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President Trump visited Springfield, Missouri, and laid out his plans for reforming our nation's outdated, complex and uncompetitive tax system. The president's plan is built around an America-first tax system that is focused on jobs, increasing wages and wealth in America, and restoring the American dream.The Business Roundtable conducted a survey of their CEOs and 90 percent responded that delaying tax reform will harm the U.S. economy by causing slower economic growth, hiring, and capital investment. Fifty-seven percent of the responding CEOs say delaying tax reform means their company will delay capital spending, the investment that drives jobs and growth. Fifty-six percent say their companies will delay hiring plans.President Trump believes lower taxes and higher wages will result in a better life for all Americans and make the American dream more accessible than ever before. The Colorado Business Roundtable enthusiastically endorses a tax reform plan that accomplishes four goals — simplification of our tax code so that it is fair to all Americans, provides reforms that lead to job creation and higher wages, provides tax relief for the working and middle classes, and paves the way for repatriation of funds parked offshore back to the United States.Our current tax code has increased in length and complexity so that 94 percent of U.S. taxpayers needed some form of help to file their returns, according to National Taxpayers Union, and 91 percent of small businesses hired a professional to do their taxes, according to the National Federation of Independent Business. Taxpayers spend over 6 billion hours annually complying with the tax code, according to the IRS's Taxpayer Advocate Service. Complying with current tax code, one that is six time longer today as it was in 1955, places a $262 billion burden on the economy.Colorado's economy depends on 892 U.S. companies that actively operate internationally, competing in global markets on a daily basis for inputs, capital and customers. These globally engaged companies directly and indirectly contributed $148.8 billion to the Colorado economy in 2013, according to a Business Roundtable report. Focusing on tax reform that benefits Colorado workers, is simple and fair, and sets a competitive rate that drive job creation and higher wages is something every Coloradan should champion."If we don't have tax reform sometime this or early next year, a lot of the business investment that's been predicated on getting tax reform done will have been poorly made," said J.D. Foster, senior vice president and chief economist at the U.S. Chamber. "Business investment will likely contract significantly, and we will have a significant period of economic weakness in my opinion."Our economy is healthy when we grow at roughly 3.5 percent. Since 2007, it has been below 2.5 percent consistently. Significant and generational tax reform is at the core of President Trump's plan to return to over 3 percent growth. A 3 percent growth rate will yield a nominal gross domestic product that is $16 trillion larger, generate $2.9 trillion in federal government revenue, and raise wages and salaries of American workers by $7 trillion, according to administration estimates.Fixing our broken tax code for families, small businesses, workers, and job creators is the single most important action we can take to grow our economy and help the middle class get ahead. If we are successful in this once-in-a-generation opportunity to make taxes simpler, fairer and lower for hard-working Colorado families, we can encourage entrepreneurs to reinvest in their businesses and American companies to bring back jobs and profits trapped overseas."CEOs overwhelmingly believe that tax reform is the most effective way to put more Americans to work in a stronger, growing economy. The Trump administration's recent release of its tax proposals was a significant step forward as they work with Congress on pro-growth reform legislation. By demonstrating the importance of tax reform to business and the U.S. economy, these survey results confirm that tax reform is a critical priority if we are to grow the economy and create jobs and opportunity," said Business Roundtable President and CEO Joshua Bolten.Colorado Business Roundtable strongly encourages our congressional delegation, leadership and the administration to pass meaningful and permanent tax reform. If you are interested in joining business leaders, chambers and associations in advocating for a fairer, simpler and more competitive rate, please contact us at email@example.com Wasden is president of the Colorado Business Roundtable, which describes itself as an advocate for proactive, pro-business legislation that strengthens the economy and allows businesses to grow and thrive in Colorado and the region.
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Today we're featuring another sampler, Monica Solorio Snow's Make Me Happy quilt.
Monica is a proud member of the Portland Modern Quilt Guild and she blogs at The Happy Zombie. Her post about making this quilt can be found here. We also asked her a couple of questions.
MQG: What do you think makes your quilt modern?
Monica: I think when you take something and infuse it with bits of you, as well as make it fresh and crisp – that's what makes it modern. Celebrating the colors and the fabrics by using them with white or greys or another solid. Using solid white is like giving your colors and prints a stage, and letting them belt out some beautiful eye music – like Pink Martini for your eyes. I remember as a kid on special occasions having TV dinners, and how fun it was to have those little compartments for the food on the TV trays. It's how I feel about using solids, especially white… it's makes the quilt one big fun TV dinner and everything was so dang tasty. Quilts should be tasty, too.
When we infuse our own happiness into the quilt, I believe it makes the quilt all the more beautiful. Making it our own and not following all (or any) of the instructions or guidelines is not a bad thing. Not that I don't love to follow a great pattern – but if I'm not feelin' it… I'm not gonna do it – just as I did with the Make Me Happy quilt. I hope that's how people treat my patterns too – to make and finish it to their happiness standards – not mine. I think quilt patterns are merely seeds, and everyone should grow their gardens in their own sunshine and happiness. And unicorns if they can find one.
MQG: What is your all-time favorite block pattern?
Monica: I don't so much have a favorite block – but rather a favorite type of block. I love a great traditional block that can have many personalities just by switching values, colors, scales or fabrics. I love, love, love seeing a vintage block made with modern fabrics and some crisp, happy white solid. I also love a block that can be changed in multiple ways, set on landscape or on point, or paired with another block to make an interesting secondary pattern. Kind of like my You Are Here block (my escape plan if I'm ever in my personal Hell – the Mall). I love a great secondary pattern when one can't "see" the blocks right away. Gotta make people look a bit!

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Of course, this marriage record is something I discovered later, after I had begun serious research into the family. Before this I asked questions of the family, and in fact, it was my uncle, Rodney Smedmore, who told me that Amanda's father's name was Daniel Elias Brown and that he had married a Mrs. Williamson. Well, he had Daniel`s name right, but Daniel didn't marry a Miss or Mrs. Williamson, as I later discovered. In fact all that I knew at that time about the Browns was that my grandmother, Amanda, had three sisters named Susan, Bertha and Theresa. Susan had married John Cassis and my mother kept in touch with their son, also named John who lived with his wife, Fanny, in Toronto. There was also another son named Cromwell Cassis, but I knew very little about him. My great-aunt Bertha had married Percy Esterine and they lived in New York, and each Christmas Aunt Bertha would send us a lovely box of Whitman's Sampler chocolates. As for Theresa, she was the only one, beside my grandmother, that I actually knew as she lived with my family for a while, and I called her Aunt Tess. Everything else I found out about the family was through my research, using the records which had been microfilmed in Jamaica by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known as the Mormons.
Daniel had siblings, a sister, Susan Saunders Brown (more of her later) and another sister, Eliza, and a brother, Jonas. Interestingly enough, Daniel gave his eldest child, Susan, the middle name Saunders, so it may have been his mother's maiden name ... something I haven't so far been able to confirm.
Daniel went to Port Royal at some point where he was employed in the dockyard as a shipwright, and where he married in 1858 Sarah Letitia McDonald, formerly Huggins. Sarah was a widow. Her first husband had been a shoemaker named Donald McDonald, by whom she had two daughters, Elizabeth Huggins McDonald and Mary Noel McDonald. I have followed the family of Elizabeth McDonald, but know nothing more about Mary. I do, however, know something of the life of Sarah Letitia Huggins.
