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So Long 2010!!
Lorna Shutter 12/31/2010 12:25:14 PMSorry David! I had to make one last adjustment to this image, so your comment got lost along the way!
Here it is:
David Phalen ~ Cool!
Happy New year!!
Thanks, David! ... and Happy New Year to you too! :)
Nancyj E. Hovey 12/31/2010 12:32:59 PMOUTSTANDING LIGHT SHOW here Lorna.... WOW! Excellent work! Happy New Year to you, my friend! 8o) #9135385
Tamara K. Walker 12/31/2010 12:36:22 PMA very colorful fellow, Happy New Year. #9135396
Jeff Robinson 12/31/2010 2:28:51 PMGreat image for the End-of-Year! Happy New Year Lorna! Jeff #9135578
Phillip R. Connolly 12/31/2010 4:05:03 PMA wonderful image, Lorna!! Out with the old and in with the new!! Happy New Year!
Phil #9135787
Laura E. Swan 12/31/2010 4:26:41 PM
Love it lots and love YOU LOTS TOO!!!
Thanks for all the fun in, 2010, and for all the amazing images you have shared with us all, too.
Please Be Careful If You Are Out On The Roads Tonight.
Your Sis Always, L.S. (The Second). #9135817
Max Aureli 1/1/2011 4:36:09 AMGreat shot, Borna!!!
John Connolly 1/1/2011 1:28:07 PMWhat a delightful seasonal capture Lorna! I hope you had a very Happy New Year! Best wishes from downunder! #9137359
Tammy Espino 1/1/2011 4:06:50 PMHappy New year!!! What a cute capture :) #9137608
Patrick Rouzes 1/3/2011 9:45:49 AMHappy New Year, Lorna!
Laura E. Swan 1/3/2011 6:42:13 PMOkay Dooners...Gooners here. Where are you? #9141246
Lorna Shutter 1/4/2011 4:26:41 AMNancyj, Tamara, Jeff, Phillip, Laura, Max, John, Tammy, Patrick & Laura (again) ~ Thanks all! I really appreciate your lovely comments and your well wishes for a Happy New Year! Hope 2011 is a great one for all of you! :)
Laura ~ I'm still here, Gooners! Just been very busy with "stuff"! You know how it is! :) #9141796
Laura E. Swan 1/4/2011 6:44:58 PMBoy. Don't I know it. (As you know!) Bye for now dear one. #9143324
Lorna Shutter 1/4/2011 6:52:33 PMToo-da-loo, Sis! Good luck with the old laptop! Ha! Ha! :) #9143331
Laura E. Swan 1/5/2011 10:18:41 PM:) I'm still alive today! :D #9145522
Lorna Shutter 1/6/2011 4:57:01 AMHa! Ha! Glad to hear that!!! :) #9146043
Patti Coblentz 1/11/2011 2:10:45 PMHey hey...congratulations on this EP...a winning image Patrick's book....I looked it up :)) I agree, too! #9156885
Lorna Shutter 1/11/2011 2:50:49 PMI just love Patrick's book! LOL! Thanks for your great comment and support, Patti Cake! :) #9156957
Tamara K. Walker 1/18/2011 8:45:42 PMCONGRATULATIONS! #9171651
Tammy Espino 1/18/2011 8:56:37 PMCongrats on your great finalist! :) #9171749
Patti Coblentz 1/18/2011 8:56:57 PMBig congratulatins, Lorna...I knew this cool snowman was not going to stand for sitting on the sidelines!! Great capture...all the best in the next round! #9171753
Nancy (Peaches) Harker 1/18/2011 8:57:25 PM
Reynaldo D. Reyes 1/18/2011 9:24:00 PMCongrats on your finalist Lorna! Woohoo! #9172000
Laura E. Swan 1/18/2011 11:26:31 PM!!! SISTER LORNA !!!
-Laura #9172541
Bojan Bencic 1/18/2011 11:56:03 PMCongratulations on your finalist, Lorna. #9172567
Stefania Barbier 1/19/2011 12:19:37 AMfantastic finalist, congratulations!!! #9172619
Robert R. Goodman 1/19/2011 3:49:48 AMA big Congratulations,Lorna!!! #9173135
Nancyj E. Hovey 1/19/2011 3:53:48 AMC O N G R A T U L A T I O N S
hope we see this one in the winner's circle! 8o) #9173154
Jeff Robinson 1/19/2011 4:38:20 AMCongrats Lorna on this Fantastic Finalist!! Jeff #9173462
Lisa J. Boulden 1/19/2011 5:34:27 AMSuch a delightful and cheer-y finalist!
Patrick Rouzes 1/19/2011 6:30:41 AMCONGRATULATIONS on this incredible finalist, Lorna!WTG! #9174316
Marilyn Cornwell 1/19/2011 12:30:14 PMWhat a treat to see you on the Finalist front page, Lorna! This is a delightful image - Congratulations!!! #9176265
John Connolly 1/19/2011 2:05:14 PMCongratulations on your Finalist, a very well deserved award, Lorna! Keep warm, my friend! #9176550
Ron McEwan 1/19/2011 2:25:14 PMYou must be proud as punch to get silver on this beauty, WTG Lorna #9176632
Gord MacEachern 1/19/2011 4:21:00 PMBig congratulations on your well deserved finalist Lorna, WTG !!
Kitty R. Rodehorst-Hanna 1/19/2011 5:52:10 PMWTG on this wonderful finalist, Lorna! :-) k #9177699
Lorna Shutter 1/19/2011 6:08:27 PMWow!!! I just can't believe this! I actually got a Finalist Award this month! You guys have been so great! You're always here to support me and make me smile!!! Thanks so much for all the Congrats! I really appreciate your kind words! Congratulations to all of you who received Finalist Awards this month as well!!! :) #9177835
Merna L. Nobile 1/19/2011 11:17:50 PMI can only imagine how proud you must be feeling right now. What wonderful news! CONGRATULATIONS, Merna #9179045
Kirsten Kiki Kjaer 1/20/2011 9:43:50 AMHuge congratulations on this awesome finalist, Lorna. #9180388
Daniella Puente 1/20/2011 2:57:51 PMCongrats! wonderful photo (: #9181234
Mary Dimitriw 1/20/2011 5:57:23 PMCongrats Lorna on this wonderful finalist!! #9181880
Lorna Shutter 1/22/2011 8:08:24 AMMerna, Kiki, Daniella & Mary ~ Thank you all for your CONGRATS on this image! It was really a great honour to receive a Finalist Award for it!!! Hope you all have a great day! :) #9184997
Stephen Zacker 1/22/2011 4:41:46 PMSuper work. Fun and colorful. Congratulations #9185813
Robert K. Bemus 1/22/2011 9:39:56 PMGreat color, light and comp...congratulations on your Finalist, Lorna!! #9186375
Cassie L. Woodlee 1/23/2011 4:35:52 PMWTG Congratulations!!! #9188110
Sharon Sawyer 1/23/2011 6:50:35 PMWTG, Lorna!!! HUGE congratulations on your outstanding & well deserved finalist! #9188785
Lorna Shutter 1/24/2011 4:39:10 AMStephen, Robert, Cassie, Sharon ~ Thank you all for your wonderful support over the years and for your "CONGRATS" on this image!!! I really appreciate you being here for me!!! :) #9189772
Phillip R. Connolly 1/25/2011 4:43:05 AMCongrats on the great finalist, Lorna!! Very well deserved!!
Phil #9192276
Lorna Shutter 1/28/2011 2:56:46 PMThanks so much, Phil! The award was a pleasant surprise! Congrats again on your Finalist too! :) #9199522
Christine Lobsinger 9/6/2011 9:15:21 PMCongrats to you Lorna... A lovely Finalist Shot!!!!
Laura E. Swan 12/31/2011 12:48:03 PMLooky Sister. (Way up above)...I used the same old photobucket this year for New Years as Last Year. Lol...
With love and hugs always,
Little Gooners that loves you!
-Laura #9895262
Lorna Shutter 12/31/2011 2:13:37 PMHa! Ha! You did use the same one, Sis! It looks kinda like it's for Chinese New Years, doesn't it? Must be my Oriental eyes! LOL! :D
Hope your 2012 is filled with lots of love and good surprises! :)
Laura E. Swan 12/31/2011 2:48:01 PMOh, I love that smiley! SO VERY YOU!
Dooners, I like that Photo Bucket Happy New Year because of many reasons. It's SLICK, it's NOW, It's HAPPENIN'...HeeHee...It's ALIVE!!!!! Lol...And YES it sure does have a cool flare from the orient. ALSO ALSO ALSO Gold and Maroon were my School Colors in the school I loved the best. (The school that never taught me how to type and the school you got to skip altogether because you were THE PRETTY AND SMART ONE.
