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I am in a very similar boat with my father. I didn't see any mention of whether or not your dad has a wife/partner, because if he does and she can be of any help, my first thought is to partner up with her and see if you two can help coax your dad in the right direction.
He's married to my mom but she feels equally powerless. We've tried to encourage him to eat healthy but he does NOT like to be pushed and we feel like it will just cause more problems if he feels like he's being 'nagged'.
My dad is probably up near 280 or 300lb and is a big guy (barrel-chested, sturdy build), but he is definitely obese. I'm sure that that's where I've gotten most of my (old) poor eating habits from. My dad is extremely intelligent, logical, and ridiculously bullheaded. He refuses to listen to "his kid" about nutrition, because he's the king of his castle and how could I know something he doesn't. Usually he's right, but in this case he's wrong.
My dad has the same type of attitude. I need him to listen to me though and I feel like I'm going to finally snap if I don't say something again but I don't want to say it the wrong way and just get him angry with me. I'm 34 but he still talks to me like I'm 5 sometimes. I love him but he's really bullheaded and stubborn and I think on some level he doesn't really believe that the food he eats corresponds to his weight.
I don't have much sound advice besides "you're not alone". A lot of guys from the older generation are SO set in their ways, even if their ways are detrimental to their health. They have doctors and nutritionists telling them what to do and how to change their ways, and it's just waved off with "oh, I'm not doing that, it's stupid." My dad had a heart attack 4 years ago, and he has cut back on his sodium and red meat (to a point), but he still sits his arse on the couch with the "low calorie" chips (and eats the whole bag) and routinely brings cakes and breads and meats into the house while I'm trying to make quinoa with grilled veggies and lean chicken (which is delicious, by the way).
Thank you. That also sounds very familiar.
He gives me this line of nonsense about his "quality of life" as though it's an excuse to eat poorly and be lazy. My mother knows he's doing himself wrong but there's only so far she can push him before he does the "woman, please" dismissal. He considers a slow meandering walk with the dog around the block to be his "cardio activity", and then he has several drinks and polishes off some kind of white flour, processed sugar treat as his "reward".
Frankly, I have almost resigned myself to the fact that he is probably going to die "young(ish)". I'm not going to suggest that you threaten him with ultimatums, but perhaps you could discuss with him that you won't be physically able to care for him if it becomes necessary. If the funds for personal care aren't there either, he may be in a really tight spot if he continues on his current course. If you've already had this talk, it might be pointless, because I'm responded to with an eyeroll and a "yes, dear, thank you for your concern" dismissal.
I've told him this before and I told him if I need to help him get to the bathroom (like I had to help his mom when she was sick years ago) that I won't be able to. I told him that when his mom was alive she was very frail and thin and yet she felt like a ton of bricks when I was helping her carrying most of her body weight to help her get to the bathroom, and that there's no way I'll be able to help him do the same if I need to because he's too heavy and I don't want him to end up in a nursing home if I can avoid it. I'm afraid even there they would just let him sit in it and then try to cover up any evidence before I got there because honestly I don't trust those kinds of workers after they stole things from my grandmother.
I'm not much help, but believe me I know how you feel. Best of luck, and if I figure out anything worthwhile I'll get back to you!
Thank you and I wish that my dad was the only one like this because I don't want anybody else to hurt themselves. At the same time it's somewhat comforting to know I'm not all alone in these types of feelings. Thanks for your reply.
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Original post made by Ken in South Pleasanton, Downtown, on May 18, 2009
Yes, we are angry but we are not confused.
We are angry that our legislators have not performed their duties as our elected officials and that they have led us into repeated budget impasses over the last few years. Unbridled spending by our legislators cannot continue. Yes, we are mad about this. But are we confused? I don't think so. We know that we are going to the polls on Tuesday because our legislators lacked the backbone to do what they were elected to do...lead. We understand fully that the propositions are an attempt to place the blame for our budget crisis on the residents of California. We are the ones the legislators and governor will blame when the propositions are not passed. This is the most blatant example of scape-goating I have ever seen. Yes, I'm angry. No, I'm not at all confused.
We have the power to implement CHANGE. CHANGE the paradigm of Sacramento that assumes Californians will continue to accept increased taxes to support the special interest leaches that have attached themselves to our legislators. Hold our legislators accountable for the fiscal health of our State. Don't allow them to bully and frighten you into voting for these propositions because if you do they will only come after you for more and higher taxes in the near future.
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a resident of Mohr Elementary School
on May 18, 2009 at 9:17 pm
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I think it quite interesting that the Governor would be surrounded by the firefighters union as they as well as the government workers uniton, police, and teachers are direct reasons why we are in the fix we are in because of these lavish retirement pensions which none of us get. Arnie then got on a private plane and flew to Washington DC to meet with the Messiah and ask for money to save California because he is aware that all of his propositions are going down in flames and the populace think quite poorly of him as well as our great elected leaders in this state. We need to vote all of them out as they have chased all of the business out of this state with their high taxes. We need to file for bankrupcy and get all of these people out of office. I find it fastinating to have all of this discussion of measure G when the house is falling down.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on May 18, 2009 at 9:31 pm
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Why should we pass tomorrow's State propositions when they're not going to fix the problem anyway? Schwarzenegger told us that if the Props pass, there will still be cuts. Clearly the props don't fix the real problem.
a resident of Bonde Ranch
on May 19, 2009 at 9:23 am
I feel this is a type of government blackmail...if you don't vote for this watch what we cut!
Government needs to run like a business...or households...when the money runs out...stop spending!
a resident of Del Prado
on May 19, 2009 at 9:37 am
Arnie is a joke and we only have ourselves to blame. Afterall, we voted in a guy as governor who's only capability was to take steroids and lift weights. I have no idea how that qualifies someone to become governor. In addition, just take a look at the qualifications of the people we have elected to run the assembly and the city council for that matter. This will not change until we elect people with capability not politicans.
a resident of Ridgeview Commons
on May 19, 2009 at 9:48 am
Bob, several years ago, our governor tried to reform the unions. Remember the picket lines of nurses, teachers, firefighters and others? The biggest problem I have with him is he backed down. He should have stood his ground. My issue is more with the unions and our so-called legislators. Our local leaders also kow-tow to the unions. The unions are taking this country down. Can you say UAW, NEA, CTA, AFL of CIO, Teamsters, SEIU, etc? Google any of these union web sites and learn how they position themselves against us, the tax paying public. They perpetuate class warfare brinksmanship.
a resident of Downtown
on May 19, 2009 at 9:55 am
...and it just continues. Report in this morning's paper (Tuesday) that Pleasanton council has created an irrevocable trust for city retirees' health care benefits to the tune of over $7 million dollars per year. What they don't say is that that annual amount is likely to increase in a compounded manner to insure that those benefits are never decreased...translated...our taxes are once again locked in to a system that requires regular increases. Way to go City of Pleasanton. See you on the streets after the next election.
a resident of Birdland
on May 19, 2009 at 10:01 am
Please read this very important editorial in today's Wall Street Journal - Web Link
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on May 19, 2009 at 11:23 am
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The WSJ editorial points out something important. We used to have a spending cap called the Gann Limit. It got weakened after ballot initiatives that were supported by the public unions, like the CTA.
