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Professional & Academic Perspectives of Industrial Design
Professor Craig M. Vogel is currently the Associate Dean of the School of Fine Arts and a Professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He previously served as Co-chair of the Visual Communications Department for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the current Chair of the Board of the 2,900-member Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), where he serves as Chief Advisory Officer and a member of the planning and executive committees. He also is a member of the Board of Directors for the WORLDESIGN Foundation, where he has served since 1997.
Professor Vogel has written and co-written many papers pertaining to the field of industrial design, and he has developed courses for CMU in Integrated Product Development and Design History.
Mr. Vogel & His Career | The Actual Work | Education Information & Advice | Job Information & Advice | History of Industrial Design | Industry Trends
Mr. Vogel & His Career
How did you discover you had a talent for design?
I did not find out until I was looking for graduate schools. I had always been interested in drawing, model making and building things. When I saw the examples of projects in an exhibition of work from an industrial design program, I knew it was a field I would be interested in.
If you had to define yourself vocationally in one sentence what would it be?
I am interested in a number of subjects and like to express my ideas visually through construction of images, objects and spaces.
What has been your key (or keys) to success?
I try to keep learning and working with other people that compliment my talent and abilities. I try to listen to others and look for ways to make everyone part of a solution to a design problem.
What do you enjoy most about your job, your career?
Teaching at a University I get to work with and teach talented students. I also enjoy working with faculty from other disciplines. I teach a course and am involved in research on the design of products with faculty from engineering and business.
What was your greatest success and biggest setback?
My greatest success to date was helping to plan an international design program looking at the environmental impact of industrial design. We had over fifty students, teachers and professional designers from around the world working together in teams for two weeks to investigate what we could do to design products that would be more environmentally friendly. I had a major disappointment when I was working in Chicago and I worked on the design of a computer terminal and the company decided not to produce it.
What are your favorite projects that you've completed in your career and why?
I am currently working on project with an automobile manufacturer. The design of trucks and cars is one of the most challenging and complex forms of industrial design. I enjoy exhibit design and three years ago I designed an exhibit about art, design and technology in the city of Pittsburgh from 1950 to the present. It was great to see people come to the exhibit and watch them enjoy learning about the history of Pittsburgh. For instance did you know that the Heinz Ketchup Bottle was designed in Pittsburgh. Andy Warhol is from Pittsburgh, and Pittsburgh is a major center for the invention and design of robots. I am also interested in how designers can help people who are physically challenged. This area of design has been given the name Universal Design, and I have been involved with a number of projects that have worked with children and adults with disabilities. A group of students I advised from Carnegie Mellon University won a design award for their work on a project in Pittsburgh retirement home.
Would you do anything differently if you could re-live your career up to this point again?
I am happy with the way my career has evolved. Although, I have often wondered how different my career would have been if I had gone to undergraduate school for industrial design and then got a masters degree in psychology instead of the other way around.
Who were the biggest inspirations for your career?
I have been inspired by a number of designers, architects teachers and others. Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin because in addition to their roles in the founding of our country they were also designers and inventors. They were the first American Industrial Designers. I admire the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Frank Gehry, Raymond Loewy, Henry Dreyfuss, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford. I am indebted to a number of teachers and mentors in particular Rowena Reed Kostellow and Jay Doblin.
What are some common myths about industrial designers?
The first myth/ problem is that industrial design is a form of engineering. The term industrial design is confusing. Industrial designers design products for companies and consumers. They do not design industrial layouts and factories.
The second myth is that you need to be an excellent artist to apply to design schools. While drawing and making things are important many of students may not have had time to take art classes in high school, or may not have had an a lot of art classes to choose from. If you are interested in products, how they are made, the materials that are used and how they can be improved then you can still be a industrial designer. A portfolio is important and helpful, if you are eager to learn then you can still succeed if you are willing to work hard.
A third myth is that designers are not paid as well as professionals in other fields. That used to be true ten years ago; today, designers earn a very good living and the field of industrial design is growing.
The fourth myth is that industrial design is not a good field for women. Since half the people in the world are women, half the industrial designers should be women. It is an excellent field for women and men.
You have been an active and prominent member of professional organizations, such as the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and WORLDESIGN Foundation. How has this helped your career?
Design organizations are an important part of the field. I have been involved with IDSA for a variety of reasons. It helps me to develop a professional network. Design organizations bring practicing designers together with teachers and students by holding conferences and seminars. IDSA has an agreement with BusinessWeek magazine to print the results of the IDSA Industrial Design Excellence Awards every year to their readers around the world. I was part of negotiating that agreement. It helps more people to learn about the successful products that are being designed around the world and sold in the United States.
You've written quite a few papers about the field of industrial design. Why do you make this kind of effort? How do you gather the information?
Writing about design and designers is an important part of the role of a design professor in a university. It helps me to be a better teacher and clarify my ideas. I can also share my ideas with other teachers and professionals and hopefully help what they are doing. I am very interested in design history and feel it is important to inform others about the history of products. I wrote a chapter for a book that will be a part of an exhibit on the history of aluminum. It was interesting to do the research and rewarding to be part of a publication that will be read by many people.
What do you consider to be the most important result of these efforts?
Writing about design is important for a number of reasons. Everyone needs to gain a better understanding of how designers work and develop new products. People will contact me about what I write and tell me they like my ideas and it helped them which makes me feel like my ideas are valuable. Sometimes they disagree with me and I have to look more carefully at my ideas and clarify how I communicate my thoughts, and sometimes I need to broaden the way that I am thinking about an issue.
When you get on the web look up the site: idsa.org. A lot examples of what I write about can be found at the website. You can also contact IDSA and other websites that are hot linked to the IDSA web site for additional insights.
The Actual Work
What do industrial designers do? What are their job titles and what kinds of companies do they work for?
Industrial designers are primarily responsible for the look, feel and material choices for products. Industrial designers work for NASA, Nike, Ford, Disney, Apple, Microsoft, Whirlpool, Xerox, Motorola just to name a few. They design everything from toothbrushes, snow boards and toys to medical equipment and commercial jet airline interiors. They work with people from other fields that include psychologists, engineers, and marketeers.
There are two major options for designers. They can work for independent consulting firms that are hired by companies. The largest firms and the greatest number of design consulting firms can be found in New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit and Los Angeles. There are a number of other cities with design firms that include Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Phoenix, Denver and Columbus.
