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Gigwalk.com Reviews
About Gigwalk.com
Whatever the circumstance may be, companies can find the help they need right from a phone or computer. Gigwalk allows its members to request gigs for small tasks to contracted work. These encompass any services ranging from audits to photography, the sky is the limit. This is an, on-demand, readily available workforce comprised of over 50,000 individuals across all 50 states.
Businesses can connect with people through Gigwalk to get the help they need by simply posting a gig opportunity when the need for help arises. The Gigwalk mobile application, available on iPhone, Android or the Blackberry, makes it easy request gigs from anywhere at any time. Any company who posts a gig must provide a fully detailed description of the work that needs to be completed, a due date, the gig location and the price of the job.
To become a gig provider, also known as a Gig Walker, and start earning extra cash you must setup an account profile. The profile should accurately and thoroughly describe your skills, educational background and work experience to be considered and accepted for gigs. The more you have to offer the gig requesters, the more opportunities you will have. You can browse gigs through the network and apply for the ones that you want. You must also go to the location of the gig in order to be accepted, this policy of the program was implemented so everyone has a chance to make money; one person cannot take all of the posted gigs.
If you receive good reviews on completed work, you will slowly build up your profile and increase your exposure. Gig Walkers can earn "Street Cred" points for good reviews and by doing "pro-bono" tasks to create an image of reliability. With more "Street Cred" points you are able to access higher levels of achievement to unlock a succession of higher paying gigs.
The amount of money per gig can pay anywhere from $3.00-$90.00, some have even been more than $100.00. Gigwalk requesters and Gigwalk providers must have a PayPal account to pay for the work and to receive payment for completing the work. Payment is required upfront for all requests. The money is distributed to all of the parties involved in the transaction. Gigwalk takes a percentage of the payment for their services; in addition, fees for PayPal are also deducted. Once the Gig Walker has completed a job they will be paid after a review on their quality of work has been posted by that gig requester.
The great thing about this service is that it is bringing jobs back into the local work force. With the high unemployment rate, and the need for an immediate local workforce, it is a great temporary fix that benefits everyone. Whether unemployed or employed, there are opportunities to make money; you can take on as many gigs as you want to. This is a nice flexible work option for both the Gig Requesters and the Gig Walkers.
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I conducted 2 photo shoots for a lays potato chip display and submitted them on the 2 consecutive days and I was paid within 12 hours. I think the concept is being missed, for the amount of money paid I don't think it is prudent to go out of your way to do them, I located gigs in the area I'm in at the time, or group a few of them together.
Sounds Like Mystery Shopping
Yeah it sounds alot like the mystery shopping emails I get. Unless I can land a certain amount of gigs per day,and they're not already snatched up,it really isn't worth the few dollars. I need a steady paycheck at this point in life.
No Gigwalkers here
Everyone is complaining about this company. Did you keep a copy of all your gigs? Believe me they have receive payment for the jobs you've completed. Gigwalk don't respond to anyone questions but their clients, not even paypal. I filed a complaint with Google Play concerning Gigwalk and their app for not paying. The concept is great but very bad people. Here is the account's manger name email@example.com, email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com
Was that suppose to be in English? If your reviews read like this one, I can see your problem.
Fool's errand
I just received my first assignment, to photograph some bags of potatoes at Wegman's. The product wasn't there, and according to the produce manager and customer service, they had never seen anything like it. I reported this to Gigwalk, and I received an email from them stating that they had decided to take me off the assignment. What? I don't even understand what that means, especially since the assignment is still posted. So, including travel time, I spent 45 minutes for nothing.
I contacted Gigwalk about this situation, and they were surprisingly nice about rectifying the problem. I guess I should have given them a chance before I started spouting off about them. Sorry Gigwalk.
I have had the same problem with Gigwalk. I signed up for a gig, went there, they were closed. I logged in and left a comment indicating that I took all exterior pictures but couldn't take interior pic's until the next day because they were closed. No feedback from them just a notice saying I was removed from the gig. They do this all the time. Very unresponsive to communications but very quick to just kick you off your gigs. Further, in my area there are very few gigs. I signed up for three, completed 1, could not complete the second as mentioned and the third was 15 miles from my location. I left a message saying I would complete on the next day...Booted off the Gig. For $5? They can keep it.
Sounds like the kind of luck I usually have;
Yep SCAM
I signed up for a gig to take a photo of a new appliance and the sales receipt. I was told my photos were not clear enough so I took more and sent them in. A couple days later I was told I did not follow directions and I was not paid. I thought, well maybe I didn't...
Then a month later I get junk mail wanting to sell me insurance and the appliance I did the gig on. Yep, scam.
I've been having problems getting paid for a gig I did. I heard other people say that they were great and even have some close friends that got paid by them, however I've been going round and round with them about a $100.00 gig I performed. I will not do anything for them again.
who did you work for, check your emails. Maybe I can help you get your money


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Ray Evernham recalls preparing for the inaugural Brickyard 400
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Ray Evernham, crew chief of Jeff Gordon's No. 24 team that won the 1994 Brickyard 400, remembers preparing for the inaugural event at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Visit http://heritage.hendrickmotorsports.com/moments/275 for more memories of Gordon's victory at the famed 2.5-mile speedway.

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Hijacking an American icon
I am a white man with no civil rights credentials, but that won't stop me from commenting on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 50 years ago.
My dad was a Navy man, his last duty station at the Pensacola, Fla., Naval Air Station where he retired and where I grew up. In downtown Pensacola the Walgreens "5 and 10 cent store" had a lunch counter where a "whites only" sign wasn't needed because it was understood, but the Sears store had drinking fountains with signs "White" and "Colored." Every time I saw them I knew they were wrong, but I was just a kid.
My senior year in high school we had our first and only black student. Some thought it was cool to torment him.
Many years later, I had on my office wall a photo of two men I admired. One was John Steinbeck and the other was Martin Luther King; I knew he was right as he dangerously agitated for Southern white people to change, pushing with the courage of his convictions.
The day King was shot, the man I worked for as a mechanic said to me as he watched news reports on the office TV, "Well, I'm glad they finally got rid of that troublemaker," and he was diminished as a man in my view, but maybe so was I, because I was 19, without any of King's courage and I didn't say anything.
I remember well King's "I have a dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, a mesmerizing event. Now it has been 50 years since that speech; I watched a little of the recent anniversary ceremony, an endless series of speeches by Democrats warning us that although we have accomplished much, there is still far to go to achieve King's dream.
Really? Pardon my brazenly asking, but how perfect must life be for blacks before America has done enough?
I wonder what King would think of Oprah, a black female billionaire, complaining that a Zurich store clerk inflicted racism on her by implying she may not be able to afford a $38,000 purse. Poor baby.
I wonder if Oprah, and mere mortal American blacks, realize that white people put up with a lot of crap, too. Every white person I know has been insulted, snubbed, slighted, affronted, offended, treated unfairly in the workplace and maybe even discriminated against by a black person. It's called life and sometimes it ain't pretty.
Don't get me wrong. King was right. Before the civil rights movement, America treated its own black citizens in egregious ways, but things have changed radically since then. Generations of Americans have internalized the lesson that racial discrimination is wrong. Much of black America has become mainstream, with blacks occupying every vocation, profession, management level and even the office of president.
There are signs we have gone too far. Human resources rules in the workplace have edged close to hostility to whites in an attempt to pave the way for minorities, morphing into not only preferential hiring of minorities but in practice protecting underperforming employees – if they are minority. Ironically, the affirmative action programs established to "bootstrap" the hiring of blacks are now widely considered wrongly discriminatory themselves, and likely soon will be softened or eliminated.
We hand out free cell phones in black communities, food stamps (EBT) are given in soaring record numbers and our food stamp workers actively recruit new applicants and are rewarded for how many they sign up.
Government programs to intervene in life on behalf of minorities abound in many flavors from welfare to disability to subsidies for this and that, programs in hideous overlap and duplication piling on the grotesque national debt while providing disincentive to work. But it is never enough, and much of the black community remains mired in uneducated poverty.
At the 50th anniversary, TV talking heads sought out "black leaders" to comment or make speeches. A common thread in pursuit of King's dream, you see, remains the ever-pressing need for jobs in the black community, and the oppressive discrimination of a justice system that sends young black men to prison in far greater numbers than young white men.
Never mind that too many young black men are uneducated, or that they dress and speak and conduct themselves like thugs so employers would never consider them. Don't mention statistics telling us young black men are more than 10 times as likely to commit violent crime than their white counterparts.
The speeches say we must do more in our inner-city schools where the black dropout rate is still destroying the future, but we aren't supposed to notice that foul behavior in those schools prevents learning, or that over 70 percent of black kids are born to young single mothers, locking them into a cycle of poverty and resentment and making good parenting difficult at the very best.