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"The weakening of the Gann Limit has had negative consequences for California's fiscal health. Since the state obtains much of its tax revenue through a progressive income tax, receipts tend to increase sharply during times of prosperity, then crash during recessions. That happened during the tech boom of the late 1990s as the Gann Limit was powerless to prevent the 48 percent increase in spending that occurred during Gray Davis' first three years in office. When the tech bubble burst in 2000 and 2001, the end result was a $38 billion shortfall and budget deficits that persist to this day. Indeed, California taxpayers are still paying the price for weakening the Gann Limit."
a resident of Birdland
on May 19, 2009 at 11:53 am
We have met the enemy and he is us
-Pogo (Walt Kelly)
a resident of Del Prado
on May 19, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Change Entitlement Mentality,
my nephew has been on Arnie's staff since getting elected and he said he made the mistake of not using his popularity at the time to push his reform through and got his feelings hurt and did not want to look bad so he caved to the unions and guess what we got what we've got and a true leader needs to stand up and get this fixed now. I am voting any state, county , or city incumbent as I have no confidence in any of them. We need to let the repubs have a shot at fixing this mess and no Arnie is not a republican but rather an egomaniac who will always shift with the pubics perception of him.
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Singer 15, Improved family. Watch the bobbin movement as your turning the handwheel----pretty neat.
All those metal attachments are used to do special sewing techniques....binders, hemmers, ruffler, etc. You can try to find a manual for the machine online, and it will include instructions for using the attachments. How lucky that the machine still has all those!! That's a really nice machine.
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He said the ethanol production process inherently eliminates contaminants in the corn, and the company has processes in place to ensure that spent grain is safe for animal consumption.
Sanders said he believes the new rules would add to his operation's costs, however, he doesn't anticipate them pricing Front Range Energy out of its distillers grains business with the livestock industry.
He said if it did, though, the company might have to look at investing into new technologies that allow its spent grains to be reused in the energy-production process. In regard to brewers grains, MillerCoors spokesman Jonathan Stern said the company has been selling its spent grains to livestock feeders for more than 50 years. Stern said in an emailed response that the company is seeking an exemption under the proposed rule, while he declined to comment specifically on how the rule would impact MillerCoors.
Like MillerCoors, Front Range already has every reason to ensure the safety of its grains, Sanders said, and the company hasn't received any complaints about grain making any animals sick in its eight years of business.
"We have that incentive to do our own checks and testing on our own without the government getting involved," Sanders said.
Sanders said the Front Range legislative researchers are looking into the FDA's proposed rule, and he expects the company will make a comment to the FDA.
Many others in the region, too, noted that they'll be providing their two cents in the upcoming days.
While small breweries may not have the same requirements as their larger counterparts, locals in the industry who give away their spent grains say any additional regulations would likely send them looking for other ways to dispose of their brewers grains.
Randy Waddle, owner of Broken Plow Brewery in Greeley, said he'll likely just compost his spent grains if he's required to have a food safety plan under the proposed rule. Jeff Crabtree, who owns Crabtree Brewing Company, also in Greeley, said if the process becomes more burdensome, he'll likely stop distributing grains for animals.
"I understand that they want to protect the feed line to ensure the products that are intended for human consumption, but give me a break," Crabtree said. "There's got to be an easier way to go about it."
Kyle Carbaugh, owner of Wiley Roots Brewing Company in Greeley, said he's waiting until after the comment period closes to see exactly what the rule would mean for breweries like his. He said at this point, it looks like the rule is asking for a lot of added record keeping, which he said he's used to as a brewer.
"The devil's in the details of how they really expect us to implement this," Carbaugh said.
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Mary Morris beat out incumbent Marshal Simien Jr. Saturday to represent District A on the Lake Charles City Council.
Morris, a democrat, edged Simien, also a democrat, 759 votes to 654.
The only other item in Calcasieu Parish was the race for Vinton Police Chief. Incumbent Ricky Fox topped Arthur Phillips Sr. 423 votes to 319.
The following is the complete election results for Southwest Louisiana. For more on each item, pick up a copy of Sunday's American Press.
• The Allen Parish Police Jury's parishwide proposition to provide an additional homestead exemption for certain disabled veterans and surviving spouses. RESULT: PASSED 1,631 VOTES TO 544.
• The Allen Parish Police Jury's 15-year, 0.70 percent sales tax renewal for collection and disposal of solid waste, including acquisition of land for container sites. The tax generates $1.6 million a year. RESULT: PASSED 1,349 VOTES T0 839.
• The Allen Parish School Board's new 10-year, 7.5-mill property tax to provide school resource officers in all 11 parish schools. The millage, which is expected to generate about $630,000 a year, will be paid by property owners not covered by homestead exemption. It would be used to hire, train and equip officers, including vehicles, and to install surveillance cameras, electronic doors and other safety upgrades in schools. RESULT: FAILED 1,141 VOTES TO 1,042.
• Voters in Fire Protection District 1 near the Elton area are being asked to approve a 10-year, 6.3-mill tax continuation. The measure represents a 1.03 percent increase over the 5.27 mills approved by voters in 2002. It generates $18,650 a year for district maintenance and operation. RESULT: PASSED 32 VOTES TO 9.
• Voters in Ward 1 in the Oberlin area will decide a runoff for justice of the peace between Ricky Mahaffey and Stephen B. Manuel. RESULT: MANUEL DEFEATED MAHAFFEY 360 VOTES TO 276.
• The Cameron Parish Police Jury is seeking renewal of a 10-year, 2.64-mill property tax for maintenance and operation of the Cameron Parish courthouse and jail. The tax is expected to generate $739,631 a year. RESULT: PASSED 375 VOTES TO 315.
• The panel is also seeking renewal of 10-year, 6.61-mill property tax for road and bridge maintenance. The tax is expected to generate $1.8 million annually. RESULT: PASSED 404 VOTES TO 290.
• The Police Jury is also seeking renewal of a 10-year, 1.32-mill property tax to support the Health Center. It is expected to generate $369,815 a year. RESULT: PASSED 369 VOTES TO 326.
• The Cameron Parish School Board is seeking continuance of a 10-year, 8.5-mill property tax for maintenance and operation of public schools. It is expected to generate $2.2 million annually. RESULT: FAILED 383 VOTES TO 313.
• The School Board is also seeking continuance of 10-year, 6-mill property tax for maintenance and improvement of schoolhouses and the public school system. It is expected to generate $1.5 million a year. RESULT: FAILED 386 VOTES TO 307.


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The 2008 South Lake Charles Little League team. (Special to the American Press).
