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Go Huskies! Ok, so I didn't go to UW, but my wife did if that counts for anything. Over the past several years, I have learned to enjoy Husky athletics because of my strong sense of Seattle pride. I follow the football team a little more closely than the basketball team, but it was still really fun to photograph Lorenzo Romar, the Husky men's basketball coach. He is one of those people who commands your respect when he walks into a room, but I also found him to be very kind and personable. I think a good gauge of success is when strangers carry around giant cardboard pictures of your face. That's when you know you have really made it in life. Something I think all of us should strive for.
How was work today honey?
It was great!
Did you get that promotion they promised you?
No, but my manager did hold up a big cardboard picture of my face at lunch.
Oh, that's wonderful! Congratulations honey.
Yeah, it was awesome!
Many of you have asked about editing commercial work with VSCO Film, and how it looks with images lit by strobe. I busted these images out after I started using VSCO Film, and gave them new life with just a couple of clicks. All three of these images were lit with strobe, so hopefully this gives you an idea of what is possible. I think it works just as well with strobe as it does with natural light images. If you are unfamiliar with VSCO Film, it is a film emulator that plugs into Lightroom or ACR and makes digital images look like film. Not to mention, it is an incredibly fast alternative to Photoshop actions and other Lightroom presets. It really is an amazing tool for photographers. So far I am editing images 10 times faster than I was before, and I am getting better results. Here is the VSCO Film review I wrote last week.
I used Kodak Portra 400, and Orange Skin Fix + on these images. You can see a cool video tutorial and find out more about VSCO Film here.


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Made in the USA from superior aluminized steel, our commercial-grade set is suitable for most baking projects, from baking muffins, cookies and cakes to making quick breads and focaccia. A nonstick coating ensures easy release and quick cleanup.
- Set includes a 12-well muffin pan, a half-sheet pan and two 9" cake pans.
- Commercial-grade aluminized steel distributes heat quickly and evenly for consistent baking results.
- Goldtouch ceramic-based coating is more resistant to abrasion than normal nonstick surfaces and releases food with ease.
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Rated 1 out of 5 by DLGS from Shop elsewhere. Non-stick the first couple of times you use it and then, abracadabra, isn't non-stick anymore.Date published: 2018-11-04Rated 5 out of 5 by Nparadise from AWESOME LOOK When viewing online, the bakeware set looks nice. I did not realize how heavy and sturdy it was and quite happy with my purchase.Date published: 2017-01-05Rated 5 out of 5 by babygirlrosa from Always best choice! I have been using these baking pans since they first were sold in your store. They are the best baking pans I have ever used and I bake frequently throughout the month. The non-stick finish is wonderful, never have a crumb left in the pan! I highly recommend this product. I have cupcake pans, round pans, cookie sheets, every piece is an asset which makes baking a lot more enjoyable!Date published: 2015-05-06Rated 5 out of 5 by Beegoodtome1 from Simply the Best! I have been baking for more than 30 years and have used -many types of baking products. This produce is the simply the best I have ever purchased. Everything comes out evenly baked, golden brown and the cleanup is easy. The Goldtouch makes the perfect gifts! I love it!!!!Date published: 2015-01-02Rated 5 out of 5 by PMW6 from Best bakeware you will ever buy. Incredible product. Could easily be priced at twice the current rate and still be a bargain. Unbelievable quality. It just goes to show that products manufactured in the USA can still be world class quality when a company truly cares about its' products!Date published: 2014-02-28Rated 5 out of 5 by Worldfoodie from Absolute Kitchen Essentials This product line is such incredible quality & bakes things like a dream. I love it so much I give as gifts to young folks starting out. Just great stuff! They also come in the perfect sizes for the amazing Breville toaster oven.Date published: 2013-10-07Rated 5 out of 5 by Kneeona from Fantastic pans for baking cakes, muffins, cookies! The Goldtouch nonstick pans are absolutely fantastic. Baked muffins in the muffin pans without the paper cups and they all turned out beautifully. Already purchased a number of the pans as gifts for relatives. Already purchased all the pans I will use!! They are great!!Date published: 2013-09-04Rated 5 out of 5 by BayArea from The Best Bakeware Ever I had already owned Williams-Sonoma Goldtouch(R) pans (made in USA!) and intended to add more to my collection since I've known how good these products are. All of the Williams-Sonoma Goldtouch(R) Bakeware products work beautifully. I have been baking for a long time, and I have concluded these pans are the best of their kind. The heat distribution is very even, the end results of my creation always come out of the oven wonderfully, and best of all the pan is easy to clean (dishwasher safe!). I am on my way to collect all of the products in the same line from Williams-Sonoma. The only "con" is that any bakeware seems to be difficult to store (because of their different shapes and sizes), so it is true for not only these products; just wishing someday someone will invent a way to store or stack pans easily anywhere in the kitchen.Date published: 2013-07-10

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Saturday: Brooklyn Cyclones 2, @ Mahoning Valley Scrappers 1
Sunday: PPD
The Cyclones (32-24) win a pair over the weekend, and now find themselves in a three-way tie for the Wild Card lead in the NYPL. The Cyclones have now won seven out of their last nine games.
SS-R: Friday: Kingsport Mets 6, @ Princeton Rays 5
Saturday: Kingsport Mets 5, @ Princeton Rays 3
Sunday: Kingsport Mets 7, @ Princeton Rays 2
The Kingsport Mets are hot right now. Over the weekend, they swept the Princeton Rays and now have enjoyed a 10-3 month of August.
Akeel Morris on Friday: 1/3 IP, 1 hit, 5 runs, 2 er, 4 bb, k.
Over the last 10 games:
Greg Pron: .400/.442/.575, 4 doubles, HR, 8 RBI
Dustin Lawley: .378/.404/.600, 5 doubles, 3B, HR, 5 RBI
Both Pron (42nd round) and Lawley (pictured) (19th round) were drafted this year out of the University of West Florida.
SS-R: Saturday: @ GCL Mets 4, GCL Cardinals 2
Sunday: GCL Nationals 12, @ GCL Mets 10- Game 1
GCL Mets 7, @ GCL Cardinals 1- Game 2
Zach Dotson, the Mets 13th round pick in 2009, made his first appearance of the 2011 season on Saturday. Dotson faced seven hitters, retiring two of them while issuing three walks, two hits, a wild pitch, and two runs.
It's good to see Dotson finally returning to the mound after serving a 50-game suspension by Major League Baseball for testing positive for a banned substance. Toby profiled Dotson here in his Top 41, and last year Dotson received high praise from then Mets Minor League pitching coordinator Rick Waits.
Michael Fulmer's second pro start was cut short due to rain on Sunday. He gave up a hit then recorded an out before the rains came down and ended Fulmer's day.


