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Oklahoma's 2018 legislative session starts today, and it promises to be one of the most contentious in recent memory. The reason? The state budget.
ASAE has announced that Jon Gorman, senior vice president of Communications and Outreach for Cornerstone Credit Union League, has earned the Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation. The CAE is the highest professional credential in the association industry.
Greater Texas Credit Union recently promoted Jesse Holguin to vice president – business lending.
Tarrant County's Credit Union announces that member Paige Starks is the winner of its Cruise for Two Sweepstakes held Jan. 12.
The battle for control of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau continues. Acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Mick Mulvaney has stripped the agency's fair-lending office of enforcement powers in a sign that many consumer advocates see as trying to reduce oversight and penalties for firms that discriminate against borrowers.
A successful Boston-area credit union ad campaign gained even more exposure when it aired during the Super Bowl on Sunday. With the launch of Adrenaline's "Bank like a Big Wig" campaign, Workers Credit Union has seen record-breaking lift, not only in the coveted consumer brand affinity, but also, and more importantly, in new membership acquisition.
The Personalized Performance Report and PowerPoint slide deck depicting your credit union's 3rd Quarter 2017 results have been emailed to all Cornerstone members.
Online registration has opened for the Cornerstone Credit Union Foundation's 2018 Train the Trainer workshops for the following dates and locations...
Cybersecurity attacks on credit unions have become regular, complex, and targeted. In this workshop, we will discuss ransomware, malware, and the precautions credit unions should take to protect themselves and their members.


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A developer who is proposing to build 113 new homes in a rural location is seeking public opinion on the plans.
Gladman Developments is proposing to build the homes on land off Roes Lane, Crich.
The developer claims the homes would be of varying shapes and sizes and 30 per cent of them would be affordable.
The site would feature public open space with recreational facilities.
A leaflet has been distributed to 730 homes in Crich asking for residents' views on the plans.
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The Sacramento Municipal Utility District has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for power purchase agreements (PPAs) to meet 23% of its retail electricity sales with renewable energy by 2011.
The 2008 solicitation is for PPA offers of California renewable energy standards-eligible conventional renewables, which include resources such as wind, geothermal, small hydroelectric, landfill gas, biomass and biodiesel. A separate RFP for emerging renewable technologies is planned for mid-2008.
Deadline: April 7
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Sure, San Francisco is far from being a fashion capital. But if you need proof that the city houses some major budding talent in the sartorial field, all you need to do is cast your eyes toward the Academy of Art University, and its fashion program headed up by designer Simon Ungless, who started the Alexander McQueen label in partnership with the late designer, in the early '90s.
With a master instructor behind them, 25 fashion students marched a total of 17 collections (many of them collaborations between students) down the runway late last week. And while there was much excitement over the front row that included visiting guests Sarah Burton, Philip Treacy, Suzy Menkes, and Cathy Horyn, the real action was happening on the runway.
Check out our top 50+ looks from the show (trust us, it was hard to narrow them down!) after the jump, and let us know your favorites in the comments.


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(Reuters) - The Cincinnati Reds have been awarded Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2015 All-Star Game, which will mark the first time in 27 years the city will enjoy the economic boost the event provides.
It will mark the fifth time Cincinnati has hosted the annual game, which pits American League and National League All-Stars against each other to determine which gets home field advantage for that season's World Series.
"I am very pleased to award the 2015 All-Star Game to the Reds and the great fans of Cincinnati," MLB Commissioner Bud Selig said in a statement.
"The Midsummer Classic will be a remarkable opportunity to celebrate Cincinnati's rich baseball tradition, which parallels the history of the national pastime itself."
The game promises an economic boost for the Cincinnati economy as last year's All-Star Game in Kansas City had a $60 million economic impact.
Cincinnati's Great American Ball Park, which sits alongside the Ohio river, opened in 2003 and set its all-time attendance record when 44,599 fans attended a 2010 playoff game.
The 2013 All-Star Game will be played at the home of the New York Mets and the 2014 Midsummer Classic will be in Minneapolis, home of the Minnesota Twins.
Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto; Editing by Julian Linden


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While American movie poster artists toiled uncredited, French distributors hired established and often well-known artists who got to sign their work. Case in point, Roland Coudon, about whom I posted last time, and Jacques Faria, author of the Frankenstein posters here.
Faria (1898-1856) was the French-born son of another famous artist, Brazil's Candido Aragonez de Faria (1849-1911). Both men had prolific careers as illustrators of circus, travel, music hall and film posters. Candido de Faria is, in fact, recognized as one of the pioneer film poster artists, working as early as 1902 on Ferdinand Zecca's Alcohol and its Victims. Both father and son's art is highly collectible today.
Jacques Faria's main Frankenstein poster has an elongated Monster front and center, surrounded by lab equipment, almost a caricature with his signature straight arms and hands fanned out. Electricity dances between his neck electrodes. The image, here in black and white, was taken from a 1970 issue of Midi-Minuit Fantastique magazine. You can get a glimpse of the color treatment, purple shadows on The Monster, in this picture of writer/director Robert Florey posing with two French posters, reputedly the only surviving copies. You could buy a house with either one of those today.
