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In the world of music there isn't a much bigger insult than calling someone a "sell-out". Of course any standard insult is liable to incite the appropriate amount of ire, depending on the outlook of the insulted, but I'm speaking strictly from a musician's standpoint since this is primarily a site about music. For quite some time now, people have argued about who did or did not sell out and what exactly constitutes selling out. For the longest, I thought that selling out was compromising your art for a chance at monetary gain. While that does remain to be a pretty despicable practice, it's not the entirety of selling out. In fact, one could make the argument that as soon as you've signed a recording contract, you have sold out. Before you start thinking that you can't win for losing, hear me out and don't get upset when you realize that you've already sold out in at least some aspect of your life. It happens to the best of us.
Think about your job for a moment. Chances are, you wouldn't be doing those tasks everyday unless someone was paying you. If you do happen to have a job that you truly enjoy, something that gives your life meaning, I applaud you and wish you continued success. However, most of us are stuck doing things that we really don't care about for wages that we don't think are very fair, you could say that we sold ourselves out and you wouldn't be wrong. Before you jump up and quit your job, I'm not bringing all this up to make you feel worse about life; I'm just putting things into perspective. If you didn't have that job, you wouldn't be able to pay your bills or indulge your vices and in turn, you would be viewed as "less than" by your peers; even the ones who really like you. So, you have to go out there and get money however you can, right? Even if it means sacrificing a bit of your dignity, free time or even your health. That's selling out and we're all pretty much required to do it, so why do we give our favorite bands so much grief for trying to make a buck?
My theory is that we like to live vicariously through our musical heroes, imagining ourselves on the same stage as them, experiencing the catharsis that is live performance in front of a gleefully captive audience. When those heroes fall short of the perfection we've projected onto them, we're disappointed, but this is an unrealistic way to view life, much less the music industry. Think about how some of the so-called "extreme" metal bands present themselves: leather, spikes, chains, face paint, etc. It presents an almost super-human image, not much different than professional wrestling except bands don't usually fight each other in public. You have to remember that for better or worse, music is primarily aimed at teenagers; even Heavy Metal and especially it's not-so-heavy counterpart, "Alt-Metal" or as I like to call it, "Radio Rock". If you don't think a band like Butcher Babies is marketed toward 13 year old boys, I don't know what you're on, but you may want to cut back. An image is a selling point, whether it's a band selling their bodies or the idea that they're pure evil, they're trying to get you to buy something. That's selling out and if you sign a record contract, you're gonna be required to do it.
Now the question is whether you can make money as a musician without selling out, but if you've been paying attention you already know the answer. To pursue something, anything, professionally is to sell out to at least some degree. You don't necessarily have to compromise your values or your message, but if you want to make money, you're going to at least have to find a common ground with the people you're marketing toward. That's right, you're marketing towards people whether you realize it or not. Those show fliers you post in the guitar shop? You're marketing towards musicians in the hopes that they'll find personal appeal in the show you're presenting and come spend money to get in the door. At that show, you'll ask people to visit your merch table, not just to chat, but you want them to buy something. If someone cried "sell-out" at you for doing this, I'd be willing to bet you'd be ready to at least do some screaming, if not brawl with those people.
What we need to realize is that we can no longer fault a band just for trying to make money. Look at rappers, the vast majority come right out and tell you, "I'm trying to get paid" and when was the last time you heard someone call a rapper a "sell-out"? They sold out just like those bands at the energy drink fests and just like you when you punch the clock everyday. We are considered a product of our country and we're "sold" to our government on the day we're born; your social security number is basically your serial number. This is the world we live in and until a whole bunch of us get up and decide we want to change it, everything is going to revolve around money. Just about every decision made and idea birthed revolves around how much money it can make for the people involved. Selling out is purely subjective and no one has any right to chastise anyone for trying to make a living. This is especially true in a society that determines your value as a human almost solely by how much money you make. So, stop worrying about how much an artist has sold out and start worrying about how much you've sold out and what you want to do about that.


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September 22, 2011
Major Post, Ask Your Questions NOW!!
If there are any specific questions that you'd like addressed regarding how to get going as a print model, please leave a comment. I will be publishing the post sometime this weekend.
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This is great! Ok, do you think it's best to have comp card shot in order to obtain Commercial Agent Representation? In your experience are the majority of Commercial agencies in NYC only willing to sign their talent on as a freelance model? If your coming to NYC with just a great headshot how would one go about obtaining a commercial rep? What do yo normally wear to a Commercial Print Audition? How do you spin a successful commercial print modeling career into a successful on-camera career? Do you feel like Seminars say at Actors Connection is the best way to meet a Commercial Print Agent?ReplyDelete
Say someone who is like me, all they got is one student film, would it be ok for them to start going after commercials. OR would it be a bad idea since it can make them a SAG?ReplyDelete
Finally yyour posted!!! lol My question is, what is the best way to get under their radar when you dont have an agent?ReplyDelete
Hey..this is more a commercial question. How do I get a talent agent if I don't have a reel? Do I just submit pictures to the agency? I've already taken on-camera commercial classes.ReplyDelete
I'm so happy you're doing this.ReplyDelete
Lots and lots of questions to ask...
1. How do you determine your type? Am I the girl next door, wall flower, leading lady etc? It seems important to know this for headshots and knowing what roles to submit for
2. What sorts of photos should I have in my portfolio to start with?
3. NY or LA??
4. Do I really need an agent/agency to start?
Thanks in advance!
- AnonymousSeptember 24, 2011 at 8:28 PM
Thanks for doing this!ReplyDelete
My question is, these commercial print castings go so quickly and might only involve a couple of photos, so what do you do to stand out/book it? I'm looking for things in my control that I can work on vs they want a different ethnicity or hair length etc.
You should do a youtube channel, that would be so cool. Can you also talk about your experience of Acting Schools in NYC, what they were like and which one you like best. And which was afforableReplyDelete
What are the turn off and turn ons Casting directors would find in a resume.ReplyDelete
I didn't want to have to ask this here because it's not a big question or anything but I'm curious. Did you ever take a picture for a Social Psychology textbook? lolReplyDelete
I'm reading through my textbook now and I swear this is you! If not, you have a doppelganger! lol
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2011 at 5:48 AM
I'm currently signed with NTA in LA for commercial and print. I just shot my first print job through them (yay!) and am loving modeling. My question is: Can you have more than one print agent in a single market (LA/NY)? I never signed a contract with NTA for print so I'm assuming it's non-exclusive...? I'm not totally sure how it all works yet. I'm thinking of submitting to other major print agencies in LA but don't want to run into trouble.ReplyDelete
My main focus is on Tv/Film, do you think it is a must to have some theater background? Have you done theater and what was it lik?ReplyDelete
Casting directors seem to love you! Im glad. But how is it that your charm them?ReplyDelete
I think there may have been some confusion. I asked readers to ask questions regarding how to get started in commercial print. I received several questions pertaining to other things. I will post all of the questions, and will try to answer them in a future post. For any questions that are related to commercial print, I've incorporated the answers into the blog post.ReplyDelete
Sorry for the delay on the post, it's taken longer than expected!! It should go up in a day or two.
