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Steve Coulter
Sport fishing; Bluefin Tuna
NPR/NGS Radio Expeditions
19 Mar 1997
United States
North CarolinaDare County
- Cape Hatteras National Seashore
- 35.25278 -75.03333
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00:00 -5:48 ambi -birds chirping in bg
6:14 My name is Steve Coulter (SC)
CJ -and what is your boat here?
6:17 SC-the boat is called the Sea Creature [CJ -and you fish for bluefin tuna sometimes] and yes i fish for bluefin tuna
6:22 CJ -you call yourself the dissident, why?
SC [laughter] well, i have been called a dissident. I don't necessary believe that our tax dollars are being spent wisely in some of these programs. i think the science and the data being collected is probably very valuable for the fish and the fishery, but i am not sure the data is being used wisely and properly by the people that are using the data to produce federal regulations.
6:58 CJ -that lS the question that i asked Dick Stone last night. It is one thing to collect a lot of scientific data -is it the political will or intelligence to use it?
7:08 SC -I think there is a very strong political will behind all of this, and whether it is to better the fishery or not I can't answer that question.
7:18 CJ -well, what makes you feel this way?
7:23 SC -these fish have been off North Carolina probably for a lot longer than anyone knows. we have been catching them for 5 years now. the recreation aspect of the business has blossomed in the past 3 years. it is unbelievable the economic impact it has had on this area. it is very good. the fish are a valuable, valuable resource. not only to recreational fisherman, but to commercial fisherman also. and the people of North Carolina have been cut out of the commercial process on the bluefin tuna. the season is open commercially i think the first of june and closed in december. the fish are here in january, feb, march maybe april. we don't get to commercial fish for them. they are caught in a different part of the country -
8:20 CJ -and what you are saying that the commercial season begins when the fish are not there?
SC -that's correct -
CJ -what's the point in that?
SC -that's bc the fish are somewhere else. the fish are in the northeast in june, july, aug, sept., oct. and that's where they commercial fish for them. the time of year when the fish are here there is no commercial season for bluefin tuna. there is only a 6 month season on bluefin tuna and that is when the fish are in a different region. now, i am not saying that we should open the seas and wholly -to anyone part of the country. but i think it needs to be fairly distributed. just like the national marine fisheries has a proposed rule right now which will go to a mtg tomorrow night which will discuss proposed rules for 1997 -here it is the middle of March and we are discussing rules for 1997. that's a 3 month lag time. that's not very good management i wouldn't think. 9:29
9:30 CJ -you know, people like us come here -and don't know cape hatteras very well, or the outerbanks, and you see the t-shirts, and the competitions for bluefins, it seems like there is a lot of enthusiasm for the whole tagging project.
9:49 SC -very good promotions.
9:52 CJ -do you think that that is heartfelt by the people here in the outer banks? or do you think it is public relations and there is some dissonance and not happiness.
SC -I believe -our record speaks for itself, not mine, but some of the other boys -there have been more bluefin tunas tagged off the coast of nc -hatteras nc -in the last 3 years and that have been tagged. we wholeheartedly believe in the tagging program. but the results and the data being collected is not being used to help us -i don't believe -and i don't believe it is being used to help the fish. everything is pretty much status quo -as far as for the way the fish are being managed. except for the fact that they are not letting -they are keeping people from utilizing the resource in a wise manner i believe. and i don't believe the scientific data proves out that the fishery should be shut down the first of march -
CJ -that's what has happened here -right?
11:03 SC -that's what has happened here
CJ -now you mean the commercial fishery?
SC -well, there never has been a commercial fishery
CJ -so what gets shut down in march?
11:13 SC -the angling category quota for march for bluefin tunas has been stopped. the national marine fisheries has actually stopped us from taking a bluefin tuna as of 2 weeks ago. which means we can take people out and catch them and release them and tag them for the scientific project that is going on but if our charter from ohio, nj, california, alaska, wants to take a fish home and eat it -the national marine sanctuaries says we can't do that. and the reason they are saying that we can't do that is bc there aren't enough fish to go around and we need to stop you boys from catching them o you catch them someplace else later in the year. i don't believe that science proves that out, but management says that's what is happening. 12:10
12:11 CJ -let me ask you about the differences btwn catch and release and actually taking a bluefin home to eat it. i don't know if i have tasted a bluefin or not -i may have and not known it but i have had yellowfin and others -jack tuna -my understanding is that you get $1000 bucks or so to take a group out to catch and release [SC -or to keep one] does it make that much difference to the fellows -the people that are going out, whether they can keep one or release it -what do they say on the boat?
12:48 SC -i am stuck btwn a rock and a hard place here -i would just as much assume catch 'em and release 'em. but i am also a strong believer that you have the right to take one if you want to. i was fairly lucky last year and had taken a couple of gentlemen fishing with fly rods for bluefin tuna, and we set 2 world records last year which was a great boost to my business this year. i took more fly fisherman trying to catch world records this year than i did regular fisherman trying to catch one and take it home -which did not bother me in the least. probably 90% of-the people i was taking wasn't going to be able to catch a fish on a fly rod but they had the opportunity. and up until 2 weeks ago had I caught a world record on a fly rod we could have taken it and submitted it for world record consideration. when they closed the season on me 2 weeks ago that shut me out. i can not legally take a fish under 73 inches if it is a record. so i have lost 6 customers over the last 2 weeks at $1000 a day bc i cannot take a world record fish bc they have closed me down. so it does effect some of us. some of us it does not effect as greatly. if anyone tell you here that these people are coming here to catch these fish and take one home and eat it, they are not being truthful. a lot of people want to take these fish home and eat them. people from west va, you know -indiana, ohio, that don't necessarily get to eat fresh tuna all the time, and they come down here and spend $1000 to go fishing -if they catch a fish and they have the right -they want to take that fish home and eat it. 14:47
14:50 CJ -it doesn't seem as if -do you have any idea as to why the national marine fisheries service decided to just come down in march and say boom, it's over?
