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There will be a community forum for the public concerned about health effects from the BP oil spill on Tuesday, Sept. 7, in Orange Beach Alabama.
We have a story about this issue in the pipeline at Spot.us if any news organization wants to talk about running it.
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Posted by Glynn Wilson on 09/07/10A Dozen Carcinogenic Compounds Fill the Air in the Gulf
Filmed by Gavin Garrison
Interviewer Heather Rally
The Obama administration, based largely on BP data, recently released scientific estimates indicating roughly three-quarters of the oil from BP's Gulf of Mexico gusher was captured, burned, dispersed, evaporated, degraded or dissolved in the water. Now a number of independent scientists are coming forward with independent results as well as a re-analysis of the government and BP's data. The real story might be that as much as 79 percent of the oil flood from the Deepwater Horizon remains looming under the surface in the Gulf of Mexico, still posing a very real short- and long-term threat to the marine ecosystem and public health along the coast.
In this video interview, Dr. Vincent Wilson, a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Louisiana State University, talks about the carcinogenic effects of the oil and chemical dispersants in the air that people are breathing all along the coast and inland, as the oil and chemical dispersant residue invades the clouds above it and comes back to earth as a poisonous rain.
Some of Dr. Wilson's research interests include: toxicology of environmental pollutants and genotoxic agents; molecular genetic processes involved in carcinogenesis, mutagenesis, aging, and genetic diseases; environmental biomonitoring of genotoxic exposure to feral species; species-specific identification and microbial communities.
We will interview more experts as well as people suffering such health effects on our next trip to the coast. Independent watchdog groups are critical to documenting this story, as is the alternative, independent, watchdog Web Press.
Also support groups such as Project Gulf Impact. The group's mission is to document the economic, environmental and human health impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This project seeks to provide a voice for residents of the Gulf and hopes to capture the social, political and environmental climate surrounding one of the greatest environmental disasters of our time.
Our role as analytical journalists is to turn this information into a public narrative, so informed citizens may obtain a better understanding upon which to make the best public policy decisions. Democracy does not work without a watchdog press. We've known that since before 1776.
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Posted by Glynn Wilson on 08/18/10
The British Petroleum Corporation is finishing capping the Deepwater Horizon oil well and the cleanup effort in the Gulf of Mexico and on beaches and in the marshes is shifting.
Most of the national television news crews have gone back to New York, Washington and Atlanta. The cable news networks have stopped showing the images of the well under the sea floor and the horrific pictures of dead birds covered in crude.
Congress is in recess, getting ready for the mid-term elections in November, and the Obama administration has changed the subject to the national economy and the war in Afghanistan.
Yet the people along the coast are still sick from the water and air pollution and out of work due to the oil spill's devastating impacts on the local economy.
Who will continue to tell the stories of the environmental and economic destruction along the Gulf coast? Only those of us on the Web Press, of course, who know this story is far from over.
Under the Oil Pollution Act, passed in 1990 in the wake of the Valdez spill, a Natural Resource Damage Assessment was established by law to determine the type and amount of restoration needed to compensate the public for harm to natural resources, along with their human uses, that occur as a result of an oil spill.
While it is still too early in the process to know what the scope of the assessment will be, from past experience, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is concerned about impacts to fish, shellfish, marine mammals, turtles, birds and other sensitive resources as well as their habitats, including wetlands, beaches, mudflats, bottom sediments, coral reefs -- and the water column itself.
There is a huge unanswered question still unanswered in the Gulf, in addition to the air quality issue and the long-term health impacts of the oil and chemical dispersants on wildlife and people.
Back on July 5, I wrote a story under the headline, Where Oh Where Have All the Wildlife Gone? Is BP Green Washing the Dead Wildlife Count?
We still do not know the answer, and no other news organization in the country is asking this question.
It takes resources to do this kind of investigative journalism. I have the skills, the experience and the will to get to the bottom of this story, but it takes significant resources to do it. That's why I've teamed up with Spot.us -- to raise the revenue to continue covering this story, so the people and the wildlife of the Gulf are not forgotten.
Will you help? Even a little?
Posted by Glynn Wilson on 08/11/10
Officials Say All is OK, Come on Down
From the Gulf coast of Louisiana to the Mississippi Delta, to Alabama and the white sand beaches of Florida, people are suffering flu-like effects obviously caused by the pollution from oil and chemicals not only in the water. The oil and chemical dispersants are making their way into the air too, although officials will only say their monitoring shows everything is safe.
As the multi-national British Petroleum corporation continues to test what's left of the Deepwater Horizon oil well 50 miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico to see if the latest well cap will hold back the gusher and not blow out the sea floor, residents along the coast are still concerned about the quality of the air they are breathing in addition to the polluted water.
While the people are suffering from this strange "summer flu," some states and localities are using millions of dollars donated by BP to promote their beach communities, in many cases where the water is not fit to swim in and the air is not safe to breath.
The Environmental Protection Agency is supposed to be monitoring the air as well as the water, but so far, the monitoring stations set up along the coast are not showing highly dangerous levels of pollutants in the air. There have been citizens complaints about the location of the monitoring stations, sometimes far inland of direct impact zones where people live on the beaches.
As citizens struggle to get solid information upon which to make informed decisions about how to protect the health of their families, some say good data is hard to find.
On EPA's Web site set up to provide information to the press and the public, the agency says it has observed odor-causing pollutants associated with oil on the shore in the Gulf region "at low levels."
"Some of these chemicals may cause short-lived effects like headache, eye, nose and throat irritation, or nausea," the agency says, yet it adds: "Some people may be able to smell several of these chemicals at levels well below those that would cause short-term health problems."
EPA is also conducting additional air monitoring for ozone and airborne particulate matter.
"The air monitoring conducted through July 14 has found levels of ozone and particulates ranging from the 'good' to 'unhealthy for sensitive groups,' the agency says, referring to levels on EPA's Air Quality Index.
Air Quality Along the Gulf Coast Raises Questions
We are working on an investigation of the air monitoring system itself as well as what the data shows, and interviewing people on camera who have suffered health effects from exposure to the oil and chemicals in the air.
Posted by Glynn Wilson on 07/28/10While there are sporadic reports of people along the Gulf Coast suffering health problems related to the polluted air from BP's massive oil spill, the news just gets out in dribs and drabs from local news briefs showing 106 people in one city treated for "oil-related conditions." While residents struggle to obtain solid information on which to base a decision on whether to stay or leave the coast, local health departments and government officials tend to downplay the threats in the interest of promoting tourism.
What is needed is a comprehensive, journalistic investigation across the Gulf from Texas to Florida compiling the most complete information on air and water quality and health issues, played alongside some key stories from people in the region struggling to deal with the effects on a daily basis.
It takes resources to travel the Gulf Coast and produce stories and videos, so most of the money would go toward paying for gas, food and lodging, as well as equipment-related expenses.
I've been a journalist for 30 years, taught it for a decade, and was one of the first environmental journalism specialists in the U.S. back in the 1980s, a charter member of the Society of Environmental Journalists in 1990, a year I won funding as a fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
I've been published in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Dallas Morning News, The Nation magazine, and in some of the best alternative weeklies in the country, as well as my own Web publications, The Southerner magazine and The Locust Fork News-Journal, where I've been covering BP's oil spill from the beginning.
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Does it take more force to pull a thing up a hill or push the same thing up a hill?
If you are pulling or pushing exactly level to the ground, both ways take the same force. But usually, one or the other takes less force, because one way tends to shove the thing you're moving into the ground (making it harder to move) and the other way tends to lift the thing up. So if you are moving a sled, for example, it is easier to pull; but if you are moving something taller than you, it is usually easier to push.
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If the force is applied at the same point on the thing and points in the same direction, it does not matter. In real life, if you are pushing a large box up a grassy hill so the box may turn over or dig into the grass, it may, for example, go up easier if you are pulling upward on the box. If the box is on frictionless wheels, it does not matter whether you push or pull.
