Last week I visited the new Screwfix store in Flint to meet new staff and welcome the business to the area.
Screwfix will open its new store on Thursday 14 February 2019 and will be offering 10% discount on opening.
Screwfix is the UK's largest multi-channel retailer of trade tools, accessories and hardware products. It was founded in 1979 as the Woodscrew Supply Company, the company was acquired in July 1999 by Kingfisher PLC, who also own B&Q, and is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Nationally, Screwfix employs 7,131 people (2017) and the new store in Flint has brought with it more jobs.
It is excellent to welcome a new retailer to Flint. It will provide our town with jobs and ensure that those who need access to top-quality tools and equipment will be able to use a local retailer. This can only be good news for our town's economy.
Going forward I want to see us build upon this good news. When towns up and down the country are struggling we need to look at the success stories so that we can learn and adapt them for ourselves. We have seen in Holywell how its digital high street initiative is supporting local businesses and how Mold is working hard to attract tourists through its heritage.
Flint is a hub of history for North Wales, with talented and skilled people. Businesses would be hard pressed to find a better area to locate themselves in.


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COMMUNITY organisation, Changing Lives are set to travel to the United States as part of their big plans in 2022.
Changing Lives is a community hub that has a whole raft of community based initiatives from out of school sports activities to a refugee football team.
They also provided a vital food hub from their town centre base over the Christmas period.
A spokesperson said: "We are delighted to announce that we will be trying to 'break' America by launching a Student Exchange Programme
"We are flying to California tomorrow to plan and organise a programme for our young people to get involved in. A opportunity that could really 'Change Lives'"
Changing Lives recently received £20,000 for supporting the development of the Community Hub for young people to feel safe and have access to sports activities.
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MIT's new fog harvesting technology can result in 5 times more capturing of water from air
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Posted By: Dattatreya Mandal May 19, 2015
For those who are not familiar with fog harvesting – the scope entails a nature-inspired technique (influenced by fog beetles) by which moisture can be trapped from foggy mists. This is generally achieved by expansive nets that help in trapping the vapor, and then storing the resultant water droplets (that account for a substantial volume) in a connected container. But the predicament related to most of these extending polyolefin mesh nets is that their pores are too big for adequate 'catching' of the water, since a high volume of the vapor passes through the perforated plastic material.
So, one of the solutions pertains to the reduction of these pore circumferences; and that is exactly what a MIT research team has achieved – thus improving the effectiveness of fog harvesting systems. When translated to figures, the newly contrived net mechanism was found to have a whopping five times more water collecting capacity than conventional systems. This equates to around 10 percent of the total water content in a mild fog, as opposed to the mere 2 percent capacity of the regular polyolefin mesh nets used for the purpose.
According to MIT's press release –
The researchers found that controlling the size and structure of the mesh and the physical and chemical composition of this coating was essential to increasing the fog-collecting efficiency. Detailed calculations and laboratory tests indicate that the best performance comes from a mesh made of stainless-steel filaments about three or four times the thickness of a human hair, and with a spacing of about twice that between fibers. In addition, the mesh is dip-coated, using a solution that decreases a characteristic called contact-angle hysteresis. This allows small droplets to more easily slide down into the collecting gutter as soon as they form, before the wind blows them off the surface and back into the fog stream.
When seen from the perspective of practicality, this technology has the potential to do wonders for semi-arid areas that are not prone to rainfall but are affected by fogs. One such location pertains to a specific region in Chile, situated north of the capital city of Santiago. Regularly visited by camanchaca, a strong coastal fog borne by breezy winds, the area is perfectly suited to MIT's contrivance. In fact, many conventional fog harvesting systems are already in usage along the edges of Chile's Atacama Desert, and they make use of the localized camanchaca. But their yield only results in around 2-3 liters of drinking water per day for each square meter of mesh.
However in practical terms, Chilean experts estimate that around 4 percent of the fog's water content capturing is feasible for the population in the zone (equating to 4-6 liters of water). To that end, MIT's system does far better – with the researchers estimating that their fog harvesting mechanism can account for 12 liters of water per day, during certain times of the year. The good news is – these systems are already under trial for a year-long experiment. This is complemented by the fact that the zero-energy contrivances are relatively inexpensive to make and require no operating resources except for occasional maintenance (like removal of insects from the mesh).
The findings were published online in the journal Langmuir.
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I've just returned from a trip with my three-year-old daughter, and I've come to joke that I really don't need to travel with a nanny, but maybe I should seriously consider taking my cook along. My first trip with her was when she was just one, and her diet, as a result, mostly consisted of fruit purees, mashed food, the odd French fry and grilled cheese—I expected this trip to be a breeze too. When it came to her food, though, I couldn't have been more off the mark.
My 'threenager' decided that she wanted to only eat home-style Indian food for the entire time we were travelling. In desperation, I found myself feeding her a dosa at Selfridges (something I never imagined doing in my life!), and taking her to Dishoom to eat fried bhindi, her favourite vegetable—but that didn't work either. The fact that it didn't look like the bhindi she was used to meant no dice. French fries, which she normally loves, were declined (which kid does that?!); bread, again usually a favourite, was ignored, and apart from the occasional pizza or bowl of pasta, she refused to eat anything besides Indian food. Ice cream and crisps, of course, we had all the appetite for.
So what's a parent to do in this situation? Unfortunately, cooking is not really my forte, and besides who wants to spend vacations in the kitchen? I managed to keep the little one fed on this trip with tons of help from family and friends, but what happens if you are in a city without any support? I decided to ask other mums how they tackle the food situation while on holiday, and put together a guide for all those who deal with what I had to on the regular. Scroll further for the details.
— Pack a little travel cooker where you can make rice, dal and upma, among other things.
— Carry your own little pantry—from freeze-dried and vacuum-packed meals to stacks of theplas and rotis, to ready mixes that just need water.
— Fresh fruit, yoghurts, smoothies, fruit pouches and string cheese are all great and filling snack alternatives.
— Pizza every day! One of my friends has a theory—as long as her son eats a side of broccoli, asparagus or any other vegetable, she's fine with his main being anything he wants.
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— And finally, my favourite; stay at Indian run hotels like the Taj, so room service will send you all the dal, rice and bhindi that your little one could desire.


