A superstructure is an upward extension of an existing structure above a baseline. This term is applied to various kinds of physical structures such as buildings, bridges, or ships having the degree of freedom zero. The word "superstructure" is a combination of the Latin prefix, super with the Latin stem word, structure.
Wall comes from Latin vallum meaning "...an earthen wall or rampart set with palisades, a row or line of stakes, a wall, a rampart, fortification..." while the Latin word murus means a defensive stone wall.  English uses the same word to mean an external wall and the internal sides of a room, but this is not universal. Many languages distinguish between the two. In German, some of this distinction can be seen between Wand and Mauer, in Spanish between pared and muro.
A ceiling is an overhead interior surface that covers the upper limits of a room. It is not generally considered a structural element, but a finished surface concealing the underside of the roof structure or the floor of a story above. Ceilings can be decorated to taste, and there are many fine examples of frescoes and artwork on ceilings especially in religious buildings.
There are three basic methods walls control water intrusion: moisture storage, drained cladding, or face-sealed cladding.  Moisture storage is typical of stone and brick mass-wall buildings where moisture is absorbed and released by the walls of the structure itself. Drained cladding also known as screened walls  acknowledges moisture will penetrate the cladding so a moisture barrier such as housewrap or felt paper inside the cladding provides a second line of defense and sometimes a drainage plane or air gap allows a path for the moisture to drain down through and exit the wall. Sometimes ventilation is provided in addition to the drainage plane such as in rainscreen construction. Face-sealed also called barrier wall or perfect barrier  cladding relies on maintaining a leak-free surface of the cladding. Examples of face sealed cladding are the early exterior insulation finishing systems, structural glazing, metal clad panels, and corrugated metal.
Housewrap generally denotes a synthetic material used to protect buildings. Housewrap functions as a weather-resistant barrier, preventing rain from getting into the wall assembly while allowing water vapor to pass to the exterior. If moisture from either direction is allowed to build up within stud or cavity walls, mold and rot can set in and fiberglass or cellulose insulation will lose its R-value due to heat-conducting moisture. House wrap may also serve as an air barrier if it is sealed carefully at seams.
A rainscreen is an exterior wall detail where the siding stands off from the moisture-resistant surface of an air barrier applied to the sheathing (sheeting) to create a capillary break and to allow drainage and evaporation. The rain screen is the siding itself but the term rainscreen implies a system of building. Ideally the rain screen prevents the wall air/moisture barrier on sheathing from getting wet. In some cases a rainscreen wall is called a pressure-equalized rainscreen wall where the ventilation openings are large enough for the air pressure to nearly equalize on both sides of the rain screen, but this name has been criticized as being redundant and is only useful to scientists and engineers.
Wall art in Budapest's Széll Kálmán Square.
Some partition walls are made of sheet glass. Glass partition walls are a series of individual toughened glass panels mounted in wood or metal framing. They may be suspended from or slide along a robust aluminium ceiling track.  The system does not require the use of a floor guide, which allows easy operation and an uninterrupted threshold.
Wall partitions are constructed using beads and tracking that is either hung from the ceiling or fixed into the ground.  The panels are inserted into the tracking and fixed. Some wall partition variations specify their fire resistance and acoustic performance rating.
On a ship, a wall that separates major compartments is called a bulkhead . A thinner wall between cabins is called a partition.
Before the invention of artillery, many of the world's cities and towns, particularly in Europe and Asia, had defensive or protective walls (also called town walls or city walls). In fact, the English word "wall" derives from Latin vallum —a type of fortification wall. These walls are no longer relevant for defense, so such cities have grown beyond their walls, and many fortification walls, or portions of them, have been torn down—for example in Rome, Italy and Beijing, China. Examples of protective walls on a much larger scale include the Great Wall of China and Hadrian's Wall.
Walls are often seen in popular culture, representing barriers preventing progress or entry. For example, the progressive/psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd used a metaphorical wall to represent the isolation felt by the protagonist of their 1979 concept album The Wall . American poet laureate Robert Frost describes a pointless rock wall as a metaphor for the myopia of the culture-bound in his poem "Mending Wall", published in 1914. In a real-life example, the Berlin Wall, constructed by the Soviet Union to divide Berlin into NATO and Warsaw Pact zones of occupation, became a worldwide symbol of oppression and isolation.
A curtain wall system is an outer covering of a building in which the outer walls are non-structural, utilized to keep the weather out and the occupants in. Since the curtain wall is non-structural, it can be made of lightweight materials, thereby reducing construction costs. When glass is used as the curtain wall, an advantage is that natural light can penetrate deeper within the building. The curtain wall façade does not carry any structural load from the building other than its own dead load weight. The wall transfers lateral wind loads that are incident upon it to the main building structure through connections at floors or columns of the building. A curtain wall is designed to resist air and water infiltration, absorb sway induced by wind and seismic forces acting on the building, withstand wind loads, and support its own dead load weight forces.
The Canterbury railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the Bankstown line at Canterbury in the Canterbury-Bankstown Council local government area of New South Wales, Australia. The station is served by Sydney Trains T3 Bankstown line services. The station was designed by New South Wales Government Railways and built from 1895 to 1915 by J. J. Scouller. It is also known as Canterbury Railway Station group. The property is owned by RailCorp. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
Brisbane Showgrounds is located at 600 Gregory Terrace, Bowen Hills, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and was established in 1875. It hosts almost 300 events each year, with the largest being the Royal Queensland Show (Ekka).
Precast concrete is a construction product produced by casting concrete in a reusable mold or "form" which is then cured in a controlled environment, transported to the construction site and lifted into place. In contrast, standard concrete is poured into site-specific forms and cured on site. Precast stone is distinguished from precast concrete using a fine aggregate in the mixture, so the final product approaches the appearance of naturally occurring rock or stone. More recently expanded polystyrene is being used as the cores to precast wall panels. This is lightweight and has better thermal insulation.
Glass fiber reinforced concrete or GFRC is a type of fiber-reinforced concrete. The product is also known as glassfibre reinforced concrete or GRC in British English. Glass fiber concretes are mainly used in exterior building façade panels and as architectural precast concrete. Somewhat similar materials are fiber cement siding and cement boards.
Norman Park State School is a heritage-listed state school at 68-88 Agnew Street, Norman Park, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Department of Public Works (Queensland) and built in 1900. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 7 April 2017.
Studcast concrete, also called "pre-framed concrete", combines relatively thin concrete layers with cold formed steel framing to create hybrid panels; the result is a panelized system usable for cladding, curtain walls, shaft walls, and load-bearing exterior and interior walls. Studcast panels install in the same manner as prefabricated steel stud panels. The technology is applicable for both factory prefabrication and site-cast (tilt-up) wall construction on almost all types of buildings, including multifamily housing, schools, industrial, commercial and institutional structures.
Prefabs were a major part of the delivery plan to address the United Kingdom's post–Second World War housing shortage. They were envisaged by war-time prime minister Winston Churchill in March 1944, and legally outlined in the Housing Act 1944.
Rockhampton Courthouse is a heritage-listed courthouse at 42 East Street, Rockhampton, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by John Hitch and built from 1950 to 1955. It is also known as District Court, Queensland Government Savings Bank, Commonwealth Bank, Magistrate's Court, Police Court, and Supreme Court. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
Cannon Hill State School is a heritage-listed state school at 845 Wynnum Road, Cannon Hill, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 12 June 2015.
Indooroopilly State High School Buildings is a heritage-listed collection of buildings at Indooroopilly State High School at Ward Street, Indooroopilly, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Boulton & Paul Ltd, Department of Public Works (Queensland) and built from 1953 to 1963. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 14 October 2016.
Muswellbrook Post Office is a heritage-listed post office at 7 Bridge Street, Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia. It was added to the Australian Commonwealth Heritage List on 08 November 2011.
Liner House is a heritage-listed office building located at 13-15 Bridge Street, in the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Bunning and Madden and built from 1959 to 1960. It is also known as Moran House. It houses a restaurant and the Moran Arts Foundation on its lower floors. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. The building was awarded the Sir John Sulman Medal in 1961.
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What the hell happened to car advertising?
Car advertising was once the benchmark for all that was good in our industry.
Decades of brilliant creative work for the likes of VW, Volvo, BMW, Porsche, and others had established a gold standard that everyone sought to uphold and emulate.
Not any more.
This is what passes for automotive advertising today.
Conceptually, it's dead on arrival.
But, let's face it, it's the dialogue that really challenges the will to live here.
If you can bear it, here it is in full:
Flee that nest
Find your inspiration
Seize that moment
Be extraordinary
Spread your wings
Feel Alive
If someone told me that an AI algorithm had spat out this dross after ingesting a billion glib car clichés, I frankly wouldn't be surprised. Nor was I surprised to learn that the same copy had been used on almost identical spots for the CX-3, 6 and 9. Four ads for the price of one. Result!
Contrast this lazy thinking with work for the same brand from Gold Greenlees Trott in the 1980s.
Tough, no-nonsense reasons to buy augmented by an arresting visual.
Would that today's stuff was as well put together.
So what happened? How did this sorry state of affairs come to pass? And, more to the point, how can we get back to doing great work for, let's face it, great brands?
As a refresher, and entirely chosen at random, here are more examples from a time when joined-up thinking and smart ideas were the norms.
Each one is built on a single-minded thought.
Each one demands our attention.
Each one communicates persuasively with economy, wit, and confidence.
And, of course, each one has a look, an attitude and a personality that's theirs and theirs alone – you'd be hard-pressed to mistake a VW ad for a Volvo or Citroen for a Porsche.
These ads built on one another. They accumulated value and incrementally raised expectations and properties around the brand over time. Today's ads do none of these things. Bereft of any conceptual merit or sense of longevity, they merely piss away a tidy budget down a hole of invisibility.
Where the responsibility lies for the whole Mazda CX-5 debacle is anyone's guess. Who knows, maybe everyone's chuffed with it, and sales are through the roof.
Somehow I doubt it.
The whole thing smacks of a subjugated creative team. Of countless valiant attempts to get better work approved to no avail. Just one look at the script tells you it was micro-mandated by committee and crippled by fear.
Yes, never forget fear.
