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Hollywood loves an adaptation--unfortunately, most of them stink. And the biggest mistake that's made on the way to a bad remake is often a poor choice of source material. Time and again, Hollywood sets its sights on a franchise of days gone by hoping to cash in on a pre-existing brand, but for one reason or another picks the wrong one.
"Dark Shadows" is the perfect choice for being brought back from the dead. The daytime soap opera began running in 1966, and in Season 2 introduced Barnabas Collins (played by Jonathan Frid), a vampire who returns to his family's estate after being freed from his 200-year entombment by a groundskeeper. The movie version, starring Johnny Depp, opens this weekend, 46 years after the original.
A lightweight comedy held aloft by excellent and and an outstanding performance by Ava Green, this "Dark Shadows" is an an inspired choice for an adaptation. It follows what I think of as the key principles to successfully turn a TV show into a film:
Find a franchise that feels current: While we're definitely on the tail end of the whole vampire thing, we're far from over it. There's another "Twilight" to be released and there's a "Van Helsing' reboot starring Tom Cruise in the works, so there's still an appetite for bloodsuckers. And though the past decade has witnessed the steady demise of the daytime soap, shows like "Revenge" and "Gossip Girl" suggest that there's still a hefty market for melodrama. A vampire soap opera like "Dark Shadows" can't miss.
Find a franchise that is long dormant: Movies today are typically made in an effort to attract a younger demo, so no one in the target audience for this film is going to be turned off by having their cherished childhood memories defiled. Rightly or wrongly, the major studios don't care about people who were hardcore "Dark Shadows" fans—which is to say people in their 50s or older.
"The Fugitive" is a fine example of how this works: Great story, but no one had seen the show in years, many didn't even remember it, so there was no comparing Harrison Ford to David Janssen. The flipside to this, of course, is to hit the theaters when your brand is still fresh, which can also work. See: "The Simpsons," "Wayne's World" or "X-Files"—though be careful, because "X Files" felt totally unnecessary after the film.
Find a franchise that produced no pop culture icons: Frid was the star of the show pretty much from the minute he made his debut, but a look at his IMDB page shows a snapshot of a man who fell off the map. Even if you take into account how incomplete his IMDB profile is, there's no getting around the fact that the man was a non-factor post "Dark Shadows" (though he did star in Oliver Stone's directorial debut, "Seizure," as a horror writer whose nightmares come to life one weekend).
Watching "The A-Team," one could only cringe in anticipation of the next "I love it when a plan comes together" riff, or BA vs. Murdoch imbroglio. As dopey as that show was, we knew those characters like a gang of maladjusted but lovable uncles, and the new A-Team could never replace them.
Respect the source material: Depp and Burton very much leverage for laughs the 200-years-dead fish out of water conceit of "Dark Shadows", and the take some liberties with the plotlines from season two of the show, but it's not at the expense of the source material--which even Burton has conceded wasn't all that good. Nonetheless, Burton went so far as to give Frid and other members of the old show's cast small cameos in the film.
If you were unlucky enough to have seen "Green Hornet," you know how bad things can get when a filmmaker tries to adapt material he doesn't have affection for. Watching Seth Rogen in Michel Gondry's "Green Hornet," you got the sense that just wanted to use the show's legacy to send up the genre. Buying someone's brand so you can make sport of it isn't funny or clever; it's rude.
Find a franchise that's terrible: This might be the best thing you can do for yourself. With all due respect to "Dark Shadows" creator Dan Curtis, star Jonathan Frid (who died earlier this month) and fans everywhere, the show was a low-budget affair with flubbed lines, wobbly sets and according to multiple sources earned the nickname "Mic Shadows" because the boom kept finding its way onscreen. Compared to "Dark Shadows", soaps of a more recent vintage look like big-budget spectacles And the pacing of the show was torturously slow, in part because the show was shot every day and so they had to keep the dialog light.
Whatever your feelings about Burton as a director, he's produced a film that will far exceed any reasonable person's expectations of what the world of "Dark Shadows" should look like. And no one, not even Mr. Frid's mother, could complain about being portrayed by Depp.
For a precedent, one need to look any further than Depp's surprise cameo from earlier this year in "21 Jump Street," itself a terrible TV show that was ripe for redoing. The Jonah Hill-Channing Tatum version was smarter, funnier and better made, while both mocking and paying homage to the show that helped make Depp a star.
Hire Burton and Depp: These two have fallen into something of a rut, with their semi-annual adaptations made just a little creepier than the original, but the fact remains these guys make bank. While not all of their films kill in America, with overseas box office, they are guaranteed to make $200 million.


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Once again, it's about the journalism -- the real content -- for Google and The Associated Press. This time, it's via six, $20,000 scholarships waiting to be awarded.
The AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship is "targeted to individual students creating innovative projects that further the ideals of digital journalism." The award is for undergrads and graduate students who are pursuing degrees at the "intersection of journalism, computer science and new media."
Applications are now open for the 2012-2013 academic year. The submission should include a project or concept that explains how your approach will move digital journalism forward. (Shoot, there might be some fresh start-up ideas in that pile!) Deadline is Jan. 27.
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
It's true that AP and Google have had their battles over distribution rights and other online bugaboos that the internet has caused, as it disruptively moves through different business models.
But AP, for one, on the program's site touts its relationship with Google as "build[ing] these vital skills in a new generation of journalists."

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by Steve Ahern
In the mid 1950s, when Ned Bachus, now 63, was five years old, he and his mother moved from Montreal to the home of a friend in Northwest Philadelphia. The move was meant to be temporary. Bachus' mother, whose own marriage to an American military serviceman had ended in divorce when Bachus was very young, wanted company and wanted to keep her Montreal friend company in Philadelphia during the year her friend's American husband was deployed overseas.
Bachus' mother adapted quickly and grew to love Philly, its Northwest section in particular. She found a job as a waitress at Schrafft's Café at 15th and Chestnut Streets and enrolled her son in school. A decade later, she bought a row home on Sydney Street in Mt. Airy that she would live in for much of the rest of her life.
Those formative years of Bachus' life formed for him the first drops of the waters he would draw from over the years in writing his debut short story collection, "The City of Brotherly Love." For most of Bachus' childhood, his mother was chronically short of money. She could not seek assistance from her family, who had remained in Montreal. She hesitated to open a child-support case, fearing the authorities would side with her ex-husband because he was an American male and a serviceman at that.
Their financial problems propelled frequent relocations triggered by raised rents and sold properties. Between the ages of 5 and 18, he and his mother moved eight times between North Philadelphia, Germantown and Mt. Airy, residing in apartments on Meehan Street and Johnson Street twice and on Germantown Avenue. Those moves exposed Bachus to Northwest Philadelphia's varied terrain and the eclectic mix of classes and ethnicities he would later adopt and modify for use in his fiction.
When he finished La Salle High School, Bachus attended Community College of Philadelphia (CCP), worlds away culturally from the section of town he moved to as a young boy. "I was exposed to the city's racial and ethnic diversity," he said, "and I recall seeing African Americans and whites singing doo-wop in the stairwells between classes during the cultural revolution of the 1960s." After two years, he transferred to Temple University, where he completed a bachelor's degree in psychology.
His first job out of college was as a high school teacher at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, a career choice "inspired by a great-aunt who had lost her hearing." That career choice led Ned to Gallaudet University where he finished a master's degree in counseling geared toward counseling the deaf.
Around this time Bachus was recruited to play for a newly formed amateur men's rugby team called Blackthorn. Having never played rugby, he later formed a rugby club for the deaf at Gallaudet University. The sing-alongs after matches in pubs with his team members eventually led to his performing music independently with The Sacred Cowboys, a folk-rock rhythm and blues band he has performed with since the 1980s and still performs with today.
Bachus' background in psychology and experience working with the deaf led to his becoming a counselor at CCP, which served as the cornerstone of his professional life. For 15 years Bachus counseled deaf students and students who were underprepared for college. In the late 1980s he transferred to the English Department, where he taught fiction writing and literature, a move that gave him summers free to focus on his writing. He retired from his post as associate professor of English at CCP early this year.
Bachus was always interested in writing, but he did not begin writing fiction in earnest until his mid- to late-30s. He began studies toward an MFA degree at Vermont College in 1986, a degree he completed in 1988. His stories have been published in literary magazines including The Louisville Review, Calliope, Antietam Review, Meridian Bound, Carve and The Evansville Review. He has also won fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and an artist residency in Ireland.
The stories in "City of Brotherly Love," some which have been in development for the last 25 years, are strewn with recognizable street names, rivers, creeks and bridges in Northwest Philadelphia. Several of the central characters are strong women, which Bachus says "may have to do with my having been raised by such a strong woman." Other central characters include rugby players, deaf educators, adolescent boys, a plumber moonlighting as a musician, a divorced male single parent confronting his loneliness and loss, an African American baker facing his loss of a child to crib death, etc.
"Trying to think from the perspective of female characters or folks of a different age, social class or ethnicity is part of the territory of fiction writing," Bachus said, "unless all you want to do is write about yourself and people just like you. If you do an honest job of examining one particular community, you have a chance to get at the universality of human experience."
Bachus, who is working on a non-fiction writing project now and has another finished novel, recently moved with his wife to central Maine, but his two children, a son and a daughter aged 27 and 31, still live in Philadelphia, as do the network of friends he has made over 60 years.
His next visit to Philadelphia will be Wednesday, Sept. 19, 7 p.m., when he will launch the publication of "The City of Brotherly Love" at the Mermaid Inn in Chestnut Hill. The book is available on Amazon.com and through the publisher Fleur-de-Lis Press (502-873-4398) or email@example.com.


