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Strict wind-resistant construction requirements in the 2003 International Residential Code (IRC) and International Building Code (IBC) can be a headache for many beachfront builders. But architects and contractors who work with structural insulated panels (SIPs) say the new rules could bring them a new competitive advantage — or at least, for once, a level playing field.
SIP builders have long complained about the need to get project-by-project approval to use their technology: They say SIP structural capabilities are well proven by engineering data and field experience. But for building departments that may not have seen a lot of SIP construction, requiring an engineered design may be the only path to assuring adequate performance of an unfamiliar system.
For houses in 110-mph and higher wind zones, however, states and municipalities recently adopting the 2003 IBC and IRC are now requiring an engineering analysis on virtually all homes, whatever the framing system used. SIP builders say this may erase one of the big negatives that has handicapped SIPs in the market — at least when it comes to building on the oceanfront. In the areas where stick-home plans need as much engineering documentation as SIP homes need, builders who choose SIPs are no longer facing any special hurdle.
On a Long Island home, architect Bill Chaleff relies on structural insulated panels (SIPs) to easily meet stringent uplift requirements.
Architect Bill Chaleff designs and builds with SIPs on the east end of Long Island, where design wind speeds are set at 120 mph. Chaleff says SIPs are more than up to the code challenge: "I've already gotten permits for two houses, one in East Hampton and one in Southampton, under the new building code here, by showing my calculations to the building department to demonstrate that I can meet the required design loads."
Understanding and Documenting Uplift
Hurricane-force winds apply a variety of stresses to a building. If a home lacks adequate shear walls and anchors, horizontal wind pressure tends to collapse wall systems or overturn the entire building, or the "sliding force" of the wind may simply push the building off its foundation.
In addition, there's wind uplift. As wind flows over a pitched roof, aerodynamic effects create an upward suction, much like the uplift force that acts on an airplane wing (Figure 1). If roof sheathing isn't adequately nailed, boards or panels can get ripped off the roof framing (see "Evaluating OSB for Coastal Roofs," Winter 2005).
Figure 1. Wind passing over a building exerts positive pressure on the windward wall and negative (suction) pressure over most of the roof area. The wind pressure is concentrated at building corners, where eddies exert extra forces.
But if the sheathing does stay attached, it pulls upward on the rafters or trusses. These in turn pull up on the roof-to-wall connection, and if that survives, wall systems pull up against their attachment to the floor systems or foundation systems at their bases.
For coastal homes subject to the strict requirements of the current IBC and IRC, building departments will now require a design professional — architect or engineer — to document how a building resists this uplift force. The plans must show a "continuous load path" that handles the uplift at the roof surface plane and transmits it through specified connections of known strength down through the roof system, the wall system, and into the foundation. How the load-carrying task is accomplished varies from one structural system to the next, but in every case, it must be documented.
Documenting starts with estimating the uplift forces on the roof sheathing and overhangs. That can be done with calculations or with look-up tables. The result is a drawing that shows the entire roof surface hatched into segments, with a design uplift load designated for each section of roof area. Ridge and eaves zones experience higher uplift than mid-roof areas, while roof corners see the greatest uplift loads. If flying debris breaches windows or doors, internal pressurization caused by inrushing wind could drastically increase the total uplift pressure on the roof.
With design uplift load established, the design professional must specify step-by-step how the load will be transmitted through the building structure down to the ground, specifying adequate connections at each structural intersection.
Uplift Details
For roof-to-wall connections, Chaleff applies the high wind uplift values from roof corners to his entire roof. He then distributes that load over the roof-to-wall joint, secured by long hardened screws and hand-driven nails (Figure 2). He requires the outside walls to handle the entire uplift load, disregarding field attachments to midspan purlins or ridge beams, because only the wall panels provide a direct load path to the foundation wall. "I didn't have to change anything about the way I fasten the panels together," he notes. "I'm meeting the new wind codes using the same fasteners at the same spacing that I have always specified for our designs."
Figure 2. In SIP construction, wind uplift loads can be resisted by self-tapping structural screws at roof-to-wall panel joints (A). In addition, metal straps spanning the upper and lower wall plates at the band joist (B) and anchors that secure the panels to the foundation (C) are required. "Balloon framed" SIP structures that use a continuous panel from foundation to ridge do not require the straps between stories, but the supporting attachment for the floor systems must be carefully specified. Additional anchors may be needed for shear-wall connections.
By contrast, says Chaleff, stick methods in coastal zones now involve complicated framing reinforcement (Figure 3). "To meet the uplift loads induced by a 120-mph wind, they have to put hurricane straps on every rafter or truss and on practically every stud, and they have to strap from stud to stud across the band joist between the first and the second floor. It can add $15,000 to the cost of a big custom house." The difference makes SIP homes cost-competitive with stick homes in his area, says Chaleff — leaving him free to focus on the energy performance advantage of his preferred building system.
Figure 3.In high-wind zones, the steel connectors required to create a continuous load path to resist the wind uplift of a stick-framed assembly often include straps to tie trusses to wall plates (A), wall plates to studs (B), upper wall studs to band joists (C), band joists to headers, posts, and lower wall studs (D), posts to foundations (E), wall studs to lower wall plates (F), and lower wall plates to foundations (G). Additional anchors may be needed for shear-wall connections.
Fewer Connections
At least one Florida house has already provided a test case for SIP homes facing storm winds. Builder Cameron Bradford was the general contractor for the "Not So Big" Show House at the 2005 International Builders Show, a showcase home framed using Insulspan SIP panels (www.insulspan.com). The building was hit by three hurricanes in a row while still under construction in the fall of 2004.
"Hurricane Frances brought 105-mph measured winds at the airport," Bradford says, "and our house survived without any damage at all. We didn't even have the windows or doors in yet, and the wind came right inside the building." But with SIP exterior walls and a flat SIP ceiling on the second floor supporting a truss roof, the Orlando house is "built like a plywood bomb shelter," notes Bradford. "It was not damaged at all."
Simple connection details were a real plus, reports Bradford: "The biggest advantage is the speed of construction." The house took just four days to set, he says, "and that's including our learning curve, using SIPs for the first time." Tying the house down was a snap: "We used Simpson hold-downs at every panel joint into the slab foundation — that was definitely overkill. Then we had flat straps spanning the first-floor frame, just at the panel joints.
"In a stick frame, you're installing two connectors for every stud, and six or eight nails per connector," he explains. "That is a lot of nailing. The SIP walls were much, much faster."~
Ted Cushman reports on the building industry from his home in Great Barrington, Mass.


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GT&T should revisit its decision to block VOIP on their DSL lines
Dear Editor,
Many Guyanese were happy that GT&T were successful in launching their submarine cable allowing access to affordable bandwidth. Thousands of persons subscribed to the service because they were promised that with the $10,000 Emagine plan they would be able to access online gaming, conferencing and VOIP. However, two days ago GT&T broke all their promises and dashed the hopes of hundreds of internet cafés that depend on their service and are resellers of their CPoint and Phone Card services by blocking VOIP on their DSL lines.
This devastating move by GT&T left hundreds of people scrambling for alternative means to communicate with their families and friends abroad.
We will find that the only country in the Caribbean where we cannot benefit from great calling features like free talk for fifteen minutes after talking for 5 minutes to the USA is Guyana. Although we don't have these options we are still being assaulted when we try to use the alternative of VOIP at internet cafés.