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Joe Biden: "Everyone Calls Me Joe"
Joe Biden is now a heartbeat away from the presidency. His life has been full of surprising highs and extraordinary lows.
Written by Nancy Doyle Palmer
| Published on February 1, 2009
Though Biden has been a fixture on Capitol Hill, he and his wife, Jill, have never lived in Washington. Photograph by Jason Reed/Reuters/Corbis
Last year, during a Senate hearing, Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy scribbled a note and passed it to his colleague Joe Biden.
"Are you going to be the VP?" Leahy asked the Delaware senator.
Biden passed back the note with this response: "Hope not—remember the story about the two brothers?"
The joke about the two brothers is that one goes off to sea and the other becomes vice president—and neither is ever heard from again.
This time around, that's unlikely.
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has never been one to sit silently.
His life story, in fact—a story of luck and tragedy and resolve—has been one of boldfaced headlines and dramatic events: entering the Senate as one of its youngest-ever members, losing a beloved wife and daughter in a car accident, surviving a near-fatal brain aneurysm, failing at two presidential campaigns, and now, at age 66, becoming the 47th vice president of the United States.
Washington has been the backdrop to most of the ups and downs in Biden's life. But with a 36-year Senate career and 14,000 train trips between the Capitol and Wilmington under his belt, he may be the ultimate insider who has never really been a Washingtonian.
Get Up!
In the prologue to his book, Promises to Keep, Biden offers his credo.
"The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down. . . . After the surgery, Senator, you might lose the ability to speak? Get up! The newspapers are calling you a plagiarist, Biden? Get up! Your wife and daughter—I'm sorry, Joe, there was nothing we could do to save them? Get up! Flunked a class at law school? Get up! Kids make fun of you because you stutter, Bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-Biden? Get up!"
"Get up" came from his parents. Biden's father, Joseph Robinette Biden Sr., was fond of saying, "The world doesn't owe you a living."
The elder Biden had grown up well-to-do, but a financial downturn made college unaffordable, and he spent most of his life earning modest wages in auto sales after moving his young family of five from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Wilmington in search of better jobs. Biden Sr. quit one dealership after an office Christmas party at which the owner tossed silver dollars onto the dance floor for employees to scramble after. "The thing he couldn't stand," writes his son, "was people who lorded it over the less fortunate.. . . And he couldn't stand people who abused power of any kind."
His mother, Jean Biden, taught her children to care, but she also taught them to fight back. Young Joe had a stutter, which he eventually conquered by memorizing passages from books and speaking to a mirror. When a nun at school once imitated his stammering, Mrs. Biden came for a visit. "My mother," he wrote in his book, "who was so timid, so respectful of the church, stood up, walked over in front of the nun, and said, 'If you ever speak to my son like that again, I'll come back and rip that bonnet off your head.' "
Biden today says he that while he never feels his stutter coming back, "I have never forgotten what it was like and how tough it is for anyone who's had to face it. Overcoming my stuttering taught me one of the most important lessons in my life—that if you put your mind to something, there's nothing you can't do."
A Man in a Hurry
Joe attended the prestigious Archmere Catholic preparatory school in Claymont, Delaware. It was his personal Rosebud: He could see the stately grounds from his boyhood split-level home and dreamed of going there. He then went to the University of Delaware and on to law school at Syracuse University.
Why Syracuse? Because Neilia Hunter was teaching school in town, and he planned to marry her. On their first date, he recounted, he was mortified to realize he didn't have enough cash to pay the bill. "Don't be," she said. "That happens a lot to my dad. You shouldn't be embarrassed."
He wrote, "That was her special touch, the way she made everybody feel okay about themselves. Nobody ever felt smaller around Neilia."
After they married in 1966, the Bidens' life together took off—Joe was a man in a hurry. Finding work as a trial lawyer and public defender for a law firm in Wilmington, he supplemented his income by managing properties, including a neighborhood swimming pool.
Delaware, the nation's second-smallest state, is about 100 miles from Washington and is a microcosm of the country with farmers, blue-collar workers, DuPont Chemical, Dover Air Force Base, mansions, ghettos, beaches, Catholics, WASPs, Jews, Baptists.
In the early days, Joe Biden met all of them, and in 1972 he decided to run for the US Senate. When he entered the race against popular Republican incumbent Caleb "Cale" Boggs, it seemed like tilting at windmills. Biden had been putting in his time as a member of the county council, and the local Democratic bosses decided to let him run because no one else would challenge Boggs.
House by house, the Biden family went to work. There were coffee klatches across the state that included Joe's mother, Jean, his sister, Val, and his brother and chief fundraiser, Jimmy, then a senior at the University of Delaware. With wife Neilia and three children along—son Beau was born in 1969, Hunter in 1970, and Naomi in 1971—the Bidens made a runfor it.
