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Posted at 02:07 PM | Permalink
He was the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture four decades ago, first appointed by President Richard Nixon and continuing under Gerald Ford. In 1976, John Dean, former White House Counsel under Nixon, was released from prison after a short stay for his role in the Watergate scandal. Rolling Stone magazine hired Dean and sent him to Kansas City to report on the Republican National Convention. It was while Dean was acting as a reporter that he found himself engaged in a conversation with Butz and singer Pat Boone. Here's part of Dean's story, as reported in Rolling Stone that fall:
"Pat [Boone] posed a question: "John and I were just discussing the appeal of the Republican party. It seems to me that the party of Abraham Lincoln could and should attract more black people. Why can't that be done?" This was a fair question for the secretary, who is also a very capable politician.
"I'll tell you why you can't attract coloreds," the secretary proclaimed as his mischievous smile returned. "Because colored only wants three things. You know what they want?" he asked Pat.
"Pat shook his head no; so did I.
"I'll tell you what coloreds want. It's three things: first, a tight pussy; second, loose shoes; and third, a warm place to shit. That's all!"
The quote was generally cleaned up for publication but versions of it found their way into newspapers across the world within hours of Rolling Stone hitting the newsstands on October 1, 1976. On the morning of Oct. 4, UPI reported that Butz was under pressure to resign but had told the press that he had no intention of quitting. He resigned that afternoon.
My, how times have changed. Look where we are today.
Just thinking of enumerating the fissures in our republic give me a headache. There's no shortage of analysis of our predicament on cable TV, if you dare watch. As one institution after another crumbles from within, our future looks increasingly bleak. Real matters of consequence -- like climate change, income inequality, fiscal irresponsibility and basic humanity -- are swept aside by increasingly strident bickering.
It's beyond belief to me that a segment of our citizenry sees this civil foment as a good thing. Regardless of social status, we all have a stake in this. It wasn't that long ago that a politician would lose his grip on power for saying something stupid. Who would have guessed that the Watergate era would be seen as the good old days?
That's depressing.
Posted at 06:28 AM | Permalink
"You know, Walter, you have the best job, getting to interview the rich and powerful," a friend once said to CBS newsman Walter Cronkite. "You've met the most interesting people in the world."
"Yes," Cronkite replied, adding some clarification. "And most of them are journalists."
That's a story I've shared countless times since entering the journalism profession 50 years ago. Now, I must confess, I've never been able to verify that it was Cronkite (or anyone else) that actually uttered those words. Nevertheless, it's a sentiment I wholeheartedly endorse.
I found working in newsrooms over a 35-year career to be a stimulating environment. Whether it was Damon Runyonesque characters like Max Namen of the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil who gave me a crash course early in my career on how the FBI collects eyewitness descriptions when I was way over my head trying to cover a bank robbery or seasoned professionals like Buck Turnbull who chewed me out for apparently not knowing the difference between Cedar Falls and Cedar Rapids in a dateline on a story he authored for the Des Moines Register. "Jesus Christ, you make me look like an idiot," he bellowed.
I've been away from newspapering for better than 12 years now, but I still write. Besides blogs like this, I've got one completed book (technically) in the hands of an agent and another (technically) in the works. I put the qualifiers in the previous sentence because I'm pretty sure my agent has given up on me and I haven't touched the (active) project in months. So, unless I get on the stick, no one will know my telling of the story about "How dancing teenagers took over America and Dick Clark took over rock & roll," or how America's most popular airline essentially went belly up within 10 years of its peak popularity.
Working alone has its benefits. A stimulating environment is not one of them. I miss helping reporters shape stories. I miss those unexpected phone calls from Bob Feller bitching about a story or Ivan Lendl plugging an upcoming tennis exhibition. I miss the adrenaline rush of a story breaking (really breaking, not CNN-Wolf Blitzer "breaking") on deadline. Heck, I even miss the news meetings where every section shared their offerings for the next day's paper.
I'm guessing I'm not alone in that writing-alone-is-cool-but-I-miss-working-with-others feeling. I'm also thinking that a little interaction with others might keep the writing spark firing. Many of you may have already created your own Writing Support System. I have not. I've checked out more than eight Des Moines-area writing groups recently and have yet to find a good fit. What I'm looking for is a group catering to nonfiction writers who appreciate the sharing of ideas and professional advice and who are genuinely interested in what others are working on.
In the absence of such a group, I'm interested in forming one. There's a lot of creative talent in the Des Moines area. I think it would be good to convene as much of that talent as possible on a regular basis. With all the writers, editors, designers, graphic artists and publishers in the area, there should be ample opportunities for professional assistance and/or collaboration.
What do you think? If enough people show interest, I'll be happy to schedule an organizational meetup. Message me through Facebook or send me an e-mail, Let me know what you would want from such a group and when works best for you (day/evening, weekday/weekend). Also feel free to share this with any serious nonfiction writer who may also be interested. I hope to hear from many of you. Thanks.
Posted at 03:06 PM | Permalink
I have a confession: There is no Giuseppe Polomi. Except for the one that inadvertently escaped from keyboards under my control a half dozen or so times over the past 40-plus years.
Truth be known, no more than a handful or two of people were ever aware of the mythical Giuseppe, a jack of all trades whose sole existence is owed to the pairing of agnostic wire service editors with a sometimes overzealous local newspaper editor. As you might guess, I was the latter.
I can't pinpoint the exact first time Giuseppe's name popped into print, but I would guess it to be around 1976 or 1977. I was sports editor of the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil at the time. A big part of that job was picking out the stories and photos for each day's paper, assigning each a proper place within the section and making sure they were carefully edited and carried clear, accurate headlines. It's a more difficult task than lay people realize. Every story looks pretty much the same as it is printed off the wire, but each has to be assessed as to its "news value." As a smaller daily, the Nonpareil wire service was very basic. Instead of getting separate stories on every major league baseball game, for example, we'd get one roundup story for each major league. Small selection, small staff. It all made sense in a way. Unfortunately, we also had a very limited choice of photos (especially on days when the photo wire would run out of paper overnight or get jammed).
It was on one of those days when I wanted to use an interesting wire photo that had scant information. Faced with using yet another information-packed (but boring) photo of a baseball player sliding into second base, I chose to use the more interesting photo. While trying to flesh out the photo's cation, I opted to identify a person the wire service didn't identify. That unidentified person thus became Giuseppe Polomi. Over the years, Giuseppe popped up in other captions, such as in this photo from July 30, 1978:
Creation of Giuseppe was wrong, despite my good intentions. In retrospect there were other things I did in those days that would be considered unethical by current journalistic standards. So, I may as well come clean on some other journalistic transgressions from my days in Council Bluffs, like the time I enjoyed fried sweetbreads at Omaha's Bohemian Cafe on Civic Auditorium Manager Charlie Mancuso's dime and then pulled my Hornet Sportabout around back, whereupon Kansas City-Omaha Kings rookies Len Kosmalski and Scott Wedman tossed bags of Wonder Bread products in the back.
Or the afternoon stuck in a blizzard in the mile-high Omaha Press Club, knocking back Bloody Marys as I waited with Steve Pivovar of the Omaha World-Herald and bowler Loa Boxberger for another bowler, Joe Joseph, whose flight from Detroit was delayed. Or the countless Press Club dinners hosted by promoter Tom Lovgren as he announced the newest fight card for C.B. favorite son Ron Stander. We even took road trips, like the annual trek to Sidney where we broke bread with the country act set for that year's rodeo while filling up on barbecued steer. There were fancy lunches to pick the College World Series queen and, oh yeah, the bottles of booze from the Omaha Royals and wrestling promoter Joe Dusek.
Ethics in journalism has always been something of a moving target. Smaller papers with limited budgets are more likely to accept freebies than reporters and editors at larger papers. That became clear to me when I moved to the Des Moines Register in May 1981. The Register had a clearly articulated ethical code of conduct that was strictly enforced. I saw good reporters lose their Register jobs over ethical issues. We even sent checks every year to the universities of Iowa and Iowa State to cover the costs of food consumed in press boxes by our sports reporters. Obviously, the Register was no place for Giuseppe Polomi.
