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• We studied the role of lipopolysaccharide and the associated hypercortisolemic response as mediators of leukocyte changes associated with endotoxemia. Normal human subjects were given continuous, 12-hour, intravenous infusions of cortisol. After 6 hours of cortisol infusion, lipopolysaccharide (20 U/kg) was administered in an intravenous bolus. Plasma cortisol and blood leukocyte counts and lymphocyte subset proportions were evaluated every hour throughout the 12-hour study period. After 6 hours of cortisol infusion, lymphocyte counts and proportions of CD4+ helper/inducer T cells had declined significantly. The fact that these cells did not decline further in response to lipopolysaccharide and continued cortisol infusion suggests that lipopolysaccharide-induced lymphocyte changes are cortisol dependent. In contrast, the granulocytosis normally observed after lipopolysaccharide administration was unaffected by cortisol infusion. Finally, the monocyte counts and proportions of B cells (HLA-DR+ or CD20+ cells) responded to cortisol infusion and LPS in a pattern distinct from that of lipopolysaccharide alone. These results indicate that lipopolysaccharide-induced hypercortisolemia plays a role in immune modulation during endotoxemia.
(Arch Surg. 1992;127:181-186)
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At the time the Anti-Defamation League was founded 96 years ago anti-Semitism, racism, prejudice and bigotry were prevalent in American society and those who spread the messages of hate did so protected by the First Amendment. ADL's founders understood with great clarity and vision that the First Amendment, a cornerstone of our democracy, protected us as well, and should be utilized for good to counter the bad.
Back then it was the Ku Klux Klan and later Father Coughlin, Henry Ford and their ilk. Today it is the Westboro Baptist Church, Holocaust deniers Bradley Smith and David Irving,
neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and those who incite against Latinos, gays and other groups they deem to be the "others."
We know the First Amendment is not absolute -- after all you can't shout fire in a crowded theatre or to quote precisely from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic."
But we also know it has great breadth.
No one knew that better than Hubert H. Humphrey, who in a long life of public service as a Mayor of Minneapolis, a distinguished Senator from Minnesota, and in tumultuous times, the Vice President of the United States and one-time candidate for the presidency.
Humphrey was also among the last of the New Deal-style lions, a champion of the downtrodden and an advocate for those who suffered from inequality and injustice. He was an advocate of the First Amendment, whose crucial clause protecting free speech served Humphrey himself so well given his abilities as an orator who was not one for the short sound-bite. But he was a voice for the voiceless and a champion of those deprived of economic or social justice.
I always look forward to presenting the annual Hubert H. Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize. This year marks the 38th presentation of the award, established by Dwayne Andreas, President of the Andreas Foundation, as a tribute to his close friend.
ADL awards the Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize to an institution or an individual who has made a significant and lasting contribution to the preservation and advancement of the ideals embodied in our Constitution's First Amendment which enshrines the free exercise of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press. ADL presents this award to enhance public awareness and understanding of these precious ideals which are fundamental to America.
For Nat Hentoff, the First Amendment is a way of life, having written about and advocated on behalf of the freedom of speech and of the press for more than half a century. His body of work is an outstanding example of what we had in mind when we created this award to recognize those who have made a significant and lasting contribution to the preservation and advancement of the First Amendment.
Nat Hentoff has made significant and lasting contributions to the protection and advancement of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment. His writings regularly defend the rights of Americans to think and speak freely, as well as demonstrate how the Supreme Court and local legislative decisions affect the lives of ordinary Americans.
His syndicated column Sweet Land of Liberty, appeared in the Washington Post and newspapers around the country. He was a columnist and staff writer with The Village Voice for 51 years, from 1957 until 2008. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, the New Republic, the Atlantic and The New Yorker, where he was a staff writer for more than 25 years.
A prolific author, his books include " "The First Freedom: The Tumultuous History of Free Speech in America," "The Day They Came to Arrest the Book," "Free Speech for Me and Not for Thee: How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other."
The numerous awards Hentoff received include the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award for his coverage of the law and criminal justice in his columns; the American Library Association's Imroth Award for Intellectual Freedom and the National Press Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Journalism.
Nat and ADL have a long history of working together that continues to this day. While Nat and I have not always seen eye to eye over the years on some issues, our disagreements have always been civil and respectful of each other.
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Taking Alfalfa next to meal help digests food?
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This what Homeopathic Medicine uses Alfalfa for, please read carefully :-
Medicago Sativa, California Clover or Lucerne
>From its exploit on the sympathetic, Alfalfa favorably influences nutrition, evidenced in "toning up" the appetite and digestion resulting within greatly improved mental and physical vigor, near gain in substance. Disorders characterized by malnutrition are for the most part within its liberating range, for example, neurasthenia, splanchnic blues, concern, insomnia, nervous indigestion, etc. Acts as a butter producer, corrects tissue waste. Deficient lactation. Increases trait and quantity of milk surrounded by nursing mothers. Its pronounced urinary action suggests it clinically surrounded by diabetes insipidus and phosphaturia; and it is claimed to allay vesical irritability of prostatic hypertrophy. The rheumatic diathesis seems especially amenable to its bustle.
Mind.--It induces mental exhilaration of buoyancy, i.e, a general response of well one; clear and bright, so that all blues are dissipated. Dull, drowsy, stupid (Gels); morose and irritable, worse during evening.
Head.--Dull, heavy sensation in occiput, surrounded by and above the eyes, worse toward evening. Pain in departed side of head. Violent headache.
Ears.--Stuffed thought in eustachian tubes (Kali mur) at dark; patulous in morning.
Stomach.--Increased thirst. Appetite impair, but chiefly increased even to bulimia. He must eat frequently, so that he cannot hang around for regular meals; hungry surrounded by forenoon (Sul). Much nibbling of food and craving for sweets.
Abdomen.--Flatulence next to distention. Shifting, flatulent pain along colon several hours after meal. Frequent, loose, yellow, raw stools, with burning of flatulence. Chronic appendicitis.
Urine.--Kidneys immobile; frequent urging to urinate. Polyuria (Phos ac). Increased elimination of urea, indican and phosphates.
Sleep.--Slept better than usual, especially surrounded by early morning; it induces noiseless, reposeful and refreshing sleep.
Relationship.--Compare: Avena sat; Dipodium punct; Gels; Hydr; Kali phos; Phos ac; Zinc.
Dose.--The best results are elicit with matter doses (5-10) drops of tincture, several times daily. Continue its use until tonic effects ensue.
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Taking Alfalfa is good for constipation, depression,CFS,IBS, indigestion. It does relief you with digestion, since it contains numerous enzymes.
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Economic fears might mean fewer business travelers
NEW YORK -- Fewer business travelers are likely to hit the road this year as the travel industry is challenged by corporate America's persistent economic fears.
Business travelers are expected to take 431.8 million trips in 2013, the Global Business Travel Association said Tuesday. The industry trade group had forecast 435 million trips back in July.
The latest estimate would mean a 1.1 percent decline from the 436.5 million trips taken in 2012.
Fewer people traveling, however, doesn't mean lower costs. Airfare, hotel rooms, meals and car rentals have helped to push up the overall price of business travel.