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A mentor can be defined in many ways. According to Webster's Dictionary, "mentor" is defined as "a trusted counselor or guide; a tutor or coach." In corporate America, a "mentor" is someone who counsels others to grow personally and professionally in relationship to a career path.
Mentoring is all about people. It is a process used by successful individuals to help others establish goals and the skills to reach them. Mentoring helps the new person acquire skills, open doors, increase confidence and widen their perspective. It assists the novice in recognizing and avoiding errors and in the end, enhances her or his overall experience.
In reality, mentors and mentoring – both formal and informal – exist everywhere in our lives. Often, our personal mentors are those that we sometimes do not realize we have and are not even recognized as such, until we look back and see how these people have influenced our lives. Additionally, we do not always recognize when we ourselves are mentoring others ¬– or being mentored.
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Tumblers typically differ from mugs in that they don't have handles. They may have various kinds of lids from screw-on with a hole for sipping to snap on lids with a straw for cold beverages like sodas or no lid at all. Either way, they're designed with clean lines and are meant to be held easily and travel well.
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If you have a woman in you life, you know that she makes up for more than just half.
Women today are now more affluent, influential and for every $1 spent in the US, 80c comes from a woman.
In many of the places where it counts the most, women are in fact taking control of everything. More than half the workforce and more than half of management is now women. For every two men earning college degrees this year there are three women. The global economy is becoming a place where women are more successful than men as manufacturing yields to service, information and innovation. – Hanna Rosin, 2010
The Core Female Market Right In Front of Your Eyes
The manly image that many companies have held to must be changed in order to increase revenue. There is a potential market for many companies walking through their stores every day.
Take Sprint (S) for example.
Here's a case study I found for how Sprint identified this core market and put things into action.
Sprint over the past few years shows how much of a change is required to meet the needs of this new generation of woman consumers. Women make up more than half of Sprint's store traffic and make or influence 80 percent of purchases. In the past, Sprint corporate retail stores were narrowly focused on product and technology. Customer-facing communications were dominated by device imagery and complicated industry-specific jargon–representing the days when technology was considered male- and gadget-focused.
Over the last couple of years, however, Sprint has refocused everything from the company's retail design to their customer interactions to speak more clearly to women consumers.
"Our stores used to be organized around phones for business or for entertainment," says Mark Rexroat, Director of Retail Communications at Sprint. "We recognized the importance of women in the market, either in professional roles or in a new emerging super-mom role, where they often serve as the family's communication hub and as CEO of the household. She is juggling so many roles in her life that we have an opportunity to help her be as productive as possible."
Nordstrom (JWN) is another place that women love to shop. Prices are higher, but the customer experience and emotional service provided makes it the go to place for women.
Nordstrom is a great example of a brand that has built their business on service. Although it may not be the least expensive department store out there, the services the store offers have earned the loyalty of women, especially mothers. They have large lounges where new mothers feel comfortable breast-feeding and they've implemented an unconditional return policy that makes it easy to shop for family members who are not available to try on clothing in the store. And Nordstrom has unique services, such as a free shoe-tying class for children, that helps build a local community feeling and gives moms the freedom to shop, browse, and relax knowing that their child is having fun and learning a valuable new skill.
Find Stocks that are Tilted Towards Women
Looking for some new ideas or simply want to learn about a new industry?
Then why not look into companies where the woman is the major focus.
The immediate thought is beauty and fashion such as cosmetics, handbags and other luxury goods, but there are more categories that you may not have thought of.
I certainly won't be able to go through everything, but here's a taste of what you can start thinking about and looking into.
Beauty and Fashion Stocks
As the middle class in emerging countries rise, this category will see a lot of action.
L'Oreal (PINK:LRLCY) is a France based company and only listed on the pink sheets in the US. Low volume with huge market cap and definitely not a company well followed in the United States.
Just an FYI,there is a 1.33% disconnect between the pink sheets and the stock on the French index.
A luxury goods company that women love. LVMH Moet Hennessy (PINK:LVMUY) best known for its Louis Vuitton brand. Asia, and particularly China are a huge market for luxury brands. As I mentioned earlier, the rising middle class in emerging markets is a huge market for luxury goods brands.
Or how about Coach (COH)? Something local and cheaper than LVMH. Solid dividend at 2.18% with a EV/EBITDA of 9 and P/FCF of 20.
Pets Stocks
Women not only take the bigger share of raising children, but also with pets. They are the ones that usually buy toys, clothes and other accessories for their pets.
Petmed Express (PETS) is an online pet pharmacy and has traded in value territory since the end of last year due to increased competition. The 5.81% dividend is an eye catcher and the company has increased its FCF which allows them to increase the dividend without resorting to debt or keeping it stagnant.
Petsmart (PETM) is a pet store chain and has been on fire since 2009. Pet food, supplies and other related products have seen price increases, but for some reason, owners are not very price sensitive when it comes to their pets. From my personal behavior, I've noticed that I will cut back on my spending more than for my pets.
My dog groomer charges $70, but my wife refuses to let me shave the dog. Dog wins over me every time.
Considering the impressive performance over the last few years, EV/EBITDA is still only 9.9 with a healthy ROA of 14.4% and ROE of 29%.
Home Improvement
Women are the CEO's of the home. They work, juggle family, parenting, house chores and more. The home is also decorated by the woman.
That's where companies like Home Depot (HD) and Bed Bath and Beyond (BBBY) come in.
More women now visit stores like Home Depot and there are is a healthy mix of female employees in my local stores. It is a lot less stressful for my wife to ask another women instead of receiving an answer in technical jargon and feeling dumb.
On a different note, home builders have bounced back this year. The SPDR S&P Homebuilders index (XHB) is up 46% YTD and since I don't think trying to get into home builders is the best choice at the moment, companies like Home Depot and Bed Bath and Beyond are interesting alternative plays.
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E2 Bull Farm
E3 Clymer Museum and Art Gallery
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E6 Harmon (Dreyer) Farm
E7 Koch-Carpenter Farm
E8 Kittitas County 4-H Barns
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E10 Artz Farm
E11 Sand Farm
E12 Wild Horse Wind Facility
E13 Cadwallader Barn
E14 Brown Farm
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ianhannaford necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 16 diseños de 5 diseñadores freelance.
We need 7 unique field hockey sticks designing. Each stick will have its own colour/design and symbol/icon.
Fury, Fury Unleashed
Desired Color Scheme:
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Any - but possible grunge/gothic
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Vector (Illustrator) and/or PSD
We currently have 7 sticks that we need redesigning. All the sticks are named after snakes. The names of these sticks and the intended audience are as follow:
Black Mamba
Power - (This is a childs stick)
Diamond Back
King Cobra
Some of these are not actual snakes but are used to represent what properties that snakes (and sticks) would have. I am not the fussed whether the sticks have actual snakes or just symbols representing the snakes?
