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In the recent edition of Focus-Spezial Immobilien (English: Focus-Special Real Estate) Christian Völkers, CEO/Founder of Engel & Völkers AG, talks about second homes.
Mr. Völkers, why do you live on Majorca in the summer season?
"I was travelling around the island 20 years ago when I discovered a unique plot of land with an old finca. It is completely off the tourist track, close to a rocky coastline near Valldemossa. With wonderful views overlooking the Tramuntana mountains and the sea. I immediately fell in love with the estate and decided to buy it. "
What makes it so unique, compared to other properties that you sell?
"The grounds could only be reached via a bumpy gravel track. On the plot itself there was a 500-year-old traditional country house that laid almost in ruins. I put my heart into restoring it, while preserving the original character of the historic walls. We have kept the façade as it was with its classical columns on the veranda, but inside almost everything is new."
So your tip is: better to look for a dilapidated house and then refurbish it yourself?
"Our clients are usually interested in a new or fully refurbished holiday property. If they start looking in the spring they often want to have moved in by the summer."
What was your estate worth when you bought it, and what would its current valuation be?
"To give you a direct comparison, the estate cost around a third of what it would be worth on Majorca today. But the price is always just one aspect. I was looking for somewhere to retreat, away from a demanding job. Sometimes I don't leave my estate for days on end. It gives me strength for my day-to-day life and inspiration as well to develop new ideas for the company."
That is when you make decisions like designating foreign locations in Barcelona, in Rome and in Dubai as new hotspots for your company?
"We want to build on our presence in attractive cities, as the trend towards buying second homes is enormous. Clients always want everything to be 100 percent perfect when they buy their main property. When it comes to acquiring a holiday home, many buyers are not quite so demanding with regard to the layout of the rooms. The key factor involved is primarily the best possible location."
What was the most expensive property transaction in your 30 years in the property industry?
"That was a property in Switzerland. We sold it for 60 million Swiss francs – which equates to around 55 million euros."
For anyone who isn't a millionaire but who is still looking for a beautiful holiday property abroad, where are they most likely to find something?
"On the one hand there are the top holiday destinations such as Majorca, Sardinia and the Côte d'Azur, where exceptionally high prices are being paid in prime locations for high-end holiday properties. On the other hand, prices in preferable locations in undiscovered regions are still moderate. For example in some coastal regions on the Spanish mainland and in Portugal."
What about that country in the throws of the Euro crisis – Greece? Could buying a property there turn into a disaster?
"Since the decision last year that Greece will remain in the Euro zone, the property market has stabilised. From that point of view, now is the right time to invest in Greek property, for example on Rhodes. In Italy too, there are classic second homes in Tuscany and on the lakes of northern Italy. This is now an opportune moment to buy a holiday home there."
With all the alternatives you come across on a daily basis – should we be expecting that you will be selling your estate on Majorca some time soon?
"Under no circumstances. Majorca remains one of the most vibrant places in Europe. I love the climate, the Mediterranean way of life, the warmth of the people and the beautiful island scenery. I spend a lot of time here with my family and friends. Once a year I also invite our clients to a polo tournament. This is simply my home."
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CRESTVIEW � North Okaloosa Medical Center administrators are scoffing at a national nurses union report claiming the local hospital charges the nation's fourth-highest billing mark-up.
CRESTVIEW � North Okaloosa Medical Center administrators are scoffing at a national nurses union report claiming the local hospital charges the nation's fourth-highest billing mark-up.
Crestview's hospital is surpassed only by hospitals in Secaucus, N.J., Painsville, Ky., and Orange Park, California-based National Nurses United stated in a press release.
NOMC charges patients 1,137 percent of its treatment expenses against a state average of 555 percent and national average of 331 percent, according to the release.
The claim, NOMC Chief Executive Officer David Fuller said, is faulty in its calculations and excludes multiple factors involved in medical charges.
"Their methodology was really rudimentary," Fuller said.
For example, Fuller said, for-profit North Okaloosa writes off between $1 million and $1.5 million per month in charity patient treatment charges, which were not included in the union's study.
"Our hospital provided more than $13.5 million in uncompensated care last year," NOMC Director of Marketing Rachel Neighbors stated in a news release.
Hospitals' claim that actual patient charges don�t matter because few patients pay the list price is "a defense that defies logic,� union President Jean Ross stated in the NNU release, claiming high hospital charges result in higher insurance payments.
"Uninsured individuals with far less bargaining power are too often hit with the full list price," Ross said.
That's not the case at NOMC, Fuller said. Charges are established with insurers such as Medicare, Medicaid and individual insurance companies, he said.
"Every insurance plan we participate with pays a negotiated rate," Fuller said. "Even for our self-pay patients, we offer huge discounts," as much as 50 percent off the bill, Fuller said.
"Presuming the (NNU's) analysis is correct, it�s important to know charges are not the same as what consumers actually pay," Neighbors stated.
"You have to look at who's originating the study, what's their underlying motivation, and what's their method," Fuller said.
The union's release of its study of publicly available Medicare cost reports was timed with its protest of NOMC parent company Community Health Services Inc.'s planned acquisition of Health Management Association.
Community Health's shareholders approved the acquisition last week at a meeting in Naples. Fuller said adding more hospitals to CHS's family will benefit, not hurt, patients, as the union claimed.
"It gives us a much stronger leverage in the provision of patient care," Fuller said, citing increased opportunities to turn to sister hospitals that offer expertise in areas NOMC does not.
Email News Bulletin Staff Writer Brian Hughes, follow him on Twitter or call 850-682-6524.


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Tony Parker had 30 points and 11 assists to lead San Antonio to a 108-102 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday night, giving the Spurs their 15th win in their last 16 games.
Danny Green scored 21 points, including 5-for-8 shooting on 3-pointers, for the Spurs, who have the top overall record in the NBA (43-12) as well as the best road mark (21-10). Kawhi Leonard added 15 points and Manu Ginobili 12 as San Antonio won at Sacramento for the 10 straight time.
Brois Diaw had 10 points and Tim Duncan added nine points and 14 rebounds for the Spurs.
Isaiah Thomas scored 22 points for the Kings, who have dropped three straight. Tyreke Evans had 20 points, Marcus Thornton added 16, and Jason Thompson and DeMarcus Cousins had 11 each.


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George Brown
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- North Milwaukee, WI, USA
- Death date
- 1987/12/11
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- RCA (Radio Corporation of America)
- Fields of study
- Communications
- Awards
- IEEE Edison Medal
George H. Brown was born on 14 October 1908, in North Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He majored in Electrical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin in the class of 1930, and he continued in postgraduate work at the university to earn his M.S. in 1931 and his Ph.D. in 1933. He joined the Radio Corporation of America in 1933 as a research engineer at Camden, NJ.
Early in his career, Dr. Brown was attracted by the challenge of transmission problems facing the radio broadcasting industry and he produced the theory and analytical deductions that led to his development of the directional antenna systems that are now standard in the transmission of AM and FM radio and in television broadcasting.
One of the notable results of his early research work was his translation of his theoretical conclusions into the AM Broadcasting Antennas that are in standard use throughout the world. In 1935, he followed this with development of the "turnstile" antenna. The turnstile concept offered for the first time an effective combination of high gain and broad bandwidth with a wave propagation pattern which made it possible to broadcast FM radio and television signals over long distances. Subsequently, Dr. Brown added to the design an absorbing resistor which resulted in increased bandwidth and permitted the simultaneous radiation of television pictures and sound from the same antenna.
In the late 1930's, he made a further contribution of basic importance to practical television service, the vestigial side-band filter which made possible the high resolution characteristic of broadcast television today.
During World War II, Dr. Brown designed and developed radio and radar antennas for military systems and was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation from the War Department for his contributions. He and his associates also developed a method for speeding the production of penicillin by means of radio-frequency heating techniques. As a recognized authority in the technical aspects of broadcast communications, Dr. Brown has played a prominent part in industry and government efforts through the years to formulate and establish standards for radio and television broadcasting. Through the 1950's he was responsible for instituting and leading a comprehensive technical and test program that demonstrated for the first time the advantages and the problems of UHF television broadcasting. Through the same period, he made significant contributions to the formulation of standards for commercial color television service as a participant in the work of the National Television System Committee and as an expert witness before the Federal Communications Commission.
