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September 23, 2013 – Eagle Crusher Co. Inc. named Eric James Von Stein, parts sales manager, to its management staff. Von Stein brings some 25 years' experience to his new position and is highly skilled in providing technical and troubleshooting assistance as well as sales support for plant maintenance and repair to meet customers' needs. "As parts sales manager, I'm proud to be part of Team Eagle," Von Stein said. "Our customers know Team Eagle for the highest quality and satisfaction in parts and service. No one in the industry works harder to keep its customers up and crushing, through almost limitless support and our innovative, research and development that keeps Eagle Crusher plants up and running."
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The Houston Museum of Natural Science at Sugar Land will close out its summer series of Friday Family Fun Nights with Rock On, Rock Star! — an evening of family fun that takes attendees into the dazzling world of geodes, gems and minerals.
Crack a geode, learn about the different stages of rocks and bring home your own low-maintenance pet.
Families can indulge in some healthy competition with Rock Band while enjoying special, theme-appropriate snacks, crafts and activities.
Friday Family Fun Nights sell out, so snag your tickets online today!
What: Friday Family Fun Night: Rock on Rock Star!
When: Friday, August 17 at 6:30 p.m.
Where: The Houston Museum of Natural Science at Sugar Land, 13016 University Blvd., Sugar Land, Texas 77479
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Recently I read a report on United Engineers by CIMB. "We maintain our Outperform rating and target price of S$2.15, still based on a 20% discount to our end-CY10 RNAV estimate of S$2.68. Our positive view remains founded on its attractive valuations against underlying assets backed by improving operating indicators and an improving net gearing. We see stock catalysts from further stabilising of commercial rents. UE trades at a depressed 0.5x P/BV"
No-one I know ever got rich buying UE. And this reminds me of what I wrote in June 2009.
The perils of buying NTA
The share price of United Engineers is falling after its high of S$2.37 on 29 May. This illustrates that buying a counter at a deep discount to its NTA can be problematic, if there is no catalyst to unlock value. To recap. As part of an asset rationalising swap, Straits Trading and its controlling privately-owned shareholder swapped assets.
12% of UE was sold to Tecity at around S$1.52 a share, and 7% of WBL Corp was sold to ST as part of the asset swap. ST ended up with 19% of WBL. BTW WBL has another 10% of UE.
There was speculation that Tecity had immediate designs on UE. UE's shares are at a deep discount to its published NTA of S$3.43. They remembered Tecity's bid for ST which ended with Tecity paying S$6.70 for assets (revalued) worth S$6.52 a share. What is forgotten is that Tecity busy coping with the consequences of having spent S$1.1bn to own 82% of ST; is not likely to want to reward other UE shareholders at Tecity's expense.
Assuming it bids at published NTA, it would have to spend S$679m. And if, the other major shareholder, GE Life starts a bidding war, the cost could escalate, like in ST. In early 2008, there were estimates that UE's NTA could be S$6. And if it did bid at NTA or more, any time soon, ST's minority shareholders would rightly cry foul.
TeCity's founder, the deceased Tan Chin Tuan, would spin in his grave hearing his heirs being accused of being unfair to minorities.
Incidentally the cost of selling UE's assets are likely to be very high.
Maybe future UE annual reports should give an estimate of the costs of selling these assets to unlock the published NTA. And maybe advisers to the independent directors of a target company; and the acquirer should subtract the costs of liquidating the assets when toying with NTA values in their reports.
If this had been done in ST, Tecity could have got away with a lower bid.


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We've all been there (if you live in Hawaii): you go to a party, multiple people bring boxes of malasadas, and at the end of the party there are way too many left over. Throwing them out would be criminal, but they never taste as good as they did when they were fresh and hot.
If you have room temperature malasadas, you can microwave them for ~15 seconds and get something pretty decent. You can also put them in a toaster oven for a while, which turns the sugar into something crisp and creme-brulée-like. But if you have a whole bunch, you may get tired of that too.
I present to you an innovation in malasada-reuse: the malasada bread pudding. It makes sense, since malasadas are eggy, and bread pudding can be made with brioche or other egg-based breads. I had the idea for this, but the recipe is all Yuka. We made some this weekend, and it came out great. With Mardi Gras (aka Malasada Day) coming up, give this recipe a try:
Yuka and Robert's Malasada Bread Pudding
- 6 leftover malasadas
- 1/2 cup raisins, dried cranberries, or chocolate chips (optional)
- 4 eggs, beaten
- 2 cups whole milk
- 1/2 cup white sugar plus more to sprinkle
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- a pinch of nutmeg
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Break malasadas into small pieces into an 8 inch square baking pan or individual ramekins. Sprinkle with raisins, dried cranberries, or chocolate chips (optional).
- In a medium mixing bowl, beat eggs, add cinnamon and a pinch of nutmeg. Then add milk, sugar, and vanilla. Beat until well mixed. Pour over bread, and lightly push down with a fork until malasadas are covered and soaking up the egg mixture.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes, or until the top springs back when lightly tapped.
Enjoy! Wasted food is an abomination, and making use of food that would otherwise be wasted reduces your carbon footprint. 🙂


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I heard from them,,at long last they had found this Plant and found it was rare,and now he knows WHY!!
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"Vampires have that serious demeanor to them – when we come on set, that's when the party starts," Bronson Pelletier seconded.
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Better Butter ~ Soft & Spreadable directly from the refrigerator
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Thanks for the Better Butter recipe ~ I'll definitely try it. And will come back to visit your blog again ~ great find (through FEEDJIT)!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 24, 2008 at 6:02 AM
Thanks for sharing again, I just got done whipping up a batch... Will let you know how it goes over!ReplyDelete
This recipe does sound amazing...thanks!ReplyDelete
This is AMAZING!! Thanx a lot, I think there will be a lot of this in my fridge from now on. Would be interesting to use in cookies. Or simply to spread on the bread!!. Thanks for sharing, really!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 6, 2008 at 10:11 PM
This is really interesting. Thank you for sharing your testimonial. I'll give it a try.ReplyDelete
Hello, Sometime, in the early 70s, I began making "better butter". We made a lot of things from Adele Davis', "Let's Eat Right...". We are much healthier today because of it and so are my forty year-old children.ReplyDelete
I didn't have a name for that butter, but my family loved it. Somewhere along the time line, I quit making it and now, thanks to you, I will start again.
