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The Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe
The Fire This Time
The Bonfire of the Vanities.
by Tom Wolfe.
Farrar Straus & Giroux. 659 pp. $19.95.
What happens when one of the kings of the New Journalism, who throughout his career has employed fictional techniques in his reportage, decides to write a novel? In Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities we have an answer to that question. A journalist first and last, Wolfe has scorned the solipsistic assumptions of most of his American fiction-writing contemporaries and—with etymological warrant—has grounded his novel in the news (les nouvelles).
Wolfe's dramatization of the tensions of life in New York City in the 1980's is, to a degree, excruciatingly believable. His notations of different patterns of speech and habits of dress, of the latest fashions in food and interior decoration, and of the sorts of names favored by rock bands (the Pus Casserole) and political protest groups (the Gay Fist Strike Force) are hilariously acute. His evocations of a wide variety of scenes, from the asphalt, concrete, and cinders strewn across the hills and dales of the southeast Bronx in a ghastly yellow gloaming to the bond-trading room of the investment firm of Pierce & Pierce on lower Wall Street, where young Ivy Leaguers roar like wild animals and by 8:30 A.M. have dark half-moons under their armpits, likewise possess an indisputable authenticity.
The novel's panoramic reach considerably exceeds its grasp, however. Not only are the characters types, rather than individuals, but they do not compare in interest with the real people Wolfe has etched in acid in his essays. Owing to the author's lack of literary inventiveness, many of the episodes are boringly predictable, and, as Michael Dolan has demonstrated in a searching review in the Washington, D.C., City Paper, a number of colorful phrases in the book have been cannibalized from Wolfe's earlier writings. Worse than all these disappointments, though, are the plot's departures from plausibility at certain critical junctures.
Such flights of fancy would be forgivable if the novel were simply a satire. But a Dreiserian terror drenches the best chapters in this novel, and it constitutes an even stronger sign than documentary gravity of Wolfe's contradictory ambitions. For all of his desire to push facts to their comic extremes, the author of The Right Stuff (Wolfe's book about the test pilots who form the backbone of America's space-flight program) also wants us to accept The Bonfire as a naturalistic account—as a chronicle, in the words of the flap copy on the dust jacket, of "the way we live in America."
In the wild and whirling prologue we are brought face to face with urban chaos. At a public meeting in Harlem, the mayor of New York, unnamed but revealingly given to Kochian locutions ("Okay? I'll give you the actual figures. Okay?"), is being shouted down with anti-Semitic epithets ("Yo, Goldberg! Yo, Hymie!") by the followers of a manipulative black religionist and street socialist known as Reverend Bacon. The TV crews in attendance, their cameras coming out of their heads like horns, are diabolically delighted by the spectacle, as the mental processes of the mayor immediately recognize: "They're eating it up! They're here for the brawl! . . . They're cowards! Parasites! The lice of public life!"
Despite the accents of self-pity, the mayor is speaking for Wolfe. A bitter view of the tyranny of journalism over our right to privacy as well as our politics, and of the affluence and celebrity attainable by untalented hacks, is powerfully sustained to the end of The Bonfire. The life of Wolfe's thirty-eight-year-old protagonist, the imperious but hardly evil Sherman McCoy, becomes a hell as a result of the media's vile eagerness to destroy respectable reputations, while the sleaziest character in the book, an alcoholic, meal-cadging Englishman, Peter Fallow, who despite his encyclopedic ignorance of the United States is a reporter for a New York tabloid owned by the fabulously wealthy Sir Gerald Steiner, wins not only a Pulitzer Prize for the revelations about McCoy passed to him by others, but the hand of Sir Gerald's daughter as well.
If, however, the harassed mayor of New York knows how he feels about those TV crews, his assessment of his black hecklers wanders between two worlds. On the one hand, he sees them as the curling lip of a multi-racial, multi-ethnic tidal wave of the disadvantaged, in which the varied elements of the city's historic stability are fated to drown if they have not done so already. "Come down from your swell co-ops, you general partners and merger lawyers!" the mayor internally soliloquizes as the blacks in the audience in front of him begin to jump up and down and shake their fists and scream:
It's the Third World down there! Puerto Ricans, West Indians, Haitians, Dominicans, Cubans, Colombians, Hondurans, Koreans, Chinese, Thais, Vietnamese, Ecuadorians, Panamanians, Filipinos, Albanians, Senegalese, and Afro-Americans! Go visit the frontiers, you gutless wonders! . . . You poor fatties! You marshmallows! Hens! Cows! You wait'll you have a Reverend Bacon for a mayor, and a City Council and a Board of Estimate with a bunch of Reverend Bacons from one end of the chamber to the other!
Yet in the very midst of imagining the day when Reverend Bacon and company will show their faces at 60 Wall and Number One Chase Manhattan Plaza to dust out the safe-deposit boxes, the mayor suddenly repudiates his entire prophecy as pathological. "Completely crazy, these things roaring through his head! Absolutely paranoid! Nobody's going to elect Bacon to anything. Nobody's going to march downtown." What are the second thoughts that bring the mayor to his senses? The prologue fails to furnish an answer to this question, and the omission is significant. For His Honor's feverish initial judgment of New York's future is destined to be elaborated upon in the novel proper.
Even though the story of Sherman McCoy is unsatisfyingly fantastic in the last analysis, it begins realistically enough—indeed, quite brilliantly so. With his income of a million dollars a year, a fourteen-room apartment on Park Avenue, a fashionably thin wife who dabbles in interior decorating, a beautiful six-year-old daughter, and a long-legged, sprocket-hipped young mistress named Maria, McCoy carries his "Yale chin" at a cocky angle and thinks of himself as a "Master of the Universe"—but not for long. In the twilight of a late-summer day, as he is bringing Maria and her multitudinous luggage back from Kennedy Airport in his $48,000 Mercedes sports roadster, he misses the ramp for Manhattan on the Triborough Bridge, turns off instead at East 138th, and promptly gets lost in the darkest Bronx. The further he proceeds, the more alarming the street scenes become.
