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Hey, Know Any Good Photographers? How to Get on an Agency's Radar Screen
Posted By Bill Green On January 7, 2008 @ 10:00 pm In Business of Photography | 8 Comments
Agencies need photographers just as photographers need agencies. So if you're a photographer looking to work with an ad agency or design firm, it helps to understand how agencies look for you.
When it comes to finding photographers, word of mouth rules. For years, I've scanned all the photography books and the ads in them, the photography annuals, online portfolios from reps, and so forth. I've learned that nothing is as reliable as WOM.
Can't We All Just Get Along?
Yes, I can pick someone based on their online portfolio — but what I really need to know isn't found there. I need to know how well I will get along with you. No portfolio, no matter how cool, will tell me that.
That's what every creative director considers first. Sure, the work has to rock, that's a given. But there's an awful lot of talent out there, and if it comes down to two photographers, both of whom are close on style, quality and price, the tiebreaker will always be personality and reputation.
Maybe you have enough existing clients and you're not looking for more; if so, fine. Maybe you are though — or maybe you're looking for better clients. Here's a common scenario: you're good, but you still aren't getting the kind of photography assignments you want and know you can handle. Bread-and-butter work builds the bank account, but it rarely does much for your portfolio. At some point, you need to break the cycle.
Now granted, not everyone gets to shoot with a major ad agency and clients like Nike, but there are still a lot of good agencies both large and small out there you can aim for.
So, how do you get on their radar screen so they'll want to get to know you — and spread the word to others?
Getting an Agency's Attention
The same thing I tell brands about their marketing efforts applies to anyone promoting their work: when it comes time to getting your name out, it's never just one thing you do. Collectively, it's many things.
Of course, you have an online portfolio by now. Cool. So what — everyone does. I'm not trying to be cruel, but that's the reality. The "If you build it, they will come" mindset only works in Field of Dreams. And let me guess: 5,000 postcards sent out and nothing back, right?
What are you doing to make yourself known beyond those mass mailings and your online samples? Are you attending industry functions where creatives hang out (such as awards shows, conferences, etc.)? Are you represented by an agent? Are you networking with other photographers online? Are you working with an art director to come up with a cool promotion that they might circulate for you — and among their connections? Are you contacting brands with in-house art departments directly?
You should definitely do the awards shows. (And have business cards with you. Always. I can't tell you how many people forget to bring them when they go out to functions, let alone meetings.) Those shows are a great resource for finding agencies to target because, first, it's safe to assume most if not all of the winners are doing great work. The shows likely also publish a pdf of the winners on their sites.
Check out online publications like AdAge, Communication Arts, Step, CMYK, etc. Register for free at agencycompile.com [2] and see the agencies in a given state. Communication Arts [3] also offers this in their jobs section online. You can see who's hiring, usually to replace somebody, but often when there's a few positions open, it may be because they have a bunch of new work.
Get the agency names you want to target, then Google them and check their site for any e-mail address you can use to substitute an appropriate contact. (If [email protected] is in charge of business development and you also happen to see that the creative director is named Bill Jones, but don't have Bill's e-mail address, now you do. Just swap out the name: [email protected])
Phone Calls and FedEx
As for contacting them, sure there's the mass mailing route, but what about calling? Gasp. Yes, actually picking up a phone and calling an agency on your list. Dig down through a few layers and you can usually reach a creative director in a small to mid shop. Or, call after hours to get the agency directory and usually you'll get a name from the art department. Call back the next day and ask for that person, then ask about who is responsible for looking at books.
If you keep getting voicemail, leave a message with your url. No matter what, a link to your online portfolio is essential until you're a known entity. Forget really funky self-promotions and gimmicky stunts. There's a big difference between your work standing out and you standing out — in the wrong way. Creatives get enough of that stuff from art directors and designers trying to get in their agency. Keep it simple and keep it about the work.
Send an e-mail, too, but unless you know them or you were referred, it will probably be ignored. CDs barely have time to answer e-mails from people they know, let alone something in their junk mail.
You might also try FedEx-ing your work in one of their boxes if it's a really good place you want to get into. Yes, it's expensive if you do 50, but it will get opened before a postcard gets looked at, guaranteed — because nobody I know throws away a FedEx. (Obviously, you don't send original work unless requested. Create an inexpensive mini-book from your digital files.) Then do a follow-up with a phone call a day or so later to see if they got it.
Don't Forget Your Current Clients
What about existing clients who are giving you great assignments, but maybe not as regularly as you'd like? Don't forget them by becoming complacent. The old saying "out of sight, out of mind" applies here. The time to do self-promotion is not when you need the work but when you don't need it. If you wait until you're done with assignments and out of work to start looking for new projects, you'll tend to come off as desperate.
So for existing clients, maybe you show them something new you've worked on, a new technique or project for another agency. On a related note, I've seen agencies too many times lose out on new projects to someone else trying to get their foot in the door. It happened because the client only thought of them for one thing. (The refrain "Oh, we didn't know you did that kind of work. If we only knew sooner…" is all too common.)
I'm not saying if you only shoot food that now you have to go shoot automotive. But make a point to show your clients the full range of your capabilities.
No matter what you choose to send, never stop promoting yourself. Even if you're slammed with work, make an effort to keep on the radar of other people on a regular basis. Send that postcard. Send an e-mail. Update your site and use that as the reason you're emailing. The creative director you stay in touch with will remember you when they move on.
