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A lot of barbecue masters will use skinned tomatoes for different sauces. This is a great trick to get the thin skinned fruit peeled without testing how thin YOUR skin is!
Why peel it? Some say the skins add a bitter flavor to recipes.
Start with a very clean tomato without any stem:
- Get a large bowl of ice water handy. Half ice – half water. Save for later.
- "Score" or lightly cut a cross or X on the end of the tomato (this will help peeling later)
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Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA
E.E. Solid State, MIT, Cambridge, MA
M.S. Electrical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA
B.S. Electrical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA
B.S. Physics, MIT, Cambridge, MA
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- Peter Girouard, Pice Chen, Yongming Tu, Young Kyu Jeong, Zhifu Liu, Seng Tiong Ho, Bruce W. Wessels, "Ultrahigh bandwidth, low V? photonic crystal BaTiO3 modulators", Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics, IPRSN 2015, (2015)
- Koustuban Ravi, Qian Wang, Seng Tiong Ho, "A multi-band, multi-level, multi-electron model for efficient FDTD simulations of electromagnetic interactions with semiconductor quantum wells", Journal of Modern Optics, (2015)
- Xiufeng Tang, Chunhan Hseih, Fang Ou, Seng Tiong Ho, "Ohmic contact of indium oxide as transparent electrode to n-type indium phosphide", RSC Advances, (2015)
- Xiufeng Tang, Chunhan Hseih, Fang Ou, Seng Tiong Ho, "Ohmic contacts of ZnO/SnO2 equal-cosubstituted In2O3 films to n-InP and p-GaAs", RSC Advances, (2015)
- Wang, Qian; Ng, Doris K. T.; Lim, Kim-Peng; Pu, Jing; Tang, Kun, "Effects of SiO 2 hard masks on si nanophotonic waveguide loss for photonic device integration", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, (2014)
- Wang, Qian; Tang, Kun; Ho, Seng-Tiong; Singh, Gurpreet, "Design of an integrated gradient-index light condenser for the light delivery in a heat-assisted magnetic recording head", IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, (2014)


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I just want to let you know that everything you are about to read is true. Now I know what you are thinking. Just some asshole saying that so he can scare me. I'm not joking though. It really happened and I want to get my story out there. Interpret this story in your own way.
Before I get to the story let me tell you some background to my situation. I am living with my parents in a small house in Michigan. We live near a small town called Suttons Bay. I'm sure you haven't heard of it. It's basically this small, boring, run of the mill town with barely any people in it. The only place here where there are a lot of people are the suburbs. Well I don't live near the suburbs. I live next to a small business that my stepdad works at in the middle of nowhere. No neighbors around for miles. We live a peaceful and quiet life.
I am more or less a nerd. All I really like to do is play video games and watch anime. Complete opposite of my stepfather. He loves to work, work, and work some more. Day in and day out. My mother has back problems but works at a little store in a neighboring town called Northport which is no less boring than Suttons Bay. So basically, I am left alone in the house a lot. This has kind of caused me to get a little antisocial and awkward. That and I'm just not a confident person in general. To be honest, I think I have only really had three close friends. One hates my guts now, another is down state, and the other is in Florida. So I'm more or less a loner when it comes to being in school and other public places.
In this place, I have always been bored. I really don't have anything fun to do other than watch anime and play games. My parents force me to work just to get me out of the house. It's really bothersome, but I do it anyway to avoid punishment. I still hate it though. Getting dragged around and not being allowed to do the things I really love. As stupid and as selfish as it sounds, I would much rather stay in my room than help with work and such.
One day, while I was at school, my stepfather decided to install an "intercom" as he called it, in my room. I'm not talking about the ones with huge speakers either. Just a small white box with three buttons. Call, Talk, and Lock. It worked similar to a walkie-talkie. Having to hold the talk button and talk into the speaker on top of the box. And if you pressed the call button, it would emit an annoying beeping noise similar to an alarm clock but quieter. There were three channels on that thing. Channel A, B, and C. My family operated on C. The only downside is that it worked within small distances. My guess would be so that it wouldn't pick up a ton more signals. But then again, it could have been its capacity. Anyway, that's not important.
We had been communicating through these intercoms for a full week now and I had already begun to feel as if our family was drifting away. As if we were all so close and yet so far. We shared the same home and yet communicated through these stupid little white boxes. It just didn't feel right. It felt as if I was a test subject being talked to through a speaker. My parents talk all the time about how technology is tearing us apart and then they go and install this piece of junk in my room because that's gonna help me? Sometimes, I wonder what is on an adult's mind when they do these things.
This is finally where my story begins. Sorry for taking so long with my expositional rant. So it is 9:00 a.m. I am lying in my bed, dreading school the next day. I am comfy and cozy under my covers and I am just drifting off to sleep and then I hear that stupid beep the intercom makes when someone is calling me. I think for a moment and come to the conclusion that maybe Joe is calling me for something. I hobbled over to the intercom and let out a tired, "Yeah?" There is a three-second pause and then the call noise sounds again. I start to get frustrated and say "What is it, Joe?" I thought my stepdad was just fooling around with me, but he's not the type to wake me up in the middle of the night after lecturing me many times on the value of sleep. The call noise then beeps again.