Fear of being different.
Fear of standing out.
Fear of being provocative.
There's absolutely no reason why today's car ads shouldn't be as good as those of yesteryear. The creative talent is out there. It's ready, willing and more than able. But for it to shine, we first need to rid ourselves of all the managers, planners, researchers, experience gurus, cultural anthropologists, and other schmucks who get in the way.
Throw them in the back seat and tell 'em to be quiet. Give the keys back to the creatives, turn off the GPS, and let them take us places we've never been before. Down roads unfamiliar and avenues unusual. The further off the beaten track the better.
The work will improve, brands will be built, and sales will rise.
But best of all:
Car advertising will be back.
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You know, for clients!
I like to think of myself as an embracer of change.
For me, the zing and zest of the new and the now are merely a part of what makes this crazy business of ours fun (most of the time).
Nevertheless, as someone who's been around the sun a few times, I can't help but pine for the occasional discipline that may have fallen out of practice or been made redundant by technology, particularly when I believe that what it afforded us is needed now more than ever.
One such discipline is the marker comp.
The marker comp was essentially a scribble on a piece of paper, a doodle with hand-bashed headlines, stick figures, and squiggly lines for body copy. It wasn't about draughtsmanship, it was about the idea. The intent was to communicate a thought so succinctly you could hold it up from across a room and say, "What do you think?"
"Hate it."
Move on.
The simplicity of the form meant that ideas were generated at rapier speed. Nothing was too dumb, too ridiculous or too precious. You could dig deeper, faster and burn past the usual and clichéd early. As a consequence, you were more apt to alight on something original.
For years, the marker comp was the paper currency by which we created, shared, discussed, argued, fought, laughed, and generally got excited about ideas. Walls would be literally plastered with these things. After directions, tangents and permutations had been properly explored, one or two would be deemed worthy to present to the client. Here the marker comp would get a subtle upgrade in the form of a more considered rendering and the introduction of color courtesy of that other art director mainstay, the Magic Marker.
Yet no matter how elaborate or finished they finally became, the boards created for the client presentation where still essentially platforms for judging an idea.
Which is exactly what the clients were asked to do. Moreover, that's all they were asked to do.
The client never got side-tracked by the use of stock photography or a choice of font. Those conversations would come later once an idea had been picked. And that was the other great thing about the marker comp: stripped of any form of artifice, it was easy to spot a good idea from a bad one.
You seldom see walls plastered with paper concepts these days. Just as you never see a creative team batting scribbles across a table. Our first thought is to seek the answer on the computer, a quick fix that seldom forks any lightning.
It's why I can't help but think that a return to marker comps for concepting and presentations might be a good thing. It would undoubtedly help us refocus our attention on the essentials of effective communication:
Does it have impact?
Does it communicate something simply?
Does it do so persuasively?
Does it get you unconditionally excited or make you snort with laughter?
Because if it doesn't, you're doing something wrong.
If I could borrow a Delorean fitted out with a flux capacitor, I'd set coordinates for 1994 and head straight to the art supplies shop that used to sit opposite Covent Garden tube station on the Long Acre and bring back a box of N50s, a set of magic markers and a dozen A3 layout pads.
Then I'd invite my art directors and copywriters to go analog for a couple of days. In no time, the walls would be filled with possibilities, the floors strewn with the detritus of the wayward and, amongst it all, the seeds of a couple great ideas will be evident.
Computers have been great for a thousand-and-one things over the last twenty-five years.
But they killed the marker comp.
It's time we brought it back.
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56 Years Young
Well, wouldn't you just know it.
I return from the Holidays to find we're finally having a debate about ageism in advertising. And a damn serious one, too, by the looks of it.
Naturally, in the two-cent saloon of public opinion I've got a dollar fifty to spend, so here's my take on the various whys, whats, and wherefores.
The concerted eradication of the lesser-spotted senior creative has been going unchallenged for more than a decade now. Aside from the glib cliché that "Advertising is a young person's game," the boilerplate excuse for this sorry state of affairs has been the digital revolution and the pernicious notion that anyone over 40 or, God forbid, 50, must be flummoxed by it all. The whole shebang is just too much for our ageing analog minds to grasp.
A handy piece of nonsense that I hope to bury over the next few paragraphs.
To be clear:
There is not a single thing about digital, social, mobile, or content that scares me, worries me, frightens me or otherwise gives me the heebie-jeebies.
I have a clear understanding of how it works and, unlike most of its acolytes, know with absolute certainty why it doesn't most of the time.
And I'm pretty sure a vast slew of ad people of a certain vintage would agree with me.
The only thing that bewilders me about the digital circus is the wholesale acceptance of its supposed magical properties and the outright refusal to countenance anything that might gainsay it. That being said, here's what's really driving our ongoing preference for young over old.
First, there's the optics. A creative department filled with young guns supporting beards, tats, and Bluetooth headsets, looks a whole lot more on-it and of-the-moment than one stacked to the rafters with receding hairlines, expanding girths and mandatory reading glasses. For those of us getting up in years, this is undoubtedly the cruelest consequence of the passage of time.
Then there's the money. Younger means cheaper. Why pay top dollar oldie prices when you can hire raw talent with bags of potential for half and get away with it? If the client doesn't notice, who cares?
This double whammy has resulted in the gutting of an entire stratum of our business – the senior pro with 25+ years of experience under his or her belt.
There are so many reasons why this is a terrible idea.
Let's start with the nature of the advertising audience: It's getting older, more affluent and more influential. The oldies have disposable income out the wazoo. Might it not be a good idea to have some of their peers creating the ads for them?
Then there's the obvious hypocrisy of creating diversity and inclusion campaigns for our clients while simultaneously turning a blind eye to ageist practices in our own back yard. An excellent opportunity to lead by example that's, naturally, been missed.
The third is the effect an absence of senior people has on the quality of the work we ultimately create. I'm sorry, folks, but it's increasingly taking a nose-dive into the dirt.
Today's twenty-somethings are sorely missing what I had when I was their age – namely, the presence of a couple of old farts who had seen most everything before and weren't afraid to share a few secrets. Occasionally, this would manifest itself as an open piece of advice ("Yeah, I wouldn't do that if I were you"); more often though it was learning through proximity: You can learn a lot from merely observing someone who knows what they're doing,
No one doubts that times change and that the younger generation must inevitably replace the one that came before it.
But experience never gets old, and we jettison those steeped in the ways of the business too readily at our peril.
Do so if you must, but don't say it's because the old guard is out of its depth, or doesn't grasp the latest leaps forward.
We know all too well how the game works.
And better than you might think.
Nevertheless, I'm glad we're at last having a meaningful conversation.
Long may it rage.
Let the change in attitudes begin.
How badly do you want it?
When I was first getting started in advertising back in the mid-1980s, I participated in the D&AD student workshops.
For six weeks you'd be set six briefs by six different agencies.
One week you'd be answering a print brief for Saatchi's, the next a TV brief for DDB.
Best of all, you got to present your work to the person who set it – typically, this meant getting one-on-one advice from the likes of Dave Trott, Nick Wray, Paul Grubb, Neil Patterson, Adrian Kemsley, and Charles Hendley – the smartest minds in the biz at the time.
On one particular night, the host agency was Collet Dickenson Pearce, and true to form, we had a badass tutor: John O'Donnell.
The brief was for an imaginary product called Mathews Thermal Underwear, and the medium was posters. As was the norm, every student pinned their work up on the wall and awaited their fate.
Few got off lightly.
O'Donnell cited the usual flaws: weak ideas, ambiguous executions, crap headlines, etc.
Halfway around the room he stopped and paused. In front of him were three neatly drawn up layouts. They were thematically linked visually with the headlines that were subtle variations of a single thought.
One featured a young man clambering up the side of a two-story house to reach his girlfriend's bedroom window on a bitterly cold night. The line read: "Matthews Thermal Underwear: For Adventurers."
Another read, "Matthews Thermal Underwear: For Explorers" but its visual and the entire third concept have slipped the realms of my memory.
Without looking away from the work, O'Donnell said, "Who did this?"
A tentative hand went up at the back of the room.
He turned and eyed the speaker.
"These are great. I wouldn't change a thing. Put them in your book."
And that was it: A first-hand example of what would cut it, what it looked like, and how it worked. In the pub afterward, we all congratulated the campaign's creator and silently resolved to come back with better stuff the following week.
Which leads to me to the other remarkable thing from that night.
At the end of the workshop, as everyone was packing up, O'Donnell addressed a question to the entire room.
"How many of you really want a job in advertising?"
I'm not sure what prompted the inquiry, but to a man and woman, everyone replied that, Yes, they did.
He took a moment to collect a thought and then said:
"Well, if you want it badly enough, you will."
A gauntlet had been thrown down in front of us, a tacit challenge issued.
O'Donnell knew there would be casualties. That, whether through attrition, hardship, bad luck or disinterest, many would fall by the wayside.
For one, it was tough.
In those days, getting a job hinged on your folio of spec ideas. Developing your "book" from a half-formed mush of dubious thoughts into a job worthy tome of advertising goodness required a pathological degree of single-mindedness – a willingness to scrap, re-do, revisit, revise, refine and revise again, until you had twenty or so ads that any Creative Director could flick through in sixty seconds or less without ever having to stop and say "I don't get it."
So, yeah, it was tough, but that's what it took to get into a shop like CDP.
O'Donnell would have been right to assume that not all would go the distance – of the 20 or so assembled before him that night, perhaps six ended up in the business.
It's why I think the gist of O'Donnell's statement should be posted in the reception of every ad agency, design shop, and client office in the land.
If you're a creative, how badly do you want to create great work?
How many with a good, even great idea, will keep going and make it exceptional? When a client rejects a beloved campaign, how many will roll up their sleeves and vow to double down and come back with something even better?
How badly will the account director want to champion it before a client?
How many clients will go to bat for it against an intransient superior? Or take the time to argue, rationalize, defend and support what they know works?
Simply put, how many will support the right way when the path of least resistance gets a quick result and a chance to beat the 5:00 traffic?
Like those students in the workshop all those years ago, some will stay the course.
Others will bail out early.
It's easy to get jaded.
Bored even.
To just say "It is what it is" and be done with it.
But sometime soon there's going to be a moment when a great piece of work is on the line, and it's down to you to fight for it.
That's when this post will come back to haunt you.
Because that's when a little voice in your head is going to ask:

