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Kathy Anderson
Kathy Anderson
(American, 1945)
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Kathy Anderson Biography
Kathy Anderson was born on Long Island, NY. She moved with her family to Connecticut in 1973 where she resides today. In addition to being a distinguished floral specialist and jazz pianist, Anderson is an avid gardener. Her passion for gardening is seen in her naturalistic flowers painted with deft brushwork, expressing Nature's beauty with profound simplicity. "Painting and music are very related passions for me. They are both lifelong studies that are never complete. There is always more to learn and the joy is in the learning."
Anderson's work is widely held in both corporate and private collections throughout the country. At one time, Kathy had divided her time between her easel painting and creating distinctive murals. She studied mural design in Cornwall, England with Janet Shearer, author of "The Art of Illusion." Her last major mural was featured in the July 2003 issue of American Artist Magazine.
In 2001, she was honored with an invitation from renowned artist Richard Schmid to join his painting group in Putney, Vermont, where she travels to paint each week. Since joining the group, she has concentrated her energy on her easel work with a particular focus on still lifes and gardens. The focus has reinvigorated her work and she has been featured four times as a finalist in International Artist Magazine Competitions receiving an award in 2003, and recently in 2006, she was a finalist for Skitch Henderson's Irises. She has received numerous other awards including the President's Award at the National Arts Club in New York City (where she is an Exhibiting Artist Member), and the Hudson Valley Art Association Rayma Spaulding Award in 2004. Her paintings are exhibited nationally – in the 2005 Arts for the Parks show beginning in Jackson Hole, the 2006 and 2007 Telluride Plein Air Festival, and the 2007 Settlers West Mini Show in Tucson. Kathy was featured in the Dec 06/Jan 07 issue of International Artist Magazine. Anderson had a solo exhibition at the National Arts Club in New York City in April 2009 where she is also represented in their permanent collection.
National Arts Club, NYC – Exhibiting Artist Member
Salmagundi Club, NYC– Artist Member
Oil Painters of America – Signature Member
Allied Artists of America – Signature Member
Guild of Boston Artists
Connecticut Watercolor Society – Signature Member
Putney Painters, Putney Vermont – Charter Member
Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters
Selected Exhibitions
American Masters Invitational, Salmagundi ClubAmerican Masters Invitational, Salmagundi Club
Salon International 2012 – Greenhouse Gallery
Scottsdale Salon of Fine Art 2012 – Legacy Gallery
Miller Gallery – Contemporary Impressionism Invitational
Artists for the New Century – Bennington Center for the Arts
Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters – Grand Teton NP
2011 - 2012
Scottsdale Salon of Fine Art - Legacy Gallery
2010 - 2012
American Art Invitational – Saks Galleries – Award of Excellence
2009 - 2012
Windows to the Divine, Evergreen, CO, Invited Guest Artist
Salmagundi Club Member's Show – First Prize
Nomadas Del Arte – Keystone Artist
Acadia Invitational – Argosy Gallery, Bar Harbor, ME
Fine Art Views – Dec. '09 Competition – Best of Show
Bayonet Farm Annual Plein Air Competition
2012 - 2008
Settlers West (Tucson, AZ) Annual Invitational Miniature Show
2009 - 2008
Nomadas Del Arte – Invitational Plein Air Exhibition
Lyme Art Association Annual Landscape Show – Guest Artist
Women Artists of the West – Guest Artist
Exhibiting Artist Member Show
National Arts Club – Portrait Award
Butler Museum - 71st Annual National Midyear Exhibit
Connecticut Watercolor Society – CWS Award Winners
2011 - 2006
Telluride Plein Air – 1 of 30 artists accepted
2008 - 2006
Richard Schmid Invitational Fine Art Auction – Ft. Collins, CO
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club
Allied Artists of America
Arts for the Parks Top 200 Show
2009 - 2005
Solo Show – National Arts Club, NYC
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club
ROAR Exhibition – Aldrich Museum
Arts for the Parks Top 100 National Touring Show
Hudson Valley Art Association
Lyme Art Association – Art of New England
2012 - 2001
Exhibiting Artist Member Show, National Arts Club, NYC
2009 - 2000
Member Show, National Arts Club, NYC


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Quote:That is totally unsatisfactory. I was seriously considering saving for a LX80, but after seeing this, no way.....
Quote:I just need to ask. Where is this unit made? China ? USA ?
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Quote:I just need to ask.Where is this unit made?China ?USA ?
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Quote:Quote:Where was it designed? Probably the USA.Chris Ya might wanna keep comments like that to yourself....
Quote:Quote:Quote:Where was it designed? Probably the USA.Chris Ya might wanna keep comments like that to yourself.... It looks like a poor design to me, for the reasons I stated, and so it seems just as relevant to consider where it was designed as well as where it was manufactured. If the location of either activity matters at all.It might take nothing more than a modification to the mould to fix it, radius the sharp edges.
Quote: I assumed that the design was done in the US because Meade is located here not because of the inferior quality of the design.
Quote:Cliff,I received a call late today from Jose at Meade. His supervisor decided that they should pay for the return shipping. I would much rather that the tripod did not fail but Meade has decided to take care of it the way they should have. I still think that it is a great mount for under $1000. If I'd had $2500 or more for a mount I guess I would have looked elsewhere.
