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CAIRO - Revealing horrifying facts about indiscriminate killings in Syria, an international human rights group has accused the Syrian Air Force of repeatedly carrying out deliberate strikes against civilians in a serious violation of international humanitarian law.
In village after village, we found a civilian population terrified by their country's own air force, Ole Solvang, a Human Rights Watch emergencies researcher who visited the sites and interviewed many of the victims and witnesses, said in a statement obtained by OnIslam.net.
These illegal air strikes killed and injured many civilians and sowed a path of destruction, fear, and displacement.
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The 80-page report titled, Death from the Skies: Deliberate and Indiscriminate Air Strikes on Civilians, detailed 59 unlawful attacks in northern Syria.
It is based on visits to 50 sites of government air strikes in opposition-controlled areas in Aleppo, Idlib, and Latakia governorates, and more than 140 interviews with witnesses and victims.
The air strikes, listed by HRW, documented the death of at least 152 civilians.
Carrying on-site investigations and interviews, the international human rights group revealed information that indicated government forces deliberately targeting civilian bakeries.
Repeated aerial attacks on two hospitals in the areas HRW visited strongly suggest that the government also deliberately targeted these facilities.
In addition to the attacks on the bakeries and hospitals, the group concluded in 44 other cases that air strikes were unlawful under the laws of war.
Syrian forces used means and methods of warfare, such as unguided bombs dropped by high-flying helicopters, that under the circumstances could not distinguish between civilians and combatants, and thus were indiscriminate.
More than 70,000 people have been killed in two years of between Assad's security forces and opposition forces.
The fighting has forced more than one million Syrians to flee their home to neighboring countries in addition to the displacement of two millions others inside the country.
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As the Syrian forces claim to be attacking opposition headquarters, HRW found no casualties among opposition fighters.
For example, a jet dropped two bombs on the town of Akhtarin in northern Aleppo at around 1 p.m. on November 7, 2012, destroying three houses and killing seven civilians, including five children. The strike injured another five children, all under 5.
It was tragic. The buildings had turned into a heap of rubble, a neighbor who rushed to the site after the attack told a HRW researcher who visited the area.
We started pulling people out using just our hands and shovels. A cupboard and a wall had fallen on the children.
They were still alive when we found them, but they died before we could take them to their uncle's house. There is no clinic or medical center here.
After two years of conflict, there is no end in sight to the conflict in Syria, which has divided world powers.
Russia and Shiite Iran support Assad, while the United States, along with some European and Sunni Muslim Gulf Arab nations back a fractured opposition.
Damascus and some of its opponents have said they will consider peace talks, but no meetings have been arranged.
HRW said that this report should galvanize international efforts to end deliberate, indiscriminate, and disproportionate air strikes and other attacks on civilians.
The Security Council, largely due to the Russian and Chinese veto, has failed to take any meaningful steps to help protect civilians in Syria, Solvang said.
But that should not stop concerned governments from stepping up their own efforts to press the Syrian government to end these violations.
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- Clearing Work at County Farm Park
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Sorry this is going to be 2 posts long! Would like to hear how everyone else's seedlings are doing as well. Here is the seedlings at about 10 or 12 days old. John |
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Here they are today or about 24 days into it. I don't know for sure I didn't mark the calendar. The bigger ones are getting ready to send out 2nd set of leaves. The one with a single leaf is also getting ready to send out a second set. I have one in the middle my 4 year old son was "petting" and knocked out of the soil, I will have to wait and see how that one is going to do. John |
They look so green and healthy, GREAT JOB!!! I had to laugh about your son "petting" the seedling LOL!!! Looks like it will recover nicely. keep us updated on your progress! |
- Posted by greenclaws UKzone8a (My Page) on Mon, Apr 29, 13 at 13:50
John, they look very green and healthy, just make sure they get plenty of light to try and keep them compact. I'm sure the up-rooted seedling will be fine, they are quite tough really...but as its such a new seedling it's roots are very fine so lets just hope been it's not damaged then all should be well. Gill UK |
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NARUTO Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 3 puts players' fighting spirits to the test with intense and frantic battles while using more than 50 characters including Pain, Konan, Sasori, Deidara, Hidan, Itachi, Kisame or Tobi. For the first time in the "Ultimate Ninja" series experiment a four-player battle royal mode. Team up with a friend to unleash a devastatingly powerful Jutsu team attack on your opponents, or interrupt an enemy's Ultimate Jutsu to help or hinder another player.
Additionally, NARUTO Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 3 features a Master Road mode where players can re-live last events of the Shippuden storyline and continue through an all-new adventure. This mode also features a multiplayer cooperative mode which let players experience some stages together with an ad hoc connection. During his quests, the player will also engage in Mission and Story stages. Each stage will contain a specific objective to complete, including intense fights, escaping from danger and much more
- Master over than 50 ninjas including last characters of the anime
- Multiplayer mode with ad hoc connexion (1vs1, 1vs2, 1vs3, 2vs2)
- New awakening mode : enter awakening mode with a click of a button
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I am having a problem with my gas oven. I don't know how to works exactly but always the food turns brown from the bottom, when I bake and if I wait till it browns on the top, it burns the bottom. Anyways, most of the time the time is up when the bottom is done. I tried to make meatballs and they just browned on the bottom and no change on the top. Same thing happens when I toast bread. I am using the "bake" option. I always set the temperature & time as mentioned in the receipe online.. |
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Is this a new oven or a new problem with an old oven? In a gas oven all the heat comes from the bottom. It will balance out a little more as it becomes preheated. I would first have it checked new or old to see if it is working correctly. If a new oven, and it is working correctly, you might try insulating the bottom of your dish by either an aluminum cookie sheet directly underneath or on the shelf below. You might also make sure your oven is totally preheated when you put your food in. I would avoid pyrex or any type of glass as this will hold the heat. It is always a good idea to get an independent oven thermometer and check the temp in different areas of the oven. |
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Breakfast Topic: What's your favorite raid boss? {WoW}
Jun 12th 2009 2:58PM Vanilla: Ragnoros, just an epic fight overall and it was worth it after collecting the fire resist gear needed for it.
