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Monday, April 27, 2009
Desert Critters: Horned Lizards
I photographed two, though there were others I missed. This one was first resting in a spot on the trail to the Cold Springs Pony Express Station. As soon as we approached, it ran off to blend into the shadows under a sagebrush.
Horned toads are of the species Phrynosoma; this one, with three large horns at the back of its head, is probably a Phrynosoma platyrhinos.
He(?) kept one eye on me almost all the time. After hiding under the bush, he ran out into the middle of a relatively unvegetated area (dirt) and froze, flattening his body against the ground as a way of hiding in plain view. He was difficult, indeed, to follow on the viewscreen of my camera.
One last view before our horny toad runs under another bush.
And here's a small horned lizard - I think this is the same kind as above, but a youngster!
Horned lizards have their very own conservation society: Phrynosoma.Org.
This post is an entry in the Carnival of the Arid #4, hosted by Chris Clarke at Coyote Crossing.
10 comments:
- Arvind said...
I love your hiking pics!! A great set from every hike!
- Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 6:06:00 AM PDT
- Cath@VWXYNot? said...
great work getting those shots! How big are these guys?
- Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 11:19:00 AM PDT
- Silver Fox said...
Arvind, Cath - thanks!
The little guy is probably < 2 inches; the larger one maybe 3-4 inches. Not very big! USGS link says they are 2.5-3.75 in (6.4-9.4 cm) in size.
Hard to get a quarter or pencil or boot (or anything) into the picture for scale - other than the little tiny rocks and an occassional blade of grass!
- Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 11:42:00 AM PDT
- Desert Survivor said...
How lucky you've already gotten to see a horned lizard! I'm going to have to go out looking.
- Friday, May 1, 2009 at 6:08:00 AM PDT
- ReBecca Hunt-Foster said...
Nice! I actually saw a horney toad recently in New Mexico. He was just sitting on an ant pile. I think I would have probably reach down and touched him. He was about the size of my hand. I was cursing my dead camera battery!
- Sunday, May 3, 2009 at 1:28:00 AM PDT
- Silver Fox said...
Desert Survivor, I hope you find one!
- Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 11:05:00 AM PDT
- Silver Fox said...
ReBecca, I hate it when I've forgotten to carry extra batteries with me! It happened recently on a short hike.
A hand-sized horned lizard - does that include the tail?
- Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 11:07:00 AM PDT
- ReBecca Hunt-Foster said...
I guess it was more palm sized. It did have its tail, yes, but it was not a long tail.
- Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 12:45:00 PM PDT
- Liz at Yips and Howls said...
These guys look a bit bigger than the P. Hernandesi from central Arizona I wrote on (see link below). I adore horned lizards and am tempted to move somewhere where I can see them everyday. Nice pics.
Liz -
- Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 7:14:00 PM PDT
- Silver Fox said...
Liz, those lizards of yours do look a little smaller - though all we have to go on is the size of grass blades and pine needles. The larger one I saw flattened its body against the ground when in the open area, so looked larger, and also was a little colorful compared to the background dirt.
I don't get to see these often, but they are a treat!
- Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 8:17:00 PM PDT