For more than 24 years, I toed the line. After holding several key positions in the sports department at the Register, I found myself back on the copy desk in the latter years of my career. I was pleased to be able to share my knowledge and experience with younger staffers but, truthfully, the work, while demanding, wasn't particularly stimulating. One of my favorite duties at that time was to grab the sports "ears" out of the edit basket. "Ears" were three-line snippets that appeared at the top of page 2C every day. These were "readers" - obscure, interesting items that would never find their way into the section's regular news hole. They were great fun to do - scour the wires, look for something weirdly interesting, boil it down to three lines and slap a headline on it.
As I moved within two weeks of leaving the Register to start my own personal history business, I realized that I had walked the straight and narrow long enough. I did this:
OK, that was wrong, too, but it kinda felt good at the time. Up until this posting I believe only former co-worker Tom Longden and, perhaps, Randy Witke knew about this particular lapse. It's not out of any sense of guilt or remorse that I share this. I just felt that in this post truth era it's a story whose time has come. Plus, I believe the clock has run out on the statute of limitations.
Posted at 03:04 PM | Permalink
Man, I need a break. From technology, that is. I'm plumb tuckered out.
Don't get me wrong; technology is a wondrous thing. When it progresses at a reasonable rate, that is. But what's happening now is just too much for me.
I'm no technophobe, either. I studied computer programming in college in 1963 and Linda and I had rudimentary cable TV in California in 1970, around the same time I was managing airplane parts by computer in the U.S. Air Force. I maintained a cassette tape-driven mailing list on DOS files saved from a Radio Shack home computer in the early 1980s and time-shifted TV programs on videotape in 1977 when a blank videocassette cost $20 (if you could find them).
I started working with PCs in the mid-1980s, even paying a bit more to add a 20MB hard drive as an option to my first IBM machine. I stuck with Microsoft products for the next 20 years until I got fed up with the constant updates, security patches, incompatibilities and warnings about "illegal operations." MACs were a much better fit for me at first and I still prefer them to PCs, but their advantages are getting smaller all the time. For a long time things went smoothly, then things started catching up. First my browser became un-updateable. Same thing happened to Skype and a couple other programs that refused to let me update or use the old version. Rather than update my operating system (not that hard on a MAC, by the way), I went for a fancy new computer.
New computer, new problems. More incompatibility, a couple of useful add-ons to the browser that no longer work and on and on and on. You can probably relate. As frustrating as my complicated relationships with hardware and software is, the Internet presents its own peculiar challenges. Consider The Cloud, where laptop and desktop are supposed to meet for a communal purpose. My desktop and laptop seem to regard The Cloud as a place where they'll converge only when they're damn good and ready and without human intervention. Facebook, once a congenial place for sharing pleasant reminiscences, thoughtful commentary and familial updates, has been infected by a snarky tone that has the ability to permeate the most banal exchanges. Internet streaming of "entertainment programming" has also proven to be disruptive to the cable TV business. On the recent Golden Globes telecast there were entire TV categories that I knew nothing about because I watch none of the streaming services.
I have other issues with modern technology, like how "smart phones" have created a zombie class, how personal privacy is practically non-existent (remember the Equifax hack?), how mega mergers and acquisitions stifle diversity and how the end of net neutrality threatens to create funnels and roadblocks unimaginable just a year or so ago.
Yes, there's a lot of technology happening and it's putting a lot of us on the fence: Do we jump in and try to keep up or do we just throw up our hands and say "That's it. I've had enough?" Personally, I'd like to see a moratorium where nothing changes technology-wise for, say, a year. By then I may have caught up. But that won't happen. I'll keep stumbling along, cursing all the way, as I struggle to keep my head above water. I'll probably keep from drowning, but, damn, it's exhausting.
Author Larry Lehmer is a former newspaper reporter and editor who is seeking a publisher for his book about the Philadelphia years of American Bandstand. He is also a retired personal historian and occasional author of the popular Before Their Time blog, which tells the stories of well-known or important people who died at an early age. He's also something of a curmudgeon.
Posted at 06:49 AM | Permalink
In the mid-1990s, my wife, Linda, took her mother on what was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. Rose was in her mid-70s at the time and recently widowed. She had always wanted to visit Washington, D.C., and Linda decided to help her mother finally realize her dream.
Linda's cousin Billy, an Omaha travel agent, helped set up the trip. Billy came through beautifully, booking a non-stop round trip by air for the two of them and finding a snazzy room in a Westin hotel. Not long before their scheduled departure, though, Rose fell and injured a leg. Undeterred, she insisted they proceed on the trip.
Although Rose thoroughly enjoyed seeing the sights of Washington from her seats on various tour buses, the limiting experience of being bus-bound was less satisfying for Linda. On the other hand, Linda loved the Westin while Rose thought it was too fancy, what with its concierge and all. One thing they both agreed on, though, was that the flight to and from the nation's capital was fabulous.
Cousin Billy had the foresight to book them on Midwest Express, a relatively unknown and recent arrival at the Omaha airport. Linda and Rose were quickly immersed in the Midwest Express experience, a smorgasbord of little luxuries that justified the sassy airlines' claim that it provided "The Best Care in the Air." It was more than braggadocio. There were leather seats and plenty of legroom. There was food, real food, served on real china and accompanied by wine, from a bottle. And there were cookies, warm, gooey chocolate chip cookies that appeared to have just popped out of the oven. And the people were nice, all of them.
Since my own flying experiences were not nearly as grandiose, I was, of course, jealous, realizing full well that I'd probably never experience Midwest Express myself since virtually all of my flying was out of Des Moines, a city not served by ME. So, I pretty much put Midwest Express out of my mind for the next couple of decades.
But I started thinking about it again this past spring. It was right after I had found a literary agent willing to pitch my latest project, a book about the Philadelphia years of Dick Clark's American Bandstand, and I was looking for a new project. Whatever happened to that neat little airline that Linda was so impressed with, I wondered? I went to Google.
Almost immediately I learned that tens of thousands of people had experiences similar to Linda's. So many, in fact, that Midwest Express won dozens of awards and developed what can only be described as an intense cult-like following. People would fly out of their way to pass through ME's hub in Milwaukee. They'd pay a little extra to stretch out in those leather seats and lusted for the airline's cookie recipe.
But I also learned that Midwest Express (and Midwest Airlines, as it was later known) had disappeared by 2010. What happened?
The most oft-heard explanation is that 9-11 happened. That terrible day grounded more than Midwest Express, experts note. While 9-11 was a huge factor in the airline's demise, it's not the only one. Truth is, Midwest was in financial trouble before 9-11. So, just like about everything else in the airline business, it's complicated. Just the kind of story I like to dig into.
I've learned a lot while researching Midwest Airlines in the past few months, like how it grew out of the Kimberly-Clark Corporation and was reluctant to stray too far from its Wisconsin roots. I've learned how, despite the deregulation of airlines in 1978, the flying business may be the most-regulated industry operating in the U.S. I've learned that keeping planes in the air is as much a question of fuel prices, national security and environmental issues as it is a matter of physics. And I've learned that having "The Best Care in the Air" is not enough.
Basically, I've learned that there's a lot I don't know. But I'm still trying. You can only learn so much from scanning headlines and spreadsheets. Good reporters will tell you the real stories lurk beneath the headlines, in that area where real people are doing real things. That's where I'm hoping you will help. I want to get in touch with people who have honest-to-goodness stories to share about Midwest Airlines (emphasis on honest). No vendettas, rants or general BS, please.
Since I'm asking you to share a bit of your life, it's only fair that I share a bit of mine. My profile with this blog will tell you quite a bit. Google me and you'll learn more. What is less obvious is my association with airplanes. I took my first airplane flight in 1968 on a four-leg flight from Omaha to San Antonio (via Kansas City, Oklahoma City and Houston) to report to Air Force basic training. As luck would have it, I spent 3 1/2 years as an aircraft maintenance officer so I've spent time on flight lines, in cockpits, scheduling planes for trips halfway around the world and scrounging parts to keep planes flying. I have a bit of knowledge of the basics of flight and how to keep a big plane (C-141, C-5A) in the air.
