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Quarry Creek debate heads to commission
CARLSBAD The debate over affordable housing and "smart growth" goes to the Carlsbad Planning Commission on Wednesday, when the panel is set to consider a 656-home development proposed for the site of an old rock quarry on the city's border with Oceanside.
City staffers have recommended approval of the Quarry Creek proposal. The developer calls the project an example of smart growth and the perfect place to concentrate affordable housing, while opponents say it is just the opposite.
Regional planners define smart growth as building homes close to shopping, services, transit centers and other needs, largely to lessen time and resources spent on commuting and to make neighborhoods more dynamic.
The 156-acre Quarry Creek site is along the southern side of state Route 78 between El Camino Real and College Boulevard. The Buena Vista Creek crosses the property and the historically significant El Salto waterfall is on the eastern end.
"We think we are a shining example of smart growth in the region," said Todd Galarneau, project manager for the Corky McMillin Companies, a builder in the area for more than 50 years.
Most of the homes will be built on land that was used as a rock quarry for 50 years, Galarneau said, and the rest will be on undeveloped land long designated for housing by the city. The site is near public transportation, a shopping center, MiraCosta College and other resources, he added.
Opponents of the project, such as Diane Nygaard of the environmental nonprofit group Preserve Calavera, disagree.
"This is not smart growth," Nygaard said. "This is dense development adding to traffic congestion."
The large number of homes would be devastating to the natural resources in the small valley along the creek, she said, and the additional residents would further compound traffic in an area that's already congested.
Carlsbad Senior Planner Van Lynch said the developer is working with Carlsbad and Oceanside on ways to handle the increased traffic.
One of the improvements being considered to help handle the traffic is additional right-turn lanes at the intersection of College and Marron, he said.
McMillin's plan calls for the housing, which would all be apartments or condominiums, to be built in two areas covering 50 of the 156 acres. There would also be community areas such as a day-care building and a recreation site. About 88 acres, or 56 percent of the property, would be set aside as open space, including the creek and the waterfall.
A portion of the property designated for the highest density development, a minimum of 20 units per acre, is on the northern side of Buena Vista Creek, where McMillin's plan calls for 332 dwellings on 18.2 acres.
The rest of the homes, 325, would be built in two separate areas totaling 37 acres stretching the length of the property on the south side of the creek.
Nygaard, who lives in Oceanside just across the border from Carlsbad, said she'd like to see a compromise that reduces the number of homes and keeps them on the eastern end of the property that was the quarry.
"It's just too much development for that particular location," she said.
Galarneau said McMillin's proposal is really the community's plan, based in part on 80 to 100 meetings with residents and officials from the cities, state and federal agencies and other interested parties.
The development has two access points — Marron and Haymar roads — he said, though both connect only to College Boulevard. Those two roads will be connected by a bridge the developer will build across the creek to create a loop through the living area.
There is no plan to extend Marron Road west to El Camino Real, he said, largely because it would have to cross the Buena Vista Creek ecological area.

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Ten years ago, Monster and CareerBuilder were the starting point for any respectable job search candidate or recruiting professional. Companies posted ads, job seekers responded, and within a day recruiters had a cache of potential hires to choose from. But over the years, the boards seemed to sabotage their own value proposition by becoming too easy to use. Job seekers flooded companies with applications even if they weren't remotely qualified for the positions, and recruiters, overwhelmed by the deluge, stopped reviewing them all together. This caused serious seekers to abandon the big boards, turning instead to social media, referrals, and niche recruiting sites for job leads, leaving recruiters with a less and less compelling candidate pool for their job posting dollar.
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"Job boards aren't irrelevant," says Steve Lowisz, CEO of Qualigence, a recruiting firm in Michigan. "But how recruiters use the technology is changing."
Lowisz, for example, is more likely to search a job board's database of resumes for possible candidates than to post an ad. And the more detailed search capabilities a site offers, the better. "We're not only looking for applicants who posted their own resumes, we want to see who their connected to, and who they reference on their applications," he says. "Sometimes that data is the most valuable."
Despite the deflated value proposition, job boards still rank as the number three source of external hires—behind referrals and corporate career sites, according to CareerXRoads 2013 Source of Hire Report. In 2012, roughly one in every six external hire was attributed to a Job Board. That's down from nearly one in four external hires in 2010. But in 2012, social media accounted for a mere 2.9 percent—or one in every 35 external hires.
Recruiters and job seekers today rely more heavily on job board aggregators, which gather job postings from across the internet in a single place, says Jay Floersch, solutions architect in the recruitment process outsourcing division of Aon Hewitt. And the rise of aggregators like Indeed.com have actually made the need for job boards more pronounced, he says. "Posting ads to job boards and your own career website are the best way to get picked up by those aggregators." `
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Job board owners have seen this shift in the recruiting space, and some are responding by building or buying new tools to help employers hone their recruiting efforts and access more qualified candidate pools.
