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I recently took a trip to the textile museum in Washington, DC. The museum is small with only a few rooms which I felt couldn't do justice to all the history and global influences on textile design. I was mostly enthralled with the gift shop with a wonderful selection of books and magazines I found myself sitting on the floor sifting through pages of scrumptious photos.
I love textiles. I just want to look deeply into the stitches and find out how each and every weave is accomplished. I never appreciated work more than my visit to the weaving market in Chinchero, Peru located 13,000 feet above sea level. The air is thin but that does not stop these women from producing. We watched as they dyed alpaca wool and worked looms for hours creating the tightest stiches imaginable.
Shopping in the local market was a feast for the eyes with brilliant colors and patterns stacked like candy.
The difficult part of shopping was choosing just one thing to bring home when every piece was its own work of art.
After a long day in the high altitude, we happily returned to our peaceful chakra garden, mystical surroundings and yoga room at Wilka tiki in the sacred valley of Urabumba.
Driving down 3000 feet in altitude also helped the headaches and breathing, giving us energy for some much needed yoga. In the studio I was keenly aware of the antique carpets and woven mats used making each little bench a unique retreat. Everything at Wilka Tika awakened the senses of the soul.
Have you ever had the "after vacation blues" when you know work is awaiting you and the memories and restful feeling of the trip begins to slip away? Those blues set in for me on the airplane ride home. To channel the energy from the trip I took out my computer and began drawing the hundreds of small geometric shapes that would create "Batik" by Wallovers, reminding me of the fabrics in the peaceful valley.
"Batik" is a stencil design that once applied to any surface will create the look of hand paintied and dyed fabric.
Remembering the wonderful spaces at Wilka Tika Retreat I realized the space between the walls at home was a perfect spot to fabricate a bench in our own small yoga room. I began by painting a wonderful red and fushia base, hand-brushed to create a an impression of a woven background. I used modern masters metallic Gold Rush paint and some mica powders for the strong contrast of a yellow gold. The base was then made from Terracotta chimney flues that I painted in a periwinkle blue.
The final touch was the Bench pillows made from the fabrics collected at the markets in Peru and the Chakra Gardens book from Wilka Tika. What a cure for the blues!!!
Proceeds from the book benefit the non-profit Wilka Tika Children's Fund to support the isolated mountain schools and Andean children in their communities founded by the writer and Wilka Tika owner Carol Cumes.

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Geared to Grow
This was the article I mentioned previously I read on the SF to DEN leg of United on their in flight magazine Hemispheres. It is a fairly interesting article and can be applied to lots of great efforts to research trends and push your product line and company to maintain its market leader stance as Shimano really needs to do in the post Armstrong industry slump:
Geared to Grow
In 2002, the American bicycling industry was cranking. Lance Armstrong's comeback from cancer to dominate the Tour de France was inspiring thousands of bikers to ditch their old-fashioned clunkers and trade up to high-tech models costing $5,000 and more. Few companies benefited more than Shimano.
The Intel of the bike industry, Shimano is a Japanese company that manufactures the crucial components in high-performance bicycles. Its shifters, cranks, and derailleurs propel the top models from Trek, Giant, Raleigh, and other brands. The more multithousand-dollar models sold—TCT Carbon/ZR 9000s, TCR C0s, and others—the bigger Shimano's bottom line. And at $1.4 billion in 2005 sales, that bottom line is the biggest in the business.
But what would happen when Armstrong retired? A Bicycling Magazine survey had revealed a troubling trend: While the number of "enthusiasts" had more than tripled in the previous decade, the number of casual bikers had dropped nearly 50 percent. "The total number was dying off," says Dave Lawrence, the marketing manager for Shimano's American bicycle components division. "We weren't creating new customers."
Research had shown that there were more than 160 million Americans currently not riding bikes—an enormous potential market. Why weren't they cycling? And how could they be persuaded to get back in the saddle? The surprising answers inspired Shimano to design a new bicycle and try to shape the future of the bicycle industry.
Learning a New Language / Shimano knew it was expert at preaching to the converted—the cycling cognoscenti who had no qualms about wearing garish-colored, skintight shorts. But, recalls Shimano American project coordinator Shannon Bryant, it didn't know how to start a conversation with newcomers.
The "interpreter" the company chose was Ideo, an innovation and design business based in Palo Alto, California. The decision to go with a company known for designing Amtrak's Acela express train, Marriott's TownePlace suites, and an ideal shopping cart initially raised a few eyebrows: Shimano didn't want an object, after all; it wanted a solution.
Ideo's unique research procedure convinced the doubters. Instead of hosting focus groups or sending out thousands of surveys, Ideo's team of industrial anthropologists observed and questioned about 50 people in their homes during the course of their day. "We are good at understanding—at a more profound level than they can articulate—how they feel about a given area or topic," says David Webster, the Ideo manager who directed the Shimano project. "We spend time getting them to show us the things they do for leisure, rather than sitting them in a room and saying, 'Hey, why don't you get on a bike?'"
The other deal-clincher was Ideo's invitation to Shimano personnel to join the project team—literally. As part of this "radical collaboration," Lawrence and another Shimano manager decamped from the corporate headquarters in Irvine, California, to Palo Alto for months at a time.
As self-confessed bicycle nerds, Webster, Lawrence, and the rest of the Ideo team knew they had to suspend judgment of their noncycling subjects. Nonetheless, they couldn't help betting that the usual reasons—heaviness and laziness—were why Americans weren't biking. As it turned out, recalls Webster, "that wasn't the case."
In fact, the findings were unexpected. "It was one of those 'Eureka!' moments," says Bryant. "We had never thought of it that way." Adds Lawrence, "That's why the process with Ideo was so important. We got to the essence of why people didn't ride." The most surprising insight was not that people didn't like bicycling. On the contrary, they loved it. Or, rather, they loved their memory of it. "Everyone rode a bike as a kid, and we didn't have a single interview where they had a bad memory," says Lawrence. "Every single person had a smile."
The strand that all the subjects shared was a memory of a simple pleasure, an elemental enjoyment. "That was the biggest insight, because that is at odds with anything you could access within cycling at the moment," says Webster. "If someone walks into a bike shop with that image in mind, it's immediately contradicted. Usually, there will be a man in the shop who wants to talk about technology and performance and give you loads of options about gears that you don't understand." As a result, Webster says, "these people were just turned off by cycling. They weren't seeing a way to enjoy a bike the way they used to."
With that revelation, the research team stopped viewing its market the way it used to. Although the team was disappointed that people just wanted to putter around rather than become fitness freaks, the group realized it had tapped into a potential gold mine. Lawrence recalls thinking, "Wow, that opens up a much bigger market than we had thought."
Back to the Future / But how do you reach a market that emphatically rejects what you've been offering? The initial answer: Design a new bicycle— one that looks to the past to change the industry's future.
There was just one glitch: Shimano doesn't sell bikes; it sells components. To realize its vision of bringing cycling back to the masses who had abandoned it, Shimano would have to convince the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) that this was no mere marketing gimmick. "We didn't want it perceived as Shimano thinking up a new thing and forcing it on the industry," says Lawrence.
The team set out to build a prototype that would epitomize what the research suggested people wanted: something simple, comfortable, affordable, and always ready to use; something traditional yet innovative; something designed less for fitness and more for fun.
Any and all ideas were considered. An attachment enabling you to Velcro the bike to your car. Built-in coffee-cup holders on the handlebars. Built-in reflecting lights on the tires. A built-in flower vase. A bell with electronic ring tones that could be downloaded and customized. At one point, Webster recalls, "we were riding in the alley behind our office on a bicycle with a steering wheel."
The finished Coasting bike, as the new model was called, doesn't look at all outré or even particularly innovative. The handlebars are high enough to enable the rider to sit upright, and the crossbar is low enough to let the rider step naturally into the seat. On the whole, it's a bike that blends into the background.
The difference is in the details. All the mechanics—the gear and brake cables, the drive train—are completely enclosed. You don't see them and don't have to wear trouser clips or worry about chain grease on your leg. The three-speed shift system is powered by a dynamo in the front-wheel hub that senses your speed and automatically shifts up or down and defaults to first gear whenever you stop. The brakes are the same foot-operated ones—just pedal backward—that were standard on bikes everyone had as kids. The whole thing weighs less than 30 pounds and costs less than $400.
Shimano presented the prototype to Raleigh, Giant, and Trek in late 2005 and encouraged them to tailor it to their own company style. "You have to think of design as a tool to influence rather than control," says Webster. "We had to provide the OEMs with a reference design but then let them build their own versions."
Raleigh, for instance, designed a front rack that can hold a pannier or basket for a small amount of groceries. Trek created a peel-on color kit in six shades and a pocket in the seat for storing a cell phone, wallet, sunglasses, and lipstick. Giant added a cell phone holder, an MP3 holder, a front handlebar bag with a headlight, and a rack in the back equipped with a foam-protected attaché case for a laptop and a file folder.
Meanwhile, word of the Coasting bike was spreading among dealers. "We were being asked about this project before the bike hit the street," says Chris Speyer, the director of group product development for Raleigh America. And when dealers finally got a chance to test the prototypes, the OEMs knew they had a potential winner. "People were riding them around in the hall at TrekWorld, and they all got off smiling," says Chad Price, the pavement-bike product manager for Trek Bicycle.
Expanding the Experience / Designing the product was just the first step in revitalizing the bicycle industry. "When we design, we try to think not just about the object, but also about the experience the object enables," says Webster. The Coasting momentum would come to a screeching halt unless the retail experience was also redesigned.
Ideo equipped team members with hidden cameras and had them follow ordinary people into bike shops. The results were revealing. Consumers often were confused by the myriad offerings: road bikes, racing bikes, hybrid bikes, comfort bikes, recumbent bikes, and mountain bikes, just to name some basic categories. Many were intimidated by the staff as well. "It's scary to see this shaved-leg, extremely fit cycling guru who talks in jargon and technical terms and say, 'I just want a bike,'" says Ray Keener, the president of Growth Cycle, a producer of training programs for the bicycle industry based in Boulder, Colorado.
The typical reaction? "They run out of the store screaming," says Jay Graves, who owns The Bike Gallery, the largest independent dealer in Portland, Oregon.
To give bike aficionados a taste of their own medicine, the Coasting team gave OEM representatives and a select group of dealers an assignment: Go to a cosmetics counter and buy $50 worth of products. The memory of facing down a battery of face creams and hair gels still makes Trek's Price cringe. "I was genuinely uncomfortable. I didn't know what to ask for or where to start," he says. "It was exactly the same feeling I saw in the people in the Ideo videos—'I have no idea what I'm doing here.'"
Obviously, not every bicycle dealer has the time or the resources to send sales staff in search of high-end grooming products. But Shimano aims to make dealers more sympathetic to—or at least aware of—the needs of noncyclists through online training and DVDs. If sales staff can transfer their enthusiasm from carbon composites to the wider world of cycling, the hypothesis goes, then they can speak the same language as Coasting customers. "You're not selling equipment; you're selling the sport of cycling," explains Keener, whose Growth Cycle created the training program. "The gear is a means to an end."
Bikes and Ice Cream / The final and perhaps most crucial component of the Coasting campaign will be ensuring that customers have a good experience riding the bike. Safety was an enormous concern of the people interviewed by the Coasting team. "They'd say, 'I don't care what the bike is like. If you expect me to get on a road with those crazy SUVs, you must be kidding,'" says Webster.
Fortunately, the number of protected pathways for bicyclists and pedestrians has multiplied in recent years. The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy recently celebrated its 20th anniversary with nearly 14,000 miles of rail-trail paths completed and another 14,000 miles in the works. (Rail trails are former railway lines that have been converted to paths for recreation.) More and more cities are adding greenways and designated safe routes to schools. "Had we tried 10 years ago to do a program like Coasting, there wouldn't have been enough trails," says Shimano's Bryant. "Today, there are so many more safe places to ride."
Shimano's next push is to inform casual cyclists of the routes' existence. A Web site, coasting.com, will serve as a community bulletin board with information about routes and rides in 15 cities around the U.S. Authorized Coasting dealers are required to submit at least one Coasting-specific activity in their area.
Portland is one of the cities chosen for the initial Coasting campaign, kicking off this month. Jay Graves has plenty of ideas for attracting customers, including providing Coasting bikes for monthly First Thursday tours of the city's art gallery district or holding demo days when people can stop by for a free tryout. "On other days, we'll do a bakery tour or an Audubon tour or an ice cream shop tour on Coasting bikes," he says. "People think 'bikes and ice cream,' and they're in heaven."
Will the Coasting campaign persuade 160 million noncycling Americans to start peddling and relive their childhood dreams? With Armstrong's retirement from competition, this may be the best hope for the American bicycle industry not just to survive but also to thrive. OEMs are optimistic. The Coasting model, says Price, "looks like it will be our No. 1 bike by volume by the end of 2007."
Catherine Fredman has collaborated on five best-selling business books, including Use the News with Maria Bartiromo and Direct From Dell with Michael Dell.


