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October 21, 2003
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee, I am pleased to be here to discuss our legislative proposals that will greatly enhance VA's ability to recruit and retain the highest quality physicians, dentists, and nurses to care for the Nation's veterans.
Mr. Chairman, VA is having increasing difficulty recruiting and retaining a number of physician specialties. This is because the maximum salaries that VA can pay for some physician specialties are non-competitive with the private sector.
The VA compensation structure for physicians and dentists has not changed since 1991. The current system is extremely complex and does not provide the flexibility to respond to the changing competitive market for many medical specialties, especially for the highest paid medical subspecialties. Also, national shortages of many physician specialties critical to our health care mission further affects our ability to fill critical vacancies. In these shortage specialties, VA total compensation lags behind the private or academic sectors by as much as 67 percent.
VA is facing a critical situation because of our outdated pay system. If we are to maintain our tertiary care capability and ability to offer a full range of health services to veterans, we must be able to offer competitive salaries. For several specialties our turnover rate far exceeds our hire rate, i.e. we are losing these specialists faster than we can hire them. Also, many facilities are not actively recruiting to fill some vacancies due to unavailability of candidates at current VA salary rates. Earlier this year, facilities reported over 900 such vacancies that they would fill if candidates could be found. The effects of noncompetitive pay and benefits are also reflected in dramatic increases in our scarce specialty, fee basis, and contractual expenditures. These expenditures increased from $180 million in 1995 to $851 million in 2002. Additionally, we increasingly must hire non-US citizens under J-1 visa waiver authority and international medical graduates - currently almost 30% of our workforce. Also, although Congress increased special pay for dentists in 2000, those increases did not bring VA pay up to the levels in private dental practice.
The problems with the current system are clear: special pay rates are fixed in statute, so over time their values are eroded by inflation, and VA pay eventually falls behind the market. We already are paying the maximum authorized amounts for scarce specialists; there is no discretion under existing statute to pay more to retain these mission-critical employees.
As you know, increased enrollment by veterans of all ages for VA health care and the need for more comprehensive care to aging veteran patients is increasing workloads across the system. At the same time, current trends indicate a steady decrease in the number of physicians and dentists VHA will be able to employ. This decrease will result from increased retirements, losses to the private sector, a shrinking dentist labor supply, and increasing difficulty in recruiting replacements. These factors will combine to create significant gaps between VHA's staffing needs and available resources for most physician specialties. Without the flexibility to adjust pay in response to market pressures we will be unable to meet the demands of our increasing workload. We will be forced to rely more heavily on scarce medical specialist contracts and fee basis care, which often cost more than using VHA physicians. Thus it is critical that we be able to offer more competitive compensation for physicians and dentists.
Proposed New VA Physician/Dentist Pay System
Mr. Chairman, our bill would completely revise the VA physician and dentist pay system to allow VA to adjust physician and dentist compensation levels according to market forces. Under our proposal, the system would have three bands: base pay, market pay, and performance-based pay. VA would benchmark the sum of all three bands to the 50th percentile of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Associate Professor compensation (for physicians) and 75 percent of American Dental Association (ADA) net private practice income (for dentists). The base pay component would be increased by the annual comparability adjustments to Federal pay authorized by Executive Order. The system's simplicity and flexibility would ensure that VA physician and dentist compensation levels and practices do not become outdated over time due to statutory limits.
First Tier - Base Pay. A uniform base pay band will apply to all positions in VHA, without grade distinctions. The proposed range is Chief grade, step 10 of the VA Physician/Dentist Schedule to Level V of the Executive Schedule, from roughly $110,000 to $125,000. This change will dramatically simplify hiring and employment and facilitate reassignments and position changes. Placement in this band would be based on the individual's qualifications.
Second Tier - Market Pay. The second tier, the market pay band, will be determined according to geographic area, specialty, assignment, personal qualifications and individual experience. It would be indexed to the salaries of similarly qualified non-Department physicians, dentists, and health-care executives at the entry, mid-career, and senior levels. The flexibility of this tier allows VA to keep pace with the market, both on upward and downward trends. VA would link the market band for clinicians to AAMC faculty compensation. For executives at the Chief of Staff (COS) level and above, the benchmarks would be hospital and HMO executive compensation levels. For dentists, the benchmark will be American Dental Association (ADA) net private practice income. Our primary competition in the marketplace is private practice income.
Third Tier - Performance Pay. The third band will be linked to performance, and would be paid for discrete achievements in quality, productivity, and support of corporate goals. The measures will be flexible and generally set locally; we could also mandate national objectives. VA facilities could authorize performance pay of up to $10,000 for physicians and dentists below the Chief of Staff (COS) level. For managers at the COS level and above, ten percent of their benchmarked pay would be at risk, and would be payable to the extent that performance goals are met. This will address a concern that has been raised by the General Accounting Office and others of a disconnect between employees' performance and their pay.
The draft bill also would prohibit senior title 38 officials at the Chief of Staff level and above from receiving any compensation, whether from employment or contract, and from accepting any offers of future employment, from medical schools affiliated with their respective VAMCs. This prohibition will reduce the risk of potential conflicts of interest, and will ensure that the Department's interests in agreements with affiliated medical schools are adequately protected. It is highly desirable to have an independent senior clinical official at each facility.
Details of VA's Implementation Plan
Our proposed physician and dentist pay would be effective on the first day of the first pay period on or after the later of April 1, 2004, or six months after the date of enactment. We estimate the 2004 cost would be $48 million.
Other Critical Proposals
Mr. Chairman, our pay bill also includes important provisions allowing more flexible tours for nurses and an executive pay proposal for nurse leaders. I request that the committee also act on these proposals. I have already noted the projected increase in the number of aging veterans and increased enrollment in the VA healthcare system by veterans of all ages over the next several years that will increase workload across the VA healthcare system. At the same time, national nursing leaders and healthcare organizations are projecting a national shortage of registered nurses. The proposals in our bill will help VA remain a competitive place of employment for nurses and to meet current and future healthcare needs.
We also request that the committee act on a draft bill we recently forwarded to Congress that would clarify the authority of the Secretary to promulgate regulations relating to staff adjustments of title 38 employees and to clarify the exclusion from coverage under general civil service laws of title 38 personnel laws and regulations. As you know, exclusive title 38 authority was provided by Congress to help assure that VA would have the ability to assure quality of care is provided to the Nation's veterans. A recent Federal Court decision has diluted the Secretary's authority to prescribe the "conditions of employment" for all title 38 medical professionals. This decision would have us make decisions regarding staffing of particular facilities without regard to the individual's professional competencies and patient care needs. This consideration is critical to staffing a health care system in which staff members' particular competencies dictate the quality of care a facility can provide.
Mr. Chairman, we very much appreciate your scheduling this hearing to address the need for reform of VA's Physicians and Dentists pay authority. We are in a critical situation with increasing needs of veterans for health care while our current pay system leaves us in a very non-competitive position for recruiting the staff we need today and into the future.
This concludes my prepared statement. I would be pleased to answer any questions you may have.
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With the arrival of summer workouts, the great Taylor Mays Experiment is underway. The 49ers openly questioned the way the safety was used at USC and, after taking him in the third round, announced that they would reshape his approach to the game. Specifically, 49ers coach Mike Singletary wondered why Mays lined up so far off the ball.
"When you turn on the film, when you look at him play, he's not in the box. He's not close to the line of scrimmage," Singletary said. "And, whoever it was, the (defensive) coordinator, just decided, 'Hey, we're going to put him back in the middle of the field 20 yards back and let him play.'
"I think for us, Taylor Mays is a guy that has a ton of potential. And, our job is going to be to make sure that we help him utilize it as best he can."
