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Years on Squad: 2
Major: Advertising with an outside concentration in Business
Hometown: Gainesville, FL
Career Plans
After graduating college, I would like to work in the media planning and buying department of a small advertising agency or work in the human resources department of a business because I enjoy working with people.
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My best friend accidentally broke my nose with a golf club when we were 6-years-old; we're still best friends today!
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Lanny Jewell was the hands-down winner in the Lebanon City Council race to represent Ward 1. Jewell was a prohibitive favorite because his opponent, Richard Rogers, was previously extradited to Cobb County, Ga. on outstanding drug charges. Despite Rogers' incarceration, he still received 25 percent of the vote.
Cobb County District Attorney Sam Lingin confirmed Rogers remained in custody Wednesday, more than a week after the general election.
"We've still got him," he said. "He's in our jail."
Jewell professed surprise when Rogers was arrested by local authorities, but planned to carry on his campaign as planned, and did so. Speaking after the election, Jewell said his opponent getting so many votes despite being in jail didn't surprise him. He said when he started his campaign there was a group that would have opposed him no matter what.
"If they had run Big Bird against me, he probably would have gotten quite a few votes," Jewell said.
Rogers remained in Wilson County Jail since Lebanon police took him into custody Sept. 26. He eventually opted to forgo an extradition hearing in Wilson County and was taken into custody by Georgia officers back to Georgia to the face nine-year-old charges.
Police Chief Scott Bowen said at the time he was arrested by LPD officers Rogers was wanted on two felony warrants for possession of muscle relaxers and possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute issued in 2004 from Cobb County. Bowen also noted that Rogers also had outstanding charges from 2003 involving driving under the influence of drugs, reckless driving and failure to stop at the scene of an accident. Georgia authorities charged Rogers in 2003, and a bench warrant was issued after he failed to appear in court.
It was bad luck that brought Rogers outstanding warrants to the attention of local law enforcement. Bowen said Lebanon police first became aware of the warrants after an officer stopped to offer Rogers assistance after his vehicle broke down Sept. 17. He said as part of normal procedure, the officer entered Rogers' driver's license number into the police database and discovered the warrants.
Wilson County Administrator of Elections Phillip Warren said once a candidate is on the ballot, they're pretty much there to stay.
"Once you're qualified as a candidate, you're on the ballot," he said. "He sent a letter requesting that he be taken off, but we can't take someone off after the withdrawal deadline."
Even dying isn't guaranteed to get a candidate off the ballot.
"There are provisions for that, but even then at a certain point they're on the ballot," Warren said, adding he wasn't sure why so many people voted for a candidate who is behind bars.
"A lot of people vote for lots of reasons," he said.
The notion of a man in jail remaining on the ballot is not unprecedented in Tennessee. Tommy Burnett was born and raised in Goodlettsville, attended Cumberland University and received a law degree from the University of Tennessee.
A Democrat, Burnett was first elected to the state Legislature in 1970. In 1983, he was convicted in federal court for misdemeanor willfully failing to file federal income tax returns and served 10 months in prison. While in prison, he was re-elected to the Tennessee House, defeating two opponents in the primary and winning the November 1984 general election with 60 percent of the vote.
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Weekend chat: Brother, can you spare an MRAP?
SAN ANGELO, Texas - Exactly what do you do with a used MRAP?
The pentagon has around $45 billion worth (give or take a few million here and there) of them to do.... what with?
The editorial says: "And unlike so much military surplus, these vehicles have no real civilian function." Well to that I say *plbbttt!!!* (blows a raspberry). You just aren't thinking outside the box, and we have some creative minds among us.
The Humvee transitioned into civilian life quite well, why couldn't an MRAP?
How cool would that be to roll up in an MRAP to pick the kiddos up from practice? In some parts of the country, it would probably be desirable to sport one of these babies cruising through certain neighborhoods. And could give the term "he cut me off" a whole new meaning on the road.
It's time to rise to the occasion and help out your country and get creative. How many uses can you think of for a spare MRAP?
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Carrie, Miranda, John Legend, and More Perform at CMT Awards
The 2014 CMT Awards was a star-studded event, with host Kristen Bell and country music's biggest names collaborating with one another!
Kicking off the show was a musical mashup with Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line … and Jason Derulo?
The performance was led off by guitarists Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill of ZZ Top, then segued into Florida Georgia Line's country hit "This is How We Roll" featuring Luke. The boys then introduce Jason onstage to perform his hit "Talk Dirty" and they even tried to mimic Jason's dance moves while adding their own country spin to the song.
Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert looked and sounded amazing for their performance of Miranda's "Somethin' Bad." Carrie took the award of "Video of the Year" for "See You Again," and Miranda won "Female Video of the Year" for her song "Automatic."
John Legend's hit ballad "All of Me" also got a country spin when he collaborated with Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles, accompanied by three-time nominee Hunter Hayes on guitar!
Check out more amazing performances from Wednesday night's award show!
"Male Video of the Year" winner Blake Shelton performing "Boys 'Round Here."
Luke made the girls go crazy during his performance of "Play It Again":
Watch a sidewalk café turn into the whole arena during Keith Urban's performance of "Cop Car."
Little Big Town gets a splash of color while "Day Drinking!"
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Personally, I can't wait to see the new Rocky film Rocky Balboa! Looks like it could be a real step back into the original movie magic with cast and plot. It looks really good. The original Rocky was a classic that I hold very close to my heart. I remember my Dad going to the movie and when he came home late at night telling me I had to see it. We went the next night and it was one of the best movies I ever saw. The exchange between Rocky and Mickey at the Rocks apartment is one of my favorite scenes ever. Checkout a very cool snippet of the movie:
Also, Lady In The Water from director/writer M. Night Shyamalan. I'm a big fan of his movies and usually really like them - Unbreakable being my favorite so far. This looks very different and with Night that isn't unusual and bodes well for a excellent bit of entertainment and movie making. Here's the trailer:
Lady in the Water
Another movie that looks really cool and could somehow be good is Ghost Rider. Not ususally a Nick Cage fan but this looks like it could be entertaining while staying somewhat close to the original material. Risky, but could be fun! Plus, Eva mendez is one hot mama! Checkout the trailer:
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The tutorial from Gunnar Martinsson on randomized methods for computing the SVD or the video tutorial.
Has anyone implemented any of these algorithms? In the talk it's been said that these are very very fast, with very little compromise on performance compared to SVD. The code below is very simple. I tested in on A of size 1000x5000 but don't get very similar results with the SVD, i.e. SVD is way better. There's some improvement from the RSVD though, so I don't think it's completely broken. What could be the problem?
def rsvd(A, k):
//Omega = random((N,k))
Omega = standard_normal((N,k))
Y = dot(A, Omega)
Q, R = qr(Y, econ = True)
B = dot(Q.T,A)
Uhat, Sigma, V = svd(B)
U = Q.dot(Uhat)
return U, Sigma, V
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Oliver Mitevski
I have the same question here. I implement the randomized method for computing SVD based on the tutoiral from Gunnar Martinsson. My code is similar to code given above. However, the approximation result is very poor compared to the exact SVD result. The answers that follow this post does not answer why this happens. Is the theory incorrect? Can anyone explain why?
