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On "Antiques Roadshow," a woman brought in an oil painting that had been in her family since the 1920s.
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This June 22, 2013 photo released by PBS shows a man named Joe holding a Max Brother prop duck during the taping of the popular appraisal show "Antiques Roadshow," in Anaheim, Calif. Top-rated PBS series "Antiques Roadshow" is on the move, taping programs in eight U.S. cities for its upcoming 18th season. (AP Photo/PBS)
This June 22, 2013 photo released by PBS shows Ted Trotta, of Trotta-Bono, Ltd., right, looking at Lisa as she reacts about information about her Spontoon Tomahawk Pipe during the taping of the popular appraisal show "Antiques Roadshow," in Anaheim, Calif. Top-rated PBS series "Antiques Roadshow" is on the move, taping programs in eight U.S. cities for its upcoming 18th season.(AP Photo/PBS)
In this Saturday, July 23, 2011 photo, Asian art expert and veteran "Antiques Roadshow." appraiser Lark Mason poses with a collection of Chinese rhinoceros horned cups in Tulsa, Okla. PBS says the collection was judged by Mason to be worth $1 million to $1.5 million, the most valuable item brought in for appraisal in the history of "Antiques Roadshow," which will air its 16th season next year. (AP Photo/WGBH)
A fry glass teapot is one of the many treasures brought to the "Antiques Roadshow" event in Los Angeles, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2005. The Antiques Roadshow television series is a result of a summer tour of the United States where experts appraise the prized items people bring for evaluation. (AP Photo/Kim D. Johnson)
Hiromasa Iwasaki looks over Mrs. MacArthur's salt and pepper shaker collection, consisting of over 50 pieces, on display inside the MacArthur Memorial museum as filming takes place for an "Antiques Roadshow" style show at museum, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2004, in Norfolk, Va. The show called "Kaiun Nandemo Kanteidan" has an audience of 20 million, according to Hiroyuki Hamada, the Old Dominion University professor who helped bring the show here. On Sept. 28, that audience will see a two-hour special on the treasury of Japanese artifacts given to Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his wife, Jean. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, L. Todd Spencer)
Marcelyn, left, and daughter, Stephanie, right, of Monte Sereno, Calif., react to the news when announced that their "Norton Sound Alaska hunting helmet" is appraised to be worth between $65,000 and $75,000, during taping for the PBS-TV show called, "Chubb's Antiques Roadshow - Discovering America's Hidden Treasures," in San Francisco, Saturday, Aug. 9, 1997. The mask, made circa 1800, was picked up by mother and daughter at a flea market. (AP Photo/Chubb's Antiques Roadshow, Darryl Bush)
Thousands of people wait in line to have their treasured possessions appraised by a team of experts during the final stop of the popular PBS television program, Chubb's Antiques Roadshow, Saturday, Aug. 21, 1999, at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Susan E. Bouchard)
It was by Leon Gaspard, and the last time the woman had it appraised was in the 1960s, she assumed it was worth about the same today -- $10,000. But she was in for a shock when she found out it was worth more than seven times that at $75,000.
"What? Seriously? Oh my gosh... now, that is a surprise. That is a wonderful surprise!"
Obviously, she was pleased to find out the oil painting was worth much more than she thought. Gaspard was a Russian-born painter who had a love of foreign cultures and a desire to document them artistically -- and because of his work, he became well known and financially successful.
But it turns out, that painting is on the cheaper end for a Gaspard -- in the last 10 years, his paintings have sold for as much as $2 million!
For those who can't afford the original artwork, there is a cheaper alternative -- posters and reproductions of the Gaspard's work are for sale online.


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Letters published April 29, 2016
An argument in favor of CC Rider
I have some very special (and personal) reasons for supporting the creation of a countywide transportation district.I am not getting any younger and I know that there will come a time that I will be unable to drive a car. Our county does not have any taxi service and without public transportation, I would have to depend upon friends and relatives to be able to go shopping, go to the doctor or run any errands.
Three and a half years ago, the county commissioners cut CC Rider's budget by 64 percent. In order to make up the difference, CC Rider had to cut service and increase fares. The existing transportation service has had to depend upon fairs and grants in order to survive. Most grants require matching money, and last year, people of this county lost more than a quarter of a million dollars because CC Rider didn't have enough money to supply a match for outside grants.
Measure 5-251 will cost 23 cents for every $1,000 of assessed value. A $200,000 home will cost a person $46 a year. Including tip, a dinner at a moderate restaurant probably will cost more than this.A study for the American Transportation Association shows that "Every $1 invested in public transportation generates $4 in economic activity." Public transportation is an essential part of our county's infrastructure. When you invest in public transportation, you invest in our county's future.Please vote yes for Measure 5-251
Bill Eagle
St. Helens
Preheim, Tardif have the facts and good ideas
Are you ready for another political opinion? I really enjoy giving mine.
Ive heard about the terrible rush hour bottleneck in Scappoose and finally experienced it firsthand on Tuesday. It took me nearly 15 minutes to travel from the first stoplight through the last one located at the Fred Meyer turnoff.
My point in giving you this trivial bit of information is that I received a phone call from a person last week who told me that a bypass is going to be built around Scappoose to alleviate this slow traffic.
What a great idea! I cannot conceive why it was not done when the highway was widened years ago. So, this person who called also told me I must not say a word to anyone because this project is supposed to be hush-hush.
I dont like keeping anything hush-hush.
This is where I come to my main point: What possible reason would the state and Scappoose have for keeping this information from the public?
Why hide from us what they plan on doing with the money they collect from us? We do have a voice that matters.
It appears honesty and transparency are the two main themes in the upcoming election and they should be. Why is it is so terribly hard to understand what those two words mean? The voters are not stupid and yet continually we have important decisions hidden from us. I am really sick of this attitude from the people we elect to public office.
Executive meetings, contractual obligations be damned.
We have a right to know. There are only two people running for county commissioner positions who will provide this openness and finally put an end to the good old boy system stagnating our county: Brady Preheim and Alex Tardif. We most assuredly can do better.
I attended a forum in Vernonia on Monday evening. All candidates running for the county commissioner seats Position 1 and 3 were in attendance, with the exception of Susan Conn, who once again had a previous engagement, and Wayne Mayo.
The three candidates vying for Position 1 who were available for discussion were Brady Preheim, Margaret Magruder and Joel Yarbor.
I enjoy a good laugh and I appreciate someone who can laugh at themselves. However, I do not appreciate a candidate who uses these ploys to cover their lack of information on any subject. Magruder should spend more time familiarizing herself with the actual problems in the county so that she is able to make a decision and announce what that decision would be. Yabor insists he supports CC Rider and yet several times declared his objection to more taxes for this purpose. He then made it quite clear that the depletion fee from gravel companies would not be enforced to fund CC Rider if he were elected. His ideas on how to support this transportation system were not forthcoming.
