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Yesterday I attended a conference organised by the Art Fund about the value of museums. There were a number of stimulating discussions about what kind of value museums have and how that value operates.
There seemed to be a consensus that museums should focus on what they are really good at: collecting, looking after, researching and making accessible interesting and beautiful things. It was commented that museums can have social and economic benefits too, but that those are best delivered through that core purpose.
There were some fascinating and contrasting examples of 'value'. At one end of the spectrum, Graham W.J. Beal, director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, described the struggle to preserve a collection which is threatened with sale in order to plug the pensions deficit of the city. At the other end, Jack Persekian, director of the Palestinian Museum – as yet without a building and without a collection – showed examples of the objects cherished by individual Palestinians, objectively modest things which nevertheless have enormous subjective power.
This investigation of 'value' reminded me of the collections of the National Trust, where the modest can sometimes be just as significant as the fine. The leather bucket shown above was once simply an item of fire prevention at Florence Court. But the way it was made, its aged appearance and its connection to a particular place now give it an distinct aura, speaking to us on a number of different levels.
The charming conceit of painting the house owner's initial on the bucket in vaguely classical tendrils links it to a long tradition of classicised floral decoration. The boudoir at Attingham, in the second image above, is another, particularly fine example of that tradition. And that boudoir, in turn, demonstrates how objects never exist in a vacuum, but always 'speak' to other objects within certain spaces and relationships.
So that leads me to propose that the value of museums, and of heritage more widely, resides in relationships: between objects, between objects and places and between objects and people.

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Christopher Hinton-Lewis
Christopher Hinton-Lewis was born in Wolverhampton and trained at the English National Ballet School. He joined the Company as a dancer in 1999 and was promoted to Premier Dancer in 2008.
Throughout his time with the Company he performed many roles including Romeo and Mercutio in Massimo Morricone's Romeo & Juliet; Scrooge and Young Scrooge in A Christmas Carol; Lowry in Gillian Lynne's A Simple Man; Mark Godden's Angels in the Architecture; Cathy Marsden's Dividing Silence; Val Caniparoli's Lambarena; Dracula in David Nixon's Dracula and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights.
Whilst with the Company Chris created many title roles including Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream; Simon in Swan Lake; Adameter in A Sleeping Beauty Tale; Duke of Bukingham in The Three Musketeers and Hamlet which were all choreographed by David Nixon.
In 2010 Chris joined the Royal New Zealand Ballet under artistic director Gary Harris. Whilst there he performed leading roles including José in Didy Veldman's Carmen, Tibalt in Christopher Hampson's Romeo & Juliet, Cavalier in Gary Harris' The Nutcracker and Petrushka in Michael Fokine's Petrushka.
Since retiring Christopher has been a guest ballet master with Northern Ballet helping to restage productions including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Angels in the Architecture and A Christmas Carol. As a freelance teacher he has taught at The Hammond School, the University of Leeds, Laban CAT programme and has given Company Class for Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty.
Chris is currently studying BSc Sports and Exercises Science at the University of Leeds.


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Ever since I received my new toy I've become obsessed with using freshly milled flour in my bread baking. Since I was traveling last week for a job interview I didn't have any time to bake until this weekend so I refreshed my mother starter, created a levain using some of the refreshed starter and just to see what would happen, I added some sour cream in place of some of the water to make the levain.
I also used some additional sour cream in the main dough along with freshly ground Kamut, Rye, and Hard White Whole Wheat. I have not been sifting any of the flour, just grinding it at the finest setting and using as is.
After suffering from bakers withdrawal I felt the creative juices ready to burst out so I threw in some grated white cheddar that I had bought at Whole Foods and some Tahitian Vanilla Balsamic Vinegar just because I bought it along with a bunch of other flavored vinegar and oils right before mixing this one up.
The final bread came out great with a nice open crumb for a high percentage whole grain bread. The sour cream is about 73% water so it really bumped up the hydration of the final dough but it wasn't too hard to handle at all. It actually made a nice silky smooth dough.
I had a nice meatloaf sandwich for lunch on this bread today and it was wonderful.
Levain Directions
Mix all the Levain ingredients together for about 1 minute and cover with plastic wrap. Let it sit at room temperature for around 7-8 hours or until the starter has doubled. I usually do this the night before.
Either use in the main dough immediately or refrigerate for up to 1 day before using.
Main Dough Procedure
Mix the flours, sour cream and water together in your mixer or by hand until it just starts to come together, maybe about 1 minute. Let it rest in your work bowl covered for 20-30 minutes. Next add the salt, starter (cut into about 7-8 pieces), and balsamic vinegar and mix on low for 5 minutes. Add the cheese and mix for another 1 minute and then remove the dough from your bowl and place it in a lightly oiled bowl or work surface and do several stretch and folds. Let it rest covered for 10-15 minutes and then do another stretch and fold. Let it rest another 10-15 minutes and do one additional stretch and fold. After a total of 2 hours place your covered bowl in the refrigerator and let it rest for 12 to 24 hours.