(Feb 11 '14 at 15:57) Shawn
Oliver, if you're interested in exploring the stochastic decomposition algorithm for yourself, you can get inspiration from ready implementations:
As for accuracy, it depends on the spectral properties of your problem. In Natural Language Processing, the spectrum declines very gradually (no sharp drop-off), so you'd need many power iterations for the stochastic algorithm to be reasonably accurate. Even massive oversampling (like
Performance-wise, people just use standard Gaussian for the random matrix
answered Nov 06 '10 at 08:29
Thanks a lot for pointing my to these great packages redsvd and eigen3. It would be great if I could use them from python. The eigen3 python api is in pre-alpha state, but I hope it'll work for my needs. The gensim is already in python, which is great. I'll check the their matlab implementation to see why my code doesn't work as expected.
(Nov 06 '10 at 23:45) Oliver Mitevski
Can anyone give an detailed explanation of the Matlab code by the authors themselves? Their Matlab code takes a Power iteration approach which is slightly different from the algorithm titled as "PROTOTYPE FOR RANDOMIZED SVD" in their paper.
(Feb 15 '14 at 20:23) Shawn
Have you had a look at this Python code. I am not sure it does exactly what you want, but it may be a source of inspiration.
answered Nov 24 '10 at 10:23
Gael Varoquaux
Thanks Gael, and especially to Alexandre for sharing that piece of code. I tested it and it works fine. That's exactly what I was looking for.
(Nov 25 '10 at 11:28) Oliver Mitevski
There's an updated version of it in scikits.learn that works with scipy.sparse matrices as well.
(Nov 25 '10 at 11:30) Alexandre Passos ♦
hm, couldn't find it in the scikits.learn package. where exactly is it? or is it under a different name?
(Nov 25 '10 at 12:19) Oliver Mitevski
It was commited a few days ago and I guess wasn't released yet. It's in scikits.learn.utils.extmath, as fast_svd
(Nov 25 '10 at 12:20) Alexandre Passos ♦
Which are these random numbers you're using? They should be gaussian with mean 0 and variance 1, or something similar. If they are 0-1 uniform random numbers the method gets a lot worse. Also, you should allow for some numerical errors by instead computing the truncated SVD of the first k+5 or so dimensions instead of k, and then truncating.
answered Nov 05 '10 at 06:42
Alexandre Passos ♦
Thanks a lot Alexandre. I was using the uniform random function, so I changed that to standard_normal function which gives zero-mean unit-variance numbers, but did not get any better results. I really hoped that this was the bug, but will check their matlab implementation.
(Nov 06 '10 at 23:27) Oliver Mitevski
Suppose matrix
When you use Gunnar Martinsson's method to obtain an approximate SVD decomposition whose rank is lower than `k', the accuracy can become very bad. However, the computation becomes faster.
In summary, Gunnar Martinsson's method is supposed to be a fast approximation to the exact SVD, both of which has the same rank. You can verify this very easily by writing a program.
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Grassfed Critics Are Ignoring Methane Eating Soil Microbes
LOVELAND, Colorado: Beef cattle belch out tons of methane. Some studies claim cows account for 18 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions.
And, it turns out that grassfed cows belch more than their grainfed cousins, a fact that gladdens the hearts of feedlot owners seeking a patch of moral high ground on which to plant a green flag.
Now along comes Bill McKibben to snatch the flag back for the grass-feeders. ("The Only Way to Have a Cow" by Bill McKibben. Orion Magazine, March/April 20I0).
How is it, he asks, that vast herds of wild ruminants never burped the skies full of methane in days of old? The answer, he claims, is methane eating soil microbes.
"Healthy soils sequester more of the gas in a day than cows supported by the same area will emit in a year."
The wild herds helped create healthy soils by massing together for protection from wolves. chomping everything in sight, fertilizing the place and being encouraged to quickly move on by biting flies that stayed with the manure.
Pasture-based cow herds perform the same soil-building trick when they are crowded together and moved quickly, so that the recovering grass can do its carbon sequestering, burst-of-growth thing. Old West trail bosses called it . "Head 'em up and move 'em out."
New-fangled ranchers call it "mob grazing."
Bovines on feedlots may belch less but they also recycle less. Their mountains of manure and lakes of urine emit more methane and nitrogen into the air and waterways. Grass-feeders' waste is quickly transformed into brunch for bacteria.
The soil created by this process is rich in microbial life: 4000 pounds of tiny, carbon-building, methane-eating bacteria per acre as opposed to only 400 pounds per acre in poor soils depleted by plowing and cropping and chemical fertilizers. Keeping the bugs well fed is as important as grazing the cows. Those of us who raise grassfed beef, it turns out, are microbe ranchers.
The problem is that grassfed beef take up more space and, consequently, are more expensive to raise. Here the feedlot folks try to recapture the flag by claiming that they, not the grass-feeders, are the only ones who can efficiently supply a rapidly growing world population hungry for a taste of the meaty good life we enjoy.
Some environmentalist echo this view.
"There are just too many people to feed, and, unfortunately, the population is growing exponentially," says Stewart David in his blog response to McKibben.
"Where, exactly, is all of this 'free range'? How much of the planet would need to be deforested to make room for mass grazing? Do the math."
The math, it turns out, isn't so daunting. First it's important to realize that feedlot beeves already spend most of their lives on grass. It's only the last three to six months before slaughter that they 're crowded together and stuffed full of corn. So the idea of fattening them on grass for 120 more days isn't as outlandishly demanding of new pasture as it might seem.
Second, according to USDA, U.S. forest land has actually increased by some 17 million acres from 1987 to 2002 . Twenty percent of forest land is grazed, as is 62 million acres of crop lands during part of the year, Take a drive across Kansas in the fall to see cattle munching on corn stubble.
When these dual-use acres are added to land devoted solely to livestock, there are currently 703 million grazing acres available in the USA for 97 million cattle. That comes to eight acres per beef animal, not enough in the dry Southwest but much more than needed in the Great Plains and South.
Third, mob grazing makes the grass grow faster. Some grassfeeders claim that for the price of some electric fencing, you can in effect nearly double the size of your ranch, forage wise. So if a wholesale shift from feedlot to grassfed beef is unlikely, a sizable shift could be easily accomplished without the need for more pasture land.
Possible, but is it likely? One trend may make it more so.
There are a growing number of "ecosystem services" markets in the country that channel extra funds to ranchers who protect the water supply and capture greenhouse gases through soil restoration. Happily, such practices also increase grass yields and ranch profits.
So, It's a good time for us ranchers to saddle up and ride the range with our squinty-eyed gaze resolutely on the ground.
Git along , little microbes.
David M. Jessup writes from Sylvan Dale Guest Ranch in Loveland, Colorado, where he introduces cattle and horses to dude guests, and guests to the ways of the West. The ranch also raises grassfed beef for local direct sale. Follow David's blog here.
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Africans in America closes with the culmination of the Civil War. That divisive chapter in our nation's history resulted in a new life for a race bound by slavery a new testament to the Constitution's pledge that all men are created equal. Africans in America, therefore, is purely old testament, the painful, violent account of people forced into slavery and their nearly 250-year exodus to freedom.
The book, written by Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, and researchers with Boston Public Television station WGBH, is a companion to the PBS series airing in October. It is written in documentary style, spotlighting major historical events spliced with anecdotes of human struggles with slavery. Johnson is the author of five novels and professor of English at the University of Washington. Smith is a journalist, poet, and playwright. Together, they take material gathered over ten years by the WGBH research team and craft it into a detailed chronicle of slavery.
