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Friday, July 3, 2009
City To Demolish Landmark Building
The city of Sacramento has announced its plans to demolish the Bel-Vue Apartments, a registered city landmark, in order to clear land on 8th Street for a potential future parking structure.
Located adjacent to the now-vacant corner of 8th and K Street, the Bel-Vue was built in 1910 as the American Cash Apartments. Built in the Craftsman style with Asian overtones, the three-story brick building contains apartments above a commercial ground floor. When the Bel-Vue was built, it was one of many downtown apartment buildings. If it was built today, the Bel-Vue would be described as a mixed-use, transit-oriented infill project. The building is currently owned by the city of Sacramento's housing and redevelopment agency, the result of a complex land exchange between Mohammed "Mo" Mohanna, Z Gallerie owner Joe Zeiden, and the city of Sacramento. This land exchange was part of the currently stalled plans to rehabilitate the 700 block of K Street.
The city's plan is to prepare an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) containing two possible alternatives for buildings to be built on the site, and then demolish the existing buildings. One alternative is a pair of residential towers 300 feet high, running from K Street to L Street along 8th, originally proposed by former owner Mohanna and developers John Saca (of the failed 301 Capitol Mall project) and John Lambeth. The other alternative is a 300 foot hotel tower at the corner of 8th and K, currently vacant, and a six-story parking structure on the site of the Bel-Vue and the other buildings at the corner of 8th and L. There is no developer or investor specified in the EIR notice of preparation; the city of Sacramento plans to create the EIR and demolish the Bel-Vue and nearby buildings on speculation, in case a developer appears who is interested in constructing the buildings the city has proposed for the site.
When the city of Sacramento acquired the Bel-Vue building and its neighbors, it was an occupied apartment building with several retail tenants on the ground floor. There were also commercial tenants in the adjacent buildings, and apartments above most of those buildings. The city of Sacramento evicted the residents, and today only one retail establishment, a Chinese restaurant, occupies the Bel-Vue, aside from a parking garage in one of the buildings facing L Street.
All of the buildings on the site have a role in local history. 815 L Street, constructed in 1915, was most recently the site of a nightclub of the same name. In 1957, the site was one of the original Sam's Hof Brau locations. The side of the building, invisible from the street, still bears a painted mural advertising Sam's. La Rosa, an Italian restaurant opened in 1927, occupied the site before the Hof Brau. On the corner of 8th and L is the Feldhusen Building, a two-story building with ground floor retail and residences upstairs. It was built in 1895 and remodeled in 1954. It was home to many businesses including grocery stores, dressmakers, and the Diamond Club Tavern card room.
Buildings like the Bel-Vue were once commonplace in Sacramento, but over the years they have become very rare.
Today, some developers seek out historic buildings for residential projects, converting them into modern apartments or condominiums. Local companies like D&S Development (http://www.dandsdev.com) have completed projects like the Old Sacramento iLofts and 1409 R, and are now restoring the historic Maydestone Apartments at 16th & J Street. Architect Mike Malinowski, contractor Bruce Booher and CFY Development helped convert the Globe Mills grain mill complex into unique residential lofts. At the Railyards, developer Thomas Enterprises will make the historic Southern Pacific shops buildings the focal point of a new downtown neighborhood. Other adaptive reuse projects like the Citizen Hotel, MARRS, the Cosmopolitan and the Firestone Building show how vacant historic buildings can be made into exciting, unique urban destinations. Projects like these are often more popular than newly-built projects because they offer one-of-a-kind places to live, work and play in an urban setting. They appeal to those who want to be close to the action of the central city and their downtown workplaces, or just like the unique character of historic buildings. Instead of demolishing the Bel-Vue, the building could easily be repaired and returned to its role as a place to live, with businesses on the street to serve downtown's residents. Restoration of historic buildings is also a greener option than new construction, as it needs far fewer building materials and requires far less landfill space (where the demolished building's components would end up.) If sales of recent projects like the 1409 R lofts (opened in April and already two-thirds sold) are any indication, these projects are popular even in slow economic markets, while urban infill projects in new buildings are far less successful. Historic buildings can also qualify for tax credits and other incentives that can make rehabilitation cheaper than demolition and new construction. In the right hands, the Bel-Vue could be a gorgeous, attainable new home for Sacramento's residents for another hundred years.
In recent years, the city of Sacramento has seen many proposed projects fail to materialize. The failure of projects like John Saca's 301 Capitol Mall towers at 3rd and Capitol resulted in ugly, gaping pits in our city's urban fabric. Projects like the 700/800 block, bogged down by unexpected resistance and a poor economy, sit languishing, waiting for a better plan to appear. Projects that encourage the demolition of landmarks encourage speculators to allow their historic downtown properties to sit vacant, deteriorating for years or even decades, with the hope of an eventual skyscraper-shaped payoff that may never arrive. More forward-thinking developers could turn the same buildings into Sacramento's urban showpieces.
No developer or investor has been named by the city to actually build this project or pay for it, and even if a developer and/or investor does arrive, if they want to make significant changes to the plan they would need to complete a new environmental document, making this effort worthless. The sacrifice of one of Sacramento's irreplaceable historic buildings would be for nothing. And even if the city's long shot is successful, and a developer does build the project, we will lose a historic landmark and a quarter-block of potentially useful buildings for a six-story parking garage in a neighborhood with many underutilized parking garages.
To give public comment about this issue, contact Jennifer Hageman of the City of Sacramento's Community Development Department at email@example.com or (916)808-5538. Written comments should be sent to Jennifer Hageman, City of Sacramento Community Development Department, 300 Richards Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95811. Comments are due before 4:00 PM on July 27, 2009.
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- Zwahlen Images said...
