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Birchwood at A Day Away opened today for business at 8151 Glencarin Blvd. The organization was founded 11 years ago. Its first rental home was on the former YWCA campus on Wells Street, then in the Ash Centre on Freeman Street.
"This has been a dream of ours for a long time, to have our own place, a place that's like home," said Stilabower, executive director of the nonprofit Birchwood. With 10,000 square feet of space, up to 50 clients can be accommodated. Currently the center averages about 22 clients a day and is open 5:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday.
Amenities available for the first time: a beauty shop; a library with a gas fireplace; a four seasons room with heated wood floors; a large nurses station; private offices for management; a coffee-snack bar for family members; a large storage room; full commercial kitchen; laundry facilities; covered portico; fenced courtyard; a private dining-meeting room; and a respite care wing where, starting in May, clients can stay for a night to give their caregivers a break.
During a walk-through of Birchwood several days before its opening, Stilabower and Armstead stood in awe at the spacious bathrooms, two with walk-in showers.
"We have nine bathrooms – nine of them!" Stilabower said, peering into each one with amazement. They had just three toilets in the former location. The wallcoverings in the bathrooms and throughout the facility were handpicked by Baekgaard, who also chose and provided most of the furnishings.
Furnishings in the private dining room have a special story. Baekgaard picked them out at the Atlanta showroom of Vera Bradley vendor Englishman's, based in London, Nichols said, recalling, "It was a rather large order." When Englishman's found out where the furniture was going, the owner told Baekgaard, "'This will be our gift.' It was mind-boggling," Nichols said.
Clients at Birchwood can participate in a variety of activities such as singing, exercise, crafts, story-telling and eating family style, made-from-scratch meals. The large activity-dining room will accommodate new activities and programming, Armistead said. One concept they are exploring is a "dementia caf�," in which affected individuals and their family and friends can come for monthly dances, movies or other entertainment in an accepting environment.
In communities across the nation, families are scrambling to find affordable, quality care for loved ones with dementia. Currently one in eight Americans over 65 has Alzheimer's – and the incidence is rising as baby boomers age. Birchwood is filling a significant need, Nichols said.
"Now we have this beautiful new facility and the opportunity to expand and reach so many other families in need," said Nichols, who serves on Birchwood's board of directors and is vice president for philanthropy and community relations for Vera Bradley. It was she who first introduced Baekgaard to A Day Away, where Nichols took her mother for a time. On Baekgaard's first visit, she saw something special in the staff and the programming but, like Nichols, she also saw the need for better facilities.
Their brainstorming with Stilabower and Armstead led to the new, permanent home for A Day Way. Nichols' husband, John, volunteered to oversee construction of the $2 million project.
Besides the financial and in-kind support of Baekgard, the Nichols and the Very Bradley Foundation, support has come from McMillen, the English Bonter Mitchell and the Wilson foundations, Fort Wayne Neurological Center and other business and individuals.
Nichols' mother, Pat Brueggeman, died in July, but Nichols says, "She would be so honored to see this today. This is such a spectacular addition to our community."


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I am 2wks and 3 days now (BA-under muscle/infram-375cc r/l) Opening doors, etc. have become noticeably difficult to open again, why am I sore? I feel like my implants will fall out (pressure). it is really hard to explain. I am worried I have done something to harm both breasts. Is this normal part of healing? Everything has gone really well since the beginning. However, after receiving my Remicade infusion (monday) by the next day is when these problems began like this. I'm scared.
Why Am I Sore? I Feel Like my Implants Will Fall out (Pressure). Extremely Sore; Causes? (photo)
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Sore 2 weeks after Breast Aug, starting to feel pain again
I agree with the other surgeons, your breasts are red and swollen and you have received remicade recently, you are positioned to have a complication and /or an infection, please see your surgeon ASAP!
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I would recommend you contact your surgeon promptly and get into the office for an examination. It is hard to be sure without an examination, but your breasts look red, and swollen still, so there may be a fluid buildup or an infection.
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Your photos shows a breast that is red and swollen on the left. This is not the norm after two weeks and your breast might have an infection. Best be seen right away.
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Why Am I Sore? I Feel Like my Implants Will Fall out (Pressure). Extremely Sore; Causes?
Your posted photos tell the story. You must rule out a post operative infection/abscess ASAP. See your surgeon
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Thank you for the question and pictures.
I think you will be best off seeking evaluation by your plastic surgeon as soon as possible. Based on your pictures, I am concerned about the redness visible along the lower pole of the breast and incision line. You should be evaluated in person to rule out infection etc.
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Teenage girls screamed and swooned at the sight of the four "Mop Tops," as they became known, and that same audience sent Beatle records to the top of the charts in the UK in 1963.
In February 1964, The Beatles — John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr — set foot in America for the first time.
"It really was an invasion," said Rena Black of Fort Wayne, who, with her brother, John Stein, first saw the band during one of their two concerts Sept. 3, 1964, at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum in Indianapolis. "It was overwhelming. It was everybody's favorite music. ... There just had not been a musical experience for my generation like The Beatles."
In one many upcoming anniversary events, "The U.S. Albums," a 13-CD boxed set of The Beatles' music, will be released Tuesday.The songs "Please Please Me," "From Me to You" and "She Loves You" had sold in record numbers throughout 1963 in Britain, but they hardly made a dent when released on small record labels in the United States.
EMI Records, who owned and released The Beatles' music in the UK through their Parlophone label, also owned Capitol Records, one of the major record companies in America at the time.
EMI tried to persuade Capitol to release The Beatles' music early in 1963, but to no avail.
Capitol passed on The Beatles initially, as hardly any British artists had sold well in America. So The Beatles' first three singles were released on the tiny record labels Vee Jay and Swan and failed to generate much radio airplay or sales.
All of that changed with the release of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in December 1963.
Capitol Records finally decided to take a chance and release The Beatles' music in America, giving the band a major promotional push, and the floodgates suddenly opened for group in the United States.
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On Feb. 7, The Beatles landed triumphantly at the then-recently renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, drawing thunderous screams from hundreds of teenagers who were eager to catch a glimpse of the group.
On Feb. 9, The Beatles made their historic appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show," one of the most watched variety shows in America. That evening's show attracted a then record-breaking television audience of over 73 million viewers.It may be hard to imagine now in the age of the Internet and social media, but The Beatles' arrival on the shores of North America in February 1964 was a seismic change in not only the music industry but in society as well.
