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On Plane vs Under the Plane Golf Swing
By Chuck Quinton, Master RST Instructor•FULL BIO•
The image below represents two very different paths into the ball. In this article, you'll learn a key principle to help you get on the right path and on plane.
The Problem: No Idea How to Control His Ball
On the left, our golfer Ian was approaching the ball severely from in to out and hit everything high and right to left. It was nearly impossible for him to get the ball to start on his line, and if it did, it would end up well left of his target.
It got so bad that he couldn't even aim himself anymore because the ball was going all over the place. Ian's a very good player (low single digit handicap) and couldn't figure out the problem or how to fix it.
In about 10 minutes, we had his path much more square into the ball, and the ball was coming out much lower and right on his line with zero curvature.
Read on to learn what the problem was and how we fixed it...
Halfway down, Ian's clubhead should be working down the yellow line, which is through the center of his right forearm, to be on plane. However, in the swing on the left, you can see the clubhead is almost behind his back pocket – well below the plane.
After a few minutes of mirror work and helping Ian understand the problem, we were able to move the club almost a foot at this point in the downswing.
Below are the results one frame before impact. You can see how much more of a square path the club head is taking into the ball compared to his approach on the left, which is moving at least 15° in to out.
The club head on the right is coming more on top of the ball as well, which gave him a more negative angle of attack. This brought his ball flight down and took the timing out of the club head release, which had previously been necessary to try and bring the ball back toward the target.
Golf's hard enough without starting each shot 20 yards right of your intended target and then trying to guess how much to bring it back each time!
The Solution: It's All in the Shoulders
So, how did we fix this? Simple, really.
Ian's swing plane issue was coming from his left shoulder working up too early in the downswing. This tilts your spine too far back too soon and tilts the plane.
In the mirror, I worked with Ian to feel that his left shoulder always felt lower than his right in the downswing and that his spine felt very upright at impact.
His first swing after drilling this for only about 10 minutes is on the right. You can see that his angles changed by about 6-7°, and that is what brought the club down more on plane and led to much more penetrating shots.
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Wednesday, the day before the US Thanksgiving holiday, was to be a quiet day of writing. I had no inquiries scheduled and definitely needed to get several reports completed as well as peer review several colleagues documents. Then the email arrived. It was a note from Timothy Kasbe, CIO of Reliance Retail, India describing his experiences in the then unfolding attacks in Mumbai. He was in the middle of it. The story is masterfully told by Joe Skorupa of RIS News in his recent blog post Terror in Mumbai so no need to repeat it here. But there's a couple of points I'd like to add and also delicately provide some analysis.
I've gotten to know Timothy through our mutual efforts on the Retail ROI Initiative. No it's not about technology payback. ROI in this case stands for Retail Orphan initiative where we both serve on the Board of Advisers. We both are avid bloggers. Timothy's deals with the world's orphans and you are reading my efforts. We've also connected on Linkedin as well as Facebook. I was just riveted to my mobile device checking Facebook again and again over Thanksgiving. That was the vehicle that Timothy was using to keep people updated on his status. OK Jeff so nice story but what does this have to do with technology or retail? Well Timothy and I have never met face to face or even been on the same conference call. But between all the various Web 2.0 connections we've established with each other we've exchanged an awful lot of information and have developed a relationship. I've spoken often to executives forty years or older about the need to understand these new communications channels. Some get it but many are far more skeptical. I always suggest they walk by any middle school to see kids texting each other. Hopefully they see what I do, a completely new communications strategy emerging. It's my hope that retailers understand they will need to develop new communications channels to communicate with this generation. But it wasn't until Mumbai did I realize that even curmudgeons like me have adopted these new channels of communication.
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Penguins: Promoting Polar Awareness While Melting Our Hearts (Released August 2012)
Stephen A. Rust.
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011.
Twenty-first century American cinema is permeated by images of globalization and environmental change. Responding to what Yale researchers have described as a "sea change" in public perceptions of global warming occurring between 2004 and 2007, this dissertation provides the first extended examination of Hollywood's response to the planet's most pressing social and environmental challenge - global climate change. Among the most widely distributed and consumed forms of popular culture, Hollywood blockbuster films provide a unique textual window into the cultural logic of ecology during this important turning point in Americans' perceptions of environmental risk. The term "cultural logic of ecology" is defined as the collective cultural expression of a society's dominant perceptions and enactments of its relationships with other organisms and their shared bio-physical environments. Surveying the history of climate cinema, my second chapter examines the production and reception contexts of the two films most responsible for renewing public interest in global warming: The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and An Inconvenient Truth (2006). Despite their generic differences, both films combine the formal techniques of melodrama and realism to translate the science of global warming into a moral vernacular. In subsequent chapters, I further intertwine textual and historical analysis to examine other films released during the period that portray aspects of global warming. Considered a children's film, Happy Feet (2006) employs digital animation to illustrate the ecological impacts of globalization on Antarctica, thus presenting viewers with a more accurate picture of the threats facing emperor penguins than did the documentary March of the Penguins (2005). I next analyze There Will Be Blood (2007) as a critique of patriarchy and natural resource exploitation that resonated with American filmgoers as oil prices were skyrocketing and President George W. Bush admitted "America is addicted to oil." Consumed on Imax screens and iPods, and as toys, t-shirts, and video games, blockbusters leave massive cultural and carbon footprints. I conclude by arguing that ecocritical scholarship offers the most effective scholarly toolkit for understanding contemporary cinema as a cultural, textual, and material phenomenon.
Michelle DUFF.
Dominion Post, Jun 29, 2011, pp. A.5.
Massey University penguin expert John Cockrem will be recommending that Happy Feet be released off New Zealand's south coast when the penguin advisory committee, a panel of experts set up to determine his future, has its first meeting at Wellington Zoo today.
Amanda Komar.
M.A. Thesis, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2011.
Using content analysis, this study will examine how the use of feature-length fictional films with environmental themes can be used as a communication and education tool for environmental issues currently present in the world today. A total of 14 films were viewed for this study. Two films were removed from analysis because their plots revolving mainly around political themes, rather than environmental themes. In total, 11 major environmental themes were identified, the most prevalent being protection/treatment of animals, pollution/dumping, and natural resource exploitation. The films were all framed in a pro-environment fashion in which the protagonist is fighting for the environment and the environment is portrayed as the fragile and innocent victim. Each film had poignant take home messages that could be used to communicate important environmental issues to the public.
The Herald, Sep 4, 2011, pp. n/a.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — He needed a little push before speeding backward down a makeshift slide. Once in the water, he popped his head up for one last look. And then he was gone. The wayward emperor penguin known as "Happy Feet" was back home in Antarctic waters after an extended sojourn spent capturing hearts in New Zealand. "I was really happy to see him go," [Lisa Argilla] said. "The best part of my job is when you get to release animals back into the wild where they are supposed to be." AP "Happy Feet," the wayward emperor penguin, looks out of his temporary pen before he is released into the Southern Ocean south of New Zealand from the research vessel Tangaroa on Sunday.
Tribune – Review / Pittsburgh Tribune – Review, Dec 29, 2010, pp. n/a.
Penguins Hall of Fame broadcaster Mike Lange, Stanley Cup champion Phil Bourque and WDVE Morning Show host Val Porter will join Pens mascot Iceburgh and members of the Ice Crew to help cheer on the Pens.
John Gilbey.
Nature, Vol. 465, No. 7301, Jun 24, 2010, pp. 1013.
Each programme centres on the dissection of a large animal - in this series, we look at a great white shark, big cats and a giant squid. [...] huge discoveries are still happening. [...] in my own research area, fossils are being reconstructed on the basis of anatomical relationships derived from images of live animals – these show how soft tissues and bone interact under varying controlled conditions.
Jerry Fraser.
National Fisherman, Vol. 89, No. 12, Apr 2009, pp. 26-28.
There's more to it than that – but just how much more isn't clear. Endless Ocean was released in Japan in 2007 to what the Herald called "mild acclaim," which suggests that a handful of scuba geeks were enthralled but most people couldn't be bothered.
