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> Are there any other comparable O/S that
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by Ed Haas
June 11, 2007 — How many times has the now infamous Osama bin Laden "confession video" played in the corporate media after its release on December 13, 2001? How many newspapers carried the story of Osama bin Laden, confessing to his prior knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, in their December 14, 2001 editions? How about worldwide? Combined, how many television stations, radio broadcasts, and newspapers do you think ran segments and stories about the content of this video?
Considering the number of television and radio news media outlets globally, coupled with the fact that many of the television news stations in the United States played portions of this video every 15 minutes for weeks after its release, and it can be safely estimated that this "confession video" has played millions of times since its release nearly six years ago. It can also be accepted as fact that the story of the "confession tape" was deemed fit for print repeatedly in every newspaper and news magazine in the United States and nearly every other similar type of publication worldwide.
Without a doubt, exposure to the "confession video" has reached every civilized corner of the earth in which a press can be found. Millions of times hundreds of millions of people saw, heard, or read about the video. On December 13, 2001 the video was not a secret anymore. With its sheer volume of exposure, there should be no secrets about it. Yet, to this day, documentation related to the discovery of the video and its authenticity is being guarded by elements of the U.S.…Continue reading
By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, June 24, 2007
"Another [9/11 type terrorist] attack could create both a justification
and an opportunity that is lacking today to retaliate against some known targets"
(Statement by Pentagon official, leaked to the Washington Post, 23 April 2006)
The US media consensus is that "the United States faces its greatest
threat of a terrorist assault since the September 11 attacks" (USA Today,
12 February 2006) The American Homeland is threatened by " Islamic terrorists",
allegedly supported by Tehran and Damascus.
America is under attack" by an illusive "outside enemy".
Concepts are turned upside down. War becomes Peace. "Offense" becomes
a legitimate means of "self-defense". In the words of President Bush:
"Against this kind of enemy, there is only one effective response:
We must go on the offense, stay on the offense, and take the fight to them."
(President George W. Bush, CENTCOM Coalition Conference, May 1, 2007)
The intent is to seek a pretext to wage a preemptive war.
A "terrorist attack on America" could be used to justify, in the
eyes of an increasingly credulous public opinion, on "humanitarian grounds",
the launching of a major theater war directed against Iran and Syria.
Allegedly supported by Iran, the terrorists are said to possess nuclear capabilities.
They are supposedly planning to explode "radiological dispersion devices"
(RDD) or "dirty bombs" in densely populated urban areas in the US.… Continue reading
The Philadelphia Emergency Anti-War Convention Activist, Groups Across America to Meet in Philadelphia July 4th
This Independence Day activist groups from the across the nation will unite in Philadelphia to develop strategies and unified action to end the war and restore true American democracy
The Philadelphia Emergency Antiwar Convention (PEAC) will create a new alignment of progressive movements including: peace, impeachment, civil liberties, veterans, 9/11 truth, and others will form a united front with the intent of rescuing the current imperiled state of the union.
This gathering is the answer to a malfeasant administration and an irresponsive Democratic Party who have jointly failed to enact the demands of those whom they represent.
This new alliance, forged in response to the false promises of the elected leadership, will restore power to the fourth estate and to the constitutional republic for which we stand.
Speakers include: David Lindorff award-winning journalist for over three decades, contributor to The Nation, Salon, and Business Week; co-author, The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office, and Webster Griffin Tarpley, historian, investigative journalist, and author of 9/11 Synthetic Terror.
Schedule: The event will begin at 12:00 pm with a press conference by the Anti-War Coalition for Truth at the Independence Visitor Center located at One North Independence Mall West, 6th and Market Streets. The convention will begin promptly thereafter at 1:00 pm and end at 9:00 pm.
Endorsed by: Philadelphia World… Continue reading
Written by Robert Kubey, EXTRA!
Wednesday, 27 June 2007
Read the full article (below): Bush Moves Toward Martial Law by Frank Morales, published in TowardFreedom.com on October 26, 2006.
The article below is reprinted from EXTRA! Magazine
On October 17, 2006, when George W. Bush signed the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2007–a $538 billion military spending bill–he enacted into law a section called "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies." In the view of many, this Act substantially changed fundamental laws of the United States, giving Bush–and all future U.S. presidents–new and sweeping powers to use the U.S. military anywhere in the United States, virtually as he sees fit–for disaster relief, crowd control, suppression of public disorder, or any "other condition" that might arise.
News coverage of these significant changes in the law has been virtually nonexistent. At nearly every stage when it might have received coverage, the news media have completely ignored the story: When the NDAA was debated, when it was passed in the House on September 29 and in the Senate on Sept.… Continue reading
Cheney Determined To Strike In US With WMD This Summer
Only Impeachment, Removal or General Strike Can Stop Him
By Webster G. Tarpley 7-21-7
"The greatest threat now is 'a 9/11′ occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities." — Dick Cheney on Face the Nation, CBS, April 15, 2007
A few days ago, a group of lawyers from western Massachusetts met with the local congressman, Democrat John Olver. Their request was that Olver take part in the urgent effort to impeach Bush and Cheney. Olver responded by saying that he had no intention of doing anything to support impeachment. He went further, offering the information that the United States would soon attack Iran, and that these hostilities would be followed by the imposition of a martial law regime here.
According to reports in the British press, the Cheney war party has gained the upper hand in the secret councils of the Bush White House, pushing aside the purported hesitations of Miss Rice, Secretary Gates, and the NATO allies to chart a direct course towards war with Iran:
'The balance in the internal White House debate over Iran has shifted back in favour of military action before President George Bush leaves office in 18 months, the Guardian has learned. The shift follows an internal review involving the White House, the Pentagon and the state department over the last month. Although… Continue reading
By Catherine Donaldson-Evans
One of the young filmmakers behind a controversial 9/11 conspiracy documentary was arrested this week on charges that he deserted the Army, even though he claims he received an honorable discharge.
Originally reported 7/25 in the New York Daily Star , and followed up with another story on 7/26, Loose Change producer Korey Rowe was arrested Monday night at his home in Oneanta, NY. "Rowe was arrested on a 'military warrant' that [the Sheriff] said was brought to the attention of deputies by the Oneonta Police Department, who received information from a source outside of that department."911truth.org contacted Dylan Avery to ask how we could best help, and were asked, like everyone, to keep this relatively quiet until they figured out "what was going on." Korey has since been released, and posted a video statement at the LooseChange blog.
