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28 in 28 #28: Architecture Concepts: Red Is Not a Color

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February is Book Month on A Daily Dose of Architecture. The "<a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/search/label/28%20in%2028">28 in 28</a>" series features a different book every day of the month. <a href="http://www.assouline.com/9782759404674.html">Architecture Concepts: Red Is Not a Color</a> by Bernard Tschumi Rizzoli, 2012 Hardcover, 776 pages <img alt="28-28_tschumi.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/28-28_tschumi.jpg" title="Book cover" /> On page 741 of this hefty 7-pound tome spanning five decades of <a href="http://www.tschumi.com/">Bernard Tschumi</a>'s architecture and writing comes a new essay, "Architecture Concepts." In it the architect writes, "Concepts are what allow us to apprehend reality," and, "Inventing a new concept always starts by determining the right architectural question." Those familiar with Tschumi's theoretical work will not be surprised by his starting point; a 1990 book with some of his writings is even called <a href="http://www.tschumi.com/publications/27/">Questions of Space</a> (Architectural Association). But readers who have journeyed through the first 740 pages of the book will have grasped it as well, given that Tschumi begins each project's presentation with one or more questions—<a href="http://www.tschumi.com/projects/14/">Le Fresnoy</a>, for example: "Can one achieve architecture without resorting to design? What if, instead of designing a new building, you keep one slated for demolition? Hod do you insert an original program inside the old and new structures simultaneously? How do you reconcile coherence with multiplicity?" The word "you" stands out in these questions. As I wrote about it in my <a href="http://www.designersandbooks.com/designer/booklist/john-hill/notable-books-2012">Notable Books of 2012</a> list at Designers & Books, "Curiously [Tschumi] writes in the second person, a tactic that is intended, among other things, to 'draw the reader in,' and which ultimately is successful due to the text’s conversational tone and its thoughtful integration with numerous illustrations." This happens throughout the book but most notably in the "photoessays" that preface the five parts: A-Space Event Program; B-Program: Juxtaposition/Superimposition; C-Vectors & Envelopes; D-Concept/Context/Content; E-Concept-Form. The illustrations in these sections fall well outside of Tschumi's architecture, such as a photo of a gymnasium being used for voting in Part B, where Le Fresnoy is located. This photo reveals how the illustrations are part inspiration, part polemic, and they strengthen his arguments; the gymnasium, for example, makes it clear that programmatic juxtapositions are becoming the norm, not the exception. The book's five parts are thematic but they are also chronological (with a few exceptions), illustrating shifts in concerns over the years, if gradual rather than dramatic ones. And this does not mean, for example, that "space event program" has been set aside in the current emphasis on "concept-form." Rather, the conceptual approaches have expanded as commissions have done the same. But with more and more projects since his breakthrough 1982 competition win for <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/1999/02/01/parc-de-la-villette/">Parc de la Villette</a>, there is a sharp decrease in the essays from Part A and Part B to the rest of the book. This is no surprise, as Tschumi, like other academic-architects, wrote a lot in the 1970s and early 1980s when work was slim. That theorizing laid a groundwork for conceptualizing about projects that would later make the move successfully from idea to reality. This large book encapsulates the evolution of Tschumi's five-decade-long (and counting) career, making his thinking and architecture more accessible and understandable to a larger audience. US: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0847837971/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0847837971&link_code=as3&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.com" border="0" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan.gif" /></a> CA: <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0847837971/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0847837971&link_code=as3&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.ca" border="0" height="28" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan-ca.gif" width="90" /></a> UK: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0847837971/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0847837971&link_code=as3&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.co.uk" border="0" height="28" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan-uk.gif" width="90" /></a>

28 in 28 #28: Architecture Concepts: Red Is Not a Color

February is Book Month on A Daily Dose of Architecture. The " 28 in 28 " series features a different book every day of the month. ...