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When I was 14, my mother took me to a weekend-long Quaker work camp in West Philadelphia, one of the last before the program was closed in 2005. I painted a hallway blue, prepared simple meals, and slept in a sleeping bag. By Sunday afternoon, I knew that I had been transformed.
Yes, being exposed to the struggles of poverty and becoming acutely aware of my own privilege was eye-opening. But what broke open my heart was sitting in a circle after dinner, listening to a local African-American man tell about his daily struggles with racism, and how its structural violence has shaped the course of his life and his ability to love others.
He told us the real story of West Philadelphia—of gentrification and military aggression and white flight. He told us stories of pain and strength.
Although I had spent the weekend "serving," I felt that my impact had been minimal in comparison to what I had been given. The people in the neighborhood had developed a kind of spiritual strength that compelled me to look deeply at my own approach to life. I saw a model of strength that had been forged from struggle and perseverance and faith.
I felt more alive, more connected, more tender than ever before. And while I can't say that I knew how I was going to use that experience, I was sure that spirit-led action was going to play a central role in my life. It is the only way to truly live.
The origin of the Quaker work camp experience like the one I attended can be traced back to the American Friends Service Committee's work camps, started in the 1920s by AFSC's Home Service Department. The department was charged with the work of "laying before our young people and those associated with us in our schools and colleges the call to give at least one year's time on a volunteer basis in actual service in connection with some one of the great social problems before they settle down in business or home life."
The program soon developed into a rich and intensive experience, involving several weeks of manual labor, group living, and spiritual contemplation, deeply impacting an entire generation of young Quakers who remained connected to AFSC for the rest of their lives. (Watch this silent documentary created in 1939 by a Work Campers in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.)
In 1940, AFSC published a brochure to recruit young volunteers to attend one of 12 month-long work camps being held around the country. Work—hard, physical work—was at the core of the program. For, as stated in the introduction, "Laboring with one's hands makes it possible as nothing else can, to understand realistically the problems of the working man." It goes on to say that "class and race barriers tend to disappear in the fellowship of hard physical labor."
No matter what we might think of the language today—paternalistic, naïve, and irrelevant in the digital age—these camps had lofty aims. "Physical work and the daily periods of meditation become means through which the camp group comes to understand the deeper human meanings of community rebuilding."
This was more than merely an opportunity for privileged young Quakers to learn about "the problems of the working man" while contributing little in the way of real help. These work camps provided opportunities for young people to work together with local leaders to discover the best means of rebuilding struggling communities. It recognized that it was going to require the cooperation of both historical oppressors and the oppressed to transform those archaic and destructive systems into a more whole society.
While my experience in 2005 was certainly important, digging through the AFSC Archives reveals that this model of work, contemplation, and deep listening to local community members can be truly revolutionary. It is the basis for the work AFSC does today.
Quaker Voluntary Service is the latest incarnation of this tradition of Quaker service, and launched in Atlanta during August of 2012. QVS takes this vision a step further by providing a yearlong experience of living in a developing community and working with local organizations, including AFSC's Atlanta office.
By living together in the community they are serving, participants practice nonviolent techniques of communication with one another and neighbors. Each volunteer receives the spiritual mentorship from members of a local Meeting. It asks a great deal of its volunteers in the name of deeply connecting to the roots of compassion and transforming those feelings into action.
This weekend I'll be visiting the first house in Atlanta. I look forward to hearing the stories of how these volunteers have been broken open and transformed.


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While not exactly considered the most rock'n'roll act in the world, the list of maritally consecrated couples in music is endless. From John Lennon and Yoko Ono to Win Butler and Regine Chassagne, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, each would seem to be a marriage made in heaven that's only enhanced down the recording studio.
Denver based couple Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley - aka Tennis - are the latest additions to the music world's interpretation of Mr & Mrs. On the surface, nothing untoward about that. However, when taking into account the fact Moore and Riley abandoned their day jobs, bought a mini-yacht, then spent eight months sailing round the Atlantic Ocean and subsequently writing an entire album's worth of songs about it, Cape Dory is a unique collection in itself.
Comprising ten pieces in total and barely touching the half hour mark, Cape Dory is a genuinely heartwarming document of their voyage that sounds as if it could have been recorded at any point between 1963 and the present day. Although seemingly placed in the same ball park as the likes of Best Coast, Spectrals and Dum Dum Girls, purely for their occasional C86 reference points and Moore's own admission that she wanted to make "sunny pop music", the world of Tennis probably wouldn't exist as we know it were it not for the deep-rooted affection between its two key components.
Imagine Patsy Cline fronting The Platters and you won't be far away from the dusky introduction that is 'Take Me Somewhere', Moore's swooning vocal breezing through its simplistic arrangement with winsome bliss. 'Long Boat Pass' takes a more saccharine approach, jangly guitars and surf tinged beats all the rage here. The title track meanwhile - Moore imploring her beau to "Take me out baby, I wanna go sail tonight" - shows Tennis at their resonant best. Once again built around a simple yet effective melody, lesser known third member James Barrone coming to the fore as sweeping drums elevate the song onto cloud nine in an instant.
'Marathon' also takes a slightly more diverse route, and one familiar to anyone that's heard the early Glasvegas demos of 'I'm Gonna Get Stabbed' and 'Flowers And Football Tops'. Subtle finger clicks dissolve into a Sixties-style backbeat before Riley's heavily reverbed guitar kicks a second lease of life into proceedings, Moore cooing gleefully "We didn't realise that we arrived on high tide".
Of course the downside to such frivolous tales of romantic exploration on the high seas are that occasionally things become a bit samey, and sometimes a little too icky to stomach. "When you kiss me, you really kiss me" swoons Moore on 'Waterbirds' and one feels maybe it should have remained in the sleeping quarters of their loveboat. Likewise the lovelorn ballad 'Pigeon', which while following suit with Cape Dory's overriding theme, again traverses the boundaries of intimacy.
Nevertheless, Cape Dory is a more than satisfactory introduction to the world of Tennis and their travels, and perhaps unintentionally, one of the more unique additions to the current penchant for all things lo-fi in a Spectoresque kind of way.
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The Illustration Friday words of the last three weeks were hibernate, ferocious and mesmerizing.
Yep, I've been away from blogging for a bit. I needed a good-sized vacation from My Life, but perhaps I should have been more specific…
What I got was shingles–at least that's my best educated guess. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, shingles is not a little town in north Nebraska or eastern Texas. It's an excruciatingly painful nerve event, complete (in my case) with severe back and leg muscle aches, headache, cold-sensitivity, mild nausea, very disrupted mental faculties, no appetite, insomnia and a mysterious, mildly burning and sensitive rash on my left side. From the Google pictures I've seen, I seem to have had a mild case of the stuff. (Can't even imagine what a worse case would be like…I might have been forced to break my no-painkillers rule.) Even reading, my usual sick-day refuge, was out of the question.
Usually I am able to use illness as sort of 'step-back' perspective opportunity on my life, contemplating what and how I've been doing things, choices I've made, and where I want to go next. Not so this time. This event plopped me right down, hard, in the middle of the present moment. Nothing I tried made the pain go away or lessen. Much later when I was able to contemplate, it was quite eye-opening to realize just how uncomfortable I was in the Present Moment. When all avenues of change, escape and distraction are closed, the present moment can get pretty raw. Try it sometime, if you don't believe me…
Mostly I'm better now. The rash is gradually healing, mental faculties are back to about seventy-five percent, and my To Do list is back and leaning hard. I'm a wee bit wiser now for this 'vacation,' and I am not pushing myself or my brain quite as hard as I was before. Hope it lasts.
Note: From what I have read, shingles is caused primarily by stress…and although shingles (if that is indeed what it was) is absolutely *no* fun, I am not advocating the shingles vaccine that is being pushed by doctors right now. What I do recommend, in hindsight 20/20, is to reduce the stress in your life in any way you can. There is plenty of stress floating around in the Universe right now that is not personal, and for that all we can do is breathe and trust, but our personal stresses may be adjustable.
This post will encompass three Illustration Friday words, two of which apply to a single image, and a bit of News as well: I've just posted my new Member page and mini-portfolio at the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators site here.
"Bear" is the obvious choice for the Illustration Friday word of this week, hibernate. A most sensible and economical creature, bears lay low and avoid most of Winter's assault in their cosy holes and caves. But if they are prematurely disturbed, or first thing in the Spring when they are absolutely famished (read: low blood-sugar crazies) from their Winter sleep, bears can be ferocious. Being a bear might be nice: imagine the carbohydrate binge that happens every fall…yum.
This particular bear was painted about fifteen years ago for a beautiful book dummy proposal, complete with fully finished preliminary drawing for every page, copies of five finished paintings (in oil), pasted-in text, and hand-stitching. It was an impressive presentation, especially for a novice. I had fallen in love with this particular tale when I first read it in a well-known storyteller-psychologist's collection of re-told and analyzed stories. Being much younger and very naive to the ways of the world, I sent this beautiful book prototype to that author, inquiring politely and enthusiastically, if she'd like to collaborate on a children's book version of her story. It was all above board and innocent…I still have the letter.
The response came quickly and was ferocious, (the second Illustration Friday word of the week). Threatening lawsuit, among other dire things, she burned my phone red-hot until, finally, I got a word in edgewise. Sobbing, I re-iterated that this was a proposal, not a rip-off event. It took a while for her to calm down. She gave me a her phone number (bogus, as it later turned out), and forwarded the dummy to her publisher. Four months later, with the return of my dummy, that publisher informed me via an anonymous form letter that no licensing rights were being sold.
It was a very long time before I myself calmed down from this series of events, and got back to being an artist and aspiring illustrator. A Cautionary Tale for aspiring illustrators: tread lightly, follow the rules (especially the unwritten ones)…
"Bear" (oil on gessoed paper)
The third Illustration Friday word of the week is mesmerizing. This is the drawing I made and inked, just before the shingles event. The watercolor had to wait until yesterday. Darn…I would love to have posted it that week.
Isn't it fascinating how we thinking creatures can mesmerize ourselves into believing that we are something that we absolutely are not? Maybe it's a mild form of schizophrenia? I bet you can think of lots of examples of this self-mesmerizing, without even trying…(about other people doing it, not us, of course!)
"Mesmerize" (watercolor, pen & ink)