Almost daily, we learn of more troops being prosecuted for various reasons relating to their resistance and speaking out against the war, including attempts to "re-discharge" them at less than honorable status after previously having been honorably discharged, courts martial, and detention. Many of these soldiers' stories are being told by Courage To Resist , and this week's newsletter from them included information about Korey Rowe. Iraq Veterans Against the War ( IVAW.org ) members have particularly come under harassment–they have a good section at the IVAW site on this.
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, "President of the… Continue reading
The Associated Press Published:
July 26, 2007 11:30 PM ET
Editor & Publisher: America's Oldest Journal Covering the Newspaper Industry–
SAN FRANCISCO Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman's forehead and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player's death amounted to a crime, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
"The medical evidence did not match up with the, with the scenario as described," a doctor who examined Tillman's body after he was killed on the battlefield in Afghanistan in 2004 told investigators.
The doctors – whose names were blacked out – said that the bullet holes were so close together that it appeared the Army Ranger was cut down by an M-16 fired from a mere 10 yards or so away.
Ultimately, the Pentagon did conduct a criminal investigation, and asked Tillman's comrades whether he was disliked by his men and whether they had any reason to believe he was deliberately killed. The Pentagon eventually ruled that Tillman's death at the hands of his comrades was a friendly-fire accident.
The medical examiners' suspicions were outlined in 2,300 pages of testimony released to the AP this week by the Defense Department in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
Among other information contained in the documents:
— In his last words moments before he was killed, Tillman snapped at a panicky comrade under fire to shut up and stop "sniveling."
— Army attorneys sent each other congratulatory e-mails for keeping criminal investigators at bay as the Army conducted an internal friendly-fire investigation that resulted in administrative, or non-criminal, punishments.…Continue reading
Top Ten Myths About the Illegal NSA Spying on Americans
From the ACLU
(Download a printable version of the full
ACLU report. Download a printable version of this summary.)
Watch ACLU's National Town Hall Meeting on Spying, Secrecy, and Presidential
Power, held June 11, here.
MYTH: This is merely a "terrorist surveillance program."
REALITY: When there is evidence a person may be a terrorist,
both the criminal code and intelligence laws already authorize eavesdropping.
This illegal program, however, allows electronic monitoring without any showing
to a court that the person being spied upon in this country is a suspected terrorist.
MYTH: The program is legal.
REALITY: The program violates the Fourth Amendment and Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and will chill free speech.
MYTH: The Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF)
allows this.
REALITY: The resolution about using force in Afghanistan doesn't
mention wiretaps and doesn't apply domestically, but FISA does–it requires
a court order.
MYTH: The president has authority as commander in chief of
the military to spy on Americans without any court oversight.
REALITY: The Supreme Court recently found the administration's
claim of unlimited commander in chief powers during war to be an unacceptable
effort to "condense power into a single branch of government," contrary
to the Constitution's checks and balances.
MYTH: The president has the power to say what the law is.
REALITY: The courts have this power under our system of… Continue reading
By Dr. Peter Dale Scott
In American history there are two types of event: ordinary events which the information systems of the country can understand and establish. There are also deep events, or meta-events, which the mainstream information systems of the country cannot digest. I mean by a "deep event" an event in which it is clear from the outset that there are aspects which will not be dealt with in the mainstream media, and will be studied only by those so-called "conspiracy theorists" who specialize in deep history.
The events I shall discuss today exhibit continuities with each other and with other deep events, notably the Iran-Contra affair of the mid 1980s and the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995. But the three I shall discuss today — the JFK assassination, the initial Watergate break-ins, and 9/11 — are outstanding in this respect: that while they were attributed to insignificant and very marginal people, they had momentous impact, far more than most daily events by more important people, in redirecting American history. 1
If history is what is recorded, then deep history is the sum of events which tend to be officially obscured or even suppressed in traditional books and media. Important recent deep events include the political assassinations of the 1960s, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and now 9/11. All these deep events have involved what I call the deep state, that part of the state which is not publicly accountable, and pursues its goals by means which will not be approved… Continue reading
Dear 9/11 Truth Seekers,
I regret that, due to the fact that I'm addressing an audience in Oslo tonight, I am unable to attend your United for Truth March here in Brussels. Nevertheless, I wish, by means of this written statement, to say a few words of encouragement and appreciation for your efforts.
The attacks in New York and Washington six years ago left the American people stunned and ready to agree to almost anything the Bush-Cheney administration proposed. At home, this has meant severe restrictions on civil liberties in the name of the so-called PATRIOT Act.
Abroad, we have had a so-called war on terror, which has really been a war of aggression against Muslims and a war for oil and domination in Muslim nations. This has meant six years of torture, humiliation, and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in Afghanistan and Iraq, people who were either innocent civilians or soldiers fighting against an immoral and even illegal occupation.
During this period, we have also seen an unprecedented media cover-up in the United States and allied countries. Such cover-ups have happened before. But in this case, the crime was more enormous, the consequences were more catastrophic, and the evidence was more obvious. (For example, just by looking at the collapse of Building 7 of the World Trade Center, anyone who knows anything about these matters can see that it was brought down by explosives, as Danny Jowenko of Holland has illustrated.) The failure of the media to expose the lies of the official story threatens the continued existence of democracy, which simply cannot function without an independent media, dedicated to revealing crimes of state.…Continue reading
Even I question the 'truth' about 9/11
By Robert Fisk
Published: 25 August 2007
Each time I lecture abroad on the Middle East, there is always someone in the audience — just one — whom I call the "raver". Apologies here to all the men and women who come to my talks with bright and pertinent questions — often quite humbling ones for me as a journalist — and which show that they understand the Middle East tragedy a lot better than the journalists who report it. But the "raver" is real. He has turned up in corporeal form in Stockholm and in Oxford, in Sao Paulo and in Yerevan, in Cairo, in Los Angeles and, in female form, in Barcelona. No matter the country, there will always be a "raver".
Robert Fisk, award winning journalist, for the Independent in London; described by the NY Times as "the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain"; frequent contributor to Amy Goodman's Democracy Now, a man so famous he has become a verb in his own lifetime, and he's is a 9/11 truther!