Me? Just the silly one! (BTW you are very silly, too. I think we got it from our Gramma....Gramma Kayak). #9895478
Lorna Shutter 12/31/2011 3:22:40 PM:) #9895533
Laura E. Swan 12/31/2011 3:25:16 PM:) #9895538
A close-up of my "Happy New Year!!" image.
Happy New Year's Eve!!!!! :)
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I recently inherited a large sum of money, so I called up the Montana realty brokers I knew. One of the Montana real estate brokers recommended I look into Big Sky Montana real estate. He was an old chap. He smoked a pipe around the fire as we spoke about philosophy and religion. "The times are a changing," he laughed. "They are," I said. He directed me toward some really interesting Montana real estate listings and I bought some land for sale in Montana in the Missoula area and I'm quite pleased.
I'm a student looking for some Montana real estate listings. My fiancée is thinking about buying a home for the new baby. I said, "Why not try some Kalispell Montana real estate?" And she thought that this was a terrible idea! "I would prefer we look into Big Sky Montana real estate," she said. This struck me as very funny. If we were going to open up our art studio, we would need help – this much I know as true. So we called up a plethora of Montana real estate brokers until we could find the right one, and eventually we found some land for sale in Montana, and here we are!
Most real estate agents keep their clientele to themselves because they don't want other, say, Montana real estate brokers to find out what they are secretly doing! I think this is because times are tough. And I only have Montana to call upon right now. I only know about Montana houses for sale. I only know about Bozeman real estate and the local Montana real estate listings. I think this is because the school I went to taught me a tough creed, which is to take care of your own self first, like Kant says. So now I have become a master at selling homes for sale in Montana.
I was a hermit who never thought I would be browsing through the Montana real estate listings looking for some Missoula Montana real estate. But I had heard they have a great music scene there, so I became excited. I found myself a Montana real estate broker and discovered that I had more options ahead of me than just Missoula Montana real estate! Apparently there is a lot of real estate for sale in Montana. This just amazes me to the bone! To sit on my deck and look at the hawks is all I want. Bozeman real estate might work for this, I thought. The bottom line: I got myself a Montana realtor who appears to have let me live my dream.
My husband and I became interested in real estate for sale in Montana because the idea of living in a small town always sounded intriguing. We argued over which Montana real estate broker to go with, because some seemed to specialize in Bozeman real estate while others wanted Billings real estate. I just knew that if we kept persevering we would find a nice home that we could both relax in. Finally, we settled on a nice Montana realty storefront because they appeared to have a nice grasp on the Montana real estate listings. For those who are trying to see if there are still any homes for sale in Montana, I recommend skipping Hamilton real estate because it is a tough market right now.
My favorite television show comes on public television where they talk about Montana real estate for sale. They really zoom in on the homes and where all different facets of people live. I sit back in my recliner while the guests learn about Billings Montana real estate, Helena Montana real estate, Anaconda Montana real estate, and Bozeman Montana real estate. This is a real treat for me because I am a person who really knows Montana realty. I have owned several homes in my short career, and I'm proud to say that I never even went through any Montana real estate brokers.
As a teacher, you don't get paid that much to afford Bozeman real estate. It's a yuppie community filled with ex-filmmakers and Hollywood elites. I can't stand those guys. So I went to the internet and began looking for Montana houses for sale and Bozeman Montana real estate. I quickly discovered that Kalispell Montana real estate had more opportunities for some struggling artists. I told my wife to call her father who is a Montana real estate broker, and he found us some real estate for sale in Montana that was right outside the Bozeman area.
I'm wondering if you have any information on how to become a Montana real estate broker? The information you sent me on Bozeman Montana real estate and Kalispell Montana real estate turned out to be a godsend. It turns out that while the rest of the market has vaporized, homes for sales in Montana have erupted! I think this is because people want to get out of the city. They are interested in a Great Falls Montana real estate situation or a Bozeman real estate opportunity.
Although I am retired now, I still remember what it was like to be a Montana real estate broker. Back in those days, before the recession, there was still land for sale in Montana. I got used to selling Bozeman Montana real estate, Billings Montana real estate, Kalispell Montana real estate, and a plethora of other cities and towns in Montana. And believe me it was worth it because of all the people I helped. To see the looks on the faces of my young couples as they came to my Montana realty venue as I sold them a Missoula real estate home is a memory I will always cherish.
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The four Republican congressmen from Arkansas split evenly last week on a budget deal that will fund the government until 2015 and at least prevent another government shutdown.
The bipartisan deal is yet another example of Washington placing short-term politics ahead of getting serious about dealing with our growing national debt.
"I am no fan of this agreement, but I reluctantly supported it because it is better than a government shutdown," wrote Rep. Tim Griffin, who voted for the deal along with Rep. Steve Womack.
"As a conservative, I would have preferred and proudly supported a clean vote on the sequester level spending as laid out in the 2011 Budget Control Act; however, there was not support for that proposal, and the vote was never an option. The Ryan-Murray agreement was the only one we had the votes to pass," Griffin said.
But the other two Arkansas congressmen disagreed.
Rep. Tom Cotton criticized the deal for busting spending caps that took effect just months ago by spending billions now in exchange for supposed long-term spending cuts.
"Arkansans are tired of the Washington 'long-term,' which never seems to arrive. While the budget rightly asks federal employees to contribute more to their generous pensions and restores some needed funding for our military, these modest gains come at the expense of hard-won fiscal discipline because of the unreasonable demands of President Obama and Senate Democrats," said Cotton, the likely challenger to one of these Senate Democrats — Sen. Mark Pryor — in next year's election.
Rep. Rick Crawford also opposed the bill, saying he appreciated the work put in trying to craft a budget that would attempt to "change the spending ways of Washington," but that absent some form of permanent spending control he doubted a non-binding resolution would deter future Congresses from circumventing statutory spending caps.
"Until Congress makes the choice to adopt some form of permanent spending controls, I'm afraid that we will continue to add to our $17 trillion in debt without any fear of consequence," he said.
The deal known as the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 will set discretionary spending at $1.012 trillion for the upcoming fiscal year. The amount is close to the halfway point between proposals from the Senate and the House. It scales back $63 billion in automatic cuts coming through sequester, primarily in the areas of national defense and spending for some research programs.
The political motivation for the deal is pretty clear. The government shutdown in October that was blamed on Republicans is avoided and budget discussions are punted until at least after the next election. This allows the GOP to return to the issue they feel they can win on — Obamacare and its disastrous rollout.
But as my colleague Steve Brawner pointed out in his column for the Arkansas News Bureau, the deal put off the hard choices required to tackle the $17 trillion national debt. This cannot be done without tackling entitlement reforms in the Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security programs.
However, no one seems willing to tackle these tough issues. Both sides will once again claim a political victory in hopes that their party can pick up enough seats in the next election to really get these done after that.
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In recognition of Darwin's 200th birthday, February 12, 2009, the mass media are again taking notice of Darwin's life, accomplishments, and importance and influence.
Revamped edition examines the media, polls, new legal challenges, intelligent design in the courts, and more.
The evolution wars are over, right? Scopes was finally vindicated, creationism was booted out of the classroom, and a new president in his inaugural speech issued a clarion call to "restore science to its rightful place."
Wrong. Evolution education is being battered every day in school districts across the U.S. by creationists, whether they're pushing young-earth creationism, intelligent design, or antievolutionism in the guise of "academic freedom."
The latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach — the new journal aspiring to promote accurate understanding and comprehensive teaching of evolutionary theory for a wide audience — is now available on-line. Throughout 2009, the journal will celebrate the life and work of Charles Darwin.
House Bill 300, introduced in the Alabama House of Representatives on February 3, 2009, by David Grimes (R-District 73) and referred to the House Education Policy Committee, is the latest in a string of "academic freedom" bills aimed at undermining the teaching of evolution.
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Palestinian political and religious figures over the weekend warned US President Barack Obama that he should probably avoid ascending Jerusalem's Temple Mount during his upcoming visit to Israel, but provided a list of instructions should he go ahead with a stop at the contentious holy site.
The White House has not said a word of Obama going to the Temple Mount during next month's visit, but Palestinian leaders are fairly certain the American leader will want to do so. If that is the case, Obama better follow the Muslims' rules, they said.
First of all, Palestinian Authority (PA) official in charge of Jerusalem affairs, Hatem Abdel Qader, said Obama must not coordinate any Temple Mount visit with the Israeli authorities, but must rather approach either the PA or Jordan for permission.
Further to that, Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, head of the Waqf Islamic Trust that oversees the Temple Mount, insisted that Obama must enter the compound via the Lion's Gate, which has Muslim guards, rather than the Mughrabi Gate (near the Western Wall), which is guarded by Israeli police.
In this way, Sabri said the "Muslim sovereignty" over the Temple Mount will be preserved. Sabri also cautioned Obama not to bring any Israeli officials with him to what is in reality Judaism's most holy site.
At an event with Sabri, Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, said that should Obama follow all these rules, he will be welcome at the Al Aqsa Mosque that currently occupies the Temple Mount.