Last Modified: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 10:03 PM
By Warren Arceneaux / American Press
Big-game settings are nothing new for a group of Barbe Bucs who have been in the spotlight since reaching the 2008 Little League World Series with South Lake Charles.
Seven Bucs — Jake Lee, Nick Abshire, Hunter Self, Gunner Leger, Beau Jordan, Kennon Fontenot and Trey Quinn — who made it to Williamsport, Pa., will be on center stage again this weekend when the Bucs face Archbishop Rummel Saturday night in the Class 5A state championship football game.
Fontenot, Abshire, Leger, Quinn and Jordan were all on the Barbe baseball team that won a state championship last spring — by beating Rummel 3-2 in the title game.
Leger was the starting pitcher for Barbe.
"I wasn't really nervous, just anxious," Leger said. "It was a fun thing to be a part of. After the first pitch and inning, everything calmed down."
Leger said he has more appreciation for his accomplishments now.
"In Little League, you are just playing the games in awe because you are famous for that week," he said. "Now, you appreciate things more as you get older."
Leger said Barbe's wild 49-48 comeback win over West Monroe in last week's semifinal game ranks among his career highlights.
"The Little League (Southwest Regional championship) game we won in Texas was pretty awesome, then the West Monroe game would be after that."
Linebacker Beau Jordan said the U.S. championship game at the LLWS was the most exciting with last week being the most emotional.
"It was a great atmosphere for that baseball game; it felt great being out there with my team," he said. "There were thousands of people there, probably a million were watching on TV. Friday night, at the end, I started crying on the sideline. I went up to Nick and spit some words out. I don't even know what I said, but we were both emotional."
Jordan said it is easier to handle the big-game setting now.
"I know how to handle myself under pressure," he said. "Football is a little easier, you have 11 people out there. Baseball is more nerve-racking. I just try to stay focused on what we have to do. It is a business trip. I just try to do my part. We usually win."
Abshire, a defensive back, said the championship baseball team was similar to the football squad.
"Everybody contributes, whether it is the practice team or starters," he said. "We just love each other and play every game for each other. (The baseball championship) was awesome. I did not play too much, but we worked hard every day just like this football team does. Both programs are great in their own way. It would be awesome to win in football for all of the players at Barbe that have not gotten the chance to have this experience in the past."
Lee, a defensive tackle, said chemistry is key to the Bucs' success.
"It is like a family," he said. "We are real close and can talk about whatever we want to with each other."
Quinn, a wide receiver, said all of the big-game experience makes things easier now.
"By being in these situations before, I am able to relax," he said. "It just comes natural now. You think less about the crowd and their reactions and more about just making the plays."
Leger said being able to compete alongside lifelong friends has been the best part of this latest campaign for a championship.
"The camaraderie is the best part," he said. "We have good chemistry. We have played together since we were 5 or 6 and would do anything for each other."


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according to the print......the bump is .36 from the back of the FCG pocket and .43 long. Tolerance isn't that critical......as the dimensions are ony to the hundredth of an inch on the Print.
On my drawing, I can't really discern where the bump starts, or ends.
I see the .950 of the rear lug cavity, and then .491 to what looks like the corner of the bump.
But everything else on my test pocket, I can verify. And since people are saying some lowers don't even have the bump I guess I'm OK.
Machining is done.
Ordered my upper half this morning, but I think it will take a while to get built & shipped.
Ah well, I'll finish it eventually.


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Has anyone tried using foundation attached to some top bars to try to get your bees to build straight comb right out of the gate? What would be the best way to attach it if so?
Has anyone tried using foundation attached to some top bars to try to get your bees to build straight comb right out of the gate? What would be the best way to attach it if so?
This is what Wyatt Mangum does. He puts a groove in the bar and then uses melted wax to attach it. He has made a jig to setup a series of bars and pour the melted wax down 8 or 10 or so at a time.
I have considered making a bar with a split wedge. There would be a fixed wedge on the bar and then you would attach the other half with nails or staples. Then you could just wedge the strip in place. You could do this by using a router to route away half of the wedge.
The thing I don't like about using a starter strip is that as soon as you attach the starter strip you have to be careful with the bars. And if you drop them you can pretty much bet the strip will be knocked off.
There is a tool called a Wax Tube Fastener that some will use to attach a foundation starter strip to a grooved top bar. You can see a demo of it on Linda Tillman's blog:
What I have done, and like, is to glue in a wooden strip into the top groove. I don't even add any wax, the bees take right too it and build off the strip. Adding in new foundationless frames in between brood comb works well, or between capped honey frames. Don't add them between uncapped honey frames or the bees will just keep extending the comb to each side instead of working on the new frame.
Good luck.
Yes, I don't think that starter strips are necessary if you give them an idea of were to pull the comb by using a stick or a wedged bar. Some folks say don't use wax on your bars as it will actually make the contact with the bar weaker.
My top bars are made with a plastic strip. I ripped down a bunch of foundation from my Lang stuff.
They end up ridged and permanent when glued in. They look like this.http://s1066.photobucket.com/albums/...3DIMAG0044.jpg
I had NO issues with cross-combing with the hives that I used these in this year.
Thanks for the replies I have wedges made from cove molding in one hive and wood strips in grooves in another just to see which I like better. I have seen alot of videos where the comb curves at the ends and ends up off the bars, and wondered if one or two straight ones would help get them on the right track. Steven that is exactly what I was thinking but more foundation than just a strip. Thought about trimming some plastic foundation in the shape of a top bar comb and hot gluing it into place and then painting with wax to encourage comb building on the plastic cell. One established straight I would phase out the top bars with foundation
I think it was Michael Bush that said straight comb makes straight comb. If you can get your comb to start straight and correct as necessary you should be able to keep it straight by placing empty bars between straight comb.
I used to wax a strip of foundation in with a wax tube fastener. But wood works as well and is more permanent. Now I just glue in wood strips or put a bevel on the top bar.
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
Steven O; Your post fits my plan to move my TBH comb into a Lang deep. Screw an extender to each end of a top bar so it will fit into the lang then move all the frames. Shortly after I will burn and bury all parts of the TBH.
Also I had planned to try Titebond glue on 2" wax strips as satrter strips, I have been tacking them in. I also use tongue depressors for starter strips. Without alternating comb or foundation filled frames my bees pull wax to wide. Sometimes me and the bees seem to be working at cross purposes!
After this move to the Lang over time I will work out all the modified TBH frames.
Also; It will be easy for me to wax dip (my own wax) and dry the depressors before gluing them into a frame!!!
Julysun elevation 23 feet. 4 Hives, 2 years.
Here's the easiest method I've found. Simply melt some wax block into a grove with a torch (be careful) and stick a strip of foundation in there. The wax will drip/pour nicely off of a bottom corner. You can't be timid about this because the wax will cool and harden. Just fill the groove reasonably quickly and it'll stay soft enough to join with the foundation. I've never had cross comb and the only annoyance is if I make them too short (more than an inch from the side) because they'll start to curve the ends.