The 49ers envision Mays playing closer to the line of scrimmage where he could emerge as a hard hitter. Mays got too caught up in the knockout blow while with at USC, where he would try to pop opponents to the turf with a bone-jarring shoulder tackle.
But with improved wrapping technique, Mays might be able to put his upper-body strength to better use. At the NFL scouting combine, he bench pressed 225 times 24 times -- that's three times more than offensive lineman Anthony Davis, the 49ers' first-round pick.
At the recent organized team activities, it was obvious that the 49ers weren't going to rush anything as they re-shaped their 6-3, 230 pounds of clay. Mays worked with the third team. Michael Lewis, who annually ranks among the 49ers' leading tackles, is in line to return as the starting strong safety, with emerging star Dashon Goldson at free safety. Reggie Smith and Curtis Taylor, the safeties drafted in previous years, are the backups.
Step one for the 49ers, Singletary said, will be finding out more about Mays' skill set. He said he had defensive back coaches Johnnie Lynn and Vance Joseph quiz Mays early in the draft process to find out if the kid was willing to play a totally different style.
"They came away from that conversation saying, 'This guy is willing to do all of the things that we need him to do,'" Singletary said. "Not only is he willing to do them, but when you look at his workout, you look at the way his hips can move, you look at some of the things he can do. We know he can do those things. It's just a matter of getting him to do it."
Still, Mays was used well enough at USC to emerge as one of college football's top safeties. A four-year starter, he led the Trojans (and finished second in the Pac-10) with 96 tackles as a senior. As a junior, he helped USC lead the nation in pass defense (134.4).
He struggled with angles at times, which is why he often lined up so far off the ball. Playing deep centerfield was a way of keeping the play in front of him and with his astonishing recovery speed -- he ran a 4.31 at the combine -- Mays was able get himself in position to make plays no matter where he lined up.
A key to Mays' evolution in the NFL will be his ability to respect the caginess of the league's quarterbacks. Susceptible to pump fakes in college, Mays must now contend with QBs trained to look a safety off the play. Bring it on, Mays said.
"I feel like I have the biggest chip on my shoulder of anybody in the draft," he said. "I felt like that before the draft. I think it's just a little more amplified. I'm so happy to just be on the San Francisco 49ers.
"It's not just a chip to prove people wrong; it's a chip to show what I can do. I already know what I can do with myself. I'm not worried about getting back at anybody. I'm just worried about showing what I can do and obviously the San Francisco 49ers believed in that. That's all the confidence that I need, that they believed in me and I can take care of the rest."
The team tried to add one in the draft a year ago, nabbing Bear Pascoe out of Fresno State in the sixth round. But Pascoe fizzled in training camp and was among the final cuts.
So when the 49ers needed a third tight end last season, they leaned on Tony Wragge -- a guard by trade. Now, Byham, who will try to do what Pascoe could not.
The 6-foot-4, 268-pounder relishes the dirty work. During the OTAs in May, Byham made a few grabs in traffic and looked like a capable receiver. But even he knows he'll be a one-dimensional, blocking tight end.
Let Vernon Davis and Delanie Walker handle the glamorous stuff and Byham will do the rest.
"I like to bloody noses. I don't shy away from contact," the sixth-round pick said on draft day. "I'm going into the hole and I'm trying to hit somebody. I think that's what makes me unique.
"There's not too many tight ends these days that want to go in there and try to hurt somebody. I'm trying to inflict pain when I'm in there as a tight end. I'm not trying to get in someone's way. I'm excited to be a part of the hard-nose offense."
Byham was a blocking tight end for the Panthers, earning all second-team Big East honors despite catching only 10 passes all season. He was a masher who could knock defenders off the ball and create space for his backs. His head coach, Dave Wannstedt, emphasized the ground game and Byham was a ideal match.
"We've always prided ourselves in being able to run the ball," Byham said, "and I always pride myself on making holes for great running backs."
With the surprising release of bruising running back LenDale White, the Seattle Seahawks running back rotation heading into the 2010 season looks eerily similar to last season.
Julius Jones and Justin Forsett have been sharing time with the first unit during offseason workouts, while newcomer Leon Washington is hopeful to return to action for the beginning of training camp, continuing to rehab a broken leg suffered against the Oakland Raiders last season. Reserves Quinton Ganther and Louis Rankin also are in the mix to earn time at running back.
But Jones and Forsett were the mainstays of a Seattle rushing attack that struggled to generate any consistency in 2009, the first season in the Seahawks' switch to the zone blocking scheme.
Seattle finished 26th overall in rushing last season, averaging 98 yards a contest. Jones led the team in rushing for a second straight season with 663 yards on 177 carries for a 3.7 per carry average. But Forsett wasn't too far behind, with 619 yards on 114 carries for a robust 5.4 per carry average.
Most of Seattle's problems running the ball can be linked to the high turnover along the offensive line last season. Two potential starters on the left side of line in offensive tackle Walter Jones and offensive guard Mike Wahle never made it on the field. Despite several attempts to play through pain in his left knee, Jones could not return from microfracture surgery and ultimately retired a few months ago.
Wahle, who had shoulder issues, could not pass a physical and retired just before training camp. Seattle also had injury issues during the season, fielding 10 different combinations along the offensive line in 2009 and failing to develop any consistency or cohesion during the year.
Seattle made a push to change its fortunes running the ball when new head coach Pete Carroll hired offensive line guru Alex Gibbs to help bolster the team's zone blocking scheme. The team moved on from Jones by drafting Oklahoma State product Russell Okung with the team's No. 4 overall choice in this year's draft.
The Seahawks signed veteran tackle Ben Hamilton, an experienced hand in the zone blocking scheme from his days in Denver, to help mentor Okung and play left guard. Seattle moved Chris Spencer back to his more natural position of center, and did the same with Sean Locklear, moving him back to right tackle.
Carroll now hopes the revamped line, a new line coach in Gibbs and the same tandem of running backs in Jones and Forsett can help his team establish an ability to run the ball consistently and be physical in the running game, a trait of Carroll's dominant teams at USC.
"I think it's a huge factor for us, in fact for our entire football team, when you can run the football with authority and with attitude," Carroll said. "It helps your throwing game. It helps the pass protection. It helps your quarterback play better. It accentuates the style of our defense that we like to play. That's why Alex (Gibbs) is such a big deal to me to get him on our staff, with his great background and productivity in the running game. And that fits together quite well in the overall plan."
Houshmandzadeh reiterated that desire in an interview with Sirius Radio, something he's consistently stated since joining the Seahawks last season, signing a four-year, $40 million deal to be the team's marquee receiver.
Houshmandzadeh said he felt he was not involved enough in the offense last season, a veiled shot at former offensive coordinator Gregg Knapp -- now the quarterbacks coach for the Houston Texans.
"I think 100 catches, to me, should be the minimum I get this year just because of the offense we're in," he said. "I don't feel like last year. I wasn't a priority in the game plan and I was almost so much told that last year. That's just not how it's gonna be. After I got there, not before.
"And so I believe this year it's gonna be one of those things where, T.J., you're gonna have to show us that you can carry the load or you're not going to carry the load. You're going to either fail or succeed. And I welcome that. Don't let me sit on the fence. Let me show you I can do it or let me show you I can't. And I look forward to that because I'm going to show them that I can do it."
McCoy, the first of Seattle's nine draft picks to sign with the club, reportedly inked a four-year deal worth a total of $1.895 million, while Chancellor agreed to a four-year deal worth $2.83 million.
McCoy, a 6-foot-5, 259-pound USC product, is expected to challenge for the third tight end spot on the team's roster, while Chancellor, at 6-3, 232 pounds, provides Seattle with a physical presence in the back end of Seattle's defense.
