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It's sort of inexplicable how Toronto's Amir Johnson was able to get away with this. He takes the pass, dribbles to just outside the lane, picks up his dribble, pump fakes, pump fakes, and drives for a short jumper. By the game clock, it took him nearly four full seconds between putting the ball on the floor, and he wasn't whistled.
Johnson's shit-eating grin as he runs back up the court puts this solely on the refs. Bennett Salvatore was repositioning himself along the baseline, Scott Wall in front of the Toronto bench had his eye on a pick in the corner, but Eric Dalen, at the bottom of your screen, appeared to have his eye on the ball the whole time. How was it missed? Maybe the double dribble was so casual, so unrepentant, it didn't even look like a transgression. Refs are trained to look for things that skirt the rules—Johnson just ignored the rules altogether.
Or, hell, maybe I'm crazy and it wasn't a foul. The Raptors broadcast team didn't see anything wrong.

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Monday Morning Offering - 8
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Good morning, good God!
How 'bout that Michael Phelps, Lord?
I'll bet he's having a great Monday morning!
I see this Olympic athlete,
his strength and his skill,
and I remember what Irenaeus wrote,
"The glory of God is a human being fully alive!"
On a Monday morning? Fully alive?
I guess you call me to that every morning, Lord,
but there are many mornings
when I feel, well, like a loser...
I wish I could be like Michael Phelps, Lord:
strong, young, vibrant, focused, healthy
- and a winner!
So here's my Monday morning offering, Lord:
I offer you what strength I have,
no matter how little or how much,
and I pray you will firm up what is weak in me,
- that you will be my strength this week,
especially when I am tempted
to play to my weaknesses...
I offer you my youth, Lord,
no matter or young or old I may be:
remind me that this is the day, this is the week
when you call me anew, as if for the first time,
to follow you
and walk in the light of your truth...
I offer you my hopes, Lord,
especially the dashed and broken ones:
restore, revitalize, resuscitate my dreams
and make me hungry
for the value of your good gifts...
I offer you my confusion and doubts, Lord:
focus my mind, my will, my spirit
on your presence at my side,
the word you speak,
the counsel you offer in my heart of hearts...
I offer you my body, Lord:
hale and hearty or bent and broken,
strong and muscled or weak and failing...
Heal and strengthen me
for whatever you ask of me this week;
cleanse my spirit of what is not pure,
and train me to exercise the virtues
that strengthen my faith...
I want to stretch myself, Lord,
beyond what I settle for
when I doubt your strength within me...
I want the strength to strive fearlessly
for goals beyond my reach
- at least for those within my grasp...
I want the victory I know will be mine, Lord,
if I put my trust and hope in you...
I have little to offer you, Lord,
in my Monday morning prayer
- and so much to ask of you...
If your glory rests in humanity full alive,
then bring your glory to life within me
and crown me, Lord, with the victory
that opens my heart to you
and to those around me.
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- AnonymousAugust 18, 2008 at 12:35 PM
Wonderful post.ReplyDelete
We need to remember that we all have gold medal potential in something. If we give all our effort. It just not be noticeable to anyone but God (maybe we need to look more carefully at ourselves and see our potential.)
- AnonymousAugust 18, 2008 at 3:19 PM
This is an eight gold medals Monday morning prayer! Thanks, CP, and I cannot even think you would use the word "loser" in connection with yourself. You are a totally awesome winner in my book!ReplyDelete
My life has not been without some victories but the losses have been many, too.ReplyDelete
More often than we may imagine, the "winner" deems himself/herself a loser: I didn't win by big enough margin; I could have done better if I had tried harder; it was just a lucky break...
What I write in my prayer texts here is a combination of my own prayer and the prayers I've heard others make over 35 years of ministry. Bottom line: we all make the same mistakes; we have the same needs; we seek the same healings.
What an amazing young man. I watched the interview with he and his Mom. The trials he endured throughout school are much like the ones my child had to endure, although, I believe my child received much worse and on a daily basis. I often wonder what those other kids might think, knowing what they have done. If they even know the difficulties they have made young children endure. Michael Phelps endured well. Others are not so lucky. I hope Michael will speak out more about the epidemic of school bullying. Perhaps, it will reach some of the people who are doing the bullying. And if they have a conscience, make them stop and think about the harm they cause.ReplyDelete
Congratulations Michael...keep showing them what an amazing person you are! Not just in swimming, but life as it comes at you...good and bad.


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C_rkirby necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 310 diseños de 51 diseñadores freelance.
StrataChain is a consulting firm that primarily assists companies with setting up a proven, monthly planning process. These processes revolve around creating a sales forecast and properly adjusting manufacturing and/or distribution operations to support the expected customer demand. This service is part of a larger discipline called "operations" or "supply chain planning."
We are different from other firms in the following ways:
1) we offer seasoned practitioners who are not career consultants
2) we have a "no-BS" approach (we get the job done and get out)
We are in the infant stages, so we must rely on some cold calls. Therefore, it is important to have a very professional appearance.
See the website @ http://www.stratachain.com
Size: Small to mid-sized businesses (100-500 employees) that manufacture and/or distribute products for sale or re-sale.
Titles: Chief Operating Officers (COO), VP Operations, VP Supply Chain, Director of Operations, Director of Supply Chain, Director of Demand Management or Forecasting. The CEO or owner could also be a target in smaller mid-sized businesses.
Age: 28-45 yrs, typically male.
Typeface design accompanied by logo. This will be used for the website, business cards and other stationary.
I don't want to restrict the creative process, but the fact is that the website is already built. With that in mind...
*Utilize a color scheme & style that blends reasonably with the site
*Please minimize the amount of orange color used if at all
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-No chains. This is a very cliche symbol that is overused in this industry.
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Arrows are OK, but will be scrutinized. This is another overused symbol.
The "C" should be capitalized in "StrataChain", but I will certainly consider lowercase (or possibly even all lowercase) if you think it is the right approach with your particular design.
Here are some single words that describe the business model:
Just so you know, the name of the company was derived from the words, "Strategy" and "Supply Chain".
I like the idea that the logo embodies the concept of strategy...if this is possible.
Avoid busy or fancy art >>> Smart, simple & catchy gets the vote!
Logo must fit on website banner: approximate size is 300x75 pixles. See attached banner PNG file.
Final format: PSD or PNG
Thanks for your consideration!!
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the only one, I change my mind put me in
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If not, I'll take anything open!
barterer2002 wrote:So I guess I need to change since lack isn't playing?
Steelhorse wrote:I think I misunderstood. I was going to let someone else represent all 6 of my spots in the Mod Tourney. I wasn't going to play, so that someone else could have the spot and participate. So, only put me down as playing if you have trouble filling it up.
