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It's been far too long since I've posted here, and the more time it was since that last post, the harder it became to post here.
So I'm just going to start again.
Mostly what happened is that I got stuck on some very frustrating bugs with my new hardware design and it took far too long for me to ask for help, so I lost all motivation to work on this project and found other shinier things to play with.
I'm now past that hurdle, and I think I have a way to keep motivation and progress going in the right direction. I'm going to have a weekly or so meeting where I can ask for help and people can ask me basic questions about my designs, helping me to fix problems as they come up, and readdress all my basic assumptions.
This is basically what most advisers do for their students, keep them on task by asking questions and act as a sounding board for problems. Maybe that's something that could/should be used more widely in at-home science arenas?
Another inspiration for me is that ZeFrank came back. My current favorites are this classic motivation, and this brand new motivation.
General updates since my last post:
Following a series of discussions with my analog adviser (hi Steve) and my physics adviser (hi Lee), I've started working on version 0.4 of the electronics (now with actual theoretical chance of working!). I received the (painfully small) surface mount parts from DigiKey and Newark, and managed to solder them to SMD-DIP adapters for breadboarding.
Things I learned:
- Arduino ints only go to 2^15, that is a problem when dealing with 16-bit DACs.
- My new DAC's "write" command only means here's some information, not do something with the information I'm giving you.
Bart from BuildLog sent some makerslide, a 400-step stepper motor, and other amazing things as part of his Makership project so I can build a solid linear actuator for the rough approach.
Funding and Support:
Wow, thanks so much to all the amazing people who decided to help this project with funding, parts donations, and their generous time:
Individuals: Nikos G., pdp7, T. Joseph N., David C., Bruce G.
Time and advice:
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Tight, uncompromising and awesome sound!
Pros: Accurate and detailed with clean, punchy bass. Funky styling.
Cons: Mildy sibilant. Minimal soundstage. Exposed wiring.
Oh, the Amperior - the street-wise sequel to the famed Sennheiser HD 25. They have a very similar sound signature, but the Amperior sports a fuller, more well defined bass and has toned down the sibilant, often unwieldy trebles of its predecessor. The build quality has increased. The style has been bumped up a notch. iDevice controls and mic are now present. And considering you can easily find them for $200 or less on various online venues (as opposed to the steep $349 MSRP), it's tough to justify the purchase of the HD 25s - no matter how classic they may be.
The sound is punchy and cohesive - really in your face. It's accurate, bold, and totally energetic throughout the entire spectrum. The bass is really tight and creates a percussive counterpoint to your most familiar music. It's well integrated and clean; no sloppy grumbliness here. The mids are accurate and forward - so forward that most music sounds like it's firmly resting on your nose. You can expect a clarity and detail that no other on-ear alternatives will provide. Very nice. The highs are crystal clear with a slight emphasis on the crystal. The detail is to be loved, but when listening at louder volumes, female vocals and high hats can become piercing and jangly. The sibilance of the Amperior's older sibling hasn't completely vanished from the family lineage. As for the sound stage - the on-ear style, mixed with the neutral and aggressive sound signature leave little room to hear your music in a 3D space. The music has the air of a studio or a live performance. You won't be surrounded by a hall of sound, but instead be confronted by a wall of it. A wide, thick, and beautiful wall of sound, but still condensed. Does that make sense?
If you prefer a warmer, spacious, and laid-back listening experience, I'd look elsewhere (Momentums, perhaps?).
The V-Moda M80's rumbly upper-bass/mids and treble roll-off are not present, but the M-80s have a broader, more engrossing soundstage. The classy warmth and eager-to-please well-roundedness of the Sennheiser Momentums aren't here either. That said, the Amperior's bass and overall presence beat the Momentums handily. Anyone calling the Momentum a bassier headphone than the Amperior is...well...incorrect. I hate to sound so authoritative on a subjective subject, but as a owner of both headphones, the Momentums have never created a bassier oomph than the Amperiors on any track I've listened to. That said, bassheads should probably look elsewhere. These have great lows, but they're not emphasized over any other part of the spectrum.
I've found the Amperiors to have a polarizing effect on listeners. The narrow soundstage and bossy, uncompromising presentation are offputting to laid-back listeners looking to unwind.
But if you want it punchy and clear. If you want it accurate - no frills - just a fun, hearty, detailed, portable on-ear listening experience, then the Sennheiser Amperior has no equal.
They're the best on-ear headphones I've ever heard.


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By PHIL FAUVERGuest Writer
Senator Bob Bennett encouraged hundreds of small business owners and entrepreneurs in Utah to stay positive about the economy as he kicked off his ninth annual Rural Business Conference in Price where the focus was on job creation and economic growth in the energy sector.
"Job creation comes from small businesses, not from Fortune 500 companies," said Bennett. "But it's those small businesses that grow that have the potential to become Fortune 500 companies. The government must do more for this sector of the economy and recognize that small businesses are the key to igniting our economy."
Nearly 520 small business men and women from 67 cities and 22 counties in Utah attended the conference at the Carbon County Event Center in Price. More than 50 organizations and businesses were also on display during the business exposition, giving attendees the chance to network.
Steve Appleton, CEO of Micron Technology, was the keynote speaker and addressed the conference about tactics and values he believes will help make small businesses successful. He encouraged attendees to set realistic expectations, to build relationships, and to persevere. Micron is one of the world's leading providers of advanced semiconductors, and with Intel Corporation, jointly operates IM Flash Technologies in Lehi, Utah to manufacture memory used in various computer and communications devices. When he became CEO of Micron at age 34, Appleton was one of the youngest CEO's in the Fortune 500.
The conference included various workshop sessions on budget-friendly strategies for marketing and sales, building a home-based business, acquiring small business capital, community economic development, developing social media strategies and rural business growth.
Bennett also led a discussion on energy development alongside Kevin Book, managing director of ClearView Energy Partners. The two discussed the policy and economic impacts related to climate change and energy development in a local, national and global setting and took questions from the crowd.
How to make sales in a down economy was presented by Don Cash in the first breakout session.