Seattle draft choices yet to sign with the team are first round selections offensive tackle Russell Okung and safety Earl Thomas; second round pick receiver Golden Tate; fourth round selections cornerback Walter Thurmond and defensive end E.J. Wilson; and seventh round picks defensive end Dexter Davis and tight end Jameson Konz.
The Seattle native and University of Washington product returns home to play for the Seahawks, and becomes the 16th receiver on Seattle's roster. Stanback originally was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the fourth-round (103rd overall) in 2007. He played in 10 games with two catches for 24 yards with a long of 15 and returned 13 kickoffs for 296 yards with a long of 58 in two seasons before being cut after training camp last season.
Stanback signed to New England's practice squad in September of last season, and to the Patriots' active roster on November 15. Stanback played in six games with two starts and recorded three catches for 22 yards with one kickoff return for 22 yards. He was released on May 27.
"It feels good," Stanback told Seattlepi.com about joining the Seahawks. "My family is there and I still have a lot of support from community out there."
"I'm not gonna be one of those guys -- build for the future, and by Year 3 we'll be this or that," Carroll told The Globe. "I couldn't care less about that type of thinking. We're trying to win our division right now, and see how far we can take it. I don't know any other way to think. I'm not looking for security. I'm not looking for unconditional support. I don't care about any of that stuff. We're all going at this thing together, and we'll see how far we can take it."
As for his time in New England, where he finished 27-21 in his three seasons as the Patriots head coach, Carroll says he has grown since then.
"I didn't try very hard to convince anybody that I was exactly the right guy for the job," Carroll told The Globe. "I was just doing the job, knowing that I was. I didn't work at selling my approach, my principles, to try and give myself a base of understanding. I didn't appreciate that thought at that time. I didn't think I needed to do that. That was a mistake.
"I was following a tremendous football season and team, an extraordinary head coach with charisma and stature and all that. And I didn't care about any of that stuff. I was just gonna coach the heck out of them, and my coaching was gonna win out. I wasn't gonna worry about that stuff, and that was a mistake."
Free safety Oshiomogho Atogwe became a free agent at 11 pm Tuesday night (June 1) when the Rams elected not to tender him at $6.976 million, which would have been 110 percent of his 2009 salary as the team's franchise player.
Had the free agency rules not changed this year because of the absence of a salary cap, the only option for the Rams would have been to sign him to a long-term deal, franchise him again at a guaranteed salary of $7.61 million or allow him to become an unrestricted free agent.
The change in free agency allowed the team to retain matching rights from March 5 through April 15 while tendering him at just $1.226 million. Had the Rams given him the higher tender then or even now, it would have become guaranteed when it was signed.
The Rams negotiated throughout the day with agent Ken Landphere, but the two sides were unable to agree on Atogwe's value. That has been the case since last year when Atogwe played for the one-year $6.342 million tender as the team's franchise player. Despite Atogwe becoming a free agent, the Rams still hope they will be able to sign him and have made that clear to him and his agent.
"O.J. knows how we feel about him," general manager Billy Devaney said. "We are a better team with him here. Our hope is that after he tests the market, he will come back to us. We're trying to get to a happy medium."
Said coach Steve Spagnuolo, "I love O.J. The process took us to this point, but it's ongoing. I mean, we're still working at it, and we'll just have to see what happens these next couple of days."
Spagnuolo revealed he had a chance to talk with Atogwe face-to-face recently.
"He was in last week," Spagnuolo said. "We had a good long conversation about everything, just like O.J. and I do a lot. I've got a great deal of respect for him. I'm not going to speak for O.J., but it was great. It was good."
When Spagnuolo was asked if he has pushed for Atogwe to be re-signed, he said, "Well, everybody in the building knows what the wants and needs are and who the people are and what they mean to the team. All of that is factored in. Every bit of that is factored in, and it has been all the way through. But it's a process. It's the business side of (things)."
As for part of what's factored being the potential that he would leave and being prepared for it, Spagnuolo said, "Well you have to be. It's the reason why you have depth charts. I'm off that subject, but you've got to have guys ready to go if somebody gets hurt or if for some reason they're removed from the football team. That's what we're trying to do. We're trying to build competition at all the spots, get guys ready at certain positions."
The Rams are gambling that with Atogwe coming off shoulder and hernia surgery and turning 29 that no other team will offer him more than what the Rams offered.
Several teams had been rumored to be interested in pursuing Atogwe, but several including Dallas, San Francisco and Minnesota have claimed they won't pursue him. Miami has been another team mentioned, and no one from the Dolphins has yet to comment on their alleged interest.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said, "I'm ready to go into our season with the safeties we have."
As for the notion that Atogwe is looking to leave because he was upset by the original low tender, Devaney said, "I don't think that's the case. He was probably disappointed, but he understood the business part of it."
Devaney acknowledged that if another team came forward with a huge offer, the Rams would likely be moving on without him.
As Spagnuolo said when asked how much of a loss it would be if Atogwe signed elsewhere. "He's a good football player and I don't like to lose good football players, but we move on. It would be no different than if somebody got hurt, and it happened last year when O.J. had the shoulder injury and we moved on. So you try not to skip a beat. You miss the person because of who he is, but we just move on. We've got some good football players out here."
The Rams have been without wide receiver Mardy Gilyard, their fourth-round pick, because the University of Cincinnati is one of several colleges that are on a different schedule than most schools and don't have graduation until mid-June instead of early- to mid-May.
Gilyard will only be on the practice field for the final two OTAs (June 16-17), and will have missed 17 practices, including the June 10-12 minicamp. While he will be present the following week for additional work with the team's rookies, Devaney said, "He will have missed a lot of football training, and an incredible amount of reps. It's certainly not a positive."
Glover was with the Rams from 2006-2008 and played 13 NFL season, compiling 83.5 sacks, six Pro Bowls and was named to the All-Decade second team for 2000-2009. His 17 sacks led the NFL in 2000 when he was with New Orleans.
Said Glover, who was working on his master's degree at San Diego State when contacted by the Rams, "It's a great opportunity to work with these players and help them manage some of the complexities you face as a professional football player. It's good when you have someone who has been there and can offer guidance and equip you with the tools that will help you be successful in areas besides strapping on the helmet on Sundays."

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Front region of Maggot of Blow-fly (Calliphora) showing diagrammatically the imaginal discs, which are shaded.
Here the imaginal stage only is omitted from the life-history.
Not until spring is the pupal form assumed, and then it quickly passes into the imaginal state.
Discota: insects in which development of the adults is from imaginal discs: see adiscota.
Oculocephalic: applied to that pair of imaginal buds destined to produce the cephalic region in Hymenoptera.
Not the wings only, but other structures of the imago, varying in extent in different orders, are formed from the imaginal discs.
(A. Prorsa-Levana), which, like the genus Pyrameis, is entirely based on imaginal characters.
Hence we understand that the amputation of the latter by the old naturalists truncated only and did not destroy the imaginal limb.
A similar though less extreme shortening of the imaginal life may be noticed in many endopterygote insects.
A curious segmental displacement of the imaginal discs with regard to the larva is noticeable in some Diptera.


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Wicked Good Guides / Boston Cityviews /
Classic buildings
You can find examples of virtually every style of architecture in Boston, from colonial to federalist to Georgian to post-modernist.
But there are certain buildings that just say "Boston." These are the buildings that are uniquely Bostonian, the ones that help define the way we identify our city and set the pace for new buildings to emulate (or at the very least, not overpower.
The unicorn and lion above the front doors of the Old State House show just how old the building really is - it was built in 1713 to house the British governor and the colonial legislature.
The Declaration of Independence was first read in Boston from the Old State House balcony, an event commemorated every July 4th.