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Google is agreeing to license certain patents to mobile phone rivals and stop a practice of including snippets from other websites in its search results as part of a settlement to end a 19-month investigation into the search leader's business practices, U.S. antitrust regulators said Thursday.
In a vindication for Google, Federal Trade Commission officials added that they didn't find enough evidence to support complaints that Google unfairly favors its own services in search results.
Google will sign an agreement requiring the company to charge ``reasonable'' prices to license hundreds of patents deemed to be ``essential'' for rival mobile devices such as Apple Inc.'s iPhone, Research in Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry and smartphones running on a Microsoft Corp.'s Windows software. Those patents came as part of Google's $12.4 billion acquisition of device maker Motorola Mobility Holdings last May.
Regulators say Google Inc. is also promising that upon request, it will exclude snippets copied from other websites in its summaries of key information, even though the company had insisted the practice is legal under the fair-use provisions of U.S. copyright law. Despite the fair-use defense, Google already had scaled back on the amount of cribbing, or ``scraping,'' of online content after business review site Yelp Inc. lodged one of the complaints that triggered the FTC investigation.
Under the FTC resolution, Google's rivals will now be able to request that their excerpts are left out of Google's search results without having to fear that links to their sites will be penalized in Google's search rankings.
In another concession, Google pledged to adjust the online advertising system that generates most of its revenue so marketing campaigns can be more easily managed on rival networks.
The FTC's investigation focused on allegations that Google has been abusing its dominance in Internet search.
Microsoft Corp. and other Google rivals say the search company has been highlighting its own services on its influential results page while burying the links to competing sites. Google Inc. has fiercely defended its right to recommend the websites that it believes are the most relevant. While the FTC said it uncovered some obvious instance of bias in Google's results during the investigation, the agency's five commissioners unanimously concluded there wasn't enough evidence to take legal action.
"Undoubtedly, Google took aggressive actions to gain advantage over rival search providers,'' said Beth Wilkinson, a lawyer that the FTC hired to help steer the investigation. ``However, the FTC's mission is to protect competition, and not individual competitors.''
The FTC's findings vindicated Google, which has depicted its methods as a more convenient way to capsulize key information so users can get the information they desire more quickly and concisely.
"The conclusion is clear: Google's services are good for users and good for competition,'' David Drummond, Google's top lawyer, wrote in a Thursday blog post.
Google executives also sought to debunk the notion that the company's recommendations are the final word on the Internet. They pointed out that consumers easily could go to Microsoft's Bing, Yahoo or other services to search for information. ``Competition is just a click away,'' became as much of a Google mantra as the company's official motto: ``Don't be evil.''
The FTC's implicit endorsement of Google's approach to Internet search is a blow for Microsoft and other rivals who had lodged complaints with regulators in hopes of goading the government into taking legal action that would split up or at least hobble the Internet's most powerful company.
Investors had already been anticipated Google would emerge from the inquiry relatively unscathed.
Google's stock gained $3.53 to $726.78 in afternoon trading Thursday. Microsoft shed 33 cents at $27.29.


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My real name is James, I am 22, and I live in Utah. I have lived there for nearly my whole life. I have been to a few places in Europe and would like to travel more. I enjoy reading, learning history (and learning in general), computers, selective games, and the few people I call friends. My other hobbies include roleplaying, studying psychology, religion, and other things most people don't believe in.
I work as a graphics and web designer, but the freelance market right now in my area is very harsh. It is tough, but I enjoy it. I plan to keep it as my professional career.
I got into Romance of the Three Kingdoms by playing Destiny of an Emperor and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In the start movie it said "based off a historical novel" so I asked my old man about it. He figured out what novel it was when I told him the name of Koei's game (he was a major in Asian studies) so I went down to the college and ordered it. I was only around 11 years old, so it took me forever to get into the wording and I had a little trouble at first with the different names (I had the Brewitt-Taylor edition), but once I got past the first 6 chapters (which took three month) I finished the rest in one month.


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Despite a rather inauspicious start—right at the beginning of the Great Recession in late 2007—less than three years later PM Press, in Oakland, Calif., has published more than 110 items, including 80 books, and pamphlets, CDs, DVDs, digital downloads, and other merchandise. The indie press also paid off the $50,000 in credit card charges it racked up in startup and printing costs.
True, the warehouse is still in shipper Dan Federenko's apartment, but founders Ramsey Kanaan, who founded AK Press (named for his mother, Ann Kanaan) 25 years ago, and Craig O'Hara, who worked with Kanaan at AK, are now getting paid. Most of the staff is volunteer. Not bad for a press that relies on setting up tables and booths at the West Virginia Book Festival in Charleston; the Green Festival in Washington, D.C.; and the Teachers for Social Justice Conference in San Francisco, as well as selling print and audio/visual PM memberships, and nontrade distribution by AK for more than half its income. Two-thirds of PM's unit sales and 40% of its income come via Independent Publishers Group, which represents the press—which took its name from the fact that its founders worked on it at night as their second job—to the trade.
To grow its list, PM forged strong relationships with bookstores early on and created imprints for a few, including Busboys and Poets in the Greater Washington, D.C., area; the Green Arcade Bookstore in San Francisco; and Reach & Teach, which opened a retail outlet, the Dove & Olive Works, in San Mateo, Calif., at the end of September. The press also has copublishing arrangements with micropresses like vegan publisher Tofu Hound Press and Derek Jensen's Flashpoint Press.
"Our strategy is to do enough books that sell between 1,000 and 3,000 copies," says O'Hara, adding that the press does both print and e-books. "My opinion has long been, if there's a format to make it available in, we'll do it." He also attributes PM's fast start to a willingness to take the time to make consumers aware of each book. "We constantly do events," he says. "I have to be out there tabling, from the Brooklyn Book Fair to social forums. There's no substitute. You can see a direct result when you're interacting with the world. All the e-mails in the world can't elaborate the status of PM Press." Last year alone PM did 400 events and is on track for several hundred again this year.
While PM has almost no returns on its direct to consumer sales, it has relatively few in the trade either, approximately 14%. In this economy, neither O'Hara nor Kanaan is inclined to overprint or have IPG oversell. It launched its biggest book this fall, Teun Voeten's Tunnel People (Oct.), about homeless New Yorkers who live in the city's tunnel system, with a 5,000-copy first printing. The photo-journalist author will tour both coasts and Europe, where photo exhibits will run in Amsterdam and London.
Given the economy, O'Hara prefers to keep print runs low and is just as happy that mega-retailers like Barnes & Noble don't want to order PM's books in large quantities. Independent booksellers who support PM's strong left-leaning political and economic lists have been equally realistic when it comes to ordering.
As far as IPG trade sales manager Jeff Palicki is concerned, "PM's books fit really well with some of the books we do with Chicago Review Press. It's certainly been a lot of fun to sell their books. They seem to be perfect for the independent market." IPG has done especially well with PM's vegan titles like Tofu Hound founders Bob Torres and Jenna Torres's Vegan Freak (Jan. 2010), as well as its opposite, ex-vegan Lierre Keith's The Vegetarian Myth (2009), which questions whether a vegan diet can save the planet. The latter is PM's bestseller, with more than 10,000 copies sold.
By splitting off from AK, which publishes only anarchist books and is run as a true collective, PM has a lot more flexibility with the quantity and range of what it publishes, says O'Hara. PM's niche may be radical politics, radical music, and radical cookbooks, but the publisher has also developed a strong fiction list, which ranges from Jensen's Songs of the Dead (2009) to works in translation like Paco Ignacio Taibo II's Calling All Heroes (July). Currently, PM publishes 25 books a season, including e-book–only releases like a compilation of Al Burian's zine, Burn Collector (Oct.). "We get a lot of submissions," says O'Hara. "There's no substitute for that. I encourage a lot of people to submit."
However, with all the books PM has published, Federenko's apartment is starting to run out of space. On PM's agenda for 2011 is raising funds for a real warehouse.


