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A blond, bespectacled girl with a serious expression and a red T-shirt chugs along a street in runner's togs and bib in a photo shared thousands of times on social media soon after the Boston Marathon explosions.
The image, in some versions, is accompanied by this message: "See this little girl? She died today. She was running the marathon for the Sandy hook (sic) kids. She's 8. Repost for respect of her. Wear red tommmarow (sic) to support her and all the others who died."
Only she didn't. She's alive, according to a Virginia charity whose 5K race the child is pictured walking in last year to raise money for the medical bills of sick kids. Evidence of that event is right there on her shirt: Joe Cassella, for the Joe Cassella Foundation in Leesburg.
Sadly, an 8-year-old boy was among three killed and more than 170 wounded in Monday's blasts in Boston, and a group ran in memory of the Sandy Hook schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut. Those factors likely made the bogus photo feel plausible as the bloody aftermath of the marathon bombing played out.
Like numerous disasters before, hoaxes and conspiracies have popped up in the chaotic first days after the tragedy, days when people want to jump in with help and support while investigations have barely begun or level of help for victims identified.
They're also days when thieves get to work setting up pleas for money via social media, phone calls and text, said Ken Berger, president and CEO of CharityNavigator.org, which monitors scams after disasters, offers advice on giving and rates nonprofits of all kinds.
"The problem is the head's not connected to the heart," he said. "People want to move too fast."
It was unclear whether donations were solicited using the young runner's photo, said Vivi Cassella, the Virginia foundation's president and sister-in-law of the cancer victim it honors. But it still caused problems.
Just hours after the photo began circulating, the foundation's website crashed under the weight of more than 1 million views. A Twitter account that spread the image early on, (at)hopeforboston, was suspended. Some who shared the photo on Facebook left messages of apology on the foundation's page after they learned it was a fraud, Cassella said.
"It's been crazy for us," she said. "If people had only taken the time to just listen, that it was a little boy, not a little girl, that she was wearing a Joe Cassella 5k bib and it had nothing to do with the Boston Marathon."
Also wearing a red shirt was a man in a fast-moving photo kneeling over a female Boston victim, with one shared explanation that she was his girlfriend and he had planned to propose as she crossed the finish line but she died before he had a chance.
The truth: He was a stranger offering assistance. She wasn't a runner but a spectator who was injured and survived.
Whether or not such shares online come with pleas for money, the motive to do something quickly soon after disaster strikes is hard to resist, Berger said.
"The irony is, your chances of getting ripped off are remarkably high in the early days for that very reason," he said. "People with the first thing up are the ones who may be the most loosey goosey, poorly organized or, worse still, thieves."
Everything from bogus charities to lost relatives who never existed surfaced after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Four years later, after Katrina, the FBI found 4,000 bogus websites, many operated by criminals overseas who stole the personal information of givers and their money, Berger said. Donations intended for victims of Hurricane Sandy were allegedly diverted for personal use by the operators of at least one charity, he said.
Tracking of about $15 million raised in Newtown aid has been so challenging that Connecticut's attorney general and consumer protection commissioner issued a joint letter last month seeking more information from 69 organizations registered with the state or otherwise identified as accepting donations related to the deaths of 20 children and six adults. Berger estimated less than $1 million has been given to victims and families.
Frustrated survivors and loved ones of the dead in previous high-profile attacks, from the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 to Sandy Hook, asked the federal government last month to come up with a new way to ensure 100 percent of donations intended for victims and families hits that mark.
They propose special emergency nonprofit status for "national compassion funds" that would afford givers the usual tax breaks and eliminate the patchwork of potentially ill-run organizations that crop up amid chaos. The compassion funds could be overseen by a specialist in handling compensation for mass crime victims, said Caryn Kaufman, a spokeswoman for the effort.
"Disbursement is often fraught with problems for the victims. We're trying to get it codified so the next time this happens we don't have to figure it out all over again," said Kaufman, in Bridgeport, Conn.
In addition to chasing the money trail, uncovering the original source and motives of out-there conspiracies and hoaxes online is always difficult, said David Mikkelson, co-founder of the debunking site Snopes.com.
"In general, look it up first by whatever means," he said, noting sharks falsely popped up in photos after Sandy, swimming in front yards and down streets, along with doctored images of dramatic storm clouds and wind whipping around the Statue of Liberty.
It took weeks, Mikkelson said, for a European tourist to come forward as the creator of doctored photos of a man on a balcony of one of the World Trade Center towers with a plane bearing down.
"It became one of the Internet memes. His picture was soon being Photoshopped into everything from the Lindbergh disaster to pictures of the pyramids," he said.
As for giving amid chaos after a crisis, Berger and Kaufman offer these tips:
- Give to an established charity. Well-meaning new organizations may not have the infrastructure and knowledge of a region to maximize donations. Many charities allow for designated giving for specific purposes via check but not by other means.
- Avoid telemarketers. Ask, especially in the wake of disaster, for written information and send a check by mail or via website rather than divulge credit card information to an unknown on the phone.
- Do not send supplies. Unless credible pleas for clothing, food, water or shelter are made, Berger doesn't consider this type of giving efficient. He suggests turning that old clothing into cash handed over to a worthy charity.
- Think before you text. Berger said texting can be a great way to give so long as you thoroughly vet the request for money and make sure to use follow all instructions for responding.
- Don't expect immediate results. It can take time for charities to mobilize so be sure to track your donation and be patient. Don't be afraid to follow up on how your money was spent. Listen carefully to what local leaders are asking for or what first responders are identifying as trouble spots.


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The Swiss/American artist duo Teresa Hubbard (born 1965 in Dublin, Ireland) and Alexander Birchler (born 1962 in Baden, Switzerland) live and work in Austin, Texas. In a career of more than fifteen years, they have become known for their picturesque, color-saturated photographic series and their deliberately slow-paced video installations, which feature slow pan shots, endless loops, and puzzling plot lines. Starting with their early staged photographs, No Room to Answer presents key works from 1991 to 2008.
My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, the first full-scale American museum survey of the work of artist Kara Walker, features works ranging from her signature black cut-paper silhouettes to film animations to more than 100 works on paper.
Kehinde Wiley creates larger-than-life-size portraits that mix historical Western European painting styles such as French Romanticism, Rococo, and Baroque with images from contemporary urban streets. The resulting monumental works are painted in Wiley's characteristic, flamboyant style and presented in ornate gold frames. While the artist evokes important and highly recognizable paintings from the past, he replaces those works' elite white sitters with African-American men.
Engaging the masculine, machine aesthetic of Minimalism and the equally macho, but gritty, iconography of heavy metal music, Banks Violette creates an unlikely pact between high and low forms of visual communication to explore the ways fiction can turn into belief, or fantasy can be rendered real. Violette's work is often characterized as an exploration of present-day themes of disaster, driven by stories of teen angst or devotion to—even obsession with—a particular band.
Martin Puryear is a retrospective that features approximately forty-seven sculptures, following the development of Puryear's thirty-year career from his first solo museum show in 1977 to the present day.
FOCUS: Joshua Mosley features the artist's high-definition animation short and sculpture installation titled A Vue, 2004. "A vue" is a French rock-climbing term meaning a clean ascent with no knowledge of the route. Like much of his work, A Vue addresses Mosley's interest in the complex nature of balancing the personal with societal responsibility.
Declaring Space includes works by four artists whose images had a dramatic effect on the complex development of space and color in abstract painting as it evolved in the years following World War II. The works of these artists do not represent a movement as much as a dramatic evolution of what has come to be thought of as "the field," an often misunderstood term in the vocabulary of postwar abstract art.