Brady Preheim, as always, had facts and figures and was not reluctant to share those facts with the people. He corrected those who were in error, including the incumbent commissioner. He is forthright and well spoken.
Please trust me in this: if you elect him, he will provide the transparency and honesty we so badly need and deserve. He is not a career politician. Vote for Brady Preheim for Position 1.
Alex Tardif and Tony Hyde were in attendance at the forum, running for Position 3. Tardif is highly motivated, well informed and, most importantly, an accountant.
Tony Hyde used the same plea as in the past that he be retained in office until the fruition of his dreams.
He has waited 20 years for his fruition and Columbia County has only gone downhill. It is time for him to pass on the mantle.
Help him do so. Vote for Alex Tardif for Position 3.
Nancy Whitney
St. Helens
Keeping it simple with Hyde
Tony Hyde has proven 20 years of history properly managing our county. Keep it simple ... Tony Hyde for Columbia County commissioner, Position 3. Proud Columbia County resident.
Mike Pihl
Just say NO!
As an accountant for Department of Human Services, I used to prepare cost analysis at the end of each fiscal period showing exact bed cost for both a psychiatric hospital and a training center (developmental disabled clients).
Columbia County built a new jail twice as big as it needed and without an operating budget; yet, at local meetings, neither the county commissioners nor sheriff would or could answer a question for exact per-bed cost for the jail and an exact rental cost paid by the U.S. Marshals Service.
The county commissioners formed a special tax district to build a hospital without getting an exemption from the 30-mile rule from my bosses at DHS; thus resulted the bilking of millions of dollars that somehow vanished into thin air.
And, for the last 13-plus years, Columbia County has operated a transit system which has failed to generate adequate ridership (1 percent) and business sponsorship (less than 5 percent); yet, now wants to form another special tax district for failing business venture.
The Port of St. Helens have purchased nearly all useable commercial property in the county mandating that new industries lease property from them rather than purchase and develop their own work sites, which to some is more feasible. The port has spent millions in developing Port Westward for ventures that never seem to pan out; ethanol, coal, Bakken oil, and now methanol, all associated with the dirty fossil fuel industry which residents in the Portland metropolitan region detest.
Two weeks after putting an offer on a house in Columbia City, the residents voted down a police levy for the second time, yet on the evening after I completed repairs and before I could move in, the mayor proposed to throw out both election results and put the police levy on the ballot for a third time.
Being that Columbia City has no school district, fire department, bank, restaurant or motel, I voiced my concern over the lack of diversity and size of the citys tax base. Now, five years later, the city has built a dog park, a veterans memorial and has plans to develop Trestle Beach and a hiking trail along McBride Creek, all which uses up precious money, material and labor without producing any tax revenue to pay for things like a police department.
As a disabled veteran who has only received two cost of living allowance increases in the last nine years, I am getting disgusted with constant requests for more and more property taxes, with less and less cooperation and transparency from public officials. The Columbia County Assessors Office is currently reviewing homes in Columbia City in which residents will not know their taxable value until the middle of October, yet there are tax issues on the May ballot.
How about this: vote no on any ballot measures that increase property taxes, voting against anyone who has already served two or more terms in office, voting against any new parks that do not generate any taxable revenue. No, nada, zilch, nien!
Joseph Turner
Columbia City
Back in the Oregon election saddle
This May will be the first time I will be able to vote in Oregon in many years. I returned to St. Helens from Washington over a year ago and I am looking forward to voting in my hometown.
I most definitely will vote for Alex Tardif for Columbia County commissioner, Position 3.
Tardif will bring new life and new ideas into a tired county race. I believe him when he states that if you cant get a job done in four years, or even eight years, you are not going to get it done, and its time to move on.
I was unpleasantly surprised to find that the incumbent Position 3 commissioner has been in office for nearly 20 years. And yet, I return to the county, 25 years later, to find there are fewer business, many fewer jobs, and the county is nearly out of money and cannot even support the local jail without taxing the citizens.
Wow. Why have you kept him in office?
Tardif is a business and accounting graduate. How can you not vote for him?
He will be able and willing to work to get the county out from under the financial burden which has accrued during the tenure of the present commissioners.
I believe new people and new ideas will make a difference in the future of our county.
Please vote for Alex Tardif.
Kelly Harmon
St. Helens
We need to retain Hyde
It has been my privilege to know and work with Tony Hyde since February 1996. I have seen Tony interacting with crisis managers, bureaucrats, elected officials and ordinary citizens. He has shown himself to be smart and fair-minded in the handling of the day-to-day county business. Further, Tonys can-do attitude has naturally led him to create a deep engagement with state and federal officials. This hard work and foresight has benefitted all of the citizens of Columbia County in the form of increased state and federal investment in Columbia County.
Tony is one of Oregons leaders in pressuring federal land holding agencies to pay a fair share contribution to local governments, like Columbia County, in compensation for costs associated with these federal lands.
To be successful, a county commissioner must be hard-working, pragmatic, resourceful, knowledgeable, articulate and fair.
Tony has all of these attributes.
Great public servants become better with each passing year. This is particularly true of Tony Hyde. We need to retain him for county commissioner for four more years.
Jim Tierney
Give me two Rs for reform
As a lifelong resident, business owner, property owner and community volunteer, I feel this upcoming commissioners race is one of the most pivotal that weve had in over 12 years.
During economic decline, businesses and, certainly, manufacturers do not consider relocating their business. The risk of an uncertain economic climate makes the potential investment too risky.
Our normal business cycle is full of peaks and valleys of expanding and declining economies. Coming off a nearly 10-year low, we could experience 24 to 36 months of steady growth before it contracts. We need to take advantage of that window of opportunity and elect county commissioners who are focused and have the drive to do what it takes to attract new business into our county.
Even though this is a non-partisan race, we have two Republicans who can make the difference. The last time we had two Republicans on the Columbia County Board of Commissioners, it was these two Republicans, and they accomplished a great deal, streamlining county services, the permitting processes, adding family-wage jobs and retail jobs.
I think it is time to bring our commuters back home and put our county back to work. I am voting for Tony Hyde, Position 3, and Joel Yarbor, Position 1, for county commissioner.
I feel this team is what this county needs at this time. Opportunity is knocking.
Keith Forsythe
Deer Island
Conn has experience, supports transparency
In the upcoming primary election I am supporting Susan Conn for Columbia County commissioner, Position 1.
Susan has an extensive history in community involvement in the county. She has served in various positions, including the St. Helens School Board, the Columbia County Commission on Children and Families and is currently a member of the St. Helens City Council. Her experience with these entities has provided her with the experience needed in working with Oregon Public Records Law and providing the transparency that citizens should expect from their elected leaders through collaboration with them. She works hard at understanding all sides of an issue.