Among the emotions which most Americans share but hesitate to acknowledge in public discourse is the fear of losing one's way in a city at night and ending up in a totally unfamiliar slum neighborhood. If there is anything about The Bonfire that an amateur sociologist can be sure of, as he contemplates its impressive sales, it is that its readers unanimously identify with the situation of McCoy and Maria in the roadster. The onomatopoeic interpolations and parenthetical ejaculations that have long been Wolfe's stylistic signature serve him superbly well as he tracks the curve of McCoy's and Maria's feelings from a vague abysmal uneasiness to a barely controlled panic. Finally, Maria spots a ramp that promises to lead them back to safety, except that the incline is blocked by an old tire. McCoy gets out of the car, picks up the tire, and sees two black men—both of them young, one of them heavily muscled and big—coming toward him.
At which point there ensues a stunning sequence of actions and reactions culminating in unintended homicidal violence. As a lesson in deterministic irony, the sequence bears comparison with the scene in the rowboat on Big Bittern Lake in Dreiser's An American Tragedy, wherein Clyde Griffiths's pregnant girlfriend, Roberta Alden, whom Clyde desperately wants to get rid of but can't bring himself, in the moment of truth, to kill, accidentally falls in the water and drowns, while Clyde does nothing to save her. Breathing in huge gulps "as if she were drowning," Maria in The Bonfire clambers behind the wheel of the Mercedes and Sherman jumps in beside her; she slams the car into first gear as he yells, "Look out!"
The big one was coming toward the car. He had the tire up over his head. Maria squealed the car forward, right at him. He lurched out of the way . . . a blur . . . a terrific jolt. . . . The tire hit the windshield and bounced off, without breaking the glass. . . . The Krauts! . . . Maria cut the wheel to the left, to keep from hitting the cans. . . . The skinny one standing right there. The rear end fishtailed . . . thok! . . . The skinny boy was no longer standing. . . . Maria fought the steering wheel. . . . A clear shot between the guardrail and the trash cans. . . . She floored it. . . . A furious squeal. . . . The Mercedes shot up the ramp. . . .
There but for the grace of God go we. McCoy and Maria's crime of hit-and-run is an event we can so fully believe in that it's difficult to imagine we would have acted differently.
But from the moment the lovers reach the nest she maintains in Manhattan—for Maria, too, is married and must conduct her romances clandestinely—and McCoy allows her to talk him out of his automatic impulse to report what happened to the police, the story begins to place a strain on our credulity. In Dreiser's novels, one never doubts that individual lives are the playthings of large forces. But even though there is a Dreiserian quality in the ensuing account of McCoy's humiliation, as he is stripped of every shred of his honor and dignity and loses his touch as a bond trader as well, Wolfe fails to persuade us of his helplessness in withstanding the accusation that is leveled at him, rather than at Maria, on the theory that he was driving the car at the time of the accident. For the fictional consequence of Wolfe's abiding interest in Manhattan chic is that he has focused his novel not on a young fellow of humble beginnings like Clyde Griffiths, or on a mere saloon manager like Hurstwood in Sister Carrie, but on a man whose father is the leonine senior partner, now retired, of one of New York's most prestigious law firms, and who is himself well-educated, supremely self-confident, and rich.
In addition to asking us to accept the idea that such a man would be so stupid as not to call the police, no matter what the cost in marital embarrassment, Wolfe advances an utterly unconvincing explanation of McCoy's amazing decision not to check with his lawyer immediately as to whether lying low and doing nothing is indeed an advisable course. Things get even worse—for the reader who is feeling cheated, that is—when two detectives finally come to McCoy's home to question him. Because the detectives have nothing more to go on than the make of the car involved in the accident and a fragment of its license-plate number, all that McCoy has to do to thwart his questioners is to behave with his usual hauteur. In newspaper interviews Wolfe has been quoted as saying that he personally loves the characters in The Bonfire—but he doesn't love McCoy sufficiently to refrain from violating his character in order to ensnare him in the toils of the law. Guilt is veritably emblazoned upon the bond trader's every reply to the officers, so that they come away from his awesome apartment agog at their dumb luck in having discovered the needle in the haystack.
Near the conclusion of the book, McCoy estimates that at his second trial (the first having ended in a hung jury) he might be put away for "8? to 25." Acquittal or a sentence of community service has right along, however, been the genuine legal probability, which all the stylistic razzmatazz and socko subplot developments in the author's arsenal of literary distractions do not succeed in concealing. Indeed, so fraught with saving considerations for the defendant is the criminal evidence against McCoy that in addition to making his pessimism seem mysterious, it casts a deep shadow of doubt upon the decision of the Bronx District Attorney, Abe Weiss, to go after McCoy hammer and tongs. Weiss, to be sure, is facing a close race for reelection, and he thinks that a "Great White Defendant" will be a means of placating his black constitutents' alleged outrage about the fact that, of the 40,000 people arrested annually in the Bronx, the overwhelming majority are blacks and Latins. Does the McCoy case, however, like the Griffiths case in An American Tragedy, constitute a cause with which a district attorney can really win friends and influence people? The Bonfire not only affirms that it does, but further asserts that the black population of the Bronx, and of the other boroughs as well, is on the verge of a massive social uprising.
Reverend Bacon, as we might expect, is fond of advancing this view of the black temper, especially when white liberals show signs of disappointment in him. Thus when Edward Fiske III, community outreach director of the Episcopal diocese of New York, at the ankles of whose intellectual liberalism a thousand little things about blacks are already snapping, discovers to his vast distress that the board of trustees of Bacon's Little Shepherd Day Care Center is composed of four black men with criminal records and three others on parole from prison, he journeys up to Harlem and attempts to retrieve the diocese's donation to the center of $350,000. For his pains, the appalled Episcopalian is treated to a warning of doomsday a-coming. "I'm the conservative, whether you know it or not," Bacon instructs him. "You don't know who's out there on those wild and hungry streets. I am your prudent broker on Judgment Day. Harlem, the Bronx, and Brooklyn, they're gonna blow, and on that day, how grateful you will be for your prudent broker." Being a satirist, Wolfe of course is inviting us to laugh at Bacon's threatening reply to the feckless Fiske. Yet he also takes—or pretends to take—this kind of talk seriously, as he makes clear in his account of the conspicuous-consumption dinner party staged by a parvenu couple named Bavardage in their Fifth Avenue apartment.