SC -well, i have heard several different reasons.
CJ -what do you think is the reason?
15:11 SC -the lobby for the northeast is a lot stronger for the lobby of the southeast.
CJ -and they have been fishing for a long time already and they know the people and they know the talk
15:21 SC -that is correct. that is my opinion. not necessarily the opinion of this community.
CJ -what do you think the opinion is of the community?
15:30 SC -urn .... that if we work with these people, supply them with their scientific data, that they are going to see what the right thing to do and hopefully in turn we will be treated fairly with the rest of the people vying for tunas along the east coast
15:53 -CJ -you are a little skeptical -
SC -I am extremely skeptical.
15:56 CJ -what do you think is going to happen?
SC -things will stay as they are or get worse. there was a proposal last year in the national marine fisheries rules last year to start the opening day of the angling category season, which starts the first of january, and runs a full year. there wasa proposed rule this past year to start it the first of june, the same time as the commercial season which would have totally kept north carolina out of keeping any bluefin tunas we would have bee strictly catch and release.
16:29 CJ -the angling category is what you are doing -catch and release -[SC -that is correct] so what you are saying is that you an catch one per boat per day, is that correct ...during the season -to keep i mean.
SC -these past 3 months we have been able to take one fish a day btwn 27 and 73 inches, if we chose to -just one fish. and that mayor may not be the case latter on this yr and that mayor may not be the case next year. we don't know yet.
17:04 CJ -so what it sounds like is that it is a state of confusion and no one knows what is going to happen [SC -that's correct] and then it is a little difficult to plan your business
17:14 SC -extremely. i have booked probably 30 days for next year already. and everyone that i have booked has booked early in the year hoping that the season will still be open and that they will able to take a fish. whereas they closed last yr in early march from keeping the fish and they have closed us this yr in early march to keep us from keeping the fish and now my customers are booking early in the year to try and bypass that problem.
CJ -when someone calls you up, a potential customer, from ohio or missouri or whatever and say i have heard about this giant bluefin i am really excited i gotta come. and you say ok you got to understand that it is catch and release [SC-it MAYBE] -ok it's maybe catch and release. what kind of response to you get over the phone?
18:10 SC -well, the first thing they do is they start complaining about commercial fisherman which is the wrong thing to do. it has nothing to do with commercial fishing. it has to do with federal regulations, international regulations, and i just have to talk to them and determine whether or not they want to take a fish to eat or whether they want to catch fish for the pure enjoyment of catching a fish -sport fishing -people do want to do that. there is no doubt that the class of people and the clientele that we are getting here from allover the world and not everyone cares about killing a fish. and there are people that are citizens of the united states who have the right to take a fish and want to exercise that right.
19:03 CJ -are you loosing potential customers to new england?
19:08 SC -sure
CJ -thinking that they have the money to travel from missouri to nc might as well travel from MO to MASS?
19:17 SC -or they live in the northeast and they can catch them there when the season reopens. this is the first year where they have had the authority to close the season w/o having reached a potential quota. ICAT -which is an international organization, tells us, as the US how many bluefin tunas we can catch a year. and the nm fisheries takes that number and divides it into different quotas and categories and this is the first yr that they have been able to take the angling category and stop it in season in order to what they say -spread the season over a longer period and collect more scientific data from different geographical locations and give people the opportunity to catch fish in different geographical locations.
20:26 CJ -but when they decided this this year in march -all of the sudden -it must have come as a surprise to some of the skippers down here.
SC -sure it was. i don't have my facts straight on this but apparently the rules put in place the week before they closed it. so a week after they put the rule into effect where they could do that -they did it the very next week.
20:50 CJ -what was the reaction here?
SC -we were extremely upset and bamboozled is a good word bc the sate of nc is collecting data on the docks for the nm fisheries and the day the close the category that i got the fax from the nm fisheries it says that the state of north carolina has caught 16, 17 metric tons of fish and the federal govt figures we have caught 30. well the only people supplying them with number of fish caught is the state of nc and they are taking the state of nc figures and doubling them.
21 : 31 CJ -why?
SC -i'd like to know.
CJ -how long have you been fishing here?
SC -11 years.
CJ -you are from this area?
SC -no, i am from VA.
CJ -what do you -in a basic sense -people starting catching bluefin here about 4 or 5 yrs ago -yourself included i take it.
SC-they were catching bluefin here before that it was just not as widely known.
CJ -what do you think of this fish, as a sport fish?
22:01 SC -it is uh, one of the ultimate sport fish ... it has been a long time since people have caught these fish in the numbers that they have caught them here in the waters off nc we take people that fish from MA and Maine that fish for bluefin tunas up there in the summer, late fall and say they have never seen the fish like this before. or it has been 20 years since i have seen fish act like this and they are just amazed that they are doing this. it is a very exciting fishery. you are catching big fish in large quantities -visually it is a very exciting fish. sport fish-wise it is probably one of the great fish swimming in the ocean, one of greatest fish swimming in the ocean besides the blue marlin -they eat. and that is what people like. big fish that eat.
23:06 CJ -in a sense it must be -this happened all of the sudden on hatteras and this whole area, like manna from heaven.
SC-it has been an extreme boost to local businesses in the wintertime. not just fisherman but restaurants, motels, car rentals, i am sure american airlines -or some airlines has flown a lot more people into the state of nc inthe past 2 years then they did in the wintertime then they did in the yrs before.
23:37 CJ -do you have any idea how many people come here to fish for bluefin every season?
