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Yet the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC took issue with this popular image of Warhol. With its exhibition, "Andy Warhol: Social Observer," the show's curators proposed the theory that this image of shallowness was, itself, a shallow façade hiding a man who cared deeply about the society in which he lived, its social issues, its tragedies, and its triumphs. Assuming that the most likely criticism of Pop Art is that it is shallow, in pre-empting this criticism, in proclaiming himself a pure artist and his work pure art, Warhol attempted to deflect criticism when in fact, at times, he could be quite profound. The exhibition contained sections on death and disaster, advertising, politics, cover stories, celebrity, and symbolism. It displays some of his most powerful series, Car Crashes, Most Wanted Men, Race Riots, Electric Chairs, as well as his ubiquitous Celebrity Portraits.
Despite Pop Art's tendency to be "easy" art (easy to understand, that is), this aspect of Warhol's contribution to the genre is not. It's multifaceted and difficult to nail down. Warhol's life-long devotion to the photo for source material is evident at all levels, but while there is an attempt sometimes to conceal it, the hand of the artist is never far removed from the art product. The result is a surprisingly acute portrait of the mid-twentieth century, its culture, its cultural icons, certainly, but also its complexities, its still-unsolved social problems, and its sins of omission and commission.
One of the most telling pieces, Flash - November 22, 1963, makes use of Warhol's trademark panels (12 of them), except that each one, in this case, is not merely a colour variation of the one before, but on the order of a late-breaking news story, a carefully organised montage of scenes fading from one into the other - among them a veiled Jackie, President Kennedy at a press conference, images of the blue presidential seal, a stark, black panel, concluding with a print of a constantly updated wire story culminating in the assassination. No artist has ever recounted the event with more insight or zeal. The result is a new image of Andy Warhol - a sly, sensitive, superlative reader of his own times, as shallow or as profound as he wanted to be at any given moment.
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- It's peach season, especially at our house, and so it's time for my obligatory annual post to remind you to make peach salsa! If you want a recipe, search my blog (link in profile) for "peach salsa". If you already have a fresh salsa recipe that you like, leave out the cilantro, and add lots of chopped peaches, sliced basil, and olive oil. The flavor is amazing! 😍🍑 . . . Nik has been working really hard the past two weeks, picking the peaches from our tree. The second picture is the last major picking, which he did on Saturday. He picked about 150 peaches. 🙌🙌🙌. Last year's harvest was better, but we learned from our mistakes from this summer and we're hoping next year will be even better. Fruit farming is its whole own knowledge base. We will probably end up with about 4 gallon bags of sliced peaches in our freezer for the winter. 😍 . . . If you have been following along in my stories over the past five weeks, you will know that we recently under took a total gut renovation of our kitchen. We are oh so close to being finished and the steel gray granite in the background of the first picture is our new countertop. I told Nik that now that I have such a dramatic background, I'm going to become a Instagram food influencer. 😂 Swipe past the peach picture to hear the first dishwasher load in our kitchen in over 2 1/2 years. It is so nice to have a working dishwasher again! . . . #salmonandsouvlakigardens #salmonandsouvlakicooks #peachsalsa #ediblelandscaping #growyourownfood #organicgardeningDouble Rock never disappoints. 😍 #getoutside #wildandfreekids #salmonandsouvlakiexploresLook! I'm growing a garden patchwork quilt! Also, it's my best spring garden ever. The secret? Sprinkle SO many seeds, way more than you think you need. Currently growing: arugula and lettuce, 2 kinds of snap peas, 3 kinds of radishes, 2 kinds of turnips, chiogga and golden beets, Swiss chard, cilantro, bok choy, tatsoi, 2 kinds of kales, mustard greens, and an Asian green mix. As I told Nik last night, we are officially in the "eat salad for every meal" season. 😍 Also, my dianthus appears to want to take over the world. I just planted this clumps last year and they have probably tripled in size! #salmonandsouvlakigardens #growwhatyoueat #organicgardeningLast fall, we were raising five swallowtail caterpillars. They turned into chrysalises and then did not emerge as butterflies, meaning that in their wisdom, they knew that they were the generation to overwinter and emerge in the spring to continue the lifecycle. Each chrysalis was in its own quart glass jar and we put them out in the garage to stay cold through the winter. I checked on them a few weeks ago and there were no signs of life. And then I FORGOT ABOUT THEM. 😩 Today, as I went out to our garage to get our wagon for the walk to co-op, I realized I needed to check on what was probably the awful butterfly carnage. Instead, we found three live butterflies!!!!!!!!! Releasing them into the world was one of the coolest things I've done in a long time. ❤😍❤ Now, we just need to plant a bunch of parsley, to convince the adults to lay their eggs in our garden so we can raise swallowtails all summer. There are still two intact chrysalises, so we moved them to our porch where we can see them . Hopefully, we will be able to release two more soon. 🦋#swallowtailbutterfly #savethepollinators #salmonandsouvlakigardensI finally managed to get this name tag in the mail and it's been received so I can show it to the public. This is one of the secret sewing projects that I posted in my stories a few weeks ago. For the recent @baltimoremqg name tag swap, I English paper pieced three-quarter inch hexagons in 17 different green scraps. Elaine said she liked greens and cream. This was a fun little project! . . . For perhaps the first time in my life, I was also brave enough to hand write those letters, rather than printing some off from the computer. Go me! 👊 #salmonandsouvlakisews #englishpaperpiecing #eppeverywhere #baltimoremqg #charmcitysewcialChrist is Risen! Happy Easter! (Click the link in my profile to get to my blog for our full Easter post.)Today I had the fun of teaching an English paper piecing workshop to about 25 students during QuiltFest! at the Maryland Historical Society, @marylandhistory. I taught as part of a team of women from the @baltimoremqg. We explained the history of EPP, did a show and tell with lots of EPP projects (first picture, not all my own work), and then each student got a chance to sew their own hexie flower. We are so grateful to @createdomesticity, @paperpiecesepp, @andoverfabrics, and @aurifilthread for their exceedingly generous donations of class materials. Everyone was thrilled to be able to take home fabric, paper hexagons, and thread! 😍 #baltimoremqg #aurifil #andoverfabrics #domesticitystudio #paperpiecesepp #englishpaperpiecing #eppeverywhere #salmonandsouvlakisews . . . Many thanks to @summer_k_rankin, @urokeay_imokeay, Deanna, and Bobbi for being a great teaching team!Quilts, quilts, and more modern quilts with the @baltimoremqg at the @marylandhistory QuiltFest! My work here includes #fancyforestmedallionquilt, #laurashexiequilt, #carkaihexie, Marko's HST quilt, and the Facing East mini, pattern by @carolynfriedlander. It's fun to share the love of modern quilting! #salmonandsouvlakisews #baltimoremqg #marylandhistoricalsocietyWe're camping at Elk Neck State Park this weekend and the weather was glorious this afternoon! Just right for wading and digging and soaking up some spring sun. And why yes, I have picked up knitting as another portable hobby because I really want to use this yarn that I bought in Iceland when I was pregnant with Marko. 😉 #elkneckstatepark #chesapeakebay #driftwoodbeach #salmonandsouvlakiknitsAHHHHHHHHH!!!! A dragon is living in our yard and keeps trying to break through our windows! First the dragon started chasing Marko. He escaped but then it started chasing Ellie!! What should we do?!?!?! Scream the dragon's ears off?????? Send help!!!!! . . . This spring silly is brought to you by Ellie and Marko with technical assistance from Mama, as partially inspired by Martin and Sylvia of @sparkle_stories. 😉We have a new loose tooth in our house! 😍 Rather than the tooth fairy, at our house, we celebrate losing teeth with a special Mama-made bag to keep the baby teeth in and a dinner chosen by the child on the occasion of the first tooth loss. Marko finally has a loose tooth and he has been pestering me for over a week to make him a tooth bag. So I finally did. 😉 He requested green with a blue initial and I used some vintage rickrack from my stash for the tie. The design is my own. Swipe to see Ellie's bag next to Marko's. I did my best to make them exactly the same although, now that they are finished I see that I made the ties pull in opposite directions. Close enough! . . . See the link in profile to go to my blog and search for "tooth fairy" if you'd like to learn more about why we have chosen these particular traditions for our family. And while you're there, if you want to, you can search for "Mark quilt" to see pictures of the quilt I made for his first birthday, in which this green fabric is featured. This probably matters to no one else except for me but I find it thoroughly satisfying. First quilt, first lost tooth! #salmonandsouvlakisewsWe just experienced the most amazing living history presentation at the @lewismuseum. We lived Harriet Tubman's life with her as the actress told us her story. It was such an immensely difficult story to hear but told in such a way that our kids could engage and understand. Thank you to the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture. . . . Here Marko is standing in front with Harriet, so that we could all see how young and little she was when, at age six, her slave master told her she had to earn her keep. SIX!!