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Quote:I think that we all move our fully loaded units on occasion so you should not feel that you contributed to the problem in any way.
Quote:David,I had 2 80mm refractors a finder and a DSLR on it at the time. I don't think the load was over 20 pounds. That plus the 70 pounds of mount, tripod and 1 counterweight is a bit much for me to pick up and move. It wouldn't have been a problem 20 or 30 years ago!
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Quote:It might take nothing more than a modification to the mould to fix it, radius the sharp edges.
Quote:Mike, You are not at fault.-Rich
Quote:The mount is on $800 closeout sale at OPT. Change (=LX85?) coming ?
Quote:After looking at your picture again, and unless I am badly mistaken, mine is definitely different. I'm fairly sure that mine does not have a bubble level on the hub at all. I know mine has one on the side of the actual mount itself. I am not at home right now to take an actual look, but I am pretty sure this is one difference. I know the hub is still very thin, but I am hoping that the material it is made from has changed along with the color. I'll let you know more when I actually get home and can look at mine.
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Mendocino County to fight federal subpoena seeking pot permit info
Published: Sunday, January 13, 2013 at 2:43 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, January 14, 2013 at 7:13 a.m.
Mendocino County is gearing up for a court battle over a federal subpoena ordering local officials to surrender records from its now-defunct medical marijuana permitting program, including what county attorneys say is legally protected medical and financial information.
Despite repeated queries, Mendocino County officials say they do not know who the target of the criminal grand jury might be -- growers, users or public officials.
Some observers have suggested federal authorities hope to get their hands on nearly $830,000 in revenue the program generated when it was active.
Attorneys for the county, as well as advocacy groups behind a "friend of the court" brief, say a variety of court rulings and the Tenth Amendment support the county's right to establish protocols under California's 1996 Compassionate Use Act without interference from the federal government, which does not recognize a medical use for marijuana.
They also cite precedent for maintaining the kind of confidentiality that would be breached were the county to surrender its records as ordered -- particularly patient condition information and financial account and payment records supplied by growers who applied for county permits.
"We would definitely rather not send people's names and parcel numbers and how much money they expended to the feds," said longtime county Supervisor Dan Hamburg, who assumed the board chairmanship last week.
A San Francisco defense attorney hired to fight the subpoena has lodged a formal motion that contends, in part, that the county is prevented from releasing confidential medical information because of criminal sanctions outlined in the 2004 California Medical Marijuana Program Act under which the county's regulations were developed.
"(It) is clear that if the county were to comply with this subpoena, the bulk of its disclosure would constitute sensitive medical information concerning the participants," wrote the attorney, William Osterhoudt.
The subpoena also seeks information on county financial accounts, specifically those used by the Sheriff's and District Attorney's offices, and those related to funds collected through the permitting program.
The permitting plan approved in March 2010 was abandoned a year ago after the threat of a federal lawsuit. It allowed qualified medical marijuana cooperatives to grow up to 99 plants if they complied with numerous conditions aimed at easing the impact on neighbors, the environment and crime rates.
Collectives paid $1,500 for the permits, monthly inspection fees of about $500 and $50 each for special numbered zip ties identifying each authorized plant. There were 95 entities that applied in the 2011-12 fiscal year, 91 of which were approved, Sheriff Tom Allman said.
Though that program was scrapped, medical marijuana users still may grow up to 25 plants under an ordinance adopted in 2008 and modified several times since then.
Although the permit program had been suspended, the U.S. Attorney's Office empaneled a grand jury that issued an Oct. 23 subpoena ordering the county to turn over "any and all records" from the program going back to January 2010. The order includes all application and inspection records, financial account numbers, and communication of any kind between the county, permit holders and applicants, and third-party inspectors.
The county, which recently set aside $10,000 to hire Osterhoudt, responded Dec. 21 with a motion to quash the subpoena, calling it overbroad, improper government intrusion that puts privileged attorney-client and doctor-patient communication at risk without identifying any relevance to a criminal target or prosecution.
The government, Osterhoudt wrote, "is apparently on something of a fishing expedition, casting a wide net to ensnare patients participating in the medical marijuana program, while simultaneously striking a heavy blow to that program and the county's right to maintain it."
A Jan. 29 hearing date is set in U.S. District Court in San Francisco at which the county will ask Northern California District Judge Richard Seeborg to nullify the order.
Osterhoudt declined comment on the subject, as did Mendocino County Counsel Thomas Parker.
Attorneys are looking in part to a 2007 district court ruling involving a private Oregon clinic that successfully quashed a subpoena seeking records on 17 medical marijuana patients.
San Francisco attorney Adam Wolf, who wrote a brief in support of the county on behalf of medical marijuana groups, said that ruling raises the possibility that a federal subpoena could "trump" state sovereignty given a showing of necessity and relevance. But the ruling also said the state had a legitimate interest in the integrity of its program and in maintaining its contract to maintain participants' confidentiality, he said.
According to Wolf, the U.S. Attorney's Office maintains that participants in Mendocino County's program relinquished the privilege to keep medical and financial information confidential when they provided it to the county and to those who cultivated their marijuana.
Permit applicants also had to acknowledge that the county ordinance did not protect them from federal prosecution.
