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9 Questions with RMEF Ambassador Kristy Titus
Britney Starr 10.23.14
Kristy Titus is an avid sportswoman with a passion for elk hunting. Along with being an ambassador for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (RMEF), she is also a featured member on Team Elk, RMEF's television show. I recently caught up with Kristy to talk about all things elk hunting.
Britney: Please tell us a little about your background in hunting. Have you been doing it for your entire life?
Kristy: From the time I was two years old, I started riding with my dad, on his saddle, while packing into the backcountry. I had my own mule by the age of four, and still have a horse and a mule today. The mountain has always been my second home, a place that I always loved being whether we were trail riding our mules, camping, fishing, or hunting.
Learning how to handle, ride, and pack mules, call elk, and successfully hunt public land from the time that I can remember has made my life what it is today. I can't imagine living any other way. My parents have always been RMEF members, and elk hunting has been a big part of my household.
Over the past few years, I've been fortunate enough to hunt around the globe, in places I never dreamt I would travel. [I've climbed] some of the steepest, roughest mountains in the world. But, for me, there is nothing that compares to the sound of a bull's bugle as it echoes across a canyon.
Making sure there are wild places for everyone to experience that thrill is my life's mission. That's why I'm so honored to serve the RMEF, Cabela's, Swarovski Optik, and Wounded Warrior Outdoors. Together, we're working to ensure the future for the next generation of elk and elk hunters. There's nothing better, and it's my childhood dream come true.
Britney: What is the most difficult aspect of elk hunting?
Kristy: The way that the herd behaves and what a bull will react to can change each day depending on the rut phase, weather patterns, or time of year. Learning to judge elk behavior and plan a strategy to hunt them around that particular elk's behavior is the most difficult aspect of success.
Luck has a lot to do with it, and sometimes I get lucky. The rest is time spent in the woods trying to figure them out. But, that's the very reason hunters return year-after-year—reliving those moments on the mountain, imagining what you would do different next time, and dreaming about the next time you get to pursue your dream bull. It's addicting.
Britney: What is the best method of training for elk hunting?
Kristy: You can never physically overtrain for an elk hunt. Elk can live in some steep, rough country and your body needs to be able to handle the rigors of the terrain for extended periods of time with little sleep and potentially heavy packs.
You should train physically year-round. I do a lot of resistance training, so my muscles are well conditioned to carry my gear, and when I'm home I run with my dog at least four to six miles per day for cardiovascular endurance. Lately, I have been taking CrossFit classes that give me a challenging bit of both worlds.
I shoot my bow at least twice a week, but during the summer I'll shoot daily. When it comes to shooting my rifle, I train at home monthly and at least once a year with Magpul Dynamics.
I truly believe when the moment of truth comes, we don't rise up to the occasion, but simply fall back on our level of training. When the moment of truth arrives, I want to know I have trained myself and done everything possible, so I'm comfortable and competent to take that shot.
There are some really amazing sportsmen and women with extensive knowledge and in-field skills I really look up to, so I learn as much as I can from them. Rockie Jacobsen, the inventor of the palate plate diaphragm call and owner of Rocky Mountain Hunting Calls, and wildlife biologist John Caide, who managed the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation for 35 years and is now managing the Express UU Bar Ranches, are two men who I continue to look up to when it comes to elk communication and behavior.
I try to always learn something new and have an open mind. You never know who might teach you a new method that will make you a more successful hunter.
Britney: Do you shoot a rifle or a bow, or both? Which is your favorite and why?
Kristy: When it comes to hunting, it's all in the experience. I like getting in close and having intense encounters, especially with elk. Typically, the heat is turned up during archery season, but I've been on some rifle hunts that have been every bit as thrilling as an archery hunt.
When it comes to recreational shooting, I am a gun lover and I love training with my rifle, practicing hasty resting positions, learning how to read the wind direction and speed, practicing precision marksmanship beyond 800 meters, and measuring distance and target size with my [rifle scope's] reticle. It's all fun. This past July alone, I fired roughly 700 rounds with Magpul Dynamics training.
Britney: Do you hunt solo? If so, do you pack it out alone, too?
Kristy: Yes, I hunt solo quite a bit, especially in my home state of Oregon. I have a horse and a mule that afford me a lot of freedom to do things I otherwise wouldn't be able to do, including packing minerals for backcountry trail cameras or packing out meat.
This year specifically my Yamaha Viking saved us on a hunt [in which] we had a bull expire in a two-foot-deep mud wallow. It was a huge relief to be able to hook up to the elk and tow him out.
There's so many great products out there that give the solo hunter the ability to be confident in the woods—whether it's a good packhorse or mule, ATV, GPS with OnXmaps landowner information, or SPOT emergency locators. When you couple all of the resources on the market today, there really isn't a place you can't get communication or help if you need it.
Britney: Ever have a scary moment out in the woods or a close encounter with an elk that made the hair on the back of your neck stand up?
Kristy: Sure, I've been nervous or scared a time or two in the woods like hunting solo and walking into the woods in the dark and coming face-to-face with a black bear or mountain lion that isn't afraid of you, grizzly bears that get too close for comfort, or a cow moose that chases you. It happens.
There is nothing better than calling in a screaming bull elk. That will make the hair on your neck stand up and your heart pound and from that moment on, you will be hooked. There's nothing more exciting.
Britney: What are five things that you always carry with you in your pack?
Kristy: Funny you should ask that, because I carry a lot of stuff. My dad always makes fun of me for packing so much "junk," but I feel that it's necessary and I don't mind a heavy pack. I could make a list that's a mile long of what I put into my pack, but I will keep it to a few.
I always have a GPS with me, because I'm terrible at navigation, and I'm a waypoint-marking junkie. I like to use my GPS as a diary of sorts, documenting everything so I can monitor trends in behavior over years, and so on.
I have several knives that I carry. A multi-tool, a Havalon, a folding knife, a fixed-blade knife, and a handheld bone saw.
Other items in my pack include a wind checker, lip balm, a headlamp, extra batteries, warm clothes, gloves, a beanie, and a neck gator.
Britney: If you could give only one piece of advice to a new elk hunter, what would it be?
Kristy: You can't predict what's going to happen on the mountain, and each hunt will have its own unique experiences, but learning to be patient is one of the most powerful tools that you can have. Stay positive and don't get discouraged. Pay attention to the small stuff. Bulls can be big and loud animals, but also very quiet, slipping almost silently through the woods. Read as much as you can about elk and elk hunting before your hunt, then get out there try out some of the techniques you read about and see how they work for you. Most importantly, don't forget why you're out there. Make memories with your friends and family and have a good time. This is the best time in the history of the world to be an elk hunter.
Britney: Do you have any superstitions or rituals when it comes to elk hunting?
Kristy: No, I just get out there and make the best decisions I can, based off of what the elk are telling me at the time. I'm always sure to laugh a lot along the way.
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Last year I used an accountant to do my taxes because I had a house sale and didn't want to mess things up doing it on my own. Now I'm doing this years return again in Ufile. How do I get last years return into Ufile? Do I just have to type all the information from my T1 into 2016?
How to import GIFI files from TurboTax business Incorporate?Has anybody done this successfully?
Carryforward and import a separate ufile return for spouseFor the 2011 tax year, My husband and I each completed a completely separate ufile return. This screwed up our deductions as ufile claimed deductions for both of us that we were not otherwise eligible for. For 2012, we have each finished a separate 2012 tax return on ufile. How do we combine our separate files so that all the information is in one consolidated ufile and it calculates all the deductions properly?
Why don't I see my 2012 information when starting my 2013 returnI logged in to UFile Online to start working on my 2013 return and there's no information in there at all. I've been using UFile Online for a few years so I expected all my data to appear. The Import section under Account only seems to have options to import from sources other than UFile Online. How do I get all my 2012 information to carry forward into 2013?
Carry forward
JawadAhmad posted a topic in 2015I'm a student and just wondering if i'm using the free account, does the carry forward amount show up into the next year automatically or would i have to do it manually?
