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NAME: Brian Bay
VOCATION: Front-end grocery store manager and full-time student
WORLD CHAMPION: of grocery bagging
HOBBIES: Coin collecting. Goes to work with a pocketful of change and trades it out for interesting coins.
FAVORITE MOVIES TO QUOTE FROM: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Princess Bride, Three Amigos and Dumb and Dumber
One pack of Life Savers made all the difference. The three-and-a-half-inch cylinder, rolling away at the slightest incline, wedged itself between Brian Bay and fame.
It was Las Vegas, 2006. The lights were bright and Bay was fluid. He moved quickly, got the cans in the bottom of the bags and the bread on top — he seemed to be on his way to the final round of the National Grocers Association Best Bagger Competition. But then the Life Savers derailed it all: They rolled against the lip of the counter, and Bay didn't see them until after he'd thrown up his arms to signify he was done. They never made it into the bag, and the championship slipped away.
But from that failure sprouted new determination.
Bay, at a clean-cut 6-foot-2, has always worked hard. A Cub Scout at 8, he racked up the badges, becoming an Eagle Scout just six years later. "He set some kind of record in our area," says Katie, his older sister, "being way young to receive it."
Later, he saved enough money to buy a car before he left on his mission in Washington, D.C., with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He bought another car when he returned.
Though earnest about competition and serious in his work, he's playful in his personal life. Sometimes he waits in the closet with a foam dart gun to attack his wife, Christine, when she comes home from work. The couple recently returned from a trip to Disneyland, Bay's sixth visit there.
"He's the Boy Scout every girl wants to marry," Christine says.
Bay began bagging at 16, working at Macey's in Sandy, Utah. He moved up the store ranks to checker and is now the front-end manager, although he still does some bagging.
He participated in his first in-store bagging competition in 2002, but it wasn't until last year that he qualified for the state and then national competition. That's where the Life Savers evaded him. That roll of candy has loomed over him ever since, at this year's in-store competition and while he out-bagged tough competitors in the Utah state trials.
And the Life Savers were on his mind during the hours of grueling practice. Two times a week in the months leading up to the national competition, Bay and his personal coach, Macey's bagging trainer, Shairlene May, headed for the break room. They practiced — mostly with paper; he had plastic down from working up front — until he was consistently packing the bags under 35 seconds, until the weight between various bags was almost always even. Sometimes co-workers cheered, simulating the championship fervor.
"He's very focused," says May.
That focus was put to the test Jan. 30, back in Vegas. On a stage behind a mock checkout stand, Bay moved quickly, efficiently and professionally, not letting the tension get to him: Contestants are judged on technique, attitude and appearance as well as speed and weight. When he finished — this time he didn't miss the Sweet Tarts — he immediately looked into the audience and found Shairlene, who indicated he had beat the 35 second limit. The 23-year-old had become one of five finalists. From then on, it was relatively easy going, and two rounds later, Bay was named national champion.
The next day, he bested Canada's bagging champ to become the first-ever world champion. (Bay enjoyed the cross-cultural exchange, intrigued by the bagging style of the Canadian, who hung the plastic loops on her arm.)
The ensuing media attention is only now settling down. Bay still gets recognized from his appearance on the Daily Show, and that can lead to challenges. "Everyone," he says, "wants to bag against the national best bagger."
The attention could carry into 2008, when an indie documentary on the competition is unveiled at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
But for now, back to business — bagging groceries. On the decades-long debate — paper or plastic? — Bay is equally adept with either. And if you bring your own bag, well, "that's welcome, too," he says.
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Charles-Louis La Salle was born in Hanoi in 1938. He spent his childhood in Indochina and adolescence in Africa.
He studied at the School of Decorative Arts (Arts Déco) in Paris where he arrived at the age of 18.
Thereafter, he traveled throughout all of Europe seeking the sources of his inspiration and cultural identity.
He settled in Provence in 1966.
From this point onward, he devoted himself solely to his vocation as a painter. Influences on his career have included the statuary of medieval Burgundy, the Flemish primitives as well as the giants of the Italian Renaissance. Both painter and sculptor, he is also an accomplished draughtsman, engraver and has experimented quite successfully in the field of lithography.
The flamboyant Baroque side to his temperment has also led him to venture into the possibilities offered by the theater and opera. He has personally directed operas, designed sets and costumes, written several plays, many poems and composed the lyrics to songs. In 1986, Charles-Louis La Salle was formally invited to be a member of the jury at the Monte Carlo Contemporary Art Festival. Three years later, in 1989 he was once again a jury member, this time at the Avoriaz Festival. It was during this festival that one of his paintings was selected to serve as the cover of the Festival program.
In 1980, Charles-Louis La Salle was awarded the Prize of the Marseilles Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. Six years later, he received the Prize of the Monte Carlo Contemporary Art Festival. The Prize of The Jules Verne Foundation followed in 1989.
After spending several years on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, he discovered the splendors of ancient Provence. This led to his decision to settle on the banks of the Rhône River in a small, picturesque village ideally located within the "Golden Triangle" of Provence--Arles, Avignon and Nîmes. It was here, in an abandoned, XVII century convent, that Charles-Louis created the artistic universe that now corresponds so perfectly to his image and to his work. More than a dwelling, this house must be looked upon as a highly personal work of art.
Working in this new environment of life and creation, he has chosen to explore one the most essential components of his cultural identity: his thoroughly Latin character.
But over the years, new horizons have beckoned to Charles-Louis La Salle. Traveling across the world, he has discovered the Pacific and Tahiti, his "New Cythera" as Bougainville called it. These new sources of inspiration have led him begin writing once again and have fueled an explosion of new themes in both the world of painting and sculpture.
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On the Beatles trail in Liverpool, Sheriden Rhodes uncovers some moving connections between the Fab Four and her father.
Many travellers come to the 800-plus-year-old port city of Liverpool on a Beatles pilgrimage. They want to see where John and George met, where the band first played, gawk at their working-class childhood homes, and stand at the gates of Strawberry Field.
I admit, when my guide's car turns down Penny Lane, the catchy ballad blaring as she points out the butcher, the barber and the shelter in the middle of a roundabout, it's a magical yet orchestrated moment. Pale sunlight streams through the windows as I take in the landmarks - even where the late Mr Penny, a slave trader, lived along the meandering country lane that McCartney (primarily) wrote about when he composed one of the Beatles's most-loved songs.
I hadn't come to Liverpool for the Fab Four, even though they were intrinsically entwined in the journey. I'd come to learn about my late father. A scouser who went to a private boy's college here, he left its mighty Albert Dock in the 1950s to travel by boat to Australia, where he became an insurance broker.
But while leading polar opposite lives, I find my father's and the Beatles's story linked in many ways. One of his part-time jobs was filling the cigarette vending machine at the Cavern, where on my first night in the city, I sing along with a merry crowd of enthusiastic fans to an authentic cover band, Saturday Night with the Beatles. The Cavern, which recently celebrated its 56th birthday, is not on the original site of the legendary music venue, but it is an almost exact replica. The lead singer, who resembles John, apparently sees himself as a bit of a celebrity and expects people to treat him like Lennon, my drinking partner yells in my ear. I try to picture my classical-music-loving father filling the cigarette machine in a place like this with the Beatles performing to a sweaty crowd of mostly screaming women. Nope, I can't imagine it.
