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Much of 850R said is fine and good pratice (esp. the issue of pH matching) but the issue with the bag being too 'dirty'? Please, you are adding a fish already exposed to what the bag has on it - that is, their aquarium water!
I'm assuming 850R wasn't referring to "dirt" on the bag; he was pointing out that if they use some sort of chemical cleaner on the counters and then the bag gets rested on it, you'd be putting those chemicals into the tank when you float the bag. I've honestly never thought about this before, but I've also been drip acclimating instead of floating for quite a while now.
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Describing his process, the artist noted, "It all springs from the initial feeling...there is something that sort of halts you like a movie suddenly stopping."
In Jackson's work, single moments are drawn out to a heroic scale until, in the final work, time appears perfectly suspended and every realistic detail is visible. In the artist's hands, a simple scene of a prairie home, a city street, or a quiet pastime yields a deeper expression of everyday life.
American Moderns, 1910–1960: From Georgia O'Keeffe to Norman Rockwell presents 57 artworks from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum in an exploration of the myriad ways in which American artists engaged with modernity.
Ranging widely in subject matter and style, the 53 paintings and four sculptures were produced by leading artists of the period.
Included in the exhibition are Georgia O'Keeffe, Milton Avery, Marsden Hartley, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Rockwell Kent, Joseph Stella, Elie Nadelman, and Norman Rockwell.
Significant works by these and other artists in the exhibition exemplify their unique contributions to modern culture.
Between 1910 and 1960, both American society and art underwent tumultuous and far-reaching transformations. The United States emerged as an international power of economic, industrial, and military might, while also experiencing two world wars and the Great Depression.
New technologies fundamentally changed the pace and nature of all aspects of modern life. America's increasingly diverse and mobile population challenged old social patterns and clamored for the equality and opportunities promised by the American dream. Art witnessed similarly dramatic changes as many artists rejected or reformulated artistic traditions, seeking new ways to make their work relevant in a contemporary context.
American Moderns, 1910–1960: From Georgia O'Keeffe to Norman Rockwell was organized by the Brooklyn Museum.
The Wichita presentation has been generously sponsored by Commerce Bank and the Trust Company of Kansas.
Paula and Barry Downing provided crucial exhibition support. Additional support is also provided by Charles Baker, Louise Beren, Linda and Douglas Brantner, J. Eric Engstrom, Norma Greever, Nancy and Tom Martin, Dr. Christopher A. and Aimee Moeller, and Georgia and Keith Stevens.
All museum exhibitions receive generous sponsorship from the Friends of the Wichita Art Museum Endowment Fund and the City of Wichita.
When modern photographer Alfred Stieglitz characterized his work, he once wrote: "What is important to me is to hold the moment... to put down something so completely that when you look at what you've put down, you will relive the original experience."
This point captures the driving mission for so many modern artists. Beginning in the late 19th century, artists turned away from the dominating art academies and traditions they considered rigid and stale.
Rather than continue with subjects and styles centuries old, progressive artist yearned to reflect their own time and to better express their experience. New forms of artistic expression--impressionism, cubism, futurism, as examples--went hand in hand with the moderns' pioneering vision for new art to reflect a new time.
The Wichita Art Museum holds a distinguished collection of American modernism. In conjunction with the touring exhibition of treasured gems of American modern art from the Brooklyn Museum, a selection of WAM's prized works on paper from this important moment in art history will be on view through the fall. The exhibition features glowing examples by Arthur Dove, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, John Marin, Maurice Prendergast, Alfred Stieglitz, and many others.
In turning away from confining artistic protocols and regulations, artists pressed for freedom of expression and innovation. As the American art critic Charles Caffin bemoaned in 1900, "a great deal of American painting is characterized by irreproachable table manners rather than salient expression, by a desire to be amiable rather than convincing." Moderns were renegades who championed self-expression, ignored the rules, and crafted their own, freshly original art. What appeared as radical at the time is now revered for boldness of vision and the depth of expression. This fall, the Wichita Art Museum galleries will sing with exquisite American drawings, watercolors, and prints from this dynamic moment of change in 1890 to 1950.
In 2013, Oxford Dictionaries named selfie the Word of the Year.
The use of the word increased 17,000% from January to December 2013. It was not only the use of the word that saw a dramatic jump, selfie images took over our computer and cell phone screens. Estimates suggest that over 18 million selfies are uploaded every week.
It seems like everyone who is anyone has posted a selfie somewhere on the internet: Pope Francis, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and political leaders--including British Prime Minister David Cameron and U.S. President Barack Obama.
While the culture of social media created the word, selfie, this type of imagery is not new. It is simply the most recent version of a much older artistic standard—the self-portrait. This form of expression, which can be traced back to ancient Greece, has quietly persisted throughout the history of art, only to emerge in our time as the most common type of digital image.
Why is the self-portrait so important to us today? This fall, WAM invites visitors to explore the relevance of this digital trend and its long artistic history with 20 self-portraits from the permanent collection probing the different forms of the selfie. Museum-goers will then be asked to take and contribute their own self-portrait--now popularly known as a selfie--at a user-friendly station in the Living Room. All the smiles and poses will be uploaded and displayed in digital frames in River Lobby.
The relationships we have with our family and friends are fundamental to our development. What lies at the heart of these relationships is usually unspoken--love, admiration, thanks, or even competition or envy. Often, those unexpressed feelings in a relationship act as fertile ground for an artist. With artworks from the Wichita Art Museum, Between You and Me invites viewers to consider the nature of emotional ties and how those ties can be the catalyst for the creative process.
Every work of art has a story to tell.
When John Steuart Curry was growing up in on his family farm near Dunavant, Kansas, he would often wander into the high fields of corn. "I remember," he wrote, "wandering through them and being over-powered by the fear of being lost in their green confines."
At 35 years of age, Curry returned to those fields to capture in his work the same sense of drama he felt, "beneath our windblown Kansas skies." For Curry, Kansas Cornfield represented the story of his youth on a Kansas farm.
When Curry's Kansas Cornfield entered WAM's permanent collection, a new chapter in its tale was written and a new story began. The work was the first painting collected by the Wichita Art Museum. As the foundational work of art for the new museum, the painting came to symbolize WAM's commitment to both the highest caliber American art and to Kansas audiences.
Today, Kansas Cornfield has become a part of many visitors' personal stories. Brett Zongker, an Associated Press journalist based in Washington D.C., recently featured the painting on his popular Twitter feed. As a self-described "son of Kansas," the painting represents home to Zongker.
