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While net.art has always taken a very strong stand against the mainstream culture and has promoted a so called "counter-culture" (see Networking, by Tatiana Bazzichelli) by coordinating hacktivists and spreading alternative information over the Internet, new media art is now presenting itself in other forms (such as database art, locative media art, etc.), mostly with a less evident political position and questioned social functions. For instance, Tuter and Varnelis point out how locative media artist are not particularly trying to take distance from the government or industries, on the contrary they are in many cases willing to collaborate with commercial as well as governmental institutions.
But also a deeper and more complex topic can be discussed, when it comes to new media art and its role in criticizing society. Van Kranenburg questions the channel and artifacts that are being used by artists for the realization of their artworks. Surveillance technology is often needed in order to realize locative media projects; he believes that we now have the tools and the power to create alternative protocols and networks and we don't need to make use of the standard infrastructures that we are currently accustomed to.
Recently, I focused my research on the definition of the role of the artist within society, to understand how locative media can be nevertheless used to expose control agencies within society and can involve the audience in new ways. I have also been trying to deepen criticism of the underlying technology and place it in the actual context.
Is freedom of new technology an illusion?
Locative art does not necessarily depend on new locative technology. A very interesting example of it is Richard Long's locative artworks, where the landscape is used as a canvas and the artist marks the landscape and documents it. Long added an informational layer to space marking the places he visited while he documented his walks. In this way, he created an augmented space. However, although locative art has been possible without location aware technology that we are now familiar with, nowadays artists aim to explore the potentials of new locative media to produce artworks that change our perception of space and its representations.
Locative media that are diffusely employed in locative art projects are context aware technology and location aware mobile computing devices (such as mobile phones with implemented GPS technology). Context aware technology is able to link a computing system to the environment and make the system react to changes in the environment. This link produces more flexible computing systems and creates an artificial feedback channel for the user immersed in the environment. Not only GPS technology is used to send receive and process location data: artists are increasingly involving the users in the creation of topographies, therefore also GIS is used in locative art projects. GIS (Geographic Information System) offers the opportunity to process data through personalized queries and generate customized maps.
The Internet, as well as other new technologies that facilitate unmediated communication among users, tents to be considered freer than other mainstream media. In particular the decentralized networked structure of online communication – opposed to the traditional hierarchical model, has produced a picture of the Internet as a decentralized communication infrastructure, where power is equally distributed among nodes, that allows free communication among users and excludes intermediation, facilitating the action of non-market mechanisms (See Benkler, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom). This ideological view of networked information flow is partly debunked by Galloway and Thacker, who focus on the technical aspects of networked communication to expose the strict control that can be exercised through networks.
They also refere to Gilles Deleuze, who identifies in this phenomenon a shift from a disciplinary society to a society of control (Deleuze, 1992). While the barriers were more concrete and recognizable in the disciplinary society (a signature, a number), in the society of control the code is the barrier. The code is not as recognizable as the written word, and is less transparent and less concrete. The threat hidden in new technologies seems to be the lack of palpability of the code, of the underlying mechanism that makes technology work. This issue has also been identified by Van Kranenburg. The author describes the shift from mechanical machinery to software-based technology, and he observes that the user is becoming more reliant on the producer (or the programmer) of hardware and machines because the system is less transparent and less concrete and is based on code. While his critic is very relevant, I think he makes a mistake when he suggests that it is possible to criticize or question the commercial/ political implication of technology only from the outside and not from the inside.
Coco Fusco is very critical on locative media projects for different reasons. His critic refers to the way mapping is being used as a subtler manner to publicize warfare and dehumanize the target of military action in front of the mass media audience. Also he sees a threat in the way geographical data put the human in a Cartesian position, where it is believed that the "human mind and mathematical principles are the source for all real knowledge."
Locative art and the dynamic representation of space
A good answer to this critic is to find in Townsend and Hemment's articles. The spread of locative media that allow the single user to tag and to draw maps exposes the objective definition of places, for different people mark the same places in different ways and attribute different meanings to a location. However, I believe that Petra Gemeinboeck, together with Andy Dong and Francesca Veronesi, makes a significant step further in the discussion. Gemeinboeck experiments with locative art projects in the urban space, and she is particularly interested in the intersections between physical and virtual spaces. One of her projects, IG 02: Urban Fiction, combines user demographic data and user geographical data (GIS) with the movements of the user (participants) within the landscape. A virtual fabric replaces the more traditional map structure; in this way the flow of the participants is represented in alternative ways that have very little to do with traditional topography (see fig. 1). Still, documenting the location is essential for the realization of the artwork. The locative art project IG 02 aims to represent in a more bodily way the interrelations between different cultural groups of inhabitants and passengers, and their relation to the urban space they occupy, breaking off with the objective annotation used to establish spatial relations in cartographies.
Gemeinboeck's performative geography project would be one of the interactive new media projects that help us rediscover public space through creative technologically mediated interaction described by Bounegru (in the Urban Screen Reader, 2009). The big difference between situationists and new media artist of this kind is that while the former focused their actions on urban and social politics, the latter are more concerned with the aesthetic aspects of space and urbanity. Nevertheless, in essence they have the same purpose, which is in a way the reappropriation of urban space by inhabitants and the stimulation of playful, spontaneous and creative actions in urban space. Gemeinboeck's work is also a critical answer to the Cartesian objectivity of cartography. I think it is peculiar how her critic does not stop by enabling the user to create subjective maps, but addresses the form itself by replacing the map grid with a virtual fabric.
This research has certainly been useful to better understand how new media artists today try to relate to new technology and generate artworks that can be somehow considered significant to society, despite widespread critics addressed to their connections with the government and corporations and the technology that they are using. It became clear to me that the most controversial debate arises on upcoming surveillance technology that is employed in new media art projects. There are two main reasons why there is a lot of concern about this kind of technology: personal data are vastly used by companies to address their customers more effectively (Hemment, The locative dystopia); and governmental institution increasingly employ surveillance technology to control citizens' behavior, also by collecting personal data very extensively. Both occurrences render citizens very susceptible for data-collection and generate insecurity and mistrust toward technology that store sensitive personal data.
