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U.S. Equal Employment
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March 28, 2007
TO : Jeffrey Smith, Chief Financial Officer
Office of Chief Financial Officer and Administrative Services
Jeffrey Smith, Chief Financial Officer
Aletha L. Brown, Inspector General
Transmittal of Office of Inspector General Frequent Telework
During the past two years, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) explored the use of frequent telework through the lens of a Frequent Telework Pilot program (Pilot). Our Pilot required those OIG employees whose jobs were deemed suitable for inclusion in the Pilot, to work away from the central office two or more days a week. The primary objectives of our Pilot were twofold: 1) to determine if productivity could be maintained while frequently teleworking; and 2) to determine if OIG could reduce its infrastructure costs through extensive use of frequent telework.
While we understand that OIG is small in comparison to other offices within the Agency, we felt it prudent to place ourselves under the "microscope" to determine if it was plausible to reduce infrastructure cost through usage of frequent telework. Based on the results, we conclude that our Pilot was a success and that operating the Pilot program was worthwhile. Our analysis, using a cost model previously developed in OIG Report 03-15-AMR Increased Use of Telework to Reduce Infrastructure Costs at Headquarters, shows that we can reduce the amount of space that we currently occupy, thus significantly reducing infrastructure cost, while maintaining mission productivity. While this Pilot does not directly address how frequent telework may function in other EEOC offices, it is our opinion that it, along with the results from previously issued telework reports from this office, demonstrates the strong potential for substantial cost savings while maintaining or possibly improving mission related performance.
The attached report is a detailed discussion regarding OIG's findings during our Pilot. If you have any questions regarding this report or the Pilot, please contact Deputy Inspector General Milton Mayo for assistance.
Thank you for your cooperation and assistance.
c: Anthony Kaminski, Chief Operating Officer
Angelica Ibarguen, Director, Office of Human Resources
3.1 Productivity
3.2 Work Processes, Communication, and Teamwork
3.3 Frequency of Telework
3.4 Impact on Work-Life Balanc
3.5 Impact on Those Not Frequently Teleworking
3.6 Customer Service
4.1 Location of the Alternate Work Site
4.2 Cost for Equipment and High Speed Internet Use
4.3 Technology and Equipment Support
Table 1 - Cost Savings of OIG Frequent Telework 2008-2012
Table 2 - OIG Telework on January 17, 2006
Telework has proven benefits including pollution reduction, energy savings, improved recruitment and retention, improved employee work/life balance, and continuity of operations. In addition, some organizations use telework to reduce their real estate costs. As the nation's largest employer, the Federal government should be the model for telework for every level of government.
According to Congressman Frank Wolf, the lessons from the September 2005 Hurricane Katrina tragedy, which disrupted and destroyed the lives, property and livelihoods of so many Americans, present an opportunity to ensure that government and private sector businesses can continue to operate if our nation is faced with similar disasters in the future. Many of the nation's leading security experts have pointed to telework as a key component in ensuring that the government continues to operate during and after catastrophic events.
In fiscal year 2003, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) began exploring frequent telework, as a means for EEOC to reduce its infrastructure costs. Our work resulted in two assessments of frequent telework for EEOC (Evaluation of Headquarters Infrastructure, OIG Report Number 03-15-AMR, and Reducing Infrastructure Costs through Increased Use of Telework, Report Number 01‑13‑AMR). Each report found, using an OIG-developed cost model analysis, that implementation of frequent telework could result in substantial net savings for the EEOC.In fiscal year 2004, OIG began a frequent telework pilot (Pilot) with the following objectives:
In Phase I of our Pilot (which ended September 30, 2005) we identified four individuals with jobs suitable for frequent teleworking. These individuals would work at an alternative worksite (their place of residence) for two or more days a week. Frequent teleworkers were provided a laptop, multi-purpose printer, file cabinet, roller carrying case, high-speed internet access, necessary supplies(e.g. paper, pens, pencils, ink cartridges etc,) and an external router/firewall to be used at their frequent telework location.
Our objective was to outfit frequent teleworkers with equipment and supplies that are equivalent to what they use in the central office. During Phase I, we identified no technical, operational, or managerial barriers that could prevent effective institution of frequent telework within the OIG.
In September 2005, following an assessment of Phase I, the OIG telework project team (consisting of the Deputy Inspector General, Senior Evaluator, and the Management Analyst) concluded that the Pilot needed to be extended and expanded. The team then planned Phase II of the Pilot to include the office's two criminal investigators. Phase II began in January 2006 and ended in September, 2006. In an effort to test all aspects of the model, arrangements were made to have each frequent teleworker work at a federally funded telework center (at least four times) to assess using a telework center as an alternate worksite. Moreover during this Phase, we required all frequent teleworkers to use a single laptop as their primary computer.(1)The total cost of both phases was approximately $19,706 (an average of $3,284 per teleworker). This includes all equipment (excluding telephones) referenced in OIG Report 03-15-AMR Increased Use of Telework to Reduce Infrastructure Costs at Headquarters.
This Pilot explored frequent telework as a means to reduce OIG's real estate/infrastructure costs. Determining real estate cost savings is necessary in order to verify the Pilot's success. Net savings are the difference between annual real estate savings and annual costs. Cost savings are effective when the new Headquarters lease begins in 2008. As the following Exhibit 1 shows, the net savings for 2008-2012 are $66,475.
Net Savings**
These savings are equal to $2,216 per teleworker, per year.(2) Net savings are lower in 2009 than other years due to the purchase of new laptop computers and printers for all frequent teleworkers. With a new lease, OIG will occupy different space from what it currently occupies. The configuration costs for OIG's space will be less if OIG enacts space saving because configuration costs are on a per/foot basis.
Types of cost savings due to OIG frequent telework:
The cost savings are the result of a space reduction of 325 square feet, which is 28% of the teleworkers current space requirements (this is 9.80% of OIG's current space requirements). This estimate is made using the cost model developed in our studies of EEOC Field Offices and Headquarters and using real estate costs based on current costs at the Headquarters' building with a 4 percent increase each year.
