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It's her garage: Fixing cars with North Bend Automotive's Bekki Dennis
The world of auto repair is a man's province? Hardly.
Meet Bekki Dennis, the Valley woman who founded her own auto repair business, North Bend Automotive, 12 years, and has run it herself to this day.
When her first husband, Denny, worked a tool sales route, Bekki did a lot of traveling with him. She learned a lot about the business, good and bad.
"You see how women and older people get taken advantage of in businesses like this," she said.
Then, when her brother-in-law got his own auto repair franchise, Bekki worked with him as a service writer, talking to customers and making estimates.
"He taught me a lot about cars," she said.
When she and Denny pondered their next big move, Bekki decided to go into business for herself: "I'm just going to open my own shop."
Born and raised in Carnation, she knew many people in the Valley. She and Denny found a garage building in east North Bend. Surrounded by trees, barely visible from the road, it was big enough for their needs.
Bekki started there, with an office in the front, accessible under a small gable.
When the feed store next door closed, she took that over as an office for customers, and had room to grow.
The biz
There are more women in the auto business than you would expect, Bekki said.
Running the shop has its ups and downs. Some men are a little put off, dealing with a woman. But the flip side is also true—women can be more comfortable working with Bekki.
Her approach, she says, is all about the customer and trust.
"I'm not pushing a whole bunch of service work on you. I like preventative maintenance," but she doesn't count on big-ticket jobs.
"I'm not going to force someone. I'm going to tell you what you need to keep running…. I'm not just here to make money. If it's not in your budget, it's not in your budget.
"You get a lot of respect from people" for that, she added.
Bekki has never thought about doing something else. In the last year, she moved to Moses Lake, so she's scaled back how much she's in the office.
"I have a lot of customers who've been her since the day I opened—including the one who's in the office."
Moments before, Bekki had been engaged in a spirited chat with her customer, Eleanor, catching up on old times.
"That's the problem with me," she said, laughing. "When somebody comes in, I want to know exactly what's happening. I want to know about your wife, your kids, you. That gets me in trouble!"
She's watched a lot of customers' children grow up.
"You can see what my long-term goal is now," she says. "My oldest son is working the office, and my daughter will come in and help." Bekki would like to keep this business in her own family.
In transition
The auto industry is always in transition.
With the change in the economy, she saw a big difference in how people take care of their cars. Back when the money flowed more, people didn't put in as much work on their cars. They could afford car payments, and so they turned them around instead of investing in them.
Today, "you see a lot of older cars that people are trying to keep around.
"As long as you're honest and have good relationships with customers, you're OK," she said. "But it's a hard business. It takes one shot to do something screwy, and all of a sudden people think, 'I can't go there, I've got to go to a dealership.'"
It comes down to good employees, and Bekki is picky about her staff. Besides herself, son Denny and daughter Hailee, she has two mechanics on staff.
Bekki has a lot of love for North Bend, and says she appreciates the mix of people here, from young people to retirees—"you get a lot of parent participation."
She's learned a lot of lessons from her work life.
Before the tools, she was in the parking lot striping business. That was hard, she recalled; the job involved running a mechanical lot striper in the middle of the night with a baby strapped to her front and a toddler in her backpack.
When she started this business, some people questioned her— 'You're a woman, what do you know about cars?'
"Luckily, I had a wonderful brother in law."
It took Bekki about four years to hit her stride. Now, it feels natural, and, sometimes, easy.
She has a lot of repeat locals, and her status as a AAA shop brings in lots of breakdowns off the Pass.
"I ran into somebody on the dunes at Moses Lake who broke down on I-90," Bekki recalled. "He knew who I was!"


