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Flames Prospect Update, December 3 2012
Ryan Pike
December 03 2012 09:37AM
It's December now.
If that doesn't depress you a bit, I don't know what will. While it's unlikely that the NHL will return before 2013, there is still lots of hockey afoot. Can the Heat continue their winning ways? What college or junior players will step up?
It was a tale of two games on the weekend for the Abbotsford Heat.
On Saturday, the Heat were very good, beating the Hamilton Bulldogs 5-1. They scored four times on the power-play and got goals from five different scorers – Ben Street, Ben Walter, Quintin Laing, Roman Horak and Sven Baertschi. Barry Brust got another win. Life was good.
However, Baertschi and Walter left the game early with injuries and weren't available for the Heat on Saturday. Consequently, the Heat lost 3-0 in the second game with the Bulldogs. They didn't get any bounces and Max Reinhart was particularly snake-bit, getting robbed by Hamilton goalie Cedrick Desjardins at least twice and hitting at least one post.
As of this writing, the Heat were short six injured forwards – Baertschi, Walter, Michael Ferland, David Eddy, Akim Aliu and Lance Bouma. To help out, the club recalled Ryan Howse from the ECHL's Utah Grizzlies on Sunday night. The Grizzlies beat the San Francisco Bulls twice over the weekend, with Howse getting a pair of assists.
Abbotsford may be looking to see how Howse has progressed in the ECHL, as a handful of older prospects (Mitch Wahl, Gaelan Patterson and Bryan Cameron, all in their third years of their contracts) all have better offensive totals than he does. Perhaps a reunion with junior teammate Roman Horak may be just what the doctor ordered for Howse.
The Heat remain atop the AHL standings with a 13-3-4 record.
The Quebec Remparts split their weekend games. Ryan Culkin had a pair of assists, but was also minus-3. Patrick Sieloff and the Windsor Spitfires won one of their three weekend tilts, while Sieloff had zero points and was a cumulative minus-1.
Perhaps saving him for the playoffs (or the World Juniors), the Edmonton Oil Kings started Tristan Jarry in both of the weekend's games and let Calgary prospect Laurent Brossoit have the weekend off.
The Portland Winterhawks had a good weekend, winning both of their games. Blueliner Tyler Wotherspoon had a goal and was plus-6, pushing his CHL-leading plus/minus to plus-34. The Red Deer Rebels and captain Turner Elson also continued to be successful, winning both of their weekend games and pushing their winning streak to seven under new/old head coach Brent Sutter. Elson had 2 goals and an assist on the Friday night's game-winner.
Elsewhere, Swift Current's Coda Gordon was held off the scoresheet and Vancouver's Brett Kulak had an assist.
The biggest news on the weekend was that Boston College lost just their second game this year against Boston University, then came back and beat them handily on Saturday. The other big story was that Johnny Gaudreau failed to get on the scoresheet on Saturday night, snapping his points-scoring streak at 15 games (dating back to last year's NCAA championship tournament). Gaudreau had a goal and an assist on Friday in a losing cause, while Bill Arnold scored twice on Saturday.
Like Boston College, Providence College split their weekend series with Merrimack. Mark Jankowski didn't score in either game, while Jon Gillies made 47 saves between the pair. Gillies is expected to be named to USA Hockey's World Junior selection camp roster on Tuesday.
Elsewhere, John Ramage got his first point of the year (an assist) for Wisconsin while Michigan State's Matthew Deblouw was held pointless.
Avangard Omsk continued to roll along this weekend. They beat HC Barys 3-2 in overtime on Friday. Karri Ramo made 25 saves in the win.
Mikael Backlund had an assist as VIK Vasteras beat Karlskrona HK on Saturday by a 1-0 score. Chris Butler did not play, as the club is working out his visa and whatnots.
HIFK Helsinki lost to JYP 4-2 on Friday and beat the Blues 4-1 on Saturday. Joni Ortio continues to be excellent, making 38 saves in Friday's loss and 28 saves in Saturday's win. Markus Granlund had zero points.
Nice job Ryan. Do you have year-to-date totals you can put in a table for us for all Flames key prospects?
December 03 2012, 09:58AM
Nice job Ryan. Do you have year-to-date totals you can put in a table for us for all Flames key prospects?
It would be nice if there was some sort of linked page which could be easily updated every time you do an update article like this. Someone on here was keeping a Google Excel sheet that I have a link to, but I haven't checked in on it in a week. Not sure if its up to date or not.
Thanks for the update, as its really hard to follow 10 or so different teams at the same time.
December 03 2012, 10:01AM
Found it in my bookmarks on my laptop :-)
December 03 2012, 10:25AM
I update the prospect NHLE every so often. I may make that a public google sheet as well.
December 03 2012, 12:42PM
I update the prospect NHLE every so often. I may make that a public google sheet as well.
Good idea :-).
And Ryan good to hear, G-unit better be all over that USA team.
@Ryan Pike
Wotherspoon surprises me just a little bit... but then again, there isn't a huge amount of grit among the guys expected to make the team (Hamilton, Harrington, Rielly, Murphy, Ouellet). There's Dumba and Reinhart, of course, but neither has really blown the doors off this year. Wotherspoon might actually have a chance!
As we've discussed, I haven't seen TW play this year (and only twice in last year's playoffs), but I was thoroughly unimpressed any time I've seen Dumba or Reinhart play. I would really like to see those guys left off the team.
Go Tyler!
December 03 2012, 02:19PM
Wotherspoon surprises me just a little bit... but then again, there isn't a huge amount of grit among the guys expected to make the team (Hamilton, Harrington, Rielly, Murphy, Ouellet). There's Dumba and Reinhart, of course, but neither has really blown the doors off this year. Wotherspoon might actually have a chance!
Whether you put any substance into the +/- rating, the one thing you can say about Wotherspoon is that he is steady. He could pair well with a puck mover like Reilly.
December 03 2012, 06:07PM
I'm thinking if he makes the team he'll either be the #7 or he'll line up with Scott Harrington against top lines.
that said, Rielly-Wotherspoon would certainly make an interesting pair. Really, Wotherspoon would make a good partner for any of Rielly, Murphy, or Ouellet.
December 03 2012, 08:17PM
Reinhart being on the WJC team would be a complete failure, on the larger ice in Ufa the kid is gonna be a cluster-f.
December 03 2012, 10:01PM
Sven has a concussion! Noooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!
Sven has a concussion! Noooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!
What's your source on this?
December 04 2012, 10:58AM
Sven has a concussion! Noooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!
That really sucks.


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Yesterday, I suggested that her take-away quote, "every deal dies three times," also applies to Atlantic Yards, which is going through even more gyrations.
Lessons for AY
But there are some other hints and lessons from her talk. While the Beekman Tower is less a model for Atlantic Yards housing than the under-construction tower at 80 DeKalb Avenue in Brooklyn, Gilmartin's explanation of why Beekman contains rental units, not condos, may cast further doubt on the developer's plans for 1930 condos in the Atlantic Yards project.
