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Feb. 19, 2014
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet with French Pres Francois Hollande to discuss plans to create telecommunications networks that will keep individuals' data inside European Union borders.MORE »
Feb. 17, 2014
German Chancellor Angela Merkel publicly embraces proposals to create European data networks that would keep emails and other communications on the European side of the Atlantic and away from prying American eyes; Merkel says she will discuss matter with French Pres Francois Hollande.MORE »
Feb. 4, 2014
Chaos Computer Club, leading hacker organization based in Germany, files a criminal complaint against Chancellor Angela Merkel and members of her government; complaint accuses them of violating the law by helping intelligence agencies in the United States and Britain spy on German citizens.MORE »
Feb. 2, 2014
Some German leaders are pushing for country to be more active in foreign affairs and stop reflexively avoiding military deployments; Chancellor Angela Merkel has yet to weigh in on subject.MORE »
Jan. 30, 2014
German Chancellor Angela Merkel takes perhaps her sharpest swipe yet at pervasive American intelligence surveillance, saying that Washington has endangered its standing by violating the freedom of the individual, a value for which it is admired abroad; stresses that the damage wrought is so grave and fundamental that it would not be swiftly overcome.MORE »
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If David Cameron puts his energy into making the European Union more competitive, the prize of overhauling it may well be within his grasp.
March 3, 2014, MondayMerkel Warns Britain Not to Expect Too Much
The German leader offered warm words but few concrete promises to support the British prime minister's efforts to loosen his nation's ties to the European Union.
February 28, 2014, FridayEngland, Conflicted on Its Place in Europe, Looks to Germany
But analysts warn that the expectations that the British prime minister has about making changes to the union are unrealistic.
February 27, 2014, Thursday2 Allies Meet Before 50th Anniversary of Israeli-German Ties
The joint meeting in Jerusalem was both symbolic and a practical reflection of the strong ties between the two countries.
February 26, 2014, WednesdayWhat the West Must Do for Ukraine
The E.U. should offer full membership to Ukraine, and Germany must take the lead.
February 24, 2014, MondayUkraine Rushes to Shift Power and Mend Rifts
Lawmakers fired top cabinet members in President Viktor F. Yanukovych's government and restored state ownership of the presidential palace.
February 24, 2014, MondayViolence in Ukraine Creates Deepening Clash Between East and West
As Russia denounced what it called a coup by extremists, the United States and Europe threatened to impose sanctions on those responsible for the violence — and each side accused the other of interference.
February 20, 2014, ThursdayGerman Village Resists Plans to Strip It Away for the Coal Underneath
Even as Germany tries to wean itself from fossil fuels and nuclear power, its hunger for coal threatens the existence of villages like Atterwasch that lie atop coal deposits.
February 19, 2014, WednesdayE.U. Leaders Seek Way to Protect Individuals' Data
As Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President François Hollande of France meet, questions remain about how to get a handle on the Internet.
February 19, 2014, WednesdayRussia to Release Loan Money for Ukraine, Lifting Leader
The Russian move does an end run around Europe's sluggish efforts to support the Ukrainian opposition by coming up with an aid package of its own.
February 18, 2014, TuesdaySEARCH 1031 ARTICLES ABOUT ANGELA MERKEL:
Merkel Wins Big in German Election
Chancellor Angela Merkel scored a stunning personal triumph Sunday in the national elections in Germany.
Merkel's Moment in Germany
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany is running for a third and perhaps final term.
Angela Merkel Visits Dachau
Ms. Merkel, in a first visit to the Dachau concentration camp by a sitting chancellor, spoke to Holocaust survivors and emphasized the importance of learning from Germany's past.
A Polarizing Diplomatic Visit
Angela Merkel's attempt at a "Nixon moment" in Greece. | Why analysts think the "fiscal cliff" could be a "fiscal slope." | A bigger paycheck on Wall Street.
The Week's Business News in Pictures
The Occupy Wall Street protest in Hong Kong ignored a deadline to leave HSBC's headquarters, European leaders worked again to reassure investors on the debt crisis and Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chief, committed to aiding the economy.
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06-05-2012, 01:50 #12
Well, there is a valid email address attached to my account and that email is what they use to communicate with me, so this information is a bit confusing. I think what they really mean is that we will be able to change our Username which was originally the email address.
I'm glad to hear that it will be possible to change it, although to be perfectly honest I don't think I care anymore. It's all the same to me.
06-05-2012, 02:51 #13
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GW2 and GW1 accounts that are linked use the same account name and some people don't like that that username is a no longer valid email address is how I read that.
Aside from personal preferences though, we should be able to change the account name for simple security reasons. Glad to hear they will be putting it in. That's a great news, thanks for sharing that Prokofiova.
06-05-2012, 14:42 #14
Yea, your right Blade. It is a good thing. I guess that I've just been waiting a bit too long for them to fix it. I've lost interest in the point. My apologies if I seemed negative on this.
06-05-2012, 14:57 #15
Now I'm wondering. Will GW1 players who don't link to a GW2 account finally be able to change usernames, or is this reserved for linked accounts?
06-05-2012, 15:35 #16
I don't know. But if we assume ( I know! Bad Auntie! Never assume! ) that an account is an account regardless of whether it's linked or not, this should mean that when they work out the Username thing, it'll apply to GW1, GW2 and linked accounts.
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Do linked accounts have to have the same email as username? I just preordered and was wondering if I can still link my soon to be GW2 account if I use a different, functional email address to create it.
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Negative? Hell, if there's one really stupid thing Anet ever did it was letting this happen and not fixing it for SEVEN+ YEARS!!! No one can be blamed for looking at this negatively. lol I just wanted to make sure anyone reading this and not familiar with the history understood that it was finally changing for the better.
I concur with this. They are linked now, it should be done anyway. Hopefully whatever process they had to use to make the accounts linked like this included the future ability to change the account name log in for both GW1 and 2. I'm almost sure of it, though, like you, figure that stuff doesn't always work the way it should.
I think you can already do that, but they did say you would be able to change your contact email to be different from the email that currently shows as your user name.
