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Heavyweight Internet Group Newsletter
Issue 12 – What the Geeks Mean
October 4, 2005
by Sean Hull
Founder and Senior Consultant
Heavyweight Internet Group
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What the Geeks Mean
I'm blessed for having gotten started with computers when I was very young. Well that's either blessed or cursed depending on how you look at it. At any rate, having worked with computers for about 25 years, I know well what the geeks are talking about. And having spent the last 10 years doing a lot of writing, and consulting for diverse businesses, I've learned to understand what the business folks are talking about. I've learned business thinking, and learned about the concerns of business owners. So this naturally leaves me in a comfortable position as International Interpreter for Geek to Suit communication.
Well I'm just kidding of course, but seriously there is often a wide gap in understanding and I make it a point of constantly trying to bridge that gap. So what I'm going to discuss this month are some of the big issues that come up on the technology end, and try to help you understand what your technology team is really talking about. This will help you make better purchasing and budget allocation decisions, as some problems impact the business more seriously, or more immediately than others. And don't worry, we're going to use a broad brush here, and not get too technical. Those technical folks in the audience, be patient where analogies don't precisely match the underlying issues.
The six sections below basically amount to areas where your systems may be encountering problems. For each section I make a hopefully memorable and clear analogy, and then in parentheses I write the technical description of that problem that you may hear.
A. Our Disks Form a Single Lane Freeway
(Disk I/O Subsystem problems)
Disks, Disk Subsystems, or I/O Subsytems are basically the same thing. On a PC that sits on your desk, or at home there is a normally a single harddrive which stores things while the computer is turned off. When the system is booted, or a program is started, programs and data are loaded off that storage media into memory. In server computing environments much the same thing happens, albeit there are many more parts. It is often referred to as a storage subsystem because it may be composed of a stack of harddrives all managed together in one cabinet, and interfaced together in what is called a RAID. Why should I be concerned as a manager you ask? Well how these are configured (ie what RAID level) can dramatically impact the performance, and reliability of your SAN (Storage Area Network), effectively giving you a one lane highway in one direction (while writing to disk) while giving you a 5 lane highway in the other direction. What's more some configurations are more prone to crashing, and loss of a harddrive (crashing, and loss of a lane in our car analogy) than others.
If your developers and system administrators are saying what they have is incorrect this may be because the particular server in question has a controller card which does not support the proper RAID type. In that case new hardware would solve your problem. External SAN/NAS solutions such as EMC or NetApp normally support all the various RAID types in whatever configuration and combinations you want.
Keep in mind that you want to keep the traffic flowing in both directions of your highway, and you want to keep the car crashes down. Of course also want to get the most performance especially if you invested a lot on that expensive and fast car, Oracle. Above all avoid the single lane freeway and its attendant accidents.
B. Our Network Is a Party Line
(Network + Database Security)
Some of us may recall back in the old days when you might have a party line running into your home for telephone calls. When you picked up the telephone you might hear your next door neighbor on the telephone. You would have to politely (or not so politely) ask them when they would be finished so you could make your call. Beyond the inconvenience, the privacy concerns are obvious.
In the technology world, much more of our communications are like a party line, or a postcard that you send through the mail, then you might imagine. But how much? And when and where should I be most concerned?
If you have a dedicated networking team, who manage the firewall, and keep patches up to date, you still may have to be concerned about wireless access to your network. Believe it or not even encrypted WiFi connections can be breached within 10 to 15 minutes with the right tools. You have no WiFi you say? You only use a VPN to allow folks on the road to connect? Well there can be vulnerabilities in all of that software, ones that can allow a hacker to breach the network, and steal valuable data.
But even if you have all that covered, what about your Oracle database itself, the pot of gold hidden inside your network, and closely guarded. Is it? How safe is it from insiders? Perhaps someone in the office wants to know the salaries of key people, or perhaps read and email or document about a potential merger or aquisition that may impact them. There are many reasons you may want part or all of your database to be protected, even from certain internal folks.
The best way to find out is to audit all of this. Find out if the db has strong passwords, if data sent over the network is encrypted, and what if anything would or could be compromised, and how.
C. Trouble at the Interchange
(Middle-tier Problems)
Internet websites such as Amazon, Ebay, or your favorite bank as well as intranet applications (web based apps running in-house only) all use a three tier architecture today. In simple terms the browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari) running on your desktop or laptop is the client. The middle tier is the webserver and/or application server such as Apache, JBoss, Websphere, and so on. The backend piece is your database itself. If your systems are sluggish it could very well point to problems in the middle tier or at the interchange. If cars aren't getting off at the right exit, you have problems.
These servers can often be replicated quite easily, and in fact that is what many companies like your favorite online bank or bookstore do. They also add lots of memory, and fast harddrives for reading the data and returning it back to you. All of these middle tier servers send their database requests to the same database on the backend.
If you're just starting to provision new servers for a project, and haven't decided on platform (Windows, Linux, Solaris etc), memory, cpu and so on, be sure to run performance tests first. If you're choosing between Windows and Linux you'll want to consider your IT expertise, but also seriously consider the performance and stability you can expect on each platform.
D. Alphabet Soup Tuning
(SQL Query Optimization)
Your developer, database administrator, or consultant just came up to you and told you that you are experiencing serious problems because of bad SQL. What to do? Sounds like something the doctor prescribed, and maybe you're feeling like you'll need to call one by the end of it.
Here's some help. It is difficult to find a page in a book without an index to what you're searching for. It would be difficult to find an address on Fifth Avenue if you don't know what street it is near. In fact, if they weren't in order (which they are not in the database without sorting) you have to go through every address from Houston Street to 59th Street. That's going to take you a long time. What's more if someone comes later looking for the same or similar addresses you'll have a hard time writing them down because you passed so many on your way up Fifth Avenue. This is exactly what happens in a database when an index is missing. Or when a developer asks the database for all the addresses in New York City, when they only wanted the first one, or one with the last name Smith.
Essentially your Queries (SQL) are the key to these types of messes, and the key to cleaning them up as well. Since your database is executing hundreds of requests from various middle-tier servers, you want it to return quickly, and efficiently only exactly what is necessary, and cache it for related queries in the future.
This is very often a problem we identify in tuning applications, and database problems. It is also one that often doesn't show up in development, when you only have a couple of streets worth of addresses instead of the whole island of Manhattan!
E. We've Got A Leaning Tower of Pisa
(Architectural Problems)
When you've built a complex software system, sometimes problems and issues aren't related to small fixes, those potholes in the road. Sometimes issues are serious structural or architectural problems, which could not have been anticipated when the system was built. Such a leaning tower can threaten to collapse, if you continue to patch, and provide short term fixes.
What to do? A system-wide assessment might be a good place to start. This should definitely be by someone outside the organization who can provide you with feedback without threatening his or her own position. Such an assessment can be like getting a second opinion from another doctor. It can also identify serious bottlenecks possibly caused by platform decisions which though structural, can be remedied easier than rebuilding the tower. It may be that such an assessment points to the need for a complete rewrite of the application, possibly porting it to another platform which is more scalable. All of these conclusions though perhaps difficult to hear, are what you want to know as they are important for strategic decisions going forward. You may hold back a launch, or upgrade to a new version until you've fixed the fundamental flaws.
Malcolm Gladwell, in his book "The Tipping Point" used this aphorism: "People don't change when you tell them there is a better option. They change when they conclude that they have no other option." So make your own conclusions, but make them informed conclusions.
F. Have We Done A Firedrill?
Disaster Recovery, Backups etc
Disaster recovery has been on everyone's mind since the September 11th tragedy, and even more so following hurricanes Katrina and Rita. If your organization hasn't run a firedrill, how can you be confident that you're in good shape? The answer is you can't.
A firedrill much like the ones we all remember from elementary school, take an organization through EVERY STEP to recover the database, middle-tiers, and any other relevant systems from backups onto freshly setup servers. If you don't have enough beefy systems in-house to spare for such a firedrill, there are hosting services which can lease you usage of such servers on a short-term basis.
In the process of this firedrill, you will learn some very important lessons. First, you'll learn if you have all the pieces in place, or if you have to patch some things from the production systems to get it right. That tells you if your backup is complete. Second you will learn how long the process takes, and in running through it you document the process so you guarentee it'll be faster in a real emergency. Third and finally you will gain peace of mind because you can identify and fix the gaps before the impossible happens.
Oracle Open World – comments
We attended Oracle Open World this year, and have to say that it was one of the biggest in many years. With all of Oracle's recent acquisitions, many new vendors were there, and of course the media was there in attendance as well.
At our sister site Oracle and Open Source in a piece titled Restoring an Open World we discussed some of the announcements, and emphasis this year, on Open Source and Open Standards.


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I have seen a lot of really cool stuff come out of 3D printers. But all of that was just a morsel compared to the crazed creations the ChefJet Pro from 3D Systems can churn out using food.
Instead of plastic, the machine, which looks like a microwave oven, uses raw materials like sugar and frosting to output its candies and edible decorations. First you load the exact dimensions of what you want into the ChefJet. It then takes that information, mathematically slices it up, and then recreates it by putting a series of very thin layers on top of one another so that the 3D likeness can be as precise as possible.
