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Remaining Blockbuster stores are closing by early January
Dish Network Corp. said today it's shutting down its Blockbuster retail store and by mail DVD business. Dish expects to complete the shutdown by early January.
Dish has been closing stores for the past couple of years. It only has 300 left, including 15 in Dallas-Fort Worth.
The Blockbuster By Mail service will end mid-December and will serve existing customers until then.
"This is not an easy decision, yet consumer demand is clearly moving to digital distribution of video entertainment," said Dish CEO Joseph P. Clayton. "Despite our closing of the physical distribution elements of the business, we continue to see value in the Blockbuster brand, and we expect to leverage that brand as we continue to expand our digital offerings."
Dish plans to continue its Blockbuster @Home service accessed by its Dish satellite customers and its Blockbuster On Demand service.
Blockbuster was a major Dallas-based company in its heyday with annual sales of more than $5 billion. It filed for bankruptcy in September 2010 and closed about 1,500 stores while it tried to reorganize.
The chain was heading toward liquidation after creditors couldn't agree on a plan, but Dish bought the company out of bankruptcy in April 2011. Soon after, remaining operations were moved to Colorado where Dish is based. Dish kept 1,500 stores open initially.
At one time, Blockbuster had more than 4,000 stores in the U.S. alone and operated in more than a dozen countries. The year before it filed for bankruptcy, its sales plummeted by $1 billion to $3.3 billion and it reported a loss of $558.2 million.
So what's your nostalgic memory of Blockbuster? Add it in comments. Think of all the little kiddos who won't get to pile in the car on Friday night to go rent a movie at Blockbuster.
Here's the list of area stores still open:
2627 W Jefferson Blvd., Dallas
5302 Greenville Ave., Dallas
1200 E Davis St., Mesquite
170 E. FM 544, Murphy
1305 S State Highway 121, Lewisville
2504 W Park Row Dr, Pantego
1827 SW Green Oaks Blvd., Arlington
1314 W McDermott Dr., Allen
661 E. Main St., Midlothian
1717 W University Dr. McKinney
206 West University, Denton
2012 W Berry St., Fort Worth
1209 N Saginaw Blvd., Saginaw
668 SW Wilshire Blvd., Burleson
600 Boyd Road, Azle


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Flint is getting two new leaders for the crime fight in a city that for three years running has ranked as the most violent in the nation.
Why two law enforcement chiefs and not just one?
It's a question that comes to mind as new leaders were named in recent days to head up both the Flint Police Department and the Flint State Police Post. They are the agencies tasked with ensuring public safety in a city ranked as the most violent in the U.S. with population of more than 100,000.
State police First Lt. Tom Deasy replaced First Lt. Matt Bolger in late September. Flint's new police chief will be James Tolbert, deputy chief in Detroit, after Flint Chief Alvern Lock submitted his resignation. Incoming emergency manager Darnell Earley named Tolbert to replace Lock.
Both Tolbert and Deasy appear well-qualified for their jobs, which is good news for Flint. The city had a record-breaking 67 homicides last year, and experienced more than 4,300 violent crimes.
Does Flint really need two law enforcement leaders?
The state has been adamant about the need for consolidation and collaboration among governments in providing taxpayer-funded services. The Flint State Police Post and Flint Police Department are essentially two state-run departments with identical missions.
Two departments patrolling Flint, guided by separate leaders, amounts to a duplication of services in a city that already has trouble paying its bills. One commander could lead a consolidated crime-fighting effort in the city.
There's opportunity for collaboration, though, even if both positions remain. The change in leadership offers a fresh start for both agencies, which have sometimes clashed, to work more closely together.
The state police and police department could meld into one, hybrid police force that shares a common purpose, with joint roll calls, task forces and briefings.
Deasy made it plain in a recent interview that he wants his team, which will soon include about 30 troopers and 12 detectives, to be more active in the community. He wants them not only patrolling the streets and enforcing the law, but reaching out to the people who live here.
Tolbert, meanwhile, stressed at a recent community forum the importance of teamwork in turning around the city's crime problem.
That's all good news for the beleaguered city and its crime-weary residents, assuming talk is followed by action.
Whether a hybrid agency evolves that is run by one leader or two, true collaboration between law enforcement and the community offers the best bet for knocking Flint from its perch as the national leader in violent crime.

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Featured Golf News
The Cameraman Never Lies
Editor's Note: Cybergolf's Tony Dear has a frank discussion with seven of the game's best photographers, the topics ranging from favorite images to mentors to how the business of golf photography has changed.
Aidan Bradley's Not so Friendly Elk
at Jasper Park
You'd think taking pictures of golf courses would be a pretty safe way to earn a living. Most of the time it is, but then there are those rare occasions you come face to face with a 1,000-pound elk sporting an impressive set of antlers but who doesn't think much of you or your $10,000 camera.
Aidan Bradley, an Irishman who has lived in the U.S. for nearly 20 years, found himself in just such a predicament in July 2008 when shooting Jasper Park Lodge Golf Course in Alberta, Canada.
"When the animal first showed an interest in my hide, I collected all my equipment, got back in my cart and started to move away," says Bradley. "I sped up and down the fairway as fast as the cart would go with my friend trotting alongside about four yards away and making the occasional lunge at me. When I got tired of his little game, we faced off in the middle of the 11th fairway. That's when I decided to take the bull by the horns so to speak, and charge. With Admiral Farragut's famous words in my head ("Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"), I went straight for him. Thankfully he took the low road and I took the high road, which gave me just enough time to get to safety as he chased behind. I escaped with a couple of yards to spare."
The two met again a little while later, this time across a fence. "He recognized me," says Bradley, "and was clearly very angry. The fence was there but I still felt pretty uncomfortable."
Bradley got back to his hotel room at about 7.30 a.m., unscrewed the top of a bottle of 10-year-old Bushmills, which he refers to as "Mother's Milk," and poured himself a generous measure. His wife knew he liked his single malts but was surprised to see her husband drinking so eagerly and so early in the morning. "I described to her what had happened," says Bradley, who still shakes when recounting the story today. "She understood."
Bradley didn't get into golf photography for this sort of thing. In fact, after spending 16 years as an advertising photographer, he envisaged a fairly quiet life shooting the world's most beautiful golf courses in perpetual sunshine. What could be better than that, he thought. He didn't even fancy following the world's best players. "I did a bit of Tour stuff early on, but it was such a dog-eat-dog world," he remembers. "I'd find a good spot to shoot the action, but would soon find myself behind half a dozen other cameramen who had worked their way in front of me. It soon lost its appeal."
Jack Nicklaus at the '86 Masters
(by David Cannon)
One man for whom the thrill of capturing the sport's best in full flight never fades is England's David Cannon. On the staff at Getty Images and also the official photographer of the R&A, Cannon has covered almost 100 major championships, 40 women's major championships, every Ryder Cup since 1981, every Walker Cup since 1983 (except for 1985), every Solheim Cup that has been staged, and innumerable other golf tournaments, as well as eight World Cups (soccer) and six Olympic Games - four summer, two winter.
Cannon's first published image was taken during an East Midlands vs. New Zealand rugby match in his hometown of Leicester some time in the late 1970s. But soccer and golf in particular are his favorite sports to shoot. He was behind the camera when Jack Nicklaus won his sixth green jacket at Augusta National in 1986. Remember the shot of Nicklaus striding toward the hole with his left arm and putter raised toward the sky after just holing that crucial birdie putt at the 17th? That was Cannon's. And which golfer hasn't admired the brilliant image of Seve Ballesteros smacking a long-iron directly into the wind at Royal Lytham and St. Anne's 15th hole during the second round of the 1988 Open Championship?
"That's actually my favorite picture," says Cannon. "That Friday afternoon I was waiting on the 15th, which was the best hole for the light, picking off the best players in the 'marquee' groups. I remember the feeling when I saw where Seve's tee shot had landed. It could not have been in a more perfect spot for where I was working from."
Using what he describes as a very special camera - a Canon F1 High Speed - Cannon was able to take 14 frames a second, thus catching the entire swing in glorious Technicolor. "That speed of shooting guaranteed every split second of action was captured, as long as my manual focus was on form," says Cannon. "Fortunately it was, so I got this amazing frame."
The image certainly didn't confirm Cannon's genius - that had been established long before, but it was a seminal moment in his career. And every great photographer you ever speak to will tell you about their "moment," the one shot they will take to their graves.