Starting in 1952, Dr. Brown advanced through a series of positions of creasing importance in the research and engineering organizations of RCA Director of the Systems Research Laboratory, RCA Laboratories; Chief Engineer, RCA Industrial Electronic Products (1957); Vice President, Engineering, RCA; Vice President, Research and Engineering (1961); Executive Vice President, Research and Engineering (1965). He was a member of the Board Directors of RCA and of RCA Communications, Inc. Brown retired from RCA in 1972. Afterward he wrote his memoirs, entitled and part of which I was—Recollections of a Research Engineer.
Dr. Brown was a leading contributors to the technology of modern broadcast communications. As an engineer, administrator, and executive, he played a pioneering role in the development of theory, equipment, and standards vital to the commercial radio and television services.
Dr. Brown was a Fellow of the IEEE and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He held 80 US patents and he contributed to a multitude of scientific and engineering journals. He was awarded the 1967 IEEE Edison Medal "For a meritorious career distinguished by significant engineering contributions to antenna development, electromagnetic propagation, the broadcast industry, the art of radio frequency heating, and color television."
Dr. Brown married Elizabeth Ward in 1932. They had twin sons- James W., who became a professor of mathematics at Oberlin College, and George H., Jr., became an electrical engineer. Dr. Brown took a special interest in Boy Scout activities received the coveted Silver Beaver Award for his work in scouting. Brown passed away on 11 December 1987.
Further Reading
National Academy of Engineering, "George H. Brown," Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, Vol. 4 (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1991).


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You've seen lip dub music videos, flash mob dances, and great wedding party videos.
The Vindicator wanted to capture all that viral music video enthusiasm and challenged Valley High Schools to produce their own music video. Using the track "I'd Like to Get to Know You", by JD Eicher & the Goodnights, Valley schools will compete and take a stand against bullying.
Congratulations to our 2015 winner, Warren G. Harding High School. They will take part in an anti-bullying commercial that will allow them to showcase their school pride. Stay tuned!
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Girard students participate in the High School Music Video Challenge featuring the song "I'd Like to Get to Know You", by J.D. Eicher and The Goodnights.
We suggest that a great video will blend both concepts.
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Supporters and opponents of Massachusetts casinos came together for a panel discussion at Suffolk University on Thursday.
The forum – Casinos: Deal Us In? – was hosted by Sawyer Business School's Center for Real Estate and the Greater Boston Real Estate Board. It included two out of the three bidders for the sole Eastern Massachusetts casino license, as well as host community representatives. NECN Business Editor Peter Howe moderated the discussion.
"Now is the time to talk to the bidders," Stephen Crosby, chairman of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, told attendees. "This is the moment of absolute maximum leverage. There will never be a moment like this again."
Foxwoods Resort Casino CEO Scott Butera, who aims to build a casino off Interstate 495 in Milford, said he plans to keep 80 percent of the 200-acre site undeveloped, possibly enhanced with new hiking and biking trails.
"You don't have to be the biggest game in town. It's good to be the nicest," Butera said.
But Steve Trettel, of Casino Free Milford, argued that the casino would do more harm than good for his community by lowering property values and increasing traffic and crime. "Why would we ever want to give up the semi-rural, suburban environment of our town?"
Suffolk Downs Chief Operating Officer Chip Tuttle hopes to convert the Revere and East Boston horse racing track into a Caesars Entertainment resort. He plans to partner with downtown Boston hotels, restaurants, and theaters.
Celeste Ribeiro Myers, of No Eastie Casino, said "Only one of these locations can be awarded a casino, if you consider it an award. However, it's important to note that none of us has to have a casino."
Meyers said her grassroots group has had difficulty getting information from bidders. "We can't get access to the most basic data. We're marching to an arbitrary timeline that's been set by the Gaming Commission and our local officials."
Everett resident Evmorphia Stratis is fiercely opposed to the casino proposal. Looking back at a trip she made to a Connecticut casino, she said, "What a boring, stupid thing to do with your life: Sit there, pull slots, drink, smoke. All the buses come in, all the people who are addicted, nonstop. Are you kidding me? This is what we're going to bring to Boston?"
Although the mayor and other officials strongly support the project, Stratis said no one should underestimate opposition in Everett.
Crosby noted that the plans won't go anywhere without first winning voter support in host community agreement referendums. He said he expects the commission to award the slot-parlor license in October and casino licenses early next year.
The event was the fourth in a series of Building Boston 2030 public forums. For updates on the series, follow @SuBizSchool on Twitter and use the hashtag: #BuildBoston.


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More Off the Beaten Path Board Books
Board books are a child's first introduction to books and there are some wonderful classics. But there are also some wonderful, under-the-radar ones to discover. Two years ago I rounded up some off the beaten path board books and I'm back with fifteen more.
• This New Baby by Teddy Jam, illustrated by Virginia Johnson
• The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Julie Morstad
• Wild Animal Alphabet by Dahlov Ipcar
• Dog Dreams by Michael Wertz
• A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
• Counting in the Garden by Emily Hruby, illustrated by Patrick Hruby
• Monkey See, Look at Me by Lorena Siminovich
• Spring Is Here / My Friends / Bus Stops Boxed Set by Taro Gomi
• Dracula: A Baby Lit Counting Primer by Jennifer Adams, illustrated by Alison Oliver
• A Book of Sleep by Il Sung Na
• Farmyard Alphabet by Dahlov Ipcar
• What is Green? by Kate Endle
• Cozy Classics: Pride and Prejudice by Jack Wang and Holman Wang
• Farm (Shiny Touch) by James Brown
• The World of Anahi & Vir boxed set by Kalpana Subramanian, illustrated by Prashant Miranda


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Zombie Studios' Daylight Haunting PCs and PS4s on April 8
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Developer Zombie Studios calls Daylight a "procedurally generated psychological thriller." It's a first-person survival horror game, where the only tool (and light source) at your disposal is a cell phone. Although one of the screenshots below does show the player holding some creepy doll because – well, what's creepier than a creepy doll? Nothing. Nothing is creepier than a creepy doll. But I digress...
Publisher Atlus USA has announced that Daylight will be arriving on PC and PlayStation 4 on April 8 for $14.99 USD, and it sounds like there may be some pre-order incentives unveiled soon. Along with the release date and pricing announcement, Atlus revealed two new areas in the game to go along with the starting hospital: The Prison and The Forest. You can read details on each area in the source below, but as I mentioned earlier, each area is procedurally generated, so no two playthroughs will be the same. Both versions of the game are also fully 3D compatible and the PC version even supports the Oculus Rift, if you really want to feel fear.
Check out the screenshots below for images of the new areas, but if you want to see what the gameplay is like, here's the "Don't Look Back" trailer that was published last month:
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Meat Processors Find Solutions For Maintaining Flavor While Adding Less Sodium, Fewer Costs
Processors are finding ways to deliver processed meats, fresh meats, frozen meats and meat-based foods that are flavorful, not too costly, have greater shelf life and stability as well as a healthful nutritional profile.
Whether it's used to discuss baseball or computer software, the aphorism "meat and potatoes" means that a thing is basic and perhaps essential. And meat is the first word in that equation.
Meat, and more broadly, animal proteins including poultry and seafood have traditionally been the common centerpiece of most American meals.
But in today's kitchens and food processing facilities, meat has to go beyond basic to deliver essential protein but within a much more rigorous set of consumer expectations.
"When I go out, to a restaurant, or when I buy meat at the store, I want a clear understanding of how the meat is produced and packaged," says executive chef Chris Hansen of the OSI Group, Aurora, Ill. "That can mean everything from what the animal was fed and other animal welfare issues, to the appearance, and visual cues like marbling. The last thing I think about is price. I think consumers have a very specific short-list of what they expect."
Many consumers are working toward including a higher ratio of plant-based foods in their diet, so whether meat is the center of a meal or an accent point, it has to be great quality.
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OSI operates more than 50 manufacturing facilities worldwide producing a broad variety of meats and protein-based products ranging from raw bacon to assembled sandwiches, primarily for quick-service restaurants and private labels. Hansen says chefs, food scientists and meat companies like OSI now expect to get more from each animal and to make the protein they have go further.
