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I have sold his products at some Farmers Markets - Between the crap he puts up with from those who come to his farm, uninvited & without prior notice, & the health Nazi's that are employed by the various health departments, we do not have to rely on rhetoric, we have seen incompetence 1st hand. You can rest assured that they quickly realized I was not someone to trifle with, I'll give them credit for that :).
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The Studiola Californie (ill. 1) which Picasso painted in 1956, precisely on April 2, follows and precedes several paintings on the same theme. It is naturally the painter's own studio, located in Cannes, in the California neighbourhood, which Picasso occupied since the previous year and where he stayed until 1961. We know that the artist liked to work in the vast living-room in which he put all his material and all the found or given objects which he accumulated according to his legendary habit and which shaped his personal universe. Numerous parcels, often left unopened, formed piles. The crates and the furniture coming from the flat in the rue de la Boétie were put in a space "cluttered" with many canvases, hanging on the wall or just put down on the floor. This cheerful shambles struck all those who entered it and was regularly described by commentators who always marvelled at its particularity. Photographs also frequently benefited from such a space and the pictures taken by Douglas Duncan (ill. 2) , André Villers, Edward Quinn generally draw a fair portrait of this laden universe. As for the painting, endowed with this spirit of profusion, it only shows the essential objects which painters need and which are usually found in their studios: the easel, the paintings hung on the walls, the frames carelessly put down on the floor. Other objects or pieces of furniture are represented and somehow correct the ordinarily severe vision of the place of creation which the artist's studio is. The rounded shapes of the ceiling mouldings, the arabesques of the window woodworks and the Mediterranean vegetation which you can discern through the windows make up the background and endow the space with a particular atmosphere in which life seems to flow in all directions. In The Studio, Picasso enjoyed using supple and vibrant shapes which we can, along with others, consider as being tributes to his friend Matisse who had recently died, and which Yve-Alain Bois, in the Kimbell Art Museum exhibition catalogue, studied in depth 1 . The doors and windows show a strange ballet of syncopated shapes and offer in themselves a stunning spectacle. The space is like striated by the areas of lights and shadows and loses itself in inextricable mazes.
Several other versions, around twenty in total, show us the same saturated space in which sometimes appears a character in whom we can easily recognize Jacqueline, sitting in profile in a rocking-chair whose rounded shapes complete the initial composition. Jacqueline is staring at the space and more particularly at one element of its composition which she cannot distract herself from throughout the different versions. With or without a character, the works take up the theme, common in painting, of the painting within the painting.
But whereas the painting is traditionally the opportunity to expose, the opportunity for the artist to show the richness of the collection which he intends to inventory or the opportunity to show his personal production, here it is the emptiness and the lack of form which we are given to contemplate. In this case, it is a canvas set on an easel which changes its location in the different paintings but most often occupies, especially in the most successfully completed versions, the central location. This element is thus highly visible within Picasso's very laden compositions on the theme of the studio, and all the more so as the canvas is blank and that its whiteness pierces space in a particularly dazzling manner. The white rectangle which the artist repeats from canvas to canvas is not an insignificant element as it constitutes a kind of break in the saturated universe we are generally given to see.
In fact, many works which were painted before or after, are similarly marked by this unexpected monochromy which undoubtedly draws the eye because of its brightness. Such is the case for the paintings on the theme of the studio. Canvases, linocuts and drawings show the importance given by the artist to what is likely to be more than a simple detail coming from a random organisation of space. The white and immaculate surface of a painting, generally set in the centre, is indeed recurring in many other works. The painter at work, with or without a model, the painter's own children with or without their mother and a few other examples also belonging to a series are also marked by this neutral and white reserve, a kind of "retinal silence" in the usual chromatic intensity. It seems to be a persistent sign, to be found in all the work, but which undeniably becomes more pronounced during certain periods. We could be tempted to link the affirmed presence of this immaterial mark with biographical elements.
We would maybe discover that it echoes difficult moments in the artist's life, his marital problems and other family or professional relationships. We could maybe expose an even more secret cause that a psychological study could help us identify. But, without denying the relevance of such approaches, we prefer the formal and aesthetic option which the artist himself invites us to take. The problem of the blank canvas was perceived by the painter who mentions it several times. Some of the comments gathered by Marie-Laure Bernadac and Androula Michael give an interesting orientation of analysis. This is the case of the following quotation dating from the very year when he painted The Studio:
"A painting does not exist, it cannot be a mere material object (...) The collector who buys it does not buy an object. He buys something intangible, and one fine day he wakes up with only a frame around an invisible space 2 . "
One could not express more truly and more precisely the problem raised by this stretch of empty and immaterial painting which the terms intangible and invisible used by Picasso radically qualify as the very space of the whole painting. The painting surface, the appropriation strategies chosen by the painter and the inherent risks he immediately takes, the aporia created by each gesture aiming at filling the void are elements taken into consideration by Pablo Picasso who, in simple but highly pertinent words, raises the crucial problem of the way we look at a painting.