Dom Furore, who's worked at Golf Digest for 25 years, remembers a lot of great assignments - Jack Nicklaus fishing in Russia, shooting Tommy Bolt, Byron Nelson and the Augusta caddies, but there's one shoot in particular, indeed one picture, that still gives Furore a chill when he thinks about it.
Seve Ballesteros on the
15th at Royal Lytham in 1988
(by David Cannon)
Sent at the 11th hour to Monterey Peninsula Country Club in California for a shot of architect Mike Stranz's last design job, Furore's patience was tested to the limit as heavy rain battered the course all day long. "I had a last-minute assignment to shoot the course, and if I didn't have good light that afternoon it just wasn't going to happen," says Furore.
"Mike had recently lost his battle with cancer, and his redesign of Monterey Peninsula had been his last and, many say, best work. It was raining and cloudy all day, and just before the sun was about to set, I looked up and said 'Mike, last chance. If you want a good pic in Golf Digest I need a minute of sunshine.' Right on cue, the clouds parted and a beam of light hit the course with stormy skies in the background. It was beautiful."
As you listen to guys like Bradley, Cannon and Furore, a picture emerges of what ingredients are necessary to turn a point-and-shooter into a world-renowned golf photographer. Immense talent is a requisite, of course. But in addition to the God-given gift of knowing what makes a memorable image and how to take it, a saint's patience, a bulldog's tenacity and an Irishman's luck are also required.
And though it's by no means essential - at least it wasn't back in the late 1970s when Cannon set out ("I never studied the subject . . . I just had a passion for sport and action photography and was lucky enough to learn under some brilliant sports photographers") - some sort of photography qualification certainly doesn't hurt.
Cannon's fellow Englishman Angus Murray, who began his career as a staff photographer at Emap Ltd., where he worked for 25 magazines and who now has a contract with Golf Magazine, earned a vocational qualification in black-and-white photography in black-and-white photography at Huntingdonshire Regional College in Cambridgeshire.
The View of Mt. Rainier from Druid's Glen GC
South of Seattle (© Rob Perry)
Steve Szurlej, a colleague of Furore's at Golf Digest, graduated from Bowling Green State University in Ohio with a B.S. in Journalism which included a few photography courses.
Larry Lambrecht, one of the world's finest course portraitists, studied at Denver University where he produced all the images for the school newspaper. Furore, Bradley and Seattle-based course photographer Rob Perry, meanwhile, all attended the world-famous Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, Calif., earning degrees in commercial photography.
It's also significant perhaps that, to a man, today's golf cameramen will name a handful of celebrated photographers from the past as a source of inspiration. Like most of his contemporaries, Perry was a big fan of Ansel Adams. "His innovative work creating the 'Zone System,' his use of light and composition had a large influence on how I photograph golf courses," he says. "We studied his work in school and I hope that a little part of what I learned is reflected in my work."
Best known for his black-and-white landscapes and especially his mesmerizing pictures of Yosemite National Park, Adams gets several mentions, while Szurlej also goes for "conflict photographers" whose images "have such consequence."
And, as well as Adams, Murray lists Annie Leibovitz, O. Winston Link and Platon Antoniou, who has photographed several U.S. Presidents and other world leaders and shot numerous covers for Time magazine. "Not only do I admire how they all use light, they also have very distinct styles," says Murray. "You can tell a Leibovitz portrait immediately."
Furore says he is still a student of photography. "I always love looking at 'The Masters' like Richard Avedon, Ansel Adams, Irving Penn, Eugene Smith, Robert Frank and Cartier Bresson."
What really impresses Furore, Murray, Perry and the others about the great photographers of the past is that they produced unforgettable, spellbinding images using cameras that, compared with today's state-of-the-art digital tools, were somewhat lacking. Cameras with autofocus changed photography, and especially sports photography, forever. According to Wikipedia, the first mass-produced autofocus camera was the Konica C35 AF, a simple point-and-shoot model that appeared in 1977.
It wasn't until 1990, however, that David Cannon began using autofocus. "Before that, I used manual focus on a 400-ml lens with a depth of field of less than three inches," he says. "Today's photographers have no clue how tough it was. There were literally very few people in the world that could manually focus those big lenses successfully."
Szurlej agrees. "Autofocus allowed many less-skilled shooters to enter the market."
No question, autofocus had a profound impact. But the emergence of digital totally revolutionized golf photography and the life of a golf photographer. "Autofocus changed the game, making sports photography a lot easier," says Furore. "But digital changed the whole profession. It has taken a lot of the craft out of photography. It's a lot easier to shoot now. And we spend more time at a computer, which is ironic as most of us got into this career so we wouldn't be sitting at a desk. I miss the tactile part of it, the magic of having that one Kodachrome that holds 'THE shot.' "
Black & White Cuban Scene (by Angus Murray)
Furore adds that while using a film camera gave the user little margin for error and you never knew what you had until the film came back from the photo finisher, it was very rewarding when you got the image you had hoped for. "I'm probably romanticizing a bit, and would hate going back to it," he says. "But I do miss it."
Of course, no one wants to go back to manual-focus film cameras, even if that would mean fewer golf photographers to compete with for space and assignments. And anyway, as is the case in all lines of work, the best will always identify themselves eventually no matter how good the technology gets.
"Taking a great photo is still an art," says Lambrecht. "It's not easy being an effective golf photographer these days because the business has changed so much and is evolving so rapidly. But you still have to have talent and be on your game the whole time. This isn't wedding photography."
Eoin O'Riordan (by Aidan Bradley)
Q&A with Seven of Golf's Best Photographers
When did you become interested in golf photography?
Larry Lambrecht
I became interested in golf photography in the early 1990's. I'd made my first trip to Ireland in 1988 when I joined Ballybunion, but it wasn't until I got some assignments with Golf World and Golfweek in the late 1990's that I gained an appreciation for the subject. I was covering PGA Tour events on the weekends and shooting the courses in between.
Angus Murray
I was working as a staff photographer at Emap in England. The editor of one of the golf titles, Today's Golfer, asked me to shoot a class at one of the magazine's golf schools. I really enjoyed it and I sort of got hooked on the game and wanted to photograph it.
David Cannon
I suppose my interest in sports photography began as an 11-year-old with a Kodak Instamatic lying beside a salmon leap on the River Inver in North West Scotland. I was determined to get a fish in mid-air. My parents were amazed when I did manage to get a blurred picture of a salmon leaping. Then, when I was at boarding school in Oxford from the age of 13 to 18, my study walls were covered in posters of footballers (soccer) and golfers especially Tony Jacklin.
Steve Szurlej
In 1980 when I left my newspaper photographer position in New Jersey and went to work for Golf Digest and Tennis Magazine. I was more interested in tennis at the time, but soon learned to like golf photography more. When it comes to tournaments, in tennis, a photographer sits all day while the players run. A tennis photographer's movement is severely restricted. In golf, a photographer is on the move all day. His ability to move and find another background or composition is much less restricted. I prefer to keep moving.
Rob Perry
I became interested in photography when I was a teenager. I picked up the family's Canon AE-1 camera and photographed anything that caught my eye around the yard and woods. I didn't take it too seriously but was always looking to capture that "one shot" to share with the family.
Aidan Bradley
I studied law at University College Cork but decided I didn't want to get into law. I immigrated to the U.S. and spent time on both East and West coasts before ending up at Brooks Institute. I got a green card and became an advertising photographer. I was always a keen golfer and read all the mags and looked at the pictures thinking I could do that. After 16 years as a professional photographer, I decided I wanted to work in golf, but what area? I knew I wanted to be outside.
Dom Furore
I became interested in photography at age 12 after seeing the "miracle" of a print being developed. My parents bought me a little developing kit and I started shooting so I would have film to develop. I fell into golf photography through my job with the New York Times Magazine Group shooting for their various publications. Eventually, the company sold off all the non-golf titles and I became a "Golf Photographer," eventually ending up working at Golf Digest and Golf World for Conde Nast which had purchased the golf titles from the Times. It's a real privilege working for a company that has an emphasis on design, art and photography and wants to do things right. I work with a lot of unbelievably talented editors, designers and writers. It's an amazing team and we're a lucky to have our chairman, Jerry Tarde totally support what we do.
Did you take formal photography classes?
At the University of Denver where I produced all the photos for the school paper. My roommate and I were both photographers and we had a full darkroom in our basement. When I moved into the new dorms, I was the administrator of the school's new darkroom.