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Mark's Birth Story, Part Four
In honor of Mark's first birthday, I'm sharing his birth story with you. It's very long so my feelings won't be hurt if you don't read the whole thing! It's so long, in fact, that I've broken it up into … Continue reading
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Mark's Birth Story, Part Three
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Mark's Birth Story, Part Two
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Mark's Birth Story (In Honor of His First Birthday), Part One
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And The Moral Of The Story Is…
Don't believe everything the books (and midwives and everyone else in the whole world) say about the speed of second-baby labor. I'm still processing through Mark's labor and delivery and I'm sure I'll type out his complete birth story at … Continue reading
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KIOS: Parenting, Part 3d: Natural/Unmedicated Childbirth (even more thoughts)
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KIOS: Parenting, Part 3c: Natural/Unmedicated Childbirth (more thoughts)
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There's A New Maccas Menu Item And We Are Salivating
Not just salivating... We're lovin' it!
Maccas have done it again.
They have just introduced SPICY MCNUGGETS STARTING TODAY!
Yep! Today!!!!!
You'll have to beat us down to the local Maccas, to be fair, because we're pretty excited about this one.
Not only that, but they have also added Spicy Shaker Fries to the sides options 'to heat up the last few weeks of winter'.
"McNuggets lovers can further dial up the heat with Spicy Buffalo dipping sauce or chill out their taste buds with cooling Aioli," Maccas said.
"The all new Spicy Chicken McNuggets, Spicy Shaker Fries and dipping sauces and will be available in restaurants nationwide from 10.30 am 11th July for a limited time only."
So what do you reckon? Spicy buffalo? Aioli? Or just the traditional ketchup on these bad boys?


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She earned her M.D. from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and her M.H.A from the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and performed a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins.
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McGowan EC, Matsui EC, McCormack MC, Pollack CE, Peng R, Keet CA. "Effect of poverty, urbanization, and race/ethnicity on perceived food allergy in the United States." Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2015 Jul;115(1):85-86.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.anai.2015.04.021.
Kolahdooz F, Butler JL, Christiansen K, Diette GB, Breysse PN, Hansel NN, McCormack MC, Sheehy T, Gittelsohn J, Sharma S. "Food and nutrient intake in African American children and adolescents aged 5 to 16 years in Baltimore city." J Am Coll Nutr. 2015 Apr 9:1-12. [Epub ahead of print]
Brigham EP, McCormack MC, Takemoto CM, Matsui EC. "Iron status is associated with asthma and lung function in US women." PLoS One. 2015 Feb 17;10(2):e0117545. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117545. eCollection 2015.
Keet CA, McCormack MC, Pollack CE, Peng RD, McGowan E, Matsui EC. "Neighborhood poverty, urban residence, race/ethnicity, and asthma: Rethinking the inner-city asthma epidemic." J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2015 Mar;135(3):655-62. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2014.11.022. Epub 2015 Jan 20.
McCormack MC, Belli AJ, Kaji DA, Matsui EC, Brigham EP, Peng RD, Sellers C, Williams DL, Diette GB, Breysse PN, Hansel NN. "Obesity as a susceptibility factor to indoor particulate matter health effects in COPD." Eur Respir J. 2015 May;45(5):1248-57. doi: 10.1183/09031936.00081414. Epub 2015 Jan 8.
Davis MF, Peng RD, McCormack MC, Matsui EC. "Staphylococcus aureus colonization is associated with wheeze and asthma among US children and young adults." J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2015 Mar;135(3):811-3.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2014.10.052. Epub 2014 Dec 20.
