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PSA Newsletter: Vol. 7 No. 2: May 2001
PSA Newsletter: Vol. 7 No. 2: May 2001
*************************************************************** PSA NEWSLETTER: Volume 7 : Number 2 : May 2001 ***************************************************************
Edited for the Philosophy of Science Association by Malcolm Forster, http://philosophy.wisc.edu/forster
- Wesley C. Salmon
- PSA 2002: Call for Symposium Proposals and Workshop Proposals
- PSA 2002: Call for Papers
- PROGRAM COMMITTEE for PSA 2002
- NEW JOURNAL: Semiotics, Evolution, Energy, Development
- WORKSHOP ON QUANTUM GRAVITY, July 4, 2001
- REASON PARK: Deadline May 15th, 2001
- RESOURCES in History and Philosophy of Science
- The purpose of this letter
- INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSIONS (please read!)
1. Wesley C. Salmon
(Editor's note: This obituary was written by Adolf Grünbaum, the Andrew Mellon Professor of Philosophy of Science at Pitt.)
On Sunday, April 22, 2001, Wesley C. Salmon, University Professor Emeritus of philosophy, and professor emeritus of the history and philosophy of science at the University, was killed instantly in an automobile accident.
His wife, Merrilee Salmon, Pitt professor emerita of the history and philosophy of science, and of anthropology, was in the vehicle with him but survived uninjured.
An eminent, internationally renowned philosopher of science, Wesley Salmon was a much beloved colleague, teacher and friend whose premature death is a grievous loss to the local, national and international academic community.
Born in 1925, he earned his doctorate at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1950 under Hans Reichenbach, one of the towering figures of 20th-century philosophy of science, whose collection is part of the Archives of Scientific Philosophy at the University's Hillman Library.
He held appointments at several universities before serving as Norwood Russell Hanson Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University (Bloomington) from 1963 to 1973. He was at the University of Arizona (Tucson) from 1973 to 1981.
Salmon joined the Pitt faculty in 1981 as professor and chairman of philosophy, professor of history and philosophy of science, as well as resident fellow in the Center for Philosophy of Science. From 1983 until his retirement in 1999, he held the rank of University Professor of Philosophy, filling the post in which Carl G. Hempel, a major figure in 20th-century philosophy of science, had preceded him.
His visiting professorships include appointments at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Minnesota (1963 and fall 1985), the University of Pittsburgh (1968-1969), the University of Melbourne, Australia (1978), and at the University of Konstanz, Germany (1995-1996). His last visiting appointment was in 2000 at Kyoto University in Japan, where Merrilee Salmon had a like appointment.
After giving a series of four lectures in 1988 on "Four Decades of Scientific Explanation" at the University of Bologna in Italy, on the occasion of its 900th anniversary, Salmon acquired mastery of Italian by taking courses at Pitt, and subsequently gave professional lectures in that language at several universities in Italy. To honor the work of both Merrilee and Wesley Salmon, the Florentine Center for History and Philosophy of Science hosted a workshop on "Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation" in May 1996.
Wesley Salmon's books and articles have ranged broadly over the theory of scientific explanation, causality, probability, scientific confirmation and induction, and the philosophy of physical science. After Hempel's pioneering models of scientific explanation, which featured the expectability of phenomena, Salmon developed influential rival models abjuring expectability in favor of providing causally relevant factors.
His well-known books include "The Foundations of Scientific Inference" (1967), "Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World" (1984), "Four Decades of Scientific Explanation" (1990), and "Causality and Explanation" (1998), a collection of essays spanning several decades. He was also the editor or co-editor of five volumes.
Recently, he was working on a pedagogical book (with Pitt faculty member Dennis Looney) on Italian science from Dante to Fermi, based on a unique interdisciplinary Pitt honors course that they had co-taught. He also was well along toward completing another collection of his essays, entitled "Reality and Rationality."
Salmon's career was distinguished by the high professional offices he held, the fellowships in learned societies to which he was elected, and by an array of other academic recognitions. They include the presidencies of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division, 1977-78), the Philosophy of Science Association (1971-72), the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (1998-1999), and its Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (1996-99). He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Salmon's contributions were recognized by two Festschrift books in his honor: the inaugural volume of the series "Australasian Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science," entitled "What? Where? When? Why?, Essays on Induction, Space and Time, Explanation" (1982, edited by Robert McLaughlin), followed by "Probability and Causality: Essays in Honor of Wesley Salmon" (1988, edited by James Fetzer).
Besides earning a Humboldt Foundation Award for 1995-1996, he had received a Ford Foundation Faculty Fellowship (1953-54), a Creative Teaching Award from the University of Arizona (1977), and a University of Pittsburgh President's Distinguished Research Award (1990), in addition to a number of Research Grants from the National Science Foundation.
His service to the profession was marked by membership of national and international committees, and of the editorial boards of a number of journals. Furthermore, he served on several major committees at Pitt.
Besides his wife Merrilee Salmon, he is survived by a daughter, Victoria (Tori) Gardner of Bloomington, Indiana; a stepdaughter, Charlotte Broome of Pittsburgh; a stepson, Bruce Ashby of Reston, Virginia, and five grandchildren.
Burial was private, and the family requests that no flowers be sent. A memorial fund for graduate education in the philosophy of science is being established in Salmon's memory. Contributions should be made payable to the University of Pittsburgh, specifying the Wesley C. Salmon Memorial Fund, and sent to 1017 Cathedral of Learning.
A memorial service will be announced at a later date.
2. PSA 2002: Call for Symposium Proposals and Workshop Proposals.
Philosophy of Science Association Eighteenth-Biennial Meeting, 7-10 November 2002 Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Philosophy of Science Association Eighteenth-Biennial Meeting, 7-10 November 2002 Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Members of the PSA are invited to submit proposals for symposia and workshops to be presented at the PSA 2002 meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin November 7-10. Proposals must include sufficient supporting material to permit the program committee to evaluate the quality and interest of the symposium or workshop. The proposal should include:
- The title of the proposed symposium or workshop.
- A description of the topic and a justification of its current importance to the discipline (about one or two pages).
- Titles and abstracts of papers.
- A list of participants and either an abbreviated curriculum vitae or short biographical information file for each.
- Addresses of each participant, with the institutional affiliation, postal and email addresses, and telephone numbers.
Please indicate clearly the name of the organizer or contact person for the purposes of communication with the Program Committee.
In addition to inviting proposals in traditional areas of the philosophy of science, the Program Committee wants also to encourage the submission of proposals that involve participation of working scientists.
New Format
This year there are two changes to note:
- New type of session - the workshop;
- Web archiving of papers prior to meeting.
In addition to invited symposia sessions and contributed papers sessions, PSA 2002 will feature workshops. The symposia will follow the traditional format, whereby the papers presented will be submitted for consideration to be published after the meeting in a supplementary issue of Philosophy of Science. The evaluation for publication will be on entire sessions, that is, all papers in the session will be published together. All papers presented at PSA2002 will be electronically archived, including those accepted for publication and those not accepted for publication in the Journal.
Workshops will follow a new format, whereby there is no expectation that the papers presented will be submitted for review for publication. Authors may choose to have them archived in electronic form. This format may be more attractive to sessions involving participants from outside the philosophical community. For example, informational sessions on new developments in an area of science or an area of philosophy of science may want to adopt the workshop model.
We are going totally electronic for this meeting. That means that the abstracts for the symposia and workshops will be available on-line prior to the meeting. If participants in symposia or workshops would like to make the texts of their presentations available on-line, we will also publish them at the web site. It also means that all submissions must be sent by email as attachments or uploaded at our interactive web site.
Symposium proposals should reach the chair of the Program Committee no later than 1 NOVEMBER 2001.
