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7 Negotiation Secrets of the Diamond Trade
By Michael Singer on Dec 14, 2012 with Comments 0
I was a wholesale diamond trader for 25 years. I worked deep in the heart of the famous Forty-Seventh Street Diamond District of Manhattan. When I tell people this, the first thing they ask me is, "Is it true that you guys make handshake agreements for millions of dollars?" Well, yes. To be accurate, the agreements are usually for thousands of dollars, accompanied by a scribbled signature in a yellow memo book. However, the agreements are based upon total trust. You simply assume that the other fellow is honest.
All the fun is in the negotiating that goes on before the deal is finalized. I made hundreds of deals—some good, some bad, some masterpieces, some bloopers— but I learned from everything. Here are seven pointers I learned during my 25 years in the business.
- Never argue. I have found that if there is an agreement to be made, it will be based on facts and logic—ultimately, it will be reasonable. If it isn't reasonable, then it should not be made in the first place. So why should grown men and women argue when the facts are plain? Argument is all about ego, not about business.
- Never explain. Just lay the facts out on the table and let the other guy (or gal) figure it out. It's presumptuous to try to do the thinking for someone else. The best way to close a deal is to let your customer talk himself into it.
- Always give the other guy (or gal) a chance to walk back in the door. Never hand out ultimatums to your customers. You have the right to stick to your price, but never act as if your price were handed to you on the mountain top by God. Who knows, maybe tomorrow you'll need a little cash and may be willing to accept that offer. A nice smile with your refusal keeps the door open and says, "maybe tomorrow."
- Always let the other guy think he has won. This is about abandoning your stupid ego and finding your smart ego. Your stupid ego wants everybody to know that you're a winner. This is great when you are eight years old! An adult wins in secret and smiles to himself all the way to the bank.
- Try your best to close every deal with the caveat that you're dealing with honest and reasonable people. So what if your profit turns out to be a little less than you want it to be? If you do good business with good people, you always win. They will always come back. They will tell others good things about you. Good business leads to more good business.
- Never back anyone into a corner. If someone makes a mistake, you're probably gong to be disappointed with them. Kick them out of your business life if their mistakes become a habit. But if their "crime" is excusable, never take them to the wall for it. They know that they screwed up. You don't need to hit them over the head with it the next time you negotiate. Just ask for what is reasonable, and they will almost always come through.
- Give every customer a reason to come back. In other words, don't get greedy. Some guys cannot sleep at night unless they sold their stone for five percent over the going rate. Some have a genius for that sort of thing. I never did. I was good at maintaining fine product quality and good in customer relations.
The best deal I ever made was by accident. I bought a five carat antique diamond in an estate. I had a diamond cutter polish it and, to my amazement, it turned out to be a D-flawless—the most desired of white stones. I called up a friend of mine in Geneva and told him the story. He laughed and congratulated me and bought it over the phone. It was the largest sale and the largest profit I had ever made and, 20 years later, my friend and I still talk about it. The entire process from purchase to sale took three days. It was all based upon professionalism and good personal relationships.
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There's no sign in front of Occams Edge Haircutters and Gallery in central Phoenix, nor a red-and-white striped pole to let people know it's there. There's hardly any parking.
The owner, Ron Thomas, doesn't advertise. The address in the white pages is outdated, and there's no website, though his 17-year-old granddaughter tells him he ought to get one.
Not that it matters. Appointments are by referral only, though he's been known to make exceptions.
Inside, the place has the feel of a sportsmen's lodge, almost every inch of the walls covered with an eclectic collection of art, wood-framed fishing flies, sports memorabilia and a few vintage girly posters. A small sign says, "Fly fishermen are born honest — but they get over it."
Framed 8-by-10 pictures across the top of the big window show off some of his best-known clients: Valley sports mogul Jerry Colangelo; sports announcer Al McCoy; astronaut Jack Lousma; former NBA coaches Cotton Fitzsimmons and John McCleod; marathon runner Bill Rodgers.
It's homey, but not exactly decked out with the latest and greatest gadgets in men's grooming — in fact, the shop doesn't contain a single electric buzzer or trimmer. There's just a vintage leather barber chair, a reclining shampoo chair near a small sink, and a big mirror above a rough wood cabinet.
That doesn't matter either.
"He's the best," says Colangelo, one of the personalities who have come to Thomas for decades, often scheduling appointments every four, five or six weeks for a year at a time.
And now it is official. Thomas is the newest member of the National Association of Barber Boards of America's Hall of Fame in Ohio, honored late last year for a lifetime of service.
"It's about more than just being a barber," says Sam Labarbera, executive director of the Arizona State Barber Board, whose last name is "the barber" in Italian. Honorees are chosen not only for their skill but also for their accomplishments and community service.
Thomas is the fifth barber from Arizona honored, including Labarbera in 2004.
A dead ringer for Ernest Hemingway, Thomas, 72, won the famous Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike Contest in Key West, Fla., in 2002. At Christmastime, he lets his beard grow long in time to play Santa Claus at children's parties and hospitals.
Thomas has volunteered with the Arizona Business Alliance, a networking group, and the Arizona State Barber Board, advocating for strict standards for safety and sanitation.
Given the wall kitsch, it's no surprise he's an avid angler — once featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not for casting 14 fly rods at the same time — and an artist, working now on his eighth book of illustrations.
Oh, and he cuts hair.
Herb Easley pushes open the door, same as he does every fourth Wednesday at 1:45 p.m., and Thomas quips, "Table for one? Close to the band?"
Easley, owner of Easley's Fun Shop on McDowell Road, eases himself into the reclining chair and leans back, closing his eyes. He knows the routine well.
A customer on his way in and another on his way out nearly collide at Easley's feet. Tom Ambrose, former longtime executive with the Phoenix Suns, and Marty Laurel, a retired ad executive, begin talking at the same time and then stop, grinning.
"Come on into my office," Ambrose says, with a sweep of his arm. He and Laurel disappear into a back room with fresh popcorn in a vintage Pop-A-Lot machine and comfortable seats.
A lot of ideas have been fleshed out over popcorn, haircuts and waits between appointments since Thomas first opened for business in 1964 at 3505 N. Central Ave. The shop officially got its license in 1965, but Thomas is calling this his 50th year.
In that time, he has changed locations twice, the next shop never too far from the last and never straying out of Phoenix.
He's been at his current location, on North Seventh Avenue, for five years. Clients follow him loyally, some driving in from Avondale and Florence. George Basch, an attorney who lives in New Mexico, makes sure his travels bring him through Arizona about every six weeks so he can get his hair cut.