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Gvt to stop abuse of State media, crafts Bill to allow more players into the field
Cabinet has moved to amend the Broadcasting Services Act in a bid to broaden and address diversity of opinion, ideas and values, Information minister has said
Addressing a post cabinet briefing on Tuesday, Monica Mutsvangwa said cabinet approved principles to the Broadcasting Services Act to pave way for the crafting of the bill.
"The principles of the proposed Broadcasting Services amendment bill provides the following, that every person has the right to freedom of expression and freedom of the media, that the freedom to establish broadcasting and other electronic media of communication subject only to state licencing procedures," Mutsvangwa said.
Zimbabwe has had a single broadcaster resulting in it being abused by the ruling party, Zanu PF.
Mutsvangwa said the new proposed law would put an end to the abuse of the state media as well as cause the establishment of many players.
The executive arm of the state also approved the Freedom of Information bill which seeks to repeal the infamous Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA).
Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said the bill was now ready for gazetting after cabinet gave a nod with the key focus being aligning the act to the constitution-especially section 62.
The bill, according to Ziyambi seeks to regulate the scope of limitations on the right to access to information as well as set procedures for internal and court appeals against decisions made by information officers or principle officers of entities with respect to requests for access to information.
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I need to heat and bend multiple pieces of 3/8ths round stock for a handle.
What can I use to do this without buying an oxygen acetylene torch with tanks?
Is it even do-able with something else?
I don't typically heat small stuff like that up to bend it. It depends on how much of a bend needed I suppose.
A good stout bench vice/vise (US) and a longish bit of pipe over the round stock and you can bend all day. Don't fret about getting the bent pieces exactly the same before or during bending, you can cut to size after bending.
I used a standard torch to bend 1/2" stainless rod for handles.


CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that the Facebook News Feed algorithm has been altered to favor personal posts at the expense of business, brand and media content. Zuckerberg explained that this is a long term strategy to enhance the well being of members. Although this will have an immediate negative impact on non-advertising posts, the work-around according to Zuckerberg is to promote community engagement via live video feeds or discussion groups. This is consistent with his push to stream live video since the introduction of Facebook Live in April of 2016. Going forward this recent modification will likely incentivise brands to create more campaigns centered on Facebook Live in order to maintain exposure on Facebook's News Feed.
Facebook says that one-fifth of the videos posted to their platform now come via Facebook Live, and that users spend 3x longer watching video when it's live, compared to pre-recorded or saved video.
This trend is a strong indicator that the Facebook Live platform is ubiquitous among Facebook's 2 billion users; a compelling incentive to start live streaming on Facebook. Of course there is a significant amount of planning and preparation needed to put together a successful Facebook Live campaign. It is important to engage with your audience especially with the interactive tools available on your Facebook page. You should also consider using a professional live streaming service to provide broadcast quality and reliability. However, please do your homework before you dive in. A poorly devised live stream strategy can do more harm than good for your brand. On the other hand, an intentful, authentic, user-focused live event has great leverage potential on the world's largest social media platform.


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Racing The True Value of our Trophies
The True Value of our Trophies
We race for the enjoyment and the memories, but when we win, those memories are preserved in the trophies we celebrate.
By Gary Jobson
Not all sailing trophies are silver cups and pickle dishes, and some eventually prove more valuable than others. As the recipient of the New York YC's Resolute Cup sportsmanship trophy in 2016, Brandon Flack earned a limited-edition Porsche bike that he eventually sold for $5,000 and donated to the MudRatz junior sailing foundation. Paul Todd / Outside Images
The moment you hear your name called to receive an award is one of satisfaction, excitement and a sort of validation of the effort invested to earn it. The announcement is followed by applause from your competitors as you are handed a keepsake reminder of your success. It's a euphoric moment, but then, a few days later, you have a quandary. What do I do with the darn thing?
Over the past winter, I decided to take stock of the inventory of awards and trophies I have received over the years. Many were stuffed in boxes and buried in the basement or the garage. Clearly, the euphoria of the moment faded over time. The exercise made me think about trophies and their value, and helped me recall great moments on the racecourse. The extraordinary thing I realized was that for every trophy I had received, there were far more regattas where I did not. Such trophies are reminders of good times, but they are certainly not the most important takeaway from racing a sailboat.
My personal collection includes an eclectic mix of objects: cups, bowls, plates, crystal, ice buckets, binoculars, barometers, flags, certificates, plaques, boxes, a chair, jackets, foul-weather gear, books, framed pictures, decanters, a working canon, knives, silverware, bottles of wine, trophies of every shape, an oil lantern, compasses, strange plastic trophies, artwork, and a couple of Rolex timepieces. And yes, there's even a peace pipe. Awards that seemed insignificant to me ended up back in boxes or sent off to a thrift shop. I just did not need 10 old jackets that I was unlikely to ever wear again. As I went through the collection, I decided to cull it, selecting an award with the most significance for each year of my sailing career.
My next step was to create an appropriate way to display the awards, and what I learned from the experience might be helpful for any yacht club or sailor when the time comes to tackle the trophy haul. Important trophies should be on display where everyone can see them. The trophy can be preserved in a glass case, or out in the open to be handled, shared and admired. If it's genuinely valuable, say an Olympic medal or an ornate piece that's irreplaceable, there should be an element of security and protection. Trophies should be spaced apart so they don't get muddled on a shelf. Good lighting helps viewers to see the engraving. I suggest posting a list of the winners on a wall next to the case because too many trophies end up with the winners listed on the back, and their names get lost.
My favorite trophies include a Windsor chair presented by the United States Merchant Marine Academy to our crew on Courageous for winning the America's Cup. The chair has a nifty worded plaque on the back and is a comfortable place to sit. It is 44 years old and still looks good. The America's Cup Hall of Fame presented me with a cool half-model of Reliance, and one of my all-time favorites is a small blue flag with a white rooster on it. I won it in the last race of the season on Barnegat Bay in 1973. In the bottom of one of the boxes, I found an engraved trophy with the name of my great aunt, Frances Wemple. She finished third for the season in 1927 at the now-defunct Polyhue YC. The burgee on the trophy has six colors, hence poly hue (many colors). I decided the small cup should remain on my shelf because I never knew Aunt Frances; she died at a young age in the 1930s.
The most famous trophy in sailing is the America's Cup, of course. Huge fortunes have been spent on the quest to win it. The Cup itself is kind of a gaudy pear-shaped object. It looks like a pitcher but is actually bottomless. It was one of eight identical trophies manufactured by R & S Garrard in London in 1851. The original Cup was 27 inches high and weighed 134 ounces of silver. Additional extensions to its base have been added over the years. Originally, the Cup was called the 100 Guineas Cup because that was its cost. The name of the trophy was changed in honor of the schooner, America, that won it for defeating 15 British yachts in a race around the Isle of Wight.
The iconic trophy was called ordinary when it was first presented, but today it is revered as the most prestigious prize in sailing. In October 1995, a deranged New Zealand activist took a sledge hammer to the Cup and smashed it. The perpetrator received a stiff prison sentence, and the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron shipped the mangled piece of silver back to Garrard in London for a complete rebuild. White-gloved security for the Cup has been tighter ever since.
Throughout his many years challenging for the America's Cup, Sir Thomas Lipton traveled around the United States presenting Lipton Cups to different yacht clubs. One of those went to the Grand Lake YC in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Lipton had been invited to visit by a lawyer during cocktails one evening at the New York YC. Several months later, Lipton stopped in Denver for two days while traveling via train from San Francisco to New York City. At an elaborate dinner that was described as "the social event of the year," Lipton committed to giving the yacht club a Challenge Cup. A few months later, one of Lipton's trophies arrived at the club, and a regatta has been an important event ever since.
In November 1919, Lipton visited the Southern YC in New Orleans and promised a trophy for the "advancement of sailing in inter-club competition in Fish Class sloops." The club's minutes announced the big moment: "Thomas J. Lipton's gift arrived from England, a magnificent silver trophy handcrafted by silversmiths in England, whereupon a resolution was adopted and Sir Thomas was sent an honorary membership." Of course, Lipton was using his gifts to promote Lipton tea, but it didn't matter to the recipients. Lipton was a popular figure thanks to his persistent pursuit of the America's Cup.
Sometimes the actual trophy is a little different than advertised. For example, the Kaiser of Germany once presented a gold cup called the Kaiser's Cup for the Transatlantic Race in 1905. Years later, it was discovered that the trophy was actually cheap metal covered with gold plating. Authenticity counts, and the Kaiser fell short with his ploy.
The New York YC has a vast collection of important trophies, and in 2019, the club published a booklet about its collection, authored by curator Alice W. Dickson. "Presentation pieces are compelling because they were often the most ambitious work that a firm would do," Dickson writes. "These special commissions were opportunities for manufacturers or designers to show off and promote their skills."
Some of the most interesting trophies in sailing include the Lighthouse Trophy for winning the Newport to Bermuda Race, the Barn Door for the Transpacific Ocean Race, the Toms River YC Challenge Cup that dates back to 1871, the Bilge Puller, presented to the winner of the E Scow National Championship since 1961, the Congressional Cup, deeded to the Long Beach YC by an act of Congress, and the Governor's Cup youth match race regatta, which received its deed from California's then-Gov. Ronald Reagan.
There are times when trophies are retired. One example is the Adams Cup for the North American Women's Sailing Championship dating back to 1924, which was retired in 2011. The America's Cup Challengers raced for the Louis Vuitton Trophy from 1983 through 2017. The regatta was sponsored by fashion house Prada in 2021, and the company presented the Prada Cup to the winner of the challenger trials instead.
Trophies are important reminders of victories and the memories that come with them, and you will appreciate them by displaying trophies that are meaningful, but I suggest not letting volume overwhelm your collection. After one deeper purge, I took away some trophies from years that were not particularly compelling, which made the remaining awards a little more outstanding.
In the summer of 2019, a boat I had been racing on received an award for being the top overall competitor during the previous two years. I sat in the back of the auditorium as our owners got up on stage to accept the trophy. There was no memento for the rest of the crew, but I didn't mind. I felt great satisfaction for just being a participant, which reminded me that memories of our victories are reward enough.
It doesn't take much to be acknowledged. Sometimes a simple piece of cloth is all it takes, which is why my rooster flag will always be special and has a permanent place among the more illustrious hardware.
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Augusto Mario Bedoya Cámere (Lima, 15 de marzo de 1947) es un ingeniero industrial y político peruano. Fue ministro de Transportes, Comunicaciones, Vivienda y Construcción en el tercer gobierno de Alberto Fujimori.

