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I watched the Ninth Gate last night from Netflix. IMHO, a rather unremarkable film that I normally would have just shut off if not for the fact that it all centered around antique books. Type didn't play a huge part, but got me thinking about what other semi-mainstream movies might use graphic design and/or type centric plot elements. Any come to mind?
Any romances set in a print shop? Any murder mysterious surrounding a sign factory? The Scarlet Letter?
Stranger Than Fiction has some very interesting graphic elements to help illustrate the written words.
Prospero's Books? I haven't seen it in a while.
American Psycho. (The business card scene.)
Shop Girl - the bloke (who isn't Steve Martin) is a failed type designer.
Domino – Chris Walken's character rants about design apparently
I've not seen either movie.
Truffaut loved books. In the "Mississippi Mermaid" there is a scene of the printing process of a tobaco package with the face of Catherine Deneuve, and if I remember well, in "The Man Who Loved Women" there is one or two scenes about books and printing.
I also remember a cool scene in an antique book store with Bogart in The Big Sleep.
Di Caprio is arrested in a french press in "Catch Me If You Can".
Here's some...
The Printer's Devil from, 1923 -
The Font of Courage, 1917 -
The Mafia Type, 2004 -
The Wrong Type, 1994 -
Times, 2002 -
etc., etc.,
There're a lot of them.
-- The New Age - Judy Davis is a graphic designer.
Type/typefaces (movies & tv) see the documentary: Hollywood at Last
It's a small part, but there's a great scene in The Lives of Others, in which a Stasi expert describes to an investigator the letterforms of the typewriter model used by a dissident writer.
> Shop Girl - the bloke (who isn't Steve Martin) is a failed type designer.
Not exactly. He just says he's working on a font. It's more of a funny little line than an actual intended profession.
American Psycho with Christian Bale. There are a few great scenes where the yuppie lawyers compare typefaces and paper stock, they also mention letterpress.
I should add that the initial meeting where the cards are shown and compared gets Christian Bale's character mad enough to kill the guy who supposedly has a nicer card.
Dustin Hoffman played an art director in Kramer vs. Kramer.
His marriage was ruined staying up all night working on ad layouts.
The main female character in De Niro/Pacino film "Heat" is a graphic designer with a copy of Fuse on her desk in one scene.
As mentioned above Patrick Bateman being upstaged by someone else's business card is the classic one: "Oh my God, it even has a watermark!"
There's that obscure film that recently came out. I doubt anyone on here has seen it. It's called "Helvetica".
> Any film involving a ransom note.
The Clearing, for example.
There was a German film I saw a few years ago on TV... I think it dated from the'80s.
A famous graphic designer - head of a big firm is always wrapped up in his work. Eats sleeps and drinks design.
Design design design.
His wife is bored.
She has an affair and runs off with a hip young artist.
Uber cool young artist.
The husband responds by taking the young atist (who reminds him of himself) under his wing and turning him into an uber successful, famous designer - With whom his wife quickly becomes bored and she returns home.
The young artist's life is destroyed by success. What a terrible revenge.
I don't remember the name of the film though
There's that obscure film that recently came out. I doubt anyone on here has seen it. It's called "Helvetica".
Here, you need this: .~
(Sorry, I just had to.)
Whoa...my NetFlix queue is now 3 years long! Some good recommendations in here!
here's a horrible film (based on a wonderful play), but the demi moore character was a graphic designer, if i remember correctly:
and again at:
I always loved the opening title credits for Dr. Strangelove.
As for the type being a plot element, I thought that the recreation of Times Square was well done from the recent King Kong.
On a side note: I always loved the map in Goonies, even though it is not well done, but I thought it was still cool.
The "Out-of-Towners" starring Steve Martin as an Ad Executive who has an interview in New York. His hilarious hijinx throughout the movie become the concept for his interview presentation.
In "Catwoman" Haley Barry's character is a Graphic Designer during the day.
Also, if you goto www.imdb.com and search for Graphic Designer or Web Designer under plots, there's like 4 or 5 movies that come up with characters who play such roles.
Recently, I watched a show on the Sci-Fi Channel called "Mind-Control with Derren Brown" who manipulates people with subliminal messages. Here's a video of him tricking two employees of the Saatchi and Saatchi ad agency that they'll pitch him an idea he has already written down.
Sci Fi Pulse
In the 1991 Scorcese remake of Cape Fear, Jessica Lange's character is a graphic designer. She has a conversation with her daughter, played by Juliette Lewis, about how to draw a logo for a travel agency. Later on, the villain Max Cady (Robert De Niro) taunts her about her "pesky little sketches". Not quite a crucial plot point, but not a bad reference either.
I did a quick search on imdb with typographer under plot and got this response:
"Cronache di poveri amanti (1954)" : In 1925 the young florentine typographer Mario moves to via del Corno to be near his girl-friend Bianca.
"Cronache di poveri amanti" means "Chronicle of the poor lovers". Poor because they are star-crossed or poor because he can't make a living at typography?
Couldn't tell you, the rest of the plot goes like this: ...Here he becomes friends with Maciste, his landlord, and Ugo, anti-fascists both of them. When Campolmi is beaten by the fascists, Mario meets Milena, Campolmi's wife, at the hospital and falls in love with her leaving Bianca. Then Maciste is killed, again by the fascists, Ugo is wounded and he seeks shelter in ^ÓSignora^Ô's house. Here he falls in love with Gesuina and the two marry. Campolmi dies, but Mario and Milena part themselves. Later Mario too is arrested by the police.
No mention of how much typography this guy does, or even if he keeps doing it after moving to del Corno. The movie sounds like a political romance, like "The American President".
