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LPL Financial, the largest independent broker-dealer and subsidiary of LPL Investment Holdings (LPLA), has named Sallie Larsen managing director and chief human capital officer.
Larsen (left), who joined LPL earlier this month, will be based in the firm's San Diego office, will report to chairman and CEO Mark Casady and will become a member of LPL Financial's executive management committee. In an announcement, the company said that she will be responsible for "overall human capital and talent acquisition strategies" as well as issues relating to real estate, facilities and corporate communications.
Prior to joining LPL, Larsen was for three years chief human resources officer for the Federal Home Loan Bank Office of Finance; she previously worked in senior HR roles for Capital One Financial and Marriott International.
In an interview Thursday, Larsen said that while her position was not new at the firm, it did entail added responsibilities, "not just human resources, but also corporate real estate and facilities, corporate communications and community outreach." Rather than reinventing the HR wheel, she said her role was to "be a good steward" of LPL's existing corporate culture. "LPL has had a great history of successfully developing leaders," she said, and has identified what she called "success factors" among those leaders that the company could use to find "the right people in the right place at the right time" to maintain and improve its "corporate ecosystem." She said those "success factors," which identify and reward "innovation and forward thinking," are how all of LPL's human resources efforts are tied together.
While that approach strengthens LPL's employee force, it also has benefits for the nearly 13,000 independent contractor representatives and the institutions that work with and through those employees, Larsen argued. "Our ecosystem is focused on the talented employees" who through their "high engagement" levels provides superior service to LPL reps and institutions. "The role of human capital is to find the best talent" internally to help advisors themselves find, recruit and motivate the best talent for their own practices. "We recruit the employees to help advisors find" similarly talented people for their own firms, she said. "We recruit the recruiters and provide consulting services that support the advisors" in their own HR efforts.
In the announcement of her appointment and in the interview, Larsen also focused on LPL's commitment to its employees who are "engaged in their communities," pointing out that the company has encouraged employees to spend time volunteering in their communities while still being paid by LPL.
One foundation of LPL's culture, she said, "is the belief is that employees want to be engaged in their communities," and she noted that advisors are similarly engaged. For employees, that can mean participating in the LPL Financial Charitable Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charity which, the company noted in its announcement, "engages employees to improve the lives of our neighbors and invests in our local communities to promote economic empowerment through education, career skills development and financial literacy programs." LPL Financial has also long supported Invest in Others, a separate charitable organization that encourages advisors to give back to their local communities.


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For two decades Al Meiklejohn was Mr. Republican in Arvada. His state Senate seat was safe, and Republicans themselves were safe picks for voters looking to speed up business and slow down social change. Meiklejohn is one of those Republicans who ally themselves with chambers of commerce. They used to be called conservatives.
But no Republican is safe anymore, now that the armies of the right have established a beachhead in metro Denver, with a big local church lighting their way. The religious right, through the kind of hard work that even its opponents respect, has seized control of the GOP not only in Colorado Springs, where a top executive of the Focus on the Family religious-broadcasting empire is vice-chair of the county GOP, but also in Jefferson County, the most populous county in the state. Old-line Republicans now derisively refer to their growing city of 100,000 in the northern part of Jeffco as "Arvada Springs." Meiklejohn, who retired from the legislature in 1996--just in time--doesn't even recognize the names of his party's committeemen and committeewomen in his own district.
Waves of evangelical Christians, many of them members of big, non-denominational churches, now do the dirty work of local political organizing. And they've done it well. They control all three legislative seats from Arvada. And Meiklejohn predicts a "sea change" in favor of the religious right in the next legislature, when term limits will drive out a third of the current lawmakers.
"This is a golden opportunity to take over the government," he says. "These people have a view that churches ought to run the government. My view is that churches should flourish and prosper while the government remains neutral. But these people want to impose their views on us by governmental force."
That used to be the warning Republicans issued regarding the left. But now the threat comes from within the party.
"They're held together by some very emotional issues: abortion and state aid to private schools," Meiklejohn says. "Moderate Republicans are, by definition, moderate. They aren't driven emotionally. They are not activists. These citizens who are part of the religious right want to change the world."
Diane Dillingham, president-elect of Colorado Republicans for Choice, writes off Jeffco as already being in the camp of the religious right. Arapahoe County is on the verge, she says. And the Democrats have prospered as a result, she notes: State senators Mike Feeley, Stan Matsunaka and Ed Perlmutter all got their seats by beating religious-right candidates in districts that could have easily gone Republican.
"A lot of moderate Republicans are biding their time," Dillingham says, "waiting to pick up the pieces" after religious-right lawmakers embarrass themselves out of office. And in the meantime, she adds, the party "is right-winging itself into irrelevance."
Pat Miller has a message for moderates such as Dillingham and Meiklejohn: "Quit your whining."
Miller is the political boss of the new GOP in Arvada (her husband is her lieutenant). Like first-term lawmaker Barry Arrington, Miller attends Faith Bible Chapel, the most prominent of the evangelical churches in that area. Less visible is George Morrison, the head pastor at FBC. But he's no less powerful, though he keeps out of overt politicking. The three--Miller, Arrington and Morrison--share strong beliefs about abortion, the issue that is tearing the GOP apart, and they're working hard to fight it. Each feels driven by faith to push a social agenda. It's a supernatural force that, for now, old-line Republicans are powerless to fight.
There's no doubt that 35-year-old Barry Arrington is combative. Coming from what he describes as modest circumstances, he worked his way through law school at the University of Texas, acquired a black belt in the martial arts and developed a reputation for throwing his views right in your face. In the early Nineties he splashed his name on billboards advertising his services to women "injured" by abortion. He helped found the Rocky Mountain Family Council, a political arm of Focus on the Family. While crusading against pornography in the unsuccessful campaign for pro-censorship Amendment 16 in 1994, he denied being a censor but sounded like this century's version of Anthony Comstock: "A woman having oral sex with a dog and persons inserting small rodents into the rectum--don't tell me that's in the same category as Catcher in the Rye." Well-spoken and full of righteous indignation about the state of the world, he utters opinions with the confidence of someone who just knows the truth.
Arrington's zeal strikes his critics as smug self-righteousness, but it's intoxicating to many other evangelical Christians.
Sometimes the pot he stirs bubbles over and he gets burned. One such incident during a bruising 1994 Senate campaign against Perlmutter, he says, is "etched upon" his mind. Arrington's frenzied supporters approached Perlmutter and his family and called him "Perl-murderer" for supporting abortion. Arrington got the blame for the uncouth maneuver, which was widely publicized. His first bid for public office was, in effect, finished.
"I was literally sickened," he recalls. "I knew in my heart of hearts that my campaign was over. You know, that wobbly feeling."