"In some cases that means people are reaching more deeply into the carcass and using cuts that might not have been utilized before," Hansen says. "There is also a move toward animal protein being more of an accent rather than a main feature of a meal."
Hansen also sees a place for sous vide cooking principals to be used in food processing. With this process, meat can be packaged raw in plastic pouches and immersed in a hot water bath for an extended period to cook it thoroughly but gently. It has certain advantages including improved flavor and texture, and reduced risk of post-processing contamination.
So processors, whether they are small specialty companies or global entities like OSI, must find ways to deliver processed meats, fresh meats, frozen meats and meat-based foods that are flavorful without being too costly. They also must come up with products with greater shelf life and stability that also have a healthful nutritional profile.
In many cases, meeting these goals has become a matter of portion control, and advances in handling and packaging practices also help. But the use of certain ingredients also can help meat perform better, with or without the potatoes.
A pinch (or more) of salt
Alef Sausage Co., Mundelein, Ill., was founded in 2000 with the goal of producing traditional European-style sausages for specialty delis and grocers. While it is still a small company with just 15 full-time employees, its business has grown steadily and it now has specialty and mainstream retail customers across the U.S. and Canada.
Founder Alec Mikhaylov says the company depends on quality whole meat ingredients, spices and flavorings. "Our goal from the beginning is just quality," he says. "We make a premium product with fresh meat from Smithfield and Farmington. We only use fresh, never frozen."
The company produces dozens of SKUs in three categories: cooked salamis, dried salamis and bologna/mortadella products. Product literature describes gentle flavors and "memorable aromas." For all Alef's products, spices are important for maximizing those flavor and aroma attributes.
"Our suppliers provide spices that are ground fresh to order," Mikhaylov says. While sodium nitrate is used as a preservative in many cured meat products, Alef has recently rolled out a natural, better-for-you line that relies on celery powder.
"Celery powder is a natural sodium nitrate. You can achieve the same shelf life," Mikhaylov notes. "Celery products also provide a clean label benefit. Although they actually contribute nitrates they can be labeled simply as celery on the ingredient deck."
In terms of size, Perdue Foods Salisbury, Md., sits at the other end of the spectrum, as the largest integrated poultry producer in the U.S. But just like Alef Sausage, Perdue has customers who want better-for-you products, so Perdue's R&D teams work hard to formulate products that can meet those expectations.
A couple years ago, Perdue rolled out its Simply Smart line of minimally processed cooked chicken products made with no preservatives and only natural ingredients. Celery seed can be found on the ingredient deck of some of those products, too, including a recently introduced gluten-free breaded chicken tenders product.
Perdue's Simply Smart chicken is made with whole cuts of chicken breast and includes Original Roasted Chicken Chunks, Original Grilled Chicken Strips, Lightly Breaded Chicken Chunks, Lightly Breaded Chicken Strips, and Lightly Breaded Chicken Filets. The company says each item has at least 40 percent fewer calories, at least 50 percent less fat and at least 25 percent more protein than the USDA standard for breaded fried boneless chicken.
Of course in most processed meat application, more than a pinch of salt is needed, says Doyle Keffer, salt technical services applications manager with Cargill Foods, Minneapolis.
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Gabe checks out the first ever Best Picture winner, meticulously restored...
Jack Powell (Charles "Buddy" Rogers) and David Armstrong (Richard Arlen) are physical rivals, vying for the attentions of the town's sweetheart, Sylvia Lewis (Jobyna Ralston). Jack fails to realize that Mary Preston (Clara Bow), literally the girl next door, is desperately in love with him. Both men both enlist to become combat pilots in the Air Service during WWI. They leave for training camp and are billeted together. Their tent mate is Cadet White (Gary Cooper), but their acquaintance is all too brief – Cadet White is killed in a crash the same day. Undaunted, Jack and David endure a rigorous training period, and turn from rivals to best friends. Upon graduating, they are shipped off to France to fight the Germans. Meanwhile, Mary joins the war effort by becoming an ambulance driver in hopes of finding Jack.
My knowledge base concerning films from the silent era is almost exclusively limited to horror films and slapstick comedy. I admit, I may lack the maturity to deal with film antiquities, but I'm trying to correct this behavior. Paramount has decided to help me out by releasing the once lost original Academy Award winner Wings on meticulously restored Blu-ray disc. Now it's my job to watch a silent era film. Amusingly, Wings isn't just known as the first Oscar winner for best picture, it's also notorious for being the first best picture winner that didn't deserve the award. I may have not known anything about the film outside its title (it was listed as 'lost' for years) had I not been a curious reader of all things 'alternative Oscar'. Chief among these tomes is Danny Peary's Alternate Oscars, a must read for curmudgeonly cineaste list lovers the world over. Peary's pick for best picture of 1927 is F.W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, which is a pretty popular pick. Other popular alternatives to Wings include Chaplin's The Circus, King Vidor's The Crowd (originally the awards included films over a two year period, so some 1928 releases count), and Buster Keaton's The General, none of which were even nominated (no one ever seems to pick The Jazz Singer, which says something about how generally not good that film actually is outside of its advances in sound technology). I see the most obvious choice for best film of the year being Fritz Lang's Metropolis, but I tend to skew towards the familiar, and I seriously doubt the Academy would celebrate a German film in 1927. The point I'm trying to make is that I entered this particular review with incredibly low expectations, and frankly, a touch of trepidation based on the films 144 minute run time, which could signify a long night with a bad film.
Perhaps this was the correct mindset, because rather than being disappointed by the lack of amazing in this first best picture winner, I'm pleasantly surprised that I largely enjoyed a film with a rough modern critical reception. There's no mistaking the grand scale of the production, which ran an estimated $2 million in 1927 dollars, which is something like $25 million in 2012 dollars, a hefty sum for an era when studio systems didn't risk bankruptcy on every major product (and rumours state that the US Army put something like $15 million into the film, which is something like $194 million in 2012 dollars). We have to put this film in the proper context immediately – it's an era blockbuster, not an art film. It was made to awe and entertain the broadest possible market, not to move them into thinking about subtext and social metaphors – though director William A. Wellman does get pretty poetic with his imagery during the melancholy fallout following the climatic battle. I very much enjoyed the sequences that deal in the mechanics of WWI era flight, including a brief look at archaic training exercises, and the occasionally breathtaking flying sequences. It's easy to marvel at the terrifying lengths Wellman (who was hired because he was an actual WWI aviator), along with his cast and crew, went to create something close to actual winged combat photography. Given the film's budget and prestige at the time, these technical achievements are surprising. I'm much more impressed with the more dynamic camera placement and movement (the shot where the camera moves over a series of tables during a campaign-fueled celebration is quite stylish), the evocative use of shadows, and the startlingly rhythmic editing. Eisenstein had really just recently ushered in montage editing at the time, so even brief use of it is standout, and the basic tempo of the film feels relatively modern at times.
The slapstick overstays its welcome on several occasions, and several other bits end up a whole lot more amusing than they're meant to be (there's a heavy sense of googly-eyed homoeroticism between Jack and David, and the enemy craft are referred to as 'Fokkers', thus fulfilling my juvenile giggle quotient for the evening), but I assume most modern audiences will have more trouble dealing with the sudden and constant shifts in tone. The plot meanders from one Saturday morning serial of a set piece or situation comedy gag to another with so little in the way of proper plot it's difficult to get swept up in the overlying drama. But this is really no different from a majority of output for the era, for better or worse. Clara Bow's potent, occasionally cartoonish screen presence does a lot to sell the romance and quirk. The sequence where she seduces a drunken Jack away from a sultrier minx is brimming with extreme absurdity even Buster Keaton wouldn't have touched at the time. I also have to admit that the final act works despite the heavy-handed melodrama. I was never at risk of shedding tears, but the land battle is rousing, and Jack and David's final interaction is genuinely touching (largely thanks to Richard Arlen, who keeps the ham at a minimum). Having been released mere months before the official Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America codes of conduct went into effect, so there's a fair degree of war violence, and even a quick glimpse of Bow's breasts.