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Orinda, thank you so much for your message. I'm so happy you will begin making this spread again. I find it difficult going back to full-butter anymore.ReplyDelete
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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the cancellation of Chicago's Bud Billiken Parade, a traditional African American back-to-school event for about 90 years, organizers announced Monday.
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14 People Shot In Two Mass Shootings During Holiday Weekend; 14-Year-Old Among KilledAt least 14 people were shot in two separate mass shootings in Chicago during July 4th celebrations. Among the victims were one child and two teens, one of whom was killed.
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Hi, i have this method here that approximates square roots. I was wondering what ppl thought about it and whether it is following a correct algorithm. It seems to work good and gave pretty close approximations for all my test casses. The only issue is on the very first call to the function, if 1 is passed in as a guess it returns bogus numbers.
Code:/* * Newtons Method for Approx. square roots. * Accepts 2 doubles. * Argument 1 is the number to take the square root of. * Argument 2 is the approximation/guess of the square root. * x = 1/2( x + A/x) <-- Formula being used. */ double approxSQRT(double A, double approx) { double previous=approx; approx = (0.5)*(approx + ( A/approx)); //When sequential approximations have a negligable difference the // approximation should be very close to the actual square root. if(previous - approx < 0.0000001 ) return(approx); return( approxSQRT(A,approx)); }


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Job Opportunity | Eskom Uganda Seeks a Qualified Ugandan in the Diaspora to fill a Postion of Technical Director
Eskom Uganda is a wholly owned subsidiary of Eskom Enterprises South Africa and is registered as a limited liability company in Uganda. The company generates 60% of Uganda's electrical energy, operates within a framework of three concession agreements, and has its own board of directors. Eskom Uganda is hereby inviting applications from persons interested in the vacancy below:
Position: Technical Director
Reports Managing Director
Vacancies: One (1)
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Role definition
To provide leadership in maintenance, engineering, and operations functions of the company to ensure customer satisfaction and effective operational excellence and asse management as per the concession agreements in order to obtain the required plant availability and comply with technical limits.
Key Results Areas
1. Develop and implement the technical plan for the technical division to ensure effective and efficient operation of the plant.
2. Continuously improve relations with the asset owner , the customer and the regulators
3. Continuously review and update the maintenance philosophy to suit plant conditions
4. Design and implement a mechanism for provide the technical and quality specifications for spares and equipment purchases
5. Direct and control technical projects to ensure that they are completed to the standards required within agreed time scales and the agreed budget
6. Initiate the development of new process designs intended to increase effectiveness of the plant
7. Develop technical systems and procedures to ensure compliance with company directives, policies, guidelines, processes, regulations and legislative and statutory requirements.
8. Prepare annual production plan for the plant in line with the power purchase agreement
9. Ensure compliance to all statutory requirements which includes:
– Safe working procedures
– Environmental compliances
– HV & LV Safety Regulations
– PTW (Permit to Work
10. Liaise with all stakeholders to ensure continuous reliable power supply
11. Develop and implement a mechanism for investigating any plant failures and implementing corrective measures
12. Monitor contractual and statutory compliance for all technical activities as per the business contracts and applicable law.
13. Design and implement a mechanism for constant supply of competent staff in all the technical process.
14. Supervise the development and implementation of technical annual budget
15. Mentor and coach all technical staff with specific focus of grooming a local technical director
The suitable candidates for this post should have:
Academic & Experience Requirement:
• B.Sc (Mechanical/ Electrical Engineering)
• 5 years experience managing Power Plant technology
• 3 years experience at management level
Competence requirements
• Hydro Power Plant systems
• Technology management
• Project management
• Financial management
• Commercial processes
• Power Plant Maintenance philosophies and practices
• Stakeholder maangement
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Nalubaale Power station, P.O. Box 942, Jinja Uganda
Tel: 256 43 121416, Fax: 256 43 123154
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About Quartz Extreme and Core Image
Some appealing graphics effects, such as the "rotating cube" effect you see when using Fast User Switching to switch users, are powered by Quartz Extreme. Quartz Extreme uses OpenGL and a supported graphics card to reduce the number of onscreen calculations that are performed by the CPU.
Other graphics effects and optimizations in Mac OS X v10.4 and later, such as the ripple effect that appears when you place a widget on Dashboard, are driven by Core Image.
Verifying compatibility with System Profiler
This section applies to Mac OS X v10.5 or earlier; as mentioned above, if you use Mac OS X v10.6 or later your Mac is already using Quartz Extreme and Core Image.
You can use System Profiler to make sure your Mac's graphics card supports Quartz Extreme or Core Image in Mac OS X v10.5 or earlier.
- Open System Profiler (in /Applications/Utilities).
- Click "Graphics/Displays" under Contents.
- In the right pane under "Display," look for the Quartz Extreme and Core Image lines; next to each, you will see either "Supported" or "Not Supported."
Note: If your Intel-based Mac has more than one Graphics Processing Unit (that is, you can select Higher Performance or Better Battery Life in Energy Saver preferences), System Profiler will show Core image and Quartz extreme compatibility information for the active GPU only.


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Stansbury Park • A perfect 10-0 record is a tremendous start.
But Stansbury knows there's a long road between an undefeated regular season and earning a spot among the traditional Class 3A football powers.
"We made it past the first round and got beat in the second round last year," Stansbury coach Clint Christiansen said. "We haven't proven anything yet. Get to Rice-Eccles and we'll prove something. That's the goal."
The school is in only its fourth year of existence, but the Stallions already are enjoying success on the football field. They posted a 9-2 record and reached the state quarterfinals last season. They're even better this year.
"We want to build a winning tradition and build a tradition of a lot of kids who work hard and want to win," senior Colton May said.
The team dismisses talk about pressure from maintaining a perfect record. The players are worried about bigger things these days.
"I don't think it's a big deal because the playoffs, you lose one, you're out," junior quarterback Chase Christiansen said. "It doesn't really matter how your regular season went."
Of course the accomplishment of reaching the playoffs as one of two undefeated teams in Class 3A Juan Diego is the other team isn't lost on the players.
"The undefeated, it's nice," Chase Christiansen said with a shrug of his shoulders and a grin.
Stansbury ran the table by leaning on a stout defense. The Stallions allowed only 80 points this season and posted four shutouts. Morgan was the lone team to score more than 18 points, in a game Stansbury won 29-28 in overtime.
