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How to Hear God's Voice
By: Colette Toach
Discerning What is God's Voice and What is Not
You have not experienced traffic until you have sat in the border crossing between Tijuana - San Ysidro and San Diego for two hours.
It is unlike anything you have ever seen. There is row after row of cars and it is bumper to bumper as far as the eye can see.
These are some of the experiences we had when we first came to Mexico… border traffic as well as the huge traffic circle that is right in the middle of Tijuana - cars don't drive there but they aim…
Fortunately, when we first arrived our family, who had already been here and so they could show us around town a bit. That way we could feel a little bit familiar in this extremely foreign land.
It took us a while to realize that there are times it is good to go to town while at other times it is best to stay at home. Having been here a few years now we can judge when the traffic will be difficult and when it will be more easy-going.
We now know where everything is and so when somebody else comes to visit, we are the ones that can show them around. We can show them the places that are good to visit and the places that are not so good. We also know where to get the best and most traditional tacos in town!
As a Prophet You Sometimes Feel Like Being in a Foreign Land
So what has this got to do with how to hear God's voice? Well, as a prophet sometimes you feel like you are being thrust into a world that is very different and foreign to you, especially if you have only just discovered your prophetic calling.
It can be a little scary at times. Especially as you start receiving revelation and you are not sure where to go from there. You think that you are taking a good direction but you end up in a traffic jam or in a bumper to bumper bashing with somebody else and wonder what you did wrong!
Three Different Voices
In short, there are three different voices you can hear in your heart. Sometimes, it's the Lord who is speaking, other times it can be the enemy and then it could also be you speaking to you - in other words, the voice of your mind.
How do you discern between these three voices? How do you know what's God, how do you know what's your mind and what's the enemy?
Well, I am here to help you with that and show you the best route to go. Hopefully you will be able to go through your prophetic training without getting into hot water and without making too many mistakes.
On second thought though, being a prophet goes hand in hand with making mistakes. It comes with the territory. Regardless of that, I am hoping that you can reduce the level of the mistakes you make.
The Voice of Your Mind
So, let's jump right in and let's take a look at what the voice of your mind sounds like. How do you know if a revelation that you are receiving is really of the Lord or if it's just you coming up with fancy ideas?
I would say that the most outstanding principle is that your mind is logical. This sounds obvious, doesn't it? Think about it for a while though. Your mind is logical. It is going to think according to what you know, according to what you've read and according to the thoughts you have in your mind.
So if you are getting a revelation that is logical and you say to yourself, "Oh yeah, I expected God to say that! Exactly, it makes sense…!" When you feel that way, I would be a little cautious of that word and hold back a bit and wait for some confirmation.
Why? It is called revelation because it is something that was revealed to you that you didn't know before. You might have a sense in your spirit that God wants to do something or an impression of perhaps where things are going. However, when God gives a revelation even though it seems obvious when you get it, it's new and fresh. It is something you didn't consider and didn't think of before.
And so when you are working along and suddenly you get this very logical idea and you think, "Oh yes, that's exactly what should happen and where we should go", I would hold off on that for a bit!
Your mind likes to play tricks on you and it will be logical and that's why it's best to wait when you sense something like this. Your mind will tell you what you like to think and what you want to know.
So if you are in prayer and you get a revelation that seems logical, I am not saying it's entirely not of the Lord, I am just saying that it probably needs to be worked through a little bit. That is why it is so important to have people around you who can be there as a confirmation.
If you don't have anybody that you can pray or share with, know that we are always there for you. You can just drop us a line.
There is no better way to learn than to ask. There is no better way than to discover your mistakes and your shortcomings. See if you can see where you are messing up and then you will surely know it when you get it right.
There is no better confidence booster than knowing that you know that this word is of God and that you are saying it with authority. It just gives you such faith that when you speak this word it comes out with such power.
So don't be afraid to sift through the revelations and don't be so naïve and arrogant to think that every revelation you get is of God!
That would be really naïve because your mind often works over time. Especially when you get too analytical and think about everything from what God should do, what you want Him to do to what this person should do. Then when you get a revelation you try and fit it into all that.
You know, that's why the revelation comes from your spirit. Also, realize that you are not a teacher! You are a prophet. You will hear me say that to you many times. I am not saying that prophets are stupid dumb bunnies who walk around and don't know anything but I am saying that your reliance is not on your mind but on your spirit and the revelation God gives you.
The only thing you should be feeding into your mind is the Word of God! When you do that you can be sure that the revelation that is coming up is of Him!
The Voice of the Enemy
Now how do you know when a revelation is directly from the enemy? For this I can give you some very clear pictures.
The first thing is that it will be really forceful.
You could be going about your business and the next thing you know is you get this, "You have to drop everything now and you have to go and tell this person that thing!"
This is not the voice of the Lord. The Lord is gentle. He is the epitome of the English gentleman. He leads you by the hand, opens the door and moves the chair for you… that is if you are a lady of course. That is the picture of the Lord Jesus. He isn't going to slap you on the face, pick you up, run out of the door with you and shout, "Speak to this person here!"
He doesn't say, "Stop right here at the side of the road and jump up to grab that person and tell them about me!" That is not the Lord and it is not how He operates!
The more you come into that intimate relationship with Jesus you will experience that more and more. He is not forceful! He doesn't jump on you.
When you see somebody operating in this way, let me tell you, that is not the voice of the Lord! "You must do this now or you will be cursed!" No, that is not the voice of the Lord Jesus. Did you ever hear Him say that to His disciples? Did He ever say to them, "You better go out now, two by two or I will curse you!"?
No, He sent them with a promise and said that He would be with them and they would move in signs and wonders. They wanted to go. In fact, He couldn't hold them back from going!
The voice of the Lord doesn't bring fear. Let's say you were perhaps in a meeting and you didn't bring the prophetic word and you think, "Oh, I had the word but didn't bring it", and now you are so full of fear and guilt.
That is not the Lord at all. It is probably just as well you didn't open your mouth to speak because it may have been a deception. When you experience that voice and the enemy will come many times like that, he will play on your mind and he will push you and come at you from without.
That is what I think you need to note because that is probably the most outstanding difference between the voice of the Lord and the voice of the enemy (evangelistic ministry aside here).
However, when you feel that push you end up coming under guilt, you feel fear and curses start manifesting in your life. Guess what? The voice that you were listening to was not the voice of the Lord.
What if you Miss It?
What if the word is of God and you miss it…? So what? You know we had old Elijah sitting there wailing about how tough things were, about how he was the only prophet and the Lord said to him, "I have a couple of other thousands that haven't bowed their knee! You are not the only one."
Well, the same is true for you. If you miss it, He is gracious. He has others that He can raise up. He is not dead! The whole world doesn't rest on your shoulders. I know, as prophets we forget this. We think sometimes that if we don't do it now and if we are not the savior and we don't jump in the world will stop turning.
We are simply servants doing His bidding and if we don't do His bidding He will raise up another. What is important is that you keep your heart pure before Him. We are all going to miss it! God is God. He can take care of it. He can even take care of your mistakes if you just had more faith in Him than you did in your weakness and failure!
So if you have these voices that are pushy, don't EVER run off and give into it. Instead STOP and wait for confirmation and wait till your emotions have died down and wait to be sure of the word.
Then when you are sure and God has confirmed and you still feel the anointing, then step out in boldness. Then there is nothing that can stop it.
The Voice of the Lord
The Scriptures say, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock and if any man answers I will come and eat with Him and he with me."
The Lord Jesus is like that. He doesn't come and with a big pole to bash down your door to take your food off the table. No, He knocks and He waits for you to answer. If you answer, then He comes in. That is His nature and it is really the epitome of what the Lord's voice is like. He won't come as a loud roaring river.
Perhaps at the beginning when you are not used yet to getting revelation, you might feel the anointing quiet strongly or you will feel like you have butterflies in your stomach. It might come strongly at the beginning. However, relax if you find that the manifestations of the anointing are not as strong anymore. It is okay!
It just means that you are growing up. It is normal. At the beginning it is very strong and very intense and it is all very exciting, but it does calm down because you are growing up. You don't need all the fluff; you don't need all the big stuff to know that this is God speaking to you.
The Lord will speak to you in a gentle voice most of the time. If you are receiving a vision, you will just receive the same vision a few times, gently. You will feel that stirring in your belly almost like butterflies but not big ones, just little flatters and you feel that excitement in your spirit.
It brings joy and life and you look forward to sharing it. Now that's the voice of the Lord. Of course also, in case you haven't heard this before, it will come with faith, hope and love. Without that, how are you going to mature the Body of Christ?
So these are some ways that you can use to really discern for yourself what the voice of the Lord is like. You know, as you learn to identify this in yourself, you will also learn how to identify it in others.
Somebody will stand up to speak and you will say, "That is coming straight out of his head. There is no spirit or revelation in it!"
Revelation, Not Logic
You know, that's a very sad state when people who are not spirit filled want to stand up and prophesy. They stand up and talk logic.
Well, it's logical to say that God will do this, this and this and it is logical to assume the conclusion and they are trying to give a prophetic word using their mind. They haven't learned to tap into their spirit yet.
You will find this in some denominations that don't believe in speaking in tongues but they believe in prophesying. Well, try to stand up and speak a prophetic word without being filled with the Holy Spirit, without being baptized… what do you think will come out? Their mind!
Learn to recognize this. Learn to see when somebody is really speaking from the Lord. Is it coming with that gentle flow? Is it coming with that inspiring flow?
You know, it might not always be super gentle because His sword can also be sharp but the point is it brings with it a hope and expectation. It brings life to you and an expectation as to what God will do!
Is that what the word is doing or is the word so strong and pushy that you feel backed into the corner?
Lots More to Come
These are the things you need to look at! If you look at the Chapter on how to judge revelation in the Practical Prophetic Ministry book, you will see that I also give some very clear guidelines on when to receive from somebody and when not.
Once you discern the difference of these three voices, it will open a new world to you! You might realize that sometimes you listened to the enemy, but I hope that you identified rather the times you really were hearing the voice of God!
Again, if you need some help and a mentor to guide you through this, join us in AMI Prophetic School. There is someone there who is just like you and went through exactly what you are right now. Together we will set the Church as a City on a Hill!
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I've started taking a series of cake decorating classes at The Makery in Denver, and it's been so much fun. Hopefully you'll start to see an improvement on my cake decorating skills. I've already learned some great tips to making better buttercream but am still working on learning simple piping techniques.
During the first class, our teacher mentioned a spice shop, Savory Spice Shop, which has a few locations in Denver, so the other day, I went on a mission to find some new and interesting spices. Although I didn't find Savory Spice Shop in that particular location (maybe it moved?), I found Penzeys, where I spent at least an hour browsing all the dried herbs, powders, extracts, cinnamons (they had five varieties of cinnamon!), curry spices, and too many others to name. I managed to escape with only Mexican vanilla and Vindaloo curry spice, although I would have loved to buy out the store.
Jamie was looking through their catalog later that night and pointed to a recipe called Naughty Bars. "I think we need these," he said.
I had already planned on making the Ice Cream Parlor cupcakes from my last post for the party we were going to on Saturday, but decided a pan of cookie bars for a bunch of hungry people couldn't hurt either.
The name of these bars is half the fun, and they live up to their name as they are very, very naughty. Incredibly rich with butter and brown sugar, a tiny little square is all you need or want. For my own variation, I added more salt, a pinch of nutmeg, and a tangy cream cheese icing.
They are completely decadent. Buttery. Gooey. Soft. Sweet.
Don't plan on baking these to keep at home, unless you're expecting a lot of company, or you might find yourself sneaking one at 1am by the light of the refrigerator, and drinking milk straight from the milk carton. Take them somewhere and share the love.
Naughty Cookie Bars
printable recipe
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, melted
- 2 cups packed dark brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- (optional add-ins - chocolate chips, chopped pecans, etc)
- 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon light corn syrup
Preheat the oven to 350. Spray a 9x13 pan with nonstick spray.
In a large bowl, combine the melted butter and brown sugar with a whisk until smooth. Whisk in the eggs and vanilla. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, salt, baking powder and nutmeg, then add to the batter. Stir in any add-ins such as chocolate chips or nuts. Batter will be thick.
Spread evenly in the pan and bake for 25 minutes, until the edges are golden brown but the center still looks a little gooey. Let cool for 30 minutes.
Combine the softened cream cheese with the powdered sugar and corn syrup until smooth; spread over the still-warm bars. Let cool completely before cutting into squares.
Recipe adapted from Monica Soebbing's "Naughty Bars" in the Penzeys Spices catalog
Recipe adapted from Monica Soebbing's "Naughty Bars" in the Penzeys Spices catalog


