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Wide variety of photography exhibitions
San Francisco continues to live up to its reputation as a hotbed of photography appreciation and practice.
Three current exhibitions of note reflect on our appetite for images and the point of refining it, matters that critical viewers never cease to ponder.
For a century and a half, people have grown up looking at photographs - and now digital files - of their relatives, present or past, and themselves, ranging from formal portraits to the most offhand snapshots. That fact alone guaranteed that photography would influence our sense of the visible world as common - or divided, even territorialized - reality. Consider how much time we in cities routinely spend with eyes on strangers each day.
Photography has pervasively affected debate about the possible import of depictable events, about the nature of evidence and the veracity of witness.
"History painting," as the portrayal of momentous events was known in pre-camera days, seldom influenced imagination of the past to anything like the degree that photography has, if only because every photograph marks a moment gone by. To speak of "history photography" would sound oddly redundant.
The Scott Nichols Gallery's 20th anniversary exhibition offers a stimulating array of pictures, varying in historic weight, that will strike sparks in the mind of any viewer thinking about the contest of values, and other sources of complexity, in pictures.
The chronology here reaches between the careers of E. Carleton Watkins (1829-1916) and those of Joel Leivick, Monica Denevan and others still at work. The variety of images and techniques represented lets us see, without forcing the point, both how disciplined and how omnivorous the photographic impulse can be.
The number of vintage prints here also underlines the making of a picture as an event, and the shifting value accorded to photographs as artifacts.
Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham and Ruth Bernhard - all of whom knew one another - chose dramatically various subjects, but all marshaled them to serve an argument for the full artfulness of their medium.
As the art status of photographs won ever wider consensus, photographers shifted emphases.
Compare Bernhard's 1938 "Wet Silk," its eroticism cloaked in an allusion to classical sculpture and drapery, with Harry Callahan's "Eleanor, Chicago (Cross)" (1947), which reduces its portrait nude to an arguably blasphemous crux of black line in a white field, something that would not have worked well, if at all, in color.
Callahan's work, in which cropping and contrast control figure, definitively makes a sort of hinge between the Nichols anniversary survey and the Wirtz Gallery's latest solo show by Michael Kenna.
Consisting entirely of faintly sepia-toned black and white prints, Kenna's recent landscape images from Japan, China and Korea look almost like throwbacks to the mid 20th century, before the vogue for color, conceptual strategy and new technology hit. Any one of Kenna's pictures might fit comfortably among the classics, and classicizing camera workers represented at Nichols.
Kenna's "Sadakichi's Docks, Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan" (2012), like just about everything in his show, appears to prize formal values above subject matter, or to translate subjects into pictorially self-sufficient form with perfect economy.
Many of his mountain vistas shot in China echo the aesthetics of Chinese landscape painting so vividly as to look like a form of corroboration.
But the signal aspect of Kenna's work, the one that puts it in the historical photographic mainstream, is its targeted quality. Nearly all of his pictures convey the sense - which may be an illusion - that he could see straight through his working process to the images that would finally result.
Kenna's pictures seem to owe some of their confident lyricism to that targeted quality, which delivers to viewers an almost consoling sensation of forthrightness and certainty.
Visitors will miss that quality of legible purpose in "Nothing to See Here" at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. It features works by four Bay Area photographers who extend the legacy of "The New Topographics," a 1975 exhibition, re-created in 2010 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, of photographers who examined landscapes notable only for their unlovely traces of human incursion.
The ubiquity of surveillance and the indiscriminate shooting that a digital camera in every pocket encourages, this show tacitly argues, promotes a new visual anesthesia.
The works of Johnna Arnold, Joshua Band, Nicole Jean Hill and Jin Zhu demonstrate that even the most barren and seemingly centerless situations have a sort of photographic potential that may discover not so much an aspect of the world as an aspect of our conditioning by immersion in images.
Arnold's "Fake Rock, I-80, Rodeo, CA" (2011) presents a highway retaining wall molded, cut and colored to look like a natural outcropping.
This piece of public works fakery enshrines the assumption that none of us will look at our surroundings more carefully than a speeding driver can. The camera's steady gaze cannot make the fake any more real, but it might unmake the thought behind it. I only wish Arnold had not camped up her picture by posing someone as a climber: a fake climber for a fake rock face.
The work of Zhu, Band and Hill shows in various ways that where the camera shows nothing happening, the mind tries to project into that vacancy or disorder something vaguely sinister. That also may reveal something about our condition as denizens of the image world.
Our Twentieth Anniversary, 1992-2012: Photographs. Through Dec. 29. Scott Nichols Gallery, 49 Geary St., S.F. (415) 788-4641, www.scottnicholsgallery.com.
Michael Kenna: Focus East: Photographs. Through Jan. 15. Stephen Wirtz Gallery, 49 Geary St., S.F. (415) 433-6879. www.wirtzgallery.com.
Nothing to See Here: Photographs. Through Jan. 27. San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, 401 Van Ness Ave., S. F. (415) 554-6080. www.sfartscommission.org.
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The Performance Lowrider being still extremely popular across the Atlantic, Urs Erbacher, a Swiss Top Fuel Drag Car pilot and head of both Erbacher Racing and of Fat Attack Custom Bikes, one of the most high-profile custom bike shops in Europe , is proposing this model to both dealers and retail clients at a cheaper price than most custom motorcycles built from the ground up. Of extreme importance for large diffusion, by keeping stock both engine and driveline, it is conceived to be acceptable for servicing by any Harley-Davidson dealer around the world.
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On any given Sunday, you will find a group of locals getting their Latte's at the Opening Bell cafe at South Side on Lamar, in Dallas. On this chilli Sunday morning, a Latte was the perfect start to the day. One of the nice things about the Opening Bell, besides the nightly live music from local bands and artists, and besides the fun, eclectic interior, is this chalkboard table. So while waiting on my Soy Vanilla Latte, I was inspired to doodle. Now for some odd reason, I found myself doodling a bird. Imagine that.
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This was unexpected. Back on Day 302, my granite bird was a chalk drawing on the back of a big slab of granite. Well, yesterday, I laid that granite bird down on the black sofa in our garage "upside down", by mistake. Then realizing what I had done, I quickly picked it up off the sofa, only to discover the chalk had imprinted the sofa. And I actually liked it more than the granite bird. As I like to say, a little bit of chaos – encourages creativity. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.


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Williams unlikely to take further part in Adelaide Test
Brad Williams is unlikely to take any further part in the second Test at Adelaide after injuring his left shoulder in a fall while fielding.
"I landed pretty solid on my shoulder and apparently I've got a Grade One strain in my AC joint and I'll see what happens with treatment overnight," Williams said. "It's probably an injury more common with football or contact sport, more so than cricket.
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Williams added that he hoped to be back in action within a week, but expert opinion was that a month would be nearer the time needed.
Williams's injury means that Brett Lee is almost certain to return to the Australian squad for the third Test.


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Tree tapping time will soon be here, and farmers will set up their equipment for the annual sugar bush harvest.
"It is the time to come and tap a fragrant bounty in the tree - Let buckets brim with crystal sap, unbridled stream race skyward, free." --William Vincent Sieller
Girl burned in school lab, teacher hurt
Lynne Smith, a 10th grade student of Warrensburg High School is in Glens Falls Hospital suffering from 2nd degree burns on the face, shoulder and hand which she received Feb. 3, 1959 while working in the school chemistry lab.
The quick action of science teacher Rudolph Meola was praised when he tore off his heavy tweed jacket and quickly wrapped it around Lynne's body, smothering the flames and preventing even more injury to her and other students. In the process he received severe burns on his hand.
The group of which Lynn was a part was at work on an experiment of extracting chlorophyll from leaves when the alcohol from a beaker caught fire and blazed up. Lynn threw up her hand to protect her eyes which showed presence of mind, for she was quickly enveloped in flames.