If the condo market is currently saturated, and the developer prefers the flexibility of rentals, then either the condos would be quite delayed or a switch to rentals would further undermine the pledge of 50/50 affordable and market-rate housing.
Also, while questions about Atlantic Yards just didn't come up, Gilmartin's assertion that "we just simply do not know how to give up" may be tested by trying to pursue Atlantic Yards during an economic downturn. Note also that she described "the development, community" as "change-resistant, by its very definition--we really only do things when we have to."
Focus on Beekman
The Beekman Tower, which combines rental apartments with a 100,000 sf school, is among eight examples in AIA NY's +Housing exhibition, which illustrate "public uses combined with, and often financed by housing." (For Forest City Ratner, it looks like Liberty Bonds were the key, not the housing.)
Gilmartin was honored for "her contribution for the revitalization of New York City… [her] outstanding contribution to architecture and the urban landscape." She's worked on FCR's Times Square project and the new New York Times building. According to her bio, before joining Forest City in 1994, she was as Assistant Vice President for Commercial Development at the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) during the Koch and Dinkins administrations, managing the corporate retention program that kept Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley, Chase Manhattan Bank and others in the city. Some, in fact, went to Forest City Ratner's MetroTech.
(Fun facts: Gilmartin's favorite book is E.B. White's Here is New York, and she lives in Westchester.)
Gilmartin, among a supportive and curious audience, spread good cheer. "I'm humbled by the AIA's recognition," she said., adding, "To make a great building, it takes a great many people," noting that many of the people in the room participated not online in the Times Tower but Beekman Tower and Atlantic Yards. (Architecture Week just happens to be sponsored by Kramer Levin, a law firm that represents FCR.)
Coveted site
Gilmartin described the one-acre site near Pace University, once a parking lot owned by New York Downtown Hospital as "coveted by development community" because of its ability to straddle Wall Street as well as TriBeCa.
While the development site could have supported "a residential building with no bells and whistles," Gilmartin said that the developer "realized we could do something very special" in some sort of public-private partnership. FCR purchased the rights to build just over 800,000 sf, with potential bonuses from a plaza. It also agreed to build one level of doctor's offices and one floor of parking.
"The program evolved and changed over time," she said, noting that the original plan was to combine a Pace dormitory with a more modest FCR residential project. "This is a notable quotable from me, but 'every deal dies three times,'" she said early on.
As the project "became much more aspirational and more expensive... ultimately Pace decided they didn't have appetite for great architecture and high design," and dropped out. "We lost our Liberty Bonds, which were a very big piece of the financing," she said, noting matter-of-factly that "the mechanisms that we utilize to finance it are complicated and essential to the underlying success of the project."
"We realized there was an opportunity here," she said, citing the chance to build a school to serve the growing residential community. She said it was a "poster child for the School Construction Authority, the way we packaged the deal." The rest of program would be residential.
Condos vs. rentals
"The notion of doing condominium with Frank Gehry was alluring," she said, given it "was sure to transform the skyline." She added, again matter-of-factly, "our job is to maximize the economic equation as well as to drive high design."
City of New York plaza requirements, however, stymied the initial effort. "In fact, [City Planning Commission Chairperson] Amanda [Burden] was absolutely captivated by the designs we presented her with, but she was straitjacketed that certain plazas have to have certain requirements," Gilmartin said.
(Since when are community groups on a first-name basis with Burden?)
The city has since changed plaza requirements, which means FCR can go back and add some of the features that designers and developers wanted to add.
The second iteration of the building was to contain 1.1 million sf, with 480 rentals on the lower floors and 200 condos on the upper floors. "This was during the condo craze. We were very concerned, based on break-even... they would need to sell for a very hefty number to really pencil out," said Gilmartin, noting that condos cost more to build more than rentals and limit flexibility, because such larger units are tougher to flip into rentals.
Flooded market
"The condo market we believe, was flooded with supply," she said, noting that 10,000 units were to come online in 2006, "and based on the sales and the absorption, we believe that the projections for the pipeline in Manhattan would take about six years to absorb."
(While she didn't comment on the Brooklyn pipeline, Richard Meier, architect of the Brooklyn building One Prospect Park, told New York Magazine this week that he thought unsold apartments in that luxury building would go unsold, and "I think that people who don't have things under construction are probably reconsidering whether they're going to go under construction…")
Gilmartin added, "It really is outside our core business: we are long-term holders of real estate, we create value, and we like to keep the value we create."
AY implications
If building condos is "really antithetical to what we're about," does FCR plan to build any condos in Atlantic Yards? It's an interesting question, because the developer initially promised a 50/50 plan for all the AY housing. Then, after the deal with ACORN was signed, FCR added condos—2800, now reduced to 1930, of which 200 would be affordable—and could point to the fine print, that the Housing Memorandum of Understanding addressed only rentals.
So, as noted either the condos would be quite delayed or a switch to rentals would further undermine the pledge of 50 percent affordable rentals.
Beekman: all rentals
"So we settled on what we all believed was the best for the project and for the company," she said. It became 903 market-rate rentals. "We would have done 80/20 [20% low-income housing], but there were virtually no [affordable housing] bonds available at the time we were closing the financing." She did note that "we had a contribution to the city so money could go offsite to build affordable housing."
(How much? Not a huge amount--the Liberty Bond financing generated about $6 million in fees that go to the New York City Housing Development Corporation, while the $203.9 million in tax-exempt financing surely saved FCR many multiples of that. Remember, Forest City Enterprises CFO Bob O'Brien told investment analysts last April, with satisfaction, that the developer managed the unusual feat of getting tax-exempt bonds for market-rate units, without an affordable component in return.)
Holding firm
Pressure from lenders forced FCR "to defend our vision," she said, noting that "it would've been easier to do a project not as aspirational, not as expensive." The developer invested a significant amount of equity, $100 million, before construction loans closed.
That number is atypical, she said, explaining that that FCR faced a tight deadline to receive the 421-a housing break. (Remember, the state belatedly reformed a tax break that has long gone to luxury housing and FCR "blackmailed" the community board to support the application.)
Also, she said "construction costs were beginning to rise, making it very difficult for us to ascertain where they would be if we waited any protracted period of time to build." Such rising construction costs inevitably affects Atlantic Yards, as Gilmartin has stated, though the numbers are hard to quantify.
In March 2008, FCR "cobbled together" five lenders, she said, essentially syndicating a $680 million loan. "It wasn't as bad as where it is today," she said, "but it was a very difficult time. Our ability to pull it off was questioned by many."
Adding "sanity"
"What Gehry typically does is fantastic and memorable," Gilmartin said enthusiastically, but Gehry can apparently go too far. "There was a point in time where the building actually torqued and it moved. We really need to introduce a certain amount of sanity, because we believed that the core needed to stay put."