Nonetheless, locative new media art projects are not just means to develop and spread surveillance technology, and they do not per se support or affirm protocols and communicational infrastructure that are used. On the contrary, they have the ability to question these protocols and networks, not only from the outside (like Van Kranenburg argues, by naming the example of Bricolab), but also from the inside. That is realized, for instance, by using GPS location data to generate graphical representations of space that are by no means objective neither they present the typical characteristics of cartographies, but use a totally different language and suggest a way of looking at space that relates to our bodily experience of it (see IG 02). Artists then fulfill their role by creating the context for interaction, and by offering to the participant of their projects a different experience of the space that they know as a working or living space. This is not only done for the seek of art, neither has to be seen as entertainment; as a matter of fact, it represents a very direct criticism on the use of space that we are accustomed to, which has been instilled by our society and by governmental forces and has been executed in the way our urban spaces have been built, arranged and represented over time.


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Hold a 'vendor day' to turn providers into partners
Chances are you work with a number of external service providers, and you don't necessarily consider them strategic partners. Increasingly, though, CIOs are discovering opportunities for innovation and strategic advantage in working with vendors as partners rather than just providers, writes Peter High at CIO Insight.
When external partners are seen as sources of innovation and their customers' plans are shared with them, they are more driven to provide better products and services, High writes. To move toward this kind of strategic partnership, CIOs can schedule "vendor days" for sharing insights. Vendors can have the opportunity to meet not only with IT executives, but also with business executives so that they gain a better understanding of the company's overall strategy. They can be nudged into greater competition if they're rated and rewarded for exemplary performance. Even then, they should be encouraged to collaborate.
At Alliant Techsystems, CIO Jeff Kubacki has held a vendor day for the past two years, High reports. He brings in about 25 external partners and provides a synopsis of the company's business and IT strategies. One of the goals is to get vendors to consider the company's business strategy when offering new solutions. Kubacki presents a vendor of the year award to the best provider.
"Given the number of critical technologies and processes that technology vendors manage in this day and age, not setting up these relationships is truly irresponsible," High writes. "Developing vendor days, and engaging external partners in a new way, while stimulating collaboration and healthy competition, is the key to unlocking more value in these business relationships."
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Lorde Talks Older Boyfriend, Internet Haters, and Texting Taylor Swift
Lorde's setting the record straight in her new interview with Rolling Stone.
First, the 17-year-old is indeed dating a 24-year-old photographer named James Lowe. Photos first began surfacing of the two (a.k.a. people started Googling "Lorde") last year and, unfortunately, the internet took its toll on Lorde by targeting both her and James.
Lorde tells Rolling Stone (via Us Weekly) that while she understands that the commentators are often "the type of people who use the word 'f----t' as an insult" that doesn't mean she's immune to the kind of hate language-laden aired in the comments to her photos. "[I'm] not completely impervious to insult," she explains. "I'm a human being."
Second, things are just peachy keen between Lorde and fellow young musician Taylor Swift. That whole TayTay at Lorde's birthday party thing? Not a publicity stunt. They're actually friends, friends who text about home goods.
"Taylor's super good at this stuff," Lorde tells Rolling Stone about picking between a bowl and a table lamp for her manager. "She's decorated her own houses for ages."
Taylor's also a pro at ushering new stars into the music industry. After "Royals" hit #1, TayTay sent Lorde roses. Funny enough, the bouquet of good will arrived shortly after Lorde said some not so nice things about the "Trouble" singer. Taylor, meanwhile, claims she wasn't aware of the diss when sending the flowers but when she heard, didn't seem to mind much.
"She was like, 'It's fine. If all you've done is call someone perfect, it's not that bad,'" Lorde recalls of Taylor's reaction. Check and mate.
What do you make of Lorde's Rolling Stone interview? Sorry to hear about the haters? Happy she and Taylor are friends? Take a Lorde off in the comments below.
Source: Rolling Stone via Us Weekly


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"You'd think one playoff berth in 14 post-expansion seasons, five double-figure loss seasons in a row and nine such seasons over the last 10 years would have visited sufficient misery upon Browns fans. Apparently not, because given the plethora of conclusion-jumping about which dead-end street the Browns' new management team is steering the franchise toward, fans have decided to invent more doomsday scenarios until some real ones arise.
Can we give Haslam and Banner a few days to hire the personnel man they promised they would add after a head coach was in place? Can we give that guy time to articulate how the Browns' draft process will unfold? Can we give Chudzinski a week or so to announce his coaching staff before assuming it will be populated by Banner's third cousins, twice-removed? Can we wait until Lombardi is hired before obsessing about the havoc he'll inflict upon the franchise?" [Hooley/ESPN Cleveland]
"Which brings us back to the original point. If you can secure free or heavily discounted tickets through either the team or ticket brokering sites, why not take in that night's contest? Even if it is against the Sacramento Kings?
For a lot of us, the secondary costs get to be way too much. Personally speaking, my family of four cannot afford to take in an Indiana Pacers game this year, even if we grabbed a batch of heavily discounted seats high in the rafters. The hour-long drive, parking and costs that go beyond the price of the actual ticket are too high. Because I'm not going to be the dad that sneaks snacks into the arena for his kids to eat surreptitiously on the cheap — and I'm not going to make my wife sit through D.J. Augustin running sets off the bench without buying her a few beers to get through it. And YOU try saying "no" to your daughters when they want to buy another foam finger." [Dwyer/Ball Don't Lie]
"I'm not going to worry too much about the outcome of this one. Or any other Cavs game this year, for that matter. The Cavs struggled down the stretch after clawing their way back into the game in the third quarter and came up short. It's nothing to lose sleep over. But one troubling thing: we got a serious dose of Kyrie Irving isolations, and normally, I'm fine with Kyrie Irving isolations late in games because I like seeing him dart down the lane through a double team and around a looming big man, but in this particular game, Dion Waiters was playing terrifically, and I would have liked, if Byron Scott could have possibly been bothered to coach this team a little bit, if Waiters could have slid into the corner-three spot normally occupied by Alonzo Gee so that Irving would have a better option to pass to when he inevitably got double-teamed as he tried to dart into the lane. Instead nothing changed, Irving got stripped a couple of times driving to the bucket, easy lay-ins for the Kings, etc. Maybe Kyrie wouldn't have passed the ball to Waiters either, but, y'know, maybe at least get the guy who had flames shooting out of his butt into a position where he might possibly touch the ball so that the defense has to think about him." [McGowan/Cavs the Blog]
"Right now, I think it's pretty clear that Waiters is pressing and trying too hard to get going. Another thing this proved is that Waiters' streakiness both helps and burns the Cavs (mostly burns them) depending on the moment. The Cavs can't have him taking more shots than Irving most nights, especially when eight of them are absolutely terrible shots that no one should ever be taking in a game. He needs to learn that 20-23 footers are the least efficient shot in the NBA. If he's going to take them, he should be taking a step back and making them threes (no really, I did the research. Taking threes instead of long twos correlates to a better offense). He has decreased the amount of threes he's taken this season from 5.3 per game in November to 2.9 in January, but he also has increased the amount of long twos he's taken from 3.3 in November to 4.4 in January. He needs to stop taking random contested jumpers with 14 seconds left on the shot clock. And he needs to start becoming better around the rim by drawing contact and getting to the foul line more often. Until he learns to do these things, we're going to see the same inconsistent Dion Waiters we've seen this year." [Vecenie/Fear the Sword]
"But Boras doesn't look solely to the new rules as the reason his three big free-agent clients are still unsigned. No, he says teams are just being stingy with their payroll. Too stingy, he says, in light of booming MLB revenues. According to Boras, most teams have lower payrolls heading into the 2013 season than the highest payroll those teams had from 2000-2012. "Only five teams have higher payrolls," Boras told Murray Chass over the weekend. "Everybody else is below even though revenue is up 200 percent and franchise values are up 300, 400 percent. What we're seeing is not many teams are spending on payrolls despite the fact that their profits are extraordinary. You'd expect teams to have their highest payrolls, but they don't." [Thurm/Fan Graphs]


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I remember that when I read the proceedures for planting leeks, that is; to plant the young seedling so that only 1cm or so is left above the ground, I was sceptical. I looked down at these tiny things no bigger than the lead in a pencil and thought such treatment would kill them. For sure. Yes, apparently I am that up myself.