3. PSA 2002: Call for Papers
Philosophy of Science Association Eighteenth-Biennial Meeting, 7-10 November 2002 Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Members of the PSA are invited to submit papers to be presented at the PSA 2002 meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin November 7-10, 2002. Contributed papers may be on any topic in the philosophy of science. The deadline for submissions is 1 March 2002. Some papers will be accepted for both presentation at the PSA 2002 meeting and publication in a supplementary issue of Philosophy of Science, other papers will be accepted just for presentation. Both types of accepted paper will be electronically published prior to the meeting. In each case, the Program Committee expects to make its decisions by 1 June 2002. Final versions of all papers accepted for publication must be submitted by 15 January 2003.
New Format:
This year there is an important change to note: We will be web archiving accepted papers and their abstracts prior to meeting. We are going totally electronic for this meeting.
- Your name and institutional affiliation,
- Your surface address,
- Your email address,
- Your telephone number,
- The 100-word abstract.
Your submitted paper should be sent as an attachment in Portable Document Format (pdf), PostScript (ps), Plain Text (ASCII) or Word (.doc) or HTML (.html).
IMPORTANT: Any submission accepted for publication in Philosophy of Science will have to be ultimately submitted in a Word-compatible format. We encourage you to submit in such a format initially, if at all possible.
AFTER 15 JUNE 2001 Submissions may be sent EITHER by email as described above OR by means of our interactive web site at www.pitt.edu/~psa2002
The maximum recommended manuscript length is 5,000 words, including footnotes and references. If the text includes tables or figures, an appropriate number of words should be subtracted from the limit. Submissions must include a 100-word abstract and a word count. Format and citation style should match those of the journal, Philosophy of Science (see a recent issue for details).
Authors of accepted papers are expected to present abbreviated versions of their papers, with a time limit of approximately twenty minutes (plus discussion).
4. The PROGRAM COMMITTEE for PSA 2002 is as follows:
- Robert Batterman (Ohio State University)
- Harvey R. Brown (University of Oxford)
- Craig Callender (University of California, San Diego)
- Malcolm Forster (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
- Helen Longino (University of Minnesota)
- Mohan Matthen (University of British Columbia)
- Sandra D. Mitchell (University of Pittsburgh), Chair
- Alexander Rosenberg (Duke University)
All questions about submissions should be directed to:
- Sandra D. Mitchell, Chair
- PSA 2002 Program Committee
- History and Philosophy of Science
- 1017 Cathedral of Learning
- University of Pittsburgh
- Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Now philosophers of science have an on-line pre-print archive:
This is an important development! If you haven't visited the site, please do so and consider uploading one of your pre-prints.
6. NEW JOURNAL: Semiotics, Evolution, Energy, Development
The first issue of a new interdisciplinary journal, Semiotics, Evolution, Energy, Development is now on line.
The URL is http://www.library.utoronto.ca/see/pages/SEED_Journal.html
The journal is refereed and has an ISSN number. Instructions for contributors are on the web page. The Journal covers Physics, Energy and Symmetry, Semiosemiotics, Cognition, Computers and Robotology, and Economic, Management and Social Development. Articles that emphasize processes that permit the formation of connections through non-linear processes are preferred, but arguments that such processes are not required are also welcome.
7. WORKSHOP ON QUANTUM GRAVITY, July 4, 2001
One Day Workshop: Philosophical Reflections on Quantum Gravity Wednesday, July 4th, 12.00 - 6.30
Division of History and Philosophy of Science, School of Philosophy, University of Leeds
Speakers: Jeremy Butterfield, Chris Isham, David Wallace, Joy Christian.
8. REASON PARK: Deadline May 15th, 2001
REASON PARK: First INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL on "REASONing under PARtial Knowledge" Foligno (Perugia), ITALY. 27th August - 6th September 2001
REMINDER: the deadline for application is May 15th, 2001
9. RESOURCES in History and Philosophy of Science
Do you or your students need a free user-friendly guide to virtual resources in history & philosophy of science, technology and medicine? If so you can now find one at: http://www.humbul.ac.uk/vts/hps/index.htm
This is the recently launched on line tutorial 'Internet for History and Philosophy of Science' prepared by James Sumner, a PhD student at the University of Leeds, as one of 29 new such 'virtual training suites' supported by the Resource Discovery Network for HUMBUL in a wide range of disciplines. A complete list of these suites with hyperlinked gateways can be found at http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/
The complete range humanities suites - including specialist tutorials for History and for Philosophy - can also be accessed at http://www.humbul.ac.uk/vts/
A. The purpose of this newsletter
The PSA Newsletter is published electronically on an "as needed" basis by the Philosophy of Science Association to disseminate information. The newsletter is moderated and is restricted to information pertinent to members of the Association (e.g., official business of the Association, information about upcoming meetings or other information likely to be of interest to a broad range of membership). It is NOT intended for ongoing discussions of intellectual topics within philosophy of science.
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This year's NCAA field was not trimmed, from 68 to 16, as much as it was hacked with garden shears.
The East saw its top seedlings turned into compost.
NCAA tournament: In the March 23 Sports section, a column about Week 1 of the NCAA tournament said that the Big 12 conference had only one team, Oklahoma, advance to the round of 16. West Virginia of the Big 12 also advanced. —
No. 1 Villanova got trashed by North Carolina State, which finished tied for sixth in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
No. 2 Virginia had lockdown defense thrown back in its face in a loss to nemesis Michigan State, which also knocked out the Cavaliers last year.
Anyway, welcome all, the expected and the interlopers.
The Pac-12, which had to apologize for getting four teams into this country club, answered by going 7-1 and sending three teams — Arizona, UCLA, Utah — to the round of 16.
The Big 12, awarded seven bids, needed a furious Oklahoma rally (against play-in winner Dayton) on Sunday to advance one team to the second weekend.
There's a rumor going around that the regular season and the tournament aren't even related.
And now we know why Kansas has been dodging Wichita State since 1993.
Kansas, an upper-crust property, views Wichita like a neighbor with four cars parked in the front yard.
Wichita got its chance in an NCAA-mandated matchup Sunday and took Kansas to the Midwest woodshed.
So much for getting a regular series with the Jayhawks.
"You think?" Wichita State Coach Gregg Marshall joked after the win.
The Shockers advance to play Notre Dame in Cleveland.
Last year, as a No. 1, Wichita State was pitted against Kentucky in the second round. This year, the Shockers had to beat Indiana and Kansas to advance.
This is like taking on more than half of basketball's Mt. Rushmore.
The tournament's first week was, from Seattle to Charlotte, all over the map.
Top-seeded Kentucky, Duke and Wisconsin all survived, but others were not as lucky.
Who saw Duke vs. Utah and Gonzaga vs. UCLA in the South Regional semis?
And how often do you get Bob Huggins (West Virginia) vs. John Calipari (Kentucky), meeting in Cleveland, on a Thursday?
The NCAA didn't have a great week. It talks about fairness and balance but strayed badly from its own principles in giving Dayton a home game for Wednesday's play-in game.
If home court is worth two points then it worked out perfectly for the locals, with Dayton defeating Boise State by one.
"They were electrifying," Dayton guard Jordan Sibert said of the fans. "I got to relive another senior night, I guess."
Boise State's NCAA player gift this year should have been . . . a shaft.
"I don't think that's the spirit of the NCAA tournament," Boise State Coach Leon Rice said of putting Dayton in Dayton.
The tournament has more rules than the Internal Revenue Service, yet there were times when no one seemed to know what was going on.
Thursday produced the hairpin drama that comes with five one-point games.
Two coaches, Georgia State's Ron Hunter and UCLA's Steve Alford, watched their sons record game-winning shots.
Georgia State's R.J. Hunter, with a three-point bomb, took down No. 3 Baylor.
Hunter, the dad/coach, embodied what the tournament means as he hopped around with the torn Achilles' tendon he ruptured in celebration.