The other type of design opportunity is to work for a company as what is called an in-house designer. All the automobile companies hire industrial designers. IBM, Microsoft, Reebok, Converse, Fischer Price, and Motorola hire designers to work for them. Industrial designers start as entry level designers, and there are number of terms used. Designers with more than five years experience are called senior designers; designers can become design managers; large companies usually have a director of design and/or a vice president of design; designers can own their own firms and are usually called principles of the firm.
Describe a typical day of work for an industrial designer.
A designer does a number of things during the course of the day, or the duration of a project. These tasks could include generating sketches of a product idea using free hand drawing techniques or computers. Building rough models of what the product might look like. Presenting ideas to clients or potential customers that might buy the finished product. Learning about all the technology that goes into the product. Conducting research on how a customer might use the product. Going out on field trips to observe how customers use existing products. Sending files to manufacturers to produce the product. Going to material suppliers and manufacturers to inspect how the product production and assembly is working. Conducting follow up studies to see if a new product is working as expected.
How do industrial designers use computers? What is the most popular software used by them?
Computers are used to conceive initial ideas and can be produced on low end software like Illustrator or on high end software like Alias. When products are developed in more detail designers use three dimensional software which include Solid Works, Alias, Vellum and Pro E. Detailed models of these 3D images can be made using a variety of rapid prototyping tools. Wax deposition and Stereolithography are two types of rapid prototyping that are commonly used. Files are sent to a machine that produces one version of the product or part that looks just like the final mass produced part or product.
What are the different specialties within the field of industrial design?
Here a few of the specialties: Furniture design, toy design, sports equipment, transportation, medical equipment, housewares, computers and peripherals, communication ,tools and heavy equipment (tractors, cranes). A complete list of specialties can be found on the IDSA website.
How important is it to create and maintain relationships within the field of industrial design? What's the best way to do it?
Contacts are essential for keeping up to date on emerging trends and career development. This can be accomplished by attending professional organizations and attending professional seminars, and conferences and using the web are the best ways to build a network.
Is it important to collaborate with colleagues in the field? How have your professional collaborations benefited your career?
Many of my projects and jobs have come through contacts and collaborations with colleagues. It is important to stay in touch with others to keep you up to date. Since design is not as well known as other fields getting together with other designers give you a chance to talk about design with others that share your passion.
Education Information & Advice
Tell us about your education, with emphasis on your industrial design education?
I have an undergraduate degree in psychology and a masters in industrial design from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York. I took a year of undergraduate courses in design before I started the graduate program. I took courses in drawing, model making and product design studios.
What did you like and dislike about your design related education?
I would like to have learned more about what designers need to know to work the other fields that help design products.
How does a prospective industrial design student assess their skill and aptitude for this field?
There are three things I suggest that you do: The first is to attend Portfolio Days held at Art Schools and Universities around the country every Fall. You can interview with several schools at each event. They are well publicized. Contact the art and design school nearest you and they should be able to tell you.
The second is to contact the schools you are interested in and ask what they are looking for in students that apply to the industrial design program. Some schools start with a common first year program and then you start the industrial design program in the second year. I suggest you go to the top three schools you are interested and have a personal interview and review of your work.
The third option is to attend a summer program while you are in high school. Several schools and universities offer these programs and it is an excellent way for you to find if this is a field for you. Carnegie Mellon University has one and you can find out by contacting our School of Design or the office of admissions.
What are the five best things that a student applying to get into your program should do?
Make sure you set up a personal interview at Carnegie Mellon University. Bring a portfolio with a selection of your best work and show as much variety as you can. Do not bring everything you have ever done. Bring sketch books and photos of projects that you may have done outside of school.
What are the five worst things that a student applying to get into your program can do?
Just send slides of your work. Not fully research the school before you apply. Bring too much work for a portfolio review. Fail to know enough about the field to tell someone in an interview why you feel this is the career for you.
Based on what you hear in the industry, what do you think are the five most respected and prestigious industrial design schools/departments in the world that really make a difference to students who graduate from these schools?
The National Association of Schools of Art and Design review schools to assure minimum competency. I have a natural bias since I teach at a design school. There are no lists of design schools that are universally accepted. The answers to the following questions are more important to help each student to make their best choice.
What factors should you consider when choosing your school?
Where is the school located. Is it in a city, or country setting? What part of the country? Some students like to be in city, some do not; some students like to leave home, some like to stay close.
How many full time teachers are there on the faculty? How long have the faculty been there? A good program has at least three full time faculty and should have been together for a few years. Ask to talk to current students in the program. Ask them how they like and if it has it lived up to there expectations.
Does the school help you get your first job? A good program should have some kind of program to help you get internships and your entry level job.
What price range can you afford and how much debt do you want to have when you graduate. This is usually a family decision.
Was your art related education worth it for you? Why?
It made me see the world in a completely different way. It made me realize that the skills and abilities that I thought were for my personal interests and hobbies could be used to have an impact on the world.
If someone has the art talent already, should they go to design school and why?
Talent is not enough to be successful. A design school teaches you how to use your talent to work with others to structure your approach and create effective and successful products.
What advice can you give to prospective students thinking about an education and career in industrial design?
Design is not just a job; it is a way of life. Everything you do is affected by design. As a designer, you are more aware of that than people who buy and use products. Everything you do and use can have an impact on the way you design. Design is a passion for making things better; you can not be neutral about your job, work 9-5 and forget about it. Make sure you want to work as part of team; very few designers work alone. Make sure you want to help solve problems and not just please yourself.
What are all they types of degrees one can get for industrial design?
Most students get a BFA in Industrial Design; there are a few schools that offer BSA. There are schools that offer two year degree programs; most employers look for graduates with a four year degree.
When is it a good idea to go after a graduate degree in art?
There are several schools that offer a masters degree in industrial design. A masters degree can help redirect your career after you have been in the field for a while. If your degree is in another subject, you can apply to get your masters in industrial design, which is what I did. If you are interested in teaching, you need a masters degree. If you have an undergraduate degree in design, you can look to get a degree in another field. Psychology and business are two fields that offer master degrees that provide a good compliment to industrial design.
When is an art school design program best and when is a college program in design best?
Students can be successful coming from either type of school. If you are interested in a number of subjects and want to compliment your design degree with courses in other fields, you should apply to design program at a university. If you want more of focus on art courses and studios, you should apply to art schools. Universities normally attract students with balanced SAT or ACT scores. Students who tend to score higher on verbal than math may find that an art school is a better option.
What should design students try to get out of their education?
