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At the direction of President Barack Obama, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) continues to lead the federal government's effort to provide assistance and support to states affected by Hurricane Sandy that hit the East Coast on Oct. 29, 2012.
As FEMA and its partners continue an aggressive power restoration effort in New York and New Jersey, the President has approved extension of the 100 percent cost share for emergency work performed by state, tribal and local governments through Nov. 14, 2012.
The 100 percent funding was set originally for 10 days, beginning Oct. 31.
It specifically applies to the costs of restoring power and public transportation, including direct federal assistance for New Jersey, New York and Connecticut in counties designated for FEMA Public Assistance.
Other forms of Category B (emergency work) public assistance remain at a 75 percent cost share.
"More than $455 million has already been approved for individuals to assist with housing and other disaster-related needs," said FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate. "Impacted residents and business owners in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York should apply for assistance today."
To apply for this assistance, the first step (for individuals and businesses) is to register online at www.disasterassistance.gov, by web-enabled mobile device at m.fema.gov or by calling 1-800-621-FEMA (3362).
Disaster assistance applicants who have a speech disability or hearing loss and use TTY, should call 1-800-462-7585 directly; for those who use 711 or Video Relay Service (VRS), call 1-800-621-3362.
The toll-free telephone numbers are operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week until further notice.
FEMA is one part of a large team working together to support the states in meeting the housing needs of disaster survivors.
This joint effort includes housing and technical experts from the states, FEMA, Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Army Corps of Engineers, Small Business Administration (SBA), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), and volunteer agencies.
The affected states are taking the lead to identify their local needs and resources by convening State-led Disaster Housing Task Forces.
Working together, housing priorities are being established and the team is working to ensure they are making the greatest use of existing housing resources (such as apartments and rental units), enlisting voluntary agencies to make minor repairs so survivors can remain in their homes, and investigating other temporary housing options suitable for the area.
As of 3 p.m. today (Nov. 11), more than 369,000 individuals in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut have registered for assistance, and more than $455 million has been approved in FEMA housing and other needs assistance.
Currently, a total of 55 Disaster Recovery Centers are open in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut (26 in New York, 22 in New Jersey and 7 in Connecticut) and more will continue to open.
To find a disaster recovery center location online, use the disaster recovery center locator at FEMA.gov/disaster-recovery-centers or by mobile phone at m.fema.gov. You may also text DRC and a Zip Code to 43362 (4FEMA).
FEMA has also established a Housing Portal to assist individuals and families, displaced by a disaster. By moving individuals and families into local rental units quickly, it allows them to move forward with their personal recovery with the least amount of disruption. The portal consolidates rental resources identified and provided by federal agencies and is available at www.fema.gov/housingportal.
More than 7,200 FEMA personnel have been deployed to support response operations, including search and rescue, situational awareness, communications and logistical support in states affected by the storm.
Community relations teams are on the ground in the hardest hit areas going door-to-door to inform disaster survivors about available services and resources and to gather situational awareness.
More than 2,000 housing inspectors are on the ground, meeting with disaster survivors to identify damages to homes, to further expedite assistance to individuals; and more than 80,000 damage inspections have already been completed in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut.
To date, the President has declared that major disasters exist in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island and emergency declarations have been made in Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia and West Virginia.
FEMA continues to deliver commodities including food, water, blankets, fuel, generators and others resources to distribution points across the region impacted by Sandy.
Other response activities
- Small Business
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), as of Nov. 10, has issued 248,094 disaster loan applications to residents and businesses in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
That includes 196,822 home disaster loan applications, and 51,272 business disaster loan applications.
For more information, call the SBA Customer Service Center at 800-659-2955 (800-877-8339 for the deaf and hard-of-hearing) or go to www.sba.gov
The SBA offers Economic Injury Disaster Loans to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture, and most private non-profit organizations, to help meet working capital needs caused by the disaster.
Economic Injury Disaster Loan assistance is available regardless of whether the business suffered any physical property damage.
- Public Health
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has more than 1,100 HHS personnel deployed to provide public health and medical assistance to New York and New Jersey.
These personnel include disaster medical assistance teams (DMATs), a group of professional medical personnel organized to provide rapid-response medical care.
To read more about DMAT teams active in the Hurricane Sandy response visit: www.phe.gov/asprblog
The U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps also continues to support shelter operations.
Nearly 60 officers from three Mental Health Teams have assisted approximately 700 residents and first responders a day, helping address basic mental health issues and facilitate in shelters.
In addition, residents can connect with local crisis counselors through the National Disaster Distress Helpline. This toll-free, multilingual, crisis support service is available 24/7 via telephone (1-800-985-5990) and SMS (text 'TalkWithUs' to 66746).
- Donations
The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced special relief intended to support leave-based donation programs to aid survivors who have suffered from the extraordinary destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy.
Under these programs, employees may donate their vacation, sick or personal leave in exchange for employer cash payments made to qualified tax-exempt organizations providing relief for the survivors of Hurricane Sandy.
Also, the Treasury Department and the IRS announced an expedited review and approval process will be offered for organizations seeking tax-exempt status in order to provide relief for victims of Hurricane Sandy.
The IRS continues to encourage people to use existing organizations currently working on immediate aid efforts.
- Fuel supply
The Department of Energy (DOE) in response to a request from the State of Connecticut, will loan an additional 4.2 million gallons of ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel from the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), to provide emergency loans to fuel distributors in Connecticut to address fuel shortages in the state.
This is a continuation of the agreement announced a week ago when President Obama declared that Hurricane Sandy has created a severe energy supply interruption.
The fuel will be provided to distributors in the state and to be repaid directly by the distributors in the next 30 days.
DOE and DLA stand ready to make available additional fuel as needed.
- Department of Defense
Under the Department of Defense (DoD), the U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) has nearly 4,000 personnel supporting Hurricane Sandy relief operations in the affected areas.
