With a priority on improving the housing stock owned by the council, older properties had to give way to new housing estates in Tilbury. This required the demolition of Poets Corner in the north part of the town.
I lived at No. 20 Thackeray Ave. We left in 1972/3 and moved to Grays. My dad Ralph was a dustman, in the days when they went into your garden, lifted up your bin on their shoulders, walked to the dustcart and emptied. Then they would put the bin back. Had many good memories there. Neighbours were The Coleman's, The Strongs, The Tethers, The Heaths, The Sharkys, ….the list is endless. Lots of people in surrounding roads I remember too!
I lived in Kipling Ave for years. I always used to play football on the green in Shaw Crescent with Dennis Sheriden, Stephen Pearson, Alan Prior, Paul Pearson, Colin Heath and Derek Ross, wonder where he is now????
I was born in the house my mum still lives in 48 years ago- 41 Dickens Ave – she is the second oldest resident in the street. The first being Doreen Smith at number 47. I also went to manor way as did my brothers Anderw and David. I loved playing in the houses when they were being knock down!
I lived at number 46 Kipling Ave,. . My mum and dad were Liz and Harry Jackson. We lived next door to a mr and mrs Livermore,next came a lady called Nell Grant and then a man called Reg with his sister Pam. . . Our house was on the end and the opening to the back field was at the side of us. In the summer, we would play all sorts of games on the field and children from Parker, Fielding and Shaw Crescent would all come to join in. . We lived there from around 1966-1978. Brilliant memories.
i lived in kipling `the wrights family opposite jimmy lee, it was a good road and many friend but all that has gone now !
I was born in 1960 and live in Kipling Ave from 64-68 by my reckoning, so must have been at school with Linda Tucker!
I moved into 12 Dickens Avenue after the floods in 53 and went to Manor way,When my mum died in the same year I moved in with my Aunt Flo in Tennyson Ave. My Dad remarried and I moved back in 55 and then up to West Ham in 58. I remember Dawn Grant we you to sit next to each other in class at Manor Way. I also remember the horse because it lived at 12 and was there in the window when I showed my wife to be where I used to live she was unimpressed as you can imagine.
I lived in Burns Place from about 1952 until I married in 1968. I actually lived across the road from my future husbands grandparents, May & Laurie Tindale. I remember the "Red Hut" very well, as I do you Jannette and Mary Downward, Carol Benson, Dawn Grant, Lynn Allen, Sally Pritchard, also Barbara ? can't remember her last name but I think she lived next door to Carol Benson. I remember the film and the rock and roll nights and also the little tuck shop. They were good days..
I have lived in parker ave for just over a year now. seem like a nice place but have found out it had a past of old buildings. its good to see this photo i would love to see so many more. i know the area had a bad rep as does most of Tilbury but i live there and have found most people ok. its a shame the old places went. where did all the people go. When i dig in the garden i find old bit of rubble from what i now know to be the old houses on this site.
I lived on the corner of Parker Ave and Kipling Ave. We had wonderful times there growing up. My dad Stan Gibbons ran the "Red Hut" youthclub along with Jimmy Grant and Charlie Smith, all voluntary. The Red Hut was and old red corrugated church (All Saints) in the field behind Kipling. Dad used to get old films like "King Kong" and new records with the subs money. Lots of rock n roll nights and all were welcome. It kept many kids off the streets where they would be looked after. He also ran bingo for the mum's in the afternoon.
I recall this scene very well, I lived in Dickens avenue all of my childhood so know Poets corner very well. I could see the demolition from my back garden of Thackeray Avenue and Burns Place – at that time there were still a lot of "rag & bone men"in Tilbury (i went ringing the bell with a couple of them)! and they had a field day with the copper and lead from the old houses i remember riding my trail bike over the rubble and debris and have vivid memories of walking down Kipling Avenue, up Parker Avenue and down Fielding Avenue past all of the empty houses – eerie and a bit sad having known many of the former residents – at the rear of Thackeray avenue I helped build a dirt track with old tyres for use by the local kids to race their bikes around, it was very popular until the council authorities came around and cleared it all away !


This is the famous "WABC $25,000 button". According to Rick Sklar in his book Rocking America, fourteen million of these were distributed throughout the WABC listening area. If you were spotted wearing the button by an "official WABC button spotter" you could win prizes up to $25,000.
A variation of it was later run where the "button" was imprinted on a bumper sticker and license plate numbers were announced of winners who then had a specified period of time to call the station and claim their prize. Here is a real piece of WABC trivia. The only difference between the button and the bumper sticker was that the word "owner"was changed to "wearer". Since it was not possible to "wear" a bumper sticker (at least not possible for most of us) they made this change.
The contest was so successful, that WABC ran it again!