"The failure of projects like John Saca's 301 Capitol Mall towers at 3rd and Capitol resulted in ugly, gaping pits in our city's urban fabric"
The demolition of the Union building as 301 Capitol was hardly a landmark or historic, so that comparison is a far reach at best.
I don't think any developer could have turned that same buildings into Sacramento's urban showpieces either. It's sad that there is now a hole in the ground, but Union building had been nearly empty for 13 years while the owner tried to rent the space.
Anyway, the city has their priorities all messed up here, without a developer or financing lined up; the demo of this building should be the last thing they should be thinking about.
- July 5, 2009 at 12:22 PM
- wburg said...
In the case of 301 CM, it's more the gaping pit that is the issue than what was there before. In my mind the Bel-Vue would be a far greater loss because it's hard to deny the status of the building--not to mention the fact that it is only vacant because the city kicked everyone out (except the restaurant, whose lease has apparently not run out yet.)
- July 5, 2009 at 8:52 PM
I watched a documentary called "Our Vanishing Past" on KVIE-2 tonight. It should be required viewing for everyone who wants to tear down the Bel-Vue.
- July 6, 2009 at 10:47 PM
- Josh Morgan said...
Ah yes, the famous parking structure demolition imperative. There is one of those at the site of my great, great grandfather's house formerly known as 717 I Street in Sacramento.
- July 7, 2009 at 3:15 PM


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There are so many "frustrations" working in a laboratory that experiments on non-human primates. Besides the obvious of seeing your friends jabbed with needles, put alone in small cages and seeing the overall suffering they experience, there are things you see that can be prevented if only the people in positions of power in labs could take the time to attempt to diminish many unnecessary practices.
At the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, as with many other primate research centers, some infant monkeys are taken from their mothers immediately after they are born. As a lab employee, there is not much you can do to eliminate this practice. While I heartbreakingly witnessed this too many times to want to remember, I did observe a pattern over the few years I was there. Typically at Yerkes, females give birth during a 4 or 5 month season. When the field station (where the "breeding" takes place) receives an order from the Main Center (where the majority of the biomedical research takes place) for baby rhesus macaques, the veterinary staff would snatch these newborn babies from the chests of their mothers. It didn't matter who the mother was, they simply took him or her. What was happening was that year after year, some of the same mothers had their babies taken from them. Of course I did not want to see any mother's baby stolen, but I felt it was so unfair for an adult female monkey not to have any children. It was also unfair to have to experience such a tremendous loss year after year.
Family is very important in macaque society. Females in the wild stay with their mother, sisters, aunts, and grandmothers their entire lives. When a mother reaches old age, daughters are there to take care of them. I remember an extremely old female rhesus macaque living on an island off the coast of Puerto Rico (Cayo Santiago, where approximately 900 rhesus macaques live). She was 31 years old — very old for a macaque. She was so old and decrepit that she could bearly keep up with the group as they traveled the island. But her youngest daughter, a mother herself, was always there. She spent a lot of time with her mom, a former alpha female, now at the bottom of the hierarchy. She was often found next to her mother, grooming her while mom slept. If mom got into a bit of trouble, she was the first one there to defend her.
So knowing how important family is for these beings, it saddened me to think of what was happening. If they had to live a life imprisoned in a lab, I wanted them to at least have a family to ease the pain and bring some joy to their lives.
My co-worker and I wanted to change this. We wanted the whole procedure abolished but we tried to do what was in the limits of our job. We spoke with, pleaded, and begged the vet staff to change what was happening. We would be willing to do all the background research necessary to see what females were being affected, and attempt to create a system in which this would not happen. They relented (rightfully) that they only received the orders and could not change this themselves. The people that could do this were the researchers themselves, along with the head veterinarian at the main center. After much dogged persistence from us, they agreed to see what they could do. We did the research and tried ourselves to put the system in place.
Rarely it worked. If the biomedical researchers needed a baby that day, then there is not much the veterinary staff at the field station could do. After hearing a certain female was doomed to have her baby taken that day, we alerted the vet staff to her situation. If we persisted long enough, the vet would agree to speak with her boss, the veterinarian from the main center. I could probably count on my hand the number of times the situation was remedied. For the few mothers that were spared that year, another mother had to suffer. It was sickening to have to deal in this game; to trade one mother's pain for another's.
But you see, the non-human primate's well-being is not the top priority at researcher centers, which is what their public relations personnel would like you to believe. It is the research which takes top priority, for that is what brings in the money. My co-worker and I offered to create a facility wide system to stop what was happening year after year. All it would take would be for these researchers, veterinarians, and other interested parties to sit down together and implement this system where multiple baby snatching was not occurring. But the fact of the matter is, with the current system, researchers were getting infants when they need them. Why change the system?. No one was interested, so our ideas were never implemented. You need the people in positions of power to change the system. As a caregiver or research technician, you rarely have the power to change anything yourself. If you cannot get a powerful person in the lab to WANT to change things, then you sit back and watch them happen over and over, knowing full well they could be prevented.
My co-worker and I no longer work at Yerkes, out of choice. Mothers are still having this happen to them. There are many, many things that are happening at Yerkes that can be prevented with a little time and effort on the part of the people in positions of power. If an employee who cares is not there to constantly revisit the issue (if you could, depending on your position) the status quo immediately falls back into place. This leads to a whole other frustration. After witnessing the effects of biomedical research on non-human primates, we wanted it stopped. As a lab employee, we could not speak outwardly against biomedical research for fear of losing our jobs. While we hated what was happening, we wanted to be there for the chimpanzees and monkeys at Yerkes — now our friends — to at least do what we could to minimize (if possible) their suffering. It is a vicious cycle which often torments lab workers opposed to biomedical research. Staying is painful, leaving is painful. But we also know it is nothing compared to what our friends are going through, which is why we stay as long as we can.
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A Drowning During a Drought
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that this firefighter drowned up on the Trinity River. I knew one guy that drowned up by the Forks of the Salmon when there wasn't a whole lot of water to drown in.