To get the box up as easily as possible when it is on wheels, the force should be in a direction parallel to the slope of the mountain. Any component of the force directed inward toward the mountain (or upward away from the mountain) does not help get the box up the mountain.
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It takes exactly the same force either way. What is much more important is how you push or pull. When pulling, a person tends to lift a little. This makes it easier for the box to slide along the ground. When pushing, a person also tends to push downward on the box. This makes it harder for the box to slide.
If you have a very heavy box that is small, it can be difficult to get a good grip on it. Attaching a rope and pulling becomes easier. If the box is very large, pressing your shoulder against the box works better than trying to pull a rope. Pushing becomes easier.
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We just had 14 inches of snow last week which was the worst we have had since 1964 and a more serious storm is suppose to hit NOW. It is already slushy out, had to walk carefully to get the paper. There was a photo in the morning paper showing the bread shelves totally empty it's entire length. I emailed my Sis and told her I was prepared, I have cookies, milk and cereal, I can endure anything now. During the last storm I had no cookies, so she emailed me some biscotti. That didn't work to well. LOL Here is a photo of what I have been doing the last couple of days. It was a lot of fun which doesn't say much for my life. |
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i'm hoping so...i've only seen a few flakes so far. and it was around 4pm..i've been praying for snow. i like to make snow ice cream.. the last snow we had a few months back - i used a whole gallon of milk like in a day & half.. sooo good and then i started using the snow like sonic ice in drinks...let me tell u it's tasty... it's 5:30 here now and i have my curtains open in one window and it looks real windy - but that's all. how bout where ur at ?? i live in north texas and i'm still praying for snow... what i would do is go outside w/a big sonic cup and scoop it up full then come in and add vanilla, milk, choc. syrup, and sometimes i added malt or breakfast essestials in the packets - really just what i had on hand - must have the choc. sugar-free ice cream syrup / strawberry ( whatever is good for the taste buds) and get a spoon & get it on!! |
Hi Ski, I live in south central Kansas, raised in Okla. We had some beautiful snow this afternoon, started with huge flakes and a little wind and ended with small ones blowing in a strong wind from the east. I don't know if it is over or not but looks like it. I like snow, it takes me back to the school days, watching it snow and wanting to go outside sooo bad. We had snow ice cream when we were children, but I have never made it. |
why haven't u made snow ice cream ?? do u like ice cream ? it's my passion... really my weakness.... hope ur enjoying the weather.... do u watch movies on line ? free movies that's the main reason i finally decided to get a puter... thanks for ur reply. love ya |
I love ice cream but prefer homemade or from the store. I really don't remember what the snow ice cream tastes like. About the weather, not sure this is something to be enjoyed. It has changed drastically since I posted the original post. It is raining/sleeting, not sure what it is. Our home owners association just spent $3,000. to have the last snow removed from the street, driveways and sidewalks, now more snow. Movies, books, computers and games are my hobbies. I had my cable TV canceled and buy movies instead. I have almost 400 movies and the same amount of books. I also play video games and work jigsaw puzzles like the picture. I watch movies from my recliner by the picture window so I can see the birds at the feeder. I can watch good movies and read good books more than once. I have watched 2 movies today as I work my puzzles. When I get lonely or have cabin fever I go shopping. |
what movies did u watch ?? i've seen argo,django unchained, lincoln,& the last stand...they were good & i love thrillers..i watched a good doc. early this morning bout jfk that i've never seen before and it was a mind blower... and another one this afternoon on how we are controlled by corrupt mass media...are u interested in that type stuff? ...i watch most of my movies on movie-forumz.tv..u log in everytime & can watch all the new movies out..some are cams, but most are very good for free, anyway..try it sometime and see what u think,ok? btw....my snow ice cream is homemade, lol.. here's another site u might like: onlinevideoguide/freemovies.org gotta go and watch a movie now, catch u tomorrow/sometime,ok? where in okla.? i was born in frederick,okla. bye |
I like a wide variety of movies, usually movies that make me feel good. It's easier to tell you what I don't like, movies with young giggling blondes, troubled teens, sad endings. I like movies with good stories like The Note. I have old ones like Mrs Minivere, Three Came Home with Claudette Colbert, National Treasures. I like the love scenes in older movies, they look like love not lust. Violence in movies like The Rock are ok. Medicine Man....the list goes on and on. I do not like a lot of sexual scenes. I buy a lot of the series also. I have all of Stargate, Starwars, Reba, NCIS. I think my favorite Movie of all times is Avatar because is it fresh, different and wonderful. I also like the bonus features on the movies, telling how the movie was made. Checotah, Ok |
Like I said, Emma - come visit me! No snow, lots to do, friendly folks - we would love to meet you! |
Thanks but I am a loner, just like my Mom was. It is easier. I just need to get off my B*** and go somewhere for a few days. As soon as it warms up I will go to The Osage State Park in OK and spend a few days there, walk in the woods and do a little bird watching. |
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It makes TMRs more palatable Lee Van Kleeck is sold on greenchop as a component of total mixed rations (TMRs).
"I love it," says Van Kleeck, a veterinarian and nutritionist from Wendell, ID. "No. 1, if you're close to the field that you're greenchopping, it's extremely cost-effective. No. 2, it's something cows like to eat, so it impacts the palatability of the TMR. Plus it's got enough moisture in it to settle the dust and make the fines stick together."
Van Kleeck likes to formulate rations with large amounts of greenchop. But the amount varies, depending on each client's situation. In some cases, he limits greenchop to a few pounds per cow per day in order to hold down the TMR's moisture content.
"Remember, if the water content of the TMR exceeds about 60%, it takes too many hours for cows to get enough pounds of dry matter into them," he says. "And you run the risk of increased incidence of displaced abomasums."
Some producers are able to feed substantially more because they let the forage field-dry before chopping.
"They let it wilt overnight," says Van Kleeck. "It goes from 80% moisture to 60-65%, which is perfect."
Maintaining a summer-long supply of high-quality alfalfa or grass can be challenging. "But we're learning how to deal with it," he says. "We're starting to get a better handle on how many acres we need."
About a third of his southern Idaho clients, including Pete Deelstra, mix greenchop into their TMRs.
"It helps production, especially in hot weather," says Deelstra.
He greenchops from May through October or November, normally taking seven or eight cuttings from 106 acres of irrigated grass. His 1,100 cows, averaging 21,500 lbs of milk, get between 20 and 70 lbs of fresh-cut grass per cow per day, depending on grass growth and other factors.
"In May of this year, I was chopping seven loads a day and still couldn't keep up with it," he says.
He has experimented with several ryegrass varieties and has concluded that BG 34, a Dutch variety, works best for him. Currently, he has 25 acres of Italian ryegrass and the rest is a ryegrass-Matua bromegrass mixture. Matua, a warm-season grass, grows fast in hot weather, and cool-season ryegrass dominates the stand in spring and fall.
Deelstra also has grown triticale, a crop that Van Kleeck sees as having great potential for greenchopping.
"Triticale is a wonderful forage if you can manage it," says Van Kleeck. "It grows doggone fast. If it gets to the beard stage, you might as well thresh it. But if you cut it at flag stage, it's super feed."
Deelstra believes grasses beat alfalfa for greenchopping.
"I think I get more yield with grass, plus my growing season is four to six weeks longer," he says. "Cool-season grasses start a lot earlier than alfalfa and grow a lot longer in fall. This year we'll get at least 8 11/42 and maybe 9 to 9 11/42 tons of dry matter per acre."
He adds: "Most of the time my relative feed values are around 195 to 200. I don't think you'll get that kind of quality with alfalfa."
Steve Whitesides agrees with Deelstra that greenchop does boost milk production, especially in hot weather. It helps maintain dry matter intake under those conditions, says Whitesides, of Rupert, ID.
"When it's hot I need to be feeding the best feed I can," he says.
With his brother Brent, Whitesides runs a 1,500-cow dairy, currently averaging 26,300 lbs of milk. They feed greenchopped alfalfa from May to September, in rations anchored by bagged corn silage and haylage. They chop 24 hours after cutting, using a flail chopper.
