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I had this on cassette many years ago and have not heard Joe since. I really like it and he is a great country singer.Published 22 days ago by Bruce B.
As the main review noted, fans may "quibble" about which tracks should have been included on this "Best Of" compilation, but the selections on this CD are pretty darn hard to get... Read morePublished on December 20, 2012 by Donald E. Gilliland
Joe Ely is the best at Texas country/rock. This is a terrific album showcasing his talent and work over the last 20 years or so.Published on March 21, 2011 by Carlos R. Garcia
Seen him live a few times and I've been a fan for many years, so I didn't really need this one. That said, "best of" compilations are great for the road. Read morePublished on March 12, 2010 by Shoveldog


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NEW YORK (AP) -- JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs need better plans for coping with a severe recession, the Federal Reserve said Thursday, giving the banks until September to revise them.
The announcement came as part of the Fed's so-called "stress tests," its annual check-up of 18 of the country's big banks. The government runs the tests to see how the banks would fare in a bad economic downturn. As a result of the tests, it also tells each bank whether it's allowed to raise its dividend, the quarterly payout it gives to stockholders, or buy back more of its own shares.
Overall, the Fed approved requests outright from 14 of the banks, including Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America. Senior Fed officials painted a picture of a healing industry, saying the banks had made great strides since the tests were started in 2009.
JPMorgan and Goldman, both based in New York, are allowed to increase their dividends and buy back their stock. That privilege would be withdrawn only if they didn't submit new capital plans that satisfy the Fed.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. said it had received permission to raise its quarterly dividend to 38 cents per share, from the current 30 cents, and to buy back up to $6 billion worth of its own stock. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. didn't give specifics about its plans.
Both the banks have emerged from the financial crisis not unscathed but better than many of their peers. Goldman currently pays a quarterly dividend of 50 cents per share, by far the highest of any of the six mega-banks. JPMorgan is second.
In a statement, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said he was pleased that the bank would continue to raise its dividend and buy back shares, and he predicted continued growth for the bank. It was not his only headache of the day: The stress test results came at the same time that a Senate panel issued a scathing assessment of the bank's surprise $6 billion trading loss last year.
Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein said he was pleased "to continue to have the flexibility to return capital to shareholders."
The Fed didn't give specifics on why it is asking the two mega-banks to resubmit their capital plans, except to say that both had "weaknesses" in their plans or processes that required "immediate attention."
Dimon said that JPMorgan was "fully committed to meeting all of the Fed's requirements." Goldman said it would resubmit its plan, incorporating "certain enhancements" to its stress test procedures.
The banks with less-favorable results were Ally Financial and BB&T Corp. The Fed forbade them from going through with any dividend increases and share buybacks they may have asked for.
Detroit-based Ally shot back, saying its capital levels were strong and that the Fed's testing models were unreasonable, assuming loan-loss rates in at least some areas that were much greater than what the bank had experienced even in the peak of the Great Recession. Ally, the former financial arm of General Motors, is still majority owned by the government because it hasn't paid back its crisis-era bailout loans. It called for the Fed to be more transparent about its stress test models and methods. Senior Fed officials have said they don't want to reveal everything about the tests to the banks, saying it would be akin to telling a student what was on a test beforehand.
BB&T, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., and concentrated in the Southeast, said it would resubmit its capital plan and that it believes that will "address the factors which led to the Fed's objections." It said it wasn't allowed to release specifics about why the Fed rejected its plan. Neither BB&T nor Ally specified exactly what they had asked for permission to do.
"We remain strongly committed to our shareholders and are proud to have one of the strongest dividend yields and highest payout rates in the industry," BB&T's CEO, Kelly King, said in a statement.
Senior Fed officials said there were different reasons behind their objections to Ally and BB&T. It found that a key capital ratio of Ally's would be just 1.5 percent if it proceeded with its capital plans as requested, then suffered a severe recession. The government wanted that ratio to be at least 5 percent.
The reason for BB&T's rejection was less obvious. Under those circumstances, the bank would have a capital ratio of 7.8 percent, according to the Fed's calculations -- well within the requirements.

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I do not have any photos as I was at a business lunch but oh my goodness the salad bar is too die for! I am partial to salad bars so if one is available I will usually order that. I cannot comment on the other food but the salad/soup bar is one of the bests I have had in a long time.
The fruit was fresh, they didn't try and serve some crappy white iceberg lettuce leaves. It was all greens and the toppings were really good. They even had a cucumber and vinegar salad. Hmmm. (Thank goodness I don't sit next to people at work)
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Lasith Malinga had rocked Pakistan early and since then it has been slow going for Pakistan. It is important they consolidate, don;t lose wickets and then build. As of now, they have now brought in Angelo Mathews, Sachithra Senanayake and Thisara Perera into the attack.
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HOPKINTON – Ed James of Hopkinton can't forget the day last summer when he received a phone call from his father telling him, "They just found an old grave in the sandbank behind the barn."
James got in his car and went up to the site, which his grandparents Harold and Barbara had purchased from Arthur Frink in the 1960s. The plot of land connects to the nearly 500 acres his great-grandfather Walter purchased along Tomoquag Road between the years of 1900 and 1936. James' uncle now runs a dairy farm on the property and the small sandbank has been used for decades to haul out fill when needed.
Workers were digging sand from the side of the steep bank when a hole toward the top of the bank suddenly opened and the skeletal parts of two human feet tumbled out onto the ground. Peering into the hole, the men could see a long rectangular hollow, carefully lined along four sides with mortared red bricks, stacked four rows high. The top of the grave was covered over with two large slabs of granite which were about six inches beneath the surface of the ground. One of the slabs slid down the hill along with the bones.
"I flipped that piece over to see if there was anything written on it," James said. "They were about seven inches thick and I'm gonna say they weighed about 70 pounds apiece because I had a hard time moving that one."