Ron Mueck, a virtuoso of hyperrealistic sculpture, has earned international recognition, with previous major exhibitions in London, Venice, Washington, and Berlin. Over the past decade, the Australian-born, London-based artist has created a personal, distinctive body of works whose startling impact have given a fresh impulse to contemporary sculpture.
Barnaby Furnas (American, born 1973) explores historical and biblical themes in his large-scale canvases, which are often described as colorful and expressionistic. The parting of the Red Sea, the Crucifixion, the hanging of the American abolitionist John Brown, and the American Civil War, for example, are depicted by Furnas in dramatic scenes that combine figuration with abstraction. To create his works, the artist places his canvases on the floor and allows pigment to pool and run, forming abstract shapes.

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December is that magical time of the year when I realize I haven't done anything and I scramble to make up for 11 months of procrastination. So inevitably I start thinking of all the things I'm going to do in December. I'm going to hand-make all of my gifts! I'm going to cook things! I'm going to finally remove the nail polish that has slowly been disintegrating off of my toes for the last three months!
The problem with homemade gifts is my expectations never actually meet the final product. Like, if my expectations were to meet the final product in a bar, no one would come up to them and ask, "Twins, right?" They probably wouldn't even order the same drink. Actually, they would never end up in the same bar in the first place. Expectations would be in some expensive swanky bar with the suits and final product would end up in a dive bar trying to scrape together enough change for a PBR. Final product probably wouldn't even tip because that's what kind of douche final product is and it figures it's probably better keep expectations low anyway.
What usually happens is I try to work on homemade gifts for the first three weeks of December without actually ever finishing any of them which leads me to shop in actual stores. My shopping experiences near Christmas though are usually pretty awful though since I tend to get crowd anxiety. Basically because I really hate it when people I don't know touch me, which leaves about 99.9% of the world available to make me miserable. You know when someone accidentally bumps into you and they sort of look at you and mumble "Sorry" and you say "No problem" but inside you are actually withering with disgust and unbridled displeasure? Yeah, that happens to me too. I probably have some bipolar schizophrenia anxiety disorder and one year I'm just going to snap and yell, "ENOUGH WITH THE TOUCHING!"* But I probably won't because I also have a real problem with wanting people to like me. One day I'll probably have to talk to a therapist about all my internal conflictions. Besides that though, I never know what to buy anyone anyway. Usually I just wander around from store to store hoping that something will speak to me so I can hurry up and leave already. Eventually I'll get really desperate and just buy everyone organic olive oil because who doesn't love that. Not to mention they get the special bonus of getting my Christmas cards that I ordered two weeks ago and still haven't received. Probably because the printers couldn't handle all the pictures of my cats that I put on the cards. I can see the headlines now: MASS PRINTER EXPLOSION RESULTS IN MILLIONS OF LATE CHRISTMAS CARDS DUE TO CRAZY LADY WHO DIDN'T FOLLOW THE TWO CATS TO A CARD MAXIMUM – CHRISTMAS CANCELED! Then mass riots ensue and the zombie apocalypse probably happens. The husband and I are in there once or twice in the background though, so maybe that will cancel out some of the cute cat effects.
I don't remember where I was going with this. Oh, presents, right. The other side of Christmas besides giving is usually someone asks you what you want. Now, there are plenty of times in life where I see something and think, "Yes, I'd like to have that." But really those things are pretty unrealistic because it turns out someone can't gift you with an aptitude for making everyone like you or with your own private island or hermit-like land. Remember that bad movie that M. Night Shyamalan made? You know, the one where it seemed like maybe it was olden times or something because all the women wore dresses and they didn't have antibiotics? The Village, yeah. Well, **SPOILER ALERT** it turns out some rich dude just paid the world or something to ignore their village, and not even planes would fly over it. And I always thought, that would be nice, so long as I could get a weekly delivery of ice cream because in this scenario I'm rich and could afford that sort of luxury. But I can't very well ask for a "Village-esque" property for Christmas. So then I ask Amazon what it thinks I want. Besides suggesting books to me that I already bought through Amazon, Amazon has somehow got it in its head that I'm interested in the Vatican Library Jewelry collection. I'm not.
I've gone on so many tangents that I forgot where I was taking this. I really don't know how to make this post stop, so I'm just going to quietly walk away now and you can pretend that I gave you some resolution to a great problem. Probably involving how to get rid of rabid goats or something. Probably.
*I'm fine with mutual touching, like handshakes or hugs or something like that. I'm not completely crazy. Not molest-y hugs though, just normal hugs… and only if I go in for the hug first. One time a crazy bum tried to hug me and that was not a consensual hug so I had to stop it right there. I might have been okay with a handshake though. I mean, if I was introduced to him or something.


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Saturday, March 19, 2011
Day 3 at South By Southwest
First up - Cults
then some traipsing down 6th Street
Joy Formidable
La Sera
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead
Gobble Gobble
Hooray For Earth
The Vandelles
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Quite like that The Cults video. The others are great too ;)
- March 19, 2011 at 5:20 AM
- ViewFromSpookysDoghouse said...
This just in... something is creeping up behind me, tapping me on my shoulder... what could it be? It's a sensation--no, more like a feeling... it's got a name, I recognize it now. Jealousy HAS arrived. Haha! Love the 360 degree panning action and all those highly melodic clips. Not to mention some great bass work from La Sera. Also digging the shades. Very Jabber Jaw! Do you remember that cartoon? Oh, and a "shout out" to Rockin' Robin. Yo!
- March 19, 2011 at 7:05 PM
What can I say? Or rather write...
Third dose of "beat generation-like" music journalism, created of bits and pieces of sound explosions and colorful pictures. I am delighted again. It's just great. That's it.
I want to make it official- Joy Formidable is one of the best, if not *the best* bands I've heard and read about on this blog. There is something incredibly natural about their sound- it simply flows. I've checked them out on YouTube and I'm speechless.
Still, I love all the videos. It's a great experience- thank you, Dave.
- March 21, 2011 at 6:11 AM
- DaveCromwell said...
Anouk - you know I have been pumping up Cults over at the SEB forum. I was so happy I caught one of theirs shows.
VFSD - lol at your honest reaction. Yeah, the 360 pan did become the way to go. Glad you liked the La Sera clip. She's sweet. and yes - Robin Danar was there!
Eagle - The Joy Formidable is probably the top discovery of the whole event. I had been hearing about them for a while, but wasn't prepared for the high energy live show. She is a petite dynamo!
- March 21, 2011 at 11:31 AM
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- March 21, 2011 at 1:50 PM
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- March 21, 2011 at 1:51 PM
- Mr Smork said...
nice vids, dave.
can i start from kind of bad stuff?
i'll knock myself out:
you should consider to get a new video camera or one of more advanced photo camera - they are quiet cheep and decent quality....
it seems like it was quiet a good. i like when lots of action going on. :) i would shout what bands from given videos i like, but i can't remember their names - when name is longer then 3 words - no chance to remember....
but i like vandalles.
and the band with blond singer was quiet good.... joy formidable i heard about them last year on tv when they shoved some festival in uk.... but i am bad with the names so i didn't dig more then few youtube vids.... :)
nice post.
- March 21, 2011 at 1:52 PM
- DaveCromwell said...
I will take under advisement, all that you suggest, Mr. Smork.