Hi! I really love your blog!I have a few questions regarding commercial print modeling:ReplyDelete
1. Can one make a decent living working as a commercial print model or do you advise someone to do it part time? Like is the pay good? I was thinking of pursuing it as a career
2. Is it true that it pays more than high fashion modeling?
3. What is it like for black women in the commercial print modeling scene? Are jobs harder to come by for them? How frequently does one get jobs?
4. I have never done commercial print modeling and I am currently 21 with no experience, is it too late to start?
5. What kind of agencies are best to try and apply to be a commercial print model? Because I know that some agencies deal with both high fashion and commercial print (even the big ones like Ford if I am not mistaken), so should I apply into these, or should I simply go for ones that focus mainly on commercial print?
6. How do I go about applying to an agency to become a commercial print modeling job? Do I need to send professionally done photos to agencies?
7. What are the requirements to be a commercial print model?
8. Finally, what are (in your opinion) the pros and cons of being a commercial print model?
Thank you and forgive me for the long list of question :) am just really lost lol
@ Lily, I pretty much answered all of your questions in my upcoming post.ReplyDelete

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Recently I got an opportunity to get away from the city to a really secluded tree house. Me and my wife were celebrating our wedding anniversary. Even at the risk of inviting her chagrin, I stole some time to try something with light painting. The result- Photograph that I like to call 'Love Painting'. Well this photo allowed me to convince my wifey that I was doing this as a tribute to her.
The sharp darkness of the surrounding landscape provided the best setting for this photo. Of course it had its own challenges. Marking the boundary/frame for my photo was the difficult task that I had to start with. However I switched on some lights to make my measurements for my frame. Following are the equipments I used:
- My Cannon 550D
- Benro Tripod
- Cannon RC-6 Remote Control
- Flashlight
- Some imagination
As explained in the earlier post, light painting requires one to activate manual focus on the lens. For this photo, I have used Bulb Mode to allow me to control the shutter speed that I want to complete my photograph. Here the remote comes very handy. It eliminates the need to press the click button thus getting rid of any shake to the camera. Once the shutter was open, I drew my painting and stood in a position so as to appear adjacent to the painting. My wife threw light on me for 4-5 seconds. She then switched the flashlight off and we exchanged places. She stood left relative to my position. I then illuminated her for 4-5 seconds before I closed the shutter with the remote. So even though it appears that we are facing each other and having a good laugh, we were'nt standing there together. This technique is called Multiple Exposure.
For those who are technically inclined- Shutter- 39s, f/5 & ISO 200. Well Multiple Exposure is the next topic of interest for me and I will share some learnings with you.
Happy Clicking!


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Performs a variety of working level, technical law enforcement duties related to enforcing the laws,
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A. Graduation from high school or Equivalent and Wyoming P.O.S.T;
B. Six months (6 mo.) experience as a police officer;
C. An equivalent combination of education and experience.
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The Town of Guernsey is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE)


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Gordon Buchanan on The Polar Bear Family and Me
"The aim wasn't to have this terrifying encounter but to see these animals up close doing what they naturally do"
Wildlife film-maker Gordon Buchanan's perspex filming pod is being well and truly shaken – and he's certainly stirred. He knows the portable hide – dubbed an ice cube – is bullet proof, but bear proof? "If I had come a cropper it would have looked ridiculously reckless, but I wouldn't have got into it without being absolutely confident that a polar bear couldn't also get in."
Buchanan and his team used the pod to record polar bears at the closest of quarters for his new three-part series, filmed in the Norweigian Arctic last summer.. This particular encounter with a curious and hungry female lasted a decidedly nervy 40 minutes.
"The aim wasn't to have this terrifying encounter but to see these animals up close doing what they naturally do. This female could smell me inside and decided to investigate. She was pushing it very hard and at one stage came very close to pushing it over. That would have been a problem because on the underside there was just a bit of plywood. It was very disconcerting!"
The Polar Bear Family and Me is on tonight, Tuesday and Thursday at 9:30pm on BBC2


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One for the money, two for the show, three to the genre worlds, four to…….wait a minute.
Before I begin, those of you who have been around this blog for a while, know my review policy. For those of you who don't, or who haven't been around long enough, the short and sweet is; I will never give a book or movie five stars. It defeats the purpose of a review. How annoying is it to go into Amazon and see a five star review consisting of OH MY GOD THIS THING IS AWESOME (insert your own choice of spelling here). Conversely, one star reviews amount to the same thing. So, my rating system ranges from 1.5 to 4.5 with 4.5 being the highest I will ever give something.
And now you know.
Pilots are hard. They're the thing which will get people interested or leave them uninspired. I won't say make or break because it takes at least three episodes for me to decide if I want to keep going with something.
That being said, Genrenauts: The Shootout Solution was not too shabby for a pilot episode. Michael Underwood is a talented writer. Not many people can take a concept like Genrenauts and bring it to fruition.
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Leah Tang just died on stage. Well, not literally. Not yet.
Leah's stand-up career isn't going well. But she understands the power of fiction, and when she's offered employment with the mysterious Genrenauts Foundation, she soon discovers that literally dying on stage is a hazard of the job!
Her first assignment takes her to a Western world. When a cowboy tale slips off its rails, and the outlaws start to win, it's up to Leah – and the Genrenauts team – to nudge the story back on track and prevent a catastrophe on Earth.
But the story's hero isn't interested in winning, and the safety of Earth hangs in the balance…
I came to this series with mixed excitement and trepidation. Genrenauts sounded a really cool idea, but I've been burned by cool sounding ideas before. Happily, I was not disappointed. Genrenauts is a fun story with a strong backbone. The characters are well defined and are interesting. As I've said, the concept is enjoyable; different worlds all based on story genres. When something goes wrong in the story, there are repercussions felt on earth. I find myself hoping, as the series goes on, the rifts in the genre worlds get bigger and bigger with potentially cataclysmic results for the rest of us poor saps ignorant of the world's existences.
The framework is familiar, and has a Leverage or even 24 feel, where there is a secret organization funded by shadowy people who may or may not be shady who gathers a team to go out and save the world from a threat to home, hearth, and internet cat videos everywhere. The characters themselves could be plucked from action/adventure/thriller television serials and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. Genrenauts is the fun kind of brain candy you go to favorite television series for. They're familiar and ridiculously enjoyable.
There are a few things I picked up on whilst reading, however. The quickness by which I was thumbing through the pages was a bit of a bummer. I would have liked to stay in the story a bit longer, gotten more of an immersion in the Western World. Ultimately, of course, this is a novella so it is going to be a quick read, but throughout I found I really wanted to see more of the genre (tropes and all) come to life. There's so much Michael Underwood can do with these genre worlds, so much he can expand on and poke fun at, it was a shame the Western World wasn't built up before the story ended.