The skeleton inside the grave contained the rib cage "which was spread out," James said. It also contained all the leg bones, arm bones, spinal column, lower jaw and skull. The skull lay at the far end of the grave, about three feet from a stone wall property boundary.
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I finished Tony Judt's Postwar--a book which ends as it begins, with Europe in process--just in time to catch the most recent reported musings of Phil Robertson. Here he is offering Christian marriage counseling to a young man:
I said "Well son, I'm going give you some river rat counseling, here. Make that sure she can cook a meal. You need to eat some meals that she cooks. Check that out. Make sure she carries her Bible. That'll save you some trouble down the road. And if she picks your ducks, now that's a woman."
They got to where they getting hard to find, mainly because these boys are waiting until they get to be about 20 years old before they marry 'em. Look, you wait 'til they get to be twenty years-old and the only picking that's going to take place is your pocket. You got to marry these girls when they're about fifteen or sixteen and they'll pick your ducks. You need to check with Mom and Dad about that of course.
In many parts of America, this is an argument for statutory rape. More specifically, it is an argument for men seeking to elide the power of grown women, by seeking their sexual partners among teenage girls. This style of svengalism is generally seen as repugnant to our morality. Phil Robertson believes that society should withhold civil rights from consenting gay men, while allowing men like him to push the age of consent to its breaking point. The contradiction here is as predictable as it is ridiculous. The loudest of doomsayers, so often, carry the weightiest of sin.
Postwar ends with a Europe of Hitler's nightmares--darker, older, less Christian. The continent is teetering, its welfare state endangered, its peace, uneasy before the genocide in the Balkans. One get the sense that Judt believes that Europe has accomplished something--relative prosperity, democracy in most of its countries, lengthening life spans, acknowledgment of the Holocaust. But Judt believes in a world of actions, not monuments, and not shibboleths. Democracy is a struggle, not a trophy and not a bragging right. This is not a matter of being polite and sensitive. It is understanding that we live on the edge of the volcano, that the volcano is in us. Judt is keenly aware that late 20th century Europe's accomplishments could be wrecked by the simple actions of men.
When I lived in Paris, this summer, I loved walking across Pont Neuf. There was something to the idea that I was standing on a bridge older (by centuries) than my entire homeland. When the murderous demagogue Slobodan Milošević rallied the Serbs, at Blackbird's Field, he was appealing to a memory older than Columbus. But Pont Neuf could fall next week. And everyone knows what followed Milošević's words.
Vulgar nationalists often point to Europe as evidence of something that all humans, from Phil Robertson on down, strive for--certain civilized ground. And yet the greatest proponents of such certainty, of Utopia, of exceptionalism, of soloutionism, of Stalinism, of Bibles, of Qurans, of great civilization, and complete theories, are so often themselves engineers on the road to barbarism. What Judt wants us to see is the tenuousness of human creations, and thus the tenuousness of the West, itself. Having concluded that Europe (though not its Eastern half) has finally, in fits and starts, come to grapple with the Holocaust, he grows skeptical:
Evil, above all evil on the scale practiced by Nazi Germany, can never be satisfactorily remembered. The very enormity of the crime renders all memorialisation incomplete. Its inherent implausibility—the sheer difficulty of conceiving of it in calm retrospect—opens the door to diminution and even denial. Impossible to remember as it truly was, it is inherently vulnerable to being remembered as it wasn't. Against this challenge memory itself is helpless
But memory is constantly invoked. When Nicolae Ceauşescu's henchmen begin to turn on him, they condemn him in predictable terms:
Romania is and remains a European country. . . . You have begun to change the geography of the rural areas, but you cannot move Romania into Africa.
But Romania, is, indeed, in Africa--the Africa of European imagination, the Africa which justified slavery, which brims with rape, murder and cannibalism. All of Europe lives in that imagined, projected Africa. In a little over a decade, in the middle of the civilized continent, 14 million people were killed.
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No matter which technology was used, the killing was personal. People who starved were observed, often from watchtowers, by those who denied them food. People who were shot were seen through the sights of rifles at very close range, or held by two men while a third placed a pistol at the base of the skull. People who were asphyxiated were rounded up, put on trains, and then rushed into the gas chambers. They lost their possessions and then their clothes and then, if they were women, their hair. Each one of them died a different death, since each one of them had lived a different life.
Snyder quotes the poet Anna Ahkmotova addressing the legions of the dead--"I'd like to call you all by name."
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JEFFERSON CITY – Gov. Jay Nixon has set Aug. 5, 2014, as the date for special elections to fill vacant House seats in the 67th District, the 120th District and the 151st District.
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Alki, Capitol Hill, Belltown to star in new feature film
A feature film starring Toni Collette and Thomas Haden Church is being shot in several Seattle neighborhoods. Director Megan Griffiths ("The Off Hours") is at the helm.
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It's a cold, rainy morning in West Seattle, and two Oscar-nominated actors are trying to break into a house. Toni Collette ("The Sixth Sense"), in leather jacket and jeans, rattles a basement window; Thomas Haden Church ("Sideways") tries turning the doorknob. It's open. She's chagrined.
This is Scene 72 of the romantic comedy "Lucky Them," shooting in Seattle at various locations throughout the month — and it's been in the making for many years, with a family tree that includes the late Paul Newman. Local filmmaker Megan Griffiths, known for "Eden" (which received several honors at last year's Seattle International Film Festival) and "The Off Hours" (SIFF and Sundance, 2011), is its director. The cast also includes Oliver Platt, Ryan Eggold and Ahna O'Reilly.
Collette stars as a rock journalist who returns to Seattle to stalk a musician ex-boyfriend; Church is a documentary-filmmaker wannabe who accompanies her. Locals make up most of the crew and much of the remaining cast — including Seattle filmmaker Lynn Shelton ("Your Sister's Sister"), here playing a small role.