BC: I personally loved the Wizard of Oz event in Kara and High King in Gruul's Lair because I was a fire mage.......I also love all of ZA.
Wotlk: Tie between all of the watchers, especially Thorim and Mimiron. The gauntlet in the Thorim encounter is just epic and fun while the Mimiron encounter is the first multiphase fight that I've seen in Wrath. Flame Leviathon comes in a close second.


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Thursday, October 11, 2012
Student recitals, Jazz in the Mezz, and salsa dancing are only a few of the events planned to get students engaged in campus life at Capital. Keep reading to find out what's happening on campus, where you need to be and when. Contact William Gehring for more information about any of these events.
Brian Hupp, a senior vocal performance major, will perform his voice recital in Huntington Recital Hall Thursday, October 11, from 6:30 to 7:30 pm. All students, faculty, staff and community members are welcome to attend.
Thursday, October 11, Conservatory musicians will perform jazz pieces in the Mezz from 7 to 10 pm. A variety of musicians will perform a variety of pieces for a relaxing evening of jazz. The event is free and open to all students, faculty, staff and community members.
This week's TGIF event hosted on Friday, October 12, by Residential and Commuter Life will be Salsa Night in Schneider Multipurpose Room from 8 to 10 pm. Students, faculty, staff and community members are invited to learn to salsa and dance the night away.
This week's Saturday service on October 13 will be the opportunity to help clean-up Franklin Park from 2:15 to 4 pm. Students interested in this opportunity can sign up in the Student and Community Engagement Office before Saturday. All student volunteers will meet in the Post Office Lobby of the Campus Center, and transportation will be provided.
October 15-19 is Ally Week for PRIDE, Capital's LGBTQA advocacy group. On Monday from 6 to 8 pm, PRIDE will offer Safe Space Training in Ruff Memorial Learning Center room 202. Safe Space Training is an opportunity for students, faculty and staff who are supportive of the LGBTQA community to become allies of the community through educating and training about anti-LGBTQA bias. All are welcome to attend.
This Monday, October 15, the Multicultural Affairs Office will host a study night and dance break event from 7 to 8:30 pm in Schneider Multipurpose Room. Students are invited to attend a study table to catch up on work. Study sessions will be followed by a dance break to learn dances from other various cultures.
On Monday, October 15, the Student and Community Engagement Office will host Crayon Canvas from 9 to 10 pm in the Mezz. Students can glue crayons to canvases and melt the crayons using hairdryers to create personalized abstract art. Student and Community Engagement will provide all supplies. All students are invited to attend.
Christa Perry, a senior in the Conservatory of Music, will perform her flute recital in Huntington Recital Hall Tuesday, October 16, from 6:30 to 7:30 pm. All students, faculty, staff and community members are welcome to attend, and then head over to Mees Hall for the annual Gerhold Lecture in the Humanities featuring Jaron Lanier.
On Tuesday, October 16, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity invites all students to watch the presidential debate from 9 to 10 pm. The men of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity will provide information about the candidates and facilitate educational dialogue about the presidential race.
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From today's visit to the Denver Botanic Gardens.
Enjoy! |
Here is a link that might be useful: Juniperus monosperma 'Ute'
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- Posted by coniferjoy (My Page) on Thu, Mar 3, 11 at 2:17
Nate, it's good to see Jerry "alive" this time and not on a photo ;0) That Juniperus is a very special one! If that small one at the Denver Botanical Gardens is grafted in the end 70ties, how old must have bin the "mother plant"? |
- Posted by gardener365 IL 5/6 (My Page) on Thu, Mar 3, 11 at 7:23
'The Legend' :) Dax |
- Posted by severnside UKsouthwest (My Page) on Thu, Mar 3, 11 at 9:02
He musses it like a favourite dog, true affection. |
I'm ashamed to say I haven't been to DBG yet ... I want to, but not sure the kids would let me look enough. |
- Posted by gardener365 IL 5/6 (My Page) on Fri, Mar 4, 11 at 19:07
It's a charmer as was Chub! A name true to the gentleman. Dax |
Scott, I agree, it can be difficult with the little ones. The DBG folks have done a lot of work there recently, some of which includes making the gardens more kid friendly, such as special exhibits, events, etc. If you watch their website from time to time, something might catch your eye. Edwin, it's hard to say, the 'Ute' mother plant could be a century old or more. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Pinus flexilis 'Yellow'
Thanks for doing these. They are great. |
They are indeed! That dwarf Colorado spruce looks great! Any chance of a closer view ? (Whenever you get a chance to go there again!) Thanks. T. |
- Posted by coniferjoy (My Page) on Thu, Mar 10, 11 at 16:46
Nice video's Nate! That Pinus flexilis 'Yellow' is a very special one, it could be one at my most wanted list ;0) A closer pic of that dwarf Picea pungens is most welcome indeed, a mutation of this species is very rare! |
Getting around to some of the other videos we took last spring. Tunilla and Edwin, still working on that pic. I don't know if it has a name. As I understand, it's a seedling, possibly from broom seed. Video #5 |
Here is a link that might be useful: Picea pungens 'Dove'
- Posted by gardener365 IL 5/6 (My Page) on Sun, Nov 6, 11 at 7:44
Damn thing's older than me! Dax |
- Posted by coniferjoy (My Page) on Sun, Nov 6, 11 at 8:21
Nate, thanks for the update and the 'Dove' video. I watched the Picea pungens dwarf selection video several times and heard that Jerry mentioned that it was found as a mutation, so it's not a witches' broom seedling... I'm getting more curious now to see a detailed pic of it ;0) |
- Posted by mesterhazypinetum 6 (email@example.com) on Tue, Nov 8, 11 at 17:32
Nate, don't forget, that the Warrior video was the first made in the conifering. You opened a new window for us! And invented the video-description way of plants. Welcome! Zsolt |
Still processing a few more. Video #6 |
Here is a link that might be useful: Juniperus osteosperma 'Butch'
- Posted by greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a (My Page) on Sun, Dec 11, 11 at 19:28
Thanks, Nate! I just watched them all. Josh |
- Posted by monkeytreeboy15 Zone 7b/8a (My Page) on Tue, Dec 13, 11 at 16:46