You should look for a balance of skills that allow you to perceive what a new product should look like (visualization), understand how some will use it (human factors, ergonomics), understand what materials and processes will be best and how to present your ideas visually and verbally to others.
Who are the accrediting bodies for education in industrial design? How important is their stamp of approval?
As I mentioned the National Association of Schools of Art and Design is the one accrediting body for reviewing schools of design. They do a good job and have industrial teachers reviewing schools with ID programs. NASAD assures an acceptable base line of quality. Within the next four years all schools of ID in the United States will have been reviewed. I still recommend asking the schools the questions I listed above.
Job Information & Advice
Who are three of the most renowned industrial designers in the world right now? How and why did they get to the top? What are people at the top of this profession paid?
There are famous designers and famous firms. Tucker Vemeister is a famous designer who works for Razor Fish. Harmut Esslinger, the owner of Frog Design, is another famous designer. Phillipe Starck is another french designer who is very popular. Design firms that are renowned are Fitch, HLB Chicago, Smart Design, Design Continuum, Altitude, IDEO, and Frog. They all have websites, many of which are hot linked to IDSA. I suggest that you look at the IDEA winners featured on the IDSA website. You should also look at the Cooper Hewitt Museum website for information on their exhibit on contemporary design.
What are the hottest design careers for the new decade?
Interaction design, sports equipment, transportation, communication products and computers from desk top to portables.
What are the best ways to find a job in industrial design?
Network through IDSA and its various channels of communication.
How available are internships in this field?
Internships are available. Some schools help students to get internships, some schools do not. Talk to faculty and the juniors and seniors in your school; they can tell you were they have had their internships and provide contacts for you.
How is the job market for industrial designers?
The job market is excellent and the field is continuing to expand.
Is there any other advice you can give to prospective and graduating students looking to work in the field of industrial design?
Prepare early by researching design firms in your junior year and contacting them for interviews early in your senior year. Internships are a good way to learn about the field and can often lead to your first job.
History of Industrial Design
Can you give us a super-condensed history of industrial design?
There are a number of museums that have excellent collections of the history of industrial design. The Museum of Modern Art in New York has a good permanent collection. The Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York is the National Museum of Design for the Smithsonian and always has design exhibits. There are museums in Boston, San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles that have good permanent exhibits and traveling exhibits about industrial design.
Industrial became a recognized field in the United States during the 1920's. The roots of industrial design can be traced to the industrial revolution in Europe and the United States in the 18th and 19th century. When the production of products switched from crafts to mass manufacturing, many products become dangerous, ugly and scary. New inventions often started as a crude collection of mechanical parts with little thought about how people would use them. By the end of the 19th century, artists were hired to improve the look of products. Early electric products were improved in Germany when an electric company, AEG, hired Peter Behrens, an artist, to design the look of electric tea kettles and lamps. The work of Peter Behrens is considered one the best examples of early industrial design. Peter Behrens not only improved the look of the products, he designed them so they were easier to manufacture and were part of a system of products. He also improved the way the products and the way they were used. There are three areas that are the basis of industrial design: aesthetics, the look of a product, ergonomics or human factors which deals with the use of the product and manufacturing and materials which affect how the product is made.
During the 1920's American manufacturers realized that products produced in the United States were not as well made, or as attractive as European products, particularly French, German and English products. Designers were hired to improve American products. Some early American designers immigrated from Europe. The most famous is Raymond Loewy; others came from different fields to help start the profession. Henry Dreyfuss was a set designer; Charles Eames was originally trained as an architect, and his wife Ray Eames was originally a painter. During the 1930's and 40's, designers influenced the look and use of all types of products including cars, radios and washing machines. This period is often referred to as the Golden Age of Industrial Design, because there were so many existing and emerging products for designers to work on. The term used for the style of 1930's was streamlining, and it was applied to everything from large locomotives to pencil sharpeners. Industrial Designers had a significant impact on the 1939 New York World Fair. Designers not only designed the products that were on exhibit, they also designed the pavilions. The most famous pavilion was the GM "World of Tomorrow," designed by Norman Bel Geddes.
After World War II industrial design was a mainstay of American industry. The 1955 Chevy is a great example of a design from that era. By 1970 every major company around the world used industrial design to improve existing products and develop new ones. Japanese companies like SONY, Toyota and Honda used industrial design to make their products competitive in the global economy. There are a number of good design history books to read; I recommend starting with the "Industrial Design" by John Heskett.
Industry Trends
How has the popularity of the Internet affected your profession?
The Internet has allowed companies to communicate what they do around the world in an instant. It has allowed more people to learn about design. Many products designed today connect to the Internet. The Internet has created a new field of design. It is called Interaction Design, and many industrial design students are working in this area designing websites.
What are some of the trends that you see in the world of industrial design which could help students plan for the future?
Students need to know that talent is part of what is needed to make products successful. It is just as important to know how to work on teams with people from other fields and how to present your ideas clearly and convincingly. Computer technology continues to improve allowing designers to create more complex products faster than ever. Design is a part of the fast paced world of business and designers have to feel comfortable and excited about working at that pace.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The industrial design images featured in this article are from the portofolio of Mark P. McJunkin, student of Professor Craig Vogel, 1994 Carnegie Mellon Industrial Design Honor graduate, and present co-owner of ProductM.


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~Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)~
The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.
~Richard Nixon~
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
~William Blake~
No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
~David Eddings~
A friend is a person who knows all about you–and still likes you.
~Elbert Hubbard~
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
~J. Danforth Quayle~
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
~George Bernard Shaw ~
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
~Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)~
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
In order to have friends, you must first be one.
~Elbert Hubbard~
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
~ Thomas Otway~
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
~Henry Ward Beecher~
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
~Booker T.Washington
Great thoughts come from the heart.
~Luc de Clapiers~
There is nothing more difficult to carry out and more doubtful of success than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all who prosper by the old order.
~ Italo Bombolini~
Many people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.
~Unknown ~
Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue.
~Samuel Johnson~
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
~ Lord Byron~
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
~ Thomas Dunn English~
More important than how we live is how we spend each day.
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.
~Henry David Thoreau~
Why do you take by force that which you could obtain by love?
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
~Confucius ( BC 551-479 )~
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do…but how much love we put in that action.
~Mother Teresa~
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
~ Harry F. Banks~
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
~Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)~
For fast acting relief try slowing down.
~ Lily Tomlin~
The only way to see a rainbow is to look through the rain
What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love?
