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Radio has unquestionably been the most enduring of all mediums when it comes to the spoken word as well as music, and it seems that no matter how much technology has tried to dwarf the giants of the past, radio just keeps on rolling along. There is just something about not only the spoken word and the music, but also the sheer mystique of wondering who that voice on the other side of the radio really is, and what they look like. I can remember always being dumbfounded whenever I finally got to see a picture of one of the DJs I grew up listening to. Back in those days, they seemed to understand the importance of remaining anonymous and mysterious to the listeners, and it kept the people who were listening focused more on the thing that really mattered; the music!
I have of course done a lot of radio in my life, and the other day, NPR aired an interview that I did only a month ago, and it turned into a really nice hour-long piece they did on me that was almost a mini-biography, and also a retrospective of my musical career. What I enjoyed about how they put it together was the fact that it was not something to obviously promote anything….rather it was to educate the listeners about me and music in general. This "lack" of obvious promotion is probably the strongest suit that this radio interview had, and therefore, it actually served as a huge piece of promotion, which in the end helped promote my albums, my instruction, my career and Gibson too, since there was a great emphasis on Gibson guitars throughout the interview.
A wonderful thing they did was to surprise me in the studio with a guitar, on the air, that I had never seen before. This was a way of them getting some very off the cuff, honest "takes" on an instrument you meet for the first time, and to see and hear my reactions! As it turned out, the mystery guitar in the mystery case was a wonderful old Gibson J-45 acoustic that was all original, and that played like a dream! By that point, already being such a lover and supporter of Gibson acoustic guitars, I just could not hold back my enthusiasm for this wonderful guitar, and even though I said I was not going to play on the show, I ended up playing for an eternity with this wonderful instrument! The interviewer was excellent, and he knew just how to push the right buttons in me to get me to talk about many subjects (but that's never really too much of a problem!), and as you'll see, it was an hour well spent. I also really like how they edited in certain interesting things, such as a clip of Buddy Guy from one of the Hot Licks videos I did, as well as musical moments and segues from many of my albums! So pull up your chair and relax as we take a trip through radio-land! Hope you enjoy it!
There have been a lot of crazy, nutty things I have lived through on the road, but this one has to be at or certainly near the top of the list, for sure! It happened during my 1975 tour with John Prine (many crazy stories came from this tour!), and it happened after we had been on the road already for around 4 months straight, all residing in the same tour bus. It turned out that Prine's manager had leased the bus for the tour from a man named "Sam Sermons", kind of a strange name considering he toured around with this bus doing Gospel shows throughout the country……guess it was sort of a religious "stage" name, perhaps?
Anyway, we were in the midst of the tour and were in Austin, Texas. We were about to play that night in a downtown theater, but the weather was so brutal that hail had actually crashed through the roof of the place, rendering the place un-inhabitable for a concert. But, on top of all this nightmare, our manager gets a call first thing in the morning with a voice on the other line saying "look out your window, AL….your bus is gone! We're 100 miles outside of Austin, and if you want your personal belongings, you'd better meet us here to get them!" Well, to us players, it simply meant our bus had been stolen, and that we needed to get our "stuff" back from it! What we had no idea of was that Al had apparently not been paying Sermons for the leasing of the bus, and the owner decided simply to take it back and hold it hostage! As it turned out, we got our things back, but never the bus. I suppose they could not reach a settlement of this dispute, and Al probably just told them to get lost, and to take their bus with them!
So after that, we had to get a much lesser quality Winnebago "motor home" that wasn't nearly as fun to tour with, nor as safe, and certainly not as roomy. But we somehow managed, and just kept rolling along, singing a song, and playing wherever and whenever we could. The upshot of the story is really something from "The Twilight Zone", and to this day, none of the other band members, who were sleeping will ever believe; Being a night owl, I often used to ride "shotgun" next to the bus driver at night, and we used to just have a great time telling stories, and basically just enjoying each other's company. One evening, when everyone else was fast asleep, me and Donny, the bus driver, were looking out the windshield as we were driving due south from Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky. As we were talking, there was oncoming traffic on the other side of the highway. All of a sudden, Donny yells out, "Sam….Sermons…..there it goes…THE BUS!!!!"And sure enough, we had witnessed our "stolen" bus, months later, simply passing us in the dark of night, in the middle of the country!!! It was like seeing ole "Phantom 409", or some mysterious apparition like that! Of course, and literally to this day the other band members, and Al himself do not believe the story, but it's as true as true can be, and was one of the craziest road experiences I have ever had, for sure! Sure had to be in the right place at the right time for that one!!!!
Doing live clinic shows for me, is one of the most rewarding things I have ever done in my long career. It combines all the elements I so love, such as the teaching, the performing, the story-telling and of course, the playing! Not to mention that I get to meet so many of you out there who are not only fans, but who are really keen on learning as much as you can from me, in person! It's a true joy for sure, and I have literally done these clinics all over the world at one time or another. Lately I am starting on doing them again, mostly locally…..and I hope to continue to do them all over the US as well as the rest of the world!
It's one of the most rewarding things an artist can do for sure, since it enable you to "reach out" to those who maybe would never get a chance to really meet you face to face in person. Many of these folks tend to know me from many different sources, such as my videos, my Gibson lessons, my columns in Guitar Player, or the artists I have played and recorded with. It seems that if they know me from watching any of my lessons, whether it be from Hot Licks Video or Gibson, they always seem to feel a little closer to me, and like to speak of it as if the "already know me." This makes it all come back home for me, because I really get the chance to meet these wonderful folks who have already supported me in my career and in my work, and who I can feel like I've helped touch in some way.
As I embark on doing some more clinics, which I have not done in some time, I can really look back and reflect on those past experiences, and understand how it will in many ways be like that once again, and also have the chance to reach out and make new friends of the newer generation of guitarists.
This is one thing I really do hope to accomplish with this, is to reach a bigger audience, and to help capitalize on the exposure that Gibson and Hot Licks have given me over the years. So, if you hear that I'm coming to your town, and that I'm going to do a gig or a clinic, please come down, and make sure we meet and talk a little bit…believe me, it's as rewarding for me as it is for you!
The Grammy Awards are often a rather sad event for me, because I have felt that many times I should've been there, but wasn't! It also seems like a strange way of "marking time" as my life passes, and in a musician's life, that can be particularly poignant.
I also have a tinge of optimism regarding the Grammys, because next year, I will be on at least 3 to 4 projects that will at least be nominated for a Grammy, and it would be such a blast and a career boost to have something like that happen! Of course, they for some reason eliminated the Rock Instrumental category, which I'll never understand, and of course, it's literally "my" category for sure, but maybe they can find another place for those kinds of instrumentals to be!
In general, I was surprised at the quality of the performances and presentations at the Grammys last night, especially since the deep sadness of the loss of Whitney Houston hung over the whole proceedings. Paul McCartney was as incredible as ever, a true monument that nobody can ever topple, especially when you realize that literally nothing in music will ever have the sheer power and dominating impact that the Beatles and their music had, and of course, continue to have to this day! Taylor Swift had an amazing Country tune, looked great, and had a wild show full of tons of players and just overall great spirit, and it brought down the house too!
There was a noticeable drop in performances that had over "auto-tuned" voices, and too much "lip-synching", but the annoying factor of these kinds of songs still bothered me, not to mention the very plain and simple fact that literally 90% of all the songs written in what seems like the last 22 years or so, HAVE HAD THE SAME FOUR CHORDS!!!! This has been driving me crazy, and it amazes me that somehow the powers that be in this business don't seem to see this lack of originality just staring right at them! I swear if I hear those 4 chords one more time, and I don't care in what configuration, I may just throw the radio out the window!
But other than that it was a nice awards ceremony, and something that actually made one feel good to be a musician once again, and to have some optimism for where music is going, and of course, for where it's been too! I hope you make lots of great music in your life, and one day end up at the Grammys, and most of all, that this and other performances like it, will continue to inspire you to go on and be as creative and innovative as possible!
I can remember in the years when I was really heavily into being on the road for various gigs, it was important for me to always be aware of really making the most of the experience. This means not only to take in all that the gig itself has to offer, which can be a lot, but also what the town, the travel, the hotel, the Museums etc., all have to offer as well.
To me, being on the road afforded me opportunities I just would never had had otherwise, and to be able to be in those special places at those times were really priceless opportunities. I can recall being with far too many musicians who felt that the road was just a never-ending "grind", where all the places were the same, and the only excitement was how many girls they could find to party with, how much drinking or other recreational substances they could do, or anything equally typical and destructive. I never really subscribed to that kind of "road" lifestyle, and preferred to "take in" as much as I could possibly see and discover while in any given area. It's my belief that good people are found everywhere, and the beauty is finding how these folks differ from region to region. This was also one of the reasons I liked doing clinics so much, because a clinic to me, felt like being on the "campaign trail"; Shaking hands, talking to the fans, getting their reactions and questions, and basically creating a memory for them that we all will equally remember. It's funny, because now so many years later, true to form, I literally have a perfect recollection of all these different experiences, and as I set off to write a book about my life's journey, all these memories come rushing back in.
I can recall one time when I was playing in Pittsburgh with Phoebe Snow, and how I had to make a journey, in the middle of a blizzard to see a certain painting at the Carnegie Museum that my father had always wanted us to see. On a road trip we as a family took to Chicago in 1960, we went to that same museum o see that painting only to find out it was on loan to Seattle, to which my Dad replied, "which turnpike do we take!?" So this time, I was hell bent on seeing Georges Roulalt's "Old King" in person. This was a painting we saw all the time as the result of having a reproduction hanging in our house. My Dad, a cartoonist and a painter of incredible ability, had always been influenced by Rouault's work and longed to see this painting in person. I remember I saw it, reported to my father about it, and was able to make it back to the gig literally 5 minutes before we were to go on!! The gig's promoter was so impressed that I went and did this "Pittsburgh-only" cultural thing that he said he'd never seen another musician he had play there do such a thing before!
Needless to say, that statement certainly shocked me, because I thought everyone was as interested in their new surroundings as I was! But anyway, to sum up, it's so important to see the good in everywhere you go….when you are playing music in a new town, you are afforded a glimpse into that place that you otherwise would've never had. Be sure to make the most of it, and always "take in" as much as you can! You'll never know when that memory might come back to pay you a visit!
