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In the 1960s, as Atlanta and its boosters jostled with other cities for attention, staffs of the rival Journal and Constitution hustled for scoops. A new memoir from veteran newspaperman Jack Nelson recalls the heyday of Atlanta journalism and his experience working for Ralph McGill, the Constitution editor who wrote seven columns a week, many excoriating the South's institutionalized racism. Nelson, who won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for his investigation into the state-run mental hospital in Milledgeville, worked at the Constitution for twelve years, specializing in uncovering corruption and abuses of power. He then spent thirty-six years with the Los Angeles Times, first as Atlanta bureau chief covering the civil rights movement and later as Washington bureau head reporting on the Watergate scandal and its aftermath. Nelson, who died of pancreatic cancer at his Bethesda, Maryland, home in 2009, had been working on a memoir. This excerpt is from the book Scoop: The Evolution of a Southern Reporter, which was completed under the direction of his wife, journalist Barbara Matusow, working with the University Press of Mississippi; it will be published this month. In this selection, Nelson recalls learning on the job in the newsroom of the Atlanta Constitution.
For an ambitious reporter like me, going to work for the Constitution seemed like a good fit, but I wanted certain assurances first. I flew to Atlanta to discuss the offer with [managing editor] Bill Fields, and told him I was willing to work long hours, but that I also wanted to go to college. He said he understood but expressed doubts that my going to college would work well for the Constitution.
"We'll pay you $85 a week if you don't go to college because you'll be available to us, if needed, twenty-four hours a day," he said. "But we'll pay you $75 if you do go to college because we won't be able to call on you when you're in classes."
In an unheard-of burst of generosity, Fields decided to pay me $85 a week anyway, which, he gave me to understand, was a major concession on the part of the paper. Stories about penny-pinching at the Journal and Constitution in those days were legion, and Fields in particular was known as a tightwad. A wiry, balding ex-Marine who had no use for small talk and seldom smiled, he saw eye to eye with the publisher, Jack Tarver, who was so tightfisted we used to joke that he sat in his office squeezing nickels until they turned into dimes.
In spite of its penurious ways, the Constitution was an invigorating place to work in those days. We competed fiercely for scoops with the Atlanta Journal, the afternoon paper, even though both papers had the same owner: former Ohio governor James M. Cox. My archrival at the Journal was John Pennington, who was one hell of a reporter. I was obsessed with beating him.
The Constitution staff of about thirty reporters and editors was close-knit and populated by an assortment of colorful characters, some of them brilliant. One of my favorites was Celestine Sibley, a big-boned, warm-hearted country girl who wrote like a dream, even though her personal life was full of tragedy. She was the original sob sister. She'd write the kind of stories that would bring tears to your eyes, then turn around and produce a razor-sharp article on the state legislature.
Then there was Eddie Barker, another great storyteller and phrasemaker who liked a nip or two. Once, assigned to cover a Jaycees convention at a hotel in Downtown Atlanta, he availed himself of the open bar, came back, and wrote that the Jaycees were just a "bunch of mice training to be rats." (If I remember correctly, his story was pulled after the first edition.)
The biggest laugh we ever had made the paper look a little silly. I was still a junior reporter working nights when three guys walked into the newsroom carrying a two-foot hairless creature. They told us they had been driving around rural Cobb County when they saw what looked like a spaceship in the road and three small space aliens walking around. Two of the creatures hopped back on their craft and zoomed away, but the men claimed they accidentally ran over the third.
We thought the tale was pretty far-fetched, but the night editor called in a veterinarian who examined the critter and said, "I don't know what it is, but it's not of this earth." Somebody—I don't remember who—wrote a tongue-in-cheek story which ran on page one the next day, complete with a staff photo. This was in 1953, when the UFO craze was at its zenith, so the story was picked up all over the world, causing phones in the newsroom to ring nonstop. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation took a more skeptical view and interrogated the men—two barbers and a butcher—at length. They finally broke down and confessed to what ever after would be known as the Great Monkey Hoax. One barber had bet the others he could get his picture in the paper. So they got hold of a monkey which he shaved and chloroformed. The butcher then killed it before lopping off its tail. It made for quite a correction the following day. (I'm told the GBI still has the beast in formaldehyde somewhere.)
Atlanta itself was exciting in those days—a bustling city expanding outwards in all directions, far more cosmopolitan than Georgia as a whole. The city fathers had begun courting Northern investment as early as the twenties, promoting Atlanta as a business-friendly center of manufacturing, transportation, and banking. Although segregation was rigidly enforced until the sixties, the town had a reputation for racial moderation, which helped attract businesses and out-of-town conventions. William Hartsfield, who served six terms as mayor and owed his longevity to the black vote, dubbed Atlanta "the city too busy to hate."
The rest of Georgia, still heavily agrarian, regarded Atlanta as an outpost of Gomorrah. Jimmy Carter once said that when he was growing up in Plains, making a trip to Atlanta was like going to Moscow or Beijing. But Atlanta was proud of its reputation as the capital of the New South, and boosterism was the order of the day.
The Atlanta papers, members in good standing of the establishment, joined in with editorials extolling the city's attractions. An exception was Ralph McGill, already a towering figure in American journalism and a man whose moral force was equaled only by the eloquence of his writing. His column, which ran on the front page of the paper seven days a week, frequently on the theme of racial justice, was must-reading, even for those who hated him. A few years later, when Eugene Patterson, another brilliant writer and commanding presence, joined the editorial staff, publisher Jack Tarver likened the duo—accurately, to my way of thinking—to Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
The paper, distributed statewide, wielded enormous clout in Georgia, especially in the realm of politics. I used to see politicians of all stripes—the mayor, city aldermen, state legislators—drop by the editorial offices just to chat. The Constitution newsroom was election central. Everyone—radio, TV, the candidates—came to our newsroom because we had the most complete information, including at least one reliable person assigned to almost every county. Their job was to give us the returns before they could be altered and an election stolen—a not uncommon event in Georgia. The returns would be projected on the side of the building, drawing a good-sized crowd.