Cash, Vice President Mid Market Sales and Global Account Development for Omniture a business unit of Adobe Systems, presented a slide show and lecture about making sales in a down economy. No matter what industry you are in, no company will last long without a quality sales team.
Cash went to work for Omniture as VP of mid-market sales in 2004 at that time their sales were less than $8 million. Ominiture was acquired by Adobe Systems for $1.8 million, when they had annual sales in 2009 of near $400 million. In this workshop, Cash taught how businesses of any size can improve their bottom line despite difficult financial times.
In addition to his success at Omniture, Cash has had 18 years of experience in sales and marketing, product development, business development and channel management. Prior to Omniture, Cash worked for Siebel Systems, Inc. as senior director where he opened up the Utah office for Siebel's mid-market sales organization. Cash was vice president of sales and marketing for Mirror Software Corporation, Seattle; held sales and sales management roles within QuadraMed's sales organization; and served as a sales representative with AMSCO Medical and Baxter Healthcare. He received a bachelor's degree in marketing from the University of Utah with a minor in Mandarin Chinese. He was also named the sales executive of the year in 2007 by Utah Technology Council and has been named four times as one of Spring Capital's Top 100 entrepreneurs.
The following are quotes from Cash's presentation at Sen. Bennetts 9th Annual Rural Business Conference. Cash started off by saying, "My main experience is from working with smaller companies and smaller businesses like many of those in the audience here today. At Siebel Systems I had about 75 sales people and six managers. I got a request from this kid, he was about 27 years old. His name was Josh James. He asked if I would come and work in his little company for free. Just to help out his sales guys. They were really struggling, his company was called My Computer.Com. Because Siebel Systems was known as the best practice for sales, we had sales software that helped people organize and run their business and it allowed managers to understand what was going on within sales. We really did have some good processes. I decided to go down and help this business out. There were two salesmen at that time at My Computer.Com. I would go down every six months and work with these guys for free, take a look at their pipe line, take a look at their corporate presentation, take a look at their elevator pictures, take a look at everything about their sales organization. I would just question it and over time they changed their name to Omniture and started getting some pretty good sales. I would like to say I had something to do with that, the reality is that the timing was perfect. Switching the name and the focus of the product was absolutely perfect and this company started to grow.
"I started working with Omniture when their sales were only a couple of hundred thousand dollars. I joined finally after the fourth request to go to work for Omniture when their sales were around $8 million. Last year we did just under $400 million in sales. We were just acquired by Adobe Systems for $1.8 billion dollars. This is the largest tech acquisition in the state of Utah. I now have 75 sales people that work for me as well as a number of account development folks.
"This presentation was developed for the Utah Technology Council a chairperson of a forum called Peer to Peer Sales. It is effectively just a group of a lot of my peers in the tech industry, where we get together on a bi-monthly basis and just round table discuss the issues that we are facing and how we can help each other out.
"I have done other presentations such as how to hire top sales people. Somehow information floated down to Senator Bennetts office, that I had made a presentation about selling in a down economy. I want you to know this presentation was geared toward other sales managers with a sales team.
"Lets go through some of the tactics: I have about 15 tactics you can use. As we go through these I hope you will be able to draw correlations to your own business. How this will impact the firm you are working for, whether you are an owner operator or an entrepreneur. You will have to take some of these tactics and apply them to your own business and how they would apply to you. Ideally you will come up with some additional tactics along the way.
"The first one is: You cannot turn on the radio without hearing how bad the economy is, you can't turn on the TV without hearing it, you can't read a newspaper, everything is depressing. Everything is so depressing. One thing that you absolutely have to do is keep your own spirits high, because there is too much time wasted dwelling on the negative. There is a lot of doom and gloom out there.
"I like to think of it this way. That is what my competitors are doing. They are all sitting around the water cooler wringing their hands and just worried whether or not they will make it or not. That is the time when I need to be completely focused and executing and working on closing deals. So do not waste your enthusiasm on all the bad news. It is so easy to get caught up in that. The last thing that I ever do is ask my sales people, what's the economy been doing to your business. It just gives them an opportunity to blame anything and everything on the economy. My favorite comment to my sales people, when I sit down with them and do one on one, account reviews and territory planning, tell me how you are planning to win, do not tell me how you are losing. I do not want to hear how the economy is killing you and deals are being delayed. I get it but I want to hear what you're doing to plan to win. Where you are planning to succeed? Just keep focusing on the positive.
"Just like Steve Appleton of Micron Technology talked about competitors going out of business. We have lost a whole bunch of competitors that have gone bankrupt or have been consolidated.That has been wonderful. That just means we are continuing to gain market share and as we come out of this and continue those high levels of growth, we will have a lot fewer ankle biters out there that we have to worry about.
"The second tactic: is to make sure you are focused on current customers. I know that this seems like a no brainer comment, but our average revenue on an annual basis from our existing customer base, has gone up 35 percent to 65 percent over the last couple of years. That was by design, because of the cost to attract and get a new customer is 10 times what it is to retain a customer. We have through acquisitions a lot of products used by existing customers. We have about 5,000 existing customers now and products that a lot of our customers did not have, so rather than going out and spending marketing dollars, trying to find a net new logo or trying to find a new customer. We made a few changes internally and grew a lot more focused on our existing products and our existing customer base. We went back to our customer base and continued to up-sell our customer base. The same thing happened back in 2000 and 2002 when we had the dot com. I know it sounds like a no brainer, but we were able to leverage a couple of things internally and I know you may not have a call center to use or a support department that does customer care. We were able to make changes in our compensation where for every lead that our customer care department, was taking care of our customers problems, could identify an opportunity and get a lead for a new product we would give them a spiff.
"That program alone drove a significant number of leads into our current customer base. Which brought in a lot of new revenue. We also changed the way our sales development group operated, they used to be only charted to bring in new leads for the sales people. They were not allowed to call into our existing customer base. It was all about land grab before the recession and all about how many new logos we could get and widening our market share. We reversed that with this recession and focused our groups on finding new leads within our customer base and paying them the same because they had found a lead and a net new logo. Our new logo leads were trending down, it was becoming harder and harder to get a brand new customer. So we focused on finding additional opportunities within our current customer base. Sure enough it absolutely went off the charts in how many new opportunities we were able to draw from our existing customers. We went from 1.2 products per customer to 2.6 products per customer. That is what has been keeping us growing at a 30 percent rate. It is not growing as much as it was before the recession, but the growth is because we focused on our customer base. This has gotten us through these past couple of years. The market is continuing to improve and we expect to continue to grab market share.
