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Carolyn Gray / Connie Thomas
exhibit December, 2007
Carolyn Gray is among the better-known artists living nearby in Superior and
draws inspiration from the magnificent Superstition Mountain landscape which
surrounds the Arboretum. Her works are heavily influenced by ancient tribal
traditions of the Sonoran Desert, but a more important source of inspiration
is her mother. In 2002, Gray and Connie Thomas (her Talking Rock, Georgia,
sister) united their works in a show dedicated to their mother. Five years
later they are together again, exhibiting new work and a show titled, "This
Beautiful Hoop," celebrating the continuity of life, family and community.
"The common element from early childhood for both of us was the development of a love for color with crayons, yarn, fiber and other media passed down from our mother," said Gray. "Connie works with fiber; she grew dissatisfied with commercial fabrics and learned to create her own unique fabrics to give her artworks a more personal statement. For the past 25 years, Connie has exclusively worked on pictorial quilts."
"As they are both sisters' personal experiences and emotions, they have gathered inspiration from mythology, symbolism and dreams. The natural environment where they live not only inspires, but energizes their works with unique expression for personal mythology and vision," said Gray. "Their work influenced by nature and also personal visions and dreams."
Arizona's tribal traditions figure prominently in Carolyn Gray's painting; her art was featured in a solo exhibition here in November, 2005. "I was honored at being able to attend a traditional Sun Dance that summer," said Gray. "The drumming and dancing continued in my head and eventually, these dancers appeared on my canvas. It was my wish to share the impressions of this loving experience. Music, dreams, visions and ceremony are some of the influences for my work."
Gray has a Bachelors of Visual Arts degree from Georgia State University in Atlanta and a Masters of Fine Arts degree from the University of Arizona. Her drawing, painting, weaving and quilting have been exhibited throughout Arizona and nationally. Gray has taught in Sedona at the Art Barn and Yavapai College; in Tucson at the University of Arizona, Pima College and the Tucson Association for the Blind. She retired from the public school system, but continues to teach Art and English part-time this year in Superior. To see more of her work, visit the web site www.carolyngray.com , call 520-6895098 or correspond with the artist via email firstname.lastname@example.com
Boyce Thompson Arboretum is located at Highway 60 milepost #223, just three miles west of the town of Superior - a drive of about one hour east of Phoenix or two hours from Tucson (take Oracle Road North to Highway 79 past Florence to Highway 60, then East for another 12 miles). Monthly exhibits may be seen at our Visitor Center gallery daily from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (summer hours 6:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. from May-through-August). The Arboretum is an Arizona State Park and daily admission must be paid to enter the Visitor Center where the gallery is found. Admission is $7.50 for adults and $3 for ages 5-12. Annual memberships at the Arboretum begin at $45, and include a year's access, guest passes for your friends and family, along with many other benefits. A membership may be purchased in the gift shop on the day of your visit. To review other recent gallery shows from...
Jean Sullivan November, 2007
Sue Cullumber October, 2007
Adriane Grimaldi September, 2007
Pima College print-making students July-August, 2007
Mesa Arts League June-July, 2007
Fred Charlton May, 2007
Paul Mudersbach March-April, 2007
Linda Kaiser February, 2007
Edith Kreueger-Nye December, 2006 - January, 2007
Cindy Carrillo October-November, 2006
Bob Rice September, 2006
Bud Heiss July-August, 2006
Mesa Arts League June-July, 2006
Sandy Tracey April-May, 2006
CJ Rider March, 2006
Jessica Green February, 2006
Steve Davidson January, 2006
Don & Carole Schupp December, 2005
Carolyn Gray November, 2005
Martha Burgess October, 2005
Boeing Photographers September, 2005
Lightning Lady Susan Strom July/August, 2005
Mesa Arts League June/July, 2005
Jeanette Bronson May, 2005
Tom Stanley April, 2005
Kathy McClure February-March, 2005
Pam Smyth January, 2005
Tina Faust December, 2004


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1. banks have to sell equity as a cushion against asset price declines.
2. banks also have to hold reserves with the Central Bank, also as a potential cushion against trouble.
3. some central banks pay interest on those reserves, some do not.
4. the usual Central Bank policy lever is to via open market operations, buying and selling bonds from banks (and thus affecting short term interest rates), providing thus banks with more or less cash from which they then lend more or less out.
5. making banks hold reserves provides another policy lever. And now that Central Banks want to conrol both financial stability as well as short interest rates, they need another lever.
6. So how do they do it? Taylor writes:
"During the financial crisis, banks and other financial institutions found themselves in trouble because they had all ramped up their level of short-term debt--that is, debt which came due quite soon on a daily or monthly basis and was commonly being rolled over (and over and over) each time it came due. When the financial crisis hit, it became impossible to roll over all this short-term debt, and so many financial institutions suddenly found themselves without funding.
Kashyap and Stein argue that financial institutions will often have a tendency to take on too much short-term debt from society's point of view, because individual financial institutions are looking only at their own finances and not taking into account the risk that if they all take on too much short-term debt, the risk of a system-wide financial crisis goes up. Thus, a way to reduce the risk of financial crisis is to put limits on bank holdings of such short-term debt.
One way to do this is to use a broad notion of "reserve requirements." In theory, banks wouldn't just hold reserves based on the deposits from customers, but on any debt that they are depending on renewing in the short run. Kashyap and Stein explain: "
...within the traditional banking sector, reserve requirements should in principle apply to any form of short-term debt that is capable of creating run-like dynamics, and hence
systemic fragility. This would include commercial paper, repo finance, brokered certificates of deposit, and so forth.
...Going further, given that essentially the same maturity-transformation activities take place in the shadow banking sector, it would also be desirable to regulate the shadow-banking sector in a symmetric fashion."
so, a new instrument to regulate both intereset rates and the cushion of reserves that banks must hold. and a new way of thinking about monetary policy.

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Artist Recognition
Art Description
Photography: Color on Aluminium.
The art of the sailor is to leave nothing to chance.. Art photograph by Sarah Scherf (2017). Original (only 1 Original in existence in the world), signed, numbered (as 1/1) and dated by Artist Sarah Scherf with Certificate of Authenticity.
Media: Fine Art lustrous high-quality Aluminum photograph produced directly onto a sheet of 1/16" thick lustrous Aluminum (special dyes are infused onto the poly-coated metal under heat and pressure with a white layer infused in the metal to enhance colors and depth). The aluminum sheet is offset from the wall by a 3/4" thick wooden frame (float mount) which is attached to the back and comes ready to hang.
(Note: Museum-quality Aluminum fine art photographs are the contemporary medium of our time, and they are extremely durable, they're lightweight, they won't bend, and they are water resistant. The high gloss/lustrous finish of the smooth aluminum is bringing out depth in color and it produces an exceptional masterpiece of fine art).
Keywords: Beach, People, Resort, Sky, Blue, Boat, Summer, Tourist, Water, Yacht, Cruise, Hotels
Subjects: Boat
Styles: Photorealism, Pop Art, Realism, Street Art, Illustration
Mediums: Color
Materials: Aluminium
Prints: Boat Art Prints, Photorealism Art Prints, Pop Art Art Prints, Realism Art Prints, Street Art Art Prints, Illustration Art Prints, Color Art Prints, Aluminium Art Prints