I guess it just seems we're already a bit into summer after a relatively dry spring and I wouldn't expect the Trinity to be running so fast by now it would cause problems for someone. I keep hearing the water is pretty low everywhere else.
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I've been thinking again about the question asked me at UCLA: why should academic libraries divert staff and budgetary resources to open access (green or gold, gratis or libre) if our mandate is to serve our local patrons? I gave an answer that I wasn't particularly happy with. I have a bit of an esprit d'escalier answer now, the borrowed words of Benjamin Franklin:
We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
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Just as open access will. It's perhaps a measure of my own demoralization that I was quite chuffed by this preprint finding that 49% of current academic-librarian–authored materials can be found open-access. Forty-nine percent is dismal, but it's also extraordinary, and rather better than I would have expected. The lesson is clear, though: individual efforts on individual campuses and in individual libraries don't get us very far.
At the risk of sounding all commie and stuff: we work toward a collective openness, or we die off one by one as the business model sustaining us as well as publishers crumbles to bits.


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NEWARK, NJ - A 29 year old Belleville man is being held in Essex County jail following accusations of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in Nutley. According to the Essex County Prosecutors Office, the accused worked as a youth basketball coach at Good Shepherd Academy in Nutley in the past.
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced on Thursday that Kevin Jimenez was charged with three counts of aggravated sexual assault, three counts of aggravated criminal sexual contact and three counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
According to the Essex County Prosecutors Office, Jimenez is a girls' basketball coach affiliated with The Wolves, an Amateur Athletics Union (AAU) team. The sexual assault that lead to his arrest took place in Nutley this year.
The Wolves, a team which includes girls from throughout the region, also practiced at the Abundant Life Academy in Nutley and Our Lady of Sorrows in South Orange.
Jimenez' next court appearance is June 15. The investigation is active and ongoing.
Anyone with information should contact Capt. Janine Straccamore in the Essex County Prosecutor's Office Special Victims Unit at 973-753-1131.
The Essex County Prosecutors Office stressed that these are accusations. All defendants are presumed innocent unless and until they enter a guilty plea or are found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
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"Are you happy?" he asks again.
My silence is a trick answer
He won't accept. What's this about?
Happiness has no place here.
He asks as if it means something
Now. As if there were a time when
It mattered. I don't know happy,
Though sometimes I laugh at my fear.
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Friday, 17 December 2010
No going back
Whilst many visual techniques have already been applied to fiction in print (House of Leaves, Only Revolutions, Filth, to name a few) the potential of the written word physically changing over time in the context of a story is much less explored.
But is it wrong, lazy, indecisive, gimmicky, or even downright superficial to time-manipulate the very language used in a story? Should the written word ever be "placed on a timeline" in the manner of video and audio and made to perform in this manner? Does it make the reading experience far too difficult, broken, distracting - even totally unnatural?
Dreaming Methods uses the idea of blurred out/barely-readable bits of writing in Capped, the story of a half-remembered childhood memory. There, fragments from the protagonist's recollections hang around in and amongst trees, bushes and bits of weeds as though on the fringes of consciousness. When the project was first launched back in 2006, some readers complained that they simply "couldn't tell what it said" - one person remarking that he thought it must be an error with his computer or within the project itself. Others - thankfully - got the idea that you weren't meant to be able to read it.
We used text fragments that animated/changed over time in The Diary of Anne Sykes (2003) (along with maths-generated text "sculptures" reflecting the protagonist's bizarrely ordered thoughts) but its clearest use is in Dim O'Gauble, where the voices of a young boy and an elderly woman ponder over a series of mysterious apocalyptic visions. Words within sentences physically transform into others without warning - sometimes polarising their meaning; at other times, running through lists as if the exact phrases can't quite be found. In this project there are no interface mechanisms in place that reflect the experience of "turning a page" or being able to leisurely return to re-read anything; once the writing has disappeared - and it does, quite quickly, over time - that's it, there is no going back.
The use of such techniques in literature may be so alien to readers' usual habits of having a steady flow of pages and the ability to control their reading pace that the immediate reaction is likely to be one of disruption and frustration. For many, there is something highly unsettling about the physical movement or transformation of writing. The written word with its history of having been honed down to high quality and published in a fixed and 'final' manner tears up its own roots and wanders a good distance out of its comfort zone when introduced as a transient/changeable/unreliable form.
Yet surely this is a powerful reflection of how human memories and personal histories fluctuate; how perceptions mutate and adjust; and how sometimes, painful as it is, there is no going back in quite the same way to that original relationship, memory or experience.
Perhaps this is one way in which future literary fiction might realise itself? Writer/s threading powerful, well-crafted, digitally enhanced/manipulated texts through a tapestry of other media forms that provide engaging new worlds for new kinds of readers - readers undaunted by the fact that going backwards or reading/understanding every word may not be possible, and who are prepared for the very fabric of the text to come alive.
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- Shaun said...
I find such a technique of progressive text (as it were) to be really interesting, given the different levels it could add to narrative mistrust.
Human perceptual limitations mean that it's simply impossible for a reader to directly apprehend more than a few words on a page at a time. The peripheral vision can't really detect more than indications of movement; if I remember right, the objects we see in our periphery are assembled on an ongoing basis from the memory, rather than being apprehended directly.
A result of this, combined with the technique you're suggesting Andy, would be to have the potential effect of words changing without the change being noticed by the reader. If someone re-reads a page, or perceptually 'zooms-out' of a certain section of the page, to find that (even while they've been looking at the screen) portions of the text have changed, this may be even more disorientating than simply having text changing as it is read. In fact, this happened to me a couple of times during Dim O'Gauble.