"We had to have a certain amount of discipline on the inside of the building," she continued. "To do that, we believed we needed to marry Frank's creative vision with the work of Ismael Leyva," an expert in residential layout and design.
(Leyva, you might remember, is the Mexican-born architect once hailed as a minority contractor under FCR's CBA—but is so successful he's already designing Downtown Brooklyn towers. If the spirit of the Atlantic Yards Community Benefits Agreement is to change the traditional ways of doing business, as I've written, Leyva doesn't exactly represent that.)
"We expected people to appreciate the Gehry factor, but we didn't want them to compromise," she said, giving the example of walls that moved or curved. Still, she said that rentals with kitchens designed by Gehry and lighting picked by him, and with no unit designs duplicated, "represents a pretty serious departure from the norm."
Size and pricing
Gilmartin laid out the plans for the 903 units.
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She said the $75/sf level was similar to other high-end buildings; in fact, FCR asked bankers to underwrite it like any other high-end building, while noting greater upside potential thanks to Gehry's role. (By contrast, according to a Forest City Ratner planning document, market-rate units in the first round of AY buildings were to rent for $51.62/sf, though that figure surely has grown.)
Residents can automatically get their kids into a quality school in the base of the building. "We didn't change all the mix to bet on that phenomenon, because it is an untested factor," she said, but they can combine units to create more two-bedroom units if families flock to the building.
Asked the selling point for such expensive units, she said, "First of all, it's the exposure. We're selling views. From the moment you step into the apartment, you see sky." Each apartment has three vistas, "which is extraordinary… When you clear the 11th floor, there's not much to compete with it."
"You have unbelievable thought and consideration for every detail in the unit," she said, adding that the selection of materials was unprecedented for rentals.
Getting it done
"We were mindful the building would be iconic in nature, and... change the skyline," Gilmartin said, citing "a great responsibility to us to make sure we did it right."
That involved, she said, "Frank's vision, and our stick-to-it-iveness… We just simply do not know how to give up."
"We're a public company, and my mission to create a project that reproduces return to our shareholders, and I'm not apologetic about that," she said. "That's kind of what I'm paid to do. While Frank's paid to be a genius, I'm paid to make sure we make some money... that collaboration creates a great result."
Some compromises
Still, there had to be compromises in the shift from condo to rental, one audience member pointed out, citing an interview with Gehry who seemed a little disappointed without the opportunity to design interiors. (It might have been this January 2006 Times Talk appearance, in which Gehry said "we can't really make a big architectural statement" about interiors.)
Gilmartin responded regarding the shift, "I actually don't think Frank was disappointed. I think he was happy we made a decision. We were really in many ways belaboring whether we would do one or another."
The rentals units have nine-foot ceilings, while condos would have 11-foot or 12-foot ceilings, she said. The average size of the units declined, as well.
Also, the shared amenity space for condos would be more lavish, perhaps a wine cellar or a screening room. "We will choose to do different things in amenity spaces, but Frank is designing them as well," she said, noting that the rental building will contain a pool.
Still, she said, "I daresay that the finishes in the apartments ultimately changed very little. This is effectively condo-level finishes."
The rental market
Noting that financing for the building is locked in, Gilmartin acknowledged that "we are watching very closely the rental market" and remained optimistic. Given that city rental market "performs very well," FCR expects not a dip but perhaps more modest growth. "We're in it for the long haul and we're patient."
While the building has a lot of units, the critical mass offers potential synergies, such as allowing some tenants to upgrade to bigger units or higher floors.
"I won't want to speak to our break even, but our expectation is lease-up will take 20 months," she said. "Typically you want to run a building like this at 95% occupancy."
Going forward
"We will not see a building like this built over the next few years," she said, citing the expiration of Liberty Bonds, the shifting boundaries of property eligible for 421-a benefits, and the difficulty in financing the project.
European banks have been far more receptive to lending to support iconic architecture, she said, but suggested that New York, and its banks, have an increased sophistication about architecture.
"If you build it, they will come," she said. "The development, community, which is change-resistant, by its very definition--we really only do things when we have to, like the whole LEED thing--I like to think we're on the forefront, but the fact is, it's very hard to change how developers do things, in a tough town like New York, because it's very hard to put a building together."
"So I think the future holds great buildings that are also sustainable buildings. That we'll be challenged by economic times, but in those challenging times creates great opportunities," she concluded. "I come from economic development... if we have a great mayor, and I hope that we do, I think that this next five-year period represents tremendous opportunities for New York to build great buildings, because I think people of this town recognize the importance and the power of them, and it doesn't mean just for private enterprise. It means that a public school is deserving of a great building."


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Playhouse, September 8, 2010
The final days of summer are on schedule for their exit! I don't mean to be sad, but Labor Day, the caboose of summer, leaves me with more melancholy than mirth.
I've stored such wonderful memories of past Labor Days. Our children were still home and all the extended family blocked off Labor Day weekend for the family dove shoot. My parents' home turned from a quiet dwelling for two to packed out bedrooms of cousins and special guests. Even if the doves failed to show, there would still be a good-time reunion.
Everyone followed the camouflage dress code and left for the dove field – across the highway and behind my grandfather's barn. We were in our spot surrounding the field when the first sun rays glistened off our gun barrels. Then it happened – the first flurry of doves sailed across the field. Gun blasts broke the early morning peace, and it was war for the next three hours.
Not a bird ever escaped the trained eyes of our retrievers. When a bird whirled to the ground, Tahya and Eli met their cousins in the center of the field to see who could be the first retriever. "I've got it!" one young one would shout, and they'd all rush back to wait behind the hunters for the next fly-over.
By noon the birds had retreated from the field, so the hunting party would meet at our home for a light lunch. It needed to be light because everyone knew a feast was the fare for the evening meal.
Mid-afternoon had hunters waking from naps, kids leaving the four-wheeler trails, and cooks peeling potatoes. It was time for the last try at the evening's main course. The touch of fall that always embraced that hillside evening returns each September and brings with it the nostalgia of wonderful times.
I reflect back to that circle of dove pluckers and the laughter and tales that the family shared amid a cloud of feathers. Mother was about more serious business – pulling out multiple skillets for the dove-fry and rolling out biscuit dough for the one hundred plus biscuits we'd devour. Daddy would be by her side making teamwork out of a feast catered by love.
The final result was a palate extravaganza. When I recall the blend of flavors we enjoyed as we emptied the bowls of potato salad, corn, lima beans and sliced tomatoes I just shake my head and smile. Add a platter of doves with gravy and biscuits and I chide myself for not savoring those moments a bit more slowly and with more gratitude!
It's Labor Day weekend as I write this. Our young families are older and scattered to homes of their own. The dove field is an overgrown pasture, Daddy's marker is in the nearby cemetery, and Mother spends routine days in the nursing home with one holiday blending into another.