Budweiser will introduce new beer in Super Bowl ad
ST. LOUIS -- Anheuser-Busch InBev is introducing a new specialty brew with a Super Bowl ad.
The maker of Budweiser, Bud Light and other brews said Tuesday that Budweiser Black Crown is an amber lager. The first ad promoting it will run on Feb. 3 during Super Bowl XLVII, though the beer will be available in stores nationwide starting Jan. 21.
The beer's recipe resulted from a challenge to Anheuser-Busch InBev's 12 brewmasters, an effort dubbed Project 12. Customers were able to sample the options during a testing phase in 2012.
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Interview with Joseph James , conducted by Blackside, Inc. on February 20, 1992, for The Great Depression . Washington University Libraries, Film and Media Archive, Henry Hampton Collection.
These transcripts contain material that did not appear in the final program. Only text appearing in bold italics was used in the final version of The Great Depression.*
This is, interview with Joseph James, two twenty, ninety-two. Mr. James, let's start out by talking a little bit about your experiences with the Federal Theater Project. You'd been in Los Angeles, and, how did you come to get involved with the Federal Theater Project in the first place?
Well, I was sort of drafted into it, you know. Paul Johnson had a play called , and he got me requisitioned, so to speak, to play the part of "Brother Moses." It was a folk play, about people who were god-fearing and righteous, holy, who were confronted with what they considered a heathen cult, who pitched a tent on a vacant lot near this little town, and a lot of the good church-going people were attending, you know, the ceremonies of this pagan cult. It caused a lot of conflict, and therein lies the drama. It was, and it was marvelous, music, you know, Hall Johnson composed music for the cult, to sound very mysterious and strange, but enticingly beautiful. So there was this, this pagan music in counter position to wonderful spirituals, that only Hall Johnson could concoct. And it was very nice.
When you talked about the, the clash-
Can we stop, can we stop for a second?
Sure, sure.
Was that—
Take two.
You were talking about the tension and the, the conflict in the play. It, it sort of sounds like a metaphor for the conflict that revolved around the Federal Theater Project in general.
[laughs] Well, in a sense, yes.
What was the, what was that conflict about?
The Federal Theater?
Yeah. Why did people oppose it, or why—
Well, just as we have Jesse Helms today, we had his counterparts, or maybe his, what do you call it, ancestors, then, because they regarded anything as cultural, somehow, less than right. They feared it, and they considered it subversive and un-American, whatever that means. But at any rate, they gained power in Congress, in the law-making bodies and policy-makers, and it brought about the demise of the Federal Theater, eventually.
Well, but, but, All God's Chillun was a Federal Theater Project show at one point, and here's a show about, about black American culture, and spirituals, what's subversive about that?
Yes, well, I don't know. Course, when you consider the fact that, that anything that is of grass-roots basis, and these were ordinary people expressing the experiences of their common lives, you know, and in the course of that expression, they don't care what is officially approved. So there it is, it's thought-provoking, and thinking is dangerous in this country, you know, it might lead to ideas of maybe, some planning or something like that, and you know, "planning" is a cuss-word, even to this day. So, one thing leads to another, and anything that is, is strange, somehow is, is regarded with suspicion and fear. It doesn't have to be necessarily dangerous, or anything like that, it's just different, and they don't like difference, they like conformity, and familiarity. That's the reason why you have to search for something which is really creative and original in this cultural scene, because everything has to conform, be familiar.
Well, talk to me a little bit, that's why people on the right, or conservatives, might have been afraid of it, but give me a sense of what it represented to you as a black man and an artist, to be able to work in that environment with the Federal Theater Project.
It was a sense of liberation. You know, I felt, of course, many of the, the dramas with, with significant social content, unfortunately I didn't get a chance to play in them, I would have enjoyed it tremendously. But, for example, there were people who objected to .
Tell me, what was, what was the ?
was, basically, Gilbert and Sullivan's light opera . Originally, of course, it was a British production, it was, it evolved out of the British political system, and it was a hilarious satire on the British political system. It had nothing to do with Japan. But when it came to this swing version of it, people objected. Why? Because it was a novel treatment of an old, standard classic. I was in a show, later, called , music by Kurt Weill and book by Elmer Rice, and Maurrant had a song called "Let Things be Like They Always Was." That's the sentiment that you get, then, and continues to this day.
Well, specifically, going back to the fact that the Theater Project had Negro units and presented Negro culture, was that in itself seen as subversive or a threat? Was that considered acceptable to do in America?
Well, in my view, I didn't see any evidence of a feeling of threat. But, once you get something going, you don't know where it's going to wind up. So when you start with Negro authors and Negro performers, on subjects which they select themselves for performance, and treat that subject from their viewpoint irrespective of what somebody else might think about it, why then, that's where you get the potential for opposition.
How we doing on time [ gap: ;reason: inaudible ] ?
Ninety feet left.
Eighty feet.
Yeah. Tell me a little bit more about, about . You mentioned, you were telling Susan the role you played in some of the exchanges.
What was, was, give me some memories of what the performance was like.
First of all, the lyrics, and the dialogue, is side-splittingly [sic] funny. My friend, Jester Harrison, played the role of Ko-Ko, to my role of Poo-Ba, which meant that we had a lot of dialogue together, and Heston is a comedian that you just can't put him in a class with anybody else, he's in a class by himself as a comedian. The way he could deliver a line was devastating, and I was, I would feed him a line, and of course he would have to reply to it, and his reply would crack me up on the stage. I had to fight to keep from just, just rolling on the floor. That was about the most stimulating experience I've ever had in the theater.
Sounds very entertaining. Talk a little more about, about what it, what it, what the Theater Project—
Let's change rolls unintelligible].
OK, let's stop.
Take three. Tell me a little bit more about, about what it was, the feeling for an artist or a performer to be involved in the Theater Project, what it meant, what kind of opportunity it was.
Well, it was an opportunity for me, certainly, to get into the theater, to get into a play, and start learning the art of an actor. I had been a student of singing for quite a number of years, and combining singing with acting was just wonderful. I discovered later that I didn't have a purely operatic voice, it wasn't that strong, but for a musical play, and most particularly on the concert stage, why, it was up to me to select the material which I could handle. I was able to handle the material fairly well, I think, but just as I said before, you, you have a sense of freedom, and an opportunity to express ideas which other people can listen to and, maybe, be stimulated in some way in the, in the course of their lives. You know, it's a wonderful thing.
You described it before as sort of a cultural explosion, a sort of a, a real opening up of the arts, it was unique.
Yes, yes, for example—
Could you just start off saying something like that, It was a cultural explosion because, I need to have a full sentence to go—
No, I see. It was a cultural—
We'd better stop, we've got this guy—
We're going to start up with the idea of it's being a cultural explosion.
Yes, it was a cultural explosion in this sense. For example, before the advent of the Federal Theater, there were millions of people who had never seen what they called a "round actor." That is, somebody in person, on a stage, delivering lines and going through actions. Up to that point it was only the movies, you know, they were, they were pictures, but here is a person speaking to them. It was electrifying, it laid the basis of, of the, of what theater is today. There are more people going to the theater, despite the high prices, and there are more, smaller theaters, where prices are lower, but people are, are now anxious to come to a place where another person is standing on the stage, telling them things, and interacting with each other, and portraying episodes they can relate to, and take as a part of their lives.