The Science of Sleep (2006) has a gratuitous paste up scene.
Not a movie (and perhaps not a plot element), but...
Are any of you watching the excellent new series "Mad Men," on AMC? It's set in a 1960 ad agency in NYC. One of the episodes showed the executives bemusedly tossing back and forth the Doyle Dane Bernbach Volkswagen "Lemon" print ad.
Although not specifically about type or graphic design, Crazy People starring Dudley Moore comes to mind.
- Lex
"Are any of you watching the excellent new series "Mad Men," on AMC?"
I watched the pilot. I enjoyed the vibe of the era, and the cute jokes that reference the future ("there is no imaginary machine that can make perfect copies of paper reports"). But I'm not sure if they can drag an entire series along with that. Has the series remained watchable?
> Has the series remained watchable?
Why not. This is top 10 production!
"Why not. This is top 10 production!"
The issue I had was that I wasn't sure there was a plot. OK, ad men. Suits. Booze. Machismo. Plot?
BTW, "The Ninth Gate" is based on (about half of) the book "The Club Dumas." I recommend the book much more highly, though I quite enjoyed the film. The radically different endings between the two are an interesting discussion item for those who've experienced both.
Also, note that the all-important book everyone's dying over in "The Ninth Gate" is a thinly-fictionalized version of the actual book "Hypnerotamachia Poliphili" (erotic dreams of Poliphilus), printed by Aldus in 1499. It's a stunning book, with cool typography and imagery. Another fictional unravelling of the secrets of this same book, but under its real name, is also the inspiration for the best-selling thriller "The Rule of Four," which is also being made into a film.
Oddly, the Wikipedia pages on "The Ninth Gate" and "The Club Dumas" don't even mention the Hypnerotomachia.
Dang, must get back to work. :)
Burgess Meredith plays an expert Lin-o-type operator who turns out to be Satan.
That would explain how he eventually became the head of the company.
I don't know exactly if this is what you meant, but I had to think about the movie 'pi', which is based around all kinds of spooky meanings and theories of the mathematical sign 'pi'.
cheers Queneau
Burgess Meredith plays an expert Lin-o-type operator who turns out to be Satan.
That would explain how he eventually became the head of the company.
even Satan had to work his way up!
> even Satan had to work his way up!
And wouldn't you know his minions would be lawyers.
; )
New thread anyone?
The devil made me do it.
"even Satan had to work his way up!"
He had to work his way out of the Hellbox :-)
He had to work his way out of the Hellbox
Wasn't Hell appropriately in Linotype's name at one time? Or did I dream that? (is that what this reference is to?)
fp- the hellbox is where typesetter's would toss discarded lead characters
I remember going to an exhibition of printing equipment way back when...
The was the Linotype booth, the Hiebleburg booth, and way, way off in the distancer was this huge sign that said "HELL"
It's now Linotype-Hell, I believe.
Linotype–Hell AG was in existence from c. 1989 to 1997. Linotype AG acquired Dr.-Ing. Rudolf Hell GmbH in 1989, and then changed its company name. Heidelberg acquired Linotype–Hell AG around 1997, at which point Linotype Library GmbH was formed (Heidelberg AG sold Linotype in 2006). The "Library" was dropped from Linotype's name in 2005, and the company is now known simply as Linotype GmbH.
"Hell" was a great company. Its founder (Dr.-Ing. Rudolf Hell) invented both the fax machine and the scanner. They also created the world's first digital typesetting machine, the DigiSet, in 1968 I believe. Many designers, including Hermann Zaps and Gerard Unger, worked for Hell for a time. Note that they were both freelancers or external employees, as far as I know. This is important, because of the differentiation it creates—while they may have worked for Hell, they did not work in Hell. Hell's offices, of course, were located in Kiel, a port city in Northern Germany.
Some may be sad to hear that "Hell" no longer exists ;-)
Some may be sad to hear that "Hell" no longer exists ;-)
LOL. It does appear to be a kinder and friendlier company these days.
I'm sorry but IMHO the Ninth Gate is awful and rates among my worst films of all time; there was no ending and at times I felt like I was watching a Range rover ad. I couldn't believe Roman Polanski and Johnny Depp had produced this. Sorry if I missed something.
> Hell's offices, of course, were located in Kiel, a port city in Northern Germany.
Is it true that a few winters back Hell froze over? I think it was a few months before Monotype purchased Linotype? ;-)
A similar if less sophisticated device of the type used by Stranger than fiction was used in Fight club; As Ed Norton's character walks around the aparment, everything progressively appears and is labelled and priced so it looks like an IKEA catalogue . And you can't mention type in films and David Fincher without talking about the awesome opening titles in Se7en featuring the feverish obsessive scratchings of Kevin Spacey's Psychopathic serial-killer.


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Capitol Power Plant:
Status of Utility Tunnel Projects
GAO-07-1150T: Published: Aug 1, 2007. Publicly Released: Aug 1, 2007.
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The Architect of the Capitol (AOC), through the Capitol Power Plant, operates five walkable utility tunnels containing steam and chilled water pipes associated with serving the heating and cooling requirements of the U.S. Capitol and over 20 surrounding facilities. In our work last fall, we addressed conditions in the tunnels and AOC's plans for addressing them. The Office of Compliance (OOC), which is responsible for advancing safety, health, and workplace rights in the legislative branch, and the tunnel workers had raised concerns about health and safety issues in the tunnels. As a result of these concerns, in January 2006, OOC issued citations for and asked AOC to address a potential asbestos hazard and heat stress conditions in the tunnels. In addition, in February 2006, OOC filed a complaint against AOC concerning hazards in the tunnels, including falling concrete, an inadequate communication system for these confined spaces, and inadequate escape exits (egresses). According to OOC officials, these conditions had been brought to AOC's attention by OOC inspectors as early as 1999, but AOC had not made sufficient progress in addressing them, and conditions in the tunnels had deteriorated further. In June 2007, AOC reached a settlement agreement with OOC to resolve both the citations and the complaint. The settlement agreement calls for the problems in the tunnels to be resolved within 5 years of the settlement date. This testimony focuses on the projects and other steps AOC is taking to address the tunnel problems and the current schedule and estimated costs for the tunnel projects.
