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To go or not to go. It's a tough one. With wedding season in full swing, we ask guys about whether it's appropriate to attend a former flame's wedding. Should you go alone, with your current girlfriend, or with common friends — what's the best way to handle the situation?
First of all, a round of applause to those who do pull it off. Television host and actor Gaurav Khanna points out, "Most guys wouldn't go, but I've seen a couple of my friends do it and I think it shows how mature you are. Luckily, I haven't yet been in such a situation." Gaurav adds, "People break up for whatever reason, but it's a small world and you never know when you'll meet an ex. So my advice is to accept that and then decide."
Take your cue from the invitation, suggests DJ Anoop Absolute. Anoop feels, "The fact that she is inviting you proves that you've remained friends. I say, wish the bride and groom a happy married life and enjoy the wedding."
It wouldn't hurt to dress your best for the occasion, adds MC Abbas, an entrepreneur. "I've been to a couple of exes' weddings and there's another one coming up. I've already decided what to wear. I'm also going to take a nice gift for both of them and wish them happiness." According to Abbas, it's the coolest way to face the day and show that you have moved on. "You could go with a common friend for company. No flaunting the hot current girlfriend — you don't want to be in-your-face about this."
Time is an important deciding factor, opines model Karan Medappa. He states, "If you have broken up recently and she's getting married, I don't think you'd be able to handle it, so it's best not to go. It's not a good idea to go and create a scene. Drama is best left to the movies." If it's been a while and both parties have moved on but stayed in touch, courtesy demands you attend, he adds. "Personally, I'd go either with my girlfriend or a friend and get up on stage, congratulate the couple and leave early."
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Here's good news for President Barack Obama: The slice of Americans who believe he is a Muslim is down to 11 percent, according to a new Gallup Poll.That number was up to 18 percent two years ago, in a Pew Research Center survey, after hitting 11 percent in 2009.This time around, 52 percent of Democrats knew the president is a Protestant Christian, as opposed to 24 percent of Republicans. Only 3 percent of Democrats said Obama is a Muslim, while 18 percent of Republicans thought so. The … [Read more...]
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The full-page New York Times advertisement by the Freedom From Religion Foundation was certainly blunt -- starting with its headline telling "liberal" and "nominal" Catholics that "It's Time to Consider Quitting the Catholic Church."Conservative Catholics were outraged and called the newspaper's leaders hypocrites, claiming they would never dare to run such a fierce and offensive ad that targeted believers in other faiths, especially Islam.Sure enough, a group called Stop Islamization of … [Read more...]
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At the Dome of the Rock on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, centuries of Islamic doctrine have literally been carved into the shrine's walls.Two quotations on the northwest wall will be of special interest to anyone interested in the latest whirlwind of controversy linked to evangelical superstar Rick Warren and his giant Saddleback Church.The outer face inscription states, in part: "Praise be to God who has not taken a son and who does not have any partner in dominion. ..." On the inside, after a … [Read more...]
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In terms of giant headlines and spilled ink, there is no question that the lightning strike by U.S. special forces that killed Osama bin Laden was the year's most spectacular news event, featuring a deadly brew of religion, politics and violence.Thus, it isn't surprising that members of the Religion Newswriters Association selected the death of the world's most infamous radical Muslim as No. 1 in their poll to name the year's top 10 stories on the religion beat. In addition to the symbolism of … [Read more...]
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Rodney Dangerfield complained about receiving no respect, but we wonder how he would have done in a dress and high heels. Women in comedy nowadays don't have to play second banana to any dude, so Ronnie Deleski, Jacki Orr, and Amy Jean Page birthed Muff Mondays as a yonic-slanted comedy showcase. The monthly variety show is a mix of stand-up, sketches, music, and video that is smart and funny no matter what's between your legs. Do beware, though, boys — their humor does have teeth. Take, for example, the game show-style journey through ex-boyfriends called "Guess His Dick Size."
How is it that we've scraped this town, year after year, searching for drinking digs without ever coming across this little gem? The Ice House Tavern is really kind of a messed-up idea — but in a creepy, fantastic way. Anyone who grew up in Phoenix probably skated at Arcadia Ice Arena at least once in his or her life. Little did we know as fumbling, tumbling idiots on the rink that drunks were watching us the entire time. Yep, there's a bar connected to the rink where boozers can slurp their cocktails and peer through windows to the rink while wobbly skaters slide around on the ice. In 2009, local hipsters latched onto this hole in the wall and celebrated its slightly seedy — definitely cuckoo — novelty.
It's a bit of a haul for most Phoenicians — just over the Pinal County line south of Queen Creek — but a trip to San Tan Flat on a Saturday night is a real treat. Live music from a rollicking country band, a nice wide dance floor, and great food give this place an overall excellent atmosphere, but it's the wood-burning fire pits that really set the stage for a special night. Grab some wood off the pile and toss it on the coals, then buy some marshmallows from behind the bar. Before you know it, you'll be living the saloon's slogan: "All the fun of camping out, without having to sleep on the ground."
We love the Autostrada panini. And we love the smoked salmon bruschetta. And Postino Central's wine list is not only imaginative but always features several of our favorite libations. But what we really love most about this new-ish cafe (located in the old Katz's Deli building on North Central) is that seating on the patio lets us watch three entirely different slices of life, all at once. We can ogle the bar crowd that's hanging out just beyond the patio (where it's pretty easy to strike up a conversation with like-minded wine lovers at the next table), so our desire to watch drunk people hooking up is sated. Beyond that, the dining room is always filled with people having klatch-y catch-up meetings and clandestine conferences (last time we were there, we witnessed a mother-daughter donnybrook having to do with short skirts and withheld tuitions — scandalous!). And Postino's wide, single-pane picture window offers views of the street beyond the dining room. We can even see, from way back on the patio, the comings and goings at the Circle K across the street — which is a lot more interesting than you'd imagine. We're lurkers at heart, and we see a lot more than crusty bread and wine bottles when we hang at Postino Central.
We've always wondered: Where do bars and clubs go when they die (i.e., close)? Whisked away to the nightspot great beyond after falling to a wrecking ball, perhaps, never to return (like Tempe's Long Wong's)? Or maybe reincarnation into a completely new identity is in order, like when the old Mason Jar became gay dive Velocity 2303. In the case of The Sail Inn in Tempe, the legendary hippie hangout was revived, Lazarus-style, in its original location by owner Gina Lombardi. The original version of the Sail closed after it was bought out by real estate developers in late 2005, ultimately becoming the ill-conceived danceteria Trax, which fizzled out after 18 months. Fortunately, Lombardi swept in and resurrected her old stomping grounds earlier this year, upgrading the décor in the process. And though its look may have changed, Lombardi's continuing the old habit of booking a wide variety of musicians — ranging from the jam-rockers of Xtra Ticket and The Noodles to burgeoning indie acts like Black Carl — nearly every night since re-opening. It couldn't have happened at a better time, too, as The Sail Inn is just about the only dedicated music venue in downtown Tempe, an area once renowned for its live bands. Thanks, Gina.
Since debuting in January, Cream Stereo Lounge has endured a significant amount of both love and hate, much like any new nightspot. Its supporters easily gush about its mix of European and Las Vegas-style touches, including swimsuit-clad models engaging in burlesque-like bathtub shows. The haters, on the other side of the coin, have groused about alleged rude service, the club's minuscule size, and overpriced covers. But over the past few months, the grumblings have quieted down and the place is more popular than ever. One factor in its success has been the selection of superstar DJs that have been booked to spin here. The list is quite impressive, including Lee Burridge, Paul Oakenfold, George Acosta, and Paul van Dyk, just to name a few. Like the saying goes, the Cream rises to the top.