As I stated above, Wings was considered a lost film for some time, but someone found a print in the Cinémathèque Française film archive in Paris some time in the 1990s. As far as I can tell Wings was never released on standard definition DVD in the US, and this 'miraculous' restoration marks the first digital release of the film. This means I have no real point of reference for this transfer outside of what the behind the scenes featurette on this disc tell me. For the most part, this is an incredible restoration of 85-year-old materials. The image is surprisingly crisp, though detail levels can't compete with the more technically adept cameras that would become the norm within a decade or so of Wings being produced. For type, however, wide shots tend to feature relatively complex backgrounds, and the more extreme close-ups feature quite a bit of fine texture. The image is consistently sepia or violet hued (depending on the sequence), and this was achieved with heavy digital tampering during the restoration process. The final effect quite pretty, so I'm willing to take the restorers at their word that the colour choices are all part of the original plan. Black levels are stronger in darker scenes, and there's rarely any true white, but generally speaking contrast levels are sharp enough to make up for the lack of gradation suffered by era film stock. The increase in sharpness allows the painted fire effects during the dogfights to really pop against the monochromatic backdrops as well, though disappointingly, these were digitally added based on Wellman's notes. Basic wear and tear appears throughout the film in the form of strobing edges and a handful of obvious print damage artefacts. Grain levels seem accurate and are generally lower than expected. The frame rate hops around a bit throughout the film, but is generally pretty consistent, which I understand is better than we can expect from most silent era releases, which would fluctuate somewhere between 14 to 24 FPS (seriously, any reader that knows more about this should feel free to comment below or email me, I'm curious).
Wings comes to Blu-ray with two audio choices. The first, and one I chose to listen to in its entirety, features a re-recorded score, originally composed by J.S. Zamecnik (orchestrated and arranged by Dominik Hauser), and new sound effects designed by Ben Burtt. Yes, the Star Wars guy. In terms of clarity and warmth this track sounds pretty good, and even gives the stereo and surround channels a decent workout. The LFE support is plenty rich here too. My problem is that none of it sounds right for the material to me. The orchestrations sound synthetically produced (they are not), and sound sort of like video game music throughout the film. The disc's producers were on the right track with this, as the original road show rollout of Wings did include an orchestra playing this music, but something consistently sounded 'off' to my ears. Burtt's sound design is crisp and punchy, especially during the battle sequences, where plane engines are roaring and flying bullets are tearing through the channels. But this track never sounds like something I expect to hear from a silent production. Again, this is largely my problem, since the film's original road show included sound effects as well. The alternative to just turning the sound off altogether is a Dolby Digital 2.0 track containing an original pipe organ score, composed and performed by Gaylord Carter. This track is rich and warm enough, and is mostly successful at recreating the sound of a pipe organ in your living room.
The extras here begin with Wings: Grandeur in the Sky (36:00, HD), a playful featurette covering the making of the film featuring interviews with film historians/critics James V. D'Arc, Frank Thompson, Paramount Archives VP Andrea Kalas, son of the director/actor/author/producer William Wellman Jr., Air Force Personnel Center Historian Rudy Purificato, Paramount producer A. C. Wyales, author Katherine Orrison, film preservationists Brian Meacham and Michael Pogorzelski, Ben Burtt and a handful of unnamed subjects. This starts with discussion of the state of film in the mid '20s, where spectacle was key, the genesis of the project, the expense issue, US Army participation, hiring Wellman as director, filming in San Antonio, casting, sets, the trials and tribulations of filming the spectacular flying sequences, including training the actors to fly the planes (!?), the conceptualizing of the climatic battle sequence, and the film's massive box office success. Restoring the Power and Beauty of Wings (14:20, HD) is a relatively in-depth exploration of the complex digital restoration process, featuring interviews with Technicolor executive direct Tom Burton, film preservationists Brian Meacham and Michael Pogorzelski, pianist Frederick Hodges, orchestrator Dominik Hauser, and Ben Burtt again. The final extra is Dogfight! (12:50, HD), a visit to the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome Air Show, where turn of the century and WWI airplanes are rebuilt/restored to working order. Here, the show's pilots give us a lesson in aviation history.
Wings isn't necessarily a must see, and I understand the 85-year-old critical backlash, but I was highly impressed with its technical achievements, enough to highly recommend a viewing. This 1080p digital restoration is pretty remarkable, especially considering the film's age and former status as 'lost', and the soundtrack is a solid attempt at recreating the original road show music and effects, even if it's a bit too modern to my ear. The extras don't take up a whole lot of time, but cover quite a bit of the film's history and are genuinely entertaining.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 24th January 2012
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.33:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: No
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Score and Sound Effects Track, Dolby Digital 2.0 Score
Subtitles: English Title Cards, French, Spanish, Portuguese Subtitles
Extras: Wings: Grandeur in the Sky, Restoring the Power and Beauty of Wings, Dogfight!
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama and War
Length: 144 minutes
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The Gathering festival has landed Ireland in the top 25 places to visit on a prestigious list compiled by renowned travel guide Fodors.
The Irish Examiner reports that the latest Fodor's Guide urges readers to visit Ireland in 2013.
Now in its third year, the well regarded list features rising destinations, hot cities and significant events.
The Gathering homecoming festival has catapulted Ireland onto the list along with England, Marseilles in France and far flung destinations like Easter Island and Burma.
The report says that Fodor's Travel specifically highlights The Gathering as a reason for travellers to come to Ireland next year.
It says: "Throughout 2013, Ireland will host events, festivals, and reunions in honour of the more than 70 million people worldwide who claim Irish heritage.
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NEW ORLEANS – It may finally be time for "Gator Nation" to reassess its reputation and change its name.
How about Gator Township?
Or Gator Precinct?
Or, perhaps, Gator Whistle-Stop?
NEW ORLEANS – It may finally be time for "Gator Nation" to reassess its reputation and change its name.
How about Gator Township?
Or Gator Precinct?
Or, perhaps, Gator Whistle-Stop?
When it comes to selling Sugar Bowl tickets, the Florida Gators have jumped off the fiscal cliff into a swimming pool filled with red ink.
The Gators have sold significantly less than half of their tickets to tonight's Sugar Bowl matchup with Louisville and will likely show up for kickoff with less than 7,000 tickets sold from its official allotment of 17,500. Granted, selling bowl tickets is not just a UF problem; it's a national problem. But it certainly is more alarming in these parts when it's the Gators who can't attract fans. Florida, after all, has always had this state's most rabid following.
You expected Florida State to have to slash ticket prices in order to lure fans to Tuesday night's Orange Bowl game against Northern Illinois. You always anticipate programs like Miami and UCF having minimal fan support. But not the Gators. You expect Gator fans, based on their reputation, to show up loud and proud no matter the bowl game or the opponent.
Florida coach Will Muschamp says the nation's economic downturn has played a significant factor in the number of UF tickets sold, but personally I think it's more of an enthusiasm downturn among Florida fans. How else do you explain Florida selling less tickets than any other bowl team in the SEC? How else do you explain upstart Louisville selling twice as many tickets from its allotment as Florida?
Louisville head coach Charlie Strong, a longtime defensive coordinator at UF, witnessed first-hand the evolution of the UF program. He remembers when the Gators getting invited to the Sugar Bowl constituted a special season. Now, though, a trip to New Orleans is treated like a trip to the bathroom.
"Florida is a program that has had so much tradition over the last few years," Strong says. "At Louisville, this is just our second BCS bowl game, so our fans are excited."
Translation: Florida fans have become spoiled and blasé.
This Sugar Bowl is not just an aberration; it's a trend. It's one of the reasons Steve Spurrier gave when he left UF in 2002 after leading the Gators to seven first-place SEC finishes in his 12 seasons. He said then it wasn't enough anymore to win 10 or 11 games and that Florida football had reached a point where fans weren't happy unless they were winning the SEC and/or national championship.
Urban Meyer indulged Gator fans even more by winning two national championships in his six seasons as coach. But when he departed, he left UF with a bad combination: A broken program and an entitled fan base.
Even before Meyer resigned, it was clear Florida fans had lost some of their famous fervor. In Tim Tebow's final game – at the 2010 Sugar Bowl – the Gators came up 5,000 tickets short of selling out their bowl allotment. And in Muschamp's first game replacing Meyer as coach, Florida's two-decade, 137-game streak of selling out home games ended.
I've always thought Florida's fan base was a bit overrated when compared to those at traditional powerhouses like Alabama, Ohio State, Nebraska and Texas. Unfortunately, it's becoming common knowledge among the bowl community as well.