I guess the skill of the technique lies in balancing misdirection and fairness towards the reader: allowing the change in words to be witnessed by the sharp-eyed, while using other visual techniques to distract from the change as it occurs. But there're a number of possibilities which could be really exciting, from a storytelling point of view.
- 17 December 2010 at 15:09
Other work that explores related themes and techniques include
* Jim Rosenberg: Intergrams and The Barrier Frames (and his theoretical framework of actemes)
* Stuart Moulthrop: Hegirascope
* William Gibson: Agrippa: The Book of the Dead
* Jud Morrisey, The Jew's Daughter (Shaun, I think, will like this one especially)
Critical attention to the evanescence of electronic text and its potential to disrupt the familiar landscape of the late age of print goes back to Bolter's WRITING SPACE and Joyce's OF TWO MINDS, especially "nonce upon some times". Jill Walker's wonderful paper on "tearing apart and piecing together" (Hypertext 99) is an introduction ideally suited to readers who don't know (or dislike) the terminological thickets of narratology.
- 17 December 2010 at 16:35
- jhave said...
This post spoke to my preoccupations!
Although I wld add that parallel to the evocative narrative use of mutating text in Andy's (superb) work and the precedents outlined by Mark, there is another tradition parallel to e-literature where readers have rapidly adapted to transformative transgressive evolving kinetic-calculus typography: namely, advertising.
The question for me is how can the techniques developed in 30 seconds spots be viably used in sustained reading? Andy's work goes a way along that road.
As always, thanks.
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|Screengrab of the four eggs which are attracting international attention
"Female peregrines take two day or more days to form an egg. Since she only laid the second egg mid-morning yesterday (Monday 31st March), she cannot possibly have produced these two new eggs without outside assistance. The only possibility is that both the male and an intruding, mystery third bird have each laid an egg, probably trying to make up time on peregrines elsewhere in the UK which are all well ahead of Derby, with most already sitting on four eggs by now.
Nick said:
"Obviously this is very eggciting news and quite unprecedented - though a similar thing happened once before in Egsville USA. This would be the first occurrence in the UK and in Europe too.
We know that some species of male fish can change sex and lay eggs, so it's not entirely impossible that peregrines could do likewise. And it would also prove that the strange intruding third bird was a female."
The members of the project team are scouring the literature now to try to validate these observations and find other cases.
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Ps Egged on by the opportunity this provides to further our scientific knowledge, Nick Moyes is abseiling down from the top of the tower now to remove the two extra eggs for analysis - so if you log on and only see two eggs, that will be the reason. There is only one day in the year when such activity is permitted under government lie-cence. And today is the day.


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The last time we covered this topic, we focused on the opportunities that arise with the dynamic assignment of workspaces. We highlighted that open floor plans were a great advance in the evolution of workplace layout, especially back when there was a lot of basic taskwork that leashed employees to their desks and a small group of other employees they needed to interact with. They were all there, just a shout away. The cost savings were huge in reduced space needed.
But there were problems too. First, we realized that attention was a delicate thing. It was hard for employees to focus on their work in a fully open office. And when privacy was needed, it was not easy to find. Also, the nature of work changed. Instead of interacting with groups of people sitting around us, we had dynamically changing global teams. To accommodate these challenges, the open office evolved into the dynamically assigned flexible spaces that we talked about in the previous post.
The Boston Globe Magazine dedicated an issue to this challenge. The primary feature was a piece on the open floor plan and its strengths and weaknesses. The used a new 300,000 sq. ft., $125 million facility as an illustration. They use one huge open office as the base for each floor and then add 16 different types of flexible workspaces. Employees are assigned a specific desk, but they also have access to the dynamics. This is not a bad hybrid given what we talked about last time.
The bigger driving factor, however, has been the pervasive idea that open offices encourage collaboration, spark creative conversation, and increase productivity. Since there's really no such thing as a private conversation in many of these offices, they also serve to symbolize the modern, egalitarian workplace ideal: one big happy family that types together, eats together, and works through personal drama together.
The article provides some statistics that we didn't that quantify the benefits of the open floor plan. The amount of space needed per employee goes from 250 sq. ft. to 160-190. That is enough of a difference to justify several dynamic spaces and still save. They also cite some of the objectives management has for open offices that we also alluded to. Open offices make it easy to collaborate, and employees are more likely to do things that are easy. The interaction could spark conversations that might not otherwise have occurred, increasing creativity and serendipitous innovation. It also creates a symbolic egalitarianism; everyone is in the same place. Employees that sit together also eat together and share their personal dramas. Good group bonding and group-identity building. It can also speed up interactions among employees. Instead of needing to swing by a coworker's office, which often gets procrastinated away, the employee can just shout over the question. When someone needs help, it is easy to just look around to see who is free. And new employees can overhead what the others are doing, learning in the process.
But their survey also enumerates the negatives. Employees often run outside to make a private phone call, whether personal or work related. This is not convenient and here in Boston it can be pretty darn cold. They also cite a great phrase, the "procrastination buffet" in which there are always people around to talk to. As social animals, shooting the breeze with coworkers is almost always more interesting than whatever work we have to do. And for the employee who is singly focused on his or her work, they appear free to be interrupted. Back and forth switching between work and distractions creates a huge cost in attentional blink. Perhaps the augcog solution we discussed in this post might need side flaps too. Finally, the new generation is highly susceptible to oversharing. We see that in social media all the time. It can be even worse when it happens in your open office.