Yes, it's a pain to sit down and have to think about this when doing nothing is SO much easier — but self-promotion is one of the most important things you can do for your career and something you shouldn't neglect.
[tags]photography business, photograpy marketing, advertising agencies[/tags]
8 Comments To "Hey, Know Any Good Photographers? How to Get on an Agency's Radar Screen"
#1 Comment By Louise On January 9, 2008 @ 10:34 am
LOL regarding subbing out names in emails. I've been using that one for years -- also a great way to contact CEOs of companies that have given you crappy service.
#2 Comment By Pez On January 15, 2008 @ 11:40 am
I once, did a shoot, "oops" right in front of the ad agency. I had to shoot for an hour before the "right" person accidentally walked into the shot. It got my card in a CD's hand and my phone to ring a couple weeks later.
#3 Comment By California Photographer On August 11, 2010 @ 4:56 pm
Some solid advice. I had tried the approach of sending fancy mailers, but to no avail. I like the idea of sending a book in a FedEx box. I'll have to try that. As for sending sample albums, I have found using these online book printers is rather affordable when it comes to putting together a portfolio of my work. Just an idea looking for something affordable.
But I agree with your opening point, Word of Mouth. I really service the heck out of my current clients and they tend to refer me to other people they know, which I have found to be the best approach.
#4 Comment By KaiKaiKai On April 29, 2011 @ 4:19 pm
thanks for the advice. i will definately try some of it!
#5 Comment By Alex On October 14, 2011 @ 5:14 pm
Hi Bill! Interesting read, thanks for some great advice! I'm pretty much starting out in this field - I've done quite a few local live music showcases (in the vain hope of selling photos to artists) but that's about as far as I've been able to get so far. You mentioned doing award shows... Did you mean going to them to shoot (and if so how do I get in to do so?) or buying tickets (if that's what you do?) and then just walking round talking to people?
- Alex
#6 Comment By Alexander Moiseenko On April 26, 2012 @ 2:13 am
Hello Bill.
I am Russian photographer, 19 years old, just moved to Long Beach. And a lot of people saying that I should go to agency, but I don't know all process, and I'm very shy. Can you give me advice please, and say something about my works?
Thank you!
Alexander Moiseenko
#7 Comment By ken davis On September 15, 2012 @ 8:28 pm
Can you let me know what you think....whenever you have any time.
#8 Comment By Tommy Daspit On April 12, 2013 @ 5:16 pm
I like the FedEx idea. Is there an order to do this that's most effective? Do I send them an email, then the FedEx, and then a phone call?
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Not skin mats or anything but clothing. I'm always finding nice stuff for my renders but it's for genesis…
I'm using Poser by the way
For future reference, I use PoserPro2014
Most likely not. Clothes for Genesis were made for Genesis and not for V4/M4. Yeah, a lot of these outfits have the M4/V4 iconic shapes, which may help it fit better, but your likely to get plenty of poke through. Not sure if Wardrobe Wizard or any of the clothing fit programs out there would help with this.
Genesis is head & shoulders above "Genesis 2" (or better known as BF2/BM2) and is the FAR superior figure. Why? It doesn't suffer from the UN-necessary gender split
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I think there is a way to export items as objs and then use dynamics in poser.
Currently you would either need to use the studio exporter to get the clothing into poser and then use PhilCs' Genesis Wardrobe Wizard plug in to convert it to M4 V4 clothing;
Or export the M4 V4 morph from the clothing as an object and rig that in poser;
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The dancing rabbis are whirling around the stage of the Chabad "To Life" Telethon, unmistakably Hasidic in their thick beards and black coats.
But who's the tall dancer with the clean shave and long blond hair?
Jon Voight.
Jon Voight of "Midnight Cowboy." Angelina Jolie's father. Lifelong Catholic.
And yet here he is year after year, dancing with the rabbis in a Hollywood television studio, a black yarmulke on his head.
The 69-year-old actor is virtually synonymous with the telethon -- a hero to his hosts, a curiosity to some viewers. But no other big-name guest -- not Adam Sandler, Bob Dylan or Magic Johnson, to name a few -- has matched his sheer enthusiasm for Chabad or his close relationship with its West Coast director, Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin.
"A real super mensch," Cunin, 67, calls him.
Voight has celebrated Hanukkah with Cunin. He attends Yom Kippur services at the synagogue of another longtime rabbi friend and speaks lovingly about "the holy Torah."
He has studied the works of Chabad's venerated Lubavitcher "Rebbe," the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. He can tick off the names of revered Talmudic scholars -- Maimonides and the Maharal, for instance -- the way others throw out the names of famous baseball players.
And every September, he returns to join the dancing rabbis. This Sunday he'll make his 18th telethon appearance.
All of which raises the question: Why?
"The relationship I have with the Cunins is very deep," said Voight, who has gotten to know the rabbi's large extended family. "Any time you can put together people from different cultures, it gives us great heart."
Voight says he is smitten by the ideal of performing mitzvahs, good deeds, and the Jewish tradition of scholarship, calling Jews "the conscience of the world."
He also says he feels energized by Chabad's charity work and by Cunin, a fellow New Yorker who arrived in California more than 40 years ago and established a mini-empire of Hasidic life that now includes more than 200 Jewish community centers, dozens of schools, camps and a residential drug treatment center that serves Jews and non-Jews alike.