Paulin LM, Diette GB, Scott M, McCormack MC, Matsui EC, Curtin-Brosnan J, Williams DL, Kidd-Taylor A, Shea M, Breysse PN, Hansel NN. Home interventions are effective at decreasing indoor nitrogen dioxide concentrations. Indoor Air. 2013 Dec 14. doi: 10.1111/ina.12085. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 24329966
Fernandes JR, Salinas HM, Broelsch GF, McCormack MC, Meppelink AM, Randolph MA, Redmond RW, Austen WG. Jr. The Prevention of Capsular Contracture with Photochemical Tissue Passivation 1. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2013 Nov 20. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 24263392
McCormack MC, Aloe C, Curtin-Brosnan J, Diette GB, Breysse PN, Matsui EC. Guideline-recommended fractional exhaled nitric oxide is a poor predictor of health-care use among inner-city children and adolescents receiving usual asthma care. Chest. 2013 Sep;144(3):923-9. doi: 10.1378/chest.12-3098. PMID: 23764806
Bose S, Breysse PN, McCormack MC, Hansel NN, Rusher RR, Matsui E, Peng R, Curtin-Brosnan J, Diette GB. Outdoor exposure and vitamin D levels in urban children with asthma. Nutr J. 2013 Jun 12;12(1):81. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 23758744
Jamieson DB, Matsui EC, Belli A, McCormack MC, Peng E, Pierre-Louis S, Curtin-Brosnan J, Breysse PN, Diette GB, Hansel NN. Effects of allergic phenotype on respiratory symptoms and exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2013 Jul 15;188(2):187-92. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201211-2103OC. PMID: 23668455
Hansel NN, McCormack MC, Belli AJ, Matsui EC, Peng RD, Aloe C, Paulin L, Williams DL, Diette GB, Breysse PN. In-home air pollution is linked to respiratory morbidity in former smokers with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2013 May 15;187(10):1085-90. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201211-1987OC. PMID: 23525930
Lu KD, Breysse PN, Diette GB, Curtin-Brosnan J, Aloe C, Williams DL, Peng RD, McCormack MC, Matsui EC. Being overweight increases susceptibility to indoor pollutants among urban children with asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2013 Apr;131(4):1017-23, 1023.e1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2012.12.1570. Epub 2013 Feb 10. PMID: 23403052
Anderson GB, Dominici F, Wang Y, McCormack MC, Bell ML, Peng RD. Heat-related emergency hospitalizations for respiratory diseases in the Medicare population. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2013 May 15;187(10):1098-103. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201211-1969OC. PMID: 23491405
Lee JH, Kirkham JC, McCormack MC, Nicholls AM, Randolph MA, Austen WG Jr. The effect of pressure and shear on autologous fat grafting. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2013 May;131(5):1125-36. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3182879f4a. PMID: 23385989
Fernandes JR, Samayoa JC, Broelsch GF, McCormack MC, Nicholls AM, Randolph MA, Mihm MC, Austen WG Jr. Micro-mechanical fractional skin rejuvenation. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2013 Feb;131(2):216-23. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3182789afa. PMID: 23357983
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The entrance and exit of the garage is on Olive Street just south of Flora Street. Olive Street runs one way going north. A garage attendant will be on duty from 7:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, unless otherwise posted. To enter The Pavilion from the parking garage, there are two elevators on each parking level that will take you directly to the Pavilion level.
Fee for Parking
Parking is currently $4.00 a day for Dallas Bar Association members conducting meetings/business in the building during the business hours of the building (7:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.). Be sure to bring your ticket inside and have a wait staff person validate it! To expedite exiting the garage during busy hours, you will pay for your parking inside the Belo Mansion through your server or through the cashier.
Monthly parking is available. For more information, contact (214) 744-0500.
Those who are not DBA members conducting business in the building may temporarily park in the garage, however, you will be charged the public rate, which at this time is $3.00 for the first half hour, and $2.00 each additional half hour, with a $20.00 daily maximum rate. After hours rate is a flat $20.00. Specific priority is given to those parking in the garage to attend a meeting inside Belo.
Current Posted Rates
$3.00 First Half Hour
$2.00 Each Additional Half Hour
$20.00 Daily Maximum Rate
Vehicles Entering After 5:00 p.m.: $20.00 Flat Rate
$20.00 Flat Rate All Day
Leaving Your Car in the Parking Garage
If you wish to pay the public rate you may leave your car in the garage during the business week. If there are no events in the Belo Mansion, the garage will close at 7:30 p.m., unless otherwise posted.
Circular driveway off of Olive Street
The circular driveway off Olive Street is reserved for quick drop-off and for valet functions only. Your car will be towed if you are not authorized to park there.
Disabled Parking & Entry to the Building
Each parking level in the garage has parking spaces marked for the disabled. Additionally, there is a space at the entrance of the garage for specially equipped vans. A sidewalk along the west side of the historic Belo Mansion provides easy access to The Pavilion.
DART Transportation
Catch a DART Trolley to Belo. Dallas Area Rapid Transit offers transportation services for our members and guests. Look for DART Trolley #712-M (Arts District). For current DART rates and schedules, click here.


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Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:
The Death of Steven Sotloff — In the final moments before an ISIS executioner beheaded the American journalist Steven Sotloff, the masked man offered up, in an English accent, a message to his viewers: "We take this opportunity to warn those governments that enter this evil alliance of America …
Discussion: neo-neocon, The Dish, No More Mister Nice Blog, PJ Media and Prairie Weather, more at Mediagazer »
Jean Kaufman / PJ Media: ISIS' Theater of Evil and the Thirst for Blood
Justin Sink / The Hill:
'We will not be intimidated' by ISIS — President Obama on Wednesday pledged that the U.S. would "degrade and destroy" the Islamist terrorist group responsible for the beheading of two American journalists, saying the U.S. was "repulsed" by the slayings. — "We will not be intimidated," …
Discussion: Power Line, BBC, The Moderate Voice and ABC News
Scott Johnson / Power Line: Triumph of the international will — President Obama held …
Dorian De Wind / The Moderate Voice: (Updates) Reports that ISIS Has Killed Steven Sotloff
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Biden: ISIL will reside in hell
Biden: ISIL will reside in hell
Discussion: National Review
Jonah Goldberg / National Review: Biden & the Gates of Hell
Debra Kamin / The Times of Israel:
Steven Sotloff, killed by Islamic State, had deep roots in Israel
Steven Sotloff, killed by Islamic State, had deep roots in Israel
Discussion: New York Times, Politico, Ynetnews, Israel Matzav and Mashable, more at Mediagazer »
Kendall Breitman / Politico: Laura Ingraham: ISIL evil, not 'manageable'
Yitzhak Benhorin / Ynetnews: Steven Sotloff, journalist executed by ISIS, was Israeli-American
Carl / Israel Matzav: Murdered journalist was Israeli citizen, risked life to practice Judaism in captivity UPDATED
Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Geraldo Rivera: Behead the ISIL 'butchers'
Geraldo Rivera: Behead the ISIL 'butchers'
Discussion: Twitchy, Mediaite and The Huffington Post
Gpollowitz / Twitchy: Hypocrisy much? See 'tough guy' Geraldo Rivera beclown himself over 'ISIS butchers'
Eddie Scarry / Mediaite: Geraldo: 'Behead the ISIS Butchers'
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill: Kerry calls Sotloff murder a 'punch to the gut'
Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
After Steven Sotloff Murder, Congress Demands a Vote on Obama's ISIS War
After Steven Sotloff Murder, Congress Demands a Vote on Obama's ISIS War
Discussion: The Hill, New York Times, Weekly Standard and Yahoo! News, more at Mediagazer »
Kristina Wong / The Hill: Dem bill would authorize US strikes in Syria
Jamie Dettmer / Yahoo! News: The Blackout on Hostages Helps ISIS
The Hill:
Lawmakers to Obama: Hit ISIS
Lawmakers to Obama: Hit ISIS
Discussion: ABC News, Hot Air and The Daily Beast
Jonathan Karl / ABC News: Obama Suggests ISIS Must Be Destroyed (or Maybe Not)
Kathleen Hennessey / Los Angeles Times:
Obama: Video of slain journalist is authentic, U.S. won't be intimidated
Obama: Video of slain journalist is authentic, U.S. won't be intimidated
Discussion: Fox News, New York Times, The Week, Gawker, Hot Air, Wall Street Journal and The New Republic, more at Mediagazer »
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times: After Beheading of Steven Sotloff, Obama Pledges to Punish ISIS
Harold Maass / The Week: 10 things you need to know today: September 3, 2014
Aleksander Chan / Gawker: U.S. Confirms Steven Sotloff Beheading Video, Obama Vows "Justice"
Jazz Shaw / Hot Air: Obama: "Our reach is long"
Matt Bradley / Wall Street Journal: Video of Beheading Is Authentic, U.S. Says
Graeme Wood / The New Republic: What ISIS's Leader Really Wants
Scott Clement / Washington Post:
New poll says large majority of Americans believe Redskins should not change name — (Post Sports Live/The Washington Post) — A large but shrinking majority of Americans say the Washington Redskins should not change their team's name, according to a poll released Tuesday finding …
Discussion: Weekly Standard, his vorpal sword, NewsBusters, Washington Free Beacon, Booman Tribune and ESPN
Geoffrey Norman / Weekly Standard: Name Change for Redskins?
