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It's not an easy decision to go back to school. Adding classes on top of work and family responsibilities can be stressful. But plenty of University of Arizona employees have taken the leap, taking advantage of the Qualified Tuition Reduction to build their skills through master's and doctoral programs.
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A bachelor's degree was enough to get Michael McKisson a job in the School of Journalism, but he knew he would need an advanced degree in order to move ahead in his career.
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Now working as an associate professor of practice, he's finished with his required courses and finishing up his last two elective courses, which will finish in December.
"To balance everything, you have to really prioritize," McKisson said. "People always say, 'Oh, you're so busy, I don't know how you do it all.' You just do. But the thing is, it's the family that really sacrifices."
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He says having a newborn at home while working toward his MBA made things especially challenging, but working efficiently as possible helped him manage all of his responsibilities.
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One month before McKisson officially receives his MBA, he's already exploring Ph.D. programs, although he's unsure exactly what he will focus on. He says he plans to wait a year before starting the next phase of his education. By then, his daughter will be starting kindergarten, which will make taking classes a little easier for his family.
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I went to the doctor yesterday--boring routine visit, but thats ok I met with a midwife this time. She measured my uterus--actually measuring about a week larger (better larger than smaller I figure) and listened to the heartbeat @ 145. I'm scheduled for another u/s on July 8th and the glucose test the same day. I'm feeling lots of movement now too--loving that! DH has felt the baby move and we have even seen my stomach move. He/She seems to really like ice cream--lots of movement when I eat it
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I actually have my next doctors appt. on Monday so hopefully some updates then. Until then, for me no news is good news. I'm getting big. Some people say they know others due in Spetember who are bigger than me and others say I look huge. I try not to listen to any of them...just enjoy my belly.
Actually, I do have a discussion question, now that I think about it. We need some advice...My MIL is a very sweet, wonderful and generous woman but she has some helath problems that limit her. She has fallen at home a number of times and she is also on oxygen (with tubes running along the floors in her house). She is asking to watch the baby once he/she arrives and has already bought a pack and play. While we truly appreciate her help, we are very concerned about her caring for an infant--I'm mostly concerned she will fall while carrying him.her. But we dont know how to tell her this without breaking her heart. We need advice on talking to her about this as well as finding ways she CAN spend time with her grandchild because we do not want to leave her out. Any one else have situations like this or ideas? Thanks!View Thread
I know what you mean about getting excited. I am having a very hard time getting excited too and I worry about bonding since I haven't felt that excited yet...but I'm getting there. I'm feeling a lot of movement (dh has even felt some!) now and I love my "bump" so its getting better. We registered and even got the crib set up in the baby's room. I also found a rug that I loved on clearance so we went ahead and bought that. I'm even considering making it facebook official haha. All those things are coming together to help me feel better about everything and I'm getting there
We went for the 20 week ultrasound last week and all looks good!--aside from the dumb doctor that we saw (Im trying to meet as many in the practice since I dont really know who will be on call when i deliver.) He had no answers to my questions--I asked about taking fish oil and he said, you can or you dont have to...its up to you. I asked him about some dry skin patches I have--I read it could be related to pregnancy and he said, I dont know I'm not a dermatologist. Ugh! He was awful. If he is on call we'll go to the other hospital We are not finding out gender so that is still a secret but we got great u/s pictures of arms, legs, hands, feet, face etc. And since I'm on the lovenox they have to monitor growth a little more closely so I should get another 2-3 u/s. The baby's scrapbook will be full of u/s...already have 4 from the 1st trimester. The m/c sucked but getting all these pictures of baby is one good thing that came out of it
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Sorry it took me so long to respond...basically the whole lovenox thing was a prevantitive thing. They dont really know what is wrong with me (haha) but one doctor thought it could possibly be the blood clotting thing and prescribed the lovenox. The shots are 40mg (??--it was definitely some thing with a 4). He wanted me to take them twice a day. i asked how long and he said that would be up to the doctor I saw after I left him after the 1st trimester. So I asked the "regular" doctor and he said (in a very kind and sympathetic way) that it is all just voodoo magic haha, but if it is working he did not want to mess with it. So, he said he did not want to completely eliminate it since something--maybe this-- has been working this time around. But he did say that since we were well past the miscarriage stage I could take it down to once a day. Then--like you did--I will be put on heparin at 38 weeks.
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My update: I waited until today to post because we went to the doctor yesterday. Heard the hb on the dopler so that was the most importnat thing 18w 4d today. I think I am starting to feel movement so that is wonderful. The doctor said everything is measuring right, the hb was 145 so that was great...everything is great so Im trying not to worry but its still hard. We go for the 20 week u/s two weeks from today. We are not going to find out the gender though The doctor even said I can do the lovenox just once a day now instead of twice--which will be nice. But I do have to keep taking it until the 8th month and then switch to heparin. I am starting to let myself get a little excited about this pregnancy
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Jenny...I find myself doing those same things...making it longer that the other m/cs, making it to the appts and u/s, I think my next big ones might be making it to 20 weeks--a nice round number where hopefully I'll be looking more pregnant than fat and then making it to viability.
I also know what you mean about having emotions going back to the office--I went back for my first appt--just a consultation. But I asked if when it comes time for the u/s if I could go to a different office. I told her it may sound crazy but I dont want to be in that room again (the first 4 u/s we have had were at the REs office). She said that was no problem.
Good luck next Thursday...hope you see a little bean with a hb!! View Thread
My update--17w3d today. All is going well but I am still constantly worried. The books say that I should feel my uterus 1 1/2 inches below my belly button and I feel like it is not that high yet so I just keep worrying. We heard the heartbeat last week when we met with the midwife (and she also said my uterus was the right size and everything) and we go back one week from today to meet with a doctor--he will let us know if they are considering me "high risk" or not and how long I have to do the lovenox injections. I'm worried but I have no reason to be--no bad signs or anything. I just cant wait to feel movement!View Thread
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FT. MYERS, Fla. - Calling for four more years of President Obama, hundreds of south Floridians sweat it out in brutal heat and humidity for the chance to see him in person Friday morning.
Mr. Obama will speak Friday morning at the Harborside Event Center in downtown Ft. Myers.
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Despite reports to the contrary, Julia Roberts is not pregnant with baby no. 4.
The star appeared on CBS's "Late Show with Dave Letterman," where the "Eat Pray Love" star cleared up the rumors, E! News reports.
