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Bottom line: Not paying your bills is just plain wrong
Until the court decision last week that found part of Gov. Tim Pawlenty's massive budget unallotment gambit to be unconstitutional, I was strongly considering sending a letter like this to some of those annoying people who keep demanding that I pay my bills - one in particular.
Dear Cell Phone Service Provider:
I know that I agreed to certain financial obligations for your services - you could say that I just signed into law" all of these monthly charges as part of a new two-year contract. But a pretty serious projected shortfall in my household finances compels me to "unallot" about 10 percent of my contractual obligation to you guys, indefinitely, and before I pay my first bill. My legal advisers tell me you can and must continue providing this service, even with this reduced funding. I might add that your bill over the years has been going up by amounts I find "unsustainable," even though I agreed to all these new services. To explain further, although I could easily raise the funds to pay this bill, I have pledged to my family that we will have "no new income" as long as I am boss around here - enough is enough. Oh, and by the way, my "unallotments" extend to lots of other things my other household members previously agreed to. I know this might seem unusual or "wrong," but please read the attached news clippings showing how the governor of Minnesota has decided not to fund appropriations that he legally signed into law, through this process called "unallotment." Cell phone folks, let me give you some advice: Tighten your belt and live within your means! Or do what I've done: Unallot YOUR obligations!!
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P.S. Maybe you could save some bucks by getting rid of Catherine Zeta-Jones as your celebrity advertiser. She's getting a little old, and I've heard Tiger Woods is cheaper!
Granted, this analogy is a bit tortured. But it's at least as valid as comparing our state budget process to a family balancing its checkbook at the kitchen table. One important difference is that our state government's responsibilities to 5 million Minnesotans - for law enforcement and emergency services, vital long-term investments in schools and colleges, hospitals and public health, and environmental protection - are much more important than one family's cell phone service.
But the hypothetical letter has one crucial aspect in common with the unallotment scheme: It does not hold up in court. It would not be legal, and neither is Pawlenty's unilateral exercise of unallotment power, according to a ruling by highly respected Ramsey County District Court Judge Kathleen Gearin, a senior jurist and the Ramsey court's chief judge.
Unallotment as Pawlenty practiced it last summer, before the two-year budget period even began, is unconstitutional and an abuse of executive branch authority, in Judge Gearin's view. And most knowledgeable observers - left, center and some on the right - seem to be agreeing.
It's noteworthy that conservatives such as Politics in Minnesota Publisher Sarah Janecek described the ruling as "a good decision for the state" in that it forces a closer review of unallotment powers and the separation of powers principles.
One of the more fact-based conservative bloggers, SCSU Scholars (www.scsuscholars.com) opined that the "arguments are over things that are sufficiently vague that one hopes the higher courts take up the case."
Yet another senior conservative opinion leader, Mitch Pearlstein, editorialized in an MPR commentary this week that it would be hard to imagine a court somewhere NOT issuing "at least a 'whoa, pardner' at some point."
The St. Paul Pioneer Press described the decision as addressing "an important constitutional issue that cried out for judicial interpretation."
But beyond all this process stuff lies the larger question of whether Minnesota should continue its risky experiment with starving and cutting public investment, adhering to the "no new taxes" mantra, and slashing our bottom-line Price of Government (total state and local revenues as a percentage of total income) by about 10 percent over the last decade.
Last summer, I co-wrote an editorial with retired business owner Charlie Quimby arguing that the unallotment grab would not pass constitutional muster, but I think the more important "told you so" was our point about the value of public investment in advancing broader prosperity.
We said then and will affirm now that Minnesota actually needs more and smarter investment in these things: education, especially in the crucial early-childhood years and toward a much improved higher-education attainment rate; in transportation and transit and on our crumbling public works infrastructure; in the clean-up of impaired waters and climate-changing air quality; and in public health and health care for needy and struggling middle-income families who are in distress - in part because of private-sector failures.
These are not just frills or bills that can be ignored.
Our state's leading economists, folks like Federal Reserve Vice President Art Rolnick and State Economist Tom Stinson (not to mention national commentators such as conservative David Brooks), have called out for more investment in these assets that have always helped nourish a good business climate and created an enviable quality of life.
But back to my tortured analogy: My family actually needs the mobile phone service, and not just because of the technical legality that we agreed to it. We need it because the world is changing in ways that require more, not less, spending on certain things - and community-building, business-enhancing public investment fits that bill.


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Hello, Im an ex-Narconon Gradutate. Througout the Course we learnt the Conditons in which now i feel i need some assistance and/ or advice with. Please if anyone is an expertise with this and can help, it would be greatly appreciated.
There a quite a few questions i would like to ask so i as soon as i know there is some sort of assistance out there for me i will type away the questions. Thank you and i look forward to hearing from you soon. Lilwee
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why not call the center where you were during your recovery and ask I am sure they would be willing to help you out.
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That or just go to the MAA at your local org!
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I agree
you could get some help by typing away back and forth
but it's much easyer and far better to have an EO/MAA(ethics officer)
simply go through it with you. with a bit of self-discipline conditions should'nt take you very long and you'll be back in ship shape in no time.
if nothing else your local library should have an ethics book(introduction to scientology ethics) that has them all write there.
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She was cited by the Dodge County Sheriff's Department for the incident, which occurred Monday night. She told her staff, "I wish to apologize to you for the negative impact my actions might have on the Department and the public's perception of this fine institution." Lautenschlager added that she accepts the consequences of her actions.
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South Carolina's methamphetamine problem could have more of an impact on families across the state than previously thought.
A FOX Carolina investigation revealed that there are no state laws regarding the disposal of contaminated furniture from meth houses or of cleaning the structure after a bust.
A current bill in the South Carolina Senate is designed to regulate the sale of ingredients like pseudoephedrine, which can be used to make meth. It does not address regulating the clean-up of homes or the contents inside.
In Laurens County, Sheriff Ricky Chastain has worked with the Building Codes Department to create their own regulations.
"EPA has guidelines. DHEC has some given us some guidance, but nothing is set in stone in terms of this is what you are supposed to do,"said Buddy Skinner, with Laurens County Building Codes.
The county recently approved their plan. If a meth bust happens, a building codes sign is hung up. It requires the house to be cleaned and inspected before it can be occupied again.
"Most of the time they're repainting, covering all the walls and from our research, encapsulation is a way to remedy the situation," said Skinner.
They have already allowed several homeowners to clean up labs after busts and to re-occupy or rent out the properties. They do not have the expensive equipment needed to test the homes and would welcome more guidelines on clean-up.
"It would be a good thing to look at," said Skinner.
In fact, a visit to a home that was deemed uninhabitable earlier this year, showed the clean-up process. After the arrests of the home's renters on meth charges, the owner was forced to clean the property.
Within a few weeks, a contractor had washed the walls and the ceilings. It had a new coat of paint. Before long, it was approved by building codes and was up for rent again. The contractor, Carl Williamson told us,
"All the walls, all the ceilings, nooks, crannies, even in the floors, mop floors with chemicals, soap and water," said contractor Carl Williamson. "Cleaned it up pretty good."
But Kent Berg, the owner of the National Institute of Decontamination Specialists in Powdersville said that concerns him.
"The appearance of cleanliness is deceiving. You can walk into many of these labs and it looks like any other house," Berg said.
He trains companies who can be hired by a home's owner to clean-up busted drug labs. Most of them come from other states, where there are more regulations. In South Carolina, there is no requirement on who a homeowner should hire to take away the residue and debris from a meth lab.
Berg said chemicals can seep into walls and floors, along with the contents of the home.
"This is the wild west when it comes to meth," Berg said. "South Carolina is the wild west. Not regulated, no law."
He believes more should be done in South Carolina to regulate the clean-up. Right now, there are only guidelines for the initial removal of the chemicals by police. Beyond that, the rules vary from county to county or do not exist.
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We crafted what we think is certainly not the best thing in the country, but it's a start here to make our citizens a little more safer," Chastain said.
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Virgil Exner with Chrysler's 1957 lineup. Photo courtesy Chrysler, colorized by Judi Dell'Anno.