I left school at 16, and went to work for Car Magazine for a year. My mom worked there and also Jeremy Clarkson, the Top Gear guy. When that finished, I took a City & Guilds, which is a British vocational qualification, in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. Then I contacted Bob Atkins who was the director of photography at Emap, one of Europe's largest media companies. He gave me a junior staff position.
When I left school at 18 in 1973 I only wanted to play golf. I was a natural sportsman playing all sports, but golf became my real passion in the late '60s. When I left school, I had a 6 handicap which I eventually managed to get down to scratch. For five years I played serious amateur golf with a couple of top-10s in national championships. But in 1978 I realized it was not to be. My girlfriend at the time was the daughter of a local Leicester news agency owner named Neville Chadwick. The relationship with his daughter didn't last, but my love for sports photography really came to life when Neville took me along to Leicester Tigers rugby and Leicester City football matches every weekend. So I got my training in the field. I never studied photography at university or anything like that. I was just lucky enough to have a real passion for sport and action photography. I learnt entirely by looking at sports pictures and being lucky to have worked for amazingly helpful and really brilliant photographers like Neville, Bob Thomas, Steve Powell and Tony Duffy, one of the founders of AllSport.
In 1969 I was a junior at college. My roommate was taking a required photojournalism course which looked far more enjoyable than accounting, which I was studying with plans for going into the FBI. So I switched to Journalism. The curriculum was mainly reporting and print journalism, but there were some photo courses, too.
I was at *Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, Calif., back when the Brooks family still owned it. It was one of the very few photography schools in the world offering a degree in commercial photography. I wanted to be a magazine photographer, but after Life closed I didn't really care what magazine.
(*Perry and Bradley also attended Brooks Institute.)
Arnold Palmer (© Rob Perry)
Do you remember your first official assignment?
I was a neighbor of golf commentator Jack Whitaker in Rhode Island. He was at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck but came back before it finished and gave me his media credential. I went over there with my camera and shot a portfolio of action images from the week. I made a set of 8 x 10 transparencies using my best images and got an interview with Neil Leifer at Sport Illustrated. He said I had a problem because I wanted to be a photographer, but he needed people to do all the leg work. But he put me on to the director of photography Jerry Cooke. My first assignment was with Jerry at Madison Square Garden covering the American Cup gymnastics tournament where Nadia Comaneci made her U.S. debut. She was a huge story, but I had no idea how significant the event was at the time.
Just about. When I first carried Neville's bags at a rugby match between the East Midlands and the All Blacks, he told me to sit in the corner and just take pictures. He gave me two pieces of advice - fill the frame and focus on the eyes. It's still the best advice I ever had. Anyway, I just clicked away and we went back to his office to process the film. He said I got one nice one. Imagine my thrill when I saw my picture on the back page of the Sunday Express newspaper the next morning.
Hard to be certain, but it may have been a feature on the Amish in central Pennsylvania for the Courier News in New Jersey.
I set up my business after finishing at Brooks and returning to the Seattle area. I think the first assignment was for a golf course consultant who was working for Scott Oki, the former Microsoft man who had left the company to start his golf business. The consultant wanted images showcasing the views of downtown Seattle and the Olympics Mountains from the future site of the Golf Club at Newcastle. I made many visits during the winter months. It was beautiful but also extremely cold on top of that hill. Just ask Fred Couples (Couples was the co-designer with Bob Cupp).
I remember the first big job, a photo of Sam Snead holding two pigeons for a Golf Digest cover and a book cover. After shooting about 15 frames of 35mm Kodachrome, Sam said "OK, we're done," then he joked about twisting the heads off the pigeons off and eating them. A 10-year-old kid owned the birds and was obviously on the verge of tears.
I didn't sleep for 24 hours until that film came back. But the images turned out great and after that I was golden with the former design director at Golf Digest, Nick DiDio, who really gave me my big break and guided my early career.
How many assignments do you estimate you've had?
I have no idea. I shot the NFL, MLB, PGA, USGA, soccer, golf courses and architecture for the past 25 years. Must be several thousand.
Probably somewhere between 3,000 and 4,000 with maybe 300 covers.
Literally thousands.
I could tell you how many air miles I have ("millions, though not quite as many as George Clooney in 'Up in the Air' "), and how many Marriott points, but I have no clue how many assignments I've done.
No idea, but enough to keep me going.
No clue but after 25 years at Golf Digest it has to be in the thousands. I quit counting covers after my second year. Lost count of how many Majors I've done. I try to keep looking ahead, but sometimes I wish I'd written some things down. But I hate to write.
What was your favorite assignment, and do you have a favorite picture?
Tough question to answer. My first day on the field at Yankee Stadium? 1993 Super Bowl at the Rose Bowl (Dallas hammered Buffalo). That was a perfect day for pictures - great light and a great occasion. It was just about the football with none of the pomp and extra stuff you get today. My first Masters in 2000 was pretty special, although it wasn't the most exciting Masters ever. Getting "Photo of the Year" at the NFL Hall of Fame induction with a shot of Rodney Hampton of the New York Giants going over the goal line at the L.A. Coliseum was obviously very special. And I once spent a week with Joe DiMaggio at Doral in Miami when I was working for a baseball card company. I had to make sure Joe signed everything and then look after the cards. I flew down to Miami with him, played golf a few times and had dinner every night. We got on great. He talked a lot about baseball, money and golf, but never mentioned Marilyn Monroe. I also spent a week with Mickey Mantle in Vegas, doing the same job. We went to dinner every night too. He was a country kid, great guy, but didn't know what to do after baseball.
A Golf Magazine shoot in Cuba with writer Josh Sens. We walked the streets of Havana and saw a load of kids playing soccer. Josh offered them a dollar each to pose for a picture. They loved it. I got them in front of some really cool Che Guevara graffiti. We hired a 1950s Buick. I took a picture of Josh who was wearing a fedora in the back seat with his golf bag. A stray dog ran past. It just worked really well.
My favorite assignment was the 1986 World Cup in Mexico in 1986. My favorite golf jobs were the 1984 Open at St. Andrews, the 1987 Ryder Cup at Muirfield Village and the 1986 Masters. Tiger's win in 1997 was great too. My favorite picture is the one of Seve at Lytham in the second round of the 1988 Open. What a player he was. Absolutely my favorite to shoot.
Very hard to pinpoint one, but not because I can't remember. There have been many enjoyable and memorable assignments - New Zealand, Ireland, Korea. My favorite picture may well be the one of Tiger chipping in at the 16th in the final round of the 2005 Masters.
Hard to pick a favorite assignment. There are many and for different reasons. Each course offers something special, whether it's the people you work with, the location, weather conditions, backgrounds, course conditions, history, etc. I shot what is probably my favorite picture when I was finishing up my education at Brooks. I got a press pass to cover the Shark Shootout at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, Calif. On the 18th hole during the third round, I got a shot of Arnold Palmer resting on his putter looking at the scoreboard and toward the sun. A year later when photographing the Senior Tour stop in Ojai, Calif., I gave Mr. Palmer a print and I later found out from his agent that he considered it one of the best photographs of himself he had ever seen. Quite a compliment from "The King."
Stewart Creek GC (by Dom Furore)
That's like asking me to name my favorite single malt - impossible to answer. That said, I do have a favorite non-golf image. I was over in Ireland from my brother's wedding and the reverend mother basically told me to make myself scarce for three hours. I went into Millstreet (County Cork), and went for a pint in McCarthy's where I got chatting with a lovely gentleman named Eoin Dominic Riordan. I took his picture and he attempted to give me five shillings saying, "You took my likeness. I have to pay you." That picture says so much. It will last with me forever.
I always look forward to the Masters. It's always good to see my media friends for the first time after the winter. Often my favorite assignments didn't necessarily produce a favorite photo. Going to Russia on a fishing trip with Jack Nicklaus was a great adventure, as was photographing courses in Nepal and going to Tiger's wedding. I can't believe the things I've seen and done being a golf photographer, but assignments like photographing the old Augusta caddies, or guys like Tommy Bolt are more fun because there's less pressure going into the job, and you have time to talk and get to know the subject(s) before you shoot. I remember doing a Byron Nelson shoot and afterwards going into his workshop and talking for an hour about dovetail jigs. Those are the days I really feel lucky to be doing what I do.