They have a bunch of examples of what their invention can churn out featured on their site, some of which are bizarrely intricate. My favorite is a sinuous snow white sugar skull that's made to dissolve in a cocktail (Keith Richards would love it).
But if you really want to see something amazing, watch their video in which they collaborated with Ford to make a small chocolate candy replica of the 2015 Mustang. It will blow your doors off.
[via Chicago Tribune]

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AP Interview: Rep. Kennedy reflects on first term
Kennedy says a top concern is ISIS
U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy is wrapping up his first term in Congress, saying he remains committed to the bread and butter of local constituent services while batting down talk of future higher office.
In an interview with The Associated Press, the Massachusetts Democrat acknowledged that while his famous last name has helped open some doors, he faces the same challenges as any member of a minority party in the House.
That's forced him to engage in the face-to-face, coalition-building politics honed by his great-uncle, the late U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy.
"It's not just about me trying to come up with whatever someone thinks the right answer is, writing it down on a piece of paper and filing a bill," Kennedy said. "If I'm going to pass anything, particularly being a member of the minority party, I need 217 other people - and by definition a good number of Republicans - to want to be part of my solution."
Kennedy said he learned that lesson when he began rounding up backing for a bill to support advanced manufacturing.
He said his staff studied the country district by district to figure out which areas relied more heavily on manufacturing - and then gathered letters of support from local companies. He said he was able to use those letters to appeal to lawmakers in those districts, both Democrats and Republicans.
The bill, which will create a network of regional institutes across the country supporting training and research, passed the House on a voice vote and it was signed into law by President Obama as part of a larger spending bill in December.
"That was certainly a great way to end the year," he said.
While Kennedy says his main focus is on the 34 cities and towns he represents, he's also a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Kennedy said the range of conflicts and challenges - from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan to Obama's efforts to normalize relations with Cuba - makes for "one of the most complex foreign policy moments" since the end of World War II.
"It's a really challenging time to be involved in foreign policy," he said. "It's also a really exciting time."
Kennedy said one of his top concerns is the United States' ongoing involvement battling the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.
Kennedy said he's been pushing since September for Congress to vote on an authorization for the use of military force against the group also known as ISIS or ISIL. He called the administration's actions "a war or a military conflict that Congress has not authorized."
"We can't ask our men and women in uniform and their families to be bearing the brunt of another military conflict for an indefinite period of time without us understanding what success looks like," Kennedy said.
Kennedy also said he agreed that the strategies put in place more than five decades ago dealing with Cuba need to be reevaluated. But he said Cuba must improve basic human rights in exchange for a more open relationship with the U.S.
One topic Kennedy shied away from is the inevitable speculation - given his family's storied political history - about his long-term political ambitions.
Kennedy says he's focused solely on representing his district, which stretches from Brookline, Newton and the western suburbs of Boston down to Taunton, Fall River and the state's South Coast.
The 34-year-old is the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy and great nephew of President John F. Kennedy. He's also the son of Joseph P. Kennedy II, who represented the state's 8th Congressional District. His cousin, Patrick Kennedy, is a former congressman from Rhode Island.
"It can be a tough place, so having some folks who are willing to show you the ropes who you know and you trust is an extraordinary benefit," he said. "I'm grateful to them for that, certainly."


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Winter is here. I don't really care what the calendar says. It happened yesterday. In the morning the sun was shining and it wasn't very cold, so I took the pups for a long-ish walk. It was still fall then.
By evening it was winter. Not cold snowy winters like the mid-west or east coast. The dark, wet enough to work the chilliness into your bones of a Puget Sound region winter. No doubt we'll get a few more flashes of sunshine, but this time of year the sun arrives with a cold north wind.
I love it when Thanksgiving and Christmas are over a month apart. Things are less frantic. I've taken down the fall decorations and not put up the Christmas ones. I wait until December.
One benefit to the longer time between holidays is that most holiday special attractions are open this week, but not yet crowded. So today (while my spouse wrestled with the clogged drain in the kitchen… they really should saint that man!)I took myself off to visit the "Gingerbread Village". I put "Gingerbread Village" in quotes because it's more than gingerbread and more than a village. It is really sculptures. This year the theme is The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and the entries were imaginative and filled with fun details (to see any image larger click on it).
I called this one "Mount Crumpet"
I called this one "the grinch's lair":
This one was Whoville plus Mount Crumpit:
This one was Whoville:
Last, but not least, was "The Feast":
They have official names somewhere but I was so entranced looking at the details that I didn't catch them. For more information about the annual Gingerbread Village here is the website: GingerbreadVillage.org.
I wouldn't say that I am ready for the holiday season to commence, but, after today's outing I am feeling a good deal less hostile to it.


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Aguirre Schwarz savoure le rouge reviewed in les inrocks @ingridluquetgad
exhibition until July 20 at new galerie
Presque Tout, group show and book launch with Anna Solal at Sauce Bagnoler - 46 rue Jules Ferry Bagnolet
publication menée par @guilhem.monceaux @anna_solal et @grichka.commaret
L'exposition Degrés Est de Florence du 28.06 au 06.10 au FRAC Lorraine. Vernissage le jeudi 27 juin
9eme édition d'Une Partie de campagne et inauguration de L'Art au Jardin organisée par Aude de Bourbon Parme dans le domaine du Chateau d'Esquelbecq les 7, 8, 9 juin
avec des oeuvres de Bertrand Planes, Artie Vierkant et Wang Sishun
Geumhyung Jeong : Rehab Training @kunstenfestivaldesart at Wiels Brussels on 21/05 - 22/05 - 23/05
Opening today in Venice at V—A—C Foundation: Time, Forward! featuring a new commission by Christopher Kulendran Thomas in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann.
A project by Omar Kholeif, Maria Kramar and V—A—C Foundation.
Participating artists: Rosa Barba, Aleksandra Domanović, Valentin Fetisov, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Daria Irincheeva, Alexandra Sukhareva, Christopher Kulendran Thomas in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann, Adam Linder, Haroon Mirza, Trevor Paglen, Walid Raad, James Richards, Kirill Savchenkov, Where Dogs Run.
Rasmus Myrup's show, Re-member me at Jack Barrett Gallery in New York opens from may-3rd to June-16th
Geumhyung Jeong' show Homemade RC Toy is presented from 3.5 to 11.8.2019 at Kunsthalle Basel
Dora Budor new exhibition I AM GONG presented at the Kunstalle in Basel will open on may 24th until august 11th
The fantastic show La Déesse Verte curated by the great Dorothée Dupuis presents new works by Lucile Littot.
The works from the serie LAST ORGY IN LAS POZAS are on view from april the 27th to november the 3rd at Gare Saint Sauveur in Lille.
Photography : Aurélien MELAN
The fantastic show La Déesse Verte curated by the great Dorothée Dupuis with new works by Lucile Littot is reviewed in LE MONDE
Enlightening Times, curated by Jérôme Sans with Li Shurui and Wang Guanle opens on march 24th at Duddell's Hong Kong , a selection of works from the John Dodelande collection
Jasper Spicero, The Honny Arm 2017 on view in the group show "All we have is what our childhood gave us" at Galerie Untilthen
"Self-Portrait in 23 Rounds, a chapter in David Wojnarowicz's life ", the film dedicated to the life of David Wojnarowicz by Marion Scemama and François Pain will be screened at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi during Lo Schermo Dell'arte film festival in Venice.
March 6-10
From the desk of Lucy Bull presents "The Nourishment" a group show with Anna Solal, Ficus Interfaith, Joanne Greenbaum and Nolan Simon/Dylan Spaysky
2.17.19 - 3.27.19
Book launch "De l'amour" by Franck Leibovici with Jean Boîte Éditions on february 14th at new galerie
Dora Budor's new interview in artforum on her current exhibition "Benedik, or Else" in collaboration with scenographer Andromache Chalfant on view until february 2019 the 16th at 80WSE gallery.
The exhibition "Paradise" opens on february the 1st at Queer Thoughts gallery and will features works by Darja Bajagic and Cédric Fargues
Entre les frontières featuring works by Lucille LITTOT is opening on saturday january the 12th at Espace d'art contemporain du théatre de Privas. Comissaire : Julia Cistiakova
Exo exo, Jean boite éditions and new galerie reviewed in Le Quotidien de l'Art , december 2018
Anna Solal has a solo booth at Et al./ Et al etc. during Nada Miami december 6th - 9th
"Running room" featuring works by Anna Solal, Jesse Darling, Aude Pariset, Ari Sariannidis opens on sunday december the 2nd in Berlin.
Curated by Thomas Ballot and Thomas Butler
Invited by horse & pony fire
Image courtesy of Jeff Darling
Lucille Littot is part of the group show Extinction opening on november 15th at Artemis Fontana Gallery
A new iteration of « La Convalescence » by Anna Sola opens on november 9th at Uneuneune Perpignan
As part of the 2018 Nuit Blanche on October 6th, Zevs takes over the Eiffel Tower, the symbol of Paris "City of Light" in order to make it a public and monumental art piece : Eiffel Phoenix
Anna Solal is part of the group show « Les deux sens du décoratif » at Passerelle de Brest (august-june 2018)
Lucille Littot exhibition Bons baisers de la French Riviera opens on wednesday, september 26th at l'Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Genevilliers
Artie Vierkant wrote a critique of blockchain technology, how the ambitions of its proponents paint a dire picture for the future of intellectual property rights and how startups in the art market are actively exacerbating the problem - in september 2018 art in america magazine
Li Shurui solo show LSR, Tenderest Affection reviewed in artforum, september 2018
Lucille Littot was part of the XXth prize of the Ricard foundation, opening on september 10, 2018
I Was Raised on the Internet, an exhibition on view until October 14th at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago.