" The painter himself, he told Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, does not see anything. He only looks at his painting. There are painters like that, who only look at their painting and who do not see anything 3 ".
The relationship between the work and the exercise of looking will reveal itself to be a major problem for Picasso, who as he did not ignore his legendary prolixity, is careful, as if to protect himself, to recommend moderation:
" There are so many realities that if we try to make them all visible, we end up in darkness. (...) There is a moment when we have to stop(...). If not, in the end there would be nothing left 4 . "
In view of these declarations, the kinds of reserve we highlighted take on a new meaning and allow for a somewhat different reading of the work. Its undeniably profuse character finds in the figuration of the blank canvas a kind of counterpoint which comes to temper the rest of the space, as if to wash it from its excesses. The white canvas, untouched by the brush tip, not loaded with colour or matter, is indeed this Tabula rasa discussed by Daniel Arasse, in a recent text, precisely entitled "On n'y voit rien" (We see nothing). Following John Moffitt and Vicente Carducho, Arasse evokes its fundamental function, that of containing "the all-mightiness of the painter's act, of painting 5 . " The blank canvas, empty of all sign except that which maybe inscribes itself in its own vacuity, has always puzzled the creators and the art historians. It charms Wassily Kandisky who sees in it undeniable capacities of marvelling and who, through a metaphor, identifies the object and starts to analyse it:
" Like a pure and chaste virgin with a clear look, with celestial joy, this pure canvas which is also itself as beautiful as a painting 6 . "
It gives mixed feelings to many other artists, among which dominates the fascination it provokes, which the art historians and historians of colour have highlighted.
In Las Meninas by Velázquez, the blank canvas is, as Daniel Arasse also showed very well, the back side of the painting whose worked surface, the obverse, remains inaccessible to our look. It is probably this visual dilemma which fascinated Pablo Picasso, as evidenced by the many variations he painted around the famous painting in the Prado. As before, it is for the artist the opportunity to take up the problematic of the empty canvas, of the white square or rectangle which contains or waits for the act of painting. But two other elements which are present in the painting by Velázquez have surely held his attention. It is the opening in which the character is profiled, looking at the scene, and the famous mirror in which appears the off-camera image of the royal couple. The presence of the mirror is far from being rare in Picasso's work. Even a brief study of the question shows the importance of the theme.
The early works, the paintings from the beginnings of the century, and of course especially those which deal with body care (such as the unforgettable painting entitled La Coiffure from 1905), the ones which will follow soon with feminine nudes or objects which by tradition belong to the universe of vanity. In the first category of works can also enter the very famous painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, if, as some authors suggested, one accepts to see in the central part of the background, the representation of a big mirror. The mirror is a common element in brothels, generally used to exercise an erotic look. Here, through the cubist treatment imposed by the painter, it is utterly inefficient to render the image of the present women's bodies. The eye thus collides with a blind mirror in this painting. What could be considered, during the whole Cubist period, as the consequence of a specifically plastic procedure, becomes a lot more explicit in many subsequent creations. Thus, Large Nude in a Red Armchair (ill. 3) from 1929, shows a rather large mirror whose grey surface, surrounded by its bright yellow frame, does not let us guess anything of the terrible contortions of the seated body. With its impassive surface whose neutral monochromy confounds itself with that of a possible abstract painting, the mirror does not reflect any image and only retains on its surface the insistent reflection of the void. Other works, as famous or less famous, give the same uncertain role to the mirror. They integrate in their composition a unique patch of colour which is striking, not because it reduplicates the image it is supposed to reflect but on the contrary because it dissolves it in the thickness of its "in-significance". The Nude with Bouquet of Irises and Mirror (ill. 4) from 1934, repeats the same device as before, which also appears frequently in anterior and posterior works. The Studio (ill. 5) from 1928, the Still Life from 1936, The Still Life with Candlestick from the following year, the Still Life with Candle, Palette and Red Minotaur's Head, The Still Life with Guitar from 1942, and other works painted during the war, like Coffee Pot and Candle (ill. 6) and Still Life with Candle, both from 1944, all present with more or less emphasis the same rectangular shape whose interior is emptied of all explicit content.
The mirror hung on the wall or put down on the table does not prolong the perspective nor does it reverse the data as it usually does. It does not open onto anything and leaves no opportunity for the imagination to exert itself to fill in the frustration. It is a surface devoid of all specular function, a hollowing-out which is not endowed with any auratic function. It does not inscribe itself in the represented space as the attribute of the Imitatio sapiens whose history Daniel Arasse recently retraced 7and it even less fulfils its usual function, that of denouncing, via the comput digitalis, human vanity and pride. It rather seems to be a painting lesson in itself which raises the question of the limits of any representation.