It was outside the building in 1775 that British soldiers and colonialists first exchanged mortal fire (today, a rather non-descript circle of cobblestones marks the location of the Boston Massacre). It served as the seat of Massachusetts state government until 1798, when the "new" State House opened up on Beacon Hill. It is also proof that Boston did not always treasure its historic buildings - in the late 1800s, the city wanted to tear the thing down.
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Today Quincy Market is the tourist trap extraordinaire - some boosters claim it has more visitors each year than Disneyworld. But it was built in 1826 for more prosaic reasons - to serve as a place for Boston wholesalers to prepare and ship meats and produce. The Greek Revival central market and the two side buildings were collectively named for Mayor Josiah Quincy.
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Trinity Church is perhaps H. H. Richardson's grandest masterpiece, an 1877 adaption of French medieval church design that spawned its own style of architecture: Richardsonian Romanesque. The massive structure sits on wooden piles in what was once the swampy Back Bay. It is actually part of a circle of great buildings that includes Old South Church, the Boston Public Library and the Hancock Building.
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Boston has always been a pioneer in zoning - government regulations aimed at imposing communal values on the look and feel of the city. At the turn of the century, city zoning codes prohibited skyscrapers. But the federal government was exempt from those codes and so it did something that no doubt sounded crazy to Bostonians of the time: it tore off the roof of the Greek Revival Custom House (built in 1847) and stuck a 17-story skyscraper in it. Today, the Custom House is a Boston icon (and is being turned into a hotel and luxury timeshare condos).
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The Hancock Building is interesting in many ways. Close up, one could actually argue it's a failure: it sits in the middle of a dreary plaza and creates a mini-hurricane that is constantly threatening to tear the hats of unsuspecting pedestrians. Yet from just a couple of blocks away, it is a striking beam of blue that draws the eye downward to the glories of Copley Square, in particular, Trinity Church. Stand at just the right point on Boylston Street and look up, and you see what appears to be a 50-story, two-dimensional sheet of glass. It's also famous as the world's tallest plywood building - when first erected, windows began popping out and the builders eventually had to replace all of them with plywood before they figured out how to fix the problem.
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The Union Oyster House and the Sears Crescent are both particularly notable because they are remnants of bygone eras. The oyster house, the oldest restaurant in the city, and the nearby buildings look straight out of the early 1800s - which they are. The Sears Crescent, next to the awful City Hall, is one of the few buildings that survived the bulldozers that tore down ol' Scollay Square as part of the Government Center urban-renewal project. By the curve of the building, you can even picture the road that no longer exists in front of it.
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i love boston
joe on February 28, 2004 01:49 PM.
Boston, is a great historical place that can teach us a prodigiously large amount about our country.
Peter Berquist on March 9, 2004 09:10 AM.
Boston = Old and Busted
Vancouver = New hotness
jason on March 14, 2004 09:55 PM.
Boston is a wonderful city. So much to see and do, I loved it!
Nimisha on March 22, 2004 10:34 PM.
I love Boston! It is one of the cleanest and greatest cities in the world.
Dan on March 25, 2004 01:07 AM.
Boston is the best!!!! I really loved it. Th most Exiting thing was Quicy market that the the best place to go.
I love you Boston.
Ariana on March 29, 2004 11:57 AM.
I LOVE BOSTON, lived there for 2 years and will miss it forever.
Katalin from Budapest on April 1, 2004 09:32 AM.
Visiting this summer. Can't wait !
Robert Wisbey on April 17, 2004 11:48 AM.
MARVIN on April 24, 2004 12:01 PM.
The City Hall building is actually based on a Monastary in Lyon, France. The style is called Brutalism, it's an ugly building but it still is considered architecture. Here is a link to Le Corbusier's Monastery of La Tourette ... very similar to our very own City Hall.
Sean on May 17, 2004 11:03 PM.
I came to Boston from Kansas City last fall. I was missing it.Thanks for the pics!
Barb on May 25, 2004 03:25 PM.
JJ Foleys on E Berkley St.!!!
Jimbo on May 25, 2004 09:57 PM.
Ci vediamo a giugno amici bostoniani!!!!
Fate i bravi
Paolo on May 26, 2004 08:27 AM.
I must give a presentation about boston in the school... it´s so difficult, because i know nothing about boston !!
Mandy on July 2, 2004 08:59 AM.
The best memories that I ever had in my life were from Boston, ten years ago, when I lived there; studying English at CELOP (BOSTON UNIVERSITY) and HARVARD SUMMER SCHOOL, Boston is just the right city for anyone, Boston is the city that has whatever you need and I think it is the most beautiful city in the whole United State and I even would say Boston is one of the best cities of the world. Being in Boston you don't need to go to London, Rome and Paris. I LOVE BOSTON.
TULIO CARRERO SOTO on July 11, 2004 01:47 PM.
I love, love, love Boston. I lived there.... .(3 years ago) to study english, I loved people and every thing.
I'll never forget u Boston and I promies to com back again.
Waleed on July 12, 2004 12:49 PM.
I´m Spanish. I came to Boston to study 12 years ago and I stayed there for more than two years
I love this city.
Thanks to all Bostonians
Celia on July 12, 2004 03:28 PM.
Hallo everyone,
I'm Francesca and I'm writing from Italy - Rome. I'd like a further info about Boston. In particular Storic dowtown, old building, important house to visit, for example Dickinson's house or Hawthorne's house. Ecxuse for my english...
anyway, all of boston and more....
thank you so much...
Francesca on July 30, 2004 01:10 PM.
I love JJ Foley's on E.Berkley too!
Regan on July 31, 2004 09:28 PM.
Ciao Boston!
I visited your very very beautiful city just a year ago, and have been missing it since then!
Nice city, nice people, nice surrounds, nice food, all just perfect!
I'll surely be back one of these days, in the meantime a virtual hug from Italy to all of you!
Pierfrancesco on August 25, 2004 10:31 AM.
Re: Dorchester Heights
While Knox was dragging the cannon of Ft Ticonderoga over the mountains, the Heights were prepared by Gen John Thomas M.D. whose house (private) is in Kingston near Plymouth on 3A at the top of John Thomas Hill. The British fled at once.
It was Dr Thomas who turned over the Continental Army to Washington on Cambridge Common.
He was sent to relieve Benedict Arnold's Siege of Quebec. The Yankee forces were decimated by smallpox, and he died on the return journey. Today? All but forgotten.
Dick Boner on September 26, 2004 10:42 PM.
going to boston in 2 weeks cant wait
sandra on November 10, 2004 02:33 PM.
I lived in Southie all my Life for the Past 4 years i moved to NH and i do miss Boston very Much i am always searching the Internet for old Pic around the city
George McDonough on December 9, 2004 11:07 AM.
I grew up in upstate NY and moved to Boston in '98 as it was a place I always wanted to live. I spent 3 great years there before deciding to see what else was out there. Since moving out of Boston, I lived in Buffalo, NYC, Miami, and currently Baltimore and and soooo excited to be moving back to Boston next week. This time for good!!! For me personally, no other city beats Boston.
Mike on January 25, 2005 03:17 PM.
I love you BOSTON!
Victor on January 28, 2005 02:25 AM.
i`m studding architecture in Vienna and going to Boston next week. has anyone proposals for interesting buildings i can visit?
chris on January 28, 2005 08:46 AM.
We visited Boston in january. Is is a wonderfull city and so european!
We come back once.
Johan Zwols on March 10, 2005 02:36 PM.
I love Boston!!!!!
I am living here for one year.
crocket on March 12, 2005 10:24 AM.
I lived in Boston my whole life. For the past 4 years I have been living in Boca Raton, Fl. Boston is my heart. I miss it on a daily basis. I too am constantly online looking for pictures of home. God Bless Boston...My home town. GO SOX!!!