Hart Williams / his vorpal sword: Racial Animus Revealed by Algebra
Tim Graham / NewsBusters: Losing WashPost Tries Lame 'Majority Is Shrinking' Bias As Vast Majority Support 'Redskins'
Erica Ritz / TheBlaze.com:
Why Glenn Beck Said Hillary Clinton 'Will Be the Next President of the United States'
Why Glenn Beck Said Hillary Clinton 'Will Be the Next President of the United States'
Discussion: The New Civil Rights Movement, Capitol Report, CNN, Booman Tribune, Politico and Talking Points Memo
Jean Ann Esselink / The New Civil Rights Movement: Glenn Beck Predicts Hillary Clinton Will Be The Next President
Robert Schroeder / Capitol Report: Obama wants to make ISIS a 'manageable' problem
Dan Merica / CNN: Glenn Beck: Hillary Clinton 'will be the next president'
Nick Gass / Politico: Beck predicts Clinton 2016 win
Poll: 71 percent say keep Redskins
Poll: 71 percent say keep Redskins
Discussion: NewsBusters, National Review, ABC News and Hot Air
Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters: Hyperbolic ESPN Compares Redskin Name to Slavery and Opposing Jackie Robinson
Andrew Johnson / National Review: Poll: Seven Out of Ten Want Redskins to Keep Name
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Our Senate model is moving in Democrats' direction all of a sudden. Why? — On July 15, Election Lab, WaPo's election model, gave Republicans an 86 percent chance of winning the six seats they needed to take over the Senate majority. Today — 50 days later — it gives Republicans only a 52 percent chance of winning the majority.
Discussion: New York Times, Bloomberg View and Democracy in America
David Leonhardt / New York Times: Chris Cillizza Plays Our Senate Forecasting Game
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg View: Goody, More Senate Prediction Models
Office of Media Relations:
Economy Will Drive Midterm Elections, GW Battleground Poll Shows
Economy Will Drive Midterm Elections, GW Battleground Poll Shows
Discussion: Washington Post, Washington Free Beacon and Taegan Goddard's …
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Phil Robertson's Plan For Combating ISIS: 'Convert Them Or Kill Them' — "Duck Dynasty" patriarch Phil Robertson put forward a strategy Tuesday for combating militants with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria: "convert them or kill them." — Robertson was asked to opine on Fox News' …
Discussion: American Prospect, ThinkProgress, Daily Kos and Gawker
Jed Lewison / Daily Kos: Hannity scores exclusive interview with bearded fanatic who declares: 'Convert them or kill them'
Adam Weinstein / Gawker: Phil Robertson's Plan to Fight ISIS Is to Be More Like ISIS
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Phil Robertson Tells Hannity How He'd Combat ISIS: 'Convert Them or Kill Them'
Phil Robertson Tells Hannity How He'd Combat ISIS: 'Convert Them or Kill Them'
Discussion: Politico, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Huffington Post
Jonathan Topaz / Politico: Phil Robertson on ISIL: 'Convert them or kill them'
Cassy Fiano / John Hawkins' Right Wing News: Phil Robertson Tells Hannity How He Would Deal With ISIS: Convert Them or Kill Them
James Hohmann / Politico:
The 5 sleeper Senate races — The likeliest Republican paths to winning the Senate majority are pretty clear, but there are potential sleepers and under-covered races that could be one shock poll from bursting onto the map in the final eight weeks. — Meanwhile, the list …
Discussion: Washington Post, National Review and Liberal Values
Aaron Blake / Washington Post: The myth of the looming GOP 'wave'
Jim Geraghty / National Review: Sleeper Senate Races? Better Get Them Some Coffee!
James Hohmann / Politico:
Senate control 'on knife's edge'
Senate control 'on knife's edge'
Discussion: Roll Call
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Mitt Romney: Raise the minimum wage
Mitt Romney: Raise the minimum wage
Discussion: Fox News, The Nation and The White House
Jessica Roy / New York Magazine:
Columbia Student Will Carry a Mattress Everywhere Until Her Alleged Rapist Is Expelled — Emma Sulkowicz staged the piece of performance art as a protest against Columbia's handling of her sexual-assault case. — 1.9k — Shares — 1.8k — Emma Sulkowicz says she was raped …
Discussion: TIME, ThinkProgress, Columbia Daily Spectator, Gothamist, The Daily Caller, Jezebel, The Raw Story, Guardian and Inside Higher Ed
Francesca Trianni / TIME: Columbia Student Pledges to Carry a Mattress Every Day Till Alleged Rapist Leaves Campus
Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress: This College Student Will Carry Around Her Dorm Mattress Until Her Alleged Rapist Is Punished
Emma Bogler / Columbia Daily Spectator: Emma Sulkowicz's performance art draws support from campus activists
Christopher Robbins / Gothamist: Columbia Student Drags Around Mattress Until University Expels Her Rapist
Arturo Garcia / The Raw Story: College student carries mattress around campus to protest lack of sanctions against rapist
Jessica Valenti / Guardian: Beyond 'no means no': the future of campus rape prevention is 'yes means yes'
Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed: Unusual Senior Project to Draw Attention to Sex Assaults
Tom Lyden / myfoxtwincities.com:
EXCLUSIVE: ISIS fighter worked at Minneapolis airport — He was the second known American killed while fighting for ISIS in Syria, and the second from Minnesota — and a Fox 9 exclusive uncovering his employment history is raising a few eyebrows. — An airport is probably the last place anyone …
Discussion: Weekly Standard, No More Mister Nice Blog, Mediaite, The Blotter and Business Insider
Geoffrey Norman / Weekly Standard: Disturbing Report: ISIS Fighter Worked at Minneapolis Airport
Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog: MORE EVIDENCE THAT ISIS ISN'T RECRUITING AMERICANS FOR STATESIDE ATTACKS
Eddie Scarry / Mediaite: Report: American Who Joined ISIS Worked at Minnesota Airport
Aaron Rupar / The Blotter: Second Minnesotan to die fighting for ISIS in Syria reportedly had security clearance at MSP
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Sen. Coburn: Let's change Constitution — Sen. Tom Coburn is pushing for a national convention to amend the Constitution. — The Oklahoma Republican, who has grown disenchanted with gridlock in Washington, will officially launch his effort after he retires from the Senate in a few months.