However I still planted half the recommended way, and half as I felt they should be. Which was with at least half of it still out of the hole. Then I found out they take 18-22 months to harvest and promptly forgot about them and my experiment.
The results of my experiment can be seen below. Now I think, if only! However, experience is the best teacher. She's the only teacher I really trust. :)
The leaves on the longest leek, photo 1, were not as long as last weeks leek, photo 2, so it's total length was less at 1.5m, however it is longer at the edible part, at 66cm long. :)
The lower leek in photo 1 is, yes, planted 'my way'. I harvested it because it started to flower. Fail.
Photo 3+4 added 27th Sept= last of the leeks planted 'correctly' . Saved the best til last apparently!
Photo 4= today's harvest along side the ones from the 25th. Leek and potato soup tonight!
Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum
Folia Helper
thats the thing about gardening,gaining experience.. it is the best teacher out agree totally..
Wow – I didn't know that about leeks – thanks I'll try that out with my next spring planting. I'm curious though about your comment re. growing time. Folia's leek info. page lists them as 235 growing days, which is just under 8 months – I haven't heard of them taking over a year and a half, though that probably helps produce your giant ones – but I'm not sure I have that much patience.
Overwintering of Leeks only works in zone 7 or above. We have a 30cm freeze depth here (zone 5a), where the ground water can freeze solid. At 15cm deep the ground is frozen solid for 3 months, so nothing except garlic overwinters very well without being covered with 40cm of straw and plastic. I even have to dig up perennial bulbs and tubers every fall.
The definition of 'mature' though is when they are 1 inch in diameter or 40cm from bottom to leaf tip. I don't know about your supermarket, but all leeks are way bigger than that here when eaten than when considered mature officially by that standard. They couldn't sell such things as 'leeks'- people would think they're spring onions- lol. Any way that's how long the poor guy at our Dept of Ag whom I wouldn't let hang up the phone (after hunting him down like a fox) said they would take… They don't take up much room and I wasn't going to harvest them until I was happy about the size (unless mass bolting occurred), and I did not realise how long they are either so I just kept waiting and waiting!
Anyway blah blah :)
Thanks Sue! :) Thanks Teresa :)
I wish I had your patience Mel, I'm always harvesting my vegies too early because I just can't wait any longer!
mm, I have never "hilled" or "trenched" leeks in the manner you say.
I plant them in just the way I plant spring onions – that is I make a furrow using a Dutch hoe, lay the leeks down about 50mm apart (not too fussy), then use the hoe to back-fill. In a very short time the leeks are upright, same as with springies, and away we go.
We would be about halfway through pulling the last batch I planted 6 months ago as tiny seedlings, March 26 according to my Folia entry, and they would average 30-50mm diameter by about 30cm on average. I don't include the loose green tops but use quite a bit of the green as well – just as in your pic.
wait wait wait prickles. Are you telling me you grew 50mm diameter leeks in six months??? Whatttttt?! Don't burst my bubble too badly mate! :P
How much of the seedling stem gets buried your way? I just made a hole with my finger and put it in and put a little bit of dirt back in.
Mel, excellent evidence of your experiment. Really, you do have to try things because not everything you read is going to hold true in your garden and with the varieties you chose. And congratulations on getting info from the Dept of Ag bloke, well stalked!
Prickles, how deep are yours buried when you backfill?
added photos of today's harvest= biggest! Yay.
Thanks Lilly! :)
@ massivemelons – nice job! I love Leeks. Since you have left them in for quite a while – leave a few in a bit longer & they will go to seed & you can harvest the seed & start all over. They say that leeks are easy to propogate from 'pips' (though I've never done it). I found one site that explains it a bit;
@ Prickles – I don't hill mine either & have never had any problems – but i did try to blanche them with toilet paper rolls this year. Slip the roll over your leek & stuff any area at the top with soft paper. No sunlight = longer white bits on leeks+less dirt inside the leeks. The only problem was a couple of the rolls disintegrated in the rain, so I suppose short pieces of PVC would work too.
@ hotwired I left a few of mine in (zone 5b) over the winter. I cut them back in the fall. In the spring they were almost a soupy texture. Within 3 weeks of spring thaw they had hardened & I had some 1" leeks to eat, 3 weeks later the remaining ones went to seed!
I love Mussels in white wine, leeks & cilantro.. mmmm!
I can't believe the difference in size. Wow. I didn't know you were meant to plant them so deep either and I also didn't know it would take 1 year before I can enjoy my potatoe and leek soup!
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Great Pizza
posted at 8/1/2011 12:39 AM EDTVery surprised that Upper Crust wasn't mentioned in the top pizza places in Boston. Great staff and amazing pies. Try it!
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posted at 8/25/2011 1:31 AM EDTIn Response to Great Pizza:Very surprised that Upper Crust wasn't mentioned in the top pizza places in Boston. Great staff and amazing pies. Try it!
