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There is a lot to dislike about China's ginormous week-long holidays, one of which, Spring Festival/New Year, is coming up in a few weeks. The crowds are larger than you can imagine, requiring some sort of logarithmic scale of imagination to comprehend, the weird system of moving around weekend days is bizarre and uncomfortable, and the run-up to the holiday itself (i.e., all the pre-holiday shopping) is already making a trip to the supermarket something to be avoided. If that wasn't enough, the entire country slowly winds down to a halt in the days before the holiday, making news hard to come by and blogging practically impossible!
And yet I find myself disagreeing with a call by McKinsey China to do away with Golden Week entirely. Call me crazy, but I firmly believe that workers are most productive, healthy and happy when they have sufficient time off.
Here's the argument put forward by McKinsey's Gordon Orr, with my plea for maintaining the tradition below:
Perhaps this is more a hope than an expectation. Fifteen years ago, when the current structure of mandated vacation weeks was put in place, China's economy was very different. There was a real belief that, without mandated vacations, most workers would never get a holiday or have an opportunity to spend the income they were saving. Yes, many hundreds of millions did travel during the Chinese New Year period, but far fewer people had migrated from their home towns to new urban environments than have done so today, and far fewer could afford to travel. In this respect, China was not that different from those European countries that mandated vacation weeks in the 1970s.
Today, these compulsory holiday weeks merely serve to saturate and overload the country's infrastructure—if anything, reducing the amount of money that people spend on travel and related services as more and more choose to stay at home. The growing middle classes can schedule their own vacations when they want to much more readily than they could in the past. Formerly, large numbers of state-owned and private-sector enterprises did not meet the legal requirements for vacations. But in the age of social media, even factory workers can now name and shame offending employers.
Mandated vacation weeks will either gradually decline into irrelevance—starting in first-tier cities—or, better still, they will be formally abolished as an idea that has outlived its purpose.
The description/criticism is spot on, and certainly things have changed since China mandated the current system to boost spending and make sure that folks were able to get the time off. And yes, many more people now live in cities, making the rush back to the ol' ancestral village a transportation nightmare. I'd also agree that workers, particularly folks in the middle class, have more bargaining power than they used to.
I'd even go along with abolishing Golden Week in favor of a much shorter Spring Festival holiday, but only if paid vacations were mandated by law and somehow guaranteed. There has been some recent noise about legislative movement in this direction.
But here's the thing: the relationship between labor and management is not static. While it's true that a middle class manager these days probably has little trouble scheduling a holiday, I bet it's harder in some places than you might think, particularly if most of the workers you know toil away in the comforts of expatland in Shanghai.
Regardless of the present-day situation, what happens somewhere down the line when the labor market, as it inevitably will, tightens up, even for the middle class white collar guys? If that week-long holiday isn't mandatory, eventually employers will, directly or indirectly, make sure that workers take less time off. Moreover, if faced with the choice of taking time off or getting another week's wages, your average factory worker is going to take the money and run.
I'm not saying that employers are slave drivers. But look what has happened to the vacation in the U.S. The labor market there has been tight for practically my entire life, and I know that in many professions, including law by the way, the folks who take off all their vacation days end up billing fewer hours and are, in the eyes of some hard-ass partners, seen as less than 100% committed to their jobs. Your average no vacation, three divorces and two heart attacks workaholic is the guy who gets promoted, not the fellow who takes a week in Orlando with the family, diligent though he may be the rest of the year.
Moreover, I don't see social media in the U.S. "shaming" these employers into curtailing these internal practices, and of course the U.S. doesn't really have effective labor unions any more. When the economy is slow, people will do anything to keep their jobs; when workers are poor, they will do almost anything to get more hours.
If you do away with Golden Week without mandating a substitute, eventually that time off will disappear. Good for the corporate bottom line, but a bad deal for labor.
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Released last week, Release Candidate 2 of ASP.Net MVC 2 follows a release candidate build shipped in December, said Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the Microsoft developer division, in an entry on his ASP.Net blog. The release is built for use with Visual Studio 2008 and the .Net Framework 3.5.
[ Last month, InfoWorld reported that Microsoft is set to launch its Visual Studio 2010 platform on April 12, after having delayed it for a few weeks because of performance issues. ]
"[The second release candidate] includes a bunch of bug fixes, performance work, and some final API and behavior additions/changes," Guthrie said. Significant performance tuning improvements have been made, such as lambda-based strongly typed HTML helpers being much faster.
Among other changes between the first and second release candidates is an ASP.Net MVC 2 validation feature that performs model-validation instead of input validation, Guthrie said. This means when a developer uses model binding, all model properties are validated instead of just validations on changed values of a model.
Also, the jQuery 1.4.1 JavaScript library is included by default.
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The Nissan 370Z carries over essentially unchanged into 2017. A new color has been added and convertibles in the Touring or Sport trim now come with SynchroRev Match, allowing the car to automatically match revs on downshifts.
The 370Z is available in coupe and roadster body styles. All trims other than the NISMO come with the same 332-horsepower, 3.7L V6 and a choice of 6-speed manual or 7-speed automatic transmissions sending power to the rear wheels.