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / The Week:
Why so many Christians won't back down on gay marriage — A traditional view of marriage is about much more than today's politics. It's deeply woven into the 2,000-year-old ethic at the heart of our faith. — A majority of Americans already favor same-sex marriage …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Louisiana Marriage Ban Is Constitutional, Federal Judge Rules — "The State of Louisiana has a legitimate interest under a rational basis standard of review for addressing the meaning of marriage through the democratic process." The first federal court ruling upholding a ban in the past year.
Pew Research Center:
Who runs for office? A profile of the 2% — There are 90,107 government units in the U.S. — everything from county governments (3,031) to independent school district governments (12,880), according to 2012 Census Bureau data. Some governments have appointed officials …
Discussion: Washington Post
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Ready, Aim, Fire. Not Fire, Ready, Aim. — President Obama has been excoriated for declaring that "we don't have a strategy yet" for effectively confronting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. In criticizing Obama for taking too much time, Representative Mike Rogers …
Discussion: NationalJournal.com, Gawker and JustOneMinute
Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com: Is Obama Taking ISIS Seriously Enough?
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker: Thomas Friedman Has Some Baffling Metaphors to Share With You
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute: Friedman On ISIS - It's Complicated
5 Feminist Myths That Will Not Die — If we're genuinely committed to improving the circumstances of women, we need to get the facts straight — Much of what we hear about the plight of American women is false. Some faux facts have been repeated so often they are almost beyond the reach of critical analysis.
Discussion: The Other McCain
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: Feminist 'Facts' Aren't True
Kaitlin Stack Whitney / The Atlantic Online:
The Secret Pot-Growing Operations in America's Cornfields — On any given weekday in the summer, you will find me walking through fields counting bugs. In fact, it's my job: I'm an ecologist studying the communities of insects that live in agricultural landscapes.
Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
Screw Politics, Obama Should Act On Deportations as Soon as Possible — If the trial balloons the White House floated late last week reflect President Obama's true thinking, then Senate Democrats have frightened him out of his pledge to curb deportations of unauthorized immigrants with deep roots in the United States this month.
Discussion: Washington Post, RedState and Hullabaloo


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Elevation: 610 feet [185.93 m] above sea level<2>
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Ian Grant '13—It's not a stretch to say that Josh Mitchell '13 has memorized every anecdote on this year's Scarlet Yarns alumni story project. As videographer and editor he has easily seen the entirety of the footage, both whole and in clips, dozens of times.
This sort of repetitious behavior, like learning the lyrics to a song, allows him to quote each story verbatim. So when I was sitting in the Media Lab in the basement of Lilly Library scanning photos for the Communications Office digital archive, I was not surprised to hear Josh, working on a clip from the project and anticipating almost every word coming from the screen.
This would continue for a bit, then stop, and resume until it got to the point that I was able to quote the pieces myself. When it came time to review the DVD as a final product Josh and I could have acted out the interviews sans script.
That's partially due to the repetition. But from that repetition we picked up on the many quirks and idiosyncrasies—there was a lot of dishwashing. Tom Burns '67, Joe Krause '57, and Tom Reams '62 all separately admitted to washing dishes at the Lambda Chi house to help pay their way through Wabash. (Mal Young '62 even washed dishes with Warren Beatty in California after the two of them failed to pay a bar tab.)
They were not prompted or asked. (To be honest if our questions included washing dishes we'd have been lousy interviewers.)
They were offhand remarks of little consequence. Had only one person mentioned it we would have written it off. But now it seemed that in order to attend Wabash every student was drafted into an army of Lambda Chi dishwashers, cleaning a precariously stacked Cat-in-the-Hat-style pile of dishes.
Every time the topic of tuition came up in a story, Josh and I would joke: "Oh, well I'm betting they washed dishes at the Lambda Chi house."
It was the little things that grabbed our attention. Like differences in how the college operates. If I could afford my tuition now by washing dishes at Lambda Chi, I would. (I have a strong elbow, a healthy sense of work, and a ferocious desire for sanitation, guys.)
The quirks make the stories interesting and Josh's editing has pulled those to the foreground.
Like the time Tom Burns recalls his first date canoeing on Sugar Creek with the woman who would become his wife. It was spring, the water was cold and at flood level. They went out anyway. Shortly after pushing off they managed to flip the canoe. They were thrown into the water. The future Mrs. Burns collided with a logjam and was bruised from her hip to her ankle. After seeking shelter at a nearby farm house one of Burns' brothers at Lambda Chi (I bet he washed dishes, too.) picked them up. Burns concludes (and often the unexpected conclusion makes the piece), "The next date didn't go any better."
Ian Grant is an intern this summer with Wabash Magazine and the College's Office of Communications and Marketing. Josh Mitchell is a Media Center intern and is videographer and editor for this year's Scarlet Yarns.


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Susan Granger's review of 'Deliver Us from Evil'
In the 2010 prologue, set in Iraq, three American soldiers stumble upon an entrance to a dimly lit, spooky, subterranean chamber, obviously a religious site, littered with human skulls. Subsequently, Griggs (Scott Johnsen), Jimmy (Chris Coy) and Santino (Sean Harris) are beset by series of horrific, seemingly senseless crimes.
Four years later, that mysterious incident piques the interest of NYPD Sgt. Ralph Sarchie (Eric Bana), who has been neglecting his pregnant wife Jen (Olivia Munn) and soccer-loving daughter Christina (Lulu Wilson) in his dogged pursuit of wrongdoing in the South Bronx. His laid-back partner Butler (Joel McHale) is the kind of reckless "adrenaline junkie" who likes stirring up trouble by wearing a Boston Red Sox cap in Yankee territory.
Then there's the chain-smoking, whiskey-drinking Jesuit priest, Joe Mendoza (Edgar Ramirez), who gradually convinces Sarchie, a lapsed Catholic, that there may be supernatural forces involved in three separate crimes, all tangentially connected to Griggs, Jimmy and, specifically, Santino. To make things worse, they discover that a specific incantation -- in Latin and Persian -- invites a demon to enter the human world, and that Sarchie's family is in imminent danger.
Inevitably, this leads to a surprisingly long, formulaic exorcism scene at the police station.
Once again, Bana ("Lone Survivor) proves a strong protagonist, fighting to the death atop an old player piano. But it's curious that the source material, "Beware the Night" by the real Ralph Sarchie and Lisa Collier Cool, shows how, as an occult/paranormal investigator, Sarchie came to believe that some of these criminals were, indeed, possessed, while screenwriter/director Scott Derrickson ("The Exorcism of Emily Rose," "Sinister") and
his co-writer Paul Harris Boardman depict Sarchie as a skeptic.
Unfortunately, any connection between post-traumatic stress syndrome and demonic possession is glossed over.
So, in addition to cliche-riddled dialogue, there are numerous grisly, gory scenes, one
that serves as warning never, ever to visit the Bronx Zoo at night.