Susan also understands the challenges of owning and operating a small business and the need for the development of long-term family-wage jobs while maintaining the quality of life we have come to expect in Columbia County.
If you are looking for a candidate with experience, who believes in collaboration and transparency, then please join me in supporting Susan for county commissioner.
Casey Wheeler
Columbia City
Conn is my choice
I would like to add my voice and ask everyone to please vote for Susan Conn for the Board of County Commissioners of Columbia County, Position 1.
I met Susan in 1994 and throughout the years have admired her great dedication to our community. I have served on committees with her and she has always had the interest of the individuals that live in our community, and she works endlessly to find solutions. She is easily accessible, personable and truly wants to make our county the envy and an example for the rest of Oregon, and she does this by working with grassroots groups, government entities, small businesses, all different age groups, educational facilities, nonprofit organizations and anyone or group that wants or needs help to build a better community.
Susan attends every happening event that is possible for her, which keeps her informed and helps her understand what is needed throughout our county. She then tries to find
beneficial solutions to solve the issue.
Susan takes her time to share this information by way of social media and emails, texting, or by whatever means is needed. She is an excellent marketing representative for our county and, through this avenue, she is able to communicate with everyone at their level. Susans campaign is not one of a career politician and she is running a campaign on a paupers funding budget, therefore, you do not see large signs or brochures reminding you to vote for her. So I am asking you to please remember to elect and connect Susan Conn for county commissioner, Position 1.
Susan Ziglinski
Columbia City
Tops among those who are competent
There are three capable, competent candidates for county commissioner, Position 1: Ms. Susan Conn, Ms. Margaret Magruder, and Mr. Joel Yarbor.
My vote will be going to Susan Conn.
Susan Conn is completely committed to the future of Columbia County. And she listens. She has been actively engaged in many positive aspects of what makes our county a great place to live. She is currently on the St. Helens City Council, and has been active in many organizations and committees that has kept her fingers on the pulse of our beautiful county.
Susan is approachable. And again, one of her most positive qualities is that she listens.
Please join me in supporting Susan Conn for county commissioner, Position 1.
Ellen Lager
Compelled to vote for Tardif
I feel compelled to write and voice my support for County Commissioner candidate, Alex Tardif.
Coming up on 30 years old and having spent a majority of my life in the area, I continue to grow genuinely concerned about the lack of new leadership. I would love to see someone bring new, fresh ideas and be involved in making important decisions about the future for my generation, in this county. Its time my generation
had a voice in local government.
I am so happy to have a candidate like Alex Tardif. Born and raised in Scappoose, he was a very active and involved student athlete, then went on to work his way through college. Ive heard his ideas, seen his work ethic and I know he understands the importance of this elected position.
I firmly believe that Alex Tardif is the best choice for this role. I will be casting my vote for Alex and I encourage all young members of our great community to consider the opportunity they have to do so.
Shaun T. Stewart
Supporting Tony Hyde
The main reason I am strongly supporting Tony Hyde for re-election as Columbia County Commissioner is because he has done a superior job on the Board for several years.
With all the debacles in Washington D.C. there is a popular movement to throw them all out at election time. But in this case our government officials on the state and local level do not fall into this group of villains.
These are local folks who live in our little community and who interact with us on a daily basis. You will often see them at ACE Hardware, at Safeway or at Sunshine Pizza - just regular folks.
Tony has distinguished himself as a steady hand on the Board of Commissioners and he brings a unique perspective since he understands the timber industry which is still a very large factor in Columbia County.
Tonys vast knowledge of the history of the County, his business and political contacts within and outside the County, and his political acumen are invaluable resources that we cannot afford to lose.
Please review Tonys list of goals and his record of Service in your Voters Pamphlet and I believe you will be inclined to vote to re-elect him for Columbia County Commissioner, Position 3.
Robert J. Braud
St. Helens
Conn is hard-working, reliable
The ballots are now out for the county commissioner seat being vacated by the well-liked Earl Fisher. There are many running for this position and some of them have gotten quite vitriolic. Among the more pleasant is Susan Conn, who has worked for many years to keep Columbia County a good place to live and raise our
kids within a prosperous and livable environment. She is caring, hard-working and re-liable.
Our votes are for Susan Conn.
Mike and Maddy Sheehan


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The personal choices of health care: Experiences shape perspectives of Oklahomans
Kim Pearce was so close to canceling her family's insurance policy.
It's still scary to think how close. Because, in one week, her son had four doctor's visits, a trip to the emergency room and a $16,000 emergency flight from Stillwater to Tulsa.
"For whatever reason, I think it was definitely a God thing that we did not cancel that policy, because within two weeks of moving here, you end up on that helicopter," Pearce said.
This experience taught Pearce that the insurance premium must always be paid. No bargaining allowed.
Whether her family will have insurance is not an option, but what they have to pay for that insurance is.
Pearce and her husband are among thousands of Oklahomans who might enroll in an insurance plan through the health care marketplace.
Beginning Oct. 1, Oklahoma residents will be able to shop for federally subsidized insurance in a marketplace where private insurance companies will post their rates.
David Blatt, director of the Oklahoma Policy Institute, said for many Oklahomans, having access to insurance will lift a major burden.
"With the Affordable Care Act, with all its complexities and imperfections, it's going to mean for hundreds of thousands of Oklahomans, they will be able to, many for the first time, get a quality health insurance plan at an affordable rate," Blatt said.
'Million-dollar babies'
Pearce's adventure through the medical system began when her son, who was 3 at the time, cut his mouth. He bled off and on over a five-day period.
After he got to the hospital in Tulsa, he was diagnosed with hemophilia, a rare bleeding disorder that hinders the body's ability to clot blood.
Hemophilia is one of the most expensive chronic diseases to treat. For example, Pearce's son Gavin, now 8, takes a medicine that is about $1,700 per dose. Luckily, her insurance and a pharmacy assistance program pay the $27,000 monthly cost.
But children with hemophilia are often dubbed "million-dollar babies" because of how quickly they hit their lifetime insurance coverage caps. The Affordable Care Act brought some reform to this policy, but Pearce still worries about how it will affect the way insurance companies cover Gavin's medicine.
His medicine is considered a specialty drug, and she worries that, after Jan. 1, insurance companies might change how and which specialty drugs they'll cover.
For example, an insurance company could choose to cover a different type of hemophilia drug, which might not work as well for the hemophilia sufferer.
"Now that these marketplaces are open, we can still keep this insurance policy," she said. "We're just going to need to figure out what will be the best route for us."
While Pearce is uninsured, her husband and two of her children at home have a plan that costs $750 per month.
Pearce's household income is about $65,000. Financial support, in the form of a subsidy, is available for families that fall between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level.
Pearce's family is at 276 percent. Under the exchange, her family might pay an estimated $9,869 for a silver plan and potentially qualify for a subsidy of $4,146, according to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation subsidy calculator.