The part it plays here is to be put in parallel with that given to the window.
The window is also deprived of its traditional mission, that, according to the Albertian lesson, of being a symbol of opening onto the exterior world, as in Picasso's paintings it does not offer any perspective of the kind. Most of the paintings in which it appears only show its frame. A simple rectangular monochrome or to use Michel Foucault's expression in The Order of Things "pure opening" which like the mirror or the blank canvas seen before, does not distract the look nor diverts it from its object. No still life or character figuring in front of the window is prisoner of an illustrated perspective. Each element is on the contrary radically confronted with a circumscribed space which can be apprehended as a reserve within the painting, as a kind of neutral and distant zone which fully returns to the word its semantic polyvalence. This kind of white screen receives and underlines the impassibility of Paul as a Pierrot (ill. 7) from 1925 as well as that of The Sculptress from 1924-1925. But the blank rectangle of the window can also receive the dislocated bodies of The Dance (ill. 8) from 1925, the languid body of daydreaming Marie-Thérèse or the body of one of Guernica's women, shattered by pain. Even hidden by the requirements of the imposed curfew, the window does not present itself in any other way, in the war paintings, than as a simple network of plain strips which undoes the perspectivist endeavour and severely surrounds, through the uprights of its frame, the subject of the painting itself.
Bull's Head from 1942 or Still Life with Bull's Head (ill. 9) from the same year are, in that respect, particularly striking. The composition takes up the same device and accentuates it, so that the animal's head is in a way at the heart of an orthogonal structure, which even though it is a window, could easily be read as the frame of the canvas.
This white or neutral surface sometimes appears as completely autonomous in Picasso's works. Its presence abstracts itself from any figurative support and shows itself without resorting to any object. The reserve, a part devoid of any matter as in Portrait of a Painter (after El Greco) from 1950 or partly covered with a layer of painting as in Harlequin (ill. 10) from 1915,the "window" thus opened by Picasso is another way to compensate, through the void, the profusion of pictorial signs. Unless it integrates itself, as in the Lying Woman from June 1946 or in the remarkable series of nudes on plywood painted in Antibes during the autumn of the same year, as an element of complementary plasticity.
This reserve, which as we have seen can take the form of the white canvas, of the blind mirror or of the empty window, elements sometimes gathered within a single canvas as in The Shadow (ill. 11) on the woman of December 1953, whose recurrence throughout Picasso's work we have attempted to show, raises a real and interesting questioning in that it appears in other images or documents whose topic is the artist itself.
A photograph by André Villers shows Picasso in the embrasure of a French window (ill. 12), another photo by Edward Quinn (ill. 13) makes him appear in front of a blank canvas, a third picture also by Villers shows us the artist, also wearing a mask, in front of a mirror. These three photographs, beyond their status of works of art, can be used as documents and help our argumentation. They form a kind of trilogy which not only replies very precisely to the figures of the reserve we put forward but can also constitute a key to the raised problematic. In the three photographs, the frontal pose of the artist is striking. The face-to-face which takes place between the artist and the onlooker in front of the reserve in the background is indeed largely perceptible and seems over-highlighted in another photograph, taken by David Douglas Duncan (ill. 14). It is within the context of bullfighting, an important theme for Picasso, and under the appearance of a muleta, or more prosaically, of a simple piece of cloth, that the painter's white canvass reappears. The white canvas, beyond the silence it conveys, can be a tool of optical fascination in which the look comes to bump, an object of diversion of a force which is going to exert itself or an element of reception of another in the making and contains all the possibilities. The artist's signature which ostensibly and largely strikes the surface of one of the canvases, laid in the half-light on its easel, seems to provide an irrefutable piece of evidence.Maurice Fréchuret


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Everything you look for and all that you perceive has a way of proving whatever you believe.
Every now and then I am reminded of cognitive bias as presented by Kruger-Dunning in the paper Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments. As I have been active in the opensource community for close to 18 years now in some form or fashion the first lesson I learned is that if you have never done it before. You don't know. It's just that simple, and this lesson tends to stick with you with in almost every facet of life. It affects ones approach to problems such that every problem starts with one question. Quickly and summarily followed by a series of questions that need to be answered. My standard trajectory usually begins to branch off in a series of questions leaving me with few answers and even more questions to which I simply don't have the answer. Early on this led to a slight madness as I would start down some rabbit hole and end up working on some esoteric issue that affected a handful of people. In retrospect, I was young and dumb, back then I thought that so long as you plugged away at it. No matter how long it took you, you would be able to answer anything. Now that I'm slightly older, and know how dumb I still am and how valuable it is in choosing the right question, I am able to avoid madness. Of course, sometimes it will sneak up on me and I find myself doing something that makes absolutely no sense at all. This is obviously why we call it madness, but I'm much better at avoiding it or tolerating it depending on my needs or condition. I'm of the mindset that madness can't be cured, only managed.