Monster.com is still among the biggest job boards, with more than 70 million stored resumes and over 1 million job postings at any given time. The company acquired Yahoo Hotjobs in 2010 to maintain its leadership position and to further benefit from traffic through the Yahoo brand.
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They are also helping companies be more proactive about hiring with their Supply and Demand portal, which lets recruiters identify a pipeline of high potential candidates before they need them.
Taking a different tactic, Dice Holdings, owner of the IT job board Dice.com, acquired Geeknet's online media business in 2012, to increase traffic from hard to source IT professionals. The acquisition includes Slashdot, a user-generated IT news, analysis, and professional insight community, and SourceForge, a destination for developers to create and share open source software. "The SourceForge and Slashdot communities will enable our customers to reach millions of engaged tech professionals on a regular basis," says Scot Melland, chairman, president and CEO of Dice Holdings.
Dice has also launched Open Web, a social media aggregation tool that mines public information from 50 social sites, including Facebook, GitHub and Stack Overflow, to create rich digital portraits of potential candidates.
"The Open Web tool pulls together valuable pieces of publicly-available information scattered across the Web into a single, searchable profile containing the types of information that recruiters need to source talent," Melland says. The tool combines professional information including titles, employers, and education, as well as details about their interests, hobbies, and even contact information. "We are making recruiters and hiring managers more efficient so they can spend their time selling their opportunities to top talent, instead of searching many sites just to put together a slate of candidates."
All of these boards will see a new kind of competition in 2014, when online dating company eHarmony launches its own job search services. The company plans to use methods similar to how it pairs compatible customers for serious romantic relationships, to match job seekers with employers.
This makes perfect sense to Lowisz. "Job boards should be more like dating sites," he says. "Recruiting is not about numbers, it's about qualities, and matching the right person to the job."
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ROYALS RELAY CHAT: Vice president-baseball operations/assistant general manager Dean Taylor is the next guest in the Royals Relay chat series – this Tuesday (Feb. 5) at 3 p.m. (CT). Taylor, who rejoined the Royals in June 2006, started his Major League career in the Royals' front office and has a 1985 championship ring to prove it! Taylor – the sixth participant of the Royals Relay chat series – will discuss the upcoming season and what to expect from the 2008 club. Remember…to participate in the online chat, you neet to register here.
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So, you want to build an empire, do you?
Most empires in history began in self-defence. Say youre the king of a tribe, the Cartographii, and you are worried your big strong neighbour, the Artistae, are going to attack you. Well, the smart thing to do is attack them first.
Congratulations, sire, you won.
Now you rule a larger territory, and so you can start to grow. More land means more food; more food means more kiddies; more kiddies means more warriors; more warriors means your new neighbours, the Writerians, are starting to get nervous. You know what to do: attack!
Right, well, now you rule over three tribal territories. So, more land means more food; more food means you know the rest. So it goes on, until your empire is large enough that its nearest neighbours are no longer a challenge for it.
Of course, a lot of empires die in infancy: you might lose the battle with the Artistae; you might win that battle, but lose to the Writerians; you might win both of those, but lose to whoever comes next. Other factors come into play, and these can be much more varied better weapons, more organised troops, smarter strategies, sheer dumb luck.
As a general rule, though, empires start off as aggressive nations. The Mongols under Genghis Khan, the Romans, the Aztecs are perhaps the best example of this. Even empires we think are good because they are civilised follow this pattern Alexander the Great shot first and asked questions later; the Islamic caliphate began by defending the faith from angry neighbours at Mdina; the growth of the British Empire was largely accidental.
The British are interesting, actually. Suppose youre one of the decision-makers in Whitehall. Your army has been attacked in a province of India (lets say, Punjab) by an Indian king (who is doing exactly what all leaders should, attack the enemy before they attack you). You beat the Punjabi army, but you dont want them to do this again, do you? With a sigh, you realise you only have one sure option occupy their capital, set up a new administration, make an agreement with the local elites, establish a garrison.
Now, it doesnt always happen exactly like this. The Phoenicians built their empire through new settlements; rather than conquering the native people, theyd put a small tradepost on the coast, and they could then trade with the locals, without the expense of trying to conquer them. If they felt their land was threatened, however, then they are left with only one choice.
Lets go back to the beginning. Why would one tribe want to attack another in the first place? Cant they all just live in peace? I have a little theory about this, one which, as far as I know isnt backed up by any historical literature, but is what I observed from reading history books.
There are two reasons one tribe will attack another: self-defence, population pressure. Note, this is all probably simplifying these processes enormously, but go with it, it does make sense.
Self-defence: as discussed above, you want to protect your tribe so you attack first. In this instance, your goal is to eliminate the threat from an enemy, and so you need to destroy the enemy. This can be done through killing them (Mongolian solution), enslaving them (Spartan solution), or sacrificing them on a bloody altar (Aztec solution).