Sarah`s father was one James Vashon Huggins, born in 1803 in Port Royal, the illegitimate son of a Lieutenant Huggins and Sarah Vashon, who was born about 1775. I have not so far found her baptismal record. I do know that she was a free quadroon woman and had another son for one Leonard Procter of His Majesty`s Navy. This child, Robert Vashon Mitchell Procter, was baptized in Port Royal in 1798. According to the 1824 Almanac for Port Royal, Sarah Vashon owned four slaves, so was probably fairly well off. It is noted in the Manumission of Slaves for 1822 that she freed one of them, a Susannah Smith.
The Port Royal Copy Register of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials is missing many records. I did find a marriage for James Vashon Huggins to a Mary Goldson in 1830, by which there were two children, Elizabeth, born in 1831, and Sarah Letitia, born in 1832. Sarah married Donald McDonald in 1851. Their eldest child was born about 1852, and their other daugher, Mary, was born in 1854. Donald must have died before 1858 (though I have not found a burial record for him) as Sarah Letitia was married as a widow that year to Daniel. Although both Daniel and Sarah had been baptized in the Church of England they were married in Port Royal in the Methodist faith, and their children were all baptized in the Methodist church. It was not until I was able to hire a researcher in Jamaica to find the records (which were in the Archives at Spanish Town) that I was able to flesh out the Brown family ... but more of that in another post.


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BOSTON — The annual convention of the National Catholic Educational Association is a busman's holiday of sorts.
Every year thousands of Catholic school teachers and administrators take a big chunk of their Easter vacation to learn how to do their jobs better.
They attend dozens of workshops dealing with the nuts and bolts of how to get kids to write more creatively or understand math concepts. They also get tips on ways to use
technology in class and suggestions for ways this technology should be curbed, if possible, by students off campus.
The educators also deal with bigger challenges: how to cope with closing schools, competition from charter schools and how to teach the faith in a world that seems to continually grow further from it.
But the three-day event, which took place April 11-13 in Boston this year, was not all learning. The 10,000 participants, most of whom were women, also just seemed to enjoy their time together. (One sign there were more women than men were the men's bathrooms in the convention hall that were temporarily converted to women's rooms.)
These educators, including catechists, congregated in groups in between "classes" and got together for meals that were most likely better than the usual cafeteria fare.
Although some joked that they "don't get out much," they seemed to know just how to get out in this city gearing up for its opening day Red Sox game at Fenway Park tonight and the upcoming Boston Marathon this coming Monday.
The regulars at these conventions know the drill. They comb through the convention program for workshops that catch their eye and then many complain that there are too many good workshops offered at the same time.
The overall mood of this group was certainly upbeat. These folks are really committed not only to their students but to the whole idea of educating young people in the faith.
Even this reporter, who has been to lots of NCEA conventions, was impressed. I was also glad my kids have had the benefit of dedicated men and women such as those in this crowd.
In no way was this a group of Pollyannas either. In discussions during some workshops, these educators expressed frustration that they sometimes feel they are lone voices stressing the importance of Catholic schools. It seems they not only have to fight for funds to keep going but also for support.
Often people reminisce about the old days when schools were staffed by nuns and some lament how those days are over.
A photo at the NCEA headquarters from the first convention illustrates these old days: All the participants attending a general session are sisters wearing habits.
Those days are gone. Certainly there are still women religious, priests and brothers leading schools and religious education programs, but the bulk of the work is done by the laity.
And from the looks of things, these men and women are taking their charge seriously.
One workshop presenter told NCEA delegates that their schools better be ready for Monday morning when these teachers and principals return reinvigorated.
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Edgar Degas
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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.Don Herold
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (1834-07-19 - 1917-09-27), known as Edgar Degas, was a French painter, printmaker and sculptor.
- Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.
- Notebook entry (1858), The Notebooks of Edgar Degas, ed. Theodore Reff (1976)
- J'ai vraiment, un vrai bagage dans la tête. S'il y avait pour cela, comme il y a partout ici, des compagnies d'assurance, voilà un ballot je ferais assurer de suite.
- I really have some luggage in my head. If only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things here, there's a bale I should insure at once.
- Letter to James Tissot, (New Orleans, 1873), quoted in Marilyn Brown, Degas and the Business of Art: A Cotton Office in New Orleans (Penn State Press, 1994)
- Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.
- Letter to Jean-Baptiste Faure (1877-03-14)
- I assure you no art was ever less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters; of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament — temperament is the word — I know nothing.
- Said in conversation with George Moore and quoted by Moore in Impressions and Opinions (1891)
- À vous il faut la vie naturelle, à moi la vie factice.
- You need the natural life; I, the artificial.
- George Moore, Impressions and Opinions (1891)
- These words were spoken, Moore states, to "a landscape painter"
- Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience; but these women of mine are honest, simple folk, unconcerned by any other interests than those involved in their physical condition. Here is another; she is washing her feet. It is as if you looked through a key-hole.
- George Moore, Impressions and Opinions (1891)
- What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
- Quoted in a letter by Daniel Halévy (1892-01-31), from Degas Letters, ed. Marcel Guerin, trans. Marguerite Kay (1947)
- Comme nous avons mal fait de nous laisser appeler Impressionistes.
- What a pity we allowed ourselves to be called Impressionists.
- Quoted by Walter Sickert in "Post-Impressionists," Fortnightly Review (January 1911)
- I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour.
- Quoted by Walter Sickert in "Post-Impressionism and Cubism," Pall Mall Gazette (1914-03-11). According to Sickert, Degas had said this to him in 1885.
- Je n'admets pas qu'une femme puisse dessiner comme ca.
- I will not admit that a woman can draw like that.
- Quoted in Forbes Watson, Mary Cassatt (1932)
- Referring to some etchings by Cassatt that Degas admired
- A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
- Georges Jeanniot, Souvenirs sur Degas (Memories of Degas, 1933)
- It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious — to cut out a little original niche for himself, or at least preserve his own innocence of personality — he must once more sink himself in solitude. There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profit; in order to do anything at all we need (so to speak) the wit and ideas of our neighbors as much as the businessmen need the funds of others to win on the market. All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.
- Notebook entry, quoted in Artists on Art: From the XIV to the XX Century, ed. Robert Goldwater (Pantheon, 1945)
- Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
- Quoted in Artists on Art: From the XIV to the XX Century, ed. Robert Goldwater (Pantheon, 1945)
- There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.
- Quoted in Daniel Halévy, Degas Parle (1960) [My Friend Degas, trans. and ed. Mina Curtiss, Wesleyan University Press, 1964], p. 119
- Une peinture, c'est d'abord un produit de l'imagination de l'artiste, ce ne doir jamais être une copie. Si, ensuite, on peut y ajouter deux ou trois accents de nature, evidemment ca ne fait pas de mal.
- A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.