I have been a guitar player/collector for as long as I can recall, and it wasn't always as strong as it is now, but my passion for it certainly ebbs and flows. One thing is for sure, I must always at least be semi-ready for when a particular collectible guitar opportunity "knocks", because you just never know when these gems may present themselves.
In my earliest years as a guitar player, collecting was the last thing on my mind. And if you are just starting out, it should also be on the back burner, because the foremost thing you should be conscious of is your playing, and getting as good at it as possible. Once you've established that you are really going to stick with this thing, and that you want to have many sounds as a guitarist, then is the best time for a "collecting bug" to take hold of you! For me, it was always "get a guitar, then trade up o a better guitar" for a while, but then it really dawned on me that there was an entire world of various instruments out there that could fill many bills for me. Of course, I became attracted to what I thought were the most beautiful ones, but also, they had to really play nice for me to even consider them at all!
There's nothing worse than having a collection of guitars that just sit in their cases, that don't make music any more. The instruments that I never really touched over the years always turned out to be the ones I ended up getting rid of, usually for something I would play much more, or that had a particular sound or tone I needed and was missing. It's not unusual for me to show up at some recording sessions (especially my own!) with 7 or 8 guitars, just in case I may be inspired to need any one of those at any given moment! A guitar is much more attractive and beautiful when it is played, and as you develop your own collection, make sure they are pieces you really want to play, and that bring enjoyment to you.
I know I am often tempted to want to purchase guitars that though attractive and rare, will most likely just gather dust and take up space in the long run for me, without any really redeeming qualities other than being cool to occasionally look at. Unfortunately, there are a lot of collectors who thrive on this, and who only like the guitars even as "investments" while they can barely actually play these things with any of the heart and soul they deserve to be played with!
So, if you do get bit by that "collecting bug", try to always be on the lookout for the best finds, try to stay within a sensible budget, but most of all, "collect" what you really need to play! Therein lies the true beauty of the instrument for you anyway!
It's always a sad day when a student who I see as being truly promising and talented decides (or his parents decide) that the lessons must end. It never seems to make any sense to me, since I am of the self-taught school, and can never imagine giving the guitar anything less than 110 percent! That being said, it's especially sad when a student is very talented and no one seems to notice it in his immediate sphere except me! In cases like this I always say the student is "like a tree falling in the woods" if I wasn't there, and it's really true. There are so many parents these days who either have too many false expectations to make their kids "rock stars", or who refuse to, or simply can't perceive the actual talent their son/daughter might have!
Far too many times this great kind of talent gets unrecognized, and it's such a crime. I mean if my Dad had not said to me "Arlen, quit the violin…I can just picture you playing the guitar, all of this simply would not have happened, and my particular talent would not have been as cultivated as it was. And that was just sheer "encouragement", perhaps the most important thing of all. Today for example, I got a call from a Dad who wanted to cancel his kid's lessons, and this kid was just a smokin' electric blues player! He claims that his son was not "practicing", but I can certainly tell from his playing each week that he was definitely playing as much as he could. I think it was more a financial issue, which many folks are never willing to admit, and it was a heart-breaker, since I really worry now that this incredible 14 year-old talent will never be realized! Of course, if he really was meant to play, he'll probably pursue his playing later on, or simply continue at his own pace, but regardless, it's sad to see him have to part ways with me, since I held the highest hopes and regard for his playing!
My love of mentoring kids like this is long-known, and since I can remember so clearly being in that same boat at that age, I see them literally as me all over again. Most importantly, I see my late daughter, Gillian, who I lost at the age of only 14, and my daughter Lexie who is now 24, both of whom I literally lived to share the guitar and life with, and who mean more to me than all the stars in the sky. I certainly hope no more parents make the mistake of misguiding their kids when it comes to the guitar…we all need the best fighting chance we can get!!
These days, and in many days past, too many guitar players have gotten all caught up in a "speed contest". That's all fine a good, and of course, we'd all love to be faster players, but I feel that the true "unsung hero" in your guitar playing will always be the right, or "picking" hand. This hand is always the true "vehicle" that gets you where you want to go, and even though we can learn all the notes we could ever dream of on the fret board, it still takes a dexterous right hand to make all those guitar dreams come true!
There's no question that guitarists such as myself and other "advanced" players are usually most impressed by a player's right hand. The ones I am most envious of are pickers like Scotty Anderson and Tommy Emmanuel, who use the thumb pick and finger combination to its absolute fullest extent. Not only do they have the most amazing fingerstyle approach, but at the drop of a hat, they can switch it over to a wonderful "flatpick" style by simply holding the thumb pick in a flat pick manner. Folks who can blazingly flat pick, like Bluegrass greats such as Doc Watson and Tony Rice, are equally impressive, and the precision with which they can pick is truly an amazing thing to behold. I have adapted myself to basically three right-hand approaches that serve me well; The all-flatpick "bluegrass" style, the semi-Classical thumb and three-finger approach, and the pick and finger "hybrid" style. The "hybrid" style is terrific, but it does force one to sacrifice the index finger so it can also hold the pick, as opposed to using the thumb and three-fingered approach, which really gives you the most freedom, and in many ways, the best tone.
A lot of major Rock-style players have also given in to the fingerstyle approach almost totally exclusively, such as Jeff Beck who now only plays with his fingers, as well as Mark Knopfler, who you can tell was a one-time "Folkie" who turned into a lead electric player, and who also has a wonderful right-hand technique. There are many others too, but I feel that most players, even whether they know it or not, utilize the "hybrid" style quite often. When you start to develop your technique to include more double-stops, triple-stops, constant basses, and split-string licks, you'll see that the pick and finger approach will almost fall into place naturally for you. The main thing then is to concentrate more and more on getting it to be more of a "discipline" and a true pattern-oriented approach as opposed to just an occasional technique that you "throw in" now and then. It takes real dedication and desire to achieve the right sound for you to make this rather advanced technique really happen for you! Many of my Gibson lessons deal with this right hand issue, and hopefully you can go back and watch them, and try to absorb what is really going on with that hand. Remember, "it's all in the fingers" as they say! Good luck!
I know a lot of you out there fancy yourself as "tinkerers", and many of you may actually be quite good at handling repair work to your own instruments, but I've always been more of the kind who loves to find a good repair person. Number one, if the repairer doesn't do the right job, or there are problems with the work they did, they have to own up to it, and make sure it's done right until you are fully satisfied. Then of course, if they are actually a selected and accredited repair person for a given guitar company, it's even better to bring them the guitar, rather than trying to take matters into your own hands.
I have had some truly "nightmare" scenarios with repair people in my time, and you must beware of these folks who love to take your money, but who can totally botch a repair job on a nice guitar! It's happened often enough to me to make me be very careful whenever I am "trying out" a new repair shop for guitar-related problems. Due to this, I often like to start with bringing them some relatively un-complicated guitar repair problems such as fret jobs and wiring problems, but even these have sometimes turned into nightmares. Today for example, I brought of all things, 3 Lap Steels and one semi-hollow guitar for repairs, but unfortunately the store's repair guy was not there. We had a good communication though, and they made sure I wrote down the repairs I felt were needed, with a separate sheet for each instrument, and said that he'd be calling me with any questions regarding the guitars and their repairs before tearing into them!
And "tear" into them so like to do! My most recent "nightmare" was with such a simple thing as a fret "grind and polish" totally gone haywire! This particular repairman was nice enough, but broke so many things on my guitar just as a result of doing a fret job; he had it for another month after, and still could correct his mistakes! I final had to have the guitar literally "rescued" by the actual craftsman who made the guitar so it could finally be set straight again! It turned out that much as I had suspected, the repair guy wanted to see what made my guitar "tick", so he unnecessarily tore it apart, but couldn't properly put it back together again! He even broke 2 pickups by turning them too tightly as he lowered them!! Very costly errors, to be sure!
So, I certainly would advise you to go to a reputable repairman for your guitar work, but be sure to check them out first, and most of all, start slowly if you can with simpler repairs, until you actually build up the proper trust in them. Have fun, but beware of the guitar repairman!
It's a tall order when it comes to keeping your band together and happy, and I have had a wealth of these experiences to draw upon, to say the least! Certainly, there are many situations that can arise, under many different circumstances with bands, and it has so much to do with the actual situation at hand, and of course, above all, the people!
I can remember starting bands innocently enough with folks who all came from many different places, just to create a new musical entity, only to have it all ruined by one member, who really just wanted the band to be his and his alone. I'm certainly all for a group having a leader, they all do, but this was a band with 5 members, all of whom were very young, and all who had so much to contribute, yet it was all immediately squelched by this one greedy member. It certainly would've been better if he at least had let us know in advance about his intentions, so we wouldn't all had to have changed our lives for this group that only lasted like 2 months! Needless to say, this situation resulted in a completely unhappy band scenario right from the get-go, and taught me what to be wary of right at the early stages of my career.
Still though, it really doesn't matter, because each situation is so unique with bands that you just never know what you will end up with. After this initial quasi-"Democratic" approach to that band, I was thrust into the world of being a sideman with many artists, and being a sideman with a lot of my own very strong opinions about things. This of course meant I had to know when it was a good time to make my suggestions, and when it was not a good time. Each performer I worked with, and of course the other band members too, created a different chemistry with which to work with, and many times it was very sensitive, to say the least!
The problems and navigation of being a sideman is one thing, but to keep your own band happy when you are the front man as a "solo" act is a whole different story! These days, since the gig is really "mine", and I like to keep that camaraderie and "band" feeling, it's very important to make each member feel as if they are really contributing to the final outcome of the music. This is always critical, and was something that I learned a lot when being a sideman, as well as just in life in general. It's so important to make all the band members feel as if what they say matters, and also, if they are so inclined, to give them room to play and to take solos, if necessary. It should never be at the cost of the final outcome of the music, but still they will really appreciate it always if you let them participate in solos and jams with you. I always make sure my rhythm players gets to trade off with me, as well as letting my bassist and drummer take solos, if they'd like to!
So the lesson is to really always be aware of each other, and each other's needs in any band situation, and you can surely achieve the kind of harmony we all strive to attain as musicians in this crazy world. Maybe at least there can be peace and harmony in your band…it's a good start!