Usually if I receive an email or a critique of work furnished that needs a sign-off, peer review or some such. I'm wholly open to it because my first assumption is that if I'm treading new or unfamiliar water then I obviously don't know what I am doing. Secondly, the more eyes the better. While treading familiar waters I am much less open to critique or suggestion unless I feel it will beneficial, primarily to avoid rabbit holes but also due to a lack of time. New variables mean risk and if there is no gain by adding the element of risk to something that has been tried and true. I'm unlikely to entertain or even respond to it. This is not necessarily always the case but largely this behavior I feel has strengthened my ability to stay focused on the right question and to avoid rabbit holes.
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I'd appreciate much more answers however
Lately though with my own interactions I feel as if this isn't the case, partly because I suspect their is a racial and gender tinge to cognitive bias that is ripe for exploration. This brought up in a couple of discussions on gender recently. Specifically in regards to women in opensource and generalizations of women by men in general. Before these discussions a couple of weeks earlier I had recently finished reading a post by Daniel Stenberg titled "Three out of one hundred" (which I recommend you read) so the conversation and ideas were fresh in my head. Also, I had a heated discussion about some work where I can only make the assumption that because of my skin color this person thought that somehow they knew better and would simply do the exact opposite of what I said. To be brutally honest, sometimes this works in my own favor, and to be blunt, I'm a capitalist and love money so cleaning up a mess may work out for me in monetary fashion. I mean, ignorance is costly, but let me be clear. Unlike agile salesmen, I try my best to offer clear and abrupt warning.
On the whole though the idea is that men on average will make the incorrect assumption that they are more capable at a technical subject than their female counterparts no matter how qualified they may be. Women having to deal with this their entire lives tend to see the bigger picture and avoid what they consider to be rabbit holes. As a woman I would ask why? Why even bother going down that route if every time I do someone is going to offer to second guess me? This coalesced quite nicely with another discussion I had on generalizing untrue statements as applied to women. So, let us take for example the statement, "all women are batshit insane" as clearly being a gross generalization. Amongst a group of men shooting the shit it may be viewed as an off-cuff remark, in a mix of women, it will still be viewed as an off-cuff remark but it will be normally tolerated, at least to your face. However, this one statement in and of itself subtly reaffirms subconsciously that there must be some bit of truth to that statement. Thus, most women are indeed insane, maybe not batshit insane but a mild course of irrational behavior is expected. Of course this statement is simply ridiculous! I don't have the actual data to back any of this up and saying I believe it to be true isn't enough for an idiot, I realize. That aside, I am ashamed to admit that I am guilty of remarks like this myself. I've tried to rationalize the comments with "it's about context" but I can't qualify that as an "african-american" male. Is the statement "black people no jack shit about computers" any different? It's generalistic, and is again ridiculous but do we subconsciously hold onto these ridiculous generalist statements and again subconsciously use them to validate our own cognitive bias? Of course if that is actually the case there will be less women in opensource because all the men seem to think they are superior. Can you really blame someone that can't get a word in edgewise, everything they do is second guessed, or felt to be inferior? Doesn't sound fun to me at all, especially when you are paid less and have to doubly prove yourself answering harder questions. In short, fuck that noise. So of course, there will be less of any group that isn't already in the majority. Which means we have much less answers to our questions. This is unacceptable and we must try harder not just in our professional but personal lives as well.
The Mary Protocol
In response to my own behavior and to help me realize when I may be making a generalist statement that I may not consider hurtful, insulting or a turn-off to someone. I've implemented the Mary protocol. It's a simple procedure that will help me, help myself.
- The moment I may have said something and/or heard someone else say something that sounds ridiculous enough to either retract with an immediate apology or to pause the conversation with a "not cool". I will do so.
- I will not argue about my position beyond stating that i'm invoking something known as the Mary protocol to help myself from reinforcing my subconscious with nonsense and to allow for open discussion if the offending party would like to hear more.
- I will do my best to keep any proceeding conversation succinct and within reason.
The protocol is to be like a bit of a tase to correct my behavior. Not because I want to become some righteous feminist with a penis but because should I have a daughter someday I'm quite sure i'd take high offense to anyone calling her batshit insane, or treating her in inferior manner in anyway shape or form. So much so that I pray to never see it occur in my presence for the safety of the offending party. Off-cuff or not, it's not acceptable behavior and I will not continue it. It is my hope, that you do the same.
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New Jersey Muay Thai fans were treated to an exciting card of amateur and pro fights last Saturday, September 29th at Warriors Cup XV, held at the Rahway Rec Center (not to be confused with the Rahway Rehab Center, so Google carefully, lest you get stuck driving in circles around a safety town on E Main Street for an hour). The event featured sixteen fights (twelve amateur and four pro bouts) and showcased some serious local talent.