And although a lot has changed in 50 years, most of what happens in this shop has stayed the same.
Thomas still cuts hair the old-fashioned way, with shiny scissors and a pair of 1926 Brown & Sharpe hand clippers. His daughter Gwen Thomas helps manage the shop, shining shoes and delivering icy soft drinks or water to thirsty customers.
In 45-minute, full-service appointments, shoeshine included, the men get a haircut for $45 and a chair-side manicure for $25 — yes, a manicure.
"A man needs to look neat if he's going to be taken seriously in business," Thomas says.
When he entered the profession, every well-groomed man got a barbershop shave at least once a week. Though he gets only a few requests a month, he still keeps straight razors in a small cabinet next to a foot-high plaster bust of Hemingway.
He slides one out of a narrow, dark leather case stamped with H. Boker & Co. Inc. New York and unfolds it. Made in Germany, it is the kind of straight razor Thomas learned to use in barber school, practicing on a balloon covered in lather.
This one had belonged to Easley, a 15th birthday gift from his grandfather.
"It was almost like a rite of passage, your first real razor," Easley says.
His customers have become friends, extended family who exchange gifts and share special occasions. Thomas fixed legendary Arizona State University football coach Frank Kush's comb-over — "I put the part where it belongs" — and Kush invited him fishing and to watch the team practice.
Colangelo lent the World Series trophy to Thomas to display in his shop for a day after the Diamondbacks defeated the New York Yankees in 2001.
"That was some day," Thomas says, pausing in his cutting and smiling.
Not all of his customers are well-known, though. In a photo on the wall is a battery salesman who's been coming to Thomas for haircuts since he was a teenager.
"You don't know who that is?" Thomas asks incredulously and then gives in to a chuckle.
His manicurist, Betty Grable, laughs too, though she's probably heard the same joke a hundred times or more.
She was 40 when she moved to Arizona from Missouri and enrolled in manicurist school. She answered an ad Thomas placed in the newspaper: I need a full-time, energetic, attractive, reliable manicurist. N. Central, existing clientele.
That was 36 years ago, and the phone number she called is still the same.
"I can't imagine doing anything else," Grable says, gently pressing Easley's hand into a soaking bowl. "I've gotten to know so many wonderful people. This is my social life."
Easley pulls out his wallet to pay. There's no need for him to schedule his next appointment; his are marked in Thomas' book through the rest of the year.
How long has Thomas groomed Easley? The men look at each other, eyebrows furrowing.
"1969?" Easley guesses.
"Maybe 1970," Thomas says. "We're not real big on details."
He does remember how it all began, though. In 1964, Thomas moved to Phoenix after 1,800 hours of training at Moler Barber School in Chicago and a three-year apprenticeship at the Continental Barber Salon, which boasted the city's best, European-trained barbers. His wife, Elaine, was pregnant with their first child, Gwen. (Their second child, Nadene, now a mortgage lender, was born four years later.)
He and a partner opened Ronald's of London on Central Avenue, the first by-appointment-only men's hair salon in the city. A haircut cost $6.50. So did a shave.
Just 23 years old, Thomas dressed like the kind of customer he wanted to attract, in houndstooth slacks, black blazer and gold tie. He bought them at the Gentry, a high-end men's clothing store not far from the shop. His first customer was Lou Carfo, a salesman there.
In those early days, radio personalities Bill Heywood and Jim Spero helped build a business by talking it up on the air. Politicians, high-profile businessmen, local actors and professional athletes followed them into Thomas' chair.
Jerry Colangelo first walked into Thomas' shop in 1968. He was 28. Thomas started cutting former Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard's hair before Goddard was mayor of Phoenix.
Both still get the haircut, shine and manicure.
"Having to be out in the public as much as I am, with photos and television interviews, Ron's always very cognitive of how I look," Colangelo says. "He says, 'You're my billboard.' "
The two men are from the same part of Chicago and fans of the Cubs and Bears. The friendship grew. Colangelo sometimes gave Thomas prime seats to games, and when Colangelo was elected to the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame in 1994, he invited Thomas to go.
Thomas remembers legendary baseball coach Tommy Lasorda giving Colangelo a hard time about it: "Jerry, you could have brought the governor. You could have brought a senator. Who did you bring? You brought your barber!"
When Colangelo was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2004, he took his barber with him again. He trusts Thomas. He can talk business in his chair and know it won't go anywhere.
"One of the great places to get a feeling on the pulse of the city is in the barber's chair, because he hears it all," Colangelo says. "If I want to know how people were feeling about a trade, a team, a game, a situation in the community, or a deal, he is a pretty good sounding board."
Goddard says he started going to Thomas in the early 1980s: "I had hair then. Now I just need Ron to nurture each hair I have left."
Goddard schedules his appointments when he knows he has time to spend at the shop.
"He is a very genuine guy. He enjoys the craft of cutting hair, but it's not who he is. He's an artist. He's a community leader. He's a hell of a fisherman.
"I pick his brain shamelessly about what he knows about Arizona history because many of the famous and infamous have been in that chair," he says. "Ron has a very keen sense of how to make people feel relaxed. That's part of the barbering art, and in his hands it is an art."
Ambrose and Laurel emerge from the back room just as Easley is saying goodbye.
"I've been coming to Ron for so long I don't even know what a bad haircut is," joked Laurel, the retired advertising exec, before deciding the year was 1972. "Back then, a trip to the barber wasn't about just getting a haircut. It still isn't."
Ambrose started coming shortly after that, and Thomas has seen him through a number of styles over the years: flat tops, buzz cut, long sideburns, mutton chop, side part, no part, long on top, short in front, and something Thomas calls the "haystack."
Now it's his turn to slide into the contour chair. Thomas drapes a small towel around Ambrose's neck.
Ambrose says: "I'm not making this up. ... I have had perfect strangers come up to me and say, 'Where do you get your hair cut?' "
Thomas lathers Ambrose's scalp with shampoo to get rid of the gels, sprays and mousse. Only when it's clean can he really see how the hair grows.
"You must see it," Thomas says, running his hands through the hair and watching it fall into place.
Ambrose's hair grows from the crown of his head in a whorl, so Thomas pulls it into small sections between his fingers, twists it and carefully cuts the ends, working clockwise around his head.
The hair falls in layers, the neck line perfectly tapered.
"A gentleman should never look as though he's had a haircut or as though he needs one," Thomas says. It's something he says often and figures he'll keep saying for some time longer.