Biografía
Nació el 15 de marzo de 1947, hijo de Augusto Bedoya Reyes y Lilly Camere Neyra. Es sobrino del ex.alcalde de Lima y líder del Partido Popular Cristiano Luis Bedoya Reyes.

Estudió la carrera de Ingeniería Industrial en la Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería.

Fue Director de la Corporación Financiera de Desarrollo - COFIDE.

Actividad política

Ministro de Transportes y Comunicaciones (2000)
En agosto del 2000, Bedoya fue designado como ministro de Transportes, Comunicaciones, Vivienda y Construcción por el expresidente Alberto Fujimori en su tercer mandato. Permaneció en el cargo hasta el fin del gobierno, en noviembre del mismo año luego de varios escándalos de corrupción que generaron crisis política.

Se afilió al partido Fuerza Popular liderado por Keiko Fujimori y fue secretario de economía del partido de 2010 a 2014. En las elecciones generales del 2011, fue presentado como miembro del equipo técnico en un eventual gobierno del partido, sin embargo, no tuvieron éxito debido al triunfo de Ollanta Humala.

Se ha desempeñado como miembro del directorio de distintas empresas, entre ellas Grupo Apoyo, Minera San Ignacio de Morococha, Naviera Humboldt, Servicios Técnicos Marítimos, Servicios de Corretaje Marítimo, Inmobiliaria Salcantay, Inmobiliaria Misti y Serpac International.

Ha sido miembro del Consejo Directivo de la Comisión de Promoción de la Inversión Privada (COPRI), director del Banco de la Nación, director de Osiptel y director de la Corporación Andina de Fomento.

Polémicas

Caso Odebrecht
En el 2018, fue sindicado por el ex-representante de Odebrecht en el Perú, Jorge Barata, de haber recibido dinero para la campaña presidencial de Keiko Fujimori en el 2011 y en marzo de ese mismo año, se le dicto una orden de impedimento de salida del país junto con el exministro Jaime Yoshiyama y el expresidente de la CONFIEP, Ricardo Briceño. En octubre, se le dictó una orden de detención preliminar junto con otros dirigentes del partido; la fiscalía pidió 36 meses de prisión preventiva pero el Poder Judicial le dicto impedimento de salida del país junto con comparecencia restringida.

Véase también
Gobierno de Alberto Fujimori

Referencias

Ingenieros industriales de Perú
Alumnado de la Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (Perú)
Ministros de Vivienda, Construcción y Saneamiento de Perú
Ministros de Transportes y Comunicaciones de Perú

