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Ari K, California
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About Me
Sunny southern California is where I call home. I was raised in the shadows of the Hollywood sign. I'm a UCLA graduate and an avid Los Angeles sports fan. As an attorney for over a decade I have practiced law all over California. While I enjoy being a lawyer, my real passion is for all things Disney. Living in Los Angeles makes it easy for me to satisfy my Disney fix.
About My Family
I have a really cool family. My wife and I met in 1991 and have been together and going to Disneyland ever since. She teaches third grade and is the best thing that ever happened to me. We have two daughters: Sara loves roller skating and Space Mountain, while Emily enjoys puppies and Tower of Terror!
About My Disney Experience
I've been lucky enough to enjoy the Disneyland resort as a boy and now as a father of two girls. While it's great to see them enjoying the twists and turns of Matterhorn just like I did not so long ago, it's also so sweet to watch them interact with the Disney Princesses, which is a new experience for me. Just when I think I've done it all, there are new and amazing Disney experiences at hand.

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I am … a Survivor.
Unlikely Survivor
I should not be here to tell this story but I am so I hope those who read it enjoy.
Everyone has had times in their lives where they have been in life threatening situations. In my case, the number of times is a bit overwhelming. As a youngster, I always thought I was really lucky. I guess the luck of the Irish. Of course, I now know it had little to do with luck.
This my friends is a story of God's grace and answered prayer. Trust me when I tell you the life I've led so far has been, what a friend reminded me, a long strange trip. But what a glorious trip. So filled with God's love and Grace it is hard to grasp. I know I am not worthy but still Grace and love along with prayer answered have been given to me. I now finally have a clue what I must do regarding all of it. At the very least, I must tell this story as many times as people will allow me. Thank you for this opportunity to share the story.
I was regional sales manager for an industrial diamond manufacturer/ grinding wheel manufacturer and covered most of five states. While on a trip to Indianapolis late Feb 07, I was driving to meet a colleague for a breakfast meeting on Indy's east side. As a side note, my cell phone was not functioning. I was suddenly overcome with a need for sleep, overwhelmingly groggy and tired despite the fact I had only been awake for a couple of hours. I knew something was not right, but had no idea what was wrong. I now know I had a stroke. Instincts led me to attempt to return to a hotel, the Drury Inn on the northwest corner of Indy. I passed out a number of times on the interstate and drifted against the concrete median. An angel must have been with me because I made it to the Drury parking lot. There at about 10:30 am, Thursday, I passed out in my car. I was there for about 26 hours unattended until Drury personnel came out to the car and requested that I come into the lobby and have a cup of coffee. I had no idea it was Friday morning but went into the lobby thinking it was still Thursday. I was supposed to meet a another colleague for a sales call Friday morning in Dayton and was not answering my cell. The colleague, Angela (imagine young lady named Angela), was concerned. I had not shown up and since my cell was not working, I was not responding to her phone calls. Thankfully, She remembered I usually stayed at this Drury when in Indy. She called the front desk looking for me. She was told I had checked out the day before, she would not let it go. Inside she knew something was wrong. Turns out she was speaking with front desk personnel as I came in from the parking lot and was put on the phone with her. My speech was garbled and she asked me to stay put. She hung up and called our VP of operations, Mike Sweeney, informing him she had found me. Mr Sweeney knows my brother who lives a few miles from our Chardon, Ohio plant and called informing him I had been found. He had called earlier stating they had lost track of me the day before. My brother called the hotel and spoke with me. He thought I sounded as if I had had a stroke and told me to allow Paramedics to take me to the hospital. The hotel had already called the police who in turn called for an ambulance. Well, I did have a stroke in the frontal lobe of my brain. I was fortunate, I only suffered speech problems. I could not relate the thoughts I was formulating in my head. I have since had a complete recovery. I did battle major depression for months. I tried to relate this story 5 weeks after it happened, but emotionally I could just not do it. Doctors have told me there is no medical explanation as to my survival and to how my recovery could have been so easy and fast. Especially given the fact I was unattended for 26 hours after the stroke.
God's grace and love for us is impossible for us to comprehend. We get a glimpse of what Grace is when we look at our children.
NOW HEAR ME ON THIS. It is our father's joy to give you his gifts. They are here for all. How can we not see his love when we look at our children?
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Big cap body rag:Big Night, the monthly arts mixer launched by Just Buffalo Literary Center's former artistic director Michael Kelleher with poet Aaron Lowinger in 2007, is returning for the fall season. At 8 p.m. Saturday, the Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington St.) will host poets Filip Marinovich and Nava Fader along with Buffalo band the Cellars. Chef and poet Geoffrey Gatza will provide a buffet of gourmet food. All for a cool $5.
Big Nights are happily communal affairs, designed primarily to broaden the appeal of poetry beyond its small constituency, but also meant to encourage conversation and collaboration across the entire cultural spectrum.
Marinovich, a New York City-based poet and playwright, has two collections of poetry from Ugly Duckling Presse and has written three plays for his own theater company, Comet Party. Fader, who holds a master's in poetics from the University at Buffalo, wrote "All the Jawing Jackdaw" on Gatza's BlazeVox press. The Cellars, according to a release, mix "driving rock and psychedelic sounds like a child might mix together house paint." Visit www.justbuffalo.org or call 832-5400.
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You may have seen reports that some alleged "expert" has given the opinion that the forged CBS documents on President Bush's National Guard service are authentic. We haven't followed this closely, since this story is as dead as a door nail, and an "expert" can be found to say absolutely anything. When Bill Burkett says the documents were handed to him by some guy he never saw before at a livestock show, and unfortunately he burned the originals, I don't think we need to spend a lot more time on the story. It's time to move on, as a certain 527 used to say.
But our friends at Wizbang have done a great job of nipping this latest fraud in the bud. The "expert" in question is one Professor David Hailey, a Kerry contributor–what a surprise. The Wizbang guys took the evidence that Hailey had committed forgery off Hailey's web server:
Here is a hint for the good Professor– If you are going to forge documents DON'T LEAVE THE EVIDENCE on your webserver.
And if you don't think that TH nailed him, feel free to download the PHOTOSHOP DOCUMENT he was working on when he created the forgery.
Not only did he forge the document but he left the work in progress in an open web folder.
And Professor, if you are reading this- and I know someone will mail it to you, I have downloaded your entire website as evidence and I saved screen caps of it, so don't bother delete it. I also had an interesting phone call with the head of your department. You might give him a call.
Did you think we were stupid?
Latest word from Wizbang is that the Boston GLobe, which had been hot to run with the story, is backing off.
I can't judge what the Wizbang guys are saying from a technical standpoint, but they supply links if you want to see the materials they pulled off Prof. Hailey's server.


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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The prospect of Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell resigning as he copes with a federal investigation into the nearly $150,000 worth of lavish gifts the Republican and his family received from a wealthy executive is unlikely, people close to the governor insist.
Yet the topic remains a tantalizing conversation piece around Richmond these days, mainly because it would be an act without modern precedent.
While Virginia has had its fair share of tumultuous politics over the years, not since Reconstruction has the commonwealth been forced to grapple with a question of succession. No Virginia governor has resigned, or been impeached, in the last century.
But there's another reason some Virginia political watchers are buzzing about the hypothetical: McDonnell's resignation, however unlikely, would elevate his lieutenant governor, Republican Bill Bolling, to the state's highest office.
And Bolling has made it abundantly clear he has little tolerance for the Republican running to succeed McDonnell -- Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.
"I have serious reservations about his ability to effectively and responsibly govern our state," Bolling said of Cuccinelli in a recent interview with CNN.
Here's the backstory: Bolling has served as lieutenant governor since 2006, and had long eyed this election year as his moment to make the leap to governor. Bolling had McDonnell's endorsement, and campaign backing from other establishment leaders and members of Virginia's influential business community.
Then Cuccinelli stepped in.
The ambitious Fairfax native, an uncompromising social conservative and tea party darling, also had designs on the governorship -- and he had no time for the succession plan orchestrated by Bolling, McDonnell and other GOP leaders. So last year, Cuccinelli's allies in the Republican Party re-wired the GOP's nominating process so that the 2013 gubernatorial nominee would be selected by convention instead of a primary.
Since conventions tend to attract only a small slice of the electorate -- the most committed and vocal conservatives who revel in spending their spring weekends at political conventions -- that left Bolling, who views the tea party movement with a mixture of scorn and exotic bewilderment, with little option but to drop out of the race.