Population growth: when your own tribe is starting to burst at the seams, there isnt quite enough for the young fellas to do, theres starting to be discontent because the economy is slowing down (a modern concept, but still applies to early times), you want to resolve the problem. Attack a neighbour. Depending on how it is conducted i.e. as a raid or as an invasion it will give either booty or land. If you raid the enemy, you get their stuff, but they remain in place and so you go back the next year (Vikings). If you invade, you want their land, which you can then give to your young fellas, they can farm it, and you have enough food and work for your population (I dont know for sure, but I think this is what happened in China). In this case, you are trying to take the enemys land, rather than take out the enemy. You dont want to enslave them, because thats just another burden. Instead, you push them off their land, and keep it for yourself. They then go harassing someone else as they try to find some land of their own.
One last thing. Empires acquire momentum. When you get to that point where you look around and see the charred remnants of your enemys flags, all have fallen before you, you have no more enemies on your frontiers, then you need to decide what to do next. You cant just say, well, enoughs enough, too many people have died, lets call it quits; Im happy with my territory, anyway. No, your troops wont let you. Conquest makes them rich. It adds land to the empire, which you can then use to reward your allies and veterans, and besides, now you want specific things I really want those shiny ore mines that you have, friend, give them to me now. Those spices look good, care to let me have some? Hence, the empire rolls on. Historically, every empire has continued to grow until it either meets a stronger opponent than it (Persians v Alexander; Aztecs v Spanish; arguably Napoleon v. Russians/British/Prussians etc) or it overreaches itself, and collapses under the strain (Romans, Ottomans, Islamic caliphates, Mongols). Every new province needs to be secured with troops, administrators, etc. And they all need to be paid.
So, when building your empire, remember, no-one sets out trying to build an empire. You get one by accident, and then you dont know what to do with it. For a while, empire-owning is profitable, but eventually, if you let it grow too big, it just becomes expensive to run.
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The Detroit AutoramaWritten by on May 15, 2006 The Greatest Rods and Customs Hit the Motor City -- Includes Expanded Web Only Coverage
There is a statue of the great boxer Joe Louis in the lobby of Cobo Hall in downtown Detroit. The larger-than-life heavyweight champ stands by the main doors like he's trying to tell everybody, "Get ready to be knocked out."
There's stuff going on all year long at Cobo Hall, but to hot rodders, the place is associated with the Detroit Autorama, which rolls in every February, filling acre after indoor acre with knockout iron. It's like a 1,000-ring automotive circus, with the world's best-looking race cars, concept cars, show cars, popular TV show cars, street rods, hot rods, customs, and more '32 Fords than you can believe, all competing for attention and awards. Add every heavyweight car builder in the country, a crowd of big-name pinstripers and painters, an annoying assortment of media guys, and an elbow-to-elbow sea of spectators, and you've got the Detroit Autorama.
For the second year in a row, Championship Auto Shows and the Michigan Hot Rod Association opened up Cobo's downstairs exhibit hall for Autorama Extreme, reserved specifically for traditionally-styled hot rods and customs, with another area for tuner imports. Don't write off these (mostly) homebuilt hot rods as rat rods. We didn't spot a rat in the house, and many of these rods were so amazingly built that, with some bigger wheels, shinier paint and maybe a few floor mirrors, they could've held their own up on the main floor. We know one multiple Ridler winner (does the name Foose ring a bell?), who had cars on display upstairs and downstairs. Guess which one made a bigger splash?
All the money raised went to the Rainbow Connection, a Michigan charitable organization that grants wishes for children throughout the state of Michigan who have life-threatening and terminal illnesses.
In addition to the artists who contributed time and talent, the following companies provided support to the Pinstripers' Jamboree: Mack Brush, 1 Shot Sign Paint, Stamp H Factory, Rhino Paint, EC Mich Illinois, Sign Craft magazine, Crain Communications, Painters Supply, General Motors R* Works, TJ Ronan Sign Paint, House of Kolor, Graphic Things by Hancox, Trumm Photo & Imaging, Signs of the Times, X-Caliber, Auto Graphics, Auto Art magazine, Championship Auto Shows, Street Rodder magazine, and Custom Rodder magazine.