AOC has established a dedicated management team to oversee the tunnel improvement work, and the projects AOC is implementing to address problems in the tunnels are in various stages of planning, design, and construction. In November 2006, we reported that AOC had started to address problems in the tunnels, but their condition remained substantially unchanged. AOC has since made progress in addressing the high heat in one tunnel, continued to remove concrete at risk of falling, begun to install additional egresses, expanded the current communication system, and moved forward with some asbestos abatement. While AOC is taking steps to address the problems in the tunnels and some progress is being made, it will take focused and sustained management attention, additional funding, and several years to resolve the problems. Summary In August 2006, AOC issued a plan to resolve the problems with the utility tunnels identified in the OOC citations and complaint. According to this plan, the work would be completed by the middle of fiscal year 2012 and would cost about $134 million. AOC has since revised many of the project schedules and cost estimates in the plan, and further revisions are likely. As of April 2007, AOC estimated the work would cost over $200 million, an increase of at least 50 percent over its initial estimate. AOC officials attributed this increase to the development of additional information about the projects. For example, the contract AOC negotiated for the installation of additional egresses allowed more time and cost more than AOC initially anticipated because of the impact of working conditions in the tunnels on the contractor's bid. This newer estimate is, however, still an early estimate. It is based on limited information and preliminary decisions about how best to resolve the tunnel problems, and is expected to change as decisions are made and projects are designed. Congress has provided $77.6 million in emergency supplemental funding for the tunnels in fiscal years 2006 and 2007. AOC has obligated most of the $27.6 million provided in 2006 and spent about 13 percent of this funding. AOC has not yet submitted to Congress its obligation plan for the $50 million provided in 2007. Congressional approval of this plan is necessary before AOC can obligate the funds. At this rate of progress and spending, it will be difficult for AOC to meet its commitment to resolve the tunnel problems over the next 5 years.
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Further Actions Needed to Improve Oversight of Pass-through ContractsGAO-15-200: Published: Dec 22, 2014. Publicly Released: Dec 22, 2014.
Dec 18, 2014
Electronic Submissions in Federal Procurement:
Implementation by the Army Corps of Engineers and Department of the Interior's Bureau of ReclamationGAO-15-253R: Published: Dec 18, 2014. Publicly Released: Dec 18, 2014.
Dec 17, 2014
State and Local Governments' Fiscal Outlook:
2014 UpdateGAO-15-224SP: Published: Dec 17, 2014. Publicly Released: Dec 17, 2014.
Dec 11, 2014
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Linking Small Business Subcontractors to Prime Contracts Is Not Feasible Using Current SystemsGAO-15-116: Published: Dec 11, 2014. Publicly Released: Dec 11, 2014.
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Federal Data Transparency:
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Some Agencies Reported that Networking, Hiring, and Involving Program Staff Help Build CapacityGAO-15-25: Published: Nov 13, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 13, 2014.
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Strategic Focus Needed to Help Manage Vast and Diverse Warehouse PortfolioGAO-15-41: Published: Nov 12, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 12, 2014.
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Government Efficiency and Effectiveness:
Inconsistent Definitions and Information Limit the Usefulness of Federal Program InventoriesGAO-15-83: Published: Oct 31, 2014. Publicly Released: Oct 31, 2014.
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Not so much with the St. George thing -- George Lopez was arrested for public intoxication.
It happened last night (Thursday) at Caesars casino in Windsor, Ontario. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ that George was passed out on the casino floor. But he won't be facing any charges -- cops basically just dropped him in the drunk tank to sober up.
Lopez has been released and will perform at the casino again tonight (Friday).


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Momma's Vegetarian recipes!!!
Hi, I am a mother of 4 and always on the go. This book will cater to the busy lifestyle so many of us have. All the recipes will be vegetarian but, you can alter them to your liking. Thanks for stopping by and enjoy.
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Cookbook creator says: This is great sweet and nutty Submitted by ILIKEJAM Carbs: 20.6g | Fat: 2.9g | Fiber: 2.5g | Protein: 2.2g | Calories: 115.9
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This is a great meal idea, lunch or dinner. It is full of flavor and very satisfying. Submitted by RUNNING@MYPACE Carbs: 35.7g | Fat: 13.1g | Fiber: 2.7g | Protein: 7.3g | Calories: 291.7
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This dish never fails to delight vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike. Submitted by MISS_KITTY Carbs: 30.8g | Fat: 7.2g | Fiber: 5.8g | Protein: 3.9g | Calories: 190.3
Cookbook creator says: I will substitute tofu or mushrooms for the shrimp and take out the oyster sauce and use vegetable stock. Submitted by HARV47 Carbs: 13.9g | Fat: 1.7g | Fiber: 1.1g | Protein: 5.5g | Calories: 91.2
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I had these yams at R.J. Gators in Florida. A comfort food if I've ever tasted one. Submitted by ANAM8ME Carbs: 33.3g | Fat: 1.4g | Fiber: 4.6g | Protein: 4.9g | Calories: 141.7
Spicy but nicey! Submitted by TREEHUGGER73 Carbs: 16.9g | Fat: 4.1g | Fiber: 6g | Protein: 9.5g | Calories: 135.7
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Ed Miliband Uses Life Lessons From Willy Wonka And Monty Burns - Who Else Could Help Him?
