect rather than as an architecture academic/researcher. That said, a developing architect can easily forgo any academic prowess at his/her disposal, whereas a developing academic/researcher can't, unless of course it's their motive is to be architects getting in through the back door of an accredited architecture course in disguise. RIBA give me a call: £50/hr will get things sorted out across the country; £150 if you want me abroad too! ps: I'd have edited this, but Friday night calls!
Comment on: In pictures: Fire breaks out on Foster's Glasgow 'Hydro' arena
I can add to this as a snap happy observer of the structure merely hours before the incident, incidentally. The latest photo on my way home from the Govan Fair on my latest photoalbum revealed its calm nightly setting at dusk, despite being driven 'furiously' past it over the traffic-lighted 'Squinty Bridge', hence the camera-shake, onto the Broomielaw (yes, the road where the "Fast & the Furious 6" stunt filming was shot earlier in the year: figures). My photoalbum focussed on metals (as a theme) so an apt collection of new and old delights in the material over the course of 2 nights. see here http://photos.kevinscotttoner.co.uk/#!album-88 A little earlier, on my way to the Govan Fair from North of the River Clyde on foot, running, I also made sure to snap a reciprocal shot of the Hydro, looking back at the 'Squinty Bridge' in a panorama shot among a slowly growing context of iconic metal structures etc. Stopping to get these shots meant that I had to run non-stop between shots - as mapped here http://goo.gl/maps/GomJU - to catch the unveiling of the reconditioned Sir William Pearce statue (aka the Black Man) scheduled for 7.45pm, before a subsequent Parade kick-off, another enjoyable journey. Let's call the run 'The Black Man Challenge", a veritable 10th of a marathon over a 30min period... One for the GSA foundation course Freshers perhaps! Enjoy the photos, there're fire brigades in mines too! Here's a shortcut though straight to the panorama focussing on the Hydro from a distance http://photos.kevinscotttoner.co.uk/#!album-88-252 among other distance shots of 1) Zaha's 'Riverside' Museum with shipyard cranage and a Glenlee all in silhouette; and 2) a special 32x zoom shot of the Millennium Tower from Pacific Dr. Who knows, maybe the Hydro shots could even provide a clue in the investigation! Particularly the second last photo, which incidentally [it'd just dawned on me] is preceded by a shot of a 'parading' fire engine, probably one of the fire-fighting engines as photographed on this AJ article; the other omen being that the actual Hyrdro shot shows the tangent point at the eaves-line where the fire occurred [wait for it] in the foreground of a little bit of available red sky ! 'red sky at night, shepherd's [or sailor's] delight'
Comment on: The profession's future under review: Farrell launches call for evidence
Commendations on the clarity of the presentation and content! Of further interest would be the following pasted link on Scotland's 'architecture & placemaking policy' review, which bears some similarities to this review for the DCMS. Consultation responses, which ended last September, are available from here. Perhaps some cross-fertilisation will be called for too, later, at the end of the day in the formation of actual policies. If so, then it might be worthwhile for there to be full UK-wide participation on the Farrell Review, especially where important issues might not have been caught in the Scottish consultation. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-Environment/AandP Furthermore, one might wish to consult the very recent CITB 'Construction Skills Strategy for 2012-2017', which replaces that of 2006-2011. This was the result of a UK-Wide industry and professional body based consultation conducted by Pye-Tait and can be found below. The Scottish A&PP consultation may have been too early to take cognisance of this equally very thorough work. http://www.citb.co.uk/en-GB/About-us/How-we-work/strategy/
Comment on: Don't blame the planners for planning decision madness
Contrary to what you've hinted Paul, Scots Planning Policy, maybe not alone, appears to me to for once introduce the importance of demolition to the heritage professional, even although demolition isn't really an obvious principle of conservation, yet! A reminder that redevelopment is as much a branch of heritage as is conservation... Perhaps E&W ought to come up to speed if it hasn't already through NPPF (?). Such enlightenment might influence the impression of what constitutes protection in WHSs... That said, when push comes to shove, e.g. in Glasgow, not a WHS, when a developer recently said 'let's redevelop Thomson's Egyptian Halls via SHEP' cold feet set in, naturally. Here's a thought though on perhaps some lateral thinking: e.g. Wouldn't a Section 75 (or 106) regulation for such very real conservation plights that neighbour any proposed viable and sustainable redevelopment/enhancement be a possible device... 'Planning Obligations' as such, if apportioned accordingly, should actually benefit a redevelopment, i.e. be in a redevelopment's interests. Conservation plights aren't merely LBs (often very complex endeavours) but can presumably be any kind of environmental improvement of variable magnitude... Such ethics are already a key in all architects' Code of Conducts; let's start applying them for a change, i.e. professionalism. The profession must utilise, not fight, the planning system. It shouldn't be about heritage bodies Vs developers. Architects should easily be able to steer or conclude on conservation/development properly without too much destined confrontation, as an extremely erudite* lot. Design-review-panels shouldn't have to really steer too much, to help unravel muddles. It does help though if we've been reading you Paul through the years, theory-wise in the AR and no less profession-wise as I read now... Long may readers confide! Some heritage experts would even concur with a lot of what you say here. There appears to be a blindfold of regulation and custom that can often prevent common sense or propriety from prevailing! I myself charge 2k/hour to help sort, but as a child (jobless architectural assistant) who should be seen and not heard there's not much I can do about it! (apologies: unedited!)