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It's rare to see a '59 Chevy finished as elegantly as Bob & Barb Delia's Impala, built by Hot Rod Shop in Schiller Park, Illinois. Silver paint and plenty of chrome set off the car, which runs a 540cid capable of 1,000 horsepower, and a 5-speed.The extensively rounded lines of Seth Wagner's '41 Willys pickup, from Crystal Lake, Illinois, recalls some of the coachbuilt European exoticars from the 1930s. This gorgeous two-tone hauler came out of Legen Hot Rods.Lew Winters had a couple of nice street rods at Cobo Hall, including this two-tone '37 coupe. Built by Janow's Custom Rods, the fastback is packed with a 502 motor and 4L65E transmission, and rolls on a custom chassis built by Janow's.The other '37 in Ridler contention belongs to Joe and Pat Gibbs, from Huntsville, North Carolina. The Blue Sapphire pearl convertible was an all-steel coupe before David Watkins at Watty's Fabrication turned it topless, following a design illustration by Darrell Mayabb.This tangerine and cranberry '50 Chevy coupe was the only other post-war ride in the Great 8. It belongs to Larry Johnston, from Greensburg, Pennsylvania.The chopped, channeled, and sectioned hightech hardtop brings the body style into the 21st century.T&T Customs built this fenderless '33 Speedstar coupe, owned by Tammy Ray of Dahlonega, Georgia. The engine is a Street & Performance big block, and the suspension includes an IFS system from Heidt's and a Winters quick change in the rear.It wouldn't be the Great 8 without a Chip Foose entry, but Chuck Svatos''32 three-window wears a more traditional look than Chip's other recent Ridler contenders. The "Lil Foose Coupe" features a Corvette LT4 and 4L60E transmission, front and rear independent suspension, and billet rims built to look like '51 Ford wheels.
When all the deciding was done, Kevin and Karen Alstott's '35 Ford roadster was the 2006 Ridler Award winner. The roadster was built by Roger Burman at Lakeside Rods & Rides. A Marcel body rides on an SAC frame, hanging on an Indy-style suspension. The 408ci Donovan hooked to a Tremec 6-speed.Dennis Lesky, Matt Lesky, Jeff Higel, and John Deitrick from Ionia Hot Rod Shop got lots of attention with this'32 roadster, owned by Geof Skene. More amazing that the French flathead with Barney Navarro-built heads is the entirely fabricated chassis. "It's all old junk that's just kind of been messed with," says Dennis.The Larson Engineering Special flip-up roadster gained a reputation in Michigan since Bob Larson started it in 1950. Dick LaBene bought the handbuilt car in '74 and brought it out for the first time in 2005. The flathead was replaced with a '57 293.Gold over cream paint gives a rich look to "Gold Top," Kevin Anderson's '63 Buick Riviera custom. Shaved body panels and a 2 1/2-inch top chop make the Riv look even longer and more rocket-like. A custom oval tube grille runs the width between a pair of '67 Chrysler Imperial headlights.This in-progress rust-covered Model A is an amazing example of Dave Lohr's imagination and engineering talent. The unchopped A with the radiator in the back sits on a one-off custom frame. Dave hooked up all six Holley 94s on a Drag Star intake atop a '57 Hemi. "It scares dogs, small children, and oncoming traffic."Local teenager Tony Tierney was friends with recently-deceased drag racer Pancho Rendon, and built Pancho's old '32 coupe drag car as a tribute. The steel-headed flathead is topped with an extremely rare Judson blower. A Terraplane dash, Fenton fuel block, and La France firetruck headlights are other unusual parts.Here's a survivor from almost 50 years ago. Dee Westcott's '36, with a LaSalle grille, DeSoto bumper, and Merc flattie, disappeared after appearing in Hot Rod Magazine in 1959. It was discovered, not running but complete, about four years ago and restored by Steve BabinskyThe Sullivan brothers built this '31 back in 1948, and it was dragged raced throughout the '50s in Ohio. Don Moyer III told us that his dad got wind of the car and bought it in 2004. Today it retains the original seats, dash, rails, JC Whitney fenders, bicycle mirror and a bunch of other old time stuff. The engine is a '63 327 with a '39 transmission.
If the beautifully-blended paint on Larry Douglas' '50 Merc reminds you of some of Gene Winfield's best work, it should. Gene shot the House of Kolor metalflake on the Mercury coupe.Builder Barry Lobeck was given a special corral for several of his roadsters, including Jeff Scott's deep red metallic Deuce built from a Brookville body, Lobeck chassis, and brand-new Motor City flathead."Jewell" is the name of this '49 Cadillac sedanette coupe, built by Taylorbuilt Street Rods. They took a 2-inch chop out of the top, tilted the B pillars, and stuffed the engine compartment with a Ram Jet 427.A Buick 401 nailhead and Super Turbine 400 trans power Mike Busateri's '32 Chevy coupe, customized with a Model A frame, Deuce grille shell, '52 Buick taillights, Buick drums, and a 2 1/2-inch chop. The car was started in the winter of 2005 and finished in one year.The Jamboree drew artists from all over the United States. Shaky, from Port Huron, finished some elaborate panels, and is one of many Michigan 'stripers who spent the weekend painting......It was a longer trip for Travis Tuki Hess, who came up all the way from Martinsburg, West Virginia, to be part of the Jamboree.The panels, cans, signs, canvases, ornaments, hubcaps, lamps, toilet seats, and other handpainted objects of art went up for auction several times during the course of the Autorama weekend. Auctioneer Michael Murray volunteered his time again this year, helping to draw top dollar for each piece.This is the second Jamboree for pinstriper Ty and Andrew Damon. Andrew is 11 and loves to ski using a special ski he received from the Rainbow Connection. He also loves going to the drag strip with his dad, who races a Camaro. Ty helped coordinate the involvement between Rainbow Connection and the Pinstripers' Jamboree