~Barbara Sher~
There is no such thing as a self-made man.We are made up of thousands of others.Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the makeup of our character and our thoughts, as well as our success.
~George Matthew Adams~
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
~Gore Vidal ~
There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.
~ Mark Twain~
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
~William Shakespeare~
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
~William Shakespeare~
Age doesn't protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
~Jeanne Moreau~
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
~William Penn~
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
~Baruch Spinoza~
If you open your heart, love opens your mind.
~Charles John Quarto, Eric Lowen, Dan Navarro~
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about things.
~ W.C.Fields~
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Experience is the name that everyone gives to his mistakes.
~ Oscar Wilde~
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
~ Louis E.Boone~
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
~Joseph Joubert~
Moderation is a fatal thing nothing succeeds like excess.
~Oscar Wilde~
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
~Dale Carnegie~
If you can dream it, you can do it.
~Walt Disney~
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
~Fran Lebowitz ~
When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.
~Dr. Joyce Brothers~
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.~
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
~Henry Ford~
In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage, so long are you young. When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, and then only, are you grown old.
~General Douglas MacArthur~
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
~Benjamin Disraeli~
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
~German Proverb~
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
~Charles de Montesquieu~
We must believe in luck for how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
~ Jean Cocteau~
I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."
~Edward Rickenbacker~
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
~Herb Caen~
Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning.
~Benjamin Franklin~
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
~Cossman ~
Success is not forever, and failure is not fatal.
~ Don Shula~
I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.
~Dr. Paul Tournier~
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
~ John D. Rockefeller ~
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is: Try to please everybody.
~ Herbert Bayard Swope ~
The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
~Thomas R.Dewar~
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.
~Mark Twain~
Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.
~Dale Dauten~
I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often
~Theodore Roosevelt~
Our life is what our thoughts make it
~Marcus Aurelius Antonius~
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
~Stephen Covey~
Hitch your wagon to a star.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
Humankind has not woven the web of life.We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.All things are bound together.All things connect.
~ Chief Seattle~
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
When people honor each other, there is a trust established that leads to synergy, interdependence, and deep respect. Both parties make decisions and choices based on what is right, what is best, what is valued most highly.
~Blaine Lee~
One word frees us from the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
~Oswald Spengler~
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
~Storm Jameson~
Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.
~ George Lucas(Yoda, Star Wars) ~
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says,"This is the real me,"and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
~William James ~
I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.
~ Jim Kaat~
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
~Anais Nin~
A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
~Elbert Hubbard~
The authentic self is the soul made visible.
~Sarah Ban Breathnach~
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
~Joseph Addison~
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
He who never fell never climbed.
Without good friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
~ Annie Dillard~
Success is that old ABC — ability, breaks and courage.
~ Charles Luckman~
From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
~Samuel Butler~
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
If you learn from your suffering, and really come to understand the lesson you were taught, you might be able to help someone else who's now in the phase you may have just completed. Maybe that's what it's all about after all.
The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.
~Leo Buscaglia~
The worst part of having success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.
~Bette Midler~
If we learn for each success, and each failure, and improve ourselves through this process, then, at the end, we will havefulfilled our potential and performed well.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
~Samuel Butler~
Don't go through life, grow through life.
~ Eric Butterworth~
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone–but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
~Walter Anderson~
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again."
~Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings, 1964~
What you see depends on what you're looking for.
~Unknown ~
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
~Albert Einstein~
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.
~ Dwight Morrow~
Success is being nothing but a quote.
~ Andy Partridge~
One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
~ Elbert Hubbard~
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
~Joe Paterno~
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
~ Albert Einstein~
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
~Harvey Mackay~
A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
~From the Apocrypha~
Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
~Mother Teresa~
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
~Dag Hammarskjold ~
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
~Harvey Mackay~
There's always room at the top.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn
~Friedrich Nietzsche~
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
~ William Shakespeare~
There is a time in the tides of men, Which, taken at its flood, leads on to success. On the other hand, don't count on it.
~ T.K.Lawson~
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
~Victor Borge~
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
~William Blake~
No one has ever done anything too bad to be forgiven.
~Ruth Sheppard~
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished
~Og Mandino~
Success, as I see it, is a result, not a goal.
~George Flaubert~
If you judge people, you have no time to love them
~Mother Theresa~
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?
~Marcel Marceau~
It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
~Peter Marshall~
No man is an island, entire of itself;every man is a piece of the continent,
a part of the main.
~ John Donne~
Work and love–these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
~ Theodor Reik~
He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns.
~ English Proverb~
We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all–friends?
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
~ Donald Riggs~
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
~Samuel Johnson~
Success is more attitude then aptitude.
Man errs as long as he strives.
One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world.
~ Elbert Hubbard~
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
~Thomas Moore~
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
~Rosalind Russel~
Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.
~Kin Hubbard~
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
~ John Lyly ~
Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!
~Henry David Thoreau~
If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero
~ David Ellis~
Two barrels of tears will not heal a bruise.
~Chinese Proverb~
To nourish the soul means to become kinder, more compassionate, wiser, and more loving, often through the making of difficult choices that foster growth rather than safety. The nourishment and growth of the soul is the very reason for human life.
~Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.~
There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
~William Penn~
We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our endeavors are exerted in consequence of our duty.
~Samuel Johnson~
He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
~Samuel Johnson~
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.
~Coco Chanel ~
Marriage is not a ritual or an end.It is a long, intricate,intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance
and your choice of partner.
~Amy Bloom~
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
~ Sir Walter Scott ~
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
~Martin Luther~
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value
~ Albert Einstein~
Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.
~Joan Borysenko, Ph.D~
What you are comes to you.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
If a man is happy in his work exerting himself to the full extent of his capabilities, and enjoying it I'd say he's a success.
~ William Romain~
That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
~Richard Bach~
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
~ Max Beerbohm~
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Give me a firm place to stand, and I will move the earth.
The adult looks to deed, the child to love.
~Hindustani Proverb~
Marriage is a relationship. When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
~Joseph Campbell~
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
~William Shakespeare (All's Well that Ends Well)~
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge~
Joys divided are increased.
~Josiah Gilbert Holland~
Success makes us intolerant of failure, and failure makes us intolerant of success.
~ William Feather~
Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
~ Kahlil Gibran~
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
~ Doris Mortman ~
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~
A man' deepest fear is that he is noot good enough or that he's incompetent
~ John Gray~
Stability is more essential to success than brilliance.