Sur un Air de Wagner Reviewed in Les Inrockuptibles by Julie Ackermann. "Glam-Trash artist Lucile Littot revisits the legend of Countess Dracula"
60 Million Americans can't be wrong by Christopher Kulendran Thomas and Annika Kehlmann is part of Genre-Nonconforming: The DIS Edutainment Network, on view at the de Young Museum in San Francisco until june, 10th.
The interview of Darja Bajagić by Felix Petty for i-D's "Radical Issue" is online.
Li Shurui's solo show "Light Extracts" is on view at Salt Projects in Beijing until March 31, 2018.
Darja Bajagić interviewed by Beatrix Ruf for Kaleidoscope Magazine, now online!
Dora Budor and Artie Vierkant are part of "Crash Test", an exhibtion curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, that opens February 9th, 2018 at La Panacée, Montpellier. The exhibtion is on view till May 6th, 2018.
Li Shurui is part of the exhibition "Spiral Stairs" at Aike Dellarco, Shanghai with "So Pretty So Empty No.2, 太美太空 No.2". The exhibition is on view till February 28th, 2018.
Wonderful article on Anna Solal's work by Julie Ackermann in Les Inrockuptibles.
"The archaic and dystopian assemblages of Anna Solal at New Galerie" on the exhibition "La Convalescence", catastrophe and healing.
The exhibition is on view until March 3rd, 2018.
Dora Budor is part of the current group show at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zurich, on view until February 24th, 2018
Darja Bajagić featured in the article "Pourquoi est-il temps de s'intéresser aux artistes des Balkans ?" by Thibaut Wychowanok on Numéro.
The exhibition features work by Darja Bajagić, Hans Bellmer, Dora Budor, Claude Cahun, Max Ernst, Cédric Fargues, Adam Gordon, Meret Oppenheim, Mark Prent, Sean Raspet, Michael Salerno, Aguirre Schwarz, Li Shurui, Peter Sotos, Jasper Spicero and Artie Vierkant.
The exhibition is curated by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou.
Her solo exhibition "La Convalescence" will open at the gallery January 20th, 2018.
Christopher Kulendran Thomas' "New Eelam: Tensta", in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann, is on view at Tensta Konsthall in Sweden till January 14th, 2018.
"New Eelam: Tensta is an exploration into the future of housing and citizenship. Conceived by the artist Christopher Kulendran Thomas, in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann, the long-term artwork takes the form of a real-estate technology company that intends to develop a flexible, global housing subscription that aims to make homes as streamable as music or movies. Based on collective access rather than individual owner-ship, the post-capitalist startup plans to rewire property relations through the luxury of communalism rather than of private property."
Ingrid Luquet-Gad's article on our exhibtion "What's up doc?", curated by Pierre-Alexandre Matoes and Charles Teyssou, can be read in full in the The late November issue of Les Inrocks.
Sean Raspet was on the "Two Sense" podcast discussing the the future of flavor and food - click her to listen to the full episode.
Darja Bajagić is featured in "TRANSITIONS" curated by Tuva T. Tønsdal and Elise By Olsen, on view at Rod Bianco, Oslo till December 16th, 2017.
The exhibition includes contributions by Brian Kokoska, Darja Bajagić, Eliza Douglas, Ida Ekblad, Jon Rafman, Juliana Huxtable, Kaari Upson and Matias Kiil.
Darja Bajagić' solo exhibition "Damnatio Memoriae" is on view at KALEIDOSCOPE @ Spazio Maiocchi, Milan till November 25th, 2017
Christopher Kulendran Thomas is part of the exhibition "Quart d'Heure Americain" which opens Friday November 10th, 2017 at Mains d'Œuvres in Saint-Ouen, France
Nov 10 — Nov 26 2017
The exhibiton features: Robert Filliou, Joël Andrianomearisoa & Ivan Krassoievitch, Alex Ayed & Georgia Dickie, Cécile Bouffard & Matthieu Cossé, Corentin Canesson & Bastien Cosson, Martin Chramosta & Martina-Sofie Wildberger, Charlie Jeffery & Joshua Schwebel, Christopher Kulendran Thomas & Thu-Van Tran
October 10, 2017 - February 25th, 2018
The exhibition presents 10 international contemporary artists who seek to depict the human condition and way of living in an era, where the physical and digital worlds are growing ever closer together.
In the exhibition's nine scenarios, the physical and the digital intermingle. There is no clear distinction between where one ends and the other begins. Perhaps our existence right now can best be described as permanently having a foot in both camps – a state of simultaneous presence and absence, as indicated by the title, BEING THERE.
The works have been made by a number of prominent young players on the global art scene: Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin, Ian Cheng, Pamela Rosenkranz, Hannah Levy, Ed Atkins, Cécile B. Evans, Louisa Gagliardi, Dora Budor and Bunny Rogers.
Photo: Inès Manai
Urban Ritornello: The Archives on Community is an archival exhibition concerning a variety of "communities" that have changed since ancient times. The exhibition features work by Christopher Kulendran Thomas and runs until December 3rd, 2017 at Ilmin Museum of Art in Seoul.
"moving is in every direction." featuring the installation "New Eelam" by Christopher Kulendran Thomas is on view till September 24th, 2017 at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Naresh Kumar is featured in the exhibition "D'un Monde à l'autre", opening September 16th, 2017 in Annecy, France at Fondation Art Contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon
Li Shurui's solo exhibtion "LSR · Deep White" is on view at White Space Beijing till October 13th, 2017
Sean Raspet's work "(-)" (2012-15) is part of the exhibition "Heart of the Tin Man" at M WOODS in Beijing, China
Reviewed here in Flash Art by Andrew Stooke
The exhibition "(X) A Fantasy" opens September 7th, 2017 at David Roberts Art Foundation in London, featuring work by Dora Budor. Pictured here: "strepitoso" (2017)
The 15th edition of MOMENTA | Biennale de l'image opens on September 7th, under the title What does the image stand for?, with contributions from Artie Vierkant and Dora Budor.
September 7th - October 15th, 2017
Dora Budor in "A Few Open Systems" @ AND NOW, TEXAS
June 3, 2017 – July 1, 2017
Follow the link for more information.
An article on "Waiting for the Sun" at SpazioA featuring Dora Budor on Flash Art Italia
Darja Bajagić and Dora Budor are part of the exhibition "Fade In 2: Ext. Modernist Home – Night" which opens tomorrow at Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade. The show is curated by Swiss Institute with Julie Boukobza, and produced by Balkan Projects.
Double page feature on Christopher Kulendran Thomas' solo exhibition at the gallery in this week's Les Inrockuptibles by Ingrid Luquet-Gad
Article on Jasper Spicero's exhibition "Living Waterway" at the gallery, by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou. Read the entire article in the summer issue of Spike.
From June 14 till September 10, 2017
The exhibition "The Dream of Forms", presented for the twentieth anniversary of Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, has been conceived as an imaginary landscape, a monstrous garden with perishable forms growing in it, as well as germinating surfaces, protuberant organisms and flat figures.
The artists and researchers who have been brought together in "The Dream of Forms" testify to their encounter with the new possibilities of representation, derived from recent scientific and technological discoveries, which shake up our way of seeing and showing. By renewing in this way the field of the perceptible –with nanotechnologies, synthetic images, 3D scans, stereolithography etc.– these new visualisations hint at as yet unknown geometries.
Part of Vienna Biennale
The exhibition is open until 1 October 2017
Article on the exhibiton in Mousse Magazine
Darja Bajagić and Jasper Spicero will both be showing new projects in the exhibition "Americans 2017", opening May 19th at LUMA Westbau, curated by Simon Castets and Hans Ulrich Obrist for 89plus in partnership with the LUMA Foundation. See the full program on their website.
Dora Budor: MANICOMIO!, 2017 at Frieze art fair
Characters, impersonations, rumors
Feature on artspace.com
Dora Budor will be realising a new artist commission as part of the Frieze New York Projects 2017 program, at Frieze New York, 2017 @ Randall's Island Park, from May 5 - May 7, with an invitation-only preview on Thursday May 4.
The Frieze New York Projects 2017 program is curated by Cecilia Alemani, and features Dora Budor, Elaine Cameron-Weir, Giosetta Fioroni, Fabio Mauri, Ryan McNamara, Adam Pendleton and Jon Rafman.
Dora Budor in "Mutations" @ High Line Art, New York
From April 2017 to March 2018, in Various locations on the High Line
"The Forecast (New York Situation)" is a weather-responsive sculpture based on Archigram's biomorphic projects for living spaces of the future. Its structure is based on architectural models for utopian project Living Pods (Archigram, David Greene) and Archigram's ideas around time-based proto-systems that could demonstrate animalistic and collective orders of organisation.