An exasperated Bolling left the race, and Cuccinelli easily captured the GOP gubernatorial nomination in May with the support of roughly 8,000 delegates who showed up at the Richmond Coliseum to support him (and two other conservatives, attorney general candidate Mark Obenshain and a bombastic pastor named E.W. Jackson, the party's nominee for lieutenant governor).
Clearly incensed at Cuccinelli for dashing his gubernatorial hopes, Bolling soon embarked on a media tour lamenting the rightward drift of the Republican Party. He used his remaining campaign funds to launch an initiative called "The Virginia Mainstream Project" to recruit pragmatic Republican candidates and advance "responsible conservative policy solutions."
Bolling's message was clear: hard-liners like Cuccinelli are eating away at the Republican Party from the inside, and hindering legislative compromise in Richmond.
Cuccinelli's allies think Bolling is a sore loser, bordering on irrelevance.
Bolling, freed from the pressures of campaign politics for the first time in nearly two decades, says he's just speaking his mind.
"Frankly, I don't care what they think of me," Bolling said last month over lunch at a Greek restaurant in the Richmond suburbs, several weeks before The Washington Post revealed some of the more explosive details of the unfolding McDonnell controversy.
Picking at a salad, the lieutenant governor characterized himself as a conservative, explaining that his first taste of politics came as a teenager in the coalfields of West Virginia, when he toiled on the 1972 re-election campaign of Gov. Arch Moore, a Republican in what was then a heavily Democratic state.
"The definition of what a conservative is has changed so much that now all of a sudden I look like a moderate," he said. "The truth is that Bill Bolling is a conservative guy, always has been, always will be. But I am not an anti-government guy. I believe there is a role for government to play."
The conversation pivoted to Bolling's central criticism of Cuccinelli -- that he is an ideologue uninterested in the sort of compromises needed to govern.
"This is not just the most conservative ticket, but it is the most ideologically driven ticket that we have seen in the history of our state," Bolling said of the Cuccinelli-Jackson-Obenshain tea party troika.
Bolling says he has "tried to be measured" in his public comments about Cuccinelli. But that's not really true.
"The difference between us is the kinds of issues we focus on, the leadership style and demeanor that we demonstrate," Bolling said. "Our willingness to compromise, to get things done. Mr. Cuccinelli will have to run his campaign, and to win this election, he is going to have to convince people that he has the ability to govern Virginia in a mainstream way. Whether he can do that or not remains to be seen."
All of this, mind you, is coming from the man who would become chief executive if McDonnell were to leave office prematurely.
To the delight of Democrats, it's conceivable that the governor's mansion could be occupied by a Republican who happens to be openly contemptuous of the Republican running to succeed him.
Democrats might enjoy that scenario almost as much as the one they have now, with Cuccinelli having to answer questions about his own ties to Star Scientific CEO Jonnie Williams, the embattled executive who provided McDonnell and his family with undisclosed gifts like a Rolex watch, a $15,000 Bergdorf Goodman shopping spree and pricey catering for the wedding of the governor's daughter.
Cuccinelli also accepted gifts from Williams and owned stock in his company, though an investigation last week found he did not violate the state's conflict of interest laws.
"This is a no-win situation for Cuccinelli," said Democratic strategist Mo Elleithee, a veteran of Virginia campaigns. "If Bob McDonnell somehow is able to remain in office, he'll be a daily reminder of Cuccinelli's own ethical challenges with Star Scientific. If Bolling assumes the governorship, not only will Cuccinelli still be under an ethical cloud, but the new governor will be a daily reminder of how even mainstream Republicans view him as too extreme."
Bolling's comments over the last few months to a spate of news organizations seem tailor-made for negative television ads and mail pieces: "Don't believe us? Here's what Virginia's own Republican governor had to say about Ken Cuccinelli ..."
Bolling has even left the door open to voting for Cuccinelli's Democratic opponent, Terry McAuliffe, who, he kindly pointed out, "takes a more pragmatic approach to politics and to governing."
At the moment, it doesn't seem the Bolling-as-governor scenario will come to pass.
Bolling is close with McDonnell and certainly isn't angling for the job. Though he's had designs on the governorship for years, taking over for McDonnell in the wake of scandal, with regular legislative business wrapped for the year, isn't much of a prize. Nor could Bolling suddenly decide to run for a full term -- the filing deadline to run in November passed in June.
Barring another devastating disclosure about the investigation, the only real pressure point for McDonnell as he braces for a tough final six months in office would be a chorus of resignation calls from legislators in his own party. But so far, not a single prominent Republican has called for McDonnell to leave office.
Meanwhile, McDonnell has hired a Washington-based crisis communications consultant and former U.S. attorney to fight back against federal investigators, and some of his supporters launched a legal defense fund last week.
Those aren't the actions of a man preparing to step aside.
But if he does, Cuccinelli and Virginia Republicans might only be trading in one headache for another.


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The wait for the Raspberry Pi to be shipped has been frustrating, but then this is the first product launch the Raspberry Pi Foundation has undertaken, and their ranks are full of engineers, not a sales team. Even so, it's easy to focus on the problems rather than the benefits of the Raspberry Pi hardware.
Although the $25 price point is a key selling point of the tiny ARM computer, there is another important feature the device carries: it works with really old tech. More specifically, if you have an old CRT lying around then you don't actually need to buy a display to start using your Raspberry Pi.
Andrew Back, the guy behind the Open Source Hardware User Group, has given us the perfect example of old meeting new by posting the image you see above. What you are viewing is a Raspberry Pi beta board hooked up to Thandar Monitor TV2S, which was manufactured over 30 years ago. The image it is displaying is of the DesignSpark homepage, a website for online engineering resources and design support.
The setup isn't exactly practical or even usable, as Back admits, but it could mean a resurgence of effectively dead technology. How many of you have a CRT display stored away somewhere? Does it still work? Were you considering a new flat screen display purchase to run the Raspberry Pi with?
Maybe, at least initially, you could relive the old days before LCDs became the norm and use that CRT to setup your Raspberry Pi. It could be one last job for your CRT before finally being consigned to recycling.
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Wondering what to write on that Valentine's Day card for your sweetie? If you're suffering from a touch of writer's block, get inspired by reading some beautiful and beloved love quotes. Here are a few of our favorites: 1."Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery 2. "For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow." ~ Rosemonde Gerard
Sugar Mommas' SWEETHEART Pretzels
These pretzel treats are a perfect activity to get the kids involved. Pretzels and chocolate – I think those are two staples in a kids life, arent they? I could not keep my son away if I tried. Once these treats are assembled and cooled, we put them in cello bags and tied them with a decorative ribbon. My kids cant wait to give their gourmet gifts to teachers, grandparents, and friends.
How to Make a Candy Necklaces
OMG, I made my very own candy necklace! Pretty cool huh? You can make these in whatever color you want… mine are pink and purple for Valentine's Day. Alright let's start. This is easy, I promise! Ingredients 4 egg whites 1 cup sugar 1/4 cream of tartar (this is a powder in the spice aisle – makes everything shiny, but it's optional) 1 tsp of flavoring if desired 1 tbs cocoa powder (if you want them to be chocolate flavored) Directions
Homemade Valentine's Cards for School
Does your child's classroom exchange valentines? Jessie Jane shares two great ideas for homemade cards that are much cuter than the storebought ones. They're easy to make, fun to decorate and oh so adorable! Caterpillar Hearts Supplies Construction paper Pencils Glitter paper (available at any craft store) Scissors Markers Googly eyes (optional) Glue stick Hole punch Directions
How to Make Hand-Dipped Chocolate Strawberries
Hand-dipped chocolate-covered strawberries make an excellent Valentine's Day gift, anniversary present or simply a delicious afternoon snack. Making chocolate-covered strawberries is also a fun afternoon project to do with your children, particularly at the beginning of summer, when strawberries tend to be in season. You can dress up the berries with a drizzle of white or dark chocolate or by marbling different kinds of chocolate together. Ingredients
Valentine's Day Gifts She'll Love
It's that time of year and we found some great gifts that we know we'd love. So whether you drop hints to your partner or buy them for a friend (Galentine's day!), share the love this Valentine's Day! Nic D'Andrea's Miss Bracelet collection has gorgeous stackable bracelets with empowering charms that anyone would love! Handcrafted in…
Chocolate Bark For Valentine's Day
Looking for a delicious and unique Valentine's day treat (or wrap it up and it's a fun gift for friends, teachers, etc.)... Check out Jessie and Stacey making this delicious dessert (their banter at the end is pretty funny...)