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The foundation starter strips as Stuart presents have always giving me a 100% success rated. The curving of comb at the ends can be avoided by using foundation strips with a greater depth running it the full length of the bars with no more than a bee space between the foundation strip ends and hive wall. The curving is caused due to the extension of cell walls for honey storage and having no barrier comb to regulate the extra cell wall length that is built causing the bees to curve the next comb built to curve around it maintaining the bee space. Starting out fresh without a supply of combs I feel this is the way to go especially for beginners with no natural comb experience.
The top two inches of comb construction is, mostly at the comb ends, where this takes place.
Once there are several well built straight combs in the hive most any of the guides are suitable.
I tried many different versions this season. A few observations:
- grooves in TB's make perfect SHB hiding spot. Make sure they are filled all the way to end.
- B's seem to like tunnels through comb just under TB. If you use plastic, leave a few spots for them to do this. I assume this facilitates winter migration when comb edges are cold.
-Comb attachment to waxed TB's was weak, rough cut surface helped.
-Comb build up from TB's slower than from foundation. Giving SHB, varroa, ect. more time w/ weaker hive.
Next year I will try needle point backing, stretched canvas, and 1/2" hardware cloth for TB foundation in attempt to speed build up and support larger(3-4')comb.
3-4'? That,s huge!
I followed Michael Bush's method and have gotten super fast and straight combs this year. I just pop off the wedge with my fingers, clean up the edge if needed, invert it vertically and use a staple gun to drive 3 1/4" staples to affix the wedge to the frame and done. Super fast and the bees take to it wonderfully!
Linda's method is very good, but I just use regular glue in my slot to hold the foundation strip and it does not bother the bees. I have used it for 2 years. I just put a very small bead in the slot and always leave a strip on the top bar when I cut off the honeycomb. Some people may not like my method, but ti works with no side effects.


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Bert Stewart: Always a student
Even at a very early age, Bert Stewart was a consummate student who studied those who did well at their trade . . . be it judging, showing, coaching, farming, or even playing fast-pitch softball.It led to his incredible success. Stewart developed an eye for cattle that is matched by few in our industry and made him a world-renowned dairy judge. His calm demeanor and unique ability with cattle still make him a sought-after leadsman . . . leading an unequalled 16 Grand Champions at the Royal Winter Fair.
Ever grateful for valuable lessons others shared with him as a youth, Stewart has spent the rest of his life giving back to young people. Since 1990, he has brought champion 4-H teams from Ontario to World Dairy Expo to compete at the National Contest. As a 20-year fast-pitch softball coach, Bert led seven teams to titles in the Ontario championship game. For this and so much more, Stewart was awarded the 2005 Klussendorf trophy, was appointed a lifetime Honorary Governor of the board of directors for the Royal Winter Fair in 2009, and was inducted into the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame last year.
In 1951, you were high individual at the Royal Winter Fair's youth judging contest and earned a scholarship to attend college. How did that opportunity change your life?
Back in those days, the agriculture representatives (extension agents) coached most youth judging teams. There were three youth picked for a county team that competed at the Royal Winter Fair. We judged two classes of each livestock species: dairy, beef, sheep, swine, and horses. We had to give reasons on six classes. I was fortunate to win high individual honors at the Royal Winter Fair and received the F. K. Morrow scholarship to attend the diploma course at the University of Guelph. My team also was fortunate to win the team prize, as well.
I was very fortunate to have Jim McCullough as my coach. I took almost a month off from high school to prepare for the Royal. Ralph Dunton and my brother, Hilliard, were the other two members of our team. Jim was a good coach and he taught us a great deal about the livestock species. My father helped coach us on the horses because Jim didn't profess to be a horse person. My dad was a horse judge and did a lot of judging.
You are known for your calm demeanor. Did that come naturally?
I'm not sure it came naturally. I was fortunate enough to lead a Grand Champion Ayrshire bull at the Canadian National Exhibition when I was just 15 years old. And I had no idea that I was going to lead this bull or the rest of this Ayrshire breeder's cattle. I worked for the farm for one month prior to the CNE. (The Canadian National Exhibition was a prestigious show in the 1950s and 1960s, having over 300 head of Holsteins.) We took six head to the show and I got them clipped. Then I asked, "Who's going to show these tomorrow?"
He said, "You are."
Well, I didn't even have white clothes at the fair. I had to phone my parents and get them to bring me white pants. To be quite honest, I was so nervous. We had an imported bull from Scotland. I was only 15 years old and went out and showed against all the big-time Ayrshire breeders. The bull went on to be named Junior Champion and then was named Grand.
A few years later, I showed for Rosafe Farms. In fact, Rosafe Shamrock Perseus was the first bull I showed for them. He won at the CNE.
The more you go into those big classes and show, you become more relaxed, and you do what you have to do to make the animal look good. Getting worked up never ever helped me. You had to live with what happened. If you got badly beat with a good one, you go back to the next show and get her out better.
You have led many champions, including 16 Grand Champions at the Royal Winter Fair and most recently the 2010 Junior Champion Holstein at World Dairy Expo. What advice would you give to juniors as they develop their show skills?
The 16 Grand Champions probably will never be equaled in this era. Of that 16, seven were Grand Champion bulls . . . five Holsteins and two Jerseys at the Royal. Also, I showed three Jersey cows. The famous Jersey, Duncan Belle, was twice Grand at the Royal (1992 and 1993) and once Reserve. I showed a couple other Jersey cows that were Grand and one Brown Swiss cow.
I don't know what makes me such a good leadsman. I've always told 4-H kids you have to relax. If you are uptight, the animal is going to know it. Don't hold them too tight. You've got to let the animal be herself. If you're relaxed, chances are you will get her to relax.
Don't get me wrong; the bad temperament ones are bad. But sometimes if you take a bad one, take her out and work with her and relax her, you can get a lot of things accomplished.
Leading a lot is certainly a big help. I've told a lot of juniors that you can't just take your 4-H project and go out in the ring. You've got to do some homework with her at home. You've got to know what's wrong with them and you've got to lead and correct the mistakes that they have in conformation.
Out of all those champions that you led, who was your favorite?
My favorite cow was Sonwill Reflection Bee. I showed her 25 times and won 21 times with her. She wasn't the best Holstein cow I ever led, but she was the closest thing to a human. I could throw the lead strap over her neck and she'd follow me through the crowd and go to the ring at the Royal Winter Fair. When she went into the ring, she put her head and her ears up and said, "I'm here to win." She was a dream to work with.
The best Holstein cow I led without a doubt was Quality BC Frantisco who won the 2005 Royal Winter Fair. (She also won in 2004, but Bert did not lead her.)
The best Jersey cow was Duncan Belle. I was fortunate to judge World Dairy Expo in 1991 when she was a 3-year-old. I made her Grand at a time when the Jersey show was much smaller (she was named Reserve Supreme of the entire show later that week). After I made her Grand Champion, Lorne Ella of Rock Ella Farms came to me and said, "You like this cow as much as I do. I want you to lead her the rest of her life."