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Reader's note: This is the fourth in a series of articles detailing the expansion of Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. — home to the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League. Miller and Hobart Brothers have been named as the Official Welding Equipment Provider for the Lambeau Field Expansion by the Green Bay Packers. Through a partnership with Miron Construction Co., Inc. — the Official Provider of Construction Services for the Green Bay Packers and Lambeau Field — Miller and Hobart Brothers have worked to bring the latest in welding technology to the site. Stay tuned to MillerWelds.com/Lambeau for more articles, photos and videos from the project.
For the first article in the series on converting to Flux Cored welding, click here.
For the second article in the series on portable fume extraction equipment, click here.
For the third article in the series on dual operator engine-driven welder/generators, click here.
In this article, we'll specifically look at the use of induction heating in structural steel welding applications. Miron Construction used the ProHeat™ 35 induction heating system from Miller throughout the project as a faster and more efficient way of bringing the steel columns to temperature – and keeping them there – than using a propane-fueled torch. Overall benefits of the process compared to heating with a torch are:
Miron Construction began work on reinforcing existing steel structures at Lambeau Field in September 2011. Work ramped up in January as the regular season ended and crews were able to remove the old scoreboards. The North End Zone construction revolved around the addition of a massive elevator shaft for six new elevators, the new party deck that sits on top the stadium roof, and the new Mitsubishi Diamond Vision Video Board.
The work in the South End Zone is even more extensive: to support the structures for the new video board and the new seating, an additional bay was added to the existing bowl and seven new levels were built on top of the existing three levels. This is where the majority of the added seating will be, as well as indoor shops and concessions. It also required major reinforcement of the existing steel columns.
This reinforcement included extending base plates and adding plating and bar stock to the existing columns. Large three-inch plate steel caps were also added to the very top of each column to act as a base for the new steel structure to be built on top of it. In order to do this and meet structural requirements, the new plate steel as well as the existing column (16 inches by 16 inches) had to be brought to and maintained at a temperature of 150 degrees during the welding process. Preheating helps prevent rapid cooling of the weld metal, relieves stresses and drives out hydrogen, which can lead to cracking and embrittlement. This is historically done in the construction industry using propane-fueled torches (aka rosebuds, weed burners, etc.). This method of heating, however, poses problems, including:
Inconsistent heating throughout the steel. The large size of the columns combined with the cold weather when much of this work was performed makes it difficult to evenly maintain temperature.
Purchasing, storage and handling of volatile heating fuel
Safety dangers associated with using a high-temperature open flame
Constant starts and stops during the welding process to bring the column back up to temperature using a heating torch.
With the ProHeat 35 induction heating system, Miron Construction was able to bring each column or cap plate to temperature, leave the induction heating coils in place, and make the complete weld without stopping (except to switch out Stick electrodes). This saves a substantial amount of time and provides uniform heating throughout the weld area.
"The induction heating system has actually been great for plating the columns and welding on the side," explains Jake Wirkuty, an ironworker with Miron Construction Co., Inc. "It saves a lot of time on the preheat set-up. Instead of welding three inches, preheating and then welding three inches, it's been excellent just to slap the coil on the side of the column. We have an eight-foot setup which, with two guys, one on each side of the column welding and keeping that temp up, it saves probably half the time or more of preheating."
With an induction heating system, heat is created electromagnetically in the material rather than by surface heating, as is done with an open flame. Heat is induced by placing the steel in an alternating magnetic field created by liquid-cooled induction heating cables. In this application, Miron Construction rigged an eight-foot long strip of plywood with the induction heating cables so that it could be quickly and easily placed along each 2.5-inch thick reinforcement plate. The induction cables do not heat up themselves, but create eddy currents that generate heat throughout the plate and column. Two welders then work down the side of the each column plate.
"What we ended up doing with the coils for the unit was taking an eight-foot sheet of plywood, cutting it down to the size of our column plate, and zip tying our coils to it and just clamping the plywood to the edge of the column," say Wirkuty. "And then, when that side is done and heated, you just unclamp it and move to the other side. It makes it very easy to get around."
The process is safer, faster and easier to use than other heating methods and typically provides more uniform heating throughout the part. The part comes to temperature within minutes and is kept at that temperature until the welding process is completed and the system is turned off or ramped down. Unlike heating with a torch, where the uniformity of heat is at the mercy of a number of factors, including ambient temperature, operator technique and the size of the column, induction heating heats the piece evenly throughout. As much of the work was done in the dead of winter in northern Wisconsin, the ability to reach and maintain that temperature was important.
"It's been very important to have an even heating system," says Wirkuty. "That way our welds, if you're welding on the plate and trying to heat the column at the same time, with a weed burner or torch it seems like it's very hard to keep that heat consistent. With this heat induction unit, that heat flows right through the plate evenly and it heats the column evenly."
In addition to uniform heating throughout, induction heating also creates its heat without an exposed heating element, making it considerably safer than using a propane torch. There is no open flame to burn anyone or catch anything on fire, and the coils remain cool to the touch even during the heating process. It also reduces the need to handle potentially volatile heating gases, which improves overall safety and helps lower that consumable cost.
"It will be a lot easier because you don't have to switch out the fuel so often," says Wirkuty, "and storing them you have to set up your own site and cages with the right signage and everything else. This (system), you can just roll in. You don't have to worry about any of that."
The unit plugs into most standard 480 V 3-phase receptacles found on site or on generators, making it extremely versatile regardless of what type of site you are on.
"Being electric, just hooking it up into the building, you don't have to run a giant generator," says Wirkuty. "You can just hook it up and go."
While quality and safety are paramount, productivity is also an obvious factor. With this being a high-profile project with strict deadlines to meet, any process that increases productivity is going to be given serious consideration. As Wirkuty previously stated, induction heating allows the welders to bring the part to temperature in less than half the time of heating with a torch, and eliminates the need to stop welding to re-heat the part — reducing total welding cycle times. When factoring in all of the benefits, Wirkuty knows it's a viable and much more efficient technology for this application that will help lower total weld cycle costs.
"I think over the long run, the machine would actually pay for itself between the cost of acetylene and oxygen or propane heating it," says Wirkuty. "And the productivity of it jumps way up."
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Both consoles have great features so which one do you prefer?
What's funny to me is the fact that a lot of people forget that the X1's HD is probably MS proprietary.
I mean, we have tons of large HDs available on the market at great prices, but MS couldn't see the wisdom in allowing those to be used?
Couple that with the fact that you have full game installs on the system and it comes with a 500 GB drive. I have a 1TB drive on my PS3, and its over half full of content, that's over 500GB? That really sounds counter intuitive to me, unless I'm missing something.
PS4 - $100 less and I have options on how best to upgrade my HD as I please for a great price? That seems like a huge deal going forward to me.
It's a nice list, but it's missing many things and including many things that both systems have.
what's really going to bite them in the balls is when SONY releases a 350$ 120gbSKU during the holidays. "Mark my word!" Remember if sony can give us cheaper options they can and will be this generations 20gb no BC edition.
Always been Playstation, Always will be Playstation.............Well, at least as long as Sony doesnt loose its mind like MS did.
Found a fixed version of features on Reddit.


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Lou Gramm Considering Retirement
Rumors have recently surfaced about the possibility of a Foreigner reunion between Mick Jones and Lou Gramm. However, they were quickly quashed by Gramm. In fact, a new interview with Gramm suggests that the singer is considering retiring, a concept that crosses his mind from time to time.
Speaking to VH1 Radio Network (via Blabbermouth), Gramm said the day when he gives up the road could come "maybe sooner than you think. I have some other interests. I enjoy being in the studio, I still enjoy writing, I may put my efforts into writing songs for other people or into production. I guess those are the outlets for old rock singers when they go out to pasture, you know."
Still, Gramm hasn't fully rejected the idea of touring with Jones again. The duo are set to perform together for the first time in 10 years when they are inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 13. Gramm vaguely suggested that night will determine whether or not he and Jones think it's worth giving it another shot.
"I would just have to see how it goes down, what it entails, how long it would be," he continued. "There's a number of things that would make a difference to me, and I'd just have to take it as it comes, and I'm sure Mick feels the same way. I mean, after all those years you just can't jump into the deep water, you know."


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Enter Sketch the Dome,
a digital competition dedicated to Brunelleschi's masterpiece running from 1 February to 31 May
to mark the 600th anniversary of his design winning presentation to the authorities!
Download Autography, create your own graffiti, send it in and share it on your Instagram profile using the #MuseoDuomoFI and #SketchTheDome hashtags.
Follow in Brunelleschi's footsteps and give free rein to your imagination!
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This is our protest at the on going massacre in Gaza where up to now more than 850 civilians are now known to have died. This is despite the world fully watching and aware of the problem and the great powers of the world fully supporting the aggressor. And even if a full blown massacre is not enough, the US congress felt the urgency to adopt a resolution "recognizing Israel's right to defend itself against attacks from Gaza" as if they have not used this so called right.
The reason for this on going massacre has very little to do with religion and much to do with land. Hamas is blamed for throwing rockets which is supposed to have started this war which is actually a form of protest if the numbers are weighed. Hamas is elected by popular vote and the only problem with Hamas is that they do not recognize the state of Israel. They have very good reason for that as Israel is the only country in the world which doesn't have defined boarders to call their own. Israel has never defined their boarders and never accepted boarders assigned by UN after the Arab Israeli war of 1967. So Hamas is in a difficult position to accept a "country" which was created by force on Palestine which doesn't have boarders.
As the war on Gaza continues there are reports of war crimes being committed by IDF which is nothing new and has never come to anything in the past because of the stubbornness of the USA in defending Israel no matter what. UN has called for an investigation into why more than 100, mostly women and children were corralled into a house by IDF and just 24 hours later that house was shelled repeatedly by IDF which left more than 30 people dead mostly children and women.
Our prayers are with the brave people of Gaza who have suffered so much under the watch of the world powers who are so blind to the atrocities of Israel, who quickly labels every fallen Gazan a rocket maker or a bomb thrower.
Here is a link showing the martyred baby on the fliers calling for demonstration in Male' day before yesterday. His name is Iman Hijo.