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DAVID E. BOTKIN, et al.,
1. In order to be enforceable under the statute of frauds, a written document, formal or informal, signed by the party to be charged or by his or her lawful authorized agent, must state with reasonable certainty (a) each party to the contract either by his or her own name or by such description as will serve adequate identification, (b) the land or other subject matter to which the subject relates, and (c) the terms and conditions of all the promises constituting the contract and by whom and to whom the promises are made. The memorandum must contain the essential elements or material parts of a contract.
2. Sophisticated vendors that leave blanks in guaranties do so at their peril.
3. Any failure in an instrument of guaranty to specify an unambiguous limitation on liability in a blank furnished for this purpose by the instrument does not leave the instrument without an essential term where the instrument expressly contemplates and provides an alternative term.
4. The statute of frauds was enacted to prevent fraud and injustice, not to foster or encourage it.
5. Resort to parol evidence to address ambiguity of a term in a written instrument is permissible and sometimes necessary so long as such parol evidence does not vary or contradict the terms of the writing.
Appeal from Sumner District Court; THOMAS H. GRABER, judge. Opinion filed May 13, 2005. Reversed and remanded.
Martin J. Peck, Dejarnet & Peck, L.L.P, of Wellington, for appellant.
W. Thomas Gilman, of Redmond & Nazar, L.L.P., of Wichita, for appellees.
Before GREENE, P.J., CAPLINGER and BUSER, JJ.
GREENE, J.: Security State Bank (Bank) appeals the district court's order granting summary judgment to 32 individuals who had executed guaranties in favor of the Bank in connection with a loan to "Botkin LLC," arguing that the court erred in concluding that the statute of frauds barred enforcement of the instruments and in refusing to enforce an express waiver of the statute of frauds defense contained in the instrument. We reverse, concluding that the statute of frauds does not bar enforcement of the guaranty instruments.
Factual and Procedural Background
In order to induce the Bank to make loans to Botkin LLC, 32 individual members of that limited liability company executed detailed three-page guaranty instruments to the Bank in early March 2001. Material provisions in each of said instruments include the following:
"For good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, and to induce the Security State Bank, Wellington, Kansas (herein, with its participants, successors and assigns, called 'Lender'), at its option, at any time or from time to time to make loans or extend other accommodations to or for the account of Botkin LLC (herein called 'Borrower') or to engage in any other transactions with Borrower, the Undersigned hereby absolutely and unconditionally guarantees to Lender the full and prompt payment when due, whether at maturity or earlier by reason of acceleration or otherwise, of the debts, liabilities and obligations described as follows:
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"B. If this [x] is checked, the Undersigned guarantees to Lender the payment and performance of each and every debt, liability and obligation of every type and description which Borrower may now or at any time hereafter owe to Lender . . . . Without limitation, this guaranty includes the following described debt(s): notes dated 3-9-01.
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"4. The liability of the Undersigned hereunder shall be limited to a principal amount of my proportional ownership share (if unlimited or if no amount is stated, the Undersigned shall be liable for all indebtedness, without any limitation as to amount), plus accrued interest thereon and all attorneys' fees, collections costs and enforcement expenses referable thereto. . . .
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"7. The Undersigned waives any and all defenses, claims and discharges of Borrower, or any other obligor, pertaining to Indebtedness, except the defense of discharge by payment in full. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Undersigned will not assert, plead or enforce against Lender any defense of . . . statute of frauds . . . which may be available to Borrower or any other person liable in respect of any Indebtedness, or any setoff available against Lender to Borrower or any such other person, whether or not on account of a related transaction. . . .
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"13. This guaranty shall be enforceable against each person signing this guaranty, even if only one person signs and regardless of any failure of other persons to sign this guaranty. If there be more than one signer, all agreements and promises herein shall be construed to be, and are hereby declared to be, joint and several in each of every particular and shall be fully binding upon and enforceable against either, any or all the Undersigned."
At some time after the instruments were executed and prior to any default, guarantors provided to the Bank a list of members and their proportional ownership interest in Botkin LLC as of December 7, 2001; the list was submitted on formal letterhead of Botkin LLC.
After Botkin LLC defaulted on its loan obligations to the Bank, guarantors filed a petition in district court seeking declaratory judgment, asserting that the instruments violated the statute of frauds, K.S.A. 33-106, and should be declared unenforceable. The Bank answered and counterclaimed for amounts due on the loan, $776,449.99, costs, and attorney fees, and set forth each guarantors' percentage of liability. The answer and counterclaim were later amended to include the Bank's claim that guarantors had waived the statute of frauds.
Guarantors advanced the litigation by filing a motion for summary judgment, arguing said agreements were not enforceable because the limitation of liability provision was ambiguous and the amounts each guarantor would have to pay could only be determined by inadmissible parol evidence, relying principally on Kenby Oil Co. v. Lange, 30 Kan. App. 2d 439, 42 P.3d 201 (2002).
The Bank's response to guarantors' motion for summary judgment conceded that "evidence other than the guaranties themselves will need to be introduced into evidence" and included the list itemizing each member's percentage ownership as of December 7, 2001, supported by an affidavit of the Bank's president averring that the list was provided "in connection with the guaranties." Guarantors objected to the Bank's "attempt to supplement the terms of the agreements by adding a list of members that was allegedly 'provided' to the Bank 'in connection with the guaranties.'" Guarantors also noted that "[i]n [the Bank's] responses [to guarantors requests for admissions, the Bank] made no reference to any list of members that was allegedly 'provided' to the bank in connection with the guaranties made by the [guarantors]." The Bank then filed a motion for summary judgment based on the least percentage each guarantor ever owned in Botkin LLC.
The district court granted summary judgment for guarantors. The court's rationale relied largely on Kenby Oil, stating: "For a guaranty to be sufficient under the statute of frauds, it must be complete in itself, leaving nothing to rest in parol." The court prohibited any reliance on the ownership list by stating: "[T]here is no evidence proffered that the list even existed at the time of the execution of the agreements, let alone that the list was a part of the agreements." The Bank timely appeals.
Standard of Review
When there are no factual disputes and the issues are determined by applying the law to undisputed facts, the standard of review is de novo. Miskew v. Hess, 21 Kan. App. 2d 927, 910 P.2d 223 (1996). Moreover, issues resolved through the construction of written instruments are reviewed de novo. Gore v. Beren, 254 Kan. 418, 427, 867 P.2d 330 (1994).
Did the District Court Err in Concluding that the Guaranty Instruments Were Unenforceable by Reason of the Statute of Frauds?
The district court supported its conclusion and result with citations to K.S.A. 33-106 and Kenby Oil. The court's memorandum opinion states in material part:
"The guaranty agreements signed by the Plaintiffs are required to be in writing and complete in themselves by the statute of frauds and applicable case law. They are not. It is not possible from the terms of the agreements themselves to determine what amount of the debt of Botkin, LLC is being guaranteed by . . . the plaintiff signing the agreement. The interest of the individual Plaintiff is limited by the terms of the agreements and is not the entire obligation of Botkin, LLC. The percentage of ownership was not established at the time of the execution of the guaranty agreements. Without parol evidence it is not possible to determine if the ownership interest is that at the time of the signing of the agreement, at the time an indebtedness is created, at the time of default or at the time a demand is made or judgment is sought."
The principal argument of guarantors and the chief concern of the district court was that there was no stated amount of maximum liability of each guarantor because the instrument stated only "my proportional ownership share" and the percentage of ownership share of each guarantor was not established at the time of execution. This argument overlooks the language in the parenthetical following the reference to "my proportional ownership share," which states: "[I]f no amount is stated, the Undersigned shall be liable for all Indebtedness, without any limitation as to amount." (Emphasis added.) Construing the entirety of the text of paragraph 4 of the instrument, it is clear that any failure in the specificity of "my proportional ownership share" does not leave the instrument without an essential term; in fact, because no "amount" was stated in the blank, the instrument clearly declares that there is no liability limitation and imposes on each guarantor an obligation for "all indebtedness" of the borrower. We note that this construction is consistent with paragraph 13 of the instrument, which imposes joint and several liability upon each guarantor, even if other guarantors fail to sign their proposed guaranty. The instruments did not lack an essential term; instead, they expressly contemplated as an alternative to the blank, that there be no liability limitation in the event of any failure to specify the amount of maximum liability of each guarantor. In this regard, we find instructive the rationale of a very similar federal case where the agreement stated parenthetically the legal consequence of a blank space. In finding no violation of the statute of frauds, the court stated:
"The statute of frauds, however, does not require that all terms of the agreement be stated precisely. [Citation omitted.] . . . The agreement states with reasonable certainty that unless specifically limited, the guarantor assumes liability for all obligations of the debtor. Thus, the court finds that the agreement complies with the statute of frauds." (Emphasis added.) Federal Deposit Ins. Corp. v. Neitzel, 769 F. Supp. 346, 349 (D. Kan. 1991).
Based upon our construction of the instruments, we believe that the guarantors' and district court's reliance on Kenby Oil is misplaced. The guaranty in Kenby Oil failed to identify the underlying borrower whose debt was to be guaranteed; the instrument was executed with a blank preceding the phrase "Guarantor's Company," and the creditor later filled in the blank. This court held that the failure to provide the name of the principal debtor caused the instrument to lack "one of the essentials of a note or memorandum under the statute of frauds, and was void and unenforceable." 30 Kan. App. 2d at 443. The court stated that "[s]ophisticated vendors that leave blanks in guaranties do so at their peril," citing Kutilek v. Union National Bank of Wichita, 213 Kan. 407, 516 P.2d 979 (1973), and Walton v. Piqua State Bank, 204 Kan. 741, 466 P.2d 316 (1970). 30 Kan. App. 2d at 443. In both of these cases, however, blanks were not completed in guaranty instruments. In Kutilek, the instrument failed to specify the amount to be guaranteed, and in Walton, the instrument failed to state whose debt was to be guaranteed. Although guarantors here acknowledge this obvious distinction, they suggest that it is not only blank spaces that can create incomplete and unenforceable instruments, citing Wing v. Mollett, 115 Kan. 116, 118, 222 Pac. 88 (1924). We read Wing, however, consistent with Kutilek and Walton in that the instrument of conveyance in question, although without blanks, failed to specify numerous material terms, including full payment price, identification of grantor and grantee, and any of the details for payment of an undefined "balance." 115 Kan. at 118.
The rule of all these cases is the same: the writing must contain the essential elements or material parts of the contract in order to avoid unenforceability by reason of the statute of frauds.
"'"A Memorandum, in order to be enforceable under the statute of frauds, may be any document or writing, formal or informal, signed by the party to be charged or by his lawfully authorized agent, which states with reasonable certainty (a) each party to the contract either by his own name, or by such a description as will serve to identify him, or by the name or description of his agent, (b) the land or other subject matter to which the contract relates, and (c) the terms and conditions of all the promises constituting the contract and by whom and to whom the promises are made.'" [Citation omitted.]
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"'"To be sufficient as a note or a memorandum under the statute of frauds, a writing must be complete in itself, leaving nothing to rest in parol. The entire agreement must be expressed in the writing. The contract cannot rest partly in writing and partly in parol. The general rule that a contract which is not entirely in writing is to be treated as a parol or verbal contract is applicable in determining whether the contract is within the inhibition of the statute of frauds. The memorandum must contain all the essential elements or material parts of the contract."' [Citation omitted.]" 30 Kan. App. 2d 442 (quoting Walton, 204 Kan. at 747-48).
Here, there were no blanks left in the instruments nor an absence of any of the essentials of a note or memorandum under the statute of frauds; the instrument clearly identified the borrower as Botkin LLC, the indebtedness was broadly defined as including the note of 3-9-01, the amount to be guaranteed was "each and every debt" of borrower, the liability of the guarantor was either limited to "my proportional ownership share" or was unlimited, and each guarantor properly and timely executed the instrument. We do not believe that these instruments failed to specify the "essentials" of such a legal obligation and therefore conclude that Kenby Oil does not control.
Moreover, our appellate courts have long held that the statute of frauds was enacted to prevent fraud and injustice, not to foster or encourage it. See, e.g., Zukel v. Great West Managers, LLC, 31 Kan. App. 2d 1098, 1104-05, 78 P.3d 480 (2003), rev. denied 277 Kan. 928 (2004). In making this determination, courts generally examine whether the words used, against the background of the circumstances which surrounded the use of those words, would cause the creditor reasonably to believe that the promisor had agreed to answer for a principal obligation on the part of another person. 38 Am. Jur. 2d, Guaranty § 5, p. 875. Here it is clear that the Bank required individual guaranties from the members of Botkin LLC as an "inducement" or consideration for a substantial loan to Botkin LLC. The facts that the Bank required 32 detailed instruments to be executed by each of the individual guarantors, and that each instrument contained no blanks and omitted no essential terms, support a conclusion that any escape of these guarantors from liability would not be consistent with the underlying purpose of the statute. It is simply beyond dispute that the intent of the parties was that the Bank would fund loans to Botkin LLC upon condition that the members provide individual guaranties of the obligation in the event of default. We cannot countenance the use of the statute of frauds to excuse guarantor liability under these circumstances, notwithstanding the fact that guarantors are favorites of the law. See Ryco Packaging Corp. v. Chapelle Int'l, Ltd., 23 Kan. App. 2d 30, 36, 926 P.2d 669 (1996), rev. denied 261 Kan. 1086 (1997).
Having concluded that the instruments do not violate the statute of frauds, the district court's grant of summary judgment to guarantors must be reversed. We recognize that our construction of the guaranty instruments has "turned on its head" the principal argument of the guarantors. Instead of the purported ambiguity of the phrase "my proportional ownership share" supporting an argument for unenforceability, the failure to specify an amount of such limitation may result in guarantors' loss of any limitation on individual liability. Accordingly, our construction requires remand for further proceedings to determine the intention of the parties at the time of execution. See Baxter State Bank v. Bernhardt, 985 F. Supp. 1259, 1268 (D. Kan. 1997); Iola State Bank v. Biggs, 233 Kan. 450, Syl. ¶ 2, 662 P.2d 563 (1983); Kansas State Bank & Trust Co. v. DeLorean, 7 Kan. App. 2d 246, 252, 640 P.2d 343 (1982).
The district court must entertain proceedings to resolve any ambiguity in the phrase "my proportional ownership share" at the time of execution. Resort to parol evidence under these circumstances, to address ambiguity of a term in the written instrument, is permissible and sometimes necessary so long as said parol evidence does not vary or contradict the terms of the writing. See Barbara Oil Co. v. Kansas Gas Supply Corp., 250 Kan. 438, 452, 827 P.2d 24 (1992); Gray v. Manhattan Med. Center, Inc., 28 Kan. App. 2d 572, 580, 18 P.3d 291 (2001); Annot., 33 A.L.R.2d 967. In the event that the parties fail to satisfy the district court regarding an enforceable intent of the parties regarding the phrase "my proportional ownership share" at the time of execution, the guaranties must be enforced without limitation against each guarantor.
The Bank also appealed the district court's refusal to enforce the guarantors' waiver of the defense of the statute of frauds, but this issue is moot given our conclusion that the statute of frauds does not bar enforcement of the guaranty instruments.
Reversed and remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.


