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We all know the nature of ripples. We throw a stone and it causes ripples. We say something and it causes ripples. We take action and it causes ripples. We belong to a community or an organization or a workplace (small or large) and our behavior there causes ripples. All those ripples affect other people. All those other people are throwing their stones as well, and their ripples are affecting us.
Another year is coming to a close. It happens so quickly anymore. Year after year passes like an older brother who can't walk by without frogging your thigh or putting you in a headlock. Time itself isn't painful, but the swiftness with which it passes leaves me feeling like I just encountered a vicious older sibling. And I'm left wondering, "What did I do to deserve that?"
A man called his parents to wish them a happy New Year and his dad answered the phone. He said, "Hi Dad, what's your New Year's resolution?" His Dad answered proudly, "To make your mother as happy as I can all year." When Mom got on the phone he asked her the same question and she answered, "To see that your dad keeps his New Year's resolution."
First let me say that this is something I have never done, but certainly have been tempted when reading letters to the editor. Somehow I have always restrained myself and moved on. But not this time. "Disappointed in Light Up" had to be addressed and a "colossal disappointment" really could not go without saying something.
Last month, the people of Kentucky elected me to be their Senator for the next six years and in the process helped me become Senate Majority Leader. I am deeply honored and humbled by the faith the voters have placed in me.
The message from the electorate in Kentucky and nationwide could not have been more clear: the public wants a change in direction and expects things to get done in Washington. I am pleased to report that just in the past several weeks, I have been able to fight for and secure a number of positive measures to help improve the lives of Kentucky families.
My goal in life with my work at Hosparus and in my ministry projects is to care for others with great conviction and passion. But sometimes I have to be reminded by my dear wife to take care of myself. Sometimes I have to tell other hospice workers and ministers to take care of themselves.
Many of us who are care providers are far more anxious about having to confront whatever will come up in the empty space, when we are quiet and alone. Who knows what terror lurks in the anonymous solitude? What voices will arise in the silence?
Dear Santa,
Ed. note: Ask the Expert is a column submitted by the Oldham County Chamber. The question and answers are solicited by them.
QUESTION: My arthritis is worse in cold-weather months. Tips on how I can manage this?
ANSWER: "Many people experience a worsening of arthritis symptoms in cold, wet months during the fall and winter," shared Jeremy Statton, MD, who is with Baptist Northeast Orthopedics, part of Baptist Health La Grange. "The arthritis itself isn't worse but the pain associated with arthritis is often more intense.
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Giants general manager Jerry Reese took time to trade some questions and answers with Post columnist Steve Serby.
Q: Eli Manning won't have to answer any questions about whether he's an elite quarterback.
A: Here in this market, you always have to play well. You have to produce. That's the way it is. I think we're all driven by that here. We relish the challenge of playing in this city and putting a good product out there for our fan base.
Q: How comforting for you having Eli as your quarterback and Tom Coughlin as your coach?
A: I'll put those guys up against anybody. They've done it … and they're both driven to continue to do it. You really can't ask for more than that.
Q: Is the entire organization driven?
A: I think so. Our goal is to be relevant every year and give ourselves a chance to qualify for the tournament and give ourselves a chance to win the championship. That's been since George Young, then Ernie Accorsi, that was his thought process. We want to continue to do that.
Q: Las Vegas views the Giants as third best in the NFC East.
A: We just worry about the Giants. We're focused on what we do. People in Vegas have a job to do. You have a job to do. We have a job to do. The players have a job to do. So everybody has a job to do.
Q: How do you see the division?
A: It'll be close, just like always. Our formula is: You win the physical battle, you play as a team, you don't beat yourself with bad fouls, you have a chance to win.
Q: Do you believe your team is the team to beat?
A: I always feel good about our team. I think we have a strong nucleus of players coming back. I think we can be very strong again. We have to do it. Every year your team changes. I'm excited about the team. Our coaching staff is terrific. We have some core veterans coming back. We think we added some nice new pieces.
Q: Why is it so difficult to repeat?
A: All the teams are so equally matched, that's why. Dynasty teams are a thing of the past. It's a really fine line between making the playoffs and not making the playoffs. There's a fine line between 3-13 and 13-3.
Q; How will this team respond to being "the hunted"?
A: The last time after we won a Super Bowl we responded pretty well. I know our coaching staff knows the drill. Hopefully we have enough veterans who can help police the locker room. We're going to take everyone's best shot, because we do have the title as champions. … Plus we play in a tough division. The schedule looks tough. But when you're playing a tough schedule, it helps your team become battle-tested down the stretch. People started tossing around the whole Super Bowl hangover stuff — some unfortunate things happened [Plaxico Burress' gun mishap] where we didn't really get a chance to finish that season like we wanted it. We still have to do the things that got us here in the first place. … There are no layups in the National Football League.
Q: What did you think about Amani Toomer saying Tony Romo is better than Eli Manning?
A: I have zero reaction to that. Amani's part of the media now. There's nothing wrong with him having an opinion about that. Everybody's entitled to their opinion. It was blown out of proportion more than it should have been (chuckle).
Q: Could there be another Victor Cruz on your roster?
A: You never know. That's the beauty of personnel. I hope there are a couple of Victor Cruz-kind-of-guys on the roster.
Q: Cruz is asked repeatedly about his contract.
A: I think he's done a good job publicly.
Q: What is the organization's position?
A: There's really nothing to talk about at this point. He's under contract. It's really private at this time.
Q: Are you optimistic Hakeem Nicks (foot) will be ready for opening night?
A: We'll be very careful with him. We don't want any setbacks. I do think he'll be ready to play in a couple of preseason games. We won't rush him.
Q: Have you had a conversation with David Diehl following his DUI?
A: I have spoken to David. It was a private conversation. He's very remorseful about that situation.
Q: Are you relieved that the Osi Umenyiora contract situation is behind you?
A: It's not like you're relieved or anything. I'm happy Osi is in camp and ready to go. I expect him to have a tremendous season.
Q: Your team is built around the quarterback and the pass rush.
A; Our team is built around the team. If you build yourself any differently, it's going to be hard to win in this league. If you don't play as a team, it's hard to win in this league.
Q: What's the status of Terrell Thomas?
A: He's probably pretty close to 100 percent. We'll monitor him and make sure he's on track to be up and running full speed for the first game.
Q: Will Beatty?
A: We think he's a young left tackle that can hold down that position and do a good job.
Q: Martellus Bennett?
A: He's a gigantic man who has played behind a Hall of Fame tight end [Jason Witten] in Dallas. The ball's in his court. We expect him to play well.
Q: Linebacker Keith Rivers, whom you got in a trade with the Bengals?
A: Obviously he's had some injury issues he had to suffer through that hindered his production. When you're the ninth pick of the draft, people around the league think you have a lot of talent. He's going to have a chance to show the league he can stay healthy and play at a high level in a tough conference.
Q: Marvin Austin, your No. 2 pick in 2011, is back after missing the season. How does he differ from Linval Joseph?
A: Linval can hold the point of attack. Marvin Austin is a guy you have to put on the move, more of a gap-charger kind of player.
Q: "All In" and "Finish" were the catch words last year. What will they be this year?
A: Those kind of catch words will come into focus as the season gets started.
Q: Describe the Giants' White House visit.
A: If you're going to the White House, it means you had a tremendous season. To go back for a second time, that was really special. Having an African-American president there in the White House was a special moment for me as well. I reaped the benefits of the people who really suffered and paid the price before me. I don't take that lightly.
Q: Justin Tuck has mentioned the dynasty word again.
A: If you say that "D" word, they can stretch it in a lot of different directions. We're just trying to win the next game. The dynasty stuff is when we're all in rocking chairs.
Q: A message for Giants fans?
A; You're going to have a hard-working, driven team that wants to prove that we're still a good football team … a smart football team every Sunday they're going to be proud of.


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My daughter Matilda transitioned into kindergarten last week. Matilda is a girl who only dresses in boy clothes –yes, you're right, exactly like Shiloh Jolie-Pitt. On any given day you will see her in basketball shorts, a Spidey tee shirt and some Sketchers bad ass light up shoes from the boy's side of the store. The thing is, although I'm totally used to it since she's been dressing this way since she was three, I still struggled with how I could best help her make the transition into a new school. I don't know if you're aware of this but it's really hard to be different.
Matilda isn't different on purpose. She certainly doesn't dress like a boy to stand out in a crowd. This isn't like adding a blue streak to your hair when you're fifteen. This is just who she is. I think if you asked her she would say she wishes she weren't different. She would say she wishes it were easier to make friends and that it was easier for people to "get her." This is a kid who craves love, acceptance and friendship.