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The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make a loan or loans for any purpose authorized by and in accordance with the terms of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended, or the Act of August 28, 1937, as amended, to any person eligible for assistance under said Acts who has made or makes a homestead or desertland entry on public land or who has contracted for or contracts for the purchase of other land of the United States in a reclamation project pursuant to the applicable provisions of the homestead and reclamation laws. Any such loans required by the Secretary of Agriculture or by law to be secured by a real-estate mortgage may be secured by a mortgage contract which shall create a lien against the land in favor of the United States acting through the Secretary of Agriculture and any patent thereafter issued shall recite the existence of such lien. The first installment for the repayment of any such loan or any other loan made under the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended, or the Act of August 28, 1937, as amended, to the owner of a newly irrigated farm in a reclamation project or to an entryman under the desertland laws, may be deferred for a period of not to exceed two years from the date of the first advance under such loan.
7 U.S. Code § 1006a. Loans to homestead or desertland entrymen and purchasers of lands in reclamation projects; security; first repayment installment
The Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, referred to in text, is act July 22, 1937, ch. 517, 50 Stat. 522, as amended, which is classified generally to this chapter (§ 1000 et seq.). For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1000 of this title and Tables.
Act of August 28, 1937, referred to in text, was classified to sections 590r to 590x–4 of Title 16, Conservation, and was repealed by Pub. L. 87–128, title III, § 341(a), Aug. 8, 1961, 75 Stat. 318. See section 921 et seq. of this title.
Section was not enacted as part of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, which constitutes a major part of this chapter.
1972—Pub. L. 92–419 authorized loans to desertland entrymen and provided for first repayment installment of a loan to an entryman under the desertland laws.


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The Ship Tyre. 1The word of the LORD came to me: 2You, son of man, raise a lament over Tyre, 3and say to Tyre, who sits at the entrance to the sea, trader to peoples on many coastlands, Thus says the Lord GOD:
Tyre, you said, "I am a ship,
perfect in beauty";a
4In the heart of the sea was your territory;
your builders perfected your beauty.b
5With juniper wood from Senir*
they built all your decks;
A cedar from Lebanon they took
to make you a mast.
6With oaks of Bashan*
they fashioned your oars,
Your bridge, of ivory-inlaid cypress wood
from the coasts of Kittim.
7Fine embroidered linen from Egypt
became your sail;
Your awnings were made of purple and scarlet
from the coasts of Elishah.* c
8Inhabitants of Sidon* and Arvad
were your oarsmen;
Your own sages, Tyre, were on board,
serving as your sailors.d
9The elders and sages of Gebal
were with you to caulk your seams.
Every ship and sailor on the sea
came to you to carry on trade.e
10Persia and Lud and Put
were warriors in your army;
Shield and helmet they hung on you
to enhance your splendor.
11The men of Arvad and Helech*
were on your walls all around
And Gamadites on your towers;
they hung their shields around your walls,
they made your beauty perfect.
12Tarshish traded with you,
so great was your wealth,
Exchanging for your wares
silver, iron, tin, and lead.
13Javan, Tubal, and Meshech
also traded with you,
Exchanging slaves and bronze vessels
for your merchandise.f
14Horses, steeds, and mules from Beth-togarmah
were exchanged for your wares.
15Men of Rhodes trafficked with you;
many coastlands were your agents;
Ivory tusks and ebony wood
they brought back as your payment.
16Edom traded with you for your many wares:
garnets, purple dye, embroidered cloth,
Fine linen, coral, and rubies
they gave you as merchandise.
17Judah and the land of Israel
trafficked with you:
Minnith wheat, grain,* honey, oil, and balmg
they gave you as merchandise.
18Damascus traded with you for your many wares,
so great was your wealth,
exchanging Helbon wine and Zahar wool.
19Javan exchanged wrought iron, cassia, and aromatic cane
from Uzal for your wares.
20Dedan traded with you for riding gear.h
21Arabia and the sheikhs of Kedar were your agents,
dealing in lambs, rams, and goats.i
22The merchants of Sheba and Raamah also traded with you,
exchanging for your wares the very best spices,
all kinds of precious stones, and gold.
23Haran, Canneh, and Eden,
the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad,
24Traded with you, marketing rich garments,
purple cloth, embroidered fabric,
varicolored carpets, and braided cords.
25The ships of Tarshish sailed for you with your goods;
You were full and heavily laden
in the heart of the sea.
26Out into deep waters
your oarsmen brought you;
The east wind shattered you
in the heart of the sea.j
27Your wealth, your goods, your wares,
your sailors, your crew,
The caulkers of your seams,
those who traded for your goods,
All the warriors with you,
the whole crowd with you
Sank into the heart of the sea
on the day of your downfall.k
28At the sound of your sailors' shouts
the waves shudder,l
29Down from their ships
come all who ply the oars;
Sailors, all the seafaring crew,
stand on the shore.
30They raise their voices over you
and shout their bitter cries;
They pour dust on their heads
and cover themselves with ashes.
31For you they shave their heads bald
and put on sackcloth;
For you they weep bitterly,
in anguished lament.m
32They raise a lament for you;
they wail over you:
"Who was ever destroyed like Tyre
in the midst of the sea?"n
33By exporting your goods by sea
you satisfied many peoples,
With your great wealth and merchandise
you enriched the kings of the earth.o
34Now you are wrecked in the sea,
in the watery depths;
Your wares and all your crew
have fallen down with you.
35All who dwell on the coastlands
are aghast over you;
Their kings are terrified,
their faces distorted.
36The traders among the peoples
now hiss at you;
You have become a horror,
you shall be no more.
* [27:5] Senir: another name for Mount Hermon; cf. Dt 3:9.
* [27:6] Bashan: an area in northern Transjordan, noted for its lush growth and great forests (cf. Is 2:13). Kittim: here, probably Cyprus.
* [27:7] Elishah: perhaps another term for Cyprus.
* [27:8–9] Sidon…Gebal: Phoenician cities in Tyre's orbit of influence; Gebal is classical Byblos.
* [27:11] Helech: perhaps in Asia Minor; otherwise unknown.
* [27:17] Grain: most commentators have read "figs," but Hebrew panag more properly describes milled grains or prepared meal.
i. [27:21] Is 21:17; Jer 49:28.
j. [27:26] Ps 48:7; Jer 18:17.
m. [27:31] Is 15:2; Jer 48:37.
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For now, it only works on the Wii mode within the Wii U, not in full Wii U mode. In essence, the HBC runs on Wii U just as it does on Wii.That unsigned code is already running on the Wii U at all is quite significant.
dhewg suggested the Wii hacker community may be able to find their way into the full Wii U mode, and thus get HBC running there, but it seems they are nowhere near that - yet.
"We can all try to hack the Wii U together from inside Wii mode," he said.
Nintendo won't be happy with this latest development. It maintains that the installation of the Homebrew Channel voids warranty as it is considered unauthorised software.
|I'm pretty sure the first exploits for the Wii were done from the gamecube mode. Will be interesting to see if this ever prompts Nintendo to simply cut legacy support from future consoles.
|Now im interested.
I'm pretty sure the first exploits for the Wii were done from the gamecube mode.Nope, Twilight Hack was the first, and it was a modified save game for the Wii version of Twilight Princess. It's actually harder to hack the Wii via the GameCube mode, since it basically locks out access to the extra Wii hardware. WiiU is exactly the same with regards to Wii backwards compatibility (i.e. it locks out WiiU functions when running in Wii mode), so there's no reason to cut backwards compatibility.
Also, this isn't the first Wii exploit known to work on WiiU, SmashStack still works.
|When did homebrew become piracy?
|3DS is still not cracked yet, it has been out for ages too. Nintendo are doing a pretty good job this time round of locking down their hardware. Playstation 3 still holds the crown for toughest nut I think.
|Off to pick up a copy of SSBB :)
|lol Toll, funny ;P
|The SmashStack exploit was demonstrated to be working the day the Wii U launched in the US. This isn't a new hack, this is just a new version of the Homebrew channel for people to install on the Wii U (while running in Wii mode). It's also still a lot more limited than regular Wii hacks, since I don't think you can install custom IOSs. That means no region unlocking (boo!), but also no piracy (good!).
I doubt this will have any direct impact on hacking the Wii U though.
When did homebrew become piracy?
are you saying that it's primary use isn't for playing pirated games?
|Yeah, there is quite a bit of misinformation being posted on Ausgamers as news lately...
|so wait.. you buy a product.. and you tinker with in the confines of your own home.. and you now have committed a crime?
|So homebrew apps and games are illegal to use? I wouldn't think so... void the warranty but I think thats about it right.
are you saying that it's primary use isn't for playing pirated games?
No. As Midda pointed out, no custom IOS.
|oh right, spook will be sad then
|Hahah yeah I think spook only loves the Wii because he pirates everything.
Which is strange because he is a grown man with a fulltime job. You'd think he can afford a few games? I guess he is the the type of pirate that the industry hates and thinks everyone is like him.