Dr. John Cunningham and the emergency ambulance were immediately summoned while school nurse Jessie Robinson administered first aid and then rode to the hospital with Lynne. She was transported by Richard Kline and Hugh Trenary. Principal Durwood Weaver investigated and made a full report at the school board meeting.
Lynne Smith was in the hospital for several weeks. Some of her scars were permanent but not on her face. She is the daughter of Wilford "Woody" and Lenore Smith of Warrensburg. Woody died in 1983.
Today Lynne is the wife of Orson Richards and lives in East Greenbush. Their son, McLaren Richards and his wife have two children and he runs the Riverside Gallery in Warrensburg.
My good friend Rudy Meola is retired and lives in Hague where he is a town councilman and an outspoken and valued member of the Warren County Democratic Committee.
Pile Up in Thurman
Three freight cars of a Delaware & Hudson train were derailed Feb. 26, 1959 at the crossing in the Town of Thurman near the Warrensburg-Thurman highway bridge, The incident blocked vehicle traffic between the two towns. The freight train was out of Saratoga Springs and was headed toward North Creek. Rex Eddy was engineer and Joseph Coates was conductor. No one was injured.
Warrensburg Central School students in the Thurman area were absent that day from school as the school buses were unable to get around the freight cars which blocked the road.
Officials explore new development
The school boards of Warrensburg, Lake George and Bolton are exploring the possible advantage of merging their three central schools districts.
Warren County Board of Supervisors Chairman Lee Orton has announced that the board is exploring the possibility of acquiring the Lake George Central School to house county offices.
New building plans are being laid out for the construction of a modern 80-bed East Wing expansion and improvement of the Glens Falls Hospital in which $850,000 is hoped to be raised. The construction cost is estimated at $1,975,000. The new wing will consist of four stories and a ground floor which will run parallel to Park St. across Basin St. and connect with the north-south wings of the hospital directly opposite the existing West Wing.
Ladies suffer bad luck and injuries
Carol Crannell of Lake George married William Webster Sept. 20, 1958. On Nov. 20, 1958 she was injured by a run-away school bus and became a patient at Glens Falls Hospital. She is still convalescing there at this time.
Mrs. Jerome Kilburn of The Glen, who broke her leg in two places last fall, is finally able to get around on crutches.
Mrs. Bernard Ramsey received severe burns on the body while making coffee at the Caldwell Presbyterian Church in Lake George. She was treated by Dr. Hilton H. Dier and is slowly recovering at her home on Cramer Rd., Lake George.
Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Hall Jr., are the parents of a son born Jan. 23, 1959 in the Glens Falls Hospital. He has been named Mark Allen. Mrs. Hall suffered a fractured leg in a bad fall Jan. 19, 1959 and is now only able to get around in a wheel chair to care for the new baby and her two other children.
News roundabout
Clyde Farrar, at Farrar's Pharmacy (north of Potter's Diner), 45 Main Street, Warrensburg, is advertising chocolate candy delights, "Something fancy to feed your flame on Valentine's Day." Edna Bruce has been named Chairman of the 1959 Heart Fund drive.
Helen Gilchrist will present a Warrensburg Central School study course entitled "Concerns of a Continent-USA," at the First Methodist Church.
William Mallery, 33, for eleven years a language teacher at Warrensburg High, died suddenly Feb. 24, 1959 at his home on 209 Main Street. Dr. Clinton E. Lawrence pronounced him dead. Dr. P.H. Cunningham said that death was due to a coronary occlusion.
Philip H. McCormick, son of Halsey McCormick of 84 River St. Warrensburg and Miss Louise Hornbostel, daughter of Paul Hornbostel of Eixe Kreis Peine, Germany, were united in marriage Feb. 6, 1959. Mr. McCormick is stationed with the U.S. Air Force near Bitburg, Germany.
US Army Private Charles Roberts left for Germany after spending a 30-day furlough with his mother, Althea Wells and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Roberts. He was previously stationed at Buffalo where he worked with guided missiles.
Robert Millward, who plays "Freddie Shermer" in the school play, "We Shook the Family Tree," is supposed to wear knickers for his role. He can't find anyone in town who has a pair to lend him.
George B. Ellsworth, 74, of Riverside Rd. Chestertown, a former member of the Chestertown Town Board, died Feb. 27, 1959 at the home of his daughter Mrs. Burton Duell. He had a milk route for about 40 years before he retired.
Historical notes
In the first national census of 1790 when Washington County included this whole entire region, and Queensbury alone was named in what in now Warren County, the total population numbered 183 families, 1,081 persons and one slave belonging to John Thurman. Micajah Pettit, in 1800, became the first state Assemblyman from Washington County.
William Bond came in 1786 to settle at Echo Lake. On Feb. 12, 1813 the area was named Warrensburgh and James L. Thurman became the first supervisor of the new town.
Memories of Duell, kind words appreciated
Sincere thanks to Tameron Tessier, Robert Ellsworth and Mildred Johnson for their kind comments about this column.
At the request of Cindy Perkins, I asked if anyone could tell us about Earl Duell who suffered an automobile accident on Oct. 20, 1960 but didn't die until April 23, 1961. Clair Bates and Arthur Moffitt remembered him well. He was a well-liked man and a first-class mechanic at Whipple's Garage in Chestertown. The accident, when he drove off the side of the road, was a bad one and he is said to have been in a coma until he died six months later.
My condolences and sincere sympathy goes to my neighbor of many years, Bob Greene on Main Street. His wife, Robin Greene died unexpectedly Feb. 18, 2009 after a long illness.
Readers are welcome to contact Adirondack Journal correspondent Jean Hadden at jhadden1nycap.rr.com or 623-2210.


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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Watercolor Women
Slightly forlorn and a bit mysterious, this series of Watercolor Women illustrations was a fun process. Just like my Fall watercolor illustrations, the process begun with painted watercolor that I scanned. From there the watercolor backgrounds were transformed digitally in Photoshop adding texture and layered up for a richer color. The women have a slight Picasso-esque feel, but it wasn't intentional; the first illustration (the green girl) was the gateway for the other two, I just ran with the style. I had fun playing with interesting orientations and flowing hair. Overall, it was a fun project done solely for the pleasure of trying something new. I would love to know your thoughts!
2 comments:
- lalove said...
I love art created solely with the intention of trying something new. I like the playful cubist style, and your watercolor backgrounds are gorgeous! I especially love the colors in the middle one.
- November 24, 2011 at 8:50 AM
- Jennie said...
Thanks Lalove! :) They were really fun, and manipulating the watercolor backgrounds in Photoshop is such a fun and relaxing process.
- November 28, 2011 at 8:22 AM
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So we went out in service today, like everyday now. Zach had a gentleman to call back on today that he met last Saturday. He was there for about half an hour, placed the Bible Teach book and went over the first three paragraphs for chapter 8. He is supposed to go back next week to consider more of the chapter.
Sounds like a doorstep study for now, but very exciting. Now it's my turn.
I'm debating on a very straight forward presentation, just asking if they would like a study. Has anyone had success with that?


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Mountaineer's Climber's Log
ZeroFC - Nov 1, 2012 6:44 pm Date Climbed: Oct 30, 2012Mountaineer's Route
Started from Lower Boy Scout Lake.
From that point, a bit of snow and ice on the route leading up to Iceberg Lake forced a slightly slower pace. Ice was too thin for crampons but covered large enough areas of the path to make it slightly challenging. Took about 3.5 hours to Iceberg Lake.
Taking the chute to the summit was a nightmare with crampons. No existing path meant postholing past the knees through soft fresh powder and hitting the loose scree underneath. I think microspikes would have been much more fitting under the circumstances. I thought that the snow would be firmer towards the top but that was absolutely not the case. Was a long slow climb up in deep snow up to the notch but weather conditions were fine.