It really hit home last year when UF played a Gator Bowl game in Gator-obsessed Jacksonville against Ohio State – Urban Meyer's new team. The Gators were 6-6 at the time and had to return half of their allotment of 15,000 tickets.
It became obvious then that the UF rallying cry "through all kinds of weather, we all stick together" wasn't what it once was. As one Gator Bowl official told The Florida Times-Union before the bowl game last year, "Apparently, all kinds of weather doesn't include 6-6."
There was a time not so long ago when UF fans would have been profoundly offended by such a comment, but those days are long gone.
There is no denying the new bowl reality:
Gator Nation has become Gator Neighborhood.
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Saturday, August 29, 2009
The Filmation Paradoxes
The first is that it's possible to work at a studio that has a comfortable environment and a friendly crew while turning out work that is, to put it charitably, of little value. Filmation is best remembered for shows like He-Man, She-ra and Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. While those series may produce a nostalgic glow for a generation of children, a dispassionate look at them shows them to be low budget formula cartoons. While artists would prefer to work on good projects, the truth is that a comfortable environment is perhaps as valuable as the quality of the finished work when the project takes up most of an artist's waking hours.
The other paradox is that artists tend to be judged by the projects they work on, and that's a false standard. A great many of the Filmation crew migrated to Disney, where they were major contributors to the success of The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. While resume credits are a handy way to pigeon-hole someone, they don't accurately reflect the skills of an artist. The intelligence and taste of the management, the size of the budget and the length of the schedule have more to do with the results on screen than the abilities of the crew.
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Here! Here! I would love to develop a studio that blends the best aspects of all those I'd worked for in the past. For the vast majority, it's an animator's pipe dream...but stay tuned.
- August 29, 2009 9:49 AM
- Daniel said...
Good stuff! Don't judge a book, and so and, and so forth.
- August 29, 2009 11:16 AM
- Brubaker said...
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- August 29, 2009 4:07 PM
- Brubaker said...
Speaking of which, I interviewed Eddie Fitzgerald several months back and I asked him about all the studios he worked at. He brought up Filmation, saying:
"I also have great memories of working at Filmation. The shows were absolutely terrible, and the hours were grueling, but it was my first industry job and there wasn't a moment when I didn't feel surrounded by magic."
Okay, he did acknowledge that their shows were awful, but they seem to have some stories to tell about the place.
Another animation director told me that when you want to make it in animation you gotta take what you can get, whether its good or bad. Take that as you will.
- August 29, 2009 4:08 PM
- John Celestri said...
My time working at Filmation will always remain a pleasant memory for me. Lou Scheimer treated me and everyone who worked for him with respect (as far as I could see). Nobody treated me better, and I've worked for Don Bluth, Richard Rich, Dick Williams, and was one of the original animators at Nelvana during its most creative years in the mid-70s to early 80s. OK, let the tomato-flinging begin.;-)
- August 29, 2009 6:08 PM
- John Celestri said...
You have to remember that at the time I worked at Filmation (1985-87), the industry money people felt that a non-Disney produced animated feature had to keep its budget under $4 million for it to have a chance to break even. This is well before Roger Rabbit (and don't tell me its budget was $4 million).
- August 29, 2009 6:17 PM
- Keith Lango said...
This is a great thing to keep in mind for animators at more successful film studios. It's not a majority, but there's more than a few who have a condescending attitude towards those not doing film (the culprits tend to be younger). It's not unheard of to learn of some animators at bigger studios "big-timing" other animators who work at "lesser" studios.
- August 29, 2009 7:20 PM
- Harvey Deneroff said...
After the ill-fated 1982 strike by the Screen Cartoonists failed to stop most TV studios in Hollywood from outsourcing work to other countries, Filmation refused to follow suit. And one way Lou Scheimer could keep costs down and keep his union workers busy was to skimp on production quality; he also came up with the idea of packaging shows, such as He-man and the Masters of the Universe, for first-run syndication, 65 episodes at a time. The success of these shows and the low budget features he made from them enabled Filmation to hire people on a year-round basis - something unheard of at the time in TV animation. These efforts almost single-handedly kept employment in the Hollywood industry from dropping precipitously in the years right after the strike. As such, it probably kept any number of artists from dropping out of animation, thus providing the needed manpower needed when the feature boom started in the late 80s and early 90s. I believe it was for this reason that ASIFA-Hollywood gave Scheimer its June Foray Award (as part of its Annie Awards ceremony) for service to the industry.
- August 29, 2009 8:40 PM
- Brubaker said...
For the record Filmation did outsource once: their Zorro series from the early '80s, which was being done at Tokyo Movie in Japan.
That was probably their best-looking show (still wasn't great, tho...)
- August 29, 2009 10:01 PM
- David Nethery said...
"For the record Filmation did outsource once: their Zorro series from the early '80s, which was being done at Tokyo Movie in Japan."
I had not ever heard about that, but I would guess the important difference is probably that the work on Zorro which was outsourced was overflow work . I don't believe it cost anyone their jobs at the main Filmation studio. They outsourced because they didn't have enough people on staff to handle that and their other shows in production.
(maybe I'm wrong about that , but I never heard about Filmation laying anyone off to send work out of the country) .
- August 29, 2009 11:32 PM
"It's not a majority, but there's more than a few who have a condescending attitude towards those not doing film (the culprits tend to be younger)."
I've only been able to work in TV. There is definitely a snobbish feeling coming from guys working on features compared to us low lifes working in TV. It's as if we have to be ashamed about it.
But to be honest I would rather work in film animation, you get more time flesh your scenes out depending on the studio. In TV it's get it done as fast as possible. Ironically enough though every animation supervisor I've had wants you to put so much love and emotion into your scenes while making 80 cents a frame.
Sorry, just a small rant.
- August 30, 2009 3:59 PM
- JPilot said...
Anonymous said: "Ironically enough though every animation supervisor I've had wants you to put so much love and emotion into your scenes while making 80 cents a frame."
One of my old timer teachers who worked at Jay Ward and Bill Melendez' studio taught me that one pose that had "heart and soul" was worth more than 50 drawings of uninspired business.
Some of the "cocainimators" in some studios I worked at would tear through a diarrhea of bad animation footage that would please the production managers and the bean counters while making loads of money for themselves. The old timers had just the right amount of drawings with perfect poses, timing, expressions and feeling and get a lot more done during regular hours and they made a decent living that way.
- August 30, 2009 5:10 PM
- Bill said...
I worked at Filmation for many years and can tell you we all knew we churned out crap. It was either work for H & B or Filmation or wait around for a feature to came along, and since most of us liked to eat we did what we had to do. Hell.....it was a living and we had fun.
Bill R
- August 30, 2009 6:44 PM
- Harvey Deneroff said...
"For the record Filmation did outsource once: their Zorro series from the early '80s, which was being done at Tokyo Movie in Japan."
I can affirm that Filmation did not lay off anyone when they sent animation to Japan on Zorro. I do recall that, as David Nethery notes, they did not have enough people to handle the project in house, I believe they also sent much of the animation to Japan, rather than just overflow; this was done with the full knowledge and approval of the union, since there were not enough union members available to do the job.
Employment in Hollywood during that time was largely TV-oriented and highly seasonal. This resulted in almost everyone in town being employed for ever-shorter periods of time, with longer and longer periods between animation assignments. (It was not uncommon for animation artists to have second careers outside of animation.) This was one of the reasons that Filmation's ability to provide year-round employment was so unusual.
- August 31, 2009 3:49 PM


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Golf Tidbits: Walker is winning in bunches
Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) - Jimmy Walker has won in bunches before, but never on the PGA Tour level.
Walker played 187 PGA Tour events without earning a victory. He broke through in start No. 188 and again in event No. 194. In a four-month span, Walker earned a pair of victories after years of waiting.
His first full season on the PGA Tour was in 2006. He went back to the Web.com the following year, but has been a PGA Tour member since 2008.
Before he bounced back and forth, Walker earned his stripes on the then-named Nationwide Tour. In 2004, he won the season-opening event in Panama and less than two months later won again in Louisiana.
Later that same year, Walker collected a pair of runner-up finishes en route to being named the tour's Player of the Year. At the time, he was the second- youngest winner of that award.
Walker competed in only 11 events in 2005 due to injury, then collected a single top 25 this following year, his first full season on the PGA Tour.