The road "Lucky Them" followed to Seattle was a long one; beginning 10 years ago when actor/writer Emily Wachtel began working on a screenplay based loosely on her own experiences. "I was dating a lot of rock musicians then," she said, watching the action on set last week, shaking her head in disbelief at finally seeing her story before the cameras.
Eventually, Wachtel showed a completed draft to her godfather, Paul Newman, who liked what he saw and became her mentor for the project. After Newman's death in 2008, his widow, Joanne Woodward, became an executive producer for the potential film, which at one point had Alec Baldwin, Marisa Tomei and Allison Janney, as well as Church (who's been attached to "Lucky Them" for six years), reported to be in the cast. Time went by, windows of opportunity closed, and it looked possible that "Lucky Them," like so many movie projects, might never happen.
But things finally began to coalesce in mid-2012, with the arrival of Griffiths and co-producer Lacey Leavitt (also a Seattleite). It was one of those serendipitous connections, said Leavitt last week: Wachtel had approached Colin Trevorrow, director of last year's made-in-Seattle comedy "Safety Not Guaranteed" (which Leavitt co-produced), about directing "Lucky Them"; he wasn't available, but suggested the producers check out Griffiths' work.
With a director finally on board, "Lucky Them" began to come together: Collette signed on for the lead role, and Griffiths and Leavitt reassembled most of the crew from "Eden" and "The Off Hours." Shooting in Seattle began on what would have been Newman's 87th birthday, Jan. 26, and has taken place in a number of locations including Alki Beach, Capitol Hill (The Comet, Vermillion), Sodo and Belltown (The Crocodile, Rob Roy, Marrakesh).
After the Seattle shoot wraps this week, postproduction will begin in New York with editor Meg Reticker ("30 Rock"). Leavitt said that the tentative plan is to complete the film in time for submission to the Toronto International Film Festival, which takes place in September. Ideally, a distribution deal might follow, as would increased national recognition for Griffiths.
Meanwhile, back in West Seattle, the crew gathers around a monitor, watching as Collette and Church, outside the basement door, play out Scene 72 several times. The living room of the house (which plays the role of the ex-boyfriend's childhood home) is filled with crew members dressed for the day's frigid weather; cardboard protects the floors, furniture is pushed to the side. The first assistant director, who functions like a theater production's stage manager, calls for quiet. Finally, Griffiths is satisfied and calls "and, cut." And the journey of "Lucky Them" goes on.
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Center Stage: Purduettes October Break Performance Tour Day 2
Monday, October 11, 2010
Though space was small, the ladies made the best of their surroundings at the nursing home.
Not only did the ladies sing a run out to their audience, but some of the Purduette's, including Raylene Schramer and Caroline LaDue got sung back to as well.
After the ladies sang their run out, The Purduette Trio, Hannah Burris, Abby Green and Rachel Lane, sang some of their songs.
The ladies watch Jeff for instruction after signing.
Senior, Sarah Kretzmann and Tina Tzinares mingle after our show and before leaving for McDonalds.
Sophomores Laanne Schideler, Chrissy Kvachkoff and Collette Pfeiffer find the kid inside while at McDonalds children's place.
The Purduette's sang "We Love You" to McDonalds Staff member who helped our visit be successful.
While during lunch break the ladies were divided into groups to eat or go shopping. Junior Sara McNally and Sophomore Amanda Smith have fun looking for Halloween decorations.
Senior Amanda Haney collected the McDonald Monopoly pieces to see if The Purduette's won anything. Unfortunately no such luck.
While on the way to the Peter Loon Estate the back of the bus begun to leak! Luckily there were towels and empty cups for freshman Ally Lawrence, Kathryn Johnson, and seniors Tina Tzinares, and Tara Knoop to catch the water.
While in Cincinnati, many of the Purduette's stayed at home with members of Bob and Marcy Ziecks Temple. Since many of the ladies had questions about Jewish traditions, Sophomore Amanda Berggren answered any questions ladies had.
Once at the Peter Loon Estate, the show was started with The Flappers including, Raylene Schramer, Lyndsey Hernandez, Chrissy Kvachkoff, and Rachelle Buuck.
After President France Còrdova welcomed everyone and Purdue Faculty talked about their advancements in Cancer Research, the Purduette's took the stage.
Sophomore Alyssa Prast sang "This Can't be Love" to Purdue's First Gentleman Chris Foster.
Sophomore Caroline LaDue ended "I've got the Music in me."
After the show, the ladies had the chance to mingle with the audience. Members of Kappa Alpha Theta, including Seniors Katie Watson, Emily Grimm, Junior Allie Norman, and Freshmen Diana Poulin and Alyssa Wick got the chance to meet a Theta Alumni.Back to top


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Professional Development Institute
Simmons School of Social Work is a leader in providing professional continuing education for social workers. We offer Category I Continuing Education credits to social workers.
Professional Development Institute
Online Training
Domestic Violence Training
This is a self-paced domestic violence training program geared to social workers at all levels of experience.
Social workers, whatever their specific role, will encounter families and individuals affected by domestic violence or intimate partner violence (IPV), terms we use interchangeably. Given the prevalence of domestic violence and the serious risks to physical and emotional health associated with it, all social workers should have, at least, a basic level of training in this area.
To that end, between June, 2000 and June, 2002, the Massachusetts NASW Committee on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault developed the "Web-based Domestic Violence Training Curriculum." Beginning on the Simmons College School of Social Work web system, it was subsequently put onto the World Wide Web with the intention of training Massachusetts social workers. Once available, however, it was used all over the country by social workers and others.
In 2010 we again revised it in its present form.