I am now pretty pissed that presumably my stepdad was trolling me and trying to keep me awake. Angrily, I walked down the stairs to tell Joe to stop and discover that no one was even there. Not a single person in sight was near the intercom or even awake. I felt stupid at this point. Maybe my cat, Cheese, was just pressing the buttons and playing with the machine. As stupid as this excuse sounded, I was willing to believe anything if it meant getting some good nights sleep. I walked up to my room and decided to pull the intercom's plug from my wall. I would plug it back in the wall in the morning.
I went back to bed and started to doze off after a few minutes. But then, you guessed it. That stupid beeping came on again. I walked over to it and slammed my finger on the talk button. "Listen. This isn't funny! Stop calling me! I just want to get some sleep!" There was a ten-second pause before the red buttons to signify someone pressing the talk button came on. I was confused. It was just five seconds of static and then in the last three seconds, you could hear someone laughing in a deep, monotone voice.
I froze. I was shocked beyond belief. I didn't know at this point what to believe. First it rang when no one was there to press the buttons. And it even rang when I unplugged it. Now someone or something was deliberately trying to scare me by laughing like some weird demon from hell. Seriously, I must be dreaming. I didn't know what to do next so I took all of my clothes and piled them on the intercom so I wouldn't be able to hear it. Sleep did not come easy that night.
The next day I fell asleep in class and ended up having to go to the office. My mother had a chat with the principal and they lectured me on the values of sleep while I sat there in a stupor. I was so frightened by what had transpired that night. I didn't know how it could have happened. These aren't suppose to be long ranged radios, are they? They are just intercoms after all. Still, I got yelled at and grounded for a few days.
For days on end things would be the same for me, my mom would put my clothes away, the intercom voice would wake me up, I would be sleepy and fall asleep in class, lecture. It was this stupid endless cycle of torment and whatever was talking to me just wouldn't leave me alone. This thing would just mumble in some strange, gibberish like language that I couldn't even understand nor manage to repeat. I was having so much trouble trying to sleep and trying to dream that it was eventually taking its toll on me. Then one night, I decided I wasn't having it.
That voice began to speak to me in its ridiculous dialect when I interrupted it. "Listen asshole!" I exclaimed, "I don't know what your deal is with tormenting me every night, but I'm fed up! If I ever meet you in real life, I'm kicking your ass!" I sat there feeling like a badass, I stared at the intercom waiting for a reply. But I never got one. In fact, I never heard from that individual for a whole week and a half. Which brings me to the events of what unfolded just last night.
I was about to get some sleep when I heard a whisper "One Day" in my right ear. I turned to face the voice and I saw something horrible. It was this all black figure with red eyes staring right into my soul. It was significantly taller than me and had to hunch down just to get near me. It had long, sharp fingers almost like knives. Also, it had the widest grin I have ever seen on anyone or anything in my entire life and had long, sharp, needle-like teeth.
So now I am here. Typing up my story for the whole world to see. I am so tired but I am so afraid to go to sleep. Because if I do, I'm afraid I might get taken or tortured or worse. I have no way of knowing this creature's true intentions, but I fear for my life. I am really scared, but I'm going to go to sleep anyway. I'm not letting this horrendous creature win. I'll try and see if I can find any information on this creature and or its motives. If I live to see daylight that is. I'm so scared.


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Discussion in 'Call of Duty' started by 1upDavis, Jan 4, 2013.
With people liking or not liking certain modes i have created this pole mine is TDM
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I like Dom because TDM is gimped score wise right now.
I have to say, though, something that's been pissing me off lately with Domination are all the people who ignore B and go to cap the enemies flag. I die, end up back at our flag and suddenly the whole enemy team spawns with me, so I die before I can move. I swear, people are allergic to grabbing B for some reason.
at least the spawns are a little better. I cant stand TDM and KC spawns sometimes, which is why a TON of my time in COD is spent on domination. Ive barely played other game modes and still only played FFA once. lol
S&D, been playing it by far the most, ever since CoD4
Best? I don't know how that's judged. I think Hardpoint, Capture the Flag and Demolition may offer the most points and XP but I like to play Domination.
Either kill confirmed or hardpoint.
personally I like domination the best. i have the most fun with it.
I like most of the objective games in general.
When I'm in a party... Search and Destroy would probably be the best.
When I'm flying solo it's a toss up between Domination and Hardpoint.
I like Demolition and CTF, but I've been neglecting those a lot so far in this iteration.
Why wouldn't you want to cap the b flag, you get the 'opening move' medal worth 500xp for capping it. Jeez during double xp im capping that b flag like its my career.
Dom and kc
I do the same.. I use a smoke grenade, get to the flag and then realize I'm alone. Then I suddenly hear "Taking C" as I die to the enemy team that swarms me. It's not all the time... sometimes I get a team that work with me. Other times, they just sit back and camp without even trying to cap. They're afraid of grabbing the flag because they're afraid of dying.
I run tactical mask, flak jacket and smoke just for capturing which helps survivability quite a bit (though flak jacket needs a buff, imo).


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In the first season of the IPL in 2008, Shaun Marsh had taken the tournament by storm with his brand of elegant stroke play. His best performance came in the first edition of the tournament, where he also ended up with the Orange Cap. Playing against the Rajasthan Royals, Marsh scored a chanceless 115 off 93 balls (4*11, 6*7) to knock the stuffing out of the Rajasthan Royals. Needless to say, the mammoth 221 put up by the Kings XI proved to be the winning score in that game.