We would like each sticks as a different colour and a different icon to represent each stick. The company logo should also be used. each stick needs to have its own unique look and feel and we think that goth/grunge style would go really well. Each sticks needs to have the name on as well.
Out logo can be found at - http://www.furyunleashed.co.uk/logo.html (This is only a sample - hence the resolution and are waiting for a completed version at a higher resolution) The colour can be changed to blend in with the stick.
On this page is also a sample stick that you can use as an outline for the designs. I will find out the actual sizes and specs once the competitions has been won.


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The investigation into the destruction of valid voter registration forms by an RNC employee working for one of the many sockpuppet companies Nathan Sproul keeps creating to cover his tracks and former problems with voting rights violations is expanding to cover Sproul and perhaps even more. The Washington Post reports:
The investigation into the arrest of a man on charges of dumping voter registration forms last month in Harrisonburg, Va., has widened, with state officials probing whether a company tied to top Republican leaders had engaged in voter registration fraud in the key battleground state, according to two persons close to the case.
A former employee of Strategic Allied Consulting, a contractor for the Republican Party of Virginia, had been scheduled to appear last Tuesday before a grand jury after he was charged with tossing completed registration forms into a recycling bin. But state prosecutors canceled Colin Small's grand jury testimony to gather more information, with their focus expanding to the firm that had employed Small, which is led by longtime GOP operative Nathan Sproul.
State authorities are seeking to learn whether any of Small's supervisors instructed him or any of his 40 co-workers in Virginia to ask potential voters about their political leanings during registration drives, the two sources said. Asking such questions could be a violation of state election law.
The answer almost certainly has to be yes. How else would they know which registration forms to throw out? You know damn well they didn't throw out the registration forms of Republicans, they were hired by the Republican party. And an employee of that same company in Colorado has already been caught on tape asking prospective voters who they were going to vote for before registering them to vote. And Sproul's former employees in past elections have said they did the same thing there. And yet the RNC and state Republican parties continue to hire him, then pretend to fire him and continue the same operations under a different name.
A Denver TV station reports that Sproul was interviewed by the FBI in April. And there's this:
Six months later, Sproul founded Strategic Allied Consulting. He runs the firm from a corner office on the eighth floor of a lavish office building in Tempe, Arizona. But you'd never know it by looking at the articles of incorporation. That's because the company is actually registered in Virginia where it shares an address with Karl Rove's Super PAC American Crossroads.
Sproul admits he conveniently left his name off the paperwork. He told the LA Times "he created Strategic Allied Consulting at the RNC's request because the party wanted to avoid being publicly linked to the past allegations."
In a heated exchange, Sproul refused to repeat that claim telling Fox 31 Denver "ultimately as the owner of the company it is my decision to make that choice."
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TRACK AND FIELD - The Bronc and Lady Bronc track teams will be in Gillette today for the Camel invitational.
This is the final meet before regional track and Sheridan high school head coach Art Bauers says overall it's been a good season.
And now with Regionals a week away and state in two weeks Bauers says they will start to taper their workouts.
BRONC / LADY BRONC SOCCER - The Bronc and Lady Bronc soccer teams this week play in Cheyenne at East and Central.
The Broncs sit on top of the east conference standings with three games to play, Head coach Matt Johnson says they put themselves in a good position but still have three big matches to play.
The Broncs have been impressive this spring scoring a lot of goals and Johnson says the Bronc defense has been equally impressive.
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KGA Membership fee of $15.00 is due day of tournament to enter tournament.
Just to mention a few things that the Kendrick Golf Association money goes towards and helps with at
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*Pave Cart Paths
*Paint the shelters, the big KGC on the hill, bought &
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Students need to wear their warm-up uniform to Mass at 8:00 and leave immediately after Mass.
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TROOPERS / JETS BASEBALL - The Sheridan Troopers are scheduled to open their baseball season Sunday weather permitting. The first games of the season where rained out and the prospect for that happening again this week is a very good possibility.
Head coach Ben Phillips says the players are ready to get the season started.
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The 2015 Stockman Bank Magic City Classic Tournament U14 Team CHAMPIONS from this past weekend. They beat Magic City 3-2 in the Championship match.
Front Row L to R: Robert Morton, Drake Fisgus, Wyatt Shaw, Sam Lecholat, Wade Jacobs, Brayden James, Truman Jones
Back Row L to R: Coach Dustin Shaw, Sam Salyards, Will Albrecht, Braden West, Xander Coon, Toby Jacobs, Garrett Coon, Ethan Rickett, Kyle Breen, Connor Goss, Coach Dennis Jacobs
Far Back: Coach Joe
UW FOOTBALL / BASKETBALL - Last week we heard from Wyoming Cowboys basketball coach Larry Shyatt today we here from Cowgirl basketball coach Joe Legerski and football coach Craig Bohl.
Both attended last week's Sheridan Cowboy Joe club function, the Cowboy football team is just coming off of spring football and Bohl talks about the 2015 Cowboys.
The Cowgirls head into the off season with scoring issues going into 2015 and Legerski says the preparation anymore is done year round.
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CHEYENNE – The University of Wyoming men's golf team shot a 14-over 298 in the final round of the Mountain West Championship on Sunday in Tucson, Arizona. The Cowboys finished eighth in the 11-team field.
San Diego State won the title with a final score of 17-under 835. University of Nevada Las Vegas' Kurt Kitayama won the individual title with an 11-under 202 in the three-round tournament.
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I've been looking forward to going to Vienna for a long time now, so I was a little bit disappointed to find out that our entire trip to Vienna with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir would be extremely short. Our July 3, 2016 trip consisted of:
- driving six hours from Munich
- eating lunch
- rehearsing for two hours
- eating dinner
- performing for two hours
- and driving six hours back to Munich (arriving at our hotel at 4 o'clock in the morning).
For a city that I have wanted to see for so many years, it was hard to accept that I wouldn't get to see anything of Vienna but the inside of a concert hall. But,
Pictured: Me in my tuxedo just before the July 3 concert in Vienna. Below: Vienna's Musikverein
But if I had it to do over again and could only pick one thing to do in Vienna, this concert would have been it! Since I first heard my friend and mentor Walter Whipple talk about his time singing in Vienna's Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, I have wanted to visit this hall. Last New Year, as I watched the Vienna Philharmonic performing their New Year's Day concert in the Musikverein, I couldn't believe that I would be performing there in 6 months. What a dream to not only see this beautiful hall, but to get to perform in it my first time there! I may not have seen much in Vienna, but it was worth 12 hours of driving just to sing there.
Stepping onto the stage, I had to pinch myself. This is a stage that Mahler and Brahms performed on. Brahms. The Brahms. On this stage? Really?