Trouble importing unused RRSP contributions.I think I'm experiencing a bug in the import of my 2013 tax return, and would like to know whether the workaround steps I've taken are appropriate. Any help would be much appreciated! In 2013, I overcontributed both to my RRSP and to my spouse's, and so I am bringing forward unused contributions in 2014. I used Ufile for Windows in both 2013 and 2014, and so I got Ufile to carry forward my u13 file to begin. Before I enter any more information, the 2014 RRSP Schedule shows my unused spousal contributions carried forward correctly, but not my own RRSP's unused contributions. I then proceed to enter my unused contributions from line (B) on my 2013 notice of assessment (a number which accounts for my overcontributions to both my and my spouse's RRSP). The RRSP Schedule then sums that number with the carried forward number, effectively double-counting my unused spousal contributions from 2013. This looks like a bug. Unfortunately, I cannot find any way to delete the carried forward spousal contribution or supply the missing carried forward RRSP contribution. My workaround is to subtract the unused spousal contribution from line (B) and enter that difference as my undeducted contributions in the "RRSP contributions, limits" form. Can anyone confirm whether what I'm seeing is a bug or my misunderstanding of how the software is intended to work? Also, have I picked a good workaround or should I try to solve this another way? Thanks!
Reassessment of 2012 ReturnHi, I've been using UFile for a few years now. After NetFiling my 2012 taxes for my spouse and I, they were reassessed by CRA to our benefit. My 2012 UFile tax return only has the original numbers and not the revised/reassessed figures that we were provided back by CRA on their Notice of Reassessment. I am trying to use the same figures as those supplied back by CRA on their Notice. But currently if I import the 2012 file, I am using incorrect data as there are possibly some carryovers from 2012 that will assist in our 2013 tax return and I want to ensure I capture those. Some of the revised numbers are line 350 Total Federal non-refundable tax credits and line 6150 Total Ontario non-refundable tax credits and are a result of a disability credit. I have 2012 and 2013 UFile software both loaded still. I've tried to adjust these numbers in the 2012 Tax return interview but have not been successful in even determining where I can actually make those adjustments. I've also thought that maybe if you adjusted the numbers in the 2013 software under Prior Year Comparative Information, that would tweak the imported 2012 tax file. That was not successful either. In cases where tax returns are reassessed after the tax return has been submitted, how does one adjust their 2012 numbers prior to importing to the new year or conversely, adjust the numbers after they have been imported? Any assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated and of course, if there is any other information which may assist in solving this, please advise. Thank you in advance I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium on a 64 bit computer. KPS

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Kastor & Pollux's Dani Roche Takes Us to Her Favorite Places in Toronto
The Canadian creative shows us what's good in The Six.
Kastor & Pollux's Dani Roche Takes Us to Her Favorite Places in Toronto
The Canadian creative shows us what's good in The Six.
Long before social media became an indispensable part of our lives, Dani Roche has already been experimenting with ways to utilize the digital space. During her teenage years, she started an e-commerce website with a friend where they sold reworked vintage clothes for fun. And that millennial, DIY spirit just never fade away. Roche has honed her design and problem-solving skills, and from there, she's turned her hobby into a full-blown creative business.
At 25 years old, Roche is now the owner and director of Toronto-based digital and experiences agency, Kastor & Pollux. Working with an outstanding team of female talents, Roche has come up with thoughtful creative solutions for various brands including Shu Uemura, Maison Kitsuné, Fujifilm and more. This fall, she's even launching the inaugural collection for her unisex outerwear label Biannual, which promises to be 100% vegan and extremely versatile. Fashion addicts, be sure to keep that on your radar.
We recently spent a sunny day hanging out with Roche in her hometown. From the très chic boutique SOOP SOOP to her favorite juice place Greenhouse Juice, find out all of her go-to spots in Toronto by watching our exclusive video above.
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KEY BISCAYNE (CBSMiami) — Bruises and tire marks are visible on a man's body moments after he and two others were run over by a Miami-Dade County truck.
"I heard a woman screaming," said a witness and regular at the beach, who asked to remain unidentified.
A Miami-Dade County Parks and Recreation officer, in his county truck, a Ford F-150, turned onto the sand and drove over the beach-goers' legs, police said.
"They had bruises on their legs, on their arms, one of them almost passed out on the sand," he said.
The victims, between 16 and 20 years old, were lounging in the sand, between towers 8 and 9 at about 5:30 Friday afternoon, when they were run over.
Tire marks were still visible in the sand before the sun set.
The driver was upset when he got out of the vehicle, said the witness, with both hands on his head in disbelief.
A CBS4 viewer said the driver called rescue crews. Officials said the employee was doing his job.
"It's standard operating procedure for a county security guard to let folks who are using the parks know that it is closing and it's unfortunate what took place, obviously, but the matter is under investigation," said Miami-Dade County Communications Director Mike Hernandez.
While the beach-goers were fortunate to walk away with only minor injuries, some are wondering why trucks are allowed on the beach, aside from emergencies.
"They can use motorcycles, they can use other types of vehicles," said the witness. "These are F-150 trucks. They're heavy trucks."
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Miguel [Australia] Deliverance from Spirit Wife and Witchcraft
Mar 13th, 2020 by exorcist
Video can be seen at http://TheHolyGhost.tv and YouTube. For details on requesting a deliverance prayer session with Evangelist King † A Female Exorcist, be sure to follow the instructions at http://thechildrensmite.org/deliverance under Deliverance Prayer Request. Shalom †


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Envista maintains a strong program and project management capability with experience managing complex ICT infrastructure projects across Government and commercial sectors. This experience covers major capital projects through to small but highly technical upgrades and relocation of large-scale specialist communication system infrastructures.
Our delivery service is characterised by sound planning, effective scoping and resourcing, realistic expectations of outcomes and leadership with strong management support. The more critical a project is to the business, the more important is it to have the right people on the team, and for that team to be pulling together in the same direction supporting each other. We are accustomed to working in mixed team engagements and understand the dynamics and sometimes differing incentives created due to competitive priorities and tensions. We bring the experience and track record of fostering teamwork and the resulting success for the overall broader team in these situations.
Envista also understands that the formula for project success is built on the foundation of leadership. Program and Project Managers must understand the vision and objectives of a project and empower the people involved to achieving them. This requires a range of skills including the management of (but not limited to):
- Requirements Development
- Scope Setting
- Time Management
- Cost Management
- Quality Management
- Risk Management
- Procurement
The successful delivery of complex ICT capability systems also needs experienced professionals who understand the technology, system interfaces, security risks and technical peculiarities which can impact on schedule, cost, quality and system (security) accreditation.
While a delivery manager does not necessarily need to understand all of the intricate detail regarding the ICT capability solution being delivered, they should have access to experienced and trusted experts with the requisite track record of delivery who can provide the necessary assistance. This is a key benefit of Envista, as we can deliver this end-to-end service, from strategy through to implementation with our integrated project team capability.


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About Us
Botswana Oil Limited (BOL) was established to support the Government of Botswana to achieve two broad, national economic objectives. These objective are to ensure the security and efficiency of fuel supply to Botswana and promote active citizen involvement in the petroleum industry.
BOL is wholly owned by the Government of Botswana, represented by Ministry of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security, and incorporated under the Companies Act of Botswana.
- Ensure security and efficiency of supply of petroleum products for Botswana.
- Manage state-owned strategic fuel reserve facilities, strategic stocks, bulk storage and distribution of petroleum products.
- Assist emerging companies in the petroleum sector to participate meaningfully in the industry.
- To achieve fuel self-sufficiency and diversification of the economy.


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This male pup was originally nicknamed Bolts for his characteristic of bolting through the wolf yard and open gates to gain access to the shared fence line with Aidan and Denali. He is approximately 8 days older than Luna, so his skills and abilities were more enhanced. A Name-the-Pup contest suggested a spelling change for his name and it received the most votes out of four choices. Wolf Care Staff were happy with the results since it really fit his personality.
Boltz is representative of the Great Plains subspecies, and joined the Exhibit Pack on July 30th, 2012. Boltz was a pupmate to Luna, the only female of the Exhibit Pack from 2012-2016 and his status in the pack was described as low ranking. In addition to lack of status, he developed a phobia about summertime insects, particularly wasps, hornets and bees. When he heard something buzzing overhead, he would drop his head and retreat to the wooded portion of the enclosure. This certainly didn't help his status.
In 2016, arctic pups, Axel and Grayson were introduced into the Exhibit Pack and this certainly helped Boltz socially. He had a great bond with the pups and worked in tandem with Axel to test the pack leader Aidan in the fall of 2017 throughout the winter of 2018. Since his testing of Aidan, he seemed to strive for pack leadership, but seems more comfortable being a middle-ranking wolf.