The book begins in Africa, where the institution of slavery was an element of tribal culture. Still, tribal leaders treated slaves as part of the community and kept family members together. When foreigners arrived to trade for slave labor, they stuffed husband and wife, mother and child, into the hulls of wooden ships for the rough ride to America behavior that set the pattern for the slaves' mistreatment in the United States. Upon arriving in the states, slaves were sold one by one, without regard to family ties.
The authors note that the nation's founding fathers had a similar double standard, fighting for their country's independence even as they used slaves to work their land. Washington was not the only leader who maintained a public silence on the topic, the authors write. Add to the list the Jeffersons, the Madisons. Sadly, even those African Americans who were free men gaining that status through pardon or by fighting in the Revolutionary War were not truly free. They still were limited to living in segregated neighborhoods. Their job opportunities were minimal. They could not vote.
What breaths life into Africans in America are the stories of the individual struggles: the tale of Mum Bett, the Massachusetts slave who successfully sued for her freedom, or the endeavors of Frederick Douglass, a runaway slave who endured physical and psychological punishment as he traveled the country preaching for the equality of his race.
All told, Africans in America is an insightful account of a race's stormy immigration to, and assimilation into America, an accompaniment that will no doubt enrich the viewing, and deepen the understanding, of the PBS TV series.
John T. Slania is a writer in Chicago.


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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 12 (UPI) —
Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)'s campaign director apologized to his boss after a conversation where he said he's holding his nose to work for him was leaked.
Jesse Benton, who's running the Senate minority leader's 2014 re-election bid, was speaking privately to a supporter of Kentucky's junior senator, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a scion of the Tea Party movement, who was questioning why Benton would work for McConnell.
Benton ran Paul's senatorial campaign. McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, is seen by many in the Tea Party movement as an impediment to the insurgent far-right wing of the party. McConnell supported Paul's opponent, Trey Grayson, during their 2010 primary.
In a recording of the conversation leaked to WHAS-TV, Louisville, Benton told the Paul supporter he would be "sorta holding my nose for two years" while working for McConnell.
Benton immediately apologized and renounced his remark, The Hill said Monday.
In a face-to-face meeting with McConnell, Benton said he was sure his comment "hurt" the senator, but Benton said it isn't how he really feels about working for the campaign.
"He asked me how I could say something like that, and I just didn't have a good answer," Benton said. "I apologized from the bottom of my heart and I told him it's not what I believe and that I am here because I believe in him."
In fact, Benton said, he hopes to build a partnership between McConnell and Paul, who is widely considered a potential Republican presidential candidate in 2016.
"There is going to be a substantial part of 'Team Mitch' that, God willing, will go and fuse with 'Team Paul,' who already has a great team in place and I think will just make a tremendous campaign operation," Benton said.
McConnell's primary opponent, Matt Bevin, a Tea Party conservative, pounced on Benton's nose-holding comment.
"Even McConnell's top guy realizes that his boss is not a true conservative," Bevin said.


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My daughter was diagnosed with scoliosis at 11. At the time we were told she had a mild curve (17 degrees). We were also told that because she had already experienced a large growth spurt ( she had grown 5 inches within the last 12 months) that her curve was considered mild, and the normal protocol was to watch and monitor for progression. Additionally, we were told that her curve was unusual because it was a left thorasic curve, and it was also "short and sharp" or spread over a small area. My daughter has had chronic pain between her shoulder blades for 5 years. We have continued to monitor the curve, and she has been through numerous rounds of P.T., massage therapy, acupuncture, trigger point injections, and has been prescribed a variety of pain medication, but unfortunately nothing seems to help. She had a MRI in March of this year, and it showed that her curve had increased to 34 degrees, however XRAYS taken around the same time showed her curve at 28 degrees. I am frustrated and confused. As a parent, you want to be able to find solutions for your children, but I am finding that there does not seem to be an easy answer to this. Can anyone offer some advise on what our next steps should be? I am so glad that I found this forum. I am a firm believer that information is knowledge. Thank you.
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After Cedric
The various events commemorating the life of Cedric Price last week were of a variety and intensity he would certainly have enjoyed. It all kicked off at the Architectural Association. Simon Allford chaired an afternoon of contributions about the Great Man, beginning with a nice tribute from AA chairman Mohsen Mostafavi. AJ editorial director Paul Finch recalled two decades of breakfasts, lunches and dinners in various locations, including Beijing in the late '90s, where the two heard with horror the BBC World Service announcement of the ban on beef on the bone back in the UK. They made up for this with a comprehensive banquet in the city's best duck restaurant.
Next up was Rem Koolhaas. He recalled arriving at the AA in 1968 and being taken aback by the apparent obsession with trivia like seaside architecture; only later had he come to realise a level of seriousness beyond the jokey. He also had some pertinent observations on Cedric's desire to build, and why it was that such a profound thinker had encountered such obstacles to making more of an impact in terms of built form.
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When Caroline Picard hits the stage with her signature red boots, her audience has about six seconds to get on her wavelength. Caroline let's them know right away that they are about to experience something really refreshing - a real person that is comfortable with her beliefs and has no problem making you laugh at them. Once Caroline is on stage it's crystal clear that you have come to the house of "The Queen" and you will play by her rules.
Her "don't give a damn" attitude is revitalizing, especially in the world of female comedy. Her style is all her own and can be compared to no one. If you want politically correct, do not come to her show, but if you want the truth, come on in, grab a drink and enjoy the ride!


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Kumar Taurani's upcoming romantic comedy film 'Jayanta Bhai Ki Luv Story' is now all set to release during Valentine, which is on 15th of February 2013.
The producer confirms the above news by saying, "We are happy to announce our next venture Jayanta Bhai Ki Luv Story which will be a valentine week release".
Talking about the movie, director Vinnil Markan says that 'JayantaBhai Ki Luv Story' is a film regarding how we accidentally fall in love with people we least expect to. He further adds that the film is a true Indian romantic comedy, which is a light hearted, sensitive and entertaining as well, with a touch of 'bhaigiri' for which Vivek is quite loved for.
Starring Vivek Oberoi and Neha Sharma in lead, this light-hearted comical movie, which showcases a love story of a gangster, marks the directorial debut of Vinnil Markan. Earlier it was reported that 'JayantaBhai Ki Luv Story' was meant to clash with Vivek Oberoi's released movie 'Kismet Love Paisa Dilli', but then the issue was sorted out. Now the movie is all set to clash with Bhatt's much-awaited movie 'Murder 3' starring Randeep Hooda and Aditi Rao Hydari in lead, during Valentine next year, on February 15, 2012.
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Also, I keep hearing that little scratches, etc can be buffed out with scotch-bright, etc. Anyone ever do this? Does it work?


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Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Alternate title: Kill Bill Volume 2
Uma ThurmanBeatrix Kiddo/"The Bride"/"Black Mamba"/"Mommy"
David CarradineBill/"Snakecharmer"
Daryl HannahElle Driver/"California Mountain Snake"
Michael MadsenBudd/"Sidewinder"
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Archive for Thursday, December 18, 2008
Economy stymies USD 491 projects
December 18, 2008
The floundering economy continues to hinder Eudora USD 491's construction projects.