Surprisingly in a soccer-mad city where you're either red (Liverpool) or blue (Everton), the Beatles don't appear to have followed football, yet there are tenuous claims of a link between McCartney and Everton, where my father played in the B-side. Paul's uncles used to support the Toffees, and it's understood that every now and then he would attend a game with them.
I visualise this as I stand at Goodison Park, which apart from one main extension, looks exactly how it would have when my father played on the hallowed turf. My family has an old black-and-white photo of my father, young and fit, centre-front with the team, his coach wearing a black trench coat, a scarf and a jaunty gangster-style hat. My father lived not far from the grounds in the working-class suburb of Walton, not to be confused with the affluent suburb of Woolton, where Lennon grew up with his aunt, Mimi. As hard as I try I can't picture him here either. What's so astonishing about Liverpool is the way you can trace the lives of the Beatles in places that remain as they were in their heyday.
I join Blue Badge guide Sylvia O'Malley on a fascinating driving expedition of her home city - which last year celebrated its most famous export's 50th anniversary - but she is discreet, and respects the privacy of those now living in the former homes of the Beatles and their manager, Brian Epstein.
There's a museum, The Beatles Story, where you can relive the band's birth through to their solo careers, which again is surprisingly tasteful, as well as factual and thoroughly entertaining.
Diehard fans can stay in the Hard Day's Night Hotel (the Lennon Suite features a white baby grand piano) or check in to a "Yellow Submarine" painted to look like the vessel on the cover of the record with the same name and which floats on a mooring at the docks. That's about as garish as it gets.
Of the two surviving Beatles, only Paul owns property in Liverpool, and it surprises me to learn (thinking he was the one who had the more privileged upbringing) that he moved almost constantly as a child (10 houses all up), as his mother was a district nurse. His last home, a narrow nondescript brick residence, is the only council house to become a National Trust site. Paul and George met on the top deck of the school bus, and Sylvia points out the very stop where McCartney would have stepped aboard that fateful trip.
She also points out where John rode his bicycle across the golf course to Paul's house to ask him to join his band , and the old quarry that was the inspiration for the title of the British skiffle and rock'n'roll group the Quarrymen, formed by Lennon in Liverpool in 1956, which evolved into the Beatles.
We also see St Peter's Church where the young John was a choirboy, and the Liverpool Institute where George (the only Beatle encouraged to be a musician) and Paul attended. It's next door to the Liverpool College of Art where John went, in the city's Bohemian neighbourhood still populated by sculptors, painters, writers and poets. It makes me smile to see young hopeful musicians carrying guitar cases around the city, and Sylvia tells me you can take a degree in Beatles music at the Liverpool Hope University, while McCartney established the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts in 1985 and visits regularly.
That night at Blakes restaurant in the Hard Day's Night Hotel, I dine on Isle of Mull scallops from the Scottish island where McCartney has long owned a farm (he wrote Mull of Kintyre as a tribute to the picturesque peninsula), and think about how similar in many ways the young Beatles were to my own father - a Liverpudlian with a dream to leave the industrial port city and make something of himself.
As I had walked along the Albert Dock earlier that day, a biting wind whipping my hair into a frenzy, I realised that both the Beatles and my father would have left from the same place, sailing away along the River Mersey to a more promising life. My father first left as an 18-year-old and returned briefly a few years later when his own father died. He then sailed to Australia for good, where he met and married my mother, a Sydney dental nurse, only returning once briefly as part of a family trip through Europe to show us where he was raised.
At that time, the late '70s, Liverpool was not a pretty picture, in fact it was a rather depressing place that had seen better days. Mum admits she couldn't get out of there fast enough.
Today it's a completely rejuvenated and buzzing city, proud of its roots, its magnificent architecture, maritime history and incredible music and sporting heritage.
It was also voted the friendliest city in Britain for two years running by Conde Nast Traveller.
Dad, all these years laters, would have been proud to see what became of his home town. But even here, treading the well-worn cobblestones that surround the docks, I can't hear his footsteps or imagine him boarding a boat and sailing away forever from his home, his family and his country.
But I do finally find the connection I'm searching for - at Liverpool's Lime Street station. There, a teenage girl stands at the entrance crying. I walk by her, but something in her tear-stained face prompts me to turn back. Through sobs, she tells me she's lost her ticket. While I'm there, another passenger and a rail staff member stop and check on her, too.
As I walk away, a workman in a hard hat stops me, and says to me in the most charming singsong scouser accent that "It's wonderful people still care".
It's in that moment, his rough working hand on my arm, that I'm again a child looking up into my father's face. In his voice and distinctly scouser appearance, I find my dad. Being here and meeting others like him has helped me discover his roots, understand his ambition and drive, his nostalgia for the mother country, his passion for soccer, cups of tea, Mars bars, poached eggs, and even his family's endearing way of describing each other as "my Eileen" or "my Ted".
So, sure, come to Liverpool for the Beatles, but I promise you'll leave this magnificent city with so much more.
In a stunning converted warehouse, the Tate Liverpool celebrates its 25th anniversary in May. It houses the national collection of British art from 1500 to the present, as well as international modern art; see tate.org.uk/visit/tate-liverpool.
Take in the atmosphere of a home game at either Everton (Goodison Park) or Liverpool (Anfield) football clubs; see evertonfc.com, liverpoolfc.com.
Wander the 19th-century UNESCO World Heritage Albert Dock, boasting Britain's largest group of Grade 1-listed buildings and home to the Merseyside Maritime Museum, the International Slavery Museum and the Wheel of Liverpool; see albertdock.com.
Admire the trio of landmarks at nearby Pier Head, another World Heritage site, featuring "The Three Graces": the Royal Liver Building, the Cunard Building and the Port of Liverpool Building.
Liverpool ONE is a £1 billion ($1.5 billion) retail and residential development; see Liverpool-one.com. A stroll along the historic "Rope Walks" brings you to Bold Street for bars, cafes and the Church of St Luke, which was bombed during WW2.
Getting there Virgin Atlantic offers daily flights to London (23hr) via Hong Kong with new seamless connections to Manchester from Sydney and Melbourne starting March 31. Sale fares start from $1839 from Sydney and $1853 from Melbourne, until February 28 for travel March 31-May 31 and September 1-November 25. Phone 1300 727 340; see virgin-atlantic.com. TransPennine Express offers regular fast train connections (45 min) from Manchester Airport to Liverpool's Lime Street Station; see tpexpress.co.uk.
Staying there
Hope Street Hotel is an 89-room historic boutique property in the city's cultural quarter with Egyptian-cotton sheets, Bang & Olufsen TV and sound systems, wooden free-standing baths and excellent in-house restaurant. Rooms from £124 ($189) a night; see www.hopestreethotel.co.uk.
Hotel Indigo offers contemporary rooms, a short walk from Albert Dock from £99; see hotelindigoliverpool.co.uk.
Hard Day's Night Hotel is a tasteful Beatles-inspired hotel, restaurant and bar. Rooms from £95; see harddaysnighthotel.co.uk. The Yellow Submarine is a three-bedroom converted houseboat featuring film, music memorabilia and designer furniture, priced from £165 a night midweek; see yellowsubliverpool.co.uk.