So much change! Yet in each changing cycle of life, God is faithful and abundant in His blessings.
"Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever." Psa. 145:2
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Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, and both authors were leading figures in the English faculty at Oxford University and in the informal Oxford literary group known as the "Inklings". According to his memoir Surprised by Joy, Lewis had been baptised in the Church of Ireland at birth, but fell away from his faith during his adolescence. Owing to the influence of Tolkien and other friends, at the age of 32 Lewis returned to Christianity, becoming "a very ordinary layman of the Church of England". His conversion had a profound effect on his work, and his wartime radio broadcasts on the subject of Christianity brought him wide acclaim.
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Through adversity—trials, troubles, and distress—man can have many experiences that lead to spiritual growth and eternal progress by turning to the Lord.
- God himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations:1 Sam. 10:19;
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- It must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things:2 Ne. 2:11;
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Maybe it does not refer to a measurement dimension but to case style. EN11 is cast metal body & shaft, EN12 is pressed metal body & plastic shaft.
Other than one has parts that are a bit more durable, and encoder is and encoder. They Give pulses as you rotate them. The various sizes have more to do with mounting than with function.
Quote from: kf2qd on Dec 12, 2012, 07:04 pmOther than one has parts that are a bit more durable, and encoder is and encoder. They Give pulses as you rotate them. The various sizes have more to do with mounting than with function.Boy I disagree. The first encoders I bought were mechanical ones with detents. Then I bought several optical ones that give a whole lot more resolution and no freaking detents. I love these encoders, they are the nicest thing I have as far as user interface parts. They also breadboard really well.http://www.ebay.com/itm/370592502534It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.
The mechanical ones I bought for less than a dollar a piece are fine enough for user interface. I'll make some videos hopefully today.
Mechanical encoders have their place, and opticals have their place. I have designed a welding machine that used 10 of the $2.58 mechanical encoders and the users loved them. Previously they had used optical encoders and they were almost useless. For an operator input the small mechanicals fit the bill well. for motion monitoring the optical encoders are much better.
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The Desertview ProRodeo is slated to come to town on July 26, 27, 28 at the rodeo arena in Castle Dale. The three day event will be jam packed with cowboys and cowgirls from all over the country competing for big money purses.For the first time this year the Desertview ProRodeo is a sanctioned Dodge Rodeo.
During the rodeo on Friday the Castle Valley Ranch colt giveaway will make a proud horse owner of the lucky ticket holder. A winner will be drawn from all of the rodeo ticket stubs to the Friday night event.
Each night of the rodeo will feature the wild cow milking event. Local cowboys compete for prize money and all around belt buckles for the overall champions. This is Emery County's truly extreme, unique event. Don't miss this event because you will be entertained to the max with this wild action.
The Desertview ProRodeo has attracted some local cowboys, Brock and Justin Truman, calf ropers from Huntington and Monte Jensen, calf roper from Price. Top cowboys and cowgirls coming to the Desertview ProRodeo include: Jess Davis, Payson, who is ranked number two in the world in bareback; Tag Elliot, Thatcher, Utah is ranked number 22 in bullriding; Jake Hannum, Ogden, number three in calf roping; Sonny Murphy, Tremonton, number seven in bullriding, just coming off a back injury; bullrider Jerry Shepherd from Nephi; Wesley Silcox, Payson number five and reserve World Champion in 2006; Sheri Sinor-Estrada, barrel racer is a perennial National Finals Rodeo qualifier; Vickie Solmonsen, ranked number three in barrel racing; Steve Woolsey, bullrider and saddlebronc. The rodeo committee said, "This is the best field of barrel racers and bull riders we've ever seen at this rodeo.
The rodeo begins at 7:30 p.m. each evening under the Emery County blue skies.
The Kiesner Family and their Wild West Revue is part of the entertainment each night of the rodeo this year. Their roping, riding and shooting skills will amaze you. Rider Kiesner was just named roper of the year and he will show off his roping skills at the rodeo each night.
Butch Lehmkehler will be the barrelman and clown for the rodeo this year.
Two lucky rodeo fans will be drawn from the ticket stubs for a chance to win a new 2007 Dodge truck valued at $30,000. This will take place at the July 26 rodeo. The participants must be able to kick a football 35 yards into the bed of the truck they could win. The event is sponsored by the Price Auto Group. The contestants must be 18 years of age or older and cannot have played high school, college or pro football in the last five years. Be at the Thursday rodeo for your chance to win.
Are you T.E.T.W.P.? What exactly does that mean? The Desertview ProRodeo committee wonders if you are "Tough Enough to Wear Pink." The rodeo committee wants every rodeo fan through the gate on Thursday, July 26 to show their support by wearing a pink shirt, hat, ribbon or just anything will do. For every pink fan the rodeo will make a donation for breast cancer awareness. The Desertview ProRodeo has partnered with "Tough Enough to Wear Pink" for the Thursday night performance. "Tough Enough to Wear Pink" has been raising big bucks for cancer across the nation. Some of the largest rodeos in the nation have climbed on board. Many of them have raised $30,000 and more for a single event.
Wrangler is a partner in the cause and donates all of the money from the sale of pink shirts to breast cancer awareness.
Rodeo organizers say, "We want everyone to know that we support you in your fight against cancer. We would like to encourage all cancer survivors to come out to the Thursday night rodeo and to wear pink. This is the first time we have done this, but we want to make it a tradition at our Desertview ProRodeo. We love you and care about you and anything we can do to make your fight against cancer a little easier we would like to do. We would just like to look out over the crowd on Thursday night and see a sea of pink shirts, hats or whatever. We don't even care if you want to dye your hair pink for this occasion."
Gary Arrington from Desertview Credit Union said, "We are proud to sponsor the Desertview ProRodeo for the residents of Castle Valley. This is a world class rodeo event and with the addition of the "Tough Enough to Wear Pink" event for cancer we hope to make this rodeo even more community friendly. We hope everyone comes out to support the rodeo and this event which gives everyone a chance to make a donation for cancer and all you have to do is wear pink and the rodeo organizers will do the rest. Hope to see you at the rodeo."
Ike Sankey will provide the rodeo stock for the event. Sankey is known far and wide for his rodeo animals who know their job and perform it well. His stock is used every year at the National Rodeo Finals held each year in Las Vegas.
Come and spend a night watching the best rodeo action around. This rodeo has something for everyone and even if you don't think you're a rodeo fan, you will be after a night spent at the Desertview ProRodeo. Also this year is a combo ticket special, good for all three nights of rodeo action at a reduced price. This special ticket deal is only available at Desertview Federal Credit Union branches in Huntington and Ferron. Advance tickets are available at BKs Stop-n-Shop, Headquarters, Emery County Treasurers Office, Emery County Recreation, Desertview credit union Huntington and Ferron, Gilly's, Food Ranch, Green River City Hall and Intermountain Farmers in Price.