Hey, Nate. Do you have any documentaries or info on the original Abies lasiocarpa 'Prickly Pete'? I heard that the original plant was a tall, narrow pillar, yet none of the plants I have seen exhibit this characteristic. If you have any pictures of the original plant, I would be very happy to see them. Thanks, Nate. I enjoyed watching the videos as well! -Sam |
- Posted by coniferjoy (My Page) on Tue, Dec 13, 11 at 17:36
Nate, Thanks for all these videos, I also watched them all and every time I see Jerry it reminds me my visit to him back in 2004. Some day I hope to see you both and then we can visit the Denver Botanical gardens together :0) |
Nate, great videos. I've watched all of them and enjoyed seeing them. It is so nice to document these wonderful stories on how some of the plants were found. Nice job. |
Josh, Edwin, and Lady, glad you enjoyed. Sam, here's the description I have on Prickly Pete. I don't have a pic at this time. |
- Posted by severnside UKsouthwest9 (My Page) on Thu, Dec 15, 11 at 17:51
Quoted from COENOSIUM about Abies lasiocarpa 'Prickly Pete' Although the parent of this selection was a columnar dwarf form of Rocky Mountain Fir, all of the plants propagated from it have been dense little globes growing less than 1" per year with blue-green foliage. We hope they will eventually grow like the parent plant, but more evaluation time is needed before determining its ultimate size and shape. |
This is one of two Austrian pine brooms Jerry found on the BYU campus in Utah. Video #7 |
Here is a link that might be useful: dwarf Pinus nigra
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"We're challenging people to get more vitamin D and get their levels up," said vice president of biotech and product development John Kidder.
Monterey uses low-level ultraviolet light postharvest to increase the vitamin D content in their Sun Bella mushrooms by 1,250%, Kidder said.
"There are myriad articles on the chronic deficiency in the American public," Kidder said. "Our diet and lifestyle are deficient, and without it we can't store calcium in our bodies. As we get an aging population, there's more concern with osteoporosis and bone development in children, and people aren't getting the natural vitamin D (from the sun)."
A single 3-ounce serving of the mushrooms will provide a full day's worth of vitamin D, with no fat or cholesterol, Kidder said.
In development for over a year, Sun Bellas were developed through a collaborative research program with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which found that mushrooms react to sunlight in much the same way as humans. Conventional cultivation does not expose mushrooms to adequate levels of ultraviolet light, stunting vitamin D production, Kidder said.
"In the wild, they'd contain significant amounts because they're exposed to sunlight," he said. "Because we grow them indoors, they don't produce the vitamin D at the high levels they would outdoors. By exposing them to ultraviolet light after harvest, we can dramatically raise that number."


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158 Ground Access to Major Airports by Public Transportation
· Inability to balance supply and demand--In communities where the number of ground trans-
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revenue. Some drivers may be tempted to improperly solicit passengers or engage in other illegal
activities. Conversely, in a community with few taxis or other ground transportation services,
there may not be enough airport service during late night hours, periods of inclement weather,
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Problems that cumber the development of the laser propulsion in atmosphere and vacuum are discussed. Based on the theory of interaction between high‐intensity laser and materials, as air and water, it is proved that transport in water environment can be impulsed by laser. The process of laser propulsion in water is investigated theoretically and numerically. It shows that not only the laser induced plasma shock wave, but also the laser induced bubble oscillation shock waves and the pressure induced by the collapsing bubble can be used. Many experimental results show that the theory and the numerical results are valid. The numerical result of the contribution of every propulsion source is given in percentage. And the maximum momentum coupling coefficient Cm is given. Laser propulsion in water environment can be applied in many fields. For example, it can provide highly controllable forces of the order of micro‐Newton (μN) in microsystems, such as the MEMS (Micro‐electromechanical Systems). It can be used as minimally invasive surgery tools of high temporal and spatial resolution. It can be used as the propulsion source in marine survey and exploitation.
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(UPDATED COVERAGE 4:30 p.m. Jan. 15) Bob Strube Sr., a produce industry legend who helped found the Greater Chicago Food Depository, died Jan. 14. He was 91.
Strube, who received The Packer's Produce Man of the Year Award in 1979, was part of the family that founded Strube Celery & Vegetable Co., Chicago, in 1913, the oldest Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act licensee in the Chicago-area.
The company is still owned and managed by the founding family. Strube's daughter Jan and son-in-law Tim Fleming Sr. were also recognized with The Packer's award in 2002. Strube was also a past leader at the United Fresh Produce Association.
"The industry truly lost a giant today," United Fresh President Tom Stenzel said in a release to the group's members. "Bob's can-do, never-give-up attitude helped build both a family and a company that reflect the very best values of our produce industry."
In 1978, Strube helped found the Greater Chicago Food Depository, a nonprofit food distribution and training center that serves 500,000 adults and children annually through a network of food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters, according to the United Fresh release.
The depository distributes 58 million pounds of food, including more than 10 million pounds of produce, to 600 pantries, soup kitchens and shelters.
He became the first inductee to the depository's Hall of Fame in 2006.
"Even as we feel this loss, we remember the extraordinary passion that defined Bob," said Kate Maehr, executive director of the Greater Chicago Food Depository. "Hundreds of thousands of Chicagoans have benefited … because of Bob's vision."
Strube Sr. died at his Glencoe home in Chicago's north suburbs, said Lisa Strube, a granddaughter-in-law.
Strube Celery & Vegetable, launched by his parents, Fred and Lillian Strube, on Chicago's south side, initially bought root crops such as carrots, parsnips and turnips from local growers. The company also shipped raw celery in from Michigan, stripped off the leaves for use in soup then repacked the stalks.
The company now has about 80 employees and sells fresh produce to grocery chains and independent food retailers in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin.