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Design Ingenuity: Parks for the people
April 8, 2016 April 12, 2016 / Buckeye Planner	/ 1 Comment
Design Ingenuity is a series highlighting teachable examples of urban design. The first Design Ingenuity post highlighted US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, a transit-oriented stadium project. This is the second post in the series, detailing OKC's major push to renovate as many inner city parks as possible. The goal of Design Ingenuity is to understand the difference that good design makes in the lives of city residents.
Tulsa's $350 million new Gathering Place project is forcing OKC to up its ante with parks
Oklahoma City's parks are a major opportunity for improvement. I have a tendency to belabor the point in trying to frame matters optimistically, but the reality is that parks are a core area in which OKC falls short. Not only do they not fully meet the needs of human-scale communities, but they also fail to attract residents who often drive to Tulsa or a state park for recreation. Driving over an hour for a park seems odd – but people do legitimately go up to Tulsa for the River Parks, Swan Lake, Woodward Park and the Tulsa Rose Garden, etc. Tulsa will be especially competitive for outdoor recreation enthusiasts once its new $350 million "Gathering Place" park (pictured above) is complete.
People like nice things. Parks and transit, really the two core areas where OKC lags behind, are both two of the most noticeable components of cities. OKC's parks, besides the incomparable Myriad Gardens, have a ways to go. That said, OKC is aggressively addressing both transit and parks, and in some instances killing two birds with the same stone (trails and bike lanes accomplish both parks and transit).
On parks alone, OKC has 11 distinct initiatives currently underway. These 11 projects will collectively transform OKC's public realm and get its residents outdoors. Great parks are finally well within reach for OKC. Of course, the plan behind all of this is the 2013 OKC Parks Masterplan. At the conclusion of this effort, OKC will go from trailing to leading other cities.
Myriad Botanical Gardens and Project 180
Project 180, begun in 2010 and scheduled to commence in 2014, but still underway and running behind schedule – is an aspirational $141 million facelift of downtown OKC's public spaces, including the Myriad Gardens. The Myriad Gardens were designed by I.M. Pei and hadn't been updated since, while surrounding streetscapes were similarly outdated. Funding was generated through a TIF district just on the $750 million Devon Tower, which didn't need the TIF, but instead wanted updates to surroundings. P180 included bike lanes, street furniture, lighting, landscaping, and public art throughout the 180 acres of downtown.
The figurative result of Project 180 is a complete "180" turn in activating downtown's outdoor spaces with people. The specific legacy though is increased attendance at the Myriad Gardens and a well-designed template that OKC is now applying to other streets, including in Film Row and Core2Shore.
Just to recap: Most casual observers to planning and design are aware of OKC's new MAPS 3-funded "Central Park" (it's yet-to-be-named, and I'm pushing for Ellison Park or Ellison Green after the hometown literary great). $132 million total. The 40-acre north park (north of the new I-40 Crosstown Expwy) is scheduled to open in 2018, while the 30-acre south park is scheduled to open in 2021. The north park is a highly-programmed, emphatically-designed urban park, whereas the south park is a more-passive, heavily-landscaped link to the Oklahoma River. OKC Talk has detailed plans here. South Park is pictured below:
Park architects, Hargreaves Associates, have also designed Chicago's Millennium Park, Houston's Discovery Green, Seattle's South Union Lake Park, and Birmingham's Railroad Park. Hargreaves has also given OKC a park template, based on this Central Park design, that OKC is applying to outdated parks across the city.
Military Park
This park was originally scheduled to be renovated along with Classen Boulevard's Asian District streetscape, more than ten years ago. That didn't happen at the time. At last, the 1.8 acre underutilized site at NW 25th and Classen Blvd is set for an ambitious makeover that will hopefully revitalize this stretch of Classen and the greater OCU area. The space has been named "Military Park" for nearly 100 years, and incidentally has become one of the nation's most concentrated Vietnamese communities. As such, the park will feature a Vietnam War memorial along with several tributes to what Vietnam means as a homeland.
Woodson Park
This large park, originally one of the corners of Grand Boulevard, was sliced in half by a freeway and then disinvested for decades. This project refreshes the western half of the park, which had been really disinvested and cut off from the surrounding neighborhood. $5.2 million from the 2007 General Obligation Bond.
Not a total park renovation, but a flashy new coat of paint no less for the rec center at McKinley Park, in the Classen-Ten-Penn neighborhood. As CTP has become a community development focus neighborhood, the goal here would be to generate creative synergies before the Strong Neighborhoods Initiative moves on to another neighborhood. This image is just from the call for artist submissions.
Boathouse Row
Boathouse Row now includes the original Chesapeake Boathouse, along with the OCU Devon Boathouse, the UCO Boathouse, the OU Boathouse, SandRidge Adventure Tower, and CHK Finish Line Tower. In addition to these philanthropic-supported projects, MAPS 3 has added $57 million in projects, the largest phase yet. The MAPS 3 improvements include racetrack improvements, grandstands, and the RIVERSPORT Rapids park.
Memorial Park, at NW 36th and Classen Blvd, is another park that used to be more historically significant and then faded. While it's not ideal to tear down homes on 36th for parking for the park, the configuration allows more preservation of the original park, particularly the historic fountain fronting Classen. Very nice project for just $1.9 million, financed by the 2007 General Obligation Bond, completed in 2015.
Red Andrews Park
This park, historically an after-thought in between downtown and no-man's land, has always been a problem. The Oklahoman couldn't refrain from mentioning the park's sordid park along with announcing its redesign. The new design takes parking out of the park, through a shared parking agreement with the new $10 million Valir Clinic across the street. It also lends it a definition of space that it previously never had.
Civic Center Park or Bicentennial Park, same thing. Not sure which name it's using right now, but this park encircles OKC's Art-Deco civic center which includes City Hall, the Civic Center Music Hall (home to the OKC Philharmonic and Broadway shows), and backs to the OCPD HQ. As downtown withered in the 70s and 80s, the park became a dumping grounds for statues and plaques. I think there was a statue of every mayor, which is almost interesting. Rand Elliott, perhaps Oklahoma's most acclaimed architect, completely overhauled the space in his recent renovation – funded by $3.5 million in Project 180 funds, similar to the Myriad Botanical Garden renovations. It's a small space, but designed well-enough to feel significant.