Scott MacDonald.
Natural History, Vol. 118, No. 8, Oct 2009, pp. 24-29.
To my amazement, they maintained a rapt silence throughout the film – as did I. In the United States, nature films have become a staple of television and ofthe Imax presentations in museums and science centers, but historically, few have made it into commercial theaters. Beginning with Seal Island (1946), Disney's True-Life Adventure films were hits on the big screen before becoming ubiquitous on television and in schoolrooms. [...] the alarmist slant of The Hèllstrom Chronicle, which warned that insects would overtake humanity, helped that film succeed as a commercial release even as it won its directors, Walon Green and Ed Spiegel, the 1971 Academy Award for best documentary feature.
Joel Sappell.
Los Angeles Times, Feb 17, 2008, pp. E.8.
Veteran watermen brought their experience to play in virtually every facet of the movie, which mimics the documentary style of countless DVDs stacked in surf shops, from Bruce Brown's classic "Endless Summer" to his son's soulful "Step Into Liquid." Sony Entertainment chief Amy Pascal, who calls "Surf's Up" a "love letter to surfing," says the film was swamped by a summer of big movies but did ride a wave of acclaim among one appreciative audience segment — animators, many of whom help pick Oscar nominees.
Ecology, Environment & Conservation, Apr 28, 2008, pp. 842.
Aurora will rollout the product nationally this June to thousands of its retail customers including zoos, aquariums, museums, book stores, department stores, toy stores and catalogs.
Colin Martin.
Nature, Vol. 453, No. 7194, May 22, 2008, pp. 454-455.
224 pp. £45.00 (hbk), £16.99 (pbk) "Is it not a scandal, in this day and age, that there seems to be no place for continuing series of programmes about science?" asked veteran natural history broadcaster David Attenborough, lecturing on the future of public service television in London on 30 April. An exhibition opening next week at London's Science Museum, Films of Fact, charts how science was introduced to the UK public in documentary films and on television in the early twentieth century, from the birth of these media to the 1960s.
Pittsburgh Post – Gazette, Aug 15, 2008, pp. B.1.
While the ceremonial shovels scooped up a mound of fresh dirt placed at what one day will be center ice of a six-story structure covering eight acres, they also buried a decade of frustrations and acrimony that built up in the quest to replace Mellon Arena, the oldest venue in the National Hockey League. The new arena, which will be accessible on every level to people with disabilities, includes a full-service restaurant, public bars and food court on both the main concourse and an upper level concourse, five retail shops, one concession point of sale for every 158 spectators, 11 escalators, six truck docks and an enclosed bridge connected to a new parking garage.
Alice Thomson.
The Daily Telegraph, Nov 1, 2007, pp. 025.
The problem was that everyone else in their class was in on the game and going cyber-sledging together after school. So I asked a friend who is a child psychologist whether she'd heard of it and what she thought about it. "Of course my children use it," she said. "I am not a complete kill-joy." My neighbour told me she had convinced herself it was an educational toy. "It is fantastic," she said. "It teaches them the value of working for money. You unload beanbags from a truck and you get paid, so that you can go and buy a new pair of slippers for your penguin." First, we had to decide what to call his penguin. This is harder than naming a child. You cannot use your real name or something that might identify you (part of Club Penguin's rules to keep information confidential) – but, with 12 million players, it is hard to find a unique moniker. Then you have to decide what colour penguin you want – red, pink, green, blue or yellow (black is not allowed). Once christened, your penguin plays games or does work in order to collect "coins" (points) that he can use to buy food and clothes, or he simply chats to other penguins. Parents can choose to let their children use the "standard" chat that filters out inappropriate greetings or "ultimate safe chat", which restricts children to a predefined menu of statements. Instead, you can take your penguin to town, to the ice-rink or on a trip to the seaside. He can go sledging, surfing, play hide-and-seek or join sports teams. There is no lookism – the penguins are exactly the same size, and you can't swear or "use sexist or racist" language such as, "I don't like blue penguins". And there is a stringent privacy policy: the only information Club Penguin holds about its members is one of their parents' email address. Rather than being permanently glued to the screen, as some critics fear, the children only ever seem to play for about half an hour, and whole days go by when my son forgets about it.
Monique Hohnberg.
Screen Education, No. 47, 2007, pp. 46-49.
In an interview, Simon Clark comments on how he began his career as an animator, working with 3D animation, his collaborative relationship with directors, the difference between feature and commercial work, his unique experience working on the animated film "Happy Feet," the personal qualities needed to pursue a career in animation, the best and worst apsects of being an animator, the differences between the Australian and United Kingdom animation industries, and his plans for the future. A sidebar offering Clarke's credentials and accomplishments is provided.
Kevin Crust.
Los Angeles Times, Jun 8, 2007, pp. E.4.
"Charlie don't surf!" bellows Robert Duvall in "Apocalypse Now," but apparently penguins do. At least that's the concept of the animated "Surf's Up," a clever, delightfully rendered summer diversion in which a tiny rockhopper penguin named Cody Maverick aspires to be a champion wave rider. Directed by Ash Brannon and Chris Buck from a screenplay by Don Rhymer, Brannon, Buck and Christopher Jenkins, "Surf's Up" rides inventive visuals to mostly winning results. Brannon and Buck parody sports docs in general and television surf coverage in particular, instilling the movie with an X Games vibe. The surfing action replicates and at times surpasses the real thing, and the fabricated "vintage footage" is a wonder to look at. Interviews with [Young Cody] and his family conducted by a comically intrusive documentary crew frame the main story, building toward the flightless little bird's inevitable showdown with emperor penguin Tank "the Shredder" Evans (Diedrich Bader), nine-time winner of the Surf-Off.
Michael Agger.
National Post, Sep 18, 2007, pp. A.14-A14.
Creating a penguin is simple, though the entire sign-up process emphasizes safety in such a way that a curious adult can't help feeling like a predator. The site asks you to "Respect Other Penguins" and "Never Reveal Your Personal Information." Establishing a sheltered haven in the Internet maelstrom is Club Penguin's selling point. The site offers "Ultimate Safe Chat," in which a penguin can use only preselected words, and "Standard Safe Chat," in which you can type any word, but all the words are screened by a filter. The first thing you notice is that everyone is really dressed up. When you click on another penguin, their "Player Card" appears. This shows all of the pins, hats, props and accessories that the penguin has acquired by completing various missions and shopping at various stores. The net result is that a lot of penguins end up looking like Elton John. Many initial penguin-to-penguin comments are sartorial in nature, such as "Where did you get that hat?" or "Nice outfit." A common opener, though, is the one that the pink penguin directed my way: "boy or girl?" An enterprising penguin tried this variation: "All girls in the room come to me!" The emphatic "WHO WANTS TO BE A COUPLE?" is also popular.
Claudia Puig.
USA TODAY, Jun 8, 2007, pp. E.5.
Though it doesn't have the rousing musical numbers of Happy Feet or the fascinating saga and emotion of March of the Penguins, Surf's Up is yet another entertaining film featuring penguins. The interplay between Cody Maverick (Shia LaBeouf), a young penguin who yearns to be a surfing champ, and the gnarly former champ Big Z/Geek ([Jeff Bridges] in a sort of dual role) generally works well, largely because of the chemistry between the two actors. Bridges, particularly, is in his element. He stands out in a part that spins off his slacker Dude character from The Big Lebowski (without the criminal elements). It's not exactly awash in cleverness, but it is good clean fun for the family. Though [Cody]'s character has some rather annoyingly bratty moments, adults will get a kick out of Bridges' recognizable laid-back old surfer.
Ann Hornaday – Washington Post Staff Writer.
The Washington Post, Jun 8, 2007, pp. C.1.