Four years ago in 2008, GT&T attempted this very move around the festive season.
This action adversely affected around 7000 persons who were the direct employees or beneficiaries of internet cafés, and tens of thousands of others who use these entities to make their affordable international calls.
GT&T should observe that with all these measures they are taking, internet cafés which use wireless services from other ISPs that are becoming increasingly popular are still boasting uninterrupted service. The logical direction is that scores of cafés will move away from the GT&T DSL service to the logical option, because lots of these café owners have been doing this business all their lives and have no other alternative.
We the members of the Internet Interest Holders Group (IIHG), inclusive of Stephen Thompson of Netsurf.com; Eton Cordis of Talk IS Cheap; Ranfred Williams of weChatting.com; Joseph Hoyte, Sigmund and countless others are petitioning GT&T to revisit this drastic move that has been taken against Guyanese. We are prepared to take whatever measures necessary to get our voices heard, including going to the Public Utilities Commission.
Yours faithfully,
Stephen Thompson
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Integrating sustainability principles of Local Agenda 21 : a study of four local governments in NSW and QLD
Bajracharya, Bhishna N. & Shahed, Khan (2004) Integrating sustainability principles of Local Agenda 21 : a study of four local governments in NSW and QLD. Australian Planner, 41(3), pp. 56-60.
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'Jersey Shore' Cast to Reunite for TV Special
Snooki, JWoww and the gang will all be there!
Cabs are here! It's time to "GTL!"
It's the reunion you didn't know you wanted, but you're kind of intrigued about this one:
The stars of MTV's Jersey Shore have been spotted galavanting across New Jersey this summer, and fans of the popular MTV series have wondered what they were up to this year. Well, now we know.
The cast of the Jersey Shore will get together for a series that is being called Reunion Road Trip. The show, which is under development at E! will reunite the casts of former TV unscripted and scripted TV shows. Apparently, we'll get to see the cast drive down memory lane, and they'll share stories and experiences. So, apparently, we'll see the gang at the Shore House with the duck phone, right?
Maybe they'll head out to the clubs too?Several of the show's wildest cast members now have families of their own now. So we're not sure how crazy JWoww and Snooki will be on the reunion show.
Jersey Shore aired on MTV from 2009-2012. It's not clear when the show will air on E!, and no additional cast'shave been announced for additional reunion episodes in the series.


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HBO's Prohibition-era drama Boardwalk Empire opened its second season with 2.9 million viewers. That was down 40% from Boardwalk Empire's series debut last September, when it posted HBO's largest series premiere audience in six years. There was a mitigating factor: the series premiere ran on the Sunday before the broadcast premiere week, while the Season 2 opener aired on Premiere Week Sunday, facing stiffer competition. (Boardwalk Empire's first season finale drew 3.3 million in its original airing). Including two additional plays at 10 PM and 11 PM, Boardwalk Empire's Season 2 premiere averaged 4.5 million viewers.
'Boardwalk Empire' Season Premiere Down
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I thought the season 2 premiere was much better paced than any episode last year. Boardwalk Empire is becoming a better show.
Yeah but how does it compare to the season finale of last season? Last years premiere was good but the show quickly went downhill from there.
This is one of two shows I have stopped watching in the past year. The other was Alphas. I wanted to like them, but just found myself bored.
I saw it on DVR I think so Jack this was better pace show I think people probably "forgot about it" They been busy watching NFL Football
True dat. The NFL trumps any show, airing on any network, on Sunday nights.
did i miss all the advertising for this? i had NO idea the season was starting. am i the only dumb one?
That's probably because it's a boring show.
If you think Boardwalk Empire is boring, you must have a low attention span. I bet you have never watched any old movie or such where the pacing is so much slower than everything today.
I personally love old movies from the 30s, 40s, and 50s. The writing was incredible. You can't insult the golden age of Hollywood's classic films by comparing them in any way shape or form to the snooze fest that is Boardwalk Empire.
I love old films.
Fortunately, that has nothing to do with how incredibly boring Boardwalk Empire is.
I love everything about Boardwalk Empire except the actual show…
Extremely talented group of folks… but the story… it just snoozes.
It's interesting to read the comments here. I had heard such great things about Boardwalk Empire, but had put off watching the show until they had a recent marathon.
I watched a few, thought the sets were amazing, the costumes great, the acting was good, and the writing was ok. Overall, I also found myself so bored. I tried to watch one after the other, but after a while, I just gave up. I can't put my finger on it, but the show is missing something, whether it's drama, a heart or a spark, it's just to slow and boring for me to continue.
There is next to no character development on Boardwalk Empire. This is TV writing 101. On Boardwalk Empire new characters keep being created and plot heaped upon plot to cover the weaknesses of character writing. The creator simply doesn't want or know how to write there. Breaking Bad, Downton Abbey, Mad Men go deep into character. Character reveals plot and plot reveals character. That's what makes TV such a blast to watch. On Boardwalk Empire they write long speeches without interruption (playwright in the room?)in place of character development. It's way overused. The poor treatment of female characters reveals a total neanderthal streak and the intricate plotting revealing nothing about the characters involved is a damn shame. The Good Wife achieves far more in less time with less budget. I love the time period and Steve Buscemi is a top notch actor. HBO needs roll up their sleeves with this show or write a new one using those sets.
you are NUTS if you think MM goes deep into characters. SO opposite of reality.
Wow, Hawkeye. It sounds like you know so much that YOU should be writing on that show. Hey, wait a second…
Uninteresting characters will do that to a show.
It is a boring show. Admit it. Get over it.
Well, that's just your opinion, Jenkins. Many people, like me, do not find it boring.
This show is too smart for idiots. It's brilliant on every level, which is why it'll struggle to find a bigger audience.
Nice work, reality TV.
show is not boring…need more Chalky White though..he steals every scene, as usual..(see Omar)
Love the show, all the boring stuff people commenting about is all the details that lead to bigger events down the road! HBO Delivers!!!!
I think Boardwalk Empire has awesome production values — great sets, great costumes, and some great supporting performances from Michael Pitt, Shea Whigham, and Gretchen Mol.
I just think the writing is really lousy; the show is poorly plotted and not able to sustain enough narrative/dramatic tension. Which is crazy given the subject matter at hand. Will Aleksa Palladino ever get to Paris or won't she? What's going to happen to Michael Shannon's and Paz de la Huerta's baby? Will Chalky hang on to his business this season? Who cares?
Game of Thrones is superior in every way to this show.
No, GoT sucks.
Really tried getting into this one but it's a convoluted mess and not as interesting as the premise would suggest. Not may hardcore Boradwalk fans out there I'm guessing, just an audience desperate to get their moneys worth from the HBO package they've invested in.
This is a perfect example of TV that doesn't hit with the simpletons. Too slow = I have to use my brain. Perhaps Jersey Shore is more your thing. This is one of the best shows on the air and the premiere episode of this season was great. GOT on the other hand is a hot mess. Talk about boring…
Thank you!
I guess that's why I love The Wire and Breaking Bad but think Boardwalk Empire is boring.
Because I'm dumb.
Boardwalk Empires creative team for season two needs to take a good long look at Downton Abbey to see a perfect marriage of character and plot. Breaking Bad as well.