When Matilda was in camp over the summer she told me that some of the kids kept asking her if she was a boy or a girl. She said she would tell them that she was a girl but they just kept asking her and saying, "Well then why do you like Superheroes? Why are you wearing a Spongebob shirt? Why do you have Hot Wheels in your lunch box to play with?" This really hurt her feelings. At first I tried to ask her if maybe the kids were just confused and I told her it was okay to just let them know that she's a girl and it didn't mean they were insulting her. But she said she tried that and that they just kept asking her even though their question had been asked and answered. Obviously, I didn't like hearing that. But what can you do besides speak to the counselors and make sure they keep an eye out for her right?
About two weeks before school started, Mattie kept saying she was nervous about school. She was so nervous to try to make friends because making friends is really hard, she told me. This is when I made a suggestion to her that maybe we could get her some girl shirts from Target -not girlie but just from the girl's section- so that people would know that she's a girl but she would still feel like herself. She agreed to this and seemed excited when we chose a baseball tee with purple sleeves and she even said she'd wear a pair of purple leggings.
The night before school arrived and she laid out a Spider Man t-shirt and the purple leggings to wear for her first day. But the next morning she changed her mind and threw on her basketball shorts instead.
She needed to be herself.
For me, it would have been easier if she wore something to signify she's a girl. It would have eased my transition. I thought I would worry less if she weren't faced with the questions or the possibility of teasing. But it turns out that this wasn't about me, it was about her. And she's a girl who only likes boy things. That's who she is. And that's how she would like to present herself. She doesn't want to pretend to be something she's not.
She doesn't have a buzz cut, or try to go by a boy's name. She wants to use the girl's bathroom like all the other girls. But she wants to be friends with the boys. And if there's a game of "house" or "school" going on, she wants to be the son, dad, prince, boy etc.
My daughter may look different and act differently than you expect a girl to look and behave but she is the same as your kid. She has the same fears and insecurities, the same passion for fruit roll-ups and Gogurt, the same hugs and silliness. She's kind and thoughtful, beautiful inside and out. She just doesn't like girl sh*t.
If you meet her at school or anywhere else, you are welcome to ask if she's a girl or a boy and if you just assume she's a boy and she corrects you, you don't need to be embarrassed or to try to justify yourself by telling me you didn't know because she's dressed like a boy. All you have to do is smile and say "Great! Nice to meet you, Matilda." Don't worry, I'm still learning too.


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It's hot in Utah right now. But if you visit your local sporting goods store or the Division of Wildlife Resources' website, you'll find a sure sign that fall is on its way.
Utah's Upland Game and Turkey Guidebook for the 2012 – 2013 hunting season is now available.
In addition to sporting goods stores and the DWR's website (wildlife.utah.gov/guidebooks), the free guidebook is also available at your nearest DWR office.
Utah's upland game seasons begin on Aug. 25. That's when the white-tailed ptarmigan hunt starts. The upland game seasons won't end until the snowshoe hare hunt ends on March 15.
That's almost seven full months of hunting. In addition to providing hunters with lots of opportunity, Utah's upland game also provide a lot of diversity.
Jason Robinson, upland game coordinator for the DWR, says you can hunt white-tailed ptarmigan high in the Uinta Mountains one day, and then the next day, find yourself hunting on the rocky slopes of the West Desert for chukar partridge.
"Utah offers a wide variety of upland game hunting," Robinson says.
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Parkinson's Disease
Why are Parkinson`s Disease patients given drugs that cause the symptoms that they are suppose to relieve? When side effects are intolerable what can be done.
Parkinson's disease is associated with a loss of brain dopamine, and medications used to treat Parkinson's disease help increase brain dopamine by various mechanisms. By increasing brain dopamine levels, these medications can help decrease the Parkinson's motor symptoms of slowness, rigidity, and tremor.
Unfortunately, these medications can also work outside the brain and cause various side effects. Some of the more common side effects are upset stomach and lightheadedness. The upset stomach can sometimes be resolved by taking medications with food. Another conservative approach for dealing with upset stomach is using ginger products, such as ginger ale or ginger snap cookies. It is important to keep well hydrated to minimize a fall in blood pressure causing lightheadedness.
Another strategy to help decrease side effects is by starting a medication at a small dose and slowly building it up over several weeks until the desired dose. This schedule should be developed with the help of the physician prescribing the medication.
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Danny Davis: No regrets backing Braun
Illinois U.S. Rep. Danny Davis, D-Chicago, is standing by his decision to push Carol Moseley Braun as a "consensus black candidate" in the recent mayoral election.
Braun's poor showing has some political observers saying race no longer plays the role it did in local elections back in the 1980s when Harold Washington was elected the city's first black mayor. But Davis said race is still an important part of politics in Chicago. He said issues such as gun violence and high incarceration rates disproportionately affect black communities and the black community should be electing candidates who understand those issues and are committed to solving them.
"Anybody that's trying to elect somebody to public office should want whoever it is that's going to think the most like them, who's going to do the most like what they would do. If you're not doing that then what's the point of participating," said Davis.


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Get an overview of this hotelSuburban St. Louis hotel in Creve Coeur with free parking
Popular property highlights
Located in Creve Coeur, this hotel is 0.9 mi (1.5 km) from Creve Coeur Golf Club and within 3 mi (5 km) of New Jewish Theatre and Holocaust Museum. St. Louis Car Museum and Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House are also within 6 mi (10 km).
Hotel Features
This smoke-free hotel features a restaurant, an indoor pool, and a fitness center. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, a bar/lounge, a coffee shop/café, and a snack bar/deli are onsite.
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In addition to an indoor pool, Courtyard by Marriott St Louis Creve Coeur provides a spa tub and a fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant, a coffee shop/café, and a snack bar/deli. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Business-related amenities at this 3-star property consist of a business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measure 1274 square feet (115 square meters). This business-friendly hotel also offers complimentary newspapers in the lobby, a fireplace in the lobby, and laundry facilities. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
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Alexandra Burke has revealed that she would love to join the X Factor judging panel on a full time basis.
The former show winner hasn't enjoyed the best success with her recent single and album releases and it seems that she's ready to move into TV work on a more frequent basis.
The brunette beauty has guest judged on the show before, and replaced Kelly Rowland for a weekend in 2011, when the US singer was stuck in America and unable to make it back to London for the live shows.
That stint just whet her appetite and Alex is keen to make a comeback. She told Digital Spy that she would be honoured to join the ITV show if the opportunity arose and explained:
"Once was definitely not enough, it gave me a taste for it. If the opportunity came about I would love it – to go out there and find the next music star would be a fantastic experience. If Simon asked I would definitely consider it. It would be an honour."
It's been reported that Tulisa is facing the axe from the panel this year, while Gary Barlow has hinted that he is ready to quit. Rita Ora confirmed last week that producers had asked her to replace one of the stars, but she'd turned them down, preferring to concentrate on her own music career for now.
Burke has no problem replacing Contostavlos or Barlow, but she doesn't want to step on Louis Walsh's toes and insisted:
"Can I just say though, Louis ain't going anywhere!"
Brian McFadden thinks differently though and he thinks it's time for old Lou Lou to step down and give another Irish man a chance.
The former Westlife star currently judges on Australia's Got Talent but is ready to move back to the UK. He'd love to join the X Factor's panel but knows he'll have to wait for Walsh to kick the bucket first.
He told STV: "I'm going to be the next judge on X Factor, I'm just waiting for Louis Walsh to pass away! It's in the contract, as soon as Louis dies, it's in his will that I take his seat, so any day now!"
He added: "I love Louis on that show, he's so honest. And I love the way he's so patriotic, if there's anyone from Ireland he thinks they're amazing. He's afraid their parents will bump into him in the street and give him a slap!"
Who would you like to see judging on The X Factor and what is your ideal panel lineup? Leave your comments below…..


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For the love of music. That's what the new PJ Harvey / John Parish collaboration is all about. John Parish has worked with her before, co-producing To Bring You My Love and White Chalk.
Next year, the two will release A Woman A Man Walked By, the result of a set of studio sessions that included Eric Drew Feldman, Carla Azar from Autolux and Giovanni Ferrario. The album was recorded in by Ali Chant in Bristol at Toybox studios, and in Dorset. It was co-produced by PJ Harvey and John Parish and mixed by Flood.