Glissading down the entire chute was a lot of fun and saved a ton of time. Met three others who had setup at Iceberg Lake for a October 31st summit attempt.
A lot of fun and would consider coming back in the future.
telemarkdude - Oct 6, 2012 10:29 pm Date Climbed: Jun 22, 1985Mountaineer's
Camped at Iceberg Lake. From there, with the great weather we had, it was a very fast up and down scramble.
WayneFry - Sep 4, 2012 3:06 pm Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2012MR - Well alright then
Climbed with a couple of guys from SMG (Dakin and Leath). Stuck to the left side of the main chute then climbed the second chute on the north side. Lots of loose rock in the gullies but manageable.
mengbo - Jul 16, 2012 2:49 pm Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2012Great Climb
Hiked in with Jean on July 14, 2012 and camped at Iceberg Lake.
A lot of loose rocks in the gully and the final 400 ft was solid.
Kind of nervous at first since we did not bring the helmets. But stay on the right side of gully most of time will avoid lots of loose rocks.
Pfeiffer75 - Jul 8, 2012 2:07 pm Date Climbed: Jun 12, 2012No snow!
Hardly any snow this year. The chute was a loose experience. The final 400 feet was the most pleasant part of the climb from Iceberg Lake
chicagosky - Apr 15, 2012 11:52 am Date Climbed: Apr 7, 2012Know how to self arrest
Made it to 14138 feet at the top of the couliour and then turned back after a scary fall. See trip report for details
ElGreco - Nov 2, 2011 12:16 am Date Climbed: Apr 24, 2011MR
Via Mountaineer's Route. Clear conditions after a brief storm on Saturday, but very windy. The first pitch of the final 400ft is rock/mixed right now, while the rest is fairly deep snow under a crust.
PrinceOfNorway - Oct 24, 2011 3:28 pm Date Climbed: Apr 17, 2010Very beautiful mountain
Did this in one day. Left at midnight and got to the top at about 9 AM. One of the best mountains I've ever had the joy to experience.
jaxcharlie - Sep 13, 2011 7:47 am Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2011Up the Mountaineers
Wow, what a fun route! Especially the ledges leading up to Iceberg Lakes, and the last 500 feet. Unfortunately I went down the trail so I could grab Muir on the way by, and that was incredibly boring after having down the mountaineer's.
Holsti97 - Aug 14, 2011 7:35 am Date Climbed: Aug 10, 201148th U.S. Highpoint on MR
Climbed Telescope Peak 2 days earlier and then spent a day exploring Lone Pine and the Alabama Hills. Hiked up to Iceberg Lake and slept under the stars. Had to break ice on lake in the morning to get water for coffee. Classic scramble up the chute and to the summit. Climbed with SP members Tracy, edsclimb, and my niece Megan. Tracy had climbed Whitney 38 years earlier at 11 years old and Whitney was my 48th United States Highpoint. Great way to finish my quest.
hightinerary - Aug 9, 2011 1:32 pm Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2013Changing Lanes
After hiking up the Mt. Whitney Main Trail numerous times over the years, I switched to the Mountaineer's Route to avoid the crowds.
Vitaliy M. - Jul 8, 2011 10:02 am Date Climbed: Mar 13, 2010A lot of fun
Winter ascent in a wind storm. Conditions in the final chute weren't great so we went up the rock rib to the left (cl 4 or so). Was a lot of fun.
zoomloco - Jul 7, 2011 12:28 pm Date Climbed: May 29, 2011Anything to avoid the whitney trail
In any season, in any conditions, do this route and not the Whitney trail. This was my 3rd time on the route. MR is best in winter when its all snow, also easy in summer though there is a lot of rock knocked loose by other climbers in the gully. In spring there is actually mixed climbing (snow + icy rock) so a rope is actually recommended for this season for the upper 300', though I guess you could always take the variation to the right to avoid this. Cool to camp on the summit (in the hut) in the snow.
pingzingr - Jul 4, 2011 12:58 am Date Climbed: Jul 2, 20113-day trip on Whitney
Received walk-in permit Friday morning and departed the Portal for Upper Boy Scout Lake. Summited Saturday and returned to Upper Boy Scout. Hiked out Sunday morning. Snow conditions were quite soft and we were postholing up the chutes. Almost easier to use the rock/scree to move up to the Notch unless you leave EARLY for the summit.
haishan - Jun 20, 2011 5:03 pm Date Climbed: Jun 19, 2011ski descent
Didn't technically finish the route... a day tour to the top of the snow, a hundred feet or so short of the notch. Skied thru post-holed mank in the upper couloir, and good summer snow down to lower Boy Scout. 10hrs car-to-car, a great day to be out.
Moogie737 - Jun 19, 2011 6:58 pm Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2009To Kent Ashcraft's memory
Led to Iceberg Lake by Kent's son, Andrew. To the summit with Brent. Main trail down. One hour on top, all to ourselves!
saltlick - Jun 15, 2011 9:19 pm Date Climbed: Jun 6, 2011Car-to-Car
Perfect conditions - warm and calm the whole way to the notch, and firm enough snow for a relatively easy ascent. Clouds rolled in around 12, and it snowed on us as we glissaded the route around 2, but we still got great views and fairly epic sunburns!
badmajick - Apr 21, 2011 12:02 pm Date Climbed: Apr 17, 2011Finally did it!
Perfect conditions, although it felt a bit warm. Drove to the portal, camped at Iceberg one night, summitted and hiked out. We rapped off the summit to the notch instead of downclimbing.
First attempt was two years ago, bailed on our summit to assist with an accident on another team.


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COOKING SIMPLIFIED How to replace fear with fun
Why Wok with me?
Fear may be a little too strong a word but would you like cooking to be FUN? Have you been searching for some sort of missing ingredient or pot that will make it a whole lot easier? Are you tired of having to go back to the grocery store before you start in on a recipe? Have you wondered what made the main dish at a restaurant or even the salad at a pot-luck gathering taste so great?
Well my friend, you have arrived at the right spot if you have been asking these questions. I was given the absolute best lesson anyone could ever hope for when learning to cook that I'll share with you here today. Above and beyond that, I will attempt to take the mystery out of that seemingly secret ingredient that added such a special 'pleasing to the palate' touch. I'll also give you a few tried and true ways to WOW guests - both for the joy of hearing compliments and allowing you to eliminate the 'timing crunch' crisis that can sometimes blow your whole evening with friends.
In addition of course, if you're afraid of cooking (and this isn't to insinuate you stay out of the kitchen, just a mini comparison similar to why 4 year old children jump on a computer while we may procrastinate - they don't have ANY picture of it messing up at all), replacing fear with fun - or better yet, fear with love, will change every meal from here on out.
My mom was great at cooking but she seemed to detest the fact that it was expected of her. Not enjoying it until later on when she no longer 'had to', she cooked slight variations of the same old meat and potatoes with boiled veggies almost every night. As a young athlete with a slow metabolism, eating became synonomous with a nightly struggle to finish everything on my plate. As a result, I wasn't in the least interested in cooking until I moved out in my teens. Since then I've heard so many comments about how someone's mother never taught them - that's why they don't cook or can. Relax, let the joy of being self taught take over - it is easy. It may also be a whole lot more exciting and better because you'll learn to cook for you, your taste and your loved ones.
Since I promised 'simplified' I will do my best not to turn this into yet another long involved cook book with every tip and secret I've learned in the last 12,000-13,000 days. Those long ones make even me think it's so complicated and I have to remember everything and yikes! I do have a few hundred cookbooks though, if you can't find a recipe you're looking for after this, just ask.