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How to Interpret OwnOptimizer Results
OwnOptimizer is based on regular long-term measurements of five heart rate and heart rate variability parameters. The OwnOptimizer values are calculated by comparing your latest results to previous ones. The training computer will display a written description of your training status. The descriptions are defined in detail below.
Good Recovery or Recovered (1)
Your heart rate is lower than average. This indicates that you have recovered very well. You can continue training, including intensive exercise sessions.
Normal State (2)
Your heart rate is at a normal level. Go on with you training; include both light and intensive training sessions, and recovery days.
Training Effect (3)
Your heart rate is higher than average. You may have exercised intensively in the previous days. You have two choices: 1) rest or light train for one or two days, or 2) continue intensive training for one or two days and then recover well. Other sources of stress, the beginning of a fever or an attack of the flu can result in the same kind of response.
Steady State (4)
Your heart rate has continuously been at a normal level for a long time now. Effective training requires both heavy training and good recovery, and this should cause variation in your test heart rates. Your OwnOptimizer result indicates that you have not had very intensive training or good recovery for a while. Perform the test again after a rest or light training day. If the recovery is effective, you will get Recovered as a test result.
Stagnant State (5)
Your heart rate is still at a normal level, and this has continued for a long time. The result indicates that your training has not been intensive enough to develop optimally. To improve your condition most effectively, you should now include more intense or longer exercise sessions in your training.
Hard Training (6)
Your heart rate has been higher than average several times. You may have trained hard on purpose. The result indicates overloading, and you should recover well now. To monitor your recovery, perform the test again after one or two resting or easy training days.
Overreaching (7)
Your OwnOptimizer result indicates that you have had a very intensive training period for several days or weeks. Your heart rate has continuously remained at a high level. This seriously indicates that you should have a complete recovery period. The longer you have trained intensively, the longer the recovery period required to recover. Perform the test again after at least two days of recovery.
Sympathetic Overtraining (8)
Your OwnOptimizer result indicates that you have had a very intensive training period for several days or weeks, and your recovery has not been sufficient. This has result in a state of overtraining. To return to a normal training state, rest for a carefully controlled recovery period. Follow your recovery by performing the OwnOptimizer test 2 – 3 times a week.
Parasympathetic Overtraining (9)
Your heart rate has stayed at a low level, which is generally interpreted as a sign of a good recovery. However, other parameters indicate parasympathetic overtraining. You may have trained with high volumes for a long time and your recovery times may not have been sufficient. Check for other signs of overtraining, such as decreased performance, increased fatigue, mood disturbances, sleeping problems, persistent muscle soreness, and/or a feeling of being burnt out or stale. You may also have been subjected to other stresses.
In general, the development of parasympathetic overtraining requires a long history of heavy training volumes. If you get this result, you should analyze your training. Drawing the right conclusions about your training requires comprehensive consideration.
In general, the development of parasympathetic overtraining requires a long history of heavy training volumes. To recover from a state of parasympathetic overtraining, you have to recover body balance completely. Recovering may take several weeks. You should not exercise, instead rest completely for most of the recovery period. You can possibly have a few days with some light aerobic training in short sessions, and only occasionally include short, high-intensity sessions.
You can also consider doing other than your main sport. However, it should be one you are familiar and comfortable with. Monitor your recovery by performing the OwnOptimizer Test 2–3 times a week. Once you feel you have recovered your body balance, and your result shows Normal State or Good recovery, preferably more than once, you can then consider resuming training. Once you start training again, begin a new testing period with new baseline measurements.
Before you radically change your training program, consider your OwnOptimizer results together with your subjective feelings and any symptoms you may have. Repeat the OwnOptimizer test if you are unsure of the standardized conditions. An individual test result can be affected by several external factors, such as mental stress, latent illness, environmental changes (temperature, altitude), and others. You should update the baseline calculations at least once a year, when you start a new training season.
You can download test results from your training computer to Polar ProTrainer 5 software. The software offers you various ways to analyze the results and receive more detailed information about your progress. You can also generate graphical comparisons with your previous values.