Artie Vierkant in "Ars 17" from 31.3.17 - 14.1.18
The internet and digitalization have radically altered our everyday lives. They have transformed our work, recreation, culture and economy and changed the way we communicate with one another. The internet has become a platform for constructing identities and expressing emotions. And, inevitably, the digital revolution has also influenced the practice of art.
ARS17 is a major exhibition of international contemporary art on the theme of digital revolution. The exhibition will showcase artists of the new millennium and offer a fresh approach to contemporary art by also expanding the viewing experience into the online realm.
"More Of Less" Sean Raspet's involvement in meal-replacement start-ups harks back to Bauhaus ambitions to transform everyday life through art.
by A.E. Benenson
Antonella Marino on Cédric Fargues' show "INRI" @ 63rd-77th steps on flashart.it
Darja Bajagić's 2016 show "Do you think I'm funny?" At Carlos/Ishikawa in London reviewed by Matthew McLean
Keren Cytter writes about Darja Bajagić' exhibition "Unlimited Hate" at Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien in Graz, Austria in this years BEST OF 2016 section in Artforum
Amalia Ulman in her installation on the cover of the new L'Officiel Art Dec-Feb issue. The magazine features a photo story created in the current show "Reputation" and an interview with Amalia Ulman by curators Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou.
Dora Budor and Sean Raspet have been invited to select a single image, exhibition or event for the BEST OF 2016 section of Artforum's December issue
Curated by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou
November 17th, 2016 from 19h.
In conjunction with her exhibition Places to fight and make up Anna-Sophie Berger – first winner of the Kapsch Contemporary Art Prize – is hosting the film screening of Videos from X to X by artist Darja Bajagić.
For this exhibition, Fargues produces a narrative that interweaves this esoterism with Facebook collages and edible sculptures, thus creating a universe for his creatures: the bébéfleurs.
L'artiste qui a fait d'Instagram sa galerie permanente expose à Paris à la New Galerie son nouveau projet, Reputation : un "The Office" diabolique qui questionne comme rarement l'identité blanche capitaliste.
Opening October 28, 2016.
Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 is organized by Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator.
See you at FIAC from October 20th-23rd where we will be at booth 1.G09, with a presentation of Darja Bajagić, Naresh Kumar and Artie Vierkant.
From prop frogs to torture machines, the New York-based artist writes about the images she finds the most arresting
9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
4.6 - 18.9, 2016
Exhibition of private French collections
Commissaire générale : Nathalie Ergino assistée de Magalie Meunier,
Avec le Comité de sélection ADIAF : Bruno Henry, Jacques Caton & Michel Poitevin
Opened at MoMA Warsaw, "Bread and Roses"
curated by Łukasz Ronduda and Natalia Sielewicz
with works by Christopher Kulendran Thomas


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Published: February 2016
Each year some 20 undergraduate dance troupes at Boston College spend the better part of fall and spring preparing to compete at the annual AHANA Leadership Council Showdown, held in Conte Forum in April. Among these groups is Masti, the official dance team of the South Asian Student Association, whose Bollywood-inspired blend of traditional Indian and hip-hop styles won Showdown's culture category in 2014 and 2015. (Masti is a Hindi word for "fun.") This April, Masti will vie for an unprecedented three-peat title. Director of University photography Gary Wayne Gilbert captured the troupe as it came together in a November rehearsal, prepared for a campus-wide show in December, and reconnected in January. To learn more about Masti, read Boston College Magazine's "We Are Masti," in the Winter 2016 issue.
Ram Arivudainambi '16 (foreground), at the start of a late November practice in the Brighton Dance Studio. Masti has nine members in all.
Rehearsing "Get Low" (a 2014 electronica song with a North African folk melody). Front row, from left: Pavel Gorelov '16 and Arivudainambi. Back row: Ashruti Patel '17, Geeta Shanbhag '18, and Soumya Parashar '19.
Practicing "partner snaps," a set of moves created by the group, to "Marjaani," a song from the 2009 Bollywood film Billu. From left: Patel (obscured), Aash Shrivastav '16, Arivudainambi, Parashar, Gorelov, and Maddy Chin '16.
Rehearsing "India Waale" from the 2014 Bollywood action film Happy New Year in the larger, main room of the Brighton Dance Studio. From left: Parashar, Arivudainambi. Craparotta, and Shrivastav. Membership in Masti is open to any undergraduate with a "willingness to have fun," according to a captain.
Shrivastav (arms outstretched), one of four captains, critiques a run-through.
Rehearsing "Mashallah," from the 2012 Hindi-English romantic thriller Ek Tha Tiger ("And There Was a Tiger"). From left: Shanbhag (also a captain), Shrivastav, Craparotta, and Ari Ratnaseelan '16 (another captain).
Most practices end with "circle time," in which dancers share their highs and lows since the group last met. Clockwise from left: Arivudainambi, Craparotta, Shrivastav, Patel, Shanbhag, Ratnaseelan, and Parashar.
In the Robsham Theater green room on December 2, before the dress rehearsal for a showcase of 11 Boston College dance troupes, organized by the University's Arts Council.
Foreground, from left: Parashar, Shrivastav, and Arivudainambi. The women wear kamarband belts that will jingle when they dance.
Parashar (left) and Patel en route to the Robsham main stage for rehearsal.
The group confers with Robsham technicians Margaux Villeneuve '18 (left) and Maggie Snell '16 about lighting.
Performing thumkas (hip-checks) to "Worth It," by the American girl group Fifth Harmony.
Rehearsing "Mashallah." From left: Craparotta, Arivudainambi, and Ratnaseelan. Arivudainambi's shirt, made of silk, is called a sherwani.
Patel, another captain, adjusts the dancers' spacing on the Robsham main stage.
Between run-throughs, Shrivastav (left) proposes a choreography change.
Rehearsing "Wiggle Bhangra Remix" in Robsham. From left: Craparotta, Shanbhag, Ratnaseelan, Parashar, and Arivudainambi.
Shanbhag out front during "Wiggle Bhangra Remix."
Arivudainambi at the center of the final formation of "India Waale."
Shrivastav rests after a second run-through in Robsham.
Late January downtime in Corcoran Commons. Clockwise from left: Chin, Arivudainambi, Shrivastav, Ratnaseelan, and Gorelov.
Clockwise from lower left: Ratnaseelan, Gorelov, Chin, Arivudainambi, and Shrivastav.


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Last week saw the 5e game go on pause now as the party returned to Neverwinter to assess their situation and count some recently acquired loot from a Dragon, though I wouldn't be surprised if it would be wanting it back at some point. There are some other choices to be made but that is for another time.
GM Johnathan will begin preliminaries for the Achtun Cthulu with the aim of starting the week after so grab a character if you are about; I'm in for that one.
And last week GM Rob did some Dogs in the Vineyard prep - I suspect there will be a little more to do as players settle in for the first time but basically it is under starters orders for a good Bible bashing.
And finally I myself am formally on pause for a week as I have booked some annual leave to see Santa in Skyrim, in other words I am going camping in Lapland. In Winter. Where it is very cold. If I come across any Zombie Nazis I'll let you know. Or not, depending on what happens, but if they find my camera then my last photos of chomping undead will probably get posted here.
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From September 1, users of the BBC's iPlayer will need to have a TV licence. Currently anyone who watches live TV needs one, but they can go without if they only use on demand services. This loophole reportedly costs the BBC £150m a year, and is to be closed as part of the deal which will see the corporation shoulder the burden of free licences for pensioners.
In order to enforce this new law, the Telegraph has reported that new 'sniffer vans' will spread out across the country. One computer expert has suggested that these detector vans could use a technique known as 'packet sniffing'. Dr Miguel Rio said that licence-fee inspectors could view encrypted 'packets' of data travelling over a home Wi-Fi network, and by controlling the size of the packets the iPlayer uses, allow them to establish if devices at homes without television licences were accessing BBC content.
This is an incredibly invasive move which privacy campaigners are rightly worried about. Thankfully, the BBC have denied that they will be using packet sniffing technology, stating 'While we don't discuss the details of how detection works for obvious reasons, it is wrong to suggest that our technology involves capturing data from private Wi-Fi networks.' This raises the question though of what techniques the BBC is employing to hunt down non-licence fee payers.
The comptroller and auditor general of the National Audit Office, Sir Amyas Morse, described in his latest report how 'where the BBC suspects that an occupier is watching live television but not paying for a licence, it can send a detection van to check whether this is the case. Detection vans can identify viewing on a non-TV device in the same way that they can detect viewing on a television set. BBC staff were able to demonstrate this to my staff in controlled conditions sufficient for us to be confident that they could detect viewing on a range of non-TV devices.' This would be targeted surveillance under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, but it still doesn't address how the BBC identifies occupiers it suspects aren't paying the licence for surveillance in the first place.
All of this seems rather moot. The entire licence fee system is incredibly antiquated in the internet ready, 21st century. The most obvious solution to the iPlayer problem seems to be to tie in the TV licence with a username and password that gives you access to the on demand services. The Netflixification of the iPlayer is the simplest option and doesn't involve the need for surveillance vans with complicated and expensive technology. The only reason one suspects the BBC is averse to this move is that it puts them on the path to a subscription based service that for some reason the corporation seemingly wants to avoid at all costs.