Ed Miliband spoke on Wednesday at Google's 'Big Tent' event and used some rather interesting analogies to get his point across.
The excitement of being in a huge marquee brought out the Miliband inner child as he used 'The Simpson's' Monty Burns and Willy Wonka to demonstrate good and bad capitalism.
Monty Burns represents "irresponsible capitalism" while the child-safety law ignoring, Oopa-Loompa enslaving and generally quite sinister Willy Wonka is the chosen face of responsible capitalism.
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A Hoysala patrol spots the victim being bundled into a car
The Jnanabharathi police on Monday rescued a civil contractor from Suratkal allegedly abducted by a land dealer and kept in illegal detention for a week as he owed money to the latter.
A Hoysala patrol which spotted Ismail screaming while being bundled into a car in Jnanajyoti Nagar by the family of the accused, Krishne Gowda, chased the car and rescued him.
The police detained Mudalaiah, Krishne Gowda's father, and his driver, Anand. The police said that Ismail had come to recover Rs. 5 crore due to him from his business contacts in Bangalore.
He approached Krishne Gowda, a real estate dealer who runs a nursing home and a school in Chandra Layout. The latter offered to use his clout in recovering the dues and persuaded Ismail to stay in his house for a few days.
Meanwhile, Ismail, suspecting Krishne Gowda's intentions, had a fight with him. Krishne Gowda then forcibly detained him in his house demanding Rs 1.5 crore for his safe release, which, according to him, was his expenses and commission.
"We have handed the arrested men over to the Suratkal police as a kidnap case has been registered there," Jnanabharathi Police toldThe Hindu. A search is on for Krishne Gowda.
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Vice Mayor Kelly Kirschner was willing to take criticism that he was flip-flopping on the Palm Avenue parking garage if it meant avoiding a structure of which the city would not be proud.
He will not get that chance.
On Monday night, Kirschner tried unsuccessfully to abort the construction of the parking garage.
"While I supported moving ahead with this, is this the best strategy and best time to do this?" he asked fellow commissioners and City Manager Bob Bartolotta. "We're going to add debt to a parking department that is already hemorrhaging."
Only commissioner Terry Turner agreed with the vice mayor.
"I'm looking for assurances we're not going to have something the community's ashamed of," Turner said.
Kirschner said he had spoken to several contractors prepared to bid on the project. They told him they'd never seen a situation where the design of a structure already had been determined.
"One told me when you're going for fast, good and cheap, you'll only get two out of three," he said.
Bartolotta said the only reason the city suggested a design was to get a fair comparison between all the bids.
"We're not wedded to the design," said Bartolotta. "Once you select an architect, (the commission) can ask for a different design."
Construction is expected to be complete by October 2010. If construction is delayed, said the city manager, the cost, now estimated to be $15 million, could rise.
Mayor Dick Clapp and Commissioners Fredd Atkins and Suzanne Atwell voted to keep the parking-garage project on track.
"I will defend this commission's right to change its mind, but there has to be compelling reasons," Atwell said. "This doesn't rise that far."
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- At least 2 people had enough common sense to kill an expensive structure which few will use. To succeed, the structure needs retail and perhaps residential included as well. But spending $15myn on just a parking garage which is off the beaten path is ludicrous. Think big or stop thinking at all if this is all what the commission can come up with after too many years of indecision.
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Venture (video game)
Venture | |
Promotional artwork for Venture, showcasing the arcade cabinet |
Developer(s) | Exidy |
Publisher(s) | Exidy |
Platform(s) | Arcade, Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Intellivision |
Release date(s) | 1981 |
Genre(s) | Action |
Mode(s) | Single player |
Cabinet | Upright |
Venture is a 1981 arcade game by Exidy. It was ported to a number of home consoles, including the Atari 2600, ColecoVision and Intellivision systems.
The goal of Venture is to collect treasure from a dungeon. The player, named Winky, is equipped with a bow and arrow and explores a dungeon with rooms and hallways. The hallways are patrolled by large, tentacled monsters (the "Hallmonsters", according to Exidy) who cannot be injured, killed, or stopped in any way. Once in a room, the player may kill monsters, avoid traps and gather treasures. If they stay in any room too long, a Hallmonster will enter the room, chase and kill them. In this way, the Hallmonsters serve the same role as "Evil Otto" in the arcade game Berzerk. The more quickly the player finishes each level, the higher their score.
The goal of each room is only to steal the room's treasure. In most rooms, it is possible (though difficult) to steal the treasure without defeating the monsters within. Some rooms have traps that are only sprung when the player picks up the treasure. For instance, in "The Two-Headed Room", two 2-headed ettins appears the moment the player picks up the prize.
Players die if they touch a monster or the corpse of a monster. Dead monsters decay over time and their corpses may block room exits, delaying the player and possibly allowing the Hallmonster to enter. Shooting a corpse causes it to regress back to its initial death phase. The monsters themselves move in specific patterns but may deviate to chase the player, and the game's AI allows them to dodge the player's shots with varying degrees of "intelligence" (for example, the snakes of "The Serpent Room" are relatively slow to dodge arrows, the trolls of "The Troll Room" are quite adept at evasion).
The game consists of three different dungeon levels with different rooms. After clearing all the rooms in a level the player advances to the next. After three levels the room pattern and monsters repeat, but at a higher speed and a different set of treasures.