McGill himself could alter the outcome of an election. He is generally credited with installing Ellis Arnall, a relative moderate, as governor in 1942, ousting the notorious race-baiter Gene Talmadge. (Talmadge, not surprisingly, loathed McGill. One of his flunkies once threatened to kill the editor.)
McGill, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his columns on civil rights in 1959, had a great sense of moral outrage, especially at the injustices inflicted on minorities and other disadvantaged people. I was tremendously proud to be associated with him. Often described as the "conscience of the South," he was constantly being quoted in Time magazine, the New York Times, and other national publications.


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When The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post wanted to explain Black Twitter to their readers, they turned to The News & Observers Meredith Clark.
Clark recently joined us as the editor of The North Raleigh News and Midtown Raleigh News, two of our community papers. Shes completing her doctorate in journalism from UNC-Chapel Hill. Her dissertation is about Black Twitter, the name given to African-Americans, mostly young, who use Twitter, the micro-blogging network that limits users to 140 characters per tweet.
Young African-Americans have flocked to Twitter because its easy to use on smart phones the primary Internet device for many blacks. Twitters users are more racially diverse than Internet users in the U.S.
Black Twitter reflects a community that has long existed offline. But as Soraya Nadia McDonald of The Washington Post wrote this week, that community now is in the open for anyone to observe or engage with.
Black Twitter is part cultural force, cudgel, entertainment and refuge, McDonald wrote. It is its own society within Twitter, replete with inside jokes, slang and rules, centered on the interests of young blacks online almost a quarter of all black Internet users are on Twitter.
Its own language
McDonald interviewed Clark about the shorthand, coded language often used. Youre going to see this language thats used, thats common to all, that you dont have to code-switch and explain to outsiders, Clark said. In the Journal, Clark explained why young blacks use Twitter and that some use it in place of texting.
Clark, 34, received her undergraduate degree from Florida A&M and then worked at the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper before attending graduate school. Twitter was created in 2006. Clark first tweeted in 2008. (Her Twitter handle is @meredithclark. Mine is @john_drescher. Watch video of Clark at nando.com/video.)
Clark says at times theres consensus on Black Twitter. But every day, she said, theres spirited disagreement among various factions. Theres a lot of divisive talk between men and women, Clark told me. Men complain women are too forceful, the feminists too loud.
Among the leading black voices are @drgoddess, who once hosted a panel called The Bombastic Brilliance of Black Twitter, and @brokeymcpoverty, who regularly live-tweets ABCs Scandal, which has a cult following within Black Twitter.
Emerging trends
Clark sees two trends emerging for Black Twitter. She sees African-Americans using Twitter not just to report and comment but to push for action. For example, the Post reported about Juror B37 in the Trayvon Martin case. That juror planned to write her account of the George Zimmerman trial. An African-American woman named Genie Lauren (@moreandagain) urged her followers to contact the book agent and not let the juror profit from Martins slaying. Lauren provided the agents contact information. Within hours, the book deal was off.
The other trend Clark sees is businesses, politicians and others trying to reach a black audience through Twitter. Clark said U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (@corybooker), a Democrat from New Jersey, has been effective in using Twitter to reach constituents, especially when he was mayor of Newark. If youre paying attention, Clark said, its a great resource to have and a free resource to use.
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On its surface, Madden 25 looks just like last year's
installment of the popular game franchise.
The stadiums, players, and coaches look pretty much exactly the
same. It's the same shiny car, just
like last year's model. But get under
the hood, and there's a little more horsepower in Madden 25.
The biggest improvement comes in the running game. Let's face it: just as the NFL has turned
into a pass-happy league, so has EA in its focus on the aerial attack. The ground game has been the red-headed
stepchild (sorry, Andy Dalton) of the Madden franchise. But that ends this time around.
Playing as the San Francisco 49ers, I was pleasantly
surprised to see a pistol formation backed up by triple option and zone-read
plays. Even better, it's actually an
effective offense. Once I got the hang
of it in the Nike Training Center (a welcome addition this year), I put it to
the test against the Seahawks. Colin
Kaepernick and Frank Gore worked in unison, Kaep artfully slipping the handoff
in and out of Gore's grasp, dancing his way through the first level of the
defense into the Seattle secondary. My
first touchdown drive was "Kaep'ed" off (see what I did there) with Kaepernick
doing his trademark bicep flex and kiss.
If not for the disappointing absence of his tattoos, I could've sworn I
was watching the real thing.
The actual act of running has also been improved. Back is the "Turbo" button. Really, who among us didn't instinctively
press the Turbo even when it was absent in Madden 13? Another addition is the "Precision Modifier." Simply hold the L2 trigger on your PS3
controller while using the right stick or pressing a button, and your player
will do a beefed up version of a conventional move. L2 + forward on the right stick will have Marshawn Lynch bulldoze
a poor, helpless safety. L2 + Triangle Robert Griffin III, and the Redskins
quarterback is vaulting over a linebacker for a touchdown. The possibilities are endless and, well,
There are other additions – or in this case, returns –
including Owner Mode. You're put into
the front office, deciding everything from ticket prices to relocation. Yes, you can finally live out your dream of
putting an NFL franchise in Los Angeles.