Dinner parties are more easily brought off by hostesses in real life than by novelists in fiction. The handful of successes in American literature, of which the most notable takes place in William Dean Howells's The Rise of Silas Lap-ham, has definitely not been augmented by the evening at the Bavardages'. As usual, Wolfe is a keen-eyed observer of the ladies' dresses, the table decorations, and the food, yet despite their up-to-the-minute accuracy his observations blur together with the Thackerayan names he has bestowed on some of the guests and the bits of pretentious conversation he records into an altogether unremarkable rendering of a vanity fair, while Wolfe's Waugh-like purpose of casting an aura of decadence over the evening is put to rout by his inability to come up with examples of it.
With the defeat of that larger purpose, the vision of the looming demise of New York's privileged classes that the homosexual English poet Aubrey Buffing sets before the Bavardages and their guests seems even more gratuitous than it might otherwise have been. Even though Buffing is rumored to be on the short list for the Nobel Prize, it is not from his own work that he fashions his apocalyptic allegory, but from Edgar Allan Poe's. In his last years, the poet reminds his audience, Poe lived just north of here, in a part of New York called the Bronx. He was a drunk, of course, Buffing goes on to say, and perhaps a psychotic, but with the madness of prophetic vision he once wrote a story, "The Masque of the Red Death," that "tells all we need to know about the moment we live in now."
A mysterious plague, called the Red Death, is ravaging the land. Prince Prospero—Prince Prospero, Buffing emphasizes—assembles all the best people in his castle, in which he has stored a two-year supply of food and drink, and then shuts the gates against the outside world—"against the virulence of all lesser souls," as Buffing glosses the story—and commences a masked ball that he intends to keep going in all seven of the castle's salons until the plague has burned itself out beyond the walls. One night, however, a guest appears dressed as death. Prospero is filled with a murderous rage by this unwanted apparition, and pursues him into a room appointed entirely in black. But just as he is about to strike at the guest's ghastly shroud, the Prince falls down dead. For the plague has entered the house of Prospero:
Now, the exquisite part of the story [says Buffing] is that somehow the guests have known all along what awaits them in this room, and yet they are drawn irresistibly toward it, because the excitement is so intense and the pleasure is so unbridled and the gowns and the food and the drink and the flesh are so sumptuous—and that is all they have. Families, homes, children, the great chain of being, the eternal tide of chromosomes mean nothing to them any longer. They are bound together, and they whirl about one another, endlessly, particles in a doomed atom—and what else could the Red Death be but some sort of final stimulation, the ne plus ultra?
The woebegone Sherman McCoy has been among Buffing's auditors, and the personal message of doom he hears in the poet's words is the message that Tom Wolfe, who prefers clarity to subtlety, wants to make sure we catch as well. "That mannered, ghostly English voice had been the voice of an oracle. Aubrey Buffing had been speaking straight to him, as if he were a medium dispatched by God Himself. Edgar Allan Poe!—Poe!—the ruin of the dissolute!—in the Bronx—the Bronx! The meaningless whirl, the unbridled flesh, the obliteration of home and hearth!—and waiting in the last room, the Red Death." The only exegetical connection that McCoy (speaking here for Wolfe) refrains from spoon-feeding to us is that the skinny black youth whose coma and eventual death derive from a collision with the fishtailing rear end of a Mercedes had grown up in a housing development in the Bronx called the Edgar Allan Poe projects.
In The Bonfire of the Vanities, the imminence of a revolutionary situation is allegorically insisted on. The prophecy is neither validated nor vindicated, however, by the story the novel tells. The result is that one comes away from the book feeling that Wolfe's apocalypticism has simply been temporarily assumed, in order to lend portentousness to his tale, and that Wolfe really believes, with the mayor of New York, that this kind of thinking is "completely crazy, . . . absolutely paranoid!"


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Posted at: 04/05/2013 12:50 PM
Updated at: 04/05/2013 5:39 PM
By: KOB.com staff
Governor Susana Martinez signed a $5.89 billion budget proposal Friday that increases state spending by 4.2 percent, or roughly $235 million.
According to a news release from the Governor's office, the budget increases funding for public education by nearly $112.1 million and provides a $29.5 million increase in Medicaid.
As "As I said when the Senate passed it, this budget is not perfect, in that it shortchanges the New Mexico Reads to Lead program, support for our most effective teachers, and several economic development tools," said Governor Martinez in the release. "But the fundamentals of this budget are strong. It restrains state spending to a responsible level and ensures that we have strong reserves during uncertain economic times. And with the enactment of our bipartisan jobs package, New Mexico is poised to better compete for jobs and economic development."
Direct education reform funding includes $11.5 million for the State's early reading initiative, $4 million for direct assistance to schools that receive a grade of D or F under the state's A-F grading system, and $1.5 million for a new program to recruit more science and math teachers in underserved areas of New Mexico.
Pre-K and K-3 Plus funding will also each increase by $4.9 million. Under this budget, FY14 reserves are projected to remain above 11 percent of the state budget.
Governor Martinez issued line-item vetoes totaling $1.7 million in recurring appropriations and $20.9 million in non-recurring funds when signing the budget, the news release said.


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Wednesday, November 22, 2006
The Word Made Fresh: Flava Flav on the Resurrection
This ain't no joke. G like died on the cross for your stupid sins, I mean "G" as in God, and he even had a gang too – with like 12 members: one of them even backed stabbed him and gave him over to the po-lice. He had G assassinated. Like he was Biggie Smalls or 2-Pac or sum'in. You can't kill God. Them be stupids thinking they could kill God.
