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Permit parking begins and ends with city neighborhood residents
Prompted by a request from a Mount Washington resident to explore expanding permit parking in their neighborhood, City Planner Ashley Holloway called a community meeting to give background on the program and discuss next steps.
As part of his job, Mr. Holloway coordinates the Residential Permit Parking Program (RPPP) for the city of Pittsburgh.
"The program is resident based, so you all will choose whether you want the program or not," he began. "It's never forced on any street by the city."
The city began its Residential Permit Parking Program in 1981 in Lawrenceville around the old St. Francis Hospital. Currently there are 32 designated permit parking zones in the city.
Originally zones were geared toward neighborhoods with large employers, such as hospitals or universities. The program was then expanded in response to a large number of people, often suburbanites, coming into neighborhoods and using the on-street parking as "park and rides."
Mr. Holloway said the nighttime economy is increasing in the city so there are neighborhoods experiencing evening and after dark parking problems. He noted there are a large number of bars in some neighborhoods, not just downtown, causing parking problems.
The city planner said he is looking at the city code to help with all parking issues including metered spaces and permit parking.
The main purpose of the RPPP is to help keep commuters and non-residents from parking on the street for a long period of time so residents have a greater chance of finding a parking space, he explained. The program doesn't guarantee a parking space for anyone, nor does it guarantee a spot in front of anyone's home.
"That is illegal in the city of Pittsburgh. You can't assign a parking space in the middle of the street," he added.
He noted some people may have a handicapped parking space in front of their home, but it doesn't guarantee they will be able to park there. Anyone with a handicapped placard is permitted to park in the space.
Permit parking doesn't create more parking, Mr. Holloway told the crowd of about 30 people at the meeting. The program also isn't designed to help people in a large apartment building find parking for multiple cars.
"There's nothing in city law that says that space belongs to you," he continued, adding it's technically illegal to put something out (such as a chair) to save a parking space and a police office could issue a citation to anyone putting something on the street to save the space.
What the program may do is keep non-residents from parking on the street during enforcement hours.
The RPPP area in Mount Washington, area "N" has enforcement hours from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday with a one-hour grace period. The grace period is the time a non-permit holder can park in the area without fear of receiving a ticket.
"If you all would choose to have the program, those would be your enforcement hours," Mr. Holloway said. "That's something you would have to live with for another few months."
RPPP areas come up for recertification every four years and area "N" will be up for recertification this year.
The administrative cost for a parking permit is $20 per vehicle. Residents are allowed one permit per vehicle for as many vehicles as they own, provided they can show proof of ownership.
Residents are also allowed to purchase one visitor's pass for a dollar. The pass is only good for the visitor while they are visiting inside the home.
Mr. Holloway said it's also necessary for residents to prove they live in the house to be able to purchase permits or visitors' passes. If there are more than three unrelated people living in a house, only the first three will be able to get permits for their vehicles.
According to city code, it's illegal for more than three unrelated persons to live in a dwelling unit. A dwelling unit is an individual home with its own kitchen and bathroom.
Among the qualifying factors for a street to be designated for permit parking only are:
• At least 70 percent of the households on the block must be in favor of permit parking. Petitions are circulated for 30 days and one legal resident of the home must sign and indicate they want permit parking. Only one signature per household is needed.
All occupied units in an apartment building are considered as separate households and each get a vote. Vacant properties are not considered.
The legal definition of a block, according to Mr. Holloway, is a portion of the street between two intersections. A block equals both sides of the street and a block face is only on one side.
All signatures on the petitions are then verified not only to make sure they are residents, but also to confirm they are for or against permit parking on their street. Both options are on the petitions and people sometimes change their mind after checking their option, Mr. Holloway said.
• At least 75 percent of legal on-street parking spaces are utilized during peak periods.
• At least 15 percent of the current spaces are utilized by non-residents for more than two hours.
Mr. Holloway and city planning interns determine the number of legal parking spaces in a proposed area. They also will survey the proposed parking zone, taking down all the license plate numbers which are then sent to Harrisburg to determine whether the owner of the vehicle is a resident of the area. Vehicles with out-of-town license plates are automatically considered to be non-residents.
One resident was concerned about where neighborhood businesses' employees were going to park.
Mr. Holloway said businesses are only allowed to purchase one parking permit. However, the city has on occasion refrained from posting permit parking signs around a particular business or building.
He said it allows anyone to park there, not just customers or employees of the business.
Another Mount Washington resident was concerned about how the permit areas are enforced.
Often people will call the Parking Authority, the agency in charge of the enforcement, and report illegal parkers the city planner said. He noted parking enforcement officers carry hand-held computers they can input the license plate numbers of vehicles without permits. If the vehicle is still there when they return after the grace period it's a $45 fine.
"It's not enforced," the resident replied. "I have people getting out of their cars and getting on the bus."
Mr. Holloway reiterated once the permit parking area is established the Parking Authority takes over enforcement. He stressed the Parking Authority and the city are separate entities and utilize separate staff members.
"What motivates them to patrol our neighborhood," another gentleman asked.
"Just constant complaining," Mr. Holloway recommended. He also suggested calling 311 and their City Council representative and repeating the details of the complaint.
He said companies can request a variance to allow them to temporarily park in the area while they are working in the area. Residents may also request a variance if they are holding a party or event during enforcement hours.
Once the petitions are verified and it's determined the streets actually have a parking problem, the city's Planning Commission is briefed on the permit only area. The legislation creating the area is then presented to City Council for a vote. If approved, the mayor must then sign off to create the new or expanded district.
If the neighborhood decides not to pursue the permit parking district after taking the preliminary steps and later elects to try again, they are put at the bottom of the waiting list and must start the process from scratch.
Once an area is designated a permit parking area and decides to withdraw the designation during the recertification process, residents would have to wait two years before reapplying to reinstate the district.


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Thad Cochran's tenure as chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry hasn't gotten off to an auspicious start. The first major piece of legislation offered by the Mississippi senator as chairman of the Agriculture Committee ran into a buzz saw in the omnibus appropriations bill conference.
The primary feature of Sen. Cochran's "Agricultural Assistance Act" — a supplemental payment equal to 42 percent of the 2002 farm bill's direct payment to farmers in declared disaster counties — was dumped in the eleventh-hour negotiations on the disaster funding amendment.
Instead, the conference committee voted to fall back on the old 35 percent loss provision of earlier disaster bills, a provision that will force thousands of farmers to come into county FSA offices and submit crop production records to determine if they qualify for one drop of assistance.
(The measure includes one-time funding of $70 million to help USDA handle the increased disaster workload in county FSA offices already strapped with trying to complete signup for the new farm bill.)
Although Southern farmers are upset about the final version of the legislation, few will blame Cochran or his staff for the failure of the disaster measure to produce any meaningful assistance for the region.
It wasn't for any lack of effort on their part. From the time the Senate passed the Cochran amendment on Jan. 22 until the House-Senate conference committee reported out its bill late on Feb. 12, the Senate ag committee staff offered one proposal after another to try to pass the measure and get assistance to farmers.
Those efforts ran into opposition from House leaders convinced the Senate amendment's provisions weren't "targeted enough" and Bush administration officials who didn't want to have to take any more flack from big city newspapers and TV networks about "payments to wealthy farmers."