Faria's other Frankenstein poster recycles the familiar striding Monster punching through the paper, previously used in the American exhibition campaign. Here, Faria gives it a solid red background, adding pencil sketches of significant scenes: Creator and the Created facing off on the mountain, a lab scene with The Monster on its elevator slab, and agitated villagers at the burning windmill.
Jacques Faria's bracing take on The Monster, standing tall, and Roland Coudon's uncommon, large-size portrait of Clive and Karloff are among the very best of all the outstanding art created to promote Frankenstein around the world in the early 30s. By the way, check the stunning, singular Swedish poster I blogged earlier.
No doubt about it, the selling of Frankenstein, with its unique lead character, yielded some of the most original and splendid art ever engraved on movie posters.


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The brilliant Japanese wrestling movie Oh! My Zombie Mermaid is finally coming to the West in July, raising all kinds of intriguing questions that aren't answered in the most bizarre way possible in the trailer.
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Kouta (Shinya Hashimoto), the leader of a pro-wrestling organization called "Zero", is planning an over-the-top housewarming at his new mansion. The not-so-lucky attendees include his sister Nami (Sonim), TV producer Yamaji (Shiro Sano), and jealous party-crashing rival Ichijoh (Nicolas Pettas). Of course Ichijoh's appearance ignites an epic battle which all but destroys the entire place. Kouta's wife, Asami (Urara Awata) . . . contracts a mysterious disease. Meanwhile, the ratings-obsessed Yamaji concocts a plan to broadcast the most epic wrestling battle ever conceived.
I think we can guess the "mysterious disease" might somehow be related to zombie mermaidism. I like the combination of wrestling with zombies - sort of reminds me of Dead Set, the British miniseries about how the last bastion of humanity in a zombie-ravaged UK are the people on the sealed-off set of TV series Big Brother. I also suspect that the title Oh! My Zombie Mermaid might be a reference to Oh! My Goddess!, the silly/sexy anime series that often gets so annoying you wish that everybody would turn into brain-eating monsters so they would stop giggling so damn much.


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Honda Purchases Interest in FuelMaker, Manufacturer of Natural Gas Refueling Systems
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TORRANCE, Calif., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- American Honda Motor Co., Inc., which markets the Civic GX natural gas vehicle, has purchased a 20 percent interest in FuelMaker Corporation, a privately held Toronto-based company and the leading manufacturer of natural gas vehicle refueling appliances, the companies announced today.
In addition, Honda R&D Americas, Inc., will provide market research information to assist FuelMaker's efforts in developing an inexpensive, advanced technology, home refueling appliance for natural gas vehicles. This new product will allow natural gas powered vehicles to be conveniently refueled from a homeowner's natural gas line, in addition to refueling at public stations.
"Natural gas offers many advantages and opportunities as an alternative to gasoline," said Tom Elliott, American Honda executive vice president. "Substantial supplies of natural gas exist in North America and there are significant environmental benefits. The biggest challenge the industry faces is developing an infrastructure that provides customers with improved access."
Currently, natural gas powered vehicles are primarily purchased by corporate and government fleets that buy alternative fuel vehicles to meet Energy Policy Act goals. These organizations typically maintain their own refueling facilities.
Honda has been selling the natural gas powered Civic GX since 1997. The EPA has referred to the GX as being the "cleanest internal combustion engine vehicle in the world." The Civic GX also has earned a Super Ultra Low Emission Vehicle (SULEV) rating and produces almost zero emissions. The new 2001 Civic GX offers increased range, fuel economy and greater interior and trunk space. It is equipped with a continuously variable transmission (CVT) for responsive performance and fuel efficiency.
"Advanced technology vehicles like the CNG Civic GX face the 'chicken and egg' infrastructure challenge," Elliott said. "Without more vehicles on the road, the infrastructure won't grow. But without an expanded infrastructure, vehicle demand remains limited.
"Our research and marketing experience with the Civic GX indicates consumers like the idea of being able to refuel their vehicle at home," Elliott said. "As natural gas lines already supply most homes and businesses, the availability of an affordable home refueling system will expand the potential for alternative fuel vehicles."
Recognized as a leader in environmental technology, Honda has been at the forefront of enhancing fuel economy, lowering emissions and developing alternative fuel vehicles. Honda was the first automaker to sell gasoline-powered vehicles meeting California's stringent emission standards for Low Emission Vehicles (LEV) in 1995, Ultra Low Emission Vehicles (ULEV) in 1997, and Super ULEVs (SULEV) in 2000. The Honda Insight was also the first gasoline-electric hybrid available in America when it went on sale in December, 1999. About 88 percent of all 2001 Honda vehicles are LEV rated or better.
American Honda, the U.S. sales and marketing subsidiary of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., was founded in 1959. Honda currently produces automobiles, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, lawn mowers and engines at its U.S. manufacturing operations using domestic and globally-sourced parts. Honda also maintains R&D centers in California, Ohio and North Carolina that design and develop many of the products sold in America.
FuelMaker Corporation is an environmental technology company providing infrastructure solutions for both the natural gas and hydrogen/fuel cell fueling industries. Development of FuelMaker's core technology, supported by 94 patents, began in 1989. Since then, FuelMaker has built a base business to satisfy the gaseous fueling needs of industrial and consumer markets. The combination of extensive R&D, a manufacturing and quality focus, and 8,000 FuelMaker Vehicle Refueling Appliances (VRAs) in operation for both natural gas and hydrogen, has resulted in technology and a product line that is recognized around the world as extremely reliable and state of the art. (A VRA is a self-contained system that compresses natural gas or hydrogen and delivers it to the vehicle.)