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The Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) established Maryland Hunger Solutions (MDHS) as a project to fight hunger and improve the nutrition, health, and well-being of children and families in Maryland. The initiative was launched in the fall of 2007 and is modeled on the successful D.C. Hunger Solutions (DCHS) Initiative that began in 2002.
Maryland Hunger Solutions uses a three-pronged strategy to overcome barriers and create self-sustaining connections between Maryland residents and nutritious foods. Maryland Hunger Solutions works with state and community partners to seek to:
- Maximize participation in all federal nutrition programs through a combination of removal of obstacles to participation, close work with social service agencies and outreach.
- Educate the public and key stakeholders both to the stark reality of hunger's existence in Maryland and to solutions that are already at hand.
- Improve public policies to end hunger, reduce poverty, and promote nutrition.


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They also make it easier to slide heavy pots over short distances, since the lower domed portion of the disc is made of a tough, low-friction plastic that glides easily on flat surfaces.
The upper portion of the pad is high-friction synthetic rubber for grip on the base of the pot. Suitable for any pot with a bottom diameter of 6" or greater, each set includes four 2" diameter by 1/2" thick discs.


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The main reason for Pope Francis' journey to the United States was to participate and to speak at the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia. "The Family" was not only the topic of his address to that gathering of people; rather, it is a metaphor that imbued his entire approach to his time spent among us.
In the first chapter of the Book of Genesis we read how God created the heavens and the earth; God created man and woman in His image and likeness — to whom He entrusted the fruits of the earth to sustain life.
Trust the Holy Spirit, be yourselves, and resist the temptation to change your people — but accompany them on the way of conversion." These are the words that I most remember as being spoken by Pope Francis to me and to 139 other bishops ordained and installed during this past year. My recent time spent in Rome took on more of the character of a retreat with fellow bishops than that of a vacation. The nine days included lectures, time for prayer together, Mass concelebrated at the tomb of St. Peter, and the audience with Pope Francis.


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Kathy & Charlie Knoedler's Delicious '40 Ford Panel Delivery
Due to their relative scarcity and brawny styling, panel deliveries seem to pick up a fair share of attention at vintage custom truck shows. The ratio of show pickups to panels must be 10:1. When we run across one that's exceptionally well done, we take notice.
A year ago, we spotted Ron Segal's '40 Ford panel delivery at the Goodguys West Coast Nationals in Pleasanton, California. Despite the fact that his hauler won the Cool Commercial prize, it wasn't quite finished. We recently scheduled a shoot for another of Ron's vehicles and found out he was in the process of selling his freshly completed Ford.
We decided to take a gander at that delivery the next day, while picking up another Segal hot rod hauler to be photo'd at the Primedia studio. Needless to say, we were smitten. You can see where this is going. We raced the sunset and snapped an abundance of photographs while we enjoyed what photographers refer to as magic light. Magic light-that time of twilight in morn or night where deeply saturated colors and the horizon meld into what CCT's Editor describes as "visual ecstasy"-the best for creating appealing images. In concert with the setting sun, the desert landscape aided our effort in capturing one of Ford's finely styled trucks.
It started at RC Classics, in Palm Desert, California, where several craftsmen collaborated to create the '40. RC's owner, R.C. Lindly, boxed the original frame its entire length, before adding a '78 Camaro front clip and a 4.11:1-geared '78 Camaro differential. Augmented by drilled, polished stainless disc-brake rotor covers and fed through stainless steel brake lines, the Camaro's disc brakes were utilized, front and rear. R.C. fabricated a 12-gallon stainless steel fuel tank, which he located between the rear framerails behind the rearend and plumbed with stainless fuel lines.
Wayne's Engineering in Riverside built a 383ci Chevy stroker engine for installation in the completed chassis. Ported heads, an Edelbrock four-barrel carb and Edelbrock Performer aluminum intake manifold, and a Pete Jackson gear drive made the powerplant plenty stout. Backed by a Hayden trans-cooler- enhanced TH350, the trans was also optimized with a B&M shift improvement kit and a 2,000-stall converter.
The owner next towed the delivery to Sledsville Hot Rods & Kustoms in Riverside, California, for the extensive bodywork. Sledsville chopped the top, shaved the door handles, leaded the fenders, and prepped all the exterior panels for paint. Their work complete, Stan Howton, owner of Howton's Signs & Lines in nearby Beaumont, beautified the hauler with several coats of House of Kolors Tangerine, before clearing the topcoats.
Being a retired rodeo cowboy and lifelong horseman and rancher, Ron wanted the interior to have a western theme. He entrusted Eddie Ledesma, owner of American Auto Upholstery in Corona, with trimming the cabin in cream leather and tan suede, replete with custom-stitched longhorn steers. Like all the saddles he has used, two colors of thread were employed throughout the custom stitchwork. Once Eddie was done, Ron delivered the '40 back to RC Classics for fitment of the Vintage Air and stereo system, thus bringing the truck's construction to completion.
We've known Ron Segal for years now. He has been involved in the vintage automotive hobby for 40 years, and has owned many sweet custom vintage trucks and street rods. He never seems able to hang on to them for too long. In that regard, perhaps his habit of buying, building, collecting, and selling are akin to the cowboys of yore, who moved from ranch to ranch for the next big cattle drive or ill-tempered bronc' to bust. After riding in the same saddle for a while, Ron has to get a different one to make his own. The '40's current caretakers are Ron's good friends, Charlie and Kathy Knoedler. They're the beneficiaries of Ron's restless nature to create and ride something new/old. When you see Ron's current steed, we're guessing you'll be equally impressed. Stay tuned.


