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The repertoire, too, was staggering — an estimated 2000 songs. In his thesis, Fogelquist relates the story of Carlos Pacheco, a young vihuela player in Mariachi Internacional who devoted three hours a day for an entire year to learning compositions that had been requested that he didn't know. During Fogelquist's own extended periods of apprenticeship with the group, he could keep up with only the names of some 25 percent of the songs requested; "remembering melodies, chords, and verses was beyond me."
Fogelquist sought out mariachis working north of the border, too, studying and playing with, among others, the Vaqueros at the Carioca Restaurant in East L.A. One night, a woman named Ina Nyul — "I am morena," she says, or dark, "but my father was Hungarian" — traveled north from Agua Prieta on vacation and ate in the Carioca.
She noticed, as so many did, the blond mariachi. "It was a nice novelty," she says. "My friend and I were sitting down, and my friend was saying in Spanish, 'Who is this important mariachi guy?' and Mark said, 'No, they' — he pointed to the Mexican players — 'they are the important mariachis.'"
"The owner of the place introduced us," Nyul says, and their courtship began.
The scenes that led Fogelquist from here to Chula Vista can be arranged into a series of images and regarded as if through that perfect lens of the 1970's, the 3-D View-Master:
In 1973, Mariachi Uclatlán is hired to play for Sunday brunch every weekend at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott. The band members are smiling in their trajes de charro because the Marriott pays union scale and their customers are spreading the word, hiring the group for private parties of every kind.
In 1975, Ina Nyul weds Mark Fogelquist, who like each member of his band is making $20,000 a year, which is $6000 more than Fogelquist's younger brother James, who has a PhD from Yale, is paid to teach at Mt. Holyoke College.
Within two years, Mark and Ina can buy a house with mariachi money, and in 1978, Mark drops his pursuit of a PhD.
In 1981, the two Fogelquist brothers, Mark and James, stand in front of a Mexican restaurant in Orange that they've bought after forming a corporation with six members of the former Mariachi Uclatlán. They look nervous, for good reason. From their pooled resources of $72,000, they have $80 left.
The next slide shows a line of customers out the door and into the parking lot of El Mariachi Restaurant and Bar.
Jump to a weary pair of Fogelquist brothers 12 years later. From 1981 to 1993, they have unlocked the restaurant at 10:00 in the morning, dressed as managers. For 12 years, they have slipped into the back room at 8:00 p.m. and changed, like violin superheroes, into their trajes de charro. For 12 years, they have also played 200 private parties per year.
In 1993, the sign in front of the restaurant says "Sold." The brother who was a professor becomes a professor again, and Mark Fogelquist becomes a middle school teacher for native speakers of Spanish in Wenatchee, Washington.
The slide that now clicks into place could easily have been taken in Chula Vista but was snapped in Wenatchee in 1995. In the picture, three kids whose parents have moved to Wenatchee from rural Mexico to pick apples are standing at the Wenatchee airport. They don't have suitcases because they don't have enough possessions to fill one. They're out of their minds with excitement. They're traveling with Mr. Fogelquist to see 700 musicians and the greatest mariachi group in the world, Mariachi Vargas, at a conference in Albuquerque.
"At first," Fogelquist says, "I didn't want to hear another mariachi song. But I had these kids all day long. They asked about what I'd done. I brought in my violin, pictures of my group, CDs. For Cinco de Mayo that first year, I got the kids together, we rehearsed after school, and we did two songs. The Mexican parents were there, and the place went bananas."
So the school decided to add a mariachi class to the curriculum. "They told me I had to get at least 15 students."
The day the class started, he had 47.
Fogelquist asked them in Spanish, "How many of you have ever played a musical instrument?"
Only one kid raised a hand.
How am I going to do this? Fogelquist thought. But the custodian found about 20 guitars that had been sitting in a warehouse for ten years. "We put strings on them, cleaned them up, and brought them into class at the end of the first week." Fogelquist owned a guitarrón, a vihuela, and a violin, but he was still short. He had 24 instruments and 47 kids. He sat the class down and said, "What are we going to do?"
The boys and girls in the room were from traditional villages in Mexico where boys did one thing and the girls did another.
The boys told Fogelquist, "We're going to play the guitar."
The girls said, "We'll sing."
So that's what they did. As happens now in Chula Vista, two or three of his students were innately talented. "What took other kids a week to learn, they learned in four minutes. They would be in my classroom every day after school. I couldn't go home."
At the end of October, the principal came to Fogelquist and said, 'Could you do a performance?'
"We only know two songs," Fogelquist said.
"It doesn't matter," the principal said. This was a parent meeting for the migrant workers whose kids were in the school, and normally only nine or ten parents showed up. That night, however, the room was packed. One hundred and twenty parents funneled in.
"These parents," Fogelquist says, "were right out of the field. Mud on their boots or huaraches. The humblest of the humble. They went crazy. They said, 'Otra! Otra!'"
I said, "There isn't another one. That's all we know!"
Bravo! Thank you Reader, for printing such an amazing article. And thank you Laura McNeal, for writing it. What a beautiful and uplifting story. The vibrant enthusiasm, absolute dedication, and radiant spirit of everyone involved with this story rang out as loud and as clear as I can easily imagine does this groups music. I now hope to one day hear it as well.
excellent interview, and congrats for Mark for this great program, my family have been enjoying this mariachi for 10 years now and plan to continue to support them. this mariachi is number one in southern California.
That is the best story I've ever read in the Reader.


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The "Transformers: Age of Extinction" director and his crew are scheduled to wrap in Chicago this week, but not before filming what one source with the production called the "mother of all bombs." The source said the explosion will take place Wednesday afternoon around the silos on S. Damen Avenue and W. 29th Street in the Pilsen area. This is the same site where "Transformers" recently blew up a bridge, while at the same time setting off an impressive fireball.
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All the explosions, all the horrified bystanders, all the new 'bots and 'cons will make their appearance in theaters on June 27th, 2014. How many time will you experience the mayhem? How will Bay top "the mother of all bombs"? Let us know, leave your comments in the thread!
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Burning money just transfers the value of that money to holders of other money through deflation. So your generousity is still assigning some amount of value to your co-experimentee that otherwise would distributed throughout the economy.
But if the reward was something of intrinsic value, precommitting to destroying unused rewards could work.
I think in these experiments you're not supposed to care about the experimenters. Ideally the experiments would be done with something non-zero-sum, rather than with money, but that's much harder to arrange, so instead they just rely on the unspoken convention that the experimenters' costs should be disregarded.
Saving them the $3 isn't doing them any favours. They're willing to pay $10 to know how you'd distribute chunks of utility. You're taking $7 and not answering the question they want to answer.
Clearly, lesswrongers are not suitable for a very wide range of psychological experiments.
Most people never realize that they actually "take" the money from the researchers, who would probably put it to better use than Mr. Anonymous. So usually that set-up is no problem at all, and if someone as clever as you "gets it" and consequently ruins the experiment, that person is still just a tiny data-blip skewing the results by just an infinitesimal amount, given a proper sample-size.
You'd be taking $3 from the experimenters, but in return giving them data that represents your decision in the situation they are trying to simulate (which is a situation where only the two experimentees exist), though your point shows they didn't mange to set it up very accurately.
I realize it will be difficult to ignore the fact you mentioned once you notice it, just pointing out that not noticing it can be more advantageuos for the experimenter and yourself (not the other experimentee) - maybe another strategic ignorance
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Darien gymnasts have found their way to next door Arena Gymnastics over the years, and so will a significant other on Friday night.
Arena Gymnastics in Stamford recently announced that the 6th annual "Meet the Team" Exhibition Fundraiser is schedule for Friday night, and will include a very special guest.
2012 US Olympian and current US National Champion, John Orozco, will be stopping by Arena Gymnastics to promote the 2013 Visa Championships, being held at the XL Center in Hartford, Aug. 15-18.
Arena Gymnastics will be showcasing the talent of their Level 7 through Level 10 gymnasts in a competition format, as they prepare to travel to St. Louis, Missouri and Lake Bueno Vista, Florida to compete among some of the best gymnasts in the country.
New Canaan's three-time Eastern National Champion, Caroline Fitzpatrick will be performing for the last time at Arena, as she prepares to graduate high school and attend Central Michigan University in the fall, where she has signed her letter of intent to compete for the Chippewas.
Orozco will speak about the Visa Championships, the first step of his journey to compete at the Olympics in Rio in 2016. John will be signing autographs after the Exhibition. A representative from the XL Center will be accepting ticket orders for the Visa Championships, at a reduced "early bird" price that ends on Feb. 3.