"Tactic Number 3: I use this to identify areas of opportunities rather than wait for my CFO to come to me with the budget ax and start whacking programs and campaigns and dollars out of my budget. I took the initiative to identify areas that I thought we could probably walk away from.
"There are a significant number of trade shows that we attended where the ROI (Return Of Investment) was not near the ROI of some of the other trade shows," said Cash.
It really helped me to go through the process of understanding where we get the best bang for the buck. This helped me also make sure I had the dollars allocated or protected for those key programs and voluntarily eliminating some of the ones that weren't producing.
Tactic number 4: "Give your customers a deal. This may sound simple, but your customers are most likely struggling with their own budget problems. The last thing I wanted is to have our customers terminate their contract or not renew the contract. We offered to go out and re-negotiate their current contracts. How many of you have cell phones? Have you ever had your cell phone company call you and say, " I noticed you signed up for this higher plan and you are not using the number of minutes on the plan and you would actually save money if you went with this lower plan". Has anyone ever had that call? No! That is what we actually did. We are basically similar to the cell phone company, where the customers will sign up for a set number of server calls on a use it or lose it scenario. They commit for the year to how many server calls they are going to buy and the cost per million. They pay for it whether they use it or not. We decided to go out and call our customer and pro-actively renew their contracts for an additional year. The benefit that we got was, taking a contract that was going to expire in three or four months and renegotiating it at a lower plan. This meant less revenue to Omniture however it gave us another year of contract. The fact that we were calling them in advance, saying I know you bought all of these server calls, we are going to give you the chance to lower that and reduce your cost, all we ask is that you renew your contract for another year. This was extremely well received. The amount of loyalty this bought us from the majority of our customers was well worth doing.
"You know what happens when you go over your cell phone minutes. You have to pay a premium. We have the same thing with our products as well, which is called over usage. If you go into over usage you can take a significant hit on your bill. Although we give the customers the opportunity to monitor their usage trying to avoid over usage. Sometimes they just do not have the time or the resources to do that. We started to do that pro-actively on our own and contacted the customer and said we noticed that your volumes were trending into where your going to be in over usage if you don't do something now. Those overusage fees will be some significant fees. Those fees are great for the company, however they do not breed a lot of long term loyalty when the customer suddenly gets hit with those overusage fees. By pro-actively identifying customers that were going to be going into overusage and addressing that by reviewing the contract, upping their commitment but at a lower rate. We were able to help save them from some significant fees. I think that buys significant loyalty.
Tactic number 5: "Networking. You are here and that is a good sign. You should do this on a regular basis. This has been one thing with my career that has been extremely effective for me, by involving myself with the local tech community at UTC, going to the different trade shows, going to the different events. When Senator Bennett's office called me to come down and present. I said, I am always looking for opportunities to assist other companies. I sit on the strategic advisory boards of eight different companies and that is a non paid position. Essentially I go in every couple of months and sit down with their sales people, their sales leaders and help them out. That's it I just try to help people out. That is how I was introduced to Omniture when they were a tiny company. This has been a huge financial success for me. I am a big believer in networking. There is a lot of opportunity that comes from face to face contacts, in getting out there and interacting with others.
Tactic Number 6: is similar to the first one, where you're thinking positively, not focusing on the negative. You need to calm down at some point. Everybody is worried about the economy, everybody is worried whether their company is going to remain solvent, whether their job is going to remain intact. You cannot let that rule your thoughts and actions. Look at it as how can I use this as an opportunity. If I were brand new what would I do different? What are the challenges? We are going through a cycle where we are weeding out the weak players. If you do not want to be one of those weak players, you've got to be thinking about how can we change, how can you innovate. What are a couple of things you can do to come out of this stronger and better in the long run? Remember even in the worst of times people end up winning. When I was referring to that Harvard Business Review article, that was talking about the number of companies who not only went through the last three recessions, but about 9 percent of them actually grew and became significantly stronger. I want you to know that there are people who are taking advantage of this recession in finding opportunities and thinking about things completely differently and are coming out of this recession stronger than when they went in.
Tactic number 7: "This is more for people that work for other companies so if you own your own business, will your business survive? I know it is a tough one to swallow, but basically how vulnerable is your company right now? How much is at risk? If you were one of your customers, would you do business with you? You simply have to ask yourself that. If the answer is no then my recommendation is that you go to work for a firm that is not at significant risk. If the answer is yes, then you have a significant amount of viability and with that you should go out there and sell like there is no tomorrow.
"I apologize, this tactic was not meant for owner, operators, it was meant for salesmen working for bigger companies. However the message is valid. If there is a threat of folding you need to go for it.
Tactic number 8: "Crafting a new corporate message. One thing that we have had to do in the past is to take away the financial worry of the customer doing business with us. In the early years, before we went public, there was not a prospect that didn't ask for our financials. They needed to be assured that if they were going to sign up and do business with the company, a relatively new startup, that their financials were secure. They wanted to know their data would be secure, when starting up their system to rely on our company, they did not want to be at risk if we were to suddenly go out of business. We were sending out our financials directly to our prospects and once we became public, we could send them to an on line link where they could see our financials and analyze them.
You need to make sure that your customer knows that you are a safe bet. If you have to change your messaging, they need to know that is the case. Being able to monetize your product and focus on that message is extremely powerful. Helping them to improve their bottom line even by reducing costs or improving revenue. Being able to sell your product around those messages is extremely important in difficult times.
Tactic number 9: "This is a very similar tactic in that you need to let your customer feel that you are secure. So they feel that buying from you is buying from a stable company. There are times when you go out and really push that you are a cutting edge company on the leading edge. Then there are times when you need to step back and say we are stable. We have this protection here and you will get security by buying from us. We are a safe bet.