"None of us used to use the 'R-word,' " Thomas says. Now so many of his clients are retired. Some days there is nothing but white hair to sweep up off the floor.
Ambrose's head snapped up. "He can't. He just can't."
Thomas chuckled and said no, he's not ready.
"I'm having too much fun. I also would miss out. My guys are in the news; they're doing great things.
"If my hands are working OK, and my legs are all right, and my back is OK, and my brain's still working, then I'll keep working.
"If it stops being fun that's when I will hang it up and have a big garage sale."
Reach Bland at email@example.com or 602-444-8614.
Occams Edge Haircutter and Gallery
Address: 4212 N. Seventh Ave., Phoenix.
Details: 602-264-2163.

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Rep. Jason Conger (R - Bend), a member of the House Committee on Healthcare, issued the following statement Friday regarding the announcement of federal waivers for Cover Oregon applicants:
"The relief provided by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services will ensure that Oregonians will be held harmless by the implementation disaster that is Cover Oregon. It's a good thing and I am thankful that the federal government will not punish our citizens because of the failures at Cover Oregon.
"But a lack of transparency and timely information from Governor John Kitzhaber's office wasted our time and our ability to provided real solutions to the Cover Oregon crisis.
"Since the beginning, I've repeatedly requested the Governor provide us direct and timely answers as to what waiver requests he had made and their status. The deafening silence from the Governor's office forced the legislature to waste three hearings debating a waiver question that had already been answered. I think, his failure to respond was irresponsible, especially in this short session. The people of Oregon deserve better."
On behalf of the House Committee on Healthcare, Conger had asked for information from Governor Kitzhaber regarding the specific waivers the Governor had requested from the federal government. The governor's staff would not provide specifics. Click here for copies of the correspondence.


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Springfield armory 45 mil-spec
Tools and Technologies
Handguns: Autoloaders
> Springfield armory 45 mil-spec
June 15, 2012, 11:36 PM
Hello all was wondering what your thoughts are on this particuler 1911? Is it a good reliable gun for the money?
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June 15, 2012, 11:51 PM
I bought one in 2010. No problems. Well built.
June 15, 2012, 11:53 PM
Thank You
June 16, 2012, 12:10 AM
Quite a few years ago, I bought a Springfield Armory 1911A1 built like the 45s we used in the Army. It has always been a reliable firearm and I did carry it for a while. I take it to the range once in a while, but no longer carry it.
As much as I love a mil-spec 1911, they were not drop safe. The odds of one going off when dropped may be low, but it is possible. When I bought it originally, I considered a firing pin block a do nothing part that could fail. I had one fail on one of my Colt pistols and did not trust firing pin blocks for a few years. Now, I consider them essential for a carry gun.
Some people change the firing pin with one that is much lighter and made of titanium. I do not know how much safer these are when dropped, but I expect they are not more dangerous.
Mil-spec 1911A1s feed 230 grain hardball very well; other ammo will need to be tested before trusting.
June 16, 2012, 02:23 AM
I got a Mil-Spec 6 months ago before I moved up north; love it! It's as reliable as my beloved Beretta 92FS...
June 16, 2012, 06:15 AM
I had one. Should NOT have sold it-GOOD shooter and very reliable! It 'values' way above its price.
June 16, 2012, 03:11 PM
I purchased one (NM serial #) with with the intent of doing some upgrades. It is such a good shooter, I can't see spending anymore money to change anything.
Sergei Mosin
June 16, 2012, 04:43 PM
I think the Mil-Spec hits the sweet spot between price and features, a fine value for the money. It won't ever be confused for a high-end custom, but it's a lot nicer than the Armscor guns. I carry mine and am quite happy with it.
Scottie, the current Springfield 1911s use titanium firing pins and a heavy firing pin spring. They are certified drop-safe in California, and if they can pass the test there... Yours being older, though, it may not have those parts.
June 16, 2012, 05:49 PM
the current Springfield 1911s use titanium firing pins and a heavy firing pin spring.Yep. Rendering them drop-safe.
The MilSpec is a great pistol for the money. The GI, however, is not. Please note that there is a difference in these two guns, and many online sellers and gunshops market the GI as the GI MilSpec. It's one or the other, not both.
The MilSpec has usable sights, a lowered ejection port, and an beveled magazine well. The MilSpec makes an excelent platform to build on.
June 16, 2012, 11:06 PM
On the advice of the then MEU-SOC 1st Marine Division armorer, I bought two of them many years ago and had him MEU-SOC-it-to-me one of them to give as a gift. It has now made its way back 'round to me and both have been outstanding pistols even before considering the price.
June 16, 2012, 11:20 PM
Mine has been 100%.
June 17, 2012, 12:36 AM
I really appreciate all the feed back and feel even better about my purchase. I bought mine about three months ago and fell in love. I had a place called otto comp in St Louis Mo put adjustable sights on it and that has made alot of difference for me in my shooting.
I'm thinking about getting a springfield long slide. has anybody ever shoot one of them?
June 17, 2012, 02:00 AM
Like kcshooter said; the GI and the Mil-Spec are a great difference apart; my buddy in GA bought a GI, and after shooting it I knew I HAD to have usable sights.
Oh, the frame, barrel and slide are all top-notch quality and the piece was reliable, but the minor differences made, well, all the difference.
June 17, 2012, 07:35 AM
Great gun.
Good price.
Backed by the forever warranty.
June 17, 2012, 12:17 PM
Can`t say enough good about the Mil-Spec I have had, for about 8+ yrs and close to 20,000 rounds.Zero issues, everything is still tight, and the finish (park) looks better than ever.
June 17, 2012, 01:11 PM
Mine runs flawlessly. Buy one and enjoy shooting it.
June 17, 2012, 02:06 PM
I purchased one (NM serial #) with with the intent of doing some upgrades. It is such a good shooter, I can't see spending anymore money to change anything
I've had kimbers, S&Ws, SA Loadeds, but non of them was fit tighter than my NM Milspec!
Tight as in no frame to slide slop, needs a bushing wrench, accurate as hell, no failures of any sort:)
June 17, 2012, 02:12 PM
We bought a Mil-Spec in stainless years ago, for my wife. It hasn't given us a problem in over 10 years of steady use.:)
June 17, 2012, 02:12 PM
It's set up how a prefer a 1911. Mine was reliable though accuracy left a bit to be desired. I'd buy an "NM" one but I'm done with "N" serial # SAs.