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Twenty four years ago today, the Bay Area shook violently for 15 seconds as the Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants were about to play Game 3 of the World Series. It was a moment that will forever be imprinted into the memories of everybody that experienced it.
The 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck at 5:04 p.m. and turned the lives of the people in the region upside down. As the San Andreas fault slipped and shook, time slowed to a crawl, a section of the Bay Bridge caved in, and the Cypress Structure collapsed leaving people trapped and dead.
[Photo Gallery: Oct. 17, 1989: The earth shakes and the Bay Area mourns]
The earthquake claimed 63 lives and caused an estimated $7 billion in damage. It happened with the nation watching on live television.
The hype and excitement of the World Series immediately became an afterthought as people did all they could to check in with their loved ones. Fortunately, thousands of people were already inside Candlestick Park and many more went home early to watch the game. In the days that followed, people picked up the pieces and mourned.
The World Series resumed 10 days later. The decision to continue the series was met with mixed emotions, but it ended up helping the Bay Area heal and turn the page. There was an on-field ceremony before the delayed game to honor some of the first responders. The A's ended up winning the final two games of the series to sweep the Giants. The A's never held a victory parade.
Other notable Bay Area sports moments on this week in history:
— Oct. 14, 1973: Willie Mays recorded his final career hit. He was a member of the Mets playing against the A's in the World Series.
— Oct. 14, 1990: 49ers quarterback Joe Montana threw six touchdowns against the Falcons. Jerry Rice caught five of them.
— Oct. 15, 1957: The Giants trade their Minneapolis franchise to the Red Sox for San Francisco Seals.
— Oct. 15, 1988: Kirk Gibson hit his famous World Series home run against A's closer Dennis Eckersley.
— Oct. 17, 1974: The Oakland Athletics beat the Los Angeles Dodgers to win their third consecutive World Series Title.
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There is only 1 dull moment of raising backyard chickens - and its checking with local rules to see if you're actually allowed to raise chickens in your town in the first place.
Welcome to chapter 2 in our 7 part series: how to raise chickens in your city.
It may be tempting to skip over this part however spend the next few minutes reading and watch the video below to find out whether you get the green light - it could save you a lot of trouble!
Whats the Big Deal Anyway?
By the end of this chapter you will exactly what you need to do to find out whether its legal to own chicken in your town, AND/OR if you're allowed to own chicken in your flat/apartment.
It's generally only urban and suburban area where chickens are sometimes banned (so if you're in an area that is zoned for agricultural, you will generally be fine without checking).
The reason for the bans is simply a lack of knowledge and slow-to-change local city office policies.
The so called 'problems' revolve around noisy roosters, and the chance of the chickens attracting vermin such as rats, coyotes and other predators, to the area.
If you're lucky, a quick search online will tell you whether you can or can't own chickens in your area.
The whole idea is that you are not looking for approval, you are looking for denial: something that states that specifically BANS chickens in your town.
If you can't find anything, there is a good chance that you are allowed!
If you're having trouble finding it, you can always call your local city office and ask them for the website directly. Once you have found it, open it up and get ready to search through it.
Once you're inside press 'control + f' (or 'command + f' on a mac) to bring up the search bar - then type in either 'animals' or 'zoning' - these are the sections you want to check in.
If you're having trouble locating the search bar, make sure to check both the top and bottom corners for it to appear - it will show in different spots depending on the type of internet browser you are on.
Once you're with the 'animals' or 'zoning' sections, perform the search command again (pressing 'control + f' or 'command + f' but this time type in 'poultry', 'chicken' or 'livestock' into the search bar to see if anything appears on the page.
You are looking for anything that says that you CAN NOT raise chickens in your zoning area or municipal.
If you CAN NOT find anything like this, you are good to go, however its always a good idea to call or visit your local municipal office to double check.
Most of the time you will not be able to find anything in your towns code, which means you are good to go!
This does not mean it's time to give up – here are some tips for what you can do next if you find your town laws are not conducive to owning chickens.
Sometimes it's hard to find the information online, and your next best option is to call, or visit your local city office.
We recommend visiting as you can get a current and up to date copy of the "ordinances" which will come in handy in the future if any disputes arise with neighbours.
Am I allowed to own backyard chickens at my property?
Do I need a permit to keep chickens? if so, how do I apply and what is the waiting period?
Are there any restrictions on the number of chicken I am allowed to keep?
What, if any, restrictions are there on chicken breeds?
What, if any, restrictions are there on building a chicken coop on my property?
If you live in a rental property you'll need to ask for the owner's permission and it doesn't hurt to let your immediate neighbors to know of your intentions.
This is especially important if you live in an apartment - your hens cover will be blown by noise and a slight smell so keeping them a secret is usually a very tough endeavor.
The easiest & quickest way to do this is to to check your rental agreement, which will say whether or not pets are restricted. In general, if its mentioned that pets ARE allowed, you'll have a very good chance of having them approved.
For peace of mind and to be 100% sure that everyone is happy, go ahead and ask your landlord permission, even if the rental agreement states that pets are allowed.
Highlight the benefits that chickens will bring to the property, such as weed removal, natural fertilizer and insect control - your landlord will not have to maintain the property while chickens are there!
As a last resort, you could offer them some free, organic free range eggs?
It can be heartbreaking to find out that you're not allowed chickens in your town but this doesn't mean you should give up.
In fact, more and more cities around the country are slowly coming around to the fact that allowing residents to raise chickens results in far more positive rather than negative effects for society as a whole!
If you've discovered that you are banned from owning chickens in your city the thought of going rogue (i.e. doing it anyway and trying to fly under the radar) may cross your mind. We don't recommend doing this for a few reasons.
First of all, it's not fun at all - raising chickens (legally) is an awesome experience and doing it under the radar will take the fun out of it and make it lonely.
This could ruin the experience for you and you'll likely be turned off in the future when local ordinances are changed for the better (which they will be eventually).
You could also end up with a hefty fine and have your birds confiscated (without compensation) on top of this any current chicken legalization campaigns in your town may be affected, meaning you potentially just 'ruined it for everyone'.
Research and find out if local ordinances are specific or not, and if they are not, there is a good chance you'll be able to take advantage of them.
For example, an ordinance that restricts 'Livestock' but doesn't specifically prohibit 'poultry' is effectively a loophole to exploit!
Create pro-chicken groups and rally support to build the local voice and influence of the group.
Start a Facebook group similar to this one by the town of Boston, and open a thread in your local ordinances section around the issue of allowing chickens and ask others if they have attempted, or are in the process of attempting to change the local laws.
The more people you can get together the better, as local ordinances often change with community backing.
Search and find any nearby towns that allow chickens and get in contact with their mayor's office or any other officials.
Once you get in contact, ask them about their policies on allowing chickens and find out how it came to fruition.
Get a copy of the correspondence and use it to draft a similar ordinance that is appropriate to your town.
Put together an information handout based on the information you have collected above.
Make sure to list facts, references and include maps, photographs and any letters of support and community groups that have formed.
Contact your city council and request for the issue to be placed on the agenda for the next meeting.
6. Rally community support and attend the meeting.
It's a great idea at this point to find out exactly how the meetings work (how they are structured) as there will be a time where public comments are allowed. At these times you may submit items for discussion, and raise strong points for your cause.
A great place to do some initial research and check if people in your town are already taking steps to overthrow anti-chicken laws is in the Backyard Chickens Local chicken laws and ordinances forum.
We've put together an easy to follow and printable step-by-step checklist for you to follow in order to determine if chickens are legal in your town.
Don't risk having the loss of having your chickens and coop confiscated: download and complete this simple guide and you'll be 100% sure that you're doing the right thing!
Hopefully you did not have to go as far as fighting to change local ordinances, however if you did: good luck!
By this stage you should be confident that you have the green light to raise chickens, so now lets jump to the fun part with the next chapter: How to buy chicks or chickens!
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Dave Gossman, Atwater High's agriculture teacher, said the new budget would eliminate funding for leadership courses for students.
That's a flip in the governor's position from just a few years ago, Gossman said.
The California Department of Education considers CTE a program of study that involves a sequence of courses taken over time that combines academic knowledge with occupational knowledge to provide students with a pathway to higher education and careers. In 2014, the state made available $250 million to help school districts set up career pathways, meant to form relationships with local businesses, create work-based programs and integrate academic learning.
The proposal was in Brown's initial 2017-18 budget, released in January. It remained in the revision announced last week despite efforts by ag education advocates to reverse it.
Aschwanden said his Galt-based group is working with state lawmakers to prevent the shift.
The current structure "remains vitally important to the economic well-being of our state," said a letter to lawmakers from GetREAL, a coalition of business, labor and education leaders. It stands for Relevance in Education and Learning.
Sun-Star reporter Brianna Calix contributed to this report.


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Twitter has disclosed that Russian-backed accounts spent $1,031.99 to buy six Brexit-related ads on its platform during last year's European Union referendum vote.
The ads in question were purchased during the regulated period for political campaigning in the June 2016 EU Referendum — specifically from 15 April to 23 June 2016.
This nugget of intel into Kremlin political disinformation ops that were centered on the UK's Brexit vote has been released as part of an ongoing internal investigation by Twitter into possible Russian Brexit meddling — initiated by a request for information from a UK parliamentary committee that's investigating fake news.
The UK's Electoral Commission, which oversees domestic election procedure and regulates campaign financing, has also written to social media companies asking them to investigate potential Russian Brexit meddling as part of an ongoing enquiry it's running into whether the use of digital ads and bots on social media might have broken existing political campaigning rules.
Earlier today Facebook said it had identified three "immigration" ads bought by Russian backed accounts that ran ahead of the Brexit vote — which it says garnered 200 views.
However Facebook's probe has so far only looked at paid content from Russian accounts. So it's still not clear how much Brexit-related propaganda was being spread by Russian accounts on the platform given that content can also be freely shared with followers on Facebook.
In the US Kremlin agents were even revealed to have used Facebook's Events tools to list and orchestrate real-world meet-ups. And in October, Facebook admitted as many as 126 million US Facebook users could have viewed Russian-backed content on its platform.
With Brexit, both Facebook and Twitter have yet to release this sort of 'full reach' analysis — so it's still not possible to quantify the potential impact of Kremlin propaganda on the EU referendum vote.
A Twitter spokesman declined to answer additional questions we put to it, including asking for its analysis of the reach of the six ads — and whether or not it's also investigating non-paid Russian-backed content (i.e. tweets and bots) around Brexit, not just paid ads.
An academic study last month suggested substantial activity on that front — tracking more than 150,000 Russian accounts that mentioned Brexit and some 45,000 tweets posted in the 48 hours around the vote.
Twitter's spokesman also declined to share the Russian bought Brexit ads it has identified.