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You can take it back to your previous work and ask the technicians to reset the BIOS password to either nothing at all, or at least something you can remember. Short of doing that, your only option is to contact DELL.
Oh come on
I can see trying to hack an OS account or circum-navigating a network account but a documented method of reseting CMOS settings?
Any A+ book shows you how to do it..
Is a thumb really that important to you that you would give up your ethics?
It's not a matter of know how. It's a matter of "we as trained and educated professionals do not condone piracy, or the encouragemant of unethical behaviour". i.e. hacking.
You aren't enrolled in troll school are you?
I do not condone piracy and clearly understand security but we are talking about a question that is as common as how to format a hard drive, which brings up an excellent point.
Instead of asking how can I get around a user password what if the poster states, I have a PC I purchased from my company and I want to install a new OS but I want to format the HD first how would I do that?
Do we know that the PC is actually theirs?
Do we know if this person actually purchased it or is just trying to setup a stolen PC for his or her own use??
I am all for not posting on techniques and ways to hack, crack, or otherwise glean information off of a PC.
But ignoring the fact that every PC in the world has a jumper that wipes the CMOS settings is just plain, head in the sand, goofy.
Not going to win me over
I'm not going to agre with you.
You also seem to have a penchant that if someone posts something you don't agree with it is your responsiblity to tell the world of your vast intellectual prowess even at the expense of your TR peers.
Justa wee bit arrogant don't ya think......
Arrogant? No I don't think so, but since you feel the need to goad this more. As a prior A+ instructor I know what's out their as common knowledge. As a community, if you want to insist on sticking your head in the sand and saying sorry we don't do that, in reguards to documented hardware configs across an entire industry, then thats the choice you make.
TR is moderated and if they feel the post is in violation of their policies it will be removed. But when someone posts a blanket policy statement and are obvioulsy not a moderator, then they open it up to discussion.
I did not instuct the user on how to circumnavigate the BIOS password I simply made the obviouse statement that every PC has a jumper to reset the BIOS switch. And every Dell PC has those instructions in the manual. The same manual thats shipped with the PC and is readily available online for free at the Dell support site.
Oh and I have no intention of trying to win you over. Since I have no concern as to your opinon. But I will address anyone who tells me I have no concern for security.
But ignoring the fact that every PC in the world has a jumper that wipes the CMOS settings is just plain, head in the sand, goofy.
I beg to differ on this opinion. As there are many computers that do not have a jumper setting to bypass the BIOS password. In fact, some need verification from the manufacturer to get a reset code to plug in and override the Admin PW or boot PW.
I think you are working on old systems
Except for Laptops, which are now being manufactured without the jumper or are so hidden you can't get to them, every Dell desktop system we get which is either XPS or Optiplex, has a jumper.
The brand new Lenovo desktops have them, even our newest Dell poweredge blade servers have them.
The HP Blackbird a buddy of mine bought about 6 months ago has the jumper.
I'm curious to see who would remove them, since it seems pretty silly to pay to have the PC shipped back to the manufacturer or dispatch a tech just reset a lost BIOS password.


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At age 19, while in Germany on a college research trip to study German and sift
through records from World War II, Bryan Mark Rigg—a devout Baptist while
growing up in Fort Worth—made two startling discoveries.
Both revelations would change his life.
The first surprise: the surprisingly large number of Jews who fought for Hitler' Nazis
during World War II.
The second: That Rigg himself was born to a Jewish mother, which made him a Jew
by birth.
"Welcome to the tribe," an Ultra Orthodox Jew told him, recalled Rigg, who spoke to
about 75 people at a special Dallas Holocaust Museum lecture on April 25 about his
book, Hitler's Jewish Soldiers (University Press of Kansas, 2002).
His work has been featured in The New York Times and on programs including NBC
Dateline and Fox News.
The book, which tells of the surprisingly large number of Jews who served in
the Nazi army, had its genesis in Rigg's visit to a Berlin movie theater during
the summer between his freshman and sophomore year while a student at Yale
Rigg went to a showing of the film Europa, Europa, which is based on the true story
of Schlomo Perel, a Jewish man who served in the Nazi army and attended a Hitler
Youth school.
At the theater, Rigg made the acquaintance of an elderly man named Peter Millies,
who offered to translate the dialogue in the film. After the showing, Millies told Rigg
that he himself was a "Mischling" (a person of mixed, partially Jewish ancestry) who
had served in the Wehrmacht, the German army.
Intrigued by this story, Rigg decided to try to find other Jews who, like Millies and
Perel, had fought on the side of the Nazis.
Returning to Yale for his sophomore year, he suggested the idea to his professors,
who discouraged him from pursuing what they considered dead-end research. "That
only propelled me more to pursue it," Rigg said.