In my opinion, as someone who actually opposed this redesign initially, I'm now convinced that Rand's vision is what this space should have been back in 1930. The walking paths that elegantly fan out toward the edges remind me of the Chrysler Tower crown. I believe that's called organic (organicist?) Art-Deco. Enhanced sight-lines in between the two similar WPA-style Art-Deco landmarks, as well as enhanced skyline views, also make a big difference. This is an Art-Deco park where such a thing should have always been.
Wheeler District + Park
Wheeler Park is OKC's most historic park. It was an urban central park, a highly-programmed promenade, and amusement park rolled into one. One particularly damaging flood changed all of that. Then the Army Corps of Engineers came and dammed the Canadian River, and turned the former parkland into an urban prairie. The "river" literally had to be mowed twice a year. Developer and acclaimed designer Blair Humphreys has acquired the Downtown Airpark, across the river from Wheeler, and is planning to revive this neighborhood's place in OKC. The first step was successful implementation of concert grounds to activate the site, and the second step (currently underway) is reconstruction of the Santa Monica Ferris Wheel on this site (purchased on eBay). It's worth noting this entire project is privately-funded, though almost surely will involve a public partnership.
American Indian Cultural Center and Gardens (Smithsonian affiliate)
Definitely don't want to get into this project's history, but it is moving forward once again! This project, though dogged by delays, cost overruns, and political embroglio, will give OKC a world-class anchor for the south riverfront. It also solidifies the importance of American Indian culture, by placing this new landmark on the most visible, centrally-located site possible. Through an operating agreement with the Chickasaw Nation, the surrounding lands will be commercially developed while retaining the park-like setting. Also noteworthy – Hargreaves Associates once again, on the design (hence why the mounds bear resemblance to the Clinton Presidential Library grounds).
OKC needs parks. The city that I grew up in during the 90s had the level of park investment you would expect in Dodge City; Tumbleweeds blowing through was the only reliable programming. This was before the parks renaissance that nearly every city is experiencing, before the "back to the city" movement, and before OKC itself had discovered an innovative civic investment mechanism (the MAPS penny sales tax).
The design ingenuity of this endeavor though is its breadth. Rather than just complete a few really good parks, OKC has sought to use those projects to both inform and build capacity for doing more, as well as to build a toolset of templates that the city can plug and play with. This not only reduces design costs, but also administrative costs and process time. This is why almost all cities use a template approach for streets and open spaces – sometimes the templates are bad, but in this case the template OKC has built up to is pretty good in my opinion.
OKC can do this with a continued commitment to parks across the city, and not just concentrated downtown. These projects will rely on long-term commitments, for which the city will rely on partnerships with the surrounding community. Toward that end, it is important that these parks put people first.
Lastly, never bet against a city doing something it has already done before. OKC has had great parks before, and can do it again. It really is all about making a long-term commitment. Behold, Wheeler Park, of yesteryear:
Of course, it will help having a vision such as this for making critical connections into the future:
OKC: Tower Theater Lights are back
January 11, 2016 January 11, 2016 / Buckeye Planner	/ Leave a comment
Drone aerial over NW 23rd, with the revitalized Tower Theater on the right, and its new public parking (formerly a dirt lot) across to the left, and the bustling (often congested) 23rd corridor dead-ahead. Photo credit Stephen Tyler, whose awesome Vsco page is worth a look. http://vsco.co/stphntylr/grid/1
It's hard to believe that Devon Tower was finished 4 years ago. Hard, no, impossible. It's amazing how time flies. For those who track urban progress, these big-ticket projects often serve as benchmarks not just for the communities we love, but for our own lives. I remember as a kid driving into downtown OKC, pre-Devon, thinking what a nicely balanced skyline we had. Similarly, I remember driving down NW 23rd just dreaming of the potential.
For those who don't know, 23rd Street is the inner north side's main east-west corridor, carrying between 25,000 and 18,000 cars a day, from the State Capitol west through the inner northside's tree-lined historic neighborhoods. One block off 23rd, in either direction, usually looks great. On 23rd itself, until recently, has always looked terrible. Somehow the resurgence of the inner northside has evaded its main drag, where seedy landlords and underutilized sites have managed to cling to dear life while their ilk around them have given way to signs of progress.
One of those signs of progress finally happened along 23rd, and it was a big one. The Tower Theater, a long-languishing art deso / art moderne landmark at 23rd and Hudson, in the heart of the Uptown 23rd district, finally turned its lights on. After numerous starts and stops, including a once-hopeful restoration by Piedmont mayor and Midtown developer Greg Banta, this community anchor is approaching the finish line as an music hall, with the potential for film screenings, and storefronts refilled with a bar and another restaurant. The work was finally completed by Jonathan Dodson, Ben Sellers, and David Wanzer. Together these three guys are taking a lot of high-profile sites, where patience has worn thin before, and bringing them across the finish line. Watch this space, because these guys get the job done where others couldn't before.
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December 31, 2015 December 31, 2015 / Buckeye Planner	/ Leave a comment
More pan-Midwestern content coming soon because I am on the road, seeing friends, family, and conducting thesis research on more awesome cities!
In this instance…
Flew to Omaha. Just wrapped up a week in Omaha and Sioux City, Iowa. Got snowed in and had to cancel other plans, but I love the snow!
Drove to Kansas City. Spent a day there. KCMO is just about the coolest town around.
Drove to OKC. Spending a week here over the New Year's holiday. Good to be back at the Homa.
Dallas? Maybe Dallas. Debating going down there for actual Midnight NYE 2016. Or before I fly out. We'll see if I get to it.
I am trying to get interviews with policy makers and economic developers here in OKC, for my thesis; if that doesn't pan out, I'll just go down to Dallas and conduct more on-the-ground research.
6-hour layover in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Just long enough to ride all the rails, I hope. And get back down to MSP for my flight back to Columbus.
What is on-the-ground research, and what does one do on-the-ground in a city I already know, you ask? I am specifically taking photos that just don't exist online. Since my thesis is on leveraging the value capture with TOD, photos augment that by illustrating exactly what that value looks like. On-the-ground.
Here's the trail I'm blazing this time:
Stay tuned for the photo analysis!
Mixing Architecture