After volunteering for the U.S. Army during World War II, Strube Sr. returned to Chicago in 1946 to take over the family business, his son Bob Strube Jr. said. While Strube Sr. primarily served as a typist at bases in Florida and Georgia, he also guarded German prisoners of war, BobStrube Jr. said.


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Sojourner Truth: Ain't I A Woman?
Like Harriet Jacobs, former slave Sojourner Truth (ca. 1797–1883) spoke out against slavery. In her 1851 speech to the Ohio Women's Rights convention, Truth combined her anti-slavery message with an affirmation of the rights of women.
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"Well, children, where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the Negroes of the South and the women of the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.
"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place!"
As Tough as a Man
"Look at me! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man — when I could get it — and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne 13 children, and seen them sold off to slavery, and when I cried out, none but Jesus heard me!
"That man in back there says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him!
"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! Now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.
"Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say."
Adapted from Scholastic Search, March 1993.
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The NY Times, having finally given up on the Knicks, asked its readers to suggest better basketball for their Knicks beat reporter:
So the Sports department's editors feel it is only merciful to give our Knicks beat writer, Scott Cacciola, a break from such woeful basketball. He deserves to see the game played at a higher level. For the next month or so, we would like to point him to some good, quality basketball, wherever it may be. Any suggestions?
Why only a month or so? It's going to take years to fix this mess.
Coming off Madison Bumgarner's impressive complete game shutout on Sunday night, the Times looks at the best World Series pitchers.
Bumgarner now holds the record for lowest career earned run average (0.29) in the World Series among pitchers with at least 30 innings pitched. The mark is impressive by any standard. But don't make the mistake of thinking that Bumgarner is the best World Series pitcher ever.
That distinction belongs to Christy Mathewson, who also did his pitching for the Giants (when they were in New York). It's not even close, either.
Don Larson, who pitched the only perfect game in World Series history, didn't even make the list. Who's that Babe Ruth guy?
The Times attempts to calculate the total number of swings that Derek Jeter has taken in his entire baseball career.
Need a rest from all these swings? So did Jeter. He took Novembers and Decembers off, and he never practiced at home. "You would have a hard time finding a baseball at my house besides one that's got writing on it," he said.
I absolutely love the way the Times presented this.
The Times profiles Hyman Strachman, a WWII veteran who, at 92, copies bootlegged movies and sends them to troops overseas:
Originally, Mr. Strachman would use his desktop computer to copy the movies one tedious disc at a time. ("It was moyda," he groaned.) So he got his hands on a $400 professional duplicator that made seven copies at once, grew his fingernails long to better separate the blank discs, and began copying hundreds a day.
In February, Mr. Strachman duplicated and shipped 1,100 movies. ("A slow month," he said.) He has not kept an official count but estimates that he topped 80,000 discs a year during his heyday in 2007 and 2008, making his total more than 300,000 since he began in 2004. Postage of about $11 a box, and the blank discs themselves, would suggest a personal outlay of over $30,000.
Let's hope that the MPAA and studios leave this guy alone.
The Times looks at how many people Manhattan could hold:
The night's calculations revealed that packing Manhattan as tightly as Kowloon Walled City, river to river, would mean jamming in 65 million people. That's if every surface was built on. If the current streets and parks were left intact? About half that many, or nearly the population of California.
While that may not be ideal, expanding Manhattan by a mile might be.
Joe Nocera pens a Times op-ed piece on Howard Schultz's attempt creating jobs:
Here we are two months later, and Schultz is back with Big Idea No. 2. It is every bit as idealistic as his first big idea, but far more practical. Starbucks is going to create a mechanism that will allow us citizens to do what the government and the banks won't: lend money to small businesses. This mechanism is scheduled to be rolled out on Nov. 1. This time, Schultz is not tilting at windmills.
So am I. With the government and banks unwilling or unable, it's time we took matters into our own hands. At this point, who else can we count on?
It's a very interesting idea, and rather sad that we need the CEO of Starbucks to come up with it.
Update: The Create Jobs for USA website is now up.
From the NY Times Complaint Box comes a complaint about misnomers run amok.
Let's understand: I was not working on anything. I had left the office. Completed my errands, finished my shopping. I was relaxing. Dining. I was practically a guest. Except every five minutes the server popped up to ask if I was still working. But the server was confused. He was working. I was eating.
I have to agree with this. I hate when stores refer to me as if I'm special but don't follow it up by treating me special.
The Times has an excellent interactive graphic showing average NYC taxi use throughout the city between January and March 2009. The weekdays are pretty much the same, but the distribution Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights shows how hot certain parts of Manhattan are, most notably, the Lower East Side, the West Village, and Chelsea.
However, when you really need one, they're no where to be found.
Researchers studied the Times most emailed article list and found some surprising results:
People preferred e-mailing articles with positive rather than negative themes, and they liked to send long articles on intellectually challenging topics.
Perhaps most of all, readers wanted to share articles that inspired awe, an emotion that the researchers investigated after noticing how many science articles made the list.
And now I'm jonesing for someone to actually write an article that demands the headline, "How Your Pet's Diet Threatens Your Marriage, and Why It's Bush's Fault".
The Times has a profile of Ernie Anastos, the NYC anchor who's infamous for the "Keep fucking that chicken" slip. On page three of the article, he addresses the faux-pas, and maintains that he said, "Keep plucking that chicken".
Months later, he said that he is certain he said "plucking," but that pretending it did not happen would have been a mistake. "If you keep saying, 'I didn't really say that,' it doesn't sound right," he said. "This is New York. That particular word is practically 'hello,' the way it is used."


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I have this fireplace that the previous owners painted (over paint, over paint, you get the picture). I began stripping all the paint off with the citrus orange stuff which seems to be working pretty good but it now looks orange. I plan to use the mineral spirits to "clean" the wood and get any access paint off prior to sanding. My boyfriend has very sensitive nostrils and so I wanted to spare him the agony of the 100% full aroma.