NM Serial Number Prefix = Assembled/Finished in US (they are better fit and finished in almost every example I've seen compared to an "N")
N = Not
June 17, 2012, 07:56 PM
What's the difference between "N" and "NM" SNs? MIM?
June 17, 2012, 08:22 PM
My MilSpec's grip safety was sharp enough at the back end to cut both my hand and my nephews' during recoil. I ended up having to dremel it to round it off enough to not cut my hand. And I don't like the concept of the Integral Locking System built into the gun. But since the ILS can be ignored and the gun shoots both reliably and accurately...
Baba Louie
June 17, 2012, 09:33 PM
[QUOTE]...gunshops market the GI as the GI MilSpec. It's one or the other, not both.[/QUOTEThe label on my green box WW series GI says GI MilSpec. YMMV. A rose by any other name still needs good sights for older eyes...;)
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BMI View: In yet another sign of how the weakness in the global coal sector is taking its toll on the heavy industry, mining equipment maker Joy Global reported a 36% slump in third-quarter orders and warned of sharply lower revenue for the next fiscal year . The pain in the coal market that many mining servicing firms have experienced of late is certainly not over. The onslaught of the shale gas boom, coupled with the steady growth of wind and solar energy, suggests to us that coal's traditional dominance in the US' electric power sector has passed its golden age.
Hit by a wave of spending cutbacks in its home market, Joy Global (Joy) posted a 36% slump in third-quarter orders and warned of sharply lower revenue for the next fiscal year. Profit for Q313 was down 5.3% year-on-year to reach US$183mn, while revenue slid 5.1 % y-o-y to US$1.32bn. Although revenue forecast for FY2013 was maintained at US$4.9-5.0bn, Joy expects revenue for FY2014 to fall below US$4.0bn on the back of a supply glut and low prices in the coal industry.
Q313 Highlights
Bookings totalled $695mn, down 36% y-o-y, and down 28% y-o-y excluding foreign currency impacts.
Net sales were $1.3bn compared to $1.4bn a year ago.
Operating income was 20.8% of sales compared with 21.6% of sales in Q312.
Earnings per fully diluted share were $1.71 in the current quarter, compared to $1.82 in 2012. Excluding unusual items, earnings per fully diluted share was $1.70 in the current quarter, compared to $1.87 in 2012.
Cash provided by continuing operations was $350mn in Q313 compared to $157mn a year ago.
The Board of Directors authorized Joy to repurchase up to $1.0bn in shares of common stock over the next 36 months. Under the program, the company may repurchase shares in the open market in accordance with applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
|Hit By US Coal Glut
|Joy Global - Net Sales By Segment (LHS, US$mn) & Geography (RHS, US$mn)
Joy will step up on cost-cutting measures to better brace itself from further weakness in the coal industry, an outlook largely similar to our own. We expect a growing number of US coal miners to come under duress due to a combination of depressed demand, weak prices and increasing environmental hurdles . Following a lacklustre 2012, thermal coal consumption in the US is starting to claw back some of its lost ground as a result of rising natural gas prices. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the share of coal in the country's electricity mix has rebounded from 37% in 2012 to 40% so far this year.
|Coal Competitiveness Past The Nadir
|Price Ratio: Central Appalachian (NYMEX) Coal / Natural Gas (Henry Hub)
While rising natural gas prices ( see 'Natural Gas Price Forecast: Tighter Supply To Send Henry H ub Higher Post 2015', August 16 ) will temporarily encourage higher coal burn rates, we caution that this will be insufficient to stem the overall decline in the US coal industry. The onslaught of the shale gas boom, coupled with the steady growth of wind and solar energy, suggests to us that coal's traditional dominance in the US' electric power sector has passed its golden age .
|Coal's Golden Age Is Over
|United States - Primary Energy Consumption by Source (Quadrillion Btu)
The outlook for the coking coal industry is equally bleak . Used as a key ingredient in the production of crude steel from blast furnaces, the global coking coal sector will face headwinds over the coming quarters as the steel industry remains encumbered by weak fundamentals ( see 'Coking Coal: Feeling The Steel Pinch', August 14). Crucially, any recovery in steel demand will fail to drain the excess supply in the coking coal market and we expect prices to remain subdued over the coming quarters. W e are aware that a large number of US coking coal producers are struggling to operate profitably at the current price level of US$145/tonne . Our view that the US economy is on the cusp of a multi-year period of stronger growth does not spell significantly better times for local coking coal producers. Output prices will remain low, domestic steel production stay subdued and a stronger US dollar will temper the recent surge in US coal exports.
|Limited Respite In Sight
|Hard Coking Coal Benchmark Contract Price (US$/tonne)
Although an increasing number of US coal producers are pegging their hopes on exports to the East, the construction of new export terminals in the Pacific Northwest are hanging in the balance due to mounting opposition from environmental groups ( see 'Asia Export Trend Looking Increasingly Tenuous', August 15). To be sure, plans for three of the six proposed coal export terminals in the Pacific Northwest have been suspended, while the remaining three are mired in controversy and legal disputes which could take years to resolve. We believe that bullish industry excitement towards future US exports to Asia are overdone and the route will not be the sure growth engine that many US coal producers are betting on .
|Source: BMI, Various news sources
|Project Status
|Capacity (million metric tonnes)
|Cherry Point
|Coos Bay
|Grays Harbor
|St. Helens
Aside from the US, two of Joy's biggest markets, Australia and China, are facing their fair share of problems as well. Within Australia, fortunes are fast fading for many coal miners as the rapid escalation in operating costs over the past years place severe pressure on mining operations. Major miners including Glencore Xstrata , Yanzhou Coal and Peabody Energy have scaled back their production and announced a series of job cuts in recent quarters. Indeed, the rush to invest billions of dollars in new mines when thermal coal prices were trading at a record high of US$190/tonne in 2008 has in turn, come back to haunt miners. Supply from new mines is weighing heavily on the market at a time when a pool of secondary suppliers are joining the coal wagon ( see 'Coal: Shifting Players, But Continued Growth Ahead', July 26 ).
|Ample Supply To Cap Price Gains
|Select Indicators - Coal Mining Production (% chg y-o-y) & Thermal Coal Prices
In China, the bulk of the thermal coal industry is struggling to operate profitably with a cash cost of US$80-100/tonne. It was reported that around 90% of mainland-listed coal firms recorded a profit drop in 2012 , with total profits currently languishing at a five-year low ( see 'China Slowdown: Miners On Shaky Ground', August 29 ).
|Fortunes Fading, Coal Woes Continue
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Delta Dental Donates $250 Million Over Five Years
Donations aimed at improving oral health
OAK BROOK, Ill (February 7, 2011) - Over the past five years, uninsured children and adults seeking dental care through charity dental clinics, children participating in Head Start programs, students pursing degrees in dentistry and dental hygiene, and dentists trying to retire massive debts have benefited from $250 million in grants and donations from Delta Dental member companies throughout the country.