Preventing standing alfalfa from getting too mature can be tricky, says Whitesides. He plays it safe by starting each field when the crop is immature, and quitting at bud stage.
"When the field is ready to cut for baling, I pull out and go to the next one," he says.
Ration balancing can be tricky, too, especially as it relates to moisture content. Whitesides dries a sample in a microwave oven every day, then programs the dry matter content into the feeding program.
Like Van Kleeck and Deelstra, Whitesides likes the benefits of greenchopping.
"We get a milk production response, and I think the cows are healthier," he says. "We bounce from 85 to 87 lbs/cow/day, and our goal is 90 lbs. I think we can get there with greenchop."


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We've got a bunch of leaked (hawk, spit) PlayStation trophies to thank for the news. Publisher Warner Brothers and developer Rocksteady have yet to comment.
The trophies point to a miniature campaign rather than more Challenge Rooms, with objectives like bomb defusal and sneakily entering a secret base. There's no word on whether you'll be able to play Harley herself, but we've got all spare appendages crossed.
Warner has already released Batman Arkham City costume packs alongside Challenge Room sessions for Nightwing and Robin.
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I've had last fall's Louis Vuitton ads starring Michelle Williams pinned on my eyebrow vision board for months now (What? You don't have a vision board dedicated to achieving your ideal brows?). I'm beyond thrilled that she's been tapped as the face of the brand's spring accessories campaign, if only because it gives me some fresh brow inspiration. The new images do not disappoint, showcasing Michelle (and her brows) cavorting with luxe Vuitton purses and luggage, rocking a variety of coordinated lipstick and nail polish shades. Predictably, she looks amazing in every color. Click through for a sneak peek of the ads you'll see in all the spring fashion mags!
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Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol
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Definition of L2CAP
L2CAP takes data from higher protocol layers and applications and sends it over the lower layers. L2CAP passes packets either to HCI or in a host-less system, directly to LM. L2CAP utilities ACL connections. A separate control function is required to set up and close down these connections. L2CAP transfers data, not audio (voice or IP regard as data)
Multiplexing to allow several higher layer links, possibly based on different protocols, to pass across a single ACL connection. Segmentation and reassembly to allow transfer of larger packets than lower layers support. Quality of Services (QoS) management for higher layer protocols.
L2CAP Signaling
L2CAP labels packets with channel numbers to differentiate between higher layer channels. L2CAP entities communicate with each other using control channels with a special channel number to handle connecting, configuring, and disconnecting L2CAP connections. A second channel number is reserved for receiving multi cast packets. An L2CAP packet contains a length field (2 bytes), a channel identifier, or channel number, field (2 bytes), and a data field (0-65,535 bytes)
Structure of L2CAP packet
L2CAP Command
Structure of L2CAP command is divided into:
- OpCode (1 byte) identifying contents of command
- Identifier (1 byte) used to pair up requests and responses
- Length (2 bytes) of data field
Many commands can be sent within the data field of one L2CAP packet
Structure of L2CAP command
Establishing a Connection
To establish a link, a higher layer protocol sends a request to the L2CA layer to connect. If there is no ACL connection, then L2CA sends a request to the lower layer (HCI or LM) to connect. The steps involved in setting up an ACL connection are many and quite complex (involving many HCI and LM commands). Once an ACL connection is established across the lower layers, L2CAP packets can be sent across it.
Configuring a Connection
Once a connection has been established, it must be configured. Parameters which can be configured are:
- Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) maximum size in bytes of packet payload a device is willing to accept, no more than 65,535 bytes.
- Flush timeout is the amount in milliseconds a device will spend trying to transmit an L2CAP packet before it gives up.
- QoS option can select best effort, or a guaranteed QoS
Once the initiating device has configured the outbound channel going to the accepting device, the accepting device can configure the return channel. If two devices have difficulty deciding on a mutually agreeable set of parameters, messages could be exchanged for maximum two minutes.
Transferring Data
Once a connection has been established and configured, it can be used to transfer data. How the higher layers pass data to and from the L2CA layer is implementation dependent (standard contains suggestions). Segmentation and reassembly needed because:
- Some higher layer protocols use packet sizes larger than those which Bluetooth can handle.
- Some HCI implementations only support small packets. Must support packets carrying up to 255 bytes of data.
Disconnection and Timeouts
There are two ways for an L2CAP channel to be closed down;
- Disconnection request from higher layer protocol or service.
- Time out: every time L2CAP sends a packet, a Response Timeout Expired (RTX) timer is started. If the RTX timer expires before a response is received, the channel may be disconnected.
Connectionless Data Channels
L2CAP provides connectionless channels to connect a device to a group of one or more other devices in a single direction. Connectionless channels cannot be configured for QoS. L2CAP defines messages to disable connectionless traffic.
All applications must use L2CAP to send data. It is also used by Bluetooth's higher layers such as RFCOMM. L2CAP provides the facilities needed by higher layer protocols to communicate across a Bluetooth link:
- Establishing links across ACL channels using L2CAP commands.
- Multiplexing between different higher layer entities.
- Providing segmentation and reassembly facilities.


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Luxury surrounded the twenty-year-old. He saw it on the slopes and in the parking lots, on the tourists wearing designer clothes and diamond rings, on the menus of the gourmet restaurants. Prince and his friend, nineteen-year-old Luke Carroll, worked at Pepi's Sports, but dishing out rentals and selling skis wasn't paying the kind of cash they needed to indulge in the town's lavish lifestyle.
So they decided to rob the WestStar Bank in Vail Village�with BB guns.
The two Australians had moved to Vail in late 2004, coming on temporary work visas to snowboard and have a few adventures. They got a little wild and crazy on occasion -- once getting busted for shooting out windows in east Vail with Daisy pellet guns they'd bought at the Wal-Mart in Avon -- but for the most part, they spent their time working, hitting the slopes and thinking about the good life. When Prince noticed the lack of security at the WestStar branch where he banked, about a quarter-mile from the chairlifts, he began to fantasize about robbing the place. He figured he could get away with $10,000, easy, so he talked to Carroll, and the two agreed to hit the bank and split the profits fifty-fifty.
Prince started paying attention to the tellers' procedures; he discovered that early mornings, before the bank opened at 10 a.m., was the best time to try and enter. Often the first employee would arrive, unlock the outer doors, relock them after walking through and then unlock the second set of doors, which would remain open. Then, when the next employee arrived and opened the outer doors, he could bust through and have full access to the bank.
As the ski season wound down, Prince and Carroll decided the time was right. On Monday, March 21, Carroll called in sick to work, and the two dressed in ski gear so that they would blend in with the crowd. Prince pinned a phony name tag to his jacket, so that he was "Dave" from "Valley Electric." They packed a backpack with zip ties from the local hardware store, a pillowcase, some walkie-talkies and their BB guns. The one thing Prince didn't have was his season snowboarding pass.
So when they got to the slopes about 9:15 a.m., he had to go and get a replacement pass. After that, Carroll and Prince waited outside the bank until the first employee showed up. As expected, she locked the outer doors and left the inner ones unlocked for the next employee. That person was a female teller who had her hands full: She was carrying a cake. After unlocking the outer doors, she went toward a counter to set down the cake. That gave Prince and Carroll the chance to burst in with their CO2-charged pistols and shove her inside the bank, according to police reports.
They forced her to the ground, and Carroll pushed the other bank employee into the safe, demanding that she put the cash into the pillowcase. Meanwhile, a customer approached -- but Prince turned him away, telling him that the bank was closed because of electrical problems. Once Carroll had the money, he and Prince ordered the two women to lie face-down on the floor, and then they fled.
Prince and Carroll made a brief stop to dump the money from the pillowcase into the backpack. There was too much to fit, so they ditched some of it, opting to cast off the lowest denomination: 2,000 singles in stacks of a hundred, bound by paper rings marked "Federal Reserve Bank." They also ditched their walkie-talkies, BB guns and Prince's Billabong jacket with the phony name tag.