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Allan Hoffman necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 253 diseños de 77 diseñadores freelance.
Creation of a new logo for Web100.com, which is being relaunched/redesigned.
Web100.com currently ranks and reviews the web's top sites. The "new" Web100.com will be a hub for top 100 lists of all kinds (Design 100, Photography 100, Shopping 100, etc.), with reviews and rankings of websites and online resources.
Revision (on November 24): I have added a document with a suggestion for a possible design element: http://www.web100.com/dev/squares.pdf
The logo should be clean and simple. First and foremost, it needs to jive with our new design, which you can see, in comp form, at http://www.web100.com/dev/
Please note the following elements of our new design:
- the orange/blue color scheme of the design; you can see the style.css file with specifics at http://www.web100.com/dev/style.css
- the look of the square numbers in the center region...this will be used throughout the site
- the mouseover effect with the numbers in the center of the page (the blue turns to orange on mouseover)Please feel free to create something that's a refinement or riff on the logo at http://www.web100.com/dev/ -- I like the idea of the 100 in the box (as that echoes the mouseover effect with the numbering), and I like the combo of the two colors. But I'm open to something entirely new, also, as long as it is relatively simple and makes sense within the overall design and connects with the blue/orange color scheme of the site. Note that Web100.com is all about lists (that is, top 100 lists), and so a design/graphic element that conveys lists might work.
The logo will be used almost exclusively on the website, but I would likely also use it on business cards, shirts, letterhead, etc. That said, the key is that it works within the framework of the new design for the site.
In general, I like rather simple logos (though these examples are on the super-simple end of things):
- digg – very simple, relying on a great/interesting typeface
- delicious.com – I like the little square box with the blue, gray, and black
- 99designs – I love the 99 designs logoI am open to a logo that's entirely composed of type. I am also open to a logo that's composed of both type and a very simple iconic graphic (as in the delicious.com logo).
- The logo should must use the URL: web100.com
- I am completely open to whether it's lowercase, uppercase, or a combo.
- The .com should probably be part of the logo, though I'm not 100 percent sure about this; in any case, if it is used, I would prefer if it's de-emphasized by being made small. That said, I could see it being small and uppercase for an interesting effect.
- The logo should be delivered in a format that will allow me to create the image for the website and also use/revise for other media/purposes.
- photo realism
- bad clipart
- a logo that doesn't jive with our new design and color scheme
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San Francisco: Jury selection in a high-stakes dispute over smartphone technology between Oracle Corp and Google Inc is set to begin here on Monday morning, kicking off a trial in which both companies` chief executives are set to take the stand.
Oracle sued Google in August 2010 over seven patents and copyright claims for the Java programming language, which Oracle acquired when it bought Sun Microsystems. According to Oracle, Google`s Android operating system tramples on its intellectual property rights to Java.
Google says it doesn`t violate Oracle`s patents, and that Oracle cannot copyright certain parts of Java.
Early on, damages estimates ran as high as $6.1 billion. But Google has narrowed Oracle`s claims so that only two patents remain, reducing the possible damages that could be awarded. Oracle is seeking roughly $1 billion in copyright damages.
The trial before U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco is expected to last eight weeks. Alsup had told both companies last month that if they intended to settle the case, they should do it by April 13 at noon, in order to save potential jurors a trip to the courthouse. That deadline passed on Friday without any announcements.
Both Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Google CEO Larry Page are listed on Oracle`s list of potential witnesses. Oracle said in a court filing on Sunday that it anticipated Ellison and Page would be among its first witnesses.
Ellison is no stranger to the courtroom, having testified in a 2010 trial involving copyright claims that Oracle brought against SAP.
Ellison would testify about Oracle`s reasons for acquiring Sun Microsystems, the importance of Java to Oracle`s business, and the harm Android has caused Oracle, according to the witness list.
Page is a much more reclusive figure than Ellison. His testimony would include details about Google`s business plan and marketing strategy for Android, including Google`s recent acquisition of Motorola, the witness list shows.
The trial will be divided into three phases: copyright liability, patent claims and damages. Page could also testify about revenue and profit projections for Android, including advertising revenue, the witness list said.
The case in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, is Oracle America, Inc v. Google Inc, 10-3561.
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Twilight Cast Hits Comic-Con Convention
The cast of the upcoming film The Twilight Saga: New Moon — Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson — attend the special press conference at the Comic-Con convention on Thursday morning (July 23) in San Diego Calif.
"Last year, Comic-Con was the big eye-opener for us," said Taylor (in Cre8tive Recreation Navy Milano Hi). "This is our opportunity to come out and thank our fans for everything they've done."
"This is a severely emotional movie. This movie is not about discovery, about falling in love… this is low. She's a manic depressive, basically. It's a more mature part ", said Kristen on her character Bella.


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Cattaraugus County man accused of assaulting and kidnapping in domestic incident
A Franklinville man has been arrested after being accused of assaulting, choking and kidnapping a woman in a domestic incident that was uncovered during a vehicle stop early Sunday, Cattaraugus County sheriff's officials reported.
The investigation began after Seneca Nation marshals stopped to check on a vehicle parked on the side of Route 219 in the Town of Carrollton and found that the two occupants had been involved in a domestic incident.
The case was turned over to Cattaraugus County sheriff's investigators, who determined that the man assaulted the woman in his vehicle in Olean before driving to the Town of Carrollton.
Dean E. Pepper, 39, was charged with assault, kidnapping, strangulation, coercion and aggravated unlicensed operation, according to police reports. Following his arraignment in Town of Allegany Court, Pepper was sent to the Cattaraugus County Jail on $25,000 bail.