While there
Book a tour with Blue Badge guide Sylvia O'Malley, priced from £90 for a three-hour walking tour and £200 for a three-hour car tour; +44 780 300 2464. Tickets for Saturday with the Beatles cost £15; see cavernclub.org.
Rub shoulders with the city's smart set at The Restaurant Bar and Grill, offering fantastic steaks and cool cocktails; see individualrestaurants.com/bar-and-grill /liverpool. Liverpool's best coffee can be found at the Bold Street Coffee Company; see boldstreetcoffee.co.uk.
Enjoy live music and a drink at the Epstein Theatre and Brian's Bar - a theatre named in honour of the Beatles' manager Brian Epstein; see epsteinliverpool.co.uk.
More information visitliverpool.com; visitbritain.com.
Sheriden Rhodes was a guest of Visit Britain, Virgin Atlantic and VisitLiverpool.


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Paula Broadwell, the biographer and mistress of now-former CIA Director David Petraeus, revealed sensitive if not classified information about the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi during a talk on Oct. 26 in Denver, Blake Hounshell of Foreign Policy reports.
"Now I don't know if a lot of you heard this, but the CIA annex [to the consulate] had actually—had taken a couple of Libyan militia members prisoner and they think that the attack on the consulate was an effort to try to get these prisoners back," Broadwell, a former military intelligence officer, said in response to a audience question about Benghazi.
The CIA adamantly denied the claims a couple of hours after Israeli news outlet Arutz Sheva first published a partial transcript of Broadwell's speech.
But a source told Fox News today that "there were Libyan militiamen being held at the CIA annex in Benghazi and that their presence was being looked at as a possible motive for the staged attack on the consulate and annex that night."
Furthermore, multiple intelligence sources who have served in Benghazi told Fox News that prisoners from additional countries in Africa and the Middle East were also held and interrogated by CIA contractors at the Benghazi annex in the days prior to the attack.
Later on in the answer, Broadwell added another layer to the potential motive for an attack when she says "it's true that we have signal intelligence that shows the, um, the militia members in Libya were watching the demonstration in Cairo and it did sort of galvanize their effort."
Broadwell's remarks certainly add to the CIA intrigue surrounding the attack that killed four Americans at two locations.
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Robocopter gunship abandons sinking warship project
US Navy shifts droid kill-chopper to safer berth
American arms'n'aerospace tech titan Northrop Grumman has announced that its "Fire Scout" unmanned helicopter will now be trialled by the US Navy on a different class of warship than that planned.
This is good news for the robochopper, as the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) it was originally intended to fly from is in severe trouble and may never see service in significant numbers.
No pilot required - not even for remote control.
"This is great news for the Navy and for the Fire Scout," said Doug Fronius, Northrop's top droidcopter exec.
"It's a win-win situation because the Fire Scout gets to progress through testing and initial operational capability. It will be ready to deploy on operational missions and will be ready when the LCS needs it."
It may be a while until LCS is good to go, however. The foundering inshore-warship project has suffered from runaway costs and its raison d'etre was regarded by many as dubious from the start.
Fire Scout for its part stands out among unmanned whirlybirds for two main qualities. First, it is a true robot aircraft, able to land itself without being remotely controlled by a pilot - even if the pad is on a moving ship out at sea.
Secondly, the Fire Scout is relatively big compared to small spy choppers and the like, based on an existing, small commercial helicopter design with improved rotors and the cockpit for obsolete fleshy flyboys removed. This means it can carry an impressive arsenal of weaponry and plenty of fuel. A Fire Scout can stay up for five hours, tooled up with laser-guided missiles or "Viper Strike" mini-glider pocket smartbombs.
Fire Scout is still smaller than a normal military chopper, however, so that as a rule of thumb two can be carried by a warship in place of a regular whirlybird. This offers the ability to maintain continuous aerial presence to smaller frigate and destroyers, an attractive feature. Frigate-sized warships tend to be heavily dependent on their helicopters, so the limitations of a single airframe and aircrew can be a big problem.
The USN hasn't said just what ship class will take the Fire Scout programme forward, but Northrop says operational evaluation will start this autumn.
Meanwhile, Fire Scout is also planned to form part of the US Army's future networked droid legion (aka Future Combat Systems), in which role it is known as Class IV UAV. ®
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With two regular season games left in the high school season and the college football season two-thirds complete, the outlook has changed for the most followed local teams
How do things shake out now?
Pike County Pirates:
The Pirates, playing in Class AAA for the first season, have been a pleasant surprise. They hung tough with top-ranked Peach County this past Friday and the Trojans needed some help from the officials to escape with a hard-fought, 24-14 win. Pike is 4-4 overall and 2-2 in region play.
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What Do You Do?
So, you want to be a GM?
Everyone thinks they can sign players, release players, trade players, spend money, negotiate with agents, tackle arbitration cases, appear on radio/TV, work in a beautiful office, watch hundreds of games and players. Trades are simple, "We'll trade you a box of pop corn for your gold watch." Grab a yellow pad, jot down 3-4 trades and let's start the season. Easy.
Sorry, folks, it isn't that easy.
Ruben Amaro Jr.'s job took a potentially complicated turn today with the announcement that Chase and Pedro are having surgery. The announcement will push Donovan McNabb off of tomorrow's sports pages.
Total recovery for Chase may require 4 to 6 months, mostly dependant on what the arthroscopic surgery entails. He could miss the start of the season. No one really knows right now. Pedro should be back for spring training.
With Eric Bruntlett and minor league infielder Jason Donald on the roster, they are on hand to fill in. Donald has been a shortstop. He spent time in the Arizona Fall League playing both second and third. Today, he was chosen as the Arizona Fall League's Dernell Stenson Sportsmanship Award. The award exemplifies unselfishness, hard work and leadership. Plus, he has some definite baseball tools.
So, you are the GM? What do you do? Panic isn't an option. Neither is signing Hall of Fame second baseman Ryan Sandberg, bringing back Manny Trillo or moving Carlos Ruiz back to second base, where he played as an amateur.
What's on your yellow pad?
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Ok, here's my 2 cents: Feliz shouldn't be an issue, but if he returns late, you use Greg Dobbs until he is ready to go. As for Utley, bring up Donald if he is ready to go, if not, use Eric Bruntlett. He did great at shortstop when Jimmy was out and will have plenty of notice to prepare to play 2nd. However, I like Donald's bat over Bruntlett, so go with Donald if he shows in Spring Training that he is ready. I really think this team has all the tools it needs to move forward without Utley for a short time, but this will also depend on left field. I am hoping we can get Burrell back, but if not, there has to be a solid replacement. I am not fully sold on the Ibanez idea as he is getting up there in years. Baldelli is a definite no; he is constantly playing through pain and rarely makes it though a whole game. Jerry Hairston Jr. has potential, but did not have good numbers his first 2 seasons and has not yet been a full time starter. Hermida is young and did not have a great average and lots of K's. We did just pick up John Mayberry Jr…if he is ready out of Spring, that's a possibility. Tough decisions all around, but I agree that no one should panic. This team has proven over and over again that it can and will get the job done despite injuries and setbacks. I think Ruben should work with what he has and then keep his eyes and ears open for any right-handed bat that may be available and can bolster the line-up. And as always, I am available for consultations anytime :O)
It appears that Feliz should be available for the start of the season. I think we need to be cautious and monitor Chase closely to see when he will be available. No need to look for any long term replacement while we have Bruntlett and Donald as options. If his rehab drags out through spring training, we may need to look at other options at that time. No need to panic right now.