Friday's events begin at 7:30 p.m. at
Arena Gymnastics, 911 Hope Street, Stamford.
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but your we're funny anju, even though when it happend it might not sounded funnu and now when u look back i'm sure u think it's funny too.
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this is quite old one, i think i was 8 years or something. Ok here it goes:
I was sitting on the bed and didn't realize that i was sitting on the edge of the bed. so i lean back to lay down on the bed or something and i fell on the floor. Our floor that time was hardwood floor and i was crying and my brother was laughing so hard. I was so embarresed afterward.
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hehe! you guys are funny!
Well here is mine:
At school, we very playng football, the day before it had rained so the grass was slippery. I was running with the ball and fell. and I didn't noticed that my pants were all dirty. I Stood up and one of my friends told me and I fell again, horrified. My PE teacher came and helped me out. On the grass I was laughing hard and some how clapping and everyone else was doing the same!
It was the most embarrassing thing in my life.
Another one:
During a PowerPoint Presentation, I froze for about a minute (stage fright) and my teacher was talking to me andI didn't realise it and I was just staring somewhere maybe outter space!
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ok here goes mine....
I was probably in 7th standard and we had a sports day and I was participating in running race... and i was doing pretty good until I saw the guy I had a crush on smiling at me...and stopped right their looking at him and lost the race.. and after that everyone is asking me what happened and i can't say anything...I was embarassed...
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mine too ..i was giving a presentation with my project mates in front of the class and suddenly i froze ..i was not able to talk then one of my project mate took from that spot and ended the presentation ....after that i was not able to talk to my project mates for few days..........
other one was when i was studying in 7th grade.. one of my instructor told me to go to the principle office and ask about some cultural program "when to start or something like that". When i came back from principle office near my instructor. I was not able to tell her that "PRINCIPLE told that" I was like ppppprrrr for few secondsthen told her ......
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Brides, grooms and other industry professionals love the Washington D.C./DC Metro Area wedding makeup artists and hairstylists listed below. How do we know? We ask them ourselves—and if we don't hear rave reviews, we don't consider them Certified By The Guide. Here Comes The Guide lists bridal beauty experts who aren't just talented, but also ethical, reliable and easy to work with—i.e., professional in every sense.


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It's only natural that if you are a young, good looking person of either sex, you are going to attract the envious gazes of less financially fortunate bystanders, when you're cruising around in a convertible mid-engined Ferrari, painted bright yellow (Giallo Modena), with matching brake calipers, of course.
However, most will simply limit the state of anger at their own inability to make that kind of money, and deal with the insecurity in an introverted fashion, not letting it show in public.
We suspect that if you live on one of London's numerous streets that are packed with supercars, regardless if they are stuck in traffic or parked, and your temperament is not of the calm and laid-back type, the chance of snapping is quite high. I think it could even turn violent, if the 'perfect storm' conditions are met, but thankfully, that's rarely the case. Some people, though, seem to be letting off steam by hurling eggs from their balcony…
This is what happened to a woman driving a Ferrari 458 (the one from the first paragraph) on Sloan Street, in London. Upon stopping, and waiting for the traffic to move, a thin-shelled chicken-sourced projectile landed next to her in the car (it did not appear to hit the woman directly).
Sadly, acts such as this do no real good for anybody. Besides, by having thrown that egg, the person who did so does not realize that he or she is actually making life harder for somebody even lower down the social ladder, who works at a car wash and will be forced to get dried egg (and the associated smell) out of the car.
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Speed of Capital Improvement Projects: November 2014 Update
We began looking at the speed of various projects in Hartford as we noticed a serious slow down of work at the same time that we were hearing rumors out of City Hall that money was being creatively redistributed. Others can look into the latter, but as we took a peek at various projects, it was undeniable that movement stalled in the season when the weather is actually cooperative for much of the work. Now, we look again to see what has changed since early September.
iQuilt and the Intermodal Triangle
When the iQuilt was developing and the public was invited to various meetings, the impression given was that this was meant to invigorate the environment, making a more pedestrian-friendly connection from the area of Bushnell Park and The Bushnell, to the Connecticut River. Wayfinding signs have been installed and Envisionfest has finally begun attracting a respectable number of visitors, but what else?
The Intermodal Triangle Project is responsible for the sidewalk along the north side of Bushnell Park getting ripped out. Those who use the park as part of their commute have found themselves re-routed. (more…)


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If there's one thing I've learned about winter, it's that you can't beat the cold, even with those warm mufflers and hats. So why not embrace it? Take a tip from Santa and bundle up the kids and head for the ice. In fact, at some of our local ice-skating rinks, you may even run into the big guy himself, showing off some fancy moves.
THE ICE AT STONEBRIAR Expect skating performances by the Stonebriar Centre Skating Academy's synchronized-skating team and soloists who compete on the national level, followed by a Zamboni arriving with Santa aboard. It's all part of the Santa Welcome at the Ice party on Nov. 10 from 3 to 4:30 p.m. At 4:30, Santa will parade through the mall as he makes his way to the New North Pole. Free. 2601 Preston Road at State Highway 121, Frisco (on the lower level near the Apple Store). 972-731-9600. stonebriarice.com.
POLAR ICE IN GRAPEVINE The Skate With Santa event includes a skating lesson and skate rental. $8; no discount for taking your own skates. Nov. 23 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. (lesson 3:30 to 3:45), 3000 Grapevine Mills Parkway, Grapevine. 972-874-1930. polaricehousegrapevine.com.
ICE-SKATING CENTER AT THE GALLERIA Missile Toes, an ice-skating, back-flipping Santa Claus, will wow the kids (and may send them begging for ice-skating lessons). Nov. 23 at noon; Nov. 24 and Dec. 1, 8, 15 and 22 at 5 p.m. The Nov. 23-24 shows will feature U.S. Olympic champion Brian Boitano, national champions and local children at the Macy's Grand Tree Lighting. Free. 13350 Dallas Parkway, Dallas. 972-392-3363. galleriaiceskatingcenter.com.
ICE AT THE PARKS The annual Christmas show on Dec. 15 from 3 to 6 p.m. will feature students of the skating academy of Ice at the Parks in holiday costumes. Free. The Parks at Arlington, 3811 S. Cooper St., Arlington (on the lower level near Dick's Sporting Goods). 817-419-0095. iceattheparks.net.
DR PEPPER STAR CENTERS Kids can skate with Santa at free celebrations that include a skating show, music and activities at Dr Pepper Star Centers in Farmers Branch, McKinney and Euless.
Winterfest: Dec. 1 from 3 to 5 p.m. at 12700 N. Stemmons Freeway, Farmers Branch. Free. 214-432-3131. Kids can also attend Skate with Santa on Dec. 15 and 22 at 1:30 p.m. for $6 for children 4-17, $7 for adults 18 and older.
Icefest: Dec. 15 from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. for holiday ice show, 3:45 to 4:45 for a free skate with Santa and cast, 4:45 to 5:45 p.m. for a free skate for all. 1400 S. Pipeline, Euless. Free. 817-267-4233.
Christmas on Ice: Dec. 16 from 4:45 to 7 p.m. 6993 Stars Ave. at Craig Ranch, McKinney. Free. 469-675-8325.
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The students at Horizon Community Learning Center in Ahwatukee Foothills made a simple gesture as a whole on Friday, but the meaning behind it was substantial.
Horizon was one of more than 2,100 schools worldwide to participate in Stand 4 Change Against Bullying, a day that brings to light an issue that has come to the forefront of education.
Students spoke to a crowded gymnasium Friday morning and explained how they would respond to bullying, whether they are the one being bullied or what their responsibilities are as an observer.
"I know that in the split second it takes to bully someone, or to just watch as someone is being bullied, I can also use that time to do something positive that can help someone else," student Jessica Duet said at the assembly. "I will use my voice for those who cannot let others know that I think that bullying is wrong."
The assembly sparked an idea within a group of middle-school students that came as a surprise to Horizon's middle and high school principal Nancy Emmons.
"You have to figure that an assembly like this might open a can of worms for kids to report a lot more, but we had a group of students come up and propose something unexpected," Emmons said. "They talked to me about starting a club to welcome new students in a different way. They said they knew what it is like to be bullied because they had been before at a different school. The goal is how to make sure that people feel included and not excluded, and that bullying is not tolerated here."
Horizon has a strict code of conduct, Emmons said, and students are taught about what is acceptable and not acceptable through the Student Handbook, which they go through with students periodically.