VATICAN

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<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqAK65G2eYvSjedmBGG8sosNfJNPDyuxoR1QaVbTPYgy_bqmxZChh5ffGleOe1NiyngjzIJbUY4ZlN76vbaxRTjzkcn-Hx_tIWz-xwXlR6Ba-bgfNwzZ3DoFfyIkPhyphenhyphenQgnxUBq4zcRcK0j/s1600/000_dv1426427.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqAK65G2eYvSjedmBGG8sosNfJNPDyuxoR1QaVbTPYgy_bqmxZChh5ffGleOe1NiyngjzIJbUY4ZlN76vbaxRTjzkcn-Hx_tIWz-xwXlR6Ba-bgfNwzZ3DoFfyIkPhyphenhyphenQgnxUBq4zcRcK0j/s400/000_dv1426427.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">VATICAN POLICIES ‘CATASTROPHIC IN THEIR IMPLICATIONS’</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">A lack of tolerance to modern social problems - along with repeated child abuse and money laundering allegations - is forcing the congregation away from the Catholic Church, Keith Porteous Wood of the International Secular Society told RT.  <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">Failure to deal with these issues, as well as other “symptomatic” failures, is partly the reason why Pope Benedict XVI is stepping down, Porteous Wood argues. RT: One of the growing allegations right now is that there is some sort of influential gay network operating within the Vatican. What do you think? If there is anything behind that? Is that why the pope is leaving, or is there no mileage in that at all?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">Keith Porteous Wood: I think, it is symptomatic of the fact that he has lost control, which that whole episode over his butler showed that very strongly. But, I think there are several other important factors playing as well. I’m certainly aware of two major issues over child abuses that are going to come up and are going to be very, very hard for the Vatican to swallow. Because it is not like it is the child abuse, bad though that is, is the issue - it is actually that the finger of blame is going to be pointed at the Vatican for having obstructed justice and all the secret files that it won’t release.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">So, that is going to look very, very bad, and I think people will get less and less tolerant about that. And the Vatican has shown no real sign of actually coming to terms with this, of putting its hands up and really atoning for its past sins, and being much more open and dealing more properly with victims and actually getting the people who perpetrated these crimes turned over to the police.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives on St Peter's square for his last weekly audience on February 27,  </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">RT: It begs the question: why not? Why have they not done that?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">  </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">KPW: The Vatican has forever been an organization that is only interested in its own power and preserving its own reputation and its own finances - it has always been thus. But with the kind off communications we have today, they can’t get away with that any longer. And the stronger regulatory powers as well - that is also coming around to hit them quite big time on money laundering. I mean, there have been rumors for ages about the way the internal banking of the Vatican works. In fact, they could not even get the credit cards working in their museums. It's so humiliating, and so symbolic of the complete breakdown of the system.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">They just can’t get away with that any longer either. And it is very interesting that his grace, even though he was right at the end, that Cardinal O’Brien from the UK said that he thought it was about time that priests should be allowed to marry, which may also be behind some of the child abuse problems. I think the time has come: the church has to make up its own mind, it is not for me to tell it, but I think an awful lot of people are thinking it is time they ought to be much more open to modern thinking over issues like these, and also their obsession with contraception is so damaging in the third world to women, to women’s health, to overpopulation. That is something that is so quiet and not talked about, but it is catastrophic in its implications.</div><div style="text-align: left;">to) </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">RT: What does the Church need to do now, to change all the negative things you’re talking about?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">KPW: The outgoing pope has to pad the college of cardinals with people who are not more conservative then he is, so it is going to be pretty hard. But if they’ve got any sense they should look and see that the vast majority of Catholics don’t actually agree with all the positions of the sensitive social issues. And I think, they actually need to look at their own congregation, and start taking some signs from that, and be much more sensible over issues like contraception, homosexuality, abortion - all those kinds off things - and actually be open to secular justice on matters such as child abuse and money laundering.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div>   <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> </div>

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VATICAN POLICIES ‘CATASTROPHIC IN THEIR IMPLICATIONS’ A lack of tolerance to modern social problems - along with repeated child abuse and m...

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/28/2013

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<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <a href="http://technology.mssd14.wikispaces.net/Flat+Classroom+200">Manitou Technology - Flat Classroom 200</a> Duane Robertson has some fantastic examples of how he gets students started on editing their wiki. I love how his second step says "become part of the family." The use of checklists and pointers helps so much in collaboration and helping people get started. tags: <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclass">flatclass</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/wiki_book">wiki_book</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/connection">connection</a> </li> </ul>Posted from <a href='https://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/28/2013

Manitou Technology - Flat Classroom 200 Duane Robertson has some fantastic examples of how he gets s...