But Arrington's political career wasn't over. All that hard work by Pat Miller's troops in the GOP trenches to capture party posts paid off for him in 1996. Dave Farley, the Republican candidate for House District 27, had to drop out because of a job conflict, and the district's five-person vacancy committee had to pick a replacement. Arrington himself was on the committee, but he resigned to lobby for the candidacy himself. Not that he had to work too hard to get the nod: The chairman of the vacancy committee was Pat Miller's husband, Lynn.
Democrat Sue Windels says she wasn't surprised when Arrington got the nod from the GOP vacancy committee to run against her. "You can't get appointed to anything out here if you're not in the FBC camp," she says. "[The church] is a huge force. They are so organized, and with the new Amendment 15, in which individuals can form PACs, it'll be PACs by pew. If churches are going to be involved in politics, they'd better pay their share of taxes."
Arrington, spared a primary race that probably would have exposed his rigid views on abortion and other social issues, ran a shrewd campaign in the general election--he kept his mouth shut--and squeaked out a win over Windels.
"He was quiet as a church mouse," says Windels. "He didn't come to candidate forums. He learned from the Perlmutter campaign. He just sent out a flier against negative campaigning."
It didn't hurt Arrington that registered Republicans held a 14 percent edge over Democrats in that district. What did hurt was a postcard campaign aimed at Republican voters by Republican moderates Mike Palmer and Steve Burton. With behind-the-scenes financing from Democratic state senator Mike Feeley's campaign, the two sent cards to 9,000 GOP voters, urging them to support the Democratic opponents of three Republicans--Arrington, Representative Mark Paschall of District 29, and Jim Congrove, who was running for Meiklejohn's seat in District 19. The anonymous mailing blasted Congrove for voting "against the interests of Arvada," particularly by withdrawing his support during the 1996 session for funding an Arvada branch of Red Rocks Community College; the card pointed out that Congrove's campaign manager sought the location of the proposed Arvada branch for a charter school instead. Paschall, the guerilla attack by the GOP moderates continued, "has consistently embarrassed himself and the community with his comments"--referring in part to an anti-abortion prayer Paschall had offered on the House floor. But Palmer and Burton saved their harshest words for Arrington, who they said "bullied and physically threatened those who disagreed with him and who causes controversy whenever he speaks."
The thin-skinned Arrington, after winning the election, slapped Palmer and Burton with a lawsuit, asking for a public apology and $10,000 because they'd called him a bully. The suit, which has been inching toward a settlement, had an immediate chilling effect on Arrington's foes.
Palmer, for example, now cautiously refers to the religious-right faction of the GOP as a "very, very well-organized group that works very, very hard," and adds, "It's truly a grassroots effort. They're to be commended on what they have accomplished. Whether or not one agrees with their philosophy is debatable."
Palmer, himself a former candidate whose future with the GOP looks dim now that he has openly supported Democrats, is circumspect even about the notoriously rowdy GOP meetings at which the Miller camp often outshouted its opponents in the past few years. "I wouldn't deem some of the precinct meetings as being polite," he says.
Arrington hasn't made his reputation by being polite. In January he introduced a bill that would ban so-called partial-birth abortions and had it steered to the State Affairs Committee, on which the House's few religious-right lawmakers are clustered. He and Paschall, deciding to turn up the heat on their enemy, abortion doctor Warren Hern of Boulder, made Hern swear "under the living God" that he would tell the truth before he testified against the bill. Those who testify at the legislature are rarely made to utter such an oath; Arrington explains it by saying, "Warren Hern is a liar--that's the reason Mark put him under oath."
Arrington's bill brought out of the woodwork perpetual abortion protester Ken Scott, who has tracked and harassed Hern. But Arrington refuses to take the rap for Scott, who freaked out lawmakers when he got access to their Capitol mailboxes and left them graphic anti-abortion literature.
"I did not know Ken Scott before this," insists Arrington. "I thought he was a nut, and I think he's a menace. He claims to be animated, like me, by his Christian beliefs. That makes me sick."
Although he says he's not fond of Scott, Arrington believes he's called by his beliefs to love even an abortionist.
"I have a deep, deep sense of grief for Warren Hern," he says. "I don't hate him by any means. I feel so sorry for him."
Of course, critics say it's typically sanctimonious of Arrington to say such a thing about a man he detests. Oh, ye of little faith.
"Listen, I'm called to love Warren Hern," says Arrington. "And let me tell you, I don't have warm, fuzzy feelings for him. I think his acts are despicable. But Jesus said love your enemy."
At the same time, Jesus tells Arrington to hate the "sins" of abortion, pornography, homosexuality, divorce and adultery. "My faith informs and animates some of the things I do and say," he says. "What good is a faith that doesn't do that? People think Christianity is something you do a couple of hours on Sunday morning. Christianity is a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week, 365-days-a-year thing you do."
He insists, though, that it's unrealistic to think that everyone else will come to think his way. "You cannot make someone believe," he says. "Social reform in this country is a bottom-up process, and my role right now is to try my best to stem the flood. But unless there's a spiritual awakening in this country of a wide proportion, what I'm doing won't matter."
Something has to be done about the liberal leanings that are destroying the country, Arrington says. But he also warns against veering too far to the right. "Liberalism leads to licentiousness, down to decadence, to lawlessness," he says. "But morality carried to the extreme is oppression. Both lead to totalitarianism. There has to be a balance. Most people don't think we're in balance right now. Somewhere we lost our way."
Finding that way is why these religious-right politicians value education so much. Only it's not the public-school system they want to help. They work within the system to siphon public money into their own schools. Arrington is a co-founder of Jefferson Academy, a "back-to-basics" charter school that's a glowing success, according to recent publicity and state education statistics. His co-founder was Denise Mund, who gathered money from Denver socialites such as developer Bill Pauls in a vain attempt to pass anti-porn Amendment 16 in 1994. Mund, who attends Faith Bible Chapel, was also Jim Congrove's campaign manager.
Arrington is surrounded by signs of the next generation he's helping to save. He not only has his own school rolling, he also attends church services at FBC's Carr Street Campus, a former athletic club on I-70 that now houses the church's high school, Faith Christian Academy. Perhaps Arrington wants children to avoid his own path: He describes himself as a "terrible hedonist" as a college student and says the "institution of marriage" set him straight. Like many evangelical Christians, he has a grim view of his own basic nature and credits Jesus with turning him in the right direction.
"I'm a filthy center," he says, "saved by an amazing grace."
Not as "filthy," however, as his pastor (and campaign contributor), George Morrison.