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LONDON (MarketWatch) — European stocks swung higher Monday, as Russia indicated it will work to ease tensions over Ukraine.
The Stoxx Europe 600 SXXP, +0.29% climbed 1.4% to 329.36, slicing into last week's 2.1% slide.
Gains overnight in Asia and on Wall Street on Friday set the tone for European trade following reports that Russia was ending military drills on Ukraine's border.
Mining and industrial stocks were higher in European trade Monday, with iron ore producer Rio Tinto RIO, -0.39% up 3.6% and Germany's Siemens SIE, +0.65% gaining 1.9%.
Russia's conflict with Ukraine has been a source of pressure for European equities recently, particularly as Western countries issued trading restrictions against Russia as they worked to force Russia to stop aiding pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.
Russia's MICEX index XX:MCX climbed 1.8% to 1,372.45. Shares of Sberbank RU:SBER claimed a 5% increase, VTB Bank RU:VTBR rose 3.9% and Gazprom RU:GAZP picked up 1.4%. Index producer MSCI late Friday said it will keep Sberbank and VTB in its MSCI Russia Index until further notice after consulting with the investment community.
Germany's DAX 30 index DAX, +0.08% bounced up 1.9% to 9,180.74, following last week's drop of 2.2%. Investors have been concerned about the impact of Russian sanctions on the German economy. The DAX last week fell into correction mode, losing 10% of its value after reaching an all-time high in June.
J.P. Morgan Cazenove said Monday the DAX is "now the cheapest market in Europe," at 11.9 times price-to-earnings, and is a "beneficiary of a falling euro and of a pickup in Chinese and U.S. activity".
In Paris, the CAC 40 PX1, +0.56% finished 1.2% higher at 4,197.70, and in London, the U.K. FTSE 100 UKX, -0.16% rose 1% to 6,632.82.
Meanwhile, Turkey's BIST-100 stock index XU100, -0.10% fell 2.4%, letting go of gains that came after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's victory on Sunday in the country's first direct presidential elections. Erdogan's outright win in the first round of the election "does little to ameliorate the political risk to Turkey's sovereign credit profile," said Fitch Ratings.
Russian growth
Russian President Vladimir Putin last week hit back with its own sanctions, banning imports of food and other items, on Western countries that restricted its products.
While there have been violent reactions in the markets on geopolitical worries and signs of weakening growth in the euro zone, "[w]e do not see the ingredients for a broad sell-off in global financial markets," said Carmine Grigoli, chief investment strategist at Mizuho Securities, in a note Monday.
"For now, the Russian economy will bear the brunt of escalating tensions with the West, as the combination of broadening sanctions and capital flight is expected to push the economy into recession," he said. "U.S. trade with Russia is miniscule, so the repercussions from the sanctions should be negligible. Eurozone economic growth could be dampened by sanctions."
Russian economic growth slowed to 0.8% in the second quarter versus first-quarter growth of 0.9%.


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A colleague shared this article with me and much of the thinking aligns with where I've been landing on the topic of continuous testing. Of course, when reading the article, one thing jumps right out …. When the author, Marnie Hutcheson, expressed concerns about being able to complete the testing in the time frame specified (30 hours of testing, twice, over a weekend), she was, um, fired.
Felt to me as abrupt as hearing "you're fired" on a certain television show. And the most amazing part to me as a veteran tester for 20 years is the change in the role of the tester. There was a time where raising risk flags and voicing concerns about quality was what were *supposed* to do. So while we, in the test community, might not like it, the times they are a-changing. Whether we like it or not.
Which brings me back to Marnie's other points about how to test (and survive) in the fast-paced world of continuous delivery and its cousin continuous testing. As I mentioned in an earlier blog, I think it really does mean testing less and focusing our automation efforts on deploying the test environment and test scripts for only those areas of critical or unrecoverable failure. I was really glad to see others thinking along the same lines. I have taken it a step further, to say if it can be fixed quickly, then don't worry about it. Really, we only have to worry about the functional problems found in production. And yes, that does mean letting our end users do our testing. But the tolerance for that has gotten higher and higher thanks to Facebook and others. The key decision point is how fast to the fix? If it's fast, then it's fine. Time to start reducing our process, readjust our thinking and figure out how to deliver quality software by the new rules.


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Like we said in Friday's Start/Select, this is my final week at GameSpot.
I've had two marvellous years here, working with some of the handsomest, cleverest, funniest, handsomest people in the business we call writing about video games on the internet.
I'll be doing more of that in my next job, but here's not the place to talk about it.
As I set to excavating my desk out from under two years' worth of notepads and promo discs*, I wanted to say thanks for having me, GameSpot.
Thanks for watching and reading and commenting. Thanks for listening to the podcast (I'll do a last one tomorrow). I love what I do, but I love it harder because of people like you.You're alright, you are.
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Many of our unhealthy eating habits can be attributed to not just what we eat but also how we eat it. The idea behind conscious eating is to instill smart eating practices now that will carry you through the rest of your life -- so the way you select, prepare, and enjoy a meal actually makes you healthier.
Reversing unhealthy eating habits is not about following hard-and-fast diet rules. Instead, it's about cultivating a new, conscious approach, one that starts with listening to your body.
Finding your way back to a healthy relationship with food starts when you reconnect with both your body and your emotions. That entails the deep work of learning to recognize and experience your feelings, and the practical work of finding strategies to replace the habit of turning to food for comfort. It also means recognizing and undoing the lessons of a culture that teaches women to mistrust their bodies.
Failure to indulge is a serious violation of Party Law. But, as anyone who's powered through a bowl of guacamole and a pitcher of Champagne punch knows, too much of a good thing can suddenly feel bad. These seven steps will help you keep your reveling in check.
Try these strategies for eating more mindfully, followed by exercises that will re-engage your senses to help you enjoy food more, even while eating less.
Eating too quickly contributes not only to indigestion, but also to consuming far more calories than one needs. And with 34 percent of American adults now obese, we could all benefit from slowing down. Try these strategies to stop being a mealtime speed demon.
Flung open and shut several times a day, the typical fridge serves as our own personal vending machine -- which we gravitate to, like nails to a magnet, when our stomachs start growling. But with most setups, we reach for last night's takeout, perched on the top shelf, instead of the fresh vegetables and fruits, bagged and buried in the crisper drawers. Learn how tweaking your refrigerator setup can help you eat healthier.
Certain food choices work magic for helping you staying balanced; others have the opposite effect. Breaking the cycle means limiting the worst offenders in your diet -- and replacing them with power foods that go the distance, no matter what life throws at you.
We combed the research to find surprisingly simple ways to eat just a little bit less. Stack a few of these tips together and you could really see an impact.
Talk to food psychologists and you'll hear that learning to respond to your body's natural sense of physical hunger, and subsequent feelings of fullness, is a powerful tool for maintaining a healthy weight. But talk to women of all shapes and sizes, and many of them will tell you they fight hunger and, in some cases, fear it. Learn our tips for making peace with your stomach.
Even if you're the healthiest of eaters, a getaway can set off a dietary bender that leaves you feeling greasy, lethargic, and a few pounds heavier by vacation's end. Planning is the name of the game when you're trying to eat right on the road.