But Hamburg and Wolf said that's not the same as waiving confidentiality. Even so, supervisors tweaked the ordinance language last week to make explicit what they said was always implicit. The ordinance now states that any medical marijuana information provided to the county or generated by the ordinance "was always intended to be treated as confidential medical information under state and federal law."
Supporters say any breach of that confidentiality would destroy faith in the county, voiding very deliberate efforts to balance community interests and maintain some oversight of the medical marijuana trade.
"It would effectively move those operations underground," Wolf said.
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The 2 2 joint degree program in Forestry and Natural Resources Conservation implemented in 1992 by the Florida A & M University (FAMU) and the University of Florida operates on a two tier basis.
The curriculum of the Associate in Arts degree provides broad training in the humanities, natural sciences and social sciences during the freshman and sophomore years. Approximately 60 hours are devoted to the general and pre-professional education sequence which includes courses in English, mathematics, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, health and history, as well as other electives.
Students can simultaneously earn a Bachelor of Science degree (B.S.) in the College of Engineering Sciences, Technology and Agriculture from Florida A&M University and a Bachelor of Science (B.S) degree in the College of Agricultural and Life Science, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences from the University of Florida.
Students at UF may major in:
- Forest Resources and Conservation
(Tracks in Forest Resource Management, Urban Forestry, International Forestry, Agroforestry, Forest Science) - Natural Resource Conservation
(Tracks in Ecotourism, Wetlands Ecology, Environmental Education, Computer Information Systems, Environmental Pre-Law, Landscape Ecology, or an Individual Program) - Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
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A student who successfully completes these requirements will earn an Associate of Arts degree from the School of General Studies, Florida A&M University.
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FOR 3093 Forestry in Rural and Urban Environment (3)
Discussion of forests and forest types in the USA. Urban forestry and conventional forestry. Wood and wood products.
SOS 3022C Nature and Properties of Soils (3)Prereq: CHM 1045. Fundamental principles of soil science: origin, formation composition, and classification of soils and their properties as related to growth of higher plants.
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AppleInsider reports today that HBO has just released a new update for its HBO Go app, giving HBO subscribers in the US the ability to stream content to their TVs via AirPlay. The new update also enables the user to multitask, streaming content to a TV in the background, while simultaneously running other apps on their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. AppleInsider notes that HBO Go 2.1 also introduces some new interactive features for the Game of Thrones series, in particular, whereby you can use your iOS device as a second screen while watching the programme, although it might be difficult if you have to watch the somewhat gory show from behind the sofa due to being too squeamish! Big thanks to forum Super Moderator AQ_OC for the heads up on this story; he told me that he is very impressed with the multitasking feature, having given it a test run last night, when he was able to watch Band of Brothers at the same time as typing a message on the forum on his iPad. He was also able to check his email, and surf the web, all while streaming HBO programmes to his Apple TV. Sounds like a winner from HBO! Its also worth noting that Cinemax has also added AirPlay streaming via its MAX GO app.
Thanks to Super Moderator AQ_OC for his input on this news story.
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Former Postmaster Potter reviews 32-year career
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Jack Potter, former Postmaster General, USPS
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The Postal Service lost $8.5 billion last fiscal year, despite deep cuts of more than 100,000 jobs and other reductions in recent years.
USPS had estimated it would lose $6 billion to $7 billion, but a sharp decline in mail took a toll. The agency is running under a new leader, Patrick Donahoe.
The Federal Drive is reviewing some of the best interviews of the year, including this interview with former Postmaster General Jack Potter, just before he retired early this month.Potter reviewed his 32-year tenure with the Postal Service.


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Jacob Hahn received his Master of Music degree in piano performance from Syracuse University and his Bachelor of Music degree from Capital University. While at Syracuse, he received a Certificate in University Teaching though the Future Professoriate Program. Jacob has also studied at the Kodaly Institute of Pedagogy in Kecskemet, Hungary.
Currently, Jacob holds an adjunct faculty position at Catawba College and is the Director of Catawba Community Music. In addition to his responsibilities at Catawba, Jacob performs regularly throughout Salisbury, North Carolina and surrounding areas. In the past, he has won the Concerto Competition at Capital University, and placed first at the 2006 OMTA Collegiate Buckeye Auditions. Recently, Jacob premiered Alexander Amadeo's First Piano Concerto in Syracuse, NY, and gave a recital in Fort Worth, TX of music by Rachmaninoff and Chopin.


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Tomizone was founded in 2006 by technology entrepreneurs Steve Simms and Phillip Joe. Tomizone is a well-resourced fast growing private company with headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand and offices in Australia, India and China.
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Our initial thinking on the Tomizone business really commenced in the early part of 2006 after a gap was identified in offering easy low cost Internet access globally using Wi-Fi Hotspots integrated into a world-class management platform that's easy to use.
Upon building the prototype system, Steve and Phillip attracted a founding shareholder in K One W One Limited, an investment company owned by Sir Stephen Tindall (ONZM), a renowned advocate and investor in New Zealand innovation and technologies, a philanthropist, and founder of The Warehouse Group Limited.
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Our beta version of Tomizone was launched in August 2006, which attracted much media interest at the time. Initially our beta enabled us to demonstrate a simple to set up Hotspot that could be downloaded onto a Linksys Wi-Fi Access Point.