Born in 1947 in eastern Pennsylvania coal country as the oldest of six children, George Morrison grew up in comfort. His grandfather owned a box factory in Pottsville, and life should have been pleasant. But as his 1993 "personal testimony" (on an audio tape for sale outside the FBC sanctuary) reveals, he was a rotten kid. He swears that the vivid story, which veers toward cliche, is the unembellished truth.
Typically, in such a tale told by an evangelical preacher, someone else is ultimately responsible for all the bad behavior and a different someone steps in to reform the hapless human. Morrison's saga is no different, spiced with the reminder that "the Devil comes to kill, steal and destroy, literally, our lives."
According to Morrison's story, he drank and fought, and so did his brother Robert, who was a year younger. "We were very, very, very close," says Morrison. George got kicked out of parochial school and wound up in similar trouble at public school. Robert, he says, was even worse, drinking so much that he developed a bleeding ulcer at age fifteen.
"One particular night," Morrison revealed in his testimony, "we came home from a dance where he had unmercifully beat up the bouncer at the dance, in such a way that it bothered me. And I was drunk, and we were both in the kitchen, and I was giving him a hard time about the way he acted that night, and the next thing I know I got hit with a mayonnaise jar. I got six stitches. He threw a knife and stuck it in my leg, and I slid down the wall."
Robert wound up as a drug-using flower child in New York City, and George landed in trade school. Before he could get drafted to serve in Vietnam, George enlisted in the Marines. Robert, meanwhile, moved to Haight-Ashbury and then to Mendocino, where he lived in a tree house.
Just before George was to ship out to Southeast Asia, scraggly Robert visited for a short reunion. "He got hold of some LSD that night," recalled George, "and both of us took LSD, and we ended up howling at the moon for four hours until this lady screamed at us to get out of her yard."
While people his age were streaming to Woodstock and getting heavily into drugs, George was a helicopter door gunner in the jungle, getting heavily into drugs. When he returned to California, he still had eighteen months left with the Marines, so he moved to a place off-base with four ex-Marines and became a drug dealer, selling pot and cocaine. He was eventually joined by another brother, David, long-haired and strung out on drugs.
Robert had moved to a commune in Taos, "living in an adobe underground with sheep and goats." Then one day George got a letter in which Robert said he had "found Jesus Christ."
"I thought this was just another experience for him," Morrison recalled. "The tree, underground, now Jesus."
It turned out Robert had gone to Boulder, where he was converted by a former druggie friend. "I said fine, I feel good for him," Morrison recalled. "I went back to my old lifestyle, and I lived in total paranoia. I was strung out all the time, always afraid that we were going to be busted, never could drive anywhere with any peace."
Then Robert invited George to his wedding in Denver. George sought to combine business with pleasure, cooking up a drug deal with his brother David. "I went down to Mexico, bought suitcases full of marijuana," he said. "We wrapped it up in newspaper and poured wax over it so the dogs wouldn't sniff it and I put my Marine Corps uniform on and I'm headed for Pennsylvania and I'm going to sell it for three times the price." David, meanwhile, would drive George's VW to Denver. After the wedding they'd split the proceeds, return to California and, when George's hitch was finally up, move to Canada.
"Everything went as smooth as possible," said George, "and I flew to Denver. My brother David picks me up at Stapleton Airport, but this guy is completely changed." David, it seems, had been saved by Jesus.
Guess who was next.
It happened at the wedding, which took place in downtown Denver at a little church at Ninth Avenue and Acoma called Faith Bible Chapel. Pastor Bob Hooley took George on a tour of the building, but it didn't take--at least not right away. "I said, 'Listen, this is fine for all you guys, but I don't want anything to do with this church stuff,'" Morrison recalled saying.
The miracle of 1971 happened during the ceremony itself. "I looked up," recalled Morrison, "and I saw this cloud come out of the ceiling, and this cloud began to descend down in front of my eyes and it came down and sat on my brother and his wife and the pastor. And when I saw this cloud, I just began to cry uncontrollably. I didn't know what was happening, whether I was flashing back or tripping out." Church members told him it was the "presence of God," but George thought "they were all crazy."
But as he drove back to California, the transformation was already under way. "I had terrible language, I smoked, I did drugs, I had cocaine in the car," he recalled, "and yet I go to open my mouth, and as I go to speak a cuss word, this voice would tell me, 'You're not going to talk like that anymore.' Weird things were happening inside me. I pulled this cocaine out, and this voice would say, 'I don't want you to do drugs anymore.' I gave the cocaine to this hitchhiker. He was the happiest hitchhiker you've ever seen."
Back in Southern California, George went to a "hippie Jesus rally" led by Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel, a legendary preacher from that era.
"This voice that I told you about? It told me to go on a thirty-day fast, and all I did was read the Bible for seven hours a day," Morrison later told his congregation. "God was taking all that junk out of my mind and replacing it with the word of God."
Morrison was still living with his drug-dealing buddies, but he spent his days selling Christ on the beaches and streets. Then one day, while he was sitting in the house reading the Bible, he answered a knock at the door, and drug agents stormed in.
"I went back to that chair in the living room and I picked up my Bible and I just kept reading my Bible," he recalled. "But going on around me were these narcotic agents, and they had everybody against the wall. I don't know whether it was thirty seconds or thirty minutes or thirty hours--I really don't know--but the next thing I heard was the door just shut, and it was complete silence. And God said, 'I blinded their eyes from seeing you. Now I want you out of here.'"
God also told him to return to Denver, where he hooked up with the little FBC and met his wife, Cheryl. "I started working in the church, working with young people, witnessing on the street and started a construction company," he said. "Never touched a hammer before in my life, but God blessed it for some reason and prospered us."
His company built FBC's main church near 64th Avenue and Ward Road in Arvada in the late Seventies, and Morrison started working as a pastor under Hooley. Then, in October 1984, Hooley resigned and Morrison took his place.
Untrained by any seminary, Morrison is a sunny fellow who preaches an unadorned, upbeat message of believing in Jesus; he urges his flock to tell others to do the same. FBC services are full of amplified music and middle-of-the-road Christian songs. But Morrison's casual style and informal cheeriness mask a burning ambition to grow, grow, grow. Crowds overflow at FBC's main church--Morrison attracts more than 4,000 on a typical Sunday. During the dozen years he's been in charge, FBC also has sprouted half a dozen churches and a TV station (KRMT/ Channel 41), a school system stretching from daycare through Faith Christian Academy high school, a Bible institute and dreams of many more branches and a college. Younger brother Robert, the former hippie Bluejay Morningstar, is pastor of an FBC spinoff.
Morrison is a born networker; he's scheduled to preach on a cruise this summer with former football coach and current PromiseKeeper Bill McCartney. Unlike some preachers, he seeks to unite all evangelicals. He touts other churches, including the mammoth Heritage Christian Center in the southeast metro area and the upscale Cherry Hills Community Church in Highlands Ranch.
