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line quality in Painter 7???
I am just wondering what types of settings will give me that fat to thin and help create a very natural line with a lot of character in the lines.
I saw a cool tut for illustrator 10 on this,
how can I do this type of line in painter?
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The lines you see in the tutorial are done with a vector program. In other words, the bezier curves can be edited if they don't go down exactly as the artist wanted on the first try.
Painter's a raster program and though it does provide Shapes (vector based bezier curves) that can also be edited just as Illustrator's can, they don't vary in width within a single curve as some do in Illustrator. Instead, the entire curve is whatever width the user chooses it to be or, after drawing it, changes it to be. If it's, for instance, 3 pixels wide at the beginning of the curve, it's 3 pixels wide all along the curve to the end.
To create a thick and thin line in Painter, it has to be drawn or painted using the Brush tool and one of a number of brush variants.
Brushstroke size is controlled in one of several ways, most commonly with pressure.
The Pens brush category contains a few examples and there are others, or brush variants that, in their default state don't do this, but can be adjusted to paint thick and thin lines.
Examples from the Pens brush category:
To learn how these variants are set up, choose one and open the Brush Creator, then study all of the settings in each Brush Creator section as well as in the Color Expression section. Then choose another of the brush variants and study the settings again.
After a while, you'll begin to see the patterns and understand more about how to set up custom brush variants if you're not happy with the default variants.
I'd suggest working with the default variants for a while, though, to get the feel of them and learn how to make the most of them, before launching off to make custom variants.
Remember, in Painter we have a great advantage not found in other programs. That is, we can use the Rotate Page tool (click the E key) to temporarily rotate the image, clockwise or counter-clockwise, to any angle so it's comfortable to paint or draw. To return the image to its upright position, click in the image with the Rotate Page tool.
Hope that helps a little.
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thanks, thats what I was looking for. I am just starting to explore painter for other types of drawing. (normally just concept cars)
This site has been a great help, as have you.
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You're welcome! Happy to hear it helps a little.
The best way to learn about Painter's brushes is to begin at the top of the brush category list, and paint some brushstrokes with each variant, then go to the next brush category, and so on.
Keep notes when you find something you like, and study the settings in the Brush Creator.
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NPF has assembled a unique blend of seasoned professionals, selected nationally for excellence in their respective fields. There are currently 12 ATTP faculty members, who represent the following core specialties: a movement disorders physician, nurse, occupational, physical and music therapy, social work and speech-language pathology and interdisciplinary team development.
This faculty has worked together to develop and teach the ATTP Intensive. ATTP is not simply a course in Parkinson's disease. The ATTP Intensive is an integrated curriculum, developed jointly by the faculty team and taught in a collaborative way. Faculty are committed to its mission of person-centered interprofessional care in Parkinson's disease and actually serve as a faculty team modeling effective integrated care planning in the training itself. Whether addressing cognition, mobility, communication or emotional issues, ATTP faculty values the contribution of each discipline to assessment and care of the person with Parkinson's disease and their caregiver.
Bassich, Celia Ph.D.
D'Alli, Arlene M.S.W., L.C.S.W.
Gardner, Joan R.N. B.S.N.
Giroux, Monique M.D.
Hagestuen, Ruth R.N., M.A.
Kornegay, Denise M.S.W.
Marsh, Laura M.D.
Morgan, John MD, PhD.
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Celia Bassich, Ph.D.
Celia Bassich worked as a Research Speech Pathologist at the National Institute of Neurologic and Communicative Disorders, National Institutes of Health from 1977 – 1992, where she investigated the speech disorders associated with Parkinson's disease. In 1992, she joined the faculty at Towson University, located near Baltimore, MD. She is currently the Speech Pathology Graduate Program director and teaches an undergraduate course in Speech Science and graduate courses in adult neurogenic speech disorders and voice disorders.
Her doctoral dissertation involved an investigation of vocal dysfunction in young-onset Parkinson's disease. Celia has published numerous articles in the field of speech-language pathology and has made several presentations about her work in the field. Her clinical and research interests include Parkinson'sism. Celia is certified in the Lee Silverman Voice treatment method for persons with Parkinson's. She has served as Speech-language pathology faculty in ATTP I and ATTP II. Celia may be contacted at: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Arlene D'Alli, M.S.W., L.C.S.W.
Arlene D'Alli, M.S.W., L.C.S.W. is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker at the Duke University Movement Disorders Center in Durham, NC. She received her Master of Social Work from Arizona State University in 1981 and has over twenty five years of medical social work experience.
Arlene was first introduced to the world of Parkinson's disease in 1998 when she accepted a newly created position as a clinical social worker at the Johns Hopkins Movement Disorders Center working with Dr. Stephen Reich and Becky Dunlop, R.N. In addition to her work in the clinic, she developed a Parkinson's caregiver support group and gave presentations at state-wide Parkinson's support groups, educational programs and symposia. In a subsequent move to North Carolina, she was recruited by Dr. Mark Stacy to work at the Duke University Movement Disorders Center, now a newly designated NPF Center of Excellence, where she has been able to carry forth her excitement in working with this "richly complex" population.
Arlene has continued in her multi-faceted role at Duke, providing direct clinical care, support group facilitation, development of a Parkinson's disease 101 program and presentations throughout the state of North Carolina. Arlene may be reached at: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Joan Gardner, R.N. B.S.N.
Joan Gardner, R.N. B.S.N. is the clinic supervisor at Struthers Parkinson's Center in Minneapolis, MN, and serves as coordinator of the National Parkinson's Foundation (NPF) Center of Excellence. As part of the Struthers Parkinson's Center leadership team, Joan is responsible for the maintenance and advancement of multi-disciplinary team programs. She also leads nurses in the clinical, Deep Brain Stimulation, and adult day program teams. Joan is a strong advocate for client wellness and empowerment and provides nursing assessment and education to patients and families as a part of the multi-disciplinary team. Joan is a resource to the Parkinson's community nation-wide, answering questions from the NPF toll-free helpline.
Through educational efforts, Joan is committed to increasing awareness of Parkinson's, improving care for individuals with Parkinson's and supporting carepartners. She co-produced the TULIPS© program for Parkinson's care, an educational toolkit for senior residential facilities and community service organizations. She co-authored the NPF manual "Managing Advanced Parkinson's Disease."
Joan joined the Methodist Hospital Respite program in 1994, providing in-home nursing assessments. She subsequently joined the Struthers Parkinson's Center multi-disciplinary team. At that time Joan also developed the nursing role within the newly opened Parkinson's adult day program on site at Struthers. Joan is a member of the National Parkinson Foundation Minnesota chapter Advisory Board. She is also a member of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses and the Minnesota Holistic Nurses Association.
Prior to working with the Parkinson's community, Joan worked 16 years as a home health care nurse for a number of agencies in Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Joan received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Joan may be contacted at: email@example.com.
Monique Giroux, M.D.
Dr. Monique Giroux is co-founder of the Movement and Neuroperformance Center of Colorado in Englewood, CO designated to open August 2012. Dr. Giroux received her medical degree from Ohio State University, completed her Neurology residency at Yale and Movement Disorders fellowship at Emory University. She also completed a fellowship in holistic health and Integrative Medicine at the University of AZ. She is board certified in Neurology. She specializes in the comprehensive care for people with movement and cognitive disorders and integrates non-medical approaches with traditional medical and surgical treatment.
