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Just how bad must it be
If they cant spin it to something good???
The Home Office is refusing to release 'research' it carried out which was meant to prove just how very keen young people in the UK are to get hold of a delicious ID card. The department blew almost £80,000 setting up a site to find out what people aged between 16 and 25 thought of ID cards. The site operated from July to mid- …
"We've asked the anonymous spinner when the end of the process is likely to be, and whether the people concerned will still be young. They've not got back to us yet. We'll get back to you when they do..."
You'll have retired, it'll be your successors who have to get back to us in our graves...
.... one does have to Know the How and the Why for IT to All Work Effortlessly in AI Singularity.
Sadly are the Present Shower of Freeloaders in Government unfit for such Future Purpose as their default policies of trying to deny/censure/censor alternative views, in favour of placement of their own gravy train scams and fraudulent schemes, are unworkable and anti-democratic too, but that is no surprise to anybody, I'm sure.
And yes, you can quote me on that...... and you can also question/ask the Present Shower Cabinet why they are sitting on such AIdDevelopments that Virtually Guarantee Better Beta and more Equitable Power Controls. And should they deny any Knowledge of the Same, then Evidence can be Produced to Prove them ..... well, Compulsive Liars would not be Untruthful whenever there are Economies of Truth, and that would be the Least of their Worries.
This has cheered me up.
Maybe the Yoof do give a shit about what is going around them.
ID Cards are gone. But I guess the downside is we are all gonna be killed in our beds with the sudden on-rush of terrorists that have been cowering/cringing at how much more difficult a little peice of plastic would have made it to wreak murder and mayhem.
I bet Baroness Scotland wished she had checked somebodies ID Card...... or should she have checked her empoyee's CRB... or ensured her employee's were Vetted!........or ensure her empoyee's DNA whas been retained....or her employee against the Travel Database.... or spending database or maybe even her Nectar card.
Does anyone seriously believe that there will ever be any published findings on this?
Labour just can't seem to accept that there is no support for this hare-brained scheme, whether they target older voters, or "yoof".
Simply, we've seen far too many rights taken away in the name of "security", there are still many of us who managed to get on with our lived throughout the IRA's campaign of terror without so much FUD being excreted by our "Leaders"' collective front-rectum, and there needs to be a line in the sand.
I'd say "cross it at your peril, Labour Party", but it doesn't really matter any more, anything they attempt now will not wipe out the memory of 12 years of mismanagement, incompetence and outright criminality. To call Gordon Brown a lame duck is, at this point, an understatement and offensive to ducks with a genuine lower body disability.
The only realy question now is: Will our next Government undo all these abuses of power, or keep them in place under the guise of "priorities".
...they will keep asking the question until the public give the correct answer.
You think this is about democracy? About the will of the people? There's too many deals and directorships going for the MPs and civil servants to ever let ID cards and related systems die. The deal is done, it is going to happen, nothing can stop it. If you don't like it there is only one option; leave.
Welcome to Britain - you will obey the machine.
You missed then end of a quote :
"Mylifemyid was one of a number of pieces of work undertaken with young people. However, as our work with young people is still continuing, it was decided to wait and publish a full picture of the insights gained at the end of the process when we can make the data say what we wanted it to at the start."
Cynical? Moi?
"it was decided to wait and publish a full picture of the insights gained at the end of the process"
Translation; we've spent the last year cobbling together another 'survey' with a fraction of the number of people, carefully selected by ourselves, conducted in secret. We'll use that to 'balance' the negative results from the first survey, which we'll bury at the back of the report under appendix Z where no-one, hopefully, will read it.
This gives us the 'full picture' with the answers we wanted from the start. Thank you for your interest.
(Young) People don't want ID Cards as framed - or probably at all.
The governmemnt are hardly likely to want to let Gen Pub know.
If, however, there had been overwhelming support you can bet there would have been an interim announcement and an upping of the pace. This is an £80k long grass job.
...and I sneeked in to see what people were saying and said a few things myself before being thrown out and having my IP banned.
There was some very good writing, pretty much all of it arguing against the ID card and ID database. However I do not feel it was representitive of the population of the UK.
I don't think any Internet based forum is respresentitive of the UK. The people who comment tend to express very different opinions to those who don't comment. The people who feel compelled to comment tend to be in opposition to the so called main stream consensus.
If you disgree with what comes out of the TV you might shout at it, or better still write in and complain. However if you are quite happy to have your ID card and get injected with HPV vaccine then what is there to say? Especially if they hide the fact that loads of people are against it.
The government are doing the right thing in ignoring the complete failure of My Life My ID. No one apart from us is really going to notice. They can easily and maybe correctly say that most people are happy to have an ID card.
I say it's the right thing, I will qualify that to say it's the right way for them to advance the adgenda of the police state. I assume everyone here agrees that the adgenda is a police state.
"We got completely fucked by all the fack that 99.9% of the comments were negative so we will not be releasing them until they are massaged so thoroughly that the results will say what we want them to say, even though everyone with even 1 operating brain cell, thus eliminating all politicians, knows that nobody wants the bloody thing"
Tony Blair is candidate for the presidency of the EU council. Unelected Brown will be able to vote for Blair as the council president, and Blair will be able to drive this Biometric mass surveillance CCTV world all across Europe.
So even if you eject Brown from power, Blair will be in a position where he can force the agenda through the EU and overrule the UK.
Blair is not a leader, he is a US lapdog. When Clinton was in power, he modelled himself after Clinton, when Bush was in power he modelled himself after Bush. Whatever wars Bush wanted to start, Blair gave him the fake third party evidence, whatever economic bubble Cheney wanted to blow, Blair blew too, yap yap yap.
We don't want or need a lapdog in a position of power, we need a leader not a yapping lapdog.
A man who told the *truth* to foreign powers,but *lied* to Parliament should not be trusted with power.
"I'd say "cross it at your peril, Labour Party", but it doesn't really matter any more, anything they attempt now will not wipe out the memory of 12 years of mismanagement, incompetence and outright criminality."
I'd be prepared to bet that the civil service (and especially the Home Office and the Cabinet Office) is preparing to do precisely that - to wipe the official memory of the worthlessness of its previous policies in order to get the new administration following the same *departmental* thinking. The way they'd do it is using the rules that are supposed to protect ministers from embarassment:
"An incoming Minister should not have access to any minutes or documents written by a predecessor of a different Party other than those which were published or put in the public domain by that predecessor; nor should he be told whether directly or by access to departmental papers which would tell him exactly what his predecessor had said. *Moreover, it may be equally important to withhold papers which show the advice given by officials to the previous Minister even though there may be no indication on them of his views.*"
[My *emphasis*]
(Directory of Civil Service Guidance, Volume 2, quoting, with approval, a parliamentary answer written for Margaret Thatcher by the Cabinet Office in 1980.)
There have already been very carefully balanced attacks by distinguished former civil servants on the use of special advisers by the current administration, which I'm glad to say the Tories have not fallen into the trap of endorsing.
What they really said:
"Mylifemyid was one of a number of attempts at indoctrinating young people into our surveillance society. However, as our work with young people is still continuing, it was decided to wait and publish the picture we want to publish at the end of the process when we've actually figured out how to indoctrinate young people now we've realised they're not as stupid as we actually thought."