Comment on: Yasmin Shariff compares women in architecture to other professions
"...21%..." A little more social engineering on the Part 3 allocation front can help to redress the balance as per my short hypothesis on Christine Murray's current Column article, later in the thread. Conversely, would it be equally incorruptible if gender 'equality' was to ensue in household and paternal/maternal responsibility and authority; and dare I say: in preferential custody over children (?) It would surely promote equalities elsewhere were it ever commonplace and not so romantic. In an earlier comment I mocked swapping this around to help speed change. "...babes in Arms..." Contrary to the horror stories you'll hear here from women, parenting babies cannot be recommended enough, especially to males for a change... babes sleep twice as long as adults. - Getting real, architectural business - unlike law, medicine and rocket science etc. - must support a much higher percentage of privileged over meritorious livelihoods due to the nature in how we qualify from our architectural education. Architecture Qualies in essence are perhaps as much bought as earned, e.g. mainstream passes are churned out at the expense of fails: a student has to be more often exceptional to earn the right to fail and re-sit in order to really interrogate weaknesses. Think how many more crashes we'd have if the DVLA didn't properly exercise failing, and we were to regulate our own fails. Perhaps therefore also at the root of pay inequality [traditionally speaking] might be this: 'the privileged' willing to accept less [pay] among 'the meritorious' irrespectively of gender, not necessarily irrespective of social class and standing, naturally. This may help explain Yasmin's confusion mid-way through her 14th para (albeit in this instance: a married female with rich relatives who may be nevertheless meritorious). I understand the frustration for quick fixes to inequality given that social change doesn't occur overnight. A 'quick-fix' approach might work in the legal or medical [but not architecture] profession as it's easier to assume that it's meritous pay at stake! But let's dispel some myths on the way to social change: Yes it's been easier to tag females as privileged rather than meritorious because they're still relatively newish to the industry, yet on the contrary it can be argued that qualities are more likely to be honed in the face of challenge and no less by females confronting social change: a previous female prime minister might be too good an example. 'Merit' and 'privilege' are neither gender-associative. Presumably an architect has one or the other, or both, unless needs neither through posterity! In the face of a recession [of unpredictable duration] is perhaps this for architectural business: Less need to pay for merit, hence [unaffordable] quality staff being expected to move on (reading from Derek Sharp, 1986) rather than being maintained, or asked back 'as there'll always be a quality stream in the waiting', and that looks set to continue notwithstanding a drop in course applications. 'Privileged' rather than 'meritorious' staff are therefore more likely to retain their jobs during a recession, ironically with perhaps a pay rise. How fairly the non-white-hetero-male can fit into this culture must depend on what Jane Duncan (a newly appointed diversity & quality champion for RIBA) can do on their behalf. Good luck Jane. The problem is perhaps that we fool ourselves into such schemes; and that maybe the cure is to fool ourselves out of them. Who's up for it? ps: again, would it be wishful thinking to have the likes of de Botton's and Bryson's views (?) Art is perhaps best for current societal exposés, until whenever advanced sociology textbooks become popular, accessible and understandable... If AJ comments had 'likes/dislikes' like the BBC then we could gauge how risqué it would be to ask for AdeB's or BB's views. If 500 dislikes: then no need to ask further about the truth; but if 500 likes: then a need to hear more!