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I believe you missed me.
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Joe Sherlock and the Missing Monkey Eye Diamond is a great book. Joe is a funny character. The only time he isn't being lazy is when he has a mystery to solve. You will laugh in every chapter of this book and you will learn what a burf is. I liked this book because it is so funny and exciting that you never want to put it down.
I recommend this book to kids, especially boys, ages seven to ten. If you like funny mysteries you will love this book. I think if there was a competition for funniest book, Joe Sherlock and the Monkey Eye Diamond would win!


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Mars 06
Goals: Like its sister mission, Mars 7 (which arrived at Mars three days earlier but failed to deliver its lander) Mars 6 was intended to place a lander on Mars. The bus was to fly by the planet, taking measurements as it passed.
Accomplishments: The descent module transmitted 224 seconds of data-the first data returned from the Martian atmosphere-but much of it was unreadable because of a flaw in a computer chip. Contact was lost moments before the presumed landing. The bus that delivered the lander to Mars transmitted scientific information during its brief flyby of the planet.


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Pat Buchanan's History Of Anti-LGBT Bigotry
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In his new book Suicide of a Superpower, MSNBC political analyst Pat Buchanan attacks the idea of gays serving in the military as an "indoctrination of recruits, soldiers, and officers into an acceptance of the gay life style" and calls same-sex marriage an "absurd notion of equality." Buchanan has a long history of anti-LGBT bigotry. He has called gays "sodomites" and said they are "literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide"; called homosexuality a "disorder" that can be handled with therapy; and said that in "a healthy society, it will be contained, segregated, controlled, and stigmatized."
Buchanan's New Book Attacks LGBT Rights
Buchanan's Long Crusade Against The LGBT Community
Buchanan Campaigned For President By Smearing LGBTs
*2000 Campaign
*1996 Campaign
*1992 Campaign
Buchanan's New Book Attacks LGBT Rights
Buchanan: Allowing Gays To Serve In Military Is "Indoctrination" Of Soldiers; Same-Sex Marriage Is An "Absurd Notion Of Equality." From Buchanan's book Suicide of a Superpower:
A nation dedicated to the proposition that all are equal and entitled to equal rewards must end up constantly discriminating against its talented tenth, for that is the only way a free society can guarantee social and economic equality. And consider the costs incurred, the injustices done, the freedoms curtailed--all in the name of equality.
- Vaughn Walker, a gay federal judge in San Francisco, has ruled that same-sex marriage is guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. Can anyone believe this absurd notion of equality was intended by or written into the Constitution by the Congress that produced the 14th Amendment?
- Although gay marriage has been rejected in thirty-one states in referenda, judges continue to declare that such unions be treated as marriages. An idea of equality rejected democratically by voters is being imposed dictatorially.
- In December 2010, a repudiated liberal Congress imposed its San Francisco values on the armed forces by ordering homosexuals admitted to all branches of the service. Indoctrination of recruits, soldiers, and officers into an acceptance of the gay life style will transfer authority over the military, the most respected institution in America, to agents of a deeply resented and widely detested managerial state. [Pat Buchanan, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?, 2011, p. 209-212, via Salon.com]
Buchanan's Long Crusade Against The LGBT Community
Buchanan: "In A Healthy Society, [Homosexuality] Will Be Contained, Segregated, Controlled, And Stigmatized, Carrying Both A Legal And Social Sanction." From Buchanan's column in 1977:
There is no brief for police harassment or persecution of homosexuals. They have the same right to protection from exploitation as alcoholics, who are, likewise, sick people. As for putting practicing homosexuals in prison, as some state laws mandate, that is like throwing B'rer Rabbit into the briar patch.
Homosexuality, then, is not some civil right. In a healthy society, it will be contained, segregated, controlled, and stigmatized, carrying both a legal and social sanction. As Anita Bryant would say, "How do I know? The Bible Told Me So."
If that makes me a roaring reactionary, boys, make the most of it. [Pat Buchanan, syndicated column, 6/7/77, via ProQuest]
Buchanan On American Psychiatric Association Dropping "Homosexuality From Its List Of Mental Disorders": "If A Covey Of Quacks Voted Tomorrow That Masochism, Bestiality, And Incest Were Not Signs Of Personality Disorder, That Don't Necessarily Make It So." From Buchanan's column in 1977:
The gays may counter that the American Psychiatric Association has, of late, dropped homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. That, however, tells us less about the nature of homosexuals than about the moral courage of the APA. If a covey of quacks voted tomorrow that masochism, bestiality, and incest were not signs of personality disorder, that don't necessarily make it so. One need not be a doctor of philosophy to know that when some 40-year-old male paints his face with rouge and lipstick and prances around in women's clothes, he ain't playing with a full deck. [Pat Buchanan, syndicated column, 6/7/77, via ProQuest]
Buchanan On "Homosexuality": "Its Rise Almost Always Is Accompanied, As In The Weimar Republic, With A Decay Of Society And A Collapse Of Its Basic Cinder Block, The Family." From Buchanan's syndicated column in 1977:
Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family. [Pat Buchanan, syndicated column, 6/7/77, via ProQuest]
Buchanan: "To Some Of Us, Homosexuality Is An Affliction, Like Alcoholism." From Buchanan's October 19, 2004 column:
Indeed, whether nature or nurture determines orientation remains a matter of disagreement. When Barney Frank blurted, "It's not as if I had a choice in this matter," it struck some of us as transparently true. Why would a teenage kid choose to carry this cross through life?
To some of us, homosexuality is an affliction, like alcoholism, and hellishly difficult to control. Why some folks can take or leave alcohol -- while others can enjoy it in moderation, and others cannot stop drinking without help and must swear off it for life or it will kill them -- remains a mystery of nature.
Homosexuality seems to be like that. Sumner Welles, one of FDR's most trusted confidantes, saw his career destroyed after he propositioned a porter on a train. LBJ's closest White House aide killed his career during the 1964 campaign when caught in a sting operation in a YMCA men's room, a block from the White House.
A contemporary of this writer and rising conservative star in the House, with a wonderful family, lost it all when caught trolling D.C.'s tenderloin district for teenage boys. Catholic priests have dishonored the church to which they have dedicated entire lives and disgraced themselves by abusing altar boys.