In the end, the administration only grudgingly signed off on disaster assistance after House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist took the money from the new Conservation Security Program in the 2002 farm bill.
As was the case when Congress passed similar ad hoc disaster bills in 1998, 1999 and 2000, Sen. Cochran's supplemental payment proposal would have required only a few computer keystrokes at USDA's accounting center in Kansas City. Checks would have automatically gone out to producers in declared disaster counties.
No doubt many farmers in areas who were not suffering from droughts or floods received the supplemental payments in 1998, 1999 and 2000. But that was the price for winning support from congressmen in those areas.
This time, those same representatives figured they could get more money for their regions if they balked at Sen. Cochran's proposal and insisted on the 35 percent loss qualification for disaster benefits because of the drought conditions in the upper Midwest. Meanwhile, Southern farmers who suffered more quality losses than quantity because of monsoon-like harvest conditions will have to do without.
Maybe Sen. Cochran should have insisted that Midwesterners return the 1998, 1999 and 2000 supplemental payments they didn't deserve to offset the cost of this year's disaster funding.

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Humane Charities
Humane Charities
We all want to contribute to a healthy population in order to prevent devastating diseases such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS; to offer assistance to those who are experiencing illness; and to find cures as quickly as possible.
According to many scientists, the best hope for the prevention or cure of many diseases is relevant and progressive nonanimal research methods, such as in vitro cell and tissue cultures, microfluidic circuits, computer modeling, microdosing, and epidemiological studies. This knowledge, as well as ethical considerations for animals, has led many people to be concerned about the continued use of ineffective and outdated animal methods in medical research. They prefer to support health charities that sponsor more responsible and humane alternatives.
If you are unsure whether a health charity funds animal experiments, before donating you should call the organization. Explain that you are concerned about this issue. If the charity representative is unsure of the answer, politely but firmly insist that he or she look into it. Every call like this will make it clear to health charities that this is an important issue.
To learn more about the other work the Physicians Committee is doing to make research more human-relevant click here.
Alternatives in Research and Testing
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Policy Agent 2.2 was released with Access Manager 7 and is designed to take advantage of functionality present in this release. However, J2EE agents in the Policy Agent 2.2 release can be configured to run with Access Manager 6.3 Patch 1 or greater.
Certain features that Policy Agent 2.2 takes advantage of in Access Manager 7 are not available in Access Manager 6.3, such as "composite advices," "policy-based response attributes," and others.
You can configure a J2EE agent in the Policy Agent 2.2 release to communicate with Access Manager 6.3 Patch 1 or greater as described in the following tasks, which are divided into pre-installation, installation, and post-installation steps.
Policy Agent 2.2 is only compatible with Access Manager 6.3 when Patch 1 or greater has been applied. Without the patch, the agent cannot connect to Access Manager.
Ensure that the instance of Access Manager 6.3 you are using has been updated with a patch of level 1, at a minimum.
Create an agent profile in Access Manager 6.3 Console that matches the agent profile information provided during J2EE agent installation.
For information about creating the agent profile in Access Manager 6.3, see information referring to the "agent object" in Sun Java System Access Manager 6 2005Q1 Administration Guide.
Install the J2EE agent, providing details for the Access Manager 6.3 Patch 1 or greater instance.
For instructions on how to install the agent, see Chapter 3, Installing Policy Agent 2.2 for BEA WebLogic Server 9.0/9.1.
Change to the following directory:
Create a backup copy of the amclientsdk.jar file, giving the copy a name such as amclientsdk70.jar.
Copy the amclientsdk63.jar file to the lib directory and change the name from amclientsdk63.jar to something such as amclientsdk.jar.


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There are people who sit together to read the Qur'aan quietly. Each individual reads one juz' (part) of the Qur'aan, claiming that the entire Qur'aan will have been read in this gathering. Is this permissible or is it counted as being bid'ah (innovation)?
Praise be to Allaah.
In my opinion the action mentioned is not permissible, and I do not recall anything of this kind being reported from the Salaf. A person will only be rewarded for what he himself reads or listens to in order to benefit from it. But if another person reads and he does not listen, the reward for that will go to the person who read it. These people are not considered to have completed the whole Qur'aan; but if each person has read a juz' he will be rewarded for that. But they should not do this; either one person should read and the others listen, or each person should read by himself without making a connection between his reading and that of the others.


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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Billionaire Robert Earl Holding, whose business empire included ownership of Sinclair Oil and two world-class ski resorts in the West, has died. He was 86.
Holding died Friday in Salt Lake City after suffering lingering complications of a 2002 stroke, Clint Ensign, senior vice president of the Sinclair Companies, said Sunday. Holding actively oversaw his businesses until he slowed down a couple of years ago, Ensign said.
The Utah native's estimated net worth of $3.2 billion made him the 423rd wealthiest person in the world at the time of his death, according to Forbes.
Not bad for a man who did not invest in stocks after his parents lost everything in the 1929 stock market crash when he was just 3. Holding also worked full time by the time he reached high school and only went to high school half-time as a result.
"He was a lion of a man," Ensign told The Associated Press. "He was the All-American success story, someone who came from humble beginnings and through hard work and good management created some wonderful businesses. He truly was one of the great entrepreneurs of the West."
Holding first tasted success after becoming manager of the struggling Little America truck stop and hotel near Green River, Wyo., in 1952. After revitalizing the business and becoming its owner, he opened other Little Americas in Cheyenne, Wyo., Flagstaff, Ariz., and Salt Lake City.
But Holding's boldest moves came when he acquired a Mobil refinery in Casper, Wyo., in 1968 and Sinclair Oil in 1976. Sinclair Oil, based in Salt Lake City, now has 2,700 independently-owned stations in 22 states in the West and Midwest. The company also operates two major refineries in Wyoming.
Holding later purchased the Sun Valley Resort in Idaho and Snowbasin Resort in Utah, as well as sprawling ranches in Wyoming and Montana. He owned 400,000 acres in 2010, making him the 19th greatest land holder in the U.S., according to BusinessInsider.com.
"I think his timing (for acquisitions) was very good," Ensign said. "He saw value when others didn't. He had wonderful vision ... and a very hands-on management style."
When Holding bought Sun Valley in central Idaho in 1977, he faced skepticism among locals about what he planned to do with the famous resort. But he never sold it, and instead poured in money to refurbish Sun Valley Lodge and Sun Valley Inn to make it a modern destination that continues to draw world travelers.
"I think we are very lucky Mr. Holding owned Sun Valley," resort spokesman Jack Sibbach said. "One thing he had was a love for the place. He looked at the long term. He improved on it all the way through his ownership."
Holding also was a member of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee board that lured the 2002 Winter Games to Salt Lake City. He helped secure the Olympic bid by building the upscale Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City and by turning Snowbasin into a top venue able to host downhill skiing competitions.
"Earl was an incredible builder," former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson told The Salt Lake Tribune. "He had huge dreams and seemed to turn them all into reality."
But Holding's career was not without controversy as he was bounced from the organizing committee board in the wake of the Olympic bribery scandal of the 1990s.
He drew attention after his private jets were used to fly some International Olympic Committee members who took excessive gifts from Salt Lake's bid committee before the games were awarded in 1995.