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[ARTICLE] The New Tastemakers
Five weeks ago I had the pleasure of speaking with a Burning Ear reader who was writing an article on the way music blogs are changing the industry. May Wildman was writing the article for The University of Maryland's daily newspaper. She asked me questions. We talked. Or rather, I talked. She listened patiently. Perhaps napped. Who can tell. Anyway, When I followed up a few days ago to see how it was received she said the paper never published it. Something about "end of the year and a lot of other material to publish.†Just cause that paper dropped the ball doesn't mean Wildman's work should go unread. After all, It's pretty damn interesting. Plus a Read more →


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Letter to the Editor: Redistricting article welcome
Republican voters in Rayne and Green townships had been under the assumption that our voting districts were unaltered when the state was redistricted.
We are thankful to reporter Randy Wells and the Gazette for publishing the color-coded map March 12 that clearly delineated the individual districts and those who represent them.
Most of us were unaware that we are part of the 66th Legislative District currently serviced by the retiring Sam Smith.
I served as one of the petition carriers in this district, and several times those I visited said that they had never seen Sam Smith's name on their ballot when they voted in past elections and therefore wondered why I was carrying a petition for Cris Dush, who is running for that upcoming vacancy. They were unaware of these changes.
I would also like to express gratitude to Cris Dush, a Republican running for the 66th District seat. He cared enough about us to place an ad in the Gazette to inform those of us who reside in Rayne and Green townships that we are now part of the 66th District.
As informed voters, we need to know who is running, learn more about them and become familiar with their platforms before we go to the polls to vote in the primary on May 20.
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I know, it's your eyes. I was, like most people, very apprehensive about anybody poking around in my eyes. But my cataracts were starting to interfere with my day to day activities and I finally realized I had to do something about it. When I first saw Dr. Medford he immediately put me at ease. I admitted that I was very squeamish about my eyes, and his reply was "well, luckily, I'm not!" He went on to explain to me exactly what the procedure involved, and the benefits of the Femto laser (which I opted for). The results were more than I could have hoped for. The lens for one eye was for distance, and the lens for my second eye was for reading (tuned to about arms length). Now, for the most part, don't wear any glasses. I can do computer work, read the newspaper, my cell phone, etc. The exception is when I need to read very, very small print, at which point I can put on some glasses. Good news is that I don't need the glasses very often, but when I do, I can read print that I couldn't read with my glasses before! The only way to describe it is that it's "crystal clear". I'm so happy that I finally got the courage to get this done. After the procedure I realized it really was no big deal. I didn't feel anything during the procedure, and Dr. Medford and all the folks at the Ridgedale Surgery Center were caring, friendly, and made my short stay very comfortable. Dr. Medford's office staff were, likewise, friendly and easy to work with. Kelli, the surgical coordinator, was exceptional in helping me get a surgery date that would fit into my hectic schedule. I would enthusiastically recommend Dr. Medford to anybody who needs eye care.
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I've recently had both eyes operated on for removal of cataracts. I had a referral from my optometrist, but did not find positive reviews for that ophthalmologist. I searched for someone with better reviews and came upon Dr. Medford (Affiliated Eye Surgeons 95 Madison Ave, Ste 400 Morristown, NJ 07960). The wait time for the original examination was a couple of months, which indicates how much of this type of work his organization does. Once in, the actual appointments for the operations were very reasonable, and the waits at the office were prompt. The staff was courteous and very personable. Dr. Medford was great. He explained everything that was going to happen, and how the process worked; he really took all the time I needed and explained everything in layman's terms. The operations went smoothly and the results were exactly as described - in my terms, the results were life changing. For the first time since I was 12 years old (53 years ago) I could see distance without glasses! I do need reading glasses (needed bifocals before) and again, Dr. Medford's recommendation for transitional lenses worked out perfectly. Using the computer is better than ever, sight wise. I would recommend him to friends and relatives in a heartbeat (and I already have).
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The third anniversary of one of the worst tornadoes in state history is May 22 and a trio of Lee's Summit architects has had a hand in the rebuilding efforts of the town affected by the EF-5 twister that caused billions of dollars in damage and claimed hundreds of lives.
The new Soaring Heights Elementary School in Joplin houses more than 450 elementary students grades K-5. John Brown, Scott Barton and David Esely of Lee's Summit-based Hollis + Miller Architects helped design the new building that houses the elementary school as well Joplin East Middle School, home to 750 students in grades 6-8.
Brown, vice president and owner of Hollis + Miller, served as the partner in charge of the project, Barton, a senior associate, led the overall design of the schools as director and Esely, an associate, ushered the entire project through to construction phase as senior architect and project manager.
All three are Lee's Summit residents and were heavily involved in the design of the massive 250,000 square-feet structure.
"It was extremely humbling and satisfying as we went along to be a part of a process like that," Brown said May 20. "We actually took my whole office down there in groups of five or six people for a week-and-a-half right after the tornado. We hadn't gotten the project yet, but I wanted everyone to experience what the people of Joplin were going through so if we did get the project then we could understand where they came from and what they'd been through. For me it was an extremely humbling and satisfying experience."
Both schools, which opened in January, are equipped with 21st century learning concepts designed to help elementary and middle school students respectively learn with creativity conducive to their learning capabilities.
"Each individual is different and they learn differently," said Barton. "How do we account for the different styles of learning for each student so that everybody learns from their optimal manner all the time? That's sort of how education has changed and our spaces reflect those types of changes."
Each school has a separate parent drop-off location and sight lines preventing the elementary playground from having a view of the middle school.
The schools were built on a 36-acre site to replace schools destroyed by the tornado that hit Joplin in May of 2011, including the former East Middle School and two nearby elementary schools.
"It's actually one building that is conjoined," Esely said. "It's all one building but it's two buildings kind of joined together. The auditorium sits right in the middle of the entire building and they can share the function of that auditorium between the two schools. They also share a kitchen for the cooking."
Each of the architects said helping rebuild Joplin was a life-altering ordeal for them. Brown offered he was changed for the better, as were Barton and Esely.
"It gave me a perspective on what I can do for a community," Brown said. "As an architect we design buildings, but this was more than designing a building, this was about helping rebuild a community. They weren't just getting a school; they were getting a part of their community back.
Barton added: "It was pretty amazing; it was inspiring is probably the best way I can say it. Here are these folks that have gone through massive trauma in their life and instead of putting back the same old so that they could get back with their life, they said 'here's a moment in time that can make our life better.'
"That hit me pretty hard, so everything we did was sort of in that mindset of if they're asking for more than we have to give them more. This is their opportunity to do this and this is our opportunity to help them in a very special way. It was inspiring and honoring to be apart of what they were trying to do."
For his work, Esely was just as convicted as the others.
"We got involved down there shortly after the tornado," Esely said. "Just going down there to see the level of destruction right after it happened it was just unbelievable. To be able to be apart of the rebuilding in some small way with the schools was great."
Hollis + Miller Architects' collective work in Joplin has not gone unrecognized. The firm, which also has an office in Overland Park, Kan., received the 2014 Council of Educational Facility Planners International John Shaw Award for excellence and innovative design.