The Beatles had long hair (for the time), witty and irreverent personalities, wrote their own songs, and most of all had a fresh and energetic self-confidence that permeated their music.
The early '60s also were a time when the Baby Boom generation was coming into its own.
Boomers were becoming a major consumer force, and that generation took to The Beatles' music and energy like no other musical artist of the time. It put The Beatles at the forefront of music and fashion, and, later, politics.
The Beatles' commercial dominance was so great that by April 1964, The Beatles held the Top 5 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and also held the top two album spots on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart.
Bob Chase, then one of the popular disc jockeys on radio station WOWO, 1190-AM, in Fort Wayne, said the impact The Beatles had on music was so great that it's unlikely anyone will be able to surpass it.
Audio: Bob Chase's Beatles memories
"The Beatles, because of the hype they had before they got here and what they did here, probably (were) the most dominant music group of their kind that ever came to America," Chase said.
"Television was in at that point as well, and they got tremendous coverage," Chase said. "That's in the heyday of Ed Sullivan and all these kind of people who had incredible music variety shows. ... Anymore, … social media has made so much accessible, you don't have to go to television or radio.
"I think because of that, you're never going to get that huge national bang that you used to get out of media prior to the time even cable (TV) came in," he said.Chase's first memory of The Beatles centers around their concert appearances Sept. 3, 1964, at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis.
"At that point, WOWO was very, very active in promoting, and we put a tour together and we took busloads down to Indianapolis to see The Beatles," he said.
"We had a chance to meet them and they were English kids, and we hadn't seen that many at that time," Chase continued. "They were a little different, but they were pretty humble. And it's obvious the more you listened to their music, ... they did things with their compositions and writing and stuff that proved that they weren't just a couple of kids with a guitar — they knew what they were doing."
Two other longtime Fort Wayne residents were also at one of the shows The Beatles performed in 1964 at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum.
John Stein and his sister, Rena Black, were fortunate enough to get tickets to see the afternoon show, the first of two shows The Beatles did that day.
Their father, who had business connections in Indianapolis, got them the tickets, and they both remember one thing from that show — the screaming.
"Our seats were directly under the sound system," Black said. "We were getting as much volume from the stage as it was possible to get, and it was still almost impossible to hear (the band) because of the screaming girls."
"We … could barely hear them from time to time," her brother concurred.
"There was an excitement with The Beatles in 1964 that I had not experienced in all of the late '50s and '60s up until '64," John Stein added.
"For me, it just overwhelmed everything else," he said. "The Rolling Stones, The Dave Clark Five, it didn't matter. Chad and Jeremy, Peter and Gordon, it didn't matter. It was just The Beatles and other pretenders."
"It was something that had never existed before," Black said. "Even with the rock 'n' roll that was around, nothing moved people the way this did."
Betty Stein, mother of both John and Rena and a longtime News-Sentinel columnist, was a school teacher in Fort Wayne in 1964.
She remembers her reluctance to accept The Beatles' music when they first became all the rage in 1964, but she was won over by her students' love of the group and the group's songwriting capability.
"The kids in my class were absolutely crazy about them, thought they were wonderful," Stein said. "And I kept pooh-poohing and saying there's nobody like, oh, Sinatra and Peggy Lee.
"And, one day, I had a call to come to the office, ... and they kept me there," Stein recalled.
"By the time I got back to my classroom, every wall was covered with pictures of The Beatles," she said. "And the kids had somehow smuggled in a little phonograph, and they were playing Beatles' stuff. When they got to one song, I said, 'That's not bad.'
"'Yesterday' is what sold me," she said. "And then, of course, (when) they got around to 'Hey Jude' time, I was convinced that they were a wonderful gift."
Donna Rondot, who was a grade school student in Fort Wayne in 1964, sums up what she and millions of other girls in America thought on their first exposure to The Beatles that long ago February night when she first saw them on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
"I thought they were the cutest things," Rondot said with a laugh. "I really did. I thought they were so cute, and I loved their hair and they looked totally different than anybody I had seen before. I think that's what I remember most."
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JERUSALEM & LUND, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ:TEVA - News) and Active Biotech (NASDAQ OMX NORDIC: ACTI) announced today initial results from the two-year Phase III ALLEGRO study, which demonstrated that relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) patients treated with 0.6 mg daily oral laquinimod experienced a statistically significant reduction in annualized relapse rate compared to placebo. Additional clinical endpoints, including significant reduction in disability progression, as measured by Expanded Disability Severity Scale (EDSS), were also achieved.
Laquinimod was safe and well-tolerated. The overall frequencies of adverse events were comparable to those observed in the placebo group. No deaths were reported in laquinimod-treated patients. Overall incidence of infections was similar between the two arms of the trial.
"This pivotal study met its primary endpoint while maintaining a very good safety profile," says Principal Investigator, Professor Giancarlo Comi, Director of the Department of Neurology and Institute of Experimental Neurology at the University Vite Salute, San Raffaele, Italy. "Laquinimod demonstrated a significant reduction in the progression of disability which may be explained by its unique mechanism of action that includes neuroprotective properties. Laquinimod may therefore be a promising therapeutic option for the MS community."
"We are very pleased to have achieved this major milestone in the development of oral laquinimod, a novel therapy that can potentially improve the lives of many MS patients in a safe way," said Shlomo Yanai, Teva's President and Chief Executive Officer.
Additional analyses of the ALLEGRO study data are ongoing, and detailed results will be submitted for presentation at a leading scientific conference during the first half of 2011.
Laquinimod received Fast Track designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in February 2009. The second phase III study, BRAVO is still ongoing with results anticipated in the third quarter of 2011. Regulatory submissions in the U.S. and the EU will then follow.
In addition to the ongoing MS clinical studies, laquinimod is currently in Phase II development for Crohn's disease and Lupus, and is being studied in other autoimmune diseases.
Following the successful study results, Teva filed a patent application covering the use of laquinimod in slowing the progression of disability in MS patients.