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My apologies Yasmin, I picked you up wrong on the 21% statistic. I hadn't realised that you'd been referring to the female gender rather than - as I'd presumed - 'architects in general' dropping their pay to win work. - 21/79 female to male registrants is very revealing, when probably 50/50 are graduating with architecture qualifications. Why the imbalance? Are females naturally happier to be assistants rather than architects? Do they opt to devote energies elsewhere after graduating? Has the Part 3 final entry test exclusion been a factor? If so, then imagine this short hypothesis to set things straight: i.e. if practices could temporarily exclude more males than females from Part 3, e.g. 1 male for every 2 or more females, until ARB says the balance is restored. I wonder if the registrant ratio anomaly signifies any relationship to the 'pay equality' issue. If so, then how and why! Aren't societal issues, like the mockery on my initial post, relevant to an understanding of 'inequality' (its origins and impetuses), i.e. to have confidence in deploring them or in how they should be engineered out - or not?
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Maybe these statistics are the result of an over-revered profession that too many want to belong to. Lawyers and medics are naturally exclusive to those with half a brain. Architects may be anything from brainless to brainy enough inter alia to get others [assistants with architecture qualifications in the UK] to do the actual work. These statistics therefore aren't really surprising... Architecture is a naturally collaborative enterprise that is open as much to dunces as the highly intelligent.
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Great that many offices are maintaining livelihoods at all costs during the recession, whatever the discriminations might be. A bigger issue must be that it needs to do this feat on a fairer basis - for instance so that no capable person/s are left searching for career leads over the best part of a decade, if they opt like me not to give up on searching for leads. I'll of course embarrassingly plod on applying anyway for architectural jobs for as long as possible. Whether I can continue to pay professional subs for equally long will depend on how badly the welfare cuts are going to be. Right, it's off my chest now! Back to my quiet self again: the non-despairing one that farcically lives off JSA to pay a raft of other livelihoods beyond my means. Good luck girls in getting your fair share!
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More to get more off my chest! Again hypothetically and jokingly, regarding my reciprocal discrimination scenario, if I weren't to become an architect's househusband, spouse-less due to my shyness, then I'd quite happily accept a smaller salary as a dying (or resurgent) breed of worker. I'd accept either-or in a flash rather than having to claim much more unemployment benefit than I already have (almost 4.5 years since real permanent architectural employment), or should I say 7 months officially, i.e. from the date that the DWP refused to pay a week's benefit to me over unintentionally missing an adviser appointment with "...no good cause..." according to a recent tribunal over my appeal. And BTW that was incidentally a female judge who'd judged wrongly! How about having a meritocracy - rather than a kakistocracy - of gays, guys, gals, blacks, whites, rich, poor,... etc.? The principle of livelihood is quite simply coming before that of capabilities. Let's indeed try to stop the rot RIBA or at least expose it for consultation: not forgetting there's been over a century of how the anomaly has been dealt with in the past – let's examine the history and facts transparently before a future generation (or dark ages) beats us to it!
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And for that matter let's also hear Jane Duncan's view too, the newly appointed RIBA Equality & Diversity Champion charged with the following agenda, that RIBA has just released here: http://www.architecture.com/TheRIBA/AboutUs/InfluencingPolicy/Policy/EqualityAndDiversity/DiversityNewsandEvents.aspx
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Some philosophical banter if I may. I'd be for a complete reversal, but as a househusband (a veritable Mrs Bloggs nee Toner as explained later), i.e. as an unwanted/unloved architectural assistant male sole in search/need of a breadwinner - not unlike the female masses in the recent past, dared they [likewise] dream of having an architectural career... Society however doesn't change let alone equilibrate overnight, in a mere 100 years. It'll take time for either ideal, including even to get back to the original husband breadwinners/housewives deal, perhaps not yet entirely a thing of the past... The salary discrimination, ethical or not, I think simply evidences an underlying societal system at play at any given point in our industry's employment [or livelihoods] structure. If gender equality in salaries really could transpire in our society, sociology not my subject, would it be not in the hands of a society that can eventually and truly yield the elusive gender-less house-spouse, if possible (?) Further to my opening paragraph, if salary discrimination could ever be reversed, jokingly, i.e. reciprocally interchanged, wouldn't this require the following change: i.e. imagining if Ms was the new Mr; and Mirr as a new Miss, where the single male such as I would be happily referred to as a Mirr Joe Soap until that elusive Ms Bloggs comes along wanting to change his surname to Mrs Joe Bloggs. Won't I be packing shelves before that'll ever happen, damn? Let's get Alain de Botton's views on the topic too, teeheehee!!
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That's better! Give Blythswood Sq the remaining great men; and a similar specification and the job's done!