Your singling out of The Vandelles and Joy Formidable - as fave bands - shows you clearly have great taste ;-)
- March 22, 2011 at 3:50 AM


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Wade Trimmer of Valencia had been working with nonprofits that cater to the needy for nearly two decades but never thought the day would come when he would have to use food stamps or enroll in Medicaid to care for his wife and three sons.
That day came, however, two years ago when he lost a job in Portland, Ore., and found himself living with relatives and looking for a way to pay for his 8-year-old son's hospital bill for appendicitis.
"It never once entered my mind that I would need to ask for help, but with the economy, coupled with losing a job and all kinds of different things, I lived in a spot that some of the people I've helped in the past have been in," said Trimmer, who today is the director of the San Fernando Valley Rescue Mission, an emergency shelter for homeless families in North Hollywood. "We really got the help we needed at a really critical time in our life and we didn't become dependent" on that assistance.
Wednesday marked the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson's declaration of an unconditional War on Poverty. The scourge now affects either 16.5 percent or around 24 percent of California residents, depending on whether you use a traditional or alternate government measure.
Analysts differ on their interpretations of how effective the War on Poverty has been in achieving its lofty aim but certainly agree on the inherent limitations of public assistance programs alone.
"The War on Poverty expanded a set of government programs that really did make a difference in lifting people out of poverty with regard to making available more food stamps, with regard to the Head Start programs, with regard to Medicaid and a number of other things like that," said Manuel Pastor, professor of sociology and American studies and ethnicity at USC. "I think what the War on Poverty really didn't change is the fundamental structure of the economy and the number of low-wage jobs that in particular it's been creating in the last sort of 20 to 30 years. It's a bit like pushing the mountain where the mountain is moving in the other direction."
By one estimate, safety-net policies have helped reduce the national poverty rate from 26 percent in 1967 to about 16 percent in 2012, according to the California Budget Project. And, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, safety-net programs on average kept almost 4 million Californians, including 1 million children, out of poverty between 2009 and 2011.
Sheila Moore, director of Senior Center Services at Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles, said she's noticed that many seniors they serve are having an increasingly difficult time making ends meet through the end of the month on their often-fixed levels of income.
"They need help with maybe groceries, or some assistance that can tide them over," she said. "We have other seniors who come in here and are unable to pay their rent. They're making really hard choices. Do I buy food? Do I buy medicine? Do I pay rent?"
While seniors were once able to turn to their adult children, many of their offspring themselves are now struggling to make a living, she added. Thus, public assistance and welfare programs that ensure access to health services, food resources and support inside and outside the home are often vital for seniors to maintain a decent quality of life, she said.
On Wednesday, Luis Diaz of Canoga Park was picking up bags of food for himself and his wife at the Family Rescue Center, which serves more than 400 needy families per month with food, clothing and referrals. The 50-year-old immigrant, who fled his war-torn El Salvador two decades ago, said he hadn't worked since he was involved in a bad car accident five years ago that injured his spinal cord. His wife generates decent income cleaning homes, and they rent out two bedrooms of their house for extra income, but Diaz is still pursuing workers' compensation for his injuries he sustained as a delivery man.
"Unfortunately, maybe 70 percent of the poverty that exists in this country is because people — they are here legally and speak English — but they don't want to work," Diaz said in Spanish. "They live off of welfare. There are jobs, but they don't want to work."
But in battling poverty, Pastor argues the issue is not only how do we ensure an adequate safety net but "how do we make sure that the investments we are making are hitting the sweet spot between generating economic opportunity for those who are currently poor or low income and making sure that that contributes to economic growth?"
The real value of minimum wage has declined to levels not seen in some three decades and there are poor job opportunities for those who have a high school degree or less, which was not the case in the 1960s, Pastor said.
Pastor said the next frontier should be ensuring universal prekindergarten for every young student so they're reading at the appropriate levels by third grade, dealing with over-incarceration and helping those who have served time behind bars find a way back to the labor market, expanding the community college system so people can get more educated, raising the minimum wage and implementing comprehensive immigration reform.
While expanding food stamps, housing assistance or welfare aren't bad ideas, Pastor said, they are "not going to help people get through what's going on in the economy."
Frank Stricker, a retired professor from Cal State Dominguez Hills, said while he supports the general idea of the War on Poverty, the indigent would be better served with a greater focus on employment opportunities.
"I think we should have been focusing more than we did then and now on creating good jobs," he said. The War on Poverty "got a lot of people thinking that a lot of other things would solve poverty, and some of them wouldn't."
Training and education are also important but mean little without the creation of decent jobs, said Stricker, author of the book "Why America Lost the War on Poverty and How to Win It."
President Johnson had a program to pump up the economy by creating jobs, making tax cuts and increasing spending when he escalated the country's involvement in Vietnam, which prompted even more spending so that by the late 1960s, the unemployment rate had dipped below 4 percent.
"More than the programs we normally talk about, I believe that cured more poverty," Stricker said.
Joe Hicks, a Los Angeles resident and a member of a political think tank of black conservatives called Project 21, argues the nation didn't get much out of the War on Poverty.
With "all of the programs, the $15 trillion spent on poverty eradication efforts, you've got to say, what happened?" Hicks said, noting the poverty levels in the nation are still around 15 percent. "My personal view is the so-called War on Poverty failed in its effort to eradicate poverty and result in a significant dip in the number of people in poverty."
Hicks does believe in a basic "minimum safety net" to help the neediest that fall through the cracks. But he also stressed the need to have a healthy economy that can hire and keep people gainfully employed, he said.
"It's important to create an environment that is healthy for growth of business so they can in fact provide jobs for workers," Hicks said. "That's the best antidote to poverty."


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It's easy for parents to sometimes forget that active preschoolers — who run, climb, jump, and quickly hop up after falling — aren't as rough and tumble as their older siblings.
Kids this age are prone to nursemaid's elbow, a partial dislocation of the elbow joint that happens when a ligament slips out of place near the elbow. The medical terms for this is "annular ligament displacement."
Nursemaid's elbow (also known as pulled elbow) is a common early childhood injury. It usually happens in kids 1 to 4 years years old because their ligaments (the elastic-like bands that hold bones together) are loose and bones are not yet fully formed. This makes it easier for some bones to slip in and out of place. As kids get older, their ligaments tighten and become thicker, bones enlarge and harden, and the risk of nursemaid's elbow decreases.
A child with nursemaid's elbow has some initial pain in the arm, but the injury does not cause long-term damage. At the doctor's office or in the emergency room, a medical professional can slip the ligament back into place (usually without the need for any pain medicines), ending the problem quickly.
The elbow joint connects the upper arm bone (humerus) to the lower arm bones (radius and ulna). The rounded tip of the radius (the radial head) is surrounded by a ligament (the annular ligament) that is sometimes loose in younger kids.
If it's not tight enough, this ligament may slip over the radial head and even tear. The ligament also can then get trapped in the elbow joint. In some kids, this can happen very easily with just a small amount of force.
Other actions can increase the risk of nursemaid's elbow, such as:
A child might have nursemaid's elbow if:
An arm or elbow injury that causes severe pain may indicate an elbow fracture (broken bone) or contusion (bruise). It can be hard for a parent to tell whether an injury is nursemaid's elbow or a fracture, so it's important to call your doctor if your child has injured an elbow.
In some cases of nursemaid's elbow, the bone will move back into place on its own, such when a child does something that moves the joint, like putting on a coat. Even if you think the bone has moved back into place, it's still important to see a doctor to make sure that nothing else is wrong with the arm. Do not try to put the bone back into place yourself.