A Woman A Man Walked By will be released by Island Records on March 30th, 2009. The two are planning to play some live shows after the album is released.
Miss Polly Jean Harvey also recently celebrated the 15th anniversary of her landmark abum Dry, telling Spinner "It was an extremely exciting time for me. I never even dreamed that I would have the chance to make a record, let alone that it would be so anticipated and received so well. It was just an astonishing time and quite wonderful. I did feel a little like the rabbit in the headlights -- I wasn't quite sure what was happening. But I was willing to go along with it."
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Soldiers, Families Paying Price of Iraq War
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JIM LEHRER: Now, the costs of the war in Iraq, part two. Congressional Democrats said today they have reached a tentative deal with the White House on a war funding bill after months of battles. Leaders said they hope to send a bill to the president that he will sign.
But as NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman reported last night, the growing price of the war goes well beyond what it's costing the government. In the second of his reports, Paul looks at some American families who are paying the price.
JAVIER LAROSA, Father of Marine: This is our son, and this is his squad.
PAUL SOLMAN, NewsHour Economics Correspondent: A recent Saturday at a Harley dealership in Tennessee, for months, Javier and Marian LaRosa have been raising money to privately buy body armor for their son, and for the other Marines in his squadron, before they deploy to Iraq in June.
JAVIER LAROSA: We feel that, if these guys are going to go and put their lives on the line, the least that we can do to bring them back alive.
PAUL SOLMAN: The LaRosas are a symbol of the roughly one million American families paying for the war in Iraq.
JAVIER LAROSA: And God bless you.
PAUL SOLMAN: Or at least this man thinks they're a symbol of those paying for the war: Robert Hormats, who served under Presidents Bush I, Reagan, and Carter, and has for years been vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs International, a wing of the world's largest investment bank.
To Hormats, families buying body armor for their children vividly shows why the Iraq war differs from any other in American history, that those fighting it are bearing nearly all of the costs, while the rest of us aren't paying at all.
ROBERT HORMATS, Investment Banker: Americans haven't paid higher taxes. They haven't engaged in the purchase of war bonds. They haven't had to sacrifice through rationing. They haven't planted victory gardens. Every other war, there's been a sacrifice on the homefront to help those people, support those people fighting abroad. None this time.
Hidden costs of war
PAUL SOLMAN: In fact, claims Hormats, the cost of the war, at least $400 billion thus far, and eventually perhaps $2 trillion or more, has been hidden from the vast majority of Americans.
ROBERT HORMATS: This war has been financed essentially with borrowing, which has been off the books through supplementals.
PAUL SOLMAN: Indeed, points out Joe Stiglitz, once a key economic adviser to President Clinton...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ, Columbia University: The richest Americans have had huge tax cuts. No sacrifice at all.
PAUL SOLMAN: For a big-city reporter then, with no family or friends in Iraq, a beneficiary of tax cuts every year of the war, it felt almost embarrassing to be in Tennessee with the LaRosas.
I don't mean to personalize this too much, but are you in some sense resentful that people like, say, myself, bear no costs in this war?
JAVIER LAROSA: I'm not angry at you, because you personally bear no sacrifice, OK? I am calling on the nation. We did it in World War II. I am angry that the rest of the nation is not sacrificing more.
PAUL SOLMAN: This is Hormats' point, almost exactly, made in detail in his new book, "The Price of Liberty."
ROBERT HORMATS: The people who are fighting the war are not getting as much as they need. They're not getting as much armor. And, of course, as we see, when they're injured, they're not getting the help they need at home.
PAUL SOLMAN: Given that the total cost, big as it may be, is just a small fraction of our almost $14 trillion-a-year economy, perhaps that's not so surprising.
ROBERT HORMATS: As a portion of GDP, as a portion of the economy, this war is very small compared to, say, Vietnam, which was 10 percent of GDP, Korea, which was 15 percent of GDP, World War II, 45 percent of GDP. The whole military budget this time is less than 5 percent of GDP, so it's easier to sidestep that issue.
Financial problems for wounded vets
PAUL SOLMAN: But for the one million or so American families who are fighting the war, there's often no sidestepping, like Army Reservist Brad Heun, maimed in Iraq in 2003, vertebrae crushed in a truck accident. Heun has fused discs, a steel bar in his back, and constant, excruciating pain in hip and leg.
FORMER SGT. BRAD HEUN, U.S. Army: Literally, it feels like somebody just took a baseball bat and blindsided you across your back.
PAUL SOLMAN: How bad has it been at its worst?
SGT. BRAD HEUN: At its worst, I have been on an emergency room gurney, curled up, and not even be able to concentrate on simple questions.
PAUL SOLMAN: The Veterans Administration has declared Heun 100 percent disabled.
SGT. BRAD HEUN: Basically, I'm going to get worse. It's a matter of time.
PAUL SOLMAN: You're going to get worse?
SGT. BRAD HEUN: Yes, sir. They told me, if I ain't careful, I might end up in a wheelchair.
PAUL SOLMAN: The Army, however, discharged him with only a 20 percent disability. Anything under 30 percent means no benefits.
Wait a second. You don't have health insurance from the Army?
SGT. BRAD HEUN: No, sir.
PAUL SOLMAN: Now, Heun gets his own medical care from the VA, plus $2,500 a month to support his family of five, but no health insurance at all for them.
SGT. BRAD HEUN: So I'm trying to pay for a COBRA policy to try to keep my kids with insurance.
PAUL SOLMAN: Well, that must be what, $800 a month?
SGT. BRAD HEUN: We couldn't afford that, sir. We got -- our policy is $400 a month, and it's got extremely high deductibles.
BEVERLY HEUN, Wife of Injured Veteran: At $1,500.
SGT. BRAD HEUN: Per person.
BEVERLY HEUN: Per person.
PAUL SOLMAN: Meanwhile, Beverly Heun has had back surgery of her own, from a car accident. And their 2-year-old daughter needs surgery, but they've had to put it off.
BEVERLY HEUN: We don't want to do it at the expense of her not having a home to live in. I think it's a disgrace to this country for me to even be sitting her trying to tell you this.
PAUL SOLMAN: Heun is appealing, but...
SGT. BRAD HEUN: Well, that's another lawyer's fee. And so that's just -- you know, why is a soldier having to pay for all these lawyers to do these appeals?
Rationale for enlisting
PAUL SOLMAN: Soldiers who typically don't have enough money to pay a lawyer. In fact, in addition to their patriotism, it's their economic status that may have encouraged many to become soldiers in the first place. Air National Guard recruiter Bart Welch.
MASTER SGT. BART WELCH, Air National Guard Recruiter: They're getting $15,000 cash enlistment bonus a lot of times. They're getting a G.I. bill, which is about $300 a month. They're getting a G.I. bill kicker, which is another $350 a month. And then they're getting their pay. Plus, they're getting state tuition assistance. So a lot of them are getting paid for going to college, so they do a lot better after they enlist with us.
PAUL SOLMAN: The recruits, at least the ones provided to us, bore Bart Welch out.
STAFF SGT. LEIGH CURRY, Medic, Air National Guard: None of my friends really pursued school. Several of them are single mothers. Definitely, the military's been the best choice that I've made.
TECH. SGT. JEFF GRIFFITH, 134th Air National Guard Security Forces Squadron: Based on my peers from high school, I could have very easily been a construction worker or working in a factory, but I think I'm better off doing what I'm doing now, making a lot more than the median wage of the county that I live in, so I feel fortunate.
PAUL SOLMAN: Admittedly, recruiting here is easier than most places. For nearly 200 years, Tennessee has been known as the Volunteer State.
LT. CMDR. DAVID PAYNE, U.S. Naval Reserves: It has a heritage since the War of 1812 of being the first to the fight and to continuously volunteer.
PAUL SOLMAN: The University of Tennessee's Lady Vols, for "Volunteers," won the NCAA championship. Knoxville's 865 telephone area code spells "V-O-L." But if tradition doesn't hurt recruiting, neither does the money.
How many people are better off financially for being here?
These are naval reservists in Knoxville.
That's about two-thirds.
David Payne, retiring that very day, was the commander here. His pension?
LT. CMDR. DAVID PAYNE: It's about $45,000 a year, and it has a cost-of-living increase. I'll get, you know, free medical coverage and VA benefits. And it'll go up about, for me, about $1,200 a year after that.
Soldiers facing 'enormous' risks
PAUL SOLMAN: But what if they get hurt?
NAVY RECRUIT: If I get deployed, I do not have fear, because, if I die, my wife will be taken care of. If I lose a leg, I will receive benefits, as opposed to, if I lose my leg on the highway, I will not.