Left field could be an issue if we can't sign Burrell to a reasonable "home-town" contract. I would offer him two years at 10 million per, with an option. He is getting up there in years and has never been much of an outfielder. He'll probably get substantial offers from AL teams to DH and play a little in the outfield when necessary. Otherwise, Jenkins will probably get a lot of playing time, but we'll need a righthanded bat to platoon and fill in at times as the fourth outfielder. Werth looks like an everyday player.
Marson should have the opportunity to make the roster and earn some playing time at catcher. Ruiz had a great postseason, but he still is what he is. I think, in the end, he will have a great career here as a solid backup.
Re-sign Moyer. Happ and Kendrick can fight it out for the fifth spot, with the loser going to Lehigh Valley as insurance. Carrasco should get lots of innings in spring training and should be considered as a bullpen piece similar to what the Yankees did with Chamberlain and the Rays did with Price. He should be ready for the rotation in 2010.
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Selected Public Collections and Commissions
Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York City, NY
Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto, Japan
Museum of Art & Design; New York City, NY
Smithsonian Renwick Gallery - National Museum of American Art; Washington, D.C.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Montreal, Canada
Blumenthal Performing Arts Center; Charlotte, NC
The American Craft Museum; New York City, NY
Huntington Museum; Huntington, WV
Museum Bellerive; Zurich, Switzerland
Museum of Decorative Arts; Lausanne, Switzerland
The Detroit Institute of Arts; Detroit, MI
The Toledo Museum of Art; Toledo, OH
Musee de Verre; Sars-Poteries, France
Corning Museum of Glass; Corning, NY
Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art; Palm Beach, FL
Stadt Museum; Fraunau, West Germany
Glas Museum; Ebeltoft, Denmark
Frontrunner Awards for Sara Lee Corporation; Chicago, IL
The John Pappajohn Pavilion, Iowa City Hospital; Iowa City, IA
Berman Museum of Art; Collegeville, PA
U.S. Chancellery in La Paz; Bolivia
Indianapolis Museum of Art; Indianapolis, IN
Rhode Island School of Design Museum; Providence, RI
Grounds for Sculpture; Hamilton, NJ
Providence Park Department; Providence, RI
Columbus Museum of Art; Columbus, OH; 'Tool-Wall'
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 "Tools and Other Friends", The Lowe Museum, Miami, FL
2014 "Reflections & Contradictions", The Katzen Arts Center, American University Museum, Washington,DC
2013 "Mary's Tools", OK Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
2012 "Fluid Lines", Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2010 "Shaffer Precis", Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2008 "Mary Shaffer: Clear Vision, Reflection, Transparency and Glass", Ellen Noel Museum, Midland/Odessa, TX
2008 "Mary Shaffer", Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL (and 1994, 1992)
2007 "Mary Shaffer: Visions 1970-2007", Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (and 2004, 2002, 1998, 1994)
2007 Kunstmuseum, Kitzbühel, Austria
2007 "Markings", Sculpturesite Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
2004 Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2004 Hawk Gallery, Columbus, OH
2003 Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, MI
2003 Sandra Ainsley Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2002 Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL (and 2000, 1998, 1996)
2001 Habatat Galleries, MI & FL (and 1999, 1997, 1994, 1992, 1990)
2001 Chappell Gallery, Boston, MA
1999 Heller Gallery, New York City, NY (and 1996, 1980, 1978)
1998 William Travers Gallery, Seattle, WA
1997 Sanske Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
1995 Troyer Fitzpatrick Lassman Gallery, Washington, DC (and 1993)
1994 Habatat Gallery, Aspen, CO
1991 Rochelle Monique Gallery, San Diego, CA
1988 O.K. Harris Gallery, New York City, NY (and 1982, 1979, 1977, 1975)
1982 Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland
1981 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, New York City, NY
1980 Mandel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1979 Hadler Rodriques Gallery, Houston, TX
1979 "Just the Two of Us", Fine Arts Gallery, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
1979 "Hang Out", Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1977 "In Memory of", Fine Arts Gallery, Murray State University, Murray, KY
1977 "Spilled Milk", Anyart Gallery, Providence, RI
1974 Warren Benedek Gallery, New York, NY
1973 Gallery G.A.P., Rome, Italy
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013, "Black, White, Red," a new leaf gallery | sculpturesite, Sonoma, CA
2012 "the WALL show", a new leaf gallery | sculpturesite, Sonoma, CA
2010 Art Fair, Miami, LA and Chicago
2009 "Heinemann Collection", Corning Museum, Corning, NY
2009 "Shoebox Sculpture Invitational", International Traveling Show, University of Hawaii Gallery of Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI
2008 "Flux: Reflections on Contemporary Glass", Santa Fe Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
2008 "Inaugural Exhibition", MAD, New York City, NY
2007 "Glass from Gall to Chihuly: Highlights from the Lowenbach Collection", The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
2006 "Two Mediums/Two Expressions", Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, OH
2006 "New England Glass: The Quiet Force", Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA
2005 "Sculpting In Glass", Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
2005 "Art Fair Chicago", Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 "Blown", Hook-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
2002 "Red as a Color for Exploration and Expression", Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2002 "Transcending Translucence", ARTS Manhattan, Long Beach, CA
2002 "San Francisco Art Fair", Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 "Sculpture in Glass", Walton Arts Center, Joy Pratt Markham Gallery, Fayetteville, AK
2001 "Glass: Artist, Influence and Evolution", Habatat Gallery, Pontiac, MI
2001 "Breaking the Mold: Conceptual Glass", Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
2001 "Celebrations in Glass: Contemporary Studio Glass", Northern Indiana Arts Association, William J. Bachman Gallery, IN
2001 Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico
1999-2001 "Hot and Cool: Contemporary Glass Works", Exhibits USA, College Station, Tyler, TX
2000 "SOFA New York", Heller Gallery, New York City, NY (and 1999)
2000 "SOFA Chicago", Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 "Glass: Artist, Influence & Evolution", Kreft Gallery, Ann Arbor MI
2000 "29th Annual International Exhibition", Habatat Gallery, Pontiac MI
2000 "Buy/By Women", Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Shadyside, PA
2000 "Millennium Glass", Kentucky Art & Craft Foundation, Louisville, KY
1999 "Glorious Glass 1997-1999", Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
1999 "SOFA Chicago", Habatat Galleries, MI (and 1998)
1999 "28th Annual International Exhibition", Habatat Galleries (and 1979-1982, 1987-1999), Pontiac, MI
1999 "Clearly Sculpture", Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, MI
1999 "The Art of Glass", Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 "Women Artists from the Land of Enchantment", LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, curated by Lucy Lippard
1999 "Essence of Water", 5 Sculptors, Fujiya HR Center, Kyoto, Japan; Aster Plaza, Hiroshima, Japan
1998 "Inaugural Exhibition", Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1998 "Duo", La Verrerie de Biot, Biot, France
1998 "Glass: A Group Exhibition", Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
1998 "SOFA New York", Marx Saunders Gallery, New York City, NY
1997 "Glass Today by American Studio Artists", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1997 "Masters of Contemporary Glass: Selections from the Glick Collection", Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
1997 "SOFA", Navy Pier, Heller Gallery, NY & Habatat Galleries, MI, Chicago, IL
1997 "Union of Ideas", Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
1997 "Calido", Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