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Although Marsh has not been able to reach the same heights of IPL 1 when he won the Purple Cap with a total of 616 and a stupendous average of 68.44, it cannot be denied that the average that he has achieved in the successive tournaments is quite commendable. Otherwise he would not have had an outstanding overall average of 44.25 in 50 games. While the average shows the sort of consistency he brings to the table, his career strike rate of 133.26 makes it abundantly clear that he is a player who prefers to get his runs quickly. Marsh is a player who would be an asset for any T20 side.
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Most Australians sportsmen are known to be hard drinking individuals but in case of Shaun Marsh, it has led to disciplinary issues more than once in his career. Right at the beginning of his career he got into trouble for going on an alcohol fueled bender with fellow trouble maker Luke Pomersbach. That incident led to a 2 match ban in domestic cricket. More recently however, he was omitted from his domestic T20 squad for a night of revelry with his brother Mitchell in 2012, when the brothers were part of the Perth Scorchers' side that was participating in the Champions League T20.
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Godzilla may finally get the film treatment he deserves. The hype behind next year's Godzilla roared at Comic-Con 2013. Con-goers who squeezed into Hall H approved of the trailer, which was reported to include at least another monster and had a serious tone.
Recently, leaked trailers of the film have hit the Internet, cluttering Twitter and Facebook feeds. Since they haven't been official, websites have been forced to take them down. But what was there for that brief time was good. Damn good. And popular.
A Dailymotion video garnered more than 100,000 views in just a matter of hours. YouTube had it. Movie sites praised the one minute and change trailer, uploading it on their site while collecting tons of viewers; people flooded the comments section about how strong the potential of Godzilla could be.
Why did the trailers get taken down? Whether Warner Bros. did this on purpose is unknown. Either way, it is a brilliant marketing ploy. Fans want to see the Big G in a serious American movie. That campy 1998 version starring Ferris Bueller won't cut it.
Director Gareth Edwards has promised Godzilla will be what fans are craving. Like Christopher Nolan did with the Dark Knight trilogy.
If you dig hard enough, there might be a trailer still up. What was there, however, featured destruction — busted trains, debris everywhere, holes in buildings. The majority of the trailer's audio is J. Robert Oppenheimer's speech about the creation of the atomic bomb with this part standing out: "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
Of course during this time we see monster arms and legs and finally, Godzilla shouts his signature roar at the end.
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When Duty Calls, His Promise Endures
Monday, December 19, 2005
Dwight D. Eisenhower was commander in chief the first time Max Koppel came to Washington to serve his country. It was during that ambiguous interlude between the Korean and Vietnam wars, and truth be told, Koppel's sign-up as a public health doctor was as much preemptive as voluntary. The young medical resident figured he would fulfill a two-year obligation, avoid the riskier alternatives, go home and pursue his real career.
But careers have a way of taking unexpected twists. Nearly a half-century later, those have somehow brought the now white-haired physician back to Washington, again in service to his country. At an age and stage when most people are settled into retirement, the 71-year-old urologist is deployed to Walter Reed Army Medical Center. His assignment: Support the Iraq war-thinned ranks of the huge military hospital.
Every week, Capt. Max Koppel reports enthusiastically for duty. Many of the battle-wounded there are young enough to be his grandchildren.
"You see these kids, these soldiers," he said. "You've got to love these people."
His tour at Walter Reed, on track to top more than 350 days before it ends, follows nearly three dozen shorter tours across the United States since the late 1980s. Koppel filled in at a small county hospital in eastern North Dakota, traveled to Alaska to help after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, assisted at a migrant worker camp along Idaho's Snake River. He rotated several times into rural Alabama and several more into remote corners of Montana, where he cared for Native American families.
He did all this as an inactive reservist of the U.S. Public Health Service, which commonly sends its doctors, dentists, nurses, therapists and even veterinarians to far-flung places. About 1,500 are like Koppel, very involved with the inactive reserves, and under a 2002 memorandum of understanding with the Department of Defense, a few others also have been asked to accept assignments at Walter Reed or locations related to the fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Koppel stands above the rest as "our all-time hero," in the words of Capt. James Sayers, director of the health service's Office of Reserve Affairs. Last fall, U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona honored Koppel with an "exemplary service medal." Its recipient is modest about the distinction, saying with a smile, "You know, there are bad examples . . . " And he is similarly self-deprecating about the accidental path that led him to these many deployments.
None would have happened had he not overlooked procedure with his original public health commission nearly five decades ago.
"It's the most remarkable thing," Koppel said last week. "I never resigned. I don't know why. It must have been a paper that just went by me."
Every Monday, he leaves his suburban Philadelphia home in the 4 a.m. darkness to head south on Interstate 95. By 7:30 a.m., he is through Walter Reed's front gate in Northwest Washington and ready to begin seeing patients there and at the U.S. Armed Forces Retirement Home several miles away. He hangs up his heavy black topcoat, the one that looks military with its quartet of gold stripes on each sleeve and three rows of commendation bars over the breast pocket. He dons his white medical coat, logs into the hospital computer and starts his day.
"He's definitely part of the department," urology resident Joe Sterbis said. "I think being here really invigorates him."