After Letterman asked her if there was any chance of "adding more to the group," she gave a short reply: No.
Instead, the 46-year-old actress is looking forward to spending Christmas at home with her three kids, 9-year-old twins Hazel and Phinnaeus and Henry, 6.
Her husband, Danny Moder, works as a cameraman, but her children have not seen her work.
"They know I'm their mother and they know that I work in show business, as does their father," she explained.
The speculation surround a possible Roberts pregnancy was sparked by photos floating around of the A-list star in a baggy sweater.
Roberts spoke with Letterman for nearly 20 minutes to promote her new film, "August: Osage County," which debuts on Christmas day.
The movie was nominated for four Golden Globes this week, with Roberts picking up a Best Supporting Actress nod for her role.
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The major tea growing areas are Kandy and Nuwara Eliya in Central Province, Badulla, Bandarawela and Haputale in Uva Province, Galle, Matara and Mulkirigala in Southern Province, Sri Lanka, and Ratnapura and Kegalle in Sabaragamuwa Province.
There are mainly six principal regions planting tea. Nuwara Eliya, Dimbula, Kandy Uda Pussellawa, Uva Province and South. Nuwara Eliya is an oval shaped plateau of 6,240 feet of elevation. Nuwara Eliya tea produces a unique flavour. Dimbula is one the first areas to be planted from 1870's. Height of ranging between 3500 ft to 5000 ft defines this planting area. South-western monsoon rain and cold weather from January to March are determining factors of flavour. Eight Subdistricts of Dimbula are Hatton/Dickoya, Bogawanthalawa, Upcot/Maskeliya, Patana/Kotagala, Nanu Oya/Lindula/Talawakele, Agarapatana, Pundaluoya and Ramboda.
Kandy is famous for Mid-grown tea. The first tea plantations were grown here. Tea plantations located 2000 ft to 4000 ft. Pussellawa/Hewaheta and Matale are the two main subdistricts of the region. Between Nuwara Eliya and Uva Province, Uda Pussellawa situated. Northwest monsoon prevails in this region. Plantations near Nuwara Eliya have a range of rosy teas. The two subdistricts comprised are Maturata and Ragala/Halgranoya. Uva area's tea have quite a distinctive flavour and widely used for blends. Tea plantations elevation rage from 3000 ft to 5000 ft. Being a large district Uva has a number of subdistricts, Malwatte/Welimada, Demodara/Hali-Ela/Badulla, Passara/Lunugala, Madulsima, Ella/Namunukula, Bandarawela/Poonagala, Haputale, Koslanda/Haldummulla. Low-grown tea is mainly originates from southern Sri Lanka. These teas grown from sea level to 2000 ft, thrive in fertile soils and warm conditions. These areas spread across four main subdistricts, Ratnapura/Balangoda, Deniyaya, Matara, Galle.
The high-grown tea thrive in above 1200m of elevation and warm climate and sloping terrain. Hence this type is common in Central highlands. Mid-grown tea is found in 600m-1200m altitude range. Various types of tea is blended to obtain required flavour and colour. Uva Province, and Nuwara Eliya, Dimbuala and Dickoya are the area mid-grown tea originate. Low-grown tea is stronger and less-subtle in taste and produced in Galle, Matara and Ratnapura areas.
Over 221,000 hectares or approximately 4% of the countrys land area is covered in tea plantations. The crop is best grown at high altitudes of over 2100 m, and the plants require an annual rainfall of more than 100125 cm.
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A win Wednesday sets up bigger things for the Laguna Beach High boys' basketball team.
The Breakers retained a share of the lead in the Orange Coast League race by scoring its third-straight comfortable victory. They improved to 3-0 in league play and 14-6 overall by handling visiting Calvary Chapel, 54-38, at DuggerGym.
Laguna took a 12-11 lead after one quarter and started to pull away from Calvary (9-9, 1-2 in league) in the second and third quarters. The Breakers outscored the Eagles, 36-16, over that span.
They led by 20 points in the fourth quarter.
Senior guard Jake Dalke led the scoring with 14 points. Senior guard Cole Kesler and junior forward Josh Adams each scored 12 points, junior forward Noah Blanton scored nine points to go with 14 rebounds, and junior guards Matt Jones and Garrett Wong combined for seven points.
The Breakers have played the last two games without starter Alec Wulff. The junior guard suffered an ankle sprain in a Jan. 9 league opener against Saddleback.
Laguna, which entered the week ranked No. 12 in CIF Southern Section Division 4-AA, won its fourth game in succession. The Breakers have won their three league games by an average of 33 points.
"I think that with the last week with a few blowout wins, it's been hard to judge how we are playing," Laguna Coach Bret Fleming said. "Overall, though, I think we are playing pretty well.
"Calvary came out well-prepared in that first quarter and, maybe, was a little better than our kids expected. They are a physical, strong team. But our guys responded to that early challenge and started to play well late in the first quarter."
They'll face their stiffest test of the league season Friday when they entertain Godinez at 7 p.m. The winner of the game will take sole possession of the lead in the league race.
The showdown figures to be a slow-down. That's the game pace favored by Godinez.
The Grizzlies on Wednesday scored a 44-35 win against Estancia to improve to 3-0 in league and 10-9 overall.
"They play a very disciplined style and try to force you into a slow game," Fleming said. "It's one of those deals where their philosophy is to take care of the ball and not turn it over, to work the clock.
"Our kids have to be very disciplined to play at the pace we're expecting. Our ability to defend an entire possession, to stay mentally focused, will be keys for us. On offense, we need to try to force our will a little bit. It should be an interesting game."
Laguna went to 2-0 in league play Jan. 11 by hammering host Estancia, 71-27. Nine Breakers went into the scoring column led by Blanton, who had a game-high 22 points. Adams scored 18 points, Dalke had eight points and Bryan Ludoff finished with seven points.
Next week, the Breakers play Wednesday at Costa Mesa to close out the first half of league action, and are at home Jan. 25 against Estancia. Both games tip at 7 p.m.
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The Breakers returned to their winning ways Tuesday in Orange Coast League play.
Less than a week after suffering its first league setback at Estancia, Laguna roared back to claim a 45-20 win over visiting Calvary Chapel at Dugger Gym.


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13th ITA awards to be held Oct 23
The 13th Indian Television Academy (ITA) Awards 2013 will be held here Oct 23 here.