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Boosting Crabgrass Control
As spring approaches, the majority of turf managers budget pre-emergence herbicide applications as the first big expense of the year for control of summer annual weeds such as crabgrass and goosegrass. The use of pre-emergence herbicides has traditionally been the basis of turf chemical programs; however, applying these materials never guarantees complete weed control. Erratic levels of control are often attributed to seasonal variations or cultural mismanagement that reduces herbicide efficacy.
Split pre-emergence herbicide applications are more commonly implemented in the Northeastern United States because of weather fluctuations, more consistent crabgrass control and increased turfgrass safety. For example, instead of applying pendimethalin at 3 pounds active ingredient (a.i.) per acre in April, it may be more effective to apply 1.5 pounds a.i. per acre in late April with a reapplication of 1.5 pounds in June. This application regime is safer for turfgrass rooting but also takes into account potential seasonal weather fluctuations that may influence weed germination.
To be effective, pre-emergence herbicides must receive irrigation or rain to be concentrated in the surface layer of the soil. Adequate moisture is especially critical when the herbicides are sprayed rather than applied as granules to move the herbicide off the foliage. If these materials do not reach the soil, crabgrass has greater opportunities to emerge and infest turfgrass areas. For non-irrigated turfgrasses, April applications likely receive adequate rainfall to move the herbicide into the soil. The key to effective summer weed control in non-irrigated turf is the sequential application in June. Typically, there is less rainfall in June and soil temperatures are more conducive to crabgrass germination.
A common trend in lawn maintenance is clipping collection. Clippings left on the turf create unsightly clumps that reduce aesthetic qualities of a well-maintained lawn. However, turfgrass leaf tissue may contain a considerable amount of herbicide residue on sites that do not receive irrigation or sufficient rainfall. It is no surprise that these turfgrass areas, including lawns, roadsides and commercial landscapes, experience the greatest crabgrass problems during summer months. These problems may be potentially alleviated by returning clippings when irrigation water or rainfall is limited for pre-emergence herbicides.
Two experiments were conducted at the New Jersey Experimental Greenhouse Research Complex, New Brunswick, N.J. Greenhouse day/night temperatures were set at approximately 74°/60°F to simulate typical temperatures for pre-emergence herbicide applications. 'Applaud' perennial ryegrass was seeded at 8 pounds per 1,000 square feet in pots with a 16-inch-squared surface area and 4-inch depth. Soil medium consisted of 80 percent Canadian Sphagnum peat moss and a 20 percent mixture of perlite, vermiculite, dolomitic limestone and calcitic limestone. Ryegrass was irrigated to field capacity 3 days per week and mowed weekly with grass shears (Black and Decker, Towson, Md.). Turf was established approximately 3 weeks before herbicide treatments.
Herbicides applied included Betasan (bensulide, 4LF) at 0, 6, 12 and 24 pounds a.i. per acre, Dimension (dithiopyr, 1EC) at 0, 0.125, 0.25 and 0.5 pounds a.i. per acre, and Pendulum (pendimethalin, 3.3EC) at 0, 1, 2 and 4 pounds a.i. per acre. Herbicides were applied to separate pots with a greenhouse spray chamber delivering 40 gallons per acre with an 8002E nozzle. Half of the pots received irrigation immediately after treatments and were watered every other day for one week. The other half of the ryegrass pots was not irrigated.
Clippings were harvested after 7 days from all pots at an approximate 3-inch height of cut. Ryegrass clippings were placed in pots where crabgrass had been seeded at approximately 3 pounds per 1,000 square feet. Pots seeded with crabgrass had the same dimensions of pots used for ryegrass with the same soil medium. Clippings were uniformly dispersed at the soil surface and pots were irrigated to field capacity 5 days per week. Crabgrass germination was determined by counting plants per pot 10, 20 and 30 days after seeding.
Over the two experiments, we found pots receiving clippings from irrigated ryegrass had 32 to 36 percent greater crabgrass germination than pots with non-irrigated turf clippings (see photo, on page 20). Greater germination of the crabgrass likely occurred from less herbicide remaining on the ryegrass clippings as a result of routine irrigation. Since turf clippings have the potential to be an herbicide carrier, clippings should be returned whenever there is insufficient rainfall or lack of irrigation. This concept is especially applicable for less intensively managed turf areas such as industrial sites and home lawns.
Also exemplified was the importance of irrigation in reducing retention of liquid pre-emergence herbicide formulations from turfgrass leaf tissues. When clipping collection is required, sufficient irrigation following pre-emergence herbicide applications may be a critical practice that affects weed control. Routine irrigations allow pre-emergence herbicide to move to the soil, thereby increasing the potential for the compound to be effective against crabgrass emergence.
Differences among herbicide rates were not detected. However, pots receiving clippings treated with Betasan (bensulide) had greater crabgrass germination than Dimension (dithiopyr) and Pendulum (pendimethalin) treatments. Herbicide rate effects may have been mitigated from the sample size, approximately ⅓ of the leaf blade, harvested per pot.
Since pre-emergence herbicide applications are the basis of your chemical programs, cultural management strategies that influence herbicide efficacy have economical importance. For example, reduced effectiveness of pre-emergence herbicide applications could warrant increased use of post-emergence herbicides that would increase labor, herbicide costs and may also increase turf injury potential. On non-irrigated sites, turf managers may want to consider two options to reduce potential loss of pre-emergence herbicides applied in June. First, return clippings to the site until rainfall is adequate to wash the herbicide off the foliage, or consider the use of a granular herbicide for the June application.
Another perspective on turfgrass clipping return is fertility. Grass clippings contain a considerable amount of nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium and other essential plant nutrients. Returning or recycling clippings to the soil serves as a secondary source of fertility and is of particular importance to less intensively managed turf areas. Overall, practitioners managing home lawns and commercial turf sites should return clippings whenever possible, especially during periods of drought or when irrigation is limiting.
Patrick McCullough is a program associate and Steve Hart is an associate professor at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, N.J.).
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Hi guys , i've recently read the old Chinese Fantasy "journey to the west" and decided to make some figures from the novel. my first attempation is the " third Prince" named Ne zha. see his bio on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nezha
He has to forms, one is nomal form the other is 3-feads-6-arms form. His weapons includes:
- Spear of Fire Tip
- Sword of Demon killing
- Blade of Monster Slaughter
- Ring of Heavn and Earth
- Nine-Dragon cover-shape of Sacred Fire
- Band of Heaven Unification
- Fire-wind wheels( foot)
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Description: T. S. Morris, the father of the donor, was born in 1899. He lived and farmed at Rt. 5, McKinney. At night, he worked at the Mill in the weave shop and dye room. In this photo he is a short man, in overalls, with two men to his left in dark jackets. He is near the sixth window from the left.
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Akee, 34, who works as a waiter, rests in a wooden box where he lives in Hong Kong October 9, 2012.
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A movie is shown on a television in a common area between wooden boxes where people live in Hong Kong, October 9, 2012.
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A NGO worker speaks to people living in wooden boxes in Hong Kong, October 9, 2012.
In Hong Kong, affordable apartments are so scarce that people are living in spaces much like an enclosed bunk bed. These so called "coffin homes" fit a single bed and aren't high enough to stand in. Residents share a common space with a toilet and sink and pay about $155-180 per month for the space. Nearby is some of the most expensive real estate and luxury stores among the city's gleaming skyscrapers.
In New York City, a similar disparity is taking place, with new towers going up and multi-million dollar apartments in high demand while a similar building boom is happening for tiny, 200-square foot apartments. But at least they aren't coffin-sized.