Michael Underwood has a knack for inclusive characters and pop culture references. It's refreshing to see an author write strong characters from every walk of life and have no problems with sticking them into a story. There isn't that sense of 'token-ism' or self-consciousness found when many authors try to write out of their comfort zone. In Genrenauts, the characters are fun and well done. Characters are at their best when you can feel right along with them. Leah's 'death on stage' was painful to read. I winced throughout. Bad is an understatement. If I have any criticism, it's the pop culture references seemed forced at times, the dialogue stilted and trying too hard when it didn't need to.
Genrenauts is a great story. A fun, quick read when you find yourself with a moment and a need to pass the time. If it were a television show, I'd be tuning in every week to see which world came next and what happened in it. As it is, I'll have to wait for the next book to get my fix. Something I'm more than happy to do.
Genrenauts: The Shootout Solution is available where books and ebooks are sold.


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Children's Grief Awareness Day will be commemorated nationally on November 20, 2014. This important day of recognition is designed to help raise awareness of the needs of grieving children and of the benefits they obtain through the support of others.
Comfort Zone Camp will help bring awareness to the issue of children's grief through its inaugural Children's Grief Relief Week from Nov. 17-21, 2014. The Comfort Zone commemoration will take place through a variety of programs and outreach opportunities to educate the community on how they can support children who have suffered a death in their family.
"Children's Grief Awareness Day is designed to help people become more aware of the needs of grieving children," said Mary Beth McIntire, CEO of Comfort Zone. "We are taking the national awareness day a step further by connecting the community directly with resources for grieving children. We know that children grieve in their own way, and often grieve silently. Parents, teachers and caregivers may not be aware of the many resources that are available to help children through this difficult journey."
Here is a list of daily activities available to the public during Children's Grief Relief Week:
Monday, November 17: Good Reads for Grief
Many excellent books are available that address the topic of childhood grief. Comfort Zone has selected the best of these and invites participants to provide one of these books to a school's resource library or to a grieving family or child.
Tuesday, November 18: Grief Relief Tool Kit
Comfort Zone Camp takes this day to connect the public with resources for children's grief through a Grief Relief online tool kit. This includes its website Hello Grief (www.hellogrief.org) that gives families the opportunity to connect with one another online in grief forums.
Wednesday, November 19: Wear Your Support Day
Today is the opening of a temporary Comfort Zone Camp online store with several new items. An even bigger store will be coming in 2015!
Thursday, November 20: Wear Blue Day
Join millions of others across the country who will wear blue as part of Children's Grief Awareness Day. Take it a step further by wearing blue and posting a video on Comfort Zone's Facebook Event page in memory of a loved one. You can print out the photo below and fill out your state name in the blank #CZC______.
Friday, November 21: Good Grief Day
Grief never feels good, but good does come from getting involved. There are many ways to do this, and today is the day to make a commitment to support children's grief. Sign up for a volunteer training session in 2015. Make a donation that will help continue to keep camps free of charge to campers and their families.
About National Children's Grief Awareness Day
Children's Grief Awareness Day takes place on November 20, 2014 and is designed to help people become more aware of the needs of grieving children — and of the benefits they obtain through the support of others. Children's Grief Awareness Day is an opportunity to make sure that grieving children receive the support they need. For more information, visit www.childrensgriefawarenessday.org.
About Comfort Zone Camp:
Comfort Zone Camp provides children who have experienced the death of a parent or sibling with professional therapeutic services, peer and mentor support, and healthy coping skills. Programs are held year-round in locations throughout the United States. Comfort Zone also serves the greater community through HelloGrief.org (an online grief support community), the annual Grief Summit (griefsummit.org), and family support groups. For more information, visit www.comfortzonecamp.org.


text: In 1921, Kandinsky was invited to go to Germany to attend the Bauhaus of Weimar by its founder, architect Walter Gropius. In his Bauhaus period (1922-1933) geometrical elements took on increasing importance in both his teaching and painting-particularly the circle, half-circle, the angle, straight lines and curves. This period was intensely productive. From 1925 to 1927 he emphasized circles in his paintings.


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While other parts of the country sweat on big-ticket issues such as the lingering effect of the GFC, the impact of this year's natural disasters and whether planned resource investments will come good, Canberra's sticking to a familiar script of stable growth backed by strong economic fundamentals.
"Canberra's not a bad market now," says APM senior economist Andrew Wilson. "There's a shortage of supply and a competitive job market, and that could cause further price growth."
The Access Economics Business Outlook report agrees that Canberra's jobs market is strong, and that the huge demand for property in the ACT has led to an "astonishing" upswing in housing construction.
"The surge in housing construction saw new home starts almost reach their early 1990s peak. This burst of activity hasn't yet run its course as improved land release eats its way through pent-up demand for housing. Consumer spending is looking solid, while population growth has matched the national rate for the first time in a while. Also, job gains have been excellent," the report says.
Canberra's improved levels of land release have led many investors to snap up new opportunities in planned residential developments, says Real Estate Institute of ACT president Michael Wellsmore.
"Seventy per cent of these multi-unit projects are going to investors. The newest areas are Crace, Casey, West Macgregor, Forde and the newer area of Bonner. They're all doing well. There's very little that's not sold when finished."
Wellsmore also advises investors to keep an eye on the new town centre at Gungahlin, but especially the recent land release area of Molonglo.
"That's a new area which is close to major arterial roads, services and hospitals, so it'll be an area to focus on," he says.
Wellsmore says another issue of interest to investors this year is the conclusion of a local government review into zoning legislation. Change of use charges have made it costly to redevelop existing stock, but the results of the review could see a flurry of investor activity in the inner city.
"If you have a single block of land and you want to make it into multiple units by joining a number of blocks together, then there is a change of use charge. That has been going through a review since March 2010," he says. "I'd suggest people keep an eye on the inner-north and inner-south areas. The demand is going to be higher, but the product availability is going to be less because of the changes that the government is going through."
Despite this upbeat outlook and assessment of the Canberra property market, John Edwards, CEO and founder of Residex, remains cautious.
"I think it's in oversupply, perhaps by about 4,000 houses. Affordability isn't dreadful, but it's not good. It's certainly better than Melbourne and Sydney. The medium density unit market has stabilised, but perhaps a correction is occurring with houses."
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Growing up on the South Side of Chicago my mother was a piano player and taught music in the Chicago Public Schools for thirty five years. Records were always playing in our home, which sparked my love of music. When I was five years old my mother gave me a small guitar and a pair of bongos. I would spend most of my youth exploring them as well as a series of African thumb pianos. In my early teens I studied drums with Fred White (Earth Wind and Fire) and Famoudou Don Moye (Art Ensemble Of Chicago) and began playing in the Chicago Blues Clubs. Bassist J.W. Williams gave me my first blues gig as the drummer with his band "The Chi-Town Hustlers". Over the next several years I would play with the late Valerie Wellington, Carlos Johnson, the late Lefty Dizz and Buddy Guy.