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Following this topic incidentally and lazily on a couple of occasions from mainly a Scottish perspective last May and June - and more recently Midlands too, namely Birmingham to Preston (6 days ago) - from comment #6 onwards on the following thread link; I'd look forward to a serious consultation making sense of an internationally linked HSR network for Britain rather than on a per nation basis: http://www.urbanrealm.com/news/3547/Forth_Bridge_nominated_for_World_Heritage_Status.html#comment6968 Too many midlands stations for HS2 will surely clog up such a system and make a total mess of the natural and built environments. We need our leaders to politically steer this economically and consult ICE on the top speeds between London – Birmingham(?) - Preston (tee hee) – and Perth; to assess and determine viability. Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester etc. can all upgrade their independent existing system to 200mph by all means, but we really need to be thinking at least 400mph for HSR and therefore need an HSR that's not initially held back by being linked prematurely to too many post-industrial cities as commuter transport. [Whimsically speaking on a once similar dream, pardon me for asking this: would it still be too early to dodge George Bennie royalties on the ca1930 Rail-plane prototype as built by a lifts industrialist in Glasgow if it were likely that such transport would supersede HSR in terms of speed and viability, at the very least for commuting purposes as once considered? Probably, I hasten to say! Again, if it's not too early to capitalise on such a venture in the waiting (nor too competitive with actual air travel), ask ICE! I bet it'll beat HSR easily on most of the main issues fronts, albeit unfamiliar territory to all i.e. as an invention not off the ground yet. http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/06/this-crazy-propeller-driven-hanging-monorail-was-once-considered-the-future-of-commuting/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennie_Railplane I suppose that's as much about brainstorming as whim!] Britain, not merely Scotland, should continue making waves in the evolution of all transport and the engineering support and nous behind it. Let's not keep the most enthused engineers in the world relatively idle for the following century, or keep them back by thinking so small, after what's been achieved since James Watt... Let's not outsource these qualities like it was Britain's manufacturing base. Let's keep our brains at least. Good luck Britain!
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Success could ultimately ensue if the surrounding tenements were to be childless! In a way, I can personally find Hypostyle's intervention exceedingly romantic having been a typically Glasgow kid whose' tendencies were often to build the imaginary world/homes (dens) within such confines (tenement courts) and play act doctors/nurses etc.., but I see that the kids here might have to do that in a metaphysical sense: building dens within the confines of dens territory... Notwithstanding the charm of the idea, as an adult, I don't know whether to be honestly ecstatic or lambasting. I'd feel selfish to 'Like' this - as a grown-up - despite any romantic appeal. In the shoes of children who lose the purely 'environmental' court, it's certainly to be berated as an architectural blot in the landscape! What are the non-Glaswegian (unbiased) views of this as an urban proposition, I'd wonder? The project has naturally received widespread acclaim in Glasgow, perhaps due to this charm, a charm that this model simply hijacks from future generations. In other word a false charm perhaps! The common experience of the Glasgow tenement block is fortunately and largely one where the back court is purely the confines of environmental works. I recall that when this was not the case (as in some blocks heavily laden with blocky back shops/stores etc.; or less concernedly with lanes) that these spaces had ranged from miserable to dull by comparison (of course from a child's perspective, i.e. users nonetheless). Oh "Users, Passer-Bys, etc.": do these words even still appear or mean anything in the current day's Architect's CofC? If architects are to do society good as they were once (and still) billed to do so, then 'the client is king' should not be the only dogma within the profession's principles, but merely the customer focus/promise linchpin that it is. This dogma perhaps now requires taming in order to return esteem to the profession of architecture. That said cosmetic surgery has a place in the medical profession, so why wouldn't urbanism/architecture of course...! Perhaps Hypostyle's intervention is rather urban jewellery or cosmetics, a compliment rather than criticism that should hopefully be seen as experimental rather than as a veritable urban model. Again, how do the unbiased areas of the UK view this tenement block intervention (RIAS Award winner) as such? Perhaps I can (and will) fully warm to it if I'm convinced!
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Therefore, notwithstanding procurement routes, Client fee structure becomes [categorically] 6-fold not 5-fold as follows, due to the bifurcating 4th category:- 1 : prep 2 -3: concept/design 4 : technical design 4 &/or 5 : specialist design 6 : construction 7 : feedback/PoE/BIM etc. Contractor client fee structure can typically remain [categorically] 3-fold but this will marry better with the above 6-fold rather than 5-folded structure:- 2 : Concept 3-5 : Design 6 : Construction With of course some contractors venturing into 1 & 7 as procurement evolves... In a way the 7-point schedule can prove to be an improvement, in time, over the current PoW alphabet, especially as it will make better sense of the uneasy bifurcation at stage F (made circa 1990s?), namely at "Production Information", which IMHO at the moment, is both a 'pre-construction' and 'design' pursuit (fee category).