I mean, it's hard to understand now what it felt like then, when culture has suddenly become so important.
Yes. Yes, it is.
But was, was, in those periods when you were with the Federal Theater Project, was culture given more importance? Was it paid attention to more?
I'm not in a position to make a judgment like that, because I don't have the statistics. But from the, from the actions, reactions of people who would come to theater, you know, it was, it was heart-warming, you know, because in many cases that had been their first experience seeing people on a stage, portraying characters, and all that.
Well, you know, again, going back to the way it was criticized, the conservative forces in Congress would say, Well, well, somehow that's not working, why aren't those artists out building roads? Did anybody ever say that to you?
[laughs] No, but the, the sentiment as I was able to perceive it, at the Congressional level, was, that all this was just wasted money, 'cause it was a luxury. It didn't produce wealth, you know. Had it produced wealth, of course, they would have immediately appropriated it unto themselves and the people wouldn't have benefited. But, but it was something, you know, wasting money on people dancing and singing and play-acting, it's not worth it. Cut it out.
Well, and in fact, that's what they eventually did, they did cut it out.
That's right, that's right.
How did you feel when you, when you, being part of this wonderful experience, to know that it wasn't going to survive, that it was going to be over?
My language then was not of the kind that would stand...
Well, give it to me in acceptable terms.
Well, it was indignation, and a sense of outrage. You know, practically every other country in the world offers a certain amount of subsidy, in some cases complete subsidy, for the arts. Now, South Africa was, at one time, the initials were the same as this country, USA, Union of South Africa, and the two USA's in the world were just about the only two so-called civilized nations that didn't subsidize their arts. And that was a pretty stern commentary, and it still stands.
But going back to that moment in 1939, when you knew that it was going to be destroyed. Was that, I mean, did you feel something important was being lost?
Oh, certainly, of course.
Could you say that again, just say, I felt, you know, I felt—
Yes, yeah, I thought that something very important was being lost, and that feeling still is present.
But, but even though the theater was killed, it obviously contributed something to your growth. Did it change your life, being a part of that?
Well, of course, I went back to, to trying to build a, you know, a concert career. That is, after World War II, you know.
What I'm saying is, did any of that experience stay with you?
Well, of course, I took it with me. When I came east, I beca-, I was involved in about fifteen Broadway shows, and, and you know, I kept on like that.
Now, let's move on, I think we've spent a good amount of time on the Theater Project. Let's talk a little bit about the War coming, and how you made the decision to go to work in the shipyard, which would lead you into a lot of interesting activities. What...you're, you're an actor, how do you, why does an actor become a welder?
Oh, [laughs]. Well, it starts out with a, a tragi-comic situation. By that, I mean this. When I found out about the attack on Pearl Harbor, I was with the Hall Johnson choir doing the music for a movie called . And we were in the midst of singing a tune, "Good news, good news, good news, good news, good news, good news, Lord, I heard from heaven today!" Right in the midst of that, the door opened, and a man with a solemn face said, The Japanese have just attacked Pearl Harbor, we're in the War. Now, what a unique position to be in at that point, singing what I was singing, with that group of people. And that's how I found out about the War.
Let's stop here and change.
Take five. Before we go on to your experiences during the War, tell me a little bit about, about what you remember, what your impressions [sic] of being at Treasure Island, and the Fair. What was that like?
Oh—well, it's, it's not easy to recall my experiences at the Fair.
Was it a beautiful, wonderful place to be, or just, regular?
You know, I don't have any vig—vivid recollections of that Fair. I have one thing that I recall, of course I was busy with the show that was there, , but the thing that is most vivid in my recollection is, going into one of these booths sponsored by, I think it must have been IT & T, or something like that. Going, and picking up a phone, and hearing my own voice. You know, I haven't made any records, and that was the first time that I heard my own voice, and I said, "My God, do I sound like that?" It was so strange to me. And there were, you know, exhibits depicting the future and all of that kind of [ gap: ;reason: unintelligible ] , and a lot of concessions where a lot of junk was sold. You know, that didn't impress me a whole lot.
Just like going to the county fair, right?
Let's back up now to when you said you heard about the War, right when you were singing "good news." Did it come, I know the attack came as a surprise to everyone, but, I mean, had you had any sense before that, before that guy opened the door, that we were going to be in a war? Was it a c—
Not that soon, no, I didn't, I really didn't. To me, of course, there had been a lot of talk about, of course the Japanese had already been involved in China, and all that. I remember in a political sense being interested in all this talk about, well, we shouldn't be shipping scrap iron to Japan, because it's going to come back to us in the form of bombs and shrapnel and all that kind of stuff. But there was a lot of bellicose rhetoric going, floating around at that time, but the actual attack came as a surprise to me.
I mean, when people thought about war during that period, were they more following the war in Europe than in, thinking about—?
What did people think about the Nazis?
Yes, you know, 'course, there was the famous, or infamous, "America First Committee," you know, who tilted toward Hitler. Father Coughlin on the radio, people like that.
I mean, when you would talk to your friends, was there any sense that, We're going to have to stop Hitler, that, We can't let this go on, or were people still saying, Well, that's their problem?
Well, there were, there were those who, who said that, and then there were s—
No, start over, there were those who said—?
There, yeah, there were those who said, "Let's stop Hitler," and all that, but the majority of the people I associated with took the position that it was an imperialist war, and that as working people, they had no part in it, you know. But of course, with the, with the attack on the Soviet Union, the character of the war changed, because, this was, we were for working people and this was a worker's state, and an attack on a worker's state is considered an attack on the working class, so, bingo.
Had that issue come up earlier, in terms of Italy's invasion of Ethiopia or the Spanish Civil War? Had that—?
Not, not that I heard, no.
So it was really—
So anyway, you heard, you heard about the War, but you were singing in Los Angeles. How did it come, a year or two later, that you actually decided instead of singing for your supper, to weld for your supper?
Well, I, the decision was basically taken out of my hands, I had to, to continue living. All of my plans for concerts and lecture recitals and things of that sort, suddenly went down the tube, because everything was cancelled. I came back to San Francisco, and I was casting about for something to do. So, I was, I, at that time, I was always interested in, in some mechanical skills, with engines and things like that, and I enlisted in the Samuel Gompers Trade School, and learned welding. Subsequently, and very easily, got a job at Marin Ship as a welder.
What year was this?
That was...1942.
And this is, this is the period when they're starting to hire thousands and thousands of...?
Yes, yes. Yes.
When you started at Marin Ship, did you have any idea about what you were going to get into, or was that a supply, surprise, when you ran into the union problem?
No, I, I—
Had anyone told you that you were going to have to join a [ gap: ;reason: unintelligible ] ?