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For those purposes, or any purpose I can think of offhand, low odor is fine to use. I will say that not all mineral spirits are created equal though, so if they have two different brands get the more expensive stuff. Do you know what kind of wood you're stripping? Maple for example doesn't like oil based stains generally. |
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LOUISVILLE, KY (July 6, 2010) – When the 2010 Major League Baseball® All Star Game® is played in Anaheim next week, the city of Louisville will be very well represented. That's because Louisville Slugger®, the Official Bat of Major League Baseball, is making bats this week for most of the position players on the rosters in next week's big game. For perspective, MLB® has approved more than 30 bat makers to supply its players this season.
"Louisville Slugger continues its incredible 126 year run as the preferred bat in professional baseball," said Louisville Slugger Professional Baseball Manager Chuck Schupp. "We've made bats for players in every MLB All Star game ever played and this year is the 81st. It's a source of pride for our company as well as for our hometown. While Louisville may not have a Major League team, our city is very well represented on every Major League club as most players swing Louisville Slugger bats."
The Louisville Slugger bat factory in downtown Louisville is making 2 - 3 bats for nearly two dozen position players in the 2010 All Star Game. Every bat is made to the exact specifications each player desires. The bats will be shipped directly to Anaheim so players don't have to be concerned with bringing bats they've been using during the season.
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An amendment is offered at the end of this article, so keep reading if you want to be a witness to my crow dinner.
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My Conundrum Concerning Comics Current Events
(Warning: The following contains the possibly annoying venting of an aging fan.)
I'm empty. Having finished D.C.'s Infinite Crisis, as well as the first issue of Marvel's Civil War, I feel like the guy who had two rice cakes for lunch over two hours ago. There's simply not enough sustenance there to carry me over to the next meal. Or, in the case of comics, the next "big event." Therein lies the problem.
These are event-driven projects. Take Infinite Crisis (Please!); it was an attempt to add to the amazing work of Crisis On Infinite Earths, which, in my opinion, had no dangling strings to be sewn up. The first Crisis stood on it's own, as one of the most awe-inspiring and well-done stories in comics history. Don't get me wrong, Infinite Crisis had a few "Wow!" scenes, like the sacrificial death of Superboy (Conner Kent) at the hands of the Earth-Prime Superboy (I'll throw in an extra "Oy!") Unless I've missed something, however, there was no serious character development and no new or amazing revelations about characters in the mainstream D.C. universe. It was a big-budget slugfest without an inspired storyline. Y'know, like a Steven Seagal movie.
Then there's Civil War. Remember those great Marvel team-up stories, wherein some of your favorite heroes were required to duke it out before joining forces against a common enemy? After reading the first issue, I feel fairly confident in predicting that the rest of the story will be, in that sense, a fanboy's dream: lots of team up action (in the form of two big teams) and lots of knock-down drag-outs between some of your favorite characters, with few or no lasting repercussions. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But, you have to admit, considering the Civil War checklist lists over 80 comics as being part of the story, whether main or tie-ins, fans would have every right to expect something long-term will come out of all of this.
I suppose, however, that this could all be the inane raving of an aging reader. I mean, if the fans are satisfied, that's what counts, right? Well...., maybe not. At least in Marvel's case. They're getting ready, once again, to shut down Spider-Girl, despite a proven loyal, and depending on who you listen to, growing readership. On her 100th issue, no less. If the irony doesn't immediately slap you in the face, let me help; no other Marvel comic with a female lead has EVER reached 100 issues. Yet, Marvel is anxious to put the kibosh on a milestone book.
Oh, I know Marvel is a business, and, first and foremost, they have a responsibility to stockholders, not fans. But, it seems to me that when a property has the proven ability to capture and hold readers as Spider-Girl has, a company would see the profitability in that. The digests have already proven a solid seller in bookstores, after all. And, if the rumors of Marvel simply relaunching the title are to be believed, even that would seem to be a waste of time and effort. Why not let it continue, simultaneously placing it in new avenues of commerce, for potential readers? How about in Wal-Mart stores, in the magazine section along with Shonen Jump? It's a well-known fact that kids are reading THAT book. Or even in the toy department of such stores, as they're doing with their black-and-white digests reprinting Silver Age superhero material? I mean, it may work and it may not. But, as the old saying goes, "nothing ventured, nothing gained."
On the other hand, maybe that old chestnut went out with character-driven stories. Ya think?
Okay, for the record, Marvel has restarted Spider-Girl, and I STILL think it was a waste of time, effort and what little marketing went into it. My opinion of Infinite Crisis is also unchanged, as is my belief that, overall, Civil War was largely event-driven and not character-driven.
Now for my self-served slap-down concerning Civil War. My prediction was that there would be "few or no lasting repercussions." Well, not only have the effects of C.W. been felt across the Marvel Universe, but it seems they will be dictating the very appearance of said universe for years to come. Some developments below:
- Peter Parker: Fugitive - Having revealed his Spider-Man identity to the world and rebelled against the Superhero Registration Act, Parker is now a fugitive, and his wife and aged Aunt May are on the run with him. May's death is also on the horizon, another Civil War ramification, as I understand it. I'm not sure how big a deal losing the secret identity is in the long run, as Iron Man (Tony Stark) and Daredevil (Matt Murdock) have both been able to re-establish theirs after having them revealed to the public in the past. I've no doubt that, at some point, things will return to the old status quo. For the short term, however, it could make for some very interesting reading.
- A Chicken in Every Pot, and a Super Team For Every State - That's right. In the post-Civil War Marvel Universe, every state gets a specially trained group of super-powered do-gooders. I actually find this to be an interesting premise, wrought with many different possibilities. Though, I wonder if Marvel will ever get around to telling stories for each one. Hmmmm. I wonder who will comprise the Oklahoma team?
- Tony Stark Plays Spy-Games - Iron Man's alter ego is now head of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Supreme Headquarters International Espionage Law-Enforcement Division). If you consider that he was instrumental in the implementation and enforcement of the Registration Act, this is a somewhat scary premise, as Stark now gets to use the most powerful international peace-keeping organization in the world to carry out his plans.