He also was criticized by environmentalists over a land swap involving U.S. Forest Service land at Snowbasin.
"There were many of us who had differences with Earl on certain issues," Anderson told The Tribune. "But I don't think anyone can have anything but the most profound respect for Earl Holding's dedication to doing everything to absolutely the highest quality."
After graduating from the University of Utah, Holding became a civil engineer for the federal Bureau of Reclamation. While he was raised in Salt Lake City, the tycoon claimed Wyoming as home after becoming involved in business there in the 1950s.
Survivors include Holding's wife of 64 years, Carol, and three children. Funeral arrangements were pending.
AP writer Keith Ridler in Boise, Idaho, contributed to this report.


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Teenager sentenced to 30 years in fatal St. Louis carjacking
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A teenager has been sentenced to 30 years in prison in the carjacking death of a 72-year-old man from New York state who was in St. Louis to see his newborn grandchild.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Richard Donaldson of St. Louis County was sentenced Friday. Donaldson was 16 when the crime occurred last February in the city's Tower Grove South neighborhood.
Donaldson and two others robbed Kenneth Spalter of Pound Ridge, New York, and his wife as they were getting out of their son-in-law's car.
Authorities say another assailant fatally shot Spalter when he resisted. Donaldson has not identified the shooter.
Donaldson pleaded guilty in August to second-degree murder, robbery and other charges.
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This lesson will be formatted slightly differently from most previous lessons; I'm simply going to list some suggestions for ending a nonfiction challenge piece well. Please keep in mind that I'm focusing mostly on the sorts of short nonfiction that are most common in the challenge: devotionals and Bible studies, short autobiographical pieces, persuasive or informational essays. These really aren't very good ideas for scholarly or academic writing, or writing for business purposes, but they should be applicable for nonfiction pieces that are intended to entertain or interest casual readers.
Also, don't think that your ending should incorporate all of these suggestions. Grab one (or maybe two)—that should be enough.
By the way, if you missed the lesson on ending fiction well, you can find it here:)
Ending Nonfiction:
1. It's best not to end with a quote, Scripture, or author's notes set aside from the main body of text. If your own words have brought your entry to a conclusion, your reader is likely to just stop reading, and to skip the little afterthought altogether. Besides, this is a writing contest, and it's best to end such a contest with your own original words.
2. Unlike what Mrs. Sullivan taught you in 10th grade, there's no need for a paragraph that summarizes your content. You've only got 750 words, and you need each one to be unique and necessary. In the Writing Challenge, a summary is a waste of words.
3. It can be very effective to end with an anecdote. Tell a story about how [content of your entry] played out in real life. A slight variation: Start with an anecdote, and save 'the rest of the story' for the end of your entry.
4. Nonfiction entries have a tendency toward dryness; insert some emotional content by ending with something that'll leave your readers laughing or crying.
5. End with an exhortation to action—give the reader something to do.
6. Finish up with speculation: what would happen…IF?
7. Another way to counteract the dreaded nonfiction dryness: finish with an object lesson that illustrates your point. This is effective for your readers who are visual learners, and also adds some imagery to your writing. (Come to think of it, there's no reason why nonfiction writing in general shouldn't have all sorts of literary 'goodies' in addition to imagery. Pop a metaphor in there, or a fun little bit of onomatopoeia. That would be awesome…)
8. Give your entry a personal touch—tell how [content of your entry] has changed you.
9. HOWEVER—avoid telling people how they should change themselves. The most effective sermon/lesson is one in which the reader has their own aha! moment and is able to draw an application for their life. When the reader has gone through that thought process, it's far more likely to stick than if you've done the thinking (and the drawing of conclusions) for them.
10. End on a note of praise to God. Can't go wrong.
HOMEWORK: Here are your choices:
1. Ask a question or leave a comment about something I've said here. I very much welcome the input of frequent nonfiction writers; I very rarely have entered a nonfiction piece, and don't consider myself an expert by any stretch of the imagination. Lessons like this one are the ones in which I really value others' ideas and additions.
2. Copy and paste 150 words or so of a nonfiction conclusion you wrote. Tell whether it worked (or not), and which of the above points (if any) are evident there. PLEASE keep the word count down; even though I don't get a lot of people responding to these threads, I have a bajillion things to do.
3. Re-write a conclusion to an entry you had that you feel could be stronger. Leave a link to the original entry, and keep your re-written part to 150 words or less.
Ending Poetry (with many thanks to Verna):
1. Repetition is a common poetry tool, and it works very well at the end of a poem. Repeat the first stanza, or repeat the last line, or find something else that bears repeating.
2. I really think that the best poetry has a real kick in the conclusion. The last stanza, or the last few lines, or even just the last line should be quite special. You can give your poem a real twist right there, or use those last few words to reveal the whole point of the poem, or to give it a spiritual spin. I always love it when those last few lines take me in an unexpected direction.
3. If your poem has a storyline and characters, some of the suggestions for ending fiction will apply—give it a twist, leave it open-ended, finish up with irony. In addition, story poems often end with a 'moral'.
4. If it's a structured poem, change the structure in the last stanza—use shorter lines, or fewer lines, or a different meter or rhyme scheme altogether.
5. Here are a few additional suggestions from one of FWs most prolific poets, Verna Mitchell: Another [suggestion] is to summarize the poem's idea. In a "listing" poem, the most important thought could be saved for last. Some additional suggestions might be: a personal reflection, a question, an invitation, an explanation, or a thought contrary to the preceding verses.
1. Ask a question or make a comment about ending poetry. OR
2. Leave a link to one of your poems (if it's short, you can copy and paste it here) and talk about the ending. What works (or doesn't work)? If you wish, re-write the ending.
3. Add your own suggestions for really good poetry endings (like nonfiction, poetry is not my strong point, and I welcome the input of the many talented poets here).


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Thursday I am delivering a webinar through Traditional Arts Indiana–Social Networking for Artists and Performers: Developing and Maintaining an Online Presence. In order to offer links referenced in the webinar and to drive traffic to this blog (That's what I'm teaching folks to do, right?) the links are listed below.
I want to thank my daughter, and Traditional Arts Indiana intern, for
roping me into offering this opportunity to share this information. She prepared the fantastic graphics filled with screen shots of my social media sites and pages.
I want to make it very clear. I am not an expert on social media. I've never made a study of best practice or explored all of the options. My strength is that I've been at it for a long time. I've always had a need to reach out to other artists and to the folks that appreciate artists. In college I wrote letters to individuals and to magazines. When the internet emerged I was right there on listservs, in "old school" chat rooms and forums.
Through these efforts I learned the secret techniques of chalkboard signwriters in Australia, spent a summer living on a wooden boat, spent two weeks in Hawaii building ukuleles, hosted a major ukulele festival and now I'm developing a strong group of followers that are collecting my bird carving series, 50 Little Birds.
Setting Up a Website/Blog
WordPress offers all of the tools required to develop a blog. But don't think of it as a blog. Think of what you build at WordPress as the fastest, cleanest and most flexible website builder on the web. Best of all is that it is free. It's also pretty easy to get started. Just jump in. Read the tutorials and directions. Try new things. You can–and will–learn on the fly.
Getting People to Read your Blog
Maybe the best thing about starting a new blog is that no one will read it–really. It takes time and it takes effort to develop a following. So start posting and don't give a thought to who is reading it and what they are thinking. There is no one out there.