Air Force teams completed unwatering (removing water) operations at Rockaway Waste Water Treatment facility, and East School in Long Beach, N.Y., and provided teams to support fire departments conducting unwatering operations in Breezy Point, N.Y.
Army divers repaired the pier system at Caven Point, N.J.
Navy dive detachments continue to support the World Trade Center site and Marine pump teams are assisting pumping operations at Breezy Point.
Helicopters from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit are transporting and re-locating generators in affected areas to support critical infrastructure.
Navy Seabees and Marine personnel restored the beach at Coast Guard Station Sandy Hook and continue supporting debris clearance operations at locations in Bayonne, N.J. and the Battery, N.Y.
The Defense Logistics Agency continues to supply FEMA with much needed emergency supplies, medical equipment, fuel and now cold and wet weather clothing to help those working toward recovery after Hurricane Sandy.
DLA has delivered more than 1.8 million gallons of fuel to federal government distribution points in the New York/New Jersey region.
DLA has contracts in place to support waste water clean-up, hazardous material removal, and debris removal operations. DLA has also awarded two contracts for 330 roll-off dumpsters and 34 trucks for overland trash hauling; 2.5 million pounds of debris have been removed in the last 48 hours.
- Army Corps of Engineers
The Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has more than 3,000 employees from the North Atlantic Division – with an additional 960 team members deployed from other USACE divisions across the nation – engaged in supporting the response mission.
Response teams are assisting with debris management, commodities distribution, infrastructure assessment, temporary roofing, critical public facilities, water planning, and temporary housing.
More than 5,600 Army and Air National Guard Soldiers and Airmen from 11 states are conducting food, water, and fuel distribution, communications, security, sheltering, debris removal and transportation missions in support of recovery efforts.
Civil Air Patrol is launching 23 aircraft from states along the Northeast seaboard to photograph hurricane damage in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania and to conduct low-level missions over waterways that would correspond to varying tidal conditions to pinpoint oil spills and navigation hazards for the U.S. Coast Guard.
These flyovers, involving aircraft from as far away as Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and North Carolina, will also assist federal agencies to assess where to most-effectively deploy debris teams.
The U.S. Fleet Forces (Navy and Marine Corps) are assisting the Army Corps of Engineers in power restoration, cleaning and dewatering efforts in NY and NJ.
- U.S. Postal Service
The United State Postal Service (USPS) reminds customers who have evacuated or relocated due to hurricane Sandy to submit a change of address, place mail on hold or request that mail be temporarily forwarded to their new location. For the latest service updates regarding hurricane Sandy, call 1-800-ASK-USPS (1-800-275-8777).
U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has distributed an initial $5.3 million to 11 states affected by Hurricane Sandy. NRCS provides this funding through its Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) program.
USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is allowing flexibility to New York City Public School District to serve all meals free through the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program for the month of November.
FNS has also approved New Jersey's request to allow Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP- formerly Food Stamps) recipients in affected counties to purchase hot foods with SNAP benefits through the end of November.
- AmeriCorps/Senior Corps
The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) has 1,008 national service members who have been deployed to seven states.
AmeriCorps and Senior Corps members in Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and West Virginia are assisting with shelter operations, call centers, debris removal, and mass care.
About 435 members of FEMA Corps, an innovative partnership between FEMA and AmeriCorps, are working directly with disaster survivors in New York and New Jersey.
- Dept. of the Interior
Under the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), more than 1,200 wildland firefighters from all agencies, including about 260 wildland firefighters from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park service are responding with fellow wildland firefighters from the U.S. Forest Service and State Forestry Divisions to support FEMA staging areas, assist in emergency operations centers, and provide crews to clear trees for emergency access and power crews.
- National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) has deployed more than 300 incident management personnel, technical experts and work crews to assist parks and refuges throughout the region in recovery operations.
Working with interagency partners, NPS has also established a debris transfer site at Jacob Riis Park in New York to support local clean-up activities and is providing meals for emergency workers in the vicinity of its logistics base at Fort Wadsworth in the Gateway National Recreation Area.
Posted November 11, 2012 – release edited and photos added by HTNP News Editor Brenda Sullivan
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"My little girl who walked into the MRI scanner room with her usual mischievous smile returned in an unrecognizable state. By the time she was taken out of the MRI scanner bed her whole body had turned blue, the limbs had stiffened and her stomach was swollen like a balloon" says Indumathie Ekanayake as she relates the details of what she believes were the final moments of her daughter's life.
Indumathie visited the Nawaloka hospital with her five year-old daughter Kaushalya on January 31, for a consultation with Dr. Duminda Pathirana.
"The day before, her arms and legs had stiffened up several times so I decided to consult the doctor since I have been instructed to do so due to her condition," Indumathie explained. Little Kaushalya had been diagnosed with Rett Syndrome about two and a half years ago and they have been keeping a close eye on her ever since.
Dr Prathiba Mahanamahewa, Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission pointed out that the hospital in which the deceased child was treated in could be held vicariously liable. If there was negligence on the part of an employee, instrument, machine or anything that belongs to the hospital the hospital authorities have to be responsible and could be held vicariously liable according to Dr. Mahanamhewa. He said legal remedies were available in such a case to sue hospital authorities under product liability if a machine or an instrument of the hospital was the cause of death. He also said legal remedies were available through medical negligence and service liability if it was the negligence of the doctors or the technicians. "This is a life we are talking about and the responsible parties should be brought before the law. The parents have been psychologically affected. Even though laws regarding the regulation of private hospitals had not developed that much under Common Law such negligence could be brought to justice. The Law of Delict in Sri Lanka is enough to take action against medical negligence. This will also be a violation of the Children's Rights Convention as well" he said. He emphasized that since this case concerned a minor, the National Child Protection Authority should come forward to do an investigation of the incident. "If the police investigations reveal that it is a criminal offence, the responsible parties would face charges for the violation of the Penal Code as well" he said. |
Upon consultation, Dr. Pathirana had prescribed a few blood tests, an EEG and an MRI scan. "As there were a lot of tests to be carried out I decided to hospitalise Kaushlaya until the tests were completed." Upon admission in room number 1126 that afternoon, the blood tests and the EEG had been carried out. Dr. Pathirana, after studying the test reports that evening had informed Indumathie that the results indicated possible signs of Kaushalya developing epileptic seizures. "But he also added I shouldn't worry and the condition would most probably be cured through medications." According to Indumathie, since the intake of the first dosage of the prescribed medicine, Kaushalya's condition seemed to have improved as the occasional stiffness of the body completely disappeared.