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"if Nick Hornby gave the fan a voice in the nineties, Clarke has given the fan a face." (The Times)
Photographer Stuart Clarke has been capturing the changing face of football through a lens for over 20 years. His ongoing Homes of Football exhibition has been running ever since and in 2012, a collection of his work is set to grace the new National Football Museum in Manchester.
Clarke has been hugely influential not just on some of my work but on pretty much every football website owner and photographer I've ever spoken to. If you love this sport, you'll love the Homes of Football website. Type your teams name in the search engine and you'll be instantly hooked.
Personally, I fell in love with football after spending too long in my youth staring at a copy of L.S.Lowry's "Going To The Match" that my parents had hanging from a wall. Clarke's photographs have managed to bring the magic of that painting into real life. He does indeed give the fan a voice.
Anyway, enough gushing praise from me. Stuart was good enough to give EFW some of his time, so lets hear what the maestro has to say about his work:
You've focused on fan's experiences of football from World Cups to grass roots, do you have a preference on the level of matches you photograph? I like matches at all levels. The BIG games have the feeling that everyone is watching (on tv) and I can send a postcard home; the SMALL games have that intimacy.
What is the best event you've covered? Euro'96 in England, Japan 2002 and Portugal Euro 2004, all tied. Watford beating Bolton in the Play-Offs at old Wembley 1999 ...and France beating Brazil World Cup 1998 as one-day events.
Is there an event that you'd like to photograph that you haven't already? As corny as it sounds : a match that takes you by surprise - it may be a big or a small match.
"Cry For Home" taken outside a freezing cold Cappielow, Greenock Morton in 1995.
Do you have a favourite ground? Turf Moor Burnley, for photographing. Brunton Park, Carlisle and Shepherdsbridge at Coniston, for being 'home'.
Would you say you were a *deep breath* groundhopper? Yes... in that I appear to always want another one (a football ground alcoholic) but NO in as much as I am happy to settle at one ground. And another. And another...
Why is photography so special to you? Captures a moment in time and represents that moment as something more permanent that you can look on many times ... and touch.
It is a pretty competitive marketplace these days no? It always was I think. EVERYBODY in the World has a camera and takes pictures. Not many people write or paint. My photography has to look like... but stand out in the crowd.
Do you get a chance to actually enjoy the games you attend or does the pressure of work take that away somewhat? I love almost every moment - from 5 hours before the game when I arrive... the first half is tense because there is a lot to work out (positions, possible photographs, key players).
The Homes of Football is one of the longest touring art exhibitions in British History. You must be very proud of that fact? It's the longest! Yes I am proud but it's all just been a warm-up to what I am about to achieve!
Are you into any other sports? I cry at almost any long-distance running, love watching skiing and the Grand National on tv and i am a swimmer of lakes, rivers, sea. Hope golf dies a natural death, but have got over wanting the same for rugby and cricket.
A lot of current sports photographers I talk to cite you as an influence on their work, who were your influences? War photographer Donald McCullin, humourist Elliot Erwitt, Portraitist August Sander, road-tripper Robert Frank, film-maker Charlie Chaplin.
Has the ease of digital made your life a whole lot easier or do you stick to traditional methods? Have not yet explored Digital photography and may never. I love to have 'a piece of film' in my hand, alongside its likeness as a digital file. Love email and twitter.
Why did you only take half a dozen photos at Italia90? Is that where you first got the inspiration of photographing the crowds at football rather than the action? I had my girlfriend with me! Yes, I did not want to be shutter-happy and take holiday-snaps.
Your website is sponsored by the PFA but the members (players) of that organisation are seemingly only photographed by you in the context of the stadium and crowds. Is that just a personal preference? I love that anomaly that my biggest supporter bar none is Gordon Taylor/The PFA , who hardly ever get a look-in except in the context of the whole match spectacle. But that is why he/they like it I think. They were supporters once and will be again.
Do you have any of your work in the Museum of Football? The entire collection shall be housed there from 2012. It has to be protected somewhere. It's a national treasure. I pinch myself that i have had something to do with finding it.
Are you off to South Africa for the World Cup? I am doing it differently this year. To be accredited you have to be there 5 weeks from before start until after. I can't do that. I have a 4 year old daughter and I also want to see some of the World Cup back on English soil. But I will doubtless be there at some point and I went there when the stadia were being built.
Finally, if you need a bungling amateur to write irreverent swathes of text to accompany your fantastic photos of matchday experiences then I'm your man Mr Clarke! Yes, I would like that at some juncture so let's do it next March (1 year's time). stay in touch.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — With a new Federal Reserve leader about to be announced, the Fed is keeping its key interest rate unchanged. It also hints that it's preparing to resume raising rates as the economy shakes off the impact of recent hurricanes.
The Fed's decision left its benchmark rate in a low range of 1 percent to 1.25 percent. It's expected to hike rates in December. Its statement notes the economy has been rising "at a solid rate despite hurricane-related disruptions."
The Fed reiterated that inflation will resume moving toward its 2 percent target and said it was proceeding with a program to shrink its bond portfolio.
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It's kind of funny, you know. I may be the only one contemplating what to choose off of this shelf here; not for lack of money, given that I just got my pay, but instead what suits my tastes. In fact, I bet most of the people who come here have only a very general idea insofar as what they want, and randomly pick the first thing that comes to mind. Of course, people wouldn't think of me as the type who'd be choosy; after all, on-base, I'm either known as "that guy with the psychotic A2,†or more commonly, "that pervert.†Slack in class, hit on girls, pilot a weapon that would probably enjoy destroying literally anything and everything she felt like; even moreso if she got fame and glory for it. Yeah, I would be thought of as a common skirt-chasing cocky flyboy Tek. Hell, they wouldn't have even thought that I was the one who shot down that psycho Tek-Mage scientist…Izue, that's his name. Forgot he was related ever so distinctly. They don't know me that well at all if I sum up to that in their heads.
People often think I talk to women the way I do to get in their pants. Hell, one of my squadmates was trying to keep me away from Helena thanks to that assumption, I think. Bullshit. I talk to women the way I do because I like women. My way of saying "Hey, I like you.†It's my way of getting close to them, and really, just who I am, I guess. Some like it, some don't. I don't press the issue on those that don't like me. It's just my way of being friendly to them. I know it's not going to be close, they know it's not going to be close, it's just fun. And really, isn't that what matters? If both parties are fine and happy with it, and it's hurting neither, then there is nothing wrong at all about it.
As for sex, I never have and don't plan on it. It just creates too many complications, after all. Girl gets too attached, I get too attached, suddenly it's too deep, and it's out of the realm of what I deal in. It's no longer fun, plain and simple, and seriously, that defeats the point of what I do. …at least, that's what I used to think before then—I've got more personal reasons now as to why I don't. Sure, I talk to attractive girls, make passes toward them, and so on, but I just like them. Nothing more. Unlike Stinky, who I swear seems to be unable to make the distinction between an actual relationship and sex; I mean, come on. Who in the hell thinks musk is a basis for a relationship? He's not looking for a damn girlfriend, he's looking for a blow-up doll. He just refuses to acknowledge it.
Back to the subject at hand, though...a lot of people don't look that far when it comes to women. The majority would simply generalize their perceptions of beauty, when not realizing that there's a hell of a lot more insofar as distinct variety goes—not just externally, but insofar as personality and the way someone essentially "comes off†to others. Ask every guy what they find most attractive on a woman, and I guarantee you, at least two thirds would either be unable to identify, or they would say something along the lines of "big tits†or "big assesâ€. Occasionally, you may get something more than two words out of them, but that's the exception for that sort of answer. Hell, Stinky would likely say that. Really, those types don't see the subtleties—or even the major differences half the time--about beauty, I could easily say. Looking around, you can easily see the variety there is. It's not hard to miss, after all—unless you're one of the aforementioned two thirds, anyway…
Even in broad strokes, you can see it. Starting with arguably the most "obvious,†elves tend to, more often than not, have a sort of fragile, delicate beauty to them; in a sense, almost like the aspect of nature the majority of them were said to revere and worship long ago…I can't believe I remembered that from history class. Anyway, then you have drow; yeah, I know they're pretty much blue-or-black-skinned elves with a hell of a lot better night-vision, but…maybe it's the cold war with Ka'thalar right now or whatnot, but they seem to almost have a "bad†appeal to them. Nekojin and Inujin…they end up more along the lines of 'cute,' as far as my opinion goes. As for bastets, well, at least the one I have seen, if elves were the frail and delicate aspect, bastets would fall more onto the feral side of things. And I must wonder if they all get those tattoos…
Then you have the types who are more 'out there;' dragons, demons, and celestials, I mean. Dragons come off as rather "dangerous†in a sense, though they wouldn't look like it in first glance—I mean, after all, they look like you or me—okay, maybe not me, I don't look quite the same as humans. But that detail aside, we're often taught to believe that dragons are huge fire-or-whatever-breathing lizards that can also fly. I guess it's one of those odd things where, given that they're holding back their real bodies in that human or elf form, you also think they're holding back a hell of a lot of everything else; power and emotions both. Then you've got celestials, which I swear, my mother must be messed up in the head about. They're more of two types, I guess you could say; either following the pattern of elves, or possessing a more 'ethereal,' otherworldly, almost untouchable and unapproachable beauty. I haven't seen any in person, with one arguable exception, but that's how they appear from what I have seen.
I'd have to be drunk before I believe anything my mother seems to speculate about them, though—brushy penises to scrub the sin out? Holy water in place of vaginal fluids? Singing when they climax? …forget drunk, I'd have to be on some sort of crazyass drugs to believe –that- about celestial anatomy. And speaking of my mother, I must say that having had a demon as one, I'm not quite so sure I see the appeal that some have for them. But…that would be a personal issue, wouldn't it? Regardless, the MILF jokes plus my mother going along with them and teasing me at times…ugh. No thanks. And as for humans, they seem to run the entire gamut. Except for the genderless psycho-bitch marines that somehow get transferred to the same unit that I'm in. Those are all the same. Every single last one of them.
And then there was Helena. I personally don't know what it was about her that I fell for; sure, she was attractive as hell, as well as distinctive, but there was something more about her that I just couldn't identify. And it sure wasn't the angel of death thing. Hell, she seemed like a normal person; maybe a bit out of touch with the things that the rest of us are used to, but otherwise normal. When did I…I'm thinking back when we faced against Makura's younger brother and his hot sister. I think that's when I might've started having feelings for her, even though I obviously didn't realize it then. It felt like such a short time that I was with her. Even if she was unwilling to reciprocate, claiming it was for my sake, and that I needed a mortal girlfriend, and all that…I just don't know. I still try to piece all the things about her in my mind at times. And sometimes I feel like it's my fault she did leave. After all, I killed, essentially, the reason that she was sent here for. I did it. I can't blame it on Nanashii; she's just an A2 symbiote inside a Personality Core. Yet…if I didn't kill him, I could've easily been killed myself. He would've been offed by someone else anyway, knowing how he was just sitting in some normal mecha inside the neck of that…thing. But at the same time…meh. Nevermind. Last thing I need is Reshtaha to get me locked inside a stockroom in this place. That would be…awkward.
…screw it, less contemplating, more deciding…ah, here we go. Just have to head for the cashier, show them my MAC ID, pay in credits, and then leave…
"So, that's two issues of S.S.M., one of Hentaisha Monthly, and one issue of 'We're Going To Hell For Taking These Pictures' for…â€


text: Canadian actress, comedienne and social activist Mary Walsh unleashes her rage brought on by pop culture, politics and capitalism to do battle on a grand scale in this one woman show. In Dancing with Rage, Walsh blends tales of new characters with stories from familiar faces including Marg Delahuntey: Warrior Princess, Dakey Dunn, Mom Reardon and Connie Bloor. By incorporating current events, each performance of Dancing with Rage will be fresh, exciting and always up to the minute.