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Shares of Apple Inc. surged 0.8% in morning trade Monday, enough to pace the Dow Jones Industrial Average's gainers, after Morgan Stanley raised its price target, to be the third highest among the 44 analysts surveyed by FactSet. The stock's price gain of $1.23 was adding about 8.5 points to the price of the Dow's, which was down 14 points. Analyst Katy Huberty bumped her price target up to $182 from $177. The new target is 21% above current levels, 12% above the average target of the 44 analysts surveyed by FactSet of $162.12. When Apple reports on Aug. 1, Huberty expects the company to provide a "weaker-than-consensus" outlook for its fourth quarter ending in September, because of the slightly later iPhone launch than typical--October shipment rather than the usual September. But that delay "creates a dynamic of much better-than-normal December and March quarter seasonality, providing an attractive set up for the stock looking beyond the September guide," Huberty wrote in a note to clients. The stock has rallied 5.9% over the past three months, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 has climbed 8.4% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average has gained 4.8%.
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It's like this.
I once wrote a scathing review of Idaho based on the very small part of the population there that is mean.
Yes, I do so know what the word scathing means and THIS POST I WROTE proves that I can be devastatingly cruel AND scathing when I wish to be.
But that's not what I want to write about here.
OK, so sometimes you know how you form this impression (another "I" word, by the way) of people and think they are mean and then after some more time passes you decide that maybe you imagined their meanness and so you give them another chance and then you find out...ummm....yea...they really are mean after all?
Well, that happens with nice people, too.
After our friends visited us from Idaho I thought to myself "gee, those people are really nice" but they will probably never call us again when they visit Arizona because I insulted their State with ridiculous potato jokes and then, lo and behold, we got this little package in the mail from them a few weeks ago...
Ta da!
Look! Because of their kindness Oskar can now imitate an Idaho potato!
He is very proud.
See his obvious weiner dog pride in this photo?
And now because of the nice Idaho people Oskar can do two impressions. The potato one...and the bat one (when we lift his ears straight up!) but I'll show you that another day!
Good Oskar.
Good weiner dog.
Good friends in Idaho.
Strange "I" post.
But, hey, don't be irritated at me over it.
I actually had a better idea for my "I" post initially.
I wanted Oskar to pose like he was in an iditarod...because that is, like, one of the coolest "I" words ever.
But it didn't work out.
He pretty much just wanted to lay down doing his impression of an Idaho potato. But I tried.
YessireeBob, I really, really tried to give you an interesting and informative "I" post.
And failed.
But it's not really my fault.
It is technically Oskar's fault.
Because weiner dogs are stubborn and they only do what they want to do when they want to do it.
So please don't boo my "I" post.
And please don't hate Oskar because he is a weiner dog.
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Or what if I incorporated it into a yeast bread? It is a very mild (boring) smooth hummus that I make for my daughter's lunches. Thanks creative thinkers at food52!
I found this so now I know about freezing (yeah!) But I would be curious if anyone has "re-use" ideas... thanks!
I have not frozen hummus before but when I have leftovers I spread a think layer on a prepared pizza crust, pita, or wrap and make cold "pizzas"! Use it as the base layer and then top with veggies, sprouts, olives, etc! Yum!
It will make some nice fritters with a few additions of choice (chopped herbs, some cheese, breadcrumbs).
I love to thin hummus with a little stock or broth, some chopped garlic and herbs, and toss with spaghetti. Healthy, creamy, quick.
I can't see why a pretty straight forward hummous wouldn't freeze beautifully. There isn't really anything in it that would keep it from freezing, or intensify in flavor drastically.
Lots of flavor profiles can modify the hummos -- roasted peppers of any color or heat, preserved lemons, cilantro/lime, dried tomatoes. However, your daughter may not appreciate a shift in the paradigm.
Checking on Eat Your Books for soup suggestions, I found 2 -- in Mark Bittman's Vegetarian, Smooth Chickpea Soup; in Tassajara Cooking, Garbanzo Bean Soup (Ingredients: soy sauce; parsley; garlic; onions; tahini; lemons; garbanzo beans; celery). Seems like you could reinvent either one, using the hummos as a starting point.
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Pumpkin and perhaps sprinkle some toasted pepitas on top to serve.
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So, the Universe sets me on this path. Says "Stop the Money grab, do what your soul is here to do."
And, I listen. (More like I was forced to listen, and then decided to go with it. ) So, it's THAT month. Where, there's more month than money, and I have tried to remain calm. I have been optimistic. I have been open and allowed the Universe to bring the money. The end of the month is creeping up on me.
Even though I'm doing my soul's work, money must still come. Life requires it.
I have been considering all manner of insanities to make it come. All of the things are NOT my souls work. I'm feeling confused. Because the last time I didn't do my soul's work and got wrapped up in the money, the Universe had me fall on my ass and sit still for 3 weeks. So does that mean I'm stepping backward if I take a minimum wage job? (You should see how much work it is to dumb down my resume.)
This is hard.
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Wal-Mart is one of the leading "one stop shop" retail stores in America. It has established it's above the rest of the competitors and also moved on to open international branch of Wal-Mart in different countries around the world. These have lead to the company become a diverse company with many opportunities as well as challenges. Wal-Mart entered the Chinese market and opened its first store in Shenzhen in 1996. Wal-Mart's Global Procurement sourcing operation has been headquartered in Shenzhen since 2002. Currently, Wal-Mart operates a number of store formats in China including Supercenters, Sam's Clubs, and Neighbourhood Markets. Today, Wal-Mart operates over 180 units in over 90 cities, and created over 50,000 job opportunities across China.� This paper seeks to discuss and evaluate compensation packages as it relates Wal-Mart and their branches in China and their employees.
In order to evaluate and explain the concepts need one must first define key terms' compensation is a systematic approach to providing monetary value to employees in exchange for work performed. Compensation may achieve several purposes assisting in recruitment, job performance, and job satisfaction.� Wal-Mart's compensation plan for international companies especially china consists of many different elements that would reflect China and their labour laws along with the company's rules and regulation. Wal-Mart takes great pride in training their worker to do and be the best they are while on the job. It also meets with its employee every morning to market to reassure them of their roles as a part of the family and how to make consumers feel welcome and pleased with their visits to the company. Wal-Mart has a core competence involving...