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That's good to know. Just recently it occurred to me that my GW account name email isn't safe since I used it to register to Aionsource and they got hacked after that, so my info is out there somewhere. I have linked my GW account to NCSoft master account and so couldn't change the email, and after a few rounds with support they told me they couldn't change it either. I was getting pretty worried about what that would mean for me for GW2. I really hope I'll be able to change the account name completely before launch, not just the contact info.
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Well, if you're worried, just change your GW password and make it a strong one.
Brute forcing is pretty hard to do on GW1 as they introduce delays the more wrong passwords you input, and they now need a character name too.


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Avik Mukhopadhyay, not Sujoy Ghosh, to complete the late Rituparno Ghosh's Satyanweshi
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Saleen unveiled at the New York Auto Show the Gurney Signature Edition Mustang, a model created in cooperation with American automotive legend Dan Gurney. The special edition will be limited to 300 units.
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The exterior reflects the look of Dan's 1969 Trans Am series Mustang, masterfully recreated in a fashion that honors history but looks aggressively towards the future. The heritage styled Gurney Edition body kit, 'duck bill' rear spoiler and 'stinger' style hood all come together in harmony with the carefully placed graphics and die cut Gurney Eagle insignia.


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Paraguay: On 15 January 2008, the national health authorities of Paraguay reported their first confirmed cases of Jungle Yellow Fever. One of the cases was confirmed using molecular techniques; the other four, by epidemiological nexus. As of 11 February 2008, 4 other suspected cases of JYF have been reported. All the confirmed cases reported by the national health authorities come from a rural area of San Pedro Department in the northern part of the country. National health authorities have intensified epidemiological surveillance for the detection and investigation of suspected cases, and yellow fever vaccination for people living in or traveling to the affected area who have no previous vaccination history.
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Crying in Public, pt. 1: Inflatable Palaces and Diamond Slums
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The Art Market is inflating out of control, making all but the wealthiest few cry foul. Like it or not, this is affecting the way contemporary art is viewed and thought about. Meanwhile, Jeff Koons continues to be the perfect Poster Boy for the inflation, and it just so happens he has work depicting the nothingness inside the bubble. Simultaneously, Banksy goes for a stroll in New York's neighborhoods proposing a different model. Is this the beginning of the end of the glutonous market? Or is this merely a long beginning?
Don't make the mistake of trying to analyze the Jeff Koons album cover work for Lady Gaga as if it were art. Think of it instead as a publicity stunt to drum up hype for his upcoming retrospective at the Whitney this summer. On the day the album cover was released, mtv.com ran a story with the headline: "Lady Gaga is Jeff Koons' Biggest Fan…But Who is He?" This collage of leftover studio remnants and a Botticelli print gets him access to a generation of people who are not likely looking at a lot of contemporary art, beefing up his celebrity status which he craves, at the same time adding to ticket sales. This, and the animosity from art enthusiasts will help make his retrospective THE BEST EVER!! Just a couple weeks before the Lady Garbage cover, T magazine – the glossy pulp supplement in the NY Times – had a stereotypically vapid conversation with the artist about his recent commission from Dom Perignon to made a limited edition DNA – shaped champagne bottle. Low end and high end commodity containers from ol' Koonie Balloonie. Not too different from anything he has done in the past, but the labeling becomes ever more irksome. Consider his output for the last decade, where most of his work is sold before its finished, and may only show at auction instead of a gallery or museum. Not that this is such a terrible thing. What has basically become a high end boutique practice is frustrating mostly because it is helping fuel the glut of the art market, and then regurgitated into the art world as important to the production and dissemination of art, to negative affect. As long as we wallow in the crystal palaces of Koons, Hirst and Murakami, we'll think that art is as uninspired as Gormley, Marden and Whiteread.
Koons is in this rare position of being accessible to everyone but only collectable to a small handful of the richest in the world. As Carl Swanson recently stated in Vulture: "Koons can be the art world's great populist artisan, even as he operates as its most exclusive salesman." Everything about the work is right there, so there's nothing to get. It is perfection and simplicity, the kind of thing that mocks you for looking too hard at it. Since critics are trained to look hard at things, they tend to hate Koons. And its boring to write about art just by describing what it looks like, so people tend to write about his career, his collectors, his record breaking prices at the market, his studio and the process of making his work. This only helps to build a persona around the artist, giving him the superstar flair that these major collectors are after. (And with this week's art fair, London's Frieze officially bigger and more bloated than ever, superstars have never been more in vogue.)
Both interesting and frustrating is how Jeff Koons' rise to the art commodity machine that he is may have helped shape the way the art market is an increasingly insiders game of fewer and fewer players more knowledgable about trading commodities than how to tell good work from bad. And with the auction prices soaring, the big named galleries just keep getting bigger in a kind of go-for-broke mentality* (not breaking them, just the artists they rep, in less of a financial type of broke and more of an artistic quality and integrity type.)
[*for a throughly depressing take on this, see Jerry Saltz's article on Vulture this week.]
At the same time all the grumbling about Koons' latest fart hit the web, Banksy has been doing a residency in NYC, creating work in the city in his typical fashion – covert and unannounced – the opposite of how you're supposed to make art. While seemingly on the other side of the art world, there are a lot of similarities between the two artists. Maybe Banksy isn't able to sell his graffiti work for 33 mil, but he is still operating inside the art market, selling regularly and at high prices. Lately, his work is often either garishly covered by a piece of plexiglass bolted to the wall he painted it on or is removed and sold, either way being seen by an enterprising public as separate from graffiti art and reborn as high art/commodity. His work is no stranger to auctions, museum and gallery shows, while being loved by mainstream society. His imagery is understood at first look, you don't need to read into it, and if you are, then you probably don't get it. Also like Koons, art critics hate writing about Banksy, saying there isn't enough to write about, because it is too surface and he isn't playing the game. But this game is being co opted by the wealthiest of collectors who have realized there is a market that won't burst and can't crash, so they've taken advantage of it. Buying a Koons gets you a ticket into a very exclusive club. Buying the Banksy at auction though, means that you probably don't get it, because his work is to be freely viewed and is mocking the very lopsided system of capitalism that allowed you to buy it at auction in the first place. Getting it, though, is no longer important. Its having it.