I met the late Frankie Knuckles in the early 1980's. We were both members of the Imports Etc. Record Pool. Frankie taught me how to splice tape to make remixes. My love of dance music was born.
While attending the American Conservatory of Music I met Midawo Gideon Foli Alorwoyie, a master drummer from Accra, Ghana. Gideon introduced me to the Talking Drum. I also joined his group "The African American Unity Ensemble". While performing with the ensemble I met the late Abubakari Lunna, a master drummer from Dagbon Ghana and a direct descendant of the creators of the "Luna" or "Ghana Talking Drum".
Gideon and Abu exposed me to a world of rhythmic and melodic possibilities and inspired me to form my own ensemble "Rhythm Testament," to explore the rhythms of my ancestors and incorporate them with modern instrumentation.
Over the years I have performed professionally in a wide variety of musical situations with various artists including:
Talking Drum Master Rasaki Aladokun (King Sunny Ade), Ethiopian Vocalist Ejigayehu "Gigi" Shibabaw, The late Pianist & Vocalist Ann Ward, Guitarist Jean Paul Bourelly, Saxophonist Ari Brown, Organist Reuben Wilson, The late Norman Hedman, The late Screaming Jay Hawkins, N' Dea Davenport of the "Brand New Heavies", Nona Hendricks, Will Downing, Gerald Albright, George Clinton, Me' Shell Ndege'ocello, The Indigo Girls, Sinead O'Connor, Natalie Merchant, Talib Kweli & Amel Larrieux.
Kalimba Master
In 1976, I was in a store when an object with metal keys first caught my attention. It was hand-held with different length metal keys. I inquired and was told it was an Mbira. I pushed down on the keys and my world changed instantly. The Mbira or commonly called the "African thumb piano", became a major part of my life. Istarted playing and making the Mbira as if I had known it all my life. I entered medical school the fall of that same year, thus my marriage of music and medicine was formed.
Captivated by the sound of the Mbira, I used gourds as resonating chambers to amplify the sound quality of my instruments. Myself, along with my partner I AM Wright started selling them at art fairs throughout the Midwest and shortly thereafter orders started to really come in, and the business "Mbira Makers" was born. I finished medical school in 1980 and immediately upon graduation with four other partners opened the Fine Arts Naprapathic Center in Downtown Chicago. Using Music and Art as a major healing component in health, we thrived on Michigan Avenue, holding major Art Gallery Showings and Music Therapy Venues.
During this period I connected with master musicians the late Light Henry Huff and Khalfani Rivers forming the Sound Therapy Research Ensemble. Sound Therapy sessions were conceived by healing artist within the ensemble on November 12, 1984. We used mediation, yoga. tai-chi, and dance therapy, all asmethods of bringing this unity into focus. Until his transition, the late Light Henry Huff led Sound Therapy Research Ensemble into ground breaking musical experiences. Our Meditation at Sunrise series became so popular it was featured on Warner Sanders CBS program SOMEONE YOU SHOULD KNOW.
Meditation has been an integral part of my life since the early 1970's so having a way to use music to go into centering my minds-eye has been a very useful tool. Using two of Africa's most ancient instruments, the Mbira and Kalimba, we have created sound vibrations to carry you in your upward journey toward resonance with all of life. Sound has been used throughout man's journey to elevate, soothe, comfort, excite, and harmonize. In collaboration with Rhythm Testament's founder Mr. Carlos Pride, we have crafted Mbira and Kalimba sounds in our first recording together. Meditate upon this.
The African talking drum over crescent moons and a handmade iron drum key are the symbols for the Rhythm Testament logo.
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If you're in Texas, then you may have heard about this recent arrest of 15 people accused of participating in drug distribution circles. According to an article from Dec. 10, the people all face federal drug distribution and conspiracy charges following an investigation at a dance club in Dallas.
The club, Eternal Eden Afterhours, is an 18-and-older club. The Dallas Police Department reported that it started investigating the club in the summer of 2014, and the authorities claim there has been at least one drug-related death linked to the club itself. Of the 15 people who have just been accused, 12 were arrested in Northern Texas near and in the club. Three others are still at large, according to police.
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Airport Executive Director, Mr Tom Snow, said the decision to recycle water was an important environmental initiative that will significantly reduce the Airport's use of fresh town water and, as a result, help preserve the ACT's scarce water supplies.
The environmental savings are significant. For example, the cost to recycle water is less than a quarter of the cost of mains water.
"We calculate that around 100,000 litres of water will be recycled across the Airport every day," Mr Snow said. "This means that water consumption in Airport buildings will drop from 15 to 20 litres per person per day to 5 litres per person per day."
Recycled water will be re-used in cooling towers and toilet flushing, which are major consumers of water and in watering gardens. It will not be used for drinking. The Airport will continue to draw on town water for drinking and showering. "Recycling our waste water means the Airport and its Business Park will be using considerably less than half the supply of fresh town water than commercial developments of a similar size,' he said.
The Airport will use two state of the art systems developed by Australian company, Clearwater Technology, to recycle its wastewater. The Aquacell Water System uses a three-phase filtration method to recycle wastewater:
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- Phase three acts as an added safeguard, subjecting the water to high intensity ultra-violet light. This provides protection against possible bacteria re-growth and produces chemical free sterile water.
The Aquacell Water System is the first of its kind to be installed in a commercial setting in the ACT and will cost the Airport around AUD1.2 million to establish, Mr Snow said. "The decision to embrace water recycling is another step in a very deliberate policy to become Australia's greenest Airport. Over and above the financial benefits that this technology will deliver to the Airport, the contribution it will make to sustainability in the ACT is priceless and cannot be overstated because it will significantly reduce our consumption of town water at a time when we need every precious drop," Mr Snow said.


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For us paleoites, ghee is pretty much accepted across the board. Even whole30 draws the line just before ghee because it's a really sad life without the flavour of butter. Ghee is clarified butter which is simmered to that you can separate the liquid from the milk solids. You can make it yourself or you can calm down and find it at any health food store. It's important to note that you should find grass fed ghee. Yeah, it costs more but are you here for coupons or for healthy recipes?
3 egg yolks
2 tbsp ghee
1 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cayenne powder
(I shouldn't have to say this but the instructions are very important for this one so follow carefully)
In a medium stainless steel mixing bowl, whisk yolks, lemon, salt and cayenne vigorously until it becomes thicker.
In a measuring cup, melt the ghee until it is completely liquid.
Place stainless steel mixing bowl overtop of a medium size pot with about 1″ of water simmering in the bottom. You're lightly warming the yolks using only the steam from below, being careful not to cook them. While whisking, add the ghee to your yolks 1 tbsp at a time until combined.
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The Royals lost 24-year-old outfielder Jorge Bonifacio for half the season on an 80-game PED suspension.