FuelMaker was voted "Best Natural Gas Vehicle (NGV) Company" in a North American industry poll two years running (1998 and 1999). Its 3,600 psi VRA was also voted "Best New Product" in 1998.
SOURCE American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
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The color used to play Holi in ancient
was extracted from Tesu flowers which bloom during the spring season. It is believed that Lord Krishna played Holi with Radha using colors made from Tesu flowers. Even today many of the temples in Vrindavan, Braj area and India play Holi with traditional yellowish-orange coloured water extracted from dried Tesu Flowers. Mathura
Tesu Flowers is also known as the flame of the forest and is the flower of the Palash tree. It is believed to possess medicinal properties and is also good for the skin.
Fresh Tesu flowers are used to welcome guests and it is also used to sprinkle water on devotees during Holi.
The flowers are soaked overnight in water and can also be boiled to obtain fragrant yellowish – orange coloured water.
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Kathrine necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 71 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
Motion Fitness
We are a company dedicated to people's health and well being through fitness. (Group exercise classes, Yoga, Personal Training, Cardio and Weight equipment). We are in the spectrum of health clubs; we are on the higher end in both price and service.
Our audience is people going to the gym, existing customers and new customers. Age 18-55. Core is between 20 - 45.
We are eventually going international as wel
The size of the pamphlet unfolded is
Wide - 8 inches - (20cm)
Long - 8 1/2 inches (21,5 cm)
So folded in half it is
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Long - 8 1/2 inches (21.5 cm)
I have attached our logo and content that has to be in the pamphlet.
Please be creative and feel free to use pictures. We want a soft look that will appeal to everyone, so lifestyle pictures. No muscle/bodybuilding pictures.
We are also looking for a pamphlet that will hold our contracts that we give our when members sign up, it is same size but had a open pocket on the inside to hold the contract. No text is needed in this one just our logo and "Stay Active"
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At the Angstrom Gallery, Yishai Jusidman's 14 oils on panel invite visitors to consider the differences and similarities between art and news, particularly in terms of the way each inhabits time. It's a terrifically unsentimental show that zeros in on the transience of all things and the importance of hanging on to whatever you value most, despite what others think.
Each of Jusidman's paintings measures 28 1/2 inches by 30 1/2 inches and is framed by a gilded rectangle of gold. Each is painted in the manner of the Old Masters. Layer upon layer of patiently built-up colors gradually add up to images rich in detail and thick with the atmosphere of reality: indescribably subtle shifts in tint, beautifully nuanced shadows and the suggestion of three-dimensional space and bodily volume that is always a pleasure to behold.
Jusidman's palette is contemporary, filled with synthetic blends and artificial accents. Yet it's also classic, softened and complicated by the prevalence of such organic colors as earthy browns, hazy grays and smoggy yellows. It almost seems as if you're looking at his handsomely crafted pictures through smudged lenses. Or that the carefully varnished panels have been around so long that they have suffered the same fate as old news- print -- darkening, getting brittle and beginning to disintegrate.
Jusidman has based each of his images on the thumbnail photographs in the World This Week section of the Economist magazine. Some are portraits, including of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (looking exhausted), Tony Blair (looking flummoxed), a coal miner (looking heroic) and a young protester (exuding righteous defiance).
Other paintings depict the victims of deliberate and accidental violence, refugees and immigrants, modern pirates, historical reenactments, moments of urban leisure and an instance of America's epidemic obesity.
No wall labels, captions or printed messages link any of the paintings to precise times or places. Although it's easy to recall the stories that accompany some, other events have already faded into obscurity. The subjects of most come somewhere in between, with the general outline of the story still available to memory even if most of the details have been lost.
Jusidman has been working on the ongoing series "The Economist Shuffle" for more than three years. Although it's haunting to witness once-gripping headlines drift into oblivion, it's even more sobering to think that the pace of painting is not all that different from that of the news -- slower, certainly, but no real match for the inhuman sweep of history. News stories and paintings both disappear from history unless they capture so much that is so significant to so many that they become mythical or legendary, so interwoven with the social fabric that they change the world.
That's a tall order for a painting. But it's one Jusidman confronts head-on in his exhibition, his first solo show in Los Angeles since a 1996 survey at Otis College of Art and Design.
Angstrom Gallery, 2622 S. La Cienega Blvd., L.A., (310) 204-3334, through Dec. 23. Closed Sundays and Mondays.www.angstromgallery.com.
Paintings deliver a jolt of solitude
People never appear in Cole Case's paintings of places familiar to folks who live in Los Angeles or just visit. A human presence, however, is suggested by the everyday objects the L.A. painter depicts: a nearly empty margarita glass, a battery-operated lantern aglow on a park picnic table or a portable television tuned to the news from 1968.
The moments Case paints are increasingly rare ones when we city dwellers are left alone with our thoughts, free from other people (not to mention the distractions of instant digital communication) and momentarily adrift in our heads, where desire and regret fuel all sorts of reveries and recollections. Think of each of his sev- en oils at Western Project as a pause button in your rapid-fire life, a unique chance to step back from the hurly-burly and experience a jolt of solitude.