"I worked for IBM when I was in college in the 1980s and that was one of the things that IBM was known for. You don't ever lose your job working for IBM as your partner. That is the type of thing that you want to convey to your customers. That it is a safe bet. Make sure that you refine your unique value proposition, relative to savings, cutting costs, increasing revenue or improve the bottom line in some way.
Tactic number 10: "Make sure that you know all the different options available for getting the customer to buy from you. You want to make sure that when you go into any sales situation and any negotiation with enough options, that no matter what, you give them every reason and opportunity to buy from you. Whether that be leasing, special payment terms or the way you price your product. We have had a lot of success in the way we have structured our discounts and the way we approach discounts. My sales team will send out proposals and it has right on the proposal that this is the only way you can get a discount on our product. You get 5 percent for doing a multi-year term and you get another 5 percent if you pay cash in advance. Those are both things that are very positive for our company. They helped us significantly financially, to get multi-year contracts that won't be canceling after 12 months, we sign them up for 24 or 36 months. This is how we discount. We love to discount. This is how we do it. We set that up front in every proposal. We set that up front in every discussion, so when it comes time to negotiate a deal. They say I know how to get my discount. Those are all things that help us in the company. It stops all the other discussion about discounting because they know up front what the discounts are. We do discount and here is what you get and here is what we need from you. We have had to do some creative terms on occasion. We have had to restructure the way we price some things. You have to take a look at your own scenario and see if any of this applies.
Tactic number 11: "Prioritize your opportunities. Look through your pipeline of opportunities, based on this recession based economy. I have a huge pipeline of financial services companies, big banks and financial services firms, that I have had to say, the likelihood of a lot of these sales closing is very slim and we had to write those off. However we have had a huge increase in the number of marketing agencies that were using our software on behalf of their clients and they were growing like crazy. We shifted some of our sales people from financial agencies to selling the marketing agencies and we were able to maintain and increase the net revenue to the company. It wasn't until we sat down one or two years ago, when the banks were melting down, and said the chances of the banks and large financial firms buying from us, we knew was going to be slim. We took the opportunity to reallocate resources to make sure we were not betting on sustaining a certain percentage of those bank sales closing. Otherwise we were setting ourselves up for failure. We also have a lot of strategic accounts where we want the name and we are putting a significant amount of resources into trying to close them as customers. We had to do an internal evaluation as to whether the time, energy, cost and effort to go after and close those deals were worth it and maybe we put them on hold. Simply because of the resources that would be required to get some of those.
Tactic number 12: "Essentially re-qualify your customers in the sales channel. The net of this tactic is: how many have customers that just suck the living life out of you? At some point you have to do a cost evaluation. How much are you really getting out of that customer to keep them as a customer? Particularly if you're putting much time and energy into maintaining the customer. This was an opportunity for us to step back and evaluate whether or not we wanted to keep some of these customers. There were several that we came to terms with, that we needed to part ways. Their expectations and the amount of money we were getting out of the deal versus what they were requiring in resources of us to keep them happy, because it wasn't a good business decision to keep them.
"We also had a lot of channel partners, we were getting 80 percent of our volume from 20 percent of our channels. We had to take a real look at 80 percent of our channel partners that weren't producing very much volume and started to make some cuts. They all required a significant amount of time, energy, resources and money to keep those going. Make sure you re-qualify your customers.
One of the key indicators of a top sales person is being able to qualify their deals. What I mean by that is if a sales person has 10 sales opportunities in their pipeline, the best ones are the ones being able to identify two or three deals to work on to close that quarter the rest they know they have to keep warm. I have seen way too many sales people that are focused on the wrong deals that don't close. Re-qualifying your customer is a good practice particularly during these times.
Tactic number 13: "How many of you have a sales process? What do I mean by a sales process, for example I know how many calls it is going to take in order to get an appointment, how many appointments it will take to get a demo, how many demos it will take to get a qualified project in place and how many of those will end up in a closed deal. I know what my average closed deals are. I know what my sales cycle length is. My entire business is based on mathematics and the numbers. I know how much work I have to do in order to spit out a certain amount of closed revenue. I just got my quota for 2010 and I simply reverse the funnel and just say OK here is my quota for 2010, lets reverse the numbers first. I have to do this much revenue, here is how many deals I will have to close the average deal size in order to get that revenue, here is how many calls I need to make, how many campaigns I have. Basically I work it by the numbers and then know if I can constantly go back to that process it is the mechanics of how you get deals done. This really gets you to the fundamentals by taking all of the emotions out of it and it is simply the numbers. This is what it takes to get closed revenue. Your numbers will all be different, but you know what the process has to be.
Tactic number 14: "You need to start having fun. This is not all that fun especially with tight pressures, budget constraints and especially when you are cold calling, trying to prospect, and you get a lot more no's, the resilience of your ego has got to be strong. Part of it is just deciding you are going to mentally feel good and then do it. I know that is a lot easier said than done. But again I keep reminding myself that all of my competitors are sitting around the water cooler, just worried that they are going to go out of business. So I want to make sure that I am not one of those people. That I am the one that is not worried about it.
Tactic number 15: Is just simple, it is all about execution, nothing happens until you do something. I have interviewed thousands of sales people and some of the most naturally talented sales people I have ever met are the worst, because they are so lazy. I will take a hard worker over a naturally talented sales person any day, because at the end of the day, nothing happens until you pick up a phone and set up an appointment, pick up a phone and set up a demo, get interest, have a dialog. Pick up a phone and talk to a customer and ask for a referral. Nothing happens until you actually work. Pick up the phone, because it is about executing. At some point act. That's a big one for me. Because we are very metrics driven, mathematically driven in our sales process. I have to make sure that the activity levels are high on the top end that they are producing the deals down to the bottom line.
"These are just some high end tactics that I have considered as I have approached my business. I know it may not be quite as relevant as what you may have but hopefully you have been able to draw some things that maybe good for you as well," said Cash.


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Jody Rich goes above and beyond to provide students at Hurricane High School in Washington, Utah, with a top-notch education. His unwavering dedication was confirmed this past summer when he rode his bike cross-country from California to Florida alongside a fellow principle to raise over $30,000 for the purchase of new computers for their schools. The theme of their ride was "We Can Do Hard Things." In the words of the individual who nominated Rich, "I have never seen such a great example to our young people."