"How could I not be at their side when they ask for help, not for themselves, but for the poor, the meek, the unfortunate," Voight said at one telethon. "So please give generously to Chabad. They are the light and hope for all."
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The telethon raised more than $7 million last year to support what Chabad calls the largest network of educational and nonsectarian social services under Jewish auspices on the West Coast.
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Fox News and others of its ilk don't talk about Chicago murders anymore
On several occasions over the past year or so (most recently HERE), I've posted data debunking the myth that Chicago is America's murder capital — or even close to any such status.
And now, as we see HERE, the demagogues on Fox News Channel suddenly have become silent on the issue of homicides in the Windy City:
Someone alert Bill O'Reilly, Matt Drudge, Michelle Malkin and the rest of the right-wing media team that spent last year alternately belittling and hysterically hyping Chicago crime: their argument just fell apart.
Conservatives, led by O'Reilly, Drudge, and Malkin, callously used Chicago crime to attack President Obama and push back against his support for stronger gun laws. Pointing out that Obama's hometown is Chicago and his former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, is the city's mayor, they frequently highlighted the fact that the city struggled with well-publicized gang shootings despite some of the tightest laws in the country. The right tagged Chicago as a gun control test case and deemed it a miserable failure…
O'Reilly has alternately compared Chicago's murder rate to "many Holocausts," and "Afghanistan." The Drudge Report linked to 134 "CHICAGOLAND" crime headlines last year, all meant to convey the image of a lawless city on the verge of bloody collapse. And Malkin let loose with her usual invective, denouncing Chicago as one of many Democratic-run "hellholes"; urban centers teeming with "juvenile delinquency, organized crime, ruinous government dependency, corruption and out-of-control spending."
But suddenly the Chicago taunts have gone quiet. Suddenly the claims that strict gun laws are useless and that Democratic mayors oversee killings zones have disappeared. No more "CHICAGO LAND" links or cries of "Holocaust," and Malkin has for now stopped referring to Chicago as "America's Bloody City."
Why? Because even world-class misinformers like those would have a tough time making a case against "Obama's Chicago," given the fact that the murder rate there last year fell to its lowest level since Lyndon Johnson was president while the booming metropolis welcomed a record number of 46 million tourists last year.
That's right, despite the endless right-wing attacks on Chicago and the permanent conservative depiction of the Second City as a hell hole, Chicago last year experienced the fewest murders since 1965; 413 in 2013. (Context: Chicago at its worst tallied 943 murders in 1992.) The city's overall crime rate in last year fell to a level not seen since 1972, and every one of the Chicago's 22 police districts registered a decrease in crime last year.
"The drop is legitimately stunning," noted The Atlantic's Philip Bump.
Chicago's rapidly falling murder and crime rate stands as part of a larger pattern with major urban centers such as New York, Los Angeles, Philadephia and Detroit all posting sharp reductions last year. It's a trend that completely undercuts right-wing spin about urban crime under Obama, as well as the alleged futility of gun laws…
In Chicago, the police have been focusing on seizing illegal guns, confiscating more than 6,500 last year. The fact that getting guns off the streets in Chicago has helped decrease murders also frightens pro-gun ideologues. "Conservative critics," of course, insist gun law efforts don't effect the crime rate.
For years, Obama's critics have wanted to use Chicago as the centerpiece for a debate about guns and crime in America. With its crime and murder rate down dramatically, do O'Reilly, Drudge and Malkin still want to have that debate?
Their silence suggests the answer is no.
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Why is this commentator so angry?? He should be happy to see the murder rate drop. He, instead seems to be upset because he's not received opposition from"the right". Which means he can't continue to go on a rant. In any event, it's ironic that a Federal Judge found another piece of Chicago's firearm ban unconstitutional. That's because all of the anti-gun bans and an arrogantly hostile administration towards legal firearm ownership, only effect the law abiding. Its a good thing that the murder rate is decreasing, but is not correlated with an increase in anti-gun laws as gang members are the number one offenders of such laws. I'd say more attributable to good efficient policing and judges actually administering stronger sentences to gun offenders. And when the suicide rate is removed from " acts of violence" that number is sure to skew the results.
I'm confused exactly how this article can relate the gun laws to the drop in Chicago's crime rate. No new gun laws were passed in Chicago. In fact, they had one of their signature gun laws ruled unconstitutional. (Handgun Ban)
Yet, the crime rate drops.
The only thing this proves is that there is no direct correlation between gun laws and the crime rate.
I have a hunch you WOULD find a correlation between the crime rate and police activity/overtime though.


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In four dimensional geometry, the tesseract, also called an 8-cell or regular octachoron, is the four-dimensional analog of the cube, which is in turn the three dimensional analog of the square. The tesseract is to the cube as the cube is to the square; or, more formally, the tesseract can be described as a regular convex 4-polytope whose boundary consists of eight cubical cells.
A generalization of the cube to dimensions greater than three is called a "hypercube", "n-cube" or "measure polytope". The tesseract is the four-dimensional hypercube or 4-cube.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word tesseract was coined and first used in 1888 by Charles Howard Hinton in his book A New Era of Thought, from the Greek "τέσσερεις ακτίνες" ("four rays"), referring to the four lines from each vertex to other vertices. Some people have called the same figure a "tetracube", and also simply a "hypercube" (although a hypercube can be of any dimension).