As his position in the art world becomes more clear, Banksy's art frequently criticizes the market, and the latest example of this was a street sale of many of his iconic works on white canvases for $60 on the sidewalks of NYC. The work and the sale later appeared on his website, which is his way of providing provenance. These single color spray painted politically charged images lost all meaning shoved within the borders of these small store bought canvases, sold on the street among vendors hocking watercolors and prints of impressionist styled paintings. Subverted now to talk about the politics of class, taste and accessibility in a market that is more often hurting artists and keeping way too many people out of collecting art. It stifles artistic creativity to the point where every idea is either a recombination of greatest hits by the artist or an experiment to see how much money can prop up a bad idea. Artists start to flounder when they should be thriving. Shows are created for the specific tastes of the market and of a few clientele. Everything becomes dross and it feels like you are wading through a lake of effervescent puke whenever you go to a big exhibition, and anymore, they're all big. 'Cause if not, they may as well not happen at all. More and more, it sucks harder and harder to be a practicing artist in this climate. Unless, of course, you're Jeff Koons.
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Two weeks ago, I wrote here about one relationship between art and album jackets, specifically The Beatles' White Album and Paul McCartney's Thrillington, released under a pseudonym. That same week, I was asked to give a talk on the broadly interpreted theme of "jackets" and so I followed the album jacket vein. Along the way I rediscovered Barney Bubbles, the long forgotten graphic artist who designed incredible jackets for many of the quirkier members of Britain's punk scene in the late 70s and early 80s. Most of his work was deliberately uncredited. Some examples of his work and my experience rediscovering Bubbles for myself follows.
Who among us hasn't burned off a drizzling afternoon in Wikipedia limbo racking with tab after tab of hyperlinked articles? Often enough its done out of boredom, you could be stuck behind a desk at work and have nothing else to do, but that doesn't exactly mean that you read these articles without interest. You could start an afternoon on the entry for Operation Barbarossa and easily end up reading about the Latvian hockey team. With your interest and your time, you create the proper conditions for an accident to happen. In my experience, research is not a method with clear steps to follow. It's closer to a test of interest and patience as well as the faith it takes to believe those two qualities combined will bear fruit.
Before the turn of this century, when computers lurched and gurgled as they connected to the Internet, I regularly spent hours in front of a grey Compaq desktop in my family's living room browsing disc after disc of the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. I would do this after a full day at Central Junior High, where rudderless classes like Mrs. Crutcher's Honors Biology would routinely devolve into unsupervised poker games. My brain was not fed at school and so I filled it at home, aided by the interactive gizmos of Grolier's
CD-ROMS. I watched animated maps of the Marshall Plan and learned about the founders of Adelaide. I discovered the Celtic words for the Irish potato famine and found out that the county I grew up in was originally called Mosquito.
Nothing much seemed to happen in Mosquito County. Sitting as it does on the Atlantic coast of Florida. Salty air and tropical weeds wipe out signs of the past that tourism and the aerospace industry haven't already eclipsed. With Grolier, all the history hidden from
me in person was suddenly laid out at home on a computer, made all the more attractive by its digital glitz. In my wanderings through the encyclopedia, I came upon an entry titled "History of Rock and Roll." It was in this article that I was first exposed to
Elvis Costello, the musician who would become the musical touchstone for the remainder of my teenage years. A thirty second audio clip of Costello's 1978 song "Pump It Up," his sixth single for the iconoclastic British punk label Stiff Records, played through the puny computer speakers in my family's living room.
After hearing "Pump It Up," I got a ride to Barnes and Noble and bought a best of CD. In its liner notes, I scrutinized the one square inch images of albums I had never known existed. By the time I finished High School, I had heard them all. Through Internet
browsing, I learned of and heard the music of Costello's early label mates at Stiff: Wreckless Eric, Ian Dury, Nick Lowe. Barnes and Noble didn't sell these musicians' albums. They wouldn't even order them for me.
This was all, of course, before iTunes displayed a handy thumbnail image of the album you're listening to in the bottom corner of your screen. If I had downloaded an album, probably from Napster, my knowledge of its cover was cursory at best. CDs weren't much better. As I wouldn't appreciate until I began collecting records AFTER I'd already amassed piles of compact discs, much is lost in the journey from twelve inch LP to five inch jewel case. What a terrible name, jewel case. Now that most of us save things to our hard drives and beam music to our cars' stereos through iPods, it's absurd to glorify those obsolete plastic discs by comparing them to jewels. The things that vinyl LPs come in have a much better name. They're called album jackets.
Because I wasn't experiencing albums by Costello and his label mates on vinyl LPs, I didn't understand that there was one designer behind what seemed like wildly different jacket designs. That designer was Colin Fulcher, known better for most of his career as Barney Bubbles. His designs did not stop at compelling imagery, they creatively engaged with the form of records themselves—from packaging conventions through to mass manufacturing techniques. Without handling the jackets yourself, pulling out the disc, and rifling through the liners, the core qualities of Bubbles designs are lost. Here are a few examples.
Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Do It Yourself, 1979.
For this album, Bubbles suggested that Stiff buy up reams of actual Crown wallpaper and print the title information over it. Dave Robinson, Stiff's owner, actually negotiated a deal with the wallpaper company to get the product for free. Crown agreed to the deal as long as Stiff left the catalog numbers of specific designs on the paper. The cover features a character called Tommy the Talking Toolbox and a Stiff Records logo redesigned to look like a hammer from a home toolkit.
Nick Lowe, I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass, 1978.
For this design, Bubbles simultaneously quotes a dadaist motif from the portfolio of artist Theo van Doesburg and, applying a classic Bauhaus photogram technique, quotes the tools of his own trade. Laid out on the jacket are some of the tools Bubbles would use to assemble his designs: a magnifying glass, a pair of tweezers, an x-acto blade, and a paperclip. One of the more raucous elements of the studio's atmosphere makes in into the image in the form of a pull-tab from a beer can.
Elvis Costello and the Attractions, This Year's Model, 1978.