For more information on our ambassador wolves, watch extended wolf videos on the International Wolf Center's YouTube Channel or enjoy a close-up of wolf behavior on our Wolf Watch Cams.
Recent Logs for Boltz
The International Wolf Center advances the survival of wolf populations by teaching about wolves, their relationship to wildlands and the human role in their future.


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Bible Readings: Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24, Psalm 100, Ephesians 1:15-23, Matthew 25:31-46
About the Images:
Upper Left: This is my photo taken near Chambers Pillar in Central Australia (for more info on this area please visit http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/parks/find/chamberspillar.html) with Nathan Nettleton's translation of Psalm 100:4a.
Upper Right: This is my photo of the walkway beside the railway line at Sawtell in New South Wales, Australia (for more info on this area please visit http://www.sawtellnsw.com.au/).
You may use either of these images for worship and related activities.
Lower Left and Right : These are free Heartlight images - see my link column at left.
Listening Song: Above All
By Michael W. Smith on his album, The Second Decade, or on WOW 2003 (pictured at left). This goes well with the Ephesians reading.
Kid's Story: Popa Panov
By Leo Tostoy - a classic and found in innumerable publications.
Story: Kindness
Based on the Matthew reading; Story No. 355 in 750 Engaging Illustrations for Preachers, Teachers and Writers edited by Craig Brian Larson and Leadership Journal, Baker Books, 2002, ISBN 0801091551 (pictured at right).
The legend is told of a desert wanderer who found a crystal spring of unsurpassed freshness. The water was so pure he decided to bring some to his king. Barely satisfying his own thirst, he filled a leather bottle with the clear liquid and carried it many days beneath the desert sun before he reached the palace. When he finally laid his offering at the feet of his sovereign, the water had become stale and rank due to the old container in which it had been stored. But the king would not let his faithful subject even imagine that it was unfit for use. He tasted it with expressions of gratitude and delight, and sent away the loyal heart filled with gladness. After he had gone, others sampled it and expressed their surprise that the king had even pretended to enjoy it. "Ah!" said he, "it was not the water I tasted, but the love that prompted the offering." Many times our service is marked by multiple imperfections, but the Master looks at our motives and says "It is good."
This story is found at http://associate.com/library/www.christianlibrary.org/authors/Grady_Scott/makemeservant.htm
Copyright 2000 by Grady Scott may be reproducted for non-commercial purposes at no cost to others.
Meditation/Prayer: As You Did to the Least of These, My Brethren
by Robert W Castle in Imaging the Word Volume 3 by Susan A Blain, Sharon Iverson Gouwens, Catherine O'Callagan and Grant Spradling, (Eds.), United Church Press, 1996, ISBN 0829801862, page 66ff (pictured at left). I put images with these words and backed the powerpoint with Pie Jesu by Sarah Brightman and Paul Miles-Kingston on Andrew Llyod Webber's album, Gold (pictured at right )
Mediation: How Was I To Know? Based on the Matthew reading and found in Ideas for Worship, July - December 1996, JBCE, page 44 (pictured at left).
Meditation: Worship
Found in Meditations from the Iona Community by Ian Reid, Wild Goose Publications, Trowbridge, 1998, ISBN 1901557022, page 19.This goes well with the Psalm.
Meditation: The Shepherd and the Sheep
Found in Meditations from the Iona Community by Ian Reid, Wild Goose Publications, Trowbridge, 1998, ISBN 1901557022, page 66. This goes well with the Ezekiel reading.
Kids: Oi Get Off Our Train
By John Burningham, Random House, with lots of ideas for a whole worship service found in Worship is For Everyone by Julie Pinazza, Openbook Publishers, 2000, ISBN 0859109259, page 42. This goes well with the Matthew reading.
Taize Service: Loving the Least
Found in Worship Feast by Taize, Abingdon Press, 2004, page 14. This is based on the Matthew reading.
Worship Activity: On Your Knees
By Jim Burns and Robin Dugall in Worship Experiences, Gospel Light, 1999, ISBN, 0830724044, page 38. This is based on the Psalm.
Worship Activity: Power Praying
By Jim Burns and Robin Dugall in Worship Experiences, Gospel Light, 1999, ISBN, 0830724044, page 42. This is based on the Ephesians reading.


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Graham Lusty Trailers is proud to introduce our latest range of trailers – Allison HD. This new brand of drop deck – deck wideners was established in 2017 by GLT.
The model line-up of Allison HD trailers has been increased to include tri axle and quad axle deck wideners.
Allison HD is designed and engineered in Australia. Each trailer is manufactured offshore in a ISO9001 facility and overseen by a GLT representative. Once the trailer arrives at our Brisbane facility, our staff conduct a quality control check and made ready for the customer.
Decks widen to either 3.7 or 4 metres depending on the model and are rated at maximum width. Chassis are a through beam design and fabricated from Swiss SSAB steel. The decks widen on I beams to reduce tare weight and maintain strength. Tie down points are a galvanised swivel type and load rated to 6 or 9 tonnes depending on the trailer model.
Each Allison HD comes standard with a Lodar remote control and scrolls. Before pick up or delivery, the trailer is laser wheel aligned and professionally detailed.


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Tim Roth in the first season of Lie to Me, out on DVD from Fox. Here's what they have to say for themselves:
Lie To Me stars Oscar nominee Tim Roth (The Incredible Hulk) as Dr. Cal Lightman, the world's leading deception expert, and his company The Lightman Group, who study facial expressions and involuntary body language to discover if someone is lying and why. Assisting federal law enforcement, government agencies and local police with their most difficult cases, the agency consists of Dr. Gillian Foster (Kelli Williams, The Practice), a gifted psychologist; Eli Loker (Brendan Hines, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), Lightman's professional partner and lead researcher; and Ria Torres (Monica Raymund, Law & Order Special Victims Unit), the newest member of the agency with an innate ability to read people. In the groundbreaking first season of the hit show, the drama unfolds as the team is faced with numerous cases to unravel including a student fleeing a murder scene, a college basketball player accused of accepting a bribe from his university, a NASA test pilot accused of intentionally crashing a multimillion dollar aircraft, and much more!
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Conceptual engineering
We provide strategic and conceptual engineering design solutions for today's high-performance science and technology facilities. We do this by defining the project's "big idea," the singular vision that defines the goals and expectations of the project. Projects with a defined big idea are demonstrably better at achieving lower first and life cycle costs.
Conceptual engineering allows us to provide the proper foundation to generate groundbreaking ideas, weighing the pros and cons of each prior to implementation with the ultimate goal of getting it right the first time. We seek a high-level understanding — the view from 30,000 feet — before we begin. What are the facility's goals? What are the infrastructure requirements? How will it need to adapt over time? And, importantly, what is the look and feel?
Designing engineering systems from this view is particularly important for today's science and technology facilities for multiple reasons:
- A clear, early vision establishes engineering systems that are sustainable, maintainable and operable. The functional requirements for today's facilities – the most complex and integrated in history – can be complex. No two facilities are alike, and each requires a specific, customized design solution.
- This vision matches the engineering infrastructure to the available budget and vice versa. The cost of today's facilities can cost hundreds of dollars per square foot for the engineering alone and represent the largest budget category for construction and operation costs. Ensuring design concepts align with budgetary goals reduces delays and funding challenges later in the project.
- Engineering infrastructure requirements have a significant impact on architectural design solutions. Ignoring these expensive and complex systems until later in the project schedule compromises the "big idea" and leads to higher first and operating costs. Additionally, lack of initial planning often leads to mistakes or failure to account for spatial requirements of critical systems.
Why our clients love conceptual engineering
- Creates engineering systems for the long haul
- Grows technical concepts into innovative solutions
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Jeff and (mo)Lester hiss back and forth guiltily about making a run for it. Chuck arrives and, after a strangely depressed Morgan gives him the news of the burglary, dashes for the break room to find the engagement ring missing. Of course, Cpt. Awesome phones him at this precise moment to jaw about how he's going to "pop the Q" to Ellie when they're skydiving. Chuck gasps and gabbles and tells Awesome it's a dangerous idea because he might drop the ring. Awesome agrees and hangs up to think of other options. Big Mike has all the employees lined up in the empty Buy More because a Detective Conway thinks the burglary was an inside job and everyone's a suspect. Chuck jumps into line and (mo)Lester continues to act guilty and Jeff continues to threaten his life if he cracks. Big Mike realizes Casey isn't there and sends Chuck off to find him. Chuck calls Casey and babbles about the Buy More heist and his sister's stolen ring, but Casey tells him to "save it for [his] coffee klatch" because they have more important problems, which, I'm sure, will eventually sync up with the Buy More heist.