Rigg estimates that there were 60,000 half-Jews in the Nazi army and 90,000
After graduating from Yale in 1996, Rigg went to Cambridge University on a Henry
Fellowship and continued his research. He received his M.A. in 1997 and a Ph.D. in
The thousands of documents and video-taped testimonies he amassed in the course
of his study have been collected as the Bryan Mark Rigg Collection in archives
housed in Freiburg, Germany.
Almost as remarkable as his historical findings, said Rigg, was a personal discovery
he made while going through old town archives: His own ancestors were Jewish.
He returned to his family in Texas, where he had grown up as a devout Baptist, with
the startling revelation. He now identifies himself as Jewish and has served as a
volunteer in the Israeli army.
"Identity became a key question for me," said Rigg. "Who am I? Ultimately, the way
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Before I started genealogy, if I had had to take a guess about the origins of my mother's family, I would have said maybe they arrived in Rhode Island in the mid 1800's, from England. Research quickly showed me that was not true; many had been in Rhode Island and Massachusetts since the earliest settlements in the 1600's. But for mom's great grandparents Louis and Jessie (MacLeod) Murdock (the parents of my great-grandmother, Eva Louise Murdock Darling), their story actually does come close to the guess I had in mind.
Both Louis and Jessie experienced some form of adoption when they were young – in both cases, I suspect one parent was an actual parent, or closely related to an actual parent. I also suspect that Jessie left her Pictou, Nova Scotia family (my post about that HERE) and came to Rhode Island to be with relatives — Louis' family. So I am researching Louis' family BOTH for evidence of his origins, and for evidence of Jessie's. Before I can tackle the Pictou questions, I am compiling all the details I can about their early years in Rhode Island.
The Murdocks
I explored the family that adopted Louis Rufus Murdock in an earlier post. William and Eliza (Coghill) Murdock came to Rhode Island from New Glasgow, Pictou, Nova Scotia in the 1860's. They had five daughters. After wife Eliza died, William married in 1865 Margaret "Maggie" Lawrence in Providence. The couple had one additional child in 1867, William Clark Murdock. Louis was in the household from the beginning.
The Lawrences
I had glossed over Maggie's family, the Lawrences, for several years because of the well-known "adoption" of Louis, known as a family story and also from his marriage license. I didn't understand what my relationship to them should be, other than gratitude. But that all changed recently when I found Louis living in the Lawrence household in 1865, age 1, with Maggie, some siblings of hers, and her parents. The parents were clearly beyond the child producing years. Maggie didn't marry William Murdock until the following October, obviously bringing the toddler with her.
I think Louis is either Maggie's son by a mysterious first marriage, for which I have not yet found a marriage or divorce record (but it was mentioned on her marriage license when marrying William), or is the son of one of Maggie's siblings. Being war time, if Maggie's husband died, I don't see why that would forever be referred to as "adoption". It's hard to picture Maggie voluntarily adopting a child when she was single. In fact I'm not sure if she would have had a legal right to do that. And I just don't see the Lawrences taking in the neighborhood foundling — for one thing, the net worth of the Lawrences in the 1870 census was below that of the neighbors. Also, Louis became a machinist like his grandfather James Laurence … could that be nature, or nurture?
Here is the closest thing I have to proof: in the 1900 federal census, Maggie's entry reports 2 children born, and two living. Her 1910 entry says one child born, and one living, however, I think son William Clark Murdock completed her 1910 entry, because the responder didn't seem to know where Maggie's parents had been born (something she would clearly have known). This seems like the only real evidence I have so far that Maggie considered herself to be Louis' mother, but others didn't. I actually feel that I might someday determine what the story was. For now, I am realizing that I am likely to be descended from the Lawrences.
So, I am only now researching my ggg-grandparents.
On America Street
Maggie's parents were James Lawrence (1807-1882) and Ann Shortridge (1810-1897), both born in England. The first evidence I found for them was a R.I. state census record from their Providence home, taken in 1865:
I was surprised to see that the parents were born in England. I was even more surprised to see that the children were born in South Carolina, North Carolina, Connecticut, and Providence. What a road map to a family's journey! At other times I have also seen Georgia, Maine and Virginia given as birth places for the children.
When I realized that parents James and Anna were born in England, I found it especially touching that my immigrant ancestors lived at 28 America Street, in Providence. Did it ever strike them as a symbol of the life they had made? This neighborhood is to the immediate west of downtown, between Atwells and Broadway. Over the years the Lawrences stayed in that neighborhood; and at the time of James' death in 1882 their address was 38 America Street.
I visited the neighborhood. The area of 28 – 38 America Street was now a vacant lot. I believe the America Street School, built in 1905, was once in the spot, but apparently burned in the last decade or so, and the land has been leveled. Back in 1865, there would have been large factories in Providence, and no doubt James, a machinist, was employed nearby.
James Lawrence and Ann Shortridge had five children that I know about:
- Margaret A. "Maggie" Lawrence (1838-1921), married William Murdock in 1865 and then Jeremiah Johnson Knight in 1896. Clearly she was born in the south, although I'm not sure in which state. She may have had a first husband prior to these two.
- John Lawrence (1840 – ). I can't seem to trace him after the 1860 census.