Laquinimod is a novel once-daily, oral immunomodulatory compound being developed as a disease-modifying treatment for MS. The global Phase III clinical development program evaluating oral laquinimod in MS consists of two pivotal studies, ALLEGRO and BRAVO:
* The first clinical study, ALLEGRO, was a two-year multi-national, multi-center randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled study designed to evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of laquinimod in MS patients. The study was conducted at 139 sites in 24 countries and enrolled 1,106 MS patients. Patients were randomized to receive a once-daily oral dose of 0.6 mg laquinimod or matching placebo. The primary outcome measure was the number of confirmed relapses; secondary measures included confirmed disability progression and changes in MRI active lesions,. Patients who completed the ALLEGRO study are offered to join an open-label extension phase, in which they will be treated with laquinimod 0.6mg daily until the drug is commercially available.
* The second clinical study, BRAVO, is a two-year, multi-national, multi-center, randomized, double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled study designed to compare the safety, efficacy and tolerability of a once-daily oral dose of 0.6 mg laquinimod over placebo and to perform a comparative risk-benefit assessment between laquinimod and interferon beta-1a. Enrollment of 1,332 patients at 154 sites in the U.S, Europe, Israel and South Africa was completed in June 2009. BRAVO study results are expected in the third quarter of 2011.
In addition to the ongoing MS clinical studies, laquinimod is currently in Phase II development for Crohn's disease and Lupus, and is being studied in other autoimmune diseases.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the leading cause of neurological disability in young adults. It is estimated that more than 400,000 people in the U.S. are affected by the disease and that two million people may be affected worldwide. MS is a progressive, demyelinating disease of the central nervous system affecting the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves. Demyelination is the destructive breakdown of the fatty tissue that protects nerve endings.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ:TEVA - News) is a leading global pharmaceutical company, committed to increasing access to high-quality healthcare by developing, producing and marketing affordable generic drugs as well as innovative and specialty pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients. Headquartered in Israel, Teva is the world's largest generic drug maker, with a global product portfolio of more than 1,250 molecules and a direct presence in approximately 60 countries. Teva's branded businesses focus on neurology, oncology, respiratory and women's health therapeutic areas as well as biosimilars. Teva's leading innovative product, Copaxone®, is the number one prescribed treatment for multiple sclerosis. Teva employs more than 40,000 people around the world and reached $13.9 billion in net sales in 2009.
Active Biotech AB (NASDAQ OMX NORDIC: ACTI) is a biotechnology company with focus on autoimmune/inflammatory diseases and cancer. Projects in or entering pivotal phase are laquinimod, an orally administered small molecule with unique immunomodulatory properties for the treatment of multiple sclerosis, TASQ for prostate cancer as well as ANYARA for use in cancer targeted therapy, primarily of renal cell cancer. In addition, laquinimod is in Phase II development for Crohn's and Lupus. Further projects in clinical development comprise the two orally administered compounds, 57-57 for SLE & Systemic Sclerosis and RhuDex™ for RA. Please visit www.activebiotech.com for more information.
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Maybe Sam Hurd was right, and NFL players do have a marijuana problem.
First, it was Chiefs receiver Dwayne Bowe being arrested and charged with possession of marijuana earlier this week. Now, Falcons running back Jason Snelling is the most recent perpetrator.
Snelling was pulled over around 3:30 on Friday morning after police observed his car couldn't stay in its lane, according to the Barrow County News. Police noticed a "strong marijuana odor" coming from the car, leading to an inspection of the vehicle. Snelling admitted to smoking weed at a friend's house earlier in the night and to having some leftover pot in a grinder in the center console of his car. There appears to be more to the story, though.
Police observed Snelling repeatedly trying to swallow during their conversation with him outside the car. One officer asked Snelling to open his mouth and noticed "green leafy particles," which may have been more weed, inside. Snelling, 29, denied eating any marijuana.
Snelling was soon thereafter placed under arrest. He has been charged with possession of marijuana (less than one ounce), possession of drug-related materials, having an expired or no driver's license, failure to maintain his lane, failure to maintain insurance, improper use of a dealer license plate and no registration.
Snelling has 36 carries for 132 yards and one touchdown as well as 19 catches for 159 yards and two receiving touchdowns this season. If the Falcons take the same approach that the Chiefs did with Bowe, it's unlikely Snelling will face any immediate punishment from the team.
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A lot of investors wonder how the real estate prices go up and down (do they?) over years. A very big role in the movement of real estate prices is played by something called as "ready reckoner rates" . Ready reckoner rates for each area in city is defined by the the state govt. Let us understand this thing in detail.
what is ready reckoner rates
Ready Reckoner rates are the prices of land, residential properties, and commercial properties for any given area defined and published by govt each year. It's revised from time to time whenever govt feels that there is a need for prices revision. Stamp duty and registration costs which is paid by a real estate buyer cant be below this ready reckoner price or the actual price of the property.
For example – Let's say that ready reckoner rates for some location is set at Rs 4,000 per sq ft (as per state govt) and the cost of the property as per that comes at Rs 40 lacs. Now imagine that the builder is quoting the cost of the property to you at Rs 50 lacs. Now the stamp duty will be paid on Rs 50 lacs only, because its higher than Rs 40 lacs. However – suppose you decide to pay Rs 20 lacs in black and only Rs 30 lacs in white money, still your registration & stamp duty will be paid on Rs 40 lacs costs, because thats the minimum pricing set by govt itself.
Ready Reckoner rates are linked to Built up Area
Note that the ready reckoner rates are linked to the Built up area of the property, not carpet area or super built up area. So if ready reckoner rate is Rs 4,000 sq/ft and builder tells you that he will also sell the property to you at Rs 4,000 sq/ft, don't get fooled!, because builder tells you the pricing linked with super built up area and not built up area, which in most of the cases is higher, so eventually the rate charged by builder is always higher, if you convert it for the built-up area. Just for example if super built up area is 1,000 sq/ft and built up area is 800 sq/ft, then Rs 4,000 per sq/ft area quoted for super built-up area (Rs 40 lacs cost) , is same as Rs 5,000 sq/ft quoted for built up area (same Rs 40 lacs) .