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We can all be thankful that the construction and beautification of the Venetian Causeway is all but done, and the road is smooth and pretty much looks beautiful.
We still don't understand why own new "historic" streetlights are in the middle of the new wide sidewalks (defeats the purpose, doesn't it?), but we'll learn to live with it.
And so now the Venetian Isles of Rivo Alto, DiLido and San Marino prepare for the sidewalk, lighting, landscaping and paving improvements on their local streets.
Island residents will get a briefing on how that construction will roll out and cover a range of other topics at the Dec. 13 meeting of the Venetian Island Homeowner Association.
The meeting happens at 6:30 at 250 East San Marino Dr., on San Marino Island.
Among the topics on a long agenda in addition to the Streetscape update: A report from the Miami Beach police department on island burglaries and efforts to blunt them; the possibility of a hotel development on 17th Street and Alton Road; a report on the Genting Project on the Miami Herald property, and plans to changing how tolls are handled on the Venetian Causeway and other causeway issues.


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First, I asked: Have you ever given a speech about your Mother? Here's what Facebook readers said:
Gaynell Bellizan: "no, but what a great idea!"
Eliza Calder: "In my mind yes...many times thought about things to say.., but unfortunately never the opportunity to do a real one."
Uldean Harris-Wright: "great idea!!!!!!!!"
Maakai L Vita: "Yes, I do that unconsciously everyday... cos she is such a wonderful person; I just can't help it. I can only imagine how a well crafted speech would look like..haaaa!"
Sarah Chaffee: "When I talk about my volunteer activities I always credit my mother for instilling that in me."
Then, sensing there were stories about mothers to be told, I asked a different way: How would you open a speech about your mother? That really brought out some homegrown eloquence:
Katherine Nobles wrote:
"My mother always had a secret sorrow, just like her mother. Their pictures, even when they were smiling, were wistful, and the smile never touched their eyes..."Eliza Calder wrote:
"I remember the first time I realized there might be something just a little out of the ordinary about her. Together we dragged a small table from the schoolroom about 200 yards into the woods next door. Then I had to climb up on the table, and at the top of my voice I had to recite my multiplication tables to the tall eucalyptus trees swaying in the midday heat. At 8, I did not really know, but I did suspect, she was not following the standard model for child education."Maria Elena Poulos wrote:
"She had dark black hair, green eyes,and such a warm smile, smile that touch her eyes. That all changed if someone crossed one of her four girls, the indian came out in her and she went into defence. She was a wonderful teacher, all four girls know how to cook, fish, cast and cry to get what we want. Well the crying we made up, she did not fall for that at all."Now it's your turn: Share whether you've spoken about your mother in a speech, or how you'd start a speech about your mother. No matter your relationship, your mother's a topic that automatically includes many of the elements that make an eloquent speech: Emotion, universality (you may not be a mom, but you have to have one), history and insight--not to mention stories galore, stories you know well enough to tell without notes. Share your thoughts here or on The Eloquent Woman on Facebook.
R.I.P mom,you will never be forgotten
UPDATE: Here are some more entries from Facebook:
Denise Vozella wrote: "My mom would say her personal motto is 'Work hard, play hard,' and she has taught us that. But I'd say a more accurate motto for her would be 'Work hard, play hard, love hard'."
Cynthia Zhai wrote: "The person in the world who loves me the most......"
Lisa Schrager Bloch wrote: "My Jewish mother's favorite saying is 'You only have one mother'."