Museums, by their very nature, are repositories of incredible stories. The Wichita Art Museum has introduced its visitors to the best American artwork and has been a part of thousands of engaging stories. In celebration of the museum's upcoming 80th anniversary in 2015, Storytelling, a reinstallation of the permanent collection, celebrates the histories, mysteries, and anecdotes that make the Wichita Art Museum collection unlike any other.
Each and every one of WAM's objects has a story to tell. What influenced its creation? Who is pictured? How did the work come to Wichita? Storytelling invites visitors to take another look at familiar favorites from the collection as well as important works that have been off view for many years. We hope that the artworks inspire a meaningful encounter with the past, one that is relevant to everyone's personal story today.
The term salon style derives from the exhibition of the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, which began in 1667 in Paris.
In order to display work by all the Academy's students, the paintings were hung as close as possible from floor to ceiling. In the nineteenth century, this salon-style hanging became increasingly popular across Europe and in the United States.
WAM's Carlene and Lee Banks Rotunda Gallery has been transformed into an American salon featuring remarkable 19th-century paintings from the museum's permanent collection.
The Wichita Art Museum holds the largest collection of Steuben glass outside the Corning Museum of Glass, the museum in the city of the former Steuben Glass Works. An impressive selection of the Dr. Robert S. Burnstein collection is now on display in the Lulu H. Brasted Board Room and the F. Price Cossman Memorial Trust Gallery.

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Just thought I'd put in my opinion since i bought it just because my Wagner brand i bought and used 5 years ago was dead. Thought, 20 buckaroonies... not going to risk a lot.I used it to prime the underside and sides of my deck that i'm going to paint instead of stain (so it will last longer). Using "Restore" on the top, that that's a different deal all together.Remember to dilute quite a bit. Comes with a strainer that says make sure the paint comes through it in 15-30 seconds. Truth be told, that rate is like water almost (water was 10 seconds). I diluted to a rate of about 45-60 seconds and it did great.Also, manual mentions has a latex tip (one that's on it when you buy it), but later on when you read about cleaning it says, "manufacturer does not recommend latex products with this device." Really kind of stupid inconsistencies. It did work!Keep a buck of soapy water outside so you can drop your parts in it as you finish painting.Oh, and be careful... just inside your main spraying connector is a swirl valve that will pop right out if you are not careful. It does need cleaning, but i lost it on the grass (did this with each device i've had).Even if the entire thing got ruined, I'd pay 20 buckaroonies to save myself the 4-8 hours of labor it just saved me. Primed my deck in 30 minutes....
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While I'm a huge HF shopper who often gambles on their low priced tools to be pleasantly surprised, this product frustrated the poop out of me. 9/10 tools I buy from HF are...Read complete review
While I'm a huge HF shopper who often gambles on their low priced tools to be pleasantly surprised, this product frustrated the poop out of me. 9/10 tools I buy from HF are well worth it, but this sprayer was the 1/10....I purchased to spray some indoor furniture with some latex primer & latex color. As stated in the other posts, one second it says great for latex, the next it says don't use with latex paints... So, I decide to proceed and run some water through the sprayer to get a feel for how the adjustments work and make sure the gun works. Works with water, so time for primer (with primer tip installed). I know the primer is too thick, so I thin it down, run it through and 2 seconds later clogged. I now have the pleasure of unclogging it which takes me 5 minutes give or take. I thin the primer more, spray, clog, clean, thin, spray, clog, clean, thin, spray, clog; until I now have a stupid thin primer that still won't come through the sprayer. At this point, I had enough and decided it was worth more to smash than to return. It is now in a couple hundred pieces strode about the garage; I feel much better, but my dresser is still not painted. I will continue to buy from HF and give other products a chance, but this one is a fail!!
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I bought this item today to stain my fence with Thompson's waterproofing stain. It worked great used 4 gallons with no problems and in about an hour and a half. Had no problems with cleanup. A great spray gun for the price .
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(2 of 3 customers found this review helpful)
Door painting
By Andy
from chicago
About Me Beginner
coats well, one time use tho you will not be able to clean the machine to reuse
(3 of 5 customers found this review helpful)
great value
By docspad
from grayslake il
About Me Avid Do-It-Yourselfer
Works great even with thick stain. Did an entire fence in a hour. Went through 6 gal of stain without any problem. Great product fot the price
(9 of 9 customers found this review helpful)
Not as bad as I thought it would be.....
By Aggieland Computer Repair
from College Station , TX
I bought this in the store and then read the reviews maybe not the best idea but read on. I took it out of the box read the manual (worthless) and read the reviews and decided to give it a go. I thinned the paint with water and it clogged within the first 5 minutes. I cleaned it and thinned the paint some more and ran a little water through it and used it for 3 hours straight without a hiccup went through 5 gallons of latex stormcoat. Its a excellent little sprayer regardless of it being cheap or not very well made has a feel of quality. I should note you cannot test the spray after cleaning without full reassemble the springs and nozzle work as a pump so it cannot spray without being all the way put back together after cleaning. I would buy again but don't expect to have to . Love it! With a little common sense you can get the job done with this.
(11 of 12 customers found this review helpful)
did what I needed
By Jim
from Charleston, WV
I bought this to put stain on the railing and lattice work on my porch. It did a great job. Glad I bought it, saved a ton of time over brushing the stain on.
(0 of 1 customers found this review helpful)
Good for at least a single use!
By Just call me Scott
from Buffalo, NY
I wanted to paint the vinyl shutters on my house to a different color so I removed them, gave them a good power wash, and was ready for painting. To paint these shutters (~20 of them) would have taken a very long time and consumed more paint than I wanted. I saw this sprayer and figured even if I used it just this one time and if it worked, it would be money well spent to save on paint and save on hours of labor.Purchased the unit, simple to assemble. Started painting. 45 min - 1 hour later, all 20 shutters had a beautiful coat of paint. The spray was a bit "globby" but that could very much be due to the type of paint I was using for outdoor. Regardless, paint tends to settle when drying and behold - the shutters dried perfectly, only one coat required (on vinyl!!). For my purposes, the unit did a fantastic job. I did try to use a few days later for another purpose and paint wouldn't come out, however I freely admin I did a poor job cleaning the unit after I intended to use once and thats it. I had a great experience, can't speak to its longevity but even higher-priced units like wagner have similar build quality and do not last forever.
Airless paint gun
By Jerry
from Lincoln Al
This is a great little gun just as good as the ones at the box stored for much more money. I used it to paint 400' of wood fencing its a little messy and does not hold much paint but does a great job. For the price you can't beat it
Great for what it is
By Art Heritis
from Illinois
For the price it's a very good value. Used it for latex to paint the house. Yes, there's overspray (sprayed the house 1st, then trimmed by hand).