The instantly recognizable cover of Costello's second album shows him behind a medium format camera, peeping out at the viewer and directing you to shift just a little bit to his right. Where Costello was the subject of the photo on the cover of his debut album My Aim Is True, here he IS the photographer. Jake Riviera, the owner of Stiff spin-off Radar Records, wanted to make a bold gesture to Radar's distributor—Warner Music—that Riviera was serious about making album jackets his own way with no interference. He made this clear to Bubbles, who ran with the idea. Working from the image of Elvis as a photographer, Bubbles continued the photography theme. He designed the cover as a misprinted proof, with the normally present color test bars running down the right hand side. The bars take up enough space to push the first letters of both Elvis and the album's name off the cover completely. It's a tiny tweak, but completely in line with the album's sneering impertinence.
Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Accidents Will Happen, 1979.
Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton—pioneers of early computer graphics—generated the imagery for this single. But as with This Year's Model and Do It Yourself, Bubbles intervened in the printing process. He had the factory print the seven inch sleeve inside out. It looks blank until you take the disc out and peep inside. Then you get the joke: seemingly, during manufacture, an accident has happened. It's a strange moment in anti-marketing. As with Dury's Do It Yourself, the managers were not only prepared to indulge Bubbles' designs, but were enthusiastic about doing so. It served the manager's purposes by giving Stiff and Radar recording artists an edge of "cool." But the design choices Bubbles made on these jackets were hardly market-researched or audience-tested. They were made in the midst of a chaotic office environment, where Bubbles, the quiet, tidy craftsman, would listen to the songs on the record he was designing for and, drawing upon his own knowledge of art history and personal reserve of eclectic interests, respond directly to the music he outfitted.
Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, 1978.
Barney Bubbles' jackets effortlessly complement the aesthetic impulses of the artists whose music they contain. For Costello, he responded to the joy Elvis takes in playing with words, even snide and cynical ones. For Ian Dury, who was a college art professor before his music career took off, Bubbles designed jackets that played to the singer's taste for Bauhaus and evoked the solid core of principles often disguised by a man and music frayed around the edges. And nowhere is Nick Lowe's sensibility summarized so effectively as the jacket for Jesus of Cool, below, where Lowe dressed up as a number of rock archetypes: lounge act, new waver, pub rocker.
Nick Lowe, Jesus of Cool, 1978
What's even more remarkable is that even on labels as central obsessed with personality driven music as Stiff and Radar, Bubbles humbly toiled behind the curtain. By the mid 70s, Bubbles had stopped crediting himself on jackets, leaving the work of attribution up to die-hard fans. It's part of the reason that people are only now beginning to take notice of his designs' wit. They stand on their own without the aid of a personality cult.
Bubbles' jackets are seeds that have lain fallow for years only to bloom now. His work is a repository of modest charm and small moves with delightful delayed payoffs. At least for me, that describes the process of research pretty well too. It's less the result of one person's skill and more a collusion between the right atmospheric conditions. Of course, it takes putting oneself out there in those conditions again and again over long periods of time before the flower blooms, the fruit ripens, and you get what you didn't even know you were looking for and hadn't even realized you needed. The generous attention you give to something when you're in the research mode is a frame of mind applicable to the world at-large, not just the world in books, or the world on the Internet. That doesn't mean putting everything under the microscope, but allowing that the people, places, and things that populate our everyday lives don't necessarily reveal their gold on first, second, or fifth glance. Often enough, they're time-release capsules that only burst open to reveal themselves in the presence of those two essential components of research: time and attention. And with patient, smoldering curiosity, accidents will happen.
Thanks to Anthony Stepter, Amber Yared, and Nate Dorotiak.
Paul McCartney Between Art and Pop
November 14, 2011 · Print This Article
As Paul McCartney played "Paperback Writer" during his concerts at Wrigley Field this past July, details from Richard Prince's nurse paintings flashed behind him on stage four stories high. I was confused.
For a concert with tens of thousands in attendance, the connection is subtle. The images in Prince's nurse paintings come from pulpy dime-store paperback novels and the song is, of course, about a writer of paperbacks. If—after years studying contemporary art and much longer as a Beatles fan—the connection was lost on me, I'd guess it was lost on much of the audience as well. If it was lost, it didn't seem to matter much. The Baby Boomers around me still bopped along. We can only assume that Paul, or maybe the tour's art director, got a little kick out of the embellishment.
Either way, juxtapositions like this are nothing new in McCartney's career. He's been nuzzling up to contemporary art since at least the mid sixties. He has both collaborated with visual artists and produced artwork himself. Many of these associations are chronicled in Ian Peel's 2002 book The Unknown Paul McCartney: McCartney and the Avant-Garde. He's made albums of concrete music and masqueraded under pseudonyms. In 1977, a conductor named Percy "Thrills" Thrillington released the album Thrillington, an orchestral version of McCartney's 1971 solo album Ram.
Prior to its release, Thrillington took out announcements in the society pages of English newspapers that seem as much like Fluxus provocations as buzz marketing. These snippets mention the album, but also describe Thrillington's whimsical adventures in high society, including highlights from a ski trip in Switzerland. The album's provenance remained mysterious even though the back cover shows McCartney reflected in the studio glass. No one could say for sure that Paul was behind it. It wasn't until 1989 that McCartney revealed it had been him all along. He'd produced the album a month after Ram's release. With wife Linda McCartney, he wrote the ads for the society pages as a lark. Old copies of Thrillington immediately tripled in value.
McCartney's art gestures will attract attention from people whether the work merits it or not. He is, after all, a millionaire, one of the most recongnizable human beings alive, and a knight of the British Empire. But there are also instances where McCartney has collaborated with artists directly, and the interest the work generates does not derive primarily from his celebrity. For example, he enlisted his friend, the artist Richard Hamilton, to design the sleeve for The Beatles' 1968 self-titled album, better known today as The White Album.
Think about that for a moment—because of an artist's design, we refer to an album by the biggest band in the history of the world by the way it looks rather than what the band named it. What's more, the design itself apes the aesthetics of conceptual and minimalist art emerging at the time. "The Beatles," the only words on the album's front, are not printed but are simply embossed into the object itself. Sleeves were manufactured with seemingly unique serial numbers. By some estimates, there are over three million copies. Especially now that seriality has been recognized by art historians as a primary concern of late sixties artworks, Hamilton's serial edition of three million spread in homes, record stores, and radio stations across the world comes off as a prescient joke on a massive scale.