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You can picture the long, barren hallways of a nursing home.
You see a group of wheelchair-bound seniors, their heads slumped down, never looking up at the scurrying nurses rushing by to handle one emergency after another.
This is not socialization of seniors. It is isolation.
As seniors age, they face increased risks of social isolation because of factors like the death of family and friends, loss of transportation and mobility impairment.
If one spouse becomes ill, the other spouse often becomes more homebound to care for his or her spouse, which leads to more social isolationism.
Older adults who describe themselves as lonely have a 59 percent greater risk of functional decline and a 45 percent greater risk of death, according to a study by the University of California San Francisco .
Here is how socialization can help your loved one's health:
The need to maintain social interactions for good health is pretty clear.
One study published in the Annals of Family Medicine gathered nearly 200 seniors with depressive symptoms and provided social visits or physical activity for six straight months.
The results were undeniable.
"Social contact may be as effective as physical activity in improving mood and quality of life," one researcher wrote. "Social participation and social support networks are paramount to long-term positive outcomes and psychological well-being for older people."
Seniors who are socially active may have slower rates of declining memory, according to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health.
That study examined the recall of a 10-word list. Social integration was measured by factors like marital status, volunteer activity and frequency of contact with others.
"The working hypothesis is that social engagement is what makes you mentally engaged," says senior author Lisa F. Berkman.
Social engagement may support brain health and possibly delay the onset of dementia, according to the Alzheimer's Association.
The American Academy of Neurology studied the relationship between dementia, stress, and socialization and found that "people who are socially active and not easily stressed may be less likely to develop dementia."
There are plenty of ways to help your loved one's mind sharp. Click here for more advice on keeping your loved one's mind sharp in: "7 Ways to Help Seniors Keep a Sharp Mind."
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When it came time to get Dad more help than the family could provide, we went to Visiting Angels for help. We picked your organization because we truly Needed An Angel!
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The Silent Appeal
The Vishnitzer Rebbe of blessed memory was in the habit of taking a short evening stroll for his health in the company of some of his followers. One evening he stopped in front of the luxurious home of the Jewish head of a local bank and informed his escorts that he was going inside for a visit. This raised some eyebrows, for this banker was not a particularly observant Jew and certainly not one of the rabbi's followers.
The banker was even more surprised as he invited the rabbi to sit down. To his even greater surprise the rabbi took a seat but uttered not a word. His continued silence so rattled the nerves of his host that he finally asked him the purpose of his visit.
"I came to fulfill a mitzvah," explained the rabbi. "Our Sages rule that just as it is a mitzvah to admonish someone who will heed your reproof, it is a mitzvah to refrain from saying something which will not be heeded. I am convinced that what I want to say to you will be ignored but if I stay home and refrain from saying it I will not really be fulfilling that mitzvah. I therefore came here where I have the opportunity to say it, and refrain from doing so because it will be counterproductive in making your guilt greater by ignoring the reproof."
The banker's curiosity was aroused and he repeatedly begged the rabbi to reveal the nature of this secret message. The rabbi then told him that the bank he heads was about to foreclose its mortgage on the home of a widow in the community and he wanted him to show special consideration for her. The banker countered by pointing out the large sum of money involved and the fact that he was only the manager and not the owner of the bank.
"You see," said the rabbi as he rose to leave, "I told you that I didn't want to say anything because I knew you wouldn't listen."
The banker's conscience, however, was so touched that a few days later he took money from his own pocket to save the widow's home.


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Utah Division of Wildlife Resources employee, Scott Root, holds a bright red kokanee salmon. Kokanee salmon are usually silver-colored, but turn bright red during the annual spawning run.
Spawning kokanee salmon in Utah's Strawberry River near Strawberry Reservoir
Kokanee salmon near Utah's Strawberry Reservoir. Normally silver-colored, kokanee turn bright red during their spawning run.
The Bonneville cutthroat trout, Oncorhynchus clarkii utah, is a race, or subspecies, of the cutthroat trout native to the Bonneville Basin of Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Nevada.
Paul Thompson caught and released this tiger muskie at Newton Reservoir using a fly rod. June, 2013.
Ryan Houston shows the 30-inch cutthroat trout he caught at Strawberry Reservoir on May 14, 2010. Photo courtesy of the Ryan Houston family.
If you fish at Steinaker Reservoir this spring, you might catch one of these — an albino rainbow trout. Photo courtesy of Ron Stewart, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, 4-20-2010.
A female Kokanee salmon spawning at Strawberry Reservoir. Photo taken 9/2012 by Scott Root, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.
A Kokanee salmon spawning at Strawberry Reservoir. Photo taken 9/2012 by Scott Root, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.
A tiger trout from Duck Fork Reservoir. Photo taken on 10-23-13 by Brent Stettler, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.
Ashley Bonser holds up a couple of burbot he caught at Flaming Gorge.
One night's burbot catch at Flaming Gorge.
UDWR Native Aquatics Technician Ian Harding holds a burbot caught during annual netting at Flaming Gorge.
Seth caught this beautiful brown trout out of the Weber River. Photo taken 11-05-13 by Phil Douglass, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.
Ron Stewart fished this rainbow trout out of Steinaker Reservoir during some late-fall fishing. Photo by Ron Stewart, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, on 11-09-13.
Ed Knight caught this 24.5-inch cutthroat trout from Scofield Reservoir on Nov. 23, 2013. Photo by Brent Stettler.
A 21.5-inch Bonneville whitefish caught during the spawn at Bear Lake. Photo courtesy of Kelly Mecham, 11-29-13.
Kelly Mecham with a Bonneville whitefish he caught at Bear Lake on 11-29-13. These native sport fish aren't found anywhere else in the world.
Ice fishing - Part 1
Winter is a great time to fish for yellow perch and brown trout in Utah. Photo by Scott Root, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.
A close-up of a tiger trout caught during a gill netting survey at Scofield Reservoir. Photo taken 10-2013 by Michael Christensen.
Aquatics professional Clavin Black with tiger trout out of Scofield. Photo taken 10-2013 by Michael Christensen.
A 23-inch, 6.5-pound wiper caught at Willard Bay. Photo taken 4-12-14, Phil Tuttle, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.


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SBDC Women's Business Bootcamp Focuses on MarketingMonday, March 18th, 2013
The SUNY Canton Small Business Development Center will be giving female entrepreneurs a marketing advantage at the Women's Business Bootcamp.
The semi-annual event and luncheon will be held from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 10 in the Richard W. Miller Campus Center's Woodcock Conference Suite.
"Our Women's Business Bootcamps have always given women business owners the opportunity to network and market among themselves," said SBDC Director Dale Rice. "This spring's panel will provide a forum for the women entrepreneurs in our area to share strategies and ideas for improving the effectiveness of their own marketing."
The SBDC has invited a panel of area women operating successful businesses for a discussion on successful marketing and will be sharing their best and worst marketing strategies. Panelists include:
- Elizabeth A. Halpen of Ms. Liz Artist Representative in Ogdensburg.
- Robin L. Barkley of The Ole Smokehouse in Madrid.
- Tania J. Sterling of TLC Real Estate in Gouverneur.
- Carmen Gendebien of Glow Day Skincare and Spa in Canton.
- Beverly J. Lazore of First Class Seconds in Akwesasne.
- Carol J. Spadaccini of Coakley's Carpet One Ace Hardware in Canton.
The panel will be followed by a Q&A session and the chance for participants to share their own experiences. There will also be a luncheon and a Mini Marketplace display area where attendees can sell their products or showcase their businesses.
Registration is $30 for the panel discussion, a half table at the Mini Marketplace, and the luncheon. For more information or to register, contact the SUNY Canton SBDC at 315-386-7312 or email email@example.com.