But why? Proponents of the licence fee often crow about what great value for money it is. I couldn't agree more. Auntie makes, and has made, great content over the years. From it's brilliant documentaries, fronted by the likes of Sir David Attenborough, to hit dramas such as Downtown Abbey and light entertainment shows like Great British Bake Off. It has franchises such as Top Gear and Doctor Who that bring in huge audiences, not just in the UK, but across the globe, and has a rich history of developing brilliant comedy shows. This writer originally only got interested in politics as a young teenager so that I would understand the jokes and references on Dead Ringers (the last series of which was the best one in years). It has it's detractors sure, but generally speaking the Beeb has a sterling reputation for providing great television and great radio. There is nothing to suggest that that quality would disappear in moving to a subscription service. Netflix may operate on a much smaller scale, but it is still producing some of the greatest TV shows out there right now, why should the BBC be any different? Indeed, with a greater emphasis on the carrot rather than the stick, it could well end up producing even better content than it does now, enticing even more viewers. The current coercive funding model is incredibly illiberal, and an anachronism in this day and age. It's time to scrap it and force the BBC to compete on a commercial level. I have no doubt that it would flourish.


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Updated May 26, 2011:
- The three sets of charts for each day and location previously published here have been replaced with a single set to simplify navigation.
- Calculations of the average and standard deviation was previously based on headways that had been rounded to the nearest minute. This has been changed to use the unrounded values causing minor changes from the original version of the charts.
- Data for December 29, 2006 was incomplete causing some headway information to be incorrect. This day has been dropped from the "basic statistics" charts.
Effective with the April schedules, the TTC changed the 7 Bathurst to formally be an articulated bus route on weekdays. Headways were changed to reflect the larger capacity of the vehicles, and the TTC trotted out a commonly-cited story that fewer, larger vehicles are easier to manage and can provide better service than more, smaller ones.
Did this actually happen? What does the implementation on Bathurst bode for other major bus routes, not to mention the streetcar system which will start moving to larger vehicles in fall 2014?
In these articles, I will look first at the headways actually operated on the route for March and April 2014 (the before/after pair), and later at the time required for vehicles to make their trips, congestion and layover times that affect the service.
As it happens, I also have data from December 2006 for this route, one of the first sets of data I attempted to analyze when I started on this effort back in 2007. How has the service changed between late 2006 and early 2014?
Note: I presume that readers have seen this type of article on my site before, and I will not go into the gory details of how the TTC vehicle tracking data are digested and presented. For those who want to know what's "under the covers", please refer to a separate article on the methodology.
What is the Scheduled Service?
Before we can talk about service as it is, we need to know what it is supposed to be according to the schedules. This is a starting point for comparing the reality of buses on the street to the creative fiction of the advertised service.
Charts of the Headway Data
Charts are linked below for four locations in each of three time periods.
- Northbound service is shown at Barton Street (just north of Bathurst Station) and north of Wilson.
- Southbound service is shown at the bottom end of the on-street loop at Steeles Avenue, (specifically at Carpenter and Bathurst where the loop begins), and just north of Eglinton.
- In both cases, the locations were chosen to show the service as it left the terminal and as it arrived midway along the route.
- Service is shown for the months of March 2014 (before artics), April 2014 (after artics) and December 2006 (for historical comparison).
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These charts contain 13 (or 14 depending on the calendar) pages of charts:
- The first 7 (or 8) show detailed headway information (described below).
- The next 3 contain basic statistics: averages and standard deviations by hour for each type of day in the month (weekday, Saturday, Sunday).
- The last 3 contain distribution charts for the data showing how closely (or nor) the values are clustered.
Basic Statistics
The basic statistics charts show information at the most consolidated level. For each type of day (weekday, Saturday, Sunday), the average headway and the standard deviation of the headway are plotted. The values included for each time period combine data for every day of the specific type through the month.
- The average is the arithmetic mean of all observed headways within an hour for the type of day charted.
- The standard deviation is a measure of the dispersion of values with about 2/3 of the data points falling in a span of ±1 standard deviation.
Where a month's operation is "well behaved" with all of the days operating more or less the same way, then these values will be representative for every day. If there are many days with disrupted service (for example due to weather), the values will be affected because they are based on a mixture of "good" and "bad" days, but it will not be possible to determine when and how severe the problems were on a specific day.
The standard deviation values are also related to the problem of bunching. For example, if the SD is 4, then 2/3 of the headways lie in an 8-minute band around the average. During many periods, the SD is close to the average value, and this indicates that most vehicles are travelling in packs of at least two. This is particularly troubling when it appears shortly after vehicles leave their terminals where, in theory, some headway reliability could be more easily imposed.
Headway Distributions
These charts are, like the basic statistics charts above, based on data consolidated for all days of each type through the month and segmented by each hour of service. Within each hour's data, the count of vehicles on a specific headway is plotted so that there is one vertical bar for each value from 0 to 30 minutes. The intent is not to show the individual values, but the shape of the data distribution.
If most headways lie in a narrow range, then the cluster for one hour will have a tall spike with much lower outlying values. If the headways are spread over a wider range, the cluster will be flatter. In the extreme case where headways are completely random, the cluster would have no peak at all.
Note that because there are fewer days and less frequent service included in the weekend data, the charts are more sparse and have lower peak values. However, the principle is identical.
Detailed Headway Charts
Each linked file contains 7 or 8 pages depending on the calendar:
- The first 4 or 5 pages show data for weeks 1-4 (or 1-5) of the month.
- One page shows all weekday data as a "cloud" of data points. The purpose is to illustrate both the general variation in values over the course of weekdays, and the very wide spread in actual values.
- One page shows all Saturdays (Boxing day is included here).
- One page shows all Sundays (Christmas and Good Friday are included here).
Each point represents the actual headway when a bus passed at the time in question. Trend lines between the points show the overall behaviour of the values through the day. The spread of points around the trend line shows the band within which the actual headways lie.
These charts show data for each day of the month independently, and allow identification of specific times where a major event such as a snow storm might have disrupted service (as opposed to monthly averages presented in the earlier charts).
Northbound at Barton Avenue
These charts show headways just after the service leaves Bathurst Station. The March trend lines show the shorter peak headways on each weekday except for the March 31 data. This was the day the new, artic-based schedules actually began to operate and so the headway trend for that day does not match the pattern from the preceding week.
One thing that is quite evident throughout March is the consistency of the trend lines from day to day, and on each type of weekend day. The only exception is that midday headways on March 12 are unusually long due to a heavy snowfall.
The other quite evident point is the width of the "cloud" of data points around the trend lines. The TTC's target is ±3 minutes to the scheduled headway, but the data lie in a band almost 20 minutes wide. Very short headways correspond to vehicles running in packs, and this is troublesome to see so close to a terminal where it would be easy to manage regularly-spaced departures. This problem exists even on weekends, and some headways are twice the scheduled values.
In April 2014, there is no AM peak dip in headways because none is scheduled (see table above). Headways continue to have values well beyond the three-minute target range, although the problem becomes noticeably worse after about 3:00pm on weekdays with considerably more vehicles on very short (i.e. bunched) headways right through the PM peak into the evening. Weekend data are quite similar for March and April which operated on almost identical schedules.
Comparing the two months' weekday operations, both have a lot of bunching, especially in the afternoon and evenings, and the primary difference is that April headways are longer. There is no indication that the larger, less frequent vehicles in April are managed any better for headway reliability than their shorter cousins were in March.
Data for December 2006 show values that are less spread out than in 2014, although headways well below and above the target are still evident.
Northbound North of Wilson
As with the service at Barton, the March 2014 headways at Wilson are spread out over a 20-minute wide band with many quite low values for all days of the week. The situation continues into April with the artic-based schedules. Indeed, in April there does not even appear to be a concentration of values near the target, but rather a fairly even range of values. This suggests that there is no attempt at all to manage the service or impose any headway discipline.
By contrast, the 2006 data generally lie within a narrower band, although there are still cases of very short headways and some in excess of two times the scheduled value.
Southbound South of Steeles
Service southbound from the northern terminal is even more irregular than northbound from Bathurst Station with the band of values extending into the 20-30 minute range. One reason for this is unscheduled short turns at points south of Steeles.
It is worth noting that service in 2006 was much better behaved except during the PM peaks and on Saturdays.
Southbound North of Eglinton
At Eglinton southbound, the data values are back to the 20-minute wide band we saw in the northbound charts. The contrast with the values at Steeles are due to the fact that northbound Short Turns are included and some of the very wide gaps were filled. However, this is little comfort to someone forced to wait two-to-three times the scheduled headway on the outer part of the route for a bus to arrive.
Service in April shows the same pattern we saw elsewhere with little evidence of clustering around the target headway on weekdays.
The 2006 data are much better behaved with a tighter range of values except on a few occusions, notably just before Christmas.
General Observations
The Bathurst Bus was notorious for irregular service before it was converted to articulated buses, and the pattern has not changed since the cutover. Headways range well beyond the TTC's target for acceptable service, and passengers can just as easily be treated to a double headway as to a short headway thanks to bunching and the resultant uneven loading conditions.