The training is organized into short chapters, each followed by a quiz. On completion of each quiz, you can click on "view attempt" and open a window that indicates whether your answer agrees with our preferred answer, and if not, tells you our preferred answer. A final quiz on all the chapters can be submitted for social work CEU's.
The goal is enough knowledge for you to be helpful in the moment and to make optimal use of your local resources. It is intended to increase access to important information, but it does not replace live training, which may be available in your community.
A few hours with a self-paced training program is only a beginning.
Hopefully, you will come away from the self-paced training aware of "red flags" for dangerous violence, critical resources, and basic safety planning principles. You can also download a manual, which we hope will be a useful resource to you. Some of the information should be of enduring value. However, some laws and many resources (especially phone numbers) often change.
Learning Goals
- Familiarity with definitions of domestic violence, distinctions among types of violence, and issues in establishing prevalence.
- Clarity about ones own goals and role in responding to those in situations of intimate violence.
- Increased skill in sensitive interviewing of survivors
- Ability to recognize threats to safety from intimate violence.
- Ability to help clients/patients/survivors assess their level of danger and their resources for safety.
- Ability to safety plan with victims/survivors.
- Knowledge of legal and community resources for victims/survivors.
- Knowledge of risks, legal requirements, and resources for children involved in domestic violence situations.
- Knowledge of legal requirements and resources for men and women who use violent behavior.
Many people contributed to the earlier version and to this one. Some of Susan Jensen's language from the early version is retained here. Those who reviewed sections of the current version and gave helpful suggestions include:
- Beth Nagy - Massachusetts Department of Public Health
- Betsy McAllister Groves - Child Witness to Violence Project, Boston Medical Center
- David Adams - Emerge
- Jeff Wolfe - Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
- Lonna Davis - Family Violence Prevention Fund
- Joanne B. Timmons, MPH - Domestic Violence Program Coordinator, Boston Medical Center
- Ann Fleck-Henderson
Begin the self-paced Domestic Violence Training Program
Upon completion of all course units, you will be able to take a ten question quiz. A full score of 100% correct answers on the quiz is required to receive continuing education credit. Following successful completion of the quiz, you will have the option to make an on-line payment of the CEU fee. The fee is $20.00. A Simmons School of Social Work CEU certificate of completion will be sent to you by mail. Three (3) CEUs.


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Shaking, Not Stirring, Lands Local Mixologist In The Limelight
After a decade behind the bar of Martini Italian Bistro, mixologist Gary Gruver has hit the big time.
This year, Gruver won the chance to compete in a nationwide bartending contest sponsored by GQ Magazine and Bombay Sapphire Gin in Las Vegas, where his Sapphire Fleur de Lis earned him an 11th place finish out of 46 finalists.
Consequently, Gruver walked away with a handful of goodies, a photo shoot featured in the December 2011 issue of GQ, and another that will appear inside the February 2012 issue.
I recently caught up with Gruver to learn about his success as a bartender and the unexpected benefits that come with the job.
Ashley Anderson
How did you get entered into the bartending contest?
Representatives will come and ask if you want to be in the contest. This year (the preliminaries were) at the PNC Suites at Papa John's. I won that portion of the contest to go to Vegas.
Eighteen hundred bartenders compete nationwide and whoever gets the most votes wins.
How did you come up with the ingredients for the Bombay Sapphire Fleur de Lis?
I played around with it and I probably had about 40 different variations. I had a panel of my friends one night just sit at the bar and I made them drinks, and they all voted on it.
You already appeared in the December issue of GQ and will appear again in the February issue. What was the photo shoot like?
I haven't done the February shoot yet. For (the December) issue I did a photo shoot at the Wynn Club. It was a two-hour photo shoot in the lobby and they shot me and three other guys.
Did you win anything else besides the GQ photo shoot?
Bartender's tools – real pricey stuff – and a big sapphire jewel.
What is your ultimate goal as a bartender? Would you like to venture out to the New York or LA market?
I love Louisville and I have a good niche here. I'd like to see myself grow here and maybe, who knows, have my own lounge.
What would you say is the biggest benefit you get from bartending?
Definitely networking and just meeting new people from all different walks of life. I travel a lot with bartending too and have been down to bar tend the Super Bowl and the Black Eyed Peas concert. You wouldn't think it, but a whole lot of different avenues open up to you with bartending.
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PURPOSE: To promote the game of tennis and raise money for the Children's Home of Pittsburgh via KAC Charities: http://kaccharities.blogspot.com/
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Once your check is received you will be added to the ladder. Proceeds benefit the Children's Home of Pittsburgh. http://www.childrenshomepgh.org/
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Runner-Up: TBD
MATCHES: Single match play only for those with an NTRP rating of at least 3.0
TIMELINE: Play runs May 1 to September 1; playoffs to be completed by September 25; championship to be completed by October 1.
SCORING: 20 point Leap-Frog (best of 3 sets) http://tennisengine.com/info/ranksys_20.asp
MATCH PLAY: A player can challenge any other player on the ladder up or down. The day, time, and location of the match must be mutually agreeable. If there is a court fee involved it is to be split evenly between the two players. Both players must bring an unopened can of regular tennis balls. the winner gets the unopened can.
If a player is more than 15 minutes late their opponent may declare a forfeit and score the match 6-0, 6-0. If play is suspended for any reason the match is to resume from the point of suspension. Any other arrangement must be agreed upon by both players.
If a player defaults during a match for any reason games will be added to the non-defaulting player so as to conclude the match in their favor. For example: Player A leads player B 6-3, 3-0 then player A defaults. Player B wins the match 3-6, 6-3, 6-0.
If you split the first two sets and time/daylight is running out you may play a Super Tie Break in lieu of the third set provided both players agree. First player to win 9 points wins the set. Regardless of Super Tie Break score the set is recorded 7-6.