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A death goes far beyond its immediate surroundings: it echoes through a community. On February 11, 2008, in California, 14-year-old Lawrence King asked his classmate Brandon McInerney to be his valentine. The next day, McInerney shot King twice in the head. After being declared brain-dead, but left on life support, King passed away on February 14, 2008 – Valentine's Day.
The critically acclaimed, Jessie-nominated My Funny Valentine enters the minds of six people on the fringes of a murder that will forever affect them, and invites the audience to search through the confusing and chaotic implications of this death to find their own humanity.


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Apple Responds to China Report on iPhone Location Feature
Apple responded to China's influential state broadcaster, which called the iPhone a "national security concern" because of a feature that learns the locations of places a user visits most frequently.
In a statement titled "Your Location Privacy" published on Apple's China website, the company said it does not track users or share their locations with outsiders. Apple said it created the "frequent locations" feature so users can "quickly and reliably determine their current locations for specific activities such as shopping, travel, finding the nearest restaurant or calculating the amount of time it takes them to get to work."


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Zynga celebrates a year of the once insanely-popular social mobile game Draw Something by letting the world know how much time and productivity it wasted via a stat-filled infographic. Did you know the most popular word in The Netherlands is "Kerstbal?" Well you do now. Let's learn more, it's fun!
Draw Something was absolutely everywhere last spring. During the East Coast Games Conference last April I found myself sitting at a restaurant with Epic's Mark Rein and several of my journalist cohorts, most of us hunched over our various iThings attempting to suss out sketches and share our own. I actually bought a stylus to play the game. I have no idea where that stylus is now.
In fact I haven't touched Draw Something much since then, but that hasn't stopped the rest of the world from kicking out some 11 billion drawings, spending a cumulative 28,000 years doing so.
My favorite stat of them all is that "3x Reddit Front Page" lurking amidst the bigger numbers. Three times! That's much more impressive than 11 million Lady Gaga drawings.


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Welcome to Self Confidence Guide
Confidence Pelicula Article
For a permanent link to this article, or to bookmark it for further reading, click here.
Self-Confidence Quotes - Why It Is ALL in the Mind!!from: Motivated Lifestyle - Staff Writer.
It is an undoubted fact that your inner self will recognize whatever you say to yourself. We tend to talk to ourselves all the time subconciously.
Suppose that you repeatedly think to yourself that you are no good, that no one trusts you, that you cannot do this pr that, or you are afraid to face people directly! The inner you will reaffirm all of these negative thoughts to be truths, when actually they are most probably not.
Whatever you see and hear around you is absorbed to shape your personality, and it will eventually be integrated into your whole being, without you even knowing it. It will all come to you naturally as if it is the way that things should be, or it must be the condition you have to suffer.
Most training courses on positive thinking these days, use the phrase, "I think I can", or being stronger still, "I know I can". This works extremely well, and many many people are known to have reaped the benefits of drilling this positive thought into their heads.
You see it is all in the mind, and everything that you make your mind believe, will end up being embedded into it.
Not all of us have the confidence to face other people, or the confidence to say what we want to say. We are a hindrance to ourselves in performimg the tasks that we want to complete, or to achieve the goals that we have set for ourselves. It is usually the case that if you have one crucial failure, everything else will fail as well.
If part of your work involves having to address people publicly every now and then, and you lack the self-confidence to even stand in front of them, you would be better off finding another job where this is not required. At least that would provide you with the comfort of not having to face your fear of public speaking.
There are many ways to conquer lack of self-confidence, and in many cases the solutions will dawn on you as you go along. This is called enlightenment, and when this does happen, you will find yourself thinking that you have been wasting all your life shying away from people unnecessarily. It might even prove to be the case that you will actually come to find pleasure in approaching challenges which in the past would have been the cause of intense worry to you.
It might possibly even be that you will gain self-confidence after merely encountering the term "self-confidence" itself. This might sound somewhat corny, but it does actually work, and it happens in many different ways.
In the very same way that you convinced yourself of not having enough self-confidence, you will also find ways of making yourself believe that you are capable of doing many more things, and of actually making something of yourself.
If you label yourself as pretty worthless, and good for nothing, you may be certain that that is the way others will regard you. On the other hand, if you are assertive, and display an attitude that shows strength of character and a self confident individual, then you will be well on the way to rescuing yourself from the pressure of the negative aspects of your personality.
In many instances self-confidence has been greatly increased by the use of self-hypnotism. This is the term used to describe the procedure of repeating phrases to yourself over and over again, the purpose of which is to bring about a specific and gradual reaction towards a behavioral condition. It could be likened to strengthening your belief through a mantra, as it were.
Lack of self-confidence is only in the mind, and therefore one way that you can use to overcome it, is mind power. Think positively about yourself and repeat over and over, self-confidence quotes that you find reassuring.
In this way you will motivate your inner self to take action, and lift you away from the trap of not having enough inner self belief, and self esteem.


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For the week ending 15 January 2011 / 9 Shevat 5771
A Spanish Tribute
Jerusalemites are familiar with the Raoul Wallenberg Square in the center of the capital. It was to be expected that the Jewish State would thus honor the Swedish diplomat credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust.
But it came as a pleasant surprise to learn that the city council of the Spanish city of Monforte unanimously voted to name a street in the town's old Jewish Quarter "Rua de Raoul Wallenberg".


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Banking on security innovation to build customer trust
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Open Banking and the EU's PSD2 regulation are pushing banks around the world to strengthen their security strategies. Banks that take an active security stance and go beyond simple regulatory compliance can turn security into a business asset and build trust with customers.
With remote electronic payments transactions, PSD2 again requires payment service providers (PSPs) to apply strong customer authentication.
By providing APIs to third-party payment providers, banks open a greater attack surface to potential cyber adversaries.
Under PSD2, banks can block third-party access to an account if they have evidence the activity is unauthorized or fraudulent.
The future-ready bank positions security as an enabler with capabilities and behaviors that stifle hackers and keep customer data secure.
A successful Open Banking transformation will require security teams to adapt continually—keeping pace with shifting business objectives. Accenture clients count on our experience in security technology to guide them on their Open Banking journeys, and we welcome the opportunity to talk with you about yours.
Since creating systems with open APIs represents a "greenfield" development for many organizations, it provides a one-off window of opportunity to do things right from the start.