As for a favorite picture, I'd probably go for a black and white image of Stewart Creek in Canada, not because of the shot but the memory of it. I had my son with me. We waited in the rain all day. He thought I was crazy, but I just needed a minute of sun. It was a long day. But the sun literally popped out for 10 seconds, backlighting the clouds and mountains. It was amazing and lasted just long enough for me to shoot one sheet of 4x5 film. It was one of those "Thank you God" moments. (Furore also mentions the Monterey Peninsula CC shot described in the main text).
How has the business of golf photography changed in recent years?
Technology has evolved so quickly, many people feel entering the photography business is effortless. And that's certainly more true than it was 20 years ago, but you still have to have talent to take a great picture. Processing of the image is so much more technical too. An ability to use a computer is a must today, and understanding photo-editing software is crucial. I also think the marketing aspect has become very sophisticated, with websites and social-networking becoming very important for expanding your business.
Equipment is the biggest change, the jump from film to digital. Digital gives you the shot instantly, there's no mucking around with Polaroids and film. You can have the cover mocked up by the time you finish the shoot. I photographed Graeme McDowell for Golf Magazine recently, and after the shoot we sat in a café looking at the images. Also, the players and their managers/reps are different. Nike was the first company to insist that photographers use digital. They didn't like us using Polaroids and film, saying it wasted too much time. These days, you have to get the cover and article spread in 45 minutes, so you have to be so focused.
Golfers wearing hats - where have the characters gone? That image of Seve at Lytham wouldn't have worked so well if he was wearing a hat and his hair wasn't blowing all over the place. Same with the Nicklaus image at the '86 Masters. It wouldn't have been anywhere near as good if he was wearing a hat. Only Greg Norman could wear a hat and pull it off.
But seriously, cameras are so good now. Before the Canon 1D appeared in 2002, I still used film. Now, with digital, we send out images to editors minutes after taking the picture, not days. And it's so much cheaper than film, although we do shoot 10 times as much.
I think the industry has changed in three ways since I started. First, auto-focus cameras, which allowed many less-skilled shooters to enter the market. Second, the runaway train that is digital photography. Without the expense of film and processing, even more less-skilled photographers appeared. Third, the mega photo agencies. They are the Wal-Mart of photography, selling images for such a low price. They actually make it difficult for many good photographers to earn a decent living.
The emergence of digital, obviously. Ten years ago the technology in digital cameras was changing so fast cameras were becoming obsolete within a year. It's come a long way from when I was in school processing film in a darkroom, printing with the use of an enlarger, processing the prints in trays of chemicals, hanging them to dry and retouching them with the use of etching tools and spotting ink.
Digital cameras and imaging software have brought a lot more people into the industry. That said, quality work will always rise to the top. Unfortunately, a lot of the decision-makers don't recognize the difference between good and adequate imagery. There is certainly a lot more competition, which is healthy because it pushes us all to do better. When I first started there was plenty of inventory. Now there is very little so everyone is struggling for their piece of an ever-shrinking pie. Would love to sugarcoat it, but that's the truth.
Tony Dear is an Englishman living in Bellingham, Wash. In the early 1990s he was a member of the Liverpool University golf team which played its home matches at Royal Liverpool GC. Easy access to Hoylake made it extremely difficult for him to focus on Politics, his chosen major. After leaving Liverpool, he worked as a golf instructor at a club just south of London where he also made a futile attempt at becoming a 'player.' He moved into writing when it became abundantly clear he had no business playing the game for a living. A one-time golf correspondent of the New York Sun, Tony is a member of the Golf Writers Association of America, the Pacific Northwest Golf Media Association and the Golf Travel Writers Association. He is a multi-award winning journalist, and edits his own web site at www.bellinghamgolfer.com.
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Constance N. Johnson
|Connie Johnson
|Member of the Oklahoma Senate
from the 48th district
|In office
January 2005 – January 2015
|Preceded by
|Angela Monson
|Succeeded by
|Anastasia Pittman
|Personal details
|1952 (age 63–64)
Holdenville, Oklahoma, U.S.
|Political party
|Alma mater
|University of Pennsylvania
Langston University
Constance N. "Connie" Johnson is an American politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. She served in the Oklahoma Senate, representing District 48, which encompasses portions of northeastern Oklahoma County until 2014. She was first elected to the state senate in a special election in September 2005.
Johnson became the first black woman nominated for a major statewide office in Oklahoma and the first woman US Senate nominee from Oklahoma of any party when she won the Democratic primary run-off of the United States Senate special election in Oklahoma, 2014.[1][2]
Early life[edit]
Born in Holdenville, Oklahoma, in 1952, she graduated from Frederick A. Douglass High School in Oklahoma City and earned a bachelor's degree in French from the University of Pennsylvania. After college she worked for the Oklahoma Community Action Director's Association, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) within the City of Oklahoma City, and as the personnel assistant within the General Administrator's office of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.[3] She earned a master's degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from Langston University.
Political career[edit]
Johnson worked for the Oklahoma State Senate as a legislative analyst from 1981 to 2005 when she won the Senate seat representing District 48 in a special election. She was re-elected in 2006 and 2010.
Senate committees[edit]
- Full Appropriations
- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health & Human Services
- Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government and Transportation
- Health and Human Services
- Transportation
- Veterans and Military Affairs
- Energy
- Finance
- Rules
- General Government
Stance on Senate Bill 1433[edit]
Senate Bill 1433, which sought to define human life as beginning at fertilization, would have offered full legal protection to all human embryos. In the words of the bill, "the unborn child at every stage of development (has) all the rights, privileges, and immunities available to other persons, citizens, and residents of this state." Johnson submitted an amendment of her own to the bill, which would have added the words:
- However, any action in which a man ejaculates or otherwise deposits semen anywhere but in a woman's vagina shall be interpreted and construed as an action against an unborn child.[4]
She explained that the amendment was intended to "draw attention to the absurdity, duplicity and lack of balance inherent in the policies of this state in regard to women".[5]
Campaign for U.S. Senate[edit]
On April 8, 2014, Johnson announced she was running in United States Senate special election in Oklahoma, 2014. Johnson faced Patrick Hayes and perennial candidate Jim Rogers.[6] Johnson finished first in the Democratic primary with a plurality, and faced Rogers in a runoff election.[7] Rogers had an advantage with name recognition heading into the runoff election, having appeared numerous times on the ballot in Oklahoma.[8] Johnson, having spent 8 years in the Oklahoma State Senate as an outspoken critic of the Republican legislature, was able to acquire experienced campaign staff to secure a runoff election victory. Controversy would later surround a successful lawsuit by Johnson staff member Rico Smith who claimed Johnson did not properly pay him.[9] Johnson dismissed Smith and other staffers due to not wanting to pay them for the work that they performed. Campaign Manager Bailey Perkins, succeeded by Colletta Harper, along with Communications Director James Cooper, an Oklahoma City journalist and professor, and Political Director David Roberts, a veteran political operative and former 2008 Obama for America staff member rounded out the organizational structure. Rogers' name recognition did little to combat Johnson's growing notoriety and campaign organization. Johnson won the runoff election, defeating Rogers by 14 percentage points, to face Rep. James Lankford in the general election campaign.[10] Johnson lost the election for the unexpired term of Tom Coburn to James Lankford, by a margin of 237,923 29.0% to Lankford's 557,002, 67.9%, with independent candidate Mark Beard collecting 25,965 votes, 3.2% of the total.[11]
Comprehensive marijuana reform[edit]
Johnson introduced legislation legalizing medical marijuana in 2007, and each subsequent session, in conjunction with efforts to change Oklahoma's harsh sentencing guidelines. In June 2014, Senator Johnson and attorney David Slane announced the filing of an initiative petition for a proposed amendment to the Constitution of Oklahoma which would legalize the possession of up to one ounce of recreational marijuana and three ounces of medical marijuana.[12] According to Johnson, "We're putting forth Genesis 1:29 as the basis of this campaign. God created this wonderful, miraculous plant and we know that it has been vilified for the last 100 years, and it's time to change that in Oklahoma."[13]
- ^ Hardzinski, Brian (August 25, 2014). "Three Races To Watch In Tuesday's Primary Runoff Elections". KGOU. Retrieved August 27, 2014.
- ^ "Connie Johnson Wins Dem Primary For Oklahoma Senate". CBS Local. August 25, 2014. Retrieved August 27, 2014.