A former Biden staffer and Delaware native puts it this way: "Delaware is not a big media market like New York or Pennsylvania. You can practically shake the hand of everyone in the state. It's all about personal contact. And a lot of it is working-class. You have to deal with people face to face, and you can't be fake because they'll figure it out. It requires a personal touch."
Veteran News Journal reporter Ron Williams, who has covered every Biden election since 1972, remembers that first race: "He was such a long shot, and there was this whole idea of this young whippersnapper from the county council running against an incumbent as well liked as Boggs, so what Joe did was get this button that said I LOVE CALE and he put it on the inside of his jacket lapel, and when he ran into a bunch of Boggs supporters he would just flip his lapel back. So they could see he was like anybody else."
On November 7, 1972, a 29-year-old Joe Biden defeated Boggs in an upset victory. "I never believed the Senate was my destiny, but it had been a big part of my dreams," he said in his memoir. When he entered the US Capitol after his victory, he wrote, he was stopped by a Capitol police officer. It was the same officer who had apprehended him as a 21-year-old college student when, during a visit to DC, he had wandered all the way into the Senate chamber in a reverie of awe. "Senator Biden," asked the officer, "do you remember me? . . . I'm the fellow that stopped you ten years ago. . . . I'm retiring tomorrow. But, Senator, welcome. I'm happy you're back."
Neilia and Naomi
On December 18, 1972, six weeks after the election win, it all came to a heartbreaking stop. While running Christmas errands in Delaware, Neilia Biden's car was hit by a truck in an accident that killed her and baby Naomi and seriously injured both little boys.
Biden described his state after the accident as a black hole of numbness, devastation, and anger. It lasted a long time. But he moved into his boys' hospital room until they were discharged. His primary role in life as a parent began then.
His son Beau, now Delaware's attorney general, recounts his father's statement at the time: "Delaware can get another senator, but my boys can't get another dad."
His sister Val, recently described by Vogue as "a glamorous, tough, working-class version of Jane Fonda," moved in to take care of the boys once they were home. Biden calls his sister his best friend in life.
The 30-year-old senator-elect wanted to resign before taking office, but the phone calls from Minnesota senator Hubert Humphrey were relentless, the conversations with Senate majority leader Mike Mansfield insistent—and finally Joe Biden agreed to be sworn in at his sons' hospital bedside. Ted Kennedy persuaded him to join him at the Senate gym. And thus began a bond with members of the United States Senate that has a lot to do with Biden's view of it as his second family.
He recalls in his memoir the moment when he met Arkansas senator John McClellan. " 'Oh, you're the guy from Delaware. Lost your wife and kid, huh?' He said it without a hint of sympathy. . . . I felt the urge to smack him across his round pink cheek, but he just kept talking: 'Only one thing to do. Bury yourself in work.'
"I couldn't speak, but he could tell I didn't appreciate his advice. 'You're mad at me, aren't you, son? But I know what you're going through.' Then he told me his own story. He'd lost a wife to spinal meningitis during his first term in the House of Representatives; one son died of the same illness eight years later. He had since lost two more sons. 'Work,' he told me. 'Work. Work. Work.' "
And that's what Biden did—but on his own terms with Washington. He returned home to Wilmington every night—by car, plane, or, often, Amtrak—to be with his family. He did it for the next 36 years.
Amtrak Joe
Amtrak's conductors and porters like their celebrity passenger. Their eyes get a faraway look when they talk about him. Having been admonished not to discuss the Vice President–elect, they speak of him as a quiet secret. One cafe-car attendant talks about looking very hard to find him a cheeseburger when staff thought they had run out. Another smiles as she recalls barbecues the Bidens host for Amtrak employees at their home. On occasion the train has left the station a few minutes late so he could catch the last train home.
"I still hope to ride when I can," says the Vice President today. "It's still the fastest way to travel. . . . Someone once estimated that I've taken over 7,000 round trips, so the folks who work on the train have become like family to me."
One former staffer remembers preparing briefing books for the train ride home, books that often returned the next day unmarked: "There were so many people who wanted a piece of him—the porter, the passengers, people who knew his mother, not fancy-pants lobbyists, ordinary people—he loves, love, loves talking to ordinary people."
One other lesson for the young senator that forged his political persona happened after an ugly speech by North Carolina senator Jesse Helms, known for condemning Communists, minorities, homosexuals, and Martin Luther King Jr. Biden complained to majority leader Mike Mansfield, who told him, "Your job here is to find the good things in your colleagues . . . and not focus on the bad. . . . And, Joe, never attack another man's motive, because you don't know his motive."
"Look for the good" is a mantra he credits with getting him through the next 34 years in the Senate.
By 1977 Biden had met and married Jill Jacobs after seeing her picture on an airport billboard promoting Delaware tourism. Among the many things that attracted him to the blond schoolteacher, one stood out: "Jill had odd little mannerisms that charmed me. If she'd been working in the kitchen, she almost always left a cabinet door open, and she rarely got a lid properly sealed. In that way she was exactly like Neilia. Rationally, I knew better," he wrote in his memoir, "but there was a small part of me that wanted to believe that somehow Neilia had sent Jill to me—that these were the signs."