What follows are observations regarding the effects of frequent telework during the Pilot. These observations on productivity and related issues have two major themes:
The Pilot had no significant effect on quantity, quality, or timeliness of products. Frequent teleworkers enjoyed several aids to productivity, as well as a few challenges. Individuals observed this about their own work, and managers confirmed the teleworkers' observations.
The following observations on productivity were made by frequent teleworkers:
Frequent teleworkers used less sick leave because staff generally use health care providers located close to home (so no work time was lost due to commuting) and frequent teleworkers often worked at home for part of a work day instead of taking additional leave.
Continuity of Operations (COOP)
Our frequent telework model was not developed with COOP in mind. The attacks of September 11, 2001, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, potential catastrophes such as the Asian Bird Flu, or other unexpected events, have/would force field and/or Headquarters' staff to work remotely or not work at all. Therefore as the Pilot progressed, we believe it provided a prime opportunity to explore the COOP related benefits of frequent telework.
The water line break at EEOC Headquarters that caused the building to close on January 17, 2007, provided an unplanned test of frequent telework during a COOP event. The chart below shows that all the frequent teleworkers (and both occasional teleworkers) worked on that day, even though several were not scheduled for telework. The events of that day show:
|OIG Staff
|Scheduled to Telework
on 01/17/07
|Teleworked on 01/17/07
|Frequent Teleworkers (6)
|Occasional Teleworkers* (2)
|Non-teleworkers (3)
|Total 11
Observations by staff indicate work processes and communication evolved and improved significantly during the Pilot. Several issues were resolved, and observations indicate improvement compared to pre-Pilot communication and teamwork. For example, staff became well accustomed to using electronic (as opposed to face-to-face) communication, for all but the most sensitive of conversations. In addition, significant changes in project planning and concerns about progress on various assignments were effectively discussed via a combination of email and telephone conversations.
Teleworkers showed improved diligence about checking email, and ensuring phone calls were answered and messages returned promptly. In addition, teleworkers communicated their whereabouts and schedules more efficiently.
Overall, frequent teleworkers teleworked 75-90% of the scheduled number of telework days. Frequent teleworkers reported differing rates of reporting to the central office on scheduled telework days and different reasons for reporting to the central office. One teleworker reported to the central office more often than anticipated due to personal reasons.
Because the Pilot allows rescheduling of telework days, one staff person was able to reschedule virtually all of his telework days to balance working in the central office on scheduled telework days. By this means, the occupancy rate of the central office is reduced, significantly improving the chances for reducing central office real estate without impairing productivity.
The need for access to large amounts of paper (e.g., work papers) is the most common reason for reporting to the central office on scheduled telework days. Other reasons include sensitive interviews and meetings, and malfunctioning frequent teleworker equipment.
Frequent teleworkers report an improved work-life balance. For example, the flexibility frequent telework provides to take care of non-work issues allows more time for work and a more positive attitude about work. Frequent teleworkers also reported more time for self and family due to elimination of the commute, and savings due to spending less on commuting, clothing, and food.
Overall, staff continued to observe no major impacts for those not frequently teleworking. No staff stated they have taken on significant additional responsibilities as a result of the Pilot.
In focus groups and conversations, OIG staff said frequent telework caused no significant effect on the services OIG customers (internal and external to OIG) receive. OIG staff also said that customers are often unaware that frequent teleworkers are not in the central office.
The primary sources for our observations relating to our Pilot consist of written and oral observations made by OIG personnel during the course of the Pilot and during OIG focus group meetings.
Our frequent teleworkers provided positive feedback regarding their experiences concerning using their home, as well as the federally funded telework location as an alternate worksite. During focus group meetings with our frequent teleworkers, they found no major impediments in using a federally funded telework center. However, they expressed several reasons why it was not a favorable choice. Reasons cited:
For frequent telework to be effective, OIG determined it necessary to provide equipment to replicate the central office work conditions. Also, as part of frequent teleworking, we require all of our frequent teleworkers to use high speed internet service(3). Because our frequent teleworkers are required to work at an alternative worksite for two or more days, OIG determined that the office would bear the cost of high speed internet installation and service.(4)
In order to ensure that all teleworker equipment was properly installed and hardware security settings were correctly established, our Management Analyst configured, tested, and installed telework equipment. Also, OIG provided training to each frequent teleworker regarding troubleshooting common computer problems. From this we observed:
Frequent telework has proven successful for the OIG because the use of frequent telework did not reduce productivity and it also allows OIG to reduce infrastructure costs by reducing the space it occupies in EEOC's Headquarters building. Therefore, more funds might be available for mission related functions, or fewer funds would be used to accomplish the same amount of work, thereby increasing efficiency.
Additional conclusions:
Because OIG maintained productivity during the Pilot, the Office of Inspector General recommends that its allocation of office and associated shared space be reduced by 325 square feet upon EEOC's tenancy under a new lease, in August 2008. The precise amount of the reduction depends on:
[1] Use of a single laptop is a primary component of our frequent telework cost model and differs from the Agency's practice, during the Pilot, of maintaining a desktop at the central office and laptop at the teleworker's alternate worksite.
[2] Theoretically, there will also be cost savings from reduced costs for transit subsidies. Savings will accrue as a result of frequent telework because some frequent teleworkers will not receive a subsidy, or will receive a lesser subsidy, because of fewer commutes. However, we did not estimate these savings because of the uncertainty in accurately projecting the number or the amount of reduced subsidies.
[3] Our frequent teleworkers use either cable broadband or DSL high speed service.
[4] The Government Accountability Office ruled that the Patent and Trademark Office is permitted by law to use its appropriations to reimburse teleworkers for high-speed home Internet access. GAO Decision B-308044, Patent and Trademark Office--High-speed Internet Access in Employees' Homes, January 10, 2007.