Down at a hangar, the doors open to Chuck exposing the whole of the stolen Buy More inventory. Wow, that happened sooner than I expected. Because of the bug's origins, they had no choice but to plunder the Buy More in order to figure out who the FULCRUM agent is. Can we call it? Det. Conway? Before getting back to the Buy More and pretending like he knows absolutely nothing about no stolen goods, Chuck wants his sister's ring back. Casey makes a comment about Chuck never seeing his family again, but Sarah drags him off and tells him he can't just do it like that. Casey wonders why Sarah "always has to get [her] lady feelings in involved," but they're interrupted by another agent showing them a Buy More surveillance tape. It shows a drunk Jeff and (mo)Lester turning the security cameras back on -- after the FULCRUM agent turned them off -- and stumbling over boxes which scares off the FULCRUM agent before he or she can steal Big Mike's marlin (where the receiver's hidden), and then stealing the marlin themselves.
Sarah breaks the bad news to Chuck that no ring came up in their inventory. Ooh! Ooh! Maybe Cpt. Awesome is FULCRUM and the receiver is the ring! That's why he tasked Chuck with keeping it safe because he knew Chuck would never think the ring was safe unless it was within twenty feet of his person! He just staged the marlin heist to distract them! Yes! Maybe? After Chuck freaks out more about his sister's ring, Sarah carefully explains that Chuck might be full-time government property in less than a day. Or, as Casey sweetly puts it, "You'll be stored in an underground bunker for so long, you'll forget what fresh air smells like." He shrugs to Sarah, "See? That was gentle!"


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Re: How many of you have a "bilingual" website?NatOnline Nov 3, 2009 7:58 PM (in response to LaComunidad)Well, I am French living in US and I think if living in a different country, we must learn the country's language even if we don't write or speak perfectly.
My site is in English and I don't see the necessity to add the French language on my website because my main target audience is in US. When I promote my site on French sites or on French directories then I wrote in French. I also specify on the French sites that I am a French speaker if some French don't know English and want to contact me in French that's ok.
Re: How many of you have a "bilingual" website?goodfelas Nov 3, 2009 10:00 PM (in response to LaComunidad)this is a great topic
My opinion if you have a product that is in need of every culture, then i would make my site quadrilingualin. In america the second major speaking language is spanish so my guess is yes definitely put up spanish to your website.
Re: How many of you have a "bilingual" website?LUCKIEST Nov 4, 2009 4:08 PM (in response to LaComunidad)"bilingual" website, YES we do.
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Re: How many of you have a "bilingual" website?amspcs Nov 4, 2009 5:11 PM (in response to LaComunidad)Yes, we have one page on our site devoted entirely to Spanish speakers. While I feel everyone living in this, an English-speaking society, should minimally be able to communicate in English,
we also appreciate the fact that there are many out there who seek to take advantage of those who have not fully mastered our language by intentionally making their contracts and agreements
misleading and more complicated than necessary. Presenting all of our important terms and language in Spanish is our way of being as honest and straightforward as possible.
Re: How many of you have a "bilingual" website?TheSoloGuide Nov 5, 2009 10:37 AM (in response to LaComunidad)For public services, I agree, NatOnline, it is beneficial for all in this country to be able to speak English at a basic level. However, when people get to vote with their dollars buying products and services from private companies, they chose to deal with companies that connect best with them - and this often includes dialoguing in the language that they are most comfortable speaking.
The key is to identify and define your specific target market - don't go after the "everyone" market or lose sight that there may be variation within your base. If your target base speaks English as a second language, then you should serious consider not only translating your copy, but partner with a pro that understands the cultural dynamics of that particular market.
When I learned French and Spanish, one of the first things that teachers taught me was to not try and translate English word-for-word into French or English. It doesn't work. The same holds true for your marketing efforts. For example, a 7th generation US citizen of Irish heritage doesn't have the same frames of reference or hot buttons as a first or second generation immigrant from Mexico. You need to get to know your base or hire a pro to teach you the nuances of your market.
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Doug Dolan
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Re: How many of you have a "bilingual" website?Iwrite Nov 5, 2009 1:30 PM (in response to LaComunidad)I am not planning on my website being bilingual. The hispanic market is not my target. I do not understand or know the Hispanic market well enough to offer my services to them, and it would be unwise for me to do so when there are so many great advertising agencies in the Hispanic community that understands the cultural and ethnic issues that resonates inside it. Marketing and advertising to different groups requires an understanding of a community that is developed from being emersed in the culture. It is more than translating English to Spanish or any other language.
Sayings, stories, legends, celebrities and even history do not translate from English to any other language.
Re: How many of you have a877.HMA.FITS Nov 29, 2009 9:39 PM (in response to LaComunidad)
One valuable emerging market trend is the growth of the Hispanic market in the United States which provides marketers that have bilingual (English and Spanish) Web sites with incredible insights and incentives to attract Spanish-speaking customers as much as English-speaking customers.
Re: How many of you have a "bilingual" website?877.HMA.FITS Nov 29, 2009 9:38 PM (in response to LaComunidad)
One valuable emerging market trend is the growth of the Hispanic market in the United States which provides marketers that have bilingual (English and Spanish) Websites with incredible insights and incentives to attract Spanish-speaking as much as English-speaking customers.
Re: How many of you have a "bilingual" website?nikecoo99 Nov 29, 2009 10:55 PM (in response to LaComunidad)our website is in english.Nowadays,english as the first foreign language,most of people (i mean the countries don't use english as the first language )can understand a bit of english.I think the main market is the most important thing,you can choose the language of your site depends on your main market.
Re: How many of you have a "bilingual" website?wordperfect Dec 3, 2009 5:10 AM (in response to LaComunidad)
Hmmm, there is no easy way to go around this so I will just jump in with both feet, but please, do not think I am personally attacking anyone here...........
brick and mortarmodel who cater for mothers with pushchairs and parapalegics who cannot manage steps. There are so many examples of businesses offering flexible models to their different market segments so why should language not be one of them?
Re: How many of you have a "bilingual" website?Iwrite Dec 3, 2009 9:30 AM (in response to wordperfect)Duck and cover!! Incoming!
I think it really depends on what your business is. Advertising is different from most businesses. Trying to reach people of different cultures is difficult. Words, phrases, gestures and actions translate differently for each culture. I don't have a bilingual website because I am not equipped to serve that market. A lot of agencies have tried to simply talk to African Americans without someone who understands the culture and gotten it wrong. And African Americans speak English but the culture is slightly different.
For me it isn't about making anyone speak English, it is about best serving my clients. Mexican culture is different from Spanish culture which is different from Peruvian culture - because I speak Spanish does not mean I understand the cultures. I mean, everyone thinks they understand American culture but you have advertising agencies that have failed miserably when they try to enter the American market with only European talent. They have observed the culture but they don't really understand it. I'm not even going to talk about Asians, because the Asian community is made up of so many different languages and cultures that it is amazing.
Now, there are a lot of businesses that can and should have a bilingual website, but it is a decision that should be based on the target the business is trying to serve, not political correctness. I am not trying to exclude or punish anyone, I simply don't want to hurt my client's business by offending a segment of their market. So, I partner with an agency that specializes in a certain culture. If anyone promises you that they can market to multiple cultures and ethnic groups, be careful!! The largest advertising agencies in America have discovered they can't do that.
Even this question isn't right or wrong. Translating a website should be done by someone who understands the language and culture, words and ideas do not always translate as you might intend.
My turn to gear up for the attack.
Re: How many of you have a "bilingual" website?wordperfect Dec 13, 2009 5:13 AM (in response to Iwrite)
Fire in the hole!
or any languagewere really a come back to those who subscribe to the doctrine that English is not just the international language but also "This is Slivopdripland, speak Slivopdriplandish. which has the opposite meaning in Chinese by the way!when you say the site should be translated by a professional who understand the language and culture. and bossis a native Chinese so she checks all my copy and translates and tidies so it doesn't offend or send the wrong message.