Knocked-Down Joe
A new family in the making—daughter Ashley was born in 1981—Joe Biden once again started to run. He loved to talk, and by 1987 he was a ranking senator on the important Judiciary and Foreign Relations committees. He decided to run for president in 1988.
But he had developed a reputation in some circles for being more of a show horse than a workhorse as well as being long-winded. A sometimes uneasy relationship with the press got more adversarial. He recalls that liberal columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. said to him, "You've always had it easy, haven't you?"—referring to Biden's gift of gab and ease with voters—and Biden had a premonition he was headed for trouble.
Dionne says he now realizes Biden struggled more than he realized. "While I'm not somebody who believes that a politician's personal life predicts what kind of leader they'll be," he says, "I can't help but have my view of Biden influenced by what he went through and what he did."
Newsweek's Howard Fineman says the early Biden had a reputation for being "a loquacious loudmouth. . . . He has always had a desire to show how much he knows about something, and that's part of the problem because he's not from Harvard or Yale—it bothers him a little."
Part of Biden's regular stump speech in the 1988 presidential campaign included a quote adapted from British politician Neil Kinnock that went something like "Why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to university? . . . The family of coal miners. Were they not smart? . . . Were they weak? . . . No. They didn't have a platform upon which to stand." Kinnock's pitch was that anyone can rise in society and everyone has a voice—and while Biden attributed this to Kinnock most of the time, he didn't at an Iowa State Fair debate. An operative from the Michael Dukakis campaign sent a videotape around to reporters, including Maureen Dowd, who gave the story big play. The media picked up on the fact that Biden began with "I started thinking, as I came over here" and continued with the Kinnock lines without attribution. Then and there Biden was saddled with the label Plagiarizing Joe.
Soon after, an investigation revealed that Biden had been accused of lifting passages from a Fordham Law Review article for a law-school paper at Syracuse—an error that was eventually deemed an academic mistake of improper citing and carelessness. Biden admits to having been a slapdash student with a lot going on outside of his studies and insists the mistake was genuine.
A free fall began. Faced with plunging poll numbers and aggressive press scrutiny that threatened his stature as the Judiciary Committee chair overseeing the contentious Robert Bork Supreme Court hearings, Biden stepped out of the presidential race in September 1987. He recalls that when he offered to step aside as chair of the Judiciary Committee, fellow senators, including Ted Kennedy, Alan Simpson, and Strom Thurmond, wouldn't let him. "You don't have to explain anything," Simpson said to him. "We know you."
More Life-and-Death Moments
Biden had been plagued with headaches for years. After he dropped out of the presidential race, he was in Rochester to give a speech when he collapsed in a hotel room and woke up hours later unable to account for the lost time. After testing, he was diagnosed with an incipient brain aneurysm and given last rites. Both he and his wife are certain today that had he continued to seek the nomination, he would have died on the campaign trail.
Two surgeries at Walter Reed Army Medical Center were performed, followed by months of recovery.
Not only had Biden's integrity been challenged, but he had barely survived two brain surgeries. This period of darkness was familiar to him, filled with the same anger and despair that accompanied the earlier losses in his life. His family—both his real family and his Senate family—brought him back. Even though Jill had given strict orders for no visitors during Biden's recovery, one summer day at the family home outside Wilmington Ted Kennedy showed up with his bathing suit and a funny picture of an Irish stag.
Biden confirms that since Kennedy's own diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor early last summer they've had "special conversations." He adds, "He's helped me get through every significant moment of my life these past 36 years: the loss of my wife, the recovery of my sons after the accident, my personal recovery after the two cranial aneurysms I suffered, celebrating my marriage to Jill, the birth of my daughter—he's been there as my friend. We've worked together closely in the Senate on the Judiciary Committee and a whole host of other special projects. I look forward to seeing him a lot when he comes back to the Senate."
Biden has reached out to others grappling with traumas or losses.
When ABC correspondent Bob Woodruff suffered severe head injuries from a roadside blast in Iraq in 2006 and was hospitalized at National Naval Medical Center, his prospects of recovery—of even waking from a drug-induced coma—were bleak. One day Woodruff's wife, Lee, returned to her hotel room and found a lengthy voice mail from Joe Biden. Even though she wasn't talking to anyone outside the family, something made her call him back.
"We were on the phone for about an hour. I just listened. I felt like I'd known him forever, he was so warm, and he just talked. He did a wonderful job of sharing his story and his recovery without prying into ours," she recalls. "Bob's prognosis was dire, and there was a lot of media speculation about his prospects. And I just knew the senator wasn't going to tell anyone he had spoken to me."