Posted by blogn24
Right? It's the only pizza place that holds up to any number of pizza places that I can find in New York (where I now go to school)
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posted at 8/27/2011 8:36 AM EDTI just saw there's a Santarpio's on Route 1 (the original is in Eastie). Now thats some pizza, and it must be nice to get a Santarpio's pie, without buying cocaine and worrying about getting shot.
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posted at 8/29/2011 6:28 PM EDTSantarpio's Pizza is great...definitely in my top 3..!
Upper Crust pizza is mediocre at best..at best..and the company's history of hiring and exploiting illegal immigrants was enough to turn me off of them completely.
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posted at 10/27/2011 9:10 PM EDTsantarpios!! or Bobs in medford great pizza and everything else
Re: Great Pizza
posted at 11/9/2011 1:26 PM ESTI don't live in the city, but I've grown to love Santarpios over the years, it's about the only good reason to go near Logan in my book.
Original Regina's also tops of my five-favs, the others, in no order:
Town Spa Stoughton, although the original joint was better.
Cape Cod Cafe - Brockton
Linwood in Randolph
Best chain in the area? Papa Gino's has been doing a pretty good job over the years, Rose & Vickis if you consider them a chain, and even Bertucci's if you get one of their "designer" pies. I think the Upper Crust is way-overated, and expensive.
Of course, I've learned to make my own pizza including dough, use a stone and hot-hot oven, and experiment!
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posted at 11/9/2011 1:58 PM ESTPolcari's on Route 1 in Saugus is my favorite pizza maker right now. Didn't see the list of top pizza places, so don't know if they're on the list.ETA: Ooops, just saw it says "in Boston", and I guess this Polcari's would be outside that loop. I do believe there is one in Boston however.
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posted at 11/10/2011 6:56 AM ESTThis is a hard one for me because the best pizza's I've ever eaten aren't from MA.
If you like them spicy, head to Godfathers Pizza. Deep dish with a very thin layer of spicy souce and the topics are mixed in between two layers of cheese.
The last time I saw a Godfathers Pizza was when I was a kid in Nebraka.
If you don't like spicy, head to the Chicago burbs and find Benny's Pizza. This was my first encounter with a 'party' pizza (which is the normal size of an order in Chicago) that comes in at 21''. It's cut in squares so you can actually handle it without the topics winding up on the floor. The absolute perfect blend of cheeses and huge topings.
This place was so popular the average whating time to get a seat was close to 2 hours. I don't even want to guess how many people he had to hire for deliverys.
I haven't tasted anything comparable here in MA. Granted, I can't say I've ever been to Santarpios so I can't comment on them (lots of people have recommended them to me, however) but my favorite over-all is Revere House of Pizza.
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posted at 11/10/2011 7:55 AM ESTIn Response to Re: Great Pizza:Polcari's on Route 1 in Saugus is my favorite pizza maker right now. Didn't see the list of top pizza places, so don't know if they're on the list. ETA: Ooops, just saw it says "in Boston", and I guess this Polcari's would be outside that loop. I do believe there is one in Boston however.
Posted by toytrumpet
Hi Toytrumpet...just an FYI..the pizza sold at Polcari's restaurants is the same pizza sold at Pizza Regina..it's all one family. I am sure that's why you love it so much..lol. Same great taste and not necessary to go into Boston to get it.
If you are ever a little further north, you might like Paisano's Pizza. They are located in Lawrence right off 495 and their pizza is almost identical to Regina's.
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posted at 11/10/2011 8:16 AM ESTHi Miscricket,Truthfully, I'm not the one who goes to Polcari's to pick up pizza - that section of Route 1 is insane to try to get back out of any establishment along the way. I don't think they ever heard of merging. But, several times when I've been at my sons' he has brought home delicious pizzas from there. Usually a plain cheese for the kids, and then a varied one - the last time they made up a special heart-kind one with input from them and him - he is a young heart attack victim. In my mind it is the best pizza I have had in years.
Re: Great Pizza
posted at 11/15/2011 1:19 PM ESTThe Flatbread Pizza Co. is the best.
Re: Great Pizza
posted at 12/9/2011 9:40 AM ESTMy fav is Pizzeria Regina in Boston.
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Re: Great Pizza
posted at 2/10/2012 8:01 AM ESTThere is nothing like great or not I love all types of Pizzas . You can say it is my crush. When first time I had it from then whenever I go out for luch, dinner or breakfast my menu always contain Pizza!


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World champions Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt won the men's doubles at the Sanki Sliding Centre, to continue Germany's golden streak in the luge at Sochi 2014.
Wendl and Arlt, who are also the current World Cup holders, clocked a combined time of one minute 38.933 seconds after two runs to finish 0.522 seconds ahead of Austrian brothers Andreas and Wolfgang Linger, who arrived in Sochi as reigning two-time Olympic champions.
"There are no any special secrets of our success, just two good runs," said a mater-of-fact Arlt.
He did though add that the example set by his team-mates Felix Loch and Natalie Geisenberger -- who won Olympic gold medals in men's and women's singles – had provided him and Wendl with inspiration.
"They pushed us, we knew they're now strong and we need to show our best to be level with them," he revealed.
On top of the world
In their first run, Wendl and Arlt set a new Sanki Sliding Centre track record of 49.373 seconds, to put themselves ahead of the Linger brothers.
Another pair of brothers, Andris and Juris Sics of Latvia, who grabbed silver at Vancouver 2010, finished in third place after the other Austrian crew Peter Penz and Georg Fischler failed to complete their second run.
"We're happy," said Sics. "To win a medal in such a strong company is fantastic!"
But the final word lay with an ecstatic Arlt: "Germany is on the top of the world in luge. It's our sport."
Performance by the Kuban Cossack Choir
Dancers form the Olympic rings
The Russian flag is brought into the arena by Russian athletes
Children watch from the stands
A band performs during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics
A dancer performs during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics
Lara Teixeira ready to wow home crowds in the pool
Olympic Torch Relay discovers Carnival spirit
Reanalysis reveals banned substances in 23 "A" samples from London 2012
The IOC and WHO committed to fighting childhood obesity by promoting physical activity
Duda Lisboa carrying the YOG spirit


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New Reindeer Inflatables for 2015
New Reindeer Inflatables for 2015
New Christmas Lawn Inflatables for 2015
New Christmas Lawn Inflatables for 2015
Yard Inflatables – How to Fix When Torn
Yard Inflatables – How to Fix When Torn
If your yard inflatables will not stay inflated and the motor is running ok, chances are very good that your inflatable has a hole or tear in it. In most cases, your inflatable is easily repaired.