Bonifacio plummets from No. 101 in our outfielder rankings to 142 as his projections are reduced to .249 BA, 24 R, 8 HR, 27 RBIs, 1 SB in 231 PA.
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Create cap and trade system with interim goals to reduce global warming
"Will set a hard cap on all carbon emissions at a level that scientists say is necessary to curb global warming - an 80% reduction by 2050. To ensure this isn't just talk, I will also commit to interim targets toward this goal in 2020, 2030, and 2040. These reductions will start immediately, and we'll continue to follow the recommendations of top scientists to ensure that our targets are strong enough to meet the challenge we face."
Obama abandons cap and trade as Republicans take over the House
The last time we checked in on cap and trade, its prospects didn't look good. The legislation had passed in the House in 2009, but had not been taken up in the Senate. And last week, President Barack Obama himself acknowledged the proposal was doomed.
What is cap and trade? The idea is that the government sets a limit (the cap) on how much carbon different companies can emit. The government then issues permits to companies -- typically electric utilities and manufacturers --and allows them to buy and sell the permits as needed (the trade). If the policy works as planned, overall emissions decline, companies determine for themselves the best way to lower emissions, and the free market rewards those who lower emissions most effectively.
Republicans, however, attacked the plan as a job-killing energy tax, a description that is not entirely accurate. The plan never made it to a vote in the Senate.
Last week, Republicans won elections across the country, increasing their presence in the Senate and winning the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. At a press conference the next day, Obama acknowledged a changed political landscape while holding out hope for other issues.
"I think there are a lot of Republicans that ran against the energy bill that passed in the House last year," he said. "And so it's doubtful that you could get the votes to pass that through the House this year or next year or the year after. But that doesn't mean there isn't agreement that we should have a better energy policy. And so let's find those areas where we can agree."
"Cap and trade was just one way of skinning the cat; it was not the only way," he said later. "It was a means, not an end. And I'm going to be looking for other means to address this problem."
Obama may make headway on some of his other promises on energy and the environment, but it's clear he's giving up on this one because it can't make it through Congress. We rate it Promise Broken.
The White House, Press Conference by the President, Nov. 3, 2010
The Washington Post, Elections alter climate and energy landscape, Nov. 4, 2010
Cap and trade will have to wait, say Senate leaders
We last reported on President Obama's campaign pledge to implement a cap and trade system in January 2010. At the time, we rated the promise In the Works, since the House had passed a comprehensive energy bill in June 2009. Meanwhile, in the Senate, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., released their own version of a cap-and-trade bill in May of this year.
It's been awhile since our last update, so we wanted to see how things have been unfolding.
Turns out, things have not been going so well in the Senate. On July 22, 2010, the Democratic leader Harry Reid told reporters that Democrats "don"t have the votes" to pass a comprehensive bill that would put caps on greenhouse gas emissions. Instead, Reid said that he will introduce a bill to reform the regulatory process for gas and oil drilling, provide incentives for production and purchase of natural-gas fueled vehicles, and possibly lift the liability cap for companies that cause oil spills. Still, even these scaled-down provisions are facing opposition from political and industry groups.
Reid said that the leadership had to shelve the cap-and-trade bill -- which would set limits on carbon emissions -- because of Republican opposition, though Robert Dillon, a spokesman for Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-AK, said that even Reid's own party does not unanimously support the measure. Kerry and Lieberman are hopeful that they can continue to work in September on a proposal to cut emissions from electric companies, but Democratic Policy Committee Chairman Byron Dorgan said that he doesn't think that there will be time for "two energy packages on the floor this year."
We'll keep our eyes open to see what happens in September, but for now, it's clear that cap-and-trade will have to wait. We change the rating to Stalled.
The Wall Street Journal, Senate Shelves Efforts to Cap Carbon Emissions, by Stephen Power, July 22, 2010
Bloomberg Businessweek, Senate Democrats Drop Carbon Caps From Energy Bill, Reid Says, July 22, 2010
Politico, Democrats pull plug on climate bill, by Darren Samuelsohn and Coral Davenport, July 22, 2010
Congress debates cap-and-trade in fits and starts
It's been a while since we updated President Barack Obama's promise to create a cap-and-trade system -- and there's a lot to report.
After Obama included the concept in his budget, House heavyweights Henry Waxman of California and Edward Markey of Massachusetts introduced legislation that would lower carbon pollution by 17 percent by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050. Under their plan, most pollution permits initially would be given out free. But eventually, companies would have to buy those permits from the government.
The House passed the legislation 219-212 on June 26, 2009.
In the Senate, things got a little more dramatic. Sens. John Kerry of Massachusetts and Barabara Boxer of California did not introduce their cap-and-trade bill until late September. Nevertheless, the legislation was incomplete; a big part of the bill language were omitted, leaving lots of room for negotiation. About a month later, Boxer released more details on her bill and pushed forward on debate despite objections from Republicans. Recognizing the legislation had no legs without GOP support, Kerry backed away from the bill and joined Republican Lindsay Graham and independent Joe Lieberman to draft a bipartisan version.
The idea, of course, was to have a bill passed in time for the landmark climate change meeting in Copenhagen, where world leaders were supposed to hash out an agreement to lower global greenhouse gas emissions. After two weeks of haggling, the final accord turned out to be only a statement of intention to take action on climate change. Without a binding treaty, some of the steam has been taken out of the domestic climate change debate.
And then there's health care, an issue that has overshadowed nearly everything else Congress has tried to tackle this year. Lawmakers plan to take up the massive health system overhaul again once Congress is back in session. After that, they'll turn back to cap-and-trade, with Senate leaders likely cobbling together the final version of the upper chamber's climate bill.
Clearly, this promise is still In the Works; cap-and-trade represents a major change, so we wouldn't expect this pledge to be fulfilled overnight. For now, we'll follow the issue closely and offer updates throughout 2010.
The New York Times, A Grudging Accord in Climate Talks, by Andrew C. Revkin and John M. Broder, Dec. 19, 2009
CQ Weekly, 2009 Legislative Summary: Climate Change Mitigation, by Coral Davenport, Jan. 4, 2010
Cap-and-trade is in the budget
Barack Obama said during the campaign he would attack global warming by setting up a cap-and-trade system.
The idea behind cap-and-trade is that the government sets a limit on how much carbon different companies, such as electric utilities or manufacturers, can emit (the cap). The government then issues permits to companies and allows them to buy and sell the permits as needed so they can conduct business (the trade). If the policy works as planned, overall emissions decline, companies determine for themselves the best way to lower emissions, and the free market rewards those who lower emissions most effectively.
When President Obama released his budget on Feb. 26, 2009, he included the cap-and-trade system as part of his plans. The initiative would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, compared with 2005 levels, by about 14 percent by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050.
The policy would result in "dramatically reduced acid rain at much lower costs than the traditional government regulations and mandates of the past," said Obama's budget outline.