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The psychology faculty and students host this biennial event which draws high school juniors and seniors from all over the state of Nebraska to experience hands-on psychology demonstrations, experiments and interactions. The students and teachers enjoy learning about new findings in Psychology, and the UNK students and faculty enjoy interacting with the high school students.
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Research assistant - a student who aids a faculty member with his or her research either on a voluntary basis or as a paid position. Faculty often have grants or other sources of funding to pay for student help in conducting research.
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The missing men of the "Indian Lake triangle"
Nov 07, 2008 — The vast forests and river valleys around Indian Lake in Hamilton County offer some of the wildest and most beautiful country in the Adirondacks. But that sparsely-settled region can also be dangerous. Since 2006, three men have disappeared near Indian Lake. The most recent vanished this fall. Some officials have taken to calling the area the "Indian Lake Triangle." As Jacob Resneck reports, forest rangers charged with patrolling the area downplay the idea of any mystery. They say some visitors simply aren't prepared for the rugged, remote terrain.


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Sightee on the French Riviera with a tour to Monte Carlo, Eze, Nice, Cannes, Antibes. Your French Riviera tour begins with a Nice hotel pickup by your driver guide.
Your Riviera tour will take the Corniche road to Monaco.
In Monaco, you will stop on top of the Rock for a visit of the Old Town and the Prince Palace (open June thru October). The Rock of Monaco is 459 feet high and situated in the Principality of Monaco.
Today, the Rock is located in Monaco-Ville, the oldest of Monaco's four quarters.
Not far from there is the Prince's Palace. Albert II lives in the palace and he is the current monarch. You will see Monaco Cathedral where Princess Grace and Rainier got married and where they are buried. Your tour drives by the Formula 1 Grand Prix circuit to Monte-Carlo, a world of elegance and luxury.
Next stop is Eze. Eze is a medieval village perched like an eagles nest on a narrow rocky peak overlooking the Mediterranean sea. Eze is an ancient fortified village with the ruins of its 12th-century fortified castle still around. The setting makes Eze a very picturesque destination and the climb to the top is worth every step since the coastal views are amazing!
While in Eze, you will enjoy a guided tour of a traditional perfumery, the true essence of Provence.
Continuing the Riviera tour, you will visit Nice's flower market in Old Nice and see the cafés and winding streets.
Your Riviera tour continues to Cannes. In Cannes, you'll want to walk the famous Croisette Boulevard. The Boulevard Croisette is near the Cannes Film Festival Palace, designer shops, and beautiful sandy beaches.
Cannes was once a quiet fishing village, but is now a very glamorous and well-known seaside town. The Cannes film festival in May is when Cannes is watched around the world because the rich and richer of the entertainment world full of actors and actresses pour into the area and the celebrities and directors await word regarding the film awards.
The Riviera tour follows the coast along the bays of Juan-Les-Pins and Antibes.
In Antibes, a Provencal walled city, you can walk in the busy old town and by the billionaire's quay where helicopters and yachts abound. Antibes is one of the poshest resort towns on the French Riviera and combines elegance with a great history. In times past, it was the only town between Marseilles and Italy to be protected with ramparts.
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Hi, all! Greeting form Serbia!
I have Issue with drivers 13.1 and 13.2
I have ATi 4870 and problem with playing BF3 ( Battlefield 3) Texture blink
Drivers Issue broke the game with blue screen dump the memori.... etc...
On windows 7 green pixels everywhere on the black bc.
With 13.1 positive side is that with this driver my game working 35 fps in most demanding cases not 25fps. Maximum fps over 50 average. And of course over 50 fps in not demanding cases.
I do not want to use 12.4 for my graphic card... because frame rate is disappointing 25 fps!!!
Please give this message people who are in charge of making these drivers. Help us to have drivers 13.1 for 4870! For better gaming!!!
Best wishes,
Are you using the legacy 13.1 drivers?
The last updated drivers for 4870 cards are here.
Hi, thank you for fast response!
Yes I did install this last updated drivers for 4870 cards are here.
And drivers is not good. I have Issue with drivers green pixels everywhere on the black background. And In game textures is blink, and blue Screen.... When the drivers will be corrected?
I have 2 4870's in my work pc running 13.1 legacy drivers.
I dont see these issues your having.
Maybe, if you havent already try this clean install procedure.
I do all this and this is the result look on images... texture!!! And blue screen... on the end.
Unfortunately your pictures show the symptoms of a dead video card. Especially the last one. My good old 4850 died the same way, showing what can be seen on the last picture.
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We were the sole sponsor of the Women's Foodservice Forum/Gallup research on creating organizations where women thrive. In Kentucky, Yum! helped start the first National Women's MBA chapter, with one of our executives as the chapter's first chair.
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I woke up this morning to news that Ezra Klein is pulling a Nate Silver and likely leaving The Washington Post.
If you want all the details plus smart takes on what this means, I recommend reading Dan Kennedy's piece and also Mathew Ingram's.
For my part, I'm going to tell you a story. Once upon a time, I wrote a blog called The Daily Daley on a now defunct site called The Windy Citizen. It was about Richard M. Daley, the iconic mayor of Chicago, son of the arguably even more iconic Richard J. Daley who was mayor before him.