Assemblies like the one on May 4 are another way to make the students more aware of bullying and how it can affect others.
"I will stick up for my friends and other students who might need someone to stand up for them," student Zack Segui said. "I know that it takes just as much time to stand up for someone as it does to look away. I will let them know they are not helpless or hopeless. I will not ignore bullying."
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The Subaru wagon is the official car of Maine," boldly declares Dave Getchell, Jr., associate publisher of Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors.
Dave can be forgiven his enthusiastic overstatement because five of the nine people in his Rockland office drive Subarus and he himself races a sporty little Subaru WRX in road rallies.
One might also get the impression that the Subaru is the most popular car in Maine on any given trip to Sugarloaf, Saddleback, or Sunday River ski resorts, Common Ground Fair, Whole Foods, and Trader Joe's, the parking lots of any number of environmental organizations or institutions of higher learning in Maine, or, for that matter, the offices of Down East.
Our own family owns two Subarus at the moment. We drive a 2010 Impreza sedan, and daughter Nora, an environmental educator who needs the all-wheel drive to reach her cabin atop a mountain in New Hampshire, drives an almost identical 2008 model. As Maine natives who have owned five Subarus over the years, we understand that the Subaru is a supremely sensible car for Maine — all-wheel drive (AWD) for mud and snow, comfortable ride, decent gas mileage, relatively affordable, hatchback, roof rack, just load the kids and gear and go.
Subaru, of course, is not the most popular vehicle in Maine, where there are 1.2 million registered cars and trucks. That would be the Ford F-150 pickup (34,144 ) followed by the Toyota Camry ( 24,369 ). But the 53,000 Subarus registered in Vacationland (that's all models combined) make Maine one of the best markets per capita for Subarus in the country, second only to mountainous Vermont.
"Maine is a great market for Subarus, as are the states of the Northeast and Northwest," says Jeff Walters, vice president for field operations at Subaru of America in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. "People in Maine are a little smarter and got it earlier. We just wish there were more people there."
That's because, while Subaru has captured only 2.5 percent of the total U.S. new car market, it has close to 9 percent of the Maine market.
There is, of course, a pretty simple explanation for the popularity of Subarus in Maine — traction. For many years, Subaru was the only vehicle with AWD you could buy if you didn't want to drive a truck. But the loyalty to Subaru takes a little longer to explain.
Subaru imports began arriving from Japan in 1968, but they were not readily available in Maine until the early 1970s. The first little two-stroke Subaru 360s were mini-cars marketed in the U.S. with a novel advertising campaign that promoted them as "cheap and ugly."
Subaru is the Japanese name for the Pleiades star cluster, which explains the Subaru star logo. Dick McElman, who has been selling Subarus at Bath Subaru (actually in Woolwich) since 1973, has a little 1968 360 on his showroom floor and a 1971 FF-1 in a garage nearby.
"They rusted out quite frequently," says McElman of the early Subarus, "but they got great gas mileage, did well in the snow, and were cheap."
McElman got into Subarus because he had been doing well with Saabs. You used to see them with bolts in their tires racing on the frozen New Meadows River in West Bath. Subarus had front-wheel drive until 1972 when they introduced AWD. McElman remembers those first Subaru imports as rust buckets painted unappealing colors. He estimates that over the past forty years, Bath Subaru has sold ten thousand new and ten thousand used.
Impreza sedans and boxy Forester wagons are still made in Japan, but the ubiquitous Outback as well as the Legacy and the Tribeca are manufactured at the Subaru of Indiana Automotive plant in Lafayette, as, for that matter, is the best-selling Toyota Camry. There are only seven Subaru dealerships in Maine, sixty-three in New England.
"New England is the only area in the whole world where Subaru stores are all single-point dealerships," says Ernie Boch, Jr., president and CEO of Subaru of New England.
The fact that Subaru of New England refuses to allow dealerships to sell anything in addition to Subarus may help explain why the Greater Portland franchise has changed hands several times since the 1980s. Pape Subaru in South Portland, where we bought our two Imprezas, has had the franchise less than five years, but it is having a record year, as is Subaru of America (SOA). Subaru sold 267,000 cars in the U.S. in 2011 and was on track sell 325,000 in 2012.
"We were the only ones in 2008 to actually have a sales increase," says SOA's Jeff Walters. "We're the only manufacturer with five straight years of sales increases."
As of August, Subaru had sold 2,939 cars in Maine compared to 5,912 Toyotas, 3,758 Fords, 3,520 Chevrolets, 2,822 Hondas, 2,121 Nissans, 1,908 GMC trucks, 1,508 Kias, 1,453 Hyundais, and 1,378 Jeeps.
"Mainers were early adopters," says Walters of Subaru's popularity in Maine. "They realized you could drive them ten to fifteen years."
One of those early adopters was Jim Charette of Lake Region Imports in Westbrook. In 1982, he moved his repair shop to Route 302 in Westbrook and began selling used Subarus. People told him he would go broke specializing in one make, but he's still going strong thirty years later. "Most people who have Subarus, if they have one in the family, they'll have five or six," says Jim. "If they're driving a Subaru, their kids will be driving a Subaru. We now have third generation customers. It's almost a cult."
Jim Charette attributes the brand loyalty to the reliability and longevity of Subarus, but the initial attraction is traction. "Once you've had all-wheel drive," he says, "it's a feature difficult to trade for front-wheel drive."
"People like Subarus as a daily driving car because they are extremely reliable," adds Dave Getchell. "At four degrees below zero, you know it's going to go."
Bill Hager knows all about that vaunted Subaru reliability. We went to the University of Southern Maine together back in the 1970s and Bill worked at Portland International Jetport for thirty-two years until he was downsized and outsourced in 2003. That year he invested $6,200 in a 1996 Subaru Legacy station wagon with 86,000 miles on it working for a courier service delivering packages all over New England. Today that workhorse Legacy has 637,000 miles on it.
"In the ten years that I've had that car," Bill reports, "it's probably been on the back of a wrecker five times.When I was driving 1,500 miles a week, every other Friday morning at 7:30 I had a standing appointment at Lake Region Imports for an oil change."
Bill has cut back on his courier trips a bit, but his Subaru is still going strong. Turns out the 1996 Legacy is well-known among Subaru enthusiasts for being virtually indestructible if properly maintained.
"One of the reasons Subarus are so long-lived, dependable, and reliable," explains master Subaru mechanic Chip Levine, "is that they've always used the horizontally-opposed four-stroke boxer engine. They've had one style engine for more than twenty years."
Boxer engines are flat because pistons move in and out sideways instead of up and down. This allows Subarus to have lower front ends and lower centers of gravity.
Chip started out as a Subaru mechanic back in 1984 at Falmouth Subaru, opened his own repair shop in a rented garage in Falmouth in 1987, and established Chip's Service Center, a two-bay garage at the corner of Bates Street and Washington Avenue in Portland back in 1989.
It was Chip who delivered the bad news that we had purchased the wrong Subaru back in 1999 when we lease-purchased a brand new Subaru Outback from a local dealer. Chip warned us that the head gaskets tended to blow out at about sixty thousand miles on the 1995 to 1999 Outbacks with 2.5 liter engines.
Chip was also the David who went up against the Subaru Goliath a few years back when he was sued in succession by Subaru of New England, Subaru of America, and automaker Fuji Heavy Industries. "The only valid point they had was that Subaru is a registered trademark," says Chip, who changed the name of his business to Chip's Service Center under duress, but he also learned in the litigious proceedings that he could use "Subaru" as an adjective to describe who he is — a "Factory Trained Subaru Technician."
When I asked Chip who his best customers were, I got a surprising answer. "Lesbians," he said unhesitantly. "A lot of the cars we work on have rainbow decals on them."
"I drive a Subaru specifically because they market it to the LGBT community," explains Betsy Smith, executive director of EqualityMaine, the state's leading advocacy group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people.
Who knew Subaru has been marketing its cars through gay media since 1996? In fact, the company has won a number of awards from human rights groups for its enlightened approach to inclusive marketing. Subaru ad campaigns aimed at the gay community often carry coded messages such as "It's not a choice. It's the way we're built" and "Get out and stay out."
Though Subaru's gay ads target both men and women, Subarus seem to primarily appeal to women. In a 2009 listener poll, National Public Radio's popular Car Talk compiled a list of "The Ultimate Gay & Lesbian Cars of All Times." The Outback and Forester were one and two among lesbians. But the Volkwagen Jetta and VW Beetle were tops among gay men and there were no Subarus at all on their list.