Obama also hopes the program will generate revenues for the government of about $150 billion over 10 years, starting in 2012. That money will go to paying for some of Obama's other initiatives, including helping communities transition to a green economy, according to the budget outline.
Republicans say the cap-and-trade system will result in higher electricity rates and higher prices for consumers. Those increases are a de facto energy tax, they argue.
Obama's budget director, Peter Orszag, said electricity costs may go up but most Americans would see other benefits to offset the higher costs.
"I just reject the theory that the only thing that drives economic performance is the marginal tax rate on wealthy Americans and the only way of being promarket is to funnel billions and billions of dollars of subsidies to corporations," Orszag said in an interview.
So cap-and-trade is in the budget outline. Orszag's remarks signal that the Obama administration intends to aggressively defend the plan in the face of opposition. We move this promise to In the Works.
Office of Budget and Management, Budget Documents for Fiscal Year 2010 , accessed Feb. 26, 2009
This Week with George Stephanopolous, Interview with Peter Orszag , March 1, 2009


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MFA Rankings = A Whole Lot of BSPosted: October 28, 2013 Filed under: General Musings on Life, Too Cheap to Get an MFA | Tags: art schools, artists, fine art, grad schools, Master of Fine Arts, masters, MFA, rankings, school reputations, US News 5 Comments
Been researching more MFA programs lately, and attended the SFAI Graduate Portfolio Day yesterday. A few observations:
The view from SFAI is both beautiful and ominous. Symbolic in many ways.
1. Researching MFA programs and MFA prospects is inherently depressing. But I was given great feedback on my portfolio, particularly by Scott Hess, from Laguna College of Art + Design, Yolanda Hester from Art Center College of Design, and SFAI. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
2. I met this 20-year old girl from Fresno who had a solid graphic design portfolio, who wanted to learn more about MFA programs but was totally shut down and discouraged by CalArts and Art Center. I told her she's already ahead of the game by just showing up and putting herself out there, because most artists find excuses not to show up (for a myriad of absurd reasons). This appeared to make her feel better, but it brings me to this point: Art Schools, you are not doing anyone justice by being jerks. Your role is to educate and help. Quit being snobs.
3. Why is US News.com still considered a reliable source for school rankings? Their ranking methodology looks largely like a whole lot of bullshit: http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/articles/2013/03/11/methodology-best-fine-arts-schools-rankings
"Schools in the specialty rankings, which are based solely on nominations from school officials, are numerically ranked in descending order based on the number of nominations they received as long as the school/program received seven or more nominations in that specialty area."
….Um, Are you kidding me?
Too Big to JailPosted: February 20, 2013 Filed under: Getting Better, Inspirations, Too Cheap to Get an MFA | Tags: Art, Capitalism, editorial illustration, financial crisis, greed, illustration, political art, political commentary, political illustrations, politics, too big to fail, too big to jail Leave a comment
Since http://cindyshih.posterous.com/ is shutting down for good at the end of April, I guess I should start posting everything here. Not sure why I didn't before, but so it goes…
Cool Story. So, I was feeling a bit under the weather on Monday when I finished up my latest illustration piece on an article from The Nation titled, "Why Don't White Collar Criminals Get Equal Time?" By William Greider. When I don't feel quite finished yet, I sometimes post to Instagram first- which led to THE MOST AMAZING THING: Lil Wayne the Rapper liking my post!!
Honestly, I think the whole thing is quite hilarious- considering it's probably one of his many publicists managing his instagram account, but just in case- I told him to contact me if he ever wanted me to do an album cover for him. The offer still stands, Lil Wayne! (E-M-A-I-L-M-E)
But here's the finished product, which I added to a mock-up of the layout of the article, just to make it look all professional-like. The piece is supposed to be a bit vague but interesting enough to make someone want to read the otherwise boring article. I purposefully chose green on an off-white background to imitate the look and feel of money, and used imagery from the dollar bill along with the invisible hands of Capitalism framing and protecting those within it. The text reads in Latin, "Quoque Magnus Ad Carcerem" a translation of "Too Big To Jail."
I'm Getting Better At This Artist Thing.Posted: October 8, 2012 Filed under: General Musings on Life, Getting Better, Too Cheap to Get an MFA | Tags: Art, Capitalism, defining value, Getting better at your craft, MFA, personal MFA, self taught, WSJ 2 Comments
Hey Friendly Friends, I haven't said nuthin' on this chat lately because I've been busy with making stuff. It's part of the pursuit to getting my personal MFA. So if anyone asks me where I got my Art Degree, I can probably just point to this URL.
Anyway. I've been thinking some more on the topic of "Fine Art and it's Relevancy to the Real World," and I still have a lot of mixed emotions when it comes to understanding this crazy industry. In spirit of not writing an entire novel about this and relating to my audience, here are a few things I've discovered in my short period of "being an artist" in bullet points:
- People like Artists, and they like Art, but they don't know what to do with it. Like, Dude…Art? "Is there an App for that?"
- Technology represents an unsurmountable obstacle to most artists, and it's often represented as a magic bullet (especially in the Bay Area) but it's really more of a tool to get from point A to B
- Capitalism = Trade, Trade = Rewards Technicians (Not lofty academics)
- Fine Art is perceived to have gone the way of lofty academics. There's "chicken and egg" situation here: Artists revert to framing their work in a lofty, academic way because they often can't find an application for it in society that admittedly hasn't really found a use for it.
- As Art relates to Money: Value is dictated by expertise in our society. "Expertise in Art" is subjective and undefined.
A friend shared this article with me from WSJ this morning, which touches on a few points I've made above in further detail. (Thanks, Kevin Palmer!) This quote in the article struck me specifically:
"Thus we live in a strange and contradictory culture, where the most talented college students are ideologically indoctrinated with contempt for the economic system that made their freedom, comforts and privileges possible."
I find this to be true, during my time at Google, as well as now in the Art world… that what others perceive as "entitlement" in our generation might really be an actual awareness of how archaic and irrelevant our education has become in the current economic system. I mean, I've worked with 22-year olds who speak four languages fluently, created non-profits across the world, *and* was an internationally re-known chess player whose only real 'value' in our society is approving online ads and answering calls for the world's most successful tech company.
This certainly opens up another can of worms, and perhaps speaks to an age-old problem that goes beyond our generation, or even our society– but in Art, I feel that the disconnect is even more profound. Going back to my bullet points above, I think there are two points that provide some hope to the future of Fine Art:
- Capitalism = Trade, Trade = Rewards Technicians
- Value is dictated by expertise in our society. "Expertise in Art" is subjective and undefined
Here's where I want to clarify that this is not a knock on Capitalism. I, for one, enjoy the benefits of capitalism. It certainly has its problems, but I'm pretty sure as a young, minority woman, I am doing much better here, than I would be in another country.