In this article, Fisk complains about the ill-behaved 9/11 truthers who shout out questions about the 9/11 cover up at various speaking venues, but this complaint may be just to give himself some cover. Without that shield, he would be immediately denounced and marginalized, (he may be anyway) but he goes on to mention the dirth of plane parts at the Pentagon,… Continue reading
Official Explanation a "Fraud"
August 27, 2007
by Alan Miller, patriotsquestion911.com
World renowned scientist, Lynn Margulis, Ph.D., today severely criticized the official account of 9/11 and called for a new investigation, "I suggest that those of us aware and concerned demand that the glaringly erroneous official account of 9/11 be dismissed as a fraud and a new, thorough, and impartial investigation be undertaken."
One of America's most prominent scientists, Dr. Margulis is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts – Amherst. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983 and served as Chairman of the Academy's Space Science Board Committee on Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution. In 1999, President Bill Clinton presented Dr. Margulis with the National Medal of Science, America's highest honor for scientific achievement, "for her outstanding contributions to understanding of the development, structure, and evolution of living things, for inspiring new research in the biological, climatological, geological and planetary sciences, and for her extraordinary abilities as a teacher and communicator of science to the public."
In her statement on PatriotsQuestion911.com, Dr. Margulis referred to 9/11 as "this new false-flag operation, which has been used to justify the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as unprecedented assaults on research, education, and civil liberties". She compared 9/11 to several self-inflicted attacks that had been used in the past to arouse people's fear and hatred and justify war, including the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor, the Reichstag… Continue reading
Issued by 9/11 Truth of Argentina, September 9, 2007:
Citizens of the world, the lies about the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon
and the Twin Towers (9/11/01) are falling apart: Dublin, Madrid, Buenos Aires,
Rome, Paris, United States.
On September 11th, those of us who struggle for the truth will be honoring the
victims, in Buenos Aires, Dublin, Santiago de Chile, Caracas, Madrid, Paris,
Rome, Brussels and several places of the United States. Six years ago, Bush
swore that the terrorist had been Bin Laden, and the whole world except for
few believed him. Today, few believe him.
Italian, Spanish, Argentine, French, German and many American organizations
and investigators are working for the truth, for there are as many lies as casualties.
University professor David Ray Griffin is calling for demonstrations all over
the world: Because of the attack, Americans have accepted anything.
"The attacks left Americans numb enough to accept anything; in the US,
this has meant severe restrictions to civil liberties. Abroad, we have had a
war against terror that has been a war of aggression against Muslims. This has
meant six years of torture, humiliation and death of hundreds of thousands of
people in Afghanistan and Iraq, people who were innocent civilians or soldiers
fighting against an immoral and even illegal occupation."
The cover-up by the media is worldwide
We have seen an unprecedented cover-up of the media in the US and allied countries
(also in Argentina). There had been cover-ups before. But in this case, the… Continue reading
By Paul Craig Roberts
The anti-war movement has proven impotent to stop the war in Iraq despite the fact that the war was initiated on the basis of lies and deception. The anti-war movement stands helpless to prevent President Bush from attacking Iran or any other country that he might demonize for harboring a future 9/11 threat.
September 11 enabled Bush to take America to war and to keep America at war even though the government's explanation of the events of September 11 is mired in controversy and disbelieved by a large percentage of the population.
Although the news media's investigative arm has withered, other entities and individuals continue to struggle with unanswered questions. In the six years since 9/11, numerous distinguished scientists, engineers, architects, intelligence officers, pilots, military officers, air traffic controllers, and foreign dignitaries have raised serious and unanswered questions about the official story line.
Recognition of the inadequacy of the official account of the collapse of the twin towers is widespread in the scientific and technical community. One of the most glaring failures in the official account is the lack of an explanation of the near free-fall speed at which the buildings failed once the process began. Some scientists and engineers have attempted to bolster the official account with explanations of how this might happen in the absence of explosives used in controlled demolitions.
One recent example is the work of Cambridge University engineer, Dr. Keith Seffen , published in the Journal of Engineering Mechanics and reported… Continue reading
In honor of our veterans, we again call for truth
September 11, 2007
Opinion/Editorial piece by the Ashland Tidings
On this date six years ago, a stunned citizenry gave President Bush a blank check to seek and destroy anyone or any nation suspected of causing the attacks of Sept. 11. That day we were too busy mourning the loss of nearly 3,000 fellow Americans to notice something peculiar about three towers collapsing into their own footprints, a small hole being punched into the headquarters of the world's most powerful military by a large passenger airliner, and four planes disintegrating, all due to 19 hijackers with box cutters.
Six years later, Americans want this administration to account for its massive expenditures. Those expenses include more than the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; there has also been an incalculable loss of lives. Bush and company have reached the end of a very long line of credit.
We have witnessed one of the largest expansions of power by the executive branch in our lifetime. Legislation pushed through Congress has created a new massive power structure under the Office of Homeland Security answerable only to the president himself. America has changed to such a degree that we now detain suspects without juridical process for indefinite time periods. We advocate kidnapping, secret imprisonment and torture.
The administration's acts of stonewalling, concealing evidence, denying access and offering evolving explanations ought to be reason enough to compel journalists and congressional… Continue reading
R-N prof and dean, Dr. Barry R. Komisaruk brings up evidence surrounding 9/11,
questioning the official account
By: Dr. Barry R. Komisaruk
Posted: 9/11/07
Six years later, the impact is still felt. The implications are still more
troubling. My vivid recollections are the sudden silent disappearance from my
vantage point from Smith Hall on Warren Street of the towers, replaced by a
giant plume of white smoke, and my thought of the futility of the UMDNJ's calling
and mobilizing all health care personnel; no person in the buildings could survive
the collapse.
Some months later over breakfast with a colleague, I reacted in disbelief when
he said, "You know, there was no debris from a jetliner crash evident in
photos of the Pentagon that day." His claim started me to read extensively
about the events of the day.
These questions are not mere academic exercises. Rather, they challenge the
entire official dogma of what happened on that fateful day. The observations
are readily available and clearly evident from existing news reports, books,
and photos and videos on the Internet. They have not been accounted for convincingly,
or even at all, by the official U.S. government reports, and they have not even
been challenged by the mass media. They raise serious doubts and questions as
to what really happened on that day.