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Illustration from an Earlier Age, Part 2
"The more I explore," writes Jim, "the more I realize how much great art we've lost. As culture, as society, as humans..."
"... we've simply forgotten most of our artistic heritage."
Jim has been a Today's Inspiration list members for quite some time now and he and I corresponded on the subject of the era he is so passionate about. In one note he explained to me, "I can trace MY fascination with the era to folks like Al Williamson and Roy Krenkel, Leif, who very much influenced Wrightson, Jones, Kaluta and Smith. As I was reading the fanzines of the late 1960s, I would learn that Krenkel was a big fan of Franklin Booth or the Williamson went gaga over Joseph Clement Coll. I can remember cutting classes at college in 1968 to pore over the shelves of early 20th century novels to see if they had any illustrations - and thus discovering the work of Coll (on Talbot Mundy) and Cornwell (on Peter B. Kyne) and being fascinated by the modernity of their work. Of course I was comparing it to comic and fantasy art, not commercial illustration - where it was anything BUT modern."
"I grew up in the 50s looking at Colliers and the SEP. I NEVER was drawn (no pun intended) into the art on the stories. I knew it was there, but it wasn't until I discovered comic books that illustration "called" to me. Then Frazetta paperback covers woke my latent appreciation and I began following the path backwards - quite literally skipping over the illustration of the 60s and 50s and most of the 40s as I went looking for the people who influenced my favorites. I wanted to know WHO Coll was and WHAT Williamson got from him. I wanted to understand why Wrightson wasn't drawing like Frazetta anymore but was channeling Franklin Booth. What prompted this "skipping" of a generation or two in artistic influence and WHY were these "antique" styles still relevant (and effective) in the 1970s?"
"It was only partially an intellectual quest. It was also that the echoes of those old styles were resonating with me AND with a generation of comic book artists and fans. When I found the source material, I understood. These guys were defining a genre (or three) and there was an exuberance there that never happened again. Sure, lots of GREAT illustration happened after the 1920s, but it was all derivative of (or in reaction to) the work of this seminal era."
"The fine art/anti-photography movement was a major turning point and saved the craft of illustration from the dustbin, but it became, to this poor observer, something ELSE. Something good and often great, but it's always struck me as a somehow different sort of critter. The explosion of styles and craft that occurred from 1880 to 1920 was a one-time thing and was (and will be) never repeated."
Since that note Jim's been kind enough to send me his latest issues of ImageS and so my education - and appreciation - grows. Its from the most recent Black & White ImageS that I scanned today's art samples. It truly is stunning work, and this is only a tiny sampling of what every issue of ImageS contains.
If you'd like to learn more about Jim's publications, go to The Vadeboncoeur Collection of ImageS
Any many thanks, Jim!
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Nice, nice work. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Congratulations Leif, so glad you're finally coming around to the treasures of the very early great illustrators. I view it as a chain of influences as Jim Vadeboncoeur clearly points out, that are interrelated to almost every great and not so great serious illustrator down through the decades. I digress to my comment made yesterday, it can be analyzed as a visual reflection of our history and culture of the various periods in American, from the latter 1800s' to the present. The influence was passed to the next generation and the next, but where the chain broke was not in the appreciation of the great artists of the past, but education and training of the art student, which has been altered, changed, tampered with, minimized, manipulated and diluted over the decades. I think the vigorous embrace of modern art in our art schools, and now the frenzy of visual technology we have seen in the last couple of decades, has a lot to do with the changes in art education. It's not nearly as much about traditional elegance, sophistication and taste that we see in those early illustrations, it is about technique, eye catching visual effects and sledge hammer execution. I am not saying there are not some excellent talent doing highly skilled traditionally oriented drawing and painting. And, I think that is evidence the flame of the great painters and illustrators will never completely burn out.. I hope. Studying and analyzing the early illustrators can and should be a major part of the education of today's illustrators as well as fine artists. And, IMO if the art training today went back to more of the old school era of a disciplined spartan education, it wouldn't be a bad thing.ReplyDelete
Tom Watson
Tom; Thanks for sharing your insight on this topic yesterday and today. Very thought provoking. You an I have corresponded privately on the subject for the benefit of the public discussion I'll just reiterate that as much as I appreciate the art of this era I find myself unable to relate to it on an emotional level. Its too... "period" for me. I don't feel a connection to the subjects. So as much as I'm in awe of the craftsmanship (and I genuinely am) I feel like an outside observer of some quaint historical document.ReplyDelete
When I look at the illustration of the '40s, '50s and '60s I find an immediate emotional connection there. I genuinely excited at the imagery - often its pop artiness or kitchiness is exactly what I find so magnetic! The experimentation going on in the early efforts of the stylized artists, the toes being dipped into the waters of abstract expressionism, the atomic age references and bright comic book colour schemes are all comfortably familiar markers along the road I've travelled since my earliest childhood memories.
But yes, this is pretty amazing stuff and I am enjoying the process of learning what inspired the artists that inspire me. :^)
Regarding the change in art education: I don't disagree that its a factorin the changes that have brought us to where we are today... but the education of young graphic artists doesn't happen in a bubble -- its also predicated by a change of attitude in the marketplace. That is; didn't art directors want something new as much as illustrators wanted to remain relevant? And as I'm now on the front line of teaching the next generation of graphic artists, I see the pressures the business puts on the current crop to be multi-disciplinarians. The industry demands so many computer skills of these students that to devote the time we'd like to give them to really learn drawing and painting would add years to their enrollment! Realistically, who could afford it -- and where are the jobs for those people?
Its a complex problem and it took a long time for us to arrive at where we are. Sadly, I have to conclude that, in this modern world, to go back to the disciplined, spartan education of someone like Robert Fawcett, for instance, would mean turning out classes of thoroughly unemployable commercial artists.
Yes, I agree that sadly the art schools and the illustration students today are faced with a much different market, and I suspect a much more limited market in respect to available work for the traditional illustrator. Leif, after 1996, when teaching part time at the Academy of Art, we were faced with the same dilemma you point out about spreading out the curriculum in order to shoehorn in a multitude of necessary disciplines in four years. In my second semester of teaching, a senior art director from BBD&O came in to my class one day, and observed for about 30 minutes. He told me during a break that the school was finding that their graduating students were not prepared and therefore not hirable as beginning art directors for ad agencies. So, the school decided to invite a number of top ad agency ADs to sit in the classes and observe. With their input, it was apparent that there was a lack of drawing skills in communicating conceptual ideas. Myself and other teachers had tried to approach the subject at faculty meetings before, but it wasn't until it threatened the schools reputation, that they did something about it. They asked myself and some other teachers with illustration backgrounds, if we would teach drawing skills in the newly formed Foundations Dept. Every single student, even the photography students had to take one semester of basic drawing skills. With all its capabilities, the computer could not replace the importance of communicating preliminary visual concepts for ads, etc., through hand drawn sketches and marker comps as had been done in the past. About half the students did not want to take the class and objected strongly. They either didn't think it was necessary, because they thought they could do it all on the computer, or they just didn't like to draw and didn't want to bother learning it. About 35% of all my students were from foreign countries, primarily the Orient. They were much more disciplined, and willing to learn whatever they were told they needed, which made my job more satisfying.ReplyDelete
Tom Watson
- Anonymous11:01 AM
What beautiful illustrations! Mr. Peng, I hope you don't mind me saving some of these scans for my middle school art classes. The linework and hatching techniques in them will be great examples for our printmaking unit!ReplyDelete
- Charlie Allen9:36 PM
Great discussion, guys. Leif and Tom are both right. The bottom line, though, is always the market place. Even back in high school....when I knew I wanted to be an artist....I had to decide where and IF there was a market. It had to be a viable source of work and of income. Luckily, print illustration was very much alive and well. It would be a steep climb....but worth going for. Now that print market is mostly gone. The world has changed drastically, and will continue to change in the future. Young artists today have to think differently. Sure, training had a lot to do with it....but a revolution in visual communication was the over-riding factor. Thanks again for the discussion and the TI examples. Leif, I think in time you will come to appreciate and, yes, even love the early illustrators! Many were very creative and very talented cats.ReplyDelete
- Remo12:23 AM
The marketplace was ALWAYS the defining factor in Art School education.It's no coincidence that it's always the older generation bemoaning the decline in standards of art education simply because the agenda has moved on and they feel the work of their day was superior.This is mainly nostalgia and a lack of understanding of what present day students really need to make a living.ReplyDelete
Jim Vadeboncoeur does great work; I spent a lovely afternoon browsing his legendary book shelves and talking comics, years ago. Thanks for bringing us up to date on his activities, Leif.ReplyDelete