The tesseract can be constructed in a number of different ways. As a regular polytope with three cubes folded together around every edge, it has Schläfli symbol {4,3,3}. Constructed as a 4D hyperprism made of two parallel cubes, it can be named as a composite Schläfli symbol {4,3}x{ }. As a duoprism, a Cartesian product of two squares, it can be named by a composite Schläfli symbol {4}x{4}.
Since each vertex of a tesseract is adjacent to four edges, the vertex figure of the tesseract is a regular tetrahedron. The dual polytope of the tesseract is called the hexadecachoron, or 16-cell, with Schläfli symbol {3,3,4}.
The standard tesseract in Euclidean 4-space is given as the convex hull of the points (±1, ±1, ±1, ±1). That is, it consists of the points:
A tesseract is bounded by eight hyperplanes (xi = ±1). Each pair of non-parallel hyperplanes intersects to form 24 square faces in a tesseract. Three cubes and three squares intersect at each edge. There are four cubes, six squares, and four edges meeting at every vertex. All in all, it consists of 8 cubes, 24 squares, 32 edges, and 16 vertices.
This structure is not easily imagined but it is possible to project tesseracts into three- or two-dimensional spaces. Furthermore, projections on the 2D-plane become more instructive by rearranging the positions of the projected vertices. In this fashion, one can obtain pictures that no longer reflect the spatial relationships within the tesseract, but which illustrate the connection structure of the vertices, such as in the following examples:
A tesseract is in principle obtained by combining two cubes. The scheme is similar to the construction of a cube from two squares: juxtapose two copies of the lower dimensional cube and connect the corresponding vertices. Each edge of a tesseract is of the same length. A multitude of cubes that are nicely interconnected. The vertices of the tesseract with respect to the distance along the edges, with respect to the bottom point. This view is of interest when using tesseracts as the basis for a network topology to link multiple processors in parallel computing: the distance between two nodes is at most 4 and there are many different paths to allow weight balancing.
Tesseracts are also bipartite graphs, just as a path, square, cube and tree are.
The cell-first parallel projection of the tesseract into 3-dimensional space has a cubical envelope. The nearest and farthest cells are projected onto the cube, and the remaining 6 cells are projected onto the 6 square faces of the cube.
The face-first parallel projection of the tesseract into 3-dimensional space has a cuboidal envelope. Two pairs of cells project to the upper and lower halves of this envelope, and the 4 remaining cells project to the side faces.
The edge-first parallel projection of the tesseract into 3-dimensional space has an envelope in the shape of a hexagonal prism. Six cells project onto rhombic prisms, which are laid out in the hexagonal prism in a way analogous to how the faces of the 3D cube project onto 6 rhombs in a hexagonal envelope under vertex-first projection. The two remaining cells project onto the prism bases.
The vertex-first parallel projection of the tesseract into 3-dimensional space has a rhombic dodecahedral envelope. There are exactly two ways of decomposing a rhombic dodecahedron into 4 congruent parallelepipeds, giving a total of 8 possible parallelepipeds. The images of the tesseract's cells under this projection are precisely these 8 parallelepipeds. This projection is also the one with maximal volume.
The tesseract can be unfolded into eight cubes, just as the cube can be unfolded into six squares (Hcube fold.gif). An unfolding of a polytope is called a net. There are 261 distinct nets of the tesseract. The unfoldings of the tesseract can be counted by mapping the nets to paired trees (a tree together with a perfect matching in its complement).
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Stereographic projection
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A 3D projection of an 8-cell performing a double rotation about two orthogonal planes.
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KR: Cortez just took 2nd at FILA Cadets, losing to Freddie Rodriguez of Michigan.
One of my picks CODY WEIRCHIOCH just beat Taylor Massa 4-2 in the Super 32 down in Carolina.
Felipe Martinez also lost. Two of the best juniors-to-be out there. Felipe looked way out of shape. Didn't look at all like what he looked like at Graham.
Freshman Chance Marstleller beats SUPER 32 Champ & 3x PIAA AA medalist Nick Hodgkins
Chance Marstleller (R) vs Nick Hodgkins (G) | Wrestle for the Fight on Flowrestling
I have a section on Chance in this thread already. Hodgkins beat Green of NJ 2 weeks after this match in the finals of the Super 32. Hodgkins came into this match with a HS record of 117-8 with 46 by FALL, 16 by TECH FALL & 20 by MAJOR. Hodgkins is currently ranked as #35 in his class in the nation & #4 @ his projected college weight of 141.
In 2008 Hodgkins was 2nd @ the PIAA AA finals as a Freshman.
In 2009 he won States & in 2010 he placed 3rd.
@ Junior Nationals he was going to wrestle @ 135 but he was overweight. No problem he won the National Junior title @ 140.
UM this should tell you how good this kid Marstleller is! Chance has NOT even wrestled an official HS wrestling match YET!