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Westwood ruled out
Keeper Keiren Westwood has been ruled out of the Republic of Ireland's friendly against Greece through injury.
The 28-year-old was named by manager Giovanni Trapattoni in his starting line-up on Tuesday, but has been withdrawn after undergoing a scan on his groin. Westwood's place will be taken by 33-year-old Millwall keeper David Forde, who will win just his fourth senior cap.
A spokesman for the Football Association of Ireland said: "The Football Association of Ireland today confirmed that Keiren Westwood has been ruled out of tonight's game against Greece in Aviva Stadium with a groin injury. Keiren underwent a scan this morning, and will return to his club later this evening for treatment. David Forde will replace him for tonight's game."
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This event is for all new oyster gardeners to get the supplies and training necessary to grow their own oysters. Registration is required. There is a one-time fee of $50 to cover materials and oysters.
During the two-hour workshop, you will learn about oyster ecology, the importance of oysters to the Chesapeake Bay, and how to care for your oyster garden. You will also construct four oyster gardening cages that you will use to grow your oysters.
Once the cages are finished, each registered participant will receive two bags (roughly one bushel, approximately 2,000 baby oysters) of oyster "spat on shell" to take home and care for over the fall, winter, and early spring months.
Once grown to adult size, gardeners will return their oysters to CBF for replanting onto a nearby sanctuary reef. The now hardy adult oysters will remain on the sanctuary where they can provide water quality and habitat benefits for the Chesapeake Bay.
For more information on water quality requirements and program specifics, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions page. See the complete list of workshop dates and locations. Spat are not sensitive to growing location, so please feel free to choose the distribution location that works best for you. For further questions and inquiries please reach out to Patrick Beall at firstname.lastname@example.com or 443-482-2065.
*Volunteers understand that all spat-on-shell provided by the Foundation remains the property of CBF and is to be returned at the end of the growing season.


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Bournemouth winger Matt Ritchie named League One Player of the Year
Bournemouth winger Matt Ritchie was named the League One Player of the Year at the Football League Awards.
Last Updated: 24/03/13 10:52pm
Ritchie started the season with Swindon Town and scored nine goals for the Robins before securing a January transfer to League One rivals Bournemouth.
He has netted once in 11 appearances for the Cherries and is hoping to pip his former club to promotion to the Championship.
Eddie Howe's side currently sit third in the League One table and are behind second-placed Swindon on goal difference having played a game more.
Coventry striker Clarke had been in contention for the prize after showing excellent form for two clubs in the division this season.
Clarke scored 11 goals in 15 appearances during a loan spell at Scunthorpe United before netting 10 times in 16 games for Coventry after joining in January.
Notts County midfielder Judge has enjoyed an impressive season at Meadow Lane which has seen him linked with a move to a higher division.
Hartlepool United prospect Luke James was named the division's Apprentice of the Year after scoring twice in 19 League One appearances so far this season.
The 18-year-old attacker has featured 39 times in the first team in total and beat George Willis of Sheffield United and Colchester United's Drey Wright to the accolade.


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Latest Energy News
Adani Transmissions takes over SPV set up by PFC Consulting for Rajasthan project
Adani Transmission (ATL) will build, own, operate and maintain the transmission project in the state of Rajasthan for a period of 35 years.
Petronet to sign $2.5 billion LNG deal with US developer Tellurian: Sources
This will be part of wider cooperation between both countries, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expected to meet US President Donald Trump in Houston
Coal unions refuse to meet minister Prahlad Joshi
The unions had earlier said that they would not enter into dialogues with anyone other than the coal ministry to discuss their demand.
PM Modi to meet BP, Exxon executives to discuss investment opportunities
The energy hungry nation, which has been increasing imports of crude from the United States, is looking at raising oil imports from Russia, amid uncertainty over oil supplies
Shell, Exxon Mobil among groups to build 5 Pakistan LNG terminals
The five terminals could be in operation within two to three years, Omar Ayub Khan, Pakistan's minister of power and petroleum, said in an interview
Ukraine, Russia fail to reach gas deal for Europe but agree to meet again
Ukrainian Energy Minister Oleksiy Orzhel said there was still a risk Russian gas deliveries could be interrupted and Kiev would make the necessary preparations to ensure continued supply in such a scenario
Saudi attacks rattle shippers' plan to switch fuels
Saudi Aramco, the state-run oil company, shut an estimated 40% of its refining capacity, roughly 1 million bpd, following Saturday's missile and drone strikes on a major oilfield and the country's largest processing plant
Fuel prices hiked for fourth straight day; highest one-day increase since Budget 2019
Price of petrol in New Delhi was increased to Rs 73.06 per litre, while diesel prices were increased by 28 paise to Rs 66.29 per litre
Russia's Novak speaks to Saudi minister, says no change to oil deal
Speaking in Brussels, Novak said that the situation had stabilised following a weekend attack on Saudi oil infrastructure and that oil markets were calmer now than they had been on Monday
Modi to inaugurate 'Gandhi Solar Park' - India's gift to the UN Headquarters
At a contribution of about one million dollars, India has gifted solar panels that have been installed on the roof of the UN Headquarters here, one panel each for every 193 UN Member State.
Real crunch from Saudi Arabia's oil outage has yet to be felt
Riyadh says production will be back to normal levels in two to three weeks, which means restoring output to about 10 million bpd, after Saturday's attacks on two sites that usually process and clean up about 5.7 million bpd
Global renewable energy capacity additions to grow by 12% this year: IEA
The cost of solar PV has plunged more than 80 per cent since 2010, making the technology increasingly competitive in many countries
IOC's Loni terminal to be ready with BS-VI grade fuel by Feb 2020
The company said the required quantity of fuel will be supplied to all outlets from the mandatory date
India shaken by Saudi attacks, but oil is in control
This was largest squeeze larger than even the 1991 gulf war that wiped out just over 4 million barrels of oil (per day) from the market
Pompeo favours 'peaceful resolution' to crisis after Saudi attack
The rhetoric has raised the risk of an unpredictable escalation in a tinderbox region where Saudi Arabia and Iran are locked in a decades-old struggle for dominance
Tensions in Middle East hoist oil prices to largest weekly gain for months
A Saudi-led coalition launched a military operation north of Yemen's port city of Hodeidah, as the United States worked with Middle East and European nations to build a coalition to deter Iranian threats after the Saudi attack
US confident it will determine who behind Saudi attacks
"As of this time, all indications we have are that Iran is in some way responsible for the attack on the Saudi oil refineries," he told reporters