Liam Tarrant vs Kevin Molina
Both fighters started slowly, advancing cautiously and picking their shots, but the fight quickly picked up the pace in rounds two and three, with Molina throwing a lot of kicks and Tarrant putting Molina on the defensive in round three in the clinch. Tarrant continued to close the distance in round four, not allowing Molina any room to launch an effective attack. Tarrant used his reach to pick apart Molina with low kicks, then he changed levels and defeated Molina with a brutal elbow combination, giving Tarrant the victory at 1:32 in Round 4 by TKO.
Jay Matias vs Chris Mauceri
Mauceri made an impressive pro debut against an established rising star, Jay Matias. Elbows were a prominent feature in this fight and neither combatant was shy about throwing them. Mauceri knocked Matias down in the first round with a spinning back elbow, resulting in a standing 8-count for Matias. In Round 2, Matias came back with a brutal onslaught, but Mauceri landed another elbow that cut Matias, and a doctor called a stop to the fight at 2:16 (much to the disappointment of the crowd who booed the decision), giving Mauceri the win by TKO.
Maksim Ishkov vs Marcus Fisher
Marcus Fisher bested Ishkov for the entire fight with well timed attacks, including an impressive head kick that he landed at will, particularly in the later rounds. Clearly the dominant fighter, Fisher fought a safe and smart five rounds to a Unanimous Decision win.
Rami Ibrahim vs Ognjen Topic
There was not a single boring second from staredown to finish in the fight for the WBC Super Featherweight belt. Ibrahim cornered Topic at the end of Round 1, unloading a barrage of punches, and both fighters kept the momentum going right into a second round that was so intense the emotion spilled out of the ring and got several spectators riled up. The fight was finished at just 42 seconds into the third round by a knee to the head that rocked Ibrahim and took his legs out from under him, and the green belt passed to Topic, winner by TKO.
The amateur fights were great match-ups with a lot of back and forth action. Most of the bouts ended in decisions, including a title fight between Omar Estevez and Greg Rowe in which Rowe took the title from Estevez via Unanimous Decision, and one very disappointing No Contest due to an illegal kick in the fight between Spencer Grekoski and Ankur Mathews, up until which Grekoski was dominating the fight. The two female fights on the card included a very impressive technical debut showing by Gianna Smith of Five Points Academy, who won a Unanimous Decision; the other female fight featured none other than Take-On Productions' own commentator, Phoenix Carnevale, who won her fight via Split Decision.
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TUPELO – The atmosphere was bittersweet Thursday afternoon at the Lee County School District's annual reception for retiring faculty.
This year, 26 employees will retire from their classrooms.
"We're losing a ton of valuable experience," said Superintendent Jimmy Weeks. "Combined, the 26 retirees here have 551 years of experience."
Teacher Charlotte Vance spent 20 years of her 25-year career in the Lee County district between Verona and Plantersville. For the past eight, she has taught seventh-graders.
"It feels great," she said. "I'll miss the kids, but I will still try to stay busy."
After 28 years in the district, Shannon Elementary teacher Ruby Trice was in shock at having reached the end of her career.
"It hasn't sunk in yet," she said. "I'm going to miss the kids, the beginning of the year, and seeing how much they've grown and learned at the end of the year."
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"Work hard and love the kids," she said. "If you do that, everything else comes on its own."
Girls' basketball coach Eddie Moreland is retiring after seven years with the district. He said he is excited to go hunting and fishing with his newfound time, but he will miss coaching.
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Saltillo Elementary cafeteria worker Inez Ryan started with the district 10 years ago at age 75. She said the only reason she is retiring is because of her recently-undergone open heart therapy.
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MADISON, Wis. - The friends and family of Paul Heenan are organizing a two-day music festival to celebrate his life and honor his memory.
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The festival, named Paulie Fest, is scheduled for May 31 and June 1 at High Noon Saloon, at 701A E. Washington Ave. starting at 7 p.m. each day. The performers knew Heenan as a bandmate, engineer and coworker.
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A little bit about Chris…Hailing from Port Moody in British Columbia, Canada. Chris began his woodworking path at the early age of 6. Under the tutelage of his father Brian and 2 uncles Ron and Tim, Chris just liked making stuff. One of his first projects was a stool made with the use of a jigsaw with radiused feet.
Chris's middle school years consisted of a mandatory shop program called Technology Education which covered not only woodworking, but plastics and hydraulics. In high school, Chris's elective's consisted of 6 woodworking classes. Now there's a thought for today's education system, less computer tech and more woodworking education!
Right after leaving high school Chris made a decision based on learning from Sam Maloof, Chris stated, "You can take $20,000 and go to school or you can take $20,000 and build a quality woodshop.