Posts can be short or long. I mix it up. Some bloggers just post pictures. Don't worry too much about content. It will come with practice.
Purchase a nice web address and follow the directions so that it leads to your WordPress site. They are cheap and are one of the many ways to gets folks to visit. My web address is 50littlebirds.com. Everyone that knows my product will remember it. (While you're at it get a gmail email address that matches your website address. Mine is email@example.com. Again, no one will forget it. If you don't want to give up your regular email address you can forward mail one way or another so you don't miss a thing.) Add your blog address to your email signature so folks are reminded to check it every time they open your email.
When you are ready, tell folks about your blog. Send out emails. Tell your friends on Facebook (More on that later). Print it on your business cards, your hangtags and your flyers. Make it easy for folks to see, find and use.
You will begin to get traffic. Be patient. Building a following will take awhile. WordPress makes it really simple to see what traffic you have and where it comes from. These folks will begin to follow you and like your posts. This is great. The followers get an email of every one of your posts. When folks comment it is important that you reply. No one likes to be ignored–ever. Say something gracious and begin to build a relationship with your followers.
Visit your followers' blogs, and if so inclined, follow them back. You will begin to build a network–not unlike Facebook–of folks that are truly interested in who you are and what you do.
Visit other WordPress blogs and comment. This may be the single most important factor in attracting traffic. Search engines, like Google, measure the number of links going to a website. Lots of links = important content. When you comment on another blog you build a link from that blog back to yours. This is gold. I blew off this bit of advice until about six months ago. When I began visiting blogs and commenting my traffic went through the roof and continues to climb.
As you learn to use WordPress add links to your other online activities–Etsy, Facebook, Twitter, etc. There are many tutorials and guides to lead you through the process.
Always include a picture. When folks see an image they want to know more and are more likely to open and read (and forward!).
You probably have a personal page on Facebook. Use this to talk about your work and to recruit followers. Send them to your blog. Tell them about shows. Don't go overboard. The goal is to make them aware of what you do and get them to subscribe/like your business page.
Now set up a business page–even if you don't feel like you are a business this is the best way for artists to share their work and ongoing projects. I post to my Facebook business page several times a day when I'm doing something that I think is interesting. I may post a picture and short description of a new piece or a picture my booth set up at an art show. I do a lot of field work and often post photos of the forests or lakes that I'm exploring. It lets folks know that you are working, thinking and creating all of the time.
This is best done from my iPhone. A can shoot a photo, write a caption and post from just about anywhere and it only takes 2-3 minutes. (I suspect that an iPad is in my future for this.)
From your business Facebook page create events and invite friends. I have an art show in Greenville, Ohio next month. Every one of my followers will be invited. They may not be anywhere near Greenville, but they will know about it and may forward the invite to friends that do.
Forums are the bulletin boards of the internet. Folks with similar interests will post questions and answers and offer information. I build the MidWest UkeFest completely from forum participation. Find a forum that interests you (If you sell on Etsy they are there) and participate. Make sure you follow the rules, often blatant advertising is not allowed. You don't have to be blatant. If you offer expert advice and incite, folks will be interested in what you make or do and will follow up. Often you may announce relevant blog posts and link them to the forum. Remember that links to your site are gold.
Many folks, myself included, don't really get Twitter. Twitter allows folks to post short messages to their followers. These notes are fleeting, but can reach many, many folks.
The best way to develop a large following is to be pro-active about it. When you begin you may follow up to 2000 folks, so follow 2000 people right away. Don't worry about your interest level in these tweets. You don't have to read them, you are quickly establishing a presence. I did seek out folk/art/traditional art/tourism folks to follow. Many of these folks will immediately, like lemmings, follow you back. This is your core of followers. You will pick up other, more interested and relevant followers over time from links on WordPress and Facebook.
Link your WordPress account to Twitter and every one of your blog postings will be announced to your Twitter followers. It's hard to believe that folks are sitting around reading their Twitter feeds, but they do.
When I list a new carving on Etsy I tweet the listing. Make sure to mention Etsy in the tweet. It's not unusual for me to get 20-30 hits on an Etsy page within seconds of posting it on Twitter. You can set up Etsy to automatically send your new listings to Twitter, but I don't use it. I like to watch the hits jump up when I do it myself!
Seek out and read about building blog traffic. There are loads of blogs about this!
My storefront is hosted at Etsy. I stated that carefully. I don't say that I sell on Etsy. Etsy is not liked eBay and other sales sites that generate their own traffic. Etsy is wonderfully popular, but your items will not sell if you simply list them and sit back. You must work, all of the time, to drive customers to the storefront and to make purchases.
I don't want to take a lot of time talking about Etsy marketing today. It's an amazing service that supports listing products and collecting money. It is a wonderful and inexpensive virtual storefront. Within their forums are hundreds of posts about how to drive sales.
You must drive your customers to Etsy. This may make up a great deal of the content in your blog and facebook posts. List new work and point folks to your Etsy storefront. Write about field work or new technique and send folks to Etsy.
(Note- Don't tell live customers at sales about your Etsy storefront unless they ask a direct question. If they think they can go home and take their time purchasing at their leisure you may have lost a sale at the show.)
Square – Point of Sale Credit Cards
Though not social networking the Square may be the best thing that ever happened to independent artists. For less than 3% a transaction and no monthly or service fees you can set up and account and begin to take credit cards this afternoon! The Square works with smartphones and iPads to put a credit card swiper and cash register in the vendors hands. Even the cardreader is free. At a recent weekend show, I used my Square and had the entire proceeds from the show in my bank account the following morning.
QR Codes
QR Codes (Quick Response Code) is a barcode-like square symbol that when scanned with a smartphone will lead the user to any website, image or phone number. Codes can be generated on many websites and downloaded as a jpeg. These codes are beginning to show up on major brand products to that consumers can find additional information. I have a QR code that I keep posted in my booth at art shows. I also have a huge one on the cargo box on my bicycle. There are folks that cannot resist scanning and seeing where it leads them.
Pinterest is the new kid on the social media block. It has been labelled, fairly or not, a women's social network. (That's fine with me, most of my customers are women.) Participants virtually pin favorite images from the web onto their virtual bulletin board and can browse and explore the images pinned by friends. There is potential for finding ways to get images of your work pinned in strategic and popular place. I've only begun to explore this.
A Bit About Tone and Voice
Social networks like facebook and Twitter are just that–social. Folks don't like to be advertised to. There are a couple of things to keep in mind to avoid annoying your playmates. Provide leadership, information, leads and advice generously. Folks can overlook the occasional plea for some business if it's offset with something of value. Several years ago I was called to task on this. They were right, I appeared pushy.
Just remember the rules your parents taught you–be kind, be generous, treat people like you wish to be treated.
Post Often
I try to post daily on Etsy, WordPress and Twitter. I don't, but that's the goal. When you post consistently folks will have reason to check in. If things go unchanged for days or weeks they will give up on you. On busy days I might post a few pictures or re-blog something that someone else wrote. When I have time I'll write longer pieces like this. Tell your story. Get something up there.
Learning More
There are many great resources that can lead you to develop strong social media skills. Check out the bookstore. Search the blogs (and leave comments). Watch what others do.