Laurie Phillips, a PhD candidate at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, researched and wrote a 2010 marketing case study as part of her doctoral work. In her case analysis, Phillips found that "lesbian Subaru owners had a high socioeconomic status and an active lifestyle, complementing Subaru's four existing consumer bases."
Subaru owners have a median age of fifty, 66 percent have a college degree or higher, 62 percent have incomes above $75,000, 68 percent are pet owners, 48 percent dog owners. While only 17 percent of Subaru owners nationally are retirees, Dick McElman at Bath Subaru says they're his best customers. "Our demographic," he says, "is retirees who have winterized their summer place and need a good vehicle to get in and out."
Bob and Ellen Brewer, retired Bath Iron Works designers, have purchased seven Subarus since 1983. The Brewers live on a dead end street at the top of a hill and sometimes couldn't get home without AWD.
"Where we live in Bath," says Bob, "all of our neighbors have at least one Subaru."
General manager Larry Stark finds that Pape Subaru caters to a lot of young suburban families. Pape did, however, have one customer fly in all the way from Fairbanks, Alaska, to drive home in a sleek new 300 hp WRX. "That was when I knew we were dealing with a different group than Silverado buyers," says Stark.
The Subaru WRX (for World Rally Cross Country) is a different animal entirely from the safe Outback and sane Forester. The wily WRX is prominently featured on Mainely Subarus, an online chat forum with some one thousand members.
In June of 2011, British driver Dave Higgins, of Subaru Rally Team USA, virtually "flew" a WRX up Mount Washington auto road to set a new Climb to the Clouds record of 6 minutes and 11.54 seconds.
Dave Getchell co-pilots a WRX on the rally circuit, barking out directions to Last Ditch Racing driver John Cassidy as the pair speeds along dirt roads such as those between Rumford and Bethel on the annual New England Forest Rally.
Dave's partner, artist Randy Fein, however, just needs to navigate the back roads between Camden and Unity where she teaches at Unity College.
"The Subaru Forester is the most amazing vehicle on the road today," he insists. "It's totally practical. It's the kind of SUV most SUV drivers should be driving."
Spoken like a true believer, Dave.
Every motorized vehicle ever made, of course, has its admirers and adherents, its own demographics and devotees, but in Maine, where roads frost and heave, turn to ice and back to mud, the sensible AWD Subaru holds a special place in the hearts of those of us who just want to get there and back with a minimum of drama.


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Charles Roberts will not be changing his number and, as far as we know, will not be changing his name to C.R.
The Blue Bombers running back proclaimed Tuesday that he was changing his number from 1 to 32 for several reasons. One was because he's superstitious and wants to play in the jersey number in which he practises. The second was because he wore No. 32 in college.
The third -- and likely the real reason for his shenanigans -- was because he figured the coaching staff had forgotten about No. 1 when it came to the game plan, so he was going to trick them into getting No. 32 to run the ball more. Roberts had just 12 carries for 71 yards in last week's 27-17 loss to the Montreal Alouettes.
Bombers GM Brendan Taman confirmed yesterday that Roberts will not be changing his number.
Roberts' antics did have one repercussion, however, as the media is now banned from the locker-room after practice and will conduct interviews on the field instead.
Head coach Doug Berry had been thinking about instituting the policy and made it official yesterday. Apparently, Roberts standing on his stool and yelling "No. 1 is for sale!" in front of the media on Tuesday was the straw that broke the camel's back.
"This is the way it was in Montreal, the way we did it there," said Berry of locker-room accessibility. "I really feel like that's their living room. When you guys talk to me, you don't come into my home and hear conversations about what's going on between my wife and my daughters.
"That's their living room, and I just want it to be their little sanctuary when they're coming to practice."
Roberts, of course, used the new policy to sneak into the locker-room and duck all media requests yesterday.
RUN RICKY, RUN? The word out of Toronto is the Argos (1-0) are going to rely more on the run tomorrow night against the Bombers (0-1) at Canad Inns Stadium.
The Boatmen have a premier running back in Ricky Williams, and No. 1 quarterback Damon Allen is out with a broken finger, which leaves backup and former Bomber Spergon Wynn at the controls.
Williams had 97 yards in Toronto's win over Hamilton on Saturday. The last time an Argos running back reached the 100-yard plateau was Oct. 21, 2004, when John Avery did it.
MAKING MOVES: The Bombers are expected to make three roster changes for tomorrow's game.
SB/KR Albert Johnson III and OL Val St. Germain will come off due to injury and will be replaced by SB/KR Shockmain Davis and OL Marc Parenteau. OL Aaron Fiacconi will move up and start at St. Germain's right guard position.
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The Home Mortgage Interest Deduction Is Inefficient
January 17, 2013
As the largest explicit tax deduction for households, the home mortgage interest deduction allows taxpayers who own their homes to lower their taxable income by the amount of interest paid on loans for a principal residence or a second home. While politicians believe this deduction greatly increases middle-class home ownership, reality proves otherwise, say Jeremy Horpedahl and Harrison Searles of the Mercatus Center.
- The deduction is aimed at encouraging home ownership and increasing future taxable income.
- Most middle-class taxpayers do not benefit at all.
- Only taxpayers in the upper income brackets receive a large benefit from this deduction.
With growing federal deficits, the existence of deductions in the tax code necessitates a tradeoff between different government services and higher taxes. With a skewed distribution of beneficiaries toward the wealthy, most households would not be significantly harmed by removing the deduction.
- The Office of Management and Budget estimates the deduction resulted in $72 billion in lost tax revenue in 2011.
- For a household in the $40,000 to $50,000 income bracket, the average tax savings amounted to only $111.
- By comparison, for households earning above $200,000, the average tax savings amounted to $1,784.
These statistics negate the argument made by defenders of the deduction who claim that it makes housing more affordable and accessible to middle-class families. In fact, an examination of the period from 1960 through 1997 shows that homeownership rates varied only slightly, between 62 percent and 66 percent, despite the deduction. Additionally, the mortgage interest deduction has negative economic impacts that further render it inefficient.
- The deduction alters the natural allocation of resources toward high-income residential housing construction.
- This misallocation skews the structure of the economy and distribution of income in favor of the wealthy, who also waste resources supporting lobbying efforts to defend the deduction.
- The subsidy inflates the prices of high-income housing.
To fix these problems, the deduction could simply be eliminated, replaced with a tax credit for purchasing a home, or eliminated and offset by a decrease in the general level of income taxation.
Source: Jeremy Horpedahl and Harrison Searles, "The Home Mortgage Interest Deduction," Mercatus Center, January 8, 2013.
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Christina A. Hacker is a Research Chemist at the Semiconductor Electronics Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Md, USA. She joined NIST in 2002 as a National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Fellow. Her work investigates the formation and characterization of monolayers on semiconductors for molecular electronics applications. In addition to developing new measurement techniques, such as p-polarized backside reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy to investigate buried electronic layers, Hacker has also been instrumental in developing a novel fabrication technique, flip-chip lamination, which is promising for many next generation electronic structures, including molecular electronics. Hacker received her Ph.D. degree in analytical chemistry in 2002 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying optical measurements of the electronic interaction of molecular films on silicon surfaces in UHV. Since joining NIST, she has investigated the chemical and physical properties of many molecular monolayers on both metal and semiconductor surfaces and continues to be one of the world's experts in molecular layers on silicon. Hacker's general research interests include chemical, physical, and electronic properties of organic monolayers for molecular electronics; utilization of molecular electronics, nanoelectronics, and interface engineering; surface and interface chemistry including interface modification and surface-sensitive analytical techniques.
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Grenada was as active as any other Caribbean state against undesirable offshore banks in 2001, closing down 17 in one day in March. They were all linked to the First International Bank of Grenada, which collapsed in October 2000, taking $150 million worth of mainly American depositors' money along with it. A U.S. Senate committee had described First International as "one of the most notorious rogue banks" in the Caribbean offshore industry. In June another six banks had their licenses to operate canceled.
Despite its actions against offshore banks, Grenada was added in September to the list of countries deemed by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to have failed in cooperating with international efforts to stop money laundering. The FATF described Grenada's system for dealing with money laundering as having "serious deficiencies." The task force pointed out that regulators in Grenada did not have adequate access to customer account information and lacked the authority to cooperate with overseas counterparts. The government reacted angrily, calling the FATF decision "shocking."
Also in September Grenada's UN ambassador, Lamuel Stanislaus, urged the UN to restore Taiwan's membership in the world body, which had been revoked in 1971. In common with other small Caribbean countries, Grenada was a recipient of generous Taiwanese aid.