This beautiful hall is old. The wooden floors are creaky, the stairs feel ancient, and the stage is pockmarked and dented and scratched from hundreds and thousands and even tens of thousands of rehearsals and performances.
The hall, one of several in the Musikverein, is called the Goldener Saal or "Golden Hall," and for good reason. Tall and stately, its walls are covered in golden pillars and beautiful woodwork. The ceiling is decorated with intricate carving and elaborate murals. The rich, deep colors of the carpets and the seats glow in the sunlight that streams through high-set windows. It's a stunning thing to see. I would share a lot more pictures of it here, but they don't allow picture taking inside the hall.
The sound! Our conductor, Mack Wilberg, who is also a concert pianist, says that he tries to find old clunker pianos to practice on, so that when he sits down at a Steinway, it feels like glass. Compared with this Steinway of a hall, every other place I can remember ever performing in feels like an old clunker piano.
After cramming 400 performers onto a stage meant for half as many, and rehearsing for 2 hours (without air conditioning), we were given a break for dinner. As everyone else left the hall, I stayed and wandered to the back rows of seats, listening to one of the Tabernacle organists play "March on a Theme of Handel" on that magnificent organ.
4 things stood out to me from the concert itself:
- Light. Unlike many other concert halls, the hall was not dark during the performance. The western windows were letting in the setting sun, and the whole golden hall was full of shimmering light. From the cellos' first introductory note to the end of the dramatic first half, the light of the hall added to the magic of the music.
- A young couple, sitting on the third or fourth row, sat through the whole concert entranced. From the way they were dressed, they seemed an unlikely pair to be attending a classical concert, but they clearly appreciated every minute of it. At the beginning of Come Thou Fount, a brilliant arrangement by Mack Wilberg of a beautiful American folk hymn, she whipped out her cell phone and started recording the performance. Her excitement about that particular piece really stood out to me. Nothing makes a performance quite as enjoyable as having an audience that you know enjoys your music.
- The Stehplatz, or standing-room only section. A whole section at the back of the hall reserved just for standers. It's more crowded than a sitting section, and costs less of course, but it amazes me that there are audiences who love classical music enough to stand through a 2-hour concert.
- Caritas Austria. Toward the end of the concert, it was announced that all of the proceeds from the evening's concert were being donated to Caritas Austria, a local charitable organization that focuses partly on refugee aid. Of all of the applause that I heard during this tour, that applause was the warmest, and perhaps the most meaningful. "This is a beautiful example of how performers and supporters of the arts can come together and combine efforts to do good in their communities."
I really look forward to going back to Vienna sometime and enjoying a good, long, unhurried visit to a magical city. In the meantime, I am amazed that my first visit there got to be for such a beautiful concert in such a beautiful place.


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We loves you, Porgy and Bess!
|Court Theatre presents
|Porgy and Bess
|Written by George Gerwin, Ira Gershwin,
and Dorothy and DuBose Heyward
Directed by Charles Newell
Music direction, new orchestrations by Doug Peck
at Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis (map)
through July 3 | tickets: $10-$55 | more info
Reviewed by Barry Eitel
On first glance, Porgy and Bess looks like the tale of a perpetual sucker. The crippled beggar Porgy, living in an impoverished South Carolina hamlet, falls for Bess, the most shunned woman in town, a coquette who runs with a jealous meathead. Due to Porgy being the only person who'll let her stay at his house, the mismatched pair gets together, yet the woman retains a wandering eye. But Porgy puts up with all, even when she runs to New York when he's out of town. Instead of throwing up his hands, he takes up his crutch and starts the journey north.
However, as Charles Newell's excellent production at Court makes clear, there's something astoundingly human about this tale. George Gershwin's magnum opus showcases love and forgiveness in its treatment of Porgy and Bess' relationship. Titular characters aside, the opera also delves into how a community copes with hardship. Even when those hardships are as insidious and gigantic as racism, poverty, and natural disaster.
Out of the millions of debates spurred by this show, easily one of the stupidest is if it should be classified as an opera or musical. Newell and music director Doug Peck took the best of both genres. I'd say the show is about 90% singing, keeping many of Gershwin's recitatives. But they aren't afraid to throw in a few spoken lines when a character needs to drop a truth bomb without the flourish of music. Newell also chopped down the supporting townsfolk of Catfish Row, so the stage isn't flooded with actors with one line roles. It also makes the whole strong ensemble memorable.
Newell's envisioning of this controversial tale adds a vibrancy and immediacy to the octogenarian opera. John Culbert's off-white set invokes a weathered Carolina beach house, which goes well with Jacqueline Firkins' breezy white costumes. Stark as it may seem, the design has its fare share of breathtaking surprises. Peck also tweaks the arrangements to great effect, adding some great traditional Gullah drum breaks as well as haunting stripped down acapella numbers.
While initially shunned, Porgy and Bess has seen lots of love from opera houses around the world (including a production at the Lyric in 2008). These productions promise grandiose sets and superstar vocals, with the plot lagging behind as an afterthought. That's not the case here, where the plot (based on DuBose Heyward's 1926 novel) is the main selling point. With Newell's minimalist take, nearly all of the storytelling responsibility falls to the cast. They deliver with aplomb, searching the story's intricacies and themes alongside us in the audience. I already had chills when Harriet Nzinga Plumpp warbled the first few notes of "Summertime."
Todd M. Kryger's hulking performance as Porgy is just the right blend of majesty and vulnerability, and Alexis J. Rogers correctly portrays a Bess torn by love and lust. But the real jewel here is the supporting cast. Bethany Thomas as the pious Serena steals the show with her wickedly expressive singing style. She shreds right through the heart of "My Man's Gone Now." Sean Blake's slick Sporting Life, the neighborhood dope dealer, is a similar delight. His rendition of "It Ain't Necessarily So" drips with fun—it's clear he's having a great time up there.
Court boasts that this production is scrubbed clean of the racist smudges that have dogged Porgy and Bess from its opening night in 1935. I don't know if I completely agree with that—much of the music still leans towards Europe instead of Africa. But Porgy and Bess is an American treasure, a spunky musical journey that combines stodgy Old World opera with the uniquely American creations of jazz, gospel, and blues. Newell's production is a treasure in itself, grabbing this overly-familiar piece ("Summertime" is one of the most covered pop song in the world) and thrusting it into relevance.
|Rating: ★★★★
Filed under: 2011 Reviews, Barry Eitel, Court Theatre, Opera | Tagged: Adrienne Walker, Alexis J. Rogers, Barry Eitel, Bear Bellinger, Bethany Thomas, Brent Roman, Brian H. Scott, Brian-Alwyn Newland, Byron Glen Willis, Charles Newell, Christian Dillingham, Chuck Bontrager, Court Theatre, Court Theatre Chicago, Cristin Carole, Dorothy Heyward, Doug Peck, Drew Dir, DuBose Heyward, Elizabeth Doran, George Gershwin, Harriet Nzinga Plumpp, Ira Gershwin, Jacqueline Firkins, James Earl Jones II, Joelle Lamarre, John Culbert, Joshua Horvath, Kevin Roston Jr., Martine Kei Green, Matt Holzfeind, Nick Moran, Porgy and Bess, Ron OJ Parson, Sara Gammage, Sean Blake, Stephen Orjudos, Todd M. Kryger, Travis A. Jackson, Travis Turner, William Collins, Wydetta Carter | Leave a comment »


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Alieo Games won the Edmonton Journal People's Choice Award at the 2015 TEC VenturePrize celebration April 29 in Edmonton.