Your doctor may be able to treat a nursemaid's elbow injury or might refer you to the emergency room for treatment.
The doctor will first see whether your child is likely to have nursemaid's elbow based on the cause of injury and the physical exam. The arm, hand, and shoulder will be felt to make sure there's no swelling, tenderness, or other abnormality, which could point to a fracture instead.
X-rays are only needed if a fracture is suspected. If there's no obvious swelling or other injury, the doctor will perform a gentle maneuver that allows the bone to go back into its normal place. The medical term for this is a reduction.
This procedure is very quick and takes only a few seconds. A child is usually asked to sit on a parent's lap while the doctor attempts to reduce the displacement of the ligament. During the procedure, the arm is taken from a straight position and bent upwards in a swift motion. The doctor will listen for a "pop" sound, indicating the bone is back in place.
The child may experience a moment of pain during the reduction, but soon after treatment the discomfort is gone. Most kids have full use of the arm within 5 to 10 minutes. Some cases may require more than one try to successfully reduce the elbow.
Occasionally, a child may avoid using the arm after the reduction for a brief time, fearing it will be painful. If discomfort continues, the doctor may put the arm in a sling and recommend acetaminophen or ibuprofen for pain relief.
It's important to remember that sometimes nursemaid's elbow can happen for no obvious reason. Some kids are just more prone to the injury than others. And those who get nursemaid's elbow may get it again.
So be mindful of the risks and, whenever possible, avoid tugging, swinging, or jerking on your child's hands or arms, and be sure to tell caregivers to do the same.
Reviewed by: Rupal Christine Gupta, MD
Date reviewed: July 2014
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Ursa Major's recertification as a small, woman-owned business in the Commonwealth of Virginia was approved. Virginia is increasingly turning to SWAM-certified vendors for its needs. Ursa Major is a team partner on Catoctin Consulting's contracts with the Commonwealth of Virginia for facilitation, strategic planning, and performance management.
Ursa Major frequently works as a subcontractor or part of a team of consultants assembled for a particular project. A few of the excellent people we've worked with on projects include:
- Dorothy Firsching, Project Management Professional (PMP), http://www.linkedin.com/in/dfirsching
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For the past 2 days I have been in debate on dealerrefresh about online marketing numbers and conversion. It appears that my comments on what a website should convert at have caused a stir in the dealer community, enough so that I was called out on it and asked to back off. It also appears a label I have placed on a main website is causing some people heartburn.
This post will hopefully clear up a few things:
1. Why I believe that the benchmark for conversion in online marketing should be 30% minimum.
2. What the definition of a "Random Access Website" is and why they are the way they are.
3. Why I believe that you should NEVER…EVER send paid traffic back to your main website deep-link or otherwise.
So let's jump right into conversion percentages and benchmarks.
Phase 1
First let me start out by defining conversion – A conversion is any form submission, phone call (tracked from your online properties), email or chat session where good re-contact information was captured that would allow the dealership to follow up on the customer. I have yet to have anyone dispute this as a proper definition. If anyone has something that I am missing please feel free to share with the rest of the class. Make no mistake each of these actions can be tracked with absolute accuracy, do not let anyone tell you otherwise.
So how did I come to this 30% benchmark? Ok it starts with my own store were we track everything. We found that we could use the visitors query string data to determine intent and direct visitors to the part of our website that closest matched that intent and when we did so our conversion rate rose 377% to as of this morning 26%. We also found that by tracking and changing certain things about our eBay motors ads we got a higher conversion rate to as of this morning 17%. We also found that using Facebook marketing in ways that were geared to customer interests not so much to customer in market probability we got higher click through and as of this morning a 47% conversion rate, ironically add all of that up and average it and as I write this post we are an average of exactly 30% (there are some decimals there but I am rounding up) and we are a small independent used car operation with none of the brand help dealers have today.
Phase 2
Which brings me to phase 2 of my justification for a 30% benchmark. I have personally analyzed hundreds of dealership websites over the last 9 months and come to the same conclusion I hear from a lot of dealers and internet personnel I talk to in the store. Branded terms (your dealerships name) drives over 60% of the traffic that comes to my website. I have met very few that will argue this stat, the ones that do say it is too low. Ok so now let's do some math:
Unique Visitors
Average dealership website gets 3000 unique visitors per month. 60% came from the stores branded terms (dealership name) that is 1800 visitors whose specific intent was to find your dealerships website.
1800 x 30% = 468 is it too much to ask that out of 1800 visitors 468 engage the store in some way? Let me ask it another way.
If your dealership got 1800 visitors last month and your sales staff could only get 468 of the people who came in entered into your CRM system would any of them be still employed at the dealership?
Any way you slice this up it doesn't make sense to say 30% is unrealistic. I don't care who you are.
Random Access Website
The definition of "Random Access Website" (RAW), apparently this adjective has offended a couple of people in the auto community as this is the second post I have been called out on this term, in this last post the offended person even when so far as to Google the term.
A main website has random people that wonder into it from organic links (one of the problems with web marketing and SEO by the way, but that is another post) you have no idea how or why they are there and when they get there they can wonder randomly throughout your site, hence the term "Random Access" a site that is randomly accessed from anywhere by anyone and anyone can randomly go anywhere in it and yes this is basically all main websites. A main website is basically the Encyclopedia Britannica of your online presence you have everything including the kitchen sink in it. From inventory to job postings to press releases to Facebook and twitter links, is it any wonder that visitors become distracted, lost and just basically give up when it come to this maze of information? I discussed this in depth in my post "Get outside your random access website" from February of this year, go there for more on the pitfalls of conversion in a main website.
Don't Send Paid Traffic to Your RAW
Finally the above is a great lead into why you should NEVER…EVER send paid traffic back to your random access main website…EVER! You should understand by now that your main website is so full of distraction that anyone coming there with a specific purpose will have to work hard to complete that purpose. People specifically looking for your dealership will work harder to get the information they want than others, not by much but harder none the less. I think we can all agree on that and that is why you see higher conversion form branded terms (your dealerships name). When you pay for a click you have to get something out of it sending that to a place where you know they are not interested in all the distractions around them, that doesn't match with what they were searching for in the first place and make this work to find it, is a recipe for conversion disaster.
Aside from the distraction factor of a deep-link here are some other reasons to use off site pages and microsites.
1. Tracking and accountability – it is much…much easier to track and hold marketing channels, ad groups and keywords accountable for results when you have separate landing experiences.
2. Split testing – you cannot get to high conversion rates without testing and it is impossible to test in a dealership random access website today even a deep-link.
3. Matching the message tightly with the ad and the landing. If you think you are doing this with a dynamic deeplink landing page that changes the picture and the header your sorely mistaken you will have to get much more relevant than that.
4. Getting searched right out of an opportunity – time and time again I see deep-links go to inventory then the customer searches to find out you have 1 or 2 that's not choice and you missed the opportunity before you ever got a chance to win the customer.
5. With each off site page or Microsite you create another back-link for you main random access website helping its SEO value.
Pay Per Click Advertising
PPC is and will continue to get more competitive, it is imperative that you create a culture of continuous improvement in conversion for any traffic you are paying for and lets be real you're paying for all of it. Branded terms (your dealership name) comes from your traditional media advertising, organic links comes from SEO (that aint free! All dealerships are paying for this in some way or another), listing sites are costing you subscription & listing fees and obviously you are paying for every click in PPC. You need to track all of these and hold them accountable for conversion because conversion is indicative of what walks in the door…period. Off site landing pages and microsites help you track all of this very accurately and helps get more of what you are paying for.