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Gerald L. Gould
Gerald L. Gould, 50, died unexpectedly on Aug. 6, 2014, at his home in Alpine, Texas. Originally from Searsport, he was born Aug. 20, 1963, the son of Arthur Lloyd and Agnes "Tina" (Carr) Gould. Jerry loved to tinker and build things, he also loved living back to nature and spending time with his dogs.
He is survived by his mother of Searsport, three children Logan of Maine, Scott of Virginia and Kaitlyn of New Hampshire, one sister Laurie Gould of Searsport, one nephew Benjamin Dudley of Portland, dear friends Ted and Tammy Morse and Arthur Curtis all of Searsport, his faithful canine companions Mercedes and Bentley, as well as several aunts, uncles and cousins.
Jerry was predeceased by his father Lloyd Gould.
Memorial contributions in Jerry's memory may be made to Grand Companions, P.O. Box 1156, Fort Davis, TX 79734.
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From: "Jenny De Angelis" <>
Subject: Re: [Ess] pamphlet "my ancestor was a mariner...."
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 12:32:28 +0200
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I don't have the booklet on researching Mariners but have managed to
research my 3 John Smith who were all mariners and I have managed to obtain
copies of their Master Mariner certificates by finding them in the census,
the crew lists of a ship or two on which they sailed in order to get their
certificate numbers. I have also found them in the censuses at home and
also at sea on board their ships in the various censuses, as well as having
one of them listed in Lloyds registers of seamen for his voyages on a
particular ship during 1881/82 up until he was lost at sea from that same
vessel in October 1882 in the Atlantic Ocean when she ran into a cyclone.
When was your mariner ancestor born and what was his name? You might find
him in the censuses from 1881 going backwards in time either on dry land on
at sea of a ship, on a ship at sea only back as far as the 1861, if he was
sailing on British Registered ships. If he happened to be on a ship in a
British port on a census night, regardless of where the ship was registered,
he might be shown as having slept on board on census night.
Have you found him in any census? you didn't say whether you have looked for
him there or not.
If he was an ordinary seaman then he will be more difficult to trace with
regard to his seaman career than if he had become a Master Mariner, an
Engineer 1st or 2nd. class, or a Boatswain (Bosun), or some other class
qualified mariner, then you might have more chance of finding out more
about him as he would have had to pass exams to gain the relevant
certificates. Such certificates are held at the National Maritime Museum and
not the Nat. Archives.
If you knew the name of a ship that he sailed on then you might have a
chance of finding that ship's crew lists and find him listed as singing on
as part of the crew, but seaman changed ships regularly according to where
they could get signed on for a voyage so the time line would be very fine
between finding him in the census on a particular ship and then finding a
crew list for that same ship. Many crew lists were going to be destroyed by
the PRO and they were only going to keep a sample, selecting those lists for
years ending in 5, or something like that. The Maritime History Archive
Newfoundland, http://www.mun.ca/mha/ bought up many, if not all, the crew
lists that were to be destroyed and they have them available for copies.
But you need the Registration number of the ship in order to find the right
crew lists and order a copy. Looking for your man in crew lists would be a
bit like a needle in a haystack if he was an ordinary seaman simply because
he would likely have signed on as crew for various ships in any any given
year. You may not find a crew list for the same ship as you might have
found him on in a census. If you do find a crew list for that ship then it
might be one for a voyage which your man did not sign on for as part of her
crew at that time. All a bit hit and miss.
If he was a qualified seaman, such as a Master Mariner, Bosun, Engineer then
he might have stayed with one ship for a length of time, changing ship less
frequently than ordinay seaman tended to do.
You could look at the Mariners website, http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/ where
you can find help on researching mariners both Merchant & Royal Navy. There
is also a mailing list for Marners linked from the Mariners website, this
list only deal with Ships and the men that sailed them not Passsengers.
Let us have his name and a year of birth for him and maybe we can help do a
bit of digging for him.
Jenny DeAngelis.
I have a Mariner ancestor who was born foreign (Poland or Russia), said to
have been raised in England, certainly is found leaving Liverpool for
unknown reasons in 1883 for New York, U.S.A. on the Ethiopia, claiming
himself as an American citizen. (assume he had papers he was required to
show). that is my earliest documented record for him.
question #1, if he isn't listed in Lloyds records as a mariner in England,
would there be other seaman's records available?
question #2, would there be any record at Liverpool for his departure from
question #3, would he, as an American citizen, be recorded in any manner in
England? such a record might clue me in to where his relatives were living
in 1883-if they were still there, or perhaps I could be so lucky as just to
find out what he was doing in England that year.
many thanks,
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Ingraham blames 'entitlement mentality'
Like Rush Limbaugh, conservative radio host Laura Ingraham argued that the Republican party does not need to reorient its approach toward minority groups, but rather that voters need to change their "entitlement mentality."
"Contrary to what the usual suspects on the Left and mushy middle are saying, Romney's loss is not an indictment of conservatism. The tea party remains the most invigorating force in the GOP, and conservatism's core principles still deliver the greatest promise to a demoralized middle class," she wrote on her blog. "Mitt Romney's 'play-it-safe' strategy was a loser from Day One."
In a seperate post, Ingraham's staff (no byline) struck a similar tone and argued that Republicans did not need to "pander" to minorities.
"Are the defeats the fault of the GOP and its candidates, and do they now need to pander to minorities and update their platform to make it more appealing? What exactly is wrong with conservative principles? Anything? No. If it ain't broke don't fix it. We don't need to change to appeal to voters. We need voters and their mindsets to change. It is no easy task."
Ingraham citer Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly, who said last night that 50 percent of the voting public are people who "want stuff. They want things. And who is going to give them things? President Obama. He knows it, and he ran on it."
"Is our time up? Until the entitlement mentality is destroyed, the Democratic Party of Redistribution will always win," she wrote. "If voters put the good of the country ahead of their personal wants, they will see everyone benefiting, themselves included. Let's implement some trickle-down patriotism before it's too late."
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Story and photos by Maryalice Yakutchik
Transplant Day
Betty Flowers, left, and Janet Hiller have a pre-dawn discussion
about transplant day logistics.
5:30 a.m.
"Happy Valentine's Day Miss Flowers!" Nikki Lawson, transplant nurse coordinator, greets Betty Flowers, a patient rep whose job here today requires the cool of an air traffic controller and savvy of a cat-herder. She'll be directing donors and recipients and divvying up all their respective family members and significant others, getting all to go to the right places at the right times. No small feat, as patient confidentiality prohibits all these many players from fraternizing in advance of surgery.
"What does OK mean here?" Betty asks, pointing to a complex schematic of all the day's comings and goings. Janet Hiller, paired donation coordinator, explains that it's "OK as in Oklahoma": one of the kidneys from Hopkins is bound for a hospital in that state; one from there, bound for Missouri; and one from Missouri, for Hopkins. This simultaneous 6-way interstate swap marks another first for Hopkins in terms of transplant.
The first patient is rounding a corner, approaching. Before she is in earshot, Betty confides in Janet and Nikki about this being a very special anniversary for her: On Valentine's Day in 1970, her son was a deceased donor of a kidney here at Johns Hopkins.
"Today I can say that," Betty whispers, "and not cry."
5:45 a.m.
Two donors sit propped in pre-op beds, shivering. Janet Hiller retrieves warm blankets from the recovery room stash next door, where both women soon will be bound, each minus a kidney. She tucks them in, chasing away last-minute jitters.
6:20 a.m.
Nikki asks the nurses on the transplant unit how 31-year-old Shelby Fletcher – facing his third kidney transplant -- has fared overnight. Her brow furrows when she hears that he spiked a fever. She opens his door, peers into a dark room, and backs off: "I'll let him sleep a bit longer."
6:40 a.m.
Nikki Lawson learns of Shelby Fletcher's late-night
Dr. Robert Montgomery moves down the corridor washing down a chocolate bar with a cup of Dunkin Donuts coffee. His swagger,a consequence of the western boots he wears, is measured, methodical, even. He greets a buzzing swarm of nurses, surgeons, and support staff just outside of the OR: "So, we're set to start all three donors at 7:30." It's not a question.
6:58 a.m.
Brigitte Reeb, transplant administrator, announces: "One little change: the plane taking our kidney to Oklahoma is leaving from BWI instead of Martin's."
7:13 a.m.