As a bit of a preview of the free Ricochet concert on Aug. 4 at 7:30 p.m. the National Anthem at the rodeo will be a recorded version featuring Ricochet each night.
Rodeo concessions will be offered each night for the hungry cowboy and cowgirl. The Desertview ProRodeo kicks off two weeks of fun and the Emery County Fair begins Aug. 1 with a free pig dinner. Events continue Aug. 2-4, culminating with the huge, free Ricochet concert on Aug.4.


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Grace Crowley
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23 December 2006 – 6 May 2007
Grace Crowley 'Portrait study' 1929 oil on canvas on composition board Collection of the National Gallery of Australia Bequest of Grace Crowley 1979
Grace Crowley: being modern is an important retrospective exhibition of paintings and drawings by one of Australia's most influential modern artists. The exhibition opens at the National Gallery of Australia on Saturday 23 December.
This is the first exhibition of Grace Crowley's work since 1975. It includes important works from public and private collections and traces her remarkable artistic journey from traditional landscapes to avant-garde experimentation and pure abstraction. The exhibition includes several recently rediscovered paintings and the largest number of Crowley's abstract paintings ever assembled, enabling a new appraisal of Crowley's achievement.
'Crowley's late abstracts can be seen as the climax of her long journey to realise a universal art based on the harmonious relationship of colour and form,' says Elena Taylor, Curator of Australian Painting and Sculpture.
Born in rural New South Wales in 1890, Grace Crowley's life and art intersected with some of the major movements in 20th-century art. In 1926 Crowley left Sydney for Paris where she studied with the cubist painter André Lhote. On her reluctant return to Sydney she became an influential teacher, introducing a style of abstraction based on cubist principles. In the 1940s, Grace Crowley and her friend Ralph Balson were the first Australian artists to entirely abandon representation, devoting themselves to the pursuit of pure 'objective' painting.
Grace Crowley: being modern is accompanied by a full-colour 64-page monograph – the first to be published about this important Australian artist's work. The exhibition is supported by a range of public programs and events including floortalks, lectures, performances and screenings.
The exhibition has been curated by Elena Taylor, Curator of Australian Painting and Sculpture at the National Gallery of Australia.
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Linde Ivimey was born in Sydney in 1965. She obtained a Diploma of Fine Art in printmaking in 1991 and a Diploma of Fine Art in sculpture in 1992 from the Claremont School of Art, Perth. She lectured in sculpture at the Claremont School of Art from 1993 to 1995 and was a lecturer at the West Australian School of Art from 1996 to 1998. Ivimey has been included in numerous group exhibitions including the Blake Prize for Religious art, Sydney, 2000; and Materiality at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Gallery, 1999. She has been awarded several prizes, among them the Gomboc Sculpture Award in 1992, and the SECWA Fremantle Art Award in 1991. Linde Ivimey currently lives in Melbourne.
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The Crossroads of the Aether
Open Call for Steampunk Artists:
I've been invited to curate a another Steampunk exhibition for a very large and prestigious museum- expected late 2012. We are planning a blockbuster show which will include all disciplines of Steampunk art and design.
If you wish you can email me up to 6 medium res jpegs of your original work: be it graphic, sculptural, jewelry, fashion, painting or medium of your choice and a brief personal note with your email info and location (country of origin). I'll be making the selections for the exhibition in the coming months and will contact the artists that have been selected for the exhibition.
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Mr. Donovan,
Another question for you.
I have submitted original artwork for your consideration, but most of it will be for sale at several events prior to July. Do you have an expectation that the particular images submitted will be the same ones available should we be selected, or will recreating similar pieces work as well?
It just occurred to me that my inventory could turn over between now and then, although I can certainly make very similar pieces, they are all one of a kind.
"Different" is no problem :)
Hi, Camryn.
I realize that it's difficult to hold onto pieces (that were submitted) that have the opportunity to be sold.
Please do not hesitate to sell your work!!! We can always work around it, stylistically.
Best Wishes :) Art
Good to know.
And thanks for checking in here. I was wondering what the status was, but didn't want to bombard you with emails asking "did you decide yet? did you?"
I shall resume my pose of infinite patience.
Perhaps, Mr. (or Ms?) Matthews, you might enjoy joining the Society of Steampunk Artists, we often share our artwork in our members forum:
See you there!
click on that link. a little to the right of the group name you will see a PLUS sign (+) and a button that says "join this group"
click the button.
There may be a delay while a moderator or group owner checks in to accept your request - usually less than a day. You can create your own thread there and share artwork if you wish.
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I'm not sure if my stuff qualifies as art but it's cool, functional and could have been built a hundred years ago.
it never hurts to try! Apply and see what happens...
Are you still looking for pieces?
Hi, Kristy. Yes we're still looking for pieces. The exhibition as yet does not have a firm date, but late 2012-early 2013 is the hoped for date. The Museum is currently undergoing staff and scheduling changes- hence the delay in a firm date. Best Wishes, Art
Thank you. I'll send in some photos... Most likely next week, as this weekend is amazingly packed with events. I'm a jewelry maker and some of my pieces are odd, but I've been told that's what makes them interesting.
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BioShock franchise "really important" to Take-Two, has sold over 25M units
The BioShock franchise has sold over 25 million units, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick revealed this week.
GTA Online Heists teaser video is extremely short
With Heists coming to GTA Online next week, Rockstar has released one of the shortest teaser videos we've seen in ages.
Heists for GTA Online coming in March for consoles, PC delayed to April
Rockstar has announced Heists for GTA 5 will arrive next month on consoles and in April on PC.
GTA 5 PC release delayed, system specs announced, Heists coming "soon"
Grand Theft Auto 5 will be released on PC later in March, Rockstar has announced along with the news Online Heists will launch in "the coming weeks"
Another E3, another possibility for an Agent reveal
Agent was announced in July 2007 for PlayStation 3 and we haven't really heard much on it since then. Other than popping up on resumes and trademark filings, news on the game runs from being scarce to nothing whatsoever.
Half-Life to Vice City: 8 classics we want remastered for next-gen
If we're only going to get remasters and HD remakes for Xbox One and PS4 in the near future, can we have these ones please?
What is Rockstar's new billion dollar next-gen game?
GTA V has passed $1 billion in sales and developer Rockstar is gearing up to reveal a new game for next-gen consoles. What's next from the creators of Grand Theft Auto?
Red Dead Redemption may be coming to PC after all - rumour
A listing of Red Dead Redemption has been found in a database maintained by Microsoft to help in determining application compatibility with its various operating systems.
Ken Levine shuttering Bioshock studio Irrational Games
In a statement issued on the homepage of the company's official site, BioShock creator Ken Levine says he will be closing down the BioShock Infinite studio soon, with most of its staff being laid off in the process.