The scenes and settings Case depicts are simple: a sunlit tabletop on the patio at an old-fashioned Mexican res- taurant; a shadow-shrouded booth at a local watering hole; the spotlighted stage at the Hollywood Bowl during a nighttime performance; the Hollywood Forever Cemetery under a rain-cleared sky.
The way he applies paint is far more complex.
Sometimes Case lets his turpentine-thinned colors run freely, dripping down the canvas and bleeding into one another, like supersaturated watercolors on the verge of chaos. At others, he trowels on thick pigment as if it's mortar and he's cementing bricks.
Some parts of some paintings are sculpted, built into three dimensions so that they have the tactility of the real thing. Other parts appear to have been applied with the fastidiousness of hobbyists who fill in every abstract shape of a paint-by-numbers set as if their lives depended on it. And still others have the hokey charm of outsider art, a sort of ham-fisted Pointillism that marries the unself-conscious earnestness of children's drawings with the savvy verve of avant-garde innovation.
All these elements pale in comparison to the way Case makes light spill from his paintings. From the ghostly glow of a black-and-white television to the cool blue illumination of hundreds of cellphones held up at a concert, he makes light come alive.
Whether its yellow dazzle shines from megawatt spotlights, seeps from a battery-powered lantern or bathes all of Los Angeles in the crystalline clarity of autumn mornings, light provides the magic that makes Case's paintings dance in your imagination. The landscapes they illuminate are at once intimate and ordinary, part of the world we all live in yet wonderfully out of step with its relentless rhythm and unforgiving tempo.
Western Project, 3830 Main St., Culver City, (310) 838-0609, through Dec. 24. Closed Sundays and Mondays.www.western-project.com.
Sculptures with a grunge formalism
Ten years ago, formalism and grunge seemed to be opposites. The first smacked of academic fussiness -- out-of-touch snobbery for folks who wanted art to shore up its barriers against everything else out there. The latter threw its lot in with the rough-and-tumble adaptations of fly-by-night DIY- ers who embraced chaos, or at least its appearance.
Krysten Cunningham's new sculptures suggest that grunge formalism has become a style all its own: a movement with definite parameters and plenty of room to move freely within them. At the Thomas Solomon Gallery @ Cottage Home, her abstract work combines an anything-goes approach to materials with an incisive scrutiny of line, shape and color in ways that were inconceivable a decade ago.
Cunningham typically combines spindly armatures made of wooden dowels, metal rods, bronze discs or the rims of bicycle wheels with strands of yarn, wool, nylon and jute. She strings these materials around the arms and legs of her skeletal structures to form seemingly simple but devilishly complex puzzles for the mind's eye.
Some, like "Chalk, Lily, Milk," "Ambassador" and "Bride's Cross," resemble summer camp crafts made by a precocious candidate for a doctorate in geometry.
"The Third Policeman" resembles an emaciated spirit-catcher undergoing mitosis. And two tabletop bronzes, with mismatched grids drawn in oil and pen across their flat surfaces, evoke out-of-step origami, their weightiness at odds with their slightness.
All of Cunningham's sculptures change in appearance and meaning as you walk around them. With very few ingredients, they make you wonder about peculiarly precise perceptions and the clever, often coy things a self-conscious artist can do with them.
In this, Cunningham joins Jessica Stockholder, Liz Larner, Pae White, Jason Meadows, Evan Holloway, Jim Richards, Lecia Dole-Recio and Olivia Booth. All make a funky, sometimes fecund mixture of shabby stuff and formal rigor.
Thomas Solomon Gallery @ Cottage Home, 410 Cottage Home St., L.A., (310) 428-2964, through Dec. 20. Closed Sundays to Tuesdays. www.thomassolomongallery.com.
L.A. artist proves an able colorist
It's hard to imagine a painting that makes the bold, eye-grabbing punch of Op Art look tentative. But that's exactly what Linda Besemer's new works do.
At the Angles Gallery, her 11 abstract paintings crank up the visual dynamics of Bridget Riley's crisp graphics and the buzzing colors of Julian Stanczak's undulating grids in wall-size works of mind-blowing potency. But instead of causing your optic nerves to go into spasms, the dazzling pieces hit you in the solar plexus. The initial visual wallop is stunning. And it's just the beginning.
The L.A. artist also shows herself to be a consummate colorist, her hard-edged bands of bright primary, secondary and tertiary colors so gently and deliberately playing off one another that they soften the laser-sharp lines and wildly warped grids of her otherwise abrupt compositions. Harshness gives way to subtlety and suppleness, creating embracing spaces you can get lost in without losing your way.
Besemer paints the same way she has for the last 12 years, laying a skin-like layer of acrylic on a gigantic sheet of glass and then using pin-striper's tape to add hundreds, sometimes thousands, of lines. She then peels off the thick layer of acrylic before hanging it, like a bath towel, over a metal rod or affixing it to a panel or directly to the wall.
In the old days, her lines were all ruler-straight -- vertical, horizontal and diagonal. Not so long ago, she added curved lines whose widths shifted to suggest space.