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Now, being a bit older and having had some experience writing for newspapers, I know that the job is not all fun and relaxation (though I'm still jealous of those who do it). Thinking that a lot of fans probably have little idea of what is involved in the life of a beat writer, and wanting to know more myself, I emailed some questions to a few of the writers who cover the Red Sox.
Ian Browne (MLB.com) worked at the Globe while attending Northeastern University. After graduating in 1995, he worked at CBS SportsLine for five years. He joined MLB.com in May 2001 and began covering the Red Sox at the start of the 2002 season.
Gordon Edes (Boston Globe) began covering the Red Sox in late 1996. In the past three years, he has written the "On Baseball" column while maintaining a considerable amount of beat responsibility. He's been in the newspaper business for 33 years. His first baseball beat job was in 1983, covering the Dodgers for the Los Angeles Times.
David Heuschkel (Hartford Courant) has been a sportswriter for 15 years and has covered the Red Sox for six years.
Art Martone (Providence Journal) has been a professional journalist for 31 years and while he's never been a beat writer, he has covered the Red Sox for more than 20 years. He wrote a daily Internet column on the Red Sox from 1996-2003 and is currently the Journal's sports editor.
Part I of the Q&A deals with the basics of the job, the day's schedules and deadlines and being a "fan." One note: All times listed are East Coast time. ... Thanks again to these four guys for participating.
What is a beat writer responsible for and how do his responsibilities differ from those of a columnist?
Martone: The beat writer is responsible for the news of the team. Injuries, illnesses, slumps, trade rumors, the games themselves ... that, and more, is generally all on the beat writer's plate. The columnists are asked to provide opinion on the team, opinion more than news or analysis.
Heuschkel: My goal every day is exclusivity. That's the easy part. The difficult part is getting scoops and the real trick is reporting the news before it actually happens. Unlike a columnist, I'm not allowed to have an opinion – at least not one in print. Columnists get paid to give opinions and/or take a stand. This, in my opinion, should not preclude them from breaking news or getting exclusive material, which the good ones do. That said, I like to say never send a columnist to do a reporter's job.
Does a beat writer stay at the team's hotel, and travel on the plane and buses with the players? Are your travel arrangements made through the team or through your newspaper?
Edes: The days when teams arranged travel for writers are long gone. The club's broadcasters still travel with the club, but they are employees of the team, so it stands to reason. Writers make their own arrangements -- fly commercial, take cabs to the game, stay at the team's hotel if they so choose.
Heuschkel: Beat writers stay wherever they want, although it's generally not at the same hotel as the team. There are exceptions, though: Tampa/St. Pete and Oakland/San Francisco come to mind. We don't travel with the team, either on the plane or bus. Someone at the Courant books my flights. I do my hotels and car rentals.
What time do you arrive at the ball park?
Heuschkel: The clubhouse opens 3½ hours before the game, so I usually get to the park four hours earlier. For a 7:05 game, I'm there at 3:00 and in the clubhouse at 3:35. Terry Francona usually holds his pre-game chat with reporters at 4:00.
Browne: I generally try and get to the park by 3:00 so I can get set up in the press box, check my e-mail, etc. For the first game of a series on the road, I might get there a little earlier because I like to scout out where there is an available phone line, or where I might be able to access e-mail from.
Edes: I'm apt to get there around 3:30. Some writers, like Jeff Horrigan of the Herald, like to arrive considerably earlier. I'll do prep work either at home or in the hotel before getting to the park. The beat reporter, especially in Boston, where more than one reporter is assigned to the team, generally concerns himself only with the home team; a columnist or "sidebar" reporter will check in on the other team.
What are the rules for access during batting practice and in the clubhouse before games?
Browne: At Fenway, we have access to players in the clubhouse from 3:30 until about 4:30, and if we need it, the clubhouse is open again after batting practice, which is generally over by about 5:35 or 5:40. On the road, we have a longer window to talk to the players before batting practice -- usually from about 3:30 to 5:15 -- but the clubhouse is not open after batting practice.
Edes: In previous beats, I often talked to players while they took BP, not so much now here, because of the amount of media, and the practice is discouraged. The clubhouses reopen at home after BP for about a half hour. That is not the case on the road, because BP generally ends 45 minutes before the start of the game, and clubhouses are always closed during that 45-minute window.
Do you file any stories before the game?
Edes: The beat reporter writes his notebook before and during the game. I generally try to file my notes by 8:00 or 8:30 (9:00 at the latest). The beat writer doesn't do an early feature, unless he's on the West Coast and there won't be a game story in the early editions. As the "On Ball" writer, I come up with a column for the early edition, and then again after the game.
Browne: I file my notebook by the second or third inning of every game and adjust as needed after the game. If there is breaking news, I will file a story as soon as possible, after I'm done talking to the manager and whatever player might be making news.
Martone: If the team is on the West Coast, notebooks and pregame features are filed by the first pitch. For the most part, though, the pregame stuff is usually sent to the office by 9:00 or 9:30, when the game is generally in the middle innings.
Heuschkel: I always file an early notebook and update it throughout/after the game. I may or may not keep the same lead to the notebook. It depends on the news value of the topic. I'll give you an example: Last week in Tampa [now late April], there wasn't any real news before the game. So I wrote this as the early lead to my notebook:
Red Sox third baseman Bill Mueller, the only player in club history to win a batting title and a World Series ring, set his sights on a much more modest goal this year. He wanted to play the most games he ever has in a season.Most of that information never made it in the later editions. It was condensed to one or two sentences. David Ortiz's two homers [that night, April 23] that both traveled well over 400 feet became the lead note. As for writing early stories, I have to file an early feature that will serve as "plug story" for West Coast game until the game is over.
He set a pretty good pace early, playing in the first 13 games. But he has been slowed by an illness.
A flu-like virus forced Mueller to miss his third straight game Saturday and fourth of the last five.
"Tito, I just want to let you know that I'm alive," Mueller said, interrupting manager's Terry Francona's pre-game session with reporters.
"You look like you're alive," Francona responded.
Mueller, who looked as bad as he felt, has appeared in 14 of the first 18 games. His career high is 153 with the Giants in 2000.
So in order to exceed that mark, he would have to play in 140 of the final 144 games.
During the game, how do you keep score? Although it must vary, how much of your game story is written as the game goes along?
Edes: We all have scorebooks. In fact, the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWA) publishes its own book, though I prefer one put out by Cardinals broadcaster Bob Carpenter. We write what is called a "running" game story during the game. The formula is to file 400-500 words after the sixth inning, say, then write a "lede" as the game is nearing its end. Ledes are expected to be filed by around 10:00, with the score or some late action inserted if time allows.
Martone: Writing styles vary from individual to individual, but many of them do begin to write what we call "running" -- a chronological account of the game that can be altered as need arises -- by the third or fourth inning. Many writers feel it's better to have too much that can be cut, than not enough with deadline five minutes away.
Heuschkel: I write during the game, trying to make a play-by-play account of the first six innings as interesting as possible, which isn't always easy to do. I'll file that in the seventh inning and write a top of the last two or three innings as soon as the game is over. That's my early story. I then go to the clubhouse, get reaction from the participants and re-write a more thorough game story.
Does everyone use micro cassette recorders or are there diehards who use pen and paper? I would think in Boston you'd like to have something that records the exact quotes.
Browne: I use a digital voice recorder.
Edes: Many reporters use tape recorders, but given the little turnaround time between editions -— which makes it very difficult to use much time to transcribe -— many reporters still employ pen and paper, too. That's one reason you may notice minor disparities in quotes from one newspaper to the next. I confess I'm finding it more and more difficult to read my own shorthand!
Heuschkel: Call me a "diehard" because I use a pen and pad. But I also use a tape recorder just in case I have to go back to hear a full quote. My quotes are exact.
What are your deadline(s) on any given day? Depending on when the game ends, how much time do you have before you have to transmit your game story?
Browne: I file my running gamer on, or shortly before the last pitch, whether it is a day game or night game. I have until 90 minutes after the game to file my re-write.
Edes: The Globe deadlines to file game stories are as follows: 10:15 p.m. for first edition running stories, then 12:00-12:15 a.m. for third edition stories, an edition that covers the majority of our press run. On occasion there is a fourth edition, which allows us to go as late as 2:00 a.m., but that generally happens only on the West Coast. My "On Ball" for the first edition should be filed at least a half hour before deadline, so the desk only has to worry about the game story.
Martone: On a normal night, our writers have to file for first edition between 11:00 and 11:15 p.m. When we have early deadlines, which is increasingly the norm these days due to business reasons beyond our control, the story needs to be in hand by about 10:45 p.m. This makes an enormous difference in how the writers approach their work. If they can file by 11:15, they generally have time to go to the locker room and get quotes for their first-edition story. If it's 10:45, though, they usually file as soon as the game ends, go downstairs to get quotes, then come back and either rework or rewrite their original stories for later editions of the paper ... or, if they're on the West Coast, for the Web site. (This is a *very* new wrinkle in the business.)
Heuschkel: Ah, the dreaded D-word. It's the dirtiest word in a baseball writer's vocabulary. Seriously, I really don't get caught up with deadlines. It's tough enough to write a good game story without putting added pressure on yourself. I'll say this about deadlines: I know they exist and always aim for them. But sometimes you can't help but miss because a game gets over late.
Do you send in a version of the game story before you go down to the locker room? After getting quotes from various players, do you go back to the press box to rework the story?
Heuschkel: I send an early game story for night games before I go to the clubhouse and re-write the story when I get back to the press box. How much of it changes depends on how much time I have.
Browne: For the post-game story, if it's a blowout game, I often need to do nothing more but insert quotes. The majority of the time, there is a significant amount of tweaking with the original story.
Edes: Yes, a game story is filed by the time the game ends, or in the first few minutes thereafter. There is a 10-minute cooling off period before reporters are allowed into the clubhouse. The Sox have formalized the process with a new interview room in which Terry Francona is brought in first, then one or two players, almost invariably the starting pitcher. The system helps relieve the crush in the Sox clubhouse, which is small, but robs exchanges of the spontaneity that comes in a less formal setting, like the manager's office or in front of a player's locker.
How is all of this different -- or is it -- for MLB.com? There is less an issue of space or word length, I would assume, and if another story is warranted, it just gets written and posted.
Browne: Right, we are in the business of immediacy. If a big news story breaks, I have to get something up there quickly, and then add to it as the story develops. If a lot of stories develop on a given day, I would rather break them out into short separates rather than cram everything into a notebook. The presentation is different on the web. If something isn't on a headline, it might get lost on a reader, who might never click on to the general notebook. It's different for a newspaper, where the notebook is all there in front of you on a big piece of paper.
Are the web's deadlines simply ASAP? How often do you go back and update the stories? At what point are they "finished"?
Browne: The deadlines we have are to have a notebook filed by the third inning, a game story filed by the last pitch, a write-thru of that game story (with quotes) filed 90 minutes after the last pitch and a preview of the next day's game filed two hours after the game. Writing for a website isn't a whole lot different. We are basically after the same things as the newspaper. The presentation and the time element is just a little bit different.
In A Tale of Two Cities, a book about the 2004 season written by Tony Massarotti of the Herald and John Harper of the New York Daily News, Harper says it was "an eye-opening experience" during 1978, his first season as a sportswriter.
[I] was rather shocked to find out that Craig Nettles and Thurman Munson could be so rude and crude in dealing with the press. Those were the days before players worried that anything they said might make them fodder for ESPN or radio talk shows, and Nettles, in particular, wasn't shy about calling a reporter an "asshole" ... because he didn't like a question. ... Meanwhile, it took courage for anyone to ask a question of Billy Martin after a Yankee loss in those days, because any little thing was liable to send him into a screaming rage.Harper says that "you're better off not knowing too much about some of your favorite ballplayers." How typical is that?
Martone: It's very typical, and very understandable. The athletes and the journalists have different jobs and different priorities. Too often, their functions clash. I think that's self-evident and to get into it any deeper would take far more space than anyone would be interested in. Good relationships can, and do, develop between reporters and athletes, but too often there's a lack of respect -- both ways -- which prevents that from happening. And for whatever reason -- money maybe, or maybe just the overwhelming amount of time the athletes and the media spend together during the course of a season -– baseball players are generally regarded as the worst athletes for reporters to deal with. (Hockey players are the best; it's very rare for writers and players not to get along on the hockey beat.)
Edes: Remaining a "fan" while covering a team would not be useful to either the newspaper or its readers. A fan tends to react in extremes, highs and lows, and a beat reporter should strive to strike a more balanced tone (though I would say that there are plenty of times we fall short of that) and let the columnists weigh in with the emotion. No one should confuse a player's ability to perform with what kind of person he is. As in any environment, a baseball clubhouse is a mixed bag, with saints and sinners, the good-humored and the sullen, the cooperative and the obnoxious. In my opinion, the Sox clubhouse has been pretty good the last few years.
Heuschkel: Going from a baseball fan to non-fan just sort of naturally happened. I can't explain it. To me, baseball is a job more than a sport. I honestly don't care who wins or loses. People often ask me if I root for the Red Sox and I tell them I root for myself, whatever is going to benefit me in doing my job. I want a quick game with no errors or walks. I can't stand extra innings, so deep down I hope whatever team is trailing after eight innings loses. The best thing is for the home team to win so they don't have to bat in the ninth.
I thought it was interesting what Harper wrote about reporters who cover the Red Sox, that most of them rip the team as a way to get back from being tortured by them during their youth. As a kid in the 1970s, I was a Dodgers fan. So I'm not sure how reporters who grew up Red Sox fans view the team once they start covering it. The first time I ever walked in the Yankees clubhouse was in 1999 during the ALCS. Afterwards I remember thinking, how can anybody hate these guys? They're such a classy bunch of professionals. It's kind of funny because I used to despise the Yankees for beating the Dodgers in the 1977 and 1978 World Series. The irony is that there are some Boston reporters that think I'm a "closet" Yankees fan because I grew up in Connecticut.
Browne: It's impossible to be a fan and be a beat writer. To do this job, you need objectivity. I would think it might be easier for a columnist to maintain a rooting interest because they aren't around the team as much. I still hold a pretty significant rooting interest in the Patriots and the Celtics. But when it comes to the Red Sox, I take a more matter-of-fact approach and concentrate on doing the job right, rather than who wins or loses.
Martone: It's one of the reasons I never wanted to cover the Red Sox; I enjoy being a fan too much. When I was younger, the assistant sports editor at the time kept telling me that I would be the paper's Red Sox beat writer someday. From what little I knew then -- and I would find out much more as I got older -- I already had decided it would blunt one of the great joys of my life. I probably would have taken it had I been offered, since it's one of those things you don't refuse, but I never pushed for it and I'm glad things worked out the way they did. Especially since the Internet came along and gave me an outlet for baseball writing!
Part II in a couple of days.