Less interesting developments involving some of Marvel's most popular characters:
- Fantastic Four Roster Change - The Black Panther (King of the island nation of Wakanda) and Storm (formerly of the X-Men) join The Thing and The Human Torch as the new F.F. The membership has changed many times in the past, so this, in and of itself, is nothing new.
- Steve Rogers Hangs up His Shield - Dramatic, perhaps, but not new. The man better known as Captain America has ditched that gig for no less than two other costumed identities in the past - The Captain and Nomad.
- Spider-Man is Black - That is, he's in the black costume again. My initial excitement as a 16-year-old comics fan at witnessing the debut of the costume in 1984 notwithstanding, it has come and gone a few times since then. Not new, and not particularly exciting.
Don't get me wrong, the respective creative teams may build wonderfully innovative stories around those last three changes, which is certainly my hope. The events themselves, however, are not enough to be considered ground-breaking, or even interesting, in my opinion.
And, all of the above items are only part of the changes in store for Marvel readers. My hat is off to the creators at the House of A Few Good Ideas for at least trying to shake up a universe; the words "few or no lasting repercussions" will haunt me for years. Or, at least 'til I go to sleep tonight.


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IRVINE, Calif. — We just spent a day with Ford checking out the 2008 F-150 Foose Edition, which we saw earlier this year at the New York auto show, and testing out the all-new Harley-Davidson F-150, which is just a total beast. Both trucks are supercharged—that's the big news. The blower comes standard on the Foose and is a $6500 option on the H-D. Thanks to the folks at Saleen, who developed the supercharger for the 5.4-liter V8, the Harley and Foose Editions both belt out a full 450 hp and 500 lb.-ft. of torque. Now these are our kind of trucks.
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ALLAHABAD: Even as the dust of the recent violence witnessed in and around the Arts campus of Allahabad University is yet to get settled, the three-member committee, constituted by the vice-chancellor to look into the demand of hostellers pertaining to permitting their stay in the allotted rooms for appearing in various competitive exams, would be submitting its report on May 5.
And although the report of the said committee has not come out, sources inform that the committee will recommend permitting a longer stay for the legitimate inmates of various hostels till the time they have to appear in any of different competitive exams. However, the beneficiary has to be a legitimate hosteller. This means that the room should have been allotted in his name and he or she should have deposited the annual hostel fee.
Meanwhile, the warden of Sir Ganga Nath Jha hostel, Prof Haramb Chaturvedi has resigned as the warden of the hostel. "I have tendered my resignation soon after meeting the team members of the MHRD, wherein I have told the team members that the hostel authorities are not been given the cooperation from the varsity authorities that is needed for maintaining things right at the hostels," he said.
Sources further inform that the committee could recommend a lenient view for those who have not submitted their annual dues provided they have a reason for not depositing the same at the start of the session. Moreover, the legitimate inmate has to produce his or her admit card of the exam in which they would be appearing. This directly implies that all the hostellers, who would be appearing in any of the competitive exam, will be permitted to stay at the allotted room till the end of June this year, said an AU official.
It is pertinent to mention that following the notice of the AU authorities, wherein it had asked the hostellers to vacate their allotted rooms within one week of the end of their annual exam, the campus of Arts faculty, especially the portico of the V-C's office, had witnessed widespread agitation wherein earthen pots and glass pan was damaged by the hostellers.
Later, even the girl inmates had joined the agitation and the same got intensified on April 25 and 26. The agitators later indulged in violence, indulged in brick batting, arson and damaging public and private property.
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LeBron James Accidentally Finds Himself in Middle of Taiwan and China Struggle
Taiwan, a large island off of mainland China, has not been under China's rule since 1911. Today they're ruled by the autonomous Republic of China, an actual democracy. Meanwhile, the government of mainland China, the People's Republic of China, a one-party communist regime, considers Taiwan part of China and has its eyes on one day unifying the two governments.
Taiwan, suffice it to say, is supersensitive about any references that it is indeed part of mainland China. So the Taiwanese didn't appreciate it when Nike issued a press release referring to LeBron's planned visit to Taipei as part of Nike Basketball's "China Tour 2011."
LeBron was then scheduled to travel to Chengdu, Xian, and Shanghai in mainland China during the following week.
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Chen is mulling over possible actions if Nike does not apologize for the slipup, and would even consider barring James from entering the country.
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Posted: January 28, 2011, from the February 2011 issue of Skin Inc. magazine.
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Product reactions. Failure to heed contraindications, allergic reactions, burns due to improperly mixed or applied product, or inadequate instructions for home care.
Waxing. Irritation and blisters, as well as lifting and tearing of skin that can lead to scarring.
Although these are run-of-the-mill, some stranger occurrences have led to claims, as well: A steamer that malfunctioned and sprayed scalding water on the client; a heavy magnifying glass that was dropped and injured a client's eye; or a collapsing table that fell due to loosened bolts, causing the client to hit her head on a radiator, requiring stitches and amounting to more than $10,000. Taking the cake, however, is the story of an esthetician who lit a candle so she could continue a treatment after the spa's power suddenly lapsed. The esthetician cleaned her hands with a bottle of rubbing alcohol and set it next to the client who made a sudden move and spilled it all over her chest and drape. In her haste to grab the alcohol bottle after it spilled, the esthetician knocked over the candle, which caught the draping on fire and resulted in third-degree burns for the client. As you can imagine, this was a very expensive claim to settle.
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One of the biggest blessings—and hazards—in skin care is constant innovation. This usually means better results for clients and a more lucrative practice for you. However, there's a lot of confusion out there about what's legal for estheticians to do and under what circumstances. An intelligent and well-intentioned esthetician demonstrating IPL at a trade show made the blanket statement that you can't hurt a client with IPL. Incorrect statements such as this can lead spa professionals to become overconfident or unintentionally work outside their scope of practice. The highest percentage of claim settlements is due to scarring—sometimes permanent—caused by IPL. One such case resulted in damages of more than $100,000.