My own daughter is working pretty hard in her high school junior year, carrying a load of difficult classes in pursuit of her dream. I know many black kids are similarly laboring to chase their own dreams, but too many of them are discouraged by peers calling them "Uncle Toms" or accusing them of "acting too white" with their studies.
The time has long passed for agitation on civil rights. What the black community has needed for a long time is a cultural change to "responsibility."
What would King think of conveniently absent fathers, the disintegration of the black family since his time, and the utter failure of so many blacks to capitalize on opportunities? Consider his own words excerpted from his speech, "What is your life's blueprint?" given at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia on Oct. 26, 1967, six months before he was assassinated.
"... [I]n your life's blueprint you must have as the basic principle the determination to achieve excellence in your various fields of endeavor. You're going to be deciding as the days, as the years, unfold what you will do in life, what your life's work will be. Set out to do it well.
"And I say to you, my young friends, doors are opening to you, doors of opportunities that were not open to your mothers and your fathers, and the great challenge facing you is to be ready to face these doors as they open.
"Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great essayist, said in a lecture in 1871, 'If a man can write a better book or preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, even if he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.'
"This hasn't always been true, but it will become increasingly true, and so I would urge you to study hard, to burn the midnight oil; I would say to you, don't drop out of school. I understand all the sociological reasons, but I urge you that in spite of your economic plight, in spite of the situation that you're forced to live in, stay in school.
"And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don't just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn't do it any better.
"If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can't be a pine at the top of the hill, be a shrub in the valley. Be the best little shrub on the side of the hill.
"Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are."
King was an imperfect man, and I didn't always agree with him. He was far too liberal for my politics and though I finally discovered my own courage in Vietnam, he denounced that war as immoral. But on civil rights, he was right and he was bold.
My guess is King would be proud how part of the black community has bloomed and thrived and how we live and work together, and I think he would be furious at the many millions of blacks with their hand perpetually out for more "gimmes" or advantages in a never-ending cycle of excuses, failure and focus on the color of their skin instead of the content of their character.
And so maybe you will understand why every year, on the day marking King's birthday I have to double-check my gag reflex as politicians and race-hustlers and King's own family of parasites wrap themselves in his virtue, joining civil rights leaders in the annual televised lament that we have not done enough to realize King's dream, with nary a mention that the disadvantaged poor might want to take advantage of the opportunities already spread before them in a way recommended many times by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – determination, commitment to excellence and hard work.
[Terry Garlock of Peachtree City occasionally contributes a column to The Citizen. His email is firstname.lastname@example.com.]
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Mr. Garlock should be commended for articulating the overwhelming sentiments of the Citizen blog about African-American recalcitrance to embrace Dr. King's dream. Mr. Garlock contends that Blacks were horrendously mistreated historically in the United States; however, redress was completed in the 1960s Civil Rights and Voting Rights legislation. Furthermore, affirmative action initiatives actually secured an unfair advantage for Blacks. Yet, with all of these benefits, African-Americans staunchly refuse to take personal responsibility for advancing their status as evidenced by multiple indices such as crime and incarceration, out-of-wedlock births, welfare enrollment, etc.
Accepting all of Mr. Garlock's premises, what is the logical explanation for the broad African-American community's recalcitrance to embrace Dr. King's dream, and how might this pattern be modified? Do African-Americans ignore their opportunities because they are so intellectually deficient that they cannot grasp the benefits of mainstream American success? Are they so morally deficient that they cannot curb their innate lusts? Are they so indolent that they will only accept handouts? Is their personal reasoning so inadequate that they are condemned to follow the dictates of what Mr. Garlock describes as "race-hustlers'? Are there other explanations for their failure to succeed in a climate so rich with opportunities for advancement with such a paucity of impediments to prosperity?
Once the etiology of Black America's failure to thrive can be determined, perhaps a remedial strategy might be proffered that promises some potential for success. Otherwise, lamentations such as Mr. Garlock's can accomplish little.
perhaps a remedial strategy might be proffered that promises some potential for success.
In the minds of those that believe that others owe them for a perceived wrong, "remedial strategy" = 'another government program' that takes from those that work hard and gives to those that have chosen not to.
If Obamacare isn't good enough for Big Business, Big Labor, or Big Government,then it isn't good enough for the American People.
If Mr. Garlock is accurate, perhaps withdrawing government programs is the most promising remedial strategy.
Fred Garvin wrote:
In the minds of those that believe that others owe them for a perceived wrong, "remedial strategy" = 'another government program' that takes from those that work hard and gives to those that have chosen not to.
As long as we focus on the perceived wrongs, the work towards seeking solutions to real problems is stymied.
Entitlements= loss of power for American white males.. Is perceived by some as a perceived wrong.
The problem: too many American citizens are receiving an inadequate education to maintain American ability to remain a leader in the world community.
One step towards solution: Americans learning to respect one another and teaching the history/contribution of all Americans to Americas strength, which was part of Dr. King's dream.
There are those who have chosen not to contribute legally, but there are those who have not/are not being given the opportunity to contribute. To pretend that racism/elitism/classism does not exist in our country is debilitating to our countries progress.
Are there other explanations for their failure to succeed in a climate so rich with opportunities for advancement with such a paucity of impediments to prosperity?
Would 'laws' and traditions have anything to do with generations of 'Black Americans' and 'poor Americans inability to thrive in American society? What was the basis for limiting the educational opportunities for southern Black Americans and/or poor whites in the south? (Was there a law against teaching 'blacks' to read in the south?) "Be the best you can be" was certainly heard in many of Rev. King's messages - and he and his family were the embodiment of reaching above 'servitude' to 'other Americans' to being prepared to work WITH other Americans. There were 'whites' of great vision and generosity who provided land and facilities for Americans of a different color in the south - and provided the basis for Americans of color to leave the south and attend colleges and universities (many being historically black colleges located in the south and other regions of the US) where they could obtain the skills to be the 'best they can be' in any occupation that would benefit the United States and local communities. Unfortunately, for generations there was also a segment of American society that remained 'silent' at human injustices and believed that separate but equal was beneficial. The opportunities of American society were available to those of a certain 'color' and 'class'. The discussion continues. Light must be shed on the successes and the failures of our American way. From looking at our successes honestly - surely we can find avenues for lifting those who want to contribute out of poverty based on lack of education and/or opportunity. Mr. Garlock's lamentations are based on his life's view. Some want to keep silent the reality that once an American embellishes his God-given skills with proper education and equal opportunity - he can succeed in this country.
What do you postulate the etiology of Black America's failure to thrive to be? Or don't you have any ideas on this?
Is it vested in someone else, suppression of the black race by mysterious forces, the government's continual drum about entitlement, a culture that embraces a mobster mentality, drugs, "loose moral fabric", history, fatherless children, single mothers, what do you think it is STF?
Or could it be that we are ignoring the successes and focusing on the failures in the Black America culture, the exceptional business leaders, professionals, great fathers and mothers, the wonderful people we have living in our own community, our neighbors, our friends. The people we meet for dinner and the kids and parents at the soccer fields and churches. The interracial couples we all see everyday that are raising their children to be good citizens. Perhaps, just perhaps, things are improved from the days of the Civil Rights Movement and we are overlooking the progress we have made. Not that it's all perfect, it certainly isn't, but in American in the 21st Century, we have a lot of hope for Dr. King's vision. I certainly do. We need to remove the things that separate us, those imposed upon us by well intended people using government force, we need to open our minds and hearts and Dr. King's dream will be fulfilled.
This reminded me of a quote from one of Rev. Rowland Croucher's sermons, "Just as friction between certain types of rocks produces sparks of light, so it is the friction of our individualities rubbing against each other that illuminates who we really are."
Not only "who we really are", but what we will ultimately become as individuals and a nation.
No, STF, we are not perfect and we have a lot to do, but everything is not bad either. Just look around you for individuals doing the right thing and yes.......thriving.
What do you postulate the etiology of Black America's failure to thrive to be? Or don't you have any ideas on this?
STF has no ideas on anything, he/she just disagrees with anything posted and wants to argue with what they happen to see online here, which makes for a rather fruitless and boring "discussion."
Actually, I am not disagreeing with Mr. Garlock; I am merely taking his premise to the logical conclusion. If the explanation for these dismal failures is totally the fault of African-Americans, why are they so inept? It would seem fruitless to attempt any type of remedial initiatives (additions or subtractions of private or public efforts) before answering this fundamental question.
Historically, I have attributed some failures within the Black community to the residuals of 300 years of racial discrimination that preceded their gains in the 1960s. However, Mr. Garlock is typically a thoughtful man, and perhaps his argument for irresponsibility alone is the most parsimonious explanation.