"The US president is likely to visit the Aqsa Mosque, but we should affirm that our position towards such situation will be in conformity with the constants of the Muslim and Arab nations, and the Palestinian people as well as with the issue of Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque," said Salah.
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Unity is an open source desktop shell for the Linux platform. It was created by Canonical in collaboration with the Ubuntu community. Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth originally unveiled Unity in 2010 at an Ubuntu Developer Summit in Belgium.
The Unity shell first shipped in the Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition, but was later adapted to work on desktop computers. Ubuntu 11.04 is the first major Ubuntu release to use Unity as the standard operating environment on both the desktop and netbook form factors.
Unity is designed to work with a compositing window manager and requires hardware-accelerated rendering. The original netbook version of Unity was built on top of Mutter, GNOME's Clutter-based window manager. The Unity developers later abandoned Mutter—citing the performance limitations of Clutter—and rebuilt the shell as a Compiz plugin.
Canonical's team of professional designers and usability experts played a key role in defining the Unity user experience. It draws considerable inspiration from Windows and Mac OS X, but offers a unique and distinctive look and feel. Unity has a global menubar at the top of the screen and an autohiding task dock on the left-hand side of the screen. Unity also incorporates the technologies that were introduced by Ubuntu's Ayatana project, such as application indicators.
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A Father's War
Jorge Medina wants somebody to pay
He came to America—illegally, from Mexico—in 1985 and fell in love with his new country. He found work, bought a house, and all three of his kids enlisted in the U.S. military. Then Iraq happened, and one of them got killed. Now Jorge Medina wants somebody to pay.
He is watching soccer on his television, Mexico beating Bolivia, when the war begins. A newsman interrupts the game, and then there is grainy green video flashing in his living room, and for an instant he does not believe what he is seeing, because a man never believes what was never supposed to be true.
Jorge Medina's children, all three of them, are in the military. He encouraged them to enlist. Soldiers learn discipline, he says. They build character. Soldiers serve their country, which Jorge thinks is both a duty and an honor, especially for his children: America welcomed them from Mexico fifteen years ago, embraced them, and serving is a kind of payback. Jenny, his eldest, is a sergeant with a reserve JAG unit in Miami. Irving is regular army, stationed in Kansas. Irving's twin, Ivan, is in Kuwait with the Tenth Engineering Battalion, Second Brigade, Third Infantry Division. Ivan has been over there since September 2002, and he told his father months ago that American troops would soon be swarming over the border and into Iraq. "No, no, no," Jorge said. "Bush is not crazy." Then Jenny called and said, "We're going after Saddam," and he said it again: "No. There is no reason. Bush is not crazy."
Jorge is not a particularly political person, and he has no real dislike for the president. Nor is he a pacifist. He believes the United States was right to invade Afghanistan, because that's where the terrorists who crashed jetliners into New York and Washington had found shelter. He cried when he watched the towers dissolve into great clouds of dust, and he knew right then that one or two or maybe all three of his children might be sent to war, and he was afraid, truly afraid, but also proud that they would be fighting to defend their country.
But this war, the one on his television, does not make him proud. This war does not make sense to him.
He wonders where Ivan is.
Jorge switches to a cable news channel. He watches the war until four o'clock in the morning, falls asleep for two hours, wakes up, gets ready for work. In the shower, he prays for Ivan and Irving and Jenny. And then he prays for George Bush, too, prays that Bush is not crazy, that he is actually wise, wiser than Jorge Medina can ever know and, if he is not, that God will make him wise.
He drives to work at the Briarwood House Apartments in Goshen, New York, a postcard town sixty miles northwest of Manhattan. He bums a cigarette from one of the other maintenance guys. Jorge doesn't smoke.
He keeps the news on all day, hears every worrying update: The first dead American. The first dead Hispanic American. The announcers on TV never say the names of the dead. Why won't they say the names? Why can't Jorge know his boy's not dead?
He slips into a basement and prays. He prays all day, prays like he's never prayed before, like he'll never pray again.
Ivan is at the front. He is 21 years old, a small man with dark hair and a slight lisp who wants to be a senator. He does not consider himself a warrior. He enlisted because he wanted money for college and the privilege of saying he'd served his country with honor, which is not at all the same as being a warrior. Ivan, in fact, is a chaplain's assistant who just happened to end up assisting a chaplain attached to a unit out front. Damn the luck.
Irving was supposed to join the army with Ivan, in the spring of 2001, in a buddy program that would have let them train and serve their first post together, except Irving didn't want to be a chaplain's assistant. His father had teased him after Ivan left. "Your brother, your sister, they both join the army, and you're still here," Jorge had said. "What are you, a coward?" He'd smiled when he said it, because he really was only teasing. He knows his boy is no coward. Irving was waiting for the recruiters to offer him something better, which they did in August 2001—Thirteen Bravo, field artillery. Irving's a warrior. The twins, Ivan and Irving, are different that way. Weird how it worked out, Irving back in Kansas when the fighting starts.
Weeks pass, slowly, miserably. The Medinas are a close family, always talking, always keeping up; before he went to war, Ivan called home twice a week, even from the Middle East. But now Jorge hasn't heard from him since March 17, two days before the invasion Jorge swore was never going to happen. "Remember," Ivan said over the phone, "no news is good news. And if there is news, it'll come in a uniform."
Jorge tries not to worry. His wife, Ana, tries not to worry. They both worry.
Irving calls. It's his turn. Irving's unit—Fourth Battalion, First Field Artillery Regiment, Third Brigade Combat Team, First Armored Division—will be shipping out soon from Fort Riley. He says, "Dad, I have to go to Iraq."
Jorge says, "Come home first."
So Irving spends his leave at home, which is the top floor of a gray two-family house his father bought when Irving was a senior in high school. It is chilly inside because it is old and none of the walls are insulated, and part of the ceiling in Irving's bedroom is crumbling. Jorge and Ana spent more than ten years saving for the down payment.
Jorge and Irving go to movies and out to dinner. They talk, not so much about Iraq and the war but about anything else. Jorge wants a few days with his son, not with a warrior.
On the last night, he takes Irving into the kitchen. He says a blessing over Irving, mumbles a prayer. He puts his hands, rough and square, on his son's shoulders.
"Irving," Jorge says, "if you don't want to go, you don't have to. We can leave. We can go to Mexico."
It would be so easy, crossing the border. Not like getting out all those years ago. Jorge was a cook in Mexico City with a wife and three young kids when the great earthquake of 1985 hit. The ground cracked open, and the streets buckled, and the restaurant where Jorge worked was buried in the rubble. There was no work, so Jorge went north, rode a bus for two days straight to Tijuana and paid a smuggler $1,500 to get him into America. He had a brother in New York who promised to find him work.
He crawled through a hole in the fence at the border on a moonless night with a dozen other Mexicans. They walked for miles in the high desert, immigration choppers whirring in the distance, searching, searching, then coming too close and the guides ordering everyone onto their bellies in the dirt, telling them not to look up because the spotlights on the helicopters would reflect the whites of their eyes.
The smugglers got him to San Diego that night, then to Los Angeles, then to New York with a plane ticket that had someone else's name on it, but that didn't matter because terrorists wouldn't fly planes into skyscrapers for another sixteen years.
He hopped a bus into Manhattan and a train to Poughkeepsie. His brother picked him up at the station and took him to a restaurant in Wappingers Falls called La Fonda del Sol. The next day, Jorge started washing dishes. He stocked the bar, and sometimes he cooked. He learned a little English from a Danish engineer named Erik, who liked the food at La Fonda.
He worked for two years, did nothing but work, until he had a working permit and enough money to bring his family to America. He rented an apartment on Main Street and enrolled his kids in the Goshen schools, where Irving was a soccer star. He worked at restaurants and in a factory that made seats for cars and did a little catering on the side, working, always working. He saved his money and bought his little house in a run-down neighborhood in a run-down city, and in April 2001 he took an oath and waved a small flag and officially became a citizen of these United States.
Seventeen years busting his hump for the American dream.
Irving," he says again, "we can leave. If you're against this war, you don't have to go."
His son shakes his head. Soldiers do not get to choose their wars, he says. Soldiers do not leave fellow soldiers to fight alone.
Ivan finally calls in April, from a palace in Baghdad. His mother answers the phone. He hears relief in her voice. There are soldiers lined up behind him waiting to use the phone, so he only has a few minutes to talk. He does not tell her about the war. He does not tell her about delivering last rites to a specialist from an Army Reserve unit in Oregon, just 19 years old, riding in a truck in a sandstorm so thick no one can see where he's going, and there is a crash, and the kid is pinned in the passenger seat, suffocating, being squeezed to death before he's even fired a shot; doesn't tell her what it's like to look into a man's eyes—a boy's eyes, really—and watch him die, watch him know he's going to die, watch his eyes get wide and listen as he says how sorry he is, tell his family how sorry; doesn't tell her about the Iraqis who race toward checkpoints the soldiers have set up in the road, happy to see the Americans, holding up their palms in greeting, not knowing that they should stop, driving forward until the soldiers get scared and machine-gun an entire family and there is so much blood but one man is still alive, just barely, and he knows a little English, enough to say he doesn't blame the Americans for killing his family; he doesn't tell her about the whoosh that sounded like a small jet and then the whistle of a rocket going over his head and then the tremendous thump that threw him hard onto his shoulder and killed three U.S. soldiers.