In addition to her clinical care, Dr. Giroux is advancing quality care and wellness for Parkinson's in her positions as medical director of the Northwest Parkinson's Foundation wellness center at http://www.nwpf.org/, medical faculty for the National Parkinson's Foundation Allied Team Training Program™ and project leader for the National Parkinson's Foundation Care Center Consortium project. She has partnered with the Davis Phinney Foundation to co-author Every Victory Counts: Essential Information and Inspiration for a lifetime of wellness with Parkinson's.
Her focus of care and research is on the development of interdisciplinary rehabilitation, team medicine, hope and wellness for people with progressive disabling conditions. She has received training in mindfulness based therapy which she has adapted to neurological conditions and has produced a series of mindfulness- based wellness programs for people living with Neurologic disease. Dr. Giroux has also developed Neurorehabilitation programs for patients with Parkinson's and movement disorders, and specializes in deep brain stimulation management and botulinum toxin therapies. Visit www.centerformovement.org for more information about the center and these programs. Monique may be contacted at: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Ruth Hagestuen, R.N., M.A.
Ruth Hagestuen's work with Parkinson's disease began in 1987 when she joined the Methodist Hospital Parkinson's Center as nurse coordinator of a multidisciplinary clinic and regional information and referral center. She eventually assumed the role of program director as the Center evolved and was renamed the Struthers Parkinson's Center. The Struthers Parkinson's Center is designed to provide interdisciplinary, comprehensive care for persons with Parkinson's and their families. The Struthers Parkinson's Center was designated as a Center of Excellence by the National Parkinson Foundation (NPF) in 1995.
In July of 2000 Ruth joined the NPF staff as National Program Director and remained with the Foundation as Vice President and Director of Programs until July, 2009. In this position she worked with affiliates nationally and internationally developing strategies to better meet needs of the Parkinson's community through care, outreach and other community initiatives. Two signature programs that were initiated under her leadership are the Allied Team Training for Parkinson's (ATTP) and the National Parkinson's Care Network (NPCN). She continues as a consultant to the National Parkinson Foundation and Director of ATTP.
Ruth as rejoined the team at Struthers Parkinson's Center building collaborative partnerships designed to offer informed comprehensive care, support and services for persons whose lives are affected by Parkinson's disease and related movement disorders. The team is working to insure that this care and these resources are accessible at the right time, over time in the variety of settings that people with Parkinson's receive care throughout the course of the disease.
Ruth is co-chair of the Movement Disorders Society (MDS), Health Professionals Special Interest Group. Ruth may be contacted at: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Denise Kornegay, M.S.W.
Denise Kornegay, M.S.W. holds faculty appointments as an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine in the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Health Sciences University and in the Department of Community Science at the Mercer University School of Medicine. In her dual role appointments, she serves as the Executive Program Director for the Georgia Statewide Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Network. In this capacity, Ms. Kornegay works to create an appropriately trained, diversified, and geographically distributed health workforce in the state.
Her areas of expertise include: rural health and rural outreach, grant writing and resource acquisition, community based coalition building, legislative advocacy, health workforce development (including recruitment and retention initiatives), and family and social roles in personal health.
In addition to her roles in these areas, Ms. Kornegay has developed several training seminars that she conducts with various non-profits and grass roots organizations. These seminars include: Board Development and Training, How to be an Effective Advocate, Family Relationships and Health, Team Building and Leadership, Personality Styles and Assessments, Communication Styles, Cultural Diversity, and Nurse Mentor Training programs.
Ms. Kornegay serves on the Boards of Directors for each of the six AHEC Centers, as well as numerous state tasks forces and work groups. She provides lectures to health professions students in the Schools of Dentistry, Allied Health, Medicine, and Nursing at Georgia Health Sciences University. Denise may be contacted at: email@example.com.
Laura Marsh, M.D.
Laura Marsh, M.D. is a Professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine and the Executive Director of the Mental Health Care Line at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston, TX. A geriatric psychiatrist and neuropsychiatrist who focuses on psychiatric disturbances in patients with neurological disorders, her current clinical and academic research interests focus on improving the characterization, detection, and treatment of Parkinson's disease–related psychiatric disturbances.
Dr. Marsh graduated from Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus, OH, USA. After psychiatry residency training at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD and the Institute of Psychiatry in London, England, she completed research fellowships in brain neuroimaging and neuropsychiatric disorders at the National Institute of Mental Health and at Stanford University School of Medicine.
She was a member of the Stanford faculty from 1994 until 1998, when she returned to Baltimore as a faculty member at Johns Hopkins. There, Dr. Marsh was director and principal investigator of the Clinical Research Program of the NIH-funded Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Center and developed independent clinical and research programs focused on neuropsychiatric disturbances in Parkinson's disease. In September, 2009, she joined the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine, where she has continued her research in Parkinson's disease and focuses specifically on strategies that will integrate psychiatric and mental health care with other medical specialties.
Dr. Marsh also serves on the scientific or clinical advisory boards for the American Parkinson's Disease Association, the National Parkinson Foundation, and the Parkinson's Study Group and has published widely on psychiatric disorders in PD and related conditions, including as co-editor of the book, Psychiatric Issues in Parkinson's Disease: A Practical Guide. email@example.com
Morgan, John M.D., Ph.D.
John Morgan, M.D., Ph.D. grew-up in Jacksonville, Florida and attended the University of Florida and the University of North Florida for his undergraduate education receiving a BS in Biology from UNF in 1990. He then attended the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA from 1990-1999 and earned his MD in 1998 and PhD after completing his thesis in 1999. His PhD is in developmental neuroscience, studying how an oncogene affected brain development.
He attended the University of Virginia for his Internship in Internal Medicine and his Neurology training from 1998-2002. He did a fellowship in laboratory of Dr. James Bennett at UVA for 1 year from 2002-2003, during which time he also focused on Movement Disorders clinically.
He trained with Kapil Sethi at the Medical College of Georgia as a student and became interested in Movement Disorders through his influence. He did a 6 month clinical fellowship in Movement Disorders with Dr. Sethi from July 2003-December 2003. He then took a position as an Assistant Professor in the Movement Disorders Program with Dr. Sethi in the Department of Neurology at MCG in 2003.