Perhaps one of the most creative minds in Detroit during the 1950s and 1960s, Virgil Exner not only designed some of Chrysler's most memorable show and production cars during the tailfin era, but also effected lasting changes in the structure of the company, all the while keeping performance and excitement at the forefront of his work. Little wonder, then, that his work should warrant a special class at a concours, as the Concours d'Elegance of America plans for next year.
Exner almost seemed perfectly suited to become an automotive designer. Though he never graduated from college – he dropped out of Notre Dame after a couple of years, when his funds ran out – he studied art and design there, but he also showed an interest in cars from an early age, attended the Indianapolis 500 from his teenage years, and learned woodworking and other manual crafting skills from his grandfather. In his first job as an advertising illustrator in South Bend, Indiana, he naturally gravitated to rendering Studebaker advertisements, experience that helped him land a job with General Motors when Harley Earl began expanding the Art and Colour section in 1933.
At GM, Exner worked under Frank Hershey and, according to Peter Grist's biography, Virgil Exner: Visioneer, took credit for Pontiac's so-called silver streaks that remained a staple of Pontiac design from 1935 through the 1950s. Exner later advanced to the chief of Pontiac design at GM in 1937, but that position didn't last long: A year later, Raymond Loewy handpicked Exner to head up Loewy's Studebaker account, a task that called for recruiting a whole new design staff, including Bob Bourke, Gordon Buehrig, Vince Gardner, and Bob Koto. While Exner and his staff handled a number of prewar designs for Studebaker (and Exner himself contributed to the design of not only the DUKW but also the Studebaker Weasel during the war years), his greatest contribution to Studebaker came toward the end of World War II, when he began work on a postwar Studebaker design, work that he undertook behind Loewy's back, with the encouragement of Roy Cole, Studebaker's chief engineer.
Cole ended up one of Exner's greatest allies during this time. Though Loewy fired Exner for insubordination, Cole immediately hired him as a direct employee of Studebaker and undermined the Loewy team's work to ensure that Exner's designs saw fruition as the 1947 Studebaker Champion coupe. A couple of years later, with Cole nearing retirement, Cole also arranged for Loewy's post-Studebaker career.
Perhaps one of the last things Chrysler's top brass wanted in the late 1940s was a strong styling direction. Yet it was one of the things they needed most, as K.T. Keller, then Chrysler's president, came to realize. Keller's conservative design philosophy bred some of the dullest cars to come out of Detroit, a lingering effect of the Airflow's commercial failure, but he welcomed Exner with open arms in the late summer of 1949, creating the Advanced Styling Studio at Chrysler just for the then-40-year-old designer. Tasked with creating a line of "idea cars" and developing concepts that Chrysler could incorporate into future production vehicles, Exner also had to contend with a corporate culture that gave its engineering staff essential control over design.
Virgil Exner (left) with the Chrysler K-310.
To surmount the latter, he first had to excel at the former. After overseeing the design and construction of three dual-cowl parade phaetons, Exner began work on his first Chrysler idea car, the K-310. As Grist wrote, the K-310 was to be Exner's first statement as an automotive designer. "The K-310 gave Exner the opportunity that he had been waiting for, a showcase for the design philosophy he had been promoting since his days at Studebaker. Simple, classic surfaces with minimal ornamentation, accentuating functional elements of the car instead of hiding them – elements like the wheels, radiator grille, spare tire, and lights." He then followed the K-310 sport coupe with the C-200 convertible, Chrysler Special, De Soto Adventurer, and Chrysler d'Elegance, all bodied by Ghia and all extremely well received on the show circuit.
According to Grist, it was the success of the idea cars that led Tex Colbert, Keller's successor, to ask Exner to redesign the slow-selling production cars, a task Exner only accepted on the provision that the clay modelers – whose work the production vehicles ultimately were based on – would answer to him and not to the engineers. Colbert agreed, and based on the strength of Exner's designs for the 1955 production cars, made him the first director of styling for Chrysler in 1953. While he continued to work on idea cars for Chrysler – including the Falcon, the Norseman, the Diablo, and the XNR – he also oversaw the company's production cars across all of its divisions for the next several years, including into the confusing post-tailfin era years, and in 1957 Colbert further elevated him to vice president at Chrysler.
Replaced by Elwood Engel in late 1961, Exner went on to form a design consulting company with his son, Virgil Exner Jr., a talented designer in his own right. It was during this time that Exner pushed his boldest vision yet, one influenced by his fascinations with automotive performance and automotive history: revivals of some of automotive history's most storied marques, including the Stutz, Mercer, Duesenberg, Packard, and Bugatti. Many of the designs progressed from sketches to full-scale working versions, and their Stutz Blackhawk revival even entered production, lasting from 1968 to 1988.
Exner died in late 1973, and has since been lauded with praise from a number of institutions, including the Automotive Hall of Fame, which inducted him in 1995. The Concours d'Elegance of America's featured-designer retrospective on Exner will join a number of other classes at next year's event, including Drag Bikes, Famous Firsts, the 50th Anniversary of the Mustang, and Racing Through the Ages.
The 2014 Concours d'Elegance of America will take place Sunday, July 27, at the Inn at St. John's in Plymouth, Michigan. For more information, visit ConcoursUSA.org.
To digest the full measure of Exner's contribution to automotive design it is good to understand how his 1957 Forward Look designs tore the rug from under GM's product plans for 1959 and likely well beyond.
It is well known that GM stylists, after spying Forward Look prototypes were frantic in their insistence that the planned GM facelifts of its existing pudgy designs, to be festooned with even more chintzy styling and chrome trinkets, was headed for trouble in the marketplace.
Exner didn't just dial ahead the calendar with his work, as Chrysler's ad agencies proclaimed with their mantra "Suddenly its 1960". He caused a knee-jerk GM redesign of its entire line that became the 1959 & 60 models and in so doing forever changed the course of mid-century domestic auto design.
Look carefully at a 1960 Chrysler 300 F, and there you see the genius and artistic sensitivity this man possessed and shared with all of us. He was one of the greats to be sure.
Danny Plotkin
I could not agree more.
Here is a 300 F:
It also applies to New Yorkers, Windsors and even station wagons:
I just have been titling my pictures for the Desoto & WPC Convention from last summer. It was so exciting to see all those Exner cars together:
I just want to kow one thing…. where do Purchase a poster of the photo with Exner and the whole '57 line up at the top of the article? My garage walls are wanting that photo. E-Mail me at email@example.com with details!
I am glad you could explain it. I was just going to say colorizing black & white photos always look a little unnatural.
(and boy, was that photo colorized….!)
Exner's great designs were coupled with lousy quality on Chrysler's part. How many 57 Plymouths are still around?
Why do we always wait until someone has died to recognize their talent.
Chrysler had recently taken over Briggs body and for 1957 was introducing new low lean style with a lot of glass and torsion bar suspension. There were problems that were not fully resolved and couple that with increased demand and production caused a direct hit to quality. Chrysler had suffered for a delayed intruduction of the Airflow. Skeptics and competitors capitalized on that and Chrysler did not want to repeat that problem.
I love my 57 Desoto, but as pointed out earlier, it's not as well built as a GM or Ford of the same year.
That's why you almost never see one.
Thanks Daniel for a neat article. It's great to learn the history of the cars that I like so much. I'm probably a little slow to the game, but it sure looks like a major blunder on Mr. Loewys part by firing Mr. Exner. Who knows what could have been for Studebaker had he remained. Reminds me of another genius who was fired for insubordination, Carl Kiekhaefer, He worked for Evinrude, thumbed his nose at them, and went on to build Mercury outboards, and where is Evinrude today?
Good question Howard. If Exner and Loewy had better relations and Exner stayed at Studebaker, he could had done some miracles with the 1957 "Packarbaker" and I could go further back in time and wondered what if Exner had stayed at GM?
It's true enough Chrysler quality was dismal in those days but consider how many cars Chrysler built compared to GM.
As to your second comment, it brings up an interesting point I've brought up in the past. 1950's car design was not seen in its day as it is today. They were cars and not the work of masters.
At the time Earl and Exner designs were subject to plenty of criticism by the tweed cap & pipe crowd. The compact car revolution that begat the Falcon, Corvair Valiant and VW emerged from a deep recession in 58 coupled with a backlash from the overwrought designs we wax on about today.