The Morgan game wasn't the only close call. The Stallions downed Desert Hills 12-7 and squeaked past Grantsville 14-13.
"We stress with our kids it doesn't matter what you did 10-0 means nothing now," coach Christiansen said. "It looks good for the school, gets you in the first round, gets you a No. 1 seed. It means nothing to anybody now."
The road to the state title game is filled with roadblocks for the Stallions. Hurricane and Juan Diego have combined to win the last four Class 3A state titles, and both teams reside in Stansbury's half of the bracket.
The players like the challenge. They welcome it.
"Not necessarily a lot of nerves, but the prospect of playing a Hurricane or Juan Diego, that's exciting," Chase Christiansen said. "You want to see how you measure up against teams that have been proving themselves year after year."
May added: "We all want to prove to the state that we can hang with the big dogs. Best way to do it is to take it all."
Stansbury's journey starts at 5 p.m. Friday against Union.
Past five 3A state champions
2011 • Hurricane
2010 • Juan Diego
2009 • Juan Diego
2008 • Juan Diego
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Madea gets coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas, but the biggest surprise is what they'll find when they arrive. As the small, rural town prepares for its annual Christmas Carnival, new secrets are revealed and old relationships are tested while Madea dishes her own brand of Christmas Spirit to all.
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Michelle Obama stood out in a sea of black tuxedos at Friday night's Nordic Summit dinner, wearing a blush-colored, off-the-shoulder, floor-length gown.
The first lady chose a dress by Indian-born designer Naeem Khan for the White House dinner honoring the leaders of Sweden, Iceland, Finland, Denmark and Norway. She finished the look with gold jewelry and a wispy chignon.
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The scudding clouds across the Los Angeles Basin on Sunday morning of Memorial Day weekend seemed to bode rain. The walkways and lawns around the County Museum of Art were damp when I arrived to see the David Smith sculpture exhibition "Cubes and Anarchy" at the new Resnick Pavilion. Hundreds of people were already in queues. They were there not to see the work of America's greatest sculptor, but were spilling into adjacent galleries to delve into Tim Burton's elaborate fantasies. Skirting the line, I aimed straight for the doors to the main gallery toward several Smith stainless steel Cubis, implacable attendants facing the throng headed toward the Burton cavalcade.
Those colorfully costumed, tattooed Burton pilgrims snaked left into the dark bowels of the inner galleries as the Smith Cubis stood mute, silver sentinels under the skylights.
Smith intended that his iron and steel sculptures be seen outside, in nature, especially the Cubis, where their burnished, stainless steel forms engage every nuance of an ever-changing sky. The scoured, sanded whorls skirting across the sculptures' surfaces catch light in a way that seems as if they are neon-lit from inside, the flat surfaces shimmering with depth.
Unfortunately, Smith's sculptures are shown too often in the artificially lit bowels of museum galleries. The recent huge retrospective of Abstract Expressionism at MoMA included one room of Smith's work, an artist most closely aligned with the ambitious scale of America's mid-century painting abstractionists. A slice of window at the gallery's end afforded the ten foot Cubi X a breath of light; as I stood in front of it, the undefined, overcast window light suddenly gave way to a raking hard sun striking the back wall, the shadow pattern a perfect complement to the sculpture.
The twenty-eight stainless steel Cubis were the last body of work that Smith created before he was killed when his truck overturned on a highway near Bennington, Vermont on May 23, 1965. Cubi XXVIII, one of the final trio sometimes called "The Gate," was Smith's last sculpture, finished two weeks before his death. It was bought by powerhouse dealer Larry Gagosian in 2005 for LA real estate mogul and art collector Eli Broad; it may well be the centerpiece of the proposed Broad Museum on Grand Avenue near the Disney Hall.
The Cubis are heroic statements from the end of a heroic age of American art that began with American Regionalism in the 30s and faded with the rise of Pop Art and Minimalism in the 60s. Smith's work circumscribes those decades. I like to say the word "work" because Smith is not only America's foremost sculptor and a major painter whose friends were artists and critics of the New York School, but from the beginning of his career, he was also a gifted photographer who took the best photos of his sculptures. A few years ago the Matthew Marks Gallery in Chelsea had a singular exhibition of Smith's photography. It included photos of the studio, early assemblages of found beach detritus, female nudes, and intimate self-portraits at work and with family. There is also an evocative shot of three of the late Cubi in the field outside his studio, backlit in the winter sun. (I will do an essay on just his photographic work in the future.)
To discuss the full scope of David Smith's art requires the kind of scholarship that one finds in the huge number of books about him. I have at least two-dozen catalogs and monographs covering every phase of his career, including an anthology of his writings titled "Smith by Smith." There is supreme irony that though his art has been widely documented in these books and exhibition catalogs, there is not yet a single in-depth biography. Smith's two daughters, Candida and Rebecca, exercise considerable control over the estate and are the de facto repository of his legacy, as well as keepers of the flame.
Smith left New York City in 1940, early in his career, and moved to upstate New York with his first wife, artist Dorothy Dehner. They built a home near Lake George at Bolton Landing. Smith's large studio and the surrounding rolling hills were not only workshop and laboratory, but also an ever-changing ad hoc gallery. One well-known photo shows him in rear view gazing out over his sculpture field. What other artist ever had such a spacious exhibition space? At the time of Smith's death at 59 in May of 1965 an overhead view drawing of the Bolton Landing home and studios showed about 80 pieces spaced throughout the property.
From January to May of 2006, the Guggenheim Museum in New York City devoted all of its spiral galleries to Smith's centennial exhibition. This installation photo across the rotunda only hints at the scale of his sculpture field.
In his New Yorker review of the Guggenheim exhibition, critic Peter Schjeldahl, never known to write with rapturous prolixity, was beside himself with admiration:
It is beautiful, powerful in the way of classical ballet; consummation shivering at the brink of evanescence, which ensues, in this case, as the inevitable, swift breakdown of any aesthetic sensation—and enchantment—so intense and unalloyed.
Even Smith's staunchest critical supporter, Clement Greenberg, would not have so waxed.
The catalog of this exhibition is fairly comprehensive and is beautifully illustrated.