TECH. SGT. JEFF GRIFFITH: I've got faith that I'm going to be taken care of. We've got some of the best medical care in the world in this country. I'm not going to be left out in the cold.
PAUL SOLMAN: Do you feel the Army is taking care of you?
SGT. BRAD HEUN: No, sir.
BEVERLY HEUN: I don't think that they care about the soldier. They definitely don't care about the soldier's family.
SGT. BRAD HEUN: I did what I believed is right, and I would do it again. But, you know, are they really taking care of you?
JOSEPH STIGLITZ: These people have signed up and they -- if they don't lose their lives, if they don't lose their limbs, they will be better off than they would have been otherwise. But the cost of this is enormous; the risks that they're being asked to face is enormous.
PAUL SOLMAN: And the lack of support the rest of us are providing, says Robert Hormats, is unprecedented in American history.
ROBERT HORMATS: In all wars, you get people who go in, in part because it's economically beneficial, but still Americans have provided them with sufficient financial support. During World War I, the treasury secretary, McAdoo, said, "You can be sure that, when Americans send their sons abroad" -- only men at that point -- "they're willing, in fact, they're eager to provide money to support their sons who are fighting," in that case in Western Europe.
There's still a requirement that government should ask other people who are not making that sacrifice, who are not in the trenches of France, as they were in those days, or fighting in the deserts of Iraq, to make some sort of commitment to the war, also.
PAUL SOLMAN: It's a commitment and sacrifice, say Hormats and others, that most Americans have not yet been asked to make.


text: Bill could save coal millions By Paul J. Nyden February 22, 1999 Story Share On Friday, the state Senate unanimously approved a Workers' Compensation Fund bill recommended by the agency's Performance Council a week earlier. Today, the House of Delegates Judiciary Committee will begin looking at the bill.As passed by the Senate, the bill makes it easier for injured workers to get "permanent total disability" benefits, by easing medical impairment standards. The West Virginia AFL-CIO backed the bill.The bill also creates a six-month "amnesty period" for employers who are delinquent in paying their compensation premiums.The amnesty period could help a handful of coal companies to save up to $100 million, because it eliminates interest and penalty payments for companies which are willing to pay back premiums.Currently, the Bureau of Employment Programs is suing more than 30 major coal companies, along with their subsidiaries and contract miners. These companies now owe about $200 million in delinquent premiums, interest and penalties.A major issue in these lawsuits, filed beginning in December 1996, is whether big coal companies are liable for the debts of contractors.Typically, big coal companies owned the coal their contractors mined, helped finance their contractors, and sold all the coal their contractors produced.The bill will not stop the lawsuits. But it would allow a company to negotiate secretly with Employment Programs Commissioner William Vieweg, even after a company loses a lawsuit or even after a company begins making payments under a settlement agreement approved by a court.For 10 years, Vieweg was a lawyer and executive of Island Creek Coal Co., a defendant in one of the lawsuits Workers' Comp filed. Gov. Cecil Underwood, another former Island Creek executive, named Vieweg to his job in February 1997. None of the 30 lawsuits has come to trial. The suit against Bluestone Coal Co., owned by James Justice II of Beckley, was scheduled to begin in September before McDowell County Circuit Judge Booker Stephens.The West Virginia Coal Association delayed that lawsuit, and 15 others, by asking that they be transferred to federal district court in Beckley.For six months, U.S. District Judge David Faber has done nothing to rule on the coal association's legal motion.Vieweg has consistently expressed doubts as to whether major coal companies should be required to pay debts incurred by their contractors.The law allows coal companies and other employers to ask Vieweg for "a settlement of the amount of premium taxes, accrued interest and penalties and any award of attorney's fees" in lawsuits.Unlike open courtroom proceedings, the negotiations would take place privately. After an employer reached an agreement with Vieweg, it would be subject to final approval from the nine-member Performance Council.But the exact terms of such agreements may never become public, under the law. To contact staff writer Paul J. Nyden, call 348-5164. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Deer in 8 WV counties found dead from EHD 2 WVU law professor announces run for Congress 3 New company planning $73M synthetic fuel plant in Greenbrier County 4 Richwood mayor on leave amid investigation of purchases 5 West Virginia high school football scores, local box scores -- Week 5 Mountaintop removal study hearings to be held this week Previous Story Mountaintop mine bill focuses on communities, not streams Next Story


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Hee hee. Those are really great. I like the style. :)
Hey brotha! 8) Your memory is better than mine. I didnt remember sketching it. LOL
Been doing....umm...well, life's been interesting. Let's put it that way. Hahaha
How're you? :)
I can only imagine the neck strength she must have to hold up all that hair! O_O
Looks awesome. :)
*exits lurking mode for a change*
Howdy. :) I found an old sketch and threw some color at it. Hope everyone has a great holiday.
I've never really left. ;) I just stalk. Hee hee. I stalk here and I have always kept up with your work too, Jukka. :)
And the video of me working on it:
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Damn. O_O Awesome. :D
Great stuff! I've now spent all morning reading it all. LOL Too funny. :)
Also, tell your buddy I like that style he's got going with the line art. ;) It's awesome too.
Hmm, the only thing I dont like about that one is the white lines on her legs, which I'm sure are supposed to be highlights, but they look like lines. It works on the boots though. :)
Funk soul brothah. LOL Good one.
And iceman, you're right. Actually, the highlights are there, but I think my montitor is too bright, so I need to adjust it and start working lighter. :)
Thanks to you both. :)
Yeah, it seems my work was getting darker and darker there for a while. I've been working on that. :)
Defiance did bring closure to Raziel's story in the LOK world, but...
Thanks. :) I feel like I'm at the threashold of having a better understanding of how to use color much better.
Glad to see you're still around here, buddy. :skgrin:
"I do not serve Kain, I merely did not kill him."
Awesome stuff. Great to see your coloring style again! :)
...but here he is, ready to take on He-Man because he peed in his lake one time. LOL
What's the word I'm looking for here...Hmmm...how about,
Awesome! I loves it!
Great idea, JafariStew! And you did a great job! :) Are we gonna see more covers of covers from ya'?
Thank Jukka for finding it on his hardrive. Seeing it again, I realize I shouldnt have been so lazy and it couldve been better. Ah well. It's all for fun. :)
:) old, but here it is. Somewhere, I have her all by herself, but I'm too lasy to dig it up. :P
Damn Jukka! You freakin' ROCK!!! I dont even have these anymore. (long story). Thanks! :) You're awesome!
"old" huh? Let me guess who your influence was. ;)
Love the last Lynn. I like the big ol bootie you gave her! :)
Damn! That's cool. Can I do a re-design based on your re-design of the re-design of Fisto? I like where you're going with this!. Later, steve
ditto. Looks great! :) :) :)
That TriKlops could seriously take out the entire cast ALONE!!! Yikes! This painted stuff is beyond words. Awesome! Still, we'll see some penciled work in the future, right? Maybe? Huh? Please? :)
Having not seen him in the cartoon, I guess this is my introduction as to what evilseed looks like now.
...........and he kicks ass. :) as does your custom.
Everyone took all of the good "HOLY (word)"'s. I will say that this is beyond exelent. I love the fact that you gave him that expression. I can hear the maniacle laugh coming from him when I look at...
good to see the classics get such love. Great figure!!! :)
Hey, you're too hard on yourself. This is coming along really good. As for the hand, the size doesnt bother me so much. Perhaps if you could curl the fingers ever so slightly, it would be perfect. If...


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New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) Television channel National Geographic later will this year air a special series that will reveal the facts behind the massive machinery of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
The series - Inside IPL - will answer several questions of the Indian cricket fans and explain the inside story of the IPL.
The IPL features 54 days of cricket, 76 matches, nine teams, 12 venues and more than a 100 million spectators and TV viewers, bringing together cricket, business and entertainment to create an exciting concoction.
From the organisation and preparations for the IPL 2013, to its execution, management, broadcast, players and fans, Inside IPL will give viewers a never-before peek into the making and shaping of India's largest annual sporting spectacle.
Reputed for taking audiences where they have never been before, National Geographic Channel's 'Inside' series showcases the world's most restricted places and behind-the-scenes moments from some of the world's greatest events.
Speaking about the series, managing director of National Geographic Network Keertan Adyanthaya said, "IPL is more than just a cricket tournament with hundreds of millions of people and billions of rupees being involved. 'Inside IPL' promises to be the viewer's front-row seat and backstage pass to the frenzy, passion and excitement behind this one-of-a-kind sporting and entertainment event."