While my design soft spot has always and will always be architectural contrast, my professional work has led me to realize there is a strong consensus against that in most cases. To make matters worse (or better), anytime you can simplify design through a public process (where design literacy may vary), the better the outcome.
Looking straight north up 3rd Street in Columbus, where the German Village's iconic slate roofs and brick cottages comprise the theme listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The listing notes three styles: Queen Anne, Italianate, and Gothic Revival (Photo credit: German Village Society)
Historic districts promote uniformity, whether we admit this or not (through the theme of contributing properties, which may be one style or several that go together). Urban design guidelines and design districts do this as well through strict standards. That said, we also must admit uniform standards do work wonders toward preserving the quality of a district.
Design is subjective, and design standards and historic districts have been proven successful in objectively raising the bar toward an enactable minimum with which we can all accept. Toward that end, this post is not meant to be an attack on standards, but rather merely pointing out what lies outside the box.
Outdated aerial (just showing the older Georgian section) of the Chesapeake Energy HQ Campus in OKC (Photo credit: The Lost Ogle)
Most esteemed university campuses with which I am familiar also have a distinct style, often part of their brand. Oklahoma State University is Georgian. So Georgian that the Chesapeake Energy campus in OKC, with its older core of OK State knock-off buildings, is often called OSU-style and not Georgian. #SoGeorgian. University of Oklahoma is prairie gothic, which I always found to be weird. University of Texas is mission-style. University of Kansas is romanesque. KU really is stunning, as a non-Jayhawk.
The aforementioned examples revolve around classical styles, which are most commonly found in authentic samples. Developing anew in a historic motif, like Chesapeake, is rare and should be discouraged as far as architectural authenticity is concerned. That said, the future will not have homogenous 21st Century districts simply because we are almost always working with a pre-developed context. 100 years from now, the 21st Century styles that we will be preserving will be more mixed amongst older styles, so far as urban context is concerned. If we don't reconcile our perspectives toward mixing architecture, we risk the chance of enacting the wrong standards and following the wrong approach altogether. Preservation must eventually become more sophisticated, just as development has.
Corner of NE 2nd and Walnut in OKC's Deep Deuce area, with the new Aloft Hotel, LEVEL apartments, replete w/ Native Roots grocery store and a bikeshare station in front (Photo self-attributed, taken in 2013)
Modern design districts come in two forms. On one hand you have something like Deep Deuce in OKC, which is almost entirely new infill, developed over parking lots for which OKC's historic black main street was demolished in the 50s and 60s. With very few original pieces still extant, those have been mostly restored, and some of the infill features nods to the red brick warehouses that once were. However, most of the infill, for lack of an authentic surrounding context, has been pretty outrageous – with free reign for architects to create a 21st Century neighborhood. Steve Lackmeyer, downtown beat writer for The Daily Oklahoman, wrote about Deep Deuce as the "complete" mixed-use neighborhood other cities dream about.
Mixed design built within landmark historic district in Cleveland's University Circle. Modern landmarks such as Frank Gehry's Weatherhood School and Uptown CLE wedged between CWRU's historic quads and Little Italy. (Photo credit: Bill Cobb)
The last and most common case is where modern design truly coexists in a mixed environment, which usually includes a more nondescript historic building stock (else the modern would be toned down). In the case of University Circle in Cleveland, perhaps Ohio's most magnificent square mile, few neighborhoods have so masterfully blended old and new, landmarks alike. That said, sometimes the new does endanger the old. CWRU has famously targeted entire historic districts for demolition, such as Hessler Street – giving rise to the famous Hessler Street Fair where the historic street stands tall against outside threats. Little Italy, (the smattering of cottages between the tracks and Murray Hill in the above photo), is better-protected – but its corners have been reinforced with high-end modern condos.
That mixed context, in my opinion, is the most impressive. I hate seeing historic landmarks in University Circle threatened, but as long as the neighborhood can evolve and retain ALL of them – University Circle remains the unquestioned most spectacular square mile of Ohio. It's a rich and varied architectural cultural that befits Ohio's cultural district. It's as simple as that. Tearing down a building is not unlike the Cleveland Museum of Art moving out the Monet to make room for the Chihuly (which they would never do!), however refusing to make room for the Rothko also diminishes the overall value and authenticity.
That said, you don't put the Rothko, Chihuly, and Monet in the same frame, let alone gallery. In Columbus, a locally-significant developer Jerry Solove (his family name is on the new OSU Medical Center), has proposed to demolish one of Old North Columbus' most historic High Street blocks. While within two blocks there exists entire blocks of strip malls that could easily be demo'd for their concept, they of course must demolish the best block to make way for 11 stories of modern student housing. Worse yet, the entire project is designed to cleverly slip through zoning and design review in a city with shockingly weak development controls. The only two homes whose zoning would need to change have been swallowed into the development as a façadism nightmare. The setbacks going up every two floors also circumvent the height limits inherent within the zoning classification. With the city zoning administrator's signature in hand already, the development could practically begin tomorrow and irrevocably demolish what little historic integrity remains on High Street, north of the OSU campus.
Just because there isn't much integrity left doesn't make that low-hanging fruit for redevelopment. Sophisticated cities, which Columbus just isn't quite yet, find ways to retain the good and focus redevelopment opportunities where those opportunities actually exist. The flip side is the argument that "this argument is irrelevant because said development has this site, not that site." That is the developer's problem, not the city's, or community's. Otherwise there is natural development pressure to keep building up on the good sites, continuing to ignore the bad sites. What gives in the end? When that happens, you get the below nightmare (which really should also render the empty block of strip mall parking two blocks away).
Google Earth Aerial of Old North Columbus, with the Pavey block outlined in red on the right, and a strip mall screaming for redevelopment outlined in red on the left
Pavey Square at High and Northwood in Old North Columbus, notice the two otherwise beautiful Second Empire homes swallowed up (Photo from Columbus Underground)