"People in every state have benefited from Delta Dental grants and donations," said Chris Pyle, director of public relations for the Delta Dental Plans Association. "Whether it is mobile dental units in Washington, South Dakota or Arkansas; entertaining education programs in New Jersey, Connecticut, Missouri, Michigan or Oklahoma; school-based sealant programs in Wisconsin or Colorado; safety net dental clinics in California, New Mexico or Pennsylvania; or Head Start kids in Minnesota or Kansas, Delta Dental is having a huge impact on the lives of underserved adults and kids."
Delta Dental plans to continue investing in oral health, and that's good news for the millions of adults who will remain without dental coverage even after health care reform mandates are fully implemented. Under health care reform, beginning in 2014, adults will be required to purchase health insurance or else pay a fine. Part of the coverage they will be required to purchase is a yet-to-be-defined package of dental benefits for their children. For the first time, parents shopping for medical and dental benefits will be able to do so via state insurance exchanges, where they'll also have access to varying levels of subsidies.
When crafting the language for the health insurance mandate, Congress was careful to protect a parent's right to purchase a child's dental coverage from a dental benefits expert, such as Delta Dental. Whether parents acquire this pediatric dental coverage from Delta Dental or some other carrier, millions of currently uninsured children will soon have access to coverage for the first time. Still, the legislation did nothing to ensure dental coverage for adults and, unfortunately, even for the children, access to coverage does not always translate into access to care.
"Access may always be an issue," said Pyle. "While health care reform will mean new coverage options for children, if historical trends continue, we know that access to care for low-income Americans and their children will remain a challenge. That's why Delta Dental remains committed to supporting programs that link children—and adults—to the care they need."
Each year, Delta Dental member companies donate millions of dollars to support programs such as mobile dental units that visit schools in underserved areas, school-based dental clinics and sealant programs, charity dental clinics, Give Kids a Smile programs, fun interactive oral health education programs for children and their teachers, and programs aimed at increasing the supply of dentists through school loan repayment programs and dental school scholarships.
For more information on Delta Dental's charitable activities in your state, visit Delta Dental's community benefits webpage.
The not-for-profit Delta Dental Plans Association (www.deltadental.com) based in Oak Brook, Ill., is the leading national network of independent dental service corporations specializing in providing dental benefits programs to more than 54 million Americans in more than 93,000 employee groups throughout the country.


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An Iowa woman sent to prison for a deadly crash that killed two young brothers has been released from prison.
Twenty-year-old Karli Brown, of Essex, pleaded guilty to two counts of vehicular homicide in the 2010 head-on collision near Red Oak that killed the boys.
Officials say Brown was speeding, texting and passing in a no-passing zone when the crash happened. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Montgomery County Attorney Bruce Swanson says a judge on Monday reconsidered Brown's sentence. The judge suspended the sentence and placed her on five years of supervised probation.
Swanson says he was not surprised at the judge's decision. Swanson says it was a case of gross negligence and the judge wanted her to see the inside of a prison.


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SOUTH CENTRE TOWNSHIP - Running back Troy Hembury has been fun to watch all season and was so again Saturday against CMVT.
Hembury ran for 146 yards and four touchdowns as Muncy overwhelmed the Rams, 54-6. The reason he was so successful, though, is because his offensive linemen were not watching him. Players like Nick Ring, Erik Springer, Jake Colburn, Levi Myers, Justin Stipcak, Sam Cutler and Skylar Ebner stayed on defenders at all times, drove them off the ball and left the watching to the crowd while dominating the line of scrimmage.
The offensive line played one of its best games and Muncy (5-2) scored at will while gathering momentum for a huge stretch of games that starts next week against South Williamsport.
"We have some big bodies up front, but they don't always stay with people. If we get body on body and stay with people we're tough," Muncy coach Jay Drumheller said. "I tell them, 'if you want to watch the play, watch it tomorrow on HD.' Sometimes we have too many watchers, with guys turning around and watching the play. Troy is running hard, but watch it on film."
The line heeded that advice all day and helped Muncy build a 47-0 lead after three quarters. Hembury scored on his first two carries, covering 33 and 44 yards and was not touched on his second score. Muncy ball carriers roamed free throughout the game as Junior Ramos and T.J. Moyle also ran for scores. Muncy had nearly 300 yards by halftime and CMVT (0-7) never had a chance.
Muncy's line is one of the area's biggest and can be one of the most physically imposing. That was evident early in the season when the Indians started 4-0 and now that those linemen know what not to do, they could prove pivotal down the stretch.
"Our line has the potential to do that every week, it's just a matter of whether they do it or not. Today they came out and overpowered the other team and now they have to come out and do it again next week," said Moyle. "I wouldn't feel as safe running behind any other offensive line. I've played since I was 7 and this is the best I've ever felt in the backfield and Troy feels the same way."
Hembury topped 100 yards for the sixth time and ran for all his yards and touchdowns in the first half. Three of his touchdowns came from 33 yards or longer and his 33-yarder in the first half's final minute made it 34-0.
Quarterback Anthony Barbiero was efficient, completing his final five passes, throwing for 128 yards and hitting Maurice Brown with a 40-yard touchdown pass. Barbiero hit Brown in stride down the right sideline and the sophomore receiver continued playing well.
"Every week we're working with him (Barbiero) getting better at understanding things. Part of it is understanding the game and how it flows and where he needs to be and he played well today," Drumheller said. "Brownie, if you put it near him he's going to catch it. He's a good receiver."
Calling the Muncy starting defense good yesterday would be an understatement. That unit obliterated CMVT at the line of scrimmage and allowed only 2 yards in three quarters. The Rams ran 30 plays against Muncy's starters and 22 of them went for minus yards or no yards, including the first seven and the last seven. Ebner and Hembury recovered fumbles while defensive tackle Nick Roberts consistently wrecked plays and added a sack. CMVT did not reach positive yardage until it ran its 19th play.
Colburn and Moyle swarmed ball carriers and combined for 16 tackles while Ken Koch and Preston Bitler intercepted passes. Koch also returned a kickoff 75 yards for a touchdown.