Chris chose the latter and built himself a woodshop with the premise of making a woodworking future by learning as he went and teaching himself. After 9 years as a hobbyist woodworker and now 4 years as a professional, Chris enjoys the design and creation of his own business, Flair Woodworks making sculptural wood works. Chris can also be found on his Twitter page, @Flairwoodworks. Chris's latest endeavor is a partnership with Garth Schafer, a woodworker turned toolmaker. Together they have formed Time Warp Tool Works. At Time Warp Tool Works, Chris and Garth are dedicated to fusing the best of old and new technologies in wood and metal working to create quality woodworking tools for the modern craftsman. Each tool is individually made with care in British Columbia, Canada.
The following is Chris's WoodRiver Review…
The purpose of this article is to show what the V3 plane looked like out of the box.
A couple of months ago, while visiting some friends in Arizona. I went to a Woodcraft store and bought a WoodRiver #5 V3 bench plane. While I don't need any more bench planes, I was curious to see just how good the much-talked-about WoodRiver planes really were. From what I have read, Version 3 (V3) is drastically better than the previous two versions.
After taking the plane out of the package, the first thing I did was disassemble the plane and wipe off the grease applied to keep the plane rust free. I carefully inspected each part, made notes and took photos along the way. In general, everything seemed well-machined.
I noticed that the burr from tapping the hole in the cap iron had not been removed. I used a mill file to remove the burr.
The cap iron was ground to a fine edge.
The blade was also ground to a fine edge. The machining marks were finer on the blade than on the cap iron and the blade was sharp, though not as sharp as I keep my blades.
The parts of the lateral- and depth-adjusters that engage with the cap iron and blade appeared to be well-made.
I spotted a cosmetic defect, a scratch on the right wing of the plane. It did not concern me in the least.
The body was machined very uniformly. The text on the box clearly reflected in the plane's sole.
The frog rested on this ramp. The small machined edges on either side of the bed were helpful in keeping the frog from twisting as it was adjusted and locked down.
The bottom of the frog was finely ground.
All the moving parts moved smoothly.
There were two of these "rivets" dropped through the slots in the frog and into the body of the plane. In the rear of the ramp (on which the frog rests) was a pair of slot-head screws with pointed tips. The points engaged with the conical recess in the rivets and as the screws were tightened, the rivets were pulled down to secure the frog. The dimple on the top indicated the location of the conical recess so that it could be properly aligned once it was dropped in place. (Side note: When removing the pointed, slot-head screws for the first time, they backed off freely then bound up snug. By applying a little extra torque – but by no means an excessive amount – I was able to remove the screws. When I ran them in and out afterwards, there was no resistance.)
My biggest complaint about the plane was that the front of the mouth opening was a little uneven, making it difficult to set the mouth evenly. A little work with a file solved that problem.
The left wing appeared to be perfectly square.
The right wing appeared to be a little out of square. I e-mailed Woodcraft Technical Support about this and they informed me that if I was able to fit a 0.002″ feeler gauge between the square and the plane's sole, they would be happy to replace the plane. This gap was well within that tolerance.
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The whole financial mess started with Fannie and Freddie lending money to folks with poor credit histories. A program started by Clinton and really messed up by Chris Dodd and Barney Frank.
There isn't an investigation because the Dems know they are at fault.
I'm not denying the Bush's spending was also out-of-control but, this current administration is making a bad situation much worse.
"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke
You specifically sang your Messiah's praises for his firm tough talk on, ahem, what did he firm tough talk about? Dookie chains and de-nuking the world and let's trade our hoopties in for a flashy new Cadillac with rims and peace and love and kumbayah? Oh yeah, you also whined about what a hard time Obongo was having because of what a mess BUSH left things in. How about he's having a hard time because he's a MORON that has no real world experience. And here's a little more "truth hurts" for you Roger: YOUR BOY got elected because he promised people free sh!t and free health insurance and free cars, flat screen TVs, you name it. He didn't then and he has no intentions now of delivering on any of those lies he spewed.
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So you have to resort to personal attacks? I find your comments highly improper.
But for the record, check out bush campaign promises and how he fared
Enough of the sugar-coating. What do you really think?
I could say plenty in response to the Obama supporters, but if you would just turn loose and let go, I won't have to say a word.
FC AFC Wing Magic's Louisiana Roux MH "Roux"
GRHRCH Bayou Magic's Tough as a Boot QAA "Boot" (still a Knucklehead Puppy)
Bayou Magic's Reverend Jackson "Jesse" (Knucklehead Puppy)
"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." -- George Herman Ruth
In retrospect all of our latest POTUS have been "weak" they all talk tough especially when they are pandering and posturing for votes , but they always seem to stop short of delivering the knockout punch to the enemy...the exception to that..Truman w/ Japan
If GHB 41 had let Stomin Norman (not the dog) finish the job in Iraq maybe some of the crap we see today may never have seen the light of day..Truman stopping MacArthur from demolishing NK like he wanted may have solved other problems
The UN was running the show in the Gulf in 91. The resolution which put the whole thing in play stopped short of going to Bagdad. It wasn't Bush 39's fault. IF he had been actually in charge Saddam would have gotten his. Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.