There's also misinformation in the profession about what treatments are within an esthetician's scope of practice under state law. It's risky to take the word of a manufacturer's representative who may be trying to remember the laws of 50 states, not just yours. Your state board is your only resource to be absolutely sure you are obeying the law and conducting business safely. For complete, up-to-date contact information for all 50 state boards, log on to www.SkinInc.com/education/statelicensing.


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Startups troll for money on the wide-open Web
People in the Seattle area are flocking to crowd-funding sites to make their dreams happen.
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IF INSPIRATION can be traced to a single moment, Webster Crowell's moment arrived six years ago when he sat down at a bar in Buenos Aires and ordered a gin and soda.
The cocktail arrived in two parts: half a tumbler of gin, and a thick glass bottle of seltzer fitted with a pressure valve that dispensed carbonated water like a tiny fire extinguisher.
The antiquarian in Crowell smiled each time he sent a blast of seltzer into the tumbler.
"I thought it was charming," he says now.
His curiosity grew when, back in Seattle, he discovered seltzer's rich history in American urban life. He amused himself buying old seltzer bottles on e-Bay and hunted for a century-old machine to fill them.
It took two years to find one, but once the steel contraption arrived at his Capitol Hill apartment, Crowell could be counted on to enliven dinner parties with the fizziest water ever to tickle your nose.
Then the economy hit the skids.
The animator and filmmaker who has won a dozen grants and awards from arts organizations lost his proper arts job. Like millions of others set adrift by the recession, Crowell had to find new ways to pay the bills and keep making art.
He decided to put his seltzer bottles to work.
Today, at 40, Crowell is the owner/operator of Under Pressure Seltzer Works, a business that delivers seltzer in antique bottles via bicycle to customers in his neighborhood.
It's an old-fashioned business that reflects Crowell's environmental values. But its source of startup funds couldn't be more modern, or more suited to an egalitarian city of dreamers like Seattle.
After his credit union turned him down for a business loan, Crowell raised money through Indiegogo.com, a San Francisco-based company that enables anyone with an idea to create a fundraising campaign online and take it to the masses for support. It's called crowd funding, and it's changing the way businesses are started and art is funded, here and around the world.
Crowell asked the crowd for $2,830 to expand his business. He got that, plus $1,000 more from 49 people, many of them friends and family but others perfect strangers. In return, his supporters got a variety of perks — a seltzer bottle for an $80 donation, a home-baked pie and seltzer for $150, and so on. They also got the satisfaction of supporting an environmentally friendly neighborhood business while helping a gifted artist grow his venture.
Right now, Crowell says he's just breaking even. But he's hopeful sales will go up as spring and summer temperatures rise.
At least he doesn't have a loan to pay off. "I'm grateful," he says, because "it's a huge stress, even if you can get one."
DANCE PERFORMANCES, video games, albums, comic books, movies about comic books, food trucks, flip-flops, board games, jewelry — you name it. People in Seattle are flocking to crowd-funding sites to make their dreams happen.
It's the democratization of finance, with profound potential to transform the marketplace for goods and services, along with people's lives, neighborhoods and a city's art scene.
"Our vision is a world of no gatekeepers," says Danae Ringelmann, a one-time financial analyst who co-founded Indiegogo in 2007 after seeing how hard it was to raise money for a friend's play. She had invited potential investors to a performance, but they didn't have the same passion for the play as the audience, which loved it.
She realized that relying on a small number of moneyed people wasn't working. The idea had to get in front of many people who would support it with smaller donations. Federal law at the time didn't allow people to solicit equity stakes in their businesses to strangers without jumping through legal hoops, so Ringelmann and her partners adopted a National Public Radio-style model where pledges are paired up with rewards at different levels.
The winning formula's been replicated on hundreds of other sites. And, now, federal securities law allows entrepreneurs to sell up to $1 million worth of equity in their companies each year to the general public through accredited crowd-funding platforms, opening up even more possibilities.
Crowd funding isn't new. Ringelmann says it's merely people pooling capital to underwrite something they're passionate about, such as the 1985 campaign that sold 45,000 personalized tiles for $35 each to replace the crumbling concrete floor in Pike Place Market's main arcade.
What is new is the use of social media, blogs and websites to amplify and market the message. Ringelmann calls that amplification a tectonic shift in Internet behavior — "an ecosystem where anything is possible. For the price of a cup of coffee, you can determine which coffee shop opens in your neighborhood."
It's also a way to test ideas and bypass financial players whose recklessness triggered a global recession.
Indiegogo says it has raised more than $1.1 million for projects in Seattle since its founding.
"I think Seattle is a great market," Ringelmann says. "It's the eighth-largest market in terms of total money raised, and the ninth-largest in terms of the number of campaigns."
Another, better-known site, Kickstarter, says it has hosted more than 845 successful campaigns in Seattle since April 2009. Supporters have pledged $11 million to Seattle-based projects, although not all of them garnered enough to reach their goal.
While many projects tend to be small-scale — a few thousand dollars — some explode online, raising upward of a million dollars.
"This is a major innovation, and it's extremely exciting," says Stephen Beeman, a Kirkland game developer who raised $108,000 from nearly 3,000 backers in a campaign to fund an Apple and an Android app based on the Web comic "Girl Genius and the Rats of Mechanicsburg." Most of the donors were fans of the comic, he says, and about $4,000 came from people donating $4, truly microfinancing.
Under the old system, Beeman would have sought money from a publisher who would have asked for 100 percent of the returns until the investment was paid off, and 85 percent of royalties after that, Beeman says.
Now he and others can use crowd funding, retain ownership of their work and keep 90 percent of what they raise online, paying the rest to the crowd-funding company. They also can keep all the royalties.
Given the high rates of failure among new businesses and in industries such as software development, it's just a matter of time before a big campaign fails to deliver, or defrauds people, Beeman says, adding that he'll believe in this process more when it survives a legal challenge. "We're operating under a system of trust, which is exciting and appropriate for the Internet startup culture. But, in general, the legal system is not comfortable with people operating under a system of trust."
Still, there's a fairy-tale quality to crowd funding.