My favorite resource is Craftcast. Host Alison Lee (Also my little sister's name) taps fantastic artists, usually in fiber, precious metal clay or silver to discuss their creative thought and journeys. Every once in a while she interviews someone regarding maximizing social media. Most of what I do comes from these interviews. Her shows also feature current events and marketing hints. Listen to the podcasts (available on itunes) and glean what you can. Unfortunately the descriptions tell very little about the content of each episode.
If you have comments or questions regarding how I use social media (remember, I'm no expert) feel free to comment here. I answer all blog comments–I know you don't want to be ignored.


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You can't beat a system you can't understand
You can't beat a system you can't understand
Yes, it's true. I can remember the good old days, when life was fun. You know, back when gasoline was more expensive than water. Aww, come on — it wasn't that long ago. It's not as if I'm talkin' about when it was in vogue to smoke, or before television, or anything like that.
However, I must admit to being shocked when I learned that the new standard for gauging old age is if you own a cassette player or can remember before we put a man on the moon. Yeah — I'm not making this up. I heard this from my son, Roman, when he was talking with a couple of his friends.
"Dad was around when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. Just ask him," he said. "Wow — I learned about that in history class," one friend said. "It was way before I was born," said another.
From there, the conversation took a serious downward turn. My son said, "Dad remembers before computers." To that, I stupidly responded, "Computers? When I started writing, we used typewriters." That sent them over the edge. "You gotta be kidding. Say it isn't so," they said as they laughed hysterically. The only place they ever saw a typewriter was in the movies. Unfortunately, they weren't finished with aging me yet.
My son, who is a music fanatic, asked the following question: "Dad, back when rock 'n' roll first started, did you ever hear of a group called the Beatles?" I was speechless. How could he? My own flesh and blood actually uttered those words.
I took a deep breath, regained my composure, and reminded myself that patience is a virtue, and nothing positive would result from being upset with my sadly misinformed offspring.
"Son, the Beatles were still wearing diapers at the beginning of rock 'n' roll. They had nothing to do with the birth of this beloved musical idiom. How you passed history without knowing this is most disturbing.
"Rock 'n' roll started with Bill Haley and His Comets when they recorded "Rock Around the Clock" in the early '50s. The Beatles recorded "Roll Over Beethoven" and "Johnny B. Goode," after learning those songs by listening to Chuck Berry records. The founding fathers of rock 'n' roll were musicians like Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Everly Brothers, Little Richard, and a couple of dozen other original rock 'n' rollers. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones would never have existed if it wasn't for them," I said in exasperation.
"You mean they were before the Beatles?" he asked. "Yes," I sighed, "Long before the Beatles." I was getting the impression that they didn't think music existed before the early '60s. I prayed that it wasn't so.
However, that wasn't the most unusual question he ever asked. When barely of grade school age, he arrived at my doorstep with a half-dozen or so of his closest friends. They looked very serious and earnest, as if they were on a quest for the answer to the meaning of life. He looked me square in the face, and with as authoritative a voice as a 6-year-old can muster, he asked, "Dad, back in the old days, did you know Jesus?"
Without a doubt, that one caused me pause — but not for long. "Fortunately for you, I still do," was my response. I forgave them, for they were young, and their perception of time had yet to develop.
Their questions made me reminisce about my youth and an earlier definition of fun. I concluded that this day and age offers modern versions of what once was, and kids have just as much fun now as they did in my generation. The truth of the matter is, today's youth is probably healthier, better informed, and has the opportunity to have a wellrounded education much earlier in life than when I was young.
As I remembered fun times, I could not help but reflect on the past year. This writing marks the first anniversary of "You Can't Beat a System You Can't Understand." I find it difficult to believe that 52 columns are already in the archives. We've talked about everything from Pookie Grossberg (age 8), stuffing a caterpillar up Darlene Saunders' (age 7) nose because he "liked" her, to the perils of reading directions when assembling furniture, and dreaded visits to the periodontist.
It was a fun year, Jamestown, and I thank you. Your kind words, letters, and encouragement are very much appreciated. You are a wonderful audience.
If all goes well, I believe we can squeeze yet another year of writing out of the many things in our system that we just can't understand.


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Feb. 9, 1773 -- April 4, 1841State: Virginia Religion: Episcopalianism Marriage: Anna Tuthill Symmes Military service: He was a professional soldier who served in the Indian wars in the Northwest Territory, and as a major general in the War of 1812, 1812-1814. Party: Whig Term: March 4 - April 4, 1841 (32 days) Vice president: John Tyler Did you know? He was the last president born a British subject. His election slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!" came from Harrison's victory on Nov. 7, 1811, near the Tippecanoe Creek against the Indian confederacy and the Shawnee Chief Tecumseh.
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Institutional Archives, Manuscripts, and Personal Papers
The Archives consist mainly of correspondence, memos, reports, press releases, and other records associated with the administration of the Museum (known as the Institutional Archives). The Archives also include manuscripts and personal papers of scientists and administrators associated with the Museum, and materials associated with a few notable individuals without formal Museum affiliation.
Institutional Archives
The Institutional Archives of the American Museum of Natural History provide an unusually complete and detailed record of the history and development of an American scientific institution, including nearly every letter sent or received by the Museum in its first 100 years.
The Early Administrative Records spans from 1864 to 1912 and contains the Museum's charter, leases, letterpress copybooks, scrapbooks, and the earliest correspondence.
Correspondence and other administrative records continue in the Central Archives, spanning from the 1880s to the 1970s. With an estimated 370,000 items, measuring over 360 linear feet, the Central Archives is a unique body of records documenting the growth and history of the Museum from its founding. The collections include letters from many political, industrial, and scientific luminaries who were associated with the Museum, such as Theodore Roosevelt and his son U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., J.P. Morgan, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Charles Knight, Lincoln Ellsworth, Edward Drinker Cope, O.C. Marsh, Frederick Law Olmstead, and Roy Chapman Andrews, among many others.
The Central Archives are organized and indexed according to subject and cross indexed by personal and corporate names. The index consists of over 121,000 cards which can be searched online (within the Museum network) by Subject Heading or by full text.
The Institutional Archives also contain the Museum's Departmental Records [see chart above] which consists of reports and correspondence from the Museum's Science, Education, and Exhibition departments. Coverage spans from the 1880s to the present, but is incomplete; departmental participation in submitting records to this collection is voluntary.
Manuscripts and Personal Papers
The bulk of this collection consists of field notebooks, correspondence, manuscripts, and other personal papers associated with scientific staff and administrators of the Museum. Early Museum history is particularly well represented, and includes the following:
- papers of Museum founder Albert Smith Bickmore (dating from 1854 to 1914)
- papers and manuscripts from Museum president and paleontologist, Henry Fairfield Osborn (dating from 1877 to 1935) including material associated with his books: The American Museum of Natural History: its origin, its history, the growth of its departments to December 31, 1909 and Proboscidea : a monograph of the discovery, evolution, migration and extinction of the mastodonts and elephants of the world, among others.