I hope this clears it up for those who were unclear. For those that think I should "back off" sorry that just wouldn't be me, can't do it and for anyone this somewhat helps I'm glad. If I can clarify anything here or you need help contact me I will do all I can.
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Still not a full slate of Minor League action because of all-star breaks, here is a recap from last night, June 20th.
The home opener for Boise didn't go as planned as the Eugene Emeralds spoiled the fun with a late rally to beat the Hawks 7-4. The Boise pitching, especially out of the bullpen as been ugly, last night was no different. Jose Arias made his second start of the season as was good again going three innings giving up two runs, one earned on six hits while walking none and striking out one. Amaury Paulino and Pete Levitt really struggled out of the pen, giving up a combined five runs on ten hits. Boise had one of it's better offensive games of the early season, pounding out ten hits but only scoring four runs. Shawon Dunston Jr. was 2-for-4 at the plate with a double. Jeimer Candelario continued his strong start to the season going 2-for-4 with his first home run of the season, two RBI's and two runs scored.
From the looks of the line score the D-Cubs probably should have been blown out, but that's not what happened as D-Cubs pitchers pitched in and out of trouble en route to a 3-2 victory over Tampa. P.J. Francescon was terrific again for the D-Cubs. PJ went six strong innings giving up two runs, one earned on nine hits while walking two and striking out five. Both runs were given up in the first inning, PJ settled down after that. Brian Schlitter and A.J. Morris shut to door the rest of the way for the D-Cubs. Daytona only managed four hits, but made them count. Arismendy Alcantara hasn't slowed down all year, he was 2-for-4 at the plate with a run scored, he is now hitting .299 on the season. The hero was Rubi Silva, not only did Rubi hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth he also threw out Tampa's Kyle Roller at the plate.
Brooks Raley had his best outing of the year for the I-Cubs as he went seven excellent innings giving up one unearned run on two hits while walking one and striking out seven. The outcome was very much in doubt until the I-Cubs put up a three spot in the seventh to take a 4-1 lead and that is how it would end. Raley ended up getting his third win of the season and Rafael Dolis earned his second save for Iowa. It was the bottom of the order getting the job done for Iowa as Ty Wright was 1-for-3 with a walk, and his 5th home run of the season. Blake Lalli had the big hit for the I-Cubs, a two run single in the seventh inning, Lalli finished 2-for-4 with two RBI's. Anthony Rizzo finished 0-for-3 in what might be one of his last games at Iowa, stay tuned.
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Company Denied Promotion to Single Mother Because of Her Children,
DENVER – The Denver Hotel Management Company (DHMC) will pay $105,000 to settle a sex discrimination case filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that the company refused to promote a single mother because she had children.
According to the EEOC lawsuit, the woman was denied promotion to a newly created position of assistant human resource director because of her caregiver responsibilities as the mother of two young children, and the job was given to a less qualified and less experienced employee. The managers explained to the woman that she was being passed over for the job because of her role as a mother of young children, asserting that she could not relocate or work the required 50-60 hour work week because she "had a full-time job at home with her children," the EEOC said. According to the EEOC's complaint, the woman was never asked if she would be willing to relocate or work extended hours. Instead, the decision-makers assumed that because the complainant was the mother and primary caregiver for small children, she would be unwilling to relocate or work extended hours.
Discrimination based on stereotypical views of a woman's caregiver status is a form of sex discrimination prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
DHMC has agreed to pay $105,000 to settle the case (EEOC v. Denver Hotel Management Company, Inc., Civ. No. 10-cv-01712-REB-BNB.) Under the consent decree settling the suit, DHMC also agreed to revamp its discrimination policies and conduct training for all of its employees to explain how stereotypes concerning a person's family responsibilities can constitute illegal sex discrimination.
"Making assumptions about a woman's ability to perform a job which are not grounded in fact, but instead on stereotyped assumptions about her inability to work long hours due to her child care responsibilities, is unlawful discrimination," said EEOC Regional Attorney Mary Jo O'Neill. "The Supreme Court has acknowledged that there is a pervasive stereotype that caring for family members is 'women's work,' and that this stereotype remains firmly rooted in our society. The EEOC is committed to eliminating all forms of sex discrimination from the workplace."
EEOC Phoenix District Office District Director Rayford Irvin added, "We are pleased with the initiatives that DHMC has agreed to in this settlement. We look forward to seeing its efforts to promote individuals into management positions without basing its decisions on illegal, stereotyped assumptions about a caregiver's ability to balance the competing demands in that person's life."


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Northern Illinois BCS bowl bid a sign of what's to come
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Almost every March, a team from a little-known conference busts through the NCAA Tournament bracket and America temporarily falls in love. But when Northern Illinois weaved its way through the BCS formula to earn an Orange Bowl bid against ACC champion Florida State, the reaction was largely based in contempt.
"The fact Northern Illinois is in the BCS in 2012 is really a sad state for college football," ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit ranted shortly after the pairing was announced. "They don't deserve to be in the BCS this year."
But Herbstreit and anyone who shares his view better get used to it, because Tuesday night may not have been the last time a Cinderella team from a lesser conference shows up in a major bowl.
When the new postseason implemented in 2014, six bowl games will stand above the rest, two of which will serve as national semifinals on a rotating basis. The other four will choose teams based largely on contractual agreements with conferences; the Sugar Bowl, for instance, will match a Southeastern Conference team against a Big 12 team in years when it isn't a semifinal site. But one slot each year will be reserved in one of those four bowls for the highest-rated champion from the so-called "Group of Five" conferences: The Big East, the Mountain West, the MAC, the Sun Belt and Conference USA.
And in theory, that may mean even lower bar some years than what Northern Illinois had to reach to get into the Orange Bowl.
Northern Illinois got into a BCS game because it finished among the top-16 in the BCS standings (the Huskies were 15th) and ahead of the champion from an automatic qualifying conference (Big East winner Louisville was 21st and Big Ten winner Wisconsin was 16th). So even though Northern Illinois lost to Iowa in the season opener and didn't face a ranked team until beating fellow MAC member Kent State in the league championship game, it met the criteria established in 2006 for BCS busters. There was no way to keep the Huskies out.
In college basketball, the matchup of a hot mid-major and a brand-name program would have been celebrated. Quarterback Jordan Lynch, who threw for 24 touchdowns and ran for 19 more this season, would have been hyped as a must-see attraction against a Florida State defense loaded with future NFL players. But because Northern Illinois getting in stopped a traditional power like Oklahoma from getting a BCS bid, some commentators – Herbstreit the most prominent among them – painted the Huskies as an uninvited guest.
"Yeah, that doesn't bother us at all," Northern Illinois quarterbacks coach Bob Cole told reporters this week. "There's a lot of angry people out there, but there's probably 120 of us in the hotel that are really happy about the whole deal. We don't really care what everybody else thinks. We're glad to be here. We won a lot of games, and we did what we were supposed to do."
Starting in 2014, however, such complaining could be amplified even more. Though exact criteria for choosing the Group of Five representative haven't been established yet, if a 9-3 Boise State team is the highest-rated team among those five conference champions, they're in. If it's 11-1 Louisiana-Lafayette, they're in. So for leagues like the MAC, which historically couldn't get teams high enough in the polls to be in BCS contention, the chances of this happening again are better than ever.
In the college football paradigm, Florida State-Northern Illinois may not have been a sexy Orange Bowl matchup. But in the new playoff world, something similar will probably become commonplace in at least one major bowl every year.