Valentine's Day Printables for Your Child's Lunch
February 14th is the day when we take the time to celebrate our friends and family and show them how much we care. And what better way to share your love with your little one than an extra special Valentine's day lunch? Here's how: Special Sandwich Make your child's favorite sandwich – whether PB & J, turkey and cheese, egg salad – whatever! Then carefully cut it into the shape of a heart. If you have a heart-shaped cookie cutter, that's probably your best bet. Sweet Treat Beverage
A Stepmom's Guide to Overcoming Jealous Stepkids
I'm a scorpio, so I can't help but have the jealous gene. I consider myself a confident girl, but when it comes to my partner, a little psycho creeps out whenever other women or exes come into the picture. He's a good catch, what can I say? We've been married for almost 4 years now…
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This Teflon rigging tape made by Dynaglide was specifically designed for marine applications. UV resistant pressure sensitive tape this is backed with a high-temperature silicone adhesive. It is made of a tensilized film that provides higher tensile strength and lower elongation for improved performance.
At 3.5 mils (1/1000ths of an inch) of an inch thick, it's perfect for wrapping around really tight radius bits that need to be ultra-slippery or, used in extremely thin areas where you just don't have enough room. For instance, it can be use on the tuff luff so that your asymmetric spinnaker sheets aren't caught while gybing, or on turnbuckles, in hatch slide tracks, stays, spreader tips and batten pockets for smoother tacks and gybes in light air.
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For those of you unsure whether to laugh about this at FUDCon, just a link to show these really exist, despite the name.
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For those of you unsure whether to laugh about this at FUDCon, just a link to show these really exist, despite the name.
Dear lazyweb, is this possible with AMQP?
Producer sends messages to the server. Messages are not lost if the server is restarted. Messages are not lost if the producer is sending a message and the server is down.
Multiple consumers can connect to the server and receive all of the messages. Some of the consumers will be connected almost all the time. Other consumers will poll (they will be fired off by cron jobs). In both cases, the consumers should receive all of the messages that the producer has sent.
Terminology like "fanout" and "durable queues" seems to be where I need to look but I'm not sure if they're really the same concepts.
Just a quick FUDCon note: We are trying to make it easier for people who are not able to make it to FUDCon itself to see some of the things going on and get some value from the sessions. Check out the FUDCon Live wiki page for a list of sessions, when they're happening, and logs from finished sessions.
Looking at the logs, you may notice that they're logs from IRC. This is because we have people transcribing highlights from all the sessions into irc channels as they're happening. This is an opportunity for people, not just to follow along at home but also to ask questions and join in with the conference sessions.
How to join the Fedora Live IRC channels?
Here's an example:
I'm interested in the Sysadmin & Developer Panel. I see that it is in Room 7 on the wiki schedule. I open up konversation and go to irc.freenode.net as the server. Then I /join #fudcon-room-7 and participate in the conversation that's going on.
I was afraid that the FUDBus to Toronto FUDCon would be a bust when I found out that our planned wifi and AC Power was not to be but it turned out to be quite productive. I spent most of the day talking to Dave Malcolm about getting Python 3 Packaging Guidelines and packages into Fedora. We've simplified a bit of it, clarified other bits, and the only really difficult thing left is figuring out whether to allow one srpm to handle modules that build both python2 and python3 subpackages or separate srpms for python2 and python3. There's pros and cons to each that we'll have to weigh against each other before we can settle on a solution. We'll keep thinking about this and hopefully have something finished by the end of FUDCon.
I also got to talk to mizmo about how to become better at designing user interfaces with inkscape. By happy chance, she's doing a presentation tomorrow on just that topic and gave me a sneak peak with the slides she prepared. So as not to spoil her presentation, all I'll say for now is that I think it's a *very* useful presentation. Mo showed both a broad overview of making mockups in inkscape and the key specific features that she uses. Much like mmcgrath's presentation last year about how system admins in infrastructure have handled problems, this is a presentation that will help you on multiple levels. It will give you skills to design UIs and better work with inkscape to create artwork. It will also show you something of the process and thinking of a UI designer, an often underappreciated but hugely important part of our work.
Other bus topics: A bit of discussion about replacing cvs with a new version control system, updating packagedb and cvs acls to allow a comaintainer-only packager group, and arranging with lmacken to do a TG2 quickstart with csrf and fas auth plugins sometime during the hackfest. If I canget that to work, I'll be able to write a guide that tells others how to use these pieves of python-fedora in their TG2 applications.
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Classic Stage Company Presents Dianne Wiest in THE FOREST
Classic Stage Company (CSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, will present two-time Academy Award-winner Dianne Wiest in THE FOREST, by Alexander Ostrovosky, translated by Kathleen Tolan, and directed by Brian Kulick, beginning performances Friday, April 23 at CSC (136 East 13th Street) with an official press opening Thursday, May 6 at 7pm. THE FOREST will also star Obie Award-winning actor John Douglas Thompson, who earned great acclaim last year for his title role performance in Othello at Theatre for a New Audience. THE FOREST will play a limited engagement through Sunday May 30 only.Before Chekhov, there was Alexander Ostrovsky, Russia's first great theatrical reformer, who forged comedy and drama into a remarkably rich theatrical mix, paving the way for a generation of modern Russian playwrights. Wiest, who last dazzled audiences at CSC opposite Alan Cumming in The Seagull, returns to the theatre in this romantic romp, where the most dangerous creatures in the forest are two vagabond actors, posing as gentry, who crash a nearby estate, turning an orderly manor upside down. The cast of THE FOREST also features Adam Driver, Quincy Dunn-Baker, Herb Foster, Lisa Joyce, Lizbeth MacKay, George Morfogen, John Christopher Jones and Tony Torn. Scenic design is by Tony Award winner Santo Loquasto, with lighting by Tony Award winner Peter Kaczorowski, costumes by Marco Piemontese, and original music and sound design by Christian Frederickson and Ryan Rumery.THE FOREST will perform Tuesdays through Fridays at 8 pm; Saturdays at 2 pm and 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm. Tickets are $70 for Tuesday - Thursday performances and $75 for Friday - Sunday performances. For tickets and information, visit www.classicstage.org or call (866) 811-4111, or (212) 352-3101, or visit the CSC box office at 136 East 13th Street, Monday through Friday 12 pm to 6 pm. Dianne Wiest (Raisa) last appeared onstage in Arthur Miller's All My Sons on Broadway. Additional credits: Wendy Wasserstein's Third, Memory House by Kathleen Tolan, Salome, Oedipus, The Shawl, Hunting Cockroaches, After the Fall, Beyond Therapy and The Art of Dining. Film credits include The Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah and Her Sisters (Oscar), Radio Days, September and Bullets Over Broadway (Oscar), all by Woody Allen. She also appeared in Parenthood (Oscar nomination), Edward Scissorhands and The Birdcage. She recently completed Charlie Kaufman's movie Synecdoche and the acclaimed HBO series "In Treatment." Ms. Wiest appeared at Classic Stage Company two seasons ago as Arkadina in Chekhov's The Seagull. John Douglas Thompson (Gennady) was recently seen as Othello at Theatre for a New Audience and played the title role in The Emperor Jones with Irish Rep. Broadway: Julius Caesar opposite Denzel Washington. Int'l: Henry IV Parts 1 and II (RSC). Off-B'way: Hedda Gabler (NYTW), King Lear (CTH), Overtime (u/s, MTC), Oroonoko (Mint Theater). Reg'l: Henry IV (Chicago Shakespeare), Bus Stop (Williamstown), Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train (People's Light), King Lear (Yale Rep), Richard III (Shakespeare Theatre), Othello, Preface to an Alien Garden (Trinity Rep), Full Circle, Mother Courage, Richard II, Antigone, Winter's Tale, Othello (ART). TV/film: "Law & Order," "Law & Order: SVU," "All My Children," Conviction, Michael Clayton.Alexander Ostrovsky (Playwright) (born April 12, 1823, Moscow, Russia - died June 14, 1886) Literary historians deem Ostrovsky the founder of Russian national drama, for he was the first to depict on the stage the ordinary merchants, government bureaucrats and other middle-class denizens of Moscow and the Volga River region. There were few acclaimed Russian playwrights before him, but when Ostrovsky began his career in the 1840s, "Russian theatre was more entertainment than art," asserted London Sunday Times writer John Peter. His second play, The Bankrupt (1850), exposed bogus bankruptcy cases and led to his dismissal from the civil service. Most of his plays treat characters from the Russian merchant class; they include the comedies Poverty Is No Disgrace (1853), The Thunderstorm (1859), and The Snow Maiden (1873), adapted as an opera by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. With his 47 plays Ostrovsky created a Russian national repertoire, and he is considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period. Kathleen Tolan (Adaptation) was a member of André Gregory's company, The