If the assumptions about the true nature of the events are erroneous, then
the policies that have been justified by those assumptions must be questioned
-ongoing policies that… Continue reading
'9/11 Truthers' flip the bird at Bill Maher
by Jason Rhyne
After being broadly denounced as "crazy people" by HBO's sharp-tongued Bill Maher, some members of the so-called 9/11 Truth movement — a group convinced that US government accounts of the Sept. 11 tragedies do not fully explain the events of that day — decided to give Maher a taste of his own caustic medicine.
In a new video making its rounds on the internet, one band of miffed Los Angeles-based "Truthers" borrows the graphics, theme music and trademark bite of Maher's popular "New Rules" segment to push back at the comedian's charges that conspiracy theorists are lunatics. "Crazy people are defined by acting crazy," activist Stewart Howe says in the clip, sitting alongside a Maher-esque video window depicting Fox News host Bill O'Reilly in a straight jacket. "9/11 Truthers," he continues, "are defined by a patriotic quest for the truth."
"I love Bill Maher, but he's wrong about 9/11 Truth," Katy Kurtzman, who also appears in the video, told RAW STORY . "We wanted to give it back to him the way he gives it out, which is 'I'm smarter than you and I'm gonna make fun of you about it.'"
"We had no idea it was going to go as viral as it has," she said of the project, which is the subject of more than 35,000 hits to date on YouTube and has received widespread postings on websites skeptical of the official 9/11 story.
"It's a response… Continue reading
by Brian Foley
September 11, 2007
JURIST Guest Columnist Brian J. Foley of Drexel University College of Law says that on the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we should remember that the US government has steadfastly refused to allow investigations that might locate individual blame for this massive security failure…
After major tragedies there are two investigative roads to take in trying to prevent a repeat: determining whether people or policies are to blame. Blaming people entails asking whether the disaster resulted from people failing to design or execute a proper preventive policy ("human error"). Blaming policy entails asking whether the policy failed either because the risk was not foreseeable, or because the harm simply cannot be prevented ("act of God"). Both roads should be taken.
After 9/11, however, the nation raced headlong into blaming policy alone. The prevailing view was stated by then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in May, 2002: "I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would … try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile." But such danger had been imagined, years earlier. For example, in 1994, terrorists hijacked a French airliner seeking to crash it into the Eiffel Tower. Tom Clancy's best-selling novel Debt of Honor (1994) ends with a Japanese airline pilot crashing his 747 into the U.S. Capitol (pp. 985-86). President Clinton and his staff also understood that an airplane could be used as a missile after a suicidal man piloted a Cessna into the White House lawn, just below the president's bedroom, in the early hours of September 12, 1994.…Continue reading

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text: In 2006, Muscle Powered, a local walking and bicycling advocacy group in Carson City, Nev., initiated a project to pilot a Walk to School program at two elementary schools using a $12,000 grant from the Nevada Office of Traffic Safety. To involve the school district and city staff in the Walk to School program, Muscle Powered invited the staff to a kick-off meeting. With their input, Mark Twain Elementary School and Seeliger Elementary School in Carson City were selected to be the pilot sites. These neighborhood schools were selected because sidewalks, good crossings and crossing guards already were in place, and both schools involve students in bicycle and pedestrian skills training.


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The Seven Bishops Committed to the Tower in 1688
14 of 14 portraits of Francis Turner
The Seven Bishops Committed to the Tower in 1688
by Robert White
line engraving, 1689
Reference Collection
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Artistback to top
- Robert White (1645-1703), Engraver. Artist associated with 591 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
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- Thomas Ken (1637-1711), Bishop of Bath and Wells. Sitter in 20 portraits.
- John Lake (1624-1689), Bishop of Chichester. Sitter in 13 portraits.
- William Lloyd (1627-1717), Bishop of Worcester. Sitter in 19 portraits.
- William Sancroft (1617-1693), Archbishop of Canterbury. Sitter in 29 portraits.
- Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Bt (1650-1721), Bishop of Winchester. Sitter associated with 15 portraits.
- Francis Turner (1638?-1700), Bishop of Ely. Sitter in 14 portraits.
- Thomas White (1628-1698), Bishop of Peterborough. Sitter in 13 portraits.
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When James II began to infringe the religious monopoly of the Church of England he lost the support of many Anglican clergy. After the second Declaration of Indulgence (1688) whcih suspended the Test Act, William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, and six other bishops petitioned the the King against it; they were sent to the Tower and tried for seditious libel but were acquitted; the bishops became popular heroes and the episode was a blow to James's authority.
Related worksback to top
- NPG D18862: The Seven Bishops committed to the Tower in 1688 (from same plate)
Linked publicationsback to top
- Ingamells, John, Later Stuart Portraits 1685-1714, 2009, p. 354
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See this portrait
On display in Room 8 at the National Portrait Gallery


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Amenta Emma is pleased to announce the promotion of Myles Brown, AIA to Principal. Myles has been an integral part of Amenta Emma's architectural practice and success for over 20 years as a designer, leader, mentor and most recently as director of the firm's marketing program.Myles has... View full entry »
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Leadership — 30 April 2012
If you've done some reading about Leadership, then I am sure you must have come across all the discussion about Management v\s Leadership and what it's all about.
There are many managers who could be great Leaders, but always rely on management tactics when it comes to day-to-day running of a team. Most common reason given is that it is not easy leading such a *team*.
My personal belief is, yes it is difficult but not impossible. With bit of extra effort, it is possible to *lead* a team – than *manage* it.
Here is my list of 9 mantras for Leading a team:
- Share the Vision. This has become a bit of a cliché but it still is true. I have seen managers coming up with great ideas, but just because it wasn't shared early enough with the team, they don't buy into it. Let them own the idea and see the difference.
- Call on favors sparingly. But be available all the time. There are times when you need your team member to put in that extra hours. Don't make that a habit – call on them once in a while when really necessary, protect them from unwanted overtime. But be available to them when they need you. Put in those extra hours yourself once in a while as well.
- Lead with example. Set high ethical-standards for your work and see them reciprocate.
- Empower them. Once the vision or any task for that matter is set and agreed on, empower them. Let them find their own way around, give them freedom to talk to other managers, senior managers, colleagues, etc. The more insecure you feel, more insecure your post will actually get. Step back and guide them.
- Treat them with respect. They all have their strengths and weaknesses. Understand them, adapt to them and respect them for what they are. Give them tasks that they enjoy; the ones they are good at. It is good to have a team with various skill sets and of different level.