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July 6, 2014 – Mother Nature's Fireworks and Funnels, Oh My!
Once again, dramatic skies in the neighborhood.
Looking to the tornado-spawning clouds to the south before sunset.
Same place as the sun set. This is the same tornado-spawning cloud as in the earlier picture.
Clouds and the hog barn. This cloud made tornadoes by Tama.
A view of the tornado near rock creek park in Jasper county. No wind here, and only a sprinkle of rain.
There's only two sides of buildings that haven't been painted since we moved in. The north side of the old wooden machine shed, andt this, the east side of the hog barn.
Since Claire is one to keep busy, I put her in charge of taking care of it (except for the high parts).
Today marks a major milestone in hog barn renovation. One of our stated farm goals is to "maintain the architectural heritage of the area." To me, this means not automatically burning or tearing down old buildings and where possible to adapt them to creative re-use.
Here's the hog barn at a place where it would have been torn down by many folks – no windows, major portions of the roof gone and what you can't see from this photo – walls lilting at about a 15 degree angle.
Here's the same building with a new roof, new windows and a modification to allow for an animal "porch" so we have more options in separating out animals and having shelter from rain and wind – the new porch faces south. I still need to complete some trim, shore up parts of the building that were not rebuilt and where the white siding is, to put in a door.
December 25, 2007 – Animals out on Christmas Day!
Before a hearty Christmas meal, we hit a trail to do some skiing.
Here's something you don't see every day – Martin losing his balance upon seeing a cow crossing an old railroad trestle!
In addition to the cows we saw earlier, this friendly white dog found the girls and accompanied them for the trip. The dog followed us all the way to the van and looked longingly at us as we drove away. At least he had some Christmas companions for part of the day!
The girls and I went out for a moonlight walk across the fields. The fields are mostly all ice, with the recent snow all in drifts along fence rows and in our yard! The night was calm and we trudged around for a mile or so to places we usually never go, and when I got back home, started playing around with the new camera – here's a shot of a snowdrift in front of the hog barn.
Another milestone on the hog barn project.
Here it is as of this week – windows and roof all tucked in for the winter. The unpainted part will be ripped out and replaced later.
Here it is October 3 of this year. I put this in mainly for myself because it seems I never get anything done, since I rarely have more than a couple hours at a time to work on a project, the progress seems painfully slow, but compared to what it used to be, even I can see improvement!
November 4, 2007 – More Child Labor!
Today's child labor was much more excited to work.
A paint brush in the hands of a six-year old is a treat for this particular boy. Although the brush he was provided was small, he persisted for a long time, painting the bottom few rows of boards. He and Emma got the remaining unpainted lower portion of the hog barn completed. Now that the roof is done, "all" that remains is to tear out half the south wall and rebuild it inside for the "porch" and put in the new windows and doors.
November 3, 2007 – Child Labor!
Today was another milestone on the hog barn project. The roof was finished today!
But, oh, the agony, as the girls complained when they were "invited" to help by cleaning up the waste from torn-off roof from the ground and sort the asphalt shingles into the trailer for the landfill and wood into the loader bucket for the burn pile. But to their credit, they did.
Another current project is the hog barn renovation. About 2/3 of the roof is now up. I'd like to finish painting the upper floor and get the remaining 2nd level windows in and roof on this week.
Following that, but not as urgently, is to paint the right hand side of the lower level and replace those two windows. The left side will be reconfigured to be a "porch" of sorts. The outer wall will be torn out and a new wall built what is now "inside" so animals will be able to get out of the sun and under the porch on this southern exposure from the outside. That way if the barn door should get shut by the wind during the day, the animals will have a place to go for shelter.
Today was a hard day of labor on the hog barn. I ended up having to tear out the old roof as I went along as I wanted to get a direct connection to the new rafters to the 2×4 stringers across the roof. The old sheathing was really rotten. So, 7/18 of the length of the roof (not that I'm counting!) has the stringers across (on the newly attached rafters), ready for steel roofing when it arrives, probably some time this week.
I also got some painting done and two new widows and trim in – the windows are a pain as there is lots to do. I decided to use the vinyl windows and trim, so it will never need to be painted. It was a good day's work – dusty and hot as we are in the midst of a rare hot humid spell, with dew points reminiscent of summertime and the cement and brick floors of the outbuildings sweating with condensation. This is really dusty and dirty work as some of the dust in the roof has been trapped for 90 years!
On the house front, I've finally found a drywaller to do the ceiling in the attic (way to many angles with the slanted roof and three cathedral ceilings in the dormers all coming together in odd angles). If I think of it, I'll shoot an update of the progress up there this week.
The first stage of putting a new roof on the hog barn begins. About 30% of the roof is gone, most of the rafters are rotted, but it is still standing. The first step is to replace the top plate of the walls and then add new rafters.
Here's a view of where the rafter meets the top plate on an exterior wall. The bottom 2×4 in this section was not rotten, but I cut and scraped out the top one. My friend is the Sawz-All today!
A nice new top plate of treated lumber in place. Today I did this for about 40% of the length I need to do and notched and installed the new rafters along the same distance. The same story over and over, get the floor jack out, lift up the old rafter about 3 inches, shove the new raftter in place, lower the old rafter and nail everything together. Repeat.
Here's what the current state is of the south side of the old hog barn. We've been fixing up buildings one at a time and it is now time to do this side of the old hog barn. We roofed and painted the north side two years ago, and it looks sharp (and dry). But you can see this side needs some work. Hopefully this will be a great "before" shot to compare to the finished product.
The good part about projects like this one is that it's easy and rewarding to make huge improvements even if things aren't exactly perfect. Just having a roof and windows will be a huge improvement. Every time I drive home in the daylight, I can see this side of the building from the road and it bothers me. But from the driveway you see the good side and forget about it.
Emma finished scraping the north side of the old hog barn and started staining today. She used up all the stain and has it about 3/4 complete.
She's having fun doing something new and listening to her music outside while she stains.
On Monday, it was a bit of rare day that all of us were home! We set everyone out with a job.
It's Emma's summer to learn to paint. She wants to paint a side of the barn, so we are starting her out on an easier painting task, the north side of the hog barn, which doesn't require much ladder work. Here, she is scraping off some of the old paint. There's really not much left and we sprayed it with water first to keep down the dust.
Claire is assuming more of the mowing duties on the farm. While the regular mower is in for repair, she gets to use the old lawn tractor.
Linda gives me a boost in the attic, completing some of the insulation in the east dormer.
Today is the second in a series of views of the farm. I went to each corner of the property (and the midpoints) and took photos in different directions. The following views are from the SE corner of the property.
This is from the SE corner shooting diagonally towards the NW. You'll notice the corn crib is reroofed and all but about 80% of one side resided – that's a fall/early winter project. The project that is next outbuilding-wise is the renovation of the south side of the hog barn – the north side is tight and re-roofed, but the south is falling apart. Right now my time is devoted to the house, so it will sit a bit longer.
This is the view looking due west from the SE corner. Just over the rise is a small orchard, trellised berries and a garden.
Finally, this is the view due north from the SE corner. It shows the first row of trees along this boundary.
Here's a steely cold sunrise! If nothing else, there's a nice view on the way to do morning chores.