- ^ Constance Johnson, Women of the Oklahoma Legislature Oral History Project. (accessed July 8, 2013)
- ^ Rolland, Megan. "Oklahoma Senate passes Personhood Act, saying life begins at conception". newsok.com. NewsOK. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
- ^ Johnson, Constance. "About my 'spilled semen' amendment to Oklahoma's Personhood bill," The Guardian, February 9, 2012. (accessed July 8, 2013)
- ^ "Oklahoma Elections". OKLAHOMAN. June 24, 2014. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
- ^ "Lankford Wins GOP Nod In U.S. Senate, Faces Dems Johnson Or Rogers, Independent Beard". KGOU. AP. June 24, 2014. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
- ^ "Reclusive, perennial Oklahoma candidate faces longtime state senator in U.S. Senate primary". OKLAHOMAN. July 3, 2014. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
- ^ "Former campaign worker sues Connie Johnson over alleged breach of contract". KOCO. October 6, 2014. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
- ^ "Connie Johnson Wins Dem Primary For Oklahoma Senate". CBSDC. August 26, 2014. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
- ^ [1], Oklahoma State Elections Board, November 4, 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
- ^ "Oklahoma Senator cites Genesis 1:29 as basis for legalizing marijuana". UPI. June 16, 2014. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
- ^ "Oklahoma group using Bible scripture in push to legalize pot". KFOR-TV. June 13, 2014. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
External links[edit]
- Constance N. Johnson (OK) at Project Vote Smart
- Constance N. Johnson at Follow the Money.org
|Party political offices
|Preceded by
Jim Rogers
|Democratic nominee for U.S. Senator from Oklahoma
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Tourism is one of the most dynamic industries in Charleston.
If you go
what: Tourism Management Forum, a chance for citizens to learn how the city of Charleston manages tourism and to provide feedback about improvements.
When: 6 p.m. Monday
Where: Charleston County School District Building, 75 Calhoun St., first-floor board room.
More infoRMATION: Call 723-3746 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
In the past 20 years, the Holy City has opened an aquarium, developed an international cruise ship industry, beefed up airline service, and garnered its share of top-rated hotels and restaurants.
But nearly as much time has passed since Charleston updated its strategy for regulating the rapidly expanding hospitality industry. The last revision was in 1998.
So in perhaps a long-overdue game of catch-up, the city has assembled a task force of 24 tourism professionals, historic preservation advocates and neighborhood representatives to hash out and pinpoint areas of improvement in the official Tourism Management Plan.
"Obviously, Charleston has gotten quite a few accolades in the past few years, so it just felt like the right time to critique how we do things," city planner Tim Keane said.
The advisory committee will meet regularly to discuss tourism-related issues with the goal of proposing an updated plan to Charleston City Council at the end of the year. The group will hold a public forum Monday to gather feedback from the community about what those issues may be.
"The most important aspect right now before we really get down to serious work is, we want to ask residents what they think and what they would like to be addressed," said Katharine Robinson, chairwoman of the advisory committee and CEO of the Historic Charleston Foundation.
Among the obvious hot-button issues is the impact of the cruise ship business on the Historic District. Another that hasn't received nearly as much attention is the skyrocketing number of special events held in the city. Other issues include the redevelopment of the Gaillard Center and the availability of public bathrooms.
Delicate balance
The city's tourism plan has long been influenced by residential groups and historic preservation advocates, which is why the task force is represented by both interest groups.
"There's a delicate balance that exists here in Charleston," Robinson said.
While tourism is viewed as largely a positive and important force for Charleston - it represented 16 percent of the local economy in 2012 - the economic interests are kept in check to a degree by other powers that be: history and community.
For instance, downtown Charleston neighborhood groups aren't shy about raising their concerns about noise or crowded streets. Preservation advocates, meanwhile, have taken tough stands against oversaturation of hotels and cruise ships.
It's a fine line that city officials and downtown residents have tried to navigate since the first carriage tours clopped through the cobblestone streets.
"The city of Charleston was really the first city in America to do this kind of work, managing all aspects of the way tourism affects life downtown and how the tourism industry operates on the peninsula," said Keane, the city's top planning official. "We have incredibly high expectations for the city that this does not become a place that is too heavily dependent on and representative of the tourism economy, that this is first and foremost a place to live and work and raise a family. And we feel so strongly about that that it requires a vigilance about management of these things so it doesn't get out of control."
Angela Drake, a member of the advisory committee and president of the Ansonborough Neighborhood Association, said her neighborhood is encased by tourism-related issues. She plans to address those this year during the committee meetings.
"Ansonborough is unique because we are surrounded by tourism on each side," Drake said. "We have the cruise ships and all that traffic it creates, there's the construction noise with the Gaillard, and the new hotel, The Grand Bohemian. . To retain the sense of a neighborhood, we've been pretty adamant about voicing our concerns."
Changing landscape
The original tourism plan, adopted in 1978, allowed the city to regulate tour guides and carriage tour businesses. It was revisited 20 years later to address transportation issues, such as how many tour buses could be on historic streets at once.
But tourism in the city now goes beyond tour guides and horse-drawn carriages, said Steve Gates, an advisory committee member and president of Charlestowne Neighborhood Association.
"In 1998, there were no pedicabs or cruise ships, or proliferation of events, races or parades," Gates said. "Nor was there a high incidence of TV filming and movie activity. The whole landscape for analyzing the tourism carrying capacity has changed."
Cruise ships have been at the center of heated debates between the city and residential groups since Carnival homeported its 2,300-passenger Fantasy ship in Charleston in 2010. But Robinson of Historic Charleston said the committee's discussions won't be dominated by that or any other single issue.
"I think we will be dealing with the bigger picture, and I think cruise ships will be a part of that discussion, there's no doubt," she said.
Keane said another discussion likely will be the rapid growth of special events in the city. Last year, Charleston played host to 414 events, up an eye-opening 63 percent from 2011, according to the College of Charleston Office of Tourism Analysis.
While special events such as the Southeastern Wildlife Expo and this weekend's Cooper River Bridge Run are a boon for tourism businesses, the tens of thousands of visitors that can descend on the peninsula can cause traffic congestion and other problems.
"We just have to work together on managing these special events so that they don't overwhelm the city," Keane said.
Helen Hill, executive director of the Charleston Area Convention and Visitors Bureau and a member of the advisory committee, said it could become a problem.
"If we don't monitor what we do with the special events, it will hurt the visitor experience as well as the residential community," Hill said. "What we want to do is set up a process to look at what the event does for the community. Right now, there's not a process to evaluate a potential special event in the larger scope."
Other issues that may arise in the discussions likely will be related to transportation and parking, and the lack of public restrooms for visitors in downtown Charleston, according to several committee members.
Mayor Joe Riley, who appointed the task force, said he's encouraging the public to participate in Monday's meeting and others to help reshape the plan.
"Maintaining the delicate balance between Charleston's quality of life and the tourism economy is essential and a key objective of this planning process," Riley said.
Reach Abigail Darlington at 937-5906 and follow her on Twitter @A_Big_Gail


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I just finished listening to Governor Corzine's budget address and, as is typical of listening to our Governor, I'm a bit underwhelmed. Now, to be fair, it is difficult to give a rousing budget speech in the best of times - and these are far from the best of times. But I couldn't shake a feeling that the details just weren't adding up.
And let me get this off my chest: Someone please strike from our lexicon the phrase, "a hand up, not a hand out." First of all, we usually are talking about hand-outs - a hand-up would be temporary and leave people off better than when we started. That generally doesn't happen. Secondly, what's wrong with giving a hand-out? Charity is taught by every major religion in the world. A case can be made against charity beyond our means to provide, or false charity that really leaves people worse off when we're done - but charity is a good thing, so let's stop vilifying it. Now, back to the details that don't add up.
How much is the 2010 fiscal budget? $29.8 billion - which, the Governor points out - is less than the first Corzine budget in 2006. The problem is that the Governor also tells us that we are expecting only $28.5 billion in state revenue. That means that our revenue is expected to be about four percent less than our budgeted expenses.
The Governor also said that we faced a $7 billion shortfall in "baseline" expenditures. That shortfall was plugged with $2 billion from the federal government, plus $4 billion in programatic cuts. By my math, that leaves us short by a billion. The Governor says we can close that by cutting $400 million in personnel costs through state worker wage freezes and furloughs. That looks to me to be short by another $600 million.
There is another problem: the state pension contributions. The pension fund is already an underfunded liability that threatens to overwhelm us (see just about any of John Bury's columns on this). A large part of the programatic cuts is a one-time underfunding of the pension fund. Or, I should say, it's an "another time" underfunding. We are already on the wrong side of the compound interest equation on this and this only makes it worse. As it stands, we are dependent on future growth rates to make future contributions affordable - growth rates so high that we honestly wouldn't need a pension fund if we could reach them. In other words, the real world says they are unattainable.