- Give answers. A very simple statement, but yes I have seen many a times, a team member comes to you with a question and returns to his desk with more questions in his head and the original one is still unanswered. Give a bloody answer. More of ten than not they sincerely have a question for you and are not acting cheeky (i.e. testing your knowledge). If you don't know the answer, accept it. Work with them, involve them in the process and find the solution. Don't ignore them.
- Get hands-on. This is mainly true with managers like me in technology area. There is nothing wrong in being less knowledgeable than your junior, what is not good is ignoring that and not doing anything about it. Get hands-on and try to understand what they are doing and how it works.
- Ask for new ideas – and you'll be surprised. Create a culture of continuous improvement. Motivate them to recommend new ways to improve their productivity at work. This could be tweaking the strict process your team has to follow or something like team building activities. Ask for ideas and of course carry out the practical ones.
- Create a secure work environment. Everyone is an expert in their own right. Give them their space and opportunity to display their strengths. That does not mean you restrict them and not let them explore new challenges, but everyone once in a while likes to be in their comfort zone.
That's my secret of
managing Leading a Team of Experts. What's yours? Feel free to share you thoughts and ideas below in comments.


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Picture: Stanley Tucci The Hollywood premiere of 'The Lovely Bones' held at Grauman's Chinese Theatre - Arrivals Los Angeles, California - 07.12.09
Stanley Tucci's late wife urged him not to accept a role in emotional drama THE LOVELY BONES, because she feared the subject matter would be too harrowing.
The actor portrays serial killer George Harvey in the movie, based on author Alice Sebold's bestselling book about a young teenager who watches over her grieving family and her murderer from heaven after being brutally raped and killed.
Tucci's spouse Kate warned him off the project after reading the tragic novel, but he refused to listen and was cast in The Lovely Bones alongside Mark Wahlberg, Susan Sarandon and Saoirse Ronan.
But when he decided to pick up the book, he found himself struggling to finish the story because the detailed rape and murder scenes were too traumatic.
He says, "I hadn't read the book, but my wife read the book and when I got the script, she said, 'You can't do that.' I read the script and then later I read the book, but I couldn't focus on the book in its entirety, it's just too painful."
Director Peter Jackson decided against showing the horrific act in the movie version, instead showing actress Ronan, as victim Susie Salmon, escaping the cornfield pit where she was brutally killed as a ghost.
But Tucci is still hesitant about ever showing the film to his three young daughters, even when they're adults.
He adds, "Maybe when they're 40! (But) they don't like to watch movies with me in them."
Tucci's performance has been lauded by critics, landing him nominations for next year's (10) Screen Actor's Guild Awards and the Golden Globes.
Kate Tucci lost her battle with cancer in May (09).


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The talk on the radio is about whether billboards plugging alcohol and liquor are bad influences on black kids:
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The wildest, least explored of all Indian states is undoubtedly Arunachal Pradesh. To get there, one must get a very expensive permit valid only for one month (as expensive as an Indian visa). We never planned to visit the North East of India, but as soon as we read some articles on the internet about […]Continue Reading
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To the editor:
I attended Oldham County Schools' local planning committee meeting on Oct. 13, which turned out to be an eye-opener.
I had just received my property tax bill and was concerned the Oldham County Board of Education was going to increase this bill, especially when you add the other taxes on personal property, water, telephone, cable, home heating, electric bills, etc.
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While I applaud the Hope Clinic for it's commendable work and wish them well, I don't think government at any level has any business donating my tax money to any charitable cause, especially in these terribly difficult times.
I'm not making this statement because I'm wealthy, because I'm not. I've had my share of hard knocks and hard times as much as anyone.
I'm awake before dawn, trying to get this article zipped up and submitted so I can focus on the tasks before me.
I'm thankful for the greeting of a crisp, clear, autumn morning, for this is the day we will bury my grandmother.
I was blessed to have been born with eight living grandparents. Over the years, I have watched as one by one they went on to their eternal reward.
According to Advertising Age, a top magazine for trend analysis, the automobile is rapidly becoming less relevant to an increasing number of people younger than 30.
Reasons for this change include telecommuting, high fuel prices and environmental concerns.
Bad news for the auto industry may be good news for public transportation services. But, not so fast, that doesn't mean everyone endorses the need for public transit.
As Veterans Day approaches, we recognize the sacrifices made by all our veterans, and thank them for their service to our country.
As your representative and a veteran, I make every effort to make sure the men and women who have served our nation in uniform get the respect, treatment, services and benefits that they deserve.
Unemployment remains unacceptably high for all Americans, but the jobless rate among veterans is consistently higher than the nation at large.
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I almost couldn't believe my eyes when I opened the Oct. 13 edition of The Oldham Era.
The political cartoon made me think I was reading The Courier Journal ... Hank Williams Jr. was comparing playing golf with two famous terrorists of our time – or at least, this 69-year-old man's time. ... We saw the results, nothing, came out of the golf game, but a golf game.
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The Judge bound the defendant over on four charges: Count 1 - Sexual Abuse of a child Under 12; Count 2 – Incest; Count 3 – Showing Obscene Material to a Minor; and Count 4 – Child Abuse by Injury. He was also bound over having a prior felony conviction out of the State of Tennessee.
Farrell was originally charged with these felony counts on Friday, February 24, 2012.
The defendant was arraigned on May 10, 2012 and he is set on the July Jury Docket with a Pretrial Hearing set for July 5, 2012. He remains incarcerated pending the posting of bond.


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Racing Readers
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Catherine Gardner
Rationale: For students to be fluent readers, they must read quickly, automatically, and expressively. One way to increase fluency is through repeated readings. Repeated readings, reading a text or section of text several times, allows students to become more fluent by making all the words in a text sight words. In this lesson, students will gain fluency through silent reading and repeated readings with a partner.
· The book: The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race by Stan and Jan Berenstain (one for each student pair and one for teacher)
· Stop watch/timer for every two students
· Chart to record student's words per minute
· Copy of passage on the smart board to model fluent reading
o "The dog jumps from the bed to the ground. He wags his tail and barks very loud."
· Copies of passage (one for the students to read and one for each student for the teacher to record on)
· fluency checklist (to pass out to students)
· racecar with velcro that moves along the track in relation to the students WPM (1 for each student)
1. Explain to students what being a fluent reader means. "It is very important that we all become fluent readers. A fluent reader is able to read the words in a book at a good rate, automatically read and recognize words, and read with expression. Being able to recognize words automatically and read at a proper pace leads to better reading comprehension, which leads to reading being more enjoyable. It takes a lot of practice to become a fluent reader, but it is worth it!"