Winter and Masturbation...They Both Grow Old

9:00 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7tmMVYyt-Cn1guKtL-gl6m3Wa6Q9tA5uX9yinWeIvBzhFeUlcATdzcrNWNYNTToWpIntVHwLnR0PxD3dujzVo7yS2rf8kJH9FZ1Jj-hcomCVc_9Rfq4Bsxoy4Zc829s_dVePb-7Ej-cI/s1600/Hot+Woman+Masturbating.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7tmMVYyt-Cn1guKtL-gl6m3Wa6Q9tA5uX9yinWeIvBzhFeUlcATdzcrNWNYNTToWpIntVHwLnR0PxD3dujzVo7yS2rf8kJH9FZ1Jj-hcomCVc_9Rfq4Bsxoy4Zc829s_dVePb-7Ej-cI/s400/Hot+Woman+Masturbating.jpg" width="366" /></a></div>cheers chuckleheads!! Did that greeting sound, or read, like I forced it? Well it should. Poor ol’ Matty Boy is under the weather emotionally…Literally.  I have had enough of winter…especially this winter. This winter drags on and on without significant snowfall or arctic temps.  It continues to be merely a quasi-cold, dreary, and gray winter, and yet clings to and tortures my soul and good nature like grim death. And?  It somewhat mirrors where my life is right now, especially as to where my lack of sex life is concerned. Listen…My BFF/OSP, and compadre Schmoop got very sick back in October.  And while her illness is no longer life-threatening, she had major surgery and still has an obnoxious tube jutting from her stomach. It’s been five months and will be at least six months when all is said and done before I can once again touch her in the biblical sense. And that’s predicated on the fact she’ll once again allow me to “touch her!!”  Which?  Always remains in question once she is free from her bile duct tube bondage. Anyhoo… With the lovely Schmoop sexually incapacitated over lo these many winter months, I have had to seek an alternative method of sexual fulfillment, namely, masturbation.  And you know what? It’s just not doing it for me anymore.  It’s kinda like how I feel about winter itself. I LOVE summer, but I still in my advanced years, get excited about the first snowfall.  It’s all pure, clean, and pretty, and then…after a few, long, turgid months of the alabaster shit, I am ready for the grass to once again grow green. It’s been the same way about masturbating these past few months with Schmoop on injured reserve.  Sure the first few times were pretty cool, because I was envisioning dorking Tyra Banks, Kate Upton, and Jon Meachem, but lately? As the winter grows long, so do the cramps in my hand and the callouses upon my penis, and my thoughts have turned to cheap and tawdry masturbation. Due to the dreariness of this Ohio winter, in the morning when I awake and see yet another gray and melancholy sky…I touch myself and think of dirty, unwashed chicks like, Kristen Stewart and Amy Winehouse. It’s just…not…right.  Especially the Amy Winehouse thing because she’s dead and it’s like I’m participating in some kind of Haitian necrophilia masturbation, voodoo ceremony. Ick… I long for Spring and its verdant and awe-inspiring colors, because if Schmoop still has the tube in her, I can at least jack-off in a better and more hopeful mood, and envision myself having a three-way with Kate Upton and Tyra Banks. That would be nice. So…During this Lenten Season, could you all say a prayer for me?  I have given up Rose.  I have given up Steel Reserve, and by de facto dictate I have given up sex, because, listen…. My hand is tired of me; I am tired of my hand, and Schmoop’s tube isn't coming out for another few weeks. So...help a brutha out and pray for me.  Aight? Cheers!! Matt-Man <a href="mailto:mattmaniws@ymail.com">mattmaniws@ymail.com</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MattMan_IWS" target="_blank">@mattman_iws</a> Annnnnnd, if you missed Jayman and I yesterday LIVE on Blog Talk Radio, you can catch us in the archives. We talked Chuck Hagel, Seth MacFarlane, the Oscars, and cunts!!  It was awesome!! <div style="text-align: center;"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.adobe.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" height="105" id="143577" name="143577" width="210"><param name="movie" value="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/btrplayer.swf?file=http://www.blogtalkradio.com%2Fplaylist.aspx%3Fshow_id%3D4468385&autostart=false&bufferlength=5&volume=80&corner=rounded&callback=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/flashplayercallback.aspx" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/btrplayer.swf" flashvars="file=http://www.blogtalkradio.com%2Fplaylist.aspx%3Fshow_id%3D4468385&autostart=false&shuffle=false&callback=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/FlashPlayerCallback.aspx&width=210&height=105&volume=80&corner=rounded" width="210" height="105" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" wmode="transparent" menu="false" name="143577" id="143577" allowScriptAccess="always"></embed></object></div><div style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center; width: 220px;"> </div></div>

Winter and Masturbation...They Both Grow Old

cheers chuckleheads!! Did that greeting sound, or read, like I forced it? Well it should. Poor ol’ Matty Boy is under the weather emotionall...