Alieo Games is an educational technology company that recently launched COW, a writing app for students and teachers in K-12. COW provides a safe and fun space for students to practice writing (building writing fluency and vocabulary) and to share their work with classmates. For teachers, COW uses text analysis to provide useful feedback that they can use to customize their lesson plans to meet the specific needs of their students. The company received 54 per cent of the votes cast on edmontonjournal.com.
A TEC Edmonton judging panel chose Sensassure for the top VenturePrize, the Fast Growth Award, which rewards an Alberta technology company with $80,000 in cash and services to help build their business. The two runners up receive $30,000 each in cash and services.
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Obviously, these holes were not made by space rats but humans. But what's inside them?
They are elements and computing pieces "being evaluated for the effects of atomic oxygen, ultraviolet, direct sunlight, radiation, and the extremes of heat and cold" outside the International Space Station. Scientists want to test their endurance against the harshness of space.
I want to lick these things. I know I would probably burn or freeze my tongue by doing it, but some of these things look like lollies. Mmmm, lollies. [NASA]


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Terror Arrest Does Not Justify REAL ID Revival
The zeitgeist on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. may be for limited, constitutional government, but that doesn't mean that big‐government conservatives aren't going to use the reprieve voters gave Republicans in the fall to once again advance big‐government goals. On Monday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R‑Texas), Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King (R‑N.Y.) and Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Subcommittee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R‑Wisc.) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano encouraging her to fully implement our national ID law, the REAL ID Act of 2005.
The deadline for state implementation of the national ID law lapsed nearly three years ago. Half the states in the country have affirmatively barred themselves from implementing REAL ID or they have passed resolutions objecting to the national ID law. But the Department of Homeland Security has repeatedly extended the deadline and reduced the compliance bar to suggest progress on the flagging national ID effort. With another faux implementation deadline looming in May, the DHS is almost certain to issue a blanket extension of the compliance deadline again soon.
Smith, King, and Sensenbrenner don't want that to happen. They cite the arrest of Khalid Aldawsari in Texas as a reason for "immediate implementation of REAL ID."
According to the government's affidavit, Aldawsari planned to acquire a false birth certificate and multiple false drivers licenses, assumedly to assist in his getaway after executing his formative bombing plans. But if you read the affidavit, you can see just how remote and speculative his use of any false identification is compared to the real acts that go into his plans. You can also see the web of identifiers that law enforcement use to effectively track and surveil their targets, including phone numbers, license plates, physical addresses, immigration records, email addresses, and Internet Protocol addresses. Aldawsari was nowhere near slipping through the net, and having a false driver's license would have made no difference after a North Carolina chemical supply company reported to the FBI his suspicious attempt to purchase the chemical phenol. Nor would false identification have made a difference had he succeeded in an attack of any significance.
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A few new things I have been working on at the shop...
Cherry Toes
A slab of black walnut with an oak top and cherry wood "toes".
Available: $750
Truck Bench
Reclaimed seat from an old truck. Arms and legs are cherry wood.
Available: $375
Harvest Table
Harvest table made of walnut with a high gloss finish.
Sold: $3000
Walnut Table
Smaller version of the harvest table, made from the same log.
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Buffett's Gold Cube is Smaller Than You Think
Warren Buffett, chief executive officer and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, is famously known as one of the greatest investors of all-time. His methodology with business investments has placed him among the world's top billionaires consistently over the years. However, he is also infamously known by some investors for his views on gold, one of the most stable financial instruments in human history. Earlier this year, the "Oracle of Omaha" wrote an article in Forbes describing his preference for investing in productive companies, rather than gold. To illustrate his stance that gold is a "lifeless" asset, he provided an analogy of the world's entire gold stock as a cube sitting on a baseball field. As it turns out though, that cube is smaller than many people think.
When it comes to criticizing gold, few do it as colorful as Buffett. In the article, he writes, "Today the world's gold stock is about 170,000 metric tons. If all of this gold were melded together, it would form a cube of about 68 feet per side. (Picture it fitting comfortably within a baseball infield.) At $1,750 per ounce — gold's price as I write this — its value would be about $9.6 trillion."
Considering how Buffett made his billions, it is not too difficult to see why he paints gold as a lifeless metal just taking up space. He prefers businesses that produce profits, pay dividends and grow over time. However, the lack of these characteristics in gold is what gives the precious metal value. Gold does not have to please shareholders with quarterly results or dividends, and carries zero counter-party risk. It is a medium of exchange, unit of account and a store of value. Furthermore, gold's lack of growth also provides value in regards to supply and demand. The demand for gold continues to increase as central banks carry-on with fiat currency debasing monetary policies, but supply growth is constrained. Even the total gold stock on the Earth today is less than previously estimated by Buffett and others.
A new extensive study was recently conducted by James Turk, the founder and chairman of GoldMoney, along with the assistance of Juan Castaneda, who has a PhD in Economics and currently teaches at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom. Turk graduated from George Washington University with a BA degree in International Economics, and has held positions at Chase Manhattan Bank and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. The study analyzes data between 1492 and 2011 to conclude that official estimates of the world's gold stock is overstated by 10.3 percent.
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The year that Columbus first made his voyage to the Americas is used as a logical starting point, because it marks the beginning of relatively formal record-keeping. It also accounts for the majority of the difference. According to the World Gold Council, which uses Thomson Reuters data, the world's gold stock stood at 171,300 tonnes at the end of 2011. However, this total signals the belief that the gold stock in 1492 was 12,780 tonnes. Although this figure is similar to a study done by Govett and Govett (1982), Turk concludes it does not seem reasonable given the primitive mining techniques and technology available at the time when comparing the End of Epoch (gold grams per capita) to other time periods.