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COLUMBUS, OHIO (CNN) -- President Obama told graduates Sunday that "the institutions that give structure to our society have at times betrayed your trust" but called on young people to take a more active role in the political process as part of the solution.
Obama delivered his first commencement address of the spring to nearly 10,000 graduates at The Ohio State University in Columbus. He urged students to reject the "voices" that "incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's the root of our all our problems, even as they do their best to gum up the works."
On the stage in Ohio Stadium, Obama told the crowd that "your democracy does not function without your active participation. At a bare minimum, that means voting, eagerly and often. It means knowing who's been elected to make decisions on your behalf, what they believe in and whether or not they deliver."
His comments came exactly one year after Obama went to the heart of the key battleground state of Ohio to officially kick off his re-election campaign with a rally at The Ohio State University.
On Sunday he called for voters to hold officials accountable, saying, "if they let you down, there's a built-in day in November where you can really let them know that's not OK."
"I'm not going to get partisan, because that's not what citizenship is about," the president said. And he invoked the words President George W. Bush used in a graduation address in the same stadium, saying, "America needs more than taxpayers, spectators and occasional voters. America needs full-time citizens."
But Obama seemed to refer to the congressional defeat of stronger background checks for gun buyers and other parts of his domestic agenda when he told the graduates, "when we abdicate that authority, we grant our silent consent to someone who'll gladly claim it. That's how we end up with lobbyists who set the agenda, policies detached from what middle-class families face every day, the well-connected who publicly demand that Washington stay out of their business, then whisper in its ear for special treatment that you don't get. That's how a small minority of lawmakers get cover to defeat something the vast majority of their constituents want."
The president's remarks came as the administration vowed that the defeat of the background check measure was not the end of the fight. Obama spoke out on the gun issue on his trip to Mexico City last week, and Vice President Joe Biden wrote a Sunday opinion piece in the Houston Chronicle as the National Rifle Association met there.
Obama called on graduates on "harness the ingenuity of your generation" to tackle issues like gun violence, climate change, road and airport repairs and education. "We can always aspire to something more. That doesn't depend on who you elect to office. It depends upon you as citizens, how big you want to be, and how badly you want it.
"I dare you to do better", he added, "I dare you to be better. From what I have seen of your generation, I have no doubt you will".
In his Ohio State speech, Obama said he's been "obsessed" with the idea of keeping citizenship alive at the national level, "not just on Election Day or in times of tragedy," because he spends most of his time in Washington, "a place that sorely needs it."
He told the students "you don't have to run for office yourself," later saying, "only you can ultimately break the cycle."
In lighter moments during the commencement, Obama donned a black hat with an Ohio State O on it. He joked about speaking at archrival University of Michigan graduation in 2010, referring to a "certain university up north."
To laughs, he said he had been to OSU's campus five times recently and added, "to be fair, you did let President Ford speak here once, and he played football for Michigan."
Obama teased students about eating breakfast so late, at 11:30 a.m. when he dropped by a campus eatery during one stop. But he mispronounced the name of Sloopy's, named for the song that's an OSU tradition. He asked for forgiveness, noting that it's a Sunday after a foreign trip. He returned from Costa Rica on Saturday evening.
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Alabama's 'Ten Commandments Judge' Favored to Win Position Back
Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who gained national notoriety for defying a federal order to remove a granite monument of the Ten Commandments from a courthouse, was voted as the Republican nominee for his former position earlier this week.
Moore received a little more than half of the votes Tuesday to win the nomination for Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. Political analysts rank him as a heavy favorite to win the general election over his Democratic opponent in November.
In 2001, Chief Justice Moore installed a granite monument depicting the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building, "to invoke the favor and guidance of Almighty God in establishing justice as provided in the Constitution of the State of Alabama," according to the Judge Roy Moore for Chief Justice website.
The ACLU was joined by the Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Southern Poverty Law Center in a lawsuit against Moore over the display. According to his campaign, the issue in the case as stated by the federal district judge in his closing argument was, "Can the state acknowledge God?"
In Federal District Court Judge Myron Thompson's final decision he stated, "While the Chief Justice is free to keep whatever religious beliefs he chooses, the State (Alabama) cannot acknowledge the Judeo-Christian God or attribute to that God our religious freedom."
Moore's refusal to remove the 5,300-pound monument of the Ten Commandments from the judicial building where he served as a state Supreme Court justice led to a state panel and later, his ouster in 2003.
Last spring, Moore launched an exploratory committee for a possible run at the Republican GOP nomination in the presidential race. In November, he withdrew the committee and ended any speculation about entering the presidential primaries.
His Democratic opponent for the chief justice position in the Nov. 6 general election is attorney Harry Lyon.
Also known as "The Ten Commandments Judge," Moore, 65, served as chairman of the Board for the Foundation for Moral Law after his removal from office on Nov. 12, 2003. He currently serves as president of that foundation in Montgomery, Ala.
A group of lawyer advocates for constitutional rights hopes that someday a case such as the one the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State won against Moore will no longer be winnable. The American Civil Rights Union submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday which seeks to restore the original intent framers of the Constitution had when they penned the First Amendment's freedom of religion clause.
ACRU argues for a new constitutional standard protecting religious freedom under a "Coercion Test." The recommended legal test would show that public religious expression does not violate the Constitution's prohibition against establishment of religion unless it involves coercion.


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, March 04, 2011
How Lobbyists Used Propaganda to Shape a Nation
The copy in this 1951 Fortune magazine ad (below) sponsored by the trucking company Trailmobile says as much:
But throughout the early '50s, Trailmobile itself sponsored a steady stream of ads in Fortune that used fear as a tactic to push the company's message that America needed more and better roads and highways.
Trailmobile, a trucking company dependent on government funding of road infrastructure for its success, understood the importance of persuading politicians, business people and individual tax payers to support its agenda.
So when in its ad copy, Trailmobile speaks of "certain interest groups" using fear-based "rabid propaganda" back in the 1800s to try to sway public opinion in Philadelphia...
... what do the company's ads say about Trailmobile?
The other day I presented this Trailmobile ad below.
The copy on this ad contains an equally interesting passage:
"These 5 million people ... are not particularly well organized nor are they represented in Washington or the State Capitals by strong aggressive lobbies."
Whether that was true or not, ads like Trailmobile's certainly represent a particularly effective form of lobbying. Influence enough people, especially those in positions of power, and you move your agenda into the spotlight and steer public policy.
I've shown just one example, but Fortune magazine was rife with advertising/propaganda/lobbying of this sort (there was a ton of it in consumer magazines like The Saturday Evening Post and Life as well) by all industries. Take for instance, the oil industry.
The oil industry has always been extremely proactive in its use of pro-oil propaganda.
If you accept Richard Alan Nelson's definition of propaganda - "... a systematic form of purposeful persuasion that attempts to influence the emotions, attitudes, opinions, and actions of specified target audiences for ideological, political or commercial purposes through the controlled transmission of one-sided messages..." - then you'd have to say that ads like these from the early 1950s would qualify as pro-oil industry propaganda.
Here the message is certainly one-sided and attempts to influence attitudes and opinions.
But again, the use of scare tactics was also popular in attempting to influence emotions.
Cheap and plentiful oil, more and better roads... its not hard to see how the concerted efforts of different industries were influencing us all - from the individual consumer to the highest levels of government - and in doing so, industry propaganda was shaping our society.
Looks pretty idillic, doesn't it? A typical, prosperous small town somewhere in America. There's the barber shop and there's the five and dime and - oh, look! There's the GM auto dealer! As the ad says, "Right here on Main St."
We've certainly had a love affair with the car for a very, very long time. Getting out on the open road behind the wheel of a shiny new automobile isn't considered a privilege by most of us.
Its a right. Its a necessity.
The auto industry hasn't just been an important component of the North American economy during the last hundred years.
It's been the most important component. The catalyst for a thousand related industries!
And what made it all possible was oil.
Today, oil sells for over a hundred dollars a barrel. Experts predict it could reach $150 by this summer.
Back then, when industry was using propaganda to shape the future, I doubt anyone could have imagined the challenges we would face half a century later. Decaying infrastructure we can't afford to maintain, manufacturing that has migrated off the continent, environmental degradation and health-related consequences and the hollowing out of great cities by commuter populations that number in the millions...
And even if we could've anticipated the problems, I doubt if we'd have done things differently.
Where naysayers see pollution and massive urban sprawl, others see incredible wealth creation and employment for generations comprised of hundreds upon hundreds of millions of people.
I don't present any of this as an indictment of industry or of the propaganda it uses to influence society. We've all been willing participants in the greatest parade the world has ever seen.
I'm just saying it didn't happen by accident.
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amazing post! thank you ))))ReplyDelete
- Rich4:47 PM
Fear is a powerful motivator...and "a bad consultant", as well as a foe of understanding, as the saying goes.ReplyDelete
Just one side, the shiny side of the coin had been propagated by the lobbyists. Very well illustrated of course.
Once more I'm enjoying Today's illustrations;-)
- Wes11:29 PM
Beautiful and insightful post. I love the ads (some of which you've posted before, I think) and your commentary was reminiscent of some of of Simon Schama's works. Amazing!
Vitalik, Rich, Wes; Thank you all for your kind words and enthusiastic support! When I pore through my old magazines I see so many interesting trends emerging - a big picture of sorts - and I really enjoy putting together these essay pieces. I'm glad they're not seen as being terribly boring. I always wonder if anyone but me will like them, so your comments mean a lot to me! :^)ReplyDelete
The quote pasted below is from an earlier Kev Ferarri post, in case it was overlooked:ReplyDelete
"Are the ads that we get nowadays which completely avoid the question of the value of industry any better? In 1950 BP would have given us a beautiful ad explaining how their huge, complex machines get the necessary jobs done to provide oil, the lifeblood of civilization. Now a BP ad is a hot young girl running through a field picking daisies in the sunshine. Rebranding has become fantastical, absurd, through the looking glass."
I agree with that completely, and wonder how the next generation in fifty or sixty years will see our politically correct, rather anemic ads and TV commercials of today. I think I know the answer. But, the point is, whether you agree with the ads politically, ethically or philosophically, the illustrations and design were of good quality and effective. Since TI is primarily about mid century art, not ideology, I appreciate the eye candy. IMO, the rest is little more than personal speculation and conjecture.
Tom Watson
Thanks Tom; Aren't you lucky that you have this venue to both view eye candy and express your opinion? And you know what they say opinions are like, right? I'll let you Google it and see what the first result is. ;^)ReplyDelete