When substantiation of one's point of view evokes "a rather fruitless and boring discussion," we are devolving precipitously.
You sent many to the dictionary on that one!!
It seems a bit misused in this context,
Or does STF mean "restrained"? If so, this would be more appropriate word and less obtuse. However, maybe this is not STF's goal?
Even Einstein believed that a thing should be stated as simple as possible but not simplistically. Take a lesson from great minds STF.
What is your idea?
I want to thank Mr. Garlock for sharing his thoughts on the commemoration of the "I Have A Dream' speech and saluting a true American Icon – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am a black woman from a family with a history of civil rights credentials. My mother and father, both proud 'black' Americans graduated from USC and UCLA respectively – in the 1930's – long before Affirmative Action. My grandparents were also college graduates – and proudly 'black'. I have always lived in an 'integrated neighborhood', although usually predominantly 'black' until my parents moved in 1953. That area became predominantly 'black' and just within the last 10 years is it becoming integrated with Americans of all colors who can afford to live in the community. (Los Angeles, California)
My parents exposed me to successful people of all colors – and yet, my father, in an attempt to protect me from the 'real'' world. . .taught me that 'colored' people were 'better' than white people. This was my reality until I went to Kindergarten – and was told by playmates that they couldn't play with 'nig . . .' My response was I couldn't either – (since I didn't know what the word meant at that time) and we began to play together. I am friends with some of those elementary school classmates today.
( I have always believed that 'colored' music was 'better', coloreds had more fun at parties, and 'colored' fellas were so very handsome! – so I do have 'prejudicial' thoughts)
There were four of 'us' in my Brownie Troop – and Girl Scout Troop. It was years later when my mother shared with me the 'effort' it took to get us accepted by the 'adults'. (I knew and liked my classmates – and thought it quite natural to share the scouting experience with them.)
When I was 11, (in the early 50's) my father insisted that I travel with family through the south, so that I could have an understanding of my country and how some humans were treated. That trip was a terrifying, yet educational experience.
My great Aunt, when I was in college, told us about this young man who was inspiring so many with his talks about love and equality. This man was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was encouraging people in the south to resist the unequal status that was given to 'coloreds'.
It was natural for me to join my friends, black and white, in the Civil Rights movement beginning in the late 50's. We were well aware of Americans addressing this issue since the time of Frederick Douglas, Booker T. Washington, and WEB Du Bois and before. These issues, which in my early years in college were called 'human rights' issues were discussed freely by my college classmates and professors who brought varied experiences to the discussion due to their unique ethnic backgrounds – Japanese American, Chinese American, Jewish American, Hispanic American, Irish American, English American, etc. (those of European background just called themselves 'white'.) African Americans became 'Black and Proud'.
I was not acquainted with too many Americans who were 'silent' regarding human rights.
It was also during this time, (the 50's) that I became familiar with John Steinbeck. He was an excellent writer who exposed me to a culture found in California that I was totally unaware of. I find it interesting that Mr. Garlock has Steinbeck's picture along with Dr. King's on his wall. Dr. King, in his writings, stated that through his travels throughout our country, he noticed that not only the black community was in need of concern – but also the poor who happened to be 'white'. (Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row), etc. Dr. King's dream soon included all mankind – black, white, brown, red, yellow – Americans all.
Would he be disappointed today that his dream has not yet been realized? Of course, but he would not ignore the progress that has been made, especially in the southern states of this country. There are many who are no longer silent – regardless of the color of their skin. That Americans are not taking advantage of the opportunities that so many have fought for is disgraceful. To denigrate an entire race is also disgraceful. I hope that Americans who live in Fayette County realize that they are surrounded by Americans of all colors who have assumed the responsibility of citizenship, worked hard, continue life long learning experiences, and respect their neighbors as themselves.
My guess is King would be proud how part of the black community has bloomed and thrived and how we live and work together, and I think he would be furious at the many millions of blacks with their hand perpetually out for more "gimmes" or advantages in a never-ending cycle of excuses, failure and focus on the color of their skin instead of the content of their character.
My thought is that Dr. King would be furious at the millions of Americans who have not taken advantage of free education and opportunities within American society - not just in the black/brown communities – but also in the 'white' communities where some also have their hand out for more gimmes or advantages.
(I see a lot of 'white' people in Georgia and California using food stamps. . .especially in the shopping areas around Hollywood Blvd. in California and PTC./Fayetteville. Contrary to popular belief, Hollywood, California's social services cater to 'whites'. (Many young hopefuls from the midwest and south) And there are Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row communities in TOO MANY American states.
There are also those who make money off the fraud found in government agencies and so-called charity programs. Dr. King's dream was for all Americans to enjoy the freedom of our country with respect and dignity. John Steinbeck informed many of us that not only blacks and browns have had difficulty in our country.
But, I hope you realize after reading this, DM is either lying spread eagle dead over her computer, or trying to organize a group of elderly black panthers to burn your house to the ground as we speak! :]
said what many of feel but you have put it so much more succinctly and eloquently. Until people are willing to work for what they receive they will have no pride in what they receive-it will have no value to them. Instead of being satisfied they will always be looking for more, always without extending the necessary effort.
During my lifetime, there have been many positions I could not obtain for various reasons, many of them had nothing to do with my qualifications. Since the reasons for my rejection had nothing to do with the color of my skin I had no choice but to accept it and move on to something else. I always did the best I could, went the extra step and always received recognition for my accomplishments. I never set back and demanded that because I had not been able to have the position I wanted that it was the government's responsibility to take care of me. I have always felt my welfare was my own responsibility, I brought up my children to feel the same. There were times things were rough, but we persevered and never resorted to asking for government assistance. How different it is for so many people today--need a cell phone? we'll give you 200 hours 'emergency' service a month. Can't afford to pay for your utilities, even though you have more than 100 channels on your TV, no problem we'll take care of that--and on and on it goes. What will happen when there is no more middle class to bear the burden? I am old enough to remember Kruschev saying Russia would not have to destroy us that we would do it ourselves from within. It is looking and more like he was right.
I hope you have out grown the admiration Mr. Garlock.
What's your beef with John Steinbeck?
PTCO is probably pissed just because Steinbeck joined the American League of Writers, a Commie Orgn.
. . . . than any objection you could possibly raise, PTCO.
Terry Garlock
Ok with me, but there are many more people that I could admire more than Steinbeck.
He was a devout New Deal Democrat, he idolized FDR and the false notion that the Depression was some sort of greedy capitalist conspiracy. His works certainly touched a raw nerve but they were philosophically dishonest. The personal human condition during the depression was real enough, he certainly illustrated this well, but the real evil was ignored and celebrated as the solution. This at the very least was intellectually lazy, if not dishonest.
Shaping minds to accept government superiority is corrosive to individual freedom. Therefore, I choose to admire others more than John Steinbeck. Though, I will admit he was a great fictional writer.
I can get into more specifics when we talk at Mimi's, but perhaps there are more interesting subjects? I have visited but haven't seen hide nor hair of you.
. . . Michelangelo painted nice pictures. He wrote in a multi-layered thought-provoking way about the human condition, wrapped in a fictional cover.
I read "Of Mice and Men" in high school at gunpoint and thought nothing of it. Decades later the play at Pioneer Memorial Theater at the University of Utah was moving so I read the book again. It was disturbing and it made me think.
Next I read "In Dubious Battle," the story about a fruit worker strike in California written from the point of view of a Communist agitator, probably the origin of rumors that Steinbeck was a Communist. More uncomfortable thinking. "The Pearl," "The Long Valley," "The Wayward Bus" and "East of Eden" proved more thought-provoking themes on human nature.
I read "Cup of Gold," an historical fictional piece sort of based on sea dog Henry Morgan and his pirateering for Spanish gold in the Carribean, Steinbeck's first book and fun but not terribly noteworthy. "The Red Pony" was better though a painful story about a kid discovering life has a brutal side, but it was becoming clear Steinbeck was not a sermonizer so much as a dispassionate analyst, always digging for the essence of humanity, our nature and how we treat each other, always struggling not to be judgmental, applying what I would later learn was what he and his buddy Ed Ricketts called non-teological thinking.
"Cannery Row" was a great comedy about the bums on the Monterey peninsula, but there were multiple layers to the story as usual, juxtaposing the totally irresponsible but loyal and loving bums who had nothing, to the haughty, judgmental and unhappy fat cats of the town, an enjoyable read.
Even funnier was "Tortilla Flats" which opens with the main character awakened prone on the town beach at sunrise, with a headache, the taste of yesterday's tequila and his pants inexplicably gone. But again, amidst the humor and sadness is the peek at human nature perhaps best demonstrated by the woman who pretended to vacuum her front porch for all to see even though the old vacuum was broken and she had no electricity anyway.