Just to make sure you understand the terminologies –
- Carpet area – Net usable area of property (imagine you put carpet, what all part of flat, it will cover)
- Built-up area – Carpet area + walls and doors area (imagine you remove the thick walls and all doors, then what you will be left with)
- Super built up area – Built-up area (which you get) + everything from staircase, garden, gym , swimming pool and everything you use (your proportion)
How ready reckoner rates affect the prices of real estate
Now – It's very clear, that ready reckoner price is the FAIR PRICE (which is fair value) set by govt itself. Now builders can charge the premium on that fair price depending on market condition, demand, quality and their goodwill and their exploitation power :). So the market price (the actual prices prevailing in market), will definitely be always higher than than ready reckoner prices (benchmark) . Now if the benchmark itself is higher at any given point of time and also keeps increasing over years, the market price quoted by builders will also be high.
Example – Just to give you an example, in one of the areas called "Kondhwa" in Pune, the ready reckoner price set by govt is around Rs 3,700 per sq/ft, however the builders are charging anywhere from Rs 4,500 to 6,500 per sq/ft at the moment. Imagine if this year govt increases it to 4,000, then automatically the rates will go up by that much margin, because builders get a good reason to escalate the cost.
One of the largest revenue sources of any state govt is the stamp duty from property registrations and it's always in state govt interest(from revenue point of view) to keep the ready reckoner rates higher or increase it if there is any justification for it, live development done, roads constructed etc ..
Where to find the Ready reckoner rates for your area ?
Now, you cant control the actual price you have to pay to a builder, but it's a good idea to check out the ready reckoner rates of the area, where you are thinking of buying the property. Now there are few ways you can find out the ready reckoner rates of your area (or any area). Here are few of them, some easy and some tough.
1. On the website of "Registration and Stamp Duty Department"
Each state govt has its own department of "Registration and Stamp Duty". You can reach the website by searching the sentence "Registration and Stamp duty department" and adding state name along with it on google. Like if you want to find out the website for Maharashtra search for "Registration and Stamp Duty Maharashtra" (direct link) and the first link you get it "igrmaharashtra.gov.in/". On the website, you need to search for a link – which says something like "market rates" or some equivalent in the local language of the state. If you are lucky, you might reach the final page which helps you find out the ready reckoner rates for all the cities in the state. It will help you find the rates as per city, taluka, location or survey number. I tried this trick and was able to find out the websites links for 3 states
- Andhra Pradesh (for Hyderabad) – Direct Link
Note – The rates might be displayed in per sq yard, per sq meter etc , so better change them to per sq feet and also make sure you use IE or Firefox to access the websites, because they still don't know chrome exists !
2. Using RTI application
The second way to find out the rates is to use the RTI application against the same Registration and Stamp Duty department (many times called "revenue department" like in Delhi). All you need to do is file a RTI to the respective officer and to your jurisdiction asking for the rates in particular city and area. You can take help of this article to understand the format and procedure
3. Office of Sub-registrar
One of the best way would be to go to the sub-registrar office (where the properties are registered) and find out the rates from there itself. If you do not find the support of the staff there, don't forget to mention words like RTI, CIC and "One of my friend works in Media" and they should accept doing some work for you.
4. From the newspapers
All the newspapers keep on publishing these rates from time to time. Just keep an eye on real estate section from time to time and you should be able to get some info. Below I am attaching some snapshots I got from Internet for the revised rates in year 2013 from 2012.
No Ready Reckoner rates for rentals
There are ready reckoner rates for buying the properties, but there is no ready reckoner rates for rentals. It would be amazing if govt comes up with that too, it would then help us to understand which area is doing better then other and how much premium home owners are asking for over govt defined rental rates.
Overall what do you think about ready reckoner rates and does it helps the overall industry or goes against it ? Please put your comments!


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I've always enjoyed B&W, but never really made an effort in having a workflow for it. Just wanted some critique of the B&W conversion itself. I was going for the B&W film look and really my first real attempt of a B&W portrait. The photo itself is more of a snapshot of my wife so don't have to tear me up on that part in terms of composition, etc.
Next time I'll choose a better photo to convert
I'm entertaining the idea of possibly getting my feet wet in doing portraits, engagement/couples within the next year so just trying to work on my editing in case I want to turn some into B&W.
So like I mentioned just looking for critique in terms of the B&W conversion. Too much grain? Skin tones off? I only have a uncalibrated laptop currently so it sucks to do PP work on this.
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Jul 20, 2012 at 04:09 PM
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All in all, it's a pretty solid conversion. I think grain definitely adds to the film feel, but I would go a touch lighter here. The grain is a bit heavy. The vignetting works as well, though it's a little heavier on the bottom right half of the frame than the bottom left.
I don't know enough to comment on the skin tones, but it looks solid to me. A little dodging might help bring her face out, though, relative to the bright white dress.
Jul 20, 2012 at 04:16 PM
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It would be helpful to know how the conversion was done and other plug-ins used. It also might be instructive if you would post a color version so others can illustrate their conversion technique, if for no other reason than viewing alternatives.
Good detail, from what I can see, in dark areas of her hair and hat.
A nit list, and I am being a real butt and uber-picky with this:
blocked up area above her left shoulder - distraction
blocked-up area at junction of porch roof and post - distraction
lack of tonal values and any hint of detail in sidewalk
bright edges of her forearms is unnatural
outer edges of sleeves (bright) is unnatural - if for no other reason than they violate the laws of physics
her jumper lacks tonal gradation - I suspect some exists from how fabrics hangs/drapes across body - and thus appears flat, lacking definition
the blur lacks perspective/gradation looking instead like a painted backdrop
and finally, not related to conversion -too much headroom and I'm not sure about cutting her off at the knees (I cannot remember whether it best to do so or if mid-limb is preferable).
Some of the above is probably collateral damage of sharpening - it is important when and how sharpening is done - some conversion process amplify the negative effects.
I cannot comment on the contrast range since I tend toward softer contrast than other forum readers - that which makes the subject(s) happy is the one to use.
Hope this helps, all intended in a positive vein,
Jul 20, 2012 at 05:20 PM
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Thanks for the replies guys!
weissj - Yeah the grain may be too much, but difficult to say for me since I have no vision of the ideal amount of grain I'm looking for. I guess in time and trial/error I will hopefully find something suitable for my liking. Slightly less vignetting is probably a good idea.
Bob - Thanks for mentioning all of that. I will note that on any future shots I post. RAW file in LR3 with little basic tweaking on WB, exposure, sharpening and then color TIFF edit in SEP2. Sent back to LR3 to save as jpeg with no further adjustments. I will post the color version prior to being sent to SEP2 as a comparison.