1997 "Glass Today: Recent American Studio Glass from Cleveland Collections", The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
1997 "Molten Marriage", Pilabaum Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1997 "Blowing Hot Cutting Cold", Lakeview Museum of Arts & Science, Peoria, IL
1996 "3 Views: Brock, Shaffer, Zynsky", Reilly Hawk Gallery, Columbus, OH
1996 "Studio Glass", Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
1996 "People in Glass Houses", Robert Lehman Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1996 "12 x 12", Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1996 "New Look; Contemporary Women Sculptors", Washington Square, Washington, DC
1996 "35 Years of American Glass", The Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL
1996 "Venezia Aperto Vetro", Museo Correr, Venice, Italy
1996 "Sculpture: Crossing Boundaries", International Sculpture Conference, Providence, RI
1996 "Convergence IX, International Arts Festival", Providence Park Department, Providence, RI
1996 "Four Decades of Discovery, The 40th Anniversary of the American Craft Museum", American Craft Museum, New York City, NY
1995 "A Regional Survey from Maryland to Louisiana", Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
1995 Kouros Gallery, New York City, NY
1995 Hsinchu Cultural Center, Taiwan
1995 "Spring-Summer Show", Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
1995 "Glass America", Heller Gallery, New York City, NY
1995 Shidoni Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1995 "24th International Exhibition", Habatat Gallery, MI (and 1979-1982; 1987-1995)
1995 Troyer Fitzpatrick Lassman Gallery, Washington, DC
1995 Constantine Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1995 Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC
1993-1995 Holsten Gallery, Stockbridge, MA
1994 "Across Borders/Sans Frontieras", Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
1994 "Transparanscene", Palm Beach Community College of Art, Fort Worth, FL
1994 "Three", Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI
1994 "On Site: Sculpture from the Berman Atelier", Phillip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA
1993 "Glass Installations", American Craft Museum, New York, NY
1993 "From Hand to Hand: The Saxe Collection", The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
1993 Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
1993 "Our Public Image", The Hans and Walter Bechtler Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1993 Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL
1993 Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
1993 The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, OK
1993 The Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA
1993 Marx Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993 Constantine Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1993 Holsten Gallery, Stockbridge, MA
1991-1993 "The 14th Annual International Invitational", Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL
1990-1993 "New Art Forms", Navy Pier, with Habatat, Chicago, IL
1992 "Cristalomancia", The Ruffino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
1992 "Glass From Craft to Contemporary Art 1962-1992", The Morris Museum of Art, Morristown, NJ
1992 "A Personal Perspective", Nave Museum, Victoria, TX
1992 "Materials and Mass", Academy of the Arts, Easton, MD
1992 "Clearly Art: Pilchuck's Glass Legacy", The Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA (Travels through 1995)
1992 "Collectors Eye", Rockville Arts Place, Rockville, MD
1992 "Glass Now '92", Yamaha Corporation, Japan
1989-1992 "8th Glass Invitational", Judy Youens Gallery, Houston, TX
1988-1992 "Scale Detail", Habatat Galleries, Farmington Hills, MI
1991 "Henry Moore International Sculpture Competition", Hakone Open-Air Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1991 "Sight Through Touch", National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio, Brazil
1991 "Masters in Glass", Naples Museum, Naples, FL
1991 "Le Verre", Duchamp-Villon Art Space, Rouen, France
1988-1990 "World Glass Now", Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
1988-1990 "The Eloquent Object", Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK (National tour includes Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; and The Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA.)
1989 "Sculpture '89", Washington Square Partner, Washington, DC
1989 "Glass America", Heller Gallery, New York City, NY
1989 Kunsthaus am Museum, Koln, Germany
1988 "New Aesthetics", Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL (and 1987)
1987 "Annual Juried Exhibition and Invitational Show", Columbia Museum of Art and The South Carolina Arts Commission, Columbia, SC
1987 "Sculpture Today", Old State House, Hartford, CT
1987 "Glass as Sculpture", Contemporary Craft Association, Portland, OR
1986 "New American Glass: Focus 2", Huntington Museum, Huntington, WV
1984-1986 "Americans in Glass", Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wasau, WI
1984-1986 International tour by LYWAM & Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf. Includes: Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland; Hallands Lansmuseer, Sweden; Kestner Museum, Hanover, Germany; Kunstindustriemueet, Copenhagen, Denmark; Gemeentemuseum, Amhem, The Netherlands; City Art Gallery, Manchester, England; Museum for Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany; and Stedelijik Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1983 "Sculptured Glass", Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
1981-1983 "Americans in Glass", Leigh Yawky Woodson Art Museum, Wassau, WI (Co-sponsored with Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY and The Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL; tour by AMA includes: Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI; Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD; Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL; University of Minnesota Art Gallery, Minneapolis, MN; Anchorage Historical and Fine Art Museum, Anchorage, AK; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO; and Art Center Inc., South Bend, IN.)
1982 Stadt Museum, Fraunau, Germany
1982 "4 Artists, 4 Views", Jesse Besser Museum, Alpena, MI
1982 "Premier Symposium du Verre", Musee du Verre, Sars-Poteries, France
1982 Museum of Modern Art, Milan, Italy
1982 Gallery Passman, Frieburg, Germany
1982 Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada
1981 "Matter, Memory, Meaning", Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI. (Circulated through the Art Museum Association.)
1979 Musee Chateau d'Annecy, d'Annecy, France
1979 Gallery des Tanneurs, Tours, France
1979 Habatat Galleries, Dearborn, MI
1979 Pyramid Gallery, Rochester, NY
1978 "Painting and Sculpture Today", Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
1978 "Conceptual Art", Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA
1978 Huntington Museum, Huntington, WV
1978 "Glass America", Lever House, New York, NY
1978 The Hadler Galleries, New York, NY
1978 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1978 "Earth, Wind and Fire", Fine Arts Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1978 Newport Arts Association, Newport, RI
1978 "Private Parts", What Cheer Arts, Providence, RI
1977 Mercado del Sale, Milan, Italy
1976 "New American Glass", Huntington Museum, Huntington, WV
1976 National Endowment for the Arts Fellows, Newport Art Association, Newport, RI
1976 Fine Arts Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1976 Gallery Toselli, Milan, Italy
1974 Warren Benedek Gallery, New York, NY
1970 Tyler School of Art Gallery, Temple University, Rome, Italy
1970 Rhode Island Arts Festival, Providence, RI
1970 Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Honors and Awards
2009 USA Simon Award, USA Artist, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Award of Excellence, Art Critic Award, Habatat International, Royal Oak, MI
2007 Award of Excellence, Corning Museum of Glass, Curator's Award, Corning, NY
1996 Innovated use of Glass and Sculpture Award, Urban Glass, New York, NY
1995 Visionary, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
1994 Fellowship for Individual Artists. National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1987 Fellowship for Individual Artists. D.C. Commission of Arts and Humanities