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Symptoms of blood pressure dysregulation, impaired swallowing and digestion are common amongst parkinson patients. The overall aim of this study is to examine blood pressure regulation and esophageal motility and gastric emptying in Parkinson`s disease (PD) patients.
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|Orthostatic Dysregulation and Associated Gastrointestinal Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease - Evolution A Monocentric Study to Investigate the Development of Symptoms of Autonomic Dysregulation in Parkinson`s Disease
- orthostatic hypotension [ Time Frame: during study visit ]drop of systolic (≥20mmHg) or diastolic (≥10mmHg) blood pressure upon Schellong test
- delayed gastric emptying [ Time Frame: during study visit ]statistical difference in mean gastric emptying assessed via octanoate breath test
- long term blood pressure [ Time Frame: during 7d after study visit at home ]mean 7d systolic, diastolic, mean arterial blood pressure and heart rate recordings
- heart rate variability [ Time Frame: during study visit ]difference in heart rate variability or spectral analysis of heart rate variability?
- arterial stiffening [ Time Frame: during study visit ]difference in pulse wave velocity and augmentation index calculation from applanation tonometry recordings?
- oesophageal motility [ Time Frame: during study visit ]high-density manometry to measure aspects of oesophageal motility
- subjective symptoms of gastrointestinal and cardiovascular dysfunction [ Time Frame: during study visit ]validated questionnaires: Fraser, 2007, p14133; Stanghellini, 1996, p14183; Revicki, 2003, p13823; Kaufmann, 2012, p13817; }
- Clinical assessment [ Time Frame: during study visit ]UPDRS part III and MoCA score (Nasreddine, 2005, p14186)
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I like to have a few types of biscuits in just so they're around if I fancy one but I don't like paying silly prices for them so before I discovered Morrisons value range of biscuits I only ever bought them when they were on offer. Recently though as part of my economy drive I've started trying alot of items in the value range and a few weeks ago it was the turn of the rich tea. These cost me 34p for a big packet, I'm not sure how many are in a pack but the pack weighs 400g.
The allergy advice on these biscuits is that they do contain gluten and they may contain traces of milk, nuts and soya. Once open they should be stored in an airtight container and before that keep in a cool dry place. Otherwise it's the bright yellow packaging that lets us know we're buying the value range. Some people might find this packaging embarrassingly telltale as it's so distinctive but personally I couldn't care less and if I see someone at the tills with lots of super expensive items I'm pleased with myself for finding a bargain.
Each bisuit contains 35 calories, 1.3g sugar, 1.2g fat, 0.5g of which saturates and a trace of salt. So not too bad really as far as biscuits go but rich tea aren't one of the sweetest, sugary biscuits you'll find by a long way. That's one reason I like them, I don't generally go for biscuits with 3 different types of chocolate on them or loads of sugar in them and prefer something less sweet.
The biscuits themselves look just like any other brand of rich tea with the light beige colouring and the words "round rich tea biscuits" on them. They're quite a large biscuit really and must be about 3 inches in diameter. I'm told rich tea are good for dunking but I find even the thought revolting so can't clarify that! What I do know though is if someone served these to me on a plate and I didn't know they were value biscuits I'm not convinced I would actually know so anyone who's ashamed of the packaging could easily empty them out of it and get away with it. They have the same crunch other brands do and the same light and not too sweet flavour, they are just a tiny bit sweeter than others I've tried though but it isn't alot sweeter and I only really noticed it because I was paying attention for any differences for the sake of this review. I've been very impressed with Morrisons value range and again they've managed to produce a product I'll happily buy again.
Overall these are standard rich tea biscuits but with a very low price of 34p. They aren't very different to other brands of rich teas and taste absolutely fine. The one downside is the packaging can't be recycled everywhere which means where I live can't be at all but it's only a small gripe and they are not over packaged either. Another value range hit in my eyes and I recommend them to everyone.
I often think where would I be if biscuits had never been manufactured and sold in shops, as they are so convenient and years ago they had to be baked in the home, I just love sweet snacks as I have a sweet tooth and I am on a lower budget and have been for a year or so and so I am buying more cheaper products than ever before and I saw these from Morrison's recently and thought I would buy them and see if I enjoyed them and if they were tasty.
They come in a yellow very basic plastic packet, the biscuits inside are a nice round shape biscuit, they are pale in colour but look quite healthy looking in the colour as some other biscuits I have bought in the past, tended to look a little too pale and not very appetising, but these are quite nice.
The texture is very crunchy when first biting them, they are a very nice sweet tasting biscuit but not too sickly, they are a basic plain biscuit, and they are easy to swallow and chew and for my grandchildren they are just the right size to hold, and they do not fill them too much in between meals as a nice little snack, they are also a light biscuit to eat and I love to dip mine into tea or coffee sometimes and these taste very nice indeed dipped as well as eaten dry.
Each biscuit is approximately 3 inches diameter, and for the cheap price of just 33p for 400g from this value range, they are a nice tasting biscuit and a very good quality, the amount in the packet is quite a lot of around 44 biscuits, as I counted them while in the packet and I do not think I missed any lol, so I think this amount is brilliant for large families or anyone on a budget, and I have lots of grandchildren and they have never refuse any after tasting them and so that indicates to me they are to their taste buds too, which is good because it can be quite expensive trying to find cheaper products that are suitable for the young ones.
Each one contains 35 calories, 1.3g sugar, 1.2g of fat, of which 0.5g of saturates and just a trace of salt, and so I do think the amount in these is quite good considering they have a nice sweet taste.
I really like the taste of these ones and the thickness of each one as I have found a few other lower branded ones are quite thin and snap easily, these are fine for my liking and I have enjoyed them and I would definitely recommend them for people to try, especially if you are on a budget as they are a nice tasty biscuit and I will continue to buy them in the future.
I rate these 5 stars.
Continuing my quest for animal product free biscuits, we come to my latest discovery, the Morrisons Value Rich Tea. Bizarrely, the regular Morrisons Rich Teas contain dairy, but for some reason the value ones don't.
These biscuits come packaged in the standard yellow and white Morrisons Value packaging. Inside you'll find 2 separate packets of biscuits wrapped in clear plastic, which means they'll last longer without going stale. I forgot to count before eating them, but I estimate about 25 biscuits per pack, so 50 overall. They cost 33p so are fantastic value.
The biscuits themselves are circular, about 6-7cm in diameter and about 5mm thick. They are a golden colour and say "RICH TEA" and "ROUND BISCUIT" on, with little holes dotted around the surface.
The texture is nice and crispy, producing a satisfying crunch when you bite into it. They break cleanly without crumbling, but not so easily that you find half your packet is broken. The flavour isn't overly impressive- they're a basic plain biscuit with no additional flavours, and sweet enough that you're getting a sweet biscuit treat without it feeling overly bad for you, and at 34 calories per biscuit, they're not as bad as many.
And now the dunking test. I find that three seconds leaves you with a moist biscuit with a slight crunch to the centre still. The biscuit readily absorbs the flavour of the tea, but you can still take the biscuit- a fantastic combination. If you prefer a softer dunked biscuit, 4-5 seconds will leave you with a mushy tea flavoured biscuit that holds its shape and doesn't leave sediment in your mug.
While it tells you on the packet these should be stored in an airtight container, I kept these open on my desk and found them to still be crisp and fresh after 2 weeks.
Overall I'm very impressed with these. They're not the most exciting biscuit, but tasty none the less, and excellent dunked in tea.
We have started trying more Value ranges at Morrisons and one of them is these Rich Tea Biscuits sold at only 33p for a double pack which is awesome value!
I love snacks and biscuits between meals to keep me going, especially through the day so I do eat a lot, lol!
The biscuits are sold in a plain white and yellow wrapper which shows it is Morrisons basic range of cheaper goods. The biscuits are suitable for vegetarians and only have 34 calories per one...
The fat content is 1.2g and the sugar is less at 1.1g and salt at 0.1g so they are not too bad for you in moderation.
They are only quite small compared to the branded Rich Tea at two and a half inches in diameter but they are nice and crunchy and fresh :)
They weigh 400g which again is great value for the money and they aren't much different than the more expensive ones except I would say not as sweet.
They are crispy when you bite into them and crumbly too so are really nice and tasty.
I wouldn't say they have as much flavour as branded Rich Tea but are really good for the money.
The biscuits contain gluten and sulphite and should be stored in an airtight container once opened as they can go stale quickly...
They are produced in the UK and the packaging is recyclable; the biscuits are wrapped in clear plastic inside the outer wrapper to keep them fresh too so they last longer than one long tube of them.
Each one has Rich Tea printed on it and holes throughout for cooking evenly and are light golden in colour and go lovely with a brew!
Four stars for me, they could be a bit sweeter but are very nice all the same :)