Potentially, Pearce could pay $5,723 per year for coverage, or about $477 per month. Under a silver plan, the plan pays for 70 percent of expenses in total covered benefits while enrollees are responsible for the rest, according to the Kaiser foundation.
The estimate doesn't account for differences based on where a person lives, which can have a significant impact on marketplace prices and offerings.
Transparency issues
Jonathan Small argues that through the marketplace, more people will be insured in a health care system that lacks price transparency.
"Think about higher education," said Small, fiscal policy director at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs. "We have dumped massive amounts of state, local and federal money into higher education, but yet, it has caused tuition, fees and higher education spending to increase tenfold over the last 40 years, and that's basically what the health care law does. It does very little to make cost transparent for patients and pumps a lot of money into a broken financing system for health care."
Small said Oklahoma already ranks poorly in the number of primary care doctors per capita. The increased access to care will further exacerbate the wait time for people getting in line to see a doctor, he said.
The No. 1 priority should be getting costs under control, he said.
"We've got to ask a serious question of why entities that have a mission statement 'to be the healing hands of Jesus by providing care to the poor and powerless' or missions similar to that are in a position where they're having an advertising war during the OU football games and able to buy practice facilities for professional teams," Small said. "How are those entities in the position that they're putting people into bankruptcy?"
'One diagnosis away'
Fran Britton won't forget the day she passed her driving test. She was 16, had already flunked once and was nervous she would flunk the second time.
She was in the car, and the driving instructor was having trouble telling her where to turn because several of the streets were blocked off.
The instructor just told her, "Forget it, you passed."
It wasn't until several years later when she was reading a "This Day in History" that she found out — President Lyndon Johnson was down the road from her driving test location, signing the Medicare bill at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum near Kansas City.
Almost 50 years later, she's looking to sign up.
"Everybody was saying, 'Medicare is going to ruin medicine, and it will be this, that and the other thing,' and you know, it saved so many elderly people from horrible existences, but it was also probably part of the reason health care costs have gone up," she said.
Britton's husband has saved $600 per month in health insurance costs since joining Medicare. And Britton, 64, only has a few months to go before she's eligible. Until then, she plans to sign up for the other government-run insurance program, the health insurance marketplace.
Britton pays $929 per month for a plan with a $500 deductible. She has calculated that she could save about $500 per month on the exchange. She's eligible for Medicare in June.
Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a majority of the Affordable Care Act, Britton cried tears of relief.
Britton had thought the law didn't have a chance of making it through the court. Before and since President Barack Obama signed the law into action in March 2010, a political uproar had been boiling in the U.S. over the law's constitutionality.
Britton said she wanted better for other families.
"We always thank the Lord that we were always able to, even though it was expensive, save money and afford a baby, and fortunately we never had children with drastically horrible things where you would have bankrupted a family," she said. "But the reality is you always feel like you're one diagnosis away from being that family, and I think it's heartbreaking."
Brink of bankruptcy?
Blatt, of the Oklahoma Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, said although people will pay a premium of some size, it will be significantly less than what many people paying for individual policies are used to.
"We know medical bills are the single largest cause of financial bankruptcy," Blatt said. "Everybody is one accident, one illness away from financial ruin."
As recently as 1981, only 8 percent of families filing for bankruptcy did so in the aftermath of a serious medical problem, according to a study published in 2007 in the American Journal of Medicine.
That number has since exploded. In 2007, illness or medical bills contributed to 62 percent of all bankruptcies, according to the study.
This week, Hugh Meade and his wife, Tammy, will meet with a bankruptcy attorney, in part because of their debt from a medical emergency.
Tammy Meade had an emergency back surgery in 2007. A disk in her spine had prolapsed and was crushing the nerves in her spine. She couldn't walk.
The surgery cost $30,000, and six years later, they continue to get bills every month and calls most days on it.
"There's every possibility that something could happen to me, and if it happened again, I'm sure we'd be declaring bankruptcy — there's no way around it," Hugh Meade said. "But declaring bankruptcy costs money, too. You have to pay the lawyer, and I don't know if we can afford to declare bankruptcy."
Meade plans to look at the prices of insurance coverage plans through the marketplace.
He's still uninsured while his wife is on temporary disability. They pay $140 per month for an individual policy for their son. When they first got the plan, it was $70 per month.
Meade stopped looking for individual coverage for himself about five years ago.
"The reason I stopped looking into it is because every time I looked, to cover just me, not including my wife and child, was often somewhere in the $600-a-month range, and that's very nearly what my mortgage is," he said.
Subsidized coverage for him in the health care exchange would be less than $100 a month.
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Fine China
By Mitchell Owens
Published: August 18, 2002
First things first: the name. It's pronounced CHEE-na, like Sheena (of the Jungle), Gina (Lollobrigida), Tina (Sinatra). Not CHY-nuh, like the country on her birth certificate. Truth be told, China Machado -- 60's supermodel, the Western world's first non-Caucasian cover girl, survivor of the publishing debacle that was Lear's magazine -- invented her celebrated moniker by defiantly embracing the first two syllables of a very clearly remembered childhood slur. Chinita, little China girl, was what Buenos Aires's curbside Lotharios called her as she made her way across town to the nuns at the Convent of the Sacred Heart.
''Chinita is what they called any girl with slanting eyes,'' Machado says, settling into a rattan sofa in her shingled house in North Haven, near Sag Harbor, N.Y., her lean, lanky frame tucking into itself like an ivory yardstick. Diana Vreeland, every bit George W. Bush's equal when it came to bestowing nicknames, called her Golden Bones. Her real name is Noelie, because she was born on Christmas Day, ''but when I started modeling in Paris, I had to come up with something different.'' After all, Noelie Dasouza Machado had already embarrassed her proper Catholic family enough when she ended up on the arm of Luis Miguel Dominguin -- a fabled bullfighter and Picasso pal, the kind of guy other men wanted to be and their wives wanted to be with. ''It was like I'd run off with Mick Jagger,'' she says of the resulting furor. The couple's unwedded bliss didn't last, and neither did her love affair with the screen star William Holden, but the damage was done. (''That's not a period I'm ready to talk about.'') Frederico Machado didn't talk to his only daughter for 15 years.
Pride had a lot to do with it. The Machados were pillars of Shanghai's Portuguese community. Sepia-tone snapshots tell a privileged tale that's Merchant Ivory by way of Marguerite Duras: tennis whites, uniformed nursemaids, cocktails at the luxe Lusitano Club. The family's apartment in the city's tony French Concession was crammed with wood furniture carved like petrified lace. The money fueling it all came courtesy of a boat-captain grandfather with a nasty temper and a crippled leg, the result of an unexplained gunshot wound. ''He shipped cotton,'' his granddaughter says. ''Maybe opium, too. Who knows?'' When Mao Zedong's forces moved into town in the 1940's, Frederico Machado packed up his wife and three children and sailed to Argentina. ''Leave China to the Chinese,'' he said, certain that the Machados' mixmaster roots -- Chinese, Portuguese and perhaps a dollop of East Indian by way of Goa -- wouldn't mesh with the newly Sinocentric Shanghai. ''We're neither fish nor fowl.''