At about 4.30 pm, the next day (February 1) Indumathie had carried Kaushlya downstairs to the MRI scanner room along with a ward attendant as the hospital staff had refused to provide them with a wheelchair. "Anesthetist Dr. I. Senevirathne was on duty. She did not look at any of the reports and instead asked me several questions. They placed Kaushlya on the scanner bed, injected the anaesthesia through a cannula and asked me to wait outside." The scanner room had been half open and Indumathie says she could see all the activities in the room through the reflection cast on the glistening tiled wall before her. The technician had operated the scanner at 4.20 pm and left the room. Inoka had anxiously waited outside the room for the procedure to finish. "I could hear the scanner noises but exactly ten minutes later, the Anesthetist suddenly started calling for help. She kept yelling 'the baby bag has broken and the oxygen supply is disrupted. Somebody help!'." As no one had responded to her calls, Inoka had pushed the ward attendant inside the scanner room hoping she would be of help. When Kaushalya was taken out of the machine several minutes later, she had appeared deformed and unrecognisable.
According to the details related by Indumathie, the situation had worsened as the hospital staff had spent close to 20 minutes attempting to locate an oxygen cylinder with a mask that would fit little Kaushalya's face in order to resuscitate her. "I realized she was dead by then. But the staff kept telling me to calm down as they admitted her to the Surgical Incentive Care Unit (SICU)," she says with a sigh.
Upon receiving the news, Kaushlya's father Thivanka Ekanayake had immediately travelled from Singapore and had visited the hospital on February 1 evening. "Therewere a lot of machines attached
to my daughter's body but I could tell that there was no life left in her. She wasn't moving, her body was as stiff as wood and the whole body had turned blue and she was ice cold," Thivanka says. His tone sounds angry as he relates the events that followed. From February 1 until the 6th, attempts had been made to prolong this little girl's life through the use of machines and the parents had been
Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) Registrar Dr. Nihal Nonis says although they are not provisioned to take action against institutions, they are able to take action if complaints are filed against individuals who violate the standards of the medical profession. "We have methods of investigating and probing into individuals if an official complaint is lodged with the SLMC. Accordingly relevant action can be taken against those accused ranging from issuing warnings, suspending their practice as well as terminating their registrations," he added. Meanwhile, the national body for regulating private sector health services – the Private Health Regulatory Council (PHSRC) said it was advisable for those who visited private sector health service institutions to make sure the establishments were registered with the Council before going for treatment. PHSRC Secretary Dr. Kanthi Ariyarathne speaking to Daily Mirror said the private sector health practices should also display the registered certificate in an area where it is visible to the visitors. "Under the Private Medical Institutions (Registration) Act No 21 of 200, registering with the PHRSC guarantees that our regulatory mechanism will ensure the standards of the private sector health service establishments are maintained with concern for human resources and equipment. We have set out 11 categories and each category has various guidelines they should be adhering to and if any of these are violated there is a series of actions that can be taken against these institutions that have been provisioned to us by law" she added. However, she also mentioned that if an offence was committed, the establishment is provided with a reasonable period of time to rectify their errors. However, if they continued to ignore the regulations, she said legal action could be taken even to the extent of closing down the establishment. "But it is important for the public also to realize that this is a gradual process and this is a service sector and we need to observe the crises from a practical point of view," she said. |
"What we are angry about is the manner in which they attempted to conceal the fact that the accident inside the MRI scanner led to her death. By the second day, they plastered cotton wool to her eyelids and forced them shut. When we inquired they claimed it was to prevent contamination from germs. They kept sponging her body to retain moisture and kept applying balm on the dried lips. We sat there and watched them but very soon we exceeded our tolerance levels because we just didn't want to see them torture our daughter's body any longer," this distressed father says.
Indumathie says that on February 4, an official from the Nawaloka Hospital's HR department spoke to her. "She asked me why I was crying and whether it was due to a financial issue. In return I told her I wouldn't think of bringing my child to a private hospital for consultation if I had financial constraints. The next day they arranged for us to meet with the management. They kept asking us what we wished them to do which was quite quizzical because they never wished to admit it was their fault that caused our daughter's death." Finally, when Thivanka spoke up and asked them to donate Rs. 20 million for charities the officials had sounded irritated and asked them to file for legal action if they wished to do so.
By February 6, the situation had turned worse for these aggrieved parents when the hospital management had lodged a complaint with the Slave Island police charging them of disrupting the peace within the hospital premises. "When the police officials visited the hospital they realized the real picture. When I finished my conversation with the Police officials and returned to the SICU, they had brought the agreement paper for us to sign that would enable them to remove the machines from Kaushalya's body.