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£500,000 for out of school hours childcare in Gwent
12:02am Monday 24th February 2014
12:02am Monday 24th February 2014
GWENT councils are set to receive almost £500,000 of funding to provide out of school hours childcare in a Welsh Government initiative.
The Out of School Childcare grant, available from next year, has set aside £2.3 million to provide local authorities across Wales to help families struggling with the cost of childcare.
The grant, totalling £489,929 for the areas of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport, and Torfaen, will provide local authorities with additional funds to target specific areas of childcare support including provision for disadvantaged families and one-to-one care for disabled children.
The scheme will also allocate money to improve training and start-up grants for childcare providers as well as support Welsh language childcare provision.
Vaughn Gething, deputy minister for tackling poverty, said: "Childcare is a huge issue for many families, especially working parents.
"This funding will give real support for hard working families by helping deliver affordable childcare for children, allowing parents or guardians to work the hours they want or to study to improve their life chances.
"We will expect local authorities to show us how the money will be used to provide childcare provision which meets the needs of parents and carers.
"We know that many parents and carers work atypical hours, are on low income, have disabled children and there is a need to consider how we meet the demand for Welsh language childcare. I look forward to seeing ho this money is used to benefit families across Wales."
The grant scheme is due to be rolled out for the 2014/15 financial year.
Blaenau Gwent will get £75,391, Caerphilly will be given £128,686, Monmouthshire gets £70,785, Newport: will receive £132,912 while Torfaen will be given £82,155.
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For Kelly Smith, volunteering at AOC and participating in the AIDS Walk is a family affair — in more ways than 1
TAMMYE NASH | Senior Editor
When she was growing up, Kelly Smith always thought of her uncle, Brad, as more of a brother and friend than an uncle.
"He was my dad's only brother. He was a chef, a great cook, and when my parents opened up Tommy's Hamburgers, he helped them out a lot," Smith said. "He was only 10 years older than me, and I grew up hanging out with him and his friends."
But then AIDS struck, Kelly said, "and I lost Brad. I've lost his partner, and I've lost all of his friends but one. It was devastating."
But before he died in 1994, Brad Smith introduced his niece to Tarrant County's AIDS Outreach Center and the agency's annual AIDS Walk. In the years since, the bond between Kelly and that agency has grown ever stronger, giving her an opportunity, she said, to honor the memories of her uncle and friends by helping those still living with HIV.
"I did the AIDS Walk with Brad in 1992 and 1993 before he died in 1994. Then by the mid-90s, I started getting more involved. I became a team captain and started getting other people to walk with me."
But Kelly didn't limit her involvement to the AIDS Walk: She joined the center's board of directors three years ago and is now vice president of the board.
Still, the AIDS Walk holds a special place in her heart.
"It's my passion. It's my calling. I truly love it," she said. "This year is my fourth year to be co-chair of the walk, and it's going to be the best one ever.
"My partner, Holly Edwards, works for Luke's Locker, and now Luke's has come on as a walk sponsor. It's always so much fun to be part of the walk, but it's even better now because this is something that we do together," Kelly said.
Supporting the LGBT and HIV/AIDS communities has always been something of a family affair for the Smiths, starting with her parents, who own Tommy's Hamburgers.
They first opened the restaurant in 1983 in an old Texaco station in Lake Worth. The second location opened 19 years ago on Green Oaks, and nine years ago the third location on Camp Bowie — where Kelly usually works — opened its doors.
Tommy's has long been a meeting place for LGBT community groups, like Stonewall Democrats of Tarrant County, and a sponsor for events like AIDS Walk.
That support obviously grew out of the family's love and support for Brad and Kelly, but it may have been kick-started by some people's response to news of Brad's HIV-positive status.
"We had a lot of people back then calling and saying things like, 'Do all of you have AIDS?' People were so confused about AIDS, about what it was and how it was spread," Kelly recalled.
Kelly went to college first at Texas Wesleyan then graduated from Texas Christian University. She taught school for a few years, but then decided what she really wanted to do was return to the family business. And now she is in charge of marketing and buying for Tommy's Hamburgers.
"It's certainly never boring around here," Kelly said. "I love working with my family and meeting the customers. But what I really love about this job is that it gives me the time to do volunteer work at AIDS Outreach Center."
And that volunteer work is really about family, too: "There's a great group of people at AIDS Outreach, like a family," Kelly said. "It's a group of people all coming together with one goal — to get services to the people who need them."
Right now, that group is all coming together to kick off the agency's 25th anniversary year with a successful 19th annual AIDS Walk. And although the walk accounts for only a relatively small percentage of AIDS Outreach Center's overall budget, Kelly said it is one of the agency's most popular annual events.
"This is the one fundraiser we do that everyone can participate in. You can bring your children. You can bring your pets. It's just a lot of fun for everyone," she said.
Kelly is getting close to her own 20th anniversary with AIDS Outreach, and that's a long time to work or volunteer in the world of AIDS — burnout is often an issue.
But not for Kelly Smith.
"Things have changed over the years," she said. "People are more receptive to donating to the cause and being involved. But at the same time, some things haven't changed. People are still getting infected.
"Just recently, I reconnected with an old friend I hadn't seen in awhile," she continued. "He told me he is positive. On the one hand, it made me feel good that he felt comfortable enough with me, that he trusted me enough to tell me something so personal. But on the other hand, it was very hard to hear that someone else I know, a friend who is such a wonderful guy, has HIV.
"I was feeling safe again, I guess. And then my friend tells me he is infected. It just drives me more, makes me want to do more and work harder," Kelly said. "I won't stop. I can't stop. Until there's a cure, I'll never stop."
The 19th annual AIDS Outreach Center AIDS Walk will be held Sunday, April 3, beginning at the pavilion near 7th Street in Fort Worth's Trinity Park. The event begins at 1 p.m., and the walk steps off at 2:30 p.m. Pre-registration is $25, available online at AOC.org. Registration the day of the walk is $30 and starts at 12:30 p.m. at Luke's Locker, 2600 W. 7th St.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition March 4, 2011.


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Focus On Funds: Investors Flee from Bonds, REITs6/12/2013 7:00AM
Fear of Federal Reserve tapering has hammered government bonds; here's where to invest instead.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Topic: This week 4 years ago...
Hard for me to believe, but it was this week 4 years ago when my journey with cholangiocarcinoma began with itching, dark urine, and light stools. I saw the nurse practitioner at my internists office thinking that I was having an allergic reaction. When she heard my symptoms she ordered a CAT scan and blood work immediately. I asked her what she thought it was and she said hepatitis. When I heard that, I called my husband on the phone and started to cry. Little did I know that I would have welcomed hepatitis!
After that, things happened fast and I went to a GI doctor for an ERCP which caused pancreatitis and a 6-day stay in the hospital and a diagnosis of Extrahepatic CC and a consult with a surgical team. My Whipple was scheduled for 12/15 to give me time to get my strength back before surgery.
Surgery was 6 hours, a 6 day hospital stay. My ECC was staged at IIb, no lymph node involvement, clean margins, just small pancreatic involvement which was removed with surgery. Chemo followed beginning in January ending in July.
A few scares along the way, some which led to some unnecessary tests (liver biopsy for one), and here I am, 4 years later. My August scan was good so I don't have to return for a scan until next August (2014). Up until that scan, I had been scanned every 3 months.
I am sorry for the long post, but I wanted to just remind myself of the path I have taken. While I certainly didn't want to cancer (again!), I have found so many good things that have come with my journey. One of them is this site and the people on it.
I only wish with all of my heart that every one here could post a 4 year survival (or 5 or 6 or 7...or 20).
I pray for a cure for this disease and treatments that work and have few side effects and early detection.
My best wishes for everyone on here.
My comments, suggestions, and opinions are based only on my personal experience as a cancer survivor. Please consult a physician for professional guidance.