First if the tear or hole is not large, simply mend with duct tape and try to match the color so the patch isn't quite as noticeable. If your yard inflatables are made of nylon (check the label to see what the material is), check your local Wal-Mart for no-iron rip-stop nylon patching material in the notions (sewing or craft) section. This stuff is really, really sticky so use much care when placing the patch because you will only get one chance to get it right.
If the tear is large, reinforce the tear by hand stitching it together first with needle and thread. Then apply the patching tape of choice. On vinyl yard inflatables, do not try to stitch the pieces together. Lay the inflatable out on a flat surface and use vinyl tape to repair. Vinyl tape can be found in the automotive section of a department store or buy some at Autozone or other auto parts store.
You can put some fun into the solution by cutting the patching material into shapes. Think about cookie cutter shapes: hearts, circles, stars, teddy bears — well, you get the idea. With a little imagination, your damaged yard inflatable can wind up being a new work of art.
Yard Inflatables
Yard Inflatables
Inflatable Christmas Lawn Ornaments
Inflatable Christmas Lawn Ornaments
Christmas Yard Inflatables
The increasing popularity of Christmas yard inflatables is easy to understand. They are festive, fun, easy to put up and really look great. Inflatables are now available in so many different patterns and color combinations that the choices are almost limitless.
Quality construction of the Christmas yard inflatables is important. The better the inflatable is constructed, the longer it will last and the easier it will be to handle. The item needs to endure the extremes of weather and temperature. Inflatables are made of heavy duty nylon or vinyl and generally come in a carry or storage case.
Most Christmas yard inflatables come with the air pump or fan to for inflating the decoration. Once inflated, it needs to be anchored to the ground with stakes or tie-downs. Inflatables can also be put on the roof but need to be securely anchored there.
Part of the novelty of Christmas yard inflatables is their sheer size. A simple candy cane could be ten feet tall. By day, the colors and designs are delightful. At night, these large, glowing figures are nothing short of awesome.
Many inflatables are animated. Maybe you would like a Christmas tree with a Santa Claus popping out or reindeer that paws the air or bobs its head. How about a carousel that is lighted, goes around and around and has it's own music, too.
One of the reasons Christmas yard inflatables are so popular is because of their low price. For less than fifty dollars it is possible to acquire a three-tiered, seven foot tall lighted Christmas tree. For less than one hundred dollars, the selection is impressive. And because inflatables are durable, they can be used year after year. After only a few years with a modest investment each year, your Christmas display can become quite large.
Care of your Christmas yard inflatables is easy, too. Just keep them as clean as possible by brushing or sweeping them off. To store, let the display deflate then roll up and store in the case it came in. Store in a place that doesn't get extremely hot and is protected from the sun.
Occasionally the inflatable will get a tear in it but it is easy to repair with duct tape. Now that duct tape comes in colors, it's easy to match colors for a repair that matches. Here's a little trick for patching: The duct tape, being thick, will show as a square patch, especially on lighted air blowns. To "disguise" the patch, cut the tape into a fun shape such as a little Christmas tree, a star or a penguin. The patch will be visible but with a little creativity, it will appear to just be a fun little addition.
All in all, Christmas yard inflatables are a rewarding and enduring purchase. They are a great way to put even more fun into Christmas. Happy holidays!
Christmas yard inflatables
Christmas yard inflatables
Inflatable Christmas Lawn Decorations
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If you are shopping for inflatable Christmas lawn decorations, you will be at Home Depot, K-Mart and probably Target. If you are extraordinarily adept, you will be placing orders at Amazon.com for your inflatable Christmas lawn decorations. If your order at Amazon on Black Friday before 2 PM, your inflatable Christmas lawn decorations will be shipped that day. If your order is over $25.00, it will probably be shipped free. And what a gift that is!! You don't have to leave the house and your inflatable Christmas lawn decorations will be delivered in about 3 days. That is nothing short of amazing.
Many retailers (including Amazon) are having breath-taking discounts for orders placed on Black Friday (that's TOMORROW, people!). If you are reading this after 11:30 PM on November 24th, this is IT!!!
Inflatable Christmas lawn decorations are so fun but ordering your inflatable Christmas lawn decorations from Amazon and including some great buys from Amazon will get a ton of your Christmas shopping done is one action. Everything will be delivered very much in time and you can do almost all your Christmas shopping from your computer without even having to change out of your jammies. That is so great.
I am one of those rare people who hate going to the malls. I just HATE shopping. I know what I want and I don't want to go from store to store to try to find what I want. Shopping online is a gift to me. I am watching TV as I write this and I see that Kohl's and WalMart are going to be open at 12AM (midnight) tonight here in my town. I'm not sure when Home Depot opens, but I do know that Home Depot is have a 50% off sale on EVERYTHING for Black Friday. Wow. If you need a stove or a refrigerator or something else big, this is an incredible opportunity.
The economy this past year has not been so bright and shiny. Many of us are unemployed and have not been able to find work this past year (yours truly, too). These incredible discounts like Home Depot is offering is nothing short of staggering. I read yesterday that Wal-Mart is offering a 32″ LCD TV for $188 on Black Friday. That is nothing short of amazing.
The value here for inflatable Christmas lawn decorations should not be ignored. Inflatable Christmas lawn decorations purchased today for amazing discounts can be added to past or future purchases to create a wonderland of inflatable Christmas lawn decorations.
Inflatable Christmas lawn decorations
Inflatable Christmas lawn decorations
Christmas Lawn Inflatables
Christmas Lawn Inflatables
With Christmas only weeks away, it's time to start planning the holiday decorating. For your yard, Christmas lawn inflatables are almost irresistible. They are fun, funky,easy to set up and easy to pack away until next year.
There are so many different designs, colors, characters and shapes to choose from. Many are animated which makes them even more fun. Adding sound, music and lighting to the Christmas lawn inflatables bring the holiday cheer to a level that is nothing short of giddy.
Christmas lawn inflatables are easily inflated with an air pump that may or may not be included with your Christmas lawn inflatables.
Things to look for in your chosen inflatable are
1. Is the air pump included? If not, you will, of course, need to purchase one which will add to your initial investment. However, one pump should be able to be used on all of your inflatables. So if you buy more Christmas lawn inflatables next year, you will already have the pump.