When you are ready to bake remove the bowl from the refrigerator and let it set out at room temperature still covered for 1.5 to 2 hours. Remove the dough and shape as desired. I made 1 large boule shape. Place your dough into your proofing basket(s) and cover with a moist tea towel or plastic wrap sprayed with cooking spray. The dough will take 1.5 to 2 hours depending on your room temperature. Let the dough dictate when it is read to bake not the clock.
Around 45 minutes before ready to bake, pre-heat your oven to 550 degrees F. and prepare it for steam. I have a heavy-duty baking pan on the bottom rack of my oven with 1 baking stone on above the pan and one on the top shelf. I pour 1 cup of boiling water in the pan right after I place the dough in the oven.
Right before you are ready to put them in the oven, score as desired and then add 1 cup of boiling water to your steam pan or follow your own steam procedure.
After 1 minute lower the temperature to 500 degrees and after another 3 minutes lower it to 450 degrees. Bake for 35-50 minutes until the crust is nice and brown and the internal temperature of the bread is 210 degrees.
Take the bread out of the oven when done and let it cool on a bakers rack before for at least 2 hours before eating.
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Royals sweep Giants, extend winning streak to 7
Salvador Perez, Alex Gordon homer in 7-4 win
Alex Gordon and Salvador Perez each homered and Danny Duffy pitched into the seventh inning as the Kansas City Royals beat the San Francisco Giants 7-4 Sunday to extend their winning streak to seven games.
The Royals, who won 10 in a row in June, have put together two winning streaks of seven or more games this season for the first time since 1985, the last time they were in the playoffs.
Gordon hit a two-run shot off Tim Lincecum (9-8) in a four-run first. The inning also included Billy Butler's run-producing double and Perez scoring on a wild pitch.
Perez homered off Juan Gutierrez with Nori Aoki aboard in a three-run third. Aoki reached base four times - two walks and two singles - and stole three bases.
Jarrod Dyson went 3 for 3 and also swiped three bases. The Royals' seven steals was one shy of the club record set on August 1, 1998.


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Tom Seaver and I have this much in common: We had crappy 32nd birthdays. Mine culminated in a cafeteria at C.W. Post on New Year's Eve 1994. But never mind me.
Tom's? Well, I don't know where he was coaxed into "celebrating" by well-meaning/misguided/übertouchy relatives on November 17, 1976, but I do know that thirty years ago today, he did not get exactly what he wanted. The Atlanta Braves, not the New York Mets, signed Gary Matthews as a free agent. It was perhaps the signal event that led to the departure of Seaver seven months hence along with the intents & purposes collapse of National League baseball in New York.
Happy birthday to us.
When I think of Gary Matthews — now Gary Matthews, Sr., I suppose — I usually think of the Sarge who helped lead a platoon of Cubs over the hill in 1984, capturing the divisional flag that was very nearly ours. His numbers weren't astounding (14 homers, 82 ribs, .291), but it seemed like he collected all of them against the Mets. By then, Matthews was 34, playing almost every day for the last time in a career that ended in 1987.
Right now, I'm thinking of the Gary Matthews who didn't become a Met in the winter of '76-'77. That Gary Matthews, 26, had lots of company. Every player in the very first free agent class, just freed by the death of the reserve clause, didn't become a Met. The critical mass of the suddenly shuttered Oakland A's dynasty was on the market, but none of them — not Rudi, not Tenace, not Bando, not Campaneris, not Fingers, not Athletic by way of Baltimore Reggie Jackson — was coming our way. Nor was Bobby Grich or Don Baylor or Don Gullett. Nor did we think they might.
This was the daring new world some were salivating over and others were dreading. This was a clutch of star and superstar ballplayers who would become available to the highest bidders every November. This had never happened before. Instead of engineering trades or banking on minor leaguers, you could just buy the guy you needed. Pay the man and he was yours.
Not the kind of atmosphere that sounds conducive to the business practices of one M. Donald Grant. Maybe if Mrs. Payson were still alive…Joan Payson, after all, wasn't stingy. It's been said the Mets' original owner, who died in 1975, tried to buy Willie Mays from the Giants when he was truly Willie Mays. She wanted to purchase Stan Musial from the Cardinals to kick things off in grand style in '62. Grant might have gone for that, a cash transaction from his team to another team. But the idea of forking over a barrelful of currency to the player himself? That wasn't Grant's game even if it was rapidly become everybody else's.
So if you read the papers, you didn't entertain too many fantasies about Reggie Jackson reporting to Huggins-Stengel in February. Though the Mets made their picks like everybody else in the re-entry draft (in which you chose whom you'd have the rights to negotiate with, a rather pointless barrier that was done away with in the next collective bargaining agreement) and they were theoretically thinking about several players, it was clear the Mets were not going to part with top dollar to snag top names.
There was one player, however, who seemed like a fit. That was Gary Matthews, then of the Giants. He had just completed his fourth full season in San Francisco. His stats weren't stunning, not even by the standards of the day — 20-84-.279, 12 steals — but he was solid. Good outfielder. Didn't miss games. Entering his prime. In other words, he was the kind of regular the Mets were missing. Despite a spurt that earned the Mets their best record since 1969 (86-76), the Mets were hurting for offense in 1976. Only Dave Kingman managed more than 15 homers or 80 RBI…and he batted 238. Heck, Matthews would have led the '76 Mets in stolen bases.