SC -there are more people fishing this year than fished last year. you can count 40 or 50 boats a day fishing off there even during the week, when the fish are biting good and when you could keep a fish. you don't see as many boats now that you can't keep a fish (good seagulls in bg) it has to be in the thousands of people here every week that are coming here to bluefin tuna fish
24:15 CJ -that is a lot of business
SC -a lot of business. it has been a good send to this community as something to do in the winter time. there are people that are running charter boats and taking people fishing that would commercial fish on the beach or collect unemployment. it has been an extremely good boost here on the winter economy.
CJ -things really shut down here in the winter here, don't they? [SC-yes] before the bluefin.
SC -before the bluefin you pretty much had to go off island to go out and eat dinner. it was a peaceful time.
CJ -that's a nice way to put it. do you live here on the island?
SC -yes, I live in First Scott (??) just up the road about 3 miles.
CJ -is there anything else you want to say feel free to say it -if 1 haven't drawn it out of you yet
SC -naw -that's about it.
CJ -and they name of your boat again
SC -Sea Creature
CJ -and your name
SC -Steve Coulter


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'You can offer nothing but damnation, Eliza, and I will release you from that before you trade your gift with others.' The candles grew brighter with her anger as her husband stood before her, bracing himself against the preternatural power which exuded from the thing that has once been his wife.
'Be with me,' she whispered again and held him fixed with her gaze, she moved to within inches of his face and breathed sweet breath across his lips. He struggled, inwardly revolted by the touch of her fingers on his cheek, but somehow hypnotised by the iridescence of her green eyes, otherworldly and yet so like those he had loved. Her nail trailed across the stubble of his cheek and paused on the sensitive flesh of his lower lip. She had him now transfixed, the heat from his living body touching her, the feelings of loss plain in his kind blue eyes. 'You cannot do it Abraham, just as you could not do it long ago, even in this new form I am your wife and your love is too great.'
She bent then and leaned her mouth towards his lips, motionless Van Helsing waited as she flickered her tongue over his, a strange perfume washing from her garments and entrancing him. She let her hands move to his head, removing his hat and letting it drop, entwining her fingers in his thick hair, deepening her exploratory kiss and filling him with a lost passion. She felt the same, the woman he had cherished. His large hand clasped her at the waits and stretched the breadth of her narrow back, He pulled her to him and closed his eyes, remembering. Her mouth left his and began to trail his neck, he knew her intention but the ecstasy of her touch pervading him and with ragged breath he long for her kiss. Her hands had removed his cape and now slipped under his cravat, flecking it away, unbuttoning his shirt, tracing bloody lines across his haired chest. He felt the prick of her teeth at his throat and longed for them to penetrate the soft flesh that lay there. The blood seeping into his shirt he tightened his grip on her cold body and pressed hard against her until finally with a rush of pleasure he felt the fangs glide through his skin. The life blood flowing into her and a swimming feeling of pleasure clouded his sight.
Eliza drank deeply before pushing him away spellbound and helpless . She opened her bodice and drew her thumb across her bare breasts, the curiously dark blood of the undead spilling across them. Without waiting and before his enchantment could lift she dragged him towards her and down, nestling his head between her breasts and forcing him to drink. The heat of it surprised him, the softness of her skin against his hungry lips. He felt it flood through his body a rich warmth of forgotten arousal filling him. His hands caressed her as they had years before, and she yielded, her need so obvious before him. She moaned deeply as he quenched his unnatural thirst and pulled him with her to the floor, freeing herself of her garments and allowing him to run his hands over the cool whit skin of her stomach. She arched under him and opened her thighs to receive him, urgently unfastening his clothes in the knowledge that he would soon be hers entirely. He paused from his drink and gasped, his soul fighting hard his heart.
His mind whirling in darkness Van Helsing could only taste the sweetly sour blood and his own desire but his memory raged in the delighted of their marriage, in the vision of her wedding clothes, of her brilliant smile and of the ghastly scene he had encountered when Dracula had taken her for his own. Revenge for her husband's constant quest for his death. Revenge executed upon their wedding night just hours after their consummation. He had taken and mauled her, transformed her into evil. And now through her he would do the same to him, the poison of her blood had entered his body and filled his mind with nightmarish visions. He must fight against the simplicity of death.
With a torrent of will he wrenched himself from her and made a dive for the small vessel of holy water he had placed in an alcove. 'You are a fiend, my wife is dead and you dwell only on her poor body!' he flicked the water across her breast where it seared the bare and bloodied flesh burned through the remaining fabric and onto the dead skin below. She howled brutally, her face flickering between that of Eliza and that of the beast which now inhabited her.
'Dracula will no use you as his pawn, you will not defeat me!'
'Its too late,' she hissed, 'you have drunk of me Abraham, you're mine. You were always mine, no strength with which to end your own nightmare. Instead you freed me! How many death have you on your conscience because you could not do the thing to me you had to? How many lives have perished? You are doomed Abraham. God would not accept you now. You have no choice but to join me in darkness.' She circled him slowly as she spoke, her predatory stance so like that of a cat, teeth bared, thin tapered nails stained with his blood. 'You want to join me….'
'Never' he roared and pulled the knife from his belt. For a moment the world inside the crypt froze and with a sudden fear Eliza saw him hold the knife high, his shirt open to the waist, rivulets of blood trickling against the muscles there. His eyes were fierce and she suddenly believed he was capable of doing what he failed to do before. He was capable of ending her black existence. She shrieked and flung and invisible force to him which hit him hard in the stomach but quickly he was up again and had caught her by one wrist, with a desperate cry she scratched at his face, her mind calling at the infection in his blood that was hers, he felt it growing stronger and his soul threatened to give in but with a sudden decisiveness he lunged forward with the knife and plunged in deep into her chest. The blood poured from her, her eyes wide in shock, but it was not over yet. He must finish her before he succumbed to the evil which she had placed in him. With a howl he wielded the knife at her neck, cutting off her cry before it ended and allowing it to echo like a ghost in the crypt.