@The Dorset Rambler - of course they're waiting until they have the results they want. It's a common tactic. They've taken things a stage further with the Badman review of Home Education, fed up with not getting the result they wanted 4 times in 3 years, they've found a lackey to write what they want him to. Now they've given him extra time to "collect more evidence" for an upcoming Select Committee review of the review because he can't now produce the evidence to back up what he said.
Yes, Minister anyone?
...and see for yourself exactly what the report has to document.
Here -> http://id-watch.co.uk/2008/10/27/mirrors/
Essentially, the pro-ID card arguments were so lame and so few in number that the admins had to play devil's advocate right from the start - and even then, they got destroyed.
If you look through the forums, you'll find hundreds of posts, mostly very well written and intelligent, dissecting ID cards and their problems, and making any pro-ID posts look childish by comparison. I don't think they expected that young people had the interest or the brains to have had an informed opinion on the matter...
A few FOI requests (including mine) about this shabby attempt to suppress public consultation data are already out there - all of them palmed off with pathetic non-responses about how IPS will publish "all their young people data (sic) together". Those are probably worth pursuing through the ICO, but in the meantime, you could always ask the guy who was paid to carry out the survey directly...
"The Home Office is refusing to release 'research' it carried out which was meant to prove just how very keen young people in the UK are to get hold of a delicious ID card."
Did we not pay for this 'research' (= 'crap')?
Do we not - as buyers of this 'service' (= 'crap') - have some kind of right to demand its publication, or at the very least do we have any means of demanding our money back?
They'll cook up some rubbish using biased questions or tame samples, and then they'll release it as a positive change story - "Young people told us what needed to be tackled to make this work - we listened and we reviewed our proposals. Now young people say that the relaunched New-Entitlement-Citizen-Card is great!"
Having just had a look at the aforementioned site, I am not ready to believe that the participants are young people - the arguments and language used are not what I am used to hearing from young people I have experience of. (Innit. Lol.) What criteria did the site use to guarantee only Young People participated? (Did they need to show their ID cards?) Maybe the site was used by slightly older naughty people to air their views? Just a thought from this Older Person.
While that is certainly possible, it sounds to me like you buy into the Daily Fail view of "yoof" in that they are all hanging around street corners in hoodies?
I for one know 2 teenagers who registered and posted articulate, intelligent comments on that site. They read El Reg, among other sites, and they know a damned sight more about the world than most people my age (wrong side of 30) do.
So, either get out and meet more young people, not just the gang of muggers in training hanging around outside your local Tesco, or stop criticising something you know nothing about.


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|Wonderful on a calm clear day but imagine a wooden ship
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|Night on a barren shore must have been terrifying for survivors.
Historian Graham Mackeurtan in his 'Cradle Days of Natal' refers to the Sao Joao being wrecked just north of the Umzimvubu River - i.e. he chooses the Port St John's location, as did George MacCall Theal and other authors. Though more recent research prompts us to disagree with Mackeurtan's choice of site, he does give an account of the circumstances of the wreck and of the sufferings of the survivors:
'In four hours the ship was smashed to atoms, and her debris and disintegrated cargo strewed the shore. There was not a piece of the galleon as large as a man's arm remaining. The surrounding country was barren, and practically deserted ... After waiting twelve days for the sick to recover, the party set out for Lourenco Marques on 7 July 1552. Donna Leonor, the Captain's wife and a woman of noble rank, delicate and young, was borne in a litter ... For a month they travelled in this way ... subsisting on rice saved from the wreck and fruit found in the thickets.'
Sepulveda, his wife and children, died along the way in circumstances of unimaginable hardship; a small number of Portuguese and slaves survived the march north. A memorial, today unfortunately much ravaged by wind and weather, was placed at Port Edward and offers a verse by the Portuguese poet Luis de Camoens:

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Anyone who would argue that social media is not a critical communications tool for businesses and organizations probably still listens to 8-track tapes and uses an abacus. Social media – when done right – can increase transparency, facilitate collaboration, promote brand awareness, build community, and help an organization solve problems. A recent audit report from the Office of Inspector General recognizes the U.S. Postal Service's early efforts in social media, but also cites opportunities for the organization to strengthen its social media presence.
Social media is generally recognized as online tools that integrate technology, social interaction, and content creation. Social media pioneers, such as American Express and Nike, found the best way to reach customers was to engage them directly and have a "conversation" with them. A number of federal agencies have found success with social media in promoting their missions or particular programs, or alerting citizens to important events and activities. Early adopters such as National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with its spectacular space imagery, and the Transportation Security Administration, with a clever use of Instagram, have large and loyal followings.
The Postal Service entered the social media scene in 2009 with the launch of a popular Stamps Facebook page. From there it broadened its social media presence with Business and Human Resources recruitment pages on Facebook and LinkedIn efforts, our report noted. The Postal Service finally ventured into Twitter, YouTube, and smaller social media sites, including its philatelic Stamp of Approval blog, in 2011. Today, it has a web presence on 18 social media web pages, but it is still developing a centralized blog about wider Postal Service policy, mission, or products.
The Postal Service could use social media to better communicate with stakeholders, our report determined. In particular, the Postal Service could solicit input from stakeholders, or tailor a conversation with specific industry groups using targeted creative blogs or other social media sites. The Postal Service could also link its various social media sites for easy customer navigation. Our report recommended the Postal Service consider designating a social media liaison in each of its product and services group to provide more dynamic response to customer feedback.
For an organization grounded in hard copy communications, the Postal Service is highly supportive of social media. It has a plan in place to ramp up its social media presence and engagement, and strengthen its sharing of feedback and analyses. Do you see areas the Postal Service could explore? As a postal stakeholder, are you inclined to use social media to learn about Postal Service products and services? How does your company use social media to engage customers?


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Monday, September 14, 2009
The man who named a terrace
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- AnonymousSeptember 14, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Thanks for yet another interesting and informative piece, Lisa...keep up the great work!ReplyDelete
Hi there, Gail! Cheers -- glad you liked the post!ReplyDelete
Ironically it's his wife that is well-remembered in New Zealand history, not him. In part because of her philanthropy via the fortune he left her.ReplyDelete
The Geddes name is world-famous in West Auckland, though.ReplyDelete
Well, they seem to have had their fingers in a lot of pies.ReplyDelete
Yes, they did.ReplyDelete
I now know more about their real estate portfolio than I do about Brown Barrett & Co which is what the story was going to be about. I have no idea what happened to it after 1953.ReplyDelete
I can't even see a record of a company file in Archway. Hang of a research challenge.ReplyDelete
I've tried all the old (remote) faithfuls. I kind of have a routine of where to go for info now. For a company that was around for 90+ years it's quite amazing!ReplyDelete
I got my story in the end of course. Hard yards, but I got it. Just published tonight.ReplyDelete


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Rolex+Deebo wrote:let me see if I can switch my stuff at work for Sat.s I would love to do it with Deebo.
How much is it for a class?
LMM wrote:I should get Sofa in, if I can get someone to help me I'd like to do both. Mojo is built for pulling and he can definitely use something like this to expend his energy. Same with the Sof.