Those Mets, as was their fashion for nearly a decade, relied on pitching. Jerry Koosman caught fire and won 21 games, finishing second for the Cy Young. Jon Matlack chipped in 17. And Tom Seaver? Future lock Hall of Famer Tom Seaver? Nine-time All-Star Tom Seaver who led this power trio in strikeouts (235) and ERA (2.59)? Tom went 14-11.
Like the Met offense of the mid-'70s, that was just sad.
The world was changing around Seaver. It always had. The June amateur draft was just coming in when Seaver was first eligible in 1965. The Dodgers tabbed him but he opted to stay in school at USC. The next year he was thrown into a January draft that, according to a very thorough Met historian, included those who had been drafted the year before but did not sign — a status that would have been impossible to garner without there having been a June draft in the first place. The Braves picked him and signed him but hadn't noticed or decided not to notice that the Southern Cal season had begun when they secured his signature. They were two non-Pac 10 games and Seaver hadn't pitched in them, but they violated a line between professional and amateur. The Brave contract was voided and, after Seaver was deemed ineligible for college ball, every Major League team was afforded the opportunity to match Atlanta's offer to Tom.
That led to the greatest hat there ever was, the one into which three pieces of paper were tossed representing the three teams who thought it was worth signing 21-year-old Tom Seaver for a little more than $50,000. One said Phillies. One said Indians. One said Mets.
You know which one was drawn.
Seaver's appeal upon his Met debut in 1967 wasn't just the pitching, though that was key. The writers loved him. He was educated. He was articulate. He thought about things. He was the harbinger of the erudite athlete and at the vanguard of the Mets who would no longer be automatic losers. It was his professionalism as much as his right arm that made Tom Seaver one of the icons of his age.
All those qualities also manifested themselves into a player who dared to use an agent to negotiate a contract (heresy until the early '70s), to be very active in the union and to speak his mind about how his team was run. By 1976, he had made two things fairly apparent: he wanted to be paid what his pitching was worth and he wanted the Mets to pay a hitter who would make his pitching pay off.
He wanted Gary Matthews. He didn't get him. None of us did. While Grant, as recounted by Jack Lang in the indispensable New York Mets: Twenty-Five Years of Baseball Magic, did make an offer, it wasn't competitive with what Ted Turner was willing to ante in Atlanta. Three decades ago today, as Tom Seaver blew out 32 candles, Gary Matthews went to the Braves, agreeing to $1.2 million for five years — barely enough to win you one year of Damion Easley now, but big bucks then.
Tom Seaver was burned twice. First, no middle-of-the-lineup hitter. The Mets entered '77 with essentially the same personnel from '76, meaning their offense was a disgruntled Kingman and seven other fellows who weren't here on hitting scholarships. Lee Mazzilli and John Stearns may have portended a youth movement, but neither was a slugger-in-waiting. Otherwise there were several aging parts (Grote, Harrelson, Millan, Torre) and not a lot of improvement.
Second, Tom Seaver was being outpaid if not outearned by the new free agents. Seaver, who had been voted three of the previous eight National League Cy Young awards, had signed a new deal in the spring of '76 just ahead of the gold rush. Now the likes of Wayne Garland, who timed his single 20-win season perfectly to earn a ten-year $2.3 million deal from the Indians, were racing by him. The Yankees made Reggie Jackson a very rich man. The Angels, Padres and Rangers all invested in ex-A's. They didn't succeed but it wasn't for lack of investing.
Seaver was on a team that wasn't trying to get better and now he was being underpaid, certainly relative to what the first free agents were getting ($225,000…less than Wayne Garland on an annualized basis). He didn't have much use for the way Grant was taking care of business, feeling he'd not been dealt with in good faith when he last signed. A feud erupted and by the third month of the 1977 season, Seaver, like Kingman (also contract-discontent), was gone.
The Mets were done. They were already playing badly and they just got worse. They finished last for the first time in ten years in '77. They would repeat the feat in '78 and '79, performing their unremarkable brand of baseball before handfuls of the disinterested. They fell off the map in a manner that makes 2002 and 2003 and 2004 look like a golden age.
If thirty years ago today, when Tom Seaver turned 32, the Mets had decided it was worth topping Ted Turner's bid and had signed Gary Matthews, would have things changed? Would have Seaver thought, hey, that's a great addition and maybe taken a different tone or tack in attempting to renegotiate with Grant? Would have Grant, probably looking a bit like a hero, softened, too? Would have there been more player activity? Might have the Mets made a move on Reggie Jackson who greatly admired Seaver and was not yet in the Yankees' pocket and never said which New York team he'd have to play for in order to get that candy bar? Would have the city's baseball landscape shifted one way instead of another?