Instead of 'complicated', here are the main categories:
How to simplify the cooking process
The "secret" ingredients
Some suggestions and which appliances/pots are best for you
Timing is everything
Recipes or recipe books to choose and why
Corned Beef Brisket
How to simplify the cooking process
What lesson was I so fortunate to learn right off the bat? Two great friends of mine, almost adopted brothers - great cooks themselves with an exceptional chef as a father - gave me a cook book called "EAT IT!". Wish I could find it now but it was almost written with a hippie style, Hawaiian hang loose attitude, so they probably enjoyed a one time printing run back in the early '70s.
Unlike the recipe books of today, it's recipes had little or no exact ingredients at all. For meat loaf it would say, "Take some hamburger meat - mash it up - add an egg and some bread crumbs - throw in an onion or pepper if you have one - add a little salt, dash of pepper and whatever herb is handy. Put it in a bake safe dish and cook at 375 for about 45 minutes or until it looks done."
You can laugh but to this day, I can cook about anything I can get my hands on. Those simple recipes had all the main elements you need to know for how to cook anything: What are you cooking; what to add; what temperature do you cook it at; and for how long. "Until done" will become as easy as paying attention to how long after you think "gee that smells good" is needed. If your sniffer isn't strong, looking at it or investing in a thermometer and a box of long matchsticks you can use as cake pokers will ensure success.
For example: if you prefer turkey, grab some ground turkey instead of hamburger meat and do the same thing. Cooking a whole turkey means cleaning out the insides, tying it together and knowing what temperature to cook it at and how long per pound. If unsure and you haven't invested in a thermometer yet, get one with the pop out thermometer already in it. I know, you've heard you have to baste it every half hour etc. but this isn't true either - we found a roaster for $29.00 that cooks it perfectly every time.
The only time my cooking hasn't turned out, is when I've added fear as an ingredient!
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The "secret" ingredients
Loving salads, I used to make them daily and felt almost righteous eating so healthily. One day a friend, who was a decided expert on proper food combining, made lunch and WOW – what did he do to bring his salad to life? I longed for the secret!
You will read in the best books that starting with fresh ingredients is a definite key – they are not kidding! Of course, most salads are all made with fresh ingredients, so what did he do? My friend had simply added a couple fresh herbs and the difference between the salad he made and the ones I used to make was like night and day. The same holds true for almost every recipe I have managed to figure out from a restaurant –> fresh ingredients and a simple added herb/spice or two.
So how do you know what herbs or spices to use? This my friend, is why there are billions of cookbooks from every country, region, and cook in the world. Sure, there are recipes and books galore to cook different types of food but when it comes right down to it, it is a matter of taste, customs, region etc. The most important fact of all this is – what is your taste?
For example, playing around with a simple fondue I discovered that adding Rosemary to meat is divine! Personally, I love Cardamom and it can change iced tea or rice pudding into an unusual and delightful treat – but my Honey cannot stand it. Curry, loved by many, cannot be found in my kitchen at all. One day it hid the fact that the chicken was old and bad. There and then, it was banned from my preferred list.
This is how you can really have fun! Make a dish (other than chutneys) and take the time to try a little of each herb with that same dish at the table. Infusing it into the cooking once decided you like it, will simply make it stronger when you cook with it. After doing this, you'll also easily recognize a flavor in that restaurant dish you like so much :)
Here again, fresh is best. For example, freshly ground nutmeg can put a scrumptious zing into a dish but if old, it may not be noticed enough to bother. Here is where I hear you groan, "You mean I have to keep fresh herbs around all the time?" In a word, yes. It's easier than you think. Going back to the Nutmeg example, I keep the actual nuts, grinding when needed and they're still good after 2-3 years. The same holds true with pepper – keep the peppercorns around and grind, as needed – huge difference! Be sure to see money saving tips on Food - SAVE MONEY, TIME and your HEALTH. You'll see a great connection on there but just in case, let me add a link on here for you too. It's for the San Francisco Herb Co. They are wonderful to deal with and buying in bulk can save a whole lot of money!
Rule of thumb: all dried herbs will last 6 months. If it is a little older than that, add more in the cooking. If older than a year – toss it, it is just taking up space. You ought to be able to rub an herb between your fingers, in plant form or from a jar and smell it. If you enjoy having a gorgeous cooking or dining area, I highly recommend adding a AeroGarden – it's easy and having actual fresh herbs year round is not only healthy but will indeed invite compliments – lots of them!
Stop fretting, turkeys can be easy!
Varieties of slow cookers - even a rice and slow cooker combo!
Some suggestions and which appliances/pots are best for you
Please, take a moment and write a few of your lifestyle choices along with your greatest detriments or reasons cooking is inconvenient.
Examples: Lifestyle: 1) Busy & spontaneous Detriment: Planning tough, don't know what I'll be doing; 2) Limited space don't have room for a lot of appliances; 3) Single/couple most recipes too large; 4) Lazy don't like prep work
Your turn, take a moment – this section will be helpful if you personalize it.
Let's start out with how to WOW your guests, avoid the time crunch crisis - and solve MANY detrimental reasons for not cooking more.
Slow cooking a variety of meats and dishes turns tough to 'fall off the fork' delicious. Very little preparation is required and can be done either four -10 hours in advance. That means you can throw it in before heading to work and return to a home that smells (and will taste) as though you've been cooking for hours. There are varieties of slow cookers available on the market. Choose one to suit you, the size of your family or even if you want the recipes built right into it. With only two of you or if space is limited, get a small one.
I recently gave my daughter a time-saving, space saving, multi-purposed 3-set that was reasonably priced. It had one base and three pots: a 2 qt, 4 qt, and 6 qt. They all fit together, offered a range of appetizers, meals, soups and desserts that could be made and the pots doubled as server warmers – can you beat that?
Saving time and energy with preparation is as easy as grabbing a food processor. They even have ones on the market these days that spit the food out instead of having to go through the trouble of taking the top off to get at it. Sounds like I'm being facetious (like the watch with different time zones to save the anguish of mental arithmetic), but I'm not. Clean up can be a detriment and with both processors and juicers, the models that toss the food out can save a LOT of time in cleaning (and you will utilize them more often).
The aspect of cleaning is huge when considering all appliances in my book – even without being lazy. I've purchased smaller appliances like sandwich makers or grills that don't come apart but you're not supposed to get the motor wet – what a pain! This applies to the previous slow cookers too – make sure whatever you have to wash is separate! Otherwise, you may end up with many extras in the kitchen that rarely get used.
True versatility, FUN, and ease can be found with those "Magic Bullets". You can whip up about anything if you have ever watched the commercials. My brother says it is not great for smoothies because they seep into the motor at the bottom but other than that, I can vouch for their versatility, space saving and easy benefits! Their cookbook is about the best I've ever seen accompanying an appliance. Available for $100 or less (see eBay sidebar), the set can save you hundreds in the end. Like anything else, it works much better out of the box so play with it and get used to it, try the recipes and voila – you'll use it more than you can imagine.
A casserole dish can help you wow your family and save money, more than most other appliances put together. As long as your leftovers are still good, you can throw them together, add a cheese topping and a little herb or spice to vary the taste from the original and *poof*: insta dinner – even better than most of the frozen stuff.
Amazingly, let's address the rest of your list in one simplified paragraph. Whatever you prefer eating on a regular basis, get the best appliance to suit that need. If you are health conscious for example, there are sets of pots that require no grease or butter. For speed, other sets cut one's cooking time in half or look into a Wok which takes less than 20 minutes to cook just about anything. Having an aversion to aluminum, I found a rice cooker that also steams on top so I can toss in both frozen fish and/or vegetables and they are ready when the rice is done – cool - a whole meal ready all at once without a timer.