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McKinney Aerospace identity
fd2s, Austin, Texas, 2002
McKinney Aerospace, an industry-leading provider of interior completions, refurbishments and avionics services for business jets, turned to fd2s for help in growing its business in a very competitive market. The tagline, "The Experience Inside," reflects both the high level of industry experience found at McKinney and the outstanding experience customers have when they work with the company. The graphic identity—built around a memorable, relevant logotype that evokes a cutaway view of an aircraft interior—suggests the level of craftsmanship and attention to detail found in the company's work, as does the "airplane door" die cut of the stationery components.
Collections: AIGA 365: 24 (2003)
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- Production artist
- Wayne Johnson
- Writer
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Hunter Mill District Winter Coat Closet
Fairfax County Office of Public
12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 551
Fairfax, VA 22035-0065
Nov. 29, 2005
Hunter Mill District Winter Coat Closet Open for Business
Donations and Volunteers Welcome
There's a chill in the air, and the Hunter Mill District Winter Coat Closet is once again open to help area residents keep warm. In its fourth year, the Coat Closet is co-sponsored by Reston Interfaith and Hunter Mill District Supervisor Catherine Hudgins.
Last year more than 500 coats and jackets were distributed to children and adults in need. Since the Coat Closet opened this year on Nov. 15, close to 700 have already been given out — and more are needed.
The Coat Closet is located in the Hunter Mill District Supervisor's Office in the North County Government Center, 12000 Bowman Towne Drive, Reston. Open through Feb. 11, its hours are:
- Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to noon
- Thursdays from 5 to 8 p.m.
- Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Donations of new and gently used (in good condition and dry-cleaned) winter coats and jackets for children and adults — extra-large sizes are especially appreciated — may be dropped off at the Hunter Mill District Supervisor's Office weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Boxes also are available in the North County Government Center for after-hours and weekend donations. All donations are tax-deductible.
Volunteers also are needed to help clients select coats, greet donors and sort donations. Volunteers under 16 must be accompanied by an adult.
For further information, contact Martin Taylor in the Hunter Mill District Supervisor's Office at 703-478-0283, TTY 711.


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Sometimes it all boils down to timing! Decided to stop by one of my favorite stores this morning and walked in right as this set was being placed onto the shelf. I'm not sure it really did make contact before I had it in my hands, lol! Gorgeous, hollow pieces stamped "made in japan". Doesn't feel like chalkware, but it is lightweight. The stable plays "Oh Holy Night" and lights up as you can see. I've been looking for the past few years for a nativity set that reminded me of the one my Mom has and this one definately does! There are a few imperfections with this piece, but I'll take care of those after the holidays so that it will be good as new next year :)
Merry Christmas everyone!!!!


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Education paramount in brave new world
January 15, 2013
As 2013 blasts off post Mayan apocalypse, the last of our comfortable structures buckle under a new world of feuding technologies, turbulent markets and unremitting political strife.
Civil war rages in the Middle East. China's communist leaders prepare for a new era of oppression, rejecting Western democracy the same time they benefit from it. Monstrous storms rip apart our cities, while perpetual showdowns in Washington reinforce what has become a pathological state of dysfunction.
The world has never faced greater challenges, and it's easy to feel that we'll be sucked up by the squalling noise rather than working our way through it.
In Gardnerville, the landscape is changing. Many people fear Walmart will destroy our pretty little town. Others believe that hundreds of new jobs can only be a good thing. We learned last week that the store would be getting a gas station out front, complementing the near-finished Maverik at the Minden Gateway Center.
It would be a mistake, however, to assume our future will be dominated by retail employment. While continued unemployment is certainly a problem, we have world-class companies in this valley willing to pay good wages for skilled workers.
Off the top of my head the list goes: GE Energy, Bently Enterprises, Starbucks, North Sails, American AVK, Aervoe Industries and Metalast. We have smaller outfits that produce highly specialized parts and products, like Aviso Surfboards, American International Tooling, AIM Kilns, and TechSpec. Recent arrivals include Life Enhancement Products and AnC Precision.
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Every time I head out to one of our business parks, I'm impressed by what I find: cutting-edge manufacturers that have decided to base operations here for whatever reason. The impression never fails. These companies are in it for the long haul, fighting for every sale, every market, and making their stand right here in beautiful Carson Valley.
For those individuals willing to regear and apply themselves, this means opportunity.
Economic development is not possible without education. The recession wiped out entire professions based on outdated skill sets. What worked for our grandparents, pencil, carbon paper, and a handshake, no longer cuts it. The new world moves at a merciless clip, leaving the unprepared frozen in obsolescence.
The first step may be as simple as finishing high school.
"GED is a gatekeeper," said Douglas High counselor and GED chief examiner Michael Caughlan. "We're seeing more and more older adults come in and take the GED because their employers say they need it, even if they have 30 years of experience. The criteria to advance has really tightened up."
The school district is offering free GED and Nevada High School Proficiency Exam preparation classes 5-8 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday in room 302 behind the DHS media center.
"This will be the last year of the 2002 series test that all of our adults have been able to pass," reads an advertisement for the class. "However, next year, on Jan. 1, 2014, there will be a new GED test series that will be extremely hard to pass, will require the test-taker to be computer literate as the test will be taken on the computer (subject to the same time constraints so typing speed will be important), and the ability for us to waive test fees due to financial difficulties and/or unemployment will no longer exist. If you have been holding off on getting your GED, it will be very important you complete this sometime this year."
The district is also offering a basic computer class 3:30-5 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays, beginning today, at a cost of $100. Some participants may qualify for financial assistance. An advanced computer literacy class meets on the same days 4-6:30 p.m.
Other DCSD adult courses include graphic design/screen printing, social studies and English.
"Without a GED, you're not going to be able to get that door opened up for post-secondary education," Caughlan said. "Basically, employers expect people to have some skill set coming in."
For more information, or to register, call Caughlan at 782-5136, ext. 1716, or visit http://www.dhsged.weebly.com.
Where a high school graduate steps off into the world is where higher education, specifically Western Nevada College, builds another step.
"We all need to evolve as the world evolves," said David Steiger, WNC's director of economic development and continuing education.
Steiger oversees the college's Manufacturing Collaborative program, a joint initiative between the Northern Nevada Manufacturers Forum and WNC.
"The Collaborative's mission is to provide an educational pathway that allows individuals to develop skills that meet the needs of the manufacturing/industrial community in Carson City, Douglas, and Lyon counties," reads the program description. "The program offers recognition to those who attain certification, giving manufacturers an advantage in assessing a current employee or a certified applicant and giving the certificate holder an advantage in consideration for promotion or hire."
Students in the program must earn a C or better in five three-credit courses: business speech communication, human relations for employment, shop mathematics, drafting/blueprint reading, and writing.
Two officers of Minden manufacturing firms serve on the program's advisory committee: Al Jurkonis, president, American AVK; and Ray English, vice president of engineering, American International Tooling.
WNC offers other workforce certification programs in fields as diverse as automotive service, information technology, home inspection and welding.
For more information, visit http://www.wnc.edu.
Heading into this brave new world, I leave you with Steiger's dictum: "Evolve as the world evolves."


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Virgo wrote:No one will teach you Tonglen better than Ribur Rinpoche in the recorded teaching I linked to. He explains the history of the teaching, the lineage, he explains each of the nine steps in detail, all the preperations to the meditation, even sweeping the room first, and so forth It is complete. You can wait 6 months and spend money to go see a teacher and get this Sutra level teaching, which will probably not be nearly as complete as the teaching I provided, and then you will have 6 less months of your life effectively working on Bodhicitta, and have less money to spend on other Dharma teachings which you must get from a teacher, because you spent it on getting this teaching. I am not saying not to get a teacher. I am saying you don't need a live teacher to teach you this. You can start at once.
I'll definitely take notes on what Ribur Rinpoche teaches - but I think I'll still spend some money. I'm very interested in those books by Kongtrul and Chongyam Trungpa on the practice.