At Thursday's board of education meeting, Steve Shogren, the district's bond council, told the board that there were no bids on an $11.25 million bond.
Although as many as four bidders showed interest, an obscure state statute chased off many bidders, Shogren said. The statute states the interest a lender pays to a bond recipient cannot be more than 3 percent higher than the 10-year treasury rate, which is now at a 50-year low.
As a result, the district will attempt to issue a $12 million temporary note to keep construction projects at the new elementary school and the Eudora Middle School going.
Shogren said the hope is that the market will slightly improve in the spring and the district can again look to sell bonds.
Shogren told the board it is not in a unique position, as fear in the marketplace has slowed other construction projects funded by municipal bonds.
"It gets frustrating because it seems like every time I turn around somebody says, 'Well, this is a first,' and it certainly complicates the process," Superintendent Don Grosdidier said. "But we've decided to keep moving forward on the projects and try not to get bogged down on the hurdles."
The board was told more potentially bad news when Rob Schwarz, of RSP Associates, said enrollment projections for the 2009-2010 school year were flat, with a possibility of a zero- to 10-student increase.
The projection was based on the lack of job growth in Eudora, the lack of resolution to the city's lawsuit with Douglas County Rural Water District, No. 4 and the lack of new home starts — just 12 this year, up three from last year's nine new starts.
Schwarz was three students off of his projection for this year.
"He's been extremely accurate in the years we've used him," Grosdidier said.
The soonest the district will be able to get a feel for where number will be for the next school year will be at this spring's kindergarten round-up.
"We cannot plan a budget for 2010 based on the growth we saw this year," Grosdidier said.
Grosdidier told the board it had "seen nothing but clouds tonight," and Board President Kenny Massey said the board likely would re-evaluate the 2008-2009 budget and do a values assessment after the first of the year.
Massey also stressed transparency to district staff, which Grosdidier said will also be carried over to the community.
"The best way to weather any storm is to weather it together," he said. "I think to make sure everyone is on the same page and can weather the storm together, we have to be transparent about funds we have coming in and where those funds are going."
In other actions, the council:
• Approved the procedure for parents to opt to have students not participate in any part of the curriculum. Parent signatures on opt-out forms must be notarized.
• Agreed to notify Universal Construction and engineering firm DLR that neither company will be used in the design or construction of the district stadium.
The board instead will use one of three companies that specialize in building stadiums. The move likely will reduce the cost of the stadium, which is set to open in August 2010.
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April 14, 2012 – April 28, 2012
EARTH WEEK 2012 features exciting panels, volunteer opportunities, film screenings, and other events as part of the month long celebration of NYU's commitment to sustainability. Read the press release »
Scroll down to learn more and register for Earth Week events.
Ongoing Exhibits
Jump to a Day
- Saturday, April 14
· The Bronx is Blooming
- Sunday, April 15
· Green the Streets!
- Wednesday, April 18
· Film Screening: "What's for Dinner?"
- Thursday, April 19
· Mobile-to-Mobile Street Fair
· Panel on Global Equity and Animal Agriculture
- Saturday, April 21
· Gallatin Presents: The Big Walk 2
· The Bronx is Blooming
- Sunday, April 22
· Be °Cool
· Punk Rock Clothes Swap
· The Yes Fest: A Celebration of Successful Activism and Pranks
- Monday, April 23
· Play and Learn with the Environmental Law Society!
- Friday, April 27
· New School and NYU Tree Planting Workshop
Thanks for attending this year's Earth Day events!
Now through May 18th, 2012
"Sustainability at NYU: Did you know?" An Earth Week Exhibition
Kimmel Windows Gallery,
LaGuardia Place and West 3rd Street
Check out this exhibit of 13 large street-level windows composed around different aspects of NYU's sustainability efforts. Each 3D window display is designed to engage and educate YOU, and get you plugged into all the opportunities to transform NYU into a world leader in sustainable operation and academic life. Free and Accessible 24/7 by the Public.
And for a limited time, you can solve a puzzle to WIN A BRAND-NEW BIKE by finding the hidden NYU Torch logos in three of the windows! Contest details here.
Now through May 31st, 2012
"I Will Show You Fear in a Handful of Dust: An Earth Day Exhibit"
The Gallery Space at Wagner
Puck Building
295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor
Featuring the work of Puerto Rican born, NYC-based artist Erick Sánchez, "I will show you fear in a handful of dust" was created for the Gallery Space at Wagner as a visual manifesto—a consciousness-raising display about the urgency for environmental protection and the perils of man-originated ecological disturbances. With this series the artist gives shape to a fragile space threatened by globalization, industrialization, global warming, and other consequences of human behavior and the concomitant natural disasters which extinguish life and nature.
Free and Open to the Public.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
The Bronx is Blooming
Franz Siegel Park
(158th Street and Walton Avenue)
Join the CAS Dean's Service Honor Corps (DSHC) on our mission to beautify Franz Siegel Park! We will be mulching flower beds, pruning shrubs, and stewarding young trees. Come help make the park cleaner, greener, and more enjoyable for everyone!
If you wish to travel as a group, meet in front of the W 4th St Starbucks at 10:00 am.
Sunday, April 15, 2011
Green the Streets!
Compost for Brooklyn Garden
Newkirk Ave and East 8th St, Brooklyn, 11230
Prepare to get your hands dirty as we head to Brooklyn for a day of caring for street trees! Join the Urban Planning Students Association and the Wagner Environmental Policy Alliance to support the fantastic work of Compost for Brooklyn, founded by Wagner student Louise Bruce ('12). We will be building tree guards and improving urban soils with compost and gardening. Snacks provided by the Parkville Farmshare, a new local CSA.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Film Screening: "What's for Dinner?"
Meyer Building
4 Washington Place, Room 122
A documentary shedding light on two major questions: can China's 1.3 billion people eat as much meat and dairy as those in industrialized countries without destroying the planet—or its climate; and do they really want to? "What's for Dinner?" delves into the stories of Chinese women and men encountering, helping foster, or offering alternatives to large-scale animal agriculture. Film to be followed by a discussion with Mia MacDonald, the film's Co-Executive Producer and the Executive Director of Brighter Green; and Peter Li, an Associate Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Houston.
Free and Open to the Public.
Thursday, April 19th, 2012
Mobile-to-Mobile Street Fair
Washington Place, between Washington Square East and Greene St
Join us for our 14th Annual Earth Day Street Fair! This year's theme is "Mobile Ecological Innovators" and we're bringing in a variety of artists and their moving exhibitions. Come see a truck retrofitted with a farm, a trailer that's become a traveling science lab, bringing education to underprivileged communities, and much more. Enjoy free food prepared by NYU's newly inaugurated Student Food Co-Op!
Free and Open to the Public.