Dr. Dorry Segev greets Cindy Dabrowski, the altruistic donor whose unconditional offer of a kidney set this six-way chain into motion. Her husband sits protectively by her, book in hand, prepared to face three hours in the waiting room time while his wife's kidney is removed. At 61, Cindy wants to give her organ to a stranger because she's had good health and wants to share the wealth. "It doesn't get more simple or profound than that," remarks Nikki Lawson. "Or more beautiful."
7:29 a.m.
Janet Hiller kisses Cindy Dabrowski goodbye: "We'll see you when you wake up!"
7:30 a.m.
"Okay," Janet pronounces as the last of the three donors is taken to an OR. "That's 7:30 on the dot."
7:58 a.m. OR No. 8
Dr. Mohamed Allaf makes a first incision in his donor patient.
8:15 a.m. OR No. 7
"Alright, let's do a time-out," Dr. Montgomery announces, surveying a patient who is anesthetized and strategically draped in blue papery cloths so that only her belly, painted brown with iodine, is exposed. Her name, blood type and allergies are reviewed; the destination of her kidney is confirmed.
8:29 a.m. OR No. 8
A quiet humming is punctuated by a periodic beeping: these are the calm, controlled sounds of laparoscopic surgery. Through two tiny incisions in his patient's abdomen, Dr. Allaf manipulates instruments, suctioning here, grasping there, clipping here, cauterizing there, all the while monitoring his movements through wisps of digital smoke wafting across a video screen. He's working right up against the liver; an anatomical fact that makes removing the right kidney a bit trickier than the left: "Hey, that's a nice vein for a right side, huh?" he says to the urology resident at his left elbow who's moving a camera inserted in a third incision.
8:40 a.m. OR No. 8
"This is the ureter they're getting," Dr. Allaf determines, having briefly debated with himself about how much of the duct to leave attached to the kidney. "You don't try to impress," he says, cognizant that his surgical handiwork stands to be critiqued by a transplant team halfway across the country. "You do what you can." He clips it.
9:05 a.m. OR No. 8
An empty cooler – soon to contain a donated kidney
-- sits in the office of the Incompatible Kidney
Transplant Program.
The OR becomes crowded. An organ procurement specialist arrives, carrying a box in which he'll pack this organ that's destined for Oklahoma. "Do we want a gift card with that?" Dr. Allaf quips. Dr. Andy Singer positions himself at the foot of the table, ready to flush the kidney of blood with a preservative solution in those first few critical moments when it's out of the donor's body: "He's relaxed and done early," Singer says of his surgical colleague, Mo Alaff. "That's usually a recipe for success."
9:20 a.m. OR No. 8
"You think you're done, and you're not," Dr. Allaf observes, cutting and cauterizing some more. "I feel like I've gone through this tissue 10 times."
9:24 a.m. OR No. 8
Dr. Allaf clamps the artery that feeds blood to the kidney: "That starts cell dying time," he announces, referring to so-called "warm" time which will last from now until when the kidney is plunged in an icy bath and flushed of blood.
9:25 a.m. OR No. 8
An aptly named "endocatch" bag attached to the tail of one of the laparoscopes catches the kidney while it is still inside of the donor's body and trailing varying lengths of artery, vein and ureter. Moving with urgency now, Dr. Allaf cinches the bag. There's a collective holding of breath in anticipation as he pulls the tidy package up and out through an incision made for this purpose; one nurse comments that it's like "birthing a baby."
9:27 a.m. OR No. 8
Dr. Singer empties the bag o' kidney into an ice bath, isolates the artery and begins flushing the organ which turns paler and colder with each passing second. "Cold time" for this kidney, bound for Oklahoma, will likely last five hours.
9:29 a.m. OR No. 8
A procurement specialist boxes the organ in a big cardboard package marked "DONATED HUMAN ORGAN/TISSUE FOR TRANSPLANT." Two tubes of the donor's blood, O-positive, are being shipped along with the fist-sized kidney, as are the donor's consent forms.
9:45 a.m.
Hugging the package close to her body, Brigitte Reeb jogs down the halls through the emergency department and out to a waiting ambulance. She'll spend this, her 39th birthday, escorting the kidney to a charter flight bound for Oklahoma and waiting at BWI on a kidney bound for Hopkins from Missouri.
9:50 a.m.
Nikki Lawon, left, and Janet Hiller make last-minute
tweaks to a schematic plan that outlines the comings
and goings of patients and kidneys.
Brigitte straps the precious box to a gurney in the back of the ambulance and hops in front with the driver, Rocco, for a 20-minute siren-wailing trip to the airport.
9:58 a.m. OR No. 7
Bruce Springsteen blares in the OR where Dr. Montgomery is stapling a ureter before cutting it and, finally, clamping the artery of the donor kidney he's removing.
During a subsequent Fleetwood Mac song, Montgomery receives word confirming the delivery of dozens of roses that he ordered – one each for all of the many Hopkins nurses and physicians spending their Valentine's Day working together.
10:15 OR No. 7
Dr. Montgomery clamps the artery of the donor kidney. Warm time starts.
10:19 a.m. OR No. 7
Dr. Montgomery widens the incision through which he's attempting to wriggle a kidney-stuffed endocatch bag.
"Hey Janet," Dr. Montgomery says: "Have we heard from the other centers?
"About 45 minutes ago, the St. Louis surgeon started on their donor."
The St. Louis donor kidney is scheduled to fly charter jet to BWI, ETA 1:30 p.m.
10:22 a.m. OR No. 7
The flushing of the kidney begins. Cold time will last from now until the moment the artery is unclamped in the recipient and reperfusion begins. This kidney is staying in- house, being carried, via Janet's personal cooler, to an OR next door for transplant into 70-year-old Alfred Finke.
11:07 a.m.
Janet Hiller hugs Alfred Finke's wife, and scoops up his toddling grandbaby, flushed from having run up and down the hospital hallway. "Your new kidney's out," Janet announces to Mr. Finke, slouched on the edge of his bed. "It's waiting for you!"
"So it looks good, does it?" Mr. Finke wants to know.
"All the swapping's going like clock work," Janet assures. "They'll be coming for you in about an hour. "And to think we didn't even know for sure that you were going to be a part of this 'til last night at 5'o clock," she adds, referring to when Finke passed a stress test and was cleared for surgery.
"How long is my transplant scheduled to take?"
"About 3 hours total," Janet says.
The first hour is taken up with surgical prep and administration of anesthesia. The transplant itself is a deceptively simple operation involving only three hook-ups: vein is sewn to vein; artery to artery; and ureter to bladder. It usually takes about an hour and a half. Then there's a half hour or so of stitching and closing until the patient moves to a bed in the recovery room.
"Once blood flows into the new kidney, it produces urine right away," Janet adds, describing that climactic moment in the OR of which kidney transplant teams never tire.
11:32 a.m.
Janet Hiller carries ice-filled coolers to two operating
rooms where donors are undergoing surgery.
Nikki Lawson finally catches up with her patient Shelby Fletcher, who seems more concerned about his surgeon than he does himself: "Does Dr. Montgomery have his A-game on today? Has he had lunch yet? I don't want him in the OR, shaking. Maybe I'll tape a Snickers bar to my stomach for him."
11:45 a.m.
Shelby's mother, Sharon, who was his first donor, two transplants ago, hugs Janet Hiller, saying: "I'm just sorry it took us this long to get to Hopkins."
While escorting the extended Fletcher clan to their waiting room, Janet Hiller spies the Finke family rounding a corner. They're far from their appointed waiting area, out walking the baby in hopes of tiring him before naptime. The Fletchers make a fuss over the child and share hospital small talk with the Finkes. None of them realize they're all involved in the transplants taking place here today. Janet slides away: "They'll figure it out in less than three minutes, I bet, despite all our efforts to keep the donors and recipients and their families separated and anonymous."
1:05 p.m.
Three donors are resting in the recovery room, each minus a kidney that will soon be sewn into one of the three recipients being prepped for surgery. Two kidneys sit on ice in coolers in their respective ORs. One is winging its way from St. Louis, Missouri, scheduled to arrive at Hopkins in about half an hour. Wave two of the 6-way transplant is set to start.
1:48 p.m.
Oklahoma calls to report that it received the kidney from Hopkins: "Everything looks good at all three centers," Brigitte Reeb reports.
2:15 p.m.
Brigitte Reeb, left, and Janet Hiller, are elated as the 14-hour
transplant day, three-months in the planning, comes to a
successful conclusion.