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NEW YORK - A seminar on collaborative merchandising initiatives at the upcoming National Retail Federation convention should draw considerable interest due to the involvement of Target and ConAgra Foods. The seminar is sponsored by DemandTec, a company whose suite of merchandising solutions have been used by both companies since 2007. The session will be facilitated by DemandTec's SVP consumer products Rob Culin.
The seminar is scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 9 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York and is titled, "Target's Guests: Key to Decision-Marking and Vendor Collaboration." Event organizers promise the session will offer attendees a look at how Target orients everything it does around its customers with Shelley Hyytinen, VP merchandising process and system development due to highlight the cornerstones of the company's approach, give practical examples of leveraging market insights, customer segmentation and merchandising optimization technology, according to event organizers. Joining Hyytinen is Doug Knudsen, president of sales at ConAgra Foods who will provide insights on the applicability of active collaboration between consumer products companies and their retail trading partners.


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Official organic sales figures from 2012 won't be finalized until around the end of March, but the industry anticipates strong year-on-year improvement.
"Indications are that organic food sales continued to have strong growth during 2012 and are likely to have met the projected 9% increase over 2011 sales predicted in the Organic Trade Association's 2012 Organic Industry Survey," said Christine Bushway, executive director of the Brattleboro, Vt.-based OTA.
Marketing agents say a good report wouldn't surprise them.
"Before we even evaluated our consumer input and their specific requests for organic product from a sales perspective, it was doing very well," said Amber Kosinsky, marketing director for Wish Farms, an organic and conventional grower-shipper based in Plant City, Fla.
Watsonville, Calif.-based Lakeside Organic Gardens, which has only organics, reported a 30% boost in sales from 2011 to 2012.
"People are continuing to realize the benefits of choosing organic," said Brian Peixoto, sales manager.
Organics are selling particularly well in packages, said Bruce Klein, marketing director with Maurice A. Auerbach Inc., based in Secaucus, N.J.
"With the supermarket retailers having both conventional and organic product out there, you really need organic product packaged, and it does do very well," Klein said.
A positive OTA survey would be the continuation of a trend, said Matt Seeley, vice president of marketing with Salinas, Calif.-based vegetable grower-shipper The Nunes Co.
"Obviously, the organics over the past three to four years have become the focal point of where we see growth opportunities," he said.
The category may have slowed a bit during the recession of 2008-09, but its upward momentum has continued, Seeley said.
"You're not going to see a turning back of the clock in movement of organics. It's only going to trend upward," he said.
The Nunes Co. has planned accordingly, he said.
"It's not easy going through this, converting conventional-grown land, conventional harvesting and conventional cultural practices," he said.
But the process continues, he said.
"We do see this is the way that the business is moving," he said.
Organics-heavy Washington state is seeing the same growth rates other areas of the U.S. are experiencing, said Matt Roberts, sales manager at Sedro-Woolley, Wash.-based organics shipper CF Fresh Inc.
As an example, he said the last Washington apple crop was about 9% organic, and moving the fruit was not difficult.
"The demand is there," he said.
Oxnard, Calif.-based grower-shipper Deardorff Family Farms is reporting a 50% increase in total organic volume for the past year, said Tom Deardorff, president.
"We still see market demand for it is really ahead of what we can do from a production standpoint because it still takes time to convert from conventional ground," he said.
Prices are firm but not stratospheric, Deardorff said.
"It doesn't overreact, doesn't go astronomically high, but the premium is there to kind of reallocate resources from conventional into organic," he said.
Sales have been steady at Earl's Organic, a San Francisco wholesaler, said founder and owner Earl Herrick.
Increased year-around availability has fueled growth, Herrick said.
Diane Dempster, manager of Farmer's Own, the local organic program at Charlie's Produce, a Seattle wholesaler, said sales continue to rise.
"We've got more stores increasing volume, and sales have been on a steady climb through the recession and up beyond that since then," she said.
The category is graduating into the realm of "mainstream" offerings, said Cherie France, sales and marketing assistant for Homegrown Organic Farms, Porterville, Calif.
"The market will continue to evolve into a normal, everyday item versus the 'specialized' item it has been in the past," she said.
One illustration of the organic category's maturity can be found in the varieties of apples available, said Roger Pepperl, marketing director with Stemilt Growers Inc., based in Wenatchee, Wash.
"It used to be organic reds and organic golds 10 years ago, and now, major runs of galas, fujis, pink ladies and piñatas are starting to dominate this organic scene," Pepperl said.


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Hunx and His Punx recall happy days; Jessie J makes forgettable debut
RICH LOPEZ | Staff Writer
If Grease ever needs to be rewritten with gay overtones, Seth Bogart is the man to do it. As Hunx in Hunx and His Punx, he and his backing trio of chicks throwback to the greaser '50s with a solid and very gay effort in the band's full-length debut, Too Young to Be in Love.
Bogart doesn't hold back the gay on these 10 songs. He refreshingly and gloriously talks and sings to the male objects of his affection. In opening track "Lovers Lane," he regrets a final moment and Wished I would have kissed him one last time. Although the first track has a tragic undertone, H&HP get giddy quickly on "He's Coming Back." Bogart sings He's a real big guy so you better watch your back and he actually conveys the same feeling that any of the girl groups back then would have done. The band doesn't force these lyrics to prove how gay they are. With innocent charm and a low-fi approach, the songs roll out with natural ease. Man-on-man music action probably wouldn't distract straight listeners because it comes out in perfect flow.
At times, Bogart and his nasally voice gets a little much. He's not really a great vocalist, but the band uses a right amount of balance between his singing and the background vocals. Save for Bogart, the band is all female — or rather, Punkettes — and they create ideal harmonies while playing their instruments. They also save the album from nasal overkill.
With all the joy Too Young brings, there is a darker moment here. The final track, "Blow Me Away," strays from the love-and-heartbreak theme even if it doesn't sound like it. The song recounts his father's suicide and looking past the sonic gimmick, it's a devastating heartbreaker.
Although the album clocks at only 31 minutes, it does get a little repetitious. Despite purposefully recalling a vintage sound, by the halfway point ("If You're Not Here") it's just enough.
The charm is still there, but they never employ any modern feel to the retro and it starts to work against the album. The songs begin running into each other. I wonder if they had discovered a formula and stuck with it, slowing it down or speeding it up as needed.
With Bogart's devotion to the innocent perspective in the lyrics, you start to miss some of the raunchier stuff from the band's 2010 compilation, Gay Singles. It could have been fun had he added some of that lyrical edge to this music.
Its length also saves Too Young — as if they knew when it was going to wear thin. Any longer would have been a drag. But Hunx and His Punx pull off a sweet, little album that pays genuine homage to a forgotten sound while giving gay boys out there songs to sock hop to with their boyfriends.
We've been hearing Brit Jessie J even before her first single "Do It Like a Dude" came out. Starting as a songwriter for hitmakers Chris Brown and Miley Cyrus, she scored her biggest hit with Cyrus' "Party in the U.S.A." Now she makes her stateside debut with the album Who You Are.
The pop tidbit "Dude" made an impression here with energetic beats and her most assaultive lyrics. Jessie J is openly bi but I think she's forcing the issue with lyrics like My B I T C H is on my dick like this / Dirty dirty dirty dirty dirty dirty sucker / You think I can't get her like you you motherfucker. Oookayy. Her second single and the album's opening track, "Price Tag" with B.o.B., is a reliable ditty that you expect to hear any time of the day on KISS-FM … which means anyone reading this is probably too old for this album.
Like a rebellious teen, Jessie J wants to be in-your-face, peppering her songs with curse words, but she plays it safe musically. After listening to all 14 tracks, only one had any traction; otherwise, I could only think about who she sounded like — and that was a long list.
Lady Gaga got flak for "ripping off" Madonna's "Express Yourself" in "Born this Way," but at least it was Madonna — a music icon. Jessie J pretty much lifts "Abracadabra" off of Katy Perry's latest and that's already a weak source. If pop music is heading in a direction that rips off the likes of her, then I will take this CD and slit my wrists with it.
In "L.O.V.E.," Jessie J pretty much packs every bad trick in the dance pop book. Spelling a title out just indicates lazy songwriting in addition to the cheesiest and most trite love song lyrics like I said I'd never write a song about love / but when it feels this good/ a song fits like a glove. Each time she repeats the first two letters, it only sounds like Rihanna's "Umbrella." A miniscule amount of redemption is in her line that keeps the bi thing going: See love doesn't choose a boy, or a girl, nope / when I met you, you hugged my heart and filled my world.
For the 13 forgettable tracks that complete the album, she absolutely slays in "Big White Room," a live track. The acoustic ballad displays her voice as a powerful weapon that we had little hint of in the previous tracks. She does these quirky vocal gymnastics and then knocks out a vocal run Christina Aguilera should be scared of.
With her songwriting skill and wonderful voice, this debut could have been a landmark, but she missed the mark so much, that Jessie J has some catching up to do. She'll thrive on the radio for now, but she'd be fascinating to see thrive as so much more.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition April 15, 2011.