Or Mexico City. As far as front
office simulations go, there are far superior and realistic games on the PC
market, but there's something to be said for seeing your team taking the field
in Madden 25. This is where binary
codes and algorithms can't compete.
If you're a hardcore Madden fan, you'll really appreciate
the videos celebrating the game franchise's cherished past. The development team has put together a "Best
Of" list, highlighting the greatest Madden players at every position over the
years. A trip down memory land awaits
when you see Brian Finneran gashing secondaries and Marshall Faulk sprinting
past lumbering linemen. It's a nice
Madden 25 is the perfect homage to its long history, and a
solid step forward in the franchise. By
no means is it a game changer, but it's just what this game needs as it
transitions into the next generation of console.
Happy 25th, Madden.
Madden 25 Releases on Tuesday, August 27th.


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Arri, manufacturer of the Arrilite 1000 lighting fixture, is recalling all units bearing serial numbers from 10502 to 13998, due to fire danger. The fixtures are contained in these kits: 120V (571925, 571951, 571984, 571989, 571991, and 571996) and 220V (571825, 571851, 571884, 571889, 571891, and 571896). Arri will promptly repair or replace the affected light once returned. For more information, contact Arri USA, Inc. customer service (Richard Stenken) at 800-627-2774; please have the serial number available when calling.
Color Kinetics Inc. has been awarded a second US patent covering its Chromacore LED technology. The patent, #6,150,774, broadens the scope of its initial patent for Chromacore (#6,016,038, issued in January 2000) in several significant ways by covering networkable control of single and single-color LEDs; control of single and multiple LEDs in a non-networked environment; modular assemblies of digital lighting technologies; and intelligent, Edison-mount LED lamps.
Leprecon has appointed Marathon Marketing its sales representative in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
An investment consortium led by Raleigh Investments, L.P., has purchased the assets of Hollywood Rental Co., LLC, Olesen, ESS, HDI, and Matthews Studio Sales pursuant to a Chapter 11 divestiture plan of Matthews Studio Equipment Group, Inc. (MATT). The acquiring group also includes JA&A Capital LLC, CDM Interactive, Inc., and Anil Sharma, president of Hollywood Rentals Production Services. Says Sharma of Hollywood Rental and Olesen, "Our purchase of their assets will allow us to refocus the brands on their core business of supporting the film, television, and theatrical production industries. Ninety percent of the prior companies' staff have been retained, a strong new management team is in place, and we are well positioned to support production on a global basis."
Meyda Tiffany (www.meyda.com) has named Brett Blizzard Sales as its new sales agency in North and South Carolina and Bermuda, and Tracy Lighting Group as its new sales agency in Georgia and Alabama. The company has also been honored by the Construction Specifications Institute for its contributions to the organization's scholarship fund.
The National Council on Qualifications for the Lighting Professions (NCQLP) announces that 228 lighting professionals took the 2000 exam, with a pass rate of 86.8%, bringing the total of Lighting Certified Professionals to 996. This year, for the first time, graduate and undergrad students in lighting had the opportunity to take the LC examination as participants in the NCQLP Intern Program; 10 students from Penn State and one from Rensselaer Polytechnic sat for and passed the exam. This program is partially funded by grants from the Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education, the Lutron Foundation, and the Golden Gate section of IESNA.
Westsun International Inc. has announced its first regional "super hub" in Las Vegas. This new facility will operate under the Westsun Las Vegas banner. Dick Wright, VP West Coast operations, will spearhead its development. Anticipated to house an equipment pool in excess of $15 million, this expansion will be complete by May 1. During this transition, Wright will work closely with Scott Jevons of Westsun Los Angeles; the satellite sales facility will operate under the existing Westsun Los Angeles banner. Jevons will lead the Westsun Los Angeles sales team as sales manager.
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Originally published: Mar 3, 2013 - 2:17 pm
TUCSON -- An Arizona prison complex is on lockdown after a fight broke out among 400 inmates.
Arizona Department of Corrections spokesman Bill Lamoreaux says the staff was able to quickly stop the fight that broke out at 9:45 a.m. Sunday at the Whetstone Unit of the Arizona State Prison Complex in Tucson.
Two prison staffers suffered minor injuries, while five inmates were brought to hospitals with injuries. The extent of the inmates' injuries wasn't immediately available.
The prison is investigating the cause of the fight.
Nearly 1,250 prisoners are housed in the Whetstone Unit. No inmates from the prison's other seven units were involved in the fight.
It's unclear exactly how long it took prison staff to end the fight.
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Sex-ed seminar heads to FHSU
Dr. Joni Frater and Esther Lastique, creators of the college speaking event "Sex Ed Boot Camp," will appear at 7 p.m. Sept. 26 at Fort Hays State University's Beach/Schmidt Performing Arts Center.
Frater and Lastique answer questions on the topics of sexual harassment and sexual health. The event is sponsored by Student Health Services. The presentation is also a pillar of Student Health Services' fall testing campaign for sexually transmitted diseases. Student Health Services is sponsoring Sex Ed Boot Camp.
A documentary film crew from Sensory Overload Entertainment will be on hand to tape the boot camp.
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This book records an installation and images made for the exhibition 'Arboreality' held at Westonbirt National Arboretum in May 2008.
Portman's work has been influenced by 'environmentalist monks' (phra nak anuraksa in Thai) during research visits to Thailand and Cambodia. These monks tackle urgent and controversial issues such as deforestation and the construction of large dams, using modified Buddhist rituals (such as the 'ordination' of trees or thaut phaa paa .....the giving of the forest robes) and an ecological interpretation of Buddhist teachings.
Inspired by these practices, Portman 'ordained' a specimen of Dawn Redwood, (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) wrapping it with garlands and flowers before recording the event as still images.