She adds that when Biden found out she was hoping to take Bob to their lake home in the Adirondacks once he was better, he offered to fly up to visit him and left her his home, office, and cell numbers.
Senator Joe
What came after 1988 was a 20-year seasoning and maturation of the senator from Delaware that not only brought a different candidate to the 2008 election but also made him Barack Obama's choice for running mate.
Today Washington Post political columnist David Broder looks back and says, "Biden was not a fully formed creature when he came to Washington, and he was certainly not a fully formed politician in '88. . . . What I've always liked about him is the way he responds to real people—that's been consistent throughout. And his ability to understand himself and deal with other politicians has gotten much much better."
Says Newsweek's Howard Fineman: "Joe Biden is not an academic, he's not a theoretical thinker, he's a great street pol. He comes from a long line of working people in Scranton—auto salesmen, car dealers, people who know how to make a sale. He has that great Irish gift. He went from being a prodigy politician getting elected at the age of 29 to the 1988 run that was sadly, almost comically bad, yet people around him saw something inspiring in him and are greatly devoted to him. And in the intervening 20 years he used that time to diligently educate himself; he has steeped himself in the street corners of the world."
In the early 1990s Biden's younger son, Hunter, was attending Georgetown University and asked his father to speak at the school. It was a time, Biden writes, when he found his voice once and for all. He laid out the premise that the lessons he received from the Catholic Church, from Catholic schooling, and from his parents had been the governing forces of his career. "The greatest sins on this earth are committed by people of standing and means who abuse their power," he wrote.
He confirms that sentiment today. "Whether it's a boss who is petty at the office or a dictator running roughshod over his people, I just can't stand it when people abuse power. I do get angry about that, and I hope I always will."
This certainty of message brought a stronger campaigner to the 2008 election. "My recollection is that he developed this self-deprecation about being long-winded," says the News Journal's Williams. "He had never addressed that until he got on the national stage this last time."
E.J. Dionne, too, saw a different candidate: "The political world noticed, whether they liked him or not, that the Joe Biden of 2008 was a better candidate than he had been in '88. He was clearer on why he was running and what mattered to him."
But the double challenge of competing against his Senate friends Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama kept Biden a distant runner-up in the primaries, and he dropped out of the race last January.
Getting Up Again
"I was with the vice-presidential selection committee," recalls Vermont senator Patrick Leahy, "and I told Barack Obama I saw three criteria. First and most obvious, God forbid if something happens to you, you have to have somebody who can take over on a second's notice. Second, you've got to have somebody who can work with the House and Senate and get your programs through. In my experience only two vice presidents did that role really well: George H.W. Bush and Fritz Mondale. And third, when you think you're doing everything right and you screw up, you gotta have one person come in, close the door, and say, 'I think you screwed up and here's why,' and you know you will never read about it in the press. And Joe Biden would fit all three of these criteria."
Biden's addition to the ticket looked seamless. "He seemed to inherit some of the discipline that was so much a part of the Obama operation," says Dionne.
Biden and John McCain apparently kept up a regular conversation throughout the campaign. Though Biden won't confirm this, he does say, "John McCain is a very dear friend of mine. I'm not going to get into the conversations we've had; those are private. What I can say is that when the campaign was over, we immediately put it behind us."
Staffers say Biden is more disciplined these days, more relaxed, but still has flashes of "black Irish moods," especially on the anniversary of the loss of Neilia and Naomi—he always takes the day off from work. "He's emotional; he absolutely has a temper," recalls a former staffer. He recalls days when he'd approach the senator's inner office, "and his secretary would just wave you off with 'Not a good time.' " He adds, "I think he's mellowed a lot."
Like Bill Clinton, he will never be able to keep from schmoozing. Biden says, "I'm going to do my best not to get trapped in the 'bubble.' So far it's worked. After Mass I still go to the same coffee shop. It's been more cumbersome, but I know if I work hard at it I can still be available and approachable. The funny thing is in Delaware I've always been Joe, and everyone calls me that. And I hope they always will."
Making Up for Lost Time
So what will it be like having the Bidens in town full-time? Those who know him doubt he'll jump headfirst into the social scene, but he has expressed a desire to use the Naval Observatory vice-presidential residence on Massachusetts Avenue as a gathering place for people on all sides of issues, so there may be more of a Party Joe than in previous years.
He is looking forward to getting to know Washington. "The VP residence is, unlike the White House, smaller and more like a home," he says. "It's our hope, now that we're in Washington, to make up for lost time by having our colleagues, both Democrat and Republican, as well as foreign leaders over for small dinners and special occasions . . . for people of different points of view to have a quiet place to share and discuss them."