He fell back to the Nationwide Tour, where he tallied six top-20 finishes, including his third tour win in 2007. That gave him enough money to earn his PGA Tour card again, and he hasn't looked back since.
In this new 2013-14 wrap-around season, Walker has two wins, three top-10 finishes and has finished outside the top 21 once. In his 24 rounds, 18 have been under par, including rounds of 62, 62 and 64. The 62 and 63 both helped lead to victory.
Off the course, Walker dabbles in astrophysics. And that kind of makes sense.
The golf swing and the universe both have many moving parts.
Walker's golf swing doesn't have many holes in it, but two years ago he put a call into Butch Harmon for a little help.
Harmon, who has Phil Mickelson and Natalie Gulbis among his numerous clients, didn't do much to Walker's swing, but just refined a few little things. Prior to his current hot stretch, Walker had earned 11 top-10 finishes in the nearly two seasons under Harmon's watch.
Walker said after winning on Sunday that Harmon also helped him with the mental aspect of the game.
Winning usually helps players and their confidence. With two wins in four months, confidence is not a problem for Walker.
Some think Walker's game fits well at Augusta National, but he will be a 45- year-old first-timer at the Masters - the season's first major. He'll need more than just soaring confidence there as first-timers have won there just twice.
Not to worry. He'll focus on new goals, like making his first Ryder Cup team. There are 35 events between now and then.
Walker won't win them all, of course, but now that he has broken through, more wins aren't far off.
The European Tour plays an international schedule, but they might want to rethink starting each new year in South Africa.
That's because Louis Oosthuizen has made a habit of winning in his home country. For the fourth straight year, Oosthuizen won the season-opening event in his homeland.
It was a nice turnaround for the South African, who had five missed cuts and four withdrawals in 23 worldwide starts in 2013. A back injury plagued him throughout the season.
"I've got three weeks now that I really need to work on my back. It's still not 100 percent. Luckily, this week, I didn't have to hit a lot of drivers, but once I get to Augusta, I need to hit driver," Oosthuizen said in reference to the season's first major.
Oosthuizen didn't play 72 total holes in the four majors last year. He missed the cut at the Masters, withdrew after one round of the U.S. Open and lasted only eight holes at the British Open before retiring due to injury. He was unable to start the PGA Championship.
He can be a factor in the majors when healthy. Prior to last year, he had one top-10 finish in each of the previous three years in the majors. He won the Open Championship in 2010, then shared ninth at the 2011 U.S. Open and lost in a playoff at the 2012 Masters.
In that same three-year span from the 2010-12, he also had four top-10 finishes in the four World Golf Championship events.
A healthy Oosthuizen is a dangerous one, for sure.
* Adam Scott and Justin Rose are both out of action for several weeks. With not much of an offseason, Scott is taking time off now and won't be back until the PGA Tour heads to Florida and Rose is out for four weeks with an ailing shoulder. If they both miss the WGC-Accenture Match Play, that would be a big blow to that event, which has already lost its sponsor for next year and also might be searching for a new course and a new spot on the tour's calendar in 2015.
* If you can believe it, we are under 90 days away and a baker's dozen of events from the Masters.


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LDraw.org Bylaws
Table of Contents
Article 1: Name
Article 2: Purposes
Section 2.01: The LDraw.org Goals
Section 2.02 : Non Profit Nature and Charitable Purpose
Article 3: Individual Membership
Section 3.01 : Classes of Membership
Section 3.02: Acceptance Procedures for Individual Membership
Section 3.03: Active Membership
Section 3.04: Fellow Membership
Section 3.05: Honorary Membership
Section 3.06: Termination or Suspension of Individual Membership
Section 3.07: Individual Membership Policy
Article 4 : Dues
Section 4.01: Fees Levied Against the Membership Classes
Section 4.02: Suspension of Membership
Article 5: Meetings of the Membership
Section 5.01: Electronic Communication
Section 5.02: Physical Meetings
Section 5.03: Convention
Article 6: Steering Committee Members
Section 6.01: Number of Members and Term of Office
Section 6.02: Eligibility for LEGO Company Employees
Subsection 6.02(a) Full Public Disclosure
Subsection 6.02(b) Accountability and Review Process
Section 6.03: Nomination and Election Process for Steering Committee Members
Subsection 6.03(a) Nomination Process
Subsection 6.03(b) Election Process
Subsection 6.03(c) Votes Required
Subsection 6.03(d) Qualification Process
Subsection 6.03(e) Assumption of Office
Section 6.04: Roles of Steering Committee Members
Subsection 6.04(a) Duties of the Chairperson
Subsection 6.04(b) Duties of the Secretary
Subsection 6.04(c) Duties of the Treasurer
Section 6.05: Removal of Officers from the Steering Committee
Section 6.06: Vacancy and Succession
Section 6.07: Appointed Officers
Section 6.08: Appointed Key Positions
Section 6.09: Removal of Key Positions
Section 6.10: Vacancy and Succession of Key Positions
Section 6.11: Reimbursement of Members
Article 7: Representation of LDraw.org
Section 7.01: Representation in Policy Matters
Section 7.02: Trademarks and Visual Representation
Article 8: Amendments
Section 8.01: Amendment of Bylaws
Section 8.02: Procedures for Amendment of Bylaws
Article 9: Special Interest Groups
Section 9.01: Creation
Section 9.02: Ongoing Operations
Section 9.03: Dissolution
Section 9.04: LDraw.org Standards Committee
Article 10: Dissolution
Section 10.01: Dissolution by Resolution
Section 10.02: Disposition of Assets
Section 10.03: Retention of Name and Identifying Marks
Article 1: NameHow we are known, web presence
The name of this Organization shall be the LDraw Organization, also referred to as LDraw.org. The organization shall use the Internet domain ldraw.org for identity purposes, and has a website at the URL of http://www.ldraw.org.
Article 2: PurposesThe LDraw.org goals, charitable nature
Section 2.01: The LDraw.org GoalsThe purposes of this Organization shall be:
- Maintain and distribute the core LDraw properties, the file format and parts library, as free and extendable resources for everyone's benefit, in the spirit of James Jessiman
- Develop and maintain the LDraw format
- Foster communication among people interested in virtual LEGO® building
- Promote the virtual LEGO hobby through online resources, events, media exposure, literature, etc.
- Support developers of new and innovative LDraw software
- Represent the interests of the LDraw/virtual LEGO builders' community to The LEGO Company, LEGO fan organizations, clubs, educators, organizers of special events, the CAD industry, and the like
- Adapt and respond to other existing and potential future LEGO CAD formats, whether fan developed, existing CAD formats, or formats released by The LEGO Company.
Section 2.02 : Non Profit Nature and Charitable PurposeLDraw.org is a non-profit organization.
The property of this Organization is irrevocably dedicated to charitable purposes and no part of the net income or assets of the Organization shall be used to benefit private persons.
Article 3: Individual MembershipIndividual members, types and qualifications, non-discrimination
Section 3.01 : Classes of MembershipThere shall be three classes of Individual Membership: Active, Fellow and Honorary. Where these bylaws refer to Individual Member without a distinguishing qualifier, the provision shall apply to all Individual Members, including Active, Fellow and Honorary.
Section 3.02: Acceptance Procedures for Individual MembershipThe procedure and application for accepting all new classes of membership shall be determined by the Steering Committee or sub-committee and recorded in the LDraw.org Policies and Procedures document.
Section 3.03: Active MembershipActive Membership may be granted to applicants:
- Who are natural persons (individual humans, not corporations or other entities
- Who are of the age of majority in their country (18 in the USA)
- Who positively affirm the LDraw.org goals
- Who fulfill one of the following requirements for identity verification as specified in the Policies and Procedures document.
Section 3.04: Fellow MembershipAny Active Member who has pre-eminently distinguished him or herself in LEGO CAD shall be eligible for Fellow Membership.
An Active Member must be nominated for Fellow member status by at least three members of the Active Membership. The Steering Committee will then consider the nomination and decide whether or not to present it to the Active Membership for a vote. If it is put to a vote, the status will be bestowed by the affirmative vote of a simple majority of the Active Membership. This status shall not be bestowed on any Active Member until at least 1 year after the date of adoption of these bylaws.