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making art technological sources accessible
The Art of All Colours
A study and catalogue of mediaeval artists' recipe books. A valuable source for all those interested in the techniques and practices of medieval artists.
It introduces the mediaeval recipe as a genre (their history, compilation, and transmission), and discusses their reliability as sources. The most important sources are introduced individually, with detailed descriptions and extracts. Finally, this book contains a catalogue of more than 400 manuscripts that contain such technical texts, many of them largely unknown. For all the manuscripts a full bibliography of published editions and translations is included.
The Art of All Colours: Mediaeval Recipe Books for Painters and Illuminators
London: Archetype Publications Ltd (2001)
Order a copy: orders@archetype.co.uk
[mark@clericus.org] [clericus home page]
Last updated 6 November 2021 Mark Clarke http://www.clericus.org/TAOAC.htm


The Bridge Club is flourishing here in Baton Rouge.
George Atherton started his EasyBridge classes today and had 5 tables this morning and 6 tables this evening.
The Thursday morning game had 8 tables of 0-500 players and the Thursday evening game had 7 and 1/2 tables of 0-500 players.
26 and 1/2 tables of bridge players on a routine Thursday in January is an EXTREMELY good day for our bridge club.
Our table count was up over 20% for 2003 and we recruited 24 or 25 new ACBL members.
Thanks to all of you for your continued support and for making our bridge club a nice experience for all of us.