The way these characters on Boardwalk go unrealized and underwritten is so aggravating. The show is missing a beating heart. It's cold and lifeless, perverted even.
Season two of Boardwalk is DOA.
I hated DA with a passion.
It's a show I want to love, but I one that I don't think about much from Monday morning on.
The lack of a real antagonist is a big problem. You can't invent fake bad-guys who build towards anything of real consequence, and HBO seems to be glamorizing its true-life characters as opposed to exposing them. The Delecio brothers were weak caricatures, and their little leader – whose throat Jimmy cut, although who really gave a shit – was basically a parody of a twenties-gangster.
They have to fall out of love with themselves.
The potential was there, but BWE just never really delivered the goods for me. I never really cared about the characters. And quite honestly, little Stevey Buschemi doesn't have the pedigree to be lead man on a show this big.
Direct TV had a free HBO preview and I still couldn't muster up interest. Everything that is derivative of Mad Men, still isn't Mad Men. I remember that when I think of shows like this.
Mad Men fanboys will be Mad Men fanboys. BTW, like Mad Men was the first of its kind, you're delusional.
I stuck with the show last season. Episode 4, Anastasia, and Episode 5, Nights in Ballygran, were incredible. Filled with rich character detail for Nucky and Margaret that had terrific payoff. The show never came close again in marrying character and plot. The show also had a soul in these two episodes, something it lost quickly for the rest of the season. Mindless violence has no drama to it. It's not good writing. The rest of Boardwalk Empire didn't let us get to know the characters in small and yet meaningful ways like eps. 4 & 5. Too bad. I'd still be watching.
HBO, Showtime, AMC, and other cable networks are the destinations of choice for quality scripted programming. And HBO arned all of those Emmy noms for a reason – they consistenly present quality programming that is sorely under-represented on broadcast television.
Shows like Boardwalk Empire also revel in multiple concurrent story-lines, making it hard to "drop in" to the series somewhere in the middle. The pay-off is often worth it as the season arcs collide at the end.
The premiere viewership is also less meaningful than if the show were on one of the Big Three, since HBO puts Boardwalk Empire eps in heavy rotation each month (same with Game of Thrones, et al). I set the DVR to record Boardwalk Empire's west coast feed showings, although I am in the central time zone, so not sure how those numbers are counted ratings-wise.
This is not a good show. Too dark, too slow, dull acting, no compelling storylines, the only people who watch it are people who think they should be watching it but don't understand why.
Absolutely agree. I love old films and complex story lines but just cannot get into this series. I don't need action/violence every 30 minutes of a show but I find Boardwalk Empire boring. It would also be nice if the actors mirrored the real life people they portray. I just can't take the guy who plays Al Capone seriously. Capone was an intimidating 5'11 250 lbs. The actor who portrays him looks like he is 5 feet tall, he's dwarfed by anyone he has a scene with. I think HBO was looking for a replacement for The Sopranos demographic and this falls way short.
I think the characters of BOARDWALK EMPIRE continue to get better and richer as the episodes go on. As an ensemble piece, I'm sure it's difficult for the writers to have equal time with all the characters. I think they do a fantastic job of giving the audience who they want to see. Every aspect of this show satisfies me: the music, the costumes, the characters, the emotion, RICHARD HARROW!!! Can't wait to see more of Season 2!!! Bravo!!!
It's funny. That when people critisize Boardwalk Empire, it sounds like criticism for people who tried to get into The Wire back in the day. People said the same thing about Boardwalk that they said about The Wire. Too many characters, nothing happens, too boring. At the time it was thought the Sopronos was the better of the two shows. Some people might still think that but most do not, especially when you look at the series as a whole and the dissappointing last few seasons of the Sopronos. To me The Wire is the better show. Hindsight is 20/20.
Boardwalk Empire is a really good show which is heading towards being possibly great. Most people who find it boring. probably do not appreciate or know this countries history. Most Americans don't. There are developing a lot of interesting storylines with race relations at the time, the corrupt political machine of this country, and the true rise of Organized Crime in America.
Boardwalk Empire shows just how ugly America is, just like The Wire. Hence most Americans are not interested in that. That's why movies about slavery, the massacre of Native Americans, World War II Japanese internment camps, Civil Rights, don't tear it up at the box office or on TV. When all is said and done and Boardwalk goes off people will look back and see how great this show was as a snapshot of America at this time.
Oh and Mad Men is a White Man's fantasy. Nothing more. I think it's joke that people fawn over it so much. That's the only demographic it appeals too. White Men, and maybe their stepford wives.


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Credit flows from banks and capital markets in an evolving Europe
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0567 Saturday, 21 December 2013
Date: December 19, 2013 at 5:28:28 PM EST
Subject: No Melancholy Seat Yet for Richard III
O that thou wouldst as well afford a grave
As thou canst yield a melancholy seat,
Then would I hide my bones, not rest them here.
--Richard III, 4.4.2802-04
That's Queen Elizabeth Woodville speaking, but her brother-in-law is still looking for some kind of melancholy seat: the claimants for his bones, including York, Leicester, and family interests are fighting in court, and an August 2014 reburial is looking unlikely.
Here's the Guardian:
Battle for Richard III reburial site on hold as high court case is adjourned
Judicial review hearing delay as Leicester council becomes party to case involving Plantagenet Alliance on resting place for bones
James Meikle
The Guardian, Wednesday 27 November 2013
Richard III's remains may be in search of a home for a while longer after a high court case was adjourned amid anger and disappointment in London.
Leicester city council's claim that it has a key role in deciding where the last Plantagenet king of England should be interred or buried could mean that the hopes of Leicester University and the city's cathedral for placing his skeleton in a new tomb by next August will be dashed.
The council was an interested party in the proceedings, and on Tuesday lawyers for the local authority said it was prepared to launch its own consultation.
Lawyers for the Plantagenet Alliance, members of which claim to be descendants of the king, successfully argued that the authority should be a third defendant in the case they are conducting against the Ministry of Justice and the city's university over the way they have handled the legal process that facilitated the dig for Richard's body and then the decision on its reburial.
No new hearing will be possible before the new year. The alliance argues that the ministry, which granted an exhumation licence, and Leicester University, did not consult widely on the issue of where the king should be laid to rest; York and other places could be options, they say.
The failure to take into account relatives' wishes or the king's "own preferences" had breached their human rights, the alliance claimed.
The university and cathedral authorities said after the judicial review hearing had broken up that they were disappointed at the delays.
The authorities, which said they had followed due legal process, would not be drawn on whether they would still consider leaving the decision on Richard's remains to an independent panel of experts.
The university may yet face a decision on whether it will have to apply for an extension of the exhumation licence. Any consideration of changes to the cathedral to accommodate the body of the king are already on hold because of the case.
Matthew Howarth, of the Yorkshire law firm Gordons, which is representing the alliance, said the council's actions meant there would inevitably be delays. "We are not going to finish by August next year."


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A message from President Milliken on the 2011-13 budget
- 05/13/2011
Dear colleagues,
Yesterday the Nebraska Legislature approved a budget for the next biennium that represents a timely investment in Nebraska's future. Governor Heineman and members of the Legislature faced difficult decisions in developing this budget, and I appreciate their commitment to education and to the university in particular.