There are noticeable differences between 2006 and 2014 data in that headway distributions (and standard deviation values) in 2014 are wider/larger than in 2006. This means that service experienced by riders will be more irregular today than in was 8 years ago.
Another point notable in all data is that the standard deviation does not often fall below 4 suggesting that there is a lower bound to the reliability of headways. Whether this is a question of the accepted practice for operations or some "transit fact of life" is worth investigation. However, a striking difference between 2006 and 2014 is that the standard deviations tend to stay at the same level most of the time in 2006, while they grow considerably in off-peak periods in 2014.
Any claim the TTC might have that the larger buses would provide more reliable service are demonstrably false. There may be a theory, somewhere, that might "prove" this assertion, but the service actually recorded on the street reveals a complete abdication of headway management, the alleged goal of TTC service.
In the next article, I will review the relationship between actual and scheduled running times, the amount of time TTC Service Planning allocates for buses to make their trips, as well as other factors that can affect service.


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Top 10 Best Intelligence DOTA Heroes
Many DOTA enthusiasts believe that intelligence type heroes are supreme and far better than agility or strength types. Although many would contest regarding the truth behind this claim, it can't be denied that intelligence DOTA heroes play a major role in making the game fun and exciting. Their unique and powerful skills make every DOTA game interesting and worthwhile.
Are you a beginner in DOTA and would want to know who among the intelligence type heroes is the strongest? Coming up with such a conclusion won't be easy. To help you sort out and minimize your options, here is a list of the Top 10 Best Intelligence DOTA Heroes. I came up with this list based on my personal experience with the game so feel free to ask questions or mention other intelligence heroes in DOTA who you think are better than any included in this list by leaving a comment. Have a good read everyone and shout out to every DOTA player out there!
Many underestimate Aiushtha the Enchantress because she lacks health points. Although it's true that any nuker can eliminate her with ease, given with the right items and wise battle positioning, it's possible for Aiushtha to perform not just a reliable support but a fearsome attacker as well. Her Impetus disregards a target's defense causing it to deal high damage in every hit. She can also control lesser creeps or slow enemy heroes while healing her allies. Indeed, Aiushtha deserves to be a part in this list of the Top 10 Best Intelligence DOTA Hero.
Blade mail and Dagon Scepter are known counters for Aiushtha. To cope with her weakness against these items, aim for a Black King Bar. You can then purchase a Guinsoo Scythe and Orchid Malevolence to support your mane needs afterwards. Assault Cuirass is also perfect for Aiushtha as it provides him both added armor and attack speed.
Rylai the Crystal Maiden can cripple and disable enemy heroes like no other. His Frostbite is even powerful enough to keep the enemy team's fountain from attacking. But that's not everything Rylai can offer, her third skill affects every hero in her team giving them added mana regeneration. Although others considerate as a waste of skill points, upgrading Rylai's third skill is crucial especially if majority of her teammates have reliable spamming skills. Last but definitely not the least is Rylai's ultimate skill which can set forth damaging shards of ice to the area around her. Enemies caught by this skill will have a very minimal chance of escaping alive especially if Rylai already has an Aghanim's scepter in her inventory which greatly increases her ultimate's damage.
Raijin the Storm Spirit has innate spamming abilities that are second to none. This DOTA hero is also impossible to catch without a silencer since his ultimate skill allows him to freely roll from one place to another while consuming his mana. The more current mana he has, the farther he can travel. The most intriguing part is that AOE damage is delivered once he reaches destination making Raijin an excellent initiator. His first skill allows him to leave a remnant of his lightning power which explodes once contacted by an enemy unit. To complete his offensive arsenal, Raijin can bind and disable a target with his lightning leaving it vulnerable to attacks.
Your main goal must be to boost Raijin's mana pool. For this purpose, having a Bloodstone, Shiva's Guard, and Guinsoo Scythe in his inventory is a brilliant idea. You can also settle with an Orchid of Malevolence especially if you are up against strong intelligence type heroes.
Nortrom the Silencer is a nightmare for his fellow intelligence type heroes. The fact that his ultimate skill can disable every enemy hero in the map for 6 seconds is more than enough to consider him an intelligence-type hero killer. But then again, he is also effective in dealing with agility type heroes with his new and improved third skill which not only silences a target but disarming them as well. Many considered this skill as an imbalance and I somehow agree to them especially after knowing that the said skill inflicts a massive amount of magical damage after silencing and disarming a target. Such skill is too much for average agility and intelligence type heroes to handle.
Although Nortrom seem unmatched, he is still vulnerable against strength type heroes and those that don't rely on active skills to deal great damage like Ursa Warrior and Sacred Warrior. His measly health points made him vulnerable to nukers as well such as Slayer and Demon Witch. Like majority of intelligence type heroes, Nortrom can greatly benefit from a Force Staff. A Guinsoo Scythe in his inventory is also more than enough to turn Nortrom into one of the best killing machines in DOTA.
Alleria the Windrunner is among the few intelligence type heroes who don't solely rely on their spells to be effective in battle. With her ultimate skill activated, Alleria can reach the maximum attack speed and pulverize a single target with her lightning speed arrows. She can also dodge all physical attacks in a brief period of time while leaving a gust of wind on her trail slowing enemy heroes in the process. The best part of all, Alleria is a pretty decent farmer and harasser with her first skill. She is perfect as both chaser and attacker which is probably why Alleria is considered as one of the most famous intelligence type heroes in pubs.
Force staff is imperative for Alleria. This item can make her near invincible and serves her offensively as well. M'jolnir is also a great pick of Alleria given she can reach maximum attack speed with her ultimate skill. Lastly, aim for a Linken Sphere or Black King Bar. With Black King Bar activated together with her third skill, Windrunner is basically untouchable.
Kael the Invoker is a very tricky hero. He has various spells that can either cripple and damage enemy heroes or summon beasts and provide buffs to aid him in battle. It's enticing to know that Kael offers more than the conventional number of skills. Nevertheless, casting his skills in succession won't be easy. It requires constant practice and good hand speed to maximize Kael's true potential.
There's no better item for Kael other than an Aghanim's Scepter as it eliminates his ultimate skill's cooldown allowing him to freely shift a set of spells in a matter of seconds. If used efficiently, Kael can eliminate an entire team of heroes on his own. Force staff is also a brilliant item for Kael which can serve as his escape and chasing mechanism.
Lion the Demon Witch is an all-around intelligence type hero. Lion is known for his annoying disables but his ultimate skill is not something anyone can disregard as well. Agility type heroes fear Lion since his skill combination added with a Dagon Scepter can instantly kill them in a blink of an eye.
A Kelen's Dagger is highly advised for Lion to greatly improve both his offense and defense. Nonetheless, be extra cautious when blinking towards the enemy since it's less likely for Lion to survive after being disabled. As much as possible, stay in the side line during a clash and only blink forward while chasing an enemy hero or the enemy team is completely disabled by an AOE stun like what Tide Hunter and Earthshaker offer.
Lina Inverse is among the most effective spammer and nuker in the game. Such feats are normal for intelligence type heroes but what separate Lina from the rest is her attack capability. Lina's attack speed is boosted every time she casts a spell due to her third skill. Lina's ultimate skill is also one of the most damaging single-target spell in DOTA which can be improved with an Aghanim's scepter. Many prefer purchasing Kelen's Dagger for Lina as it gives her enough mobility to initiate clashes and chase fleeing enemy heroes. However, we should also consider a Force Staff as it provides stats bonus and hp regeneration which is of course not available in Kelen's Dagger.
The key to effectively use Lina is excellent positioning and timing. Inexperienced DOTA players often find it hard to bring out Lina's true potential since one wrong move could instantly eliminate Lina as she has very low health points.
Akasha the Queen of Pain is an intelligence type hero in DOTA who boasts a set of skills perfect for mid and late game clashes. Here ultimate skill, Sonic Wave, can heavily damage the opposing team if casted precisely. The rest of her damaging skills which include Scream of Pain and Shadow Strike often finish the job.
Akasha is infamous due to her mid lane prowess. She can even stand-up against Shadow Fiend and dominate the mid lane with the right skill and item build. However, Akasha has the same weakness like majority of intelligence type heroes. If silenced, this hero is rendered useless. She lacks attack speed so her normal hints won't be of any use. To avoid this tight situation, It's crucial that you purchase a Linken Sphere or better Black King Bar especially if the enemy team has known silencers like Bloodseeker and Silencer.
Puck the Fairy Dragon is the most elusive hero in DOTA. His third skill allows him to get out from any danger in an instant and if paired with a Kelen's Dagger becomes the most effective escape mechanism in the game. Puck's ability to easily go in and out of a clash makes him a very big threat. By spamming his skills, Puck can severely damage an entire team as they chase infinitely and try to kill him. This may sound too good to be true but it's a usual scenario in pub games. Finally, Puck is considered by many as the best intelligence DOTA hero mainly because of his strong lane presence. Regardless what lane he takes, dominance is assured if he is controlled by someone who has a good grasp in using a bottle and spamming skills for gold and experience.
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Marco on September 15, 2016:
For me no greater than Zeus!!
headhunter on February 02, 2016:
Where did goblin techies disappear? He obviously deserves even a place in the overall top ten dota heroes.