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Boyer, Carl B. (revised by Uta C. Merzbach). A History of Mathematics, 2nd ed. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1991.
Burk, Phil, Larry Polansky, Douglas Repetto, Mary Roberts, and Dan Rockmore. Music and Computers: A Theoretical and Historical Approach. Emeryville, CA: Key College Publishing, 2004.
Du Sautoy, Marcus. The Music of the Primes: Searching To Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics. New York: Harper Collins, 2003.
Eves, Howard. An Introduction to the History of Mathematics, 5th ed. (The Saunders Series) Philadelphia, PA: Saunders College Publishing, 1983.
Harkleroad, Leon. The Math Behind the Music. New York: Cambridge University Press and Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America, 2006.
Kac, Mark. "Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum?" The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 73, no. 4, part 2: Papers in Analysis (April 1966).
Lazzaro, John and John Wawrzynek. "Subtractive Synthesis Without Filters," Audio Anecdotes II. (2004).
Nahin, Paul J. Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.
Rockmore, Dan. Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis The Quest To Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers. New York: Vintage Books (division of Randomhouse), 2005.
Rothstein, Edward. Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics. USA: Times Books, 1995.
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text: By Brad GoochWhen Flannery OConnor was 5 years old, she purportedly taught her pet bantam chicken to walk backward. The stunt attracted the attention of the Pathe newsreel company, and a Yankee cameraman was dispatched to her familys backyard in Savannah, Ga., to document the trick. OConnor never saw the humorous short, though it was screened in many movie theaters across America in 1932. Yet years later in an essay in Holiday magazine, she claimed the unlikely event marked me for life.By the time she was wrote that 1961 essay, The King of the Birds, OConnor was a cult literary celebrity. She had published two novels Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960)--as well as the collection of stories A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955) that truly put her on the map. The OConnor familys antebellum home in Milledgeville, Ga., was featured in Newsweek; a quasi- glamorous portrait appeared in Harpers Bazaar; her work was excerpted in Vogue. She used her freakish chicken as a pretext to meditate on her uneasy relation to fame and popular culture, claiming that all the attention made her feel like a cross between Roy Rogerss horse and Miss Watermelon of 1955.Dying in 1964 of lupus at age 39, unmarried, having lived mostly on a dairy farm with her mother, OConnors life and work might then have been expected to fade from memory. She swore there would be no biographies as lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy. Yet The New York Times deemed a story in her collection, Everything That Rises Must Converge, published eight months after her death, among the few masterpieces of the form in English; her Complete Stories won a posthumous 1972 National Book Award; she was the first postwar American woman author in the canonic Library of America; the phrase like something out of Flannery OConnor entered our language as shorthand for nailing many a funny, dark, askew moment. Like her backward chicken, OConnors fiction continues to fascinate by running counter to much trendy literary culture.SavannahBorn in Savannah on March 25, 1925, Mary Flannery OConnor was the only child of Edward, a real estate agent, and Regina. Living on Lafayette Square, in the shadow of St. John the Baptist Cathedral, she was raised in a minority Irish-Catholic community within the larger Protestant South, and was taught by the strict Sisters of Mercy at St. Vincents Grammar School. Writing and drawing ambidextrously from an early age, her first book, lovingly bound by her father, was My Relitives, a series of scathing satiric drawings and captions. Her highly protected girlhood was shattered when her father developed lupus and died in early 1941, after briefly moving his family to Atlanta for a Depression-era FHA job.MilledgevilleOConnors mother then took her to live with relatives in the Cline family home, an 1838 columned Federal clapboard house, briefly used as the governors mansion when Milledgeville served as the antebellum capital of Georgia. She passed her teen years in a strongly matriarchal world with Regina as well as her three aunts Mary, Katie, and Gertie. OConnor developed a high profile as class cartoonist at both PeabodyHigh School and the local Georgia State College for Women, as she produced painstaking linoleum-cut cartoons that were single-frame satires on campus life. Admiring James Thurber, she submitted cartoons to The New Yorker magazine, receiving back a lot of encouragin rejection slips.Up NorthAt first planning on a career as a political cartoonist, in the fall of 1945 OConnor enrolled in the journalism graduate school at the State University of Iowa. Within her first few weeks in Iowa City, she found her way to Paul Engles Writers Workshop, the first MFA program in the country, and switched her major. Discovering her vocation as a writer, she dropped Mary from her name; had her first story, The Geranium, published in Accent magazine; received a Rinehart fellowship to work on a novel. In 1948, she moved on to spend nine months at the artists colony Yaddo, where she met the poet Robert Lowell; lived for six months, in 1949, in Manhattan, meeting her publisher Robert Giroux; boarded in Redding, Conn., with poet-translator Robert Fitzgerald, his wife Sally and their children, writing Wise Blood.AndalusiaOConnor developed a high fever on a train ride home to Georgia at Christmastime 1950. She was diagnosed, like her father, with lupus erythematosus, and over the next year was in and out of hospitals in Milledgeville and at Emory University in Atlanta. She recuperated at Andalusia, a 550-acre dairy farm outside Milledgeville run by her mother with hired labor. She took a room on the first floor of its former plantation house, as she was too weak to climb stairs. Each morning she worked on the galleys of Wise Blood, which was published by Harcourt, Brace, in May 1952, to mixed reviews. According to her editor Robert Giroux, I was disappointed by the reviews more than she was; they all recognized her power but missed her point. After another flare-up of lupus, following a visit in the summer of 1952 to Connecticut, she settled in earnest on the farm, ordering the first of her many beloved peacocks.Freaks and FolksBy 1953 OConnor was following a monastically regular pattern of life: rising with the roosters; going to Mass at Sacred Heart Church most mornings; writing for three hours, seven days a week; lunching at Sanford House in town; undertaking a vast correspondence in the afternoons, as well as receiving guests both local and literary; reading, preferably Thomas Aquinas, at bedtime. I read a lot of theology, OConnor said, because it makes my writing bolder. She took up painting farm scenes, and began drawing more on the local types she referred to as freaks and folks to write her stories in the Southern grotesque style. These classic OConnor edgy tales were published, to much acclaim, in A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Harcourt, Brace; 1955). In The New York Times Book Review, novelist Caroline Gordon claimed that the collection exhibits what Henry James called the artful brevity of a master. The book was a finalist for a 1956 National Book Award but lost to John OHaras Ten North Frederick.Everything That RisesOConnor made her only trip outside the country to Lourdes, with her mother, in April of 1958. I prayed there for the novel I was working on, not for my bones, which I care less about, she later wrote of her visit to the healing spring. The novel for which she prayed was eventually published as The Violent Bear It Away (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy; 1960). The next year she published an introduction to A Memoir of Mary Ann, (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy; 1961), about a child with a disfiguring facial tumor cared for by the Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cancer Home in Atlanta. In 1962, OConnor began working on an unfinished third novel, tentatively titled Why Do the Heathen Rage?, though she mostly concentrated on writing stories; she also delivered over 60 talks and readings, often on crutches, at colleges and universities around the country, including the University of Chicago, Notre-Dame, Vanderbilt, Loyola and Georgetown. She confided to a friend that she possessed an element of ham.In 1964, OConnors lupus flared following surgery for a fibroid tumor. She was treated at BaldwinCountyHospital in Milledgeville and Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta. The reactivation of the disease coincided with her attempt to gather stories for a planned second story collection. She continued to work on Judgment Day, a reworking of her first published story The Geranium, and Parkers Back, hiding the pages under her hospital pillow so that the doctors might not forbid her to work. She returned home in June, receiving extreme unction on July 7, and learned soon afterward that her story Revelation had won first prize in the OHenry Awards. On Aug. 3, OConnor died of kidney failure. Following a low Requiem Mass at SacredHeartChurch, on Aug. 4, she was buried next to her father in Memory Hill cemetery in Milledgeville. Her second collection of stories, Everything That Rises Must Converge, was published posthumously the next year, to powerful and unanimous praise. Charles Poore in the Times judged her promise fulfilled; the work of a master, said the Newsweek critic. The back of the white book cover carried a sole epitaph by Thomas Merton: When I read Flannery OConnor, I do not think of Hemingway, or Katherine Anne Porter or Sartre, but rather of someone like Sophocles.