I was also working at the Des Moines Register on July 19, 1989, when a United Airlines DC-10 with 293 souls on board made an emergency landing in Sioux City, Iowa, in a piloting feat equal to the Miracle on the Hudson, giving me a chance to see how a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper covers a huge airline-related story.
I revisited the United 232 crash a few years ago when I wrote a book to commemorate the Iowa Dental Association's 150th anniversary. As part of that book, I wrote about how Iowa forensic dentists worked diligently over a weekend to identify 74 victims of the crash. Dr. Dick Hettinger told of how the final vitim was identified:
"Someone asked, 'Who is this we're sending off?'," said Hettinger. "The answer was 'Number 74.' 'No!' my mind said and I turned to a friend and said, 'Isn't that Philip McNulty?' In seconds, the five days of work was summed up. We had been giving back these people's identities. No more body numbers. They all had names now. Our friends had names."
So, please, if you want to share, e-mail me. Thank you.
P.S. Who is Gino Guiduce?
Author Larry Lehmer's book about Dick Clark and American Bandstand -- Bandstandland: How Dancing Teenagers Took Over America and Dick Clark Took Over Rock & Roll --is now available from Sunbury Press. His book about the last tour of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens -- The Day the Music Died -- is available at Amazon.
Posted at 04:27 PM | Permalink
At one point in my youthful past, I played softball on a team sponsored by my employer, The Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil newspaper. The boss sprung for a bunch of snazzy jerseys, emblazoned with the newspaper's name across the front. Sadly, the jerseys arrived with "Nonpaeil" (the "r" missing) in big block letters. I suggested that we just add an insert mark between the a and e, put the missing r above the text and call ourselves the Typos, since that's pretty much how the community viewed us anyway.
The boss saw no humor in that and sent the uniforms back for re-lettering. As the accompanying photo shows, even major league baseball teams can have a typo problem. Truth is, everybody needs an editor. As an ex-editor myself, I'm probably more sensitive to these things, but it seems like typos (and just plain bad grammar) are everywhere. So when I learned that the esteemed New York Times was getting rid of some of its editors, it kind of raised my hackles.
In this era of cable news, obliterated "news cycles" and shareholder pressures, editors seem to be the expendables, the first to fall in the race to the bottom. This is more than shameful. It's stupid.
Let's face it: If newspapers have superstars, it's their reporters. The Washington Post and New York Times have rosters chock-full of superstars, many of them given apparent carte blanche to swing away in the current target-rich environment of big-league national politics. Prime time cable programs love to have their print brethren on their programs, where they hype their latest works well in advance of their formerly standard a.m. print debuts. I can't say for certain, but I'll bet there's a strong bench of editors backstopping those stories.
I suspect much of the public thinks of editors as proofreaders. Nothing could be further from the truth, though some news organizations appear to have accepted a computer's spellcheck function as a reasonable alternative to real editing. Editors do much more than correct spelling. At the upper echelons of newsroom editors, there's a lot of planning and resource management necessary if a gaggle of reporters is to function coherently and not devolve into a chaotic tribe of scribes trampling each other in pursuit of personal glory. It's another tier of editors that actually works closely with reporters, guiding them through the reporting and writing process of complex stories before turning them over to the heart of the editing operation, the copy desk.
Copy editors do check stories for spelling, punctuation and grammar, but that's just a small fraction of their duties. They also act as fact checkers — correcting mistakes and clarifying fuzzy portions of the story. They look for weaknesses in the stories they edit, often sending them back to reporters for additional reporting. They look for areas that could get the newspaper into legal trouble (publishers are responsible for libelous statements that appear in their publications). Contrary to popular opinion, reporters don't write headlines; editors do.
Editors also make stories fit a certain "hole." Newspapers have a certain neatness to them, every story with a headline and fitting in its assigned spot. That doesn't just happen. An editor decides how much space to give a story and another editor makes sure it fits. It's not unusual to reduce a story by 70 percent or more. That takes skill; an editor's skill. And much of this happens on deadline. Reporters often hang onto stories as long as they can. That cuts into an editor's time. Some reporters (even famous, prize-winning ones) need extensive editing.
Since I left the daily newspaper business more than 11 years ago, I can't tell you how things work today, but I can tell you how things worked at The Des Moines Register for most of the 25 years I worked there.
Perhaps the biggest factor in my leaving my job as sports editor of a moderately sized Iowa newspaper to become a copy editor at the Register was that the paper took its journalistic responsibility seriously. Its leaders routinely monitored news operations around the state, luring distinguished, experienced journalists from every corner of Iowa. There was great geographic and generational diversity among the staff, which was challenged by a relatively young, bright cadre of editorial leaders.
The editing operation was most impressive. Once copy was turned over to the copy desk, it went through a rigorous, multilayered editing process before appearing in print. A news editor mapped out the next day's pages and a "slot editor" managed the actual editing, assigning stories to individual editors. The slot editor reviewed the edited story before deciding whether it needed further editing or could be set in type. Once set in type, proofs of the story were returned to the newsroom to be checked again. After a page was assembled, a proof of the entire page was sent to the newsroom to be read.
Between editions (we had as many as five editions every night), the actual printed pages were checked yet again and the process of creating a new edition started all over again. Stories often changed between editions, further complicating the process.
The process may appear to be cumbersome, but it was an effective way to ensure accuracy while providing complete and timely information to Register readers. The multilayered approach to editing had a beneficial effect on reporters as well. Knowing when they were expected to file a story and how long it should be imposed a discipline that placed a premium on clarity and word choice.
I don't know how the editing protocol works at the Register today, but I do see the final product — and the results after several rounds of staff layoffs are sadly predictable. More mistakes find their way into the edition I receive in suburban Des Moines. Deadlines appear to be much earlier, given that many reports on evening events are incomplete (or missing altogether) in the next morning's paper. Oversight, too, appears to be missing. One sports report last winter listed high school basketball scores from South Dakota instead of Iowa. Stories are often repeated in separate sections. Space that was previously filled by a wide diversity of carefully edited stories from a variety of respected wire services is now filled by huge photographs or bloated staff-written stories.
To be fair to the reporting staff, I think many Register staffers are immensely talented and hardworking. Their responsibilities have changed greatly in recent years. Even with several editions, reporters "back in the day" knew that they were writing for an audience that would be reading their work the next morning at the earliest. The internet changed that. Today's newspaper reporters are expected to file as soon as possible to get their story online before the competition. Many of them are expected to shoot photos and video, too, calling for skills much different from traditional reporting at a major newspaper. That has got to be a stressful work environment, especially when management, when justifying an earlier round of editor layoffs, said reporters will be expected to turn in stories suitable for publication on the spot. In my experience, that's always been the expectation, but rarely the reality.
Newspapers, which have been on a losing streak for a long, long time, are in a tough spot. That buying-ink-by-the-barrel thing has proved to be more of an albatross than a golden goose. Most papers have yet to find a solution to their dwindling readership. That lost classified advertising is never coming back. Ditto for car ads, real estate ads and those expensive national ads. The transition to paid obituaries has helped, but those older dead people also represent lost subscribers. For most of my professional career, newspapers struggled to stay relevant to younger readers, a battle that was lost long ago.
It saddens me to see what's happened to newspapers in recent decades, and I have no idea how to reverse the trend. One thing I do know, though: Getting rid of editors is a bad idea.
This blog post was guest edited by Kurt Helland, a gifted editor who spent many years at The Des Moines Register before joining the Des Moines Business Record. One quality of a top-flight copy editor is that copy can be improved by changes imperceptible to the original writer. Kurt passes that test admirably and I am extremely grateful that he accepted the challenge of improving the work of what our former colleague Maury White often referred to as "an ink-stained ragamuffin." Thanks, Kurt.