Laptop Lunches Bento-Ware Review

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<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP7enLfo1eWIM0nOoKP-vhftb24eAHzm0hwqPYczfYsXgNAktokOmjs3AULc_NCO-NS4_AQ_BdQi_C8jZ7eLMygzEvtV_ELp7UBXHdaXocJkZxzaCtz77HMkivdj3jFaC6St6GhLF6gSM/s1600/laptop-logo+(2).gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP7enLfo1eWIM0nOoKP-vhftb24eAHzm0hwqPYczfYsXgNAktokOmjs3AULc_NCO-NS4_AQ_BdQi_C8jZ7eLMygzEvtV_ELp7UBXHdaXocJkZxzaCtz77HMkivdj3jFaC6St6GhLF6gSM/s320/laptop-logo+(2).gif" width="320" /></a></div> As a kid I remember skipping to the bus stop each morning with my shoes tied tight and the best lunches ever from the most amazing woman, I call her mom!</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">I would remember the anticipation just waiting till lunch time to see what she had packed me!</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">With lunch box in hand I would dash through the hall to lunch in the cafeteria and carefully open my lunch box, ah the joy of finding a treat!</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">What was your favorite treat in your lunch box?</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Mine was cookies!</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">The problem with some lunch boxes though they aren't big enough to store everything, especially containers and a thermos!</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">The thermos would leak at times because the lid wasn't on tight enough, then your sandwich gets all soggy!</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Nobody wants a soggy lunch! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTnjjlQ8d6uYviOXFe8skzkYFgmia4Y1vHuruAURyfgPYEOrXSJRvwrxO0IeTwIdeg9Khqq5gN-7tLqposi9FpNWg_VQWf6vQ0yC0XmAKRi7uw0wkO-h5LQrx_T-0MYEV1eUV9T6OQyHE/s1600/laptop+lunches.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTnjjlQ8d6uYviOXFe8skzkYFgmia4Y1vHuruAURyfgPYEOrXSJRvwrxO0IeTwIdeg9Khqq5gN-7tLqposi9FpNWg_VQWf6vQ0yC0XmAKRi7uw0wkO-h5LQrx_T-0MYEV1eUV9T6OQyHE/s320/laptop+lunches.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Be creative and have fun with your food with <a href="http://www.laptoplunches.com/index.php">Laptop Lunches</a>. I received a bento ware lunch box for review and I am loving it! Love the color, how it comes with containers so you don't have to spend all of that money buying them separately! Most importantly I like how it's not so big and bulky! </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Laptop lunches is a laptop bento lunch box that is dish washer safe, environment friendly, and has room for spoons, forks, sandwiches and snacks!</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Has 5 containers inside of them, and you can mix and match the colors!</div><div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-zzZARRL8Kj5C37-yKyyVRE5r45D4JfaAfbXoiza42BChpc3EnUp5AkcUHJFh8-iuZqqRLgLWK5lIQfxZqzfZlLbuxjBXJFoOjerfOb40w8zVX1cOE6dZG75Z_PcEH_x6Vd16RFbwdm0/s1600/organized+laptop+lunches+bento+box.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-zzZARRL8Kj5C37-yKyyVRE5r45D4JfaAfbXoiza42BChpc3EnUp5AkcUHJFh8-iuZqqRLgLWK5lIQfxZqzfZlLbuxjBXJFoOjerfOb40w8zVX1cOE6dZG75Z_PcEH_x6Vd16RFbwdm0/s320/organized+laptop+lunches+bento+box.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> </div><div style="text-align: center;">The kids will love them too!</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Visit their website below for:</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">*inspirational menus*</div><div style="text-align: center;">*Lunch making tips*</div><div style="text-align: center;">*Replacement parts*</div><div style="text-align: center;">*Fun and creative lunch ideas*</div><div style="text-align: center;">*Accessories*</div><div style="text-align: center;">*Kid Friendly Recipes* *reusable* </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.laptoplunches.com/index.php" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.laptoplunches.com/index.php</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">and also connect with them on these sites!</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Follow them, like them!</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LaptopLunches">https://www.facebook.com/LaptopLunches</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/LaptopLunches">https://twitter.com/LaptopLunches</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://pinterest.com/laptoplunches/">http://pinterest.com/laptoplunches/</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Great product and I highly recommend. </div><div style="text-align: center;"> They offer a ton of other products as well go to their page and take a look! Other products: forks and spoons bento buddies ice packs cloth napkins drink bottles bento jars carriers, totes and sleeves and more!</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Facts:</div><div style="text-align: center;">Dishwasher safe (top rack only)</div><div style="text-align: center;">Made in The USA</div><div style="text-align: center;">no phthalates </div><div style="text-align: center;">no bpa, lead or PVC</div><div style="text-align: center;">microwaveable safe</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div>