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UN-led mediation in Syria and civil society
Navigating inclusion in peace processes
Marie-Joëlle Zahar and Sara Helmüller explore challenges of civil society inclusion in peace efforts in Syria. Armed conflict in Syria is multi-layered, involving a multiplicity of national actors and of regional and geopolitical interests. International narratives have exaggerated external actors' influence, underplaying local agency and diversity.
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Inclusion in peace processes
There is a broad global consensus that inclusion matters in peace processes. The 2018 UN and World Bank report, Pathways for Peace, asserts that 'addressing inequalities and exclusion' and 'making institutions more inclusive' are key to preventing violent conflict.
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Accord - Navigating inclusion in peace processes
There is a broad global consensus that inclusion matters in peace processes. The 2018 UN and World Bank report, Pathways for Peace, asserts that 'addressing inequalities and exclusion' and 'making institutions more inclusive' are key to preventing violent conflict. The challenges now are to strengthen that consensus and to better understand what inclusion in peace processes means in practice. Effective peace processes do not mean including all of the people all of the time but making informed decisions about who should be included in what and how.
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Administering a borderland at war: Bab al-Hawa in Syria
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Creating margins at the centre: Israeli bypass roads in the Palestinian Beit Hanina neighbourhood, East Jerusalem
Anwar Jaber reflects on transformation of East Jerusalem into an urban borderland that is both at the centre and the edge of contested space. The city's urban fabric and built infrastructure offer key insights into how a border that cuts through a city operates, as well as how it continues to evolve due to the structures that maintain it.
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Youth aspirations for peace and security
In December 2015, the United Nations Security Council adopted UNSCR 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security. The resolution was the first to recognise the important role young people can play in preventing conflicts, and sustaining peace. Conciliation Resources was invited by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to contribute to the Progress Report on UNSCR 2250. Between July and September 2017, we conducted participatory research with 494 young people living in Afghanistan, Jammu and Kashmir, South Sudan, the Georgian-Abkhaz context, and among youth of the Ogaden diaspora living in the United Kingdom.
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Five ways to support youth inclusion in peacebuilding
Youth Training in Srinagar
Young people who have experienced conflict firsthand have a vital role to play in peacebuilding. They have a clear vision of what peace could look like in their countries and communities, and have the drive to work towards the realisation of these goals.
However, in many cases they are seen not as positive forces for peace, but rather as threats to it.
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Reconciliation, reform and resilience: Positive peace for Lebanon (Accord 24) - Arabic version
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We went all out for breakfast yesterday morning. Ok, maybe not all out, but this was way fancier than our typical breakfasts.
I am an oatmeal girl, at least five days per week. Lately I have been making overnight oats with almond milk and blueberries. Chris favors bagels, two whole wheat un-toasted, no toppings. I don't think his breakfast choice is exciting enough for me to eat week in and week out, but it is efficient, that's for sure. As long as he is happy, I am happy!
The divergence from our normal breakfast was due mostly in part to me being sleepy and trying to put off mountain biking for later. I successfully delayed us for at least an hour or so.
These things were awesome! I made mine with four scrambled egg whites instead of the two over-medium eggs pictured, but I understand that egg whites are not so popular with everyone.
Chop onion, then sauté in a skillet with olive oil spray.
Just before the onions turn translucent, add the corn and black beans and continue to cook until all of the ingredients are evenly heated.
While eggs are cooking, place tortillas (lightly sprayed with olive oil) in a broiler to heat them until they are pliable.
Top each tortilla shell with one egg, several spoonfuls of the black bean mixture, 1/8 avocado (sliced), 1/2 ounce of shredded cheese, and 1 tbsp of sour cream.
These look amazing! I'm going to try them this weekend.
Thanks! They were really good. Chris gave them his famous "These are good enough to serve to other people!" stamp of approval. Win!


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Beloved substitute teacher donates artifact to sports history in the western world and Warwick Valley Athletics Dept.
(left to right); Teachers Rocco Manno, Peter Scheuermann and Jeff Jacobsen; substitute teacher Yale Ekus; Athletic Director Greg Sirico; and teachers Erik Rosa and John Garcia.
Beloved substitute teacher, Mr. Yale Ekus, is 91 years young and has seen a lot in his long and industrious life.
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Jackie Robinson transcended sport by being the first Major League Baseball player to break the color barrier in 1947.
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This historic ball will be on display for all to see in a location to be determined, somewhere right here in Wildcat Country!


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Q: How should we approach layered-architectures that need large amounts of continuous, real-time, communication? Background
In much of the literature I've read online with respect to multi-layered architectures, many people describe how to create the simple application where:

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*UI presents static model objects to the screen.

*Users can make one-off requests (e.g. send e-mail, commit payment).

*A database transaction is typically made to return new information to show to the screen.

Often, the articles will describe these concepts while adhering to Eric Evan's Domain-Driven Design.
Problem
Despite the good resources online, there isn't much guidance on how to organize the software responsibilities for applications that need to be continuously communicating with external devices. Consider the following:

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*An e-mail client should continuously query a POP server to know when new e-mail has arrived.

*A device monitor should continuously query the device's status variables to always display the live values (e.g an aircraft HMI might depend on the visibility of hundreds of variables at all times).

In both cases, the UI needs to be updated in real-time as changes occur in the external world. My question is about who should be responsible for initiating the requests to be made. I have come up with two potential solutions, the first involving a direct request from the UI, and the second utilizing inversion-of-control so that the UI can be notified:

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*The UI layer can make use of background-threads (e.g. .NET's BackgroundWorker) to continuously make direct queries to application services which return ONLY the data required by the view in question.

*A background thread in an infrastructure service can continuously query ALL relevant information from an external device (perhaps by relying on some configuration) and send events/notifications (or call a callback) to other layers so that the UI can react. While personally not a fan of it, an event aggregator can be helpful to this end.

I think that solution #1 is better aligned with the examples I've come across, but my concern is that this is NOT a scalable solution. As the amount of continuous I/O increases, spinning off many background threads (for each view) not only causes us to violate DRY, but it degrades performance because of many, small I/O requests instead of few, large I/O requests.
How should we approach multi-layered architectures that need large amounts of continuous, real-time, communication?
Should the UI make direct queries on their own background threads, or should a single background thread and inversion-of-control be used?

A: Option 1 uses the BackgroundWorker and keeps the ViewModel responsive.  This works fine in general, but can lead to problems in case the worker suffers has a high CPU consumption under stress conditions. Furthermore, repeatedly querying the infrastructure service doesn't sound to be a scalable and resource efficient scenario.
Option 2 on the other hand uses a very common architecture.  Using threads for listening for a socket/device takes advantage of the waiting time that I/O usually implies without really using the CPU. The observer callback ensures that application uses CPU only when needed.  So from the point of view of CPU consumption, this architecture should lead to better results.
Furthermore with option 2,you could handle scalability issues in the lower layers. If there are too many devices or a too high trafic, you could introduce some event streaming intermediate (kafka, pubsub or whatever) on other processing nodes that could eventually filter out only the relevant messages. Distributing the processing in such a way puts a very high bar for scalability.  Your infrastructure service would then listen to the stream instead of listening directly to the devices.  The next limit is then only the number of relevant incoming messages that your app layer could process.

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Catalan protesters block roads over Spanish cabinet meeting
Weekly cabinet meeting usually takes place in Madrid but government decided to hold it in Barcelona on Friday.
21 Dec 2018 10:28 GMT
Protesters have blocked a major highway and dozens of roads leading to and from the Spanish city of Barcelona, as anger grows over a planned cabinet meeting in the want-away region.
Led by a coalition of pro-secession parties, thousands of protesters rallied on Friday to show their disgust at Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's decision to hold his weekly meeting in Barcelona, which failed in its bid for secession last year.
Cabinet meetings usually take place in Madrid, but Sanchez has vowed to take them to other cities as a sign of his commitment to decentralisation.
Images circulating on social media showed hundreds of protesters blocking roads and a motorway in the city, while in other videos, demonstrators could be seen throwing bottles and flares at police.
The venue of the meeting, a 14th-century Gothic palace in downtown Barcelona, was shielded by security cordons and fences, and hundreds of anti-riot police have been deployed to keep protesters away.
A picture posted on Twitter by the grassroots Committees for the Defence of the Republic showed a burning picture of King Felipe, accompanied by the caption: "On 21 December, we'll be ungovernable".
MAJOR BREAKING: Riot police attacks pro-independence protesters in Barcelona. pic.twitter.com/Px8subAn20
— Catalans for Yes 🏴🎗 (@CatalansForYes) December 21, 2018
On Thursday, Prime Minister Sanchez and Catalonia's president, Quim Torra, issued a joint statement, calling for dialogue to settle the conflict over the future of the northeastern region.
"Despite the notable differences about its origin, nature and ways of resolution," the statement said, both governments "share the commitment for effective dialogue that is linked to a political proposal that has the backing of a large part of Catalan society."
Sanchez has been harshly criticised by the right-wing opposition for his meeting with Torra, but has presented the visit as "a way of showing affection to Catalonia".
But many separatists see it as a provocation, coming a year after a snap regional election called as a way out of last year's independence attempt.
"Sanchez has spun this as a charm offensive, a reaching out to Catalan society," said Al Jazeera's Sonia Gallego, reporting from Barcelona.
"But that's not the way it is being perceived by pro-independence politicians and activists. They see it as a very provocative sign, a symbol that the Spanish government is intent on doubling down on the region and preventing it from trying to exist in its own right.
"If you look at the date, it's a year on from the anniversary from the date the Catalan elections were called and the government imposed direct rule from Madrid," she said.
"Right now, a whole stretch of downtown Barcelona has been blocked off. It's caused a lot of commotion, affecting businesses, schools, and forcing many people not to turn up for work.
"Many of the protesters are interpreting the meeting as a way to try and provoke chaos in the city."
One of Spain's wealthiest region, Catalonia accounts for 15 percent of Spain's population and 20 percent of its economic output.
Historical disputes and financial grievances have strengthened the cause of independence, yet its 7.5 million people appear to be deeply divided over the issue.