Re: How many of you have a "bilingual" website?Iwrite Dec 13, 2009 2:17 PM (in response to wordperfect)"Forget the torpedos, ramming speed" I had to use "forget" because the filters would have surely bounce the real quote.
I think we are in complete agreement that if your market calls for it, speak the language. But let's be honest about the majority of the audience on this blog: the majority is cheap and lazy when it comes to executing anything connected to marketing and advertising. They look for an easy way out without really paying fair market value. Now, I am not blaming them because there are plenty of so-called marketing and advertising professionals willing to offer their services at a ridiculous rate. But what that creates is a mentality for taking shortcuts. And when it comes to being bilingual, shortcuts can hurt a business badly.
I am not being harsh but I am tired of dancing around this, these folks spend tons of money on supplies, salaries, equipment and other things but when it comes to the effort to generate business and make money (marketing and advertising) they go cheap or not at all. If they continue this trend with the translating of their site - imagine the results?
Cheap gets you cheap. There is an American saying, "you get what you paid for." I have seen big companies ignore culture, and get someone who studied the language in college or even high school to translate their site only for it to blow up in their face. I don't expect any better from the people on this blog.
Some of them resent having to even translate the site, so what kind of effort do you expect from them?
You were so right to address those who are basing their decision on anything other than business. They are being short sighted at best. I am glad you spoke up.
My issue wasn't really with you but I saw an opportunity to add some more insight to this issue. There are legitimate reasons to and not to translate a site into another language but that decision should be business based.
Here is a whole list of mistakes made al over the world from not understanding the culture - http://www.i18nguy.com/translations.html
"Sulu, get us out of here!"
Re: How many of you have a "bilingual" website?wordperfect Dec 20, 2009 12:39 AM (in response to Iwrite)
Well, forget me Derek, you rammed the entire forgetting board!
sorry, mostly US not European clientsWe have seen more than one or two potentially good businesses crash and burn here because they simply refused to bend.... anyway, I digress. Again!
Re: How many of you have a "bilingual" website?seoservicepro Dec 20, 2009 4:41 PM (in response to wordperfect)Just make sure you do not use any auto-translators to translate your website. It will just make your business look foolish. You need cultural translations into other languages, not just a word-for-word translation. Sales can come down to cultural differences. The same sales pitch translated word for word into another language will not necessarily convert sales at the same rate you were converting sales in your first language.
Example: Someone who lives in France and French is their first language knows how to rewrite your website in French and add the nuances they need to add to help you convert sales in France. Just knowing how to speak and write French is not enough. You need an understanding of how to sell to French people.
The same goes for each country you want to target. When we build a version to target a particular country, we collaborate with someone who understandsmarketing in that country. It is more expensive to do it this way, but it is way more effective.
Re: How many of you have a "bilingual" website?wordperfect Dec 21, 2009 5:39 AM (in response to seoservicepro)
Hello Chris, good to hear from you.
Re: How many of you have a "bilingual" website?snvservices Dec 22, 2009 7:08 AM (in response to wordperfect)Having bilingual website is good to have as, it is very good to target local area as people over there will get more comfortable with the bilingual site so, if you have a site targeting us people and you want to get a traffic from other country like korea then simply copying your site in that language is beneficial for the local people.
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Re: How many of you have a "bilingual" website?Mongoose Dec 25, 2009 12:56 AM (in response to LaComunidad)You should definitely have a bilingual site. If you're on wordpress, there's a plugin that makes it easy to do. My best friend-- almightydad.com-- is written in English and Spanish. Every post is translated in Spanish and it's the Spanish version of the article that actually gets more traffic.
Re: How many of you have a "bilingual" website?wordperfect Dec 26, 2009 9:43 AM (in response to Mongoose)
We had the same experience, although out main site was Chinese, we had a few basic English pages and it surprised me the amount of traffic that the English pages attracted, even more amazing when you think we did not promote those in any way.
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Presently we need to be expanding how we market ourselves and to whom we market. We need to know our clients and serve their needs, but what if these potential clients do not speak perfect English? They still need our services and products; right?
Presently we need to be expanding how we market ourselves and to whom we market. We need to know our clients and serve their needs, but what if these potential clients do not speak perfect English? They still need our services and products; right?
Have you thought about expanding your website to reach a multi-cultural growing economy and consumer base?
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There are days when I am embarrassed to be a journalist. Usually, it's because of pack journalism, personality assaults or lowest common denominator fear-mongering.
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The gloriously vague all-caps beneath read SEX PARTNERS WANTED, which in its own bumbling way sounds as much like a cheeky invitation as a call for witnesses.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Losing it
I am awed by my capacity to lose things.
Many mornings, this being one of them, I lose my bathrobe. Just have no idea where it is. When I get up I check all the usual places. The bathroom door. Nope, not there. The hook inside the cedar closet where it is supposed to be? No. No surprise there seeing that nothing is ever where it is supposed to be.
Is it in my office, draped over my chair? No.
Did I fling it over the banister and leave it there? No.
Is it hidden in the bedroom, in the ever-growing pile of clothes next to the bed? I dug through the pile and it was not.
Where is it?
Eventually it turns up. But what amazes me is, this is a large object to lose. This is the bathrobe I am always talking about that used to be Leonard Pennario's. It is voluminous and royal blue and big on me and my failure to keep tabs on it shows how abject my life is.
Another big thing I misplaced: a huge five-pound bag of cornmeal.
I bought it recently at Budwey's. I remember looking it at on the shelf, comparison-shopping between a couple of brands, settling on that nice stone-ground cornmeal by Hodgson Mills.
So. Last night I am making a chicken stew and I want to put cornmeal dumplings on top of it.
But is that cornmeal around anywhere? No!
It is nowhere!
What in the world? I deep-cleaned my kitchen, as I may have mentioned, and now the cupboards are pristine and everything is in neat, scrupulously closed containers. That is a word I love, scrupulously.
This big bag! Had I stuck it in the fridge?
Still a big mystery.
Maybe I did not buy the cornmeal after all. Maybe I just thought I did. Cornmeal is not a good thing to have around anyway with me always on and off the South Beach Diet.
This is how my thoughts go. Round and round.
These are the wages of thinking too much about Tanglewood in the summer of 1949 and not enough about my house. Of thinking too much about someone else's life and not enough about my own.
Well, on the other hand, who am I kidding? My life was like this before I ever met Pennario. It has always been a mess.
Here is a question for people out there in Blog-O-Land. What is the most impressive large object you have ever lost? Little things like rings do not count.
Am I the only one losing it?
Monday, September 28, 2009
A song for an elephant
The news from the elephant house, pictured above, is bad. We have lost Buki. She was our oldest elephant. She was 52.
Who does not love those elephants?
The zoo's press release is enough to break your heart.
Everyone has an elephant story. Howard and I have one that we love. Once we were walking through the zoo and one of the elephants looked at us slyly. And then it dived into a pond. For a minute it was entirely under the surface. We could not see it.
And then it stuck up its foot! Out of the water. For us to see.
Just like a little kid!
Then that big elephant head came back up out of the water and the elephant sort of winked at us. As if to say, "Did you see that?"
I wonder if that was Buki. Regrettably I do not know one elephant reliably from another. I am not that regular a visitor to the zoo because my life is a zoo all on its own. But Buki was a circus elephant and that sounds like something she might have done.
I understand Buki was pretty old for an elephant. She came to this country in 1958 when she was a baby. That was the year Leonard Pennario sold out London's Royal Festival Hall! He was playing Rachmaninoff. There is the most unbelievable picture of Pennario taken in that year.
How did I get onto all that?
Back to Buki. There is a song for her and that is the song our friend Guy Boleri the lounge sensation sometimes sings, "Little Girl Blue". The song is from the show "Jumbo." Guy told me it was written for a circus elephant. You can tell from the verse that starts the song.
When you were very young
The world was younger than you
As merry as a carousel
The circus tent was strung
With every star in the sky
Above the ring you loved so well
Now the young world has grown old
Gone are the tinsel and the gold
Sit there and count your fingers
What can you do old girl, you're through
Sit there and count your little fingers
Unlucky little girl blue.