It resonated softly and vanished as he dropped to his knees by her body, exhausted. He had done it. He had freed both her soul and his. The wealth of emotion rose in his chest and with a tortured heart it escape. He laughed. A laugh of relief and of bittersweet joy, of closure and of the desperate pain of loss.
In the cemetery outside a grey wolf pricked his ears and listened knowing that he was next.


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Cindy is an amazing lady. I was lucky enough to do some book signings with her recently and we had so much fun chatting. Here's a little bit about her.
Cindy M. Hogan graduated with a secondary education teaching degree and enjoys spending time with unpredictable teenagers. More than anything she loves the time she has with her own teenage daughters and wishes she could freeze them at this fun age. If she's not reading or writing, you'll find her snuggled up with the love of her life watching a great movie or planning their next party. She loves to bake, garden and be outdoors doing a myriad of activities.
Cindy's first YA suspense, WATCHED, was a great success and readers were hungry for more. That's why we're celebrating book 2 in the series.
Back Blurb:
She has the guy. The terrorists have been taken care of and she has a shot at becoming popular.
Life is great!
Until they find her.
Now she must run and leave behind everything she knows,
including herself.
Praise for Protected
"From bullies to terrorists, Christy faces challenge after challenge in this stunning sequel that raises the stakes, both for her safety, and her love-life. A fantastic addition to a series that is sure to catch the hearts of readers." ~Heather McCorkle, author of the Channeler series
"PROTECTED is a thrilling follow-up that left me sitting on the edge of my seat and begging for more."- Magan Vernon author of How to Date an Alien
"A suspenseful, romantic, and intriguing novel. Protected is a riveting novel that I couldn't put down until the very last word." Miriam Barton, author
"Protected, is unique and so elegantly written that it did no less than amaze me with the brilliance of this author. In a world where danger is real and there are bad people just waiting to hurt you at every turn, Cindy M. Hogan still manages to weave in the hope that is found in believing in a higher power.
This is one of the very best YA series I have ever read and it's definitely worth picking up. I think I love this series most because of the real-life drama and situations these teens are put in. The situations are indicative of what could truly happen in today's world and that's what makes it so exciting and thrilling. Packed with a combination of heart-wrenching teen angst and heart-stopping action with the threat of some really bad people, this is one you don't want to miss!"
~Kitty Bullard GMTA reviews
"This anticipated sequel sizzles with equal parts thriller, suspense and romance. A spine tingling story I could not put down." ~C.K.Bryant, author of BOUND
"Protected has equal parts romance and thriller. This fast paced novel has a little something for everyone!" -Lani Woodland, author of Intrinsical
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ +16 years-old ] A group of students of human medicine decide to go to a cemetery to get a body for research purposes. But something strange starts to happen after the body disappears mysteriously from the house of one of the students. You can watch La leyenda del condenado online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in Spanish at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2011.
Rating: 5 by 220 users./
Runtime: 105 minutes
Francisco Torres, Edwin Riva, Shirley Cruz, Carlos Justo, Bethy Condori, Milagros Medina and Juan Coila.
Terror, Comedy.
105-minute film (full movie) directed by Francisco Torres.
The original audio of La leyenda del condenado has dialogues in or Spanish, it was produced in Peru.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2011.
Screenplay written by Francisco Torres and Fredy Riva.
Oscar Catacora.
This film was produced and / or financed by Cine Aymara Studios.
Without commercial breaks, the full movie La leyenda del condenado has a duration of 105 minutes; the official trailer can be watched in streaming on the Internet. You can watch this full movie free in English or Spanish in movie TV channels, renting the DVD or with VoD services (Video On Demand player, Hulu) and PPV (Pay Per View, Netflix).
See the page of this full movie, La leyenda del condenado in FULLTV Movies.


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How To Throw A Successful Graduation Party
Graduation season is just around the corner! If you plan on throwing a party for someone walking across the stage this year, it's important to start planning early. Graduating from high school or college is a great accomplishment and milestone in life. What better way to celebrate than throwing a special and memorable party for the graduate. Here is a checklist of things you'll want to organize as soon as possible.
Decide On A Date, Time and Venue
Keep in mind that some of your guests may have multiple graduation parties to attend. Do your best to pick a time and date that works for the majority — even if some can only stop by for a bit. Having the party a few days after graduation may help to avoid the conflict of overlapping with other grad celebrations. Have you found a venue? Book in advance, as the best ones tend to go quickly!
Call The Centre to inquire about our event spaces: (877) 568-6118.
Make A Guest List & Send Invites
When it comes to creating the guest list, it's most important to communicate with the graduate. Include those who have had an impact on their life and schooling from family and friends to teachers and mentors. Between traditional mail and the Internet, there are many options for sending out invites. Do what works best for you and the people you're trying to reach.
Create A Food and Drink Menu
Not only is it essential to have plenty of food, but also to be sure there is something for everyone. Include snacks and finger foods that people can enjoy before the main entree. Catered food is a great option for minimizing extra work. For beverages, keep all ages in mind and provide several options for everyone.
Themes and Decorations
The traditional graduation theme is an easy go-to, but adding more flair never hurts! How you handle the decorations is completely up to you and the graduate, whether you want to make it extravagant or keep it simple. Pick a fun theme the grad relates to or simply focus on the grad alone. Customize party essentials, print out childhood pictures to scatter around or provide a book where guests can sign and share memories.