(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)
Pretty darn happy for 19.99
By grego
from california
I used this little sprayer to paint 66 feet of picket fence. Sprays well ran 3 gallons through it no problems I sprayed two gallons through it cleaned it up with water and it fired up and ran great. I did have to thin the paint a bit that was the only draw back.
(7 of 8 customers found this review helpful)
Worked fine for fence
By aceeyeed
from Maryland
Saved 30% on labor. Prescreen/mesh before using paint. Ran 6 Gallons (10 hrs.) transparent stain over 2 days (30 sec on viscosity test) like any tool, read directions x2. Clean the tip each time you reload the paint with toothpick and rag. Know which tip to use, .5mm or .8. I used .5mm paint company posted the tip size. Test/train using brown paper and water. Use Teflon tape on the tip screw. I put a vid up so search on this (harbor 60446). Not for fine finish work. It does take time to learn how to spray if your new. After running cleaning solution twice , clean with a rag and put drops of light oil in the intake and outtake holes. trigger on 2 secs to distribute. learn adjustments. the flow on back adjust to the lowest setting possible,and the tip can be moved a hair to adjust spray pattern.
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Unlike my colleague Alexander Cockburn, I was not surprised by "HisPANIC: the Myth of Immigrant Crime," Ron Unz's article in The American Conservative showing that Latinos in the US have a crime rate no higher than that of whites once you adjust for age. That's because Unz's thesis, which both he and Alex think is new and original, is in fact well-known. Even I, no sociologist, was aware of it. I'm glad that Unz, a multi-millionaire best known for pushing California's successful 1998 referendum banning bilingual education, is challenging anti-immigrant rightwingers like Pat Buchanan and Glenn Beck. (For reasons I still don't understand, The Nation published a piece by Unz in support of his referendum, causing me to resign my largely ceremonial title as associate editor.) But it's annoying when conservatives take credit for work liberals have been doing for much longer and far more seriously. It's even more irritating when a leftist is so eager to bash liberals, he joins the parade.
A little research – some internet searches, a few e-mails, maybe (gasp) a phone call or two--would have shown how empty Unz's claims to originality are. But facts would have interfered with Alex's theory that "foundation liberals" left the research undone because they sympathize unconsciously with racism due to their obsession with "population control." Or something like that.
Let's go through Alex's claims.
Has Ron Unz discovered something new? No. The low crime rate of Latinos has been studied by social scientists for over a decade now. It's part of the much-studied "Latino paradox," the numerous ways in which Latinos in the US do better than their poverty would lead one to expect. (Low infant mortality and normal birth weights are others.) Numerous scholars have written on Latino non-crime. Among the more prominent are Robert J. Sampson at Harvard, Ruben Rumbaut at UC Irvine, Philip Kasinitz and John Mollenkopf of the CUNY Graduate Center, and Florida International University's Ramiro Martinez, whose "Latino Homicide: Immigration, Violence, and Community was published by Routledge way back in in 2002. ("I'm amused by [Unz's] "discovery" of something I've been writing about since the last millennium," Rumbaut wrote in a long e mail to me laying out the recent literature in considerable detail.) Unz even cites Rumbaut in a footnote, although the only scholars he cites in the body of his text are the co-authors of a paper challenging federal statistics on imprisonment of immigrants, and the American Enterprise Institute's Douglas Besharov, who, Sampson told me in an e-mail, is basically rehashing in a New York Times op-ed, an argument Sampson made a year earlier (that the increase in immigration was linked to the drop in crime.)Here's a handy list of recent articles, including those mentioned below, but by no means complete.
Has this academic work received support from "liberal foundations" ? Yes. Sampson and Rumbaut have both received major support from the MacArthur, Mellon and Russell Sage foundations. Martinez has received grants from the Ford Foundation and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Mollenkopf and Kasinitz have been funded by Russell Sage, Rockefeller, Mellon and Ford. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Big foundations fund think tanks, policy institutes, and even other foundations. The Public Policy Institute of California, which in 2008 published "Crime, Corrections and California: What does Immigration Have to Do with It," by Kristin F. Butcher and Anne Morrison Piehl, lists a slew of foundations among its funders, including Ford, Gates, Hewlett and the Pew Charitable Trusts. The National Immigration Forum, another NGO which has done work in this area, was co-founded by a Ford trustee and has received grants from just about every big "liberal foundation" you can think of. To say that foundations have steered clear of this area is just false, or as Rumbaut put it, 'laughable to the max, squared."
Has the story of Latino non-crime been publicized in what Unz calls the "very supportive mainstream media"? Yes. That is how I knew about it. To mention just a few relevant pieces, Sampson had an op-ed in the New York Times in 2006 "Open Doors Don't Invite Criminals." That same year, Eyal Press, a frequent Nation contributor, had an excellent and I would have thought quite noticeable article, "Do Immigrants Make Us Safer?," in the New York Times Magazine. The Latino "crime wave" has been debunked in Time, the Boston Globe, and the Washington Post. Unz was even scooped by other conservatives. Both David Brooks and Linda Chavez got there way before him.
If the myth of Latino crime persists, it's not because nobody debunked it before Ron Unz came along. Nor is it because liberal foundations have shown no interest in establishing the truth. It's because lots of Americans have racist and anti-immigrant feelings that are resistant to factual information. As Sampson told me when we spoke on the phone, "There's a long link in the popular mind between the perception of immigrant presence and the perception of disorder." Sampson thinks the research is getting traction, though. "It takes time for the information to penetrate, because of people's prejudices. But I think it's changing."
You could even say that Ron Unz's article shows the word has gotten out -- apparently, even to Alex.
So here it is, Superbowl Sunday, or as I prefer to call it, Focus on the Fetus Sunday. If you support women's right to decide for themselves when and if to continue a pregnancy, don't just get mad at the TV set when the Tebow ad comes on, get even. Donate $5 or $10 dollars (or, of course, more) to the National Network of Abortion Funds. This is the umbrella organization for all the local funds across the country which help low-income women find and pay for their abortion care. These funds, which are run by local volunteers, face a stream of need that just never goes away. Just this week I got this urgent e mail from the Equal Access Fund of Tennessee:
Is there any way you can possibly pitch in on this bad situation for avery young patient? She is a 15 year old from a small East Tennesseetown who is pregnant by an adult neighbor of her family! I have beenon the phone with the daughter and the mother for hours this week asthey debated the religious and ethical aspects of what is going on.They have never considered abortion and this is very difficult forthem both.