They hustled over to Los Amigos restaurant in Vail Village, where their snowboards were waiting. The original plan was to hit the Vista Bahn lift, but the line was long, so they walked over to the Riva Bahn lift, took it to the top, strapped on their boards and rode to the bottom.
They caught a shuttle to Gart Sports, where they bought new clothes and a new backpack in which to stash the money. From there they caught a cab to their apartments in east Vail and then to Denver. On the way down, they stopped by the Jared Galleria of Jewelry in Westminster and unsuccessfully tried to buy a couple of $20,000 Rolex watches with stacks of five-dollar bills. Down the street at the Shane Company, however, Prince and Carroll were able to pick up a $9,500 diamond and a $2,000 ring. Shortly after they left there, the Westminster Police Department received a report from the Jared Galleria of two white males claiming to be from New Zealand and trying to buy large items with small bills. Back in Vail, someone else reported finding stacks of cash, BB guns, walkie-talkies and a jacket.
When Prince and Carroll reached their Denver hotel, they were amazed to discover that they had much, much more than the $10,000 they had anticipated. Prince estimated $60,000; Carroll thought it was only $40,000. Police later found pictures of the two in Prince's digital camera, posing with the stacks of cash.


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In March five of the seven Cleveland units introduced the national Boys & Girls Clubs organization's Family Plus program.
Since then, the club units have hosted a variety of Family Plus events with one main goal in mind — to involve the children's families with what they are doing there. The idea of the Family Plus program is to allow club staff to partner with families to teach the children and to allow families to grow closer as a result.
"Some of them don't know what's going on at all," said Katrina Payne, parent director of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland. "Unfortunately, a lot of parents don't want to come."
Payne pointed out that many children at the after-school program spend a considerable amount of time there, with some even staying until 7 or 8 at night because of their parents' work schedules. If children begin school around 8 in the morning, some may be spending more than half of their waking hours away from their families. This makes spending time together difficult for some families.
The idea of Family Plus, she said, is to involve parents in something the children are already part of in order to add more family time to their schedules during the week.
"The biggest thing is giving them time together as a family," Payne said. "If something is not planned, it's hard to get everyone together."
Local units have been hosting events like family cooking classes, game nights, art activities and short trips to see things like Chattanooga Lookouts baseball games. Payne said one of her favorite events was a "family AFV night." AFV stands for "America's Funniest Home Videos," and attendees rated funny videos found on the website YouTube as if they were in the audience of the ABC television show.
"They can just come and be a family — and see how easy it is to spend time as a family," Payne said.
Payne recalled talking to one young girl after an event that allowed children and their families to make tie-dye T-shirts together. The girl said her family liked that activity so much that they bought their own tie-dye supplies and were planning to do that activity with their grandma as well, making for even more time spent together as a family.
There are many future events in the works, she said, including holiday parties and events for boys and their father figures or girls and their mother figures.
The events allow families to spend time together, but that is not the only goal staff members have in mind when planning them. They believe parent involvement helps encourage children to succeed in school and in other areas of their lives further down the road.
Payne said she has heard of studies about parent involvement that have shown the children who do the best in school often have higher rates of parent involvement at home. As an after-school program, the clubs share a lot of the same concerns that schools may have about students' parents being involved.
"It helps them to have a strong family that supports them," she said.
The clubs currently offer parent-only events such as orientation classes for parents whose children are new to the clubs but hope to add more events in the future. Ideas for future events include things like parenting and financial planning classes. Payne said that many of the children within the clubs come from bad home situations, but the organization wants to help any parents who want to learn new skills to help them in their parenting.
"We want to serve not just kids but their families," Payne said.
She said clubs' staffs hope adding more activities geared toward parents will encourage more of them to get involved with their children's activities.
For more information about the organization and its upcoming events for families, visit www.boysandgirlsclubs.info or call 423-559-8299.


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October 28 and 29, 2015
Maryland State Fairgrounds2200 York Road, Timonium, MD 21093Cow Palace
Welcome to the Senior Expo/Baby Boomer Expo web site. Expo 2013 was a huge success for the Baltimore County Department of Aging's Fund for Needy Seniors.
We appreciate the hard work of the Baltimore County Department of Aging for making the Expo an entertaining and fun event for seniors and baby boomers. Thanks to all who supported this effort.
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It's been 50 years since Nakamura Corporation began life offering
wooden horse rides on the roof of a department store in Yokohama.
It's been 25 years since the fast-growing toy company (by then, called
Namco) created videogaming's ultimate icon, Pac-Man. In the blossom of
gaming's youth, there followed a string of genuine classics like
Galaxian and Dig-Dug.
Namco's business today encompasses all areas of gaming, including
mobile games, manufacturing coin-ops, managing arcades, and even theme
parks, one of which is dedicated to the world of noodles.
Sales last year came in at $1.6 billion, up 3.5 percent on the previous
year, with profits up 25 percent. It was this power that led toy giant
Bandai to step in and pick up Namco earlier this year in a deal worth
$1.8 billion. Namco will operate under a Namco-Bandai umbrella. How
this affects the U.S. business is yet to be announced.
For the last 10 years Namco's most significant contribution to gaming
has been the fighting series' Tekken and Soul Calibur; Japanese RPGs
such as Arc The Lad, Xenosaga, and Tales of Symphonia; shooters such as
Time Crisis, Dead to Rights, and Ace Combat; as well as innumerable
reiterations of its arcade heritage and the venerable Ridge Racer.
Modest U.S. Sales
Those RPGs aside–and despite their high profile among the specialist
press, U.S. sales are modest –it's a lineup that one might expect from
a company steeped in arcade lore. But through U.S. subsidiary Namco
Hometek there are signs of diversification.
Last fall, former Maxis development chief Grantley Day was appointed as
director of PC development. He promptly signed up the Warhammer
license, suggesting a move toward a more Western idea of role-playing.
Namco also has a deal with Flagship Studios, led by former Blizzard
developers, to develop Hellgate: London for PC.
This year we can look forward to the sequel to original puzzler
Katamari Damacy and Dead to Rights II, more of those luscious RPGs, and
Pac-Man in a few more guises. Not to mention Soul Calibur III.
Despite its glorious history, and its evident mass, Namco is some way
from achieving the kind of U.S. penetration its considerable brand
might warrant. In 2004, the firm's market share was just outside the
top 10 (NPD). But through its leading brands it generally delivers the
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Acomplaint by an elderly female customer convinced Joe Gonzalez that he wanted his new company to be recognized as only delivering the highest quality services. He visited the woman's property soon after buying ArtisTree Landscape Maintenance & Design. With a yardstick in hand she demonstrated to him that her lawn had not been cut a uniform 3.5 inches.
"I explained that our mowers were set to that exact height and that the natural unevenness of the ground prevented a precise, carpeted look," he writes of the history of his ArtisTree Landscape Maintenance & Design company. "She grudgingly nodded, and as she walked away, I shook my head. It had been a long hot day. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought about how that was the market we should be after: the discerning client with high standards."
CEO: Joe Gonzalez
Founded: 1990
Headquarters: Venice, Fla.
Markets: Manatee, Sarasota and Charlotte counties in southwest Florida
Services: Landscape maintenance, design/build, irrigation and tree work
Employees: 250 in-season (200 off-season)
Website: http://www.artistree.com
That's how he set his Venice, Fla.-based company on its path to growth.
Gonzalez had a long history in finance and fashion before buying ArtisTree. This included stints with Butterick and Vogue Patterns, now part of The McCall Pattern Company. Through various promotions, he was soon heading the internal operations, overseeing a team of designers where he learned an eye for detail and honed his management skills. Nearing age 40, Gonzalez wanted his young family to live in a better climate than his home base in Canada, so he cashed out his interests in the company and moved to the Gulf Coast of Florida. He bought an existing air-conditioning business for himself and an existing landscape business for his retired father-in-law, whom he moved down with his mother-in-law, "to give him something to do."
The air-conditioning business didn't take off, but the small lawn maintenance business showed promise.