Posted at 01:16 PM | Permalink
I have this weird problem: How should I respond when someone asks me what I do?
I think they're asking me about what kind of work do I do and aren't really interested in the mundanity of my everyday life, but even with that realization, I hesitate before answering.
For one thing, I don't really "do" anything, at least for renumeration. For practical purposes, it's OK to say I'm retired, since I no longer draw a steady paycheck. But I don't really think of myself as retired; I generally see myself as a writer, but that's not entirely accurate, either.
True, I've had a book published in the traditional market (still in print, by the way) and have finished a second, for which I'm still seeking an agent. I author four blogs, though sporadically. And, although I spent the bulk of my newspaper career as an editor and manager, I began my career as a combination sportswriter/news reporter/rock music critic.
My conundrum is not entirely new. During my newspaper career, I was reluctant to tell people where I worked. Though I was proud of every newspaper job I ever held, I knew the public had a different take. In Burlington, everybody it seemed hated our publisher, the Pulitzer Prize winning editor John McCormally. In Council Bluffs, where I was responsible for sports coverage of the city's four high schools, it was widely perceived that I was biased for one school or another. At the Des Moines Register, I heard about everything from poor delivery service to our favoritism for Iowa or Iowa State to our lefty political slant on everything we printed.
Another factor in my hesitancy to respond to inquiries about my vocation is that, at best, I'm a part-time writer. Every writer has his or her own "writing rhythm." You've probably read about some successful novelist who snuck in an hour or two after the kids were tucked away at night or someone who writes religiously from 8 a.m. to noon every day or someone who writes 5,000 words every day. Well, those people are not me.
I'm more of a streak writer. I may write for several hours a day for weeks or months, then not write anything at all for another several weeks or months. Is it fair to call myself a writer when I'm not writing? Maybe so, but it doesn't feel right. Maybe I should go to what my son once told a teacher when she asked what his dad did for a living.
"He types stuff," he said. Fair enough.
I Saw It On TV Dept. It was an NBA game, I think, and there was a player on the court with nary a visible tattoo. Looked strangely out of place these days. Seeing tattoos on professional athletes is no big thing, but I still can't get used to seeing an otherwise attractive person (my opinion) who has mutilated their body with some godawful, ugly tattoo. And I'm not the only one:
Author Larry Lehmer is a former newspaper reporter and editor who is seeking a publisher for his book about the Philadelphia years of American Bandstand. He is also a retired personal historian and author of the popular Before Their Time blog, which tells the stories of well-known or important people who died at an early age.
Posted at 01:54 PM | Permalink
That's one way to explain a lifetime of experiences. Just by virtue of longevity, a senior citizen of today has been through plenty. Some of us have changed a lot over the course of a lifetime; others, not so much. In fact, many of us older folks are not that different from our parents. Mom and Dad hated rock and roll; we hate rap and heavy metal. They railed against the hours we spent in front of a TV; we lament modern youth's burying their noses in their smartphones and their inability to properly count back change.
In my lifetime, the United States has been led by 13 presidents. Most were elected by slim majorities, yet the wheels of governance continued to turn and the stability of the republic was never seriously questioned. That seems to be changing. While I'm accustomed to hearing many of those in my age group sniping at young people, I must say it's the younger people who are taking on the issues that threaten us today. I hope they do better than those of us who came of age in the turbulent civil rights and anti-war years.
So far, Americans have been afforded the luxury of peaceful dissent. Although I thought the blacklist years of the McCarthy era were well behind us, the fears of an encroaching oligarchy and plutocracy seem real to me. For decades, songwriters have written about trials of their times. In recent weeks, I've been posting links to videos of many of these songs on Facebook and Twitter. I'm linking to a couple of them at the end of this post. See my FB or Twitter feeds to stay current. I hope that each tune provides a reminder that we all need to stay vigilant in these turbulent times.
Just What We Need Dept. My wife and I walk a couple of miles each day. When the weather is bad, we walk inside, at a local mall. Recently our mall has been filled with campers and camping trailers of all sizes. I used to enjoy camping, but only of the tent variety. These new campers include LED lighting on their awnings and external speakers, just the sort of thing I used to try to get away from on camping trips.
Posted at 02:59 PM | Permalink
For 25 years I worked for The Des Moines Register, winner of many Pulitzer prizes and once ranked by Time magazine as one of the Top 10 newspapers in the United States.
My tenure began shortly before The Register's owners killed off our sister paper, The Des Moines Tribune. Despite the claim of many faithful subscribers that the owners killed the wrong paper, The Register survived. About three years later, Gannett, a profitable chain of relatively small papers, won a bidding war to buy The Register. Although many of my fellow staffers grumbled about the change in ownership, some saw it as a possible opportunity. After all, Gannett needed a prestigious paper like The Register to improve on its reputation as a mediocre news organization intent on only sucking dollars out of the communities its operations "served."
And, for a few years, Gannett did adopt sort of a hands off stance. I attribute much of that to editor Geneva Overholser, who had guided The Register to a Pulitzer in 1990. But after Overholser left in 1995, the wheels started wobbling on The Register's wagon. Gannett started sending a parade of managers from outside The Register family into Des Moines, whose marching orders apparently included ridding the newsroom of its most veteran (and highest paid) impediments to improved corporate profitability.
When staff grumbling in Des Moines reached the suits in the Gannett corporate suites in Reston, Va., the company instituted a series of "Change Management" initiatives along the lines of: We know you've enjoyed a pretty good run out there in Des Moines, but times have changed and you'll need to step up. Fortunately, we can help. Change is coming, folks. Embrace it, or get off the train.
But what Gannett managers were peddling as "change" 20 years ago was just the initial rumbling of something far more seismic. Change is when coffee rises $1 a pound, or a few cents per cup. But when coffee is repackaged into single-cup servings at 75 cents a cup, that's something much different. It's a disruption. To be sure, there have been many disruptors over the last 20 years.
Like the Internet. It stole advertising from newspapers right off the bat, sending the industry into a financial tailspin from which it's never recovered. The Internet also spawned Amazon, which has disrupted the entire retail world. Amazon's founder even owns one of the nation's best newspapers, The Washington Post, and it's more or less a hobby for him. And what about the evolution of cell phones to smart phones? Uber has disrupted the public transportation business, Air BnB threatens the hospitality industry, and Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have spawned a generation of smartphone zombies, obsessed with collecting likes, snapping selfies and protecting the world through Pokemon Go.
The change predicted by Gannett brass two decades ago has certainly come, but not in a good way. In Des Moines, round after round of layoffs and gimmicky promotions have kept the paper afloat but have not slowed plunging circulation. With fewer reporters, there is less news but more "listicles" and coverage of all things beer-and-baconish. There's also increasing reportage on restaurants patronized by visiting celebrities and other "trending topics" of the day. But, to journalists who have lost their jobs and to readers who have lost a once-great newspaper, change doesn't begin to describe the disruption to the news business in Des Moines.
So, I get rankled a bit when I hear the recent presidential race described merely as a "change election." I hope America emerges from this week's political earthquake better than my brothers and sisters in the news business.