- the correspondence of J. A. Allen (dating from 1870 to 1919), the first curator in charge of birds and mammals
- the papers of Museum director Roy Chapman Andrews (dating from 1912 to 1944) as well as his scientific field notebooks from the Central Asiatic Expeditions
- the diaries of James L. Clark while in British East Africa and in the Cassiar Mountains (dating from 1909 to 1910, and 1925)
More recent additions to the collection include the papers of astronomer Thomas Nicholson (dating from 1969 to 1989) who also served as Director of the Museum, and the papers of Museum curator Norman Newell (1945-2005), a renowned invertebrate paleontologist and geologist.
A smaller collection of materials originate from individuals not associated with the Museum, including:
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- a manuscript page from On the Origin of Species in Charles Darwin's hand
- field diaries and letters of paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope (dating from 1846 to 1897)
- 35 volumes of Ernest Thompson Seton's diaries (dating from 1879 to 1946) filled with mementos, photographs, and drawings; field diaries and correspondence
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Suffolk, ss. Division of Administrative Law Appeals
Doreen Fay, Ed.D.
v. Docket No. CR-06-677
State Board of Retirement,
Appearance for Petitioner:
Pro Se
278 Center Street
Groveland, MA 01834
Appearance for Respondent:
Erin C. Nally, Esquire
Legal Department
State Board of Retirement
One Ashburton Place, RM 1219
Boston, MA 02108
Administrative Magistrate:
Judithann Burke
The Petitioner, Doreen Fay, Ed.D., is appealing from the September 29, 2006
decision of the Respondent, State Board of Retirement (SBR), denying her request to be
classified in Group 2 for retirement purposes. (Exhibit 5). The appeal was timely filed.
(Exhibit 12). A hearing was held on October 30, 2007 at the offices of the Division of
Administrative Law Appeals (DALA), 98 North Washington Street, Boston, MA.
At the hearing, eleven (11) exhibits were marked. The Petitioner testified
in her own behalf. Both parties stated their arguments for the record. One (1) tape was
made of the proceedings. Exhibit 12 was marked when the Respondent's pre-hearing
memorandum was received on November 15, 2007.
Based upon the testimony and documents submitted at the hearing in the above-
entitled matter, I hereby render the following findings of fact:
1. The Petitioner, Doreen Fay, Ed.D., d.o.b. 11-21-45, was appointed to the
Sex Offender Registry Board as the juvenile psychologist designee on March 15, 2001
and was re-appointed to a six-year term that will end on March 25, 2010. (Exhibits 1 and
2. As a juvenile psychologist, the Petitioner's duties include: presiding over
administrative, evidentiary hearings, drafting detailed findings of fact to support
determinations made, reviewing and approving or disapproving recommended sex
offender classifications and making recommendations regarding these offenders to the
court. These duties necessarily involve repeated contact with convicted male sex
offenders who are almost exclusively felons, and who for the most part are incarcerated,
under parole or probation supervision, mentally ill or mentally defective. In her contact
with these offenders, the Petitioner must be in control of the hearings. She must diffuse
any overly adversarial or volatile situations. (Testimony and Exhibits 4 and 6-8).
3. During the hearings conducted by the Petitioner, there is no court officer or
any other security personnel, except in the case of incarcerated offenders. The Petitioner
is responsible for the safety of everyone in the hearing room. All of the hearings are
adversarial. (Id.).
4. The length of the hearings varies form one (1) hour to three (3) days. The
average hearing lasts two (2) to three (3) hours. The Petitioner writes up a decision in
approximately ten (10) hours. Approximately seventy (70) per cent of the Petitioner's
work time involves writing decisions, paper reviews of cases and other administrative
work. The Petitioner conducts an average of three (3) hearings per week. (Testimony).
5. Approximately eighty (80) per cent of the offenders who attend the
Petitioner's hearings are represented by an attorney. There is an attorney for the Sex
Offender Registry Board present at all of the hearings. (Id.).
6. On August 8, 2006, the Petitioner requested that the SBR classify her in
Group 2 for retirement purposes and she submitted a Group Classification Questionnaire
with her request. (Exhibit 5).
7. On September 28, 2006, the SBR classified the Petitioner in Group 1. (Id.).
8. The Petitioner filed a timely appeal. (Exhibit 12).
The Petitioner is not entitled to prevail in this appeal. G. L.c. 32 s. 3(2)(g)
provides for the system of classification of employees for retirement purposes. Group 1
includes "officials and general employees including clerical, administrative, and technical
workers, laborers, mechanics and all others not otherwise classified". (Emphasis
Group 2 includes "employees of the commonwealth or of any county, regardless
of any official classification…whose regular and major duties require them to have
the care, custody, instruction or other supervision of…prisoners, ...parolees...
persons who are mentally ill, mentally defective, or defective delinquents or
wayward children…". (Emphasis added).
The Respondent has correctly argued that, as a hearing officer, a third party neutral, the Petitioner has no role in the care, custody or supervision over any of the sex offenders who are parties in her hearings. Further, her actual hearing time accounts for
approximately nine (9) hours per week on average. This amount of time is less than
25% of her total work week. This amount of time does not amount to her face to face
work with the sex offenders being her "regular and major duties" notwithstanding the seriousness of the offenses and the questionable character or threatening nature of many of those men.
Classification is "properly based on the sole consideration of [one's] job duties at the time of retirement." Maddocks v. CRAB, 340 N.E. 2d 503, 507 (1976). The Petitioner's regular and major job duties as a hearing officer do not require her to have the "care, custody, instruction or other supervision of those who were prisoners, parolees, mentally ill or mentally defective or defective delinquents". G.L. c. 32, §(3)(g). Although she conducts face to face meetings and hearings, intervenes in some potential crisis situations, and is responsible for the safety of all parties in the hearing rooms, her regular and major job duties are adjudicatory and administrative in nature; she spends the bulk of her time conducting paper reviews and writing decisions.
The Petitioner also argues that she is entitled to Group 2 classification because her work as a hearing officer subjects her to risk of physical harm. She provided the example of a sex offender who wrote a threatening letter to her after one of the hearings. The Petitioner's argument is without merit, as the unambiguous plain language G.L. c.32, §3(2)(g) pertaining to classification in Group 2, does not refer to one's risk of physical harm as a possible criterion for inclusion. Thus, while the Petitioner certainly has encountered angry, upset, violent, unstable, aggressive, and arguably mentally ill people during her work, her mere interaction with these people does not constitute "care, custody, instruction or other supervision" over them. Since the Petitioner does not have the care, custody, instruction or other supervision of prisoners, parolees, persons who are mentally ill or mentally defective or defective delinquents and she does not interact with them for an amount of time greater than half of her regular and major duties, she is not entitled to Group 2 classification. Her job was properly classified in Group 1 for retirement purposes.
The decision of the SBR classifying the Petitioner as Group 1 is affirmed.
Judithann Burke
Administrative Magistrate
DATED: December 31, 2007
This information is provided by the Division of Administrative Law Appeals .


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There is an interesting event is being held at my university (Universitas Indonesia) this week, Indonesia Model United Nations (IMUN). It is for 5 days, November 5-9, 2013. It is the fourth conference for IMUN, and the theme this year is "Ensuring Global Security through International Leadership to Shape a Better Future of Nations" and it takes "For A Better Future Nations" as the tagline. Hundreds of delegates from many universities and international delegates are participating.
They will discuss some international problems and each delegate will share the problems from each country which they represent. The theme this year has been mentioned before but the goal of this event is to facilitate and encourage youths to involve solving the problems, both locally and globally. It also increases awareness of youth about problems that happen around us. It also gives them an exercise to challenge their bravery to talk in front of many people about the solutions that they offer. They will also be trained to be innovative- to get the best solution to each problem and how they can make a commitment to each agreement.
This kind of event is really good, in my opinion, to gain more involvement of youth. Youth can also think about the global problems, and to focus more about the "World We Want" program in 2015. It also stimulates delegates to be more sensitive about other needs and how they will adapt and negotiate with people who come have a different background.
I believe that youths in Indonesia will have some great and innovative solutions to offer to international society. I hope other countries will also have similar programs or maybe other events that also encourage youths to offer their opinion about how we solve can problems around us.


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Just a quick note to say how impressed I was with the delivery of 5 hydrangeas. They were in fantastic shape and will be a very good addition to my garden. I'm very happy to recommend your nursery to friends of mine in the Scone area of NSW.
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I had been looking for this hydrangea, Ayesha, for a number of years. Mum had a plant as I was growing up and I loved it. Unfortunately, when I went to get a cutting before the estate was sold, the plant had vanished. Now I'm happy.
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My hydrangea (Ayesha) arrived yesterday, 2 days after I ordered it and in perfect condition. Now that's service!
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Hi Brendan
Just a small message to let you know how delighted I am with the Fuchsias you sent under your order: 19865.
All the stock arrived in excellent condition, well within your stated time, and packed with such care, thanking you and all of your team for the amazing and professional service.
The Fuchsias are now potted and doing very well.
Looking forward to future purchases.
Kindest regards
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( Northern NSW )
P.S : Can you please advise me on the best time next year to pre order 3 Fuchsias "SWINGTIME"
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By JTG
After my time at Royal Tattoo in Denmark I headed to Amsterdam and The Amsterdam Tattoo Museum just a week before Christmas. Amsterdam is that city where for the first time in my life I felt like I could have died from partying. This was years ago: I remember looking out the window of my room at like five in the morning, the street lights shimmering on the black water of the canals, while my friends snored around me in drunken, coked-out stupors as my heart raced, my jaw a vice, with teeth that could have cracked walnuts, shit, they could have cracked themselves… I was younger then, and still learning to grab control of my life and I was thankful, maybe for the first time to see the sun come up, because I realized, the difference between life and death is only one moment or decision away. It was a moment in hell and memorable for that reason. Needless to say, Amsterdam is fucking insanity personified.
And it's still the same, that shit is wild. I adapt. That's what I do, it's how I can travel for two god damn years straight, without a home and out of a bag. I get to a place and I adjust, turn my own dials and become comfortable with what's around me. I did the same in Amsterdam, I went from the peace and quiet of Helsingør, Denmark – went to the craziness of the XXX city of Amsterdam, where I was welcomed by Henk and Louise Schiffmacher, Tattoo Molly, Yushi, Chris Danley, Danny Boy, Dringenberg and the rest of the crew at the museum.
It was an honor to be there, in the midst all of that history and to meet Henk for the first time and see him in action. He's a special one, like nothing I've ever experienced. A man who lives for himself and answers to no one, a truly inspirational dude. I worked there for about a week and a half with late nights fueled by the temptations of my surroundings.
I was in a bar with friends when someone got shot three times. I sat there after the first two shots, thinking they were fireworks, as everyone ran out of the bar, like a bunch of gazelles. I was there for the third shot and saw the dude on the ground. Then I ran out and joined Yushi and Sezuki to watch the aftermath in awe. I flew out of Amsterdam the day after Christmas to Kathmandu, Nepal.
After a 21 hour flight, a good amount of time of which was spent listening to Bob Seger "I think I'm going to Kathmandu" on the recommendation of Dringenberg. I arrived to insanity. Out of the 23 countries I visited, it was by far the most fascinating and mind-blowing. Something almost magical. The people of Nepal live their lives so fucking different from ours in the Western world. The whole country is without electricity for 8-12 hours a day. Shortages on gasoline, leave people waiting to get a half a tank of gasoline (the ration) for hours and hours. Many of the houses have no running water.
Walking along the streets it's easy to get lost down little alleys and courtyards, passing the butchers selling: yak, boar, water buffalo (?), a cut off head of a goat sits on a table with incense stuck between it's teeth, the glazed eyes, lifeless. The touts call out, they try to sell weed, or treks, or tours, or paintings – it's the same the world over. You just avoid eye contact and keep walking. Kathmandu though, takes the prize, it's the craziest looking city I've seen.
La Paz, Bolivia is crazy looking, and it is crazy, but Kathmandu, while it looks similar in some ways is something else entirely, because in the midst of the chaos and the pollution there are statues of Ganesh everywhere, well-crafted hand-painted signs, beautiful stone or wooden pagodas, wild monkeys and mysterious doorways with dancing skeletons.
There's even a living Goddess. She's maybe 10 years old now and she'll be the Goddess until she menstruates and then a new Goddess will be chosen, she lives in a square temple with a courtyard and her feet are not allowed to touch the ground outside of her home, she's taken out every so often and is carried around the square by he guards while throngs of people worship her.
They choose the next Goddess by bringing a group of young female toddlers into a temple, and escorting them into a dark candle lit room full of 108 slaughtered chickens, 108 slaughtered and beheaded goats and 108 slaughtered and beheaded buffalo, inside the room there are elder monks chanting at her – the whole thing is meant to terrify, the new Goddess is the little girl who isn't terrified – the one who doesn't cry or freak the fuck out.
It's so beautifully bizarre. I stayed in Kathmandu for just a couple of days. After that: It was pure relaxation, I took a bus to Lake Pokhara, to spend New Years Eve at the foot of the Himalayas.
A much mellower place. I read Shantaram, (highly recommended) a 1500 page book in about six days. I tattooed a local guy there, using his own equipment, shared some knowledge with some of the tattooers there, fixed a local dudes machines, got drunk on some fermented toasted rice liquor, liquor that felt so good on those cold nights.
I was surrounded by local people who took me in instantly as family, people, that though they had little, never let me pay for a meal or a drink. And what a New Years Eve! Even though in Nepal it was the year 2068, they were still celebrating 2012.
It was so much better than I could have expected. I thought I would be alone and solitary but I was surrounded by Nepalese people of all ages in a small little restaurant that was closed to the public. It was a private party and I was invited and welcomed and received hugs and drinks and companionship. Why? The same reason for almost every incredible experience I've had since I left home: Tattoos. I fall on my knees in front of that god of tattoos that has watched over me and provided for me in almost every one of these countries I've been to.
One thing I remember was going into the latrine, into the shit-house out back and thinking as I squatted over the keyhole toilet and inhaled those nauseous fumes of an outhouse, "that is the smell of friends, of other people who are like me, and it's not bad." Yes, it's the smell of shit and piss, but it's from everyday people and it's only natural, it's only real. It's nothing but the smell of life. And nothing is hidden in their lives.