It was 2008 and this was my first foray into media, a pivotal moment in my life. I had not gone to journalism school. I had not studied it as an undergrad either. I had never written a blog before. I didn't know anything about how online publishing worked. Brad, Windy Citizen's founder, had to walk me through everything. He introduced me to the fundamentals of blogging, gaining an audience, how online traffic worked and so much more. From then on, I learned on my own. I read everything I could about media and journalism and eventually became a small, but vocal voice in the "future of news" crowd, online and off.
As for the Daily Daley, though I worked on it for only slightly more than a year and although it never reached a mass audience, it was read by nearly everyone in the local media. It was snarky and funny and politically informed and I liked to believe that journalists read it because I said the things they couldn't. I remember that years later, I was at an interview for a job at the Chicago Tribune and my interviewer turned out to be a reader of the blog (this happened more than once). I remember him saying he was sad to see it stop. By then, I just shrugged, smiled and didn't say much. There was a time though, when similar interest from a person employed by a major media organization gave me palpitations and delusions of grandeur.
In February of 2009, the Chicago Journalism Town Hall took place. The reason it was convened was this:
Ken Davis, former Chicago Public Radio guy, realized talking to his peers that, as he said, "People are freaked out" by the shift from traditional to online journalism.
Let's put aside for a moment the fact that people were "freaked out" about the shift to online media in 2009. It was a great event and although nothing substantive was accomplished, decided or agreed upon, I believe it was a turning point. It drew attention to the fact that there were definitely two sides in this big sea change that was happening. There were the traditionalists who would cling to the bitter end to the old ways of doing things and there were the futurists who wanted to change everything. Since then, some people have changed sides but the sides remain and they remain obviously not only in Chicago, but all over the country and the world.
But back to my brush with grandeur.
In the ladies' room at the event, I ran into a woman who worked for the local CBS affiliate, let's call her Sue. She too was a fan of the blog. She was enthusiastic and gushed about how she loved my take on politcs. To my delight, she said she had been talking to her boss about putting blogs on their station's website. She said maybe I could blog for them about the impending Rod Blagojevich trial. My eyes must have widened to the size of saucers. An actual media outlet might employ ME? At that point, I hadn't even done the freelancing that would eventually start me down the path to doing actual journalism and getting paid for it.
Sue and I would bump into each other at future events and I would often email her to ask whether I could come in and meet with her boss to talk about the blog. She always said she was working on it. I was naive then and just starting down my path of self-education about how media worked. I actually thought that just because I was good at something, I could get a paid job doing it. Eventually Sue broke the news to me. "He just isn't going for it," she said with genuine regret.
Fast forward back to today and the news about Klein and I find myself crestfallen that things haven't changed significantly. Sure, every old media site has blogs now. They're all on Facebook, Twitter and everywhere else. So much has changed. Except that what is most important has not. What hasn't changed inside the majority of media organizations is the attitude, the culture, or whatever you want to call it. And what else hasn't changed is the rigid hierarchical structure of most news shops. This was the lede of Kennedy's piece for good reason:
What should a 21st-century news organization look like? A single entity, run from the top, with a common set of values? Or a loose network of related projects, sharing a brand and to some extent a mission but operating semi-independently?
Unquestionably it has to be the latter. It must. There is no other way forward, because while it seems right now like the status quo can endure, this won't be the case forever. There are a number of reasons why this is so, but for today I will make the case that someday very soon, news shops that still function like a corporation from the 80′s won't be able to attract the best and the brightest. Oh, they might work there for a while, like Silver and Klein and others have done, but they will invariably leave for one simple reason: freedom. The freedom to do what they want. To test new things, to fail and start over, to iterate, to reach new audiences, launch new products and create the future of news. People will say they left for more money. And that might be true to an extent, but it cannot be the full story. It cannot because people like these don't do a job for the money. I know this because I am one of them.
Now, I am hardly a wunderkind on the order of Klein or Silver. I've nowhere near their accomplishments or reach. But I have been fired from one media job and willingly left another, because I cannot work in an environment hostile to innovation. I feel suffocated, frustrated, chained. I am horrified by the inefficiencies and the lack of a will to embrace new things and new ideas, regardless of where they come from.
A company where people do as they are told and don't feel free to suggest changes or, even if they do, know that they have no hope of being heard or implemented,,, this is not a company that can succeed in the 21st century. A company that doesn't embrace their star performers and give them every means to become better is not a company that has a bright future.
I have no doubt that the higher-ups at every major media organization would say, if asked what their mission is, that they want to deliver the news, inform the public, uncover important stories and of course (for many) make a profit while doing so. If that were really true though, there wouldn't be an apparent need to tightly control all aspects of that mission. If you love something, in other words, you have to set it free. I hope it's a lesson old media can learn before they become totally obsolete.
"I've never understood people who watch CNN all day long."
This was said by someone in a discussion I saw happening on App.net recently. Later on, the same person diagnosed the types of people who do this. News junkies, he called them.
I smiled when I saw it. Hello, my name is Anna Tarkov and I am a recovering news junkie. Though I've long shunned TV news as a means of getting my fix (as is fashionable for all news snobs), I abused Twitter and various websites for years. Given my chosen career path, it's hardly surprising.