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I am a REALTOR. I work for Sharon Kelly Realty 950 SW Bayshore Blvd. in Port St. Lucie, Fl. My work number is 772-871-0340 if anyone wants to call and check. I work 6 days a week, sometimes 7 when I do an open house which is about 3 Sundays a month.
I have had my share of health problems. In 1995 I had quadruple by-pass surgery. In 2006 I had an angioplasty done which knocked loose some plaque and I suffered 4 minor strokes. Throw in diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol.
I have worked since high school. I have worked all my adult life. My parents (both republicans) instilled that in me. They did not teach me how to get the "free sh!t")
Just thought I would set the record straight.
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Scenic dirt road in the desert through the Tiras mountains, Namibia
Our team traveled to the secondary school that the children of the Tumaini Children's home attend. The school is working really hard to provide the best level of education for their students. As you can see, they have raised enough funds for a couple new rooms. The current student teacher ratio is a 1-50! To find out...
The Tumaini Childrens home houses over 170 orphan children. These are the most amazing children I've ever met. If you would like to see the documentary that we produced, please visit: www.ThinkKindness.org
This was they call their "Olympic Training Center". Truth be told, several olympic medalist from Kenya grew up running on this track. Every day children practice their sprints and futball skills on this red dirt field.
This is the soccer field of the Tumaini Children's home. On July 10th, a team of volunteers with the Think Kindness organization brough several hundred shoes, medical, and school supplies to children in need. Get involved with the organization @ www.ThinkKindness.org
This is the outside of the orphanage gates. For more information on how you can help the Tumaini Orphanage - please visit: www.ThinkKindness.org or be our friend on Facebook.com/ThinkKindness
Hot springs and flamingos in Lake Bogoria National Park, Kenya


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If there's one thing I hear most often, it's, "I bet you see a ton of incredible houses in your job. You must really love what you do." That's true—doing this job in Charleston, I'm constantly amazed at the houses I get to see. Still, that doesn't compare to how interesting it is to meet the people in them.
Next week, check out my first-ever "Scouting Report" right here online. I'll pick five houses (some of the homes you've seen, some you haven't, like the picture attached to this blog—this is a new one I found!), and give you the real stories behind how I came to find them, and what I discovered when I got there. The Scouting Report is about the people, the places they've been, and how the conversations travel from house to life to travels to everything else—and back again—that is so interesting.
Before I do that though, I should clear up how this whole home and garden scouting job works.
First thing you should know: Rarely do I simply knock on a door. It's happened before and it'll happen again, but the results aren't as good as one might think.
I mostly get word of must-see houses through designers, architects, or through any one of our growing gaggle of close friends and contributors who regularly call me up and say, "Ellen, drop everything. You've GOT to see this." (Quick note about working for a local magazine: with the exception of way-south or way-north Lowcountry locales, I typically scout these in person rather than simply asking for pictures. Photos tell me whether it's a no or maybe, but rarely whether it's a yes. If I were at a national mag, where leads come from all over the country, my whole day might be spent looking at snapshots rather than stepping through doorways.)
I also get leads from people I don't know, friendly folks who suggest I take a look at, for instance, their neighbor's house. I like these too—most of the time in these instances, I'll ask for photos.
If I'd like to see more, the first thing I ask the source is, "Does the homeowner know you're calling me?" The last thing I want is to call up the most private person in the universe, who will undoubtedly be appalled at the thought of sensationalizing home-sweet-home and drop my source from his or her friend list—for good. Better that the homeowner has okayed the idea.
I'll also ask whether the owners live there full-time (writing a story about a fabulous house that's only inhabited two months of the year can prove difficult), if they have children, did they use an interior designer (whether they did or not has no bearing on whether or not it's a viable lead, but if they didn't, it tells me that the homeowner's vision is going to play a strong role in any potential story), what neighborhood it's located in (I get particularly excited when it's an area we haven't featured in a while), and a few other things. Then I call the homeowner and arrange a visit.
This is where my job becomes very interesting. I'll be greeted my someone who, nine times out of ten, I'll later swear is the most gracious person on the planet. It's remarkable to me how open people are (yes, even in Charleston), sharing their spaces and their lives with me. The funny part is, I usually only spend about 15 minutes walking around taking digital shots (these are not for publication—I stick to writing and editing, as I'm the world's least talented photographer; these are just for reference and planning purposes). The remainder of the visit—anywhere from 40 minutes to an hour and a half—is often spent leaning at the kitchen counter or sitting on the back steps chatting about how all this (the house, the kids, the life) came to be.
I can't tell you how much I learn—some has to do with house, but an equal amount doesn't.
Again, much of these rich, behind-the-scenes moments never make it to the pages. There's usually so much story to tell, we have to cut it off somewhere.