Now she throws sine waves into the mix, crisscrossing the undulating lines and bending them back into space as if each described the path of a soccer ball with so much spin on it that no one could stop it. The result is an operatic extravaganza that has as much to do with the madcap physicality of Baroque painting, sculpture and architecture as it does with the two-dimensionality of Op designs and the flexibility of computer graphics.
In Besemer's hands, paint does not sit around like a wallflower: It leaps into your face and into your space, where it makes your eyes and heart race.
Angles Gallery, 2230 Main St., Santa Monica, (310) 396-5019, through Dec. 13. Closed Sundays and Mondays. www.anglesgallery.com.
Pagel is a freelance writer.


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With F me pumps on
The D-Plus setup with Reynolds 66 with Limus in the front and Griffos in the rear is like dialing your sleep number to 84 and firmly floating over the single track.
A dream CX bike and ride. Those stiff rims push supple sidewalls into the dirt and the tread gripped the grass, as I cut around trees before diving into the gravel pit. Made it across grinding a 1 x 10, 44 X 34 gear, like a tractor.
See more iPhone photos of the D-Plus and high-rez lightboxed on our G+ page.


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Jennifer Lawrence forgets her passport, still adorable
I'm sorry about yesterday. As Jacek mentioned in Smutty Tingles, I was disorganised. This happens from time to time whenever I try to maximise schedule efficiency. On Wednesday night I was out at two events until late. I slept 3 hours, woke up to blog the next morning, rushed to pack and then left for work at 7:30am to blog some more before preparing for The Social, which airs live at 1pm, and then it was off to the airport at 2:15pm for my flight to New York. I forgot my glasses. AND my passport.
You know who else forgets her passport?
Jennifer Lawrence.
She talked about it yesterday on Live with Kelly & Michael only in her case, she was flying private. Still, even though she's the Girl On Fire, they made her go back and get it and switch flights. Are passports the great equaliser between celebrity and civilian? Sure, they don't have to wait in line at the airport and they always fly first class, but they can't get into another country without documentation, ever. If Jennifer Lawrence forgets her passport, nobody's waiving the standard policy and letting her across the border.
She's just… way cuter about it. Probably because she had 8 assistants running around finding her passport and bringing it to her instead of having to fret about it herself. How often does this happen to her? I've forgotten my passport 3 times in the last 18 months. And my wallet once. A wallet wouldn't matter to Jennifer Lawrence though. What would she need money for? On a press tour, the studio pays for everything.
OK never mind. Not equalising at all.
But still, she is just so f-cking cute, right?


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Gary,I recently ordered a couple of 1/4-ounce jars from Testors, as my emblems were painted by the original owner, and I want to restore them. I chose enamel paint, just because I thought it would (should?) prove durable..... FWIW, I chose code 1103 (red) and 1146 (silver), but may well find these don't match once I start..... especially the silver, 1146 is a metallic and may not be a good match.
I have some new GM Z28 and RS emblems, purchased in 1976, still in their boxes.. never used.. if it would be beneficial to photograph them?


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The child, a young girl at West Marion Elementary School in North Carolina was ordered by Principal Desarae Kirkpatrick to remove the word G-d from her poem that was to be read later that day at a Veteran's Day ceremony.
A North Carolina community is embroiled in controversy after a school ordered a six-year-old girl to remove the word "G-d" from a poem that she was supposed to read during a Veteran's Day ceremony.
The girl is a first-grader at West Marion Elementary School. She was supposed to read the poem during a school assembly marking Veteran's Day. The poem honored her two grandfathers who had served during the Vietnam War.
"He prayed to G-d for peace, he prayed to G-d for strength," the poem read.
A parent reportedly found out about the poem and expressed concern about mentioning the word G-d during a school event. The parent did not want the Almighty's name mentioned anywhere in the program, according to one account.
"We wanted to make sure we were upholding the school district's responsibility of separation of church and state from the Establishment Clause," Supt. Gerri Martin told the McDowell News.
Martin told the newspaper she made the decision in consultation with the school's principal and vice principal.
"We jointly decided that we must err on the side of caution to prevent crossing the line on the Establishment Clause of the Constitution," Kirkpatrick told the newspaper. "As a principal of a public school, I must put aside my personal religious beliefs and follow the law — which upholds that we have freedom of speech and freedom of religion, but that we, as public schools, cannot endorse one single religion over another."
Fox News contacted the parents of the child but they declined to comment on the controversy.
The incident has sparked widespread concern across this western North Carolina community — called by many the buckle of the Bible Belt.
"I'm reserving my opinion at this point – but I'm very concerned that the young lady's First Amendment rights have been broken," said Scott Hagaman, senior pastor of Marion's First Baptist Church.
He told Fox News that ministers across the community are alarmed what happened and many are asking questions.
"It's saturated the community," he said. "I'm quite sure it will be handled appropriately and fairly but right now there is a lot of concern that this child was not treated appropriately."
The issue is expected to be addressed by local residents at next week's school board meeting.
"I am outraged that a school would deny a six year old child her First Amendment rights — especially during an assembly to honor our nation's veterans," Trudy Pascoe told Fox News. "It is unacceptable for schools to continue to deny students rights because of their Christian viewpoint."
Chris Greene, who happens to be employed by the school district, spoke to board members earlier this week.