The last of the recipients – a Baltimore man receiving a big, hearty kidney that arrived at Hopkins from St. Louis – heads out of pre-op and into an OR. He had been told that his surgery probably wouldn't start until about 5 p.m. No one – especially those who spent the past months planning the first-ever six-way exchange involving three hospitals in three states all on one day – anticipated the event would have gone this smoothly.
2:23 p.m. OR No. 7
Shelby Fletcher's new kidney is in. Dr. Montgomery unclamps the artery: "See it go pink?" A gorgeous kidney. Absolutely gorgeous."
2:25 p.m. OR No. 7
Dr. Montgomery: "Alright. Let's see now what we've got here."
2:26 p.m. OR No. 7
Dr. Montgomery: "Shelby's new kidney is making urine already. Isn't that beautiful? You take a kidney out of a person, put it on ice, keep it in suspended animation, sew it up into another person and it starts making urine right away. I never get tired of that!"


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Hey Guys,
The problem:
I was told my 4 day a week salaried job as a designer/illustrator for a contract company in Coca-Cola is going to be cut to two days a week, or possibly to completely just freelance.
The streams of income I have so far:
I recently totally by God's divine planning come into being a freelance designer in my spare time for Shane's Rib Shack, designing national campaigns as well as smaller projects for them, though at this point it is not likely to be enough to replace my more full time gig.
I'm also halfway finished with illustrating a coloring book for a local city about MLK snr. Not huge pay, but it's good experience and a great piece to show future possible customers.
Being a firm believer in Dan's multiple streams of income, I also teach painting classes from my home studio. That stream of business is either huge or totally dead though, it all depends on time of year. Though Bridal shower and birthday paint night parties are pretty regular now.
I'm almost independent, not on purpose.. but that's where things have been leading I guess, so...
The Questions:
How do I get more business like Shane's, how do I give my soon to be completely freelance income some stability.
Ideas for getting more work teaching painting or designing adds/illustrating?
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Hi Heather,
You didn't mention if you have a company for your independent efforts. If not that would be a first step in creating a brand for you to market. A sole proprietor would work initially.
If you do have a company, why not start a simple marketing campaign under the guise of "Why not let the same people who help Coca-Cola, Church's Chicken and Shane's Ribs connect with their customers do the same for you!"
Let the low hanging fruit cash flow the business while you reach out to client base you truly want to serve. That will frame this wake-up call as an opportunity for growth, rather than bad news about some j-o-b.
Thanks for adding this conversation to the JUMP Group!
To get more business like Shane's I would get out there and network. That is a huge asset in the ATL. Places like Ponce City Market are big trendy spaces that include social and business activities. For the painting you might want to connect with some home school associations in your area. And if you haven't already, let it be known in the Write It Forward group that you are an illustrator. People there are always looking for good ones. Good Luck!
Any progress to report, Heather? I'm sure oodles of ideas have flooded through your mind, so which ones look the most promising right now?
Yes, thanks :) I'm still thinking on the forum members suggestions, as well as prepping my portfolio to include my book illustrations and Shane's BBQ art. I made a list of people I know who might know someone who'd need my design assistance. I've contacted a major art supply company that I have a contact at informed them I'm available to create sample art for new materials for they're print purposes along with giving them samples of my paintings, and tonight after I teach a birthday paint party in my studio that will be 10 kids painting at $25 each, I then will do what Dan says.. make a list of 30 companies I'd like to do business with!
Like Alan mentioned, you'll want a platform (ie business) to be able to effectively market your business. Seek out similar businesses to the ones you have had success with. Do any of them appear to need your services? Reach out to them directly.
Assuming you don't know them already, do a series of emails to start to introduce yourself. Don't hit them the first time with a "you wanna buy my services" type of approach. Connect with them wherever they are on social media. Get to know something about them so you can better align your approach.
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Just realizing I'm late to the party on this one, but have you checked out freelancing websites like Freelancers.com or Upwork.com? There are always hundreds of people looking for good graphic artists on those sites. Personally, the stuff you have in the attached file is better than what I've gotten once or twice using those sites for my own work. If you're looking to make some fairly fast cash to cover bills between other gigs, these sites may be a good option.
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Does anyone have a easy Bargello quilt pattern for a beginning Bargello quilter. If so, :lol: can you tell me where I can find it? Thanks for your help.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Does anyone have a easy Bargello quilt pattern for a beginning Bargello quilter. If so, :lol: can you tell me where I can find it? Thanks for your help.
A scrappy, cutting tiny squares and sewing one at a time:
a simple baby bargello, that explains the strip method:
another strip method instruction:
I made a Bargello, using the strips, tube method - it was so simple. I just undid my seam where I wanted the colors to break - so don't do too tight of stitch!
I varied the width of my cuts after the tube was made and it resulted in a smoother curve to the valley and hills of the pattern.
I would love to see your Bargello when you get it done! Good luck.
I have the book Bargello Hearts. I have made several of these and find it very easy to follow the instuctions, the book is put out by Doheny Publications, Inc. and there phone # is (425)774-3761. That is where you might be able to order it from. good luck. Marge
Thank you :lol: to all of you who sent me feedback regarding my request for a Bargello Quilt pattern. I really appreciate your responses. Now I quess I had better get busy and start sewing one up. Thanks again everyone. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
One I like is with 2 pieces of fabric. You get one piece that has different colors hues through the length of the fabric (is that technically "variegated" or "color change"? Y'all know that type of fabric I mean. You then get a 2nd piece as an accent. Sew variegated - accent - variegated, and then do the cylinder trick (I'm sure that's explained somewhere on here or online), and cut the long strips and resew to make a Bargello
You get the Bargello effect but with a lot less work :mrgreen:


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The big splash she made in an American pool is full of ironies.
Winnipeg's Kristin Davies became North Carolina State's first diver to ever win a championship at the NCAA Championships in College Station, Texas, last weekend and the Canadian became an All-American as a result.
Davies scored a 339.65 in the platform dive to win the trophy despite the fact she is on a full scholarship at a school that does not even have a diving platform.
"So I have to drive to Duke, which is about a half-hour away, twice a week to use their platform," Davies said from Raleigh, N.C., where she was still basking in the glow of victory yesterday. "Once a week, I am there by myself but it is nice of Duke to let us use its platform."
Since her victory, Davies has heard from all kinds of people, including some she had lost touch with back home.
"It's been awesome," she said. "Right after I won, a wrestler (Darrion Caldwell) from our school won an individual title, too. So, we've been together for TV interviews and other interviews and all sorts of people have been calling to talk to me. It's been a lot of fun ... It's crazy."
Davies, who missed one dive, finished 13th at last year's championship.
"I knew I was capable of doing it," said Davies, 22. "It was just a matter of doing all five dives well. I'd been practising my dives for a long time and I felt confident. I had fun and didn't hold anything back.
"I was just happy that I made it to the finals. But it was my first time on the podium and that was a great way to end my career."
Ironically, Davies had failed to qualify for Canada's diving team in February when she was suffering from a flu bug and has decided that it would be too costly to devote another year to try to get to the Olympic trials.
"Not being on the national team, there would be no funding for me," said the former member of the Pan Am Diving Club. "It would take another year for me to prove that I could make the team and make a run for the Olympics. But I feel it's time to be done and get on with my life."
The psychology major plans to take a year off and travel to Europe before attending grad school to possibly become a sports psychologist.
"It's a great way for her to go out," said her diving coach, Jenny Keim Johansen. "The sport is pretty demanding on your body and a lot of divers retire when they end their collegiate careers."
But it was a night to remember for both Davies and the diving program.
"All of the pieces fell in place and Kristin deserved everything she got," Johansen said. "She worked hard all year long and this was absolutely her best performance of the season. She did an incredible job in winning the national championship and it's something that she will remember for the rest of her life."
So will the athletic department.
"This is a huge accomplishment for Kristin, Wolfpack swimming and diving, and NC State athletics as a whole," said head swimming and diving coach Brooks Teal. "We are so proud of her. She definitely rose to the highest level at the right time, and this is a testimony to her hard work and perseverance."


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The low fiber content of most gluten-free foods makes adding fiber necessary for building a complete nutrition profile for such baked goods and snacks, especially as the gluten-free lifestyle remains increasingly popular among consumers. Yet incorporating cereal grain fiber into gluten-free formulas does not come without difficulties.
"It's challenging because there isn't any gluten and structure within the dough system is required to carry the weight of the fiber," explained Susan Kay, manager, product applications, Bay State Milling, Quincy, Mass. "Using fiber in gluten-free products requires formula changes. You may have to incorporate or increase the gum system, non-gluten proteins or other structure-building sources to meet this challenge."