The study ultimately finds that the estimated gold stock in 1492 was much closer to 297 tonnes. This figure reflects work done by Velde and Weber (1998) for the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. The estimate of 297 tonnes also correlates well to the 300 tonnes estimate found through independent research done by Heinrich Quiring. Turk estimates that the historic gold accumulation from 1493 through 2011 is 154,947 tonnes. Adding the 297 tonnes to 154,947 tonnes, Turk estimates that the world gold stock at the end of 2011 was 155,244 tonnes, or 16,056 tonnes below the commonly used World Gold Council estimate. The difference is quite significant considering it is more than five-times the current rate of annual production.
Although there are many different views on gold and its role in the global financial system, the fact that the precious metal is still debated today and has outperformed the market over the past decade shows its relevance. While it is not a productive business like an Exxon Mobile, it's highly desirable characteristics have allowed it to serve as an asset for more than 5,000 years. Furthermore, its supply is constrained and cannot be improved through a printing press.
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The Right People
FedEx is constantly on the look-out for talented people who share the basic qualities of honesty, enthusiasm, creativity and respect for co-workers and customers.
As a global company, FedEx embodies a culture that respects diversity and strives to develop all its employees to their fullest potential. Management understands that FedEx will only continue to be successful with fully dedicated employees. This is core to our philosophy of People-Service-Profit.
Growing with FedEx
FedEx puts its people first because employees are our most important asset through which we can achieve our business goals. FedEx has led the industry in creating employee-focused programs to promote positive internal communications and staff development. Every employee has pledged to make every FedEx experience outstanding and has an opportunity to grow with FedEx. Key programs offered to employees are…
Promotion From Within Policy is designed to support employee career development within the company by giving employees priority in application, consideration and selection for any open positions. This policy aligns with the company's P-S-P principle.
Open Door Process provides employees with direct access to management to share input, comments and feedback for further consideration.
Guaranteed Fair Treatment Procedure ensures any employee grievances are dealt with fairly and objectively.
Survey-Feedback-Action gives employees an opportunity to offer feedback on the effectiveness of management.
APAC e-Learning enables employees to learn in their own time from any location for job enhancement or personal development.
Tuition Assistance Program financially subsidizes eligible employees in their pursuit of additional higher formal education to enhance career advancement opportunities in FedEx.
AiM (Advance into Management) Program provides employees with opportunities for development and growth into management positions through a structured process focusing on leadership/ management concepts and skills.


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Maybe you ate a questionable burrito. Or you just want to make sure everything checks out, sanitation-wise, before you try a new restaurant. Even better than skimming Red or Green reports, the city has a searchable database of every restaurant and bar in town, with the results of every inspection, emergency call-in and follow-up visit right there. Try it, it's fun!
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Other Programs
Helmholtz School for Data Science in Life, Earth and Energy (HDS-LEE)
The aim of the school is to drive the digitalization in research and produce outstanding data scientists to support domain-specific research activities. HDS-LEE will receive about six million euros in funding from the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers. In total, the partners will also contribute six million euros to the project.
Spokesperson at RWTH: Professor Alexander Mitsos
German Research School for Simulation Sciences (GRS)
Computational science, performed on high-end supercomputers, is widely regarded as the third pillar of scientific methodology beside theory and experiment. This approach has the potential to influence profoundly both science and engineering through its ability to deal with the complexity of phenomena.
Our mission is to conduct excellent research and provide excellent education in this important interdisciplinary field. We offer programs for both master and doctoral students. Studies include all subjects relevant for simulation on high-performance computers ranging from the disciplinary sciences like physics, chemistry, or biology, to the interdisciplinary fields of numerics and computer science.
Spokesperson: Professor Marek Behr
EXTATIC - Doctoral Programme in EUV and X-Ray Training in Advanced Technologies for Interdisciplinary Cooperation
Erasmus Mundus Aktion 1 B, with participation from RWTH
EXTATIC is an Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate (EMJDs), led by Dublin City University. The overarching objective of this EMJD is to provide high-level training in Extreme UV (EUV) and X-ray science to a new generation of high achieving graduate students to provide them with the transferable skills necessary for thriving careers in a burgeoning area that underpins innovative technological development across a range of diverse disciplines. This goal will be achieved by a unique combination of "hands-on" research training, industrial placements and courses and workshops on scientific and complementary so-called "soft" skills facilitated by the academic- industrial composition of our network.
Contact at RWTH: Prof. Dr. Larissa Juschkin
Helmholtz Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training in Energy and Climate
HITEC is a Helmholtz Graduate School of Forschungszentrum Jülich and the five partner universities Aachen, Bochum, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Wuppertal focusing on energy and climate research. The aim of the Graduate School is to provide PhD students with the expertise and the methodological and communication skills necessary for scientific work on the highest international level. Furthermore, well-founded cross-cutting know-how will be imparted on the scientific, technical and social dimensions of the topic of energy and climate, such as the complex relations between the energy supply and its impact on climate change.
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Uwe Rau, FZ Jülich
Sustainable Chemical Synthesis – A Systems Approach / CMT
The graduate school aims to develop innovative methods and technologies for sustainable synthesis of chemical products by academic and industrial research partners. The research is focused on premarket technologies and fosters interdisciplinary research of scientists and engineers.
Spokesperson: Professor Walter Leitner


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When Hearst Digital Photo Editor, Elizabeth Griffin flashed us her brand-spankin' new, VMA-inspired Miley mani, created by the talented Miss Pop, we just had to share it.
Miss Pop told Cosmo, "I went to the VMAs, and the night after Elizabeth and I were joking around about Miley's performance, and I kind of just thought it would be fun to capture the humor behind it, by way of nail art, while everyone else was taking it so seriously."
Um, we love that positive attitude, Miss Pop!
So, are you dying over it as much as we are?!
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A surge in interest rates could result in a 15% to 20% decline in central U.S. farmland values, warn economists with Rabobank. But because the bulk of recent farmland purchases have been made with the heavy use of cash instead of financing, the report authors believe the potential contraction will be manageable.
The report, from the Rabobank Food & Agribusiness (FAR) Research and Advisory Group, states the era of extremely low interest rates and extraordinarily high commodity prices is drawing to a close. "We'll likely see lower commodity prices this year, but they aren't going to be low enough long enough to substantially impact land values for the coming year or so," says report author and senior analyst Sterling Liddell. "In the short term, strong farmer balance sheets and high rental rates will support current levels. However, decreasing commodity prices will keep the value from accelerating as rapidly as they have been."
The report, "Land Values Peaking Out--But Not Down," finds in the medium term, the single greatest risk to U.S. agricultural land values is looming higher interest rates. Interest rates have been increasing through the first half of 2013, but based on the current Federal Reserve policy, a significant increase isn't expected until 2014 or 2015. "We are entering an era where planning how you're going to pay for your land is likely to become as important as planning for marketing your crop," notes Liddell.