LMM wrote:And it starts this Sunday, will it be every Sunday? Same time?
LMM wrote:Sounds good, the only thing I have is an event at Pet Saver on the 25th. I'm good other than that.
Rolex+Deebo wrote:oh its Sunday? sweet. Y I thought it was on Sat, IDK.
Im doing it! I just dont know which dog to bring
Deebo is built for it, but Ziva likes it. May be Ill take both and make hubby handle Deebo.
Hehehe, that should be interesting. Doubt he'll go for it. But worth a try.
LMM wrote:I think this time around (Sunday) I will just be bringing Mojo. I can't envision the thought of Mojo and Sofa in the car with me even in crates
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Shortly after his mother's death at 99 in 2005, Allen Shawn — the son of legendary New Yorker editor William Shawn and brother of actor and playwright Wallace Shawn — began writing "Wish I Could Be There," a book about phobias grounded in his firsthand experience. To his surprise, his autistic twin sister, Mary, who had been institutionalized since they were 8 and marginalized in his day-to-day existence for decades, emerged as a central figure in his life story.
A composer and music professor at Bennington College in Vermont, Shawn is equally unflinching and compelling in "Twin," which shifts the focus from phobias to twins, autism and what used to be called mental retardation but is now called by some medical professionals "intellectual disability." He again effectively interweaves research and analysis with personal reminiscence, exploring the ways in which his development and his sister's intertwined, diverged and "unfolded on parallel tracks." He contrasts Mary's life in a large custodial institution in Delaware and her evolving diagnoses (both autism and schizo-affective disorder) with his evolution as a composer and his education in Manhattan, Vermont, at Harvard and in Paris. Composing — and now writing — have provided a way for him not so much to express as to "excavate" his inner world.
There is considerable repetition between both of Shawn's books, including specific incidents, such as his father's enigmatic admonition after 6-year-old Shawn was caught comparing genitals with a female playmate. ("'There was nothing wrong with what you did,' he said, 'we just don't do it.' ") "Twin" offers a fuller picture of the family dynamic, including Wallace's role as a refreshingly iconoclastic and amazingly devoted older brother.
Shawn returns repeatedly to Mary's institutionalization in 1957, examining it from multiple angles and trying to understand his parents' decision. This haunting theme runs like a plaintive musical refrain through both memoirs. In the space of a few years, he and Mary moved from sharing a room and a childhood to seeing each other at most twice a year, "with our twinship almost a taboo subject." It was, he says, "like an unmourned death." Not surprisingly, Mary's departure left him feeling guilty at having been "spared," and "wondering if it was only a matter of time before the magic glue that held my own brain together would lose its adhesive properties" and he too would be sent away.
"The problem of Mary's sudden departure for me," he adds, "was that it never seemed like a rescue but only a punishment: an expulsion, an exile. To me there was nothing wrong with Mary."
Although Shawn never doubts his parents' good intentions, he doesn't refrain from exploring the context in which their decision was made — an analysis clearly enriched by years of psychotherapy. In particular, he examines the "contradictory sexual messages of our household," which included his mother's "overflowing romantic feelings for our father, contrasted with her nervous, cautionary words about sex," and his father's primness, contrasted with his 40-year affair with New Yorker writer Lillian Ross.
Shawn, born in 1948, learned when he was 30 that his highly sensitive, phobic father had been living a double life with a second mate since 1952 — with his mother's knowledge but not enthusiasm. He avoids naming Ross in his book, although the relationship has been public knowledge since she published her memoir, "Here but Not Here," in 1998, six years after William Shawn's death but while his widow, Cecille, was still alive.
Ross portrayed Cecille as the woman William Shawn stayed with out of dutiful loyalty and love for his children. Now, Shawn the son comes to his mother's defense in "Twin."
"No one could say that their rapport was cheerless and cold," he writes about his parents' affectionate relationship. He describes several frank conversations with his father, who explained that "there were two women he could not live without."
With typical understatement, the author comments, "no one in our family could have ever passed for 'normal.'" "Twin" movingly conveys the solace of reconnecting with his lost sister and of delving into "how people bear and express the imprints left on them by others." But its most impressive achievement is to showcase the richness afforded by what Shawn calls an "expanded sense of the human spectrum."
McAlpin reviews books regularly for NPR.org and other publications.
Shortly after his mother's death at 99 in 2005, Allen Shawn — the son of legendary New Yorker editor William Shawn and brother of actor and playwright Wallace Shawn — began writing "Wish I Could Be There," a book about phobias grounded in his firsthand experience. To his surprise, his autistic twin sister, Mary, who had been institutionalized since they were 8 and marginalized in his day-to-day existence for decades, emerged as a central figure in his life story.


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The brand new issue of OUTSERVE, which is distributed to U.S. military bases across the world, debuts today. The cover is former U.S. Army Lt. Anthony Woods, the Harvard and West Point graduate who was discharged once his sexuality was discovered. Woods led an 81-soldier combat unit in Iraq, earned a Bronze Star and later launched an historic campaign to become the first openly gay Black man elected to Congress.
Read and/or download the magazine HERE ....
The issue features a special multimedia exhibit photographed by Jo Ann Santangelo that features LGBT service members who served their country in silence or were discharged under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." The issue also features "101 Faces of Courage", the names and faces of troops now serving openly. OUTSERVE founder "JD Smith" also comes out as U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Josh Seefried, a USAF Academy cadet and a 25-year-old finance officer.
The Associated Press reports:
Although he expects only a fraction of the 65,000 gay men and lesbians estimated to be serving in the armed forces to reveal themselves at first, Seefried will not be alone. On Tuesday, his organization's magazine will publish an issue featuring photographs and biographies of him and 100 other gay service members. It will be available online and at Army and Air Force commissaries.
OutServe, which has grown to 4,300 members in more than 40 chapters from Alaska to Iraq, has had an exceptionally aggressive rise since its February 2010 launch. From the start, Seefried and a tech-savvy civilian friend, Ty Walrod, saw its mission as two-fold: to ease the isolation of gay service members and to educate the public about the price of requiring them to serve in silence.
They set up a private Facebook group for gay personnel, starting with a handful of Seefried's friends. Each new recruit was allowed to nominate others for membership — and the group grew. The organization also seized the chance to exercise a unique niche as the voice of gays in the military after Defense Secretary Robert Gates appointed a working group to study the ramifications of a potential repeal.
OUTSERVE says: "The following 101 photos represent the approximately 70,000 currently serving LGBT military personnel. We serve in every country, in every conflict, and in every career field. We serve because we are committed to our country. We serve to protect those we love. We serve because we are dedicated to this self-evident truth — that all men are created equal. This is who we are."
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Rossi Single-Shot Youth-Size Rifle
Here you go, folks, No. 10 in this series, and since setup No. 9 was a tad on the pricey side, I thought I'd swing the pendulum the other way and give you a real dollar saver.
I'll say off the bat that Rossi didn't publish a length of pull for this gun, but it is specifically a Youth-Size Rifle. I Googled a bit and found someone remarking that LOP was 12 1/2 inches, so between that, Rossi's own description, and the fact that the butt pad has a spacer that can mix things up in the length department, I'd bet a fair amount that this gun is appropriately sized and fairly accommodating to a large number of small-statured shooters.