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The Martinez Unified School District and the Pleasant Hill Recreation and Park District seek applicants to fill a board vacancy.
In November, longtime Martinez school board member Vicki Gordon won a seat on the Contra Costa Community College District governing board. The school board will appoint someone next month to finish the two years left on Gordon's term, which expires in November 2014. Registered voters age 18 or older who live within the school district's boundaries are eligible to submit an application package, which includes a resume, letter of interest and responses to a set of questions.
The application materials are available on the district's website or at the district office, 921 Susana St. Application packets must be submitted by 4:30 p.m. Jan. 8.
At an optional information session at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 7 at the district office, Superintendent Rami Muth will review the district's budget, mission and goals. School board members will interview the candidates individually at the Jan. 14 board meeting and select Gordon's replacement. Two current board members, John Fuller and Denise Elsken, were appointed.
"The goal is to find people who are going to work together in a collaborative fashion, in the best interest of the district," Muth said.
Cecile Shepard, who had served on the Pleasant Hill recreation district board since her appointment in 1996, resigned abruptly at the end of November. The board will appoint someone to finish the two years left on Shepard's term, which also, like Gordon's, expires at the end of 2014. Registered voters who are at least 18 and live in the recreation district, are eligible to submit a letter of interest to General Manager Bob Berggren by Jan. 16. The board will interview candidates and select Shepard's replacement at the Jan. 24 meeting.
The board members are overseeing construction of a new community center and upgrades at Pleasant Oaks Park. The district's new teen center opened in October and the grand opening of the new senior center is Jan. 5.
The recreation district has a long history of midterm resignations and subsequent appointments. In fact, it had been a decade since the district had held an election when Shepard won a fourth term in 2010. The district didn't hold an election this year because no one challenged incumbents Dennis Donaghu and Sherry Sterrett.
"I personally like people who are independent thinkers because I like to hear other points of view," Sterrett said. "I would like a person who would be a team player and follows the procedures of the district."
Lisa P. White covers Martinez and Pleasant Hill. Contact her at 925-943-8011. Follow her at Twitter.com/lisa_p_white.
For more information, call 925-682-0896.