Her mother, while not supportive of abortion in general, is trying herhardest to understand and deal with what is going on with herdaughter. They are a poor family and need $400 more than what we have currently in the fund to make the trip out of town to get her seen intime...
I only have 24 hours to figure this one out and have turned to yousince you have been a great supporter in the past. I have arrangedwith a friend to use their Paypal account for this one time eventbecause it is very timely and dire. If you can help, let me know and Iwill get that account information for you.
We have only a short time to pull this together.
Thanks in advance. I am trying anything I can to help this family.
Put yourself in that girl's shoes for a minute, and then think how many girls and women right now are in the same position. Think what it is like to face bearing a child against your will because you lack a few hundred dollars.
Fortunately, EAF was able to help that girl. But what about all the others?
Please make a donation to the National Network of Abortion Funds here.
Special ties to New York? Donate to the New York Abortion Access Fund here.
I'm a little late on this, but if you've been wondering how and where to donate to Haiti relief work, have meant to give but haven't yet done so, have given already but can give more ($10?), you can't do better than give to Partners in Health. Founded by Paul Farmer with the conviction that health care is a human right, PIH has been working in Haiti for nearly 25 years, building a grassroots organization that has become a model for health care for the poor in the developing world. PIH knows the people and the culture and how to get things done. It's in Haiti for the long term as well as the immediate crisis. It will be there long after the media spotlight has moved on. That's particularly important because, unlike the 2004 tsunami in Asia, the earthquake has left tens of thousands of survivors with terrible injuries that will require long-term help.
I've set up a donation page that makes giving incredibly easy. All amounts are welcome. My goal is to raise $1000, but if by some miracle you visit my page and that goal has been met, don't worry. You can still donate! No amount is too small.
Just click on this link.
It only takes a minute to set up your own personal fundraising page, by the way. Just go to my page and click on "Create your own page now!" in small print under the box with the thermometer. Set your own fundraising goal, post to your facebook page/blog/website, e mail your friends.
Friday's The Globe and Mail has a good followup to my column about Nazia Quazi, the young Canadian-Indian woman who has been unable to leave Saudi Arabia for two years because her father controls her exit visa and Saudi Arabia doesn't recognize women as legal adults. Human Rights Watch just took her case a few weeks ago.
There's been a new development since my column appeared: the Embassy has told Ms. Quazi to send an itinerary for her departure. What that means is unclear, because she still doesn't have a passport and there is still the matter of the exit visa – but it has to be a positive sign.
Human Rights Watch: you definitely want them watching your human rights.
Surveying a decade of feminism in 1000 words was clearly beyond my powers of compression even after I'd jettisoned the whole world outside the United States. Several people wrote to remind me of things I'd cut or forgotten. More highlights--good, bad, odd -- of the no-name decade:
In 2007, Nancy Pelosi became the first woman speaker of the House. In 2009, Elana Kagan became the first woman Solicitor General. Also in 2009, Michelle Obama became the first African-American First Lady, ensuring full employment for style journalists, who devoted five million womanhours to analyzing her clothes (fabulous? over-the-top? What, she wears dresses?) and that vague shimmering ladycloud known as her "role." Elsewhere in government, women inched forward : In 2000, there were three women governors. Now there are 6, (down from a high of 9, what with Sarah Palin quitting and all). In 2000, women held 22.5% of seats in state legislatures. In 2009, they held 24%.
There was a slight increase in numbers of women in the military and a big increase in reported Sexual abuse and rape. As Rep. Jane Harman put it at a 2009 congressional hearing, "A woman in the military is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq."
Perhaps it's just my flickering memory, but the discourse around feminism seemed livelier than in the 1990s. Some important books that sparked debate and discussion: Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, The Feminine Mistake by Leslie Bennetts, Get to Work by Linda Hirshman, How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America, By Cristina Page, America's Women and When Everything Changed by Gail Collins, A Jury of her Peers by Elaine Showalter, Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy, Stiffed and The Terror Dream by Susan Faludi, Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, and the Means of Reproduction by Michelle Goldberg.
In 2009, President Obama signed the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, restoring the status quo overturned by the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear, which narrowed the ability of women to sue employers for sex discrimination in pay. Also in 2009, the stimulus included incentives for states to change their unemployment insurance rules in ways that make it easier for women to qualify: benefits will now be available to workers who leave for compelling family reasons (including domestic violence when the abuser follows his target to work), to workers seeking part-time jobs, and to workers who made less money than was the case under the old rules. Historically, unemployment benefits rules have, in effect, excluded many women, with the result that in 41 states unemployed men were more likely to receive benefits than unemployed women. (For more, see Mimi Abramowitz's report in womensenews. ) Toward the end of the decade, paid Family Leave became law in California and New Jersey, with Washington on the horizon. This may not seem like a lot, given that there are 50 states, but California is huge--as of 2007, if it were a country it would have the 10th largest economy in the world. And New Jersey has more people than the nine smallest states. And speaking of employment, women now make up 45% of union membership. Plus, the Great Recession puts end to all that chat about the Mommy Wars, because it turns out you can only stay home with your kids if your husband has a job. Who knew?
The Today sponge returns to the drugstore shelves.
Tina Fey became SNL head writer and huge star, thrilling smart girls everywhere. On the other hand, in 2007 Don Imus called Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" and is fired for about two minutes.
In 2009, Anna Quindlen retired from Newsweek. Ellen Goodman announced the end of her syndicated column – the only column by a liberal woman in wide distribution.
Goodbye, Rosa Parks, Shirley Chisholm, Betty Friedan, Tillie Olsen, Barbara Seaman, Wendy Wasserstein, ,Susan Sontag, Coretta Scott King, Grace Paley, Eartha Kitt, Carolyn Heilbrun, Mary Travers, Octavia Butler, Rita Arditti, Deborah Howell, and, much too soon, the remarkable poet Rachel Wetzsteon.
One very irate reader complains in the bletters section that Palestine is missing from my donations column. MADRE, which partners with sister organizations around the world, supports Midwives for Peace, which train new midwives and provides safe birthing kits for women in the West Bank. I mentioned this cause in my description of MADRE's work, but the reference was cut for reasons of space. Read more about Midwives for Peace here.
As long as I'm updating the donations column, here's some new information about groups from previous years:
HEARRT (Health Education and Relief Through Teaching). This group works in Liberia, where last time I checked something like 50 Liberian doctors were serving five million people. The money Nation readers sop generously gave in 2007 went mostly for reproductive health education for teenage girls. These days HEARRT focuses on child health, emergency care and training midlevel providers. Help them out with a check to 4 Research Drive, Suite 402, Shelton, CT. 06770.