As an artist, Hamilton brought more than simple imagery to the album jacket. Visual artists' work had appeared on album jackets before The White Album and continues to do so today. Hamilton's design focuses attention on both the album's construction process and the circulation of the album itself. It makes us acknowledge the album's birthplace in a factory, printed plainly and efficiently and stamped finished with a serial number. The serial number also makes tacit the existence of all the other Beatlemaniacs out there. We're both the owner of a unique artifact ("No. 0382937 is all mine!") and an object that's come off the assembly line. What you make of this contradiction built into the album's design depends on your point-of-view. It could just as easily be a perverse illustration of commodity fetishism as a light-hearted prank meant to give fans a laugh. It's easy to think of the legions of Beatles fans as simpletons who could swallow the inscrutability of The White Album because their devotion to the group was forged during the mop-top years. But to know the real truth of that assumption, you'd have to interview a lot of Beatles fans. Meanwhile, it's safe to say that the group never let any presumptions about their fanbase's intelligence or sophistication get in the way of unconventional aesthetic maneuvers. The cover is a white canvas to project on anyway, the possible interpretations as numerous as the copies in circulation: it's an aesthetic retreat from the Pop art cover of Sgt. Pepper's released the previous year, an absurdist quantitative measurement of the world's Beatles fans, and a comic skewering of the concept of originality in art.
I am a fan of the austere gestures of conceptual art as well as the sophisticated humor of popular music. Historically both sides, although not without exceptions, have tended to avoid the contamination of the other. Side A thinks Side B is poisoned by the market. Side B thinks Side A is willfully pretentious. With this stand-off the status-quo, the occasions of overlap are jarring. When Richard Prince's paintings appeared fifty feet high on screen at Wrigley Field, I was jolted. I thought I'd come to the concert as a McCartney fan, not as someone trained to recognize an artist's work from memory. But my knowledge of Prince's work and my reserve of Beatles trivia reside in the same brain, maybe they even share neurons. The same goes for my understanding of early conceptual art and the story behind The White Album. Both emerged at the same time in like places involving similar people. It would be silly to pretend that they didn't share some common stock. At least in this case, the less boundaries I have between professional interest and private enthusiasm, the more I might see where the two fields overlap and, consequently, enrich my understanding of the instances where open-minded cross-pollinatation has produced curious hybrids that exist in the world without much concern for what club they belong to.
New Years Eve Music Suggestions Video
December 30, 2009 · Print This Article
Right now your doing one of two things probably
- 1. Shoping for beverages for a party
- 2. Looking for music for a party playlist
Well BaS is here to help and even though our tastes run a bit indie-rock and instrumental we can promote the biggest hits of 2009. Luckily someone has done the work for me and remixed the top 25 songs of this year in one song. Yes one song and one music video. Hopefully this will help in your search, if not you can always go with "Blitzkreig Bop" but that's like black it goes with anything.
I still think "Take Your Shirt Off" by T-Pain is a underrated masterpiece that will be remembered years from now
UPDATE: We want to thank DJ Earworm for the remix and here is the download for the hi-bitrate mp3 file. Happy New Year!


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March 12th, 2013, 06:18 PM | #1 |
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Primer Help
I just finished up the body work for my nieces honda and I'll be painting the entire car for her as well. Does anyone have any ideas for primer that they have used in the past that I can use. So far I have used duplicolor and rustoleum sprayable primer and both have been garbage.
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if you have bare metal showing, use an etch primer shopline jp 215 or, NOT and. a epoxy primer shopline jp375. if you have small to light imperfections use a 2 part acrylic urathane primer shopline jp 202. if you have medium to large imperfections use polyester primer. basically spray filler. jp 205. all of these are at painters supply store. all are 125$ a gallon/kit or less. epoxy primer has the best corrosion protection on bare metal, it just dosent build and sand as well as the acrylic, or polyester primer. you can also reduse the epoxy primer and spray it as a sealer. if you dont use shopline brand/ppg those are still the same components in every diffrent brand of primers to look for.
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Or paint it. in that 72 is hour window. Also one thing i forgot about most epoxy's is the 15 min induction period after you mix it but before you spray it. Just make sure you get the p-sheets at the paint store for which ever products you end up getting.
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Trip to Monaco
... we have ever seen!! We got a seat straight away but as the train was delayed, more and more people piled into our carriage. We had seats but many didn't. If they had of just walked up one or two carriages they would have had a seat but, as per human nature, they all just went into the nearest carriage to the steps. Once we arrived at ...
Eating in Menton
The meals, except for the first night, have been excellent. The first night, after our long hike, was just okay - pasta at a restaurant close to the Hotel Paris-Rome. What was so disturbing about the meal was that our caprese salad was made with dried basil - within sight of Italy! Some things are difficult to forgive. ...
... all the houses, and there was a BIG hill and a lot of bushland still to be negotiated. When I stopped to ask a couple of men if we were on the right track, they confirmed that we were, and wished us luck. After we had moved off the streets, and into the bush, we met a man who was walking his dog, and again checked that we were still on track for the top. He said he was going that way, and would show us the way. Thus began a really pleasant 1 1/2 hours with ...
All Aboard the MSC Sinfonia
... while I queued up at the deli section. He came along really happy that he'd found an interesting bottle of red. However, when I looked at the label which read, as I recall, Vino di Aceto, I realised it was vinegar. We both fell about laughing, and I can't believe I forgot to tell you all yesterday. No new photos taken by us today. Tomorrow our first port of call is Ville-Franche, on the Cote d'Azure. It's now midnight so I'd better go to sleep. Heaps of love, Lyn and ...
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Prime Minister Najib Mikati's Cabinet has consistently stumbled along as it tries to endorse an election law that is satisfactory to all sides, so it comes as little surprise that the issue of endorsing a wage hike for civil servants and teachers has experienced a similar fate.
During Cabinet's marathon session Thursday, ministers plowed through the latest set of complicated measures to raise the money needed to fund the pay hike.
The mess was preceded by a series of meetings and on-again off-again negotiations with the major players in the drama, namely the Union Coordination Committee, and representatives of the private sector.