The budget provides no reduction in state support to the University for 2011-12 and a small increase in 2012-13. In past years, we would almost certainly have opposed flat funding, but in today's challenging economic times we recognize that this budget puts us in a strong position relative to many other states and public universities. A national news story just yesterday reported that officials in at least 28 states are considering reduced funding for higher education in the next fiscal year. Stable state support will allow the University of Nebraska to continue to provide affordable access to high-quality education -- our highest priority; to maintain our momentum in enrollment growth and research; and to invest in our talented faculty and staff.
The one-time $25 million investment in Nebraska Innovation Campus that is included in the budget package is especially rewarding as it will help advance an important initiative that will leverage university research activities, create new partnerships with the private sector and strengthen the state's economic competitiveness.
Notwithstanding our strong relative position, this budget represents the fourth and fifth years of essentially flat state funding. Each campus and University administration will need to continue making budget reallocations over the next two years to meet our basic obligations, maintain a reasonable rate of tuition and invest in our priorities. One of those priorities is salary increases. We cannot remain competitive in today's higher education market if our salaries continue to lag behind those of our peer institutions. We have had this discussion in recent meetings with the Board of Regents and they have been quite supportive.
In mid-June the Board will consider the operating budget for 2011-12, which will include a 2.5 percent salary increase pool for faculty and staff who are outside of collective bargaining units. I have instructed the Chancellors that salary increases are to be granted on the basis of performance and competitiveness and that the funds may not be used to reduce budget deficiencies.
As I have told the Board of Regents, our faculty, staff and administrators have done exemplary work over the past two years, despite our inability to provide general salary increases, and you have contributed significantly to the momentum at the university. Thank you for all you do for the University of Nebraska.
James B. Milliken
President, University of Nebraska


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If you've somehow never heard about it before, the NaNo event is pretty much what I described above - a month-long race to write a novel. Or, more exactly, to write 50.000 words. You get pep talks throughout the month, urging you on, hundreds of thousands of writers writing alongside you and a nifty stat thing showing you how much you've written every day, what your goal for the day is and how much you need to write to reach 50.000 by the end of November.
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If you're a new writer, just go for it. On my very first NaNo I didn't have a clue what I was doing, but by the end I knew my strengths and weaknesses as a writer. So will you. You'll face the challenge of actually going through the entire process and figuring out what you still need to learn.
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Bean There – Coffee spot
This week we visit Bean There, a roastery which is certified to roast Fairtrade coffee in Cape Town. Bean There also happens to be Carla's favourite hang-out. Carla is our admin fairy here at the blog and has drunk scrupulous amounts of coffee at this trendy spot. You will be happy to know that there is also a Bean There in Johannesburg.
We absolutely love the vibrant decor, which could work just as beautifully on the inside of a home. We met up with interior designer Megan Fasanelli, who was responsible for the decor. Megan says, "The overall canvas is a crisp clean white infused with bright colours and little pockets of interest".
Lovely pictures by Claudia De Nobrega
We also spoke to owners Rojeanne Koen, Hein Koen & Jonathan Robinson about Bean There.
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Depending on your view, Bradley Manning is either a patriot or a traitor for his alleged role in supplying Wikileaks with a bunch of classified documents.
Regardless of the political view, Adland is Adland. So this is interesting as ad news. See, Short Form Blog posted this today. It's an ad in support of Bradley Manning with the title "Spotted in DC Today," although it doesn't say where exactly it was spotted. Somewhere in D.C., maybe.
As an ad, it's pretty bad. No way around it. Layout nightmare, the old "definition," headline, the 75+ words of copy, the schizophrenic font sizes, the giant website address, the lack of strong conceptual big idea, and the inception style ad-within-an-ad at the bottom for Epic Step.
Wait. What's Epic Step? Epic Step. . They're apparently a kind of cause marketing Kickstarter for billboards. Neat idea.
For the Manning page on Epic Step, the "about" section describes this particular project as being run by the Bradley Manning Support Network.. They reached their goal of $14,800 for the media buy back in April.
In the comments (scraped and added from their Facebook site) the curator of the page even mentioned he did the right thing and paid $600 to use the Reuters photo of Manning in the ad.
Epic Step seems like its gives the option of setting up a voting system on multiple ads. The winning ad in question received 11,711 votes, compared to another (seen above) with only 200. Hm. Either way it's a pity. The other one is much better designed. Even if it's still borrowing heavily from everyone's favorite oppression fighting symbol, Che.
Note too, that the Facebook comments on the page aren't getting into a political back and forth. Rather, they're giving constructive criticisms on the ads. To wit:
I am worried that the ad texts assume his "guilt."
Another says (assume I'm adding sic, where it's needed): I really think that billboard should specify something in the effect that Bradley Manning did what he sworn to do and that was to protect his country, therefor he keep his promise to his country and to the military.
It's a shame the constructive criticism was ignored. Not that it would have made the layouts or copy better, but these people are offering up some valuable points which should have been at least considered. And these are points coming from people who are most likely not working in advertising.
While I'm sure the person who created the ad isn't worried about making something award winning so much as getting the word out, it still doesn't excuse the fact the ad could have been way more effective if only the person had listened.
And that's a valuable lesson. It never hurts to listen. And this is true whether you're an ad student, a creative director or just someone with a cause. Working in a vacuum is never a good idea.


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The company is closely guarding its 100 per cent interest in Wiluna and will not rush into a joint venture for the project, which will become much more valuable once development approvals are secured, managing director
Toro was fielding inquiries from companies in Japan, Korea and China keen to participate in the joint development of Wiluna but the company might not need to take a partner for the project, said Mr Hall, who can count on his experience as marketing manager for Rio Tinto's Energy Resources of Australia uranium operations in Toro's marketing efforts for Wiluna.
"Significant interest" was also being shown by nuclear utilities in North America, Japan and Europe seeking to lock in early offtake agreements, he added.
Korea Electric Power is among nuclear utilities in Asia that have expressed interest in investing in uranium ventures in Australia.
Toro is about 10 months into the approvals process for Wiluna, which could take up to 2½ years in total, given WA regulators and authorities have not previously approved a uranium mine. Securing approvals would make the project much more valuable, said Mr Hall, a former mine manager at the then WMC-owned Olympic Dam.
"Imagine the jump in value that an approved project gives you with a joint venture partner," he said in Perth. "If the right deal comes forward you have to take it to the board, but our board and major shareholder recognise the value of keeping control of a major part of the offtake."
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That would involve a capital cost of $250 million rather than the cheaper $170 million heap leach alternative, he said.
Financing options for the project include debt, underpinned by long-term uranium sales contracts, a joint venture, or equity funding. Toro shares closed on Friday at 9.8¢, giving the company a market value of $94.6 million. The stock has slid 32 per cent this year, weighed down by a lacklustre uranium spot price.
But Mr Hall said the current long-term uranium price of about $US60 a pound was "still reasonable" for the Wiluna project, which could have operating costs of $US30 to $US36 a pound depending on the process used.
Toro completed a one-month trial last week at a test pit at Wiluna, providing technical data that will be fed into a feasibility study. The study, heritage and native title agreements, project finance and marketing arrangements should all be completed by mid-2012 to allow construction to go ahead, Mr Hall said.