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Victory Records News
ISLANDER Announce 2017 Tour
All ISLANDER Tour Dates.
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AWAKEN I AM Sign To Victory
Brisbane, Australia's dynamic rock outfit AWAKEN I AM have joined the Victory Records roster. Beginning their journey in 2012, AWAKEN I AM have taken the Australian rock scene and turned it on its head, bringing their unique sound to a dedicated, underground following worldwide. Formed by vocalist Adam Douglas, AWAKEN I AM rebirthed themselves in 2014 with the addition of drummer Luke McKenzie and guitarists Ned Jankovic and Connor Oakley. The instant energy of the band clicked and their DIY work ethic, drive and hunger caught the attention of Victory Records, who are proud to welcome the four-piece to the label family.Watch 'Slumber' Now.
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SEEKER Release Video For Submit
SEEKER have partnered with Cvlt Nation to unleash 'Submit,' the first performance-based video from the album Loss. SEEKER has been tour non-stop since its release, and now the Dallas trio are on their first headlining tour with support from Hollow Earth. The track features guest vocals from TJ of Wrvth.
Watch 'Submit' Now at Cvlt Nation.
"This is one of the most vicious songs that we've ever recorded and was the first song that we wrote for Loss." Bassist/vocalist Bryce Lucien continues, "With the lyrics 'Bite down hard until teeth splinter, inhale, swallow, repeat,' we fell the video really captures the lifeblood of the song. A huge thank you to our friend TJ from Wrvth for doing the guest vocals at the end."
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New Video From ABANDONED BY BEARS
ABANDONED BY BEARS revisit the summer of 2016 in their new video "For The Sake Of Nothing." Filmed during the bands 'Guardians Of Easycore Tour," the video is the second from their latest release The Years Ahead.
Watch The Video Premiere Of "For The Sake Of Nothing" at Alternative Press.
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HIGH HOPES Release New Video & Clip
HIGH HOPES have released "Vanguard," the third single from their album Sights & Sounds.
Witness "Vanguard" Now at Alternative Press.
On the earth-conscious video, vocalist Nick Brooks explains, "This world is our home, and it seems like we're going out of our way to destroy it. We've only got one shot on this planet and we need to stop taking it for granted. 'Vanguard' is a track that means a lot to us for this exact reason. If something isn't done soon there will be nothing left, we need to be the change to preserve the world for generations to come."
Drummer Daryl Pryor adds, "World issues aside, shooting 'Vanguard' was a whole lot of fun. All the rubbish that you see in the video was sourced from recycling plants and garbage bins, it was kind of gross sorting through it but we felt it definitely played a part in the meaning behind the video."
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CAROUSEL KINGS Join Victory Records
Victory Records welcomes CAROUSEL KINGS to their roster. The Lancaster, Pennsylvania band has anchored their name as one of the most ambitious and creative pop/rock/punk machines in recent years. Today, long-time supporter Alternative Press brings you the video for "Bad Habit," from the full length Charm City which hits earth on February 10th, 2017.
Get A First Look At "Bad Habit."
"Signing with Victory is an amazing accomplishment for us," says singer David Alexander. "We've grown up listening to Victory bands, and we have friends that are on the label. Signing with them has just made us feel really valued and wanted. After meeting the whole crew, we definitely feel the mutual respect and look forward to doing great things with Victory!"
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Full Album Stream From SEEKER
SEEKER have returned after three years with their new album Loss. The Texas trio and Terrorizer Magazine are premiering the full album today.
Get A First Listen Of Loss At Terrorizer.
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SEEKER New Music Video Loss
SEEKER have revealed the second video from their upcoming album Loss. The title track premieres today via Burning Ambulance and the full album will be available October 14th. Clocking in at 25 minutes, SEEKER will deliver Loss in its entirety as they hit the road with The Last Ten Seconds Of Life, Traitors and Spite beginning next week. On December 1st, SEEKER will continue pummeling the road with a headlining run of dates to be announced shortly.
Head to Burning Ambulance And Watch "Loss."
The powerful track is "about the day that the person who I loved more than anyone died and the mental and emotional aftermath of her suicide," divulges frontman/bassist Bryce Lucien. "Most of songs on the album are about the events leading up to that. It's why I left the band. That's as much as I'll get into it. I came back into the band because it was the only way I knew how to process through everything that happened."
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ISLANDER Announce Winter Tour
ISLANDER has
announced their winter touring plans, joining the "Overdose Tour" featuring The
Word Alive, Volumes and Invent Animate. Kicking off on November 11th
in Portland, the jaunt circles North America before concluding in Phoenix on
December 18th. "Rad bands and hoodie weather, need I say more?" asks ISLANDER vocalist Mikey Carvajal.
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New Video Debut From SEEKER
On October 14th, SEEKER will release their new album Loss, in conjunction with their upcoming tour starting October 15th. Today, Metal Injection debuts the gritty new video for "Void."
Watch "Void" At Metal Injection.
"Everything about this video is exactly the vision we had for it," admits front-man/bassist Bryce Lucien. "'Void' is our favorite song from the album and this is definitely the most excited that we've ever been about one of our music videos. Filming was really intense, and we got to try a lot of things and take a lot of chances that we think made this into something very special."
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181: Interblag
Title text: Sometimes I hate the internet. Sometimes it makes me happy that 'The Tubes' has become slang for the internet so quickly.
The comic parodies the habit of word coining on the internet, as well as the enthusiasm for modern sounding terms in the IT world in general. Common examples include the shortening of "weblog" to "blog," while the entirety of blogs is referred to as the "blogosphere." The internet itself is sometimes called "The Tubes," a term derived from Senator Ted Stevens's infamous statement "Series of Tubes." The suffixes "-net" and "-web" are often used to denote a certain interconnection of information on the internet, as well as to make products and brands sound fit for the 21st century.
The matrix shown in the comic spoofs the internet jargon by combining common prefixes and suffixes to new and impressive but meaningless words. The culmination of nonsense is, as indicated in the transcript, the term "blagoblag." This is also a sideswipe at comic 148, where "blag" was introduced as a substitute for the usage of "blog." The official weblog of the xkcd webcomic was formerly called "blag." The prefix "blago-," meanwhile, was used again in comic 239: Blagofaire.
- Terms I have used or heard used to make fun of the internet:
- [Below: A matrix whose entries may contain crosses to indicate that a term has been used. The rows (prefixes) are labelled WORLD WIDE, INTER-, BLOGO-, BLAGO-, and WEB-; the columns are labelled NET, WEB, SPHERE, TUBES, and BLAG. In the interests of properly propagating the term "blagoblag," the full list of used terms follows:]
- World Wide Web
- Internet
- Interweb
- Intersphere
- Intertubes
- Interblag
- Blogosphere
- Blagonet
- Blagosphere
- Blagoblag
- Webnet
- Webweb
- [Cueball and Megan stand facing each other; Cueball raises his hands in the air while Megan is nonplussed.]
- Cueball: I heard about it on the interblag!
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Mayor's Office
Mayor Chris Beutler today announced that the Marvel Super Heroes will be in Lincoln for the 25th annual Star City Holiday Parade Saturday, December 5 in downtown Lincoln. Spiderman, Iron Man, Captain America and the Green Goblin also will use their super powers to promote the city's "Cleaner Greener Lincoln" initiative.
"This is a great opportunity for the City to celebrate a milestone in parade history and to encourage everyone to participate in our community's environmental efforts," Mayor Beutler said. "In addition to the Super Heroes, this year's parade features more giant balloons and bands than ever before. A great deal of work and community support has gone into making this the best parade in City history, and we hope to see a huge crowd." Mayor Beutler and his wife, Judy, will travel the Parade route in a horse-drawn carriage
This year's parade theme is "Dreams. Memories. Wishes." Pre-parade entertainment begins at 9:30 a.m. and the parade begins at 11 a.m. Updowntowners, Inc. produces the parade in conjunction with the City of Lincoln. Deb Johnson, Updowntowners Executive Director, said this is the second year for a new parade route, which begins at 14th and "M" and continues east to Centennial Mall, north to "O" and west to 10th. The Parade will again be aired live statewide by KOLN-KGIN-TV
In addition to being in the parade, the Super Heroes are teaming up with Marcus Theatres for several special events at the Grand:
A panel of band professionals will judge the bands in competition. All other judging will be done by a panel of children ages 8 through 12. Winners will be announced in the Lincoln Journal Star and on the Star City Holiday Parade Web site, www.starcityholidayparade.org.
Parade highlights will include seven giant balloons, 18 marching bands and new floats. Other annual favorites include animal units, clowns, costumed characters, Major Drummond, the Star City Sweets and Rudolph with Bugle the Elf. As usual, Santa and Mrs. Claus will wind up the parade. Children are encouraged to bring their letters to Santa with a return address. U.S. Postal Service employees will pick up the letters during the Parade, and Santa will write back to them before the holidays.
The City is offering free parking for the Parade in its lots and garages, those marked with the green "Park It" signs.
For more information or to volunteer for the parade, visit www.starcityholidayparade.org or the City Web site, lincoln.ne.gov.
Keep Lincoln and Lancaster County Beautiful is promoting the Parade as litter-free event, and volunteers will be along the Parade route to help collect trash and educate the public on the proper disposal of trash.
The Parade will be re-aired at noon Dec. 7 on My TV, Time Warner Cable channel 110. It also will be shown on 5 CITY-TV, the government access cable channel. For a schedule, visit the City Web site, lincoln.ne.gov.
Marvel, Spider-Man, Iron Man Captain America and Green Goblin: TM & © 2009 Marvel Entertainment, Inc. and its subsidiaries. Licensed by Marvel Characters B.V. www.marvel.com. All rights reserved.


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OBIS Will Continue its Work Under the IODE Program
The Ocean Biogeographic Information Systems (OBIS) project, which serves as a clearinghouse for Census data, has received good news. The International Oceanographic Commission (IOC) has adopted a resolution accepting OBIS into its International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) program. Under the terms of the resolution, OBIS activity would continue under IODE and the OBIS Secretariat at Rutgers University, NJ, USA could become the host of an IOC Program Office. Currently, discussions are in progress to work out the details of this integration and to investigate the establishment of IOC cooperation with OBIS' contributors and other stakeholders. A multi-source fund has been set up by IOC to ensure OBIS' continued research and operation into the future. More information is available on the IODE website: IODE News 24-jun-09.