But the watchwords throughout the sorry saga have been paralysis and procrastination. The government's snail-like pace as it tackled the issue has had several detrimental effects. Divisions have widened, pitting business against labor, while the strike that began last month in public schools, with intermittent participation by private school teachers, has put a huge dent into the academic year. As it stands, the last part of the school year will be compressed into an intensive catch-up mode, and the fate of crucial end-of-year examinations still hangs in the balance.
The government acted only after it faced the growing clout of public servants and teachers, who have held daily sit-ins and protests to signal their determination. But the result, namely referring the draft legislation to Parliament, will likely open up a new round of acrimonious debate over the reliability of the sources of funding.
The public has been treated throughout to a confusing blizzard of public statements on exactly what will be changed in order to fund the salary scale, as ambiguity reigns. There have been publicly expressed doubts about the accuracy of the calculations, while the entire exercise has been outpaced by events. During the months that were required to bring the issue to a close, inflation has siphoned off any benefit that the unions were hoping for. Moreover, the private sector has been adamant in rejecting the move, while the nation's schools appear set to raise their tuition rates as a result – if the legislation actually makes it through Parliament.
Finally, the public has experienced a halt to the process of getting its bureaucratic formalities done in a timely fashion, as if Lebanon's bureaucracy needed any more hits to its productivity. Land sales, car registration, work and residency permits – all have fallen victim to the debilitating impasse over the salary scale increase.
Responsibility for the disaster can be safely laid at the feet of the Cabinet, which isn't cohesive or dynamic enough to come up with an agreed-upon economic policy, or forward-looking planning and governance so that such catastrophes can be avoided.
Instead, officials only spring into "action" under duress, and their response is far from being a durable solution. Union officials and others have pointed out that the entire exercise smells of funding the wage hike for lower- and middle-class individuals through a series of fees and taxes that target lower- and middle-class individuals.
Instead of getting to the root of the problem by enhancing tax collection in the first place, and taking on the hidden sources of corrupt wealth in the country, the "end" of the strike would appear to be an occasion for the beginning of a whole new set of tensions and problems.


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By Mark Tapscott | 02/07/14 09:23 AM
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During his speech at the American Principles Project gala last night, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., argued that Republicans should continue to push for big cuts in government and taxes while offering a more merciful proposal to reform the criminal justice system.
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Knoxville Raceway New Muffler Rule In Effect Opening Night April 21st
Monday, April 16, 2012
Knoxville, Iowa – Saturday, April 21st is opening night at the Knoxville Raceway and as previously announced the only approved muffler is the Schoenfeld 14272735-78. This is the same muffler that was announced last November.
There are no other approved mufflers at this time. This rule pertains to the 410 and 360 sprint car classes as well the Lucas Oil Late Model Knoxville Nationals.
Questions about mufflers and other technical matters should be directed to Race Director, John McCoy at (641)842-5431 or
The Lucas Oil Knoxville Championship Cup Series - Pella Motors Race for Your School Night kicks off this Saturday at 6:45 pm. Over 80 cars are expected to compete for their chance to become the Knoxville Raceway Champion. For more information on the Knoxville Raceway and events at the Marion County Fairgrounds go to www.knoxvilleraceway.com.
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DevOps Deployment: Applying Agile and Lean
Everybody in IT has the same goal: rapid, reliable, low risk delivery of high-quality, valuable functionality to users. This white paper discusses the application of agile and lean techniques to release management in order to achieve this goal. The approach set out here is informed by the work of the DevOps movement, which aims to apply agile principles and practices to release management and operations.
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Rodeway Inn Charlotte \ Downtown
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Westward Ho
... that the past, most recent, times we have been there there have been a surprising number of vacancies.
About 3:00 and a very heavy thunderstorm descended on us with very heavy rain and lightning bouncing all around. Since the park is in a creek bottom, I have visions of our Airstream floating downstream. When the sun came up, however, there was no sign of standing water anywhere, and we were on the road by 8:00 am.
Panthers Gametime!
... right spot, we just saw there was enough space, so we called the other 2 to join us and we had a great game!
Though it was just a pre-season game, it was awesome. It was my first NFL game and I loved it. And the Carolina Panthers beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, the game was not even bad. We had a lot of fun, talked to some very kind people and saw a pretty good game.
It was a pretty good night. ...
Fun at Whitewater Center
... do that again. Also, I think being a guide is a really cool job there. After rafting we went to flatwater Kayaking, because we wanted to do the water activities all together. We kayaked a long way down the river and back, and on our way back the weather changed from really sunny to windy and cloudy, and it got really difficult to paddle up the river.
Then we decided to get changed and go to the Mega zip ...
Quiet day
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Yosemi-Tea & Coffee Shoppe is located in historic downtown Mariposa, just outside of Yosemite National Park. We proudly sell and serve 70 different teas and counting! We recently added an espresso bar named the El Coffee'tan (named after El Capitan). Gourmet tea sandwiches and salads are served every day from 11-3pm. Tea & espresso coffee beverages, scones and desserts are served all day. We also offer Tea Leaf Readings, which is still one of our most requested services.


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Summary: Amber is a young Merlin falcon who is living in a changing world. An evil red-tailed hawk has killed the rightful king, taken and taken over the throne. Then, one day, Amber and her family are kid-napped. Amber manages to get away, and joins with a group of young raptors (one of whom is the young prince), to put the rightful ruler back on the throne.
Going to post the next chapter within the week!
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This is AWESOME!!! Can't wait to read more!!!
Thanks! I'll be posting more chapters within the next few weeks
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Looper (DVD)
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Looper (DVD)
Date: 05/06/13
Advantages: Levitt and Bruce; action and plot
Disadvantages: A couple of blips in maintaining attention but nothing major
Films involving time travel usually have the capacity to completely confuse me. Twelve Monkes, for example, is a film I've watched umpteen times and still can't quite get my head around it. Similarly, Inception was a film that spun me out and made me really think about the difference between reality and possibility. Imagine my trepidation then, when the stars of each of these two, Bruce Willis and Jospeh Gordon Levitt, combine to play the same person in this film which threatens to loop my mind to madness.