"It had no structure and I knew I could build it from basically nothing into a formalized company," says Gonzalez. His father-in-law passed away within a year so Gonzalez took full responsibility for it, acquiring accounts and adding services, such as pruning and irrigation, to compliment its mowing services. Frank Fistner, one of the original four employees, acquired his chemical application license. Gonzalez and Fistner worked diligently to build the business. Fistner is now president of the company that is budgeted for $17 million in revenues this season.
Gonzalez attributes his company's success in part to its marketing efforts, particularly the branding it has established internally and externally under the direction of Debra Morrow, vice president of marketing.
The cornerstone of the company's marketing efforts is its website, which is attractive and rich in content. "Property managers or HOA board members who come to our site are a captive audience," Morrow points out. "They're out looking for a new landscape provider. We try to educate them on the site." The company bolsters its digital presence by blogging, pushing out email blasts and keeping a lively presence on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter.
ArtisTree rounds out its marketing efforts with regular promotions and contests, such as one in which people were invited to submit "before" pictures of landscapes, with the winner getting the equivalent of a $40,000 backyard makeover on a $10,000 budget. Then there was the "Plant Fairy" program that provided seven families with free landscape plants to spruce up their yards.
One of Gonzalez' strategies is to keep landscaping at a smaller percentage in relationship to maintenance because of the construction industry's fluctuations.At the onset of the recession, he realized that turned out to be a good move. Landscaping was bringing in 25 percent of the revenues, with maintenance bringing in 75 percent.
"It held back our profitability," Gonzalez says of the crash of the construction market. "We had so much structure built behind the landscape business. Maintenance held out pretty good based on our reputation, our branding and customer loyalty. We had a 10 to 15 percent shrinkage in landscaping, which got cut by more than half."
These days, the landscaping sector is back and beyond its earlier levels.
"There's serious money pouring in down here between the harsh winters and people getting disgusted with their life up north," says Gonzalez. "They're coming down in droves right now. I've never seen it as busy as it is now. They're coming early, they're staying longer and they're spending money. Some people are retiring early. My only concern is that the construction will be low-end, adding population without value."
Presently, ArtisTree is a primary vendor for companies building semi-custom homes, with landscape projects running $15,000 to $30,000 per property.
Gonzalez attributes starting off his business with a healthy cash flow to being able to establish a business that separates itself from the competition.
"A lot of guys went into business without the financial backing," he says. "I have zero horticultural background. I'm totally business-oriented. I can always hire experienced people, but you won't succeed if you don't manage the dough, the pricing and don't have a methodology in mind.
"I had a goal of being the best from the day I went into the business. I surpassed my own expectations. My biggest skill is finding good people. I attract them, I motivate them. When I'm up, I'll bring them up."
At peak season, the company has 250 employees. ArtisTree is attracting a lot of talented people with a high level of horticultural experience and certification and existing employees are engaged in ongoing continuing education leading to more certifications.
"We look for motivated, aggressive people with a fair amount of responsibility who want to direct themselves forward," Gonzalez says.
As with so many other landscape maintenance operations, labor is the greatest challenge. Gonzalez relied on the H2B program for 12 years and had hired increasing numbers of seasonal labor from the program, but is now holding back.
"We get so much aggravation with it," he says. "It started with the decline in the economy. The U.S. Department of Labor told us we have to employ Americans. Americans don't want to do this work - full-time, yes, but not on a part-time basis."
A local labor agency is helping to fill the spots, but Gonzalez would like to see the H2B program gain strength again.
"It constitutes 66,000 employees, which is a pimple compared to what the employment situation is in this country," he says. "They are a very strong supplemental support for companies like ours. It's a good program but it's a battle to keep it going. It's approved every year so there are no guarantees from one year to the next that it's going to be in existence."
Gonzalez views employee specialization as being the best approach to a client base comprised of large communities with multiple homes. One group of employees is dedicated to mowing, weed-eating, edging and blowing. Another team makes monthly visits for pruning, taking care of weeds and touching up the beds. An irrigation crew inspects the system, cuts around the irrigation donuts and checks on the clocks.
Florida's communities have had water restrictions in response to dry seasons, so ArtisTree employees keep a close eye on irrigation clocks, ensuring they are timed to be operative only when necessary.
The company has a water truck for clients in emergency situations where a pump might be going down or a lake that is the source of irrigation water is low. Clients can purchase water service on an hourly basis.
ArtisTree assigns account executives and sometimes a few assistants for each maintenance client, typically HOAs, to ensure costs and landscaping challenges stay in line. Each account executive handles $1 million to $1.5 million worth of business.
Customer retention is high, and the company has some accounts dating 20 years. Pairing qualified employees with state-of-the-art equipment helps ensure that customer retention.
ArtisTree has augmented its line-up of riding mowers with stand-up mowers, which employees find easier to use because they can get between homes easier and are easier to maintain and repair, as well as have a smaller footprint on a trailer, Gonzalez says.
ArtisTree is also one of a few companies that Husqvarna has chosen to test out the installation of software into small tools, hedgers and weed-eaters that downloads information for later canalization. The company also keeps back-up pieces of all equipment on the truck as well as new tools that can be deployed as needed.
Gonzalez says the company is getting increasingly firm about safety and it's paying off. ArtisTree has monthly safety education meetings. Teams are equipped with personal protection equipment such as gloves, guards, helmets and earplugs.
Crews are financially rewarded for periods of accident-free days.
ArtisTree has struggled with pricing on maintenance jobs. Those serving on the highest levels of boards of HOAs are most concerned about price, says Gonzalez. The second level of HOAs, landscape committees and directors, are concerned about keeping up the appearance of the community and real estate values.
"There is a battle going on between these two factions and price is winning out more," says Gonzalez.
In the past two years, ArtisTree has tightened its standards to make its services more affordable to the average client. In the case of one major client, the company reduced its annual costs by a quarter-million dollars. "They were desperate to keep us, but they didn't want to go out to bid because they knew we weren't going to be
Even as his clients were cutting back during the Recession, Gonzalez looked at his own operations to trim expenses. "We manage our staff a little better and found a lot of wasted money," he says.
GPS units have been installed on most of the equipment in the fleet. "I know the whereabouts of every vehicle," he says. "I know where my account execs are from moment to moment if anybody wants to know. Not that anybody is trying to cheat, but we want to be efficient.
"In the past, we had mowing crews sitting at the back gate because they were down at 4 p.m. and didn't want to punch out until 5 p.m., so they waited it out until the end instead of finding another job and finishing it the next day. We have to outsmart ourselves and use modern technology as well as analyze it."
Gonzalez calls quality a "perception" clients have - if they believe they are getting the service they want, that also means they're getting the quality they desire. Part of quality control is the company's "no-no" policy, which means not saying "no" to customer requests. But "they can say yes as much as they want, because we have to make money," Gonzalez says.
ArtisTree has five core values:
The company also supports more than 50 local charities.
Referencing his past work history, Gonzalez seeks to be the "Vogue" of the industry. ArtisTree's website lists a number of awards it has achieved from the local to national level, year after year.
"I don't think any of my competition puts as much marketing as I have into their business," he says. "I also feel that designing landscapes that are chichi, exciting, image-building and artistic leverages into the maintenance business, which is pretty mundane, simple and ordinary in a lot of ways."
Even in renaming the company, Gonzalez put image front and center. The company was originally named Save On. Gonzalez kept the name as he established the company and then 12 years ago changed it to ArtisTree to reflect a more upscale image of "artistry".
Gonzalez believes he's achieved the goals he set when he first bought the company. "I want a company where people can get up and go to work, knowing they're working for an honest company and that we give them the tools to do an honest job, deliver a good product and have happy customers as opposed to going out there and figuring out how to cut corners and make money. That I think we've done successfully and will continue to do so."
Gonzalez says if he were to have done anything differently, it would be to take quicker action with weak employees.
"Whenever I make a determination, I discover it was a lot deeper than I thought it was after the fact," he says. "I like to be absolutely sure about decisions before I make them and have enough personal evidence that I'm comfortable with it before I take somebody out of a job. That's been a mistake of mine. I've lost business over it. I've lost money over it."