Ann Dello Russo on April 9, 2005 02:34 PM.
I love this city.So many good things happened to me there.Its magical and unforgetable.Hope it never changes.A PLACE TO VISIT
Eli on April 10, 2005 05:53 PM.
I visited Boston for the first time in February and loved it. I never expected it to be so European in many of its features. It often felt like I was back walking down a London side-street. Even so, Boston is a great, interesting city.
Claire on October 19, 2005 05:05 PM.
Boston...baby, I love you like no other...can't wait to see you again....very soon I hope!!!
I'll be thinking of you!
Marine on November 1, 2005 11:16 PM.
Boston will be always in my heart! Boston is my favorite place in the World. I left Boston but my soul will be there for ever!
Great Job guys!
Ricardo Simone on December 12, 2005 02:04 PM.
Visited Boston recently and I am pretty impressed by the subway they have there - clean not stinky,and no vermins running in the track unlike NYC subway.
Alix on May 18, 2006 11:52 PM.
O dear, o mistress, o mine...
I spent 2 yrs as a Turkish man at this city and still can smell the mix. of bohemian and groovy feelings....
volkan on June 12, 2006 09:15 AM.
I live in Houston and have been to Boston on numerous occassions. It IS more European that any other American city...right down to it's politics. Either way, what it amounts to is Boston's a college town with all the trappings of a major city. Austin and Ann Arbor are college towns as well but could never offer what a city the size of Boston can. Great restaurant scene, sports bars,clubs, and a vibrant downtown nightlife. Every week of the year you could see a world-renowned speaker/lecturer at one of the 60 area colleges/universities. With that, it's a very young city, and the sudents come from all over the world. Very cool place, no doubt about it. My only suggestion to the previous posters is don't visit in January or February. I understand you may have had no choice but you gotta go during Summer or Fall. Forget Spring; Spring does not exist in New England. Straight from Winter to Summer every year.
Angie OPlasty on June 12, 2006 04:29 PM.
I love old buildings and all their trappings. I love boston for the same reason. I could just walk down the street on one of these clear, crisp fall afternoon doing nothing but admiring the architecture. Does anyone know there is an organization for "old building lovers?"
Jill on September 4, 2006 11:35 PM.
I love Boston. This is the most beautiful city in the States.
With Love, Former student of "Boston Academy of English".
P.S. If anybody (from BAE) want to keep in touch go ahead.
Gasan on January 18, 2007 06:31 AM.
I love Boston very much!
Gasan from AZERBAIJAN on January 18, 2007 06:33 AM.
I love, love, LOVE boston!! I went there for college 5 years ago and I now live in polluted NYC. How I miss the quaint cobblesone streets, the old lamposts...the coziness there.... Boston, you have my heart... I hope to be with you one day soon again (I am presently looking to move back I miss it SO much!)
Ariela on February 28, 2007 06:25 AM.
We visited artist friends at nearby Cape Ann. We found the whole area great for painting--subject wise anyway.
Michael on April 15, 2008 11:30 AM.
i want to go boston! i think is a perfect place to visit and wy not for to live im suprised by the photos you have looky to have a nice place to live like boston ahh one more thing arriba los boston celtics and larry
mario luna on May 26, 2008 07:01 PM.
I am moving to the Boston area next month. Actually Beverly. I was excited at first, but after I visited some forums and read comments like :Boston is the "cruelest" "nastiest" "road- rage filled" "ice cold city, both in terms of weather and the people. " - I am moving up from the south and although I have lived in Chicago, and have experienced the Chicagoans, I am starting to get especially stressed about the attitudes and perceived (or real?) lack of helpfulness of the Bostonians. So reading comments on this forum,where people seem to love Boston, gives me cause for hope.
Janya on June 19, 2008 04:42 PM.
Boston is absolutely the greatest city in the world! No other city compares to its beauty and history!
Andrew on July 30, 2008 04:27 PM.
I lived in Boston for 13 years and now I am in crummy Columbus, Ohio. My friends here can't understand why I love and miss Boston so much. I understand their point of view, though...none of them have been there!
Carl on August 7, 2008 04:47 PM.
Boston is unlike any city in the US - I first visited in 2000 and have always wanted to return to live there. I actually have recurring dreams of Yawkey/Lansdowne and wlking throught the entrance of Fenway Park! Go Sox!
bdougherty on August 13, 2008 08:13 PM.
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How did the first dagger graphic come about?
Long story short—it actually started with Mofo. We wanted to do like a hot rod street machine car. The dagger was actually on the front grill of a '30s or '40s Ford coupe. The centerpiece was a fisheye photo of the grill and up top it had the V8 emblem. Basically, we had a rough version that I gave to Stacy that he then gave to Kevin Ancell, who did my very first graphic. He diminished it to just the dagger with roses around it but it still had the V8 in there. So people always wondered what the V8 was and it was left over from the hot rod grill.
Were launch ramps kind of a hiccup in the whole evolution?
That was my whole life based around the f—king jump ramp. When I first started ollieing off jump ramps that probably opened up the door. From the early grab tricks to more ollie grab tricks.
Is it fair to say the Future Primitive part, especially with that Stecyk quote, introduced the concept of the urban playground to skateboarders? It almost felt like an instructional video.
Yeah. He always talked about the way skaters would transcend obstacles and their environment and surroundings.
The San Francisco scene from The Search for Animal Chin ('87).
How did that part come about? Did they talk to you about what they wanted?
No. They were just making a video. There was no preconceived notions in the sense of, "Let's showcase street skating." It was more just, "Hey, we're going to come up and film you doing what you do." I basically just cruised down the same hill I had been skating since the beginning. Like, "Ok, this is how we do it. We skate these hills, then I skate the dish, and then I go home." Nobody filmed for more than two days for any of those videos. So it really was just a snapshot of the way you skated on the daily.
Do you have favorites in those videos?
Honestly, my favorite section to watch is actually Lance (Mountain) in The Bones Brigade Video Show ('85). Him just cruising around, pushing through gravel, doing goofy street plants. I love that shit. It makes me want to go skate to this day. It just looks so fun.
Did Stacy understand the importance of street skating at that point?
I never thought of it that way at the time. That was just the way we skated. But Stacy might have intuitively known that it was going to be big. He knew all the skateparks were closing. It was the obvious next step.
The Bones Brigade: McGill, Tommy, Hawk, Cab, and Lance in the Animal Chin ad.
Is it fair to say that part put the SF scene on the map?
Yeah. I think so (Laughs.) It was before Sick Boys.
Did you interact with Natas and Gonz at all during those years?
Mark used to come up here and stay with me when he was probably 15/16. We would just go skate all day. Natas would come up all the time, or (Jim) Thiebaud and me would go down to Santa Monica and stay with him. I think those dudes really pushed each other in a different direction. The way we were skating here was different. We sort of adapted to our surroundings and skated that way and they adapted on their side. LA is super flat, so it just led to a different approach. They were pushing rails and stairs. We had the hills so we adapted to that.
How did you feel when you saw the rail stuff coming in? Did you see Julien (Stranger) and those guys pushing that?
It seemed like a natural progression. We were already ollieing up to boardslides on benches or flat bars or whatever. One of the first guys that I saw try it was Danny Sargent—a really long time ago. He was such a rad skater. Then seeing Natas try it at some contest—just kind of huck himself at the rail. That opened the doors. Then Mark too for sure, at contests killing the PVC rails.
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New Canaan Advertiser - Gas Prices, Energy on Voters' Minds
With gasoline prices continuing to rise and the country facing a crisis over energy policy and supply, the issue is expected to be a major one in the battle for the Fourth Congressional District.
Republican incumbent United States Rep. Christopher Shays is facing perhaps his greatest challenge in Cos Cob resident and Democrat Jim Himes, who has already set fund-raising records.