That's a lot of ifs there and they probably ignore the systematic rot of the Mets' operations that predated passing over Gary Matthews. Still, even though the early free agentry didn't help too many teams (many got hurt or old and Matthews never broke out as a superstar), it would have sent a message to the fan base that the Mets weren't living in the past. When Grant fired Joe Frazier at the end of the next of May, he exclaimed things were going just peachy in light of the Mets' successes in 1969, 1973 and the two good months at the finish of '76.
Oh brother, I thought at the time. We are so screwed.
Seaver, of course, would have more dalliances with the changing times. His second go-round as a Met ceased abruptly with the bizarre experiment known as the compensation pool. Had the players and owners not negotiated such an insipid compromise to their free agent haggling in 1981, Seaver never would have been available for the White Sox to pluck after their pitcher, Dennis Lamp, signed with the Blue Jays in a spectacularly unrelated move.
Oh brother, I thought at the time. We are so screwed again.
Seaver's Major League coda, his truncated comeback with the Mets in '87, was also a product of the free agent waters turning choppy. He was on the open market the winter the teams were colluding. He said a couple of years ago he is convinced this kept anybody from giving him a legitimate looksee after his perfectly decent showing with the Red Sox in '86 when No. 41 was 41. His stay in Boston ended injured, but he insists he was healthy and good to go the following spring. By the time the Mets auditioned him in June, it was too late and his career was over.
Add 'em up and you have four separate instances — amateur eligibility violation, the first re-entry class, the compensation pool and collusion — in which off-field machinations very much tied to their times had a profound effect on where Tom Seaver played. He wouldn't have been a Met without the Brave mistake. He might have stayed a Met had Matthews not been a Brave. He might have finished a Met had it not been for Lamp and the White Sox (and Cashen's front office not protecting him). He might never have put on the Met uniform a final time had collusion not gotten in the way of him continuing his career unobstructed.
The one we're interested in at the moment is the Matthews component, and not just because this, Tom's 62nd birthday, is the 30th anniversary of it. This is the 31st free agent season, the 31st winter in which baseball teams have been allowed to pursue ballplayers in mostly unfettered terms and the 31st winter in which ballplayers have happily accepted their advances.
It's definitely not the 31st year in which the Mets have been an enthusiastic participant in these sweepstakes. After avoiding taking it seriously in '76-'77, they dipped a toe in the next winter. Two toes: Tom Hausman and Elliott Maddox. We were led to believe free agents could change our lives. Reggie Jackson did that for Yankees fans. Reasonable contributors for a few years apiece, Hausman and Maddox weren't lifechangers. The Mets didn't go after those. Oh, they took a brief run at Pete Rose in the winter of '78. But Rose laughed them out of the room when they came in about two- or three-hundred grand lower per annum than what he grabbed from the Phillies. Also, the Mets weren't any good and Pete Rose (no good in a different sense) recognized that.
The Mets' first honest-to-goodness bid for name free agents came in the winter of '80, chasing Dave Winfield and Don Sutton. By then, Wilpon and Doubleday were in charge and were desperate to be taken seriously. They missed out on both eventual Hall of Famers, settling for reMetsing Rusty Staub plus Mike Cubbage and the pitcher Dave Roberts. 'Twas nice to have Rusty home, but otherwise, not a lot of impact there.
Frank Cashen pretty much stopped after that. He was building a farm system and making shrewd swaps. His disdain for free agents was practically Grantlike. Once in a while, a Dick Tidrow or a Don Aase would wander in through the back door, but otherwise, free agentry was tantamount to the plague in Flushing for the balance of the 1980s. Given that it was the Mets' longest period of sustained excellence, it was hard to argue the Bowtie should have gone the other way.
The '90s represented a sea change. Cashen was leaving, Harazin was taking over and the Mets were trying to fend off mediocrity. It was time to bring out the checkbook. Coleman following 1990, Murray and Bonilla following '91. Bobby Bo was the prize, as hard as it is to believe today. The Mets outbid the Angels and the Phillies to get him. It was considered a good thing.
As you know, all three were disappointments (to put it kindly) and the Mets retreated from free agentry; their only significant additions between the 1992 and 1998 seasons via the FA route were Joe Orsulak, Brett Butler and Lance Johnson. It wasn't until Steve Phillips succeeded Joe McIlvaine that free agents were pursued with any sense of purpose, an approach that yielded Robin Ventura and Rickey Henderson for 1999, the first time any free agents played a major role in major Met success.
Phillips' later stabs — Zeile, Appier, Trachsel, Cedeño, Weathers — didn't click nearly as consistently. His last winter crop, specifically Tom Glavine and Cliff Floyd in '02-03, wouldn't pay off until much later. The Mets fell down a veritable well and the next GM, Jim Duquette, didn't find much of a rope in free agentry. He would sign Mike Cameron, Braden Looper and Kaz Matsui but lowball Vladimir Guerrero. Duquette used free agentry to plug holes rather than make splashes.