I love that this rifle is a single-shot–just plain safer all the way around for young shooters. I like even more that this is a takedown rifle–you don't put it together until you're in the stand, and you take it apart immediately before you climb down or exti a ground blind. This light little 6.25-rifle also has a transfer bar safety (won't fire unless the hammer is pulled back and the trigger is pulled completely rearward, which means even accidental drops are highly unlikely to discharge this gun), a breechlock systm that prevents the gun from being opened if the hamemer is cocked, a manual hammer block safety, and the Taurus Security System (Rossi is owned by Taurus), which provides a keyed remedy to rendering the gun inoperable.
That's the safe part. From a functional standpoint, one of my favorite features on this gun is the removeable cheekpiece, for it lets the gun grow with your child. Put it on to bring a really small face and body in better alignment with either the gun's fiber optic riflesights or a scope that attaches to the provided Weaver base, then take it off as your pre-teen gets their driver's license and perhaps no longer needs it. Finally, the gun also comes with a hammer extension, a big help for small, less-nimble hands and fingers, especially when they're wearing gloves or glomitts.
MSRP: Rossi's website lists this gun at an everyone-can-afford-this $263. When you add in the fact that this gun can grow with your child, this one's a definite bargain. Available in five deer-ready rifle cartridges–.243, .308, .270, .30-06, and 7.62×39–as well as the .44 Magnum handgun round, which can be easy on the recoil while still allowing for effective kills at limited ranges. In .223, I like this gun as a wild hog or varmint gun, as well.
Nikon Prostaff Rifle Scope
I've never met a Nikon scope, rangefinder, or binocular I didn't like. Even the money-saving lines have clear glass and hold up well under pressure and hard handling. The Prostaff line is one of those money savers, and its 2-7x32mm rifle scope is solid choice for topping the Rossi Single-Shot Youth rifle. A smaller-bodied scope designed to better fit and balance on more compact rifles such as the Rossi Youth, this Nikon comes with many of the features its more expensive cousins do, such as fully coated optics, quick-focus eyepiece, and the ability to shed water like a duck's back (yup, it's waterproof and fogproof). Backed by a lifetime warranty, so again, this is one to grow with your kid both on a gun like the Rossi Youth, and for use on their next rifle as they step up.
MSRP: The Nikon site had this at $164.95, but a solid Google search will turn up oodles of these scopes much closer to the $100 mark.
Hey readers, this is the end of the Youth Deer Gun series. There's an e-book verison of this collection coming soon, with added material, including three slug shotgun picks and some advice on how and why to fit a gun properly to a young, small shooter. We'll let you know when the e-book is available, and stay tuned for January's theme, coyote gun setups. It's sure to be a howlin' good time!
The Author Recommends: Can't miss having a copy of the Rossi Long Guns Exploded Gun Drawings Digital Download. A great help for disassembling for cleaning–and for reassembling to make sure you don't have parts leftover!
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Technology Advisory Committee
January 25, 2013
Andreas Brockhaus, Ron Ellison, Rob Estes, Munehiro Fukuda, Erin Hill, Jim Price, Tim Rhoades, Talwinder Singh, Betsy Tippens, Jane Van Galen, Misha Ward
Canvas Follow-up
Andreas Brockhaus updated the committee on work done by the Learning Technologies team since the last meeting to notify faculty and students about the upcoming migration to Canvas. Faculty have received email, newsletters, and postcards with information about the migration. Students have been notified via Blackboard. Talwinder Singh offered to send email to all students through ASUWB. Andreas will follow up with him on that.
Data Center Strategy
Tim Rhoades presented a proposed strategy for UW Bothell data center needs. The existing data center is insufficient, and this strategy suggests alternatives to maintaining a local data center. In determining these alternatives, Tim's team identified the following guiding principles:
- Conform to all applicable regulations, policies, and laws
- Ensure that faculty, staff, and students can still do what they need to do
- Retain ability to recover and retrieve data
- Provide services at lowest possible cost
Alternatives to a local data center location:
o UW Seattle's data center, where services are still managed by us
o UW Seattle, where Seattle IT would manage the services for us
o Outsource server location to a cloud vendor, where services are still managed by us
o Outsource services to a cloud vendor, where the vendor manages the service for us
To determine which strategy is appropriate for any given service, Tim suggested this checklist:
o Is the service critical to UW Bothell? If not, sunset it.
o Does UW Seattle provide a similar service we could use at low cost?
o Does an outsourced service option exist?
o Is it possible to house the servers outside of our data center, while we still run the service?
o Do we need to develop and run something locally in our data center?
Tim described these challenges to the kind of change he is proposing:
- Change is disruptive
- It's not possible to go back once a change is made
- Loss of control of how services are delivered
- Contracts and vendor relationships become very important
This strategy offers these benefits:
- Increased capacity to support research locally
- IT staff time could be diverted from technical support to more direct support for instruction and research
- Better scalability for important services like email and file management
- Better options for business continuity
The committee agreed that this is important work. They pointed out that it will be important for IT to communicate broadly and frequently with the campus as changes are made in order to create smooth transitions.
Technology Budgets
Betsy Tippens handed out a list of proposals that IT is considering for submission in the budget process. The committee did not have time to discuss the list, and Betsy asked that committee members review the information on their and send feedback or suggestions to her individually.
Upcoming Agenda Items
Given the lack of time at the meeting, the committee will determine upcoming agenda items over email.


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- The phone rings. It's one of your friends and he's still upset over his recent breakup. You listen to him go on about it for twenty minutes. It doesn't sound to you as though anything is resolved, but he tells you that he feels better before he hangs up.
- An alert goes off; it's an incoming text message from your cousin. She's desperate to go out clubbing for some reason. After you exchange a few messages, it becomes pretty clear that she only wants to go out because she's trying to avoid studying for a test tomorrow. After a few more messages, she decides to stay home and study -- with the music playing at high volume.
- The phone rings again. It's another friend. He's looking for suggestions about how to motivate his 10-year-old to put more effort into soccer practice. He's also looking for ways to reinforce the soccer coach's messages about teamwork: How can they get the kids more excited about working together for a common goal ("no pun intended")? The two of you chat for a while; he likes your ideas and can't wait to try them at tomorrow's practice.
- Your phone alerts you that you have mail. It's from the director of the camp you've been going to for years. She says that she knows you're good at "working out personal problems" and she wants you to be a camp counselor this year.
Maybe these scenarios sound familiar; maybe not. But if you have a real desire to help people resolve the kinds of difficulties that arise from the way they think, feel, and relate to themselves and others, studying psychology -- the theory and science of mind -- is a good way to prepare yourself for a job and a life that can make that wish come true. Even if you don't want to go into a therapeutic career, an education in psychology gives you a good idea of "how people tick" and can be a great foundation for many other types of occupations, from business to criminal justice.