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This past weekend, Chance Marstellar, wrestling for the KEYSTONE BRAWLERS, went 4-0, (2 falls & 2 dec, see below) & in the process, defeated returning AA state champion Nick Carr (South Fayette) at the Battle Rattle Duals, 6-1. CM wrestled at 160, although he weighed in at 152 (not sure what Carr weighed in at, but Nick won his state title last year at 145 defeating Jordan Moss of Sharon)
BLAIR ACADEMY 25 vs KEYSTONE BRAWLERS 25
160- CHANCE MARSTELLER , (KEYSTONE BRAWLERS) Dec PATRICK COOVER , (BLAIR ACADEMY) 6-0
GOLD MEDAL 3 vs KEYSTONE BRAWLERS 54
160- CHANCE MARSTELLER , (KEYSTONE BRAWLERS) Fall KENNETH LEAR , (GOLD MEDAL) Fall
BLUE MOUNTAIN 6 vs KEYSTONE BRAWLERS 62
160- CHANCE MARSTELLER , (KEYSTONE BRAWLERS) Fall TY GARDNER , (BLUE MOUNTAIN) Fall
IRON HORSE 15 vs KEYSTONE BRAWLERS 41
160- CHANCE MARSTELLER , (KEYSTONE BRAWLERS) Dec NICK CARR , (IRON HORSE) 6-1
With Chance wrestling @ 160 there is already talk of him running into Super Soph & Super 32 champ Wiercioch, (Defending PIAA AA 152 champ but has also bumped up a weight) but since Chance's HS is AAA that won't happen unless it's in another preseason tournament. I wonder if there has ever been a Freshman ranked preseason #1 in the history of the PIAA???
Marsteller is truly something else. He's got a Kolat-esque future ahead of him if he doesn't burn out.
Former Northern Iowa wrestler & PSU wrestling Coach Bill Koll's grandson & former State High & UNC wrestler & current Cornell coach Rob Koll's son, William after winning his 1st NY State title as a Freshman.
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|Scientific Name:
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|Other Common Names:
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Wormseed grows in south-central Mexico and the southwestern United States. It is sometimes employed as a home remedy both in Ciudad Juárez and El Paso.
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- For the dough:
- 3/4 cups white flour
- 3/4 cups wheat flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 teaspoon active dry yeast
- 1/2 cup lukewarm water
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- For the topping:
- 2 oz. Gruyère
- 1/2 head of radicchio (save the other half for a salad)
- 1 medium red potato
- 1/3 cup chopped onion
- 1 glug of olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- freshly ground pepper
Dough recipe adapted from Smitten Kitchen
Cost per serving $4
- Mix the flours, salt and yeast in a large bowl. Add the water and olive oil, stirring mixture into a ball. You will probably not be able to make it into a homogenous ball, but there's an easy fix for that. Smitten Kitchen says to dump everything onto a floured surface and let it sit, covered by the empty bowl, for a few minutes. When you come back to it you should be able to incorporate every bit into a ball.
- Knead the dough a few times: fold it in half, press it with the palms of your hands, turn it a quarter turn, repeat. Lightly oil the bowl and roll the dough ball around the bowl to coat it with oil. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let it rise for 1-2 hours, until it has doubled in size.
- Dump the dough back onto the floured surface and press the air out of it. Make it into a ball again and let it rest covered for another 20 minutes. At this point you can wrap the dough ball in plastic wrap and store in the fridge overnight.
- Heat the oven to 450 degrees. Sprinkle some cornmeal on a cookie sheet. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough into a rectangle. Place it on the cookie sheet.
- Grate the Gruyère on the large holes of a box grater and set aside.
- Coarsely chop the radicchio and slice the potatoes thin. Place the veggies and the onions in a large bowl and add a nice big glug of olive oil, the salt and some black pepper to taste. Toss the veggies to coat.
- Pick out the potato slices and layer on the rolled out dough. Dump the radicchio and onion on top, then sprinkle with the cheese.
- Bake for 15 minutes, remove from the oven and let the flatbread rest a minute or two. Cut into squares and enjoy.
When I think too much about everything I have to do in the next 12 days I get panicked. Yes, my apartment is tiny, but I have lived here for three and a half years and I've really nested in here. I keep reminding myself that packing then moving across the country in a U-Haul through the midwest in the dead of winter would cause anyone anxiety. This is mainly the reason that I haven't had much time to cook lately, and I miss it. So, in the midst of all of this chaos, I chose to make my own pizza dough and create this lovely flatbread. Procrastination is a skill, folks, you have to work hard to get it right.
I'm not sure I understand the difference between pizza and flatbread, except the pizza generally has a sauce (except for mine) and is round. Flatbread, to me, should be rectangular. The debate is pointless to me, as long as it tastes good. I started out this recipe by making the dough a day ahead and storing it in the fridge. I timed myself, it took 7 minutes and 15 seconds to prepare the dough. I then ran an errand while it rose, et voila, convenience for the next evening's meal.
The choice for toppings was random, centering on the vague idea of a potato flatbread. I picked up a few red potatoes and was on the lookout for leeks, which were nowhere to be found. I guess they are out of season now. I DID run across some lovely radicchio, and thanks to the handy seasonal veggie tool, I knew it was in season. The choice of cheese was also purely coincidental. They had some Gruyère out for sampling at the Whole Foods and I thought the nuttiness would go well with the bitterness of the radicchio. Gruyère is a mild stinky cheese, but don't be put off by the stank. Once it melts it's mellow and adds a nice bit of saltiness.
The results were satisfying and fantastically simple, the perfect comfort food for me. If you aren't up to preparing your own dough you can buy refrigerated pizza dough. I recommend slicing the potato paper thin so they will cook all the way through. I use a mandolin slicer to do that, but you could use a sharp knife and your mad knife skills and get the same result. Now I seriously need to get to my packing
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Less than a week after launching the Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Project, the Israel Museum counted more than a million hits on its new website featuring high-resolution photographs of the scrolls.
The museum, together with Google Israel, launched the new site that allows users to examine and explore these ancient manuscripts from Second Temple times. The website also gives short explanatory videos and background information on the texts and their history.