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WATSONVILLE - A man and a woman reported being attacked Tuesday evening while walking in the area of Holm Road and Anna Street in Watsonville.
A police officer was at Watsonville Community Hospital around 6 p.m. on an unrelated matter when a couple entered the emergency room and said they had been attacked. The man had been stabbed once in the upper torso and both individuals had been battered, Sgt. Tony Magdayao said. The woman suffered lacerations and contusions to her face and body.
The pair told police that they were walking on the street near the track at Rolling Hills School when they were approached by four or five men, approximately 18-24 years of age. The suspects yelled gang slogans at the couple before attacking them. The man and woman, both in their late 20s, fled and drove to the hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
The victims were unable to provide much information regarding descriptions of the suspects but the investigation is being treated as a gang-related crime. Watsonville police ask anyone with information or who may have witnessed the incident to call the investigations bureau at 831-768-3350 or the anonymous tipline at 831-768-3544.


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Timbers defender Justin Thompson, who played for the Whitecaps in 2004, talks about playing his hometown team, what it takes to be in first place and how the 2007 Timbers squad compares to the other teams he's played with in Video News.
Growing up in North Vancouver, B.C., Thompson had the chance to play for his hometown club in 2004 with fellow goalkeeper Josh Wicks. With the Whitecaps, Thompson played over 1,300 minutes in 15 games.
The Timbers face Nortwest rival and defending USL First Division-champion Vancouver Whitecaps on Thursday, July 19 at PGE Park. The match will be televised live on FSN Northwest and broadcast live on www.portlandtimbers.com.


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DID YOU KNOW...The Most Interesting Message Board Topics of the Week: November 3- 9
These days, in the new age of social media revolution, the best source of information is YOU. Each day, fans of BroadwayWorld post tens of thousands of comments on our multiple message boards (main and local), weighing in on the latest news, rumors, reviews, stars and more. Each week, we find a few stand-out threads - those that have sparked particularly interesting discussion that we've decided to shine a light on each week in our newest feature: DID YOU KNOW...The Most Interesting Message Board Topics of the Week, brought to you by YOU!
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Tuesday's election ended in a win for President Barack Obama. What melancholy showtune do you think Mitt Romney has been singing this week?
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Stars' Polical Views
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Tear jerking moments in shows
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LAKEPORT -- A trial date is set for the embezzlement case against the former Lakeport city utilities superintendent.
Matthew Allen Johnson, 37, of Lakeport pleaded not guilty to 14 felonies during his arraignment Tuesday at the Lake County Courthouse. He waived his right to a preliminary hearing last month.
Authorities allege Johnson misused his city-issued credit card between June 2011 and July 2012. Lakeport police arrested him Aug. 22.
Judge Richard C. Martin scheduled Johnson's trial to start May 15. His next court date is set for late April for pretrial matters.
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Jacksonville, Fla. -- Stein Mart Inc. announced Friday that it will restate its financial statements for fiscal years 2009, 2010 and 2011, its quarterly data for the first quarter of 2012 and for all quarters in 2010 and 2011, as well as its selected financial data for the relevant periods due to merchandising accounting errors.
The accounting mistakes came about because it accounted for some markdowns as temporary discounts rather than permanent ones, affecting how it valued its unsold clothing, the Associated Press said. As a result, inventories were overstated by about $3 million through July 28, while the costs of sold merchandise were understated by the same amount.
In addition, Stein Mart is reviewing how it accounts for store improvement costs that are reimbursed by its landlords, because it now believes that changes to stores did not increase the value of its landlords' properties. It had previously believed the opposite, the Associated Press reported.
It said that its accounting methods had understated write-downs the company took on the value of its stores by about $11 million from 2006 to 2009, and overstated rent expense by about $6 million.


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Mankato, MN - In order to deliver an even more effective management tool for supplement and forage decisions, CRYSTALYX® Brand Supplements has released an updated version of the Body Condition Score (BCS) app that is used to monitor Body Condition Scores for beef cow herds. The BCS Phase 2 app has additional features and added content to make it more responsive while retaining its simplicity of use.
"We've had very positive feedback about the BCS app from cattle producers, and we've learned how to make it even better," Dr. Dan Dhuyvetter, Director of Research and Nutrition Services for Ridley Block Operations, says.
Producers can now edit or save a record as a draft. That means a producer can collect photos in the pasture and score the cattle at a later time or edit the records when time permits. They can also now delete records that are no longer needed.
"The value of a picture record is that when taking BCS photos of the same cow 45 to 60 days later, a producer can determine if the management changes are having the desired effect," Dhuyvetter says. "Producers are encouraged to body condition score cows at least four times during the year to determine best management practices in the four key areas of late lactation, weaning, pre-calving and breeding."
Another new feature of BCS Phase 2 is the ability to calculate the mean or average for a date range or a specific date.
"You can then compare that with another point in time and determine if cows are gaining, slipping or maintaining their condition," Dhuyvetter says.
Producers now have the ability to place their own photos of cows within their herd or cattle type to use in the reference gallery.
"No matter what color or breed type of cattle you own, you can now build your custom collection of BCS photos to use in your reference gallery," Dhuyvetter says. "So Hereford producers can use Hereford cows, Brangus owners can use Brangus cows and any composite operations can use their composite cows."
The updated BCS app is available on iOS for iPhone and Android platforms by going directly to the app stores with the QR codes or hot link below:
"It's clear that the BCS app has proven its usefulness as a quick and easy tool for collecting extremely important information when managing beef cows from small to large herds," Dhuyvetter says. "This update takes its effectiveness to the next level."