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CHICAGO (AP) — David Price had more problems with the home plate umpire than he had with the Chicago White Sox.
The 2012 AL Cy Young Award winner accused Tom Hallion of using an expletive after Price threw his last pitch of his first win of the season, the Tampa Bay Rays' 8-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Sunday.
Hallion called Price a liar.
Facing his last batter of the game in the seventh inning, Price took a step toward the dugout after he thought he threw strike three to Dewayne Wise. After Price retired Wise on a comebacker, Price and Hallion exchanged words as Price walked to the dugout.
Hallion, the crew chief, walked toward Price as the two appeared to be yelling at each other.
"It was a perfect pitch. It is. I really don't know why he (Wise) swung at the next one, because it was in the exact same spot," Price said. "I'm walking off the mound I'm just mad at myself. I didn't say a single word or look at him. He (Hallion) yells at me."
"My own dad doesn't speak to me that way," Price added.
Hallion vehemently denied Price's claim.
"I'll come right out bluntly and say he's a liar," Hallion told a pool reporter. "I said, 'Just throw the ball.' That's all I said to him."' Price disagreed and teammate Jeremy Hellickson, standing along the dugout railing, did as well. Hellickson was tossed after shouting at Hallion from the dugout.
"He was told to knock it off, him and Morse (Matt Moore) were at the dugout rail and I told them to knock it off," Hallion said, "and he thought it was OK for him to have his final comment, at which time he was ejected."
Rays manager Joe Maddon was surprised that the mild-mannered Hellickson was thrown out even though Maddon didn't hear the exchange.
"He's one of the most vociferous players on our team. He finally had an umpire get him," Maddon joked. "It definitely led to the victory. Everybody was pumped up at that point."
Price took to Twitter afterward to continue to press his point.
"1. I am not a liar 2. I would not make that stuff up 3. My own dad doesn't speak to me that way 4. Again I am not a liar (hash)accountability," he tweeted.
The postgame spat overshadowed a fine performance for Price. He allowed three runs and six hits, striking out nine in seven innings. The Rays lost all five of Price's five previous starts this year and were the second team to lose in the first five starts by a reigning Cy Young winner. The Minnesota Twins lost in Frank Viola's first seven games in 1989.
Price (1-2) walked two and threw 119 pitches but finally he got support from his offense.
After Hellickson was ejected, the Rays rallied in the eighth. Ben Zobrist hit a go-ahead RBI single in a three-run inning spurred by Alex Rios' error.
Jose Lobaton and Matt Joyce each homered for Tampa Bay, which improved to 4-9 on the road. Paul Konerko hit a two-run home run for Chicago, who are 1-5 against left-handed starters.
Sean Rodriguez led off the eighth with a single off White Sox reliever Nate Jones (0-2) and advanced to second on a wild pitch. One out later, he scored on Zobrist's single to break a 3-all tie. With two outs and bases loaded, Ryan Roberts hit a shallow fly to right, Rios came charging in, but he had the ball pop out of his glove, allowing two runs to score and giving the Rays a 6-3 lead.
"It's one of those things that are going to happen occasionally, but if we're going to get on an extended run of playing well you got to make those plays," said White Sox manager Robin Ventura.
White Sox starter Dylan Axelrod allowed three runs and four hits in six innings. He struck out three and walked one, but he was doomed by the home runs from Lobaton and Joyce.
"They just got the balls up in the air and they carried out. It's a little bit frustrating with the two-run homer to tie it," said Aexelrod. "We were in a good position to win the game. It was a tough pitch and he got to it, kept it fair, you got to give him credit for that."
NOTES: White Sox LHP John Danks will begin a rehab assignment on Thursday with Double-A Birmingham. Danks had shoulder surgery in August 2012.
Controversy overshadows Price's first win of season
CHICAGO (AP) — David Price had more problems with the home plate umpire than he had with the Chicago White Sox.


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What you know 'bout this?
Old school my whip
King Tut my wrist
I got the hook up, bitch
What you know 'bout this?
I put on my clique
Hoes on my dick
How you love that?
I got the hook up bitch
What you know 'bout this?
[Verse 1: Big K.R.I.T.]
Fuck what you heard, ho, they know bout the Krizzle
The Chevy on four Pirellis with the pole in the middle
I break a ho if she brittle, pimpin' hot off the griddle
Cluckin' bustas freakin' and fuckin' for nothing
So how you figure I was tricking off?
Candy paint my Caddy frame don't be ashamed to lick it off
Hail Mary some game to a dame and you can't pick it off
Off the chain (Hoo!) I can't sic it off
Time and time again I try and tell them let me kick it off
And bang on it, I put these lames on it
It ain't Multi if ain't put my name on it
Make that kinda track and put a train on it
Styrofoam, purple rain on it
Fresh up out the cleaners, my demeanor, not a stain on it
Reign on it, put some chains on it, bet the game on it
My woofer beat to the frequency that a bitch done came on it
Pinky ring on em, chinchilla get hanged on the floor
I leave a bitch fiending for some more
[Verse 2: Big SANT]
Yeah, B-izza G SANT, biatch
Young trill nigga, ho you know just what I be bout
Time to take off them T tops, we on that, like banners
Man hold up, my car older than your favorite rapper
This that shit that they should capture on film
Lights camera action, life
Bitch my pimpin' 1080p, without a satellite
Why niggas ain't acting right, talkin' 'bout who run the South
They know it's us
They sick and ain't no Robituss to help 'em out
I been official, big dawg in the yard
Voted most likely to murder every verse that I start
So as soon as I park and I hop on that ride
Better leave with your bitch, 'fore I'm off in her mouth
Cuz I'mma big timer rhymer, no co-signers around for you
If I ain't make that clear let me break it down for ya
They lame (yeah), we not (yeah), see us (yeah) on top (yeah)
Alumni forever ever bitch
They know
"How U Luv That" was the Big Tymer's debut album and featured the classic "I'm Still Fly". The Big Tymers were one of the earliest examples of successful Southern Rap, so by naming this track after their album, KRIT aims not only to pay homage to the greats of Southern Hip Hop, but also to insinuate that he and Sant are in the category.


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April 22, 2008
The Lady Bisons defeated Tennessee State 2-0 in the second game of the doubleheader to earn the series sweep and extend the Lady Bisons road winning streak to ten games.
Senior Kim Jacobson turned in her most impressive performance of the season, sitting down eight batters and only allowing two hits to earn the shutout.
Both the Lady Bisons runs came in the fourth inning. Sophomore right fielder Kellie Sirus started the inning with a single up the middle, and senior first baseman Heather Collins followed up reaching on a fielders choice.
Sirus would score latter on a sacrifice fly by sophomore shortstop Abby Keese.
Freshman MacKenzie Tucker, pinch running for Collins scored on a single by senior catcher Jennifer Allsup.
The Lady Bisons improve to 29-22 on the season and are preparing to close out the regular season next Wednesday against Western Kentucky. The Lady Bisons will honor their graduating seniors before the game with senior day activities.


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Trinity University's department of geosciences brings the tools of physics, chemistry, biology, computational science, and mathematics to bear on the understanding of Earth, our home planet. Our goal is to allow each student to develop a thorough understanding of Earth systems and their transformation through time.
We offer core courses in the fundamentals of geosciences as well as specialized courses including volcanology, geographic information systems, remote sensing, geophysics and hydrology, and our majors enhance their studies with supporting coursework in mathematics, chemistry, biology, and physics. A holistic understanding of geosciences also includes the exploration for, and conservation of, natural resources as well as the impact that humans have had, and will have, on the Earth.
Field work is stressed in all appropriate classes at all levels. The combination of climate and the geographic and geologic setting of San Antonio provides students with many opportunities to develop their geologic education and skills in the field.


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When buying appliances, people often focus on two days of the year: Thanksgiving and Christmas.
What matters at that moment to you is finding a range whose oven accommodates a massive turkey.
Or, thinking about overflow casseroles and Christmas cookies, you opt for double ovens.
But what about the other 363 days of the year? If you're not a serious baker, that second oven sits cold. And warming up that range with the huge oven capacity for a couple of baked potatoes wastes time and energy.
Instead, a trend we're seeing is assembling a team of appliances that can work alone during normal operations but also can multitask for occasional holidays and parties.
So instead of a giant range, combine a double oven range and convection microwave.
The smaller upper oven of the range can be used for one-dish meals. Come Christmas, you can bake a dessert up top while a roasts monopolizes the lower oven. The convection microwave can bake a casserole. My mom did this successfully for years with her Jenn-Air convection microwave (after she finally got rid of the old range she kept in the laundry room, only to be used during the holidays).
A convection microwave also works overtime when paired with a single oven, perfect for those who won't make enough use of a double oven.
Better yet, make that second oven a speed oven for the ultimate versatility.
This GE Advantium (model PSB1001NSS; Miele makes an upgrade if you've got the dough) cooks up to 4 times faster than your grandmother's oven – covering all 4 bases: warming/proofing, true convection, sensor microwave (that can rotate a 9×13 casserole on its turntable!) and of course, speed cooking.
Until I can upgrade to a convection microwave, I use my Crockpot for anything that doesn't need "crisping," but I'd love to hear how others really make use of their multitasking appliances.