~ Richard Lloyd Jones~ Love Quotes

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A colleague asked me the other day whether there was a character in Shakespeare to compare to disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner, whose New York mayoral campaign has spun out of control with salacious revelations that you'll have to read about elsewhere. Let's just say it wouldn't surprise me if the ring tone on Weiner's cellphone was a loop of Barry White moaning.
Weiner is such a television phenomenon, a moth whose wings are heat-glued to the camera, that I think his story would more readily serve as fodder for one of those cable channels that loves picking the bones of celebrities who have crashed and burned. All that's needed is a chorus of D-list talking heads to crack wise while clucking shock and disapproval.
Broadway might be a little too confining for a man with such a lusty appetite for publicity. Weiner wants to convert the whole world into his stage. He'd hate having his antics relegated to a single theater, even one eligible for Tony consideration. But Broadway audiences would thrill to see the dark comedy of this impolitic politician reenacted on the Great White Way.
But what great dramatist past or present could write it?
Now "Shakespearean" isn't the first word that springs to mind when considering Weiner's proclivities. His refusal to get out of the campaign and retreat into the media-darkened wilderness, however, could get him cast as a kind of burlesque Macbeth. If we were privy to one of Weiner's late-night soliloquies, we might very well hear him mouthing the following in bed while his wife, Huma Abedin, tossed restlessly beside him: "I am in bawdiness/Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more,/Returning were as tedious as go o'er."
No, we will have to look elsewhere for an author of this immorality tale. Tennessee Williams, who had his own troubles with impulse control and could resist anything but temptation, would certainly have insights into Weiner's alter ego, Carlos Danger. In "Summer and Smoke," Alma, Williams' sensitive, spinster protagonist, is diagnosed by the young dissolute doctor she's madly in love with as having a "doppelganger."
"You have a doppelganger and the doppelganger is badly irritated," he says to her great consternation.
The doctor is a sly ironist, but it turns out his medical intuition is uncanny: By the end of the play, Alma will be popping pills ("The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!") and picking up strange men in the park.
Williams would no doubt have had great sympathy for Weiner's wife, humiliated yet loyal to a man manifestly unworthy of her, like so many of the playwright's unforgettable heroines. But I'm not convinced that lyrical tragedy, even one with Williams' florid melodramatic color, is the way to go theatrically.
My preference for this saga is farce, and I wish someone would commission Christopher Durang to start writing it immediately. This is a 21st century media story, in which the only thing that matters is the spotlight. The pace must be relentless, the details must be depraved and the plot doesn't so much resolve as collapse in panting exhaustion.
Best of all, Durang, who is riding high after his recent Tony win for "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," has a gift for pointing out how people get hurt even when they're moving too fast to feel any pain. He'd give us a "Weiner Agonistes" that would kill us with laughter but haunt us later with an unexpected yet not misplaced pity.
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The Colorado River, which famously carved the Grand Canyon, is beautiful to behold and amazing to raft. Unfortunately, this crucial water source is also slowly going dry.
Average annual rainfall has been falling in the southwest for the last century, while climate change, dam construction, invasive species, and population booms in desert cities like Las Vegas have caused water levels to drop by half in some places.
Twelve years ago, author and anthropologist Wade Davis and his friend Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rafted the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in part to consider the river's troubled future and what we stand to lose.
They documented the trip in a gorgeous film called Grand Canyon Adventure: River At Risk.
Davis respects the power of untamed nature, and believes that we can't afford to lose the connection we have to wild place.


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Pete Hamill is born
Journalist Pete Hamill is born on this day in 1935 to Irish immigrants in Brooklyn. The oldest of a large brood of children, Hamill grew up playing stickball in a blue-collar neighborhood but was fascinated with comic books and novels. With the neighborhood tavern the center of his community's social life, Hamill started drinking at an early age. Although his love for books had won him admittance to an elite high school in Manhattan, he felt out of place and dropped out.
Motivated by his love of comic books and art, Hamill went to art school and became a graphic artist after a period of drifting and living in Mexico. He eventually landed a job at the New York Post, which turned into a writing job and a regular, widely read column. A heavy drinker, Hamill finally quit on New Year's Eve in 1972. His memoir A Drinking Life (1995) describes his lifelong relationship with alcohol and draws a colorful picture of life in Brooklyn in the 1940s and 1950s. In addition to non-fiction works and journalism collections, Hamill has penned 10 novels and two books of short stories.


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If you've attended the Justice and Diversity Center's (JDC) Housing Negotiation Project (HNP) training, you may sign up on this page to provide pro bono representation at San Francisco Superior Court. We ask that attorneys who take our free training commit to four sessions in the six months following your training.
Through HNP, attorneys provide limited-scope representation to individuals and families facing eviction, limited to mandatory settlement conferences only. HNP is the first pro bono project of its kind, and provides every single person in need of representation with a pro bono attorney.
Volunteer shifts are available every Wednesday and Thursday afternoon, 12:15 to 4:30 p.m. Attorneys will receive the calendar nine days before settlement conferences for conflicts checks. During one shift, a volunteer will represent one or two clients. JDC supervising attorneys will be on hand to aid you with your case(s).
On the day you are volunteering, please arrive at the San Francisco Superior Court by 12:15 p.m. After signing up, you'll receive a confirming email giving the room number at the court.
Attorneys must take JDC training before volunteering at HNP. If you'd like to volunteer but need to take the free two-hour training (with MCLE credit), the dates can be found on our Legal Services Events & Trainings Calendar.
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Previously discussed :
- What's new in Unicode 5.0 ?
- What's new in Unicode 5.1 ?
- What's new in Unicode 5.2 ?
- What's new in Unicode 6.0 ?
[2012-02-01 Update: Unicode 6.1.0 was released on 31 January 2012.]
Unicode 6.1 is scheduled for release in Spring 2012, and will be synchronized to the 3rd edition of ISO/IEC 10646 (see Unicode Liaison Report to WG2). Confusingly, the 3rd edition is actually the 5th iteration of the ISO/IEC 10646 standard, but it is the 3rd edition of the combined one-part standard first published in 2003 that superceded the original two-part standard (Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane; Part 2: Supplementary Planes) first published in 1993 (see Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 for more details on the relationship between the Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 standards). The first combined edition published in 2003 (corresponding to Unicode 4.0) underwent eight amendments in as many years, adding 41 new scripts, 84 new blocks, and 13,002 new characters (see How many Unicode characters are there ?), before a second edition (corresponding to Unicode 6.0) was published earlier this year. Due to technical issues with the CJK-B fonts, the CJK-B code chart was printed in single-column format rather than the multi-column format used for the other CJK blocks, and in order to rectify this deficiency a third edition will be published straight away (instead of first publishing a series of amendments to the second edition).