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Landfill Gas Monitoring
ALS offers a wide variety of analytical methods for the characterization of landfill gas. ALS services support our clients in complying with regulatory standards, as well as assist in effectively analyzing for trace level and potentially odorous compounds. The information we supply allows clients to establish baseline gas composition, perform routine monitoring, troubleshoot scrubber systems, evaluate energy content, and in the case of gas-to-energy operations, assist in preventing equipment/turbine damage.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the most common siloxanes found in FLG/biogas?
Our field research has consistently detected trimethylsilanol, octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4), and decamethylcyclopentasiloxane (D5) in landfill gas. Similarly, D4 and D5 have been observed in biogas, while trimethylsilanol is not typically a significant factor.
Can the samples be collected and submitted in a Tedlar bag instead of sampling with a tube?
Yes, a Tedlar bag may be used to collect the samples for this analysis. Note, the standard hold time for a Tedlar bag sample is 72 hours from sample collection to analysis. Reporting limits for samples collected with a Tedlar bag will be higher than those for samples collected on a sorbent tube, due to a smaller sample size.
Will high humidity affect the sample results?
Some of the siloxane compounds are soluble in water (most notably Trimethylsilanol and D3). Therefore, high humidity (>90%) may hinder the overall siloxane recovery. Appreciable water build up inside the tubes may also reduce the performance of the sorbent, so in cases where there are visible water droplets it is recommended that a Tedlar Bag be used for collection.
What about inclement weather?
In cases of extreme cold, lower recoveries have been observed due to siloxane adherence to the sample tubing. Recommendations to improve recoveries in cold weather include making the sample train as short as possible to minimize losses, using insulated tubing, or sampling with a Tedlar bag.
Are there advantages in one collection method over the other?
Both methods yield comparable data, so the selection of sampling media can be a function of parameters such as sampling preference/familiarity, field time, reporting limits, shipping requirements, and hold time.
What is the sample hold time?
Sorbent tubes are stable for up to 14 days after sampling and may be stored at room temperature prior to analysis. Tedlar bags may be stored for 72 hours prior to analysis.
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While this sampling and analytical approach is suitable for a limited list of VOCs, most of the VOCs typically reported by EPA TO-15 or TO-17 are not available with this analysis.


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The Birthday BOY will love getting this super nice basket on his special day! This basket includes 8 fun filled bowling gift items arranged in a nice colorful gift basket.
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- Hand held bowling water game (Color as available in stock)
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, March 14, 2008
In Praise of a Job Well Done
...or perhaps its because my own work often requires me to draw typical family-type situations, like eating breakfast together, that I can relate to the nature of the assignment this artist was asked to interpret.
Whatever the case, I just felt like singing the praises of the anonymous illustrator who did such an amazing job of taking the mundane and making it into something remarkable.
You see, the rewards are many for those who are willing to pause from their own hectic lives for a moment and explore the delightful details in this quiet illustration...
Not every piece of art needs to make a statement... to save the world... to challenge our beliefs or test the limits of acceptability. Sometimes an artist can make the ordinary really quite extraordinary through quiet contemplation, observation and interpretation.
Here's kudos to a job well done.
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Thanks for all your hard work in regards to running Today's Inspiration. It is one of my favorite blogs to visit and the emails are nice too.
Kudos to you as well Leif---that you provide retro illo content almost every day without fail, that you don't miss more days is completely amazing....life usually doesn't allow for such consistencies :-)ReplyDelete
Today's illo dissection/ close-up was much enjoyed as well as learned from....
Well, shucks, guys - thanks a lot! Hearing that makes this beautiful day even better! :-)ReplyDelete
Your comments about this simple story, Leif, were beautifully expressed. It's nice to see the thought an artist puts into a piece be appreciated. This anonymous artist is another very skillful "content" artist, an artist whose strength is in the story the job tells, as apposed to being a "concept" artist, one whose strength lies in some wonderful unexpected way to make a statement. I think it's sad that so many content artists ( including student artists) tend to feel apologetic and inferior to concept artists. After all, most of the greatest illustrators were content artists…Wyeth, Rockwell. Fawcett…. Parker was unusual in being both!ReplyDelete
Beyond the content, there's some fresh watercolor technique here. I always love the effect of colors used in mixing that tend to separate on the paper texture when drying, such as cerulean and manganese blues. Look at the dog and the shadow on the kitchen cabinet. The outside is particularly lovely, too.
Thanks Leif Our California day is bright but you've made it a little brighter.
It says something about one's own nature to simply be able to appreciate art without getting all complicated about it. Which is what happens here all the time. You attract fellow art lovers who simply, and deeply enjoy good illustrating.ReplyDelete
Visiting here always makes the day brighter for me. Thanks ever.


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Geoffrey Fletcher broke the sniffle barrier at approximate 9:51pm Eastern time in accepting the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire."
"I don't know what to say," he began. "This if for everybody who works on a dream every day, precious boys and girls everywhere.. the cast and crew... my two brothers ..." he continued as he grew progressively more emotional. He finally apologized for "blanking" as the room sat in a stunned silence that Martin shattered with one of his better one-liners of the night.
"I wrote that speech for him."


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UH-PACT partnership receives $80,000 grant
OHA grant will be used to develop a Native Hawaiian culture-based curriculum for perpetrators of domestic violenceUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Department of Sociology
HONOLULU - The University of Hawaii in collaboration with Parents and Children Together (PACT) received an $80,000 grant from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) to develop, pilot test and evaluate a Native Hawaiian culture-based curriculum for perpetrators of domestic violence residing on the island of Oʻahu.
Dr. Valli Kalei Kanuha, associate professor of sociology at UH Mānoa, is responsible for designing the curriculum. From 2000-2005, Kanuha was the primary investigator of a five-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop, implement and evaluate a Native Hawaiian domestic violence intervention in partnership with Turning Point for Families, a domestic violence agency in Hilo.
With this OHA award, UH and PACT will adapt Ke Ala Lōkahi, the Hilo-based Hawaiian cultural domestic violence curriculum to historical narratives, legends, and sacred sites on Oʻahu. Kahu David Kaupu is the project's Hawaiian cultural expert. Carol Silva, kumu ʻōlelo and historian who has taught for many years for UHM Outreach College, will also serve as a project consultant.
PACT Vice President of Programs Haaheo Mansfield states, "Parents And Children Together is excited to be a part of this important partnership with UH. We believe the research findings will improve our current practices with this population as well as enrich research methodology through the incorporation of culturally based ways of "knowing".


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Coffin Case
What's the point of playing guitar in a rock and roll band if you're not going to embrace some of the attitude that has made the music so popular throughout the years? From the moment you step on the stage, you want to be all sneer and swagger, and carrying your guitar in an iconic Coffin Case can make that happen.
Founded in 1995, Coffin Cases began simply as an expression of creativity and a desire to be different. That expression has since grown to become one of the most distinct and recognizable brands in the music world, with artists such as Doyle (The Misfits, Danzig Legacy), John 5 (Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie) and Slayer's Kerry King all making use of Coffin Cases to carry their gear.
The G-185 Universal Guitar Case is probably the most well known in the Coffin Case lineup. This case fits almost all standard sized electric guitars and features a diamond-tuck red velvet interior. With durability that can stand up to the rigors of the road, you can feel assured that these cases will always make sure your guitar rests in peace.
Coffin Cases aren't just about cases. They also make a wide assortment of accessories for your guitar. Take the Coffin Case Scarface Guitar Picks 6-Pack, for example. Made from celluloid, these picks feature iconic graphics from the Al Pacino, Brian De Palma movie "Scarface adding a little more character to your style.
From road cases to accessories, Coffin Cases are not only going to give you serious edge, they're going to make sure your guitars look and sound their best. From the moment you step on the stage until the last note has rung out, your Coffin Case gear will help make you the center of attention.
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ACC M5: 12.13.12 EditionPosted by mpatton on December 13th, 2012
- Tomahawk Nation: Michael Rogner kills this article on Florida State's Okaro White. He delves into the advanced stats (namely true shooting percentage) and draws his conclusions based on watching the games. This is the way all stats should be used. Regardless, White is one of Florida State's best scorers; he just needs to shoot more. Right now, he's shooting nearly 50% from three over the last year, he's effective on the block, and he's great in the high post. He absolutely needs to take charge of this offense. Assuming his efficiency scales up well, White may be the key to the most efficient offense Leonard Hamilton has had in Tallahassee (an honor currently held by the 2006-07 team starring Al Thornton and Toney Douglas). Read this.
- Tar Heel Blog: North Carolina has started three players at the five this season. None average 20 minutes a game, but freshmen Brice Johnson and Joel James seem to so far be getting the edge over Desmond Hubert. Johnson is an offensive star, but his slight frame could be a fatal flaw come conference play. James has the body of an elite five, but he has a lot of work to become more than a rebounder and physical presence. Long story short, look for Hubert's minutes to continue their downward trajectory and for Johnson and James to keep sharing most available minutes for Roy Williams' squad.
- Baltimore Sun: In the news surprising no one category, I present this article: "Maryland sharing the ball better this season." Seriously though, the Terrapins are averaging eight more assists a game this year, taking them from the worst team in the ACC to one of the best teams in the country in terms of distributing the basketball. The obvious differences between this year and last year are the loss of Terrell Stoglin (a literal black hole) and the improvement of Alex Len. Add a healthy Pe'Shon Howard and new freshman Seth Allen… and there's your improvement.
- Hampton Roads Daily Press: Virginia looks good. They're surprisingly strong on offense and the freshmen have adapted to Tony Bennett's defensive schemes well. Unfortunately, Jontel Evans re-injured his foot in the game against Tennessee last Wednesday. Unlike last year when the Cavaliers lost two players in December to transfer, Bennett should have a deeper roster when Evans returns for conference play. Evans' injury may be a blessing in disguise, as the team has had to learn to score without its point guard on the floor.
- SBNation: Jabari Parker, the consensus second-best player in the class of 2013, will announce his college decision next Thursday. According to recruitniks and his dad, Duke and Michigan State remain the clear frontrunners. Parker is a 6'8″ and athletic scoring machine. If he does choose Duke, the Blue Devils may be the team to beat next season. Tentatively, they'd start Quinn Cook, Rasheed Sulaimon, Rodney Hood, Parker and Marshall Plumlee with Matt Jones and Amile Jefferson coming off the bench. That's a really long, athletic team with four great scoring options.