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Denver Beer Company is located in the city's rapidly redeveloped and desirable Highland neighborhood. It has made a name for itself by offering a rapidly changing selection of ales and lagers. From one week to the next, the entire lineup of beers can—and does—change. In the six months since the brewery opened, a mind-boggling range of styles, both traditional and wholly experimental, have been poured.
The brewery is becoming more widely known on account of its Graham Cracker Porter; a creamy American Porter brewed with an abundance of actual graham crackers. The beer won a Gold Medal at the 2011 Great American Beer Festival, and immediately became much in-demand, so much so that it has become the closest the brewery has to a year-round offering.
Denver Beer Co. was founded by Charlie Berger and Patrick Crawford. Berger studied brewing at the Siebel Institute of Technology and the Doemans Brewing Academy in Munich, and brewed professionally at Wynkoop Brewing Co. prior to starting Denver Beer Co. Crawford earned his brewing stripes as an award-winning homebrewer before going all in at the commercial level with Berger in 2011.
Denver Beer Co. was conceived of as a neighborhood brewery. Located in a heavily residential area of the city, the taproom is sizeable for such a small operation. In a former life, the building was car mechanics' garage, and the large vertical doors are often open warmer months to reveal a patio with long biergarten-style benches. A rotating schedule of food trucks provide the taproom with a much welcomed selection of beer-appropriate food.
The brewery is projected to brew 1000 barrels of beer in 2012, and some new tank space means they will soon be able to realize their goal of selling more beer to local area bars on a regular basis. We had the chance to walk around the brewery a bit on a brewday. Check out the slideshow for our snapshots of all the action.
Tap Room: Open Tuesday to Thursday 3:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m., Friday and Saturday 12:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m., Sunday 12:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Closed Mondays. Growlers are available to go.
Denver Beer Company
1695 Platte Street, Denver, CO 80202 (map) 303-772-0258; denverbeerco.com/
About the Author: Lee Williams grew up in Bristol, England and now resides in Denver, Colorado. In 2009 he founded Hoptopia, a beer review website, iPhone and Android app. He is currently penning his first book, titled Beer Lover's Colorado; due for publication in October. You can follow him on Facebook or on Twitter at @Hoptopia.
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The gig is almost up for one of the eight Monopoly tokens. But which will it be? Iron? Thimble? Top Hat?
Or another of their board game buddies?
Hasbro is holding a Facebook contest to eliminate one of the eight tokens that identify the players and introduce a new one. Possible new tokens include a cat, diamond ring, guitar, toy robot and helicopter
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So if you are tired of the iron token and would rather be represented by a robot, here's your chance to make those wishes known.
Beginning Tuesday, Facebook fans of Monopoly can vote on which piece to eliminate and which one to add.
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman and Strange Weather returns with a dark and ingenious collection of thirteen compelling short stories that showcase his ability to push genre conventions to new extremes (New York Times Book Review).
In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including In The Tall Grass, one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix.
A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in Faun. A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind the wheel of an antique Bookmobile to deliver fresh reads to the dead in Late Returns. In By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain, two young friends stumble on the corpse of a plesiosaur at the waters edge, a discovery that forces them to confront the inescapable truth of their own mortality . . . and other horrors that lurk in the waters shivery depths. And tension shimmers in the sweltering heat of the Nevada desert as a faceless trucker finds himself caught in a sinister dance with a tribe of motorcycle outlaws in Throttle, co-written with Stephen King.
Featuring two previously unpublished stories, and a brace of shocking chillers, Full Throttle is a darkly imagined odyssey through the complexities of the human psyche. Hypnotic and disquieting, it mines our tormented secrets, hidden vulnerabilities, and basest fears, and demonstrates this exceptional talent at his very best.


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Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream Recipe
I scream, you scream, we all scream for...
A frozen alternative to pumpkin pie, with gingersnap cookies and candied ginger folded inside.
- Yield:makes 5 cups
- Active time: 1 hour
- Total time:1 hour, plus an overnight chill
- 6 egg yolks
- 3/4 cup dark brown sugar
- 1 cup pumpkin purée, canned or homemade
- 2 cups cream
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground clove
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 2 star anise petals (or 1/8 teaspoon ground)
- 1 tablespoon bourbon or rye
- 1 teaspoon Kosher salt
- 3/4 cup chopped gingersnap cookies, storebought or homemade, chilled in freezer
- 1/4 cup candied ginger, finely chopped, chilled in freezer
In a large, heavy saucepan, whisk together egg yolks, brown sugar, and pumpkin purée into a smooth paste. Slowly whisk in cream and then milk until fully combined.
Whisk in cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, and star anise, and cook over medium heat, whisking frequently, until a custard forms on the back of a spoon and a swiped finger leaves a clean line, 5 to 7 minutes.
Push custard through a fine mesh strainer with the back of a spoon or ladle into an airtight container. Stir in bourbon or rye and salt, cover, and refrigerate until completely chilled, at least 6 hours and up to over night. Churn in ice cream maker according to manufacturer's instructions. Transfer ice cream to airtight container, quickly stir in gingersnaps and candied ginger, and firm up in freezer for at least 3 hours before serving.


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The list of new music releases for April 2014 is dominated by a flood of limited-edition vinyl being released on Record Store day, including previously unreleased or long out-of-print titles from Jimi Hendrix, the Doors and Bruce Springsteen.
Aerosmith, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Genesis and the Grateful Dead are also among the dozens of artists releasing special items for this annual retail holiday, which aims to support local independent record stores.
In other news, the massive 40th anniversary vinyl reissue campaign from Kiss gets off to a flying start with no less than 10 of their albums — including their first four — hitting stores on April 1. The group's frontman, Paul Stanley, will release his first-ever autobiography, 'Face the Music,' a week later. April also brings a massive, career-spanning box set from guitar wizard Joe Satriani.
Read on for a complete list of April 2014′s classic rock releases. You can click on the highlighted titles below to learn more about many of these albums. Check out our continuously updated list of all the 2014 New Music Releases to keep up-to-date with what your favorite artists are releasing in the new year.