The awards, one of the most coveted for the Indian TV industry, will be organised at Reliance Mediaworks in Filmcity here.
The jury, headed by yesteryear actress Simi Garewal, includes Rakesh Bedi, Mir Muneer, Javed Sayyed, Umesh Gupta, Maya Rao, Bharti Pradhan and Anil Sehgal.
"This year we have received close to 1850 nominations competing in about 45 categories. These include 18 technical awards, six popular awards via public voting and 18 jury awards," Shashi Ranjan, convener of ITA, said in a statement.
"Cutting across genres, the awards embrace one and all from soaps to talk/chat shows to music/films based shows to news and current affairs programs to children's programs, directors to actors to anchors/hosts to technicians among others," Ranjan added.
The ITA awards will air on Star Plus Nov 3.
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Tuesday Musicale celebrates its centennial
Tuesday Musicale celebrated its 100th anniversary on Sept. 13 with the first meeting of the club's 2011-12 season at the Grand Haven Community Center.
A local chorus, the Merry Marguerites, sang for the day's program.
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Law and Disorder: A Review of Habitat Legislation for BC's Salmon Streams 2002
Salmon are faced with many threats to their survival (climate change, disease, animal predation). One of the greatest threats to salmon is habitat loss. The following is only a sample of the many obstacles salmon face throughout their cycle:
When adults return to spawn, they are threatened by lack of passage to natal or home streams. Returning adults are focused on reproduction. If their energy is depleted before they spawn, they die without producing the next generation of fish. Warming water temperatures and low water levels in streams also accelerate pre-spawn mortality.
Adapted from the City of Seattle's Salmon in the City
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Salmon are sensitive creatures (just as we are!). Following are some of the considerations we should keep in mind to keep salmon habitat as pristine as possible:
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Glen Bolger was quoted in a Philly Tribune article as stating that "…it is clear that immigration was…
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Abundant apologies to Simon and Garfunkel, but doesn't the recent CBS national poll regarding Obama and his policies reflect a public that believe he's breaking the speed limit with his policies and has little to show for it?
- A majority of Americans believe that Obama has been trying to accomplish too much in his first few months on office (52%), while 39% say his pace has been about right.
- Americans are divided as to whether the US can afford to fix health care right now because of the nation's economy. (49% say fix it now, 46% say we can't afford it.)
- By a 33%-21% margin, Americans believe the national economy is getting worse.
- But, perhaps the most telling number from this survey is the erosion in the mood of the country. While CBS' June data showed voters believed the country to be on the wrong track by a 50%-44% margin, that figure is now 57%-35%.
In other words, things are turning AGAINST Obama as Americans express concern about the pace of his "changes," with no markers in the road denoting successes.
And, now, with the economic stimulus package becoming "unsold," is health care reform "a bridge too far?" (But, then again, that's a different Simon and Garfunkel song altogether!)
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BRUNSWICK, Maine (NEWS CENTER) - The owners of the Brunswick-based Gelato Fiasco, have been named as Empower100's Top 100 young up-and-coming entrepreneurs of the country. They are in Washington, DC where they will receive their award and then have a private tour of the White House.
The Empower100 is a national organization that awards young business owners who are under 30 years old and meet specific guidelines concerning the number of employees they have and how much profit they make.
Owners Josh Davis and Bruno Tropeano say they luckily just made the cut-off age (Josh turned 30 last month and Bruno is 29!). The duo created their business out of a love for gelato after graduating from college. After tasting gelato at conferences in Italy and the U.S., they decided to make their gelato completely from scratch. They believe that sets them apart from other gelato places. Over the past few years, the owners expanded from their Brunswick headquarters to a store in downtown Portland, thanks to a loan from Create Jobs for USA, an organization backed by Starbucks CEO, Howard Schultz. Now, Gelato Fiasco ships to supermarkets around New England and always have around 40 flavors to taste at both of their stores. The owners say their focus is on perfecting the gelato flavors and making people happy.


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I was just fine with my almost eight month old twin boys moving at their own rate.... it was nice, one moved the other didn't. Now they both move and they seem to have a...
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After having a three-day "Flag Sale" on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, July 1-3, it was time for Monday, July 4th: Independence Day!!!
As chairman of the Springfield Jaycees' "Flags For Patriotism" program, my Fourth of July got started very early (about 3:00 a.m.). After placing 16 temporary 60 pound concrete blocks (flagpole holders) at their locations in Springfield & Glenwood, it was back to the house to load up almost 100 large American Flags that were to be posted for the holiday.
After posting all the Flags I made it back home and set up a BUNCH of Flags in my front yard (As seen in an earlier YouNews story I posted here). Then it was time to relax and enjoy the day and, most importantly, take a short nap to make up for the lack of sleep the night before!
A little after 5 o'clock, I took down all my Flags (except the BIG 8'x12' hung in front of our garage door) and then at around 6:00 p.m. I was back in Springfield starting to pick up all the Jaycees' Flags. I finished picking up the Flags around 9:00 o'clock and headed back to the house. I got back home just as the last of the daylight was starting to fade.
With the gathering darkness, the garage's interior lights lit up the large American Flag that was covering the garage doorway. I parked the Flag-laden car off to the side, got my camera, and started taking pictures of the dramatic, back-lit American Flag.
This photo is my favorite one of the bunch!
Notice how the interior light is shining through the embroidery needle holes outlining the 33rd Star in the Flag's dark blue Union (canton)!!!
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Local jazz musician keeps other people's instruments singing
ANDERSON - Leaning against David Fry's workbench at the Draisen-Edwards Music Store in Anderson is a black instrument case. The case, which contains a saxophone, stands out from the other instrument cases.
Fraying gray duct tape lines the battered case's outer edges.
David admits he could buy another case, but he's grown attached to this one.
"I'll just put another layer of duct tape on it," he said. "Besides, when I walk into a gig to play, I get instant respect with that. People look at it, and think, 'That guy's been around a long time.'"
Truth is, he has been around a long time.
David has been playing just about his whole life — and this particular sax is a relative newcomer, having entered his instrument collection a decade ago.
David started with the piano, taking lessons in the second grade. That continued through the sixth grade when he picked up a saxophone. He figured he'd try his hand at an instrument that his brother was having a harder time grasping.
Now, at 64, David has been playing, conducting, composing and teaching music on a professional level for more than 40 years. And when he's not playing music, he is here in this workshop at Draisen-Edwards Music Store repairing instruments.