No, I came to, or I went to the shipyard, and I got a job, and I don't know how long I was at work, a month or less, when somebody asked me were[sic] I a union member? I said, "No," and he said, "Well, you have to join a union," and I said, "That's fine, where do I go? Where's the headquarters of the Union?" He said, "You don't go to union headquarters." I said, "Why not, I'm going to join the Union, am I not?" "No but, there's a special union for you, us," he said, because he's also a Negro, and I said, "I don't understand." He said, "Look, we're not allowed to join the main union, but the main union has for us a separate organization to which we have to belong." I said, "Let me think about this." So finally, I asked some questions, and I found out that this was an auxiliary. I found out that to, to, the initiation fee to join was the same, the due structure was the same, but the benefits were fifty-percent of what a white person would get, belonging to the Union. I said, "I'm not going to put up with this," and that's the beginning of the, of the struggle.
Was that—how [sic] we doing on time?
Ninety feet.
When you made that decision, was that a personal decision, or did you ask what your friends thought, or you just said, I can't live with this?
I said, myself at first, that I'm not going to put up with this. And then, in conversation, I found that others felt the same way, and we finally came to a formal decision, that this which we were being subjected to, was, essentially, the same thing that Hitler would subject us to, or worse. We would not be a part of whatever was promulgated by fascism. We would be segregated, we would be persecuted, we would be even murdered, and it's that sort of thing we're engaging in a war against, so it would be illogical, and inconceivable, and not even moral to put up with a situation like that on the home front, while trying to eliminate that sort of thing in a foreign land. It was on, under that compulsion that, when they came and asked me to be the spokesman for the budding organization, I gladly consented.
Want to change?
—is take six. Camera roll five, sound roll three. Can you put that in a context for me, when you said you didn't Want to participate in something that was really what we were fighting for, you're not saying you were not patriotic or supporting, not willing to support this country, were you?
Oh, of course not.
What were you—
My sense of patriotism—
Start that over again, I interrupted you.
Go ahead.
Now, what were you about to ask me?
Your sense of patriotism, about being a patriotic American and still not wanting to—
Oh, oh yes. See, patriotism, in my view, doesn't mean going along with somebody's dictate. I have my feeling about this country, the country of my birth, and I would defend it. But when somebody tells me that I have to, to be less than a citizen, under the guise of being patriotic, I said, well, now, wait a minute, you're putting a definition of patriotism upon me which I cannot sustain. Now, we in this organization of shipyard workers, none white, said, We're perfectly willing to join the Union, but not this Jim Crow auxiliary. So, accordingly, we offered to go to the Union, and apply for membership, and it was refused. It had to be this auxiliary, or else we would be dismissed from our jobs. Accordingly, the time came when we began receiving so-called pink slips. Thereupon, we called a big meeting, a mass meeting, at which, after hours and hours and hours of debate, we adopted the strategy of going in shifts. As each shift of workers was dismissed, he would join the previously dismissed workers in a tour of all of the war offices in the San Francisco area, the War Production Board, the President's Committee on Fair Employment Practices, the War Labor Board, and all of those agencies, and as the numbers increased, the demonstration increased. Meanwhile, Harry Bridges, the late Harry Bridges, offered us the use of the Union hall for a dance, and we raised a tremendous amount of money to us these days, those days. It financed a court injunction which resulted in the firing being halted, and we all went back to work. That was the first phase of, of the struggle.
How did that feel, when you, when you got injunction [sic] about that?
It felt wonderful.
State that one more time.
When we got that injunction, we cheered. It was a grand feeling.
Now, when you talk about going to the different war agencies, had you been aware of the, of the negotiations that, that A. Philip Randolph had had with Roosevelt that resulted in the orders to integrate defense factories?
Resulted in the fair employment practices?
Yeah, that set up, set up that, and there was—
Yeah, executive offer 8802 [Executive Order 8802].
Yeah. Did you feel that that guaranteed you equality in the work-place?
Well, as it turned out, although the Executive Order 8802 was in existence, we nevertheless had to struggle in order to, you know, in order not to go into this auxiliary. You see, the Executive Order 8802 didn't of itself guarantee equal employment opportunity, as it turned out.
Just that you would be offered some jobs?
Yes, yes.
Let's stop for a minute.
[ gap: ;reason: inaudible ]
OK, take seven. When you talked about your own personal feelings about the fact that this was an unacceptable situation, we've talked to other folks who had come up from the south, and who felt that things were so much better just being in the north, that that was enough for them. Did you, do you remember having any of those discussions with your fellow workers?
Yes, yes.
What would they say?
There were, they would say, "Well, look, I came all the way up here to get a job, you know, and, and I'm working, and I don't want to cause any trouble or anything like that." The reply to that was, simply, is, it's not a matter of starting trouble, it's a matter of insisting on your rights as a citizen, that's all. There isn't anything that'll happen to you, which hasn't been always happening to you all along. And also, we are not alone, there are many who think as we do, and will support us. As it turned out, that was correct.
Do you think some of them took that attitude just because they had lived in situation where they couldn't exercise their rights?
Undoubtedly, that's, that's right. When somebody comes from, remember, this was in the late 30s or in the early 40s, and all that, and people were being denied the vote, they were being lynched if they tried to organize to vote. It took a big step for these people coming from that type of an environment to join this struggle for equality, although, despite the fact that there was a war going on. I think that was quite remarkable, and I have a, a great respect for people as a result of that.
There were, certainly were a lot of pressures on you during that process, weren't, weren't you accused of being un-patriotic and, and slowing down the war [ gap: ;reason: unintelligible ] ?
[laughs] Well, surprisingly enough, I wasn't accused of slowing down the war effort, and neither were the people with whom I was associated accused of that, and it showed the degree of understanding among people. The, we, from the very beginning, we said that we were perfectly willing to work to defeat the Nazis and the Axis, and we would only stop if we were forced to, by those who were trying to persecute us. That was made clear. Interestingly enough, concurrently with this work in the shipyard, I had a little late-night radio program, where I sang songs and explained things and all that. It was on radio station KGO, the "blue network" of what was then—
NBC. And one day, the special events man from the station over which I was singing, stuck a microphone under my nose, and said, This is Joe James, the spokesman for the workers, and, and I want you to tell the audience what the issues are in this. And boy, did I tell them. When I got home, I got a telephone call, says, Mr. James, your radio program is canceled, as of now. [laughs] What an interesting tie-in. That, that was one of my early lessons in how various interests are inter-locked.
When you were—
Fifty feet.
Did you ever get, get anyone from the boiler-maker's union to look you in the face and say why you couldn't join the Union?
Not one of the boiler-maker's union officials confronted me or anybody else, face to face and eye to eye. The only time we met, and had very little conversation, in fact, no conversation, was in the courtroom, during a recess.
So, so, you never could get them to enunciate why it was...?
No. No.
OK, let's, let's change here.
Take eight. Tell me a little bit about, about what it was like, the actual work experience at Marin Ship. What it felt like to be working on the ships—
Well, I tell you, I found—
Start over again, I, I interrupted you. Go ahead.
I found the, the actual work experience very pleasant and stimulating. Because, in something like welding, especially electric-arc welding, you see that marvelous picture of melting metal, coming together over, say there's a crack there, you see that crack filling up. Then, after you have welded along on a seam, you throw your hood back, and take your goggles off, and you look at that beautiful seam of gleaming metal, and it's just beautiful.