RECORDING THE SCORE: The winner should record the score on http://www.tennisengine.com/ within 6 hours of the match.
1. Log into tennisengine.com
2. At the bottom, click on the 'Enter Match' icon
3. Complete, check for accuracy, and click 'Enter This Match'
If you make an error please contact the administrator at firstname.lastname@example.com for you will not be able to correct the error.
SPORTSMANSHIP: All players are expected to adhere to the USTA playing rules and the Code of Tennis. http://www.usta.com/
PLAYOFFS: Minimum of 12 matches against 12 different opponents is required to qualify. http://kactennisbracket.blogspot.com/p/playoff.html
The top 14 players who qualify, as ranked on September 1 at 12:01 am will compete in the playoffs. Record your score as normal on tennisengine.com Super Tie Break does not apply.
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Say goodbye to scratches with this homemade iPad case. Layer strips of felt to create flowers and add then to your Felt iPad Cover from Heidi Borchers. This is a great way to keep your technology safe when you travel. Plus, the florals will always remind you of spring.
- Aleene's Super Thick Tacky Glue
- 9″ x 12″ Felt – colors of your choice (I used 3 colors green, 2 colors pink, 2 colors purple, orange, butterscotch and yellow)
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- Sewing machine (or needle and thread)
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- Velcro (for closure)
I used two pieces of 9″ x 12″ felt for my iPad cover. Cut approximately 1″ off one end of one piece of felt. This will allow for one piece to fold over the top end and velcro close.
Stack the two pieces of felt, matching bottom edges, place iPad on top and mark stitching lines. Stitch together along stitching lines. If needed, cut away excess.
To create the floral design, cut strips of felt 1/4″ wide. Using photo as guide, determine desired pattern.
For the daisy flowers, start with 2-1/4″ strip of light pink. Dip end of toothpick into glue and glue ends of strip together. Next, cut 2-1/2″ strip of darker pink felt. Glue ends over light pink petal. Continue to build each petal with strips of felt glued at end. Create 5 matching petals for the daisy.
For the flower center, apply glue to end of yellow strip and begin to roll. Keep adding a dab of glue every 1/2″ and rolling to create desired size of flower center.
The leaves are created the same way as the flower petals.
The stems are 4 strips of felt glued together.
To create the sunflower, begin the same as for a flower center but continue to add various colored strips of felt to create a large center. The outside petals are created with one strip of orange felt.
To adhere the pieces to the cover, use toothpick to apply glue to the back of the assembled pieces and glue in place. When gluing in place, be sure to add "movement" to your stems and shape to your leaves. Be sure to leave enough room at the top so that you can fold over the flap.
- Adhere piece of Velcro to the top felt to use for closure. Glue left-over felt strips to top flap.
For a comprehensive video tutorial of this project, check out How to Make a Floral Felt iPad Cover.
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Gama Sonic GS-98D Royal Solar Double Post Mount Light, Weathered Bronze
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This item by Gama Sonic is available in a weathered bronze finish.
Capture the energy of the sun with this beautiful Royal solar lamp post light with two lamps in weathered bronze finish.
- This 7'4" high solar powered light with two lamps will add a distinctive look for the front or back yard area of your home.
- No wiring needed.
- The Royal solar lamp light is powder-coated cast-aluminum solar lantern, weather and rust resistant requiring no maintenance.
- The solar lantern turns on at dusk and off at dawn automatically.
- Discover new solar technology that is bright, long lasting, and in a timeless design.
- Using the patented cone reflector technology in combination with super bright white LED's, the Imperial solar lantern will beautifully illuminate your pathways, deck, and pool areas.
- High/low convenience switch.
- With a convenient high/low brightest switch, you can choose between a brighter light or longer lasting light.
- The solar lantern will shine for up to 15 hours on the low setting and up to 10 hours on the high setting with a single day's solar charge.
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Passport Accent Furniture 05F694 Swing Arm Sight Saver Floor Lamp
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This product from Passport Accent Furniture comes in an antique brass finish.
Swing arm Sight Saver™ floor lamp.
- Offers bright lighting with exceptional clarity and contrast.
- Revolutionized fluorescent technology – Easy on the eyes. No strain, no irritation.
- True color rendering – Closely replicates natural daylight with vibrant, uncompromised, absolute color authenticity.
- Energy-saving – 30 watts equal 130 incandescent watts. Low energy, low heat, serious savings.
- 2,050 lumens – Exceptional luminous intensity. Far exceeds 130w incandescent output.
- 6,000-hour minimum life – Lasts 6x longer than standard bulbs.
- Instant start-up – Immediate gratification. No flicker, no waiting.
- Powder coated reflector directs light where it is needed.
- Exclusive socket positions bulb for maximum clarity and contrast.
- Perfect for home offices, students, or hobbyists.
- Includes (1) 30w spiral Sight Saver™ CFL bulb with Medium base.
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The height of the lamp is 57 inches
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Includes (1) 30w spiral Sight Saver™ CFL bulb with Medium base.
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By Mary D. from Edmonds, WA on Sep 14, 2011
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Nice heavy lamp, we like the foot switch(we see this style in Europe too).
Looks great with our nautical decor.
Looks great with our nautical decor.
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Great addition to the living room
By Jan from Orcas Island, WA on Dec 01, 2012
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The lamp base was crushed in a couple of spots because of poor quality packing styrofoam. We called to return it and was told that they were out of stock and they didn't know when more would be coming in. As I wanted it sooner than later, we kept the lamp and the company gave us a partial credit. The lamp itself is solid and looks lovely; no issues with putting it together or the switch. The only negative is the light bulb! The shade does not cover it totally so it shines (very brightly) in our eyes! Can't change out the bulb because it has a special base.