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The 1949–50 St. Francis Terriers men's basketball team represented St. Francis College during the 1949–50 NCAA men's basketball season. The team was coached by Daniel Lynch, who was in his second year at the helm of the St. Francis Terriers. The team was a member of the Metropolitan New York Conference and played their home games at the Bulter Street Gymnasium in their Cobble Hill, Brooklyn campus and at the II Corps Artillery Armory in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Last season the Terriers were the first team in the New York City area to have a basketball game televised, and this season the Terriers had six games televised on WPIX and WOR-TV  from the II Corps Artillery Armory.

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Originally the tournament was to take place at Loyola College in Baltimore, MD from March 15 to March 22 and feature sixteen teams. Yet, because of segregation and protest from St. Francis College about the unequal treatment of its black players, the tournament was moved to Albany, NY and featured eight teams. Creighton was favored to win the tournament, although they had a 13–13 record going into the tournament the Bluejays had the toughest schedule of the eight competing teams.

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One of the ideas that spawned our recent Belgian trip was a plan I have to organise a future trip taking in all the Trappist breweries in a week, so far I have looked at options, talked to a few folks and that's about it. Nevertheless all that talk ended up in four of us making the trip over/under the Channel and we decided it would be a cracking idea to visit some breweries on our travels.
Now I'm not sure about the situation where you (the reader) are based, but in the UK pretty much most breweries are open and welcome visitors, even if it's only to a brewery shop via the back door. This may be the case in Belgium too, but from our experiences, who knows?
First off on our journey from Watou (where St Bernardus WAS open), we thought it would make sense to drop in on Alvinne. Error. Nuls Points. Turn around where possible.. It was very much closed.
The next attempt was on the journey from Brussels to Brugge, lots of options here but we narrowed it down to either taking a detour to Bosteels home of Kwak, Dues and Tripel Karmeliet. Or, to go to the lesser known Urthel and then on to Rodenbach which was pretty much on route. Being the driver I made the executive decision on the latter.
We arrived at Urthel on a beautiful day in blazing sunshine, this after driving through lovely countryside into a forested area. Taking the long single track drive to the one building on it, we saw two men beavering away and thought "yes they are open"! As we parked though, the two figures scurried inside (I think hoping we would go away). We pressed on regardless and started to mooch around before they finally reappeared, explaining the owners were away and they were just working on the building itself.
This though is where it got ever so slightly more interesting, as we could see they were working on a new bar area which will be open to the public (on weekends). It's a lovely looking little place which stands looking all Hansel and Gretel in it's forest setting. It's a bit of a trek though so how many visitors will make it I'm not so sure, worth checking out though if you have a driver among you as Urthel beers ROCK!
Undeterred, we wandered around the huge brewery (where nothing looked open) until we found an office and thought aha! There awaited a receptionist (Gladys for the purposes of this blog), as we arrived Gladys was on the phone and thought nothing of the four weary travellers from the East that had plonked themselves in her nice tidy reception area and continued her chat.
In stark contrast to my post a few days ago about the Delirium Village, I found a new favourite place to drink beer in Brussels on this visit, the sister bar of 'Meoder Lambic Original", Moeder Lambic Fontainas.
We had a bit of a shock when first looking for this bar, looking on maps it looked a good mile or so outside of the centre, however this was directing us towards the original (one for another visit) and we were extremely happy to see Fontainas was only a short stroll from The Grande Place.
The inside comes across as being a bit of up market chic and I suppose it is when compared to other older bars in the city, clean lines, exposed brickwork, mood lighting and a stunning bar. But it's also very cosy, warm and welcoming too, helpful friendly staff buzzing around and attending to your beery needs.
The outside space is really cool too, with loads of shaded tables clustered together on the pavement outside, the view isn't brilliant as it's on a square quite near a busy road but who needs a view any further than this?
We spent a good few happy hours exploring the guest beer and bottle lists in a lovely relaxing atmosphere, not a boring at all with a happy gentle buzz of people enjoying beers in the evening sunshine, but a world away from the football factory mayhem of the Delirium Village. We didn't have any food here although the menu looked fine, plenty of cheese and meat snacky dishes if memory serves perfect for an evening of beer exploration.
For the record the two beers I really enjoyed most here if available when you visit were my first taste of Tilquin Gueuze which was surprisingly palatable for someone who normally struggles with the style (I think I'm getting a taste for it) and Brewfist Spaceman, a really fresh hoppy IPA which I'm amazed is getting poor reviews from the bottle, hopefully they will sort that out soon.
Moeder Lambic's logo has the strap-line "Beer Is The Answer" and it couldn't be more right, a new firm favourite must visit bar for anyone on the Brussels beer trail, address details of both bars are below, let me know what you think.


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Watch Dave Grohl play his old band Nirvana's 'All Apologies' at a surprise club show
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Just one day after putting on a show at Warren Haynes' 30th Christmas Jam by playing his epic 23-minute hard-rock opus 'Play', Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has suprised locals by deciding to put on another last minute surprise show.
The Nirvana drummer explains why, to Rolling Stone.
Tonight happened because of this snowstorm that hit, knowing we probably weren't going to fly out today. Last night at 4 a.m., we're at the after-party for Christmas Jam. I said to someone, 'We got to find somewhere to play.' And everyone was talking about this place the Orange Peel."
12 hours later, and it was announced that Grohl and Gov't Mule frontman (Warren Haynes) would take stage at the iconic rock venue in teh heart of Asheville, North Carolina. And at only $10 a ticket at an intimate venue of 1050 capacity, the gig sold out quick.
The all star band cast he put together for the Christmas Jam performance joined him too - featuring members of Queens of the Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures and Jane's Addiction and played "Play" once again.
The also then kicked into performances of Led Zepp's "Since I've Been Loving You" and "You Don't Know How It Feels" by Tom Petty.
Then the real cool shit happened.
"Warren said, 'Do you want to do 'All Apologies'? That used to be thin ice and delicate ground for a long time, for good reason. That's something that had to be handled gently," says Grohl.
"When he mentioned that song, my initial reaction was, 'I can't do that. I shouldn't that.' But then I think about the people that the song means so much to and has been a part of their lives — that joy and love should be shared. And then, as we were playing it, the audience starts to sing along, and I'm crying my eyes out onstage trying to keep it together — what a beautiful moment. And who am I to keep people from that beautiful moment?"
Have a watch above.