You can get an education or degree in psychology, counseling or therapy at many, many different places:
If you go for your doctorate in clinical psychology, be aware that some schools and programs will confer a Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy) and some will confer a Psy.D. (Doctor of Psychology). Both types of doctorate share a great deal of clinical training in common, but typically the Ph.D. is the traditional medical-science-type degree with an emphasis on research, while the Psy.D. is slanted more toward practicing psychology as a professional discipline. (New York University nicely explains the difference between the two degrees, as awarded by their school-psychology program, here.)
Maybe this type of education sounds interesting but you could use some help paying for it (who couldn't?). Consider that in addition to the standard loans and grants that almost anyone who begins a higher education can get, a wide range of scholarships and other types of need- and merit-based financial aid are available to psychology students. The University of Minnesota's Department of Psychology maintains a helpful list of places on the Web where you can find general scholarships, while the American Psychological Association maintains a list of links to mainly psychology-specific financial aid. Many schools give special scholarships and fellowships to their own students; look into this possibility as you research which institutions you might want to attend.
Speaking of choosing a school, there are other factors to consider besides such fairly visible ones as cost/financial aid, location, and facilities. In what kinds of jobs are their graduates working? What have their faculty and alumni achieved, academically and professionally -- do they have doctorates, have they published papers, have they had successful real-world careers, etc.?
Something even more subtle: Is a school's psychology faculty diverse, not only in gender and ethnic terms, but in terms of their philosophy? To investigate this, look for "mission statements" and other philosophical descriptions in the website and promotional material of the school or its psychology department; find out where the faculty members graduated from; and talk to the faculty members and listen to what they say about themselves and each other. If a school's faculty is not philosophically diverse -- that is, if they mostly tend to take the same approach to psychology, especially when it comes to therapy -- you probably don't want to apply to the school if its "prevailing view" is one you don't agree with. For example, you might want to avoid situations like these:
Psychology is a vast field with many different niches that you can explore. This is just a small sampling of the academic and career specialties you can choose:
Both before and after you graduate with a psychology degree, there are many online resources and professional associations that can help you in school and in your career. Be sure to avail yourself of the information linked to in Net-based psychology clearinghouses such as AmoebaWeb, PsychScholar, and PsychWeb. If you do well in your studies, you might qualify to become a member of Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology. (As with many other national academic and professional fraternities, a Psi Chi membership is a good "resume boost" and provides an automatic network of professional contacts and references.) Other associations you might think about joining, depending on your specializations, inlude the American Psychological Association (APA), American Psychological Society (APS), American Counseling Association (ACA), Canadian Psychology Association/Societe canadienne de psychologie (CPA/SCP), and International School Psychology Association (ISPA); a large list of links to professional associations is maintained here.
Regardless of what professional use (if any) you make of it, an education in psychology will stand you in good stead for the rest of your life -- not just when you answer the phone or your email, but also when you answer those internal "wake-up calls" that we all get from time to time. If you are open and honest with yourself, learning about psychology will tend to make you aware of what's going on in your own mind, as much as in anyone else's; that sort of revelation is one we can all profit by.


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The first house from West University today – the "Large" home is one I've loved since it was being built. It's on a great street with a large esplanade – rare for West U., plus it's custom built, not your typical West U. home. Of course I should have known why I've loved it – Kurt Aichler designed it. It was built in 1997 with a stucco and Austin limestone facade. It's 3 stories, 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, with a pool and a screened in porch. It measures at 5,454 sq. ft. Listing Price is $2,050,00. Interiors are by Katie Galliano – see her web site, go HERE. To read its listing, go HERE.
The stucco and limestone screened in porch is off the long living room/dining room. The ceiling is wood planks.
Close up of the beautiful screened in porch with the swinging bed and wicker chairs.
A pergola covers the back terrace. The large den is off to the right where the limestone fireplace is. The screened in porch is at the other end of the pool – the porch leads off the living room/dining room.
Beautiful entry with iron railing and limestone accent wall.
The living room/dining room is one large room that overlooks the pool and the front yard. I love all the silk curtains!
Close up of the living room, designed by Katie Galliano.
The dining room end – I love the chandelier and the fireplace. It's so romantic to have a fireplace in your dining space.
The family room with its high wood planked ceiling and large limestone fireplace.
Looking the other way – into the kitchen and breakfast room. The pool is seen through the windows.
Interior Designer Katie Galliano worked on this house and kindly sent me some of her larger pictures. I wish I had more of this quality to show you!!! To see her web site, go HERE.
Another view from Katie of the family room.
I love this view of the beautiful curtains and rods. The Swedish chairs sit around an iron French table.
Looking from the kitchen into the family room.
The breakfast area has a wonderful light fixture that really grabs attention. Love the nailhead chairs.
Another picture by Katie of the breakfast room with its fabulous light fixture.
The master bedroom has heated marble floors and a footed tub. Typical of the custom details found in an Aichler home.
The second house shown today was built in 1988 and is a more typical West U home from the 80s and 90s. This house was updated in 2005 and is 5 bedrooms and 3 and 2 1/2 baths and has a large pool. This house is also three stories and is 3,885 sq. ft. Asking price is $1,125.00. The listing can be seen HERE.
In West University with its smaller lots – the garage is either front loading or detached. Here, the garage is detached and a pool takes up the rest of the long, skinny back yard.
The front door opens to the living room on the left and the dining room on the right. The updating is seen right away with a new paint job in trendy light gray. This is the only picture of the dining room, unfortunately – it looks like there is a Swedish table and chairs in there.
The entry hall leads to the back family room and kitchen. Love the trumeau and the lantern!
Custom cut seagrass is found in the public rooms and up the stairs. Notice the banister is also painted gray, as are all the moldings and the ceiling. This is a great way to update your house's paint job: paint everything, including the moldings and ceilings one color. I wish there were more pictures of the living room!!! It looks so cute with the high Swedish coffee table and light blue silk drapes.
The bar connects to the living room. There is a wall to wall mirror along the back wall which makes the bar look twice its size. Here you can see in the living room that a piano sits in the bay window.
The family room connects to the kitchen. Cute linen slipcovers in a muted floral pattern.
The breakfast room connects to the family room. Love the chairs and table and all the baskets.
The kitchen was updated with new stainless appliances. I love that shelving unit in the breakfast room!
The master bedroom – seagrass and Italian light fixture. I love the linens on the bed and the long French or Swedish bench. I wish we could see the painted piece on the left side of the picture! Really nice bedroom.
Updated bathroom – they removed the built in cabinet and placed this long console with two sinks in it. They then added bifold French doors leading to the bedroom. This is what I really want to do to my bathroom. By removing the built in counters, it really updates a typical bathroom. I have no idea, but I wonder if Ginger Barber decorated this house? It certainly has her "look" to it.
One daughter's bedroom is adorable. Love the curtains, the scalloped bedding, the chandelier, the lamps, the mirrored chest. Really cute.
Another daughter's bedroom is equally as cute with its daybed.
The third floor media room also has wall to wall seagrass and slipcovers. I love the way the kitchenette has portieres. To visit this house's listing, go HERE.
House #3
The third house today is located in an original bungalow from the 1940s. So many of these original houses have been torn down instead of remodeled, that they are becoming a rarity. This house was decorated by an interior designer and it really shows. The furnishing are top rate. It's 3 bedrooms and 1 1/2 bath, with no garage. The sq. footage is only 1,420 and it is on a typical 50 x 100 lot. The asking price has been reduced to $539,000. To see this house's listing, go HERE
The backyard has a large terrace and lots of shade.