Here is Nina Simone singing the song. It is a weird performance but it is cute how she weaves "Good King Wenceslas" into the music. Hmmm. This is funny. Yesterday was the feast of Saint Wenceslas, do not ask me how I know this but I do. Today is the feast day of the great Archangels: Michael, Gabriel and Raphael. But Buki died yesterday, on the feast of Saint Wenceslas.
Clearly this song was intended for her.
The wild mouse
Yesterday I was up and at my desk at 6 a.m. And I am deep into revising this chapter on when Leonard Pennario was at Tanglewood.
When all of a sudden...
Scratch. Scratch. Scratch.
Coming from Howard's desk!
Howard was still asleep. He sleeps several more hours after I get up which, that is why I get up when I do.
Scratch. Scratch.
It was a mouse!
And we are not talking his computer mouse. It was a real mouse! By now I know a mouse when I hear one.
I totally forgot there was a band called Eek A Mouse. That is a poster for the band up above.
Here is a member of Eek A Mouse.
I tried to work through the scratching and rustling and I am afraid I did succeed pretty well. That bespeaks the level of chaos to which our lives have risen. I decided, I will tell Howard about the mouse when he awakens.
But he never did awaken before I had to run out to Mass and when I got back Howard scooted out the door before I could tell him about the mouse.
"I don't want to get stuck." That is what he said!
To me!
After that I did not hear the mouse but I went to his desk anyway to investigate. I started moving papers here and there, looking at stuff. Finally I found this little net bag of what looked like Hanukkah geld at the back of his desk. They were chocolate coins covered in gold foil. And the foil was all sparkly and shredded.
That was the wages of the mouse being there.
We have found him!
But now I am afraid Howard is starting to consider the mouse a pet. He said he heard him the other day but kept working anyway. With the mouse right there! I cannot imagine that. I at least need him to be across the room.
What a drama!
It is like the Wild Mouse!
Here is an even better Wild Mouse with a skinny purple track.
The one we had in Crystal Beach used to be pretty good.
I wonder if I will ever ride the Wild Mouse again. Or will my mouse experiences be restricted to finding mice on Howard's desk?
Only time will tell.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
So corny
Howard is a genius in the corn department.
He is the Leonard Pennario of eating corn!
Here is a closeup of his artistry.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Two great finds
Today my mother wanted to go to this sale at St. Paul's Lutheran, on Main Street up near Eggert. We went and there was this sign over the water fountain which I had to photograph.
That is it up above!
These Lutherans, bossing us and using that word "gunk." I love that. "Gunk" is a word I remember from childhood. I have to say I have never seen it used in the context of a sign over the water fountain.
From thence we went to an estate sale on North Forest. Where there was this sign.
These bossy, brittle estate sale people! But I was grateful to them for that sign. It diverted me because my mother has been known to spend hours in the Department of Runners and Doilies.
Doilies. Just that word. Doesn't it kill you?
What about the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company?
That is Richard D'Oyly Carte! He gave the company its name. I never knew that! It never would have occurred to me that there was someone named D'Oyly.
My mother scrutinized the doilies and runners for a long time until I finally got through with photographing the sign and I saw a tablecloth I liked. It was hand-embroidered. Then things went the way the always do. My mom told me to put it down, that she would look around the house and she had extra tablecloths she would give me.
Then I bought some canning jars that were beautiful but I had to tell the checkout guy to talk quietly because I paid $1 more for them than my mother thought I should.
Whatever. When I go to a sale all I really want to know is, where are the Leonard Pennario records? Take me to your Leonard Pennario records.
There was none! Which, I can understand that. As Howard says, they are family heirlooms. Your chance of finding them is slim!
Your chance of finding bossy signs is much greater.
They are not bad either!
Friday, September 25, 2009
Portrait of mystery
In the Strange Problems I Have department there is now this. There is this art exhibition opening Oct. 10 at Gateway Gallery, 141 Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo, and it includes a painting of Howard and me. But the painting is not us!
It is of a whole other couple!
That is the painting up above. They are even using it on a promotional postcard for the exhibit. I propped it up on Howard's computer keyboard to take the picture which explains the letters at the bottom.
Does anyone know who those people are?
The exhibit is by the painter Rick Williams. He is a judge in Washington, D.C. but now he is retiring. Like Leonard Pennario he is from Buffalo originally. And he is going to be moving back to Buffalo with his wife and spend part of every year here.
The first thing Williams is doing back in Buffalo is having this exhibition at an Elmwood gallery he owns and the exhibit is going to center on Jackie Jocko and his circle. Howard and I are part of Jocko's circle which is how we wound up inadvertently in this exhibit.
But there was some kind of mix-up. Jocko told us the painting above is of us. But it is not of us.
They may as well substitute a picture of the Duane Paddocks.
What a situation!
Lastnight Howard and I could not go to sleep because we were worrying about it. It is a serious problem because the exhibition opens in a scant few weeks. And there will be a tag on this picture saying it is us.
Finally Howard rolled out of bed. "I am going to get this straightened out," he said.
He sent an email to the artist. But we still have not heard back.
We do not know what will happen!
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Postcard from the edge
My piano teacher, Stephen, and his wife, Marta, are flying out this morning. And all I can say is, thank God!
I cannot go on like this!
See that picture up above? That is me!
I mean, I love him to death, but this partying! I have a book to do!
Yesterday I wrote about how we all went out after Stephen's concert. Meanwhile we have made plans to get together the next night and go to the Hyatt and hear Jackie Jocko. So yesterday morning, I'm at work, trying to get my eyes to open, sitting at my desk like this ...
... and there Stephen is on the cell phone. "What time are we all getting together tonight?"
Then Howard and I are late getting to the Hyatt and the cell phone goes off again. "We're at the bar. Where are you??"
These pianists! They will ruin your life!
We walk in to the Hyatt and they are the focus of attention and Jocko is singing about Marta. Honest, that was the first word I heard when I opened the door. Jocko is singing, "Marta!"
Then Marta who always looks gorgeous and impeccable starts complaining that she is underdressed. GIVE ME A BREAK.
Who can keep up with these people?
And here is another thing. Just in case my life was not enough of a zoo, I was on Performance Today. That is a PBS program that includes a segment called Piano Puzzler. I was a guest on Piano Puzzler and they aired it yesterday.
You can hear it here. Although I do not know if I recommend it! I have to admit, I have not been brave enough to listen to it yet. Maybe today I will.
The bad news was, I was not terribly fast at guessing the composer I was supposed to guess. (I do not want to give it away in case you want to listen to the podcast.) I did guess him eventually but son of a hash-slinging sea cook, not until I had guessed everyone else in the world who ever wrote a note of music.
It is hard to think under pressure!
On the bright side the show did afford me the opportunity to talk to a national audience about Leonard Pennario and you know me, I took that opportunity. And God rewarded me! I got a couple of notes about Pennario from people who heard the show, one of whom happens to be a major, major scholar. I will write about that one of these days.
Right now, I have to run.
I have to work sometime!
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Piano man
Yikes, I am up late today! Yesterday I was up at 5:30 a.m., making coffee, working on my book, feeling virtuous. Ha, ha! I was trying to type virtuous and I typed "virtuoso" by mistake. I did it twice! That is what happens when you are working on a book about Leonard Pennario.
Now it is 7:15 a.m. and I am just sitting down!
I had a late night last night I went to UB to go to the recital of my friend Stephen Manes. He played Chopin and Debussy. I told him I loved his Leonard Pennario repertoire and he did not know what I was talking about but pretty much all of what he played, Pennario recorded, which is one reason I enjoyed the recital so much!
Here is Pennario with the first Chopin preludes. Stephen played them lastnight.
Stephen is my piano teacher who, I have written about him a lot and griped that he went to California. He and I went to California at the same time, how about that? But we went to different places. I went to San Diego and Stephen went to Los Angeles because he was marrying Marta and that is where she lives.
Howard and I keep in touch with Stephen and Marta through Facebook and because of Facebook we feel like family and take liberties. Last night we went backstage and hung around until everyone else left. Then when Stephen and Marta walked back to the dressing room Howard and I went with them.
Howard horsed with the piano.
I took a picture of myself in the mirror.
We were the things that would not leave!
A group of us gathered afterward at Trattoria Aroma where I took the picture at the top of the post of Stephen and Marta. They got there first because Stephen knows his way around Buffalo better than anyone. He said that people who live here were asking him for directions! It happens every time he is in town.
Here is a picture I love! You can judge the amount of Chianti we were burning through by the number of empty wineglasses.