[Cody] is a rockhopper penguin, the kind with yellow plumes sprouting showily out of their heads, and for the first few minutes of "Surf's Up," viewers will no doubt be surprised to hear LaBeouf's adolescent croak instead of Robin Williams, who portrayed the rockhopper in "Happy Feet." But where that overstuffed and overlong film careered into dark, digressive jags, "Surf's Up" keeps it simple, sprightly and visually dazzling. Then there's Jeff Bridges, who's been enlisted to play the washed-up old salt named Geek, a crusty old beach bum who teaches Cody that there's more to surfing than shredding the competition. Fans of "The Big Lebowski" will find it a particularly inspired piece of casting, proving that even as a two-dimensional character, The Dude abides. "Surf's Up" rides its own tube, balancing as it does between too cool and too cute. It's neither, which is a neat trick indeed considering its overexposed avian subjects.
Mike Scott.
Times - Picayune, Jun 8, 2007, pp. 05-LAG.05.
The toe-tapping "Happy Feet" was a case of National Geographic meets "Moulin Rouge" meets "An Inconvenient Truth," whereas the markedly more cartoonish "Surf's Up" — from Sony Pictures Animation, the studio behind last year's "Open Season" — is more like Chilly Willy meets "Karate Kid" meets "The Office." It's a cute idea — penguins in the tropics — and the lush setting gives the animators a chance to shine. There's nothing so artful as the gorgeous underwater "flyby" sequences from "Happy Feet," but at the same time there's only so much visual bang you can get out of glacial snowscapes. On Pen Gu Island, where [Cody]'s surfing competition is held, there's sand, there are swaying palms, there's dense jungle foliage, there's an unexplainable tribe of Ewok- like penguin natives. And it's all rendered with an expert, and detailed, hand. (Exhibit A: In the credits of "Surf's Up," there are seven people assigned to the "Hair & Feather" crew.) Listen up: Some notable voices to listen for in "Surf's Up": Jon Heder ("Blades of Glory," "Napoleon Dynamite") as the goofy, gangly Michigan-bred Chicken Joe; James Woods ("Be Cool," "Shark") as the Don-King-coiffed surfing promoter Reggie Belafonte; original "Saturday Night Live" cast member Laraine Newman as an unidentified "additional voice"; and real-life champion surfers Rob Machado and Kelly Slater, in penguin form.
Lloyd S. Davis.
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Vol. 17, Dec 2007, pp. S148-S164.
1. Science is the primary way by which we can know the truth about the world in which we live. Yet, as much as we need science, the public has become overwhelmed by it and, paradoxically, excluded from it too. 2. Even scientists cannot cope with the volume of science being produced and, further, the method we use to communicate among ourselves is hopelessly inadequate-indeed, a barrier-for promoting understanding outside our specialty areas. Yet, the use of impact factors and the like, used to assess and reward performance, lock us into communicating principally through the poorly accessed window of peer-reviewed journals. 3. We need means of making science easily digestible while still maintaining its precision. These are, of course, not issues peculiar to Antarctic science, however, as Antarctic scientists the responsibility for popularizing our research falls more squarely on our shoulders given the limited access others have to the Antarctic. This paper sets out what we must do in order to engage the public and popularize science: it is not just what we say, but the way we say it that is important. 4. An example of science from research on penguins is used to demonstrate the various ways it may be popularized. While the need for science communication has never been more pressing, the means at our disposal for communicating Antarctic science have never been more varied or more cost effective.
Barbara Robertson.
Computer Graphics World, Vol. 30, No. 6, Jun 2007, pp. 12-17.
In Sony Pictures' Surf's Up, a documentary film crew follows a young hot-dog surfer named Cody Maverick from Shiverpool, Antarctica, to the Big Z Memorial Surf Off on Pen Gu Island. "It was fun to fake that whole style to create the illusion of reality, the believability of characters, to shoot with a handheld camera, to even have access to archival footage," says Ash Brannon, who directed the film with Chris Buck. During Surf's Up, the documentary crew making the film about Cody often captures the Sports Penguin Entertainment Network (SPEN) crew, which is covering the surfing championship event.
Renata Marson Teixeira de Andrade-Downs, William Beinart, Michael Bess, Lisa M. Brady and et al.
Environmental History, Vol. 12, No. 2, Apr 2007, pp. 280-393.
The Charcoal People portrays carvoeiros' lives through nuanced biographies, focusing on the socially produced identity of the carvoeiro as an inherent part of the destruction of forests, and on their bodies as an anachronistic technology, rooted in mid-nineteenth century charcoal production. The film adds a historical perspective on the anachronism of current charcoal production by connecting the bodies of carvoeiros with those of Brazil Indian and African slaves who produced charcoal during the peak of mid-nineteenthcentury smelting and forging in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais. However, this film also presents an in-depth perspective on what sort of hardships those sixty-thousand carvoeiros face in Brazil, with vulnerable and volatile work contracts, child labor, and worsening living and working conditions, as they migrate and follow multinational steelmakers toward the Amazon forest. Environmental history as a discipline is incorporating the roles of race, gender, and class in environmental transformations by focusing on anachronistic and subaltern histories, borrowing from concepts in political ecology, environmental anthropology, and environmental justice.
Boxoffice, Vol. 143, No. 4, Apr 2007, pp. 88.
This one's more "goofy foot" than Happy Feet-an animated, mock surf doc that reveals the extreme sport was actually invented by penguins.
USA TODAY, Mar 6, 2007, pp. D.1.
Shia LaBeouf is the voice of teenage penguin Cody Maverick, a passionate surfer entering his first competition. A camera crew is following him and filming his experiences as he meets a wacky crew of surf nuts along the way: Chicken Joe (Jon Heder), surf promoter Reggie Belafonte (James Woods) and lifeguard Lani (Zooey Deschanel). Cody is all about winning until he meets Big Z and realizes a winner doesn't necessarily get the top prize. Surf's Up riffs on the Christopher Guest-style of mock documentary. It may be the Spinal Tap of penguin cinema.
Sarah Kaufman.
Orlando Sentinel, Dec 30, 2006, pp. D.7-D7.
WASHINGTON – No one involved in Happy Feet set out to make a blockbuster tribute to tap-dancing. But as it turned out, the movie about a hyper-rhythmic penguin who saves his flock with his dancing feet is the best thing to happen to tap since Fred Astaire. Perhaps it's better. Astaire was big, Astaire was a genius, Astaire was Astaire — but he was no darling, fuzzy little bird, nor the object of pint-size wuv. Misfit penguin Mumble, on the other hand, is all those things and one of the biggest stars at the box office. For fans of tap, humble Mumble is the new messiah.
Nick Divito.
Toronto Star, Dec 26, 2006, pp. G.6-G6.
Of course, it's not the first time the tuxedoed bird has enjoyed the spotlight. Willie the Penguin peddled Kool cigarettes from the 1930s to the 1960s, and a penguin-shaped cocktail shaker was the bar accessory to have in the 1930s. Fast forward to 1992, when Danny DeVito personified an evil penguin in Batman Returns. Tux the Penguin became the Linux website mascot in 1996. Lately, penguins are popping up all over the Internet. They're helping Flufacts.com spread the word on the dangers of influenza and Amazon.com recently added a single penguin to the top of its website. You can choose a penguin to be your icon when you send instant messages through America Online, while Yahoo's homepage features a penguin that skates around the Yahoo logo. while some have penguin fever simply because the animal is so darn cute, author Sandra Boynton chose to use the flightless waterfowl as the centre her new children's book, My Personal Penguin, because of its alliterative possibilities."Plus, I knew my book was going to come out during the holidays, so it was a pretty obvious choice. There is definitely a penguin zeitgeist right now, so I went with a penguin," she said.
Marlene Zuk.
Nature, Vol. 439, No. 7079, Feb 23, 2006, pp. 917.
Zuk comments on why the sexual behavior of penguins, although fascinating, does not offer the moral lessons that some popular commentators would have one believe.
Katie McGoldrick and Emma Marris.
Nature, Vol. 444, No. 7122, Dec 21, 2006, pp. 978-9.
In this winter's hit film, Happy Feet, emperor penguins score a total moratorium on Antarctic fishing thanks to their winsome tap-dancing routines. Environmental groups are using the film, and last yea's equally popular documentary March of the Penguins, to push their messages—especially the dangers of increasing fishing in the Southern Ocean and climate change.