If G hadn't risen from the dead, do you think that his gang would have went around pub-bliss-i-sizing the resurrection like they did? Well, they wouldn't have, cause they be lyin' if they did that. And that would make them bad Jews. I ain't scared to say this, and you should be dither, because it is the Truth.
Don't think that someone jacked his body. Nobody came and stole his body. There's no 5-finger discount at the resurrection. That's just made up stuff so some punk guard could keep his job, fo' sho'. The tomb was empty cause JC rose and walked out. Not cause someone stole his body. Where is his body now? Not here. It's in Heaven you corn-hole fool. Stop looking and start prayin'.
After He rose, He was seen all over the place. It was like JC was A-listed everywhere. The Rock, Peter, saw him before the gang. Some brothas on the road to Emmaus say Him. He was even in a room and let this dude put his hand in his wounds. Shoot, JC even ate fish. Dead people don't eat fish, only living people eat. He wasn't just some ghost trying to spook people. Ghosts don't eat. They don't even have stomachs. Don't believe me? It's in the Bible. Look it up.
Yeah Boye! The resurrection. It's fo' real yo. You can't make up something this dramatical.
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- klatu said...
A new interpretation of the moral teaching of Christ defines an ethical Resurrection and the foundations of righteousness. I quote from an OVI article:
"Using a synthesis of scriptural material from the Old and New Testaments, the Apocrypha , The Dead Sea Scrolls, The Nag Hammadi Library, and some of the worlds great poetry, it describes and teaches a single moral LAW, a single moral principle offering the promise of its own proof; one in which the reality of God responds to an act of perfect faith with a direct, individual intervention into the natural world; correcting human nature by a change in natural law, altering biology, consciousness and human ethical perception outside all natural evolutionary boundaries. Understood metaphorically, this experience of transcendent power and change is the 'Resurrection' and justification of faith."
This change in the faith paradigm may mean the entire history of Christianity to be in error.
Further information at www.energon.org.uk
- Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:55:00 PM


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James M. Reecy
Professor of Animal Science
Coordinator, Bioinformatics Coordination Program, National Animal Genome Research Program, National Beef Cattle Evaluation Consortium
Iowa State University
2255 Kildee Hall
Ames, IA
Phone: 515-294-9269
Fax: 515-294-2401
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
South Dakota State University, Animal Science BS: 1990
University of Missouri-Columbia, Animal Science MS: 1992
Purdue University, Animal Science PhD: 1995
2008: Early Achievement in Research Award, Midwest American Society of Animal Science
2003 Early Achievement in Research Award, College of Agriculture, Iowa State University
Dr. Reecy's current areas of research include beef cattle molecular genetics, gene function, and development livestock bioinformatics/database resources.
Beef is a highly nutritious and valued food. It is a rich source of protein and micronutrients (vitamins A, B6, B12, D, and E, iron, zinc and more). However, one major factor affecting beef intake has been the nutritional recommendations of dieticians and health professionals. The consumer has been told that it is desirable to decrease the consumption of foods rich in SFA. Often, it is recommended that beef be excluded from the diet because it is rich in SFA and SFA intake has been positively correlated with atherosclerosis and other vascular diseases. However, lipids are not the only nutrients in beef that can impact human health. Iron is a mineral that is required to maintain adequate human health. Iron-containing compounds carry oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body and regulate cell growth and differentiation. Insufficient iron is harmful resulting in anemia, which can cause weakness, lethargy, muscle fatigue, and shortness of breath. In addition to fatty acids and iron, there are other nutrients like CLA, omega-3 fatty acids, zinc, magnesium, creatinine, creatine, carnitine, vitamin E, vitamin B6 and B12, cholesterol, and sphingolipids that can impact human health. While beef is already a wonderful source of nutrients, there is a huge potential to further enhance beef so that it is an even better nutrient source. It is our contention that U.S. consumers will become increasingly supportive of food sources that they believe help them live a healthier life and that enhancing the nutritional value of beef will increase consumer demand for the product and ensure continued growth of the beef industry. We have determined that the heritability associated with individual fatty acids is very favorable (h2 = 0.25 - 0.45). Recently, we reported on the identification of mutations in Fatty Acid Synthase that were associated with decreased saturation of fat. Thus, producers can begin to select for cattle that produce a healthier product. Currently, we are conducting a large experiment designed to implement whole genome selection for healthfulness traits in cattle.
Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) complex is the biggest health obstacle the cattle industry faces due to the economic ramifications. Recently, we reported that the potential decrease in performance and carcass merit resulted in an economic loss of $23.23, $30.15, and $54.01 in carcass value when comparing cattle never treated to cattle treated once, twice, or three or more times, respectively. In addition, we have preliminary data with industry fed cattle indicating that the heritability of resistance to BRD is low (h2 = 0.1). In addition, we are interested in the response to vaccination. If we could identify those animals that will respond to vaccination, we should be able to improve the overall health of feedlot cattle.
When Myostatin was knocked out in mice, it resulted in a 200% increase in muscle mass. This finding resulted the realization that the double-muscling phenotype in cattle was the result of mutations in Myostatin. While progress has been made into the elucidation of intracellular signaling mechanisms controlled by Myostatin, there is much that we still do not understand. Previously, we evaluated global gene expression levels in wild-type and myostatin-null mice during primary and secondary myotube formation, as well as five weeks postnatal. Interestingly, gene expression changes could be binned into any phenotype one was interested with respect to muscle growth. We went on to report that Wnt4 and sFRPs lie downstream of Myostatin and are most likely involved in regulation of satellite cell proliferation. Recently, we initiated an experiment with myostatin-null mice and M16i obese mice to identify epistatic alleles that control skeletal, skeletal muscle, and adipose growth. As a result of this experiment, we hope to identify alleles that have differential effects in the presence and absence of functional Myostatin. These findings should lead to the development of novel strategies to enhance postnatal skeletal muscle growth.