2. "There are some things you need to be able to do to become a fluent reader. First you need to be able to decode words. We can use our cover-up critters to break up words that we don't know into smaller parts that make it easier to read. If we come to a word that we don't know, after we have tried to decode the word, it is good to finish the sentence to see if we can figure out the word using the context of the sentence. This is called cross-checking. It is also important to be able to mentally mark irregular words once you have figured out that word, such as island says I-land. When you make notes about these irregular words in your head, this is called mental marking. One other important step you need to do is to always reread sentences that give you trouble. Once you crosscheck, discover the word, and mentally mark the irregular word, you always should reread the entire sentence."
3. Model fluency: I am going to model how to read fluently. I will start by reading this passage:
'The dog jumps f-rrr-ooo-mm the bed, oh from the bed, to the grind, I mean ground. He w-aaa-gs his tail, oh wags his tail, and b-a-r-ks very l-ooo-d. Load? Oh, that's loud.'"
"That sentence definitely gave me some trouble! I'm going to read it again now that I have used the important steps of crosschecking and mental marking." (I will read it fast without expression)
'The dog jumps from the bed to the ground. He wags his tail and barks very loud.'
"That was a lot easier for me to read since I remembered the words that gave me trouble when I read it before. Now I'm going to read it again and add expression to my reading. (Then I will read the passage with expression). Notice how after I have read a word a few times, using decoding, crosschecking, and mental marking, I was able to recognize it immediately and it made the whole sentence more enjoyable to read. Wasn't it more enjoyable listening to me read the passage the last time than the first time I read it? When we read fluently, we enjoy reading more and others enjoy listening to us read!"
4. "Now it is your turn to practice reading fluently! Today we are going to be reading The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race. Brother Bear in his little red car is in the road race against the other bigger cars. The other cars are bigger and faster, will Brother Bear be able to win the race? Let's read to find out if Brother Bear wins! I want everyone to read this book silently. Remember, silently means you are not whispering, you are silent."
5. "Now I want everyone to get into pairs and read the book with your partner. I want you and your partner to take turns being the reader while the other partner is the recorder. The reader is to read to page 15 of The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race three times and the recorder will fill out a sheet, noting how the reader is improving. The recorder will mark if the student remembered more words, read faster, read smoother, and read with expression the 2nd and 3rd time they read the book. Then you will switch places and repeat. Remember to use your decoding, crosschecking, mental marking, and rereading skills."
Fluency Checklist:
Title of Book: __________________________________
Student's Name: __________________________________ Date:
Partner's Name: ______________________________
After 2nd Reading After 3rd Reading
_________ _________ Remembered more words
_________ _________ Read faster
_________ _________ Read smoother
_________ _________ Read with expression
6. To assess the students, I will call students to my desk one by one to individually read a passage of text to me. I will record how long it takes the students to read the 137 word passage provided below. I will record the student's words per minute on a chart (word per minute is calculated by words read multiplied by 60, divided by however long it took the students to read. Words x 60 / seconds). When the student receives his or her words per minute, they will then move their racecar along the track to the correct WPM. The goal is to become a speedy reader like the speedy racecar!
Berenstain, Stan. Berenstain, Jan. The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race. 1987.
Jaggears, Emma. http://www.auburn.edu/~ekj0004/jaggearsgf.htm
Byers, Kathryn. http://www.auburn.edu/~klb0029/byersgf.htm
Assessment: http://www.blvs.org/gen/blvs/Reading__Grade_1_Form_A_p308.html
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Analytical Tools is a basic course in statistics, decision analysis, and simulation modeling. The course has the following principal objectives:
Teaching Methods:
The course will be conducted using a combination of lecture and case discussion.
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Hypothesis testing, regression analysis, time series, risk and decision analysis.
Why are some firms more successful than others? The fundamental question of strategy is how firms can attain and sustain competitive advantage. In this course, we will analyze the sources of competitive success among firms and develop skills and knowledge necessary to be an effective strategy analyst. We will also tackle the complexity and ambiguity associated with making strategic decisions in this era of innovation, changing firm boundaries, and uncertainty. You will enhance your strategic thinking skills by learning the concepts and tools of strategic analysis and by applying them to actual competitive situations in case studies.
Examination of the ethical aspects of managerial decision making by means of cases and background readings. Objectives of the course include analyzing moral dilemmas typically faced by managers, understanding and using your current values in making business decisions, increasing your awareness of other people's ethical perspectives, and assessing the effects of business decisions on the business environment and society at large.
This course will provide training in the theory and practice of financial management. The primary objectives are as follows:
The course will be conducted using a combination of lecture and case discussion. Each member of the class is expected to prepare thoroughly for each session and to participate actively in the class discussion.
This course addresses the theory and practice of financial management. The course has the following principal objectives:
Although most of the course materials concern private-sector firms, the concepts and techniques of financial management apply to other types of organizations as well. Topics to be covered in the course are shown in the attached course outline. The course will be conducted using a combination of lecture and discussion. Each member of the class is expected to prepare thoroughly for each session and to participate actively in the class discussion.
In short, this course is about the science of human thought and behavior, and its applications to business. We draw on theories from psychology, sociology, and economics to enhance your ability to understand, and hence predict, how you, and those around you, are likely to think and behave.
Why do you need such skills, you ask? Although skills in finance, accounting, marketing, operations, and strategy are crucial for organizational success, the ability to manage an organization, its groups, and its individuals is equally important. As you pursue your careers, you will inevitably depend on people to accomplish organizational goals; you will need to work for other people, work with other people, and supervise other people. For this reason, an understanding of the human side of management is an essential complement to the technical skills you are learning in other core business courses.
How does all this relate to "leading and managing?" By definition, a leader must have followers. This means that to be a leader, you need to understand how to motivate, inspire, and influence other people. You need to assemble the skills, talents, and resources of individuals and groups in ways that best solve the organizational problem(s) at hand. You must make things happen, and often under conditions or time-frames not of your own choosing. Leaders must also understand how to introduce their own skills and abilities into their teams. The successful execution of these goals requires leaders to be able to effectively diagnose problems, make smart decisions, influence and motivate others, wield power effectively, and drive organizational change. In other words, you need a thorough understanding of your own behavior, the behaviors of those around you, and how one impacts the other. Thus, this is not a class designed to teach you everything you need to know about leadership (we have some other activities and electives in the program that focus on this topic more specifically). Rather, this is a class that gives you some fundamental insight into human thought and action, and this insight is one core competency, among many, of effective leaders.