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Artist Work
About the Artist
Jenny Simon has developed her own unique painting technique. She uses palette knives and her hands to apply and form multiple layers of oil paint onto canvas that give these artworks a rich quality and texture. She is dedicated to a pure approach to abstract painting. Her works are radiant colorful compositions; collaborations of feelings and visual thoughts expressed with vibrant colors in a refreshing contemporary style. The viewer bathes in the deepness of warm colors and is surrounded by the dreams and emotions the artist created. Her confident strokes and abundant vivid colors provide the artworks with an energy that imbue her creations with movement. In a world of imaginations her paintings are silently speaking the language of spirituality and change.
Jenny Simon is a self-taught visual artist and has lived and worked as a painter in Germany where she was born. As a child, Simon came across post cards of famous German painters Karl Spitzweg and Albrecht Duerer. She was fascinated by their abilities to capture emotions and light in such a dramatic painting style. She started studying their work and expressing herself with charcoal and water colors.
Influenced by painters like Gerhard Richter and Jackson Pollock, she started painting oils in abstractions in 1995 using primarily large canvases. In 1999 she specialized in creating custom-designed oil paintings. In 2002, the artist established her new studio in Southern California where she currently resides. Her works are sought after worldwide by both galleries and collectors.
Jenny Simon is a member of the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) and past president of the Pasadena Society of Artists. Additionally, she supports charitable organizations with contributions of her paintings.
Jenny Simon's works were featured on TLC's "FLIP THAT HOUSE" and BRAVO's "REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS" as well as in magazines like AMERICAN ART COLLECTOR, LAGUNA BEACH MAGAINE and LUXURY LIFE & STYLE MAGAZINE and more. Her work has been widely exhibited in many Galleries throughout the US and Germany. Past Exhibitions include the Coos Art Museum in Oregon, Academy Of Fine Arts in Virginia, Alexandria Museum Of Art in Louisiana and the City Hall Of Palm Beach Gardens in Florida.
Jenny Simon Q & A:
AFA: What is the most interesting thing you've learned about yourself through one of your paintings?
JENNY: "That any obstacles can be overcome just by taking focus away from them for a while and revisiting them with a fresh mind after a day of concentrated painting."
AFA: Do you think there is a driving force that inspires you? If so, please explain.
JENNY: "I feel like there is a spiritual force that works through me and guides me through each painting."
AFA: If you hadn't chosen to be an artist, what would your alternate field in life have been?
JENNY: "I didn't choose to be an artist. I was just overcome by creating art at an early age and I couldn't stop it. Feeling the freedom in creation drives me always."
AFA: When embarking upon a project, do you preplan your entire endeavor or do you simply follow where your inspiration takes you?
JENNY: "I usually have an initial idea of where I would like a painting to go but as soon as I start painting it takes on a life of its own and guides me though creation until it's finished."
AFA: Do you create with an intent to send a message to your audience? Is it specific to a particular piece or is it a general message?
JENNY: "My goal always is to recreate nature as I feel a deep spiritual connection with nature. I don't have a specific message because I am myself drawn into the process as my paintings evolve but I hope that they will give the viewer peace and comfort."
AFA: Have you ever been faced with negative feedback? How was this reflected in your work, if at all?
JENNY: "Art brings out emotions in people and everyone is different. Negative feedback does not bother me since it's not a reflection of my emotions when I painted the piece."
AFA: What actions do you do to get into your creative zone in your studio?
JENNY: "I am a big jazz fan and I listen to it all day long in my studio."
AFA: Are there any other creative channels you use to express yourself?
JENNY: "Yes, I really love photography."
AFA: What is the best advice that you have been given?
JENNY: "Stay in the studio until it's awesome :-)"
AFA: Which piece of art in the current AFA Exhibition "Blue Me Away & Summer Small Works" would you most like to own?
JENNY: "I really loved them all. It is a great show and I would take home any piece!"


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Dustin Duncan
Carbondale Times
Although a Carbondale restaurant recently closed on Illinois 13, Carbondale City Manager Gary Williams doesn't think the property will sit vacant for long.
Lonestar closed its doors on Jan. 20, according to a sign on its doors. However, the property is along the busiest corridor in Carbondale and has great visibility from the road, something that major national companies like to see when choosing a new location.
"I think the property is still very visible and is surrounded by other traffic-generating businesses," Williams said. "I would expect it won't sit vacant for long."
He said the city continues to get interest from national companies, specifically restaurants that are interested in the area, but the challenge has been finding a prime location. He said one of the biggest items on those company's checklists is visibly and traffic counts.
Williams said Illinois 13 on the east side of Carbondale sees about 30,000 cars a day, and the property where the Lonestar building sits has great access points.
"It has all the characteristics of a site that restaurants and other national tenants are looking for," he said.
He said the city wasn't notified when the business shut down and that it came as a surprise to many in city hall.
Williams said the property is listed as being owned by Sovereign LS III, LLC, out of Palo Alto, California.
As for other vacant properties in Carbondale, Williams said the former Horizon Inn property is in the process of being appraised and the city is close to placing a "for sale" sign on the property.
"I'm pretty optimistic about that property as well," he said. "It is zoned secondary business, so it can accommodate many uses."
He said retail probably wouldn't be the best use, but since it is 7.7 acres with good visibility, it lends itself to many different uses.
The city has about $600,000 invested in the property, but Williams said the city's biggest interest is to get a business in there that is generating revenue and creating jobs.


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by American Kabuki
Google has created a four story barge of stacked containerized servers according to San Francisco TV station KPIX. The salty monstrosity of a data warehouse has no permit for its permanent anchoring in the high tech city's bay.
Yahoo News reports:
There's just one major problem: many of these same experts say Google hasn't sought the proper permits to open any such operation.
"Google has spent millions on this," one anonymous source close to the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) told the station. "But they can't park this barge on the waterfront without a permit, and they don't have one."
A second source confirmed that Google has inquired about "hypothetical operations" that would be water-based but has not specified how or for what purpose any such enterprise would be employed.
Another challenging facing any such enterprise would be in justifying why Google would need the new operation to be water-based.