As for the shot itself, this was essentially just a backlight snapshot so I definitely agree this is a poor composed shot with a poor choice of background. I wanted to see how my Sigma 30 AF reacted with the flare. The backlight shot is the cause of the bright edges. A little off topic from the processing critique but any tips on what I should avoid in the future when taking backlight portraits?
I didn't really think about the tonal range of the sidewalk. I'll keep that in mind and use the control points as needed as I think it's a little too bright and lack detail.
Also you mentioned sharpening. That's another area I'm working on improving. For this I used LR3 and did something around 80 amount, 1.6, 5 detail, 75 masking. Maybe to uch? Maybe some of it also had to do with too much structure used in SEP2?
Anyway I appreciate your replies. I love to learn and improve so thanks!
Jul 20, 2012 at 06:38 PM
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Also note in the future if I do decide to do portraits/couples, etc I may consider purchasing VSCO presets for more quickness. Hopefully at that point I'll have a calibrated IPS monitor and a new faster computer.
Jul 20, 2012 at 06:41 PM
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kelbytraining . com has a new extensive video for BW conversions with some pros. you have to sign up but it is a great series of videos.
Jul 20, 2012 at 08:31 PM
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Compared to actual B&W film and silver prints the challenge with digital is capturing a full range of tone in the color original.
B&W film with "normal" development can record a 10-stop scene with detail everywhere. By using the Zone System, which adjusts development per scene range it's possible to render a full range of tone and detail in nearly any outdoor lighting conditions. By comparison digital, with the exception of overcast or foggy days, can't record the full range. If exposure is based on recording highlights accurately everything else winds up recorded darker than perceived by eye.
I use Levels in CS5 to evaluate tonal range in images. The histogram on yours shows a gap on the left which indicates no dark tonal values. That's usually not the case at capture, so I suspect you may have pushed the shadows lighter in PP.
Holding down the alt key I pushed the shadow slider right to 15 until I saw the darker tones clipping giving it a Max Black a well executed B&W should have in areas where there is no detail.
The middle slider in Levels alters linearity in the middle of the tonal range by making middle tones lighter or darker. When evaluating I move it right and left from center and see if it improves the rendering. Here I found making the midtones a bit darker improved it for me.
When I darkened the shadows some of the darker ones got blocked. A technique I use to selectively lighten and darken areas is applying adjustment layers. Here I used screen to pull more detail out the hair and other blocked shadows and multiply to darken the overexposed highlights. The mask thumbnails show where each was applied over the image.
Given the fact the sensor can't record the full range and will render midtones too dark if highlights are exposed optimally it's become pretty much par for the course with digital outdoors to selectively allow some highlight to blow out at capture. A strategy to keep those blown highlights from becoming a distraction is to crop them out if possible so that's what I did below in the final edit that contains all the adjustments shown above.
The tonal range seen around a photo will influence the perception of the photo. I frequently add black mats to digital shots because they usually lack shadow detail. Since the brain equates lighter with detail in a photo the perceptional "anchor" of the black mat creates an illusion that any lighter areas in the photo have detail, even if they don't. But that only works if the shadow areas are small and insignificant.
There are workarounds to the short tonal range of the digital sensor. One is to use flash to change the range in the foreground to match the range of the sensor. For example this is an ambient only exposure in sunny backlight pegged for detail in the sunlit highlights..
The scene range exceeds the sensor so everything that is shaded gets rendered darker than normal. Here's a shot assisted with dual flash, key 45° to the right, fill on a bracket over the camera:
The flash is able to render the full range in the foreground but the background shadows remain similar to the ambient only shot. The remedy? The same as in your shot, crop out the parts of the scene that don't look normal:
Is that flash or direct sunlight? Difficult to tell when the flash is used angles similar to the angle of the sun.
Here's a similar backlit flash assisted color shot of mine I converted starting with a full range of detail in the color shot, which was taken in backlight from the sun, exposed under clipping on the jacket and a single flash on bracket in front to create the highlight modeling on the face facing the skylight:
The conversion was done with the B&W action that came with CS5 with adjustment of the middle slider in Levels.
The take away here is to try to record the full range in your color original. Can you post a copy of your shot SOOC in color so we can see what you started with?
Jul 20, 2012 at 09:55 PM
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Thanks for the replies.
oxman - I'll take a peak of the kelbytraining vids and may consider watching a few.
cgardner - thanks for the extensive reply. Yes I pushed up the shadow point slightly using curves in SEP2. It's just something I've been playing with lately...I'm still on the fence if I like the look of this or not and if it's just something more trendy...I'll keep in mind about keeping max black side of the tonal range. I'm usually always staring at the histogram, but didn't pay attention much while editing in SEP2. I'll keep in mind the tonal range and using levels as needed for any changes.
Again thanks everyone for your replies. I'm sure I'll have more improvements next time and my awareness continues to grow.
Jul 20, 2012 at 10:45 PM
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So an example of many-ways-to-skin-a-cat, Chuck took one approach, I took one entirely different - used the History Brush combined with Blend Modes {Multiply, Screen, Color Burn} and low opacity (5 < Opacity < 45), and soft brush in CS6 to selectively lighten and darken areas to arrive at basically a similar result determined by subjective judgement (my 'eye'). Not fine-tuned brush work but you get the idea.
George DeWolfe,
B&W Printing - Creating The Digital Master Print
, ~$25 Amazon, teaches the entire process - conversion through print - using LR3 plus CS4 for very fine work (cloning, healing, hi-lighting edges, etc.). I've found LR BW conversions better suited for my use than SEPro2 - I get over stimulated with sliders, CPs, structure, etc resulting in something looking as if it'd been done while on steroids. SEPro2 does, in some instances serve me better but most often it is LR4 & CS6. As already pointed out, there are many fine BW conversion tutorials - find the technique and workflow that works best for you.
And I see what you mean about the flare and backlight.
If you object to my doing the re-work, I will remove it.
Jul 20, 2012 at 10:46 PM
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To be honest, I find the "grain" effect a poor and unappealing imitation of film grain. There are many tutorials on the web about adding film grain. To my eyes, most of them produce a poor result that looks like digital noise rather than film grain. When I'm serious about adding a film grain look, I use an image of actual film grain and combine it as an overlay. There are a number of sites that discuss this approach. An arbitrary google grab to explain the method:
(Also, chase the links in the tutorial.)