Remo.. as an illustration student in the late 50s', most of us loved and admired those early illustrations, and I would have been happy to have been an illustrator at the turn of the century.. I wasn't a nostalgic old guy back then, with a lack of understanding as to what was needed to make a living. Those early skills just connected with me. So, enlighten me Remo.. what do present day art students need to make a living? I've been out of the illustration market for the last ten years, and I'm eager to learn what the "progressive" approach today is in the market. As an active consumer, I suspect that today and in the near future, advertising illustration will want to influence me and my generation as well as the young to middle age consumer. So how are art schools now preparing students to do that?ReplyDelete
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- Remo8:05 PM
A member of my family is studying in this area at the moment,Tom and I can tell you professional level skills on Illustrator,Photoshop and InDesign are needed knowledge of web design software and other stuff like Corel painter are also useful.As they also study manufacturing processes as well as projects and theoretical work where exactly are they going to fit extended sessions in life class? I'm also pretty sure that those who experienced the rigorous old school training would have looked on your generation as only partially skilled in the classic disciplines.As I said, it's a continuum.ReplyDelete
I'm always reminded of the armchair generals when I hear this sort of criticism.
Jim's books are great. I have the whole set and enjoy them often. Cannot wait for #6!ReplyDelete
Remo, does it take four years to learn those programs, I don't know. I taught myself Photoshop, Illustrator and Pagemaker all at the same time, back in the late 90s'. It took me about six months, but I was willing to put the extra time into it. Ironically, it was the traditional non computer illustration work that continued to be the large share of my work, in spite of just about everyone telling me I couldn't survive in the business without learning those programs. Maybe we are talking about how hard a student is willing to work to learn ALL the skills, while in school.. at least not just touch on traditional skills, or think they aren't necessary. I don't know Remo, maybe I'm just one of those armchair generals that thinks troops on the ground are just as important as high tech precision bombing from a war room.ReplyDelete
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- Remo2:49 AM
I think the ability to make your design work on paper before realizing it on the computer is a useful skill but the kind of end product,( overprints,textures, typography,etc } required today is so different from what was conceivable in your day that the kind of training you are talking about just isn't needed by most art students.That may be anathema to you but its just a fact.Art must move on, and as much as I love traditional illustration I really don't need to see some version of it played out again.I want to see new things, not re-hashes of the past.ReplyDelete
Tom; I can't speak for all art colleges but my students do get as much classical training in illustration as I can possibly sneak into their assignments. For the most part, this is nothing more sophisticated than learning to construct figures and objects by drawing them as basic shapes and applying perspective. Our students course load is about half digital and half real media. I even make them hand-render and study type faces and comp in greeked body copy on their layouts.ReplyDelete
But just as some would argue, why bother teaching basic math when everything around you from your phone to your laptop has a calculator in it, many would argue why do you need to learn perspective or how to draw the figure when we now have Poser http://poser.smithmicro.com/poser.html and Google SketchUp http://sketchup.google.com/
Its very hard to justify the hours spent on classical training to those people - esp. when they are paying a fortune to get the skills that will get them work in today's industry.
Remo is right - you can MORE than get by as a graphic arts professional these days without ever drawing so much as a thumbnail sketch. You cannot without knowing a vast array of software programs. You'd be completely unemployable (of course there could always be the exception, but that doesn't change the fact for the majority of young hopefuls)ReplyDelete
Illustration for print (magazines) is so close to death's door that only those of us who love it passionately are insisting we keep administering CPR. Everyone else has already signed the death certificate. No one buys magazines any more and there's so much stock illustration available that its beyond ridiculous. The fees paid haven't gone up in 25 years.
Today, the only remaining market for something akin to classical illustration is the comic book industry - and frankly that market is so marginalized that it would have long ago ceased to exist if Hollywood hadn't discovered its a bottomless gold mine for blockbuster movie concepts. I honestly believe that's the only reason huge entertainment corporations continue to support the labour intensive process of making comic book art. The sales of the actual comic books are abysmal.
- Remo1:35 PM
I look at today's animated movies,comics, storyboards etc and ask myself do these look qualitively worse than what was being produced in the 40s 50s and 60s, and I can honestly say that for the most part its all as good, if not better, today than back then.ReplyDelete
I can't compare magazine illustration -particularly realistic- because ,as Leif said, that's virtually gone.
But look at the welter of super slick pre-production renderings of space vehicles characters and environments you see at ConceptArt and tell me those talented artists couldn't have been the Binghams Andersons and Loomises of today.
Good point - I should have qualified: the only remaining market for finished illustration is comics -- there is a TON of work in concept art for 'realistic' illustration. Its just not intended for public consumption.ReplyDelete
The artists who work in the concept art industry are very serious students of the classical illustrators. reading some of the forums, neophytes asking for drawing advice are invariably directed to find Loomis, Bridgman, etc - and to draw and paint and sketch constantly - and from life.
As it was 25 years ago when I was graduating from art college, only a tiny percentage of students will have the passion and determination (and hopefully, some talent and luck) to pursue a career in illustration. It seems to me, in spite of technological advances and stylistic changes, the percentage hasn't changed that much over the years. Of the 200 students in my first year illustration class, I can think of less than 10 who made it to a successful career in illustration.
Leif and Remo, thanks for the interesting input on today's illustration and art school status. My observations of the illustration market today is reflective of your comments. However, illustration has long been one of the only fields where you can earn a degree and your prospects of earning a living from it, are not that great.. as Leif suggested.ReplyDelete
When I attended Art Center School in L.A., One of my teachers told me that over half those that enrolled in ACS would drop out before getting their degree, and less than half of those that graduated would find sustainable illustration work. A friend earned her degree at the Academy of Art in illustration, and couldn't find a job as an illustrator. She complained to the school, and they offered her a teaching job for a basic drawing class. Her husband, also an AA illustration graduate, couldn't find a job either, so he enrolled in a culinary school and became a souse chef for a hotel chain restaurant. My friend did find a modest amount of freelance illustration work, but not enough to pay the bills. And, that was in the latter 1990s'. I'm sure glad I was in the business when it was still relatively healthy.
I suspect, due to the demise of the illustration market, the fine art market has benefitted considerably. I think there is very little separation between traditional illustration and traditional fine arts today.. particularly in the print market.
Tom Watson
I think you're absolutely right, Tom; I think many artists have discovered that they can create their own miniature network of dedicated followers/customers thanks to the Internet and all the social media tools one has at one's disposal. Some have created incredibly lucrative businesses - others are making part of their income through things like Etsy, Lulu, Threadless, etc. to supplement their commercial art income. Some are participating in gallery shows and selling original art. The line between fine and commercial art is nearly indistinguishable for many of these artists.ReplyDelete
As always, artists won't (can't) stop making art, whether commercial clients want that art or not. Its like eating and breathing to them (us). :^)
Michele Falanga, Frank Frazetta's childhood art teacherReplyDelete
Read the posts at Tenth Letter of the Alphabet, alphabettenthletter.blogspot.com
Feb 1: Profile of Falanga includes a photograph of him and reproductions of his art
Feb 2: News clippings about Falanga and the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Arts
Feb 3: Students of the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Arts
Feb 4: A look at 85 Court Street, home of the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Arts
Feb 6: Hal Foster's influence on Frazetta's Thun'da
Feb 9: Mini-profile of Paul Grubman, Frazetta's high school art teacher
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DETROIT – A consumer advocate group is urging fans and parents to beware—getting a ticket to see Justin Bieber in concert next summer in Detroit may not come easy.
Michigan Citizen Action and the Fan Freedom Project expect Bieber tickets to sell out in seconds.
They call it ticket holdbacks, in which a large number of tickets are set aside for fan club members and VIP's. They claim not much is left for the public.
"Consumers have a right to know," said John Potter of Fan Freedom Project. "If only a thousand seats are being put on sale, then consumers should know the arena might hold 20,000, but there's only a thousand seats being put up for sale."
The groups say reasons like these will leave many fans singing the blues and paying big to see Bieber perform live.
"Fans have a right to face value tickets at the box office or at least fans have a right to get a fair shot at face value tickets at the box office," said Potter.
Michigan is one of several states considering legislation to address this issue.
One industry insider says there are ways around inflated ticket prices. For example, they say fans can join a fan club or sign up for credit card pre-sale offers.
Ticket prices range from $45 to a little over $100. Tickets go on sale beginning at 10 a.m. Friday at Joe Louis Arena.