Who thinks of today bestowing accolades on the guys who penned the 1993 Chrysler LH cars, or even the 1977 GM B & C body cars, both were as important to their manufacturers and to the track of subsequent designs.
Danny Plotkin
This is true
Colors? Bold styling? Wow, what an era. I vote for bringing back this era.
Back in the day the designers were all playing "can you top this?" with two, three and even four color combinations. The buying public was completely on board, with everyone trying to top the Jones' car. Nothing wrong with that — it was fun. With rare exceptions for niche cars (usually small) no one today has the guts to drive a car that screams "look at me!" A picture of a parking lot today with all the casket colors (metallic silvers, golds, bronze, browns) and some black (maybe dark blue) and whites would not look much different in a black and white photo vs a color one. Imagine if buyers had guts to bring some color and life back into the roadways today. Creative two and three tones on Hyundai Sonatas, Ford Fusions, and Buick Regals. It would be interesting to see what could be done. Not gonna' happen, but it would be fun.
Ha, "casket colors", no lie. Some new vehicle manufactures actually offer real colors, but most just have navy blue and maroon for actual colors. White, black, silver, and gray aren't colors, they're tones. People have tone cars now. Although, Audi, and a couple of others, have an actual red color, and Subaru has brown, green, light blue, and now orange and lime green on the Crosstrek. The Dodge Dart has some wild, actual colors! Well done, Dodge (Fiat; whomever should be congratulated). Of course, this doesn't take into account Maserati, Bentley, Aston Martin, Rolls Royce, Bugatti and cars like that where there is no limit to the amount of color, or money, that you can throw at a vehicle.
There are a whole bunch of reasons for the dearth of color choices.
1. Marketing never leads the parade- "we haven't done that before!"
2. Planners are even worse- "This car has to appeal to public that think white, black, & grey are colors. If we actually do a color, it has to go on the cheapest entry level cars.
3. Executives wouldn't be caught dead in a "flashy" color since it doesn't fit their persona.
4. Let's give the public their choice of colors, like blue-black, green-black, brown-black, burgandy-black, metallic black, and 1 red. All of the skilled color designers get to pick what color black to do.
5. The public didn't know they liked bright blue, radar purple, teal, or gold, but they came & went all too fast. Dealers didn't push for better or more colors, and the plants didn't want more than one. That's also how we got greige and charcoal black interiors, sometimes with dots of color!
Excellent synopsis! I didn't even think of interior colors (black, tan, gray) (well, maybe an odd shade of off-red in some cases)
What is the white over green car in back on the right, I wonder? It looks like a Packard?
The green & white is a Chrysler, Ivory white is an Imperial, yellow is a Plymouth, Blue is a Dodge, Red is a DeSoto. Representing each of the 5 Chrysler makes.
Hi CC, just can't wait another hour ,can ya!:)
I would be here all the time, but dumb job gets inthe way. Thursday is a slower day for me.
In my country, the English translation is' this job is cutting into my day', very close to your yours.
It is fun to see this well known photo in color & I can appreciate the work that took. I only wish that the artist had done a bit of color research to make the colors more accurate, and not look like cartoons.
We chose colors from the color chip charts for each of those divisions. Would you like to explain what you feel is inaccurate about the colors?
I am imagining that this is a b&w photo with the colors laid back in. Unfortunately a B&W photo (due to spectral color response of the film and contrast curves) is not exactly the same as a modern desaturated image, so putting color back in will always look a bit unnatural.
It's still a great picture.
I'm guessing the color chips weren't accurate. Because each color looks not quite right for that years Chrysler products. For example, the yellow looks to bright, it's more of a pale lemon color than what the picture depicts
The Dodge and Imperial colors look about right to me. Clearly the Plymouth is too yellow. I can't really speak for the DeSoto and Chrysler colors.
Huh, shows how out of it I am,( hold comments please). I didn't for a second think that was a B&W photo with colors added. They seemed totally plausible for the day. I just figured, the colors we actually saw on the cars back then, were just faded examples of what we see here. I don't EVER remember my old man waxing a car in my youth.
Tailfin view of 57 Chrysler New Yorker:
More recognizable from that angle for sure.
That is a `57 Chrysler Windsor.
Mr. Plotkin rides again. It's sad that the originality of those years is lost to the tasteless crowd currently designing cars. There's no originality, apparently the word curve has been lost in the design language, and cars currently manufactered are for illiterate drivers. It's interesting that Angus MacKenzie, Editor of Motor Trend wrote an editorial reflecting the same opinion last year. Thank you Danny. You're a pleasure to read. Drive old cars.
I would also suggest that except in the '50s, when everyone was trying to find their way with distinctive designs, cars have always been hard to tell apart. I was picking in western Michigan back in the '70s, when we ran across a yard that had car bodies from the '30s stacked as many as 5 high. Except for the rear windows on 31 Plymouths, 34-35 Chevies, 1 Airflow, & 1 35 Packard convertible, it was almost impossible to tell what was what. They were all black or almost black and if you could see the windshield or firewall, you might make a guess. Cars are not designed in a vacuum, and there is a common group think of what is contemporary.
You can now throw in the culture change of 3D computer design tools, and this really does affect designs. Sketching is less important than ever, and is again subject to computer tools.
Finally, you do realize that cars are not only for illiterate drivers, but the autonomous-Google self-driving cars will eliminate any need for driving skills or intelligence, all under the jurisdiction of the government.
Can't Wait : )
Self-driving cars will be the greatest thing ever, keeping me safe from other drivers. As long as I can still drive my Alfa, I'm happy to have everyone else's hands off the wheel and foot off the gas. I might even enjoy a cross country drive in an electric SDC myself.
In 2010 I conducted video interviews of 2 very interesting local men. Rutherford Ross Jr., and his father at one time owned the largest Dodge & Plymouth dealership in Arkansas from the 1920s to 1960. Ross Sr. died in 1960 and his son sold the dealership because of the shoddy workmanship of the 1950s models. Ross Motor Company would repair the defects that Chrysler refused to make right and Jr. was sick of it.
The other man was Hank Loewy, Raymond's nephew who died in 2010 at 100. Hank told me how his father and his 2 brothers came to America after WWI thanks to the Rockefeller family. For a number of years the Loewy brothers lived together in an apartment in NYC. Hank had a 4 ft long scale model of Raymond's first streamlined locomotive under glass in his living room. It's the only time in my life I ever considered stealing anything.
Taking inspiration from Chrysler's "Suddenly it's 1960," ad theme, Ford execs, chortled about GM styling, "Suddenly it's 1950."
(A true story, inspired by the split, three segment GM rear backlights.
Except the 3-piece backlites on Buicks and Olds models of `57 were great sellers!
Quality issues aside, no one was more emblematic of the Era than Exner. I find many of his designs too over the top, but they still capsulize the Zeitgeist. And I lust for those DeSoto triple tailights!
Mr. Plotkin, you have once again hit the nail right on the head. The "Forward Look" designs did indeed send the powers that be at the General into a panic. That's the reason GM's '58 models were one year only designs and the '59's share so many components across divisions. Sharing cowling, windshields, door boxes, etc. was they only way they could get the all new '59 models to market quickly. One look at a '57 Chevy, parked next to the offerings that year from Chrysler and Ford, and you understand why GM had to do something fast.
Chrysler was an engineering and styling leader in those years. Many of the quality issues came from using imported steel that just didn't hold up and rusted terribly
I've always been a huge fan of the Exner designs. In my humble opinion, the '60 Chrysler 300F is one of the most beautiful cars ever built. My father worked for Chrysler for many years, and several finned wonders ended up in our driveway. My first experience "driving" a real car took place one sunny afternoon when, at the age of 5, I released the parking brake while playing with the pushbuttons on my fathers turquois and white 1957 Plymouth Belvedere. The car rolled down the driveway, across the street and down the hill into our neighbors yard. I managed to turn the wheel enough to miss the trees and push the brake hard enough to stop the car just before it took out the fence. No skill, just pure dumb luck!
The B and C bodies, Cadillac, Buick and Oldsmobile, were two year bodies although, in the case of Buick and Oldsmobile, it was hard to tell they were related to the comparatively sleek 57s. The Chevrolet and Pontiac were all new for 58 and all new again for 59 as part of the GM-wide rush to get all new cars to market. I think that's the only time a major manufacturer had one-year-only cars.