In such cases, the behavior seems almost suicidal. Clearly, there is a compulsion here that is, at times, terribly difficult to resist, a sexual compulsion that seems far more rare among normal men. [Pat Buchanan, syndicated column, 10/19/04]
Buchanan: "Homosexuality Involves Sexual Acts Most Men Consider Not Only Immoral, But Filthy." From Buchanan's syndicated column in 1989:
Homosexuality involves sexual acts most men consider not only immoral, but filthy. The reason public men rarely say aloud what most say privately is they are fearful of being branded 'bigots' by an intolerant liberal orthodoxy that holds, against all evidence and experience, that homosexuality is a normal, healthy lifestyle. [Pat Buchanan, syndicated column, 9/4/89]
Buchanan: "Where Is The Successful Society Where Homosexual Marriage Was Normal?" From Buchanan's syndicated column in July:
What is the moral basis of the argument that homosexuality is normal, natural and healthy? In recent years, it has been associated with high levels of AIDS and enteric diseases, and from obits in gay newspapers, early death. Where is the successful society where homosexual marriage was normal?
Not until the Stonewall riots at a gay bar in Greenwich Village in 1969 was the case broadly made by anyone but the Mattachines of Frank Kameny that homosexuality deserved to be treated as a natural and normal expression of love.
As Albert Einstein observed, "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18." By 14, most boys have learned on the playground there is something disordered about boys sexually attracted to other boys.
Hence the need for politically correct universities to purge such ideas from young minds and indoctrinate them in the new truths of modernity.
In our new society from which traditionalists are seceding, many ruling ideas are rooted in an ideology that is at war with Burke's "general prejudices."
High among them is that homosexuality is natural and normal. That abortion is a woman's right. That all voluntary sexual relations are morally equal. That women and men are equal, and if the former are not equally represented at the apex of academic, military and political life, this can only be the result of invidious discrimination that the law must correct. That all races, religions and ethnic groups are equal and all must have equal rewards.
Once a nation synonymous with freedom, the new America worships at the altar of equality. [Pat Buchanan, syndicated column, 7/1/11]
Buchanan: "Promiscuous Homosexuals Appear Literally Hell-Bent On Satanism And Suicide." Jake Tapper reported of Buchanan: "In 1990, Buchanan spewed out another hate-filled sound bite: 'With 80,000 dead of AIDS, 3,000 more buried each month, our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide.'" [Salon.com, 9/4/99]
Buchanan Referred To Gays As "Sodomites" And "The Pederast Proletariat." From a 1992 Washington Post profile:
But more arresting than his biography is his public image as a man who will say and write things that regularly result in charges of bigotry and prejudice -- charges that Buchanan angrily denies.
Many conservatives praise "traditional family values." Few have joined Buchanan in referring to gay people as "sodomites" and "the pederast proletariat" and in calling feminists "the Butch Brigade."
Many criticize U.S. immigration policy. Buchanan cast the choice as a decision over whether "Englishmen" or "Zulus" would be easier to assimilate. [Washington Post, 2/15/92]
Buchanan: "If The Gay Community Practiced [Catholic] Teaching, We Wouldn't Have An AIDS Problem In The First Place." From CNN's Crossfire in March 1990:
MIKE KINSLEY: Charity or public relations? The Archbishop of Los Angeles, Roger Mahoney, sent a letter to his priests and nuns asking them to volunteer to be injected with an experimental AIDS vaccine. The vaccine was developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, the legendary inventor of the polio vaccine. This one could be another historical breakthrough, but there is also a small risk that the volunteers could get AIDS.
That's not what the fuss is about, however. The fuss is over charges by some AIDS activists that the Church is not motivated solely by the spirit of compassion. They say this gesture is an attempt to distract attention from the Church's policy on homosexuality, sex education and birth control, policies they say that have aggravated the AIDS plague and the suffering of its victims.
[on camera] Pat.
PAT BUCHANAN: Martin Delaney, the Church is asking for religious volunteers, or, more accurately, I guess, inviting religious volunteers to be injected with this vaccine. Why, in heaven's name, should that set you off?
MARTIN DELANEY, Catholic AIDS Activist, Project Inform: Well, I think because it avoids the real issue here. It's a rather minor point that 10 volunteers might be asked to come forward. The big issue here is that the Church is undertaking activities across a number of fronts that are harming the efforts to prevent the spread of AIDS, and I think it would be far more important to address those issues than to put so much attention, time and media coverage on this rather small item.
BUCHANAN: Well, let's address a couple of them. As you know, as an ex-seminarian for nine years, the Church's teaching on homosexuality, on all sex outside of marriage has been fairly consistent for 2,000 years. I mean, why do the- does the gay community want the Church to change its basic teaching when, if the gay community practiced that teaching, we wouldn't have an AIDS problem in the first place? [CNN, Crossfire, 3/19/90, via Nexis]
Buchanan: "The Poor Homosexuals -- They Have Declared War Upon Nature And Now Nature Is Extracting An Awful Retribution." Conservative columnist James Pinkerton wrote of a 1983 Buchanan column:
Both the ideological right and left were quick to seize upon the deadly disease to underscore contrapuntal arguments about everything from public health to personal morality. Yet, AIDS is ultimately not political; it is viral. It is subject to the laws of nature, not human society. And so, while AIDS may someday be cured, the Darwinian reality underscoring all natural phenomena will continue to flummox both liberals and conservatives.
At the onset of AIDS, when it seemed mostly a gay malady, some right-wingers could barely contain their glee. Columnist Pat Buchanan wrote in 1983: ''The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution.'' [Newsday, 6/7/01]
Buchanan: "The Holy Father Did Not Invent The Fact That Homosexuality Was An Intrinsic Disorder. It Is An Intrinsic Disorder." From a 2005 MSNBC discussion about whether the Catholic Church should be discussing issues like gays:
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Pat Buchanan, should the church -- should the church be doing that? Should the church the pope be doing that?
BUCHANAN: Well, the church and the Holy Father should be telling the truth about what is moral and what is an immoral life. And the church -- the Holy Father did not invent the fact that homosexuality was an intrinsic disorder.
It is an intrinsic disorder. And the church has taught this for 2,000 years. The pope simply expressed himself.
Now, with regard to the United States of America -- and we got all the condoms in the world available and very much AIDS was very much begun here in the homosexual community and among those who use illicit drugs through dirty needles.
Now, the point is and the point Bill Donahue was making is, if the folks in the bathhouses follow the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, they would not have the problem. Secondly, if they`re in the bathhouses, they`re probably not listening to the pope anyway. [MSNBC, Scarborough Country, 4/11/05, via Nexis]
Buchanan: "Homosexual Sex Is Unnatural And Immoral." From MSNBC in 2003:
PAT BUCHANAN: This is Rick Santorum, senator from Pennsylvania, leader of the Republican Conference in the Senate, has said that if the Supreme Court, Bill, legalizes homosexual conduct, it knocks down the law there, it will just be like saying it is open season. You can -- for bigamy and for incest and for adultery. They're all basically the same.