The different dungeons in each level are as follows:
- Level 1 - The Wall Room, The Serpent Room, The Skeleton Room, The Goblin Room
- Level 2 - The Two-Headed Room, The Dragon Room, The Spider Room, The Troll Room
- Level 3 - The Genie Room, The Demon Room, The Cyclops Room, The Bat Room
Currently, the highest score on the original game was set in 1982 by 15 year old Randy Kuntz of Fairview, Alberta. His verified score was 2,006,000 with all lives intact. This high score still stands and is one of, if not the longest standing video game record in history.(see Edmonton Journal May 18, 1982 article Greg MICHETTI)
This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. (March 2010) |
Captain Video Greg MICHETTI, Edmonton Journal, 1982.
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3Jun 2, '13 by westieluvI should update this thread: I did accept the position doing acutes for Fresenius. Two weeks in I love, love, LOVE it! ITA about the strong education, especially since in my last position (the float pool) I was given exactly four hours of orientation to each new facility and unit that I worked on! Compared to that, I feel like I'm back in college at Fresenius...
Anyway, thanks to all of you for your advice and encouragement. So many things in my career and my life make sense now, because I can look back now and see how they all, in some way, contributed to me getting this job and being prepared for it in various ways. Hospice prepared me for the psychological facets of dealing with renal patients and their families, since so many of them are really grieving in their own ways their loss of freedom and good health and being forced to stick to a regimen that they don't want and many times have a hard time accepting (much like a hospice patient with a terminal illness), and working in intermediate cardiac units has prepared me for the more technical aspects of the job, like what to do when a patient's BP drops precipitously or they develop an arrhythmia while on dialysis.
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1Jun 2, '13 by NurseRiesYay!! Very happy to hear this. As the Saying goes, you will either love it or hate it. I love it and I feel like I could do it for the long haul! I feel so blessed to have fallen into this specialty. I see the floor nurses and am reminded everyday of how lucky we are to have such a specialty.
I hope that your passion continues for the field. It sounds like you're in a positive work environment which makes it great. I also really have enjoyed meeting the dialysis nurses across the country. They are.. Well unique, and I love it! Often times workaholics and have very good attitudes. People with bad attitudes won't last. My other favorite part, besides the technical aspects and problem solving, is the long term relationships with patients. When the chronic dialysis patients are admitted to the hospital and see your face, they will be immediately relieved and happy to see you. It's a good feeling to feel appreciated by your patients. They already know they can trust you, you'll be on a first name basis with many. Wouldn't trade it for anything!calliou likes this. -
1May 30, '14 by westieluvHonestly, it's been over a year and I barely remember the interview, much less the questions I was asked. Sorry, but I really don't remember. I do remember that it was fairly quick and easy, but they really needed to hire some acutes nurses and I had several years of nursing experience.traumaRUs likes this.
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I emailed my husband the plans for this desk on a Friday night and said we HAVE to make this desk this weekend. I can't believe he actually went for it! Well it turned into about 3 weekends and some nights of painting. We also had some issues getting straight and square plywood and boards with knots in them. He also added some extra holes in the sides for me to adjust the shelves. We used an oil based white paint to finish the desk and looks nice and clean and shiny. I can't wait to get started on our next project! Please check out my blog for more details and photos and information on materials used, etc. (kitcats-studio.blogspot.com/2011/craft-table-made-from-plans.html
PS - {I had one more coat of paint on the drawers to finish so ignore the bare fronts of the drawers.}
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This is awesome - This is one of the next things I want to build! Love the color in the drawers - nice touch!
I will be putting color in all my drawers from now on! That small detail adds so much to the overall project.
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I find that the farmers are friendly and knowledge. I like supporting the local economy.
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By: Teresa S. (Apr 11, 2009)
I am fairly new to the North Texas area and wasn't sure how far Coppell would be from my Denton home but it turned out to be about a 25 minute drive. The Coppell Farmer's Market is a small one but it was very pleasant. The morning started cool - 45 degrees but the free hot coffee made it seem warmer! Offered at the market were fresh cut flowers, organic meats, seafood, natural pet foods, baked goods, potted herbs and plants, handmade soaps and candles, homemade pastas and all kinds of canned goods (jams, jalapenos, beets, garlic) and there was some honey. I recognized most of these vendors as being local and the prices were reasonable. I will visit this FM again and I recommend this one for your next Farmers' Market shopping day!
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I'm from California, spoiled by the pluthera of amazing farmers markets with so many fresh local fruits and vegetables. My first farmers market experience was the big one in Dallas...it was nice, but sort of disappointing since not much was local and it was pretty far from home.
I happened upon this site and discovered Coppell has a Farmers Market, still not a short distance form home but at least 1/2 the distance of Dallas, so it wasn't such a loss if it wasn't soo great. I found it with great ease and was definitely pleased with the market. Its not the biggest farmers market, but what it lacks in quantity makes up for in quality. I will definitely be going back next weekend to pick up some pumpkin ravioli.