On a recent Thursday, he was at the shop with three other instrument repair technicians. The others have all received some training from David.
This is what David loves to do — work with music, in every way.
It is a passion that was born out of a love of listening to music as a child. He grew up with the big band sounds of Glen Miller, Tommy Dorsey and Harry James. He played the vinyl records that his father, a veteran of World War II, bought for his mother when they were courting.
David is a native of Toccoa, Ga., and was born in 1948, a year after his parents married. He is the oldest of four boys, all of whom love music. He remembers listening to those records, time and time again.
He was hooked between those old records, his maternal grandmother, "Grandma Crow," and his piano teacher who always gave him gold stars if he could memorize a piece. "She always gave me two stars," he said. "That led to great things."
He went on to graduate from Toccoa High School and then he went to the University of Georgia, where he studied music. He then became the band director for West Fannin High School in Blue Ridge, Ga., and eventually for Stephens County High School. It was in his days as a band director that he learned how to repair instruments.
"It was cheaper than sending them to Atlanta," he said.
In the early 1990s, he came to work here at Draisen-Edwards Music Store on North Main Street in Anderson.
Here he has learned to work on every kind of instrument. On a recent Thursday, he had a saxophone stripped down. All of its metal keys were in a metal bucket where their old leather pads had been removed. After dunking the brass instrument into a vat of chemicals to clean it, he washed it and then placed it under a hair dryer to finish the cleaning process.
"Our best moments is when someone comes back in, sees their instrument and a smile spreads across their face," David said.
He has not tired of working with instruments after 21 years of working here. He also still owns those "78" records even though he does not own anything that he can play them on anymore. And he has not grown weary of playing. On the weekends, he plays in different bands like the Electric City Big Band, he helps conduct the New Horizons band, which is made up of people who are 50 years old and older, and he still finds the time to write his own music.
"There is always a different way to play the same music," David said, his eyes shining. "People ask me when I am going to retire, and I say, 'But when you are doing something you love, why stop?'"
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Type is a key element of almost any graphic design — from choosing the perfect font for a corporate identity piece to crafting a type-driven design for a concert poster or the cover of a magazine. However, manipulating individual characters once your design has been implemented has always been tedious and time-consuming — mainly because words were treated as one object, thus making it impossible to quickly tweak or experiment with individual characters.
Did you notice that I am writing in the past tense? That's right. I recently started working with the Touch Type tool in Adobe Illustrator CC. This new tool enables you to work with letters as individual objects. Imagine that. You can now select a character or letter, a single word, or a series of words; change the font; and then scale, rotate, and move your selection (among other things). Its simple and familiar bounding box–like interface brings a whole new level of fun and function to designing with type.
But that's not all. This tool is called Touch Type for a reason. It's compatible with touchscreen or direct touch devices, including Windows 8 touchscreen computers and the Wacom Cintiq 24HD. You don't need a touch device to use this new feature in Illustrator CC, but if you have one, it makes the Touch Type tool even more intuitive and organic to use.
In this article, I show you how to get started using the Touch Type tool.
Figure 1 shows a text object in Illustrator CC. I am starting with a simple layout using the font Trajan Pro. The 8 is a separate object, while Tropical Treks is one text object.
I need to transform the characters to create a design for a marketing piece about eight outdoor adventures. Before the Touch Type tool, I had to convert the text to outlines or type each letter as a separate text object. Now with the Touch Type tool, I can edit and transform these characters as if they were individual objects and keep the text live (editable).
First I select the Touch Type tool, which you will find as one of the Type tool options in the toolbar or in the Character panel (see Figure 2) or by using the shortcut Shift+F7.
Next I use the Touch Type tool to select the A in the word Tropical. Using the bounding-box handles, I can transform the selected character. The four corner handles give me proportional scale, vertical- or horizontal-only scale, and free movement. The top handle above the bounding box gives me free rotation (see Figure 3).
As you can see in Figure 4, after rotating the A, it stays in line with the rest of the word, and the L shifts to the left to make it fit.
Using the Touch Type tool, I can also scale and move the rest of the letters to create a headline design that looks like Figure 5.
In Figure 6, you can see that the final version changes to Terrific Treks but maintains the same transformation appearance. The best part is that the text is still live so I can edit and change the content without having to readjust or re-create the transformations.
Using the Touch Type tool, I can go from simple text to a complex transformation with ease. The next example starts with a logo using the font Mesquite Std (see Figure 7).
Using the Touch Type tool, I can easily transform these characters and rotate the word (see Figure 8).
Next I add a photograph of barn board underneath the text and some texture on a layer above the text. Figure 9 shows the completed logo.
As you can see, with the new Touch Type tool in Illustrator CC, you now have total control over type. To learn more about the new features in Illustrator CC, check out the following videos on Adobe TV:
Kevin Stohlmeyer is an Adobe Certified Instructor, user group manager, and Adobe Community Professional based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has been teaching Adobe products since 2000, both in higher education and at C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions. He has been featured in Photoshop User Magazine and is a NAPP member. You can find Kevin on Twitter @kstohl or on Facebook at facebook.com/kevin-stohlmeyer.


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Basic lands
In Magic: The Gathering, basic lands are lands that possess the supertype "Basic" in their type line and may be tapped to produce mana of one color in Magic.
Description[edit | edit source]
These lands are unlike nonbasic lands in that any number may be included in a deck. To date, there are two basic lands for each color — Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest and their snow-covered versions for white, blue, black, red, and green, respectively. Each basic land has the basic land type of the same name; e.g., Plains have the Plains land type.
Basic lands are thought of as the cornerstones of Magic design, and no lands should be printed if they are strictly better than basic lands, with the sole exception to this rule being the dual lands from Alpha/Beta/Unlimited/Revised. Consequently, other, nonbasic lands feature drawbacks, in addition to the fact that no more than four copies of nonbasic lands may be played in a deck.[1]
The basic land's text box was changed to a giant mana symbol for Portal and Sixth Edition onwards.[2]
Comprehensive Rules[edit | edit source]
From the Comprehensive Rules:
- 100.2. In constructed play, each player needs his or her own deck of at least sixty cards, small items to represent any tokens and counters, and some way to clearly track life totals. A constructed deck can have any number of basic land cards and no more than four of any card with a particular English name other than basic land cards.