Panel on Global Equity and Animal Agriculture
Silver Building
33 Washington Place, Room 408
The rapid globalization of the livestock industry, particularly the use of intensive systems of production, ought to be high on policy agendas for climate change, food security, equity, and animal welfare, but so far, the topic has been marginal in most of these arenas. This lack of attention risks forfeiting a crucial opportunity to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) and create a more sustainable, equitable, humane, and climate-compatible food system. Countries such as Brazil, China, and India, already most affected by global warming, have an opportunity to lead in a new direction, away from the Western model — with multiple benefits for their people, their environments, and the global climate. The panel seeks to shed light on this topic, and encourage discussion about ways to address it in its multiple dimensions. We're excited to bring to our panel: Mia MacDonald, Executive Director of Brighter Green and NYU ES Capstone Instructor; Lori Gruen, Chair of Wesleyan University's Philosophy Department; Chetana Mirle, Director of Farm Animals, Humane Society International; and Peter Li, Associate Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Houston.
Free and Open to the Public.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Gallatin Presents: The Big Walk 2
In honor of Earth Day, Gallatin School of Individualized Studies is hosting a BIG WALK down the entire length of Fifth Avenue! The walk will start at E 142nd Street and 5th Ave — way up top — at 9:00 a.m. Arrive early for free caffeinated beverages! The closest subway stops are the 145th St station on the 3 train or the 138th St station n the 4 or 5 trains. The walk will end at Washington Square, around 2:30 p.m. with a finish line celebration. Along the trail, participants will stop at checkpoints with special guests and events. Free lunch for registered participants with a suggested donation of $20.
Open to the Public.
The Bronx is Blooming
Franz Siegel Park
(158th Street and Walton Avenue)
Join the CAS Dean's Service Honor Corps (DSHC) on our mission to beautify Franz Siegel Park! We will be mulching flower beds, pruning shrubs, and stewarding young trees. Come help make the park cleaner, greener, and more enjoyable for everyone!
If you wish to travel as a group, meet in front of the W 4th St Starbucks at 10:00 am.
Sunday, April 22, 2011
Be °Cool
720 Greenwich Avenue
Teaming up with the NYC CoolRoofs Program and NYC Service, we will paint a city rooftop white to help reduce building temperatures, reduce CO2 emissions, and improve air quality! The NYC CoolRoofs initiative enables building owners to cool their roofs by applying a reflective white coating that reduces energy use. The program supports New York City's goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030. All materials and lunch will be provided.
Free and Open to the Public
Punk Rock Clothes Swap
Kimmel Center, Eisner and Lubin 4th Floor Auditorium
60 Washington Square South
Celebrate Earth Day by bringing in a bag of your old clothes and swapping for some new treasures! Then join a DIY workshop and learn how to re-accessorize your new finds. Can't part with your clothes? Then feel free to drop off books, CDs, or anything else you'd like to share. Featuring live performances by four NYU student bands! Everything left over will be donated to Housing Works.
Free and Open to the Public
The Yes Fest: A Celebration of Successful Activism and Pranks
Kimmel Center, Eisner and Lubin 4th Floor Auditorium
60 Washington Square South
The Yes-Men are hosting a party. A party to celebrate successful positive activism. A party that demonstrates that real social change can happen without resorting to negative imagery or violence. A party that shows what humor (with a sharp suit and tie combination) can really do. There's no dress code, but formal-wear is encouraged!
Free and Open to the Public
Monday, April 23, 2012
Play and Learn with the Environmental Law Society!
Courtyard of Vanderbilt Hall
40 Washington Square South
The Environmental Law Society is hosting an afternoon of games and refreshments to promote sustainable initiatives on campus, such as composting bins in the cafeterias and refrigerated water bottle refilling stations in the law school buildings. Try your hand at a bean bag toss and learn how to properly sort your everyday trash into recycling and composting bins. Participants will be rewarded with stainless steel water bottles!
Free and Open to the Public
Friday, April 27, 2012
Tree Planting (at the New School)
318 East 15th Street
(between 1st and 2nd avenues)
The day of inter-school Tree Action begins by joining forces with the New School's Urban Forestry Club for a tree planting event in conjunction with the NY Restoration Project / MillionTrees NYC! Meet at the New School for coffee and tree-planting... then participate in a guided nature walk / tree identification lesson, en route to NYU's nearby Green Dorm on 7th Street for a Citizen Tree Care and Tree Adoption Workshop (see below).
Citizen Tree Care and Street Tree Adoption Workshop (at NYU)
40 E 7th Street
(in front on sidewalk, between 2nd and 3rd avenues)
Learn how to show some love to our beautiful, vital but neglected urban forest — and slake that appetite you worked up if you attended the morning New School tree planting / walking tour (see above).
Attendees will learn 'citizen tree care' techniques, including a demonstration from staff trained in nurturing our city's street trees, and the opportunity to adopt a campus tree and give it a boost that says "thank you!" more than a hug could ever do. Participants will dine on a delicious lunch sourced and prepared by NYU's very own Student Food Cooperative.
RSVP on Facebook. Supplies are provided — just bring your green thumbs! Free and open to the public.
Check out some of our past Earth Week events:-
• Earth Week 2011, • Earth Week 2010, • Earth Week 2009
Brought to you by the Earth Week Planning Committee: Special Thanks to Earth Matters! • ASSBAC • Center for Student Activities, Leadership, & Services • NYU Sustainability Task Force • Office of Civic Engagement • NYU Program Board • NYU Recycling • Office of Sustainability • Environmental Studies Program • Kimmel Operations • Food Studies Program • Gallatin School of Individualized Studies • The Yes-Men • Environmental Law Society • Wagner Environmental Policy Alliance • Wagner Cares Committee • NYC Service • NYC CoolRoofs • NYU Animal Studies Initiative • Environmental Studies Club • Urban Planning Students Association • NYU Student Food Co-Op • Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development • Gallery Space at Wagner • NYCares


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Here you can find some PHP scripts written by myself.
General note
I found out that some few people use my scripts without including the GPL header. This is illegal! Please – in the name of all open source supporters – stick to the license. Thank you!
For further information please read the GPL FAQ.
robots.txt generator
(Updated version for Apache 2.0.40+ and PHP 4.2.3+. Thanks to Thomas Keitel!)
This script lets you browse through your server's directory structure. If a robots.txt is found, it is read and the appropriate allowed/disallowed folders are checked/unchecked. Just change the checkers and hit the "update" button to update the robots.txt. You may also delete the file or edit the comment. Changes are always made to "User-agent: *". Additionally the script warns, if no index-files or htaccess files were found.
Download the PHP script (GPL licensed, PHP 4.2 security conform).
This script is listed at HotScripts.com and Jan's Script Portal.
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This PHP function lets you easily highlight e.g. search results on a specific website. Just pass the words to highlight, the path of the page (server path) and the color to highlight with. The extraordinary property about this function is that it manages not to perform replacements inside HTML tags (which could also include the word to highlight.
Download the PHP script (GPL licensed, PHP 4.2 security conform).
New: Version 1.1 also support highlighting in multiple colors for different search terms. Thanks to Richard Danby.
This script is also listed at HotScripts.com and Jan's Script Portal.


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Due to the show's lack of hockey chat and updates I will no longer listen to Mike and Mike.
I really like you two and admire your work. It's funny and informative.
Alas I'm a hockey fan for better or worse, and while I'm in the minority, it's my passion. It by far exceeds my interest in any other sport.
Frankly I need more coverage of hockey in the morning. It's sorely lacking throughout the states.
As the self-proclaimed "world-wide leader" in sports I would think ESPN would be leading the charge, yet sadly this is not the case. I would love to hear interviews with hockey players and hockey analysts.