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In the world of black metal Svartsyn are somehow overlooked by many, why this is is beyond me, as they are one of my favorites. The first thing I heard by them was the Arckanum split (which is up there as being one of the best and most essential splits in black metal) and I was very impressed by Svartsyn's side on it. A little later I found this release in a used shop and picked it up. I was impressed at first by the booklet, the band photos are drenched in a mysterious and obscure occultism, and actually serve to really heighten the atmosphere of the album, giving the proper mental framework before putting the record on.
From the beginning we are submerged in a chaotic storm of ice cold riffing. The production is very harsh and uncompromising, guitars are a blaze of distortion, mixing with the very distorted bass which operates as an important factor in the sound. The drumming is organic and compressed sounding, giving it a very unique sound in black metal. What I find is that the sound compresses all the elements together to create one massive sound, which gives the riffing strength when they start to break out and move into epic territory.
The vocals are a distorted and highly reverberated and delayed attack, used almost as another instrument and very sparsely. On top of this we have moments where strange sounds and percussive elements bang on top of the instruments creating a ravaged blown out speaker sound similar to some Arckanum releases.
The music is played very passionately, the drumming and guitar riffs creating an adrenaline high type of feeling that leaves the listener breathless. Sometimes it'll slow down and move into different tempos, which works well, but the general pace of this album is fast and unrelenting. The riffing and songwriting is really unique on here. I haven't heard anyone really do anything similar. It moves from more chordal or power chord based sections to parts with very unique and epic riffs that create a singular mood of power and intense emotion. Perhaps at times Immortal's release Pure Holocaust can be given as a sign post, or maybe early Gorgoroth, but they are only a suggestion, Svartsyn really don't sound like anyone else.
Mood is very important on here, Svartsyn are strong on atmosphere throughout. The atmosphere is oppressive yet epic, highlighting the lyrical focus which is on morbid, occultic and apocalyptic themes. Lyrics and vocals work to highlight the feeling of the songs, and are used in a sparse fashion. Later releases by the band continue this approach, with long stretches of instrumentals. This album features a much stronger vocal presence, but still shows a focus on the instrumentation and riffing as a key to the understanding of the artists intent.
Even when moving into more old school sections of d-beats or slower tempos, Svartsyn give a kind of twisted method of applying those influences, which gives this album even more of the obscure feelings. It's hard to explain how an album can by very mysterious, obscure and yet epic, but Svartsyn manage it. You'll just have to listen to get it.
I'm not sure if this album or this band in general is for everyone, but I recommend not only this album but their entire discography to anyone who is into occultic and Satanic black metal. Particularly in these days of Orthodox black metal bands, Svartsyn stand as something much more real and primal though in a similar vein. If you like Arckanum or the earlier Norwegian and Swedish bands this album should be for you.
First of all, this is not a black/thrash album as stated by the previous reviewer. I wanted to clear the water for anybody searching for it. This is a pure black metal album, and I'm not sure how he got this album confused with the likes of Aura Noir or Absu, but I digress. Also, this is my first review, and I figured I'd kick it off with one of my favorite black metal goodies from the metal hotbed that is Sweden.
This album is a raging, fiery monster. There's not really many other ways to put it. The tone of their guitars is gigantic, and the riffs rightly focus on being huge both in concept and in sound. Most of the time they're churning out twisted, evil riffs but there's an underlying epicness about them that gets accentuated when they go into epic riff mode, which is basically the one or two times per song that they come out of this huge dungeon of great riffs and relieve the tension they've built up with a slightly more melodic focus, only to dive back in to the madness shortly. They do this exceptionally well.
Describing the riffs in detail is slightly difficult, as although they aren't absolutely original (which I'll note is nearly impossible to be in black metal nowadays), they're pretty unique and are comprised of a lot of influences. There's definitely a lot of trem picking, but they like to dance in between chords and single notes in a very fresh way. There's some counterpoint here, but not it's not as prominent as Sacramentum's FAftS. Overall, they do a great job of complimenting each other and creating a fiery atmosphere.
Tunnels of His Majesty, which I guess is pretty much the title track, is an instant classic. This is the track that has the aforementioned 'epic riff' effect, except the riff is the song and the dungeon is the album. It's the six minutes that rises above the chaos and evil and just grabs a hold of you and captivates you.
The drums, predictably, are very very good. Actually, in parts with simpler riffs the drummer is carrying the 'busyness' of the sound, and he's definitely not just made of blasts like 95% of BM drummers are. There's a lot of groovy beats that compliment the guitars wonderfully. When he does blast, it's very accurate and varied. All these guys know how to play their instruments very well (maybe not the bassist, I think he's only audible one time in a break between riffs).
Vocals are the thing I least look for in a black metal band, but this dude is something else. He's got a lot more low end to his growls than most do, while still retaining the black metal shriek/yell feel, and it just sounds really good with the tunes. Probably my favorite black metal vocal performance.
Really though, I could continue to try to describe this beast all I want, I can't really give it justice. These guys just had it right on this one. Great tone, riffs, composition, production, the works. This is their opus, and one of the minority of black metal albums with an unmistakable sound. Again, I can't overstate how HUGE this sound is.
If you like black metal, please do not die before this destroys your mind. A classic of the genre, as far as I'm concerned.
Svartsyn has never gained much of a following due to numerous problems with labels and lineup changes. …His Majesty remains to be their best full length to date. They manage successfully to take the rawness of early 90s Scandinavian black metal and combine it with rather technical guitars and pummeling blast beats to give the heavy thrash edge.
The True Legend was the bands debut album which had some excellent songwriting but the production was utterly horrible ruining the whole listening experience. Fortunately the band managed to keep a relatively high quality of songwriting and fix the production issues with …His Majesty. The atmosphere that can be found here is one that is fairly cold and hate-filled and often chaotic which is very common for black metal except that due to the thrashier nature you also get a good head-banging experience.
The drums pummel the listener with endless double bass and goddamn can this drummer play. Though not really similar I am reminded of Kreator's masterpiece, Pleasure to Kill. The drummer is particulary noticeable in Nekromantic Flesh where he bangs the shit out of the drums and even has the odd solo. Good stuff. Plenty of good guitar riffs can be found here though not as aggressive on the debut. The riffs usually repeat 5 or 6 times before they are changed which is good as it is not overly repetitive. Occasionally the riffs verge into chaotic territory while never losing focus enhancing the atmosphere. There are numerous thrash breaks throughout which are done very well. The vocals are fairly typical ice cold shrieks that echo through the sound but unlike the debut they do not drown everything else out. The vocals sound like they were recorded by a cheep recorder and sound slightly to abrasive than I would have liked but does not inhibit too much.
The only real weakness with this album besides the vocals which I already mentioned is that the length is only 31 minutes. This barely warrants a full length over an EP. There is no filler at all here so I am hardly complaining.
So overall a very competent black/thrash release, and is the best album to date. A bit of a shame that the band lost much of the aggression with Destruction of Man but fortunately it returned for the split with Arckanum.
Standout tracks include, Tunnels of his Majesty and, Nekromantic Flesh


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The Fairfax County Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) has been awarded a better than perfect score in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section 8 Management Assessment Program (SEMAP). HCD scored 148 points out of a possible 145 points—gaining bonus points for the agency's performance. This 102% rating designates HCD as a high performer under the SEMAP system for FY 2010.
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FORT JENNINGS — Ross Lehman shut down Fort Jennings for 5-plus innings and Miller City compiled 12 hits in besting the host Musketeers 8-2 in ACME summer baseball action on a warm Thursday at Fort Jennings Community Park.