Water absorption presents one common formulating challenge.
"Water compensation is the first adjustment of a formulation," said Jie Hu, senior research scientist, Ardent Mills, Wayzata, Minn. "Starch gelatinization increases the viscosity of the dough or batter so the foam structure can be stabilized and the crumb can be fixed. Fiber may affect starch gelatinization by delaying its onset temperature and prolonging the baking time as a result."
Staling through starch retrogradation poses another issue, one that fiber potentially ameliorates.
"Fiber can affect bread firming in two ways: either by interfering with amylase rearrangement or by changing water migration in crumb during storage due to fiber's water-binding capacity," Ms. Hu said. "We believe there are ways to control bread firmness, and there is big potential for applying cereal grain fiber in gluten-free products."
Keeping these challenges in mind, typical non-gluten cereal grain fiber options include potato flour, rice flour, oat fiber, sorghum flour and corn fiber, all of which are compatible with gluten-free recipes when formulated correctly.
For example, SunOpta, Edina, Minn., offers a rice fiber that contributes more than 90% fiber and imparts a bland flavor and fine, silky mouthfeel to products such as cereals, nutrition bars and bakery mixes.
"We see the biggest application for this rice fiber in the baked foods and snacks industries is gluten-free," said Cathy Peterson, a SunOpta food science nutrition specialist. "It is a good fit for enriching bakery products, and it's a good way to increase the fiber content of rice snacks, too."
The fiber content of gluten-free whole grain flours made from ancient grains such as sorghum, quinoa, amaranth, teff and buckwheat ranges from 6% to 10% and may naturally increase the total fiber quotient of gluten-free flour blends.
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Roger Williams Park Zoo was one of the first zoos to open in the United States in 1872. It is supported and managed by the Rhode Island Zoological Society, is owned by the City of Providence and became the first zoo in New England to earn accreditation from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) in 1986.
We have had so much fun with this partnership from Alex and Ani Family Day at the Zoo to Zoobilee to our Charity by Design team being invited to feed the animals. We hope that if you live in the area you'll make time for a trip to visit our friends at the Roger Williams Park Zoo.
20% of all Alex and Ani sales of the Monkey Charm, with a minimum contribution of $20,000, will go directly to Roger Williams Park Zoo to provide science and environmental education programs to more than 30,000 children from pre-school through high school.
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Less than a year ago, Redwater, Alta., 35 miles northeast of Edmonton, was a place to pick blueberries. Last week it was the center of the biggest oil boom in Canadian history.
With estimated reserves of 300 million barrels, the Redwater field already has 135 producing wells; new wells are being completed at the rate of 45 a month. Dozens of oil companies are in the field, the largest, Imperial Oil Ltd. of Canada, which is spending $500,000 on workers' housing alone.
The boom began at Leduc, 50 miles from Redwater, where the spouting...
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Heat is the enemy
Here's a fact: a cool motor is a happy motor (unless it isn't being run). With the efficiency of brushless motors and higher LiPo battery capacities, run times in the 20-minute range aren't uncommon. But during extended runs, heat build-up can affect your motor's performance, or at worst, cause total system failure. And even in short five-minute runs, things can get plenty hot under the stress of race speeds. Here are some ways to keep heat away from your motor and let your electronics run their best.
Take a look at a pro's car or truck and you'll likely see the wires from the speedo to the motor just long enough to reach. Excess wire puts more resistance in the system, which turns into heat, especially in high-current applications like with brushless motors. Leave an extra centimeter or two of slack on each wire for gearing changes or chassis flex.
Passive solutions, like a heat sink, can be really effective in drawing heat out of the motor can. Clip-on heat sinks work great and usually don't take up much room; remove motor labels or stickers to increase the contact area to wick heat away.
The "cheapest" way to cool your motor is to give it some airflow. Even if there are no cooling cutouts in the body, air does still move around under that shell. If at all possible, position the other electronics so they don't block the motor from getting air. You can also use a low-profile speedo or receiver. You can also cut out holes in the front of the body to increase air flow.
If you can't get airflow naturally to the motor and you have the space, use a fan such as the Castle Creations CC blower to do it. Most plug right into an empty channel port on your receiver (if they are all full, use a Y-cable to split the power with another component). The little current they draw is easily offset by the benefits of a cooler motor.
Every car and motor has a gearing sweet spot-the gear ratio where the motor works most efficiently. Gear it too tall, and the motor will struggle to pull the load. Gear it too short, and the motor will be revving at max rpm for most of the track. Either case will generate more heat than you want, so start off with the car manufacturer's recommendation for the right gearing range. Better yet, log the temp of your motor at the end of each run to find the sweet spot of 150 degrees.
Charlie Suangka from Team Novak clued us in on what some creative spec class racers are doing; because of the milder winds used in spec classes, some racers use the optional speed control fans to blow air on their motors instead of on their speedos. This lets them gear slightly taller so they can pull away from competitors on the straights.
Keeping your brushless motor cool should always be a priority; that is, if you want your car to run its best and want your gear to last. Plus, you really don't want to know first-hand what a burnt-out motor smells like.


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DD1 and her bff since kindergarten..Xmas 2011. I did this for the cricut challenge. The doily is cut from the Mothers Day cartridge..I hadn't planned to cover most of it up but you know how these layouts sometimes create themselves. Also entered in the Girls girls girls challenge.
The teeny little gem in there with the angel is from my friend Debi (Earthangel) who is a great "found objects" scrapper...she cut up a bracelet and gave me a few of the parts.
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Karine Vanasse's Striped Black-and-White Cocktail Dress on 'Revenge'
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Rangers split with Isles to end skid
The New York Rangers ended a five-game losing skid by defeating the New York Islanders 5-2 Thursday for a split of the home-and-home set.
The Rangers won this game as -130 favorites, while the seven goals made it OVER the posted over/under (5.5).
Ryan Callahan scored twice on the power play, while Marian Gaborik also tallied with the man advantage. Chris Drury, and Artem Anisimov potted the other goals for the Rangers, and Henrik Lundqvist made 30 saves in the win.
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G8 call to share wealth
World leaders have ended their three-day summit in Japan with a call for the unprecedented wealth of the developed world to be shared with the world's poor.
Leaders of the G8 nations - US, Japan, Germany, France, the UK, Italy, Canada and Russia - said they must work harder to ensure that struggling economies are no longer burdened with unsupportable debt.
In a final communique, the leaders spoke of the urgency of forging new partnerships with poorer nations as globalisation intensified.
They also announced initiatives to improve standards of education and tackle disease.
But the final statement has been criticised for carrying grandiose pledges with little financial backing.
The G8 nation hope that up to 20 countries will reach their targets for debt-relief by the end of the year, although this still falls far short of commitments made at last year's G8 gathering.
Pressure groups have expressed disappointment over the G8's failure to honour those previous commitments.
But US President Bill Clinton and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said the targets set out at the Okinawa summit were not only to relieve Third World debt but to offer basic education to all the world's children within 15 years and set new targets to combat killer diseases.
As an immediate gesture, Mr Clinton said the US would donate $300m worth of surplus farm crops to poor countries for school lunches.
Mr Blair added that another aim of G8 leaders was to halve deaths from TB and malaria within the next 10 years.
Britain has already announced that it is doubling its budget to fight diseases. Japan has meanwhile pledged $3bn over three years, and the US has announced $1bn a year to make cheaper drugs available.
Deep disagreements
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan this weekend reproached the leaders for too many promises and too little action.
Our correspondent Bridget Kendall says that behind the general concensus, there are still deep disagreements over whether Japan's idea of exporting computers to poor countries is appropriate.
And over the contentious issue of genetically modified foods, this weekend's summit has failed to paper over the divide between European leaders who highlight the potential dangers of bio-technology, and Japan and the US who argue that GM crops could be a vital tool in solving world hunger.
Lavish summit
But Mr Annan said that so far less than half of the world's 40 most heavily indebted countries have qualified for the relief, which has amounted to only $15bn.
The relief has been slow in coming, because the leading industrialised countries require the poor nations to introduce wide-ranging economic reforms and to promise not to use it to fund wars.
Anti-poverty campaigners also criticised the G8 leaders for spending too much on their own lavish summit and focusing on the so-called digital divide in computer technology between the rich and poor, rather than the debt issue.
The dot force will report back to the G8 before next year's summit in Genoa, Italy.
Sunmmit hosts, Japan, promised $15bn in aid over five years to help train IT experts in developing countries.
The G8 leaders said IT was a vital engine for economic growth that should be shared by everyone.
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