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Hi Josh! 
I support it, as long as they remain peaceful.  I’m glad they have sorted out a general common vision now, in the beginning they really did look like a disorganized bunch of deadheads – not credible at all. 
I work in a government job right now so obviously I can’t participate, but they get a thumbs up from me. 
As for giving up on my…[Read more]

The country we actually live in contradicts your entire position.  If we lived in the America of the textbooks you read in high school, then sure, you would be 100% right.  But we live in a more scurilous version.  We only have the illusion of choice at this point.  Look at congress, it is all millionaires and mostly white and are easily bou…[Read more]

It was a ‘simplistic’ comment but it was based on the notion that the civil rights movement achieved a legal victory, not an economic one. For the bottom two-thirds of African-Americans, you can argue (from an economic standpoint) that life is worse today than it was when Martin Luther King marched in Selma in 1965. King understood that racial…[Read more]

I appreciate the notion that students should not be spoon fed …. but, let’s be honest here. In a world of smart phones, Google, and downsized offices, which would be that course of action taken by the people signing the payroll checks? Cut/paste/alter or start from scratch?
 
He is doing what is in fact the way it is done these days. We might…[Read more]

haha, thanks, Jason.  You make is sound so exciting, I just want to jump in right now!!

Other than being aware of it, school is not the place to learn that anyway. Appreticeship in practice is where. It takes a while, and learning the diff types (mostly CSI or Masterspec in the commercial world) won’t really occur until you have to put a package together for an employer (which most already have standard specs already chosen ) or if…[Read more]

There are incredibly wide-ranging and divergent viewpoints on the OWS movement, just as it should be.
 
One enlightened mind whose weblog I read from time-to-time, is Charles Hugh Smith. You can find him and his web essay blogs on rainbow of topics (mostly national and global economics and finance) here:
http://www.oftwominds.com/blog.html
 
No ma…[Read more]

Can you call the City and ask them for an example set of plans? That should be public information, maybe even available for download on their web site – check the Engineering or Public Works departments. If that doesn’t work, it might be a good opportunity to introduce yourself to a firm that does local work and see if they could share their copy…[Read more]

haha, yes we have entered the wonderful world of spec books.  We only have to use one format for our project but have have already had to do some research on the CSI, DOT, and a local MAG (Maricopa Association of Governments) format.  Oh so many things to learn about construction and so little time in school to learn it.
 
Zach

hey Marija, no exact waterfront project exists around the Danube in BP (money..) at the moment, however there are ideas, if that helps you, I can look for them, and I know a few people who does researches about it as a thesis! What you are looking for exactly? D.

You’re going to want to bump that mulch thickness up to a minimum of 3″. 2″ doesn’t do anything but suck moisture off of the top layer of soil. 3″ is minimum for weed supression. 
 
You’ve got a good start on it from the posts here, but I agree you should be investigating why these things exist, and how they got the numbers. There are tons of o…[Read more]

My instructor is a great guy and very experienced in the field.  The General Construction notes that he is looking for me to provide are the notes that are specific to a city municipality.  After thinking about it for a while after I posted this and getting some of the replies, I realized that this might not be the best place to ask because of t…[Read more]

I’m wondering wtf your instructor is supposed to be doing.

I am a Landscape Designer and use a different approach to hand drawn designs. I normally sketch right in front of the client during our first meeting, by doing so it has help me understand what they are looking for and they can see that I undrestand their needs and expectations.
 
Jose

That link is the epitome of how not to have a discussion.The conservative dude is shouting talking points, and the OWS’ers are inarticulate and not thought out..The best rep. I have seen is that dude in the Union Army hat early on, talking to some FOX woman, and running circles around her..
That clip is a joke..Is that the best conversation our…[Read more]

I saw that! It was interesting. Like I have mentioned before I don’t agree with every viewpoint down there but there was a conversation where the Peter Schiff says he never wanted the bail out…when the young man he was talking to just looked at him like…yes, that is what we are here for. haha. I think so much static has been introduced that it…[Read more]

This is interesting, 21 pages of forum debate in 20 minutes at Zuccotti Park:
http://reason.tv/video/show/peter-schiff-represents-the-1-1
 

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/11/shareholders-bash-bank-of-america-management/