But a primary challenge by fellow Greenwich resident Lee Whitnum still stands in Mr. Himes' way.
All three campaigns say high gasoline prices and energy questions are some of the biggest issues on voters' minds and they expect this to be a top campaign issue.
In a statement to the Greenwich Post, sister paper to the Advertiser, Mr. Himes said the high price of gas is the issue he's most asked about, and an issue that has impacted the district's families, costing them about $500 per car this past year.
"That's a tremendous amount of money, and it puts a real strain on families that are already struggling with higher food costs, diminished property values and a bearish stock market," he said.
Rep. Shays was unavailable for comment, but his campaign manager, Michael Sohn, said the candidate has already introduced bipartisan legislation with New York Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-22) called the Energy for Our Future Act. Mr. Sohn said the bill has a four-part goal - a national energy policy, improved fuel efficiency of passenger vehicles, incentives for energy efficiency, and increased development of renewable energy sources while cutting tax breaks for the fossil fuel industry.
"Chris has long said that once we have a policy in place that ensures conservation, then we can look to increase our energy supply," Mr. Sohn said. "We need to be investing in sources such as wind, geothermals, biofuels and building new nuclear power plants."
The bill has been introduced to Congress, according to Sean Phillips, Rep. Shays' communications director, who said it has 15 co-sponsors. Mr. Phillips said no action has yet been taken on the bill, and Rep. Shays is looking for ways to amend it to do more.
Rep. Shays also introduced legislation that places a cap on the amount of oil people may trade. Developed with Colorado Rep. Earl Perlmutter, Democrat, the legislation aims to deal with excess speculation in the commodities market.
While Mr. Sohn said today's market has investors with as many as 50 million barrels under their control to make money off rising prices, the cap outlined in the bill would allow for a maximum of 20 million barrels.
"Basically, this would stop hoarding," Mr. Sohn said, adding that Rep. Shays is looking to get more disclosure about who actually owns oil on the commodities market and close what's known as the "Enron loophole" to get more government oversight.
Ms. Whitnum said that ending the Iraq War and limiting speculation would decrease oil costs.
"War uses 30 percent of the world's oil," she said via e-mail Tuesday. "End the war."
"Speculation is driving the price of oil up, and not by normal market conditions; therefore, restore supply and demand by limiting who can speculate and/or impose a cap on the volume of trades on the Mercantile Exchange," Ms. Whitnum added. "Or raise margins high enough to make it too costly for hedge funds to overspeculate ..."
Mr. Himes blamed high energy prices on the lack of long-term leadership on energy and transportation policy, one of the main reasons he said he is running for Congress.
"We've got two options right now as far as energy is concerned - increase supply or decrease demand," Mr. Himes said in his statement. "We need to do both, especially in expanding production of renewable and alternative energy sources and reducing our need for carbon-based energy sources."
Short term, Mr. Himes said, tax cuts for middle class families will help those struggling with rising costs. He criticized Rep. Shays, claiming he has supported tax cuts for wealthier Americans while opposing them for the middle class.
"For too long, oil companies and the extremely wealthy have gotten special generous tax breaks, while working and middle class have been strapped," Mr. Himes said. "The fastest and most effective way to help families cope with rising fuel prices and associated rising food prices is to give tax cuts to the people who need them most."
Mr. Himes advocates raising fuel efficiency standards for all cars, including light trucks and SUVs. Doing so, he said, will decrease net consumption of gas and lower the price. He also is calling for tax incentives for the production and purchase of hybrid vehicles and new fuel technology, while investing in public transportation. In addition, he is calling for the development of more "green buildings," and said if elected he would push the federal government to increase incentives for green development.
"If we reduce the amount of energy that buildings consume, including heating oil, we can lower energy costs in other areas," Mr. Himes said. "I know this firsthand because I spent six years building green affordable housing throughout this region as the head of the New York office of the Enterprise Foundation. Green building technology is cost-effective, creates jobs and lowers energy consumption overall, a win-win-win."
When asked what should be done to reduce energy costs, Ms. Whitnum said, "Create business incentives for investors and entrepreneurs to develop renewable energy sources. These new businesses could create opportunities in a struggling economy, and we should encourage it by providing incentives to inventors who create smarter technology and cleaner fuel choices. Some energy ideas that could be explored are wind, solar, wave, ethanol, biofuels, and even methane gas."
She said that privatizing utilities would bring down prices and give consumers more choices. She also advocates providing incentives to homeowners for making their homes more energy-efficient - for example, she said, installing solar panels or improving insulation.
Ms. Whitnum said she wants to see public transportation improved.
"For instance," she said, "a bill was submitted today by a Massachusetts senator that would improve the tracks on this corridor which will allow high-speed trains like the [Amtrak] Acela to go from Stamford to Boston in approximately two hours. That would save a bundle on jet fuel."
In his bills and other positions, including opposition to drilling for oil in Alaska, Rep. Shays is taking different paths from his Republican colleagues, including Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive Republican nominee for President, whom Rep. Shays is supporting. While it could be argued that Rep. Shays' policies wouldn't be supported under a Republican administration, Mr. Sohn said the congressman is willing to work with both parties, as he has in the past, to create new energy policy.
"Chris has worked with Democratic Presidents and Democratic Congresses and Republican Presidents and Republican Congresses on the environment and on other issues," Mr. Sohn said. "He's gotten a lot done working with both parties and will get more done in the future."
Ms. Whitnum and Mr. Himes face each other in the Democratic primary on Tuesday, Aug. 12. The winner will face Rep. Shays in November.
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EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Paddy Considine, who was just nominated for a BAFTA for writing and directing Tyrannosaur. Considine won two British Independent Film Awards for his directing debut. His acting credits include The Bourne Ultimatum, In America and Cinderella Man. He next stars with Dakota Fanning in Now Is Good. He continues with UK rep Troika and is managed by Untitled.
CAA Signs 'Tyrannosaur' Writer/Director Paddy Considine
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He's so good in Shane Meadows films! Terrifying in Dead Man's Shoes
Emperor's new clothes. Great actor but as director he gratuitously uses cheap violence as faux social commentary. He'll be right at home in Hollywood.
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By Scott Wartman, The Cincinnati Enquirer
ERLANGER, Ky. Want to maintain some modesty going through full-body machine scans at the airport?
A lawyer and blogger says he thinks his new business has an answer for those wanting to protect their modesty without making a scene while going through full-body scanners at airports.
Marcus Carey started an apparel line last month that sells clothing with strategically placed patriotic emblems made of special ink he claims will blur out a person's private parts in the image on the machine.
His business, ScannerShirts.com, bills itself as offering "privacy wear for family travel" and offers women's shirts with stars over the nipples and children's shirts with emblems at the bottom, over the genitals.
Briefs and boxers with U.S. or eagle-themed logos in front are also sold on the site.
Carey says the recipe for the ink is a trade secret, but he says it blurs the X-ray image of what's underneath.
He says reports of people walking into the airport in their underwear as a protest of the full-body scans and airline passengers being detained for refusing to be scanned inspired ScannerShirts.com, which he launched two weeks before Christmas.
"One story that disturbed me was a mother who was put into a holding cell for hours while officials determined what to do because she refused to go through the scanner and have her breast milk irradiated," Carey says. "I thought, 'There is a better way to get people through the line, make sure they are not delaying other passengers, not doing anything that amounts to protest, but protecting your privacy.' "
Other companies also are selling metallic-ink clothing on the Internet. Some have the Fourth Amendment, which is the constitutional guarantee against unreasonable search, written on them. Carey won't say whether the ink for his products is similar to others.
Carey also won't say how many shirts and pairs of underwear he's sold, but says that the first two weeks of sales exceeded his expectations.