1981 Glaspris '81. Kassel Competition, West Germany.
1979 Huber Grant. Wellesley College. Funded study of art in Czechoslovakia.
1977 Glass in Architecture Award. National Endowment for the Arts through Rhode Island School of Design.
1974 Fellowship for Individual Artists. National Endowment for the Arts.
1972 Citation of Excellence. U.S. Labor Department. For directing manpower program.
2001 "The New Millenium Collection", Nancy N. Stem, Katheryne Fowler, NMMC, Santa Fe, NM ISBN: 0-9679034-1-6
2000 "Glass Art from Urban Glass", Richard Wilfred Yelle, A Schiffer Art Book
1999 "Glass: An Artist's Medium", Lucartha Kohler, Krause Publications, Iola, WI
1999 "Mary Shaffer Lecture", Grounds for Sculpture
1996 "International New Glass", Dan Klein & Attilia Dorigato, Arsenale Editrice '96, Italy, ISBN: 88-7743-172-5
1996 "Modern Works", Habatat Galleries, MI
1995-1996 "Mary Shaffer: A Natural Force," Awarded US International Film and Video Festival Certificate for Creative Excellence. "Center-Light; Point-of-View;" NBC coverage and "The Judy Youens Lecture Series"
1992 "Museum Bellerive Zurich GLAS, Band I 1945-1991," Zurich, Switzerland
1992 "Artist Confronting the Inconceivable", American Interfai


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Financial planner Dick Vodra, a longtime friend, sold his business to a like-minded colleague not long ago. Hoping to benefit from his perspective in retirement, I asked him how other advisors are dealing with succession planning these days.
Many have no intention of retiring, Vodra told me. They insist, "I'll work till I drop." But, he added, if someone were to ask what would happen after they drop, often there's silence.
Succession planning has been discussed for a number of years as independent advisors move into their 50s, 60s and 70s. Although most of these older professionals want to reap the rewards of their hard work, pass on a legacy and enjoy the next stage of life, some resist dealing with this transition in a way that will serve their clients and themselves well.
To examine some of the fears and anxieties around passing on a business, I interviewed three experts who are frequently involved in this process: David DeVoe, managing partner of DeVoe & Co., a mergers and acquisitions consulting firm in San Francisco; Barbara Hudock, CEO of Hudock Moyer Wealth Resources in Williamsport, Penn.; and Cam Marston, president of Generational Insights, a consulting firm in Mobile, Ala.
Denial of death and dying is a huge element in our culture, so it's not surprising that many advisors act as if they'll go on forever at the top of their game. But I have to believe that niggling fears at the back of these advisors' minds are warning them that they're not taking care of their business, or their clients, by avoiding the possibility of future decline. Just as important, they are passing up opportunities to plan a third age that might be richer and even more fulfilling for themselves.
Dave DeVoe runs into this issue in his presentations to wealth managers. "When I ask if succession planning is important, 80% will raise their hands," he said. "When I ask who has a written succession plan in place, only 25% of the hands will remain."
Why so much resistance? Said DeVoe, "I think there's psychological friction because succession means change, and retirement ultimately leads to death."
But attitudes may be changing. "'Die with your boots on' as a succession plan is a refrain I hear much less than I did 10 years ago—which is a good thing, because that outcome has a negative effect on the client base," DeVoe said. "Imagine an 84-year-old client getting a letter in the mail or a call from an administrator saying, 'Your advisor died—you're on your own.'"
His advice: "At a minimum, you want to have a buy/sell agreement in place with an advisor who shares your investment and client service philosophy. Then if you get hit by the proverbial bus, your clients can turn to someone who is ready to serve them."
The idea that you can work on and on while serving clients as well as ever is in most cases a fantasy. The reality of old age is that bodies tend to wear out and minds slow down. While there's no harm in expecting the best from the years ahead, it's wise to prepare for the worst—the very advice financial planners often give their clients.
"I don't believe age should be a reason for leaving," wealth consultant Barbara Hudock told me. "This work is my passion, and I do plan to continue for a very long time. But if I got the impression that I was not adding value any more in working with clients and managing details, I'd make plans to leave."
For years, Hudock has been mentoring and training her staff to gradually take over more of the roles she handles. "I've structured it so that I can stay involved without doing everything I did before," she explained. With multilevel relationships in place, the firm is less vulnerable if anything should happen to her. "If I get hit by a car tomorrow, I might be—hopefully will be—missed, but my clients know they'll be in good hands," she said.
In her view, more advisors would do well to prepare carefully with their partners or junior staff for their firm's future: "We need to be honest and direct, recognize our strengths and talk to each other." Moreover, it's a good idea to have a succession plan in writing, as Hudock Moyer Wealth Resources does.
Older advisors may also resist handing their clients over to someone who won't understand or handle them as well. "We all have that fear if we are good," Hudock agreed. "We love our clients, and we love to make them happy by taking good care of them. Our ego is very invested in that relationship."
The solution, she believes, is to cultivate your own successors. "What I have done with all of my clients is to bring someone into every meeting who can take notes and help me follow up," she said. "Very gradually I will let them take over a piece of the meeting. Eventually it evolves to the point where the person I brought in is running the meeting and I am there for the relationship."
For Hudock, there's enormous satisfaction in knowing that her clients and her firm will continue to thrive if anything happens to her. "I believe that is because we started at a minute level and very gradually [our service support people] got more and more involved." The process, she said, has been "so easy and so simple. The most important thing is to start with baby steps. Start wherever you are, with whoever you're working with."
At present, Hudock's internal succession growth strategy is not that common. Many advisors feel they don't have the time, energy or perhaps the coaching skills to train someone younger to take over the business.
"Coaching gives you an opportunity to see if someone will succeed or fail," Dave DeVoe pointed out. "Many advisors acknowledge that coaching employees is not a strength they have, but they need to develop this key management skill." The learning process may take some time, particularly for entrepreneurs who built the business on their own. "After so many years of being responsible for everything, it can be hard for them to give up control," DeVoe noted.
Consultant Cam Marston summed up, "It may be a tremendous amount of work to train the next generation, and that can seem like a daunting task. Owners may also fear that someone younger won't represent their legacy well. In addition, thinking about succession means confronting your own mortality, and no one likes to do that.
"These are normal, everyday emotions that anyone in their situation would feel," he said. "However, they need to suck it up and do it anyway."
Closely held businesses with little turnover can develop dynamics resembling those of a dysfunctional family. In practices dominated by "the boss," younger employees may be reluctant to initiate talk about succession for fear of challenging "Dad" (or "Mom").
Regular company retreats can breathe air into a closed system like this, helping younger employees see that their elders are simply co-workers with more experience.
Cam Marston observed, "You can't just come in and say, 'Here's what I want to do.'" To build a bridge between generations, the younger person needs to validate and appreciate what the older has accomplished before encouraging them to move into the future. Marston suggested, "You need to start by saying, 'I respect what you built, and I'm not here to change it for change's sake. I just want to make some observations on market trends that we need to pay attention to.'"
Marston pointed out that planning for succession can also be sabotaged by a critical difference in viewpoint. "Older generations want to sell their book of business based on their hard work," said the Generational Insights president. "The younger generation wants to buy a business based on its potential, not its history. That's the big divide, where all the challenges come from. The older generation says, 'Look what I've created,' and the younger generation says, 'Yeah, but what's it going to do from now on?'"
Many older advisors would do well to take off their rose-colored glasses and contemplate the future more realistically. As Dick Vodra reminded me, it's far better to actively direct the process, shaping what happens to your clients and the value you've created, than to let it all erode after your death or impairment.