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Monday, July 25, 2011
How a Middle-Aged Mom Learned to Love the Graphic Novel
But somewhere in the last few years, I picked up a graphic novel again. I think it was our public library's renovation, after which they wisely placed the graphic novel section between audiobooks and classic novels, the places I gravitated most. I started skimming through them. Some of them were the male adolescent fantasies I had remembered, tedious melodrama as pretext for porny women and viscera. But there were others. Some of them were darn good stories.
So I asked a comic-book-loving friend to point me in the right direction, and the first book he suggested was Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. Wow. This was a comic book for grown-ups. The drawings (art? pictures? I am so out-of-the-loop on graphic novels that I don't know the standard terms) were black-and-white and simple, but they added to the story. They grew the tension in the story, and the last panel knocked me flat.
I think my next novel was Gene Yuen Lang's American-Born Chinese. I had never imagined that a nuanced theology of God and identity could be worked out in a comic book. Now I was hooked.
Since then I have tried different authors. I've found some I loved (Lilli Carre), some I loved to share with the kids (David Petersen's Mouseguard), and others I hated. And since bloggers are always looking for something to blog about, I thought I would explain what graphic novels have to offer that traditional narrative can't.
1) Silence. For many of us, silence is a necessary part of enjoying a book, and we see reading as a quiet activity. But traditional narrative can only convey its story by putting words into your head, however quietly. Even a description of silence cannot move you without using actual words. But a graphic novel, by using pictures instead of words, can use silence in a way that traditional narrative can't. Graphic novels offer a silence that includes mental wordlessness. It can be difficult to "read" this - it takes discipline to slow down the eye enough to feel the impact of the picture. But once you do, it affects you in new ways. You can have wordless reactions to wordless stories; still felt, but difficult to describe. Graphic novels let you experience literature in places beyond the reach of words.
2) Simultaneity. For traditional narrative to describe two things happening simultaneously, it has to stop describing one thing in order to describe another. Graphic novels can convey simultaneity by using two different media at the same time. The words tell you one thing while the picture tells you something else at the same time. Pure simultaneity is still out of reach - your eye has to dance back and forth between word and picture - but graphic novels can come closer than other print literature.
3) Paradox. Related to the above, graphic novels can immediately convey a meaning opposite to the words being said. A character can claim sobriety while the picture portrays his drinking. Unlike silence and simultaneity, this is also possible for traditional narrative. The difference, I think, is that conveying paradox in traditional literature often requires a skillful reader or a rereading. Graphic novels can convey paradox with more immediacy. Maybe this is why the hypocrisy of people in power is such a common theme in graphic novels; the medium assists the message.
Graphic novels pose their own challenges. I have to store my books on a high shelf out of reach of the kids, for instance. While there is no harm done if a non-reading child picks up narrative literature too old for her, graphic novels are a different thing. I would not always want to explain what that picture means. And when I look for new books, I still have to sift out the gore and misogyny I hate. But the genre is a permanent part of my library now, and I look forward to finding new books and new authors.
Now if you'll excuse me, my laptop is resting on a copy of Jim McCann and Janet Lee's Return of the Dapper Men, and I haven't read it yet.
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I am really glad you wrote this. All summer, I've been wondering why my eldest child's summer reading list for school included the graphic novel version of Kafka's The Metamorphosis, adapted by Peter Kuper.ReplyDelete
She read it for Honor's English. I was wondering what "Honors" means these days...but I can see the value, thanks to your post. She loved it, by the way. Link here: http://www.amazon.com/Metamorphosis-Peter-Kuper/dp/1400047951
I'm going to ask her if I can borrow it.
Excellently written piece, and superb insight into the act of reading a graphic novel. I'd never thought about simultaneity before--that feeling of being in real-time when you read a comic--but you're exactly right. There's a dynamic there that I find similar to the motion picture.ReplyDelete
Your transition from being (rightfully) revolted by the subject matter of way too many graphic novels to appreciating the mode of storytelling they employ brings up another interesting point--the validity of a medium being eclipsed by the content. There's nothing inherently inferior about the medium of comics (or as Scott McCloud calls it, "sequential art"), but for so long it was only used to convey vulgar kid stuff. Now the medium seems to be growing up a bit, and I'm a big believer in the idea that it can tackle just as weighty a dollop of subject matter as any other medium... and in some ways, do it better.
I'm teaching a graphic novel for the first time this year in a first-year fiction survey course - I will bookmark this post to come back to, if you don't mind that you've just written most of my first lecture for me!ReplyDelete
Use as you like, Bea. So what graphic novel are you including?ReplyDelete
Oh, I LOVE the graphic novels! Thanks for explaining why I like them so much.ReplyDelete
You should read Smile by Raina Telgemeier (good for self-concious middles as well). The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Neffenegger is strange but compelling for a book lover. I'd imagine you've read Maus, a good starting point. Also, check out Fables - they are fun reads if you enjoy fairy tales.
What others have you read? Always looking for good ones. Our library is great about getting any them in!
Good post, thanks!
Lovedlovedloved Persepolis! :) I'll have to try out some of the others you mentioned!ReplyDelete
Maus. I don't actually know how to read graphic novels (I tend to skip the pictures and get lost), so that's the only one I've managed to read. I'm feeling a bit underqualified.ReplyDelete
It helps to read it like poetry: just assume I'll need to read it twice.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7/30/2011
I, too, have learned to love graphic novels, although without thinking it through quite so much. But I LOVED Persepolis. Have you seen the film? Amazingly, I liked it even better. It's gorgeous.ReplyDelete
My favorites are the Y: The Last Man series.ReplyDelete
And I believe the proper term is "illustrations," BTW.


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Mazda's vision for the next-generation 2013 Mazda 6 sedan will be first shown at next month's Tokyo Motor Show in the form of this — the new Takeri concept. It looks like it's laughing at us. That's good. That's very good.
The next Mazda 6, due on sale in around a year and a half, will benefit from the full array of the Japanese automaker's 'Sky Activ Technology'. That includes new, more efficient gas and diesel engines (obviously, and sadly, likely not available here in the U.S.), compact, lightweight automatic and manual transmissions, new suspension systems and a new modular steel platform.
The Takeri saloon sports the firm's new "Kodo" design language — which the carmaker claims means "Soul of Motion," also seen on the CX-5.
The result? As you can see — it's a much bolder, Jaguar XF-like look, than the current-generation 6 four-door. The bigger, happier, more LOL-like grille also looks much more pleasing on the front end of the sedan than it does on the crossover.
Frankly, I kind of like it — and it certainly gives the Kia Optima — my current reigning champ in the middling mid-size microwave category — a run for its money in the looks department.
Just as long as Mazda actually keeps the design looking like this when the car actually heads to production in just 18 months' time. Which, with concepts — even from Mazda — sometimes it's more hope than reality. I mean, just look at the Mazda Furai. The closest that came to reality was the Forza Motorsport franchise and Gran Turismo 5 — both video games.
As we said, we'll see it in person at the Tokyo Motor Show soon.