CenturyLink and the Utah Jazz are selecting one teacher each month through March 2014 as a CenturyLink All-Star Teacher. Nominees are evaluated on their excellence in teaching and inspiring students to succeed. Each monthly winner will receive a $1,000 cash prize for his or her school's general fund, four tickets for an upcoming Jazz game and an on-court award presentation during halftime. The person who nominated the winning teacher will also receive two tickets to a Jazz game.
Additionally, a grand prize winner, selected from the five monthly winners, will be awarded a $5,000 cash prize for his or her school's general fund, a catered suite for 12 and an on-court award presentation during an upcoming Jazz game, as well as a pep rally for the school featuring Jazz Bear and the America First Jazz Dancers.
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The Pioneer Valley Transit Authority's Advisory Board is scheduled to meet tomorrow (Wednesday) to vote on, among other items, proposed fare increases on bus routes and van service. The board is made up of representatives of the 24 communities the PVTA serves. But at least one major player is signaling that it will be voting against any fare hike.
The proposal to increase the transit authority's fares was prompted by initial projections from PVTA officials that the Authority was facing a $1.8 million budget shortfall. But according to a recent analysis from Administrator Mary McInnes, recent funding from Beacon Hill has made it possible to balance the PVTA's budget. And now the Authority has revised downward its proposed fare increases. Transfer fees, for example, would increase to $.50 instead of $1.00. And proposed increases would be delayed until July 2013, contingent on what the Authority is calling a long range, statewide transportation funding plan.
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Noah and his sons are commanded to multiply and fill the earth—They are given dominion over all forms of life—The death penalty is decreed for murder—God will not again destroy the earth by a flood—Canaan is cursed; Shem and Japheth are blessed.
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them,
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3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be
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7 And you, be ye
8 ¶And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
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10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a
12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
15 And I will remember my
17 And God said unto Noah, This is the
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19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole
20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
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26 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his
27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
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Number-one seed Canadians win opening match at world junior beach volleyball championshipsHALIFAX (August 29, 2012) – Number-one seeds Taylor Pischke of Winnipeg and Melissa Humana-Paredes of Toronto won their opening match on Wednesday to open the 26-country FIVB World Junior Championships in beach volleyball.
The world juniors are being held through Sunday at the purpose-built beach volleyball complex on the Salter Lot of the Halifax Waterfront for the second straight year after a wildly successful tournament in 2011.
Pishke and Humana-Paredes defeated Nadia Lucia Galan Dary and Ana Lucia Villgran Ruano of Guatemala 21-7, 21-4. Last year, Humana-Paredes won the silver medal with Victoria Altomare. Pishke and Humana-Paredes won the senior national title earlier this month in Vancouver.
Charlotte Sider and Julia Hamer, both of Toronto ; Julie Longman and Sophie Bukovec, also both of Toronto as well as Hillary Monette of New Minas, N.S., and Meaghan MacDougall of Hammond Plains, N.S., (in photo) all lost their first two preliminary round matches.
Men's action gets underway Thursday. Canadian entries are number-one seeds Ben Chow of Surrey, B.C., and Nick Del Bianco of Coquitlam, B.C.; sixth seeds Dallas Keith of Toronto and Garrett May of London, Ont.,; Andrew Kocur of Toronto and Lucas Colman of Brooklin, Ont., and Aaron Nusbaum of Aurora, Ont., and Grant O'Gorman of Toronto.
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As we countdown to Father's Day (06/21) – here's our continuing look at some of TV's favorite fathers: From the 1950s cardigan-wearing, "Father Knows Best" types to the 21st century guys juggling dysfunctional families and questionable careers.
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Archie Bunker (played by Carroll O'Connor) was TV's most morally offensive character – long before being morally offensive was popular. A working class father from Queens, Archie sat in his striped armchair, dispensing his always loud, usually bigoted opinions about people and politics. Pivotal to the show were Archie's daily spars with son-in-law Michael (AKA "Meathead"), whose liberal views and perennial student status were fodder for Archie's slurs.
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Welcome to the first post in what I hope will be a long running series of interviews I've been wanting to put together for some time now. I will be speaking to some of the amazing people behind SEO tools we all know and love over the coming months, hopefully bringing some insight into the great tools available to SEOs, and maybe bringing you a few hidden gems along the way?
First up is a rank tracking tool which I've been using for a little while now to follow a couple of clients sites and have been really impressed so far. Rank tracking is a hot topic at the moment with the announcement from Raven tools that they are to drop rank tracking and other scraped data in 2013 with others sure to follow. The irony of Google punishing others for scraping data won't be lost on those of us who've been in the industry for more than 10 minutes.
Anyway, over to my first guest, Nick Cuttonaro of Microsite Masters….
First of all welcome and thank you for agreeing to do this interview. To kick off I'd like to know a little more about you and how you first became involved with Microsite Masters?
"We appreciate the opportunity to be selected for this interview.
My name is Nick Cuttonaro and I've been in the Internet marketing industry since 1999. My "sweet spot" lies in the area of generating organic traffic (non-paid) and that's been my focus since the late 90's. We started developing Microsite Masters in July of 2011 as there was a need in the industry for a reliable SERP tracker which provided ranking updates daily.
The toolset was initially created to better serve our clients at The Link Builders, an SEO and reputation management agency. Running a successful SEO agency is always a challenge so having the right tools to get the job done is necessary. Simply put, there wasn't a rank tracker on the market that was able to provide what we needed so we decided to develop a solution internally.
The accuracy and reliability of other rank tracker tools in the market have often been "in question" so the decision to develop a solution to fill that void was necessary to run organic campaigns with greater precision while having a consistent and automated measure of accountability in place for our clients.
Understanding and articulating the cause and effects of changes in the SERPs internally and to clients is a critical part of running a successful SEO agency or campaign. Microsite Masters is a solution that addresses those challenges."
Tell us more about Microsite Masters itself?