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text: London - Mauricio Pochettino said Tottenham Hotspur have a "mental problem, not a Wembley problem" after their hoodoo at their temporary home struck again against Burnley.Spurs could not hold onto Dele Alli's 49th-minute opener in Sunday's game, with Chris Wood's injury-time strike earning visitors Burnley a 1-1 Premier League draw.Tottenham have won just twice at the national stadium in 12 attempts since 2007 and have not claimed victory there so far this season while White Hart Lane is being redeveloped.Yet Pochettino says their new surroundings have played no part in their poor start, saying: "I agree we can't have moments like this if we want to challenge for the title."We need to work hard to try to be more strong, because that is a mental problem that we need to fix."It's true that the results are too early to try to analyse what will happen in the future, because last season after three or four games you would never have said that Chelsea would be champions."That is why in football you have to try to work hard to fix the problems and it is clear we need to improve and increase our mental levels and become more strong."Spurs have lost eight of the last 11 games they have played at Wembley and were beaten 2-1 by Chelsea in their first match there this season, but Pochettino refuses to entertain talk of a jinx."It has nothing to do with Wembley. It's not a Wembley problem," said the Spurs manager."In football if you're not concentrated and focused, sometimes when you're tired maybe a little bit and you're not 100%, you concede or give the opponent the possibility to score."That is how it was today and how it was against Chelsea. That was the key."It is not frustrating, but disappointing. My feelings are bad now and for the players it is the same and for our fans. But that is football."Last season when everything was going well, we were so happy. Now we have to try to keep a good balance and try to keep positive. We can only be positive."Burnley's 'blood and guts'Harry Kane was one guilty party as he missed a catalogue of chances, meaning he is still waiting for his first goal of the season."I feel sorry for him because he had the opportunities to score and always a striker needs a bit of luck," said Pochettino."But I am sure that Harry will start to score as soon as possible. I have no doubt about it."Pochettino believes Tottenham will add new signings before the transfer window shuts this week, having only brought in Davinson Sanchez, who made a late debut against Burnley, and back-up goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga so far."Am I confident? Yes, yes, yes," said the former Argentina centre-back."For sure we will add some players who will help us in the future. I am so optimistic. We hope to sign in the positions we need to strengthen."This was an impressive performance from Burnley, who frustrated Tottenham for long periods on the back of their opening-day victory at Chelsea."I'm not really interested in the Wembley effect on Tottenham - they are a top side with some fantastic individuals. We are more interested in getting on with the game," said their manager Sean Dyche."I want a team who can be effective in different ways - sometimes tactical, sometimes by playing pockets of good football and sometimes with blood and guts."It's not easy to go to Chelsea and win, especially by scoring three goals, and coming here to win a point. My only gripe would be we played better at West Brom at home and we got nothing."


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A United States District Court judge granted a motion today by the French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau to prevent his son from using the family name within the United States to advertise a Fiji Island resort.
Judge Vaughn Walker, in San Francisco, granted a motion for a preliminary injunction against Jean-Michel Cousteau, the Cousteau Fiji Islands Resort, Post Ranch at Big Sur and related business entities, according to court documents.
The injunction prevents the younger Cousteau from using the word "Cousteau" as a trademark or trade name to "advertise, promote, market or publicize any business or commercial activity within the United States of America."
The injunction was requested as part of a lawsuit filed by Jacques Cousteau and the Cousteau Society, a New York nonprofit organization founded by the famed explorer.
The suit, filed in September 1995, claims trademark infringement and violations and unfair and deceptive business practices by Jean-Michel in the use of the Cousteau name.
The suit claims that Jean-Michel Cousteau and his partner, Post Ranch L.P., opened the Cousteau Fiji Islands Resort, printed brochures throughout the United States promoting diving, snorkeling and underwater photography, all activities associated with Jacques Cousteau and his society.
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We ❤ RP will be closing soon to get ready for the next round. I, as always, always find lots of neat things each month and had to share a few finds with you. Although this look lacks wings, it still plays with my Faerie nature of wonder and magic. Continue reading
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This is it, the apocalypse
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Welcome to the new age, to the new age
Every month, the designers at We ❤ RP astound me with their creativity and craftsmanship. I have a few favorite designers but this fair/market is a wonderful assembly of talented creators that I love to discover. Several pieces from this outfit are from this round of We ❤ RP. Most are current or past We ❤ RP contributors. It's such an amazing gathering of talent that there just is not enough room in one blog to praise them all; so I will just have to highlight a few. 🙂
I will confess that the first item I bought from this month's fair was…ehem… the owl/cat/gryphon you see sitting on my shoulder. In fact, I bought two color versions because they are simply too adorable to pass up and I may have to buy another one. These cute blended creatures are animated and come with both a wearable shoulder pet AND a rezzable version. Fair warning, you will not be able to quit cooing over their animations.
My shirt/romper/thing (what would you call it? o.o) is a lovely piece by Azuchi. It comes with several sizes including fitted for some mesh bodies e.g. Maitreya and Belleza. The textures on this piece are exquisite and realistic; the material looks just like leather. I am looking forward to seeing what else I can find from them. Only issue I had was some of my thigh peek through when I move from the fabric not lining up with my alpha slices, but nothing too revealing or noticeable. I'm sure with a small shape mod it would be fixed on my end.
Wings have always been fun for me to play with because one of my roleplay characters is half Fae. Any wings I find that are unique become a must have and Material Squirrel designed a set that appeals to my darker side. A light colored set is also available. The wings are mesh, come with a color change hud, and a hud that allows the user to change size, movement on/off, movement speed, and to hide them. I love that I can make them hide upon landing and the durability. They are not flexy wings. They are not flimsy wings. These wings exude power and strength only achieved through hard work and lots of flying. Well done Material Squirrel.
Lastly, I would like to mention the boots which are a past We ❤ RP item made by Moon Elixir. You see only the tops of them in the image, but trust me (or check my flickr image here) these boots are kick ass. Thigh high, laced up, and with the option of tassels, these boots are rock solid and perfect for any adventure one may embark on. As always with Moon Elixir, these boots come with a Hud with lots of color and metal options for the smaller pieces. With lots of color choices, you're sure to find a pair you'll love.
One more week of this month's We ❤ RP. Grab the deals while you can.
Shirt: Nora Shirt Black Maitreya ~ @We ❤ RP [Azuchi]
Belt: Arwen's Belt (Black) ~ [The Forge]
Boots: Thigh High Adventure Boot – Blood ~ Moon Elixir (Past We ❤ RP item)
Canteen & Horn: [LF] Winter Storm Canteen Bag&Horn ~ @We ❤ RP LE FORME
Wings: Aeryon Mesh Wings Darks ~ @We ❤ RP Material Squirrel
Septum Ring & Earrings: Chi Earrings & Nosering ~ .Arcadia. (Twisted Hunt Fall 2015 Gift)
Necklace: VINTAGE Jewels TWISTED HUNT GIFT ~ VINTAGE Jewels (Twisted Hunt Spring 2014 Gift)
Owlcat: Siamese Owl Gryphon – Grey ~ @We ❤ RP *HEXtraordinary*
Pose: The Hollow Series ~ @We ❤ RP an lar [poses]
Hair: Tears of Lys // Chapter I : Earth ~ +Spellbound+
Facepaint: [LB Face Paint] Organic Tribal Set5 (tinted blood red) ~ La Boheme (Past We ❤ RP item)
Body: Maitreya Mesh Body – Lara @Maitreya
Hands: Slink AvEnhance Hands Female – Elegant 1 @Slink
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I could not wait to show you all this new gown from :{MV}: that was just released today. A beautiful fitted mesh dress perfect for these spooky days, Spellbound will make any lady look hot hot hot! Flames lick up the skirt and every curve looks flawless. The dress comes with multiple sizes of the collar, detailed wings feature little skulls, and the winged headpiece matches the detailing of the skirt. This is a Limited Edition gown; once they are gone, they are gone! So hurry and grab one while they're still available. Use a little magic if needed. ^-^
Gown: Spellbound Limited Edition ~ :{MV}:
Cuffs: Dragon Cuffs (comes fitted for Slink & Maitreya hands) ~ ! TLB
Hair: Road [03] ~ Magika
Bats: Batfriends Violent & Vampyra Uncommon (gacha items, see previous post for deets) ~ ALH =EC Designs=
Pose: Set 60-69 ~ curently @W<3RP !bang
Body: Maitreya Mesh Body – Lara ~ Maitreya
Hands: Slink AvEnhance Hands Female – Elegant 1 ~ Slink
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This post is inspired by the tragedy of the shooting at Umpqua Community College on October 1st and the heroics of those who strove to stop it. I also drew inspiration from the Norse legends that those who die honorably are brought to Asgard and Valhalla in the arms of a Valkyrie. I feel that all those killed in this tragic manner ought to be remembered for the good they did and hoped for in this world rather than the terrible way their lives ended. In these pictures I take on the form of a Valkyrie swooping down to Earth for the souls of the honorably fallen. Despite our differences, we are all human. This event brought much sadness yet again into the world. My thoughts go out to the UCC community.