Livestock geneticists have done a wonderful job of identifying regions of the genome that are associated with traits of economic importance. However, they have identified so many QTL that it is no longer feasible for researchers to stay abreast of all publications. To alleviate this problem, we have developed a livestock QTL database where we have curated cattle, chicken and pig QTL. We are working to expand this resource to allow researchers to seamlessly move from QTL information to genomic information to assist them in the identification of causative alleles underlying QTL. As a result of this work, we realized there is a large need to develop a standardized nomenclature for phenotypes. Toward this end, we have developed resources to allow for the collaborative development of an Animal Trait Ontology (ATO). We are currently working with the Rat Genome Database, Mouse Genome Informatics, EADGENE and SABRE to expand this resource. We will use this resource in conjunction with a comparative QTL viewer that we are developing to allow for the exchange of genomic and phenotypic information across multiple species.
Professional Affiliations and Committees
American Society of Animal Science
American Heart Association
American Association for the Advancement of Science
International Society of Animal Genetics
Selected Publications
A1. Endale Ahanda ML, Fritz ER, Estellé J, Hu ZL, Madsen O, Groenen MA, Beraldi D, Kapetanovic R, Hume DA, Rowland RR, Lunney JK, Rogel-Gaillard C, Reecy JM, Giuffra E. 2012. Prediction of Altered 3'- UTR miRNA-Binding Sites from RNA-Seq Data: The Swine Leukocyte Antigen Complex (SLA) as a Model Region. PLoS One. 2012;7(11):e48607. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048607. Epub 2012 Nov 6.
A2. Mateescu RG, Garmyn AJ, Tait RG Jr, Duan Q, Liu Q, Mayes MS, Garrick DJ, Van Eenennaam AL, Vanoverbeke DL, Hilton GG, Beitz DC, Reecy JM. 2012. Genetic parameters for concentrations of minerals in longissimus muscle and their associations with palatability traits in Angus cattle. J Anim Sci. 2013 Mar;91(3):1067-75. doi: 10.2527/jas.2012-5744. Epub 2012 Dec 10.
A3. Hu ZL, Park CA, Wu XL, Reecy JM. 2013. Animal QTLdb: an improved database tool for livestock animal QTL/association data dissemination in the post-genome era. Nucleic Acids Res. 2013 Jan 1;41(D1):D871-9. doi: 10.1093/nar/gks1150. Epub 2012 Nov 24.
A4. Badaoui B, Tuggle CK, Hu Z, Reecy JM, Ait-Ali T, Anselmo A, Botti S. 2013. Pig immune response to general stimulus and to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus infection: a meta-analysis approach. BMC Genomics. 2013 Apr 3;14:220. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-220.
A5. Kizilkaya K, Tait RG, Garrick DJ, Fernando RL, Reecy JM. 2013. Genome-wide association study of infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis in Angus cattle. BMC Genet. 2013 Mar 26;14(1):23. [Epub ahead of print]
A6. Nafikov RA, Schoonmaker JP, Korn KT, Noack K, Garrick DJ, Koehler KJ, Minick-Bormann J, Reecy JM, Spurlock DE, Beitz DC. 2013. Sterol regulatory element binding transcription factor 1 (SREBF1) polymorphism and milk fattyacid composition. J Dairy Sci. 2013 Apr;96(4):2605-16. doi: 10.3168/jds.2012-6075. Epub 2013 Feb 10.
A7. Dawson HD, Loveland JE, Pascal G, Gilbert JG, Uenishi H, Mann KM, Sang Y, Zhang J, Carvalho-Silva D, Hunt T, Hardy M, Hu Z, Zhao SH, Anselmo A, Shinkai H, Chen C, Badaoui B, Berman D, Amid C, Kay M, Lloyd D, Snow C, Morozumi T, Cheng RP, Bystrom M, Kapetanovic R, Schwartz JC, Kataria R, Astley M, Fritz E, Steward C, Thomas M, Wilming L, Toki D, Archibald AL, Bed'hom B, Beraldi D, Huang TH, Ait-Ali T, Blecha F, Botti S, Freeman TC, Giuffra E, Hume DA, Lunney JK, Murtaugh MP, Reecy JM, Harrow JL, Rogel-Gaillard C, Tuggle CK. 2013. Structural and functional annotation of the porcine immunome. BMC Genomics. 2013 May 15;14:332
A8. Bauermann FV, Harmon A, Flores EF, Falkenberg SM, Reecy JM, Ridpath JF. 2013. In vitro neutralization of HoBi-like viruses by antibodies in serum of cattle immunized with inactivated or modified live vaccines of bovine viral diarrhea viruses 1 and 2. Vet Microbiol. 2013 May 20. doi:pii: S0378-1135(13)00250-2. 10.1016/j.vetmic.2013.04.032. [Epub ahead of print]
A9. Koesterke L, Milfeld K, Vaughn MW, Stanzione D, Koltes JE, Weeks NT, Reecy JM. 2013. Optimizing the PCIT algorithm on satampede's Xeon Xeon Phi processors for faster discovery of biological networks. XSEDE '13 Proceedings of the Confenerence on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Gateway to Discivery. ISBN: 978-1-4503-2170-9. doi>10.1145/2484762.2484794
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Players come for the game, but they stay for the people- Most Devs have forgotten this.
Originally posted by maplestone
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"A strange game. The only winning move is not to post."
Yeah yeah blah blah blah, "I tried to show you something beautiful..." etc.
I wonder if this person ever stoped to think that maybe, just maybe, all the rancor is coming from a player base that's grown up but is still only given children's toys to play with.
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different"
OP is missing a major point
I do not play MMO's for gear or addiction
I do not play MMO's because i think they are that fun
I play MMO's for the PEOPLE i meet.
EVE online and Vangaurd are not that fun but i met great people and we had an amazing time. These people are what kept me playing much more then the game itself.
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You can't blame players for this. Some people, a small minority, maybe "content locusts", but many people would LOVE to find a new game that was interesting and engaging to stick with. We did it with older "hardcore" and/or sandbox games back in the day, and people did it with good old mainstream WoW.
Smed got it right in his most recent quote when asked about sandbox games. He's late to the game, but at least he's seeing the light now.