Transportation Security Administration spokesman Jim Fotenos says he couldn't comment on whether this type of clothing works at blurring a person's image. But he says anything unusual detected by airport scanners could cause a traveler more hassle.
"Any item that appears to be an anomaly will require additional screening," Fotenos says, which could mean a physical pat-down.
Carey says all his customers who wore shirts through security checkpoints at airports over the holiday got through without any problems.
Carey says he believes the full-body scanners are an invasion of privacy with no security benefits.
"If we are required to do it to get on a plane, let's do it in a way that we don't give up our rights and let the line move speedily," he says.
Carey says he'll advertise his shirts nationally this year. "We're hoping the campaign will be fully fleshed out by Valentine's (Day)," he says.
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Here's a rare woody wagon in original unmolested condition, the only thing missing is a surf board. THE IMPORTANT STUFF 1947 Willys Overland station wagon MODEL: 4-63 two wheel drive ENGINE: L-134 Go Devil has a rebuild tag and starts & runs TRANSMISSION: Column shift 3 speed with overdrive VIN: #19000 the number didn't show very well in the picture ODOMETER: 76976 miles CONDITION: Original unrestored THE GOOD STUFF ORIGINAL PAINT: the first picture was taken a few years back and shows what the paint looks like when cleaned and waxed, the remaining pictures are all up to date 5 ORIGINAL RIMS: all five rims are matching color and have the yellow pinstipe HUBCAPS & TRIM RINGS: have 5 hubcaps and 4 stainless trim rings......the spare doesn't have a trim ring ORIGINAL SPARE TIRE COVER: the tire cover is worn but has no rips or split seams, check the picture it only covers the rubber.........when was the last time you saw one of these? ORIGINAL STEERING WHEEL: lovely old ivory colored steering wheel, sure it's not perfect but one of the nicest I have seen in an old jeep wagon ORIGINAL KNOBS, HANDLES, SWITCHES ETC: check the pictures, nothing is missing here ORIGINAL HEATER: nice looking heater with factory decals still intact........look at the pics ORIGINAL SEATS: a complete set of factory seats including the third row jump seat....the upholstery on the front seats is poor condition GAGE CLUSTER: great looking gage cluster with a working back light.........supposedly all gages work but have some OEM spares that are included just in case FRAM FILTER: check out the picture of the oil filter with factory decals, I had to wipe a little grime off for the pics but the entire engine bay is unmolested and should clean up well ORIGINAL FLOOR MAT: vehicle has the original factory rubber mat for the front compartment, sure it has a couple of splits in it but it's all there ORIGINAL DOOR SILLS: not sure if that's what you call them but they are ruuber and are stamped OVERLAND WILLYS I have the screws that hold them in place as well but were removed to check the condition of the metal underneath ORIGINAL PEDAL PADS: factory rubber pads still in place for clutch, brake and gas pedal, these are matching in color to the floor mat and door sills, sort of a grey color INTERIOR WOOD PANELS: all original and all there, a few of the screws are missing and I think I have most of them CANCER FREE: probably the best feature of this wagon, the floor pans and panels are rock solid. there is a bit of scaling under the floor mat in a couple of spots due to moisture being trapped but it is only on the surface. The frame and undercarriage are rock solid as well and just as clean as my Dad's 01 Grande Cherokee. There is some patina on the hood and roof where the paint has faded away and some surface rust on the rear door hinge area. INSIDE HOOD RELEASE: yes it's factory installed.........didn't even know they had this option in 47 FRONT ARM RESTS: as you can see in the pics the arm rests were replaced at some point, I found one of the original ones in the back and purchased a mate for it, haven't got around to installing them yet BUMPER JACK: as shown in the picture, I found this under the front seat, possibly original....it looks old......well used too......must of had a few flats over the years OWNERS MANUAL: this is an original replacement and is included as well as the other items in the pictures including the gas filler spill pad THE NOT SO GOOD STUFF BRAKES: vehicle needs complete brake job, the master cylinder has been resleaved and I have a set of OEM shoes as well ENGINE MOUNT: engine needs the rear mount installed.....I have an OEM in the box TIE ROD END: passenger side tie rod end needs replacing CRACKED GLASS: passenger side front glass and drivers door glass are cracked BODY SCRAPE: there is a small spot on the lower passenger side rocker behind the door that was damaged and now has a couple of tiny rust perferations, see close up picture. this area was pushed in against a body brace and had trapped some mud in there causing the rust CARBURETOR: the carb needs a kit installed, I have the parts and should have the job completed soon BODY REPAIR: a small repair was made on the drivers side where the hood meets the cowl, the bondo now shows some cracking........see close up DRILL HOLES: at one point the vehicle had front and rear signal lights mounted to the sheet metal, the mounting holes are still visible HEADLINER: probably the biggest dissapointment although not a major issue, as you can see from the picture, a family of mice got in there while the wagon was in the barn MISCELLANEOUS STUFF The wagon hasn't been on the road for many years but obviously had an engine rebuild at some point before it was retired. It starts up and sounds strong but that's as far as I got. MORE IMPORTANT STUFFI have close to six grand invested in the Willys but will take any offer over $5000 as it should be worth that much in parts alone. You can reach me at 403-327-8786 or email email@example.com for more pictures or information. The Willys is located in Lethbridge Alberta about an hour north of the Montana border on I-15
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Dan O'Connor currently serves as the Chair of the Academic Senate at California State University, Long Beach. In this role, he facilitates university-wide conversations and legislation on matters critical to the university community. Dan also serves as Co-Director of the President's and Provost's Leadership Fellow Program, training the next generation of leaders in higher education.
Dan is a recognized leader in the professional development of higher education faculty. He has helped design, develop, and administer one of the top programs in the CSU for undergraduate preparation of future elementary teachers. The Integrated Teacher Education Program (ITEP) and Urban Teaching Experience and Academics in a Clinical Home program (UTEACH) have received national and international accolades for their excellence in teacher preparation. He has conducted seminars for faculty at CSULB, local community colleges, and from universities in China and India.
Teaching has always been Dan's passion. He has twice been awarded the "Most Valuable Professor" award at CSULB's commencement ceremonies. As part of his teaching practice, Dan has taken several groups of students to New Orleans during Alternative Spring Break, where they have assisted in the rebuilding efforts following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. For four of the last five years, Dan has taught a winter session study-abroad course in Ireland.
Dan's research interests are in the area of American political thought. He has given many invited lectures and professional papers on the works of John Dewey and democratic theory. He earned a Bachelor's degree in political theory from UC Berkeley, and a PhD in political theory from UCLA. Dan also holds a Certified Specialist of Wine certificate from the Society of Wine Educators.
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Myanmar Days
Yangon and Bagan
Taxi to Don Muang airport and we are quickly through immigration where we grab a bite before the flight. Craig and Steve have befriended Nynke, from Holland, who is travelling on her own. E and C are the only ones who have accommodation booked in Yangon, but if we all stick together, we are sure it will work out. A short flight, and our watches back 30 minutes we touch down in Yangon. Quickly though immigration, we check the rate of USD to Kyat and change up some of our crispy USD. The USD notes we carry must be clean, new (after 2006), and unfolded or they will not be accepted! The Ocean Palace Inn has a mini bus waiting to take us, and it seems that there is room for the other 3, so happy days. The cars on the roads are driving on the right, even though many are imports from Japan that have the steering wheel on the right. After checking in with the extremely friendly staff, we taxi to a huge complex of temples and Pagodas at Shwedagon. An elevator takes us up to the complex. We spend the next 2 hours wandering round the serene complex till sunset. Dinner is a feast at an outdoor restaurant of local dishes. We are all very happy with our first afternoon in Myanmar!