"The law is crystal clear in this case: The Bay is not to be used for something that can be built on land," BCDC director Larry Goldzband told the station.
CNET reports:
The barge is 250 feet long, 72 feet wide, and 16 feet deep, and was built in 2011 in Belle Chasse, La., by C & C Marine and Repair. Its registration number is BAL 0010. Behind it is a perfect view of the new eastern span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. On top is a four-story-tall modular building made from shipping containers and sporting 12 tall white spires that look like they could be anything from masts to flagpoles to antennas. The containers each have three narrow slits for windows, and there is a stairway on the northeast corner that goes from ground level to the top. There's also one container on that side that slants to the ground at a 45-degree angle. Wrapped mostly in dark netting, the structure doesn't reveal what's inside.Supporting the sea based water cooling theory of a server farm is this 2009 article on Google's patented cargo containers that are water cooled.
Joel Egan, the principal at Cargotecture, which designs custom cargo container buildings, said the structure looks like a data center. "The cutouts in the long walls of the containers, when they line up, they make hallways," Egan said. "You could put all sorts of mainframes into the containers...It doesn't have enough windows for an office building."
Egan also said that putting a data center on a barge would provide access to abundant water -- a key for cooling large numbers of servers.
Asked if the theoretical concept of a floating data center made practical sense, Jonathan Koomey, a Stanford research fellow and expert on data centers responded by listing a number of advantages such a system would offer. Although saltwater could be problematic as a cooling source, he said, it's a surmountable problem. "It wouldn't surprise me at all," Koomey said, before seeing any pictures of the project on the barge, "if there were a bunch of containers, and it turned out to be data center." After being shown pictures of the barge, however, Koomey said that there was nothing conclusive in them to indicate that it was a data center.
But companies like Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and others have been installing specially built data centers in shipping containers for some time because they're easy to deploy. And Google even has a patent for the concept.
Perhaps more persuasive is that in 2009, Google was granted a patent for a "water-based data center," defined as a "system [that] includes a floating platform-mounted computer data center comprising a plurality of computing units, a sea-based electrical generator in electrical connection with the plurality of computing units, and one or more sea-water cooling units for providing cooling to the...computing units."
Electricity leaves computers will leave as waste heat, which roughly requires as much power in air conditioning to remove that heat. A sea based cooling system would save a huge amount of electricity.
Four years after the first reports of server-packed shipping containers lurking in parking garages, Google today confirmed its use of data center containers and provided a group of industry engineers with an overview of how they were implemented in the company's first data center project in the fall of 2005. "It's certainly more fun talking about it than keeping it a secret," said Google's Jimmy Clidaras, who gave a presentation on the containers at the first Google Data center Efficiency Summit today in Mountain View, Calif.
The Google facility features a "container hanger" filled with 45 containers, with some housed on a second-story balcony. Each shipping container can hold up to 1,160 servers, and uses 250 kilowatts of power, giving the container a power density of more than 780 watts per square foot. Google's design allows the containers to operate at a temperature of 81 degrees in the cold aisle. Those specs are seen in some advanced designs today, but were rare indeed in 2005 when the facility was built.
Google's design focused on "power above, water below," according to Clidaras, and the racks are actually suspended from the ceiling of the container. The below-floor cooling is pumped into the hot aisle through a raised floor, passes through the racks and is returned via a plenum behind the racks. The cooling fans are variable speed and tightly managed, allowing the fans to run at the lowest speed required to cool the rack at that moment.
"Water was a big concern," said Urs Holzle, who heads Google's data center operations. "You never know how well these couplings (on the water lines) work in real life. It turns out they work pretty well. At the time, there was nothing to go on."
Google was awarded a patent on a portable data center in a shipping container in October 2008, confirming a 2005 report from PBS columnist Robert Cringley that the company was building prototypes of container-based data centers in a garage in Mountain View. Containers also featured prominently in Google's patent filing for a floating data center that generates its own electricity using wave energy.
Holzle said today that Google opted for containers from the start, beginning its prototype work in 2003. At the time, Google housed all of its servers in third-party data centers. "Once we saw that the commercial data center market was going to dry up, it was a natural step to ask whether we should build one," said Holzle.
The data center facility, referred to as Data Center A, spans 75,000 square feet and has a power capacity of 10 megawatts. The facility has a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.25, and when the container load is measured across the entire hangar floor space, it equates to a density of 133 watts per square foot. Google didn't identify the facility's location, but the timeline suggests that it's likely one of the facilites at Google's three-building data center complex in The Dalles, Oregon.
Business Insider insists is not a data center but a platform for promoting Google Glass:
The barge has been covered, leading to initial speculation from Daniel Terdiman at CNET that it was building a floating data center. The data center report seems to be inaccurate.
Terdiman walked back his report with an update that said, "After our story ran on Friday, I was contacted by someone who said he had knowledge that the project in the works is a Google store of some kind. The tipster, who is well-connected in Silicon Valley but asked to remain anonymous, told me that he had heard from multiple sources at Google that the company plans to float the Glass stores from city to city by rivers, and that the idea for the project came straight from either Larry Page or Sergey Brin, Google's founders. Finally, he said, the idea is in part that Google wants to launch stores without looking like they are trying to chase Apple."


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WASHINGTON With a fall in oil prices easing inflation concerns, the Federal Reserve is expected to continue its easy-does-it approach to raising interest rates, boosting a key rate by a moderate quarter-point today at its final meeting of the year.
Many analysts believe this pattern of gradual quarter-point rate increases will continue well into the new year.
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Solid economic growth and an absence of inflation pressures mean Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and his colleagues can take their time in moving up from exceptionally low interest rates.
"The essential picture the Fed sees is a well-balanced and sustainable economic expansion. It has the leeway to continue its measured steps," said economist David Jones, author of four books on the Greenspan Fed.