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I wonder how this blogger got to visit Buddy's Pizza and had a private pizza making lesson from the super-friendly staff. http://brodericktower.com/blog/2013/05/29/dayinthed/ Norma
From her site...."Last week I was invited to participate in an interactive Day in the D tour hosted by the Metro Detroit Convention and Visitors Bureau. Below is a summary of all of the Detroit-themed activities we participated in, including some of my favorite highlights from each."It looks like she is located right in the middle of all the action; as she says. And is probably a favorite "voice for the City" person that knows Visitors Bureau/Chamber of Commerce folks.Bob
Gloves, but no hairnet or apron?
We don't need gloves in our state to make pizza, but we do need something to cover our heads. I am not even sure if we need aprons to make pizza, but I do wear one. Flour can get very messy.
Scotty,Which formulation did you use? Sometimes a different rack position needs to be used so the bottom crusts gets baked right. What temperature did you bake at and what rack position did you use?Your pizza looks pretty good to me. Norma
From VIA 313 on facebook today. VIA 313 getting some street cred on the big screen. Maybe I need to move to Texas and start making Detroit style pizzas. Maybe my opportunity awaits. Norma
Thank you. I was pleased with the appearance of the pie, and maybe if I hadn't grown up in Detroit would've been more satisfied with the results, but my wife and salesgirl were pleased. I used .8% IDY and 71.23% water. I used half KABF and half KAAP. I baked it in my home electric oven on a pizza stone, bottom rack, 550 for about 12 minutes. My pan from Detroit Style Pizza company hasn't arrived yet and I'm also waiting on a remote thermometer so I can know exactly what temp I'm cooking at. I let the dough cold proof for about 28 hours, the dough was very tough to work with, but added some flour and that helped a ton.
Why the heck not....you only get one stab at this crazy thing called life!
Scotty,I think you will be able to make a Detroit Style pizza after another attempt, or a few attempts. I could not get my Detroit style pizzas right at first either. I am glad your wife and salesgirl were pleased with your Detroit style pizza. I think a steel pan from the Detroit Style Pizza Company will get you closer to your goal. What did the bottom of your crust look like that you weren't happy with it. I just wondered since you are baking at a higher temperature on a pizza stone on the bottom rack. I have dabbed my dough in flour to sometimes to get it to ball better. I try to dip in flour and then ball and I can usually tell if it needs a little more flour when balling. Did you ball and then put the dough ball in the pan? How did you mix the dough and what did use to mix the dough. Sorry to be asking all these questions, but that is the only way I can really know what you did.Norma
I tried balling it immediately, however it was way too sticky, so I just kinda threw it in a bowl, covered it, and let it set. I mixed the dough with a standard kitchen aide mixer, started slow for a minute and then upped the speed for about 5. The more I think about it, I may have had too much cheese on it. How much do you typically use?
I thought this DS pizza with those dressings tasted good.


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NEW YORK (AP) -- Rangers rookie Petr Prucha won't be able to play for the Czech Republic at the Olympics because of a knee injury that will sideline him three to four weeks.
The 23-year-old right wing sprained his right knee Saturday in New York's 4-3 overtime victory at Philadelphia that put the Rangers (32-15-8 ) in first place this late in a season for the first time since 1996.
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I watched this game & it was evident Stevenson deliberately went knee to knee with Prucha. What a scumball & I suppose he's grinning from ear to ear today.


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There were not as many deals this year so a run on brokers starts later — but it must include Loughlin, who is handling much of Merck's movement out of Summit and has been the point man for selling and rebranding Sanofi's 1.2 million square-foot research campus in Bridgewater. That alone gives him the edge this year. Colleagues say this is an overdue honor.
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If you thought about studying in the USA, you may have paused when you saw the price tag associated with your degree. Many colleges and universities have expensive tuition rates, especially for international students who pay out of state tuition. Tuition rates have been growing steadily year after year, and this does not even include the added cost for books, health insurance, room and board, and transportation.
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No other video game has unleashed my creativity like Minecraft. I've spent countless hours chipping away at blocks, gathering the necessary materials to complete the next masterpiece that would otherwise only occupy my mind's eye. I've also spent just as many hours exploring, spelunking and slashing my way through monsters with bravado. My character – my entire Minecraft world – constantly evolves into whatever I want it to be. I tell my own stories, I write my own destiny and I bring my fantasies to life one brick at a time.
not gonna lie, just for laughs the first thing i did was scroll down and see what score they gave the graphics. lol.
This game doesn't seem that fun to me. My little brother is addicted to it, but I just don't get it.
Minecraft is a rare case of Substance over Style. Not to say it isn't endearing it is, whilst it may not be running on the Crysis engine is looks good in a retro way.
The feeling of achievement when you craft your first tool is great plus the almost endless combinations of materials makes this game one for the "still playing it 10 years later" pile.
Man, this game is so awesome and the stuff I see amazes me. What a simple concept
Not my type of game, but I'm glad this industry caters for so many different tastes.


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Free, family-friendly open house on Saturday morning, February 23University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Posted: Feb 12, 2013
Students of all ages and their families are invited to learn about academics, campus activities and students services at UH Mānoa at The Mānoa Experience 2013, a half-day open house from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, February 23.
Held in a festive, fair-like setting, the campus-wide open house takes place along tree-lined McCarthy Mall. It will feature cultural demonstrations from the School of Pacific & Asian Studies, a presentation on careers in science, the opportunity to tour the School of Nursing's state-of-the-art Translational Health Science Simulation Center, performances by student groups, and lab tours at the College of Engineering and much more.
The University's academic showcase of the year involves over 150 departments and programs, staffed informational tents, and tours of the campus and residence halls led by current students. Informational sessions will provide a glimpse into UH Mānoa's admissions requirements and transfer information.
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The Donnell LIbrary Center, a branch of the New York Public Library, was designed by Edgar I. Williams and Aymar Embury II and opened in 1955. Although firmly (and drearily) modernist in its interior and exterior design, it was clad in Indiana Limestone like the older Rockefeller Center just to the south. The building was named for Ezekiel J. Donnell (1822-1896), a cotton merchant who was an early patron of the NYPL.