Lehman went 5 1/3 innings to get the win (7 hits, 2 earned runs, 7 strikeouts; 77 pitches, 51 strikes). Jackson Lammers came on in relief in the sixth and finished the deal (1 2/3 innings; 1 base-on-balls, 1 K; 26 pitches, 17 strikes).
Mark Metzger went the first 4 2/3 innings to take the loss for the hosts (9 hits, 7 runs, 5 earned, 6 BBs, 4 Ks; 93 pitches, 48 strikes). Brandon Wehri came on to throw the final 2 1/3 innings (3 hits, 1 earned run, 3 Ks; 35 pitches, 25 strikes).
Both teams left a runner on in the first frame.
Berner hit a misjudged fly ball for a double with one down in the visitor first.
Austin Liebrecht led off the Musketeer first with a liner to right, took second on a passed ball and to third on a one out grounder by Metzger.
Miller City got two on — via a 1-out walk to Logan Dukes (2-for-3, walk) and a 2-out freebie to Jacob Schimmoeller (2-for-3, 2 runs, 2 runs batted in) — in the second but failed to dent the scoreboard.
Wehri singled just off the glove of first sacker Adam Niese with one down in the Musketeer second but Connor Stechschulte grounded into a 1-6-3 twin-killing.
The visitors got on the board with a tally in the third. Jeremy Balbaugh led off with a double to left but was gunned down by a Kyle Hellman-Wehri-Austin Kehres at third. However, Hunter Berner (3-for-4) walked, advanced on a balk and scored on a Lammers liner to right.
Brian Hoersten singled sharply to right with one out in the home third.
Miller City made it 3-0 in the top of the fourth. A one out double by Schimmoeller and two wild pitches (the second after Trey Hermiller walked and took off for second) got him in. Hermiller stole third and scored on a two out sharp slicer off Kehres' glove.
The Wildcats chased Metzger in the fifth. Back-to-back one out knocks by Adam Niese and Dukes started it, with both scoring on a two run triple to left center by Schimmoeller. Bases-on-balls to Hermiller and Balbaugh finished Metzger. An error on Berner's fly ball scored Schimmoeller and Hermiller for a 7-0 edge.
Jennings got its only two runs in the sixth. With one down, Hoersten (2-for-2) doubled down the right-field line and stayed there on an infield hit to third by Aaron Sealts. Liebrecht (2-for-3) singled to left to load the bases. Alex Sealts grounded a hit into left to plate Hoersten and bring Lammers to the mound. Metzger bounced out to plate A. Sealts and Sam Vetter walked to reload the sacks. Kehres flied out to end the uprising.
The visitors scored their final run in the sixth. Lehman singled sharply to right center but was forced by A. Niese. Dukes plated him with a double to left center but another relay: Austin Liebrecht to Metzger to Kehres; nabbed him at third.
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Jeremy Balbaugh cf 3-0-1-0, T.D. Niese ph 1-0-1-0, Hunter Berner c 4-1-3-1, Mitchell Barlage ph 1-0-0-0, Jackson Lammers ss/p 4-0-1-1, Ross Lehman p/ss 4-0-1-0, Adam Miese 1b 3-2-1-0, Logan Dukes lf 3-1-2-1, Tristan Niese rf 4-0-0-0, Jacob Schimmoeller 3b 3-2-2-2, Trey Hermiller 2b 2-2-0-0. Totals 32-8-12-5.
Austin Liebrecht cf 3-0-2-0, Alex Sealts 2b/ss 3-0-1-1, Mark Metzger p/ss/lf 3-0-0-1, Sam Vetter c 2-0-0-0, Austin Kehres 3b 3-0-0-0, Brandon Wehri ss/p 3-0-1-0, Connor Stechschulte 1b 3-0-0-0, Kyle Hellman lf/eh 3-0-0-0, Brian Hoersten rf 2-1-2-0, Alex Sealts eh/2b 2-1-1-0. Totals 27-2-7-2.
Score by Innings:
Miller City 0 0 1 2 4 1 0 - 8
Fort Jennings 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 - 2
E: Hellman; DP: Miller City 1; LOB: Miller City 9, Fort Jennings 5; 2B: Balbaugh, Berner, Dukes, Schimmoeller; 3B: Schimmoeller; SB: Hermiller 2, Lammers, Dukes; POB: Lambert (by Van Loo); Sac: Van Loo.
Lehman (W) 5.1 7 2 2 0 7
Lammers 1.2 0 0 0 1 1
Metzger (L) 4.2 9 7 5 6 4
Wehri 2.1 3 1 1 0 3
WP: Metzger 3, Wehri; PB: Berner; Balk: Metzger; BB: Hermiller 2, Balbaugh, A. Niese, Dukes, Schimmoeller, Vetter.
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It was the series that stunned the cricketing world, and Harbhajan Singh was the spinner who stopped the Australians.
As much as V. V. S. Laxman's 281 reversed a seemingly inevitable defeat in the second Test into a staggering win, the baffling work of India's feisty turban-wearing off spinner across those three Tests in 2001 was the main cause of Australia's last series defeat.
In his comeback after correctional work on his action, the then 20-year-old Harbhajan bedevilled the Australians with 32 wickets at just 17 runs each - the fourth-best haul from a three-match series in Test history. After a modest 4-132 when India lost in Mumbai by 10 wickets, Harbhajan claimed 7-123 and 6-73 in Kolkata, then 7-133 and 8-84 in Chepauk to finish off the Australians.
Adam Gilchrist made 122 in his only innings of the first Test, then made 0, 0, 1 and 1, with Harbhajan dismissing him four times overall. More glaring were Ricky Ponting's failures of 0, 6, 0, 0, and 11. Harbhajan took him every time, with his change of pace, and therefore his length, imperceptible to the Tasmanian, as it was with Gilchrist.
The man dubbed "The Turbanator" is back and is aiming to again be Australia's chief tormentor in the four-Test series that starts tomorrow.
But just as India is striving to forget a past marked by failure away from home, Harbhajan believes his previous work against the Australians should count for little this time around.
"By the grace of God I did so well in the 2001 series, and I was really happy with it," he said yesterday. "But that was different. Playing in Australia is a huge difference. That series is in the past. I don't want to live in that. Now I'm looking forward to what we have to do in this series."
Harbhajan has done his homework on the pitches in Australia, where he toured without playing a Test during India's disastrous 1999-2000 series. "I was talking to Shane Warne. He said if you can bowl good line and length you may be able to get good bounce - not much turn but at least bounce, so you can still do a bit.
"I've heard it will be good to bowl on the fourth and fifth days."
A rarity in India's Test scene as a Pathan, from the country's north, Harbhajan brings more to his side than just deviating cricket balls. He is the life, soul and resident joker of the Indian team, but also a fierce competitor.
"He's a key psychological weapon for us, because he fights on the field," said his captain, Sourav Ganguly.
"He's a 100 per cent guy. He's always hungry for wickets and he's a quality bowler. You always want that sort of a guy in the team."
While Harbhajan entered the 2001 series with just 21 wickets from eight Tests at an average of 38, he now boasts 150 scalps from 35 matches at 27.
"Since he's come back in 2001 against Australia he's looked a different bowler," Ganguly said. "He took eight wickets in a match in Jamaica, he got a five-wicket haul at the Oval, and those wickets had bounce."