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By Frederick S. from Niagara Falls, NY on Nov 12, 2012
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About only good part light was not damaged in shipping. Received light opened package not saving box or packing before reading disclaimer about seller not excepting returns with out the very same package. Proceeded to build light following directions. Threaded metal tubes did not fit well together. Top tube went together crooked, so when you swing arm light tilts up. Light on off switch lasted about a week before it quit working. Went to store and bought new switch. Would not refer this light or any made by MARIO LAMPS...
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About the same time that the Giant Pandas moved into their beautiful new home, the Red Pandas were packing their bags and moving from their home near the Lions to their new homes in the Bamboo Forest
There are two Red Panda enclosures. The three girls, Sogyal, Imandari and Maya, are in one and two boys, Shahin and Himal, in the other.
For the first month many people would have never known we had Red Pandas because they were adjusting to their new home and mostly hanging inside, only venturing outside when no one was around.
Two months later, all the Red Pandas are settling into their home. Usually before the heat of the day settles in you can see all 5 out in their exhibits, eating bamboo and taking in the morning sun. One of the boys, Himal, climbs to extraordinary heights, giving some of us keepers a scare but these are arboreal animals, living their life in the trees.
In addition to their enclosure climbing structures they have air conditioned dens with environmentally friendly "green roofs". In the wild Red Pandas live in temperate climates (no extreme hot or cold), so the 40 degree plus summer days in Adelaide can be trying when you are wearing a fur coat. Not only does the air con provide cool air into the den but the green roof has a foot of soil on top, planted with dwarf bamboo, that provides insulation and helps keep that cool air in. So they are usually hanging out in the dens when the sun is warming up their outdoor enclosure.
So on your way to and from seeing Wang Wang and Funi make sure you stop by and say hello to the Red Pandas... just make sure you look up!
We nicknamed one of the males 'Sammy' - he had a behavioural trait of pacing his enclosure on the ground, almost in an OCD manner. it was mentioned in his notes that he had psychological disturbances as a result of a badly managed separation from his mother. Is he still around (not sure if he's either Shahin and Himal you've mentioned, but those names don't sound familiar)?


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1881 (Kazan, Russia)
1955 (Santa Monica, California)
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Born in Russia in Kazan on the banks of the Volga River, Nicolai Fechin became one of America's foremost ethnic portrait painters during the early 20th century.
He spent his childhood in the Volga Forest and learned wood carving from his father who worked with metals and wood as a craftsman. When he was 13, Fechin enrolled with a scholarship at the Kazan Art School, founded by his grandfather, and six years later, he began study at the Imperial Academy of Art in St. Petersburg. There he was a student of Ilya E. Repin, who tried to make his students aware of social evils and to reflect the realities of Russian life in their art work. Architecture was also a required part of the curriculum. Fechin was highly influenced by Repin, who asserted that artists' work should be motivated by the idea of conveying morality and literal truth rather than just aesthetics. A second teacher, Malavin, taught him to use wide, nervous-seeming brush strokes and to use his fingers in the paint to achieve a sense of texture.
After graduation from the Academy, Fechin was a teacher at the Kazan Art School, and also studied at the Imperial Academy of Art in Petrograd, which became Leningrad. Excelling there, he earned scholarship money to study in Paris and throughout Europe, and he was glad to leave Russia because of suffering deprivation during the Bolshevik Revolution. In Europe, he was fascinated by the Impressionists' manner of breaking up color, and he experimented with this style and with painting with a palette knife.
Very poor, he and his wife, Alexandra Belkovitch, and baby daughter, Eya, emigrated to America in 1923, something his wife insisted they do. Helped by wealthy sponsors, the family settled in Central Park in New York City where he struggled for a while to find work. Meanwhile he painted the variety of ethnic subjects he saw around him and was especially fascinated by black-skinned people. He taught at the New York Academy of Art until he gained gallery recognition, and his skills for portraiture became so well known that many upper class persons including novelist Willa Cather sought him out to do their portraits. During the summers, the family traveled west including to California, New Mexico and Pennsylvania.
When Fechin's suffering from tuberculosis became quite troublesome, his artist friends, John Young-Hunter and his wife, Mary, persuaded him to join them and their circle of friends in the drier climate of Taos, New Mexico. The Fechins stayed with former New Yorker Mabel Dodge Luhan for several months and felt comfortable in a community of adobe architecture and Indians that reminded him of Tartars of Kazan. Describing her father's reaction to this environment, his daughter, Eya, later wrote: "He loved the place. He had found an American 'home'. He said the Taos mountains reminded him of the beauty he had seen in Siberia. He painted with fervor. He felt particularly close to the Indians and his greatest American works were of Indians." (Balcomb xi-xii)
He built the family home around a previous structure, and inspired by Russian folk art, crafted much of the furniture using pinon fireplace logs . He also did intricate carving on the interior beams, columns and doors as well as the furniture.
In Taos, he was a hard-working man who did not socialize much but did numerous portraits of Indians, Mexicans and cowboys. These paintings are regarded as among his best work because of the exotic subject matter, high degree of modeling of the faces, and forceful, intense coloration. He also did impressionist wood sculpture.
In 1927, stormy divorce proceedings with his wife caused him to leave Taos. He and his daughter, Eya, went to New York briefly, and in 1936, about six months later, to California on the invitation from Los Angeles art dealer, Earl Stendahl, to have art shows and teach classes. For the next ten years, Fechin and Eya lived near each other in the Hollywood Hills. Fechin was well received, and his spirits picked up with his popularity among his students and the sales of his artwork. Bob Wagner in his magazine "Critic" wrote in the May 12, 1934 issue: "The first Nicolai Fechin canvas I ever saw nearly put me on my back---such color and brilliancy of technique!. . .what I saw convinces me that this Russian is one of the great artists of all time." (Balcomb xiii)
From California, Fechin traveled to Mexico, Japan, Java and Bali, which he loved and where he spent considerable time, but the damp climate caused him illness.