The report forecast finds a decline in land values in the central U.S. of 15% to 20% percent over the next three years if commodity prices remain low and interest rates rise from below 3% to a rate more consistent with the early 2000s of 4%. "Given current Federal Reserve policy, 10-year and 30-year bond rates averaging less than 4% to 5% are the most likely outcome for for at least the next three years. While a return to 10% Treasury rates is possible, our current worst-case scenario is a 6% interest rate similar to the 1990s," the report states.
In the Western and Southeast U.S., the decline will be less marked than in the Midwest, the report states. The key determinant in the susceptibility to land value changes is an area's reliance on grain and oilseeds. While an increase in interest rates will have a similar impact on agricultural land values throughout the country, the amount of change will depend on the type of crop production and proximity to urban areas.
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We are looking for a person who is gifted passionate and experienced leader and fundraiser who can build local and international financial partners to support the ministry.
Do you love to tell God's story? What he is doing right here and now? Do you love to help resouce his work through proposal writing and public relations? Then we need you on our team. The role is a merge of Field Communication's officer and NGO proposal writer and Public Relations manager. We see God at work in our community development and in the lives of our friends and communities but we need someone to help us to tell our stories better.
Skills/gifts: Poverty is the root cause of many of the difficulties in rural communities, we are looking for people who are passionate about empowering simple village and small town people with limited education in income generation activities.
Skill/gifting: We are looking for women and men who are happy to teach basic health lesson in our rural communities that are ripe with animistic and folk Islamic health believes as well as just a general lack of understanding of how our body and health issues work.
Come join a church planting team committed to holistic development working among the unreached on the roof of the world in Central Asia.
We desperately need a bookkeeper! Our need is both f for overseeing finance department of NGO.
This role exists to give custodial accountability for the cash transactions conducted at the Field Level, and perform duties to assist with accounting functions pertaining to bank accounts, journal entries, financial reporting and administrative changes, guided by precedent and working with the limits of established policies.
Skills and Gifting: This person will mainly work with our partner organisations and the families of children with disabilities or disabled person themselves in supporting an emerging social work system, support families in the process of accepting a disability, provide parents education, psycho social support to families and a group of lay counselors, support families in engaging with the community and move towards Inclusive education.
Skills and gifts: We are looking or people passionate about rural communities and helping them to be more productive for their own nutrition as well as income generation, currently we work with high altitude greenhouses, fruit juicing, fruit drying and orchards we also support poor families with seeds and advice for their small household gardens.
Come join a church planting team committed to holistic development working among the unreached on the roof of the world in Central Asia.
Are you passionate about Muslim women knowing their worth, that they are loved by the Father and for them to gain strength and confidence to influence their lives and that of their community - then we need you. Imagine that while you love them and empower them, they discover the Fathers heart and start following him bring friends and family with them, forming a vibrant community of Jesus followers!
Our organization resources and equips the people of Central Asia through integrated and inclusive programs, modelling compassion and integrity as they partner with us.
We are currently running community health, disability, education, micro-enterprise and water/ sanitation programs.
Our NGO leadership team has 3 regional directors based in rural teams assisting the country director. One of these positions is vacant another could possible be split to ensure room for growth in projects.


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CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. – UMBC divers Ryan Green (Ellicott City, Md./Centennial) and Corinna Darelius (Rye, N.Y./Rye) each qualified for the NCAA Zones meet for the second straight season during a diving competition with George Mason, Penn State, and West Virginia in Coral Springs, Fla. on Jan. 4. Darelius and Green join senior Tim Perkins (Frederick, Md./Tuscarora), who met the standard back in October, as entries for the Retrievers at the regional meet.
In addition, Green was named the Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association (CCSA) Diver of the Week for the second time this season.
Competing on the one-meter board, Darelius scored a career-high 271.85 while finishing fourth in the competition. Her score breaks her previous best of 265.89, which she set during last season's training trip in South Florida against West Virginia. The sophomore has won three dual meet events this season and was named the America East Diver of the Week on Nov. 26 after placing second on the three-meter and fifth on the one-meter board at the Patriot Invitational.
Green punched his trip to the NCAA Zones after winning the one-meter event against the local rivals. The junior scored a season-best 304.65 to qualify for the second straight year and give UMBC two male representatives for the second season in a row. Green also earned CCSA Diver of the Week honors on Nov. 27 after winning the three-meter event at the three-day invitational at George Mason and also claiming sixth in the one-meter competition.
UMBC kicks off the 2014 portion of its schedule on Saturday by hosting Howard for Senior/Alumni Day at the UMBC Aquatic Complex. The Retrievers and Bison are scheduled to hit the water at 1:00 p.m. following a Senior Ceremony.


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HomeCriminal Investigation Division :: Organized Crime :: Gang Unit
Gang Unit
The Evansville-Vanderburgh County Gang Task Force is an investigative unit formed through a partnership between the Evansville Police Department and the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor's Office. The gang task force is staffed by one sergeant, two detectives, a prosecutor and an investigator.
What is a Criminal Street Gang?
Indiana State Statute 35-45-9-1 defines a criminal gang as a group with at least three members that specifically: (1) either: (A) promotes, sponsors, or assists in; or (B) participates in; or (2) requires as a condition of membership or continued membership; the commission of a felony or an act that would be a felony if committed by an adult or the offense of battery (IC 35-42-2-1).
How do you report gang activity?
If you want to report suspicious behavior in reference to gang activity please call the Evansville Police Department Gang Unit:
Phone: 812-435-5186
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What are some typical pre-gang behaviors?
Gang involvement does not happen overnight. It is a gradual process and if you are alert you will see warning signs.
These items are characteristic of gang involvement. However, some people who join or associate with gangs do not dress in the traditional attire and do not exhibit conspicuous behavior
What do you do about gang graffiti?
Remember the four (4) R's…Read it, Record it, Report it and Remove it!
If gang graffiti is left, it can become very dangerous. Graffiti can indicate a threat against a rival gang or a specific person. The Graffiti must be read and interpreted for danger signals. Second, the graffiti should be documented and photographed. Then a police report should be made for tracking purposes. Finally, studies show that the best graffiti prevention strategy is immediate removal. Lingering graffiti gives prospective graffiti vandals the wrong message that graffiti is welcome on the property.
Click link to report graffiti complaints: Citizen Concern Portal »
(Instructions: Follow link. Click open a new concern. Choose either to report anonymous or complete form. Select graffiti from category and police from department. Then submit your tip.)
Graffiti Removal Tips
If you are the victim of graffiti vandalism, if possible, remove it within in 24-48 hours. It is recommended to remove the graffiti prior to painting to ensure that the graffiti does not bleed through the paint. See the provided Graffiti Removal PDF for several removal methods.
Valspar paint and Lowes of Evansville (East and West side stores) support the fight against graffiti by donating primer with the purchase of paint. A police report will be necessary to qualify for the above program. Contact the below detectives for more details.