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Hey everyone... more to come (I've been seriously sick for the past week), but I'd like to let you know that for the next week 50% of the sales of my patterns will go to Doctors without Borders to help with the Haiti relief effort. Here are links to my for-pay patterns:
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We also have some great events coming up such as our 3rd Annual Wine and Whiskey dinner at La Grande Event Center on April 29th, 2017. Tickets go on sale February 1st to chamber members only, then on February 15th to the general public. There will be hors d' oeuvers, wine and whiskey tasting, buffet dinner, cigar bar, dessert bar, and a live band and dancing. There is a limited amount of seating so please get your tickets ASAP.
We are looking for volunteers to assist with all of our events this year, if interested please contact the chamber office at 925-625-1035.
We will be doing coffee and donuts with Mayor Higgins quarterly, however to fill in on the monthly Saturdays she is not there we will be having other speakers come in. These will be at the Oakley Senior Center and we are looking for businesses that would like to sponsor the Coffee and Donuts, so if you have a home based business and would like to get your name out there this is a great opportunity. Please keep watch for this announcement as the first one will be in March. If interested in sponsoring coffee and donuts give the office a call 925-625-1035
We have some other exciting events coming up this year so watch your emails, our web page and our our Facebook page for announcements. If you are not on our email list and want to be. Ask us by emailing us at [email protected]
Also just to reminding you the Chamber does ground breaking and ribbon cutting ceremonies. If you are new to our community or just moved your location why not let everyone know. give us a call or drop us an email.


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I'm shocked no one else has made and review this dress here. (Burda Russia is a different story.) It's a pretty dress, even if the front neckline drape isn't as deep as promised by the pattern photo. I made mine in knit on straight grain rather than woven bias. And I had to add extra underlining layer as well as lengthen the lining layer to preserve my modesty. With the right Georgette you might be able to get away with just the shell & lining.
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In July 2012, Scott Zaremba was the country's first fuel retailer to offer E15. At the time, his company was known as Zarco 66, a Phillips 66 fuel retailer. Within the last few weeks, however, Zaremba's company has been renamed Zarco USA. The Kansas retailer severed ties with the Phillips 66 brand after Phillips' policies placed restrictions on how he could sell E15. Zaremba chose to go independent and created his own brand, "American Fuels." This includes ethanol and biodiesel blends that the Kansas retailer sources from within 100 miles of his eight Kansas City-area fuel stations. There are about 10 biofuel plants in this area. This, combined, with Zarco USA's efforts, will help customers be able to "fuel local."
Sales of E15 are going well, but Zaremba acknowledges the need to continue to educate consumers about what E15 is and how it may be used (in vehicle models 2001 and newer). The Kansas retailer has launched a big advertising campaign for his American Fuels brand, using television, radio, newspaper and social media. He also is spreading the word to organizations, such as the Farm Bureau and local Chambers of Commerce.
Zaremba has received positive feedback about E15, some consumers adding that they have been getting better mileage because E15 is an octane point higher than regular unleaded. This has been particularly the case with vehicle models 2010 and 2013, Zaremba says. "It's encouraging to see that we're going to have more vehicles that can take advantage of E15," he adds.
Zaremba has been receiving several calls from other fuel retailers about E15 and how they should structure their facilities to add the blend to their product mix. However, they often face restrictions in their retail contracts from major oil companies that are concerned about ethanol and biodiesel blends biting into their market share, Zaremba says.
More retailer bill of rights legislation across the country would help retailers be able to offer other fuel products, including ethanol and biodiesel blends, for their customers. A wider variety of fuel products would also help retailers improve their margins, Zaremba suggests.


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Scarlett Johansson suffers wardrobe malfunction onstage
The Avengers actress is starring in a revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat On A Hot Tin Roof playing Maggie, the role made famous by Dame Elizabeth Taylor in the 1958 film version.
Johansson's co-star Debra Monk has revealed the actress came unstuck during a recent rehearsal when the zipper on her dress broke, and she was forced to make a speedy change in front of the rest of the cast.
However, Monk insists Johansson wasn't fazed by the incident and carried on saying her lines as she fixed her clothes.
She tells the New York Post, "Scarlett's a wonderful actress. Fabulous. Perfect... She's passionate... works really hard and loves the cast. Here's what a pro (professional) she is. Last night, onstage, her stunningly made beautiful yellow dress zipper broke. Middle of her scene, she walks off and grabs another antique prop dress nobody wears. The zipper jammed halfway, and she couldn't close the rest, yet she did her lines. Never missed a beat. While onstage, I just walked over and quietly zipped her up. Tough gutsy gal. She's a pro."
The play opened for previews at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in Manhattan on 18 December (12) and the curtain officially goes up next month (Jan13).