That all changed with Omar Minaya. Pedro Martinez and Carlos Beltran and Billy Wagner are Exhibits A, B and C. The results were happy. This winter, the Mets will try to sign somebody of substance. If they don't get it done, it won't be because they don't really want to or don't really know how to. This quote from a Bob Klapisch piece in the Record this week shows how differently free agentry is treated by the Mets — and how differently free agents treat the Mets — on Tom Seaver's hopefully happy 62nd birthday from the way it all went down (or failed to) on The Franchise's 32nd:
"We're hot. It's hot to be a Met, we've got a good thing going on here," said one club official. "A couple of years ago, we couldn't get Henry Blanco to come here, and that was even after we offered him more money than anyone else. He still said no. That's all changed."
As we like to say in these parts every November 17, that's Terrific.


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A Kootenai County, Idaho, cabin, 2002, opening to Hayden Lake with a handcrank. Photography by Benjamin Benschneider.
The Light catcher at the Whatcom Museum, 2009, in Bellingham, Washington. Photography by Benjamin Benschneider.
Rolling Huts, 2007, in Mazama, Washington. Photography by Tim Bies.
The living room of an Atherton, California, house, 1998. Photography by Bruce Van Inwegen.
The living room of a 2008 Denver house. Photography by Erhard Pfeiffer.
Sculptor Ed Carpenter's glass skylight in a Seattle house, 1992. Photography by Mike Jensen.
A pavilion-style house in Bellevue, Washington, 2011. Photography by Benjamin Benschneider.
Foss Waterway Seaport in Tacoma, Washington. Photography by Olson Kundig Architects.
The powder room in a Portland, Oregon, house, 2007. Photography by Tim Bies.
A 2005 cabin in Mazama, Washington. Photography by Tim Bies.
A 2008 house in Montecito, California. Photography by Tim Bies.
A subterranean photography studio, part of a residential project in Sitges, Spain, 2010. Photography by Petter Hegre.
A mushroom-growing tent, a 2012 project from[storefront] Olson Kundig Architects. Photography by Kevin Scott.
Steel door rollers and discs from the Tom Kundig Collection, 2012. Photography by Michael Burns.
Meerkats and Noah's Ark made from found objects. Photography by Grant Mudford.
Olson Kundig Architects's 2007 installation at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Photography by Grant Mudford.
Olson Kundig Architects principal Jim Olson. Photography by Kyle Johnson.
Olson Kundig Architects principal Tom Kundig. Photography by Kyle Johnson.
Lopez Island, Washington, house, 2010. Photography by Dwight Eschliman.


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When Kotaku chatted with NightSky producer Tyrone Rodriguez earlier today, he mentioned that all five developers know each other, and wanted to do a kind of "indie friend bundle." Aww!
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Products of all types — cars, incandescent bulbs, your iPad and iPhone — are designed with planned obsolescence in mind. The need or desire to replace products quickly and a shorter product life-cycle are a consistent drain on wealth. In the previous generation, the latest television sets were big household expenses, just like they are today, but they stayed operational and sufficient for a couple of decades.
Today, I don't know anyone whose main television is older than five years. And with new technology continually entering the market — high-definition, internet connectivity, LED backlighting, 120, 240 or 480 frame-per-second interpolation, applications, 3-D, wide color gamut, and 4K — salespeople always have a reason to convince consumers to upgrade. The older relatives of today's technology still work fine, but this is the core of planned obsolescence. Products are designed in a way that consumers don't want to keep the old.
The automobile industry is a great example. Every year, manufacturers release slightly updated versions of the same cars that have a slightly updated look and feel. The body is a little sleeker, a signature feature is more pronounced, and the dashboard technology is a little more advanced. What was perfectly modern last year is now stylistically out of date. There can be a social stigma to owning a product that isn't the latest iteration, and this encourages consumers to spend more money.
There's nothing wrong with boosting the automobile industry or lining Apple's pockets with cash. It helps the economy. But if you're doing so to the detriment of your own personal finances, take a minute to evaluate how you've been psychologically manipulated into spending your money. Although I had the same mobile phone from late 1999 when I purchased my first to about 2003, when my finances had improved, since then I've regularly upgraded every twenty-four to twenty-eight months.
I had and continue to have three reasons for upgrading:
- The new phones have features I want, making communicating or working easier for me, like the upgrades from a voice-only device to one that could sort-of browse the internet in a Gopher-like interface to one that could receive email and send text messages to one that can fully browse the web.
- After a few years, the phone batteries don't hold a charge as well and the software gets sluggish. If I'm going to buy a new battery, I think to myself in a situation where I can afford the purchase, I might as well just buy a new phone.
- Owning a newer device makes me feel immersed in the exciting world of current technology.
If you can afford constant materialism like what I continually exhibit, there's no reason for criticism. It's always true that if you save your money rather than succumbing to the latest upgrade cycle, and repeat this each time you are tempted to upgrade, your savings will build up. Invest your savings in a broad stock market index fund, and your wealth will most likely grow over the long-term at a rate that will allow you the freedom to do more with your life later on. Immediate gratification often takes precedence over long-term savings, and that's a person decision. It helps, however, to be aware of the choice and make the decision as consciously as possible, recognizing how manufacturers and retailers are working together to manipulate your brain.
You don't even need to sacrifice much in the way of technology to choose savings over buying the latest product. In the mobile phone industry, last year's models are often given away for free as long as you sign up for a two-year contract. I paid $150, an already discounted price, for one of the latest phones a few years ago; the next year, the price was down to $50 although there were more than enough methods of paying nothing for the device. When the desire to stay at the forefront of technology repeats itself, this behavior is costly.
When I needed a reliable way to get to work everyday — I couldn't use a broken-down car as an excuse for being late — I purchased a theoretically reliable Honda Civic new from the dealer. It was a 2004 model when the 2005 models had already arrived at the showroom, but that didn't provide me much of a discount. I've kept the car for so long mainly because for the most part it still runs like new and somewhat because I don't have a garage to keep a fancier car protected.
Much more than the biannual phone upgrade, upgrading cars every few years would be significantly damaging to my personal finances. Why take on unnecessary debt? Why spend $16,000, or $25,000 or $40,000, or however much for a replacement when the 2004 Civic is working fine at 140,000 miles? It's a part of conscious decision-making.
The goal isn't depriving consumers of enjoying the products they use, especially when the products are used everyday and have become, for better or worse, an integral part of life. This path isn't right for everyone, however. Replacing and upgrading products that aren't malfunctioning can be a habit that drives a consumer further away from financial independence, whether it's one phone at a time over the course of many years or one unnecessary large purchase that takes resources away from more important goals.
Another part of planned obsolescence is when the products you buy are designed to fail after a certain amount of time. Quicken, for example, is a piece of software wherein some features like online connectivity are disabled after several years. The company thus encourages its users to upgrade at least every few years. For more concrete products, manufacturers have moved towards cheaper materials in order to reduce production costs, but the result can be products that fall apart sooner.
The best solution, though not always complete, is making conscious spending decisions.
- Recognize that you are not fully in control of your actions. Manufacturers, retailers and marketers understand human psychology better than you (unless it is your job as well). You're being manipulated.
- Although you're being manipulated, you can adjust your behavior to compensate for the direction in which you're being subconsciously pushed.
- Consider whether the product you're interested in purchasing is a need or a want. It's fine to buy products that are nothing more than wants, but it's better to do so after you've given some thought to the alternatives.
- How many hours did you need to work to be able to afford this product, after taxes? If a new mobile phone, not including the two-year contract, costs you one hour of work, it may be a better choice than a phone that costs twenty hours of work.
- What percentage of your net worth are you spending to make this purchase? If your net worth is negative and you owe more in debt than you own, how far back will this put your debt-reduction progress?
- If your purchasing of the product were the lead story in the New York Times, what would the headline say? "Man buys sports car, delays retirement by 5 years?" "Woman upgrades to latest iPhone again, tells children to pay for their own college education?"
- Choose products that aren't designed to fail quickly.
This article originally appeared on www.ConsumerismCommentary.com.
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CINCINNATI -- Todd Frazier entered Wednesday without a hit in his last nine games (0-for-28), a stretch that included eight starts. After getting the day off Tuesday, Frazier returned to the lineup Wednesday against the A's, batting in the two-hole for the first time in his career, as manager Dusty Baker tries to jump-start his slumping third baseman.
"It can't hurt him," Baker said.
When Baker puts together a lineup, he takes into account a player's personality, his propensity to hit into double plays, whether he's right- or left-handed, and various other factors. As for Wednesday's order, Baker said it had a lot to do with the importance of the sixth spot behind Brandon Phillips, Joey Votto and Jay Bruce, where Frazier has been most of the season.
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Background: Classical Forward Genetics and Gene Mapping
Lab 2: Examining mutant worms for mapping
Lab 3: Linkage Test Part 1
Lab 4: Linkage Test Part 2, Mapping and Complementation
Lab 5: Mapping con't; complete complementation
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Lab 7: Complete Mapping: Score!
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Mapping: Pick Unc non-Dpy to separate plates;
|Mapping: Pick putative double mutants
Complementation: cross heterozygous males with known Dpy mutants
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Complementation: examine crosses for Dpy MALES
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| DNA Sequencing Analysis:Examine sequencing data to determine the lesion in your gene of interest & significance in gene product;
Mapping:Cross N2 males(++/++) with double mutant hermaphrodites (d u/ du)
|Bioinformatics: Use Wormbase and BLAST to learn more about the gene in other species;
Mapping:Cross herterozygous males (++/ d u) with L4 double mutant hermaphrodites (d u/ d u)
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Following a nice mention on the Environment blog of The Guardian a few days ago (thanks!), I was invited this morning to [wake up super early and] chat with Fred MacAulay, host of BBC Scotland's mid-day radio show. Apparently there has been a sudden interest in scaled-down home heating in the UK, a result of this photo published by The Telegraph showing the Queen receiving the Australian High Commissioner and his wife, while using a small space heater to warm up the room. It occurs to me that the Queen may really have been quite comfortable without any heat at all, and only got the electric heater out of the closet for the benefit of her antipodal, "it was a hell of a lot warmer at our house than here" guests. I know that's how it works at our house.