In 2007 the five-story building was to be sold to Orient-Express Hotels for $59 million for replacement with an 11-story hotel. The sale was justified on the basis that the "outdated" existing building needed $48 million in repairs that the NYPL could not afford. (reference). After the recession intervened, the site ultimately went for $67.4 million, with the final result being the Baccarat Hotel and Residences
The plan was for the already claustrophobic library to return to occupy an even smaller space on the first floor and two basements in the new structure.
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Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition
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- The competition is open to any writer who is a legal resident of North Carolina or a member of the North Carolina Writers' Network.
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Parmesan Polenta and Aubergine Towers with Tomato SauceI want to win a week in one of your Tuscany villas!
The requirement for this recipe was to create something which included tomato, olive oil and parmesan. Of course, those ingredients lead inevitably to think 'Italian' and one of my favourites is the delicious Melanzane Parmigiana. My dish takes the idea of that classic recipe and turns it into individual portions with the addition of deeply cheesy polenta layers. It's a simple recipe but it does have a few stages. It's worth it, trust me. A perfect light lunch with big green salad.
Serves 4 (or 2 hungry people)
2 aubergines - from these slice 8 x 1.5 cm rounds (I roast the left overs with the rounds to use in another dish)
olive oil to brush onto the aubergine slices
125 grams polenta
100 grams of tallegio (or fontina) chopped
50 grams parmesan grated
20 grams butter
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 small onion chopped
1or 2 clove of garlic chopped
2 sprigs of thyme chopped
1 400 gm tin of tomatoes
1 tablespoon tomato purée
pinch of sugar
salt and pepper
8 basil leaves
1 tablespoon of fresh oregano (use less if using dried)
50gms of mozzarella cut into 4 slices
20 gms parmesan
Heat the oven to 190 degrees
You will need a baking tray for the aubergines and a large flat pan (greased) for the polenta.
For the aubergine
Brush both sides of the aubergine slices with olive oil. Lay on the baking tray and put in the oven to cook for 30 to 40 minutes until soft and golden brown. The slices can be fried but they soak up a lot of oil that way.
For the polentaBring 1/2 a litre of water to boil in a large pan and add 1 tsp salt. Reduce to a simmer and pour in the polenta in a steady stream, stirring constantly. Continue to stir until the polenta has thickened and comes away from the sides of the pan (can take about 15 minutes or more) Take the pan off the heat and add the taleggio, the parmesan and the butter immediately. Mix well until the cheese has melted and pour into a greased tray in a thin layer (about 1/2 cm thick). Set aside to cool.
For the tomato sauce
Warm a good tablespoon of olive oil in a pan. Add the chopped onion, garlic and thyme. Cook on a medium heat until the onion is soft and translucent. Stir in the tomatoes, tomato puree and a good pinch of sugar. Cook for 10 to 15 minutes until you have a thick sauce. Season to taste. (this will make more sauce than you need, but there is really no such thing as having too much home made tomato sauce).
Assembling the roundsReduce the oven temperature to 180 degrees.
Using a large round cutter cut out 8 rounds of polenta
Put 4 of the slices of polenta in a row on a greased baking tray or oven proof dish. Spread the slices with tomato sauce. Place a round of aubergine on top with a basil leaf and a sprinkling of oregano. Repeat 1 more time.
Place a round of mozzarella on top of each of the 'towers' and sprinkle with parmesan.
Place in the oven and cook until the towers are warmed through. About 20 to 25 minutes.
Place a tower on a plate with a good tablespoon of tomato sauce.


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I love drawing in museums. The stuff in those cases is laughing at you.
In honor of the recently desecrated Guardians of Nimrud, we repost this classic piece on the importance, not to mention the fun, of museums. Thanks to them, the Guardians are still with us. Read on, and keep reading, to go with them through the Gates and down the garden path, in unexpected company.
Alexander the Great died in 323 BC. He was 33. Alexander died of a bone infection from an old arrow wound. It's possible that his immune system was compromised by his grief, bordering on dementia, over the death of Hephaestion, his closest friend, greatest general, second in command and, some say, the love of his life.
Like the god he believed himself to be, the Golden Conqueror would never age. He won the respect and admiration of his own time and successive generations. In awe and affection they continue to laud him, creating imagery in all media from marble to film.
His actual body was mummified in Alexandria, Egypt, by Egyptian necromancers, and was still in a good state of preservation three centuries after his death, when Caesar Augustus leaned into its glass sarcophagus to kiss the Conqueror and, slipping, broke off the mummy's nose. But Alexander's tomb and body disappeared. The Alexander Sarcophagus in Istanbul's Archeological Museum is the nearest thing we have.
Alexander is still fighting and hunting lions on this museum centerpiece from the great Necropolis at Sidon. The stunning bas-relief was created by unknown talent during Alexander's lifetime. It's possible that the artist actually set eyes on him.
The art commemorates victory over the Persians at the Battle of Issus in what is now Turkey, and Hephaestion is there fighting as well. Scholars argue over who was buried in the tomb, but he may have commissioned the work before his death with an eye toward Alexandrian help in future battles. The Alexander Sarcophagus was discovered, in what is now Lebanon, in 1887 and brought to Istanbul by Osman Hamdi Bey, the great Ottoman statesman, archeologist and artist who built Istanbul's Archeological Museum.
And here is the rock star himself, Alexander. This still has traces of yellow paint in the marble hair, rose on the lips. It's one of several done in the second century BC, when the artist might have had Alexander's mummy to work from. I find this plausible because the forehead wrinkles are realistic for Alexander but idealized out of many statues.
In the drawing up top, Alexander rubs shoulders with an ancient Cypriot statue of Bes, the God of Plenty, a Hittite lion 5500 years old, and King Midas. A skeletal cohort of Midas– nobody knows who- rests upstairs among swanky grave goods built of boxwood from 740 BC. Midas was King of the Phrygians, whose capitol of Gordion is near Turkey's capitol, Ankara. The Phrygians invented a smelting technique that made bronze shine like gold, so yes, everything Midas touched turned to gold. And I thought it was just a fairy tale. Here's some Midas Gold in the Archeological Museum in Antalya. It actually looks like titanium. There's also a Madonna whose breasts weep blood, three jolly bronze creatures and a festive phallic bronze pin. I love drawing in museums. The stuff in those cases is laughing at you.