- Quoted in Maurice Sérullaz, L'univers de Degas (H. Scrépel, 1979), p. 13
- C'est très bien de copier ce qu'on voit, c'est beaucoup mieux de dessiner ce que l'on ne voit plus que dans son mémoire. C'est une transformation pendant laquelle l'ingéniosité collabore avec la mémoire. Vous ne reproduisez que ce qui vous a frappé, c'est-à-dire le nécessaire.
- It is very good to copy what one sees; it is much better to draw what you can't see any more but is in your memory. It is a transformation in which imagination and memory work together. You only reproduce what struck you, that is to say the necessary.
- Quoted in Maurice Sérullaz, L'univers de Degas (H. Scrépel, 1979), p. 13
- Je voudrais être illustre et inconnu.
- I should like to be famous and unknown.
- Said to Alexis Rouart and quoted in Antoine Terrasse, Degas (Chartwell Books, 1982)
- Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
- Quoted in Julian Barnes, "The Artist As Voyeur" (1996), from The Grove Book of Art Writing, ed. Martin Gayford and Karen Wright (Grove Press, 2000)
Degas: An Intimate Portrait (1927)
A memoir by Ambroise Vollard, translated by Randolph T. Weaver. Dover, 1986, ISBN 0-486-25131-4
- I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself.
- "The Sensitive Artist" (p. 43)
- Visitor: Monsieur Degas, were there any of Monet's pictures at the Durand-Ruel exhibition?
Degas: Why, I met Monet himself there, and I said to him, "Let me get out of here. Those reflections in the water hurt my eyes!" His pictures were always too draughty for me. If it had been any worse I should have had to turn up my coat collar.
- "The Crime and the Punishment" (p. 46)
- The air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors.
- "The Crime and the Punishment" (p. 47)
- If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.
- "Some of Degas' Views on Art" (p. 56)
- I, marry? Oh, I could never bring myself to do it. I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, "That's a pretty little thing," after I had finished a picture.
- "Methods of Work" (p. 64)
- I'm glad to say I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.
- "Technical Details" (p. 70)
- People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.
- "As He Grows Old" (p. 87)
Degas Dance Drawing (1935)
Degas Danse Dessin by Paul Valéry, trans. David Paul. Princeton University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-691-01882-0
- Il faut avoir une haute idée, non pas de ce qu'on fait, mais de ce qu'on pourra faire un jour; sans quoi ce n'est pas la peine de travailler.
- You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.
- "Mad About Drawing" (p. 64)
- Le dessin n'est pas la forme, il est la manière de voir la forme.
- Drawing is not the same as form; it is a way of seeing form.
- "Drawing Is Not the Same As Form..." (p. 82)
- A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.
- "Recollections of Degas by Berthe Morisot" (p. 84)
The Shop-Talk of Edgar Degas
R. H. Ives Gammell, ed. University Press, Boston, 1961
- The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
- A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.
- Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
- Even working from nature you have to compose.
- Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
- Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.
- You must do over the same subject ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must appear accidental, even a movement.
- Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
- Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light but the effect of the lighting.
- Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.
- Painting is not very difficult when you don't know how; but when you know, oh! then, it's another matter.
- It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.
- Everybody has talent at twenty-five. The difficult thing is to have it at fifty.
- But it's true, isn't it Pauline, that people imagine that the artists and their models spend their time getting up to all sorts of obscenities? As far as work goes, well, they paint or sculpt when they are tired of enjoying themselves.
- Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?
- Damn, and just when I was starting to get it!
- Deathbed statement.
- Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.
- Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
- How awful it is not being able to see clearly any more! I have had to give up drawing and painting and for years now content myself with sculpture ... But if my eyesight continues to dim I won't even be able to model any more. What will I do with my days then?
- I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
- After a painting of his sold for a very high price (reported as $100,000) in an auction.
- I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it... painting is one's private life.
- If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.
- The moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.
- The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
- Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.
- What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
- What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn't interest me.
- I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.
- John Murray Gibbon, Pagan Love (1922), ch. xiv
About Edgar Degas
- A strange fellow, this Degas — sickly, a bundle of nerves, with such weak eyes that he is afraid of going blind, yet for these very reasons extremely sensitive to the character of things. He is more skillful in capturing the essence of modern life than anyone I know.
- Edmond de Goncourt, Journal (1874-02-13)
- With what is he concerned? Drawing was at its lowest ebb; it had to be restored. Looking at these nudes, I exclaim, "Drawing has come back again!"
As a man and painter he sets an example. Degas is one of those rare masters who could have had anything he wanted, yet he scorned decorations, honors, fortune, without bitterness, without jealousy.
- Paul Gauguin, Avant et après (1903)
- I have often heard Degas say that in painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
- Walter Sickert, "The Royal Academy," English Review (June 1912)
- I would ask him to give me his definition of drawing. "You don't know a thing about it," he would always end up saying. And without fail he would go on to this apologue: that the Muses do their work on their own, each apart from the others, and that they never talk shop. The day's work over, there are no discussions, no comparisons of their respective labors. "They just dance," he would shout.
- Paul Valéry, "About Corot" (Autour de Corot, 1932)
- Forain s'était construit un hôtel, et fil installer le téléphone presque nouveau. Il voulut d'abord "épater" Degas. Il l'invite à dîner, previent un compere, qui, pendant le dîner, appelle Forain à l'appareil. Quelque mots échangé, Forain revient. Degas lui dit: "C'est ça le téléphone? On vous sonne et vous y allez."
- When Forain built himself a town house, he installed a telephone, which was still not in very wide use. Wanting above all to surprise Degas with it, he invited him to dinner, and forewarned a friend, who summoned Forain to the receiver during the meal. After exchanging a few words, Forain sits down at table again. "So that's the telephone?" says Degas. "They ring, and you run."
- Paul Valéry, Degas Danse Dessin (1935): "More Obiter Dicta"
- All Paris knew him as a fighter, a recluse, guarding his privacy with cruel, crushing words. The habitués of the Paris boulevards defended themselves against his scorn by accusing him of insincerity. "Degas," they said, "would like to see his reflection in a boulevard window in order to give himself the satisfaction of breaking the plate-glass with his cane."
- Daniel Halévy, Degas Parle (1960) [My Friend Degas, trans. and ed. Mina Curtiss, Wesleyan University Press, 1964]
- To anyone who is not an artist it must seem rather strange that Degas who could do anything — for whom setting down what he saw presented no difficulties at all — should have continued to draw the same poses year after year — often, it would seem, with increasing difficulty. Just as a classical dancer repeats the same movements again and again, in order to achieve a greater perfection of line and balance, so Degas repeats the same motifs, it was one of the things that gave him so much sympathy with dancers. He was continually struggling to achieve an idea of perfect form, but this did not prevent him looking for the truth in what might seem an artificial situation.
- Kenneth Clark, The Romantic Rebellion (1973): Degas
- He was an avid collector of both old and new art; in his sixties he purchased two Gauguins, and when pushing eighty he remarked with some admiration of Cubism that "it seems even more difficult than painting."
- Robert Hughes, "Edgar Degas," Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists (Viking/Penguin, 1991)


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Season starts here for Martinez
Roberto Martinez hailed Saturday's 2-1 victory over West Ham as the start of Wigan's season as they claimed a first home win of the campaign to end a poor run.
The Latics had gone six games without a Barclays Premier League victory, losing four times, but goals from Ivan Ramis and James McArthur early in each half proved enough.