"Grapes of Wrath" was what Steinbeck had always referred to as the "big-book" he wanted to write. It came in the aftermath of our government hiring him to go to the California migrant camps to write reports of what he saw there, where Okies were pouring in from the dust bowl looking for the rumored fruit-picking work and finding none and out of money. Surrounded by misery, and the unfairness of unpicked fruit rotting on the trees while guards prevented starving migrants from taking the leftovers to eat, Steinbeck tried to apply his dispassionate non-teological thinking to study them like looking at bugs through a microscope. But he failed because he saw things like young mothers grieving over dead babies because they were so undernourished themselves they had no breast milk, and the look of hope forever lost in the eyes of men who were defeated by being completely unable to provide for their family. Steinbeck tried to be the analyst but he was inevitably furious.
When his job was done he took up the task to write his big book on the subject, and he labored with hot passion. When he finally finished it, he judged it to be a fine indictment against the system that would allow people to be treated this way, but it was untrue to his style of dispassionate analysis, a bad effort in his view, and he burned it, started over, ended with "Grapes of Wrath" in his typical multi-layered style.
I continued to read every book Steinbeck wrote and was delighted to discover along the way that "Sweet Thursday" told the love story for which characters were developed in "Cannery Row."
In the travelogue "Travels With Charley" Steinbeck was getting old, felt isolated at his home in Sag Harbor, Long Island and felt he had become too distant from "the people," so he built a sleeper on the back of his pickup (campers weren't around in 1962), took his dog Charley and drove all over America taking every opportunity to listen to ordinary people, like a farmer picking corn, the man pumping gas or the lady behind the diner counter.
When I finished them all, I studied Steinbeck's life. When he finally became known as a writer, someone asked him what it is like to be a famous author, and he answered, "I don't know what an author is. I'm a writer." He would rather split a bologna sandwich with a field hand than dine with the high and mighty in great restaurants. I liked the guy quite a lot.
In my studies I found that the Doc character in Cannery Row was the very real Ed Ricketts, with whom Steinbeck became a great friend. They explored non-teological thinking over cheap wine when they could not afford beer, and their friendship comes in that same style in "The Log From the Sea of Cortez" when they took a boat south to gather marine samples for Ed's lab.
In a piece not published as a book, "About Ed Ricketts," Steinbeck wrote dispassionately about his hungry friend and how he died unexpectadly when his car was hit by a train while on his way to buy a steak for dinner. You had to read between the lines but the tribute of the deep love of one man for another was plain to see. Steinbeck always wrapped his thoughts deeper than the surface and demonstrated how he felt about Ed by writing things like how he and a few others, after learning of Ed's death, sat looking out to sea, and how he was afraid ". . . someone would want to say something."
Steinbeck was accused of being a womanizer, a communist and other things he was not, but whatever his politics, one thing he was, is and will be for sure is admired by me. That admiration was set in concrete long before I discovered that very late in his career he was sent by Newsday to write dispatches from the Vietnam War. Here's one he wrote about my brother helicopter pilots:
"Alicia, I wish I could tell you about these pilots. They make me sick with envy. They ride their vehicles the way a man controls a fine, well-trained quarter horse. They weave along stream beds, rise like swallows to clear trees, they turn and twist and dip like swifts in the evening. I watch their hands and feet on the controls, the delicacy of the coordination reminds me of the sure and seeming slow hands of (Pablo) Casals on the cello. They are truly musician's hands and they play their controls like music and they dance them like ballerinas and they make me jealous because I want so much to do it. Remember your child night dream of perfect flight free and wonderful? It's like that, and sadly I know I never can. My hands are too old and forgetful to take orders from the command center, which speaks of updrafts and side winds, of drift and shift, or ground fire indicated by a tiny puff or flash, or a hit and all these commands must be obeyed by the musicians hands instantly and automatically. I must take my longing out in admiration and the joy of seeing it. Sorry about that leak of ecstasy, Alicia, but I had to get it out or burst."
So you may take your best shot PTCO, but whatever you say about John Steinbeck, I will stand by him.
Terry Garlock
It's OK with me, for me it's just a matter of choices, your choice is your choice.
BTW, Travels with Charley was fictional as well, though I am certain that the writer wanted you to believe differently. Not to say he didn't travel around but not in the fashion you believe.
. . . then I am relieved. Of course it was not my intent to write about who you admire, whomever that may be.
Terry Garlock
Opinions are like, _ _, everyone has one. That's what makes life interesting.
Not that you are at all interested, but I stopped reading fiction in my twenties.
I admire those that question the status quo, which you certainly do.
I mean they actually read books, maybe even go to the library and browse, maybe have an interest in a specific subject and devour everything they can find on that subject. That is wonderful, but alas, not everyone is like that.
Recently back from a family gathering in MD I found myself discussing politics, government and sports (certainly not in that order) with a group aged 19-35. Not sure which generation that is, but it is a long way from the Greatest One. Out of the 15 or so people that were there, only 2 made any response at all about certain books I referenced - Grant's biography, Why England Slept, Seabiscuit, The Great Gatsby, To Kill A Mockingbird, John Adams, Moby Dick, South Pacific, The Cathedral, Upcountry and others. Sadly I did not reference any by Steinbeck, but I share your admiration of his writing. And yes, I felt like a very old curmudgeon.
Now, I will freely admit I had not read all those books before I was 35, but I had read the older ones and probably 300 more - for example Advise and Consent (try to recognize today's Washington as the same place). Anyway, these people simply don't read. At all. Not one bit on their own. Maybe the minimum out of whatever passes for history books in school, but after that? Nope. Reading to better understand history, or country, the human condition? No, no they don't. One girl, who I had never met - my second cousin's new wife is 24, Army vet, going to graduate school (Uncle Sam is paying) had actually read some and asked me what I thought she should read. Wow! So that list, along with 50 others I e-mailed her later after looking at my favorite books. Nelson DeMille, Jeffery Archer, John Grisham, Anne Rivers Siddons (she's from Fairburn where she was plain old Annie Rivers), Tom Wolfe, Pat Conroy were all on the list of anything by any of these authors - recognizing that a 24 year old, no matter how bright was not about to become engrossed with the style of long-dead authors.
I also told her how I used to make fun of my mother for belonging to 2 book clubs - 2. One of them was the place that sent you a new book every month unless you stopped it, the other was a meeting at someone's house (occasionally ours) where a bunch of women sat around discussing the same book, Seemed silly at the time, but now I think we should impose that upon young people, illegal immigrants and Democrat voters (just kidding about the Dems, couldn't resist).
So, not a scientific survey up on the Chesapeake , but one bright person out of 15 and maybe a second one with potential? That's a pretty low percentage for the greatest country in the world. Think that will last?
I too enjoy Lee Child and David Baldacci and Vince Flynn. Lawrence Sanders and W.E.B. Griffin always come with me to the beach.
I grew up in rural E. North Carolina where there was a Bookmobile that came in the Summer every 2 weeks to a x-road that was a 3 minute walk from our house. I would go down there, sign out an armful of books, walk back home and immediately sit down on the porch and begin reading one--only interrupted by shelling fresh picked Butter Beans for Dinner (that's lunch to some of you)! Living here,I have found the FC Public Library to be a wonderful source for books and the Director and I are on a first name basis. Every Sunday, I check the NY Times Best Seller List and immediately put those I haven't read (not many!) on hold. My Wife does the same. Their service is great and friendly to all. We are fortunate to have such a great facility & staff in our City.
It's very well-run and I concur. I like the PTC library also, but there are a few books that sometimes come in-stock quicker in Fayetteville or just aren't available for some reason in PTC.
The Coweta library near Thomas Crossroads is also top-notch and first class all the way.
It saddens me that in times of budgetary shortfalls that library hours get cut right away. That's cutting your nose off to spite your face, IMO. These facilities are used by a lot of people, even students who have plenty of Internet access at their home and on their phones too. They still go to libraries. My senior parents go there to rent DVD's along with books.
Library folks just don't raise enough hell I guess and are easy to overlook, but if you give a kid the gift of reading, you have given that person something of meaning and a lot better escapism than the TV or video games or bars.
The library's always get the short stick or the bum roof. Great place to grab a book, sit back and lose track of time. Finally got the older kid reading more once I laid down the hammer on the idiot box. I can't fall asleep at night without reading first.
I have lived all over the east coast and as far west as Tx. One of the first things I do is find the local library.
How many kids get in serious trouble at the library.
Of course, when I lived in Greenville, SC years ago, one of the areas leading pubs at the time was called "The Library". Sorry I'm late dear, went to the library, lol
You will also find a Pub by that name in Laramie, WY and it was there that my Son became engaged to his now wife of 12 yrs, when they were both students at U. of WYO.