"Microsite Masters is a daily web-based rank tracker that can be used for tracking the ranking results for corresponding keywords and websites on Google, Yahoo, and Bing. We provide Internet marketers and agencies the ability to centralize the management of tracking organic campaigns by logging into a dashboard where projects, websites, keyword sets, and ranking data can be accessed easily.
Professionals use our product so the task of obtaining ranking data from search engines is simplified, automated, and managed as service that we provide daily. The days of checking rankings manually or keeping track of rankings by using spread sheets are over!
Microsite Masters users range from individuals monitoring their first and last name or brand / company name in the SERPs, organic affiliates, large SEO agencies utilizing our API, Internet marketing consultants, service providers in the SEO space, and in-house SEO professionals managing campaigns on behalf of Fortune 500 companies.
Every user has different reasons for monitoring the SERPs. Microsite Masters is a platform which provides the flexibility to meet the demands of a wide range of users with varying needs."
Anything exciting coming up in the next few months? What does the future have in store for Microsite Masters? Do you have a vision of where you see Microsite Masters heading in the short to medium term?
"Our interface will be going through a "face lift" in the next couple of months. This is something that we're really excited about because it will not only be focused on the aesthetic side of the platform, but it will also feature additional reporting metrics for domains tracked, ranking URL's, keyword sets, and much more.
We've always taken pride in doing daily rank tracking extremely well. There's beauty in the simplicity of that model. Less is often more when it comes to offering "can't live without" features within the same toolset. In the future, we plan to better educate our users on ways to use Microsite Masters in unique ways they so they can become more efficient when running SEO campaigns and achieve desired results with less resistance and uncertainty."
The way I tend to find out about the best tools (both new or old) is via blogs or presentations from other SEO's who've often been using them for a while.Is there any posts or slide decks featuring your tool you'd recommend?
"We've seen many SEO professionals use our public export links and graphs to demonstrate movements in the SERPs with their audience. The most informative slide deck presentation I've come across was by Ian Howells where he shared a case study on his Penguin recovery process using ranking data provided by Microsite Masters.
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Ian did a fantastic job of sharing what was happening in the SERPs from the ranking data collected by Microsite Masters. As a daily rank tracker we're in a position to display ranking data which can pinpoint algorithm updates and keep track of actions taken by SEOers with greater accuracy than rank trackers updating weekly.
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College tennis' best players convened in Flushing, N.Y., on Thursday at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center for day one of the 2013 USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships.
The indoor championships serve as the culmination of the fall season. Hosted by Columbia University, this prestigious event features a 32-player singles draw and a 20-team doubles draw for men and women.
This year's event features over 120 players from 46 schools. On Day 1, first-round singles and first- and second-round doubles action was completed, as well as consolation rounds for doubles.
Five of eight seeded men advanced to the second round in the singles draw, though the tournament's top seed, Patrick Pradella of Baylor, fell. The Bear drew pre-season No. 1 Mikelis Libietis of Tennessee, and the two played a hard-hitting match. The first set was a huge battle that ended in a tiebreaker, and the Vol faced a set point but won it, 9-7. Libietis then got a key break in the second set to wrap up a hard-fought, 7-6 (7), 6-4 win.
"Everybody here is good," Libietis said. "If you want to win the tournament, you have to win five matches in a row. I actually liked it that the first match was really hard for me, so I can get ready for the next match."
Second seed Guillermo Alcorta of Oklahoma, the runner-up at the Saint Francis Health System ITA Men's All-American Championships, made quick work of USC's Yannick Hanfmann, 6-1, 6-4, while third-seeded Julian Lenz of Baylor also won with ease over Mississippi's Nik Scholtz, 6-2, 6-2.
Other seeded winners were No. 5 Gonzalez Austin of Vanderbilt, No. 6 Clay Thompson of UCLA, No. 7 Winston Lin of Columbia and No. 8 Jared Hiltzik of Illinois.
On the women's side, defending singles champion Robin Anderson of UCLA, the second seed, and top seed Jamie Loeb of UNC were among the winners. Both won in straight sets, with Anderson defeating Abigail Tere-Apisah of Georgia State, 6-3, 6-4, and Loeb ousting Sofie Oyen of Florida, 6-2, 6-4. The two played in last month's Riviera/ITA Women's All-American Championships final and are on track for a rematch.
Anderson, from nearby Matawan, N.J., said she was happy to be back after her great run to the title a year ago.
"My favorite moment [of my college career] was winning Indoors last year," she said. "It was pretty awesome, and I'm playing back at home."
Anderson next faces Valentine Confalonieri of Lynn, the 2013 USTA/ITA National Small College Super Bowl Women's Singles Champion.
The top two seeds were joined in round two by fourth seed Sabrina Santamaria of USC and seventh seed Hayley Carter of UNC. Third seed Beatrice Capra was upset by freshman Jennifer Brady of UCLA, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4, while the fifth seed, Zsofi Susanyi of California, lost to Georgia's Maho Kowase, 5-7, 6-3, 6-1.
Seventh seed Hayley Carter of UNC and eighth seed Silvia Garcia of Georgia both advanced in straight sets, but sixth seed Lauren Herring of Georgia was upset by Julia Elbaba of Virginia in three sets.
In men's doubles, top-seeded Tennessee duo Libietis and Hunter Reese got their title run off to a strong start, with an 8-1 win over Andreas Bjerrehus and Amerigo Contini of Virginia Tech. The ITA Men's All-American winners next face Jorge Azuero and Shea Thomas of Liberty, as they try to capture back-to-back major titles.
Second seeds Lloyd Glasspool and Soren Hess-Olesen of Texas also reached the second round, with an 8-4 victory over USC's Max de Vroome and Eric Johnson.
2013 USTA/ITA National Small College Super Bowl Champions Deni Zmak and Simon Felix of Embry-Riddle upset No. 3 seeds Marcos Giron and Mackenzie McDonald of UCLA. The NAIA team was ecstatic with their 8-7 (5) win.
"I can't stop smiling. It feels amazing," Felix said. "Going into it, I didn't know what to expect. I knew they were really good -- they're the No. 3 seeds. I knew we had a shot."
Added Zmak, "It was a good match for us, and it is really good experience. If we are playing our best tennis, we can compete with anyone."