GTA 5 has sold-in 29 million copies; more Take-Two financial results here
Rockstar and Take-Two have announced that Grand Theft Auto V has been unprecedentedly successful, "selling-in" 29 million copies since it launched just six weeks ago. (That's to stores, not people.) That's more than GTA IV moved on consoles in five years.
Borderlands 2: a well-earned vacation from the norm
Take-Two said last night that Borderlands 2 is its third most pre-ordered game ever, beaten only by GTA IV and GTA: San Andreas. Dave Cook explores the attraction behind Gearbox's RPG shooter.
T2 swings to loss in Q1, LA Noire ships 4 million units
Take Two has reported a loss for its first quarter FY2012, whilst also confirming that Team Bondi title LA Noire has shipped 4 million units and Red Dead Redemption has shipped more than 10 million units.
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GTA Online's latest Double GTA$ and RP event focuses on Capture Jobs
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Hi guys,
I hope you could explain to me the reasons why that happens and why the "others" can.
Ruby 1.8.6 is kind of slow comparing to php and python,why?
There is nothing that can be done to beat php and python?
I heard python has twisted,http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/,if that helps, does rails have something similar?
Everybody knows Php is not a well feature language like ruby, specially in OO department, but it's getting better,how a language that has some flaws like that can be faster than ruby?
Is it because Php was done thinking in web and ruby not?
I know some good code and tweaks on mem can help but cannot beat those 2 languages in speed(18.6).
What about multicore/threading capabilities, ruby 1.9 is faster but doesn't have support for that, how come php and python have already a solution for that.
Is not about talking bad about ruby and eventually rails, how such a beautiful language that you kill to work with can be badder than the competitors.
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Skip to comments.REACHING OUT
Posted on 11/11/2012 3:44:20 PM PST by 7thson
Another question for Freepers. Specifically, Freepers who are black, Hispanic, and women.
Before and since the last election, I keep hearing that the Republican Party needs to do a better job at reaching out towards blacks, Hispanics, and women. Also, the youth vote. My question - what is meant by reaching out? What precisously does the Republican Party need to say to these groups in order to get their votes? Are we suppose to outbid the Leftists?
Hard to say. Personally, I will start shaming my fellow latinos. Ask them, if they are truly Christian, why would they support a party that promotes killing innocent children and homosexuality. Ask them, why would they go the way of the indios, and be bought by shiny things and mirrors. Ask them if they have any self-respect.
>> What precisously does the Republican Party need to say to these groups in order to get their votes? Are we suppose to outbid the Leftists?<<
1. More free stuff
2. Open borders
3. Government takes care of you from birth to death
4. Work is optional
5. Morality is a fiction
Reaching out is a code phrase to adopt more democratic party policies.
Abandoning conservatism and offering minorities free stuff, amnesty, and open borders.
"Reach out" is code for "sell out."
No fanks.
There have been a number of posts today indicating that Republicans and Democrats are in bed together.
The word is "precisely". Spell check, or a dictionary, would be your friend. Words counts, language/syntax count. Let's take it up a notch, ok?
That said....an interesting post you have made.
The subject of the thread:
>> what is meant by reaching out?
Good question.
I don't know if you, my FRiend, are male or female....but I'll assume male.
In which case, I will say that you are a real man; ready to stand up for what is right and correct. I salute you.
Conservatism needs to become a 24/7 365 education process, especially in the Latino community and with women. Letting the left set the agenda and then showing up 30 days before the election to push public opinion doesn't work in this day and age. From 2010 to 2012 we didn't do enough of this. We assumed that as public opinion aligned with our views we could ride it to reelection. This was a primary error by the rnc and mitts campaign. It started during those debt limit debates in 2011. Our leaders got on tv and talked about process, not ideas every time the tv turns on, it must be to educate the voters and advance ideas
Let them suffer the results of their own stupidity.
Lady parts and tan skin isn't going to protect them from what's coming.
The left and the media really push the "conservatives are white supremacists" slander. We know it isn't true, but none of the libs I talk to do. We need to fight back and do it directly.
We need to write and say over and over at every opportunity that arises, how sexist and racist the left is. We also need to laugh at them and say that minorities and women are too smart to fall for those kind of attempts to keep them from having a voice in the conservative movement and "vote supression tactics".
Why are they so good at slander and we can't even tell the truth?
Imho....repubs should talk more about the Hispanics who are here legally and are hard working. We all know them..we see them everyday. We need to quit talking like they all want welfare...it is not true. Do some...yes. but we should start honoring their hardwork because they do agree with us on social issues...we should also remind them of that.
I am sure many won't like this and I understand.
I don't know about reaching out but it is frustrating to try and talk with the left.
The left has spent so much time defining the right, it is hard to try and make a point with someone from the left quickly, because you must climb a mountain before you can even start on the issues. A person doesn't always have all day, a week or whatever to try and sway and the frustration becomes enormous.
Why don't we have as many documentaries mocking the left as they have of us? Why don't we have documentaries showing the TRUE HISTORY of the democratic party. We have an image problem. If we can't get past image easily, how can we talk issue?
We need to start getting in the colleges, we need to market ourselves and define ourselves and not let the left define us. I keep seeing anti-immigrant. That is a full on lie. But I see it over and over and over again.
I say much of our problem is not clearly defining ourselves and letting it be done to us. We have a marketing problem.
To me, "reaching out" is like "giving back"....a meaningless bit of twaddle.
Look at the Constitution. Then look at what the Congress people, president and supreme court, along with every single solitary military member swears to uphold when they are inaugurated.
Look at the Constitution.
Upholding the constitution is their job.
If morphing that into a competiion for votes for power seems to you, their employer, seems like it's a good direction, then you can answer your won question.
If you think that the Republicans, who are finding themselves in a spider web trap made by "their friends from across the aisle", and that they can actually win at that gam, as foolish a notion as that seems to be, then go ahead and reach out.
It always comes down to middle school politics. are they going to like you for joining up and keeping quiet, or are they going to throw you under the school bus when they are finished with you? Can you beat them at their own game, or are you going to be a bitter old qerson, obsessing that they won?
I'd like to see regular radio or tv spots during Oprah sort of shows, basketball games, soccer games -
promoting conservative ethics.
Positives about responsible gun ownership, teacher accountability, choosing life, real marriage, lower taxes stimulating jobs, less regulations helping entrepreneurship, etc.
I think they need to be systematic and regular, so the reasons behind conservative positions sink in.
This will take money, but I think it would be worth it. Perhaps some super PACs could take it up. Remind people of the Republicans' role in ending segregation and supporting civil rights, etc.
is a media code word(s) meant to define the republican party as racist.
When high profile appearances were given at the RNC convention to people who have achieved so much like Mia Love, Susana Martinez, Condi Rice, Marco Rubio, Artur Davis and others, they were defined by the media as "tokens" and/or "sell outs.