Basic Land Types[edit | edit source]
The basic land types are Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain and Forest. Each basic land subtype implicitly grants the ability to tap for one mana of its corresponding color:
- Plains: : Add to your mana pool.
- Island: : Add to your mana pool.
- Swamp: : Add to your mana pool.
- Mountain: : Add to your mana pool.
- Forest: : Add to your mana pool.
Any land with a basic land type has the appropriate ability. A land with multiple basic land types has each corresponding ability and can tap for any of the appropriate colors. However, a land with a basic land type is only a basic land if it has the Basic supertype.
References by Other Objects[edit | edit source]
Any object that refers to one of more of the basic land types refers to any land with that land type, not to the Basic land of the same name. For instance, if a card says "Search your library for a Plains", you can find a Savannah, as it has the Plains basic land type. If a card needs to refer to the Basic land by the same name, it will say "a card named ...".
Any object that refers to a "Basic land" refers only to lands with the Basic supertype and not any other land with a basic land type.
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Mark Rosewater. (March 31, 2003.) "This Land Is My Land", Daily MTG, magicthegathering.com, Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater. (October 04, 2004.) "Change For the Better", Daily MTG, magicthegathering.com, Wizards of the Coast.
|Basic lands
|Plains • Island • Swamp • Mountain • Forest
|Barry's Land • Cave/City
|No (colors of) mana
|Fetch lands • Guildhomes • Loci • Urzatron
|One color of mana
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Diabetic Retinopathy is a condition caused by diabetes complications that refers to damaged blood vessels inside the eye retina. These vessels leak fluid into the retina and the macula, and often cause the region to swell and actually bulge out, resulting in blurred vision.
Up to 80% of all patients who have had diabetes for 10 years or more will experience some form of diabetic retinopathy. If left untreated, this ailment can lead to blindness. Fortunately, new cases can be helped through mindful treatment and regular monitoring.
Diabetic Retinopathy Stages
Diabetic retinopathy does not offer any real warning signs, as there are no symptoms experienced in the first stage of the disease – patients may even have 20/20 vision at this time. Yet in some cases, the vessels have already started to bleed, while leakage into the retina and macula can happen in any and all stages of diabetic retinopathy. The condition can only be detected early on by an eye photo, known as fundus photography; a procedure which shows microscopic blood-filled bulges in the artery walls. For those with reduced vision, fluorescein angiography can be used to take a picture of the back of the patient's eye.
In its second stage, abnormal new blood vessels will begin to form at the back of the eye, and can burst and bleed. This is when vision becomes blurred. Patients may also see spots floating in their visual field; however these will typically disappear after a few hours. After a few weeks, vision will be further destructed by a greater amount of blood leakage. These hemorrhages will increase with time and happen most often while the patient is sleeping.
In the third and final stage of diabetic retinopathy – sometimes referred to as proliferative diabetic retinopathy – the damaged blood vessels begin to grow along the retina due to a lack of oxygen. This will distort the patient's vision so that items appear wavy, and straight lines look crooked or bent. Without treatment, these new blood vessels will bleed and eventually destroy the retina.
Treatments for Diabetic Retinopathy
Although there is no absolute cure, three highly effective treatments do exist for reducing vision loss in advanced cases of diabetic retinopathy.
Focal Laser Surgery
In the treatment of advanced cases, laser surgery is used to burn the abnormal blood vessels that form in the retina, in order to stop or slow the leakage or blood or fluid into the eye. Laser surgery has been shown to reduce the risk of severe vision loss by 50%. However, caution should be taken with laser surgery since it causes a loss of retinal tissue.
Panretinal Photocoagulation
PRP, also called scatter laser treatment, is a more aggressive laser surgery that aims to burn between 1,200 to 1,800 individual laser spots over multiple sessions. The ophthalmologist numbs the eye with anesthetic and holds a special lens on the eye, using a single spot laser or pattern scan laser to burn the retina. This will, hopefully, reduce the retina's oxygen demand and save the center of the patient's sight, although some peripheral vision may be lost.
Vitrectomy Surgery
In cases where there is too much blood leakage in the center of the eye, a vitrectomy surgery might be used. Vitrectomy is also done under local anesthesia. The surgeon makes an incision into the sclera, which is the white of the eye. Next, an instrument is used to drain the vitreous and replace it with saline solution. Patients who have this surgery may be asked to stay overnight in the hospital. For follow-up, patients will need to wear an eye patch for a few days or weeks to protect the eye.
Patients suffering diabetic retinopathy will medical monitoring and ongoing treatments to maintain their vision. However, with any of these three treatments, people with advanced diabetic retinopathy have a 90% chance of retaining their vision, should they begin treatment before serious damage to the retina occurs.
For similar articles, read our guides about what is glaucoma and what is a chalazion gland and how to treat it.
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Well, nearly, judging from the latest re-org news coming out of Microsoft.
The retiree in this case is Jim Allchin (right), who has been the Windows guru there for years. What struck me was his age, 53.
I'm going to be 51 in January. And I'm launching a start-up.
Seriously, Microsoft is going through the middle-aged crazies, and the solution is in many ways typical. That is, push decision-making down the stack, toward younger managers. Let a hundred flowers bloom and all that.
The other big headline in here is that Ray Ozzie, the former Lotus executive who joined Microsoft last year as a chief technical officer, is being given line responsibilities for what's called the "software-based services" strategy.
Unfortunately, Microsoft's middle-aged trouble goes a little deeper than that.
Continue reading "What? I'm Retirement Age?"
Apple has released iTunes 5.0.1, which it says fixes problems found on iTunes 5.0.
I was frankly surprised at the number and vehemence of responses to my earlier item about iTunes 5.0 The reason? Reports on the problems have gotten very little traction in the mainstream press.
George W. Bush must envy Steve Jobs in some ways. Kanye West, who famously dissed the President during a Katrina fund-raiser, actually sang at the Apple iTunes 5.0 announcement, and didn't go off-message either. This story is being carried mainly in the blogosphere, where there are currently 176 posts under iTunes 5.0 problem (although not all are on-point).
Instead, Jobs and Apple continue to be hailed as heroes in the mainstream press:
Continue reading "Apple Claims iTunes Fix"
Everyone is on the Red Cross bandwagon these days.
But that was not the case before Katrina. The Red Cross was fiercely criticized for its reaction to 9-11. The criticism was bipartisan.