Speaking about the association with National Geographic, IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla said, "We are very excited to be associated with a prestigious brand like National Geographic for a special series on the IPL. For the team behind the IPL, this is a fabulous opportunity to showcase to the league's loyal fans, the hard work and dedication put forth to make their favourite sporting event a reality."


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Starting a new job is never easy so isn't it considerate of Kelly Rowland to give new 'X Factor' judges Britney Spears and Demi Lovato a few words of advice? The show veteran might have scared them off with her stark warning though!
Kelly, who left 'The X Factor UK' judging panel after just one series, has been reaching out to new US panelists Britney and Demi, warning them that if they screw up their boss Simon Cowell definitely won't take the blame!
Kelly admitted she loved her time on the ITV show but says its was also a tough experience, speaking to MTV News she said she couldn't wait to see what Brit and Demi have in store on the US version of the show:
''I'm excited for them. I'll let them know it's a lot of work. It is a lot of work, but it was definitely a great process."
''It is a lot of responsibility, and when you screw up or if you screw up, then everybody blames you. Simon included.''
Uh oh! We wonder what Kelly did to feel the wrath of Cowell?! Despite her cryptic message, Kelly reckons it was a great experience, adding:
''You might be running into the next big thing. Or, like for Britney, the next big her, or the next big Demi Lovato. I think that's really exciting for them, and they'll be a part of that, and they'll never forget that.''
Just stay on the right side of Si, ladies!
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This seems like it's probably a good forum to stick this in.
CNN "Video" (I like how they keep cycling the same pictures over the audio of the 911 call.)
Actual CNN News Video.
And one of the various stories.
Tim Peeler thought he was calling coyotes, but he got something that frightened even this self-proclaimed North Carolina mountain man.
"Instead of them, there was him," he bellowed. "The thing was 10 feet tall with beautiful hair, yellowish hair and a yellow beard," said Peeler.
Sgt. Mark Self of the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office remembers the sightings of a "Bigfoot Beast" when he was a child.
"It scared me," he recalled.
Self said people believed they saw a Sasquatch in the same parts of Cleveland County.
The reports were frightening to the then 10-year-old boy.
"It was killing animals and breaking into barns and killing chickens," he said of the reported stories.
Peeler says it's the same creature that he saw for himself just last week near his home atop a mountain in Casar.
He says the beast was approaching his dogs and got wrapped around their chains.
"I rough-talked him and said, 'You get away from here,'" he said.
Peeler says the beast eventually left, but then came back again.
"And I said, 'get, get,' and he went back down the path again."
Peeler said he called deputies and then filed a suspicious person report.
He is troubled that he didn't give a better description and was drawing a rendering of what he remembers.
"He looked like he had six fingers on each hand."
Reports of a Sasquatch aren't new to Cleveland County.
They date back to the 1970s, although deputies we talked to say they haven't heard the stories in years.
"This is totally blowing my mind," said Self. "But it doesn't bother me.
We're working up here so if we see something we'll try to capture it and take it into custody," he laughed.
As for the man making the latest sighting, Peeler says he realizes people may not believe his account.
He simply asks that you keep an open mind and not laugh at him.
After all, he says, we all know that foxes exist, but how often do you spot one of those?


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A BIKER and cyclist have been taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Headington with injuries after a crash near Wantage this morning.
The motorcyclist was left with leg, back and arm injuries and cyclist has leg and possible back injuries from the collision which happened just before 7am in Chainhill Road.
South Central Ambulance spokeswoman Michelle Archer said their injuries are not thought to be life threatening.
Thames Valley Police spokesman James Williams said the road – which is fully open – was never completely closed this morning.


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Dave Hughes makes an appearance on Have You Been Paying Attention? this weekend joined by other first-timers Anthony "Lehmo" Lehmann and Cal Wilson, who will join series regulars Celia Pacquola and Sam Pang.
Host Tom Gleisner presents the week in one hilarious half an hour. So get the family together and join us as we ask the question, Have You Been Paying Attention?
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Hi everyone ,
I am presently making a 3D cake and was wondering if I could , if possible airbrush modelling Chocolate? Cake with be covered in it,to my knowledge I cannot find any cake store in my area that sells powered food colour to help me with coloring the modelling chocolate. Therefore , I would like to know if it is possible and how to go about it ?
Julie aka Catin
Yes, that should work just fine.
Airbrush color will not stick to chocolate, but you can airbrush the colored cocoa butters that are on the market and they work just fine. You can drydust chocolate with lustre dust and that works well and looks fabulous.
it doesn't adhere well at all...........however, you can try mixing the color into the corn syrup before adding it to the melted chocolate if you want to color it with regular americolor gel colors (I do that all the time).......also, americolor sells something called "candy flo-coat" and I use that mixed with americolor gels and color the melted chocolate and then add the corn syrup.....either way works well..........if you need a REALLY dark color like a deep red, it might be hard though
Thank so much for all you help, I will definately take in and use it to my advantage . I would have never thought of adding the color to the corn syrup before hand .. that is a great one .
thanks again
AI have airbrushed using the Wilson Gold airbrush and it turned out fine for accents, I wouldn't recommend airbrushing an entire cake though. You can (as stated before) add color to the chocolates during the melting process but the color will always darken when. You add the heated corn syrup.
ALauren kitchens has a great crafty.com video on modeling chocolate. She tints the chocolate with gels and also airbrushed the modeling chocolate with no problems, I have tinted my modeling chocolate. Many times ssuccessfully after the kneeding stage (that allows me to make smaller quantities of a colour). Haven't tried airbrushing though...
a Everything on Modeling choc. I found last night. Im wanting to try it...so I researched this....


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Creamy Italian Spiral Salad Recipe
I have accumulated some delicious recipes that serve large numbers, like this colorful and delicious pasta salad. The flavors blend so well, and there's plenty of creamy dressing. -Marlene Muckenhirn Delano, Minnesota
- 2 packages (16 ounces each) multicolored spiral pasta
- 1 medium bunch broccoli, cut into florets
- 1 medium head cauliflower, cut into florets
- 2 cups frozen peas and carrots
- 2 cups cherry tomatoes, quartered
- 1 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
- 6 green onions, chopped
- 1/2 cup chopped green pepper
- 1 can (2-1/4 ounces) sliced ripe olives, drained
- 2 bottles (16 ounces each) creamy Italian salad dressing
- 1. Cook pasta according to package directions; drain and rinse in cold water.
- 2. In a large bowl, combine the pasta, broccoli, cauliflower, peas and carrots, tomatoes, cheese, onions, green pepper and olives. Add the dressing; mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 2-3 hours or until chilled. Yield: 30 servings (3/4 cup each).
Nutritional Facts
3/4 cup: 147 calories, 7g fat (1g saturated fat), 2mg cholesterol, 218mg sodium, 17g carbohydrate (4g sugars, 2g fiber), 4g protein.
Reviews for Creamy Italian Spiral Salad
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"I had so many compliments when I made this salad for a party! I would for sure make it again."
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The local Warm Hearts program to aid the needy pay for heating drew more than $81,000. An eventual goal of $100,000 was on the chart but there was little likelihood that would be achieved. In all, there had been nearly 1,800 donors to the cause.
Michell Renee Goodrick was the first baby born at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in 1984 and proved to be an "early bird." She had been scheduled to arrive Jan. 12.
Students returning to public schools were finding many unshoveled walkways after recent heavy snows. Some of the walks were on city property rather than private grounds.
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simpler GUI password for Administrative tasks while retaining complex user password?
I have a complex password, which is a pain to enter whenever I run and administrative task.
Short of changing my password... I'd like to set things up such that when I run an administrative task, it asks for a simpler password, like "allow" or "yes".
I still want to receive a prompt to enther this simpler password, not just a "continue" button. I want having to type something in.
This should only apply to GUI prompts. Things like "ctrl-alt-f#" and SSH should still require my complex user password.
How can I set this up? Thanks.
I think
sudo may solve your requirement.
just type
and configure sudo for users,hosts and commands
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Picture Kodak, king of silver-oxide-and-celluloid photography forever, confronting the age of the digital image, and you can imagine the turmoil, upheaval and forced reinvention that have assaulted the Rochester, N.Y.-based film and processing giant in recent years. These have not been easy times for traditional "memories capsules" packaged in little yellow boxes. And before the digital onslaught, there was the assault by Japan's brand F in the little green boxes.