Jul 21, 2012 at 01:19 AM
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Bob - Yes I agree many ways to skin a cat, just got to find my way!
Aunti - Good idea I'll check out that link, thanks!
Here is the before and after. Just some exposure adjustments, curves, desat, sharpening prior to sending it to SEP2. The more I look at my conversion the more things I can nitpick at, but I could do that with almost every photo I ever took/processed...
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Jul 21, 2012 at 02:04 AM
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Also, note it's hard to evaluate grain for smallish images unless the grain is especially coarse.
Jul 21, 2012 at 04:37 AM
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The crackdowns came after R&B singer Rihanna, in Phuket on Friday night (September 20), caused a media storm when she uploaded a photograph of herself holding a slow loris on Bangla Rd.
The slow loris is an endangered species and it is illegal for anyone to charge money in return for photos with the cute animals. Several touts were arrested in June but despite promises of crackdowns, police say they are unable to track down the touts easily.
Rihanna also tweeted via social networking site Twitter about her experience of a ping pong show.
"Either I was **** wasted last night or I saw a Thai woman pull a live bird, 2 turtles, razors, shoot darts and ping pong, all out of her *****." Other tweets about the sex show followed, with Rihanna saying she was "traumatised" – though she might have been tweeting tongue-in-cheek.
Officials leapt into action on Saturday night after Rihanna's Instagram loris photo went viral, with Phuket Governor Maitree Intusut ordering a raid on loris touts. Two out of the dozens operating were arrested – a 20-year-old and a 16-year-old.
Mr Veerawit today described the raids as "just window dressing".
"I'm bored with saying this again and again: We all know who is being paid. I think after a month, those in authority will stop paying attention, and things will be back the way they always are. I give it one month and everything will just blow over.
"If you want to eliminate all the endangered wildlife and sex shows, you [the police and authorities] must be serious about this. But the police take bribes, even from beggars. "
"All the business owners in Patong pay [bribes] to the police. You can ask anyone; they will all say the same. The police are transferred in [from another province] and two or three years after that, they are all transferred out again and leave behind the dirt.
"The most important thing is intent – wanting to get rid of illegal things."
Businesspeople and tourists in Patong have alerted authorities about the illegal wildlife and sex shows many times, but nobody cares, he said.
"When a celebrity posts, it has a wider impact. But when we [locals] report it, they [officials] ignore us.
"In a month, businesspeople in Patong have to pay bribes to police totalling not less than B10 million. You can ask anyone, they can give you names and point out who. The bribes have been paid for a long time. The senior officials – they all know, but they do nothing. So businesspeople have to shoulder the entire burden and keep paying."
Asked to comment, Pol Col Chiraphat Pohchanaphan, Superintendent of Kathu Police Station, replied, "There are no bribes. The police enforce the laws. We check Patong strictly every day."
When asked about the current raids on Bangla Road to stamp out loris touts and sex shows, Col Chiraphat said, "We have called for police officers to check this area especially strictly. I have ordered more thorough checking and patrolling to find the sex shows.
"But we haven't found them. They do it in secret." Demonstrating an unusual grasp of how ping pong shows work, he explained, "They will have a normal entertainment show, but when the number of customers increases [to a certain point], they change it to a ping pong show.
"We are also working with the DSI to help us, and we are being strict with the checking."


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The garçon in question in Lionel Baier's sweet, well-meaning ''Garçon Stupide" is not exactly stupid. He doesn't know what Impressionism is and hasn't heard of Hitler, though he does look both up in a dictionary. So really he's just undereducated. He does know a lot about sex, however. When 20-year-old Loïc (Pierre Chatagny) isn't cruising gay chat rooms for men to hook up with, he's nattering on about the men he's met to his increasingly exasperated best friend Marie (Natacha Koutchoumov), a student who works in a natural history museum.
The film initially seems to be out to rebuke him, but Baier and his co-writer, Laurent Guido, are ultimately rooting for the character to figure out that there's more to life than lust. Loïc works in the Swiss town of Bulle at a chocolate factory but decides after his fateful dictionary encounter that he wants to be an ''Impressionist photographer," which, if he could find a way to take such pictures, would really take him places. (Needless to say, had he been inspired by the second word he looked up, we'd have a much different movie on our hands.)
But sex, it seems, is where he excels, or at least that's what the film encourages us to believe, frequently showing Loïc having extremely credible-looking intercourse. Often before and during his trysts, the screen splits, and we'll see sex on one half and maybe taxidermied critters from the museum on the other. That juxtaposition's implicit criticism turns harsher during an orgy. The dead animals in the split screen are replaced by cold, cranking machinery, at which point we get it: The kid needs to get a new hobby. And instantly he does. There's a local soccer star who strikes Loïc's fancy, so he stalks him.
''Garçon Stupide" was shot on digital video and is the rare piece of European sexual realism centered completely on a boy's awakening. Young women have dominated the genre in the last 10 years, especially in France. So the film is a welcome, though inferior changeup. Baier and Guido clearly like Loïc, but they make him shallow to the point that he seems tragic. The death of one character is baffling -- the film just moves along after the bad news.