Bottom-line – it doesn't have to be complicated. If money is an issue, talk with your friends or family to split an appliance. After we got the roaster, even though cheap, we loan it out to family members to ease their cooking too – who says you have to wait for Thanksgiving for turkey? It's inexpensive, great and can carry you through many different meals. Do not forget to boil the bones for a few hours too – using broth instead of water could be considered another "secret ingredient".
Timing is everything
That says it all! I could leave it at that to simplify things but all the time spent writing this for you will have been for nothing if you run off still scared. As mentioned above, use your sniffer and eliminate the fear. I've watched people who've cooked for decades, don't vary from a recipe by even 1/8 of a tsp ruin many a meal by not trusting themselves and their nose. Ranges vary, microwaves vary, BBQs vary – if you trust a generic recipe more than yourself, things are bound to burn or be undercooked.
I mentioned getting a thermometer and box of large matchsticks above – don't think I've needed anything other than those and my eyes and nose for years. Too simplified? OK, ease your mind a little more by consulting the next section on recipes and cookbooks.
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Recipes or recipe books to choose and why
Listening to QVC one day I got sold on this best 30 minute cookbook and of course, took advantage of the quantity discount thinking, "GREAT, my daughter could use one, a few of my friends…" – BIG MISTAKE. The pitch was that they had researched for two years and only the tried and modified to be best recipes were in there. Why don't I like it? Just about every recipe has something even I, as a now gourmet chef and canner haven't heard of. What is "Garam Masala"? It reminds me of the huge map books they offer without thinking about the illogical aspect of having to flip to 14 disconnected pages while driving – it becomes easier to stop and ask at a local gas station or in this case - head to a restaurant.
So many cookbooks these days offer such unique combinations, it can be a guessing game as to whether or not their palate is anywhere near what you enjoy. Moreover, of course, because of that you have to run to the store before trying any of them. So, which books can you trust, which will suit you? Which ones are necessary and which are simply a waste of money becoming shelf help in the cooking game rather than something you cannot wait to get back to? After over 3 decades of collecting cookbooks, I do have a few suggestions.
Primarily, no-matter what stage of cooking you're at, a must is a major "everything" cookbook. A book that definitely includes the time, temperature and what to add for almost anything. The ones to trust for this are the ones that have been around forever it seems. My mom used the "Joy of Cooking" (ironic isn't it). Julia Child's reputation is earned; the New York Times is no muss no fuss etc. I have a couple handy although if your one is really good, it's the only one necessary. Make sure it has conversions too if, no-matter what I say, you intend to stick with exact measurements – don't worry, I'll forgive you in advance.
The best way to test any before purchasing is to look up a few recipes you've wanted to make, or, if looking on the net, look for added suggestions of accompaniments - what to serve with it etc. Most chefs will want you to know this. The great chefs will let you know the degree of difficulty and/or cooking time and prep required (and no, the 30 minute cookbook does not include the hour of prep after returning from the store). With the extra information, you will not be caught off guard thinking it was easy, or adding it as a dish for guests and having your timing thrown.
The ones I have come to enjoy the most are the older ones. This isn't because I'm older but because they don't have all these added unknowns, or such specific details that you wonder if it'll turn out. I spent some time offering bulk organic food and realized one of the reasons new ones aren't as nice is because they always seem to include that element of fear. Yes, you may have to cook the pork chops twice these days if you buy looking for a special "manager's discount" or something = not bargains in the health aspect but I promise not to go off on that tangent.
One of the examples of an "older cookbook" is the "Ball Blue Book – guide to home canning, freezing & dehydration". It is amazing – did you know you can can without a pressure cooker? Talk about wowing guests when you pull out something you canned up 6 months ago and is the "perfect touch" to a meal!
With a few hundred cookbooks, I could write for days but suffice-it-to-say, KEEP IT SIMPLE (another great oldie but goodie by Marian Burros). Really, that is the key - keep it simple. When a cookbook keeps it simply, and you've tasted different herbs and spices to find out what you like, you can always add to it. With too many details, who knows what it'll taste like if you have to skip a few. I would say that if there are too many pictures, chances are they've spent more time on presentation than they have in the kitchen but Oded Schwartz blew that theory right out the window!
Save time with this tip
Alrighty then - now that you trust me to trust yourself and have fun, you're ready for the absolute best, ultimate secret ingredient. Promise you won't say it sounds corny? Add a pinch of love - it'll make it taste better EVERY TIME!
Let me know if you're searching for a particular recipe - I'd be more than happy to help out. Also, if you'd like me to write an "EAT IT" hub, or which herb has a better chance with which foods, or how to properly combine food so it tastes better and is healthier etc., simply put in your request. Anything becomes a passion of sorts when we're not afraid of it and have fun - cooking's no exception.
And by the way, if you feel you HAVE TO cook and it's robbing the fun out of it for you, tell the family you prepared granola for dinner. After all, who says it has to be your turn every night?


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Hello everyone!
I'm back with my January empties. I haven't done an empties post in such a long time but now, I've emptied a lot of things!
I love liquid eyeliner, I use my liquid eyeliner on a daily basis and a few months ago I started using 3 tubes at once, which was a bit of a stupid thing to do. Anyway, I used all of them and now they're empty.
I also emptied my CoverGirl powder which lasted me for about a year! I like this product a lot and I will repurchase it.
My MAC concealer is also really close to empty. I liked this product and I will repurchase it!


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From a mother who learned about eco-breastfeeding for spacing the births of her babies:
I have had very little opportunity to chart during our marriage, as we've been married 4 years and have two children. I am still waiting (with great anticipation!) the return of my fertility after the birth of our daughter 14 months ago!
I have become a big fan (somewhat of an understatement) of ecological breastfeeding. This is due, in no small part, to your book, Breastfeeding and Natural Child Spacing, for which I am so grateful! I checked it out from our local library before the birth of our eldest and found it invaluable! I wanted to breastfeed, but without all of the information and encouragement I found in your book, I am sure that I would have practiced some form of cultural breastfeeding. Breastfeeding my two children (ecologically, that is!) has been one of the greatest joys of my life!
My son (now 3) is still breastfeeding at night before bed, and my daughter (14 months) is still almost exclusively breastfed. She is not a big fan of 'real food' yet. If I hadn't read your book, I am certain that the experience would not have been so wonderful—I've no doubt that it would have been filled with a great deal of anxiety! Needless to say, I have since purchased the book!
I also had a lot of trouble with the idea of the 'family bed' at first, and in fact worked hard to keep my son in his crib at night. I finally tried it out with my daughter and I love it! Wouldn't trade it for the world! I find myself much more rested, and I love the special cuddle time with my little girl. I feel bad that I deprived my son of the same experience. I suppose we all live and learn! The only downside to it is that at 14 months post-partum, I still am waiting for a return of my fertility. As we are older parents (33 and 43), we are anxious to add another member to our family. I must resign myself to the fact that God has a plan, and I need to be willing to accept it, whatever it may be! (T.B, Oregon)
Sheila Kippley
Breastfeeding and Catholic Motherhood
The Seven Standards of Ecological Breastfeeding: The Frequency Factor
Breastfeeding and Natural Child Spacing (classic edition)


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CONGRATULATIONS to Bouquet of the Week winner, Peggy Houghton, who was nominated by her friends, Jean Dandy and family.
Mrs Dandy, from Links Avenue, writes: "Peggy is a special friend I have known for many years.
"There are not that many troopers in their 80s who have ridden a bike whatever the weather, every day, everywhere, for as long as I can remember.
"Unfortunately Peggy is recovering from surgery and although out and about the bike is out of bounds for the moment.
"I know the frustration is taking its toll and it won't be long before she is back in the saddle again.
"In the meantime we send her our love and, if possible, the Bouquet of the Week. That would cheer her up so much.
"She is a remarkable lady."