In any case, I'll be the first to admit I don't have all the answers to this quite yet. But I'm happy to have typed this all out and looked at it, so that I can remind myself what my goals are in my pursuit to "becoming a real artist," and what it means for me. What it means for me is that I will be:
- Getting better at my Craft: That means, taking as many relevant classes and learning as many skills/materials/tools/techniques as humanly possible.
- Defining what Art is for me, and how it provides Value to others
Oh, and if you're free this Friday, October 12th, please come over to Big Umbrella Studios in San Francisco (Divisadero and McAllister) for the "From the Darkness Creeps" show.
My work will also be featured in "Provocations" by RAWArtists.org on Thursday, October 25th. http://www.rawartists.org/sanfrancisco/provocations This show should be a ton of fun… it's at 1015 Folsom, and there will a fashion show, aerial and burlesque dancers, a bar, DJs, etc. For all my Facebook peeps, here's the FB invite.
My work will also be up at 33 Gough from October 9th (tomorrow) to November 27th. It will also likely be at the College Gallery at City College on the Ocean Campus, from October 22nd to November 5th.
Sorry for the shameless plugs, but I figured if you read this far you're somewhat invested. Thanks for being awesome. Time to go back to the studio and get BUSY.
If I had a dollar for every Still Life I've painted…Posted: August 31, 2012 Filed under: Getting Better, Too Cheap to Get an MFA Leave a comment
I would probably be making more money Painting. 🙂
It's been awhile since I've bust out the oils, so I wasn't sure if I should start from the beginning, or stay in an intermediate class. In hindsight, I'm glad I'm in the intermediate class now, because the beginning class has already painted an orange, two green apples, and is graduating to painting a mug on a white background. I think I'd poke my eyes out with a palette knife if I had to do that again, so instead… I painted my ode to a garlic. It's a color study, as well as a warm-up to oils. I'm excited to start working with oils again.
Good Friday Brings Good News!Posted: April 6, 2012 Filed under: Getting Better, Too Cheap to Get an MFA Leave a comment
I forgot to mention in my Zoolander-like pensiveness on my earlier post, that my work is currently up in a group show in Building B at Fort Mason in San Francisco.
Also, I just received news that I'll have a solo exhibit at the gallery on 33 Gough in October this year. Here are some other exhibits happening at this 33 Gough now.
Probably won't have details until later, but happy to share the news!
Comparing the Top MFA Programs: Yale School of ArtPosted: March 17, 2012 Filed under: Art Resources, Getting Better, Too Cheap to Get an MFA 1 Comment
Yale School of Art (http://art.yale.edu)
Yale School of Art is arguably the most elite of art schools, and one that would make any gallery drop what they're doing and check out your porfolio. According to a 2003 survey "of deans and department chairs, one per school, at 213 master of fine arts programs" conducted by U.S. News & World Report, the School shares a number one ranking with the Rhode Island School of Design and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for Masters of Fine Arts programs. Notable alumni (at least, the ones that I know) are household name artists such as Matthew Barney, Eva Hesse, Chuck Close, Richard Serra, etc. Apparently, only 21 applicants a year are admitted to the painting program.
Here's what you would need to apply to the art school:
Portfolio Requirements (http://art.yale.edu/Admissions)
Portfolios are submitted online as part of the online application. The portfolio submission interface will allow you to label each image with a title, a date of completion, the materials used, and a brief description of the work. Digital files must adhere strictly to the specifications outlined below.
Portfolio Contents
Upload a total of sixteen (16) still images and/or moving image files. Only work completed within the last three years should be included, and at least half (8) should be work made in the last twelve months. In the review process, the admissions committee is concerned with scale and the tactility of the work. For this reason, paintings and drawings must be photographed showing the surrounding wall or background. Paintings and drawings must not be digitally masked in black to the edges of the work. Three-dimensional works should also show the surrounding space and context. Do not include detail photos of work in your portfolio unless you consider them absolutely necessary. Under no circumstance should more than two detail shots be included. If you are presenting both still and moving images, please present them in two groups with all still images followed by all moving images. Within these groups, all still and/ or moving image files should be in chronological order starting with the oldest and ending with the most recent work.
File format for still images
To conform to our viewing format, each still image file may be no larger than 16 MB. Do not format images in any presentation program (e.g., PowerPoint, Keynote), or include composite images (more than one work per file). Still image files may be sent in jpeg, png, bmp, or tiff format.
File format for videos and moving images
Videos will be accepted in QuickTime, AVI, FLV, MP4, or WMV format. Video files should be no longer than one minute in length, and the size of your video uploads is limited to 250 MB. Please note that videos are considered as part of your selection of sixteen files, not as additional material. Do not include titles or credits within the video files. If you are primarily a video artist and wish to submit a longer video, you may post it on your own website and provide that website link at the bottom of the portfolio page.


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The Local, Universal Master
Titian: His Life
Milan: Silvana, 287 pp., €34.00 (paper)
Writing an artist's biography has never been easy, for one of the most significant elements of any artistic life, the passage of an idea from eye to hand, is virtually indescribable. Furthermore, the pioneer of the form, the sixteenth-century Tuscan painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, struck such a brilliant balance between professional insight and juicy anecdote in his Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (first published in 1550, revised and reissued in 1568) that writing an artistic biography after him can seem like trying to write epic after Homer. Vasari took egregious liberties with his Lives, offering up generous helpings of moral advice, tricks of the trade (normally "draw, draw, draw"), outpourings of Tuscan patriotism, and disarming hero-worship of Michelangelo. In good sixteenth-century style, Vasari also felt free to make up the occasional story when he needed one to drive home his moral point, and if need be, to fabricate the story of a nonexistent painter.
Modern biographers, on the other hand, are expected to stick to the facts. Aside from writing with gossipy verve, Vasari was a thoroughly respectable painter and a superb architect; he knew what he was talking about when he talked about art, and he expressed himself with firsthand expertise as well as pungent wit. Only Vasari, perhaps, could have acknowledged so openly that one of the most important things to happen in the life of the painter Tiziano Vecellio—Titian to his English-speaking admirers—was not so much an event as a long-drawn-out development, a change in the way the artist handled paint itself:
The truth is, that the way he worked in these later pictures is very different from the way he worked as a young man. The first paintings are executed with a certain fineness and incredible diligence, and are made to be seen both up close and from a distance, but these last are created out of brushstrokes laid down coarsely, and with spots of paint, in such a way that up close they cannot be seen at all and from a distance they appear to be perfect…and this way of working is judicious, beautiful, and stupendous, because it makes the paintings look alive and created with great artistry, disguising all the labor involved.
Without that change in Titian's working method, without those abstract blobs that resolve themselves at a distance into images of startling precision, we would never have had Velázquez and Rubens, diplomats as well as painters.
Their diplomacy outlives them: at the same moment that Europe, the United States, and Russia have been rattling sabers over how to deal with the civil war in Syria, a peaceable exchange of Titian's paintings has been taking place between Italy, Britain, and St. Petersburg, creating quiet but powerful links between people and nations, links built and maintained in order…
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Registration for the British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference 2018 closes on 28th February. Visit the University of Manchester estore to register now (£30/£20 PhD/Masters).