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A mid-season cooking apple, producing a light yellow puree. Very attractive blossom.
A ballerina-style apple tree which grows as columnar minarette.
A hardy disease-resistant apple, discovered growing on an island off the west coast of Wales.
One of the earliest English apples, ripening in early August.
Bountiful is an easy-to-grow cooking apple, it retains its shape when cooked, fairly sweet for a cooker.
An excellent late-season English apple with a very good sweet/sharp flavour and crisp hard flesh.
Charles Ross is a very attractive classic English dual-purpose apple.
Christmas Pippin is a new high-yielding Cox-style apple, discovered as a chance seedling tree.
Discovery is the definitive early-season English apple variety, makes a good fruit tree for the garden.
A new dual-purpose apple which has a naturally non-browning flesh, ideal for salads and fresh apple juice.
Egremont Russet is the most popular English russet variety, and a good apple tree for the garden.
Granny Smith is the world-famous green apple from Australia, a good choice for warmer apple-growing regions.
Greensleeves is a reliable and popular mid-season green/yellow apple, easy to grow and productive.
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Herefordshire Russet is a modern russet apple variety, with an excellent strong Cox-like flavour.
Howgate Wonder is a large cooking apple which keeps well. Produces an excellent sharp juice.
Idared is a popular American late-season apple variety, notable for its excellent keeping qualities.
An attractive early season apple, ripening in July / August.
James Grieve is the classic Scottish cooking apple. It can also be eaten fresh, and is excellent for juice.
Katy is an attractive and versatile early apple variety from Sweden, very easy to grow.
Keswick Codlin is a popular early-season cooking apple, easy to grow, and productive in most climates.
Kidd's Orange Red is one of the best Cox-style apples, aromatic, sweet, and easy to grow.
A quietly popular Edwardian era Cox-style apple, developed by the Laxton Brothers Nursery.
Limelight is an attractive green mid-season dessert apple, ideal for gardens.
A new English apple variety, recently discovered on the Isle of Wight - but its appearance and flavour hark back to the Victorian era.
Lord Lambourne is a popular versatile garden apple variety, with a good balance of sweet and sharp flavours.
Admiration is a naturally dwarf upright crab-apple with masses of light-pink / white flowers.
Butterball has bright white blossom and attractive butter-yellow fruits.
Malus Profusion is a notably compact crab apple variety, with dense clusters of deep pink blossom.
Evereste is one of the most well-known crab-apples, featuring white blossom and red-yellow fruits.
An attractive spreading crab-apple tree with white blossom and red / yellow fruits.
Malus Gorgeous features light pink blossom and is good for crab apple jelly.
A superb all-round crab apple, bronze leaves, and persistent red fruits.
A compact crab apple, with unusually large persistent fruits - excellent for crab apple jelly.
A dwarf upright crab apple with bronze leaves and crimson blossom.
Malus Louisa is a pretty weeping crab apple with light pink blossom.
Pink Glow (also known as Malus Dolgo), has early-season white flowers and dark pink crab-apples.
Malus Red Sentinel has white blossom and small scarlet persistent fruits.
A red-fleshed crab-apple, with dark pink blossom, and purple fruits. Useful for cooking and juicing.
Malus Rosehip is notable for its large rosehip-shaped red fruits.
A popular small weeping crab apple tree with crimson blossom.
Malus toringo Scarlett is an ornamental crab apple with purple/green leaves and pink blossom.
Malus Sun Rival is a crab apple with white flowers, red fruits, notable for its weeping growth habit.
Meridian is a little known modern English apple, heavy crops, easy to grow, and excellent flavour.
Peasgood Nonsuch is a highly-regarded old-fashioned English cooking apple.
Red Devil is a good apple variety for the UK garden, and produces a sweet red-tinted juice.
Red Falstaff is one of the best garden apple trees, heavy crops, easy to grow, and very juicy.
Red Windsor is one of the easiest to grow of all dessert apple trees, and with a pleasant apple flavour.
A widely-grown and well-regarded English cooking apple.
Probably the best-flavoured of the pink-fleshed apple varieties, and produces lovely pink juice.
Considered by many to be the best-tasting apple ever, Rubinette has a lovely balanced sweet / sharp flavour.
Not as well known as other russets, St. Edmund's Russet is nevertheless one of the best.
An attractive modern English apple, crisp flesh and an excellent flavour.
Scotch Dumpling is a large Scottish cooking apple. Cooks to a frothy puree with a good flavour.
Scumptious is a modern award-winning early-season English dessert apple.
Spartan produces lots of crimson maroon apples, crunchy, sweet, easy to grow, delicate "vinous" flavour.
Sunset is a popular garden alternative to Cox, easier to grow, with a sweet aromatic flavour.
An unusual new apple variety with a unique combination of orange skin and pink flesh.
A little-known high quality English apple, related to Cox and Worcester Pearmain.
Winter Gem is a late-season apple variety with a very good aromatic flavour.
Worcester Pearmain is a well-known early-season English apple, noted for its strawberry-like flavours.
One of the prettiest of all apples, perfect for a table display, with a rich fruity flavour.
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We need images for competition to win an iPod nano loaded with romantic music
Desired Color Scheme:
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Our website, polkadot.pl, is a Polish-language website for young women who live in the UK.
We are planning to run a competition on our website in the run up to St. Valentine's Day (Feb 14th) where users can win an iPod loaded with romantic music.
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Homepage promo - 290 x 196 pixels
This promo appears on the homepage of polkadot.pl (it will replace the image of the woman holding the black pen). The ipod image should appear on the right hand side on this area and take no more than 140 pixels of the width. The iPod should sit on a shaded background (something similar to that used on the main image on the homepage) so that the text, which will appear to the left, has a subtle background to sit on.
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Exactly the same image as created above, but in a vertical banner of 160 pixels width. The shaded background should extend 100 pixels above the iPod image and 250 pixels below (so we have room to add the text later).
This format of ad will sit in the left column of pages such as this typical article page.
Competition landing page image - 690x195 pixels
You can see an example of the size/position of the image on this old competition page.
Here, the iPod image should sit over towards the far right of the banner and the background should fade towards the left.