All was forgotten once Katrina hit. The only alternatives offered for giving wre overtly-religious organizations, ranging from the Salvation Army to Pat Robertson's Operation Blessing (number two on the Administration's hit parade).
Besides, you've got to figure, this was really more up the Red Cross' alley than 9-11, which in the end only took out the center of a well-insured central city, and completely displaced only a few tens of thousands. This was different, not just New Orleans but the parishes around it, and Mississippi all the way up to Jackson.
So how are they doing?
Continue reading "Who Will Audit the Red Cross?"
Let me take a stab at explaining Google's grand strategy.
My friends at ZDNet call this the Google PC, or a network computer.
Well, sort of. You may, instead of buying Microsoft Office, suscribe to Google's GMail and have a rudimentary office system with a gigabyte or two of storage.
But to say Google is going after Microsoft, the way we said Microsoft was going after IBM, is really to damn with faint praise.
If that were all there were to it, why would Google be planning on building out WiFi, or build out an optical network?
Google isn't aiming at Microsoft, or at IBM. It's aiming at the entire computing-telecommunications complex, building out what I'll call the Google TeleComputing Environment.
The idea is to take advantage of not only the Internet's ability to disintermediate clients, but its ability to disintermediate the phone network at the same time, and to do this in an entirely open source way.
What do I mean? Here are the ingredients:
Google is flattening the world. More on what this means after the flip.
Continue reading "Google Flattens the World"
Americans are finally following the rest of the world toward the controlled interface of the cellular phone.
This has profound implications. Mobile carriers are not Internet Service Providers. They control where you go and what you do on their networks. They act as gatekeepers, and take a proprietary attitude toward every bit transmitted.
The difference between the Internet and a mobile network is like the difference between a downtown city center and a shopping mall. There is nothing inherently wrong with a shopping mall, but it is controlled by the mall owner, and everything which happens there must be aimed at making the mall owner (and his tenants) money, all assumptions of liberty to the contrary.
In other words, cellular turns the Internet into a shopping mall, neutering it, and making it solely a means toward a commercial end.
Thus, is has been difficult for mobile (Americans call it cellular) to gain the kind of reach and use that we find even in Africa. But that is changing:
Continue reading "The Internet as Shopping Mall"
The winds of change are blowing hurricane-force in Washington. Every politician in town knows it. So the natural inclination is to push the envelope as far as possible, knowing that it will be pulled back fairly quickly.
This is as true regarding the Internet as anywhere else. The Bell-cable duopoly hangs by a thread. Wireless ISPs have Moore's Law on their side. The incumbents need something very strong to counter.
This is precisely what they're going for with a bill in the House that would raise entry barriers to the sky and prevent independent ISPs from ever gaining a market toehold. (That's the chairman of the committee proposing the legislation, Joe Barton, up above.)
Naturally they call it "pro-competitive," but in the Orwellian Washington of today those with a Clue should never listen to what they say but look at what they do.
The bill is also filled with goodies for broadcasters and TV networks, such as:
Continue reading "Gittin' While the Gittin's Good"
No, not on the football field, silly.
(The original Rice seal, to the right, dates from 1911, and carries its own story, including Confederate gray "warmed into life by a tinge of lavender.")
I'm talking about the laboratory, where Rice is successfully managing the transition from Dr. Richard Smalley's "Buckyball foundation" generation with new research into the link between optics and electronics.
Professor Peter Nordlander has announced "a universal relationship between the behavior of light and electrons" which "can be exploited to create nanoscale antennae that convert light into broadband electrical signals capable of carrying approximately 1 million times more data than existing interconnects."
This is big. In many ways it's as big as the original BuckyBall discovery, and more readily exploited.
More after the break.
Continue reading "Rice Wins Again!"
I know people are going to read this as good news.
Intel announced it is putting $340 million into expanding plants in Colorado and Massachusetts.
What could be wrong with that?
Continue reading "Welcome to the Third World"
Here is a surprising story.
Three times more money is lost to identity theft where the thieves just make up an identity than when they use someone else's.
Gartner Group figures $50 billion is lost from such "victimless fraud" every year, against $15 billion from identity theft.
The problem is U.S. banks don't check identities closely. Crooks can get a pay-as-you-go mobile phone with no credit check, open up a bank account in the name of that "person," pay bills on that account for a while, then use the account to get credit cards.
Banks in Europe share identity information and aren't subject to the same fraud to the same degree. Gartner said.
Continue reading "They Don't Need Your Identity"
A 17 year old who admitted to hacking Paris Hilton's cellphone (and some other things) drew an 11-month prison sentence from Massachusetts today. (Next time, kid, go with Drew Barrymore.) He also draws two years' probation with no computer access.
Informa market research estimates 380 new customers will pick up mobile or cellular phones this year, against 335 million last year. The promised slowdown still hasn't come, with the developing world going ga-ga for the devices.
This week's issue of my free weekly newsletter, A-Clue.Com, offered some real political red meat. (Subscribe here.)
Some like that. Some hate it. So most of it is after the flip. Enjoy.
How is a democracy lost?
It isn't. Just as freedom can't be given, only taken, democracy can't really be lost, only stolen.
There are dozens of examples over the centuries, of honest systems turned to dictatorships. And what they all have in common is ruthlessness, not just of the dictator, but of those around him.
Continue reading "This Week's Clue: The Mugabe Precedent"
Amidst all the wailing over the Times' experiment in forcing people to pay subscriptions for Internet newspaper content, an important fact is being lost.
The International Herald Tribune.
I have seen no announcement that the IHT is changing its policies, or changing what content it offers. (The Tribune is owned by the Times Co., which bought out The Washington Post Co.'s interest a few years ago.) Here's today's opinion front page.
Continue reading "Where to Find the Times' Columnists"
Here is the situation:
Below is a typical Feedburner RSS ad, which appears in Newsreaders but not on Web pages. We'll discuss it after the flip:
UPDATE: After this was posted, Feedburner vice president-business development Rick Klau wrote the following. It is directly on point (as the lawyers say):
While I can only speak for FeedBurner, we only splice ads into feeds for publishers, on behalf of the publisher. We never splice ads in a feed that the publisher didn't ask for, make money from, or know about, ever. It's the same type of model as web advertising solutions that you use on your site, and you make most of the money.
FeedBurner is a publisher service. We only perform those services on a feed that a publisher wants us to perform, and that goes for everything, whether it's splicing ads, applying a stylesheet, or tracking statistics.