Dota No. SaTuRdAy_DrAgOn on May 06, 2014:
puck are battle king ........ Yeas
Jay on January 20, 2014:
I really like Rhasta, the Shadow Shaman. He has two disable abilities - and you can have more with a Malevolence. Also, he is a great pusher and "tower-killer" with his ultimate.
Anonymous on May 30, 2013:
I think Rubick also deserves a place here, don't forget, he is famous for having endless set of combos... With his Spell Steal, he can use any enemies' recently used active spell against as a counter or even against the enemies' teammates added with his other original skill. Basically, he explores more skills if he faces more enemies. :)
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Victor W. Kwok from Hawaii on March 23, 2013:
Nice Hub. Very interesting.


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Time Zone: Scott County lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time.
The community of Forest is the Seat for Scott County.
Scott County was founded in 1833. Scott was created by taking area from Covington, and Counties.
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Each year the American Academy of Dermatology Association (AADA) recognizes outstanding grassroots advocacy efforts through the Advocate of the Year Award program. The Advocate of the Year is awarded to one AADA member who sets an example for his or her peers by undertaking a significant amount of advocacy endeavors, at the state and/or federal level, on behalf of the specialty. The goal of the award is to promote year-around advocacy and acknowledge the positive effects of a single advocate.
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Kelly Sadler, a White House communications aide, made a crack recently during an internal meeting about how Sen. John McCain's opposition to President Donald Trump's CIA pick, Gina Haspel, didn't matter because McCain is "dying anyway."
Once the remark was leaked, presumably by someone who doesn't much like Sadler, the media — mainstream and social — exploded as if the stock market had crashed.
What a horrifying thing to say! Proof of the rottenness at the core of the Trump White House! Off with her head — that is, let's get her fired and ruin her career!
Of course, it was not at all a nice thing to say. And yes, Trump says many, many not nice things. And it could be that his rudeness and crudeness trickles down to the staff.
Trump's directness has been a big part of his appeal, even to evangelicals and other "deplorables" accused of hypocrisy and obtuseness.
But Trump's directness has been a big part of his appeal, even to evangelicals and other "deplorables" accused of hypocrisy and obtuseness for backing a profane man. They were tired of being told what they are allowed to say and think. And nobody is going to tell Trump what to say.
There's something refreshing about that. Even important. Because it gores a useful wound into the stultifying and dangerous political correctness that is increasingly gripping the nation.
Trump's rude speech tells Americans it might just be okay to hold an opinion and not get handcuffed by the speech police who want to enforce their own — usually liberal — viewpoint. Because every statement that doesn't pass muster with the left now provokes a new Salem witch trial.
Today's strict political correctness allows no separation between words and sentiment. Between surface artifice and deeper reality. It bends uncomfortable truths into polite falsehoods. There are certain things you just can't say, because someone's feelings might get hurt.
Today's strict political correctness allows no separation between words and sentiment. It bends uncomfortable truths into polite falsehoods.
Democracy pre-supposes a willingness to state unpopular, hurtful things. Otherwise, the path to reality, justice and sound decisions – the essence of democracy – is blocked like a coronary artery. You know, the one known as the widow maker, which redirects the patient's ambulance from the hospital to the morgue.
Sure, Trump goes too far. Sometimes way too far. And he makes of point of never apologizing. Sadler went too far as well — though she apologized to McCain's daughter Meghan. Meghan nonetheless pronounced, figuratively speaking, "Off with her head."
I don't know Sadler — and you probably don't either. But do you think she is somehow pleased that McCain has brain cancer and is facing a harsh, miserable death?
People are not everything they say at a given moment. If they were, we'd all be perp-walked straight from purgatory to a vastly overpopulated hell.
Political correctness has the ability to rapidly enforce change on society toward a liberal point of view. It's frighteningly effective. Today, you cannot in polite company say you oppose gay marriage without being branded a homophobe. And yet a few years ago, that was – at least publicly — the position held by a Democratic president and his vice president.
Last week, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said the majority of illegal immigrants are "not people that would easily assimilate into the United States into our modern society" because they are "overwhelmingly rural people," don't speak English, and "don't integrate well." Is that true? The word police don't care either way. Kelly had made a statement casting a subset of people of a certain ethnicity in a negative light. That's impermissible.
The rapper Kanye West voices support for Trump, and the author Ta-Nehisi Coates suggests not just that West is wrong to embrace Trump, but that he is not even free as a black man to hold this opinion because in Coates' view, Trump and conservatives are racists
Political correctness has the ability to rapidly enforce change on society toward a liberal point of view. It's frighteningly effective.
As a widely-esteemed liberal champion once wrote: "At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right thinking people will accept without question. It not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other but it is 'not done' to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness."
The writer was George Orwell, and the passage is from the unpublished introduction to his classic fable about creeping totalitarianism, "Animal Farm."
Trump has not fired Sadler yet. And he'd better not — because the ability to say something impolite is a big reason why he was elected. His base would likely be shocked and severely disappointed if he allows the thought police to take her away.
Yes, she is part of the character of this White House. One that provides desperately needed counterprogramming to our regularly scheduled episodes of political correctness. And that's just great.
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With 54 miles of coastline, this charming New England town bridges the upper arm of Cape Cod to capture Atlantic Ocean wilds to the east and Cape Cod Bay serenity to the west. In the summer, Orleans hums with its own Cape Cod Baseball League team, more than a dozen art galleries and a resident live theatre, and a rich and ample variety of restaurants. Whether strolling its historic cottage-lined streets or paddling its freshwater lakes, life is active, rich, and varied in this corner of the country.
Town visits
Jonathan Young Windmill
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Shots from the third hiking trip during the Automattic Grand Meetup in Park City back in October.
Alistair, Dave, and I went up Armstrong trail and back down Dawn's Trail. There were a lot of bikes that we had to make way for during the Armstrong part. Dawn's is hiking only trail so we had it mostly to ourselves. It was a nice, moderate 5.5km trek.


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eet the Jones family of professionals, dedicated to honoring your family and cherishing your memories. The Jones Family has owned and operated the Friedrich-Jones & Overman-Jones Funeral Homes since 1977.
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Ray resides in Naperville with his wife Marilyn where he raised his three children Dave, Stephanie and Dan. Ray is a longtime member, usher and 3rd degree Knight of Columbus at SS. Peter & Paul Catholic Church. Ray was born and raised in Joliet. He is a graduate of Joliet Junior College class of 1964, Joliet Catholic Academy, formerly Joliet Catholic High School class of 1961 and St. Patrick's Catholic School in Joliet class of 1957.
Ray is a well known community leader and philanthropist, serving on many boards and heading numerous charitable fundraisers. Most notably serves as chairman and originator of the St. Patrick's Residence "Gold Key Gala" and SS. Peter & Paul Catholic Church's largest fundraisers and capital campaigns "Light the Way" and "Pass It On." He is a current board member of St. Patrick's Residence and 1st Community Bank of Naperville. He was formerly a Commissioner of the Naperville Police & Fire Board. He has formerly served as a board member of Edward Hospital, Naperville Little Friends, Naperville Little League, Naperville United Way and Loaves & Fishes.
When Ray is enjoying his free time you can find him golfing at Cress Creek Country Club or out and about with his 8 grandchildren.
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Dave has served as a co-owner since 1996 and as a licensed funeral director and embalmer since 1995. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Iowa class of 1993. Dave holds a diploma from Worsham College of Mortuary Science class of 1994, Benet Academy in Lisle, IL class of 1988 and SS. Peter & Paul School in Naperville class of 1984.
Dave was born and raised in Naperville and continues to reside in Naperville with his wife Nicole and their three children Ben, Samantha and Anna. He is an active member, host greeter and former board member serving on the "Journey of Faith" funding raising campaign at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Naperville, IL. He is an alumnus and a parent member of the SS. Peter & Paul School family where his children Ben, Sami and Anna attend.
Dave is active in the communities we serve. He has served as a board member for the Plainfield Area Chamber of Commerce since 1998. He is the founder and co-chairman of the Plainfield Harvest 5K Run/Walk since 1999, raising over $150,000 for various area charities. He is a member of the Naperville Exchange Club and a longtime Ribfest volunteer.
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Stephanie was born and raised in Naperville and continues to reside in Naperville with her husband Jeff and their three children Jake, Will and Julia. She is an active member and lector at St. Raphael Catholic Church in Naperville since 1996. She has formerly served on the St. Raphael Adult Faith Formation Commission and as a sponsor couple working with engaged couples on their marriage preparation. She is a parent member of the Benet Academy family in Lisle where her son Will, class of 2023, attends. She is also a member of the Benet Mom's group where she enjoys participating in service projects. She is a parent member of the Covenant Classical School family in Naperville where her daughter Julia attends. Stephanie has volunteered her time at Covenant serving as a room mother and lunch helper. In addition, she was instrumental in developing Covenant's Trivia Night Fundraiser and coordination of business sponsorships.