Here are our friends Jonathan and Elise.
There were about 12 people and many of them I had not gotten to talk with that much so that was a lot of fun for me. And at Trattoria Aroma I always feel as if I am in a movie. Anyway, a wonderful evening. I keep thinking about it.
Sometime during their visit Marta and Stephen have expressed a desire to see Big Blue. That is because of Facebook! Howard and I keep writing about Big Blue and they keep reading it.
They especially want to see the smoking chair. Howard has written about its odyssey!
From the piano bench at Slee Hall to the smoking chair at Big Blue.
It just gets better and better!
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
The village people
That is a picture I took the other night at the Village Inn in Akron. It is beautiful! The sunlight was just so.
I felt as if I were in France!
To be honest that was partly because we drove and drove and drove to get there. Akron is far.
Here is a picture of the front of the Village Inn in Akron.
Here is Howard in front of the Village Inn.
My mother and my friend Gary and I went first in the Vic and Howard followed in the ZR-1. Howard has this great ZR-1 Corvette but I never ride in it. The last time I rode in it was 2004!
The trip to the Village Inn was dramatic because half way there we realized we did not know where we were going!
"I think you turn left at a McDonald's onto a route that is 90-something," Gary said. "I want to say 98." We were on Main Street in Williamsville.
Then he and my mom start gabbing about something as if nothing is wrong. And I am trying to get my mind around the enormity of this potential problem. Because here I am with my mom with me and Howard maybe following us, who knows.
"Gary," I said. "I thought you drove here before."
"No, Lou drove," he said. Lou is our jam session buddy. "He was coming from a different direction and he took North French and all these other streets."
Do not get me around North French. I was about North French the way Leonard Pennario was about this one street in San Diego. Everyone has a street which, you go anywhere near that street, and you get lost. Sometimes you get lost just thinking about that street.
But all's well that ends well and we got to the Village Inn! Although we had to backtrack once because we got distracted by the Octagon House. There is an Octagon House in Akron!
Because of that detour and subsequent near-crisis, Howard arrived only five minutes after we did although we left an hour earlier.
I give you Howard and Gary dining at the Village Inn.
Howard got the lobster.
Fueled by the large crustacean he played the piano afterward.
In the background if you look carefully you can see lounge sensation Guy Boleri who entertained during dinner.
It was an eventful evening, at the Village Inn!
Alas, now it is the week as opposed to the weekend, with onerous things to do. For one thing I have to go get a flu shot. Howard is bugging me about that.
"Don't let that get like the snow tires situation," he said.
Meaning, I never did take the snow tires off my car and now here it is fall, with winter right around the corner, so why bother.
Last time I got a flu shot I felt as if my arm was going to fall off. Howard and our friend Lizzie and I went and got the shot at Tops and I remember walking out going, "Ow. Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow." Like James Brown!
Perhaps this year will be more kind.
Wish me luck!
Monday, September 21, 2009
Grassroots efforts
This is a beautiful Monday in Buffalo because the Bills won. I did not watch the game of course. I was deep into this chapter of my book wherein our hero, Leonard Pennario, is struggling to re-kindle his career after the war took him to India for a year and a half. I was working on this chapter for four hours!
But I knew in my heart the Bills had won.
That is because you could hear it. I heard the car horns blasting the "Let's Go Buffalo!" rhythm. And people screaming. I think it was coming from Hertel Avenue. People watch the games out on the terraces and then they go flooding into the streets. It is like a scene from Barcelona or somewhere.
I do not generally watch Bills games because I know zip about football. But I like the attendant drama.
One thing I get a corrupt kick out of is the lawn job those kids did on that player's lawn! Leodis, his name is, something like that? I cannot memorize names like that. Leodis McKelvin? I think that is his name. It is like Lee Otis. That is how you can remember it.
What about Otis Rush? He is one of my favorite bluesmen and that link is to a song I love although warning! I see it is very loud!
Back to McKelvin. That is Lee Otis McKelvin at the top of this post posing in happier days with Ralph Wilson. Note to out-of-towners: Ralph Wilson is the owner of the Buffalo Bills and the only person in our town who is addressed respectfully as "Mr."
Back to McKelvin's lawn. At first he was understood to say that he would not press charges. I even read that he said he was laughing about the lawn job. That made me love him! That made me think he was cool.
But now apparently he is thinking about prosecuting. That is too bad.
Well, maybe not. Here is what I think he should do. Check and see if the kids have any kind of criminal records. If they do, prosecute them. If they don't, don't.
Reason being, we pay our football players big bucks to put up with stuff like this.
Plus, let us not be naive. Who among us did not think, even for just a few minutes, of the people who, we would like to do a lawn job on their lawns?
My list would be lengthy and it would be topped by former Miami Herald music critic James Roos.
James Roos, nobody that he is, uttered this dumb thing about Pennario years ago. "Pennario was not a profound pianist," he said, "but..."
And this quote turns up everywhere! This dumb quote from this nobody! You have people like Fritz Reiner and Leopold Stokowski on record saying wonderful and intelligent things about Pennario but who gets quoted? Roos!
He is even quoted in this gorgeous performance of "Le Tombeau de Couperin." They print only the part that followed the "but." But still.
And get this. The quote appeared, "but" and all, prominently, in Pennario's obituary in the Los Angeles Times!! I could not believe that. Those days after Pennario's death were surreal for me to begin with. But then to open the paper and see that. What, were they trying to settle some old score? That was all I can think.
Two words for James Roos: Lawn. Job.
Inspired by the Leodis McKelvin situation, I went looking for him. But I found he died years ago. Alas.
No lawn job.
No closure.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Can it!
Today the chili sauce I made yesterday was sitting bubbling in two gigantic Crock pots, awaiting my attention. So I had to can it.
What a task!!
You always think it will be easy. Then something always complicates things. Today it was that I had all wide-mouth jars and not enough wide-mouth lid rings.
I did have the lids. I found them in a plastic bag in the cellar, still in their little supermarket box. But the rings that fit around the lids and hold them down, that was my fatal error. When I cleaned the kitchen a few weeks ago I do remember throwing a couple of them out because I got into clutter-cleaning mode. This was the wages of that.
Many many trips were necessary into my cobwebby 1920 cellar. Every spider in the Western Hemisphere must be in my cellar! I could not walk anywhere without going, "Eeeeeuuuwwwww!"
As the project squeaked forward there were long vast lots of time that had to be filled. I went over to the piano and sat there in my apron and played Beethoven's Sonata Op. 101 which always calms me down in stressful situations. It is like getting a massage! Not that I have ever gotten a massage but I think if I got one that is what it would feel like.
Then I got the big pot of water boiling for the jars and played Beethoven Op. 109. That is my favorite Beethoven sonata! Well, I do not like to talk about favorite anything because there is too much competition.
When it came time to put the chili sauce into the jars, that is the really stressful part! I am always worried about whether the jars will seal right. There is always something.
I sealed up the first seven and got them into the boiling water. While they boiled I horsed around with my new record player/CD burner. I was trying to make a CD of Leonard Pennario playing this Beethoven sonata I love. I was in a Beethoven mood today! And I thought tomorrow being Monday it would make my life easier if I could take along Pennario's Beethoven.
Nothing is simple and when I got to the last movement the display on the record player was reading: "Fail."
I failed!
The appliance is telling me I failed!
Howard and I always joke about appliances telling us stuff. Our favorite is when the appliance tells you "Wait." You are standing there waiting because the appliance is telling you to.
Now tomorrow I will have to settle for Alfred Brendel ...
... playing that sonata which, I am sorry but it is nowhere near as much fun. Pennario's is explosive. It is as if you took your TV and turned up the contrast.
The good news is all but one jar sealed. Ta da! I have 12 jars of chili sauce sealed and only one that is not and what the heck, that one I can eat right away. You always want one jar not sealed properly because that is your excuse to eat that one right away. Maybe I will make something with it and take it into work tomorrow.
I will not have Pennario playing Beethoven but I will have chili sauce. That is something anyway.
Isn't that a great canning picture at the top of this post? Here is another one I love.
Now I kind of want to do more canning. Canning is like that. You get everything assembled ... the jars, the lids, the rings, the little grabber thing that grabs the cans out of the water. And then you see pictures like this.
And you want to do more.
Hmmmm. I have so much in my kitchen. I have so many options.
What will it be next?