No blog site manager running our service can be unaware that their feeds have ads in them because it is impossible to get ads in your feed at FeedBurner without either directly contacting us or selecting the AdSense for Feeds program and providing us with all the details needed to splice in those ads.
Continue reading "Financial Battle for the New Interface"
Google's blog search is finally open, in beta, at http://blogsearch.google.com/ See if you're there. (Searching by name will bring both your own work and that of others who link to you.)
NOTE: This Table of Contents will be continually updated as new chapters are placed online.
Continue reading "Table of Contents: American Diaspora"
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The America Diaspora is a sequel to The Chinese Century.
Despite everything Mark Cuban had done for New Orleans, a warrant was still out on him
Continue reading "Amerocan Diaspora 31"
One good thing about covering space is that it puts what's happening to this Big Blue Marble into proper perspective.
See if you don't agree:
Continue reading "Meanwhile, back in space"
Blogging let us all become commentators.
Now we can become true journalists.
Dialogue announced that it Mobile Applications Portal can now be used by news aggregators to take in any cellphone video you may want to offer, as an MMS message.
Yes, I can see the problem here as well. This is expensive stuff. It's being offered as a service to Big Media operators, who will then take stuff from ordinary Joes, probably free, and spin it.
But it is a step in the right direction.
Skype, like most VOIP companies, is a tax arbitrage play.
The idea is that you avoid the tax costs of telephony by running your voice calls over an Internet connection. As everyone gets broadband, telephone service dies a natural death.
But neither the Bells, nor the governments they feed, are willing to go away quietly. I've written often about how it's done here. But it's done everywhere.
The same day eBay announced it would buy Skype, China started cracking down harder on Skype, and its Internet-Phone version SkypeOut. Unlike the situation with, say, Falun Gong, this is an effort where telephone firms are, not reluctant, but eager co-conspirators.
Continue reading "Why eBay-Skype Could Be AOL-Time Warner"
"I'll take Bubble for $100, Alex." (That's 2004 Jeopardy mega-winner Ken Jennings, whose 15 minutes of fame are now up.)
And the answer is, "The final proof of the second Internet bubble, in 2005."
"What was eBay's purchase of Skype."
"Correct. eBay paid $2.6 million in cash and stock for a company that had few revenues, no profits, and hardly any business model, and whose operations were completely incompatible with eBay's own."
"I could understand the stock, and even understand the press claims the deal was worth $4.1 billion. It's the cash that gets me."
Continue reading "eBay Changes its Business"
Qualcomm manager Nick Glassman, a New Orleans native, visited the city last weekend. His story is not for the squeamish.
NOTE: There is an update to this article. Please go here to view it.
There are apparently serious problems with Version 5.0 of iTunes for Windows, which comes bundled with Version 7.0 of QuickTime.
Users are reporting that not only doesn't the software work, but they can't back out of it, and can't load older versions, once the upgrade button is pressed. Some complete computer failures have been reported.
Lauren Weinstein, co-founder of People For Internet Responsibility, reported on this to Dave Farber's Interesting-People list today:
I've personally now seen two systems that have fallen into this black
hole -- no working iTunes, no working QuickTime, and attempts to
install older versions (even just of QuickTime) fail miserably, even
after complex (and in some cases dangerous) attempts at cleaning out
the leftover muck. It's really a mess -- reminds me of early DOS
Hopefully this is a short-term problem.
Richard Wingard has figured out a way to fund cutting-edge technology with angel investors, and hold them in their investments for nearly 7 years. (The picture is courtesy the University of New Hampshire alumni association.)
Wingard runs Euclid Discoveries, which is working on an object-based video compression technology he says will deliver 10 times the performance of MPEG-4, enough to "turn your iPod into a DVD player."
And he's done it all with angel investors, who are best-known for backing only early-stage customers. Wingard has rejected the entreaties of venture capital firms, saying their time frames for pay-outs are too short. Yet he has succeeded in getting angels who will wait as much as 7 years for a private auction of his technology, and a distribution.
Want to know how he did it?
Continue reading "Angel (Investors) in America"
After $2 billion, Rupert Murdoch's Internet strategy has become clear.
Capture kids.
Murdoch finished off his buying spree by putting $680 million into IGN, which runs Web sites devoted to video games. This followed his earlier purchases of Scout Media, which runs sports sites for various sports teams, and the company that owned Myspace.com, the music fan site.
Murdoch has called a special "summit" of his top corporate chiefs for this weekend at his California ranch. Prince Alwaleed bin Talals Kingdom Holding Company of Saudi Arabia has apparently endorsed his strategy. (Didn't know the Saudis had their hooks into Murdoch quite that deeply, did you?)
So, is this going to be a gusher or a dry hole?
Continue reading "Murdoch's Internet Strategy"
Yesterday, for the first day since Katrina, the city of Atlanta seemed to return to normal.
The traffic jams were back. The parking lots at the Tucker Wal-Mart (pictured) and Target were full. I even overheard customers chatting amiably about good things happening in their lives, and laughing.
But the New Normal is a mirage. Its not real. Its made possible by Governor Perdues short-term cancellation of the states gas tax, and by the Administrations decision to go back to dirty gas and suspend EPA rules.
The gas tax is going back up, next week. And gas prices are headed higher, much higher.
Continue reading "The New Normal: A View from Atlanta"
The folks at Google write that they've appointed Vinton Cerf as their Chief Internet Evangelist, and brag on his nickname "Father of the Internet."
But what is he going to do? And what can he accomplish?
While Cerf was a fine engineer in his day, his record as an executive leaves a lot to be desired. Those with memories recall that he was with MCI all through the Worldcom disaster. He gave speeches, he took awards, and he had nothing to do with the fraud. He was out of the loop.
He was lipstick on that pig.
Will he be any closer to the loop at Google? Or does this mean Google is about to turn itself into another MCI?
The sad fact is that Google is rapidly becoming a bureaucratized mess. Current CEO Eric Schmidt ignored Blogger, he gave his corporate credibility a padding, he has loaded up on his personal fortune and generally made a hash of those things it was in his power to make a hash of.
Continue reading "Vinton What's the Frequency?"
In an era where money is magnetic ink, even the rich of New Orleans may not be safe.
A friend forwarded an American Banker feature (all content is behind their firewall, only the headlines are in front) that explains all this.