It was also a gay bar in Buckhead. Don't know if you want to tell the missus you were there instead of just out drinking :)
Agree--I have found several books there that were not available at the FC County Library and always found the staff friendly and efficient. What I will do is search the Flint River System and if PTC has it,I just have to change my pick-up location from FC Public to PTC. Not a big deal, as we're in the area a couple of times a week anyway.
I don't think it is necessary. Steinback was hardly a commie and was also a tremendous writer of fiction that made his works somewhat based on conditions of that time.
Don't get anyone denying the man's talents, which are still read today by students of history. He did something right, obviously.
Wow, that's heavy duty stuff about Steinbeck! Being the rather simple-minded person I am,I tend to favor Lee Child, James Lee Burke, CJ Box and WEB Griffin!
. . . but I am blessed with the habit of daily reading every night before sleep. Once in a while I read something heavy like "Founding Brothers," or "To Try Men's Souls," Newt Gingrich's excellent historical fiction of Washington's crossing the Delaware on Christmas eve 1776 in a last gasp desperate attempt to breath life into the revolution. I gave that book for graduation gifts last year as I believe every young American should read it.
But like you, I am an avid consumer of fiction, my daily mental escape to another life for a little while, not so much running away from reality as expanding what I know and think. I read many of the same writers you guys have mentioned, but almost always fiction. I did just finish "Tracks," a short book that was more of a journal, self-published and clearly unedited, by a Vietnam War tank sgt Marine. It was an interesting change of pace about part of the war unfamiliar to me, now it is done and back to my fiction steady diet.
Terry Garlock
Just finished his latest "Light of the World" last night. Excellent as always, though this one takes it up a notch too.
Big on the suspense/thrillers like Burke, Child, CJ Box(read The Highway two weeks ago and have read all of his stuff), Coben, Linwood Barclay, etc. Now about to dive into the latest from Markus Sakey "Accelerant," who is maybe the best out there right now. The guy is extremely good, but he's gone to the Amazon publishing model only which I'm not a real fan of, but so be it. That's why I have both a NOOK(like that name anyway:) and a Kindle.
Nuk, thanks for the tip on Sakey. I have been looking for some more authors in that genre. If you haven't already read them, try out Stephen Hunter and Robert Crais.
Yeah, I have read all the Crais books also and some of Hunter's.
Another guy that I discovered a couple of years ago is Steve Hamilton who won an Edgar award a couple of years ago for "The Lock Artist," which is a helluva good read. He's also got a pretty long-running crime series and the guy definitely is good, though he doesn't get a lot of publicity.
Picking up 'The Highway' tomorrow and have 'Light of the World' on Hold. Eff tomorrow will be able to read 'High Heat', latest Lee Child book (only onDigital now)-- online-- via 'Overdrive' from local Public Library. Thanks for the tip on Sakey (who once ran a graphics design business inAtlanta).


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I've read that there are both annual and perennial varieties of Cosmos. Could someone tell me how to figure out whether my Cosmos are annuals or perennials? Thanks!
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All the ones we grow here in zone 4 are annual. It could be determined by the zone you live in. |
You didn't tell us anything about the ones you grow, so it's kind of hard to tell you what you have. There are only a few perennial kinds one being Cosmos atrosanguineus (the Chocolate Cosmos) and it wouldn't be hardy in your zone anyway. |
OK, thanks! Mine are variations of pinks and whites and are 3-4' tall. |
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Yours sounds like the annual variety but they self slow like crazy, at least here in central New Mexico. I originally planted them from seed 4 yrs ago and now have them every year. I let them go to seed every year in case birds eat the seeds so I have a ton of them. |
Yes they will self sow like crazy and I love that. I hadn't grown them in years, planted some a few years ago and every spring since I have tons of seedlings. It was fun rediscovering something so common yet so wonderful. Mine are still blooming and the finches love the seeds. |
Thanks for the info on the self-seeding. So, my husband wants to know whether he should pull them, or cut them back. If they are annuals, he should pull them, but wait as long as possible in the hopes they will self-seed? Sorry to be so dense...I'm definitely a beginner gardener! |
- Posted by duluthinbloomz4 (My Page) on Thu, Oct 14, 10 at 15:58
Not to worry... Google the images for cosmos seed head. If you find the spikey seed heads, like those pictured, left over from the long ago spent flowers, you can pick them off and scatter the hard, brown, dart shaped seeds where you want them. You can also just cut the seed head off and drop the whole thing where you want. Or, save the seeds and plant in the spring. Then pull up the old plant since it's done for the season. They do self seed here in cold zone 4 - not as reliably as in warmer spots, but I usually get a few that crop up in unexpected places. |
By now, your cosmos plants should have scattered plenty of seed for next year. When you pull up the dead plants this fall, you'll scatter even more seed in the process. I doubt you really have to worry much about finding the seed heads and scattering the seeds yourself. |
Thanks for all the great information! |
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BY: Community Papers of WNY Staff | December 01, 2012
For Rick Updegrove, leader of the Niagara County Legislature's Republican Majority, convincing his caucus to support the third annual Peanut Butter and Jelly Drive may have been the easiest thing he's done all year.
It's also the most rewarding.
"It's the least we could do to help our neighbors in need," said Updegrove, as he carried a cardboard box filled with peanut butter jars from the Niagara County Legislature's chambers to a waiting table in the county Courthouse's rotunda.
He was followed by the 11 members of the Legislature's Majority as they each carried out a heavy carton filled with golden or purple jars from their desks on the floor of the Legislature.
A chance conversation earlier in the week with New York State Courts Officer Pete Robinson, one of the annual drive's lead organizers, who often provides security at the County Courthouse, prompted the Majority Leader to act.
Updegrove had the Legislature's Majority Caucus that the charity — an annual drive that netted more than 9,000 jars of peanut butter, jelly and marshmallow fluff for area food pantries last year — that the ongoing economic difficulties impacting the nation made supporting the drive a moral imperative for elected leaders.
The Republican-led Majority rallied strongly around Robinson and the Peanut Butter and Jelly Drive, "passing the hat," in Updegrove's words, to raise enough money to buy 12 dozen jars of sandwich spreads.
The exact breakdown of the donation was 60 jars of creamy peanut butter, 12 jars of crunchy peanut butter, 48 jars of grape jelly and 24 jars of marshmallow fluff.
The Peanut Butter and Jelly Drive came about after Robinson discovered that area food pantries often don't have enough sweet — but nutritious — foods that children enjoy. Responding to the need, the Courts officer, well-known in local circles for his renditions of the national anthem at various civic events, collected several local volunteers and set up donation sites around Western New York.
For more information on the third annual Peanut Butter and Jelly Drive, which continues through Dec. 6, contact Robinson at 510-7108 or Tina Sheley at 438-8247, or visit their Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/groups/peanutbutterandjellydrive.
Individuals wishing to donate may do so by depositing jars in the blue containers displayed prominently at the following locations in Niagara, Orleans and Erie Counties:
Hartland Fire Hall, A Style Ahead, Salon 9450, Tops Markets on S. Transit Road and Rochester Road, all Niagara County branches of Cornerstone Community Credit Union, Royalton Town Hall, Middleport Village Hall, The Chop Shop, Niagara/Orleans BOCES, Fast Fitness in Medina, Medina Lanes, Roy-Hart High School, Pizza Wings and Things, Jim's Diner in Barker, Thee Barker Store, Niagara County Sheriff's Office, Lockport Athletic Club, NCCC Student Life, Delphi, Little Lambs Daycare, Lockport Moose Club, The Elk's Lodge (North Canal Road Lockport), Niagara County Department of Health, Starpoint Central School District, The Fieldstone, Lockport City School Superintendent's Office, Lockport Public Library, Thrifty Propane & Oil Inc., Mullen's Appliances, Washburn Market, K.M. Treats, Niagara County Historian's Office, Department of Youth & Recreation, Papa Leo's, Lockport City Hall, WLVL, LCTV, YWCA, Miskall, Moxham and Frazier Law Offices, The Hair Chateau, The Village Trailer Park office, The Market St. Art Company and Hunt Real Estate.
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Community Missions of the Niagara Frontier, LJ Hair Design, Newfane Senior High School, The Wilson House, United Methodist Church of Newfane, Town of Niagara, Fuccillo Chevrolet, Bible Fellowship Church on Grand Island, First Niagara Bank (Grand Island), Laundry Lounge, Grand Island Auto Tech, City of Tonawanda (Mayor's Office), Wheatfield Pediatrics, Kidz Express and Parks and Recreation Department of North Tonawanda.