If you know somebody you think deserves to win, drop us an email at email@example.com or write to: Bouquet of the Week, Southport Visiter, 26-32 Tulketh Street, Southport PR8 1BT. Or, nominate at our website www.southportvisiter.co.uk Inspired flowers is at 39a Liverpool Road. To order, call 01704 568288.


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Sunday, 27 June 2010
Back complete and chest re-enforced
I've now finished the back and managed to re-enforce the chest today.
I first glued a wire hanger into the chest so it would keep it's shape. This worked out really well.
Next step I'm taking is adding the detail to the chest using car body filler.
Hopefully get some done during the week.
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Thursday, 24 June 2010
Chest done onto back.
Okay, so I've finished the chest and at first I thought I'd need to rescale it as it didn't seem to sit right. But after referencing some images of the Mark VI I found I was just holding it too low, once in the correct place it looked good.
So I've not moved onto the back and done a fair bit, starting from the spine, moving downwards then upwards. I'm about 40% there and hopefully I can finish it before the weekend.
Pictures to follow.
So I've not moved onto the back and done a fair bit, starting from the spine, moving downwards then upwards. I'm about 40% there and hopefully I can finish it before the weekend.
Pictures to follow.
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Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Mark VI has begun!
I've been waiting for a Iron Man VI Pep to come onto the scene since watching the first Iron Man 2 trailer and finally one has arrived.
robo3687 on the siwdat.com forums has provided a well detailed set of Iron Man armors which cover the Iron Man 2 movie suites. These can be found here
So I'm almost done with the Pep work, although I spent a couple of hours prior to Pepping sorting out supports so it would keep its shape during the re-enforcement stage. The total Pep time is going to come to 7 hours and hopefully I can re-enforce it this weekend.
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Monday, 14 June 2010
Well I missed a few blog posts :S Sorry!
Well I did eventually finish off the mold and have successfully cast a few helmets. Can you spot the difference?
Next step on the helmet front is to make a nice copy for myself and install a set of light up eyes like I did for the master and an electronic system for the faceplate.
If you've not seen the light up eyes yet then check my Flickr photo stream here
I've started moving away from Flickr, and towards Picasa so I'm removing the Flickr gadget on the right because it seems to make the page take ages to load.
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This is a short version from my current feature film I am working on.
A story I derected about a hitchhiker that gets picked up by an old man and his journey is nothing than he expected.
The film was shot in just less than 12 hours with a budget of zero. Besides the fact that it went down to below freezing point during the night scenes, we had a crew and cast of exceptional endurance and a pleasure to work with. Everything came together and this film entered into Cannes as well as Grahams Town film festival as well as various other international appearances.
A horror trailer I directed of a man that has reached the end of existence.
The intro titles was an experience I will never forget. I took various newspapers and cut out words all pertaining to anger. It's amazing how dark our advertising world of actually are.
Little One
A drama I wrote and directed which is based on the fear of teenage pregnancy in the 1950's.
This film was a very big challenge to source props which came from the 50's. Not having any budget at all, there was certain modern elements which was unfortunately visible.
The film reached international exposure on Australian and New Zealand TV channels.
Final Chapter
A drama I directed about a nagging wife that eventually gets what she asked for. The film was shot in less that 5 hours and editing done within 1 evening. Graphics and grading was done over a day.
The film reached broadcast on international TV channels in Australia and New Zealand.
A film based on a true story of a young man dealing with the loss of his brother, in his own way possible at the time.
This was my very first film I wrote, directed and attacked the post production. Not knowing anything about film at the time and the entire process, it surely was a project which made me realise that a filmmaker is what I will be.
Being a personal story to me, this was a huge challenge and a very therapeutical process which is a quality that I will take forward into all my future films.
The film reached local broadcast on TV channels and later international TV channels.
RIP my brother Nicky Swanepoel – (4 May 1974 – 19 September 1998)


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United Rentals
The 10-second takeaway
For the quarter ended March 31 (Q1), United Rentals met expectations on revenues and beat expectations on earnings per share.
Compared to the prior-year quarter, revenue grew significantly. Non-GAAP earnings per share grew significantly. GAAP earnings per share grew.
Gross margins increased, operating margins contracted, net margins dropped.
Revenue details
United Rentals recorded revenue of $1.10 billion. The nine analysts polled by S&P Capital IQ wanted to see a top line of $1.11 billion on the same basis. GAAP reported sales were 68% higher than the prior-year quarter's $656.0 million.
Source: S&P Capital IQ. Quarterly periods. Dollar amounts in millions. Non-GAAP figures may vary to maintain comparability with estimates.
EPS details
EPS came in at $0.58. The 12 earnings estimates compiled by S&P Capital IQ forecast $0.49 per share. Non-GAAP EPS of $0.58 for Q1 were 61% higher than the prior-year quarter's $0.36 per share. GAAP EPS of $0.19 for Q1 were 12% higher than the prior-year quarter's $0.17 per share.
Source: S&P Capital IQ. Quarterly periods. Non-GAAP figures may vary to maintain comparability with estimates.
Margin details
For the quarter, gross margin was 53.4%, much better than the prior-year quarter. Operating margin was 14.6%, 20 basis points worse than the prior-year quarter. Net margin was 1.9%, 10 basis points worse than the prior-year quarter. (Margins calculated in GAAP terms.)
Looking ahead
Next quarter's average estimate for revenue is $1.23 billion. On the bottom line, the average EPS estimate is $1.06.
Next year's average estimate for revenue is $5.06 billion. The average EPS estimate is $4.82.
Investor sentiment
The stock has a three-star rating (out of five) at Motley Fool CAPS, with 206 members out of 225 rating the stock outperform, and 19 members rating it underperform. Among 74 CAPS All-Star picks (recommendations by the highest-ranked CAPS members), 67 give United Rentals a green thumbs-up, and seven give it a red thumbs-down.
Of Wall Street recommendations tracked by S&P Capital IQ, the average opinion on United Rentals is outperform, with an average price target of $63.58.
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Notice in Psalms 105 and 106 how the exodus story is retold yet once again. This was the defining moment in the life of Israel. In 105 the writer recounts the incredible event of the exodus itself. Psalm 106 tells of Israel's disobedience in both the wilderness and the Promised Land.
Could this have been written to a nation in exile? Israel in Babylon? It is likely that the exodus story was a favorite of Jews relocated to the land of Persia. It would have been a natural way for a disenfranchised people to remind themselves that their God had delivered them before, and that he would come through for them again.
Then Psalm 106 narrates Israel's unfaithfulness. Could this perhaps be a warning to not make the same mistake once they were delivered from the Persians? The lesson: God freed our fathers from Egypt, but they soon forgot to be thankful. When God frees us from Babylon, let's not make the same mistake.
Have you ever said, "Oh that could never happen to me"?


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Like the title? It's my new slogan. Two weeks ago I made a pledge to try my damnedest to date positively, to positively date and to stop being a negative dater.
And so I stopped complaining, stopped kvetching, stopped over-analyzing anything dating. Maybe that's why I haven't been writing as much lately...
They say that if you give out positive energy, then you will get positive results. And I've gotta say that ever since I made that promise (bli neder of course...) I've been seeing mucho results. Wish I could tell you about that. Maybe another time...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
positively dating
Like the title? It's my new slogan. Two weeks ago I made a pledge to try my damnedest to date positively, to positively date and to stop being a negative dater.
6 comments:
- Jewish Side of Babysitter said...
very good, glad to hear about this positive change. Maybe I should do the same.
- July 28, 2009 at 5:41 PM
- Anonymous said...
Hahaha who would have thunk that guys actually like to take out girls who are happy, warm, and friendly people..... did I mention happy?...
psychology 101: people enjoy the presence of other happy people.
it's like date rule#1. dont talk about anything negative on a date. even if it's something the two of you both agree on or believe. regardless if it's a shared view the impression you give is of an unhappy person.