You get a sense of accomplishment, because you can see before your eyes what you have done,
** you know. When a ship is welded, it's one piece. All of these various components are, are, are sewn together, so to speak, so that the complete hull is just one big piece of steel,
** and it's a, it's a marvelous thing.
But you know, there's still a victory ship, there's one victory ship in San Francisco that they've restored.
Oh, is that so?
Tell me something about the, the social dimensions of the shipyard. What was it like working with people who had come up from the South, with Okies, with all the different people that were there?
You know, with very minor, minuscule exceptions, it was like a big family. I think mainly what tied everything together, was the fact that we were engaged in a battle, literally for survival. Because, everybody knew that if we lost that struggle against Germany, Italy, and Japan, the big imperialist powers at that time, we would all be in a terrible state. That's what held us together. Also, the fact that everybody, and this is important, everybody was employed and were making enough to support their families, and all that, removed a lot of the anxiety, you know, and, and people co-operated with each other. If somebody got injured, everybody helped, to get the person to, to help, get the, the stretcher, or whatever it is. That's the way it was.
So, really, was it an experiences that tended to draw people together?
Yes, it drew people together. I remember, a white fellow from, I don't know where he was from, but he was from the Deep South, but he fell in a, in some kind of a crack on the deck of one of the ships. Everybody rushed to his aid, and it was a demonstration of, of, of cooperation. I wish that spirit was still present.
Was it, it's, it's sort of, I have the sense now, I didn't live through it, that, that that process was a temporary process, that, that the War put everything on hold and brought people together for a short period of time. Was that true?
Yes, yes. You see, [laughs] the irony was, that on the home front, people were working together. One of the,
one of the welders on the team
** of hydro-test welders that I finally became a part of, he was from, he was Chinese. There was another one who, who was Spanish-speaking,
** I don't know what country he originated from, he, probably been Chicano, probably come from Mexico [sic]. And, it was a little United Nations, that crew of welders.
** But, the irony was, in the armed forces, they were segregated. [laughs] You know, it's, it's just the paradoxes that are just the bane of this country.
Well, I mean, did you feel that, that somehow, through the decade of surviving the Depression, that we had been making progress, or had we really gotten, were things better by the end of the decade? In that sense, of people working together and living together?
Yes, I would say so. Yes.
And what was the effect of the War? Did it, did it stop that process, or did it move it forward?
The War, because of the conditions of the War, people had a sense- that isn't, I mean, the working people, these people who are on, on the top manipulating things for their own, you know, economic or physical, or political ends, they had another agenda. But pe-, people tend, when working together, to adopt a common agenda, survival in this case, and it carried through to the end of World War II. Then things began to fall apart, you know. People went back to their old prejudices, and, and very, and, the lesson didn't stick, in my view.
Can we cut for a minute?
Oh, yes.
How much do we have left?
One twenty.
OK, what, what were you saying?
I was just saying, during the Depression times, the situation varied depending on what part of the country you were in, you know. In the Deep South, it was another situation, there was still that antagonism against [sic] white and black, and things were very dangerous in the South during the Depression, for black people. Lynchings reached a height during the Depression. In the, coming farther north, because of the, the mixture of people, in fact, interestingly enough, in the, the northern areas of the country, segregation wasn't as severe as it is now. You got the situation where, people of, of different racial groups were living close to each other, and going through the same difficulties, and they were more easily organized around common issues. You, you got the spectacle of people of different ethnic groups working in cooperation with each other.
Why do you think that was so, why do you think it was easier to organize then?
Well, there was an absence of the compulsions that were active in the South, by that, I mean this. In the Deep South, if, if a white person stood up in defense of a black person, the black person and the white person would probably be lynched. They, you know, the common word is, was 'nigger-lover', you know. A nigger-lover and a nigger were the same thing practically, you know. It, it wasn't that blatant in the north. The, the, there was an opportunity for people to see their kinship, and moreover, do something about it.
Do you think that was because they were all in the same hard times together?
Yes. Yes, I would say so.
Towards the end of the decade [ gap: ;reason: unintelligible ] ? Oh, OK, let's—
Talking about the end of the decade, and this is before the War, and the prosperity, and the jobs, when we're coming up to '38 and '39, and even '40, did it feel like things were getting better, or was the Depression just going to go on forever?
During the Depression, as I experienced it, I didn't have any feelings of, say, how long is this terrible situation going to last, when is it going to get better, or anything like that. I lived my life from day to day, and dealt with what I encountered during the course of the day. The next day I did the same thing, and on and on and on and on, I didn't give much thought to, to the conditions or, or whether they would improve or not.
Well, what I'm wondering is, did you, did you notice them improving before you actually went to work for the shipyards? Did things get better at the end of the decade, as far as you remember?
I wasn't conscious of any significant improvement in conditions.
Until when?
Of course, the outbreak of the War as far as the United States was concerned, actively, brought about an immediate change of how you'd proceed, as I've mentioned previously. But, conditions overall, perhaps because I wasn't analyzing things as, as, you know, as I was living. I was just dealing with problems, to try to analyze it now is kind of like hindsight, you know, you have to go back, and a lot of things I've forgotten, and I would have to go back and read something, you know, to, or have somebody like you come and make me recall some things. [laughs]
Well, but, but, I'm wondering, you know, some things are stronger than other things, like, when you think, remember the decade, what is it that really stays with you about living through the Depression? What's the most important part about that, for you?
The most important part about living through the Depression, strangely enough, probably, is the theater. That was, as I remember, that was the most vivid part of the Depression, as far as I experienced it. And, when the theater was killed, I, I had a feeling, as I said before, a feeling of outrage, and a sense of loss, of course. But, the one thing that the Depression, in my view, taught the American people, was—incidentally, they seem to have forgotten it—that when they come together, something can be accomplished.
Would you say that one more time without the "having forgotten it," just say, "one thing it taught them was, coming together"?
What did you say?
Would you say that one more time without the fact that they've forgotten it, put that at the end if you like.
Oh, I see.
One thing
** the Depression, the experience of the Depression, taught the American people, that when they came together around common problems,
** they could get something, together they could accomplish something.
** For example, Social Security, unemployment insurance, things like that. It, it took struggle, and, you know, a tremendous amount of work, but it was accomplished. The election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the accomplishments that were made under his administration: the, the Wagner Act, that guaranteed the right of, of working people to organize unions. All of those things were accomplished, [ gap: ;reason: unintelligible ] stemming out of the Depression. Now, unfortunately, it seems that, that the people, working people now seems, seem to have forgotten that, of, if they ever knew of it, probably because there's not much written or spoken about it in public circles.
But those were all real accomplishments?
Yes. They're being whittled away, but I look forward to the time when the people will again become active, and, and do something for themselves, as they did in the 30s.
Let's cut. How much do we have on this, Bonnie?
Take eleven. OK, the last area I'd like to get a few of your thoughts on, is, what you felt then when you, when found out that the Japanese were going to be put in camps in 1942, how did that strike you?