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Comfort me with apples
Early this morning the 'phone rang. This is the dial 'phone I wrote about a while ago, the 'phone that used to belong to the pianist who did not want to talk about Leonard Pennario, imagine that.
The 'phone has that great 1950s ring. And I answered it and it was my friend Gary. I always know it is Gary because he is the only person who calls me on this 'phone. It is the Gary Marino Hot Line!
Gary was going to the Clinton-Bailey Market and wanted to know if I wanted to go.
And I did!
"I am not going to buy much," I piously said. "My fridge is already full of stuff I already bought. I cannot fit in one more thing!"
As if at the Clinton-Bailey Market I can ever exercise any self-control.
Here is what I bought: A quart of Concord grapes because Howard loves them. Five pounds of wildflower honey because Howard loves that. I also bought a big golden cauliflower. I love that color. It looks as if there is cheese already on it! And a quarter bushel of tomatoes. Gary and I split a half bushel. When I got home I chopped the tomatoes and put them in two crock pots with cut-up onions and peppers and vinegar and sugar and garlic. I am making chili sauce! There is this James Beard recipe and it called for 24 tomatoes and would you believe it, that is exactly what I had. No more and no less!
We also bought apples. The apples at the Clinton-Bailey Market looked beautiful ...
... and the day was just perfect.
Gary and I decided to split a half bushel of apples. We chose Ginger Gold. That is a lovely name! Just think, I could have a daughter and name her Ginger and then she would be Ginger Goldman.
What about Gwyneth Paltrow and her daughter, Apple?
We did not see them at the Clinton-Bailey Market!
We paid $5 for our half-bushel of Ginger Golds. I captured the transaction.
After that Gary and I went to James Desiderio & Sons and bought grape juice to make our wine. Every year we make wine. Gary already chose his wine juice which was Syrah. Today it was my turn and I chose Gamay.
Does anyone out there in Blog-O-Land know anything about Gamay wine?
We have never heard of it!
But that did not stop me from selecting it because at $43.50 it was the most expensive by about $2. I thought if it were more expensive it must be better. Then the gentleman at James Desiderio & Sons told us that it was a full-bodied rich red wine. Full-bodied! That is like me despite all my Pilates classes. So I chose that.
They remembered me at James Desiderio & Sons from when I bought the figs which made me feel very important! Then I remembered it was the braces on my teeth. Everyone always remembers me because of my braces. Which, as of this week, they are teal blue!
OK, it is back to work with my fine full-bodied self. I just got done polishing up a chapter on Leonard Pennario's time at this Montana army base and now I have to go on and work on a chapter about when the Army sent him to India.
Pennario talked and talked about that. He knew I got a kick out of hearing about his time in the Army. I would sit there and laugh and laugh. Plus I admired him because he was brave. So he would talk about it and it was so funny, it was like watching a one-man play. There was one day I just turned on the tape recorder and sat with him and let him talk.
This is going to be a good chapter!
Friday, September 18, 2009
The 3 People You Meet in Buffalo
My mother went to the podiatrist yesterday and later on we had a conversation about what he said about Buffalo. The podiatrist is from Kentucky.
He said what we in Buffalo have long known, that in no other city do people talk to strangers the way we do. You cannot just walk up to someone in New York City and start talking, you know? Whereas you can in Buffalo.
After that conversation with my mom I started thinking about that. I realized that during my day, just that day, without thinking about it, I had talked to at least three strangers. It is fun to play the game of tallying up the strangers you talked to. More than just "hi," too. If you say just "hi" to someone that does not count!
No. 1 when I was out taking pictures of the Herbert C. Jackson, a gentleman was out there taking pictures too, and I drew him into conversation. He said he owned a boat and he was down on the waterfront all the time and the Herbert C. Jackson ...
... was the biggest ship he had seen. So there was that conversation.
Then I went to the tooth surgeon so he could check his work on my mouth and on the way in there was this older guy behind me. So I held the door for him. And when he got inside we had a conversation about the building and which floors our doctors' offices were on. His doctor was J.P. Johnson. Just like James P. Johnson! I mentioned that to him but I do not think he knew who James P. Johnson was.
Imagine going through life and not knowing about James P. Johnson. Listen to that link up above. It is James P. Johnson on a QRS piano roll.
Made in Buffalo!
Back to Buffalo and our conversations with strangers. What was my third conversation with a stranger yesterday? I know there was one. Let me think. Let me think.
Oh! I was on my way to my mom's and I stopped at Jubilee Foods at Harlem and Kensington. And I parked far away, who knows why. I get out of my car and go walking toward the supermarket.
And a big Buffalo guy yells at me, "Why'd you park so far away?"
I said: "I don't know. I was wondering the same thing."
Then we went back and forth saying this and that and laughing.
That is life in greater Buffalo! Sometimes I wonder if I would have fallen into this Leonard Pennario thing so easily in another town. We met in Buffalo and in Buffalo there are such few formalities. And Pennario was from here so he understood.
It is not the same in other towns! In Toronto if you hold the door for someone the person does not start talking to you about the weather. He might not even thank you! In New York if you talk to a stranger in an elevator the stranger looks at you funny.
Here is something Howard and I have talked about. We do not know when people began telling their kids not to talk to strangers. When we were kids we were not told that. You were supposed to exercise caution but talking to strangers was never discouraged. How are you supposed to go anywhere without talking to strangers?
How do you learn to deal with life?
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Ship ahoy!
Yesterday there I am going through my worker-drone work day when all of a sudden, excitement!!!
I looked up from my desk and I saw this huge ship. I jumped up.
"That is the biggest ship I have ever seen in my life!" I exclaimed.
My coworker Susan Martin jumped up too. She is our style and fashion editor! She knows style when she sees it and this ship had style. "Do you have your camera?" she said.
I did!
I also got my glasses so I could read the name of the ship.
It is the Herbert C. Jackson!
Remember when we were visited by the Adam E. Cornelius and how thrilling that was? The Herbert C. Jackson is bigger.
That is a picture of the Herbert C. Jackson up above unloading grain in Buffalo. There is this wonderful site called www.boatnerd.com that gives you pictures and statistics of all kinds of freighters which, I do not know why I like these freighters but I do. I told our business editor, Grove Potter, to pull strings so I can take a tour of one of them. Perhaps they will let me ride on one of them too! Perhaps I can sail to Duluth. I have a review of a recital Leonard Pennario gave in Duluth, did I mention that? The Duluth Library sent it to me. The review said that Pennario was a favorite of Duluthians.
I wonder if the Herbert C. Jackson sails to Duluth.
Wait! It does! Here is a picture of the ship in Duluth that I found on www.boatnerd.com.
This site is great. They list all these ships and apparently what happens is boat nerds, like me I guess, snap pictures of these ships when they see them and send them in. So you can see the Herbert C. Jackson, which I now learn was first launched in 1959, in about 100 different locations. It is like Howard and his smoking chair! Well, almost.
Here is a shot someone posted of the ship in Buffalo with our grain elevators.
Here is the Herbert C. Jackson in Milwaukee. A beautiful night shot!
What about Michael Jackson?
Hereafter when we hear the name Jackson we will not think of him! We will think rather of the Herbert C. Jackson.
Here is the beautiful and historic shot I took of the ship from our office window. Click on the pic and you can see the ship better.
By the time I was able to run out of the office and outside the Herbert C. Jackson was heading out to sea. It was being guided by a tugboat.
Another picture which shows our marvelous sky.
Buffalonians were fascinated.
Here is the Herbert C. Jackson leaving Buffalo and sailing farther and farther away. Goodbye, Herbert C. Jackson! Godspeed!
The ship gives Buffalo a smoke signal as a farewell salute.
The tug heads home.
Our story ends.
But today after the visit of the Herbert C. Jackson, Buffalo feels a little different.
The ship brought magic with it!
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If I've learned nothing else from Weird Al Yankovic, I can take comfort in the lesson that most pop music is funnier set to an accordion beat. By that reasoning, the career of Finland's Korpiklaani is a musical one-liner. There are lyrics about binge drinking, Swedish invaders, and tangling with wild animals. They're set to the sound of a fiddler and an accordion player shredding so fast they make the speed freaks in Dragonforce look like sleepwalkers, and rounded out by power-chording electric rhythm guitars, extreme-metal growls, and double kick drums. Voilà! Yuks a-plenty.
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