Ian Mohr.
Variety, Vol. 403, No. 4, Jun 12-Jun 18, 2006, pp. 7.
"If you go up to someone in a mall and ask them how many docs they saw last year, they might say zero," says Ted Mundorff, veep and head film buyer at Landmark Theaters, the largest specialty film chain. Dean Devlin ("Independence Day") produced Sony Pictures Classics' "Who Killed the Electric Car?," while Sydney Pollack directed "Sketches of Frank Gehry."
Tribune movie critic Michael Phillips.
Chicago Tribune, Nov 17, 2006, pp. 1.
[Mumble]'s avocation comes in handy late in an increasingly despairing game. The unseen humans' nearby marine harvesting has left the penguins without a food supply, and the village elder (Hugo Weaving), looking for a scapegoat, singles out Mumble for his "pagan display" of tap-dancing. The young hoofer falls in with a group of Adelie penguins, whose vato leader, Ramon, is voiced by Robin Williams. He also provides the voice of Lovelace, a guru penguin slowly being strangled--and not in a funny way—by a plastic six- pack ring. Mumble's special lady penguin friend (Brittany Murphy) follows him across the vast ice universe, but in the end, it is Mumble alone who confronts the alien "annihilators," better known as mankind.
Chicago Tribune, Dec 12, 2006, pp. 1.
(Scene from the movie 'Happy Feet') PENGUIN GROUP LTD (1936): Book publishing house. "MR. POPPER'S PENGUINS" (1938): Written by [Richard] and [Florence Atwater]. Newbery Award-winning book. Mr. [Popper] is a house painter who dreams of Polar expeditions. One day a crate from a famous explorer in Antarctica arrives at the Popper house containing ... a penguin. Trivia: Atwater once taught Greek at the University of Chicago. THE PENGUIN (1941): A master villain and nemesis of Batman, makes his first appearance in Detective Comics. Back story: Oswald Cobblepot was a short, fat rich kid with a beaky nose and an avid interest in birds. School bullies nicknamed him "Penguin"; he grew up to become a criminal mastermind who prides himself on his high-class demeanor — he wears a tuxedo, top hat and carries an umbrella. Portrayed by [Burgess Meredith] on television, [Danny DeVito] on film. Meredith was TV's"Penguin" PINGU (1986): Character created by [Silvio Mazzola] of Switzerland. The Pingu series is classic, stop-frame claymation created by [Omar Gutman] for Swiss TV. The award-winning films are popular around the world, and Pingu, a charming but naughty little penguin, is heavily merchandised. TUX THE PENGUIN (1994): Created by [Larry Ewing] as a logo for the Linux open-source operating system. "MARCH OF THE PENGUINS" (2005): Emperor penguins documentary. "SURF'S UP" (2007): Animated movie (Sony), featuring surfing penguins.
Nick DiVito.
The Record, Dec 28, 2006, pp. D.1-D1.
Of course, it's not the first time the tuxedoed bird has enjoyed the spotlight. Willie the Penguin peddled Kool cigarettes from the 1930s to the '60s, and a penguin-shaped cocktail shaker was the bar accessory to have in the '30s. Fast forward to 1992, when Danny DeVito personified an evil penguin in Batman Returns. Tux the Penguin became the Linux website mascot in 1996. Lately penguins seem to be popping up all over the Internet. They're helping Flufacts.com spread the word on the dangers of influenza; Amazon.com recently added a single penguin to the top of its website. You can choose a penguin to be your icon when you send instant messages through America Online, while Yahoo's homepage features a penguin that skates around the Yahoo logo. Photo: AP PHOTO/ WARNER BROS. PICTURES / Happy Feet, about a penguin who can't stop dancing, was a box-office smash.; Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS / Author [Sandra Boynton] decided to write about penguins in her latest children's book because of their universal appeal.; Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS / Club Penguin; Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS / Launched in March, Club Penguin has become the Miniclip.com's most popular site. The game is an interactive time-killer that allows players to assume the identity of a cute little penguin and chat with others, hit the disco floor, decorate a penguin abode, ride bobsleds and throw snowballs at other penguins.
Ed Caesar.
The Independent, Dec 19, 2006, pp. 12.
The Penguin – or Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot as he was named – is perhaps the most complex of Batman's nemeses. Introduced in DC Comics in December 1941 by the artist Bob Kane, the Penguin is a short, deformed pudding of a man who wears a top hat, dinner jacket and monocle. But he is no monster: the Penguin styles himself as the "gentleman of crime". Born to a society family, the Penguin was relentlessly bullied as a child. His love of all things feathered was evident from his earliest days, and he is said to have been tipped into lawlessness by an incident in which his mother's pet shop was attacked by a group of toughs, who murdered all the animals. The Penguin was initially a minor character in the Batman comics and it was Burgess Meredith's performance as the waddling supervillain in the 1960s television series that shot him to prominence. The Penguin's status as a major player in the Batman series was confirmed when Danny Devito (above) played the feathered fiend in the 1992 motion picture Batman Returns. Created in 1932 by McVitie's, the manufacturing arm of United Biscuits, the P-P-P-P-Penguin is one of the Olympian achievements of the British biscuit industry. This milk-chocolate covered biscuit bar has been a mainstay of field trip lunchboxes and picnic hampers. It has been much-imitated – most notably by the Australian Tim Tam – but never bettered. The Penguin was wrapped in foil grease-proof paper featuring a picture of an emperor penguin and a joke or fact. Modern sachets continue the traditions in a more environmentally viable medium. Penguin spin-offs have appeared (Penguin chukkas, Wing Dings, and the Flipper Dipper.). But nicecupofteaandasitdown.com, has told McVitie's to "leave it out ... This is like getting your granny up to dance to the latest choons [sic] at a wedding disco". Penguin Books revolutionised the reading habits of a generation. Founded in 1935 by Allen Lane, the concept behind the new publishing phenomenon was to provide quality writing for the same price as a packet of cigarettes. Traditionally, paperbacks had been associated with pulp, or low-quality fiction. Penguin changed all that. The early series of Penguin Books have become design classics. Whereas most paperbacks of the 1930s were gaudy items featuring ornate illustrations, Lane's books were simple. Consisting of three horizontal bands - two coloured stripes sandwiching a white band in the middle – the covers simply detailed the name of the title, its author, and iconic Penguin logo. Following the success of the original imprint, Penguin branched into academic literature, with its enormously successful Pelican range. And, having branched out with one imprint, Penguin further extended its wings with a number of other imprints, including Penguin Classics (for classic literature), Allen Lane (for original nonfiction), and Puffin (for children). Perhaps the publisher's greatest moment, though, came in the court case over its decision to sell D H Lawrence's erotic masterpiece Lady Chatterley's Lover, which sparked over 3.5 million sales.
Boxoffice, Vol. 142, No. 11, Nov 2006, pp. 78-81.
Coming in June 2007 from Sony Pictures Animation is Surfs Up, which Landau calls "a documentary about surfing penguins"–another example of Sony's eclectic approach to animation. "We're very conscious of not having a house style," Landau says. "We want the art and storytelling style to be specific to the filmmakers and the story they wish to tell." For example, Open Season helmer Jill Culton used the book of Christmas cards by renowned Disney background painter Eyvind Earle for inspiration, explaining, "Every card had this old graphic look, with snow and trees and logs and little skewed churches." That "wonkiness," as art director Andy Harkness put it, worked well for the backwoods tale. Another type of card, at least in America's animation deck, is Imax 3-D; Open Season opened on 65 giant screens and pulled about $1.4 million, for a satisfying per-screen average of about $22,000. "It's awesome," Landau says of the technology. "We're really big proponents of 3-D as a continuing factor in theatergoing." But Landau notes a limitation for the third dimension: "There are not that many 3-D screens outside the U.S., so that's a factor. It's a real limitation. And the bulk of our revenues on animated films comes from outside the U.S., so it's a balancing act." Sony's Landau doesn't think so. "There is certainly room in the marketplace for musicals and there's a place for 2D animation, so I think there will be both. I don't think any one type of storytelling and any one type of animation will dominate." Exhibitor Relations' [Paul Dergarabedian] has his own take. "A return to the older-style musical animated film may be just what the industry needs to get audiences excited about animation again," he says. "It may be the sameness of some recent animated releases that might be leaving audiences less than enthusiastic about running to the multiplex. An old-school musical approach using new technology may be just what the doctor ordered."