"It's like coach says, never be satisfied, show no mercy," Moyle said. "Next week we have to come out and try for zero or negative yardage. It's just working hard and working on tackling and fundamentals."
Muncy outgained CMVT 358-2 through three quarters and controls its own District 4 Class A and NTL Small School championship destiny the next three weeks. Next week's game is one of the area's years biggest thus far and could determine the league champion.
"It's great," Moyle said. "That's what we play for."


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TravelPod Member ReviewsDisney's Animal Kingdom Lodge Orlando
Visited hotel after fun packed day in the Animal Kingdom Park
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This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.
Wonderful room overlooking one of the savannahs...entertained by zebras, giraffes, water buffalos and the like.
Animal Kingdom Lodge has wonderful theming throughout the entire resort. Our visit was during the "slower" season (September) and the Lodge did not seem overly crowded. The transportation to and from the parks was a bit slow compared to other resorts we've stayed at.
The food options are limited to table service which is pricey but tasty, and quick service which we found to be hit or miss. Some days the food choices were great and other days, just ok.
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Historical Traveler Reviews Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge Orlando
Loved Animal Kingdom Lodge!
This was our first experience staying on WDW property. It was fabulous. They upgraded our room to a Savannah view on check-in. The animals were fabulous. Service was extraordinary. The decorations are beyond beautiful. I would recommend staying there! If you don't stay there, at least stop by for a visit and take a tour of the public areas. It's worth the trip!
I stayed at the Lodge with my husband and son. We loved the place, great service, staff, food, transportation to the Magic Kingdom and other places. We'd go back in a moment. Everything was very well done.
Thumbs up for the Animal Kingdom Lodge
Visited Disney and the Animal Kingdom Lodge in January 2002. We were very impressed when we walked into the enormous lobby. Very African right down to the slightest detail. The wonderful aroma from the burning fire and the restaurants greeted us as we checked in. Our Savanah view room was on the third floor as well as the lobby. We had two queen beds, it was a little tighter than we expected (we didn't mind that much due to the great upsell price that just happened to pop up on the Disney CRO agent's screen as I attempted to make a reservation-$139 per night-WOW!)There were plenty of animals in sight, especially in the early morning. The Boma's buffet was absolutely incredible-some of the best food we have eaten and I believe it was only $21.99 per adult. The Mara is a quick place to grab a good bite at any time(we especially took advantage early in the morning before going to the parks and late at night(free refillable mugs $9.99?)-on the same level as the pool. We didn't have a chance to try the other 2 restaurants but they sure smelled great! The pool(with slide) was enormous but thought it could of used a little more theme to it. There was only one jacuzzi near the pool that everyone had to share and thought they could have used another. We really enjoyed the outside and inside fire as well as the jacuzzi when we returned from the parks on the cool/cold nights. The transportation is located just outside of the main entrance and was very quick and efficient. Don't think we ever had to wait more than 5 minutes for a bus. This is the first time we have ever stayed at a Disney resort and are hooked. We had a fabulous time here and would definitely stay again, however, I think we are going to try the beach club resort so we have something to compare to!!!!
Loved the Savannah life!
We can't say enough about this wonderful Disney resort. The ambiance was amazing and the food in the Boma buffet was fantastic! The lack of Mickey pictures was so refreshing! The pool blended in to the African theme. Spend the extra money to have a Savannah view! We will be back!
Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge
I visited Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge in September, 2002 and after staying there would rate this as Disneyworld's best resort for both the staff and the accommodations. I have stayed at many Disney resorts but have never enjoyed a resort as much as I did this one. The resort itself is full of educational discoveries in its lobby alone, as well as being home to the animals roaming right outside of our balcony. At one point I believe we had 3 giraffes, 4 kudus, about 5 ostriches and numerous cranes outside in close view. It was a pure delight to see these beautiful animals wandering around so freely. Also want to mention that the only restaurant I tried was the buffet restaurant Boma, and it is truly worth the trip from the other resorts as the food was just that good and a real value. If you are a pool person you will not be disappointed with this zero entry pool either.
I cannot say enough about this wonderful resort and the feeling you have when you are staying here. It is a true adventure within the Disneyworld Resort.
AK View
I stayed there on September 10, 2002 in room 4210. There was a large structural beam outside the room. We were assured, however, that we could see the animals. We could, if the animals stayed on the left side of our room. Of course, they were all to the right and we were looking through the slit between our room and the beam. If anyone else goes, take room 4210 as a last resort!
Animal Kingdom Lodge--Great!
We went to Animal Kingdom Lodge in Aug 01. We have been to several other DW resorts but this was the best. Everything was great. Large room and bunk beds for the children were made to order. The help there went out of their way for everything. The biggest problem we had was, with everything to do at DW itself, we didn't have enough time to enjoy all the thing Animal Kingdom Lodge had right there. There was so much to enjoy just at the resort. The only downside is that AK is at the edge of DW so except for AK there was a long wait for the shuttle. Our children are 13 and 14 so it wasn't a big deal but with small children the Polynesian (on the monorail close to Magic Kingdom and Epcot could be better). Plus, being so new, there is never a worn feeling about the place. Definitly, Animal Kingdom Lodge is the place we will go back to.
Disney's BEST Deluxe Resort
Well, Disney has OUTDONE themselves this time, which hardly seems possible with such fabulous properties as the Grand Floridian, Polynesian and Yacht and Beach Club Resorts! This resort will totally immerse you in the theming. The attention to detail is rich and nothing is overlooked! As you walk in you are immediately in AWE of the lobby! There is an abundance of glass overlooking the main savanna and the aromas of the 2 restaurants, Jiko and Boma, greet you with pleasing, mouthwatering scents! We have 5 in our family and therefore had a deluxe room overlooking the Savanna (this is a hotel where you MUST book a Savanna view!). We had a queen bed, bunk beds and a day bed. The kids had fun sharing the bunks each night and the room was extremely well appointed! Superbly decorated and themed in and of itself! And we had animals outside of our room 24/7 - just marvelous. Ensure to request turn down service for an added treat each night of bed linens turned down, mint chocolates on each pillow and mood lighting! Also plan on spending time in the main savanna and ask the keepers questions - they love to talk about the animals! The pool is HUGE and has a small, but nice waterslide! It's zero entry - like a beach, which is fun and parents can lay in the shallow water and watch the kids instead of staying "up on deck"! Jiko and Boma are two of Disney's BEST dining experiences! You cannot stay at this resort and NOT hit these two restaruants! Excellent and very large gift shop selling not only Disney merchanise but authentic African arts and crafts! Just a hop skip and a jump to the Animal Kingdom park and not too far from Epcot and the Disney Studios, but it's nice to have a rental car here! Bus service to the Magic Kingdom is quick and efficient. It is a PHENOMENAL resort - don't listen to anyone who would tell you otherwise!