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Rams pull out of UK 2013/14 commitment
Thought I'd stick it here as it doesn't necessarily pertain to the Ravens themselves:
"The Rams appeared set up as the de facto British farm team for the NFL, with games scheduled in 2012, 2013 and 2014. But that took a sudden and surprising change on Monday, with the team announcing it had bailed on the London commitment for 2013 and 2014.
St. Louis will still take its talents across the pond to face Tom Brady and the Patriots in the upcoming season, but want to "focus" on getting its stadium situation at home settled in the two years after that rathen than travel halfway across the world for a game.
"In an effort to focus on the Edward Jones Dome First Tier Process with the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission, the St. Louis Rams are withdrawing their commitment to play a home game in London in each of the 2013 and 2014 seasons," the Rams announced in a statement released by the team."
Be interesting to see who will go for next year.
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Re: Rams pull out of UK 2013/14 commitment
On the one hand, great news that we don't have to watch them get whomped two years in a row.
On the other hand, is it just me that senses trouble here? Perhaps I'm just being paranoid, but don't know how well this bodes for the future of the Wembley games."Flacco stepping up and throwing deep down the far sideline... CAUGHT!!! Into the endzone, TOUCHDOWN JACOBY JONES!!!!!"


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One thing about my mom: she loves to buy people presents. I mean, she LOVES it. The build-up to Christmas starts, I swear, in September, and at some point in each telephone conversation after that point, she tells me what she has bought for whom for Christmas since our previous conversation. She's generally pretty good about adhering to my rules about what makes an acceptable present for the girls, although her enthusiasm causes her to cross the line occasionally (I've given in on My Little Pony, but I will NOT give in on ANY My Little Pony plastic playsets or accessories), and since I have a whole blog to whine about stuff I want, as well as my pumpkinbear wists, she always manages to surprise me with something that I have totally wanted forever, as well.
This year, one of the things that I got from my mother was a set of rocket pop popsicle molds. Do you remember rocket pops? Popsicles shaped like rockets? Don't you think it would be awesome to make your own rocket pops?
Well, I can assure you, it IS awesome. It is AWESOME!!!
You can make a rocket pop with just juice, just like you make a regular homemade popsicle (as if I'll ever be making any of those again!), but one of the cool things about rocket pops, out of the many cool things about rocket pops--Did I mention that they're shaped like rockets?--is that they're striated. Your rocket isn't just a rocket, but a RAINBOW rocket. You can't do that with juice!
You can, however, make a delicious, nutritious, frozen rocket rainbow treat out of yogurt. Here's how:
You will need:
- white yogurt, plain or flavored--I used Trader's Point Creamery low-fat vanilla. Another option is to flavor the yogurt yourself, with honey or spices, perhaps.
- liquid food coloring--my professional-grade food coloring is in paste form, so I used some generic liquid food coloring from the big-box grocery store. Another option is to experiment with natural food colorings--blueberry juice, colorful herbs, etc.
- several small bowls with a spoon for each bowl
- room in the freezer for each mold to sit nicely upside-down
2. Letting the littles choose colors, add a judicious amount of food coloring to each bowl. For little littles, this is the time to review color identifications or mixing primary colors or just how many infinite ways there are to make brown.
3. The littles get to stir.
4. Letting the littles choose the order of colors, carefully spoon each color of yogurt into the pop mold. Try not to slop the yogurt against the inner sides of the mold as you spoon it in. As long as you put your yogurt in a spoonful at a time, each layer will sit nicely on top of the previous layer:
6. The instructions that came with our rocket pop mold advised us to let the pops freeze for at least four hours. In order to avoid having to inform two small children every five seconds for four hours about whether or not the pops are ready, we made our pops as a family activity just before bedtime, and then the girls got to eat their pops for breakfast. Willow, actually, didn't care much for her pop--Trader's Point Creamery yogurt is on the tart side, which is what I think she found unappealing. I'll have to think up some kind of natural pudding or a different kind of yogurt for her future popsicles.
Sydney, however, was a big fan:
She ate two of these in a row, and another one later for her snack. When we make a new batch today (our current supply of rocket pops being dreadfully low), I plan to add in a couple of layers of frozen berries, just so I feel a little better about letting the baby eat nothing but frozen yogurt all day.
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April 24, 2013
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Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino today announced that parking at meters on Boylston Street, as well as throughout the entire Back Bay, will be free today through Sunday. The City encourages all to come back to the area, go to our restaurants, go to our shops and get involved in the recovery effort.
"Boston is strong and we will support Boylston Strong all weekend long," Mayor Menino said.
He continued, "As of today, these businesses that have been off limits since Marathon Monday are open and are looking forward to receiving and serving their customers once again. To support the efforts of our local businesses through the end of the weekend, the City of Boston is offering free parking at meters on Boylston Street and throughout the entire Back Bay."
The meters in question are located on all Back Bay streets between Arlington Street and Massachusetts Avenue, as well as those parking meters adjacent to the Public Garden.


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It looks like Ashley Judd is getting a taste of the rough-and-tumble world of politics.
While she's yet to announce if she'll challenge Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell for his seat in her native Kentucky in 2014, the 44-year-old Hollywood star and political activist seems to like the fact that a group is already running an attack ad warning of her candidacy.
"Ashley thanks Senator McConnell, Karl Rove, and their negative allies for all the attention as she considers her future political plans, although a decision hasn't been made yet," her publicist said in a statement to E! News on Judd's behalf.
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Ashley Judd has become a fixture on the Tennessee political scene in recent years
The spot, dubbed "American Crossroads Presents: Ashley's Story," attempts to paint the actress as being out of touch with the concerns of Kentuckians and as a devoted follower of President Barack Obama.
"You know what this country needs? An independent voice...for Obama," intones a male voice over. "Her own grandmother says she's a Hollywood liberal, but isn't that what we need? Ashley Judd, an Obama-following, radical Hollywood liberal who's right at home here in Tennessee...I mean Kentucky."
The ad was produced by American Crossroads, a SuperPac started by Rove, the political consultant, Fox News contributor and former chief of staff under President George W. Bush.
Ashley Judd and husband Dario Franchitti break up
While Judd has a residence in Tennessee, she grew up in Kentucky and went to college in the state. And as an active member of the Democratic Party, she's dropped some serious hints in recent days that she's looking to get into the race there against McConnell.
"The people of Kentucky need a fighter," the thesp told Louisville's Courier-Journal newspaper last month. "And certainly going back 10 generations, I've got some fighters from those hills in my family."
No word yet when Judd--who just separated from her husband of 11 years, IndyCar racer Dario Franchitti--will reveal her decision.