The further problem - or perhaps the over-arching problem - is that this budget has no vision. It is a stop-gap funding plan for this year. Future problems will be dealt with in the future. That, in my opinion, is a plan to fail. We know that, if nothing else, health care costs are going to grow in the future. So why are we not creating slack in our budgeting process so we can absorb those costs with less pain? Between numbers that just don't add up and obligations that do, we are simply keeping up with the treadmill - under the best of outcomes. We are simply kicking that can further down the road.
In fact, we are kicking so many cans that we are going to have to reopen the American Can Corp. in order to get all the cans. Perhaps that is the stimulus that I keep hearing so much about. If only rhetorical cans didn't keep costing us real tax dollars!


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Despite their absences this morning, the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce breakfast honoring the 1999 Men and Woman of the Year drew emotional applause for the honorees' community efforts.
Shirley Fancher, who missed the breakfast because of illness, was honored as the Woman of the Year for her wide-ranging activities in education and the arts.
"She is extremely humbled by the honor," said husband Ed Fancher in accepting the award for her. "Thank you very much."
Fancher told how they were on a ski holiday in Taos when they received the call on New Year's Day in which the recipients were announced in front-page profiles in the Amarillo Globe-News.
Amarillo Globe-News publisher Garet von Netzer, in announcing the honors, noted that Shirley Fancher was the first teacher for deaf students in Amarillo and worked tirelessly on legislation to improve education for the deaf.
He also noted her efforts with the Amarillo Little Theatre, with her first performance on stage in 1948 and her most recent in 1998, and the fund-raising drive to expand the theater.
The shared award for Man of the Year was the first since the award began in 1950, von Netzer said.
Brothers Bill and Hugh Sticksel were honored for their legacy of service to Tascosa High School, community organizations such as United Way, Big Brothers and Big Sisters, Habitat for Humanity, scouting and the High Plains Food Bank, and their church, First Presbyterian.
Hugh Sticksel died in January 1999 at age 58, and Bill Sticksel died four months later at age 51.
"The community lost irreplaceable workers," von Netzer said.
Von Netzer noted how Hugh Sticksel organized the Tascosa Excellence Council, a parents organization dedicated to bettering Tascosa High School, in 1985 and served as its president until 1990.
Bill Sticksel later served two years as president and led the organization in remodeling a teacher's lounge, paving a dirt parking lot and planting numerous trees in a campus beautification drive.
Both were involved in supporting the school's athletic teams even after their children had graduated, he said.
In accepting the award for Bill, widow Michaele Sticksel said he always kept lists of tasks and always chose big projects.
"He always said, 'I want to get things done,' " she said.
Even though his community activities kept him busy, he always made time for her and their son, Matt, she said. "Matthew and I are pleased and honored by this award."
Then, Hugh's widow Pan Sticksel took the lectern for her acceptance remarks, describing being part of the Sticksel family as his greatest gift to her.
"To say this award is special to me is the understatement of this millennium," she said.
She explained how telling family stories were always a part of Sticksel family gatherings.
"These events will be a part of that family history," she said.
Before the awards ceremony, chamber chairman Mike Callahan outlined upcoming chamber events, including the organization's annual meeting Jan. 19 in which Howard Graves, chancellor of the Texas A&M University System, will speak.
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Keith Kizer, executive director of the powerful boxing commission, said it always seeks to improve its regulatory authority in practical and economically feasible methods, although blood testing is neither on the immediate agenda, nor ruled out.
"We've never foreclosed ourselves from anything," Kizer said. "We added the steroid testing back in 2000, 2001. We added the out-of-competition drug testing a few years back. As our budget allows, we made a few changes on that."
Mayweather pushed for random blood and urine testing, under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, in his failed negotiations for a fight with Manny Pacquiao. Mosley subsequently agreed to those terms.
Mayweather has said such testing will be a mandate for all his future fights.
The Nevada commission will conduct its own pre-fight and post-fight urine testing tonight, as per its statute. USADA officials requested the right to get its post-fight urine sample before the state commission "and we said absolutely not," Kizer said.
Kizer called the USADA testing "purely supplemental and we appreciate that."
As for the possibility that recent improvements in blood testing for human growth hormone might make expanded drug testing desirable -- the New York commission chairman has said that body intends to investigate that very possibility -- Kizer said the Nevada commission will "never close the door on adding to or improving our regulation."
Mayweather has faith in Garcia
Mayweather demanded enhanced drug testing even though he used pain-killing injections earlier in his career, when he suffered from frequent hand injuries. He hasn't had a major hand issue in several years.
Asked about that issue this week, he skirted the question and said his hand issues were alleviated after he worked a few months with hand-wrap specialist Rafael Garcia, who joined his team in 2001.
"I didn't do nothing wrong," he said. "They didn't find nothing in my system. I've got Rafael. All I've got to say is I've got Rafael and Rafael has done a tremendous job. Rafael Garcia has done a tremendous job. You get what you pay for in life. You want your hands wrapped the best, so you won't have any hand problems? Get Rafael Garcia."
Aging gracefully
Mayweather and Mosley had similar takes on how their habits have changed as older fighters.
"When you're 21, 22, even though you're in training camp, you're going out clubbing," Mayweather said. "I didn't have no vice but you're going out clubbing and, in the last three weeks, the last two weeks, you're in the house, just chilling. But now the main thing is just coming to the gym, doing my job, just going home, watching basketball. Just living life."
Mosley said when he was "22, 23 years old, I could work out the whole day, train the whole day, come back the next day and do the same thing, next day do the same thing. As you get older, you can't train recklessly the whole day and then expect to come back the next day."


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Gluten Intolerance Group of Central Arkansas
June 2012
Our next meeting is Monday, June 18, 6-8pm in the Annex Building behind the Heart Hospital
Table of Contents
· Calendar – GIG of Central Arkansas
· Meetings are at the Heart Hospital Annex Building
· Message from the President
· Donations and Thanks
· Gluten Free 101
· Sharing information: please send recipes, reviews and more*
· News from GIG of Northeast Arkansas – Jonesboro
· News from GIG of Northwest Arkansas – Fayetteville
· News from GIG of North America – Annual event
· Children's Corner - Feeding my family a GF/CF diet and recipe
· GF Connect
· Dempsey Bakery - great review
· Restaurants – The Catfish Hole; Le Pops; Star of India
· GF food - FritoLay
· Whole Foods - GF cooking class with Julianne June 26
· Recipe Corner – Herb Soaked Crackers, GF Easily
· Books - Gluten Brains, The Energy Effect
· Articles and Abstracts:
o Amber designtion dropped by NFCA
o Gluten Dependent Antibodies in Horses with Inflammatory Small Bowel Disease
Calendar for GIGCA
Monday, June 18th, 6-8pm - Julianne Bitely will be speaking. She is a health and nutrition counselor. Topic will be "Is it truly gluten free? Shopping smart for food allergies & health". Her website is http://www.wellnessinlittlerock.com
July and August – No meetings
September – To be announced
Thursday October 4th, 6pm - This is a very exciting event you will not want to miss. We are proud to announce that GIGCA is hosting
Dr (Professor) Rodney
Ford MB MS MD FRACP
Medical doctor, Gastroenterologist, Allergist, Pediatrician, and Gluten expert from New Zealand. He will present you with the evidence that everyone, including your family, should now be avoiding gluten. You may read more about this on Gluten: ZERO Global and read an article he wrote recently "Gluten: bad for us all"
This meeting will be at St Vincent's Hospital in the auditorium of the Education Building in the evening. Dempsey Bakery will provide dessert. Admission is $5.00
Meetings are usually at the Heart Hospital Annex Building
Please feel free to bring in home baked or store bought foods you would like to share with the group.
Each month Drug Emporium is kindly donating GF food for us to try.
This room is located in a building behind the main hospital. When you drive in from the stoplight, you will be facing the hospital. Go to the right. When you come to the stop sign, go left. This takes you behind the hospital. The building with the Fireplace Room will be on the right with a sign that says ANNEX. There is convenient parking in front of the building and we can ignore the HR ONLY parking signs as it is after hours.
Arkansas Heart Hospital
1701 South Shackleford Road
Little Rock, AR 72211
Going south on I-430, take exit 5 and turn right onto Shackleford. Hospital is on the right.