He only tells his mother that his shoulder hurts.
That is all Ana needs to know, all she wants to know, really. Ivan has no time to speak to his father, but of course Ana will tell him everything their son has said, and Jorge will imagine the rest. He has no illusions about war, and he knows the narrative being sold by the Pentagon and the president is not real. He knows the mission has not been accomplished, that his boys are in the middle of something extremely ugly. He thinks about foreign soldiers invading his country, marching right into Middletown, New York, dividing the city into sectors marked with barbed wire and blast walls and machine-gun nests, kicking in doors and occasionally, but certainly not on purpose, shooting the wrong people and blowing up the wrong houses....
Jorge would fight them. A man who is proud of his country fights foreign occupiers. And he suspects that most Iraqis, once they are through being grateful, will resent the Americans and start to fight them. Not the dead-enders or the terrorists or whatever Washington is calling them at the beginning of the war, but average people, and the anger and resentment will only grow with every week the soldiers stay.
Jorge's boys are the occupiers, even if they never wanted to be.
Ivan goes to Fallujah, finishes his tour, flies back to the United States in August, and Jorge lights a cigar and throws a big party. Irving stays in Baghdad, where he's been all summer. There is little need for heavy artillery in the capital, so Irving mainly patrols the city. And talks to children. Kids in Baghdad swarm around the soldiers. They all want their picture taken; they want to talk to Joe. There is one boy, Saif, maybe 10 years old, who comes by Irving's base nearly every day. He takes money from Irving and the other soldiers and runs out to buy them sodas from the street vendors, and sometimes Saif brings food that his mother has cooked for the Americans.
Irving calls his sister, Jenny, and tells her about Saif. He sends her a picture of the boy, the two of them standing in front of a bank. Irving is in full battle rattle—fatigues, vest, helmet—but he's smiling, his left arm looped easy over Saif's small shoulders; Saif is in a striped shirt, arms crossed over his chest, oversize shades covering his eyes, his face stern, like a soldier. Irving loves this boy. "If the protesters saw what I see," he tells Jenny, "they wouldn't protest."
A few weeks later, Irving calls Jenny again. It's three o'clock in the morning in Florida, and Irving is weeping. He says there was an attack, that insurgents lobbed a homemade grenade at the American guards. Saif was there. Saif was in the way. The explosion blew his stomach open. He died in Irving's arms.
The war is changing him, and he's not even fighting, not officially.
He tells his sister he loves her, tells her he's proud of her, says all the things he never would have said if he hadn't seen how fragile life is, how tenuous. In November, he sends her a birthday card. "Some people make such a beautiful difference in the world," it says. "You're one of those wonderful people, and you'll always be special to me." Jenny can't remember the last time she got a card like that from Irving.
He sends an e-mail to his best friend on November 13: "it's been a real experience out here," he types. "i seen some of the saddest things out here. i been here for seven months now. i think we all should be home by march. i'm ready to go home. at first it was exciting, but after being here this long all i want to do is be somewhere where you don't have to look out every time you leave your home."
Irving has a shift that night. At 4:30 a.m., he writes a letter to his father. He writes mainly about sports, about the Yankees losing the World Series, about the Cowboys not being as good as Jorge thinks they are, about Club América, Irving's favorite team in the Mexican soccer league. Then something else. Maybe he remembers the night in the kitchen, his father telling him he didn't have to go fight a war on the other side of the world. "Dad," he writes, "although I'm fighting for us, for my new country, I'll never forget where I came from."
Jorge and Ana are in Ivan's bedroom, or what will become his bedroom. They've gutted most of the house, started in the summer, where the ceiling was crumbling above Irving's room, and just kept going, tearing plaster and lathe from the studs. Now, late in the afternoon of November 14, Jorge is plucking out the tiny nails left behind.
The doorbell rings. Ana goes down the stairs.
Jorge hears her scream.
Jorge turns toward the door, bounds down the stairs. He sees uniforms. He sees his wife on the bottom step, hears her wailing in Spanish. Not my son. Not my son.
Jorge's arms are up, the hammer still in his right hand. His chest tightens, and then words explode up through his throat, sounds he doesn't think about, just lets erupt.
Fuck your President Bush.
His reflex is rage, not grief. Grief will come, deep and unrelenting. But in this instant, in the exact moment when two uniforms are framed in his doorway, Jorge's instinct is to curse his president.
Jorge's boy is killed, and he is transformed.
The moment passes like flash powder. Jorge catches himself, realizes he has a hammer cocked in his hand. He lowers his arms, holds them out from his body, shows the uniforms he won't swing at them. Then he goes to Ana, wraps himself around her, holds her.
The uniforms—a major and a chaplain from West Point—come upstairs when Jorge invites them. They all sit in the hollowed shell of the living room, and the officers tell Jorge and Ana again how sorry they are. Jorge decides the army has made a mistake, that Irving is not dead at all: He'd told his father he would be in Mosul by now, on a mission up north.
He asks, Are they sure?
They are sure.
He says, No, there must be a mistake.
They tell him there has been no mistake. They tell him Irving was driving a Humvee at the rear of a convoy that morning. A homemade bomb went off just as Irving passed. He was killed instantly; he did not suffer. The uniforms almost always tell the widows and the parents and the children that a soldier died quickly and painlessly. Sometimes it's true. Sometimes it's easier than saying Irving's soldiers tried like hell to save him, that he was alive for ten hours with part of his skull ripped away by shrapnel, that someone watched him die, watched him know he was going to die.
Sometimes it's just easier to say it didn't hurt.
Irving is a hero for the simple reason that he is dead. The New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune write about him, and the Fox station from New York City sends a crew to Jorge's house. A reporter and a photographer for the local paper, the Times Herald-Record, spend a week with the family at the house and the funeral home and the graveyard. Jorge talks to the reporters. Ana does not. She doesn't speak much English, but it wouldn't matter if she did. What would she say? What could she say? It's just too hard.
The morticians stitch Irving's head to-gether, and there is an open casket at the wake. Hundreds of people come to mourn him, and the Goshen police close off Murray Avenue in front of St. John the Evangelist for the funeral. After the Mass, the hearse leads a procession into the brand-new Orange County Veterans Memorial Cemetery, to a patch of lawn lined with flat grave markers. A bugler plays taps, and a rifle corps fires a salute, and a general hands Ana the tightly folded flag from Irving's coffin and the Bronze Star and Purple Heart the army awarded him after he was dead.
Goshen is a small town, small enough to linger over its war dead. There will be a blood drive in Irving's name and, later that year, a plaque next to the athletic field at the elementary school dedicated to Irving by a local veterans group. One of the old soldiers there will tell Jenny that Irving is in a better place or that God needs him more than we do or some such thing—the precise words don't matter—and she will hear the same things she told Irving when Saif died in his arms. And she will realize how stupid it all sounds.
Two weeks after Irving is killed, the postman drops his last letter home into the mailbox on the front porch. Jorge reads it, but he tells no one about it. Not Ana, not Ivan. For two days, he keeps it to himself. He does not know why; he will never know why.
When Saddam Hussein is captured, a month after Irving is killed, a local reporter calls, and Jorge tells him he is happy. "You know," Jorge says, "because this man was the cause of my son's death. It was something, at least. I was happy the sacrifice of my son's life was not in vain."
Jorge does not believe that. He cannot explain—not to himself, not to a reporter—exactly what Irving died for, which, he allows, means maybe Irving died for no good reason at all. The weapons of mass destruction have not been found. Saddam did not order hijackers to fly jetliners into skyscrapers, and he did not consort with Osama bin Laden. So why, Jorge wonders, are we fighting in Iraq?
In time, he will say it out loud. "Saying that Irving died in vain," Jorge will whisper, "in some ways... I think so."
But that's not what a father says four weeks after his son has died in a war and Saddam Hussein has just been captured. So he says what he's heard other people say; he says what he thinks he ought to say; he says what makes him feel better. He doesn't say what he is not yet ready to admit, because it is simply too terrible.
Time goes on. Wounds harden even if they don't heal. Jorge e-mails an antiwar group and finds he is not the only one who thinks the president lied, and Ivan cofounds a group of his own, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and on the anniversary of the invasion they drive to New York City and march down Madison Avenue. Jorge is at the front of the procession, and afterward he speaks. He calls Bush a liar, but he is singing to the choir. People who march against the war already believe Bush lied.