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On Friday, Feb. 8, the National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) hosted its annual Netiquette dinner, a chance for students to learn about and practice networking skills and proper dining etiquette.
The event was held the week before the Penn State Smeal College of Business' corporate associate, marketing, and supply chain career fairs to improve students' abilities to make an impression on recruiters.
"I think that, by spring semester, students feel a little discouraged if they haven't gotten a job or an internship yet, but we try to show them that they still have opportunities and help them go after them," said NABA president Fuad Ligali, an actuarial science junior.
Though NABA is a Smeal student organization, students from across the University are welcome to attend their events.
"We're a smaller organization, so we try to focus on professional development skills that everyone will need," Ligali said. Getting a diverse group of people involved—beyond just racial and gender diversity but including diversity of mindsets and opinions—is an important part of NABA's mission.
"I want my members to understand the importance of involvement on campus," said Ligali.
Though a heavy snowstorm coming through that Friday interrupted some of NABA's pre-dinner event plans, about 85 students still attended the etiquette dinner with company invitee Capital One—this is the highest attendance since the event began several years ago.
And even though not everything went as planned, Ligali said he and his fellow NABA members looked at it as a good learning experience: "You may face obstacles, but you have to move forward and get things done," said Ligali.
NABA is hoping to hold a networking expo in March to connect with the companies that were unable to attend this month's event.
NABA works actively with business firms, corporations, colleges, and alumni of Penn State in placing minority candidates in positions in various business fields, which also providing technical seminars for those considering careers in accounting, finance, marketing, and management.


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After some effort, Pyrit has now made it's way into Fedora Linux. With being present in Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora, it should be easier for unexperienced users to get Pyrit working on their machines, using the distribution of their choice.
At the moment, the package still lives in updates-testing. You may install Pyrit in Fedora 14, 15 or 16 with the following command:
yum –enablerepo=updates-testing install pyrit
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Katie Holmes in New John Frieda Hair Color Short
See Katie Holmes Cheat (on Her Hairstylist) in This Just-Debuted John Frieda Short
Have you ever felt the desire to cheat . . . on your hairstylist? Katie Holmes has (playing the fictional character of American actress Joan Hudson) in this film noir-style short, which she debuted Tuesday night in NYC. Joan has a problem, you see. She and her stylist are rumored to have parted ways, and someone has taken his place: John Frieda's new DIY Precision Foam Hair Color. Watch as Katie totes around a bird, makes goofy faces at a TSA-esque official, and realizes "it's a good day to dye." What do you think of the tongue-in-cheek flick?


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NEW YORK — A federal appeals court upheld the conviction of an opera-loving philanthropist convicted of a multimillion-dollar fraud but ordered him resentenced.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Friday left unclear whether Alberto Vilar, 72, will remain free on bail.
His lawyer, Vivian Shevitz, said she was disappointed.
"But to the extent that the court has pointed the way to further litigation we will pursue it," she said.
In upholding the conviction of Vilar and his co-defendant, Gary Alan Tanaka, a three-judge appeals panel dismissed claims they were tried unfairly.
It said a resentencing was warranted because a recent Supreme Court ruling raised questions as to whether a loss estimated by a lower-court judge at between $20 million and $50 million should include investments purchased overseas. A lower calculation could result in a lower sentence.
Convicted in 2008, Vilar was sentenced to nine years and Tanaka to five years in prison.
The court said Vilar and Tanaka promised investors their money would be invested in high-quality, short-term deposits including U.S. Treasury bills but then put their money in technology and biotechnology stocks that collapsed in value when the dot-com bubble burst in fall 2000.
Before the collapse, Vilar, born in New Jersey and of Cuban descent, was described by Forbes magazine as worth about $950 million. He had earned hundreds of millions of dollars on investments in the stock boom of the 1990s. He spent some of the money making donations of as much as $225 million to opera houses.
Before his arrest, he helped to manage up to $9 billion in investments. He gave generously to music companies, and they reciprocated with various honors. His rich and powerful friends largely vanished after his arrest. The Metropolitan Opera took his name off its grand tier, the Royal Opera at Covent Garden in London removed his surname from its Floral Hall and the Salzburg Festival in Austria stripped his picture from its programs.
At trial, witnesses against Vilar included Lily Cates, the mother of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" actress Phoebe Cates, who said he improperly spent $5 million of her money.
The court discounted arguments that Vilar and Tanaka should be shielded from criminal blame because investments were carefully structured to occur overseas.
"In other words, Vilar and Tanaka argue that their very intention to evade U.S. law is evidence of their innocence. We see no reason to rescue fraudsters when they complain that their perfect scheme to avoid getting caught has failed," it wrote.


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CitationsArtemether-lumefantrine (Coartem) for treatment of malaria (2009). Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics, 51(1321): 75–76.Achan J, et al. (2009). Effectiveness of quinine versus artemether-lumefantrine for treating uncomplicated falciparum malaria in Ugandan children: Randomised trial. BMJ, 339: b2763.
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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
After watching Nashville on Wednesday night (Nov. 14), all I could think of was how I'd love to be on that show so I could tell Juliette to grow the hell up, tell Rayna there's nothing wrong with country songs about moms and SUVs and tell Avery not to let the door hit him on the way out. But, unfortunately, I'm not on the show. You, however, can be. At least for a day. The show's producers are looking for extras next week. So if you can be in Nashville on Tuesday (Nov. 20), you can be on Nashville. You'll be a fan in the audience at a Rayna and Juliette concert. So you get to be seen on television and get to hear a free concert. They'll just need you to cheer, applaud, sing along and move around the arena. Just like you would at a real concert in the Bridgestone Arena. Filming will be between 1:30-7 p.m., and they are only looking for adults 18 and over. And since this "concert" is supposed to be taking place in San Diego, the casting director has asked that you not wear winter clothes. Also, please leave the full-on western wear (cowboy hats, cowboy boots, pearl-snap shirts and bolo ties) at home.