Gonzalez sees potential to double business in his present geographic range. His five-year plan is to get the company back to where it was before the recession began. He'd like to establish an equity program for key employees that builds on current bonus programs.
"I need to get the company to a profit level and return on sales where I can afford to do that," he says. "We're making pretty good money now, so I think in the next couple of years, we can get to that format."
Carol Brzozowski, Coral Springs, Fla., is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and a frequent contributor to Turf magazine. Contact her at email@example.com.


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Breaking Down Bluegrass: The Invention of a Genre from Mountain Ballads to Bill Monroe (Released September 2011)
After the break-up with Charlie, Bill moved to Atlanta and placed an ad in the paper looking for a guitarist and singer. Former farm hand Cleo Davis was hired as Bill's replacement for Charlie. They were hired to do a daily 15-minute program, "Mountain Music Time," on WWNC in Asheville, North Carolina, where the Monroe Brothers had had a steady gig. Davis believed that Monroe specifically sought to play in places where the Monroe Brothers' frequented to "regain his popularity over the airwaves as he was building his own group" (Rosenberg 41). Monroe soon added fiddler Art Wooten and bass player Amos Garen. Although the string bass was not a common instrument used in string bands during the 1930s, its addition gave Monroe's band a strong rhythmic foundation and also separated his sound from that of the Monroe Brothers. This was the first incarnation of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys.
Monroe had great control over his band's sound: he worked with Davis on his guitar runs and, because Monroe's mandolin was tuned the same as a fiddle, he could show Wooten how to bow the notes the way he wanted them. Monroe also chose gospel quartets as a solid part of the band's repertoire, which were popular both with white and African-American audiences. This required much rehearsal and training. Although Monroe's tenor voice was used as harmony during his stint with Charlie, Bill found that he could shift parts, singing lead on the verses and harmonizing tenor on the chorus. Along with the use of the mandolin, the use of the tenor voice as lead was another key aspect to the genre Monroe was formulating (Rosenberg 43).
Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys auditioned for the Grand Ole Opry in 1939. Although accounts vary as to what songs the band played for the audition, it was agreed that the band played its version of Jimmie Rodgers' "Mule Skinner Blues." This would become one of Monroe's signature tunes, and he would go on to record it three times in his career. By Monroe's account, "Mule Skinner Blues" was the first song he ever performed on the Opry and the first song for which he ever received an encore there (Rosenberg 47).
After several personnel changes, two additions were made to the Blue Grass Boys that would solidify the genre that Monroe was beginning to build. In 1945, guitarist and singer Lester Flatt joined the band. Flatt played a similar style as Charlie Monroe, but his "guitar work was smoother, more syncopated than Charlie's" (Rosenberg 69). Monroe also hired banjo player Earl Scruggs in 1945 to replace David "Stringbean" Akeman. Stringbean was from the minstrel tradition and added comic relief. However, Monroe had to work with the banjo player to alter his style from clawhammer to a two-finger picking style. Scruggs, on the other hand, had developed his own three-finger picking style from his home state of North Carolina. With Scruggs' technique, the banjo could become a lead instrument rather than a rhythm instrument much in the same way Monroe had transformed the mandolin. Fiddler Chubby Wise and bassist Cedric Rainwater rounded out what was to become Monroe's best-known incarnation of his Blue Grass Boys.
With this incarnation, Monroe did away with the slapstick comedy that was a part of other string bands and of his previous versions of the Blue Grass Boys. A lot of the banjo players and fiddlers learned their instruments via the minstrel shows, where comedy was interspersed with music. Monroe's 1945 Blue Grass Boys wore broad-brimmed hats and breeches. Later, the uniform would be changed to Stetson hats and string ties. In many ways, Monroe was creating a physical as well as a sonic uniformity for his group. While Monroe presented a clean, polished-looking band, he also insured that the band's sound was clean and polished. While earlier string bands such as the Skillet Lickers would play their solos on top of each other, the Blue Grass Boys took their solos one at a time, much like jazz musicians divvy up their solos. And in Flatt and Scruggs, Monroe had virtuosic musicians that could meet his high standards. The sound Monroe had been tinkering to find had finally coalesced: "Each individual band member was given an opportunity to step into the spotlight, while the gospel quartet singing underscored the solidarity of the group, as did their musical interplay on the many songs where each instrument took its turn" (Rosenberg 76). However, by 1948, Flatt and Scruggs had left the band within days of each, taking Cedric Rainwater and Chubby Wise with them to form a new band.
Publicly, both Flatt and Scruggs denied that the two had any plans to form a new group when they left. Scruggs maintained that the grueling touring schedule was too much for him—consecutive appearances could be several hundred miles apart and could be scheduled two at a time in one afternoon. He hoped to stay home and tend to his aging mother. However, Monroe was known to be a demanding band leader, and his Blue Grass Boys became "a virtual 'school of bluegrass'" (New World Encyclopedia). A varying account of the split came from Jake Lambert, Flatt's biographer. Lambert maintained that, although the bandmembers were paid 60 dollars a week, they were required to do much more work than Monroe. Flatt did all the emcee work on the shows, while Scruggs was in charge of handling the group's finances. After spending enough time carrying around thousands of dollars in cash, it was not hard for Scruggs to see that they were making much less than Monroe and doing much more of the work (Rosenberg 79).
Flatt and Scruggs formed the Foggy Mountain Boys. The group included Flatt on guitar and lead vocals, Scruggs on banjo, Rainwater on bass, and Wise on fiddle. Flatt and Scruggs added one more element to their band: a dobro guitarist. The Dobro guitar was brought to the American public by in the 1920s by the Dopera brothers, Czechoslavakian immigrations who started their own guitar manufacturing company. The Dobro features a raised bridge and a resonator that amplifies the "slides and whines produced by fretting the metal strings with a steel bar … through mail-order sales and swapping, the instrument made its way along the Appalachian chain" (Price 24). The Dobro is played with the instrument across the musician's lap and is tuned to an open chord. It has become one of the standard instruments used in bluegrass, along with the fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar, and bass.
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03 May 2010 | #1 |
How to delete a folder in Outlook 2010
I am so frustrated with Outlook 2010 right now and it doesnt behave the same as in Outlook 2007. I have the luxury of doing it in two VMware and keep making clones until I get it right.
My killer question is : I have two accounts on Outlook 2010 now. 1. First account I use the auto thing to get my gmail using my username and passport and it created this FIRST account that allow me to sent/receive email. 2. Second account I use a .pst file from Outlook 2007 using the do 'data files' tab and now I make it my default and I want everything save here. Now, I want to delete my first account, but if I do, I cant use it to sent out email anymore on my second account. How do I do all these and only have one account? Thanks for helping. |
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03 May 2010 | #2 |
I have solved my problem! hahahaha
After making so many copy of Vmware trying to get the right setting, I have done it! I hate using IMAP. It makes everything so slow! I now use pop3 on my Outlook 2010 for Gmail. If I have to sycnronized thing, I might as well use the web version of Gmail. So in my case, I use pop3 cause thats all I want. You have to configure it manually doing pop3. Then there is this section to tell it you want to use a existing .pst file that you have got from 2007. NOW I am seeing only one account and it can sent/receive. No more of those funky folders that on gmail. |
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12 May 2013 | #3 |
Hi have a similar problem, but the related folders are Pop3 so I don't have that option. I had already created a folder/pop settings and was attempting to import some data from another Outlook but ended up with two! And the latest is it seems now to be the default even thought I have not actually set all the pop3 settings etc, very frustrating! From the limited info I can find out my only option seems to be to uninstall and then install the whole application. It's not the end of the world as I only installed & imported the data ten days ago. But I think there must be a simpler way of resolving the problem? Can anyone can come up with an option? Cheers BC
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Found a partial answer, going to Control Panel, Mail and changing the default*. Still looking at the 2nd Folder, anyone got any idea?