In Erie County, donations can be dropped off at Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, Hausrath's Landscaping, Segway of WNY, Bison Turf, LDA of WNY, Chappie's Pizza, Bank of America (Getzville branch), Sweet Jenny's, Lackawanna Bus Terminal and Spirit of Truth Ministries.
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SportsQuest is no longer the dream it once was. Shaw Industries Sports Complex Holdings, LLC was the only bidder and took the SportsQuest property at auction last week after forcing the auction through a lien on the property.
Shaw's attorney, Bradley J. Lefkowitz, who took bids from his client over the phone, did not promise that Shaw would build the sports complex promised by Steve Burton, who was planning the multi-sport facility.
"Shaw will fulfill their obligation according to the law," Lefkowitz said
Two parcels of land were sold at auction; one includes nine soccer fields, which Chesterfield County leased from Burton with unfinished parking lots and a concession stand and restrooms. The first parcel auctioned was a 115-acre piece, which brought $4.2 million. The second parcel, only five acres, brought $450,000 through auction. The county assessment on two parcels totals over $7.5 million, according to county records.
Mike Golden, director of Chesterfield Parks and Rec said there were games being played there on Tuesday, the evening of the auction, and another set of games Thursday last week, and there was a full schedule planned at the complex of soccer fields. Chesterfield's interest is secured by a lease.
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John Mann MP is accusing the Prime Minister of failing to tell the truth on the 19th July 2011 when the Cabinet Secretary stated on his behalf that "The PM had not been involved in any of the discussions about BSKYB."
Mann said "this is clearly untrue and needs investigating. I have written to the new Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood and in the wake of today's evidence at the Leveson Inquiry it is clear that Jeremy Hunt needs to resign."
John Mann is calling on the Cabinet Secretary to conduct an investigation into the clear breach of the Ministerial Code by the Prime Minister. Mann is also calling on the Cabinet Secretary to release all the emails sent by Special Advisors at Number 10 Downing Street, Number 11 Downing Street, the Treasury, the Department for Culture Media and Sport to BSKYB officials and any other advisors employed by the Murdoch Empire.
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Eugene, OR based sculptor Jud Turner opens a statement explaining his art with the phrase "Quantum physics tells us that apparently solid objects are comprised of vast empty spaces…" For some, this may be a reason to navigate away from the website in a panic. For me, it brought back memories of mind-scrambling science/math hybrid problems, where letters meant numbers and my high school GPA took a violent beating. But Turner's work isn't about being afraid. It is about bringing together the past and the future; about viewing the whole as the work of many, many individuals. And in the end, that may look like a skeleton on a bicycle.
"Bicycles have been around for nearly 200 years, but were largely replaced by automobiles," Turner explains. "I think bicycles will again be the dominant mode of transportation in the near future."
Opening a Jud Turner gallery means suddenly finding yourself surrounded by trilobites and wart hogs fashioned mainly out of welded steel and found materials, giving the impression that they spawned from an imagination wretched with terror. But it isn't a nagging childhood trauma or the voice of the weather lady in his head that are behind the creation of such conceptually mystifying pieces.
"Between seeming contradictions lie greater truths," Turner says, stating his artistic philosophy in a nutshell. There's no denying an underlying motif in his work illustrates a strong belief in the cyclical nature of time. "Our most complex computers can't compare to the brain of even the smallest living creature."
This is a point brought to life by one of his functioning sculptures, a coffee table with trilobites scrambling across it.
"The symmetry and repetition of a trilobite is both calming and suggestive to me. They also make a perfect specimen to play out some of the concepts I've been discussing about time and technology."
But Paleozoic Arthropods aren't the only creatures finding a home in a Jud Turner collection. "Warthogs…" he explains, "…are just so damn ugly, they come full circle to being beautiful to me."
The beauty of a warthog's ugliness inspired Turner to come out with a series of sculptures, praising their bodily oddities. "That project was more of an exploration of different sculptural processes," he explains, "but it gave me a great excuse to make a bunch of hogs."
The projects getting the most attention right now are yet another distinct sculpture of Turner's. A primitive human skeleton, with arms and legs that turn into wheels forming a bicycle sounds more like something that would show up for an episode or two of Power Rangers. Yet, Turner's beliefs regarding the flow of time come through clearly enough that such a disgraceful comparison is the last thing from your mind. The title?
"'Muerto-cycle' is the most literal visual representation of the merger of man/machine that I could think of."
"Muerto-cycle" is joined by two other cycling-related pieces, "Bio-cycle," and the more current "R-Evolve," which has netted Turner a place in the Bicycle Film Festival's sculptural gallery, "Joyride."
While we absorb the technological ease of modern life, Turner asks that we consider a simple truth: Eventually, we all become fossils. "The relationship and merger between the organic, natural world and industrial technology is a theme I've explored a lot."
Turner is an artist in a time where expression is one of the most successful weapons, and, like all artists, his work is indicative of the times he lives in. As wars are fought and rights are squelched, he tries to maintain an outlook that is difficult to keep in times of global turmoil: Hope.
"I believe that greater truth is that WE have an opportunity to unite in our Oneness and overcome the greatest challenge humans have ever faced, and that this will happen in ways none of us can imagine individually."
Turner is not the first artist to suggest that people come together to save themselves, and he will be far from the last. His comparisons of the past and the present illustrate a haunting truth, in that our lives are all connected, and the inability to see this may wipe us out entirely. "If that happens, it will be because we have been so caught up in our individual comforts that we failed to see our connectedness – the oneness of everything," he states.
"We may be the first species to cause its own extinction."
Jud Turner's latest sculptural piece, "R-Evolve", will be featured in the "Joyride" Exhibit at the Anonymous Gallery in NYC, as part of the Bicycle Film Festival from June 18th through the 22nd. You can also check out his online gallery at www.judturner.com.
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Managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the National Wildlife Refuge System is one of our greatest treasures for wildlife conservation. Now these refuges that protect public lands and waters, conserve America's fish and wildlife, and offer countless outdoor recreation opportunities are facing severe damages from the BP Oil Spill.
The USFWS estimates that 36 national wildlife refuges are at risk from the BP Oil Spill – many of which serve as critical migratory stopovers, support rare or diminishing ecosystems, and are the last remaining havens for threatened and endangered species.
Delta National Wildlife Refuge - Migratory Bird Sanctuary and Fisheries Recovering from Earlier Oil Spill take a Second Blow
Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge - Disappearing Wet Pine Savanna Under Attack
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The Daily Quest: Me tanks {WoW}
Jun 1st 2010 2:32AM I love tanking. I love warrior tanking especially. I'm not getting their attention by casting holy spells at them, I'm running at them and screaming in their face. The feeling of power is great.
BUT. It's that feeling of power as a tank that makes people say things like "The tank is the most important person during a raid encounter." I even notice when I tank, that it becomes easy to take others for granted. I'm hitting things, their health is dropping. It almost feels like you're soloing. But instances come in groups for a reason. Without any part, the group falls apart. I want to see how well you "control things" with an oom healer and an enrage timer.
To be honest, I think ranged dps are in the best position to appreciate what happens in a dungeon. They're not just watching health bars and they don't have some giant ogre in their face--they're seeing the whole thing and realizing that everyone is doing something. Obviously a lot only watch the recount in the corner, but the fact remains that dps have the best opportunity to NOT be tunnel-visioned.
As much as dps are prone to recount syndrome, tanks are prone to diva syndrome.
"If you'd rather hide in the back of the room and light things on fire and turn invisible when things go bad then keep leveling that mage. " I realize you're being facetious, but come on. And "lets face it, dps are too afraid to control important things like kill order. " Dps don't decide kill order because dps don't pull! You want dps to be "braver" and start deciding who gets attacked first?
I like instances better than pvp because I like working as a team to achieve a common goal. That's not nearly as fun when someone has to constantly remind you that just because he gets shorter queues, you're just "meat in the room".
The Daily Quest: Me tanks {WoW}
Jun 1st 2010 2:22AM I'm mainly just trying to present that every member has a responsibility. And certainly there are more bad dps-ers than bad tanks, because there's more of them in general, and I'll definitely admit that dpsing is easier. But I think the number of bad dps players is causing people to think that only dps are bad. If something goes wrong in a dungeon, maybe, just maybe, it wasn't the dps' fault. That's just up to individual situations to figure out.
The Daily Quest: Me tanks {WoW}
May 31st 2010 11:39PM My main is a mage, but I've got a warrior tank almost to 80. I certainly appreciate what tanks go through to keep aggro, but there is a line to draw with these kinds of attitudes. Most of the tanks I've met who say this kind of thing, are also the tanks who let an add beat on the healer for the entire fight.