2. Is the Christmas lawn inflatable lighted? Some Christmas lawn inflatables are lighted from the inside and appear to glow so if this matters to you, be sure you buy lighted Christmas lawn inflatables.
3. How difficult is the Christmas lawn inflatable to set up? And how difficult is the inflatable to pack up again? Some will be more difficult than others.
4. Are the colors of this Christmas lawn inflatable compatible with your decorating plans? If the primary colors of this Christmas lawn inflatables green and red will that clash with your preferred colors of blue and silver? You need to make a choice.
5. Do these inflatables work in with your plans for the future? If you add to your yard decor, will this particular inflatable fit in or will it clash? Is it the right theme? The right color? What about the size?
Using a timer, if not included with your inflatable, will help to keep your electric bill at a minimum because you can set the timer to turn off at midnight or so. Timers also reduce labor by automating the lights-on/lights-off process. Seems like a minor point but it is quite handy.
Should your Christmas lawn inflatables become torn or ripped, it can be very easily repaired with duct tape which is now available in colors. Keep the original packaging for storage when not in use. Inflatables are easily deflated. Then you can simply fold it flat for storage.
Christmas lawn inflatables
Christmas Air-Blown
Christmas Air-Blown – Care and Maintenance
You've spent a lot of time and money on your Christmas air-blown collection and you want to take care of it properly. You already know that it should be stored somewhere cool, if possible. This will extend the life of your air-blown quite a lot. Here are a few other activities that will keep your air-blown in good shape for years.
When bad weather approaches, and especially high winds, deflate your Christmas air-blown until the wind dies down. If heavy snow or sleet is on the way, it will be worth your time to take your air-blown down until the weather has passed. If you leave the Christmas air-blown deflated, snow will bury it and it will be difficult to recover the Christmas air-blown. The situation will be pretty much the same with sleet, except the Christmas air-blown will be more difficult to recover.
As years pass, it is almost inevitable that your Christmas air-blown will develop some rips or tears just from normal wear and tear. The better the construction of the air-blown, the more time will pass until the rips and tears occur in general. Fortunately, there are several ways to repair the air-blown which are inexpensive and easy.
One method is to use duct tape. Since duct tape is rather thick, it will be quite visible, especially on internally lighted air-blowns. Fix this by cutting the duct tape into neat shapes such as a Christmas tree, a star or a penguin. Even though you will probably find duct tape in a color to match your inflatable, you could even use contrasting colors. Doing this makes your repair look more like a decoration rather than a fix.
For nylon inflatables, a rip-stop type patch can be found in the novelty or sewing section at most department stores. These are the patches that your mom used to put on your jeans at the knees when you wore through them. These patches come in a variety of colors that you can either try to match or to contrast on your inflatable. Use them the same as you would duct tape for your nylon air-blowns.
Christmas Air-Blown
Christmas Air-Blown
Tabletop Christmas Trees For The Workplace
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Brightening Up the Office
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Editor's note: On Nov. 6, voters in West Virginia will select between Republican Bill Maloney and Democrat Earl Ray Tomblin for West Virginia's next governor. Maloney spoke with the Sunday News-Register about his campaign and how he's getting his message out across the state.
-- Tell us something about yourself voters don't already know?
Maloney: I have a new grandson - almost 4-months-old. Trouble is, he's in Charlotte (N.C.). I don't think anybody knows about him. I talk about him - but not enough. He's my first (grandchild). His name is Graham.
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-- Has that changed your outlook on life?
Maloney: Yes. We have to do what is right for our children and grandchildren, and we have to keep them in the state. I'm not alone in having to travel far and wide to see family. It's one of our biggest problems - we can't keep our children here.
-- What is a typical day for you on the campaign trail?
Maloney: It seems like they keep me out way too late all the time. I like getting to bed early, and up early. The up early part is still in there - but there's not enough hours. I like to get up and exercise every day. This morning I actually rode near (Cheat Lake). Yesterday it was a bike ride and a swim - something every morning to get your blood going, and it keeps your outlook better, too.
-- Is campaigning physically exhausting for you?
Maloney: No, it's not bad. I tell people I sleep in a bed every night. It's not like when I was in the drilling business when you didn't know where you were going to sleep - if you were going to sleep. It grinds a little bit, but you meet some great folks and it's energizing.
-- Your opponent has been in public office for many years, and during that time he has had opportunities to meet many people throughout the state. Do you find yourself playing catch-up just getting people to know who you are, and what you stand for?
Maloney: I think we faced a little bit of that. This year it has been much better because we've had a little bit more time and people knew who we are going in. Last year, nobody knew who we were.
For instance we were in Logan ... and people knew who we were. And they are very supportive. People understand we are fighting the machine over there in D.C. ... They know who we are in southern West Virginia, and they didn't last year, I think.
-- Are you finding folks in the southern part of the state more receptive this time around to your message?
Maloney: Yes, we're making really good inroads. You hate to see what is happening in the mining industry. We've lost 3,000 mining jobs this year. So the coal miners are just outraged, as are their families. Their whole way of life is in jeopardy.
We need to fight back against Washington and Obama, and we're not doing a good enough job of doing it. I've seen ups and downs in my lifetime in the coal industry and natural gas pricing, but the government has never been in the equation like it is now. And we have to stop them.
We had (Texas) Gov. Rick Perry in to help us, and we were talking to him while we were driving about what he has done in Texas to fight back. He said, 'I've got ... 22 actions' against the federal government for a a variety of issues - the EPA, DHHR. I think we've got two.
-- What are those two issues?
Maloney: Manchin when he shot the Cap and Trade, he joined one action ... and (Tomblin) when he joined the utility MACT. We should have joined the carbon dioxide rules and the stream buffer. There are so many things we should be doing.
-- Let's talk about Obamacare. We understand that if the states refuse to go along with two things - the Medicaid expansion and the setting up insurance exchanges - if enough states refuse to do those things, Obamacare collapses. How would you handle that as governor? Would you urge the Legislature not to do either of those things?
Maloney: First of all, we need to fully repeal Obamacare. It's a huge tax increase.
At the state level, until we get the numbers we can't jump into expanding Medicaid. This is a budget-buster here in West Virginia. We've seen some of the little things the governor has done. He's cut child care, and people are upset - and rightfully so.
Obamacare is a ticking time bomb, and we need some common sense solutions for health care. Not from this thing - it's not the common sense solution I think we need.
-- Wasn't there some movement in the governor's office toward setting up an insurance exchange?