Just walking in, you can tell immediately an interior designer was here. Love the gilt French chairs and the French antique buffet and mirror. Also, notice the modern light mixed with the antiques.
Just perfect! Great silk pillows and contemporary chairs and coffee table. Love the striped silk curtains.
Close up of the curtains. I love the mix of the antiques with the contemporary. This decor is so fresh and youthful.
The dining room has wood beadboard and slipcovered chairs. A textured shade is used here instead of curtains. Again, a mirrored chest mixes the old with the new.
The kitchen is a fabulous space for this sized house. Notice the sink! I love how its styled with the simple white ginger jars and ironstone. No overhead cabinets make it look fresh and contemporary.
Another view of the kitchen with its refrigerator/freezer. The kitchen is really wonderful.
The large kitchen overlooks the backyard. Great window. And great wraparound counter.
The master bedroom is painted deep brown and has ivory silk curtains. The headboard is oversized for drama. Love the lamps and the velvet pillows. This room overlooks the back yard.
The nursery has a wall filled with baskets – great idea to keep it neat!!
The bathroom, like the rest of the house, has been completely updated – all in quiet whites.
The front bedroom with its brown/black walls is used as a sitting room. Great lamp!
An amazing array of three houses available in the same exact neighborhood – one newer custom at almost 5,500 sq ft, a second spec house at 3,880 sq ft., and a third – an original bungalow at just 1,400 sq ft. Each professionally decorated and landscaped. Which would fit your lifestyle and pocketbook? Does the architecture matter the most to you? Or does the interior decoration matter more? I'm keeping my own choice a secret!!!! What's your choice?


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Last year I decided to approach New Year's Resolutions in a different way: I would make a list of things to accomplish and to learn. I focused on just a few things that I enjoy, but seldom approach in a dedicated way: crafting, writing and cooking. My list included things I knew I could easily skate through the entire year without actually doing, unless I had something prodding me…like my pride. I printed out my list – in a big colored font nonetheless – and posted it around the house. That list lived above the sewing machine, by my desk and inside a kitchen cabinet door.
My list looked something like this:Dye sock yarn with Kool-Aid. Cook one new recipe a week. 52 recipes. Write more. Read more.Finish four unfinished projects.


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Robert is currently the Chairman of the Wheaton Bank & Trust Board of Directors. His extensive banking experiences includes serving as Director of the Gary-Wheaton Bank Corporation, Senior Vice President at First National Bank of Chicago, American National Bank & Trust Company of Chicago, Bank One Corporation, and JP Morgan Chase Bank. Robert is heavily involved with charitable organizations and formerly served on the boards of the Polish American Association as both Chairman and Treasurer, Catholic Charities of Joliet Diocese, Peoples Resource Center, BR Ryall YMCA, the Hospice of DuPage, and advisory board of IBVM Sisters. He was appointed to the Supervisory Board of Teleperformance SA and has been a director since May 31, 2011, following a change in the Company's governance structure. Robert also is the Director of Euclid Beverage. He graduated from Northern Illinois with a degree in Finance. He resides in Wheaton with his wife, Sandra, and two children, Kristin and Michael.
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Dr. Mary Ann Bobosky is currently President of Advocates Building Communities, and active in various community organizations including the Community Advisory Council of the Loaves and Fishes Community Pantry, the DuPage Children's Museum, DuPage County Fair Authority, Rob Koranda Scholarship Foundation, Jeanine Nicarico Grants Committee, and Naperville Branch of A.A.U.W. and PEO. She has been featured for her leadership in the Working Mother Magazine, Midwest Living Magazine, and has received Leadership Awards from the State of Illinois Chamber of Commerce, The Chicago YWCA, The DuPage Business Ledger, Citibank, American Association of University Women, and Naperville Jaycees. Mary Ann is married with four children.
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Jim is currently the Owner/President/CEO of Blue Book Services, Inc. and previous work history includes positions at Harris Bank. He served as a member and President of the District 200 School Board, Mayor of the City of Wheaton, and Adjunct Instructor for both the College of DuPage and Wheaton College. Jim holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and political science from Culver-Stockton College, an M.A.A.S. from Yale University, and an M.A.R. from Yale Divinity School. He grew up in Macon, Missouri and is married with two children.
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Jim Clark founded and is currently the managing principal of EnTrust Realty Advisors, one of the few minority-owned commercial real estate consulting and brokerage firms in the U.S. With more than 33 years of experience in commercial real estate investment and finance, he serves on the Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center board, is a member of the Real Estate Executive Council, and is a trustee at the Christ Temple Church in Harlem, New York. Jim has won the Humanitarian of the Year award from Jackson Park Hospital and was inducted into the 2016 Midwest Real Estate News Hall of Fame. He has a Bachelor of Science from the New York University Stern School of Business, an MBA from Columbia University Business School, and a Master of Divinity from the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary at Northwestern University. A long time resident of Naperville, Jim is an ordained clergy member at St. John AME church in Aurora.
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Pamela Davis is the chief executive officer emeritus at Edward-Elmhurst Health, where she served as CEO for 29 years. Under her leadership, the institution transformed from a small community hospital into a major regional medical center, and she has been involved on all boards of directors and all committees within the hospital. She has also served on many different external boards, including Gary Wheaton Bank, Alert MD, Harris Bank, and EES SPC. Davis earned a Master of Health Administration in hospital and health services and a Bachelor of Arts in economics and social studies, both from the University of Iowa. Pam has also received numerous awards, including Crain's Who's Who in Business and ABC's Person of the Week in 2008. She's been recognized on Becker's Hospital Review for leading one of the country's top 100 hospitals, named one of the 500 People to Know in Healthcare, and is one of the 130 Top Women Hospital and Health System Leaders.
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Stacey is currently the Chairman & CEO of First Focus Capital Partners which he founded in 2013. Prior to founding First Focus, he spent over 25 years developing extensive experience in the financial industry, most recently being Chairman & CEO of Wheaton Bank & Trust, where he successfully led his Wintrust subsidiary from a $25 million single location branch in 2004 to $750 million in assets in five locations. Prior to joining Wintrust, he was with JPMorgan and predecessor companies for 13 years where he served as a Director at Banc One Capital Markets and was a Division Head in Commercial Banking at American National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago. He continues to serve as a Board Member of Wheaton Bank & Trust and lives in Glen Ellyn with his wife and three children.
Brad Kinsey
Brad is co-founder & CEO of Kinsey & Kinsey, Inc. having previously served as Senior Vice President at Mark Twain Bancshares. In addition to his membership of the Wheaton Bank & Trust Board of Directors, he is also a member of the Cadence Health System and History Associate, Inc. Board of Directors. Brad is an honors graduate of DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, and holds an MBA from Indiana University. He resides in Glen Ellyn, Illinois with his wife Chris: they have four adult children.