Next morning we all book our onward jouneys. E and C are going to Bagan, and Steve and Craig to Kalau. We are assured these are very good buses as we are shown pictures on the bus tickets. Hardly a useful indication, but these are the only options. Craig and E take Stevo's advise to try the local Betel nut that is wrapped in a leaf with tobacco and lime (calcium). This is chewed for a while and then spat out, and it gives a light headed buzz...Burmese Daze.
We spend the afternoon doing a walking tour of the city armed with our guide book. We take lunch in a tea house where the waiters really enjoy looking out for us! On the streets we note the huge array of books, including to our surprise many about Aung San Suu Kyi. Craig has his fortune read by a roadside fortune teller! In the late afternoon we taxi to the bus station which turns out to be an enormous place. On the way Craig fixes the air-con in the taxi! We bid farewell to Craig and Steve, and find our bus. It is not quite the luxury bus we were spoiled with in Thailand. Infact it is a little on the shabby side, with seats that barely recline! We are sad to have said goodbye to the others, and are already missing the chat, banter and laughter.
After 150 miles or so of achingly loud Karaoke videos of Myanmar love songs we stop for dinner break, and bump into Craig and Steve, so we have dinner together!
Back on the bus and the karaoke videos flash back on the screen, and the air con goes into Arctic mode. Fortunately our packs are on the back seats so we are able to pull out our winter gear and rug up. surprisingly we get little sleep, and at 4:30am we arrive in Bagan. We stagger off the bus and loa our bags into a waiting horse drawn cart that takes us to our hotel called Eden. It is at this point that E realises he has left some things on the now departed bus. It must have been the love songs that interrupted his train of thought. No matter, we are assured that the small bag will be returned later in the morning.
We reach the hotel and as it is still so early, our room is still occupied. We wait in the dark lobby fora while before the horse and cart returns to take us to see sunrise over the hundreds of pagodas that litter the landscape at Bagan.
It is a wonderful sight. As the sun rises, so do several hot air balloons.
After a good breakfast, we go to our room and fall into a deep slumber for 2 hours, dreaming of karaoke.
We drag ourselves from bed and rent bicycles to visit the pagodas and temples. Armed with a map we set off and spend the afternoon happily riding around dirt tracks and poking our noses into some fabulous old ruins. We watch sunset from the top of a pagoda. Later we venture out for dinner, and stumble blindly upon the aptly named Restaurant Street, where we wine and dine. We notice that internet cafes are fairly prevalent.
A terrific sleep! Our second day in Bagan is spent on the bikes visiting more temples, before sunset over the Irrawaddy river. Myanmar is a country full of Pagodas, and Bagan is an ancient epicenter for them. We have an early night, as tomorrow we take an early boat to Mandalay...
C at Shwedagon, Yangon
E at Shwedagon
Bhudda image Shwedagon
C surrounded by Bhudda
Pagodas at Shwedagon
C and Bhudda
C and E at Shwedagon
C, Nynke, Craig and Stevo at dinner in Yangon
Betel nut seller in Yangon
Stevo and C ordering lunch in a tea house, Yangon
Stevo, C, E and Craig in the tea house
Waiters in the tea house
our food in the tea house!
Craig has his fortune read on the streets of Yangon
Balloon Rise, Bagan
E Balloon
Sun and Balloon
C - it's all just hot air
Pagoda at Bagan
Large pots
Colourful parasols
horse and carts, Bagan
C on the Pagoda
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In his weekly radio address, President Obama showed his dismay at the Supreme Court's decision to remove corporate campaign finance limits, warning of a pending deluge of special interest money into our democracy—a subject he knows quite well as he continues to fight for health care reform. —JCL
Obama's broadside was triggered by a 5-4 ruling by the court's justices on Thursday that removed long-standing campaign finance limits and allowed corporations to spend freely in campaigns for president and Congress. In the ruling, the court's conservative majority said the limits had violated corporations' constitutional right to free speech.
The ruling is expected to unleash a flood of money into this year's congressional elections. Obama's fellow Democrats face a struggle to retain control of the Congress amid voter unhappiness over double-digit unemployment, a record deficit, political gridlock in Washington and other matters.
"This ruling opens the floodgates for an unlimited amount of special interest money into our democracy," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address.
"It gives the special interest lobbyists new leverage to spend millions on advertising to persuade elected officials to vote their way—or to punish those who don't. This ruling strikes at democracy itself," Obama said.
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There's no question that tablets have hit the mobile market in a big way. In Q2 2011,
tablet shipments outpaced netbook shipments
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A famous player in the tablet arena is the
. It was initially released in April 2010, with the iPad 2 following in March 2011. While many other competitors have hit the mobile scene, such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Motorola Xoom, BlackBerry PlayBook, and the HP TouchPad, none of these have been able to match the iPad's popularity and dominant market share.
In fact, a report released by ABI Research, a marketing research firm based in New York, said that Apple's iPad 2 accounted for 68 percent of tablet shipments in Q2 2011. Another study conducted by comScore showed that
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The report, which was released by technology analyst firm J. Gold Associates, predicts that Android-powered tablets will make up approximately 50 percent of the tablet market in 2014-2015 while iPads will only make up about 30 percent. Tablets with the Window's operating system will account for 10 percent.
"By 2014-15, we expect Android tablets to acquire a majority of the consumer market as the number of vendors and variety of models overwhelm the iPad," said Jack Gold of J. Gold Associates. "But iPad will continue to hold the largest share of the enterprise market where specialized features built into some Android tablets will be valued but which will take longer to gain share."
According to the report, iPad will have 40 percent of the business market where Android will have 30 percent and Windows will have 15 percent.
With so much hype over Apple's products, it's kind of a breath of fresh air that other tablets could eventually move in for some heated competition. On the other hand, this report doesn't surprise me much, since
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I have to admit that I'm leaning more toward Android's corner because of Amazon's upcoming
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'Picking 24th overall, the Buffalo Sabres entered the 2006 draft with their lowest first-round pick in team history. The Sabres had a total of six picks at their disposal, and looked to address needs both in net and on the blue line. At the end of the day, they met their goal by coming away with three rearguards, two centers, and a goaltender who will be vying for the chance to wear the blue and gold sweater in a few years' time.'
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Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, 1901-1971
see trees of green, red roses too
For over 30 years beginning in 1918, "Satchmo" performed with a succession of bands on national tours. He appeared in over 30 films between 1932 and 1969, ending with a virtuoso performance in "Hello Dolly." A regular on TV variety shows, Armstrong was a gifted actor with superb comic timing and an unabashed joy of life.
One of the greatest celebrities of the 20th century, this horn player changed the face of American music by challenging the accepted notions of range and tone. His brilliant trumpet solos remain in a class by itself. A founding father of jazz, Louis Armstrong recorded thousands of tunes such as "Mack the Knife," "Up the Lazy River," and probably the most requested song of all, "What a Wonderful World."
breaks were not as wild as Armstrong's but they were hot and he selected
each note with musical care. He showed me that jazz could be musical
and beautiful, as well as hot. He showed me that tempo doesn't mean
The youngest son of a German American family in Davenport, Iowa, a young Bix Beiderbecke could play nearly any song he heard on the piano but never learned to read music. Nevertheless, at age 15 he mastered the cornet so that he could play the Dixieland jazz so popular on Mississippi riverboats.
By the age of 19, Bix set out to become the best jazz hornman in the land, and the notes coaxed out of his horn were pure and beautiful. In the 1920s he played with a variety of bands, eventually joining the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, and in the early 1930s, he played with the Dorsey Brothers and with Benny Goodman.
But Bix was a victim of alcohol abuse and could not hold a steady job. He died alone in his New York apartment at the age of 28, succumbing to pneumonia and alcohol poisoning.
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