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An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 has hit Northern California, according to reports.
The US Geological Survey said the earthquake struck at 3.20am local time (10.20am BST) four miles north-west of American Canyon, Napa County, at a depth of 6.7 miles.
The earthquake struck 51 miles from California's capital city Sacramento, and could be felt in San Francisco, where several residents said it woke them up.
NPR's southern US bureau chief Russell Lewis said on Twitter that there were 23 aftershocks after the quake.
Thousands of people were reportedly left without electricity in the cities of Napa, Sonoma and Santa Rosa. A map on the Pacific Gas and Electric Company's website showed that at least 15,000 customers were left without power across Northern California.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or serious damage to property. Police in Santa Rosa said they are responding to downed power poles.
Several local residents took to Twitter to share their experiences of the earthquake. Sarah McLellan tweeted: "On 6th floor entire building swaying, shaking", while Matt Dyar posted: "Major shaker. Stuff off shelves. Broken glass. No house damage that is obvious."
Last December, Dr Lucy Jones the US Geological Survey's adviser for risk reduction, said Southern California, particularly Los Angeles, is not prepared for a major earthquake.
Speaking at the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, Jones said that when the "Big One" hits the southern part of the state, the damage could be much worse than in previous incidents, and could devastate as many as 10 million people.
In the Northridge Earthquake of 1994, which occurred in the north-central San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, 57 people died and more than 8,700 were injured. Damage to property was estimated to reach $20bn (£12bn, €15.1bn), making it one of the most costly earthquakes in recent history.


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Postpartum/Lactation recipe: MulagushiyamThursday, November 3rd, 2011
This is one of the classic lactation/postpartum recipes made for me by N's aunt in typical kerala style. This recipe uses simple ingredients like moong dal,milk and channa(garbanzo beans) which are known to induce milk production. Plantain and pumpkin has fiber, so it is a fulfilling meal on its own.White pumpkin is also known to soothe the tummy.
These days, I have started making mulagushiyam even as a soup or like a dal for phulkas. It tastes good when served with hot rice or with idli rice conjee/kanji(rice porridge), which is also a lactation recipe which will be updated soon here.
Green plantain-1
White Pumpkin(Elavan)-10-12 pieces,cubed
Suran(Chennai)- 10-12 pieces, cubed
Cooked garbanzo beans(either white or kala channa)- 1/2 cup
Cooked moong dal- 1/2 cup
Milk- 1/4 cup
Water- 1/2 cup to 1 cup
Crushed black pepper- atleast 1/4 tsp
Salt- to taste
Turmeric powder- 1/4 tsp
Coconut oil- 1 tbsp
Cumin seeds- 1/2 tsp
Mustard seeds-1/2 tsp
Hing- 1 pinch
Peel the skin of plantain and chop them into cubes. In a saucepan, add water, suran,(chenai or yam) plantain,pumpkin, salt and turmeric powder,cover and cook them till tender. When the vegetables are done, add the cooked garbanzo beans and the mashed moong dal. Add more water(1/2 cup) if necessary to make it to a consistency like a gravy(say like a kootu but just a bit on the thinner side). Add the crushed black pepper and simmer it for 5-7 minutes.
Add the milk(either boiled and cooled or the usual 2% milk straight from the refrigerator). Switch off.
Heat coconut oil in a pan,add cumin seeds,mustard seeds and hing. When they splutter, pour it over the gravy. Serve hot with rice,topped with ghee. Tastes so good when you are tired and looking for something to eat that will make you feel better I have been told this is the traditional lactation recipe made in palakkad side!
You can also serve this with oats porridge as oats is also good for lactation.
There is no need for any additional spice, just the pepper powder is enough. This is also a good recipe that is without onions or garlic if you want to cook a "no masala meal"
If you think about it,it takes 10-15 minutes to make, if you already have canned garbanzo beans and cooked frozen dal. Make a simple salad like kosamalli/kosumbari to go with it and even lunch/dinner is done on a busy day in under 20 minutes! Or serve this with arachu kalakki or sundried tomato thokku.
Sometimes, suran will turn black or brown in color when you add turmeric powder and cook, there is nothing to worry about the color change.
You can omit the tadka part if you do not want it.
Since this recipe has both lentils and garbanzo beans,it is on its way for MLLA-41, an event started by Susan and hosted this month bySimona.


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A Prayer for Your Boss, Supervisor or for Those in Authority at Work
To develop the kind of good working relationship you want with your boss, supervisor or those in authority over you at work try using this prayer with Scriptures. Praying for your boss or supervisor can also go a long way in helping you cope with a co-worker in authority who is hard to please or difficult to get along with, or who seems disinterested in you or your development or who never gives positive feedback and encouragement.
The benefits of praying for those in the workplace who have authority over you.
The book of 1 Timothy 2:1-3 says "Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior". So we should pray for all people, for all who are in authority over us whether they rule our governments, over countries, nations, communities, or have authority over us in the workplace.
When we pray for those who have authority over us we can find peace to lead a quiet and peaceable life. Praying often for those who are in authority over you will bring peace not just for you but it will also bring peace into your work environment and you will see God move on the heart of those who have authority over you but also expect God to change you in the process!
Prayer for your boss, supervisor or those in authority over you at work
Father God, I pray today for my supervisor [name] and for all those who you have been given authority over me at [Company Name]. I pray that you would bless each of them and that you would meet the needs that they have according to your riches and glory in Christ Jesus. I pray specifically also for my supervisor [name] today that you would be in the midst of all [his, her] interactions today.
I pray that you would grant [supervisor name] success in the work that you have called them to do as a supervisor and that you would help [him, her] make good decisions that will help our department grow in the right direction and build good and healthy relationships among all employees.