John's major interest is in Parkinson's disease. He is the Medical Director of the NPF Center of Excellence at MCG. He also helps lead and direct their Interdisciplinary Clinic for movement disorder patients. He is currently co-PI with Tanya Simuni, MD on a futility trial of pioglitazone vs. placebo in early treated PD subjects to see if this drug is possibly disease-modifying. He was a leader in the development of the Primary Care Physicians' Toolkit for PD on the NPF website. He is also intimately involved in NPF's quality improvement initiative (QII) with the goal of improving care of those who live with PD. He has also served as ATTP faculty for the past several years lecturing throughout the country. John also has significant clinical and research interests in Huntington's disease, Restless Legs Syndrome and various other movement disorders. John may be contacted at: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Concetta Tomaino, M.D.A., MT-BC
Dr. Concetta Tomaino is the Executive Director/ Co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function and Senior Vice President for Music Therapy at Beth Abraham Family of Health Services, where she has worked since 1980. It is at this facility that she worked with the post-encephalitic Parkinson's patients highlighted in Oliver Sack's book "Awakenings". Since then, with support from Beth Abraham's leadership and financial assistance from state, federal and private grants, she helped lay the groundwork for the creation of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function and built a world class Music Therapy program at Beth Abraham Family of Health Services. She graduated from SUNY at Stony Brook with a BA in Music Performance (her instrument is the trumpet), a minor in psychology and sciences, and a commitment to the emerging field of music therapy. She received the Masters and Doctor of Arts in Music Therapy from New York University
Dr. Tomaino is internationally known for her research in the clinical applications of music and neurologic rehabilitation. She has lectured on music therapy throughout the United States and in Australia, South Africa, Italy, England, and Canada. She is past president of the American Association for Music Therapy and received the Award of Accomplishment from Music Therapists for Peace at the United Nations. In 1999 she received a Touchstone Award from "Women in Music" for her visionary spirit. Her work has been featured in national programs including 48 Hours and 60 Minutes; in international programs including the BBC; and in books on health and healing, including Musicophilia, and An Anthropologist on Mars, by Oliver Sacks, M.D.; A Matter of Dignity, by Andrew Potok; The Mozart Effect, by Don Campbell; Age Protectors (Rodale Press) and Sounds of Healing, by Mitchell Gaynor, M.D. She was honored with the 2004 Zella Bronfman Butler Award which is given by the UJA-Federation of New York in partnership with the J.E. and Z.B. Butler Foundation to professionals in the UJA-Federation agency network for their outstanding work on behalf of individuals with physical, developmental, or learning disabilities.
Dr. Tomaino has participated as a Super Panelist for the GRAMMY in the Schools program. She is adjunct clinical supervisor for several music therapy programs in the New York area. She is on the faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Brookdale Center on Aging, and the New York State Geriatric Education Consortium, and on the visiting faculty of Berklee College of Music and Shenandoah University. She has served on the Certification Board of Music Therapists, the Journal of Music Therapy, and on the advisory boards for the Center for Alternative Research at the Kessler Institute, and the International Journal of Arts Medicine. email@example.com.
Rick VandenDolder, OTR/L
Rick VandenDolder, OTR/L has been a member of the Struthers Parkinson's Center interdisciplinary team for 15 years. In addition to providing occupational therapy assessment, treatment, home evaluations and job site evaluations for those with Parkinson's disease, his caseload also includes those with atypical parkinsonism, essential tremor, and ataxia. He has been involved in research in Parkinson's disease, including improving attention and memory and falls prevention. He is certified in LSVT BIG and is trained in NeuroFit PWR Exercise4BrainChange. He teaches community exercise groups and has been involved in the center's CLUB CREATE therapeutic day program, including horticulture therapy, ceramics ,and woodworking. Rick has presented at professional education conferences locally, regionally, and nationally, has written for the NPF Parkinson Report and has been a faculty member of ATTP-1 and ATTP-2 since its inception in 2002.
Rick has worked in allied health for 32 years. Prior to practicing at Struthers Parkinson's Center, he worked in home care therapy, SNF, TCF, and hospital acute care. He received his certificate in occupational therapy from the College of Saint Catherine in 1991, and his BA in liberal arts from the University of Connecticut in 1976. firstname.lastname@example.com
Rose Wichmann, P.T.
Rose Wichmann, PT has been a member of the Struthers Parkinson's Center team for over 25 years, and is currently the center manager. In her tenure at Struthers, she has seen thousands of patients living with Parkinson's disease for physical therapy evaluation and treatment. Rose received her degree in physical therapy from the University of Minnesota in 1981.In addition to her specialty work in movement disorders; her work experience includes supervision of home care, hospice and Senior Services Rehab programs including consultation/program development in long term care, adult day care, and senior housing facilities. She is currently certified in LSVT BIG, completed "Exercise 4 Brain Change" training, and is a certified CarFit technician. In addition to her administrative and leadership duties, Rose has a special interest in education, and currently coordinates the education component of Struthers Parkinson's Center, including curriculum development and conferences for patients, family members, and health care professionals.
Rose has authored several exercise manuals for people with Parkinson's, including first editions of "Be Active" (distributed by the American Parkinson's Disease Association and the Italian Parkinson's Association) and "Fitness Counts", a publication of the National Parkinson's Foundation. She is co-author of the NPF manual "Managing Advanced Parkinson's Disease" and the TULIPS program, a Parkinson's educational toolkit designed for senior residential facilities. Rose was a contributing author to the textbook Parkinson's disease,( published in 2004 by CRC Press),and Neuromuscular Essentials: Applying the Preferred Patterns to Physical Therapist Practice, (published in 2009 by Slack Publications). Most recently, Rose co-authored the AAN patient resource book "Navigating Life with Parkinson's Disease", scheduled for publication by Oxford Press in 2012.
Rose has given numerous presentations on Parkinson's disease at local, regional and national levels, collaborated on several research projects, and served as the national coordinator for numerous Parkinson's travel groups. She was a founding board member of the Parkinson's Association of Minnesota, and is a past president of this organization. She is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, and a clinical instructor in the University of MN Physical Therapy program. Rose may be contacted at: email@example.com.
Elaine Cohen, V. Ph.D.
Elaine Cohen, V. Ph.D. is a research/program evaluation and program development consultant, has over 30 years of experience as a practicing clinician and applied researcher in the health services field. Elaine received a Ph.D. in research in psychology from the Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University, and a certificate from the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. As former Director of Evaluation and Planning for one of the largest health and human services agencies in New Jersey, Elaine was responsible for overseeing and developing evaluation and review systems, strategic planning and program development for an agency with a wide range of programs (for older adults, behavioral healthcare, immigrants and refugees, at-risk families, etc.). Elaine has designed and carried out evaluations of many initiatives, offered consultation on program evaluation and research to managers of a wide range of programs and developed and managed the agency's management information system. With extensive grant writing experience, she has successfully won grant awards for demonstration projects, including evaluation of federally funded projects of national significance. Elaine is currently consultant in research/program development for the National Parkinson's Foundation's Allied Team Training and First Connect Helpline signature programs.
She helped develop the NPF Charter for Centers of Excellence and served on the NPF Centers Review Board to designate NPF Centers of Excellence from 2001 through 2008. Elaine served as consultant to the NPF Task Force on Caregiver Initiatives and as Principal Investigator for NPF's National Parkinson's Care Network/ Community Partners for Parkinson's Care (NPCN/CPP), a national outreach and health promotion initiative in diverse urban and rural underserved communities. Elaine co-authored, with Ruth Hagestuen, RN, MA, and Gladys González-Ramos, Ph.D., the book Health Connect: A practical guide to community outreach.She is currently studying the effectiveness of NPF's two signature programs, including the national model Allied Team Training for Parkinson's (ATTP) training program for healthcare professionals, and the First Connect Helpline program. Elaine can be reached at: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Is there a demand for it?