Reaching out is crap. It means to follow the lead of the democrats and start promising free stuff and special treatment. The republican party needs to get on with conservatism and keep selling one thing; LIBERTY. If that doesn't interest people the society is already lost.
I have decided I am throwing all civility out the window,just like the left has. All bets are off, I am going to treat them just like they do me.
If the Republicans reach out they will just get their arm broke off. I am done.
How about Hispanics, or anyone, who are here legally and who care about the laws and the culture of our land. Being here legally is a step, but not a guarnatee.
there are not enough rino's to carry an election without conservatives, but they won't run anyone that isn't a rino so lots of people stay home and the media make a big deal of it, but for the wrong reasons...
Thanks. Yes, I am male. I would also like to point out to libs their weird views regarding the death penalty (usually against) and for abortion (for). The irony of the position makes it a low 'hanging fruit' with which to hit them. Wipe the smug from their faces.
I think we see the problem right here. Someone asks an intelligent question and immediately " conservatives" here go into the they all want freebies crap. I won't speak for horny college girls or Blacks, but I work with a number of Hispanics and they are as a group the hardest working, most family oriented people I know. They work all week and then do other things on weekends to make a little extra. None of them are asking for a handout.
If I was Hispanic and listened to the people on this forum and the Limbaugh's and Ingraham's of the world I wouldn't want anything to do with those who are portrayed as the voice of conservatism. RR got 37% of the Hispanic vote and GWB got 45%. Arizona, Texas, NM and FL. have large Hispanic populations and GOP governors so it is not and impossibly to win them over. Of course calling them names and insulting them is not a great way to proceed.
Most Latinos are church-going, hard-working and family oriented. A Mexican laborer was asking me to explain why the government here pays grown men not to work. He leaves for work at 5 am and when he gets home after 3, he sees all these people who obviously don't work. He told me a Latina cashier was explaining to him how she has a home and gets benefits as long as her boss doesn't pay her over a certain amount. He is shocked that there are so many gaming the system. The way to reach more people like him, translate Rush, Michael Savage, Hannity into Spanish! Our message will more than resonate with the hard working people who see in their own neighborhoods the folly of the welfare state. Hard working people are the same everywhere.
Ronald Reagan reached out and did an amnesty deal and it NO GOOD . You will never be able to out bit the leftist as they will just offer more and more . Caving in will get them deeper into trouble with their conservative base that right now is having a hard enough time swallowing the garbage the Republicans are trying to pass off on us.
You can NOT win an election if your conservative base refuses to show up because they can't tell the difference between the candidate one party puts up over the other.
You are just not hip enough to look cool playing Santa Clause so the ones holding their hands out are just going to grab what you offer and laugh in your face .
Forget the hispanic and black vote - you will never get it until you educate them . Stop letting the party of the KKK rewrite history .
You want to win ? Get voter id laws passed in all states and end early voting . No mail in ballots for anyone but the military stationed overseas. You can't show up on voting day to bad it must mean you really don't care enough . You don't have picture id ? How the heck do you cash your checks , get into school or anything else.
You are losing because the other side does not care what it has to do to win and they will cheat any way they can .
Cave into this immigration mess and this country will never be anything ever again .
If the Republicans cave on Obamacare they can forget their base . We value life and that includes the lives of our elder relatives which they intend to deny medical care to .
We value life and have no desire to be forced to pay to murder the unborn children of others .
Give up on this and you can have fun trying to get any of us to show up to vote for you ever again .
You are correct to a point. More goodies will buy votes. But, you have to give more attractive goodies than the opposition party AND you have to have at least as good a propaganda system. A chronic and fatal weakness of the GOP is the lack of a good propaganda system to compete with the NYT, HuffPo, LATimes, NBC, etc. Each one is small but collectively they spread a lot of propaganda and they send the kind of simple sound-bite sized messages that typical voters can grasp. Add to that the generation's greatest propagandists such as M Moore plus the entertainment industry, then throw in mandatory tax on wages (union dues) paid into a propaganda organization (the union) and you can see that even freebies will not be enough to achieve political wins.
Without a propaganda system at least that good, you can give out lots of free goodies and have little effect—remember the Medicare prescription drug program? 1980's amnesty? Tax rebates under Bush?
I think you hit it precisely. Let me presume to finish that sentence another way: The left has spent so much time defining the right that there is no longer any common ground on which to debate. Let me repeat that last, depressing clause: there is no longer any common ground on which to debate. And they intend to keep it that way.
You've seen it; we've all experienced it. Your opponent claims that he believes in freedom and it turns out that every single one of his applications represents a claim on your freedom, on behalf of society, of Saving The Earth, of the Greater Good. He believe in freedom, yes, but only the freedom to agree with him. She claims to believe in free speech, but only her own - yours to the contrary is offensive and "hate speech" and hence permissible to suppress. He believes that the Black Congressional Caucus is an expression of free association but any White Caucus would be intolerably racist. Don't bother trying to counter any of these arguments from principle; the rejoinder is always that you only disagree out of some sort of mental pathology or self-interest when it's really only a refusal to accept fantasy for reality.
I've made it very clear to my (nearly all) liberal relatives that politics is off the table for now for just that reason: we have no common ground. For some reason that seems to alarm them although I do not know why, exactly. Most of them haven't put much more thought into it than "hooray, my side won and those conservative meanies lost." And I don't argue politics with children.
The Repubs have "reached out" for decades and have the most amazing and accomplished members of most groups. It doesn't matter if you can't get the message out and you don't have a propaganda system to match or beat that of your opposition party.
Pshaw, right.
Anyway, "hardworking" has nothing to do with it.
Especially when they send their "hard-earned money" whatever that is, to their country of origin to be circulated in that country and not this one.
Do they have any concept of the Constitution and our laws , culture and language, or do they abuse it? It's one or the other.
reaching out= pandering.
According to the Center for Immigration Studies, 79% of Mexican illegals with children and 71% of all illegals with children receive some form of government assistance.
The reason is: they know they are wrong.
Who woulda thunk!
What a dis-grace the spineless rino's have become.
The democrats stole the election, so focus on the truth, not the communist propaganda.
OTOH, a lot of liberals consider being pro-life and pro-death penalty to be a contradiction.
I do not talk to leftists much because I get tired of the cursing and name calling after a few minutes. However, if the individual is not a full bore leftist, what do you think of starting off with the left is lying to you about - and mention the topic? If you say they are lying and then lay out the facts, what do you think about that?
Tell everyone the truth about what our Constitutional Republic is supposed to look like.
Forget about "reaching out" to groups who identify more with their race/national origin/sex etc than being an American.
The Rs need to be courageous, principled, truthful and mission oriented (and I don't mean just winning and that's it). Not corrupt self serving cowards who are actual socialist-lite.
Then they'll win elections and have a reason to do so.