Hey rtg, I thought I was the only one that did that. You left out the part what happened after that !
Howard, let's just say that first there were lots of hugs and kisses, (after I was found to be unhurt), followed by a very loud: "You're in big trouble young man! How many (fill in the blank) times have you been told not to play in the (fill in the blank) car?" I'm quite sure there would have been an immediate butt blistering had the neighbors not been standing there. If I had a nickel for every time I was told to stay away from one of our cars, I could buy one of every Exner bodied vehicles Chrysler ever built and a building big enough to store them. Obviously the lectures and other punishments didn't sink in very well. I've been playing with cars my whole life, and I'm STILL doing it!!! 🙂
Hi Ragtopguy, reminds me of a Leave it to Beaver episode , where "Beaver takes a drive", he releases the brake on Wards '61 Plymouth 4 door and rolls it into the street. And a fracas ensues.
My first driving experience was very similar, but Mom's 60 Dodge Dart Seneca and it rolled in to a Park across the street.
Wow Greg, ( now it feels weird calling you that) those photos are great.( feel like crying) I know my folks have a TON of slides, but haven't the faintest idea how to get them here.( don't try to explain). What I'd need to show me, single gal, age 50-60, live in Milw. area, easy going,,,,,oops, sorry, wrong site.
Very familiar sounding story. My father traded a '55 Olds Super 88 for a Buick Century. Olds automatics did not have a "Park" gear. All that was done was pull the gear shift into "Reverse" for the car to stand still. Usually parking brake would be engaged but because it was in our driveway that was not done. The Buick with Dynaflop (as it was fondly referred to in the day) had a real "Park" gear shift detent. In "Reverse" with the engine turned off cars would roll. Well dear ole Dad, creature of habit as we all are, pulled to the top of our steep drive and pulled the gear selector down into reverse. Betty Buick sat just long enough for him to step into the house. He turned around to be sure the storm door closed and saw his shinny new Buick rolling down hill. Worse yet the neighbor's boy was standing in the path Betty Buick was traveling. Youngster (maybe 3-4 years old) was just staring at the big Seafoam Green thing headed for him. Somehow the Buick changed course just enough the boy was barely brushed and the other side of the car just bumped a sapling enough to stop the rolling. That was good because the neighbor's driveway soon started a downhill run to their garage. Never knew my father could move that fast.
Wow Ragtop, look what ya started, now it can be told! That would be another good idea for an article , dumb(or dangerous) things we did as kids in cars. I think I learned some new words that day too.
Make that two votes for the 1960 300, and if I could split a vote, I'd include the 1961 300, as well. No matter how someone photographs one of these, it is hard to beat seeing one of them in person. I saw a 1961 convertible, red with white leather and four individual seats last summer at a concours. Compared to the Imperials, the relative lack of chrome on those 300's makes them look so elegant. Sort of the idea behind the Grand Prix's, but two model years earlier.
I learned to drive on a 1957 Plymouth, which was replaced with a 1958 Plymouth and later a 1964 Chrysler Newport, in which I took my current (and only) wife to our high school senior prom. My father also had 1947 and 1951 Studebakers, so you could say we had a Virgil Exner-created garage for decades. I always thought his designs were very cool, even the first iteration Plymouth Valiant. We don't see much like that nowadays. Maybe I'm getting old, but what's wrong with tail fins?
I'll never forget the day when, as 4-yr. old, I saw a shiny new '57 Plymouth on display in a dept. store.
Was mesmerized.
I remember experiences with Exner-era Chrysler cars. I had a 1957 Plymouth Savoy (they were all named after ritzy hotels) which got me through college, and my father had a 1955 Chrysler New Yorker followed by a 1958 Imperial. For a short time during college I worked in the parts department of a local Dodge-Plymouth dealer, where they were prepping new cars for delivery. I remember they had a mechanic fresh off the boat from Italy who could speak very little English. He would bring parts from cars just delivered and say "No f—ing good!"
…..you're right, Peter, and I never noticed the connection before, Chrysler had been poaching snooty sounding Anglo, and resort hotel names for years…..Cambridge, Belvedere, Cranbrook, Plaza, Meadowbrook, Windsor, Saratoga, New Yorker, St. Regis, and, of course, Savoy……….wonder how Fury ever snuck into their little world……
At least they had names. Too many cars now are just alphabet soup letters & numbers without significance
Would love to see more photos of the last car in the article, the XNR . Some concept designs are so great they should have at least a limited production run.
Styling changed dramatically for Chrysler products from 1954 to 1955. I campaigned for the family car to be any of the Chrysler product. My father's opinion counted the most for brand and mother's color. Yes we almost had a pink and grey anything. My father after having a disastrous '49 Windsor said never again. "56 was really warmed over and not in a good way but come '57 it was wow time again. GM finally caught up in '59 but Ford waited until '60. When Chrysler cut fins they started to get weird and not in a good way. After Exner did all the wonderful mid '50's designs and start of '60's he just lost his touch. Witness Stutz Blackhawk. They were supposed to be classics but really just reminded me of GM 1958 over wrought design.
Shorn of their fins, Exner said the early sixties Chrysler cars looked like "plucked chickens."
What didn't helped was Virgil Exner got an heart attack when the 1959-60-61 models was on the drawing boards and clay models. The designers staff taken every direction in design. The 1960 Plymouth looked too much like a 1957 then some said "Suddenly it's 1957!" with its akward front end helped Dodge to get lots of customers with its new "economical" full-size Dart. We could wonder what if Chrysler president Joseph Newberg, didn't care of the rumors of a small Chevy and Ford (what it was in reality the Chevy II and mid-size Fairlane) go with what Virgil Exner originally planned for 1962? (There some pictures of the proposed 1962 at http://www.allpar.com/old/buyers-guide/ply-1960-1965.html )
Another 1962 we never knew was this 1962 DeSoto proposal done by Don Kokpa http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1960s-chrysler-concept-cars1.htm too conservative in the eyes of Exner, it looked a lot like the full-size Mercury of the same era and I think Chrysler could had attracted some Mercury and Oldsmobile customers had this '62 DeSoto had got the green light.
WOW Stephane, (%#@*#, tried to get that mark over your name, sorry)( again, don't try).I'm really impressed with your knowledge, not that there's any competition here, but I think it's YOU that should be writing for Hemmings!
I had a high mileage relic of a '57 Plymouth 4-door Plaza, with a 6-cylinder 3-speed standard shift. Chrysler cut a lot of corners on that pathetic car's body, most notably with respect to the reinforcement free expanse of hood, which was a reverberating piece of sheet metal that could wake the dead whenever it was closed.
Learned to drive on my Dad's 1959 Plymouth Sport Fury in 1962 ! Great car, 361 Golden Commando ? engine ,swivel buckets and all the bells and whistles. It finally succumbed to the tin worm in 63 and was replaced by a 64 Sport Fury. Dad could never figure out why kids wanted to race him.Might have been that 413 emblem on the hood !
To this day I remember the first time I saw the amazing fins of these cars. I was a teen and a car then was something really special and desired by any guy. My favorite uncle bought a Chrysler 300 and took me for a ride I get goosebumps even now. Thanks Uncle Ed.
Virgil Exner is the Patron saint of Finland.
I'll never forget going to the Plymouth dealer, Al Wagner, in Youngstown, Ohio in 1958 to pick up our new, red, '58 Belvedere. I was barely all of 5 years old but the sight of the entire shop area filled with all those fins lined up for customer viewing left quite an impression. 7 years later, while parked in my grandparent's hillside driveway, the "not set too well by my mom" emergency brake let loose and the car sailed down the drive. Miraculously, the "Red Devil" crabbed it's wheels on the black top drive and crashed tail end into "Pierre" the french poodle, the topiary that my grandfather had skillfully trimmed out of the hedges fronting his lawn. Aside from some paint scratches and missing "fur" all's well that ended well!
After reading all the close calls of our youth, it's obviously clear, God looks out for fools and little children!!!!!
Somehow, few people wanted Exner's designs then or now, but he gets a lot of press. Lucky for him the '58 GM and Ford stuff was so awful.