Jane is thrilled to be making her MusicalFare debut. She attends 5th grade at South Davis Elementary School, where she has enjoyed robust arts, music and theater programming. In school productions, Jane has played Marian Paroo in MUSIC MAN, KIDS and Veruca Salt in WILLY WONKA, JR. Jane has also been seen on stage at Lancaster Opera House in WIZARD OF OZ and NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS and at Lockport Palace Theater in SCROOGE: THE MUSICAL. She is a singer with Buffalo Niagara Youth Chorus, dances with Mary Alice Dance Studio, and also enjoys creating art and playing her ukulele.


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Biografia
Fu eletto console romano nel 234 a.C., quando combatté contro i Liguri, vincendoli.
Eletto nuovamente console nel 229 a.C., guidò la guerra contro gli Illiri di cui sconfisse nel 228 a.C. la regina, Teuta.

Nel 216 a.C., durante la seconda guerra punica, fu inviato nella Gallia Cisalpina come pretore. Eletto ancora console per l'anno successivo, il 215 a.C., non poté prendere possesso della carica perché, sconfitto dai Galli Boi nella Battaglia della Selva Litana fu ucciso in battaglia. I Galli Boi usarono la sua testa per farne una coppa per libare agli dei.

Note

Bibliografia
Fonti antiche
  Versione in inglese qui .

  Versioni in inglese disponibili qui e qui.
  Versione in inglese disponibile qui.

Fonti storiografiche moderne
 P. A. Brunt. Classi e conflitti sociali nella Roma repubblicana. Bari, Laterza, 1972. BNI 732105
 Itala Dondero e Patrizio Pensabene. Roma repubblicana fra il 509 e il 270 a. C.. Roma, Quasar, 1983. ISBN 8885020410.
 Antonietta Dosi. Lotte politiche e giochi di potere nella Roma repubblicana. Milano, Mursia, 1999. ISBN 8842525855.
 Emilio Gabba. Esercito e società nella tarda repubblica romana. Firenze, La nuova Italia, 1973. BNI 7311654.
 Andrea Giardina. L'uomo romano. Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1989. ISBN 88-420-3471-1
 Jacques Harmand. L'armee et le soldat a Rome. Paris, Picard, 1967.
 J. Michelet, Storia di Roma, Rimini, Rusconi, 2002.
 Theodor Mommsen. Storia di Roma. Milano, Dall'Oglio, 1961.
 Theodor Mommsen. Romisches Strafrecht Stellenregister. Munchen, Beck, 1982. ISBN 3406086888.
 Lucia Monaco. Battaglie ambigue e svolte costituzionali nella Roma repubblicana. Napoli, Jovene, 1997. ISBN 8824311741
 Claude Nicolet. Il mestiere di cittadino nell'antica Roma. Roma, Editori riuniti, 1980. BNI 8111132.
 Claude Nicolet. Strutture dell'Italia romana, (sec. 3.-1. a.C.). Roma, Jouvence, 1984. ISBN 8878010472.
 Paolo Sommella. Antichi campi di battaglia in Italia, contributi all'identificazione topografica di alcune battaglie d'età repubblicana. Roma, De Luca, 1967. BNI 684608.

Voci correlate
 Teuta
 Battaglia della Selva Litana
 Consoli repubblicani romani

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Postumio Albino, Lucio
Albino, Lucio, 234

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Q: Affinity propagation with word vectors, faster implementation I have a list of word vectors (named tuple_vectors - length ~60k), each of which look like the following:
  [-2.84658718e+00 -7.74899840e-01 -2.24296474e+00 -8.69364500e-01
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I am trying to perform affinity propagation (AP) using the following (this is the top part of AP documentation https://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/cluster/plot_affinity_propagation.html):
print(__doc__)

from sklearn.cluster import AffinityPropagation
from sklearn import metrics

# Compute Affinity Propagation
af = AffinityPropagation(preference=-50).fit(tuple_vectors)
cluster_centers_indices = af.cluster_centers_indices_
labels = af.labels_

n_clusters_ = len(cluster_centers_indices)

The process is taking a very long time. My question is whether there is a faster implementation or whether it is possible to perform AP on vectors of this dimensionality.