Health in Harmony. The environment is another area missing from this years column. Not enough space! never enough space! Health in Harmony is a twofer: Rural Indonesians protect the rain forest and preserve wildlife habitat in West Kalimantan and get excellent low-cost health care in return. Just starting out when it appeared on the list in 2007, Health in Harmony got a big helping hand from Nation readers. Check out this PBS video about its work here. http://healthinharmony.org/
Happy Holidays from Berlin, where it's cold and snowing and beautiful.
The school year is well underway, and most of you know how savage the budget cuts have been. Excellent teachers who care about their students –yes, they exist! --are struggling along without proper books, supplies, and equipment. Classroom libraries lack books, science labs lack materials, art programs lack the most basic supplies-- like paint!
In wealthy suburbs, affluent parents help fill the gap, but schools in low-income neighborhoods can't raise extra funds that way. Result: We expect students to achieve more than ever – and that's a good thing – but we don't provide the tools they need and too often can't afford to purchase for themselves: review texts for AP classes, graphic calculators, class sets of novels, even basic items like notebooks.
You can help! On my Giving Page at www.donorschoose.org you can chip in to help buy a cello for an elementary-school music class in Mississippi, a class set of Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" for an AP English class in Washington DC, review books for an AP psychology class in New York City, art supplies for "at-risk" middle-schoolers in North Carolina --and much more.
We hear a lot about ineffective, ill-prepared teachers, but the ones who put themselves out on www.donorschoose.org are the ones who desperately want their students to succeed and who, through no fault of their own, need our help to get the tools to do their job.
Can you help? You can give any amount -- even $5! Small donations add up. No funds to spare right now? Send the link to your lucky friends, post it on your blog or Facebook page.
Every child should have an opportunity to play a musical instrument, read great books, take challenging courses, and learn in a safe, well-equipped classroom. You can help make it happen!
BONUS: send me your receipt for $50 or more for a project on my Giving Page and I will send you a signed copy of The Mind-Body Problem, my new book of poems.
UPDATE: Thank you, Kelli from Santa Clarita, who is helping to purchase copies of "Guns, Germs and Steel" for a Global History honors class in a NYC school where 90% of the students qualify for free lunch. And thank you, Laura from Ithaca, who donated to fund review texts for an AP calculus class in a NYC high-poverty school AND also to buy paint for an art class in a high-poverty North Carolina middle school that focuses on "at risk" kids.
Note to commenters: It's great that you know all about what's wrong with the public schools (sarcastic eye roll), including teachers' poor "preperation" (like in spelling?), but what about chipping in to help kids who are in school right now and who have no say in school budgets or education policy or the priorities of teachers' unions?
You can light a candle AND curse the darkness. How about it?
The Facebook Causes application is running a contest among its member do-good organizations. Every day, the group that has the most individual donors that day wins $1000; runner up gets $500. The grand winner–most individual donors by November 6–wins, get this, $50,000! The runner-up gets $25,000 and the five next highest gets $10,000 each. Not too shabby!
Now here's the thing: MADRE, the women's rights organization, has joined the contest to raise funds for its work protecting women's rights workers in Afghanistan, where as I'm sure you know many have been threatened with death by the Taliban. MADRE needs your help to win one of these these generous prizes. Can you help? Yes, you can! The competition is for donors, not money totals, so all you need to do is go here and donate $10. In fact, you can donate $10 once a day every day from now till November 6th. If Madre wins even one day, it will get $1000, which is a significant amount. Today, October 15, by 3pm , would be a great time to donate, because with just a few more donors MADRE would beat an anti-choice group, Make Abortion UNTHINKABLE, for second place. That's $500 for women's rights, or $500 to take them away. Which should it be?
Please check this contest out, Facebookers, and be generous. Don't delay, because each day's mini-contest ends at 3 pm.
Read all about MADRE's work at www.madre.org.
Saturday, October 3, was Reunification Day, the anniversary of the formal reuniting of East and West Germany in 1990. Here in Berlin the big event was a weekend-long outdoor spectacle involving Die Riesen, giant marionettes created by the French street theatre company Royale de Luxe. Some two million people turned out to watch a huge little-girl giant and an even more enormous grown-up-man giant dressed as a deep-sea diver wandering in search of each other in various neighborhoods. It was meant as a 'maerchen" or fairy-tale, although no one seemed to know the story of the little girl and the deep-sea diver. Something about separation and reunion, anyway. Since it was a beautiful warm blue-sky day (one of the few! it rains a lot here) my husband and I set out to find them. We walked and walked through the Tiergarten and stood in a huge crowd on Unter den Linden but the promised giants didn't appear and eventually we had to leave. (Two bits of local anthropology you'd never see in New York: at the street fair stretching along Unter den Linden you could buy many kinds of alcoholic beverages, including schnapps, and just stand about pleasantly drinking; the great lawn in the Tiergarten, along which the crowds walked, was littered with the bicycles people had used to get there. Unlocked bicycles.)
My German teacher, Ursula, whom we ran into later, said the problem was that the little girl giant was kaputt. Sehr traurig! But late that night we saw the two giants at the Brandenburg Gate, sleeping. The little girl giant was sleeping on the big man giant's lap. You could hear them breathing very quietly. It was strangely moving.
In other news, Garrison Keillor reads my poems much better than I do:
You can find these and more in my new book of poems, TheMind-Body Problem, recently published by Random House. I'll be quiet now.
If a rapist escapes justice for long enough, should the world hand him aget-out-of-jail-free card? If you're Roman Polanski, world-famousdirector, a lot of famous and gifted people think the answer is yes. Polanski, who drugged and anally raped a thirteen-year-old girl in 1977in Los Angeles, pled guilty to the lesser charge of unlawful sex with aminor and fled to Europe before sentencing. Now, 32 years later, he'sbeen arrested in Switzerland on his way to the Zurich film Festival,prompting outrage from international culture stars: Salman Rushdie,Milan Kundera, Martin Scorsese, Pedro Almodavar, Woody Allen (insertyour own joke here), Isabelle Huppert, Diane von Furstenberg and many,many more. Bernard-Henri Levy, who's taken a leading role in roundingup support, has said that Polanski "perhaps had committed a youthfulerror " (he was 43). Debra Winger, president of the Zurich Film Festivaljury, wearing a red "Free Polanski" badge, called the Swiss authoritiesaction "philistine collusion." Frederic Mitterand, the French culturalminister, said it showed "the scary side of America" and describedPolanski as "thrown to the lions because of ancient history." Frenchforeign minister Bernard Kouchner, co-founder of Doctors WithoutBorders, called the whole thing "sinister."