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I've looking at the schedule, and Sunday's game in Denver is listed to be on TV via the local Denver TV people. Which means I'd like to think the game will be on for me via League Pass. But I won't know if it's on my schedule or not until I'm within a day and a half or so to tipoff (my guide menu won't extend much further). However, I know DirecTV users seem to be able to find out earlier than that, so do any of you see it on your schdules yet?
Also, does anyone know a webpage I can go to to see the scheduled games for LP?


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Topic: Staying Strong!
Hello everyone,
I have read and continue to read everyone's posts and they keep me alive and strong.
My name is Christina and my Fiance was diagnosed with CC October 2006 at 29 years old. We have had a tough battle and continue to fight everyday. At first, the doctors told us the cancer was inoperable and to go home and enjoy the rest of his time with his family (can you believe that) I couldn't. I went home and starting searching for doctors. We were referred to Nicholas Nissen, M.D. at Cedars-Sinai Med. Center who took the chance on him. The surgery was performed Jan. 5 2007. The surgery took 16 hours (can you believe it?) The doctor came out after midnight and told us that the surgery went well and he was able to remove the entire tumor but had to remove over 70% of the liver so recovering was going to tell all. Well, after 4 months of infections and stress in the hospital Chucks was released and has been doing well every since with the occasional trip back to the hospital. We have had follow up cat scans that show no sign of cancer. The Dr. says he would do it all over because of Chucks survival. He is a miracle. I tell Chucks he should feel blessed that a Dr. would take a chance on someone else because of him. It almost makes me want to cry.
I am soooo happy but worry a lot. During surgery they pulled 13 lymph nodes. Two of them were positive... now, normally I think procedure would have been to perform surgery and within a couple of weeks start chemo to kill any cells left in the body but for chucks he was too busy fighting for his life. They couldn't do chemo because he would of died, he was just too weak. I am soo scared it will return and I am even more scared to express this to Chucks. I want so bad to be normal... you know? I hate that even though nothing is showing up on any cat scans... All I can think about is the cancer that might still return. I hate that it sometimes take me over and makes me feel helpless even now. I thank God that he has given me Chucks, my gift in life... LOVE. I am 23 and he is 30 years old. We were just starting our lives together and now I feel this uncertainty. We recently got engaged and I don't want to be left alone.
I feel like a bad person. So much good has happened and all I can dwell on lately (in the last couple of months) is the negative. I feel depressed and weak. I am scared to do the normal things that I should be happy about like getting married or having babies (can you believe that?) I am just scared to do it alone, to be without him.
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Director Fred Zinnemann (seated); DP Floyd Crosby standing (with glasses); and star Gary Cooper on the set of High Noon.
My new book, Black and White Cinema: A Short History, is coming out in a few weeks – I already have the advance proof copy – and Amazon has listed their official release date as September 17th; it goes to press on September 4th. I'm really happy with the finished project, but as with my entry on Nick Musuraca earlier in this blog, there were sections of my original text that had to be cut for reasons of space.
So here's some additional material on the great cinematographer Floyd Crosby, and the long, often odd trajectory of his distinguished career.
As I wrote in the original draft of the book, "Floyd Crosby was another master of black and white cinematography, who early on in his career served as an assistant of sorts on W. S. Van Dyke's and Robert Flaherty's White Shadows in the South Seas (1928). But as Crosby told historian Mark Langer, 'when Flaherty went down there [Tahiti], it was supposed to be a co-direction, but he didn't direct any of it. Van Dyke directed it all. But I went down there and got a job, just as an assistant cameraman.
I was there, I think, three months, and then Flaherty left, and I came back when he did…Flaherty had no idea of how to direct a story film. All his work had been with documentaries, where he'd tell the natives to go fishing or do something he didn't already know, and then he'd photograph it. He'd never done any story direction and this was a story picture and he was completely lost in it. Van Dyke did the whole thing.'
Van Dyke was known as a tough, no-nonsense director, commonly referred to as 'One Take Woody' for his speed and proficiency on the set, and as with many of the key directors of the 1930s, his career stretched back to the silent days, with The Land of Long Shadows (1917), and in the early sound era, by the astonishing accomplishment of Trader Horn (1931), shot on location in Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo in synchronized sound, using an enormous crew, and the talents of Clyde De Vinna as cinematographer.
[De Vinna, who was the principal cameraman on White Shadows on the South Seas, took advantage of the opportunity to shoot literally miles of 'second unit' footage of native dancers, ceremonies, and everyday life for later use as stock footage in other productions, and indeed, the Trader Horn materials shot by De Vinna informed the spectatorial vision of Africa for more than thirty years, endlessly recycled in numerous 'jungle' films, and in the 1950s, such television series as Ramar of the Jungle (1952-1954)].
For his next project, Crosby worked on F. W. Murnau's and Robert Flaherty's Tabu (1931), but again, the collaboration was uneasy at best. As Crosby put it, when they arrived on location in Bora Bora, Flaherty rapidly demonstrated that he had no idea how to create a fiction film. As Crosby told Mark Langer, 'the trouble was this. The idea that it was to be a co-production, and to be co-directed.
But when they got down [to the location], there was the same old story, that Flaherty couldn't direct and Murnau was an expert, so Murnau was directing. In fact, he said to me one day, "My, I wish Flaherty could direct." He said, "I'm sick. I don't feel like working for a few days, but we can't stop, and I wish Flaherty could take over." But he knew he couldn't. And Flaherty was upset because Murnau took over the picture.
Murnau was a great director, you know, and he was a very interesting workman, but personally had all kinds of problems. He was an arrogant person — and he and Flaherty hated each other. At least Flaherty hated him. Flaherty used to three times a day tell me how much he hated Murnau… At the end of the picture, Murnau had some titles made and asked me to shoot them.
One of the titles was "And at the camera — Crosby." I said, "This is not the correct credit. The credit is Photographed by . . ." He said, "You won't shoot it then?" And I said, "No. I won't shoot it." So we were hardly speaking after that. Then, of course, when Paramount made the titles, they gave me the correct credits.'
Floyd Crosby on the set of Tabu, behind the camera.
Despite all of this friction, the finished film is an evocative, deeply romantic and ineffably tragic work, which not only won Crosby the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, but also was selected by the National Board of Review as one of the Top Ten Films of 1931, and, in 1994, chosen by the National Film Preservation Board for the National Film Registry as being 'culturally, historically [and] aesthetically significant.'