Then there is another march, at West Point at the end of May; 300 people show up, and Jorge speaks again. He calls Bush a liar again, calls the war illegal. There are stories in the local papers—Middletown, Poughkeepsie, Westchester—but nothing else. That day four more soldiers die in Iraq.
Then Jorge drives home. He cannot afford to be a professional activist, flying around the country telling people who already agree with him how awful it is to lose a son. He grieves mostly in private. He goes to church every Sunday and goes to work every day fixing other people's apartments, and then he comes home and rebuilds his own house, erects new walls and archways, reconfigures the layout so that what was Irving's room is now the front entrance, lays down a new floor. It keeps him busy. It is better to stay busy.
August comes, and Republicans flood New York City. The protesters come, too, and on the last day of the convention they gather in Union Square. Jorge and Ana and Ivan are there. They are carrying a picture of Irving, his army portrait, and signs they have hand-lettered: Don't let one man's lies take away any more lives and support our troops. Impeach Bush!
Jorge is standing there in the crowd, waving his signs and holding Irving's picture. A woman with a group called CodePink, which has been protesting the war since before it began, comes up to him. Jorge met her at the march in the spring. She asks him if he wants to protest inside.
"Yes, inside," she says. "In Madison Square Garden."
Jorge does not think. He says yes.
The lady warns him that he could be arrested.
Jorge nods his head. "Yes," he says. "I will be arrested."
He goes to Staples with her, where they make two black-and-white photocopies of Irving's picture, one of which they tape to the front of Jorge's undershirt, the other to the back. Then they write in black marker on the shirt, _Bush lied. My son died. _
Jorge buttons his blue long-sleeve shirt, covering the pictures. The woman from CodePink gives him three passes—white, green, orange, each one coded for different levels of access. He goes to the Garden.
The first guards look at Jorge's white pass and wave him through. He moves along, and different guards tell him to empty his pockets, ask him to take off his shoes. He is afraid they will pat him down, feel the thin strips of tape, hear a crinkle of paper. His heart is pounding. Jorge, he tells himself, you don't have to be nervous.
Then he is inside the Garden, on one of the outer concourses. He is met by another CodePink woman. She has long red hair and blue eyes. Jorge thinks she is beautiful.
"Jorge," she whispers, "you're going to stand up and do whatever you're going to do when General Franks speaks."
Jorge shakes his head. He wants to stand up when Bush speaks, stand up when the crazy man who sent his son to die is onstage.
No, she says. She is with CodePink, and she will interrupt Bush.
Jorge is out of his depth, on unfamiliar ground. A useful prop. He will play his role for Irving.
He looks around and sees Mary Lou Retton. He sees a famous boxing referee. He sees people from Texas wearing big white hats, and everywhere he sees rich people. He can tell by their hands. Rich people have soft hands. Jorge, he thinks, you're in enemy territory now.
He finds a seat to the right of the stage. Tommy Franks begins speaking, but Jorge isn't paying attention to the words because he's busy with his shirt, sliding the buttons out of their holes, gently tugging the tails out of his pants, trying not to let anyone see him doing it. Then he hears one line, part of one line, clearly: "...join them in saluting our commander in chief, George W. Bush."
Jorge is on his feet, peeling off his shirt. He yells, the same way he did on his stairs in November, not even thinking of the words, just letting them come out by instinct.
"George Bush is a liar!" he screams. "And if you vote for him, you're a liar, too!"
He turns, a slow pirouette. People are staring, and he looks at their eyes. He believes they are sad eyes, that all those Republicans are sad for him, sad for his boy. "Bush's lies killed my son!"
He hears a man's voice from a few rows away. "Shut up!" Then, "Get the hell out of here!" Those voices do not sound sad for Jorge or his son.
He makes another twirl, then sits down. Security is coming, men rushing up the aisle. He leaps up, throws his arms out in surrender. The guards grab him, hustle him out into the concourse, Jorge yelling the whole way. "If you vote for Bush, you're liars like him!"
Security takes him to a small room deep in the building. Where are you from?, they ask. Who is your wife? Do you have sons?
"Yes," Jorge tells them. "And one of them died because your president lied."
That is all he came to say. That is all he wanted someone, everyone, to hear.
Exactly a year after Irving Medina typed his last e-mail, the one in which he said he'd seen the saddest things and just wanted to go home, soldiers are knee-deep in Fallujah, still fighting a war that was supposed to be long over. The sky above St. John's is a brilliant cloudless blue, and inside, near the altar, Irving's portrait is perched on an easel for a memorial service that begins at two o'clock on a Saturday afternoon.
There is no color guard this time, and the police do not need to block off the streets. This time, eight people come to pray for Irving, including his parents and his twin and his sister. When it's over, Jorge stands in a patch of sun and shrugs. People get busy, he says. People forget.
There is food back at the house. The upstairs is finished, except for the bathroom and the kitchen. On top of the television where Jorge watched the war is a small shrine to Irving: a glass angel, pictures of him with the Goshen High School soccer team and with another soldier, a small stuffed bear dressed in fatigues. The folded flag from his coffin and his medals are on a low wall at the edge of the living room, and in the dining room is the picture of Irving with his arm around Saif.
Jorge is ambivalent about his stunt at the Republican convention. He is proud that he stood up to the president, proud that he ercised the First Amendment right his son died theoretically defending. And yet he is deeply sad. He called the president a liar, and he believes it is true, but no American should ever be forced to believe such a thing. He is proud to be a citizen. He wants to be proud of his president.
He thinks Irving would want to be an American, too. So Ivan and Jenny fill out an application, and they send it in along with a money order for $80. In November, a week after the memorial hardly anyone came to, there is a small ceremony in Manhattan. Two people are being granted citizenship, both of them dead soldiers. The government gives Jorge and Ana a framed certificate and a miniature flag and a letter that says Irving has earned such a high honor because... well, because he got killed.
There is also a letter from the White House. It's a form letter, the same one every new citizen gets, a generic congratulations from George W. Bush, whose signature is inked on by a machine.
Jorge sends it back.


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Comments on Contrast and Meaning
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Andy Rutledge is such an opinionated and knowledgeable author it's great to see him contributing to ALA - I love reading his articles.
I guess this article is most comprehensive and profound among many latest efforts to describe the subject of contrast and hierarchy. I funny thing is that while reading it I remembered my father (an old school russian _constructivist_ designer) saying:
bq. "a composition is a set of color spots linked (related) by contrast"
bq. This is especially true for those of us who did not come to web design from a formal design or art education.
As someone with no formal education in art and design well written articles like this really help to bridge the communication gap between myself and those people I work with who _do_ have a formal education in design.
Good stuff! That was a real eye opener, thanks Andy!
I _do_ have a formal design education, and a lot of this I already know (although a reminder is never wrong). However, some of it was new to me and will be taken to heart.
I see many print and web designers today diving deep into code, standards and aesthetics without knowing the basics of communication. Hopefully this article sheds light on the subject to some of those people!
Echoing Robert Swan's comment above, this is great reading for us non-designers. Thank you!
Who's Virginia?
Nice article.
Shame you had to taint your example mockup with the filthy brush of Web 2.0 styling, it was going so well up until then
Andy, I hit 'submit' by mistake there, so apologies for my message sounding so abrupt.
I'm going through a bit of a Web 2.0 anger phase right now but am currently undergoing therapy to ease the tensions caused by this.
Point taken :)
One of my biggest problems when I started in this field was understanding these very things. It's only taken me 10 years to become mediocre at it. Very important stuff and the article was written very well. I'm sure I'll be referencing it in upcoming presentations.
Cameron Moll has a great slide illustrating text as UI v. text as information in a presentation of his. "Go to page 40":http://www.cameronmoll.com/speaking/2006/webjam/essential_web_skills.pdf of this PDF.
My only comments about your first series of examples, Andy: the treatment you gave to the individual/pro/enterpirze buckets made them look so much like Google Ads that I automatically started to tune them out as such until I realized that there'd be no reason to have those in the example.
Otherwise great article.
Very good article, and I especially appreciate the introduction to visual hierarchies in layman's terms. It's something that *anyone* working with the web should have a basic grasp of. Just the other day I was doing a competitive review of other sites with my boss, and I was trying to impress on him how other sites had better visual hierarchies than we did. Now I can have him read this article.
When I started reading the article and was enticed by learning about hierarchy and turning scanners into readers I was excited! Then I click over and was taken back by a lot of plain text after scrolling for a bit.. I almost laughed, then I realised it was a much longer article than I had anticipated, and had grphics showing some of the points that I had scanned over. Which did indeed make me back up and read more on each point. The graphics really helped solidify what I was trying to picture in my mind. Thank you, several great lessons in one!
Thankyou very much for the excellent article Andy. As someone with a strong technical background but little-to-no training in graphics-design resources dealing with this side of thing are always greatly appreciated and don't seem to be available in abundance.
As obvious as a lot of these things probably are to those with the appropriate background the information is greatly appreciated by those of us to whom these things may not be so readily apparent.
Clear, concise and useful advice.