The second area of visual response follows his first research visit to the Arboretum. This was spent in search of specific endangered trees, (a time consuming example of being unable to see the wood for the trees). The resulting series of 17 images were made as a visual log of that search, reflecting on fragility and the passage of time, rather than the still moment
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Losing a baby during childbirth has to be one of the most horrific losses you can imagine. An Alabama woman experienced it and is now working with Huntsville Hospital officials to help ease some of that pain for others.
In November of 2010, Kassidy Whitaker, of Arab, had a son who was stillborn. She said her family's grieving process at Huntsville Hospital was far too public.
"My family had to sit in the waiting room with happy families and it wasn't fair to either group," she said.
Whitaker saw the physical and emotional need for families to grieve and recover in private.
"For my husband, it would have been very good because he had to sleep in a hospital bed that night cause I was put in the ICU," she said.
Hence the birth of the Dinosaur Room. The name dinosaur comes from her oldest son, who said the baby looked like a baby dinosaur in the ultrasound pictures. It stuck, as did her idea.
She partnered with the Huntsville Hospital Foundation to build the room, complete with a sleepover bed, a shower, room, and privacy - as well as keepsakes, like the baby's blanket, cap, and stuffed toy. There's also important information families don't stop to consider.
"A lot of families haven't prepared to bury a baby. We're helping families in that way as well," said Whitaker.
She is trying to raise awareness and money for the room and the project. They have a fundraiser scheduled for June 8 - a baby dinosaur marketplace on the courthouse square in Huntsville with the vendors' booth rental going to help the cause.
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A gas leak in a Scottsdale neighborhood forced the evacuation of several dozen people Wednesday afternoon, fire authorities said.
The incident at E. Via Linda and 101st Street was upgraded to a working Hazmat situation.
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- Joshua M Brown
- June 3rd, 2013
Stuff I'm Reading this Morning…
Another shitshow in Japan overnight… (BusinessInsider)
The biggest monthly loss in fixed-income securities since 2004 (Bloomberg)
All of a sudden stock people are trying to understand the bond market – a helpful primer for equity market natives. (LearnBonds)
For some people, getting rich is much easier than staying rich. (TBP)
L-Train: Here's what the newly-volatile markets are trying to tell us. (Fortune)
Global markets are signaling to the Fed that it's not yet time to remove the IV needle. (MoneyBeat)
Apple's iRadio product taking shape as Warner Music signs on… (ValueWalk)
More investors ripping their capital out of world-renowned 3-and-50 wealth transference machine SAC Capital. (WSJ)
How consultants and their "alternatives" buddies have raided pensions and endowments. (CassandraDoesTokyo)
Why does Wall Street hate Facebook? No one knows. (Wired)
Pros like complexity because it makes them appear to be experts pulling off feats of brilliance where simplicity will do. (AboveTheMarket)
The so-called "Say on Pay" revolution is a joke, CEO pay packages go through without a problem, they just have to be a bit more polite now when they propose them to shareholders. (NYT)
Mark Dow: is this one of those moments where a long bet on Treasurys can't lose? (BehavioralMacro)
Actually, Keynes loved capitalism and was seeking to improve upon it, not usurp it. (Forbes)
Jason Zweig on the role of punishment in capitalism and why markets require the illusion of fairness in order to function. (TotalReturn)
June Mutual Fund Observer is Live: Misunderstanding fund costs and the futility of hedge fund investing. (MutualFundObserver)
David Einhorn and the rest of the runner-ups who just missed this year's Hedge Fund Rich List. (alpha)
Only 8% of all people on earth have over $100,000 in assets to their name, 3.2 billion have less than $10,000! (ZeroHedge)
"I don't stand in lines, I snort them." – the Turney Duff story. (NYT)
Guess how Michael Douglas got the throat cancer… (HuffPo)
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When I was growing up, my father worked for the Prudential Insurance Company as a salesman. It was a time when your insurance agent would visit to collect the monthly premium for policies and have a chat over coffee. He'd hear the neighborhood gossip, who was getting married, who just had a new son or daughter, and thus get new leads for business. He was good at it, being an amiable people-person and he was honest, unlike others in the trade at the time. People trusted him to sell them a life insurance policy commensurate with their family's needs and ability to afford the premium. I remember him making weekly or monthly visits to customers to collect a premium of a quarter or even a nickel. Each customer was given the same courtesy and friendly shoulder to lean on.
He was also a labor organizer, a representative of the agents in the union local. I grew up hearing about actions, grievances, steward reports and changes the company was making in the workaday world of its salesmen that would affect their lives and livelihood. He was aggressive in his principles for his fellow workers, but always fair. He realized that there had to be a give-and-take between company and worker. As soon as I was old enough to use a typewriter, he enlisted me to type his union reports. Though barely old enough to understand what was really going on in these documents, I absorbed the gist of this age-old push-pull relationship.
The neighborhood where I lived in Buffalo, New York was mostly blue collar; first generation sons of German, Italian and Polish immigrants, part of the great Ellis Island wave from the turn of the last century. Buffalo was an industrial town with an unmatched location on Lake Erie. The once-great steel companies had factories and forgeries there, along with the American auto manufacturers. Work was plentiful and the unions made sure that workers were being treated fairly.
This is what unions have always been about, treating workers fairly. Unions gave workers a voice, it wasn't a take-it-or-leave-it proposition as coal miners had seen in the mid-South; company towns that economically entrapped and suffocated the very people it relied on, along with some of the most dangerous working conditions that any American has ever had to endure.