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friends1976 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 37 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
The logo is to be designed for the website but also used for other printable materials. The website is located at http://www.nccops.org. The website is run by two retired police officers. They are a non-profit and do all kinds of things. They give away child identification kits, raise funds for upcoming police officers and fallen/injured police officers. They also support the website which is to be an online community of police officers.
They go by the name NCCOPS (all caps) and want something web 2.0 style and mostly typography but maybe some kind of little icon in there. There is not much room for the logo and the logo must be rectangular in shape. They would also like the words "Charitable Foundation" in the logo. The design should appeal to cops and non-cops, men and women.
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I have a new addition coming into my family.
I would love you all to meet Karma. This little lady is now my baby. She was found abandoned by the side of the road in 0 degree weather and luckily my sister was called to be her foster. I fell madly in love with her and it was fate that she came into my life.
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Flow cytometric analysis of Jurkat cells, untreated (green) or LY294002 and wortmannin treated (blue), using Phospho-Akt (Ser473) (193H12) Rabbit mAb (Alexa Fluor® 647 Conjugate).
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This Cell Signaling Technology antibody is conjugated to Alexa Fluor® 647 fluorescent dye and tested in-house for direct flow cytometric analysis of human cells. The unconjugated Phospho-Akt (Ser473) (193H12) Rabbit mAb #4058 reacts with Phospho-Akt (Ser473) from human, mouse and rat. CST expects that Phospho-Akt (Ser473) (193H12) Rabbit mAb (Alexa Fluor® 647 Conjugate) will also recognize Phospho-Akt (Ser473) in these species.
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Phospho-Akt (Ser473) (193H12) Rabbit mAb (Alexa Fluor® 647 Conjugate) detects endogenous levels of Akt only when phosphorylated at Ser473.Species Reactivity:
Human, Mouse, Rat
Monoclonal antibody is produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic phosphopeptide corresponding to residues around Ser473 of mouse Akt. The antibody was conjugated to Alexa Fluor® 647 under optimal conditions with an F/P ratio of 2-6. The Alexa Fluor® 647 dye is maximally excited by red light (e.g. 633 nm He-Ne laser). Antibody conjugates of the Alexa Fluor® 647 dye produce bright far-red-fluorescence emission, with a peak at 665 nm.
Akt, also referred to as PKB or Rac, plays a critical role in controlling survival and apoptosis (1-3). This protein kinase is activated by insulin and various growth and survival factors to function in a wortmannin-sensitive pathway involving PI3 kinase (2,3). Akt is activated by phospholipid binding and activation loop phosphorylation at Thr308 by PDK1 (4) and by phosphorylation within the carboxy terminus at Ser473. The previously elusive PDK2 responsible for phosphorylation of Akt at Ser473 has been identified as mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) in a rapamycin-insensitive complex with rictor and Sin1 (5,6). Akt promotes cell survival by inhibiting apoptosis through phosphorylation and inactivation of several targets, including Bad (7), forkhead transcription factors (8), c-Raf (9), and caspase-9. PTEN phosphatase is a major negative regulator of the PI3 kinase/Akt signaling pathway (10). LY294002 is a specific PI3 kinase inhibitor (11). Another essential Akt function is the regulation of glycogen synthesis through phosphorylation and inactivation of GSK-3α and β (12,13). Akt may also play a role in insulin stimulation of glucose transport (12). In addition to its role in survival and glycogen synthesis, Akt is involved in cell cycle regulation by preventing GSK-3β-mediated phosphorylation and degradation of cyclin D1 (14) and by negatively regulating the cyclin dependent kinase inhibitors p27 Kip1 (15) and p21 Waf1/Cip1 (16). Akt also plays a critical role in cell growth by directly phosphorylating mTOR in a rapamycin-sensitive complex containing raptor (17). More importantly, Akt phosphorylates and inactivates tuberin (TSC2), an inhibitor of mTOR within the mTOR-raptor complex (18,19).
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The Alexa Fluor dye antibody conjugates in this product are sold under license from Life Technologies Corporation for research use only, except for use in combination with DNA microarrays. The Alexa Fluor® dyes (except for Alexa Fluor® 430 dye) are covered by pending and issued patents. Alexa Fluor® is a registered trademark of Molecular Probes, Inc.
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George Strait Becomes a Grandfather
Congratulations are in order for the legendary George Strait, who is now a proud (and might we add very cool) grandpa! Strait's songwriting son Bubba and his wife Tamara welcomed their first child into the world last Thursday, Feb. 2, as announced by the glowing Gramps from onstage in Phoenix, Ariz. last week. Local country radio station KMLE broke the news following Strait's show Friday night.
Strait, who was playing the US Airways Center at the time, isn't one to say a whole lot on stage, but during the final verse of his hit song, 'I Saw God Today,' the singer couldn't wipe the smile from his face as he sang about a baby being born in the song. As the song came to an end and the crowd's applause increased, Strait shyly stepped back to the mic to fill his fans in on his exciting news.
"Yesterday, my son just had his new baby," Strait said over the cheering fans, as he continued to step toward and from the mic with a grin, not sure if he should say more or continue onto the next tune. His band then helped him decide when they began playing the intro to 'Check Yes or No.'
Strait's tour with opener Martina McBride continues this week with stops in Las Vegas, Atlanta and Orlando. Click here for a complete list of dates where the tour is stopping — perhaps you can drop in and tell him congratulations for us!
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For our Basic Handgun students, this course is designed to improve your marksmanship through a series of specific types of targets and drills. A frequent question from students after our Basic Handgun Course is: "Where do I go from here?" If you already have a firearm and some practice under your belt, this is the course for you. The value of an instructor is to have someone who can see your shooting and help diagnose and fix issues you may be having. We will help you correct any shooting issues you have and give you tools moving forward to maintain better marksmanship. This is very individualized instruction in both the classroom and range portions to help you improve and increase your capabilities.
No matter where your level of marksmanship is at, in terms of distance or accuracy, we will help you push out further and be more consistently on target.
If you have any questions regarding this course or the required equipment, email email@example.com
Required Equipment:
Eye and ear protection (Electronic hearing protection preferred)
Handgun (Semi-automatic or Revolver)
2-3 Magazines/Speedloaders (More if you have them)
Minimum 150 Rounds (FMJ Preferred)
Magazine Loading Tool (Optional)
Closed-toe shoes and appropriate attire
If you don't have a firearm or ammunition, let us know, and we can lend a firearm for free as part of the course and charge ammunition at cost. You can use this course as an opportunity to try out various firearms we have on hand.


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OAKLAND — A man killed in a drive-by shooting Friday night near Children's Hospital in North Oakland that also wounded two other people was identified by police Saturday as 19-year-old Ceejay Reed.
Another 19-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman were also shot but will recover from their wounds, police said. Their names were not released, but authorities said they are from Oakland.
The shooting happened about 9:26 p.m. Friday in the 700 block of 53rd Street, a short distance from the hospital.
Police said Reed, who lived in the area, and the others had just parked the car they were in after returning from a friend's house.
They were walking on the sidewalk when at least one person in a passing car opened fire on them, police said. At least one house was hit by gunfire, but no one inside was injured, police said.
Another person drove the trio to Children's Hospital, where Reed died at 9:46 p.m., police said.
The wounded man and woman were later transferred to other hospitals.
Sgt. Sean Fleming said police don't have a motive yet for the shooting, and no arrests have been made.
The shooting site is roughly two blocks from the 600 block of 54th Street near Shattuck Avenue, where Donitra Henderson, 21, of San Leandro, was fatally shot Wednesday night while her 4-year-old son sat in the back seat of her car. Another woman was with her at the time, but she was not injured.
No arrests have been made in that case, but police said the two killings are not believed to be linked.
Friday's killing was the city's 32nd homicide of the year. Last year at this time, there were 40 homicides in Oakland.
Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland are offering up to $20,000 in reward money for information leading to the arrest of the gunman in Friday's shooting. Anyone with information should call police at 510-238-3821 or a tip line at 510-773-2805.
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Bettman: 82-game season looks unlikelyby Dan Rosen
National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman said Wednesday that an 82-game regular season is unlikely now because a Collective Bargaining Agreement is not yet in place.
Speaking at a press conference to announce the New York Islanders' move to Brooklyn starting with the 2015-16 season, Commissioner Bettman said the National Hockey League Players' Association has opted not to negotiate off the League's latest proposal, which was tabled eight days ago in Toronto and called for a 50-50 split of hockey-related revenue and would have allowed a full regular season to begin Nov. 2.
Commissioner Bettman said last week in Toronto that if a deal could be in place by Oct. 25, teams would be able to have a one-week training camp prior to the season opening Nov. 2.
The NHL and the NHLPA have not held a negotiating session since last Thursday and there are none scheduled.
"Obviously as you know we made an offer to the Union last week to share revenues 50-50 and to deal with the so-called 'make whole' provision that was contingent on playing an 82-game season, which we believe [would require that we] drop the puck Nov. 2, which would necessitate making a deal by [Thursday]," Commissioner Bettman said. "The Union has chosen not to engage on our proposal or to make a new proposal of their own, so unfortunately it looks like an 82-game season is not going to be a reality.
"Things seem to be not progressing the way we would like. It's disappointing."
Commissioner Bettman said the League told the leaders of the Union it would be amenable to another negotiating meeting provided the NHLPA was willing to negotiate off the NHL's latest offer or if the union was prepared to table its own new offer.
"They have no inclination on doing either and so there really was no point in meeting at this point," Commissioner Bettman said. "There are just some times where you need to take time off because it's clear that you can't do anything to move the process forward and we're at one of those points right now because we gave our very best offer. And, that offer, for better or for worse, was contingent on playing an 82-game season. So, I think things actually in some respects may get more difficult."
In a statement, NHLPA Executive Director Donald Fehr referred to the three proposals the NHLPA offered the NHL last Thursday in Toronto and said the Union is prepared to meet.
"The players made multiple core-economic proposals on Thursday that were a significant move in the owners' direction," Fehr said. "We are and continue to be ready to meet to discuss how to resolve our remaining differences, with no preconditions. For whatever reason, the owners are not. At the same time they are refusing to meet, they are winding the clock down to yet another artificial deadline they created."
Nevertheless, Commissioner Bettman said he remains optimistic that something will get done and indicated that playing an abbreviated season is an option, though clearly not what the NHL wants.
"If we go past Nov. 2 we can not play an 82-game season," Commissioner Bettman said. "Sure you can play an abbreviated season; I'd rather play a full season and I'm sure our fans would rather we play a full season. That's why we made the offer we did.
"We very much want to play and we're very disappointed that we're not."
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WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Colin Powell reversed a year of administration policy, acknowledging Thursday that he had seen no "smoking gun [or] concrete evidence" of ties between former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida.
Powell, speaking at a news conference at the State Department, stressed that he was still certain that Iraq had dangerous weapons and needed to be disarmed by force, and he sharply disagreed with a private think tank report that maintained that Iraq was not an imminent threat to the United States.
"I have not seen smoking gun, concrete evidence about the connection, but I do believe the connections existed," he said.
Powell's observation marked a turning point in administration arguments in support of the U.S. invasion of Iraq last spring. The assertion that Saddam and the terrorist network led by Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden were working in concert was a primary justification for the war.
As recently as September, President Bush declared that there was "no question" that Saddam had ties to al-Qaida.
Powell himself made the case most strongly in February, when he urged the U.N. Security Council to back U.S. military action in Iraq. "Iraqi officials deny accusations of ties with al-Qaida," Powell said then. "These denials are simply not credible."
Powell defended those comments Thursday, even as he cast doubt on their conclusions. He said that at the time, he was referring specifically to the presence of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Baghdad for medical treatments.
The United States has accused al-Zarqawi of being a close associate of bin Laden's, but intelligence agencies in France and other European countries that opposed the U.S. war argued that al-Zarqawi was an independent operator.
"I'm confident of what I presented last year," Powell said. "The intelligence community is confident of the material they gave me. I was representing them. It was information they presented to the Congress. It was information they had presented publicly, and they stand behind it. And this game is still unfolding."
Kay said to be quitting inspection team
Since the U.S. victory in Iraq, U.S. and U.N. teams have been scrubbing the country for the chemical and biological weapons the administration insisted the Baghdad government had been hiding.
That effort, which has failed so far to find any such weapons, could soon be severely hampered. Senior U.S. officials told NBC News on Thursday that David Kay, head of the U.S.-led Iraq Survey Group hunting for weapons, was planning to resign, without issuing a final report.
Kay's team, which has been scaled back since it began work last year, has found illegal missiles but no stockpiles or ongoing production of chemical or biological weapons, sources told NBC's Andrea Mitchell. Only a rudimentary nuclear program, which had not started, has been found, they said.
"I think Mr. Kay and his team have looked very hard. I think the reason they haven't found it is it's probably not there," Charles Duelfer, former deputy chairman of the U.N. weapons inspection agency, said in an interview.
Report says policy misguided
Powell came under intense questioning at his news conference Thursday about a new report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which accused the administration of systematically misrepresenting the weapons threat from Iraq.
"It is unlikely that Iraq could have destroyed, hidden or sent out of the country the hundreds of tons of chemical and biological weapons, dozens of Scud missiles and facilities engaged in the ongoing production of chemical and biological weapons that officials claimed were present without the United States detecting some sign of this activity," said the report, prepared by Carnegie President Jessica T. Mathews, Joseph Cirincione and George Perkovich.
Powell responded that Saddam obviously had, and used, destructive weapons in the late 1980s and then refused for a decade to reassure the world that he had gotten rid of them.
"In terms of intention, he always had it," Powell said. Of Carnegie's finding that Iraq posed no imminent threat, Powell said: "They did not say it wasn't there."
Years of U.N. inspections to determine whether Saddam was harboring weapons of mass destruction were working well, the report said, and the United States would be better advised to set up a permanent system with the United Nations to guard against the spread of dangerous technology.
NBC's Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC.com's Alex Johnson and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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The Other ElectionBy Casey N. Cep
Computers, phones, radios, televisions, and carrier pigeons are chirping with talk of Tuesday's hard-fought presidential election. The election is a time-honored American tradition. But long before there were exercises of democracy to occupy our collective attention, Americans were preoccupied with a different kind of election entirely.
The Pilgrims brought their belief in predestination with them to Plymouth, and the Puritans planted the doctrine in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Many are called, they argued, but few are chosen. Those chosen by God for salvation receive mercy, while the reprobate receive the justice they deserve.
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It's summer in Houston and that means that the humidity is knocking at the door.
Most ladies dread that frizzed out hair look, but not you! You're going to make the best of that crazy do by putting on that off the shoulder shirt from Express, those white hot leggings from American Apparel, and you're going to Vogue like Madonna always wanted!
Go ahead, pair that crazy outfit with checkered keds – why? Because Molly & the Ringwalds will be playing at Mixers & Elixirs this Friday night! That means the craziest, coolest, most tubular band is going to ROCK OUT at HMNS under the dinos. See you at 6 p.m.! Be there or be square!
This week: Molly & The Ringwalds
July 3: Holiday Weekend – Mixers Resume July 10
July 10: Experience a British Invasion with The Fab 5
July 17: Join the high-energy dance floor with the bilingual band Mango Punch
Many more fabulous Mixers to come – check out mixershouston.hmns.org for more info!