In the mid 1940s, Eya married, became a performing modern dancer and dance therapist, and then moved around, living in Colorado, New Mexico, and then in Iowa where she opened a psychodrama department in a state mental hospital. After some years, she divorced, remarried, and moved back to California. Meanwhile, left alone with a big house, Fechin decided at the urging of Eya to buy his Santa Monica studio property. There, according to his daughter, he was content and social "in contrast to his withdrawn silent attitude towards people in the past." (Balcomb xvi)
Shortly before he died in Santa Monica on October 5, 1955, he was persuaded by his biggest collector and good friend, John Burnham, to have a simultaneous retrospective at the art museums in San Diego and La Jolla. The events were huge successes and a chance for Fechin to see canvases he had not seen for many years.
After the death of Nicolai Fechin, his former wife and daughter lived in the family home in Taos. In 1981, Eya Fechin Branham spearheaded the formation of the Fechin Institute, a non-profit, educational organization headquartered in the house. An extensive collection of his work is housed there. Also the Stark Museum in Orange, Texas has over 50 Fechin paintings as well as some of his wood carvings.
Mary Balcomb, "Nicolai Fechin"
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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Born in Kazan, Russia on Nov. 28, 1881, Nicolai Fechin was raised in the dark Volga forest amidst the wild Tartar tribes. Fechin's early art training came from his father who was a poor wood and metal craftsman. At age 13 he received a scholarship to the Kazan Art School (which was founded by his grandfather) and at age 19 entered the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersburg where he was greatly influenced by Ilya Repin.
After graduating in 1909, he taught at the Kazan Art School. Following several years of deprivation during the Bolshevik Revolution and WWI, he immigrated to America with his wife and baby daughter in 1923. Fechin struggled for a meager existence in NYC doing portraits and teaching until his work was discovered by local galleries.
Sick with tuberculosis, he moved to Taos, NM in 1926. While there, he did his finest work and became nationally known as a painter of Indians, Mexicans, and cowboys. He also created impressionistic wood sculpture. At the height of his career, marital problems and ultimate divorce necessitated his move from Taos.
In 1936 he settled in Santa Monica, CA and began an art school. An avid supporter of modern art, Fechin was a superb technician who often used a palette knife to apply his oils. His bold, dramatic, and brilliantly colored canvases rank him among the giants in American art.
He died at his home in Santa Monica on Oct. 5, 1955.
Imperial Academy of FA, Petrograd, 1908 (1st prize); Int'l Glass Palace, Munich, 1909 (gold medal); NAD, 1924 (Proctor prize), 1925; Stendahl Gallery (LA), 1927Calif. State Fair, 1930; LACMA, 1935 (1st prize); Foundation of Western Artists, 1936 (medal of honor); GGIE, 1939; Oakland Art Gallery, 1939; Stendahl Gallery (LA), 1930s-1940s; Maxwell Gallery (SF), 1968.
AIC; Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, Leningrad; Kazan Museum; Museum of NM; Nat'l Cowboy Hall of Fame.
Edan Hughes,
"Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Nicolai Fechin by Mary N. Balcomb;
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American Art Annual
American Western Art
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Artists of the American West
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Biography from
Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery Santa FeTucson
Nicolai Fechin was one of the most unusual and inventive of the Taos artists, an internationally-acclaimed academic artist whose work while in New Mexico looks unlike almost any other artist practicing in the region at the time.
Born in Kazan, Russia, Fechin's father was a woodcarver and guilder. His hard-working and fastidious nature rubbed off on his son, who was a somber and serious individual with little disposition towards socializing and seemingly unlimited amounts of time for his art. At the age of thirteen, Nicolai enrolled at the newly-opened Art School of Kazan, which was essentially a satellite campus of the Imperial Academy of Art of St. Petersburg, which he went on to study at the completion of his studies in Kazan. There, he was a star student, receiving a six-year scholarship and exhibiting work at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh (where he first came to the attention of American collectors) and the Prix de Rome (at which he won a gold medal). This international fame would be crucial as, in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution, Fechin's life became quite hard and, with the help of American collectors W.S. Stimmel and Jack R. Hunter, he and his family were repatriated to New York City, where Fechin taught at the New York Academy of Art. In 1924 he won the Thomas Proctor Azard for best portrait at the National Academy Exhibition, and it appeared that Fechin's New York career was picking up.
A bout of tuberculosis put an end to that, however, and Fechin, following in the footsteps of a great many artists who first discovered New Mexico as invalids, moved to Taos in order to recover. There, he stayed with Mabel Dodge Luhan while he built his own home, the sumptuous Fechin House, still standing today and absolutely remarkable in the level of detail and craftsmanship in the Fechin-designed structure. Architecture had been a required element of the curriculum at the Imperial Academy, and Fechin's house is a gorgeous regionalized piece of modernism, blending together the architecture of the Tatars of his native Russia with the pueblo architecture of the southwest. In his painting, Fechin focused on portraits, generally of native peoples.
It was the technique and the approach that made a Fechin portrait more than the equal of anyone else's. Masterful with a palette knife, with extraordinary color usage, Fechin used whatever he could, including his hands, the achieve the effect he was looking for. His portraits have nervous lines and a frenetic energy that seems to focus the viewer's attention on the facial features of the individual being painted. They were highly sought-after by the rich and famous, and some celebrities, including Willa Cather, chose Fechin to paint their portraits.
In 1927 Fechin became embroiled in a messy and destructive divorce that necessitated his departure from Taos. At the urging of the Los Angeles art dealer Earl Stendahl, he moved to the Hollywood Hills. He also began traveling extensively, visiting Bali, Java, Mexico and Japan. In the late 1930s he attempted to live in Bali, but was driven back to the United States by the beginning of Japanese hostilities in the Pacific. He bought a studio in Santa Monica and became more sociable than was his custom. In October 1955, shortly before his death, a major retrospective of his work was launched in San Diego and La Jolla, at which Fechin was able to see a number of paintings he had not seen for decades.