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SLAEXC swaps adjacent diagonal blocks T11 and T22 of order 1 or 2 in an upper quasi-triangular matrix T by an orthogonal similarity transformation. T must be in Schur canonical form, that is, block upper triangular with 1-by-1 and 2-by-2 diagonal blocks; each 2-by-2 diagonal block has its diagonal elemnts equal and its off-diagonal elements of opposite sign.
= .FALSE.: do not accumulate the transformation.
On entry, the upper quasi-triangular matrix T, in Schur canonical form. On exit, the updated matrix T, again in Schur canonical form.
On entry, if WANTQ is .TRUE., the orthogonal matrix Q. On exit, if WANTQ is .TRUE., the updated matrix Q. If WANTQ is .FALSE., Q is not referenced.
The leading dimension of the array Q. LDQ >= 1; and if WANTQ is .TRUE., LDQ >= N.
The index of the first row of the first block T11.
The order of the first block T11. N1 = 0, 1 or 2.
The order of the second block T22. N2 = 0, 1 or 2.
= 1: the transformed matrix T would be too far from Schur form; the blocks are not swapped and T and Q are unchanged.


Scheduled to appear on stage will be showrunner and series overlord Jon Favreau, who has become quite the fixture at Disney. This "nefarious" - his word - individual is the head of a guild of bounty hunters and the man who sends Pedro Pascal's Mandalorian on a mission to retrieve an item of high value. "Some might say he has questionable moral character, in line with some of our best Westerns, and some good samurai [films.] And he's a badass..."
Another thing we know already is that Favreau is unleashing some heavy-duty, deep-dive nostalgia. It's confirmed that classic bounty hunter IG-88 will be on hand, as will the original Stormtroopers.
The original Tantive IV set as released in 2001, making it one of the earliest big Star Wars sets, and was followed by a more detailed re-release in 2009 to celebrate the theme's 10th anniversary. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story's Diego Luna is set to reprise his role as Cassian Andor in a live-action prequel series to the 2016 film.


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  height: 0.625rem;
  border-width: 0 0.2rem 0.2rem 0;
  border-style: solid;
  border-color: #000;
  background: transparent;
  transform: rotate(135deg);
}

.oci-leader::before {
  position: absolute;
  content: "";
  display: inline-block;
  width: 0.4rem;
  height: 0.4rem;
  border-radius: 0.2rem;
  background: #000;
  top: -0.75rem;
  left: 0.1rem;
}

.oci-leader::after {
  position: absolute;
  content: "";
  display: inline-block;
  width: 0.875rem;
  height: 0.375rem;
  border-radius: 0.25rem 0.25rem 0 0;
  background: #000;
  top: -0.3rem;
  left: -0.125rem;
}

.oci-plus-square::before {
  content: "+";
  display: inline-block;
  vertical-align: text-bottom;
  text-align: center;
  width: 1rem;
  height: 1rem;
  background-color: #000;
  color: #fff;
}

.oci-plus-circle::before {
  content: "+";
  display: inline-block;
  vertical-align: text-bottom;
  text-align: center;
  width: 1rem;
  height: 1rem;
  border-radius: 0.5rem;
  background-color: #000;
  color: #fff;
}

.oci-minus-square::before {
  content: "−";
  display: inline-block;
  vertical-align: text-bottom;
  text-align: center;
  width: 1rem;
  height: 1rem;
  background-color: #000;
  color: #fff;
}

.oci-minus-circle::before {
  content: "−";
  display: inline-block;
  vertical-align: text-bottom;
  text-align: center;
  width: 1rem;
  height: 1rem;
  border-radius: 0.5rem;
  background-color: #000;
  color: #fff;
}

.oci-arrow-circle-up::before {
  content: "▲";
  display: inline-block;
  text-align: center;
  vertical-align: text-bottom;
  width: 1rem;
  height: 1rem;
  border-radius: 0.5rem;
  background-color: #000;
  color: #fff;
  font-size: 0.875rem;
}

.oci-arrow-circle-down::before {
  content: "▼";
  text-align: center;
  display: inline-block;
  vertical-align: text-bottom;
  width: 1rem;
  height: 1rem;
  border-radius: 0.5rem;
  background-color: #000;
  color: #fff;
  font-size: 0.875rem;
}

.oci-info-circle::before {
  content: "i";
  display: inline-block;
  vertical-align: text-bottom;
  width: 1rem;
  height: 1rem;
  border-radius: 0.5rem;
  background-color: #000;
  color: #fff;
  text-align: center;
  font-weight: bold;
}

.oci-spinner::before {
  content: "";
  vertical-align: text-bottom;
  display: inline-block;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  width: 1rem;
  height: 1rem;
  border: 0.1rem solid #000;
  border-right-color: transparent;
  border-radius: 0.625rem;
  animation: oci-infinite-spinning .75s linear infinite;
}

@keyframes oci-infinite-spinning {
  from {
    transform: rotate(0deg);
  }
  to {
    transform: rotate(360deg);
  }
}

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