Take Ryan Kim, a Lynnwood man who has worked at his parents' teriyaki restaurant for 10 years. A gentle soul who still seems innocent at age 31, Kim is full of ideas.
Last year, he hit on an idea for a compact wallet. The design is simple and elegant, but taking it from paper to manufacturing seemed too overwhelming and too risky for a young family with a mortgage, student-loan debts and two boys under 4.
"We didn't want to take out another loan," says his wife, Esther, as their youngest, 9 1/2-month-old Kaden, practices standing under the table in their tidy kitchen.
During one of Kim's Internet forays last year, he came across Kickstarter.
The formula seemed manageable: Figure out manufacturing costs, build a project page on Kickstarter, shoot a video showing how it works and decide what rewards to offer backers. Set a funding goal and a time frame, then launch.
Kickstarter is all-or-nothing: If a project reaches its goal, Kickstarter gets 5 percent, Amazon gets 5 percent for processing payments. Kim would keep the rest. If the project falls short, no one is charged, and Kim collects nothing.
Kim built prototypes, first out of notebook paper, then cardboard and foam board, and finally one from a Hong Kong manufacturer. Backers would get wallets for donating, which made his campaign a sort of pre-sale event that would test product demand.
He showed the wallet to his mother; she was not impressed.
He pushed ahead, creating the video with his iPhone and computer. He leapt into the ether on Dec. 17, giving himself 37 days to raise $15,000. He told only his wife.
"I worry if I told friends and family, and it failed, I would be kind of embarrassed," he says.
The first day confirmed his fears: "Not many people were buying, and I think, 'Oh, this is going to fail.' "
But eight days after launching, he checked the computer. It was Christmas morning. He yelled to his wife, "We made it!"
By the time the campaign closed, Kim had raised $86,700 from 2,420 backers — $71,700 more than he asked for.
What he really wants, Kim says, is to be there for his kids. "I played soccer, but my parents could not come to my games because they work. My dream is I can be supportive of them."
FOR ARTISTS LIKE Catherine Grisez, a Seattle sculptor who creates exquisite works in hammered metals, 2008 was the start of especially lean times.
Grisez, 39, has supported herself as an artist for more than 14 years, most recently working out of a studio/living space in South Park. She's quick to tell you that her family in Ohio has helped out from time to time, and she sometimes lives on credit cards between shows and commissions. But she's managed to build an enviable body of work without starving.
The Great Recession demanded that she get creative in a new way.
Her last gallery show, "LICK," was uncanny in its timing: featuring "wounds" made of metal and gems worn like jewelry, it spoke to the idea of finding beauty in healing. She fashioned jewelry from some of the materials left over from the show. Friends and family encouraged her to start a jewelry company, Catherine Grisez Jewelry.
Last June, Grisez launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $6,000 to attend a wholesale trade show in New York.
As a fledgling business, "the financial risk is huge," she said in her Kickstarter video. "There's a delicate balance between going into debt to grow a business and moving forward and starting a new venture on solid ground. With your support, and my hard work, I can take this step forward."
Within a month, 76 backers contributed $7,251 to help Grisez attend the New York show. The money meant she had to craft jewelry to mail to backers the same month she was preparing work for the show. She still looks surprised she survived.
Grisez is planning to return to the show this year, but says she won't run another campaign to get there.
"There's a limit to people's generosity," she explains. "At some point, if I have to keep having to ask people for money for my business, then maybe I shouldn't have a business."
The Cinderella quality to some of the success stories can belie the incredible stress and work of running the campaign.
Game developer Jeff McCord of West Seattle is a bit of a legend in his field, having written the 1980s cult hit "Sword of Fargoal."
McCord and another developer wrote an Apple version of the game a few years ago. And when fans demanded an even more ambitious version, they set about rewriting it again.
They had the game about 80 percent complete, but still needed money for new music, graphics and other features. Last September, McCord launched a campaign to raise $50,000 to finish.
It was, he says, one of the hardest things he's ever done. He worked half-time for three months just setting up the campaign. Once it was launched, he worked it full time, he says.
"People are not going to randomly discover you," he says. He had to reach out to fans where they congregated: online forums, websites, blogs, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter and the creative community.
Still, the campaign was $12,000 short with only two days to go.
So McCord held a 24-hour "Kick-a-Thon." He invited people from other Kickstarter campaigns to talk about their projects and advise others, streaming live on Google Hangout and watching as money flowed in.
"We made it across the finish line with two minutes to go," he says, still laughing in relief at the moment that lives on via YouTube.
AS EXCITING a thing as Kickstarter is, it's no guarantee that a business will continue to succeed.
George Peterson is looking for new revenue only 10 months after raising $15,000 on Indiegogo to start Properflops, a company that sells flip-flops with arch support.
Peterson showed drive at an early age, buying a house in Port Angeles when he was just 26. He worked a ton of overtime as a corrections officer at Clallam Bay state prison so he'd have money to renovate the house. But when the real-estate market tanked in 2008, he was drowning in debt. The bank refused to modify his loan unless he fell behind on payments. He stopped paying and walked away from it after his mother committed suicide.
Peterson says he filed for bankruptcy — he refers to it as "BK," unable to bring himself to say the word, then cashed out his retirement to get out of town and figure things out.
He hit on the idea for arch-supporting flip-flops when his own feet got trashed wearing the regular kind. He knew no bank would give him a loan with his credit, so he took to Indiegogo to sell them in March 2012. He's got a small inventory, but it's been a scramble ever since. In December, he cleaned oil rigs in North Dakota so he could pay some bills.
Peterson says he's looking for an angel investor to help beef up his inventory. But he's not sure he'll make it.
"The thing about starting your own company is it's sink or swim," he says. "I don't have family to tap, and I don't even have a house to go to. It's not 'woe is me.' I don't like being a victim. Indiegogo gave me the momentum that we basically relied on for the rest of the summer ...
"I believe that Properflops will be a household name in five years, and we'll get there," he says. "But we need an investor who believes the same thing."
Susan Kelleher is a Pacific NW magazine writer. Benjamin Benschneider is a Pacific NW magazine staff photographer.


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