I think he has got a basically sound statement. I think he ought to stick by it. As a practical matter, homosexual sex is unnatural and immoral. There's nothing wrong with saying so.
BILL PRESS, CO-HOST: I think it is outrageous. Didn't this guy learn anything from Trent Lott about keeping his big mouth shut? Let me tell you, there's a big difference. Bigamy is a crime. Polygamy is a crime. Incest is a crime. Homosexuality is not a crime.
BUCHANAN: It is now in Texas.
PRESS: You know what, Pat? Dick Cheney...
BUCHANAN: It is in Texas.
PRESS: Well, that's what is in front of the Supreme Court.
BUCHANAN: Well, that's what he saying. If you legalize one, you legalize them all. [MSNBC, Buchanan & Press, 4/22/03, via Nexis]
Buchanan Campaigned For President By Smearing LGBTs
2000 Campaign
Buchanan: "Homosexuality Is A Disorder"; "Homosexual" Or "Homosexual Rights" Advocates Won't Be In My Cabinet. The AP reported of Buchanan in 2000:
Reform Party presidential candidate Pat Buchanan ruled out picking a homosexual or gay rights advocate as a running mate or Cabinet officer, saying Thursday that such sexual orientation is "a disorder."
"If someone is an out-of-the-closet homosexual, he's not going to be my running mate, and if someone advocates the homosexual rights agenda publicly they're not going to be in my Cabinet," Buchanan said during a lunch with reporters. "I believe that homosexuality is a disorder. It's a wrong orientation."
Such remarks about homosexuals combined with Buchanan's effort to force his way into the fall presidential debates are in part aimed at denting Republican George W. Bush's conservative base, which could end up hurting Bush in a close race against Democrat Al Gore.
But the debates also would shed light on the Buchanan he says the public hasn't seen the one who doesn't "believe in persecuting anybody" and would accept gays who live "a good life."
"In order to de-demonize yourself for the whole American people, you've got to be seen directly by the American people," he said. "And that's what makes the debates so important." [Associated Press, 5/5/00]
Buchanan Claimed Gays "Have Used Religious Groups To Successfully Treat The Problem." From Hearst Newspapers:
However, Buchanan reiterated his opposition to gay rights. And he said that Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the all-but-certain GOP presidential nominee, made a mistake when he met last month with members of the Log Cabin Republicans, a national gay organization. "He is signaling that the issue of gay rights is an open debate in the Republican Party," Buchanan said.
Buchanan called homosexuality a "disorder" that can be handled with therapy. "I know that people have used religious groups to successfully help treat the problem," he said. [Hearst Newspapers, 5/5/00]
1996 Campaign
Buchanan Says He Wouldn't Want A Qualified, Openly Gay Cabinet Member "To Reflect Discredit" On His Administration. From a CNN interview in February 1996:
FRANK SESNO: If you had a very qualified person for Secretary of Labor, let's say, and somebody came to you and said, 'Mr. Buchanan, we've just found out,' or, 'this person has just told us they're gay,' would they be disqualified from the job?
PATRICK BUCHANAN: If the guy is- Well, here's the thing. I've worked with people in the Nixon White House who were gay - none who were openly gay - but I worked with them who were gay. They were loyal, tough, they stood with Nixon to the end. They're good people in a lot of ways, and I would have no hesitation of having folks like that, but I don't believe their lifestyle should be such as to reflect discredit on an administration. In other words, Robert Achtenberg [sp], no.
FRANK SESNO: But, you would-
PATRICK BUCHANAN: I would not look- The FBI does those investigations, I don't do them as president.
FRANK SESNO: Pat Buchanan, thanks very much. [CNN, 2/19/96, via Nexis]
AP: "Buchanan's Fund-Raising Letters Are Bluntly Pitched To Those Who Fear Recognition For Gays." From a February 1996 Associated Press article:
Pat Buchanan's fund-raising letters are bluntly pitched to those who fear recognition for gays, "renegade" federal judges, illegal immigrants - and government itself.
In one of his many direct-mail letters of this campaign, Buchanan sounded dire warnings for the Republican Party.
There's "a bloody assault" on the GOP's stand against abortion, and "liberals in our party are already demanding the addition of a homosexual rights plank in the next Republican platform," the former commentator wrote three months ago.
That letter offered believers an opportunity to fill out a petition called the "1996 Republican Platform Demand" and send it in along with $ 10 or $ 15, of course.
Unlike many of the GOP presidential suitors who raise large sums of money at $ 1,000-a-plate dinners, Buchanan has relied mostly on a direct mail fund-raising operation that in years past helped raised huge sums of money for fellow conservatives like Oliver North.
Scott B. Mackenzie, Buchanan's treasurer, was out of town and unavailable for comment, the campaign said Sunday.
The Associated Press reviewed a dozen direct-mail letters sent out by Buchanan during this campaign. They included appeals to parents that they were losing control of their children's education to a liberal, intrusive government.
One letter decried "the social radicals and gay rights activists who wish to indoctrinate America's children in 'positive attitudes' toward homosexuality, using as propaganda tools, books for first-graders like 'Daddy's Roommate' and 'Heather Has Two Mommies."' [Associated Press, 2/26/96]
1992 Campaign
Buchanan Calls AIDS "Nature's Retribution" Against Gays. The San Francisco Chronicle reported of Buchanan:
Buchanan is fighting to keep his challenge to President Bush alive with a strong showing in Georgia, which he calls ''the New Hampshire of the South,'' by pushing political hot buttons and denouncing the gay lifestyle, pornography and abortion with fiery rhetoric and newly released political ads.
''AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature in many ways. I think the promiscuous homosexual lifestyle is not only wrong, but it is medically ruinous. And I think it is socially destructive,'' Buchanan told the talk radio audience, as he warmed to a question about AIDS.
''If you go out to San Francisco, . . . it's not only AIDS that's pandemic, it's hepatitis and other diseases. It's hard to argue this is not a violation of human nature.'' [San Francisco Chronicle, 2/28/92]
Buchanan Ad In 1992: Paired With "Scenes Of Undressed Gay Black Men," Ad Denounced "So-called Art [That Has] Glorified Homosexuality." The AP reported of a campaign ad Buchanan ran against George H.W. Bush in 1992:
Text: "In the last 3 years the Bush administration has invested our tax dollars in pornographic and blasphemous art too shocking to show.