David Larson
David joined Wintrust Financial Corporation in 2010 and is currently the Executive Vice President and Regional Market Head. He oversees the Wintrust Managed Asset Division and also serves as a Regional Market Head overseeing Wheaton Community Bank, Old Plank Trail Community Bank, and St. Charles Bank & Trust. Previous banking experience includes various executive positions at Chicago bank subsidiaries of FBOP Corporation. In addition to serving on the Wheaton Bank & Trust Board of Directors, David is a member of the Bridge Communities board and a mentor for African American high school youth at LINK Unlimited. David holds a BBA in Finance from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. David is married with two boys and lives in Downers Grove, Illinois.
Jim Mathieson
Jim's work history includes Managing Partner of the CPA firm of Mathieson, Moyski, Celer & Co. LLP, General Partner in numerous real estate investment partnerships, and a Registered Investment Advisor. In addition to serving as a member of the Wheaton Bank & Trust Board of Directors, he will remain as an active member for various organizations including the DuPage Heritage Gallery, Wheaton Cemetery Association, Wheaton area Chamber of Commerce, Illinois Association of School Business Officials, and the Illinois School Board Association. He is also an elected school board member of Community Unit School District 200, serving the communities of Wheaton and Warrenville. He is a Northern Illinois University graduate, resides in Warrenville, Illinois with his wife Gail, and has three adult children.
Chuck McKenna
Chuck is a retired partner of the accounting and consulting firm Crowe Horwath LLP, where he worked for more than 25 years and served as Chairman of the Board. In addition to serving on the Wheaton Bank & Trust Board of Directors, he will also continue to serve on the Board of Directors of Penske Motor Group, one of the largest dealerships in the United States. Chuck is also a member of the Board of Trustees for the DuPage Community Foundation. He has a long history of community involvement and service, serving as a past board member and current associate member of Metropolitan Family Services and his involvement with Lion's Club International. Chuck also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for St. Francis High School in Wheaton. Chuck is a longtime Wheaton resident where he and his wife Kathy raised their two children.
Patricia Murray
Patricia Murray has been involved in marketing and selling real estate since 1974. She is a full-time, top-producing Broker Associate with Berkshire Hathaway Home Services – KoenigRubloff in Glen Ellyn, Illinois and is consistently ranked in the top 1% of Realtors in the Glen Ellyn/Wheaton market. She supports the Glen Ellyn Infant Welfare Society and has been a Gold Sponsor in the Society's Housewalk for more than five years. She donates time and funds to Bridge Communities and PADS in the DuPage County Area, and has been a key fundraiser and advocate for The Young Men's Educational Network for many years. Patricia graduated with honors from John Marshall Law School with a Juris Doctor and from Rosary College with a Masters Degree in Business Administration. She resides in Glen Ellyn, Illinois and has one adult son.
Pam Sharar-Stoppel
Pam is currently President & CEO of Wheaton Bank & Trust. Previous work history includes Underwriter of Directors and Officers Liability, Deputy Branch Manager for Australia and New Zealand Bank in Chicago, and various senior management roles in Middle Market Banking at American National Bank and Chase. .She serves on the Board of Wessex 504 and the Associate Board of Metropolitan Family Services, DuPage, and is a member of the Wheaton Lions. She holds an MBA degree in Finance and International Business from the Northwestern Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Pam and her husband, Jim, reside in Wheaton, Illinois and have two adult children.
Michael Skarr
Mike holds an engineering degree from Marquette University as well as an MBA degree from Lewis University. He hold several honors including the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award in community service and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Lewis University, the Naperville Jaycee's Distinguished Service Award in business, the Illinois State Crime Commission's Business Leader of the Year Award, the DuPage Workforce Board's Business Leader Recognition Award, and Extraordinary Citizen Award from the Three Fires Council of Boy Scouts of America. In addition to serving on the Wheaton Bank & Trust Board of Directors, Mike will continue to keep his seats as President of the Friends for Lisle Township Foundation, board member of Virtual Learning Solutions, President of Not-for-Profit Strategies and Solutions, LLC, and as a member of the Naperville Heritage Society's Finance Committee.


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Host Galaxies of Distant Supernovae
These snapshots, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveal five supernovae, or exploding stars, and their host galaxies.
The arrows in the top row of images point to the supernovae. The bottom row shows the host galaxies before or after the stars exploded. The supernovae exploded between 3.5 and 10 billion years ago.
Astronomers used the supernovae to measure the expansion rate of the universe and determine how the expansion rate is affected by the repulsive push of dark energy, a mysterious energy force that pervades space. Supernovae provide reliable measurements because their intrinsic brightness is well understood. They are therefore reliable distance markers, allowing astronomers to determine how far away they are from Earth.
Pinpointing supernovae in the faraway universe is similar to watching fireflies in your back yard. All fireflies glow with about the same brightness. So, you can judge how the fireflies are distributed in your back yard by noting their comparative faintness or brightness, depending on their distance from you.
Only Hubble can measure these supernovae because they are too distant, and therefore too faint, to be studied by the largest ground-based telescopes.
These Hubble observations show for the first time that dark energy has been a present force for most of the universe's history. A spectral analysis also shows that the supernovae used to measure the universe's expansion rate today look remarkably similar to those that exploded nine billion years ago and are just now seen by Hubble.
These latest results are based on an analysis of the 24 most distant known supernovae, most of them discovered within the last three years by the Higher-z SN Search Team. The images were taken between 2003 and 2005 with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys.


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90s Colour Block Sweater
Trouvaille Vintage
, Amsterdam - The Netherlands
44 $
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This is a unique piece, don't wait for it.
Comfy and warm vintage 90s striped sweater with long sleeves and a polo shirt style button facing and collar. We love the colourful stripes in dark blue, red, mustard yellow and dark green, as well as the glowing red collar! Preppy style with an oversized fit, when worn by a woman, great for your autumn and winter wardrobe! Originally a men's clothing piece, but hey looks great on everyone :)
Heavy, warm quality. The perfect and on trend dad style, with a nice warm lining and logo crest embroidered on the chest. Machine wash possible, would always recommend delicate cycle.
Condition: Great vintage condition. It does have some micro-pilling, as you can see in the photos, which is due to the garment's age. It doesn't take away from its cozy fit and is absolutely normal for sweaters like these.
Size: Tag missing, fits sizes S-XL depending on desired fit.
Fabric: Cotton
Brand: Marc Gibaldi
Length: 70cm/27.5" Shoulders (dropped/oversized): 58cm/22.7" Arms (from shoulder seam): 53cm/20.7" Bust: 60cm/23.5"
Measurements are taken while lying flat, seam to seam Model's size is S, 175cm/5'7''
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90s Colour Block Sweater | TPH
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Learn more about Trouvaille Vintage
Hey! Welcome to Trouvaille Vintage.
We are trying to find the most unique vintage pieces for you guys. As long as we can think, we were always the eccentric ones. We loved items that have a special twist to them, that are colorful at best or have an outstanding pattern. We weren't very much interested in looking like everyone else, which is terrible when you're in high school but great afterwards. We also never had a style tribe we associated ourselves with. We changed our style as fast as our mood – sometimes boho, sometimes sleek, other times rock'n'roll, then again 90s – and created our very own style mix while being at it.