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Here in Germany, Easter Sunday is the time to hide Easter eggs and small presents in gardens, houses – just about anywhere. But where does the story of the Easter bunny come from? Is it just a German idea or is it an international phenomenon?
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The bad news: nobody knows for sure where the Easter bunny comes from exactly. It was first mentioned in 1682, in a book about Easter eggs by Georg Franck von Frankenau in which he criticized the excessive consumption of Easter eggs. The good news: we know that the Easter bunny was officially not the only character responsible for the eggs because he had competitors up until the 16th century. In Switzerland, it was the Easter cuckoo, in the State of Hesse the Easter fox, in Bohemia the Easter cock, and in Thuringia, it was the stork or the cock that brought the eggs. There are several theories to explain why we chose the bunny of all animals to celebrate Easter. First, the bunny is – just like the egg – a symbol of spring and fertility, and the rabbits give birth to large litters in early spring. A theory unsupported by scientific evidence is the link between the Easter bunny and the Germanic Spring Goddess, Ostara, whose symbols are the egg and the hare. There is also the funny, but rather implausible story of a baker whose Easter lambs somehow lost their shape in the oven and turned into Easter bunnies.
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Rabbits, go home! Australia goes for #easterbilby
Hares and rabbits are not native to Australia. But once introduced by settlers from third countries, the animals reproduced incredibly fast – in fact, they are still breeding like rabbits. Unfortunately, they are also fast stripping everything bare and have thus robbed the indigenous animal species of their basic needs. This has happened to the small bilby, a rabbit-sized marsupial that has been on the endangered list since the 1970s. So the Easter rabbit does not have a very good image down under! This is why some years ago, the Australians started replacing the Easter bunny with the long-eared Easter bilby. And they have been doing so with increasing success! Proceeds from Easter bilby chocolate sales have been spent on anti-rabbit campaigns and on projects that protect endangered wild life in Australia.
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Here is a selection of interesting Easter customs from all over the world – with and without eggs:
- • Bulgaria has the custom of egg tapping with colored eggs. In this egg fight, one person uses his own egg to knock the tip of the other person's egg. The lucky winner is the person whose egg shell does not break. The winner can look forward to an especially happy year.
- • USA: In the garden of the White House, Easter Monday is the time for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. This event not only features an egg roll downhill but plenty of other fun activities!
- • Along with colored eggs, water plays an important role in Poland: On Easter Monday, the Poles celebrate "Śmigus-Dyngus" with everyone drenching or sprinkling each other. This wet Monday is a good old-fashioned water fight and a reminder of the baptism of Prince Miezko I., who first brought Christianity to Poland.
- • In Finland, there is the tradition of hitting friends with birch branches – very lightly, of course. This is supposed to bring good luck. The birch branches represent the palm leaves that were used to greet Jesus in Jerusalem.
- • In Sweden, the houses are decorated with birch branches and colorful feathers. Also, on the Thursday before Easter, children go from house to house collecting sweets. And by the way, in Sweden, it is the Easter chicken that brings the eggs!
- • In Ireland, herring funerals are a special Easter custom. This is a symbolic act that sets the stage for the end of the fasting period. This tradition is gladly supported by the local butchers.
Do you know any other funny or interesting Easter customs? Please let us know!
Hard labor before Easter: blowing out #toomanyeggs
I personally don't like eating colored, hard-boiled eggs but have always loved hiding the chocolate ones in the garden (and treading on the undiscovered eggs a couple of days later!). But I was never keen on blowing out all the eggs for kindergarten decorating activities. Just thinking about it makes my mouth hurt! Maybe I should have got one of those Easter egg blowers? Have you tried one of these? If they really work, it would be revolutionary!!


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Project Homeless Connect of Stark County, which returned to the Canton Memorial Civic Center this year, helped about 430 people Tuesday. The project aims to meet the immediate needs of people who are homeless or near homeless by gathering community services in a single location for an annual event.
Apryl Sherf's name has been spelled with a "y" for as long as she can remember.
It's on her tax returns, Social Security card and other forms of identification. But her wallet went missing shortly before her move from Washington state to Ohio, and an incorrect birth certificate for "April" has hindered her ability to get an ID.
"I've been trying since the middle of March to get a state-issued ID," she said.
On Tuesday, Sherf sat for a flu shot after receiving free advice about how to apply for a name change at Project Homeless Connect of Stark County. The annual event, which returned to the Memorial Civic Center this year, aims to meet the immediate needs of people who are homeless or near homeless.
Doors opened at 10 a.m., but a line formed as early as 7:30 a.m., said Sherri McKinney-Frantz, committee chairwoman of Project Homeless Connect and director of operations at the Crisis Intervention & Recovery Center.
"This really is like a wedding reception with no RSVPs," she said.
Approximately 430 people milled about 50 agency tables, some heaped with clothes and goody bags. Others stopped by veteran services booths or the National Beauty College corner for a haircut.
The event ended at 3 p.m. and served more than 60 children under the age of 17, many not yet school age, McKinney-Frantz said. Attendance increased from last year, when about 200 people visited the Edward L. Coleman Southeast Community Center. About 300 more went to the Civic Center the year before, and the return boosted numbers.