There is not demand. We had 2 more spots available in this league, but people did not express interest.
I did but Gold was afraid to let me in this year.
Also this IS the second league, we already have a primary one that is full to the gills.
Get enough people together and start a 3rd.
You volunteering to run it ,Wiltz ?
I think that I might be interested--in participating, not running--in a second league.
Ill play if it lets me win more money


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Australia's Steven Smith and Jesse Ryder of New Zealand stole the headlines as the Pune Warriors secured a seven-wicket victory over Chennai in the Indian Premier League.
Smith enjoyed some good fortune as he got his side over the line; Pune having entered the final over needing 10 runs to exceed Chennai's total of 155-5, with debutant Yo Mahesh taking the ball.
Smith hit him for a boundary and then his next shot found fielder Ravindra Jadeja, who got his hand to the ball but he could only tip it over the boundary for six to secure victory with four balls remaining.
Smith finished unbeaten on 44 off 22 balls, including three sixes and four fours, having shared a stand of 66 with Jesse Ryder, who made 73 off 56 deliveries with one six and seven fours.
The Super Kings won the toss and chose to bat, with Murali Vijay and Francois du Plessis opening. Du Plessis led from the front, scoring 18 runs in the fourth over off Rahul Sharma, and the pair had put on 43 before Vijay was out for just eight.
With the score on 67, Du Plessis was stumped by Robin Uthappa, his score of 43 coming off 33 balls with two sixes and five fours.
Jadeja, who scored the winning runs against Bangalore, produced a speedy 44 off 26 balls including four boundaries and two sixes.
The hosts started their response with intent but the run rate dropped markedly and Pune were 72-2 at the halfway point.
Ryder and Smith came together with the score at 90-4 and 66 runs needed for victory with 7.2 overs remaining and the pair gradually upped the run rate before Smith provided the big finish.


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A friend pointed out to me that my last 3 blogs had dealt with penises, bottoms and breasts.
Essentially that means there is only one place left to go.
Read more on More creativity than you can shake your schtick at….
A friend pointed out to me that my last 3 blogs had dealt with penises, bottoms and breasts.
Essentially that means there is only one place left to go.
Read more on More creativity than you can shake your schtick at….
It's debatable who gets damaged more by the ridiculous number of awards systems in advertising – clients or creatives.
And I realise I may sound very churlish saying this – when I've spent a lot of my time and other people's money sitting on ad award juries all round the world ….
To be honest, I've always enjoyed judging ad awards – you get to see interesting parts of the world, you invariably meet some great people on the juries, and you sometimes see fresh work. What's not to enjoy ?
But although they're good for the juries, and they make good money for the organisers, I'm not sure they're always in the best interests of the industry.
And I'm not alone in having these doubts.
Years ago, as a youngster sitting at a D&AD dinner, I was lucky enough to hear a speech given by a man called Chris Wilkins, who's probably one of the cleverest people ever to work in advertising.
His speech that evening consisted in reading out a list of writers whom nobody had heard of – all of whom had won the Nobel Prize for Literature. And then reading out a list of writers we'd all heard of, admired and worshipped – none of whom had won it.
So – how many books have you read by Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson Henryk Sienkiewicz, Elfriede Jelinek, Rudolf Eucken, Verner von Heidenstam, Henrik Pontoppidan, Carl Spitteler, Wladyslaw Reymont, Erik Karlveldt, Roger du Gard, Frans Eemil Sillanpaa, Gabriele Mistral, Par Lagerkvist, Salvatore Quasimodo, Saint John Perse, Ivo Andric, or Oe Kenzaburo ?
As opposed to books by … Leo Tolstoy, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Marcel Proust, Ezra Pound, Fernando Pessoa, James Joyce, Vladimir Nobokov, Jorge Luis Borges, August Strindberg, Henrik Ibsen, Mark Twain, Emile Zola, Anton Chekhov, Karel Capek, W H Auden, Graham Greene, Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, and Henry James – none of whom got to walk up to the podium ?
His point was simple – don't take these things too seriously.
Apart from anything else, this speech defused the normally toxic levels of bitterness and envy on the evening, which often mean that you feel sick long before you've left for the night.
But the problem isn't people wandering around spewing out bile on the evening – it's the damage the whole thing can do to clients and creatives.
Clients are rarely well served by creative awards. My advice to any client looking to find an agency would be to avoid one which takes awards so seriously that it puts them up in Reception.
Creative awards do not get given for effectiveness. And the creative directors who know how to play "the awards game" get hooked on it for all the wrong reasons.
As the American writer David Foster Wallace has pointed out – if you're obsessed by something, it will end up hurting you. Greedy people never have enough money, vain people are always worried about some aspect of their bodies.
I've seen creative directors so wound up by awards that they were spitting blood because they "only" got a silver, not the gold they craved.
But I think more pernicious than this is the anxiety Awards create in the heads of young creative people – because they think they will affect their chances of getting a job.
But, if a creative director is hiring on the basis of how many awards you've got, beware.
Either they don't trust their own judgement (which is worrying, considering that that's kind of all the job entails), or they're hooked on them, or they're under pressure from management to win awards.
And I've got bad news for anybody labouring under that particular yoke. The management team who put pressure on you to win awards aren't gonna change their day-to-day behaviour to help you hit that target. They're not suddenly going to love outrageous ideas or die on a sword for them.
I'm sure creative awards were introduced to help creative standards. And I'm sure we still need something to perform that function. But right now they feel like a weapon for management to use against increasingly beleaguered creative directors.
I was having this conversation last week with Joe de Souza from Karmarama in a cab in Glasgow – because we were both up there judging the Roses awards. It was a fun two days, with lots of good banter and a great jury.
But as Joe said, Karmarama don't enter any creative awards.
That doesn't affect how I feel about their creative work at all, one way or the other. But it tells me they've got balls, and they're not afraid to stand on their own feet, outside any system.
Two very rare qualities – which, ironically, I always want to reward whenever I'm asked to judge.


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'Star Trek's' Damon Lindelof on 'Star Wars' Influences and His 'Fatal Flaw' (Q&A)
The writer of summer's "Star Trek Into Darkness" and "World War Z" reveals how Matthew Broderick inspired him to attend film school, why he has no plans to direct and the "Lost" question he tires of answering.
THR: When did Carlton Cuse -- your mentor from Nash Bridges -- get involved?
Lindelof: Around the sixth episode. I said: "Cartlon, please. Are you available? Will you come and partner with me? I need you to come and do this show." I sent him maybe two or three cuts of the first episodes that we had done. He loved them and agreed to come on board. I was like, "Finally, now there's somebody I can quit to." I hired you so that I could quit to you because no one else is accepting my resignation. He was like: "Don't worry. I'll take a lot of this stuff off of your plate. You just be in the writers room and you write."
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THR: And then it premiered.