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Machinery maker continues testing of the system that eliminates an operator from the tractor cab.
In the middle of harvest, Monmouth, Ill., farmer Rick Elliott got a call from one of the neighbors.
"He was driving by and asked me 'Is there anyone in that grain cart tractor?!" Rick says.
But there was no cause for alarm. Elliott's tractor was following the combine through the field, unloading on the go, without anyone sitting in the cab. His farm was one of three in western Illinois testing the Kinze Autonomous Harvest System.
See the driverless tractor in the field:
"After unveiling our project in July of 2011, we are excited to demonstrate it in the field," says Susie Veatch, vice president and Chief Marketing Officer of Kinze Manufacturing.
The Kinze Autonomous Harvest System is comprised of the combine, tractor and grain cart outfitted with sensors, ruggedized computers, and GPS sensors. The system is controlled by the combine operator using a hand-held tablet computer and eliminates the need for an operator in the tractor cab to haul the grain cart.
"The goals for this system are efficiency, productivity, and safety," says Rhett Schildroth, Kinze product manager. "Farmers are experiencing a shortage in skilled operators for the seasonal work at harvest and planting. We also know that it's key for the system to run as safe at the end of the day as it did at the beginning."
The autonomy project started in the lab in 2009. Then it was tested on the Kinzenbaw farm up until this year, when it's the first year the system has been tested outside of Kinze.
"Our system takes control of the tractor's engine, transmission, steering and brakes," Schildroth explains.
Schildroth visits with Farm Journal's Pam Fretwell:
Components on the tractor include: GPS receiver, inertial measurement sensors for hills, wheel encoders, LIDAR (light detection and ranging) sensors, radar sensors for far-reaching sensing and a camera to see what the systems sees.
The components on the combine include: an emergency stop button, GPS receiver, communication module that networks the machines, and a tablet, which is the user interface.
Basically, the system performs in four modes: follow, unload, park, idle.
In follow, the tractor and grain cart follow the combine's path through the field. The system reads where the combine has operated and designates those areas as safe for travel. If obstacles are known in the field, the operator can indicate them on the map, or if obstacles are encountered during harvest, for example an extreme wet hole, the area can also be marked as an obstacle to be avoided.
When the combine is ready to be unloaded, the tractor and grain cart pull alongside the combine, and sensors provide real-time reaction to any adjustments made by the combine in speed and direction.
"The system is continuously scanned for obstacles in the field so that when it's time to meet the combine it calculates a path factoring in any obstacles. If it can't map around an obstacle, then it stops," Schildroth says. "Right now, it doesn't run as fast as a human operator would–7 mph when following the combine; 9 mph for field travel."
To park the tractor and cart, the combine operator hits the park button and the machinery returns to designated area at the edge of the field.
In idle, the system comes to a stop wherever it is until further instruction.
"The technology is hidden from the farmer. They have the tablet and that's all –- four buttons and an aerial view of the filed." Schildroth says. "Having it be simple means our farmers have been able to learn how to use the system in an hour and within a day it's part of their routine."
Trained technicians installed the three systems for testing this fall, and that process took between one to two days.
Veatch explains that the company put out a call to district sales managers to find willing cooperators to test the system.
"We wanted flat ground for this initial testing and this area had good crops despite the tough growing conditions of this year," she says. "And there were three farmers within 8 miles that were willing to be part of our project."
Elliott Brothers Farms (Rick is partners with his brother Dan and other family members), Kent Armstrong and Joe Krupps were the three partners, and all of them are Kinze customers through Painter Farm Equipment.
"Ten years ago we were skeptical about GPS, automated steering, clutches on the planter, and other technologies," says Todd Painter, Painter Farm Equipment. "But those have been highly accepted by our customers. We have 80% or more of our customers using GPS technologies on their farm. Technology is here to stay, and this autonomous system is the next thing to come."
Krupps, who farms near Galesburg, Ill., says he is not quick to adopt technology on his farm and doesn't have any autoguidance or steering systems used in his operation currently. But he says the autonomous system was easy to bring onto his farm.
"I read last winter about the concept, But I am not exactly a technology leader," he says. "The whole system surprised me–how well it worked, how they made this user friendly. It follows instructions better than some employees."
Cooperating farmer Armstrong started using automated steering systems on his farm only three years ago and says he's impressed with how accurate the system is.
"I haven't run any corn on the ground this harvest," he says. "The tablet gives you a countdown for how long it'll take for the cart to travel to get to the combine, and the cart stays right with my unload auger."
The Elliott Brothers farming operation has multiple machines with GPS autoguidance and RTK steering systems, Rick reports this system easily fit into their operation.
"The system is designed the way a farmer would have done it," he says. "It's simple to give the system the command you want in the field—four buttons, that's it."
Elliott visits with Farm Journal's Pam Fretwell about the Kinze technology:
The tractor can be switched from autonomous to manual mode. When the tractor is in idle mode, the farmer can lower the bottom step on the tractor, which has sensors installed to automatically disengage the autonomous system. From there, the operator takes back over with control, until they exit the tractor and lift the step to re-engage the autonomous system.
In autonomous mode, before the tractor leaves its designated parking area, the lights flash and the tractor beeps and revs its engine to alert it's about to move.
The company demonstrated on John Deere tractors but says it has designed the system to be compatible with any make of tractor or combine. Once commercially available, Kinze plans on offering kits for specific models.
For now, they've already designed it for a variety of harvesting conditions. For example, when cutting soybeans at an angle, the system follows the combine path and reacts in real time. Or if farming amid waterways, the system can understand tilt, and if the wheels start spinning in extreme conditions, the tractor shuts off. Also, terraces can be set as obstacles in the field.
The field testing has provided improvements to the system as well.
"The biggest improvements this year are that we added the tablet as the user interface and with adjustments to the software, we've improved the time it takes for the tractor's path to be determined," Schildroth says.
Although there isn't a project date for commercial availability of the system, Kinze is also working on applying the autonomous technology to planting applications.
"Farmers will want increased productivity, rapid return on investment, and we'll continue to innovate around the autonomous solution," Schildroth says. "Next year we'll have more testing."
The Autonomous Harvest System is only designed for off road use. The system will not work on any roads.


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Apple's Puritanical app approval policy doesn't let in any really inappropriate apps, but it's clear that the people want to indulge their vices with their iPhones: The current top three most popular apps are focused on sex, drugs, and alcohol.
The closest thing to porn you're likely to see in the App Store, Swimsuit Illustrated's Swimsuit App, tops the sales list, followed by the medical marijuana location app "Cannabis" and finally "Mixologist," an app directory of recipes for mixed drinks. What does this prove? Will social conservatives start decrying iPhone users as degenerate drug addict alcoholic pornographers? [FolioMag]