Plenty of people can design something attractive but it's a real skill to design something instantly usable. I know that's where I need practice.
Thanks Andy.
As a web designer who definitely didn't come from an Art or Design background I am all too aware of the shortfall in knowledge. However the creation of web sites just keeps pulling me in.
So articles as well written, comprehensive and challenging as this keep me going.
Thanks for coming down and talking to us non-artistes.
This article couldn't have come at a better time. I have been recently trying to figure out the best way to arrange content for a site I'm designing and this article answered a lot of questions I had. Like others have said, Brilliant!
I recently wrote an article on "Presenting with Professionalism." Same ideas as this article, but yours is written so much better. Great Job!
I'm an Attention Deficit Designer and you're writings always keep me locked-in and retaining everything you say, to later use in my own work. With me, that's a rare thing.
An invaluable assemblage of know-how, perpetually useful.
This is a topic many of us are haunted by. No wonder people develop attention deficit - the intellectual world can seem boring because there is too much attention to organized content and not enough to color and design. I found elementary school a wasteland - very little artistic opportunity. I was always an honor student anyway, but became warped and stifled. The art I had worked on by the day at age 5 was relegated to a dark corner when I entered school.
Most websites achieve one facet while being faulty on the other. Your illustrations of what indicates emphasis graphically are important reminders. I actually read blogs based on pleasing design and smooth pageload more than on content. A well-designed blog or website has an ambience, which I think can inspire confidence in what the site has to offer.
Since I have just recently given up searching out the latest hacks for browsers and now use Yahoo grids, I am pleased at the first results. I have put up a lightning banner this week, which I can see on quick analysis is subconsciously a reflection of spring storms here in TX but also illustrates my tattered synapses - hopelessly firing up new hacks for the past several years. I can't believe I have a colorful logo and banner at long last. Let YUI handle the skeleton, and I can spend all my time on the skin and content that I may even have a little free time to think about.
I'm glad to have this article for a reference. It comes just as I have shifted focus to design on my site and blog. Thanks.
Very interesting article indeed!
The longer I am working in the web design business, the more convinced I am that I am missing some very basic design skills. I used to think that graphic design and web design were 2 separate professions, but they both build upon what you call the basic rules (article "rules and context" on your personal site). The rules of contrast are among the basic rules that should be understood by all web designers.
I hope you will contribute many more articles explaining other rules!
Really enjoyed reading this one, really well written, as a non-designer it has given me a lot to think about! I look forward to reading further articles.
Thanks, Andy! As another non-designer myself, this article does help clarify my own thoughts about communicating concisely with designers, as well as with clients who need help understanding the purpose of all creative aspects related to front-end Web production.
Great article. I received my college degree in marketing, not art, and this article was very informative in showing how to bridge the gap between copy and design. As some of the posters above have mentioned, a good balance between content and artistic appeal is difficult to achieve, but you've managed to clarify it. Great article!
Optimizr… I crapped my pants from laughing. But - you forgot about the wet floor effect (sic!) on the logo!
Andy, your articles are always helpful. I was thinking of this very subject recently in preparation for a class I'm teaching in the fall. The more I think about design the more I believe contrast is the foundation of design and any other principles we may use are derived from it. This article reinforces what I had been thinking.
I've become involved in web design about 8 years ago. I don't have an artistic background and I feel obliged to say that design, for me, is not art. It certainly is communication though, as you remark. Your article made me realize how artistic principles apply, not only to the web, but to every single part of our everyday living. Such a delightful article that was, and you, you have such a direct way to convey your messages. I've learned many, I realized even more. Thank you :)
I neither have an artistic background nor strong ability to communicate design ideas I every now and then come across at work. This article is a perfect example of how it's important to be able to articulate a certain design choice to those involved in a design process, especially to a client.
I see many print and web designers today diving deep into code, standards and aesthetics without knowing the basics of communication. Hopefully this article sheds light on the subject to some of those people!
Thanks for the inspiration Andy. I must echo the other comments as I lack a strong understanding of the fundamentals of art and it makes communicating more and more difficult as I try to express more complex ideas. Combine that with the necessity to keep up to date with technology and it becomes a real challenge to concentrate more on the basics that are so important.
Having said all that, would anyone like to share some great resources for learning in this field, or recommend ways to learn without going back to school. There must be some great books out there? Google here I come ...
Very nice article, I'll most certainly be passing this on to some designers I know.
Keep it up!
i think that,s very nice work by you.
As a struggling web designer without a design background, this article may have saved my career! All kidding aside, I think I learned more from reading this article than from years of reading so called "design" books. Thanks a lot!
I have a problem with white and black colors.
http://www.mwoa.ru/images/uploads/vemas.jpg - if you look at right part of image, where black menu panel meets shadow, you can understand that black panel is 1px smaller than white below… And that shadow is less bright. Who can explain me the reason why it happens or refer to an article I can read to unserstand such effect?
I feel mostly, it is the web 2.o bug which has bitten a lot of web designers around the world. We need to think creatively and keep sharpening our tools, learning is an ongoing process…
"Universal Principles of Design," is a great resource indeed, every designer should have it on their table.
Thanks Andy, for this article, I will surely pass it on to my design team.
Just wanted to say thanks for a great article. I often get so tired when designing a layout. I just want to get it done and move onto the building of the site, my favorite part. I need articles like this to help me persevere through it and make my designs/layouts more meaningful and purposeful. Your article was a great refresher and motivator.
thanks again
This is some good information. It's important to think of web design as an art!


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Justice '65 Awarded DePaul University's Highest Honorby Steve Charles • June 29, 2007 Share:
David Justice '65, whose educational innovations at DePaul University helped thousands of adult learners reach their dreams, has been awarded that institution's highest honor for faculty and staff.
Justice, who planned and launched launched the Chicago university's Division of Lifelong Learning and Suburban Campuses, was honored with the Via Sapientiae Award during commencement ceremonies at DePaul June 15.
"You have had a remarkable career at DePaul University, and your extraordinary dedication, energy and vision have had a transformative impact on the institution," University Provost Helmut Epp said, presenting the honor to Justice. "Because of your keen insight, and through your steadfast leadership, thousands of students have seized the opportunity to become lifelong learners, enriching their personal and professional selves and the lives of those around them."
"Long before most in higher education, you recognized that valuable and rigorous educational programs could be tailored to help the maximum number of people reach their dreams."
Justice joined DePaul in 1981 as the dean of the School for New Learning (SNL). During the next 14 years he transformed what had been a small, experimental division into an established and major DePaul college, offering programs tailored to the needs of adult learners. He also conceived and initiated an innovative master's degree individually tailored for working professionals and established a successful bridge program with the City Colleges of Chicago for undergraduate students.
Moving from dean of SNL to vice president of DePaul's Division of Lifelong Learning and Suburban Campuses, Justice launched various offerings in distance learning, certificate programs, the English Language Academy, non-credit educational classes and conference services. He played a pioneering role in the creation of the Office of Continuing and Professional Education, which each year offers more than 45 certificate programs serving more than 4,000 students.
Justice was also a critical link in developing a relationship for DePaul with the University of the Free State in South Africa, which is employing the SNL model to educate black adult students who could not attend South African universities under apartheid.
A history major who minored in French and political science at Wabash, Justice also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, and earned his master's and doctorate at Indiana University.
The award recognizes faculty and staff members "who have made distinctive and extraordinary contributions to the university throughout their professional lives." It takes its name from the DePaul University's motto, "Viam sapientiae monstrabo tibi," which translates from Latin as "I will show you the way to wisdom."
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"Back in 2011, veteran game designer Mark Cerny made the bold prediction that "the traditional single player experience will be gone in three years". At the time I scoffed. And justifiably. Although multiplayer was booming and social features were beginning to ingratiate themselves into campaigns, we were only months away from some of the best purely single player oriented games ever released – Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Skrim, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Batman: Arkham City to name just a few. At the time, there seemed to be a bright and healthy future for games of that ilk, but we are now a year and a half on from these comments and it has become increasingly clear in that time that Cerny was right. The future is social, and that's not a bad thing." (Damien Lawardorn, OnlySP.com)
If the future is something similar to Diablo 3 and Simcity and all it's social crap, then it's not a bad thing... it's a horrible thing for gaming.
You know what will destroy all this "always connected" social B.S. that developers are trying to push down everyone's throat? A failed network connection. Single player games are essential, and the option to play without all of this social stuff is essential too. There is no such thing as a 100% consistently stable connection. And if gaming moves into something where the Single Player is the most watered down, tacked on experience while the multiplayer and social aspects receive all the attention, then count me out. I'll stick to playing the classic games that still to this day are of greater quality experiences than the Present (and looks to be Future) games.


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It appears that Carlos Ortiz has flipped on Aaron Hernandez. It's apparently unlikely that Ernest Wallace will.