Amazon.com—David Smith: A Centennial link
The Storm King Art Center in Mountainville New York occupies a 500-acre tract of rolling hills near the Hudson River, across from the Dia Art Center in Beacon. Storm King presented a three-year retrospective of Smith's sculptures from 1997 to 1999, many of them moved down from Bolton Landing. Storm King is the single most impressive sculpture art park in the world and a perfect exhibition space for artists like Smith, Mark di Suvero and Richard Serra.
Amazon.com—The Fields of David Smith link
In June of 1962 Smith was invited to the Fourth Spoleto "Festival of Two Worlds" to create sculpture on site. After visiting the abandoned Italsider steel factory in nearby Voltri, he amazed everyone by making 27 welded works in thirty days, from cast-off tools and scrap metal; the sculptures were exhibited in the local Roman amphitheater. As he had done back at the Bolton Landing studio, Smith photographed the installation. Then, he scavenged the remains of the factory and shipped tools, machine parts, loose scrap steel and iron back home; from these he created another twenty-five sculptures.
Many years later, in Washington D.C.'s National Gallery East Wing, I saw a re-creation of the Spoleto installation; the close-up intimate setting of the skylit Tower Gallery gave viewers an emotional immersion into Smith's work. I say "work" once again because Smith spoke of himself as a "worker." A young artist during the Depression at Manhattan's Art Students League, he aligned himself with the artistic political left of the 30s. The worker/proletarian bent in his character found perfect grounding in his passionate embrace of metallurgy and welding as unlikely media for artistic expression.
Smith has said in an interview that despite the toughness of the iron and steel with which he worked, he sees his art as essentially feminine. In fact, his two daughters are the subjects of many sculptures, as well as snapshot portraits.
LACMA has posted an excerpt on YouTube from an interview with Smith made the year before he died. Poet/art critic Frank O'Hara is seen in a TV studio with the burly Smith, dressed in coat and tie, clearly not his usual sartorial mode. Although known mainly for his sculptures of raw, uncolored, iron, steel and stainless—Smith loved what he called "raw" colors," strong primaries. And many pieces of the mid 50s, such as the Circles and Zigs, are color saturated. In an egregious act that can only be called "arrogant desecration," critic Clement Greenberg thought he knew the artist's intent better than the artist himself. He had the paint removed from many pieces that were in the sculpture field at the time of Smith's death.
Later in the video O'Hara walks with Smith in the sculpture field outside the Bolton Landing studio. Although Smith photographed his sculptural "personages," as he sometimes called the pieces, actual film of him is rare. Here is the video:
And here's a photo that defines both form and color of more than a dozen sculptures against a foggy sky, just a small section of the field.
The installation at LACMA's Resnick Pavilion presents Smith's sculptures against the gallery's white walls and translucent white scrim dividers. It is about as close as a museum environment can provide in duplicating the starkness of a winter's day in the snow field outside Smith's studio—
Conversely, you can imagine Smith's sculptures transported to the other side of the continent, the tall, serried ranks of Los Angeles palm trees as an equally appropriate backdrop.
In the late 90s the great Australian art critic Robert Hughes published a magisterial history of American art called American Visions— a survey from the Colonial era of artists like Copley to Andres Serrano's controversial "Piss Christ."
Amazon.com—American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America link
It was also, like his previous history of modern art, The Shock of the New, a television series on the BBC and PBS. In a segment that evaluates the New York School of Abstract Expressionists, Hughes includes David Smith. He equates Smith's place in that hierarchy as the artist in metal whose importance is parallel to that of Jackson Pollock's in paint. The following clip opens with a still of Pollock's fatal car crash on a road near his Long Island Springs studio. Smith's death in a truck crash a decade after Pollock's is uncannily echoing. After talking about Mark Rothko's luminosity and Barnett Newman's aridity, Hughes moves on to Smith. The two-minute sequence begins at 3:40 with a tilt down from trees to reveal sculptures at the Storm King Art Center. Rare color footage of Smith at work punctuates Hughes' placing him into art history context as the American realization in an artistic medium begun by the Spaniards Gonzalez and Picasso.
Hughes says of Smith, "Big American metal was nature to him." Shots of the artist welding, torching, winching the raw metal "clay" of his pieces, a ubiquitous cigarette dangling from his lip, are testament to the worker/artisan image he cultivated. He even named his studio in Bolton Landing "Terminal Iron Works" after the Brooklyn Navy Yard factory where he once worked as welder.
I have always loved Smith's work for its eclectic ranginess and sheer American virility. Watching film of him at work evokes for me memories of my father, dormant images of my youth surging to the fore. My father was a machinist, a leftist, proletarian firebrand: a man forced to open his own metal machine shop because he had such a low flashpoint for company stooges and foremen. As soon as I was old enough to be trusted around a small drill press, I was set to punching holes in stainless steel aircraft parts set in template jigs. By high school, I had graduated to whirring lathes; over the course of the summers, I earned enough money to begin college. The smell of viscous cutting oil on steel, of smoke rising into fluorescent fixtures hinged above the lathe beds, and the slap-slap of belt-driven vertical mills, all returned to me as I watched the brief shots of Smith in his shop/studio. My father had the same oversized hands, thick fingers, and trim mustache as Smith. An aesthetic appreciation of art is one thing: such a visceral connection to that art--as work-- is something else.
My father never went to high school; he was keenly aware of the barriers he encountered from a limited education. He made me promise not to seek a career in what he called "sweatshop trades." I always had more regard for the hard physical work that he and his pals performed than they did themselves. Though I started film school with the intention of learning to write about cinema--distancing myself from my own frayed, blue-collar origins-- my first exposure to the machine movement of the motion picture camera was a powerful draw. As a camera assistant, the donkey work of lugging equipment was always tempered by the sheer delight of stuffing my hands into the camera box, pulling and checking the gate, oiling the movement, threading the film magazines. The physicality of any machine as an instrument to create art is addictive to anyone who has been there.
Recently, as I have been speaking in public forums about our industry's transition to HD digital video, I've reflected on the twilight of analog cinema's machine age, usurped by ever shrinking video cameras. But part of me, perhaps steeped in personal nostalgia, has been a bit bored by the DV camera's indifferent, encased appearance: a mostly sealed container with a lens portal, its intricate electronic innards not inviting of hands-on troubleshooting. Perhaps it is just a sense of false security, but a film camera, its machine guts exposed by simply opening the door, feels that maybe you can fix many problems on set; perhaps that's only a palliative but for someone come of age in a handyman ethos, still reassuring. Even a tape-driven video camera has the comfort of your seeing a mechanical recording transport. Output to a card or hard drive via electrical pulses somehow leaves one feeling a bit disengaged from the recording (photographic) event. Is it absurd to think about a film camera's intricate, intermittent movement with the kind of feeling that some attach to their cars? If you've ever been a film camera assistant, you understand.