Lindelof: We premiered on the Wednesday before Desperate Housewives. It was the biggest drama number that ABC had. At that time, ABC was like where NBC is right now, which was: "Oh my God. I don't even know if it's a viable network anymore." Baskets of muffins are showing up. Everyone is wanting to hoist me on their shoulders. Literally, I had to go into my office, close the door and cry. I was like: "We're going to have to make more of these. And not just the original 13, but maybe even a second season." It just felt horrible. About two weeks later, I told Carlton I couldn't do it anymore, I quit. He said: "Don't quit. Take a week off. Be with your own thoughts. You just need to let go off the show. When you get back, you're not going to want to not be a part of this. This is amazing. It's really, really special and you're a big part of it."
THR: What's the question that you're most tired of answering about Lost?
Lindelof: It's a legitimate question, but, "Were you making it up as you went along?" I totally get it because if I were a fan of Lost, that's the question I would be asking. It's a mystery-based franchise; you do want to have the sense that the creators are playing fair. If they are making it up as they go along, it's not possible for you to guess what the resolution to the mysteries are going to be because they can change their mind, intermittently, at any moment. Now that the show has been over for three years as of this May, the idea that they're still asking, "Did you make it up as you go along?" I feel like I've answered different variations of that question in every form that I possibly can. The fact that it's still popping up might be a fundamental rejection of the answer -- which is the truth -- but it could be just the textbook case of, "The only acceptable answer to me is that you say yes." You can't say, "No, but …" which is the honest answer. It's television. I wish that we could live in a world where a writing entity on a television show could have complete creative control, like: "We just basically have this entire plan that we executed to the letter. Every single thing fell into place. All the actors wanted to do it, and the studio wanted to pay for it." It neglects the idea that you make mistakes. The first year, we made 25 hours of Lost -- you have to generate 55 pages of material every eight days; you're going to make mistakes. The key is to recognize your mistakes and not double down on them but try to learn from them and be better. That's making it up as you go along. That's the very process. Our process was happening onscreen every Thursday night, right in front of everybody. So, yes, to a certain degree, that's what it had to be. But when you say, "Yes, we were making it up as we go along," that completely takes away from all of the planning that we did do. There was a significant amount of it.
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THR: And you answered that every which way but loose.
Lindelof: Then this new question started to emerge, which made the "Are you making it up as you go along?" question get really frustrating which was, "How much impact did the fans have on the show?" You want the answer to that question to be: "A lot. We really care what you guys think, and we want your input." Of course we care that you like it. This is an audience-driven medium. We're going to do what we're going to do. Our course is set, and you're responding to our course, 8 chess moves back. Usually if we did something that didn't work, we realized it before you did. I can't really think of a lot of instances on the show where we thought it was awesome, and the audience rejected it. There were a couple cases where we thought something was terrible, and the audience let it escape by. When the show wasn't taking risks, that's when it wasn't any fun to write. The problem with taking risks is they're risks, so you don't always come up aces. We did this episode called "La Fleur" in the fifth season. The big risk that we took in that episode was, not only that we were going to jump ahead three years in time with all the castaways on the island -- who basically got indoctrinated into Dharma -- but the big risk was that Sawyer and Juliet were going to be a couple, and you weren't even going to see it develop. You saw one glimmer of them having a scene together, and in the next one they're full-on in a relationship. We were just going to fast-forward to it all. When we saw the first cut of that show, we were like, "This is literally going to … it doesn't work at all. This is going to fail." But we already shot three episodes beyond this, we were committed. Elizabeth Mitchell and Josh Holloway both told us, "We're not sure if we can sell this." Our gut told us that Sawyer and Juliet was going to work if we just give it time and believe in it. It was like Tinkerbell: Just clap your hands, and it's going to work. Somehow, through the editorial process, we willed that episode into working. But before it aired, we had already started coming up with a plan, as writers, to cut Sawyer and Juliet. We were fairly sure that we had done enough damage control for the episode not to be terrible -- but the audience was going to reject that relationship. When they saw the episode, they loved it.
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THR: What's the one question you wish you had been asked but never was?
Lindelof: It's not a question per se, but I wish it was something that we talked about more. The idea to end the show, and how unconventional it was for us to be begging the network -- as early as the space between the first and second season -- to declare an end date and how incredible it was that they agreed to do that in the third season. And how that really saved the show. A lot of people say, "What was the original show? How many episodes would there have been?" And we say, "Oh, well we wanted to do 100 episodes in five seasons," or something like that. It's arguable as to whether or not we went out on top. But what's not arguable is if people were still watching the show when it ended. They were. Lost could've been on for another season or two, except the catch-22 is, if we had told them in season three, "There's five seasons left," people would've checked out. They had to know that they were halfway through the story by the time we told them that the story was going to end. The way all that went down is something I wish we talked about more. Nobody wanted to do it. In fact, everybody who we talked to about it said that it was never going to happen.
THR: Networks who want to stay in business don't drop shows that make them a lot of money.
Lindelof: I kept saying, "You guys have to time travel back and remember why you were nervous to pick up this show in the first place -- which is that you didn't think this show would sustain." And here we are now, 40 episodes in, and just because people are watching it doesn't mean that your initial instinct was wrong. We've figured out a way, so far, to keep them on the island. As soon as they start leaving the island, as soon as one of them gets off, we're into the end game of the show. Now the process of just keeping them on the island is not interesting to watch. We've been sitting on this story piece that is really exciting to us, which is the story of the Oceanic six, but we can't let anybody go until you give us an end date. So we were having a creative conversation, and they were having a business conversation, and somewhere between those two things, we were able to arrive at cancelling our own successful drama.
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THR: Lost was one of the first shows to be victim of the recap phenomenon. Where do you come down on the recap issue? Can any show withstand that level of scrutiny? Is it fair to judge a serial show on its individual chapters and not as a complete work?
Lindelof: It transcends whether or not it's fair. Ultimately, is it entertaining? Is recapping, in and of itself, its own really cool art form when it's done well and the person has a strong point of view? Is it coming from an honest place? Which is, first off, if you're taking the time to do this, there's something that you fundamentally like about this show. Smash is elevated. The process of watching Smash is elevated by reading recaps of it by good writers. If you just watch Smash, you're having an OK experience, but if you're reading the recaps, it elevates Smash. In some senses, some shows demand that ongoing commentary, where there are shows that I want to read to recap. It's amazing because-- and I have no shame admitting this -- I'll watch an episode of Mad Men, and I'll go: "Did I love that episode of Mad Men? Or did I not love it? I better go read the recap." It's not that I don't trust myself, but some episodes are in the space of, "It's either brilliant, and I'm too dumb to understand, or it was just a subpar episode." Then you go and read some recaps, and you realize that there is some sort of debate happening between a number of people. Then you start to really realize: "Yeah. I felt that too in that scene," or "Oh my God. How did I miss that?" How could I possibly not like recapping when I engage in it regularly? I would never have the balls to write one about another show, but I like reading them.
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On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
> When you guys talk about the filesytems being full, do you mean that the hard
> disk is full? I once completely filled up a Red Hat system to the point
> where I'd get error messages that it could not write my files because there
> was no room. However, Linux worked flawlessly under these conditions unlike
> Windows which begins to crash with 150 megs or so of empty space left.
try "df":
# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 4032092 81300 3745968 2% /
/dev/sda2 6048352 2009152 3731960 35% /usr
/dev/sda5 8064272 60664 7593956 1% /var
/dev/sda6 6048320 353896 5387184 6% /usr/local
/dev/sda7 2016016 136 1913468 0% /tmp
/dev/sda8 25165430 3946231 19903076 17% /home
/dev/sdb1 66196261 211984 62445963 0% /usr/export/array1
Each moutpoint (the "mounted on" column, has a device mounted/assigned to
it. The "Use" column shows % use.