Latics manager Martinez said: "Before the game we knew it was a must-win game, and that's always difficult to cope with. It brings extra expectations and all of a sudden you start wanting to win and you don't really know how to win."
He went on: "I thought today was the complete opposite. I thought the performance was very mature, we kept the ball really well at times, we were a real threat and probably the most pleasing aspect was the manner we coped with their attacking threat.
"Until the last minute we showed real composure and I was extremely pleased with that. It was a very well deserved three points and now is probably the start of our season."
The Hammers had lost only twice in the league before Saturday but boss Sam Allardyce was highly critical of the performance, particularly when West Ham had the ball.
He said: "From start to finish we never got going. They hadn't won a game at home and, if you stay in the game, they get a bit more nervous.
"I'm surprised because our last away performance against QPR was outstanding and it was that performance I was asking for.
"We might have had a better start than Wigan but we've only just got here [to the Premier League] and we can only go out and give 100% to get a result. Any less than that you get punished at this level.
"Their technique was 10 times better than ours. Our technique on the ball was ridiculously poor today. The one thing that's got us where we are is our technique has been very good in possession. Today was a real blow and a real shock."


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NEW ORLEANS, (June 9, 2015) - Smoothie King Franchises, Inc., the leading smoothie franchise company with more than 700 stores worldwide, today announced a partnership with U.S. Women's National Soccer Team Star Lauren Holiday. Post World Cup Finals, a new campaign called "Celebrate the Cup" will launch, bringing Holiday to cities across the country to participate in local soccer clinics. The campaign will begin in July 2015 with dates and locations to be announced after the World Cup.
"Lauren Holiday is an incredible athlete who truly encompasses the mission of Smoothie King to inspire a healthy and active lifestyle," said Wan Kim, owner and CEO of Smoothie King. "Smoothie King will be cheering for Lauren throughout the World Cup and we look forward to working with her to inspire many young athletes across the U.S. this summer. Let's 'Celebrate the Cup' and (hopefully) a U.S. victory!"
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Lauren was introduced to the World most prominently in the summer of 2011 scoring goals for the U.S. at the FIFA Women's World Cup. She scored the first goal and assisted on the winning goal in the semi-final against France on July 13, 2011. The USA's best post-up player has shown to have an ability to impact the game off the bench and in a starting role. Lauren is strong into physical battles, but also an excellent passer in the attacking third and has shown the ability to partner well with whoever is on the forward line with her.
At the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, her leadership on and off the field helped propel her team to win an Olympic Gold Medal, the second of Lauren's career. Lauren is a two-time U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year award recipient (2007, 2014).
Lauren met her future husband, NBA star and fellow Wasserman Media Group client Jrue Holiday, while they were both student athletes at UCLA. The All-Star couple exchanged vows in 2013. They are active in the communities of Los Angeles and New Orleans.
Career Highlights:
- 2014 U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year 2014 NWSL Championship
- Championship Game MVP 2014
- 2013 NWSL Best XI
- 2013 NWSL Golden Boot Award; NWSL Most Valuable Player
- 2012 Olympic Gold Medalist
- 2011 FIFA World Cup Silver Medalist
- 2010 WPS #2 Draft Pick
- 2009 1st player in UCLA history to earn NSCAA/Adidas First-Team
- All-America honors all four years
- 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist
- 2007 U.S. Soccer Young Female Athlete of the Year
- 2006 Parade All-American; NCAA first-team All-American; NSCAA Freshman of the Year; Gatorade Player of the Year
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Completed in 1925, the Elizabeth C. Quinlan residence at 1711 Emerson Avenue South is located in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The house was created for Elizabeth C. Quinlan, who was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Company, which, in 1894, was the first woman's ready-to-wear shop west of the Mississippi River. Her highly successful department store, innovative practices and entrepreneurial work led her to become a leader of national recognition in the apparel industry and a pioneering business woman. Quinlan lived in the house from 1925 until her death in 1947. Quinlan was born in 1863, the daughter of working-class pioneers who settled on the banks of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. The house, designed by architect Frederick Lee Ackerman in the Renaissance Revival style, represents an excellent example of the Eclectic movement in the 1920s and of Ackerman's high-end residential work.
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When Elin Nordegren broke her silence Wednesday, she said she never hit Tiger Woods on the night of his infamous fender bender/mind bender. "The speculation that I would have used a golf club to hit him is just truly ridiculous," she said.
Of course, that raises more questions than it answers: What would she have used? A baseball bat? Tire iron? Diamond-encrusted walking stick? Claret jug?
Elin also said she has "not watched one minute of golf." On that point, she has a lot of company, because as soon as Tiger's game went down a ravine, so did TV ratings.
But perhaps there is a ray of sunshine here. Maybe, as Elin moves on with her life, Tiger can, too. Maybe the timing of this divorce will enable Tiger to get back to being Tiger again.
And no, I don't mean collecting women. I mean collecting real trophies.
The parting is sad, but most of the shock has long passed. The paperwork is done. The questions from the media have slowed to a trickle. The mistresses have exhausted their 15 minutes.
What we're left with is golf.
The divorce announcement came not long after the final major of 2010, the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, in which Tiger finished tied for 28th. It's hard to imagine a more miserable summer for a man who has 14 majors and has hopes of catching Jack Nicklaus.
The low point — golf-wise — came at the Bridgestone Invitational in early August, when he shot a final-round 77 and finished the tournament at 18-over par. His 78th-place finish was the worst of his career in tournaments in which he played all four rounds.
On top of that, Woods had to endure speculation as to whether he'd be invited to play on the Ryder Cup squad. That's like Peyton Manning being kept in the dark about his Pro Bowl chances.
The divorce announcement arrives at an ideal time, if there is such a thing when it comes to massive upheaval in one's personal life on a public stage. When Tiger goes 0-for-4 in majors, it's a lost year. Time to focus on 2011.
Everybody who has been through a divorce surely has a different formula for dealing with it. But the most common prescription for all of them is time. The mind needs to be cleared. The stress has to dissipate. The pieces need to be picked up, whichever ones aren't completely shattered.
If the guy has been kicking himself over his behavior, he is probably done with that now. There will still be regrets, but the most intense period of self-flagellation is probably over.
As far as golf, Woods probably has tinkered, studied, pondered, wondered and agonized over his game. The problem is between the ears, and specifically in the area that governs peace of mind. The personal life and the golf game are inseparable, no matter how good Tiger may be at compartmentalizing.
But now there will be a handful of events left on the PGA Tour, plus the Ryder Cup in October, and Silly Season events. Then comes the short winter before 2011 tournaments begin again in Hawaii and California in January.
Really, what Tiger will focus on is the Masters in April. That means he'll have roughly seven months to get his act together.
Seven months of working with new swing coaches. Seven months of putting practice. Seven months of shoving most of his marketing efforts aside to work on the game that brought him millions in the first place.
Seven months to adapt to a child custody routine. Seven months to allow civility to develop between he and Elin, if it hasn't already.
And perhaps most important of all from a competitive golf standpoint, Tiger will have seven months to reflect upon how mediocre he has become.