Every Tuesday evening, Koppel is back on the highway. Although he no longer has a private practice, every Wednesday morning finds him back at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, seeing patients.
As long as the military needs him, he plans to maintain his schedule. He has a ruddy, affable face that bears resemblance to John Updike's, a quick step and energy enough to make that schedule seem feasible for quite a while. Koppel apparently is not one to stay home and do projects -- he realized that even semi-retirement was not for him when he found himself in front of the television one afternoon, watching the movie "Paint Your Wagon" -- and a couple of health scares of his own in recent years made even more worthwhile the public good he felt he could do. "It's revitalizing," Koppel said. "It's rededicating."
Just the other day, for example, he alternated between a 50-year-old Army sergeant, who was doing convoy security in Iraq until his legs began swelling mysteriously this summer, and a retired colonel, a few months shy of 90, whose war stories include the Battle of the Bulge on the German-Belgian border during World War II.
"It's the reason I love coming in," Koppel said between appointments. "These people deserve care."


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story & photos by BOB DORAN
WHAT'S THE FIRST THING THAT comes to mind when you hear the word art? A painting hanging on the wall in a gallery?
And what's the first thing that comes to mind when you think about the Humboldt Arts Council?
Probably the Morris Graves Museum of Art in the historic Carnegie Building across the intersection from another historic landmark, the Eureka Inn.
What many do not know is that the work that goes on in the Arts Council's basement offices goes far beyond running the art museum upstairs.
The Humboldt Arts Council is the lead agency administering something called the North Coast Cultural Trust, a collection of programs with a $1.4 million budget. For the last four years the NCCT has been sowing seed money for the arts in every corner of Humboldt County.
On Sunday the Arts Council is throwing a big party, the Harvest of the Arts, to showcase NCCT accomplishments with performances and displays -- the fruits of the labor by artists supported by grant funds. (See schedule)
But as Debbie Goodwin (photo below left), executive director of Humboldt Arts Council, prepares for the celebration, she is looking toward the future with a touch of apprehension. The primary funding for the NCCT came from a four-year grant and that grant is at the end of its cycle.
Goodwin is not someone stuck in the classic art mindset. She sees the arts moving in new directions and talks enthusiastically about what she calls her "new mantra" -- art as social intimacy.
"It's looking at communities and asking why they value the arts and what they do. Art is our meaning; it's how we connect on a deep, meaningful level. Community-based arts programming is a whole movement which is about how people serve each other."
Part of the concept is to shift the attitude toward art so that it's not thought of as something just for the elite.
"I don't have a formal arts education background, but I know that the way people have traditionally studied the arts is different with all the aesthetics and an isolationist kind of mindset where art is done for art's sake," said Goodwin.
"With high art you'd go a museum and you would have your own personal interaction with it. It was a very defined educational experience -- and that was it. It was held distinct from the rest of the world, an elevating experience.
"But when you look at the kinds of projects we've funded you see that art breaks out all over around here. It's a very different sort of expression. This is all about the other side of the arts where art is something that connects us, something that's part of our social structure."
The roots of the Humboldt Arts Council go back to 1966 when a group of artists and art lovers joined forces.
"It was a collective of people who really valued the arts and didn't want to be isolated behind the Redwood Curtain," said Goodwin.
The council incorporated in 1971 and began bringing art to area schools with a docent program. Before beginning the refurbishing of the Carnegie it ran a gallery/performance space called the Cultural Center. (The building has since become Humboldt State University's First Street Gallery.)
For a while the group changed its name to Association of Humboldt Artists. (Someone thought AHA was a cute acronym.) In 1987 the HAC became a partner of the California Arts Council.
"That was all way before my time," said Goodwin, who took over as executive director at the beginning of 1997.
"That was the year Lila Wallace came to town," she points out. "We were chosen to be the key administrator of that big initiative -- $1.4 million over four years."
When Goodwin says, `Lila came to town,' she does not mean literally. Lila Wallace and her husband Dewitt built a fortune with their little magazine, the Reader's Digest. While she was alive, Lila contributed generously to the arts and before she died in the 1980s, she established the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund.
Its mission is "to invest in programs that enhance the cultural life of communities and encourage people to make the arts and culture an active part of their everyday lives."
"The original philosophy [of the Wallace Fund] was to partner with community foundations to build their capacity to do art grant making, and have those grants be community-based," said Goodwin.
Humboldt County was one of 11 areas chosen to participate in an initiative called, Community Partnerships for Cultural Participation.
"We were one of three rural areas. The rest were metropolitan, places like Boston, Detroit, Kansas City. They were looking for ways to support arts programs that were not so much about the symphony and the opera and theatergoers, more about what we do here."
The $825,000 from Lila Wallace was supplemented by additional funding from the Humboldt Area Foundation and others. (See pie chart at the bottom of this article). By coincidence, the money became available just as the Arts Council was in the thick of its museum project.
"It was very much a time of change for the Arts Council. What was changing the most was the responsibility of the organization. It was mounting a major capital campaign to create the Morris Graves Museum of Art so the scope of its identity in the community -- and its fiscal responsibility -- were going through a huge shift."
The first phase of the museum project was completed at the end of 1999. The doors opened just in time to welcome the new millennium. Later that year it was dubbed the Morris Graves Museum of Art in honor of the legendary artist and HAC supporter, who spent the last 35 years of his life living and creating art in Loleta.