This so-called art has glorified homosexuality, exploited children and perverted the image of Jesus Christ. Even after good people protested, Bush continued to fund this kind of art. Send Bush a message. We need a leader who will fight for what WE believe in. Vote Pat Buchanan for president."
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Scenes of undressed gay black men from a Public Broadcasting System documentary "Tongues Untied" that was partially subsidized by the National Endowment of the Arts.
Goals: To portray Bush as favoring public funding of art that Buchanan claims offends conservative values.
Analysis: Buchanan has made the National Endowment of the Arts a major target as he campaigns in the conservative South, calling it the "upholstered playpen of the eastern liberal establishment." He has taken credit for the forced resignation last week of John Frohnmayer as Bush's NEA director. However, the ad declares that Bush "continued to fund this kind of art," which is inaccurate since funding comes from Congress not the White House. Buchanan has said that, as president, the organization would be "shut down, padlocked and fumigated." [Associated Press, 2/27/92, via Nexis]
LA Times: Buchanan Sought "To Exploit More Regional Forms Of Conservative Dissatisfaction" By Attacking Gays. The Times reported of Buchanan's Republican primary strategy:
So now, after visits to four other Southern states in the last week, Buchanan is back in Georgia, seeking to exploit more regional forms of conservative dissatisfaction by attacking racial quotas, homosexual art and, as he put it in one speech, Republican "Yankee wimps" in Washington.
Typifying his new approach is a TV ad his campaign unveiled Wednesday that features scenes from a PBS documentary in which gay black men are in various stages of undress. The ad blasts Bush for allowing federal funding of the program and other forms "of so-called art."
Continuing his new focus on social issues, Buchanan called AIDS "nature's form of retribution" against homosexuals during a radio talk show on Thursday.
"In New Hampshire, the economy was the only thing voters were interested in," the Buchanan adviser said. "In the South, the quota issue and the emphasis on traditional morality clearly go over better."
Buchanan's current strategy is straightforward: He wants the South to rise again by supporting him against Bush in Tuesday's Georgia primary. And he is hoping a strong showing will serve as a springboard for the Super Tuesday primaries on March 10, when voters in seven Southern or border states go to the polls. [Los Angeles Times, 2/28/92]
Buchanan: "I Do Not Take Back One Word" Of Calling Gays "Sodomites" And Claiming AIDS Is Nature's Revenge. From a CNN interview in February 1992:
ELEANOR CLIFT: Pat, as a commentator, you've made caustic remarks about a number of groups. For example, you've called gays sodomites and suggested that AIDS is nature's revenge. Now that you're running for president of all the people, do you regret those kinds of remarks?
Mr. BUCHANAN: Of course not. I was a good commentator, Eleanor, and I wrote good columns and that's why I'm being quoted, I think, long, long after those columns have been forgotten and now being dredged up. With regard to AIDS, anybody that has AIDS ought to be treated the same way as someone who has cancer or a killing cancer, with care and compassion. But with regard to this practice of promiscuous homosexuality, I will tell you flat-out, it is my deep-felt belief that it is morally wrong, that it is socially ruinous, that it is medically destructive, and I do not take back one word of that statement. [CNN, 2/23/92, via Nexis]
In Primetime Convention Speech, Buchanan Denounced "Homosexual Rights." In what was dubbed his "culture war" speech, Buchanan -- after he stopped his presidential campaign -- lambasted "homosexual rights" as something the country could not afford:
BUCHANAN: The agenda that Clinton and Clinton would impose on America: abortion on demand, a litmus test for the Supreme Court, homosexual rights, discrimination against religious schools, women in combat units. That's change, all right, but that's not the kind of change America needs, it's not the kind of change America wants, and it's not the kind of change we can abide in a nation we still call God's country. [Republican National Convention, 8/17/92]
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Inhale & Imprint (a letter from a mother to her daughter)
So, not that she's trying or anything (because she's not), but Meggie's the closest to having a kid. There's so much I want to share, mainly because I don't want to sound like a midwife-mother during the whole pregnancy. I want her to come to me if she has questions, but there's a whole slew of stuff I want to say even before she begins. I'm sure I'll say the same thing (mostly) to the other kids, but Meghann gets to hear it first. Lucky her!
My dearest Meggie May,
Meghann Alyssia nursing her Rosie.
So many things I want to share with you about mommyhood, about raising kids and about attending to your Self as it all unfolds.
I sat in that first pew at your wedding four years ago, looking at your back in that gorgeous wedding dress and thought, "Wasn't I just nursing her?" Your sister and brother up there, too; all of you adults.
When did this happen? How did time go so fast? When I was in the mothering part, it all seemed to crawl so slowly, but looking back, it was a blink in time. I've often said each year goes twice as fast as the year before and, believe me, it really does. I know, I know. Trite, right? But, true. When I see parents struggling with screaming toddlers, I go over to them and say, "I promise. In a minute, s/he will be married." They usually sigh with relief, but I know that, in that moment, it seems a forever away.
I didn't have the best role models. (Don't tell my mom I said that!) I was parented pretty crappily… spanked, ignored, yelled at… but, I made it through anyway. And then, when Tristan was born, I mimicked what I was taught. That poor boy, enduring my ignorant stupidity. You know I still apologize to him.
And then you came along. I learned so much! Bradley classes, La Leche League meetings, Mothering magazine; I was transformed. Well, my parenting sure was. Right from the beginning, you had a delicious A(ttachment)P(arenting) lifestyle, the lifestyle I still embrace –for myself and my clients.
You were quite the challenge when you were a baby. You cried and cried so much we called you "Megaphone." I had zero knowledge about coping with a constantly screaming child, but did pretty well considering. Now, as an old mama, I want to impart on new mamas the easier way to handle/cope with constant crying.
Crying is the baby's only method of communicating –for a long time. They cry when their foot's asleep, when they are tired of being on their backs, when they're hungry, wet and tired. Sometimes they cry because they can't get in the car, drive to the gym and run on the treadmill for an hour to expend pent up energy. When your baby's been fed, changed, burped and is being held, but she's still screaming her head off, it is perfectly fine to shrug, strap her into the sling and go about your day with a noisy chest-buddy.
Now, there is a difference between regular crying and pain crying and while it can be challenging to decipher them in the beginning, you'll figure it out and know the difference forevermore. Pain crying is high-pitched and shriek-ish. You cannot tune out a pain cry. (You shouldn't tune out any crying, but the pain cry is especially attention grabbing.) Even normal crying absolutely cuts you to the core. Your heart wants to break, the baby seems so miserable. But, I promise, they will be okay.