Ex ER's forward look cars are today among the most valuable collectable domestic cars. Take a look at what a DeSoto Adventurer brings at auction.
Danny Plotkin
I can't help but join in the wild ride discussion floating under the praise for Mr. Exner. In 1958 my family was living in Balboa, Panama since my father was working for a company tasked with widening the Panama Canal. We lived in a sprawling 1920s era 3 story apartment building that went on for blocks. Because of the rainy season the apartments were built on a rise above the streets. The first floor was covered parking with apartments on the upper 2 floors.
One day when I was 3 years old I was playing with some boys who were 6 and 10 years older than me. I was sitting on top of their parent's 1953 Ford Country Squire station wagon counting marbles in a big tin can. Next thing I knew the station wagon started rolling backwards down the steep slope crossing the street and up the driveway of the apartment across the street. I calmly kept playing with the can of marbles but I can to this day see their Panamanian maid leaning out of the 2nd floor window of their apartment screaming bloody murder. The car see-sawed to a stop in the middle of the street and no harm was done, except for the damage to the cardiovascular system of their poor maid, Tina. Cars were my first love until I discovered women!
Whilst I recognise Exner's genius I am not a fan of most of his cars. I find them to be over-designed and pretentious. Never the less, the 1957 Mopars broke new ground in automotive design. Less chrome, more cohesion would have helped, in my opinion.
Exner has been one of my favorite auto designers for all time. Loewy and Earle have been given considerable recognition, but Virgil E., often in joint design programs with Ghia, came up with dramatic and revolutionary concepts. I would put Exner above Loewy and Earle, although I realize those two designers have their large fan base. I really, really wish automobile design today were as creative and innovative as I recall from the late '50s into the mid '70s. Too many cars today look like clones of one of the other. "Cookie cutter cars" as my late mother might have said.
I always remember the '57 New Yorker that my dad had. Sitting in the back seat with my dad at the wheel and my two older brothers in the front seat. My dad punched it a a traffic light to show he could beat the guy in the other lane and suddenly all the bolts in the front seat sheared and the whole crowd in the front seat were looking at the headliner. I will always remember that day. fast with good handling for it's day but quick to rust and lousy quality.
R.D. SCHULTZ says:
My Dad had an all black 1957 DeSoto 2 dr. hardtop –
Fireflyte with a Firedome Hemi, 4bbl carb
and push button torque flite auto trans.
I was 17 years old then, Without permission we put her up on the grease rack at Russell's place, one Sunday and Jake cut holes
in the exhaust pipes for cut-outs, that he welded neatly in place. They were located under the front seats, so you had to dive under
the car to get at them.
The caps just screwed-off, like on our our oil tank. I loved to open them up for street racing and first dates!
Dear old Dad never knew they were there until
one summer afternoon, driving home in rush hour traffic, when one of the caps loosened slowly and then just fell off onto Georgia Street by Stanley Park in Vancouver BC. He didn't see it but he sure heard the thunder! So he pulled into Cal-Van Speed Shop on Denman, where they put her up on the hoist. Imagine Dad's surprise when they asked him, "Where do you race this thing??" He never knew how fast it could go! I was so sad to see that driver's side cut out pipe packed FULL of hardened muffler cement.
My memories of that 57 Desoto Hemi are so sweet and I was so lucky to drive it! My thanks to Virgil Exner for his genius in
designing the 57 DeSoto. Sure wish I could get my hands on a carbon copy today!!! Any good leads please?


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By DAVID EGGERT, Associated Press
LANSING (AP) – Hundreds of thousands of more low-income adults in Michigan would become eligible for government-funded health insurance under legislation backed Wednesday by a divided House committee.
The 9-5 vote, which came after months of talks in the Republican-controlled Legislature over expanding Medicaid eligibility, set the stage for a possible vote Thursday in the House. Republican Gov. Rick Snyder is pushing hard for Medicaid expansion before legislators break for the summer at the end of next week.
The bill would expand Medicaid to 320,000 nondisabled adults in 2014 and more in following years.
Under the federal health care overhaul, states can expand Medicaid to adults making up to 133 percent of the poverty level, which is about $15,300 for an individual. The federal government is offering to cover the entire cost initially and 90 percent down the line.
The bill includes GOP-written requirements that new enrollees pay some of their medical expenses and pick up more costs after being on the program for four years. The federal government would have to sign off for Michigan to proceed with its plan.
Supporters say offering health insurance to more poor people will make them healthier and minimize their expensive trips to the emergency room, saving money. Opponents say it is a bad idea to undertake a massive expansion of government even if the federal government will pay most of the costs. A group of tea party and conservative activists said Tuesday that they would oppose Snyder's expected re-election bid because he has pushed to expand Medicaid coverage.
Four Republicans and five Democrats on the House Michigan Competitiveness Committee voted for the legislation. Four Republicans opposed it.
Committee Chairman Mike Shirkey, R-Clark Lake, said he was a "hard no" when Snyder initially proposed Medicaid expansion, but he changed his mind.
"I evaluated the downsides, what would actually happen to the state if we did nothing," Shirkey said. "Things like not being able to address this growing problem of uncompensated care. Things like Michigan being a huge donor state in terms of the new taxes associated with the Affordable Care Act. Those are the kind of things that I said, `You know what. We cannot afford to not step up and address those."'
Medicaid covers roughly one in five Michigan residents – mainly low-income children, pregnant women and the disabled along with some poorer working adults.
Working parents in Michigan currently qualify for the taxpayer-funded insurance if they earn up to about half the poverty line, $11,800 for a family of four. Nondisabled adults without children who make less than 35 percent of the poverty level, or $4,000 for an individual, also get Medicaid – although the program generally is closed to new participants.
An estimated 320,000 state residents – many of them adults without children – could be added to Medicaid in 2014 and 470,000 by 2021, cutting the state's uninsured by nearly half. Uninsured residents with higher incomes will be covered by a federal insurance marketplace offering taxpayer-subsidized private plans.
The legislation no longer includes a hard, 48-month time limit for adults added to the government health insurance program. Instead, those adults ages 21 to 64 would have two options after four years: buy government-subsidized insurance through an exchange or stay on Medicaid by paying more out-of-pocket costs.
The time limit was touted as the first such proposal in the country when it was introduced a month ago. But it had drawn concern from Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, Democrats and advocates for the poor.
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BMW's updated X6 Sport Activity Vehicle was one of those proverbial game-changers that comes along only every so often but then has a significant influence on automotive design. In this case, any number of competitors has raced to match the Bavarian maker's quirky blend of sporty coupe and crossover/utility features.
Though decidedly controversial – generating both picks and pans among industry critics, the first-generation BMW X6 has clicked with consumers, selling more than 150,000 copies worldwide, including 20,000 here in the U.S., which the German maker insists "has far exceeded the original expectations."
So, the spotlight is on the update that will be rolling into showrooms this spring. Not surprisingly, especially for a mid-cycle update, goes through some evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, changes. But they should nonetheless enhance the appeal of the sport-activity coupe.


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October 15 – Happy Birthday Dana Cavalea
Any newspaper or Web site that covers New York Yankee baseball has offered readers some type of editorial or polling content that focuses on what changes the Yankees need to make during the winter to get back into the postseason in 2014. Who should be signed, who should be released, who should be fired, who should retire, there have been dozens of articles published, offering opinions on the offseason fate of every current Yankee employee from Robbie Cano to Brian Cashman.
Permit me to throw today's Pinstripe Birthday Celebrant into that mix. Dana Cavalea has been the Yankees' strength and conditioning coach since 2007. Though I don't have specific facts to back this up, I'm willing to go out on the limb here and say that the average number of Yankee injuries and disabled list assignments per season have climbed to record levels under Cavalea's watch, peaking in 2013 when New York was forced to make 28 different disabled list assignments.
You can't blame Cavalea for broken bones but how many strained quads, rib cages, hamstrings, groins and tendons does it take before you begin to question the soundness of the team's strength and conditioning program. I know I'm sounding a lot like George Steinbrenner here. For that matter, if the Boss were still running things in both Tampa and the Bronx, Mr. Cavalea would probably be looking for a new job right about now.