Closer to home, Whoopi Goldberg explained on The View that hiscrime wasn't 'rape rape,' just, you know, rape. Oh, that! Conservativecolumnist Anne Applebaum minimized the crime in the WashingtonPost. First, she overlooks the true nature of the crime (drugs,forced anal sex, etc), and then claims "there is evidence Polanski didnot know her real age." Talk about a desperate argument. Polanski, whowent on to have an affair with 15-year old Nastassja Kinski, has spokenfrankly of his taste for very young girls. (Nationeditor-in-chief Katrina vanden Heuvel, who tweeted her surprise atfinding herself on the same side as Applebaum, has had second thoughts:"I disavow my original tweet supporting Applebaum. I believe thatPolanski should not receive special treatment. Question now is how bestto ensure that justice is served. Should he return to serve time? Arethere other ways of seeing that justice is served? At same time, Ibelieve that prosecutorial misconduct in this case should beinvestigated.") On the New York Times op-ed page, schlocknovelist Robert Harris celebrated his great friendship with Polanski,who has just finished filming one of Harris' books: "His past did notbother me." This tells us something about Harris' nonchalant view ofsex crimes, but why is it an argument about what should happen inPolanski's legal case?
I just don't get this. I understand that Polanski has had numeroustragedies in his life, that he's made some terrific movies, that he's76, that a 2008 documentary raised questions about the fairness of thejudge (see Bill Wyman in Salon, though, for apersuasive dismantling of its case.). I also understand that hisvictim, now 44, says she has forgiven Polanski and wants the case to bedropped because every time it comes up she is dragged through the mudall over again. Certainly that is what is happening now. On theHuffington Post, Polanski fan Joan Z. Shore, who describes herself asco-founder of Women Overseas for Equality (Belgium), writes: " The13-year-old model 'seduced' by Polanski had been thrust onto him by hermother, who wanted her in the movies. The girl was just a few weeksshort of her 14th birthday, which was the age of consent in California.(It's probably 13 by now!)." Actually, in 1977 the age of consent inCalifornia was 16. Today it's 18, with exceptions for sex when oneperson is underage and the other is no more than three years older. Shore's view--that Polanski was the victim of a nymphet and her schemingmother--is all over the internet.
Fact: What happened was not some gray, vague he said/she saidKatie-Roiphe-style "bad sex." A 43-year-old man got a 13-year-old girl alone, got her drunk, gave her a quaalude, and, after checking the dateof her period, anally raped her, twice, while she protested; shesubmitted, she told the grand jury "because I was afraid." Those factsare not in dispute--except by Polanski, who has pooh-poohed the wholebusiness many times (You can read the grand jury transcripts here.) He was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge, like manyaccused rapists, to spare the victim the trauma of a trial and mediahoopla. But that doesn't mean we should all pretend that what happenedwas some free-spirited Bohemian mix-up. The victim took years torecover.
Fact: In February 2008, LA Superior Court Judge Peter Espinosa ruled that Polanski can challenge his conviction. All he has to do iscome to the United States and subject himself to the rule of law. Whyis that unfair? Were he not a world-famous director with boatloads ofpowerful friends, but just a regular convicted sex criminal who had fledabroad, would anyone think it was asking too much that he should gothrough the same formal process as anyone else?
It's enraging that literary superstars who go on and on about humandignity, and human rights, and even women's rights (at least when thewomen are Muslim) either don't see what Polanski did as rape, or don'tcare, because he is, after all, Polanski--an artist like themselves.That some of his defenders are women is particularly disappointing.Don't they see how they are signing on to arguments that blame thevictim, minimize rape, and bend over backwards to exonerate theperpetrator? Error of youth, might have mistaken her age, teen slut,stage mother--is that what we want people to think when middle-aged menprey on ninth-graders?
The widespread support for Polanski shows the liberal cultural elite atits preening, fatuous worst. They may make great movies, write greatbooks, and design beautiful things, they may have lots of noblehumanitarian ideas and care, in the abstract, about all the rightprinciples: equality under the law, for example. But in this case,they're just the white culture-class counterpart of hip-hop fans whostood by R. Kelly and Chris Brown and of sports fans who automaticallysupport their favorite athletes when they're accused of beating theirwives and raping hotel workers.
No wonder Middle America hates them.
*****The Mind-Body Problem, poems by Katha Pollitt, is just out from Random House.


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Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 2:30pm
Looking for a place to hide a spare set of keys outside your house, but don't want to just hide them under a rock? Here's a clever solution: hide them in a fake sprinkler head.
It's essentially a little plastic film-canister-like thing, a plastic tube with a screw top. Simply place your spare keys in there and bury it in your garden with the top sticking out. It'll look like the top to a buried sprinkler to everyone who walks by, but you, you my friend will know the secret. And that's what hiding keys are all about.


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A month ago Facebook Pages Manager hit the big 2.0 and brought in a white, new UI to celebrate. It looks like the app had so much fun growing old that it's changing its number again. But what good is skipping up one number when it can do three? So the app has now hit 5.0. Say hello.
Just because you use Facebook, that doesn't mean you have a Facebook page. We all have profiles, but pages are typically reserved for organizations, artists, or products. That said, anyone can create a Facebook page. Yes, anyone They're practically giving them away. And while you're creating a page of your own, check out the Facebook Pages Manager app, which was updated recently with a number of nice features that make managing that new page a bit easier.
If you have a Facebook page for a group, business, or the like, then you should have Facebook Pages Manager installed. Otherwise, it's pretty difficult to do anything with that page while on-the-go. If you've already been using FBPM for a while, then you're probably familiar with its quirks, as well as its missing features. Facebook is looking to alleviate at least a bit of your frustration, as the company pushed a small update today that actually brings some fixes and adds new functionality to the app:
What's in this version:
• Turn push notifications on or off for each Page
• Upload a photo to a specific album
• Attach a photo to a status update
• Change profile and cover photos
• Save a shortcut to a Page on your phone's home screen
• Share links from other apps to Pages Manager
And in one fell swoop, Pages Manager becomes more useful.
Facebook Pages Manager debuted quietly last month, with more widespread availability hitting after several days. Just over a month later, in its first major update (to version 1.1), the fan page management tool has gotten three new features: post promotion, post scheduling, and event creation.
The new features are essentially just what they sound like, and – for all intents and purposes – match their counterparts in Facebook's web interface.
Yesterday, Facebook rolled out a big update to its Messenger Android app, but as it turns out, it was only a small part of what the social network had in store for us. On the same day, the company also quietly released Facebook Pages Manager to the Play Store - an application iOS users have been enjoying since the first half of last year.