The story, by Steve Bills, details the problems banks had in the impacted area, and as many as five banks were still out of action as of Tuesday.
Those banks hurt worst were small community banks that did not outsource their financial processing.
Customers of those banks who managed to escape may be unable to get to their money, although they may not all know that because financial networks do have a limited ability to "stand-in" for their absent customers.
This could happen again-and-again, because only 40% of small banks out-source. Would out-sourcing solve the problem? Not necessarily. One of the bigger outsourcers, Fiserv, has operations in New Orleans (fortunately they're based in Wisconsin) and eight employees are still missing.
Given all this there are some basic things that need to be required:
Continue reading "Your Money is Magnetic Ink"
Over at ZDNet, Steve Gillmor (left) has a wonderful commentary that got me thinking about a financial disease, one to which corporations like Microsoft are addicted and by which users like us are burdened.
I call it Upgrade-itis.
Continue reading "Upgrade-itis"
The FEMA forms that allow victims to apply for disaster assistance only work with Internet Explorer 6.0.
Back in 1985, you would have spent big money to get an Intel 386 chip, with over 100 Megabytes of storage, and a local network that ran as fast as 1 megabits per second.
I know I didn't have one. The closest I saw to one that year was an entrepreneur 10 miles north of me who had a Digital Equipment PDP-8 minicomputer in his office.
Yet that is just what you see in the picture to the right:
Continue reading "Keychain Computing"
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The America Diaspora is a sequel to The Chinese Century.
Im back in my home country again, and exhausted.
Continue reading "American Diaspora 30"
A dedicated minority can overwhelm a disinterested majority.
To do so takes discipline, and a mindset that will brook neither criticism nor interference, that is totally obedient to the will of the leader.
What drives this mindset is fear. The leadership drives fear into people, and the mindset is gradually acquired. There are many examples of this. South Africa's Nationalists. Mussolini's Fascists. It was a hallmark of Peronism in Argentina. It's not a left-right thing, since it's most closely associated with Lenin's Russia, but it's more common than most in the democratic world believe or accept.
Note that in all these examples there's one ingredient which, many will say, does not exist in today's Republicans -- ruthlessness. That is, the willingness to do anything in the name of the cause, whether that's stuffing ballot boxes, taking control of the news media, or just shooting to kill. In the wake of New Orleans I'd question whether that ruthlessness is lacking. When you hear someone try to defend what has happened, it's hard to argue it's lacking.
Political movements can easily morph into Bolshevism, even in democracies. It's the main Achilles Heel of the whole system. I think it's what Washington most feared when he talked of "factions."
Over the last two centuries many political movements in this country have been accused of a Bolshevistic mind set, even before such a thing existed, starting (long before there was such a thing) with Jefferson's Democratic-Republicans. Jackson's Democrats had some of it, and it morphed into the Slave Power, which had it in spades. Did the Big City Machines have it? How about the New Deal -- they were certainly accused of it.
See how common this is?
What's most infuriating about our time is how many white, male Americans (some females, some blacks, but overwhelmingly it's white males) have internalized this mindset. It's why I find it increasingly difficult to communicate with these bozos -- all avenues of communication are blocked-off.
Want to see the dance?
George W. Bush's Bridge to the 19th Century has deposited us in 1881, in the era of the Spoils System.
The spoils system was instituted by Democratic President Andrew Jackson. "To the victor goes the spoils" meant that every government job belonged to the party in power. Postmasters, and port managers (big jobs in those days) were all political hacks.
The movement against the spoils system was led by a Republican named James A. Garfield. He was elected President in 1880 alongside a representative of that system, Chester Alan Arthur, former port commissioner for New York. He wasn't a perfect vessel for reform, but he moved in that direction.
The picture illustrates what happened next. Garfield was shot, killed, by Charles J. Guiteau, a "frustrated office seeker," in other words, a party hack who was upset that Garfield wanted to bring competence to government. (Guiteau, in fact had visions of becoming Ambassador to France.)
Continue reading "The Spoils System"
This week's issue of my free weekly newsletter, A-Clue.Com, dealt with journalism. (Subscribe here.)
Specifically, I'm looking at the impact of Google Maps on our business, and how we practice journalism, as well as how we deliver it to readers. (Speaking of which, Google has satellite imagery of New Orleans taken at 10 AM on August 31 available here.)
Talk about shock and awe...)
There's a saying that bloggers are journalists who won't make a five-minute phone call, while journalists are bloggers who won't spend five minutes on Google.
Both views have something to them, although I'd say that Google keeps getting better, while the phone doesn't.
But there's a bigger secret neither side tells you.
We seldom leave our desks.
Continue reading "This Week's Clue: Journalism With Google Maps"
I think nearly all Americans can now agree that the biggest mistake made after 9-11 was avoiding a call to sacrifice.
(Picture from the BBC.)
My generation has never been "in" to sacrifice. It was our parents' thing. They went hungry during the Depression, they risked their lives during World War II, and then they stayed together, working hard, so that their kids (us) would have "everything."
Which we do. Our lives are very comfortable. Most Americans have cars, and TVs, and air conditioning, and healthy food in our refrigerators whenever we want it. We can take vacations. We can get fat. Then we can pay to have the fat stripped away and get fat again.
Maybe that's the real Vietnam syndrome. Those of my generation who felt the call to sacrifice as young people died in rice paddies, or had their dreams shot away. Frankly it doesn't matter why anymore. No matter what side you took in that war, get over it. We're in a different era.
These days sacrifice must be forced on us. And for many this week it has been.
Continue reading "Sacrifice to Get 'R Done"
When you elect people with contempt for government, the result is contemptible government.
There is a long-running charge, or meme, on the left that President George W. Bush is a "dry drunk," an alcoholic who hasn't dealt with the roots of his alcoholism, and thus exhibits alcoholic behavior even when sober.
Dr. Justin Frank explored this in a book called Bush on the Couch. Katherine Van Wormer made the charge in 2002 and Malachy McCourt has gone further, writing in his short 2004 book, Bush Lies in State that hes still an alcoholic.
How common is this meme? Example one. Example two. Example three. Example four.
So here is my point. Given his falling popularity and recent bizarre behaviors (running away from Cindy Sheehan, comparing Iraq to World War II while New Orleans died) I'm wondering if this meme isn't about to move.
Continue reading "The Dry Drunk Meme"