Going north on I-430, take exit 5 and turn left onto Shackleford. Hospital is on the right.
For questions contact
Anne Luther
Message from out President
Maybe it's the teacher in me that wants people to know that gluten could be making them sick. Or maybe it's compassion that gives me the desire to shake people and beg them to at least try the gluten free diet. But whatever it is, I am still amazed that anyone who suffers with IBS, migraine headaches or Crohn's disease (just to name a few) wouldn't be thrilled to have someone tell them about a non-surgical option, without side effects, that could change their life. Which is exactly why we invited Dr. Ford to come from New Zealand Oct. 4th. If his talk doesn't cause people to consider that cheerios and cheese-it crackers might be the culprit to their poor health, then I'm going to shut my mouth!
Make checks payable to GIGCA. Please send donations to our GIGCA treasurer, Terri Murdoch. You can call or email Terri if you have any questions.
Terri Murdoch
11 Berwyn Dr
Little Rock, AR 72227
Phone: 501-312-1689
We want to thank the donors who wish to remain anonymous and the following people for their generous donations.
Susan Holmes
Pat Whiting
Gluten Free 101
Gluten Free 101 (GF101) classes are held on demand. For more information on classes in Little Rock contact Anne Luther at firstname.lastname@example.com 501-681-5544.
LaDonna Brock is available for GF 101 in Hot Springs. She can be contacted by email at email@example.com or by phone 501-262-4299
Sharing information
We would love to hear from you. The newsletter is much more interesting with your input. Here are some subjects that would be of interest:
1) Recipes
2) Product reviews
3) Restaurant reviews
4) Information on GF traveling
5) Your story
6) Anything you would like to share with the group
News From GIG of Northeast Arkansas (Jonesboro)
The Gluten Intolerance Group of Northeast Arkansas meets at the Mt Carmel Methodist Church, 4000 Southwest Drive, Jonesboro. Find them on Facebook.
June 9, 2012-- Kristin Addison-Brown, Clinical Neuropsychologist with NEA Baptist Clinic in Jonesboro Topic: "The Neurological Effects of Celiac Disease"
July 14, 2012-- to be announced
August 11, 2012-- Anne Luther from The GIG of Central Arkansas
All meetings are on the second Saturday of each month at Mt. Carmel Methodist Church in Jonesboro from 10:00 am until 12:00 noon.
For more information contact:
Barbara Feeser (Group Leader) mailto:email@example.com (870)935-4515
Gale Pierce (Secretary/Treasurer) mailto:email@example.com (870) 203-9068
News from GIG of Northwest Arkansas (Fayetteville)
Contact Info: Dana Ward firstname.lastname@example.com
Please email Dana to get on the email list and for more information!
You can find them on Facebook too!
News from GIG of North America
GIG's Annual Event is now the Health & Wellness Experience
Come explore the various activities we offer during this event. Find out about living a healthy, balanced, positive, gluten-free life. Visit all of our health screening booths, hands on activities and our presenter areas. If you are following a gluten-free diet, or want to know more about it - this event is for you.
Learn about your BMI, blood pressure, cholesterol, bone density, blood sugar and more. Also learn practical tips for living gluten-free and balancing your life for better health. Explore the exhibit hall, and network with others living the gluten-free lifestyle. Join in the Path to Health Game through the hall and enter to win prizes.
The Health & Wellness Experience will be held in Seattle at the Sea-Tac Doubletree Hotel on June 16, 2012. http://www.gluten.net/conference/
Children's Corner
Feeding My Family a Gluten-Free Casein-Free Diet
By Beaura Cavalier
I used to think that feeding my kids was hard. Now that we are Gluten-Free and Casein-Free (GFCF)…it is really, really hard. No more adding cheese to the top of a vegetable to make it more appealing, or buying crackers and yogurt in the grocery store. No more bakeries, or fast food options, or good Mexican food (with flour tortillas, cheese and sour cream). No more pizza.
I was focused on all of the things my family couldn't eat. I was mourning the convenience of food that was already partially made for me.
Only recently have I changed my attitude about our restrictions. I have finally accepted that I am going to have to cook more "from scratch." And I have realized that I am not as restricted as I thought. We are eating vegetables, fruit, meat, non-gluten containing grains (rice, quinoa, grits), nuts, beans, etc. For special occasions, now we have Dempsey Bakery to go to and we have found a couple of restaurants that can provide us with "safe" food.
Here are a few things that have helped me make it through the past year.
1. Make a list of things that your family will eat so you can refer to it when you feel like they won't eat anything. And don't be afraid to use the same meals they like over and over. I get so excited when I find a new main dish that they like!
2. Use the freezer.
-- I freeze ground meat by placing one pound in a ziptop sandwich bag and press it flat for easy storage and faster thawing.
-- I freeze GFCF cookie dough by dividing one homemade batch into four ziptop sandwich bags, press flat and freeze. (Each bag makes just enough cookies for a day. Just cut off the sandwich bag, cut the frozen dough in squares, and immediately bake at 350 F for 10-15 min. or until done to your liking.)
-- I make extra French Toast (using GFCF Rudi's bread, eggs, almond milk, cinnamon, vanilla) and freeze the cooled French Toast in a gallon ziptop bag. To eat it later, take out a couple frozen, microwave them for 30 seconds or so and serve with a topping.
-- I also make extra and then freeze: pancakes, biscuits, and especially muffins. They all reheat very well in a microwave or toaster oven or combination of both.
3. Hide good stuff in the kid's food.
-- Muffins are my favorite place to hide stuff. You can make muffins with grated carrot, zucchini, or squash, or canned pumpkin. You can replace some of the GF flour mix with almond flour to increase protein. You can add ground flax seed in the flour mix to add Omega-3s and fiber. You can add dried cranberries, mini GFCF chocolate chips, toasted coconut, chopped canned pineapple, chopped apples, fresh blueberries, etc. (The delicious muffins I made last week were carrot muffins with some almond flour, ground flax seed, dried cranberries, and chopped canned pineapple.) The combinations are numerous and fun to experiment with. One time I tried decreasing the sugar a little too much in a recipe, but we just ate the muffins with honey. Another time I doubled the grated carrots from 1 cup to 2 cups and the muffins held together and tasted great.
-- I tried pureeing spinach and adding it to spaghetti sauce, and my kids ate it!
-- I have added chopped carrots and spinach to fruit smoothies with success. (I have a pretty powerful blender that makes it all smooth.) Adding blueberries to the mix hid the green color of the spinach.
4. Check out from the library "Getting Your Kid on a Gluten-Free Casein-Free Diet" by Susan Lord. It is simply written and very helpful.
Here is the Carrot Muffin recipe I love. It is adapted from the recipe in "Gluten-Free Baking Classics" by Annalise G. Roberts. I usually double this recipe to make 24 muffins and have a little batter left over that I cook in whatever oven-worthy vessel I find that fits well.
1. Preheat oven to 350 F and line tin with paper muffin cups or rub with oil.
2. Mix in large bowl:
2 cups Brown Rice Flour Mix *(see flour ingredients at end of muffin recipe)
2/3 cup white sugar
1 T baking powder
1 t baking soda
¾ t xanthan gum
2 t cinnamon
¼ t nutmeg
¼ t salt
Optional: 1 T ground flax seeds
3. Add to large bowl and stir to coat evenly:
2 cups shredded carrot
Any combination of: ½ cup chopped nuts, ½ cup chopped canned pineapple, ½ cup dried cranberries, ½ cup sweetened shredded coconut or unsweetened shredded coconut toasted in pan, ½ cup raisins, ½ cup chopped apples, etc.
4. Mix liquids in small bowl:
2 eggs (beaten)
½ cup milk (almond - unsweetened)
½ cup canola oil
1 t vanilla
5. Add liquids to large bowl and stir just until blended.
6. Fill muffin pans 2/3 full. Bake 20-25 minutes or until top of muffin springs back when pressed with your finger. Remove muffins from pan and cool on rack.
7. Freeze muffins in a large ziptop bag as soon as they are cool. Eat the frozen muffins within two weeks.
*Brown Rice Flour Mix
2 cups brown rice flour
2/3 cup potato starch (not potato flour)
1/3 cup tapioca flour
Whisk these ingredients together and store in a container (ziptop gallon bag or airtight plastic container) in the refrigerator. (I always triple the batch to 6 cups brown rice flour, 2 cups potato starch, and 1 cup tapioca flour and then have it on hand to use in my recipes.) Bob's Red Mill makes all of these ingredients and they are reasonably priced at Drug Emporium. (Don't forget you will need Xanthan Gum for almost any recipe you use this flour mix in. It is expensive, but will last a very long time.)