May [he, she] be open to new ideas that our department employees may bring to the table to help make our work more effective and may through that openness may our department have more unity. Lead [him, her] by your spirit today.
I pray that you will help me to be an encourager of [him/her] and that there will be a mutual respect that we have for one another whether we agree to disagree with everything or not.
I pray that you will help me to submit to [his, her] authority and to be open to constructive criticism from [him/her].
Lord if there is anything going on in [his/her] life that may be causing any stress or tension that would affect [his, her] ability to be fair today or to communicate in a way that would please you, I pray that you would move in whatever the situation may be.
I pray for [his, her] health and relationships with all employees and with [his/her] boss as well as husbands, wives, children and all family members. I pray for finances, and most importantly, that [he, she] know you and fulfill the purpose and calling that you have ordained for [his, her] life.
Let my light shine today so that [he/she] will see Christ in me and if [he/she] does not know you may my character and conduct draw them to know you because you said in your word that "if you be lifted up that you would draw all men unto you" so if my life lifts you up then you will draw [him/her] unto to you by your spirit.
I pray with great expectation. In Jesus Name I pray. Amen
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I have to say I'm not that keen on this one. Flying Dragon looks amazing in the bottle, but I find it very disappointing on the nails.
The finish is that satiny, semi matte that neons usually have, but it just doesn't work.
This is three coats. There is nothing wrong with the formula of the polish, except that it's a bit too sheer. It goes on evenly though, so it's not really a problem. This type of finish I would expect to cover in two coats.
With a top coat the polish looks a lot better in my opinion, but it's still not anything to write home about.


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Fallout 4 Discussion
Trainer Tools and Resources
is there a table in fallout 4 like the bobblehead table in fallout 3? I had to send dogmeat to sanctuary so that I could finish a quest. Now I cannot find him. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
He's no doubt at one of the dog houses around the area. I put a doghouse at my settlement there and he showed up a day or two later.
If you're in a hurry to find him you can always use Console Commands to either go to where he is or bring him to you. His Base ID is 0001D162 ....
checked the workstation in sanctuary there are no dog houses in there. what do "I do?
C'mon now, you're giving up too easy. It's there.....
Look under Decorations -> Miscellaneous -> (about 8 or 9 items to the right is a Doghouse)
You should look into using the Console Commands, you can do just about anything. Google Console Commands in Fallout-4. Also the Base ID numbers. There's tons of information about using them. Personally, I think it's a lot more fun using them. The console opens with the Tilde key which is left of the #1 key at the top.
Here's a page in the Steam Forums about using Console Commands with your Companions:
Tried the 0001D162 command no joy. what now?
Look at Red Rocket, see if he's there. Put a doghouse at Sanctuary base and remove ALL the rest of the doghouses there. ALL. He should show within a coupla days. Or try:
Use tilde ~ to Open the console and type:
PRID 0001D162 (Press enter) (one space between prid and number)
Moveto player (moveto is one word. Leave one space between moveto and player)
OR use the console and type:
Player.moveto 0001D162 (press enter) (need a period between player and moveto and a space before the number)
All the above works, I've used them all many many times. Check that you've typed things correctly. Checkout the following Link about finding Dogmeat and other lost companions:
Let me know what works for you or I'll haunt your dreams.
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Datura: toxic, hallucinogenic, fatal.
The human mind is a wonderful thing, capable of so much and yet so easily distracted, confused, tricked. Through our own doing or otherwise, it's possible to convince yourself that things are happening that aren't, and that things that did happen didn't. Videogames don't often really attempt to cover this kind of subject, let alone quote Divine Comedy in the opening title card, so on the surface at least Datura is a brave effort, but one that's not entirely successful.
The trick that Plastic have pulled off so successfully in Datura, though, is in making it almost impossible to distinguish reality from fantasy – it's a trick that works for as long as the experience lasts (roughly 80 minutes or so on a first run) and lingers for a note or two afterwards. There's little of the deep poignancy that punctuated Journey or LIMBO here, but there's a sense of bewilderment and confusion as the credits roll, the game – such as it is – ending as abruptly as it begins.
A real Datura flower. These appear in the game, and their spiky fruit also.
Datura is controlled exclusively with a Move controller. An extension of your hand, the game projects the dismembered limb in front of you, your every move, twist and tilt echoed one-to-one on screen. It's a sometimes lifeless, limp appendage and one that seemingly needs gentle visual cues and prompts to coax it into life, but it can open doors, twist valves and push stone with – after a brief introductory passage – relative ease.
My first few minutes were frustrating – it's not initially clear how actions are triggered and the fact that the hand moves in three-dimensional space (so much that it can disappear if too far back) takes some getting used to. You can't fail in Datura (although you will feel like you have done a few times) but that doesn't mean that you won't miss a requirement simply because you weren't using the Move controller as intended.
Instead, you'll quickly realise that the Triangle button is your best ally in this bizarre, fractured world. The green notification pops up to allow you to focus on your next object or character, and once close enough it'll change slightly, teased into life with another tap and then you can follow the prompts to figure out what you need to do with the Move. Breaking it down like this also breaks down the figurative fourth wall, but it's the easiest route.
That route, of course, will take you in and out of the mind of the player character, but there are no story spoilers here – Datura warrants a fresh, ignorant playthrough because it's really something that needs to be experienced first hand without any preconceptions. Aside from the brief introduction there are two main areas to explore, and each houses four distinct elements that must all be investigated for the game to advance.
There are actions and consequences, but it's a tightly controlled game world with stringent rules and a schedule that must be adhered to regardless of your choices. Indeed, try to circumvent the running order and it'll just wait for you to catch up, and act unexpectedly and – in one case – risk a hardware crash. Isolated, perhaps, but it forced a reboot nonetheless – Datura is a game most easily experienced through the will of the designer.
Some iconic art for the game, which highlights some of the things you can expect to see.