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.in the nighttime you arebetter; moonlightembroiders yourskin and stitchesyou up with apurer love, untilthe morning comes,the sun runs histeeth through yourseams again, splitsyou open
.the sea spitsme back ontothe shore -the waves saythis is not theright tide, theright time
.you should haveemerged with life; yourlittle roots should haveclutched the soil in theirtiny white fists, andgrowni did not mean to trampleyou, i did not mean tolet my body killyour body
.i heard that eventhe dead have nightmares; sometimesthey roll in their graves
.we are one and thesame, that old willow andme, we stand tall with thescars that life gave us -with the names of loverscarved deep in our limbs,and old burns from mydads cigarettes
.i was born with thecord wrapped tightaround my neck; itwould seem fitting todie the same way
.he told me prayersare uselessand if i really want hisforgiveness, i should get onmy knees and beg
.i will bury myselfoutside in the garden;like the spare keyor the dead dog,i'm never there whenyou need me
.they say that you are thework of the devil; you'll haveblack orbs for eyes and a tongueas sharp as your fathersand i hope you will not feel a thingwhen they pull back your blanketsand carry you out, when they leaveme with nothing but creases
.i wanted to bathein fire; for the amber tonguesto lick me clean, pure
.the shadows bruise thesunlight while the moonweeps in the darkness
.little robin, wingsoutstretched in the dirt, a smearof red on your breast
.i will notlove for fearof losingand if afondnessshould creepthrough likeivy, i'll cut itback
.the cat keepsleaving dead meaton my doormat,a pile of bones,bloody and rawhe wants me toknow what i'mwalking into, hewants me to knowjust what i am
.i hear those sailorslost at sea, those white winged soulsfloating in the blue
.horrors prey ondreams, and sleep cando nothing about ita lamb straysfrom the flock;a wolf grins
.winter gavebirth to a baby,cold and still
.she became a seabed noanchor could grip, with ahabit of turning everythinginto a shipwreck
a.m./p.m.i put my handsin the stars-feathery hair, coldskin and cyanosis fed, i realize that i amnothing. born in neither winteror spring, crying aboutcherry tree spines andthrowing stones, iwas left for thewolves. it is the dawn ofFebruary, and i am so close toseventeen that i cantaste it; i am very nearly choking on age. the sky beckons me most at 11:49 pm, becauseit's hovering between tomorrow and yesterday--that destroys me. i want to burn it to theground, breathethe ashes in like cigarettes ondirty curbs. i am stuck here in a windowless town witha thousand memories stuck between my canines;into the wind, i drop words like deadweights. take me home.
don't love me until you've seen me bleed.i think thati'm falling in lovewith you.no. no, no no, don't you say that, because you've never seen meat 4 amwith my eyes glazedand my mind a battle field (and my arms paying for the weaponry).you haven't heard mechoke back sobs after midnightbecause god dammit i can't sleep,and the screams in my earsaren't helping matters,and i don't thinkyou will ever see me bre a kand shatter andfall into the greedy gripof a panic attack and then try in vainto claw myself back up. but there is that hot hope in methat tells me that youare different. youcan look pastthe scars and the tearsand the screams and the nightmares. andmaybefor once in my damn lifei'm praying that i'm rightabout someone for once.
in which I become beautifulI drown my conscience inthe holy water of my wrists,I carve hearts from emptypaper for my galaxyboywith stars written in his skin,and I swallow moths tomuffle the emptiness andhelp me fly away.
or maybe it actually is.thisis nota love poem:this is not aboutme and how i hatethe way realism tastes.this is about you.this is about how youare one too many shades arrogant,how nearly every night youtry to forget that time hasleft you behind. this isabout your laugh and the way itwhispers "i can't rememberwhat i was like before ibecame this." and,if i'm being honest, this is abouthow i will never see your toococky for your own damn good grin thatmakes me go weak in the knees.this is about youand how you're not real and how i wishto god that i wasn't either.
So SilentIt was so silent on the hill,She could hear her steps,Her breath...A look at the watch;Time's not passing,Not going away,Like a friend who waits, insists;BegsThat she must do something at last.
Wistful"I am the boy who wants to loveyour misshapen words,your broken hearted pieces,andyour ink split fingers.I am the boy who wants to kissthose scar tattooed arms,that tear stained faceandmend what has been broken. I am the boy who canand willmake your heartsing poetry again."If only he would say itnowlike he hadthen.
all of your lives have been addictsmy cathas turnedmy front porchinto a graveyardas if to say:this is what we needbut tonightshe tried to lick my clawsback to hands& I said to her:"I do not have 9 livesto spend on the bathroom floorwith 13-hour insomniacan't we just kill the mockingbirdspull the concreteout of our throats& get this dyingover withalready"butshe's got 8 lives down& doesn't answer questions twice
five second suicideand as i pour myself out on these canvasesi drip over the edges, spilling dots ofabsence on the hungry earth.they call me jane doe,and i am not art.every evening, i close the door,close my eyes, disassemble.slowly, i've become fleeting.i float, my feet don't touch the ground.how can i crash?i fade, i dissolve,but i've lost the motive to explode.there's no glory in my death;i leave no trace of the dramatic.a man on the train last tuesdaynudged me, apologized, and carried on his way.he's the last person who'sspoken to me since then.we hit a notch in the tracks,the car wobbled.i stared at him silently,counting the infinite futuresthat suffocated behind my teeth.i'm dying in my own penitentiarywith the cell door key in my pocket.
roadkillYou told meI was November's ambrosiasweet on your tongue.But now all I feelis discord, siegingand overthrowingthe 3,000 year old treeinside of me.-Centuries to grow so talland strong-9 mere minutes tofall.You no longer smile anymore.And I am here,silent as stone-the carcass of a dead...wild thinghoping you don't leave meon the side of the road.
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These ideas always sicken me, we will be paying corporations out of our tax dollars for the air we breathe, hmm, that's going to work out well, 'NOT'.
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Now, if you are joining me from the last video, you might be looking at this wondering, why am I looking at the same project, and if you are not joining me from the last video, let me explain what happened. In the process of explaining how to add and adjust behaviors, we went through a couple of different behaviors. But to be honest, the easiest way to create this specific animation, let's use parameter behaviors, and now of course you're probably going, well what animation. What we are going to do is have the line slide left and right, back and forth across the screen, and the fastest way to do that is to actually apply a behavior, specifically to the position parameter of these objects.