With a background in advertising, we always had a special love for Vintage items. Love the hunt, the stories and the unique style you can create with Vintage pieces. Not only can you elevate your contemporary style and give it an edge, but also create a wardrobe that you will see on nobody else. Isn't that great in times of fashion clones wherever you look?
We are trying to always find pieces that are outstanding: be it their fabric, their color, their pattern, a detail or the place they were made. Happy to have you here. Contact us any time for any questions you might have. We are very happy to hunt for something specific that you are looking for, just let us know!
Returns, refunds, and exchange
I accept returns within 14 days, on reasonable terms. Reasons such as
"I don't like the item" or "i have changed my mind" are no return reasons. Items that are broken, different than described/pictured or absolutely don't fit may be returned.
Additional policies and FAQS
Please note that we ship all our items with tracking. This explains the higher shipping price, because tracking isn't cheap from the Netherlands. We want to make sure your item arrives safely and you can always see where it is.
It is indeed possible to cut the shipping costs by sending the items without tracking and smaller items in letters. Please contact us/TPH in case you want to make other shipping arrangements.
Also if you intend to purchase multiple items, contact us so we can find the best solution possible!
Sizing details
We measure the items, when they are lying flat. All measurements are in cm. Read them carefully and make sure the item is a fit for you, since all sales are final and non-refundable.
New to vintage fits? Measure something that you already own! This way you can easily compare it to the measurements of our items. But do know: vintage sizes are nothing like contemporary sizes. A small is not a small anymore, and also denim sizes have changed a lot. The rule of thumb for Levi's denim: add 2 sizes to your contemporary jeans size to get the right fit! (e.g. current size 27 -> Levi's 501 29). But then again, each jean really fits differently.
Tell me something about you!
Trouvaille Vintage offers exactly what our name stands for: truly unique vintage finds, sourced all over the world. Since we sell mostly statement pieces, we style them simple to give them the stage they deserve, AND to show you, that you cam easily make them your own.
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The street sellers on Sir Matt Busby Way were already cashing in on Manchester United's 20th title. There were scarves that read: "Champ20ns." A banner with the simple message "20" had been attached to the statue of Best, Law and Charlton. Fans were wearing T-shirts proclaiming the end of Manchester City's reign ("Money can't buy you everything"). What was not entirely clear was whether these were new purchases or the same items that had been bought this time a year ago then stuffed to the back of the wardrobe when it gradually became clear they had been rushed out of the factories too quickly.
To be fair, who did not think United had won the league when City lost that game at Arsenal last season to fall eight points behind with six games to go? Roberto Mancini had said it was over and, though we did not know it at the time, was already making contingency plans in case he was sacked. Mario Balotelli had gone into meltdown and the memory still lingers of Mancini's players trudging over to the away supporters at the Emirates. It felt like a collective apology. "They knew it was over," this correspondent's match report read. Sometimes, in this business, you wish you could airbrush out the occasional paragraph.
Can City catch United again? No, that would be stretching the imagination a little too far bearing in mind the capitulation it would require from the team 12 points clear at the top of the league. Three wins and a draw would confirm it for Sir Alex Ferguson's side from their next seven matches. Even in the unlikely chance that this is beyond them, City would have to win every single game.
In reality, what happened at Old Trafford, a year to the day since that harrowing defeat at Arsenal, was more about the message it delivered. It was a reminder to United that the noise has not been turned down just yet, that things may have been a little quiet recently but that this lot next door are still determined to be heard.
What Mancini could not do was offer an explanation as to why City could play with such purpose and cohesion when their title defence had, on the whole, been so undistinguished. They had played like a throwback to last season, when their ability to attack from every angle, Mancini's organisational skills – and the unflinching attitude to show they were superior to United – made them such a formidable opponent. Yet this was a side that had pretty much been condemned to second, at best, since losing at Southampton in the second week of February.
The issue, perhaps, is of mentality; the fact they are still acclimatising to this level while taking on a collection of serial champions. Ferguson is going for his 13th title and the 39th trophy of his career, not even counting his 10 Community Shields. Mancini's managerial record is not too shabby either. Yet this is still fairly new ground for City and it is worth remembering sometimes how steep their upward trajectory has been. They did not even have anywhere to put the FA Cup in 2011 when they won their first trophy for 35 years (their new stadium had been converted without anyone thinking it was a good idea to have a purpose-built trophy cabinet). With a background like that, it was probably inevitable the success story would not be seamless. Ferguson, in his programme notes, described them as "a team that has joined the big boys." Perhaps it will need the jolt of having to hand over the championship trophy for City to get back the drive they showed last season.
For United, the damage is only superficial and it was probably one of those occasions when the best thing they can do is try to shake it out of their system as quickly as possible rather than dwelling on it. Too much can be read into one bad game sometimes and, on the whole, their league form probably deserves more acclaim than it is getting. "Our performance has been phenomenal," Ferguson says. "Nobody before us has won 25 out of 30 games and I take immense satisfaction from the high level of performance that has required ... it's certainly not our fault if there is a feeling of anti-climax around the remaining fixtures."
However, there is always the feeling that United's opponents have made it too easy for them – not in the sense of teams "rolling over", as Mancini claims, but more the number of sides who can legitimately claim to be having a good season. United are one, then there is Swansea City, Southampton, West Ham United and West Bromwich Albion. Tottenham Hotspur, as it stands, can be added to that number. Everton are doing pretty well. Fulham should be happy with a mid-table finish. But there is not one club that has excelled.
Liverpool are 28 points behind, having played a game more. Then you look at United's main challengers and City, Chelsea and Arsenal have all gone through traumas of varying degrees. Ferguson has a point when he says people have "foggy memories" (a win would have seen United go above the number of points the 1999 treble-winners accumulated) but it is also true that the standard of opposition has deteriorated. That, in turn, has helped to disguise the team's shortcomings.
Of course there is more right than wrong but Ferguson must be alarmed, for example, about the way his wide players have found it so difficult. Ashley Young has not turned out to be the player United had probably hoped but he has still been their best winger this season, almost by default. Nani has reverted to his exasperating worst, having been United's outstanding player two seasons ago, whereas Antonio Valencia has become a trier rather than the penetrative force of old. Valencia's link-up play with Wayne Rooney, picking out the striker with his right-wing deliveries, used to be a formidable weapon. There has barely been one occasion this season when it has been evident.
Against City, it was rare to see United's attacks fall down so frequently. Ferguson described Robin van Persie's performance as "fantastic" but United's manager often does that when a player is struggling. It's about trying to manipulate the headlines, protecting his own, keeping the focus off that player. On this occasion, however, the diversion technique fooled nobody. Van Persie's form is replicating what happened to David Silva last season – outstanding for the first two-thirds and then losing his way from February onwards. It cost Silva the player-of-the-year awards and might have the same consequence for Van Persie. He has, however, still contributed richly and will probably relish the fact that the coronation could come when United play at Arsenal, his former club, on 28 April.
As for City, the win should go a long way to lifting their mood ahead of Sunday's FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea. Mancini was emboldened enough to say that City would take the title straight back from United next season. He, too, was perhaps guilty of premature statements. Yet it is fair to assume they will certainly make a better fist of it – and those "Champ20ns" scarves should probably remain in the drawer for a few weeks yet.