The Beatnik Bandit may be the best known and best loved Roth creation, and his first bubbletop car. It was built in 1960, inspired by a Rod & Custom illustration by Joe Henning, and currently resides at the National Auto Museum in Reno, Nevada.By 1966, show customs were expected to look like things, such as phonebooths or bathtubs. Roth borrowed a fairy tale theme for the Dodge-powered Druid Princess, featured in our January '67 issue and now part of the Bengochea corral.It's not easy to recognize Gary "Chopit" Fioto's bubbletop custom as a '55 Ford, but that's what the sign said. The all-metal handformed body has been disguised with some '59 Cadillac components. Those six carburetors feed a Chevy small-block, and the wheels are from... Does it matter?Hot Rods & Custom Stuff in Escondido built the Ridler Award winning '49 Chevy in 2001 and was back this year with a red '55 Chrysler C-300, owner by Alan Kalter and Chris Lezotte from Ann Arbor. Randy Clark builds cars stout, and "The Beautiful Brute" runs an injected aluminum 528ci Hemi with a 727 Torqueflite with Gear Vendor overdrive.This sweet green '61 Starliner was designed and built by Pro Rides. It's smoothed and shaved and rides on a modified Art Morrison tube chassis sprung by Air Ride Technologies ShockWave coilovers. The engine is a 600ci all-aluminum Ford big-block.Chip Foose built this Brookville '32 roadster for the Autorama Extreme exhibit. Nicknamed "P-32," the car takes virtually all of it's styling cues from a P-40 fighter plane, including bomber seats, side exhaust outlets, and the aircraft propellor style nose.......Other details include a '42 Zephyr V-12 flathead and '39 Zephyr sideshift gearbox, and a double drag link steering set-up.John Saltern used all GM panels to build this '55 Chevy truck for Glen Harris. Underneath it's a Fatman Fabrications tube chassis with IFS. A 385 Fastburn crate engine with Street & Performance injection powers the pickup.
Al Bergler's "More Aggravation" front engine dragster was the first winner of the Ridler Award in 1964, but the car wasn't all show, and also set six NHRA national records and was runner-up for the world championship in 1966. Al found the car and restored it with a new nose and redone body on the original rails.The ghost flames are a cool finishing touch on Ignazio Giuffre's original steel '32 three-window, built by Phoenix Rod & Custom. A Kugel independent rear suspension and Fatman front suspension were added to the TCI frame.Keeping the fighter plane theme going is Dan Dennis' '28 roadster pickup, "a rolling tribute to World War II bombers." The gauges and controls are authentic from B-25, B-17, B-32, P-51, and T-50 planes. The bambo bomber messerschmitt gunsites are an unusual hot rod component.John Hall's '32 five-window is loaded with a Motor City flathead (the new engine was officially announced at Cobo Hall) with a pair of chromed Strombergs. The car has been around for a decade and John has driven it all over the country.Brad Arnold's British racing green and British tan '32 runs a 425 nailhead. The nose was pinched at Lobeck's.These two early coupes were phenomenal. Kelly Howard's green '31 (it's a Honda Insight color finished with clear) on deuce rails has a C-notched frontend and bags to drop it, and a 383 stroker mill......Standing beside it is Clark Bates' '32, which was an old hot rod way back. Notice the '32 Chevy hood sides, and spun wheel covers. A 322 nailhead pulled the coupe from Bonneville to DetroitA Buick 401 nailhead and Super Turbine 400 trans power Mike Busateri's '32 Chevy coupe, customized with a Model A fram, Deuce grille shell, '52 Buick taillights, Buick drums, and a 2 1/2-inch chop. The car was started in the winter of 2005 and finished in one year
The assymetrical Mysterion, run a pair of Ford 406 engines, was another great "Big Daddy" bubbletop, which appeared on the cover of R&C in September 1963. Dave Bengochea owns this car now and displays it at America's Car Collection in Winnemucca, Nevada.Another Roth ride now in Dave Bengochea's collection in Winnemucca is the Road Agent from 1965. This rear-engine car featured a Corvair powertrain with the transmission mounted upside down. It appeared on our April '64 cover.The Beatnik Bandit II, now on display at the National Auto Museum, is a 1995 spin-off of the original from 35 years earlier, built with his son Dennis.Jeremy Lockhard, a young painter out of Youngstown, Ohio, painted these large portraits of two of our heroes from this hobby. Ed "Big Daddy" Roth is portrayed wearing a typical extravagant get-up, and Gray "Yer Old Dad" Baskerville, who wrote for R&C and Hot Rod, is portrayed wearing a typical smile.Mark Moriarty, who has a genuine feel for the character of Roth's originals, built the Futurian as a tribute car in 2005. It is also owned by Dave Bengochea now....Her father Chris, inherited her skill and contributed several pieces to the auction, including some unusual fish.Yosemite Sam Radoff seems like a low-key mellow guy, but is passionate about getting huge numbers of 'stripers together and raising money to help kids. He's the one responsible for putting this event together and has plans to see it grow even bigger in 2007.