He even networks with Jews. Morrison denounces anti-Semitism and makes a point of acknowledging its roots in Christianity. FBC is fanatically supportive of Israel, professes a love of Jews and even includes some Hebrew words in its services. Every summer the church has an Israel Awareness Day, with speakers who have included orthodox rabbi Stanley Wagner and Israeli embassy officials. FBC sends its "international" singers to Israel along with tour groups and contributes to Israeli food banks.
FBC has openly assured Jewish leaders that its purpose is not to proselytize, but its actions belie that claim. In the ultimate of stealth tactics, FBC members have been known to convert Jews and hide them from their families while the process takes place, all the while whispering "praise the Lord" among themselves for such a "miracle." Told of one such incident, Morrison doesn't deny that it happened.
Sitting in his office, which features a painting of two orthodox Jews and expansive bookshelves lined with religious texts and such oddities as The Unseen Hand, a grand political-conspiracy book by crackpot Ralph Epperson, Morrison explains his church's fascination with Jews as "biblical," based on respect for the people who "preserved our scriptures" and a belief that Israel must be a nation before Jesus comes back to Earth and saves his believers. "We need to understand Judaism to do our own walk," says Morrison.
Obviously, though, as an evangelical Christian committed to getting people to believe his way, he wouldn't mind converting Jews to Christianity. "Some Jews are uncomfortable and think we have a hidden agenda," he says. "But we've been doing Israel Awareness Day for more than twenty years. And on that day, I ban proselytizing. I don't want any hidden agenda that day. Yes, we would like the Jewish people to accept Jesus Christ, but our purpose is to support, comfort and encourage Jews and Israel. I think Jews have the right to think we have a hidden agenda, based on history. But we're not just stepping in and stepping out of this for that purpose. For 22 years we've been doing this--that's our answer."
Morrison is used to fending off questions about hidden agendas. Arvada's old-line Republicans accuse FBC of being a potent political power. "People see the numbers and the bigness," Morrison says. "I think there's a fear with that: 'That big church over there is trying to take over.' Take over what? We're not an organized political force trying to use our numbers to do anything. Absolutely not.
"Speaking as a church, we don't take a stand. By law we don't. Our main purpose is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. I'll preach what the Bible teaches about abortion, but that's it."
Morrison himself has done some GOP grunt work, though Pat Miller says he hasn't been a precinct committeeman for about six years. (Morrison says he can't recall ever being a committeeman.) But regardless of his personal political activity, his preaching reinforces the belief systems of his flock--beliefs that spill over into political action.
"My own personal conviction is that I believe abortion is wrong," says Morrison. "And we need laws about it. And that's the way I'm going to believe. But as far as a designed strategy by Faith Bible Chapel as a corporate entity, no, we don't initiate anything."
Morrison insists that all of FBC's work revolves around people, not politics. "If people have a certain view, they're going to congregate," he says. "If people have a strong position on moral issues and they're conservative or biblical, well, why shouldn't it work that way? It ought to work that way. That's democracy. I don't think it's a conspiracy. The NRA is tied into their people, too."
The political power that emanates from evangelical Christians is a natural consequence of hard political work, he insists, not some cunning strategy of his church. "If anything," Morrison says, "it's a grassroots thing. Pat Miller's a member of our church, and I remember that the last time I went to a Miller campaign function, half the people there were not even from our church."
That means half of them were.
For a two-time loser (to Congressman David Skaggs), Pat Miller is unusually chirpy as she takes a breather at what passes for the Tammany Hall of evangelical Christians: the offices of Citizens for Responsible Government, an anti-abortion lobby that Miller has recently taken over. Behind her, a laser printer churns out copies of a fundraising letter that, true to form, excoriates moderate Republicans. Miller has brought to her new job a mailing list culled from two congressional campaigns and the ability to summon the soldiers for intra-party skirmishes.
Like Morrison, Miller is self-taught. Like Arrington, she gets right in your face. Years ago she ran a beauty shop in Illinois. After moving to Colorado with her husband, Lynn, who worked at Coors, she got a job at a supermarket and later stayed at home with their son. Miller's entry into politics came about a decade ago, when she got upset at one of their son's reading assignments. Although she herself believes in supernatural powers, she was steamed about supernatural tales involving vampires and the like, and she complained to school officials. Some people called her a book-burner; she describes herself as a concerned parent. Eventually she took matters into her own hands, home-schooling the boy for several years.
Her activist appetite whetted, Miller started learning how things were done politically. She wound up serving a term in the Colorado House of Representatives where, drawing on her networking skills, she formed an "advisory committee" of constituents that gave a political baptism to, among others, future legislator Mark Paschall. But Miller lost her bid for re-election.
Then, in 1994, she challenged incumbent Democrat Skaggs. How she got in a position to do so was a textbook case of local political action: Miller's supporters worked hard at a party caucus to vote for as many moderate candidates as they could, while Miller herself got on the primary ballot by petition. In the primary, the three moderates split the pro-abortion Republicans, and Miller won the race with less than 40 percent of the vote.
In the general election, the differences between the two candidates couldn't have been more stark: a liberal, Ivy League lawyer obsessed with "civility" and entrenched in government (so much so that he bounced checks with the House banking account) versus a self-educated, arch-conservative woman who courted anti-government patriots and gun lovers and whose reading material veered toward right-wing nut cases. Their biggest difference, though, was over abortion: Miller was "pro-life" and Skaggs "pro-choice." Thanks to liberal Boulder County, which dominates the Second Congressional District, Skaggs whipped her handily. But Miller had made a breakthrough: She and her Christian soldiers had taken the GOP in northern Jeffco from the splintered moderates.
Miller got the GOP nod to challenge Skaggs again in 1996. This time she toned down her links to the so-called patriots, but Skaggs hammered at her abortion stance and beat her, though by a slimmer margin. "Wayne Allard and Dole both lost in the Second District," she notes, "so that made me feel a little bit better."
And as far as internal GOP politics were concerned, Miller again came out a winner. Her organization had become more entrenched in the party and she had learned to raise money. Her campaigns for Congress taught Miller how important the little things are. "We've been working hard up here in northern Jefferson County, and it is hard work," she says. "You go door to door, you do the mailings, you talk to people and you keep them informed and you keep them active and you tell them what's at stake, and they're willing to take part in that."
Getting Arrington on the ballot in House District 27 was evidence that the work she and her followers had done was worthwhile. The moderates squealed because Arrington himself was on the vacancy panel, but Miller dismisses that as sour grapes.
"Why didn't the moderates come out and become precinct committeemen and carry all the work and become the district captains and then go to the central committee meeting and vote for the vacancy committee?" she says. "Where were the moderates? They could have done all that. We worked very, very hard. It's the first time I can say it paid off."