Manhattan Project, in the early seventies and then went on to act in theater, TV and film. Her first play, A Weekend Near Madison, was produced in 1983 at The Actors Theatre of Louisville and subsequently in New York at the Astor Place Theatre, across the country and in Europe. Other plays include Kate's Diary (produced in New York at Playwrights Horizons and The Public), Approximating Mother (produced by The Women's Project) and Memory House (Playwrights Horizons) starring Dianne Wiest. A Girl's Life, a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, premiered in Spring '98 at Trinity Repertory Theatre in Providence. Kathleen is a member of various organizations, including the Dramatists Guild and PEN. Translator of Marivaux's The False Servant for Classic Stage Company.Brian Kulick (Direction) is in his seventh season as Artistic Director of CSC, where he has directed The Tempest, Richard III, Richard II, Hamlet, The False Servant, The Mysteries and the world premiere of poet Anne Carson's adaptation of An Oresteia. From 1996-2001 he was an Artistic Associate at The Public Theatre, where he directed Twelfth Night, Kit Marlowe, The Winter's Tale, Pericles, A Dybbuk and Timon of Athens. Prior to this, he was the Associate Artistic Director of Trinity Repertory Company where he directed Romeo and Juliet, Don Quixote and The Illusion. He has directed the premieres of works by Tony Kushner, Charles L. Mee, Nilo Cruz, Han Ong and David Grimm. His work in opera and musical theatre includes Carmen, Pelleas and Melisande, A Soldier's Tale, The Guilty Mother and The Anatole Cycle (all for Long Beach Opera). His work has also been seen at Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, the Mark Taper Forum, ACT (Seattle), the McCarter Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the Magic Theatre, among others. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Mark Taper Forum and the Creative Director for The Shakespeare Society of New York. Currently he is on the faculty of Columbia University's School of the Arts Theatre Program, where he teaches directing with Anne Bogart. Now in its 42nd year as one of New York's most exciting theatres, Classic Stage Company is the award-winning Off-Broadway theatre committed to re-imagining the classical repertory for a contemporary American audience. Led by Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, last season the company presented three sold-out acclaimed productions: Shakespeare's The Tempest, starring Mandy Patinkin; Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Denis O'Hare and Peter Sarsgaard; and Anne Carson's An Oresteia. Recent productions: critically acclaimed sold-out runs of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, starring Dianne Wiest and Alan Cumming; the world premiere of David Ives' New Jerusalem, directed by Walter Bobbie; Richard III starring Michael Cumpsty; and Zoe Caldwell in Yasmina Reza's A Spanish Play, directed by John Turturro.CSC presents plays from the past that speak directly to the issues of today. As we return to works of the past, we endeavor to keep a clear eye on the future, particularly in terms of the next generation of artists and audiences. Classic Stage's artists are the finest established and emerging theater practitioners working in this country. Highly respected and widely regarded as a major force in New York and American theatre, Classic Stage has been cited repeatedly by all the major Off-Broadway theater awards: Obies, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League and the 1999 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work. Memberships to Classic Stage Company productions are available at various price levels, including the flexible MasterPass membership, which in addition to prime seats entitles members to participate in CSC special series, including their sold-out Open Rehearsal events. For more information on Classic Stage Company visit the theatre's website at www.classicstage.org. CSC is currently presenting the acclaimed production of David Ives' VENUS IN FUR, directed by Walter Bobbie, extended through Sunday, March 28.
For further information on Classic Stage Company, call (212) 352-3101, visit the theatre in person at 136 East 13th Street, or go to www.classicstage.org.


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What's inside? Here are the questions answered in today's reader mailbag, boiled down to five word summaries. Click on the number to jump straight down to the question.
1. Relocation decision
2. Filing internet documents
3. Roth IRA novice
4. Universal life thoughts
5. Exchanging money
6. Graduation gifts
7. Cooking a whole chicken
8. Blogs and giveaways
9. Reversing charge-offs
10. Mortgage now or later?
It is absolutely amazing to watch my five year old son and his one year old little brother interact with each other. They've been playing a game that they've made up with a green ball and a pink ball for half an hour – seriously – and they're both still laughing. They entertain each other so much.
Q1: Relocation decision
I have a college degree in journalism, I worked in the field successfully for 10 years. However, I was faced with constant cuts in benefits, low pay (highest I ever got was $27,000 as a weekly newspaper editor), low morale, positions eliminated and being told to take on the extra work, but yet not allowed overtime or comp time, etc. etc. Oh, and at my last job, the ceiling was literally falling down on us. The last straw was last month the owner of the company told me to ignore certain "controversial" news stories and write more "positive" stories. I was told to ignore elected officials' violations of the law. This was in direct violation of my professional code of ethics, and like I said, it was the last straw. I resigned.
I am now at home with my 7-month-old son. It has been an adjustment, I have worked all my life. My husband is an EMT and makes decent money (around $26,000 a year base salary) and gets lots of overtime whenever he wants, especially now I'm at home for childcare. He really likes his job. I am bringing in money as a SEO content writer. Writing comes easily to me, and I can make the same money I made as a journalist in half the time. Neither one of our jobs offered good health benefits so we always bought our own insurance, so we're ok on that.
We do have quite a bit of consumer debt, one car loan, and some smaller medical debts from our son's birth. I have worked so hard this year paying the smaller debt off. I'm paying the minimum on the credit cards and hopefully will be able to focus solely on the credit car debt by the end of the year. We live in western Kentucky which thankfully has a low cost of living.
I have a job opportunity in June back in our hometown. We have lived four hours away from our families for 10 years, we miss them so much. And they miss us, and now the grandbaby (first grandchild on both sides of the family!). The job opportunity is a reporter position at a newspaper — $27,000/year with decent benefits. However, they were upfront about pay freezes and furloughs (4 unpaid days every quarter). The company that owns the paper is hurting, as are most print newspapers.
If I take that job, we will have to move in with my in-laws until my husband finds a job. They have an apartment in the basement, and an already set-up nursery. I love my in-laws, and I project we'd probably be with them for about six months until my husband gets a job and we can find a place to rent of our own.
But I am torn. I'm stating to like being a work-at-home mom! I worry that SEO writing may not always be a good option though. I used to do merchandising, court research and mystery shopping for side income, and I could always get back into that. I feel there are lots of ways I can bring in money but also be here for my son. My husband and I have our routine down with childcare and balancing our schedules. We rent a little house that's perfect for what we need. Working from home I am so much less stressed. I've started writing a book! The house is cleaner! We plan and cook our meals more! We have inexpensive family outings once a week now!
So our two options are: A. Stay where we are, four hours away from family, and I work on diversifying my work-at-home options while writing SEO content articles. Keep working on our 3-year plan to get out of debt and have a second child. Or B. Move back home, and I take the reporter job, which is a more guarenteed income — maybe. My husband is unemployed for a while and we live with family. Our debt repayment plan will probably have to take a backseat for a while till we get re-established. But at least we have the support of our family and my son will grow up around his aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc. What do you think?
– Sarah
If you are surviving financially in your current situation, your biggest consideration should be to create the best life for you and your family. The decision to move back home depends heavily on your relationship with your family.
It sounds like moving back there would give you income equivalence with what you have now (you'd have a job that paid roughly what your husband's job pays now), so there's not a big difference there.
If you're deeply concerned about the bottom dollar, are you sure there isn't an option C, where you move back home, take the job, still do some freelance writing in your spare time, and see what happens? After all, you'll have the support of family, which should make it easier to find some spare time for things like this.
Q2: Filing internet documents
You talked about the electronic filing system in the 100 things to do during a money free weekend. You wrote that in 2007 and talked about scanning all your documents. For the most part almost all my bills etc. come via the internet, at least all my regular ones do. Does that change anything about your system? If I can access all those bills via my different accounts with do I need to save them additionally as well? I also keep 7 years back worth of my financial papers but then I shred (and burn) the years previous to that each year. I thought that was as far back as was necessary to keep?