As a Facebook Page manager for Android Police, I immediately wanted to take it out for a spin but was forced to put the plan on hold because the app is actually not available in the U.S.


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Microsoft Messenger Laptop Bag - Edge - Fits up to 17" screens
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|Styled for business casual professionals and their mobile lifestyle, the Microsoft Impact Messenger Bag is accented with trendy orange accents inside and out. Whether you're off to the office, the classroom, a meeting, or a business trip, this bag, constructed of 1680D poly with accents of rubberized vinyl, is designed with a place for all your digital accessories. The padded notebook sleeve holds laptops with up to 17" screens and features an adjustable divider to secure smaller sizes. Also includes a digital accessory panel, MP3 pocket with headphone port, cell phone case, hidden water bottle holder, padded shoulder strap, and lots of room inside for books and files. *Microsoft brand bags and accessories are manufactured by Samsill Corporation, Fort Worth, TX, under license from Microsoft Corporation.
Customer Reviews of Microsoft Messenger Laptop Bag - Edge
Despite rave reviews, it's just ok.12/10/2010
I bought this bag based primarily on the plentiful amount of good reviews it received. I am a consultant and therefore have the same 14.1" laptop every other consultant has. The bag looks pretty decent, the orange interior is nice for quickly locating things, and the external nylon is a bit shiny for a little bit trendier look. Here is my issues with the bag though. *Had it for a month, the front outer part of the bag is starting to look very scuffed/worn, I'm not too harsh with it either; meaning, the shiny nylon has some scuff marks on it, and the two small left/right pockets have lots of scratch/scuff marks. Makes it look a lot older than it is. *The inside organization is simply, ok. I was surprised at the lack of convenient places to put a pen, I usually dont carry much besides some paper, a couple pens, and a laptop. I feel like they tried to put it too many compartments and pockets, when in this case, less may have been more. The bag is medium sized, and I feel like overall it seems to be built to last long. But in this price range it wouldn't be a bad idea to shop around a bit more. This bag is just ok. I'll give it to Microsoft that they actually made something that doesnt look half bad tho.
Excellent Value12/8/2010
Purchased this as a gift for a friend who was retiring and starting a new career. Really satisfied with the quality, appearance and value of this item. Plenty of storage options and compartments with a sleek and sporty appearance.
Perfect 15" Laptop Bag8/11/2010
Love it!!! I swap my bag out every year and am so happy that I found this bag. Along with my laptop, I have to carry the bulky charger, full IP headset, and quite a bit of work collateral. This bag holds it all comfortably and also leaves room for other necessities.
Awesome bag for the larger laptops4/29/2009
I just got a new larger screened laptop and needed a new case. This case has it all and is very well made. It has a padded case in the flap for your IPOD or other MP3 and the is a matching one for your cell or ?? (as well as a Cell spot on the side). Large zippered pocket in the flap is good to store tickets and such. The compartments are well padded. The carrying handle and shoulder straps are also well padded. All in all a great value for the price and very well made. Very pleased with the product.
this has been the best messenger bag I've had for my laptop and it was cheaper than the rest. I am very satisfied. I would recommend to anyone in need of a bag
Meets needs at a good price3/8/2009
Got my laptop bag and was pleased with the look and the feel. I have a Dell Vostro 1710 laptop with 17" screen and it's a little tight fitting into the bag but it does slip into the pocket well. There could be a little more thickness/padding surrounding the machine itself but overall it's a good product for the price. Plenty of storage too.
Attractive bag with lots of storage2/27/2009
#1 Question: Can you really fit a 17" screen laptop in the compartment it was supposed to fit in, YES YOU CAN! my HP Dv7 fits just fine but you need to remove the Velcro divider used for smaller laptops. It has more than enough storage and specialty pockets for everything you could ever need with out being to bulky of a bag. The orange inside is really nice looking and you can use it to flash for help if ever needed, HA HA! very attractive looking bag indeed and the Microsoft name will make people take notice of you, maybe.
Good bag2/19/2009
My huge Gateway P-7805u 17" gaming laptop / desktop replacement with extra-large battery fits very nicely -- and snugly, which is the idea, so it won't move around -- in the padded compartment. Just adjust the Velcro-ed side restraint and it's good to go anywwhere. The bag looks sharp and is made of durable materials, so I'm proud to take this to see clients. I've had fancy leather bags before but they just don't hold up under constant use. This bag also features custom, geek-oriented compartments that leather bags mostly just don't offer.
Very Nice1/11/2009
I received this bag as a gift. I like the assorted compartments. The case matches well with any ensemble and keeps all my paperwork organized.
Microsoft Edge Messenger Bag1/9/2009
I needed a bag for my 17" laptop and the price on this one attracted me because I was having a difficult time finding a bag to fit a larger screen. I haven't received the rebate yet but the price can't be beat. The shipping was extremely fast and the product was as described. I have no trouble fitting the laptop into the bag. Would definitely recommend this bag.
Good bag1/5/2009
As others have said it is a very tight fit for my 17" HP laptop. It does have a lot of room for other charger, mouse, and miscellaneous items and zippered pouches are abundant for smaller stuff. Good bargain with the rebate and the low price.
Great bag for the Price1/5/2009
With the Special on this bag at Christmas for $29.99 with FREE shipping and the $10 rebate from Buy.com you couldn't ask for a better deal on a 17" computer bag for $19.95.
Microsoft Laptop Bag1/5/2009
The Microsoft computer bag is very functional and looks sharp. Overall construction is excellent, straps, handles, shoulder pad, comfortable.
Messenger Bag a Good Value!1/5/2009
With the rebate, this seems like a solid messenger bag for the value. Seems well made, with adjustable pockets and such. I would recommend it!
Very good buy1/4/2009
I bought it for 20$. This is the biggest bang for the buck. Lots of very convenient pockets and fits a 15.4'' perfectly with lot of padding. Not sure if this is convenient for 17'' laptops. May be a bit small. I highly recommend this bag to anyone who needs a laptop bag.
nothing is better with the price I paid1/4/2009
again, good price with excellent engineer of this bag. My 15.4" laptop fits nicely and the strape provides comfort. Nice feature as the mp3/ipod player pocket.
well constructed1/4/2009
This case satisfied my objected. It received my laptop with ease and stored all of my accessories safely. Only concern are the edges which are exposed. overall Its a good investment.
Good for better price1/3/2009
Really good one with microsoft tags and maintains same quality for lower price.