When we talk about filesystems getting full, we often refer to a
particular volumne/mount-point getting filled up.
The most common ones to cause problems include:
/var/log (important one to not let get filled up - you want logs! The
life's blood of an admin.)
/var (Important as well especially if you dont have a separate
mpuntpoint for /var/log)
/tmp (Used to create special temp files by services and programs. The
most common problem with /tmp filled up is certain new service
just wont start, but can lead to crashes if the services cant
deal well with problems)
/ Some people use monolithic filesystems (meaning everything
mounted on one mount point "/". In cases like these, all of the
above are under "/" and you should not let "/" be too full.
/etc Config files are mostly left here, and non of the services should
try to mod stuff here. Of course password programs (changing
passwords) and user control stuff does mod stuff here, as would
certain GUI based control panels for system stuff. You should
not let /etc get full - This is almost *always* part of "/" and
not a separate mountpont. Why? You cant see what fiesystems
to mount if /etc/fstba is not available to the "/" filesystem
when it is mounted.
For the others:
There should be fewer system problems with these getting filled up. Having
them get filled up is still not a good idea, but is frequently less
serious than all of the other items listed above. These last items getting
filled up will often impact the admin's ability to upgrade software (/usr,
/usr/local) and the user's ability to run applications and save items to
disk (say bash wants to write the ~/.bash_history or netscape wants to
write to its cache in ~/.netscape/cache/...)
There are more reasons tan the above for not letting filesystem approach
being full or getting full.
Last comment in this message... Some filesystems on some OS will report
100% full when they really are not. 1-5% of the volume size may be saved
for admin/root writes. On other OS, they may only allow up to 95/99% of
the volume to get full and not let normal users write at that point but
instead only allow an admin to write. For these problems it is a good idea
to try to keep most volumes to well below 80% full when possible or risk
the above problems.
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I've heard that anyone with an old felony conviction - even for a white-collar or nonviolent crime - is barred from visiting New Zealand. Is that true?
There are no hard and fast rules regarding entry into New Zealand by convicted felons, according to a spokesman for Immigration New Zealand.


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|Monday, March 31, 2003
Scholar of modern and contemporary art named Dorsky Museum curator
A noted scholar of modernism who has enjoyed a long professional association with the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Dr. Karl Willers joins the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art as curator of exhibitions. Willers began his career at the Whitney in the early 1980s under famed curator Barbara Haskell, and soon assumed a ten-year directorship of the museum's Downtown Branch at Federal Reserve Plaza in Lower Manhattan. The Downtown Branch served as a workshop for students in the museum's graduate Curatorial Studies Program, where Willers himself had trained after earning a degree in art history from The College of Wooster, Ohio, in 1980. As curator of the Whitney's Downtown Branch, he mounted several important exhibitions, including "Made in the '60s," "Mondrian to Modernism," and "The Experience of Landscape: Three Decades of Sculpture." His association with the museum continued until 1991, when he left to pursue a doctorate in art history at Yale University. There, he concentrated on European art, particularly early modernism, and wrote his dissertation on the 19th century French realist painter Gustave Courbet. A lifelong student of higher mathematics as well as art, Willers simultaneously completed an MBA at Yale's School of Management. He rejoined the Whitney as associate curator and administrative coordinator between 1998 and 2000, helping mount "The American Century II," a major exploration of art and culture in the United States and the largest exhibition ever presented at the museum. Over the next few years, Willers worked as chief curator at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he coordinated European art exhibits, organizing several shows of 17th century French and German printmakers. He will continue the museum's contemporary exhibition programming-such as the summer Hudson Valley Artists series, which highlights the work of mid-career artists-as well as introduce historical projects.
A helpful initiative
Advance Registration for the fall 2003 semester is scheduled for next month. Matriculated graduate students are eligible to register on or after April 1. Undergraduate advance registration is scheduled Monday, April 21 through Friday, April 25. Time assignments for undergraduate students will be posted in my.newpaltz.edu. This is new initiative by Records and Registration is part of an ongoing effort to expand student services.
The "Dean" to visit New Paltz campus
Gioia Timpanelli, one of the founders and leading promoters of the worldwide revival of the ancient art of storytelling, will be a guest lecturer at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in Lecture Center 102. The title of the lecture is "From Folk Tale to Fiction: The Italian Oral and Literary Traditions." Often called the "Dean of American Storytelling," Timpanelli is the winner of two Emmy Awards, a Women's National Book Association Award, a Maharishi Award for promoting world harmony, an American Book Award and a National Book Award. She is the author of "Tales from the Roof of the World: Folktales of Tibet" (1984), "Traveling Images and Observations, Immagini e Annotazioni" (1987), and "Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily" (1999). Timpanelli has received the enthusiastic praise of many contemporary writers and critics, who laud the freshness of both her oral and written tales. For more information, contact Dr. Marinella Garatti, x3485.
. . . As the NCAA tournament reaches its peak, college basketball is again roiled with scandal. Teams have been disqualified. Players have been suspended and otherwise disciplined. Coaches and even college presidents have been forced to resign. Peter Kaufman (Sociology), who regularly gives a course on "The Sociology of Sport," will lead a brown bag lunch discussion between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 3, in FT 1010 (the LA and S conference room) on the subject "Integrity in College Sports." This is an informal affair. Kaufman will make some opening remarks and moderate the discussion. Please respond via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com to participate.
. . . There will be two Excel Workshops on April 17 in CSB 21: Introduction to Excel from 9-10 a.m. and Intermediate Excel from 10:30-11:30 a.m. If you wish to sign up for either of these sessions, call Johanna D'Aleo at x3295 or e-mail email@example.com. You will get a response after you sign up only if you are closed out of the class.
Howard Good (Communication & Media) has published an article, "Public Speaking, Private Nightmare," in the April 2003 issue of "American School Board Journal." His article "Teaching in Oz," which originally appeared in "Education Week," has been reprinted in the March 2003 issue of "Teacher Magazine" as well.
Heriberto Dixon (Business) has published the article "A Saponi by Any Other Name Is Still a Siouan" in the "American Indian Culture and Research Journal" 26:3 (2002) 65-84.
The Office of Sponsored Programs is pleased to announce that Raymond Schwarz, Associate Vice President for Student Affairs, has been awarded a $12,500 grant by the New York State Office of Alcohol & Substance Abuse for his project titled, "Developing a Campus-Community Coalition for Healthy Norms in Schools." This project will develop a coalition between SUNY New Paltz and the Ulster County Underage Drinking Prevention team in order to address the problem of underage drinking in the secondary schools of Ulster County.