– Andy
The solution here is easy. Just save copies of the electronic statements you receive in the folders you use for your document filing. If it comes in an email form, save that email. If you retrieve them from a website, log onto that site and save the statements.
The key is to have easy access to all of these statements in one place on your computer. If you're getting most of them electronically anyway, this process just becomes much easier.
If you're keeping everything electronically, there's no reason not to keep older statements. It's just a tiny slice of hard drive space.
Andy had another question of interest, too.
Q3: Roth IRA novice
Should we work with a financial planner to establish Roth IRAs or is this something a novice can do? Honestly I have read the investment stuff in the past and learned a lot through the Motley Fool back a decade ago but honestly that sort of thing makes my eyes roll back in my head and my mind swim. My husband and I both work in education (elementary teacher and librarian) so our jobs everyday require lots of thought, decision making and learning. This aspect (index funds, company financials etc) of taking care of our finances just feels like it sends my brain into meltdown mode.
– Andy
I did my Roth IRA myself with little difficulty. I spent some time researching various investment houses, settled on using Vanguard, and then they walked me through setting things up. I then spent some time looking at the various investment options there before settling on just using a Target Retirement Fund.
The advantage of using a planner is that you don't have to spend the time researching. The disadvantage of using a planner is that you're hoping they don't have their own agenda and are genuinely picking the best option for you. For example, planners will sometimes steer people towards certain investment houses and plans so that the planner can earn commissions, even though the option isn't really the best one for you.
The piece of the puzzle that usually pushes me to encourage people to do it themselves is that you tend to learn quite a lot during the process.
Q4: Universal life thoughts
I wanted to get your opinion on Universal Life policies and whether or not the savings mechanism built-in is worth it as compared a simple Term Life policy and a separate savings account. I know Dave Ramsey's take is that it not really worth it which for the most part I can see the argument, I just think at this point in time it might be worth it for us. My Husband as a $100K Unviersal Life policy with a monthly premium of $100. Basically $24 of the monthly amount goes to account expenses/fees and the actual premium for the coverage. The remaining $76 is put into account with a declared interest rate of 4.75%. So for us right now its basically a forced savings account. I like to think of it as our Emergency Fund since basically that is basically what it has become at this point since we have no savings. We are currently in a position where due to decrease in income (45% of my husband's income), past poor decisiosn and spending habits, we have more going out than coming in. Our current take home is $6200 on a low month and $7700 in a good month at this point. We have a high mortgage (1st has been modified and we are working on the 2nd), a high car payment that will be paid off in 28 months, $55K in Credit Card Debt, the standard monthly utilities bills, gas, groceeries, etc. We are trying to get back on track and are committed to getting out of this mess. My husband has a second job which has for right now temporarily supplemented an additional loss of income from his 1st job – my husband is self-employed. We've cut the cable which saved us $70 a month which then immediately went to pay for the increased gas budget. But I'm glad we cut it. My question is given our situation are we better off actually having a regular savings and getting rid of the policy (he does have another $250,000 Term Life policy) and just create our own forced savings plan since for the most part the interest earned annually only partially covers the expenses on the account, or for the time being keep it and reevaulate in a few months? Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
– Ron
If you look at the components of a universal life account, what you'll find is that you're usually buying an overpriced term life policy packaged with some sort of savings account opportunity. Taken alone, the savings account option often looks really good, but what's often neglected is that in order to put money into that account, you have to buy a really suboptimal policy. While I can't quote you a life insurance rate, I would not find it surprising that your husband could get a term life policy for $16 a month rather than the $24 a month you're paying into the universal policy.
So, if you run the math there, you could either have that universal policy in wich $76 a month goes into an account that returns 4% or, with a separate term policy, you would have $84 a month to put into an account that earns, say, 1% or 2%. It will take a decade for the universal life account to catch up to the ordinary savings account, and if you're looking at that kind of timetable, you're better off putting that money into a diversified stock investment (which gives you a solid likelihood of earning substantially more than 4% per year).
In other words, if you're looking for a short term investment, like an emergency fund, you're better off with a term policy and a savings account. If you're looking for a long term investment, you're better off with a brokerage account and a term policy.
The only advantage that universal policies have is the idea of "forced" savings, in that you'll lose the policy if you don't pay in. With a separate savings account, you don't have that pressure to pay up, so it's easy to slack off.
If you don't have a history of keeping up with a regular savings plan, the "forced" aspect of the universal policy is a good option. Otherwise, it's not a great investment.
Q5: Exchanging money
I am traveling to Europe in a couple of weeks, and I'm not sure what to do about money. I called all my credit/debit card companies, and they all charge a fee for international transactions. It depends on the card, but it's about 3%. That 3% can add up pretty quickly. Should I exchange all my money before I go, and if so, where should I exchange it? The dollar-euro exchange rate sucks right now, so I want to make sure I'm getting the most bang for my buck.
– Michelle
Almost every exchange you do will have some sort of fee attached to it. If you find an exchange that's fee-free, you're probably getting an awful exchange rate. Businesses have to make a profit on the exchange. They're providing a service and you have to pay for that service.
Although you have to check on the current rates, the best rates are generally those from ATMs. Currency exchange booths often offer a poor exchange rate and a fee on top of that. Banks typically charge a fee, but usually have a good exchange rate, particularly if it's a large bank that operates in that country.
Unfortunately, you're probably going to be losing 2-3% on your exchanges when traveling abroad. It's just unavoidable.
Q6: Graduation gifts
Do you have any good ideas for (relatively inexpensive) high school graduation gifts?
– Sherry
It really depends on the graduate. I find that a well-thought-out gift that connects with that particular student can often be far less expensive and more meaningful than a generic gift.
For example, I know one particular graduate this year quite well. I'm planning on getting him a gift that's very in tune with who he is, but it's not an expensive gift. On the other hand, we're almost spending as much on another graduate that we don't know nearly as well.
If you don't know a graduate well, do some research into that graduate. Find out what you can about them. Use their "likes" on their Facebook profile as a guide. Talk to the graduate's parents a little bit. You'll eventually find yourself going in a sensible direction.
If all else fails, get them a copy of Your Money or Your Life.
Q7: Cooking a whole chicken
A few days ago,I purchased a whole chicken (instead of my usual frozen chicken breasts). I recently bought a slow cooker so I slow-cooked it today and intend to make stock on Saturday (I re-read your post from a couple years ago about cooking a whole chicken).
I have 2 questions and I need answers so I can make the stock on Saturday. I do appreciate a quick response.
1) what was I supposed to do with the giblets? I took them out and put them into a bag before I cooked the bird, now it occurs to me that maybe I should cook them before I throw them into the stock pot with all the other stuff that's already been cooked. Should I have cooked them with the bird and then pulled them out? Should I boil them before making the stock? Or is it safe to throw them in the pot raw because they will get cooked there?
2) what about the liquid left in the slow cooker? I tried to screen out all the solids (bone, pieces of meat, and onion) from the drippings and ended up just putting all of it into a container. Should I/can I use the liquid in the stock? Wouldn't adding this to the stock increase the fat content? (I'm using fat and skin in the stock so maybe that's a moot question).
– Kelly
With the giblets, you can certainly cook them either before or in with the stock you're preparing. I would have no objection cooking the giblets right in the stock if the water was nearly simmering (around 200 F).
The leftover liquid, on the other hand, is gold. Don't throw that out. That's the truly flavorful part of the stock.
If you don't want "lumps" in your stock, you can always strain it through a cheesecloth or through a very fine strainer. A cheesecloth will leave you with a pure liquid. A fine strainer will leave you with a liquid with some small particles in it. Personally, I don't worry about tiny bits of vegetables when I make vegetable stock (or tiny chicken bits with chicken stock). I just fish out the big pieces and call it good.
Q8: Blogs and giveaways
I've been contemplating for some time trying to monetize my blog, and try to get into doing reviews and giveaways. You probably don't follow "mom blogs" but reviews and giveaways are All over the place there, for a variety of products – "green" things, cloth diaper related items, big ticket items like car seats and other bigger ticket items, and things in categories I don't even know about. I admit that I am especially interested in getting new "free" things.