Quote of the week: "They put Baylor up at the Hyatt," Hunter said. "They flew in here on a nice charter flight. They put us on a bus and put us in the Holiday Inn, and guess what, we get to stay another day."
Georgia State's request for a late checkout ended with Saturday's loss to Xavier.
Bryce Alford, the coach's son, beat No. 6 Southern Methodist with a three-pointer in Louisville that did not come close to going in the basket. The goaltending call on SMU's Yanick Moreira was the low-light ("you really can't review that?") moment but it didn't weaken UCLA's belief that it really did belong.
One Internet-site story deemed UCLA the worst at-large pick in NCAA history.
Fueled by the anti-UCLA vibe, the Bruins responded by advancing to the Sweet 16.
In an offset to the dubious "goaltend," officials in Seattle made no call at the end of Louisville's 57-55 win over UC Irvine.
The Anteaters, making their first NCAA appearance, were denied a last shot when officials didn't call a foul that Louisville was trying to give.
No big deal, Irvine makes the tournament every 37 years or so. And the team it almost defeated, Louisville, advanced Sunday by defeating Northern Iowa.
Thursday's mayhem was followed by Friday's sound of crickets.
Only an upset in the last game of the day, No. 11 Dayton over No. 6 Providence, prevented the higher-seeded teams from going 16-0.
The loudest noise made Friday was Providence Coach Ed Cooley throwing his chair during a timeout.
The best "beer-league" performance was delivered in Seattle by North Dakota State's chunky Dexter Werner, who scored 22 points off the bench in a Friday loss to Gonzaga.
"I would pick him up any day on a men's league team," Gonzaga forward Kyle Wiltjer joked.
The non-surprise was top-seeded Kentucky advancing to the "Round of 15 others" by breezing past Hampton and then winning a brats-and-beer road-rage brawl against bordering Cincinnati.
The game reminded of Jim Murray's old line: "Cincinnati: They still haven't finished the freeway . . . it's Kentucky's turn to use the cement mixer."
"We don't play dirty, but we use our bodies," Cincinnati interim Coach Larry Davis said.
It's scary to think Kentucky can win by 13 after making only 20 of 54 shots.
"I like when my team shoots 37, 36, 35% and still wins in double digits," Calipari said.
The problem moving forward hasn't changed. The tournament didn't lose the team it needed to lose to make the next two weeks more interesting.
As long as Kentucky is still in, everybody else still feels out.

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Troubadour by George Strait, is from his album titled the same which was released on April 1, 2008.
Twenty seven years after his first album release, George Strait is still producing top country music songs. While producing music videos is not high on the list for George Strait, this one was well worth the wait. Troubadour is one of the five nominees for this years 2009 CMA Music Video Awards being held November 11, 2009.


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There is something of a woman's singing voice, not lest they defy convention in the fashion of Annie Lennox and her robustness or Bjork and her experimentation, that a man simply cannot replicate. Although this is typically true in both directions, it is rare that I might describe a male voice with beauty, as most who attempt such timbres will find their voices sounding over-exerted or uncannily out-of-place. My goal is not to segregate men and women, nor to elitify one over the other, but simply to appreciate - especially being a man myself who could never produce such vocalizations - the demure that many a female singer wield to their advantage. With it, some weave music out of angel-hairs, spinning the atmosphere through their throat into a textile soft and enveloping. It is with respect for such talent, most often utilized to illustrate one's story as the handmaiden stitches her sorrows into the hues and patterns of a quilt, that today's posting honor a local minstrel whose story could be sung by no other voice than her own, Kristen Gradwohl.
"Do you ever feel like you're at a loss of words or notes to match an experience?" I once asked this young lady.
"Absolutely!" she promptly assured. "Especially the wall of sound I hear before I fall asleep. It's like all the notes in the world, in harmony! Or when I dream songs and wake up and try to write them."
For every artist is there a concept that they cannot emulate with the medium of their craft, and as the singer trifles to emulate the sounds of the "vibrational universe" she describes as our residency, I trouble to condense into three or four pages the essence of that which Kristen otherwise successfully sings.
The first time I formally met Kristen, despite having seen her on and off stage on several occasions, was after the show she played in conjunction with Mental Musk and Nuclear Fuzz as I have detailed in my first posting. I stood loosely within a circle of the local music scene's familiar faces, graduating slowly away from them to seek out Crisco, bassist to Mental Musk. Then there came a visage who maneuvered with elegant dexterity and stepped upon the tips of her toes to within inches of my person. Who is this freaky little woman and why is she violating my personal space, I thought as I leaned away. She queried to herself, "What is that drawing?" as she played with the brown topknot that contained her hair atop a face glistening with glitter. There were two keen eyes that flanked a precipice nose, and a smirk that translated her holistic investment to the immediate present. She looked like a ballerina, in both her form and her night's attire. She pressed one of those pale phalanges against the design emblazoned across my torso and looked up at me with a squint to ask, "What is that?"
Admittedly, I was wearing my favorite shirt that day, so it was difficult to remain angry with the curious figure before me. "It's Odin," I said, "see, with his one eye, his ravens, his spear." Her response expressed an intrigue for Germanic mythos that intrigued me to this character. When our discourse was finished briefly thereafter, I parted away to labor with the musicians and load stage equipment, and I was grinning as I turned away, eager to again see that thing I had only otherwise seen as she danced across the stage with her eclectic and spirited indie ensemble, Valley Soul.
As aforementioned, there are conveyances that most female bards can produce which male ones cannot. To sate my craving for such sensations, my personal musical library contains a repertoire of evocative material sung by ladies so deserving of our respect as my favorite female singer, of Wessex but Welsh by heart, Julie Murphy. Other honorable mentions include Lynne Denman, also of Welsh folk, or Eliza Carthy of English folk, or Kerstin Blodig of Norwegian folk. And so, ever since I first studied Kristen Gradwohl upon the screen of Yvan Vucina's phone, sunken in robes decorated with herbs and ivies and a massive sunhat, this character, too, finds herself among the ranks of my favorite singers.
Watching this gal sing to the flimsy strikes on her ukulele is like watching a web be spun, a delicate procedure to craft something wherein each word, each strand of silk, is fragile, but wherein their culmination is deceivingly strong. Even in the 2012 video linked above, Kristen's lyricism is vivid and emotionally rendering, her fingers lick the uke strings with accuracy, and by god that fucking voice. Strength is a byproduct of experience, of exertion, and so to understand Kristen's particular brand of forte, I wished to learn her story. Upon a second, virtual confrontation in form of a thoughtful Facebook conversation, we migrated hastily from the establishment of our discourse to an expatiating discussion of philosophy and life's essence. "I believe in compassion and honesty and building healthy boundaries to show others where you stand on things," she said in reaction to my statement of each individual's truths. "I believe we, everyone, do our best and make the best choices we can make with what we know… No one is inherently evil. We all want to feel whole and fulfilled. We all desire to be loved and happy."
"What I wonder now," I responded to this dose of hippie, "is how you'd come to such conclusions about the rationale and goodness of people. I find it interesting that, after living as a hermit and enduring all the cruelty and absurdity there to come, you'd not decide on [a philosophy] more jaded."
"I wouldn't say I've any harsher experiences than anyone else. I've seen harder times and some simpler times, but I have, for the most part, been able to feel my way with people… I see equality most of the time… When something doesn't feel right, I tend to try and find where the imbalance is happening intuitively. It's usually an emotional wound in the individual and I do my best to see and understand that hurt without labeling them with it… That's why I like to just hold space and be present."
However, I still wondered, what larval personality was that which developed into the contemporary compassion by which Kristen defines herself? Of her story, she had essays-worth of eccentric events that she divulged as promptly as was warranted with as much depth as could be so typed into the Messenger application. Much of this information was deeply personal. Many of her receipts to my points had surprised me. I was infatuated with the tale she presented, and I was touched that she had gifted it to me in such raw and unbridled form. I will withhold many of the details she allotted me, but worry not, endeared reader, for this still leaves us a manifold wealth of material.