Stephanie is active in the communities we serve. She is a member of the Naperville Noon Rotary Club and the Naperville Garden Club. She served on the Board of Directors for SamaraCare (formerly Samaritan Interfaith) for 6 years from July 2012 to June 2018. Stephanie continues to support SamaraCare's "Silent Samaritan Breakfast" after being a devoted committee member for many years. She is a dedicated member of the St. Patrick's Residence Guild since 1996, serving as Treasurer and Vice President for over 12 years. She has chaired and co-chaired St. Patrick's Residence Guild's largest fundraiser the "St. Patrick's Day Party" and is a proud recipient of the The Claddagh Award. Stephanie and Jeff are Life Members of the Abbott Marmion Society. Stephanie has been an advocate for The Education Center of Naperville where she and her husband Jeff are recipients of The Kids Best Friend Award. She is a former board member of the Ecumenical Adult Care Center in Naperville, Naperville United Way and Naperville Community Outreach (NCO).
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Most people associate the term "traumatic brain injury" with the type of severe damage that could only be caused by something as drastic a fracture of the skull. However, the truth is that you could have a significant brain injury dramatically affecting your life without you even knowing it. In the first episode in a series on brain injuries, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen describe the different forms of brain trauma.


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Press Room (ground floor) WMO building, 7bis, avenue de la Paix, Case postale 2300 CH-1211 Geneva 2 Switzerland
Maps: Geneva | WMO and vicinity | Interactive map of Geneva
Tram lines 13 and 15 and Bus line 1 will stop close to the WMO building. Sécheron is the closest train stop (trains run every thirty minutes to/from Cornavin Train Station (Gare Cornavin, Geneva's main train station) – train timetables can be found at http://www.sbb.ch/en/index.htm)
Please see the hotel link for accommodation (there is no special rate agreed).
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Arrival at Geneva International Airport (Cointrin)
Geneva Airport is located 3 miles to the north of the city. All visitors are entitled to a free public transportation ticket from the airport to Geneva (6 minute journey by train from "Geneva Airport" to "Cornavin", frequency every 12 minutes) and then connect to bus/tram from Cornavin. Further details are available at http://www.gva.ch/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-67/ (a ticket dispenser is available in the baggage reclaim area).


text: CTA CTA BOARD APPROVES FIBER OPTIC CONTRACTS April 4, 2001 April 4, 2001 Staff The Chicago Transit Board at its monthly meeting today, approved two amendments to an existing contract with Adesta Communications, Inc. which will allow the firm to install, maintain and market fiber optic communications systems along the Green and Red Lines. The Board also approved the lease of one of the 12 Blue Line ducts housing fiber optic cables to MCI Worldcom. The agreement with MCI is the seventh duct leased along the Blue Line. Adesta leases fiber optic lines to private users. Fees from the leases help recover the cost of installing the fiber optic communications system. Once the construction cost is paid in full, the CTA will get 75% of additional revenues. MCI Worldcom will pay $1.8 million to use its Blue Line duct and cable. In August 1999, the CTA Board approved a contract with Adesta to install fiber optic cables along the Blue Line from the Loop to the O'Hare station. Today's board action modifies the original contract to allow Adesta to extend the installation of fiber optic cables to the Green and Red Lines. As part of this agreement, the CTA will receive two of 19 ducts on the Red Line for its own use. On the Green Line, the CTA will receive nodal equipment that will allow the CTA to improve the quality of voice transmissions on rail platform public address systems and reduce telecommunications expenses. This equipment will be installed at stations that currently have fiber optics installed, but lack the equipment to use the technology.Fiber optic technology provides a high-speed link transmitting data, voice and video from field locations to the CTA Control Center. This technology enables the Authority to eventually improve its internal communication system, which will lead to improved service for CTA customers as the CTA makes system-wide capital improvements. It will also enable CTA management to better identify and correct problems that may develop along rail lines, resulting in better on-time performance, enhanced safety and improved fare collection, escalator, lighting and other systems. Chicago Transit Board Chairman Valerie B. Jarrett said, ?Installing fiber optics technology provides the CTA the ability to offer customers better transit information, fare collection and clearer, easier to understand public address information on the rail platforms as we make capital improvements to our system." CTA President Frank Kruesi said, ?The Authority has been working to upgrade communications on its Rapid Transit System by installing fiber optics. This is an important step in allowing us to provide more efficient and effective communications links to our rail stations, fare control equipment and other control operations as part of our capital improvement program." ### Back to news


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One Pan Garlic Chicken – chicken thighs and garlic come together for a super easy and delicious chicken dinner! A new go to chicken dinner recipe!
Back to reality. My son had spring break last week, so we drove down to Arizona for the week. My aunt and uncle rented a house down there for the winter, so we spent the week there enjoying the warm weather. We got to go to a few spring training baseball games, and just relax.
My son got to play in the pool and spend time with his grandparents, who were also down there for the week. Usually on vacations we are busy and on the go the whole time. This trip we relaxed and just took it easy. Nice to come home and not feel like I need to sleep for 3 days to catch up!
Now that we are home, it is time to get cooking again. A week off always brings me back motivated and ready to get back to it. Even still, one pan meals are my thing. So this one pan garlic chicken is a must!
Chicken dinners are a staple, every week, in pretty much every house across the country. But that doesn't mean it has to be the same thing each week. This one pan garlic chicken will be something just a little different than your average meal, but uses staples you already have in the house.
I used chicken thighs to make this one pan garlic chicken. You can often find chicken thighs at the grocery store for super cheap. I always buy the boneless skinless ones, but for more flavor you can definitely leave the skin on. If chicken thighs aren't your thing, that is fine! Use what you have. It looks like a ton of garlic in the recipe, but trust me use it all!! It is just flavoring the sauce, you don't eat the actual pieces of it.
I got this recipe from my dear friend Katerina over at Diethood. She is always cooking up the most amazing dinners, so go check her out. Trust me, you will fall in love.
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A strong voice from the wilderness
Credit: The Orleans Record, orleanscountyrecord.com 3 May 2012 ~~
Sen. Joe Benning, R-Caledonia-Orleans, did his best to get a two-year wind moratorium passed by the Senate in the waning days of the 2012 session. Though felled by the overwhelming Chittenden County Democratic Phalanx, Benning did succeed in garnering prolonged discussion and attention to his amendment. All four NEK Senators voted for the moratorium.
Benning gave the Senate a dozen compelling reasons to put the brakes on new wind farm development for a period long enough to do the research and analysis of so-called renewable power sources. With regard to wind power, Benning lamented the damage being done to the natural beauty of the Kingdom in Vermont's effort to lead the nation and the world in getting rid of fossil and nuclear power, a goal that, ironically, amounts to whistling in the wind.
Benning said, "Our new energy policy calls for a 90 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050. Targeting our entire energy spectrum (including transportation), it relies on instate renewables to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. At the same time we're eliminating Hydro Quebec, nuclear power, fracked natural gas and less efficient biomass electricity as acceptable renewables. Industrial wind, currently the darling of the present administration, has become the power that now drives our legislative policy.
"And more wind farms are coming as corporate investors, motivated by tax incentives and artificially inflated electric rates, seduce small towns with infusions of cash. Since wind is intermittent and has no storage capacity, our policy alone will require more wind farms and many miles of transmission lines to achieve our energy goal. If regulatory authorities fall short insisting on decommissioning plans, our ridgelines will end up littered with forty story rusting hulks when this technology becomes obsolete. These new wind farms are encroaching on our wildlife corridors, destroying pristine mountain environments and radically changing the aesthetics of our state. They pit citizens of towns against each other, and towns against towns in a given region.
He concluded, "I cannot support the raping of a pristine environment in exchange for intermittent power that has to be subsidized by both the taxpayer and the ratepayer. At a time when Vermont already has an ample power supply, this is no energy plan. It is a blind obsession. "
So, who and why did the Senate defeat Sen. Benning's amendment? Chittenden County senators and blind party-line support, in that order. All the Chittenden County senators, including RINO Diane Snelling, voted against a moratorium in their usual blind salute to Gov. Shumlin's commands. Every one of those senators knows that their Chittenden County is safe from the havoc despoiling the Northeast Kingdom. There is not a snowball's chance that a wind farm will ever be built in Chittenden County, or, for that matter, anywhere on the neighboring Lake Champlain's islands. In ironic mockery, South and North Hero, Grand Isle, and Isle LaMotte are the only places in Vermont where the wind blows hard enough virtually all of the time to produce reliable power. It will never happen there.
We congratulate Sen. Joe Benning on almost breaking up the Democratic monolith in the Senate on an issue that really matters. Somebody listened, even though Joe's effort turned out to be only a voice in the wilderness, in this case, the stunning wilderness of the NEK.
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Award-winning, contemporary, new-build housing development in Ross-On-Wye, designed by RRA Architects for Freeman Homes.
Project Info:
Client:Freeman Homes
Status:Completed 2015
Project Team:
Contractor:MF Freeman
Structural Engineer:Clarke Nicholls & Marcell
Photo Credit:Freeman Homes
Timber FrameTaylor Lane
Drainage ConsultantPhil Warren
The Avenue project involved the conversion of a former nursing home into three stunning apartments. Also with the addition to the estate of two single storey lodges and four three-storey, private, gated houses. The challenge was to combine the style of the existing building with the new contemporary dwellings to create a simple yet attractive housing scheme.
Each individual building has been carefully designed by RRA to connect the outdoor area as part of the living space. This design allows optimum use of the whole property.
The Avenue development won the Bronze award for 2015 Best Development in the WhatHouse? Awards.