The fact is, a group is a team. Everyone has to do their part. We say, "The DPS' job isn't to dps, it's to stay alive," but that's not true. A Dead dps is no dps, yes, but a living dps that can't dps b/c of a bad tank is just as useless. I've heard countless tanks say, "It's not my job to taunt." Taunt is a key tanking spell which for warriors and pallys at least, is on an 8-SECOND COOLDOWN! How is that not your job?
So whose responsibility is it that the tank keep aggro? The tank and the dps together. If either doesn't do their job right, things go wrong.
And hey, if it's not your job to taunt, then I guess I don't have to counterspell that guy. Healer...you can't look over at a second health bar to toss me a topoff after that big aoe? I guess I can't be bothered to watch health bars and toss up a decurse. Exceptional players are the ones who go above and beyond what "their job" is to do. So if I, as dps, run into a bad tank, I'll just adjust my playstyle accordingly. As a tank, I'll do the same thing.
Breakfast Topic: Fear ... so exhilarating {WoW}
May 29th 2010 12:26PM First time I leveled in Duskwood, find a cool path up into the mountains...ooh look a big portal HOLY CRAP IT'S A DRAGON.
Best actual creepout? I was doing the quest in Icecrown where you jump in the robot up the sides of a mountain. The game bugged and I fell through the mountain...into the Saronite mines. Of all places to fall through the world, into a mine full of crazed miners haunted by the blood of an Old One. Really, I like anything Lovecraftian in the game. I haven't done Ulduar, but just listening to the Yogg-Saron audio on Youtube--hearing Sara scream in terror and then hearing her voice slowly change to Yogg's....*shudder*
Breakfast Topic: Healers are the drummers of WoW {WoW}
Jan 7th 2010 2:52PM Oh, and on the issue of "I've finished off a boss after all the dps were dead". I've finished off a boss after the tank and healer were dead...and I'm a mage. I just had to kill it before it turned around. This isn't to brag...obviously it was already at low health. But...the fact that a tank can finish off a boss doesn't say much...if its health is low a healer could do that.
Breakfast Topic: Healers are the drummers of WoW {WoW}
Jan 7th 2010 2:48PM Ok, if you're going to compare who's the most important, you have to consider that you are the right gear for that instance. If I'm overgeared enough I can *solo* an instance...that's not the point. If you're at the gear level...
NO ONE is most important. Period. Tank dies without a healer. Healer and DPS die without a tank. And yes, Healers and Tanks die without enough dps. The fact that there are three of them doesn't make them less important. Properly geared for an instance, if a tank and healer try it alone, the healer will go OOM on the first five-minute trash pull.
As for healers being unsung heroes, yes, it's true. But that depends on who you're with. I've seen very egotistical healers, tanks, AND dps. And in my experience, if something goes wrong, they say it's the dps' fault. Almost all the time.
The other day I and my ele shaman friend dps'd H Gundrak. The shaman was putting out around 1600-2000 dps--he's still getting geared up. But he kept pulling the tank's main target off...and keeping it for about 8 seconds. The tank didn't bother to taunt and couldn't compete with 1600 dps with Righteous Fury up? But who did the healer blame? The dps. In his kindest voice the healer started spouting off all of those cliches like "dead dps is no dps" and "your job as dps is to stay alive". These are true, but not completely true.
Is the dps' job to stay alive? Yes. But his job is also to dps. If he didn't, the group would suffer. In the same way that a healer's ultimate job is to keep himself alive, since dead heals is no heals. But if he spent the whole time healing himself instead of the tank? Wipe.
And dps'ing is not always easy. I play an arcane mage. We have a rotation to keep up or our dps will drop significantly. That's not being a recount whore. That's wanting to do my job. Meanwhile, I have to try and keep sheep up when the tank wants it. I have to buff just like any healer. And *I* am the one expected to interrupt with my 30-second cooldown counterspell, rather than the tank or melee with their much shorter CDs. I am the one expected to decurse, not the resto shaman who is already looking at people's health bars.
I love playing dps. And I'll admit, there's less pressure. But please, understand that every group member is important. Maybe in your experience, dps are the ones standing in the fire. But stupid players doesn't change the importance of a role. I had a healer in H UK who repeatedly let the tank die on Ingvar because he was casting during the interrupt. He told me he had to cast and get spell-locked or the tank would die. He said he had played a priest, so he knew healing and I didn't. Only thing was...he was playing a druid. A druid healer can't keep a tank up for three seconds with instant casts and HOTs? And you know this because you've played a priest??
Fact is, a good healer/tank/dps is one who is concerned with the group as a whole, not just his role. Tanks tell me it's "not their job" to taunt. Like, the button is useless to them. Healers say it's "not their job" to heal dps. Why every healer has *some* type of multi-heal is lost to them. But dps? It's our job to dps, help heal, interrupt, CC, decurse, cleanse, everything. But groups go well when *everyone* does *everything* they have to keep the group alive and make the enemies die. Every member is important, everyone has a role to fill, and a d-bag in ANY of these roles can make a dungeon miserable.


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A pioneering art gallery project in Oslo, a Q & A with Brussels-based publisher Andreas Qvist and a sleek new digi-radio.
A pioneering art gallery project in Oslo, a Q & A with Brussels-based publisher Andreas Qvist and a sleek new digi-radio.
London's ICA is hosting In Numbers, a survey exhibition of serial publications by international artists from the 1950s to present day. Running from 25 January to 25 March, In Numbers features sought-after examples of the '60s correspondence art movement and the DIY-zine culture of the '80s, all part of NYC-based Philip Aarons's private art collection.
When did you start collecting art and what was your first buy?
My wife and I were always interested in art – when we had the means, we started buying. Our first serious purchase was a Louis Lozowick print of Coney Island from the '20s which we still have.
How long have you been collecting magazines and serial publications by artists?
Thirty-five years ago I became fascinated by conceptual art and how books and magazines became central to the works themselves and started
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What is your favourite publication in the collection?
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Over the weekend, Senator Klein released a report waxing poetic on all the benefits a hike in New York's minimum wage would bring to businesses, workers and the State's economy. I have discussed the minimum wage issue from time to time on this blog, and I am fairly certain NFIB/NY's position is clear.
Last night, I had the opportunity to talk about the minimum wage issue on Capital Tonight.
Mike Durant Discusses Min Wage.
I am fairly certain that this issue will be discussed quite a bit once the legislature returns from break (about two weeks) and it will be up to business leaders and business owners to keep the pressure on to say NO! to a minimum wage hike in New York.


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BIRMINGHAM — Former Kentucky athletics director C.M. Newton still does consulting work and was at the Southeastern Conference Media Days. Newton, who coached at Alabama and Vanderbilt, hired Rick Pitino at UK and also knows current Kentucky coach John Calipari because his son, Martin, worked for Calipari at UK before leaving to become athletics director at Samford.
Newton shared his thoughts on Calipari and Pitino.
Question: Is it good or bad for basketball in Kentucky to have Louisville and UK both so good at the same time with coaches as dynamic as they both have?
Newton: "I think it is good. It just separates Kentucky as a state from the rest of the world. To have both of them in the state, is a tremendous bonus for the state. Cal is perfect for UK. He is the perfect coach. He understands the landscape. I think Rick is the perfect guy at this time for Louisville. I wouldn't have thought so when Rick first came to us at Kentucky, but I think now he is the perfect guy at Louisville."
Question: Do they recharge each other?
Newton: "Sure. I think they keep each other … honest is the wrong word … but they keep each other really involved in basketball. Rick needs a challenge and so does John. Their challenge is provided in their own state."
Question: Have they put all the national spotlight back on basketball in Kentucky?
Newton: "Yes. I don't think there is any question about that. Then take what has been done in the women's programs at both universities as well as the men. Louisville goes to the Final Four and Kentucky almost did last year. It's amazing to me the kind of run that Kentucky has had in the two sports."
Question: When you hired Pitino over 20 years ago, did you think he would still be coaching?
Newton: "No. A matter of fact, I tried to talk him out of going to Louisville at one point. I wanted Rick to take either the Indiana or Michigan job or some job in another league. I didn't want him in the same state because to me he is the best coach I have ever been around period, and I have been around a lot of great ones. You can name them off. But Rick to me is the consummate coach. He is smart as heck.
"Now Cal is the perfect basketball coach in the modern era as I see it with this one-and-done business. I am not sure anybody else short of him … I am willing to say no one short of him could pull this off. Particularly with the academic restrictions on there. He is a master coach, master teacher. I think the state is just very fortunate to have both of them."
Question: From an administrative standpoint, how do you view all Calipari does from telethons to trophy tours to alumni games to fantasy camps and more?