New Music Releases – April 2014
April 1
Deep Purple, 'Live in California '74′
Kiss, 'Alive!,' 'Animalize,' Destroyer,' 'Dressed to Kill,' 'Dynasty,' 'Hotter Than Hell,'
'Kiss,' 'Lick it Up,' 'Revenge' and 'Unmasked' – vinyl reissues
Brian May and Kerry Ellis, 'The Candlelight Concerts' (Blu-ray)
Various Artists, 'This is Your Life' (Ronnie James Dio tribute album)
Various Artists, 'Looking Into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne'
April 8
Black Label Society, 'Catacombs of the Black Vatican'
Roger Daltrey and Wilko Johnson, 'Going Back Home'
Paul Stanley, 'Face the Music: A Life Exposed' (autobiography)
April 15
Ian Anderson, 'Homo Erraticus'
Jack Bruce, 'Silver Rails'
Black Sabbath, 'The Compete Studio Albums 1970-1978'
Rush, 'Rush' (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Box Set)
April 19 (Record Store Day)
Aerosmith, 'Draw the Line' — RSD First Release
Aerosmith, 'Night in the Ruts' — RSD First Release
Aerosmith, 'Rock in a Hard Place' — RSD First Release
Aerosmith, 'Rocks' — RSD First Release
Allman Brothers Band, 'Selections from: Play All Night: Live at the Beacon Theatre 1992′
The Animals, 'The Animals' EP
David Bowie, '1984′ (vinyl single)
Eric Carmen, 'Brand New Year / Starting Over' (single)
Creedence Clearwater Revival, 'The '69 Singles'
Devo, 'Live at Max's Kansas City'
Devo, 'Butch Devo and the Sundance Gig'
The Doors, 'Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine' (swirled vinyl)
Dream Theater, 'Illumination Theory' — RSD Exclusive Release
Fishbone, 'Fishbone' — RSD Exclusive Release
Fleetwood Mac, 'Dragonfly / The Purple Dancer'
Genesis, 'From Genesis to Revelation'
Grateful Dead, 'Live at Hampton Coliseum'
Jimi Hendrix, 'Live at Monterey' — RSD First Release
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, 'Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth'
Motorhead, 'Aftershock' — RSD Exclusive Release
Mudhoney, 'On Top' — RSD Exclusive Release
Nirvana, 'Pennyroyal Tea' — RSD Exclusive Release
Gram Parsons, '180 Gram: Alternate Takes from 'GP' and 'Grevious Angel'
The Pogues, 'Live with Joe Strummer' — RSD Exclusive Release
The Ramones, 'Meltdown with the Ramones' — RSD Exclusive Release
The Sonics / Mudhoney, 'Bad Betty / I Like it Small' — RSD Limited Run
Soundgarden, 'Superunknown: The Singles' — RSD Exclusive Release
Bruce Springsteen, 'American Beauty' (new four-song EP)
The Stranglers, 'Peaches / Go Buddy Go' — RSD Limited Run
The Velvet Underground, 'Loaded' — RSD Exclusive Release
Frank Zappa, 'Don't Eat the Yellow Snow' (single)
April 22
Sebastian Bach, 'Give 'Em Hell'
Joe Satriani, 'The Complete Studio Recordings'
April 29
Chris Robinson Brotherhood, 'Phosphorescent Harvest'
Toto, '35th Anniversary Tour: Live in Poland' (DVD)


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I noticed the other day that somone is asking $140 for my Whitetail Addict's Manual on E Bay, this for a book that retailed for $24.95. That is just plain crazy. I wish I had several copies left to sell. You can get an e-mail copy of the latest edition from me - for $20.
After five years of writing, I am both the white-tailed deer and North American elk columnist for the Australian & International Trophy Hunter magazine, and a contributing writer to Bowhunting Adventures and the Sixth Day Sportsman. I am also a columnist for the Christian Outdoorsman e-magazine, and a contributing writer for Bowhunting.Net, HuntingNet.com and about 25 other e-magazines, including my own Trinity Mountain Outdoor News at www.TRMichels.com. You can locate many of my articles by Googling my name. Meanwhile, keep enjoying God's Great Outdoors.
With the advent of spring we look forward to the return of many species of waterfowl including both trumpeter and tundra swans here in MInnesota, and both sandhill and whoopng cranes in Wisconsin, at Crex Meadows and Necedah National Wildlife Refuge respectivley. And then there is the always looked for arrival of the migration of sprng warblers in May and a flush of wildflower growth for those of you who like to go out and experience nature.
If you are looking for a wildlife trip or photography tour, feel free to e-mail me or give me a call at firstname.lastname@example.com or 651-450- 0234.
We will be headed to the Black Hills and Custer State Park in late August, for the Bison rut and Elk Buglng seasons. Overnight stay in cabins can be had for as low as $60 per person. We will begin trips to Crex Meadows and other wildlife locations next weekend, looking for swans, cranes, eagles and migrating song birds just about every weekend through mid- April. Feel free to join us on us on one of our trips.
God bless,


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After arrival to Zadar a local taxi service is at your disposal. The taxies are parked near the bus stop in the port of Zadar, on the Main Bus Terminal and by the city bridge (Branimirova obala). You can get a taxi service at the shortest time possible through a call to the Taxi service station at Liburnska obala, phone +385 (0)23 251 400.
Your safest bet is to ask the cost of the journey before entering the taxi.
Lulić taxi based in Zadar, offers a convenient and safe ride to its customers. Complete comfort and safety 24 hours a day provided by a new vehicles, distinctive white Renault Megane Grandtour. Call +385 (0)23 494 494 to order and taxi Lulić will provide a quick arrival at the desired destination at very favorable rates. Lulic Transfers operate with Renault Trafic minivan vehicles. The vehicles are managed by qualified uniformed drivers, who can provide information about the City of Zadar and its cultural landmarks.
- Working time is 24 hours a day
- The general wait time after you call is up to 10 minutes
- Fare is same for 1 up to 4 persons
Information: www.lulic.hr/taxi
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+385 (0)23 414 414
TAXI DENIS offers fast, reliable and safe taxi service. Their english spoken taxi drivers will be glad to help you.
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23000 Zadar
Kontakt mobitel: +385 95/822-84-85 ili +385 98/52-52-02
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Something that I'm starting to enjoy is becoming a volunteer for Hops In Humboldt. Unless I have a ride, I don't really like going to festivals and having too much beer. I like to enjoy the whole aspect of the festival, which is a celebration of beer. This year was an experience like no other at Hops In Humboldt and it gave me a full immersion into the experience I was looking for. I'll get to that in a minute.
First, I'd like to take time out and thank the entire Hops in Humboldt team for putting this together every year. Having dabbled in a few similar things, I can say that its not easy pulling off something like this. Thank you to Woody, John, Tina, Jere and everyone else that I can't name right now. They received Fortuna's "Non-Profit of the Year" award, and they deserve it. This years event was probably one of the best I've seen. Years past see some long lines, probably due to small glasses and unexpected high attendance, and booths running out of beer early. There are probably people more in tune to the inner workings of the event than me, but from my perspective, this year was fairly free of problems. Heck, I didn't even smell pot smoke once.
At 11:30, I got in line with the rest of the volunteers and was quickly flagged down by a fellow homebrewer. Jay was running the judging and someone failed to show up. "You want to to be a beer judge?" he yelled over the sound check music. "What do I have to do?" I inquire. "Taste everything!" he says with a wide grin. To tell you the truth, I was hesitant. I didn't want to taste everything, I wanted to just hang out and pour, but I couldn't pass up this opportunity.
After orientation, I was relieved to find out that I would be able to taste ahead of time before the main crowd and would have to be done by 3 PM. I have balked at these types of things in the past because when I hear the term "beer judge", I instantly polarize myself to the BJCP standard, to which I am not qualified to do. But this was something different entirely, as you will see.
I was assigned to the "Best of Hops" group of judges and the criteria went way beyond just the beer. "Best of Hops" has to take into consideration number of beers offered, quality of beer, decoration of the booth, energy, "hotties" (both male and female), "X-factor" (like cask beers, randalls, etc.) and a couple of other criteria that I'm not going to divulge, because I don't want to have to fight for the opportunity to be a judge next year!
If you want a good example of how to win this award, just take a look at the booths from Six Rivers Brewery and 21st Amendment, who ultimately split the Hops in Humboldt awards. For all intents and purposes, these booths were mini-parties. For those of you reading this who may be a participating brewery or brewer, the key to this award is to turn your booth into a high energy magnet. Bring lots of beer, your brewers, decorations, extras, schwag and beer karma and you will do well. So with all apologies to Six Rivers and 21st Amendment, the purpose of that statement is to get you more competition for Hops in Humboldt 2013 or more accurately, a much more fun filled festival at every booth!
I started my lap around the festival at the Gordon Biersch booth and was very surprised to be met by Dan Gordon himself.