Both Bidens are physically active; Joe says he tries to eat healthily and lifts weights, walks, runs, and uses an elliptical machine. "The one who really works out is Jill," he says. "She runs every day. She ran the Marine Corps Marathon here in Washington in 1998." And to relax? "We do like to eat out; Italian restaurants are our favorites. We also like to go see movies. But relaxing for us is really relaxing at home."
The Bidens, who are by Senate standards without great wealth, probably will continue to maintain dual residences. "As excited as we are about living in Washington, Delaware will always be home—that will never change. So we'll get back as often as we can. . . . We've always lived close to our son Beau's children in Delaware. Now we'll also live close to Hunter's girls—they're already talking about how they need new bikes to ride to come see Nana and Pop's new house."
Beau, 40, Delaware's attorney general, now serving in Iraq with the Delaware National Guard. Hunter, 39, is a lawyer in DC, and daughter Ashley, 27, is a social worker in Wilmington.
"The thing I most admire about my children is the respect they show everyone they meet," says their father. "I know it will not sound unbiased, but they are the three most decent people I've ever met in my life."
As for his relationship with President Obama, one former staffer admits, "If this had been 20 years ago, he would have trouble playing second fiddle. But now? He's a different person."
While E.J. Dionne thinks both Obama and Biden have equally strong people skills, "Biden is a more outwardly emotional guy. He's a hugger. Obama is not a hugger. Joe Biden, and I mean this in the best sense, is good at malarkey, and malarkey is not something Obama is given to."
David Broder guesses that Biden and Obama have already developed a good relationship. "And after the first crisis they go through together, President Obama will find, as others have found, that Joe Biden is a strong guy to have in the foxhole with you," says Broder. "I'll be very surprised if he crashes."
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I've never been to an auction before. Sure, seen plenty on TV. I remember this show on BBC about people selling at auction houses different antique objects they found at garage sales or in their grandparents' house.
Ever since I laid eyes on some of the objects in Bowie's collection I wanted to go to Sotheby's auction, but I am still in my early 20s, working my modest paid architectural assistant job.... So...yes, I can't quite afford to buy any of the pieces I liked, and obviously the ones I like the most are likely to go for high scores. And so, I abandoned the idea of attending for a while. But a few days before the event, it got my attention again and decided Zutter shall go!
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Surprisingly when the door did open and everyone rushed in, nobody seem to check the tickets. As I was wondering if I should just walk confidently in, people start to get kicked out with a flyer in their hand. Not curious enough about the flyer, I meet up with Victoria and go to Starbucks to warm up with a green tea latte. On our way back at 10 minutes to 7, now curious what had happened with the kicked out people, I notice the photographer crossing the street, going into a narrow alley between two buildings and out come a sea of people, all almost running towards the entry at Sotheby's! And among them some of the people that were kicked out before and they all had tickets in their hands!
Last ones to enter, me and Victoria are handed a glass of Prosecco and the auction's catalogue. We rush in, anxious to see it all. The crowd, the painting that is displayed and about to get sold, the man on the stage with a hammer (the auctioneer), the people seated with paddles, graciously bidding. But it's not as I remembered it from the show I was watching when I was a kid.
As the auction heats up, the Frank Auerbach's 'Head of Gerda Boehm' comes up and I am as excited as everyone else in the room as the bids go up and up and hit the £3 million mark.
At Lanyon's 'Witness' I feel a bit deflated. It is my second favourite from tonight's auction yet it doesn't seem everyone agrees with me. It still sells for about £800 000, making it the 4th highest sale of the night.
Everyone's favourite, Basquiat's 'Air power' captures the whole's room attention. My head spins like at a tennis match, from left to right, wondering who are the people on the phone, who is the lucky millionaire or billionaire that is going to own this amazing piece. As the bidding hits £5 million the bidding slows down and the auctioneer gets a bit impatient with his phone bidders.
I cracked up laughing. Yet I do consider it sweet that he did think about asking before getting carried away.
In the end the lucky winner spent £7million on the Basquiat. Some of the bidders in the room start to leave as the main attraction is over. Still intrigued by the on phone bidders I take a closer look at their representatives in the room. As I get near the right end of their seating place I come across a familiar face.
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A bit overexcited and with trembling hands and a red face I scribble on a page from my agenda a note and Zutter's contact information over my business card. I get as close as I can and hand both the note and the card to another representative and ask him to give it to her. Nervous, I run quick back to my place, after I take a look back and see her smile while reading the note.
Back on my seat, I watch the bidding go on, yet the excitement dies down and the room gets more empty. I am still waiting for the last lot of the auction, my third favourite, Damien Hirst's 'Beautiful, shattering, slashing, violent, pinky, hacking, sphincter painting'. It gets sold for £755 000 which makes it the 6th highest after Hirst's 'Beautiful, hallo, space-boy painting'.