"Because of the museum we have been able to increase our own organizational budget," said Goodwin. "When I came on board it was less than $100,000 a year; we ran $629,000 through the organization last year. But it really does go way beyond managing a facility and an art museum."
HAC continues to run programs in the schools.
"The docent programs and the art banks are something we've been doing for 25 or 30 years now. Those were all strengthened through grant funding," Goodwin said.
The scope of the youth arts programs increased significantly. Money from the North Coast Cultural Trust and other grant funding supports Art for Youth and Families, a program run by Michelle McCall-Wallace with a budget that has grown from $60,000 a year to $170,000.
Where does all the money come from?
"It's divided into three major categories," Goodwin explained. "About a third comes from grants, a third from earned income -- ticket sales, sales of art -- and a third is through individual donations." [See Revenue Chart below]
Where does the money go?
"It goes to maintain this facility -- and the majority is spent on people. We have grown from a staff of two and a half to 10. It has taken time to facilitate this initiative, to send out the paper work on the grants and to do the bookkeeping and publicity.
"Michelle's program alone runs 19 after-school programs and I don't know how many community grants for the different geographical regions. All of those require enormous amount of administration.
"That's what we do here. When I interview people who want to come to work here, I say, `Don't think you're going to be making too much art. We're administrators. You are facilitating the work of artists.' It's very much a left-brain reality."
Goodwin conceded that the end of the Lila Wallace grant means working with a smaller budget and the belt-tightening may include cutting back on staff.
The NCCT's goal is to have a $10 million endowment by 2010. At this point it only has $1.5 million. And that's not the only endowment the Arts Council is looking at. There's still the upkeep and operation of the Morris Graves Museum to consider.
"Our initial goal [for the museum] was a $2 million endowment," said Goodwin. "The interest off that would cover basic facility costs and a part-time curator. But we're not there yet. That's why we're doing an auction (Nov. 4 at the Morris Graves) and we're doing brick and tile sales. We've done very well, but right now we're doing it year by year.
"We had a big learning curve coming into this building not knowing what it was going to cost. We've had some challenges with PG&E -- our electric rates went up 54 percent in June. There were things we hadn't planned for, but we're OK for this next year. We just approved a new budget and that seems pretty solid.
"But I'm a little bit concerned about the year after next. I worry about philanthropy based on world events. Didn't Congress just commit $40 billion for a war effort? I wonder if that means my $10,000 NEA grant isn't going to happen?
"About $65,000 in our [yearly] budget came from the Lila Wallace grant. We have found some additional funders to support the program. The Packard Foundation is there. We've got a renewal grant into the Nathan Cummings Foundation. Those are the larger national funders that will help us continue."
Goodwin says Humboldt County has developed a reputation for gleaning grant funding.
"Look at Dell'Arte. They're a cornerstone grant for the Irvine Foundation. They're with the big boys. United Indian Health Service got some major funding for its Potawat Village. The Mateel is getting big grants and the Arts Council. Ink People was ahead of the game years ago with an Irvine grant."
Goodwin says we have an advantage when it comes to grant writing. "It's pretty easy to tell our story. Philanthropy has to solve a problem and we have the right mix. We're isolated. We have poverty. We have a need to fill. There are problems with our society and our environment.
"I think all of these arts projects are part of the business of restoring our society and the environment. A lot of these projects are about healing -- healing people or bringing them together, giving people tools, building self esteem in kids."
There are dozens of arts organization in Humboldt County, all of them looking for donors and throwing fund-raisers. With local money scarce, competition has been a constant.
Goodwin says that is changing. As an example she points to the fact that Libby Maynard, executive director of the Ink People, sits on the Arts Council board. While their areas of interest may overlap, Goodwin sees the goals of the two groups as complimentary.
"The Ink People is much more hands-on, encouraging artists and helping organizations become fundable. We work together and, I'd have to say, it hasn't always been that way. That's one of the things that came out of all our planning. We started distinguishing our niches, figuring what we do and how we can all work together in partnerships.
"Our focus [at the Arts Council] is on financial resources -- and that's why this whole North Coast Cultural Trust movement is at our forefront. We want to make sure the North Coast Cultural Trust is a reality so there's a local endowment fund to support these programs. When you have scarce resources there is competition. When you have abundant resources there's a lot more room to work together."
And how are the resources holding up?
"It has been tough. In a grant world paradigm, you run out. The Lila Wallace grant ends December of this year and a significant portion of the Arts Council's budget is going to go away. We've been looking at ways to fill that need.
"We're moving forward as best we can. The North Coast Cultural Trust will continue to do the project grants to artists -- those are assured forever because of the endowment. And the community art grants are assured for at least the next two years.
"That's where our endowment campaign comes in. The Arts Council is beginning another major fund-raising effort to get our endowment in place so we can help others with the proceeds. I think it makes sense to have an interest-bearing account and live off the interest instead of constantly needing to do fundraisers."