Unless you need to exit your business very soon, consider training a successor in small, gradual steps. For younger advisors willing to practice "courageous followership" (as my friend and author Ira Chaleff calls it), begin by respecting your elders' strengths, expertise and achievements, and valuing the company's mission. With this foundation, you may be able to suggest some changes that will help the business stay successful, and maximize your role in it.


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Mercury is named after the fleet-footed Roman god Mercury. Its chemical symbol, Hg, derives from its Latin name, hydrargyrum, which means liquid silver. Mercury, the only metal that is a liquid at room temperature, melts at –38.9 ºC, and boils at 356.6 ºC. (Click here for photos of a liquid mercury fountain). Elemental mercury is extremely toxic and rarely occurs free in nature. It is often found as the mineral cinnabar, HgS, which is a red solid at room temperature. Mercury is produced from cinnabar by heating it in air. The mercury vapor that is produced is distilled and cooled to form liquid mercury.
HgS (s) + O2 (g) Hg (g) + SO2 (g)
Mercury is used in thermometers, barometers, electrical switches, mercury vapor lamps, fluorescent lamps, paints, fungicides, insecticides, and antiseptics. Mercury vapor lamps are often used to light streets and gymnasiums . For more information on how mercury is used in lamps see (http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/chemweek/gasemit/gasemit.html). Mercury readily forms alloys known as amalgams with other metals and has been used for the extraction of precious metals such as gold. Dental amalgams are prepared by mixing approximately equal parts liquid mercury and an alloy powder composed of silver, tin, and copper. Industrially, mercury has been used primarily in battery manufacturing and chlorine-alkali production. In the chloralkali industry, the major process is electrolysis of aqueous sodium chloride, NaCl, to produce sodium hydroxide, NaOH, and chlorine, Cl2. The aqueous chloride ion is oxidized at a carbon anode in the reaction, and water is reduced at a liquid mercury cathode.
|anode: 2Cl-(aq) Cl2(g) + 2e-
|cathode: 2e- + 2Na+(aq) + 2H2O 2Na+(aq) + 2OH-(aq) + H2(g)
Mercury electrolytic cells are not the only types of cells that can be used for this process, but they were widely used for economic reasons. Mercury was commonly used in thermometers and barometers because it has a high rate of thermal expansion that is fairly constant over a wide temperature range. For safety reasons, mercury is no longer used in thermometers, and as a result of state and federal legislation and voluntary programs, most uses in paints and batteries have been limited.
In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, mercury nitrate, Hg(NO3)2, was used to soften rabbit fur to make felt hats. Mercury nitrate is a form of inorganic mercury that isn't absorbed by the body as easily as other species, but it was toxic enough to affect the brains of many hatmakers. The phrase "mad as a hatter", and the Mad Hatter of Lewis Carroll's novel Alice in Wonderland, are both from the same source, which is the toxic effect of mercury on the central nervous system. Symptoms of chronic mercury exposure include increased excitability, mental instability, tendency to weep, fine tremors of the hands and feet, and personality changes. In milder cases of mercury poisoning, reduced motor skills and dulled senses of touch, taste, and sight are reversible if exposure to mercury is halted. Unborn children are at greatest risk from low-level exposure to mercury. The most infamous case of severe mercury poisoning occurred at Minamata Bay, Japan, in 1952. The Chisson Chemical Company dumped mercury in Minamata harbor, and the residents of local fishing villages ate mercury-contaminated fish from the harbor. Hundreds of people were affected and 68 people died.
In the late 1980s, researchers found that fish taken from lakes in very remote areas from all around the world had high levels of mercury. These findings implicated atmospheric deposition as a major contaminant source of mercury. Mercury is found in the environment as a result of natural and human activities. Natural sources include volcanoes, natural mercury deposits, and volatilization from the ocean. The primary human-related sources include coal combustion, chlorine alkali processing, waste incineration, and metal processing. Best estimates to date suggest that human activities have about doubled or tripled the amount of mercury in the atmosphere, and the atmospheric burden is increasing by about 1.5 percent per year. Global anthropogenic emissions of mercury are estimated to range between 2000 and 6000 metric tons per year. Electric utilities, municipal waste combustors, commercial and industrial boilers, and medical waste incinerators account for approximately 80 percent of the total amount. Coal-fired utility boilers are the largest point source of unregulated mercury emissions in the United States.
Mercury exists in three oxidation states: Hgo (elemental mercury), Hg22+ (mercurous mercury), and Hg2+ (mercuric mercury). The properties and chemical behavior of mercury strongly depend on its oxidation state and its chemical form. Mercurous and mercuric mercury form numerous inorganic and organic chemical compounds. Organic forms of mercury, especially methylmercury, CH3Hg(II)X, where "X" is a ligand, typically Cl- or OH-, are the most toxic forms. Airborne mercury is primarily inorganic mercury. Elemental mercury can remain airborne for over a year and be transported thousands of miles before it is oxidized to Hg2+and deposited. The fraction of Hg2+ that occurs in mercury emitted from sources such as coal-fired power plants is not well established; however, if it turns out that a lot of the presumed Hg2+ is in fact elemental mercury, then mercury deposition is not a local and regional issue, but part of a larger global problem.
Airbourne mercury is eventually deposited to the ground and may ultimately make its way into lakes, rivers, streams, and wetlands, where some of it is transformed into methylmercury. Like many environmental contaminants, mercury bioaccumulates in fish, aquatic invertebrates, and mammals. Bioaccumulation is the process by which organisms can take up contaminants more rapidly than their bodies can eliminate them. The concentration of mercury in an organism tends to increase with increasing trophic level or position in the food chain. This occurs because the food source for organisms higher on the food chain is progressively more concentrated in mercury, thus magnifying bioaccumulation rates at the top of the food chain. The longer an organism lives, the more time they have to bioaccumulate mercury; therefore, larger predatory game fish tend to have the highest levels of mercury. More than 95% of the mercury found in fish and shellfish is in the form of methylmercury. Unlike organic contaminants, such as PCBs and dioxins, which concentrate in fish skin and fat, mercury concentrates in the muscle tissue of fish and can't be filleted or cooked out of consumable fish.
In the environment, sulfate-reducing bacteria take up mercury in its inorganic form and through metabolic processes convert it to methylmercury. Sulfate-reducing bacteria are found in anaerobic conditions, typical of the well-buried muddy sediments of rivers, lakes, and oceans where methylmercury concentrations tend to be highest. Sulfate-reducing bacteria use sulfur rather than oxygen as their cellular energy-driving system. One hypothesis is that the uptake of inorganic mercury by sulfate-reducing bacteria occurs via passive diffusion of the dissolved complex HgS. Once the bacterium has taken up this complex, it utilizes detoxification enzymes to strip the sulfur group from the complex and replaces it with a methyl group:
|CH3Hg(II)X + H2S
Upon methylation, the sulfate-reducing bacteria transport the new mercury complex back to the aquatic environment, where it is taken up by other microorganisms.
|Aquatic Mercury Cycle from The US Geological Survey
The major source of methylmercury exposure in humans is consumption of fish, marine mammals, and crustaceans. Once inside the human body, roughly 95% of the fish-derived methylmercury is absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract and distributed throughout the body. Uptake and accumulation of methylmercury is rapid due to the formation of methylmercury-cysteine complexes. Methylmercury is believed to cause toxicity by binding the sulfhydryl groups at the active centers of critical enzymes and structural proteins. Binding of methylmercury to these moieties constitutively alters the structure of the protein, inactivating or significantly lowering its functional capabilities.