Maloney: I think we are the second state in the nation to start it - right behind California. We've already spent - last I heard - $14 million setting up an exchange. We shouldn't be doing it. We should be working hard to repeal the thing, and working with our Congressional delegation.
We need some common sense things. There are a few things - insuring pre-existing conditions, allowing kids to stay on their parents' plans until they are 26. But we didn't even address tort reforms that would hold the cost of health care down, and maybe giving tax credits to people who purchase their own health care.
-- Sen. Manchin - when he was governor - they set up something call Mountain Health Choices in Medicaid. It basically required Medicaid recipients to take more responsibility for their own health. As governor, would you promote something like that - both to make people more healthy and to cut costs?
Maloney: Self responsibility is a huge thing, and we will do whatever we can to make people more responsible. We're one of the unhealthiest states in the country. It's about education. It's about people taking better care of themselves.
-- In a year or two years from now, if you've been elected governor and Obamacare has not been repealed, what kind of impact do you see that having on the state? And realistically what can the state do to prepare for that?
Maloney: You've got to start cutting government. It's going to cost $200 million this coming fiscal year, and nobody knows how much down the road it is going to cost.
If you look at our budget over the past 10 years, it keeps going up, up, up. I remember when the state budget was $4 billion, and now it's over $10 billion. It's got to go the other way.
This is the largest budget we've had in state history. And here we are losing our coal revenue - 3,000 mining jobs lost this year. Severance taxes are going to follow. We've got to promote private sector job growth. Government doesn't have the answers.
I think it's about 95 percent of the jobs in West Virginia are from small business. We got to do a better job protecting small business.
-- What about taxes? Is there anything we can do to help small business in a substantial way there?
Maloney: We've come up with a few particular ideas, and at these town hall meetings we've had some other ones pop up. I think I mentioned an idea that came up in Wellsburg last year about new investment on equipment. You should get a tax moratorium and not pay taxes on new equipment for the first three years or five years - until it starts to depreciate.
We had another idea come out of our first town hall meeting in Morgantown. To promote private investment, why don't you have a cut - or have no capital gains tax - when you sell a company if you are a West Virginia resident. ... Right now, anybody sells a company like I did, you pay 6.5 percent. Whatever the top rate is, you pay it. You don't pay a lower rate on capital gains. And what happens, people are just moving out of the state. ... We need to promote people to stay here and promote private investment. I think an idea like that would sure help.
-- One reason young people move away is there may be work here, but not the kind of work they want. The pay is not at the level they want. The job is not what they want. A lot of young people these days want high-tech jobs. Is there anything we can do to target that type of job growth?
Maloney: I think an idea like the private investment and no tax when you sell your business would promote some jobs like that. I've seen people start companies here. More often than not, they get going and they find out they can't really grow here. They end up in Maryland - which is stunning to me - or Virginia or Pennsylvania. They just move.
They could be here. Look at the biometrics industry we tried to promote. It seems like they're all government jobs. There are definitely some private sector opportunities there if we just make it easier for them to create the capital they need here, and create a business. The talent is here.
If you go down I-79, around Fairmont or Clarksburg ... most of those jobs are very high-tech. There are a lot of smart people. But they're all government-related. If we could just get them off in the private sector, and do some private sector security work. There are a couple of companies that are able to do that, and they've done pretty well.
-- A lot of people recall the work you did, some of your designs to free the trapped Chilean miners years ago. Can you give a brief recap of your business experience, some of the ventures you have been involved with, and how that has shaped who you are today?
Maloney: Sure. I started a company in 1984. There were two of us, and we literally started in a shop that had a dirt floor. We didn't know any better. We built the drilling rig out of a scrap yard. And we grew that company into something really special. We drilled up to 18-foot shafts all over the world.
You know there is this feeling out there that there is something wrong with working hard and getting ahead. You heard the president's comments (about government being responsible for building private business). ... I didn't have anything to do with my business succeeding? Government did all that for me? He is wrong and his comments are outright ridiculous, I can tell you.
And that attitude tends to permeate down to our state level. I'm living proof of the American Dream. We need to make those opportunities available to our kids and grandchildren. I was fortunate to start a company, create a lot of jobs. I had about 115 employees when I sold the business about six years ago. Over the years we helped a lot of other people start companies, too, a lot of other great ideas. One of which was the technology we ended up going to Chile with - a company called Center Rock. It started in an old shop in Westover.
I sold my interest in Center Rock back in 2003. ... When I heard it was going to take four months to drill a hole to free those miners, I immediately thought of that technology. (Center Rock's new owner, Brandon Fisher) and I got our heads together, and we ended up on a plane for Chile a week and a half later. The rest of it you know.
We were able to drill a hole pretty quickly, and that was technology similar to how we did it in the scrap yard. We threw ideas on the floor, and the next thing we knew we had something that worked.
We didn't know what the market would be for it. Originally, it was just bridge piers. Turned out we were able to drill a hole 2,100-hundred feet deep in really hard rock and rescue miners. It's amazing what you can do. American ingenuity is something else.
-- Not to disparage your opponent, but he has spent essentially his entire career in politics. You have spent your entire career in business. How does that set you apart from him?
Maloney: When you've done the things I've done with my life, you think differently. We look at things in a different way.
For instance, when I was down in Chile, I started asking questions about what they were going to use for a rescue capsule. And they had no idea. They were going to use the one we had at Quecreek (mine). We got into that, got some drawings, and thought that's not going to work. The hole is crooked. I remember drawing on a piece of paper, and thinking we need some rollers on this. Handed them to an engineer.
The next day, I remember reading that NASA had designed a rescue capsule. I learned about the national media right then. There is a Smithsonian exhibit (on the mine rescue) that came out last year, and they had some reference to NASA. That drives me crazy - I went and got a patent on the rollers on the rescue capsule. We just built one. We now have a real-life rescue capsule here if we need it based on the design of the one in Chile. ...
My background is just different. I was with contractors recently talking about how we are going to fund infrastructure. I'm an old contractor, and I know it's a big issue. Our tax revenues are going down. The funding stream is just not there. You got to think differently about how to do things. You've heard the term "private/public partnerships." Usually that means tolls. You've heard about "future funds." Sen. (Jeff) Kessler talks about this a lot, and I think we agree on some of these ideas.
We've got huge opportunities in our natural gas sector right now. I look at the public lands we have, and wonder why we don't take advantage of the resources under them and all the new technology that is out there. If we just start leasing a little bit of this public land - that's how Alaska gets its future fund. We can have a revenue stream for infrastructure and set it aside for future generations for research, all kinds of things. ... You've got to think differently. You can't keep doing things the same old way.