Kristen Gradwohl hails from the San Jose area. It was in her youth that music and the derivative artforms of dance and poetry reaped her soul from dullness and sealed the covenant of her passion, her expression. Though her final form was irrefutable from childhood, Kristen's parents were not fond of the starving-artist path (she claims that her brother better understood her struggle, which undoubtedly lead to full filial acceptance). However, the preoccupations of her parents were made practically irrelevant when juxtaposed to the road she tread. Upon hearing of my own origins, Kristen exclaimed, "Right on! I went from Chicago to Iowa to Colorado to Northern California in 2012. Chicago is awesome."
"Glad to hear it, cause I agree wholeheartedly," I said, grinning in affirmation that cool people are attracted to cool cities. "Damn, so what brought you across the country?"
Her immediate response? "Searching for my purpose." During a joint operation to hone her spirituality and sharpen her talent, this apprentice siren apprehended a scholarship for an education in jazz vocation. However, "I decided I was more interested in playing music on my terms." Well, who isn't more interested in doing what they want as opposed to what they don't? In this spirit, Kristen retreated to a town in Iowa, as I quote for the second instance in a post, "where yogies, siddhas, and spiritual people from all over the world go, and I ended up at Amma's Ashram… An old friend met me there and then we decided to travel barefoot with skateboards for a while." She reduced her belongings to the volume of a backpack and began the trek to her homeland. "That's how I found Tommy and Joe and the whole gang!"
She first encountered this group while they lived in a duplex in Pacific Grove. Her 'old friend', who had bound himself to her companionship since adolescence, made sure the fetters were forged strong that would ultimately contain Kristen to the fertile grove in which she planted her career. However, before they had arranged a name, selecting between the finalists of Valley Sol and Valley Soul (what a competition), Kristen decided to surprise her parents with a visit on her mother's birthday. They received her return with paltry reconciliation, barraging her with scrutiny instead, so she needed a foundation that might prove the firmness of her stance. After an unsuccessful job search with a "killer resume," Tommy, one among the presently aligned four singers and two guitarists for Valley Soul, invited our bardic heroine to learn his songs and perform with him, to which she gladly obliged. When their landlord welcomed her to live with them in that duplex, she eagerly accepted, Tommy and her fell in love, and Gradwohl's fate was sealed.
Such a romantic tale, however, was not as luminous as I may have so presented it, and our serenader of subject had not emerged from the other end of this coming-of-age story without a soreness that grates the pores in the bones. However, without these tribulations, there would be not nearly enough substance, whether arranged by faith, by deliberation, or by alchemy, to cast the trenchant tunes that Kristen sings; there would not be the dynamism required for her to do justice unto those singers - Joe, Tommy, and Adam - whose voices cook splendid flavors into the valley's soul like the smoke from a firepit fed by oak and pine and larch and walnut all at once. There transgressed the decay of a person far closer than a friend before our protagonist's very eyes. There were consumed wonderful and intelligent human beings into the deathly maw of dope. There was the tethers of affiliation, the tethers of law, the tethers of isolation. There was the eternal obligation to "take care of that hippie girl" that graduated one love to the next.
I questioned Kristen, after expressing my flattery at her excruciating openness with me, to her degree of confirmation of my philosophy that one's art could not exist in its form without the other artistic media one has consumed, all of which, be they music, video game, motion picture, or painting, culminate in my writing. To this notion, she said, "It's like some sort of collective unconsciousness. All artists pull from their surroundings, past, present, future… We receive, hold space, and create." And I assumed her adherence to this, until she continued on another query, and illuminated a keystone I had not the self-esteem I needed to realize so brilliantly as she. "In high school, I tried to cut out media. And I decided to pull from within. It's the reason I feel my sound is original, but in reality people say I sound like a list of many artists I've never heard of! But I think we all pull from an incredible place and the mind does its best to translate, ha ha! Now I find myself sitting in silence a lot. Tommy likes to listen to music in the car, but when there is silence, that's when I hear the music of my mind."And beautiful music it is, Kristen.
Thank you again, reader, for reading about how I, once again, fall in love not with
Go check out Valley Soul and the countless videos of them on Youtube, and please support them on SoundCloud or Facebook, or by buying their shit.
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Top Ten Best PC Games of November 2013
This month featured the release of few of the most amazing titles i was looking forward to since a long time, One of them being Batman: Arkham Origins. After the success of the first too titles this was one of the titles i could not wait to play and i must admit despite a few bugs, the game didn't disappoint me that much and lived up to pretty much what i expected out of it. Besides Batman, i was also looking forward to call of duty: Ghosts. COD Franchise is an unbelievable franchise, I cannot imagine any game series where almost all the titles have been super hits. For me, this was the most amazing gaming experience of the month. Anyhow, to break it down for you, Take a look at the complete list of ten of the best top PC Games i have played this month (November 2013).
Note: The below list of Top Ten Best PC Games of November 2013 might include titles released earlier as well. I have included them as i got a chance to play them this month.
Top Ten Best PC Games of November 2013
10. Fifa 14 - An amazing game, the only reason why i have put it in number ten of the Top Ten best PC Games of November 2013 is because i am not a very huge fan of sports game, Moreover compared to other Fifa titles i liked controls in this better
09. Lego Marvel Super Heroes - A Lot of Superheroes to choose from, this was a fun experience but didn't have much of a storyline to play around with.
08. State of Decay - Undoubtedly one of the top best Zombie Survival games available this November 2013.
07. Path Of Exile - I will be the first one to admit i don't like Role Playing Game much but this is one of the greatest releases this month.
06. Metro: Last Night - Much better than Metro 2033, it was a good experience and enjoyable in comparison to its previous installment.
05. NBA 2K14 - After missing out a lot of basketball titles, i decided to give this one a go. It really brings might faith back to the NBA series as i thoroughly enjoyed the gameplay.
04. Battlefield 4 - I only started playing this game series when Battlefield 3 was released, the fourth one truly lives up to its expectation and the graphics are just phenomenol.
03. Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag - You are the pirate in this game and have a lot of missions on the sea which are fun to play and really drew me into this game.
02. Batman Arkham Origins: As i said earlier, despite bugs this game is just awesome, especially the fight sequences.
01. Call of Duty: Ghosts - Undoubtedly one of the most superb, first person shooter the world has to offer. With that being said, most of the gamers will agree with this being at the no. 1 spot of the top ten best pc games of November 2013.
What are your thoughts about the Top Ten Best PC Games of November 2013?


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Billy Burns' sacrifice fly scored Raul Mondesi in the 11th inning as the Kansas City Royals defeated the Minnesota Twins 4-3 Tuesday night, staving off postseason elimination.
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Kendrys Morales had two home runs, including a three-run blast in Kansas City's seven-run ninth inning that propelled the Royals to a 10-3 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday night.
Lorenzo Cain had three hits and scored the winning run in the 10th inning as the Kansas City Royals beat the Minnesota Twins 3-2 on Friday night to snap a four-game losing streak.
Eric Hosmer's single in the 11th inning drove in Cheslor Cuthbert with the winning run to lift the Kansas City Royals to a 5-4 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night.
Raul Mondesi hit a bases-loaded triple and Eric Hosmer added a two-run single during an eight-run sixth inning, lifting the surging Kansas City Royals to a 10-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday night.


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The issue of who represents Charles "Chase" Merritt, charged in the quadruple homicide case of the McStay family, has come full circle, with Merritt again deciding on Tuesday, Feb. 2, that he wants to represent himself in trial instead of having a judge appoint new legal counsel.