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I didn't manage to attend the main day, but I thoroughly enjoyed the symposium on art & architecture collaborations on the previous day. With summer-like weather, it was easy to absorb the town's historic allure and of course to enjoy the DCA as a venue. Excepting the technicalities surrounding planning policy (%for Art) there was instead a highly rewarding, pleasing and educational series of talks and lectures touching on (and evaluating) the very nature and essence of collaboration/s locally, globally and remotely, or in a word 'urbanically' (as coined by one of the organisers from the Geddes Institute). It was driven by a highly panoramic and demonstrable selection of projects. It was all topped by a reception to launch the 'Landworkers' exhibition, which I believe is still running. I had left the symposium believing that there were lessons to be learnt and an understanding to be gained, particularly for those with an interest in - as it was phrased - drawing on the land.


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About a year and a half a go I got a new shed. I use it to store the lawn tractor, and other small motorized hand tools, and shovels, rakes, pitch forks, etc. I have a small workbench on one side to do minor work on the tools. check oil, fill with gas, etc. The floor is pressure treated plywood, and has several coats of acrylic paint. Try as I may I spill things on the floor, a little oil, some gas, etc. as I maintain and prepare to use the equipment. In ten years I would not like to have an oil soaked floor. I would like to put something on the floor that would not absorb the gasoline, oil, or what ever I may spill. I have thought about adding more paint, vinyl floor covering, some kind of mat, but nothing seems perfect. Could I get some ideas of how others have solved this problem. I am nearly 70, so I don't think I am going to become less clumsy |
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- Posted by gator_rider2 z8 Ga. (My Page) on Sat, Jun 22, 13 at 20:39
I used vinyl and run up wall 6" are more work very well easy cleaned did gassing out side gas will pour back into container out side oil dry works on vinyl. A 2x4 table 4x4 legs pressure treated high, 8 foot long 3ft. wide works good outside gaps between boards makes easy clean off. I don't like plywood floor to hard clean. I buy my vinyl 2 foot longer and 2 foot wider so go up wall this makes corners easy to clean and around wall edges even if pole barn style wall 2x4 studs. |
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A two-part epoxy paint is what we use in an industrial plant and it holds up like iron. |
I had thought of the two part epoxy, but will it be flexible enough to last on a 3/4" plywood floor, supported by 2X6 16 inches on center? |
Don't know, but the finish doesn't crack on my hardwood floors. |
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timothy posted about 10 months ago | from the gratis-not-libre-of-course dept.
yakatz writes "Microsoft announced that OneNote, including the full desktop program, will be free for anyone who wants to use the program. A version of the program for Mac also appeared in the app store yesterday. This means that a native edition of OneNote is available for most platforms (including iPad, iPhone and Android, but not Linux or Blackberry). Microsoft will continue to offer a paid version of OneNote with 'business-oriented' features (including SharePoint support, version history and Outlook integration). The partial rebranding of OneNote also includes some new tools like a program specifically designed to make it easier to take a picture of a whiteboard.
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Recently, I wrote about the Starbucks Let's Merry site, a dedicated holiday site from the coffee chain that provides customers with gift ideas, information about its latest offerings, Starbucks-branded e-cards and more, and now the company has released a holiday commercial as part of this holiday campaign.
This Starbucks Let's Merry commercial is cute and spirited, featuring animated coffee cups singing 'Jingle Bells' as they are placed on a Starbucks counter to be picked up. A woman with a Starbucks drink continues the song after leaving the coffee shop and a man passes by, whistling the tune.