Matt Walker.
New Scientist, Vol. 188, No. 2519, Oct 1-Oct 7, 2005, pp. 17.
A new penguin film is getting a lot of controversies after members of the Christian right in the US have suggested that the birds should be held up as role models for human behavior. These musings are dangerously misleading, for there is more to penguin society that is obvious at first sight. Walker discusses.
Iain Blair.
Variety, Vol. 401, No. 2, Nov 28, 2005-Dec 4, 2005, pp. 42.
Although documentaries are noted for usually having little word of mouth and taking in low revenues, "La Marche de l'empereur" ("The March of the Penguins") grossed more than $75 million and is a strong contender in the 2006 Academy Awards race.
Alison James and Pamela McClintock.
Variety, Vol. 399, No. 12, Aug 15-Aug 21, 2005, pp. 7-8.
Warner Independent prexy Mark Gill and National Geo's Tim Kelly and Adam Leipzig were the only buyers to sit through the screening of "Penguins" at Sundance; everyone else bolted midway through, many of them to chase after "Hustle." Warners and National Geo picked up the U.S. and U.K. theatrical, DVD and TV rights for $1 million.
Adam Rutherford.
Nature, Vol. 438, No. 7064, Nov 3, 2005, pp. 25-6.
Rutherford reviews Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Scientist and the Cinema by Christopher Frayling.
R. Akami-Wada, T. Akami, S. Seino and O. Isida.
Monaco: Musee Oceanographique, 2001, 421-430
"Is the message of exhibition really communicated to visitors?" To answer this question, taking the example of penguin exhibitions at zoos and aquariums in Japan, we undertook a study to review the history of penguin exhibitions and conducted three surveys: "Exhibition Concepts," "Actual Exhibitions" and "Visitors' Impressions" of these exhibitions. Television and advertising have made extensive use of penguins, creating the image of these birds as animals living only in polar regions. Probably as a reflection of these widespread images, even temperate species have been exhibited on imitation iceberg settings in many zoos and aquariums. Recently, however, these imitation iceberg settings have been repainted in brown or covered with sand and plants to rectify the message to visitors concerning the true situation of penguins in the wild. The visitors' survey indicated that the message was not sufficiently assimilated by visitors. This emphasizes the need to perceive and understand visitors' interests more accurately in order to devise more convincing exhibitions to get these messages across to them.Original Abstract: Les visiteurs recoivent-ils le message que leur adressent les aquariums ? Afin d'y repondre, en prenant dans cette etude l'exemple de l'exposition des pingouins dans les Zoos ou les Aquariums au Japon, nous avons realise une etude afin de donner une vue d'ensemble de l'histoire de l'exposition des pingouins. Nous avons examine les trois points suivants : 1) la conception de l'exposition, 2) l'exposition realisee, 3) les impressions des visiteurs concernant l'exposition actuelle. En raison de l'influence de medias comme la television, la publicite, la presse, le public a l'image de pingouins, animaux des regions froides. Soumis a cette meme influence mediatique, Zoos et Aquariums ont tendance a exposer aussi les especes des zones temperees, dans des decors de banquises. Nous avons note que le message concernant leur habitat n'est pas suffisamment transmis. Zoos et Aquariums doivent comprendre le point de vue et les centres d'interet des visiteurs et rechercher les moyens de transmettre un message educatif convaincant aupres du public.
Business Editors/High Tech Writers.
Business Wire, Jun 4, 2001, pp. 1.
The TechTV web site also features a "find Tux" contest. Web site visitors who can "find Tux" are entered into a drawing. The Screen Savers will award free Tux plush toys to more than 50 prize winners during the week. The grand prize winner will receive a 36-inch tall Tux stuffed toy. Buy the "Tux Family". Everybody needs a little love from Tux! Get a collection of Tux plush toys for a special bundle price. The Tux family bundle consists of four different Tux plush toys, ranging in size from 4 to 18 inches tall. If sold separately the Tux Family would cost more than $70.00. Available until June 30, 2001 for only $34.95. Buy the "Tux Family" from LinuxMall.com at http:// www.linuxmall.com/shop/03770. How about "Formal Tux"? Formal Tux is LinuxMall.com's 36-inch tall Tux plush toy outfitted with the Penguin Power T-shirt XL, Penguin Power Boxer shorts XL, wonderful Tux tie, and Tux tiepin. If sold separately Formal Tux would cost over $147. Available until June 30, 2001 for only $99.95. (Some assembly required.) Buy "Formal Tux" from LinuxMall.com at http://www.linuxmall.com/shop/03814.
Mark Oliver.
The Guardian, Aug 18, 2001, pp. 1-1.1.
Watched by 120 soldiers from the Royal Norwegian Guard, the 30lb bird showed impeccable military decorum throughout the 10-minute ceremony, save a slight flutter of the wings. To the sound of the regimental band, the king penguin held his head high as he was led out of his pool and stood quietly as the guard's commanding officer, Bjarne Nermo, introduced him to 200 onlookers.
Pittsburgh Post - Gazette, Jan 28, 1998, pp. F.1-1.
There's a big guy with an industrial strength turkey baster and there's Bob, the engineer, and there are the two Zamboni pilots, and there's the guy in the black blazer who gets stuck in what looks like an upright, bullet-proof box, and there is, of course, Mr. Iceburgh of the Affable Mascots Union. It's backstage at the Penguins, 10 minutes before they drop the puck, and we're all just hanging out in the tunnel behind the Pittsburgh goal wondering if the ice is going to crawl. When you're having about 15,000 people over, you're going to need ice, and you're going to need someone who really knows how to make it, which means somebody who knows how its consistency is affected by the temperature in the building, the temperature outside, the humidity, the number of people in the building, and even the number of goals in the first period, which increases the inside temperature dramatically. You need a guy who knows how to keep it from crawling, which is what happens when ice is too cold and newly introduced water doesn't have a chance to flow before it starts to freeze. Instead, it crawls across the surface like gnarled tree roots.
KAREN CROUSE: The Orange County Register.
Orange County Register, Apr 11, 1995, pp. D.09.
Mother of invention or hag? When the subject is hockey promotions, sometimes it all depends on your angle. In the 1930s, a newspaper reporter with the now-defunct Vancouver Star deplored "the reeking cloud of lower Americanism" in the NHL. The odorous billow could have emanated from New York's Madison Square Garden, where in the 1930s Rangers promoter Tom Lockhart was not above enlisting players on the team to help pacify the crowds between periods. Imagine Mighty Ducks forwards Joe Sacco and Paul Kariya racing up and down the ice during the first intermission, miniature airplanes gliding in the air behind them like kites. The modern-day Jumbotron airplane races seem banal by comparison.
Science News, Vol. 143, No. 15, Apr 10, 1993, pp. 232-235.
Decades of environmental mismanagement in Antarctica have caused problems that modern polar researchers must address. The extent of pollution in Antarctica and concerns that scientists have over upcoming regulations are discussed.
From Call news services.
Morning Call, Aug 10, 1992, pp. A.02-A02.
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Public respect for high offices and devotion of elected officials to fairly represent the voters are yesteryear's virtues, sacrificed for the dark humor of political back stabbing. Career politicians concentrate more on their reelection than on prudent decisions for the country's future welfare.
It's sad to say that the U.S.'s large retail chains are partly responsible for an increase in poverty and welfare cases. How many read labels from distant shores and, though disgusted, are prompted to make that less expensive purchase?
Cheap foreign labor means low prices for the consumer and large-scale profits for the seller. Oh yah, and loss of American jobs, along with retirement funds and insurance benefits.