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Beyonce: 'Standing on the Sun' in New H&M Mrs. Carter Video!
Beyonce previews her hot new song "Standing on the Sun" in the steamy new campaign for H&M!
The 31-year-old entertainer is featured in several sexy bikinis while performing as Mrs. Carter in the Jonas Akerlund-directed video.
"I can't deny your desire, feel like I'm on fire. When you touch me, I feel the flame they can never feel," Beyonce sings on the track, written by Sia and Greg Kurstin.
In case you missed it, check out the concert footage of Bey performing her new song "Grown Woman" live for the first time in front of an audience.
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For medical examiners, human stupidity equals job security.
Ive made a good living from human stupidity, including from gun violence. Digging bullets out of bodies doesnt bother me. But those shootings in Newtown, Conn., bother me.
In the aftermath, a lot of people have said a lot of things that are true:
Guns dont kill people; people kill people. Thats true. Knives, cars and ball bats dont kill people, either.
The American people have a constitutional right to own guns. Thats true. The Supreme Court said so.
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Theres a lot of truth to that, too. Its a romantic notion. I fantasize about being the good guy. Ive said that if anybody breaks into my house and threatens me, Ill do my level best to send him out in a bag.
None of the proposed regulatory changes including assault-weapons bans, limitations on clip size, more background checks and improved mental-health screening would have prevented the killings in Newtown. Sadly, thats also pretty much true.
Lots of people are crazy. Theres no way to predict who will become violent. In retrospect, most serial and spree killers are described as Nice guy; real quiet; kept to himself. Thats nothing a background check would identify.
Maybe with a less lethal weapon or smaller clip, the Newtown outcome would have been less terrible in the sense that six dead kids would be marginally less terrible than 20.
Individually or collectively, proposed regulatory changes wont stop gun violence. The only thing they might do is signal the beginnings of a change in public opinion.
When I was a kid, smoking was cool. Hollywood stars, my favorite teacher and my adored great-uncle smoked.
During my lifetime, and more quickly than I would have thought possible, views changed. Smoking wasnt cool. Smoking killed people both smokers and bystanders exposed to the smoke.
Smokers fought proposed bans that violated their rights. When Mayo Clinic banned smoking anywhere on clinic property, smokers said it was terrible to further burden sick, stressed and grieving people.
Too bad. The rights of people to be free from the dangers of secondhand smoke trumped the rights of smokers who are no longer cool. Theyre addicts.
During my lifetime, guns have always been cool. People got shot willy-nilly in TV Westerns and gangster shows. Popular movies romanticized the gun battle at the OK Corral and the in-a-hail-of-bullets deaths of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Bonnie and Clyde.
I own and shoot guns. I once had an AR-15 assault rifle. It was of no real use, but it was cool.
I think the only way to put a dent in gun violence is to somehow initiate another cultural shift. Somehow, people like me will have to stop thinking guns are cool.
I dont know if the shootings at Newtown will be enough to nudge American society in that direction or not, but they should be.
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This is not an objective, anatomical term, neither does it imply coitus. It connects with that extension of meaning of the unprintable, a fool, or a person whom one does not like. ["Dictionary of Rhyming Slang," 1960]
Thorkelin, in the essay on the Berserkir, appended to his edition of the Krisini Saga, tells that an old name of the Berserk frenzy was hamremmi, i.e., strength acquired from another strange body, because it was anciently believed that the persons who were liable to this frenzy were mysteriously endowed, during its accesses, with a strange body of unearthly strength. If, however, the Berserk was called on by his own name, he lost his mysterious form, and his ordinary strength alone remained. ["Notes and Queries," Dec. 28, 1850]The adjectival use probably is from such phrases as berserk frenzy, or as a title (Arngrim the Berserk).
Our Gayness and our Gilt are all besmyrcht. ["Henry V," IV.iii.110]
Related: Besmirched; besmirching.
The connection of the senses is very loose; some of them appear to have arisen quite independently of each other from different applications of BE- pref. [OED]


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Helmets Evaluation:
I wanted to bring the helmets topic forward since we have been spending a significant amount of time trying, testing and evaluating different designs and vendors.
There is a great variety of qualities and pricing. You can find anywhere from the $29 thin padding, non compliant helmets, to the $120+ composite material multi-standard compliant versions.
There are various features that create adjustable fitment, better retension, removable components such as visors and ear flaps, even waterproof earphone integration for your waterproof mp3 player
There are three brands that we have been most successful with. Each of them for different reasons though.
I am attaching some photos and link for you to further review:
Pro-tec Ace Wake:
Your typical, mostly used plastic helmet with substantial padding and great fitment. The helmet that has sold the most this year:
Pro-tec Ace Wake Web Site
Capix Wake Cap:
One of the coolest designs out there. Sponsoring the Pointless Wakeboarding team for a second term. Thinner plastic construction, with good fitment options (removable pads etc), with fairly thin but decenlty comfortable inner layer.
Capix Wake Cap Web Site
Probably the saffest protection for your brain! There are composite models which are pricy but are significantly stronger, and plastics.
Padding is compatible to the Pro-tec, and they are feature-rich. The designs and product names are as good as the actual products
ShredReady Product Page
Full Mental Jacket
Full Mental Jacket Web Site
Shaggy Web Site
Sherlock Web Site
Shredder Web Site
Vixen Web Site
Super Scrappy
Super Scrappy Web Site
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text: I have been an artist since I was a child. I have drawn and painted ever since. I am some what of a self-taught artist. I took art classes in high school, a number of college level classes at different schools but life got in the way. So what i have mainly learned has been the old fasion way - hard work. I have had the fortunate opportunity to do extensive travel in my life which has greatly enhanced obsevation skills and appreciation of the contributions to art and culure. This part of my life and many, many creations is my school. Copying many of the old masters have been my teacher (this is the way the old school masters taught their students). In my many years of art I have recreated everything from Mickey Mouse, Superman to the work of Frederick Remington. Most of my current work is done in acrylic on canvas. My inspiration comes from my wide range of travel and appreciation of beauty of God's creations. When starting a new work it is always frustrating because the vision in my head is not on the canvas or paper. But that is part of creative process. The original vision is not always what comes out in the process. I just stay with it and stay with it and stay with it. Slowly it developes into the creation but better. For me as an artist i get into "the groove" as i work, time and life around me becomes meaningless. I am in the world of color, shapes, forms, feelings that can only be communicated via the work, not words. Just as the viewer many times cannot express in words why they like or don't like the piece.When I am at my studio the middle of a painting and "in the groove" I feel the landscape and I feel like I am there. If it is a forest scene I can smell the fresh earth and the flowers. If it is a broad landscape I feel like I am actually there (some times I am) and I breathe deep and absorb the fresh air. If it is a seascape I fell the mist of the crashing waves. I feel the thunder of the ocean as it falls upon the cliffs and rocks. I work at putting that type of feel or energy into every piece of my work. As a paint medium acrylics and watercolors both use water as painting material and brush cleanser. In some of my on-site paintings I have used the water that is standing nearby. As a result, some of my work actually has remnants of the location, no matter how small, actually in the work. So, in those works, an owner of the original will sometimes get an extra benefit without even knowing it.My originals come with a Certificate of Authenticity signed and dated by me. Keep it with the painting should ownership change over time to prove the originality of the painting and owner.


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The Pontiac District #429 Board of Education took care of a number of financial matters at Thursday night's meeting, including passing a tentative levy, agreeing to put a sales tax increase referendum on the April ballot and entering into a local fuel co-operative.
Superintendent Kevin Lipke said the tentative levy of $5.31 million most likely will not result in higher property taxes. He expects the district's overall budget to come in around $12.7 million.
Since 2007, the county's equalized assessed value of property has risen annually, except for this year, where it decreased from 2011's high of $172.5 million to an estimated $168 million. The combination of a decreased EAV and increased Consumer Price Index, which is at 3 percent, will allow taxing entities locked by tax limitation laws to levy at a higher amount. He said the levy would also go down some as the EAV figures are not firm until the first months of 2013.
Lipke stated levies for some funds will increase, but others will decrease, including in the tort and liability fund, which will not have a levy at all in fiscal year 2013-14, because of a large fund balance.
The tentative levy will be on display for public inspection the next 30 days. The board will set the district levy next month.
The district is facing a loss of about $700,000 in state funding from last year and this year and a 3 percent salary increase for staff.
District #429 began the year with about a $3.6 million positive fund cushion and it's expected to decrease to about $3.5 million at the end of this school year.
Because of losses of general state aid, coupled with the possibility of having to take over more teacher retirement and transportation costs, Lipke told board members of the need for a general sales tax increase.
The board approved a resolution for the April ballot to raise the county general sales tax rate 1 percent, which equates to one cent on the dollar or $1 per every $100 spent.
The rate is currently at 6.25 percent and, if placed on the ballot and approved, would increase the sales tax to 7.25 percent, which Lipke said would still be below surrounding areas.
The superintendent outlined several steps that had to be taken before the resolution is put onto the ballot.
Before presented to county voters, it must be approved for the ballot by enough school boards representing more than 50 percent of the student population in the county. Lipke said school boards in Cornell, Dwight and Flanagan had already adopted resolutions advancing the measure and he believed Prairie Central was also going to approve it, with Pontiac Township High School to consider the matter next month.
Prairie Central and the two Pontiac school districts would represent more than 50 percent of the student population, he said.
Grade Board OKs $5.317M tentative levy
The Pontiac District #429 Board of Education took care of a number of financial matters at Thursday night's meeting, including passing a tentative levy, agreeing to put a sales tax increase referendum on the April ballot and entering into a local fuel co-operative.