-- Twenty years ago, state government wasn't a train wreck about to happen - we were hitting something. Compared to 20 years ago, state government has made gigantic strides. How do you convince voters that we, as a state, can be a lot better?
Maloney: I use the analogy we're the Texas of the East. We should be leading the nation toward energy independence, and we can do it. You look at the low-cost energy we have here particularly in natural gas - there are companies that want to be here that are energy-intensive, like Shell. The trouble is they moved across the state lines.
There are other businesses we hear about that want to be here, and technology we haven't even heard of yet. What's interesting to me - Gov. Jindal and Gov. Perry are fighting over a gas-to-liquids plant that Shell is going to put in. We don't even hear about those things. They're not even looking at us.
Here we are investing in pipelines and infrastructure to take our natural gas and liquids to the Gulf Coast so they can find enough land instead of those plants being built right here. And to me, it's the way we tax, it's our court system, and it's our culture of corruption. I didn't realize how bad that was. We have to fix it.
You shouldn't have to hire lobbyists to get ahead in this state. It drives big corporations nuts as well as it does little corporations. That's one thing Gov. Jindal put down first in Louisiana, and that's what we're going to do here.
Disclosure - everything has to be open and transparent. Gov. Jindal told me the story of getting rid of the seats at LSU games - getting rid of his box. No more cups of coffee. Just everything.
-- Public education. One of the biggest complaints we hear is that teachers in this state are underpaid, yet a recent audit of the state Department of Education showed that we have the second highest ratio of administrators to students in the nation. If elected governor, do you intend to fix that problem and possibly use the savings to increase teacher pay?
Maloney: You bet. There was an audit that came out in January. I think it showed as much as $90 million in savings per year if we get rid of bureaucracy. Our state has more bureaucracy per pupil than any state in the country but one.
There's nothing wrong with paying teachers more, getting the money down to a local level, and rewarding them based on performance. Those are all things that need to be done.
In one of our forums, we got a lot of questions about teacher certifications and how archaic our rules are there. There are so many people who are great teachers - they move here from out of state and have such a hard time being certified.
We've also got a huge home school population in different areas of the state I didn't realize. In Jefferson County, there are more than 700 kids being homeschooled ... yet we make it so hard for them. They can't go to dances, they can't play on sports teams ... we've got to change that.
-- You mentioned Jefferson County, where they have legitimate concerns about pay because they can't compete with Virginia and Maryland. How do you feel about geographic differentials?
Maloney: It's like everything else in this state. Everything goes to the almighty golden dome in Charleston, and gets doled out like one-size-fits-all. In Jefferson and Berkeley counties, in particular, they should be keeping more of their money there. If they want to pay teachers $10,000 more a year, they should be able to do that.
We've got to figure out a way to do that. I had one teacher speak up, and she could make $20,000 more per year moving across the state line. And so many people do that. They don't want to, but they get forced to do it. We've got to let them fix that. And they got school construction issues that can't keep up.
It's like a different world when you go there. In Morgantown, we've got a lot going on, but when you go to the Eastern Panhandle it's amazing .... It's become a bedroom community for D.C. They think a little differently there. You ask them where the capital is, and they say D.C. They don't even think about Charleston being the capital. It's five hours away.
We've got a great opportunity this year to really get (the Eastern Panhandle) on the map if we get them all out to vote. I think we can really change the way the state is made up. We've got an attorney general candidate from over there, and an auditor. There's a couple of seats that are running unopposed over there. There's one big senate race, and no one is running on the Republican side. It's amazing.


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To put it simply, below is 45 minutes of pure unadulterated joy. It's a video someone put together of James Brown's appearances on Soul Train during the 1970's. We're talking GREAT SOUL MUSIC by the GREATEST of all time.
There are so many highlights I don't know where to begin: Super Bad, Payback, Say It Loud I'm Black and I'm Proud. I mean let's be real here. Could you even imagine anyone singing a song like that today? Beyonce? Lil' Wayne? (He's the ugly, gremlin looking dude with tattoos all over his body making him look like he has leprosy right?) Please, are you kidding?
You kids today. You don't know what you missed.


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A spiral staircase can add an element of unusualness or elegance to any home or building. If you are interested in having one and have the construction knowledge, here are some steps which provide general information about building spiral stairs cases.
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1Plan your staircase's measurements and design. Consider where the staircase will be located (indoors or outdoors) and whether there would be any problems concerning the staircase's rotation, placement or space.
- Find the height of the spiral staircase by measuring from floor to floor, ignoring carpeting.
- Choose a larger diameter or distance across for your stairs to increase the space of the treads, the flat part of the steps you walk on. Allow for a clearance of at least 2 inches (5.1 cm) from walls and floor openings in calculating your diameter to give room for using the handrail.
2Hire an architect or use a computer-aided design (CAD) program to draw the plans for your spiral staircase. Check that your staircase's plans fulfill any building code regulations if necessary.
3Buy and prepare materials and tools to build the staircase as suited to your plans. Spiral staircases can be constructed of wood, metal or even a combination of the two. A band saw can be used to cut the wood needed for your staircase. Spiral staircase kits are also available for purchase and assembly.
4Use a plumb bob to reference where the staircase's center pole will be by hanging it from the top landing to the floor below. Mark the location where the plumb bob touches the floor.
5Place a center pole where your staircase will be located. The steps will wind up around and beside the pole. Secure the pole with clamps.
6Follow your drawn plans and weld or attach the treads of the staircase to the pole. Start from the bottom up and arrange the treads in a rotating spiral fashion. If needed, use steel hangers or other material capable of supporting hundreds of pounds (kilos) of weight to support the weight of the staircase against a side wall.
7Put in risers if using them. Risers are the vertical panel pieces of a step. Install any needed vertical balusters and the stair railing next to the steps.
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- You can calculate your staircase's dimensions using your own measurements and online tools found on spiral staircase manufacturers' websites.
- Oak is a good choice of wood for constructing staircases. Pine can also be used.
- Spiral staircases come in a variety of styles, including deco and stacked spiral staircases.
- Choose thick treads over thin ones to better support body weight when the stairs are used.
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- Measuring tape
- Ladder
- Plumb bob
- Architect or CAD program
- Architectural drawings
- Wood or metal
- Band saw
- Welding tool
- Center pole
- Clamps
- Steel hangers
- Treads
- Risers
- Balusters
- Handrail
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