So, I led Duncan Belle at Louisville, the Royal, and everywhere she went. She was a big time cow and she bred (passed her genetics to her offspring) exceptionally well. Duncan Belle may be the best brood cow that the Jersey breed ever had.
For 45 years you have given back to youth, not only as a judging coach, but as the person who led the charge to establish what is now called the Canadian 4-H Classic (previously known as the Contact Hayo Classic and then the Scotia Bank 4-H Classic) and the Ontario Dairy Youth Trust Fund. Why?
The Scotia Bank 4-H Classic just finished its 31st show. It's now called the Canadian 4-H Classic. The Ontario Dairy Youth Trust Fund came later.
I was asked to be finance chairman for Holstein Canada's annual meeting. I told the group I would do it under one condition: I wanted to know what was going to happen if we made money. Holstein Canada told me to get our committee to come up with a good idea. "If we like it, we'll back you and fund it," they told me. I said that we needed a 4-H dairy judging competition in Ontario. They agreed and allowed us to spend money to get that organized.
It was originally set up so the coach of the winning county team would go to World Dairy Expo. My teams won the first three years, so I went to Madison the first three years. Then a team from Niagara Falls won the fourth year and their coach wouldn't go, and I've been going ever since with the Ontario teams.
Last year, I was going to retire. However, my son-in-law, Jason French, who is manager of the Ontario Holstein Association, thought I should continue. He said he would come along and help drive. So, last year was pretty easy . . . he did the driving and I did the coaching. I made 20 trips without an accident and I think it's maybe time somebody else younger should take it over. I don't know how long they are going to keep me going, but if I don't have to drive, it's not such a big job.
You started the Ontario 4-H Dairy Judging Competition in 1990 with the goal of having the winning team attend World Dairy Expo. Why did you start bringing teams to Expo?
We thought we should make the World Dairy Expo 4-H competition the prize for winning the Ontario competition. I had talked to the 4-H contest organizers at World Dairy Expo and they said that Ontario could come and participate; however, we wouldn't be included in the competition as far as winning prizes. That really wasn't what we were interested in . . . we wanted to give the four contestants a chance to see World Dairy Expo.
It's turned out to be very, very good. The Ontario dairy judging competition is very well attended by the good 4-H members because the top four earn the World Dairy Expo trip. We've had several of the boys from past teams judge both at the Royal and Madison, while others have taken major positions in our industry. One young lady who went to Madison went on to become a lawyer at the largest law firm in Toronto.
Why do you give so much of your time to youth?
Many people gave me quite a bit of their time. I played a lot of softball when I was young, and my coach actually drove out to the farm and picked me up to play ball. My parents didn't have time to take me. When I got into 4-H, I had people who helped me with my judging.
Then, years later as an adult, when I took on the job of being a 4-H club leader, I just stayed at it. It has been a family activity, as my wife, Hazel, was a club leader for years. She taught homemaking to the girls. I also spent 20 years coaching fast-pitch softball teams and had some good luck . . . I coached boys for 16 years and then I coached a girls team for four years. During those two decades, my boys teams won five Ontario championships and the girls team won two championships.
You've been a role model and mentor to countless dairy youth. Who was your role model?
I was the fifth of six boys in our family. My older brothers were pretty successful. My brother, Andy, was high individual at the 1946 National Collegiate Competition at Waterloo, Iowa. My brother, R. J., who is the second of the six boys, won the 1949 Royal Winter Fair judging competition two years before me. My other brother, Henry, was also on that team with R. J. So, I lived in that kind of environment . . . my dad did a lot of horse judging and my mother judged cooking and sewing competitions.
We were blessed to have good ag reps in those days that were livestock oriented. They pushed us to do well. Our family had some pretty nice Ayrshires. I hitchhiked home from college and showed Ayrshires at the little fairs to make some money to get through school. When I graduated, I wasn't interested in buying, working, or trying to make money from Ayrshires. There were more opportunities in the Holstein business, and that's where I got involved.
Dave Houcks was the first guy who really got me involved in the Holstein business. However, if you were going to pick somebody who I respected a lot, D. S. Dunton and J. M. Fraser were the leaders at the judging schools. There was a guy by the name of Johnny Moles who showed Ayrshire cattle; I used to think I would love to be able to show as well as he did with his Ayrshires. I paid attention to how he did things and learned from there. When you're working for different people, they all have ideas of what you should be doing when you're leading their cattle.
This feature appears in the 2011 World Dairy Expo supplement (mailed with the September 10, 2011 issue) on page EXPO 7 and 42.
For more on Bert Stewart and his impact on dairy youth and the industry, visit Dairyman Extras to see a continuation of the interview that was not included in the print edition.
Read the HD Notebook blog about Bert Stewart and read his responses to our editor's questions


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Did the time change and falling back allow you and extra hour of sleep or did your children awaken at their usual hour? I expect that many parents were up an hour earlier than they wanted to be, the only difference being that it was light outside at 6:30 a.m.
It is hard to explain to a toddler or pre-schooler that it is not really 7:00 a.m. any more! Their biological clocks awaken them, and they are ready for breakfast. Children need routine bedtimes and typically awaken at around the same time everyday, at least until they are adolescents, when they want to sleep during the day and stay up half the night.
Many children will have some difficulty adjusting to the time change and it may take several weeks to get back to a normal routine. The key is to try and stay on the same schedule and let their clocks slowly re-adjust.
Bedtime may be harder for a few days as well. Since it will be getting darker earlier, some children will be worn out and cranky and it will only be 6:00 p.m. You may need to have an earlier bath and story time for a while and put them to bed 30 minutes earlier than usual as well.
Don't despair, it doesn't take that long before your child's circadian rhythms will be on standard time and you won't find yourself making pancakes an hour before you wanted to.
For us adults, our brains have to adjust as well, we may be going to work in the morning light, but it will be really dark for the drive home. I think bedtime may be a bit earlier for me for a week or two as well!


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Love for All, Hatred for None.
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Gadget Geek's Guide to June Gaming Apps
From skateboard zombie killers to cruising around the world in a tricked out car, these are the best games released in June in the app store.
There are 22 excruciating days left until The Dark Knight Rises is in theatres. To keep us company in these hard times, we've turned to our iOS devices to keep our minds off our anticipation. Here are our favorite gaming apps we're playing these days.
Affliction: Zombie Rising
Anyone sick of zombies yet? No? Good, because this first-person shooter zombie game, Affliction, is one of the darkest and creepiest games we've played on our iPads in a while. It gives us the same kind of creeps we got when we first played Silent Hill! Set in a bloodstained warehouse, you are tasked with saving your own life from the hordes of impending zombies who hunger for your brains. What's unique about this game is that you hold your device as if you're taking a photograph and have to physically move your phone or iPad around to assess your surroundings. If you are playing on a first-generation iPad that does not have any gyroscope capabilities, there is an adapted virtual stick. Draw those blinds, turn down the lights, put on your headphones and get shooting.