I certainly know nothing about strength and conditioning strategies and techniques for modern day athletes and I'm sure Cavalea is well credentialed and highly respected in the field. But when there are more starters on the Yankee DL list than in the team's starting line-up, something's got to change, doesn't it?
Happy birthday Dana and please don't take what I've written above personally or professionally for that matter since I have no idea what I'm talking about. I'm just burning off some of the frustration I had left over from the just completed season of sickness.
The only Yankee player born on today's date gave up playing baseball for golf.


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Dear Sir/Madam,
I'm applying for the Socrates/Erasmus programme as a first-year student of the full-time International Studies on the first cycle. My first option is Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the second is Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Studying abroad has always been my wish. I consider it as a challenge and an opportunity to explore and identify ways of improving myself. Travels, international relations and history are my biggest interests ,which I am trying to develop. I believe that visiting a new country, meeting new people and discovering new experiences is the best way to develop myself and discover a new ways of thinking.
Portugal and Greek languages and cultures are not very popular in my homeland but I find them very interesting. Portugal is a country of well-known sailors and discoverers. Those people spread Portugal culture and language from Macau to Brazil, so Portugal language is a key not only to Portugal but also to other countries and cultures. Greece is the cradle of European culture. Meeting Greek cultural heritage would be a great adventure and opportunity to broaden my knowledge.
Living and studying abroad has benefits that I could not achieve by a short visit alone. It will allow me to broaden my perspective and contribute to my personal development. Additionally, this scholarship would allow me to interact with students from all over the globe who may study the same programme, thus I will benefit from an enlarged circle of friends and contacts. I consider it as a challenge and an opportunity which certainly will enable me to open my mind.
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The following people have recently joined, or will soon be joining, with the Emmanuel family as new hires to our faculty and staff.
Jason Farr – Men's Volleyball
I have been married to my wife, Stephanie for twelve years now and we have two children, Alex and Jordan. We are moving here from Lincoln, IL where we have lived since 2000. I have been coaching volleyball for ten years now and am very passionate about having a successful program. Academics are very important to me as my teams the last three years have received the AVCA all-academic team honor (3.4 GPA and above cumulatively). My family will be moving down here with me at the end of May once Alex finishes second grade this year. My wife has managed a home daycare over the past eight years and she is the best at it. Although, don't get any ideas she is retiring from having something in our home. I am very excited to be part of the EC family and can't wait to get to know more of the employees.
Patrick Johnston – Director of Lacrosse & Head Men's Lacrosse Coach
Patrick Johnston joins Emmanuel as the Director of Lacrosse and the Men's Lacrosse Head Coach. Patrick spent the last seven years teaching English and coaching lacrosse at both Cardinal Newman High School and Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, FL. He holds a B.S. in Secondary Education Language Arts from the University of Alabama and an M.A in English from the School of Letters program at Sewanee: The University of the South. Patrick is married to his wife of five years Cortney, and they have a baby girl Lydia Jolee and are expecting another child in December.
Emily King – Women's Lacrosse and Strength & Conditioning Coach
Emily King comes to Emmanuel College after a successful career as a certified college strength and conditioning coach. Emily had the opportunity to work with a multitude of athletes including but not limited to football, men's lacrosse, men's soccer, women's lacrosse, swimming and diving and softball. Emily worked at several Division I universities such as The United States Naval Academy, University of New Mexico, Virginia Tech and the University of Georgia. As a player, Emily King played collegiate lacrosse at Anne Arundel Community College and James Madison University. While playing at Anne Arundel CC Emily was named most improved player as well as most valuable player twice. While pursuing her degree from the University of Maryland, Emily helped coach her alma mater to their first 20 -0 season as well as their first state title. Emily earned a B.S. degree in Kinesiology from the University of Maryland. While working at Virginia Tech, Emily began her Master's Degree in health promotions before moving to Georgia. Coach King will serve as both the Women's Lions Lacrosse Coach and the Strength and Conditioning Coach for Lions Athletics. Emily King and her husband Rusty live in Royston with their two children Hunter (6) and Ashton (4). Emily still competes today in local road races as well as local and regional half ironman triathlons.
Deborah Millier – Library
"I am Deborah Millier, the new Assistant Director of Library Services. I received my BA in Education from Toccoa Falls College and my MLIS from the University of South Carolina. One week after receiving my masters, my husband, our three young children and I moved to Jerusalem where I took up the head librarian position at Jerusalem University College. When our work there was complete, the Lord led us to a new field in Manila, Philippines where I worked as both a middle school teacher and a high school librarian. Upon the graduation of our oldest daughter from Faith Academy, we knew it was time to return to the States for the training our special needs son required. I am blessed to be able to continue helping people through library services and to share the joy and needs of being on a mission field."
Mark Trump – School of Christian Ministry
Mark and his wife Alison have been married for 15 years and have two children, Micah (5) and Matilyn (2). They have been in full-time church ministry as Youth Pastor, Senior Pastor, for 13 of those years. They are both originally from Pennsylvania and are coming to Emmanuel by way of Kentucky, Michigan, and most recently Wisconsin where Mark is finishing his dissertation on the Gospel of John at Marquette University. They enjoy spending time and adventures with their kids. Alison's passion is worship and music while Mark enjoys fishing, sports, art, and reading. They are excited about moving to the Southeast and joining the staff at Emmanuel. He has a passion to teach, mentor, and minister to college students, and to train future pastors and Christian leaders. Their hearts beat with the values, vision and mission of Emmanuel College.
Nathan Webb – Communication
Nathan Webb will be joining the Communication Studies faculty this fall. Nathan received a B.S. from College of the Ozarks and an M.A. from Midwestern Baptist Seminary, both located in Missouri. He will be completing a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Kansas this year with emphases in Interpersonal and Instructional Communication. Nathan has taught at the college level at Baker University and the University of Kansas. He also brings five years of Christian non-profit experience and two years of experience as a legal research analyst to Emmanuel. When Nathan is not working on his doctoral dissertation, he enjoys traveling and St. Louis Cardinals baseball.
Kent Apostol – School of Natural Sciences/Biology
"I am delighted to join the Natural Sciences Department at Emmanuel. My Ph.D. is in Forest Biology and Management from the University of Alberta, Canada. Prior to earning my doctorate, I attended the University of the Philippines at Los Banos, where I received my B.S. and M.Sc. in Forestry. I held two postdoctoral positions at Purdue University focusing on the aspects related to regeneration and restoration projects in the Central Hardwood Region of the USA. My research interests center on whole-plant physiology, ecological restoration, and nursery practices utilizing measures of seedling physiology. I will be teaching Principles of Biology I and II, Honors Biology, and Earth Science during 2012-2013 academic year."
Daniel Anderson – English
Danny Anderson hails from Cleveland, Ohio and holds a Ph.D. in English from Case Western Reserve University. His dissertation research focused on representations of university spaces in Jewish American literature and film, and he is largely driven by his interest in liberal arts education. Believing that the Christian life and the Life of the Mind are inseparable, Danny is excited to join Emmanuel's English department and looks forward to integrating his faith and his intellectual pursuits. In addition, he hopes to encourage his students to pursue God through their pursuit of knowledge as well.
Danny, his wife, Kim, and their two daughters are excited to move to Georgia later this summer and getting to know the Emmanuel community. Also, as a long-suffering Browns fan, he looks forward to following a competent team for once.
Rick Wilson – Health & Physical Education
"Hello, my name is Rick Wilson, and I am excited to have the privilege to serve and mentor the students of Emmanuel College! I earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physical Education and Health as well as a Master of Education in Physical Education from Malone College (now Malone University) in Canton, Ohio, and I am currently pursuing a Doctor of Education degree in Athletic Administration from Northcentral University in Arizona. Most recently, I have served as Assistant Professor of Health and Human Performance and Head Cross Country and Track Coach at Erskine College in Due West, South Carolina. Prior to our family's move south, I taught physical education and served as the athletic director at Heartland Christian School in Columbiana, Ohio. I have an incredible wife of 13 years, and we have two wonderful children, ages 7 and 3. Our family is very close, and we enjoy doing everything together, with running and camping being two of our most favorite activities."