My readership isn't very big, but I have slowly found new readers by participating on other blogs, and a little bit through (most of that all related to participating in giveaways). A significant number of my readers view the posts/comment only on my personal profile, and I don't know how that would translate over.
Part of my struggle in going for it is that I don't want to push away family and friends from reading my blog because of too much advertising/reviews/giveaways. I don't want to clutter their feed with all of that either. However, I don't know that starting a new blog just for the purpose of reviews or giveaways is quite what I want to do, since I like the idea of having more than just review after review. I've already created an "alter-ego" on , but it's separate from my personal blog.
– Ellen
Many blogs get into a habit of giveaways because giveaways provide a "spike" to your traffic numbers. If you do a giveaway that lots of people know about, you'll get a very short term jump in traffic. This translates not only to immediate ad revenue, but also makes it easier to sell your site for future ad revenue.
The problem, as you've seen, is that loading your blogs with too many giveaways will drive away the actual readers, so if you start having a lot of giveaways, you have to keep them up to maintain the traffic numbers you need. Instead, your "readers" will be people who just hop to your blog for the giveaways, never to return.
If I were you, I'd separate the two. Start a Twitter account and a Facebook fan page related just to your site, then tell your family and friends about it. If they're interested in such things, they'll follow the new Twitter account and the Facebook fan page. If they become disinterested, they can always un-follow the Twitter account or un-like the Facebook fan page without deleting their connection to you.
Q9: Reversing charge-offs
After several years of job insecurity and random financial mess, I am finally in a place where I am paying down my debt in a significant way. Although many of my debts were consolidated through a CCCS-approved plan, there are a few that were "left behind," because they declined to participate.
These debts are now charged-off, I believe, and have been sold to outside collections agencies. Since I am in a better and more stable situation, would it be possible to get in touch with the original creditor to try to salvage the relationship and pay them back directly, or do I have to deal with the folks who purchased my debts?
I want to make repairs to the damage I've done to my once perfect credit report / score as soon as possible, and move on with my life without having the specter of poor credit follow me for another seven years, but it seems like it's going to be impossible.
– Kevin
You can certainly try, but most of the time, the original company will simply just refer you to the collection agency. Their hands have been washed of the situation and they no longer own the debt, so they don't have much reason to get involved. They may be willing to clean your report a bit if you get things fixed, but that's never a guarantee.
Your best bet is to negotiate with whoever holds your debt now. You want a settlement that will clean your credit report as much as possible. Be up front about this and keep on them if they don't quickly fix your report after you've paid up.
It's likely that you'll never be able to clean up everything, but you should be able to clean up some of it.
Q10: Mortgage now or later?
I am days away from being 28 years-old and am currently in the market for a multi-unit home. This will be my first home purchase and I have around 50K prepared for any up front costs (down payment, settlement costs). These savings are in addition to an emergency fund, as well as other misc. investment and retirement savings. The homes I am considering are in the 175-225K price range, and I am just starting to evaluate my financing options (30 vs 15 vs ARM). Specifically, I question whether or not any specific option is better for someone who only plans on residing in the home for 5-7 years, and then renting out both units, or possibly selling the home. It would seem best for me to seek low to medium up front costs even if that brings a somewhat higher APR. Any thoughts or insight would be warmly welcomed!
– Amy
I would choose a 15 year mortgage over a 30 year mortgage, given a choice between the two. A 15 year mortgage is almost always coupled with a lower interest rate, and between the lower rate and the longer term, you'll find yourself spending far less in interest than with a 30 year mortgage.
As for the ARM, I would avoid it. ARMs are prevalent because people who sign up for them are under the belief, just like you are, that their future is smoothly charted and they'll be selling the house in five years just like they planned.
Real life doesn't always work that way, though. Your financial situation in five years might not make selling that house a good move, in which case the adjustment will be incredibly painful. You're far better off locking down that interest rate via a 15 year fixed rate.
Got any questions? Email them to me or leave them in the comments and I'll attempt to answer them in a future mailbag (which, by way of full disclosure, may also get re-posted on other websites that pick up my blog). However, I do receive hundreds of questions per week, so I may not necessarily be able to answer yours.


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Richard Diebenkorn (American, Portland, Oregon 1922 - 1993 Healdsburg, California)
Woman by a Large Window, 1957
Signed lower left: RD 57
Acrylic on canvas
70 7/8 x 64 7/8 in. (180 x 165 cm)
R. T. Miller, Jr. Fund, 1958
Woman by a Large Window is one of several works that incorporate aspects of Diebenkorn's earlier abstractions with figural and landscape elements. It was painted shortly after the artist's transition from abstraction to representational painting in late 1955.
Diebenkorn's move towards figurative painting began after an extended period of abstract painting from 1948 to 1955. The transition to representation actually began around 1950 with a group of works that bear an implicit, rather than overt, relationship to nature. Living in New Mexico, Illinois, and finally Berkeley, California, the artist began to explore the idea of landscape, finding the painterly equivalent of his impressions in the topography and atmosphere of these regions.
At that time public approval of Abstract Expressionism was high and Diebenkorn had achieved great critical success, particularly for his Berkeley abstractions. Nonetheless, by 1955 he had become dissatisfied with his abstract paintings. He later noted that "it was almost as though I could do too much, too easily. There was nothing hard to come up against." 1 Towards the end of that year he began to paint a few still life paintings, experimenting with a representational idiom. He also participated in regular sessions of drawing from the human figure with friends and former teachers David Park and Elmer Bischoff. By the end of 1956 Diebenkorn was painting consistently in a representational manner.
Diebenkorn's representational paintings date from approximately 1955 to 1966 and are dominated by the human figure, considered by the artist to be the most complex and challenging of subjects. 2 Diebenkorn was interested in the effect the human figure had on the "mood and flavor" of a painting. He would situate one, as in the Oberlin painting, or occasionally two figures in a room or on a balcony, and add architectural elements or a landscape behind them, often painted in a somewhat geometric manner that recalls his earlier abstractions. The mirror placed at the right of the composition serves as a central element in the Oberlin painting, not only enlivening the space but also creating pictorial ambiguity.
The subjects in Diebenkorn's figural paintings are typically turned away from the viewer. Facial features are minimized, providing an impression rather than a likeness, and lending a sense of the universal rather than the specific. 3 Seldom painting directly from the figure, Diebenkorn usually worked from figure drawings; his figure study for this painting is also in the Oberlin collection.
Ellen Johnson did not consider these figurative works to constitute a totally unexpected shift in the character of Diebenkorn's work, for his earlier abstractions also had an implicit relationship to nature. She wrote: "While the mood of the picture is conveyed most obviously through the position and attitude of the figure, still the entire painting functions in evoking this response; Diebenkorn's abstractions create much the same general effect of gentleness in tension, without the explicit psychological element present in the Woman by a Large Window." 4
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Born in Portland, Oregon, in 1922, Diebenkorn moved with his family to San Francisco two years later. He entered Stanford University in 1940, and enrolled at the California School of Fine Art in San Francisco in 1946, where he met the artists David Park (1911-1960) and Elmer Bischoff (1916-1991). 5 His paintings of this time were first exhibited at a solo exhibition at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in 1948. He was awarded his undergraduate degree from Stanford in 1949, and in 1950 he left San Francisco to attend the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, where he received an M.F.A. in 1951. In 1953 he returned to Berkeley, where he would remain for several years. In 1955 he was invited to participate in the Three Young Americans exhibition at Oberlin.
Diebenkorn's first figurative canvases appeared publicly in the landmark exhibition Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Paintings held at the Oakland Art Museum in 1957-58. Including works by Diebenkorn, Bischoff, and Park, the exhibition represented the first major public acknowledgment of the new Bay Area figurative movement. Diebenkorn's works were critically well received and he was hailed as the most important artist of the movement.
In 1966 Diebenkorn moved his home and studio to Santa Monica, California. He began teaching at UCLA that same year and remained there until 1973. By 1967 he had begun the Ocean Park paintings, a series he continued for decades. In 1978 he represented the United States at the Venice Biennale. In 1988 he moved from Santa Monica to Healdsburg in northern California, where he continued to create primarily small works, mostly drawings, until his death in 1993. His work was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition in 1991, the same year he received the National Medal of Art.
General References
Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943-1976. Essays by Robert T. Buck, Jr., Linda L. Cathcart, Gerald Nordland, and Maurice Tuchman. Exh. cat., The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N. Y., 1976.