So go ahead and select the largest line in the center of your canvas, and navigate to your Inspector tab, and make sure you are in the Properties section. Now, like I said I want to animate the position. So open up the Position disclosure triangle and you'll notice we can adjust the X, the Y or the Z. Now, since I want this to slide left or right, I want it to move on the X-axis. So Ctrl-click directly on the letter X and you'll see a menu pop-up listing all the different behaviors you can apply to this specific parameter, hence the name parameter behaviors, and since we want this to just slide back and forth, the best parameter behavior will be Oscillate.
So go ahead and choose that and you'll notice immediately we have our Motion path, this red line in the center of the canvas. This is showing me exactly where and how this line is going to animate. Go ahead and press the Play/Pause button in the bottom of your canvas, and let's look at this line, slide back and forth. Now, since this is a behavior, it's very easy to make adjustments. All you do is drag the different sliders. Notice how the Inspector automatically switches to the Behaviors tab, once we apply this behavior. Go ahead and click-and-drag on the Speed parameter to make this line move slightly faster.
And since we want this to slide a longer distance, let's go ahead and click-and-drag right in the Amplitude value slider. If you just click-and-hold your mouse and drag out, you'll increase the length of that behavior. Now, we have a line sliding back and forth fairly quickly across the canvas. Now, I'm going to stop playback just for one second, and we are going to use the similar technique we'd used in the last movie, where we copy the behavior from one layer to another. Press F5 to open the Project pane, make sure you are on the Layers tab, and you'll notice the Oscillate behavior is applied to this middle rectangle.
Now if you hold down Option, as you click-and-drag this behavior on to the next rectangle, you will notice it has now copied that behavior. Now go ahead and press the Play button one more time and you'll notice they are both moving in unison. So if you just slightly change any of these different parameters, we'll have a slightly different animation. So I'm going to slow this down, and make its Amplitude just a little bit larger, and now I'll click the Play/Pause button to watch it animate one more time. That's looking pretty good. Let me go ahead and pause this one last time, making sure that I can see this last rectangle, and let's select the Rectangle directly in the Layers tab.
And this time, instead of applying the behavior directly to the X position property of this rectangle, let's use the Add Behavior in the top of the canvas in your toolbar. You'll notice there is a section for Parameter, and I can choose Oscillate. Now we are almost there, but if you notice, there is no animation path on this object yet, and that's because it doesn't know exactly what parameter to apply this behavior to. So in the Apply To section, go ahead and click on the Go button, and you will notice all the different parameters of that object.
So we want to go to the Properties and Transform the position only on X-axis. And now we've just tied that behavior to the X-axis of the last object. Go ahead and begin playback on your canvas again, and now you'll notice we have three separate lines, all moving slightly differently, very quickly and easily using the parameter behaviors.
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At the twilight of our civilization, endless patent and copyright fights over obvious things. A keyboard at the bottom rather than the side of a phone? Obviously this is a precious work of genius that must be protected at all costs. Soon someone will make a new generation of 8K HDTV's and they will patent "the use of a remote control with 8K HDTV's" When will someone see through this horseshit and revoke these stupid patents.


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The Have and Have-Nots of Walkable Urbanism
Throughout U.S. history, we have had divides. Initially we had a lot of land to conquer, and we drew a line between settled and frontier. That gave way to urban versus rural. As we moved from an agrarian society to a mechanized one, the urban versus suburban divide became the key differentiator and has remained so. Some notable researchers, including Livability advisor Christopher Leinberger, are proposing a divide between Walkable Urban and Drivable Suburban. The trick is that Walkable Urban Places (WalkUPs, as he calls them) can and need to exist within our suburbs. His new research shows that these areas are not evenly spread through our largest metro areas and that the divide will increase in coming years.
Most importantly, this research shows that there is pent-up demand for this kind of development as evidenced by the premium paid for properties in these areas. That makes a great case for more development – even in some of the most car-centric areas.
The current ranking of Walkable Urban Places.The argument to add density to the suburbs isn't a new one, but this study gives some good ammunition of the kind that developers and politicians love: economic incentive. For example:
- Areas with more WalkUPs had a higher GDP per capita.
- Residents in areas with more WalkUPs had a higher level of education. Whether that means more educated people move to or stay in places like this is hard to discern, but regardless, they're there. If your business is looking for that kind of workforce, you'll want to be there, too.
- In the 30 largest metro areas, WalkUP office rents are a 74 percent premium over space in drivable suburbs.
- Fifty-eight percent of WalkUPs are in the central city, while 42 percent are in the suburbs, according to the study. The office and retail space, however, is not so well divided. Eighty-two percent is in the WalkUPs.
Given that, it's especially interesting to look at the "future" ranking provided in the study. You see Chicago fall dramatically from No. 5 to No. 15. Miami, conversely, pops up from No. 23 to No. 4. Even Detroit moves from the bottom portion of the list (No. 22) up to No. 8.
The projected ranking of Walkable Urban Places.The key to Chicago and Detroit's change seem to be in the suburbs. We've written about some projects in both of these cities that will help. But it clearly won't be enough. Adding residential space in the downtown – as Chicago has done and as I saw last week in Syracuse – will help, too. But it won't be enough, either. In a conference call announcing the findings, Mr. Leinberger said that it will take 20 to 30 years to catch up to the demand.
He also points out something we've talked about before: Walkability and urban density (even in the suburbs) comes with a price premium, which leads to an affordability problem. What happens when desirable living and working conditions wind up pricing too many people out of the market and become a luxury item? How will that impact the fabric of these cities?
One suggestion offered is to create more rentable space in existing places by allowing more flexibility in the laws. Currently it's hard to rent out a spare bedroom or put an apartment over a garage as rentable space. Allowing these auxiliary spaces to go on the market would create affordable housing for those who live in them, but also help the owners better afford their own living spaces.