Miller's critics, however, credit FBC, rather than Miller's party workers, as the real source of her influence. As Al Meiklejohn says, "I don't get my supporters together every Sunday." Miller loves her church ("It's so alive!" she says) but insists it did not put her in power. Certainly FBC did not do so officially, because churches can't openly support candidates without risking their tax-exempt status. And Miller says FBC is particularly skittish when it comes to her--for that very reason.
"They're scared because of appearances," she says. "It would be, 'Oh, they're really promoting Pat Miller, and that's where she's getting her base of support.'" She notes that FBC had other candidates--including Joe Rogers, the First Congressional District GOP nominee--appear on its TV station, but that she was never asked to be on.
"There's this perception that Faith Bible Chapel is so involved in politics, and I've said over and over again that they are not," she says. "They're not promoting it; they downplay it every chance they get. They're scared to death of their IRS standing.
"And besides, I have people come in from all kinds of churches. And I was in a lot of churches. This last election, I went out and talked in a lot of churches. It's legal. A pastor can actually say, 'I can't endorse Pat Miller, but I am going to vote for her' from the pulpit."
She laughs, then adds: "None of them will ever do that, but legally they can. I did a lot of churches because that's my base of support. It really is. I'm their kind of person. And they respect what I stand for, that I haven't slouched away and I certainly haven't yet caused embarrassment to the name of Christ. That's my greatest fear, that I would cause shame to the name of Christ. I will give everything up before I would allow that to happen. But as far as the church as an organization, I didn't see them in my race."
And she's irate that the press, which she heartily distrusts, reports endlessly on the religious right but doesn't seem to care when the Reverend Jesse Jackson speaks on political issues at downtown Denver churches or when liberal preachers get involved in politics. She can't understand why the press writes about the religious right's influence in the GOP when at the same time the Democratic Party, she contends, is dominated by Planned Parenthood and teachers' unions.
The attention to the religious right isn't deserved, she says, because her army hasn't really accomplished anything yet. Most bills introduced by Arrington, Congrove and Paschall have gone nowhere this session, particularly their controversial measures to censor pornography, stop abortions and change Colorado's no-fault divorce law.
They have managed to make their presence known, however. When Representative Ron Tupa, a Boulder Democrat, wanted to name a pair of college scholarships after former lawmakers Meiklejohn and Wayne Knox, Arrington and Colorado Springs conservative Doug Dean successfully killed the proposal. Asked if Meiklejohn's attitude toward religious conservatives had anything to do with it, Arrington told reporters, "I won't ever lie to you, and so I just won't comment."
Like Arrington, Miller has a low flash point, and she can't help but be annoyed at the GOP moderates, the press and anyone else she perceives as a critic.
"There are 65 people in the House, and three of them--three of them--have been put in office by this huge outpouring of religiosity or whatever," she says sarcastically. "The moderates cry and they whine, and I just want to say, 'Baby, baby, baby.' I mean, where's this big conservative takeover? I don't see it."
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Italian Explorer Claims Noah's Ark FindGALLARATE, Italy - Nestled on the snowy cap of Mount Ararat, lodged in ice, lies the shadowy form of a boat the size of a battleship. "Hallelujah,'' cried a triumphant Antonio Palego as he set eyes on the legendary vessel after trekking up the mountain for days on foot and donkey. ``It's Noah's Ark!'' Skeptics may dismiss Noah and his Ark as a childish myth of a white-bearded old man saving animals and mankind with his homemade boat, but explorer and Bible scholar Palego says he has found the real thing perched on Mount Ararat in Turkey.Using intricate calculations based on the story in the Bible's Book of Genesis, the Italian explorer says the ark has been preserved in ice for over 4,000 years.
Laying out a series of grainy photos on his kitchen table back home in northern Italy, the 63-year-old former chemist points out the form of the huge boat estimated to be 512 feet long, 82 feet wide and 50 feet high with enough space to fit 800 train cars.
A small piece of wood found in the same area by a French explorer friend and authenticated as dating from the time of the flood is physical evidence of his find, he says. Palego isn't the first to claim to have found Noah's Ark.Assorted ark hunters including scientists, archeologists and geologists also say they have unearthed the famous craft in various locations. In Australia, two scientists sued creationist Allen Roberts for misleading and deceptive conduct after he claimed to have found scientific evidence of Noah's Ark 20 miles southeast of Mount Ararat.A judge dismissed the case. The CIA believed it had stumbled on evidence that the Old Testament's evocative fable was true when a U.S. spy plane bound for military bases in the former Soviet Union took photographs of what appeared to be a vessel on the mountain. Some ark hunters have even gone on to build their own replicas. A pastor in the United States has been busy rebuilding the ark since he said he had visions from God."Many explorers, especially American, say they have found the ark, but their sightings do not correspond with the Bible's coordinates,'' Palego said. ``The CIA decided not to publish their photos after we highlighted that their vessel was not the right size.''
(Photo:Palego's says that this is one of the ark's girders)
According to the Book of Genesis, Noah built an ark 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high and loaded two of every species on board. A cubit equals about 20 inches. The Bible says: ``God said unto Noah the end of all flesh has come before me...make thee an Ark of gopher wood.''Noah set sail and after 40 days and nights of rain that flooded the world, the waters receded and the vessel came to rest on Mount Ararat in northeastern Turkey. Skeptics say Noah would have needed to load 460 organisms a second into the Ark to get two of each species on board within 24 hours, not to mention the tons of urine and excrement. But creationists say there is circumstantial evidence to back the story. A group of scientists found evidence of an enormous deluge with 200 times the force of Niagara Falls roughly 7,000 years ago, as glaciers melted causing a huge plug of silt separating the then freshwater Black Sea from the Mediterranean. But this predated the Biblical myth. While meteorologists have found no trace of a worldwide flood, they suspect it could have been a local incident, confined to the region around the eastern Mediterranean. Indeed, another team of geologists found evidence of a flood about 4,000 years ago during excavations of the ancient Sumerian city of Ur near the Euphrates river in Iraq.In terms of hard evidence, a group of geologists exploring Mount Ararat found rocks with holes in them resembling ``drogue stones'' which were dragged behind ancient ships for stability.
(Photo:One of Palego's fuzzy ark photo's)Palego says he just needs to get to his site to collect more evidence. So far, he has only seen it from a distance during his 13 expeditions to the mountain. The explorer has yet to get authorization from Turkey to take a helicopter, which an Italian television station has agreed to pay for, into the highly sensitive military area where he was once taken hostage by Kurds.``We've asked the Turkish government to let us go in and I won't give up until I get there,'' said Palego. ``This is my mission.''Originally:The Boston Herald - December 24 1998
Palego has a number of pictures on his site which are computer enhanced--a photo of the ark is inserted to make the location of the ark clearer. One thing of interest on his website is that wood purportedly from the ark was tested by a science lab which concluded that it was nearly 4,500 years old and petrified.