Rad Skater Apocalypse
Daydream of your youth filled with mix tapes, graffiti and old-school skateboarding with the new game Rad Skater Apocalypse. Sure, there's nothing new to it, but it's a throwback to games like Bartman vs. Radioactive Man on the NES that has us hooked. Basically you have control of the guy skating down the street and need to clear the level without cracking your skull or being eaten by monsters that come along with the apocalypse. Simple as that. Remember to jump those fire hydrants!
Asphalt 7: Heat
We're not just saying that Asphalt 7: Heat is the best racing game for iOS because we're giving it away for free over on @playboydotcom, we're saying it's the best because it is! Like other games developed by Gameloft, Asphalt 7's graphics exceed all other games on the market, and it features a ton of different tracks to speed around the world in 15 different levels. We like that there are four different ways to control your driving instead of the generic in or out of the car choice. The color quality in the levels is incredible too; we can't believe they were able to produce such a sharp-looking game for such a low cost.
If you loved the gameplay in Heavy Rain, you'll love the new game Yesterday. Packed with sex, profanity and all of that other fun stuff (don't let the kiddy graphics fool you!) this Memento-esque game aims to please. You play the role of John Yesterday, who after a failed suicide attempt has been left with a touch of amnesia and has to solve a homicide case involving the kidnapping, torture and killing of homeless people around the city. Overall, it's an interesting concept for an iOS game, but we'd prefer to keep the postcoital pillow talk out of our apps. That part of the gameplay was just awkward.


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If you are in politics or public life, you probably had some moment of spine-tingling transcendence. Maybe you read the Declaration of Independence or watched the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s mountaintop sermon, or read Nelson Mandela's 1964 speech from the dock.
Suddenly, your imagination was inflamed beyond its normal scope. You were enveloped by this epic sense that public life could be truly heroic. The people who issue these statements brought their lives to a glorious point, pledging their sacred honor, offering to sacrifice their lives for some public mission.
You got into public life inspired by something like that. But how do you execute that sort of vision? How do you translate the poetry of high aspiration into the prose of effective governance? This is the common problem today. Most people go into public life for the right reasons, but government doesn't work. The quality of the people is high, but the quality of leadership is low.
I'd suggest three responses.
First, apprentice yourself to a master craftsman. Find yourself a modern version of Ted Kennedy cobbling together a Senate majority. Find yourself some silent backstage official, who knows how to slide ideas through the bureaucracy. Glue yourself to that person in order to learn the craft of governance.
Practical knowledge is hard to see, but it is embedded in traditions of behavior. It is embedded in the lives of older legislators and public servants, and it is passed down by imitation to the younger ones. This craft of governing well has been forsaken and disrespected, but you will not be effective in public life unless you find a wise old person who will teach you the tricks of the trade, hour after hour, side by side.
Second, take a reality bath. Go off and become a stranger in a strange land. Go off to some alien part of this country or the world. Immerse yourself in the habits and daily patterns of that existence and stay there long enough to get acculturated. Stay there long enough so that you forget the herd mentality of our partisan culture.
When you return home, you will look at your own place with foreign eyes. You'll see the contours of your own reality more clearly. When you return to native ground, you're more likely to possess the sort of perceptiveness that Isaiah Berlin says is the basis of political judgment.
This wisdom is based on a tactile awareness of your country and its people -- what they want, how they react. You don't think this awareness. You feel it. You experience a visceral oneness with culture and circumstance -- the smell of the street, tinges of anger and hope and aspiration. The irony is that you are more likely to come into union with your own home culture after you have been away from it. You have to walk away from the partisan tunnel vision to see how things really are.
Finally, close off your options. People in public life live in a beckoning world. They have an array of opportunities. They naturally want to keep all their options open. The shrewd strategists tell them to make a series of tepid commitments to see what pans out. Hedge your bets. Play it smart.
But the shrewd strategy leads to impotence. You spread yourself thin. You dissipate your energies and never put full force behind any cause. You make your own trivial career the object of your attention, not the vision that inspired you in the first place.
The public official who does this leaves no mark. Only the masters of renunciation leave an imprint, only those who can say a hundred Nos for the sake of an overwhelming Yes. Only the person who has burned the ships and committed to one issue has the courage to cast aside the advice of the strategists and actually push through change.
We live in a nation of good people and ineffective government. I don't know if these tactics will improve the quality of the nation's leadership, but something has to.
David Brooks is a syndicated columnist with The New York Times.


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Note to self: Do not pay $39.99 to Sky for the Sonny Bill Williams-Francois Botha re-match, if it occurs.
Don't pay anything. Instead donate $39.99 to cancer research. Better to help foster a cure for that disease than try to encourage the terminal disease that has gripped boxing and bouts like this.
It's now crystal clear: it's all about the rematch. It's an old boxing trick - generate controversy in the first bout to build interest in the second.
What gives all the bunkum surrounding the Williams-Botha business away is the lack of accountability. The World Boxing Association? Nowhere to be seen. The Queensland branch of the Australian National Boxing Federation? They're having a meeting on Tuesday. They have to leave the dogs on the back of the utes and there's probably some debate about whether Castlemaine XXXX will be served or Fosters - brewed in Queensland these days but still regarded as a beer from a daylight saving state. All cane knives and piano accordions will be left at the door and anyone spitting on the floor will be forced to make the missus produce the scones for next time.
There doesn't seem to be a complaint being made to the police about the $150,000 Botha says he was offered to throw the fight. Wonder why ... It's clear why the supposed bribe, vehemently denied by Williams' agent Khoder Nasser, wasn't discussed before the fight. That would have ruined everybody's payday (if, indeed, it was true ... ).
Botha has decided not to protest the match-fixing he complained of because, he said, going up against Nasser in Queensland was like "going against Don King in Vegas". It'd also be biting the hand that feeds, but let's not get into that ... The ref, Tony Kettlewell, says he was told by Botha's connections that he'd refused a bribe.
Let's not even get into the strange disappearance of two rounds and the you-did-I-didn't accusations that Botha failed a drugs test taken by Nasser's brother or some other rellie.
Sigh. The incriminating evidence was supposed to have been found in urine - but what you find when you look at this whole, sorry business seems to be what bulls leave on the ground after raising their tails.
Where's the Australian government? Here's what Federal sports minister Kate Lundy had to say in the recent announcement that the government was moving to introduce tough new measures to crack down on the use of banned drugs and unethical behaviour in sport: "Today is about the integrity of sport in Australia ... If you want to dope and cheat, we will catch you. If you want to fix a match, we will catch you. And as you can see by the investigations that have taken place, that we are well on the way to seeking out and hunting down those who will dope and cheat."
Hey, Kate, there's a bout in Queensland that just might tick a couple of those boxes ...
Perhaps her 'out' is that, whatever this is, it isn't actually sport. Boxing, God knows, still has genuine bouts and the few of us who enjoy it still regard it as one of the last great sporting contests. It harks back to our primitive past and with a kind of savage nobility invested in the mano a mano aspect and, for real performers and aficionados, the skill.
Boxing coming under suspicion of being fixed and/or fans, broadcasters and others being manipulated for profit is hardly new. But rarely have we been subjected to such blatant mockery.
For the first SBW fight against Botha, I shelled out $39.99 to Sky, on the basis that I couldn't in all conscience argue that the Herald on Sunday should foot the bill for something I'd watch anyway.
The next one may have to be charged to the company. It will be 'work', in all sense of the arduous meaning of the word. Watching it for fun after all this ludicrous carry on? Here's a small list of things I'd rather do:
• Eat snot
• Get paid by Novopay
• Watch endless re-runs of the worst TV show ever - the 1990s' Beat The Crusher, where contestants, as well as being humiliated by hugely unfunny UK comic Freddie Starr, tried to win a new car by wagering their existing cars. The winners got the new one while the losers had their car flattened in a car crusher and they were given the bus fare home.
Boxing has long suffered from the crooked and the greedy. You can go right back to the second Muhammad Ali-Sonny Liston fight in 1965 and the so-called 'phantom punch' with which Ali hit (or didn't hit) Liston but the "big old ugly bear" fell over anyway.
It was strongly suspected (but never proven) that Liston was on the take, as he had Mafia connections. Conspiracy theorists had a field day when Liston died of a heroin overdose a few years later, despite no previous connection to drugs and an almost pathological fear of needles.
Closer to home was the Danny Green-Paul Briggs cruiserweight bout in Australia in 2010. New Zealand-born Briggs went down as if shot after 29 seconds of the first round. The punch seemed only to have brushed him.
Green was embarrassed enough to take the ring microphone and tell the packed stadium: "Chill out. No one is as pissed off as me, believe me. He ain't even a canine," Green said of Briggs. "Paul Briggs [isn't] getting paid a cent. That's criminal what he just did. I apologise to you on his behalf. I can't say any more. I will make it up to you on that canine's behalf."
Briggs was fined $75,000 by the Western Australian Combat Sports Commission, lost his registration as a boxer in the state and has not fought since.
There is no such commission in Queensland and as yet no hint of any sanctions against anyone - meaning the hopeless schemozzle of deceit or confusion may never be untangled.
And that's the shame of it. Whatever you think of Sonny Bill Williams, his catch-cry until now has been that he wanted to be the world's greatest cross-code athlete. Many people wanted to believe. The Botha fight seemed to be a step up; a rung on the ladder of boxing credibility.
Now it just seems a sick joke. It'll be even sicker if there's a rematch in South Africa.
So, no thanks, SBW, Botha, Nasser and Sky. I'd rather watch the new TV offshoot of Embarrassing Bodies - Embarrassing Boxers. Oh, that's right, I already did ...


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- S. 147/H.R. 309: Process for Federal Recognition of a Native Hawaiian Governmental Entity
- S. 147/H.R. 309, companion bills introduced in the 109th Congress, represent an effort to accord to Native Hawaiians a means of forming a governmental entity that could enter into government-to-government relations with the United States. This report describes the provisions of the reported version of S. 147; outlines some federal statutes and recent cases which might be relevant to the issue of federal recognition of a Native Hawaiian entity; and recounts some legal arguments that have been presented in the debate on this legislation. It includes a brief outline of the provisions of a substitute amendment expected to be offered in lieu of the reported version of S. 147, when Senate debate, which was interrupted by the filing of a cloture motion on July 29, resumes.
- Asian Pacific Americans in the United States Congress
- Asian Pacific Americans have served in both houses of Congress representing California, Hawaii, Louisiana, Oregon, Virginia, American Samoa, and Guam. They have served in leadership positions, including committee and subcommittee chairmanships. This report presents information on Senators, Representatives, and Delegates, including party affiliations, length and dates of service, and committee assignments.


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Claude Cernuschi
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Chairperson, Art History
Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts of New York University
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Fields of Interest
Claude Cernuschi's major field of interest is 20th century art and theory. His research till now has focused primarily on Expressionism and Abstract Expressionism, with special attention to drawing interdisciplinary parallels between works of art and ideas stemming from fields such as psychology and philosophy. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University in 1988.
- Barnett Newman and Heideggerian Philosophy (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012).
- Pollock Matters (co-edited with Ellen G. Landau) (McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2007).
- Re/Casting Kokoschka: Ethics and Aesthetics, Epistemology and Politics in Fin-de Siècle Vienna (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002).
- "Not an Illustration, but the Equivalent": A Cognitive Approach to Abstract Expressionism (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997).
- Jackson Pollock: Meaning and Significance (Harper Collins, 1992).
- Jackson Pollock: "Psychoanalytic" Drawings (Duke University Press, 1992).
Articles and Essays
- "El arte de Wifredo Lam y la antropología de Lucien Lévy-Bruhl y Claude Lévi-Strauss," in Goizueta, Elizabeth (ed.) Wifredo Lam: Imaginando nuevos mundos (2016), pp. 41-87.
- "The Art of Wifredo Lam and the Anthropology of Lucien Lévy-Bruhl and Claude Lévi-Strauss," in Elizabeth Goizueta (ed.) Wifredo Lam: Imaging New Worlds (Boston College: McMullen Museum of Art, 2014), pp. 25-68.
- "The Self-Portraits of Gustave Courbet," in Jeffery Howe (ed.) Gustave Courbet: Mapping Realism (McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2013), pp. 31-58.
- "Painting with Drops, Jets, and Sheets," (with Andrzej Herczynski, Physics Department, Boston College and L. Mahadevan, Physics Department, Harvard University) Parity 28 No 3(2013): 26-34 [Japanese translation of essay published in Physics Today (June 2011): 31-36.]
- "Paul Klee and Language," in John Sallis (ed.) Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision; From Nature to Art (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum, Boston College, 2012), pp.106-33.
- "Defining Self in Kokoschka's Self-Portraits," German Quarterly 84 (Spring 2011): 198-219.
- "Painting with Drops, Jets, and Sheets," (with Andrzej Herczynski, Physics Department, Boston College and L. Mahadevan, Physics Department, Harvard University) Physics Today (June 2011): 31-36.
- "Depth and Surface, Will and Representation: Egon Schiele and Arthur Schopenhauer," in Jill Lloyd (ed.) Birth of the Modern; Style and identity in Vienna 1900 (New York: Mirmer Verlag, 2011), pp. 172-97.
- "Georges Rouault and the Rhetoric of Expressionism," Religion and The Arts 12:4 (2008): 479-539.
- "The Subversion of Gravity in Jackson Pollock's Abstractions." (With Andrzej Herczynski, Physics Department, Boston College) The Art Bulletin 90 (December 2008): 616-639.
- "Rouault and Expressionism," in Stephen Schloesser (ed.) Mystic Masque: Semblance and Reality in Georges Rouault, 1871-1958 (McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2008), pp. 215-228.