I don't mean these personal reflections to be a saunter back into steampunk, revisionist musings. We are now several decades deep into the digital age of ubiquitous on-set laptops, intricate cable interfaces, waveform monitors, and the Avid Adrenalin—and there's no looking back. Many of us have even retired our light meters. Fewer and fewer of us, even many artists in traditional media, are engaged in real "manual labor." Today, many conceptual artists draft "ideas" of art, rather than making material objects; others have their art "fabricated" in factories, art that they may never even touch.
On the movie set, the rhythms of intense physical work still prevail: electricians, grips, special effects, on-set dressers, props are some of those crafts that demand concerted effort. For me, this kind of focused labor demonstrates a continuing proud tradition of hands-on work in the service of art, a visceral connection of man's eyes, brains, and hands. I wonder how germane, how central the concept of hard, tactile experience of physical work is to our sense of a complete self. In an information/digital age many of us feel increasingly disengaged from what we produce. Many of us create information and streams of data.
The irony of this speculation about art and artifact--- is that a movie is not, whether on analog film or on digital drives, a real physical product. A motion picture's true existence is, after all, nothing more than the abstract play of light, shadow and color on a viewing surface— a thing far more ephemeral and elusive than the solid, totemic icons of David Smith.
Next week's essay will be up for two weeks: The ongoing "Cuba" exhibition at the Getty, seen mainly through Walker Evans' 1933 documentary portrait of Havana, and the poetic vision of Alexey Titarenko, exactly seventy years later.


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But the idea, put forward after talks with residents' groups, has been slammed by Mr Ellwood's Parliamentary colleague and groups opposed to the wind farm.
Conor Burns, MP for Bournemouth West, said: "I don't think a single helicopter hovering in the bay is going to convey in any sense an accurate visual representation of what hundreds of high turbines are going to look like.
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Philip Dewhurst, of Poole and Christchurch Bays Association, which represents 50 residents' groups and has launched a 'Save our Seaside' campaign, said: "To get a true picture of how intrusive Navitus would be, you'd need to imagine not one, but thousands of helicopters – one estimate says 21,000 – to simulate the size of this giant forest of skyscraper-tall mega turbines.
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Bill Hoodless, also from the association, added: "I think the helicopter plan is a genuine idea from Tobias Ellwood to help provide a height indication of a wind turbine.
"Perhaps we should not pre-judge that – it would be useful if by looking at the helicopter we can also visualise all the turbines."
David Lloyd, of opposition group Challenge Navitus, said it would "mislead rather than inform people".
"At best it will be a dot on the horizon and it will not indicate the sheer density of the proposed development."
He urged people to look at the visuals on its website, which he said had been independently verified.
"This is just one negative aspect of the development," he added.
The helicopter would hover at 100, 150 and 200 metre heights at nine, 12 and 15 miles from the shore.
Formal consultation on the project has now concluded and the firm is gearing up to submit its planning application.
The application is likely to be submitted to the Government in the spring.
Navitus Bay says the final number of turbines cannot yet be decided as technology is rapidly developing.
There could be as many as 218 as high as 200m.
n REACTING to the criticism, Tobias Ellwood said: "I have little faith in the digital images that I've been presented with. There is no solution to show how they will look and, absolutely, this is not ideal, but let's see what it can do.
"The company is willing to do it and it will not cost the taxpayer anything.
"My view is the more information that we have to paint a more realistic picture of what the impact will be, the better it is for us to make an accurate judgement as to what that impact will be."
Mike Unsworth, project director at Navitus Bay, added that the demonstration would not happen until the spring.
"The demonstration it still yet to be scoped in any detail. In any case, this exercise would not aim to replicate the visual representation of the wind park, but simply give the public a reference point within the proposed development's offshore site area, which currently does not exist, to understand the distance of the development from the shore and the height of the turbines," he said.


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The seventh annual award winners were announced Monday. The award is named after the Naismith Hall of Fame coach and is presented by a group that includes Joe Lapchick biographer and former player Gus Alfieri. It recognizes those who have shown the character traits of Lapchick, who coached at St. John's and with the New York Knicks.
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Gaines, who died in 2005 at age 81, won at least 20 games 18 times and captured eight Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association championships. In 1966-67, with Earl Monroe as his star player, Gaines led Winston-Salem State to a 31-1 record and the Division II national championship. The Rams were the first basketball program from a historically black college to win an NCAA national title.
Gaines, who was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame in 1981, was also the longtime athletic director at Winston-Salem State. He served as the CIAA president from 1970 to 1974 and was a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee from 1973 to 1976. He retired as Winston-Salem's coach in 1993.
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The 71-year-old Kresse played for Lapchick at St. John's from 1962-64.He was an assistant coach at his alma mater to Naismith Hall of Famer Lou Carnesecca and also worked with him with the New York Nets of the ABA. He went on to compile a 560-143 record in 23 seasons at the College of Charleston. The Cougars won the 1983 NAIA national championship and made four NCAA tournament appearances after the school moved to Division I in 1989.
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In the middle of a blinding snowstorm, an Edmonton Journal team drove west recently to visit the parents of a First Nations baby who died in care in 2011.
They were not welcomed.
The grieving parents only consented to see the reporter because she had the one thing the government had been denying them for two years.
She knew how their baby lost its life.
The reporter handed them a confidential four-page report, the room fell silent. The parents huddled together, poring over the scant details.
The system had taken away their daughter at birth, and never explained why. Two months later, she was dead and still the callous, dehumanizing silence continued. The parents were denied the autopsy report, the hospital records, all knowledge of the subsequent RCMP investigation.
Knowledge is power, after all, and these are some of the most powerless in our society.
By law, we cannot tell you their names. We cannot tell you their baby's name.
But today, we can begin to tell you about the 145 children who have died in care in this province since 1999. It took four years and many thousands of dollars in legal bills for the Edmonton Journal to win the battle for these records.