However, it's also hard not to come to the conclusion that if we're not careful, walkability will become our new sprawl. We'll replace one problem with a perhaps better, but not inherently different problem. It's going to take smart planning, cooperative governments and developers with their eyes on the big picture to keep our cities great places to live – for everyone.
Why I Need a New Best Place to Live
Seven years ago, we found our perfect place. We skipped condo buying and went straight for a house in the city. It seemed kind of suburban to do that, and yet we were well within the Chicago city limits. We had a yard and a fence. Our house is close to everything: Target. Home Depot. A supermarket that we could walk to. It's near a park, the highway and public transportation that would get us downtown or to the airport in a breeze.
We knew all that going in. We didn't know how much we would come to love the gyro joint at the end of the block. Or the incredible selection of beers and ciders at the liquor store next to it.
There were places to eat and drink and enjoy our lives as newlyweds.
Then a funny thing happened. And then two more funny things happened. Now we had a 150 percent increase in the number of people occupying our little three-bedroom/two-bath. We'd meant for this to be our "starter" home all along, and we thought we'd stay for about five years and then see where we landed from there. Now we just had a little more reason to pack up than we'd thought.
The location became more important when our kids were young. We lived right near the highway, which was great for when we drove or carpooled to work. Living just outside of the express lanes cut our commute even further. If we didn't want to drive, two bus lines ran right at the end of the block that would connect to a subway line. We could also walk to the train if weather and time permitted.
Being near the highway also meant we could easily get out to the suburbs to see family or shop. The suburban Costco was much more minivan friendly. The Chicago Botanic Garden became a needed refuge for our family to find some nature and quiet just outside our city.
As our kids have grown, we need more and different space. The fenced-in backyard let the kids play safely, but backyards can isolate us. Bigger front yards encourage kids to play together with their neighbors.
The park a few blocks away was always a treat no matter how many times we swung on its swings and slid down its slides. The sidewalk outside worked well for tiny wheels and tentative steps. But all around us were busy streets. Supervised walks were great; freedom to roam was out of the question. Walkability can also be defined differently for adults or adults holding the hands of fidgety toddlers.
Our daughter wound up in a great program offered by Chicago Public Schools, but the trade-off was a 20-minute drive each way because it wasn't in the neighborhood. The way the selective enrollment and lottery systems work, it was almost certain that her siblings wouldn't get into the same school. In fact, they could easily wind up in three different schools in three different parts of the city. That means that her classmates are also spread around. There's no playing on the block after school. There's no walking home together. It's much harder to form community.
I can't imagine a better reason to move to the suburbs than that.
The school situation also meant that my commute, which used to be quick and easy on public transportation or even bike, now was taking me close to 90 minutes a day.
All of this is to say that we're a little less "city" now than we were when we were in our 20s and even our 30s. There's nothing inherently wrong with our current place. Instead, our changing demographics lead to changing definitions of livability and a need to rethink if this was still the best place for us.
And so, we're packing up. We're leaving the big city we love. We're headed for someplace similar but different. Smaller. It's still kind of city-like, but with great schools and a real sense of community.
Stay tuned for more on that. But first, I've got to tell you how we sold this house.


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My dad thinks they spread it on crackers? I now believe he's dead wrong about thr yeast cake but maybe there's some other by-product he's thinking of? Regardless, I've eaten my first and last scoop of yeast cake.
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I like marmite. I've made tea out of it, not bad. Also a good spread on bread.
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I know it sounds crazy since I havent had enough experience on this. As a Soraka player I love laning with Urgot bot. But as of recently , I did a random normal game... laned with Varus bot... he went 17/0/something I was 2/2/21 , immediately I added him to my friends list. And from there we proceeded to win the next 4 games in a row. The last game was a pull from behind win also , I fed Varus as much as possible but the other two lanes were dying too much to make just one character viable. We were able to win team fights with ease. I havent seen Varus play without a support... so my question is , how viable is he without support or blue buff? Out of the 5 games Ive supported him , I see that he is very very mana dependent like Urgot. Who would you guys rather have? Soraka/Urgot or Soraka/Varus. oh and inb4 Varus just came out so hes automatically OP before next patch nerf. I think people will complain that hes too strong, and he'll get nerfed. Which makes Soraka sad. =(
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no i hope he gets nerfed i hate losing to him repeatedly in lane. all ive seen is leona varus every ****ing game, within the time span of leonas stuns varus will kill u, they will proceed to zone u and poke u at ur turret until dive worthy, try this with ur friend for the next week, i guarantee u will not lose bot lane against any comp, unless u are bested by a varus leona mirror lane.
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I hav'nt lost a game with varus, and i'd say he doesnt need a nerf, hes fine the way he is, not OP at all. To answer your question, The first Normal game i played as Varus i went afk for first few minutes then came back to realize i was solo top vs 2 people, a Xin and another Varus, They were lvl 3's and i came lvl 1 to defend, Anyways i ended up winning that game, 9-1-10 of course ihad some ganks from the op fed malphite and shaco on my team and they ended up takin my tower down, but i was rockin teleport so i caught up, and surpassed them then just starting owning. So Yeah he isnt that dependent on support or blue, although he murders if he has them.


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GCA to collect food this month
November 6, 2012
Genesis Christian Academy Choir had a clothing drive that brought in more than 100 items of clothing.
The items will be donated to Good Shepherd Thrift Store and Food Bank.
GCA also is having a Stuff the Turkey event in which non-perishable food items and toiletry items will be collected until Tuesday, Nov. 27, at the school. The school has set a goal of 1,200 items to also be donated to Good Shepherd. Turkey carts will be put throughout the school's hallways for the drive.
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