Macroeconomics introduces students to the major economic factors and relationships most relevant to today's business decisions. Unlike traditional macroeconomics classes, this course focuses on understanding how the current economic environment impacts companies and individuals. Special attention is paid to how economic factors like aggregate demand, employment, and labor productivity affect foreign currency and lending markets. Students are required to follow current events in the global economy and understand how these events impact managerial decisions.
The role of marketing management in organizations is to identify and measure the needs and wants of consumers, to determine which targets the business can serve, to decide on the appropriate offerings to serve these markets, and to determine the optimal methods of pricing, promoting, and distributing the firm's offerings. Successful organizations are those that integrate the objectives and resources of the organization with the needs and opportunities of the marketplace. Our goal in this course is to facilitate your achieving these goals regardless of your career path.
This course, required of all MBA students, emphasizes presentation skills for a general business audience. Work begins with baseline presentations, and the course continues through both planned and impromptu presentations during which students receive and consider feedback from their professor, their peers, and their own self-assessments. With an eye toward presentation best-practices, the course covers issues of organization and persuasion, effective delivery (maintaining executive presence, engaging your audience and handling Q&A, integrating PowerPoint slides, visuals, handouts and notes), and targeting each speaker's individual style and success.
Managerial accounting provides information for decision making, product–costing, and planning-control-evaluation activities. This course takes the perspective of both the user and the preparer of accounting information. The emphasis is on the fundamental concepts and the strategic importance of accounting data to managerial activity with special consideration given to the underlying accounting procedures and the underlying accounting processes.
During this course, you should specifically:
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Economics is everywhere and understanding it is critical for decision making in most business settings. This class introduces some basic methods of analyzing economic and business situations that are surprisingly adaptable to major problems of today. The course has three sections covering supply and demand, pricing, and risk and uncertainty. In each of these sections you will learn to apply the analytical methods developed to problems covering economic policy and business decision making.
As you will learn, the lessons of firm theory are straightforward: Among other points, profit is maximized by setting marginal profit equal to marginal cost, it can be increased through price discrimination, and response of other actors (businesses, customers, suppliers etc.) to business choices affects the impact of those choices. The devil is in the details, of course, so we have quite a bit to cover in this class. As you will also learn, supply and demand charts that many of you know so well can be applied in a much broader set of circumstances than you may currently realize. A surprisingly large fraction of topics currently in the news can be understood using basic supply and demand tools, and during this class most of you will ideally gain a new appreciation of hot topics in politics and business.
While the primary purpose of the class it to teach you economics and make you a better manager, a subsidiary purpose is to develop your analytical and modeling skills. There is some use of algebra, especially early on, which will prepare you for classes later in business school. There is much more extensive use of modeling in Excel: in most businesses I have been affiliated with, covering management consulting, finance and a start-up, Excel modeling has been an essential tool. Those of you with considerable experience in such modeling will find the methods in this class fairly basic, but for those of you who haven't yet come across Excel modeling in your careers this class will be a quick introduction to its practice.
Operations management can be defined as the design, operation, and improvement of the systems that create and deliver the firm's primary products and services. This class provides an understanding of the operations management function and its relationship to other functional areas within the firm.
In this class, we will develop frameworks to analyze the strengths and weakness of a firm's operations and to develop viable alternatives in pursuing its goals and objectives. We will examine the tradeoffs that managers face in emphasizing one goal (such as high capacity utilization) as compared to another goal (such as customer service). We will compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of different strategies and techniques, as determined by industry and global operating environments.
Ultimately, we hope to stimulate your interest in operations management. Whether you end up in finance, marketing, operations, accounting, or any other field, you will have opportunities to consider and systematically improve the way you do things. Operations management provides tools, techniques, and strategies for making organizations work more effectively and efficiently, and can make you a better manager.
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"This is the recipe everyone asks me to make and bring starting in October and through the holidays. It is simple and delicious!"
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cooking spray
1/2 cup
white sugar
eggs, beaten
1 (15 ounce) can
pure pumpkin (such as Libby's®)
3/4 cup
evaporated milk
1 teaspoon
orange extract
1 teaspoon
ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon
ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon
ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon
1 (9 ounce) package
yellow cake mix (such as Jiffy® Golden Yellow cake mix)
1/4 cup
butter, melted
All of the flavor of a traditional pumpkin pie with all of the spices and just a hint of citrus from the orange extract. The filling firms up enough after cooling a bit that you can cut it into squares to serve. The filling is creamy, and the top of the cobbler is a soft and buttery crumble, just delicious. The recipe doesn't say whether to cool or how to serve. I served it warm with a little whipped cream sprinkled with pumpkin pie spice. Thanks, Holly, thumbs up on this one, it's a keeper, and I wouldn't change a thing!
My mistake, used 2% evaporated milk, but did add an extra egg. The small amount of butter didn't fully cover the cake mix on the top so most was dry and tasted like dry cake mix. Don' t think I will make this again, there are too many other recipes to try
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This is delicious as is, no alterations needed....unless at high altitude then it does need to cook an extra 10-15 min. This is a really rich dessert! This desert is so good and calorie rich that I thought it would be a good idea to share it. WRONG! My husband threatened to leave me for giving all HIS cobbler away. Now making another for him.
I used this recipe for a contest at work and came in first place. My whole family loved it too.
I took this to a dinner party last night. It was such a big hit. When I told my husband I was making a pumpkin cobbler he turned up his nose. On the way home he could not stop talking about how good it was. Thank you for this recipe. Our friends know that when they ask me to bring something I will find something out of the normal, everyday offerings.
Sue, no you do not mix the cake mix according to the box. If you did, how would you "sprinkle" it on top. Excellent recipe. My husband doesn't like orange flavored anything, so I used vanilla extract.
Excellent! I made it exactly to the recipe, but I had to bake it for about an hour and 15 minutes (I'm at high altitude) It was SO easy!!
I don't think I would change a thing except add some fresh whipped cream on top. I didn't have any on hand because I was just "experimenting" with this recipe.
My whole family loved it, teenagers, 21 year old and adults!