The part of the company of interest here that has proved its worth through these trying times has been the corporate flight department, under the leadership of Jack Kuss, chief pilot since 1997. Kodak has long recognized the value of the mobility provided by company aircraft –it was back in 1945 that the first of two DC-3s began carrying company personnel between Rochester, New York City and Kingsport, Tenn. who had previously ridden the train, setting the stage for what has become one of the longest continuously operated flight departments in the U.S.
Today, Kodak operates an all-Bombardier fleet consisting of a Global Express (which entered service just a couple of months ago) and two Challenger 604s, but it wasn't all smooth sailing to reach this fleet level. Along the way there were experiments with chargebacks that nearly shuttered the whole operation. But one unavoidable fact of life for any company based in Rochester is that the upstate New York city is two stops on the airlines to almost anywhere. To the Kodak flight department, that simple quirk of the hub-and-spoke system has been highly beneficial in adding to its perceived value in the company and therefore its sense of security.
Maj. Gen. Edward Peck Curtis, hired by Eastman Kodak immediately after his return from World War II service in 1945, convinced Kodak chairman Perley Wilcox and president Thomas Hargrave that a company airplane made business sense. Trips to New York, Washington and Kingsport were becoming more frequent, and an airplane would save the company's executives much time spent traveling. Curtis, a World War I ace and later chief of staff of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Europe in WWII, was persuasive. He became not only a valued Kodak executive in his role of vice president of the company's motion-picture division, but also a key player in the growth of Hollywood. He also headed the commission that created the FAA.
Once management had approved Curtis' idea, they hired Page Airways of Rochester to acquire a surplus Douglas C-47 from the War Assets Administration. Page found a suitable airplane at Bush Field in Augusta, Ga., and it was flown to Southern Airways' Atlanta shops for conversion to the civilian passenger-carrying role. The trip was not uneventful for the chosen pilot–Army Capt. Joseph Clemow, then the pilot for Strategic Air Forces commander Lt. Gen. Carl Spaatz. Just as the wheels had left the ground on takeoff from Bush Field on the morning of Nov. 17, 1945, one engine failed, so Clemow feathered that prop and flew to Atlanta on one–an inauspicious start to his 30-year career with Kodak. Once the Southern Airways crew began to tear apart the C-47, they found hidden war wounds (small-arms-fire damage in the wings and tail) and deemed the airplane unacceptable. WAA refunded Kodak its money, and a replacement C-47 was ferried from Walnut Ridge, Ark., to Atlanta the following April for an eight-month conversion process.
The airlines had priority on new radio equipment, so only used boxes were available for private airplanes, but Southern managed to scrounge a new Bendix RTA1B transmitter–a heavy (40 pounds) 10-channel system that consumed a lot of power–and a new Bendix range station frequency receiver, to which Southern coupled the largest possible rotatable loop, installed on the nose. "It was our only system that would pick up the audible range beam signals in the presence of thunderstorms," recalled Clemow. The bill for the C-47 and its conversion came to $65,000, broken down as $25,000 for the C-47; $37,800 for Southern's conversion; and $2,200 for Clemow, who had lived at the Atlanta airport while supervising the eight-month process. On July 23, 1946, Clemow and newly hired copilot Edward Knitter flew the completed airplane from Atlanta to Rochester. A week later, Kodak's first business flight departed Rochester for Boston Logan with 12 of its 14 passenger seats filled. The flight took about 90 minutes, versus the six hours of a typical train trip.
The "trim two-engine plane, its aluminum body shining like a new silver dollar," made the front page of the company newspaper, Kodakery, on Aug. 1, 1946. It lived outside until Kodak bought space in a municipal hangar from the city in 1947. In 1951 Clemow and copilot Herb Schultz became FlightSafety's first graduates, and the fees for their training generated FSI's first income.
The Way It Used To Be
Corporate flying was different back then, as illustrated by a typical Kodak DC-3 run from Rochester to Kingsport and then on to Longview, Texas. One Sunday every month, Clemow and Schultz flew from Rochester to Kingsport, usually with a full load of 14 passengers, doughnuts, coffee and as much gas as the DC-3's 25,436-pound mtow would allow. Generally it was a three-hour flight, but with a southwest wind it could take 4.5 hours. At Kingsport the passengers disembarked, and the pilots cleaned the ashtrays, loaded the Thermos with fresh coffee and supervised the filling of the tanks before 14 Tennessee Eastman passengers with 14 lunch boxes boarded for the continuation to Longview.
"In clear weather or if there were flat cloud tops below 9,000 feet," recalled Clemow, "we would fly direct and report to ATC as we crossed any north or south airway. On that heading we were at 8,500 feet. However, if we had to fly on instruments on the lengthy airways, the flight time could be as much as six hours, especially in the wintertime."
A newspaper article from April 1960 quotes Clemow as saying, "I am still flying the DC-3 after more than 7,000 hours, three major conversions and many other sizeable changes. Just the other day I asked management how long we should plan to operate it and they said 'Indefinitely. When you came to work here, Clemow, you said we would be buying a new and better type in 1951, which proves you underestimate the DC-3.'"
New equipment did arrive in 1960, in the form of a brand-new Gulfstream I (S/N 34), to augment the DC-3 based in Rochester and a second DC-3 that had been based at Tennessee Eastman's headquarters in Kingsport since 1956 once Texas Eastman in Longview had opened. The Kingsport DC-3 was acquired after management determined that Tennessee Eastman was accounting for 25 percent of the original DC-3's usage.
The Whistle of Darts
The arrival of the Rolls-Royce Dart turboprop-powered GI in 1960 spelled the beginning of the decline of the old and slow DC-3s. Clemow and Schultz, the ink still wet on their ratings after 6 hr 45 min with Grumman demo and training pilot Ken Douglas, flew the green GI (N620K) to Fort Worth for completion by Horton & Horton, which had got its start by outfitting luxury cars for oilmen.
Kodak bought a second GI (S/N 138) in 1964 and sent it to AiResearch Aviation in Los Angeles for completion. Upon delivery of the completed airplane, the first Kodak GI was reassigned to Tennessee Eastman. Both bases continued to operate the pair of DC-3s (the Rochester Douglas was upgraded to 1,350-hp Wright R1830-94s in place of the original 1,200-hp -92s) until 1968.
The company name flew aboard the outside of the airplanes until 1965, when Kodak acknowledged criticism from stockholders over whether the company really needed its own airplanes–and criticism of corporate airplanes in general from airline passengers waiting in line to take off.
Kodak joined the jet age in 1968, when it took delivery of the third production Grumman Gulfstream II (behind National Distillers and The Wall Street Journal), which was promptly dispatched to AiResearch at Ronkonkoma, Long Island, N.Y., for completion. In 1984 Kodak added two GIIBs to the fleet, and the GI soldiered on until 1989. One of the GIIs was lost in 1990, when Tennessee Eastman-based N46TE, piloted by Don Mason and Ed O'Neill, crashed in heavy rain near Knoxville. After this disaster, Kodak reassigned its Rochester-based GII to Tennessee Eastman and replaced it with a Challenger 601-3A, which was sold in 2001 and replaced by a Challenger 604.
George Fisher, Kodak's immediate past chairman, was hired as CEO in 1992. At the time, he was CEO of Motorola and was having a GIV-SP built, and that is how Kodak acquired the GIV-SP that was recently replaced by a Global Express. One of Fisher's early decisions at Kodak was to move the flight department under his direct control.
Kodak's current hangar, large enough to accommodate five Challengers and plenty large enough for today's fleet, was built in 1988, but it was not used for maintenance until 2000.
Kodak management introduced chargebacks in 1986, and the new accounting method severely curtailed utilization, according to chief pilot Kuss. "In July 1990 there was significantly less flying because the chargeback rate was set too high," he recalled. "The rate started at $6,000 an hour and almost killed utilization, to the point that the Gulfstream was flying only 15 hours a month." Chargebacks were eliminated in 1997.
Making Time
Dan Carp took over as chairman in January 2001, and Kuss described him as being "even more pro-aviation than George Fisher was. Mr. Carp sees the value in what we offer. Our product is time. The company makes film and imaging devices, but we make time."
Kodak Aviation Services currently employs 21 people, and 12 of them are pilots. The department is managed jointly by Kuss and by manager of technical support Leonard Beauchemin, who heads the team of six aircraft and avionics maintenance technicians.