Also the lack of the previous night's scores is extremely galling. I remember one day in particular this past week there were three or four NHL games the previous night, yet only one game's final score was mentioned the following morning.
I'm tired of baseball's steroid scandal. In my opinion Mike and Mike's coverage of it this past week was akin to Entertainment Tonight's coverage of Britney Spears or Paris Hilton. I care more about what happens on the ice, court or field.
That's where the focus should be. It shouldn't be on a courtroom, on the combine, nor on a soap opera.
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The Humane Society of Monroe County is looking to buy two parcels totaling almost 34 acres off N. Monroe St. in Frenchtown Township to build a new headquarters for its animal shelter and operations.
The township board was considering today a first reading of a resolution granting a rezoning of the vacant site north of Nadeau Rd. and across from the former Denniston Theater.
The property was once the site of Wilson's Nursery.
The society is seeking to change the land use from C- 3 (highway commercial) and R-1A (single-family residential) to agricultural with conditions.
The township planning commission and the Monroe County Planning Commission are recommending approval of the change, Supervisor James McDevitt said.
Mr. McDevitt said he believed the proposal would pass. Two readings are needed, with the second reading, and adoption, expected at the board's next meeting Jan. 14.
"I think the board will pass it with no problem," he said Monday afternoon. " There's a tree line buffer in the back area and the closest resident is 600 feet away."
He said land purchase is contingent upon passage of the rezoning.
The society, a nonprofit organization, wants to get away from cramped conditions at its present location at 833 N. Telegraph Rd. near a drive- in restaurant, the supervisor said.
"I think it will be a better atmosphere for them," he said. "Every time you eat at Sonic, you can hear the dogs barking."
Jerry Kovach, president of the society, could not be reached for comment Monday.
Mr. McDevitt said from what he knows, the society planned to have an office there plus a walking and exercise area for dogs.
There also would be an area for memorials for pets, but there would be no burials on the premises, he said.


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The "Greatest Single Phone Call in the History" That We've Never Heard
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Yesterday at the Worldwide Partners Conference, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner regaled attendees with a tale of the "greatest single phone call in the history that I've ever taken in business." Not to be tripped up by a grammatical error or two, Turner went on to tell the crowd that Apple's legal team dialed him up a couple weeks ago demanding Microsoft pull its successful "Laptop Hunters" ad campaign from the air (Apple had lowered its prices and the ads, they claimed, were now misleading). There's no telling whether or not the call went down exactly as Turner said, but who cares? It's more entertaining to think it did. Which got us thinking of some other epic phone calls we wish we'd been privy to (whether they happened this way or not).
1. Lehman Brothers' CEO Dick Fuld and former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson
We're not sure which phone call got Dick Fuld's blood boiling more; the one when he learned Lehman would not be bailed out, or the one when he found out Goldman Sachs would be. However it all went down, the call from the former head of Goldman Sachs to say "I'm finally going to bury your bank, no hard feelings," probably didn't go over so well.
2. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang
The Facebook story is apparently so dramatic that it warrants a book and a film. But all the privacy concerns, the user backlash, the executive infighting, and the seemingly arbitrary firings at the social network's Palo Alto HQ pale in comparison to the pivotal moment when founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said "thanks, but no thanks." Yahoo put a cool billion on the table, and the boy-executive simply said no. We're assuming all that came back from the other end of the line was stunned silence.
3. Apple CEO Steve Jobs and former Apple engineering chief Jon Rubinstein
Jobs creates Apple. Apple hires Rubinstein. Rubinstein invents iPod. iPod sells over 200 million units. Then, Rubinstein goes to Palm, takes over the company and starts manufacturing the Palm Pre, a direct competitor to Apple's iPhone. Jobs, naturally, didn't take Rubinstein's career move very well, and while we don't have it on record, we're willing to bet Jobs put in a livid call to let Rubinstein know. Imagine: The hippest exec in Silicon Valley completely losing his cool.
4. Bernie Madoff and New York Mets Owner (and Madoff investor) Fred Wilpon
Let's face it, this one probably never happened. But if it had, we're pretty sure Wilpon would've had to invent some new expletives just to get his point across. We're picturing a fuming Wilpon hurling invective at his old pal Bernie, who after listening politely offers a decidedly half-hearted apology. More likely, a red-faced Wilpon leaves a lengthy voicemail full of choice words that were never heard.
5. Former General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner and President Barack Obama
There's no telling if these two executives ever swapped digits, but if they did in fact share an eleventh hour phone call as GM scrambled to avoid bankruptcy, we imagine it went down much like a stern father taking the car keys from a son who broke curfew one too many times. "You can have 'em back when you straighten up and fly right." GM's time-out in Chapter 11 is over, but the company is still grounded.
Have we missed a good one? Leave your grandest speculation about a "greatest single phone call in the history" below.
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Don't you wish Bob Newhart was still doing his standup. How he would handle these calls would be hilarious.
Here's a good one: someone at Penguin books having to call Oprah and tell her that Frey's book "A Million Little Pieces" was bogus. Ouch.
Can we include fictional phone calls? Because Ari Gold should be on that list: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... (not one of the best, but the best one on YouTube!)
Great Microsoft ad, for what it's worth... and so true! They're all on youtube if you're interested.
I love the one w/ the guy who says he's looking to pay performance - not sacrificing performance for aesthetics.


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Darrel Gene "Beef" Palmer, 59, of Florence, died Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012, at St. Elizabeth Florence.
He was a truck driver for Midwest Logistics Company, and enjoyed bowling and playing softball.
Survivors include his wife, Donna Gail Williams Palmer of Florence; son, Lee Palmer of Florence; daughter, Jerri Kirby of Burlington; and five grandchildren.
Visitation will be 4-7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20, at Allison and Rose Funeral Home in Taylor Mill. Funeral service will immediately follow.
Memorials: Kidney Foundation or Shrines Burns Hospital.


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Brillhart 60th anniversary
Neal Dean Brillhart and Wanda June Jayne were married June 8, 1952, in Springfield, Mo.
They met at Baptist Bible College were they were students. After graduation, they ministered in Kansas and then in 1970 they came to San Angelo to pastor Baptist Temple Church, now Lifepoint Baptist Church.
Mrs. Brillhart earned her RN from ASU and was employed at Shannon Hospital and Angelo Healthcare. After 29 years, Rev. Brillhart retired and is serving as Pastor Emeritus at Lifepoint Baptist Church.
The couple celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with a family dinner.
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The ability to step back and look at the big picture is a luxury, particularly for anybody running his or her own company.
The Case for Going Green
Green building is proving to be a viable and profitable option for many custom builders. Could it be for you?
There are many myths about sustainable, ecologically friendly building construction. Green building has historically been viewed as appealing to only a limited, fringe customer or requiring restrictive practices that would severely alter a builder's operations and cost a lot of money.
But in recent years, the buzz over green building has increased, and many myths have been debunked by custom builders who have successfully built and marketed green to mainstream buyers. The reason: green construction is, in essence, high-quality, durable, low-maintenance, energy-efficient, healthy building construction. That's not a hard sell. As many custom builders have learned, having a reputation for building green can be very good for business. And contrary to popular belief, green building doesn't have to break a custom home's budget.