We argued that the public has a right to know about the deaths of society's most vulnerable and voiceless, so that the child welfare system could be held accountable. The Alberta government argued against the release of this information because, it claimed, the children and their families have a right to privacy.
A publication ban continues to prevent us from identifying the names and faces of these children. More egregiously, it continues to prevent the grieving parents of those children from uttering their dead child's name in public.
Remember, we must all remember, those two parents we cannot name.
When the Journal finally won this legal battle last June — one in which only a sad and dismayed public could possibly claim victory — Alberta's Information and Privacy Commissioner ruled that the need for public scrutiny outweighs some privacy protections.
And over the subsequent six-month investigation of these reports by the Journal and the Calgary Herald, many disturbing facts emerged.
The fact that nobody in government could even tell us, at first, how many children had died in care. The fact that the system is so cumbersome and convoluted that no one is accountable for these deaths. The fact that despite hundreds of well-meaning recommendations following fatality inquiries and internal investigations over the years, Albertans cannot see when or if they have been implemented.
Who knew? None of us, obviously.
It's one of the oldest tricks in the book, using government secrecy and obfuscation to cover inaction, to hide incompetence.
The system has not just failed these children; it has failed us all.
Those involved in the child welfare system are society's most vulnerable; often its least educated, its poorest, its most powerless. When the system fails them, as it did this blighted family, it is a call to action on the part of those who can and must demand change.
Over the next week, you will hear only the details the government has let us report. We have pursued this because we believe that knowledge is power.
We will remember — we must remember — that this is what it comes down to. Standing up, speaking up, for those who have no name.
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Symbol of the Potter's Flask. 1Thus said the LORD: Go, buy a potter's earthenware flask. Take along some of the elders of the people and some of the priests, 2and go out toward the Valley of Ben-hinnom, at the entrance of the Potsherd Gate;* there proclaim the words which I will speak to you: 3You shall say, Listen to the word of the LORD, kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I am going to bring such evil upon this place that the ears of all who hear of it will ring. 4All because they have forsaken me and profaned this place by burning incense to other gods which neither they nor their ancestors knew; and because the kings of Judah have filled this place with innocent blood,a 5building high places for Baal to burn their children in fire as offerings to Baal—something I never considered or said or commanded.b 6* Therefore, days are coming—oracle of the LORD—when this place will no longer be called Topheth, or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but rather, the Valley of Slaughter.c 7In this place I will foil the plan of Judah and Jerusalem; I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hand of those who seek their lives. Their corpses I will give as food to the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.d 8I will make this city a waste and an object of hissing. Because of all its wounds, every passerby will be horrified and hiss. 9I will have them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters; they shall eat one another's flesh during the harsh siege under which their enemies and those who seek their lives will confine them.e
10And you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who went with you, 11and say to them: Thus says the LORD of hosts: Thus will I smash this people and this city, as one smashes a clay pot so that it cannot be repaired. And Topheth shall be its burial place, for there will be no other place for burial.f 12Thus I will do to this place and to its inhabitants—oracle of the LORD; I will make this city like Topheth.g 13And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled like the place of Topheth, all the houses upon whose roofs they burnt incense to the whole host of heaven and poured out libations to other gods.h
14When Jeremiah returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, he stood in the court of the house of the LORD and said to all the people:i 15Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I will bring upon this city all the evil I have spoken against it, because they have become stubborn and have not obeyed my words.j
* [19:2] Potsherd Gate: perhaps in the south wall of Jerusalem, through which potsherds and other refuse were thrown into the Valley of Ben-hinnom.
a. [19:4] Jer 1:16; 2 Kgs 21:16; 24:4.
g. [19:12] 2 Kgs 23:10.
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The thing that looks odd to me there is the serverID. When I query for the current event, the serverID is "Test1", for the future event, it's "20141201.web.3".
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In early 1983, Congressman John Joseph Moakley met with a group of his Jamaica Plain constituents, geographically close, but politically far removed from his South Boston base.
They asked him to support legislation giving temporary legal status to refugees from the civil war then raging in El Salvador. To their great surprise, he agreed.
"Something had started to click for Moakley," writes Mark Robert Schneider in "Joe Moakley's Journey,'' a fine account of Moakley's personal and political progression from "meat and potatoes" neighborhood politician to human rights crusader.
Gradually, Schneider writes, the issue of El Salvador "would come to dominate Moakley's concerns." It would take him into the mountains and villages of El Salvador five times — and three times to Cuba, where he formed an unlikely bond with Fidel Castro.
There were also local concerns, as Schneider, a professor at Suffolk University, notes: promoting South Boston's Fan Pier as the site for the federal courthouse that now bears his name; obtaining federal funding for the Harbor Islands and other regional projects.
Moakley, born in 1927, grew up in the South Boston projects. During an unsuccessful campaign for state representative in 1950, he met Evelyn Duffy, a "vivacious, playful" widow from North Cambridge. They married in 1957, never had children, and lived until their deaths in a small Cape on South Boston's Columbia Road. Evelyn died in March 1996, five years before Moakley's own death in May 2001 at 74.
This is basically a political story, and the strength of
Schneider's account comes in
its skillful balancing of Moakley's local loyalties with his international interests.
He had managed to stay out of the school busing controversy that had roiled his South Boston neighbors. In an interview shortly before his death, Moakley said that it was "the worst political time that I had ever gone through in my life. Some days, I just didn't want to get up in the morning and put my shoes on."
In 1970, he challenged anti-busing leader Louise Day Hicks for the congressional seat long held by South Boston icon and longtime speaker of the House John McCormack. Moakley lost in the Democratic primary, but an aide suggested that he run in 1972 as an independent, and challenge Hicks directly in the November final. Although remarking that "would be like leaving the church," Moakley took that advice and defeated Hicks. It would be his "last close campaign."
In Congress, Moakley rose up the ranks as a protégé of Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill. His interest in Central America grew, after he initially ceded that issue to Gerry Studds of Cohasset, elected to Congress the same year he was.
By the time of his meeting with Jamaica Plain activists in 1983, he had already begun to take an interest in El Salvador, seconded by his aide Jim McGovern, now the congressman from the Worcester-based district. They focused on the issue of refugees following the massacre of villagers in 1981.