The tangled DNA that led her parents to hit the road is what made China Machado an international sensation. Splashed across a full page in Harper's Bazaar, in February 1959, her face upended the status quo. The imperious cheekbones, Bambi eyes and plush mouth that Richard Avedon put to film betrayed an ethnicity that Hearst's white-bread readers couldn't quite put their manicured finger on, much less identify with.
Depending on the amount of eyeliner involved, China Machado could morph from chinoiserie temptress to proto-Cher to Angela Bassett's first cousin. Not that anyone really knew quite what to do with her or that signature snow-white forelock. Much of the time, the fashion world's singular sensation ended up in vaguely Suzy Wong drag, banked with bamboo, Madame Butterfly in Balenciaga.
''It was a different time,'' she says with a no-nonsense shrug. ''Today, I would have made a fortune.'' Still, Avedon knew a star was born. Golden Bones, he once told a reporter, is ''the most beautiful woman in the world.''
Correction. Machado pulls out an album. Inside is an article describing her leap from fashion icon to fashion director of Harper's Bazaar in the mid-60's, and there's Avedon's paean in black and white. ''Probably the most beautiful woman in the world,' is what Dick actually said.'' She rolls her eyes, laughing. ''Can you believe that? I certainly didn't. Not then, not now.'' Of course, she was flattered. Who wouldn't be? But her old friend's praise didn't go to her head. About two years after that groundbreaking photo, Machado gave up professional posing.
''It was just a job,'' she explains. ''It paid the bills.'' In addition, ''I get bored very easily.'' Bored but creative. She's been an editor, a stylist, an actress, a television producer, a designer of hand-knit sweaters, owner of a funky general store, caterer and painter of curious landscapes and street scenes, often framed by open windows. Blame that inside-looking-out leitmotif on her amorphous place of origin. Shanghai was ''half Oriental, half Occidental; half land, half water; neither a colony nor wholly belonging to China; inhabited by the citizens of every nation in the world but ruled by none,'' the author Stella Dong wrote in her history of the city. Territorial law meant that Machado was Portuguese from birth, she says, but: ''I have no nationality, no country. I need shelter.''
Actually, she seems to have found it. Her office is hung with snapshots of her daughters, Blanche and Emmanuelle -- by her ex-husband, the actor Martin La Salle -- and her grandsons, Malcolm and Montgomery. Riccardo Rosa, who works in the export business, has been by her side for the last 23 years, and now she's got Cha-Cha, a French-bulldog puppy with a taste for telephone cords. And, yes, there are more projects ahead. But first she must finish her cookbook about the East-meets-West cuisine of her childhood, spicy-hot dishes that she concocts for pals like the publishing executive Jason Epstein and the saloon keeper Elaine Kaufman: arroz gordo, tripe Niçoise, chicken with cloves, Chinese mushrooms and Thai herbs. ''Four hundred recipes already,'' she sighs, patting the flanks of a bulging three-ring binder. ''My agent says I have to cut a few.''
As for modeling, it holds not one ounce of allure. For one thing, it can be damned uncomfortable. ''I'm a senior citizen, for God's sake!'' Machado protests in mock indignation as she is coaxed onto the rocky beach outside her house for this salute.
The lady doth protest too much. Maturity never looked so good.
Photos: On the waterfront: China Machado, left, was born in Shanghai, grew up in Buenos Aires, was discovered in Paris and now lives in the bayside town of North Haven, near Sag Harbor. Helmut Lang tanklet, $195, wool jersey T-shirt, $320, microcotton pants, $255, and knit vest. At Helmut Lang, 80 Greene Street or go to www.helmutlang.com. Boots, Bottega Veneta.; Machado, a fledgling cookbook author, cuts her own prosciutto, opposite. Donna Karan crepe jersey scarf top, $1,500, and wool pants, $695. At Donna Karan New York stores, (866) 240-4700.; Previous spread: Véronique Branquinho sweater, about $300. At Barneys New York. Costume National cotton velvet tuxedo pants, $809, and shoes. At Costume National, 108 Wooster Street.; Nature study: in a sweater of her own design, Machado takes the sun. China Machado hand-knit wool sweater. To order, call (631) 725-8164. From Giambattista Valli for Emanuel Ungaro, wool pants, $869. At Daniel Foxx, Palm Desert, Calif. Boots, Emanuel Ungaro.; Andy Warhol gave Machado this silk-screen of her self, opposite. Anne Klein cashmere sweater, $395, and cotton-blend pants, $165. At Anne Klein, 417 West Broadway. Scarf, Véronique Branquinho.; China, beached: Machado in an Hermès cashmere sweater, $1,100, cashmere removable collar, $205, and lambskin pants, $2,725. At Hermès stores. Sunglasses, Gucci. Shoes, Christian Louboutin.; Left: Brioni cashmere knit sweater, $1,190, cotton tuxedo shirt, $450, and wool pants, $665. At Brioni stores. Shoes, Liz Claiborne.; Hair by Scott J. Bridgehampton Aveda Lifestyle and Spa. Fashion assistant: Melissa Klitzke.; Below: Machado in her prime in a Fabiani dress, photographed for an Italian fashion magazine, circa 1959. (TOP LEFT: NICOLAS MOORE. BOTTOM RIGHT: COURTESY OF CHINA MACHADO.)(Photographs by Nicolas Moore; Styled by Anne Christensen)


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When did the virtue of Personal Responsibility become a piece of garbage easily tossed away into the nearest trash receptacle? Are parents no longer teaching their children the importance of owning up to their actions, and the consequences they bring?
Growing up on a grimy street in New York City, my brother and I knew there would be heck to pay if we did something stupid - if we made a bad choice. Our parents told us, our grandparents told us, our teachers reminded us to think before we acted, our pastor told us about accepting the consequences of our choices, and so on and so on.
Every day we make choices, both simple and complex. But when did we stop thinking before choosing? How many people do you know who blame past events for their present choices? Who refuse to see their own will at play, instead blaming the will of another who did something to them years ago?
Or perhaps they blame "Society" or a bad upbringing - heaven forbid they look in a mirror or recognize that the hand causing the harm is in reality attached to their arm.
Our world is suffering from the lack of personal responsibility people in today's society are expressing - this refusal to acknowledge their role in the destruction of our planet is hampering any efforts to reverse that damage. An Inconvenient Truth remains a great wake up call that there's a problem - but if no one is willing to fess up to their part of the cause, is there really any way to fix it - or are we already doomed?
People so quickly point fingers this way and that, they don't take the time to look at the facts and see where the real trouble began.