AndersonSargent's zero energy home, designed and engineered by Barley & Pfeiffer Architects, generates as much energy as it uses, resulting in a zero net cost to heat and cool. It's also noted for its attractive design, proving green can be beautiful.
Photo courtesy of AndersonSargent
Green building is proving to be a viable and profitable option for many custom builders. Could it be for you?
"Even though green building has been a lot more prevalent in the press, people are still kind of confused about what it actually entails," says Margo Thompson, senior research associate at the NAHB Research Center. 'Oh yeah, green building. That's a good thing. But what is it? Well, I don't know.'"
Green building encompasses many things working together for the best possible effect on the home, its occupants and the environment.
Most green building guidelines include three basic tenets: energy efficiency, resource conservation and indoor air quality.
"Green building really stresses a whole-systems approach," says Thompson, "starting at the design phase if not at lot procurement and taking green building into consideration all the way through design, construction and the homeowner living in and occupying the home."
Why should custom builders go green?
Green building is, by definition, good for the environment, but it also benefits homeowners' health and pocketbooks.
"We had such an abundance of oil in the '80s and early '90s that energy ceased to be an issue," says David Johnston, president of What's Working, a green building design and consulting firm in Boulder, Colo. "We got lulled to sleep. Here we are 25 years later. Had we started building the way we knew how to build in 1980 in the Department of Energy programs I was working on ... the building industry could have saved in aggregate the equivalent of the amount of oil we import from the Far East today."
Homes once affordable monthly two years ago are not today, Johnston notes. "There's something wrong with the overarching equation of how do we build a safe, affordable, comfortable home and yet do it in a much more appropriate energy-efficient way that is anticipating the future, because energy will certainly not get cheaper in our lifetime."
With the loss of incentives such as tax credits for solar power that ended in 1985, Johnson says he wants builders to see that energy efficient, green building is just good business sense.
"It's what our customers want anyway. If you put it in terms of benefits — not I-joists or cotton insulations, but comfort, affordability, health, durability, and less maintenance — that's what people assume they are getting when they buy a house."
How difficult is it to build green?
If you don't know where to start, there are approximately 30 local and regional residential green building programs across the country to chose from. The NAHB has national Model Green Home Building Guidelines.
"The NAHB Checklist and User Guide in particular go a long way in helping builders," says Thompson, "because it gives more or less concrete examples in the different categories of green building about actual materials and technologies — and the user guide then gives some explanation."
The United States Green Building Council is in the pilot stage of its LEED for Homes program, a national residential green building certification program.
"LEED-H has very specifically positioned itself to recognize and reward the top 25 percent of builders in the country in terms of environmental stewardship," says Jay Hall, acting program manager for LEED for Homes.
Hall says the NAHB acknowledges its guidelines are best suited to builders who haven't yet looked into Energy Star for Homes, while LEED-H is appropriate for builders looking to go beyond Energy Star.
"So there are a lot of builders out there who are just thinking about going green, and quite frankly I think LEED-H would be a fairly big leap for them."
The various green programs are different in their approach. Custom builders should investigate which program best suits their needs and the green strategy they would like to incorporate.
Dennis McConnell, a custom builder and president of McConnell Homes in Atlanta, went through several local green building programs before settling on Atlanta's EarthCraft Homes program.
"EarthCraft isn't concentrated on just one thing," McConnell says. "It allows you choices. It's a lot easier to manipulate to get a good rating. The rating system is done in points, and as long as you get 150 points, you qualify."
McConnell says he prefers that type of system to what could happen: "'Gee, you don't qualify because you forgot to put in one extra fluorescent light,' which has happened to me in previous programs. This way, you plan accordingly, design your house the way you want to, and then you start looking for elements that make it fit. That makes, from a builder's perspective, for a much easier program to participate in."
Some diligent custom builders — the mavericks — have built green in accordance with their own research and self education.
Jim Sargent, partner at AndersonSargent Custom Builder in Waxahachie, Texas, started monitoring the energy efficiency of every home he built from 1985 to 2000.
"One year I built 40 homes," says Sargent, "so I had a lot of data on what worked and what didn't work. It didn't take me long to figure out how to build a 2,500-square-foot home that would heat and cool for less than a dollar a day in the Dallas area.
The screened patio of AndersonSargent / Barley & Pfeiffer zero energy home invites the homeowner to interact with neighbors as they pass by. Windows in the home were sized and placed for maximum cross ventilation.
Photo courtesy of AndersonSargent
"You first have to understand how a house operates and where energy is being used and not used," adds Sargent. "We refer to that as building science. I went to as many classes as I could. You get to understand the building science behind the structure, and then you decide what strategies you use."
Sargent's company has won awards and worldwide attention for its zero energy home, valued at nearly $1 million, just outside of Dallas. The home was designed and engineered by Peter Pfeiffer, AIA, and a principal with Barley & Pfeiffer Architects in Austin. In addition to a gold award and recognition as Builder of the Year from the NAHB Research Center's EnergyValue Housing Awards for 2006, he won an award for Best Single Family Concept Home at the NAHB Green Building Conference in Albuquerque, N.M., in March.
The home was featured in the 2004 Dallas Parade of Homes and won recognition for Best Overall Favorite and Best Interior Design.
"I wanted to prove that you could build a zero energy home in an upscale Dallas neighborhood that would not look out of place," says Sargent. "I can say that we accomplished that."
Isn't building green expensive?
The answer to that question is yes — and no.
"The fact that I'm retroactively certifying homes to a certain level is a testimony that it doesn't cost any more," says Grey Lundberg, president of CMI Homes in Bellevue, Wash.
But custom home clients often request upgrades for comfort and convenience features that would add to the costs of their home anyway.
"We put in a lot of radiant flooring," says Lundberg. "That is an energy-efficient, clean way to heat your home, so it's a green building technique, but it's something that costs more. You can't say it costs more to build green with that feature.
"When you analyze green building from a cost standpoint, you have to look at those things apples to apples," Lundberg continues. "Do all built-green recycled tiles cost more than regular manufactured tiles? Absolutely not. You can find ones out there that have a ton of recycled content in them that are not anymore expensive than something else. It's an item-by-item analysis."
"Depending on the baseline from where a builder is starting from," says John Kurowski, president of Denver's Kurowski Development and the first to build an energy conserving passive/active solar home in 1974, "if somebody is building a 2,500-square-foot house with what I call the average expectation of components, the cost to get their home into what I call a green building defined specification might be roughly in the area of $2,500 to $3,000."
The initial cost increase is often offset by the monthly savings on a customer's utility bills over time.
"Typically our mortgage payment is principal, interest, taxes and insurance — PITI," says Johnston. "In the green building world our equation is PITI plus EW — energy and water utility bills. If you look at that as what's affordable, then even a photovoltaic system in California can start to show a reduced monthly payment if the system is rolled into the mortgage from year one.
"People are willing to pay for comfort and quality," adds Johnston. "If we can show that way of thinking from the get go, then the sale is really easy because people want reduced monthly payments more than they want a less expensive first cost."
Will building green alter production processes?
"I think a lot of builders are surprised that many of the things they already use are considered environmentally responsible or preferable," says Thompson. "Engineered lumber, OSB sheathing, roof trusses, TJIs — those are all examples of wood products that use fewer materials to achieve the same function, or materials that ordinarily would have been thrown away. There are a number of energy efficiency measures — high performance windows, upgraded insulation. Many builders are already building to Energy Star or a similar energy program level."