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Barb will go to your location and sing the song you request accompanying herself on acoustic guitar.
Choose from the following list of songs available.
*NOTE: Special requests for songs that are not in the public domain require an extra $50 licensing fee
Walk That Mile
Do You Know Where You Are?
Diamonds on the Streets in San Francisco
Because I Am
The Sound Of Your Soul
A Farmer's Light
Come To The Farm
Give You What You Need
Violet Skies
Come To The Farm
Brahm's Lullaby (German, English, Chinese)
Wr Hat die Schonsten Schafen
Rock a Bye Baby
Hey Hey Watanay
Die Blumelein Sie Schlafen
Der Mond Ist Auf Gegangen
Weissts Du Wieviel Sternlein Stehen?
Hush Little Baby
Oh How Lovely Is The Evening
Sleep My Baby
Twinkle Little Star
Sleep Baby Sleep (German, English)
A La Nanita
Goober Peas
Skip To My Loo
Shoo Fly
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Battle Hymn of The Republic
Wir Wollen Unser Alten Kaiser Wilhelm Wieder Haben
Ich Hatte Ein Kamaraden
Lore Lore Lore (Im Wald, Im Grünen Walde)
Morgen Marschieren Wir
Wenn Die Soldaten
Ein Heller und Ein Batzen
Schwarzbraun Ist Die Hazelnuss
Der Treuer Husar
Der Jager Aus Kurpfalz
Horch Was Kommt Von Draussen Rein
Mein Vater War Ein Wandersmann
Es Klappert Die Muhle Am Rauschenden Bach Klipp Klapp
Alle Vogel Sind Schon Da
Ein Vogel Wollte Hochzeit Machen
Grun Grun Grun Sind Alle Meine Kleider
Ach Du Lieber Augustin
Die Tiroler Sind Lustig
Die Lorelei
Madel Ruck Ruck Ruck
Muss I Denn
Wenn Alle Brunlein Fliessen
Du Du Liegst Mir Im Herzen
Lustig Ist Das Zigeuner Leben
Freut Euch Des Lebens
Lili Marlen
Das Wandern Ist Des Mullers Lust
In Einem Kuhlen Grunde
Ich Bin Ein Musikanter
Kein Schoner Land in Dieser Zeit
Ich Geh Mit Meiner Laterne
O Wie Wohl Ist Mir Am Abend
Im Munchen Steht Ein Hofbrauhaus
Ich Hab Mein Herz in Heidelberg Verlorn
La Paloma
Wiesse Taube
Ja, Vi Elsker Dette Landet (Norwegian National Anthem)
Eirik Jarl
Per Spelmann
Pal Sine Honer
Lille Petter Edderkopp
Solveigs song
A Kjore Vatten
Folkestad Visa
Kjerringa Med Staven
Mellom Bakkar Og Berg
Some of Barb's Original Christmas Songs
Songs played on the Recorder (includes all the other songs)
Travel is limited to 10 miles from whatever her current location is.
When not on tour, her homebase is Palatine, Illinois/USA.
Send us an Email for more information or to purchase a singing telegram
What is the furthest you have toured?: Furthest west is Alaska and Hawaii, furthest east is Berlin Germany, furthest north is Barrow Alaska, furthest south is Dallas Texas
How do you do what you do?: Balancing work, pleasure, play, fun, creativity, practice, networking
How many songs have you written?: I have written a few hundred. Not all have been recorded.
Do you have any pets?: I have two acquariums with snails, and one terrarium I am preparing for neon tetras
Did you have to go to school to be a musicians?: The kind of musician I am, included a college degree in Chemistry. For myself, I learned that it wasn't just about a higher more challenging use of my brain via education, but about learning to travel amidst many types of circles. A musicians meets all kinds of interesting and fascinating characters on the road.
Susan Galvez Fan
"If you have not heard Barb singing a lullaby in German or yodeling for a king, give your ears and mind a treat and see Barb in concert" ....... those are some of my favorites songs!"...Susan Galvez. Palatine, Illinois
Jeff Videographer
Barb's engaging songs draw people in. Her audience often joins her in joy filled sing-alongs. Barb is also an excellent story teller, she tells amazing facts about her songs in a highly entertaining ways. Barb Sorensen has a vast range and sings in German and English She sings early American and German Folk Songs along with modern Pop Rock and Kids Lullaby's. Barb's informal friendly approachable joyous style is perfect for family gatherings in a park, Historical Re-enactments, and all sizes [sic] concert settings. Heinz Thiel
Kim Parent of Barb's Music class student
She Looks Up To You. Thank you so much for keeping us informed of your career. Gretchen almost cried when she heard your "Snowflake" song! Honest!! She just looks up to you and always has. Kim, United States - 15 January 2006
Joyce & Tony Fans
"My husband and I have been to several of Barb's concerts. We are very impressed with her songwriting abilities and her enthusiasm for performing. Barb loves singing and playing her guitar, and it shows!" - Joyce and Tony T., Downers Grove, Illinois
Keith Fort / Director Screamfest B96 Chicago Entertainment Producer
"Barb is very creative, extremely hardworking, willing to go far above and beyond the norm. Her transformation as an actress was stunning and a wonder to behold. She was always one of the first to offer her time and talents to help promote the show, and I endorse her heartily. Thanks, Barb! and Keep rockin'!"
Neal Reynolds Fan//Author
It's well past midnight as I write this and I can't stop listening to acoustic pop/rock singer/songwriter Barb Kronau-Sorensen's CD "Walk That Mile"! It has that rare quality where the songs are both immediately pleasing to the ear and catchy, yet don't wear out their welcome upon repeated hearings. In fact, upon each listen the songs become even more aesthetically pleasing, while one develops a deeper appreciation of the melodies, instrumentation, and extra layers and levels of meaning to the lyrics. I can't decide if my favorite song is "The Sound of Your Soul" or "Because I Am" -- I like the overall sensuous, Caribbean feel and emotion of "Soul" the best, yet I can't resist the unexpected melodic variations and vocal stylings of the last two and a half lines of each verse of the rockin' "Because I am". "Because I Am" vividly conveys the singer's delight at her formerly stick-in-tne-mud lover's unexpected romantic revival -- which has happily turned her into his fool as well. "The Sound of Your Soul" combines the musical styles of lite jazz and Jamaican music to set a warm, loving mood... a wash of sound that magically conveys the depth of the love the singer feels for her love, as she basks in the glow and feels ever closer to, almost one with, his soul. The CD opens with the infectiously catchy instrumentation of the pop rock song "Walk That Mile", wherein the singer tells of the lesson she has learned, that she has to follow her own path, not those others would choose for her. A familiar lesson perhaps, but one seldom conveyed with as much feel, strength, and good 'ol fashioned rock 'n roll fun than it is here. In fact, from the moment the song begins it is clear that this entire CD is a fully professional quality work of art, from the highly skilled playing and singing to the crisp high fidelity recording with absolutely no background noise -- an impeccable job all the way around. The fourth song on the CD, the catchy dance club style "Possessive Obsession", breaks somewhat with Sorensen's acoustic tradition by using techno-pop studio tricks and electronics -- to good effect. And it's interesting to hear a story of a woman being possessed by love for a change, as we have a tendency to think of obsessive love as a purely male phenomenon. Also unexpected for an independent label is how fully professional the packaging and graphic design of the CD is, with the inclusion of lyrics and several lovely and festive photographs of the singer, whose beautiful voice is matched only by her visual beauty. Anyone who has had the good fortune to have seen one of this very intelligent singer/songwriter's beautiful, energetic (and downright fun!) concerts knows that she has an incredible wealth of original material -- so my only complaint is that only a few them have been recorded so far. Let us hope she gets another CD released soon. In the meantime, if you're looking for a wonderful musical pickup during the winter doldrums (or any time), something that is both romantic, fun, and insightful, I can't recommend a better CD than Barb Sorensen's "Walk That Mile".
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The pre-Conference NewsLeaf is here!
This is a long issue (30+ pages) as it contains a report from each of the branches, plus a report from each of the regional directors, plus financial statements, plus a report on all the things that went on at last year's Conference, plus, plus, plus. Phew!
To say the least, I am usually spent by the time it is done and I take a couple of days off to recover, but this year, I was totally booked in writing magazine articles - so no time off for me!
They are good publications (if I must say so myself) - Families and NewsLeaf. This November, I will have been the editor for three years - it seems like I just put out my second edition, but in truth, it will be my 10th one!
And if you are coming to Conference 2009, be sure to drop by our table. Yes, we will have a table this year. It will be alongside the OGS table, but we will be clearly marked as "OGS Publications".
Grace Jewell, the OGS Webmaster, and John Becker, the editor of Families, will be there on Saturday. And I (Elizabeth Lapointe), the editor of NewsLeaf and e-NewsLeaf, will be there on Sunday.
If you haven't signed up to receive e-Newsleaf, be sure to do that - it is included in your yearly membership dues. There will be a sheet that you can put your email address on it if you haven't already subscribed at the "Members Only" section of the OGS website <www.ogs.on.ca>.
So far, only about 80% of members have sent in their addresses, and we would like to see everybody join up, as there are links for access to the great databases that the OGS has already published, and for the new ones that will be coming soon. So sign up - you'll be glad you did!
This year, I will be representing the International Society of Family History Writers and Editors in my capacity as the International Director, and it's a great organization. I will have a handout available for all, detailing the ISFHWE group, and its benefits. The website address is <http://isfhwe.org>.
So come on over and say "Hello!" to myself, John, and Grace. We would be pleased to see you.
If you would like to send in an article or a family history to be published, be sure to come and see us.


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I think he's stiffness puts people off agreedbut I think many Democrats hold him responsible for letting dubya get into the white house. he's associated with the 2000 election failure (define it anyway you like) in people's minds forever Well, i went to the University of Florida... so i was smack dab in the center of the "dangling chad" debocle...and in my circle more people blaimed the electoral process and the President's brother than the candidate himself... there are still many people who thinkthat Gore won the election!
I am not saying that Gore is responsible. I'm saying that he is forever tainted by that election.