Exactly, the Liberals have fulfilled their fantasy of destroying capitalism. I suggest atlas should shrug, go get his EBT card and Obamaphone and head out to Colorado where he can smoke a joint while waiting in line to see an Obamacare doctor who will put him on permanent disability so he can collect SSDI, then he can head to Washington State and marry his life partner Hercules, where they can raise thier eugenically created daughter Julia who will be coddled by government through her life perpetuating this cycle of government dependency.
America is done.
Second, yes you are right - they are hard working. I have said for years that there is something wrong with shipping back people who want to work while our own citizens sit on their collective butts and collect welfare. I think part of the problem is not explaining immigration policy correctly.
We don't want every hispanic. We want the ones who agree with us. It isn't enough to win elections if your ideas don't win.
We are not about ethnicity, we are driven by ideas. Freedom. Limited government. Not everyone understands these ideas and only as their life experience leads them to understand them and want them will you gain their support.
Most people are looking for an earthly king. We already have a King; we are just looking for government to keep the roads paved.
Just finished the book Breitbart published just before his death.
You are correct in what you say, but it's even worse than that.
Breitbart pointed out very clearly that the true war is not a political battle. In the long run elections are not relevant.
The true war is cultural, always has been, always will be.
We have abandoned the culture-making organs of our society to the Left for over half a century, assuming that enough Americans would always see thru their propaganda to allow us to compete politically.
We were wrong. We have to compete culturally, and unfortunately I don't think anybody but Breitbart had a clue how to go about it. The most depressing part is that shifting a culture is a decades-long process and we are presently WAY behind the curve and going backwards.
One of the old Greek philosphers said that he didn't care who made the laws if he could write the songs. Look who's been making the popular music for 50 years.
Why translate into Spanish? Why can't they take the time to learn English? Is that not part of the problem?
"Reaching Out" means republicans should get in a bidding war with democrats to see who will promise the most free stuff to the "Free Stuff Army".
That's an awesome post right there. Rock on !!
Crap. How about reaching out to more married whites with families and getting 95% of their vote like Obama does for 'his people'?
If I weren't already a Republican, the party could "reach out" to me by talking to my brain and not to my heart...or other bits.
If I were black or Hispanic, I think the words that would appeal to me from the GOP would be about personal responsibility and taking pride in one's self. I am always offended on behalf of the black democrats who don't seem to be bothered by the notion that they need the government to take care of them. They see only the free stuff, but don't seem to recognize the real message of the racist Dems: "We think you are too stupid and lazy to hold down jobs, buy homes within your price range, and generally take care of yourselves. But don't worry, we will take care of you."
I don't understand the lack of pride within the majority of the black community. Black people are capable of so much more than the Democrats give them credit for being. I wish they could see it and see how they are being taken for granted and kept on the plantation. They would rise up and shock the Dems. I would love to have a platform to ask a large group of black voters if they are stupid and lazy, as the Dems seems to think they are.
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Gift giving and receiving with a compulsive hoarder is complicated.
My Mother loves gifts. I don't blame her; who doesn't love gifts? I'll tell you who.
Actually, let me clarify that. I appreciate a well-thought out gift. My husband Will is especially good at picking out something perfectly suited to me, and I love everything he's given me. He doesn't go overboard with quantity and that's just fine with me.
When I was a kid, any holiday involved a mountain of gifts. When you're little you think this is fabulous! Windfall!!!! Then I got older and (just a touch) wiser. I realized though the gifts were plentiful, they were either:
- poor quality
- unsuited to me
- had strings attached
Poor Quality
It was quantity over quality. I started to fall into this trap too until one Christmas I exchanged gifts with my college boyfriend. I wandered department stores and dollar stores, and picked out all sorts of whimsical things that made me think of him. I gave him about a dozen little presents, and he gave me a gold promise ring. It finally dawned on me that while the pile of presents seemed impressive, it wasn't about the stuff and more about the emotions. I might have spent as much as he did but while I received a symbol of our relationship, he got a pile of cheap trinkets.
Unsuited to Me
Mom & I haven't been as tight as we used to be, so we don't know each other as well as we should. Her mental illness has changed her, and I've matured since her hoarding took over. I know when she walks through her favourite thrift store she buys things because they make her think of me, but they're bizarre. Like, the country-style apple quilt wall hanging she found. It was originally from Cracker Barrel and she told me:
"I know something like this would be worth at least $60 brand new. I just couldn't pass it up when I saw it for $12!"
The quilt was perfectly nice, in mint condition, and would probably look great hanging in someone's home. Just not mine. I don't have a country theme in my home decor, and I'd never expressed the desire for a quilted wall hanging. So this was money spent on a gift for the wrong person.
Strings Attached
SO many "treasures" have been shared with me over the years. On the surface, Mom is very generous. But if Mom considered these items especially interesting, she'd declare the caveat "Don't ever get rid of this. If you don't want it anymore give it to me." That tells me she really picked this out for herself, and only felt comfortable giving it away if she thought she'd get it back some day.
My birthday was recently…we won't worry about which one it was. 😉
Mom asked me a few weeks ago what I would like for my birthday. I told her nothing but her happy birthday wishes. I know she's on a tight budget, shipping is expensive, and I really don't need anything. Lynn & I had already discussed stopping gifts between each other and I mentioned all that to Mom.
I could tell she was hurt. She thinks we don't want to uphold any traditions. That's not true…it's just the traditions I'm interested in don't involve consumerism. And I get the sense she's upset if she doesn't give a gift to me, I won't give a gift to her on her birthday.
She's right about that. I don't want to buy gifts for her any more. Anything I've given her in the last several years hasn't been used. It ends up in the back of her van or in some pile at her house, never to be seen again. I'm tired of wasting money and effort when it's not appreciated. And if I did want to buy her something, what would it be? She has triplicate of everything because she's lost the originals. We've thought of buying her services, but she won't let anyone into her house for housekeeping, repairs, etc. We mentioned the idea of donating to charity in her name once and she was offended.
So, I'd rather not bother with the whole gift exchange thing. I know it sounds cold, but I just can't do it any more. I don't want her to buy me trinkets I'll have to donate away or throw out, and I don't want her to spend the few dollars she has left on a gift for me when she keeps her thermostat set to 60 in the winter to avoid a high heating bill.
What I really wish for
What I'd like from her is a memory we can share. Perhaps go to lunch, or see a movie. Sit down and do a craft together. Take a drive and look at the scenery. Too bad she lives 3 hours away.
She called me last night to sing me Happy Birthday. And so we chatted and hearing her voice was gift enough for me.
How do you handle gifts with a Compulsive hoarder?
I'm curious as to how other children or relatives of hoarders handle gifts. Do you still exchange? Do you keep those things "loaned" to you…those gifts given but wanted back? If you've found a solution to gift giving and receiving when a compulsive hoarder is involved, I'd love to hear about it!