That was, that's indescribable. The thought of these people being shipped off to what was fancily called, fancifully called "relocation centers." They were concentration camps, let's tell the truth about it. My next-door neighbors and friends were a Japanese family, the Tatomotos. When we would go out on a concert tour, or out of town for any reason, we would give them our keys, they would water our garden, take care of our plants, take in mail, and all of that sort of thing for us. It was likewise with them. They were our friends, and when this order came down, it was devastating to both of us, my wife and me, and the Tatomato, er, Tatomoto family. When they finally left, you know, under compulsion, some of their prized household possessions they left in our safe-keeping. We kept them for that family, until they finally received permission to relocate in Cleveland, Ohio, and thereupon we shipped their belongings to them there.
Do you, do you see any sort of parallels or connections between what they experienced and what you were fighting in the shipyard, with the segregated union? Do you see any connection between those issues, as far as what democracy means.
Well, the same, the same elements, interestingly enough, who were responsible for the, the banishment of the Japanese ancestry people, were the same elements that we were fighting on the basis of discriminatory policies. After I got into, more into the purely general civil rights struggle, being involved with the NAACP, and all that, that's where I made that discovery. The very ones who were clamoring for the banishment of the Japanese people, were the ones who, who, who tried to maintain segregation and discrimination amongst not only Asians, but black people, and all non-white people. It was the same.
But unlike you, they really couldn't defend themselves, could they? The Japanese.
Well, that's right, they couldn't. They later began to organize and all like that, the, notably, the Japanese-American Citizens League, which was patterned roughly after the NAACP. To an extent which I wished had been greater, the NAACP and the JACL worked together. In fact, I'm an honorary member of the JACL, I don't know what—


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The 8-1 vote followed much discussion among school directors who pretty much were in agreement that the move had to be made given the district's shaky financial status.
The school closing leaves the district with just two high schools, Mansfield and Liberty.
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As I mentioned in the thread in the Civil Aviation Forum relating to the tragic crash of the PMT Air AN-24 last week, the accident had a more poignant and sobering effect on me than an accident usually would.
Exactly two weeks before, after much difficulty in planning and finally booking and paying for the flight, I myself flew on U4 241 from Siem Reap to Sihanoukville (and the return flight U4 242), operated by AN-24 XU-U4A, the very same aircraft that crashed, killing all on board on 25 June 2007. I am unsure whether the friendly crew on my flight were the same as on the doomed flight, but in my case it was also a Russian pilot and Cambodian crew, so the chances are high. May they all RIP.
I was in Indochina for a total of 4 days, this trip organised exclusively to fly on some of the more unusual aircraft and airlines operating in the region. I will try and post a separate report about some of the other flights, including Pacific Airlines (soon to become the next Jetstar franchise), Lao Airlines and the excellent Bangkok Airways. Getting me to/from Vietnam was the continually-good Jetstar International.
I had flown into Siem Reap the night before on PMT Air's ancient Hanoi-based 737-242 XU-U4F, of which I can find zero reference anywhere on the internet. After a very pleasant night in a local guest house, it was back to the airport for the domestic flight to Sihanoukville and return on PMT Air's AN-24. This was to be the aviation highlight of the trip and my first ride on the AN-24. It was even more of a highlight given the more than a month of frustrating email exchanges and phone calls with PMT air to arrange the booking – especially as the schedules and routings of the AN-24 fleet on the days I was available seemed to be constantly changing.
XU-385 the day before on the ramp at Siem Reap with the PMT Air MD-80 in the background.
The Angkor Airways MD-80 on the ramp at Siem Reap
Royal Khmer 737-200 on the ramp at Siem Reap
PMT Air have (had) two active AN-24s in service. On arrival the night before, XU-385 was parked on the ramp alongside a number of other exotic aircraft. However, on arrival the next morning (and being relieved to see the flight was operating as scheduled) and a quick check-in at the small and shabby domestic terminal, I noticed XU-385 was gone and spied the colourfully painted XU-U4A pull into the stand adjacent to the terminal, and it became quickly obvious that this was the aircraft to take me to Sihanoukville and back.
Boarding XU-U4A at Siem Reap
On the ground at Siem Reap
Monday 11 June 2007
Siem Reap (REP) – Sihanoukville (KOS)
PMT Air U4 241
10:00-11:00 (10:00-10:51)
Flying time: 51 mins
13 passengers, 5 crew (18 POB).
Captain: Nikolay (Russian)
Antonov AN-24
Free seating – sat in 3A (Emergency Exit)
My boarding pass for U4 241 to Sihanoukville (KOS)
The boarding gate
The weather was sunny and fine, a somewhat dicey proposition given the monsoon season was in full swing (as it turns out, weather appears to be a probable cause of the accident two weeks later), and as seemed to be often the case on my flights over those few days, the light load of passengers boarded quickly and we pushed back early.
Looking into the cockpit.
On board were 13 passengers. If I remember correctly we consisted of 7 South Koreans tourists, 2 other Australians apart from myself, and three local Cambodians (one lady and her two children, travelling on their first flight).
Boarding the aircraft.
There were five crew. One Russian pilot, Nikolay (no further information was given to me) was in command with the remaining 4 crew being Cambodian. Our male flight attendant was one of the flight attendants I had had on my 737-200 flight from Hanoi the day before.
With the aircraft sitting in the baking sun on the ground, it was like a sauna inside and I was very soon literally dripping with sweat. It was only after 10 mins or so in flight that the air conditioning systems finally managed to cool things down so as to make the experience more comfortable.
It was free seating, so to get a view into the cockpit, whose door was open when we boarded, I sat further forward than everyone else (you board from the rear) in 3A, also purposely choosing an emergency exit row. I note that despite it being an emergency exit, there certainly was no additional leg room (seating was very tight) and what is more, the emergency exit door was partially blocked by the row in front. It would have been quite difficult to use it. You don't tend to think too much of these things at the time – it's very different looking back in hindsight.
The flight was smooth and in reasonably sunny conditions (some cloud). The terrain was initially quite flat and barren but quickly turned into more mountainous forest as we got closer to Sihanoukville.
Hilly terrain and jungle close to Sihanoukville. From reports I have read, this is the type of terrain into which the aircraft crashed two weeks later.
On landing I chatted to the flight attendant and arranged for the ground staff to collect my return boarding pass. They all found it quite amusing that I was doing a return trip simply to experience their AN-24 aircraft. I was met by the airport manager who explained to me that the Sihanoukville Airport had only opened to RPT traffic in January, with 3 weekly flights with the AN-24, but that they were hopeful of growing this and perhaps attracting other airlines to the beach resort town. He was proud to say that they had welcomed around 2000 passengers through the airport since it had opened and that things were looking up for the region since the air service commenced.
Sihanoukville Airport from the tarmac
On the ground at Sihanoukville. You can see most of the crew in this photo.
The boarding gate at Sihanoukville
Monday 11 June 2007
Sihanoukville (KOS) – Siem Reap (REP)
PMT Air U4 242
11:30-12:30 (11:17-12:08)
Flying time: 51 mins
16 passengers, 5 crew (21 POB).