The real scrolls are part of the Israel Museum's Shrine of the Book collection in Jerusalem. They were photographed using a special camera before being uploaded to the site.
"We are privileged to house in the Israel Museum's Shrine of the Book the best preserved and most complete Dead Sea Scrolls ever discovered," said James S. Snyder, Anne and Jerome Fisher Director of the Israel Museum. "They are of paramount importance among the touchstones of monotheistic world heritage, and they represent unique highlights of our Museum's encyclopedic holdings. Now, through our partnership with Google, we are able to bring these treasures to the broadest possible public."
The five Dead Sea Scrolls that have been digitized include the Great Isaiah Scroll, the Community Rule Scroll, the Commentary on Habakkuk Scroll, theTemple Scroll, and the War Scroll.
Google logged a whopping 400,000 hits from the United States, followed by 58,000 visitors from Japan, 48,000 from Canada, and approximately 35,000 visitors from the Netherlands, Britain, Croatia and Brazil.
The museum hopes to digitalize other scrolls in the coming months and upload them as well.
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Where Did I Put It?March 17, 2008
Knitting mojo continues to elude me.
I am near completion of a sweater that I really wanted. But in trying it on today, it was just wrong. I measured and remeasured, but somehow it is three inches short and six inches too narrow. And it's HUGE, a wrap-blanket of a sweater, so those inches shouldn't matter that much, but they do. It's just not right. Doesn't bear thinking about ripping. I will place it in the time-out box (getting pretty full in there). Maybe by next winter I'll want to do something with it.
And the other sweater I've been working on, the DROPS 101-3 Cardigan, well, it's almost done. And I'm going to run out of yarn. I NEVER EVER run out of yarn. I am terrified of doing so, ever since Cromarty, so half my stash is made up of leftovers. But no, I just reached in the bag where I keep my working yarn, and there's only one ball left. And I'm only three-quarters done with the back, and still have the collar to do. (I always make the sleeves, then the fronts, then the back, because the back is my favorite bit to make.) Frustrating. I can find more of the yarn I subbed; it's just the work involved to do that that's maddening. Also, it's curling badly at the hems. I've been hoping a good stiff blocking would help that, but now I'm wondering.
Waste of a month of knitting time.
Casting on. For what? Everyday I search my sweaters for the perfect cardigan. It should be short-sleeved and lightweight, maybe lacy, but there should be enough there to cover up if the wind blows the sunshine away. Any great ideas? I'm trawling through the Ravelry pond, but I haven't figured out the perfect pattern yet. I love Titania, but it ain't no cardigan, is it? I do want to cast on for it, though. Like, now. Only I'd bring that into a deeper vee-neck, I think. And then I'd have yet another lovely sweater that I'd wear twice a year. I'm looking for an everyday sweater. But a graceful, sweet, everyday cardigan. Harder than it sounds. I know YOU know.


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Clauber Lopes serves as the Vice President and has interests in other corporate entities including The Offices at South Star Condonimium Association, Inc., Southern Cross Business and Services, Inc. , and South Star Service Center Condominium Association, Inc. Clauber's past corporate affiliations include Digital Design and Media Corp., The Scala-Trend Group, Inc. and seven others.
Ana Ferreira is the President of Uc International Corp.. Ana's additional corporate interests include Peabody International Holdings Limited Corp., Southern Cross Business and Services, Inc. Ana's past corporate affiliations include Fit & Motion, Inc., South Star Development, Inc.
Clauber C. Lopes is also the registered agent for the company. Also known as a statutory or resident agent, the registered agent is responsible for receiving legal notifications regarding court summons, lawsuits, and other legal actions involving the corporate entity.
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by Julie Penny
Hugging its shore, I've walked the length of Long Beach hundreds of times. Sometimes, alert to the moment, sometimes wistful with the ghosts of friends who've gone before me, remembering the sound of their laughter as we'd strolled contentedly, absorbing the feast of sun, sea, sand and sky. Sometimes, when picking up a shell, I think of our children and grandchildren who all live three time zones away from us, conjuring up their images from past romps at the beach. But for a few fleeting seconds of satisfying thoughts, I'm a failed alchemist; it's their actual presences I'd like to create from thin air, not the vapor of memory. I'm glad for the second-tier alchemy my handy cam provides. At least I have a video library of ephemeral family frolics at Long Beach, and, also of the beach itself in all its different moods and seasons. Long Beach is the temple I pray in.
I'm sure many have felt this way about this beloved spot: at daybreak, at sunset; when it's sunny, cloudy, windy, raining, snowing, icy; when waters are choppy, calm, frozen over.
Multiply me by all those who've walked this shore from its native Indians to colonials, on down to us and it creates a tapestry of lived moments, the nature of which we share in common—from its enjoyments to its activities. We would not be enjoying this beach today if it weren't for Clifford J. Foster and his sons. This summer, through a labor of love, the Sag Harbor Historical Society brought the history of Long Beach to us. Using artifacts, news accounts, maps, specimens, photos, paintings, oral history, emails, whimsy, a slide show, Jean Held and Dorothy Zaykowski weaved together its history
The present is always a snapshot in time while things and we are evolving into something else. The paintings of Long Beach that Annie Cooper Boyd painted in the 1800'served as snap shots in time for Jean and Dorothy. It created curiosity to know what Long Beach was like, looked like before and after Annie took up her paints. Her paintings were original impetus, the canvas from which Jean Held and Doris Zaykowski have filled in the before and after dots creating, in their exhibits, the Long Beach we see today. It took them the better part of a year to do it. The show, which was on view all summer at the Sag Harbor Historical Society, is ended. It brings us to the present. Like the history of Trout Pond they exhibited last year, it's a bridge from the past to the future. What will future generations see? The sheer act of tracing the past to the present gives us a glimpse of the future, at least, where we think we'd like to be headed. One man glimpsed the future and saw what he wanted for Long Beach: a place for the people of Southampton and Sag Harbor to enjoy.