Harness: -Pixicat- Bastet.Harness (Fitted) RARE by Pixicat @Arcade (Sept 2015)
Dress: -Pixicat- Bastet.Dress – White (Fitted) by Pixicat @Arcade (Sept 2015)
Anklet: .A. Apophos Anklet [Onyx] Umbra by .Arcadia.
Hair: [e] Lalora – Redheads by [elikatira] @We ❤ RP (August 2015)
Face Tattoo: [LB Face Paint] Organic Tribal Set6 (I tinted purple) by La Boheme @We ❤ RP (Sept 2015)
Headpiece: Glam Affair – Valkyria Plum by Glam Affair @We ❤ RP (Sept 2015)
Rings: [CX] Hayop (Black) by [CerberusXing]
Owl: RO – The Illusionist – Hoodini the Owl – RARE by Remarkable Oblivion @Arcade (Sept 2015)
Broom: Birdy – Hocus Pocus – Broom – Ebony by Birdy @Arcade (Sept 2015)
Body Stuff
Body: Maitreya Mesh Body – Lara
Hands: Slink AvEnhance Hands Female – Elegant 1
Feet: Slink AvEnhance Feet Female High
NOTE: The views in this blog are mine, not necessarily the views of the creators of the items featured. I cannot garuntee that items pictured are available at the main store for items from Arcade and We ❤ RP. Any questions about this post, feel free to comment or contact me.
Links: ~ The Arcade – Gacha Events ~ [elikatira] ~ Pixicat ~ We ❤ RP ~ .Arcadia. ~ Birdy ~ Remarkable Oblivion ~ La Boheme ~ Glam Affair ~ [CerberusXing] ~ Maitreya ~ Slink ~


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Novo Aero Technologies Business Plan!
As employing our innovative Compact Propeller within an aircraft will enable producing quieter, Helicopter-like, Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) aircrafts that are cheaper to produce and maintain, safer and easier to operate, and can fly at higher speeds and altitudes; so once fully developed, it is expected to find application in all future VTOL aircrafts, and to boost the worldwide production in this sector.
Nevertheless, in order to fully appreciate its competitive advantages, we need to know the competitive advantages of this proposed technology that will make it attractive for Aircraft manufacturers to use in their production lines, and for consumers to look for in the aircrafts they buy. In addition, we need to learn about the risks associated with developing this technology and introducing it to its respective markets.
Competitive advantages:
An aircraft employing the Compact Propeller technology will have several unique competitive advantages making it very attractive for Aircraft manufacturers to use in their production lines, and making it very desirable for customers to have in the aircrafts they purchase, with these competitive advantages being as follows:
Exceptional fuel saving potentials:
Based on provisional performance calculations, employing the Compact propeller Technology within an aircraft will provide between 30-40% reductions in the aircraft's rate of fuel consumption. This will decrease the aircraft's operating costs, and extend its operating range, making it desirable for small and medium sized aircraft operators to use in their fleets.
Combining the competitive advantages of Helicopters and conventional aircrafts:
As mentioned herein above, employing the Compact propeller Technology within an aircraft will enable it to take-off and land vertically, while maintaining all the competitive advantages a conventional winged aircraft has, i.e. being safer to fly and quieter to operate. In addition, employing the Compact propeller Technology will enable building Helicopter-like VTOL aircrafts that can fly at speeds of up to 0.83 Mach, and can cruise at altitudes of up to 15,000 feet, which is not attainable by any of the currently in-use VTOL aircrafts. in their fleets.
Compatibility with other currently in use technologies:
As employing our technology in an already in-production aircraft model will necessitate minimal modifications to the aircraft design, so it can be adapted by aircrafts manufacturers in their production lines at a minimal cost. This will also be justified by the expected high market demand for the aircrafts employing this technology, once its competitive advantages are fully appreciated.
High Durability and Reliability:
Due to the simplicity of the design, rigidity of the structure, and the minimal number of moving parts within a Compact Propeller powertrain, Compact Propellers are highly reliable with a service life similar to, or exceeding, that of other conventional aircraft powertrain parts. Therefore, employing this technology will not bring up any major concerns to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and will not result in any delays in the certification of the aircrafts employing it by the FAA. (N.B.: FAA certification of a new aircraft design typically takes between 4-7 years, and that is why we do not expect the company to begin generating decent revenue until 2025.)
Accordingly, once fully developed with its advantages being fully appreciated by the aircraft manufacturers and the Customers, it is expected to find application in more than 30% of newly produced small/medium sized aircrafts worldwide, with a production potential of up to 3,000 units/year, and with a net profit of up to $150 Million/year (based on 50K Royalty/unit).
The risks associated with investing in this technology are as follows:
Technology Feasibility:
Although the technology feasibility was provisionally assessed using the reputable Multi-Element Airfoil CFD Analysis tool developed by "Hanley innovations" http://www.hanleyinnovations.com/mefoil.html, which is currently used by NASA and several other Aeronautical Research Centers, a proof-of-concept prototype needs to be built and tested for conclusive assessment of technology feasibility, which will be executed during Phase I of the R&D work. Accordingly, the highest risk in this investment will be during the current round of investment, which is compensated for by allocating high equity shares for interested investors.
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As this technology is considered a "Technology Leap", and as it does not compete with other technologies being currently developed by VTOL aircraft manufacturers, but it goes along with them, so aircraft manufacturers and their affiliated Research Centers will be more concerned with developing this technology, and adapting it for use in their aircraft models, than with competing with it. This will be encouraged by licensing the technology to aircraft manufacturers through attractive licensing agreements to motivate them to apply it in their aircrafts on a wide scale.
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As I go to merge onto a highway at 100kms/h, I often find myself stuck behind someone who has decided that the only safe way to merge onto a high speed section of road is to slow down considerably.
It's causes traffic chaos, and is extremely dangerous.
Sometimes, slowing ride down isn't the safest option at all – in fact, sometimes it's the worst possible thing you can do.
The problem is that it feels like a safer option. After all, if we're going more slowly then surely less can go wrong if we hit a bump.
But in truth we lose a huge amount of momentum and leave ourselves vulnerable to being made roadkill.
Momentum Matters
It's far harder to get going once you've slowed down than it is to keep going fast when you already are.
This is both a truth of physics and a truth of psychology.
The energy required to get the enormous mass of your life headed in a direction that you've actually chosen is huge. But once you're going at speed, you can course correct and adjust far more easily than if you slam on the brakes every few minutes because you're starting to get the heeby-jeebies.
The reason we slow down, most often, is because we get scared that we're going too fast, doing to much, and that we'll lose control or burn out.
But here's my question: how often has that actually happened to you?
Controlled by Irrational Fear
There are certainly cases of burnout, and we're right to be conscious of the possibility.
But most of us aren't even coming close to the kind of pathological commitment to something that would be required to reach burnout.
In truth, we're letting the fear of something that probably won't happen control our decision making to avoid going all in.
Here's my theory why: if we avoid fully committing to something and it doesn't work, we can always just tell ourselves that it's because we didn't try hard enough, not because we sucked or the idea wasn't very good in the first place.
More than being afraid of burnout, we're actually afraid of going all-in on something and it not working out as we'd hoped.
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As a result, many of us slow down before merging onto the highway, and end up crawling along the shoulder of the road because we never really develop the momentum we need.
If you want to get on the highway, you've got to hit the accelerator.


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After successful defense of her PhD Thesis on Thursday, December 18, 2014, Farah Asif from Sialkot, Pakistan has been awarded the degree of a Philosophiae Doctor(Ph.D.).
Prof. Dr. em. Dieter Bender, Farah Asif, Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Löwenstein
Her thesis on "Impact of Foreign Affiliation on the Livelihood of Low-Income Rural Households: A Case Study of Pakistan" was supervised by Prof. em. Dr. Dieter Bender and Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Löwenstein. Prof. Dr. Helmut Karl chaired the oral exam.