Merritt, 58, elected to represent himself during a hearing this morning before Judge Michael A. Smith in San Bernardino County Superior Court, according to a court news release. The judge in a hearing Jan. 26 gave Merritt more time to mull over what to do after the defendant dismissed his previous county-paid four-member legal defense team.
About a year ago, Merritt switched from private counsel to represent himself, with an advisory attorney, and later switched to a court-appointed legal team. More than a year ago, he expressed his wish for a speedy trial because he has a congestive heart failure condition and, expressing his innocence, wanted to get on with life. Merritt will be back in court Feb. 11 for a hearing to determine if he is ready to go to trial.
The McStay family – a mother, father and two children – disappeared without a trace from their Fallbrook home in 2010. Their skeletal remains were discovered in shallow graves in 2013 outside Victorville. A year later, investigators arrested Merritt, who was living in Homeland at the time but had lived in Apple Valley.
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"How do I even describe this book? If it was a recipe, I'd throw in some Harry Potter, a dash of Twilight, and a big container of romance and mix it all together and get something delectable." – Jillian Dodd, bestselling author of That Boy and Keatyn Chronicles series.
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The San Diego Blood Bank (SDBB) provides high quality blood transfusion products and reference laboratory services to hospital partners throughout Southern California. The SDBB deployed paperless workflow and self-service through the HR department using Delphia Consulting's Sage endorsed solutions, Sage HRMS HR Actions.
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The San Diego Blood Bank deployed Sage HRMS HR Actions in order to eliminate paper-based forms and processes. Those processes included performance reviews, requisition to hire, new hire/rehire, status change, transfer, promotion, termination, updates to any employee data in Sage HRMS (except benefits) and online access to employee personnel files including attachments.
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Earlier this year, Workhouse Creative and St. George Post moved into a beautifully remodeled space in the heart of Seattle's Central District. Given that we are a branded content studio, we wanted to give you a tour of the space in the best way we know how… through a video!
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So take a peek into where we, at Workhouse Creative, spend our time crafting authentic, engaging, and influential videos for our clients.
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Adam Levine & Producing Partner Jordan Feldstein Sign One Year Development Deal with NBC
NBC's Alternative and Late Night Programming president Paul Telegdy announced the deal with Levine and Feldstein. The contract provides NBC with an exclusive first look at scripted and alternative series developed by Levine/Feldstein.
Levine is in his 4th season serving as a coach for NBC's megahit "The Voice." He has also continued his musical career as Maroon 5's lead singer, whose single "Daylight" has recently reached the #1 slot on both the Top 40 and Hot AC charts. Jordan Feldstein is CEO for LA-based Career Artist Management, and has managed Maroon 5 since they were formed 10 years ago.
Says Telegdy about Levine, "It would be impossible to quantify Adam's influence and importance to the success of 'The Voice.' Given those enormous contributions, we're very anxious to work with him and Jordan to see what future shows they develop that can find a home here at NBC." We caught a glimpse of Adam's acting skills in Season 2 of FX's "American Horror Story."
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Hedge Fund Laws: A New Idea
Writing new laws for hedge funds in the European Union is not proving an easy task. Policymakers are trying to figure out how to regulate an industry that can be managed from New York, using funds raised from investors in London, to buy investments that are housed in the Cayman Islands or other tax havens.
Jean-Paul Gauzès, the French politician who is leading debate at the European Parliament over the legislation, has an idea: Allow non-EU fund managers to pledge to follow the new EU rules, in exchange for getting approval to market their funds across the EU.
Regulators in foreign countries would monitor whether the fund manager is living up to this pledge, under an agreement between foreign and EU supervisors.


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A major funding boost into infrastructure and innovation has been welcomed today by Essex County Council as great news for the county.
The Chancellor in his Autumn Statement today (Wednesday) announced government plans to set aside £1.3bn of funding to tackle congestion on the UK's roads and a commitment to boost growth and raise living standards by spending more on targeted infrastructure projects.
Kevin Bentley, Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Economic Growth & Partnerships at Essex County Council , said: "While of course we await the detail that comes over the next few weeks, this will likely be a fantastic boost for the county.
"We have been lobbying along with partners for funding to create a new Junction 7a on the M11 and, if this gets the go ahead, this will really boost our ambitious plans for the Enterprise Zone and major housing and employment in the area.
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Shh, Iggy is sleeping
I caught Iggy sleeping today. Usually as soon as you walk by he opens his eyes. Must have had a big night last night!
What's Going on at Ford's Hometown Services?
Boy, are we excited to start showing off all of our hard work over the winter months. If you have ever stopped by our office to see all of our critters, you may recognize the cool … Continue reading
Our Bearded Dragon Likes to Hide!
As I was walking past our Bearded Dragon, "Draco's" enclosure, I had to do a double take. I ran to grab my camera because I have not seen him hide like this before. I was talking to him while taking the photo and in the … Continue reading
Do You Need a Great Birthday Party Idea?
Kids of all ages (including the adults!) will have the opportunity to learn gross and interesting facts about all of our exotic creatures. Everyone will have a front row seat and one by one we will hand display each and … Continue reading
Our Hedgehog Had a Bath!
Look at this cutie! We call him "Hedgy". Every so often, he needs a bath which is done in a kitchen sink. Although he doesn't really enjoy it, when it is done you can tell he feels better. Stop by … Continue reading
Looking for an Idea for a Kid's Birthday Party?
The Bug Club is a great chance to get up close and personal with a variety of insects, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals from around the world. Create a birthday party or event that neither your guests nor the birthday child … Continue reading
Just taking my iguana for a walk..
As most of you are aware, we have a live insectarium at our office in Worcester. It houses scorpions, tarantula's and some of the biggest cockroaches you will ever get to see. We also have a green iguana who has … Continue reading
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Our very own Anthony Marconi who performs all of our "Bug Club" Birthday Party's also is responsible for all the insect care,cleaning and feeding. He takes his job very seriously, unlike the office staff who thought it was the funniest thing when he was … Continue reading
Does this Snake Go with My Shoes?
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King & Maxwell Episode 9 "Locked In" Review
King & Maxwell's "Locked In" began with the essence of a bottle episode (minimum sets, etc.) but turned out to be part action episode as well. However, with a suspected beginning plot that normally brings a fun and flirty episode, "Locked In" delivered in a typical penultimate episode style. But, instead of it being the end of the series, it was the second to last episode of season one.
Normally, with a plot that requires two people to be locked in a room for the episode, usually there is intense character development, which this show needed. Instead, King & Maxwell took us on a building lock down that only lasted a few scenes and lead us to the closing of a case. Nothing really developed and it was a rather boring episode.
However, next week's episode is the finale. Everything that we have been watching build up is exploding (literally), in the August 12th episode. Michelle has to decide if she wants to peruse a continuing career in the Secret Service. Sean found out and he told her that she has to make the choice based on what will make her happy. Like a good partner, he wants her to do what she likes. However, we know that he will miss her terribly if he has to continue without her. Also, the show is called King & Maxwell, meaning that they have to continue the series with both King and Maxwell. Chances are, Michelle is going to find that the Secret Service has changed and she will prefer to work with Sean. She will use a witty comment with an underlying tone of commitment to her partner to tell Sean that she is staying with him.
Meanwhile, Sean has a case of his own to deal with. The Ritter assassination is still floating around rapidly in his mind. Ever since he found out that it was a planned assassination, he has been digging around here and there to find out information. However, as predicted, his case will round up in the final episode.
Also, there is this new friendship between Benny and Edgar that has developed over the latter half of this first season. There are some hints that this could change into a romantic relationship, but it's still unclear if the writers, producers, etc. want to go down that route. Instead, in "Locked In," Benny took a shower at the boathouse, made Edgar grilled cheese, and got some advice about lying to people that she lives with. All this happened and there friendship is getting deeper and deeper. It will be interesting to see where this leads, romance or not, it will be nice to watch (until the writers use your innocent viewer-emotions against you, like always).