In the world of journalism and media in general, it is assumed that you are a news junkie. Reporters, broadcasters, web editors, etc work with news all day long so if you weren't a news junkie when you got into the business, you're very likely to become one. Everyone who has worked in the industry knows the feeling. The rush of a fresh, new story is intoxicating. SOMETHING IS HAPPENING, your mind screams and you have to find out all the facts and report them.
Being a passive consumer of news is very similar. A story breaks and suddenly you want to know everything about it and follow all the developments.
For many, news is not a recreational drug. It is highly addictive. And like any addiction, it takes increasingly higher doses to get high. So you start out innocently enough, checking news sites, blogs or Twitter a few times a day or turning on the TV here and there. But pretty soon you're glued to the computer and/or TV screen, terrified of missing something. The symptoms of your addiction are both predictable and strange all at once. For instance, you begin to delight in being the first to know about a story.
"Did you hear about the earthquake in Indonesia?" you ask your coworker. They reply that they haven't and you proceed to smugly give them all the details. In essense, you are reporting the story to them, the same as a journalist would report it to their audience. You are telling them something new, something they don't already know. It's exhilarating, isn't it, being the first to tell someone something? This is precisely what gets many people into the news business. That feeling of telling people what they don't already know is so satisfying that we accept pathetic salaries, crazy work hours and all sorts of indignities in order to keep doing it.
These days of course, you don't have to be employed by a news organization to feel like you have a captive audience who needs and wants to hear from you. If you have a popular blog or Tumblr or lots of followers on Twitter (or all of the above and more), you can be a one-woman newsroom. You know what your audience wants and you enjoy giving it to them. They look to YOU for information, perspective and context. It's a dizzying feeling of power. You have become something greater than a junkie. You are now the dealer.
I still remember the moments when people said they were paying attention to MY Twitter feed for curation on an important story that was then developing. It felt like I was holding the world in the palm of my hand.
Having now gained some distance from those days, I can categorically say my life is better this way. I don't know about every story, I don't know what the latest Twitter war is about, I don't know about the controversy du jour and I don't care.
Like all former addicts, I may always have to watch myself to make sure I don't backslide, but I'm fairly certain I won't. The reason is that I have gained so much by kicking my addiction. I have gained focus for the things that really matter. I now have deep, nuanced conversations about important topics that go beyond the headlines. I have time to work on things I truly care about. More than anything, I have much greater peace of mind. You didn't think it was a coincidence that journalists drink, did you?
So if you're reading this while feverishly scanning Twitter or glazed over from five straight hours of cable news, I have a message for you. There is a life beyond your addiction. Come live it with me.
When I sat down to write this, I thought about doing it all professional-like, pretending it would be something that would appear in Wired or some such. But I decided to opt against that. Why should I pretend that I don't have strong feelings on something? That would be very unlike me. So here goes.
Last night I saw some posts on ADN (that's what users call App.net btw) from someone I have followed on Twitter for years and someone I respect, Patrick LaForge. Editor of News Presentation at the New York Times. Patrick's posts expressed, among other things, a desire for ADN to become distinct from Twitter and Facebook. Reading this, I became compelled to finally write down what I've been wanting to say for a long time.
ADN is not like Twitter. Let me repeat that. ADN is not like Twitter. One more time with feeling. ADN IS NOT LIKE TWITTER.
Allow me to explain the way I know best, by using a metaphor. Think of Twitter as a hammer. It's made of metal, but the metal has been fashioned into a hammer. A hammer is mostly only good for one thing: hammering in nails. I suppose you can misuse it to bash someone's head in, but most people just use it to hammer in nails. So outside of a few edge cases, it has a discrete and finite purpose.
Now think of ADN as metal. It can be shaped into a hammer, but it can also be shaped into anything else metal can be used to make. Currently, ADN looks like a hammer to many people, because that's the most prominent thing that has been made from it. Also, it's recognizable. After seven years of Twitter i.e. the hammer, people see another hammer and say aha! I know exactly what this is. But that doesn't mean it's the only thing ADN is even right now and it certainly doesn't mean it's the only thing it will ever be.
I actually don't understand why the concept is so difficult for people to grasp. All of you reading this probably use Facebook, right? You can use your Facebook account to post updates, photos, share links, etc., but you can also use it to play games and do lots of other things via applications that developers build for Facebook. The same is true of ADN, It's just early still and no one seems to knows about the non-Twitter like applications that have already been built. Many more will surely follow.
Does everyone get it now? I really hope so. If you still don't, why not try it out and see for yourself. You can also sign up for free via the iPhone app or the Android one. And please find me if you have questions.
In my next post, I will talk further about what makes ADN so special and why it is more than worthy of your time and attention. But for now at least, I hope we have the idiotic Twitter comparison resolved.
Until somewhat recently, I've always worn makeup. Like many girls, I started in my teens and never looked back. Why wouldn't I wear makeup? It's what the grown-ups do, right?
As I got older, I learned that less is more, but I continued to put on makeup to go to work, go out (even if just to the grocery store :-)) and practically every other life situation. Very, very faintly, somewhere in the background, I heard men saying that they like when women don't wear makeup. Ha, I thought. That's just because they haven't seen us first thing in the morning. And everybody knows that after a certain age, women don't primp to impress men. They do it to impress other women.