Editor's note: Staff writer Bob Doran has an insider's perspective in preparing this week's cover story -- and also a unique conflict of interest. He was the recipient of a $1,840 grant that originated from the pool of money that began with the Lila Wallace funds. His grant was used to purchase a digital camera to create a library of images of local artists and musicians. Doran, who graduated from Humboldt State University in the early 1980s in theater arts with an empahsis on film, was a volunteer for KEET-TV's Living Biographies program and has recorded the stories of a number of elders in the community. He will be at Harvest of the Arts this weekend as a volunteer recording portraits of those participating. (See Harvest of the Arts Schedule )
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1999 Awards
Weitchpec Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization Community Mural Project, $1,500. United Indian Health Services Recreating History for Healing Our Future, $1,250. Hoopa Valley Youth Center Performing Arts Program, $11,000. Artist Michael Guerriero Getting the Arts Out, teen arts clubs for Eel River Valley Schools $13,750. Trinidad School District Trinidad Arts and Artists, $860. Orick Healthy Start Orick Community Youth Arts Program, $8,110. Redwood Rhythmic Gymnastics Parents' Association Redwood Rhythmic Community Arts Scholarship Fund, $3,200. Dell'Arte Playmaking Project, $5,970. McKinleyville Community Services District C.H.O.I.C.E.S. (Children Having Opportunity In Culture, Education & Sports), $6,000.
2000 Awards
Mateel Community Center "Recycled Youth" Theater, $11,075. Feet First Dancers We Dance, $8,535. ABC Community Center The ABC Music and Arts Project, $7,360. Heart of the Redwood Community Hospice Arts as Intervention, $530. Food for People Take a Brush and Change the Face of Hunger, a mural $650. Quack and Wabbit Puppet Theater The Art of Puppetry, $4,200. South Bay Union School District Exercising Both Sides of the Brain: Artistic Experiences in an Academic Summer School, $6,000. Ink People Center for the Arts Fresh Arts Youth Project, $1,500. Humboldt County Office of Education Gang Resistance Intervention Program (GRIP) Cultural Dance, $3,400. Boys and Girls Club, Teen Center Theater Arts Program, $4,200. Boys and Girls Club, Club House Fine Arts Program, $3,550. Humboldt County Probation Department New Horizons Mural Project, $4,000.
2001 Awards
The final round of Community Arts Grants in the year 2001 will be awarded to groups in Fortuna, Loleta, Arcata, Manila, Samoa, Fairhaven, Ferndale, Petrolia and Honeydew and announced at 2:30 p.m. at Harvest of the Arts (schedule below).
The seed for Harvest of the Arts was planted at a retreat in April 1999. A who's who of Humboldt arts administrators gathered at Moonstone Beach to spend a weekend brainstorming. Jim Shannon, a friend of Humboldt Arts Council Executive Director Debbie Goodwin's from Hawaii, was facilitator.
Shannon's advice: "Come up with a slogan. Have a bumper sticker. Do something really big. Make it corny, but put it out there."
Someone suggested that a giant group portrait would show off how many artists live and work in Humboldt County. An initial plan to gather at Clam Beach was abandoned for environmental and parking reasons and the event was moved to College of the Redwoods.
The culmination of the North Coast Cultural Trust grant features performances and displays by grant recipients, the announcement of North Coast Cultural Trust grants for 2001, at 2:30 p.m. and as a grand finale, at 3 p.m., an aerial photograph of all present by Gary Todoroff.
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I don't claim to be an expert what so ever with customizing any theme made by Thrive.
I've used many of the currently available themes from Thrive, both for my own personal use and of course on client projects, in particular, the Rise theme.
With that said, I feel that I know enough to compensate the fact that I can write some useful customization tutorials for you, so that you can truly create a personalized site using the Rise theme, and of course get the most from this awesome theme.
Using Custom CSS to customise the footer section in Rise Theme
Once again, we're going to be using simple CSS code to add some customization to the footer section of your theme. And again as I said in the previous tutorial, any custom CSS you add to this theme needs to be placed inside the Custom CSS box provided.
You can find this box by going to Thrive Dashboard > Rise Theme Options > Style And Layout Settings > Custom CSS. See image below.
If you want to know why this is important, and why you shouldn't just place custom CSS inside the style.css file under Editor, refer to the last Rise theme tutorial here.
OK let's get cracking.
Before we start, I'll assume that you've already placed some widgets inside the footer area of your WordPress site, and that you have content inside of these widgets.
If you don't have any footer widgets in your site running the Rise theme, then please go to Appearance > Widgets and add some content to the Footer Column's 1, 2 and 3.
Also, make sure some of the content is in text form as well.
Changing the footer background color in Rise Theme
To change the footer background color, add the following CSS code into the custom CSS box in your Theme.
Once again, you'll find this box by going to Thrive Dashboard > Rise Theme Options > Style & Layout Options.
footer .fmm {
background: #3F3F41 !important;
Don't forget to change the value marked in red, with the desired HTML hex color code value of your choice. This could be a color to match your website's brand identity.
Use this tool to pick and find hex color codes for your site. If you're using a Mac computer, you'll also find this app useful.
Changing the lower footer background color and font-color in Rise Theme
OK so we've changed the actual footer area background color, now we'll customize the very lower footer section.
To change the lower footer area background color and typography color, place the following CSS code inside your custom CSS box.
footer { background-color: #3F3F41 !important; background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(#3F3F41 0%, #3F3F41 100%) !important; background-image: linear-gradient(#3F3F41 0%, #3F3F41 100%) !important; color: #fff !important; }
Once again, don't forget to change the hex color values marked in red to whatever you want, again perhaps a color to match the rest of your website's identity.