A spokesperson for the Nawaloka Hospitals who wished to remain anonymous categorically denied all allegations held against them by demised Kaushalya's parents. He said the MRI machine functioned perfectly well and added they had carried out several other scans in the machine even after the alleged incident. "The girl undergoing treatment for Rhett syndrome, which is a neurological issue, is incurable in spite of medical treatment. We deny their allegations because it has been made clear she died due to cardiac arrest and not of an accident that occurred within the MRI scanner. She was receiving treatment in the SICU for six days subsequent to her MRI scan and our staff attempted their level best to ensure that she was resuscitated," he said. |
Little Kaushalya is definitely not the first to be a victim of medical mishaps. Just weeks ago, a law student lost her left arm due to the alleged negligence of a state hospital's authorities. These cases make headlines in newspapers and get buried in our memories until somebody else becomes a victim again.
The need for a national health policy is felt very much and not just laws but implementation of those is very much needed to bring closure to the loved ones of the vi ctims of medical negligence. Not everyone can afford to sue a hospital due to the high litigation costs but bringing the perpetrators of medical negligence to justice will at least deter other officials from passing the ball from one official to the other. Sri Lanka is in dire need of a health care system where patients' rights are given top priority.
Pics by Gayan Madushanka
A spokesperson for the Peoples Movement for the Rights of Patients (PMRP) said that such tragedies occur mainly because of the lack of implementation of laws relating to the regulation and monitoring of private hospitals. The spokesperson went on to point out that even though laws had been passed the implementation was woefully ineffective and most private hospitals were acting in an unacceptable manner. "It is the super rich who can afford to undergo treatment at private hospitals. They give many tests sometimes which are not even necessary and the hospital bills cannot be afforded by everybody" he said. He also mentioned that though there was a Director appointed by the Health Ministry to look in to the regulation and monitoring of private hospitals, this type of incidents continue to occur. "There is no national drug policy or a national health care policy. As a result private hospital consultants are making multi millions and they make them at the expense of innocent unsuspecting patients. When private practice was established in 1969 the fee paid to the doctor and the hospital was at a 4-1 ratio but even that ratio is not taken into consideration and not even the fee charged by the private hospitals is regulated" he claimed. He added that the government should take immediate steps to restore the health service in a state where the patients' rights are given top priority as it is a matter of life and death. |
Little Kaushalya receiving treatment in the SICU |
Kaushalya's parents and sisters |

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DOGood for a Dog Friendly Chattanooga started in 2009 as a volunteer citizens group,willing to meet and work with Parks and Rec and city leaders to develop an educational program to teach responsible dog ownership to the community and visitors,and see more areas maintained and opened to responsible dog owners.
Our focus is to educate dog owners to "Do Good"by always following the rules to leash your dog,carry doggie waste bags,and pick up after your dog –no excuses! Ross'Landing was opened to responsible dog owners in the fall of 2009,and the Walnut Street Bridge in August,2010.
The DOGood program recently won the top award at the 2010 Tennessee Recreation and Parks Association Annual Meeting by receiving the Best Program Award for cities with over 100,000 residents,and our program is being mirrored in other cities across the US. Dogfriendly.com announced in 2010 that Chattanooga was in the "Top 10 Vacation/Resort spots to travel with your dog".
DOGood for a Dog Friendly is working hard to keep Chattanooga "clean,green,and dog-friendly!"Take the DOGood Pledge to be a responsible dog owner,and join us!
The DOGood Pledge:
I will always keep my dog leashed on a leash 6 ft or less,and on a short leash in crowded areas.
I will always carry doggie waste bags.
I will always pick up after my dog.


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For more details on security clearance and job listings, visit Military.com's Security Clearance section.
I have a Top Secret security clearance but have no desire to work in a job where that is a requirement. Should I put it on my resume? If so, why and how?
Robert V., OSCS, Norfolk, VA
Robert — First, thank you for your service.
Second, yes, the TS clearance matters regardless of whether or not you want to make it a part of your next career. Having that clearance means that you are completely trustworthy and dependable. A lot of time and money was spent on the background check required to get that clearance. You came out of that smelling like a rose! The fact that you were deemed worthy of the TS clearance is in and of itself an accomplishment and deserves a bullet on your resume. However, be careful how you phrase that bullet. If you wanted to use the TS in your next job, then simply listing it would be good enough since the companies in that category need no explanation. But since you appear to be targeting companies that do not know what it means, then you need to sell it not for what it is, but rather for what it means.
Something like this might do it:
- Recognized for trustworthiness, reliability, and integrity as evidenced by the awarding of a Department of Defense Top Secret security clearance based upon a thorough background investigation.
Good hunting and best of success in your new career!
Tom Wolfe
Author, Columnist, Career Coach, Veteran
If you have questions, general or specific, about getting started in a civilian career, email them to Tom at firstname.lastname@example.com, and we'll feature his answers in this blog.
Tom Wolfe is an author, columnist, career coach, veteran, and an expert in the field of military-to-civilian career transition. During his career he assisted thousands of service members in their searches for employment, placing more than 3000 in their new jobs. Prior to civilian life, he graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy and served as a surface warfare officer. He teaches transition courses, gives seminars on career and job change, writes about the career transition process, and continues to counsel current and former military personnel. His book, Out of Uniform: Your Guide to a Successful Military-to-Civilian Career Transition, was published by Potomac Books in 2011.
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31 He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; | 31 and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, ability and knowledge in all kinds of crafts-- |
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The Critics Academy is Kohn's and Hernandez' way of helping aspiring critics realize that there is still room for them, no matter how harsh the professional climate may seem.
Michael Pattison, 26, is proof of that. Pattison had a masters in film but had only been writing criticism as a hobby before he was selected for the Locarno Academy in August. Being able to put faces to people he had only known through their bylines was exciting, and meeting the cast, crew, and publicists for various films broadened his understanding of criticism as a profession.
"You become aware immediately that writing's not this solitary, insular profession," Pattison said. "You're meeting people who have actually had a human contribution to something that you're writing on," he said, and "you become very much aware that what you're writing is actually going to have an effect on people's lives, and people's enjoyment and appreciation of cinema."