"My question is this, when do the rights of one outweigh the rights of another," he asked in remarks covered by the local newspaper. "I believe that this little girl's rights were violated and that those who worked so hard to prepare this program should receive an apology."
Pastor Hagaman said it's no surprise that the First Amendment debate has reached their small town.
"I don't think there's anywhere in the country where you can hide from these issues — with the culture changing so quickly," he said.
G-d is no longer to be mentioned any where. Next it will be the crosses on the churches or perhaps just destroying the churches themselves.
I wonder if these idiots would have done the same thing if the word was Allah and not G-d. Do you think the Muslim community would have responded the way the Christian community has?
I don't think so.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
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I just couldn't resist this terrific piece by Alex Ross, a Cooper Studio mainstay and regular contributor to Cosmopolitan magazine (and many others) during the 50's.
For new arrivals to this blog who have a background in comic books, I should repeat once again that this is NOT the Alex Ross who has painted his way into a very successful career at Marvel and DC.
This is, in fact, "your father's Alex Ross".
And also for the benefit of recent arrivals, I must tell once again the astonishing bit of trivia that this Alex Ross had an almost uninterrupted 12-year run doing covers for Good Housekeeping magazine. Isn't that incredible?
Imagine a magazine assigning its covers exclusively to just one artist for more than a decade. Its absolutely unheard of! I wish I knew the story behind that business relationship...
Anyway, here's another example of one of Ross' GH covers, which always featured one or more cute kids, usually involved in some thematically appropriate activity for that time of year.
More examples by the artist can be found in my Alex Ross Flickr set.
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This is a reality check for me. "The Star on the Christmas Tree" spread illustration, is simple, yet very well designed. The ornament and type face for the headline is outstanding, and the main illustration is quite pleasing, professionally executed and in my world... believable. Although all these illustrations were rendered realistically, they do what a photo can't do... they are subjective. After all, a camera is only one eye and no brain!ReplyDelete
What I see in many of today's illustrations... not "TODAY'S INSPIRATIONS", are cluttered disjointed caffeine induced mish mash of unexplainable images that mean little to me, or most people I know. Is it any wonder that there is a renewed interest in these 50's illustrations.
Thanks again Leif, for continuing your display of visual Christmas treats.
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Ha, Leif, thought you'd like to know this. That "other" Alex Ross you mentioned, who went on to fame and fortune with Marvel & DC, becoming one of the most successful illustrators of our times, well the very first comic book series he ever painted was Terminator-Burning Earth for the late Now Comics out of Chicago. I was the humble soul who wrote that series. And I had no inkling of this older Alex Ross. Man, there must be something about that name that inspires art talent?ReplyDelete
It's amazing that two different persons... same name, and both amazing illustrators.ReplyDelete
Thanks again Leif for sharing your knowledge ;)
Such outstanding work. Makes me wish I had been around in the '50s when these illustrators were at their height. Thanks for posting these gems!ReplyDelete
Thanks to you all for your comments!ReplyDelete
Tom; as always, you strike at the heart of the matter, and far better than I could ever hope to. If I could quibble with you on one point, its that I have serious doubts that there is any "renewed interest in 50's illustration". I suspect there are exactly as many people interested now as there have been in years past - just that the internet has brought us together in away that was not previously possible.
Ron; that's a great little story - its a small world indeed and you've proved that we are all separated by 6 degees (or less). And get this: The original Alex Ross actually had a connection with comics as well. he was best friends and neighbours with Alex Raymond of Rip Kirby fame - this according to my friend, Armando Mendez (scroll all the way down).
pablo and pumml; you're most welcome. :-)
Leif, Good point about 50's illustrations getting more exposure today due to the Internet. I have noticed recently, more art students that express their inspiration and interest in the 50's technique... and consider it very cool looking. When I was teaching in the 90's, my students did not think 50's illustrations were cool at all.ReplyDelete
Regardless, it's great to hear the positive comments these days, whether on the Internet or in the class room. Quality is timeless.
Tom Watson
I couldn't agree more, Tom - it IS great - and hopefully that enthusiasm will extend outward and eventually influence art directors and the general public. That would be a dream come true.ReplyDelete


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Yesterday's New York Times article about the High Line Renegade Cabaret shed some light on our new favorite neighbor, who's been serenading park users since opening day. Patty Heffley, a former punk rock photographer, enlisted her jazz singer friend Elizabeth Soychak to help transform her fire escape from a laundry dryer into a bona fide stage. Heffley described the change succinctly in her first introduction:
"This is in response to 31 years of obscurity," Ms. Heffley announced from the fire escape. "Now, every day there are thousands of people looking in my window. We're not here to celebrate, we're here to exploit. Welcome to the Renegade Cabaret."
Despite running into some problems regarding the issue of where to hang her unmentionables up to dry, the High Line has helped lift Ms. Heffley into the spotlight, quite literally. The encouragement Ms. Heffley has recieved has led her to consider other possibilities. "I'll be putting other kinds of stuff out there, too" she says. "I have lots of ideas."
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Steve McClaren is backing Real Madrid to lift the 2013 Champions League trophy at Wembley in May.
They have been drawn against outsiders Borussia Dortmund in the semi-final which takes place on April 24.