But in the week following, I'll tell you about the IOP homeowners who sat me down with their star-studded scrapbook chronicling their days as early-1980s NYC nightclub owners, the Awendaw homeowners who had me ride their backyard zip line before starting the house tour, the Riverland Terrace "dollhouse" visit that found me and the owner snooping around neighbors' yards in search of—well, I can't remember now…
What I do know is that there is a lot more story behind the story. And I can't wait to share. Talk soon!


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[font=arial]CAJUN DEEP-FRIED WILD TURKEY
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1 (10-15 lb.) unstuffed wild turkey
5 gallons peanut oil
2 tbsp. Cajun seasoning
1 stick butter or margarine
1/2 tsp. garlic powder
1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper (optional)
[font=arial,helvetica,geneva,swiss,sunsans-regular]Pour peanut oil into a 10 gallon pot. Put pot on propane cooker and heat oil to 375 degrees. Have turkey completely thawed and dry turkey thoroughly. Tie two cotton strings around the carcass so bird can be easily lifted out of oil. Carefully submerge turkey in oil. Deep fry for 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 minutes per pound and cook until turkey floats to the top. Remove bird from oil, and immediately dust heavily with cajun seasoning. Melt butter or margarine, and add to it garlic powder and cayenne, if desired. Brush turkey with butter mixture. Allow to cool 20 to 30 minutes before carving. Yield 12 to 16 servings.


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New Look: Nap On the Bow & Interview
The Future-Pop Couple's New Video Unveils Their Underwater Love
Pixel-perfect Brooklyn-based duo New Look premier their new music video for "Nap On the Bow," performing the upcoming single in a fantastical underwater digital chasm. Synth-playing siren and former model Sarah Ruba and her multi-instrumentalist producer-husband Adam Pavao were captured by directors Tim & Joe in live-action 3D using an Xbox Kinect camera. The lo-fi footage was then juxtaposed with a computer-generated aquatic "dream" to echo the soulful chanteuse's vocals rising through the effervescent electro of Pavao's soundscape. "When we heard 'Nap On the Bow' we instantly knew the rippling, pixelated images the Kinect captures would fit well," reveal the filmmakers, whose past work includes promos for Primary 1, Booka Shade and Professor Green. "This allowed us to do all the camera moves around them as well make them dissolve, explode and even invert." The result was the perfect compliment to the New Look sound. "We use simple ideas in complex ways," explains Ruba. "The beat that Adam makes establishes the vibe and the attitude of the lyrics come from there." Here the Canada-born pair, who released their eponymous debut album earlier this year on the K7 label, share their preferences.
Analogue or digital?
8-bit or 64-bit?
Brooklyn or Toronto?
Moog or Roland?
80s or 90s soul?
Just soul.
New or old?
Oysters or fish 'n' chips?
Fish 'n' chips!
Beach or pool?
Scuba diving or water skiing?
Adam: Water skiing, I've been wanting to do it for a while.
New Look or Topshop?
Sarah: I refuse to answer that question!
Ignoring the fact that they're Canadian, they're perf! Also, feel free to discuss your favorite new acts of 2011~


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By Tiernan Ray
Caris & Co.'s Scott Tilghman today advises investors not to be concerned for Amazon.com's (AMZN) because of Wal-Mart's (WMT) impending foray into same-day delivery, which was chronicled yesterday by The Wall Street Journal's Shelly Banjo.
Wrote Banjo, Wal-Mart's "Wal-Mart To Go" offers same-day shipping for $10 on any size purchase to customers in Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and cities in northern Virginia, and soon in San Jose and San Francisco.
The offer is meant as a "trial" for the U.S. holiday season, writes Banjo. Shipments will be sent out of Wal-Mart's "network of thousands of stores," as opposed to how Amazon ships from distribution centers.
The threat of all that to Amazon is being blown out of proportion, writes Tilghman,
While on the surface this seems like a direct threat to Amazon, we believe that a combination of factors including demographics, historical Wal-Mart patterns, price point, and offerings will limit the attractiveness of the company's trial. As a result, we believe there is little threat to Amazon, particularly as a result of core customer dynamics for Amazon vs. its big box foe. With general weakness in the tech sector yesterday, and concurrently poor price performance by AMZN shares, we believe investors may have overreacted to headlines and would be buyers on recent share price weakness.
Some of the things that pertain to "demographics" that may challenge Wal-Mart are a propensity to use cash and to be very price-sensitive, he avers:
Walmart customers typically have household incomes below
the U.S. average, while Amazon customers are typically well above. The $10 delivery fee for Walmart's program, dubbed Wal-Mart To Go (delivery is handled by UPS), may be sufficient to limit the sell-through opportunity.
Amazon shares today fell $5.97, or 2.4%, at $244.99, while Wal-Mart shares closed up $1.28, or 1.7%, at $75.42.