- William J Lawrence (1845-1865). Sadly, young William died of Typhoid fever in Providence at age 20.
- Elizabeth Jane Lawrence (1849-1937), married John Thayer Scott, a house painter, in 1867. "Lizzie" and John Scott were living with her parents in 1870. They had several children in Providence.
- Ella J. Lawrence (1852-1923) married machinist Sidney Goldsworthy Stamp in 1870, after he had been a boarder in her parents' home. They had at least two children, Sidney and Ella (who died at age 7). There is evidence that Ella ended up at the Rhode Island State Hospital for the Insane for many years.
I have found nothing yet about James Lawrence's origins in England.
At the NEHGS Library
In the midst of this, I traveled to Boston on a bus trip with some Rhode Island Genealogical Society members. I spent the day at the New England Historic Genealogical Society Library on Newbury Street.
After getting through some other research I turned my attention to the Lawrences. I knew from various death records I had for the children that Ann Lawrence's maiden name was Shortridge. I had seen on Ancestry.com in a transcription of some marriage records from Dorchester, Massachusetts (today a section of Boston) that James Lawrence married Ann Shortriggs on May 16, 1835. That date would correspond reasonably with the birth of Maggie in 1838. But Shortriggs seemed like a bit more than a normal spelling variation of Shortridge, and finding them in Boston would add yet one more stop to their dizzying criss-cross years on the east coast. I thought I would like to see the original records from Dorchester, in case there was more information.
I approached librarian and genealogist Marie Daly with my question about Dorchester records, possibly on microfilm. There were no other versions available, but as Marie asked questions about the marriage she became curious about the immigration of the couple, and in particular, of Ann Shortriggs and her family. Let me point out several smart strategies that she used:
- she took the spelling "Shortriggs" seriously. I had sort of dismissed it because I had seen "Shortridge" so many more times. But thinking about it, Shortridge was used by the children later, when recording their own life events. The Dorchester marriage record was more contemporary to the arrival from England.
- She knew offhand that Shortridge and Shortriggs do not index the same in a Soundex indexing system, so we should avoid Soundex in any search we were using (she opted for phonetic matches). That's not something I think about enough.
- When searching in Ancestry, she used the "Match all terms exactly" box and then entered very limited search criteria. When you are searching in your own tree the search screen doesn't normally come up that way, so I don't try that nearly enough.
- She used "Shortr*" to search for the last name, but when that failed us (Ancestry indexing can be unpredictable) she went to a first name + ship name search (since by that time we knew the name of the ship), using the Immigration & Travel / Passenger Lists category. She may have added the year to that search. It worked. Ancestry.com had it indexed as "John Shorterrgs".
- She paid attention to the name of the minister, hoping it could lead to further church records. I am still researching that.
She managed to find the original passenger list on the "Hibernia" which sailed from Liverpool (according to the abstract on the prior page), arriving in New York January 3, 1832, in the New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 collection on Ancestry.com (Roll M237, 1820-1897, Roll 015, sheet 768 of 897).
John Shortriggs was listed as a Labourer, belonging to Great Britain, intending to inhabit the United States. Since I had seen on her death record that Ann's parents were John and Margaret, this seemed likely to be her family.
The Shortridges
Marie Daly got curious about their origins in England and managed to find the marriage license as well as the birth records for the Shortriggs children in Irthington, Rockcliffe and Stanwix, near Carlisle, Cumberland, England. It's in the north, not that far from Gretna Green, Scotland.
Here is what I know about the Shortridges (Shortriggs) so far. John Shortriggs married Margaret Balmour on May 16, 1807 in Saint Mary, Carlisle, Cumberland, England. In 1832 they came to New York on the Hibernia, from Liverpool, with their six children. Daughter Ann married in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1835 so perhaps they were living there, perhaps not. In 1841 Margaret was a widow, living on Field Street (?) in Providence. In 1865, widow Margaret was living with daughter Mary.
- Mary, birth details unknown, married William Bamford. According to the 1850 federal census record, their children were born in England, South Carolina, and Maine. William was working as a mule spinner at that time. By 1865, he and Mary were running a saloon at 92 Point Street in Providence. Mary died in 1883.
- William, born 1808 in Rockcliffe, Cumberland, England, was not on the list (above) on the journey to New York in 1832. I know nothing further.
- Ann (1810 – 1897), born 1810 in Irthington, Cumberland, England, married James Lawrence in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1835. Their children were born in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Connecticut, and they lived in Providence by 1860. James was a machinist.
- Jane, born 1813 in Irthington, Cumberland, England, was on the list for the 1832 trip to New York. I have nothing further.
- Margaret, born 1815 in Irthington, married William Hardman, machinist, in 1845, in Providence. There is a 14 year old Hardman child in the household, as well as 3 small children, in 1850 so possibly William had been married previously. She died in 1892 in Rhode Island.
- John, born 1817 in Stanwix, Cumberland, England, came on the ship with the others to New York. I have not been able to distinguish the various John Shortriggs records yet to know what happened to John, but I do not believe he settled in Rhode Island.