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Logo Design Workshop - 2
The process of creating a good logo takes a fair amount of skill and awareness of visual communication. Remember that what communicates quality and solidity to you might garner a different reaction from other people who have a closer, or more distant, relationship with the company. It is essential that you don't keep your head in the sand when designing logos, get other people's opinions and reactions - communication is a two-way thing. Obviously, the client has to be comfortable with it, but so too has the potential clientèle.
Many of the logos that I have designed have been subjected to consumer research. It's amazing what can be thrown up in focus groups, the process becomes quite an eye-opener about popular tastes. Let's just say that it is better to use such research to confirm the success of a design or to narrow down optional concepts than to allow it to force a direction or stifle creativity.
Tip: Photoshop 6 has much improved text handling over previous versions and a host of whizzy text effects but effects, whether graphical, musical or in the cinema, are never a substitute for ideas and usually, as Seven-of-Nine would say, irrelevant.
Most of my designs start out on a piece of paper. I believe that it is important to arrive at a concept without being lead down a particular path by the tools. A computer can become a barrier to creativity and will force you to think in a way that is 'in the groove' of the software you are using. You should have an idea in mind before sitting down at the screen and then use the computer to implement that idea, not generate it.
When it come to drawing up a logo, it is better to use a vector graphics program. I use Adobe Illustrator but Macromedia Freehand or CorelDRAW are equally suitable - whatever you are happiest with. The reason for using a vector graphics program, even for Web logos which inevitably end up as GIFs, will become clearer later.
Tip: In a simple logo like this the finer points of spacing and kerning are more important than ever. Never trust a program to get the kerning right, it can only be done by eye. If it looks right, it is right! Look closely at each set of three adjacent characters in turn for evenness of spacing and make any adjustments necessary.
It is always easier to spot uneven letter spacing if you turn the logo upside down! I find it easier to rotate the text 180° on the screen than to stand on my head!
The first thing you have to consider is the typeface. If you don't have the skills to create your own typeface from scratch, then you can start with an existing one. The choice of typeface is very important because the basic letterform establishes the overall character of the logo. Sans serif faces suggest modernity whereas serif faces say something about establishment. Script faces can either be formal or very informal and then there are all kinds of weird and wacky typestyles - if that is what you want to communicate about the company. There's a new set of links to free font sites in the resources section this month.
Above is a straight setting of a word in Frutiger Bold. Frutiger has more character than Helvetica or Arial, but it is still much too ordinary to be a logo by itself. I don't have any particular message to convey about a company or product in this example, this is just about basic principles.
Having chosen a suitable typeface, look at it in different ways. Caps, lower case, upper and lower. Look for interesting letter pairs or combinations that can be exploited to make the logo more distinctive and memorable.
Selecting individual anchor points and nudging them with the arrow keys allows fine adjustment of letters.
One trick is to join up certain letters in the word. In the past, type designers produced ligatures to give their fonts more character but very few digital fonts have the luxury of alternative 'expert' characters. Many low cost or free fonts don't even have full regular character sets.
Natural candidates to join in this word are the 't' and 'y' which can be run together very easily. This is where the vector program comes into its own. It is just a matter of selecting two anchor points and nudging them sideways with the arrow keys. Whether you are manipulating straight lines or curves, fine adjustments like these are much more difficult to achieve in a bitmap-based program. The beziers or splines in the vector program will help keep your curves smooth too.
'Outline stroke' converts a stroke to a filled area that can then be merged with the original type body.
Almost any logo will benefit from being 'beefed-up'. Here, a stroke has been added to the basic fill outline giving a bolder, stronger, feel to the logo. I've increased the stroke width gradually until the letters 'kiss' but be careful, too much, and readability can be compromised. Never underestimate the value of negative space.
Having established the optimal stroke thickness, the stroke and fill are merged to produce a single vector outline version of the original typeface. It is now no longer editable from the keyboard but can be further modified by adjusting anchor points.
Tip: Sticking to Web-safe colours is not generally as essential as it used to be, but using them for logos will still give the most consistent and predictable results across different browsers and colour depths.
Colour is also a very important factor in logo design. It might well be that your logo has to work in monochrome in some situations - gold printing on a give-away pen, etched glass on a foyer door. Fortunately, there aren't many restrictions about using colour for Web-based logos.
Individual colours can be distinctive, but colour combinations are even more so. It is interesting to note that all the 'famous' logos I showed last month featured red and blue as their main colours. Well, you can't go far wrong with red and blue but remember also what I said about being different. Some colours are harsh and unrelenting, some are soft and gentle - what are you trying to communicate? Use colours that are appropriate to your message.
Tip: Peculiarities such as clipping the characters, as I've done here, goes a long way to making the logo less 'ordinary' - and that is the whole point of the exercise!
If a logo is likely to be applied to fussy backgrounds, like patterns or photographs, it should be separated from the confusion of the background in the same way that a picture frame and surround makes a painting or print stand out from wallpaper.
Here, I've put the logo inside a dark coloured lozenge, sometimes referred to as a 'control field'. This shape controls the presentation of the logo by visually separating it from the background, but the 'field' has a distinctive shape of its own that becomes part of the identity - just in the same way that the Ford cars oval and the Heinz 'tombstone' do.
This logo uses a very elegant and classical typeface - Trajan - which, on its own provides that 'timeless' feel. If you are trying to communicate 'establishment', serif capitals with a little letter-spacing usually do the trick because it is evocative of times gone by.
To counter the formality of the serif typeface, I've superimposed it on a very informal, exaggerated italic face in a receding colour. The two typefaces play-off against each other to add vitality and distinction.
Tip: Before you start to design a logo, make a simple word list of the attributes that it needs to communicate - dynamic, modern, established, traditional, friendly, monolithic - then keep comparing your design to what you have written.