I was pretty excited to head back to San Francisco on the two-year anniversary of my departure. Two straight years on the road, can play with your head, it can make you stronger and it can scare the shit out of you with mind chattering solitude. All of it has an effect, some influence on the psyche, on one's personality…
But man, if I didn't feel even more unsettled when I had a place to call home again. It was a bit like OJ's glove, it just didn't fit. My best friends picked me up at the airport, we ate Mexican food and drank margaritas for breakfast. I went back to work at Idle Hand, I rented an apartment. I made it a month-and-a-fucking-half, I made plans to leave in the first three weeks of being home.
I still don't know why, because the more time I spent there the more comfortable I became, the more I really began to appreciate having friends around me that knew me, that really knew me. Seeing my buddies, with their kids made my heart all happy and made me want a kid. Seeing Idle Hand in motion reminded me how special that fucking shop is and it was a pleasure to be a part of it again. The shop itself and the vibe there will tear your ass apart, break you down, leave you hungover, and provide a place to stay when there's no where else to go. Many late nights were spent there drawing, talking, focusing on the craft and drinking. They go hand in hand over there. I'll love that shop til the day I die.
But something in me had changed and it didn't feel right to go back to the city. Maybe that's it: it was going back to something. And I wanted something new, but a place to settle down. I just spent a week and a half at Kings Avenue in NYC and Long Island and met new family. I saw my mom in CT for the second time in two years.
I also went back to Greensburg, Pennsylvania where I really started tattooing and saw one of my best and oldest friends Daniel Weyandt. Today I'm in DC, where I write this now.
Tonight I fly back to Buenos Aires on my birthday, to go work in that beautiful city at Well Done Tattoo again. I'll be there for a month, working on a project for TAM and after that my friend Mariano and I will head into Sao Paulo together where I'll attempt to meet some real bad-ass motherfuckers. And I'm excited, it's frustrating to carry this fucking backpack around, but it's almost always worth it.
Everything I've done, everywhere I've been, slowly it all gets sifted. There's a lot of stories to tell, some of them amazing, some humorous, some sad, some perverse. There are so many – and they're all mixed up between the life I had before and the life that I have now, I got a second lifetime after I spilt up with my ex-wife, and I think this trip – all of this time away was a way to learn that. This is a new lifetime and each day it becomes more and more what I make it to be. I'm thankful for that. Very thankful.
The craziest thing for me over these past two years, especially the last year of getting to work with all of these legendary people, these crazy hard workers has been the difference between all of them. There's no set path. Some party. Some don't. Some draw on the spot others spend hours preparing their drawing. Some like whip-shading, some like smooth gradations, rotaries, coils, some show mad respect, some are pirates and others are family folk – it goes on and on. Somewhere along the way though, I think I began to assume there was one way, a best way, a best approach… If you do A+B it will = X… but it won't. That's some religious kind of thinking.
Some Christian/Muslim/Jewish/religious way of looking at things. Everyone has their own way, their own path. Some do drugs, some drink, some get married and have kids, others get married and divorced some fuck hookers and others don't get laid very often. But the good ones work their asses off, and all of them do it in their own way. I suppose in the end that's the common thread, the people I look up to, no matter how they go about it: they work their asses off.
I'm honored and humbled to say that I will be joining Kings Avenue as a full-time artist in the beginning of August. Which means I'm moving to NYC and I couldn't be happier with either of those things, it's time for me to throw an anchor. Anchors away!
Alright, If you made it this far, thanks for reading. I appreciate it. That was long-winded!
Be well out there in the real world.
(JTG is a contributing blogger for Tattoo Artist Magazine. He can currently be found traveling the world and sometimes at Idle Hand Tattoo in San Fransisco, CA.)
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By Emily Glazer And Ryan Dezember
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. reached a long-awaited deal to sell roughly half its stake in the portfolio of its buyout arm, One Equity Partners, according to people familiar with the matter.
The largest U.S. bank by assets is planning to announce the sale as early as Monday afternoon, after agreeing to sell part of its stake to investment firms Lexington Partners LP and Carlyle Group LP's AlpInvest Partners, the people said.
The deal values the companies J.P. Morgan JPM, -1.44% is selling at around $2 billion, out of One Equity's roughly $4.5 billion in investments, the people said.
J.P. Morgan plans to retain ownership of about half of One Equity's nearly 30 portfolio companies, and the private-equity firm will continue managing those companies, the people said.
The sale talks come as banks face regulatory pressure in Europe and the U.S. to reduce bets, such as corporate buyouts, made with their own money. J.P. Morgan has said its planned spinoff of One Equity and interests in its funds isn't related to such regulatory changes.
An expanded version of this report appears at WSJ.com
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Grilled Vegetable Pizza
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|Dinner, Lunch, Snack
|Cuisine Type
Source: Clara and Paolo Cavalli, Cavalli Pizza, McKinney, TX
The Cavallis, first-generation Americans and owners of this two-location pizzeria, brought their recipe for authentic pizza straight from Italy. This version gives eaters a healthy dose of vegetables in every slice.
Pizza Dough:
4 cups flour
1 2/3 cups water
2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. active dry yeast
1 yellow summer squash, in 1/2-in. slices
1 zucchini, in 1/2-in. slices
1 eggplant, in 1/2-in. slices
Sea salt
Extra-virgin olive oil
4-6 mini bell peppers, in 1/2-in. slices
Fresh basil leaves, slivered
- Prepare Pizza Dough: Combine flour, water, salt and yeast in bowl of stand mixer. Mix slowly for 2 min.; increase speed and mix for 5 min. longer. Then decrease speed and mix for 2 min. until smooth dough forms. (By hand, mix ingredients with wooden spoon; knead dough until smooth.)
- Cover dough with plastic wrap or a clean towel. Leave to rise until doubled in size. Flatten dough and let rest.
- Preheat oven to 500°F. Meanwhile, place squash, zucchini and eggplant slices on grill. Cook until soft; remove and season with salt and olive oil. Grill mini peppers until charred; season with salt and olive oil. Keep vegetables warm.
- Stretch out pizza dough to form a large circle. Top with diced mozzarella and drizzle with a little olive oil. Bake in preheated oven until mozzarella melts and dough is golden.
- Remove from oven and place grilled vegetables on top of crust. Drizzle with more olive oil and sprinkle with fresh basil leaves.


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vital ital wrote:Good speakers and amps (class d is more and more popular, big power for not allot of $$) and good source (live act or 45 rpm vinyl, my pref.).
No disrespect, but a reggae sounding preamp?
Music has a "sound", components should just amp that, the louder and without distortion the better.
freedubtribe soundsystem wrote: but also its very usual for me to play with a club p.a. (especially here where there isnt soundsystem culture and in the small places i play now - i would break everyones ears if i play with the sound), t
freedubtribe soundsystem wrote:
whats the point in bringing a 5kw system to use like 1kw?
freedubtribe soundsystem wrote:a lot of work - some money (van rent) to have big speakers with almost no power from the amps
freedubtribe soundsystem wrote:i know, good points...right now i have two sounds at home, 1 is big but few chances to use it, 1 is smaller but nice sounding and it blows away most club systems
its really a struggle here cause there's no sound culture (and im talking about all kind of music - i went to electronic music party yesterday and the sound was awful, let alone rock or punk gigs where servicemen dont care about sound just money and people isnt interested too much in sound quality), and everything has to be built from the foundations, but i'm not in a hurry and i'm happy about what i'm trying to do. somewhere else it would be easier tough....
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