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Porter focused on finding pitcher to take closer's role
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Astros manager Bo Porter said Monday morning the task of finding a pitcher or a combination of pitchers to successfully handle the role of closer will be job one this spring. That's no shocker considering the Astros have blown 48 saves in 111 chances the last two years, which is a Major League-low 56.8 save percentage in that span.
"When you look at the woes in which we had in our bullpen last year. It's something we set out as an organization to make sure we rectified. We brought in some guys that have the ability to rectify that portion of our ballclub, and I'm anxious to see how it plays out," Porter said.
Porter said newcomers Jesse Crain, Chad Qualls and Matt Albers will all be considered for closer, along with Josh Fields, who handled the role for part of last season as a rookie after Jose Veras was traded. Qualls spent parts of three seasons as a closer with the D-backs.
"We'll figure out as the course of spring goes on and the season goes on who's best suited for that role, but it will be collectively a group effort to get those late outs in the back end of the game," Porter said. "I think it's totally open because I think competition brings out the best in all of us. And it's something that we're going to let these guys compete and let the competition tell us who should actually have that role."
Ideally, the Astros would like to have one closer, but Porter knows that might not be the case for the start of the season.
"When you have that guy, that's the ninth-inning guy and you know when it's a save situation he's going to get the ball every time," he said. "Unfortunately, we're not at that point, as far as our team would go. I'm glad we have a multitude of guys capable of manning that role. Again, we'll let that competition play itself out and I believe one of these guys, if not two or three of these guys, are going to step up. It's a good problem to have if you have everyone throw well and now you look and you feel like you have a closer in the seventh, eighth and ninth."
In addition to experience, which could give Qualls a leg up, the ability to induce weak ground balls is what Porter is looking for in a closer.
"If they do get in trouble, they have something that can get them out of trouble," he said. "They have to be able to get righties and lefties out because when you bring in a closer, you don't want to feel like you need to match him up against the opposite hitter. I also think experience plays a huge role in doing that job. It's a guy that's been there and understands the moment. The moment is never going to get too big for him. That's important as well."


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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is leaving the east London location whose name has become synonymous with the revolution which the magnate brought to Britain's media.
In a statement released Friday the New York-based film, television, and publishing conglomerate said it was pulling its U.K. newspapers from their base in Wapping, an east London former industrial area, to a new home in the shadow of The Shard, the capital's tallest skyscraper.
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Helpful Suggestions from K-12 Teachers
Tips and Q&A from Joan Vandervelde's Web page and minilectures that she has used with teachers in online classes. This is based on a compilation of questions she has received in the past three years.
- Educational outcomes are significantly greater when e-mail is an integrated process, not an add-on process. E-mail activities should be a substantive contributor to academic goals.
- Use students' e-mail as sources of authentic material to review vocabulary and writing skills.
- Monitor student writing during collaborative projects. Ask students to forward a copy of outgoing and incoming correspondence to their teacher.
- Stay in touch with your partner teacher by way of weekly e-mail to monitor the project.
- Find ways to have students share in small groups what is happening with their e-mail connection.
- Install a virus program on your classroom computers.
- Review class rules for being a good net citizen. Post your class netiquette in a visible place or in your course outline.
Questions and Answers
Q: What if my school does not allow individual email accounts?
A: Students do not have individual e-mail accounts in many schools. In these situations students write their messages with some word processing software. The letters are saved on a disk; then sent as an attached file to the teacher in the other location. Another option is to cut-and-paste the letters to an e-mail template to form one large letter to be sent to the other school. The recipient then prints the letters or saves them as individual text files.
Q: My district uses Internet protection software that prohibits some free email sites because they also include chat rooms. Also, our students do not have email addresses for school as do the teachers. Besides Yahoo and Excite, how else can students get free email accounts to use for school?
A: There are WWW sites, such as Edmail (http://www.lightspan.com/). It is geared to students and educators and doesn't allow chats. A very restrictive filter such as, I-Gear, will filter out Hotmail and Mailexcite, but will allow Edmail.
Q: How are learning partners assigned?
A: Once a connection is made students first names and interests are exchanged. One teacher pairs the teams of students and the exchange begins. The students are instructed to introduce themselves. They are coached about "Netiquette" and security issues, and asked not to release last names, addresses or phone numbers. At this point, the exchanges can take two different forms. The students can write informally about anything they desire or participate in a structured exchange in which they share specific information. In the initial stages of the exchange it is helpful to do a mini-unit about the location in the other country.
Q: What are the pitfalls?
A: A problem is school calendars. This is especially important when working between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Schools in South Africa, South America and Australia are not in session due to summer vacations in December and January. Starting a project with one of these schools in November is almost impossible since their school year is ending. Similarly, they are in session during June-August when it is difficult for northern schools to engage in project work.
Q: One of the articles wasn't real encouraging about the completion rate of projects he conducted or participated in - with that in the back of my mind...what kind of time line and maintenance would be necessary to make this activity be better than a classroom, or school activity?
A: A common problem in e-mail exchanges is a lack of interest if the project goes on for too long. Three months seems to be the limit for simple keypal exchanges. Beyond that, the classrooms need to be engaged in project work to sustain the relationship. Specific information exchanges usually have a set time limit. Once an exchange is initiated it is important for both teachers to communicate in a timely fashion. If there is a problem (computer problems, teacher illness, etc.), it is important to inform the other school by phone or mail. This will minimize the disappointment of students at the other school. The key to success is the enthusiasm and excitement combined with the work of the collaborating teachers. If both teachers are positive about the exchange then students will share the enthusiasm. A teacher must realize that the exchange is not self-generating. Students will have to be reminded of deadlines, will need encouragement and a sense of direction for these projects to succeed. The extra effort can result in a memorable learning experience for your class. In general, teachers should interact first, establishing timetables, expectations, etc., before students start exchanging messages.
In this regard, the hardest projects are those between just two schools. Remember, if one school cannot participate for any reason in a one-on-one partnership, neither school can continue. Joining a group project minimizes such difficulties.
Q: When is a collaboration project not a good idea?
A: If you do not have a reliable computer to access e-mail, then a collaborative project is not a good idea. It's essential to have access to a computer at home or school because it's too time consuming to use an alternate location like a public library or a friend's computer. It is also not a good idea unless you are willing to commit time to the project. Some projects that look easy on paper may involve unforeseen activities. Unless you are willing to complete the project, do not get involved.
Q. I would feel uncomfortable using e-mail on a regular basis with no monitoring of messages.
A: It's appropriate to review the writing as if it were an assigned paper since this is a school assignment.