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Editor's Note: TheStreet ratings do not represent the views of TheStreet's staff or its contributors. Ratings are established by computer based on metrics for performance (which includes growth, stock performance, efficiency and valuation) and risk (volatility and solvency). Companies with poor cash flow or high debt levels tend to earn lower ratings in our model Two out of the three major indices are trading up today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) trading up 40 points (0.3%) at 13,114 as of Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, 11:49 AM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,438 issues advancing vs. 1,420 declining with 156 unchanged. The Services sector currently is unchanged today versus the S&P 500, which is up 0.1%. Top gainers within the sector include Geo Group ( GEO), up 7.0%, Sears Holdings Corporation ( SHLD), up 3.8%, McGraw-Hill Companies Incorporated ( MHP), up 2.4%, Melco Crown Entertainment ( MPEL), up 1.9% and Grupo Televisa S.A ( TV), up 1.4%. On the negative front, top decliners within the sector include Ryanair Holdings ( RYAAY), down 1.8%, Fidelity National Information Services ( FIS), down 1.8%, CSX ( CSX), down 1.3%, Wynn Resorts ( WYNN), down 1.3% and Yum Brands ( YUM), down 0.8%. TheStreet Ratings group would like to highlight 3 stocks pushing the sector higher today: 3. Canadian National Railway ( CNI) is one of the companies pushing the Services sector higher today. As of noon trading, Canadian National Railway is up $1.00 (1.1%) to $91.35 on average volume Thus far, 310,627 shares of Canadian National Railway exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 545,100 shares. The stock has ranged in price between $90.11-$91.49 after having opened the day at $90.36 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $90.35. Canadian National Railway Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in rail and related transportation business in North America. Canadian National Railway has a market cap of $38.9 billion and is part of the transportation industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 14.7, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 14.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 3 analysts that rate Canadian National Railway a buy, 2 analysts rate it a sell, and 16 rate it a hold. TheStreet Ratings rates Canadian National Railway as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, solid stock price performance, notable return on equity, good cash flow from operations and growth in earnings per share. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook. Get the full Canadian National Railway Ratings Report now. EXCLUSIVE OFFER: Jim Cramer's Protégé, Dave Peltier, only buys Stocks Under $10 that he thinks could potentially double. See what he's trading today with a 14-day FREE pass
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Accra, April 10, GNA - Government has been called upon to make social work an integral part of the education system in an effort to improve upon students' academic performances.
This is because the social worker has been trained to help identify students or people with psycho-social issues, such as learning disabilities, poor performances, absenteeism, bullying and others.
Speaking at the opening of the fifth International School Social Work conference held in Accra on Tuesday, Mrs Esther Mahama, President, School Social Work Association of Ghana, urged government to endeavour to consult social workers in the drawing of curriculum in the schools for their inputs.
"Social workers are supposed to be staff of our schools so that as the teacher teaches, the social worker would handle other psycho-social issues faced by the students", she added.
She expressed concern about the unavailability of jobs for students of social work, which caused them to seek job opportunities in other sectors.
Nowadays due to limited social work institutions, trained social workers are compelled to seek job opportunities from organizations such as the banks and telecommunication companies.
The three day conference, which was on the theme "Ensuring Quality Education for All the World's Children," was attended by over 170 social workers from countries such as India, South Korea, United Kingdom and Nigeria.
Dr Kofi Ohene Konadu, Lecturer, Faculty of Social Work, University of Ghana, appealed to government to extend the needed assistance to the profession for the country to derive the maximum benefits.
"We do not see the works of social workers because we do not have social institutions in the country for our graduates".


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Sunkist Bulletin (Domestic Science Lesson Number 47)
The front panel reads, "Salads and desserts made the day before," and has illustrations of an orange grove in front of mountains, oranges and orange blossoms, and women baking. The back panel has recipes. There is a section on making orange and lemon garnishes. Part of a lesson series for home economics classes.View this piece: jpg pdf
Donor: Sliker, Shirley Brocker
Brand Name: Sunkist
Publisher: California Fruit Growers Exchange (Los Angeles, Calif.)
1933 (ca.)
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Citation: Sunkist Bulletin (Domestic Science Lesson Number 47). The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Collection, MSS 314, Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries. Available at http://www.lib.msu.edu/exhibits/sliker/detail.jsp?id=2976


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ONEONTA, N.Y. -- The SUNY College at Oneonta Foundation was recently honored with its second consecutive four-star "exceptional" rating by Charity Navigator, the leading independent charity evaluator in America. The College Foundation is one of only 19% of charities nationwide to receive consecutive four-star ratings.
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Red and green - Opposite? I dunno xD I gave up on this really....I was supposed to be doing another flower and some leaves but after doing that flower I established that I fail at flowers xD Sorry it's so bad lolzerrs ♥
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Monday, July 5, 2004
Will the Nets be torn apart?
By Chad Ford
ESPN Insider
It didn't take long for new Nets owner Bruce Ratner to get a rep in the league and the New York media. The GMs around the league refer to him as a business owner -- a guy who cares more about the bottom line than the win column. The media? Well, the New York Daily News dubbed him the "rat" after word began spreading like wildfire that Ratner was ready to gut the Nets to save a buck or two.
Over the past week, Ratner has been making his case, individually, to anyone who will listen that he plans to keep the Nets intact. He's not trading Jason Kidd despite numerous reports from league GMs that Kidd is on the block. He's not letting Kenyon Martin slip away in free agency amidst assertions from his own team president, Rod Thorn, that Martin is asking for more money than the team believes he's worth.
While many in the league and a few inside the Nets believe that Ratner is more interested in his development project -- the one that will relocate the Nets from New Jersey to Brooklyn -- than the team itself, Ratner firmly denies that the team is in any jeopardy of breaking up.
"I'm not somebody that's in a cost-cutting nature," Ratner told the Daily News under a headline that said 'Bruce: I'm no rat.' "I believe you have to spend money. In the case of real estate, people look and say, 'Look how beautiful this place is.' That's the same thing in the case of basketball."
"The cost-cutting is totally exaggerated," he told the New York Times. "Look, every team makes decisions as to what are the best players for this particular group to work together, play together, and how do you do that in a cost-effective way? Sometimes that means trading someone much more needed by another team, you know, and saving some money so we can keep other players."
After two Finals appearances in three years, are the Nets as we know them through? Or will the new ownership bring them back for one more encore? Here's a look at what to expect as Insider continues its summer blueprint series.
Nets Summer Blueprint
DRAFT: Ratner got the cost-cutting rap, in part, because of his decision to sell the No. 22 pick in the draft to the Blazers. After the fact, Nets president Rod Thorn claimed they believed there was no one on the board at No. 22 worth drafting. But internally, sources told Insider that Thorn's statements were after-the-fact spin. The Nets did have someone they loved on the board at 22 -- Sergei Monia -- but had already agreed to trade the pick to Portland.
FREE AGENCY: This summer everything hinges on Kenyon Martin. Martin is one of the top two or three best free agents on the market and is getting rabid interest from teams like the Nuggets and Hawks, in part, because they believe that the Nets might not match a max deal.
Will they? The team balked at signing him to a max extension last fall and Thorn has been less than enthusiastic about the prospect of shelling out that kind of cash to keep K-Mart in town.