Eric Gullickson (Public Affairs) was an invited speaker at the March meeting of Ulster County's Underage Drinking Prevention Team. The group indicated that they were very pleased with the useful experiences and strategies he shared regarding dealing with media representatives from print and other venues. The group is also involved in a specific media project being planned in a collaborative Healthy Campus-Community Prevention Grant being directed by Raymond Schwarz, Robin Cohen and Michelle Cangelosi in Student Affairs.
Robin Cohen (Associate Dean of Students) has received an award for "Outstanding Publication for a Special Population" from the National Orientation Director's Association - Northeast Region. The "Must-Read Guide for Transfer Students" lists the most commonly asked questions of students from the time they are accepted through their first day of classes. The competition represents eight states.
Dr. Carole Cowan (violinist/music faculty) was an invited guest soloist in the Boulder Bach Festival in Colorado on January 24-26 in an extensive program of cantatas and concertos, concluding with the "St. Matthew Passion." On March 8, she and music faculty member Susan Seligman, both of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic String Quartet (in residence at SUNY New Paltz), performed in a concert at Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center in NYC at the invitation of David Gresham, clarinetist. On March 14, she guest conducted 20 members of the College/Youth Symphony of the Hudson Valley (SUNY 66141) in a Pops Concert/Circus Minimus, with members of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, New York.
On April 3, award-winning foreign correspondent Ann Cooper, who leads the nation's foremost press freedom advocacy group, will discuss global threats to journalists in the wake of the September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. Cooper's talk is timely and important, especially in light of the ongoing strife in the Middle East. She will speak in the Coykendall Science Building auditorium at 7:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Department of Communication and Media, the Journalism Program, and the 9/11Response Planning Committee. Cooper is currently a visiting professor at the college.
Mary Boyle (Music) and Russell Hilliard (Music) participated in the first music therapy symposium, entitled "Music in Medicine," at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda Md. on March 20. In a research forum, Boyle spoke on "Music Therapy for Patients with Traumatic Brain Injuries" and Hilliard spoke on "Music Therapy for People with Cancer." Boyle coordinated the two-day event for the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Music Therapy Association.
Luo Jingguo (MA English Literature '81), one of the first three exchange scholars from China to study at SUNY New Paltz, and now an emeritus professor of English at Peking University, recently played the role of Gonzalo in an adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Tempest." The play was directed by Joseph Graves, known for innovative dramatic projects, who is raising funds in hopes of bringing his Chinese cast to the United States in the 2003-2004 season.
|News Pulse is published for the faculty and staff of SUNY New Paltz by the Office of Public Affairs, Division of Advancement. It is printed in house on recycled paper and is also available online. To submit information to the newsletter, please complete the online submission form. If you are requesting inclusion in a particular issue, your submission must be received by noon on Tuesday of the prior week. Contact Eric Gullickson at x3187 with any questions.


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THE American delegation to the climate negotiations in Berlin found itself isolated early this week as the European Union informally backed proposals from major developing countries, including China and India, for legally binding cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases.
Though headed by two outspoken environmental advocates, Tim Wirth, Undersecretary for Global Affairs at the State Department, and former environmental campaigner Rafe Pomerance, the Americans initially refused to back the idea of a Berlin Mandate that would include targets and timetables for industrialised nations to cut their emissions. This left the Clinton administration appearing to side with oil-producing countries Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, which oppose any moves to force a reduction in the use of fossil fuels.
The conference is the first meeting of the 120 countries that have ratified the Climate Change Convention. Their main task is to decide whether existing measures to stabilise emissions of greenhouse gases from industrialised ...
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Rihanna's 777 Tour: Journalist streaks as RiRi heads to London
As Rihanna's 777 Tour nears the end of its worldwide, weeklong journey, the attention has shifted from the 24-year-old singer and has refocused on the 200 journalists she has traveling with her. Apparently Rihanna is not giving them the attention they think they're due, and the tour is being wracked with delays. Add that to the fact the reporters who have come along for the tour are being fed with plane snacks, filled with alcohol and getting barely any sleep on the overnight flights between cities RiRi is performing in and you have a recipe for disaster.
Those issues seemingly culminated on the flight between Berlin and London, as Australian radio presented Tim Dormer stripped down to nothing and streaked around the plane. FM104 host Sean Munsanje posted the above video blog where he said that the journalists have now become the tour's story, as Rihanna's visits to them have become less and less frequent.
"So yeah, the #777tour plane staged a revolution against Rihanna on flight between Berlin and London," Fuse senior writer Jason Newman tweeted. "Crowd chanted 'Just one quote!,' 'I need a headline!' and 'Occupy 777' while Aussie journo stripped naked and ran around the plane."
For her part, Rihanna hasn't publicly acknowledged any of the mayhem occurring in the press section of her tour. Newman writes that a Def Jam publicist didn't know if Rihanna was aware of what was happening at all, and added, "Someday, before we die, I'll tell you my version of the story."
After London, the tour will wind to a close in New York City. Thus far, the 777 Tour has visited Mexico, Canada, Sweden, France and Germany. Rihanna's new album, "Unapologetic," hits store shelves today.


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Wally Gregerson was expected to be released from United Hospital in St. Paul this week after being treated for a massive heart attack there since last Friday. As anyone who knows the longtime North Hudson resident would expect, Gregerson, 77, was at Pepper Fest Park on Friday morning setting up for the village's annual Pepper Fest. He has been a Pepper Fest volunteer every year since the celebration was conceived in the 1950s as a way to fund a new school. According to his daughter Debi Copeland, Gregerson went home for lunch and complained to his wife Bernadine that he wasn't feeling well.
The news is good when it comes to the ACT scores of 2006 Hudson High School graduates. Their scores were higher not only than those of the previous year's class but a full point higher than this year's average composite score statewide. The ACT scores statewide put Wisconsin and Minnesota as the top performers nationwide. The college entrance examination is a "college readiness indicator," according to the district's Director of Instructional Services Sandi Kovatch.
I've been doing a lot of thinking about the people around me growing up and growing older. It's better to think about them than me. Our kids are about to start their senior year, which my friend Diane reminds me is a year of "lasts" -- the last teacher convention vacation, the last first day of school, the last parent conferences and maybe the last year they live with us full time. Like so much in life, that's both good news and bad all rolled into one. Strictly in the good news category was my dad turning 90. Dad just isn't getting old gracefully, he's doing it vigorously.
Members of the Hudson Board of Education were presented with goals for the upcoming school budget that seek to maintain a balance between a quality education and the best use of taxpayer dollars. Among those goals are a decrease in the mill rate and a less than 6 percent increase in the taxpayer levy. The goals were part of a presentation from the new fiscal services director for the district, Tim Erickson.
While there are still a few weeks before the first day of school, it appears that enrollment in Hudson schools will exceed projections. Superintendent Mary Bowen-Eggebraaten made the report to the school board. She stressed that the numbers were preliminary and would likely change before the beginning of the school year on Sept. 5. She said the district is not always notified when students move out of the district and doesn't find out until after school starts.
Dan O'Connell's parents and siblings think they have found a way to make something good come from the tragic murder of their son and brother. They filed a lawsuit last week against all 194 U.S. Catholic bishops for the names of the estimated 5,000 priests the American church has identified as sexual abusers and predators since the 1950s. "We just want them to do the right thing. We don't want to see any more children hurt by these evil men," said Janet O'Connell, Dan's mother. At a press conference in the office of the family's attorney, Jeff Anderson of St.