CEFPI is a worldwide professional non-profit association whose members, individuals, institutions and corporations are involved in planning, designing, building, equipping and maintaining schools and colleges.
"I think for the firm to be recognized by other educators and other planners is rewarding for all the hard work and everything we put into it," Brown said. "The spaces that we designed were designed not for cool spaces but they were designed for educational purposes and the (Joplin School District) really appreciated the fact that every space has an educational value to it.
"It wasn't just a cool space – it happens to be a nice space as well, but the main function of the space is to have an educational component everywhere in the building. It's been awhile since we won that award so it was nice to get that award again."


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Mennonite Aid Society of South Dakota, a mutual aid fire and storm insurance association, was organized in March 1922 in Turner County, SD, its office relocated, before 1953, to Freeman, and it served all branches of Mennonites. In 1953 it served 241 members, chiefly General Conference Mennonites, with $2,000,000 of property covered.
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Deer not Bear
Can anyone food suggest that deer will without attacting bear or is that just unrealistic.Im currently feeding a couple of doe and ther fawns from spring and had an unwelcome visit from 3 cubs and a mom bear a few days ago disrupting the deer and ever since then Ihavent seen them although the bear have been back.Could someone also suggest maybe some kind of feeder only accesible to deer thanks
What kind of bear did you see there? If it was a Black Bear, it was something else that scared them off. If it was a brown bear, he probably ate them.
Bears are dangerous
It's my undeerstand that bear do eat deer and elk fawns, and that a mama bear with her cubs can pose a danger to you. I advise it best to not feel wildlife.
I wouldn't feed any of them. Its just asking for problems.
A bear will eat anything that a deer will eat, and more.
I will have to agree with the postings. Should not feed WILD animals. Some states it is illegal. Wish it was in mine..................:wink:
it is dangerous and irresponsible to feed wildlife
Most of the animals I have to put down have become accustomed to human as a food source and have lost all fear
The most dangerous animal there is is a wild animal that has lost it's fear of man
Even a deer can and will kill or severely injure a human
You have experienced first hand why the practice is illegal
By feeding the deer you have lured in a very very dangerous element
Not only have you place your home and family in danger you have exposed the deer to a danger that they may not have been exposed to if they had not been coerced into coming to a predictable place at a predictable time
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Fall of the Evil Empire
Author: Standabove
First off, let me say that many of the analyses of the MS decision on this board have been well written and thought provoking. Leave it to the AAPL board to state with greater clarity than the Wintel crowd what is truly important and worth considering. Excellent job.
Ten years ago the Berlin Wall fell. It was the culmination of 40+ years of a Cold War fought all over the globe at great expense of life and money, mostly through third world stand-ins. The end of the Evil Soviet Empire was supposed to bring general world peace and a new peace dividend. But most importantly, it was supposed to eliminate the greatest threat, that of global nuclear destruction. None of these things have come to pass as envisioned. The world is not at peace, the dividend is non-existent, and nuclear weapons still proliferate, now in the hands of many madmen instead of one.
Those who do not learn from the past, etc.
Now, to a few issues I've not seen addressed (here).
|"Do we really believe this decision sounds a death knell for the REDmond Menace?"
Do we really believe this decision sounds a death knell for the REDmond Menace? First off, the reaction to the judge's verdict should have come as a collective "DUH" since anyone who's ever paid attention to the issues at hand could have told you that MS was a Monopoly. Boardwalk and Park Place w/ too many hotels to count. Leave it to the Gub'ment to send in the peace keepers after the village has been burned and the women raped- MS has wreaked its havoc. What possible retribution could the DOJ seek that is "fair"?
So the issue will become, "What now?" This is more complicated than it may seem.
I have said before that I believe the PC as we know it is dying, and the Wintel duopoly that fed it passing into increasing irrelevance. Not an original position by any means. My strong support in AAPL has been based, in part, on my perception of Steve's awareness of this and his masterful marshaling of the ipieces that will herald the new consumer ieconomy- Quicktime, OS X, AKAM, and the newly focused Mac line to name a few. In light of this, it seems that Windoze, IE, etc. are already irrelevant if one is focused on riding the new wave. As GFPE pointed out, MS makes far more money on apps than on windoze, and of coarse they give IE away, so its pretty apparent that both are a means to an end (BTW, kudos for whoever pointed out that IE was an initiative to "proprietarize" HTML, an observation that I wouldn't have made otherwise).
Bill knows all of this. That is why he has put his capital to work outside these domains (money goes where future opportunity lies). MS is invested in just about every aspect of the new economy, from hardware to software to my sister's lemonade stand so that they can lay claim to whatever is the next big thing.
I don't quite understand why MS generates the animosity it does concerning its lack of creativity, ie. buying ideas rather than having them. That is the most American of ideals, to buy what you'd rather not do for yourself. Not very sexy, to be sure, but plenty of successful companies do it including CSCO, LU and AOL- all of which I own.
|"Are we really vindicated by this decision?"
The real problem, the criminal problem, lies in MS using its market position to force the world to accept its newly acquired serfdoms as world powers. Which is precisely what the decision accuses them of doing.
But, and here's the big payoff, What will the DOJ do to destroy MS's market position? Nothing else matters. So what if MS "open sources" Windoze or for that matter IE? Those two products are old news and MS is already turning its market position ($$$$$$) into future opportunity, and it will be these resources which will allow Bill to dominate future markets just as he has past ones.
Are we really vindicated by this decision? Sure, like POLAND was vindicated with the collapse of the USSR. I've read commentary that goes "Now Bill's on the hot seat." Um, yeah right. Only if that seat is stuffed with 80 Billion George washingtons ready to buy the legs out from any springy entrepreneur wishing to travel the road less taken.
I would be extremely cynical of any deal, or Compromise$e Bill makes with the DOJ.
Most importantly for our dreams of retiring early, how will this effect AAPL. In a strange way, and in light of the questions I've posted, I think it makes things a bit less certain. MS was a bit like a 1K ton ship with a 5 inch keel. If they can "divest" themselves of the albatross that Windoze would have become in the new economy, it will make them more maneuverable and far less predictable. And still with all that cash. Some have even suggested that a "forced" break-up is what Bill wanted all along. Will MS baby bells be any less likely to weld the greater MS power?
Make no mistake, this is not about one monopolistic product (or two or three). Its about one man with the resources to subjugate the entire market. Any solution resulting from the trial that does not address this disproportionate allocation of market influence and seek to eliminate it misses the point, and leaves the BIG ONE to be fought another day.


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Neighborhoods can evolve rapidly, and we're always on the lookout for the hidden gems that are in the process of turning over and becoming the next hot place to buy.
On our radar now? Homes close to the Santa Fe Trail in East Dallas. It's a hop, skip, and jump from Lakewood, Hollywood Heights, and White Rock Lake, right on the Santa Fe Trail, and zoned for Lakewood Elementary, which earns a "10" out of 10 from greatschools.org.
We've found an incredible listing at 310 S. Glasgow Dr., a new construction just listed for $599,000. With almost 3,000 square feet, designer finishes, and sleek, transitional style, this same house would be priced at $849K if it were just two blocks away, closer to Lakewood shopping center, said listing agent Lee Lamont with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage.
"This house and several others nearby were just built by BCH Development, who have been in Lakewood and the Park Cities for 20 years," Lamont said. "This price is unheard of in East Dallas for a new home with a full builder's warranty sophisticated spaces, high-end finishes throughout, and remarkable efficiency with foam wall insulation and low-E windows."
Like the home next door that just went under contract, this home has four bedrooms, three full bathrooms, one half bath, an office, two living areas, and 2,938 square feet on two stories. Let's take a look!


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So I'm not one to divulge a lot of personal information, but this blog has become such a part of me and all of you, my readers, feel like friends to me. I just wanted to share that, unfortunately, I just got some bad news about a family member and am flying out of the country tonight.
Please think good thoughts for us. I truly appreciate all your love and support.
There won't be new posts for a bit.
kisses. xxoo
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Plasters and Disasters: Audrey Flack's Recent SculpturesApril 11 - May 2, 2007
"[Audrey Flack's] recent plasters and bronzes suggest a certain timelessness. […] She understands that there are regressive forces – unenlightened forces in society – that are ignorant of the renewing and regenerative powers of art."Robert C. Morgan "The Heroine-ism of Audrey Flack", 1999 Although she lived for much of her childhood in Washington Heights, Audrey Flack was actually born in the neighborhood of Kingsborough Community College in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn on May 30th, 1931. Her love for art developed at a young age, and she was able to study art formally at some of the most prestigious art schools on the East coast, including Cooper Union, Yale University, the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and, as did many of the most important modern artists of the twentieth century, the Art Students League in midtown Manhattan. In the 1950s, Flack painted in the Abstract Expressionist style, but she made a prodigious name for herself in the 1970s as a major innovator within the photorealist movement, becoming the first major photorealist painter to have a work enter the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Flack began to make sculptures in the early years of the following decade and continues to do so today.
Since 1982, Flack has focused her attention on creating sculptures of powerful female figures ranging from small to colossal in scale. This exhibition explores the process of Flack's working method and the maquettes (preliminary sketches) for future large-scale sculptures. Although these maquettes are the most fragile, most embryonic versions of her sculptures, they also represent the state of each piece at its most pure form – they are the models that the artist actually works on before each sculpture is transferred to a foundry for casting into metal. In her book Art and Soul, Notes on Creating (1986), Flack stated: I need the substance of sculpture, the compactness of scale reduction in the form of a recognizable human figure – something solid, real, tangible. Something to hold and to hold on to. Something that won't fly away or disintegrate. Bronze, heavy-weighted, yet portable. I want people to be able to own these pieces as well as exchange them. My fantasy is to be able to produce them in great numbers, large editions, inexpensive, affordable – votive figures, some to be left as markers, some to be carried with their owners. Another part of the vision is to use some of these small sculptures as maquettes for larger-than-life-sized single figures, to be placed outdoors at significant sites. These would act as beacons or markers. (Flack, Art and Soul, p. 26).
The artist continues the tradition of figurative sculpture in America that began in the 1830s with the work of Horatio Greenough, the country's first professionally trained sculptor. Additionally she carries on the tradition of colossal sculpture in America that was epitomized by such works as Hammatt Billings' thirty-six foot tall National Monument to the Forefathers in Plymouth, Massachusetts (1854-89) and the French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi's one-hundred and fifty-one foot tall Statue of Liberty (1886). The medium of sculpture has always been reserved for the depiction of heroes, sometimes glorious, sometimes tragic, but more often created by men. In traditional sculptures, heroes are depicted as male and allegories as female. Flack has continuously challenged traditional sculptural images with her program of commanding women from a feminist point of view; these women are always powerful and stalwart but do not lack fluidity and grace. Flack has not sculpted the male figure to any great extent. In an interview with David R. Brigham in American Art (1994), she stated that she intends to sculpt a male figure, but that she "would like to sculpt some new male heroes. We need a new vision of a male hero, a true hero, who's kind and gentle and cares about the earth and all people" (American Art, 1994, 19). Thirteen years later, given the climate of recent political and social events, it is understandable why she has continued to work with and develop female heroic figures.
Flack's vision of seeing her works as markers at important sites has come to fruition, as many of her colossal sculptures have been placed in a number of public spaces in the United States over the past sixteen years. Often destined for a public space, the colossal works are part of Flack's designs for a new type of "civic" art, with women, rather than men, as the focal point of city, citizenship and community. A group of four twenty-foot bronze figures comprise her most well-known large-scale project, Civitas: Four Visions (Gateway to the City of Rock Hill), installed at the Rock Hill Gateway in South Carolina in April of 1991. In the same year, one of her first major sculptural commissions was made for the City University of New York: Islandia: Goddess of the Healing Waters, a nine-foot high bronze figure, is part of the Edward Durrell Stone addition (Edward Larabe Barnes Atrium) to the New York City Technical College on Jay Street in Brooklyn. More recently, Flack has completed a fifteen-foot high sculpture entitled Recording Angel (2006, figure 1) for the Schermerhorn Symphony Center at the Nashville Symphony, which overlooks the Country Music Hall of Fame. The Recording Angel is certainly a reference to one of the nine muses, goddesses of the arts, considered elemental to human inspiration, necessary for the conception and creation of works of art. The wet-style drapery on her abdomen and her wings remind one of the Hellenistic Nike of Samothrace at the Louvre – it is as if Flack has reconstructed that once-whole, now-fragmented ancient work. Yet the Recording Angel is a muse for our own time: she holds a CD disc in her right hand. Her left hand is held upright with her thumb and forefinger together, holding a feathered quill. Flack wanted the quill to be fitted with a laser, incorporating light into the sculpture as well as symbolizing the burning of music onto the disc.
Both photorealist painting and large scale figurative sculpture have been domains largely dominated by male artists, and this has remained so particularly in the case of sculpture. For Flack, as it was for other female sculptors of the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries whom she greatly admires (including Camille Claudel, Malvina Hoffman, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Marcello and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney), participating in the creation of sculpture is far from an easy task. The very medium seems gender-identified as male, as the majority of carvers, founders, modelers and other craftspeople who help to bring a sculptural sketch or maquette from the artist's studio to its final realization, have traditionally been, and have remained, men.
Many sculptors who happen to have been women have often complained throughout history of being ill-treated at the foundries where their sculpture is brought to completion, and Flack could be counted among them. Recently, at a foundry where one of her large scale pieces was being cast, a founder directed technical questions to Flack's husband (who is not a sculptor) rather than to her; such an event would seem more probable in the nineteenth century than in the twenty-first. Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908), one of America's greatest and most successful nineteenth-century sculptors, complained of similar treatment, among other biases, against women. Additionally, people in general have a hard time understanding that sculpture is created in many stages and often requires the help of assistants (both male and female) to bring a work to completion. In her essay, "The Process of Sculpture," published in the Atlantic Monthly in December of 1864, Hosmer felt compelled to discuss how sculpture is made, step-by-step, hoping to end rumors in the American and British press that she did not make her own sculptures. In fact the use of assistants was an accepted practice among sculptors of either sex. Flack too uses the necessary help of foundry assistants, but, as she has herself noted, "All sculptors need assistance, but making art is like making love. You cannot have somebody else do it for you" (American Art, 1994, 6).
Sculpture is a difficult, physical medium that often produces disastrous setbacks, hence the title of our exhibition. In Art and Soul, Flack recalled a clay sculpture that literally melted from its armature in her studio (p. 23). To produce the very earliest models of her sculptures, Flack uses wax and clay. These works are then "destroyed" during the casting process. She has lamented, as have most sculptors, of the numerous pieces ruined in molds and poorly cast, after which the maquettes have been lost and are difficult to replicate. In this exhibition, one can view versions of Flack's sculpture in a variety of materials often used in the early stages of creating a sculpture. A pointed-up plaster version of the artist's Recording Angel exhibited here (figure 2) shows the small penciled markings on the sculpture used to transfer measurements to a huge block of clay or marble. Through pointing, the artist can have any sculpture "blocked out" in another malleable material in either reduced or enlarged versions. Flack refines and models the rough enlargement, a process which can take several months. She oversees the entire technical process of her works, spending almost as much time at the foundry as in her own studio.
Flack cites Luisa Ignacia Roldán (called La Roldana, 1650-1704), the seventeenth-century sculptor of dramatic Baroque polychrome sculptures in terra-cotta and wood, as one of the major influences on her three-dimensional work. She discovered La Roldana's work in reproduction before she began making sculpture herself. Equally significant to Flack's artistic program were nineteenth-century sculptors, particularly women artists whose large-scale work was visible to her in the streets and parks of New York City. As a child, Flack was enthralled by the AT&T logo image on the cover of its New York telephone book, based on Evelyn Beatrice Longman's 24-foot tall Genius of Electricity (also known by the titles Spirit of Communications and Golden Boy, 1914). Flack has specifically mentioned Whitney's Washington Heights – Inwood War Memorial (1921, now at 168th Street) as one of the influential sculptures that she saw in her youth while walking to the museum complex that at that time comprised the National Museum of the American Indian and the Hispanic Society Museum on 156th Street and Broadway. She was thus certainly aware of Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington's over life-sized sculptural group, El Cid Campeador with Four Warriors (1927-43), which can still be seen at the Hispanic Society of America at Audubon Terrace. Without doubt Emma Stebbins' Angel of the Waters: Bethesda Fountain (1868) in Central Park seems most closely related to Flack's current themes of protective angels and idols of civic virtue (Stebbins was the first female artist to receive a commission for a major public work of art in New York City). Interestingly enough, Flack had no idea at the time that these work were created by women artists.
Male artists have also influenced Flack's sculptures, especially British nineteenth-century sculptors such as Alfred Drury, whose large scale figures for the town square in Leeds, England inspired her when she was working on Civitas for the Rock Hill Gateway, and Alfred Gilbert, one of the major figures of the British New Sculpture movement. Flack has stated that her work is similar to nineteenth-century models in their "attitude towards craftsmanship, thematic references toward allegory and symbolism, an approach toward work, and concerns with proportion" (American Art, 1994, 17). Moreover, Flack has embraced the usage of natural and chemical patinas that were used by La Roldana in the seventeenth century and which were revived in the nineteenth-century, especially after the 1860s when artists and scholars began to realize that the ancients were fond of using color in their sculpture. This is not to say that Flack's work is derivative of past models. In fact, the artist has, on the contrary, attempted to change the accepted norm of how the female figure is portrayed in three dimensions. In her essay entitled "Breaking the Mold: Audrey Flack's Sculptures," Susan P. Casteras has discussed Flack's negation and inversion of the way in which women have been portrayed in traditional sculpture:
She does not simply restate timeless interests in the goddess figure; instead she partly reinvents the subject, mobilizing an impressive visual injunction for viewers. […] she reverses and subverts the traditional male way of perceiving the female form in sculpture, instilling in her own figures a sovereignty and superiority, a self-possession and assurance, that sustains these remythologized beings as they invade our space and we enter theirs (Casteras, 1990, p. 129).
In her own words, the past is to be contended with, studied and consumed before something new can emerge, as stated in American Art (1994):My work evolves after the past has been studied and ingested and the present and the future have been considered. I have great respect for the masters, for the Greeks and the Romans. I've gone back to study the canons of proportion of Phidias and Praxiteles. You break the rules when you have to break the rules, when the rules should be broken (American Art, 1994, 6).
Breaking the rules has become Flack's specialty, sometimes causing problems. Flack's most recent sculpture is a ten-foot tall sculpture for the Thirteenth Judicial Courthouse in Tampa, Florida, entitled Veritas (figure 3). Installed in 2007, the sculpture will be accompanied by a smaller version of the head of Veritas inside the rotunda and two bronze maquettes in related courthouses. Crowned with stars and symbolically blindfolded, Veritas gestures with her extended arms and hands in a manner that suggests weighing evidence. She steps forward into the unknown future, where truth, one hopes, will reign supreme. Indian Icon, displayed in our exhibition, was an earlier version of Veritas, but was refused by the commissioning body because, unlike the case of Cuewe Pehelle (discussed below), the figure of a Native American was seen as too controversial for the courthouse steps.
One of Flack's largest commissioned projects failed to come to fruition because of political controversy. At the time of her interview with Brigham in American Art, Flack had just begun work on her future colossal statue entitled Queen Catherine of Braganza (1994, figure 4), a figure that some believe was the namesake of the borough of Queens, New York. Planned for Hunter's Point in Long Island City opposite the United Nations, it was to obtain a height second only in New York to the Statue of Liberty, at thirty-five feet. Although some two million dollars was raised for the commission and Flack worked for many years on the maquettes and large-scale models for Catherine (figure 5), the project came to a close in the year 2000 after political activists attacked the project on the grounds that Portugal dealt in the slave trade in the seventeenth century; this is an argument that, if put into practice, would be cause for dismantling many a monument to the American forefathers. Additional problems with the casting of Catherine ultimately led to its demise and today only a few maquettes and plasters remain of the original sculptural concept.
Slightly before the creation of Catherine, in 1993, Flack began work on a figure of the Greek nymph Daphne, a six-foot high head of the daughter of Peneus who ran endlessly to escape the grasp of Apollo. To prevent Apollo from capturing her, Peneus allowed her to be transformed into a laurel tree before Apollo could catch her; Apollo remained in love with Daphne, the tree became sacred to him and the laurel leaf became his most important symbol. Flack's Daphne, exhibited at the Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton in 1996, speaks through a tape recorded message that mesmerizes and tantalizes viewers. As nymphs like Daphne were connected to the earth, its beauty and unspoiled nature, originally Flack envisioned Daphne to be part of a series of architecturally designed temples. The temple for Daphne was to be called the Temple of Ecology (1993) for which the artist made drawings and plans. The sculpture, with its multitude of branch-like elements and still expression, radiates the mythic and ecological nature of the nymph.
Not all of Flack's large scale works are Greek figures in origin, and not all of the suspected "disasters" ended as such. Cuewe Pehelle (1997, alternately spelled Quewe Pehelle), a seven-foot tall sculpture of a Native American girl, actually began as a commission for a traditional sculpture of a Greek muse for Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania. Flack felt compelled, however, to create a Native American figure for the college, after discovering pictures and stories of the murders of women and children from the Susquehanna tribe in 1763 (known as the "Paxton Massacre" or the "Conestoga Massacre"). Certain that the figure would be rejected by the college because of its theme, Flack was surprised that not only did college officials embrace the work, but came up with the title for it, which is the original form of the word "Quittapahilla," Algonquin for "a stream that flows from the ground among the pines." The fruits and ears of maize in the figure's hair make reference not only to Native American cultivation but also to the traditional agricultural production of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Flack's works can be seen at some of the most prestigious public spaces and museums in the United States. Museums that hold her works include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. Her other recent public works include Cuewe Pehelle (1997), installed at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania; Beloved Woman of Justice (2000), installed at the Howard Baker, Jr. Federal Courthouse in Knoxville, Tennessee; and a fountain version of Islandia at the Parrish Art Museum in Southhampton, New York. The Art Gallery of Kingsborough Community College is proud to welcome home this Brighton-born, world-renowned artist and present the working models of her recent sculptural work.
Caterina Y. Pierre, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Art HistoryKingsborough Community College
Audrey Flack's work appears courtesy of Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York.
Exhibition Checklist
Indian Icon, 2006terra-cotta resin44" x 21" x 13" (with terra-cotta base)
Cuelle Pehelle, 1997-98painted plaster33" x 15" x 13"
Medicine Woman, 1989bronze19" x 9 ½ "x 9 ½ "
Recording Angel, 2006pointed-up white plaster with two plaster pieces34" x 20" x 14"
Galatea, c. 2003yellow resin35" x 20" x 14"
Bella Apollonia: The Art Muse, 2001white plaster30" x 9 ½" x 9 ½"
Islandia (head), 1987white plaster21" x 8 ½ " x 9"
Islandia (bust), 1987earth-colored poly-resin17" x 16" x 11"
Local Girl, 1995-97white resin21" x 6 ½" x 6 ½"
Sky Gateway (Pair of heroic female figures for an unrealized project), 1990red resin20" x 7" x 7" (each)
Ginette Flack: Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1995white plaster on a black wood base20" x 10" x 9"
Woman with a Heart and Dagger (working model on stand), 2006red clay26 ½" x 21" x 11 ½ "
Alexandria, 2003"Patina" green forton resin11" x 8" x 8"
Recording Angel, 2006solid red wax35" x 20" x 26"
Recording Angel, 2006hand-painted green resin composite19 ½" x 10" x 9"
Islandia, 1987yellow resin67" x 30" x 42"


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There are plenty of ways to get better sound in your car by having the right components installed in the right places, but what if the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch you bring into your vehicle can help, too?
Equalizers abound in Apple's App Store, but EQ 10 stands out as one that offers a wide range of features for a single buck.
EQ 10 Equalizer
Available at: Apple App Store
Whether you're a self-respecting audiophile or just someone who enjoys listening to music in the car, the EQ 10 app has a little something for everyone.
It taps into all the stored music, podcasts and audiobooks (it won't play DRM-protected tracks) you have on your iOS device, while also offering a lot of streaming radio stations and the option to literally download songs from websites that are described as "free and legal."
When playing a track, tapping the button on the top right takes you straight to the EQ.
Here, you get a classic 10-band graphic EQ, or if you tap the number three, you get a set of analogue sliders for lows, mids and highs.
Both the three and 10 have arrows next to them. Tap the one next to the number you selected, and you get a list of presets that you can sample as a song is playing to hear the difference.
If none of those tickle your ears, then you can customize your own and save them to the list. Finding the right fit may take time, or it could just come down to simply moving one band ever so slightly to get it sounding right. Unfortunately, there's no way to apply a set or custom EQ to an entire playlist in one fell swoop. You have to deal with tracks individually, but once you make your choice for a track, it stays that way unless you change it.
It's also possible to apply EQs to the radio stations the app offers. If there's a certain station you like, you can add it to your favourites and apply whatever EQ you want to it, so that it's there to listen to how you want. The app even lets you record a station on the fly, saving it as a WAV file that you can always playback whenever you like.
Everyone's ears are different, but I didn't find most of the EQ presets all that appealing. It took playing around with the sliders a little to find what I was looking for, which was fine when the results were unexpectedly satisfying. Other instances were more time-consuming.
Naturally, you wouldn't be fiddling with all this as a driver, so it's the kind of homework you'd be doing the night before a morning commute, or when you have a free moment away from the car. So long as the music gets a proper boost, you might not care by the time the first newly mixed track has faded to the next.Report Typo/Error
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Donovan on his feelings after the loss: "We're disappointed. At the end of the day there's a reason why Brazil is consistently considered one of the best teams in the world. But in the situation we were in, up 2-0 at the half, we felt that we should have been able to kill off the game. We can't be happy with having gone this far. If we want to get better we have to demand more of ourselves."
Donovan on what changed in the second half: "The first goal right after the break killed us. It just took the air completely out of the balloon and after that I have to give them a lot of credit. They just kept coming and coming and putting more and more pressure on us. They took their chances and put a lot of bodies into the attack."
Donovan on what the first-ever appearance in a major world final means for soccer in America: "Well, we've done better than we've ever done before at a competition like this, so I think we can all walk out of here with our heads held high. However, it's not good enough. Again, when you're up 2-0 in a final you need to be able to grab hold and make the game yours. So it's disappointing at the same time."
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The Power of Legal Information: A Series of Practical Issues
Presented by, from left, NJASA Assistant Association Counsel Beth Finkelstein, Esq., and Machado Law Group Attorney Isabel Machado, Esq.
Hot legal issues school administrators must address with respect to students. Ms. Finkelstein and Ms. Machado will review recent case law surrounding the rights of LGBTQ students and a school district's responsibilities. In addition, legal updates regarding Harassment, Intimidation and Bullying (HIB), in the context of determining borderline cases of HIB, appeals to the board level, discipline and special education students.
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Everybody's Scared – Big Publishing, Agents and The Authors They Feed On
Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes another must-read essay about fear:
As one analyst said today, Amazon is the mirror image of Apple. Apple, a device maker, has low-priced content to encourage you to buy devices. Amazon, a content provider, has low-priced devices to encourage you to buy content.
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I know, without doing much websearching, that the Amazon announcement has struck fear into the hearts of traditional publishing. Traditional publishing still hasn't figured out how to make money on e-books, and traditional publishers are doing their best to piss off readers.
Even Mike Shatzkin, whom many in traditional publishing consider the guru of the e-publishing world, doesn't completely understand the importance of readers. I usually don't recommend his blog because, although he often has good stuff, he's so entrenched in traditional-publishing think that his blogs are only about 50% useful for the way that publishing is going—and I don't want to explain which 50% of what article is worth your time.
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Shatzkin is the guy that traditional publishers listen to. Remember, as you read his work that he's a traditional publishing guy writing for traditional publishers. He's not writing for professional writers, like I am. That makes a lot in his various blog posts irrelevant to us (or just plain offensive). I am pointing it out to you in this case because I want you to see how traditional publishers—even forward-looking folk—think.
Witness: "We know that agents and authors will accept an e-book royalty rate of 25% of net receipts in today's environment, where 70% or more of the sales are still made in print. We don't know if the threat of the alternate publishing options will force the royalty rate up if sales fall below 50% print or 30% print."
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What Shatzkin and his ilk don't recognize are the professional writers who have decided that 25% of net is a ridiculous number, writers who have decided that we're not even going to offer our books to any traditional publisher who wants to give us no more than 25% of net as a deal breaker. Some authors are fighting this, but most are simply walking away.
The writers who remain either don't realize they have options or are operating in a fear-based way . . .
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"We don't know if book publishers can develop 'e-book publishing expertise' that will convince writers to abandon the direct-to-consumer marketing through the internet and let book publishers continue to publish e-books."
That's a fact, folks. And the facts are why publishing professionals love Shatzkin's blog. But beneath all of that factual business language is sheer terror. Because if traditional publishers can't convince writers to return to the traditional publishing fold, then what will happen to traditional publishers?
They will become insignificant—or at least, less significant than they are now.
It's rather astonishing to me that the traditional publishing guru of e-publishing ignores the trends among the indies. Right now, indie publishers and self-publishing writers are way ahead of traditional publishers—on e-book design, on pricing, on marketing, and on distribution.
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Indie authors are selling illustrated children's books at good New York numbers. For example, Rebecca Shelley has sold thousands of e-books per month of her illustrated middle grade Bees in My Butt since Christmas, on Nook alone, a platform that favors illustrations. She doesn't have the figures for the same period from her iBookstore sales, but she's convinced her sales will increase this Christmas because of the iPad. (I'm sure the Kindle Fire will help her here as well.)
She is not alone. There are a lot of successful children's writers, and a lot of successful illustrated books, many of them indie-published. As Rebecca and I exchanged e-mails tonight (with me asking to use her name so I could promote her work), she mentioned this:
"Up to this point, all of my illustrations have been black and white. But the Nook color has the most amazing interactive children's picture books. You turn the Nook sideways and it gives the full picture book double-page layout. Plus it has a read-to-me feature, that reads the book to the children as they turn the pages. Every child (even the older ones) that I've shown these Nook picture books to has gone crazy over them."
The advice that Shatzkin gives here shows both the fear and the arrogance of traditional publishing. Stick to print books until we know there's a market. But of course, they're not looking at the self- or indie-published titles, so how does traditional publishing know whether there's a market or not? And somehow Shatzkin and others are ignoring things like the Nook picture books—because…why? I have no idea.
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Over the weekend, I saw Moneyball with Brad Pitt (based on Michael Lewis's book, which I really need to read). Moneyball is less of a sports movie than a business movie, and there's this marvelous sequence in the early part of the film. Pitt's character has decided to use a statistical analysis to "buy" cheaper players to round out his roster, a job traditionally reserved to the baseball scouts.
A scout, knowing that he is about to lose his job, gives Pitt the Speech: We scouts know how players work, we find the talent, you won't have a team without us, we have history and arcane knowledge that you (puny human) could never ever know…
Of course, in the sequence of the movie, we come to realize that the scout is wrong. That his arcane knowledge is as useful to baseball as alchemy is to physics.
The thing is, as the scout gave that speech, I was laughing so hard I nearly hurt myself. Make the scout a traditional book publisher. Make Pitt a reader. You have read a version of "The Speech" all over the internet—you readers won't survive without traditional publishing, because you won't know the good from the bad.
But here's the thing: traditional publishing has forgotten that they're in the market of pleasing their audience—and their audience is readers, who don't care if they buy a book from Bantam or directly from Rebecca Shelley, so long as that book is good. If the book is good (and trust me, Bees in My Butt is good), then the readers will buy the next Rebecca Shelley book, whether it is published by Rebecca Shelley or by Bantam Books.
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Shatzkin ignores the real threat to the number of books on shelves. The way that Barnes & Noble has decreased the books it carries, replacing them with toys, and games, and scented candles (Yep, even scented candles). A number of B&N employees are furious about this. As one wrote to me a few weeks ago, "I got hired to sell books. Now I sell 'book-related merchandise.'" A B&N manager went further, sending me photographs of the interior of the store as this change from bookshelves to toy shelves is occurring. The manager wrote, "Anyone who tells you that B&N's [brick-and-mortar] stores will carry the same number of books as before is lying."
B&N isn't the only brick-and-mortar bookstore to abandon books. Indigo Books and Music has been Canada's largest chain bookstore since the merger with Chapters in 2001. In addition to trying an e-book model through Kobo, Indigo is also diversifying the products in its brick-and-mortar stores. Indigo will offer its own line of "home décor and lifestyle products" because, clearly, there aren't enough stores in Canada offering that sort of thing. (Okay, everything after "clearly" is my personal opinion. But jeez, how stupid is this?)
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The problem is that all the old markets are going away. Yeah, the Publishers Weekly article on Indigo ended with a vaguely hopeful note: "But if Indigo has less space for books and less time* on the shelves to sell them, one…possible silver lining is that it might present opportunities for independent booksellers." Exactly the conclusion I had about B&N several months ago.
Still, that's all traditional publishing sees. If they can't market books to bookstores and to some discounters, like Wal-Mart, where can they market books? And if they can't see where to market books, if they can't figure out how to find new places to do so, places that are fairly obvious if you just look around (depending on your product), then they're of no use to the "content-creating brands"…um…I mean the writers.
And deep down, the traditional publishers know that. It makes them afraid.
And they are afraid. Just the fact that Shatzkin mentions the 25% of net as something that "agents and authors" might not accept in the future means that traditional publishing knows the deal is a bad one for us "content-creating brands." The publishers are worried that we'll figure it out, just like they're worried about their entire industry.
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Fear, fear, fear.
As the fear trickles from the publisher to the agent, imagine how the traditional writer feels. The writer who doesn't want anything to do with indie publishing, who sees self-publishing as something horrible. Those writers are only hearing about the fear from their traditional publishers and agents. As a result, these uninformed writers believe that "publishing" is collapsing, when in reality, it is the old business model that is failing.
Because the writers are afraid that publishing is collapsing, they're grabbing onto whatever gets thrown their way, no matter how bad it is.
These are the writers (for the most part) that Shatzkin and his friends are doing business with. The writers who have no idea that next to the sinking Titanic are small yachts available to any writer who will leap from the Titanic's deck to the waiting yacht.
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Happened to me twice. A customer had a site to be developed in 4 phases. Did phase 1 and he paid $1635…didn't hear from the guy for months. I called, emailed, wrote letters. Nothing. Then he tells me about his messy divorce but he's ready to continue. He pays $1635 for phase 2 and I deliver it. Again he disappears. I haven't heard from him in 2 years, but our contract stipulates that if the project is not completed within one year or due to delays on the part of the client, the project is considered abandoned and all money paid is forfeited.
only once, a client paid 5k usd and disappeared after getting first mockup.
after that, i tried the same draft with other clients but it didn't work.
This happened to me 2 months ago. Worked on a project, finished it, the client paid up, then nothing. They just disappeared. The only thing pending was me handing over the site and code. Very strange.
bitfade said
only once, a client paid 5k usd and disappeared
doru said
bitfade saidwhat?
only once, a client paid 5k usd and disappeared
very lucky
bitfade said
after that, i tried the same draft with other clients but it didn't work.
u should set an expiry date to your service, if the client doesn't turn up, he loses the money
I wish that happens to me
ThemeBlvd said
They will probably come back eventually with some apology or story and expect you to the do the work at that time….
Probably? Try more than likely. I've had sites that clients are stoked about stalled for 6 months+ over a photo change. I'm never strict enough to say, "no, you're no longer on the schedule, that'll be more."
Thanks for the insight guys, I never ever expected this many replies!!! People are crazy!
I will definitely add yet another amendment to my contract though if the customer shows back up 3 months from now, I will still finish the site without extra charges.. I'm sure he'll show back up at the most inopportune time and need it done immediately lol. Cheers.
Yup had a client give me a deposit, approved the design, then he disappeared for a few months, when i got a check for the balance. Contacted them again to thank them and get the ball rolling..nada..gone again, finally heard from him a lyear later, he's ready to finish it up, that was last year…theres only so many times i'm gonna call, email, ect…his loss


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Remember, just a couple of weeks ago, when Cardinal Walter Kasper was asked about the publication of Remaining in the Truth of Christ, which responded to his frequent public discussions on the reform of doctrinal disciplines?Kasper remarked, "that's how politicians talk."We could perhaps say the same about his latest words and apologies concerning his remarks about the African bishops participating in the Extraordinary Synod. The apology goes like this:"If one of my remarks about A … [Read more...]
Kasper Apologizes; Suggests Catholic Media will Avenge Him!
Pope Francis: No Commendatore, No Michael Corleone
It may have gotten a four minute standing ovation from his Bishops, but Pope Francis' closing remarks to the synod, which I thought were pretty beautifully wrought, are being praised-but-quietly by others, at least as I am surveying today.It seems to me people aren't really appreciating what Francis said there -- how capably and clearly he let both the "left" and the "right", the progressives and the traditionalists, know that neither side has a corner on the fullness of the faith or the … [Read more...]
Ivereigh on Realities of African Bishop Participation
Well, the clock is ticking. A final paper will soon be forthcoming from the Synod Fathers, and there will no doubt be drama, because there is always drama.But people should remember that no matter what is handed out from the synod it's still going to be, in a manner of speaking, a "working document", in anticipation of next year's synod. It is not a teaching document, nor an authoritative one; it is meant to get people thinking and praying, mostly. Some -- many -- may willfully chose to … [Read more...]
Kasper is Missing a Chance to Demonstrate Mercy – UPDATED
Cardinal Walter Kasper today addressed his recent remarks to a group of reporters, numbered among them Edward Pentin of the National Catholic Register (and Zenit). You can get the background by reading through these posts. The controversy involved his words concerning the bishops of Africa -- which he brought up -- and his denials about ever having spoken to Zenit (a misunderstanding) or having spoken the words that came out of his mouth (intent does matter, and it may have been innocent). … [Read more...]
Pentin on Kasper: I did tape the talk, didn't mention Zenit – UPDATED
National Catholic Register reporter Edward Pentin has released a statement in response to Cardinal Kasper's assertion that he never spoke to Zenit or made some rather inflammatory remarks on African Bishops. Writes Pentin:His Eminence Cardinal Walter Kasper spoke to me and two other journalists, one British, the other French, around 7.15pm on Tuesday as he left the Synod hall.I transcribed the recording of our conversation, and my iPhone on which I recorded the exchange was visible. I … [Read more...]
Kasper: "Never talked to Zenit, Said That About Africans!"
A couple of interesting things:Primo: Cardinal Kasper is saying he never said anything about the African bishops or church and never talked to Zenit.On Twitter, Austen Ivereigh (whom you should be following, if you're not) offers a fast, "unofficial" and "working translation" picked up from a Spanish translation of the German so...as he notes, "...open to amendment in the circuli menores.":"I am appalled. I have never spoken this way about Africans and I never would. I assure you … [Read more...]
"These Africans!": Kasper Reverses Progressive Dogma – UPDATED
Hey, don't listen to those African bishops! Unless you're an African in Africa...and even then! They haven't the fullness of our light![/caption]Yeah, I am sorry; I try not to get into the politics of the church and all that -- because I hates it -- but Cardinal Kasper is falling victim to the easiest temptation to the ego: to keep talking into microphones when you really should stop. ZENIT: It has been said that [Pope Francis] added five special rapporteurs on Friday to help the general … [Read more...]
Relatio, OY! Problematic Paragraph 50! #Synod14
Yes, the language in paragraph 50 is troublesome, and fast-becoming notorious. Indeed, would homosexuals like hearing that the orientation of straights is "to be valued" in and of itself? I get it, you can stop sending me emails, b/c friends, I have no time to answer themBecause the language is causing a furor -- Father Dwight is pretty unhappy with it. I'm trying to keep in mind that this relatio we are all working from is an unofficial translation, and that those sometimes contain a … [Read more...]
Gradualism: Two More Thoughts on its Gravity #Synod14 – UPDATED
I: It is instructive, and a little depressing, to watch Catholic social media come alive with reactions to the synod's relatio text, which -- let's remember -- is going to be revised and clarified in another week, and then studied, thought about and prayed over for at least a year. The secular media is, naturally, trying to drive the narrative to its preferred talking points (and they're making sure to beat up on poor old Pope Benedict XVI, so whisper up a prayer for him).In social media, … [Read more...]
#Synod14 Relatio: Catholics, Fasten Your Seatbelts! UPDATED
The Extraordinary Synod for the Family is only half-completed, and its denouement will not be known until October 2015 or even later, but if the relatio post disceptationem, the mid-term report of this Synod is any suggestion, then, as Vaticanista John Thavis suggests at his blog, it's going to be a bumpy year, Bette; a bumpy year!The relatio emphasized the "principle of graduality" – the idea that Catholics move toward full acceptance of church teachings in steps, and the church needs to … [Read more...]


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Top 4 Tools For Monitoring / Logging Your Network
Security is on the rise, a year after the infamous Heartbleed bug, the internet has been shaken up with new types of security laws, including server breaches of magnitude that of Sony; a hack that could have sparked an interesting and eventful battle between nations. Were all these hacks related to network security? We won't know for sure, but your network is the most fragile asset of your business, that we do know, for sure.


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Sugar, Sugar 2 encourages creative thinking and spatial reasoning.
Can you guide the cascading particles of sugar into the correct containers?
Sugar, Sugar 2 - Learning Connections
Essential SkillsProblem Solving - try, improve, try again
Creative Thinking - there's more than one way to solve these puzzles
Spatial Reasoning - sugar sometimes falls UP
Common Core ConnectionMP1 - Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
MP7 - Look for and make use of structure.


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President Obama happily greeted Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, they chatted, smiled at one another, and then Netanyahu left with a grin on his face because once again, he read the president and walked out with everything he desired. Khaled Amayreh, reporting in Al Ahram, charges the Israel government is preparing the largest land grab on Palestinian land in East Jerusalem. The plan entails building thousands of Jewish-only apartments in East Jerusalem that will be constructed on land owned by Palestinians. At present, the estimated 270,000 Arabs in East Jerusalem are confined to 13% of the land while Jews control about 85% of the area. Palestinian Authority spokesperson Ghassan Al-Khatib, made clear "I don't believe that the peace process will withstand the reported plan to expand Jewish settlement in Jerusalem. In fact, the main goal of that plan is to kill any remaining hope for peace."
There is no evidence President Obama made clear to Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu that building in East Jerusalem was a peace killer. Instead, Obama, demonstrated he has the backbone of a chocolate eclair when it comes to standing firm against a bully. He allowed himself to be bullied by Wall Street, he allowed himself to be bullied by Republicans, and he has essentially killed hope for peace by allowing Netanyahu to get away with murder. Bibi read Obama correctly, never give in to what he wants, use words to convey you believe in peace, but never do anything to translate words into action. Words suffice for Barack Obama. Mr. President, Bibi is NOT going to halt settlements, and by not ceasing the seizure of Arab land he seeks to provoke Palestinians into violence. It is a game, not a peace process. Once Palestinians resort to violence, Bibi will shout to the world that Palestinians can never be trusted and then he will announce more and more settlements.