At various times throughout our country's modern history, unions have had a bad rap. Companies have cried that workers' demands were choking the economic life out of them, demands were exorbitant, that the very idea of a union was anti-American. To paraphrase Sean Mitchell of the LA Times writing in 2007 about the threat of a Hollywood writer's strike as viewed through the prism of the writers' experiences in the 1930s, "…as if unions and the whole idea of collective bargaining were anathema to the American way of life…that having all those workers working under one banner would mean the creation of 'a workers soviet'". The very idea is absolutely ridiculous.
I remember hearing complaints about special concessions and "perks" given to auto and steel workers, the number of paid minor holidays, paid birthdays and the like. No one ever stopped to ask the reason why workers were able to get these "extras" and saw the union members as spoiled brats. Well, sometimes companies weren't willing to give decent pay raises, so workers took what they could by other means during negotiations.
Today, many of the things that looked like perks are gone due to the changing nature of America's work, outsourcing and the march of time on economies in general, but the persistent view that unions are greedy and disingenuous in their dealings with companies and non-union workers remains. Many of these views were formed early in the twentieth century, when the work world was a rough and tumble place, trying to find its way in transition from an agrarian to a newly industrialized society. Long gone are practices like "featherbedding" and other perceived abuses.
Unions, more than ever, want and need to work together with companies and governments (no matter what you've been reading or listening to lately), because in the end, despite their differences, desperately need each other. Workers need jobs and benefits, and companies need workers, happy workers, to run them. The aggressive and hyperbolic nature of anti-union vitriol, both from government and industry, does no one any good and much harm to the lower and middle classes that form the vast majority of both our labor pool and the economic backbone of our country.
The recent standoff in Wisconsin between the state's government and its workers, shows what can happen if this wrong-headed view of present-day unions is taken too far. Workers need unions as a buffer between them and their employers. Rare is the company who always looks out for the best interests of their employees, without the need for mediation, especially when that company happens to be publicly traded and is constantly striving to please their shareholders with the bottom line.
Unions make for happier and healthier workers, happy workers buy more of America's products, healthy workers have less sick days and are better equipped to make the company they work for more successful. It's a cycle that makes a lot of sense and one that shouldn't be overlooked, even in these dire times of cost-cutting.
I think my friends in the old neighborhood would agree.
I've been reading and thinking about a lot of things lately, trying to put ideas together for new essays and finish ones already started both on paper (okay, on the screen) and in my mind. There's just so much on my mindplate and they're all making relentless attempts to be heard. The quote from Ray Bradbury that I titled Preface was designed as an introduction to a larger piece that I'm working on. This week a few more ideas were unsurfaced as I read David Lipsky's account of traveling with David Foster Wallace on a book tour, which in turn led me back to Jonathan Franzen's much talked about essay for Harper's about the decline of reading and the novel itself. The recent news that Amazon sold more eBooks than hardcovers also begged to be added to the mix, analyzed, talked about and judged.
So while the last tracks for that particular tune are being recorded and awaiting final mixdown (what a metaphor!), I wanted to share my summer reading list (what a segue!). I don't know how you feel about it but I love to see what others are reading. Sneaking peeks at coffee shops or anywhere around town, it's good to see people with a book. At least here in Pasadena the difference is noticeable compared to the omnipresent three-ring tome with brass binding posts hymnal from the Church of Our Lady of the Perpetual Screenplay that is so widely venerated in my previous hangtown of Studio City/Sherman Oaks/The Valley.
My list is always an eclectic fuel mixture that is heavy on nonfiction, but something tells me that fiction is in my future. Make that a lot of fiction. But for the time being let's get started and see what's on my bedside table, affectionately heretofore referred to as The Stack*.
I mentioned David Lipsky's book, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, a tour-de-force of a 1996 interview lasting one week as Lipsky traveled with Wallace on the Infinite Jest tour, the 1,000+ page novel that heralded Wallace as the new voice in American fiction. Wallace is at once brilliant, insecure, brilliant, hilarious, paranoid, competitive, brilliant and disturbed like the thousand delicate nerve endings he keeps referring to. I've never read Infinite Jest but I plan to someday soon. A book like that takes a serious commitment from a reader and that's one of the many discussions that take place throughout the course of the book, including how fame and expectations affect a writer's ability to produce good work. Originally planned to be contemporaneously published in Rolling Stone, the piece never ran and is now presented in its nearly unedited entirety, including David's asides to his dogs. There are a lot of gems here and some terrific insight from Wallace as well as a look inside the head of a brilliant guy who tragically ended his life in 2008.
Edgar Degas by Bernd Growe is one of those beautifully produced little books published by Taschen that sell for $10. The printing and reproductions are wonderfully rich, if small, and are among the finest small guides to artists available. The ballet oils and pastels are here as well as several view-from-the-orchestra-pit paintings. Is there anything more exquisite than Degas? Recently, I spent an afternoon at the Norton Simon Museum here in Pasadena among their healthy collection of Degas works…transportation and transformation all within a few short hours.
Jonathan Franzen's novel, The Corrections, a National Book Award winner from 2001 sits patiently at page 126 awaiting my reengagement. I'm very rarely drawn so heavily into fiction, but this one has its talons in me and won't let go. Only life itself has pulled me away for a few weeks. Franzen's essays for The New Yorker and other magazines are unmatched in subject and style, as witnessed by his latest New Yorker piece on the slaughter of songbirds in Europe. His collection, How To Be Alone, is in reread rotation here as well.
The catalog for the Frederick H. Evans show at The Getty is anxious to be cracked open. Evans was a pioneer in platinum printing with large format cameras and the show was comprehensive in its scope. If you read my previous piece, need I say more?
George Seurat – The Drawings is another art book that takes my breath away. How does one scribble with crayon on paper with almost no line and conjure up a whole world of light and shadow, fooling our mind into seeing detail where there is none, doing it so intimately and effortlessly as to appear casual yet bring us to tears as it reverberates in our souls?