- Elizabeth, born 1822 in Irthington, married Archibald McMillan, a Scottish cotton mill worker, in 1844 in Providence. He later became a painter. They had daughters who in turn worked in the cotton mills. Elizabeth died in 1882.
I am hoping, eventually, to find that siblings Mary and Ann were near each other in the various states where their children were born in the 1840's-50's. So far, I am having trouble retracing those moves.
In conclusion
Previously, my only immigrant ancestors were those trekking back and forth between Nova Scotia and New England, an activity that, in terms of records, brought a big yawn from the immigration authorities and a "yea, it's time for my lunch anyway." So prior to my day at the NEHGS, I don't think I really saw anything like that passenger list and the careful birth records to match. A quick search has not turned up naturalization records yet, but they may exist and I will keep trying. At last, I could walk into the National Archives with a real mission. Maybe someday.
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NightHacking at Devoxx Schedulesteveonjava | November 13, 2012
In addition to the sessions I am giving at Devoxx, I also lined up an all-star set of speakers to have interviews with at Devoxx. I will be running these Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning (CET).
To watch the show, go to the nighthacking show page here:
And here is the full schedule:
- Wed 12:00 CET – Kirk Pepperdine
- Wed 13:00 CET – Bill Venners
- Wed 15:10 CET – Emmanuel Bernard
- Wed 16:40 CET – Antonio Goncalves
- Wed 17:50 CET – Dan Allen
- Thu 10:50 CET – Heather VanCura
- Thu 12:00 CET – Stephan Janssen
Also, in case you missed it, I uploaded the full tour of Aldebaran Robotics featuring the NAO robot, which was a pretty amazing experience:


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Buzzer Beaters: King Felix's Riches, Surgery for the MVP, and Referee Knockouts
Today's top sports stories: one of baseball's best young stars is about to receive one of the biggest contracts ever, Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard publicly bicker, and more.
Felix Hernandez is about to become a very, very rich man. The 26-year-old Seattle Mariners ace seems likely to sign a seven-year $175 million contract, the richest ever for a pitcher. [USA Today]
Recently crowned NFL Most Valuable Player Adrian Peterson underwent surgery to repair a sports hernia. Last year, Peterson had surgery following a torn ACL then gained over 2,000 yards rushing, so who knows what new superhuman powers he'll gain this time. [ESPN]
More trouble in Lakerland, as Kobe Bryant called out Dwight Howard for not playing through pain, which led to Howard retorting that "he's not a doctor." BURN! [N.Y. Daily News]
In a radio interview, Curt Schilling claimed that someone in the Red Sox organization recommended that he use performance-enhancing drugs to help speed his recovery from shoulder trouble. [S.I.]
Hockey can be dangerous, and not just for the players. On Monday a referee took a deflected puck to the head. Watch that, and nine more incidents of refs getting knocked out during games. [GuySpeed]


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Architect Bobby McAlpine's former house in Montgomery, Alabama was modeled after Edwin Lutyens' Homewood.
Homewood was built in 1901 for Dowager Lady Lytton, who was to soon become his mother-in-law. The Luytens children spent summer holidays at Homewood, so it truly was a family house – held by the Luytens until 1973 when it was sold. Today it is a bed and breakfast inn. In this picture of the back side of Homewood, you can see the three large windows which McAlpine used as inspiration. Also notice the two wings that flank the windows, another feature that McAlpine incorporated along with the lilting silhouette.
The three large doors that McAlpine used to emulate Homewood's three large windows. Like Homewood, there are two small wings that flank these windows.
An early picture of the Montgomery house showing the side entrance before the vines covered the pergola over the entrance. The carriage house is seen at the very left.
The front of Homewood. Notice how McAlpine's roof mimics the left side of Lutyens' house.
Montgomery, Alabama. Notice the shadow of the huge tree! The photographer probably waited all day for this shot! Above the doors is the window of one of the bedrooms. Another matching bedroom is on the other side's window above the pergola.
View that shows the small wing that flanks the three windows/doors on the side. One wing holds the kitchen, another holds a bedroom. (Is that a headless ghost running there? What IS that?!!!)
Bobby McAlpine, a recent guest on The Skirted Roundtable, started out early. He began drawing floor plans at age five. When he was 12, he designed an addition to his house that his parents ultimately had built. McAlpine was to oversee the contractor when he got home from school. The contractor balked at taking instructions from the precocious 12 year old but McAlpine's father told him to do so, or they would find another contractor who would. His first commission came a year later when he was 13 and he designed a ranch house for a woman, complete with floor plans, all for under $100. At 16, he designed a new house for his parents which they built – an experience that bonded the two men forever. All amazing stories, but not really surprising, given the genius that is the man. A gift from God like he possesses isn't something one learns at college, you are either born with it or not. And Bobby McAlpine was born with his talent, in spades.