Fellow Members have all rights and responsibilities of active members except shall be exempt from any dues and assessments.
Section 3.05: Honorary MembershipAny non-LDraw.org member who has rendered meritorious services in one of LDraw.org designated areas of interest shall be eligible for Honorary Membership. Honorary members are entitled to all rights and privileges of LDraw.org except the right to vote or to hold office.
An Honorary Member must be nominated for Honorary member status by at least three members of the Active Membership or Steering Committee. This status will then be bestowed by the affirmative vote of a simple majority of the Active Membership. The Steering Committee shall have the power to veto the Active Membership's affirmation vote. The Active Membership shall not bestow such status on any individual until at least 1 year after the date of adoption of these bylaws.
Section 3.06: Termination or Suspension of Individual MembershipAn Individual Member may terminate his or her membership voluntarily (see procedure for this in the Policies and Procedures document). All rights, privileges, and interests of such member shall cease on resignation from the Membership. Resignations shall be effective upon fulfillment of all obligations to the date of withdrawal. Members may request their personal information be deleted from LDraw.org records upon resignation or termination for privacy reasons.
An Individual Member may be suspended or terminated for due cause. Sufficient cause for such suspension or termination of Membership shall be any of the following:
- violation of the provisions of these Bylaws or any lawful rule or practice duly adopted by LDraw.org
- nonpayment of dues or other financial obligations
- Willful misrepresentation or falsification of any material statement of fact
- Any other conduct prejudicial to the interests of the LDraw.org, as so identified by the Steering Committee.
Section 3.07: Individual Membership PolicyIt is the policy of LDraw.org not to discriminate in its qualifications for membership against any person by reason of his or her sex, race, religion, creed, sexual orientation, or other physical condition, or national origin.
Article 4 : DuesDues, the levy and payment thereof
Section 4.01: Fees Levied Against the Membership ClassesAny fees levied against any or all classes of membership, including changes in annual dues, shall be proposed by the Steering Committee and presented to the membership classes affected.
- For changes to annual dues the Steering Committee shall present the proposal for a 30 day public discussion period.
- For all other fees, not including changes to annual dues, the Steering Committee shall present the proposal for public discussion as soon as the Steering Committee is aware of the need for a fee. In any case, the public discussion period shall not be less than 12 days.
Section 4.02: Suspension of MembershipAny Individual Member behind in dues, after two dues notices having been sent, shall have his or her membership susupended 90 days after the date of the second notice. Records, electronic or otherwise, covering suspended members shall be kept on file in case the member seeks reinstatement in the future.
A Member may be reinstated upon payment of the annual dues in effect at the time of reinstatement. Notices sent to last known email address are deemed sufficient.
Article 5: Meetings of the MembershipLDraw.org is an electronic organization, the mailing list, and convention particulars
Section 5.01: Electronic CommunicationLDraw.org is an electronic facilitated organization; and as such, physical meetings will not be required. Meetings of the LDraw.org Steering Committee, and other formed sub-committees, will be conducted via electronic mailing lists. A notice sent by electronic mail to a member's last known email address shall be deemed sufficient.
Announcements and public records shall be made available on the LDraw.org web pages. The organization shall also ensure a system is in place to email notices to members upon request. What constitutes "sufficient notice" of announcements and public records can be found in the Policies and Procedures document.
Section 5.02: Physical MeetingsA physical meeting is defined as any meeting with the intent to carry out official LDraw.org business that is not conducted via electronic mailing lists. Since LDraw.org is an electronic organization, physical meetings are discouraged but the occasional need for these physical meetings is recognized.
The Steering Committee, LDraw.org Standards Committee, and members of a Special Interest Group may conduct a physical meeting but, due to the potential size, physical meetings or a physical quorum of the Active Membership are not recognized.
Physical meetings can be held in any form that all the participants agree to, and as long as there is a permanent record of the discussion. The permanent record may in form of meeting minutes or a transcript of the meeting.
Section 5.03: ConventionAn LDraw.org annual convention may be established by LDraw.org as membership numbers and interests deem possible and as the Steering Committee shall direct. In the interim, LDraw.org update meetings may be held at other LDraw.org related conventions or gatherings as convenient and as the Steering Committee shall direct.
Article 6: Steering Committee MembersNumber of Officers, Election, Vacancy and Succession, Appointed Officers
Section 6.01: Number of Members and Term of OfficeThere shall be five (5) elected officers of LDraw.org. These five officers shall collectively be known as the Steering Committee Members, and shall collectively constitute the Steering Committee.
All Steering Committee Members shall have a term of office of (1) year.
Section 6.02: Eligibility for LEGO Company EmployeesBecause of potential conflicts of interest, employees of the LEGO Company, their subsidiaries and strategic partners shall be subject to a special set of requirements to be eligible for service on the Steering Committee.
Subsection 6.02(a) Full Public DisclosureUpon nomination, the individual's employment status shall be publicly declared. Employment by the LEGO Company does not preclude nomination, provided full and up front disclosure of status is given to the community through accepted channels (ie. common discussion groups, LDraw.org) where nominations are made.
All official public postings listing nominees, as well as the final ballot, shall attach a footnote or other clearly visible reference to the nominee's name, indicating the person is employed by the LEGO Company. This reference shall list their title, and briefly describing the responsibilities and powers the position holds. The information page on the LDraw.org web site listing Steering Committee members once elected shall also include the aforementioned references.
Subsection 6.02(b) Accountability and Review ProcessEmployess of the LEGO Company elected to the Steering Committee shall be held to a different standard than Steering Committee members not employed by LEGO.
Should impropriety on the part of a LEGO employee serving on the Steering Committee be suspected, fellow members of the Steering Committee shall by no less than unanimous decision be authorized to conduct a review of said employee's actions directly relating to LDraw.org business. The employee shall be given due process and the opportunity to defend his or her actions. If the review panel deems impropriety they may by no less than unanimous decision report their findings to the Membership via accepted channels. The Membership may then move to remove the officer in question using the removal provisions in Section 6.05.
Specific procedures relating to the Accountability and Review Processes shall be determined by the first elected Steering Committee, and documented in the Policies and Procedures document.
Section 6.03: Nomination and Election Process for Steering Committee MembersSteering Committee Members shall be democratically elected.
Elections shall be held annually, via electronic ballot.
All Steering Committee Members shall enter into the performance of their elected duties 30 days after the election and shall continue in office until their successors shall be duly elected and qualified, unless they resign, are removed, or are otherwise unable to fulfill the term.
Subsection 6.03(a) Nomination ProcessNominations for the 5 offices shall open no less than 2 months prior to the scheduled election of officers. Nominations must be made public on the electronic communication mechanism then in use by the Organization. A nomination shall consist of a name of the Individual Member and the affirmation of at least two Members (the Nominator and the Second). Optionally a supporting statement may be included.
Nominated individuals must accept their nomination in order to appear on the ballot. If the individual does not respond to the nomination publicly, on the electronic communication mechanism then in use by the Organization, it is assumed he or she declines nomination.Nominations for officers shall be deemed closed just prior to the commencement of the election process.
Subsection 6.03(b) Election ProcessThe officers of LDraw.org shall be elected annually on or before 1 March of the year.
The ballot shall be secret. The Steering Committee shall determine details of the balloting process and make them known to the Membership at least one week in advance of the election. Balloting process for the first Steering Committee shall be determined by the Ad-Hoc Organizing Committee and made known to the Membership at least one week in advance of the election.
Subsection 6.03(c) Votes RequiredSteering Committee Members shall be elected by popular ballot. All Active Members in good standing as of the commencement of the election shall be eligible to vote. Each member can select up to 5 candidates on their ballot. The top 5 vote getters in the Steering Committee Member election shall be deemed to be elected. In the event of a tie in which it is not clear who the top 5 vote getters are, a runoff election shall be held for whatever number of committee members were not clearly elected, with the candidates restricted to those who tied for votes, and the number of selectable candidates shall be the number of tied positions. See the Policies and Procedures document for examples.
Subsection 6.03(d) Qualification Process30 days after the election, the five newly elected Steering Committee Members shall be deemed to be qualified and as a group, shall now constitute the new Steering Committee, which shall supplant the old one.
Subsection 6.03(e) Assumption of OfficeThe outgoing Steering Committee shall give every aid and advice to the incoming Steering Committee during the transition period between election and assumption of office.