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Deliver Us From Evil" is a foul 4, filled with depravity.


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I didn't want to derail Kyandasu's topic so I've started a new one. She mentioned that she finds the history of geisha to be interesting, and she's not alone. It's one of the things that non-Japanese people seem to find most fascinating about Japan.
And, to be honest, I wonder, why?
Before I inject my general view of the world of geisha and how some women in Japan regard it (not all, mind you) - are you interested in geishas (geiko, maiko)? If so, why?
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text: The San Antonio Spurs were seconds from the title before Miami's comeback last season [AFP]LeBron James and the Miami Heat enter the 2013-14 NBA season as favourites to win a third consecutive title.But with several teams sporting beefed up rosters the reigning champions face their biggest challenge to the crown yet.The Brooklyn Nets, Houston Rockets, Los Angeles Clippers and Golden State Warriors are among the teams that added key players in a bid to dethrone a Heat team that needed seven games to get by the ageing San Antonio Spurs in last season's final.But knocking a team led by All-Stars James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh off its perch will be no easy feat given their desire to become the first NBA franchise to win three consecutive titles since the Los Angeles Lakers in 2002.The Nets, backed by Russian multi-billionaire owner Mikhail Prokhorov, sent a message that they are going all-in on winning a championship in June by acquiring future Hall of Famers Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce as part of an eight-player trade with the Boston Celtics. UpgradedBut despite an upgraded lineup that features depth across the board, questions remain about how effective rookie head coach Jason Kidd, five months removed from playing in the NBA, will be on the sidelines.The Indiana Pacers put a scare into the Heat by forcing a seventh game in last season's Eastern Conference Finals. Indiana wanted to make their bench better and they now boast one of the league's best with the acquisition of C.J. Watson and the eventual return of Danny Granger from injury.The Chicago Bulls should be another contender in the East as Derrick Rose, the NBA's 2011 most valuable player, returns after sitting out all of last season while rehabilitating an anterior cruciate ligament that was torn in the previous campaign.The 25-year-old guard's decision not to return late last season was the source of much debate in NBA circles but he can begin silencing any critics in his team's season-opener versus the champion Heat on October 29.For the Heat's part, they made a low-risk, high-reward move by signing big man Greg Oden, a former first overall draft pick who was expected to dominate the league but has since undergone multiple knee operations and not played in years.In the West, the Los Angeles Clippers also tapped into the Celtics' pool of talent by trading for head coach Doc Rivers, who won an NBA title with Boston in 2008. It's a a move that enabled them to get a long-term deal from star point guard Chris Paul. Rockets ready to fireDwight Howard opted to leave the Los Angeles Lakers in his prime for less money to join a Houston team that is suddenly being considered a force in the West.The Rockets, who lost in the first round of last season's playoffs, are hoping the 27-year-old center can rediscover the three-time Defensive Player of the Year form he had in Orlando and work with James Harden to shake up the West.Golden State also added their name to the list of contenders by signing free agent Andre Iguodala to round out a starting five lineup that is led by Stephen Curry and considered one of the most dangerous in the NBA.San Antonio, led by Tony Parker and Tim Duncan, re-signed Manu Ginobli and Tiago Splitter as they look to erase memories of last year's Finals loss to Miami.The Spurs were so close to winning the title in Game Six that officials started bringing yellow tape out to block off thecourt for the Spurs' trophy presentation but they squandered a five-point lead with 28 seconds left in regulation before losing in overtime and then falling in the decisive seventh game.The Oklahoma City Thunder should be better than they were in last season's playoffs once star point guard Russell Westbrook returns from knee surgery, but they failed to make any moves to ensure they maintain their grip on the West. SOURCE: Reuters Sport US Sports


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The PCM has detected a catalyst efficiency that is below the normal operating threshold for a specific engine bank. The PCM utilizes exhaust composition and temperature data from the oxygen sensors to calculate what degree of catalyst efficiency is required. If this level is not detected, then the code will be stored and the service engine light will be illuminated.
The PCM uses input data received from the upstream and downstream oxygen sensors to calculate catalyst efficiency in each respective converter. Upstream oxygen sensor readings tend to fluctuate in conjunction with changing fuel mixture conditions. Downstream oxygen sensors tend to remain more steady then upstream sensors. If the individual sensor readings are too similar in response time or level, a code will be stored and a malfunction indicator lamp will be illuminated.
Symptoms may be as minor as only a stored code and an illuminated service engine soon lamp or as major as a no start or engine stall condition. If the catalytic converter is below the threshold for efficiency or if the oxygen sensor/s is faulty, there is likely to be no drivability issues. However, if the converter has broken or melted internal components, engine hesitation, an overall lack of engine performance, hissing noises when accelerating, or even a no start/engine stall condition may occur.
The most common cause of this code is due to a faulty catalytic converter. Bad oxygen sensors are also a possibility but if this is the case an oxygen sensor code will usually accompany the catalytic converter code. Always diagnose and repair oxygen sensor codes before attempting to diagnose catalytic converter codes. Since the catalytic converter is not designed to wear out, its failure is normally associated with some contributing malfunction. Contributing factors in catalytic converter failure may include incorrect fuel usage, excessive fuel being dumped into the exhaust system due to a faulty coolant temperature sensor, mass air flow sensor, manifold air pressure sensor, fuel pressure regulator, or fuel injection component, an ignition misfire, retarded spark timing, or oil contamination. Leaks from an exhaust manifold, down pipe, flex hose, or other exhaust component that is upstream from the catalytic converter can also appear to the PCM as catalytic converter failure.
The most common misdiagnosis is caused by not thoroughly investigating what led to catalytic converter failure. Technicians report that repeated catalytic converter failure occurs when other codes are present and left unattended for long periods of time. Engine misfires are known to deteriorate the platinum element of the catalytic converter, as is excessively rich exhaust. The next most common misdiagnosis comes from oxygen sensor replacement. Oxygen sensor failure should be verified before replacement. Techs report that oxygen sensors are often replaced blindly in order to avoid costly catalytic converter replacement. This just leads to added expense. Also, aftermarket and "rebuilt" catalytic converters have proven problematic. Although they may cost much less, they provide neither the efficiency nor the longevity of OEM quality catalytic converters.


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Lots of us have figured out that a scarf is the cheapest, fastest way to amp up an otherwise ordinary shirt, sweater, coat, blouse, jacket, dress — you name it.
Look around. Everybody's wearing them — with varying degrees of success. Sure, you can give the thing a quick wrap or a sloppy knot but, with very little effort, you can tie it like a pro.
Awhile back, with the help of my fashionable friend Kyler Powell, an event planner and business student, I introduced you to scarf-tying 2.0 with the admittedly complicated (but worth it) "pretzel" knot.
Well, Kyler and I are back with scarf-tying 3.0. Bookmark this step-by-step photo gallery.
And for other tying tricks, check out the "Amy knot" instructions here, the pretzel step-by-step video refresher course here and try this extra knot:
- Follow step 1 as shown in the Double Ascot photo gallery.