Tom Shugar, from Detroit, learned to paint as a kid by stealing his dad's brushes and practicing. He stopped painting for a while, and got back into it the day before the Autorama, where he started getting his chops back practicing pulling some lines.Not all the paint ended up on panels. Dave Shuten, who built the replica of Ed Roth's bubbletopped Mysterion, adds some Rat Fink lettering to this can.Bill Watkins contributed a number of these machined panels. Here, Scott Menke, adds some cool 'striping to a gold background.In addition to pinstriping, Weird Wally, from Clinton Township, Michigan, does airbrush artwork and painting on cars, bikes, helmets, you name it.For the Autorama spectators, the pinstripers were as popular as the cars. Lyle Hayman of Madison Hills, Michigan, finished this purple panel, possibly inspiring a future 'striper in the process.


text: Telephone conference report held on Tuesday, May 7.By Russ PankoninThe Imperial Republican Holdrege Senator Tom Carlson's bill, LB 517, to create a new Water Sustainability Project Task Force will likely come up for final reading this week, Sen. Mark Christensen of Imperial said. However, Christensen doesn't expect it to just go through without a little more debate. Christensen said there will be an amendment filed on the bill, which would pull it from Final Reading. The substance of the amendment will be to eliminate having the governor appoint task force members, change the make-up to include just senators and strip the $1 million in funding. Christensen said Carlson's motive for the task force is to target areas of groundwater decline and reduce irrigation allocations to six inches annually. The last water task force convened for more than a year and their report yielded no legislation. Christensen expects the same thing to happen with this task force if it isn't made up of just state senators. The goal of the new task force would be to develop a priority list of water resources programs, projects and activities in need of funding to meet the goals of water sustainability, increased water use productivity, and otherwise maximize the beneficial use of the state's water supply. Pulling a bill off Final Reading is no small task but Christensen said the effort, led by Sen. Steve Lathrop of Omaha, will be made. LB 522 Still in the Wings The fate of Christensen's LB 522, remains in the balance until a meeting next week. The bill seeks state reimbursement for surface water irrigators who lost water through a compact call for compact compliance purposes. He said he's lined up a meeting of the parties filing the lawsuit against the Lincoln County augmentation project with five to six other state senators. He's looking for ways to get the plaintiffs to lift the lawsuit and what it might take for them to do that. Even if there's some compromise, Christensen said it's likely not to make all parties happy. Christensen said the augmentation project will get water into the Medicine Creek drainage basin and he'd like to see the pipeline extended so water could be put into the Red Willow drainage basin. That could increase the amount of surface water available to holders of surface water rights. Senator MARK CHRISTENSEN holds weekly teleconferences at 7 a.m. MT/8 a.m. CT each Tuesday morning. The public is invited to attend the conference calls. Hosts of the conference calls are Imperial Republican in Imperial, Southwest Public Power District in Palisade and Midwest Electric in Grant. Christensen can be reached at 402-471-2805, or by mail at P.O. Box 94604, Lincoln, NE 68509, or via e-mail at


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X Factor Thanksgiving Results: Beatrice Miller Eliminated! Top 8 Revealed on November 22, 2012
The holidays are emotionally exhausting enough without having to say goodbye to some of our favorite X Factor Season 2 contestants. First, we bid adeiu to Usher-in-training Arin Ray, then we ugly-cried while waving at our TVs as Beatrice Miller was cut.
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Help with triad and 7th chords in key of c?
My Guitar teacher wants me to play every triad and 7th chord i have in key the key of C. I can play the shapes on the 5th and 6th strings however, I dont understand what he means when he says things like, 1. every triad chord is built on 3rd intervals?? 2. How E G B D F A C relates, or even what it means other than the notes on sheet music. 3. Im a just confused and getting frustrated. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks
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Either he doesn't explain theory concepts that well, or he hasn't taught you the basics in the right order.
Regarding the latter, what do you already know?
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I'd ask your teacher for better explenation! Cause your question covers a lot of theory. Yes we could give you the chords in the key of C (C, Dm, Em, F, Gdom7, Am, Bdim) but if you don't know how to get them and how to form them, this is gonna be a long explenation.
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Do you understand basic intervals? Do you know what a third is? If no, then that's the fundamental issue here
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short answer: play the c major scale and figure out which notes are in the chord. that's a rough head-start, but intervals are probably the most integral part of western theory since they completely encapsulate chords and scales and how they ultimately tie to keys, tension, and dissonance.
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Yep, like the others said, you're missing some fundamental bits of music theory that he should've explained.