This example is another off-the-shelf typeface - Hamlet - which is very 'Star Trek' in feel and helps communicate 'futuristic'. The 'go-fast' stripes are another way of suggesting dynamism being associated with fast cars and sport. There are other little visual tricks all around you in everyday life - mnemonics that trigger signals in the viewer's mind which you can put to good use in a logo to say something above and beyond what the words alone say.
But, as I pointed out last time, some of these visual tricks are grossly overused, become clichés and can do more harm than good. You know how you groan deep inside when someone starts to tell a joke that you've heard many times before? Clichés communicate naivety.
Putting some of these principles into action, this is a logo I designed a while back for a company that produces computer stationery. The main part of the word is written in a 'classic' serif typeface and letterspaced. This provides the 'established' element and says something about the quality of the company and its products.
The substitution of the two pixelated numerals for letters, the digital zero and one for 'O' and 'I', say something about the company's activities. Had the whole logo been written in the pixelated typeface, it would have been just another computer oriented company, computer typefaces are not particularly unique! If the company had any other name, the trick would not have worked.
It's this kind of 'happenstance' that you have to look for - hard - to create a logo that is truly unique. No Photoshop filter will do this for you!
This company makes electronic motor controllers and wanted to project a high tech 'precision' image. Their products take the form of rack-mounted modules, there could be one or many of them in a horizontal row. Sometimes the modules have knobs and switches, some are just blank panels. As is often the case with logos, this one had to be adaptable, it had to work on one module or on a whole row. The dots, of course, can be infinitely extended to fit any usage situation. It is not a good idea to simply repeat a logo because then it becomes a pattern. Instead of strengthening images, patterns have the opposite effect, that of devaluing their component parts.
I've created this letterform from scratch. The rounded ends of the strokes are typical of 'engineering' typefaces that have been routed into metal. I've substituted a plus sign for the 'T' in the company name and reinforced it with a strap-line, 'Positive Control Solutions'. This is another example of 'happenstance' where you find something unique about a company's name and exploit it.
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Learn about two new Brooklyn businesses - Spa-Di-Da, a spa party center, and the art room, a fine arts school - that cater to kids and families.
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Spa-Di-Da, Staten Island's only spa party center, will open its first Brooklyn branch in Dyker Heights this October.
Manager Lori Menake says she was inspired to open to business a year and a half ago by her daughter Tatum, 7, who would always tag along when Menake went to a local spa for a manicure or pedicure. "Little girls love to get pampered," Menake says.
Spa-Di-Da offers several full-service spa party packages that can be personalized to the birthday boy or girl, Menake says, including parties especially tailored to boys. "It's one-stop shopping. We offer everything from favors to cake," Menake says, adding that parties include several hosts, one of whom is solely responsible for the guests' entertainment. In addition to spa amenities, each party also features karaoke and flat screen TVs that play the children's favorite shows, Menake says.
The center also offers spa play dates for four or more children.
Spa-Di-Da is located at 4108 Hylan Boulevard in Staten Island and will open in Dyker Heights next month; call 718-356-7278 or visit www.spa-di-da.com for more information.
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Classes at the art room give children the opportunity to use fine art materials, says Founder Leigh Holliday, adding: "It's beyond crayons." The school uses a process-oriented approach, which means seeing an art work through from A to Z rather than rushing through the process. "We like [our students] to take their time, do some sketches first, and work through their ideas, then have a finished product a class or two later," says Holliday, who believes this method separates her school from others in the area. "Most people try to just send kids home with stuff, but we truly believe that kids leave here having learned something." Holliday also believes art is crucial to young children, as it helps build self-esteem and opens their minds to new ways of thinking.
In addition to its regular classes, the art room offers parents the opportunity to create their own private art class for five to eight children (at no extra cost). On weekends, the school is available to host art-themed parties.
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Ground meat that is? Which is your preference? I haven't been able to convince myself with the boiling yet. Because of health issues I buy good high quality (read expensive) ground meat and hate to try boiling it and take the chance of not liking it. I guess I need to just try a small batch. Which do you prefer. |
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- Posted by Kim-OK(firstname.lastname@example.com) onSat, Mar 31, 01 at 11:24
i know what you mean about boiling it, ruthie ...i'm afraid it will be all gray and rubbery! LOL! i do like you and buy quality ground beef and brown it and drain any fat there is. actually, after i've browned the meat, sometimes i've put it in a collander and rinsed it with very hot tap water. seems like a good compromise, don't you thinK? |
- Posted by RuthieG in MA(email@example.com) onSat, Mar 31, 01 at 13:28
yep Kim, I do the same thing and I don't think it hurts the taste at all. I think I will get brave enough one of these tdays and try the boiling. I mean I do boil stew and soup etc so what is the difference? |
- Posted by Kristie TN(email@example.com) onSat, Mar 31, 01 at 14:03
I will never fry hamburger again. I am a boiling convert! I add chopped onion, salt and pepper when I cook it. Then, once it's drained and cooled, I put it in gallon size zip lock bags to freeze. It's perfect to use for spaghetti, beef and rice (a concoction my family likes), lasagna, tacos, etc. I can't tell any difference what so ever once it is in the sauce. |