Delicious! I used a can of sweetended condensed milk instead of the sugar and milk combo, and added everything else. Simply awesome!
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Pumpkin Cobbler
Serving Size: 1/6 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 6
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 408
Calories from Fat: 152
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KID NATION: Ugly chickens deserve to die
By Ann Tatko-Peterson
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 at 9:30 pm in TV.
Even at her worst, you have to love Taylor on "Kid Nation." She refused to let the town kill her brown chickens — the pretty ones, that is. Those poor chickens she labeled ugly, well, they were fair game. "Ugly chickens deserve to die," she explained. It was vintage Taylor. She was back causing trouble, and frankly, thank God. "Kid Nation" had become stale with Taylor on the back burner. She's certainly a queen-sized brat prone to tempers and self-centeredness and I would never ever want her for my kid, but when it comes to reality television, she's the only thing I find worth watching on this show.
Taylor is a real character. She ranks right up there among the best love-to-hate-'em reality TV stars. Rob from "Survivor" (and later "Amazing Race") has nothing on this kid. She acts like a mini prima donna. She says outrageous things — take this week's episode when she popped off about how makeup could make ugly girls look pretty but makeup wouldn't work on the ugly chickens (or her dog). And she may be the world's most stubborn 10-year-old, refusing to work even when the Town Council threatens to withhold the reward. I couldn't help but smirk when the council picked the arcade over the books at the reward challenge. Taylor and her "I hate to read" attitude suddenly lost something of value. But without missing a beat, she promised, "If I ever get to go into that arcade and someone takes me out, they're going to get backslapped and kicked real hard."
But let's be honest. This show hasn't helped Taylor mature one bit. The only reason she washed dishes all day — "I'm gonna scrub them like I scrub my hair" — is because she wanted into the arcade. I don't buy for a second that she did it for respect. Attention, maybe. And that's where the Town Council and everyone else on the show keeps messing up. Every time Taylor throws a temper, they issue threats. She finally buckles a little and they act like she did them proud. Greg hoisting her into his arms and carrying her into the arcade was the ultimate eye-roller. That's exactly what she wants — to be the center of attention. Which is bad for Bonanza and any kid watching the show who thinks such behavior is a means to an end, but it does make the show a lot more entertaining.
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We have just completed the insulating layer of vermiculite concrete on a casa 110 oven. As you can see I am coming up and over with natural stone. Question, if I put an additional 2 inch shell of portland sand over the 4' portland vermiculite, can then adhere my stone directly to the shell of the dome. I was told by the sales people (who should take a course on oven construction) that I need have a supportive structure over the dome to be able to dome over with stone. With this method, the stone is actually supporting itself as it corbels over the top, so the weight is distributed to the sides. Also, with this in mind, should I just veneer up and leave a gap to fill with loose vermiculite? Thanks to anyone who can help me with this.
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Your questions are beyond my expertise, but your oven is going to be gorgeous! Someone will jump in with advice.
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Gorgeous stone work, please post more pictures as you go along. I don't see why you would need a support structure for the stone. Most of the weight should transfer vertically down through the stonework. Depending on how you finish it, there may be some sideward thrust, but the mortar should easily account for that. If you are confident that the mortared stonework would stand by itself as a hollow shell, then it is indeed a self-supporting corbel.
Whether you finish it as a veneer or not is really a personal preference. If your oven has enough insulation already, then I'd prefer to mortar to the shell to provide extra safety margin against uncommon loading e.g. wind, accidental impacts, mortar defects, earthquakes, tornadoes, etc. But if you want to have another layer of vermiculite, go ahead.
Re: Natural Corbel Stone Dome on Casa 110
If you're confident with your stone work, it's probable that you don't need a support structure. If you decide to go that route, though, I would not use Portland/sand. Even for laying the stone as a corbel, I'd use Type N and sand, because it's stickier, not as rigid and stands up to water run off.
Re: Natural Corbel Stone Dome on Casa 110
as the others say, carry on corbeling over the dome as the weight is distributed to the base. If you've 4" of vermiculite that's absolutely plenty to keep the heat in. I'm not a great fan of Portland cement for stone work unless you mix Hydrated lime into the mortar or use just a NHL 3.5 Hydraulic Lime/ 0-4mm sand mix at 1 part lime to 2-3 sand. Its a much more forgiving mix and not as brittle as Portland.
Its looking good!
Re: Natural Corbel Stone Dome on Casa 110
Thank you to everyone who has replied to my questions. Just to clarify...I never had any intention of using portland for the stonework , my plan all along is to use type S, I was asking if I put a shell of portland mix over the 4"vermiculite insulation, would that be a good way to allow myself to veneer right to the shell?
Re: Natural Corbel Stone Dome on Casa 110
chuck, I don't think you need a separate layer as such, just backfill with mix as you corbel over unless your stone is very variable in thickness and your insulating mix is very uneven but it doesn't look like either is the case. If you've put a foil layer over the dome before insulating then that will act as an expansion joint so the layers subsequent should all be stable and independent of the dome movement. There's no fixed answer to these things so carry on and see what happens. I suppose you've just got to make sure the thing is water tight.
Re: Natural Corbel Stone Dome on Casa 110
This idea may be to late in coming, but what about a waterproof stucco coating under the stonework?
Re: Natural Corbel Stone Dome on Casa 110
I don't really know how you've finished things so far but I should think that if you make sure the stone joints are well filled and brushed off at the end of your work session, I doubt very much you'll get any rain penetration. If its going to worry you sick, stucco over before you start the stonework but I only say that because worry is the one thing you should avoid at all costs when doing anything new! In fact my life motto is " when you start worrying, you stop living".........
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The SUB 30 is designed for commuting, trips to the store, and just getting around town. Frame and fork eyelets make it easy to mount the Urban-Kit rack and fender system, so you can transport your groceries with ease and stay dry doing it.
- Frame:
SCOTT SUB 6061 Alloy, Double Butted, 700c
- Fork:
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- Front Derailleur:
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- Rear Derailleur:
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- Chainset:
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- Chainrings:
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Shimano UN 26 / 68-122mm
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The collection also supports New York's fashion economy. Bella Linea founders believe in the importance of promoting and preserving New York's rich heritage in the fashion industry. Co-founder, Stephanie Reilly, a fresh-on-the-scene fashion designer and recent Fashion Institute of Technology graduate has resided in New York City for the past three years after expanding her Southern California jewelry business.
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