But that leads to tough questions and unfavorable truths in our age of "He said, she said." I miss the days of Harry Truman, when "the buck stopped here" and it really meant something. Nowadays, that buck just gets blown from hand to hand like a piece of paper in a tornado funnel, endlessly swirling in a multitude of directions with no idea where it's going to land.
So, what do I mean by accepting personal responsibility? Accepting personal responsibility includes:
* Acknowledging that you are solely responsible for the choices in your life.
* Accepting that you are responsible for what you choose to feel or think.
* Accepting that you choose the direction for your life.
* Accepting that you cannot blame others for the choices you have made.
* Pointing the finger of responsibility back to yourself and away from others when you are discussing the consequences of your actions.
* Realizing that you determine your feelings about any events or actions addressed to you, no matter how negative they seem.
* Not feeling sorry for the "bum deal" you have been handed but taking hold of your life and giving it direction and reason.
* Letting go of blame and anger toward those in your past who did the best they could, given the limitations of their knowledge, background and awareness.
Accepting personal responsibility is not a burden, it is a blessing. Look for the good in your life everyday, appreciate it, and take responsibility by making the most of what you have. Happiness is a choice, just like misery is; we all have the responsibility to make the right choices. We owe it to ourselves to do so.


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(NXTP) left very little to the imagination when its CFO John Thompson released key first-quarter results at an April 12 Credit Suisse First Boston presentation. Those who stuck around for the finer points in its earnings report were rewarded with a 27-cent per share loss, besting analysts' predictions of a 31-cent loss, as gathered by Multex.com. Despite a 23% sequential increase in revenue to $63.1 million, the company fell short of Street revenue expectations of $68 million. Back in April, Thompson stripped the small- and mid-sized wireless market carrier's first-quarter fortunes down to the flesh, revealing 61,600 new subscribers and average revenue per user of $70. The up-and-comer boasts 289,000 customers, and lost only 1.6% to customer churn in the first quarter, an improvement over the previous quarter. Additionally, the company showed off its $890 million in cash and credit lines to head off recent discussions about partner Nextel (NXTL) and communication competitors' debt situations and ability to fund network construction.Nextel management delved into new numbers to lay out a second quarter that will feature rapid hiring, leading to a wider EBITDA loss of $28 million in the second quarter (vs. the first quarter's $22.9 million EBITDA loss). For the year, the young company plans to grow service revenue -- a number that excludes money made on equipment -- by 260%. Nextel Partners is exerting a lot of energy in the buildout department, and plans to spend $362 million in 2001. Stripping down to its last number, the company plans to be cash flow positive in 2004.Nextel Partners
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The Dunwoody Nature Center has put together a $50,000 grant to restore its meadow along Wildcat Creek through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Five Star Restoration grant program.
Executive Director Alan Mothner said the national foundation grant was for $19,702, but will be combined with matching funds and services from community partners to provide $50,000 to restore, re-grade and implement a tiered rain garden system for storm water collection.
The heavily used meadow is the site for the nature center's concerts, Butterfly Festival and numerous field trips.
"The topography of the land," Mothner said, "currently causes storm water to run down from the parking lot, through the meadow and into Wildcat Creek at the lowest point of the area."
He said that brings with the erosion of the land and pollution of the creek, a tributary of the Chattahoochee River.
The linked system of rain gardens is aimed at re-directing water to retention areas where native plants, loam and river rock will absorb some of the water before passing any remnants onto the other rain garden areas.
Mothner said the Nature Center will develop programs to teach students and homeowners how to prevent erosion and create similar projects.
The matching funds and services in the grant total come from a wide array of community participants. The biggest is from Doosan Infracore, a Korean firm whose North American headquarters is in Dunwoody. Doosan is the parent company of Bobcat. The firm will provide $18,000 in time, equipment and labor.
It will provide excavators, Bobcats and 100 volunteers for a work day.
Also contributing volunteers or funds are Dunwoody High School, Boy Scout Troop 494 from Dunwoody Baptist Church, Hands on Atlanta, the Rotary Club of Dunwoody, the city's Sustainability Commission, the Dunwoody Woman's Club, Design Seven, Lowe Engineering and the DeKalb County Master Gardeners.
Mothner said the groundbreaking for the project is planned for the conclusion of the Butterfly Festival Aug.18, with completion expected near the end of September.
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I've broken down my 2008 NCAA Tournament picks by region and Final Four. Also available are links to my 2008 NCAA Tournament Stats, Facts, Trends and Tips, and NCAA Tournament Credo. I got three out of the four Final Four teams right last year (Florida, Georgetown and UCLA), so hopefully I have similar success this March.
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First Round
#1 Memphis (33-1) vs. #16 Texas-Arlington (21-11)
Zzzz... boring. Memphis shouldn't even walk out of the locker room until the first half is at its midway point. Without anyone standing in their way, Texas-Arlington should have like three or four points by then.
#1 Memphis
#8 Mississippi State (22-10) vs. #9 Oregon (18-13)
I don't think Oregon belongs in the NCAA Tournament, but I won't make a big fuss because I love the fact that
Oregon's Cheerleaders
will be attending the Big Dance. In fact, I honestly believe the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee put the Ducks in a bracket because of their cheerleaders.
Too bad they won't be around for long. The Ducks shoot the three well, but they have no legitimate point guard in the wake of losing Aaron Brooks to the NBA. Guard play is king in the NCAA Tournament, and the lack of a solid floor general is going to kill Oregon. It's a shame too; if Brooks were still on this squad, I'd have them pegged for the Final Four.
#8 Mississippi State
#5 Michigan State (25-8) vs. #12 Temple (21-12)
With ESPN analysts bickering about Arizona State being left out of the tournament, they completely missed the biggest injustice this upcoming weekend. Michigan State and Temple will play a 12:30 game in Denver. What's the big deal with that? Well, considering they're in Mountain Time, this game will be early for them, especially the Philadelphia-based Owls (10:30 a.m.). Why would the committee do this? Who's going to come to a game at 10:30 local time?
This game could actually go either way; the Spartans are probably the deeper team and they defend the three much better than the Owls do, but they've also struggled on the road this year. Michigan State, just 4-6 away from East Lansing, has beaten only Bradley, Minnesota, Northwestern and Illinois as a visitor. Those are some pretty horrible squads. Perhaps the most telling sign that the Spartans suck in away games is the fact that they lost to Penn State. As a Nittany Lions alumnus, I can confidently declare that my alma mater's basketball team is garbage.
If the Spartans can't win on the road, how are they supposed to win in Denver? I'm going with the best player on the court, Temple's Dionte Christmas (20.2 ppg, 6.0 rpg).
Michigan State violates
rules 4 and 8.