- Posted by RuthieG in MA(firstname.lastname@example.com) onSat, Mar 31, 01 at 14:46
Kristi I promise you I am going to try it. Makes sense to me that it wouldn't make any difference. |
- Posted by Roberta(email@example.com) onSat, Mar 31, 01 at 18:01
Boil the meat and remove the fat all together? WHAT? Are you all nuts here? The good taste in any kind of meat is in the fat. Yeah, I know, we will all die. Well, guess what? We are all gonna die sometime, and why not enjoy the animal and butter fat and the full taste of a meal while you are alive? I absolutely never use margarine - why would anybody do that when butter just tastes sooooooo good and makes such a difference in anything that it goes into? Yep, life is entirely too short to limited myself to tasteless food. |
- Posted by mj ny(firstname.lastname@example.com) onSat, Mar 31, 01 at 20:55
I never heard of boiling hamburger meat before. This is a new one on me. How much water do you use? and what kinds of seasonings? ....how long does it take to cook?.....and does it fall into small pieces or do you have to break it into small pieces when you add it to the water? ...I'm not sure about pouring the water down the drain ....aren't you afraid of plugging the sink?...... At least when I brown it on top of the stove, I can scoop fat into a can and throw it away. |
- Posted by Debby(email@example.com) onTue, Apr 10, 01 at 19:32
Okay, Ruthie, I'm with MJ. How do you go about boiling ground beef? |
- Posted by RuthieG in MA(email@example.com) onTue, Apr 10, 01 at 20:33
OK here is what I did and I was just playing it by ear from the postings here and at the KT...I just took my stock pot and filled it about half full of water, put in some onion powder, garlic powder salt and pepper, brought it up to almost boiling and dropped the burger in it. It immediately started braking up. I suspect I had more water than I needed but I can't imagine that it would make any difference. I didn't want to drain it in my sink either so I took my collander and put it over another big pot and just drained the water in the pot. I cooled and bagged the meat and when the pot with the broth had cooled I set it out on the porch (it's still cold here) and let the fat congeal and then I picked the fat off and poured the rest down the drain. It has been recommended that you save the broth for soup or stew but since mine was sitting on the porch outside uncovered overnight (I forgot it) and I was sure that it was under the dripline, I didn't save it. The ground beef cpmes out very crumbley, I like it a lot and it is easier than frying. |
- Posted by Gail Mac(email@example.com) onTue, Apr 10, 01 at 22:23
Woo-Hoo another convert!! I will never fry it again! Gail |
- Posted by RuthieG in MA(email@example.com) onWed, Apr 11, 01 at 6:59
Here is one really important thing that I did not mention. Because my husband and I both are heavier than we should be and because I have a cholesterol problem, when using ground beef, I buy the highest quality beef that I can find. Well even with that supposedly low fat meat, I was simply bowled over by the amount of fat in the broth. I know I couldn't have gotten that out by pan browning and rinsing. It was pretty gross seeing all that fat. |
- Posted by jtHouston TX(firstname.lastname@example.com) onWed, Apr 11, 01 at 9:27
I have been cooking for many years, have never tried this method but am planning to give it a try this week. It does make a lot of sense, gets out a lot of the fat, and Ruthie is right, even the espensive ground meat has lots of fat. Will reserve the broth and cook it down into a good stock. |
- Posted by brenda(firstname.lastname@example.com) onWed, Apr 11, 01 at 10:02
I boiled 6 pounds of burger yesterday and it wasGREAT. It was done in about 5 minutes. I made chile with some and tacos and they tasted just fine. i froze the rest. I will never fry hamburg again either. |
- Posted by mj ny(email@example.com) onWed, Apr 11, 01 at 11:19
Thank you Ruthie...and anyone else who gave this a thumb's up. I will try this, but it will be before the crowd congregates in the kitchen...saying..."whatcha making?" My family might think me weirder than usual. I can just hear my DH now...why didn't you throw the spagetti in at the same time?!?! LOL LOL |
- Posted by Gail Mac(email@example.com) onWed, Apr 11, 01 at 11:59
Ruthie what are you talking about! I have seen your photo-you are a babe! : ) Oh yes I know what you mean about the X fat b/c I buy X lean and I was shocked to still see all that fat! YICK!! I will feel much better about eating it now. Gail |
- Posted by RuthieG in MA(firstname.lastname@example.com) onThu, Apr 12, 01 at 7:02
Oops, Gail you have seen only the pictures I allow to be seen...LOL On my web page I have a picture that is about 5 years old and I wore a size 6....since coming to MA I have been sitting on my buns, no yard work, no gardening, no hot roding on the tractor so I have finally been caught by the middle age ...Make that old age spread. I can barely squeeze my fat buns into a size 14 so the babe description doesn't fit well...if it ever did but I thank you for the comment from the bottom of my heart. |
- Posted by RuthieG in MA(firstname.lastname@example.com) onThu, Apr 12, 01 at 7:05
One thing that I did notice and was wondering if anyone else found this to be true. The meat particles break up much finer than when frying? I liked it that way as I usually smush my taco and chili, sloppy joe type meats. Was this your experience. |
- Posted by Gail Mac(firstname.lastname@example.com) onThu, Apr 12, 01 at 11:49
Yup my experience too and I like it! Reminds me of Taco Time ground beef. OMGosh Ruthie you should see my butt these days. I am what they call a woddler with a toddler...he-he-he....evey pr. of panties(even those big ol' granny panties) I put on ends up looking like a thong an me! In our family we call that GUBS (gotch up butt syndrome) : ) Gail |
- Posted by Adam(email@example.com) onThu, Apr 12, 01 at 11:54
Hello all, I'm a newbie to this forum. Jumped over from the chainsaw freaks on the tool forum. Yes, I am one of THEM, but when I'm not destroying Mother Nature (kidding) I love to cook. WOW!, my two favorite things on the same web site! Anywho, one of my favorite recipes is for Cincinnati Chili, which is more of a meat sauce then a chili. The first step is to crumble raw, lean ground beef into cold water. You add some spices and in about three hours it turns into a very fine grained meat sauce. You would think that with my success of this recipe, I would boil instead of fry. Nope, I'm a fry and drain under hot water man. Maybe someday...... Adam |