Biography from
Thomas Nygard Gallery
Nicolai Fechin was born in the village of Kazan, Russia, the son of a skilled craftsman Ivan Alexandrovitch Fechin, an accomplished woodcarver, icon maker, and gilder. At the age of thirteen, Fechin was ready to begin his life's work. The Art School of Kazan, a branch of the celebrated Imperial Academy of Art of St. Petersburg, had just opened, and the promising young youth received a six-year scholarship.
His work first appeared in America at the International Exhibit of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. In both western Europe and America, Fechin was greeted with instant acclaim. Among such distinguished contemporaries as Claude Monet, Pisarro, Gaston Latouche, Sisley and John Sargent, he won his first prizes and medals. He was called a "Moujik in art," the "Tartar painter."
Hardships following the Bolshevik Revolution eventually led Fechin to take his wife Alexandra and daughter Eya to the United States in 1923. The family first settled in New York, but not for long. Since a child, he had loved the somber forests and peoples near the Tartar border in his homeland. He found their equal in the high pine forests of the Colorado Plateau, the old adobe villages, and the Pueblo, Apache and Navajo tribes of the American Southwest. He moved his family to Taos, where a small community of artists also made their home. There he purchased a house in the middle of seven acres adjoining the Indian reservation.
His father's influence took over as Fechin spent the next several years hand crafting every viga, corbel, lintel and swinging door and niche for icons. Today the home itself remains a work of architectural art.
For seven years, before finally settling in Santa Monica, California, Fechin took great delight in the abundance of subject matter the Taos area provided him. He worked with vibrant hues to paint the native people. He traveled south to Mexico to sketch in charcoal, pencil, and pastel the many faces of its people. The sketches reveal the superb draftsmanship underlying all his work.
Author Frank Waters once wrote of Fechin's paintings: "How they shout and sing! No man . . . has his intensity of color. Few can equal his masterful draftsmanship. Whatever his subject, Fechin's work is stamped with his immediately recognizable style."
Biography from
Nedra Matteucci Galleries
Nicolai Fechin was born in Kazan, Russia. His father was a woodcarver, gilder and maker of church altars. At age fourteen, Fechin enrolled in the Kazan Art School. He continued his studies at the Imperial Academy of Fine Art in St. Petersburg where he studied with the great Russian painter, Ilya Repin. For his last year at the Academy, Fechin was required to produce competitive canvases. Fechin won the Prix de Rome for one such painting entitled Bearing off the Bride (which is now in the permanent collection of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame) entitling him to a traveling scholarship abroad. This canvas was later sent to an exhibition in Munich where it won a gold medal and brought Fechin international acclaim.
Annually from 1910 forward, Fechin received invitations to international exhibitions, including those at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. Fechin was well-respected in Russia and was commissioned to paint a portrait of V.J. Lenin in 1918. Two of Fechin's U.S. patrons, W.S. Stimmel and Jack R. Hunter, were responsible for bringing Fechin and his family out of the Soviet Union in 1923.
Once in the United States, Fechin began teaching at the New York Academy of Art. In 1924 he won the coveted Thomas Proctor prize for best portrait at the National Academy Exhibition. Fechin was stricken with tuberculosis in 1926; his doctor prescribed the dry climate of the Southwest.
Fellow painter John Young-Hunter spoke very highly of Taos and its art community, and at the invitation of Mable Dodge Luhan, Fechin and his family moved to Taos, New Mexico. Fechin's brilliant portraits from this period are a reflection of the region. The images of the local Indians and Hispanics are colorful, dramatic, and filled with intense character.
Continuing to broaden his perspective, Fechin left for southern California, where he established his studio and taught for the remainder of his life. Fechin's paintings reflect his remarkable skill and artistry at capturing the mood and personality of his subject. The strength and power of Fechin's work have left a lasting and distinctive impression on art in the U.S.
Biography from
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Nicolai Fechin
Born: Kazan, Russia 1881
Died: Santa Monica, California 1955
Taos painter of Indian portraits, sculptor
Nicolai Fechin's father was a destitute craftsman in wood and metal in Russia. When Fechin was four, he became seriously ill and was given up for dead but restored by the touch of the Ikon of Tischinskoya. His boyhood was spent in the dark Volga forest with its wild Tartar tribes. When he was 13, he received a scholarship to the Art School of Kazan founded by his grandfather. At 19, he began his studies at the Imperial Academy of Art in St. Petersburg, the pupil of Ilya Repin who had introduced contemporary Russian art to the West in 1893. Fechin graduated in 1909 and was awarded a traveling scholarship through Europe. He was called "the Tartar painter" and was an instant success in European and American exhibitions with his palette-knife technique. When the Bolshevik Revolution followed WWI, Fechin left Russia for America after six years of privation. He was immediately popular in NYC with portrait commissions from celebrities and a first prize for portraits from the National Academy in 1924.
In 1927, he moved permanently to Taos, beginning at once on his stream of portraits of Southwestern types, painting by day and sculpting at night. Fechin was of medium, quick and direct, as sparse in speech as in art, painting only from life, a master of color. Fechin never lacked technical deftness but he did limit depicted emotions to "rugged and sober" for Indians and "exuberant and pleasing" for his other sitters. About 1936 he traveled through Mexico, making drawings. In 1938, he moved to Bali but was forced back to the US by WWII. He settled in Santa Monica, again painting people of the Southwest.
Resource: SAMUELS' Encyclopedia of ARTISTS of THE AMERICAN WEST,
Peggy and Harold Samuels, 1985, Castle Publishing
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