Though never a heavy user, I nonetheless felt naked and unkempt if I left the house without any makeup whatsoever. I felt like everyone was looking at me thinking how ugly I looked (I've thought that plenty even while wearing makeup, but that's a story for another day). I felt self-conscious. I felt judged, mostly by myself as it turns out. Putting on makeup to me meant a woman cared about her appearance and took the time to make it a priority. The alternative was obviously a lazy slob who couldn't take even 5 minutes to powder her shiny nose.
Everything changed after the birth of my son in the Fall of 2011. I suddenly had no time and no perceived need for makeup. With a newborn, especially one like mine, you don't leave the house much.
At first, I thought I'll go back to my old makeup routine eventually. And I still did it occasionally. A wedding. A job interview. The seven months that I went back to full-time work. But then something started to happen.
The more I saw myself without makeup, the more I realized I actually liked how I looked. So I stopped putting on anything to leave the house, not even concealer or powder which is makeup that is somewhat undetectable as such.
It felt kind of exhilarating. Freed from the fear that people were staring at me and thinking I looked terrible, I felt so much more comfortable in my own skin. It radiated to other things too, like body image. No one loves their body after having a baby and I still want to make changes for my health, but I've accepted myself for now and it feels fantastic.
I'm hardly the first to the no makeup party of course. The image atop this post is from a Twitter account promoting natural beauty and the #nomakeup hashtag on Twitter is always fairly active.
So I decided recently to ask women on my new favorite online place, ADN, for pictures of them without any makeup. I was surprised at how many readily shared them and I want to share them here so that we can all see what true, unadulterated beauty looks like. Some of these came from Twitter as well and you'll find a link to the lady's ADN or Twitter profile next to each photo.
Please enjoy and if you're a woman who always, always wears makeup, I'm not judging you. You should do whatever you like to feel beautiful. But maybe you could try this sometime.
Jessica, wife of Jeff
And finally me.
I hope this helps give some of you the courage to try going without makeup. And if you do, I hope you'll find it as liberating as I have.
Russians in a Skokie Panera are discussing Rahm Emanuel in a way that makes me very, very tired. Allow me to explain.
It's an older woman and an older man. The man lives in Florida and is here visiting. The woman fills him in on local current events. Let's call her "Irene" and let's call him "Boris."
Irene: There was a demonstration yesterday about the school closings. You know, on the south side.
Boris: Oh yeah?
Irene: Do you know what one of the placards said? "Jewish Decision." Why did he [Rahm] have to get into this office? Why be in a position of political power at all? As soon as someone gets in, they hate all of us.
To many Jews, this will sound familiar. I have heard this all my life growing up. My father used to say that at the manufacturing plant where he worked, people blamed everything that was wrong with the economy on Alan Greenspan, another Jew in power. And that's just here in the U.S. You can imagine what they said in the Soviet Union.
The thinking then goes that Jews should stay out powerful positions, lest all other Jews suffer for decisions they make that could foment Jew hatred.
When I hear things like this, I think are you freaking kidding me? Who cares if Rahm Emanuel is Jewish?
Then I think Christ (ha!), are there really people who blame Jews in this way?
I guess I live in echelons of society where this is not the norm, but I've always been warned it exists elsewhere. I don't know to what extent it exists. It's almost like a Jewish urban legend, but it strikes into my chest a visceral fear nonetheless. The Jews who lived in Hitler's Germany also thought they were so deeply integrated into society than no one saw them as different, as "other."
But now "Irene" and "Boris" have turned to discussing something else I'm very familiar with; the unfortunate situation of someone's grand-daughter. The poor girl is 25 and unmarried.
Today I submitted my resignation. My last day as a Pioneer Press/Sun-Times Media Group employee will be April 9.
There, I think I've finally learned how not to bury the lede
Before we get any further, I want to clarify something about the title of this post.
It doesn't mean that I've not been doing journalism in my job at STMG. In fact, as many of you know, I bristle at the "big J" journalism definiton of the same.
This post's title just means that, in leaving this job, I'm not leaving the media business. So you're not through with me yet. I will always be a reporter, even if I don't always report. It should go without saying that I will always be a blogger.
I now plan to freelance, work on things I am passionate about and spend more time with my family, especially my almost-18-month-old son (suck it, Sheryl Sandberg). I am open to any and all opportunities though. If you have something you want to talk about, let me know. I also might be lauching an online publication/business of my own. Stay tuned.
Especially to those whom I haven't spoken much recently, it may seem odd that a person who wrote this is now willingly leaving a full-time staff editorial job at an actual print newspaper. A lot can change in the space of a just few years though.
As I just told my editors, this was not an easy decision. I worked for nearly five years to become a journalist. I didn't study it as an undergrad. I didn't edit my college or high school paper; I didn't even write for either paper. I didn't go to journalism school. I just shoved my way into it by sheer force of will. Maybe one day I'll tell this story in greater detail.
Given all that, it wasn't easy to walk away from this opportunity. I want to thank everyone who has advised me. You know who you are.
There is a great deal more to say, but I something else I've learned in recent years is the value of not putting everything out there. Yes, in a world of sharing everything and constant TMI, some things should still remain unsaid.
I still believe every word of this though.
So… if you have questions, you know where to find me. In the meantime, I have a bunch of stories to work on.