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/** @file

    @version	$Id: openglconfig.cpp,v 1.2.2.2 2008/11/09 17:50:21 berniw Exp $
*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <tgfclient.h>
#include <raceinit.h>
#include <graphic.h>
#include <glfeatures.h>
#include "openglconfig.h"

static float LabelColor[] = {1.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0};

// Texture compression.
static char *textureCompressOptionList[] = {GR_ATT_TEXTURECOMPRESSION_DISABLED, GR_ATT_TEXTURECOMPRESSION_ENABLED};
static const int nbOptionsTextComp = sizeof(textureCompressOptionList) / sizeof(textureCompressOptionList[0]);
static int curOptionTextComp = 0;
static int TextureCompressOptionId;

// Texture sizing, order of list is important, do not change.
static int textureSizeOptionList[] = {8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384};
static int nbOptionsTextSize = sizeof(textureSizeOptionList) / sizeof(textureSizeOptionList[0]);
static int curOptionTextSize = 0;
static int TextureSizeOptionId;
static const int defaultTextSize = 64; // In case everything goes wrong.
static char valuebuf[10];

// gui screen handles.
static void	*scrHandle = NULL;
static void	*prevHandle = NULL;

// Read OpenGL configuration.
static void readOpenGLCfg(void)
{
	int	i;
	char buf[1024];

	sprintf(buf, "%s%s", GetLocalDir(), GR_PARAM_FILE);
	void *paramHandle = GfParmReadFile(buf, GFPARM_RMODE_REREAD | GFPARM_RMODE_CREAT);

	// Read texture compression parameters.
	char *optionName = GfParmGetStr(paramHandle, GR_SCT_GLFEATURES, GR_ATT_TEXTURECOMPRESSION, textureCompressOptionList[0]);
	for (i = 0; i < nbOptionsTextComp; i++) {
		if (strcmp(optionName, textureCompressOptionList[i]) == 0) {
			curOptionTextComp = i;
			break;
		}
	}
	if (isCompressARBAvailable()) {
		GfuiLabelSetText(scrHandle, TextureCompressOptionId, textureCompressOptionList[curOptionTextComp]);
	}

	// Read texture sizing parameters.
	int maxsizenb = 0;
	int sizelimit = getGLTextureMaxSize();
	int tsize = (int) GfParmGetNum(paramHandle, GR_SCT_GLFEATURES, GR_ATT_TEXTURESIZE, (char*)NULL, (tdble) sizelimit);
	bool found = false;

	for (i = 0; i < nbOptionsTextSize; i++) {
		if (textureSizeOptionList[i] <= sizelimit) {
			maxsizenb = i;
		} else {
			break;
		}
	}

	// Limit to available sizes.
	nbOptionsTextSize = maxsizenb+1;

	for (i = 0; i < nbOptionsTextSize; i++) {
		if (textureSizeOptionList[i] == tsize) {
			curOptionTextSize = i;
			found = true;
			break;
		}
	}

	if (!found) {
		// Should never come here if there is no bug in OpenGL.
		tsize = defaultTextSize;
		for (i = 0; i < nbOptionsTextSize; i++) {
			if (textureSizeOptionList[i] == tsize) {
				curOptionTextSize = i;
				break;
			}
		}
	}
	sprintf(valuebuf, "%d", textureSizeOptionList[curOptionTextSize]);
	GfuiLabelSetText(scrHandle, TextureSizeOptionId, valuebuf);

	GfParmReleaseHandle(paramHandle);
}

// Save the choosen values in the corresponding parameter file.
static void saveOpenGLOption(void *)
{
	char buf[1024];
	sprintf(buf, "%s%s", GetLocalDir(), GR_PARAM_FILE);
	void *paramHandle = GfParmReadFile(buf, GFPARM_RMODE_REREAD | GFPARM_RMODE_CREAT);

	// Texture compression.
	GfParmSetStr(paramHandle, GR_SCT_GLFEATURES, GR_ATT_TEXTURECOMPRESSION, textureCompressOptionList[curOptionTextComp]);
	// Texture sizing.
	GfParmSetNum(paramHandle, GR_SCT_GLFEATURES, GR_ATT_TEXTURESIZE, (char*)NULL, (tdble) textureSizeOptionList[curOptionTextSize]);

	GfParmWriteFile(NULL, paramHandle, "graph");
	GfParmReleaseHandle(paramHandle);

	// Return to previous screen.
	GfuiScreenActivate(prevHandle);
	updateCompressARBEnabled();
	updateUserTextureMaxSize();
	return;
}

// Toggle texture compression state enabled/disabled.
static void changeTextureCompressState(void *vp)
{
	if (vp == 0) {
		curOptionTextComp--;
		if (curOptionTextComp < 0) {
	    	curOptionTextComp = nbOptionsTextComp - 1;
		}
	} else {
		curOptionTextComp++;
		if (curOptionTextComp == nbOptionsTextComp) {
	    	curOptionTextComp = 0;
		}
	}
	GfuiLabelSetText(scrHandle, TextureCompressOptionId, textureCompressOptionList[curOptionTextComp]);
}