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There's a lot of chatter on Wall Street and up through Connecticut's Greenwich-centered hedge fund archipelago about which hedge fund was the target of an alleged blackmail scheme by Rabbi Milton Balkany.
No one knows for sure. But lots and lots of people suspect it is the famously secretive SAC Capital.
Why SAC? For one thing, ever since the Galleon insider trading case all eyes have been on SAC. Years and years of unbelievably great returns have long led to speculation that Stevie Cohen's shop must have some dirt around its trades. Can they really be that good?
That's a bit unfair, of course. Maybe they are just that good. Or that lucky. Some of the suspicions about SAC are probably rooted nothing other than envy. People are almost rooting for the feds to turn up something on SAC because they want to see the mighty fall. It also provides a convenient excuse to under-performing hedge managers: our returns aren't like SAC's but that's because SAC is dirty.
Regardless of the reasons, people are once again looking at SAC as the most likely target of the insider trading blackmail. But, as far as we can tell, no one actually knows anything.
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Fragrant organic jasmine flowers are laid atop organic green tea leaves as their scent is naturally embraced. Scented three times, this smooth green tea has layers of subtle fragrance and hints of moonlight.
Our jasmine green tea is sourced from tea gardens in China where workers' wages have increased 30-40% and premiums recently funded this school dormitory for children.
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VANCOUVER -- The uninitiated arriving at Strathcona Community Centre on Thursdays would wonder if they had entered the right building, the place being awash in food, knapsacks, and volunteers sorting and packing fruit and vegetables.
Community centres host a variety of programs including those that make you sweat but none — except here at 601 Keefer Street in the heart of the Downtown Eastside — provide a workout that involves moving a couple of tonnes of food up a flight of stairs.
It's volunteers who bring the muscle and the sweat to haul the food from the basement, where it's delivered, to the main floor where it's packed and sorted and placed in backpacks to be distributed Friday afternoons — survival food to get 150 families through the weekend.
"The backpacks are all different sizes. We have one family with nine children so theirs is pretty big," said Ron Suzuki whose title of recreation director seems to miss something.
A great portion of his time is spent figuring out how to feed the poorest in this poorest of communities and he runs 15 different food programs.
But on Friday his step was a bit lighter because the day before the Peterson Investment Group, a Vancouver-based real estate management and development company, had come in and promised him $30,000 to reduce some of his food handling headaches.
And for that he thanked The Vancouver Sun's Adopt-a-School program for spreading the word on childhood hunger and the need to feed children arriving at school hungry or without proper shoes and clothing.
"We run a breakfast program here for a couple of hundred kids each morning Monday to Friday and we also give them food in the afternoon but what happens at the weekend?" said Suzuki.
"How are we to make sure they are fed then? That's why we started the backpack program. It started with 50 children identified by the school now we are up to 150 families and are feeding about 365 people," said Suzuki.
"We are very grateful that the Sun's stories has helped us get funding from Peterson Investment who have come in and seen what we are doing," said Suzuki.
Jane Young, Peterson's human resources director said the company decided to make the donation after becoming aware of the needs of children in the Downtown Eastside.
She and a team from her office visited Strathcona Community Centre and met with volunteers who were packaging food.
"I never realized this sort of thing was happening in our community," said Young. "I've read all the stories."
"These are innocent children who are hungry. I just hope this will raise some awareness in the corporate world for this program. I can't say enough about what Ron is doing," said Young.
During her visit she asked Suzuki what he most needed.
Suzuki said he needed to renovate the space he has for handling food which would cost an estimated $60,000.
(He said he is planning to apply for an Adopt-a-School grant to match the Peterson donation.)
He wants to convert a downstairs room so he can pack and sort food there and prevent having to haul it upstairs. He wants to install a walk-in cooler and refrigerator downstairs to store produce.
This would allow him to cut down the time it takes to pack the food, allow him to distribute a greater number of backpacks and more importantly would allow him to store food especially during the hot days of summer.
"We get the produce and food in on Thursday but right now we have to have it all out of here by Saturday at the latest because we just can't store it," he said.
Each week he receives a donation of more than 3,000 pounds of fruit and vegetables from Fresh Direct which is put into the backpacks along with staples such as cereal, canned salmon or tuna, granola bars, crackers and the basis of a major meal using pasta or rice along with cheese and dairy products.
The backpacks are picked up by parents of children attending Strathcona Elementary which is attached to the community centre.
"They are too heavy for small children to carry," he said.
Strathcona also supplies bags of food to Ray-Cam community centre and produce to a number of other organizations in the area who distribute food. Suzuki said the various food programs run from the centre cost about $100,000 a year.
Young said her company would also be providing volunteers to the community centre to sort and pack the food.
"Ron and his volunteers are the real heroes in all this but we'll come down and help them," she said.