This year's conference is hosted by the Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology at the University of Manchester, and will take place between the 4th and 6th April.
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We are grateful to our sponsors at the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS), the Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM), the North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership (AHRC), and the North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (ESRC) for helping us to keep registration fees low.
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Message from the Chairman of the Board
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The Assaria State Bank was purchased in 1989 and the Kanopolis State Bank, along with a branch in Ellsworth, were purchased in 1990. In 1994, an additional Salina location was added at 2860 S 9th St and Advantage Trust Company, a subsidiary of First Bank Kansas, was opened in 1997. Offices in McPherson and Abilene were opened in 1998 and 2005, respectively. In 2013, we closed the Assaria and Kanopolis locations due to significant declines in customer transactions and our ability to serve those customers at nearby locations. In 2014, we purchased additional locations in Salina, McPherson, Lindsborg, and Hutchinson.
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According to a new Gallup poll, recent college graduates are showing another sign of the end of the tuition bubble.
For now, nothing is likely to happen since a majority of students still agree that their college degree was worth the cost. But those who graduated since 2006 are far less likely to "strongly agree" that their education was worth it.
Gallup tells us,
Amid recent controversy over rising tuition and mounting student debt totals, half of college graduates in the U.S. (50%) "strongly agree" that their undergraduate education was worth the cost. This figure varies only slightly between alumni of public (52%) and private nonprofit (47%) universities, but drops sharply to 26% among graduates of private for-profit universities.
Recent graduates, those who have obtained their bachelor's degree beginning in 2006, are significantly less likely to strongly agree with this statement. Only 38% of recent alumni strongly agree their education was worth the cost.
The question, which is included in the new 2015 Gallup-Purdue Index study, is particularly relevant given the growing attention on the cost of higher education in the U.S. In November 2014, CNN captured the fervor over the issue with its documentary film Ivory Tower. The film cited some alarming statistics: Tuition has been rising at nearly three times the rate of inflation in recent years, and the total amount of outstanding student loan debt in the U.S. has grown to over $1.2 trillion. Presidential candidates from both major parties have already announced proposals for addressing the issue.
Already we find the number of students defaulting on their college debt is rising. This shows there is a limit to how much colleges can inflate their costs before they start hurting themselves. As they raise prices students are more likely to default on their loans. Along with that unsustainable trend, this report indicates the time will come when colleges are going to be forced to lower tuition rates rather than raise them.
At that point, nothing the government can do will perpetuate the bubble in tuition. The government-education industry will collapse.


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16 February 2011
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Saturday, August 30, 2008
Cliff explains English Angora to a couple who have never seen Angora prior to the Nevada State Fair.
Cliff judges French Angora while Lindsay and friend watching.
Cliff carefully examines the white French Angora while Lindsay looks on.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Poultry Show At Nevada State Fair
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Three Generations of Rabbit Breeders
Mary Jo started rabbits when her four children are in 4H. Uno is now a judge, received a master's degree, now working in a hospital lab and in the process of buying his own home. Suzanne is married with daughter Decara who one day will be a rabbit person; their family live in Salt Lake City and still raising rabbits. The other two, though no longer in rabbits, accomplished a lot when in 4 H, winning the Prince title in the 1993 convention in Tacoma.
Mary Jo is still in full force showing her top quality Havana.
The whole family, all three generations, will be driving together to the Louisville convention. Uno is the open and youth judge for Britania Petite at the convention.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Wiener Dog Race at Nevada State Fair
Start, go!
Come to mama, come to papa!!!
I am just 10 weeks old; do you like me?
Yes, I do. You are so cute!
I am waiting for my turn, I'm going to win.
I am going to win, you have no chance.
I am so bored, when is it my turn?
Give me something to eat!
We are the three musketeers!
The wiener dog race is one of the most popular events at the Nevada State Fair. There were over 100 dogs entered in the race; there were these short legged weiner dogs everywhere. Some were real racers but some others were totally clueless. It was very amusing to say the least.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Lindsay's French Angora Wins Reserve In Show
On Saturday, the only breed of Angora shown at the NV State Fair was French Angora. French Angora was very well represented. Lindsay's white senior doe was the all breed Reserve In Show winner. This is Lindsay's first Reserve In Show win; she is very excited. The top photo shows a very happy Lindsay with judge Ray.
Susan, a Reno local and a member of our guild, was also at the fair. Susan does not show much, she had fun at the fair showing her only French Angora and spending lots of time knitting.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Marie Wins Double All Breed Best In Show
In the show judged by Cliff Dick, Marie won Best In Show and the Reserve In Show went to Arian's Tan.
In Ray's Show, Marie won Best In Show and the Reserve In Show went to a Rhinelander.
The Reserve In Show Rhinelander is pictured with Ray. The same rabbit won Youth Best In Show on Saturday.
Nevada State Fair held one youth all breed show and one open all breed show on Saturday; then held two open all breed shows on Sunday.
Betty went to the shows on Sunday only. Her English Angora tort senior doe Marie won Best In Show in both of the open all breed shows. Reserve In Show went to two different rabbits: under Judge Ray, a Rhinelander got the prize; under judge Cliff, a Tan won the Reserve.
The same Rhinelander was the youth Best In Show under judge Cliff on Saturday. Lindsay won open Reserve In Show with her French Angora on Saturday, picture will be posted when available.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Rita Is Louisville Convention Secretary
Rita is the show secretary for the ARBA convention in Louisville this year.
It is not a secret in our area that Rita is the best show secretary; able, efficient, friendly and absolutely wonderful. Now the entire wonderful world of rabbits will know how good she is.
The Louisville convention will be a great convention.


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Tis' the Season!
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Additionally, The character of Santa Clause is loosely based off a real person—Saint Nicholas. (270-343 AD) Born near present-day Turkey, Nicholas was orphaned as a child but inherited a fortune, with which he used to help many people. He was known for secret gift giving and eventually became a bishop.
Interestingly, Thomas Nast "invented" the image popularly recognized as Santa Claus. Nast first drew Santa Claus for the 1862 Christmas season Harper's Weekly cover to memorialize the family sacrifices of the Union during the early and, for the north, darkest days of the Civil War. Nast's Santa appeared as a kindly figure representing Christmas, the holiday celebrating the birth of Christ. When Nast created his image of Santa Claus he was drawing on his native German tradition of Saint Nicholas, a fourth century bishop known for his kindness and generosity, and also decided to embellish St. Nicholas to give some light to a dark world.
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Saturday, November 17, 2007
stickertime > letterpress > muraltime!
it's been a bit of a glum week, but alas i'm on break now. i just pulled out this FUN...I think we're going paint an animal/shape escapade to liven up hazel's room. perhaps over thanksgiving break...!
Labels: --my makings--, art + craft, color, design + typography, out + about, plants + animals, play
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