The first house that McAlpine built for himself is located in Montgomery, Alabama. Receiving much press, this house is usually the one that most first took notice of McAlpine, and it remains a favorite among the legions of his devotees. Built in 1995, McAlpine was 36 and single at the time - he took inspiration (one of the few times he ever did so) from Edwin Lutyens' Homewood. McAlpine revealed on The Skirted Roundtable that he has visited the original Homewood and his house is "so much better!" Of course it is. Though the Montgomery house resembles the English Cotswold style, McAlpine calls it "Monastery Modern." The floors are concrete tiles of irregular shapes. There is no molding and no window trim., details left out to make the house feel "permanent and resonant."
Although McAlpine had remodeled the house three times, the house was still missing something – a happiness that can only come when its shared with someone else. He eventually sold the house to a "beautiful" young architect who works for his firm. Today that architect, his wife and two children happily live in the 3 bedroom house which Bobby admits was designed for a bachelor. There is true love in the house now, something that was lacking at the time for McAlpine. It's fascinating to follow the three decors that McAlpine installed – each is completely different from the other. This story is about those three different stages of the same house. Enjoy!
NOTE: Bobby's last name is not pronounced Mc-AL-Pine, accent on the Pine. Instead he pronounces it Ma-CAL-pen – accent on the CAL, so much harder to say it that way!!!! And, Edwin Lutyens is a name I have also always mispronounced! Ma-CAL-pen called him Lutch-ins. Don't even ask how I always pronounced Lutyens.
STAGE I: A Self Portrait in Warm Greens
Stage One: Here how the house first looked when McAlpine moved in. A mixture of beautiful antiques chairs and tables, the main living area is colorful in many shades of green. The salon is two stories high, with a 70' aisle or landing that connects the two bedrooms upstairs. The bottom of the front door is seen on the very upper left. McAlpine calls this first stage his "self portrait." During this self portrait phase, he filled the house with things he loved and had collected: An antique Flemish tapestry, a Dutch chandelier, a collection of corner chairs. The dining room doubles as a work area: the table is behind the sofa. Alas, this decor was not to remain. He states that he cycles every 3 years when he must either move or redecorate.
Looking the other direction towards the antique limestone fireplace dating from the 16th century. The house was built without moldings or window trims. The landing or bridge runs between two identical staircases. The floor is made of concrete pavers of irregular sizes. McAlpine says he loves chairs and his collection of antique Os de Mouton chairs is gorgeous.
A view from the upstairs bridge overlooking the tapestry in the main living area below. Notice how the huge column does not reach the ceiling!
Behind the fireplace is a small sitting room. The cypress paneling here is on a grid, and is repeated throughout several other rooms. You can see a bedroom through the paneling that opens like a door.
One of the three bedrooms (this one is downstairs in the wing) with its gorgeous twin beds and the long table between. A modern bench is the surprise here. Notice the beautiful trio of windows here that give the house its English Cotswold feel. These windows are repeated in the kitchen which fills the opposite wing.
The kitchen with its long row of windows. This might be the kitchen that inspired all the farm sinks and no overhead cabinets! (sorry for the bad picture splice!)
Stage II: The White Interior
A few years after moving in, McAlpine decided to completely change his interiors. All the greens, yellows and oranges are now gone, replaced with white. Stage II is what Bobby calls his "white phase." He was celebrating, he had lots of parties, and he became the owner of a white greyhound that he wanted to match to his house. I can really relate to that feeling!!! Notice the beautiful column made into a side table.
Looking towards the fireplace, Bobby added a very tall screen to play with proportions. I LOVE the antique French barometer he has placed hanging on the screen. And notice the side table – one piece of concrete atop two small sawhorses!!! Upstairs, the window of one of the bedrooms is open to below.
A long concrete table with logs underneath and candles above is settled in front of the wall of windows.
A beautiful concrete urns sits before the grid patterned wall. Here, McAlpine mixes stools with chairs and a settee around the dining table – an early trademark of his. Notice how the door to the bedroom is hidden in the paneling.
The upstairs bedroom where the bed, placed between two large pier mirrors, sits in front of the large side window.
Reflection in the mirror shows the bridge upstairs between the two bedrooms.
The view again of the upstairs bridge and staircase. I love all the concrete items he has in the house – like this orb in the corner on a pedestal.
STAGE III: Dark and Serious
It's difficult to realize that this is the exact same space as the White Phase, yet it is! The third makeover goes completely dark. For the first time a large dark striped rug covers the concrete floor. This third phase which followed McAlpine's white celebratory phase is called his introspective phase. Here he wanted to "dim the houselights and contemplate all that had just happened and what was going to be." The walls were darkened with linseed oil and pigment. Notice how beautiful and structural the rafters are that hold up the bridge. Interior designer Susan Ferrier worked with McAlpine on this phase. She is a partner with McAlpine Booth and Ferrier Interiors.
A close up of the fireplace. What a beautiful rug! And the desk and chairs are all so beautiful. I particularly love the map on the mantel. During Phase III, the house became more decidedly masculine - a sanctuary, McAlpine states. He was feeling vulnerable at this stage in his life and he darkened the walls so that they would envelop him and warm him, like a blanket. The map of Bohemia allowed Bobby to pretend the house was in another country, where he could hide out until he could figure out where he needed to go next. Actually, he ended up buying an old house in Nashville where he now lives with his partner, although his company remains in Montgomery.