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"Should we not be putting all our emphasis on reading, writing and math? The 'back-to-basics curricula,' while it has merit, ignores the most urgent void in our present system – absence of self-discipline. The arts, inspiring – indeed requiring – self-discipline, may be more 'basic' to our nation survival than traditional credit courses. Presently, we are spending 29 times more on science than on the arts, and the result so far is worldwide intellectual embarrassment."
I believe music can inspire and transform every student's education. Perhaps my strongest elementary school experience was a powerful musical performance that is still vividly locked in my memory over 40 years later. The United States Army Band came to my school and gave a concert for the entire third grade. After hearing this concert I was determined to sign up to play trombone the next year in the fourth-grade band. I had started with music study prior to attending kindergarten. My parents had enrolled me in a local "Orff" program in nearby church basement. "Orff-Schulwerk" is a system of early childhood music education that was developed by Carl Orff, the composer of Carmina Burana (which the San Antonio Symphony is performing on September 19.) After a year of "Orff" I graduated to group piano lessons and finally to private piano lessons. But it was the amazing power of that Army Band that finally got me hooked on music.
In high school I was introduced to jazz through a great public school Big Band program. My high school band director was a great jazz sax player and in his youth led a band with jazz piano legend Bill Evans. Our marching band was pathetic, but the Big Band was great! I started in the Big Band on trombone and then quickly switched to electric bass. After a year on electric bass I decided I needed to try the "real" bass. Jazz musicians call it Stand Up Bass, Upright Bass or String Bass. In symphonic music we call it the Double Bass.
I had taught myself electric bass, but the Double Bass was too hard, so my parents found me a private teacher. Mr. Jones made his living playing Stand Up Bass in nightclubs on the Jersey Shore. But his passion was orchestral music. After three months of lessons he informed me that I was joining the local amateur community orchestra! I sat next to him in the bass section so he could coach me throughout the rehearsals. Our first concert was Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6. At the very end of that dramatic symphony, half the basses sustain one note and rest have to pluck one repeated note – a "b." I was one of the pluckers (or pizzicato as we call it in classical music.) This simple plucked note solo is really important to the dramatic end of the work. It is the final failing heartbeat, as Tchaikovsky ends his final symphony with a premonition of his own death just weeks after the premiere. I was the only high school student in the orchestra, but somehow all the other pluckers got lost at the end of the symphony! So standing next to me, Mr. Jones sustained the long low note with his bow and I was the only bassist that plucked the final "b" solo that ended the work. My very first symphonic concert and I saved the day! My 40-year obsession with symphonic music began that day with that one simple note.
As the Paul Harvey quote at the top of this blog indicates, music education is NOT about creating future professional musicians. It is much more important than that! It is about transforming the lives of young children and giving them the best chance at success in school and in life.
How can you get your child hooked? If you have a elementary school student at home, I suggest letting them play with three special web sites developed by the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony and the Dallas Symphony:
Did you know that professional symphony orchestras are granted their not-for -profit status because they are deemed educational institutions under Federal Tax Law? All professional music performing institutions spend an extraordinary amount of their human resources on music education. The San Antonio Symphony plays for more than 40,000 children each season. Many others are touched by Family Concerts and coaching and lessons offered by our musicians. Beginning last season, the San Antonio Symphony launched the AT&T Music Scholars Program. This involves hands-on coaching by our musicians in high schools where the drop out rate is high. We are trying to keep students in school by improving their musical skills and therefore making them successful in their school's instrumental music program. Robert E. Allen, retired Chairman and CEO of the AT&T Corporation said, "A grounding in the arts will help our children to see; to bring a uniquely human perspective to science and technology. In short, it will help them as they grow smarter to also grow wiser."
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St. Clair County was created by the Alabama Territorial legislature on 1818 Nov. 20. It was named for Gen. Arthur St. Clair (Pennsylvania), a hero of the American Revolution. It is located in the north-central part of the state, and is bordered by Blount, Calhoun, Talladega, Shelby, and Jefferson counties. It encompasses 646 square miles. St. Clair is the only county in Alabama to have two county seats. Ashville, originally called St. Clairsville, was named for John Ash, a senator in the state's first General Assembly. Located in the northern part of the county, Ashville served as the county seat from 1821-1907. The Alabama Constitution of 1901 provided for Pell City in the southern part of the county to serve as the county seat for the Southern Judicial District of the county. A constitutional amendment in 1907 established Pell City, named for George H. Pell, an early settler, as the second county seat. Other towns and communities include Ragland and Springville.
Owen, Thomas McAdory. History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1921.
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SUU, USF announce $6 Million from Sorenson Legacy Foundation for Arts Center
Published: March 21, 2013 | Category: Campaign for SUU
Beverley Taylor Sorenson Center for the Arts will Blend Educational Facilities with Visual Arts, Live Theater and other Artistic Endeavors at the Heart of Campus.
Southern Utah University announced today that it has received a $6 million gift from the Sorenson Legacy Foundation to create a multi-million dollar arts center encompassing new facilities, as well as ongoing support for ArtsFUSION, which provides professional development and pre-service training for elementary educators as well as outreach and workshops for students and teachers in rural Utah.
Working in partnership with the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the new center will further establish SUU as a regional arts mecca.
Named for the long-time arts and education champion, the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Center for the Arts will incorporate visual arts, live theater and dynamic arts education on the SUU campus and will dramatically magnify the cultural life of Cedar City and its surrounding region. It will also serve as home to the Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUMA) and the new Shakespeare Theatre of the Utah Shakespeare Festival, and will include an artistic/production building for the Festival. Sculpture gardens and other outdoor features will also be included on the grounds.
In addition to Sorenson's contribution, the $30 million center is being made possible thanks to the generosity of hundreds of insightful and invested benefactors. A gift of $5 million for the New Shakespeare Theatre and Festival outreach programs was received from the Ralph and Betty Engelstad Family Foundation of Las Vegas, Nev. The George S. and Dolores Dorè Eccles Foundation has committed $3 million toward the project.
Additionally, the State of Utah, Iron County and Cedar City have all energetically supported this effort to create a center for the arts in southern Utah.
The Festival had been engaged in a fundraising campaign for several years to replace the deteriorating and less-than-suitable Adams Memorial Shakespeare Theatre, while the funding process for the University's SUMA kicked off in late 2009 when the renowned painter Jim Jones bequeathed his home and final collection of paintings to ignite the work. It was not until mid-2012 that combining the facilities on one site was explored and later approved by campus and state officials.
"Although both SUMA and the New Shakespeare Theatre project had been previously proposed and approved, we felt there were economies and efficiencies that could be realized in combining some of the functions of both the museum and the theatre," said SUU President Michael T. Benson. "Further, the opportunity to create a cultural nexus in the heart of our community, one that would be a year-round draw for tens of thousands of visitors, was another enormous benefit in twinning these facilities."
The decision to name the center for Sorenson was an easy and natural one, as she has formidably supported the arts at SUU and across the state throughout her life, particularly as a tool to enrich the lives and futures of children.
"We are privileged to name our Center for the Arts in honor of Beverley and her vision of the power of art in improving quality of life, particularly when it touches the lives of children," said Dean of Performing and Visual Arts Shauna Mendini. "It is essential that her legacy of love for the arts be echoed throughout the entire state of Utah through the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Center for the Arts."
This long-held vision, coupled with Sorenson's generous financial support, has set her apart as a tireless advocate for arts education. Sorenson and the Sorenson Legacy Foundation have committed tens of millions of dollars to establishing a strong and lasting foundation of arts education in Utah. She has been repeatedly lauded for her commitment by several of Utah's institutions of higher learning, and at SUU alone has been recognized with an honorary doctorate, a place in the University's Hall of Honor, and with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2013 Founders' Day celebration.
"As home to the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Southern Utah University is known throughout Utah and the world for its dedication to the absolute best in arts education and performance," said Ann Crocker, president of the Sorenson Legacy Foundation and daughter of Beverley. "It is an honor to be able assist the University and further our mother's dream of making high-quality arts a reality for everyone."
The Sorenson Legacy Foundation previously donated more than $3 million to Southern Utah University to fund the Emma Eccles Jones Teacher Education Building, an endowed chair position for elementary arts education, and scholarships and arts education programs. In 2006 the College of Education and Human Development was named the Beverley Taylor Sorenson College of Education in honor of her generous support. The J.L. Sorenson Physical Education Building is also housed on SUU's campus, named after Beverley's late husband, James LeVoy Sorenson, a renowned medical device inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
While the campus celebrates the most recent donations and pledges, as well as news of the state authorization to begin the project, fundraising efforts continue and naming opportunities for important facets of the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Center for the Arts exist. Gifts of all amounts are welcomed. To explore becoming a partner with the University in this momentous undertaking, please contact Donna Law at (435) 865-8182.