On Warne's recommendation, Harbhajan came to Australia last winter seeking surgery for a persistent injury to a finger on his bowling hand, but then opted for other treatments. He took only 2-159 in his only tour match, against Victoria at the MCG, but says his finger is fine.
Harbhajan feels proud to be representing his Sikh religion, though he laughs at the nickname inspired by the associated head covering. "Turbanator is a good name," he says, "as long as you're destroying other teams."
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The closure of two youth arts organisations has sparked fears Queensland could lose its reputation as a rich breeding ground for young artists.
Youth Arts Queensland announced this week that it would wind up operations, having lost its $330,000 in triennial funding at the end of 2013.
It follows the closure of Contact Inc in March, which also lost operational funding as part of Arts Queensland's directive to find $12 million in savings in 2013.
YAQ acting creative director Andrew Cory said the small-to-medium sector had taken the biggest hit in arts defunding, even though the state government said it wasn't planned.
"There's nonetheless a narrative that young people and youth arts aren't valued as much as the opera, ballet, symphony orchestra or Queensland Theatre Company," he said.
"Young people may read into that, OK, I will go and find a city or place where young artists are supported... that's the danger, I think."
Youth Arts Queensland's mandate was to help young artists with career development, offering services such as mentoring, networking, advice on study options, training in running an arts business, and assistance with grant applications.
In a statement, Arts Minister Ian Walker said that 35 organisations won funding as part of the 2014-2016 round, worth $21.2 million.
"This was a highly competitive funding round, with an independent peer review," he said.
"17 of the 35 organisations that were successful in the latest round of triennial funding to arts organisations (almost 50 per cent) provide arts programs or support services directly to young people in the arts."
But Mr Cory said not all of those 17 groups focused on arts as a career, nor did they have youth programs as a permanent priority.
"It's not mandated within the constitution of those organisations... if a new artistic director wanted to change that, the youth arts agenda might easily be kicked out the window," he said.
"It's also the accessibility of the majors....if you're a young person, are you going to rock up to Opera Queensland and say can you help me with my grant?"
Youth Arts Queensland will hold a special general meeting in May to officially wind up operations, and is negotiating with another existing company to transfer its remaining assets and intellectual property in the hope it can carry the torch.
Industry experts have also expressed concern over the trend against youth arts organisations.
Artistic Director of the Brisbane Powerhouse, Kris Stewart, said the Brisbane we want to see in five to ten years is international, confident and innovative.
"The peppercorn investments we make in young creativity pays us back exponentially in the future, so the opportunity cost of not supporting youth arts could bite us all down the road," he said.
"This could be a generation lost."


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TORONTO (AP) The Boston Red Sox moved one step closer to the playoffs for the fifth time in six years.
David Ortiz hit a two-run homer, Daisuke Matsuzaka remained unbeaten on the road and the Boston Red Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-0 on Sunday to clinch at least a tie for the AL wild-card.
GAME REPORT: Red Sox 3, Blue Jays 0
Boston (91-64) needs one more win or a New York loss to secure a playoff spot. New York hosts Baltimore in the final regular season game at Yankee Stadium on Sunday night, but Red Sox manager Terry Francona doesn't plan on staying up late enough to see what happens.
"There's a pretty good chance I'll be asleep," Francona said before the game.
The victory didn't change Francona's mind about when he would go to bed.
"We don't take anything for granted, we never have," Francona said. "We played a pretty good game today. We'll show up tomorrow and, if we play good and do all our stuff, those magic numbers will take care of themselves."
The Yankees weren't likely to be on in the Ortiz household, either. With the Green Bay Packers hosting the Dallas Cowboys at the same time, the slugger said his wife, a Wisconsin native, would be in charge of the television.
"I'm going to be watching football," Ortiz said.
Besides, Ortiz would rather party at the stadium with his teammates.
"The best way to celebrate is by (messing) up your clubhouse," Ortiz said. "I'm not going to be popping champagne at my house."
The victory moved Boston 1½ games behind Tampa Bay in the AL East. The Rays, who lost Sunday, have eight games remaining, four each at Baltimore and Detroit.
"We really had to win today to put ourselves in the right spot for the rest of the week," catcher Jason Varitek said. "We've got a lot of fun baseball ahead of us."
The Red Sox return to Fenway Park on Monday to close the regular season with a seven-game homestand, including four against Cleveland and three against the Yankees.
New York begins a three-game series in Toronto on Tuesday before heading to Boston.
Matsuzaka (18-2) improved to 9-0 with a 2.31 ERA in 13 road starts, holding the Blue Jays to just two hits in seven innings. He struck out six and walked two.
Varitek said Matsuzaka was "phenomenal."
"That's not an easy lineup to face," Varitek said. "He was able to move the ball in and out, use his breaking ball to both sides, set it up with his heater. He did an awesome job today."
The Japanese right-hander said reaching 18 victories was an important personal milestone.
"Since the moment I turned pro, I wanted to match my win total to the number on my jersey," Matsuzaka said through a translator. "It took me 10 years, but I finally got there."
Hideki Okajima pitched a perfect eighth before Jonathan Papelbon closed it out for his 40th save in 45 opportunities.
Vernon Wells had a leadoff double against Matsuzaka in the second, and Joe Inglett did the same in the sixth, but the Blue Jays couldn't score either time.
Ortiz gave Matsuzaka all the help he would need with his 22nd homer, a two-out shot to left in the third. It was Ortiz's 230th homer with Boston, tying him with Mo Vaughn for sixth on the team's all-time list.
"The ball was carrying today," Francona said. "I didn't think (Ortiz's) ball was going out of the ballpark."
Red Sox outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury extended his hitting streak to 12 games with three extra-base hits. Ellsbury tripled and scored in the first on Dustin Pedroia's sacrifice fly, doubled and scored on Ortiz's homer and doubled again in the fifth. He finished 3-for-4.
"It's been nice to come on strong at the end," said Ellsbury, who is batting .345 (19-for-55) over his streak.
Making his fourth major league starts, Toronto right-hander Scott Richmond (0-3) allowed three runs and five hits in five innings. He walked one and struck out four.
Notes: Dustin Pedroia hit his major league-leading 52nd double in the eighth. ... Toronto 1B Lyle Overbay (hand) left the game after five innings. ... Boston SS Julio Lugo, out since July 12 with a strained quad, felt "a little tender" after taking ground balls Saturday, Francona said, adding that Lugo's "availability is certainly in question." ... Boston wrapped up its road schedule at 39-42. ... The Red Sox and Blue Jays split their season series at 9-9.
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The company rolling out the Labor government's $35.9 billion national broadband network has awarded a $100 million contract to technology supplier Emerson.
Under the terms of the one-year deal, 10 multi-purpose centres will be built in five capital cities featuring data centre facilities and staff training rooms for use by NBN Co.
The modular data centres are housed in metal containers roughly the length of shipping containers.
Although some of the equipment would be imported, Emerson said local construction and labour costs would account for more than 90 per cent of the deal's value.
Construction contractor Silcar, which won a $1.1 billion contract to build part of the NBN in NSW, Queensland and the ACT, will build much of the project. Greenbox Architecture will design the data centres.
The capital cities involved in the project are Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, with two facilities constructed in each. The contract was awarded on the basis of a competitive tender released by NBN Co in February.