- Cutting Pollock Down to Size: The Boundaries of the Poured Technique, (With Andrzej Herczynski, Physics Department, Boston College) in Ellen G. Landau and Claude Cernuschi (eds.) Pollock Matters (McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2007), pp. 73-90.
- Abstract Expressionism and Fractal Geometry, (With Andrzej Herczynski, Physics Department, Boston College and David Martin, Computer Science Department, Boston College) in Ellen G. Landau and Claude Cernuschi (eds.) Pollock Matters (McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2007), pp. 91-104.
- Freudian Themes in the Symbolist Work of George Minne, in Howe, Jeffery (ed.) A New Key: Modern Belgian Art from the Simon Collection (McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2007), pp. 241-80.
- Adolf Loos, Alois Riegl, and the Debate on Ornament in Vienna 1900, in Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom (eds.) Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the David Collection (McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2006), pp. 45-56.
- Mindscapes and Mind Games: Visualizing Thought in the Work of Matta and His Abstract Expressionists Contemporaries, in Goizueta, Elizabeth (ed.) Matta: Making the Invisible Visible (McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2004), pp. 48-80.
- "Anatomical Dissection and Religious Identification: A Wittgensteinian Response to Oskar Kokoschka's Alternative Paradigms for Truth in his Self-Portraiture Prior to World War I," in Natter, G. Tobias (ed.) Oskar Kokoschka: Early Portraits from Vienna and Berlin, 1909-1914 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), pp. 43-49; also translated as "Anatomisches Sezieren und religiöse Identifikation: Eine Wittgensteinsche Antwort auf Oskar Kokoschkas Alternativparadigmen zur Wahrheitsfindung in seinen vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg enstandenen Selbstporträts," in Oskar Kokoschka: Das Moderne Bildnis 1909 bis 1914 (Hamburg, Kunsthalle, 2002), pp. 43-49.
- "Sex and Psyche, Nature and Nurture, the Personal and the Political: Edvard Munch and German Expressionism," in Howe, Jeffery (ed.) Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol and Expression, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2001, pp. 132-65.
- "The Application of Psychoanalysis to the Humanities: Science or Hermeneutics?" in The Plume and the Palette: Essays in Honor of Josephine von Henneberg (New York: Peter Lang, 2001), pp. 27-45.
- "Body and Soul: Oskar Kokoschka's The Warrior, Truth, and the Interchangeability of the Physical and Psychological in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna." Art History 23 (March 2000): 56-87.
- "Oskar Kokoschka and Sigmund Freud: Parallel Logics in the Exegetical and Rhetorical Strategies of Expressionism and Psychoanalysis." Word & Image 15 (October-December 1999): 351-380.
- "Pseudo-Science and Mythic Misogyny: Oskar Kokoschka's Murderer, Hope of Women." Art Bulletin 81 (March 1999): 126-48.
- "Visual and Ideological Pluralism in Practice: Contemporary Irish Women Artists in Context," in Conley, Alston and Grinnell, Jennifer (eds.) Re/Dressing Cathleen: Contemporary Works from Irish Women Artists, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 1997, pp. 19-35.
- "Artist as Christ/Artist as Criminal: Oskar Kokoschka's Self-Portrait for Der Sturm, Myth, and the Construction of Identity in Vienna 1900," Religion and the Arts 2 (1997): 93-127.
- "Franz Kline's Probst I: A Cognitive Approach to Gestural Abstraction." Journal of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 6 (1994): 76-98.
- "Communication Without Conventions?: Reading Mark Rothko's Abstractions." Source: Notes in the History of Art 11 (Spring/Summer 1992): 65-69.
- "Mark Rothko's Mature Paintings: A Question of Content." Arts Magazine, 60 (May 1986): 54-57.
Reviews and Book Reviews
- "Alston Conley," and "Mary Armstrong," Post Road 7 (Fall 2003): 73-74.
- "A Sum of Destructions: Picasso's Cultures & The Creation of Cubism by Natasha Staller." Amherst Magazine 55 (Spring 2003): 32, 34-35."
- "The Politics of Abstract Expressionism." [Review of David Craven's Abstract Expressionism as Cultural Critique: Dissent During the McCarthy Period] Archives of American Art Journal 39 no. 1 & 2 (2000): 30-42.
- "Jackson Pollock at MoMA: On the Surface and Under the Rug." [Review of Kirk Varnedoe and Pepe Karmel, Jackson Pollock] Archives of American Art Journal 38 no. 3 and 4 (2000): 30-38.
- "The Rothko Chapel in Houston: The Structure of Meaning or the Meaning of Structure?" [Review of Sheldon Nodelman's The Rothko Chapel Paintings: Origins, Structure, Meaning] Religion and the Arts 3-3/4 (1999): 454-475.
- "Mark Rothko from Alpha to Omega." [Review of David Anfam, Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas] Archives of American Art Journal 38 no. 1 and 2 (1999): 39-45.
Encyclopedia and Dictionary Entries
- "Jackson Pollock," in Paul S. Boyer (ed.) The Oxford Companion to United States History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
- "André Masson," "Surrealism," "Cubism," "Picasso." Essays in Microsoft's Encarta 2000 CD-Rom encyclopedia.
- "Jackson Pollock," "Mark Rothko," "Willem DeKooning," "Hans Hofmann," "Modern Art." Essays in Microsoft's Encarta 99 CD-Rom encyclopedia.


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The students in "Basic Design" ART 105 at Hope College are pursuing a bonus goal as they work on their final projects: an opportunity to help launch a new product line for Palazzolo's Artisan Gelato and Sorbetto in Fennville.
As a start-to-finish project, each student has been challenged to develop an original flavor for Palazzolo's new organic line of artisan gelato--along with a logo, magazine advertisement and other promotional items. One of the flavors created by a student will become the first in Palazzolo's new line of organic gelato.
The course's instructor, Stephanie Milanowski, noted that the unusual assignment has a serious purpose. As design professionals, she said, the students might find themselves asked to take on a wide variety of projects, developing them from concept through presentation and implementation.
While only one flavor and logo design will make the final cut, Milanowski has enjoyed the variety she's seen as the students have worked through their creative process.
"We have two Basic Design sections filled with original flavors students have created. We have a caramel fuji apple, a chocolate covered strawberry, and a lemonbar crunch to name a few," she said. "It's exciting to see so many different ideas and beautifully crafted presentations."
On Wedsnesday, April 28, owner Pete Palazzolo will visit the students to hear presentations and select the top three designs from the design hopefuls.
However the final selection turns out, Milanowski noted that she's appreciated both the chance to involve the class in the community and the spirit in which the students have done their work while seeking the ultimate prize of having their creation become part of Palazzolo's new organic line.
"It's a neat collaboration between students and Palazzolo's," she said. "It's not a contest or competition - the students are helping each other, they're having fun - nurturing each other's talents."