Laptop Lunches Bento-Ware Review

As a kid I remember skipping to the bus stop each morning with my shoes tied tight and the best lunches ever from the most amazing woman, I ...

VINTAGE YEARS

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjixmN3UGrvMHmbXhjMq3Kf0gEUIs6_ZhHCNwwy1eApn1zm1jLVA6kShjoIZ-084A7Twd5tMRsQLVEr-SBuRRaHwO4VyRIaFGpiWc1nn3JZIMO9pIc2h-ND_YBvc_a4p0tF-WoaFjWgoHc/s1600/wines+expensive+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjixmN3UGrvMHmbXhjMq3Kf0gEUIs6_ZhHCNwwy1eApn1zm1jLVA6kShjoIZ-084A7Twd5tMRsQLVEr-SBuRRaHwO4VyRIaFGpiWc1nn3JZIMO9pIc2h-ND_YBvc_a4p0tF-WoaFjWgoHc/s1600/wines+expensive+2.jpg" /></a></div> The notion that 1939 was the greatest of all movie years has been around for so long that it's pretty much an accepted fact these days. A while ago, as I was roaming the blogosphere, I happened upon a post by Peter Bogdanovich on his Indiewire blog (appropriately called Blogdanovich) titled "The Greatest Year?"  I read on, having always respected what Mr. B has to say about films and filmmaking. He not only possesses an encyclopedic knowledge and intimate understanding of the subject, but has also made some classics of his own that I much admire - The Last Picture Show (1971), What's Up, Doc? (1972) and Paper Moon (1973). With "The Greatest Year?" Bogdanovich looked back on one of his 1972 columns for Esquire magazine. In that article he'd selected and reviewed a great movie year of the past to illustrate his contention that films of the early '70s weren't measuring up. He zeroed in on 1939 in particular because in addition to the fact that it had been a banner year for movies, it was also the year he was born (as were Francis Coppola and William Friedkin, two other major filmmakers of the time). Not long after Bogdanovich's column appeared in Esquire, he recalled, a lengthier, more elaborate piece on the films of 1939 appeared in Life magazine written by film critic Richard Schickel. Schickel once and for all declared '39 to be the great year. The rest, as we know, is history. <div style="text-align: left;"> <a name='more'></a> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Peter Bogdanovich admitted in his Blogdanovich post that he actually believes "the absolute high point" of American film (he prefers the term 'cinema') encompasses 1939, 1940 and 1941. He has a point. 1940, too, was notable for a raft of classics. Here is one man's tribute, via his YouTube channel, to some of the year's best films:</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/FDf0IMaLgVk" width="420"></iframe> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div> Other of 1940's offerings include Abe Lincoln in Illinois, The Letter, The Mortal Storm, Pride and Prejudice and The Westerner, to name a few. 1941 was no less stellar, bringing Ball of Fire, (ahem) Citizen Kane, The Devil and Daniel Webster, High Sierra, How Green Was My Valley, The Lady Eve, The Little Foxes, The Maltese Falcon, Meet John Doe, Sergeant York, Sullivan's Travels, Suspicion and more. Perhaps I'm less a purist or maybe just more democratic, but I'd extend Hollywood's high point back in time to 1937. That year introduced The Awful Truth (still my favorite screwball), Captains Courageous, Dead End, Lost Horizon and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. I'd also add, on the other end, 1942, the moment just before World War II's impact was fully felt in Hollywood. 1942, after all, was the year of Casablanca, The Magnificent Ambersons, Now, Voyager, The Palm Beach Story, This Gun for Hire, To Be or Not to Be, Woman of the Year and Yankee Doodle Dandy. 1937 - 1942 were all vintage years in Hollywood. Here's what Peter Bogdanovich originally wrote for Esquire in 1972, courtesy of critic/author Clive James's website: <a href="http://www.clivejames.com/peter-bogdanovich/best-american-movies-1939">The Best American Films of 1939</a>.   <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yccvdXoHubI" width="560"></iframe>  <div style="text-align: center;">My top pick from 1939, John Ford's Stagecoach</div> It may seem ironic that Bogdanovich was disheartened by what he called "the meager pickings" of his own era, a time now viewed as another golden age.  "The New Hollywood" had arrived and international cinema was in full flower. 1972 alone saw the release of Fosse's Cabaret, Bergman's Cries and Whispers, Boorman's Deliverance, Bunuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and the film many consider the greatest of all, Francis Coppola's The Godfather - not to mention Bogdanovich's own very popular and award-winning What's Up, Doc?   Parenthetically, 1972 would be the year Joseph Mankiewicz directed his last film. Sleuth, starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine, was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Director. With this final effort, Mankiewicz became one of few filmmakers who enjoyed success in both the old Hollywood and the new. The second Oscar nomination of his career (he won four and was nominated for eight) had been a Best Picture nod for producing MGM's The Philadelphia Story in 1940. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfqFEZGvew4ZkMrQIg6WDcnsRaUX9g4LwNZVtXIuPjrKgxZzeaSf0P2JYKvmZUdFIepgeiv8VvUiYotx1hrryI_Mc2Pm10GxainpeUgwi1YZlWYD9MHRmiD8IFjvQyarw6IHdOYcWB49c/s1600/Mankiewicz.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfqFEZGvew4ZkMrQIg6WDcnsRaUX9g4LwNZVtXIuPjrKgxZzeaSf0P2JYKvmZUdFIepgeiv8VvUiYotx1hrryI_Mc2Pm10GxainpeUgwi1YZlWYD9MHRmiD8IFjvQyarw6IHdOYcWB49c/s400/Mankiewicz.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>