NBN Co facilities architect Adrian Whatley said the majority of the facilities would reuse existing buildings after renovations, although some greenfield sites could be required.
"Given a choice we wouldn't do greenfields but it's a question of site availability in locations acceptable to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission," he said.
The choice to fund the construction of new facilities owned by the government came despite the rise of outsourced data centre players such as NextDC and Macquarie Telecom in locations throughout Australia.
Mr Whatley said a range of options including outsourced data centres were considered but that the selection committee had decided on Emerson's pod-based system unanimously after considering cost, energy efficiency and a range of other issues.
The 12-month duration of the contract means it will probably be completed by the next election and will not be at risk of being cancelled by an incoming Coalition government.
Emerson vice-president Scott Barbour said it was a positive for the company to be operating without fear of political intervention.
"I think it's a good thing this is a one-year deal that is very well defined," he said. "Hopefully, there'll be other types of things going on once those networks are up."
Mr Barbour said Emerson had seen networks like NBN around the world but never of the same scope.
"You see it in a city or a very geographically contained area but not in a whole country like this," he said.
"This certainly stands out as a big, unique and highly technical project on a very fast timeline."
The requirement to construct training facilities comes as a result of NBN Co seeking training providers in July.
Training is set to start in the second half of next year to ensure there are enough skilled workers for a full-scale national build starting in 2014.
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Faith in History
The Rise and Fall of American Methodism
The Methodist Church's rise and recent decline is perhaps the most statistically striking story in American religious history. At the time of the American Revolution, the denomination was tiny. English Methodist founder John Wesley was hostile toward American independence, which badly hampered the church's growth in America. After the Revolution, the American church began to operate independently from English Methodists. The legendary Methodist "circuit riders" began reaching the American backcountry, riding on horseback to reach every nook and cranny of the Appalachian frontier and Mississippi River Valley. In 1770, there were about 20 Methodist churches in America. By 1860 that number had grown to more than 19,000.
Methodist growth in America continued into the post-World War II era, reaching a high point of 11 million members in the 1960s. But in the past forty years, as with all of America's "mainline" denominations, Methodist membership numbers went into free-fall, to a current membership total of 7.6 million. Even as the total number of Americans skyrocketed, the number of Methodists plummeted.
The complex story of Methodism's decline is explained partly by the denomination's official political positions that have closely aligned with those of the American left. This century-long story is told in Mark Tooley's closely researched new book, Methodism and Politics in the Twentieth Century. Tooley is the President of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, which seeks to promote renewal in mainline denominations, including the United Methodist Church.
Reading Tooley's history, one is struck by the desultory quality of the Methodist church's political choices over the past century. Bishops reacted to one world crisis after another with lagging responses that often appeared designed to please political allies. Even occasional dalliances with communism (both Soviet and Chinese) were, at the time, regarded as prophetic and forward thinking. Now they seem shockingly short-sighted.
Tooley demonstrates the perils of a church trying to maintain its prophetic edge through political advocacy. The church's primary business, of course, should never be contemporary politics. Confessing that Jesus is Lord has always had political ramifications, but aligning that confession too closely with specific powers of this world often leads to the church being exploited as a political tool and ultimately abandoned when the tool is no longer necessary. Tooley shows that the Methodists' high point of political power came in enacting what became the great failed policy of Prohibition. For the better part of the past century, some in the Methodist hierarchy have been scrambling to recover that lost political influence.
Being accepted by political authorities is always a tantalizing prospect, but it often comes with a price of distraction from the church's main business. Methodists, Tooley shows, sometimes cautioned themselves about this tension. The 1972 General Conference of the United Methodists warned that churches were often devoting entire Sundays to organizing political demonstrations, discussing "the next election, or the most recent word from the high priests of ecology," with nary a mention "of divine pardon, or of holiness of life, or of the world to come." Yet the American Methodist slide only accelerated after 1972.
Thomas S. Kidd teaches history and is a Senior Fellow at Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion. He is the author of Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots and God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution. Follow his writings via Facebook and Twitter.
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Salaires relatifs et chômage : une analyse comparative France / Etats-Unis
[fre] Cette étude compare l'évolution du marché du travail en France et aux États-Unis entre 1970 et 1993. Cette comparaison est menée d'un point de vue agrégé et par niveaux de qualification définis de manière homogène entre les deux pays. À long terme, les inégalités salariales globales diminuent en France alors qu'elles augmentent aux États-Unis. Ceci reflète des déformations opposées de la distribution des salaires. Les inégalités intergroupes connaissent-elles aussi des évolutions contraires. Enfin, à partir de l'étude jointe des distributions salariales et des taux de chômage, on tente d'évaluer l'impact de la compression salariale française sur le niveau élevé du taux de chômage. [eng] This paper compares the evolution of the French and American labor markets over the 1970-1993 period. We perform this comparison both at a macro and at a disaggregated level, where we distinguish between different groups of workers, defined by their skill-level, in a way that is consistent across countries. In the long run, wage inequality seems to diminish in France while it increases in the US. This reflects opposite movements in the wage distribution. The American experience of a shrinking middle class stands in marked contrast with the French evolution toward an increasing weight of the lower-median income groups. As far as between-group inequalities is concerned, we observe in both countries a different pattern in education premia. Yet, the joint study of wage distributions and unemployment rates shows little support for the view that lack of wage adjusment led to the French rise in low skilled unemployment.
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Bollywood's Greek God Hrithik Roshan visited Bangalore on Monday, October 8 to launch the Krrish 3 game on smart phones. The event took place at the Dayananda Sagar Institution. While thousands of fans gathered at the ground, a few lucky ones got an opportunity to play the Krrish 3 game along with Hrithik . The luckiest one was a girl named Sushmitha who was carried Hrithik Roshan.
The Krrish 3 game was created in collaboration with Gameshastra. The game is launched on Android, windows phone and IOS. The pictures from the event show that Hrithik truly entertained his fans present. He had an interactive session as he promoted his upcoming film Krrish 3. It looks Hrithik is on a promotion spree for his superhero film.
The fans present at the event were filled with college going students. Quite a few fans even won themselves free music CDs from Krrish 3. Hrithik, who is B-Town's heartthrob surely knows his ways to impress people. He shared that crowd's cheerful enthusiasm so much that he even flung his sunglasses to the audiences. We wonder who was the lucky who could catch his superstar shades. All in all, Hrithik made this day a memorable one for many Bangaloreans.
Have a look at the slide show to see images of Hrithik in Bangalore.
The Lucky Fan
Sushmitha was the luckiest fan at the event as she was carried by superstar Hrithik Roshan.
Priceless Expression
The expression of this young girl was priceless when Hrithik carried her. She was happy beyond description.
Crazy Crowd
The fans went crazy when they saw Hrithik. The picture clearly shows how big the gathering was. It looked like as though a concert was going on.
Game On
A boy came up on stage to try out the newly launched Krrish 3 game. Hrithik stood by and watched the boy play.
Casually Clothed
To suit the college environment, Hrithik was dressed in casuals. He sported a jeans, T-shirt and a sleeveless jacket.
Tight Security
The event was well organised and there was security all over the place and they made sure that fans did not mob the actor.
Girls Go Gaga
The girls were gaga over this heartthrob of Bollywood. He was seen with a smile throughout the event and kept his audiences happy too.
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