Gordion is the Home of the Gordion Knot. More fairy tales: Nobody could untie the Gordion Knot. Alexander famously solved this dilemma. He pulled out his sword and cut it.
Turkey is a veritable Gordion Knot of history. The threads keep weaving in and out, disappearing and reappearing, and I will never ever live long enough to unravel it. In a beloved tale, King MIdas judged Pan the winner in a music contest with Apollo, and a furiously un-godlike Apollo gave him donkey's ears. The little figures below are Midas Gold and smaller than my hand. I haven't yet been to the museum in Ankara, now in restoration, but look forward to its re-opening, when I can see Midas's magnificent wooden furniture preserved and reassembled over years by dedicated archeologists.
LIONS CAN LIVE THOUSANDS OF YEARS That Hittite lion back in Istanbul has fellows all over what is now Turkey. Aslantepe (Lion Hill) Huge dig near Malatya features a jocular fountain lion and many real pussycats.
The museum at the University in Elazig was full of artifacts from Paleolithic to Ottoman. It's the only place I've ever been offered a chair, not to mention tea and conversation.
I love the combination of tribal art and ancient artifacts found all over rural Turkey. Here's a collection from Aslantepe Huge:
Here's a Hittite courtroom, drawn in situ in Turkey in 2004. The culprit sat in the hot seat, surrounded by devils– those paintings on the walls– and was judged by a group. Not much has changed in 5500 years, if you consider the paparazzi.
NIMRUD IN HOLLYWOOD The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is one of the more civilized museums in the world, allowing artists to carry in sketchbooks and work at any time. But they go farther still. I drew this Assyrian Guardian and mapped his beard curls to render when I wasn't standing up– on feet that felt like two hot anvils pounding upward. But I neglected to render one curl to go by. I went back next day, but the exhibit was closed. At the guard station I explained the problem while flipping pages in the sketchbook. "All I need is five minutes," I said, and those enlightened people called the actual curator who personally came downstairs, escorted me up to the exhibit, unlocked it and stood there while I drew the beard curl. Now THAT's a museum!!
To the right of the bearded Guardian is a piece from a personal puzzle: that male figure with a bird head, wings and a sideways Egyptian stance, symbol of exotica and ancient mystery. This image strides through my earliest memories, associated with Echo Park, with klieg lights across the sky and the smell of eucalyptus, an enduring symbol of Old Hollywood, of Los Angeles, of home. What a shock to discover this dear and familiar figure to be a djinn– a genie, relic of Nimrud, in Mesopotamia, oceans and continents and millennia away from my childhood in California. I was totally immersed in the Middle East, obsessed with moving to Turkey, drawing to learn more. Echo Park had been the furthest thing from my mind. I stood there in the Met with my mouth open while images strobed through my memory. DW Griffith's silent epic Intolerance, shot in Hollywood in 1916, stunned viewers with its exotic representation of Babylon. See the figures on the gate?
Antiquities in the Middle East were being discovered at the same time as the medium of film. DW Griffith's Babylon featured this same djinn, still parading in Hollywood shopping malls to this day.
One Ramadan, drawing from memory Eastern Turkish women I'd seen on the tram, I was compelled by a certain strength in their features to intersperse them with Mesopotamian deities. After all, these faces are all from the same region.
Nimrud is on the Tigris, just southeast of the eastern Turkish border. It was originally excavated in the 1850s. One example of our bird-djinn was surely found between then and Intolerance. DW Griffith employed artists from all over the world. One of them knew the image, which was used precisely because of that sense of ancient mystery it conveys. Many more were found at Nimrud in 1931 by archeologist Max Mallowan. The one above, which I used as reference for my djinn drawing, was photographed by his wife, Agatha Christie.
AGATHA CHRISTIE? That Gordion Knot again! The most prolific and well-known mystery writer of all time was no stranger to Hollywood, since so many movies have been made of her novels, including Murder on the Orient Express which begins in Istanbul, where she often stayed on her way to and from her husband's digs in Mesopotamia. I had always associated Agatha Christie with floral dresses, trains, lorgnettes, a detective with patent-leather hair. But here she is in the dusty winds of the Middle East. She funded many digs, used up her face-cream cleaning ancient sculpture, and was an inveterate shutter-bug. She photographed many of the considerable Mallowan finds and wound up on many a museum plaque, along with all those best-seller lists.
Turkey is a mystery I will never solve, but it sure is fun trying. One way is to travel, and another way is to go into the museums and draw. When I get fascinated by a piece of art and draw it, I learn more and more about this place. Everyone was here, many at the same time. Check out these strange bedfellows from the 2nd century AD, at the Archeological Museum in Antalya.
Priapus, God of Sexual Enthusiasm, was as popular with the ancients as he is with us. The one on all those postcards is in Selchuk, along with many other aspects of love.
There's Priapus actual size– fist-sized– at right center. He's in a glass case with a light you press for two minutes of illumination. I kept pushing the button so I could see to draw, and when I looked up a large crowd was standing behind me, staring into the case and giggling.
It turns out that a dragon was a symbol of Christianity. So was a foot, which represented pilgrimage. Drawing in the Met, I realized that Christianity had spread all over the Middle East long before Islam. It incorporated all the fantastic animals of the Shamanistic religions that preceded it.
Thanks to the movies, the co-mingled Egyptian animal-human gods are old friends. But who ever heard of a Senmurv, a rocking-horse-like winged creature with a peacock tail?
All the early Christian exhibits are full of these strange co-mingled creatures: bird-headed lions, griffins, dragons, hippogriffs, pigs with wings. By the Middle Ages, artists were using them to populate Hell, most famously Hieronymus Bosch. The ancients combined lions and eagles and bulls. Bosch used animals he saw in Holland: frogs, birds, cats, mice, rabbits. Gradually these disappeared from Christian art, and all that is left of them now are those gargoyles on Notre Dame.