The code above left as it is will change the footer section background color to gray. Whatever you change it to, be sure to make all the color codes the same, i.e background-image:
The last piece of hex color code (#fff) will change the font color to white.
Once again, you can change this to whatever color you want. If you have a light background, for example, you might want to change this font color code to something like #000 for black.
Changing the color of the typography inside the custom footer widgets
You might have noticed that the typography or text inside the widgets appear to be slightly colored, depending on the color setting you're using in Rise theme. You can actually change this to whatever you want using the following CSS code:
footer .fmm p, footer .fmw p {
color: white !important;
The code above will change the font color to white, however as I said before, you can change this to whatever you want. Or use hex colour codes instead (#FFFFFF).
So there you have it, a simple and pain-free tutorial (hopefully), on how to personalize and customize the footer section in Rise theme from Thrive Themes.
With a bit of luck, you've added the codes in correctly and have adjusted the values to your liking and you're ready to rock and roll.
If you require assistance, however, or if you run into any problems with this tutorial, I will try my absolute best to try and help you, that's what I'm here for remember.
Feel free to drop me an email here.
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New this year, 'Phantoms and Nightmares' exhibitions give further insight into WW1 - and Bay of the Somme has been recognised as one of the most beautiful in the world.
La Baie de Somme, with its seemingly endless white sand beaches that merge imperceptibly with the sea and sky, is considered to be one of the most beautiful stretches of coastline of the planet: www.world-bays.com Think fish restaurants, beach bikes, kayaking, fishing or horse riding. A resident seal colony too.
You can rent bikes or kayaks at No Shoes a laid-back sports shop and casual restaurant behind the dunes (03 22 27 11 50; www.noshoes-baiedesomme.com). Or ride the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme – a little steam train with early 20th century carriages (03 22 26 96 96; www.cfbs.eu)
Inland from the beach, the Parc du Marquenterre (a Picardy word meaning 'the sea that comes into the land) is a nature reserve and major stopover for migrating birds. Watching from hides in the park (binoculars are available to rent) you may see storks sitting on huge nests, spoonbill, teal, oystercatchers, avocet or nightingales – depending on the time of year. Walks of varying lengths are indicated, or opt for a horse-drawn cart (www.parcdumarquenterre.com; entrance €9.90 adult, €7.90 children). The bistro here (with sun terrace) serves good food including regional dishes such as Moules a la Picarde (mussels in a special sauce, with chips) - starters cost from €7, main courses from €10.
Where to stay in the Bay of the Somme
I stayed at the comfortable Hotel restaurant du Cap Hornu (double room with full buffet breakfast cost €98, children under 12 free) which is set in extensive grounds near the charming little town of Saint-Valery-sur-Somme. Ultra-modern bedrooms have been created in old farm buildings, they have a good restaurant, an on-site shop and bike hire facility.
I also had a sneak preview of a classy new 11-bedroom hotel Les Corderies (double room from €120, breakfast €14 per person) in Saint-Valery-sur-Somme. It has sea views, a spa, indoor swimming pool and tempting-looking menu (from €30). And the owner, Ambroise Senlis, told me he could arrange 1hr 30-minute trip on the bay in a sea-going kayak with a professional guide.
For a contrast to the sea and countryside make for the city of Amiens. Don't miss the fascinating Saint-Leu district on the river bank a few minutes walk from the centre: where restaurants, bars, cafes and antique shops have set up in former workshops once used by millers, weavers and other craftsmen.
Notre Dame Cathedral in Amiens is the largest Gothic structure ever built – and a UNESCO WORLDHERITAGE SITE. Our guide was proud to tell us that "this is the Notre Dame, not be confused with the one in Paris which could fit in here twice over". And as we entered through the north portal he pointed out the Signs of the Zodiac that once served as a seasonal calendar. From mid-June to mid-September an evening light show colour-washes the façade to show how the cathedral would have looked in the Middle Ages. The shop opposite sells goodies - don't miss the macaroons !
For more information and to book : www.weekend-picardy.co.uk and for Somme region tourist information : www.visit-somme.com or call : 00 33 (0) 32 271 2271.
Whilst living in Amiens in the late 19th century Jules Verne wrote 'Around the World in Eighty Days' and '20,000 Leagues under the Sea'. A more accessible trip is the 90-minute town walk 'Following the footsteps of Jules Verne', and his former home is a now museum (2, rue Charles Dubois; 03 22 45 45 75 www.amiens.com/julesverne).
The Hortillonnages (floating gardens) are an extraordinary feature of Amiens - where the rich soil has been used for market gardening for centuries. Punt-like boats (barques a cornet) criss-cross 65km of narrow canals that link these city hideaways. While seeming to be in the heart of countryside you are within an artichoke's throw of the cathedral. Beguiling. Boat trips from April to October at 54 Boulevard Beauville (03 22 92 12 18 €5.70 adult, children aged 4-11 €3.80).