Despite not winning Europe's most illustrious trophy since 2002, the former England boss has stated they are his pick for glory.
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Republicans have retreated twice this month on the fiscal front, but they aren't giving up. After having been forced to swallow higher tax rates and a debt ceiling increase, they've regrouped behind a new demand: balance the federal budget in 10 years.
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N.Y. Attorney General Asks Tech Giants for Help Fighting Crime
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Google Inc., operator of the world's largest Web-search engine, surpassed $800 for the first time as mobile computing bolsters growth.
The shares advanced 1.2% to $802.56 at 12:16 p.m. in New York, and earlier touched $804 for the highest intraday price since the company went public in August 2004. Through Feb. 15, the stock had gained 31% in the past year, compared with a 12% increase for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.
Google is benefiting as more advertisers place promotions on its website, buoyed by the growing number of users who access the service on smartphones and tablets. The company grabbed 67% of the search market in the U.S. in January, while rivals Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp. had less than 30% combined, according to ComScore Inc.
"This is just such a great business, and they so clearly dominate it," said Martin Pyykkonen, an analyst at Wedge Partners in Greenwood Village, Colorado. "Google has got this knight-in-shining-armor that nobody can kind of penetrate."
As Google has advanced, Apple Inc. has declined 8.4% over the past year. Apple, the world's most valuable technology company, is trading at a 56% discount to Google on a price-to-earnings basis, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That's the widest spread since July 2006, about a year before the iPhone was introduced.
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Google, based in Mountain View, California, had more than 41% of all digital ad revenue in the U.S. in 2012, according to EMarketer Inc. In mobile, Google holds a 53% share, compared with 8.4% for Facebook Inc., owner of the world's largest social network. Google dominates the U.S. search-based advertising market, with a 75% share, according to EMarketer's estimates.
Fourth-quarter profit, excluding certain items, rose to $10.65 a share, Google said last month. Analysts on average had estimated profit of $10.50 a share.
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Between one of Tuesday night's half-innings when nobody was touching either starting pitcher, Citi Field's bounty of video screens posted a trivia question answered by a random face in the crowd. Engrossed in conversation, I didn't catch the question, but when I heard the answer, I knew what would happen next: the answer would walk on camera, in the flesh, and present the winner with a prize.
Dave Kingman — the answer — appeared and received a warm ovation from history-minded Mets fans appreciative of his contributions to their team…as he should have.
Yet during both of Kingman's Met tenures, from 1975 to 1977 and 1981 to 1983, fan relations with the slugger turned sour enough to make Sky King a go-to target for relentless ire, particularly as the Mets struggled for respectability. When he returned in other uniforms, he wasn't welcomed back to Shea heartily, unless you count the hearty booing. But nobody remembers that now. He's Dave Kingman, old Met hero. Give him another nice round of applause.
Hence, I believe there's hope yet for an unalloyed happy return down the line for Jose Reyes. Waaay down the line, perhaps, but if he hangs in there another 30 or so years, he'll be golden.
I wouldn't have thought Jose would be on the clock in this regard. I wouldn't have thought a lot of things where Jose Reyes, all-time New York Met great, was concerned. I wouldn't have thought Jose Reyes would ever be anything but a New York Met. I wouldn't have thought Jose Reyes could attract sustained boos from a New York Mets gathering. I wouldn't have thought nine zesty years between a catalyst and those he fired up could be so casually written off in the name of intradivision competition.
Maybe I just think differently from the vocal plurality of the 20,000 or so who shared Citi Field with me Tuesday but don't come close to sharing my sensibilities as a Mets fan. They booed their heads (or whatever they use to balance their caps) off when they saw Jose Reyes of the Miami Marlins. I cheered him. I cheered the brief, classy video montage of Jose's Met years. I cheered his name when it was read to lead off the lineups. I cheered when he came to bat to lead off the game. I cheered him a little less on each of his subsequent trips to the plate, but I never booed him. And I never will.
I don't root for Marlins, whether they be stamped Florida or Miami, but I sure as hell cheer great Mets. Jose Reyes was a great Met, which means he is a Great Met for good. His greatness in the context of his Met years is established. If it's not present-tense in a practical sense at this time, its truth nevertheless marches on…or races from home to third on a ball in the gap, unless Kirk Nieuwenhuis tracks it down first.
The owners of the New York Mets, to paraphrase from former Texas Agricultural Commissioner Jim Hightower [1], were born on third base and think they hit a triple vis-à-vis what the Mets mean to Mets fans. Except for opening the gates, they have nothing to do with why our passion spreads out so far and wide when it comes to the Mets. We fall in love with a baseball team, not a baseball organization. Just the word "Mets" contains such power and goodwill based on deep and abiding passion that when confronted by the sight of somebody who embodied "Mets" as much as any individual has in the past decade, yet recently ceased doing so when compelled by a clash of long-term economic agendas, those who love "Mets" pivoted breezily to change that individual's status from friend to enemy.
Not opponent, but enemy.