In that respect it was a privilege to meet the Foster family, whose patriarch, Clifford bequeathed Long Beach to us. Acting on his wishes, his sons did precisely that, deeding the beach to the town in December 1949. It appears the original dedication of the Clifford J. Foster Memorial Park was a small ceremony in January 1950, and brief because it was bitter cold. It wasn't an official event. Sixty years later, with the retrospective of the Long Beach exhibit on display it was honored more fittingly. A re-dedication was held—two in one day. One by the memorial rock at Long Beach, the other on the porch steps of the Historical Society.
First of all, it was a gorgeous, sparkling summer day, and many people—all with long and fond memories of Long Beach—assembled for the event at the beach in tribute to the largesse of Clifford J. Foster—and his son's Charles and Everett, who carried through on their father's specific wishes. A meaningful "Proclamation" was read aloud by town officials and given to the Fosters. The gap of time in this overdue "thank you" — while too long a wait for the Fosters — has provided us a unique perspective given what else has transpired around this glorious beachfront. To fully appreciate the grandeur and vision of Clifford J. Foster's gesture to his fellow townspeople, one only has to think of what this stretch of land and beach has not become. It has not become yet another long row of houses end to end blocking out our view of the beach; destroying natural habitat into the bargain. Instead, Clifford J. Foster's vision, love of his town, and sense of place has provided an oasis of delight by which we all get to replenish our souls with beauty. It's provided a place where we can walk, swim, fish, laze in the sun, look at, even study, its flora and fauna. Imagine Noyac without Long Beach. I can't. Can you? It's a gift I treasure every time I pass it, or walk on it. Starting with Native Americans, its changing tides have been greeting succeeding generations. Without the Fosters being its owners at a crucial moment in time, it could have all been developed.
Just before reading the town's proclamation a pair of ospreys flew right overhead. They circled a few times then headed south to the cove. But before they did another pair of ospreys, that circled just a bit south of the Clifford J. Foster memorial rock, joined them. I felt it was in his honor. I believe many of us did. Generations of ospreys, terns, and piping plovers have all benefited from this selfless gesture too.
Several years ago, I learned a lot about the history of Long Beach, spending many hours reading through the old records in Southampton Town's Archives. To my delight, in mounting this exhibit, Jean Held and Dorothy Zaykowki only added to that store of information. Plus added all the human elements—the flotsam and jetsam of lives lived at Long Beach in the remarkable collections of old photos and related old objects. The photo displays, a delight to historians and those fond of their local folklore, actually burgeoned in size during the course of the exhibit as people came in sharing their stories, then coming back later bearing photos of moments spent at Long Beach. In that sense, it became a communal happening, punctuated with photos of old familiar faces now gone, or the faces of people's younger selves spending a happy day at the beach. The life cycle of a community.
When we repaired to the Annie Cooper Boyd House, the site of the historical society, for the second ceremony on its porch, I got to speak with Cliff Foster. He told me how his grandfather, a Sagaponack farmer, had gone out of his way to help the Polish farmers. He told me how "incredibly beautiful" the wetlands were at Long Beach before the county came in and tore up so much of it when putting in the current road in the 1960's. (The road that is the current beach parking lot was once part of the old road.) He says the wetland system was never able to restore itself. I wish I could have seen them. Maybe not. Hearing him speak about the wetlands and their destruction, you can hear the pain, that special ache we feel at paradise lost. The sting of which we feel all too often nowdays, along with the animals that lose their habitat and their livelihoods.
But we still have a bit left of paradise and I thanked him for the generosity of his family, for Long Beach, a gift that keeps on giving.


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The concept of health – as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) – encompasses much more than access to hospitals and healthcare facilities. "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity," the WHO notes. And, clearly, the built environment plays a critical role in determining the health of a city.
"The concept of healthy cities is not new; even the ancient Greeks, Romans and Egyptians understood the relationship between the built environment and health of the population," noted Dr. Trevor Hancock, a Professor and Senior Scholar at the School of Public Health and Social Policy at the University of Victoria in Canada's British Columbia. "Today, the idea of a healthy city focuses on creating a process that engages all of the different stakeholders – municipal government, the private sector, community sector, faith sector and so on – to develop a shared purpose and focus on creating a healthier environment for citizens."
Research shows that part of the challenge relates to the ability of a population to lead more active and healthy lives. According to a report conducted for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (unpublished), "the design of the physical environment in which we live, work and play results in a choice set" for the local population.
Civic infrastructure also plays a massive role in the health of a city. Transportation options, access to clean water, efficiency of sewer systems and waste treatment plants and the location and type of power generation facilities all influence the health of a local population. So to do the design and location of development projects such as residential and commercial developments, shopping malls, sports complexes and parks.