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November/December in Review
As I perused Facebook this evening, Marla Bosworth's article from our current issue (Nov./Dec. 13) rang in my ears. Yes, I was spending too much time there and I hadn't accomplished all of my day's goals. What about you? Did you find her piece to be eye-opening and a good reminder? Granted, Facebook is a wonderful medium and a great business tool for many of us, but too much of anything loses its wonderfulness (is that a word?) and simply becomes a distraction and a time-gobbler. Of course, Facebook isn't alone, but it is the most widely used form of social media. So, how do you apportion your time? Share with us your tips for making best use of Facebook without getting lost in it.
Off the Facebook soapbox and on to the holidays. Did you not love Suzanne Finley's poem, "A Poem of Holiday Favorites?" I was amused and delighted. Any of us making product for sale or for gifts this time of year are sure to relate.
I hope you enjoyed the Castile soap article written by our newest columnist, Marina Tadiello. Castile's place in history is as fascinating as is this one-oil soap, itself! I loved gazing at the photos supplied by Castile soapmakers. Do you like Castile soap? Do you make it?
Where would we be without the clever and knowledgeable Kevin Dunn, who educated us in a most fascinating way in his article, "Phun With Ph?" I'm wishing that my junior and senior high school teachers had been as fun (or phun) as Kevin is.
Deb Sturdevant's sharing her life and memories of her favorite herbs was a respite from my day and a reminder to count my favorite herbal memories and where they have taken me over the years. Karen Mallinger's monographs on bayberry and cloves were a fascinating read for anyone who enjoys herbs and would like to learn more. I really wanted to find bayberries and extract the wax. Perhaps someday, I will. For now though, I have lots of cloves to experiment with. What are your favorite herbs and why?
Of course, everyone's favorite November/December issue article, "Raves for Faves" was eagerly anticipated. I love finding out what everyone else is doing, and apparently, so do you. How do you stack up among your fellow artisans?
I must mention that I always enjoy the writings of Melinda Coss, esoteric ramblings or not. Although she knows more than I ever will about soapmaking and the business thereof, she is so down-to-earth and easy to read that I look forward to seeing her name.
Looking for some new ideas for the holidays? Diane Pither-Patterson is your girl. Her article on creating candles by upcycling pieces you find was timely in that upcycling is a trend we shouldn't ignore and during the holidays is a great time to introduce something like this.
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Until next time, may your days be filled with bubbles and wax,
Beth Byrne for the Saponifier
We Can't Wait!
We're so excited about this upcoming issue of the Saponifier! Due to be released on July 1st, it is our 15th anniversary edition. To celebrate, we wanted this one to be beautiful, fun and full of design ideas for making cold process soap. We affectionately call it, "DesignMania." Some of the best in the biz are showing off their design tutorials, along with plenty of photos so that you can learn these techniques to try on your own. Doesn't that sound like fun?
What? You're not a subscriber? You can fix that, you know! Readers worldwide subscribe to the Saponifier since it's a digital publication–no shipping to worry about. You have your magazine right at your fingertips with just a download. Couldn't be easier. If you haven't subscribed yet, follow this link: http://saponifier.com/subscriptions/
As always, we also feature helpful columnists who teach you, inform you and otherwise help you as a soapmaker, bath & body maker and candle maker. Melinda Coss is teaching us about balancing design with business, and Marla Bosworth instructs us on writing a business plan. Yours Truly regaled you with a review of the amazing HSCG conference in Raleigh, NC. But we also have two new writers. Sue Finley, our Potpourri column writer and Debbie Sturdevant, our resident herbal expert, who will be sharing with us through her column, Herbal Wisdom. Sue is writing about inspiration in soap design and Debbie is revisiting an old favorite, Calendula. She's even included a couple of her favorite recipes!
Share the fun with us on July 1st. You know you want to!
Until next time, may your days be filled with bubbles and wax.
Beth Byrne for the Saponifier
PS – Soap designs just beg for a contest. Stay tuned.
March/April 2013 in Review
"Life is so much more complicated these days what with all the new technology to keep up with," my mother recently stated. And truth be known, she doesn't keep up. Still, she was voicing what many of us feel from time to time, that learning new technology seems complicated and we wonder if it really saves time, money or effort.
In reading Cindy Noble's article, Digital Library Essentials, in the March-April 2013 edition of the Saponifier, it's easy to see that going digital can save time, money and effort. We have so many more resources at our fingertips now, and even digital books are also less expensive than traditional books, not to mention the fact that they won't fill bookshelf after bookshelf in our homes! I remember not all that long ago having to make a point of going to the library to look things up that I wanted to know about. If I wanted to buy a book, I had to either make a trip to a bookstore or send for a catalog, pick out my books, and send the order form and check back in and then wait for a couple of weeks for the books to arrive. Yes, we are saving time and money when we use our technology efficiently. Incidentally, Cindy suggestions for books to help you along in your business are outstanding. If you haven't read her article yet, you'll want to.
Are you contemplating selling out of the country? Tamara Dourney's, Understanding ISO Compliance is a must-read to help you get your business ready for new horizons and markets. Of course, in order to sell, we also need good product photos. You could hire a professional, and that isn't a bad idea, but may be out of your current budget. Tamara's, Product Photography Revisited will inspire you to improve your photography.
If you're selling products, you need to know about POS. You don't think you have one? You do! Quite simply, POS stands for, "point of sale," and refers to the way you take funds from a customer, whether a cash box at the farmer's market or a credit card. Of course, it's credit cards that have us scratching our heads, wondering if we can afford to accept them or afford not to accept them and then which one to choose. It's a difficult maze, for sure, but Beth Byrne will make it easier for you if you read, POS and the Chandler. She attempts to take some of the mystery out of determining which credit card company to use.
Should I Quit My Day Job? Not only the title of Melinda Coss' article, but a common question for entrepreneurs, it is puzzling to many of us who seek to make our businesses a full-time venture. We can never be reminded enough of the importance of good, realistic planning in making a successful business. Be sure to read Melinda's article and take her advice to heart.
We are living in a time where natural is the buzz word. If you offer natural products, your customers will be determining–with varying degrees of discernment, just how truthful your statements about your goods are. If you purchase natural products or ingredients yourself, you are asking the same thing. Helping you to do that is Tammy Lane in, Sifting Through the Hype.
If you're a business owner, then you are likely thinking often about how you can get your margins up and your costs down. To give you some practical advice on increasing your margins without necessarily increasing your prices, Marla Bosworth gives us, Work Smarter, Not Harder–Are Your Margins High Enough?
Lest you think this issue is only about business, take a look at the fine articles that Katherine Forrest, Victoria Donaldson and Elizabeth Sockol provided for our reading pleasure. Katherine shares tips for making beeswax candles, while Victoria teaches us how to make a basic soap mold in just fifteen minutes. Elizabeth informs us about the common Safflower. How much do you know about it? If you've read the article, we think you know quite a bit.
Last but certainly not least, pour over the photos in our Readers Showcase Gallery. Every issues offers a feast for the eyes and inspiration from our subscribers. Thanks to Fisika, Nancy Reid of Nature's Soap and Mountain Farm's soap. If you're looking for soap events, be sure to check out our Events page.
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Finally, if you have comments or questions, please feel free to comment here or to ask questions on our Twitter or Facebook pages. We'd love to hear from you.
New Issue in Review!
Have you devoured your November/December issue yet?
We at the Saponifier have done our best to bring you all of your favorites. From your favorite suppliers, scents and products, to recipes revisited and those for winter, you've likely enjoyed reading about them and perhaps have even tried some of the recipes. Were your favorites mentioned in Beth Byrne's, Raves for Faves article? Have you sampled tried and true recipes from, Favorites Revisited: Saponifier's Best-Loved Recipes, by Tamara Dourney, or, new recipes in, All-Time Winter Skin Favorites: Scrubs, Creams and Lotions, by Marla Bosworth?
We're certain you enjoyed other helpful articles that will allow you to manufacture more efficiently and profitably, such as Victoria Donaldson's, Personalizing for Small Orders. Or perhaps, you're working up new formulas for scrubs of any kind, so you loved, Natural Exfoliants, by Erica Pence. What are your favorite exfoliants?