Newlin, Richard, ed. Richard Diebenkorn: Works on Paper. Houston, 1987.
Nordland, Gerald. Richard Diebenkorn. New York, 1987.
Richard Diebenkorn. Essay by John Elderfield. Exh. cat., The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1991.
Purchased from the Poindexter Gallery, New York, in 1958
Los Angeles County Museum, 1957. Cat. no. 57-586.
New York, Poindexter Gallery, 1958. Recent Paintings: Richard Diebenkorn. 24 February - 29 March. No cat.
Kansas City, Mo., William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, 1959. Aspects of Representation in Contemporary Art. 8 February - 8 March. No cat.
Bloomington, Ind., Art Center Gallery, Indiana University, 1959. New Imagery in American Painting. 3 - 22 December. Checklist no. 6.
American Federation of Arts, 1960-61. The Figure in Contemporary American Painting. Traveled to Terre Haute, Ind., Sheldon Swope Art Gallery; Springfield, Mo., Springfield Art Museum; Hollins, Va., Hollins College; Oswego, N.Y., State University of New York; Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Coe College; Winston-Salem (N. C.) Public Library; Santa Fe, Museum of New Mexico; Philadelphia, Tyler School of Fine Arts; and Louisville, Ky., J. B. Speed Art Museum. No cat.
Little Rock, Arkansas Art Center, 1964. Six Americans. 8 February - 29 March. Cat. no. 1.
Los Angeles, Lytton Center of the Visual Arts, 1967. California Arts Festival. 1 October - 30 November. Cat. no. 15.
Johnson, Ellen H. "Diebenkorn's `Woman by a Large Window.'" Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 16, no. 1 (Fall 1958), pp. 18-23, fig. 207.
Hamilton, Chloe. "Catalogue of R. T. Miller, Jr. Fund Acquisitions." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 16, no. 2 (Winter 1959), cat. no. 14; no. 3 (Spring 1959), ill. p. 288.
Stechow, Wolfgang. Catalogue of European and American Painting and Sculpture in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. Oberlin, 1967, pp. 46-47, fig. 207.
Mittler, Gene A. Art in Focus. Peoria, Ill., 1986, p. 31, fig. 2.19.
Nordland, Gerald. Richard Diebenkorn. New York, 1987, p. 120.
Johnson, Ellen H. Fragments Recalled at Eighty: The Art Memoirs of Ellen H. Johnson. Edited by Athena Tacha. North Vancouver, 1993, pp. 41-42, ill. p. 43.
Technical Data
The painting is in generally good condition, painted in acrylic paint on a medium weight, tightly woven canvas with a thin wooden frame. There is some traction crackle from the drying medium in certain areas, and there is active flaking in both top corners and the lower right corner. The painting was mounted on a spring stretcher in 1958. At that time the dull areas of the painting were coated with nonacrylic polymer, although the pigment surface has not been retouched. Linen strips were attached to the tacking margins with a plastic emulsion glue, and excess canvas was tacked to the stretcher with wax.
The method of painting involved multiple layers painted alla prima in different tones that are quickly scumbled over and into each other. Broad brushstrokes are visible in numerous areas and the white ground shows through in several places. The paint was very fluid when applied and drips are scattered throughout. Although contrasting colors frequently lie one on top of the other, this does not necessarily indicate that the artist reworked the composition. There are no restorations.
1. Gerald Nordland, Richard Diebenkorn (New York, 1987), p. 88.
2. Gerald Nordland, Richard Diebenkorn (New York, 1987), p. 93.
3. Gerald Nordland, in Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943-1976 (exh. cat., The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N. Y., 1976), p. 34.
4. Ellen H. Johnson, "Diebenkorn's 'Woman by a Large Window,'" Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 16, no. 1 (Fall 1958), p. 23.
5. These two likeminded artists later became, along with Diebenkorn, the leaders of the Bay Area figure painters.


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The Digital Surveillance State: Vast, Secret, and Dangerous
by Glenn Greenwald
It is unsurprising that the 9/11 attack fostered a massive expansion of America's already sprawling Surveillance State. But what is surprising, or at least far less understandable, is that this growth shows no signs of abating even as we approach almost a full decade of emotional and temporal distance from that event. The spate of knee-jerk legislative expansions in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 trauma — the USA-PATRIOT Act — has actually been exceeded by the expansions of the last several years — first secretly and lawlessly by the Bush administration, and then legislatively and out in the open once Democrats took over control of the Congress in 2006. Simply put, there is no surveillance power too intrusive or unaccountable for our political class provided the word "terrorism" is invoked to "justify" those powers.
The More-Surveillance-Is-Always-Better Mindset
Illustrating this More-Surveillance-is-Always-Better mindset is what happened after The New York Times revealed in December, 2005 that the Bush administration had ordered the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on American citizens without the warrants required by law and without any external oversight at all. Despite the fact that the 30-year-old FISA law made every such act of warrantless eavesdropping a felony, "punishable by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both," and despite the fact that all three federal judges who ruled on the program's legality concluded that it was illegal, there was no accountability of any kind. The opposite is true: the telecom corporations which enabled and participated in this lawbreaking were immunized by a 2008 law supported by Barack Obama and enacted by the Democratic Congress. And that same Congress twice legalized the bulk of the warrantless eavesdropping powers which The New York Times had exposed: first with the 2007 Protect America Act, and then with the 2008 FISA Amendments Act, which, for good measure, even added new warrantless surveillance authorities.
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Getting Started
Aerobic exercise presents itself in many forms. First, you have walking, followed by maybe jogging, then running. To get you off your feet, you can ride a bike, tug on a rowing machine, or jump into one of those fancy machines you see advertised on TV. Whatever the activity is, if you continue it long enough, you'll obtain aerobic conditioning. Remember though, exercise should be enjoyable and refreshing. Forget that "No Pain, No Gain" mentality; it's simply not true for the life-extension enthusiast. You should start your aerobic exercise at a pace that's comfortable with your beginning level of condition, then gradually accelerate the tempo and frequency of your workouts as you adapt to your new lifestyle. In a short time, you'll begin to recognize many health benefits.
What is Aerobic Exercise?
Depending on the activity or task at hand, the body innately selects any one of two basic energy sources as fuel. For powerful and explosive tasks that are interrupted with rest intervals; like that in weight lifting, football, etc., the body preferentially chooses carbohydrates as the dominant fuel source; this is called "Anaerobic Metabolism". For long sustained uninterrupted activities, performed at submaximal efforts, the body will utilize oxygen and fat as fuel sources; this is referred to as "Aerobic Metabolism".
Sustained activities are better fueled with fat and oxygen as these two energy sources are the most dense and abundant fuels--you never have to worry about running out.1 In contrast however, running out of carbohydrate fuel [in the form of glucose or glycogen] can happen within seconds of an intense power burst.
The analogy I use when teaching the body's energy system is that of a rocket ship. As we know, rockets are launched into outer space with several power, or fuel, boosters. The first booster is used to explode the rocket--and it's massive weight--up off the ground. Once that booster is depleted of its fuel, it disengages and the second booster propels that rocket even further into the sky. Once the final booster is reached, the rocket is dependent on a fuel source that will carry it throughout the rest of its mission, which is a very long time in comparison to the duration of the previous boosters.
Like the rocket ship, your body acts in a similar manner. At first, when activity begins, your body relies on immediate and fast burning fuel sources--the carbohydrates. If you repeat an explosive burst after taking a replenishing rest, the body will again select carbohydrates as fuel for that chore. However, when activity persists for a long duration, like that in most aerobic workouts, your carbohydrate stores deplete and/or are bypassed early in the routine and the body automatically shifts to a fuel mixture of oxygen and fat in the wake of the carbohydrates.
Generally speaking, the duration of aerobic exercise should expend no less than 20 minutes with sessions exceeding 30 minutes being ideal. During this time, the cardio-respiratory systems are forced to function above a resting level and at submaximal levels; this is referred to as the "Aerobic Threshold" or "Aerobic Range". Authorities claim that 60% - 85% of Maximum Heart Rate (MHR) is the range for which best aerobic benefits are obtained--I'll explain more later.


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With the back-to-school season nearing, parents have already started to think about preparing their kids and how can anyone forget that the start of school is looming with commercials already airing!
With pesky critters like bed bugs, head lice and mosquitoes becoming more prevalent in our communities, parents need to take the necessary precautions to avoid infecting their homes.