Reporting At Wit's End – Tales from The New Yorker by St. Clair McKelway is an anthology of his work for the magazine from the 1930s to the 1960s. He wrote about crime and criminals, scammers, counterfeiters and the fringes of "normal" society, a New York of another time. I've only read the introduction by Adam Gopnik so far, but it already has me hungry for the eighteen pieces inside.
There's a bunch of other stuff on The Stack as well, books on printmaking and related techniques like chine colle, one on antique packaging, a new book from Gerald Klickstein on practicing, performance and wellness, another of interviews with singers and conductors working in opera today (Pierre Boulez hates orchestra subs! Who knew?). A week or two ago there was Umberto Eco's The Infinity of Lists and a book on Baroque painting in Bologna.
My wife has always said that I'm the gatekeeper of useless information, but that's what happens when you're bitten by the reading bug, a lifetime of reading and referrals that begat this which begat that and spiral onward. If only I could wean myself from FaceBook and do some real work. But that's a subject for another day.
* I stole this name from another blogger but can't find the reference anymore, so I have appropriated its use for descriptive purposes all in the spirit of full disclosure.
This past week as I prepared to print several new photographs in platinum/palladium, those noblest of elemental metals, I didn't expect anything out of the ordinary. A year and a half ago, I put a lot of time into not only learning the ins and outs of the process but also the crafting of large size negatives, both digitally and the traditional method requiring long hours in the darkroom.
You see, platinum printing is a contact process. You need a negative the same size as your final image and it needs to have certain properties in order to create a rich print, but that's only the beginning. The prints are made on beautifully tactile watercolor or printmaking paper. Because such paper is manufactured acid-free for archival longevity, it contains carbonates that raise the pH of the paper into the alkaline end of the scale. This alkaline pH doesn't get along with the platinum/palladium emulsion, which is by nature slightly acidic, and all sorts of maladies ensue ranging from washed-out images to mottled, blotchy prints. Soaking the paper in a relatively benign dilute acid bath for several minutes and drying it overnight usually ensures success.
By now you're probably saying, "Doesn't he know that there are digital cameras and inkjet printers that would save him a lot of time?" Well…yes, but there's nothing like the fun (my definition) of slopping, I mean, brushing emulsion on paper. You're making light-sensitive paper by hand and it's as analog a process as can be especially in today's speed-of-light existence, no pun intended.
After the paper dries, you slap the negative in place and expose in the sun or a UV exposure unit for a few minutes, take the paper out and pour hot developer over it all at once. The image comes up immediately in beautiful rich tones. After a few clearing baths to rid the paper of excess salts, the print is washed and laid out to dry. It's as close to magic as anything can be.
Once you've done this a few hundred times you start getting the hang of it (Malcolm Gladwell says that 10,000 hours is needed to become an expert in a field) and you can count on getting reliable results despite the huge number of variables inherent in a hand process like this.
Until…something goes wrong.
Well, it happened. Just as I was looking forward to making many new prints (while my girls were out-of-state visiting family for the week), I started getting results that didn't match the quality of the prints I had been making for the past year. I checked my chemistry, the exposure unit, the brush…even the humidity, but it takes a lot of time to isolate the problem by changing just one variable at a time. Each iteration seems endless…mix chemicals, coat paper, wait for it to dry, humidify paper, expose, develop, clear, wash, dry.
I finally tracked the problem down to the paper, an all too common occurrence among platinum printers. Manufacturers change formulas without notice and although the changes don't matter much to watercolor artists and printmakers, people like me who are dependent upon a precarious set of conditions are thrown into the abyss.
It got me thinking about how much life is like a platinum print. We settle into a groove, going about our daily routine, learning and loving, making it better, keeping our heads down and going for it. Then something comes along to uproot the balance we've struck and our lives need to be reevaluated, reordered, reconsidered. Sorting through can take a while but hopefully we'll come out the other side stronger, confident and ready for more. Here's to that hope for all of us…
I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.
- Ray Bradbury, The Paris Review, Spring 2010
Last week, the Los Angeles Philharmonic played Peter Lieberson's beautiful piece, Neruda Songs, a setting of five sonnets by Pablo Neruda written in 2005 for his wife, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Lorraine passed away in July, 2006 from breast cancer, but in her too-short career accomplished so much and became one of the most brilliant voices we've ever had the chance to hear. I wrote a small piece upon her death, which summed up the loss that so many felt when she died.
I remember seeing the look on Esa-Pekka's face just before one of our first rehearsals for John Adams' El Nino in March, 2003. He had just had a run-through with Lorraine in his dressing room and his normally unflappable demeanor was replaced by a gushing look of amazement as he confided backstage to several players, "I've just had the most amazing concert in my room."
Esa-Pekka and the orchestra premiered Neruda Songs in May, 2005 with Lorraine singing and Peter participating in an onstage conversation with EP regarding the piece and Peter's inspiration for it. Although I didn't play Neruda Songs that night (there is no part for my instrument in the orchestration) I was onstage to play excerpts from Stravinsky's Agon, which Peter cited as an influence.
Peter's father was Goddard Lieberson, the long-time president of Columbia Records who signed so many artists to that label and built it into a powerhouse of its time. During his conversation, Peter recounted that while growing up the house was always full of musical luminaries for visits and dinner. Shortly after Stravinsky had immigrated to this country, Goddard sent an invitation. He was so very concerned with the composer's well-being in America that he gifted him that evening with a rather large book, the voluminous Tax Code of the United States. The maestro accepted the gift quite graciously as any guest would. Several weeks later when Goddard was speaking to Stravinsky on the phone, he asked him if he had enjoyed the book. Igor replied, "Yes, and I cried on every page."