Newton: "He is a promoter and Cal promotes UK. Yet I am an old-school AD (athletics director), so I would probably have a problem with some of that. I know with Rick I told him there would be times he would have to take no as an answer. I never will forget when Pitino came to me after we renovated Memorial Coliseum and the locker room, and it had been the same I had as a player in the last 40's and 50's. Then he said he needed some exercise bikes to keep from pounding legs in practice late in the season so I can get the ready for the tournament. I thought that makes sense. But the kind of exercise bike he wanted cost $4,000 to $5,000 each. They had televisions and all that stuff. Then I thought that I wished I had been smart enough to do that when I coached, and I wasn't. That's why I say he is in a league by himself. He is very innovative, but he was willing to take no for an answer. I have never worked with Cal, so I don't know if he would take no for an answer or not."
Question: Is Pitino a better coach now than 20 years ago?
Newton: "Yeah. He has gotten better. I think the Celtic experience really humbled Rick in a good way. He came back (to Louisville) and he really wanted to coach basketball. He has done a great job there."
Question: Could last year's NIT season do the same for Calipari?
Newton: "I think so. If you look at Kentucky last year, until Nerlens Noel got hurt, they were on track to get in the NCAA. They were a shoo-in. When he got hurt, it went down the drain. Then losing to Robert Morris hurt not only Kentucky, but it hurt the whole league. That was unfortunate, but I am sure that got Cal really going again."
Question: Who wins the Kentucky-Louisville game this year?
Newton: "I have no idea. The one with the best players. Players win games, not coaches. But they both have really good players and coaches."


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psychogun Posts: 129
psychogun Posts: 129
It would appear that this article posted a while back by edmunds.com didn't get a lot of attention (sarcasm gee... wonder why...? end sarcasm) http://www.edmunds.com/car-news/mitsubishis-future-plans-include-hybrids-major-model-overhaul.html
Below is a listing of future Mitsubishi launches for simplified viewing:
2014 (2015 model year)
Mirage hatch - minor exterior and interior changes
Mirage sedan - unconfirmed, all new to U.S. line-up
Outlander Sport - 2.4l engine added to line-up, new CVT
Lancer - outside mirror turn signal indicators
Outlander - exterior freshening with new grille/front air dam and new combination taillights with LED
2015 (2016 model year)
Mirage hatch - exterior freshening
Outlander Sport - All New
Lancer - New CVT and new telematics system
Outlander - PHEV model added, mid-cycle re-fresh (incorporating Mitsubishi's new design language)
Galant - All New (based on next gen Renault Samsung SM5/Latitude)
2016 (2017 model year)
Mirage sedan - turbo engine model added or initial U.S. launch, to be confirmed
Outlander - new telematics system
Montero - All New
In other markets Mitsubishi will be launching the following. Depending on market conditions, R&D costs, and consumer interest these may eventually make it to the U.S. The following is purely speculative:
Triton/L200 compact pick-up truck - All New, to be launched fall of 2014. May come to U.S. if U.S./Thai free trade agreement will allow circumvention of Chicken Tax
Montero Sport/Challenger/Nativa - All New, to be launched in 2015. May come to U.S. if there is consumer interest.
Delica crossover minivan - All New, to be launched in 2015 or 2016. Currently unknown if even intended for markets other than Japan. Current generation was under study for U.S. launch but rising Yen killed the plan.
psychogun Posts: 129
Also for 2016 (as a 2017 model)
Lancer - Unconfirmed, may simply be a rebadge of next gen Renault Samsung SM3, or may be a co-developed C-segment model with Renault-Nissan based on the Franco-Japanese firms modular platform
iluvmysephia1 Posts: 5,716
Nice find, psychogun, I've been looking for new material, even on Mitsubishi's worldwide website, about what they're going to do with the Lancer, and haven't found too much.
All we know from the article link from your post above is that they're talking with Renault about it but are more focused on the midsize sedan first, for now anyway. After getting a new Galant design they'll start focusing on what kind of platform and design they'll build the new world order Mitsubishi Lancer on. And what it would look like.
So I bet we're looking at something like 2016 before we get a new Lancer design. I know Mitsubishi builds a good SUV but I love the Lancer too much to go SUV, I'm thinking.
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toomanyfumes S.E. Wisconsin Posts: 905
fushigi Posts: 1,258
Thanks, psychogun. I look forward to the return of a Galant sedan but am not sure if the Montero, pickup, and minivan make sense in the current US market. I honestly believe that doing a rebadge for the Galant is a good solution given Mitsu's size & the R&D costs for developing something new ground-up. It just needs to be a rebadge of a good car; if it's barely passable it can do more harm than good to their reputation.
I'm still happy with my '10 Outlander GT but will give strong consideration to the PHEV Outlander when it debuts. I probably don't drive enough miles to justify it from a cost perspective (only 35K miles after 4.5 years) but few hybrids recoup their increased upfront costs anyway.
I do wonder if Mitsu will drop the V6 from their lineup as so many others have done. They have a well-respected history with turbos so a turbo 4 would be a fine replacement. The 3L V6 is a good engine but it still recommends premium fuel and torque at low RPMs could be improved. Now, with that said, if you look at the carmakers who have replaced their V6s with turbo 4s, fuel economy has not really improved (at least in current iterations).
fushigi Posts: 1,258
Navigation updates are free for owners of 2014 & newer Mitsus. Those of us with pre-'14 vehicles w/Navi are hit with a $199 charge (not too different from other automakers from what I've heard).
The latest update is from 2013. As my system hadn't seen any updates since I bought it in Dec '09 I decided to get the upgrade. I figure I can stomach the cost once every few years.
I should have it in a few days and get in installed perhaps next week. I'll report back if the software was upgraded along with the maps & POI database.
I've got over 100 CDs ripped to the hard drive but I presume space for Navi updates is reserved.
fushigi Posts: 1,258
Nav update is in place. Went from software version H / map version 2008-A / CDDB (Gracenote) 1626-2963 to software v. N / map 2013-A / CDDB 1626-4525. It was nice of them to include the CDDB update (though they are available free from Mitsu's owner's site).
Map detail is better. Haven't really noticed any different yet in nav software functionality or performance.
Address book, nav preferences, etc. were preserved.
The upgrade is painless and like the CD rip capability it will pause/resume if you shut the car off while it's updating. Which is good as the nav update took about 90 minutes. CDDB took another 20+.
Included directions are sufficient.
In other news I picked up a 2-bike trailer hitch rack for $36 at Harbor Freight. $45 - their usual 20% coupon. Perhaps not as nice as the $150-200 racks but perfectly usable and still offers a tilt-down to allow the hatch to open.
fushigi Posts: 1,258
2014 MODs (Mitsubishi Owners Day) have been announced.
July 12 - West Coast (California) Sept. 20 - Factory (Illinois) Oct. 11 - East Coast (New Jersey)
stever Viva Las CrucesPosts: 42,446
"The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution will be discontinued in the U.S. after the 2015 model year, the automaker told Edmunds.
"I can confirm that 2015 will be the last year for Evo," wrote Alex Fedorak, a Mitsubishi Motors North America spokesman, in response to an Edmunds query."
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fushigi Posts: 1,258Factory MOD (Mitsubishi Owner's Day) is tomorrow in Bloomington-Normal Illinois. Featured will be the electric car they use for the Pikes Peak challenge and the PHEV Outlander.
psychogun Posts: 129Mitsubishi press release regarding the Outlander PHEV Concept-S:
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fushigi Posts: 1,258No visible tailpipe is fine but I also don't see a charge port.
I think I could grow to like the interior easily. Has an upscale look to it; I hope the materials match that.
Exterior styling looks good. The slight downward slope of the roofline makes me wonder on overall cargo capacity.


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Why? Because you can! And pickle, and jam, or otherwise celebrate the resurgence of the domestic arts our forebears held so dear. Put on your best apron and step into our kitchen, won't you?
This bright, tart, and slightly spicy jam will be a fine addition to roasted pork tenderloin or slathered on English muffins.
A super yummy and fresh tasting cranberry sauce. Each of the flavors stand out. If you like ginger, this is the cranberry sauce for you.
Sweet and tangy with a warm and gingery finish. I used to chop candied ginger for this project, but I've since discovered Ginger People Ginger Chips. They make it easy to add zingy bits of ginger to any preserve.
Lots of ginger, but not too much...
Inspired by Charles Dickens and bad comedy, early carrots take center stage in this fresh springtime infusion of rye whiskey.
An easy, small-batch chutney, flexible enough for any fresh fruit. This version is flavored with plums, Ginger Gold apples and cystallized ginger.
Getting back in the canning groove with an old favorite.
Rhubarb jam with crystallized ginger to add a great flavor combination.
A delicious combination of rhubarb and ginger with a hint of lime. Those who have tasted it said it taste like a drink at a bar! (alcohol optional)