Are you looking for something new and exciting for candlemaking? If so, you've likely made plans to try Fire and Ice candles, by Erica Pence.
We're sure you found exceptional business advice by Melinda Coss, in her new column, Savior Faire and Consistency–the Mother of Success, by Alexander Sherman. What did you find most helpful?
I found myself already thinking spring with Elizabeth Sockol's, Wake Robin! Were you as fascinated as I was by the many uses for this lovely herb, as well as its history?
Let us know how you've enjoyed this issue and used the knowledge you've gained.
Until next time, may your days be filled with bubbles and wax.
Beth Byrne for the Saponifier
New Column–Savoir Faire!
We at the Saponifier are delighted to announce that we have added a new column and author
Many of you are quite familiar with the author of soapmaking books, Melinda Coss. Melinda is the author of 27 books on various crafting topics, three of them featuring soapmaking. They include: The Handmade Soap Book, Gourmet Soaps Made Easy and Natural Soap.
What you may not know about Melinda is that she is widely credited as the pioneer of modern cold process soap making in Europe. She began a soap making company in the 1990?s in the UK, which subsequently became the largest company of its kind, supplying UK stores and hotels with soap and other toiletry products. She sold her company in 2004 and moved to France, where she began teaching classes there and in England, which she continues to conduct. She also acts as a consultant to soap making companies. Melinda additionally works with social concerns in Africa.
And now, Melinda will be writing a column for the Saponifier, Savoir Faire.
Join me in welcoming Melinda to the Saponifier!
Until next time, may your days be filled with bubbles and wax.
Beth Byrne


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Creating The Batman – Interview with Comic Book Artist Dave Taylor
January 18th, 2014
Marc Kleinhenz, a Writer/Reporter over at the Huffington Post BOOKS BLOG, has been writing a very excellent on-going article series titled "Creating the Bat". Basically, he interviews many Artists and Writers who have worked on the Batman character over the years. In "Creating the Bat # 9″ he talked with the Comic Book creator Dave Taylor. Dave, as you should know, was the official artist for the Batman graphic Novel, Batman: Death By Design (DC Comics), which was written by Chip Kidd.
Marc threw some very though-provoking questions out at Dave Taylor and his answers are both insightful and clever. Seriously, it's a great article! So, if you're a fan of THE BAT-MAN then please check it out, just CLICK HERE!
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•ARCHITIZER Graphic Novel Book Review – BATMAN: DEATH BY DESIGN
November 4th, 2013
Over at the always amazing ARCHITIZER website Samuel Medina just posted a book review about Chip Kidd's Graphic Novel, BATMAN: DEATH BY DESIGN (DC Comics). The website's main focus is on the latest trends of Modern Architecture so they have a very interesting angle on this book. We love how they focused on Dave Taylor's artwork as well. Plus, may we also suggest that while you're there, go look at some of the incredible home design eye-candy. Seriously, very cool stuff, you'll drool for days!
You can read the review by clicking HERE!
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•Here's some comic book publishing news that is way too cool NOT to mention. It looks like the Graphic Novel Book, BATMAN: DEATH BY DESIGN (DC Comics) has been translated into a "Foreign" German-Language version for the Germany book market. The only main difference I can see is that the title has been changed to "Bauwerke des Todes" which, when translated into English, means "Structures of Death" …cool!!
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•BATMAN: DEATH BY DESIGN Book Review on the Batman Universe Podcast
September 14th, 2013
Here's some really exciting news! Over at the Batman Universe Podcast they recently picked-apart the BATMAN: DEATH BY DESIGN (DC Comics) Graphic Novel Book written by Chip Kidd and illustrated by Dave Taylor. Hey, we embedded it down below so you can hear for yourself what Ed, Donovan, Stella and Kristina all said. (Thanks Guys)
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•New PANTHEON GRAPHIC NOVELS Book Logo by Chip Kidd!
August 10th, 2013
Here's a quick post to share this example of some cool graphic design created by Chip Kidd. He recently redesigned the PANTHEON GRAPHIC NOVELS Logo for a trade show banner they needed for the recent 2013 San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) and we have to admit that it looks pretty damn good!
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•Here's a cool piece of Graphic Art History! Dave Taylor, the Artist who drew Chip Kidd's first DC Comics' Graphic Novel, BATMAN: DEATH BY DESIGN, created this Promo Poster for the book which never got made. It was actually more like a prototype showing what the book COULD look like. Of course it has his "raw graphite pencil sketch" look, which did make it into the book and was also a great style for the story. So, that's cool! Hey DC Comics, if you're reading this you need to make this a poster for sale!!
You can see more of Dave Taylor's ART if you CLICK HERE!
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•OK, I hope the picture up above is not misleading, ha! I mean, this is NOT a new book about "The Art of Batman: Death By Design", ha ha! It's a graphic designed to present a wonderful video created by Bernard Hill who seems to really like the Batman Graphic Novel created by Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor, BATMAN: DEATH BY DESIGN (DC Comics). It's one of those "Book Trailers" where they browse through the book and give you an idea of it's contents. It's pretty well made and we think it really does showcase Dave Taylor's amazing artwork really well. So, please check it out! (Thanks Bernard!)
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•Hey! We have a bunch of abbreviations here so please let us explain that real quick, ha! First, SDCC is the "San Diego Comic Con", which starts on July 18th (Thursday) and runs until Sunday. Then, the CBLDF is the "Comic Book legal Defense Fund". They're a non-profit group that helps support Comic Book Retailers and Creators. They also work to SAVE FREE SPEECH. Whew!
OK, the good news is that the Book Designer Chip Kidd will be appearing at the 2013 SDCC with the lovely Japanese Translator Anne Ishii. They will be making multiple appearances, both separate and together, at different times of the event. Also, Chip Kidd will mainly be appearing to sign available copies of Batman: Death by Design, Neil Gaiman's Make Good Art, and The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame.
So far the schedule looks like this:
THURSDAY – Chip Kidd will be signing books at the CBLDF Booth (#1920) at 5:00pm.
FRIDAY – Chip Kidd will appear with Anne Ishii for a Lecture and Book Signing at 12:00pm.
SATURDAY- Anne Ishii will have a performance at 12:00pm.
Of course the CBLDF will have many other Creatives, Authors, Writers, Cartoonists, and other Artists as well. For more information and a complete list of events, please CLICK HERE!
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•Here's a quick post to share some awesome news for Batman Fans and DC Comics, Chip Kidd, & Dave Taylor. The Graphic Novel, BATMAN: DEATH BY DESIGN has made the New York Times Bestseller List… again! Yes! This time it makes the list as a Trade Paperback Edition. It came in on the list at #8, WOO HOO! Let's hope it just keeps climbing, ha!
Here are some Amazon links for both of the Hardcover and Paperback versions:
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•I thought this would be a good idea for a post, just posting some of the many book review videos that have been done for Chip Kidd's Graphic Novel, BATMAN: DEATH BY DESIGN (DC Comics). The interesting thing about "video reviews" is that, since the format is so visual, the reviewers can also focus quite well on the amazing artwork of Dave Taylor. Besides the compelling storyline, the book's other main interest is that the art is also a very enjoyable part of the book. So, this is really cool. Thanks to everybody who took the time to create these videos.
As a side note:
One of the videos (the 4th one) is an "Audio Only" Interview with Chip Kidd that was done BEFORE the book came out. So, in contrast to the other ones, which were obviously done by readers of the actual book, it's kind of interesting. Hey, here they are… please enjoy.
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Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him
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543Lucre Lucifer writes "The top climate scientist at NASA, James E. Hansen, says that the Bush Administration tried to silence him(NY Times) after he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming. In the talk, he said that significant emission cuts could be achieved with existing technologies, particularly in the case of motor vehicles, and that without leadership by the United States, climate change would eventually leave the earth 'a different planet.' The administration's policy is to use voluntary measures to slow, but not reverse, the growth of emissions."