The preview consisted of explosions, deceit, and drama, which, at this point, is just every finale of a cop drama on television. We're going to land on a cliffhanger as always. And if Sean is going rogue to solve his own case, there will be some worry from Michelle and plenty of angst and drama between them.
As I had said before, this show would benefit most from getting their main characters together. Frankly, these two dancing around and using snarky comments to get the job done is entertaining, but it is getting old. By the end of the first season, viewers are still enjoying King & Maxwell, but the series time is running short. They need to pull something extravagant out to be impressive, but also have some type of close moment between their two leads.
All will go down next Monday, on TNT, at 10 pm.


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Best Medicine For Varicose Veins Cure Over 500 000 People – Mix Of Aloe Vera, Carrot and Cider (Recipe)
- A carrot
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- Half a cup of apple cider vinegar
- To make this simple homemade mask for varicose veins, the first thing to do is to take the carrot to the blender to process it well and get a smooth mixture.
- Okay, once achieved, we will add aloe vera. We will put the same amount of aloe vera pulp as the amount of carrot. To achieve this pulp of aloe, we have to do is, carefully, first remove the thorns from the stems, then open it transversally and remove the pulp (the transparent part) using a spoon.
- What is the next step? Add the apple cider vinegar. The must adjust the amount by eye level, enough to create a smooth paste with carrot and aloe, that isn't very liquid, but not too thick, or we can't spread it on our varicose veins.
- Now, to get a smooth and homogeneous cream, we take the ingredients to the blender. Now it's ready! But beware, you must apply it in a very specific way: start spreading it by massaging it from the ankles to the calves, helping yourself with your hands and always favoring the circulation upwards.
- Once you've applied it to the legs, let the mask to relieve varicose veins act for half an hour. Then remove it with warm water.
- You can apply this mask every day when you get home. If one day you do not have time or do not have all the ingredients, you can prepare some wipes impregnated with apple cider vinegar. Put them on where you have varicose veins and let it act for 20 minutes. It is also very effective.
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The Last Week: How Lawsuits Doomed an American Icon
This outstanding, 18-and-a-half minute documentary tells the story of Blitz, a Miami, Oklahoma, manufacturer of gasoline cans forced into bankruptcy.
Once employing 350 people, the factory closed in August 2012.
Law suits were filed against the company by trial lawyers representing people who became severely burned after pouring gasoline on fires.
People poured gasoline on fires — and trial lawyers sought monetary damages from the manufacturer of the gasoline cans.
The Last Week: How Lawsuits Doomed an American Icon was recently screened at the Anthem Film Festival. It is available for free viewing on YouTube; see the embedded video below.
In the film, a lawyer for Blitz says juries cannot look at disfigured people without feeling compassion, and out of compassion, they award the burned individuals. The company pays.
However, the company's research found nothing that could protect people who choose to pour gasoline on fires.
In another scene, the former CEO for Blitz says the trial lawyers are multi-millionaires, and he claims the burned individuals only get a small portion of the settlements.
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Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you. At least, that's what Classic IV likes to tell me. 👻 It's one of my favorite Halloween tunes no matter what time of year I hear it, and their song got me thinking…what other Halloween love songs are out there?
Lots, as it turns out!
All it took was one quick spin through my Ultimate Halloween Playlist to come up with 21 songs expelling the virtues of spooky love. And with Valentine's Day just a day away, it seemed like the perfect time to share them with you!
Take a listen to some of my favorites. (Plus an unlisted bonus track or two from my Treats Not Tricks subscribers who got a sneak peek of this playlist last week.)
Listen to Halloween Love Songs >>>
And just in case you don't have Spotify, prefer another streaming service or you're an old school bad ass who still burns mix CDs, here's the complete track list:
Which Halloween love song is your favorite?
Share it in the comments – or what songs I'm missing from the playlist!
Looking for more spooky playlists? Here's a few of my faves I've created:
- Graveyard Party – Halloween 2016 Mix
- 14 Songs about Witches
- Spooky Little Summer
- 5 Offbeat Songs for your Halloween Party Playlist
- A Tim Burton Playlist
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as part of the Snowflakes & Mistletoe
Samantha Dean has two major regrets in life-and both of them are dates with Vince Roberts. But somehow, since they started teaching at Serenity Landing Elementary II, he's managed to worm his way into her life and make himself indispensable.
Vince Roberts has loved Samantha since their first date, though he hasn't done the best job of showing it. Spending time together is one reason he volunteered both of them to plan the staff Christmas party.
They work together to take care of one of their own, dealing with the recent death of her husband in a house fire. As they plan the party, Samantha tries to keep Vince from finding his way into her heart. Will she admit the feelings that have been growing for so many years or walk away from Gifts of Love?
(Also available as part of the Snowflakes and Mistletoe collection on Amazon.)


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30 Nov 0002 KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
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Korean Female Pop Singer 'ALi', who showed an amazing vocal in LeeSsang's song I'm Not Laughing. # Discography Mini-album After The Love Has Gone - October 2009
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text: I had the best time photographing Tori & Leon's wedding at the Junior League in Little Rock, AR last Sunday. They are both such wonderful people and have an amazing group of friends and family that were there to support them. Here are a few of my favorite images of their wedding day!


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By KATIE THOMAS
IN an episode of "Orange Is the New Black," the Netflix series set inside a federal prison, a journalist rattles off a series of budget cuts that are making life difficult for the inmates. Closing the running track. Canceling G.E.D. classes. And switching to generic drugs.
It's been nearly 30 years since Congress kick-started the generic drug industry by passing the Hatch-Waxman Act, the 1984 law that made it easier for pharmaceutical companies to sell copycat pills as long as they could prove the drugs were identical to the brand-name versions. Today, the Food and Drug Administration and nearly every other major health authority agree that generic drugs are safe and effective. Indeed, 84 percent of all prescriptions in the United States were dispensed as generics last year, and in many states pharmacists are required to dispense the generic version of a drug unless a doctor specifies otherwise.
The reason, from a public health perspective, is clear: Many generic drugs cost pennies per pill, yet pack the same punch as brand-name medicines.
So why can't they get more respect? Continue reading at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/sunday-review/why-the-bad-rap-on-generic-drugs.html?hp


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Hi All,
Been so busy havent been on much. But wanted to share this.
Today I get a phone call from a young lady wanting to know how much we cahrge for a whitetail shoulder mount I told her then she says well its fleshed out already I told her that it was still the same price then she asked how long would it take to get it back I told her right now its 6 months and we have alot of work in front of her then she begans to tell me all about a friend that was killed last year and now his gradfather is dying and his last wish is to see the deer done before he dies
Well maybe I didnt handle this right I told her that in that case we could do it and have it to her in two weeks for $1000 dollars
well she didnt take that to well and keep saying we could do it cheaper and fast because it was fleshed out already!
I guess it takes all kinds.
Hope everyone is busy! And doing well
Bubba's Taxidermy
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I think you are out of the will.
I really find it hard to believe that her grandfather's last wish would be to see a deer mount. I value all my mounts (customer's to) but if I was in that position I would would want to see all of my family & friends, not my deer heads. I think you handled it fine, everyone has feelings but it's hard to work your business around a story like that. Good Luck !
I had a man and his daughter call and say they were on their way to come get deer 40 mile drive.they never showed.Didnt think much about it until the family called a few days later and they had wrecked on the way to my shop and killed the man and his daughter.I did reduce the price about half as I had heard about the wreck on the radio.Terrible deal.