Close up of the small McAlpine sofas side by side, which give more people arm rests, he says. Notice the windows on this side are grids, like the others throughout.
The stunning desk floats in front of the three doors that lead to the side courtyard. The white curtains have been replaced with these darker ones made of chocolate brown mohair.
A Saladino shelter sofa sits in front of the entry. Interestingly on The Skirted Roundtable, McAlpine mentions John Saladino as the only "living" designer he admired.
Behind the fireplace, the space is filled with another shelter sofa and chairs.
Beautiful statue of a greyhound.
The kitchen is so gorgeous – I love the rafters, the bank of windows and the sconces flanking them.
In the upstairs bedroom, this bed was designed by McAlpine, who has a line of furniture he designs for LEE Industries HERE. I wish I could see the map!
The other side of the bedroom, seen above.
The modern and the antique - this juxtaposition is seen throughout this house.
After studying all three stages this house went through, I am not sure which version I prefer. I might like the white version most. There are things in the first version I liked too. The third version, the dark one, is probably my least personal favorite simply because it is so dark – but I do love the furniture and the interior design of the third version. So, it's difficult to say which version I like best. I'm going to say which one I would probably like to live in the most – the white version, or Stage II, but include in that the bedroom from Stage I and the antiques from Stage III. What about you? What is your favorite of the three styles?
Be sure to listen to the Skirted Roundtable with Bobby McAlpine HERE.
And to order his book, The Home Within Us, go HERE.


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CLASS Dissertation Completion Fellows preparing for Commencement 2014
Six scholars awarded stipends to help them finish dissertations and graduate
After years of coursework, the dissertation marks the beginning of the end of a doctoral candidate's journey to their PhD.
Two years ago, a new fellowship was created to make life easier for those students who are working on their dissertations. Dissertation Completion Fellowships provide stipends of $20,000 to cover students' expenses for up to a full academic year while they complete their dissertations.
The funding for the program came out of a Houston Endowment grant of $5 million to support doctoral education at the University of Houston. A portion of those funds was designated for CLASS and Dean Roberts used the money to establish the Dissertation Completion Fellowships. He also supplemented the Houston Endowment money with additional cash from the Delores Welder Mitchell Endowed Scholarship Fund in the College.
The 2013 cohort of fellowship winners span a wide variety of disciplines, from History to Health and Human Performance.
2013 Dissertation Completion Fellowship Winners
Maria Corsi
Medieval History
Dissertation: "Elite Networks and Material Cultural Exchange in Early Medieval Denmark"
Corsi is exploring colonialism as a major force in cultural integration and change. Her particular focus is on how and why "European" culture spread to Denmark in the Middle Ages as a form of 'colonialism' and what the economic and social consequences of this cultural integration were.
"Maria is one of the most intelligent students I have ever had," said her dissertation director, Dr. Sally Vaughn, professor of History. "She is a fine scholar and researcher she has achieved significant progress in her published articles and her conference papers."
Marius Dettmer
Kinesiology/Health and Human Performance
Dissertation: "Vibration of the Foot Sole as an Intervention to Improve Older Adults' Postural Stability"
Dettmer's dissertation investigates the potential of a new technique that augments sensory feedback from the soles of the foot that is used to maintain stable, upright posture. The project involves applying mechanical vibration to the feet via specially designed insoles. His research experiments will test whether this technique actually improves postural control mechanisms in the elderly and whether it enables older adults to cope better with demanding postural tasks.
"During his time as a PhD student at UH, I have been working closely with Marius as his instructor and research advisor," said his advisor Dr. Charles Layne, professor and chair of UH Department of Health and Human Performance. "As a student he has shown broad academic interest, a high motivation and strong work ethic, while consistently providing high-quality work over the course of his studies."
Lauren Genovesi
English/Creative Writing
Dissertation Novel: "Positive Space"
Genovesi's project, a novel, is an attempt to invent a new kind of narration more relevant to contemporary characters than existing models, and to make a significant contribution to contemporary fiction. As part of her project, Genovesi devised a point of view system to more directly illustrate the process and effects of hyper-conscious thinking.
"Lauren is one of the most talented and dedicated students I've ever had the pleasure of teaching," said her advisor, Dr. Robert Boswell, UH Cullen Chair of Creative Writing. "What makes Lauren's novel project unique is that she is attempting to radically challenge conventional point-of-view practices. To my knowledge, no one has ever attempted such a point of view before."
Emily LaVoy
Kinesiology/Health and Human Performance
Dissertation: "The Effect of Exercise on the Expansion and Function of Tumor-Specific T-cells"
Mounting Clinical data indicates that T-cell immunotherapy may be a potent strategy for cancer treatment. One method, known as adoptive transfer immunotherapy, involves infusing specific T-cells into the patient. LaVoy's dissertation research will investigate whether exercise can be used to address the challenges of adoptive transfer immunotherapy, providing a simple and cost-effective method to increase the number of tumor-specific T-cells and thus make adoptive transfer immunotherapy more effective.