Bed bugs are nocturnal and have the capabilities to climb softer surfaces such as that duffle bag you sent your children to camp with. Here are some tips to avoid allowing a possible bed bug infestation in your home:
- Leave luggage outside, in a garage or a secluded area away from other soft materials where they cant find a way to transfer to another item in your home.
- Wash and/or Dry possibly infected clothing separately and with hot water, or medium temperature at least 20 minutes.
Head lice is one itchy problem and another pest that can easily hop from one head of hair to another. When your child arrives back from camp, make sure to conduct a thorough screening of his/her scalp with a fine-tooth comb. Many convenience stores will have specialty combs available for purchase. Signs your child may have head lice include:
- Scratching
- Small red bumps or sores from scratching
- Adult lice or eggs on hair strands
Mosquito bites are one of the most common and with viruses like Chikungunya spreading quickly through the United States every bump and bite is worth inspecting. Check any suspicious bumps and circle them with a marker this will allow you to monitor the bite to ensure it doesn't get any larger, red or swollen.
If bed bugs or other pests become a bigger issue in your home, call your local pest control company who will be able to assess the level of infestation and recommend necessary courses of treatment.
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Let your Greek flag fly with this addition to our Comfort Colors collection. The light blue, pre-shrunk 100% ringspun cotton shirt is printed with crossed flags that feature your fraternitys crest and Greek letters on the back. The simple pocket decoration on the left chest and the garment-dyed fabric give it a laid-back look thats perfect for any season.


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Dedicated football mom recognized with $1,000 check
To parents and kids who know her through the Bartlett Hawks youth football league and poms team, Jennifer Kmiecik is more than just an enthusiastic supporter for her 9- and 10-year-old sons.
"Jennifer is the key mom for everyone," said fellow football mom Vanessa DeFina, noting that Kmiecik has taken on just about every responsibility she can with the organization, from fundraising and serving on the board to coaching poms and leading team moms. "She's very dedicated."
Tonight, Kmiecik will receive a $1,000 check at a private tailgate party in Chicago before the Bears game as a prize for winning an Inspire Greatness award from USA Football and Courtyard Marriott. The award recognizes 10 outstanding coaches, parents or volunteers from youth football programs nationwide for their hard work and dedication.
DeFina said when she heard about the contest, a few people in the tight-knit Bartlett Hawks organization came to mind. But then she thought of Kmiecik and realized she deserved a chance to be recognized.
"She works really hard and she does it without bringing a lot of attention to herself. I thought, how perfect to nominate her," DeFina said, adding that many other families she told about the contest were quick to nominate Kmiecik too.
Kmiecik said she was shocked and honored to hear she won the award and thrilled that the money will be going toward helmets, pads and other safety equipment.
"This will help tremendously," she said, noting that Bartlett Hawks is a nonprofit organization.
When Kmiecik got involved with the Bartlett Hawks in 2007, her responsibilities were minimal at first, as she took on the role of team mom for one of her boy's football teams.
"It just kind of escalated from there," she said, noting that she soon started compiling minutes for the organization's board meetings and coordinating registration for more than 100 Bartlett Hawks participants.
She also decided to take on the role of leading the organization's poms team, even though she doesn't have any daughters.
"The head coach needed to leave and we didn't have anybody (as a replacement), so I just decided to try it out," she said with a laugh. "Having two boys, I love working with the girls for a change."
Kmiecik humbly estimates she dedicates about 10 to 15 hours of her time each week to the Bartlett Hawks.
But DeFina said Kmiecik does much more than that, considering she attends practices three nights a week, helps set up and break down about eight games a week, runs poms on Saturday and Sunday game days, sends emails to parents two to three times a week and regularly communicates with coaches.
"You never see frustration on her face. She's always smiling," DeFina said, adding that Kmiecik has encouraged her whole family to get involved in the league too, with her brothers now serving as volunteer coaches and her parents coming out to every game.
Kmiecik said she takes on so many responsibilities because she loves seeing the kids have fun while being part of a group of tight-knit families.
"We're all very close," she said. "It's really just all about the kids."


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The GFDL Modular Ocean Model (MOM)
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The GFDL Modular Ocean Model (MOM) is a three dimensional primitive equation ocean model based on the pioneering work of Kirk Bryan (1969). Early implementations of this model were carried out by Mike Cox during the late 1960s. In the early 1970s Bert Semtner rewrote the model to take advantage of vector computer architectures. The model was rewritten again by Pacanowski, Dixon, and Rosati (1991) using ideas of modular programming to allow for more options and increased model flexibility. The original objective of this development was to build a tool for numerical modeling of the large-scale (basin-wide or global) ocean circulation using then-current algorithms based upon decomposition of the ocean into rectangular boxes of variable size, and the use of low-order finite differences approximations.
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Navy Veteran Gives Thanks This Holiday Season
"I hate to be a Debbie Downer, and I can appreciate how most citizens are happy to stick their heads in the sand, but at what point do we demand a stop to the madness? The complacency, née apathy, has seemingly removed our collective sense of responsibility and our ability to be truly thankful. Gone is the day of a collective movement against wrongdoing. Now, we have a collective of "acceptance" and boy, do we accept a lot..."
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Loved reading this an reminiscing about when I had that same passion... Wish I could conjure it (and the hope it takes to kindle it) again.


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STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 25 (UPI) -- Rioting spread beyond the Swedish capital Stockholm, with youths torching vehicles and buildings on the sixth straight night of street violence, officials said.
Specially trained police from Gothenburg and Malmo backed up local officers in Stockholm, the BBC reported Saturday.
The disturbances began Sunday in Stockholm, but spread Friday to Orebro, where about 25 masked youths set fire to three cars and a school, and Sodertalje, where a vacant building was burned, police said.
One officer in Orebro was slightly injured by broken glass after youths threw rocks at police.
The riots are believed to have been sparked by the police shooting of an elderly man who had threatened them with a machete.
Gulan Avci, a member of the Swedish parliament of Kurdish origin, blamed the riots on a mix of criminality and youths from immigrant neighborhoods frustrated by high unemployment and poor schools.
She said Sweden's immigration policies had not been successful "but you can never accept violence as a way to show your disappointment with society."


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I do things like make my kids stuff envelopes when they're sick.
Right in the midst of everyone taking turns with flu-like symptoms and Dave being in China for ten days our family was in charge of the big mailing for the BBS organization that I am somehow the Vice President of. There were 430 families that needed to get the new newsletter and hear about all the new things we are putting together as a new board (more about that back here).
But I told my poor child-labor children that it isn't so bad to fold and stuff for hours on end if you get to watch things like "Despicable Me" while you're doing it…even if you have a fever, right?
Grace really put her shoulder to the wheel I tell you:
Finally after a few days of stacks of "stuff" all over our kitchen and family room and spilling out the glories of service so I could get everyone (including newly-returned-from-China-Dave) on task:
…I stuck these puppies in the mail:
Hallelujah. Maybe I will post what Tim (the new President) put in the newsletter on the I Love Lucy blog if I get a chance (that thing has been sadly neglected lately)…I think he did an awesome job.
Which brings me to my point:
The Vision Walk is quickly approaching. Dave and I are trying to work with Foundation Fighting Blindness to get them to donate all the money we raise directly to BBS research. We have realized it may be best to have people donate to a 501c3 directly related to BBS and then donate to the Foundation Fighting Blindness through that entity rather than individually so that our small BBS organization can be taken more seriously when it comes to vision preservation specific to our kind of vision loss.
Problem: Our BBS organization is not an established 501c3 yet. As a BBS board we are trying to change that. Apparently it was set up as a different entity in Texas and in order to change it to a 501c3 we need to find someone who is knowledgeable in Texas law that can work with us pro-bono on getting it changed.
Any ideas to lead us to someone who could help us would be so very much appreciated!
On a completely different service note, my cyber-friend-Allyson-who-I'd-love-to-meet-some-day-because-she-totally-inspires-me has been telling me about this orphanage she and her family of eight (!) worked in last year (I think right before they went to Rising Star). I have fallen head-over-heels in love with this orphanage just from what she has sent me about it and I want to adopt every child there that she has sent me the bios for. Oh man their stories tug at your heart strings I tell you! She is on the board for the orphanage and is looking for people who'd like to sponsor the kids over there. You can sponsor a child with a one-time donation or with an on-going donation of as low as $5 per month. Check out her post all about it here if you are interested.