The 3rd edition of ISO/IEC 10646 has already completed two rounds of balloting, and will undergo one final (FDIS) ballot later this year, before being published sometime next year. The character repertoire, code points and character names are now stable, and highly unlikely to change before publication. Unicode 6.1 will correspond to the repertoire of this 3rd edition of ISO/IEC 10646.
The 3rd edition of ISO/IEC 10646 has 733 new characters compared with the 2nd edition, but as one these characters was fast-tracked into Unicode 6.0 (U+20B9 ₹ Indian Rupee Sign), Unicode 6.1 will include a total of 732 new characters, including seven new scripts, as detailed below. This will mean that Unicode 6.1 comprises a total of 110,116 graphic and format characters.
The final 3rd edition code charts are not yet ready, but an earlier version of the code charts showing the new additions (with some characters that have since been removed) is available.
New Scripts
Unicode 6.1 includes the following seven scripts, which are all encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP). The Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) is now almost full, and it is unlikely that any new scripts will be encoded in the BMP.
- Meroitic Hieroglyphs {10980..1099F} : 32 characters for the 'monumental' form of the Meroitic script that was derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs [N3665]
- Meroitic Cursive {109A0..109FF} : 26 characters for the 'cursive' form of the Meroitic script that was derived from Egyptian Demotic (40 fraction and number characters have been removed from the proposed repertoire pending further study) [N3665]
- Sora Sompeng {110D0..110FF} : 35 characters for the Sora Sompeng script used in India [N3647]
- Chakma {11100..1114F} : 67 characters for the Chakma script used in Bangladesh and India [N3645]
- Sharada {11180..111DF} : 83 characters for the Śāradā script which was the principal inscriptional and literary script of Kashmir from the 8th through 20th centuries, but which is now virtually obsolete [N3595]
- Takri {11680..116CF} : 66 characters for the Takri script that was used for writing the Dogri language of Kashmir until the 1940s [N3758]
- Miao {16F00..16F9F} : 133 characters for the Old Miao script that was devised by Samuel Pollard during the early 20th century [N3761, N3789, N3877]
Funerary stele with Meroitic Hieroglyphic inscription [CC-BY-SA-3.0 by Piero d'Houin dit Triboulet]
New Blocks
Unicode 6.1 also includes four new blocks for extensions to existing scripts and for symbols:
- Arabic Extended-A {08A0..08FF} : 39 characters (9 letters for African languages, 15 characters for Rohingya, 4 Koranic annotation signs, 11 vowel signs for African and Philippine languages) [N3791, N3816, N3882]
- Sundanese Supplement {1CC0..1CCF} : 8 punctuation marks used in old Sundanese manuscripts [N3666]
- Meetei Mayek Extensions {AAE0..AAFF} : 23 characters used in historical orthographies of Meetei Mayek, and which are not defined for modern use by the Manupuri Government [N3206, N3470, N3478]
- Arabic Mathematical Alphabetical Symbols {1EE00..1EEFF} : 143 characters used in Arabic mathematical expressions [N3799]
Additions to Existing Blocks
- Armenian {0530..058F} : 1 character (U+058F Armenian Dram Sign) [N3771]
- Arabic {0600..06FF} : 1 character (U+0604 Arabic Sign Samvat) [N3734]
- Gujarati {0A80..0AFF} : 1 character (U+0AF0 Gujarati Abbreviation Sign) [N3764]
- Lao {0E80..0EFF} : 2 letters for Khmu [N3893]
- Georgian {10A0..10FF} : 5 letters for Ossetian and Abkhaz [N3775]
- Sundanese {1B80..1BBF} : 9 characters for historic usage [N3666]
- Vedic Extensions {1CD0..1CFF} : 4 characters [N3844, N3861, N3881]
- Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A {27C0..27EF} : 2 diagonal bar symbols [N3763]
- Coptic {2C80..2CFF} : 2 letters for the Bohairic dialect [N3873]
- Georgian Supplement {2D00..2D2F} : 2 letters for Ossetian [N3775]
- Tifinagh {2D30..2D7F} : 2 letters for Tuareg [N3870]
- Supplemental Punctuation {2E00..2E7F} : 10 characters (8 historic punctuation marks, and 2 em dashes) [N3664, N3740, N3770]
- CJK Unified Ideographs {4E00..9FFF} : 1 character (U+9FCC = Adobe-Japan1-6 CID+20156, a variant of U+6DBC 涼) [N3885]
- Cyrillic Extended-B {A640..A69F} : 9 characters for medieval Church Slavonic manuscripts [N3748]
- Latin Extended-D {A720..A7FF} : 5 letters (including the Cambrian symbol (U+A792), but excluding middle dot letter, which was again removed at the request of the US) [N3840, N3846]
- CJK Compatibility Ideographs {F900..FAFF} : 2 characters (U+FA2E and U+FA2F) [N3747]
- Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement {1F100..1F1FF} : 2 characters (marque de commerce and marque déposée signs used in Canada) [N3860]
- Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs {1F300..1F5FF} : 4 Orthodox typikon symbols [N3772]
- Emoticons {1F600..1F64F} : 13 more emoticons (Grinning Face, Expressionless Face, Confused Face, Kissing Face, Kissing Face with Smiling Eyes, Face with Stuck-Out Tongue, Worried Face, Frowning Face with Open Mouth, Anguished Face, Grimacing Face, Face with Open Mouth, Hushed Face, Sleeping Face) [N3790]
Other Changes
Formal aliases will be defined for the following two Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) symbols used on cheques by banks, that were inadvertently given each other's name when encoded twenty years ago:
- U+2118 ℘ SCRIPT CAPITAL P will be given the formal alias WEIERSTRASS ELLIPTIC FUNCTION
- U+2448 ⑈ OCR DASH will be given the formal alias MICR ON US SYMBOL
- U+2449 ⑉ OCR CUSTOMER ACCOUNT NUMBER will be given the formal alias MICR DASH SYMBOL
Once assigned character names may not be changed, so formal aliases are a mechanism for ameliorating problems caused by woefully misnamed characters, and processes are encouraged to use formal aliases in place of the official character names in user interfaces. Only a handful of characters have been assigned formal aliases, and the above are the first new formal aliases to be defined since formal aliases were introduced in Unicode 5.0 (July 2006). Formal aliases are only assigned in rare cases where there is a typographical error in the name (e.g. "bracket" misspelled as "brakcet") or where the name is confusingly wrong ("Yi Syllable Wu" is a syllable iteration mark, not the syllable wu), and are not assigned in cases where a character name is merely suboptimal or where there is academic dispute about about the transliteration or naming conventions used. See Unicode Character Names Part 3 for more details about formal aliases.