Heaven got the winged deities. The visual depictions of angels evolved from those Shamanistic figures, from fiery six-winged Seraphim to Cupid-inspired cherubs. And this powerful winged male figure: our dear and familiar djinn with a human head: the Archangel.
Not every fabulous museum denizen is in a glass case. Derek here posed on the steps of the Met with all the insouciance of one of the stone lions within, while I was able to delight nine-year-old Faisal by drawing his incipient mustache.
Lord Elgin was the British ambassador to Ottoman Istanbul. Distressed at the rural peoples' indifference to antiquities, he bought as many as he could afford, bullying an old friend into building an entire wing at The British Museum to house them, and bankrupting himself in the process. This is now a cause of discord between Turkey and England, but in the end the glories are preserved.
In The British Museum, while drawing these lions from Xanthos, I was surrounded by schoolchildren. In uniforms, with sketchbooks, little Harry Potters all, saying in those lovely accents, "Are you actually drawing those lions? Truly?" Yes, I said, these lions are from Xanthos, a city in Turkey. They were astonished, they were entranced. They had not known that Turkey is the Asia Minor referred to in the museum. My sketchbook at that time had pictures of the British Ambassador to Turkey, our Anglican Canon, the chandeliers in the British Consulate, and Cappadocia.
What these kids loved was the open air museum in Cappadocia. They would not let me turn the pages. They wanted to know the story of every single pigeon cave in the cliffs, every window, every cave church. "These are pigeonholes? Real ones?"
"Look at this, it's old Father Theodosias's church, look here, where he prayed, the stone is worn there, that's Arab painting up top, you can see-" When I looked up, there were a hundred kids there, parents, teachers, docents… now THAT's a museum!
THE GORDION KNOT There are plenty of Hittite lions in Cappadocia, too. All of Turkey is one breathing, palpating, interwoven fist of historical threads, pulling in the whole world. We live at the center, then and now. And what's all this history for? Well, for starters history gives me hope. In these perilous times it's reassuring to realize that the ancients, too, often thought– with good reason!–that the world was ending. It's relaxing, when distressed by the antics of some fruitcake potentate or crackpot group of terrorist thugs, to read of the same a thousand years ago and know that these lethal fools too shall pass. History is humbling: no matter how unique I feel, I learn of legions of others. Wandering through the museums, looking at familiar expressions in ancient bronze and marble and clay, I feel at one with the great tide of humanity: following that Gordion thread, seeing it disappear into the knot, wondering if I will ever see it re-emerge, or if I must wait for another incarnation. One day I may have all the answers, but by then the questions probably won't matter anymore.
All drawings Plein Air. All drawings © Trici Venola, created with drafting pens on rag paper in sketchbook format, standard size 18 X 52 cm / 7 X 20 inches. All drawings part of The Drawing On Istanbul Project. Original drawings are for sale. If you see one here and love it, contact Trici Venola. We love your comments.


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Sep 28, 2011
Weekly Muppet Wednesdays: Two-Headed Monster
Performed by...
Peter Friedman and Richard Hunt (ca. 1978)
Richard Hunt and Jerry Nelson (ca. 1980–1991)
David Rudman and Jerry Nelson (1992–2000)
David Rudman and Joey Mazzarino (2001–present)
First known appearance...
Sesame Street, Season 9: Episode 1121 (1978)
Most recent appearance...
Sesame Street Season 42 (2011)
Best known role...
Cooperating/arguing monster with two heads
The Two-Headed Monster is exactly that: a purple monster with two heads. One of the more unique monster creations of Sesame Street, the two characters showcase Jerry Nelson and Richard Hunt's impressive chemistry with each other. Often, the format of their sketches involves one of the heads having some sort of prop that the other wants, the two briefly quarrel about it until they realize they can both share it. Of these sketches, perhaps the most famous are the ones where the two heads sound out the syllables of words and eventually put them together, like "telephone" or "run."
Part of what makes them unique is that they are among the few main Sesame Muppets that don't really talk. Jerry Nelson and Richard Hunt primarily spend their time in-character talking in baby-like gibberish to each other, with an even more limited vocabulary than, say, Animal. Despite their inability to talk, they have become favorites of many Sesame Street fans. While their inserts were mostly limited to being at their brick wall, they got to interact with the likes of Kermit the Frog and Cookie Monster. Plus, they even ran their own Two-Headed Monster School where the two heads had Elmo and Telly as students. They have even gotten to meet celebrities like Cab Calloway (who sang "Hi-De-Ho Man" with the two), Robin Williams, Jane Curtin, the band R.E.M., and Aaron and Nick Carter.
Outside of the show, the Two-Headed Monster made background appearances in The Muppet Movie and The Muppets Take Manhattan with the other Sesame Street characters, as well as being extras in Sesame Street's big screen movie Follow That Bird while they were absent from The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (I guess Bernie just couldn't work out a deal). On television, the two joined in the song "We're Going to China" in the special Big Bird in China and even showed up in China when the Monkey King briefly turns into them during a musical number. They also appeared in the 1987 special A Muppet Family Christmas, where we got to see them playing Santa Claus in the Sesame Street Christmas Pageant of "Twas the Night Before Christmas," which led to an amusing conversation between Bert and Ernie regarding whether to refer to the Two-Headed Monster as "them" or "him."
After Richard Hunt's death in 1992, the Two-Headed Monster began to be downplayed despite new performer David Rudman taking up Hunt's half of the character. Perhaps their biggest role in the post-1992 period was playing the Hunters in the 2001 direct-to-video "Elmo's Musical Adventures: Peter and the Wolf." In 2003, with the retooling of "Journey to Ernie," the two appeared in every segment, wherein Big Bird would ask them if they've seen Ernie, to which the two heads would prove to be unhelpful, pointing in both directions.