It is a game worth exploring though – visually it's pushing some impressive tech (the sheer amount of leaves for starters) with Santa Monica presumably pitching in with one of the most striking filter techniques I've seen: Datura looks like a moving painting, an effect that plays off against the underlying idea that nothing around you is real, or at least chronological. The music too is wonderful, with a powerful melodic soundtrack battling against static and rumbling bass.
So whilst the PlayStation Move has been mostly left alone by developers, Plastic have embraced the device (the game needs a camera, too) and used it to create something that feels immersive and natural, and coupled it with great graphics – although the 60fps frame rate halves in stereoscopic 3D – and a soundscape that screams out for a decent rig. It's not a perfect game by any stretch, but it's not really meant to be a game – this is an experience, and on that front it clicked for me on a number of levels.
But will you like it as much? That depends, more so with Datura than anything else on PlayStation Network, on an open mind and a willingness to just let go and try something new. The price, £6.49, might seem a little steep for such a short play time, but there's nothing quite like this out there and once again I'm left thinking we should be applauding innovative and risk, something Sony are pushing on both fronts of late.
- There's nothing else like this on PS3
- Some wonderful visual effects
- The music is great
- It's a little short
- More exploration and more things to find off the beaten track would have been great
- The puzzles are far too easy
Above all else, Plastic have come up with a complex, clever slice of software that taps into the idea of delirium with such aplomb it's slightly unnerving, as if the developers have encountered this state, those flowers, and somehow documented what often feels like a free-fall through the mind of severe, unhinged paranoia and nightmarish visions. Applause for pushing the boundaries of what we conceive as interactive entertainment, at least.
Score: 6/10
colmshan1990MemberSince: Apr 2009
I'm sold on this anyway.
It seems interesting, and it costs more or less the same as a cinema ticket, so it's not really that steep of a price for 80mins entertainment even if I only ever play it once.
The text of the review helps me here- from it, I expected a 7 or 8 from 10. Kind of surprised to see a 6, but as I said, the text has convinced me, the score is of secondary importance.Comment posted on 07/05/2012 at 15:21.
SitorimonMemberSince: Jul 2011
I seem to dig all these strangely different "games" at the moment. Dear Esther was fantastic, Ling In Shadows was entrancing, all the weird and wonderful games appeal to me so I was going to get this regardless. Surprised its £6.49 after seeing how cheap LiS was but its just inside my range :)Comment posted on 07/05/2012 at 15:24.
TSBonymanMemberSince: Dec 2009
Good review, despite the overall score I'm still interested in this one.Comment posted on 07/05/2012 at 15:57.
Foxhound_SolidIs a smart cookie.Since: Dec 2009
My thoughts exactly!Comment posted on 07/05/2012 at 20:01.
R1MJAWMemberSince: May 2010
Quite looking forward to playing this. I was kind of expecting it to be somewhere in the £8-10 range, which may well have put me off buying it, but for £6.49 it's a definite purchase.Comment posted on 07/05/2012 at 16:10.
gazzagbMaster of speling mitakseSince: Feb 2009
"Datura is controlled exclusively with a Move controller" and yet in the related stories for this review it says "Datura Hits PSN On May 9th, Features Dualshock Support".
Can you clarify if it is playable with the Dualshock or not? If it is, I'll probably picking it up this Wednesday, 6 quid seems like a decent price for it.Comment posted on 07/05/2012 at 16:22.
TTPMemberSince: Sep 2008
DS3 is supported. It's Move "recommended", not exclusive.Comment posted on 07/05/2012 at 16:59.
gazzagbMaster of speling mitakseSince: Feb 2009
Cool, thanks for clearing that up.Comment posted on 07/05/2012 at 17:39.
nofiOne for all.Since: Forever
Yes, sorry, you /can/ use a Dual Shock but it's not an altogether pleasant experience and it's apparent that it was added at a late stage.
Movement is with the left stick (ie the left stick turns rather than strafes) and you can't invert the right stick (so up is up). Controlling the hand in 3D space is odd, and some of the gesture movements feel a little awkward.
It's playable, but better with Move for sure, IMO.Comment posted on 07/05/2012 at 19:09.
gazzagbMaster of speling mitakseSince: Feb 2009
Ok, well I don't have Move so the dualshock will have to do. Thanks.Comment posted on 07/05/2012 at 20:30.
Jakster123xMemberSince: Aug 2011
Extra 20% off for Plus members as wellComment posted on 07/05/2012 at 16:29.
KennykazeyMemberSince: Mar 2010
Well, it's a no-brainer then.Comment posted on 07/05/2012 at 17:04.
Jakster123xMemberSince: Aug 2011
That's why i mentioned it :)Comment posted on 07/05/2012 at 21:25.
bmg_123MemberSince: Feb 2012
This seems amazing, despite the score, but I would simply have to get move to buy this, and move itself doesn't seem like a good investment for one game. Maybe if I can pick up a bundle on the cheap…Comment posted on 07/05/2012 at 21:33.
SympoMemberSince: Aug 2009
You know, Datura is odd but I like that. Reason I'll buy this is because its different or well intriguing.Comment posted on 08/05/2012 at 02:17.
shields_tMemberSince: Oct 2008
Sounds like another hark back to the Amiga demoscene like Linger With Shadows. I worry that this kind of approach might actually mean 80 minutes playtime is too long rather than too short.Comment posted on 09/05/2012 at 13:59.
NigeyboyMemberSince: Dec 2011
Has anyone else been playing this in 3D? I'm finding it really hard to watch. I'm getting a kind of double image as the camera pans around. This is especially obvious in the trees, which is pretty much all the time! I thought it might be some sort of 3D cross talk, but if you take the glasses off I can see a quadruple image. Anyone else seeing this?Comment posted on 14/05/2012 at 15:53.