#12 Temple
#4 Pittsburgh (26-9) vs. #13 Oral Roberts (24-8)
This is not your older brother's Oral Roberts team. The Golden Eagles had a great shot at knocking off No. 3 Washington State last year. Unfortunately, that squad's top two scorers, Caleb Green and Ken Tutt, are both gone. I like junior swingman Moses Ehambe (11.7 ppg); I think he's a really clutch player and an extremely precise long-distance shooter, but he and Robert Jarvis (16.1 ppg) will likely be bogged down by Pittsburgh's outstanding defense. The good news is that Ehambe and Jarvis are both juniors and will be back next season. The bad news is that the Panthers are just way too strong.
#4 Pittsburgh
#6 Marquette (24-9) vs. #11 Kentucky (18-12)
Kentucky is an automatic play for me because I don't like Marquette's tournament chances one bit. Point guard Dominic James chokes every year. Last March, he was just 5-of-14 from the field in an opening-round loss to Michigan State. As a freshman, he also played poorly in an upset the first day of the tournament. James settles for too many unfavorable shots, which is why he was just 31.7 percent from three-point land this season.
James must have given fellow junior guard Jerel McNeal lessons on how to play offense because McNeal is even worse from area-code three (29.6 percent) despite taking almost 100 shots from beyond the arc. The Wildcats play solid defense and should be able to force the Golden Eagles into some ill-advised shots.
Marquette violates
rule 7.
Kentucky violates
rule 4.
#11 Kentucky
#3 Stanford (26-7) vs. #14 Cornell (22-5)
I've been covering the NCAA Tournament for a while now on my site, and I don't ever remember an Ivy League team winning a game in March Madness. In recent years, I've started joking about the Ivy squad being able to outsmart its opponent, but because Cornell is playing Stanford, this year's Ivy representative is screwed on more than one level.
#3 Stanford
#7 Miami (22-10) vs. #10 Saint Mary's (25-6)
Watching Miami lose to Virginia Tech in the ACC Tournament left me with a bad taste in my mouth. As soon as the Hurricanes realized that Virginia Tech was exerting maximum effort in a last-ditch attempt to qualify for the NCAA Tournament, they folded and stopped trying hard. When looking at the composition of Miami's roster, it's not hard to realize why this happened.
The Hurricanes are a one-man army on offense. It's all about Jack McClinton. At 6-1, McClinton is an excellent scorer, averaging 17 points per game and shooting 42.6 percent from beyond the arc. But he has taken more than 100 field goals than anyone else on the squad. One-man shows seldom advance deep into the tournament. I'll take the more team-oriented Saint Mary's.
Besides the one-man show aspect, I also don't like the Hurricanes because they suck on the road (4-6) and their defense is very mediocre.
Miami violates
rules 4 and 6.
#10 Saint Mary's
#2 Texas (28-6) vs. #15 Austin Peay (24-10)
Austin Peay's team name is the Governors. Oooh, very scary. What are they going to do, sneak a bunch of hookers into the hotel where the Longhorns are staying?
#2 Texas
Second Round
#1 Memphis (33-1) vs. #8 Mississippi State (22-10)
I think Memphis has some serious flaws that will get exposed, but I'm not going to predict that to happen here. Picking eights to upset ones is never a smart idea. First of all, you have no clue if the No. 8 will even survive its first-round matchup. Secondly, of the 24 No. 1 seeds since 2002, 21 have advanced to the Sweet 16.
The Bulldogs have some solid players like junior swingman Jamont Gordon (17.3 ppg, 6.3 rpg, 4.8 apg), senior center Charles Rhodes (16.9 ppg, 7.7 rpg) and Ben "Psycho-B" Hansbrough (10.4 ppg), brother of UNC star Tyler. They definitely have a shot against Memphis, but for reasons stated above, I'm going to have the Tigers advancing to Houston.
Memphis violates
rules 1 and 8.
#1 Memphis
#4 Pittsburgh (26-9) vs. #12 Temple (21-12)
Unlike the Spartans, Pittsburgh can actually win on the road; we saw that when it won the Big East Tournament in Madison Square Garden last week. Another advantage Temple loses in this matchup is the fact that Dionte Christmas won't be the best player on the court. Panthers power forward Sam Young (18.3 ppg, 6.4 rpg) is a load inside and will be too much for the vertically challenged Owls to handle.
Pittsburgh's defensively stout guards will lock down Temple's backcourt. Conversely, the Owls, who have major problems defending the three ball (35.9% opp 3fg), won't be able to keep Young (39.3 percent), Keith Benjamin (37.9) or Ronald Ramon (38.0) in check.
#4 Pittsburgh
#3 Stanford (26-7) vs. #11 Kentucky (18-12)
Stanford has a relatively easy trip to the Sweet 16. If Marquette makes it here, Dominic James and Jerel McNeal will simply take shots from half court while being triple-teamed. And if Kentucky advances, as I've predicted, the Wildcats may have problems winning on an unfamiliar court against a top-notch opponent. Kentucky is 4-6 on the road this year, as its only victory against a winning squad is against Georgia, who until the SEC Tournament, pretty much sucked.
The Wildcats were once stronger in the front court; Patrick Patterson (16.4 ppg, 7.7 rpg) is an outstanding player, but is injured and won't be back for the tournament. Stanford is bigger and better in the paint with its 7-foot Lopez twins. As e-mailer Doug points out, "The only player down low for kentucky is Perry Stevenson who will be eaten alive by the Lopez twins."
Kentucky violates
rule 4.
#3 Stanford
#2 Texas (28-6) vs. #10 Saint Mary's (25-6)
Talk about a Freudian slip; I actually did the write-up for Texas-Stanford before this one by accident. Guess that shows how much faith I have in Saint Mary's ability to win this contest.
The Gaels are a nice story, but it's not happening here - simply way too much firepower from the Longhorns. I'll discuss them in more detail deeper in the tournament.
#2 Texas
Sweet 16
#1 Memphis (33-1) vs. #4 Pittsburgh (26-9)
I think this is a good place to talk about Memphis' problems, because, well, I don't think they're going to make it past Pittsburgh. There are four reasons why I believe the Tigers will have major problems advancing deep in the tournament. I'll address them one at a time.
The one everyone knows about is Memphis' horrific free-throw shooting. The Tigers, as a team, are just 59.6 percent from the charity stripe. No one on the squad shoots better than 69.6 percent from there. Seriously, that's really embarrassing. It's not like they're some drunk frat boys being ushered to the free-throw line during some sort of drinking game. They're going to school for free to play basketball. One of the fundamentals of basketball is free-throw shooting. How any professional or big-time college player can be worse than 70 percent is beyond me.
The second thing I don't like about the Tigers is their weak conference. They've only played one tough game since dispatching Arizona on Dec. 29. That happened to be against No. 2 Tennessee. Memphis, unprepared for the rigors of playing a top opponent, predictably lost. I don't see how playing junk teams like Tulsa, Southern Miss, Tulane, UAB and SMU can possibly get you ready for an elite squad like Pittsburgh.