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Marcus Riley, NBC5 Street Team (video)
Watch the weekly "Word On The Street" segment on 24/7 Chicago: Secrets of the City," at 12:05 a.m., immediately following Saturday Night Live on NBC5.
Stretch Run Sports Club & Grille
For this week's "Word On The Street" segment, we hit Stretch Run Sports Club & Grille, an off track betting facility in River North.
Stretch Run will no doubt be the place to be next Saturday, when Big Brown tries to complete the Triple Crown at the Belmont Stakes. In short, this place is a guy's dream. TVs, TVs and more TVs, all playing sports from all over the world. Plus food. And beer.
Click here for my previous blog on Stretch Run and click here to visit their Web site.
Blues Festival
The 25th Annual Chicago Blues Festival will be held June 5-8 in Grant Park. The weather hasn't exactly felt like it, but for me, the Blues Festival signifies the start of summer.
Chicago is known as one of the iconic cities in the birth of this unique American art form, and the Blues Festival serves as an opportunity for flex our musical muscles.
Click here for the lineup and more information.
Streets Of Chicago Hair and Fashion Show
For the fourth consecutive year, the "Streets of Chicago" Hair and Fashion Show will be held to benefit a local charity. The team behind Sine Qua Non Salon are behind the looks at the fashion show, which will also showcase local fashion designers.
Project Runways "Steven Rosengard" will also be on hand as a special guest designer.
If you want to go, you have to act quickly. The event will be held at the Victor Hotel on Sunday, and starts with a 6:30-7:30pm complimentary cocktail hour, followed by the fashion show which includes a multi-media presentation and live DJ.
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Minnesota SBA Honors Financial Services Champions
Ham Lake, Minn. – Susan (Sue) Savarese (Managing Partner) and Alfred (Al) Sannerud (Owner Emeritus) of Sannerud, Savarese and Associates, P.A., in Ham Lake, Minn., have been named Minnesota Financial Services Champions of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
The Financial Services Champion award is presented annually in each state to individuals who assist small businesses through advocacy efforts to increase the usefulness and availability of accounting or financial services. Jolynn Erikson (President) and Wendy Renner (Executive Director) of the Ham Lake Chamber of Commerce nominated Sue and Al for this award.
Sannerud, Savarese and Associates is a certified public accounting firm providing accounting, income tax services and financial planning assistance. They specialize in serving the needs of family-owned and closely held businesses. They provide free seminars to small business owners whether they are clients of the firm or not. They have helped over a thousand small businesses start and grow in the 38 years of its existence. Many of the current (all women) employees have been with the company for over 20 years. Pauline Peterson, the company's Firm Administrator, has been with the firm for 34 years.
Sue serves as a recognized expert on business taxes and often speaks to groups about best business practices. She is on the board and is the treasurer of Nucleus Clinic, a women's health center in Coon Rapids. She has served as treasurer of her church and is a member of the hand bell choir. She is one of the founding parents and former treasurer of the Andover High School Drama Parents Organization. She is on the Anoka county Workforce Board.
A saw a need for small business banking in the Ham Lake area and was one of the founding stockholders in Community Pride Bank. It is the only bank chartered with its headquarters in Ham Lake. Alfred helped start "Free2B," a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit business that repairs and donates automobiles in Anoka County to promote economic independence for people in need. He helped start "Bikes 4 Kids" which does the same with bicycles. For many years, Al served on the Ham Lake Planning and Zoning commission an presently is on the Ham Lake Charter Commission and the Ham Lake Economic Development Corporation. He is an active member of his church and was the first president of the congregation and former treasurer.
The firm is dedicated to recycling and protecting the environment. They also assist local small businesses by providing the office space for the Ham Lake Area chamber of Commerce.
Sue, Al, and their staff will be honored at the Minnesota Small Business Week Awards program on May 6, 2013, at the Depot Minneapolis.
For more information:
Susan E. Savarese, CPA
Alfred M. Sannerud, CPA (Inactive)
Sannerud, Savarese and Associates, P.A.
1207 Constance Boulevard Northeast
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Former Patriots player Aaron Hernandez charged with 'execution' of acquaintance; held without bail
ATTLEBORO — Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez executed his acquaintance Odin L. Lloyd because Hernandez was upset that Lloyd had spoken at a Boston nightclub on June 14 with people Hernandez "had troubles with,'' a prosecutor alleged today.
Lloyd was shot five times in a North Attleborough industrial park not far from Hernandez's home. He raised his arm as he lay on the ground, in a desperate attempt to fend off the bullets, Bristol County prosecutor William McCauley said.
The prosecutor said Hernandez, who was accompanied by two men, had the means, motive, and opportunity to kill Lloyd and had been the prime mover in the crime. "He orchestrated his execution,'' McCauley said. The prosecutor said Hernandez had spoken of no longer trusting Lloyd.
The identity of Hernandez's two confederates was not disclosed at Hernandez's arraignment.
Hernandez's arraignment came after a week of suspense in which media had camped out in front of Hernandez's home and followed his car by helicopter, in a futile search for details from tight-lipped law enforcement officials. Residents in Massachusetts and beyond have been riveted by the story of a highly paid professional athlete who may have squandered a bright future.
McCauley said Hernandez summoned his two friends, then drove to Fayston Street in Boston's Dorchester section early on the morning of Monday, June 17, where Lloyd, a 27-year-old semipro football player, left his home, got in the car, and then rode south to North Attleborough.
Along the way, Lloyd alerted relatives in a text message, asking them, "Did you see who I am with?'' After they asked who, he replied cryptically, "NFL,'' the prosecutor said.
"Just so you know,'' Lloyd added. It was the last text message he sent before he died, McCauley said.
Surveillance cameras in the North Attleborough industrial park where Lloyd was murdered captured the men arriving in the same silver Nissan that Lloyd had gotten into in Dorchester, the prosecutor said.
Once near a wooded area, Lloyd started climbing out of the car, and was shot once, which knocked him to the ground. As he lay there, he raised his arm and was shot multiple times. Five spent .45-caliber spent shell casings were later recovered, McCauley said.
When Hernandez returned home around 3:30 a.m. Monday, surveillance video at his house showed him walking through his house holding a pistol in his hand, the prosecutor said.
Not-guilty pleas were entered on his behalf. Judge Daniel J. O'Shea ordered Hernandez held without bail.
Hernandez attorney Michael Fee, arguing for bail, said the prosecution case was "circumstantial … not strong.''
Hernandez also faces five illegal firearms charges.
The courtroom where Hernandez appeared was filled with people, including Lloyd's mother and other relatives; Hernandez's fiancee; and a large contingent of reporters. When prosecutors described Hernandez returning home with a gun in his hand, Lloyd's mother, sobbing, had to leave the courtroom. Hernandez's fiancee also left the courtroom in tears.
Hernandez, a Bristol, Conn., native, showed no obvious emotion as he stood, his hands cuffed in front of him. Defense attorney Fee and prominent defender James L. Sultan, who is also on the defense team, stood nearby.
After the arraignment, Fee spoke briefly with reporters, saying that he wants the issue of his client's innocence resolved in the courtroom not in the media.
As he stepped away from the microphones, Fee was asked how his client is faring. "Aaron's fine,'' Fee said before walking away.
Bristol District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter told reporters "the reality is that this case is still an ongoing investigation and, invariably, it is in the best interest of an ongoing investigation for the district attorney office not to comment.''
Both Fee and Sutter were restricted in what they could say publicly by a gag order put in place by Judge O'Shea.
The Patriots announced they were cutting their ties to their star tight end around 10:30 a.m. today, shortly after Hernandez was arrested by State Police and North Attleborough police at his home.
"A young man was murdered last week and we extend our sympathies to the family and friends who mourn his loss. Words cannot express the disappointment we feel knowing that one of our players was arrested as a result of this investigation,'' the Patriots said in a statement.
"We realize that law enforcement investigations into this matter are ongoing. We support their efforts and respect the process,'' the statement said. "At this time, we believe this transaction is simply the right thing to do.''
NFL Networks quoted league spokesman Greg Aiello as saying, "The involvement of an NFL player in a case of this nature is deeply troubling.''
"The Patriots have released Aaron Hernandez, who will have his day in court. At the same time, we should not forget the young man who was the victim in this case and take this opportunity to extend our deepest sympathy to Odin Lloyd's family and friends,'' Aiello said.
Around 8:40 a.m., a group of about five police cars, including a marked cruiser from the North Attleborough police, arrived at Hernandez's home.
Plainclothes officers went to the front door and were greeted by a shirtless Hernandez.
About five minutes later, Hernandez was escorted from the house with a white T-shirt pulled over his torso, his hands cuffed behind his back. He was put into the North Attleborough cruiser and then driven to the police station.
As Hernandez was arraigned in Attleboro, the neighboring town where the courthouse is located, a crowd of onlookers gathered at the foot of the courthouse steps. Some said curiosity and disbelief drew them there.
"I just don't understand how he could be involved in all this,'' said Pete Ciaccio, 66, of Jefferson, who was in town for his granddaughter's middle school graduation. "He had a promising career in front of him and now he's thrown it all away and is losing it all.''
As word that Hernandez was charged with murder made its way to the crowd outside, some of the people gathered audibly gasped, while others simply looked at their feet and shook their heads.
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Late last week, four women were convicted of failing to get proper permits to enter a United States federal wilderness area and abandoning property in the 860,000-acre Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge near the border with Mexico.
Natalie Hoffman, Oona Holcomb, Madeline Huse and Zaachila Orozco-McCormick were charged in December 2017, and now face jail sentences as long as six months.
Their crime? Leaving food and water caches for illegal immigrants lost in the huge desert reserve.
The women are part of No More Deaths, a group formed to try and halt at least some of the deaths of migrants trying to cross Arizona deserts.
More than 3,000 sets of human remains have been recovered from southern Arizona deserts in the last 18 years, many of them not found until there was little left but bones.
The practice of leaving supplies is not new: aid workers had been getting permits and leaving supplies for desperate migrants for years.
But the rules changed in 2017, shortly before the women were charged, specifically banning leaving water, food and blankets in the wilderness areas. (Part of the defence was that the change in the rules didn't specify that criminal charges would result from continuing to leave food caches — and the women say they did not get permits to enter the area because they didn't want to lie about what they were doing.)
More than 3,000 sets of human remains have been recovered from southern Arizona deserts in the last 18 years, many of them not found until there was little left but bones.
Remember, this is not like the volunteers were leaving water and food at a specific, expected drop point where illegal immigrants would find it; the food and water were not part of an established refugee route.
The group argues the arrests were political in nature, and followed embarrassing video of border patrol officers destroying caches of water and food.
U.S. government agencies say, instead of water and food caches, migrants in trouble should use rescue beacons that the government has left in the region, something refugee groups say the migrants are often afraid to use.
It is possible, if you are particularly heartless, to argue that immigrants knew the risks they were taking when they chose the desperate route that they decided upon.
By that same argument, then, should we stop expensive searches for overdue sailors in trouble on the sea unless they signal for help with emergency position indicating radio beacons, or leave hikers stranded in back-country snowstorms? After all, those risks are clear as well.
It's perfectly reasonable to want to stop illegal immigration at the border. It's also reasonable to arrest illegal immigrants, as long as you go through the proper process to establish that they are not legitimate refugees.
But, in the interests of immigration control, is it ever reasonable to ban humanitarian aid to the needy, in the hopes of slowing the flow of migrants by leaving them to die in the desert?
That's hard to defend.