Unicode 6.1 Fonts
The following are some free or shareware fonts that already (prematurely) include some of the characters that will be added in Unicode 6.1:
- BabelStone Han (covers the one new CJK unified ideograph and the two new CJK compatibility ideographs)
- Everson Mono (covers various 6.1 additions for Armenian, Georgian, Georgian Supplement, Tifinagh, Supplemental Punctuation, Cyrillic Extended-B, and Latin Extended-D)
- Symbola (covers the additions for Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A, Supplemental Punctuation, Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, and Emoticons)
BabelMap for Unicode 6.1
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On this CD reissue, pianist Jack Wilson's first of three albums for Blue Note, the emphasis is on his interaction with vibraphonist Roy Ayers. Some of the selections recall the Modern Jazz Quartet, while a few of the other songs look toward Herbie Hancock and Bobby Hutcherson. The other musicians on the date are bassist Ray Brown (who plays cello on two numbers that include Charles Williams, Jr. on bass) and drummer Varney Barlow. In two cases (Ornette Coleman's "The Sphinx" and Wilson's "Shosh"), complex melody statements are succeeded by disappointingly conventional chordal jams, but in general this album is an excellent showcase for the often-overlooked Jack Wilson. ~ Scott Yanow


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Keir Hardie
10 of 22 portraits of (James) Keir Hardie (né James Kerr)
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Keir Hardie
by George Charles Beresford
sepia-toned platinotype print, 1905
5 7/8 in. x 4 1/8 in. (150 mm x 106 mm)
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- (James) Keir Hardie (né James Kerr) (1856-1915), Socialist leader and founder of the Labour Party. Sitter in 22 portraits.
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- George Charles Beresford (1864-1938), Photographer. Artist associated with 386 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.
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Current affairsFollowing turmoil over the issue of Free Trade, Balfour resigns and calls an election, believing that the Liberals will be defeated. However, he is mistaken and Henry Campbell-Bannerman replaces him as the Liberal government Prime Minister.
The foundation of the Ulster Unionist Council, established to campaign against Home Rule, marks the birth of the Ulster Unionist party in Northern Ireland with the Duke of Abercorn as the first elected president.
Art and scienceThe Bloomsbury group of artists and intellectuals begin to hold informal gatherings at the home of Vanessa and Virginia Stephen. The group includes the artist Duncan Grant, biographer Lytton Strachey, and the art critics Clive Bell and Roger Fry.
The German theoretical physicist Albert Einstein has his 'annus mirabilis', publishing groundbreaking papers on the nature of light and motion, including his relation of mass and energy in the equation e = mc2.
InternationalMassacre of more than 100 workers at a peaceful demonstration by troops in St Petersburg becomes known as 'Bloody Sunday'. The event sparks the 1905 Revolution, with uprisings and peasant revolts in other cities, leading the Tsar to issue the October Manifesto, pledging moderate reform, including the establishment of an elected 'duma' (government), which only partially appeases imperial opposition. Still fighting Japan, the internal agitation weakens the imperial army.
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NOTE: All children should be able to skate on their own, unaided. CYHA Learn-to-Skate program will begin in November.
The Boston Bruins are excited to continue and grow the Bruins Academy Learn to Play Hockey Program (previously called "Little Bruins") to help aspiring, youth hockey players develop their skills. For the first time this season, the program is expanding to over 50 locations across New England. The program is available to boys and girls ages 4-9. For a registration fee of $100, the program includes a full free set of CCM equipment to keep valued at $500 retail, which includes skates, a professional personalized fitting, and four weeks of on-ice instruction led by certified coaches. The Boston Bruins are thrilled to share their passion for hockey with the next generation of hockey players.*
*Please note, skating lessons are highly recommended before the start of the Bruins Academy Learn to Play program. All children should be able to skate on their own, unaided. Please check in with your local rink on skating lessons before starting Bruins Academy Learn to Play program. In addition, this program is intended for children who have not participated in an organized hockey program before. Children that have registered with a Massachusetts Hockey association previously are not eligible to participate in Bruins Academy Learn to Play.
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February 1, 2009
STARKVILLE -- It''s never too early to start talking about the rewards and consequences of a Southeastern Conference regular-season game.
With multiple sources projecting only five SEC teams will earn bids to the NCAA tournament, the Mississippi State women''s basketball team''s game at 1:30 p.m. today against Georgia could figure prominently in the teams'' postseason plans.
For Mississippi State (16-5, 3-3 SEC), today is an opportunity to earn its third road victory in four attempts. A home loss to Arkansas tempered some of the momentum the Lady Bulldogs had earned in consecutive victories at Kentucky and LSU.
A 97-33 victory against Savannah State on Thursday helped Mississippi State regain its confidence. Six players scored in double figures in the rout, but Mississippi State coach Sharon Fanning knows things will be much more difficult today.
"Anybody can be at the top of this league," Fanning said. "February is a new season. This is a new segment starting up (today). Georgia has a huge win against (No. 5 and previously unbeaten) Auburn and Ole Miss almost beat Tennessee. I just think the league is wide open. This month everybody is playing for seedings and you''re playing to get into the NCAA tournament."
Georgia (14-7, 4-2) is riding a three-game winning streak. Victories against Vanderbilt, Alabama, and Auburn have helped coach Andy Landers'' team regain its footing.
Georgia''s 62-54 loss at Ole Miss on Jan. 8 was part of that sluggish start. The Lady Bulldogs were outrebounded 45-44 and committed 16 turnovers that the Lady Rebels turned into 17 points.
Landers said Georgia is learning not to make the same mistakes over and over. He also had to go back to the fundamentals to help the Lady Bulldogs understand the importance of rebounding.
To drive the point home, rebounding drills have become a part of Georgia''s daily practice routine. In games, Landers said players are graded on their ability to box out on each shot that is attempted. Initially, the minimum requirement for each player was 60 percent.
Unfortunately, one player boxed out 6.25 percent of the time and suffered the consequences.