One of the best books I ever read and one that made a significant shift in my relationship with you kids was How to Talk So Kids Will Listen& Listen So Kids Will Talk. In there, I learned to talk to your developmental age, not just the age my mind thought you were. You were always mature for your age, but I still needed to remember you had developmental milestones that needed to be crossed and not assume you were always ten years ahead of your time. You were still a child.
What I didn't learn until way too late with you kids was patience. I thought I was learning it all along the way. Every year, on New Year's Day, I would beg for another year of patience. Why is it that we don't realize how to be patient with young children until they are way beyond childhood? You already know the two major regrets I have with you. (The tears are burning my eyes with shame already and I haven't even begun to write the words.)
The first regret I have was when we were in Frankfurt, in the Gibbs Housing. You were… what, two and a half? Three? I can see you sitting in the corner by my desk, next to the balcony door… with scissors in your hands and hair sprinkled on the floor and your lap. I went berserk. I screamed at you as if you were some mongrel dog eating a baby's leg. What a crazed woman I was! Where did that anger come from? I hadn't been in nearly enough therapy at that stage to know it was a direct line from my grandmother to you. It seems so stupid now. So incredibly horrible that I would make my child, the flesh of my flesh, feel so scared about her mother. I doubt I made any impact on your sense of self, but I am sure I scared you half to death. This pretty okay person loving you, nursing you, and then I went crazy. For what? For some hair that would grow back? No. No. Please, please don't do that to your children. When they cut their hair (and they will), please laugh, take the scissors away and hug your son or daughter. Remember how I could have, should have reacted… echo my wishes. Not my actions.
The second was an episode that shames me more than any other with you kids. Even more than Tristan's circumcision; that's a LOT. For some forgettable reason, I was so angry at you (and I assure you, NOTHING you could do warranted my anger) that I began hitting you. You couldn't have been more than 2.5… right about when you were weaning. I barely remember it, but I was hitting you over and over. And suddenly, Sarah was there, pulling me off of you, pushing me away and grabbing you, holding you, comforting you. She barely knew us at that point, so it was a huge thing that she would just walk in and grab me. I don't remember if she said anything to me, but I know I cried with humiliation for a long time after that. I forgot about it fairly quickly, but it came up in therapy several times. There is no excuse for that behavior and I know it imprinted your child-psyche; please know I am most humbly sorry for hurting you… not just your body, but your heart. You depended on me for your very life, and there I was, betraying you. I am so sorry.
There is a lesson in that and it isn't just not to lose control with your kids, but, if you ever see someone doing that, hurting a child, especially as an out-of-control adult, I beg you to do what Sarah did. Step in. Help the child. Please don't ever sit complacently by when a child needs you. Especially your own, but also those around you. Our babies need us to protect them and it isn't always the parent that is able or willing to do that.
This is sounding like a catharsis of regrets and I don't want it to be only that. And what's funny, is you, too, will write a letter like this to your child as she begins considering motherhood. A child's life rushes so quickly back, flooding the brain with montages of events, crammed into blinks of remembrances. It's miraculous, how the brain works.
So, when your child needs to have a procedure done, stay with him/her. Do not EVER let anyone try to separate you from your child if they need something, anything done. Any caring human being keeps mothers and babies together. If the person insists, ask for their supervisor. If they still refuse, find another care provider. Mothers can sit with the babies through MRIs, x-rays (as long as you aren't pregnant), dental visits, even staying with them in the operating room until they are about to go under anesthesia. If you choose to circumcise (ACK!), please stay with your son while it is done. And if you don't want to be there, imagine how your son feels! That's actually a good mantra for parenting in general.
If you don't want to be there, imagine how your child feels. I like that.
In that same vein, there's the refuse-anything-that-doesn't-feel-right part of mothering. When you kids were little, I refused all rectal temperatures. Your charts are snottily filled with "mother refuses rectal temp". I didn't care. When I learned about perforated bowels from rectal temps, I wasn't subjecting you to that possibility. Today, rectal temps are very rare outside of life and death circumstances. Haha. I was right.
I recently had a(n experienced) mom getting her son's Newborn Screen done, a heel stick that shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes. While they were in the lab, the technician was totally inept and kept poking the baby, squeezing his leg and heel and did the test wrong wrong wrong… and was at it for thirty minutes. When I explained to mom how the test was supposed to be done, she told me she was sweating, crying and kept thinking, "this is wrong," but didn't say anything, believing they were the experts, so surely they know better, right? IF IT FEELS WRONG, IT PROBABLY IS. This mom felt guilty for not stopping the procedure. I let her know it was a fantastic lesson in listening to your maternal instincts. Guilt is a wasted emotion. Learn and move on.
Listening to your instincts includes not leaving your child alone with someone that feels creepy, even if they are dear, old friends. And listening to your child if they tell you they don't want to stay with/talk to/be with someone. Please hear them; they don't have sophisticated language to explain such complex feelings, but they are articulating it in their heart as best as they can. Please don't make your kids hug someone hello or good-bye unless they want to. I never forced you kids to hug anyone; they will do it when they are ready, when they know the person enough. And, for god's sake, PLEASE don't make them kiss people, either.
Oh, and teach them sign language! I wish wish it had been de rigeur when you were kids. How lucky moms are today that get to talk to their kids long before verbal skills are developed.
For the rest of your life, people will give advice… unsolicited and weird. Brace yourself. Develop a bucketful of responses, from nice to shut-the-hell-up. If you have researched the topic (and, oh aren't you lucky to have the Net! I had to depend on support groups and books.), do what you and your husband have chosen to do. Even if your mom cringes. All I ask is that you learn about the topic instead of walking in blindly. It can be hard to know when you have all the information to make an informed decision, but looking at the polar opposites can help you find the middle for yourself and your child. And while some decisions are permanent (circumcision, vaccinations, etc.), others can be changed if it doesn't work out the way you expected it to (sleeping in a crib, limiting nursing, etc.). Don't hesitate to change the course if you start feeling icky about where you were going. Contrary to what many "experts" say, you do not have to work through the squirmy feelings, you can listen to them. Your kids will thank you.
Another trite refrain is to expect the unexpected. It's hard to do that, but is a mindset that can free you should the universe give you kids like your siblings. I promise, you can be as conservative as anything and your kids still turn into pierced and tatt'd rock stars. Watching you all grow up, I've often wondered how everything would end up and while there have certainly been times when I've questioned one or the other's sanity, in the end, all of you have carried the same core values through the firestorms. Now that you all are wonderful, productive, amazingly loving adults, I can breathe a sigh of relief that you all did hear what I said to you when it seemed as if you weren't listening.
I love your loving (and liberal) attitude towards people different than you. You will be challenged, though, as your kids head into school. There will be parents that irk you no end, teachers you want to smack and books you want to burn. Everything you swear you'd never do, slams into your mind over and over. Don't be afraid of the feelings and, of course, don't act on them! But, having intense anger, even hatred, of some aspects of our lives is real and it's okay to acknowledge it.
One of the most difficult times to keep your head about you is when someone hurts your child… physically or emotionally. It's so tempting to try and fix it, but unless safety is a concern, the push and pull of love from playmates is one way we learn to distinguish who to (and not to) trust in the world. By being a gossip, eventually a child learns to keep their mouths shut. By having the boy of their dreams leave them, they recognize those traits in someone else and stay far away from them. It can be frustrating to watch your child make the same mistake over and over again, but some lessons need to be repeated.
Speaking of repetition.
Your children will need to be told something 800,000 times before they get it. Just see the number 800,000 in your head and when they have to be told, "Say thank you" twenty times in one day while visiting me, tick off the numbers in your head, knowing you are making headway. If you expect 800,000, if it turns out to only be 600,000, you will be relieved. If it's more, what's a few hundred thousand more after 800,000? And you might as well make a tape of these words: "How many times do I have to tell you?" Teach your kids to gently remind you, "800,000."
When your kids are two-years old, please do not call them the "Terrible Two's." They are the "Terrific Two's!" Two is the first of many amazing phases where an attempt at separation from mom is made. Many kids start this at 18 months and it typically ends at two and a half, but learning that they are separate from mom has to be kind of scary for them as well as an interesting concept. Of course they don't have the language skills to say, "Okay, mom. I'm going to lengthen the umbilical cord a little. I'm going to be sloppy and uncoordinated at it, but if you can just be patient, I'll figure it out eventually." Instead, they use the word NO! to say "I'm separate."
"Do you want some ice cream?"
"No!" (I'm separate from you and can make my own decisions.)
(and without missing a beat) "Yes." (That's my decision. I do want ice cream.)
"Do you want to go to the park or to Lance's house to play?"
"No" (I'm separate… I'm thinking.")
"Park!" (I made my decision.)
If you are able to translate the word "No" in your head to "I can make my own decisions," the phase where they say no to everything will be a breeze to go through. It's when parents see the word "no" as a challenge, as an obstinate child, not wanting to do something (whatever it is), that it becomes exasperating.
On the heels of "No" comes "Mine!" usually accompanied by pulling a toy out of someone else's hands. There's a balance between letting kids work these things out and protecting your kid from being whacked in the head with said toy. Parents have to be aware of what their kids are doing, from infancy into adulthood. If you see the toy, midair, your responsibility is to try and catch it before it crowns the intended target. And know there isn't malicious intent from the hoister, but they do have a concept that if they bean the other kid, they will let go. They're smart little buggers!
Another time when parents/you have to be hyper-vigilant is if you have a biter. Biters throw off signals before they chomp down, even if the signals are only a few seconds long. Get to know your child's signals and be there to remove him/her if they exhibit them. I remember sweeping two of your siblings up numerous times as they began the frustrated cry right before a giant bite happened. Biting is one of those safety issues that demands intervention. And, whatever you do, please do not bite your child back. It makes me shudder that some moms and dads think that teaches their kid not to bite. Not at all. In fact, it reinforces that biting is a way to cope with frustration and anger. Being there to circumvent the bite until the biter is out of that phase is the kindest and most productive action you can take.
You already know my If-You-Lived-In-the-Jungle analogies, but they bear repeating.
Babies don't know they were born in "civilization." Their bodies don't know anything about clocks, cribs or separate bedrooms. Babies are hard-wired to cry when they're not near their moms/caregiver; if they were left in a crib under the next tree, they're complete fodder for the local tiger's dinner. Crying is a survival mechanism and it's why you will feel the pull (not a mere tug) to go to your baby when she cries. Ignoring that pull, the instinct in you diminishes. While there are cry-it-out folks who orchestrate the elimination of that drive, isn't it a sad moment for the baby when mom severs the in-born need to caretake?
None of this means you live only for the baby. You must remember that if you don't take care of yourself, you will be no good to anyone else in the family, the baby especially. So, pee when you need to (can I tell you how many new moms get a UTI from holding their bladder until the baby's asleep?). Eat when you're hungry (have a giant plate of snacks in the fridge at all times so you can sail by, grab something and keep on walking while you pop it in your mouth).
And drink LOTS of water. When you're nursing, you'll be thirstier than you could ever imagine… and the urge to sip comes just as you latch the baby on… so always have a huge thermos/pitcher of water next to you. Once you are nursing the second baby, make sure you have a water bottle with a straw, something that the toddler can't make a mess with if he makes the grab and run with it.
When you're nursing, smell your baby's head. Smell and imprint it into your heart. I can smell you kids' heads even now, from this far away… and when I've smelled you as I hugged you in the past, you do smell exactly the same as you did when you were in my arms. There is nothing more soul opening than the scent of your new baby's head. Inhale and imprint.
My dearest Meghann, I fear I'm verging on the edge of advice overload, so I'm going to end for now, but expect this might be a multi-part'd, on-going letter. I hope you're able to use some of this mother wisdom someday… you and Aimee and Tristan, too. If Darren ever gets another computer, I hope he's able to learn some stuff, as well.
I have so much more to say. I could talk with you forever. I love you more than any words, any actions could ever convey. Know, my sweet Meggie May, how happy, how amazingly happy you have made your mother. Thank you for choosing me to be your mommy. It has been a wondrous journey. Thanks for your patience with me as I've learned and thank you for all the lessons you've taught me. You've prepared me for grandmotherhood perfectly.
Now, get busy!


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Monday, May 14, 2012
Hit with a mind bomb, my first Congress for the New Urbanism
I just got back to the cool breezy air of LA and Santa Monica yesterday after a week in the tropical climate of South Florida for the 20th annual Congress for the New Urbanism in West Palm Beach. The wealth of information I learned from both speakers and the rich dialogue with fellow attendees has left me feeling like a I've come back to California with a whole new brain. A feeling that is quite impressive to me given that I had already read many works by those involved in the New Urbanist movement.
I was also a little surprised at how many people there recognized who I was without introduction and despite this being my first time attending. I guess my blogging and twittering is really starting to get around. Although it was my first time, it also felt good to be able to have a unique perspective and add to the discussion with my own insights. It was not a one way relationship of absorbing information, and that is part of CNU's strength, it's a culture of back and forth that encourages everyone to share what they have to add.
Prior to CNU, and now immediately following, I am in the trenches of overtime hours at work, so my time to share more details are limited. However as soon as I am able to I'll process some of my detailed notes, audio recordings, and photos, and share more highlights here. My update for LA Streetsblog this week, written after day 2 of the 4 day conference, includes my initial impressions from CNU20.
It was an absolutely incredible week, and my thanks to the organizers, the speakers, and everyone who attended and who were so ready and willing to discuss ideas. From the almost legendary architects and urban designers that have written numerous books, to the humble first time attendee, everyone was approachable and willing to chat, and all had valuable and unique insights to add. Getting some one on one time with some authors who have been very influential to my thinking in recent years was alone worth the trip, but that was only a fraction of the value I got out of the experience.
There is nothing else like it that I have ever attended, and I'm sure I'll find my self drawn to CNU again in the future. Forget the left/right political divide, perhaps the best hope for our civilization's future can be found in the broad vision of principles and practices advanced by the New Urbanists.
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Fishing: Its a Boys' Life
Why? 'Cause fishin's fun!
This is something I really love about old Boys' Life magazines: these comics section features, drawn by the masterful artists at the Johnstone and Cushing agency, which usually appeared in the form of comic strips...
... but occasionally were presented in an attractive and highly informative 'info-graphic' manner.
These features made learning fun. Textbook publishers could have learned a lot about how to get kids to read educational material from the editors of Boys Life.
The artwork from that comics section feature looks like it might have been drawn by one of our previous subjects ( and now a TI list member ) Tom Sawyer (then Scheuer), back when he was one of Johnstone and Cushing's star artists. Perhaps Tom will let us know if my guess is correct...
Here are a few more ads and some story art from those early issues of Boy's Life...
These strips are fun and serviceably drawn, if unspectacular. I don't have a whole lot to say about them.
But I did want to point out this great piece by an artist I'm largely unfamiliar with: Gilbert Darling.
Here one can easily see the influence Al Dorne had on Darling's style. We spend so much time looking at the work of 1950's artists influenced by Al Parker and some others who would be considered the innovators of the 50's. But Dorne's influence should not be underestimated.
Dorne's slightly cartoony style of exaggeration married to a solid underpinning of good drawing and strong composition inspired hundreds of illustrators, from Gilbert Darling to Jack Davis to Robert McCloskey and on and on.
* My Fishing Flickr set.
* Be sure to drop by Charlie Allen's Blog for the latest CAWS: a dozen examples of Charlie's spot illustrations.
*ALSO* Last week's series on Ray Prohaska has been collected into a stand-alone blog, which will be updated occasionally by either me or Ray's son, Tony. If you'd like another look at last week's posts presented as one cohesive article, go to The Art of Ray Prohaska (and you'll notice the link has been added to my 'Classic Illustration Links" in the sidebar).
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- Chad8:55 AM
There's great Al Dorne, average Al Dorne and then there are bad copies of Al Dorne.This is the latter, particularly the Hand of Death as Kyle Baker calls it, of the boy in red trousers.ReplyDelete
Ouch, Chad - while I believe you're welcome to your opinion, I personally wouldn't label Darling's illustration as a bad copy of Al Dorne.ReplyDelete
As stated, I think Darling was influenced by Dorne, as were untold legions of commercial artists of the day (not a bad thing). Beyond that, the drawing is limited only by his personal style and ability. Both look thoroughly professional to me - and appropriate to the subject matter.
I'm curious what Kyle Baker's "Hands of Death" means... for the benefit of those of us who aren't familiar with the term, please add another comment and explain that one.
Thanks for commenting! :^)
- Chad9:13 PM
Purely a personal response to the work Leif.I love Dorne when he's committed to a piece {particularly some of his war stuff where you feel his heart is in it} and his draughtsmanship is fantastic for a self-taught artist.But some of his work is by the numbers and even HE can look like a mediocre Dorne copyist. Darling's drawing looks to me like a competent Dorne copy,there's that kind of folksiness/sentimentality that looks horribly calculated and more appropriate to low quality commercial art, a million miles away from Fawcett, Sickles etc.ReplyDelete
The 'hand of death' is that palm upwards open hand gesture that artists use when they cant devise a good pose or they're rushing against the clock to get the thing done. It's an empty gesture and I'm sure you'd find John K hates it when its so frequently used in animation. Anyway, that's just my view keep up the excellent work amigo.
Thanks Chad;ReplyDelete
I respect your opinion, even if my own might be different on this subject (and actually, there isn't much to quibble over in your analysis). Regarding the 'hands of death' - I fear I'm guilty of drawing those deadly hands on a fairly regular basis! I guess I better watch myself... wouldn't want to upset John K or Kyle Baker! ;^)


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Issues in Graduate Education
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According to the special report in the American Historical Review (April 1941), "a quarter of the sessions and more than a third of the meals" at the AHA's annual meeting in 1940 "were devoted to a sweeping stocktaking of the historical profession." One luncheon was exclusively devoted to the issue of graduate training; the highlight of the session was a paper by A. Howard Meneely that seemed to "indict . American graduate schools." Meneely's paper was immediately reprinted in the journal Social Education (January 1941) under the innocuous title, "Graduate Training in History," and is reprinted here by permission of the National Council for the Social Studies.
For the record, Meneely was a Civil War historian who earned his PhD from Columbia in 1928, then taught at Dartmouth before embarking on a distinguished career as president of Wheaton College (1944-1961). Most of his professional life was thus spent at institutions that did not train graduate students-but this did not stop him from preparing a clear-headed though critical review of the serious problems facing graduate education. What is most striking, from today's perspective, is how modern the problems sound. Indeed, during the last two years the Committee on Graduate Education (CGE) has heard many of the same concerns from graduate students and faculty alike. Has so little really changed in 60 years?
Historians should be troubled by the continuity of concerns in graduate education, but not discouraged from offering new solutions just because old solutions have failed (or were never fully implemented). In that spirit, early next year, the CGE will issue a report with significant recommendations for improving graduate training. Like Meneely before, the committee hopes that "thought and discussion may be directed to [these] matters of common concern," leading to a brighter future for graduate history education.
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|Dr. Ed Lewis (left) and Andrew Griffith
Drew Griffith, a Liberty University senior with the School of Engineering and Computational Sciences (SECS), took first place at the 39th annual Southeast Decision Sciences Institute (SEDSI) undergraduate student paper competition held Feb. 18-20 in Charleston, S.C.
Under the faculty advising of SECS Professor Ed Lewis, Griffith submitted an analysis on finding the point of diminishing returns using data from the General Motors website. Over 139 papers were presented at the conference in 46 different sessions.
"It was a really good experience doing an analysis and writing a paper about it," Griffith said. "It was a good feeling getting my name out there, and a good experience overall."
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