Emmanuel Saka – Graphic Design
Emmanuel Saka received his BFA in Graphic Design from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi-Ghana and MFA, Graphic Design from Iowa State University, Ames-Iowa. During the 2007/2008 academic year, he served as a Teaching Assistant at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi-Ghana. He worked as a Graduate Assistant for the Department of Residence - Iowa State University, Ames-Iowa during the 2008/2009 academic year. In 2009/2010, Emmanuel served as a Personal Assistant to Dawn Bratsch-Prince, Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Study Abroad Program in the capacity a Graduate Assistant. He participated in a national design collaborative project (Hablamos Juntos) in 2009 to design a system of new medical symbols for use in limited English population medical facilities. Emmanuel worked as a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Design and Art - Iowa State University for the 2010/2011 academic year. In 2011, Emmanuel co-authored: A shopping cart interactive program (SCIP). A case study for relational-cultural and activity theory in interaction design with Cyndi Wiley, Stefan Tauber, and Sunghyun Kang. Emmanuel worked as an Adjunct Design Instructor at GrandView University, Des Moines-Iowa during the Fall 2011 semester. Emmanuel's field specialties are: Web/Interactive Design, Packaging Design, Usability studies/testing, Wayfinding, Brand Identity, Symbology, Typography, Photography and Print/publication design.


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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR phenom Kyle Larson seemed to channel his inner Kyle Busch, NASCAR's bad boy, Monday night to win the Whelen All-American series feature of the inaugural UNOH Battle at the Beach. The two-day event featured NASCAR's three short-track series: K&N Pro Series, Whelen Modifieds, and the Late Model division of the Whelen All-American Series.
Larson, 20, of Elk Grove, Calif., was the busiest man at the beach Monday after he won his qualifying heat — in his first time driving a late model stock car — and borrowed a page from Busch's playbook by spinning out race leader C.E. Falk in the last corner of the last lap to win the 150-lap All-American Series feature.
"It came down to the last lap and I wanted this trophy,'' said Larson, the reigning NASCAR K&N Pro Series East champion and Rookie of the Year, who will attempt to run a full schedule as a Nationwide Series rookie this year.
"I got into him and didn't get off of him and he spun around,'' said Larson, who finished ahead of runner-up Ben Rhodes. "I hate doing it that way. It's probably the first race I've ever won in that manner, but this was a pretty big race and I wanted to be the first to win it.''
Falk stared at Larson as they passed in the press box without uttering a word. But the 25-year-old from Virginia Beach did his best to take the high road, making light of the situation by saying, "I think I got monster-trucked at the end.''
"I've been short-track racing a long time,'' said Falk, an ex-track champion at Langley (Va.) Speedway. "Last lap, when a guy is about 2 car lengths back, you're free game up front, you're just a sitting duck.
"He got into me and I thought I was going to be OK, but the wheels were spinning and I just couldn't get enough forward traction. He got me that last time with a direct hit in the left rear and spun us out."
It was a busy day for Larson, who has spent his inaugural Speedweeks driving virtually anything with four wheels at Daytona International Speedway.
He earned approval to make his Nationwide Series debut Saturday by earning his superspeedway rookie stripes with a runner-up finish to John Wes Townley in the ARCA Racing Series season opener last Saturday at Daytona.
While Danica Patrick was making history at Daytona, becoming the first woman in NASCAR history to win a pole for a Sprint Cup race, Larson was winning a USAC midget race Sunday night at New Smyrna Beach (Fla.) Speedway, where a year ago he won in his first career start in a stock car.
Larson was back at Daytona Monday preparing to compete in all three divisions of the Battle at the Beach on a 0.4-mile temporary oval on the backstretch.
Having never driven in a Modified, Larson posted the fastest lap (77.603 miles per hour) after turning 47 laps in the first Modified Tour practice session. He turned 42 laps and was 15th fastest on the speed chart (71.087) during the Pro Series practice, and he won his 25-lap All-American Series qualifying heat and the feature.
"It's been a great week so far . . . well, it's been a great 2013 so far,'' said Larson, who has won five of his eight starts this season.
Grala finishes 18th
It was a tough night for Kaz Grala, of Westborough, Mass., whose No. 3 Chevrolet was damaged when it was involved in the first caution on Lap 14 of the All-American Series feature. Grala's wrinkled hood was removed from his car, which allowed him to return and finish 18th . . . There will be nine New Englanders in Tuesday's Whelen Modified Tour race: Todd Szegedy, of Ridgefield, Conn.; Ted Christopher, of Plainville, Conn; Ron Silk of Norwalk, Conn; Andy Seuss of Hampstead, N.H; Ryan Preece, of Berlin, Conn; Mike Stefanik, of Coventry, R.I.; Doug Coby of Milford, Conn; Woody Pitkat, of Stafford, Conn; and Bobby Santos of Franklin, Mass. Preece was the fastest among the New England group in Monday's Modified practice when he finished fourth on the speed chart (76.829 m.p.h.).Michael Vega can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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IOWA CITY (AP) — Samantha Logic had 23 points with 11 rebounds and host Iowa beat eighth-seeded Miami 69-53 on Sunday night, snapping a two-game losing streak in the NCAA tournament.
Melissa Dixon added 13 points in the second half for the Hawkeyes (21-12), which will face top-seeded Notre Dame Tuesday night in Iowa City.
The Fighting Irish throttled Tennessee-Martin 97-64 earlier Sunday.
Iowa broke open a stalemate with an 18-3 run to jump ahead 58-44 with 7:07 left. Miami (21-11), which was up by seven early in the second half, shot just 3 of 19 from 3-point range and 30 percent overall.
Morgan Stroman had 15 points and Shawnice Wilson had 15 points and 18 rebounds for the Hurricanes, who committed 24 turnovers.


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Perhaps slashdot should implement a requirement for writing a cogent, unique paragraph before it allows a user to have mod points. Then, if they also change the moderation to be accountable (no longer anonymous, and no longer scarce -- see Kuro5in.org for moderation technology that actually works), it might have a chance at being useful in the sense that one could actually use it to filter messages, instead of being relegated to endlessly observe people use mod points in place of actually expressing a counter opinion.
Then again, slashdot could continue on with completely broken moderation. I could see that as a possibility, given the existing sample set.
From the project FAQ:
Isn't filtering stupidity elitist?
Yes. Yes, it is. That's sort of the whole point.
It brings up an interesting question, though. On my blog, I have two layers of filtering against spam, and I'll delete any spam that gets through. I'll also delete the insults and obvious trolls. But sometimes I'll leave the dumb comments intact. I don't know if it's pity, or the kind of amusement one gets out of, say, lolcats, or what.
It brings up an interesting question, though. On my blog, I have two layers of filtering against spam, and I'll delete any spam that gets through. I'll also delete the insults and obvious trolls. But sometimes I'll leave the dumb comments intact. I don't know if it's pity, or the kind of amusement one gets out of, say, lolcats, or what.
Excellent point. I believe that stupidity is protected under the first amendment. I should also note that stupidity is fought in the fifth.
And when stupid people exercise the Second Amendment... well, that problem tends to take care of itself.
Bigger problem is who decides what is stupid?
In the case of this particular project, it's more about the manner of expression rather than the ideas expressed. A short comment consisting of OMGs, LOL's and emoticions, with "ur k3wl i lik ur site" would trip the filter, but (to quote the page again) it "will cheerfully approve an eloquent, properly-capitalized defense of mandatory, state-subsidized rocket-launcher ownership for all schoolchildren."
In theory, if the filter is trained properly, it should also be able to distinguish between non-native speakers who have only a smattering of English (or another target language) and those who write in 1337-5p3@k and SMS-style abbreviations. But that requires the people training it to make that distinction.
All too often on Slashdot people actually believe that "Smart==Thinks like me" and "Stupid==Doesn't think like me"
That's definitely not confined to
To verify this:
First, the rumours passed around from urban legends [about.com].
Now his SAT scores from CNN [cnn.com] were 566 verbal and 640 math.
And from here we have a setup of pre-1974 SAT scores against IQ [members.shaw.ca].
His score of 1206 combined sets him up with an IQ of about 130.
Now, from the IQ we can look at a distrubution of IQ versus percentage of people with such an IQ [members.shaw.ca] to see where a 130 IQ puts you, a
One of the reasons people call Bush stupid is his complete and total lack of eloquence. Like it or not, people often associate intelligence with ability to form coherent sentences most of the time. I'm not sure how intelligent Bush really is, partially because he never proves his intelligence with decent argument or debate. Others do.