That's "Mets" pride at work, I suppose, letting our old raw flame and live wire know he's no longer welcome in the neighborhood. Jose Reyes (who sleeps on a bed made of money, so don't cry for him, Flushing Meadows) opted for Marlinhood, which is distasteful, to be sure, but also, I've decided, the way it goes sometimes. There's a gray area between the childlike innocence that absorbs us in picking a side for fun and games and the adult realization that it's a livelihood for the players providing us the fun and a business for the barons who host the games. Somewhere in there, we make tradeoffs that might not pass a cognitive dissonance test between the emotion in which we choose to immerse ourselves and the reality that engulfs us.
• Jose Reyes was the perfect Met to match my emotional needs for nine years — a rechargeable battery that jolted me from my seat night after night. You just don't get that kind of jump or feel quite that kind of emotion in the parts of life that aren't sports.
• Jose Reyes made a decision bathed in reality, the place where he wasn't childlike and electric, but a cool, calm professional seeking a financial windfall in exchange for his services on the open market.
What do I do with that dissonance once I am reminded that no athlete who is compensated for his abilities is explicitly plying them for me? He represents "Mets" as long as his contract says he has to. Then he's without a contract and it's another component of the major league monopoly that offers him a package to his liking. Then he no longer represents "Mets," no matter that my emotional gratification in the realm of the sport I prefer above all others (all other sports and almost all other things) was so strongly linked to the intangible bond I felt with the way he played for me.
Jose Reyes played for me for nine years. Yet he plays for himself always. Same as Johan Santana. Same as Kirk Nieuwenhuis. Same as Lucas Duda and all of the Mets responsible for winning Tuesday night's edgy 2-1 affair [2]. Jose Reyes's new teammates play for themselves as well. I know that. I've always known that. The brusque tap on the shoulder that free agency provides every winter should be enough to make that a matter of constant awareness not recurring surprise.
But if we walked around fully aware that baseball players are just people looking to make the best living possible and baseball teams are just businesses looking to make the most profit possible, we'd want nothing to do with either faction. So we forget, and we revel in the word "Mets" and we revel in those who represent the word "Mets" and, in my case, I deal with the dissonance by grudgingly accepting it. I accept that Jose Reyes eventually did what Jose Reyes perceived as ideal for Jose Reyes, even if it meant fitting himself into an identity every Mets fan finds anathematic to our values.
It may ultimately be "just a business" to players like Jose Reyes, yet it's anything but to fans like me. Thus, when I cheer Jose Reyes as he materializes in a Miami Marlins uniform, I don't offer my approval of the business decisions (the Mets' as well as his) that led him into that unfortunate set of garments. What I'm doing is acknowledging all that happened before, back when I could convince myself Jose — like Tom Seaver, like Dwight Gooden, like Edgardo Alfonzo, like so many — was playing for me.
In my judgment, those whose actions embroider the actual meaning into "Mets" deserve that strata of acknowledgement, no matter that in a strict reading of the respective situations of the players who preceded Reyes as "my favorite Met," Seaver demanded a trade while under contract to the Mets; Gooden's repeated substance abuse violation earned him a suspension that ended his active Mets association; Alfonzo sought a better contract as a free agent than the Mets were prepared to tender him; and few who aren't Ed Kranepool or Ron Hodges didn't find a way to be at practical odds with the best interests of we the Mets fans. Almost everybody has left us, benignly or bitterly, whether of free will or not, and if they played against us as opponents, they sure as hell weren't playing for us.
Still, there are enough enemies in this world without weaving together specious reasons (bunt! pinch-runner! injuries! no rings!) to create more of them. What were mostly good times don't suddenly go bad because the individual responsible for them won't be generating any more of them in our name, and now it's his job to help prevent them.
Meanwhile, there are precious few continua whose relentless flow over the course of our lifetimes completely captivate us. My continuum of choice is the New York Mets, historically since 1962, personally since 1969. When somebody rises above that continuum and grabs my attention and ignites my passion, that guy is irreversibly golden to me.
Whether he signed with the stupid Marlins or not.


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Edward Gerjuoy received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1942. After working on antisubmarine warfare problems during World War II he taught at several academic institutions, winding up at the University of Pittsburgh where he presently is Professor of Physics Emeritus, having been appointed professor in 1964. In 1977 he obtained a law degree, and thereafter for many years shared his time between physics and the law. As a scientist lawyer he has been Editor-in-Chief (1981-1986) of the American Bar Association (ABA) Journal of Law, Science and Technology. During his entire career, however, he also has devoted considerable time to the defense of human rights. In particular, he has several times served as Chair of the American Physical Society Committee on the International Freedom of Scientists, the APS human rights committee; he also was a member of the legal team that successfully defended Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee against government charges of mishandling classified documents with the intent to injure the United States. He terminated his legal activities about five years ago, however, and since then has been devoting his full time to research on quantum computing theory. He is the author of over 100 papers in the physics literature, mainly on atomic collision theory, and about 30 papers on various physics and public policy topics.


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After 10 months of reading, meeting every 2 weeks sharing, 3 hours in tonight's meeting, and several ballots (with groans after each), 22 sixth through ninth graders arrived at their conclusion to a very super year:
2013 Eva Perry Mock Newbery Award Winner:
2013 Eva Perry Mock Newbery Honors:
Lions of Little Rock, by Levine
Splendors and Glooms, by Schlitz
I am so proud of all of them! What is your winner this year? If you have a different group, what did they choose? We are now awaiting the ALA Newbery committee's announcement on January 28, 2013.