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Here's a couple pics of what you can do with old equipment like the mower that strawberrygoat posted. This has been planted for several years now in a shady spot with hosta's, some wild Solomon seal, Jack-in-the-Pulpit & a couple peonies...in this side view you can see a small pine tree growing & a Red Bud tree (both seedlings when planted in the vignette):
Here's a view from the other side (you can see my painted window faintly in the bkgrd fence line (from my friend for a gift): And here's a closer view ...that's an old John Deere planter box down in there...plus a broken vase...some moss grown on the wood tongue...can't see DS's old rusty metal truck anymore...not much left to it! LOL! This old mower was put to rest many yrs. ago...DH doesn't use it anymore...so it's fun to use in a garden vignette! Thanks for looking. Jeanne S. |
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- Posted by spedigrees z4VT (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Thu, Jun 10, 10 at 15:17
That is a wonderful resting place to showcase your antique mower. Was this a horse drawn mower originally, or was it pulled by a tractor? I would love to have a treasure like this resting in one of my gardens. |
- Posted by marlene_2008 7 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 10, 10 at 15:29
What a great combination Jeanne! We're having to decide what to do with a lot of my Dad's old tractor accessories....I may have to borrow your idea....love it with the hostas, etc. Thanks for the inspiration! |
- Posted by jeannespines 4 Iowa (My Page) on Thu, Jun 10, 10 at 16:26
Thanks, gals! Can you believe that this is a "horse-drawn" mower but DH pulled it with an old (and I mean old) tractor! I had to sit on that seat (for weight) so that he could cut hay ...we live on a small acreage...oh, that was so many yrs ago!...during those young & foolish & you could do anything(without much money) days!!! Glad you enjoyed my garden vignette! Jeanne S. |
I told my dad about the mowers but he didn't remember them, they are so neat & look so nostalgic in the garden!! Jan |
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I love seeing "Farm Art" like this with well established plants. Lovely, lovely... |
a secretary at my school has one almost identical to that. Hers is planted with a beautiful weigela. I love driving by every spring on my way to work when it is in bloom. |
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Thanks for the background info on your antique mower, Jeanne. I thought it looked like a horse drawn mower. Didn't we all do crazy things in our younger days!? lol Glad you and your DH survived the mowing adventures unscathed! |
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I am beyond thrilled...I just recently stumbled upon lenten rose. I must say all colors are amazing...I mentioned on Facebook that it was going to be a must in my yard. And...she popped on asking if I would like some seedlings. 2-4 year olds. I jumped at the freebies! And am thrilled to get them later this fall. She said she has 50-100 she can send me. If I don't take them...they would just be tossed out. Pinching myself...pretty excited...just had to share my good fortune! |
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As a general rule, hellebore seedlings tend to resemble their mothers (lol), so depending on how many different plants she has, you may have a whole lot that look about the same. |
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I'm fine with that actually...it's for around the memorial area for the family dog. I actually prefer large clusters of one kind in large groupings. So that will work for me. Thanks for explaining that. It was something I was willing to deal with if they were a variety...they are lovely so I figure I could just deal with a mixture of color. So...you made my night saying what you did. |
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Our ribbon wire is rolled by us to a thickness of approximately .007 x 3/32" wide and is rolled until better than half hard which is ideal for inlay work. Most wire found on American and English arms is filed on both sides to make a knife edge. Most French wire has a bevel on one side only. 36" strip. We offer Brass ($6.00), German Silver ($7.00), and Sterling Silver ($9.50).
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We only offer a few specific barrels at this time. We carry Getz and Colerain swamped 31" Jaeger rifle barrels. They are 1.125" at the breech, .890" at the waist, and 1.020" at the muzzle. Let us know what caliber. Price is $250.00.
We also carry Fowler barrels. The standard fowler barrel we carry are octagon to round and are fully breeched. They come with a wedding band at the transition. It is 41 7/8" long and 1.090 at the breech, tapering to .730 at the muzzle. It is available in 20, 24, and 28 gauge. The price is $225.00.
The last barrel we carry is our 48" Fine Fusil Barrel. The dimensions of this fully breeched octagon to round fowler barrel are copied directly from those found on the high grade French trade gun, or "fusil fin". 48" long, 1.25 at the breech, tapering to .750 at the muzzle. The octagon section is 11" long, transitioning directly to round. Available in 20 gauge only. Price includes breech plug. Large numbers of these barrels eventually restocked into American fowlers as the original trade guns were used up. The price is $275.00.


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Plans have been submitted to carry out the second-phase of improvements to Boscombe Crescent.
As part of the Boscombe Regeneration Partnership's Backing Boscombe campaign, a number of further improvements have been proposed to encourage more residents and visitors to use the park as a safe and attractive public open space.
The second-phase of work follows the success of the initial phase of improvements completed earlier in the year.