Buried in a story regarding a supposed "mix-up" regarding whether Wallace will be represented by the public defender or a private lawyer is the likely reason for Bristol County District Attorney Sam Sutter's frustration: If Wallace has a high-profile defense lawyer representing him, someone is paying for it.
That someone could be Hernandez.
If so, it means that Wallace most likely will decline to play ball with prosecutors, opting to help circle the wagons with Hernandez. It also likely means that prosecutors won't have Wallace to corroborate the testimony of Ortiz, who undoubtedly will be painted as an unreliable malcontent whose story can't be trusted.
In the end, it may not matter, given the strong circumstantial evidence already linking Hernandez to the killing of Odin Lloyd. But it would be a lot easier to prove all elements of the case beyond a reasonable doubt if Wallace were willing to cooperate.
For now, Sutter is venting by complaining about the short-term waste of public defender resources.
"I'm very concerned about this," Sutter said, via the Boston Herald. "This has happened before to other district attorneys and it's not going to stop until the courts or the Legislature puts a stop to it. It certainly is an issue of taxpayer money, and it's also an issue of inappropriately impeding homicide investigations."
The Herald item leaves hanging the question of whether attorney David Meier's bill is being footed by someone else. Technically, the question of whether Hernandez or anyone else is paying Meier to represent Wallace shouldn't matter.
Still, if Hernandez is paying for Wallace's lawyer, it means there's an understanding that the two men are going to stick together in their common defense. And that's likely the real reason why Sutter is upset.


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The former archbishop Freiburg im Breisgau Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, 75, tried to legislate a change in pastoral practice to allow remarried Catholics who have not received the required annulment from a previous marriage bond to receive Holy Communion. His resignation was accepted by the Holy Father on 17 September 2013. Archbishop Zollitsch, as the emeritus archbishop, has no authority to make such an allowance due to his canonical status but also because the proposal he was hoping to enact contradicted the theology of the Church.
The several at the Holy See were clearly unhappy at Zollitsch's bold (wreckless?) attempt to change a practice without thinking through the theology. Not that the happiness of the authorities Church is the goal of anything. Heaven is the goal and we get there by correct teaching, sacraments and compassionate leadership. The chief shepherd of a diocese, even he is the former shepherd, cannot on his own authority, make a change in theology. The transcentals (the beautiful, the good, the true and the one) can't be ignored; neither can clear teaching based on Scripture.
Does something need to be done? Very likely. We do have a problem that needs sensitive guidance. But there we have to see to it that a few things are done: First, start giving good human, spiritual and catechetical formation to couples engaged to be married. Second, seek to walk with all married couples. Third, help to bring reconciliation to couples whose marriages are no longer sacramental. But Zollitsch created a chaos.
Recently, Archbishop Müller wrote an article outlining the Church's teaching about marriage, divorce and the sacraments in L'Osservatore Romano.
Today, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith wrote a letter to Archbishop Zollitsch, who now serves as the Apostolic Administrator of his former diocese. The following translation of Archbishop Müller is the work of Mark de Vries.
Archbishop Müller's letter:
With the Document Prot. N. 2922/13, of 8 October 2013, the Apostolic Nuncio has communicated the draft of the guidelines for the pastoral care of separated, divorced and civilly remarried people in the Archdiocese of Freiburg, as well as your newsletter to the members of the German Bishops' Conference prior to the publication of this letter, to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. A careful reading of the draft text reveals that it does contain very correct and important pastoral teachings, but is unclear in its terminology and does not correspond with Church teaching in two points:
"Remarried divorced people themselves stand in the way of their access to the Eucharist"
1. Regarding the reception of the sacraments by divorced and remarried faithful the proposal from the bishops of the Oberrhein area is recommended anew as a pastoral direction: after a process of discussion with the parish priests, people concerned can either reach the conclusion to participate much in the life of the Church, but to deliberately refrain from receiving the Sacraments, while others can in their concrete situations achieve a "responsibly reached decision of conscience" and be able to receive the Sacraments of Baptism, Holy Communion, Confirmation, Reconciliation and Anointing of the Sick, and this decision is "to be respected" by the priest and the community.
Contrary to this assumption the Magisterium of the Church emphasises that the pastors must recognise the various situations well and must invite the affected faithful to participation in the life of the Church, but also "reaffirms her practice, which is based upon Sacred Scripture, of not admitting to Eucharistic Communion divorced persons who have remarried" (cf. John Paul II, Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio, of 22 November 1981, N. 84; also compare the Letter of this Congregation of 14 September 1994 about the reception of Communion by remarried divorced faithful, which rejects the proposal from the Oberrhein bishops; and Benedict XVI, Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis of 22 February 2009, N. 29).
This position of the Magisterium is well-founded. Remarried divorcees stand in the way of their access to the Eucharist, insofar as their state of life is an objective contradiction to the relationship of love between Christ and the Church, which is made visible and present in the Eucharist (doctrinal reason). If these people were allowed to receive the Eucharist this would cause confusion among the faithful about the Church's teaching about the indissolubility of marriage (pastoral reason).
2. In addition to this a prayer service is suggested for divorced faithful who enter into a new civil marriage. Although it is explicitly stated that this is not some "semi-marriage" and the ceremony should be simple. but it would still be a sort of "Rite" with an entrance, reading from the Word of God, blessing and giving of a candle, prayer and conclusion.
Such celebrations were expressly forbidden by John Paul II and Benedict XVI: "The respect due to the sacrament of Matrimony, to the couples themselves and their families, and also to the community of the faithful, forbids any pastor, for whatever reason or pretext even of a pastoral nature, to perform ceremonies of any kind for divorced people who remarry. Such ceremonies would give the impression of the celebration of a new sacramentally valid marriage, and would thus lead people into error concerning the indissolubility of a validly contracted marriage" (Familiaris Consortio, n. 84).
The affected faithful are to be offered support, but it must be avoided that "confusion arise among the faithful concerning the value of marriage" (Sacramentum Caritatis, N. 29).
Due to the aforementioned discrepancies, the draft text is to be withdrawn and revised, so that no pastoral directions are sanctioned which are in opposition to Church teaching. Because the tekst has raised questions not only in Germany, but in many parts of the world as well, and has led to uncertainties in a delicate pastoral issue, I felt obliged to inform Pope Francis about it.
"Going paths which fully agree with the doctrine of the faith of the Church"
After consultation with the Holy Father, an article from my hand was published in L'Osservatore Romano on 23 October 2013, which sumarises the binding teaching of the Church on these questions. This contribution was also published in the weekly edition of the Vatican newspaper.
Since a number of bishops have turned to me and a working group of the German Bishops' Conference is dealing with the topic, I would like to inform you that I will send a copy of this letter to all the diocesan bishops of Germany. Hoping that on this delicate issue we are going pastoral paths, which are in full agreement with the doctrine of the faith of the Church, I remain with heartfelt greeting and blessings in the Lord.


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For Those Who Didn't Make It Homeby Howard Hewitt • January 30, 2013 Share:
Josh Stowers '14 was a self-described young and dumb kid on September 10, 2001. Stationed at Fort Campbell, KY, just a year removed from high school, he was training to become a surgical technician with the United States Army.
After the terrorist attacks of the next day, Stowers became a motivated soldier and leader.
"We all thought it was just a plane crash, but then there was a second plane, and then it was, 'Holy cow, someone has attacked us,'" Stowers recalls. "I was young, dumb, and so thought I was ready for a war. I'm in the Army—let's go kick some ass. And then we did…but it wasn't like the movies."
That year in service became three tours of duty in Iraq as a scout, sniper, and part of a personal protection team for an infamous U.S. Army Colonel. Stowers was also serious about his education and following his Army career took advantage of the Yellow Ribbon Program and G.I. Bill to enroll at Wabash where he is completing his junior year.
Not all Wabash students realize that Stowers is a 30-year-old junior—he is slightly built with a youthful appearance. But when students find out he's a veteran, he is frequently asked about his time in Iraq.
"It's indescribable," he says. "You are thrown into the nastiest, most terrifying situation you can possibly imagine. It's every day for 365 days. It's easy to lose your humanity very quickly. There is a lot of glorifying of things, but there is nothing glorious about it.
"You are on the ground in Iraq. People are playing political games in Washington, but when you're that guy on the ground it's real. You almost can't describe it to someone unless they have been there. It's surreal. And a year is a very long time in a combat theatre."
Stowers joined the Army to find a career and make more money to support a family. He has a wife and two children with a third on the way. He didn't care much for high school, though he was a good enough student. He decided to enlist to avoid a life of physical labor. He had watched his father endure as a pipe-fitter and welder.
He calls boot camp and training camps in South Carolina, Texas, and Colorado life-changing experiences because he was exposed to people much different than in his native Kirklin, Indiana.
After 9/11 he changed from a medical training course to join the fight against terror.
"I was like, 'Oh crap, here I am stuck with this job that doesn't really lead anywhere and it's not out on the front line taking care of this problem. I need to switch to something to get in on the action a little bit.'"