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28 in 28 #27: a+t 39-40

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February is Book Month on A Daily Dose of Architecture. The "<a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/search/label/28%20in%2028">28 in 28</a>" series features a different book every day of the month. <a href="http://aplust.net/tienda.php?seccion=revistas&serie=Serie%20RECLAIM&revista=RECLAIM%20Remediate%20Reuse%20Recycle">a+t 39-40: Reclaim Remediate Reuse Recycle</a> edited by Aurora Fernandez Per and Javier Mozas a+t, 2012 Paperback, 312 pages <img alt="28-28_at39-40.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/28-28_at39-40.jpg" title="Book cover" /> One of the most distinctive things about a+t magazine is the way it presents recent architecture in themed series. Most recent was the <a href="http://aplust.net/tienda/revistas/Serie%20STRATEGY/">Strategy series</a>; before it <a href="http://www.archidose.org/books/hybrids3.html">Hybrids</a>, <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/2008/07/book-review-civilities-i-and-ii.html">Civilities</a>, and so forth. These topics (focusing on landscapes, large buildings, and public buildings, respectively) respond to trends in the world of architecture while also taking critical positions toward them. Choosing to look at buildings that hybridize housing, offices, recreation, and other uses, for example, is a way to present projects like Steven Holl's <a href="http://www.world-architects.com/en/projects/project-review-detail/40177_sliced_porosity_block_in_chengdu">Sliced Porosity Block</a>, but the act also takes a position on how the city should evolve—taking into account a mix of uses, demographics, and other features that respond to the growing diversity of urban and suburban areas around the world. The publisher's newest series is <a href="http://aplust.net/tienda/revistas/Serie%20RECLAIM/">Reclaim</a>, which starts with a double issue subtitled "Remediate, Reuse, Recycle." The editors promote the series in an "environmental sense to reclaim the territory, the objects, the infrastructures and the materials [and] a call to reclaim dignity and citizen rights. It is a wake-up call to morally reclaim society using the Re- processes as atonement." In his introduction, Javier Mozas describes how the three subsets of Reclaim (remediate, reuse, recycle) into which the 82 projects are situated contain all of the other re-processes—rebuild, remake, reinvent, restore, etc. Of course, to reclaim, remediate, reuse, and recycle is to maintain and transform an existing building or landscape, therefore using less energy for demolition and construction of an alternatively new entity. In this sense Reclaim is an extension of Strategy—but one that works on smaller scales (Strategy dealt with landscape urbanism and other means of designing landscapes in cities)—and an increasing focus on sustainability as a path for continuity of the species. The order of the double issue's chapters—Remediate, Reuse, Recycle—means that the projects move from the large to the small, from the landscape to the building to the material. Therefore the chapters are not about figuring out what project goes where (a common tactic in many collections of contemporary architecture) or about typology (landscapes, for example, can also be found in the Recycle chapter), but about what it means to take part in the "re-" strategies. Like other a+t titles, the design, layout, and quality of presentation is exceptional, though with the new series a new design is in place. Nevertheless the editors' penchant for organizing and cross-referencing is still present. In particular, each project is tagged with page numbers to two chapters at the end the book; one describes the "agents" involved and how they worked together in either top-down or bottom-up scenarios, and the other shows their before-and-after conditions. These concluding chapters ground the 82 projects in action and time, aiding in the discovery of what lessons can be learned beyond the pretty pictures and drawings.