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David Ifould, Landscape Manager for Bournemouth Borough Council, said: "The Crescent is a really important space in Boscombe; both as a 'first impression' to the area and as an opportunity to show how investment and care can start to bring about a positive change. The Council, as part of the 'Backing Boscombe' project, has taken a lot of time to work with local residents through a variety of consultations to create somewhere better to visit and we're greatly looking forward to seeing the scheme complete."
The works follow a comprehensive consultation with the local community whose feedback has been crucial in helping to inform decisions made about the improvements.
Subject to planning permission the second phase of works would start in Spring 2013.
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Research in Unconventional Settings: Video Games and Cell Phones as Applied Research Areas
Jeffrey Kuznekoff, PhD, Assistant Professor of Communication at Miami University Middletown
Thursday, March 27, 2014
11 am–noon LIB 205, Clark Memorial Library
New research areas often require innovative research designs. In particular, multiplayer video games and mobile phones represent two new, but massively popular, technologies that the scholarly community is still trying to understand. This presentation will focus on two studies that explore these areas further. The first study examined multiplayer matches of the video game Halo 3, to see what effect gender voice had on player responses within the game. This involved playing in and recording over 100 multiplayer matches of Halo 3. The second study conducted an experiment to determine the effects of texting, during classroom lecture, on student learning. Both studies employed innovative research designs in order to understand these areas more fully.


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Photos: Chef Jenna Johansen's sprout up dinner at Studio F
Lori Midson Chef Jenna Johansen at last night's pop-up dinner at Studio F.
It's been a whirlwind week for Jenna Johansen. The former executive chef of Dish, in Edwards, which she still co-owns, made her smashing debut on Around the World in 80 Plates, a new chef-driven reality show on Bravo that premiered on Wednesday night (Johansen, by the way, made it through to the next country). And then, last night, she was the guest chef at Studio F, the culinary entertainment event space and kitchen at 1801 Wynkoop Street owned by James Mazzio.
"This is my kitchen, but tonight, it isn't my kitchen -- it's Jenna Johansen's kitchen," Mazzio alerted the crowd who had gathered for the first of Johansen's three sprout up dinners, which will also take place tonight and tomorrow night, beginning at 5:30 p.m. with a cocktail reception commanded by mixology virtuoso Brian Melton, who also pairs several of his cocktails with Johansen's around-the-world dinner.
"It's such an honor to have Jenna, a star on the rise, cooking for all of us," added Mazzio, who shared the kitchen with Johannsen, along with her fiancee Mark DiNittis, the owner of Il Mondo Vecchio and several other culinarians. The dinner, which Johansen teased was "inspired by my past travels around the globe -- countries that I may or my not have visited on the show" -- included five courses, which traversed through Spain, Thailand, Italy, France and Morocco.
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We are looking for a new gas range in a mid-range price. The more I search the more confused I get. There seems to be pros and cons for all of the brands. I would like a convection oven and a warming drawer. It has been difficult to find information about the BOSCH ranges. I heard the ranges in Canada are not made in Germany rather are made in North America. We are considering a BOSCH gas range (HGS7052UC). Can you help us decide if we should go with the BOSCH? Appreciate your comments. Thank you. PS: Also looked at Kitchen Aid KGSS907SSS |
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"I heard the ranges in Canada are not made in Germany rather are made in North America." AFAIK only the top of line Bosch 800+ dishwashers ,built-in coffee, and euro-size laundry sold in North America is made in Germany. Everything else is "engineered in Germany, American value" or some other marketing mumbo jumbo. Free standing refrigerators are made in Mexico and built-in refrigeration is made in Turkey. In the sub $2k class I would look at GE, Frigidaire, and Bosch. Bosch only makes the 700 series gas ranges the lower priced ones are made by Frigidaire for Bosch. |
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I have the Bosch HDI7282U and I am very happy with it. I love the warming drawer and ma very happy I went with the black glass cooktop instead of stainless. It is a breeze to keep clean. |
- Posted by runningamuck (My Page) on Sun, Oct 13, 13 at 18:34
Thank you for the information. I will look into GE, apparently they have new ranges in the 900 series (PCGS910 priced at $2799.00 and PCGS920 has a warming drawer) that are just coming out. That is getting a little pricey. I prefer a slide-in range. I like the minimalist look. |
Now you are getting to the price of a true pro-style range. You can get an American Range Performer Series with commercial type 25k btu open burners and a 12k btu open simmer burner. And a dual-convection oven that takes full size commercial baking sheets. $3134.05 delivered to your door OBO. Link below. |
Here is a link that might be useful: LINK to AR Perfomer Series
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Home » Event 360 Blog » Social Media: Still Interesting – to Say the Least
Just when I thought social media was hitting its marketing stride, our friend Beth Kanter posted a recent article on her Facebook page by BBCnews.com co-founder and journalism professor Alfred Hermida, in which he declares the now ubiquitous phenomenon is about to become – ready for this? – "boring."