// Scroll through texture sizes smaller or equal the system limit.
static void changeTextureSizeState(void *vp)
{
	long delta = (long)vp;
	curOptionTextSize += delta;
	if (curOptionTextSize < 0) {
		curOptionTextSize = nbOptionsTextSize - 1;
	} else if (curOptionTextSize >= nbOptionsTextSize) {
		curOptionTextSize= 0;
	}

	sprintf(valuebuf, "%d", textureSizeOptionList[curOptionTextSize]);
	GfuiLabelSetText(scrHandle, TextureSizeOptionId, valuebuf);
}

static void onActivate(void * /* dummy */)
{
	readOpenGLCfg();
}

// OpenGL menu
void * OpenGLMenuInit(void *prevMenu)
{
	int y, dy;

	// Has screen already been created?
	if (scrHandle) {
		return scrHandle;
	}

	prevHandle = prevMenu;

	scrHandle = GfuiScreenCreateEx((float*)NULL, NULL, onActivate, NULL, (tfuiCallback)NULL, 1);
	GfuiTitleCreate(scrHandle, "OpenGL Options", 0);
	GfuiScreenAddBgImg(scrHandle, "data/img/splash-simucfg.png");

	y = 400;
	dy = 30;

	const int xleft = 160;	// Center of left elements.
	const int xright = 480;	// Center of right elements.
	const int width = 240;	// Width of elements.

	y -= dy;

	// Texture compression.
	GfuiLabelCreate(scrHandle, "Texture Compression", GFUI_FONT_LARGE, xleft, 400, GFUI_ALIGN_HC_VB, 0);

	if (isCompressARBAvailable()) {
		GfuiGrButtonCreate(scrHandle, "data/img/arrow-left.png", "data/img/arrow-left.png",
				"data/img/arrow-left.png", "data/img/arrow-left-pushed.png",
				xleft-width/2, y, GFUI_ALIGN_HC_VB, 1,
				(void*)-1, changeTextureCompressState,
				NULL, (tfuiCallback)NULL, (tfuiCallback)NULL);

		GfuiGrButtonCreate(scrHandle, "data/img/arrow-right.png", "data/img/arrow-right.png",
				"data/img/arrow-right.png", "data/img/arrow-right-pushed.png",
				xleft+width/2, y, GFUI_ALIGN_HC_VB, 1,
				(void*)1, changeTextureCompressState,
				NULL, (tfuiCallback)NULL, (tfuiCallback)NULL);

		TextureCompressOptionId = GfuiLabelCreate(scrHandle, "", GFUI_FONT_LARGE_C, xleft, y, GFUI_ALIGN_HC_VB, 32);
		GfuiLabelSetColor(scrHandle, TextureCompressOptionId, LabelColor);
	} else {
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Neighborhood Character: Bust on 22nd
Posted on March 21, 2010 by scott
Out in the suburbs, housing association rules would probably prevent something like this from happening. I'm glad we live in a neighborhood where people put interesting works of art along the sidewalk.
0 thoughts on "Neighborhood Character: Bust on 22nd"
misfunctional on March 21, 2010 at 4:27 pm said:
I've walked by this bust for years and live down the street but have no clue who it's a bust of. Anyone know?
centralresident on March 21, 2010 at 5:26 pm said:
I have not seen it in person, or from all angles, but it looks like a modern interpretation of Lincoln to me….I also like it very much.
Editor on March 21, 2010 at 6:27 pm said:
The non-Lincolesque hair makes me think more of an early Native American than Lincoln but very interesting how much the profile looks like Lincoln. I have never seen it in person.
anna on March 21, 2010 at 7:44 pm said:
it is Samuel Beckett.
dondi on March 21, 2010 at 9:18 pm said:
cool! My first thought was Lincoln, except, of course, the hair!
Hermann on March 22, 2010 at 12:27 am said:
We live at the house in question, and the bust is by a friend of ours, local sculptor David Jacobson, who specializes in what he likes to call "Big Head" sculpture. This head of Beckett was done as a prototype when he was bidding for the King County library (Redmond Branch) gargoyle project, which he subsequently got. The library has busts of four authors as working gargoyles mounted on its roof corners (the authors being Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Toni Morrison, and Saul Bellow). David just chose people he thought had interesting faces. When we asked him if we could install Beckett on the wall, he advised us not to, as he didn't think anyone would like it (!) Beckett often gets mistaken for Lincoln; they do look a lot alike. If anyone out there needs a sculpture of a Big Head, you now know where to go. (We're trying to convince everyone on our block to join in).
thumper on March 22, 2010 at 11:41 am said:
he was an absurdist, right?
in any event, we appreciate the public art, Hermann.
WontYouBeMyNeighbor on March 22, 2010 at 9:48 pm said:
I live down the street on 22nd, and love walking by this sculpture. Agreed with Scott this is the reason to live in NOT the suburbs!
Hermann, your bid to get the entire block seems closer with the – I think – Thai Budda some houses down. Scott, you should put a pic of that too.
Hermann on March 22, 2010 at 11:02 pm said:
Ah the Buddahs… our first converts.


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