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35th Anniversary Special
Season 35 Episode 5 | 59m 34s
This hour-long special revisits some of the scenic wonders we've uncovered in 35 years. We also take viewers behind the scenes, and we remember the folks who have shared their stories with us over the years. We've changed a lot in three and a half decades. Of course, who hasn't? Welcome to our 35th Anniversary Special!
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It was such a good time and out of 22 pavilions, we managed to get to 11 of them. You get a passport (the photo at left) and at each pavilion they stamp it for you so you can track your progress as you make your way to each site. We started at the Polish site where we feasted on homemade perogies and watched traditional dancers kick up their heels. Next, it was off to Germany where we sampled pretzels and I reminisced about my time living in Kaiserslautern as a teen. There was singing and dancing and general good cheer -- as was the case when I lived there! At the Chilean pavilion we ate an veggie empanada drenched in hot sauce and admired the men and women kicking up their heels as they showed traditional dances that were developed in response to the dictatorship of Pinochet. Next, it was off to the pavilion hosted by the Aboriginal Peoples. There, we once again saw traditional dances take center stage as a huge crowd of onlookers cheered them on. The clothing was so beautiful, intricate, and colorful while the headdresses were amazing to look at.
At the Romanian site, we located Dracula's castle on the map and watched an incredible "stick dance" unfold on stage. Our next stop was one of my favorites...the Ethiopian pavilion. Dave and I ate a full plate of vegetarian goodness with some injera on the side while we sat and listened to an amazing performer drum, sing, and dance his way to a rhythm that got everyone pumped up. The energy didn't stop there but only continued as we made our way next door to the Caribbean pavilion. The dancers were hot and we cooled off by eating some of their desserts and sipping on a cold beverage.
Next up was Scotland! We took time to soak in the bagpipes, enjoy some traditional dancing, and hear the "Toast to the Haggis" (remember Burns night, anyone?!). From there we made our way to the Italian pavilion where we listened to a crooner belt out some classics, let the smells of pasta and garlic tempt us, and sampled some of the great desserts they had including tiramisu and pastries. At the Korean pavilion, we didn't stop eating! We continued to fill our bellies with Pajeon -- a Korean vegetable pancake. YUM! The best part of the pavilion was when a huge group of teenagers stormed the stage for a flash mob dance to a Korean pop song...awesome! We closed out the evening in Ireland. Thought we were done eating? Think again! We downed four bags of chips while we listened to a great band play and then marvelled at the dancers who took the stage.
None of this can really do it justice...and, well, the pictures don't either. Guess you will just have to come and experience MOSAIC for yourself. Dave and I are looking forward to the day when MOSAIC won't take us just to Regina, but literally around the world...happy travels...
At the Polish Pavilion
Ah, Germany!
Yummy food at the Chilean pavilion
Romanian "stick dance"
Toast to the Haggis
Dave and I at the Scotland pavilion


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – SUNY Geneseo sophomore outside hitter Grace Cergol totaled a match-high 23 kills to go along with 17 digs to lead the Knights to a 3-1 (14-25, 25-14, 25-14, 25-19) victory over Babson on the second day of the MIT Invitational, Saturday.
- Geneseo took an early 7-5 lead in the first set, but Babson responded with a 7-1 run to build a 12-8 edge. The Knights scored two-straight points, but the Beavers put together a decisive 8-1 run to lead 20-11 en route to the opening set victory.
- Geneseo turned the tables in the second, starting with an 8-3 lead that included a pair of kills by first-year middle blocker Bridget Lougen. A service ace by Cergol pushed the Knights' lead to 14-8, before a 7-4 run capped by four-unanswered points made it a 21-12 lead that proved insurmountable.
- Babson took a quick 5-2 lead to start the third, but the Knights came back with a 7-2 run to build a 9-6 lead. The Beavers got one back but Geneseo scored eight-unanswered points, including four kills by Cergol, to take a commanding 17-7 lead on its way to an 11-point victory.
- In the fourth, the Beavers once again took the early lead, 6-3, but Geneseo scored four points to take 7-6 edge. Neither team led by more than one until the Knights broke a 13-13 tie with a decisive 6-0 run that included four service aces by first-year outside hitter Alexandra Frank. Babson pulled back within two, 20-18, but the Knights won five of the final six points to seal the match.
- Cergol's .370 hitting percentage was her highest this season.
- Geneseo's nine services aces were a season-high, while Frank's five was the highest by a Knight this season.
Cergol totaled career-highs of 29 kills and 27 digs but it was the Knights falling, 3-2 (25-16, 20-25, 20-25, 25-17, 15-9) to Springfield.
- Trailing, 4-3, Springfield used a 6-1 run to take control of the first set, 9-5. Back-to-back kills by Cergol got the Knights back within two, but the Pride responded with a 12-4 run en route to the opening win.
- Geneseo came out on top of a back-and-forth second set. The Knights opened an early 7-4 lead on a Frank kill, but Springfield bounced back to take a 12-11 lead. Geneseo re-took a 15-13 edge, but the Pride again responded with a 7-3 spurt to lead, 20-18. However, the Knights finished the set with a 7-0 run on the serve of first-year middle blocker Kiersten Colvin, including four kills by Cergol, to even the match, 1-1.
- In the third, Geneseo opened an early 7-4 lead before putting together an 8-2 run to turn a 13-11 edge into a 21-13 lead that proved insurmountable.
- Neither team led by more than two points in the fourth set until Springfield broke a 13-13 tie with a 5-1 spurt to build an 18-14 lead. The Knights made it a two-point score, trailing 20-18, but the Pride scored the final five points to force a fifth and deciding set.
- Springfield got out to a 6-3 lead before Geneseo battled back to within one, 8-7. The Pride strung together a 5-0 run to build a 13-7 lead that proved to be the difference.
- Cergol, who was named to the all-tournament team, has compiled double-digit totals in kills and digs in six of the Knights' seven matches this season.
- Frank notched her second career double-double, totaling 11 kills and 14 digs.
- Junior setter Emily Ast compiled 51 assists to go along with a career-best 22 digs.
Geneseo plays its first home match of the season, hosting Pitt-Bradford on Wednesday (Sept. 13) at 7:00 p.m. in Schrader Gymnasium.


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First test after full assembling:
100 WS2812 LEDs driven by a Raspberry Pi Zero in a cylindric shape out of laser cutted parts
First test after full assembling:
Finally added the source code to my GitHub.
Just the test code from the video ;-)
As in my previous LED matrix project, I am using a pygame based simulator for testing the python code on the PC. Code will follow soon on Github.
Here are some more pictures from the LED assembling:
Height is 18 cm, diameter is 20 cm
Source code added to my Gihub.
This is really cool - I'd love to have a go building one as well...
Will you be including a wiring diagram?
Have you the cutting file for the frame?
I'm kinda new to this so please forgive me if I break some social norm by asking.
Thank you
No problem, that's why we are here ;-)
I have written an instructable with cutting file and schematic:
many thanks.
This is now in the list. 👍👍👍
This is one of the most beautiful projects I have ever seen done with a Pi.
Thank you!
hello. prety impressive project. im interested in the music thats palying. would you be kind enough to tell me the name and sourse maybe.my wishes
philip jhwest melbourne
The song is from the YouTube audio lib called "Clover 3"
Brill!! I love it!
What have you used as a light diffuser? Paper ?
it is a veneer paper called microwood: http://www.microwood.com/information
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What did you think of Blindspot? I was really surprised at how fast paced and interesting it was. I was kind of counting on it falling flat but I find it very intriguing. I also think it is fun that Ashley Johnson (Crissy from Growing Pains) is on the show and was in the Avenger movie (small part). Jaimie Alexander being Lady Sithe in the Thor movies. So both from the Avengers World.
I have to tell you I already ship Kurt/Jane. I can't help it. Happened the moment she was trying to remember him by touching his hand and face. Then every time she'd open up to him and he'd look at her like he really wanted to help her but couldn't. I don't know if it is him or what but I was all about shipping when the episode was over.