Excellent Bag1/3/2009
Bag accomodates my 16.1 screen comfortably. Laptop is well protected by cushioned inside sleeve with room for other items without being bulky. Pocket on the outside keeps cell phone handy. I carry this bag everyday. The strap fits well on the shoulder and doesnt slip like many I have had in the past. Excellent bag engineering and not overly masculine for a female to carry.
suprise me1/1/2009
it's really superised me. very good quality and good price
A tight fit7/29/2008
If you are looking for a bag for your 17' laptop, I think you ca do better than this. This bag is quality and it has a lot of space for things but my laptop barely fits into it. It really is a tight squeeze. It gets the job done and I honestly don't know if another bag would have the same problems but just don't be surprised when you get this and see just how close thelaptop comes to not fitting. Other than that, I have no complaints.
Overall Good Bag ...3/29/2008
Like everyone that posted, I have a 17" laptop, but it's just a bit too big to fit into the padded section of the bag. Granted, after rebate and google checkout I'll have only paid about $10 for the bag so I can't really complain, but it needs about another 1/2 to 1" so that the fit isn't so snug. Otherwise, it's a nice laptop bag for the price, and protects my laptop well.
Good Solid Laptop Bag3/25/2008
What originally attracted me to this laptop bag was that it would fit my wide screen laptop and the price (after a rebate). Even though I have only used it a few weeks, it seems very durable. There are a lot of pockets and plenty of room for accessories and papers. I especially like the external pockets for the phone, mp3 player and water bottle holder. The only drawback (and it is a minor one) is that it will not stand upright on its own. It will need to be laid flat or leaned up against something else if you want it to stand up. Overall, it is a good, solid bag; better than you will find at most retail stores for the price (even without the rebate).
No big enough for a 17" screen3/19/2008
Although it is a nice bag at a low price (with the rebate), the interior compartment designed to store a 17" screen is very tight. Not sure if my Toshiba P205-S3647 is wider than the standard 17" laptop, or the case is too small.1 Helpful | 0 Not Helpful
Good construction but...3/18/2008
Overall, I am satisfied with the bag. However, the padded pocket for my 17" Acer is a bit snug, so I use the other, non-padded pocket.
Cool and spacious messenger bag!!3/8/2008
I love the bag at first time I see on Buy.com and buy it because of the cheap price($24 after rebate). When the real bag came to me. I am a bit disappointed because it is too big to my 14" laptop. However, the bag is still fit for my laptop plus all accessaries, namely adapters, CDs, an extra battery and documents. I also have another fit bag when I don't need to carry lots of things with me. Overall the amount of space and anti-bump all around inside the bag will make 15.4 and 17" laptop owner so happy. They will be kept very well without any scratches causing from accesseries.
Microsoft Messenger Laptop Bag - Edge up to 17&quo3/5/2008
I find that for the price this item seems to be well worth the money I paid, providing I receive the rebate, hopefully another 5 to 7 weeks from now. The reason I only rated it a 3 for performance and ease of use is because it still needs an extra one half inch in the padded compartment to properly fit my 17 inch laptop computer. The width is fine but the height doesn't accommodate my laptop fully, and the top sticks up over the padded compartment. The add states that the Microsoft Messenger Laptop Bag - Edge up to 17" screens - 39000. I also tried fitting in several other 17 inch laptop computers of different brands then mine and found this same issue. There is also another compartment in front of the padded one but although it just about fits in that one, it doesn't offer the proper protection.
Needed a good bag: This was it3/4/2008
Have a 17 inch MacBook Pro, and needed a new case. This one is great, has enough room for all accessories I wanted to carry, AND some paperwork besides. Is a good value and a MUCH better one when on sale!
Excellent Bag2/22/2008
I was looking for cheap 17" laptop bag. This bag meets all of my expectations. Everything is perfect chains, look, space, weight. Only thing which I came across is the image for this bag looks like it is a leather bag but actual finishing of this bag is a lot different.3 Helpful | 0 Not Helpful
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Gregory S. Bielli, New President Of Tejon Ranch Co. (Photo: Business Wire)
Tejon Ranch Co. (NYSE: TRC) announced today that it has hired Gregory S. Bielli to be the Company's new President and CEO. Bielli, who is 53, will replace the Company's long standing CEO, Robert A. Stine when Stine retires at the end of this year. Bielli will join the Company in September and will be the President and Chief Operating Officer until Stine's retirement.
Gregory S. Bielli, new President of Tejon Ranch Co. (Photo: Business Wire)
Bielli has nearly 25 years experience in real estate, land acquisition, development and financing. He comes to Tejon Ranch most recently from Newland Communities, one of the country's largest and most successful master planned community developers. As President of Newland's Western Region, Bielli was responsible for overseeing management of all operational aspects of Newland's portfolio of master planned residential, commercial and retail real estate projects in the region. He was also responsible for growth and acquisitions in the region that includes the states of Arizona, California and Colorado.
"We are very pleased Greg Bielli will be joining Tejon Ranch Company," said Kent Snyder, Chairman of the Tejon Ranch Board of Directors. "We believe that with his skills, capabilities and experience, he is the ideal person to assume leadership of this great Company."
"This is a tremendous opportunity for me and I'm grateful the Board is entrusting me with this important responsibility," said Bielli. "Tejon Ranch has a remarkable legacy and Bob Stine's 17 years at the helm has been a significant part of the story of Tejon Ranch. The Ranch has an equally exciting future and I'm happy to be chosen to lead the next chapter."Bielli earned a bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of Arizona in 1983. He and his wife Vicki will be relocating to Bakersfield, California.
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|Re: any info on George Blackmore 1852 England?
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Can you check Reginald's birthdate. You have him born in 1965. I think you are saying that he was born in Canada, do you have his birth certificate?
Do you know what year they came to Canada?
Looking on the 1891, 1881 and 1861 censuses on http://www.familysearch.org/ I'm seeing several George Blackmores but none show a middle name of James or John.
You might try those searches on Ancestry. Many libraries offer free access to Ancestry on the computers in the library.
I searched for a marriage of George Blackmore between 1870 and 1890 on http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ and found this reference in the June Quarter of 1886.
Blackmore George James Reigate 2a 243
EATON Mary Ann Reigate 2a 243
Your GRO index references are Qtr: Jun 1886, District: Reigate, Vol. 2a and Page 243.
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Lawrence Halprin designed these monumental steps, which encircle the base of the First Interstate World Center and link Bunker Hill and Hope Street. The fountain stream that comes down is quite calming.
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Stereoscopic image of Dancers at Paulis-Mangbetu, taken while Waldo Schmitt was collecting for the Smithsonian during the Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition, 1955. SIA2012-0403.
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