The Eagles next face Ashok Narayana and Max Schnur of Columbia.
In women's doubles, the top two seeds advanced. Two-time defending champions Kaitlyn Christian and Sabrina Santamaria of USC got their title defense underway with an 8-4 win over Auburn's Pleun Burgmans and Emily Flickinger.
"It's definitely great to be back in New York. We love it here, especially this facility. We are just taking it day by day, not really thinking about being two-time defending champs," Santamaria said.
The Trojans next face Georgia's Lauren Herring and Maho Kowase.
Top-seeded UCLA duo Jennifer Brady and Catherine Harrison also advanced with a win over an Auburn team, as they defeated Jackie Kasler and Jennifer Pfeifler, 8-4.
Friday's action begins at 9 a.m. ET and showcases the singles round of 16, singles and doubles quarterfinals and consolation matches.
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Gone are the days of going to college being a simple experience of just going to class and studying. Today college is a life-changing experience, one that involves plenty of memorable activity away from the classroom.
Athletics and entertainment have become a huge part of what a university experience will provide. What could be better than showing support for the school you are currently attending or have graduated from by attending one of the many sporting events around campus? There are plenty of different choices you have throughout the school year. During the fall rabid fans pack into football stadiums around the country, particularly on Saturdays, to support their teams all the way to college bowl season. The winter brings about the excitement of college basketball, culminating in what many consider to be the ultimate in sports entertainment, March Madness. Spring is in the air next, and college baseball is a fun way to spend your time, especially late in the school year when the College World Series is in full swing.
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This link is a few days old, but it's new to me and is among the coolest things I've seen on the internet in the last 5 days. Dave Delisle imagines making NHL94 action figures. Yes it includes a "Gretzky with his head bleeding" figurine. Lots of awesome.
Looks like the New Jersey Devils have invited former Canuck Steve Bernier to training camp on a PTO. Hilarious.
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The Rule of Reason and the Goals of Antitrust: An Economic Approach
Roger D. Blair
University of Florida - Warrington College of Business Administration - Department of Economics
D. Daniel Sokol
University of Florida - Levin College of Law; George Washington University Law School Competition Law Center
April 9, 2012
Antitrust Law Journal , Vol. 78, No. 2, 2012
Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-04
In this paper, we discuss the problem of the rule of reason and the welfare standard in antitrust. We begin with the Introduction (Section I), which provides an overview of the problem. In Section II, we review the Supreme Court's guidance on the standard for conducting a rule of reason analysis. Put simply, the Supreme Court has failed to identify clearly what standard to use in conducting a rule of reason inquiry. After a careful — albeit selective — reading of Supreme Court opinions it is simply not clear. While a case can be made for total welfare as the guiding principle of a rule of reason analysis, which is the standard that we advocate, an argument also can be made, based upon case law, for consumer welfare. In most simple cases, the antitrust welfare standard does not matter. Beyond these simple cases, however, there are more complicated cases for which the welfare standard does matter. The article introduces the first set of complications in Section III where we analyze the need to weigh efficiencies that are accompanied by increased market power flowing from joint ventures or mergers. In Section IV, we turn our attention to the creation of countervailing power through joint ventures or mergers. In Section V, we turn our attention to restraints that have no apparent total welfare effects, but do have pronounced distributive effects. Finally, we close the article with some concluding comments in Section VI regarding how to solve the policy dilemma of the implementation of proper goal of antitrust.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 34
Keywords: rule of reason, antitrust, competition law, competition policy, Bork, total welfare, consumer welfare, mergers, joint ventures, monopsony, two part pricing, collussion, buyer power, efficiency, all or nothing offers
JEL Classification: K21, L10, L40, L41, L42, D61
Date posted: April 14, 2012 ; Last revised: September 23, 2015
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CHICKASHA – Both Drover basketball teams fought tough in the their conference openers against Saint Gregory's University, but neither were able to overcome the Cavaliers.
Senior Aita Gueye scored 20 for the USAO women, sinking 75 percent of her three-pointers on the night. She had four rebounds as well.
Tiffany Jupin and Korie Hargus scored another eight and nine respectively. Hargus had five rebounds, and senior Annitra Walls had six rebounds and six points.
Despite their efforts, the Drovers fell 72-64 on Thursday night at home.
The Drover men had similar luck against the Cavs. Thomas Peters had 21 points and three assists in the game. He made all of his five free throw attempts.
Sahlih Butts had 14 points and was the team's highest rebounder with eight on the night. Graham Faulkner scored 13 for the Drovers.
SGU defeated USAO 78-73. The Drover basketball teams are both 4-3 overall and 0-1 in the conference.
It was Holiday Heroes Night and fans collected gifts to donate to the Salvation Army. The Drovers play next at home on Monday night, which is Grady County Night. Which town can bring out the most Drover fans? Tip off is at 6 and 8 p.m.
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Cryptic Studios has taken the veil off from the Mount Hotenow adventure zone for high level players. Mount Hotenow is the volcano that erupted many years ago that devastated the city of Neverwinter. Check out the new video below and the screenshots in our Neverwinter gallery.
You can also read more about the zone on the Neverwinter page.
Originally posted by AZHokie54
Sorry, lost all interest in this game at "Cryptic Studios."
Your loss, played the beta and loved te game so far.
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Gah, hurry up and launch already Neverwinter!
Dont be hasty :P
Originally posted by AZHokie54
Sorry, lost all interest in this game at "Cryptic Studios."
Yet showed enough interest to come in here and post typical "i hate this" meme's.
The game is decent, but the foundry is where this game shines. And just like a beloved company that seems to do no wrong can turn around and produce craptastic games (Bioware, im looking at you), then a subpar company can turn around and produce a surprising good game.


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Monday, January 7, 2013
Target (Almost) Hits the Mark
12 comments:
- Sadie + Stella said...
I bought the x-benches. I hear what you are saying about the detailing but let's face it. They are $60. You cannot beat that. If you want a fully piped x-bench we could go somewhere and pay a price point of at least $300. You know what I mean?
- January 7, 2013 at 7:09 AM
- Lori said...
I totally get where you're coming from. I find the biggest problem with Target is the scale is way off. Things like furniture and lamps are always very petite and look out of place with "real" stuff.