Now stop for a minute and digest that. The head brewer was at the festival pouring his own beer. (Bonus points on the judging sheet, by the way — having a brewer pour me their own beer makes me giddy as a school girl, I will admit it) This was not an isolated incident. Other breweries like North Coast and 21st Amendment had their brewers there as well. Yeah the locals did too, but the point is these guys, who are surely very busy, took the time to come to Hops in Humboldt from many miles away and represent their brewery. So that should give you an idea on how peers in the brewing world are viewing Hops in Humboldt. Gordon Biersch produces 3.1 million gallons of beer annually and Dan Gordon took the time to attend. Very cool.
Dan poured me a blonde bock from a barrel (X-factor) and he spotted my Maple Leafs hat and we chatted hockey for a bit. I could have ended my day right there and been pleased as punch, but I had a job to do.
I'm certainly not going to detail every beer and every booth, but I will touch upon some more personal highlights.
One thing I was surprised about was the high number of amber beers being offered. Now I love amber beer, but there isn't a whole lot you can do with it. There really is no thinking outside of the box when it comes to amber. Nobody has ever said, "That amber is the best beer I've ever had." But I was pleased the festival wasn't dominated by sours. I was also pleased to see cider well represented. Cider is that kind of bastard child of a beer festival but I think people need to look beyond it as a "girl drink" and appreciate it. A brewer can make a beer consistently batch after batch. Cider is much harder to pull off in that department and is often at the mercy of mother nature and a highly skilled cider maker. My pass through the Ace cider booth was humbling. The sparse booth sported a borrowed purple pop-up from Barefoot Wine and the logo was eventually covered with a hand made sign claiming "NOT WINE". "We are a company of 12 people," the rep claimed. "We don't even have our own pop-up. We had to borrow this one." But Ace produces a damn fine cider and perry, so give them a try sometime.
My visit to the North Coast Brewing Company booth was another highlight. If I were to judge strictly on the beer, NCBC would have received the highest marks from me. I was treated to Old Stock 2005, and one beer tasted side by side, one aged in bourbon barrels and one in brandy barrels. Brewer Ken and I talked homebrewing for a bit and he says he still brews at home where he is more free to experiment. No doubt, some of those experiments end up in the NCBC brews.
My last leg yielded more surprises. Bacon beer and a watermelon randall was eyebrow raising. My whirlwind experience was punctuated by my visit to the 21st Amendment booth, which was aiming for the full San Francisco experience. I was sat down by brewmaster Shaun O'Sullivan and given a full dose of judge-schmoozing. If you go by line length alone, 21A was the place to be. My deadline was almost up, so I couldn't stay long.
What you should take away from this is a good idea at what it takes to win those awards at Hops in Humboldt. If you are just filling tasting glasses, don't expect to win the awards. If you are filling glasses with variety, gusto, energy and beer culture, you will do well. I challenge future attending breweries to give Six Rivers and 21st Amendment a run for their money at Hops In Humboldt 2013!


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One of one: Henry gets squared away
Nudges, requests, even pushy demands for coverage–- those I get all the time. But it's rare an artist asks me not to review his or her show. Nevertheless, painter J.M. Henry, whose "Works on Paper" currently hangs in the McGuffey Art Center's main gallery, recently sent an email that essentially said, "Keep walking. Nothing new to see here."
He's wrong. Gone are the landscapes and horizons that characterized Henry's 2009 Angelo show in favor of a return to pure abstraction. Henry continues to mine his technique of building and sanding back layers, enabling color and a few asymmetrical marks to ignite events on the page, but he quietly refines his methods and subtly reaches into new areas.
Henry says printmaking techniques served as influences while preparing the current body of work. As is his familiar custom, he imposes a central square on the page, and builds his painting within that implied frame. Evidence of the numerous layers involved in each composition is visible at the edges, similar to the colorful residue left at the perimeter of a print after several passes of ink. Like a printmaker, he achieves particular color effects by overlaying pigments rather than mixing them on a palette. In addition, Henry occasionally introduces scratch-like marks reminiscent of intaglio techniques.
But don't be fooled by the "1/1" Henry wryly writes on many of the pieces, which suggests they are perhaps monoprints. These are paintings doing things only paintings can do. Whereas a print can only suggest texture, Henry often builds interest with dimensional strokes and granular paints. He creates spatters. He rubs through layers.
In the compelling #5 (all 16 works are untitled), several tiny explosions erupt near the upper right corner of the predominantly turquoise square, with another small blast occurring at the bottom of the imposed frame. Brief strokes and minuscule dots of eggplant and orange, along with dabs of red and blue energize these near-circular areas. But what subtly moves the painting forward is a tiny, almost unnoticeable brushstroke of pure orange on the left side of the square.
The exhibition also includes three pieces that are a clear departure. Each watery horizontal rectangle has a frenetic, de Kooning-like energy fueled by marks that are more conspicuous than in the artist's studied squares.
Although his techniques may be familiar, Henry's skillfully executed abstracts always reveal something new and well worth seeing.
J.M. Henry's exhibition, "Works on Paper," is on view through January 31 at the McGuffey Art Center. 201 Second St. NW. 295-7973.


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Essendon players and their legal representatives have won an extension – until July 11 – to respond to the allegations of banned drug use that have been outlined in show-cause notices from the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.
The new deadline, revealed by Fairfax Media on Thursday, effectively doubles the time Essendon players and their legal representatives have to determine how – and if – they will respond to the show-cause notices. ASADA CEO Ben McDevitt subsequently confirmed he had granted an extension of what was originally a 10-working day deadline for responses to the 34 notices concerning current and past Essendon footballers.
Any responses to thenotices that are lodged with ASADA will be forwarded to the Anti-Doping Rule Violation Panel. That panel comprises a group of government-appointed sport, law and anti-doping experts who work at arms length from ASADA and review all anti-doping cases pursued by the agency.
The ADRVP is set to consider the cases ASADA has built against the footballers over the past 16 months and determine whether any entries on ASADA's Register of Findings are warranted. That is the action that typically triggers an instruction from ASADA to the relevant sporting body – in this case the AFL – to issue an infraction notice.
By issuing the notices, ASADA has demanded that the 34 past and present Essendon players – some of whom are now at other AFL clubs – prove that they did not use banned drug Thymosin beta 4 as part of the Bombers' supplements program in 2012. Acting CEO of the AFLPA, Ian Prendergast, stated this week that "not one player believes he has taken a prohibited substance".
The deadline extension means that the Federal Court proceedings filed by the Essendon Football Club and James Hird – action that is challenging the legality of investigations the AFL and ASADA conducted jointly until August last year, but which ASADA continued independently until February this year – could be resolved before players respond to their notices.
The directions hearing for the Federal Court matter being led by Essendon and Hird is set for June 27. The AFLPA has made a separate request to ASADA that no action be taken on the show-cause notices issued to players until after that Federal Court matter is resolved. Lawyers involved have estimated a finding could be reached within a day's sitting, however there could also be appeals.
In a third formal request lodged with ASADA this week, the legal team working for Essendon players has also asked that the anti-doping agency provide evidence to back up its allegations regarding players' potential use of banned drug Thymosin beta 4.
ASADA is yet to respond to those additional requests.
Thymosin beta 4 is classified as an S2 substance under the World Anti-Doping Agency Code – a classification that would typically translate into an athlete receiving a ban of between six months and two years provided an anti-doping authority, such as ASADA, proves use of the substance to the satisfaction of an appropriate tribunal.