I've taken a hiatus during these last two months to relax, readjust and focus. I think it's good for artists to recharge their batteries every now and then, let things fall where they may and take time to reflect. Breathe here…
As I may have mentioned here before, I'm a dedicated photographer who uses film almost exclusively, prints in the darkroom and use various 19th Century historical processes to produce my final images. Yep, it's all very geeky but it allows me to combine a love of visual arts with the technical side of my nature, plus I get to have the biggest chemistry set a kid could ever dream of.
After a few years and many hours of darkroom toil, I'm happy to announce that I'm participating in my first ever gallery show at the Elias Gallery in Whittier, California along with a group of incredible local photographer/printers who have been most encouraging and supportive. I have four prints in the show, two platinum/palladium and two gelatin silver lith prints, chosen by the show's curator, Domenico Foschi.
Domenico Foschi is an Italian-born photographer living in southern California whom I met on the internet in a photography forum. His images were dreamlike and evocative. When I first saw his prints in person at two different shows I knew I had found someone with great vision and articulate skills to bring the image to life on paper. When the opportunity arose to buy one of his prints, I was thrilled to meet him in person and spend time talking, but what surprised me most was his openness and generosity. He was more interested in seeing and talking about my nascent work than telling me about his. It was a great hour and I came away so inspired, one of those rare moments that make you want to work harder to achieve your goals.
The gallery exhibition is currently open, with a reception scheduled for May 8.
Elias Gallery
6736 Greenleaf Avenue
Whittier, CA 90601
Photographs by Domenico Foschi, Matthew Blais, Tori Nelson, Vinny Walsh, Patti Lemke and Paul Viapiano.
No, I'm not talking about Tiger Woods' motto for living life, but the inescapable fact that things are happening out there and you have to take advantage of them before they go away. So suspend your NetFlix account, turn off your television, get in your car and celebrate the new year with a few of these ideas.
First things first. Coffee.
Not one, but three…wait, make that four new places to satisfy your caffeine addiction. Three are in downtown LA (hey, I've been working there for the last three months!), one in Pasadena and one more in Silverlake. Here we go:
Urth Caffé
451 South Hewitt Street, on Hewitt and 5th, in the Arts District of Downtown Los Angeles.
Housed in an old egg factory and part of the current downtown Renaissance, this place has it all with an especially friendly staff, exceptional organic coffee and plenty of dangerous desserts. The funky neighborhood-turned-lofty is a perfect setting for getting your fix day or night.
108 West 2nd Street
Another organic coffee resource with several locations. The 2nd Street café is the one closest to the Music Center and although I visited only once, the coffee was excellent. The counter staff is a little disorganized and not as together as at Urth Caffe, but the beans (Lucky Jack) I brought back to the orchestra pit to be brewed by our in house coffee bitcharista, Kenny Wild, were incredibly flavorful. Maybe next time we'll try the aptly named Bitches Brew, their darkest roast.
Prime Grind
714 West 1st Street
Just across Hope Street from the Walt Disney Concert Hall in a small shopping center on the ground floor of one of LA's earliest downtown residences, Prime Grind is without a doubt my favorite convenient downtown coffee hangout. A long narrow room with work from local artists on the walls, the staff at PG know how to make the perfect espresso and a lot more. Perfect, as in taste…and perfectly made every single time. A lot of LA Opera musicians can be seen there juicing up before those 4 ½ hour marathons they play. Oh…and the gelato is an accompaniment without compare.
Jameson-Brown Roasters
260 N. Allen Avenue in Pasadena (just south of the 210 freeway)
I'd been passing this shop for months wondering about it until I stopped in after dropping my daughter off at ballet class just down the street. A funky hang in a community-cum-living-room makes me feel like I'm not in LA but maybe somewhere in northern Wisconsin. They roast their own, and while the service may be on the slow side, the finished coffee drink is one of the best in Pasadena.
LaMill Coffee at 1636 Silver Lake Boulevard is an amazing coffee and tea lovers paradise. Along with good food, they offer coffee via several methods of extraction. Yes, I said extraction…this place is serious. Choose the Chemex method and your personal coffee brewmaster will hang out at your table until the nectar is finished cycling through the filter. This is the connoisseur's coffee nirvana and it's well worth taking a detour to experience. Can't say enough about it!
Paul Viapiano is a guitarist working in film, television and live performance based in sunny Pasadena, California.
You can email me here.


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"It's interesting how we have a handful of really important systems that have held on," he said. "The mainframe tends to be the one we all point to but I'm sure there's others out there. We hear about applications that still run on what we call legacy from our standpoint, like an old Windows NT server or an old 1995 machine."
While these companies are wed to legacy systems, they don't want to deal with the economic and labor issues tied to maintaining older technologies. Instead, they'll outsource upkeep to consultants, who may land lucrative contracts if there is enough market demand for their skills.
"It's probably going to be cost prohibitive or just so hard to find that one guy that knows that technology who's willing to work on one or two legacy systems," Engates said."Your demand goes way up if you're a consultant that's managing hundreds of mainframes. They're still out there."
At companies that have modernized their systems as technology evolved, retirement may not be as much of an issue since employees learned new skills when the IT changed, avoiding the challenge of transferring knowledge between staffers.
"You need to be proactive on optimizing your ecosystem," said Verizon Enterprise Solutions CIO Ajay Waghray. "And that forces the retirement of multiple processes and systems that tend to have created that long living complexity that creates all the challenges."
Last year Waghray retired approximately 160 systems and has so far retired 60 in 2103.