First off, learn the Major Scale - in the key of C. The musical alphabet is simply ABCDEFG, and it repeats as you span multiple octaves. As for what octaves are, they are higher versions of the same note. Say you play a C note on your guitar. Then you play a D, E, F, and finally a G. You've now gone up the scale. Now you want to go higher, so you do so. You've now arrived on C again, but in the second octave. This will all be explained in much more detail in the lessons you can find on the internet. Ultimate-Guitar has a very good Lessons section, and also a Columns section. Search those for basic music theory lessons. Also try www.fretjam.com
Next, once you've gotten the Major Scale down and understand what a key is (which should be explained in the lessons you can find by following my tips), search for lessons on forming chords - they will explain to you what distances (intervals) between notes you need to use in order to form several kinds of chords. Also search for lessons on intervals. Then, finally, search for "harmonizing the major scale". It will teach you how to form chords out of scales using everything you've learnt so far, and then you will know how to form chords in the key of C or any other key.
Also, shame on your teacher for leaving so many important things out.
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Do you have past lesson take-homes that might explain? Always make sure to write down concepts and examples during a lesson, or request such from your teacher to take home. A lot of theory basics are difficult if you don't have a reference to help.
With regard to issue #2 on your list: play notes in sequence on the guitar and see if you notice a pattern in the sound or freboard. There should be an obvious visual pattern in the notation - what would be the next note? What note would come before that first note?
If the patterns you're working on remind you of anything you've practiced previously, try to make some connections. If your teacher is any good, everything you learn should build on concepts you learned before.
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First there are your basic triads. These are made by "stacking" major or minor thirds.
Stacking thirds is easy...
Because the triads are made from stacking major and minor thirds there are only four combinations that we can do and so four basic triads...
Maj 3rd + Maj 3rd = Augmented Triad (1 3 #5)
Maj 3rd + min 3rd = Major Triad (1 3 5)
min 3rd + Maj 3rd = minor Triad (1 b3 5)
min 3rd + min 3rd = diminished Triad (1 b3 b5)
Seventh Chords
To get a seventh chord you then stack another major or minor third on top of the fifth of each of these basic triads to get a seventh chord.
Note that we use whatever kind of fifth we have in our basic triad and add the major or minor third from there. So if we have a perfect fifth we might add a major 3rd the result will be a major 7 interval from the root. If it is a diminished triad with a ♭5 and we add a major third to this we will end up with a minor 7th from the root.
So to get our various seventh chords we go through each of the four basic triads and stack a third on top.
Here are the various seventh chords built using different triads as a base:
Sevenths built from Augmented Triads
Aug Triad + Maj 3rd = Augmented Triad (a Major 3rd on top of a #5 will give a #7. Since the #7 is enharmonic with the octave of the root the result is a doubling of the root note and it's still just an augmented triad. (1 3 #5 #7 is enharmonic with 1 3 #5 8).
Aug Triad + min 3rd = Augmented Major Seventh, or Maj7#5 (1 3 #5 7)
Sevenths built from Major Triads
Major Triad + Major 3rd = Major 7th chord (1 3 5 7) - written as Cmaj7
Major Triad + min 3rd = Dominant 7 (1 3 5 b7) - written simply as C7
Sevenths built from Minor Triad
Minor Triad + Major 3rd = minor Major 7 (1 b3 5 7) - written as Cm/Maj7
Minor Triad + min 3rd = minor 7 (1 b3 5 b7) - written as Cm7
Sevenths built from Diminished Triad
Diminished Triad + Maj 3rd = half diminished 7th or minor 7 flat five (1 b3 b5 b7) - written as either CØ7 or more commonly Cm7b5
Diminished Triad + min 3rd = diminished 7th (1 b3 b5 bb7) - Cdim7 or Cᴼ7
These are the basic triads and seventh chords built from "Tertian Harmony" which means to use maj and min thirds for construction.
Other Seventh Chords
There are also some seventh chords that are altered versions of these chords. That is, one or more notes have been altered and the result is that the intervals between each note are not ALL major or minor thirds, but they are still considered seventh chords.
Dominant seventh sharp five = 1 3 #5 b7 = C7#5 - An augmented triad with a minor seventh.
a diminished/major seventh = 1 b3 b5 7 = Cdim/Maj7 or Cm/Maj7b5 diminished triad with a major seventh.
Dominant seventh flat five = 1 3 b5 b7 = C7♭5
Major seventh flat five = 1 3 b5 7 = CMaj7♭5
That gives a total of eleven different seventh chords.