Q: How should collaborative projects be graded?
A: You can grade it as a technology activity (word processing). You can grade it for letter writing skills, or as an activity in a content area. It helps to provide a rubric to inform students in advance of the expectations and points earned, etc. as part of the evaluation process
Three-part Series of Questions:
Q: My district's AUP is very strict when it comes to students using email. In other words, they can't and don't use it at school. As a teacher, I like the idea of students communicating with other students around the world and country. Other than having the teacher do all of the emailing, how can we integrate some of these neat projects into our curriculum? and
Q: What if keypal projects don't match my curriculum objectives or I can't manage the email situation? and
Q: I teach over 700 students a year and I do not want to set up 700 e-mail accounts. I could choose 1 grade level which would be approximately 230 students.
A: Two other options to consider are: Classroom to Classroom projects and Classroom to Expert projects. These are especially good activities when the objective is to provide a larger information base to draw from, broader set of ideas and opinions. Students from all over the world are frequently involved in short term process-oriented data collection and data sharing projects. These work especially well in science, social studies, language arts and math curriculum areas.
Q: I would like to know specifics of how we can send projects over e-mail, such as menus students make (My students create a restaurant menu, and it would be nice to have them critiqued, and in return, our class could critique theirs.
A: Probably the best way to exchange projects is via files that are attached to an email.
Q: It seems that almost all activities I read about deal with writing, language, culture, science...... anything but math. I will be able to use email in my Consumer Math class because it is a lot like Economics. However, how can I effectively use email or video conferencing in a regular math class?
A: Colleges and universities have special projects for students involving math. Many of these are collaborative. Others involve collection of real time data. Students in two or more locations can solve real time problems using e-mail and video conferencing. A search of collaborative projects by subject areas can yield math projects for students from K-12. Bluewebn from PacBell http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/categories.html Class2class collaborative lessons http://mathforum.com/class2class/ MathMagic http://mathforum.org/mathmagic/
Q: My school district has a very strict policy concerning the posting of pictures and information about our students on the internet. Is there a way to ensure that the conference connection is secure and free from potential hackers, predators or people who shouldn't be there?
A: Your school district's policy is a prudent one. There is no way to insure that the conference connection is free from predators. There have been cases where parents have sued a school district because a child's face and name were displayed in a school Web page. Their contention was that since the school's address was available on the site it was remotely possible for a predator to contact their child after school. In Australia, the government regulations now forbid all childrens' pictures and names on Web pages. It is possible to use a photo "soap" product that blurs a face in a closeup. Another idea is to use group photos and make the picture so small that you really don't see the childrens' faces, and it can't be enhanced.
Q: Although the readings seem to emphasize getting the word out about the project you will be managing, even seeming to aim for the greatest possible number of participants, I see a major problem brewing. How can we make certain that we do not wind up with far more participants than we can handle? If that is the case, how do you decide who you accept and who you eliminate?
A: When you send out a proposal for a project, limit the number of participants. If you get more than you need, thank them for their interest, but explain that all slots are filled. Offer to keep their e-mail addresses for any future projects you or your colleagues might create.
Q: To what extent can a teacher who is conducting a project put his/her students in charge of operations? What are the elements that can be student-managed, and what are the ones that MUST be managed by the teacher?
A: If the class is a responsible one, and the children are mature, it's great to assign tasks. A rubric enumerating tasks at the beginning of the project would be helpful in this situation. A few examples of tasks might include: download and print out e-mail messages, file and record messages, respond to messages, etc. If there is a need for digital photos, students can be trained to do this task, edit the photos, size them for email, etc. If there is data collection outside of school (e.g. water temperature, recycling information, etc.) the students can handle the task and enter recordings on a spreadsheet. These duties need teacher supervision, but can be done by students.
All correspondence should be approved by the teacher and sent from school or the teacher's home. School to school or teacher to teacher correspondence is the safest way to handle contacts. It is possible for a teacher to manage the student tasks, but the responsibility for the final product rests on the teacher.
Source: Joan Vandervelde - University of Wisconsin-Stout School of Education


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Archinect had the opportunity to speak with Tadao Ando. Check out the Interview: 20 Minutes with a Master. b3tadine[sutures] was so inspired that he posted three times and archaalto wrote "I sometimes imagine that millions of years from now when another intelligent species excavates the earth they find the ruins of Louis Kahn's and Tadao Ando's buildings, and maybe they'll think we had some grace and weren't just accidents waiting to happen.."
Archinect (including Orhan, Alex, Kaori and Paul) had the opportunity to speak with Tadao Ando during Ando's brief visit to Los Angeles to collect his 2012 Richard Neutra Award. Check out the Interview: 20 Minutes with a Master. I especially liked the final exchange wherein Ando revealed "As we all know, you can't make architecture by yourself. An architect needs to make everyone take ownership for the work. To be successful, you need to ensure that every carpenter, plumber, and so on, in every project, is doing their own project. Every time I go to the construction site, I try to take a photograph of every worker. It's a symbol that we're all working together with a shared goal. It's very important for me that everyone feels that way" b3tadine[sutures] was so inspired that he posted three times and archaalto wrote "I sometimes imagine that millions of years from now when another intelligent species excavates the earth they find the ruins of Louis Kahn's and Tadao Ando's buildings, and maybe they'll think we had some grace and weren't just accidents waiting to happen..
In the News feed this was followed by an interview between Lebbeus Woods and Thom Mayne. Billed as a "Candid Conversation" some commentators thought differently, witness the "Please." from aldorossi and snookers' "party line rhetoric".
To complete a trifecta, an interview with Rem Koolhaas can be found in the Journal of International Affairs spring/summer 2012 issue in an issue titled The Future of the City.
Koolhaas there suggested "cities in the West are so morose. We...have nothing to change, at least not in the way that other parts of the world will change. In these places — particularly in the Middle East and Africa — real change is happening now." toasteroven though disagreed "there are major changes afoot in infrastructure in western urban areas - they are becoming less auto-centric and more culturally localized and compact - these places he's talking about in the east are more like western cities in the 20th century who were looking to "modernize" their infrastructure...Things are changing."
Last week the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) called for Congress to pass legislation that includes architecture school graduates in the same programs that offer other graduates loan debt assistance if they donate their services to their communities and elsewhere. Some commenter's noticed the use of term "Young Architects" not "Interns" yet hoped it was a simple communication error. To which HandsumCa$hMoneyYo laughed "There is no way that the powerful stakeholders are going to let unlicensed architects engage in public service pro bono work. Young architects means exactly what it says, young architects. For all you interns, you hopes will be crushed, yo!"