Over forty states in the U.S. have issued health advisories regulating fish consumption due to high mercury levels. There are more than 15,000 lakes in Wisconsin, and all of them are covered by an advisory warning people about the level of mercury in the fish caught in those lakes. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have jointly issued a consumer advisory about mercury in fish and shellfish. They recommend that women who may become pregnant, pregnant women, nursing mothers, and young children not eat shark, swordfish, king mackerel, or tilefish because they contain high levels of mercury, and that they limit fish and shellfish consumption to 12 ounces (2 average meals) a week of a variety of fish and shellfish that are lower in mercury (http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/admehg3.html). Five of the most commonly eaten fish that are low in mercury are shrimp, canned light tuna, salmon, pollock, and catfish.
For more on mercury and other elements visit Chemical and Engineering News Magazine's Periodic Table


text: Father Benedict Groeschel unfolds the riches of prayer presented in the Catechism. His conferences are based on the premise that an essential condition of prater is devotion-the belief that God is listening and cares for us. While pursuing this theme, Father Benedict invites us to deepen our own devotional life as he explores the various kinds of prayer, including a special emphasis on using Scripture when we pray. In Part 7, Asking in Prayer, Father Benedict offers a moving reflection on when our prayers don't seem to be answered.


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Cunnamulla locals reckon that in their town, the handshake's stronger and the smile lasts longer. Perhaps that's why Slim Dusty's 'Cunnamulla fella' has become the epitome of bush folk and the bronze statue of him in the main street immortalises the larrikin in all Australians as he sits on his swag enjoying the moment.
Visit the Cunnamulla Fella Visitor Centre for a look into this bush legend and to collect maps of town and the many walks on offer. While you're at the Centre, take a look through the art gallery and interpretive displays explaining local history, opal mining, wool production, native vegetation and the importance of the Great Artesian Basin and its precious water.
The Cunnamulla Heritage Trail will let you glimpse the region's past including the development of a local pastoral industry that still supports the town today. Walking trails along the river and through the Cunnamulla bush land will encourage you to slide effortlessly into the relaxed way of outback life, but keep your eyes peeled for plentiful native wildlife hiding in the scrub.
Of course, one of the greatest pleasures of an outback holiday is having a yarn with the locals. If a yarn over the bar of one of the number of great bush pubs isn't enough, Cunnamulla hosts many regular social events including bowls and tennis, as well as the famous Cunnamulla Fella Festival. The Festival is held each year in August and its program includes country music and the excitement of a professional (PBR) bull ride.
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Cold and flu season hasn't descended quite yet. But that doesn't mean tots are immune from getting sick, especially with preschool gearing back up. Sore throats are especially common, but sometimes, it can be tough to know for sure whether your little one has a cough or strep. Here's what you need to know.
Every year, 15 million Americans (kids and adults) visit their doctors complaining of a sore throat, and up to 70 percent of them receive an Rx for antibiotics. The problem? Most sore throats are caused by a virus, and antibiotics are useless—and potentially harmful—when used for viral infections. So the Infectious Diseases Society of America has just released new guidelines to tell the difference between a cough or strep throat.
"The goal is to reduce unnecessary antibiotic usage and prevent development of antibiotic resistance," says the guidelines' lead author Stanford T. Shulman, MD, professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
How to tell if your child has a cough or strep throat
In kids younger than 5, only 24 percent of sore throats turn out to be strep. So before your pediatrician grabs his prescription pad, consider your child's symptoms. If she has a cough, runny nose, hoarseness and mouth sores, it's likely viral. With strep, your child will have a fever and super-painful swallowing, but none of the viral symptoms. Also know that children younger than 3 rarely get strep; and that the white, pus-filled areas on tonsils (called exudates by docs) don't automatically mean strep throat. "Viral infection can also be associated with exudates," says Shulman.
When strep is suspected, the new guidelines recommend that your pediatrician swab your child's throat and perform what's called a rapid antigen detection test, which provides results in minutes. If the test is positive, your pediatrician should prescribe good old inexpensive penicillin or amoxicillin (for those who are not allergic), both of which have proven to be highly effective in combating strep.
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This Christmas, give your beloved friends and family a thoughtful, inexpensive gift that'll keep on giving in the months to come: made-from-scratch vanilla extract. This recipe, which calls for only two ingredients and less than five minutes of prep, isn't just functional — it's also pretty and long-lasting. Watch the video to find out how to prolong the life of your homemade vanilla extract and how to package it as a beautiful gift for the holidays.


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House Republicans have defeated the bill to extend the DTV switch by a vote of 258-168 (less than two-thirds). In their view, a delay would confuse customers and financially burden television stations.
So, for now, end game is still happening on February 17th and not June 12th as the Obama administration had hoped. With the coupon program broke and an estimated 6.5 million US homes still running analogue, it seems that no matter when this goes down, chaos is unavoidable. [Physorg and Getty Images Photo ]


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Popular trend: Oil pulling
ORLANDO, Fla. – Oil pulling is everywhere. From magazine articles to TV, to social media, people are talking about it.
Holistic health practitioner CJ says more people are trying it but it's far from new.
"I started doing this two or three years ago. It's been around for thousands of years, oil pulling," CJ said.
Volunteers were asked to try sesame, sunflower and coconut oils for oil pulling to see what they thought.
The rules are simple:
- Swish with a table spoon of oil every morning
- 15 minutes before breakfast
- For two weeks straight
What you may not know is that you can add essential oils to your oil pulling session to help with other issues.
To boost immunity, add two to three drops of oregano oil to your table spoon of oil and swish.
Or if you suffer from headaches, CJ recommends adding frankincense and peppermint.
For allergies, add a drop of lemon, lavender and peppermint to your oil pulling session.
CJ explains how each oil helps with allergies.
"The lavender acts as a natural antihistamine. Lemon acts as a natural detoxifier helps reduce the production of mucus in the body and the peppermint opens up the airwaves," CJ said.
So how did our volunteers fare?
Holly Faries tested sesame oil.
"It wasn't too bad. It was better than I thought it was going to be," Faries said.
When asked if she noticed any changes, Faries said, "I'm not a good flosser, sorry to say, and when I do sometimes my gums bleed and they haven't! So I thought that was pretty impressive."
Jeanette Figueroa used coconut oil.
"It didn't taste as bad as I thought it was going to taste and I was actually able to do it for the 15 minutes each time," Figueroa said.
Shannon Mas swished with sunflower oil.
"I thought I could do five," Mas said. "And I did 20 minutes with no problem."
Mas said she did notice a whiter smile.
"One of my girlfriends asked what have I done I said 'I am doing the sunflower oil.' She said, 'Seriously they look whiter than they were,'" Mas said. "It's very simple and very cheap a lot cheaper than buying teeth bleach and all the gum things and just in the two weeks I have seen a huge difference."
While the women in this test swished for 15 minutes, for the best results, CJ recommends swishing 45 minutes to an hour. But you definitely don't want to swallow the oil as it could upset your stomach. Also, when you spit it out, don't use your sink. The oil could clog your pipes, so use a trash can.
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