Project Homeless Connect is comprised of a committee of people from various community service agencies, which raised $6,500 to host the event.
"Really, our goal is to connect people," McKinney-Frantz said.
About 40 Walsh University students joined a total of about 100 volunteers who helped direct people to the appropriate services.
Sherf was joined by her aunt, Verenetta Harmon. The Canton resident said she had open-heart surgery a few years ago and had questions about insurance and prescription medication assistance.
"I was given answers, people to call and get in contact with," she said.
Lauren McMenimen, who recently moved to Canton from Missouri and was staying on a friend's couch, also found the one-stop center helpful. She was able to get information about the bus schedules, housing and jobs.
All three said having the agencies in one location and people to talk to made everything easier.
"It's actually given me good information, helping me out" McMenimen said.
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This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect."
Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur's life when he was born the runt of his litter.
E. B. White's Newbery Honor Book is a tender novel of friendship, love, life, and death that will continue to be enjoyed by generations to come. It contains illustrations by Garth Williams, the acclaimed illustrator of E.B. White's Stuart Little and Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, among many other books.
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Beloved by generations, Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little are two of the most cherished stories of all time. Now, for the first time ever, these treasured classics are available in lavish new collectors' editions. In addition to a larger trim size, the original black-and-white art by Garth Williams has been lovingly colorized by renowned illustrator Rosemary Wells, adding another dimension to these two perfect books for young and old alike.
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Russell unlikely to open year in Majors
PHOENIX -- A's manager Bob Melvin is "as close as I can get" to ruling out top prospect Addison Russell as a player who could break camp with the big league club.
Oakland's future plans are very much dependent on its 2012 first-round Draft pick, but Russell, rated the No. 12 overall prospect by MLB.com, will not be rushed to join a crowded 2014 roster, no matter how well the shortstop performs in his second big league camp.
The A's have a proven shortstop signed through year's end in Jed Lowrie, and they also brought in the versatile Nick Punto this winter. Eric Sogard can play the position, too.
That is why Melvin is not even considering Russell as a candidate for his Opening Day roster at the moment.
"You never say never, if you have a rash of injuries," he said, "but we don't want to rush someone like that, even if he had an eye-opening spring. I think he needs to go through the process, and we are deep at the position with Punto here now, and we have several guys who can play at the position."
Russell turned 20 just last month, and it makes sense that the A's would like to maximize the number of years he remains under their control. They would get an extra year of that just by delaying his arrival this year, but even that is not guaranteed.
Russell spent most of last year with high Class A Advanced Stockton, batting .275/.377/.508 with 17 home runs and 60 RBIs in 107 games for the Ports, before landing on Triple-A Sacramento's roster for three games at season's end.
He went 4-for-16 in six games in camp last year, not many months removed from his high school playing days, and he is expected to get an even longer look this time around.
"Last year it was designed to kind of get his feet wet and ease him in," Melvin said. "This year he's going to play some innings and get at-bats.
"We want him to just play. He's got the entire game, offensively, defensively, running. Just get the experience and just let him play. We're not going to try to throw too much at him. It's difficult enough when you're 20 years old, at big league camp, and then all of a sudden you get a little too much instruction. With him, we're just gonna let him play."


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Police searching for a missing teenager have found a body.
Nida Naseer, 19, disappeared nearly three months ago after going to put the bins out at her home near Newport in South Wales.
Gwent Police confirmed they were called to the Newport Wetlands site, in West Nash Road, today.
A force spokeswoman said: "We were called to the Gwent Wetlands site on West Nash Road at 10am this morning where a body was discovered. It has yet to be identified.
"The death is being treated as unexplained and a post-mortem examination is due to take place.
"Nida's family has been informed that a body has been discovered and we continue to give them support."
The teenager was last seen at her home in Linton Street, Pill, Newport, at 8pm on December 28.
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Her older sister, Shamyla, 23, told a press conference earlier this year that she believed Nida's disappearance was due to her being upset about being unable to attend university.
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Sauber's chief designer Matt Morris is leaving the Swiss team, according to international media reports.
The German-language Speed Week, Blick and Auto Motor und Sport report that Briton Morris, 39, will be replaced by a deputy at the Hinwil based team, Eric Gandelin, a Frenchman who has been head of concept design.
Speed Week reports that Morris tendered his resignation, apparently after receiving an offer from another team.
Gandelin will reportedly start work on 1 July, becoming the third Sauber designer in as many years, in the wake of Morris and James Key before him.
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Meanwhile, Sauber team boss Monisha Kaltenborn revealed she "expects" the team to stay with Ferrari power in 2014 as F1 moves from V8 to turbo V6 engines.


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I've been getting interested in the (Bott--)Borel--Weil theorem lately. As a (mainly) geometer it is very interesting to see representation appearing (from nowhere as far as I can see) in the theory of complex geometry.
What I can't seem to find out, though, is if this fact has been used to prove any interesting results in representation theory, ie, does the geometric realization of the representation allow us to prove anything we didn't know already?


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