"Even before this whole cloud orientation became a buzz we were already applying those techniques to stay lean and agile," he said.
Verizon is also proactive in maintaining "a pretty good [employee] progression map, particularly in managerial roles," helping the company plan for future employment needs, some of which maybe caused by retirement, Waghray said.
"We tend to know if we have a certain group of people that we have a need for, be it retiring or otherwise," he said.
To fill employment needs, Verizon uses mentoring programs, college recruiting, telecommuting, job sharing and part-time positions.
As for the possibility of retired employees returning as consultants, the demand isn't there now at Verizon.
"I haven't really heard the need to say will you come back," Waghray said. "We might have that in the future but we've not seen that."
At Intel, which is in the early stages of exploring the impact of employee retirements, flexibility extends to helping workers take positions outside the company at nonprofits.
Last year the chip maker launched the Intel Encore Career Fellowship, a pilot program that gives near-retirement employees a $25,000 stipend and allows them to spend one year applying their skills to new positions with social value. The program is part of a greater effort by nonprofit Encore.org that aims to help retirees use their skills in second careers with social purpose.
"We don't have the need yet to say with enormous numbers departing how do we retain some skills, how do we retain some of the institutional knowledge," said Julie Wirt, the company's global retirement design manager. "We're just starting now to sit down and think about how we're going to approach that. In five years we'll be in a different situation."
As employees near retirement they question whether to update their skills or consider other ways to use their IT backgrounds.
"At a certain point they say 'It's probably time for me to reskill again. Do I want to do that or do I want to think about something new as I'm kind of on the brink of retirement,'" said Wirt.


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reviews for: listing #11851 - Waikiki, Hawaii Condo rental
- bedrooms 1
- pool yes
- type Condo
- baths 1
- hot tub yes
- community
- sleeps 4
- pets allowed no
rates (USD)
$1,295 - $2,150 /wk
$4,950 - $5,850 /mth
My trip
Review submitted: August 23, 2012 Date of arrival: August 14, 2012
The place was OK, could have used a better cleaning. The view is great. If you forget to leave the parking pass in the window, car gets towed and it costs $230 cash to get it back.
Recommended for: age 55+
Owners response:
Aloha All
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Each Condo IS individually owned here,some owners do not have the funds to upgrade their Units while others are constantly upgrading.
The onsite Pay Car Parking offered here in the building just like any other requires proof of payment:a parking pass or ticket purchased from the machine at the top of the Ramp, left in plain view either hanging on the mirror or taped to the window or dash area.
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This condo offered everything I needed in the perfect location. I could catch a bus across the street if the place I wanted to go was not within walking distance. The beach was so close I could smell the salt water from the condo. I had a great view of Waikiki.I did not hear any of the other people staying either above, below or beside this condo. It offered the perfect place for a get away!Andy and Deborah were so helpful if I needed anything. I would recommend this condo for anyone interested in a wonderful vacation!
Recommended for: adventure seekers, age 55+, girls getaway, sight seeing, tourists without a car, romantic getaway
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Review submitted: September 7, 2011 Date of arrival: September 7, 2010
Great unit..wonderful view of the ocean & Diamond Head Volcano..2 minutes to Waikiki Beach & all the attractions it has to offer.
Clean unit..all the esentials..wife loved it.
A bit outdated but would rent it again. Very comfortable.
Recommended for: romantic getaway
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Review submitted: September 6, 2011 Date of arrival: September 6, 2010
We love staying at the Pacific Monarch. It is handy to all amenities and within walking distance or most sites. The bus is readily available and the cost for such is very reasonable. We love the pool on the roof. Deborah is just a very special person. Shops for us, visits us and helps with all our troubles and woes. We will be back just don't know when. thanks it is a great place.
Recommended for: adventure seekers, age 55+, families with young children, people with disabilities, families with teenagers, girls getaway, pet-friendly, sight seeing, tourists without a car, romantic getaway
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The school year may be half over, but the Black Bear Mentors Program is gearing up for another semester of community service, inspiration, motivation, fun, and yet more introductions.
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The first semester started with mentors meeting mentees, but the second semester will take the matches a step further: meeting families. To create a stronger connection between the program and the community, the Black Bear Mentors' five sites will begin hosting "Meet Your Mentor Dinners" during National Mentoring Month in January.
The "Meet Your Mentor Dinner" is only a year old, but it was so beneficial that four of the five mentoring sites will host dinners this year, as opposed to one site that held the dinner last year, according to Erin Lennon of Black Bear Mentors.
"The dinner gave the parents and people who work at the school a chance to put a face to the names and stories they'd been hearing from the kids," recalls Lewis Libby Mentor Samantha Kane. "I think it gave the parents peace of mind, but it also gave the kids chance to show off their mentors. It was pretty cute."
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Graduates in the Paralegal Associate of Science degree program can find employment in the public and private sectors as paralegals and legal assistants. Employers include banks, real estate offices, title companies, brokerage houses, corporations, governmental agencies and with lawyers and law firms. In the Allegheny County area, entry-level salaries average $29,320 with experienced salaries averaging $48,400. Overall salaries average $42,040. Twenty-eight annual openings are expected in the Three Rivers Area over each of the next ten years, an increase of 7.94%1. Over 240 annual openings are projected in Pennsylvania through 20183.
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On a national level, paralegals and legal assistants held about 247,940 jobs in 2010 and are employed in nearly every industry. A minimum of an associate's degree is required for most positions. In 2010, the median annual wages of paralegals and legal assistants were $46,680. The middle half of the occupation earned between $36,230 and $59,910. The top 10% of paralegals and legal assistants earned more than $74,870, and the bottom 10% earned less than $29,460.
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