"Kenyon has made it very clear through his agent he wants a max deal," Thorn said last week. "It's going to be up to him to see if he can get one. We're just going to see what the market is for him."
He'll probably get multiple offers. The Nets know it. And unless they are able to trade away another expensive asset, they might not be able to match it. That's why the team offered to swap Martin to Denver for Nene just before the draft. The Nuggets balked, believing they might be able to land Martin and keep Nene. Why give up an asset when you don't have to?
Since that time, however, the Nets caught a huge break. Rodney Rogers failed to opt in to the last year of his deal, immediately clearing around $3.3 million in cap space this summer to re-sign Martin.
Combine that with the savings from dumping the first-round pick, and maybe the Nets will be willing to swallow Martin's deal. Then again, Richard Jefferson will be looking for a big extension of his own this summer and former first-round pick Nenad Kristic is ready to come to the U.S. to play this summer. Any short-term savings is about to get buried in more cap stuff.
Obviously, given the nature of the Nets' financial woes, using their mid-level exception on a free agent is out of the question. That's going to be a major problem for a team that was just way too thin to compete with deeper teams like Detroit and Indiana. At this point, it looks like the team is tightening its belt, not loosening it.
TRADES: If someone does have to go, it could turn out that Jason Kidd, not K-Mart, is the one in the most danger of changing addresses this summer.
The Nets love Kidd, but they know, at the age of 32, that his best days are behind him. Kidd just had microfracture surgery on his knee and will likely miss training camp recovering from the surgery. The surgery is a difficult one to recover from and there's a chance that Kidd might never be the same.
That's a double-edged sword for the Nets. Without Kidd, spending the money on Martin and company is a waste. The Nets just aren't good enough without him to contend. Unless, that is, they can work out a trade for Kidd and get a marquee player in return. The problem is, with Kidd's future in serious doubt, who would trade for him at this point?
The speculation all year has pointed to San Antonio. The Spurs made a big bid for Kidd last summer and Kidd was very close to accepting it. A year later, the Nets would love to work out a sign-and-trade for Tony Parker. The Spurs don't appear as excited anymore.
Kerry Kittles is the other guy on the block. The Nets and Blazers had serious discussions about a Kittles-and-Aaron Williams-for-Shareef Abdur-Rahim swap, but little else.
COACHING: Byron Scott was the fall guy for the Nets' problems last season and his young assistant, Lawrence Frank, seemed to justify the firing of Scott. Frank, during his brief tenure there, energized the team and led it on an frantic run toward the end of the season. The Nets were one game away from knocking the eventual world champion Pistons out of the playoffs.
Kidd is a big Frank supporter, meaning he'll be in great shape as long as Kidd sticks around. Even if Kidd leaves, Frank seems to have fallen in favor with Thorn and is the type of overachieving head coach GMs love.
FRONT OFFICE: Rod Thorn has done a great job in New Jersey, but some believe he too may be part of Ratner's cost-cutting schemes. At $2 million per year, Thorn is among the highest-paid GMs in the league.
More likely, it would be Thorn who would consider leaving if Ratner really is cutting bait. Thorn has spent enormous hours rebuilding the team. He won't stand by forever and watch a land developer rip it to shreds.
For now at least, the focus is off the team, the coach and the GM. It's squarely on Ratner, who must decide whether he can afford to pay for a good team with no fan support in a lame-duck city. He claims that he'll keep it together. But his accountants, who know, win or lose, that no one will come and watch the Nets, may get the best of him.
Until they get to Brooklyn, what's the point?


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Joseph J. Reichenberger was born in Doniphan county March 25, 1864, and is a son of one of the most successful farmers of northeastern Kansas, the late Peter Reichenberger. The ancestry of the family can be traced back through many generations in Germany. It is believed that the first Reichenberger to enter Germany from Bohemia, their ancient home, was the son of a nobleman. Paul Reichenberger, the grandfather of our subject, spent the last years of his life as a merchant in Steinach, Bavaria. He married Anna Kafer, a Swiss lady, and died in 1843. Their children were Peter, who was born April 3, 1830; Teresa, Margaret, Johanna and Joseph. Peter Reichenberger secured a good common-school education and was a man of very strong mentality, who would probably have attained an eminent position in life had he been afforded educational advantages of a superior order. He was married, in New York city, August 17, 1852, four years after his arrival in the United States, the lady of his choice being Miss Barbara Loerscher, from the village of Orendorf, Prussia. Her mother was Margaret Carl, who had six children.
Peter Reichenberger resided in New York for ten years. In his youth he learned the cabinetmaker's trade and thus gained a good start in business life. He brought with him to Kansas, in 1858, a small capital, which he had acquired as the result of his efforts at his trade, and, locating in Doniphan, he opened a cabinet shop and furniture store, soon securing a very extensive patronage, which enabled him to gain a handsome financial return. When he had acquired a comfortable competence he retired from that branch of business and invested his money in land. From that time forward he carried on agricultural pursuits and from time to time added to his property until he was the owner of twelve hundred acres in Doniphan and Brown counties. This fact indicates his business ability, his capable management and his sound judgment. In politics he was a Republican and was a Catholic in religious belief. All who knew him respected him for his sterling worth and honored him for his faithfulness to duty.
The children of Peter and Barbara Reichenberger, who now survive, are Alphonso, a prominent farmer and active politician of Sedgwick county, Kansas, who married Barbara Mosher; Nicholas, who married Kate Hess and is living in Reno county, Kansas; Maggie; Joseph; Peter, who carries on farming in Sedgwick county and married Rosa Libel; and Benedict, at home, Brown county, Kansas.
Joseph J. Reichenherger, of this review, was reared upon his father's farm and attended the public schools of the neighborhood. Since attaining his majority he has resided on Independence creek, where he owns a good tract of land. He is now one of the extensive and successful grain and stock raisers of this section of the state, prosecuting his labors with diligence and enterprise. He owns a half-section of land admirably adapted to the uses to which it is put and his capable management has brought to him a desirable prosperity. For eight years after attaining his majority he obtained a thresher and was widely known in farming communities in that capacity. His success is the reward of his earnest labor and in all matters of business he is thoroughly reliable. He represents a family that has been long and honorably connected with the agricultural interests of Doniphan county and has brought not the least shadow of reproach upon their untarnished name.
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