Other gardens in the area where you may see those 'Roses of Picardy' immortalized in the WW1 song, include Valloires in Argoules www.jardinsdevalloires.com; Chateau of Maizicourt www.jardinsdemaizicourt.com; Rose Garden of the Chateau of Rambures www.chateaufort-rambures.com; Floral Garden of Digeon www.jardin-picardie.com
I stayed at the comfortable new hotel Mercure Amiens Cathedrale yes, it is right opposite the cathedral (double room €87, ask for a cathedral view). Restaurant le Quai (13 Quai Belu; 03 22 72 10 80 www.restaurant-le-quai.com) is a buzzy restaurant in Saint-Leu where local dishes including 'Ficelle Picarde' (delectable pancakes filled with mushrooms in cheese sauce) and 'Pates de Canard en Croute' (duck pate in pastry) are on the menu alongside international fish, meat and vegetarian dishes: main courses from €18, child menu €8.
Memorials, museums and Battle Sites of World War 1
Amiens makes a good base from which to visit these emotive sites. I was fortunate to be taken round by Englishwoman Cathy Carnel of Terres de Memoire Battlefield Tours (03 22 84 23 05; www.terresdememoire.eu). This small company was created by Sylvestre Bresson, a Frenchman passionate about Great War history, to facilitate visits to the battlefields for overseas visitors. Earlier this year they organized an ANZAC memorial visit for several hundred Australians. In our group Cathy helped a young woman locate the grave of her great, great grandfather who had died, aged 19, in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. And we went to the Newfoundland Memorial at Beaumont-Hamel at the request of the Canadian with us www.vac-acc.gc.ca
To get an understanding of the causes and consequences of WW1 we started the tour at the Historial Museum of the Great War in Peronne. Housed in a castle, it has an amazingly peaceful ambience considering that over 50,000 exhibits evoke the horrors of war. This is the site of one of two major new exhibitons "PHANTOMS & NIGHTMARES" EXHIBITION opened in May. The other is at the Espace Culturel "François Mitterand" in Beauvais. Both regions were deeply scarred by the First World War and the "Phantoms & Nightmares" exhibitions combine the Historial's First World War collections of uniforms, accessories, everyday objects and representations of Kaiser Wilhelm II's haunted dreams, with contemporary photographs, installations and videos portraying the ideas of ghosts, dreams and agonies, as recurrences of the traumas of war. Organised in partnership with the City of Beauvais, Visual Arts Mission, the exhibitions explore two specific aspects of phantoms and nightmares. The Historial examines the individual in the face of history and the heritage of war : personal memory, collective memory, symbols, traces and violence. Beauvais takes visitors on a journey through childhood fears from a psychological perspective : secrets, anxieties, fears and madness. Exhibitions open from Friday 13th May (Beauvais) and Saturday 14th May (Péronne) through to 21st August 2011. The Historial de la Grande Guerre is open daily from 1000am to 6pm including Sundays and Bank Holidays. Admission fees : Adults : 7.50 euros ; over 60 - 6.20 euros ; children, students, teachers - 3.80 euros. Groups : Adults guided tour (reservation required) 6.00 euros ; students - 3.20 euros. For more information : www.historial.org / email : firstname.lastname@example.com or call : 00 3 33 22 83 14 18. The Museum of the Great War in Péronne geographically positions the bloodiest battle of the First World War, the Battle of the Somme, in the overall context of the conflict. The losses at the Battle totalled 400,000 British, 335,000 German and 200,000 French. The idea of creating a museum devoted to the 1914-1918 war originated with the Somme County Council in 1986. The project was visualised in the context of the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, which involved soldiers from more than 20 nations of the world at that time. The museum was inaugurated on 16 July 1992.
Next stop was The Somme Trench Museum in the little town of Albert. The sounds, images and lighting effects in the tunnels give a graphic illustration of the daily life of soldiers (03 22 75 16 17; www.musee-somme-1916.eu); adults €4 children €2.50). At the monumental Franco-British Memorial of Thiepval, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, we mingled with several school groups and learnt that WW1 is on the curriculum for French and British secondary schoolchildren. Much more on www.somme-battlefields.com or www.visit-somme.com.
Lunch Break
La basilique, 3 rue Gambetta, in Albert (03 22 75 04 71; www.hoteldelabasilique.fr menus from €16.50) is a delightful family-run restaurant with a choice of menus. Local specialities include those Ficelle Picarde, and fillet of pork with Maroilles cheese; there are gourmet choices such as foie gras, beef fillet with Bearnaise sauce, monkfish and seabass; and vegetarian options. A nice touch here is that the Kir aperitif is made with local poppy syrup (naturally, poppies feature in all kinds of souvenirs).
Over lunch I met another Englishwoman, Diane Piuk, who runs a B&B and does guided tours of the battlefields with her writer husband (03 22 85 1456; www.lesalouettes.net; €65 per night double room includes breakfast, min 2 nights stay). Diane explained that they are members of the Somme Battlefields' Partners (a group of B&Bs, restaurants and guides who have a thorough knowledge of WW1 and do their best to provide each visitor with most appropriate services www.sbpartner.org).
Getting there
P&O Ferries www.poferries.com 08716 646464. Dover-Calais (driving time Calais-Picardy 1 hour 40 minutes). Enjoy a meal on board in Langan's Brasserie. Upgade to the peace of the Club Lounge (an extra £12 per person: includes glass of champagne) and therapists here may offer shoulder and neck massage (they ask you to pay what you think it is worth - suggested price from £8: worth every penny, darling).


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