Third, I'm not a big fan of Memphis' offense. It seems like the team easily gets frustrated and settles for the three ball too often. That's fine if you're Drake or Butler, but the Tigers are only 35 percent as a team from long distance. Pittsburgh's outstanding perimeter defense will put the clamps on Memphis' backcourt.
And speaking of the backcourt, the final reason I don't like the Tigers is point guard Derrick Rose. Don't get me wrong; I love Rose's game, and I wouldn't hesitate to spend a top-five selection on him. But the fact remains that freshmen floor generals seldom advance deep into the tournament. Mike Conley was a rare exception last year. I seriously doubt that happens again anytime soon.
Memphis violates
rules 1 and 8.
#4 Pittsburgh
#2 Texas (28-6) vs. #3 Stanford (26-7)
Stanford's relatively easy run into the Sweet 16 comes to an unceremonious halt. I don't think they have a shot at knocking off the Longhorns. I'll explain why.
First of all, I don't trust Cardinal head coach Trent Johnson. Last year, Stanford was quickly expelled from the NCAA Tournament because the team wasn't prepared for Louisville's full-court press. As a Division-I college coach, how do you not prepare your squad for the press in March!? Ridiculous. I can't say I trust Johnson in a big game.
Furthermore, the NCAA Tournament is all about guard play. The Longhorns definitely have that with D.J. Augustin (19.8 ppg, 5.7 apg) and A.J. Abrams (16.1 ppg). Stanford? Not so much. They have Anthony Goods (10.4 ppg), but that's about it. And even Goods pales in comparison to Texas' second-most talented guard.
Unlike the Wildcats, the Longhorns have the size to combat Brook (19.2 ppg, 8.5 rpg) and Robin (10.0 ppg, 5.6 rpg) Lopez. Center Connor Atchley is a solid defensive presence, while Damion James' ability to hit outside jumpers will force one of the Lopez brothers to step away from the paint.
#2 Texas
Elite Eight
#2 Texas (28-6) vs. #4 Pittsburgh (26-9)
Tough to pick a winner between these two squads. Both are extremely talented, and have a great chance to advance to San Antonio and compete for the national title.
With a gun pointed at my head, I'd have to select the Longhorns for a pair of reasons. The first being there's a greater chance they'll be here. The Panthers have to go through Memphis. I think they'll beat the South's No. 1 seed, but you never know. Texas, on the other hand, has a much easier road than the Panthers. Stanford just doesn't match up athletically, while the winner of Miami-Saint Mary's won't put up much of a challenge. I think Texas is an Elite Eight lock, whereas Pittsburgh being here is more of a very good chance.
Another reason I'd choose Texas over Pittsburgh is guard play. Now, don't get me wrong; Levance Fields (11.1 ppg, 5.4 apg) and Ronald Ramon (8.6 ppg, 3.7 apg) are both brilliant and were instrumental to the Panthers' Big East championship. However, even they pale in comparison to D.J. Augustin (19.8 ppg, 5.7 apg) and A.J. Abrams (16.1 ppg). Point guard play is extremely vital in the NCAA Tournament, and Augustin could be the tournament's best player at the position, although Fields is no slouch himself.
With that in mind, it wouldn't shock me at all if Pittsburgh represented the South bracket in the Final Four. But for the two reasons I stated above, I'm going with the Longhorns here.
#2 Texas
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Videos explaining the origin of life and evolution for very young kids.
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Floating audio widget for recording comments in OS X
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Help our elementary school get gender balance in gifted math and science
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D.C. public elementary schools. Lay it on me.
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where can I donate to support girls/women in STEM?
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The Greenwood Eagles baseball team solidified their position atop Region I-4A play Tuesday night, as they snuck past the Easley Green Wave 2-1 at Eagle Field.
Jonathan Wright gave the Eagles a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the third inning, driving in Matthew Bridges. After Easley tied the game in the top of the sixth, Rusty Hughes drove in Blake White for the deciding run in the bottom of the sixth.
Gatlin Minick started for the Eagles, going 5 2/3 innings, allowing five hits, one run and two walks, striking out three. Zack Richardson earned the win in relief, striking out three.
Bridges led the Eagles offensively with two hits, while Wright, Hughes, White, and Bryce Fowler added one hit apiece.
With the win, the Eagles improve to 8-3 overall, and 7-2 in Region I-4A play. They will travel to Woodmont Thursday at 6:00 p.m. for another region contest.


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Doug Box's Guide to Posing for Portrait Photographersby Douglas Allen Box
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Often overshadowed by complicated lighting techniques or advanced postproduction tips, this resource seeks to remind the professional photographer of the fundamental importance of a subject's pose. Conveniently designed in two-page spreadsa striking portrait on one side, a comprehensive how-to of the strategies used on the otherthis reference… See more details below
Often overshadowed by complicated lighting techniques or advanced postproduction tips, this resource seeks to remind the professional photographer of the fundamental importance of a subject's pose. Conveniently designed in two-page spreadsa striking portrait on one side, a comprehensive how-to of the strategies used on the otherthis reference includes countless techniques for studio sessions as well as outdoor and location shoots, with individuals or groups, male or female clients, and in sitting, standing, or lying poses. With advice from a well-known and respected professional, it covers all the basics, showing how to emphasize a client's assets and downplay perceived flaws, how to create a cohesive, engaging group photo, how to use natural elements on location to enhance an image, and how to ensure that the result flatters the subject and adds the essential professional polish to an image.
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Doug Box is a professional portrait and wedding photographer, a lecturer, and the author of "Professional Secrets for Photographing Children," "Professional Secrets of Natural Light Portrait Photography," and "Professional Secrets of Wedding Photography." He lives in Caldwell, Texas.
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I am an amateur photographer, that is just getting into how to pose people for professional portraits. I loved Doug Box's Guide to Posing as it gave me a great foundation for learning the basics. It showed me several pictures on how to pose the hands. I also loved the section on how to pose groups of people. This has definitely been a challenge for me in the past. It goes over how to pose men, women, couples, brides and grooms, kids, teens, and groups of people. If you are looking for basic guidance on how to pose people, then this is the book for you. If you already know this information, then you maybe disappointed with this book.
Maybe not quite the depth I was hoping for, but a lot of good information. Definitely a good start and a good read if you're new to portraiture or just rusty as I am.
This instruction is the foundation of all posing. You will use this in every shot you take especially if you want to break the rules the right way. A must for the beginner if you really want to grow as a photographer. Benefiting the professional who hasn't reviewed the foundation of posing and can reniform them of the posing subtleties that make a photograph from, great to superior.
It is a posing book that just doesn't quite hit the mark. There is some good stuff in it, but not as detailed as I would have liked. Also the photos are mediocre. I was a bit disappointed.