"One of the biggest challenges facing the movement towards more healthy cities is that the direct link between infrastructure megaprojects and specific health outcomes is not always immediately apparent," noted Dr. Hancock. "We tend to have a fairly intuitive understanding of the relationship between health and individual assets such as parks, sewage systems and hospitals, but when it comes to items such as roads, information technology and educational facilities, the cost-benefit link is much harder to quantify."
Given that the health of a population is widely considered to have a direct impact on economic growth, productivity, security and – in many cases – government expenditure, it seems clear that infrastructure planners, developers and investors must start to take a lead role in helping governments and civic leaders create more healthy cities.
"Governance of the city is also a key challenge in encouraging the development of a healthier city," noted Dr. Hancock. "Public sector leaders must start thinking about how they can govern a city in such a way to maximize the health of the population." This will require all infrastructure participants and government planners to take a long, hard look at the role that their projects play in the context of a city's health and, going forward, start to consider the longer-term impacts of proposed megaprojects in terms of their impact on human health and safety. For example, at an October 2012 conference on integrated planning that Dr. Hancock keynoted and supported for the North-West Metropolitan Region of Melbourne, more than 200 participants from 14 local municipalities, 10 state government departments and other key stakeholders, considered the health impacts of four priority issues: housing, transportation, education and employment.
"Megaproject development is not just about engineering or the physical environment," noted Dr. Hancock. "In cities, you are also designing and putting in place soft infrastructure such as human and social services, education and healthcare, and the soft and hard infrastructure implications must be viewed together within the context of urban governance and the needs and benefits for the local population and key stakeholders."
The drive towards healthier cities also incorporates the need for greater resilience in the face of mega-events such as natural disasters, security threats, and political and economic upheaval. In many high-impact zones, some progress has been made: flood levies in New Orleans, tsunami warning systems in South East Asia, and stronger building codes in earthquake zones in the US and Asia have all been created or extended over the past decade.
"In many cities, the poorest people tend to live in the areas of highest risk, either in floodplains or on the sides of precarious hills," noted Dr. Hancock. "A major aspect of creating healthy cities relates to either protecting those people with more resilient infrastructure or – better yet – finding ways to move them out of harm's way."
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One of Duluth's largest 2014 construction projects, which was scheduled to begin last fall, remains in limbo as the parties try to find common ground on its cost.
During the spring of 2013, the guaranteed maximum price (GMP) for the Duluth Transit Authority's multi-modal center came in substantially higher than anticipated. The GMP calculated by Mortenson Construction hit about $32 million on a project that, at the time, was budgeted for $26 million. That delayed the start of construction as everyone went back to the drawing board.
This spring, a revised GMP remained about 8 percent high, DTA executives said at a series of recent board meetings. During the last week of April, a $1.3 million price difference was narrowed to $800,000. Representatives of the DTA and Mortenson planned to meet in several all-day sessions the week of May 5 in an effort to address the remaining funding gap. To accommodate those discussions, the DTA exercised a change order giving it 30 days to review construction contract details.
"They are committed to building this project and we are too," DTA Director of Administration Jim Heilig told his board April 30. Nonetheless, he said, it would be imprudent to move forward until expenses are pared to meet available funds. A list of approximately 75 items will be individually reviewed by both parties to identify potential savings.
It was the third time in a month Heilig briefed DTA board members about the authority's cost concerns. At a special meeting on April 23, he said the DTA's construction budget isn't large enough to cover an unanticipated problem, if one should arise. The authority's contingency fund was spent up front on work such as site testing, and it's virtually depleted.
"If a (significant problem) hits, we're in a position of not knowing whether we can complete the project," Heilig warned. With some elements of the plan already in motion, the DTA could be held responsible for their costs even if the multi-modal center isn't completed. They include $650,000 to acquire a needed structure.
Proponents have been refining the concept for seven years. Their effort began in 2007 when then-Congressman Jim Oberstar asked local officials for a list of transportation priorities. At the time, Oberstar chaired the powerful House Transportation Committee.
"The mantra was to enhance connectivity in the downtown. We were looking at how rail (the proposed Northern Lights Express line) would come into downtown and how to get people around once they arrived at the rail station," Bill Bennett, president of LHB, told BusinessNorth one year ago. LHB and Mortenson have partnered as the multimodal center's design-build team.
The facility originally was viewed as being a $50 million project, given Oberstar's Congressional clout and ability to secure federal funds. When he was defeated in 2010 by Chip Cravaack, it was scaled back because the new conservative lawmaker opposed Congressional earmarks. The final funding package included $20 million from the federal government, $7.5 million from the state and $1.4 million in private funds.
To be constructed on Michigan Street between Second and Third avenues west, the project includes reconstruction of the Northwest Passage, an elevated pedestrian walkway that connects downtown to the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center (DECC). Replacing the musty 38-year-old walkway is popular in some quarters but less so with DTA administrators.
"The 800-pound gorilla in the corner is the skywalk. It has kind-of driven the whole project. I wish we could have just built the terminal and forgotten the skywalk… but it's the reality, and we're committed to it," said DTA General Manager Dennis Jensen.
Reconstruction of the Northwest Passage is scheduled to begin June 22, 2015. That date won't be met, however, unless work on the multi-modal center begins this June 3rd. Both deadlines are fueling the need for the DTA and Mortenson to quickly address their financial differences, Jensen said.
DTA board members must endorse whatever solution arises, which is not guaranteed.
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Although rebidding the project remains an option, Heilig said negotiating with Mortenson remains a better choice.
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