If the old man's last wish is to see a deer get finished I would have said "tell him to hang on for six more months " . I don't see where offering a faster time for a higher price was out of line at all . Sounds like another type that has that awful story ready at all times just to get something done faster and maybe try to chew down the price.
ain't worth a thousand bux huh? Guess he's gonna get buried in a cardboard box underneath the ol apple tree out back
Back when I had my shop I had a couple of guys come in one day and asked about a mount that had been brought in to see how close it was to being ready. I didn't recognize them and asked why they were checking and they said that the mount was for their grandfather. He had been diagnosed with terminal cancer since bagging the deer and only had a few weeks to live. They wanted to surprise him with the mount since it was the biggest deer he had ever taken.
I made a phone call and verified their story and told them I would call them within a week. Luckily I had just received the tanned cape a week or so before and had a form in the shop that would work. The next day his deer was put together and put under a fan to dry.
After a couple of days the finish work was done and I called them to pick it up. They came out that afternoon and got it to take it to grandpa. Boy, were they happy! I didn't charge any extra for the rush job, either.
I later heard that grandpa died a couple of days after that. I was just glad that I could do something to brighten his last days a little. I think if I had not gotten the mount out I would have felt pretty lousy for not doing it.
Just my $ .02 . . . adjusted for inflation.
Jerry S.


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Jump onto a Buda Velocipede and cycle from Björnstorp to Veberöd.
We offer you an environmentally friendly adventure in beautiful, natural surroundings on "Romeleåsen", which has existed for billions of years and is one of Skåne's most important heritages. It is important to keep it for future generations and with that in mind we provide this fantastic possibility of recreation without harming the environment!
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I participated in an Ambassador Program on behalf of Influence Central for Sprint and the Samsung Galaxy Note5. I received product to facilitate my review as well as a promotional item to thank me for my participation.
Those of you that read my blog regularly, know that I am an iPhone gal. I have had an iPhone for as long as I can remember, but over the past couple of years I have begun to wonder about how the other side lives (the Android lovers). My sister is one of those people that made the switch and says she loves it. So when I was given the opportunity to give the Samsung Galaxy Note5 through Sprint a try, I couldn't wait to explore and learn as much as I could.
I am the first to admit that an Android is a completely different type of phone than what I am used to. So learning about everything will take me a little longer than the time frame I have had at this point. However, what I have picked up thus far has been pretty amazing. I am definitely loving the Galaxy Note5 and can understand the pull towards an Android Smartphone.
The most obvious thing I love about the Galaxy Note5 is the camera. The Galaxy Note5 features a 16-megapixel, rear facing camera and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. The clarity of the pictures are better than any I have seen from a smartphone camera and I have tried several. It also has an impressive 5.7-inch Quad Super AMOLED display that allows for the larger viewing screen when taking a video or photo.
For social media lovers such as myself, it has the coolest feature for shooting videos. Even if you aren't into social media, this feature is awesome. It is called Video collage. When you go into the camera and select Video collage mode, you are able to shoot 3,6,9 or 15 seconds of video in up to 4 different screens. This is such a fun feature that gives me the ability to film what I want, when I'm ready and then upload to Instagram or share immediately with family by email/text. It's exactly what you need to make perfect collages while on the go.
Love, love this mode on the Samsung Galaxy Note5!
This may sound silly, but since I have started using this smartphone, I know more about what's happening in the news. If you swipe all the way over to the right once you enter your home screen, it takes you to briefing. Briefing is basically the news that is happening around the world, but with you being able to change the settings to see what interests you the most.
If you don't care about business or science, you can simply unclick those in the settings and you will no longer see those types of stories. It's simple and quick to customize your news anyway you like it.
There is also an app called Flipboard that I love. Flipboard is a social news magazine that lets me pick topics of my liking and share them with the people I choose. This is one of the coolest apps I have used by far. You can select 5 or more topics that range from cute animals to paranormal and everything in between. Then the best stories are handpicked for you to check out. It reminds me of Pinterest, in the sense that once you start reading, you could be there a while.
The last of the 3 things that I love about the Samsung Galaxy Note5 is the refined S Pen. It fits directly into the bottom of the phone which makes it much harder to misplace. I have always liked having a stylus for my computer, and I like it even more on the Galaxy Note5. Being able to draw, easily write and capture notes quickly and easily is key for me. My phone becomes the place I put everything. Having the S Pen and the large 5.7-inch screen gives me the perfect amount of writing space to stay more organized.
It's also fun to draw on my children's pictures and give them mustaches. They always get a kick out of it.
Sprint has some incredible Family Plans that work well if you are switching to Sprint. Families switching to Sprint get four lines with unlimited talk, text and 40GB of high-speed data to share while on the Sprint network for $120 per month.(not including taxes and surcharges).
Samsung is sweetening the deal by giving new and existing customers that purchase and activate a Samsung Galaxy Note5 by Nov. 30 a year of Amazon Prime for FREE!! Don't even get me started on how important my Amazon Prime account is to me. Can't live without it!! With Amazon Prime, members get free 2 day shipping on over 20 million products. You also gain access to tens of thousands of movies and TV episodes with Prime Video, unlimited photo storage and ad-free streaming of over a million sounds.
Find your local Sprint store by visiting this link. If someone on your holiday list is looking to purchase a new phone, be sure to have them check out the Samsung Galaxy Note5. I'm already thinking it may be time for me to switch and I haven't come close to learning everything.
If you are already using an Android, I'd love to hear your thoughts on them.


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A month ago I decided to go for a hair cut at a new barber shop close to from where I live. Not because I was unhappy with the lady who's been cutting my hair for the past 4 years, but because I couldn't find an opening and by that time my hair has grown so long that it started to irritate me beyond control.
So I made the plunge…
Well… I'm sad to say that it didn't work out. For the month after that, I was even more irritated than before. My Barber Shop Friend succeeded in making me look like a douche bag [congratulations dude!]…
But not to worry, it's a month later and my old hair stylist asked just the right questions to make me look like a shiny new penny [Thanks Candice! Here's a shout out for Xco Man]
While we were talking about this unfortunate miss-cut, it dawned on me that the success of all the products I work on, hinges on asking the right questions and being really interested in our clients. [Yes, of course there are things like skill and management that plays a massive role, but for the sake of simplifying this analogy, I wont go into those.] When I had to tell Mr Barber how I want him to cut my hair without him even bothering to ask, I guess I should have known that we're not a good fit.
It's similar with working on websites and mobile applications. To ensure that I build the best possible product, I have to get to know the client and the people who will ultimately use the product I'm about to build. That way l won't only have a happy client, but also a happy user; one's that come back over and over again.
This isn't a groundbreaking theory, but it just became very real to me over the past month. *Even though it cost me R120 and a bad hair cut…)
I listened to a podcast the other day where Jared Spool interviewed Jeff Gothelf on the concept of Lean UX. He mentioned something that is very applicable to where I find myself in my career right now:
Design is a hypothesis. No matter how great a designer you are, whatever you put forward is a hypothesis. So you need to validate that hypothesis both from a business perspective and customer perspective and so you want to minimise the time spending pursuing the wrong hypothesis.
As a relatively young designer, I have this inner conflict between protecting my first design ideas as the perfect solution and, putting that idea or concept out there so that it can be tested and validated as a hypothesis.
When Jeff made this statement I realised how liberating it is to present concepts as hypothesis so that they can be tested and validated first. It liberates me from trying to protect my ideas all the time and the constant fear of loosing them. It also liberates me from the idea that my value as a designer comes from the amount of unique and creative ideas I can come up with. There is nothing further from the truth than this…
My value as a designer comes from my ability to allow the people who use the stuff I make (with other people), have the best possible experience. And that's something I'll rather want to hold onto…
Over the past few months I've quoted extensively from Design For The Real World by Victor Papanek. I've finally finished his book and it has become, without a doubt, one of the most fundamental books I've read on design to date. He cuts through the fluff and gets straight to the core of design: How do we solve problems.
Many of the problems we face today is still unsolved because of a vicious cycle that is subconsciously set in motion when a young designer chooses his first job.