Going to war to establish peace? America the dutiful seemed pressed to defend our borders from the deluge of terrorists' threats and corrupt foreign leadership. Is it then an "American-made" war? The strides our service men and women are accomplishing in Iraq don't seem to headline the news. It's encouraging that over 10 million Iraqis went to the polls to cast votes in their first democratic election.
The "American-made" federal budget deficit is up to $371 billion this year, or $2,700 per individual tax return. Most U.S. taxpayers would not be willing to shell out extra tax dollars to cut a deficit they can't feel responsible for. Mid-income families, America's backbone, struggle to make ends meet.
President Bush's proposed 2007 tax cuts, not yet approved by Congress before Easter recess, would cause further "American-made" hardship for the low-income citizen. For instance, the poor don't benefit from cuts in taxes on investment income because they don't have investment income. (Tell me it isn't so!)
Washington economist Julianne Malveaux reports, "Sadly, to accommodate tax cuts, Congress has proposed other budget-cutting measures that hit those who are at the bottom hardest - such as new fees on Medicaid recipients, cuts in the number of people who can receive food stamps, cuts in spending on higher education and cuts in federal child support enforcement."
Many "American-made" accomplishments are honorable. Hussein's trial, for instance, defines and upholds our democratic stance on justice. Even this animal has been granted the privilege of a fair trial, totally clashing with his abominable dictatorship and crimes against his own starving people, while he wallowed in castles and untold luxury.
"American-made" holidays dot our calendars. We are people of many freedoms and liberties, granted time off our jobs for those red-letter occasions. I recently read that a so-called "children's day," which dates back to 1856, soon lost its appeal. With Easter looking like Santa Claus it's no wonder! The Today Show told of a peculiar "high-five day," which falls on the third Thursday of April. Who says so I wonder?
I suppose one could blame the bellwether and generous USA for "American-made" fast food chains now force-feeding foreigners with saturated fats and vein clogging cholesterol. We're chided that our hands-on technology has created sedentary "computer cheese whiz kids."
But let's not forget tried and true staples: "American-made" baseball, ping pong, line dancing, snowmobiling, cheeseheads, Jello, sugar-free ding dongs, country music, Rolaids, diet sodas, and "lite" just about anything!
Our music, down through the ages, has sung praises to our beautiful land of the free. The Beach Boys wish all the girls could be California girls. John Denver takes us back to country roads. The Statler Brothers croon, "My baby is American-made." "Roll on Mississippi, roll on!" Willie Nelson's "buttermilk skies" are universal.
The phrase "American-made" has withstood hostile criticism and has thrived on the pride of devoted citizens. Which side are you on?
To allow our grassroots foundation, "in God we trust," to crumble and fall is to destroy America's spirit.
"Together we rise...divided we fall." Choose pride.
Janet Burns is a Lewiston native. She can be reached at email@example.com


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As soon as it was completed, the dramatic transparent box immediately began attracting attention. The now-iconic structure was heartily ridiculed in the early 1950's by New England traditionalists. They were further dismayed by Modernist architects like Marcel Breuer and Eliot Noyes, whose designs also went up amid the neocolonial mansions of New Canaan. On weekends, there were traffic jams along the road nearest to the Glass House. Crowds craned their necks to get a glimpse of it, requiring police reinforcements and the posting of signs warning against trespassing beyond the property's low stone perimeter wall.
Even today, the National Trust must be sensitive to its neighbors, who remain averse to heavy traffic in the bucolic residential district. The landscaping on the Johnson property itself is so carefully planned that there is no possibility of on-site parking. Guests on the Trust's tours will therefore be brought to the site by a van from a small visitors' center near the New Canaan train station. About 80 visitors will be scheduled per day, in small guided groups of no more than 10 at a time.
"We hope to build a lot of silence into the visit so people can experience the property rather than the docent," Skrelunas says. The visitors' center designed by Johnson—an irregularly shaped pavilion painted red and dubbed "da Monsta" by its architect—probably won't be used to screen the video as he had planned, largely because of the building's poor acoustics, but the radical "deconstructivist" structure will be included on the tour.
Johnson questioned his own seriousness as an architect and was a self-described flibbertigibbet. Perhaps even more than drafting new buildings, he relished his role as a power player on both the New York architectural and social scenes. His property was the setting for many lavish parties—in 1967 Johnson threw a benefit for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and created what he called a "moon viewing platform" for the occasion. It consisted of wooden planks arrayed on the meadow near the art gallery, a stage from which the Velvet Underground entertained the guests.
Entrée to Johnson's fabled spread held such allure that even when the architect was hospitalized in 1986, after collapsing from a heart attack just hours earlier, hundreds of friends and acquaintances thronged to the estate to celebrate his 80th birthday in his absence.
When Johnson became infirm toward the end of his life, maintenance of the New Canaan property began to suffer. Upkeep had been previously carried out in an almost ritualistic manner, and included careful polishing of the house's brass handles and waxing of its wooden cupboards. But Johnson's need for privacy and his loss of mobility for the last year and a half of his life eventually kept all but essential health care workers away from the estate. Nevertheless, he maintained his passion for architecture to the end.
On the day before he died, Skrelunas says, Johnson sat at the dining table in the Glass House. "We were with him," the preservationist recalls, "building a house of cards, and he was critiquing it. That evening he announced he was going to die." Within 30 hours he had passed away, inside the Glass House.
In preparation for the public opening, the Trust has been inventorying all the furnishings, books, and artwork and carrying out considerable infrastructural refurbishment—replacing roofs, installing new boilers, repainting, and making the gravel pathways accessible to the handicapped. At the same time, the Trust is striving to be respectful of the original design and not make fundamental alterations. A small, high-tech weather station has been installed on the meadow near the house to monitor meteorological conditions. The data will be used to anticipate and counteract changes in humidity, temperature, light, and wind that might otherwise erode the collections.
Eventually, the Trust plans to restore the artwork on the property as well. Johnson donated much of his collection to the Museum of Modern Art, but the Glass House still contains the 17th-century landscape by Nicolas Poussin that he used as a room divider. Visitors to the estate will also see works by David Salle, Frank Stella, Cindy Sherman, and nine portraits of Johnson by Andy Warhol, hung from sets of carpeted panels that can be rotated like huge Rolodexes or postcard racks in the underground art gallery.


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In the last blog, I talked about the "Deadly Law of Inflation" and the toll it has taken on our industry. In my opinion, it has also caused merger and acquisition activity to accelerate as though on steroids. Through our own MatchMaker program, we have matched more than 50 independent printers and sign companies with buyers. And we have helped our franchise members acquire more than 250 independent printers.
At the risk of repetition, I am including part of a blog I wrote a few years ago that gives some advice on how to successfully merge two firms. At the time, I asked one of our M&A managers to name the top 10 needs to ensure a successful purchase/sale and transition. They are just as—if not more—valid in today's climate. Here they are, in no particular order:
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V-ATPases are highly conserved proton pumps important for pH homeostasis. In malignant tumors, V-ATPases sustain an altered pH gradient between the cytoplasm and the lumen of intracellular vesicles; and generate the acid extracellular microenvironment necessary for cancer progression and metastasis. Lack of V-ATPase function blocks cancer progression but the mechanism involved is not known. Our long term goal is to understand how cancer cells regulate V-ATPase pumps and how V-ATPases assist in cancer progression to metastasis. Glucose metabolism regulates V-ATPases in normal cells. When glucose is limiting or glycolysis is interrupted the two domains comprising V-ATPases (V1 and Vo) disassemble. Disassembly inactivates the pump and is reversed by glucose readdition. We postulate that glucose also controls V-ATPase assembly and activity in malignant tumors where anaerobic glycolysis dominates metabolism (Warburg effect). To test this novel hypothesis we will use a cell model of human prostate cancer progression; and human primary cell cultures of normal prostate and prostate cancer tissue. V-ATPases are abundant in the prostate and the energy metabolism of the prostate is highly specialized for fine tuning glycolytic activity which makes the prostate an attractive system for these studies. We will establish parallels between glucose utilization and V-ATPase assembly by measuring reversible disassembly, V-ATPase activity, and cytosolic and lysosomal pH in cells exposed to glucose, glycolytic inhibitors, and starvation (Aim 1). V-ATPase deficient cells, as a result of siRNA-mediated knockdown and treatment with V-ATPase inhibitors, will be used to further discern connections between V-ATPase activity, pH homeostasis, and resistance to oxidative stress (Aim 2). These studies will lend new insight into how V-ATPases aid prostate cancer cells in controlling luminal, cytosolic, and extracellular pH. They may lead to the development of more effective therapeutic strategies to control the V-ATPase-generated abnormal pH gradients, which are essential for tumorigenesis, cancer progression, metastasis, and drug resistance.
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UPDATED 6:20 PM CST Jan 23, 2014A new exhibit opening in February at the Durham Museum will feature a reassembled 1960s helicopter that was used in the Vietnam War.
Video TranscriptWE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT TIME TRAVEL BUT THERE IS A MASSIVE MACHINE INVOLVED.. A HELICPOTER RE-ASSEMBLED INSIDE OMAHA'S DURHAM MUSEUM TODAY.. K-E-T-V NEWSWATCH 7 CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER - SCOTT BUER SHOWS US THE ELABORATE SETUP. IT STARTS OUT LOOKING LIKE ANY TRAVELING EXHIBIT.... A BUNCH OF PARTS PACKED ON CARTS ...( BARKING ORDER) BUT IN THE HANDS OF THESE VOLUNTEERS... IT STARTS TO UNFOLD LIKE A BUTTERFLY.( Bob Nordyke, rode Huey's in Vietnam: it's a labor of love for these guys. ) "IT" IS AN ACTUAL HUEY HELICOPTER ... BROKEN DOWN FOR SHIPMENT TO BE ASSEMBLED IN THE DURHAM MUSUEM. ( Den Hynes, Flew in Vietnam: the engineering work is amazing. ) DEN HYNES IS FROM BELLEVUE, AND HE FLEW BOMBER'S IN VIETNAM. BOMBER'S THAT USED TO COUNT ON THESE CHOPPERS TO HIT THE RIGHT TARGET.( Den Hynes, Flew in Vietnam: they would put a beacon on it so you could see it on radar for the bombers at 30 thousand plus feet.) DEN IS LENDING HIS HANDS... TO PUT TOGETHER THE CENTERPIECE OF THE "1968" EXHIBIT, OPENING IN FEBRUARY.( Den Hynes, Flew in Vietnam: 1968 was a big year for me, it was my first tour.)( Bob Nordyke, rode Huey's in Vietnam: it's a great moment in history, 1968 was a watershed year.) BOB NORDYKE SERVED IN THE INFANTRY AND RODE DOZENS OF THESE BIRDS.. HE REMEMBERS THE EXPERIENCE LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY.( Bob Nordyke, rode Huey's in Vietnam: you're ah, low enough to the ground the scenery is great especially in Vietnam when over the rice paddies, beautiful countryside. Not so much fun when heading for a combat situation. ) IT TAKES MOST OF THE DAY... BUT BY MID AFTERNOON.... THESE PROUD VETERANS HAVE A PART OF THEIR LIVES READY TO SHARE WITH A GENERATION THAT HAS ONLY SEEN PICTURES. K-E-T-V NEWSWATCH 7 IS A PROUD SPONSOR OF THIS SPECIAL EXHIBIT AT THE DURHAM .. YOU CAN CHECK IT OUT BEGINNING FEBRUARY 8TH.. IT WILL BE UP UNTIL MAY 4TH.
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There were none left this morning much to the family's distress...so I made a double batch of whole wheat ones and after breakfast froze the remainder...there was just a bit of batter left - not enough for another waffle..and I didn't want to drag out a frying pan for l small pancake...I put the bowl to one side and went ahead to make some muffins I'd been planning (also to use up bits from the fridge)..I mixed up my muffins and on whim threw in the last little bit of waffle batter into the mixture...(I use a basic recipe and adapt with what I find)...I must say the batter added another interesting taste to the muffins and I was pleased with the result. I could have wasted that last bit ....but took a chance. So be adventureous and try something different even if you aren't sure it will work. You just never know. Not a big money saver to be sure...but each little bit of NON-WASTE helps as well. |
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Good idea! And also use your leftover oatmeal, sweet potatoes, applesauce etc. for muffins also. Things that are not perfect for eating (bruised fruit,etc..) are perfect for muffins. |
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State says new driver's licensing rules foiling outsiders
In a state frequently criticized as a haven for illegal immigrants seeking driver's licenses, licensing officials in Washington believe stricter rules are discouraging those from out of state.
Seattle Times staff reporter
In a state frequently criticized as a haven for illegal immigrants seeking driver's licenses, licensing officials here believe stricter rules are discouraging those from out of state.
After noticing a three-year surge in the number of out-of-state license applicants who lacked Social Security numbers, the Washington Department of Licensing last November began to require stricter proof of state residency.
Those changes — and additional tweaks three months ago — appear to be driving some people away.
Among out-of-state drivers seeking Washington licenses this year, 8 percent lacked a Social Security number, down from 16 percent last year.
Wait times in many locations — particularly the busiest offices in and around Seattle — are also dropping, licensing officials say.
"We believe that our process stopped a lot of people from trying to come here from another state where they weren't eligible," said Brad Benfield, department spokesman.
State law requires applicants for a driver's license to live in the state. It doesn't require them to be in the country legally but does ask them to provide a Social Security number if they have one. Those who don't — including some foreign workers here legally — may sign a declaration to that effect.
Unable under state law to require legal immigration presence in the U.S., department officials say they are enforcing rules set forth in existing state law. "The law says you have to be a Washington resident," Benfield said. "We want to try to maintain the integrity of our services and enforce that."
No status screening
Washington remains one of only a few states where illegal immigrants can still obtain driver's licenses.
New Mexico still grants licenses to illegal immigrants, although lawmakers there are wrangling with changing that law. The state of Alaska requires applicants to be legally in the U.S. or citizens of Canada.
And in Utah, illegal immigrants may obtain a license for driving only, not for ID purposes.
For the sixth-straight year, a citizens initiative that would have required Washington's licensing department to verify an applicant's lawful presence in the U.S. before issuing a driver's license failed to collect enough signatures. A similar attempt to change the law failed in the last session of the state Legislature.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform, which favors stricter immigration controls, recently ranked Washington the third most friendly destination for illegal immigrants, citing its permissive driver's-license law.
In the years following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, as one state after another stopped issuing licenses to illegal immigrants, Washington began seeing an increase in out-of-state residents signing the Social Security declarations.
Some entrepreneurial souls saw a business opportunity — selling licenses to people from out of state.
Three years ago, state officials began requiring proof of residency for all applicants coming from out of state, but stopped last June after they found it an inconvenience for many of the legitimate ones.
In November, state licensing officials again began requiring proof of state residency, this time for those who lacked a Social Security number. They could provide a water bill or bank documents, for example, which department technicians would then scrutinize to ensure validity.
The department also stopped accepting cellphone and cable bills — accounts that could be easily opened and later canceled.
Process reordered
In recent months, licensing staff noticed a gradual decline in the number of Social Security declarations but realized something else, too: They were processing applications for people who eventually would not be able to prove residency here. Most such people simply didn't return for follow-up appointments — suggesting that the addresses they had provided were bogus.
Anecdotally, licensing officials also discovered that some people were shopping licensing offices for more accommodating ones.
"We were spending unnecessary time processing what turned out to be fraudulent applications," Benfield said. "It was a cumbersome system."
In April, the department tweaked the process again, changing the order of the steps in which it processed applications.
It has stopped accepting residency documents on the first visit from anyone without a Social Security number. Instead, it accepts their application form and proof of ID and takes their photograph upfront. Officials then mail a letter to those applicants with further instructions on how to schedule an appointment to verify residency and what to bring to that appointment.
The new process is designed to ensure that technicians don't waste time on documents that may not be valid. Additionally, facial-recognition technology helps ensure that applicants aren't applying at multiple offices.