The film wastes no time in getting right to the crux of the content. Levitt plays Joe, a young man who is a Looper, someone who is employed to kill people sent back in time to a parrticular time and place for a simple execution, using a blunderbuss to the head. You see, in the future, when time travel will be invented, disposing of bodies is virtually impossible. So those wishing to do so sending live bodies back in time instead. Mob boss Abe has gone back in time to organise things from the present, and the person repsonsible for deciding who gets sent back and killed from the future, the Rain Maker, sorts things from that end. When Joe's future self gets sent back, a slight hesitation is all it needs for time travel chaos to ensue.
The key thing here for me, and what swung this film in favour or a thumbs up, is in how Levitt plays Joe to make him look like a younger Bruce Willis. Perhaps laziness on the elder actor's part, but the younger one does a phenomenal job of it, and I thought this was the stand out element of the film. As it progresses and small little bits of the plot's minor twists sink into place, the action takes over, but the first part of the film is definitely filled with plot development and a director's attempts to make something complicated relatively simple. I'm not sure what script Rian Johnson had to work with at the start, but the film certainly ends up being one of the more understandable ones of its genre.
Plenty of budget has been sent towards the action scenes in this one, with plenty of effective special effects balanced out with some good acting, and the inclusion of a futuristic telekinesis engrained in certain people. The scenes where this is demonstrated are particularly well done, as are those where the minimal amount of sound is used to great effect. There's a danger that a film like this will drop off and tail towards a disappointing finish, and while the middle parts veered towards doing so a couple of times, there was always something explosive or revealing to snap your attention back in just in time.
I wouldn't say this is a gem of a film, but much like Bruce Willis' films usually are, this is reliable entertainment that gives you most of the explanation without having to make you think. My fears over Twelve Monkeys and Inception were unfounded, and the inevitable bigger twist in the plot, while obvious to a certain extent, is not given any support until needed right towards the end, with other potential twists given chances to keep us honest. Certainly worth a watch even if it's not one to stand up and applaud.
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Esperanza improves the quality and affordability of housing in our neighborhood by developing new family apartments and rehabilitating existing properties. Our properties are clustered in different parts of the Figueroa Corridor neighborhood and serve very low-income families. Esperanza creates community facilities within our buildings that reach beyond the walls of the housing development to positively impact the entire neighborhood.
To date, through the construction of new units and major rehabilitation of existing ones, Esperanza has completed nine affordable housing developments totaling 165 units.
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AbodeCommunities.org: Abode Communities' mission is to open new doors in people's lives through creative and responsible design, development and operation of service-enhanced affordable housing.
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Online Gaming With Real-World Friends Is Healthier: Study
Pastime is less isolating when it's a family affair, expert suggests
By Charnicia Huggins
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FRIDAY, May 6 (HealthDay News) -- Contrary to what some might think, spending hours online playing video games and interacting with others through avatars may contribute to emotional health, if virtual gaming partners or opponents include real-world family members, findings from a new data analysis suggest.
Various research has touted the negative effects of spending too much solitary time playing video games, so "people think [video] games are bad for you psychologically," explained study author Cuihua Shen. "We challenge that assumption," she said.
"If I am playing with existing family and friends, I am extending my social life in cyberspace, and that is actually good for me psychologically," said Shen, an assistant professor of emerging media and communication at the University of Texas at Dallas.
However, this assertion comes with some caveats. Shen's study found that the quality of family communication took a nosedive when kids and young adults -- primarily those in their 30s -- failed to include family and friends in the many hours they spent playing video and virtual reality games.
In addition, even virtual gamers who played regularly with their families and thus expanded their time together reported the quality of that communication was "slightly lower" than usual.
Shen and co-author Dmitri Williams, of the University of Southern California, analyzed surveys of over 5,000 participants in Sony Online Entertainment's massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, EverQuest II (EQ2). They collected self-reported information about players' psychosocial well being -- including their level of loneliness, family communication time and quality -- and their Internet use, and also looked at Sony's proprietary game server information about players' online behavior.
The investigators found that gamers who played EQ2 with family members experienced various psychosocial benefits, including more family communication time, even though the quality of that communication was not ideal, Shen and Williams reported in a recent issue of the journal Communication Research. Interactions during online games may not be "as nurturing or meaningful as those from more conventional media," the researchers explained.
Gamers who did not play with family experienced the opposite effects, however, since their family communication time was essentially replaced by their online gaming habits. What's more, the quality of their family communication suffered dramatically.
Although the study participants included youth, gamers were overwhelmingly young adult males, aged 31 years on average, who were well-educated and had incomes greater than in the general U.S. population. The gamers spent nearly 30 hours online each week, outside of work, and most of that time was spent playing EQ2.
In surveys with a control group, EQ2 players who spent a large portion of their online time meeting new people experienced a better sense of community online, but increased loneliness and less family time. In fact, the game was associated with poorer family communication in general, although the effect was weaker for those playing with family members, the researchers noted.
"Playing MMOs can be good for your psychosocial health but it really depends on the purpose, context and type of players," Shen said. "There really are a lot of nuances."
So rather than have parents continue their "futile efforts" to stop kids and adult children from spending so much time playing online, Shen suggested they join them. "Parents could try to get into games as well," she said, describing the online avatar world as a "place to socialize outside normal settings." Playing together may even spark later game-related discussion topics and help "improve family communication" in the long run, she suggested.
Shen does not advocate that online gaming take the place of more traditional outside family activities, such as picnics or sports. "I'm not suggesting that we should stop playing outside," she said, but parents can "take the virtual world as an opportunity to bond with their kids."


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Morgan Stanley to cut 1,600 jobs
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The investment bank Morgan Stanley plans to cut about 1,600 jobs, nearly 3 percent of its workforce, a person familiar with the bank said Wednesday.
Innovative Stone to close, lay off 50 more
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Hauppauge-based Innovative Stone, which laid off 47 workers when it closed its residential division earlier this year, is now shutting down its commercial division as well. As a result, about 50 more people, many of whom have already received a pink slip, will be let go by sometime next month, according to a former company [...]


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Pittsburgh to Allow Online Appeals of Parking Tickets
A new website to accept the appeals will be unveiled Oct. 1
But that's about to change.
Starting Oct. 1, the Pittsburgh Parking Authority will unveil a website that will allow drivers to contest their tickets online, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.