- July 28, 2009 at 5:56 PM
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- July 29, 2009 at 4:58 AM
- Single on the Scene said...
YAY! yet another happy person joins the ranks! sure beats the 'depressive dating' friends...
- July 29, 2009 at 7:26 PM
- Moshe said...
So does this mean you're positively getting engaged soon? ;-)
- August 2, 2009 at 2:12 PM
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IT'S NOT AS if Tan were a welcome bovine in many a media company's pastures, and in truth ABS-CBN and the Star are not the only ones to feel his presence. As some insiders tell it though, there simply was no stopping him when he came lumbering confidently through the corporate gates, often with a considerable number of company shares on his back. At least that's how it was with ABS-CBN, which found Tan in possession of 20 million shares of the publicly listed Lopez-owned radio and television network. Tan had bought the shares in 1996 through his Allied Banking Corporation. Having them means Tan now owns three percent of the country's largest broadcast company, bringing him close to a board seat beside mall magnate and fellow taipan Henry Sy.
The difference, says an ABS-CBN source, is that Sy was invited to join the ABS-CBN board while Tan was not. The SM owner has a cinema business thought beneficial to ABS-CBN's movie production outfit Star Cinema. Tan, in contrast, had no deal to offer the Lopezes. Even worse, says the source, he was feared to tarnish the network's good standing with his reputation as a tax evader.
The case of the Star, the third most widely circulated broadsheet in the country, is rather different. When its late publisher Betty Go-Belmonte was trying to get the paper off the ground in the 1980s, Tan is said to have generously lent her part of the cash she needed. "I owed him money," Monsod recalls Belmonte telling her once, "but I paid him back."
According to Monsod, Belmonte had also assured her of complete independence in writing her columns, "but when she died, things changed." Monsod apparently finds some connection between the way she was treated and the fact that Star publisher Max Soliven also happens to be publisher and chairman of the board of Eastgate publishing, the group that produces PAL's inflight magazine Mabuhay. That, harrumphs Monsod, is a clear case of conflict of interest.
Tan reportedly owns shares in the paper through a trustee. He is also believed to be part-owner of the Philippine Post, a new broadsheet said to have been funded by Finance Secretary and known Tan fan Edgardo Espiritu. But the newspaper that he has long been rumored to have more than a minority interest in is Today, the slick daily run by lawyer and television host Teddy Locsin Jr. Rumors regarding the alleged real owners of the paper began circulating as early as Today's start-up stage, when a Tan-owned company was revealed to be its major supplier of state-of-the-art computers.
Such ownership talks have persisted to this day, although until recently they were confined in media circles. At the peak of the flak over PAL, however, the matter resurfaced in Today's own op-ed section. "As far as I know," labor leader Popoy Lagman, then supporting the PAL unions, wrote in a letter to the editor, "the P30 million he (Teddyboy) received from Tan was gratis. Hence, he has no obligation to become Tan's slave." Locsin countered with the charge that Lagman was secretly playing both sides and that Tan had given the former rebel P20 million and a car to persuade the PAL employees to end the strike. Interestingly enough, the sharp-tongued Locsin neglected to deny the insinuation that Tan's money had helped start Today.
But perhaps only Lucio Tan himself knows for sure which media outfits he has money in. The personnel of one of the country's top five AM radio stations say they had no inkling Tan had some business interest in their station until they began hitting the magnate during the PAL fiasco. Somehow, the station owners were reminded that Tan had bailed them out during a financial crisis in the 1980s, and that he was therefore a business partner—a very silent one, but a partner nonetheless. The result, says one station insider, is that management simply refused to air any Tan or PAL-related news in the week the controversy was raging.
Another radio station that can be called Tan-friendly is DWWW. The station was originally owned by the family of veteran newscaster Tina Monzon-Palma, but acquired by Bacsal a few years ago. Bacsal, who says he is "connected" with Fortune Tobacco but declines to be more specific, insists Tan has no interest in the venture.
To Lucio Tan's close friends and associates, most of his investments in media, admitted or not, are mere manifestations of the taipan's generosity. "Alam mo kasi nung araw, maraming taong nangangailangan ng pera, uutang sa kanya, pag hindi nabayaran, equity na lang (You know in the old days, a lot of people who needed money would approach Lucio Tan for loans. When they couldn't pay him back, he just writes off the debts as equity)!" says retired Gen. Salvador Mison, president of Basic Holdings Corporation, which manages several Tan companies.
As his friends see it, it is hardly Tan's fault that his being big-hearted has earned him an equally generous share of defenders in the media. Jake Macasaet, publisher of Ang Pahayagang Malaya, told a U.S. journalist during an interview three years ago, "I maintain that he (Lucio Tan) is a persecuted businessman."
But Tan's associates and friends may be downplaying the effects of his presence, financial and otherwise, in media outfits. Says a public relations practitioner who deals with newspaper reporters and editors: "I have to tread my way carefully through every paper other than BusinessWorld because Lucio Tan has a person protecting his interests in most every paper, except perhaps BusinessWorld."
If the PR practitioner is correct, then that may explain why most newspapers had refused to air anti-Tan stories when the airline was in distress. Then again, it could also have been due to the fear of getting dragged off to court, a very costly risk to take for dailies, many of which were themselves not doing much better than PAL. The one paper that did run stories on Tan and PAL, the Philippine Daily Inquirer, ended up as the respondent in a P100-million libel suit filed by the billionaire himself last September. The paper had headlined a story saying Tan bled the airline dry and made P25 billion in the process. The case was dismissed by the Makati regional trial court on February 16.
Today columnist Dan Mariano, however, maintains that in general, "PAL has been getting sympathetic coverage from the press." He points out that the airline actually maintained friendly ties with the media long before Tan came into the picture. For years, PAL made it a practice to regularly give free tickets to print reporters, editors and publishers and broadcast personalities. Newspapers also rely on PAL to bring their copies to the provinces. Concludes Mariano: "No wonder then that whenever PAL employees go on strike, many news organizations are inclined to portray them as villains."
Unfortunately for Tan, the good press didn't seem to do him much good. A survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) last year found Lucio Tan to be infamous—four out of five adult Filipinos know him, but he is more distrusted than trusted by the public. Wrote SWS director Mahar Mangahas: "From this it would seem that the media persons recently named by labor leader Filemon 'Popoy' Lagman as being on Lucio Tan's payroll have been ineffective—though another possibility is that those in the so-called envelopmental media have at least kept Mr. Tan's trust rating from getting even worse."
BUT MORE visible and effective than ownership or an intimate relationship with the press is the clout Lucio Tan wields by practically subsidizing the media, thanks to the numerous ad placements of his companies. Tan's firms are among the country's top advertisers. In 1996 alone, his top three companies—Asia Brewery, Tanduay Distillery and Fortune Tobacco—altogether plunked down almost a billion pesos in media advertising. A year later, just when the economic crisis began, the figure jumped to P1.621 billion.
The bulk of Tan's advertising money is spent on radio and television, the media most relied upon to reach the targets of his consumer products, the masa. For airing commercials of Hope, Winston, Champion, More and Mark cigarettes, Fortune Tobacco paid the television industry nearly P600 million in 1997, and the radio industry almost P400 million. In contrast, Fortune spent only P17.55 million for print ads.
Tan's ad money is spread out to various television and radio stations, and following industry practice, is placed in programs which are most watched by consumers. His managers are said to report directly to a committee—chaired by Tan himself—which has made it a policy to underwrite only programs considered Tan-friendly.
These managers deal directly with the sales departments of broadcast stations, the units that sell airtime to clients. The managers also monitor whether the advertisements come out and whether the program over which it is aired did not make any derogatory remark about the product or the client himself, i.e. Tan. Hence, when Korina Sanchez read aloud that Lucio Tan was a tax evader in 1996, Fortune Tobacco executives immediately pulled their ads out of her program. Sanchez can only call it "pure blackmail and harassment."