Middle-of-the-pack golfers are a tranquil lot, because they've accepted their place in the game. They know they're never going to be mentioned in the same breath with Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and yes, Tiger Woods. They're giddy just to get free gear from club and shoe companies, and to make a comfortable living.
That's hell for Tiger. He would rather be made to crawl across St. Andrews in a clown suit than accept anything less than greatness. Part of the reason has to do with the drive instilled in him by his late father. But part of it is that he has experienced the pinnacle — many times. He can't go backward.
Woods has 71 victories on the PGA Tour. He has 14 majors. Yet he is currently 112th on the PGA Tour's points list; Bob Estes is just above him, Cameron Beckman just below. How did he find himself in that threesome?
It's not healthy for Tiger to wallow in his own personal torment. But if the reality of his professional slide should eat away at him, that's probably for the best. He needs to summon that steely Tiger resolve. He has to look at himself in the mirror, see a hacker (relatively speaking, of course), and get mad about it.
Two people are involved in a divorce. Therefore, half of that situation is out of his control. Even if he had wanted to repair the marriage, it would only have happened if Elin agreed. And she didn't. I'm sure Tiger gets that.
But there is only one person involved in an historic golf career. Going through a public pillorying at the same time you're stinking up just about every course you step onto is brutal. Yet if most of the pain ends in late August, at least it creates some space to prepare for a fresh start.
It's the perfect time to move on, especially if you still have aspirations to be the greatest ever.


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On January 1, 1993 Slovakia became an independent nation-state, recognized by the United Nations and its member states. Although some aspects of the society already had a unique national character, namely the language, many of the customs, laws and conventions were still deeply influenced by past rulers: Czechs, Hungarians and the Austrian Habsburgs. However the deep traditions, some dating back hundreds of years, of the Slovak people underlie the apparent nascency of the Slovak Republic.
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I expected the women—or 'Butterflies'—to turn away at Baldwin Beach and say, 'no way,' to the downwinder, but they jumped right onboard with the encouragement of one another and accomplished the three-mile downwinder—which is something that not many people can say they've done in their lifetime. Being 'Mama Butterfly' to all the Butterfly Effect participants, I was concerned for the safety of all and was a worried wreck throughout the entire morning. But then, everyone started to arrive at Kanaha Beach with huge smiles strewn across their faces, laughing about their crazy experiences of being pounded by waves.
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The globe-spanning conflict between otherworldly monsters of mass destruction and the human-piloted super-machines built to vanquish them was only a prelude to the all-out assault on humanity in Pacific Rim Uprising.
Rebellious Jake Pentecost (John Boyega) is a once-promising Jaeger pilot whose legendary father gave his life to secure humanitys victory against the monstrous Kaiju. Jake has since abandoned his training only to become caught up in a criminal underworld. But when an even more unstoppable threat is unleashed to tear through our cities and bring the world to its knees, he is given one last chance to live up to his fathers legacy by his estranged sister, Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi)who is leading a brave new generation of pilots that have grown up in the shadow of war. As they seek justice for the fallen, their only hope is to unite together in a global uprising against the forces of extinction.
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LOS ANGELES — As anyone within a 300-mile radius of the Staples Center will tell you, this was, is and always will be a "Lakers town."
It's just a part of the deal when you have 16 NBA championship banners hanging in the rafters. But by the time all of the NBA gifts were unwrapped on Christmas, it was that other team that calls Staples Center home that stood out from the rest of the crowd. Lob City and then some.
The Clippers wiped the arena floor with the Denver Nuggets in a 112-100 clinic before an enthralled home crowd, pushing their franchise-record winning streak up to 14 games and counting. They boasts the league's best record at 22-6 and a half game ahead of the Oklahoma City Thunder, the first time they've held that distinction on Christmas Day in franchise history.
The Clippers have it all. The style of the Showtime Lakers with an edge the Bad Boys Pistons could appreciate all rolled up into a 14-man group that enjoys each other to the fullest, complete with Tuesday's "Ugly Christmas Sweater" contest that required every player to enter the locker room in the worst ensemble possible, every bit as much as they do performing under the brightest of lights.
The maestro of the original Showtime saw it and said it himself. ESPN analyst and Lakers legend Magic Johnson started the praise parade at halftime Tuesday night when he called the Clippers the second coming of Showtime.
"I thought I would never see Showtime again," he said. "The Clippers are Showtime! THIS is Showtime."
They'll have to chase a few banners for that praise to be anything more than a a good sound bite, as captain and All-Star Chris Paul made clear after watching a huge lead shrink with the starters resting in the fourth quarter. The Clippers gave up 100 points for just the second time during the streak, average margin of victory 15.4 points.
"The Showtime Lakers won championships," Paul said."We always talk about the big picture because this is fool's gold," Paul said. "You don't play for the regular season. … We still got to keep building. We'll know when we're where we want to be, but we still have a ways to go."
The Clippers are working on developing the championship fabric that all title teams seem to have. And they're doing it with unbridled passion for the job, with smiles on their faces and a locker room as loose as the one some of us saw in Oklahoma City last season when the Thunder made their move to The Finals.
"That sweater contest can be blamed on Chris, Blake [Griffin] and DeAndre [Jordan]," said Clippers and NBA sixth man extraordinaire Jamal Crawford, who led the charge against the Nuggets with a game-high 22 points off the bench. "They are in charge of all of the crazy stuff that goes on around here, all of the fun stuff. They're the ones who set the pace around here."
That's the extent of the finger-pointing that goes on with this group. Ninety minutes before tipoff their locker room was a festival of pranks, holiday greetings and evaluations of whose sweater was ugliest. That was just a warm up for what they had in store for the Nuggets, as physical and athletic a group as there is in the league.
When the Clippers tried to crank up the Lob City action late in the first quarter, Nuggets center Kosta Koufos took exception with a hard foul on and a few choice words for Griffin, who responded by going directly at Koufos and any other player in blue foolish enough to get in his way.
A 28-10 Clippers' scoring barrage ensued, with wicked dunks from Griffin, Jordan and Matt Barnes, whose impact off the bench alongside Crawford (20 points on this night) cannot be ignored. Paul and Barnes nailed consecutive 3-pointers during that run and Crawford, the best pure scorer on the roster, brought the fans out of their seats repeatedly with showmanship off the dribble on offense that the ringleader of the original "Showtime" crew (and longtime showman and Clippers superfan Billy Crystal) could appreciate.
Not everyone in the Clippers' camp is as enthralled with the early season work, though.
"It's nice. But it's Christmas," Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro said. "We've got a long way to go and lot of improvements to make."
Hours earlier Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni expressed similar sentiments about his team, while also professing that they had the "best talent in the league" on their roster. This from a coach whose team has won five straight games just to get back to .500 (14-14).
Again, the Clippers have won 14 straight, the longest streak in the league this season. And yet they're still losing the fight in the Battle For Los Angeles.
"We're really not fighting that battle," Crawford said having obviously heard that line of questioning before. "We're good over here. We don't worry about anything but us around here. It's all about getting better and better. We're trying to stay locked in and focused."


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No one really knows what to make of this, but New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has stated that he believes that the controversial "stop and frisk" policy of the New York Police Department discriminates against white people by stopping them too much.