The team, though, apparently prefers the rewards over the consequences. Landers said every player''s percentage climbed into the 80s and 90s for the next game.
"Once accountability was put on the line the change has been drastic," Landers said.
Georgia will hope for an effort in the 90s today. The Lady Bulldogs outrebounded Vanderbilt and Alabama, but was outrebounded 41-32 by Auburn.
The victory was the team''s first in five games when it was outrebounded.
Georgia ranks sixth (plus 1) in the SEC in rebounding margin.
Mississippi State outrebounds teams by 5.8 (41.8-36) and is 1-2 in the SEC when it is outrebounded.
Mississippi State junior center Chanel Mokango (11.3 points per game, 5.3 rebounds per game, 77 blocked shots) figures to play a key role today. The 6-foot-5 transfer from Southeastern Illinois College likely will match up against junior center/forward Angel Robinson, who had a team-high 17 points against Auburn.
Robinson is second on the team in scoring (10.6 ppg.) and leads the team with 8.8 rebounds per game.
Georgia junior guard Ashley Houts, who had a career-high 13 assists against Auburn, played all 40 minutes for the 11th time this season last time out.
Landers knows MSU''s athleticism and depth will challenge Robinson and Houts to be at their best.
"They are very, very good. They are very athletic and they have size inside that they haven''t had for a while," Landers said. "They also have excellent athletic ability and depth on the front line. They have explosiveness, 3-point shooting capability, and they''re an excellent defensive team."
Landers doesn''t know if Mississippi State''s athleticism and defensive ability will translate into a game like MSU''s 38-36 victory against LSU, but he knows both teams will test each other in what could be a pivotal game for both programs.
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Sun-warmed blackberries straight off the vine stain your fingers pink and dissolve, tart and sweet, over your tongue. They are an early summer pleasure that feels both simple and decadent.
Sun-warmed blackberries straight off the vine stain your fingers pink and dissolve, tart and sweet, over your tongue. They are an early summer pleasure that feels both simple and decadent.
Native to North America - you can find wild-growing blackberries throughout our region - the plant is hardy, easy to care for and versatile in cooking.
The University of California's Master Gardener Program recommends blackberries, which can live and bear fruit for a decade or longer, as good additions to home gardens.
We planted ours about three years ago.
Strikingly robust (and, because of the thorns, just a little bit vicious), it tangles through the front-porch railing, and in spring, erupts in winsome white blossoms.
Gradually, the blossoms yield to berries, which darken from white-ish pink to deep, rich purple.
Our 3-year-old daughter picked her first berry of the season, still a little red-tinged, just a few weekends ago.
Too soon, it was too sour. She wrinkled her nose and shook her head.
Lately, though, our blackberries seem to have reached their peak of ripeness. We pluck one or two whenever we leave the house - and a couple more when we get back home. It's one of my favorite times of year.
Even without blackberries in your garden, this is a great time to enjoy them - blackberries are available, by the basketful, at grocery stores, fruit stands and farmers markets.
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I'm a Rock Classic kind o' guy.
Dear 'God',
Did you make the plagues and bleeding pox?
Did you conceive the weapons of hell?
Did you think it cool to make the human soul to bleed?
Dear 'God' where you been?
Tell us how not to bleed!
Dear 'God',
The human soul looks out upon the creation,
The human soul does not find thee!
But wonders fill our eyes,
The human mind reels in wonderous complexity,
Still no signature of divinity,
Dear 'God' WHY?
I can't believe in 'you',
I can't find 'you',
Dear 'God' WHY?
The human soul moves on,
Seeking meaning in the little and great of things.
Dear 'God',
We can not find you in the little and the great,
The human mind kinds a grin of fleeting sacredness,
But the honest persuit of wisdom denigns us the sacred at every turn,
Dear 'God' WHY?
I prefer this cover:
That is a lovely cover.
Every time I read this thread title, John Lennon's God plays in my head:-
God is a concept
By which we measure
Our pain
I'll say it again
God is a concept
By which we measure
Our pain
I don't believe in magic
I don't believe in I-Ching
I don't believe in Bible
I don't believe in tarot
I don't believe in Hitler
I don't believe in Jesus
I don't believe in Kennedy
I don't believe in Buddha
I don't believe in mantra
I don't believe in Gita
I don't believe in yoga
I don't believe in kings
I don't believe in Elvis
I don't believe in Zimmerman
I don't believe in Beatles
I just believe in me
Yoko and me
And that's reality
The dream is over
What can I say?
The dream is over
I was the dreamer
But now I'm reborn
I was the Walrus
But now I'm John
And so dear friends
You just have to carry on
The dream is over.
I actually listen to some highly religious tunes because I like the music. Gregorian chanting for example. Anti religious tunes, I can't think of many bands that make it a habit of kicking against religion. I will sometimes ask for Lacuna Coil - Heaven is a lie to drive my point of view.
I'm surprised no one mentioned George Hrab. Here's the cartoon version of his song "God is Not Great":
Music is my religion so yes all the time, 30 seconds is an amazing band but there are so many other great bands, Green Day, Rush, Tool, Godsmack, Mudvayne, then if you really want anti religious you've got black metal foreign and domestic as well as death metal. Lots of non religious music options out there everyone, so go out and find it and enjoy it.
So many new leads to explore !!! I recall when I first heard REM's "losing my religion". It was immediately explained to me that that is an old southern expression, for when you lose your temper....Now I am not so sure.
Being more of a "Classical" piano music lover, I find myself about as tolerant of Metal as I am of Religion itself.
I can't stand listening to anything that I perceive to be just plain angry, or mostly just an annoying noise to my ears.
I have listened to an artist for many, many years since being introduced to his music during my time in London,UK. Self proclaimed "Despises ALL Forms Of Religion". His music is of a "folk" genre and he has done a lifetime of work, also with some of the big names in music like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin etc. His name is Roy Harper. What a guitarist and what a songwriter. For anyone interested in giving it a listen, here's his wiki..LINK.
I have several songs of his I'd like to recommend...
"Black Cloud Of Islam", "If", "Hangman", "Hallucinating Light", "Waiting For Godot", "How Does It Feel?", I could go on because I love his music. His son is pretty brilliant too. That'd be "Nick Harper". Check him out too. It's good stuff.
Happy Holidays to ALL....
"Deemed evil by those housed in church steeples.
False prophets read backwards from broken tablets to the feeble..."
wow, I'll remember that for my next late night party. thx