- Pull only one of the fringed ends through the loop. (Do not twist loop first.)
- Twist loop away from you once.
- Pull other fringed end through twisted loop.
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Seed companies look beyond genetics for new ways to boost bushels
Your favorite seed company has varieties or hybrids that produce profitable yields. Of course it does—if it didn't, it wouldn't stay in business. Because high-yielding germplasm is an expectation no matter the source, farmers are seeking out high-tech solutions to better manage their seeds and harvest their full potential.
"Farmers are begging for the technology to get better," says Illinois farmer Brian Corkill.
Corkill uses a blend of technologies in his tractor, including Ag Leader, Trimble, SureFire Ag and Precision Planting. That helps him ensure that whether he's planting a Mycogen corn hybrid, an NK soybean seed or anything else, he can track how it's managed throughout the year and make smarter decisions on his operation.
"Everything's mapped," he says. "We can prove what pays and what doesn't. The early adopters take on more risk, but they have the biggest advantage and chance for profitability. You're not guaranteed something will work, but you have the most to gain from it."
Companies step up. Savvy farmers have been leaning on precision ag companies for
a solid two decades. Increasingly, seed companies and other players are entering the game. The challenge is creating something that's useful, but not too hard to learn. That's what Illinois farmer Dustin Spears appreciates about Monsanto Company's new FieldScripts variable-rate planting software.
The key to discovering what technology works and what doesn't work on your farm is to "map everything," says Brian Corkill.
"FieldScripts sounds like a complicated system, but it's extremely simple for the farmer to use," he says. "Prior to planting, the dealer gathers all of the data and prepares it to be used by the farmer. The data all comes to the farmer's iPad, so he pushes a few buttons, and he's ready to plant."
Monsanto researchers cite a 5 bu. to 10 bu. per acre yield advantage from using FieldScripts. The company's acquisition of Precision Planting in 2012 has allowed Monsanto to quickly ramp up its high-tech capabilities. Other seed companies are also putting their high-tech stakes in the ground.
"There are a number of tools we have put into place to make sure we're putting the right product on the right acre," explains Mike Dillon, DuPont Pioneer product strategy manager. "These tools can help farmers keep better records and ultimately make better decisions."
In fact, there's so much information available, it's easy to get overloaded, Dillon adds. "That's one of the areas Pioneer has been really working hard at—mobile applications to help simplify things," he says.
DuPont Pioneer's latest round of apps and digital management tools includes a notes app for field-by-field record keeping and a web-based software subscription service that will
allow farmers to monitor their fields by "management layers" in real time for precipitation amounts, growing degree unit (GDU) information and corn growth stage development. And before they load a single bag of seed in the planter, farmers can use DuPont Pioneer's plantability app to their benefit, Dillon says. The app lets users input seed tag info to receive plant population advice and more.
Real-time expectations. The saturation of tablet and smartphone devices in agriculture has further accelerated the expectation of farmers to receive and process information in a near
real-time environment.
Newly founded companies such as Rev!Co and FarmLogs are just two of many examples of startups that have emerged in agriculture to make every aspect of farming more mobile.
Rev!Co, which formed in 2012, has released an initial crop scouting app called Rev!ID. The app allows farmers or consultants to track and identify more than 1,500 weed, insect and
disease species. Users can "pin" notes, photos and other information after they have drawn field boundaries either through SST Summit software or by uploading their own .shp files. This data can then be e-mailed or accessed by whomever needs to see it.
"There was a time you'd have to carry various manuals, printed-out maps and a clipboard with fill-in sheets," says Mark Green, Rev!Co vice president. "We've taken the best of all of that and streamlined it into a mobile application."
FarmLogs was founded in 2011 by Jesse Vollmar, a 20-something who grew up on a Michigan farm. The FarmLogs app allows for real-time tracking of various activities on the farm, and the newest web browser feature gives farmers easy access to short- and long-term rain totals on any field. That addresses a pain point he has experienced personally.
"Bringing technology to farming is personal for me," he says. "Growing up on the farm, we tried various management programs, but each service proved costly, difficult and missed critical components. The right solution didn't exist, so we built it ourselves."
Start here. These companies all offer a different suite of services, but the end goal is the same—help farmers make faster and better decisions.
The amount of new hardware, software and apps might seem daunting, but Illinois farmer James Schoff suggests starting slow and building your knowledge one technology at a time.
"Decide what you want most," he says. "If it's documentation, start there. If it's autosteer, start there."
These technologies have made it easier for Schoff to try out new management practices, whether he's making micronutrient adjustments on his 130-acre Mosaic Pursuit of 300 field or looking into fungicide applications elsewhere on his farm.
The most common frustration Schoff sees is fellow farmers using a new piece of technology for a few weeks at planting or harvest and then forgetting how to properly use the equipment the following season. He says there's a surprisingly easy, low-tech solution for that particular problem.
"It doesn't hurt to make your own notations or cheat sheets with pen and paper," he says.
Online Fertility Tools
Here are three recently launched fertility websites featuring educational tools and other resources to help farmers diagnose problems in the field.
- Koch Agronomic Services LLC debuts a website that takes a close look at nitrogen loss and fertilizer-enhancing products: www.honestagriculture.com
- PotashCorp offers several tools, including videos and calculators, to facilitate in-field management decisions: www.potashcorp-ekonomics.com
- The Mosaic Company features a one-stop fertility resource with fertilizer best practices, management and expertise: www.cropnutrition.com
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Dover Publications, Dec 1, 1976 - Antiques & Collectibles - 129 pages
From 1915 to 1936, Russian-born, Paris-based artist Erte (Romain de Tirtoff) was associated with HARPER'S BAZAAR, furnishing readers with fashion designs, cover art, and word-pictures of the European fashion scene. This book is a selection of this remarkable work, including 310 line drawings and 14 covers, 8 of which appear here in full color, along with selections from Erte's letters and commentaries for the magazine.
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Damaging Influences
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Fashion Magazines
A University of Minnesota study found that teenage girls who frequently read magazine articles about dieting were more likely five years later to practice extreme weight-loss measures than girls who never read such articles. The study further found that "girls in middle school who read dieting articles were twice as likely five years later to try to lose weight by fasting or smoking cigarettes, compared to girls who never read such articles. They were three times more likely to use measures such as vomiting or taking laxatives." Coauthor of the study, Patricia van den Berg offers this advice to parents: "It possibly would be helpful to teen girls if their mothers didn't have those types of magazines around."See http://cjonline.com/stories/010207/tee_dieting.shtml, citing a study in Pediatrics, January.
One has to wonder if the primary agenda of the fashion magazines is to create a level of dissatisfaction among their female readers regarding their overall body image in an effort to keep them running back for more and more advice on how to achieve this impossible beauty ideal. As they absorb this message that their worth and value stem from their outer appearance and their chief aim is to please the opposite sex, parents are left to sweep up the mess in the years to come. As a longtime opponent of fashion magazines and their message of objectification to our young women, I would love to see parents put them in the same dangerous category as drugs and alcohol. It's time to ban this harmful filth from our homes and begin the detox process if we or our daughters have bought into the lie.