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This is a new a reasonably priced program that aspires to bring the Celiac Community different gluten free sample products as well as a coupon program that helps to offset the expense of a GF diet.
Review by Tony Pipkin, Registered Dietitian
This is an interesting concept to help the Celiac Community learn about many new GF products without the burden of buying complete packages of many products only to find the quality is not what they desired. The pricing is designed to provide you with products and coupons that exceed the quarterly cost, which at $19.99 plus shipping and handling the first quarter, $29.99 plus S/H after that, is reasonable considering the cost of many GF foods. A real bonus is that you can opt out of the program at any time. After you learn the diet and have a comfortable idea of foods you will buy (and eat) you may decide to cancel.
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Gale wrote that she recently ate at The Catfish Hole in North Little Rock. "It was gf and fantastic!!! Their breading for the fish is gf and is fried in a cooker just for fish. The fries are also fried in a separate cooker. It is under new management and the food was absolutely wonderful. Big pieces of fish with no fat! Please let the support group know about this. I just made sure that they wrote at the top of the ticket.... "NO HUSHPUPPIES!" :D"
Susan wants us to know that Le Pops in the River Market has delicious frozen treats many of which are gluten free. They are great folks and eager to help - they even changed their coconut so that the coconut ice pops are now gf and they are delicious!
Jennifer posted this on the Gluten Intolerance Group of Central Arkansas Facebook page.
"Talked with the owner of Star of India...he informed me that ALL the food is Gluten-free except the Naan that they serve. Everything else is made from chick-pea flour. He said he and his family grew up gluten-free and he believes in the health benefits! My friend is also dairy-free and he makes dishes specifically to her needs when she orders! Please check this place out! It has been my favorite for 10+ years and now that we are GF, our family can continue to eat there and especially to try the buffet knowing all of it is safe!!!!!!"
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Herb Soaked Crackers
Original recipe form: July 2006
Former Food Editor, Irene Wassell, of the Democrat-Gazette
Modification by Preston Brown
A large jar will be required to mix the crackers below with the seasoned oil. If available, a large plastic jar formerly containing Utz cheese-balls or pork rinds would be perfect.
1 (1 lb.) box of unseasoned GF crackers.
1 1/3 cups vegetable oil (canola, olive oil, safflower, etc.)
1 envelope Dry Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing (0.4 oz)
Note: equivalent to 3 tsp of the bulk powder.
1 tsp cayenne pepper, ground
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder
1 tsp dill weed
Put the crackers in the big jar.
In a medium bowl, mix the ranch dressing with the oil. Add the other four seasonings to this mixture and blend well.
Pour this seasoned oil mixture over the crackers in the jar and toss gently to coat the crackers with the oil.
Tighten lid on the jar and turn jar on its side. Tumble gently two or three times a day for two or three days (three is better.) to complete the distribution of the oil to the crackers. The sides of the jar will slowly dry up as the oil soaks completely into the crackers.
Notes by Preston Brown:
When I first tried these, I was sure they had been additionally baked because of their crispness. Not so: it's the oil in the cracker that causes that crispness. Just think: this is a treat you can fix during the summer without firing up the oven. Cool, huh?
Here are some variations encountered over the years:
1. More dill weed. One recipe had a whole tablespoonful.
2. Addition of crushed red pepper – 2 tablespoonfuls. This seems like a lot, but it totally depends on your desire for heat.
One pound of crackers is a big bunch of crackers. so it seems to me that a 1/4th recipe would be in order. So here goes:
4 oz (1 sleeve) of crackers
3 oz olive oil (or whichever oil you've got)
3/4 tsp Dry Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper, ground
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp onion powder
1/2 tsp dill weed (could be 1/4 to 3/4 tsp)
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes (if you dare!)
(this could be 1/4 tsp to 1 tsp)
Note that I added more dill weed and red pepper flakes. That's the nice thing about the 1/4th recipe: if this is too much, then add more crackers.
If mixing for a large group of people, it's always safer to tone down the heat.
The jar for this can also be smaller. I've got an old large Claussen pickle jar that will to the job, but a Mixed nuts jar would probably do as well.
Notice that I've just given you an excuse to buy Utz cheese balls, Utz pork rinds, Claussen pickles and mixed nuts. Not bad huh?
To be diet-conscious, however, I really should add that the addition of oil to the cracker makes them about 30 calories per cracker as far as I can tell. So eat a bunch, but then go run around the house a few times.
Taste observation: These crackers are good enough to eat alone, but if you want to try them with cheese, I noticed that if the cheese is sharp or has an intense flavor, the taste of the herbs in the cracker is somewhat obliterated. However, a bland cheese or even just plain cream cheese works wonderfully. Also, potato soup, clam chowder, or avocado/guacamole fits in well with this idea. I've got to stop now – I'm getting hungry.
This recipe has not been tested on GF crackers as the original recipe used wheat crackers. If you make this, I would love to hear how well it turned out. ~ Anne
I did not get any other recipes to share this month. You may want to go to Gluten Free Easily and check out Shirley's recipes. Her latest is Black Magic Bars(Black Walnut Chocolate Chip Oat Bars) Click on the Recipe tab for more.
Books by Dr. Ford
Dr. Rodney Ford, who will be our special guest and speaker for October, has recently published an ebook "Gluten Brains". His hypothesis is that all the damage from gluten can be explained by the damage gluten does to the brains and nerves. Gluten related disorders are a primarily a neurological problem. This book can be ordered from Smashwords http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/161907
"The Energy Effect", Just published this week. Dr. Ford says "(It is)about living healthy until you die. It has been said that life is a terminal disease! If you are going to have a life - make it a happy healthy one."
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Celiac.com 05/23/2012 - In April 2012, the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness debuted its Tiered Credentialing system, whereby restaurants can be awarded varying levels of a gluten-free designation. The system has spawned much controversy, as many sufferers of celiac disease argue that there should be no flexibility with the gluten-free term. Many argue that a food either contains gluten, or it does not: leading people to believe gluten-contaminated products are gluten-free could be harmful to celiacs.
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Many of us have found that when we stop feeding gluten to our dogs and cats their health greatly improves. Grains nearly killed my Cairn Terrior. This makes sense as dogs and cats are carnivores. But what about horses?
Horses can get small bowel inflammatory disease. The researchers found one horse with antibodies to gluten. They placed that horse on a gluten free diet and his antibodies to gluten dropped and the small bowel improved. They conclude that further investigation is needed.
Vet Q. 2012 Apr 10. [Epub ahead of print]
Gluten-dependent antibodies in horses with inflammatory small bowel disease (ISBD).
a Department of Equine Sciences, Medicine Section, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine , University of Utrecht , Utrecht , the Netherlands.
Background: Equine inflammatory small bowel disease (ISBD) is an idiopathic pathologic condition seeming to increase in prevalence. Objective: To investigate the potential role of gluten in equine ISBD. Animals & Methods: Antibodies known to be important in the diagnosis of human coeliac disease (CD): IgA antibodies to human recombinant and guinea pig tissue-transglutaminase (TGA), native gliadin (AGA), deamidated-gliadin-peptides (DGPA), and primate and equine endomysium (EMA) were assessed in blood samples from three different groups of horses: ISBD affected (n = 12) on a gluten-rich diet and controls either on gluten-rich (n = 22) or gluten-poor (n = 25) diets. Significant differences (p < 0.05) between groups were assessed using the Wilcoxon test. Results: Both ISBD-affected horses and gluten-rich controls had significantly (p < 0.0004) higher hrTGA titers than gluten-poor controls. However, ISBD horses did not show significantly increased levels of any of the CD related antibodies when compared to gluten-rich controls. Nevertheless, markedly increased antibody levels (TGA, EMA and DGPA) were found in one of the ISBD horses. The introduction of a gluten-free ration in this 14-year-old warmblood stallion resulted after 6 months in the reduction of antibody levels and clinical recovery associated with improved duodenal histopathology. Conclusion: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study assessing gluten-related antibodies in horses and results suggest a potential pathogenic role of gluten in at least some cases of equine ISBD. Clinical importance and impact for human medicine: Given serology and concurrent clinical findings, this study warrants further investigations into the immunologic basis of possible gluten-sensitive enteropathy in horses and analogy with human disease.
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