Parking Authority Executive Director David Onorato said his office has received numerous complaints about the hassles of coming downtown, not to mention the expense for someone who lives out of state.
"They thought it was an inconvenience to come downtown," he told the PG. "We decided they were right."
Those who want to fight their tickets will fill out a form online explaining why they think they were unfairly cited. They will also be able to attach photos to make their case, the paper reports.
A district judge will review the online submissions and issue a judgement which will be emailed, and sent via regular mail, within three to four weeks.
Onorato tells the PG there's been an increase in the number of people contesting tickets since the authority starting using new parking kiosks last year to replace the meters for individual spaces. Drivers using the kiosk must enter their license plate number, but if the number was incorrectly entered, they got a ticket.
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Which way does the wind blow on European air taxes?
Clickair chief executive Alex Cruz and Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary were both in London this week talking to the media. Both took the opportunity to hit out at the UK's £10 air passenger duty
Pichler takes over at Jazeera
All change at Kuwaiti budget carrier Jazeera Airways, with Stefan Pichler – until recently chief commercial officer at Australia's Virgin Blue – taking the helm as chief executive
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Ryanair chief Michael O'Leary was in London to talk to the media today, ostensibly to lay into the UK Government for its £10 air passenger duty and the associated impact on tourism – but as ever covering a range of topics.
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Booktime is the national free books programme for reception-aged children in England and Wales, providing a free book pack for children aged 4-5 years to share and enjoy with their family and friends. Booktime aims to promote the pleasure of books by encouraging families to have fun reading together.
In Wales, Booktime is part of Pori Drwy Stori, a new programme for children starting school. Pori Drwy Stori aims to raise standards in the three core areas of learning: Language, Literacy and Communication Skills, Mathematical Development, Personal and Social Development, and Well-Being and Cultural Diversity. The programme is managed by Booktrust Cymru and is funded by the Welsh Government.
Booktime is brought to you by Booktrust, the independent charity empowering people through reading and writing, and Pearson, the world's leading learning company.
No - Booktime is a charitable programme, and book packs are a free gift from Pearson, the world's leading learning company, for children to enjoy sharing with family and friends shortly after they first start primary school. The programme is managed by independent charity Booktrust and supported by central government funding.
Booktime book packs are intended for reception-aged children to take home and share with family and friends. Booktime will aim to provide book packs for:
We have enough book packs for reception-aged children (4-5-years-old) and cannot provide book packs for any other year groups or purposes. This means we cannot provide packs for Nursery or Year 1 children, even if these classes are mixed with reception, or we risk running out of packs.
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Cliff Easley experienced the hell of war in Vietnam, but has found a slice of heaven at his home in Iowa.
Easley, 66, who served in the U.S. Army from 1968 to 1988, including two stints in Vietnam, was one of the first veterans in the area to benefit from a new program through Cedar Valley Habitat for Humanity.
Repair Corps, underwritten by the Home Depot Foundation, provides skilled labor and up to $15,000 in home improvements for veterans who qualify.
Veterans repay no-interest loans, which go into a revolving fund for the program.
That price was one Easley was willing to pay.
The roof on the northeast Cedar Rapids home where he and his wife, Pam Easley, live was nearing its end before he saw a flier about Repair Corps.
"We thought we'd have another year left and then have to put buckets in the kitchen," Easley said with a grin.
Both he and his wife, who have five adult sons, are part-time cabdrivers and were saving money for their home repairs.
Under Repair Corps, their roof was replaced, along with their central air conditioner and furnace.
The couple will make affordable monthly payments on the loan and volunteer as they can or donate money to Habitat in return.
Another veteran had new windows installed in his Cedar Rapids home under Repair Corps this year.
"It fits with our mission," said Jeff Capps, executive director of Cedar Valley Habitat for Humanity. "It's a great way to honor our veterans and revitalize our neighborhoods."
Capps said the local non-profit was chosen to participate in the Repair Corps pilot project and selected again for the full launch of the program.
Habitat is accepting applications for the next round of five homes in Linn and Benton counties.
Any U.S. veteran with an honorable, or general, discharge is eligible. Veterans are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. Projects must be completed by June 30, 2013.
Active-duty military families are not eligible and rental properties do not qualify for the program.
Nationwide, 30 Habitat affiliates helped 80 veterans during the pilot phase. With $2.7 million in funding, the expanded program will help repair homes of more than 180 veterans in cities such as Charlotte, N.C., Nashville, Tenn., Norfolk, Va. and San Diego.
Capps said Habitat had done some work with veterans with its "A Brush with Kindness" program, which provides exterior painting and minor repair work, but Repair Corps was designed specifically for veterans.
Besides roofing, Repair Corps can also provide electrical, caulking and weather stripping for veterans' homes or install wheelchair ramps and remodel bathrooms to be more easily accessible for veterans with disabilities.
"Some (veterans) are worse off than I am," said Easley, who has breathing difficulties from exposure to Agent Orange during his time in Vietnam.
Not until he is pressed for details does he talk about the two silver and three bronze medals he was awarded for his time as an Army Ranger in the service.
"It was a job to look out for other people's backs," Easley said, modestly. One of the medals was awarded for taking out a sniper who had his sights set on five of Easley's fellow servicemen.
After retiring from the military, Easley worked for the Los Angeles Police Department and the California correctional system, where he "baby-sat" convicted killer Charles Manson for a week.
"Looking into his eyes is like looking into the depths of hell," said Easley, who also has worked as a LIFTS driver in Linn County and volunteers with Toys for Tots.
Vietnam veterans were not welcomed when they returned from war, he noted, citing Americans who spit on some of his fellow servicemen, and one who was shot by a woman whose son was killed in the war.
That attitude has changed, Easley said, citing the welcome current service members receive and programs such as Repair Corps.
"They said, 'you gave to your country; this time, we're giving back,'" Easley said he was told. "I appreciate it."


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MISS DIOR BLOOMING BOUQUET Eau de Toilette 50ml
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Discover Miss Dior Blooming Bouquet, the fresh and tender new facet of Miss Dior, Dior's Couture fragrance for today's elegant young ladies. This delicate floral bouquet, composed of peony accords and subtle sparkling fruity notes, leaves a fresh and elegant signature, with a touch of irreverence.
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