There's a market for these themepark games, but it's never going to be a base of people who hang around for years. The ship sailed with WoW. If game devs want to create and market "short term" MMO's, then they better plan for this from day one. If they expect people to hang out and spend 1-2 years buying things from cash shops or paying a sub fee, they better find ways to put the control back in their player's hand, and do so in an interesting and engaging way. Games like ArchAge, The Repopulation, and even the new Day Z mmo in production are a step in the right direction. I think if someone can do emergent gameplay right, then more people will love it than anyone knows.
To claim there is no market for sandbox games is a chicken and egg conondrum at this point. We know lots of people liked the old ones. Since WoW, the lion's share of people who came to the genre have ever even played a sandbox game, let alone one that was built with modern tools and a triple-A budget.
A sure sign that you are in an old, dying paradigm/mindset, is when you are scared of new ideas and new technology. Don't feel bad. The world is moving on without you, and you are welcome to yell "Get Off My Lawn!" all you want while it happens. You cannot, however, stop an idea whose time has come.
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Originally posted by Calerxes
Well for starters wolfenstein wasn't real 3D (neither was doom for that matter) so the first one to do real 3D would be different. Quake, Duke Nukem and Half-life all provided a very different experience. The first battlefield was a different take as well.
I see what you were going for but Dune came out before Command and Conquer so you'd probably want to use that to stick with your "What did anyone do different from the first in a genre" motife.
A different platformer than Donkey Kong, well how about that new one they came out with where it is 3D but 2D at the same time, so you can rotate the world but then it plays as 2D from the new view. Certainly a new take and adds a whole new level.
When you played the original Big 3 MMOs they all felt very different to one another. So saying that nothing is different is really missing the point that is being made. When someone played UO, then EQ, then AC, at no point did they say "They're all just clones of each other". But when someone plays the new theme parks which actively copy WoW, they feel like clones of WoW.
EXACTLY! thank you ! oh man that was awesome!
yeah this is an ongoing problem. I see it in almost every post complaining about GW2 and God forbid you point this out, someone might call you a fanboi! GASP!
I get called fanboi every time i point out the flaw in these people's logic (HA Spock would be laughing his butt off at the very notion of thinking these people had ANY logic whatsoever) And in these very forums everyday those same people gush after the games they love. the 2004 model. the ones that are failing miserably because they can't see the problems facing not only industry but also the economics of the time.
You're getting bored because somewhere along the way you thought that the only reason you play was for gear. NO that's not how the mmo genre started and I am hopeful now that GW2 is released and a success that it's not how the MMO genre will end. Playing in an mmo was never about gear for me, until i was pulled in by these people then all there was to do is to stand around in town waiting for a group to form to run a dungeon for a few minutes and return to town.
Lobby games are not what i signed up for. I played mmo's because it was amazing to see that they could take computer code and make it into a living world. With each new game focused on immersion this has been the case.
The reason why so many of these 2004 style games are failing isn't just economics of not being able to sustain the monthly fee. it's also and more importantly the lack of life in their designed worlds.
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Completely and utterly agree with the OP's reddit link. I've been regurgitating this sentiment for years and years. MMOs didn't have this fucked up problem before WoW existed. The community was miniscule compared to know and we had our own respecitive games we loved and did the same content for months if not years and loved it.
The only thing that drives me away from a game is when it doesn't work or when the company starts bleeding customers for extra money on the side. But I am LOVING gw2 and plan on sticking with it for a long time (more than a month).
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Originally posted by Nethermancer
No actually you are, you are the majority he's talking about and so am i. we both are the people these mmo's were really made for and the reason why this industry is holding on.
The minority are the people they described as the complainers who want nothing but gear and run around complaining after they get what they want.
You and I are the reasons GOOD games exist because we don't play for gear.
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Originally posted by itgrowls
You guys are in it for the MMO aspect, I am in it for the RPG aspect. Can we go back to being seperate? What happened to your chatrooms and facebook and twitter? What happened to my games that actually had storylines and gear came from the boss that was wearing it? Why can't we be friends?
I played WoW up until WotLK, played RoM for 2 years and now Rift.
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Originally posted by Calerxes
Exactly. Thank you.
When I was teaching myself how to code, and then teaching myself how to use HTML, first there was no internet, then there was usenet and such - not the world wide web as it is now. Hell, I still have a "Map of the Internet" from a computer magazine from the 90's.
Point is, I was buying $60 books like mad out of the book store. Now, you can get all the information you want for free on the web. Things *are* changing, and have been.
I mean no disrespect here - But I would imagine those that don't really remember life before the internet don't fully comprehend the incredible difference it made and is still making.
Compared to other forms of entertainment, MMOs are in their infancy. It wasn't all that long ago that MUDS were amazing marvels that were spawned based on DOOR games in BBS's. Yes it's time for a new direction (opinion), but I firmly believe it will come just as it should.
You can't expect radical changes to suit your fancy in a matter of months or a few years (again (sigh) opinion).
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@Mindtrigger. @Snarlingwolf.
I expanded on what I meant.
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Players come for the game, but they stay for the people- Most Devs have forgotten this.
Originally posted by Acidon
Def. agree with you!
As to the other guy who posted the thing about "cable companies".. I am a project manager for the largest cable company up here in Alaska.. and I can say without a shadow of a doubt we are busier then we were 20 years ago, 10 years ago..or even 4 years ago before the economy took a hit.
So I would love to see where you get these "facts" about cable companies "struggling with costumer loss"..
My guess is you are pulling them out of your arse.
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Originally posted by Indol
I think most such (at least on this board) are just too fascinated with their own prose.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
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Originally posted by Dewm
I already posted quotes from sources that detail how cable companies are losing televsion subscribers. So either look at my post or use your lazy "sometime between 9 and 5" ass to go google for a few seconds and find it yourself.
Television subscriptions are declining and have been, it is true and it is easy to find the facts.
"But we have some business therefore the industry as a whole can't be losing televsion subscribers, unfathomable!!". Is as bad as the person who said "The Avengers was a hit movie therefore the movies aren't seeing decreasing ticket sales". Amazing how some minds "work".