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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Cinnamon girl
47 comments:
- M. said...
I loove that top, it's such a great size on you, it looks perfect
lovelove, M.
- March 16, 2010 at 9:28 PM
- Kallie said...
old school season one carrie is THE BEST. im so jealous of the fact that you can find pants that work. lovely hair :)
- March 16, 2010 at 9:44 PM
I love your Carrie hair! And your big stripey top. they look perfect for these nice Spring days.
xo Jenny
- March 16, 2010 at 9:48 PM
- Becca said...
Lovin' your hair this way! It's adorable and different :)
- March 16, 2010 at 9:48 PM
- Coatlicue Fatale said...
This is my first ever comment on your blog...(i think! not quite sure) and I must say that your blog has become one of my favorites!! Im glad I finally mustered up the courage to leave a comment and i think it might have been due to the sex and city reference!
I am a huge Sex and City Fan and I actually love Carrie's short curly hair in the beginning of season 6. I was tempted to perm it to try and get that "Carrie-esque" type of hair. But in this blog post you make it work and your hair is lovely!! looking at your pictures make me miss my long hair!!
Love the Jeffrey Campbell shoes!!
- March 16, 2010 at 9:50 PM
- Rosie said...
Thank god the rain finally stopped. I thought we were all going to drown. Today was soooo gorgeous... as are you! Love your Carrie hair!
- March 16, 2010 at 9:50 PM
- Dirty Hair Halo said...
whatever could super secret bloggy things be? i'm intrigued. (i can't handle secrets)
- March 16, 2010 at 9:54 PM
- Little Ocean Annie said...
LOOOOVVEEE your hair down! The light is hitting it perfectly, too! I'm also loving this daylight savings!
- March 16, 2010 at 9:54 PM
- Daisies of the Galaxy said...
I have that top too.. great top, great price. your blog is one of my favorites!
- March 16, 2010 at 9:55 PM
Oh, you make running late look effortless!
I love your hair...it seems to suit you (and the weather!)
- March 16, 2010 at 9:57 PM
- naomi said...
i love the way carrie wears her hair throughout that show.
you should see meg ryan's hair in the women its amazing and huge.
- March 16, 2010 at 10:08 PM
- Fabulocity in Amish Country said...
This is definitely Carrie-esque! :) Love this look!!
- March 16, 2010 at 10:10 PM
- ellie jane-e valentine. said...
a. your hair is amazing.
b. i have that top... i love it... i used to wear it as a dress but then my boy shrunk it :(
- March 16, 2010 at 10:17 PM
- Clare said...
Julie, that first photo is truly stunning. You look ethereal and just gorgeous. Oh, and YES to MST-3K! My absolute hands-down fave is Pod People (I know I'm exposing my nerdiness here, but you brought it up!).
- March 16, 2010 at 10:27 PM
- Chaucee said...
Haha we all have those days of waking up late - but you still managed to look nice! That top/dress looks soooo comfy.
- March 16, 2010 at 10:40 PM
- Modesty is Pretty said...
your hair looks so nice with so much volume =) love your shoes!
- March 16, 2010 at 10:43 PM
- tess said...
love the drapery of your top. I've always seen day light saving time as losing an hour of sleep, but perhaps viewing it as gaining an hour of sun is much more optimistic :)
- March 16, 2010 at 10:55 PM
- missDTM said...
i saw this top just today in h&m and didn't check the price but now i want it!!! soooo cute....
cute outfit!
- March 16, 2010 at 11:01 PM
- Phyllis said...
love your top! and your hair is so dreamy in that first photo esp.
- March 16, 2010 at 11:02 PM
- Katie, Tinda Keelie said...
oh, Carrie's hair evolution is so fascinating. I personally loved her short, curly bob that she rocked in season 4 I believe (don't quote me- haha)
I can see her first season hair on you for sure- only better!
- March 16, 2010 at 11:40 PM
- alamocitystyle said...
I wish I could look that good everytime I'm running late. Nice job, love your hair!
- March 16, 2010 at 11:46 PM
- Gabrielle said...
the flow-y look really works on you!
- March 17, 2010 at 12:07 AM
- kate maggie said...
ah, carries hair..so fantastic. You look great. I love your shirt so much!
- March 17, 2010 at 12:34 AM
- B. said...
I love this striped top, as much as I love Carrie Bradshaw...
- March 17, 2010 at 1:08 AM
- Melanie said...
LOVE mst2k! So happy to hear you're a fan too!
- March 17, 2010 at 1:27 AM
MST-3K is the greatest show ever!
- March 17, 2010 at 1:49 AM
- Chloe said...
Your hair looks so beautiful down, you should wear it down more.
- March 17, 2010 at 4:42 AM
great outfit!
and your hais is always so awesome! ^^
- March 17, 2010 at 5:55 AM
- Carol said...
I love the first foto!!
The sun rays indicate that spring arrives!!
- March 17, 2010 at 6:05 AM
- Urooba said...
- March 17, 2010 at 6:40 AM
- Brittany said...
I love how flowy this top is! Very boho chic!
- March 17, 2010 at 7:54 AM
- briannelee said...
I really like that top!
- March 17, 2010 at 9:10 AM
- chicfaced said...
your hair is the best hair on these internets, hands down. LOVE. you make me feel better about continuing to grow mine out. Thanks for the inspiration!
- March 17, 2010 at 10:15 AM
This amazing stripey top that you are wearing... do you know if it is available to order online? If so, could you please direct me to a link? Thank you!!!
- March 17, 2010 at 10:59 AM
- Draft of Vintage said...
I just got that top a few weeks ago and am pretty into it... I'm sure it's the most comfortable item of clothing I own- I love how you styled it.
- March 17, 2010 at 12:54 PM
- Lucy Marmalade said...
Despite being rushed, you look fabulous! There is just something about big shirts worn right. I like that hair-do! I've tried it before but have felt like I look too Lord-of-the-Rings-y (this spurred by the fact that people tell me that even if I DON'T wear my hair like that). You look so good though I might give it another whirl!
- March 17, 2010 at 1:10 PM
- _holly_ said...
Beautiful light in the photos, your hair is so pretty and long,,, eheh super girly comment... but still there's something so utterly stylish about the outfit, it might be the lack of premeditated thought but it works , simple but chic
have a wonderful week, reading as always :)
- March 17, 2010 at 2:55 PM
- Urooba said...
Hey--coinky dink!
My sis just bought that shirt just yesterday!
haha, she got an XL...'cause it was on sale.
What a dweeb.
- March 17, 2010 at 4:33 PM
- Marisa said...
I love your hair, it's adorable! I also love Neil Young ...
- March 17, 2010 at 6:55 PM
- Indihues said...
your hair looks awesome...
- March 18, 2010 at 2:38 AM
- S + Y said...
i love the way you did your hair! my hair just as big as yours and i just dont know what to do with it anymore! maybe ill try this today!
- March 18, 2010 at 8:56 AM
- bec said...
your hair looks great and i love your top! fab outfit!
- March 18, 2010 at 9:50 AM
Love the way you styled your hair!
- March 18, 2010 at 1:51 PM
- Lindsay said...
MST3K = LOVE. its the only show that can have me giggling in two minutes flat regardless of my mood. are you a mike or joel fan?
I really like your outfit! cozy chic is perfect for this time of the year. ya know, when it's just getting nice out and you want to run around and jump and climb trees. hooray for spring!
xo Lindsay, My Solitary Consignment
- March 18, 2010 at 2:04 PM
- The Jazzy Belle said...
you are definitely channeling Carrie Bradshaw w/ this hair style! I love it.. very cool shirt too :)
- March 18, 2010 at 5:59 PM
- Neekoh said...
The first picture is just amazing! Love this simple, stylish look on you :)
- March 19, 2010 at 1:55 PM
- princesspolitico said...
your first photo is just luminous. you look gorgeous and caught such dazzling light!
- March 19, 2010 at 5:07 PM
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The Big Night is upon us, so get those party hats ready to ring in 2014. There are many options close by for some New Year's celebrating. Here are some suggestions on where and how to ring in another year.
Long Island Philharmonic's New Year's Eve Spectacular
The Long Island Philharmonic can always be counted to welcome the New Year with gusto at its annual musical extravaganza. Join Maestro David Wiley, music director and conductor, and his orchestra at Tilles Center for a rousing finale to 2013, beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 31.
The Philharmonic's New Year's Eve concert — now in its 22nd year — continues to be a beloved year-end tradition for the orchestra and its many fans. "Rodgers & Hammerstein Broadway Celebration," features the timeless music from the iconic musical theater team.
The glittering year-end concert, with the soundtrack of beloved music that highlights some of the best of the Great White Way, is hosted by Wiley and this year's special guest, Oscar "Andy" Hammerstein III, the grandson of the acclaimed librettist-lyricist.
"Our New Year's Eve concert has become an amazing and successful tradition," Wiley said. "It's always great to see everyone come out for this wonderful night. This year is better than ever with a program of the great music by Rodgers and Hammerstein, with an amazingly talented cast and Andy Hammerstein III with us as an added treat. The audience will hear some terrific songs along with stories and background that make the evening even more special."
This year's program, in two acts, features many of the beloved showstoppers from the songwriting team's theatrical masterpieces, including "Carousel," "South Pacific," "Oklahoma," and, of course, "The Sound of Music." The orchestra also performs a medley from "Victory at Sea," the naval documentary about World War II, for which Richard Rodgers composed the soundtrack (along with Robert Russell Bennett).


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Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award
Richard G. Newman
Class of 1956
2006 Award Recipient
Congratulations, Richard G. Newman.
You attended Bucknell University as a member of the Class of 1956, earning the Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering degree. You also earned a Master of Science degree at Columbia University, and completed executive management graduate work at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
Since graduation you have distinguished yourself in your chosen profession and have provided noteworthy contributions to society through service with the California Science Center, Pepperdine University's School of Business & Management, the Boy Scouts Western Council Board, the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles, and many other public service organizations.
Your career began in 1956 with a large New York-based engineering firm and a stint with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1960 you joined a small Connecticut engineering company of 16 employees and helped build it into a 260-employee firm with eight offices throughout the northeast. After selling the company to Genge, a publicly-traded company on the west coast, you served as its president and helped that company become one of the largest engineering firms in the United States. In 1977, you joined the engineering firm of Daniel, Mann, Johnson and Mendenhall (DMJM) and became its CEO, tripling its size within six years. In 1984 DMJM joined Ashland Technology Corporation (ATC). In 1989, you prepared a management-led employee buyback proposal for ATC, renaming the new entity AECOM Technology Corporation. Your proposal was both simple and unique: employees would create value for their clients, creating value for AECOM, and this coupled with employee purchasing of shares in AECOM enabled Ashland to be paid for its interest in AECOM. The success of your concept resulted in 100% employee ownership of AECOM within eight years. During your tenure at AECOM, you led growth and diversification activities that extended AECOM's reach around the world and significantly broadened the company's business lines. AECOM was named 101st on Forbes magazine's list of the Top 500 Private Companies for 2005, with annual revenues of $2.4 billion. AECOM features prominently in Engineering News Record's Top 500 Design Firms, ranking first in the categories of transportation, wastewater, and general building design, and 3rd overall. In September 2005, you transitioned from CEO to Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of AECOM.
In 2002 you received the Southern California Leadership Network Leader of the Year Award, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Ecumenical Leadership Award, and the Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Award from Bucknell's Southern Alumni Club of California. You have also received the Ernst & Young Greater Los Angeles Entrepreneur of the Year Award and the South California Construction Industries Lifetime Achievement Award.
Your accomplishments, service, and dedication to your profession, to society, and to Bucknell University have earned you the respect and gratitude of Bucknell University's engineering alumni.
It is therefore with the highest regard and warmest affection that on February 24, 2006, the Bucknell University College of Engineering and the Bucknell Engineering Alumni Association present to Richard G. Newman, Class of 1956, the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award.


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Service-oriented architecture is here to stay. Job one, say the experts, is to learn from past projects so your company can wring the most value from future SOA implementations.
5) Measure Results
Is the move to SOA paying off, and if so, how? Some benefits, such as improved customer service, might be difficult to quantify. But others, like increased productivity and cost savings, can and should be measured.
Organizations need to develop metrics that will help them determine the long-term value of SOA, Finley says. For example, when building a return on investment model for an SOA project, companies must determine how to justify the cost of a technology initiative that might not begin paying back until years after the implementation.
"How do you put a value on that and, down the road, measure it?" Finley points out. "If you build a bunch of services, are people actually using them? There's a whole set of metrics that go along with this idea of reusable services; are you really delivering on those benefits you promised for SOA, like increased quality and flexibility? I don't think anyone out there has the answers on how to measure these things."
TD Banknorth is trying to build "general" SOA metrics such as the number of times a new service was executed in a day, week or month, and who is using the service, Castinado says. Based on its measures, the company determined that 80% of its SOA services were being used by more than one entity for development projects, and that it had reduced development costs by 50% over a nine-month period because of this reuse.
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