"Emily has proven to be an extremely dedicated, productive and motivated student," said her advisor, Dr. Richard Simpson, assistant professor in exercise physiology/Immunology. "Her intellect is substantial and the dedication she shows toward her PhD studies is highly commendable, making her both a pleasure and a challenge to work with."
Lindsey Rodriguez
Social Psychology
Dissertation: "Problem Drinking and Marital Distress"
Problem drinking affects millions of Americans and is associated with higher rates of depression, anxiety, relationship and family disruptions, and comorbid substance use and dependence. Research indicates that once both problem drinking and relationship distress exist, they often exacerbate each other, creating a feedback loop with negative outcomes for both the drinker and the partner. The long-term objective of Rodriguez's dissertation research is to lay the groundwork for future interventions by increasing empirical knowledge of the reciprocal relationship between heavy alcohol use and marital distress.
"Linsday came at the perfect time in the perfect place with all the right ingredients for an immensely successful collaboration and integration of ongoing basic and applied research in our department," said her advisor, Dr. C. Raymond Knee, professor and director of graduate education. "Never before have I encountered a student with so much potential and such an amazing balance of skills."
Natalie Schuster
US History
Dissertation: "Political Disasters: US Federal Disaster Relief, 1927-2005"
Schuster's dissertation examines the federal politics of disaster relief from the early 20th century to the early 21st, using as its bookends the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The dissertation seeks to understand why government has often mishandled disaster relief, even as the government's scope and size has expanded.
"Natalie possesses a keen intellect and a sharp wit," said her advisor, Dr. Nancy Young, professor and chair of the department of History. "Moreover, she has the ability to ask penetrating and important questions that cut to the essence of the topic being studied."
The 2013 fellowship cohort will follow in the footsteps of last year's fellows who were able to spend 2012 concentrating on completing their dissertations. Among them was Janine Joseph (English/Creative Writing), who completed her PhD and is currently beginning a tenure-track assistant professor position in English/Creative Writing at Weber State University in Ogden, UT.


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►Moe Lane- hey, the Lanes have a new Thanksgiving-baby... talk about something to be thankful for, very nice. All seems well, and do drop-by his blog and congratulate the man... just ignore any "eek, Moe hath spawned" snarks over there and say something nice, OK? -here-
►The Lonely Conservative- yeah, I've got connections in upstate NY... what do you think this is, some hack operation? And guess what... TLC's already got hot news on Doug Hoffman for Congress 2010 -here-
►No Sheeples Here- Carol can't believe she ate the whole thing... -here-
►Texas-for-Palin has Sarah running in a statistical dead-heat vs Obama now... as the Left's unprecedented character assasination efforts are coming to naught -here-
►Conservative Pup covers the Grand Poobah of Warmists Al Gore issuing a long-overdue product recall -here-
►The Amusing Bunni has a great clip of Ronald Reagan's Thanksgiving message... really takes you back... love it.


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Noah's Choice: The Future of Endangered Species
Knopf, 1995 - Science - 302 pages
In the Sans Bois Mountains of Oklahoma, a lustrous orange and mahogany beetle drags a tiny carcass across a patch of ground shaken by bulldozers clearing the way for a new highway that threatens the beetle's existence. Workers at a housing development near Austin, Texas, cut a swath through a tangle of young oaks and sumacs, once home to a colony of rare, olive-winged birds. On a sand dune bordering a shopping center in Albany, New York, a security guard patrols a chain-link fence, keeping curious shoppers out of an area reserved for several hundred little blue butterflies. These are scenes emblematic of America's fractious and expensive battle to save its natural heritage. To report on this battle, Charles C. Mann and Mark L. Plummer traveled throughout the United States; they discovered a nation struggling to balance the protection of its troubled ecosystems with the ordinary needs of its human inhabitants - a nation that is increasingly racked by conflict and confusion over endangered species and the law intended to protect them, the Endangered Species Act. Noah's Choice illuminates the essential questions that now confront environmentalists, developers, ecologists, and, indeed, all Americans. Why do some species face extinction, and why should we care? How serious is the problem, and how much will fixing it cost? Can we save all of nature and still have all the material things we want? And if we cannot, how should we choose which species to bring aboard our ark - and which to leave behind? Gracefully written, thoroughly researched, deeply felt, and unfailingly honest, Noah's Choice provides a haven from the storm of polemic that surrounds this issue. The authors suggest newprinciples for striking a desperately important balance between the needs of human beings and the rest of the world, and provide an invaluable blueprint to guide us in discharging the awesome responsibility of choosing among species.
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Must reading for anyone concerned about biodiversity and the fate of the hotly debated Endangered Species Act, which is up for congressional renewal in 1995. Mann and Plummer (co-authors of The ... Read full review
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A beetle puts a stranglehold on the construction of a highway that would have provided Native Americans reasonable access to a hospital; a minnow almost stops a dam from being built. Mann and Plummer ... Read full review
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