In Crosby's laconic reckoning of Tabu's success, he told Langer that '…it came out well enough to get the Academy Award. It was a little uneven, I must admit. And you know, this was before the days of exposure meters, and one day Flaherty was developing some film and we were talking outside and we forgot about it. The film was ten minutes in a three and a half minute developer. So we had to shoot that over again, you know.'
And for Flaherty, Crosby maintained a certain measure of respect, as opposed to his feelings on working with Murnau. As he told Langer, 'I learned things. They weren't things that I was particularly able to use, but the good thing about [Flaherty] was that he would make a good documentary without trying to louse it up by bringing in a lot of other things to make excitement, that had no business in the picture.
You know, so many people go out to make a documentary, who want to make something that's going to sell, so they try to bring in some Hollywood elements of excitement, and it ceases to be a really true documentary. Well, he didn't do that in his films. He was honest about them.'
Crosby went on to shoot a series of documentaries in the 1930s, such as Mato Grosso: The Great Brazilian Wilderness (1931), often cited as one of the first sync sound documentaries, shot in Mato Grosso, Brazil; Pare Lorentz's The Plow That Broke The Plains (1936); Joris Iven's The Power and the Land (1940), as well as working on Orson Welles' aborted semi-documentary It's All True (1942), with cinematographers Joe Noreigo, Joseph Biroc, William Howard Greene, Harry J. Wild, and George Fanto; the film was shelved, and the materials vaulted for fifty years, before the production emerged in a reconstructed version in 1993; Crosby photographed the 'My Friend Benito' sequence of the film, which was actually directed by Welles's associate Norman Foster.
Crosby on location for Mato Grosso: The Great Brazilian Wilderness
In his later work, one of Crosby's most impressive achievements was his parched, unadorned work on director Fred Zinnemann's High Noon (1952), which, ironically, led back to Crosby's work with Flaherty, as Zinnemann had a strong affinity for Flaherty's work, along with a personal connection to the director. As Zinnemann told Brian Neve,
'Flaherty wrote me a letter of introduction in 1931, and as a result I got a job at Goldwyn. He influenced me in every possible way, not only technically, but also in what I learnt from him by being his assistant, his whole spirit of being his own man, of being independent of the general spirit of Hollywood, to the point where he didn't worry about working there.
That's probably why he made only five or six pictures in his life. But he influenced me in his whole way of approaching the documentary, which he really initiated with films like Nanook of the North. I learned from Flaherty to be rather uncompromising an to defend what I wanted to say, and not let someone else mix it up. He had the true feeling of a documentary director — he took life as it was. This influenced me enormously because I found myself almost subconsciously following his style in films like High Noon …'
And so, when Zinnemann shot High Noon, he argued that, 'if you want to make a picture like High Noon, and you want to make it feel like the world felt in the days of the Civil War in America, that kind of gritty, dusty feeling, you had to get a cameraman who knew how to handle that, like Floyd Crosby,' with the result that the film had a cinematographic style very different from other films of the period.
As Zinnemann noted in another interview on High Noon with historian Alan Marcus, 'I wanted to organize High Noon in the way a documentary would have been made at that time when the action happened. Except that in the 1880s there was no such thing as motion pictures. So that in using the style, the cameraman Floyd Crosby and I studied very carefully contemporary still photography, particularly the photographs of Mr. Lincoln's [still] cameraman [Matthew Brady] who photographed parts of the Civil War in America.
That meant that we used a grainy kind of print, deliberately grainy and flat, with a very white sky, instead of a dark sky with pretty clouds on it. So, it reasonably looks a bit like photography of that period and gives it a feeling of being authentic, which was not the usual method at all at the time when this film was made.'
A superb setup by Crosby from High Noon ; Will Kane alone, deserted by the townspeople.
The completed film won four Academy Awards — Best Actor (Gary Cooper), Best Film Editing (Elmo Williams and Harry Gerstad — this is a whole story in itself, as Elmo Williams' near 'real time' — actually slightly stretched out, rather than strictly accurate — editing of the final cut of the film considerably tightened up the flow of the narrative), and Best Music and Best Original Song for Dimitri Tiomkin.
For his part, Floyd Crosby won a Golden Globe for his work on High Noon, and though the film was generally well-received critically, it infuriated the more politically conservative members of the Hollywood community. With its script, by Carl Foreman, depicting the craven, cowardly members of a small Western town refusing to help the town's marshal, Will Kane (Gary Cooper), when his arch nemesis Ben Miller (Sheb Wooley), whom Kane has sent to prison, comes back explicitly to kill Kane, High Noon painted a deeply unflattering picture of American society, and was widely seen as a political allegory, commenting on the Hollywood Blacklist of the era.
As a result of this, the film's scenarist Carl Foreman was blacklisted himself, and Floyd Crosby, as a sort of 'collateral damage' to the entire affair, found himself "grey listed" — not officially on the blacklist, but definitely out of favor.Out of this, however, came the final, blazingly brilliant act of Crosby's career, a long alliance with legendary director Roger Corman, starting with the six day Western Five Guns West in 1955.
Rather than looking down on Corman's output, Crosby became Corman's most prolific cinematographer, lensing everything from the stark, black and white imagery of Reform School Girl and Teenage Doll — with one 'A' assignment in between, John Sturges' and Henry King's production of The Old Man and the Sea, based on Hemingway's novel, photographed by Crosby and James Wong Howe — before slickly moving into color work for Corman on House of Usher (1960) and Pit and the Pendulum (1961), along with many other films for the director.
For his part, Crosby observed that – much to his surprise – he didn't have to tell Corman as much about how to direct as with some of the other helmers he'd worked with in his career; and as Corman told historian Lawrence French of working with Crosby, and of Crosby's unjust treatment at the hands of the House Un-American Activities Committee during the early 1950s, working with Crosby was both practical and delightful:
'Floyd was certainly not a communist, but during the fifties, some studios did not like him. However, that meant nothing to me. I used him simply because he was a good cameraman. I remember Floyd talking about that, and saying it was somewhat ironic that his patriotism should come under questioning, after he had served in the Army Air Corps command during World War II as a Captain, working with [the pioneering documentary filmmaker] Pare Lorentz on combat documentaries and winning citations for bravery. Floyd was really a great gentleman and a brilliant cameraman.
Crosby lights Barbara Steele on the set of Corman's The Pit and The Pendulum
I went on to use him for my first film as a director, Five Guns West, and he was probably the best cameraman I ever worked with. He was quick, efficient and gave me the kind of quality that you would normally associate with much bigger studio films. We got along very well, and although he was somewhat older than I was, we became very good friends and I had great respect for him and for his work.
It's not that difficult to get a good cameraman if the cameraman has hours to set up each shot. It's not difficult to get a cameraman who works quickly. He just sets up a few lights, and says he's ready to shoot. But to get somebody to work quickly and does fine work is very unusual. [Crosby could do that].'"