Unlike other networks, the giant ABS-CBN could probably afford to let go of the Tan account because several others are waiting in line to fill its slot. But it's a sizable account nonetheless; in 1998, the network earned P98 million from advertisements placed by Tan-owned companies in Channel 2 alone, not counting radio station DZMM.
It really isn't the big companies like ABS-CBN that are most affected by pressure from advertisers, but rather the smaller broadcast stations and outfits that jostle for the advertising crumbs thrown away by the big boys. But even the mid-size stations are bound not to pass up any advertising revenue, especially in times of crisis.
A major broadcast network has developed a modus vivendi as far as Lucio Tan is concerned. "There are stories about Lucio Tan you really can't kill," says a TV news executive connected with the network. But rather than get annoying calls from Tan's minions, the station has come up with the policy that "if we're running a story on Lucio Tan, we pull out his advertisement from that program and put it elsewhere."
"Mr. Tan has all the right to withdraw his sponsorship of a program if he's being attacked! " Mison declares. "Can you imagine listening to a news program that calls Mr. Tan a tax cheat, then it's brought to you by Tanduay Rhum? You're paying for that program and then you're being attacked in that program! Hindi tama (It's not right)!"
To be fair, there are other advertisers who would not hesitate to use their business clout to whip the media into line. For years, the weekly magazine show 'The Probe Team' earned considerable income producing "The Good News," a regular segment on successful entrepreneurs sponsored by another major broadcast advertiser, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT). But when 'Probe' producers did a story on rival Bayantel and the sorry state of phone services in the country, PLDT immediately withdrew its ads from 'Probe.' The PLDT account was small but substantial enough for an independent outfit like Probe, which competes with the established and station-produced programs for revenue. But that was three years ago and time seems to have healed the rift. 'Probe' will soon be producing "The Good News" for PLDT again.
Lessons like this teach broadcast journalists especially to be shallow and sensationalistic. Rather than make insightful inquiries into the country's economic problems and consumer woes that might offend advertisers, television and radio news programs encourage safer stories that deal with sex, crime and entertainment. Many years ago, Fortune Tobacco took ABC Channel 5 to task for airing, on a Fortune-sponsored news bulletin, a story on the harmful effects of smoking. Nowadays, the company would rather subsidize "harmless" ventures like sports news or late night movies than serious news programs.
Pressure from advertisers has also fostered self-censorship among broadcast journalists. A managing editor in an AM radio station says it's not uncommon for reporters to first check with bosses before covering touchy stories involving big advertisers. Once they hear the advice, "Pare, may account yan(That one has an account)!" they retreat.
In television news and public affairs, executives warn correspondents to stay away from stories that might offend patrons. A story on the cattle industry and the country's beef supply, no matter how harmless, might anger a major fast-food chain. A report on bottled water may irk a water company, or even the water utility. And the worries go on.
Offending advertisers—any advertiser, really—could be costly. In Lucio Tan's case, the flight of Fortune Tobacco could mean millions of pesos in potential revenue, plus triple jeopardy. Not one but at least two other major Tan account could go down with it.
Now with Tan rumored on a buying binge—he is supposedly interested in acquiring businesses that include Meralco and Mimosa, PNB and Petron—there may be even less room for journalists to maneuver. Big Brother may truly have arrived.
There's a postscript to this report. Sometimes, sensitive stories have a way of turning up in the most unexpected places, no matter how hard a reporter avoids it.
As the rest of the country greeted 1999 with fireworks, ABS-CBN reporter Mike Cohen was seated on the steps of the Guesthouse in Malacañang, waiting for a story to take home for his early morning program, 'Alas Singko Y Medya.' Earlier, he had gotten clearance from Palace guards and staff to be there for a story about a presidential son who had just moved into Malacañang. Upon arriving there, he was told the First Family was having New Year's eve dinner with the closest of the president's friends—the inner circle. And so Cohen and his crew waited.
The party apparently broke up shortly past 2:00 am of January 1, and the First Family was seeing its guests to the door. Who would appear but Lucio Tan with a tipsy President Joseph Estrada whom Cohen overheard telling the tycoon: "Pare, don't worry about your problems. This year will be better."
Cohen had no idea what those problems were and probably couldn't care less. For moments later, his thoughts were on trying to get out of the place fast. The president had seen Cohen and his camera crew recording the whole thing. Estrada's amiable countenance changed, recalls Cohen, and after Tan left, the visibly furious president demanded that they turn over the tape to him at once. "He was really upset," says Cohen. "My only thought was on getting out of there alive. What if he hit me?"
Estrada reached down to yank the tape out of the camera himself, and he may be the only one who knows what Cohen and his crew caught on camera that New Year's morning. But it sent yet another message to media: taipan Tan's clout goes all the way to the top.


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Help! Need to lose weight.
Please give me some info on how to lose weight. A friend weighs 170 lbs like me and she's got diabetes. I'm afraid I might have diabetes if I don't shed some pounds.
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Hope you don't have it. I'm afraid I might have it too because it runs in our family. Good luck!
Hi, I'm trying to lose weight, too. It seems like I've been dealing with my weight all my adult life. I'm pre-diabetic/no meds right now, so I'm new at all this stuff, just starting to watch my blood sugars. I just finished a Diabetic Self-Management course at my local hospital…
For my weight loss journey, I use a free website called SparkPeople, where I journal anything & everything I put into my mouth. I stick to 1200cal weekdays and 1500cal on weekends. You setup the amount of carb grams, protein, etc that you want to track. there's even a place to keep track of your weight losses or gains. I really love the site, like diabetic connect, there's a lot of support, if you want it…
I have gout so the only exercise I do is on a recumbent bike, which I try to get on at least twice a day for 20 minutes. Good luck to all on this diabetic and weight lose journey…
Got to lose a lot of weight too. Hope I can find some idea here.
Diet and exercise is a good start. Though crash dieting is a big no. And in exercise, you can start walking if you don't have an active lifesytle.
Hi. I'm doing a low carb diet to lose the extra pounds. You might wanna try it too. Just take it easy, if your friend got diabetes it doesn't mean that you'll have it too. But it's good thing that you're thinking of losing weight to be safe.
Sorry. I just joined today. I weigh 234. I can't really exercise except for walking. Where I live is HOT and HUMID. Neither my dog nor I can stand it. I have to walk with my dog as she gives me balance as I am also a back patient, which in turn, bothers my legs. I can't stand looking the way I do. I don't even go buy clothes, not that I can afford it. I know my main problem is portion control and I eat my main meal around noon, 1:00. That, combined with NO exercise, is a big problem. How can I do portion control and still feel full while maintaining my diabetes diet? HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!11
There is a walking DVD that you can do right in your home. Its called Walk Away The Pounds with Leslie Sansone. She's absolutely wonderful and teaches you how you can lose weight by walking in your home. You can buy the DVD's pretty cheaply on Ebay. They're a good way to start out.
Good luck!
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text: Hacking is a tech discussion, so i guess this is the best place to post this... i just came across this yesterday: http://www.thebroken.org/. they make a sort of hacker videozine. episode 1 is out now, looks good, but i haven't watched all of it yet. it's a pretty big DL, 45MB for low res, 82MB for high res, but it's worth it.


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fatfingers clone (ebay search engine)
Budget $30-100 USD
I want a [url removed, login to view] clone (Ebay search engine for misspelled items)
It will be coded in PHP
I'll provide the PHP function that generates typos from input
The site will output clean (X)HTML (no tag soup please) and a clean, lightweight, if possible elegant visual look.
I want fatfingers' front page (including advanced search) to be cloned, I don't care about the rest
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hi there, i am new around, but i have experience with php. please check pmb. regards, andrew
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