Despite being mainstays of the Street, there has been very little merchandise of these two characters. They have appeared in books but other than that the sole piece of merchandise they've received is a 1998 PVC figure made by Tyco that's rather hard to find. In 2005, Palisades Toys announced the Two-Headed Monster would be one of the four figures in Series 1 of their highly-anticipated Sesame Street line. However, the bankruptcy of Palisades Toys prevented the line from being released.
The Two-Headed Monster, despite never achieving the popularity Elmo or Big Bird, are, for whatever reason, likable and are perhaps Sesame Street's most entertaining way to show cooperation. After all, as Herry Monster once sang to them "Two Heads Are Better Than One."
Best of all about the monster, he's (they are?) easily the Sesame character that seems to seamlessly retain their integrity whenever a different performer takes on one of the heads. When you compare Richard Hunt and Jerry Nelson performing them to David Rudman and Joey Mazzarino, you can usually tell very little difference between the two performances. Maybe that's just because it's all gibberish, but for anyone, they are iconic Sesame characters and never seem to get old despite being mostly underrated by the mainstream.
The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier, email@example.com
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I love these guys! I thought they had been given the names of "Frank 'n Stein?" Or am I mistaken?ReplyDelete
I think "Frank and Stein" was a one-time nickname that's not considered canon. There was also one segment where Olivia called them "Horn and Hardart."ReplyDelete
I agree that Rudman and Mazzarino have taken over seamlessly, but I bet it wasn't easy. Have you ever actually tried to speak the Two-Headed Monster's language without just repeating the same sounds? It's tricky!
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Dig Dug Trivia (BREW)
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100 point score based on reviews from various critics.
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5 point score based on user ratings.
1001 Video GamesThe Arcade version of Dig Dug appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
Arcade versionIn the coin-operated version the game ends on round 256 (shown as round 0) since this board is unplayable. At the start of the level, a Pooka is placed directly on top of where the player starts, with no way to kill it. This is a famous example of a kill screen (a area of a game that is impossible to play, usually caused by the oversight of developers.)
ReleaseDig Dug was one of the "Fabulous Eleven" launch games for the Atari 7800.
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My question is if one is claims to know the 10 Qiraat, does that mean he/she knows all ways of reading...?
Assalaamu Alaykum
My question is if one is claims to know the 10 Qiraat, does that mean he/she knows all ways of reading, for example, Hafs an Aasim and Shubah an Aasim, Qaloon Nafi and Warsh Nafi, etc., or only one way from each category, for example, Hafs an Aasim, Warsh an Nafi, etc.
Jazaakallahu Khayran
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh,
If one claims to know the 10 Qir'aat, they know all of the qira'aat which is inclusive with the two rawee for each qaar'i. They therefore know both Hafs and Shu'bah 'an 'Aasim, because 'Aasim is one of the ten qira'aat, and if you claim to know each of the ten qira'aat,, you must know each qaari' in its entirety. The same holds for Nafi', they would learned both Qaloon and Warsh 'an Naafi'. This of course refers to the 10 qira'aat by the way of Ash-Shaatibiyyah and Ad-Durrah, often called al-'ashr as-Sughraa (lessor ten).
There is also Al-'ashr al--Kubraa (greater or grand ten), also referred to as the ten qira'aat min tareeq Tayyibah An-Nashr, which still has the ten qira'aat and the two raawee for each qira'ah, but there are added turuq besides the tareeq of Ash-Shaaitibiyyah and Ad-Durrah.
Wa iyyaaakum
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Created in 1997 to celebrate and preserve Italian cycling's rural heritage, L'Eroica is a sportive/gran fondo that takes riders over the white gravel roads of Tuscany — on retro bikes. Now in his 50s, Franco Rossi has won two editions of the race, which began with 82 participants but now draws more than 4,000 from all over the world.
A former football/soccer player, Rossi is a tan firecracker of a man, constantly joking and clearly enjoying his role as an ambassador for the event.
Rossi on the course of L'Eroica with American Mark Gouge
BikeRadar recently caught up with Rossi and rode with him on the course of L'Eroica, which is permanently marked and preserved by local government. Although the route pops onto pavement from time to time, most of the rolling course winds peacefully on white gravel roads, taking riders through vineyards, fields and the postcard-perfect Tuscan scenery on its 200km loop that begins and ends in Gaiole in Chianti.
L'Eroica rules require that riders use only bikes and equipment from the 1980s or before — with tubes and tires being the understandable exception. Rossi said that the first time he won he rode a bike from 1927 with wooden rims.
Steel tubes, five rear cogs, and toe clips are all Franco Rossi needs to tackle 200km of gravel and pavement
His current machine is a steel Cinelli Speciale Corse steed, for which he doesn't know the exact date. "The 1960s?" he says with a shrug.
Watching Rossi tackle the steep gravel hills with a 42-tooth small ring is impressive, with only a 5-speed 14-29T cassette for assistance in the rear.
True to his period costume, Rossi does his training rides sans helmet in wool shorts, wool jersey, and goggles, with a (new) tubular wound over his shoulders. He has only a single bottle cage on the frame, but public water fountains along the route of L'Eroica as well as cafés provide the opportunity for him to refill.
Rossi and friends on the strade bianche of L'Eroica
BikeRadar always tries to get the measurements of the rider as well as the bike for our Pro Bike features. When asked his height, Rossi gestured with his thumb and index finger to indicate about 3cm, then he added with a laugh "but I'm shorter after riding 200km!"
Click through the gallery at above right for details on Rossi's L'Eroica bike, and a few scenes of the man himself on the white gravel roads of Tuscany.
L'Eroica takes place this weekend — the first Sunday of October, annually — with several distance options available.