- Posted by Kristie TN(firstname.lastname@example.com) onThu, Apr 12, 01 at 16:17
I only wish I had been doing this all along. And I do like the "texture" better when it's boiled. May the next generation of children be BOILERS! LOL |
- Posted by Rebecca(email@example.com) onThu, Apr 12, 01 at 16:25
I did it, I did it! Yippeeeee, looooove that boilin'!!! :oD Another benefit - I can cook up so much more at once than I could ever fit in my big frying pan! I boiled ten pounds yesterday in my big stock pot, and could have fit far more than that. Today I even boiled four pounds of Owen's breakfast sausage (I use it, crumbled, in a couple of recipes) - seemed to work fine. Thanks for the tip!! |
- Posted by Tammy Rainbolt(firstname.lastname@example.com) onFri, Apr 13, 01 at 12:44
How long do I boil it. TAMMY |
- Posted by brenda(firstname.lastname@example.com) onSat, Apr 14, 01 at 8:10
tammy, it does not take long at all, I did about 6 pounds in about 5 minutes, as sooon as you drop it in it starts to break up and turn brown, just stir it a few times and it is done when it is all brown, much , much faster than frying it, you will be surprised. |
- Posted by RuthieG in MA(firstname.lastname@example.com) onSat, Apr 14, 01 at 8:39
Just make sure that all the pink is gone and then I give it a little extra time for good measure...Last night be had pizza and it was wonderful to just pop out a bag and spread it across the top of the pizza. |
- Posted by angel(email@example.com) onWed, Apr 18, 01 at 0:30
I just can't do it. I just can't bring myself to boil!!! HELP!!!! |
- Posted by Gail Mac(email@example.com) onWed, Apr 18, 01 at 1:56
Oh Angel....you can do it! I know you can! I know, I admit I was once a non believer just like you are. But now I have seen the light and I am never going back to my old ways. I jumped in and did 4 1/2 lbs of xlean...your the skiddish type take baby steps if you have to...send the family out to the movie, pull the blinds & try boiling up a 1/2lb. It's OK no one will have to know. It will be our little secret. ; ) Come-on Angel your missing out...come on over to our side... Gail |
- Posted by vicki - IL(firstname.lastname@example.com) onWed, Apr 18, 01 at 3:22
I have a question. Does the meat have to be thawed before you boil or can you take it right from the freezer and put it in the pot? |
- Posted by RuthieG in MA(firstname.lastname@example.com) onWed, Apr 18, 01 at 6:24
Vicki the meat does not have to be thawed first....Just throw it in the pot. Angel all I can do is ditto what Gail said. I was exactly the same way, couldn't bring myself to do it but finally decided that so many couldn't be wrong. Just do it! |
- Posted by steff(email@example.com) onSun, May 20, 01 at 23:35
angel, you're not crazy. boiling is for eggs, not beef. *lol* for storing, it's ok, and once you put it in a sauce it's not horrible, so for keeping meat to put IN stuff it's much easier and i'd suggest trying it for that. meanwhile, i'll continue to fry whatever i actually want to taste. =P but then, i also like a splash of vinegar and lime in my water(dh makes faces EVERY SINGLE TIME... still), so if the rest of you can eat boiled hamburger, more power to ya! =) |
- Posted by Elaine in OR(firstname.lastname@example.com) onThu, Jul 19, 01 at 19:43
Goooooood question, Vicki...and thank you Ruthie, I am SO happy to know I can just take it out of the freezer and boil it. Granted, I have yet to try this boiling thing...but I mentioned it to DH and he's game. So perhaps this weekend... **shrug**. |
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Sue, care to share the recipe for Maid Rite sandwiches? I'm up in Canada and have never heard of them, but they sound interesting and delicious. Please share! Sue (nice name, eh?) |
- Posted by Maggie G(firstname.lastname@example.com) onMon, Jul 23, 01 at 18:34
I don't think I could boil hamburger. My mother used to make "hamburger soup," that way, and it was AWFUL. It always tasted vaguely "fleshy," and I hated it. I wouldn't eat ground beef in any form until I was in my 30's and had a meatloaf sandwich that was awesome. Now I am a meatloaf expert. LOL!! |
- Posted by SUE(firstname.lastname@example.com) onTue, Jul 24, 01 at 11:09
HEY SUE, I JUST LOVE YOUR NAME LOL..THE RECIPE IS SO EASY JUST PUT YOUR GROUND BEEF, (I USE GROUND ROUND) in water with lots of chopped onions,salt,pepper to taste,garlic powder and a little dry mustard and let boil slowly for at least an hour, some times i let mine cook 2to 3 hrs the longer the better...serve on bun with mustard delicious!!!! |
Thanks, Sue......sounds yummy....can't wait to try it! Sue |
I realize this is a rather old thread, but I tried this last night and OH MY GOD,I will never fry meat again. I could not believe my eyes when I saw all that fat at the top of the pot. I too seasoned the water and boiled for about 15 minutes. I was skeptical at first, but I tried the beef and you really cannot tell the difference. I am now a true believer and would recommend this cooking tip to all my family and friends. -Lisa |
- Posted by jasper_austin (My Page) on Sun, Aug 4, 02 at 18:38
okay, I don't think anyone asked this yet, so here goes. Lots of you buy more expensive "lean" beef. You said you were amazed by the amount of fat that boiled off. What about less expensive non-lean ground beef? Do you think you get it leaned-up by boiling it? Or would the lean to start with beef still end up leaner after both are boiled. next question- ground turkey? how about boiling it? |
Why boil at all? I slap mine in the (big) crock pot with a little water and break it up as it cooks. Onions can be put in or peppers for flavor. Drain well when burger is done and add your spaghetti sauce or whatever you like. Kathy_PA |
How are you disposing of the fat? The only thing that makes sense is to put the pot into the refrigerator and let the fat congeal so it can by put in the garbage. I hate to think of all that fat going down sinks. A plumbers dream. |
I tried boiling a couple of weeks back. YUCK ... horrible ... I will never try that again. It took 2X as long to do as browning the meat and the meat had no flavor what so ever. It wasn't the meat because it was the last 1/4 of a large package I bought and frozen about 2 weeks before. |
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