The federal-funds rate, the interest banks charge on overnight loans, is at 2 percent, up from a 46-year low of 1 percent, where it stood before the Fed began nudging rates higher June 30.
Short-term consumer rates have been rising at the same gradual pace. Banks' prime-lending rate, the benchmark for millions of consumer loans, is at 5 percent, up from a 46-year low of 4 percent before the Fed increases.
Even with a rate increase today, the funds rate and the consumer rates tied to it will still be at historically low levels
The Fed has said it is trying to gradually raise the funds rate to a "neutral" level where it is neither promoting stronger economic growth nor depressing growth.
Many economists believe that level would be somewhere between 3 and 4 percent.
When oil prices were above $55 per barrel in October, some analysts said the Fed would accelerate its rate-tightening moves if it appeared the big jump in energy prices threatened to push overall inflation rates higher.
However, oil prices have retreated from those highs, trading at around $41 per barrel currently, a move that has helped ease inflation fears.
On the growth side of the ledger, there had been concerns earlier in the fall that a sputtering job market would force the Fed to put increases on hold. But October job growth surged by 303,000, and the November figure, while lower, showed a still respectable increase of 112,000 jobs.
Analysts said the Fed will continue monitoring the economy and keep nudging rates up slowly as long as job growth continues and inflation remains moderate.
"What the Fed does will depend on what the inflation and employment numbers do from month to month," said David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor's.
All analysts said they expected little change to the Fed's statement explaining its actions. They looked for the central bank to continue to pledge to move at a "measured" pace in raising interest rates and to express a belief that the risks to the economy going forward were equally balanced, giving equal weight to the possibility that growth would be slower or that inflation might be higher than expected.
The Bond Market Association predicted yesterday the current 2 percent federal-funds rate will be at 3.5 percent by the end of next year, with today's expected increase the fifth in the series to be followed by five more.
These modest increases will allow the economy to keep growing next year at an annual rate of 3.7 percent, down only slightly from this year's expected 4.4 percent increase, the Bond Market's economic-forecasting panel said.
Because rate increases have so far been gradual, there has been little impact on long-term interest rates such as mortgage rates.
In fact, after hitting a high for the year of 6.34 percent in early May, 30-year mortgages have been trending lower as the bond market responded to the economy's pronounced summer soft patch, reflecting the adverse impact of higher oil prices.
Last week, Freddie Mac reported that the national average for 30-year mortgages had fallen to 5.71 percent.
Jones said he believed, even with further Fed rate increases, 30-year mortgage rates should still be 6 to 6.5 percent at the end of 2005.


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"I wonder what events in all our lives - hers included - are the turning points, the points where we determine that the fear of our pasts and the uncertainty of our futures are greater than our need for happiness. Here. Now. While time and everything around us stands unmoving, who's to say we can't have it all?"
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I have listened to 22 chapters of More Than Enough and I find it completely boring. I just can not force myself to continue on with this one. Five chapters in I was bored but I said to myself give it more time. Well it hadn't changed at 10 chp or 15 chp or 20 chp. And now at 23 chapters, I still find the storyline boring and I feel nothing for the two main characters. I just don't think I can continue it. More Than Forever was fantastic so I am surprised this one is so much more boring IMO. It has lots more angst to where it is overloaded trying to get to anything else. I am also surprised it is getting the high ratings. Maybe if I could have gotten past the 22 chp it might have gotten better but if something can't grab my interest in 22 chapters then I am done. I cared nothing for the plot or character. Oh well just my opinion but I couldn't rate it higher. If between the two, go read More Than Forever because it is much better IMO.
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Stuff and stuff, like decorating, family visits, seasides, and BMXs
Well, next weekend my dad is coming to visit. Him and his woman. Him and his woman and her two kids. They're not going to be staying here at the house. We don't really have the room for that many people comfortably; furthermore, we don't like kids. So they will actually be staying in a little B&B cottage about a mile away, if that.
Even so, they will be spending a bit of time with us at the house, no doubt. So, being as my dad is a painter and decorator, I should make a bit of an effort to make the house look like it's been painted and decorated. That's "I" meaning me and the missus. She's the driving force. Otherwise I'd just spend most of the time sat on my arse and then moaning about how the decor never got finished. Funny that.
So, it's been a tiring week, even though we didn't really have any work proper on the go. And we're nearly there. Certainly by the end of this week, we will have done as much as we could realistically have expected to. But this week we have to fit it around work commitments.
Yesterday we went for a a lovely couple or three hours' walk in Whitstable. I can't believe it's still T-shirt weather at the moment. And I think we both got a bit burned. We have taken to carrying leftover bread bits with us to give to the seagulls down there. Yesterday they were catching it in midair as we threw it to them. It was very cool! (Easily amused, yes.)
And then we did our usual routine of sitting by the skate park and watching da kidz doing they thang. There was a guy there that we hadn't seen before. One of the BMXers. And he was doing this crazy somersault shit, doing a 360 turn in the air and landing back on his wheels. In fact, technically, since he takes off while goin vertcally up the ramp, I suppose it's a 270, but that would be splitting hairs, I guess. Then another guy did the same. So there were two of them doing this death-defying shit. The bar has been raised down there.
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Digital Media Summit Aims to Map Digital Future15 Jan, 2002 By: Hive News
iHollywood Forum Inc. has announced the latest lineup of executives confirmed to speak at its first Digital Media Summit, an executive summit and showcase highlighting newly launched digital services that purveyors say will revolutionize the way consumers enjoy music, films, television, games and other forms of entertainment.
Keynoters include Larry Jacobson, president, RealNetworks; Robin Richards, CEO, Vivendi Universal Net USA; Konrad Hilbers, CEO, Napster; and Dave Fester, GM, Microsoft Windows Digital Media Division.