Captain: Nikolay (Russian)
Antonov AN-24
Boarding U4 242 for the return to Siem Reap
Free seating – sat in 8D (Emergency Exit)
After receiving my return boarding pass, it was very quickly time to go through the rudimentary security screening point and join the new load of passengers for the return flight to Siem Reap. Of course, the same crew of 5 were operating and grinned at me as I reboarded. This time I chose a seat further back, once again at an emergency exit. As all booked passengers had checked in, there was no need to wait, so we pushed back 16 mins before scheduled departure time and took off a couple of minutes later.
The return flight was uneventful. This time the majority of the passengers were South Koreans returning from a few days at the beach. The flight was again smooth, service once again consisted of a plastic cup of either water or coke and a refresher towelette (same as we had on the outbound flight). Being a little tired from the day before, I managed to get a few minutes nap, despite the very tight and somewhat uncomfortable seating.
We landed at Siem Reap on time and deplaned. I thanked the crew for their help and kindness in arranging everything for me, and I made my way back to the terminal.
The Siem Reap ramp on my return from Sihanoukville.
Little did I know, of course, what was to befall the very same aircraft, and quite possibly the same crew, just 14 days later. May they, and the passengers on that fateful flight, rest in peace.


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Part my cheeks so you can see the stink nuggets.
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Those not so small dingle berries that be hangging from more than just the BUM!
Matt andersons hit me with the Stink nuggets!
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Jenny: Did you have fun with Matthew last night?
Sarah: No way, I was gonna blow him until he pulled down his underwear, and three stinknuggets were clinging to his balls.
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So we have seen several ways to mask a complicated foreground image set against the busy background. We have seen how to use a Pen tool, of course, along with the Free Form and Magnetic Pen tool variations. We have seen Arbitrary Maps, that you apply using the Pencil tool inside of the Curves dialog box. We have also seen how you can use History to blend between different Arbitrary Map variations. In the next few exercises I am going to show you worst case scenario masking. This is like when you can't get anything else to work, you bring out the High Pass Filter and the thing about the High Pass Filter is it is brain dead. It's very easy to apply, it's very easy to get a sense of how it works, but it also is the most laborious technique of them all.
It requires you to basically convert the image into this widely complicated coloring book and then you are in charge of deciding which lines are important and which lines are not important in coloring white inside the parrot or I am sorry the macaw, in this case, and painting black inside the background. It gets kind of Zen, really you will see, it does take the most time also and it is just kind of the most tedious. So get ready for that, something to look forward to. So here I am working inside of an image called Completed arb mask.tif and it's found inside the 16_tough_stuff folder. You can see that we have got basically everything we have created so far. We have got that original arb map Alpha channel that we created a few exercises ago now. Then we have got the completed really good mask that we created over the course of last few exercises using a bunch of different Arbitrary Maps along with the History Brush and so on. We have got that path that I built using the Pen tool around the bill outline. So it's all there. I will just try to show you that everything that we have done so far is here, just FYI, doesn't really matter, because we are going to start over from scratch.
This time we are going to grab the Green channel and the reason we are going to work with the Green channel is because it provides the highest degree of contrast overall and it has the lowest amount of noise and posterization going on. So I am going to go ahead and grab Green and I am going to drag it to the little Page icon in order to make a duplicate of it. You may recall that the Green channel is our when in doubt channel. If you are not really sure which channel to grab, go ahead and dupe the Green channel and it's very often by the way the best channel for High Pass Masking. So let's go ahead and rename as High Pass and then we are going to grab the High Pass Filter. Now you may recall we saw the High Pass Filter back in Chapter 12 when we were looking at using High Pass as a sharpening tool. Now we are going to use it as a coloring book tool as you will see.
So go up to the Filter menu, choose Other and choose High Pass or you can press my keyboard shortcut if you loaded my Deke Keys shortcuts way back when, and that's Shift+F10. What it does, you may recall that it's basically sending all non-edges to gray and the edges are hanging on for dear life, essentially, and they are trying to remain high-contrast if they can. Now, where masking is concerned, higher radius values are going to give you less precise, more generalized results. So they are going to result in less complicated, but less accurate coloring books, meaning that you are going to fly through it more quickly, but you are also not going to get very good results.
If you go low with the radius value, like I have gone as low and this is criminally insane by the way to go this low, but I have gone as low as 3 for a radius value, which gives you a super duper accurate coloring book, really, really accurate and you will spend the rest of your life working on it. It turns the masking process into about, not really that long, but about a conservatively a 20-30 minute process and that's if you really get it and you really move through it quickly. It could be more like an hour or two hours, frankly. I suggest that we go from 10 to 20, that we work in the 10-20 range with High Pass. I am, in fact, going to enter a radius of 10, I invite you to do that along with me and click OK.
Now it doesn't look like a coloring book at all so far. So we need to turn these very vague gray outlines that we have crafted thus far into serious black and white outlines and we are going to do that using our old friend the Levels command. So press Ctrl+L, Command+L on the Mac and you want to basically squish this histogram like so, just really tighten it on the central part of this histogram. What I recommend, in this case, is a 120 for the black point value and a 135, which is 255 white minus a 120. So we are going a 120 in on both sides here, 135 for the white point value and then click OK. We have created ourselves something that looks like a macaw that has been photocopied about 20 times, that is, we have got 20 iterations of photocopy going.
In other words, it looks pretty bad. But, as a coloring book it looks great. Now the problem with it is that sometimes, let's go ahead and zoom in down here, sometimes Photoshop has done us this service of tracing black on the inside of said animal and white on the outside. So we need some uniformity here. What I am suggesting we are going to do, because we ultimately want the bird to be white and the background to be black, I am suggesting we shift the whites inside and the blacks outside. So get the Lasso tool by pressing the L key, of course, and then I am going to go ahead and select around this region. Can you see what I am doing? It's hard to sort of track this since I have got a Lasso tool in this black and white area that I am tracing this outline around this black and white image, but it goes around like this here, you can see. So I am coming in right about there.
I'm cleaving in on this portion of the animal's chin, is it? And on this area where its buck teeth would come out if it had them. So we have this area selected and then I am going to press Ctrl+I or Command+I on the Mac to invert it. Now all of a sudden I am not terribly concerned about the Anti-alias edges. Well for one thing I have Anti-alias turned off with my Lasso tool, so that's probably the best way to work actually. But it doesn't really matter for this technique, you could have the Anti-alias on or off, it's going to fair pretty much the same, not matter what.
Now let's go ahead and grab this tuft, this unknown anatomical region on this animal, and let's go ahead and select it and press Ctrl+I or Command+I on the Mac to move the black edges out and the white edges in. Then let's go ahead and grab this area and again you have got to make some choices, sometimes actually that was a bad choice on my part. Sometimes you are not exactly sure where you want to trace the threshold between the inverted area and the non inverted area, but just do your best, just make whatever choices, because you are going to have to go back and fuss with it a little anyway.