The kitchen in the AndersonSargent zero energy home. The home uses 90 percent fluorescent lighting, which saves electricity and helps keep it cool and comforatable.
Photo Courtesy of AndersonSargent
Lundberg simply hired a green building verifier and retroactively certified his homes.
"This is not completely changing the way I'm doing stuff," Lundberg adds. "This is just quality building. It's not restricting me."
But for many builders, the most drastic change will be in how closely they manage their sites.
"Understanding the science, deciding on the strategies — that's the easy part," says Sargent. "The hard part is paying attention to the details during construction to see that the building science [gets applied]. You've got three months — on a big house maybe a year or two. That means you're going to have 150 to 300 guys show up on the construction site over that period of time under varying weather conditions, and you've got to be sure that everybody pays attention to the details and does it right."
"Our code requires us to basically glue the mastic together on our heating systems," says McConnell. "But if you get the average contractor to do that, without some kind of performance test, without somebody looking over the shoulder to see whether or not he in fact glued the bottom side of a pipe, it doesn't get done. And you don't meet your performance standard when you do a duct test."
If current subs aren't up to the challenge, a change may be in order.
"Your existing insulation contractor may not be the guy you want to work with," says Johnston, "because he's gotten fat and sloppy over the last 20 years. To get a fiberglass insulation installer to pay attention to the details that fiberglass requires, he may not have the supervision that is capable of doing that. That's often a stopping point in the conversation: 'I've' been working with this guy for 20 years.'"
Customers may agree that green building is good, but that doesn't mean that they are willing to buy one for that reason alone. The byproducts of green building, however, are very marketable.
"I can't say, 'I'm an EarthCraft builder. Let me charge you an extra two percent,'" says McConnell. "You have to be able to take the virtues of what you incorporate and show it as benefits and features that are valuable to a customer. 'I can prove to you that we'll heat and cool this 4,000 square foot house for $60 a month.' That has a value.
"My houses have no bugs," McConnell continues. "In this market, we have a lot of animal life that creeps into a house. But if you have a bug inside the house, it came through the door because there's literally no other way that it could come in. And there's no dust, because there is no ambient air. The outside air that we filter comes through the media filters that we use ... so the air is clean.
Johnson calls the successful marketing of green homes "applied common sense." For example, particle board, fiber glass insulation, and many paints, finishes and carpets all use urea formaldehyde — a volatile organic compound, which means it off gasses and can contaminate the indoor air quality of a home.
"Some in the public health industry say there is a direct correlation between the air that children breathe today and the crisis we're having in our schools with attention deficit disorder. And California has defined formaldehyde as a carcinogen. So what we start getting into is not an affordability conversation, but a MasterCard commercial. What's the cost of a kitchen cabinet upgrade? $275. What's the cost of low VOC paint? $12. What the cost of formaldehyde-free fiberglass? Nothing. What's the cost of preventing your children from suffering from learning disorders? Priceless."
What can adding green do to my bottom line?
"We've always built beyond code," says Johnston. "We've always built more energy-efficient houses than we needed to. We always talked to our customers about what we were doing, and as a result, we rarely had to bid on jobs. People came to us and were wiling to wait a year or two until we could get to them. And that's where you want to be in this business. "
AndersonSargent has a similarly long waiting list.
"We quit advertising 15 years ago," says Sargent. "Basically the question is, 'Do you have time to build me a house?' It's a really great place to be."
"There's a mindset that says, 'How little can we do to pass inspection?' And that needs to change to 'How much can we afford to provide for our customers?' The builders who have asked the latter question, as opposed to how little we can get away with, have tended to rise to the surface in being leaders in their respective markets all over the country."


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It looks like 13 of my posters have been uploaded so far. That's 650 ToeTags. Sweeeet.
I popped in about 10 but none have been accepted , I guess.
well i made sure they were not watermarked, or at least i did not see any watermarks, and I resized them all. if they are too small the system does not allow you to upload them anyways. about 12 of them were very crisp and clear and i could not find them as already in the system. Maybe meh hates me or I am just going crazy and loosing my mind and thats not hard for me
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I don't think the poster upload is working, gzill.
Some of my posters havn't been uploaded either, its either they will be soon, maybe they overloaded idk, or maybe they don't accept posters if they are doubles. But idk
I got credit for mine.
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where do we see if our posters got accepted?
I just went into the Posters section and looked around to see if I recognized any of the ones I uploaded lol.
That and the jump in your toetags should provide a clue
ahhhh i see. i thought there might have been a list somewhere lol
So is there a toe tag contest for this weekend
Hope so. I like extra toe tags
I am so obsessed I need help
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:lol: oh that is fantastic. Look's like my brother on one of his better days!
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what the hell? Its called a laptop kid! Look into it
i am rather positive i did not get any toe tags on the last 3 reviews submitted.
As of now, Godzilla, if you can keep it up, I think you might just win this Blu Ray player!!!!!
It's alright, I still haven't got my 500 ToeTags for Macho's quiz. I'm confident that I'll get them. Or at least I hope so
Yes you did yomammadawgy you just didn't notice
Umm... I don't think so lol.
I can't tell if you're joking or not
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Back Talk: Sarah FolkmanJuxtapoz // Monday, 28 Dec 2009
Sarah Folkman is an artist whose work in Corey Helford's Multi-Plane group show caught our eye. Known for incorporating animal imagery into her paintings on wooden panel, Sarah took a few moments to answer a set of 20 quick questions for us.
Today, I feel:
If you had three wishes, what would they be?
1. To have a crow as a close personal friend.
2. To be able to travel back in time and fiddle with things
3. I think number 2 would pretty much take care of number 3.
Do you consider yourself a funny person?
Yes. Especially when I'm alone.
If you had one magic power, what would it be?
Flying! And to be strong enough to carry someone with me.
Something that makes you happy?
Starting a new painting.
Something that makes you mad?
Being in the dead middle of a painting and feeling as if I've lost all direction.
What was your favorite subject in elementary school?
Science. Discovering the inner workings of life.
If you feel a creative block, what do you do to jumpstart inspiration?
Go for a walk and examine the world; feed peanuts to crows; eavesdrop on strangers.
When someone is taking a photo, do you smile for the camera or turn your head?
Are you a social network enthusiast? (eg Do you post photos on Facebook; listen to music on MySpace; post to YouTube, etc?)
I try, but I'm jealous of my time and only get so far.
What is a quality you don't like about yourself?
The big tarry pits of sadness.
Last good book you read?
I was just looking through an older book, "The Sacred Heart - An Atlas of the Body Seen Through Invasive Surgery" by Max Aguilera-Hellweg. It is beautiful.
Who has had the most impact on your life?
My mother.
Are you spiritual?
In a humanist sort of way.
One word to describe your artwork?
What's missing in your life?
Daily serenity.
Are you a pet person?
I'm an animal person.
The most trouble you've ever gotten into:
If you don't already know, I'm not going to tell you.
Where do you imagine yourself in five years?
I honestly have no idea.
More on Sarah Folkman at www.sarahfolkman.com
The Multi-Plane group show remains on view at Corey Helford Gallery through January 9, 2010.
Further info can be found at www.coreyhelfordgallery.com