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As part of an interdisciplinary project with colleagues in engineering, geology and geography, Professor Pitman has developed mathematical models describing pyroclastic flows, debris flows, and granular avalanches common geophysical mass flows. These models have been integrated into TITAN2D, a computing environment that solves the model equations over terrain. Pitman and his colleagues are developing new computational methods that can be used to simulate mass flows. He is developing tools to understand how uncertainty in model equations uncertainty in parameters, in data, and in the models themselves must be accounted for in assessing hazard risks.


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Since it's only December, everything must be taken at face value when it comes to Matt Harvey. You want to take him at his word, but I wouldn't be me if I weren't skeptical after hearing him say at this afternoon's press conference he was on board with the Mets' decision to limit his innings this summer.
Harvey bucked the Mets before, so it wouldn't be a surprise if he did again.
GM Sandy Alderson said there's a soft cap on Harvey, which is to say there's no definitive plan. I prefer something more concrete. Even Harvey conceded 200 innings won't happen, nor should it 17 months after surgery.
"You know what? I'm going to be happy to throw an entire year,'' Harvey told reporters at Citi Field. "Whatever they decide, it's in the best interests of both the team and me moving forward. I can't wait to throw every five days and just be healthy for a full season.
"Looking forward, if you were to map out a whole season, you're going to have to figure out some changes throughout the year in order to get to a certain point. I mean, if you make 33 starts and seven innings a start, obviously doing the math that's over what I'm probably going to throw.''
That's logic talking, not the usual emotions we get from him. Alderson said the plan is to limit Harvey during the season, but have no restrictions should the Mets reach the playoffs. However, if the Mets are eliminated early, bet on Harvey being further cut.
What the Mets pledge to do is not just yank the plug on him the way Washington did Stephen Strasburg in 2012.
Harvey has been throwing on flat ground six days a week at Citi Field and plans to report to spring training Feb. 1 and face hitters right away.
All this is optimistic, but if Harvey buys into the Mets' plans this should go smoothly.
One can only hope.


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Here is an Excerpt off of GSDCA website about the Schutzhund pupppy.
Raising a Puppy for Schutzhund Work.
Puppyhood is the most critical period for the development of the characteristics you want to encourage. Your local Schutzhund club can advise you about nurturing and socializing your growing puppy.
A puppy learns from it experiences, so you want to provide only positive ones. It should be provided with opportunity to explore and investigate new situations and new people, but always in a non-threatening way. Remember that your goal is to build confidence in the young animal. Your aim is NOT to dominate or oppress the young pup.
Exposure to different environments is crucial to the general education of the dog and also to assure it that the world is a safe pace. If something appears to make the dog unsure, give it the opportunity to investigate it slowly, but do not force the issue.
It is imperative to avoid situations where your dog would be dominated by another older or stronger dog, or by another puppy. You also want to avoid having to discipline or correct your puppy and thus dampen its spirit or damage its self-confidence. You can do this by never leaving the pup in a situation where it can cause damage to your valuables or find itself in a dangerous predicament.
The final area of development is that of drive encouragement. The natural behaviors that you want to encourage are playing with the ball, tug of war, hide and seek, pulling toys on a string, pursuing you rapidly when you run away, and finally defending itself, its family and its home. The latter really only shows itself between the ages of nine and eighteen months as the pup begins to mature by barking at strangers or intruders.
It is better to leave for later formal obedience training with a young dog. The character of the puppy is not sufficiently strong to withstand the corrections involved in obedience training. Acceptable manners at home and in the car and "play" training, like learning to sit for a food reward, with NO corrections involved, is advisable. Real obedience work should begin only after the dog is well on its way in the protection training.


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The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision on May 4, that the federal government was wrong to prosecute illegal immigrants for identity theft in certain types of cases, is the latest of several rulings and policy announcements that are effectively rolling back immigration policies initiated by the George W. Bush administration. In Flores-Figueroa v. United States, the court said the federal government was wrong to charge Ignacio Carlos Flores-Figueroa with identity theft when he was found to have used someone else's Social Security and alien registration numbers in documents for employment. The case could have implications for other immigrants who have faced similar charges under a tough prosecution strategy employed in recent years.
The Supreme Court decision came three days after a federal district court in California ordered the federal government to reopen the cases of dozens of immigrant widows who had married U.S. citizens but whose spouses had died before the widows' applications for green cards could be processed. In some of those cases, the immigrants with pending applications for legal residency were deported.


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Duplex Apartment Marbella Nueva Andalucia. This is a lovely furnished apartment which boasts three good-sized bedrooms, two full bathrooms and one bathroom with a shower. There is an ample living-dining room with an open fireplace which invites by its cozyness and gives access to the large terrasse. The terrace is also equipped with an Andalucian-style barbecue.
The bedrooms are sizeable and the property also has an independent guest apartment on the lower floor.
The duplex is located in a small and sophisticated urbanization in Marbella Nueva Andalucía. The urbanization has a communal pool which is shared by a only small number of apartments. It is built to very high standards with impressive views to the sea and the mountains.
There are various golf-courses close and it´s only 10 minutes to the local beaches which are ideal for practicing a great variety of water sports. More features of the property: Fully fitted kitchen, terraces, marble floors, fitted wardrobes, air condition, canvas blinds on the terraces, garage and storage.
Nueva Andalucía is a residential area, being located between Puerto Banús and Nueva Andalucía Golf Valley. Besides its proximity to four golf clubs, Nueva Andalucía host hotels, a great variety of bars and restaurants, the shopping mall Centro Plaza, a paddle club, tennis clubs and even the Casino de Marbella. Nueva Andalucía is directly connected through various direct accesses to the main road N-340 allowing reaching Puerto Banús, Marbella, San Pedro and Estepona easily and quickly. Nueva Andalucía offers many urbanizations with affordable townhouses, apartments and also areas with villas ranging from rustic houses to great modern mansions.
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I was having tea the other night with Chester while we were watching the flick My Mom blows like the wind. When the mother started blowing the daughter's boyfriend, Chester said "that dude is a bitch, he can't even get a hardon". He is such an armchair pornstar.
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Coffin family house, Newburyport, MA, housed 240 Coffins since 1654.
The Tristram Coffyn family were among the first famlies of Newburyport, MA. Tristram and his pregnant wife, Dionis Stevens, and four children (Peter, Elizabeth, Tristram, and James), and his widowed mother, Joanna (her husband Peter having died 1628 at age 48), and his two unmarried sisters, Mary and Eunice, sailed on a 60 – 90 day journey on the "Hector Clement" and arrived in Newburyport in 1642. Their fifth child, John, apparently was born aboard the ship. Four other children (Deborah, Mary, John-2, Stephen) would be born in the New World, John, Mary, and Stephen dying in their infancy. The Coffyns were Royalists and may have come to America to avoid parlimentary rule under Cromwell.
Tristram soon moved his family to what is now Haverill, MA, having negotiated with the Indians for some land. He was the first white settler to plough land with a plough he made with his own hands. Times were difficult their with the Indians. After a few years of farming, and enduring much hardship, Tristram moved his family back to Newburyport where he opperated a ferry, kept Coffyn's Ordinary (tavern/inn) which was run mostly by Dionis. In the 1650's, after the ferry crossing was replaced by a floating bridge, Tristram sold his property and moved to Salisbury and became Commissioner there. In the late 1650's Tristram Coffyn and a few others met with a Thomas Mayhew, the owner of Nantucket Island, which was independent of the Mass Bay Colony, and made arrangements to purchase the island and continue their adventure there. The island was purchased for 30 pounds and 2 beaver hats that were made by Tristram, Jr. Among the eight original owners of Nantucket Island were Tristram Coffyn, Peter Coffin, and Steven Greenleaf (husband of his daughter Elizabeth). Tristram was granted first choice for his lot of land. James and Tristram Coffin, Jr. also became land partners.Tristram Coffin, Jr. married Judith Greenleaf (widow of Henry Somersby with whom she had 4 children) and had 10 children. Tristram's sister, Elizabeth married Steven Greenleaf and had 10 children. Our line of decent can be traced to Phebe Adams who's mother, Sarah Dole, was related to Elizabeth and who's father, Henry Adams, was related to Tristram Coffin. Joanna Coffyn died in 1661 and was remembered as being a remarkable woman.
The Coffin's have an interesting history which you can learn more about at the following links:
Coffin – a 1910 history
My Father's Shoes – Our Coffin Story