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Surgery vs. Laser Treatment for Varicose Veins
Surgery vs. Laser Treatment for Varicose Veins
Study Shows Vein Stripping and Laser Therapy Achieve Similar Results
Sept. 19, 2011 -- A newer, less-invasive technique that uses a laser to seal off bulging and uncomfortable varicose veins appears to work about as well as the standard surgery to remove the damaged vessels, a new study shows.
Neither procedure appears to be a guaranteed permanent fix for varicose veins, however.
Veins can grow back even after they're cut away, and sometimes the laser treatment fails to seal a vein completely, allowing the blood flow to gradually return.
Study researchers say patients should carefully weigh the benefits and risks with their doctors before deciding on the best treatment strategy.
The study is published in the Archives of Dermatology.
Spider and Varicose Veins: Before-and-After Treatment Pictures
Vein Stripping vs. Laser Ablation
The study followed 346 men and women with varicose veins. They were randomly assigned to receive a standard surgical procedure called high ligation and saphenous vein stripping (HLS) or endovenous laser ablation (EVLT).
There were 185 people in the EVLT group and 161 in the HLS group. About 70% in each group were women. Their average age was 48.
After two years, the overall recurrence of varicose veins that caused symptoms like pain, heaviness, swelling, itching, or fatigue was similar among the two groups. By ultrasound study, more patients who had EVLT had their varicose veins return or reopen at the location of the procedure compared to those who had vein stripping surgery, however.
In the EVLT group, 32 people (18%) had their varicose veins come back in the area at the same place where they were originally treated compared to two people (1%) of the HLS group.
"The main implication of our study at this time point is that both procedures can be equally offered to the patients with [varicose veins]," says study researcher Knuth Rass, MD, a dermatologist at Saarland University Hospital in Homburg, Germany, in an email to WebMD. "But patients should be informed that there might be a risk for a higher rate of clinical recurrences beyond two years after EVLT."
Rass continues to follow the patients in the study and says he will know more about their longer-term recurrence rates next year.


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Wrecktopia of Cornucopias
After the turkey, it's the quintessential symbol of Thanksgiving: the ol' Horn of Plenty. It's basically a cone-shaped basket filled with fruit and veggies. Everyone got the mental image? Good. Ok, let's ease 'er on into the Wreckiness, then, shall we?
Not bad, not bad - although my teeth are hurting just looking at that ginormous mound of icing, Kat K. Still, there was skill involved in the execution, and here on Wrecks - as in life - we do our best to focus purely on surface beauty. So, moving on.
Hm, we seem to be veering into "ice cream cone filled with flowers" territory, Jana. Still, not horrendous. Next?
Hey, Jessica H., are we sure this is for Thanksgiving? 'Cuz that looks like a burlap Christmas stocking.
Ack! Shiny poo pile! Keep moving, K.R.! Keep moving!
Ah, this is better. A nice, comfy shag rug. Although, what's that on the side?
Oh heck no, Jill S., they did NOT just ice all over the sides of those paper wrappers, did they? Well, there went the whole "Cupcake-cakes aren't as messy" argument. Plus, with those candy corns and green squigglies and all, it looks like someone upchucked over the edge. Yelch.
Of course, you could go to the other extreme:
Jaime L., these cupcakes aren't all iced together into one solid mass, which means two things:
1) By my definition, it's not *technically* a cupcake cake - maybe more like a "cupcake mosaic". A really lazy mosaic, sure, but still not as evil as a CCC.
2) By anyone's definition, it's not *technically* decorated. A scattering of plastic flotsam does not a decorated cake make.
And speaking of cupcake cakes: some of you took me to task yesterday for failing to point out the CCCs in the Fall Fumbles line up. And yet, when I DO hold up those wrecktastic creations for the derision they are so rightly due, others of you complain that I'm harping on CCCs too much. It's like my own personal Kobayashi Maru, honestly. Anyway, rest assured, dear readers, that my left eye continues to twitch uncontrollably with every CCC posting whether I point out its inherent structural deformity or not.