Kuss explained that pilots get a three-day weekend off every four weeks or so, and scheduling puts them on standby for six days, followed by one day off. "You need more captains than first officers to make hard time-off scheduling work," he noted. Kuss himself flew 650 hours in 2000 but has been aiming since to fly no more than 400 hours annually, compared with a goal of 500 hours annually for each of his pilots.
Hiring minimums for being considered by Kodak include 2,000 hours of flight time (with no requirement for turbine time), graduation from a four-year degree program, an ATP and a first-class medical. Kuss said he has been receiving between one and two résumés a week from pilots lately, compared with eight to 10 a week in 1999. All the Kodak pilots look at the résumés and whittle them down to a selection who hold promise. "We generally invite four people in for interviews to fill one job," he said. Kuss conducts a comprehensive interview, looking for experience and the right fit with the operation. Two other Kodak pilots also put the candidate through a thorough interview, along with one human-resources interview.
Aviation Services reports to the Kodak CFO, currently Bob Brust, whom Kuss described as being pro-aviation. Under the previous arrangement, the flight department used to report to general transportation, lumping the airplanes and pilots in with fleet cars and trucks, warehousing and distribution. "Harry Kavetas was the first CFO to whom the flight department reported," recalled Kuss. "From our perspective, the flight department overseer has to be a user and as high up in the company as possible."
Some 50 people in Kodak are eligible to request an aircraft, and the chairman can override bookings if no other aircraft is available. In reality, most of the trips are to fly half a dozen or so executive vice presidents. Fewer than 10 percent of the hours flown are to transport Kodak executives based outside Rochester.
To cope with maintenance problems and handle overflow requirements, Kodak Aviation Services typically buys between 200 and 250 hours of charter usage a year. About 80 of those charter hours are for handling board meetings, since Kodak undertakes to transport its dozen board members to Rochester for each of the seven board meetings annually. Charter fleshes out what the three company-owned aircraft cannot handle for that mission.
In the New Year, the top three people in the company pencil in their known trips on a year-at-a-glance calendar. Springtime is the busiest, followed by fall. A typical load is three passengers, and there are 10 seats in each aircraft. Flight attendants are used only for board-meeting flights or when there is a full passenger load. The spouses of flight department employees are encouraged to ride along when appropriate–recognition that the "significant other" contributes to the success of the department by tolerating its inevitable demands on family life. For regular trips, catering is provided by Marriott but, noted Kuss, "for board meetings we have a high-end caterer prepare something special."
"We go where the business is–Europe and the Far East–and international ops have taken a leap since 2000," noted Kuss. About 20 percent of the department's operations are international, but the upward trend of this figure is what prompted the company to buy the Global Express. "Flying in China now versus 10 or even five years ago is infinitely easier," he said, "and lots more of us are doing it. Progressive people in the government there see business aviation as a great investment inroad. Kodak has invested $1.2 billion in China so far this decade. We use Air Routing and Universal. Their handlers understand our needs. The government is relaxing its restrictions, and international routes get English-speaking controllers, so airlines and business aviation can fly without having to carry Chinese navigators."
Charter has sufficed so far for meeting Kodak's supplemental-lift needs, but the fractionals have been circling. Kuss reported that before its absorption into Flight Options, Raytheon Travel Air had been particularly aggressive with mailings and "trying to get its foot in the door downtown. Downtown tells them it's a flight-department matter and refers any fractional marketing effort to us. Our own analysis that we conduct every couple of years shows us that if we're flying more than 350 hours a year, we need our own aircraft, not fractional. Fractional for supplemental lift may come to pass, but the decision is driven by the flight department. For flexibility, we would probably buy a share in a large aircraft." Flexjet can offer to convert a share into a fully owned aircraft if the need arises, he noted.
A Healing Process
When Kuss was appointed chief pilot in 1997, one of his top priorities was to implement a healing process between the pilots and the mechanics. The two camps have had their differences over the years, and Kuss knew he had to heal those wounds if the department was to remain strong and effective. The appointment of Beauchemin (he was hired away from Bombardier's Hartford facility in 1991 shortly after Kodak bought its first Challenger) to hold joint responsibility with Kuss for the efficient running of the department helped to smooth ruffled feathers, and Kodak Aviation Services now has a strong in-house maintenance team whose members feel on an equal footing with the pilots. "In too many departments the pilots get all the glory and the mechanics do all the work. That is not the case at Kodak," said Kuss. "We are truly a team. The pilots fly; the mechanics make sure the aircraft are reliable; administration supports the department's operations with paperwork and record-keeping; and the schedulers (the hub of it all) perform the dispatch duties." Other than approving major capital expenditures, the flight department has had complete autonomy since summer 1999. Before then, scheduling had been handled by company headquarters, so the flight department had found itself in the difficult position of trying to run the operation deprived of its most critical function. These days, scheduler/planner Renee Scorsone keeps track of the department's trips, which average five each day.
The department's own technicians conduct routine maintenance, including 600-hour, 1,200-hour, 1,800-hour and 20-month inspections. For heavy maintenance, the Challengers have been flown to Bombardier's Hartford facility. On average both the Challengers and the recently sold GIV-SP have racked up dispatch reliability rates of better than 99 percent, and mechanical problems might scuttle two trips a year. The Challenger 601-3A went for five years straight without missing a trip. Last year the Challenger 604s flew about 950 hours each, and the GIV-SP logged 900 hours.
Kuss and Beauchemin bring varied credentials to their posts, and both have made a point of getting involved with industry initiatives and associations. Before joining Kodak in 1978, Kuss had flown a Howard 500 and Fokker F27 and started a regional airline in Iran flying Fairchild FH227s. From 1976 to 1978 he worked as a contract pilot, flying for Scott Paper, Atlantic Aviation and FlightSafety. While with Bombardier, Beauchemin played a key role in introducing MSG3 to business aviation with the Challenger 601 and later the 604. MSG3 is a maintenance program introduced by the airlines in the early 1970s that reduces costs and human error by using a logic process to select maintenance tasks. For Kodak's Challenger, MSG3 meant the company went from performing a 300-hour inspection every three months to once every six months, and the 600-hour went annual instead of biannually. Beauchemin led the Global Express MSG3 program, and he is also involved with MSG3 for the Challenger 300 (nee Continental). He has also chaired the NBAA maintenance management committee, and Kuss is currently an NBAA board member.
Kodak's old-timers, born and raised on Gulfstreams, were skeptical of the Challenger when it arrived, but they have grown to like its spacious cockpit and pressurization and air-conditioning systems. And for Kuss, due to retire at the end of May, the Global Express rounds out what he calls "a picture-perfect fleet for Kodak's wide-ranging business transportation needs."
Kodak expects to fly its three airplanes 2,800 hours/1.4 million miles this year, a far cry from the 600 hours/84,000 miles the first DC-3 flew annually in the late 1940s, and it stands as a prominent example of how a flight department can boost a company's fortunes when headquarters is off the path beaten by the airlines. The airlines today are to Kodak exactly what the trains were after World War II–too slow and too hard to do business on–which bodes well for the continued success of the company's Aviation Services.


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Does anyone know how the pattern of the middle tier to of this cake was made? I have looked everywhere...I thought it was a "Marvelous Mold" because one of their molds is very similar....any help would be appreciated!
I have made this cake for a client! I also could not find the mold so we went with a diamond pattern instead. Maybe they wouldn't mind the morrocan lattice from marvelous molds? It's very similar!
Thank you so much for you reply .....I may just have to settle for Morrocan lattice from Marvelous Molds....Great job on your cake.....just beautiful
Thank you! I realized after that they must have used silver leaf to get such a shiny silver. I used luster dust and it ended up being kind of dull. Just a thought, could not be possible that they used a cutter like this for the pattern, and not actually a mold? If you zoom in on the pattern, there are some inconsistencies.
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Sharing Screens1 Jul, 2011 By: Jackie Jones Response
Marketers tap into advancing, complementary television and Internet capabilities to keep video advertising relevant to an empowered consumer group.
|Undertone's high-impact online video advertising combines interactive creative with the reach of an ad network to drive interaction rates that are 88-percent higher than industry standards, according to the company.
Taking TV Online
Whether it's through newer emerging channels such as connected TV, or traditional online outlets using pre-roll or in-banner video ads, it's clear video advertising can have strong roots in both. Online video's significant growth will eventually outdo that of classifieds and directories by 2013, making it the third-largest online ad format, according to eMarketer.
"Marketers increasingly see the Internet as a place where brand advertising, especially in the form of video advertising, is effective," Hallerman says. "Combined with greater targeting and measurement than marketers get with TV ads, the growing consumption of online video has done more to attract brands than any other online ad format."