He was first deployed to Iraq in early 2003, just after President George Bush had declared operations had ceased. His group was stationed near the Sunni Triangle, north of Baghdad. He was a cavalry scout working reconnaissance. He later switched to the infantry, where he saw the horrors of war.
"We were getting mortared in the evenings," he says with surprising calm. "I was the first guy to get shot at in our
platoon. They shot an RPG [rocket propelled grenade] at me." He laughs. "Those are a lot louder in person than they are in the movies.
"Lucky for us the Taliban and al Qaeda were not very well trained, so they forgot to remove the safety caps on the end of the launcher. So it's a big flying piece of steel instead of an exploding piece of steel coming at you."
His final tour of duty saw heavy action when he was plucked from a pool of soldiers by Colonel Michael Steele, of Black-hawk Down fame. Steele was Bravo Company commander of the 3rd Ranger Battalion at Mogadishu, Somalia. Stowers calls Steele
a great man who is quite different than the character portrayed in the Ridley Scott movie.
After a time on the Colonel's security team, he was put on the line with infantry soldiers and led a sniper group.
"We had basic sniper missions, a few whole platoon missions and a lot of fighting. Much of the time we went to areas where there was a lot of activity. Often we were on observational missions, just watching for days to see if there was any activity. Then we'd have other missions where we were told intelligence knew there was a guy involved with the Taliban or al Qaeda and we needed go there and eliminate that person."
From that harsh reality to home in 2008 was a bit of a shock. Stowers' attention turned again to college. He knew he didn't want a big state school, in part because of his age, but also because he wanted serious academics.
He and his girlfriend had a child so he didn't want to be far from his Clinton County home. He loved Wabash after one visit but now admits the transition wasn't easy.
"I had to get used to being around college students, but Wabash made it easier because the average student here, I would say, is very mature and very responsible.
"Coming from the military, we expect people to be able to operate with automatic weapons on their own in a hostile environment. That's a lot of responsibility. So Wabash, minus the automatic weapons, is very similar, because we expect our students to behave like gentlemen on and off campus at all times.
"Those expectations between the military and Wabash being somewhat similar, I think that made the transition much
He felt out of his element initially, uncertain of his medical future after one chemistry class. He found refuge and direction in Professor Neil Schmitzer-Torbert's 100-level Psychology course. He changed his major and calls Schmitzer-Torbert his mentor.
"He gave me a chance as a freshman to do graduate level work, a paid internship, and I've been able to have an ESH job with him in the lab. I was able to go to a New Orleans Neuroscience Society Conference. We presented our research. I saw even more value in a Wabash education down there than they tell you here. I felt like I was better prepared or had an edge over many of the other undergraduates or even some graduate students."
Stowers hopes to earn his psychology degree and pursue a master's in divinity at graduate school. He would like his life's work to revolve around a non-profit or in ministry.
Stowers is now known around campus as a former soldier. He stood and watched with a tear in his eye at a campus service memorializing the victims of 9/11 during the fall of 2012.
"It really reminds me, when I think of Veterans Day or September 11 or any patriotic holiday, about guys that we lost, guys that didn't come home, guys that lost limbs, guys that left more on the table than I did. And I'm reminded of my responsibility to live for them.
"You make it home and you have a responsibility to those who didn't…to live well."


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The Nebraska baseball team (25-27, 15-8 Big Ten) had their spot at the Big Ten Tournament secured before the start of tonight's game following a loss by Michigan State, and with the 9-6 win over the Michigan Wolverines (28-25, 13-10 Big Ten) in front of a season-high 5,503 fans at Hawks Field the Huskers locked up at minimum the No. 3 seed at the conference tournament next week in Minneapolis, Minn., at Target Field.
The Huskers now have an opportunity to earn the No. 2 seed at the tournament with a win tomorrow and a loss by the Ohio State Buckeyes to the Indiana Hoosiers.
Nebraska was cruising with a 9-2 lead heading into the eighth inning, where the Husker bullpen coughed up four runs on a grand slam off the bat of Michael O'Neill, his second home run of the series. Josh Roeder entered the game for the Huskers and calmed the waters to earn his fifth save of the season. The sophomore dealt 2.0 innings of shutout ball on one hit and four strikeouts.
Roeder's heroics preserved a second-straight solid outing from sophomore Aaron Bummer, who gave Nebraska 7.0 innings after tossing 7.0 shutout innings at Minnesota last week. The 6-2 lefty limited the Wolverines to two runs (one earned) on four hits and a walk, while striking out three. The Peoria, Ariz., native improved to 3-1 on the year, earning wins in consecutive appearances for the first time in his career.
While Bummer was holding the Wolverines bats at bay, Nebraska's offense teed off on Michigan starter Evan Hill. The freshman entered the game with a 7-2 record, but lasted just 3.0 innings against the Huskers. The 6-5 lefty gave up seven runs (six earned) on nine hits.
Every Husker produced a hit on the night, as Nebraska tallied 16 hits off Michigan's arms. The Husker bats have put together double-digits hits in five of their past six games, including 16 hits in three of their last four games.
After blasting a two-out triple in last night's loss, Pat Kelly continued to swing a hot stick with a 3-for-5 night, coming up a triple shy of the cycle. In his first three at-bats of the game, the Red Wing, Minn., product singled, blasted a three-run homer and doubled. Kelly's homer was a three-run shot to left-center field in the second inning that put the Huskers up 5-2 and was his first homer of the season. It came after Nebraska laid down consecutive base-hit squeeze bunts that tied the game, 2-2.
Michael Pritchard also notched three hits on the night, going 3-for-4 at the plate, including his 13th double of the season.
Tanner Lubach continued his hot streak at the plate, pounding out his fifth straight multi-hit game, as he was 2-for-2 with a RBI. The sophomore catcher is 11-for-20 over his past five games with nine of his 23 RBIs on the season.
Nebraska goes for the series win tomorrow at 12:05 p.m. in the rubber match of the three-game series, with senior Tyler Niederklein getting the start on Senior Day at Hawks Field. Logan McAnallen is scheduled to start for the Wolverines and is 3-2 on the year.


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Mr. Speaker, I am outraged to see that the Conservative government is complete irresponsible. What is this Conservative government waiting for before it helps communities, like mine, that are especially hard hit by the crisis in the forestry industry?
This government's failure to act is threatening the economic survival of the regions in Quebec. The economic situation in my region can be summarized as follows: eight plants have closed in the Antoine-Labelle RCM and five plants in the surrounding area; 1,785 jobs directly related to forestry development have been lost, in a population of 35,000. For the federal government, this means a loss of $27.6 million in revenues.
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15th Annual All Oldsmobile Fall Show, Sunday, Oct 8, 2017, 9-3,
Kerr Park, Downingtown, PA, sponsored by the Delaware Valley
Oldsmobile Club, chapter of the Oldsmobile Club of America,
trophies, dash plaques, door prizes, 50/50 (benefits RE Olds Transportation Museum),
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Please bring canned good for local food bank
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Nice park setting with children's playground, previous
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Rodgers fires warning to Sterling
Liverpool winger Raheem Sterling has been told to "stabilise his life" by manager Brendan Rodgers after facing three court cases in a year.
The 18-year-old has struggled to build on the rapid progression he made in 2012, when he broke into the first team at Anfield and made his full England debut.
Sterling's only start for Liverpool this season came in the Capital One Cup victory over League One side Notts County in August - with his other five appearances all coming as a substitute.
He came on from the bench as Liverpool were beaten 1-0 at home by Southampton in the Premier League last Saturday, a day after he was cleared of assaulting his former girlfriend after a night out in Manchester.
In May, a charge of common assault on a woman in the Toxteth area of Liverpool was dropped when the prosecution offered no evidence. Sterling had denied the allegation.
Rodgers told the Daily Telegraph: "He needs to have a clear mind in everything in his life. We mustn't forget he is 18.
"He needs to stabilise his life, understand the remarkable opportunity he has at one of the biggest clubs in the world and focus everything in on his career.
"Once he does that and he is clear in his mind, he has no distraction and we can get to the level of performance of the first four or five months of last year.
"He is a good boy and had lots going on last year when he was put in the spotlight and he did well but now it's about him focusing on his football."
Sterling has been involved in a third court case this week, having been charged with failing to tell the authorities that he had sold his car - an offence which carries a fine if proved.
The winger did not appear at Wirral Magistrates Court in Birkenhead for that hearing, with the case adjourned until October 21.
Rodgers insisted he was happy to field Sterling against Southampton despite the winger's court issues in the build-up to the match.
The manager said: "I'd spoken to him before and been with him all the way through it. If I felt it was not the correct thing, I would not have had him involved. He was fine."
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The Biology Department occupies portions of the Integrated Science Center and Millington Hall on the main campus, along with a building for ecological and population studies on the edge of campus. Also available for research and coursework are the College Woods, Lake Matoaka, and a house on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.