Bloomberg made his comments after the City Council approved bills designed to slow down the stop-and-frisk policy.
"One newspaper and one news service, they just keep saying, 'Oh, it's a disproportionate percentage of a particular ethnic group.' That may be. But it's not a disproportionate percentage of those who witnesses and victims describe as committing the murders," said Bloomberg.
The mayor says that the people who are criticizing the policy are uneducated about the truth behind the data. His argument appears to be one built on the notion that whites are the actual victims, not Blacks and Latinos, as many experts have stated.
"In that case, incidentally, I think, we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little," the mayor said. "It's exactly the reverse of what they're saying. I don't know where they went to school, but they certainly didn't take a math course, or a logic course."
Continuing on this apparent bridge to nowhere, the mayor went on to say that "nobody racial profiles."
Council Member Jumaane Williams flatly responded to the mayor's remarks, claiming that Bloomberg is actually the one being manipulative.
"I think he's taken a course in how to misuse numbers most effectively," he told the New York Times.
"It's obviously just ridiculous," Williams said. "Every day I get more flabbergasted by what the mayor and (police) commissioner and police unions are saying about the bills. What they're actually doing is making the case for us why we need the bills. So, hopefully they keep talking."


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- Force India news
Calado gets Force India Friday drives
James Calado has signed as Force India's third driver and will take part in the opening practice session of this weekend's Italian Grand Prix.
GP2 driver Calado first drove for the team at this year's Young Driver Test and becomes the latest F1 hopeful to be given Friday drives by Force India. More free practice sessions will follow after Monza, making him a potential replacement for race drivers Paul di Resta and Adrian Sutil should either move on next year.
"I'm pleased to confirm that we've signed James as our third driver," team principal Vijay Mallya said. "We worked with him during the Silverstone test and he impressed everyone with his speed and consistency. We've always tried to support young drivers and this is a great opportunity for James to gain some valuable experience of driving during Formula One race events."
Mallya said the team would evaluate Calado during the Friday practice sessions.
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MikeSymptomLog needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 70 designs submitted by 20 freelance designers.
Need a simple, clean - and I hate to say it ... web 2.0 logo. Think WebMd, but not as boring. The colors should complement the colors in the current layout and portray the following feelings: trust, secure, good health.
As stated, I am needing a logo for this site. I have played around with having the 's' and 'l' letters larger. I am not partial to upper or lower case.
- Tag line: Log your way to better health
- Compliment the existing color scheme
- Simple and clean like the design and layout of the site
- Should Portray Trust, Security and Good Health
- Web 2.0
- Could be multi color
- Could be Upper / Lower case Mix
- S and L could be larger or not
- Could include an icon to the left or right - very elegant - original, well thoughout that really represents the sites functionality - an online symptom log and health social network.
- A link from you!! Pretty Please! How about a few? Thanks!
recycled old ideas and amateur designs :(
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FOXBOROUGH — The Patriots defense is always dealing with shadows. They're in the shadow of their prolific offense and its canonized quarterback. They were overshadowed by J.J. Watt and the Houston Texans demolition crew of a defense entering Monday night's matchup. Earlier in the season, it appeared the Patriots defense couldn't cover their own shadow, especially if it ran a deep route.
What came to light Monday night in the Patriots' 42-14 victory over the Texans in a game that was more beatdown than showdown for AFC supremacy is that the Patriots' defensive improvement is not a figment of fertile imaginations, like thinking someone is behind you when it's just your shadow. It's real.
The Texans found that out the hard way, as they stared at the empty integer next to their name on the scoreboard for more than 38 minutes.
This wasn't a dominant defensive performance against a callow rookie quarterback (Indianapolis), or an inept offense that has a QB better at finding the back of his right guard than an open receiver (New York Jets), or an offense more conservative than Ann Coulter (Dolphins). This was a defensive declarative sentence against the No. 2 scoring offense in the league, a unit that has a future Hall of Fame wide receiver in Andre Johnson and the NFL leader in touchdowns in running back Arian Foster.
Texans quarterback Matt Schaub was not another quotidian QB for the Patriots to pile up turnovers against. Schaub had led Houston to wins in 15 of his last 16 starts and thrown for 3,944 yards and 26 touchdowns during that span. He's not ordinary. The Patriots defense just made him look that way.
The NFL has done everything in its power to disabuse fans of the notion that defense is a valued and important part of the game. Being an NFL defender now is sort of like being a farmer in the Dust Bowl during the 1930s. It's all famine and no feast. But defense does still matter if you have visions of hoisting the Lombardi Trophy.
Stats are for losers. Defense is for winners, and it appears the Patriots might have one worthy of January and February football after all.
New England's much-maligned defense held Houston to just 42 yards rushing in the first half on 13 carries and 100 yards on 27 carries for the game. The Texans were 2 for 10 on third down after three quarters and finished 4 of 14.
The Patriots defense played like a unit with something to prove — that its players are not to be hidden in the dark, or covered up like an undesirable piece of furniture. Linebacker Jerod Mayo admitted the talk about the Texans was fuel for the defense.
"We feel like we just got to keep improving," said safety Devin McCourty, who intercepted Schaub in the end zone in the first quarter. "Everyone says what they're going to say. We know that we're a good defense here. We know we've played really well the last couple of weeks. The biggest focus is just trying to build on that."
The turning point in the game was McCourty's interception. With the Patriots leading, 7-0, Houston drove to the New England 23. Schaub tried to throw a pass to Kevin Walter in the end zone. McCourty undercut the throw and picked it off in the end zone, returning it to the 18.
It was the Patriots' 34th turnover of the year.
Six plays later, Brady found Brandon Lloyd for a 37-yard touchdown.
We know the Patriots can force turnovers and prey on miscues, but what made this performance the most impressive all year on the Other Side of the Ball was the caliber of competition and the fact that the Patriots only forced one turnover and still stifled the Texans' attack.
Vince Wilfork (4 tackles, sack, forced fumble, pass defensed) was a one-man blockade. Immutable, unblockable, and a permanent deterrent. Nose tackles don't pile up stats or accolades, just defeated blocks and dispirited offensive linemen.
"He's a big man. He's huge man. There was a play where I pulled around, and he's huge," said Texans left tackle Duane Brown. "He's a great player. He has been a great player for a long time. Just a big man."
Trailing, 21-0, the Texans went for it on fourth down twice in the first half in Patriots territory. The first time Walter dropped a would-be catch. The second time Schaub was pressured into a throw to nowhere because of heat from Mayo.
The only downside for the Patriots' defense was the depletion of their defensive backs. They lost cornerback Aqib Talib, who shadowed Johnson. Talib hurt his hip late in the second quarter when he made a diving pass breakup of a ball intended for Johnson. Cornerback Alfonzo Dennard left the game with a hamstring injury in the second half.
Talib looks like the best in-season pick up in these parts since Orlando Cabrera took over at shortstop for the Red Sox in 2004. His acquisition allowed McCourty to shift to safety and the defense to shift into a different gear.
"No doubt he's helped us a lot," said McCourty. "He's a very confident player and a very good player, and he plays that way. [Monday night] to have him out there playing very good football against one of the top receivers, not just in the NFL now, but of all time. I think he's done a good job of just filling that role.