Section 6.04: Roles of Steering Committee MembersOnce elected, the Steering Committee Members shall vote amongst themselves to determine a chairperson, secretary, and treasurer.
Subsection 6.04(a) Duties of the ChairpersonThe Chairperson is the primary executive officer of the organization and shall preside at organization meetings, should such be held. The Chairperson shall be the representative of the Organization on any occasion when a person is required to act in that capacity. The Chairperson shall make appointments and removals of Appointed Officers as he or she sees fit.
The Chairperson may appoint a Vice Chairperson to preside in the chair's absence. The Vice Chairperson is the natural successor to the office of Chairperson should the Chairperson vacate the position for any reason.
Subsection 6.04(b) Duties of the SecretaryThe Secretary shall be responsible for compiling and publishing a quarterly report of Steering Committee activities and progress.
Subsection 6.04(c) Duties of the TreasurerThe Treasurer shall manage all financial transactions, and maintain a correct record of funds available, Organization debts outstanding, and Member debts to the Organization outstanding. The Treasurer shall report financial activity and status at all annual and monthly meetings. The Treasurer must supply the Secretary with the financial records for inclusion in the quarterly report.
Section 6.05: Removal of Officers from the Steering CommitteeOfficers may not be removed from the Steering Committee except for due cause. If an Officer is absent from three consecutive votes or a total of 5 votes in any calendar year for reasons that the Committee fails to declare sufficient, his or her resignation shall be deemed to have been tendered and accepted.
If serious, documented allegations of impropriety on behalf of a Steering Committee member are made, the Active Membership may move to hold a vote to remove the offending individual from office. A vote will be held once fifteen percent of the Active Membership have called for a vote. A Steering Committee member may be removed from office by a simple majority of the total Active Membership.
Any Officer that has been removed may not be re-elected by the Active Membership for a period of at least one year.
Section 6.06: Vacancy and SuccessionIf any of the Officers cannot fulfill his or her duties, resigns, is removed, or is otherwise unable to fulfill the term then a replacement shall be appointed by the remaining Steering Committee. This appointment shall have effect until the next scheduled election is held.
Section 6.07: Appointed OfficersThe Steering Committee may appoint Additional Officers, as it deems necessary, with such authority and duties as it may designate, to serve at its pleasure, from among the Individual Members of LDraw.org. Such Additional Officers are not themselves members of the Steering Committee.
Additional Officers appointments must be approved by 3 of the 5 members of the Steering Committee.
Section 6.08: Appointed Key PositionsKey Positions such as Parts Tracker Administrators, Content Managers, Help Desk or System Administrators are appointed by the Steering Committee from among the individual Members of LDraw.org. Appointments must be approved by 3 of the 5 members of the Steering Committee. Paying tribute to the fact that LDraw.org is a completely volunteer organization common courtesy is extended as a general rule and except for extenuating circumstances the Steering Committee shall get agreement from the active Key Positions about new appointments. The Steering Committee might delegate the appointment to the active Key Positions. It will also function as intermediary if members volunteer for a Key Position. There shall be at least three (3) appointed Key Positions for the most sensitive area: The LDraw Parts Tracker.
Section 6.09: Removal of Key PositionsKey Positions are accountable to the Steering Committee and might be removed if someone fails to fulfill his or her duties. Removals must be explicitly approved by 3 of the 5 members of the Steering Committee. The Steering Committee has the obligation to report to the active Membership the circumstances for the decision.
Section 6.10: Vacancy and Succession of Key PositionsIf any of the Key Positions cannot fulfill his or her duties, resigns, or is otherwise unable to fulfill his or her duties, then a replacement shall be appointed by the Steering Committee. The Steering Committee shall consult the outgoing post about a succession. Consulting does not apply to Key Position removed by the Steering Committee. The Key Positions might appoint a successor in full autonomy in the situation that the Steering Committee takes no action.
Section 6.11: Reimbursement of MembersSteering Committee Members shall not receive any compensation for their services as Officers, but the Steering Committee may authorize reimbursement of expenses incurred by any member while representing or working to benefit LDraw.org provided such authorization is documented and published to the Membership using the electronic means of communication then in use. These expenses should, whenever practicable, be approved by the Steering Committee prior to a Member undergoing said expense. If the expense is not pre-approved, the Steering Committee may consider reimbursement but is not obligated to grant it. If such expenses are reoccurring the authorized prescribe procedures may be added to the LDraw.org Policies and Procedures document. See the Policies and Procedures document for details.
Article 7: Representation of LDraw.orgSteering Committee to approve spokespersons, Use of trademarks
Section 7.01: Representation in Policy MattersNo member may represent LDraw.org in policy matters without the approval of the Steering Committee. There may be instances that volunteers need to represent LDraw.org on an ongoing or recurring basis – these cases should be outlined in the LDraw.org Policies and Procedures document so permission does not need to be sought at each occurrence.
Section 7.02: Trademarks and Visual RepresentationUse of the name, logo, seal, trademark, or other graphic representation (including new artwork and graphic designs) of LDraw organization by any Member, Section, or Committee or his/her designee, that gives appearance of representing LDraw.org or implies approval by LDraw.org in an official manner or capacity must have the prior approval of the Steering Committee.
Article 8: AmendmentsProcess for Amendment, process applies to this article too
Section 8.01: Amendment of BylawsThe Steering Committee may propose to alter, amend, or repeal any provision of these Bylaws or make any additional Bylaws. Such alteration, repeal, or addition shall be proposed by a representative to the Active Members and Steering Committee to be considered for a period of 30 days. At the end of this period an affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the entire Active Membership must be achieved in order to ratify the alteration, repeal, or addition.
Section 8.02: Procedures for Amendment of BylawsAmendments to this Article of the Bylaws may be made only by the same voting procedure described in Section 1 of this Article.
Article 9: Special Interest GroupsLSC, other special interest groups, their creation, operation and termination
To further the goals of the Organization, the Organization may from time to time create Special Interest Groups. These groups are intended for like minded Members to come together for the purpose of furthering a common interest.
Section 9.01: CreationAn individual or group of individual Active Members may approach the Steering Committee with a proposal to create a Special Interest Group. The proposal shall define the name, purpose, membership criteria, powers, and duties of the Special Interest Group. The Special Interest group will come into existence upon approval of the proposal by the Steering Committee.
Section 9.02: Ongoing OperationsEach Special Interest Group shall have the powers and duties defined in the resolution or resolutions adopting it, and shall have a designated representative (the "SIG Chair") to report to the Steering Committee and to the Active Membership at least quarterly. Such SIG Chair serves at the pleasure of the Steering Committee Chairperson and is an Appointed Officer within the meaning.
SIGs shall not have separate treasuries. Their expenditures, if any, shall come from the general Organization Treasury, and their revenues, if any, shall likewise accrue to the Organization Treasury.
Section 9.03: DissolutionA Special Interest Group may be dissolved by proposal of the Steering Committee and by an affirmative vote of the Membership under normal voting procedures.
Section 9.04: LDraw.org Standards Committee
The LDraw.org Standards Committee shall be construed as a Special Interest Group within the meaning of this article, governed under the LSC Charter. Its existence is grandfathered and does not have to be approved by resolution. Like all SIGs, it is subject to the Ongoing Operations and Dissolution provisions of this article.


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(Progressive Politics, Liberal Religion, Sex, and the occasional abnormality that bubbles forth from goodness knows where.)
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10 Great Canadian Small Spaces
From multi-purpose loft spaces to chic city spaces, Canada is home to some fantastic house tours here on Apartment Therapy. While these spaces are often not nearly as small as their Manhattan counterparts, they are still full of fresh ideas from the north for living big in fewer square feet. Let's take a look:
• 1 Kim's One Room at a Time
• 2 Mel & Dave's Industrial Chic Loft
• 3 Richard Takes Downtown
• 4 Jane's Live-Work Family Home
• 5 Patrick's World of Wonder
• 6 Lori and Ken's View with a Room
• 7 Celeste's Mount Pleasant Loft Mel & Dave's Industrial Chic Loft
• 8 Chris's Ontario Beach House
• 9 Lisa & Alex's Craftsman Loft
• 10 Becke & Lee's Vintage Cabin