I have gone ahead and selected this region, press Ctrl+I, Command+I on the Mac in order to invert that and it's questionable what I have done here. I am not sure that I have made exactly the right choice, but the choice stands and now there is just this little guy right here that needs to be inverted to and again am I making the right choice? I don't know, let's just make a decision and go with it. Press Ctrl+I, Command+I on the Mac in order to invert that. We have some iffy details going on there. But now the great news is, I can go in and start coloring in the interior of the macaw and I can color the background as well. I can color the interior white and I can color the background black and that's what we are going to do in the very next exercise.
Download Deke's customized keyboard layouts for Channels and Masks from the Exercise Files tab."
- Distorting and shading with a DMap
- Understanding bits and channels
- Creating paths with the Pen tool
- Using blend modes and the Dodge and Burn feature
- Understanding channel mixing
- Using layer masks, clipping masks, and knockouts
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Having Fun With Git Subtree
At Sugar we are moving our our internal repositories off of SVN to Git, which is a good thing. Most of the repositories were strait forward moving since we didn't do anything fancy but there was one that used svn:externals to deep link into one of our other repositories. After trying multiple things to get submodules to try and do what I wanted it just would work. I was getting really frustrated by this and i found an article on github.com about subtree merges. After reading it and trying it out it looked like it was going to be what I needed. But then when I tried to update a subtree that links into the subpath, nothing happened. I wasn't sure what I did wrong but nothing would work. So I turned to twitter:
and shortly after I posted that Matthew Weier O'Phinney answered me
This put me on the right track but I still couldn't find anything so I pinged Matthew back and he offered to help me via email. Below are the steps which he gave me that worked.
Here's my quick "subtree-merge" tutorial:
First, let's assume some project structure like this:
library/ MyStuff/ ... tests/ MyStuff/ ...
and we want to add in Zend\Log from the ZF2 repository. And only Zend\Log.
First, add a new remote:
Now check it out into a new branch:
From here, start a subtree merge. We're going to check it out into its own branch, called "subtrees/zend_log":
If we checkout the "subtrees/zend_log" branch, I'll see the following:
Now, let's fetch that into our master branch:
and you'll see in 'git log' that you have a new merge:
Merge commit '…some ref…' as 'library/Zend/Log'
NOW we get to the problem of keeping it updated.
So, as a reminder, we first added a remote, "zf2″, pointing to the ZF2 repository. Second, we created several branches:
projects/zf2 — mirroring the ZF2 master branch
subtrees/zend_log — our subtree
To update, we update our ZF2 master branch:
Next, we run the subtree split again, exactly as we did before:
Once that's done, we merge in the changes to our master (or other
branch); this is just like the "subtree add" command, but using "merge"
as the action instead:
Note we're using the "–squash" option in the "add" and "merge" commands — this is because we typically don't want the fully commit history of projects whose subtrees we're tracking — just the result of those changes.
I hope this helps someone as much as it helped me. If you want to know more information on Matthew check out the box below.


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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
The Garden Club of Charleston's 78th annual Walking Tour of Private Houses and Gardens will take place on Friday, April 5, and Saturday April 6 from 2-5 p.m.
The tour will include some of Charleston's finest houses and gardens in the Historic District, and will feature flowers arranged by members of The Garden Club of Charleston. Refreshments will be served in a lovely Charleston garden.
The Garden Club of Charleston, which was founded in 1922, opens some of the city's houses and gardens for the public to enjoy, and to benefit the club's continuing projects. This is the most beautiful time of the year in Charleston, with the gardens at their peak; co-chairs Virginia Brush and Celia Hansult hope you will join club members for the tour.
Tickets are $45. Advanced tickets are available by mail (with a $2 handling charge) and on the web at: www. thegardenclubofcharleston.org. They will also be available at the Visitor Information Center, April 4-6 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and on the day of the tours.
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Actiance has announced the release of Vantage for Microsoft SharePoint 2010, a new addition to the Actiance security and compliance platform.
The solution allows companies to create granular policy controls for content inspection, real-time alerts, and role-based workflow for supervisory review, logging and archiving. For organizations in regulated industries—including financial services, legal and healthcare—this is a critical step to reduce risk and ensure corporate compliance with regulatory, legal and corporate governance rules.
Collaboration tools, such as SharePoint, are changing the way enterprises conduct business, enabling the rapid creation and distribution of content and materials inside and outside organizations. Extending SharePoint features to monitor and manage publishing activities with contextual capture of content along with the creation of custom policies can help ensure compliance with corporate governance requirements and industry-specific regulations.
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Quad-core iPad 3 to be announced March 7?
It's been a busy week on the iPad 3 rumor mill, and things have progressed considerably since our last iPad 3 update with the iMore blog citing "reliable sources" who suggest an official iPad 3 announcement is likely on March 7. Further, the same sources indicate that the next iteration of Apple's tablet could be powered by a quad-core processor and include - as we already suspected - a Retina display. There's some suggestion that the device could feature LTE connectivity - though this latter point seems shrouded in uncertainty. Time to take the cautious stick to the iPad 3 rumor cauldron ...
The LTE speculation seems to originate from the same iMore article on Monday that broke the March 7 announcement - but seems to be a point of speculation based on the iPhone 5 likely being an LTE handset. "We're still not certain if the iPad 3 will get it earlier," wrote iMore's Rene Ritchie. The same story is firmer upon the points of a 2048 x 1536 Retina display, a quad-core Apple A6 system-on-a-chip and a March 7 announcement - all of which I interpret iMore to have derived directly from its source. The announcement date agrees with a prior prediction from All Things D that an announcement would come the first week in March.
The Wall Street Journal followed this with a story that seemed to peg an LTE iPad 3 as a near-certainty, but cited vague-sounding sources such as "people familiar with the matter" and "one of those people." Of course iMore went on to use the Wall Street Journal story as the basis of a firmer story on an LTE iPad. One has to wonder if a comical game of Chinese whispers is being played out here, with flimsy LTE rumors getting firmer by the minute through the safety blanket of repetition and diminished responsibility. Apple may not comment on speculation, but it has fun watching, no doubt.
Following a separate thread, the Wall Street Journal also revealed that, according to anonymous sources inside Apple's supply chain, Apple is working on a smaller, approximately 8-inch iPad with a similar resolution to the current 9.7-inch iPad 2. Assuming all the rumors proved true, this would lead to a three-tier iPad market consisting of iPad 3, a discount iPad 2, and a new smaller iPad with similar-sounding specs - a rather muddy, confusing and unAppley-sounding state of affairs.
Back in January, iLounge's Jeremy Horowitz's source (simply referred to as "source") suggested iPad 3 would be a little thicker, with beefed up camera specs in line with the iPhone 4 or 4S. The article seems to be the origin of subsequent iPad 3 Retina display rumors, though Horowitz says "high-def screen." In the same piece, Horowitz suggests that Apple will continue to ship the iPad 2 at the reduced price of US$399.
We'll know nothing for certain until March 7 (if the date proves correct), and in the mean time, your guess is as good as anyone's. If I were a gambling man I'd say improved cameras are a near-certainty, an HD Retina-like display very likely, a quad-core processor highly possible, and a cut-price iPad 2 eminently sensible. An LTE iPad 3 and a smaller 8-inch iPad sound rather less likely, though they're by no means impossible. Time will tell.


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