I'm doing a panel tomorrow for these folks' annual conference. I'm repping community/local media i.e. the little guys We also have someone on the panel from the Chicago Tribune, a public radio station, etc.
The topic? What is ALWAYS the topic when a bunch of journalists and PR people get into a room together? How to pitch us, that's what they want to know.
They want to know how to not be annoying, what are the best ways to pitch and what are the ways that make us slam our heads on our desks.
They want to know how to cold-call a reporter they've never interacted with.
They want to hear horror stories about what NOT to do and good stories about when a PR person was extremely helpful.
I have my own, but please share yours in the comments so I have more fodder for the panel.
While I don't know if they'll all be in the room for our panel, there are over 400 people registered for this conference so here's your chance to tell a TON of PR people something that will hopefully ripple throughout the industry.
Thanks in advance!
Journalism, right?
I'm doing it, but I'm still not sure.
The trouble is, I want to do so much more. I want to do things that are so much grander, so much bigger.
I want to help solve the business problems in the media industry. How to still do good work and make money to sustain it?
I want to break down the "old" rules of media production. I want to create new types of content, not just stories. And by new types of content, I don't mean videos and live tweets.
I want to help reimagine journalism as a service, not a product.
I want to teach people media literacy.
I want to make media more participatory, more open, more responsive, not so dominated by large corporations (in short, I would love to work here).
I want to do a million other things besides those.
Does anyone know where I can do any of this? Let me know.
He was talking about writing for television, more specifically Treme, his series about New Orleans, but David Simon still expressed exactly how I feel about the writing process:
I'm not one of those people who likes writing. I just have to do it. I can write in a coffee shop, in an office, on an airplane. I'll use whatever I can find to write on. I can't write with music on. My mind follows the music and doesn't concentrate on what I'm doing. Sometimes I can write if the music is classical or jazz, but if it has vocals, I have to turn it off.
I tend to pace around and think about scenes, I tend to take a nap in the middle of the day. I tend to struggle to stay at the computer. Or I'll stay at the computer and research a point heavily. I'll be Googling some history of some rhythm-and-blues artist, trying to find out something that I can use in dialogue. I'll flail around for an hour and a half to get two small phrases that I'll end up cutting anyway. It's not really dawdling, because all that time thinking about it, worrying about it, is me coming up with better ideas or throwing out bad ideas. And then when the script is finally due I'll be spitting it out as fast as I can.
I can't listen to music either and I have no idea how others can. I need near total silence in fact, or just a dull roar of background noise. If too many people are talking, I get distracted eavesdropping, getting involved in their conversations, etc. So, I wear earplugs.
Googling things for interminable periods of time: yes, yes and YES.
Spitting it out as fast as you can when you're on deadline: I think all reporters can heartily nod their heads to this one.
And here's Simon on writer's block:
That fear is probably latent in every writer. You stare at the page for the first time and if you're honest at all, you know there's a little part of you screaming, "But what if I can't do it anymore?" And then you start writing, and usually the first things are not great, and then you try again and eventually you're off and running. But every time, there's that first moment of vague terror.
Amen, brother. I will now go stare at some blank pages before somehow willing myself to start writing.
We could be here all day answering this question and actually many, many, MANY people have already answered it very well. But what I always find lacking in those explanations are the practical, nitty-gritty reasons. This is my attempt to present some of those logisitcal roadblocks.
If there's anyone who still doesn't understand why much of print media sucks online, let me explain it to you.
Imagine that you had to print your blog out every day or every week and it had to look nice, be a certain length and have the ads in all the right places.
Now imagine that you wrote your blog with the thought that it was going onto paper first so you couldn't put hyperlinks into it. If you wanted links in there, you would have to add them later. Or possibly you couldn't add them at all, depending on what publishing platform you are using to create your paper.
Imagine that everything you wrote had to be edited by another person (a person who is very busy editing many things) so you couldn't quickly toss something up online whenever you felt like it. Imagine that there were once people whose sole job was editing things quickly, but most of those people were laid off.
Imagine that there are very few people writing and reporting for both print and online and they are people who make very little money. The paper has to go out and it can't have blank pages so there is no one writing exclusively for online and the people writing for both don't have a lot of extra time to produce online-only work.
Imagine that publishing something online doesn't happen at the click of a button.
Imagine that most of what you write has to be original and factual so it takes much longer to produce and remember again that there aren't many people to produce it.
I could go on, but hopefully you're beginning to get the idea.


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Texas folk singer Beth Williams will be performing at Main Street Farmers Market in Cedaredge on Saturday, May 18, at 10:00 a.m.
Recently relocated to Cedaredge from Mason, Texas, Williams is an Academy of Country Music nominee for "Best New Female Vocalist of the Year," was voted Cashbox's "Best Independent Female Vocalist" and Independent News' "Best Female Performer." She is currently a Nashville session singer via the Internet for Backwoods Recording in Nashville, Tenn.
She also offers voice lessons at Starrs Guitars in Cedaredge and is able to record her students in her own Hill Country Recording Studio.
Join Williams as she sings at the Millennium Wellness building where there will be local farmers, vendors and crafters selling in-season plants, veggies, jams, jellies. syrups, baked goods, farm fresh eggs and more! The building is located at 175 E. Main Street in Cedaredge.
To learn more about Beth Williams visit www.bethwilliamsmusic.com.