Savannah room dissappointment
My daughter and two grandchildren stayed at the AK lodge for 4 nights in Feb. of 2002; however, after making reservations enough in advance, we were given a room which I considered very small...I told them we had two children...there was a porta crib there in the room for the younger one, but I asked for a rollaway for the other child..they said they had no rollaways..it was only two days later while babysitting the younger one the maid came to clean the room and I told her how our younger one had to sleep on the floor and my daugher and I each had one of the beds...she said they had rooms with bunk beds they shold have given us...why they did not do that at the desk at signin I do not understand...the room was very dark and dreary for my standards..not lamps to read...I called down for alamp with a higher wattage bulb..they sent up one with a 25 watt...they had no other..did not do any reading at that place..yes the children loved the animals off the balcony and we found the food there very delicious...they just were not very accommodating to families with children and it took forever to even find anyone to take our luggage from our room the morning we departed...we had stayed 11 previous nights at the Grand Floridan concierge...we always stay there, but thought we would try the AK once..once will be all..we will definitely go back to the GF. I have read so many good experience s at teh AK..but mine was not..just wanted to share that with you....
Excellent Experience
The Animal kingsom Lodge is a fabulous facility! In addition to the dazzling architecutre, it features a mini-savanah on which a wide variety of African wildlife lives and roams and can be viewed from any room's balcony. There are also native Africans who offer lectures and stories about life and culture on that continent.
The staff is very friendly and helpful. The maid who cleaned our room wuld take our daughter's dolls and arrange them in clever little vignettes, which we would find when we returned from the Disney parks.
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Happiest place on earth
I knew what to expect but it still blew my mind. I love the mentality of all of the staff and the lodge was very special (giraffes and zebras wandering past our balcony!). The logistics, the scale of everything. The detail! You all need to come. We had 5 days, we spent a day in each of three theme parks and, despite aching feet, we couldn't help …
Florida Trip
We will be taking a trip to Orlando, Florida. I have purchased round trip airline tickets thru Alaska Airlines. I also have reserved a rental car for when we arrive in Orlando. We will be staying for 1 week. I also reserved a room at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge. We plan to go to Disney world and Universal Studio's. I also want to spend 1 day at the beach.
Day 21 Perfection
WE arrive in Orlando and park up in a car park for a quick snooze until day light. When we realise that this place is prefect. No rubbish, new looking buildings everywhere, manicured road sides. This place is so neat and tidy and clean. Find our way to the Walmart mall to stock up on food for our stay at the hotel. WOW, hold me back and it is open …
Swimming, Springs and Swahili
Me again! Our bodies did not want to make the most of the potential for a few hours kip on a 'free day'! Sian was up from 3.30 and I was on and off until 5. Our saving grace was that Lyla had adjusted straight away to the time difference and it would be a relaxing day... As I write this blog I look at Sian's steps total for the day... 16000. Maybe …
Epcot Day!
So, late night again! We saw the Castle's Kiss last night and got back to the room after 12:30. We slept in and got up to go relax by the Pool, it was very nice. We have had some great weather. Not to cold but not to hot. Courtney and i got a snack at Maya Grill and then Jim joined us later to read and hang out. Then we got ready to go to Epcot, …


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London Olympic Officials Face Questions Over Ticket Distribution
London politicians will question the organizers of the Olympics today about the lack of tickets available to the public for popular events including track and field finals.
"These were supposed to be the 'people's games' but now we find out that only a third of the seats for the 100-meter final will be available for the public," John Biggs, Olympics spokesman for the Labour party on the London Assembly, said in an e-mailed statement. "I find it offensive that only a third of the 80,000 tickets for this event will go to the public, with 59,000 going to corporate sponsors."
Sebastian Coe, chairman of the London 2012 organizing committee, as well as its Chief Executive Officer Paul Deighton will appear today before the London Assembly, the 25-member elected body that investigates "issues that are important to the capital," according to its website.
London Olympics organizers were criticized by U.K. consumer groups last year for the way the event's 8.8 million tickets were sold. Only 700,000 people were successful in a first-round public ballot, with 1.2 million missing out. Another sale allowed some of those to subsequently gain tickets. Organizers are selling about 8 percent of the total ticket allocation to sponsors.
In January, Games officials said a "human error" was to blame for selling 10,000 tickets too many for the synchronized swimming competition. Some 3,000 people have been contacted and offered tickets for different sports, including swimming and athletics. Shortly after, the London 2012 ticket resale website was suspended for eleven days because of computer issues.
Last month, London mayor Boris Johnson called the Olympic ticket sale process "the cruel engine of disappointment" when he spoke to the London Assembly. He called for more transparency from organizers.
In a letter last month sent to Dee Doocey, chairwoman of the Economy, Culture and Sport Committee at the London Assembly, officials said the Games are "firmly committed to providing 75 percent of the total number of tickets to the British public, and if we deliver more than this, we will."


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Buffet admitted it's getting battered and although he is not worried,,he admitted the future of the dollar is not bright.
I talked to a guy yesterday who seemed really well informed and he said the IMF is soon going to issue curriency ( dont know if its paper or electrinic ) to replace the US dollar as the reserve curriency.. He said it wont be backed by PMs but the mite of the IMF.. At least as fiat as the dollar.
And we'd be damned fools to accept it.


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Episode 316: Maud Lavin
September 20, 2011 · Print This Article
This week: We talk to Maud Lavin about her most recent book and more!
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In the past, more often than not, aggressive women have been rebuked, told to keep a lid on, turn the other cheek, get over it. Repression more than aggression was seen as woman's domain. But recently there's been a noticeable cultural shift. With growing frequency, women's aggression is now celebrated in contemporary culture—in movies and TV, online ventures, and art. In Push Comes to Shove, Maud Lavin examines these new images of aggressive women and how they affect women's lives.