"I think everyone on this defense has done a good job from Day 1 of just saying, 'We have to keep improving.' We had some bad games where it came down to a couple of points. We said, 'If we just keep improving we'll be where we want to be at the end of the season.' "
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No shit. There were a couple of calls that could have gone against the canucks but it doesn't outweight the 10 that the wings should have been called for. Crap officiating yet again. Refs afriaid to 'spoil' a game by giving Vancouver power plays.I've seen at least 5 no-call interference plays by the wings.Do the refs even know what interference is? When a player doesn't have the puck and is impeded from getting to the puck its -----ing interference.
Haven't the wings being doing something similar?Kind of a worrying trend... the Canucks haven't won by more than a goal since January 4th. That's 10 straight games.
Everyone fears the shootout when Luongo is in net. His record speaks for itself. I'd say it doesn't matter because there's no shootout in the playoffs ... but then the playoffs is where Luo has trouble. Hmph. Regardless, I think I would have started Burrows in the shootout for sheer determination. However, the Wings ... what can you say ... they destroy other teams in teh shootout. Ah well.
SWEET!Highlights of the the 3-0 whooping of Boston by Carolina were nice.
Including multiple high sticks on Marchand, without any penalties called on them.


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A winner was selected from 35 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
Need a contemporary logo for my adult website webbootie.com. A good design for branding such as tshirts and flyers as well as use on business cards and the website.
I would like a logo designed for my website
The website is an adult youtube like site where users are able to register and create a profile where they can view movies other members post and present movies that they created
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Card of the Week: 1999 Topps Gallery Heritage Ken Griffey Jr.
Mar 27th
Posted by intelliracer in Cards of the Week
I was scanning over the most recent Beckett Baseball Plus magazine over Easter weekend, and I for some reason stopped on the 1999 Topps Gallery page. And boy did the memories come back.
The 1999 Topps Gallery Heritage was always a set I wanted to complete, but as an 11-year-old, acquiring very popular $20 cards wasn't the easiest task. In fact, I still don't have one.
I didn't have an original 1953 Topps card at that time either, but I have always loved the design of the set. When I first saw the add for these Heritage inserts, I thought I would More >


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One burpee is not so bad. A few burpees are tolerable.
Everyone has a number in mind that is representative of the maximum number of burpees they can do. If your workout calls for that magic number then you know you're in for a rough time.
As much as you may despise burpees, they are a functional movement nonetheless. All of the elements of a traditional burpee carry over to everyday activity.
If you are not familiar with a burpee, then let me walk you through one.
You start from a standing position. Dropping to the floor with the hands on the outside of the feet, you jump your feet back so the body is in a pushup position. Then you perform the pushup. From there you jump the feet back up to the hands. This places you in position to jump into a jumping jack so you land on your feet.
Having the ability to get onto the floor is very functional. A person needs a certain amount of hip strength and mobility to perform this movement. If the thought of getting up and down from the floor makes you cringe, then today's modifications may be just what you need. They can help strengthen your muscles and ease your joints into mobility.
Proficiency with a pushup is an impressive aspect of a person's physical fitness. It means a person can organize the spine and produce enough upper body strength to elevate the body.
Returning to a standing position also is a functional movement. There is a way to organize the body to not overload the knee or put torque on the lower back. The burpee is a way of drilling this technique so that you build strength in a healthy habit.
The jumping jack at the end seems to be a difficult movement only added to increase the overall misery of the burpee. But it is functional. It is beneficial to know how to absorb a landing correctly; opposed to landing loudly and letting the energy absorb into the body. A softer landing allows the energy to pass through the body evenly instead of being isolated to a few joints.
Burpees are an effective exercise for a few reasons. The use of body weight against gravity is a great way to get the heart pumping. This is why they are so despised. One burpee is easy, but linking 15 to 20 or even 50 can test the endurance of even the fittest athletes.
Burpees come in many varieties. Some have a pushup and others have a jump while others have a pullup built in. I have even seen some with a back flip.
Burpees can be modified to fit any athlete. Today's burpees are designed as modifications of a traditional burpee. Even though they are modified, the major functional elements are still there.
One viral movement I want you to be sure to weed out is landing on the toes. When jumping or standing up it is common to not stand up with the whole foot on the ground. Standing while on the toe loads the knee and causes undue strain on the low back.
As you stand up, bring both feet up to the hands so they are flat on the ground. This takes some hip mobility but your knees and back will thank you. This position also readies the body for the final jump into a jumping jack. Landing on the toes just adds a step and expends energy needlessly.
Landing on the toes is a telltale sign that an athlete is tired. So is their speed. If you start to notice your form deteriorate or your pace decrease, then it may be time to use one of today's modifications.
If you fear that burpees may be a little too difficult for you, then today's modifications are perfect. They are a gentler burpee that will help progress you toward more difficult versions.
The burpee "lite" is similar to a traditional burpee just without the jumps and pushup. It is essentially getting down and up with correct technique. The box burpee is a modification I like to use for those who get too fatigued by other modifications. It is also good for those who have a limitation that prevents the safe performance of the traditional version.
I like to use burpees to build endurance in my athletes. I prescribe just enough to make a workout difficult but not too many to send my athlete over the edge. Burpees fit well almost anywhere in your routine. They do not require too much brute strength so they work as a good exercise to super set with a weighted exercise such as a squat. You can also couple them with a gymnastic such as a pullup. Burpees work well in circuits of multiple exercises.
(Chris Huth is a Las Vegas trainer. He can be reached at email@example.com. Consult your physician before beginning any exercise program.)


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How to Find Government Contracts
- Written by Paul F. Hahn
- Created on Saturday, 18 February 2012 20:53
There are many opportunities for substantial contracts with the US Government. However, finding your way through all the Govt. websites and learning some of the unique Govt. nomenclature can be a time-consuming task. In this article I will discuss some basics and key indicators that should save you a considerable amount of time.
First, some basic terms you should know:
A. Dun and Bradstreet (B&D) Registration
You probably already have this but if not your company needs to apply
Their website is: http://www.dnb.com
B. Contractors Central Registration (CCR)
You must be registered in CCR to do business with the Govt.
Their website is: https://www.bpn.gov/ccr/
C. Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA)
Required to receive an award from the Govt.
Their website is: http://orca.bpn.gov/
D. Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website
This is your main website for finding opportunities for Govt. contracts
Their website is: https://www.fbo.gov/
E. Business Partner Network
A very helpful source of information
Contains links to CCR,SBA, ORCA and FBO
Their website is: https://www.bpn.gov/
F. The Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Code
Required for Govt. contracts
The CAGE request process is incorporated into the CCR registration
G. Federal Service Desk
Contains great info on how to register in CCR
Their website is: https://www.fsd.gov/app/answers/list
H. Small Business Administration
Registration is very helpful in getting awards as many contracts are set-aside for small businesses
Their website is: http://www.sba.gov/
I. North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes
ORCA and CCR require you to select these codes that describe your business
You will find the codes are non-specific but adequate to describe the kind of work or services you can provide (check
Check out categories under codes 221, 236, 237,and 238 for a start
J. Product Service Codes (PSC) and Federal Supply Classification (FSC) codes
Only a few of these apply to construction work, for example:
Y -- Construction of structures and facilities
Z -- Maintenance, repair, and alteration of real property
The foregoing is a lot to take in at first glance. Don't be discouraged, you only need to accomplish each step one at-a-time. The most time-intensive tasks are getting registered in CCR and ORCA.