An emotionally moving event was the 1987 visit to the mountain village of Santa Marta in guerrilla territory, Sullivan recounted. Moakley could see that the village was "dirt poor," and he "connected with them immediately." It was not South Boston "where people had their problems, to be sure, but Moakley immediately grasped that these farmers faced basic challenges of survival every day."
Joe Moakley, writes
Schneider, "was no longer just
a 'nuts and bolts' politician with only a domestic agenda." He "challenged his congressional colleagues, and the wider American public, to recognize that it was American policy, and money, that placed the murder weapons in the killers' hands."
In announcing his retirement in 2001, Moakley said that "of all the things I have done, perhaps what remains closest to my heart is my work in El Salvador."
And then he threw in a self-deprecating line he had used for years. "I may not have been a foreign policy expert — in fact, my idea of a foreign affair used to be driving from South Boston to East Boston for an Italian sub."
Michael Kenney is a freelance writer living in Cambridge. He can be reached at mkenney777@ comcast.net.


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So I have already shared with you the battle of the pink, well it seemed wrong being a Barbie girl not to dedicate a whole post to my favourite shade, well here is my best dressed list, which was actually hard to narrow down as I thought the Met Gala 2014 honouring Charles James was exquisite.
Best Dressed #1 – Blake Lively
Has to be Blake Lively for me, as the face of Gucci Première it wasn't a surprised that she turned to the Italian fashion house for the Met Gala, and I am thrilled that it was so old Hollywood as this is when she really is at her best. Adorned with more than one million paillettes, this custom silk chiffon blush Gucci Première gown was hands down one of my favourite of the night.
I loved how it was dramatic with the cape-like train, sexy with the plunging neckline and nipped in waist, as well as being delicate in the colour and the embellishments. Add to that her gorgeous choice of statement Lorraine Schwartz jewels, her signature side-swept waves and her arm candy for the night hubbie Ryan Reynolds, who looked pretty dapper in a Gucci Made to Order midnight blue velvet Signoria tuxedo, and it makes for a stunning look.
#2 – Karolina Kurkova
I love that the Met Gala always brings out the models onto the red carpet, each year they always wearing the most daring and striking looks, and this year was no different with Karolina Kurkova in this dramatic custom Marchesa ballgown – the structure of the dress and the floral print makes this a work of art and so very Charles James and I adore it. Add the $1 million worth of Harry Winston diamonds that she is wearing and this became a look to beat.
#3 – Amy Adams
Amy Adams really has been on a roll this year with her red carpet looks, her award season was near flawless and this metallic Oscar de la Renta is another incredible look. From the autumn/winter 2014 collection this gown wasn't custom like most of the other looks but it sure as hell looked like it was made specifically for her. The fit of this strapless gown is impeccable – I love the heart-shaped neckline, the ruched waistline and the dramatic train – and those David Webb earrings really do finish off the look.
#4 – Dita Von Teese
Wow, wow, wow. If ever there was a time for Zac Posen to shine it was at a Charles James themed red carpet, his use of drama and structure was made for this year's Met Gala and my favourite of his looks was this fun and exquisitely crafted pale pink mermaid gown worn by Dita Von Teese. OK, so I am a little obsessed with the burlesque star but come on doesn't she look incredible. I love how her use of red in her lippy and clutch really plays up the red hem detailing of the gown. I love this look.
#5 – Charlize Theron
It was hard to select this final spot, thank god I had already done the pink beauties, but I think Charlize Theron in her monochrome Dior Couture gown paired with a tuxedo jacket thrown over her shoulders was just a divine way to honour the White Tie & Diamonds dress code. I've made no secret that I love women in tuxedos, I just love it when women rock menswear looks while still being feminine and for me Charlize strikes the right balance here by pairing the tux jacket with a gorgeous flowing dress and those statement Fred Leighton earrings. Gorgeous from head-to-toe, but then again isn't she always!!!
Honorary Mention – Diane Kruger
I couldn't miss out my girl crush – Diane Kruger. So her look might not have been one of my favourites, I just felt her embellished ice-white Hugo Boss beauty didn't stand out as much as some of the other gowns. It was gorgeous though, I especially loved the pleated overlay, the styling of her complementary pearl-white clutch and her forties-style chignon was one of the best hairstyles of the night. Oh and she did have the best arm candy in Joshua Jackson who looked great in a Hugo Boss suit.


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Local Fourth of July parades are supposed to be about fun and celebrating freedom, but they're also about government.
If you're scratching your head, think of this: where else do you get to see all your elected officials in one place?
The thought occurred as I watched the Fourth of July in the San Gabriel Valley city where I moved late last year. I had met one of my local councilmen, but hadn't laid eyes on any elected officials. But there they were: the mayor, the council, the school board, and a host of other non-electeds, led by the police chief.
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There was even a surprise. Early in the parade, Congresswoman Judy Chu appeared on the back of a classic car. I'd interviewed her a couple of times while covering labor for the LA Times, but what was she doing here? I was pretty sure Adam Schiff was my congressman.
He was. But he won't be after the November elections, because of redistricting. Chu is running in a newly formed district that includes my neighborhood. As a proud non-voter in June's elections (I'm in the 80 percent of eligible-to-vote Californians who didn't cast a ballot), I hadn't seen the ballot with Chu's name on it, or otherwise picked up on the shift.
Such confusion is a profoundly American experience. We persist in dividing up our communities and cities into single-member districts of the same population (other more democratic places have multiple member districts that fit whole cities and regions, and divide up representation proportionally). As a result, it's hard to know what legislative districts you're in unless you're paying close attention.
Which is another reason it's wonderful that we have a holiday -- the Fourth of July -- and a tradition of parades to remind us who our representatives are.
Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
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Deep Fried Chicago: The Rocking Horse
The Rocking Horse in Logan Square has all the "bar and grill but still mostly a bar" bases covered. Sticky tabletops and the faint, lingering aroma of stale beer at all hours of the day? Check. A mostly black decorating scheme clearly optimized to the forgiving darkness of night? Double check. And most importantly, a menu of apps, wraps, sandwiches, and burgers, all designed for efficient alcohol absorption? We're in business.
Four varietals of Chicken Wings ($9.50) await your selection. Spicy BBQ was my server's immediate, almost instinctual favorite, and my corresponding selection. The wings are fried crisp, tossed in a blend of house buffalo and store barbecue sauces, and quickly finished on a hot grill. This tripartite process pays off in spades: the big, meaty wings are moist and crunchy, and the caramelization and smoke from the grill intensifies the spicy-sweet sauce. House bleu cheese makes for an inspired dip for what just might be my new default order.