Here they are again
Seven "Tertian" Seventh Chords (made by stacking major and minor thirds)
1. Major seventh = 1 3 5 7 e.g. CMaj7
2. Dominant seventh = 1 3 5 b7 e.g. C7
3. Minor seventh = 1 b3 5 b7 e.g. Cm7
4. minor/major seventh = 1 b3 5 7 e.g. Cm/Maj7
5. Half diminished seventh = 1 b3 b5 b7 e.g. Cm7♭5
6. Fully diminished seventh = 1 b3 b5 bb7 e.g. C〬7
7. Augmented Maj7 = 1 3 #5 7 (aka maj7#5) CMaj7♯5
plus Four "Altered" Seventh Chords
8. Dominant seventh sharp 5 = 1 3 #5 b7 e.g. C7♯5
9. Diminished major seventh = 1 b3 b5 7 e.g. Cm/Maj7♭5 or Cdim/Maj7
10. Dominant seventh flat 5 = 1 3 b5 b7 e.g. C7♭5
11. Major seventh flat 5 = 1 3 b5 7 e.g. CMaj7♭5
A tip - when naming chords (and only when naming chords) the triad is assumed major unless otherwise noted and the 7th is assumed minor unless otherwise noted. Thus if you see Major or Maj then it is referring to the seventh since the triad is already major by default.
If you see minor in the name (m) then it is referring to the triad because the 7th is already assumed minor by default. (The 7 is only minor by default when used in chord names. Outside that 7 always refers to a major seven unless noted otherwise).
Anyway those are the basics of "stacking thirds" to create triads and seventh chords.
I understand it is more information than you need and if you don't get it all just focus on understanding how thirds create the four different triads to start with and slowly build on the concept from there.
This is where we start harmonizing the major scale.
The C major scale is C D E F G A B C.
Now to harmonize this scale we stack thirds but we ONLY use the notes as they occur in the scale.
So we start with C and go up a third and then up another third...
By stacking thirds and sticking only with the notes of the major scale we get a chord that is spelled C E G.
Comparing that to our knowledge of how triads are constructed we can see that because C to E is a major third and E to G is a minor third then this chord is a Major triad. Chord = C Major AND/OR by knowing that C to E is a major third and C to G is a perfect fifth then we know that the chord is a major triad (C Major)
Next we do the same thing starting on D
We get D F A - Note that D to F is a minor third and F to A is a major third using the explanation above we can determine that this results in a minor triad. Chord = D minor
then we do the same thing starting on E, then starting on F etc.
What does C E G B D F A C have to do with anything??? This is just the major scale written out in diatonic thirds.
Here is the major Scale over two octaves = C D E F G A B C D E F G A B C
So two write it out in thirds you start on C then go up a third to E then up a third to G then up a third to B then up a third to D ....etc.
The result is C E G B D F A C
Becuause you've written it in thirds you could then just group them together to get diatonic triads or seventh chords . So a triad build on G would be
C E (G B D) F A C = G B D which is a G major triad.
Doing it this way is kind of a shortcut. I think it's important to use the whole scale C D E F G A B C and learn how to see thirds (you just skip a note). That way you learn to associate each chord with it's place in the scale.
When you stick strictly to the notes of a diatonic scale (major/minor) then the result can be described as "diatonic" to that scale. For example to create these "diatonic" triads you are stacking "diatonic" thirds.
The quality of the diatonic thirds (whether it is a major or minor third) depends on where it is located in the major scale.
If you look at the major scale and understand the step pattern W W H W W W H then it should allow you to identify the quality of the interval between any two notes in the scale because you can count the semitones and will know the letter names.
If you don't know much about intervals then you need to have a look into that.
Well hopefully this helps at least a little.
Applying this to the gutiar is the next step. For that you need to learn how and where to find the notes on the fretboard. Take some time learning where to find these triads and understanding the notes on the fretboard.
Best of luck.
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You literally just take a root note and move up a diatonic third, another diatonic third then another. You put those notes together and you have a 7th chord.
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If someone has trouble figuring out the pattern present in EGBDFAC, and anywhere in the reply appears "augmented Major 7", it's probably going to go over their head. There's a lot to be gained from actually figuring out stuff for one's self with limited information. Music theory deals wit a lot of pattern finding and problem solving, it requires as much exploration as explanation.
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@20Tigers Holy crap, that's a very valuable lesson all condensed into a single post in this thread. Are you going to make an UG lesson/column out of this? And did you make those pictures just for that post?
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Cheers. I have thought about making some articles or columns but never got round to it. I want to iron out a few kinks first and when someone asks a question I think I use it as an opportunity to do just that while also providing the TS with what I hope is some useful information.
I would actually like to go add something about inversions and sus chords after the triads then go to seventh chords then straight into extended chords from there and then discuss add chords, altered chords, slash chords etc
Basically I would like to eventually make it a reasonably comprehensive explanation on chord construction.
As for the pictures, I made those pictures a while ago for different reasons and indiviudally they have appeared in a few posts I have done before. But it made sense to put them together here.
I have them and a bunch of other pictures related to music and music theory saved in photobucket. I just link them here on occassions when I think they are relevant.
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@20 Tigers, there's really a lot of stuff that would clear things up for people struggling with intervals and how chords are built. I'd go for lessons/collums, you clearly have the talent for describing it!
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