You do get what you pay for.
- January 7, 2013 at 8:41 AM
- Natalie {Designer Bags and Dirty Diapers} said...
Totally agree. I looked at the line Friday. The pillows were way too small for me and with kids I need the option to take off and wash the covers. Didn't see the benches but they are a steal!
- January 7, 2013 at 9:20 AM
- Nicole said...
I'm about to buy the x-benches - can't get to Target fast enough! Thanks so much for the heads up. They're not on-line, so I wasn't aware they were part of this new line. Your "real life" pix are also a lot more helpful than on-line images.
As far as quality goes, I'm impressed this line even has details like needlepoint, grosgrain trim, piping, and acrylic lamp bases for the price point. So maybe my standards just aren't up to par?? :) But I agree that full piping would be awesome.
- January 7, 2013 at 9:26 AM
- Bethany [at] Powell Brower Home said...
thanks for the update - i kept seeing pics on people's instagram of this line and it looked amazing, but after reading, i dont really think there's much i need/would buy. i do like that mirror though!!
- January 7, 2013 at 10:32 AM
- Kim@Chattafabulous said...
I saw them in the store last week and thought they were pretty promising. Yes, some of the details we love are missing but for that price point they're probably not lifetime pieces anyway. Happy New Year!
- January 7, 2013 at 10:34 AM
I completely agree. I always go down that isle to see what's new but I never end up buying much because the scale of the pieces make them look cheap. I wish they would make their furniture, prints, mirrors and some accessories much bigger than what they are. Even if they have to charge a bit more. It would be worth it.
- January 7, 2013 at 10:34 AM
- My Crafty Home Life said...
I am with you on this one. I was so impressed. I must say, that the mirror is the only obvious budget looking item.
- January 7, 2013 at 11:42 AM
- Andrea said...
I'm always a sucker for something new, but I've spent so much money in the past years on cheap things that I'm ultimately disappointed with.
I love vintage anything so I'd rather pick up something more original, or save my money to have something vintage recovered.
But it's so hard to wait sometimes! (and Target is such a wonderful money-suck!)
- January 7, 2013 at 12:23 PM
- spark! (Ada-Marie) said...
Yes, I agree. All of this stuff looks even cheaper than its price tag. I passed too.
- January 7, 2013 at 9:39 PM
- Nancy said...
I agree, they LOOK great, but at close inspection they are cheaply made, and THAT is the difference, clear and simple. They have copied some great designers and it sure brings me to the store, and I do occassionally find something worthy to buy. Great for kids rooms and rooms where the quality isn't paramount.
xo Nancy
- March 5, 2013 at 10:40 AM
- Nancy said...
I agree, they LOOK great, but at close inspection they are cheaply made, and THAT is the difference, clear and simple. They have copied some great designers and it sure brings me to the store, and I do occassionally find something worthy to buy. Great for kids rooms and rooms where the quality isn't paramount.
xo Nancy
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France 1848 – French Polynesia 1903
Yellow haystacks (The golden harvest)
[Les meules jaunes (La moisson blonde)] 1889
oil on canvas
canvas 73.5 (h) x 92.5 (w) cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris , Gift of Mrs Huc de Monfreid 1951
© RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
This work was painted during Gauguin's third sojourn in Brittany, after the notorious episode with van Gogh at Arles. 1889 was a testing year for Gauguin: he was desperate for public recognition, to prove himself in the eyes of his estranged wife Mette. From Arles he had retreated to Paris, where feverish preparations for the 1889 Exposition Universelle were underway. In the first part of the year he alternated between Pont-Aven and the capital, making arrangements for an exhibition—Groupe Impressioniste et Synthétiste—which opened on 8 June at Volpini's Café des Arts. Like many artists, Gauguin saw the Universal Exhibition as an opportunity to draw attention to his work; he produced a portfolio of zincographs—images which repeat and expand on his work in Brittany, Arles and Martinique—printed on brilliant yellow paper.
Returning to Brittany for the summer, Gauguin found Pont-Aven so overtaken by artists that in July he sought quiet at the small fishing village of Le Pouldu, travelling between the two until February 1890. During his time in Le Pouldu, Gauguin lived cheaply, relishing the connections between people and land, and the 'archaic' way of life. He often returned to the theme of the haystack, or to views of the harvesting of seaweed. Like several earlier works—his landscape painted at Arles in 1888, which also featured a haystack, as well as the study of haymakers and another harvest scene1—Yellow haystacks features a palette dominated by flamboyant yellow, perhaps influenced by his time with van Gogh.
Gauguin sought to express harsh, primitive aspects of the Breton landscape through technique as well as subject. The dry, matt, even rustic technique—the texture of the haystack, whitewashed walls, grassy mound and ground strewn with straw—is applied to advantage in this work. As Thomson points out, it is 'the strength of the underlying design rather than the colour or brushwork that establishes harmony: lines are smoothed and simplified and strong rhythms established through repeated shapes'.2 The stones of the rock wall in the mid-ground are echoed in the curves of the haystacks and grassy mounds at left. The Cézanne-like brushstrokes of the tree are reprised in the foreground. The female figures in traditional Breton costume are dwarfed by the huge mass of the hay; indeed, standing on her step ladder, the woman at right seems about to be engulfed by the stack. The central figure is repeated in reverse in another work from the same period, Haymaking in Brittany 1889.3 Simplified peasant figures are omnipresent in the work of the Pont-Aven artists, and Gauguin may have taken his inspiration from Bernard's painting, The harvest 1888, which he briefly owned.
Lucina Ward
Text © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2009
From Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin and beyond Post-Impressionism from the Musée d'Orsay exhibition book, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2009
- Farm at Arles 1888, also known as Haystacks (Landscape at Arles), is in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis; The haymakers 1889 is in a private collection; Haymaking in Brittany 1889 is in the Courtauld Institute Gallery, London; Georges Wildenstein, Gauguin, Paris: Les Beaux-arts 1964, pp. 134–35.
- Belinda Thomson, Gauguin, London: Thames and Hudson 1987, p. 102.
- Courtauld Institute Gallery, London.


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