But isn't that true of pretty much everybody? I mean, are there people out there who believe that "Smart==Doesn't think like me" and "Stupid==Thinks like me"? And if so, wouldn't they be so stupid that they wouldn't realise their own stupidity, and so think they're smart after all, and so... [out of stack space]
What I want to know is who this evil Dr. Noone is and why she is allowed to deny things we mere mortals cannot.
I'm pretty sure this project already exists, and is called just fucking google it. [justfuckinggoogleit.com]
It should involve gradiated access
Would now be a good time to point out that 'gradiated' isn't a word? (Perhaps you meant 'graduated'....)
I can see it now:If you can't solve a quadratic equation, your computer is set to inbound traffic only.
Too long have we suffered in silence under the tyranny of idiocy.
Including from people who incorrectly, implicitly, claim to be non-idiotic.
In the beginning, the internet was a place where one could communicate intelligently with similarly erudite people.
I don't usually do language trolls, but that's really rich coming from someone who can't spell "Internet" properly, and who directly implies the clearly false notion that today online, one cannot "communicate intelligently with similarly erudite people."
Skip the ad-laden overloaded blogodreck site and go directly to StupidFilter. [stupidfilter.org] The concept is straightforward - they're training a naive Bayesian classifier, like a spam filter, on a set of text excerpts rated by humans. You can look at random samples from the training set [stupidfilter.org] for amusement.
Wikipedia already has some 'bots that do somewhat similar things, looking for totally bogus edits and reverting them. Yahoo's "commercial intent" filter also does something like that, to separate commercial and non-commercial sites. We considered something like that for SiteTruth [sitetruth.com], where we need to distinguish non-commercial sites so we don't rate them by business criteria.
This approach to filtering will probably need domain-dependent filters. A political site, a social site, a sports site, and a game site all need different training sets. I'd go for a two-stage classifier, one that divided sites into about ten to twenty major categories, and then a stupidity filter trained for each of those categories.
Applying such a filter at blog posting time should be interesting.
And the characters in these books, and plays, and so on, and in real life, I might add, spend hours bemoaning the fact that they can't communicate. I feel that if a person can't communicate the very least he can do is to shut up. - Tom Lehrer.
I THINK MAN INVENTED THE CAR by instinct. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.


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Ex-Arsenal star and now club ambassador Freddie Ljungberg believes the current crop of players at the club are good enough to challenge for the title come next season.
The Gunners finished this year's campaign in fourth spot behind the likes of Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea, but they managed to finish above local-rivals Tottenham Hotspur on the final day.
Arsenal knew a victory over Newcastle at St James Park would be enough to see them finish in the final Champions League spot and thanks to a Laurent Koscielny second-half strike, they came out victorious and sealed Champions League football for a 16th consecutive season.
Despite ending the season on a high and in impressive form, Arsenal and the manager Arsene Wenger came under a lot of scrutiny this season and some fans were even calling for the Frenchman to be sacked from his position, but he proved them all wrong by guiding Arsenal to 26 points from a possible 30 in the final 10 games.
Ex-player Freddie Ljungberg, who is now an ambassador at the club, has been on tour with the club as they travel to the far east and he has praised Wenger and his impressive consistency to be able to keep the side in the top-four without spending a lot of money.
The Swedish ex-international has also stated that he believes the current crop of players could challenge for the title next season after proving what they can do in the final stages of last season.
"I think [Wenger] and Sir Alex Ferguson are the best managers in the world," Ljungberg told Arsenal Player.
"He's done remarkably well for a very long period of time and I think with some certain economical restraints at times when they were building the stadium. To still achieve what he's done is actually quite remarkable.
"The Club went out after the game against Newcastle and said they weren't happy with being fourth. They want to win trophies as a Club and I think that was a very important message they sent to all the fans.
"I think they have the foundations. I think it's extremely important that they qualify for the Champions League, otherwise it could be difficult to attract certain players. I always say that they are going to win the league so I'll say that again."
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Museums can't buy a new Louis Vuitton bag every time they want to show off their wealth so instead, they display bling by hiring big-name architects to create new and shiny, glass-filled galleries. LACMA will be joining this popularity game with a planned $650 million expansion by the Pritzker prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor. $450 will be allotted for construction with the remaining $200 million set aside for administrative expenses and contingency.
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I put this under the Whole House Filter Fourm, but maybe it should have gone here. Before I order another filter...
I just replaced the 20" Iron Filter and the 10" Carbon Block Filter for the first time in my house. The Iron filter housing had the part number witten on it so I know I order the correct filter, but the 10" housing just said carbon Block Filter on it.
I ordered the Ametek, Culligan CBC-BB American Plumber W.5CBHD (CBC-BB)
.5 Micron, and we have noticed our water pressure is a lot lower, I'm thinking I should have ordered the Ametek GAC-BB, American Plumber WGCHD GAC Filter (GAC-BB) 20 micron.
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I have to honestly say how surprised I was by these two collections. The colors are amazing and the (sizable) collections themselves contain lots of different MAC products. Not just the typical few lipsticks and quads. Think new shades of Patentpolish Lip Pencils, Mineralize Skinfinish Naturals, and the 183 flat buffer is back in a little Kelly violet SE version.
As for the packaging (which you can see a bit in the photo above), Kelly's is encased in her signature violet shade, while Sharon's is all red. Both with their signatures in the opposite shade.
So speaking of those gorgeous lipsticks, lets start with Kelly's collection...
When I first swatched the STRIP POKER shade, I immediately thought, myth. So I compared the two for you below and they are quite similar.
You can see there's not a crazy difference, but STRIP POKER may be just ever so slightly darker and a little warmer in tone. If you're a nude lip lover, I'd definitely recommend this one! I can't wait to wear it.
Next, (completely because of the name) I compared KELLY YUM-YUM to the always-popular CANDY YUM-YUM. SUPER similar.
These were even more similar, but to get nit-picky, CANDY YUM-YUM is slightly cooler. And when I say slightly, I mean if you have CANDY YUM-YUM, I'd probably skip the new shade. However, if you never got your hands on that one, I'd definitely recommend KELLY YUM-YUM.
The other product from Kelly's collection that I have to share is the Eye Kohl in Smolder, which is a part of the permanent line, so there's probably nothing incredibly new to share here.
Just an all-around, solid good black liner.
I so wish I had some of the other Kelly items to share with you all (they look amazing, and I'm trying to refrain from placing an order), but Sharon's collection is great as well and I actually have most of that to share.
So if you couldn't tell from the first photo in this post, Sharon's collection is very red. Well, at least in packaging. I was actually most surprised by hers! I expected the typical deep red on red on red lipsticks, glosses, and liners. I love that she didn't go that route, but instead, chose a mix of flattering shiny and shimmery neturals, and a few deep Patentpolish Lip Pencils.
Let's get into her collection...
This brown liner is fun. Which is usually not something you'd say about a brown liner. I feel like this one would work perfectly with the DUCHESS QUAD above.
So that's it! What do you all think?? Do you have your eye on anything particular? Let me know what you decide to pick up or if you'll be passing...
As for me? I'm impressed! ...and currently *trying* to resist ordering the rest of the collection!
The collection is available today HERE so don't miss it!
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Discussion in 'The Bar' started by Daveindiego, Feb 9, 2013.
I'm going to tell you why.
It's because he plays the Blues.
Beautiful blue square with a question mark in it dave. I agree.
Dave, is so fuckin high right now. Dude go lay down and chill out.
My cat is so soft right now.
Did you know that cat's have multiple nipples?
No such thing Dave. Whatever any person's ear likes is the best.
The blues plays itself.
How many can you fit in your mouth?
use it as a pillow, its a warm pillow
They're kind of spread out, so probably no more than 3 or 4.
high as hell
His son was only a foot tall at death but had a 96" waist.
No, for reals bro.
The Blues is a style that takes a lifetime to master, and he is just now coming into his prime.
This same principle applies to Keith Richards too.
I prefer David Gilmour, maybe even Alex Lifeson.
lol, worst thread ever
Hey, don't get me wrong, they're good too.
But Clapton really is God.