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Winter days are quickly forgotten as springtime arrives and children celebrate the Risen Christ with exuberance! Greeting cards are filled with butterflies, flowers, and other images of new life.
I met with a lively group of First Grade children today and asked them if they knew what "big day" was coming up soon. "The Easter Egg Hunt!" was the first response. "Easter Sunday!" was the next. The expressions on their little faces radiated joyful anticipation and hope.
This Easter season, help your students share their hope and joy with others by living as Easter people. Reaching out to those who may have difficulty experiencing hope in their lives and showing we care is how we live in love and serve others as Jesus showed us.
Talk about the challenges many people face every day and how we can offer hope by treating them with love and care.
Pray together:
God Our Father,
Easter is a time for hope and new beginnings.
Help us to show our love those who struggle to get through each day.
May we live as Easter people, in hope and joy.
We ask this through your Holy Spirit, who lives in our hearts.
Guest blogger Brenda McLennan coordinates a family centered program for the Catholic Community of St. Odilia in Shoreview, MN, using Our Sunday Visitor's Alive in Christ curriculum. She has developed and facilitated programs for children of all ages and is passionate about empowering parents to form their children in the Catholic Faith by using digital tools to provide them with the resources they need. She has a Master's in Religious Education from the University of St. Thomas and has served as a consultant and speaker over the course of her career in ministry.
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Cub Scouts do fun things with other kids! They get to wear a cool uniform, go places, and see things. They play all kinds of sports and build things, like race cars and bird houses. Want to learn a secret code? Want to learn about wild animals? Go Cub Scouting!
Meets Wednesday evening at Landmark at 7:00 pm


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It's Thanksgiving week. It's also the official start of the one-week countdown to the second launch of HealthCare.gov. The nation wonders: Which will feature the bigger turkey?
I'd like to think — and I mean this sincerely, from the bottom of my warm, conservative heart — that President Barack Obama and his "best and brightest" team of code-writing fools will have the Obamacare website up and running like Amazon.com on Dec. 1, just like they promised.
I'd also like the Arizona Cardinals to win out the NFL regular season and get the No. 1 seed in the NFC playoffs this year.
Let's get real.
As good a receiver as Larry Fitzgerald is, he can't protect the quarterback and catch passes at the same time. At 6 wins and 4 loses, the Cardinals might make the playoffs, but there's little chance they run the table on the NFC West. You can put a presidential "period" behind that.
So it is with Obama's re-animation of HealthCare.Gov. His team may get the website up and running at, say, 50 percent, meaning that almost one out of every two people can get to a place where they can actually see what health plans are available to them, but there's little chance the HealthCare.gov website is fully operational on Dec. 1.
How do I know this? Just last week the Obama tech folks essentially told us so in House hearings. The only question I have at this point is whether the White House was surprised as much as we were by the revelations. I hope not, but, good grief, who knows with this crew.
First, the website folks said that on Dec. 1 the website will not be secure — at least not secure in the way they eventually want it secure (whatever that means. This raises an important question: Why would anyone put personal financial and health information on HealthCare.gov after hearing that?
Then Henry Chao, deputy chief information officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, told the House hearing that a significant chunk of the system isn't complete. You mean the Obama administration launched HealthCare.Gov on Oct. 1 with parts unfinished, a House inquisitor asked.
"I think it's, uh, just an approximation … because we still have to build the systems," Chao said.
The online application, verification, determination, plan compare, enrollment and enrollment transaction systems are "100 percent there," said Chao, but the back-office, accounting and payment systems "still need (to) be built."
I speak a little techno, so let me decipher that for you. He said that if this were Amazon.com, we could shop to our heart's content, but we could never, ever check out. You know, something like purgatory in a Stephen King story.
If Chao were telling this to Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, do you think Bezos would consider this website ready to launch on Dec. 1? I don't think Chao makes it out of that meeting with a job.
This is why the White House political folks are sweating blood right now trying to reduce expectations for the website. They know that whatever crawls out from behind the HealthCare.gov curtain on Dec. 1, it isn't going to be anything that remotely looks like Amazon.com.
Now, don't get me wrong. I believe the website will work eventually. Just like I believe my beloved Arizona Cardinals will get to the playoffs again and one day win the Super Bowl. But my guess is that both the Cardinals and HealthCare.gov will not reach their stated goals this year.
I am not rooting against HealthCare.gov. Quite the opposite.
I want it to work. I want it to work well. I want it to work well right now. Because when Americans finally get a clear look at the devastation Obamacare has brought to the affordability and quality of health care coverage, the sooner this nightmare of government ineptness and progressive overreach ends.
Sherman Frederick, former publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal and member of the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame, writes a column for Stephens Media. Read his blog at www.reviewjournal.com/columns-blogs/sherman-frederick.


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X-Doria Scene Plus for iPhone 5C brings together hard polycarbonate with a tough rubber outside to provide outstanding protection to the new iPhone. A translucent back lets your iPhone peek through, while a co-molded frame protects against shocks and jolts. Scene also protects the volume and lock buttons, extending a soft, rubbery cover that never blocks your control.
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Writing in The New York Times (January 4, 2009), Charles McGrath reviewed a quartet of books relevant to the creationism/evolution controversy, described in the headline as "Four Stakes in the Heart of Intelligent Design."
The Biochemical Journal inaugurated its series of review articles to commemorate the bicentennial of Darwin's birth by publishing Kevin Padian and Nicholas Matzke's "Darwin, Dover, 'Intelligent Design' and textbooks" (PDF) (209; 417; 29-42).
As 2008 drew to a close, the good news for the producers of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed was that their creationist propaganda movie was getting a bit of press again. The bad news is that it was in the lists of the worst movies of 2008.
"15 Evolutionary Gems" (PDF) is a new resource summarizing fifteen lines of evidence for evolution by natural selection, provided by the journal Nature.
The Geological Society of Australia recently updated its policy statement (PDF) on science education and creationism.
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This graphic adventure game, with traditional point-and-click gameplay, tells the tale of a beautiful gifted opera singer Mona De Lafitte, whose life is brought to an abrupt end by a vampire baron named Shrowdy Von Kiefer. Henceforth, she is doomed to a miserable existence as a creature of the night in Von Kiefer's gloomy castle in Draxsylvania. Confronted with her seemingly hopeless fate, she decides to run away and try to fulfil her dream of singing at the Paris Opera.
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Allentown native Dane DeHaan is set to star in a supernatural horror movie directed by Gore Verbinski, who helmed the first "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie.
DeHaan will star with Mia Goth of "Nymphomaniac" in "A Cure for Wellness."
The 28-year-old who grew up in Zionsville, was the Green Goblin in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" last summer.
In "A Cure for Wellness" DeHaan plays a man who goes to rescue his boss from a European "wellness spa" but is trapped, and discovers that the facility has sinister plans for the patients, one of which is played by Goth. Production is slated to start in Europe in June.
DeHaan got his start acting at the former Stage Door...


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It's indeed Groundhog Day today, and the big gopher has spoken!
But no matter what Mother Nature has in store for the next 6 weeks (or the next 6 hours), we predict more riding in your future! Get out there and ride (or maybe hit the trainer)… we promise that you won't regret it.


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Westerdok, Amsterdam
The Western Docklands are a nice match of brand new architecture along the river and monumental houses with views over small canals.
Because of the relaxed village atmosphere you'll forget you are in the city.
In the Western Docklands area there are 3 beautiful man-made islands: Prinseneiland, Bickerseiland and Realeneiland. With their narrow streets, old houses and little bridges are they a perfect place for a stroll.
Don't' expect tourists or loads of shops here. Enjoy the cosy cafés, restaurants and art galleries.
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Muffins are great for breakfast, brunch or a healthy afternoon snack. Although this recipe only calls for bananas, you could also add nuts or flaxseed.
This banana muffin recipe is an all time favorite in our house. So much so that we often hope for overly ripe bananas quite often! The kids love these and so do the adults.
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 large eggs
- 3 ripe Bananas
- 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
Blend the shortening, brown sugar and vanilla. We use butter or olive oil for best results. Then add the two eggs, beating well. Blend in the mashed bananas. Add flour, soda and salt. Mix well. Pour into muffin tins lined with cupcake liners. Bake in 350 degree oven for 20- 25 minutes depending on your oven temperature. Muffins should be slightly brown. Makes about 12 muffins.


text: There's a good chance you don't even have 30 close friends, but when Joyce McDevitt of Wath, England married her husband David, she had 30 bridesmaids and two reserves (she wouldn't want to look unpopular if two had to drop out). McDevitt explains that her family is large and she refused to deny anyone the joy of paying for all the bridesmaid accoutrement (though mercifully, she let the pick their own dresses). McDevitt says, "I could have had even more bridesmaids — but I decided that 30 was enough. I had to draw the line somewhere."