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The Virginia Department of Education's Technology Plan has emphasized the importance of integrating technology into instruction and outlined the essential elements of successful technology use. One elements that is crucial to effective technology integration is having an Instructional Technology Resource Teacher (ITRT).
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I will provide and maintain the newest technology possible for the students and staff of Essex County Public Schools. I will research present technologies to improve our current performance for students, teachers, and support staff. I will also research, test, and implement new technologies as they become available to further our students with the knowledge needed for today's technologically driven society.
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not give (a) tuppence
To not care in the slightest (about something or someone). Primarily heard in UK, Australia. I don't give a tuppence how you get it done, just make sure the deed to that estate is in my possession within a fortnight! I know that Jeremy has a crush on me, but to be honest I couldn't give tuppence for him.


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For risk managers 2012 was an eventful year. The frequency of ethical breaches, regulatory failures, operational disasters and natural calamities ensured that risk managers have their hands full and are not going to run out of work in 2013. In effect, risk management function is at a strategic inflection point and is facing disruption risks. Globalization, rapidly changing technology, economic recession in Europe, political turmoil in Middle East, growth of emerging markets and global warming has changed the risk landscape. Throw out of the window the old stance of managing risks by implementing controls and focusing just on financial processes and operational risks. The 21st century demands risk managers to focus on strategic, cultural, leadership and human resource risks. This is a bold statement to make, so here are my reasons for making the same. Do you think I am on the right track?
1. Banking Sector Culture Needs Overhauling
Though I have not done a tally of regulatory fines paid by banks during the year, the numbers are awesome. It the status quo remains the same, paying billion dollar fines will soon become fashionable. The way bankers are behaving, if culture does not change, they will start a competition on who pays the biggest fine and gets away with it. It is clear that bankers gave a lot of lip service of changing to the public after the financial crises. Nothing much changed and they remained complacent with their ability to escape any personal loss due to reckless behaviour. Even with fines, it is investor loss with hardly any personal responsibility. 2013 will determine whether bankers can do the right thing for the right reasons in the right way.
2. No One is Too Big to Go to Jail
2012 showed that breaking the law isn't an option for top guns. Big names, for instance, Rajat Gupta and Rebecca Brooks realized the arms of law are long enough to reach them. The psychology that it only is a crime if one gets caught needs to change. A connection even with the Prime Minister doesn't insulate a person from being held legally accountable.
The downside of capitalism is that business ethics are put on a back burner in pursuit of profitability. 2013 will see the trend of businesses focusing on building ethical cultures.
3. Senior Management Fails At A Higher Rate
Throughout the year, one heard senior managers being fired for poor performance, regulatory breaches, criminal acts or inability to keep their pants zipped. Tragic but true, that senior managers are failing to walk the talk and assume leadership is about playing power games. They ignore everything in pursuit of a bigger pay packet. It isn't that leaders didn't fail previously, but now they make headlines at global level.
Additionally, social media and increasing percentage of women in the workforce has made old management and leadership styles redundant. Flatter organization structures are replacinghierarchical styles. Collaboration is in focus rather than competition. Boomers are leading most organizations, and their style of leadership is passé. Hence, in 2013 we are going to witness higher leadership failures unless organizations start managing leadership risks.
4. Regulators Take A Tougher Stance
Worldwide regulators have changed their stance. Be it Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Department of Justice of USA or Financial Services Authority of UK, regulators are beating the drums for better compliance. From asking the biggest names in banking to give explanations to holding government accountable for incorrect decisions, they are leaving nothing out of the ambit. They are leading the path for risk managers to follow. In 2013, we are going to see a spate of disclosures from regulators.
Closing Thoughts
Whether we see the banking failure reports, or other aspects of business, risk managers knew and understood the risks. However, they decided to play it safe and not bell the cat. Challenging and confronting business leaders at the expense of ruining ones career can be a tough decision. One avoids the decision, especially when, the lines of accountability state that final responsibility of managing risks lies with the business leaders. However, in the times ahead risk managers won't have this luxury. They will have to stick their neck out to ensure organization stays legally compliant and manages risks optimally. I don't know whether this makes risk managers happy. In my view, in 2013 we should take it up as a challenge and change the dynamics of the risk management function.
Wish you and your loved ones a very Happy New Year.


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THURSDAY, Aug. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Overweight women may still feel stigmatized about their weight even if their family and friends don't judge them negatively, according to a new study.
The findings suggest that mass media marketing may have more influence than social circles on women's feelings of weight-related stigma, Arizona State University social science researchers said.
"We found that women generally missed the mark when estimating what their friends and family thought about their weight," study co-author and cultural anthropologist Daniel Hruschka said in a university news release. "Women were a bit more attuned to the views of close friends and family, but even then, they generally perceived the judgments of others inaccurately."
The study, published Aug. 17 in the journal Social Science & Medicine, included 112 women aged 18 to 45 in Phoenix and 823 of their family members and friends.
Obesity is a major medical and public health issue, but the stigma associated with being overweight also causes suffering, the researchers said.
"Fat is understood culturally to represent profound personal failing and the attendant moral messages attached to it include laziness, lack of self-control and being undesirable or even repulsive," the authors wrote. "So powerful and salient are these anti-fat messages that some Americans say they would rather die years sooner or be completely blind than be thought of as obese."
Because of the strength of those messages, the researchers said that urging family and friends to be less judgmental may do little to ease the stigma.
"The question this leaves us with is: 'If it isn't the opinions of friends and family that make us feel so bad about being overweight, then what does?' What seems most likely is that media and pop cultural messages are so pervasive and powerful that even the most loving support of those closest to us provides only limited protection against them," lead author Alexandra Brewis, a biological anthropologist and director of ASU's Center for Global Health, said in the news release.
More information
The U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases outlines the health risks of being overweight.
-- Robert Preidt
SOURCE: Arizona State University, news release, Aug. 16, 2011
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As to the issue, does the print-screen button perform any other function at any time normally? Maybe you had a key stuck that caused it to do something else? Have you fiddled with your keyboard shortcuts recently?
Also, since this is a desktop, try with different keyboards, see if you can replicate the incident.