"We are now starting to get down to the levels of declarations we were seeing in 2007," Benfield said.
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Information in this article, originally published July 15, 2011, was corrected July 16, 2011. A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that 9 percent of out-of-state drivers seeking Washington licenses this year lacked a Social Security number. The story should have said 8 percent.


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Last night we had a special Sunset Tour. We left a little later than usual, enjoyed a Sunset Tour then cruised out to where the fireworks were happening. We had a very eclectic group, with People from England, New Zealand and a lot of locals.
The Copper Bluffs stand approximately 200 feet tall and 150 feet under the surface. That beautiful green color you see is oxidized copper sediment.
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Pure Pittsburgh Skyline 1993- Before All the Signs- Thanks to Groundhog Day Movie Capture
Tonight was the annual viewing of the Harold Ramis' classic Groundhog Day movie. If you follow the blog, you know how much my family enjoys this holiday. (No gifts required)
I noticed in the opening credits how different the 1993 skyline looks.
The updated version will have to be another post. And I'll need a helicopter ride to capture the same angle.
A screen shot of my computer screen shows the old skyline as it appeared before all the advertisements.
Just two years ago there was an article written by Bob Bauder about this issue- Skyline-defiling signs targeted by council chief. "Harris said the signs, including company names and logos, clutter the city skyline and detract from its aesthetic splendor."
And author Charles Rosenblum's blog post Under a Bad Sign- Pittsburgh Architectual Club weighs in on the issue.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Converge
Ben Huberman's challenge of the week. He says, "Photos are visual spaces where shapes and lines, objects, and people come together."
And what classic photo from my Pittsburgh archives could I choose, except where the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River converge to create the great Ohio River? Three Rivers!
Anna and Lala converge at james' parents' farm
Ocean and sand converge at sunrise. St. George Island, Florida
Double Yellow Lines converge at Little Italy Days in Bloomfield.
Railroad tracks appear to converge even though we know they are parallel. Ohio.
Perhaps this one is for MERGE where the traffic attempts to converge
Geometric lines of light, Market Square. CONGREGATION kinetic interactive video art installation
The Beatles song Come Together comes to mind
Mazeroski in Moonlight, After the Prom
Pittsburgh Carrick 2013 Senior Prom was held at the Lexus Club at PNC Park tonight.
I went and took pictures of the kids and it was a great evening. My friend Steve picked me up and then had to turn the car around to be in the homeward direction.
This is what we saw at the circle by the Bill Mazeroski statue-
I got out into the chilly air and took a few shots. The clouds kept drifting over the moon, making the clouds luminous.
In case you don't know about the Greatest Home Run Ever Here's the youtube video of Bill Mazeroski running to home in the 1960 World Series
Last Sliver of Sun
Before I drove up the mountain, I went to one of my favorite spots on West Carson Street. This is what made me decide to head up to Mt. Washington to catch the incline in the snow as the sun set.
Incline in the Snow
I returned to the Duquesne Incline platform on Monday evening as I arrived from Ohio. Not quite as much snow as I thought there would be.
Taken just as the sun sank in the sky and the temperatures dropped. Will try again, a different winter day.
Couldn't wait any longer to shoot when the sky was darker as it was too windy and cold. You might have liked the night time version better.
How the Weather Changed at the HS Football Game in a Blink
Friday afternoon, Cupples Field on the South Side, right after school.
I went to my first High School football game in years!
The flag flew at half staff. (There is a site that lists notifications to fly the flag at half staff.)
One minute it was blue sky and fluffy white clouds, the sun catching the gold dome of St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Church on West Carson Street.
A wind came up and the rain began to spit. The temperature dropped. The sky got dark.
I'd taken cameras for students to take photos outside of the classroom. It was time to head home!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Winter
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The Tenth Street Bridge Looks Miniature
The view from the South Side Slopes, on they way home from school last Wednesday. I've mentioned Pittsburgh's topography in previous posts. The scale in this photo emphasizes the hills and valleys, the Monongahela River. Late cause it was Meet and Greet for the parents. The setting sun casts a nice light. Everything lush and green. I don't remove wires from the photos. As is. Pretend it's a zipline. I haven't driven this route for a few months. It's all new- again.
PNC Park at Dusk
from the archives- Pittsburghers will notice fewer lighted signs on the downtown buildings in this shot- taken 7 years ago this time of year. Tuesday's post will be back in "real time" . Baseball equals summer to me!
Snowstorm Softens Skyline Edges
Coming back from training in the West End I pulled into the Cigna lot and took a couple of chilly shots. Although a color photo it appears to be black and white. Looked for lights in the city but the snow blocked the view. You can see the snowflakes against the river background. The railroad tracks, partially covered, made for nice lines. The best thing about being asked to drive across the city in the snow (when it feels like you shouldn't get on any road!) is that you get to see a view you wouldn't have seen if you hadn't made the trip. You might remember the blogpost - same vantage point- without the snow.


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Opinion Letter No. 11-88
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December 22, 1988
Frank V. DiMaggio
Ste. Genevieve County Prosecuting Attorney
Post Office Box 406
Ste. Genevieve, Missouri 63670
Dear Mr. DiMaggio:
This opinion letter is in response to your question asking:
May Ste. Genevieve County, while generally providing a plan of hospital and medical insurance for its employees, allow those employees covered by some other hospital and medical insurance to elect to receive from the county the monetary equivalent of their participation in the county plan?
Your question makes reference to state audits declaring this practice improper with respect to certain elected county officials. In State Auditor's Report No. 84-72, September 28, 1984, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Three Years Ended December 31, 1983, and again in State Auditor's Report No. 86-115, December 12, 1986, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, Two Years Ended December 31, 1985, the auditor recommended that the county seek reimbursement from officials who received the monetary equivalent of participation in the county plan. The auditor concluded this amount received by these officials exceeded the amounts established by statute for compensation.
Section 49.278, RSMo 1986 provides:
49.278. Governing body may provide insurance for county employees, procedure. - 1. The county governing body in all counties may contribute to the cost of a plan, including a plan underwritten by insurance, for furnishing all or a part of hospitalization or medical expenses, life insurance, or similar benefits for elected officials and their employees, and to appropriate and utilize its revenues and other available funds for these purposes.
2. No contract shall be entered into by the county to purchase any insurance policy or policies pursuant to the terms of this section unless such contract shall have been submitted to competitive bidding and such contract be awarded to the lowest and best bidder.
We note that your question concerns county employees while the auditor's reports referred to certain elected county officials. There is an important distinction since the Missouri statutes establish the procedure for determining the amount of compensation to be paid to the county officials referred to in the auditor's reports. See Section 50.333, RSMo Supp.1988.
With respect to the county officials referred to in the auditor's reports, it is well settled that " 'the right to compensation for the discharge of official duties is purely a creature of statute.' " Crites v. Huckstep, 619 S.W.2d 328, 330 (Mo.App.1981). Accordingly, "a public officer claiming compensation for official duties must rely on a statute authorizing payment." State ex rel. Igoe v. Bradford, 611 S.W.2d 343, 350 (Mo.App.1980). Statutes which grant public officials compensation are strictly construed against them. Smith v. Pettis County, 345 Mo. 839, 136 S.W.2d 282, 285 (1940).
Section 49.278 does not authorize the payment of monetary compensation in lieu of participation in the county insurance plan. The compensation of the county officials referred in auditor's reports is specifically provided by statute. In the absence of statutory authorization, we conclude the county officials whose salaries are specified by statute may not receive monetary compensation in lieu of participation in the county hospital and medical insurance plan.
With respect to county employees whose salaries are not set by statute, there is no state statutory prohibition on the county paying to an employee who chooses not to be covered by the county insurance plan an amount in excess of that paid to an employee who chooses to be covered by the county insurance plan. We therefore conclude that under state statutes the county may pay employees who do not choose to be covered by the county hospital and medical insurance plan an amount in excess of that paid employees who do choose to be covered by the county insurance plan, which additional amount is the monetary equivalent of participation in the county insurance plan.
Very truly yours,
William L. Webster
Attorney General