28 in 28 #27: a+t 39-40

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Drugs to treat fibromyalgia just as likely to harm as help, review finds - ScienceDaily

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Among fibromyalgia patients taking either of two commonly prescribed drugs to reduce pain, 22 percent report substantial improvement while 21 percent had to quit the regimen due to unpleasant side effects, according to a new review in The Cochrane Library. People with fibromyalgia suffer from chronic widespread pain, sleep problems and fatigue. The illness affects more than 5 million Americans, 80 percent of whom are women. The cause of fibromyalgia is unknown and currently there is no cure. Using a Quality of Life (QOL) scale for fibromyalgia, the studies reviewed reported QOL ratings lower than 15 on a scale of 0 to 100 even among patients on medications. The two medications often prescribed to treat fibromalgia are duloxetine, known by the brand name Cymbalta or milnacipran, commonly known as Savella. "A frank discussion between the physician and patient about the potential benefits and harms of both drugs should occur," noted the reviewers, led by Winfried Häuser, M.D. of Technische Universität München. The authors reviewed 10 high-quality studies comprising more than 6,000 adults who received either duloxetine, milnacipran, or a placebo for up to six months. A substantial majority of study participants were middle-aged, white women. "This is a very important study," says Fred Wolfe, M.D. of the National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases. "There's an enormous amount of advertising suggesting that these drugs really help, whereas the research data show that the improvement is really minimal." Treatment with drugs alone "should be discouraged," the reviewers added. Instead, the review authors recommend a multi-faceted treatment approach including medications for those who find them helpful, exercises to improve mobility and psychological counseling to improve coping skills. "The medical field does poorly with the treatment of fibromyalgia in general," says Brian Walitt, M.D., M.P.H., a co-author of the review and an expert in pain syndromes at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. "Chasing [a cure] with medicine doesn't seem to work.The people who seem to me to do best sort of figure it out on their own by thinking about things, getting to know themselves, and making changes in their lives to accommodate who they've become," concludes Walitt. The only other medication approved for fibromyalgia treatment in the U.S. is the anti-convulsant pregabalin, known by the brand name Lyrica. The Cochrane Library plans to publish a review of its effectiveness later this year. Intensive neuroscientific research is needed to reveal the underlying causes of fibromyalgia and other pain syndromes, say the researchers. In the meantime, combinations of various medications as well as combinations of drug and non-drug treatments may offer better symptom control for sufferers. <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221104155.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130221104155.htm</a>

Drugs to treat fibromyalgia just as likely to harm as help, review finds - ScienceDaily

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Jerusalem, My Happy Home: Part 2