Additionally, recent advances centering on improved content delivery, targeting and measurement, as well as the introduction of new video ad formats, has increased the creative possibilities for advertisers, according to Eric Franchi, co-founder of Undertone, which connects brands with consumers online through display, high-impact and video ads.
"We're in a place today where brand advertisers can get all the visual impact of TV advertising, but with the added benefits of targeting and measurement that come as part and parcel of online advertising," Franchi says. "We've really only started to scratch the surface as far as technology and innovation are concerned, and yet already there are extensive opportunities for advertisers through today's video advertising solutions."
Integrating video advertising with high-impact, rich media display ad formats can generate campaign results that exceed industry benchmarks, Franchi says, citing Undertone's PageGrabber unit, which utilizes interactive creative to drive interaction rates.
"When pairing our PageGrabber unit with online video advertising for a large automaker's digital ad campaign, 51 percent of consumers demonstrated brand engagement by watching an entire three-minute video advertisement after the high-impact unit ran," Franchi says.
There are three key factors for advertisers to consider when replicating the TV experience online, which have only recently all come together at the right place at the right time, according to Franchi: the availability of quality content to wrap video ads around; advanced technology that delivers a high-quality experience to viewers; and high volumes of engaged audiences to watch the content and to consume the ads online.
"For some time now, leveraging targeting, data and low-funnel activity techniques have been a focus for many digital advertisers. In contrast, TV commercials have largely been used for reach and brand awareness. The precise impact of this upper-funnel activity is hard to define but everyone agrees that a consumer will not know what they intend to buy without first being made aware of the options. Why should we abandon this principle online when digital video advertising strategies can successfully engage consumers in the same way?" Franchi says.
"Marketers trust TV, so replicating its advertising model online is a logical step," he adds. "Online video advertising is most effective when it is leveraged in a similar way to TV — targeting upper-funnel, brand-awareness goals."
As technology expands, the limits for video advertising are endless as long as brands and marketers stay innovative, though it doesn't come without its own set of challenges for marketers in the DR world, as well.
"The idea of pairing ads with particular pieces of content represents a shift for brands that have been accustomed to working with cable channels who serve bundles of related content, and the ability to time-shift content on the Web also presents challenges as many advertisers have become accustomed to targeting specific demographics based on viewing hours," Chandratillake says.
The future of online video advertising and the challenges involved especially revolve around the availability of quality content, Franchi adds.
"The world of digital video advertising is growing fast, but one particularly important issue that must be addressed is defining video terminology so it is uniform and identifiable," he says. "If the industry can't define and agree on uniform formats, media buyers controlling more than $60 billion in TV budgets may be apprehensive to shift billions of dollars online and thus hinder this multibillion dollar industry from reaching its full potential."
Most experts agree that video advertising's strongest suit is its ability to be shared across a plethora of screens, something sure to come in handy as devices change and consumers continue to shift their modes of consumption.
"The explosion of always-on, super-fast broadband Internet, coupled with the myriad of new devices from laptops to smartphones and tablets, has not only changed the face of communications as we know it, but has also had a huge impact on the consumption of entertainment media," says Chandrapal, who adds that consumers' ability to watch TV practically anywhere extends from their iPhone and tablet devices to gaming consoles and social media outlets. "With all of this in mind, it is hardly surprising that experts now predict that the combined forces of those two major transformations will change the face of advertising forever, opening up a wide range of new creatively challenging, engaging opportunities, and creating a lucrative market." ■
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3rd It desire that my mulatto man Dick when he is emancipated shall have a lot of fifteen acres of land with the house built thereon now occupied by ______Palmer, being a part of the lot purchased by me of Mrs. Elizabeth Harding, and also such a waggon as my wife shall direct, with four horses valued at fifty dollars each, with suitable wagon gear for said horses compleat
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5th I give the farm I now occupy to my nephew Sanford I Ramey son of my brother Jacob Ramey decd. with its appurtenances after the decease of my beloved wife Lydia 6th It is my desire that if my wife should after my decease intermarry with any person that then from that time, she shall have no part of my estate aforesaid, and if this event should happen, I then devise all the balance of my estate both real and personal not heretofore devised{?} to be equally divided among my legal representatives. Lastly, I do hereby constitute and appoint Presley Cordell Wilson, Enoch Mason, Sanford I Ramey, Alexander Cordell and my beloved wife Lydia Ramey Executors of this my last [sic] and testament In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my mind and my seal this 16th day of April in the year of our lord one thousand one hundred and twenty five
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Like I have said on this blog many times before, nurses are renowned for not taking good care of themselves, ostensibly because they're so busy taking care of others and living the lives of the saints that they are perceived to be.
Let's face it. We all know that nurses aren't saints, while we also acknowledge that many nurses come close to sainthood vis-a-vis their compassion and their seeming ability to give until it hurts--and then give some more.
Getting back to my phone call with my colleague, he told me that, in speaking with a friend of his who is a dentist, the dentist made an interesting comment about nurses. In response to something my colleague said about nurses, the dentist said in response (and I paraphrase):
"Nurses are my worst patients. They spend so much time taking care of others that they're very good at neglecting their own health, especially their teeth! Do nurses floss? I bet that the majority think they're too busy to take the time!"So, what does this say about nurses? Well, first it says that many nurses potentially have very bad dental hygiene and may be at risk of gingivitis. (Remember the old saying: "You don't need to floss all of your teeth--only the ones you want to keep!")
This also tells me that there are non-nurses out there that recognize nurses' predilection for caring for others while neglecting themselves, and that this self-neglect is not always seen as a mark of sainthood. Did Mother Teresa take the time to floss? I assume that in the time of St. Francis of Assisi, floss had not yet been invented--nor had modern dentistry, for that matter!
The (Nurse) Gods Must Be Crazy
Whether it's teeth, lungs, heart or kidneys, nurses can certainly be neglectful of themselves. Poor flossing (or no flossing!), smoking, poor diet, lack of sleep, alcohol and drug abuse, poor hydration--it all adds up to a portrait of a very unhealthy nurse.
We all hear about nurses who don't have time to drink water or urinate during 12-hour shifts, so without self-catheterization, a leg bag and a CamelBack water hydration system, it seems many nurses might as well just send out an invitation for the Gods of Urinary Tract Infections to have a field day. (And maybe they can place a call to the Gods of Antibiotics at the same time.)
Heroism, Stoicism or Stupidity?
All joking aside (but it's so easy to make fun of nurses, isn't it?), self-care for nurses is essential yet such uncharted territory for a vast number of hard-working nurses.
Whether the wider culture or our profession's internal culture is responsible for these images of nurses as self-neglecting saints, we all know that unhealthy nurses can't really perform all that well in the long run (although running on caffeine and adrenaline may seem heroic).
I have personally known a number of nurses who appear to run on fumes most of the time, and I've seen some of them crash and burn in ways that were certainly not pretty.
I was myself once a heroic, self-neglecting nurse, and I paid a price (as did my family and loved ones). Eventually, I wised up and got on the self-care bandwagon, a wagon upon which I still proudly ride to this day.
Sure, back then I did think of myself as a nurse hero, stoically (or stupidly) crashing through my stressful days with little thought for myself. It was exhilarating, and condemning myself to poor self-care in deference to caring for my patients was a extraordinary ego trip that fed some part of myself that was at once stoic, heroic and indeed stupid.
But that was then, and this is now.
The Self-Care Bandwagon
Whether it's flossing, jogging, getting some sleep, taking breaks at work or playing golf every weekend, nurses can take their own self-care into their hands, deciding for themselves that it's important and healthy to do so.
Nurses can fight the stereotypes, and they can also fight the powers that be (and the dominant nursing culture) that insists that we sacrifice ourselves on the altar of patient care. That altar of self-sacrifice is old hat, and we 21st-century nurses can teach ourselves and others that self-care is a good thing, that it's actually better for patients, and that supporting one another to take care of ourselves makes sense, both in the short term and the long term.
If you're a nurse who has yet to jump on the self-care bandwagon, realize that there are no tolls for climbing aboard, but the price you'll pay for staying on the Self-Neglect Express is higher than you can ever imagine.
So, instead of trying to be a hero to others through sacrifice, be a hero to yourself through self-care and wellness. Your patients will benefit, your family will benefit, and your happiness, well-being and quality of life will improve astronomically.
Go ahead, nurses. Take off the hairshirt, put down your cross, and dispose of your bed of nails. The self-care train is always at the station, and all you have to do is climb aboard.