Originally posted by Calerxes
I believe we have a case where the under-informed masses have detected that somemthing is wrong with the current themepark games, but they really don't know what it is. They know they are getting bored fast. They know the content is too easy (after they tear through it all), and they know the game companies cannot deliver new content fast enough.
What they don't know is that there are answers to this that exist already. I call it sandbox play or emergent gameplay. GW2 is *not* emrgent gameplay, and thier events are not all that dynamic. Emergent gameplay gives the players features that allow them to create their own content. I won't get into what I think some of those features are in this post because it would take a while, but what I do know is what Smed said and I agree with. The game devs are behind the curve, and I'll go further to say that mainstream MMO players don't really know what the problem is. What's likely to happen is the same thing that is happening now, players tearing through games and moving on, or the themepark sub-genre is going to have to evolve to encorporate more emergent gameplay / sandbox features.
The fact is, they can't keep making these MMOs that take five years and tens of millions to build, but only 30-60 days for players to complete. It's just going to bury the market.
That's fine with me. It will make more room for smaller companies willing to listen and take chances.
A sure sign that you are in an old, dying paradigm/mindset, is when you are scared of new ideas and new technology. Don't feel bad. The world is moving on without you, and you are welcome to yell "Get Off My Lawn!" all you want while it happens. You cannot, however, stop an idea whose time has come.
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OP's mad because GW2 didn't live up to the hype
Maybe if developers will "get it" and go back to the roots that made this genre successful, Players will be happy to play instead of bitching about re processed crap we are fed.
Originally posted by GeezerGamer
Nothing is living up to anyone's hype anymore. Actually GW2 is *the best* of the current themeparks in my opinion. It's not a game changer though, and they will find themselves in the same situation as all the other themeparks on the market. Running to WoW or another themepark isn't going to solve the problem.
We had all hoped GW2 would be more, but I think it has become just about all any pure themepark can be and they did a great job doing it. What else can be done to a themepark? You can argue they should have stuck with the trinity, or gone to some four-class system, but the rest of the game is what it is unless they start adding sandbox features.
Show me an upcoming themepark game that is a vast improvement over GW2 or anything before it. They all function basically the same and people are bored with it.
A sure sign that you are in an old, dying paradigm/mindset, is when you are scared of new ideas and new technology. Don't feel bad. The world is moving on without you, and you are welcome to yell "Get Off My Lawn!" all you want while it happens. You cannot, however, stop an idea whose time has come.
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Originally posted by Nethermancer
But you are not a representative of everyone.
I do NOT play MMO for the people i meet.
I play a MMO for how good the MULTIPLAYER portion of the game is.
If a MMO is not fun, i will pass, just like any other games.
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Originally posted by MindTrigger
Smaller companies are doing this already but they don't have the investment and experience to do it properly so the products come out unfinished (Xsyon, MO) not full developed, meaning filled with exploits (Darkfall, Perpetuum) its a catch 22 situation you need good investment, experienced dev teams and time to complete the projects properly but that makes the cost prohibitive for the audience you are after. You then start to find ways to cut costs and that means inplementing already tried and tested features thus going down the road of the CLONE. Rift is a great example of this when it was first announced it was outlined to be the spiritual successer to EQ and Vanguard but they managed the project so tightly the game turned out as WoW 1.5. We need to support the Indies through thick and thin to show the big boys we want that type of gameplay. Communities coming together can do this just like the GNU/Linux community did 20 years ago now GNU/Linux/Open Source is everywhere and Microsoft has genuine competition.
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Originally posted by Calerxes
Mindtrigger, you shouldn't post when you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. You just tried to make the comparison that because a SANDBOX is drastically different from a THEMEPARK game that his point was false.
Seriously, think before posting please.
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If users choose to download Facebook's Home software starting on April 12, the social network will become the hub of their Android smartphones. A phone from HTC that comes pre-loaded with Home will also be available starting that day, with AT&T Inc. as the carrier.
The idea behind the software is to bring Facebook content right to the home screen, rather than requiring users to check apps. "Home" comes amid rapid growth in the number of people who access Facebook from phones and tablet computers. Of its 1.06 billion monthly users, 680 million log in to Facebook using a mobile gadget.
The service is part of Facebook's move to shift its users' focus from "apps and tasks" to people, said CEO Mark Zuckerberg during Home's unveiling at the company's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters on Thursday.
The new product, which resides on the home screen of Android phones, is a family of apps designed to help people share things with their Facebook friends. Rather than seeing a set of apps for email, maps and other services when they first turn on their phones, users will be greeted with photos and updates from their Facebook feeds. There will be ads too, eventually.
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Recognizing that text messaging is one of the most important tasks on a mobile phone, Facebook also showed off a feature called "chat heads." This lets users communicate with their friends directly from their phone's home screen — without opening a separate app.
The move that coincides with rapid growth among the number of users who access the social network from smartphones and tablet computers and Facebook's aim to evolve from its Web-based roots into a "mobile-first" company.
"What Facebook wants is to put itself at the front of the Android user experience for as many Facebook users as possible and make Facebook more elemental to their customers' experience," said Forrester analyst Charles Golvin.
The new Home service won't be available on Apple's iPhone and iPad devices. Apple's iOS and Mac operating systems include features that integrate Facebook's services, but Zuckerberg said doing something like Home would require a closer partnership.
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The deeper mobile integration will likely help Facebook to attract more mobile advertisers. Though mobile ads were a big concern for Facebook's investors even before the company's initial public offering last May, some of the worry has subsided as the company muscles its way into the market.
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INDIANAPOLIS, IN – Hilbert College men's basketball player Dallas Reinard (Smethport, PA/Smethport) has been named a DIII News All-American. The fifth team selection was recently recognized by D3hoops.com as an All-East Region selection.
Reinard led the Hawks to the college's first ever trip to the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) post season tourney. The 6'4 junior guard was the Player of the Year in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) and finishes the season ranked 16th nationally in points per game (22.4).