Says Hermida:
"Technologies reach their full potential when we forgot [sic] about the novelty. Instead they become boring and blend into the background. How often do we think about the technology behind the telephone, or the television set in our living room?"
What Hermida seems to be getting at is that we're entering an age where social media is becoming, as he puts it, "routine." Its aforementioned ubiquitous quality, he says, is itself causing the medium to fade to the background of the message. Indeed, he sees this message-centric (over medium) texture as a good thing, and welcomes a new era where "the technology will become invisible as we shape it to meet our political, social and cultural needs."
But boring? Uninteresting? On the surface, it seems it would be unwise for anyone to take this medium – any medium, in fact – for granted when it comes to delivering the message. To dig a little deeper into what this means to world of marketing, I had a chat with Gordon Plutsky, chief marketing officer of Boston-based King Fish Media, an integrated marketing firm that is dedicated to "the belief that brands should own their own channels." While not exactly disagreeing with Hermida, he fleshes out the notion of what it means for this media system to become so omnipresent that it might seem, well, boring.
"As a marketing tool, social media is no longer an island or an add-on or some kind of 'special, cool thing,'" says Plutsky. "A lot of the magical cure allure of 'it's free and cheap and it's going to replace advertising' has gone by the wayside. We know now that like direct mail or email or events, social media is simply another channel that you have to master."
Plutsky argues, however, that rather than seeing this acceptance as initiating a time to lower or shift away attention paid to social media, it's a time for increased vigilance toward the medium. "There's a new understanding that social media is now a communication ante," he says. "It must be part of your mix."
Not only that, he adds, but the very nature of the beast also requires ongoing attention.
"With Twitter and Facebook and the rest, communication is now thoroughly interactive and immediate. This means there's no time lag between messaging, either between you and your audience, or between individual users of your product or service."
The implications of this are far-reaching and immense. "You no longer own 100 percent of your brand," Plutsky says. "Perceptions of you are now an amalgam of discussions that are happening 'out there' in real time. It's no longer simply about pushing information, but rather about affecting and initiating those discussions that are continuously happening – whether you want them to or not. Dropping the ball on this can have grave consequences in term of how you're perceived and thus your ability to achieve your goals and objectives."
On the upside, says Plutsky, the opportunities for creative messaging and community building have never been greater. Everyone from [online retail giant] Zappos to Keurig [coffeemakers] have consumer communities following them and talking to each other around the clock. From their own sites to Facebook to Twitter, organizations have the chance to monitor, participate and initiate conversations – in the industry, we call that 'priceless.'"
In the end, Hermida's notion that "mediated sociability will be with us at all times, no matter what we are doing" and that for some, "social media just offers new ways to do old things" are both true. But characterizing the medium as on its way to becoming boring (read: not drawing our attention) might be best seen in the world of marketing as a warning as much as welcomed observation. Whether you're selling products or services or promoting work dedicated to changing the world, letting social media and its unique properties and implications drift to the background of your attention is surely a quick way to get in your own way.
Therese Grohman is the Director of Marketing at Event 360, where she focuses on building Event 360's thought leadership platform and developing relationships with organizations through impactful and relevant communications. She has also worked directly with a variety of organizations to create and implement event fundraising strategies, drawing from her experiences working in the non-profit sector.
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umm… it is spelled DENNIS.
Wow, Long John. Do you REALLY need it explained to you? Sigh…
Yes, his name is DENNIS Rodman, but when dressed in drag, he would take on a feminine name. That's where the DENISE comes into play. Dennis is masculine, Denise is feminine. A man in drag is acting feminine.
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Clint Eastwood and the Chair
The 82-year-old Hollywood icon stole the Republican National Convention away from presidential nominee Mitt Romney with his bizarre speech, involving a debate against President Obama, as represented by an empty chair? Was he having a senior moment or just improvising a brilliant piece of satirical performance art? We'll let you vote on that one.
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If you have 4 boulders all together in the canyon, can the heroes use awareness to get by them at all? the rules say "nearest adjacent open square" but also later say to ignore obstacles. So does that mean a hero can finish their movement on boulder? could they use 2 successful awareness checks to get by? or is their only option to use might checks at this point?
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