Complete bike specifications
- Frame: Cinelli Speciale Corse steel "from the 1960s"
- Stem: Cinelli, 100mm
- Handlebar: Cinelli, 40cm
- Brake calipers: Universal CX
- Front derailleur: Campagnolo Nuovo Record
- Rear derailleur: Campagnolo Nuovo Record
- Down-tube shift levers: Campagnolo Nuovo Record
- Brake levers: Campagnolo Nuovo Record
- Cassette: 5-speed, 14-29
- Chain: Sachs
- Cranks: Campagnolo Nuovo Record, 172.5mm
- Chain rings: Campagnolo Nuovo Record, 52/42
- Pedals: Campagnolo Nuovo Record with Christophe Z Speed toe clips
- Front wheel: Phil Wood hub, Ergal rim, 36 radial spokes
- Rear wheel: Phil Wood hub, Ergal rim, 36 3x spokes
- Front Tire: Veloflex Carbon tubular, 23mm
- Rear tire: Veloflex Carbon tubular, 23mm
- Spare tire over shoulders: Vittoria Competition Rally tubular, 21mm
- Saddle: Brooks
- Bottle cage: One
Critical measurements
- Rider height:178cm/5'10"
- Rider weight: 71kg/157lb
- Saddle height from BB (c-t): 73cm
- Reach: 52.5cm
- Drop: 7.5mm
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The blog entry written by LeBlanc details the success of Windows on netbooks. Back in the first half of 2008, Windows netbooks constituted less than 10% of unit sales, compared to 96% as of February 2009. The figures come from NPD, with netbooks defined as latops with a 10.2" or smaller screen, priced at 500 USD or less. No matter how look at that, that's pretty impressive (default statistics warnings apply, of course, such as the figures probably being US-only).
The post also contains some musing on why, exactly, Windows is more popular on netbooks. One of those reasons is that people simply expect Windows, says LeBlanc. Returns rates are much higher for Linux netbooks, so high in fact that UK Carephone Warehouse has taken them off the shelves because of a 1-to-5 return rate. People expect Windows, LeBlanc says, and get furstrated "when they realize their Linux-based netbook PC doesn't deliver that same quality of experience".
The rest of his reasons are debatable at best, and nonsense at worst. He claims Windows is easier to set up, run, and maintain. Especially the bit about updates is nonsensical; as if Linux doesn't do automatic updates. The section about hardware support being better on the Windows platform might hold relevance for some pieces of kit, but overall, Linux has been doing amazingly well in that area as of late.
The failure of Linux to gain a foothold in the market through netbooks should prompt the Linux community to take a look at itself, and see where it went wrong. Linux had every chance to become a decent household name here, but for some reason, they blew it. With Windows 7 on the way, pushing away the bad Vista taste, it's only going to be harder.
AppleInsider recently ran a story about how Microsoft was going to offer downgrade rights to Windows XP from Windows 7, and how that was somehow special and newsworthy. The story says Microsoft is allowing HP to offer downgrade rights "for another year" until April 30, 2010. This isn't news at all, as Microsoft always allows corporate (volume licensing) and home users to downgrade. In fact, the Windows Developer Network offers versions going as far back as Windows 3.1.
On a related note, mainstream Windows XP support will end April 14, 2009. This means Windows XP will only receive security updates from now on, unless you paid for Extended Support which will last until August 2014.


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If this is already known by everyone, just delete this thread.
What hell?! Awesome! I dunno if it's common knowledge, but I didn't know that.
edit: Holy crap! You can search by author!Post edited by T Jaiman on
pwiecek Posts: 1,105
You couldn't do that even when they were live.
Miss B Posts: 3,068
I just noticed this yesterday. Thanks for posting about it, as I thought I had just gotten lucky. :-)
Eva1 Posts: 1,077
I didn't know this - thanks for posting!:)
de3an Posts: 793
I noticed that the search function began working back in July. But I don't think any mention was made of it. Probably because that was the same time that the archive site was further broken beyond usefulness.
I say that because, before July the forumarchive site was very responsive, and even though the images did not display, you could still find old posts fairly quickly.
After July, searching became functional, but every link that you click now is delayed 22 seconds before it loads. Now, while 22 seconds might seem trivial, if you need to click through several links to get to your destination, it quickly becomes very frustrating.
This 22 second delay is consistent throughout the archive site, and I suspect that it was introduced in a faulty attempt to restore the search function.
I really wish the developers would take a look at this problem. I've mentioned it several times on the forum, and so far no one from DAZ has chosen to comment on it.
Wendy_Carrara Posts: 18,297
not on Android, cannot even open it, but can on Win IE
Wendy_Carrara Posts: 18,297
that damn spam filter told me again I could not submit my post at this time so T added a word and double posted :red:Post edited by Wendy_Carrara on
RawArt Posts: 4,208
Awesome...I can finally find some old files.
(wish i could see the images too)
Chohole Posts: 29,113
You can see the images with some manipulation, although only one at a time. you take the postimages/origimage_1_3388917.jpg bit from the html image code in the post, and add it to http://forumarchive.daz3d.com/
so then you get http://forumarchive.daz3d.com/postimages/origimage_1_3388917.jpg
which will display the image if you click it
Fixmypcmike Posts: 17,301
There's also a Greasemonkey plugin to display the images automatically.
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Could someone please confirm that they too are seeing a 22 second delay after clicking any of the links at http://forumarchive.daz3d.com/ ?
Fauvist Posts: 941de3an said:Could someone please confirm that they too are seeing a 22 second delay after clicking any of the links at http://forumarchive.daz3d.com/ ?
I get a 13 second delay when I click any of the links there. But lately the DAZ servers seem to be slow even when you're trying to shop - maybe because of the sale.
de3an said:Could someone please confirm that they too are seeing a 22 second delay after clicking any of the links at http://forumarchive.daz3d.com/ ?
Roughly that, by 1-missisippi, I don't have a stopwatch handy.
It's a mighty PITA when you're sitting there waiting, for the 10th time...
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You couldn't do that even when they were live.
yes you could was frequently the most useful way to search.
But it did (and does) often fail when you click the 2nd page of author search results. At least when it's "All posts by".
I just refreshed my memory on that point, today...
I think it used to do that with a keyword+author search, but more rarely.Post edited by T Jaiman on
fixmypcmike said:There's also a Greasemonkey plugin to display the images automatically.
And FoxReplace, for Firefox. Link in my sig (last post of that thread).