If you have never searched for Request for Proposals (RFP) or Request for Quotations (RFQ) from the Government; the best place to get a feel for how things work, is FBO. This will be the main emphasis of this article.
The first step is to go to the Federal Opportunities Website: https://www.fbo.gov/
Click on "Find Opportunities"
In the "Keyword/Solicitation#" box type in: Construction Projects
Select "Last 30 Days" in the "Posted Date" drop-down menu
Click "Search"
This will give you an idea of what type of projects are available
Clicking on a single project shows you details of the solicitation
If there are numerous entries (denoting changes or revisions) you will be able to backtrack to the original solicitation when you will find a link to the "Solicitation" or "Synopsis" on the webpage
Important note: FBO's programming does not like use of the back button. If you need to go back to the opportunities list, use the "Return to Opportunities" button near the top of the page. This will save you a lot of time and frustration!
There are many things that can frustrate and discourage you during your searches for work. Many of the posting are limited to contractors already working on the projects. These are often noted on the opportunities list as "Special Notices" in the "type/set-aside" column. You may also see "Awards" in this column. You can skip that opportunity unless you want to see who won the contract and at what bid price.
The better way to search for opportunities is to set up one or more a "Search Agents". There are many benefits to using search agents, including email notifications and quick searches individualized to your specific criteria. To be able to set up search agents and receive customized alerts you will need to have a DUNS number and be registered in CCR.
Once you are registered, you can log in as a "Vendors/Citizen". Next, click on the "Opportunities" tab. At the top of the web page you will see a tab marked "Search Agents"; click on this tab. Now you can create a new search agent by clicking on the "Add New Search Agent" box located on this page. Fill in the required data. You can limit searches geographically or by appropriate set-aside code, but most importantly, you can specify the type of work you are interested in by selecting the NAICS Code and the Classification Codes that describe your specialty. You should also set up a schedule for the search agent to run. I have mine set up to run daily. This saves a great amount of time later on when you receive your email alerts or want to run the search agent manually. By using search agents; you will not be overwhelmed with projects that don't meet your criteria.
The next tip is for sorting through the email alerts you will receive. Below is an example of an alert that I received for Construction projects:
Saturday, January 28, 2012, 07:59 am
Dear Paul:
Your FBO Opportunity Search Agent called: 'construction projects' has identified the following opportunities that have either been newly posted or modified and match your search criteria.
Title: RECOVERY--Z--PROJECT NUMBER 16040, Sam Rayburn Dam and Reservoir, TX
Sol. #: W9126G10R0091
Agency: Department of the Army
Office: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Location: USACE District, Fort Worth
Posted On: Jan 27, 2012 2:40 pm
Base Type: Award Notice
Link: https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USA/COE/DACA63/Awards/W9126G10C0055P00003.html
Note that the second-to-last line is entitled "Base Type". In this example the base type is "Award Notice". If I am looking for new opportunities, I can skip this one and look for ones labeled "Pre-solicitation" or "Combined Synopsis/Solicitation". These will be new opportunities.
It has been a long time since I first learned all of this, as I stared back in 1993, and learned it one step at-a-time. So I may have forgotten a step or two. However, there are lots of guides and good tutorials on the FBO site and individual help can be obtained by calling the Federal Service Desk. They have been very helpful to me in the past. These links and instructions appear on the "My FBO" web page.
Finding Federal Government work can be a big boost to your company's business. There are many new projects announced daily. I hope I have offered up some good tips to save you time getting started and wading through the daily alerts. There is no need to feel intimidated; lots of good help is available from the Federal Service Desk and online tutorials. Once you learn a few new terms you will find easy to stay abreast of the government contracts up for grabs.
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Addressing Molecular Dynamics Time-scale Issues to Study Atomic-scale Friction
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Standard molecular dynamics simulation necessarily uses a very small time step, on the order of femtoseconds, to capture the dynamics of the modeled atoms. However, this limits the total duration of a simulation to tens of nanoseconds, a time span too short to observe many physical phenomena. There are methods available to address this issue for modeling of so-called infrequent event systems. An infrequent event system is one for which time can be separated into the short time scale of a "transition" event and the long time scale of the periods between transition events. Accelerated molecular dynamics methods take advantage of this behavior to lengthen simulations by increasing the probability that infrequent events will occur.
This presentation will include an introduction to several accelerated molecular dynamics methods. However, particular focus will be given to parallel replica (ParRep) dynamics in which atomistic simulations are run parallel in time to extend their total duration. The ParRep method is based on the assumptions that the system being modeled advances to new configurations via infrequent events and that there are well-defined instantaneous rate constants for these events that are independent of the driving rate. The method distributes the simulation time across multiple processors and therefore adequately samples the various possible state-to-state pathways accessible to the system, as would a standard, single-processor molecular dynamics run for a very long time.
One example of an infrequent event system is the stick-slip behavior observed during atomic-scale friction. In this beautiful yet poorly understood phenomenon, sliding does not occur stably. Rather, the two surfaces stick together and lateral strain builds up. At some critical point the surfaces slide (usually, but not always, by one atomic lattice site), then they lock together again. Stick-slip friction is ideally suited for accelerated molecular dynamics since the time between slip events is typically much longer than the duration of the slip itself. An overview of how parallel replica dynamics can be applied to model atomic-scale stick-slip friction as well as some results obtained using that method will be presented.
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Currently, if the player:
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2 - Attacks any plant
The inventory panel will begin to flicker and/or behave erratically. I found this in (flaming) Rock Garden playing as a Gnome Thief then reproduced it as a Human Tinker in Southern Swamp. The screenshot below shows one thing that can happen (the "glue item here" graphics for the inventory are missing) but there are other graphical issues which also crop up, most often flickering of various elements of the player panel (status effects, inventory, etc.)


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Tattoo Infections Traced to Ink Supply
Thinking about getting a new tattoo? Maybe a nice 3-D double helix or an I-heart-Higgs Bosons. Well, you might wind up getting some mycobacteria with your body art. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has turned up about two dozen cases of this infection from contaminated tattoo ink.
Last January, public health officials in western New York state launched an investigation after a tattoo recipient reported a persistent rash—itchy red bumps all over his new tat. A skin sample tested positive for Mycobacterium chelonae, a microbe common in tap water.
A list of the tattoo artist's clients turned up another 19 cases of the rash, including 14 confirmed infections with the same bug. The tattoo parlor itself was clean, no bacteria in the water supply. But a bottle of premixed gray ink turned up positive.
This gray wash, which is used to give tats a shaded, 3-D quality, was most likely contaminated during its manufacture and has since been recalled. But not before a handful of additional cases cropped up in elsewhere around the country. [Byron S. Kennedy et al., Outbreak of Mycobacterium chelonae Infection Associated with Tattoo Ink, in The New England Journal of Medicine]
So if you're itching to express yourself, a tattoo might indeed be just what the doctor ordered.
—Karen Hopkin
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