The family of murder victim Dan O'Connell filed a lawsuit Tuesday against all 194 U.S. Catholic bishops demanding that the names of predatory priests in America be made public. The action was prompted after St. Croix County Judge Eric Lundell ruled last October that there was probable cause to believe that O'Connell and James Ellison were murdered by the late Father Ryan Erickson after O'Connell confronted the priest with allegations of sexual abuse and other criminal behavior with minors. Erickson committed suicide in December 2004 after being questioned by police about the murders.
Among the options the Hudson School Board heard to deal with overcrowded schools at their recent work session was vouchers to pay for private education. The idea was presented by Steve Hermsen, a Hudson resident who has been a critic of the district's financial operations. Hermsen was invited by the board to present a school voucher proposal along with several other options the board was exploring to address the need for more space at Hudson schools.
The Hudson Board of Education has placed the need for more space at its elementary schools at the top of the district's priority list. The question now is how to address that need -- by adding on to existing schools or building a new one. At its annual work session held July 18 at Camp St. Croix, the board heard a presentation by Superintendent Mary Bowen-Eggebraaten that detailed the pros and cons of several options to address current and future space needs at the elementary level.
"45 Seconds From Broadway" isn't your typical Neil Simon experience but The Phipps production has some charming moments, a good cast and some big laughs sprinkled throughout. At the top of the list of good things to say about "45 Seconds," is the performance of Fredrice Nord, one of The Phipps' treasures. No one does stylish eccentric quite like Fred. From the moment she enters as Rayleen with the silent but nonetheless funny James Blaha as Charles, her husband, the Polish tea shop becomes a very entertaining place.


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This is the third time Nintendo dodges a patent demand from another company.
Nintendo has prevailed in a patent litigation in the US. Judge has summarily dismissed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nintendo brought by IA Labs CA about Wii Fit and Wii Balance Board
This is a curious PR we have just received. It is Nintendo announced that they have won the patent demand that IA Labs CA presented against them for Wii Fit software and Wii Balance Board.
Here is the official press release note for you to read.
Another victory for Nintendo.Nintendo Prevails in Maryland Patent Suit
U.S. District Court Judge Says No Need for Jury Trial
For the third consecutive time this year, Nintendo has prevailed in a patent litigation in the U.S. A Maryland U.S. District Court judge has summarily dismissed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nintendo brought by IA Labs CA, LLC. IA Labs had alleged that the Wii Balance Board accessory and Wii Fit and Wii Fit Plus software infringed on one of its patents (U.S. Patent No. 7,121,982).
Nintendo has a passionate tradition of developing innovative products while respecting the intellectual property rights of others. We vigorously defend patent lawsuits when we firmly believe that we have not infringed another partys patent. We refuse to succumb to patent trolls, said Rick Flamm, Nintendo of Americas senior vice president of Legal & General Counsel.
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What Kids, Tutors, Teachers, and Parents Say
Tutees' comments:
How do you know you're a better reader?
- "I know more words on spelling tests."
- "I can read a little faster and understand more words."
- "I can read harder books now."
- "Because it's easier for me to read now."
Would you like to do this again next year?
- "Yes, because it was fun and I learned a lot."
- "Yes, it will make me a better reader."
- "Yes, with Laura, 'cause she's the best tutor in the whole wide world!"
What are some things you did that made you proud?
- "Writing my last name."
- "Reading really hard books."
- "When I could read a Sunshine books all by myself and read it to Carrie."
- "When I beat my tutor in a game."
Teachers' comments:
- "Aislyn is very interested in books and having the tutors read and help with skills has increased her interest even more."
- "The students benefited from consistent ongoing individual help. I saw growth in fluency and comprehension."
- "Michelle was able to get Hayes excited about reading this year. He enjoyed having the one-on-one instruction for an extended period if time, and the benefits were obvious. He anxiously awaited her arrival for each of their sessions and was enthusiastic when sharing the writings and books that he'd made. I noticed his confidence increase when reading with small groups of students. Hayes now views himself as a reader."
- "Dillion has difficulty in articulating many sounds which affted his reading and writing and therefore often frustrated him. (But) he began to volunteer to read in his group, even though a challenge at times, which meant that his confidence had increased."
- "Besides spending time on literacy skills and reading to children, it is nice to see a relationship develop between the tutor and tutee. The children love to go to their sessions."
- "Mashari talks about going to her tutors often. She thrives on the one-on-one help."
- "There is a lot of good energy from these students (the tutors) and a lot of enthusiasm."
- "My tutor goes beyond his duties, both in the room and has been involved in activities after his time and on days that he isn't scheduled. This is more than just a job, it's a desire for their love of the job."
- "Cierra has always been very excited about seeing her tutor. She talks about some of the activities that she does and she seems to really enjoy the one-on-one relationship she has with her tutor."
- "Phil was an excellent tutor for Anthony. Anthony is a quiet boy and Phil helped to build Anthony's confidence. Anthony would show me his activities that he and Phil worked on with great pride."
- "Heather helped Kacie become a reader!"
Tutors' comments:
- "Teaching and working with children requires a lot of patience and the ability to motivate the students so they want to learn."
- "More important than following any lesson plan is communicating with the children and forming a relationship. -- I gained a lot of respect for the teachers who work with these kids every day -- all day."
- "There is no such thing as a dumb kids, just the inability of those around to nurture the child's potential."
- "It is difficult to learn to read and it can only work with teachers and parents working together."
- "I have decided to direct my career toward children and schools."
- "I have a great deal more admiration for teachers."
- "I learned that children help you when you think you are helping them."
- "Given the right environment, kids are really excited to learn."
- "Teaching is hard work, but I still want to do it."
- "It takes a lot of creativity and energy to teach."
- "Teaching is an important profession."
- "Every child deserves more than the best society can offer."
- "I can see the impact I have on the kids. They have definitely progressed since last year and that makes me feel good. This is also the only job I had at U of M that provides beneficial training. The pay is also great."
- "Very challenging, frustrating, draining, and rewarding."
- "This program provided me with one of my first long term commitment (service-wise) that I have loved, in a long while!"
- "I leave work feeling ten times better than when I came!"
- "My kids look forward to it each time, so you know something is being done right!"
- "I would carry their smiles from reading books they enjoy and their anecdotes around with me all day in my pocket."
Parents' comments:
- "All Rachel wanted this year was to read and she is very successfully! Thanks to everyone reading is a great enjoyment of hers." (from a parent who works with 6th graders with special needs).
- "Molly loves to read and she always looks forward to her sessions with Rebecca."
- "John has a good reading tutor and a friend in John" (the tutor).
- "Damarcus comes home and tries to read books now. Never before."
- "Darius enjoys the reading program very much. He prefers to see [the tutors] than to play with the other children."
- "India's writing skills greatly improved with each time she worked with Ebbin. Her confidence and method of approaching reading and writing have also significantly improved. My guess is that the one-on-one approach has been a major factor in her academic development. By the way, India loves Ebbin."