[Semi-Spoiler (click to open)]I am intrigued that he seems to know why his name is on her back. I really hope they tell us in the next episode.
Also, the file number on Jane that relates to the "Captain". What is that about? Because it was the woman in charges name on that file which I had to look up in IMDB to realize but wow... interesting.
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CARLO E FABIO INGRASSIA at the MACRO, Rome
As curator Cornelia Lauf observes, the twins from Catania Carlo e Fabio Ingrassia work with matter, time, biology and philosophy. Working meticulously and systematically as a duet, they paint on the same canvas – facilitated by the fact that one is left-handed and the other is right-handed. This natural physical predisposition allows them to work simultaneously with pastel on paper, each his own distinctive structuring of form and sign.
Ingrassia are now presenting the first ten years of their artistic production at the MACRO in Rome, with works that emerge from a continuous dialogue between drawing and sculpture, subverting the traditional way of conceiving the grammars of color and dissolving sculpture into the line of pencil, where through saturation and shades of gray, comes the color.
At the same time, the grammar of color and weight of paper seem to overlap and be composed from time to time in plastic forms, and drawing becomes sculpture, with works that materialize from the paper in layers of pastel on cardboard, images sculpted in clean and calibrated gestures, giving them density and outlines.
MACRO – via Nizza 138, Rome
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I belong to a group on Ravelry called Amigurumi Army which every month they have a theme crochet-a-long. This month was Outer Space. As I have posted before as this month has been VERY busy I picked a pattern that was simple and worked up in about an hour or so. This pattern by RoxyCraft had been sitting in my Ravelry queue since pretty much my joining day and I always love knocking that down . I give you The Gabu.
This little alien was a lot of fun and really easy to make I can easily see these being made for gifts in a rather large scale. Please let me know if you like them and for those that are not paying attention they might make an appearance this holiday season
I will have lots to post very soon for the swap projects (they are almost done) and for my future nephew in the making Hunter James. I would hate to ruin the surprise for my swap partners so I will wait till they are received, and the baby shower is coming so soon I will have those pictures too.
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In 2017, the economies of the 45 largest democracies with market economies grew in unison. That was the first time this has occurred since the years 2004-2007. Looking back in history to 1979 and including the periods already mentioned, synchronized global growth of this sort has happened in just seven years, or 18% of the time. It is anticipated to occur again in 2018. Enjoy it, it's quite rare!
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Federal authorities on Thursday arrested a former Morgan Stanley analyst and her husband, a former analyst at ING Groep NV, on charges of insider trading.
Prosecutors say Jennifer Wang, 31, and Ruben Chen, 34, netted $600,000 in a scheme where they traded in shares of Town and Country Trust, Glenborough Realty Trust and Genesis Healthcare before they were acquired.
Chen allegedly traded the shares in an account in his mother's name. The couple face up to five years for conspiracy to commit securities fraud and up to 20 years for each of three counts of securities fraud.
"The alleged wrongdoing by a former employee of our Firm is an egregious violation of Morgan Stanley's values and policies," the company said in a statement. "We fully support, and will provide every assistance to, the government's prosecution of insider trading by those who take personal advantage of the trust of our clients and the firm."
In one of the trading scams, authorities said that in December, Morgan Stanley's MS, -0.89% principal transactions group received information relating to financing a potential acquisition of Genesis. Wang obtained access to a shared computer drive that contained the information passed the information she obtained from Morgan Stanley to her husband, then a vice-president in the fund-of-funds department at ING Investment Management Americas.


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The characteristics of Fuji apple are large size, red body, round, average size, such as baseball. In fruit weight, 9-11% is monosaccharide, the flesh is compact, sweet, crisp, better than many other apple varieties, so deeply loved by consumers around the world. Fuji apples have a longer optimal consumption period than other apples, even if they are not stored in the fridge. It can be stored for 4 months at room temperature. If placed in a fridge, Fuji apples can be stored for 5 to 7 months.
Apple is a low calorie food, producing 60 thousand calories per 100 grams. Apple is rich in soluble nutrients, easily absorbed by the body, so it is called "living water". It helps to dissolve sulfur and soften the skin. Someone said, "an apple a day keeps the doctor away."
Apple has a mild taste and is rich in carbohydrates, vitamins and trace elements, including sugar, organic acids, pectin, protein, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, iron, vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C and dietary fiber. It contains malic acid, tartaric acid and carotene, and is the closest nutritional value to all fruits and vegetables.
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Smoked Salmon and Cucumber Rounds
Serves: 6
Prep Time: 15 minutes
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Difficulty: Easy
Simple and delicious appetizer!
6 ounces smoked Salmon
4 ounces cream cheese, 1/3 less fat
1 cucumber, english
1/4 onion(s), red
2 tablespoons capers
Slice cucumbers and spread cream cheese on top of each slice. Top with a piece of salmon and garnish with chopped onions and capers. Arrange on a platter and serve.
Per Serving About: 140 calories, 6 g fat, 2.5 g saturated fat, 19 g protein, 3 g carbohydrates, 0 g dietary fiber, 190 mg sodium; WW Points Plus value 4


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When it comes to Google, there are many of the company's services and apps that the Android community enjoy. However, there is also the abundance of videos that the company release promoting those various apps and services, which can typically bring a smile to the faces of Android users. Back in November of last year, Google released the latest Nexus devices as well as Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and with the new releases, came a brand new ad campaign which made use of the new 'Be together all the same' slogan. Along with the slogan came a bunch of interesting videos.
Well, for those who enjoy Google's videos, it now looks like two new videos have been made public by the company. The new videos are entitled "Sight Seekers" and "Silent Disco Dancers" and both come with a slightly humorous tone. Both videos seems to place a focus on the use of the Google App. Although, the Silent Disco Dancers video also does make a point of highlighting the use of Play Music. In this video, a bunch of silent dancers (listing to their own music via headphones, but together) are doing their thing, while Play Music coupled with the Google App makes it easy for them to change songs. Basically, the emphasis is on how Google can help you find music for whatever it is you might be doing…including silent disco dancing in the woods.
The second video, Sight Seekers, focuses more heavily on the informational use of the Google App. In this video, a group of travelers venture into an area where they cannot see anything due to the high levels of mist. The video then goes on to highlight how making use of the Google App can help you to find out all kinds of formation on your current location. In the video, the group can even see images of what they would be looking at if the mist was not so bad. As mentioned, both videos are quite lighthearted and do continue a familiar Google tone that we have seen before in previous videos. You can check out both videos in full for yourself by hitting play below.


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Rachel Nelson
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The Wharton School, MBA
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Product management, product strategy, strategic marketing, and financial services.
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Rachel has worked more than 15 years in financial services marketing at Merrill Lynch, GE Capital, and American Express.
After college (where she majored in Government and was a member of Radcliffe Crew), Rachel worked at American Express in NYC primarily in web/digital for three years before business school. During business school, she interned with GE in the Experienced Commercial Leadership Program (a GE corporate marketing and sales leadership program) and then took a full-time position after graduation. Rachel had four rotational assignments within GE Commercial Finance: Real Estate (2), Aviation, Commercial Finance (HQ), and Marketing in Commercial Real Estate.
Following GE, Rachel moved to Boston and had a variety of roles within Bank of America/Merrill Lynch (primarily in product – strategy, management, development, and distribution). She then spent a year at an online floral retailer startup in Boston managing a small marketing team.
Rachel has since relocated to England and does independent consulting projects for small primarily US-based businesses as well as work with Stratus.
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What I like most about being a Stratus MBA Admissions Counselor:
The opportunity to meet new people, learn about a candidate's background and interests, help him/her figure out what he/she wants to do, and the best way to get there.
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- I live in Cheltenham, England (a lovely Cotswolds town in the west of England, not far from the Welsh border), but I come back regularly to Boston and NYC to see friends.
- I met my partner (he is Scottish) through friends on a group trip at the inaugural Formula One race in Austin, Texas.
- I am a fan of European crime dramas (the Fall, Broadchurch, and the Bridge).
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