Aggression, says Lavin, is necessary, large, messy, psychological, and physical. Aggression need not entail causing harm to another; we can think of it as the use of force to create change—fruitful, destructive, or both. And over the past twenty years, contemporary culture has shown women seizing this power. Lavin chooses provocative examples to explore the complexity of aggression: the surfer girls in Blue Crush; Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect; the homicidal women in Kill Bill and artist Marlene McCarty's mural-sized Murder Girls; the erotica of Zane and the art of Kara Walker; the group dynamics of artists (including the artists group Toxic Titties) and activists; and YouTube videos of a woman boxer training and fighting.
Women need aggression and need to use it consciously, Lavin writes. With Push Comes to Shove, she explores the crucial questions of how to manifest aggression, how to represent it, and how to keep open a cultural space for it.
Episode 315: Johanson and Jackson
September 13, 2011 · Print This Article
This week: Duncan talks to Chris Johanson and Jo Jackson from Ox-Bow this summer!
"Johanson was born in suburban San Jose, California in 1968. He has no formal training in art, learning some technique by painting skateboards and houses. He moved to San Francisco, California'sMission District in 1989, where he became a member of the local art community, initially drawing cartoons on lampposts and bathroom walls using black Sharpies." from Wikipedia.
Through out the nineties Johanna (aka Jo) Jackson found herself in art school in Maryland and later at SFAI but with her artistic sympathies moving toward a similar "street informed" aesthetic. In the late nineties and early "aughts" She and Chris both became associated with the SF Mission  school along with notables Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen. Both were feature prominently in the documentary and publication "Beautiful Losers."  In 2004 they bought a home and moved to Portland, Oregon. They now split there time between Portland and LA.
Both are particularly rad people.
Episode 314: Zachary Cahill
September 7, 2011 · Print This Article
This week: Special correspondent Philip von Zweck in conversation with artist Zachary Cahill.
USSA 2012: The Orphanage Project
September 9-October 15th, 2011
Opening reception: Friday, September 9th, 6-9pm
Artist talk: Thursday, October 6th, 7pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm
Much of contemporary art is motivated by the relational – a position-cum-buzz-word that has grown to frame nearly every studio and post-studio practice. From performance to installation to sculpture to craft, art is reaching its hand out to the viewer in an attempt to create relationships, at once an attempt at articulating a use-value while making a bid for social relevancy. Peppering these practices is much debate about labor and art, with practices designed to both visualize labor or to celebrate a kind of anti-capitalist leisure. In either case, art is struggling to find its place with-in the demands of a capitalist market, ostensibly cut-off from the promise of other origins via the institutions of the market and the museum.
Zachary Cahill proffers a solution to use-value by his creation of an Orphanage here in Chicago. The Orphanage Project, out of which Cahill's fall SOLO exhibition arises, looks to examine the position of the ultimate "other†– the mythic Orphan, torn from any root or history and presumably set-free to self-author. Cahill's Orphans are models, "modes of being†that The Orphanage Project wishes to make relatable through its study in human capital and the condition that awaits all. Cahill's attempt – whether a failure or temporarily on-hold – is documented through a series of sketches and a few published conversations. For threewalls, Cahill reproduces a few elements of this project, granting access to Cahill's long-term study.
Circumnavigating the relational through both the formation of the Orphanage and the work done therein, Cahill challenges the idea of relatedness or lack-there-of through the perhaps the ideal red herring: the creation of an institution that both houses potential and has the potential to house everything and all.
Episode 313: Elaine Buckholtz
August 29, 2011 · Print This Article
This week, Brian, Patricia, and Art Practical contributor Mary Anne Kluth sit down with artist Elaine Buckholtz and gallery president Richard Lang at Electric Works in San Francisco where Buckholz's solo show, Light Making Motion: Works on Paper and in Light, was recently on view. In her review, Kluth notes that Buckholtz, whose primary medium is light, "is a generous guide, making instructive objects that allow her audience to come to discoveries†about the "experience of vision as a phenomena unfolding in time… focus[ing] attention on shifting, fleeting, elusive sensations.†In this conversation they talk about that generosity, the installations on view, working with Meredith Monk, and the pleasures of going off the cliff, Wile. E. Coyote–style.
Buckholz received her MFA at Stanford University and has shown at the Swiss Technorama Museum, Winterthur, Switzerland; Pierogi Leipzig, Germany; the Wexner Center For The Arts, Columbus, OH; the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Idaho; the Claremont Museum, Claremont, CA; Stanford University, Palo Alto; California College of The Arts, Fusion Art Space, the Luggage Store, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
You can read Kluth's full review on Art Practical here: http://www.artpractical.com/review/light_making_motion_works_on_paper_and_in_light/
Episode 312 (6 years!): TASS POSTERS
August 23, 2011 · Print This Article
This Week: Has it really been 6 years? Really?
Wow. Duncan and Richard have a rambling bout of personal abuse as the intro and then get on to the good stuff.
Richard talks to Peter Zegers and Jill Bugajski about their work on the stellar new show at the Art Institute of Chicago Windows on the War, Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945, and on the accompanying catalog.
Overview: During World War II, the Soviet Union's news agency, TASS, enlisted hundreds of artists and writers to bolster support for the nation's war effort. Working from the TASS studio in Moscow, these artists and writers produced hundreds of storefront window posters, one for nearly every day of the war. Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945 is a monumental exhibition centered on these posters, which have not been seen in the United States since the Second World War.
Impressively large, between five and ten feet tall and striking in the vibrancy and texture of the stencil medium, these posters were sent abroad, including to the Art Institute, to serve as international cultural "ambassadors" and to rally allied and neutral nations to the endeavors of the Soviet Union, a partner of the United States and Great Britain in the fight against Nazi Germany. In Windows on the War, the posters will be presented both as unique historical objects and as works of art that demonstrate how the preeminent artists of the day used unconventional technical and aesthetic means to contribute to the fight against the Nazis, marking a major chapter in the history of design and propaganda. While the exhibition's focus is primarily on the posters, viewers will also find their rich historical and cultural context revealed through photographs and documentary material illuminating the visual culture of US-USSR relations before and during the war.
Windows on the War is not only a fascinating glimpse into one of the most significant government-sponsored cultural efforts of the 20th century but also a major scholarly undertaking that brings these posters into the public eye for the first time in six decades. Catalogue: The exhibition is accompanied by a 400-page catalogue featuring essays by Peter Zegers, Douglas Druick, Jill Bugajski, Konstantin Akinsha, Adam Jolles, and Robert Bird as well as by an extensive online initiative that will bring hundreds of these unique works to the public for the first time since the war.


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Since 1992, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, more than 1,000 journalists worldwide have been killed while serving the public's interests.
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