Featured speakers and panelists leading the digital media delivery revolution in studios, production companies, record labels, technology infrastructure companies, software firms and Wall Street include:
* Aerocast, Dario Santano, president
* Bertelsmann BeMusic, David Pakman, SVP, Corporate Planning and Public Policy
* Blue Falcon, Jay Haynes, CEO
* BMI, Richard Conlon, VP, Business Development
* Canal+ Technologies, Arthur Orduna, VP of Marketing
* Carmel Group, Jim Stroud, senior analyst
* CBS MarketWatch, Russ Britt, Los Angeles Bureau Chief
* CinemaNow, Bruce Eisen, EVP
* Compaq, A.J. Dennis, director of Analyst Relations
* Compaq, Mark Stouse, director of Global Communications
* Constellation Venture Partners, Dennis Miller, general partner
* Digital Media Association, Jonathan Potter, executive director
* Disney Online, Ken Goldstein, VP and GM
* DivX Networks, Jordan Greenhall, CEO
* EMI Recorded Music, Ted Cohen, VP, New Media
* Fox Cable Networks Group, David Nathanson, VP, Broadband Strategy and Channel Development GM, Fox Digital Sports Nets
* FoxSports.com, Ross Levinsohn, SVP and GM
* Hollywood Reporter, Bob Dowling, editor and publisher
* Hollywood Reporter, Chris Marlowe, New Media reporter
* IBM, Scott Burnett, director of Business Development, Global Content Distribution
* iKnowledge, Jeff Cohen, chief marketing officer
* Intertainer, Stephen Ste. Marie, president and CEO
* Ipsos-Reid Corp., Matt Kleinschmit, senior research manager
* Liquid Audio, Gerald Kearby, president and CEO
* Los Angeles Times, Jon Healey, technology reporter
* Maverick Records, Jeremy Welt, head of New Media
* Microsoft Windows Digital Media Division, Dave Fester, GM
* MPAA and MPA, Scott Dinsdale, EVP, Digital Strategy
* Napster, Konrad Hilbers, CEO
* New Line Cinema, Gordon Paddison, SVP Interactive Marketing and Worldwide Business Development
* Portal Software, Sanjay Swamy, senior director of Market Development
* Post Magazine, Dan Restuccio, West Coast editor
* RealNetworks, Larry Jacobson, president
* Reuters, Ben Berkowitz, technology reporter
* RightsLine, Russell Reeder, CEO
* Roxio, Chris Gorog, president and CEO
* Sonic Blue/Replay, Anthony Wood, SVP, Connected Home Products
* Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, Michael Arrieta, VP, Operations and Co-Manager, Sony Screenblast
* Steeplechase, Larry Namer, CEO and founder of E! Entertainment
* Streamcast-Morpheus, Steve Griffin, CEO
* Sun Microsystems, Pallavi Shah, Market Development for Streaming and Rich Media Services
* TMX Interactive, Allen Breiter, Southwest regional director
* USA Today, Jefferson Graham, technology reporter
* Vitaminic USA, Gianluca Grecchi, CEO
* Vivendi Universal Net USA, Robin Richards, CEO
* Walt Disney/ABC Cable Networks, Gene Pao, director, Distribution Strategy and Analysis
* Yahoo! Music, David Goldberg, Manager
The summit will take place Feb. 4 to 5 at the Wyndham BelAge Hotel in Los Angeles. Compaq, in cooperation with the Department of Defense, will host the "Give Thanks America Luncheon" Feb. 4 to honor entertainers who have supported Give Thanks America, an ongoing initiative enabling Americans to send free e-mail videos with messages of appreciation to men and women in uniform throughout the world. Major General Doug Pearson, Commanding Officer of Edwards Air Force Base, will represent the Pentagon at the event.
Official sponsors of the Digital Media Summit include Compaq; RealNetworks, Microsoft, Morrison and Foerster, Portal Software and Scale Eight.
Media and Supporting partners include Business Wire, the Digital Media Association, The Hollywood Reporter, Post Magazine and Rogers Cowan / Weber Shandwick, Entertainment Marketing.
The Digital Media Summit will feature exclusive presentations and exhibitors with technologies and research from Aerocast, AllSatLink, Blue Falcon Networks, Canal+ Technologies, iBill, iConceptual, iKnowledge, Ipsos-Reid, Liquid Audio, RightsLine, Roxio, TMX Interactive and others.
The two-day executive summit will address strategies for digital media delivery and commerce. Exclusive showcases, presentations and demos will feature innovators in enabling technologies, solutions and services for the digital entertainment industry.


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4th Grade students have been studying light and sound. In the STEM Lab we explored more about the properties of light. Our focus was on REFRACTION, REFLECTION, AND ABSORBTION. Students took part in activities that helped them to see these properties working.
Students used prisms and cd's to separate white light in to the color spectrum. The Broken Pencil activity showed the students how refraction, or the bending of light can cause a pencil to look broken when placed in a glass of water.
Mirrors are used to help students learn more about reflection. They tried passing light around their tables using the mirrors.
The color of the objects that we see is largely due to the way those objects interact with light and reflect or transmit it to our eyes. When visible light strikes an object and a specific color becomes absorbed, that color of light will never make it to our eyes. Any visible light that strikes the object and becomes reflected or transmitted to our eyes will determine the color or appearance of that object. So the color is not in the object itself, but in the light that strikes the object and ultimately reaches our eye.
The "Hidden Message" activity was a fun way to show kids this property.
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Mrs. Guckert is the STEM Lab Teacher at Rocky Mount Elemetary. This is her 4th year teaching at Rocky Mount. The STEM Lab is fully funded by the Rocky Mount Elementary School Foundation. This program would not be possible without the generous donations to the Foundation from the Rocky Mount community.