Reacting to EE&K and UN Studio's proposal for Los Angeles Union Station, Rusty Shackleford opined "Architecture designed to be primarily seen from outer space. The interior shot makes very little sense. Vision for 2050 as a cartoon video game. Future peoples rejoice!" Barry Lehrman helpfully pointed out LA Times critic Christopher Hawthorne's earlier article arguing that the MTA is facing an identity crisis over its relationship to architecture and urban design.
Danielle Choi just got back from Panama. Where the technologically sublime experience of seeing ships transit through the Panama Canal blew his f....g mind. Eric Chavkin related "Quartmare de Quincy's quote God is great because he can create huge mountains, vast deserts, deep Grand Canyons sort of thing...man is great too because he can build large structures. I suppose Hoover Dam and the Panama Canal fit that description. Giant machines, huge spaces too."
Jimmy Stamp let us know that he would be "speaking about the architecture of bank heists and prison breaks on a panel at Studio-X in New York City" on April 30th.
Cairo2seattle proposed starting a social network for [buildings] and Liebchen pointed out "This kind of exists: http://www.honestbuildings.com/". Yet Cairo2seattle replied "thanks for your comment i have checked the link you posted. and this wasn't what i was talking about as from what i saw on this website honestbuildings.com its just an real estate listing with a share/tweet button the buildings it self dont have the kind of interaction that i was talking about".
Meanwhile Kristell Andrea Perez Fu recently worked on a project in "San Juan de Marcona, Nazca, Peru".
Schools/School Blogs
An NYIT Student Led Design/Build Initiative for a brand new Recycling Center in Nosara, Costa Rica started a new blog and invited those in the area to attend a special presentation, premiere film screening and reception about the ongoing design-build initiative, to be held Thursday May 3rd at the NYIT Auditorium. To find out more about the project or donate money to the cause via Kickstarter.
Chris DeHenzel a 2011-2012 John K. Branner Fellowship, recipient and UCLA school blogger analyzed Mexico City's Central de Abastos as a strikingly contemporary work of public infrastructure.
bjd80 shared some sketches done while abroad with Washington University St Louis in Helsinki and the Baltic region. Comparing sketching on site to taking really good pictures. bjd80 concluded "Perhaps sketching on location is archaic, but I can't think of a better way to personally connect with a building, space, or place." While A.D.Morley & J.A.Wong also in Helsinki with Washington University documented another onsite visit as part of their Finnish Building Technologies class, to a new office building under construction in downtown Helsinki, designed by the 19-man firm JKMM Architects. The basement/parking garage is below-sea level and the project features massive and snaking HVAC ducts.
Discussion Threads
Kevin Werme started a conversation about the relationship between agriculture and architecture. He asked "how can today's architects and designers use this application of their professional knowledge to help support struggling local farmers already in existence?" a-f offered up the fact that "Dutch architecture theory journal OASE dedicated an issue to the subject of agriculture. The articles and all back issues can be browsed for free here." Archibum was glad Kevin started the topic writing "As one who grew up on a dairy farm, I too have a passion towards agriculture and have continually thought about how I could use architecture to improve and promote the small farm. I've considered pursuing the unique relationship as a graduate thesis, but have yet to convince myself that it is a compelling and productive road to take."
To anyone who has hired and fired people before, what would you say if a applicant brought an iPad to an interview? newfuture is thinking of making use of it, instead of a physical portfolio. Steven Ward replied "i've had candidates do this. it's fine. to address greg's concern: don't play with it. avoid unnecessary manipulation of the images in the interview unless it's triggered by the discussion. ..i.e., have your sh*t together." zenakis also considered it a "Good Idea...we do all of our presentations on our principal's ipad - they just pass it around the conference table".
Finally, bluesteel@wildrocket needs some visualization help with a simple design project for ultra compact cities. Will Galloway thought "all the hits from the 50's and 60's probably would be good start as well. mies, hilbersheimer, archizoom, metabolists, etc etc. not as new urbanist-y as your approach but same basic idea..." gwhorton cautioned "As a practical matter, the sort of urban design strategy you describe is far too expensive and inconvenient to apply to an entire city. It just doesn't make any sense. You'd need to have population densities (100,000 per acre or more) on the order of 4 times Mumbai to justify something like that."
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Conker creator hints at upcoming Wii U project
Gory Detail, a heretofore mobile exclusive studio founded by former Rare staffer Christopher Seavor, seems likely to reunite the Conker creator with Nintendo platforms.
"Wii U devkits ain't cheap and it's lookin likely Gory Detail is gonna need three at some point this year," he said on Twitter.
Seavor's Tweet has, predictably, triggered anticipation for a spiritual follow-up if not an actual sequel to the Conker games for which he became famous; the irreverent platformer was Rare's N64 swansong and has a cult following among Nintendo fans, especially now that the developer has been acquired by Microsoft.
Seavor designed Conker's Bad Fur Day as well as serving as project lead, scriptwriter and even voice actor for the eponymous squirrel.
Gory Detail released its first title, Parashoot Stan, in April. Seavor's Twitter bio suggests the studio is working on a second mobile title in addition to the mysterious upcoming Wii U game.
Thanks, Destructoid.


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Waxing is a method of semi-permanent hair removal which removes the hair from the root. New hairs will not grow back in the previously waxed area for four to eight weeks. Using wax to remove body hair can be an easy way to keep you neat and trim, while looking and feeling beautiful. Men and women alike have been using the process of waxing to achieve their own state of personal beauty for years. Wax can be used on virtually any part of your body where you wish to remove hair, such as the upper lip and face, arms and under arms, legs, and your bikini area. Many have never waxed out of fear of the pain it could cause them, but actually a lot of people who regularly wax say the pain is not that bad after couple treatments. You may find that waxing will actually keep the hair from growing back thicker and darker as it does when you shave.
How waxing is done?
So you finally found courage within yourself and decided to go for waxing. Now what to expect? First, if the hair is too long the specialist will trim it. Then wax is heated to allow it to be spread easily and evenly over the skin in the direction of hair growth, warm wax is applied to the waxing area with a wooden stick. The hair becomes embedded in the wax, which cools and firms up holding the hair. Next, cotton strips are placed over the wax. The wax is then quickly pulled off in the opposite direction of the hair growth, pulling the hairs out of the follicles along with dead skin cells. New hair growth in waxed areas is soft and fine. After repeated waxing, hair re-growth is less and less.
Preparation Tips:
For those looking to wax for the very first time, there are a few body waxing tips that you should follow to help make your experience less traumatic. How your body reacts to waxing is entirely different than your neighbor, but these tips will help to minimize the pain and take care of your skin afterwards. By taking care of your skin before and after waxing you are sure to have a pleasant experience rather than dealing with pain and negative after effects.
After the procedure:
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