When I was growing up, the word slut was whispered under one's breath and used sparingly. If you were labeled a "slut," your reputation was sealed.
Today, the word is commonplace in every teen's vocabulary. Since when did it become a compliment to be called a slut? Good girls are called sluts. Bad girls are called sluts. Church girls are called sluts. If your daughter is in high school or older, chances are, she's been called a slut. And unless you step in and do something about it, she will probably just smile and shrug it off as a term of endearment.
How did such a word become so acceptable? Could it be the hip-hop/rap culture that cranks out song after song depicting women as "hoes" whose lifelong aspiration is to serve their "pimps"? Of the thirty-two songs with an "explicit" rating in 2004, twenty-seven were in the hip-hop/rap genre.Information based on author's observation. These are the songs being played over and over again on the pop radio stations, MP3 players, and at school dances. And we wonder why it's become acceptable and even in vogue to be called a "slut."
If we are to counter the culture's lie that our daughters are nothing more than objects, it's time to ban our children from buying and listening to songs that objectify women and take a stand when schools, and other cheer/dance organizations, allow the imitation of these objectifying dance moves. You might consider banning songs that fall into the rap/hip-hop genre or requiring preapproval. If a song comes onto the radio and lyrics clearly objectify women, turn it into a teachable moment before you change the station.
TV, Movies, and the Internet
I highly suggest that parents block channels like MTV, VH1, and other like-minded cable channels that are known for their constant objectification of women. Additionally, sit in and listen to the shows your kids are watching to ensure they are appropriate, and take advantage of sites like pluggedin.com and www.screenit.com to review movies before allowing your children to see them. Also, the Parents Television Council (www.parentstv.org) rates the most popular shows among kids and compiles a "best and worst shows" list based on the content. They also have a fabulous feature where you can select a popular show and read the corresponding review.
When it comes to objectionable Web sites, I highly recommend that parents install Web filters and monitoring software to add as many layers of protection as possible. It will be impossible to protect them 100 percent of the time; and as they get older, they can access these channels/shows at friends' houses. This is why it is of utmost importance that parents take advantage of critical moments and point out the media's objectification of women as well as discuss the fallout that can result.
Whether it's popular clothing retailer Abercrombie and Fitch's screen-print tees with messages like "Who needs brains when you have these" or the 1.6 million dollars spent on thong underwear by girls aged seven to twelve, clearly we have a problem.See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021602263_pf.html. Victoria's Secret now has a line aimed at tween, teen, and college girls. It used to be that you didn't set foot into Victoria's Secret until you had a ring on your finger. Nowadays girls as young as middle school are stopping in to pick up a birthday present for their best friend. Mercy, what happened?
As parents we must help our daughters realize that their clothing is like a label. When they wear skin-baring fashions, it often sends a message to others about their character. When we (parents) allow our daughters to dress in a revealing manner, we play a part in sexualizing and objectifying them. Not to mention, many girls are not yet able to make a connection between what they wear and the reaction it may generate among the opposite sex. The APA study found that "girls are experiencing teen pressures at younger and younger ages. However, they are not able to deal with these issues because their cognitive development is out of sync with their social, emotional and sexual development. Let girls be girls."APA study; (Frederickson & Roberts, 1997; McKinley & Hyde, 1996).
In Shaunti Feldhahn's book For Young Women Only, she cited the results of a survey where guys were asked questions pertaining to the way girls dress. The study found that when girls dress in such a way as to call attention to their bodies, 85 percent of guys said that they would have a temptation to picture her naked (either then or later). The survey further confirmed that the majority of guys thought she was dressing that way because she wanted them to picture her that way. Her survey of girls found that in reality only less than 4 percent of girls dress in a revealing fashion in an attempt to get guys to fantasize about them.Shaunti Feldhahn and Lisa Rice, For Young Women Only: What You Need to Know about How Guys Think (Sisters, OR: Multnomah, 2006).
It is up to us to have this necessary conversation (over and over again) with our daughters and remind them that clothing sends a strong message; and it may, in fact, be a message that misrepresents who they really are. When it comes to sporting the perfect outfit, we need to let our daughters know that there is nothing wrong with dressing fashionably as long as it meets God's standard of dress — "modestly, with decency, and propriety" (1 Tim. 2:9).
Airbrushed Images
While I don't watch (or endorse) Desperate Housewives, I've seen enough pictures of these women to know that they have all had Photoshop makeovers, ahem, not to mention, a few other costly makeovers as well. With slews of images like that, is it any wonder women of all ages are resorting to Botox injections, plastic surgery, and break-the-bank skin care regimes that promise to take ten years off their lives?
Sometimes the challenge seems insurmountable when it's everywhere we look. Redbook magazine was criticized for putting 39-year-old country music star Faith Hill on the July 2007 cover and photo-shopping the picture to lengthen her neck, slim her arms and thighs, trim her waist, and airbrush away her wrinkles. Redbook, for heaven's sake! My grandmother used to subscribe to Redbook because it wasn't considered a fashion magazine. In The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used against Women, author Naomi Wolf said, "Magazines, consciously or half-consciously, must project the attitude that looking one's age is bad because $650 million of their ad revenue comes from people who would go out of business if visible age looked good."Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women (New York: Harper Perennial, 2002). I do not endorse this book as a whole and disagree wholeheartedly with the author's radical feminist view and negative view of Christianity, but found some of the research to be useful in citing the media's damage when it comes to the "beauty myth."
How do we even begin to tackle this topic with our daughters and give them a more realistic picture of the natural aging process? How can we convince them that "gray hair is a crown of splendor" (Prov. 16:31) when many of us, myself included, are rushing to our hairdressers and paying them to cover it up, one gray hair at a time? Ouch! I for one am not feeling so led to give up my highlights, occasional manicures, and magical eye cream, so it's important to find a balance. Are you at peace, for the most part, with the aging process, or are you kicking and screaming about every gray hair and facial wrinkle?
We need to make sure our daughters realize that the images they are seeing in the media of models and celebrities who appear to have found the fountain of youth are not real. Most have been prepped for the photo session by hair and makeup artists, Botox, plastic surgery, and even after all that, will likely be airbrushed beyond recognition. We need to set a positive example for our daughters and make friends with the aging process. That doesn't mean we have to let our hair go gray and wear it in a tight bun atop our heads and fill our closets with holiday sweaters and Naturalizer footwear. There is nothing wrong with beautifying the temple as long as it's done in good taste and is not your primary focus. If our daughters are constantly subjected to our grumblings as we journey through the aging process, it will leave them with the impression that life is somehow less appealing in the latter years. Let's quit this nonsense of being shocked and surprised when our bodies begin to show some wear and tear. Some (if not many) of the most beautiful women I know are over fifty and put the polished and airbrushed models and celebs to shame. The over-forty cast of Desperate Housewives couldn't hold a candle to these women when it comes to true beauty. Will you be one of them?