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Then I looked at watch eden, and found this one:
They claim that it's a working chrono. I've never seen an automatic working chrono at that price (108$ after coupon). What's the catch? Which movement are they using?
Ok, I got it... It's not a chrono at all. It's something else... But does anybody know if the pushers do anything?
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Graduate student teams from the University of Arkansas and the University of Maryland earned first place in the energy and security categories at the 2010 GVC hosted by ORNL March 24–26. The competition, in its fourth year, attracts students developing new technologies and venture investors with expertise in the market. The first-prize winners each received $25,000.
Douglas Hutchings, Stephen Ritterbush, and Seth Shumate from Arkansas won first place in the energy division for Silicon Solar Solutions. "Our method replaces the expensive top layer of solar cells with a thinner, large-grain polysilicon at lower temperatures, which reduces cost and is appealing to manufacturers," said Ritterbush.
Matthew Dowling, Peter Thomas, and Oluwatosin Ogunsola of Maryland won first place in the security division for Remedium Technologies, Inc., which produces a sprayable hemostat. Dowling and Thomas, doctoral students in bioengineering, said that their Kytoclot technology is a portable, pressurized foam that compresses and protects internal wounds. Typically such wounds have required surgery. "The Department of Defense would be our first potential customer because this product quickly stops bleeding," Dowling said.
Twenty-two teams from five countries were semifinalists. "We have expanded our reach globally with applications from 44 teams in eight countries, and that's a record," said Tom Rogers, director of industrial partnerships and economic development within the Partnerships Directorate. "Judges have said the technology this year is far superior to prior years." More than 50 judges, including from 15 venture capital firms, selected winners.
Rogers said several past teams have formed companies; Remedium has capital from startup investors and Silicon Solar Solutions is talking to manufacturers.
Students met with Laboratory Director Thom Mason and attended a Venture Showcase highlighting new ORNL technology. Prize money and travel stipends were funded by DOE, the Department of Homeland Security, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Battelle Ventures, the National Institute for Hometown Security, the National Venture Capital Association, the East Tennessee Economic Council, and Meritus Ventures, LP
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"FAMILY," Part One: In a dystopian near-future, government is a quaint concept, resources are coveted, and possession is 100% of the law. A handful of Families rule, jealously guarding what they have and exploiting the Waste who struggle to survive in their domains. Forever Carlyle defends her family's holdings through deception and force as their protector, their Lazarus. Shot dead defending the family home, Forever's day goes downhill from there...


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I am husband to the amazing Amelia and father to Elizabeth and Timothy.
David Bram is a fine art photographer and the editor, founder, and curator of Fraction Magazine, an online venue dedicated to fine art photography, showcasing the work of both emerging and very established fine art photographers. Fraction Magazine is published on a monthly basis. Fraction Magazine was founded in 2008 and has shown portfolios from more than 120 photographers.
David has been reviewing portfolios at various national events including Review LA, Review Santa Fe, PhotoNOLA, Atlanta Celebrates Photography and Fotofest. He was also a juror for Review Santa Fe in 2010 as well as a juror for Critical Mass in 2009 and 2010. In September 2010, David was the recipient of the Griffin Museum of Photography's Rising Star Award.
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I had a dream I was in a ring,being boxed around by angels wings.
This went on a many times,then it stopped by a beautiful chime.
A sudden great force ushered me to my corner,where I took a minute to sit.
Then once again the chime began and back out I went to get hit.
I was being hit by a flurrryy of wings,when I found myself going down.
When there he was in the middle of the ring,a bearded man in a long white gown.
He counted me out 1,2,3, up to 8,9,10, then told me to rise and kneel before him
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By Natalie Chandler : February 19, 2013 : Updated: February 20, 2013 12:54pm
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Recycled tires are the foundation of this floral purse at All's Fair World Gifts, which will be showing its wares Saturday at Leon Valley's Earthwise Living Day. Top (left to right): A bicycle chain is transformed into a votive candleholder; Kenyan artists fashion recycled wire into charming bicycle earrings; Citrus peel is transformed into beads that form a bracelet; Plastic bags are fashioned into a purse.
There's a recycling trip around the world inside Hollye Schwartz's shop in Castle Hills, and she's bringing it to Leon Valley this weekend.
A bracelet made from ostrich egg shells by Namibian bushmen, a purse fashioned from plastic bags from Kenya and another made from paper beads in Uganda are just a few of the items at All's Fair World Gifts, a boutique that specializes in offering fair trade products.
Need a pair of earrings made from fish scales? Or a candle holder created from bicycle chains? Schwartz is taking her earth-friendly wares to Leon Valley's annual Earthwise Living Day on Saturday.
The free event begins at 10 a.m. and ends at 2 p.m. at the Leon Valley Community Center and Conference Center at 6427 Evers Road.
Besides recycled and hand-crafted items, Earthwise Living Day offers exhibits of services that promote environmentally friendly services and products. There will be speakers on hand to discuss energy, recycling and climate change. And there's a place for people to drop off cell phones, computers, clothes and other items for recycling.
It's Schwartz's second time to participate in the event. She works with different companies to stock her store with fair trade items, a term that means the artists are fairly paid and treated for their services.
"I do this from the heart," said Schwartz, a former elementary school teacher and native San Antonian.
Twenty years after her high school chemistry teacher motivated her interest in the environment, "I went to visit my friend in New Hampshire, and they were very environmental up there, and I just took off," she said.
"I've been advocating for the environment ever since," she said.
Home-based crafter Diane Gilmore will also be at Earthwise Living Day, offering hand-painted magnets made from the flowers from butterfly vines in her backyard.
After plucking the delicate petals, Gilmore uses a "special secret sauce" to coat them and prevent them from breaking, she said.
"I didn't want to use toxic sprays, so I use all water-based paints and coatings," she said.
The leaves are then painted and sealed. Some of them are turned into magnets, while others are used as decoration for floral arrangements.
Though it can take an hour to finish a batch, Gilmore said the process "is my therapy, it really is."
"It's so relaxing when I finish working on something and I just sit down and paint," she said.