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- A nicer UI for deletion of Boxes designed for protecting the user from accidental deletion of boxes. Here is a video demo of it in action.
- Special handling of 'live' and unknown media: Quick launch of a temporary box for it, which is made permanent automatically (only) if anything is installed on the box by the media. Here is a video demo of this behaviour in action.
- Express installation for Windows XP now works, thanks to important clues provided by Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues. Don't believe me? I have video footage that proves it.
- UI for setting user and administrator password and in case of older Windows, ability to set product key as part preparation for express installation. Please check out the videos above for demo of this feature in action.
- Christophe Fergeau added a big bunch of new APIs to libvirt-glib (libvirt-gconfig to be precise) for dealing with libvirt's configuration XML. Now Boxes uses that instead of manually writing/editing XML strings.
- A Google Code-In participant, Mateusz Kaplon added a lot of data about various different operating systems to libosinfo. For Boxes that means more complete and reliable detection and default resource allocation for various operating systems.
For a detailed list of changes in Boxes 3.3.3, please refer to the release notes.


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Forecast: Cloudy with a Chance of World Series!…
Mostly cloudy and 58 degrees…
So, that's the forecast for the first workout scheduled on Thursday for pitchers and catchers. It seems very appropriate that the Yankees would face cloudy skies on their first official workout. The skies, during the upcoming season, are sure to be filled with dark clouds, thunderstorms, and hurricanes. Nobody said it was going to be sunny skies on the road to a repeat World Series championship…
The Yankees will attempt to repeat without World Series heroes Johnny Damon and Hideki Matsui, or regular season "Pie King" Melky Cabrera. The team also said goodbye to Phil Coke, Jose Molina, Jerry Hairston, Jr., and Brian Bruney.
But newcomers Curtis Granderson, Javier Vazquez, Nick Johnson, Randy Winn, Jamie Hoffmann, Marcus Thames, and Boone Logan intend to give Yankees fans another summer to remember. Curtis Granderson was penciled into centerfield, particularly after the trade of Cabrera to Atlanta for Vazquez. However, talk in recent days has Grandy receptive to a potential move to left if Manager Joe Girardi decides to go that direction. Somehow, I think Grandy will always say and do the things that exhibit a 'team first' approach. Personally, I think Grandy should have gotten #28. However, he stepped aside so that Girardi could upgrade his number from 27 to 28 as the Yankees pursue their 28th World Championship. He'll wear the number immortalized by Lou Piniella instead (#14). Hopefully, Girardi will hold the number for just one season and then switch to #29!
The presence of Javier Vazquez in the starting rotation should pay dividends. At various points during last season, there were times when the Yankees didn't know what they were going to get out of their starting pitching outside of CC Sabathia. Vazquez should ensure no long losing streaks, and give consistency to the middle of the rotation. With slots 1 through 4 secure in the rotation, the battle is for the 5th spot. Best case scenario, in my mind, is Phil Hughes in the starting rotation, and Joba Chamberlain setting up Mariano Rivera. The others (Sergio Mitre, Chad Gaudin, and Alfredo Aceves) can vie for long relief.
Winslow Townson/SI
While it is sad to see Jose Molina go, I am excited for Francisco Cervelli. He proved last year that he is a capable backup, and I look forward to watching him in a more critical role this year as Posada will see more time at DH than years' past. Of course, Cervelli is just keeping the plate until Posada's replacement, Jesus Montero is ready, but it will still be good to see his attitude and play during the upcoming season. If the Yankees decide to carry three catchers, the most likely candidate is veteran Mike Rivera.
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If the newcomers can quickly adapt to New York, and some of the younger guys can step up their play, the Yankees will be in good shape for another championship run. I know, it's not a given that they will win, but they should be in position to determine who will be. For the upcoming season, I am most fearful of, in no particular order, the Boston Red Sox (don't tell Julia!), the Seattle Mariners, the Tampa Bay Rays , and the Texas Rangers. I think the Los Angeles Angels will contend once again, however, their off-season losses outweighed their gains. I also think the Baltimore Orioles will be much improved and of course you can never count out the Minnesota Twins. It should be a very challenging and competitive run to the American League Championship!
On the National League side, I don't really see any team that will dethrone the current NL champs, the Philadelphia Phillies. With Doc Halladay at the top of the rotation and starving for a championship, the Phillies will be in a league of their own. I'd like to see Joe Torre and the Los Angeles Dodgers make it to the World Series, but they weren't able to do enough this off-season to bridge the gap with the Phillies. The Phillies do need to solve their bullpen woes, but I suspect they'll make the necessary moves (with or without Brad Lidge).
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Best wishes and prayers to longtime Yankees head trainer Gene Monahan. Monahan will miss his first spring training since 1963 with a "significant illness". The Yankees also announced that he will most likely miss the first portion of the season as he undergoes treatment. Here's hoping Gene makes a successful recovery and is able to resume his normal duties in the not-too-distant future…
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Okino Computer Graphics has focused on CAD, DCC and VisSim cross conversion software since 1988 via its PolyTrans and NuGraf software packages. Okino's 'Granite/Pack' is one of its most popular CAD conversion systems for the 3D industry. It will allow for guaranteed CAD conversions from native Pro/E files, ACIS SAT, IGES solids, Parasolid solids, STEP solids and VDA-FS solids into Rhino .3dm format. Not only have these been bullet proof and heavily used by our user base over the last several years but the entire suite is priced at US$395, in addition to the base PolyTrans or NuGraf products. Import from these file formats and export to the Rhino-3D/OpenNURBS .3dm file format is performed with the stand-alone PolyTrans or NuGraf software programs. See also Okino's CAD/Pack (Autodesk Inventor, IGES, SolidWorks, Solid Edge, AutoCAD, DWF-3D), DCC/Pack (Maya, Softimage, Collada, FBX, OpenFlight), JT import/export and CATIA v4 + v5 for additional add-on CAD modules, all priced very affordably. The downloadable demo version includes every supported file format, including all of the Granite converters and Rhino-3D import/export converters. Additional WEB URLs: Granite/Pack technical description' Okino Rhino-3D/OpenNURBS exporter Okino Rhino-3D/OpenNURBS importer
Robert Lansdale, Okino Computer Graphics, Inc.


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Not a Coghill shell
* The story, "Coghill's con: 'Silver-tongued devil' cops fraud plea," in the August 25, 2005 issue of the Hook, identified four of seven companies listed in Thomas E. Coghill Jr.'s indictment on six counts of fraud. Attorney William C. Bischoff advises that one of those companies, Foreston Woods Associates, was not in any way controlled by Coghill, nor did it have any role in any of Coghill's ventures, nor was it named in the plea agreement.
* In the cover story August 25 about a date rape civil suit, Charlottesville Commonwealth's Attorney Dave Chapman, quoted in the piece, was not specifically commenting on the case or any criminal investigation that may have preceded it.


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The BISTRO Rolling Pin is the latest addition to our growing collection of Kitchen Gadgets. This stay cool pin is designed to be filled with ice to minimize the amount of dough sticking to pin. Plus, it keeps the butter in dough from heating up and cold butter is one of the keys to a perfect crust! The slip-resistant, ergonomic handles are designed to coordinate nicely with the rest of your BISTRO Gadget Collection.The Rolling Pin is made of Plastic, Stainless Steel, Silicone and Rubber. Dishwasher safe.


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Punking Out (1978)
Documents the beginning of the punk rock movement in New York City at CBGB's, a punk night club, and the lifestyle that revolves around this scene. Presents a sometimes shocking look at the attitudes and motivations behind the movement through interviews with outspoken club-goers and band members of the Ramones, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and the Dead Boys. IMDb
File under Blast From The Past, Music, SeMeN SPeRmS BLArRrG, SeMeN SPeRmS ViDeO CLuB
Conjured by @SeMeNSPeRmS on October 14, 2018