Obvious care goes into the neatly crimped Fundido Won Tons ($8.50 for daily selection), and they sound great in theory. But in practice, each bite is a rush of chorizo grease and little else. There is surprisingly little flavor from the orange ground sausage and chihuahua cheese, and the side of sour cream does little to provide the dish with any lightness. May I suggest roasted poblano, salt, and perhaps some acid in the form of salsa?
I've already extolled the graces of the Buffalo Chicken Wrap, but I'll be damned if lightning hasn't struck twice in the form of the Hand-Breaded Chicken Sandwich ($9.00). The chicken is hard fried and heavily peppered—think chicken fried steak—and the bun is oversized and pillowy. The included lettuce, tomato, red onion, and pickles are all great, but grab a side of mayo and those pickles, and you're well on your way to a respectable local option to the fallen crowd favorite.
Are seasoning blends made for pale, limp fries, or vice versa? I pondered this age old chicken and the egg question as I devoured the Cajun Fries (included with burgers, sandwiches, and wraps, or $4.00 as a side). I'm still not entirely sure, but I do know the codependency works. The salty, finger-coating spiciness kept me coming back for more, while the fluffy bunchability of the spuds themselves made for a comforting reminder of the oven baked Ore-Ida of my youth.
As Logan Square's dining options become increasingly upscale, I'm glad a place like The Rocking Horse is still putting out solid, frills-lite bar food. And as long as you're sticking with chicken, I can vouch that you'll leave happy, too.
The Rocking Horse
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Crofting development posts crucial says Federation
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TOPEKA - Kansas legislators have given final approval to a bill designating a winged dinosaur and an ancient sea creature as the state's official fossils.
The Senate on Tuesday unanimously approved the measure honoring the flying pteranodon and the sea-roaming tylosaurus. They roamed what is now Kansas during the Cretaceous Period, from 145 million to 66 million years ago, when a giant sea covered the area.
The House approved the bill last month, so the Senate's action sends the bill to Gov. Sam Brownback. His office at the Statehouse is displaying a fossil of a juvenile cousin of the tylosaurus.
If Brownback signs the bill, the fossils will join the western meadowlark, ornate box turtle and bison as state symbols.
Fossil hunters and natural history museums pushed for the legislation.


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The rail industry is expanding in the UK. Since the 1950s, the rail system throughout the country has grown steadily, both in terms of track networks and overall train traffic. This means the industry's workforce has also steadily expanded, and professionals are needed for every aspect of the transit infrastructure, from ticket sales to track construction and train operations. It is estimated that trains transport about 8% of all freight carried in the UK, and the sector is therefore quite important to the national economy.
At present, the industry is experiencing a skills shortage, which is projected to continue in coming years as the sector expands. Recruitment agencies have recently seen a particular need for electricians and safety personnel, and those with engineering and mechanical expertise are also in high demand. The Railway Engineering Apprenticeship programme offers a valuable opportunity for young people seeking careers in rail transit. The programme is open to ages 16-18, and even admits a limited number of school-leavers each year.
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MacArthur's conservation and sustainable development grantmaking has three geographic focus regions: the Great Lakes of East Central Africa, the Greater Mekong and its headwaters, and Watersheds of the Andes. Each is a place of high biodiversity, important freshwater service, and carbon-storage value. The Foundation also supports a cross-regional coastal marine program in Melanesia, The Western Indian Ocean, Indonesia, and The Caribbean focused on expanding local management of near shore fisheries in order to slow the loss of marine biodiversity.
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The Great Lakes of East and Central Africa is one of the most important yet ecologically threatened regions on the continent. As the source of the Nile, it supplies food, energy, drinking water, crop irrigation, and transport for nearly 300 million people. Within the next 25 years, that population is expected to double, further burdening a water supply that is already threatened by climate change, growth of industry and agriculture, and constant droughts. Grantmaking will focus on conserving the region's biodiversity and fresh water supply while addressing regional food security challenges.
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The Greater Mekong, which includes areas of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and China, is undergoing a massive infrastructure transformation that could have a lasting impact on its biodiversity and the health and well-being of local economies and populations. Hydropower dams are being built to keep pace with the region's growing energy consumption, while new roads, rails and ports are being constructed and expanded to manage the transport of agriculture products for export.
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The Tropical Andes has been called the "global epicenter of biodiversity," and is recognized as one of the richest genetic reservoirs on the planet. Representing 50 percent of the remaining tropical forest in the world, it plays a critical role in mitigating the impact of climate change. But it is also threatened by mineral and energy mining, logging, and industrial agriculture, which contribute to its 7 percent deforestation rate, the highest in the world. MacArthur's grantmaking in this region will focus on helping to balance the needs of rural and vulnerable communities with the prudent stewardship of diverse ecosystems.
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TIMBG was founded by Drs. Ming Wang and Galen Hull in September 2013 to promote communication and interaction among immigrant and minority business owners through a series of monthly seminars. For further information see www.timbg.org and www.diversecutluralevents.com. The mission of TIMBG is to help immigrant and minority businesses, through:
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Dr. Ming Wang's Tennessean article Wed 1/27/16: China slowdown's effects on U.S. are limited.
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Ham Dinner
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That looks so delicious! I love ham too, one of my favourite meats.ReplyDeleteReplies
Pauline, where on the Island are you? I'm in the Cowichan Valley. ~AnnDelete
Ann...that ham is making me so hungry right now and it is 1:00am...beautiful dinner! All of your dinners are beautiful!ReplyDelete
I better go to bed before I eat something!
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Me too Deb. Took a ham sandwich to work with me yesterday.Delete
This looks so delicious and that acorn squash yummm. Always a treat to look at your Blog.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Erica. Squash is a favourite vegetable. Especially at this time of year when they are farm fresh.~AnnDelete
- Maureen, MilwaukeeSaturday, September 29, 2012
My family is ham-a-phobic, so I always take a look when ham is featured on a blog - just dreaming! This looks beautiful. Is it applewood-smoked?ReplyDelete
My mouth was watering after this post. I am happy to say that you inspired me to recreate this exact meal for this Sunday's dinner. Thanks!ReplyDelete