…the choices facing a young designer seem mainly economic. Financial security is understandably of enormous importance to students and young designers. This brings a whole new dimension to designing for the poor and needy. The prime consideration now is a job.
Some have sold out to an employer and continue to design luxury items for a small privileged class. One may fault this approach, nonetheless it is a legitimate response to a difficult existential choice. Others have accepted my suggestion and contribute one tenth of their time or one-tenth of their income to solving problems of abject need, while continuing with their jobs.
Without realising it a young designer sets himself on a course where the luxury items for a small privileged class blinds him to the solutions that might arise by designing for the many instead of the money.
Even the most successful designer can afford to give one-tenth of his time. It is unimportant what the mechanics of the situation are: four hours out of every forty, one working day out of every ten, or ideally, every tenth year, to be spent a sort of sabbatical, designing for many instead of for money.
For in showing students new areas of engagement, we may set up alternative patterns of thinking about design problems.
I live in South Africa, a developing country in a Third World country with more problems we sometimes care to solve. Yes, some of them are way to scary to even think about, but engaging in some will lead to solving others. And this makes it worth pursuing…
On solving problems, Vicor Papanek states something very interesting in his book, Design For The Real World:
A new way of looking at things can be enhanced enormously through a thorough understand of a second language. For the structure of each language gives us different ways of dealing with and experiencing realities.
It is perfectly reasonable to say I am going to San Francisco" in English. The same statement can be made in German ("Ich gehe nach San Francisco"), but it makes no sense linguistically. In German a qualifier must be added, for instance: I am flying to San Francisco, I am driving to San Francisco. In navajo and the Eskimo languages such statements must be even more specifically qualified to make sense: "I (alone, or with friends, or whatever) am driving (sometimes I will drive, sometimes my friend will drive) (by cart, by sled) to San Francisco (then I will return and my friend will drive on)."
By bringing more than one language to bear on a problem, we obtain depth.
It made me wonder whether this is applicable to digital problems as well. Is it possible for a designer to solve usability issues easier (or better) by learning a programming language? Would it enable him to gain a new and deeper understanding of a problem by having a more technical view on the problem?
This is perhaps a good reason why designers should be able to code…
Standing on the edge of a new year doesn't feel as magnificent as it used to be. Each year feels less like a new year and more like an extension of the year before. I set less elaborate goals and rely more on the previous year's learning to guide me through the New Year.
Today, standing on this side of a new year feels different. It feels as if I'm riding 2013's wave into 2014. I haven't set any major new goals and probably wont either.
2013 has been tough in so many ways. I've learned that sometimes life isn't just black or white. Sometimes there are grey areas. I've learned that the most Spiritual moments in life doesn't necessarily come from reading my Bible, praying or going to church, but rather to face life when it presses. I've learned more about the value of sonship and fathership than what I can write down here.
But beyond that, I've learned that life works better when it is counted in seasons instead of years. Since each season requires a different strategy, vision, and direction, entering 2014 isn't daunting. I know the season I'm in right now. It hasn't changed yet and it wont change before tomorrow.
I will continue to build and establish, but with a better strategy from what I've learned over the past year.
I will make 2014 count in seasons instead of months.
Here's to everyone going into a new season or extending their seasons!
In the words of the wisest man who ever lived:
There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
King Solomon | Ecc 3: 1 – 8
A while ago I did a quick summary of Mike Monteiro's video, "How Designers Destroyed the World". As if this truth wasn't sobering enough, Victor Papanek in his book, Design For The Real World, shared this advice from the company owner who asked him to design a radio:
Just think what making your radio entails in terms of our workers. In order to get it produced, we're building a plant in Long Island City. We're hiring about 600 new men. Workers from many states, Georgia, Kentucky, Alabama, Indiana, are going to be uprooted. They'll sell their homes and buy new ones here. They'll form a whole new community of their own. Their kids will be jerked out of school and go to different schools. In their new subdivision supermarkets, drugstores, and services stations will open up, just to fill their needs.
And now, just suppose the radio doesn't sell. In a year we'll have to lay them all off. They'll be stuck for their monthly payments on homes and cars. Stores and service stations will go bankrupt when the money stops rolling in; homes will go into sacrifice sales. Their kids, unless daddy finds a new job, will have to change schools. There will be a lot of heartaches all around and that's not even thinking of my stockholders.
And all this because you made a design mistake. That's where your responsibility really lies, and I bet that they never taught you this at school!
I dont have much more to add to this. Sometimes the impact of a designer's work stretches beyond what is directly visible with the eye.
One of Frank Chimero's in What Screens Want:
Like them or not, Metro and iOS7 are major touchstones in our relationship to computing, because they signify that we're beginning to accept a flexible medium on its own terms.
But it's not the first time we've done something like this. Let's go back 35 years…
I'm making my way through Victor Papanek's book, Design For The Real World; a book that is slowly changing the way I understand design. It's quite academic at times, but apart from that, it's becoming one of the most insightful books I have read on design to date.
The book was first published in 1970; initially not received very well in the design community due to Victor's very different design philosophy. But today, 35 years later, it has become one of the most read books on design.
One of the many statements he made that stood out to me was about how the motor industry is instilling a throw-away mentality in us:
From the end of World War II to 1978 car manufacturers sold the American public on the concept that it's stylish to change cars every three years…
But the risk is the expansion of this attitude; from changing automobiles every few years, we may move to considering everything a throw-away item, and considering all consumer goods, and indeed, most human values, to be disposable.
Throwing away furniture, transportation vehicles, clothing, and appliances may soon lead us to feel that marriages (and other personal relationships) are throw-away items as well, and that on a global scale, countries and, indeed, entire subcontinents are disposable like Kleenex. That which we throw away, we fail to value.
I don't need to look at stats on divorce rates to convince myself that people, today, value relationships less than 30 years ago. We certainly do have a Kleenex mentality, specifically about relationships.
Now, I'm sure it's not only the motor industry's fault. People are changed by a whole ecosystem of things connected and influenced by each other over time. But I think we can learn a lot from the motor industry and how consumer goods are created. One such thing is that some relationships, just like some consumer goods, wont last forever. Friends come and friends go…
But a more important thing we should learn is that some consumer goods last a lifetime, not because they withstand the trends and fashions of life, but because we place enough value on them to last beyond these changing times.
Some relationships should be the same. They last because we add enough value on them that even though time and life happens, we choose to keep them.
The Kleenex culture can't be changed by just making products that last forever. They don't and won't. The solution is so much deeper.
Im reminded of Albert Einsteins quotes:
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
In less than 4 months, me and my beautiful fiancé will get married. One of my friends is a brilliant photographer and spoiled us with an engagement shoot. Below are some of his photos. They were taken on our farm just outside Durbanville, Cape Town. You can view more of his other photos at www.nelisengelbrecht.co.za.
A quick tech tip: By using JpegMini, I was able to compress these photos by more than 50% without any quality loss. Try it out. It's a really nifty tool to compress photos that would otherwise be 10MB big…
Most of the time, when I design form fields, I would put the labels inside the field. Purely because the design is a bit more compact and it feels a bit cleaner. But I've always felt a bit uneasy when I use this pattern. Apart from a few technical issues, it also forces the user to make use of his short-term memory to remember what he needs to enter into the field.
Jackson Fox lists a few solutions to this problem in his article, "Making Infield Form Labels Suck Less". I don't really like any of these because they either feel out of place or they kind of go against the reason why I wanted to put the label inside the field in the first place and that is to keep it compact and clean.
But I found this really neat implementation by Marcus Pohorely of a concept done by Matt Smith. It's called floatlabels.js and is available for free over here. What I love about this solution is the subtle animation of the labels to appear just above the input copy and by doing so still keep the form compact and clean.
Here's Matt's concept design: