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In.no.va.tion: Something newly introduced; a new method, custom, device; a change in the way of doing things.
O.va.tion: To celebrate a triumph; an enthusiastic public welcome.
Webster's definitions for innovation and ovation perfectly describe our FinOvation awards: accolades we give to the companies whose products received an enthusiastic welcome from you, our readers.
We picked winners from our last 12 issues. Hundreds of you found these winning products so intriguing that you took the time to fill out a Return-A-Card and send it to us.
You asked for more information and here it is. Each product is described in the category it won, along with comments from fellow farmers who have purchased and used it. And just as these farmers attest, these innovations may change the way you farm.
machinery Tractors New Fendt owners Farley Cole of Gerard, IL, and Charly Webber of Chaska, MN, were beyond enthusiastic when we called to ask their opinions of the tractor. They described it like this: "I love it. I absolutely love it....It's unbelievable....This tractor is really streamlined!"
When Cole bought his Fendt 926, he was in need of a high-horsepower tractor that could pull a heavy Liebricht rotary ditcher (another award winner, at right) at a very slow speed. In addition to raising crops, cattle and hogs, Cole has started a custom ditching business. "We can get this tractor down to 60 ft./min.," Cole says. "This also is going to make matching ground speed with the combine a lot easier."
Kevin Bien, Fendt product manager for AGCO, cites the tractor's Vario CVT (continuous variable transmission) and its stepless variable drive as reasons for its ability to drive at such slow speeds and at infinite increments. "With a powershift transmission, you typically only have maybe eight different field working speeds," Bien says. "Maybe I can only go 6.4 or 5.4 mph with a powershift . With a Vario transmission, if I want to go 5.7 mph, I can. It's the transmission's infinite ability to find the efficiency that lies between powershift speeds that makes it unique."
You can either set a cruise control speed on the computer terminal - which, according to Cole and Webber, is fairly easy to get the hang of - or use the joystick to accelerate. The 700 and 900 series tractors accelerate infinitely from 0 to 31 mph and have PTO horsepower from 110 to 240. The 400 series tractors offer 72 to 95 PTO hp with infinite acceleration from 0 to 25 mph.
Webber had a different reason for buying his Fendt 716: He fell in love with it during an impromptu test drive. "I had just purchased a [competitor's tractor] and I went to the dealer and saw this Fendt out on the lot," he says. Webber says it sold itself. "I bought it right then and there.
"All you've got to do is get in there and work with it a little bit," he continues. "It might be a little more money, but if you look at what it has and what it can do, plus the service agreement, it's worth it." The three-year service warranty covers all oils, fluids and filters, which your dealer maintains.
Both farmers cite a few minor problems with the tractor. Cole thinks the parking brake could be repositioned. It's to the left of the seat and low, so it's hard to reach to engage it. Webber says that the mirrors are a little too thin and the side window levers could be better. "But I can live with that," he adds. Prices: $69,700 to $91,500 for 400 series; $93,900 to $128,000 for 700s; and $145,000 to $184,000 for 900s. Contact AGCO Corp., Dept. FIN, 4205 River Green Pkwy., Duluth, GA 30096, 770/813-6067.
machinery Field improvement If you spot a Liebricht rotary ditcher as you drive down the road, you won't be able to pass by without stopping to watch it in action and ask questions. And, according to inventor and builder Junior Liebricht, that is exactly how most farmers who bought the machine were introduced to it. The machine is an attention grabber because it throws a large arc of soil through the air as it cleans ditches or creates field drainage.
Curiosity might kill the cat but it also can make you some big bucks. With this machine and a little ambition, you can make up to $200 to $250/hr. as a custom ditcher.
That's what Jerrel Haugan of McLeod, ND, does. He bought a Liebricht when it was first introduced in 1996. He had one payment left on the $34,000 machine when he bought a second one last summer for his growing business.
Illinois farmer Farley Cole took delivery of his ditcher last June. "This ditcher discharges the soil out and away from a waterway and chews it up pretty good," Cole says. "We have some waterways that were made with bulldozers and had to disk them a couple times to get the sod processed down to something manageable. This ditcher does it all in one pass: It chews up the sod and spits it out."
It's not just for custom operators. In fact, Liebricht came up with the idea for the machine out of his own farm needs. He now manufactures about a dozen different types of earthmoving machines. Contact Liebricht Mfg., Dept. FIN, 17771 Rd. H-13, Continental, OH 45831, 419/596-3501.
machinery Tillage Bill Wilson and Douglas Bruce are buddies. They've known each other and shared ideas for many years. Through this friendship, they developed one of the most innovative and unusual tillage tools on the market.
Their Serriator digs up ground like a chisel or moldboard but "without the impact of a boat anchor," according to Bruce, the blade designer. He says this action is accomplished because the discs are square with rounded corners. "Doug thinks outside the box," says Wilson of Athens Plow. "Who would ever dream of a square disc blade?"
The blades are staggered 45 so they hit the ground at different times. (Bruce chose to introduce the blades on an Athens Plow, but they can be used on most any plow.) "The four points fracture the ground like a spade when it's twisted," Bruce says. "When the flat sides come down and hit residue, they smash stalks like a hammer, fraying the ends for moisture absorption." The discs work in wet or dry ground, and Bruce says they stay cleaner and don't have the suction effect in mud that a circular disc can have.
Serriator owner Ron Heck, Perry, IA, claims, "With one pass, I prepared my seedbed so it's now ready for spring planting. I find it does a much better job getting rid of compaction and gets better down pressure because of the disc shape. It's a great tool for mulch tillage."
"Instead of covering up residue, this process mixes it right in with the dirt, leaving carbon deterioration in the soil so it doesn't dissipate into the air," Bruce says. "Also, you can till faster, up to 13 1/2 mph." Price not available at press time. Contact Athens Plow Co., Dept. FIN, Box 609, Athens, TN 37371, 800/535-3852.
machinery Planters Bob Zarse of Reynolds, IN, knew exactly what he wanted in a planter. "I was looking for a drill with a bulk seed box that could plant 15-in. rows and beans per foot instead of a hit-and-miss unit that spits out seed whenever it decides to," he says.
He found just what he wanted in Deere's new Tru-Vee drill. The drill features MaxEmergePlus planter units beneath a 40- or 42-bu.-capacity central fill drill seedbox. You can plant 15- or 30-in. rows.
When we called Zarse, he was eagerly awaiting delivery of his new drill. Although the new drills are not available until this spring, he was one of a few customers who were able to order last year. "I really didn't have a complaint with my previous planter; I just wanted to go bulk," he explains. "When you fill the planter boxes, it seems you always get to the last box and there's no seed left in the bags so you have to go back and start bucking them out of the other boxes."
Zarse says a big plus with this machine is the rotary bean unit. "It doesn't matter if I put beans in that are 32,000 ppa or 22,000 ppa. If I want 4 1/2 beans/ft., I'm gonna get it. I'm not always guessing," he claims.
Zarse doesn't believe going bulk saves money; in fact, he'll argue that it doesn't. "I'm in the process of buying a bulk seed-handling unit for $3,200. Add to that a forklift of at least $3,500 for used," Zarse says. "But, what I will save is manpower. Even with 50-lb. bags, it might take a half hour just to fill drill boxes. They tell me that bulk beans only take seven minutes to fill." He figures he'll gain about 25 minutes every 40 acres.
"If this doesn't go over with Deere, it will surprise me," he adds. "It looks to me 15-in. rows are going to be the thing in my area and I know a lot of neighbors are going to be watching the drill in my field." Price not available at press time. Contact John Deere North American, Dept. FIN, 11145 Thompson Ave., Lenexa, KS 66219, 913/310-8100.
machinery Combines When we spotted the new Lexion 470 rotary combine, we figured the company had a winner. The small rotary from Caterpillar features the dual rotary harvesting separation system found on the big 480 and 485 Lexions, but it is priced and sized for farmers who don't need the larger machines. It runs off a 290-hp, turbocharged Cat engine and has a grain tank capacity of 280 bu. with an unloading rate of 2 1/2 bu./sec. It also offers the company's accelerated pre-separation (APS) system found on all its bigger combines. Price: $172,700. Contact Caterpillar Inc., Dept. FIN, 8951 S. 126th St., Omaha, NE 68138, 800/888-4228.
machinery Accessories We know what fixer-uppers you are, so when we came across the Fehr Cab Interiors kits to replace cab liners, we knew you'd like them. And, according to the company, our coverage was great for business. In fact, the kits received the most inquiries of any of the FinOvation winners.
The kits are available for most makes of tractor cabs and can now be custom made. They cost about one-half to two-thirds the price of OEM and are fairly easy to install. The company makes and sells more than 5,000 kits a year and has about 70 from which to choose. The company owners researched various materials and found the original acoustic vinyl that OEM manufacturers have used for years. The material was developed for space exploration and has holes to help absorb and deaden sound.
Jay Zimmerman who farms in South Haven, KS, installed a kit in his Deere 4430 and recently bought kits for two of his Case tractors. "The kit I installed in the Deere looks original," Zimmerman claims. "You do have to take time to clean out the old glue, but they send a really good adhesive that you spray on the ceiling and foam of the liner." You can use a putty knife to remove the old liner and clean off the glue. Price depends on kit model. Contact Fehr Cab Interiors, Dept. FIN, 10116 N. 1900 E. Rd., Fairbury, IL 61739, 815/692-3355.
chemicals Equipment It started with a computer model - an animated caterpillar chewing on a computer-generated leaf getting sprayed by graphical droplets of pesticide - and it ended up as a chemical application system that received more Return-A-Card requests than any other piece of equipment featured in FIN.
"In 1990 Andrew Chapplle - then a graduate student - came to me with a project to build a dose transfer system that would show what happens to pesticides when they leave the spray nozzle," explains Robin Taylor, research scientist at Ohio State University. "It took us a year and a half just to write the instructions and build the program. But in the end, it helped us to understand the need for a broad range of droplet sizes for optimum insect control."
The pair used the model to investigate what properties of the spray cloud would influence the pesticide's efficacy. It took them years to create and work with the simulator and less than a week to come up with the idea for the two-nozzle design, called the Spray Redux system.
"We found that if you put only water in the large droplet you could preserve the structure of the spray cloud. Then the small droplets would receive active ingredient and would land where needed," Taylor explains. He claims that chemical rates are reduced without a loss in efficacy.
Now heading up the company that is licensing the technology from Ohio State University, Taylor says he now has the optimum juxtaposition of the nozzle. Price: $85/nozzle. Contact Spray Redux LLC, Dept. FIN, 4600 Prospect Ave., Cleveland, OH 44403, 330/263-3961.
fertilizer Equipment Brothers Johnny and Jeff Schultz are not only partners in business, they are partners in design. A local farmer came to them with a request for a disc to place liquid fertilizer with a Case planter. He had already tried mounting other fertilizer injectors to the machine, but nothing would work.
The brothers put their heads together and came up with this new injector for Case planters. "This is the only liquid fertilizer injector that mounts like this," Johnny claims. One bolt connects the disc to the existing bracket on the planter.
Larry Timm, who farms in eastern Nebraska, bought and mounted the injectors to his planters in time for last year's spring planting. "I had been through a lot of starter knives and discs before I saw this," Timm says. "It does a better job of closing the seed trench and it doesn't place the fertilizer too deep, just 1 1/2 in. - right next to the seed."
The brothers' injector system replaces half of the factory closing system on Case planters, but according to Timm, it is simple to mount. Price: $35 to $40/kit. Contact J.S. Ag Innovations Inc., Dept. FIN, Box 125C, Ewing, MO 63440, 800/400-2610.
chemicals Crop protection We had a tie for first place in this category with Dow AgroSciences' Glyphomax and Glyphomax Plus and Gustafson's seed treatments Gaucho and Prescribe.
Glyphomax is straight glyphosate; Glyphomax Plus includes surfactants. The company claims the new products offer the efficacy of Roundup or Roundup Ultra but at a slightly lower price. Contact Dow AgroSciences, Dept. FIN, 9330 Zionsville Rd. #308, Indianapolis, IN 46268, 800/208-4094.
So far, Gustafson's plot tests have shown about a 3.74-bu. gain in yield with seed treated with Prescribe and about a 7.74-bu. gain in seed treated with Gaucho, according to Ray Knake, Gustafson's northern product development manager. The company claims the systemic can be used in any geographical area. Prescribe contains a higher rate than Gaucho of the active ingredient, Imidacloprid. It guards against early season cutworm, corn rootworms and wireworm and remains active throughout rootworm attack. Last year Gaucho was approved for use in corn to guard against secondary pests.
Tim Maloney, who farms in southeastern Wisconsin and owns AgriTech Consulting, plot-tested treated seeds for the company. He says Gaucho increased population between 5 and 9%. "I'm intrigued," Maloney says. "The plants in those plots were always greener and taller." Maloney says plots planted with a non-Bt seed yielded 173.9 bu. without Gaucho and 186.3 bu. with Gaucho. Plots planted with Bt seeds yielded 174.2 bu. without the treatment and 185.4 bu. with the treatment.
Although he didn't do extensive testing with Prescribe, Maloney says he wouldn't use it on ground that's been corn on corn for the last 20 years but would use it on ground that has a low-to-moderate level of corn rootworm. Conversely, he thinks all corn should be treated with Gaucho. Price depends on seed purchased. Contact Gustafson Inc., Dept. FIN, 1400 Preston Rd., Suite 400, Plano, TX 75093, 800/248-6907.
seed Hybrids or varieties In eight years, four Purdue University researchers did what no major seed company could do: breed a high-yielding soybean variety that carries complete resistance to soybean cyst nematode (SCN) and can be crossed with any other seed variety.
But don't think the research was easy. The scientists first had to breed the microscopic pests until they got a homogeneous inbred nematode line.
The life cycle of a soybean cyst nematode is only one month and it's a shot in the dark whether you're breeding the right sexes. "We put two nematodes together when they are juvenile," says Virginia Ferris, Ph.D., professor of nematology with Purdue. "These then produce offspring and from those offspring you take another pair and do it all over again and again. The success rate is very low."
The researchers were Ferris, her late husband John, Research and Extension Nematologist Jamal Faghihi, Ph.D., and Indiana Crop Improvement Association Genetics Program Director Rick Vierling.
During the lengthy research, the Purdue team screened 7,000 individual plants, seeking the genetic event that combined high yield and complete resistance. The single event discovered has become CystX.
The technology is now licensed through Access Plant Technology, which makes it available to seed companies. Nematode-infested fields planted with bean seeds that have the CystX resistance have shown yields of 60 bu./acre, according to Faghihi. "This is a not a genetically modified organism," he says. "We created this by classic genetic methods; there was no laboratory genetic transformation that would make it a GMO." Contact Access Plant Technology Inc., Dept. FIN, 301B Airport Rd., Plymouth, IN 46563, 219/936-3820.
seed Grain handling A couple of our Team FIN farmers spotted the Bin Buster at last year's National Farm Machinery Show. The simple tool mounts to a grain bin well pipe to make opening the well a lot easier.
"The well pipe is just bent to form an L, and after years of wear and tear, it doesn't pull straight. It gets harder and harder to open the bin well," says Randy Duden with The Spreader company.
Duden ran into this problem with his own grain bins and came up with the design himself. Spreader introduced it at last year's show. The bracket has been updated since; now it has slots to move from one position to the next. This helps give you the leverage you need, yet keeps the well pipe straight.
Bin mounting is simple with a few bolts. Price: $60. Contact The Spreader Inc., Dept. FIN, Box 189, Gifford, IL 61847, 800/428-9046.
farm and office Communications We know how much you guys like to hear about the weather and how important on-farm communication is to you. So when we came across the Cobra Micro Talk two-way, we knew you would appreciate all the alarms and weather channels it features.
The Micro Talk offers 15 channels and 38 sub-channels (about 530 channels more than a typical two-way), including 10 weather channels that broadcast 24 hrs./day. Probably the coolest thing about this radio is the WX Weather Alert: The radio will alert you to weather emergencies in your area and broadcast a special report. It also has two ways to get the attention of another user: VibrAlert sends a vibration to the other radio; CallAlert rings the other radio. It has an outdoor range of up to 2 miles and about 1 1/2 miles if the signal has to penetrate glass or metal.
Roger Beep is a talk confirmation signal to let listeners know when you're finished talking. For a private conversation you can scramble your message so unwanted listeners can't eavesdrop. Because it uses the Family Radio Service, there are no service fees.
Our tester, Scott McPheeters of Gothenburg, NE, notes that these radios offer a range that is as good as that from his high-end two-ways that he uses on his farm. He says that the CallAlert and function lock are good features to have and that voice quality is acceptable.
Suggested retail prices: $160 (it has been on sale for $100); rechargeable battery pack: $25; battery charger: $30. Contact Cobra Electronics Corp., Dept. FIN, 6500 W. Cortland St., Chicago, IL 60707, 773/889-8870.
farm and office Equipment The ability to view satellite images of your farm grabbed your attention in a big way. EarthScan's Web site offers you a chance to view and even download images that have resolutions as high as 5, 2 and 1 sq. m. "At the highest resolution, you can pick out trees and buildings," claims Ruth Cattlett with EarthScan.
But it's the colors of the maps that farmers are interested in. You can check moisture, nutrient placement and many other aspects of your soil.
"On January 17, we are debuting our upgraded Web site, which will offer software demos for farmers," Cattlett says. Contact EarthScan, Dept. FIN, 9110 W. Dodge Rd., Suite 200, Omaha, NE 68114, 800/850-5387, www.earthscannetwork.com.
farm and office Protective gear Stay safe while welding with the new 3N1 EQC auto-darkening filter lens from Jackson Products. The new filter lens can be used with most welding hoods and for any welding process, according to the company. The lens protects to Shade 3 for grinding, Shades 9 to 12 for welding. It runs off two AAA batteries; if the batteries go dead without your knowledge, the filter still protects to a Shade 14. Price: $303 for filter lens cartridge; $326 for cartridge and helmet. Contact Jackson Products, Dept. FIN, 5801 Safety Dr. N.E., Belmont, MI 49306, 800/253-7281.
livestock Equipment Orion spokesperson Neal Verfuerth claims that by placing the company's Long-Day Lighting - which he says is the closest thing to daylight - in your dairy buildings, you can increase milk production from 5 to 16% and improve heifer growth.
Verfuerth says cows are stimulated to produce more milk when they register longer days through their eyes and brains. Actual sunlight is rated at 5,500 K temperature; Long-Day's are rated at 5,000 K. Lights put out 200W of light but only use 36W of energy, according to the company. Suggested list price: $60 to $67. Contact Orion Lighting & Energy Services, Dept. FIN, 1204 Pilgrim Rd., Plymouth, WI 53073, 920/892-9340.
shop Lubricants and fuel It might have a silly name - Mr. Funnel - but the idea of keeping water, dirt and other debris out of your equipment and vehicles' fuel lines is a serious matter. And the developer of the new screened filter funnel, Roger Patch, knows the importance of pure fuel: He is a pilot in Alaska.
Patch says the fuel-filter funnel is coated with Teflon and can be used with any grade of fuel in any machine or vehicle. It also works great as a diagnostic tool if problems arise because you can drain a little fuel and check for water in the line. The funnels come in three sizes; the largest is for use on tractors and combines. Price: $30. Contact Smart Tech LLC, Dept. FIN, 23745 Immelman Circle, Chugiak, AK 99567, 800/972-1550.
shop Tools Designed in Czechoslovakia, the Metrinch that we found at the National Hardware Show is touted as a "one size fits all" wrench. It can hold or remove metric or standard ratchet, open- and box-end sockets.
The company is working on designing a kit with various sized wrenches for tractor or combine engine maintenance. Price not available at press time. Contact N&P Marketing, Dept. FIN, 69-730 Hwy. 3, Suite 207B, Rancho Mirage, CA 92270, 760/202-0200.
shop Supplies When Andrew Ungerleider created his first Fi-Bar granola bar in the 1960s, he didn't realize that years later he would be using that same manufacturing process to create an easy way to sand away rust, paint, dirt and grime.
Ungerleider's Quik Sand abrasive blocks replace sandpaper and heavy-duty cleaning products and can be used on most metals, wood, ceramic and porcelain. They are made from recycled materials, mostly glass, and are nontoxic. We tested them and found they didn't leave any more dust than sandpaper, but lasted longer. The best part is that the bar contours to the surface you're working on. For instance, when sanding a curved piece of rusted metal, the block wore down to hug the curve. Contact Earthstone International Ltd., Dept. FIN, 6528 Greenleaf Ave., Whittier, CA 90601, 562/593-0695.
transportation ATVs Paul Slavik, spokesperson for Honda, says the company is selling its Fourtrax Rubicon as fast as it can make them.
There's good reason too: The new Rubicon is the company's most powerful, multipurpose ATV, boasting a 499-cc, liquid-cooled, overhead-valve, four-stroke single-cylinder engine.
Slavik claims virtually every other automatic ATV on the market is belt driven; the Rubicon has a sophisticated automatic transmission using principles of hydrostatic drive, mechanical power transfer and modern electronic controls to create a unique hydromechanical drive. Users can select automatic or manual modes. A unique torque-sensing, limited slip front differential reduces steering effort while providing the traction of a 4-wd. Suggested retail price: $6,991. Contact American Honda Motor Co. Inc., Motorcycle Cust. Service, Dept. FIN, 1919 Torrance Blvd., Torrance, CA 90501, 310/532-9811.
transportation Tires Firestone's first line of ATV tires, the Dirt Hook and the Mud Hook, are designed to keep you moving in and out of fields in rough terrain and even muddy conditions.
The tires' open tread patterns allow dirt and mud to slough right off. Dirt Hooks feature a lug design for dry conditions. Mud Hooks feature a design for wet conditions. There are 18 ATV tire sizes in production; four are Honda OEMs.
The company plans to introduce tires with higher tractive lugs designed specifically for fieldwork. The new tires will be in large 11- to 12-in. sizes to fit heavier, high-powered utility vehicles. Price not available at press time. Contact Firestone Agricultural Tire Co., Dept. FIN, 730 E. 2nd St., Des Moines, IA 50309, 800/350-3276.
transportation Accessories Here's a simple tool for an age-old problem - covering up the gap between the tailgate and bed on your pickup to keep rocks, water and debris out of it. It even has a simple, easy-to-remember name: Tailgate Gap Cover.
The product's designer, Buz McKinley, says he's expanded the original, bolt-down cover since our original article. The ex-Boeing engineer now has an adhesive version. The covers are available for specific truck models, cut to fit. Now McKinley plans on manufacturing a Universal kit that will come in 6-ft. lengths to fit more than just pickups. For instance, you could adhere them to grain bins, combine extension bins and machinery, livestock and ATV trailers. McKinley says they will work with virtually anything with a fold-down gate that has a gap. Prices: $40 to $44 for strapped covers; $30 to $34 for adhesive covers; and $20 to $24 for Universal covers. Contact Time Savers, Dept. FIN, Box 1269, Duvall, WA 98019, 877/844-9069.
transportation Trucks It hardly ever fails. When we tell you about the new trucks coming to market, one of them always wins a FinOvation. In this case, it's a tie between the Chevy Silverado and the GMC Sierra new heavy-duty (HD) trucks from General Motors.
Our source at Chevy says that three main features of the Silverados are catching the eye of buyers: the power to the engine (the Vortec 6,000 V8 is rated at 300 hp at 4,400 rpm and 360 lb. ft. of torque at 4,000 rpm), payload (2500 HD half-tons have 3,964 lbs., 3500 HD one-tons have 5,753 lbs.) and towing capabilities (half-tons have 9,200-lb. GVWR, one-tons have 11,400-lb. GVWR). Since the story ran in our Mid-February issue last year, Chevy updated the Crew Cab LT models; electronic climate controls are now an option. GMC's Rick Asher says the Sierra HD just started production late last fall. See your GMC or Chevy dealer.


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It started six months ago in Mesa, Ariz., when Ryan Dempster stood in the parking lot of Fitch Park before the opening day of spring training and calmly declared the Cubs were going to win the World Series.
Dempster wasn't afraid of jinxing the team with his bold pronouncement, pointing out there were enough curses placed on the Cubs over the decades that one more would be irrelevant.
"It has been 100 years," Dempster said. "I think I'm all right saying that."
But for the Cubs to make good on Dempster's prediction, he knew they would need a major contribution from him in his conversion from closer to starter.
And that's exactly what Dempster has done, tying a career high with his 15th victory Saturday in a 9-2 triumph over Washington.
"I think he's by far the most important piece to this clubhouse," Mark DeRosa said of Dempster. "Just his charisma, his character ... we talk about it a lot, being around him for two years. He makes the guys around him better people -- not only better players, but better people off the field."
Aramis Ramirez smacked two three-run homers to lead the Cubs on offense, and Dempster carried a shutout into the seventh inning on a warm, muggy day before giving up a run with a six-run lead.
The Cubs moved to 29 games above .500 at 79-50 and can capture their eighth consecutive series for the first time since 1937 if they beat the Nationals in the rubber game Sunday.
One day after hugging the Stanley Cup at Wrigley Field, the Canadian-born right-hander spoke of the real reason for the Cubs' success: the players like their jobs, they like one another and they like to win.
"It has been fun for all of us," he said. "This is a great time, and we just want to keep it going, continue to win games."
The Cubs knocked Odalis Perez (5-10) around early but kept stranding baserunners until breaking through with a four-run fourth, highlighted by Ramirez's line drive, three-run homer to left. DeRosa added a solo shot in the sixth to make it 6-0 and Ramirez completed the rout with an opposite-field three-run blast in the eighth.
After all the angst over the lackluster offense in the Cincinnati series and on Friday, the Cubs' bats woke up with 13 hits Saturday, including three apiece from Ramirez and Ryan Theriot.
"We have a great offense," Ramirez said. "You guys just panic too quick."
Dempster did the rest, allowing one run on eight hits over 7 1/3 innings and only one walk. After walking six on July 25 against Florida, Dempster has walked only eight batters over his last five starts while striking out 36.
"He's dedicated," manager Lou Piniella said. "He's got good stuff. He's on a little bit of a mission. The mission is to win baseball games, help this team win and get a nice contract next year, which he deserves."
Dempster is the first Cub with 12 victories at Wrigley since Jon Lieber in 2001, and he has allowed two or fewer runs at home in seven of his last eight starts. At this pace, Dempster could win 20 games, which would make it difficult for Piniella to use anyone else as his Game 1 starter in the postseason, assuming the Cubs make it and have the home-field advantage.
But right now, Dempster is not thinking about winning 20 games, or Game 1, or anything but his next start.
"My motivation is one reason and one reason only, and that's to get to the playoffs and win the World Series," he said. "I'll take 15 wins and that World Series, and I'd be the happiest player in baseball."

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Last month in this column, we discussed in-game inflation. Inflation is an inevitability in any economy -- a natural (albeit controllable) erosion of the value of money.
Usually, Blizzard falls over itself to do everything it can to promote balance. Are too many people dying to a certain mechanic? Slash the damage that mechanic inflicts by 10%, or change the frequency at which it occurs. Is a certain class struggling in PVP? Boost one of the bursty attacks by 8%. It's a subtle back and forth that goes on all the time.
With all the emphasis on balance, you'd think that Blizzard would micromanage the in-game economy to the nth degree. This quote (or this paraphrasing) from Lead Designer Tom Chilton from Gamescom stuck out rather prominently in my mind when I read it:
What in the heck are they thinking?


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Versace cats at H&M
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So you have cats on your mind this morning? Nothing wrong with that... Love that you ended this story with the rat picture. He looks well fed, "le rat!" -- Fun post, merci. Veronique (French Girl in Seattle)ReplyDelete
One of the things you have not given us is a window on Bear's creative skills. Surely, living with you, something has rubbed off. With your background in designing shoes, I think you should consider Art Directing Bear into coming up with his own little line of "Shoes by Bear."ReplyDelete
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Yes, Carol, I agree with William, something very beary needs to come through, sooner or later. Just the bear necessities, you know. ;-)ReplyDelete
Apparently Versace brought long lines on Thursday morning this past week, here in Vienna. I forgot to even look into the window when I walked by today.
Bears will be onboard tomorrow brought to you by popular request!!ReplyDelete
It's hibernating time ya know for dear ole Bear...ahem
I always have "a touch of cat" on me, whether I'm wearing cat-print or not. Fluffy white Harry hairs on my black clothes, silky black Sammy hairs on my white clothes, tiger-striped Jingle Belle hairs on everything else...
CAT LADY!!!!ReplyDelete
I saw Versace's sale mentioned on Morning TV and turned to my Hubby and said..I bet Carol is there checking it out..:) See how you are thought of :) The French do like their Animals I notice. I do love those bags by Barbara Rihl.ReplyDelete
Barbara Rihl is Pierre Herme's wife and just down the rue!ReplyDelete
So much creativity in one family. And maybe many chats?
I'm with you on the leftover clothes, just a bit too gaudy...ReplyDelete
The dog & cat ballerinas are cute :) And the cat in the Pierre Herme window is imaginative.
Waiting on Bear's surprise!
"Thanksgiving leftovers seem more appealing" - classic! I agree, Lanvin was super cool. This capsule collection, I can do without...ReplyDelete
I would like one of each of the shoes - maybe then I could tell my left from my right.ReplyDelete
Reading this in my jaguar print warmies & my giraffe print jammies, wishing I had the lynxy look jacket from Claudie Pierlot. I too would just like the boxes at Verace- would look great for storage on my desk.ReplyDelete
The mouse ballerinas wouldn't last a day here, des minous would pounce with every step I took! Like Amy most everything I wear has a blend of cat hair. I'd really be in trouble if it were mouse hair!
the ballerina shoes are adorabel!ReplyDelete
Please make a tiny suggestion to Bear for his new line of shoes: rabbit leather/fur trim would be tres chic! Seriously, no one has that shoe covered!ReplyDelete
We supposedly have our very own H&M, which I must now track down....Of course, you know they must be finished! :-)
- Fr Girl5:02 PM
HA! Bill is showing cats in the weekend NYTIMES!ReplyDelete
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There is no need for San Joaquin Valley cotton growers to gaze upon the foothills ringing the valley or search the ditches and abandoned fields in search of lygus bugs this season.
Better look across the road and turnrows for lygus because any square-damaging plant bugs will come from next door this season, not the native vegetation, according to University of California IPM specialist Pete Goodell.
There was no opportunity for lygus to reproduce in the foothills or on valley weeds this year because there was virtually no rainfall in March and April to spawn weeds for the insect pest to reproduce.
Goodell said damaging lygus infestations, if there are any, will be related to harvest schedules of lygus host crops this year. One of the biggest lygus hosts is safflowers.
Safflower acreage is up for the second season in a row due to good prices for the oil crop, and UC entomologists have dusted off a 40 year-old degree day model to help growers and PCAs to predict when lygus will move from the safflower to cotton. It is a tried and true degree day (DD) accumulation model that gives growers a heads up on treating lygus in safflower they move into cotton.
The degree day clock started ticking on April 1 and the alarm is going off now.
The model says when 660-degree days have been accumulated, the second generation of lygus in safflower is about to grow wings and head for the nearest cotton squares. Safflower is in many stages of development in the valley, but Goodell said the 660 DD total was reached on May 20.
Goodell did not recommend at a recent cotton meeting that growers and pest control advisers treat every safflower field for lygus at the 660 DD witching hour. Location is the key to treatment decisions.
If the lygus is next door to a susceptible cotton field, treating to control lygus in safflower at the appropriate time would likely be a good move, he said.
However, Goodell said lygus fields farther away need to be evaluated for their potential to spawn cotton-damaging lygus.
As for other crops that host lygus, Goodell has been an apostle of strip-cutting alfalfa to keep lygus in the forage crop and out of cotton. This has become a widespread practice. Lygus also are found in processing tomatoes, and Goodell suggests growers watch harvest schedules for it and other crops and compare it to the susceptibility of cotton.
"Sample cotton at least twice a week during the crop's susceptible early squaring/bloom stages," Goodell told growers at the UC cooperative Extension at the West Side Research and Extension Center at Five Points, Calif. This critical period is generally at the end of June to the first of July in the San Joaquin.
"Lygus move slowly. They will not jump 160 acres to get to cotton," Goodell noted.
If sampling detects damaging levels of lygus, Goodell warned PCAs not to use pyrethroids early. Use more selective materials early to preserve beneficials.
"Cotton no longer dominates in the San Joaquin, therefore if lygus becomes a problem it will likely come from adjacent crops this year," he said.


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rotondo necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 285 diseños de 58 diseñadores freelance.
We will GUARANTEE this project when there are enough submissions.
Our website (http://www.amiccis.com) was created in the 1990s and served its purpose. We now need to update our website image. We will keep most of the written website content (though some things will be edited). Colors, fonts, the layout, etc all need to be updated. We need fresh and innovative ideas to help us update our site.
We are a major Italian restaurant in Baltimore, Maryland and are 20 years old. We're one of the most successful restaurants in Little Italy. Our website needs to incorporate some key changes including better layout, better graphics, better colors, better fonts, more emphasis on social networking, and an area at the top where we can have a banner appear.
Our target audience are patrons and customers who reside around Baltimore, Maryland. We have a lot of customers who visit from Washington, D.C., Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and New York.
Our website visitors should be able to navigate our website easily, find out about our promotions, follow us on Twitter and Facebook, read our menu, etc. As you can see from our current website, we have a lot of information "crammed" and we need to improve this.
We need to appeal to a younger, hipper crowd and at the same time maintain appeal for our older, established clients.
There is another $500.00+ award available for a coding team. If you or your colleagues can do the website and the coding, this is a great opportunity for you. If you can just provide the artistic redesign of the home page, that's also fine and we'll just find the coding team elsewhere.
The coding team should develop a basic content management system (CMS) that allows us to:
1. Update/ rotate pictures across our different webpages. Some sample restaurant photographs will be attached to this project brief. Please incorporate these pictures in the homepage redesign. Final positioning, size, etc. will be determined.
2. Add/ remove/ delete banners across different webpages. Some sample banners will be attached to this brief. Please incorporate these banners in some of your submissions for the homepage redesign. You can just take a static image for the submission if required.
3. Basic database: We need some .php or other type databases that allow us to capture, sort, manipulate, etc. data submitted at different locations on our website.
(More will follow on CODING)
We mentioned the coding first above so you can work backwards. We need some eye-catching ideas for our homepage that can appear on each page. Be innovative with color schemes, fonts, etc.
Some sample logo designs are attached in red and yellow.
Please be creative.
There will actually be around 15 total pages or so on this website, but we're looking for a winning design that can we can utilize on each webpage with little or no adjustment.
Your design should be relate to the home page.
We will be very involved in providing feedback and constructive criticism.
We will be uploading the following attachments:
1. Some sample photographs of our restaurant.
2. Sample logos redesigns.
3. Sample banners.
The more variations we can see on these, the better.
Regarding the logo, please delete the word "REWARDS" in red below our name "Amiccis" before posting.
Regarding the banner, we are only uploading 1 or 2 of them just so you can get an idea on size and placement. We can provide complete banners later (probably more important for the CODING team).
1. The fonts are difficult to read.
2. The colors are old.
3. Content is too crammed and bunched up.
4. The website doesn't convey enough about our dishes and specialties or the high quality of our food.
We want bold, unique, fresh, and eye-catching ideas.
We don't have other websites' identities in mind.
One idea: Please refer to http://www.qualpointcapital.com where you will see a series of images at the top depicting financial themes. Maybe we can incorporate a similar idea with some of the photos attached to this brief. Perhaps the photos can be enlarged when the mouse hovers over the photographs. We'd like to see some homepage mock-ups with this collage-type feature and others without it and just single photographs in different places.
Our signature dish is photographs 30, 41, 46, and 48.


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Do you get a major afternoon snack craving? I definitely do. I'm not sure if it's a Pavlovian reflex or if it's my body's clock, but within 30 minutes of the afternoon school bell ringing, I feel like I need a snack. And, let me tell you, if I don't have a healthy snack handy, I will go in search of junk food. Junk food I don't need. Junk food none of us really need. (Well, not on a daily basis, at least. We all have those days.) Luckily, a major upside of not really being able to go out for lunch or anything during the work day means I'll eat healthy if all I bring from home is healthy food. And will I be glad to bring these.
I've only had a snack like this once before, when one of my coworkers had something similar and shared with me. They were great. For some reason, though, I didn't go in search of a recipe. Good thing this recipe found me. These couldn't be easier to make. And, as the recipe reviewer in Clean Eating said, you really won't get too tired of them because you can use any spices you'd like. I think my next batch might be salt only, but I can't wait to experiment with a little cinnamon, cardamom, and sweeter spices.
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fournova needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 306 designs submitted by 80 freelance designers.
fournova is a small software company. We develop beautiful Desktop-Apps for Mac, Apps for iPhone and iPad as well as Web-Apps.
We are not an agency. We try to develop and establish a brand that stands for:
- great software
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- awesome design
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- reliability
We mostly address Apple users (Mac, iPhone, iPad) with a strong sense for high quality design and usability (businesses and consumers).
We are looking more for a label as for a logo. It should be modern, solid and tangible.
Please don't use the number 4.
Please don't add a slogan (as we don't have one).
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo.
Please don't use gearwheels as a symbol. It's too technical.
We would like to try more line graphics and no 3D-shadings. The logo should be more flat. Just imagine you would have to cut into metal.
As many logos submitted have a Windows-like style, please consider that most of our customers are Apple users, so this Windows-look should be avoided.
fournova is spelled in lower case letters.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Harper is growin up
10 comments:
- Karin said...
I love this kid! Whatever he lacks in obedience he more than makes up for in excitement for life. Happy first day of school Harper!
- September 7, 2011 at 9:46 AM
- Beth said...
When did he get so big?
love that boy!
- September 7, 2011 at 12:05 PM
- Melany said...
he is totally growing up! his little face definitely looks older. such a handsome boy! penny's first day of preschool (well, it's more like a PRE-preschool) is tomorrow and i'm freaking out a little bit!
- September 7, 2011 at 12:26 PM
- Taylor said...
cute! and I know yall are like THE gabba family so maybe you have an unlimited supply but where is that backpack from?? My son would die, and he starts preschool on Friday too... tear. He is my oldest so it is extra sad/exciting that i have a big boy now
- September 7, 2011 at 12:29 PM
- Georgia said...
Wow....time sure flies. Seems like he was just born. So happy to hear that he likes school.
- September 7, 2011 at 3:40 PM
- Ora said...
YAY!! Just what that boy needed! Glad the "carrot" worked... we've been dangling along those same lines like crazy, just praying it will work! Sounds like he enjoyed himself if he was asking to go back!
- September 7, 2011 at 4:28 PM
- Middle-aged Momma said...
Your kids all have the most beautiful, dreamy eyes. Loved Harper's first day of school outfit. Awesome!
- September 9, 2011 at 3:51 PM
- Cathy Woodruff said...
He has an angle face
- September 9, 2011 at 9:49 PM
- mer said...
That is one cute kid (and one great name btw). My little O will be starting preschool next year and he's a total rascal as well. here's hoping (against hope) that perhaps a year will help to calm him down a little?...
- September 12, 2011 at 12:57 AM
- Reenie said...
Sooo cute.
- September 12, 2011 at 7:23 AM


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I guess it was about a week ago that I first saw the news that the Council on American-Islamic Relations was in some trouble with the IRS. The Investigative Project on Terrorism reported that the group was one of 275,000 to lose its tax-exempt status following three years of failure to file a Form 990. CAIR and its affiliated foundation were both on the IRS expunge list. The IRS Form 990s that are missing would include some financial information on donations and other sources of income, basics on operating expenses and the names and payments given to directors and key staff.
The group is a media favorite and reporters frequently go to the group when discussing anti-Muslim bias. The group has also faced scrutiny for its involvement in a Hamas-financing case and allegations of foreign funding.
Anyway, the story was picked up by just a few mainstream outlets pretty quickly. For instance, Ben Smith at Politico got mixed explanations from the group:
A CAIR attorney initially told POLITICO that its appearance on the IRS list referred to a defunct arm of the nonprofit, and that CAIR and CAIR foundation were unaffected -- a claim that a review of the IRS documents did not support. CAIR then told POLITICO the IRS was to blame, citing a number of other errors that have occurred on the IRS list. However, CAIR could not produce their IRS disclosure forms for 2007 through 2010 -- which are required to be open for public inspection.
A spokesman told FOX that the group was being targeted:
"This is a technical paperwork issue that we're dealing with with the IRS -- as 275,000 other groups, including the AARP and major universities," [Ibrahim] Hooper said, before suggesting that reporting on its lost status was part of an effort to spread anti-Muslim "hate."
But I didn't see any treatment that really looked at the group and the IRS situation in detail. But a few days ago, an article did just that in the Tennessean. The report is very straightforward and thorough:
CAIR was among 275,000 nonprofits nationwide stripped of tax-exempt status this month by the Internal Revenue Service. None of the groups filed required tax returns, known as Form 990s, for three years, and any donations to them can be taxed, the IRS reported.
CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said his group filed accurate, on-time returns but lost its tax-exempt status over an incorrect filing from several years ago. But employees couldn't produce CAIR's latest Form 990 this week, and critics suggest the charity avoided filing to hide financial dealings from the public.
Local Muslim leaders said they were surprised to hear the news about CAIR's problems with the IRS. CAIR attorneys helped oppose Tennessee Senate Bill 1028 and House Bill 1353, which targeted some practices outlined in Shariah law, Islam's code of conduct.
It's nice to see the local clergy queried on the matter. The article also notes that other Muslim groups are compliant with the IRS, including the Muslim Public Affairs Council. The article looked at the issue from many angles. Farhana Khera, who works to train Muslim charities and mosques on good governance, talks about charitable activities and how they relate to Islamic values. We get a little debate on the Holy Land Foundation issue. And we even hear from Muslims who think CAIR wrongly claims to speak for all Muslims in America. I'm sure you can imagine many articles that would have skipped over all of those points.
Rather than rely on other media reports, reporter Bob Smietana actually had a Washington bureau reporter try to get the tax returns by going to CAIR offices in person. Federal regulations require that nonprofit tax returns be available to the public upon request but CAIR was unable to provide them.
It will be interesting to see how this story develops, whether the group does reapply for reinstatement or not. If it does, the forms might provide some key information about where the group gets its funds. If it doesn't reapply or isn't recognized by the IRS, will that affect the group's relationship with the media?


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Mother's Day
Electronic mail message of 12 May 2002 from Mary Lynn Axtman, Fargo, ND
I hope you might be tolerant of this posting to the list on this Mother's Day. Wherever we might be living today, it was their sacrifices that enabled our lives today.
They were the immigrant mothers who endured long and harsh travel, usually with many and probably very seasick children to arrive at their new North or South American destinations. They were the mothers of the families who stayed in Russia and struggled to feed their children, often times without their husbands who had been deported or executed. They were the mothers who made the long wagon or walking trek to Germany so their children might escape Stalin's Great Terror in Russia only to be forced to return again at gunpoint.
If they had some education, it did not mean much as they knew their German language and the English of North American or the required Russian language in Russia was new to them. Despite being in a new country or Russian cultural system, they continued to be the link to their past German culture. They were the teachers of religious traditions, recipes handed down for generations, their familiar stories and music. Yet, they seemed to understand that the old country, the old culture was past and the family had to work for the future.
The challenges of these stay-at-home moms were great: the language barrier, a society without a welfare safety net, prejudice and exploitation, lonely lives on the cold harsh prairies of North America or in Siberia.
Despite that, they raised children to be successful and educated adults. These matriarchs lived to see their grandchildren do even better in a country that still for them was the: New Land.
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Willliam Candillon has a (very) quick note for all of the phpAspect fans out there:
I will be performing a talk about phpAspect at Solution Linux 2007, the 31th january 2007 and a lightning talk at FOSDEM next month. I'm looking forward to collect your feedbacks, questions and suggestions about phpAspect!
The Solution Linux 2007 conference is happening in Paris from the 30th of January to the 1st of February. FOSDEM will be in Brussels, Belgium and is happening the 24th and 25th of February.


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When Matthew Landis was 21 years old, he attended his first protest in downtown, Salt Lake City. It was 1991, and radical actions from ACT UP and Queer Nation were erupting in cities across the country. The Grantsville native grew up in a Mormon home and knew he was gay at an early age—and he wanted everyone else to know it, too.
Sporting bright red lipstick and pearls, he set off for downtown to join members of the newly formed Queer Nation Utah. He, with original organizers Curtis Jensen and Rocky O'Donovan, led a rabble of some 40 "political queers" determined to shock Mormon Conference goers at Temple Square. "We wore shirts that said 'fag', 'queer' and 'dyke'—things that, at the time, were very shocking," Landis recalls. "We weren't much interested in diplomacy."
The group was outraged by rhetoric expressed by leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including apostle Boyd K. Packer who proclaimed homosexuals were "predators [who] proselytize the young or the inexperienced."
But the newly formed Queer Nation, Landis says, was developing a voice. They rallied around the temple hoisting provocative signs that read, "Every Tenth Mormon is a Queer" and "Religion Can Be Cured."
"Salt Lake changed after Queer Nation," he says. "We would never be silent again."
Sure enough, Utah's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community has only gotten louder. Though they do not yet have the civil equality of their straight counterparts, they are rising in respect and influence. They attend dinner at the governor's mansion, are VIP guests at the LDS Church's Tabernacle Christmas concert, and Salt Lake City political candidates now aggressively court the gay vote.
"There was a time, not long ago, when candidates would whisper quietly, 'I support you, but please don't print my name anywhere in your literature,'" says openly gay Democratic State Party Chair Jim Dabakis. "Now, even conservative city candidates not only whisper support, they demand a good marching position in our Pride Parade."
Mormons and Gay Liberation
In 1969, the famed riots outside New York City's Stonewall Inn ushered in a new era, sparking the gay rights movement across the country and around the world. But, here in Utah, change didn't come so quickly. That same year, future church president Spencer W. Kimball published The Miracle of Forgiveness, proclaiming a causal link between homosexuality and bestiality. "Satan incites the carnal man to ever-deepening degeneracy," he wrote. "As an extension of homosexual practices, men and women have sunk even to seeking sexual gratification with animals."
In 1976, Brigham Young University's psychology department infamously conducted an electroshock study—"Effect of Visual Stimuli in Electric Aversion Therapy"—in which gay men were voluntarily adminstered shocks in three 10-second intervals. Then, in 1979, fingers were pointed at the university's president and future apostle Dallin H. Oaks when a gay minister—and former Mormon—said he saw men from the BYU security force jotting down license plate numbers of cars with BYU stickers parked outside gay bars.
Queer Utah Organizes
Still, the LGBT community began to gather. Drag queens were among the first to organize. In 1976, they founded the "Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire," and produced drag shows to raise money for charities catering to the LGBT community. The Utah AIDS Foundation was founded 12 years later as the first cases of HIV and AIDS began to emerge. The community socialized in favorite bars Radio City Lounge, the Sun and Puss N Boots. By the mid 1980s, the program Concerning Gays and Lesbians was airing on community radio KRCL. The local transgender community also began to organize, first with a social group Engendered Species and later with the more politically active TEA (Transgender Education Advocates).
In 1993, playwright Tony Kuschner brought Angels in America to the Broadway stage. The play confronted the AIDS epidemic, smartly foreshadowing the deep connection between both the LDS and LGBT communities. The destinies of Mormons and gays were becoming intertwined in the national discourse, providing creative fodder for theatrical productions including the 2011 Tony Award winner The Book of Mormon in which Elder McKinnley, echoing the teachings of Boyd K. Packer, would encourage other gay Mormons to "Turn it off" like a light switch.
Throughout the early '90s, Queer Nation continued its role as tricksters, disrupting the city with gender chaos. Curtis Jensen's favorite action occurred at the University Mall in Orem. "We went shopping in full regalia—black jean cut off shorts, pearls and red lipstick." At Kingsbury Hall, he recalls, they threw flyers off the balcony during a Pet Shop Boys concert, effectively outing the then-closeted band to adoring straight fans. "Before our actions," Jensen says, "all gay media was underground. We could not get mainstream coverage. By the time Queer Nation disbanded, gay issues were regularly covered by all TV stations and both major papers."
Just in time. Utah's LGBT community was soon to catapult onto the national stage.
Rallies across Salt Lake also brought Queer Nation to the steps of the Utah State Capitol.
East High's Gay-Straight Alliance
"I thought I was the only lesbian at East High," student Kelly Peterson told The New York Times in 1996, defending why she formed the first-ever gay-straight alliance at the Salt Lake City school. The move, meant to bring unity amongst gay teens, instead created a political and media firestorm, both at home and on the national stage. Peterson's efforts brought down the wrath of The Utah Eagle Forum. "There was a flurry of hostile legislation led by Gail Ruzicka and her soldier legislators on the Hill," Carol Gnade, then president of the ACLU of Utah, recalls of the battle. "They tried, unsuccessfully, to pass anti-gay legislation both for teachers and students."
After a contentious battle, the Utah Legislature temporarily banned all extracurricular clubs. But the plan backfired. "Thousands of gay students and adults hit the streets holding demonstrations," Gnade says. "At the same time new organizations such as Equality Utah and the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network were born, the Utah Pride Center was built. We were now visible all over the state."
Today there are more than 25 gay-straight alliances throughout Utah schools.
Prop 8
But perhaps nothing has built solidarity amongst Utah's LGBT community more than the LDS involvement in supporting California's Proposition 8. Three days after the historic vote, more than 3,000 angry Utahns surrounded Temple Square in protest and staged a kiss-in on Church grounds. Equality Utah seized the moment to promote pro-LGBT legislation through the Common Ground Initiative.
Surprised by the public backlash and onslaught of bad press—including a Sundance Film festival documentary 8: The Mormon Proposition—and ongoing high-energy protests, church leaders in 2009 agreed to meet with the organized LGBT movement. "Everyone was there with the intention to hear the other side and seek possibilities," says Brandie Balken, executive director of Equality Utah. "The hopes were to lessen the hostility and wounding that had occurred with Prop 8."
The meetings were fruitful. The Church offered an olive branch by publicly endorsing Salt Lake City non-discrimination ordinances to discourage landlords and employers from evicting or firing someone based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Thirteen additional municipalities followed suit. Despite the Church's endorsement, the Chamber of Commerce and positive public polling, the Utah Legislature killed a proposed statewide non-discrimination ordinance in the 2012 session. The pro-gay legislation was sponsored by Mormon Sen. Ben McAdams, who has vowed to return the bill until it passes.
Despite a "we vs. them" mentality, the LDS Church and the gay community are finding ways to work together and move beyond their tenuous and rocky past. And, as a result, Salt Lake is changing. Earlier this year, The Advocate named Salt Lake City the "Gayest City in America," and the annual Pride Parade now rivals in size the Pioneer Day Parade. "We are the Gays of '47," laughs Landis. "Looking back, I think we accomplished what we set out to do."


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Comics History
History of Bulgarian Comics
Page from Iliustrovano Chetivo (1941)
Now that Bulgarian contemporary art is well on its way to being integrated into world culture, Bulgarian comics should be granted their rightful place among Bulgarian art, culture and library collections.
Regretfully, due to a variety of reasons, comics have been cursed as an artform in Bulgaria for many years now. After a period of very fruitful development during the 1980s, Bulgarian comics plunged deep into the underground and virtually disappeared from kiosks and bookshops. Right now, if you look for an definition of "comics" in any Bulgarian dictionary (or any Bulgarian equivalent of the word), you won't be able to find one, not even in specialized references. Only the "Dictionary of Foreign Words in Bulgarian Language" gives a vague explanation of what comic art is, but the definition is so ignorant and ridiculous that it's not worth quoting. Nevertheless, the history of comics in Bulgaria is very interesting.
The history of Bulgarian comics can be divided in the following periods:
-classic (pre-World War II)
-classic (1940s onwards)
-revival (1980s)
The very first samples of Bulgarian comic art appeared in papers like Slaveiche. It were sequentially illustrated text poems, illustrated by caricaturists like Slavov and Aleksandar Dobrinov. Prior to World War II the Bulgarian scene had several monthly magazines for kids and also a specialized newspaper, Vessela Drujina, which occasionally featured comics.
Chuden Sviat
On 6th of June 1940 the first issue of Chuden Sviat ("Wonderland") was published in Sofia, an all-comics color newspaper edited by Nikola Kotov, who was greatly influenced by Walt Disney comics. The contributors were some of the best Bulgarian writers of children's literature at that time: Orlin Vasilev, St. C. Daskalov, Angel Karaliichev, Georgi Raichev and others. Artists were Nikola Kotov, Iurdan Stubel and Dochko Atanasov.
Chuden Sviat ('Hrabriat eskimos' by Aleksandar Denkov)
The main influences that were visible in the Bulgarian comics from that period came from the West, especially from heroes very popular at the time like Tarzan, Gangsters and Pirates. Another serious influence was the Italian newspaper Topolino.
Page from the final issue of Chuden Sviat (1986)
The most successful comics were the ones featuring scenes and fairy tales from Bulgarian folklore, or well-known classic novels and stories like 'Treasure Island' by Robert Louis Stevenson, which was adapted for comics by L. Zidarov.
Iliustrovano chetivo
Many comic magazines appeared in Bulgaria during the first half of the 1940s. Iliustrovano Chetivo ("Illustrated Book") appeared every Wednesday. Contributors were Zmei Gorianin, Atanas Dushkov, Ivan Dafinkov, V. Kovalevski, and L. Zidarov.
Kartinen Sviat ("Pictoral World") appeared on Wednesdays and was the first magazine to publish Bulgarian material, among others by Zvezdelin Conev, G. Georgiev and V. Milev.
Kartinen sviat
Vesela Drujina ("Cheerful Band"), featuring Martin Branner's 'Perry Winkle'
Sedmichna zabava ("Weekly Amusement") appeared on Tuesdays, edited by D. Mutafchiev. Other magazines that published comics during this period were Papagal and Pataran.
All of these magazines were cancelled in 1944. They were followed by Duga, Diaskop and the new edition of Chuden Sviat.
Romani v Kartini was a series of about 16 comic books published by the printing house Doverie in Sofia. There are different stories by different artists.
Based on a series of articles by Georgi Chepilev in the 1980s, Bulgarian comics can be divided in the following genres:
1) historical - patriotic
2) textbook
3) adventure (that later evolved into 'fiction'')
4) adventurous
5) curious
6) satiric (menipov)
7) sentimental - touching
8) instructive for kids
(Overview courtesy of Vladimir Nedialkov, with additions by Stiliana Thepileva)


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The Zoom MS-60B is a bass guitar multi effects pedal, with 52 effects and 6 amp models. Zoom's MS-60B MultiStomp Bass Pedal is the first of its kind. It offers the power of a multi-effects pedal and flexibility of an amp modeller in a single stompbox design for bass. With 58 classic stompbox effects and amp models, an easy to use interface, auto-chromatic tuner and versatile power options, bass players will be astonished with how much this single stomp offers.
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With the MS-60B, you can program which patches are recalled and the order in which they appear. For example, you could select three patches–(A) ROCK BASS, (B) FUNKY SLAP and (C) BASS SYNTH–so that you can cycle through them each time you press the footswitch. You can create and save up to 50 original tones in this way. You can program the recall order of up to 26 patches (A-Z).
Right out-of-the-box, the MS-60B allows you to create and store up to 50 of your original patches. To get you started, 30 of these patches are preprogrammed and form a versatile collection of bass sounds that include some of the most popular stompbox and amp effects, as well as patches personally designed by some of the world's top bassists.
In addition to the 6 amp models from the B3, studio-level compressor and reverb effects are also built in to the MS-60B. The pedal's stereo output jacks allow you to use line connections for direct recording of its powerful bass guitar sounds.
Using two AA alkaline batteries, you can operate the MS-60B for up to 7 hours continuously. From rehearsal to the main stage, you can use the MS-60B with confidence. Power the pedal via AC adapter (sold separately) or USB bus, if you want to use it longer without worrying about battery life.
When connected to your computer and Zoom's website via USB, you can perform system firmware updates to keep the functions of your MS-60B on the cutting-edge.
The main features of the Zoom MS-60B include:


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Bike lanes, fewer accidents, better for business
A study conducted in New York City last year shows that bike lanes decrease accidents by up to 58%, while increasing retail business by up to 49%. Spotted via Boing Boing. Edinburgh has plans to install a bike lane on George Street downtown. I hope it will be the first of many.
A new study from the New York Department of Transportation shows that streets that safely accommodate bicycle and pedestrian travel are especially good at boosting small businesses, even in a recession.
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