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<div class="MsoNormal">“Pilgrims here do not bring decisions with them. They come here to seek prayerfully the decisions God wants them to make. And God will always surprise us.”                                                                                            <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">                                                              The Rt. Rev. Sulheil Dawani<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">                                                              Bishop of Jerusalem<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 214.0pt; tab-stops: 408.75pt;">speaking to GAFCON 2008<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 214.0pt; tab-stops: 408.75pt;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">The surprises have already begun. But all in due course.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">Jet lag mostly overcome, we awoke to another beautiful morning in Jerusalem. Blue skies. Birds singing. “Biblical plants” growing in gardens. Wandering about the old stone streets and sidewalks, crowded with a wide assortment of humanity, gives me a sort of Indiana Jones feeling. Yesterday, we found a neat little “Educational Bookstore.” All the books were Palestinian polemics – not saying that disparagingly, only to name a genre. It reminds me of leftist bookshops in Argentina -- and they serve espresso. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">The best part of being here so far is Eucharist in the side chapel at the Cathedral, celebrated at 7 a.m., simply, reverently, no music, no sermon. Bishop Dawani presided today as the multitude swelled to 11. I love these services. I loved them at Harvard Divinity in 02, when Professor Coakley, an erudite systematic theologian with mystical leanings, would celebrate. (Gordon Kaufman, another famous theologian there, quoted Sarah from her student days as saying, “I am not good enough to be spiritual. I am religious.”) It was my favorite service as a parish priest. I miss this simple, reverent, quiet service so much!!! And yes, somehow the Eucharist feels special – the anamnesis more palpable  – do this in remembrance of me – here where it was instituted and first celebrated.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">On our first day of unstructured time (before the class starts), we explored the heart of the Palestinian Quarter of the Old City, that being the site of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the Russian Orthodox Church featuring excavations going back to the time of Jesus. On this second and last day of unstructured time, we ambled toward (but not much into) the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, that being the site of the Western Wall and the Armenian Patriarchate. It was a process of acculturation, which goes along with overcoming jet lag. All part of getting ready for the class beginning tonight – preparation along with reading. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">One mystery I have been reading about is what Jesus did in the Temple, why he did it, and what, if anything, it had to do with his crucifixion. Huge question. It has to be set in the context of a general shift in religions around the globe in the 800 BCE to 200 CE era away from animal sacrifice toward something more spiritual like bhakti (devotion) or medication practices in Hinduism, study and practice of Torah in Judaism, etc. The Jewish shift away from Temple sacrifice and toward ethical religion goes back to the 8thCentury prophets, particularly Micah and 2nd Isaiah. The idea of initiation into the people of God and the engagement of the Kingdom mission outside the Temple authority structure was certainly part of Jesus’ message. But it doesn’t explain what looks like an assault on the Temple.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">Here’s a clue. Jesus’ call to repentance may have included repentance from violent nationalistic revolt. His prophesies often related to what would happen to Judah if they persisted in a path toward such an uprising. (Borg, Wright) The words that accompanied Jesus’ symbolic action were: “My Father’s house should be a house of prayer for all people, but you have made it a den of lestos.” “Lestos” is usually translated as “thieves” and understood to mean swindlers suggesting the moneychangers and purveyors of doves were ripping off the pilgrims.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">“Lestos,” however, does not mean a swindler or general practitioner of theft by chicanery or slight of hand. It means one who robs by violence. It is a bandit or brigand. In 1st Century Judah, brigands tended to be political outlaws, more like terrorists than simple thieves. Every time Josephus uses the word “lestos” it refers to such a political outlaw. Herod’s Temple was regarded as a symbolic symbol for the nationalist uprising in Jesus’ day, just as Solomon’s Temple had been in Jeremiah’s day. Jesus echoed Jeremiah in his critique of the Temple and, again like Jeremiah, foresaw its destruction not by supernatural second sight, but by counting the number of soldiers Judah had as compared to Babylon in Jeremiah’s case or Rome in Jesus’.  This analysis courtesy of N. T. Wright. For a long time, Jesus’ prophesies were interpreted literally as the end of space-time. Given that interpretation, he was simply wrong. A more historically coherent political read of his prophesies, he was tragically right. It all happened in 70 CE.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">Tonight our class began with a surprise. 17 Episcopal Idahoans are here!!! I had somehow picked up there would be a couple of folks from the potato state – but I had figured they’d probably be Catholics or Presbyterians. Then my friend, Stephanie Crumrine of Twin Falls, asked me on FB if I had seen the Idaho contingent, so I knew they would be Episcopalians. Then they turned out to be most of our class. For those who don’t know, Linda and I became Episcopalians in Boise and regard Idaho as our spiritual home.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">All of a sudden, titling this blog “my happy home” did not seem ironic anymore. We met briefly and headed to the Cathedral for Eucharist. There we sang just one hymn. It was Cwm Rhonda (Guide me O thou great Jehovah – only here they sub Redeemer for Jehovah, out of what I guess is a sensibility to the Jewish prohibition on speaking the Divine Name) – which is unto Wales as Danny Boy is to Ireland. And Wales is my ancestral home. I thought as Peter said, “It is very good for us to be in this place.”<o:p></o:p></div>

Jerusalem, My Happy Home: Part 2

“Pilgrims here do not bring decisions with them. They come here to seek prayerfully the decisions God wants them to make. And G...

Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock 02/27/2013

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock 02/27/2013

Every Classroom Matters: What is a MOOC? Why does it Matter? So excited to announce the Every Classr...