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Brokeback Mountain : story to screenplay
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• "Brokeback Mountain" in Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx, 2000, Scribner (Literary Fiction/ Historical Fiction/ Romance/ Short Stories) Before "Brokeback Mountain" was a critically acclaimed and controversial film from director Ang Lee, it was a small love story tucked in the pages of author Annie Proulx's collection, Close Range: Wyoming Stories. The stories share a common setting—the big sky open country of Wyoming—and have common themes of love, family, and emotional survival as well. But "Brokeback Mountain" is certainly one of the more memorable tales. Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar are roughnecks, country boys brought up through hard work to expect a life of more of the same. When they meet on a job one summer in 1963, herding sheep up and down Brokeback Mountain, they don't expect to fall in love—and certainly not with each other. But when a sudden, almost wordless passion overwhelms them, Jack and Ennis welcome a chance at real human connection. After their summer fling, the cowboys return to their separate lives and as the years pass, those lives include steady jobs, wives, and children. These scenes of traditional domesticity are forever disturbed when Jack and Ennis reunite and rekindle what becomes a twenty-year love affair. These twenty years, despite the closeness Jack and Ennis share, are not easy—for the couple, for their families, or for the reader. Proulx's terse, straight-forward prose is ideally suited to conveying the pent-up pains and passions of these unbreakable men who know how they feel but haven't the words, means, or opportunities to declare it. The Close Range collection was named one of Library Journal's Best Books of the year and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (which Proulx won in 1993 for her novel The Shipping News); "Brokeback Mountain" was singled out for an O. Henry Award and The New Yorker won a National Magazine Award for Fiction when it published the story first in 1998. The gender and orientation of the lovers in "Brokeback Mountain" may be other than ordinary, but few can deny the heart-wrenching power of this simple country story.
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Nine-Year-Old Tells You How to Pick Up Chicks
He's only nine, but this pint-sized pickup artist already knows plenty about pleasing the ladies. So much, in fact, that Alec Greven's dating primer, "How to Talk to Girls" -- which began as a handwritten, $3 pamphlet sold at his school book fair -- hit the shelves nationwide last week.
The fourth-grader from Castle Rock, Colo., advises Lothario wannabes to stop showing off, go easy on the compliments to avoid looking desperate -- and be wary of "pretty girls."
"It is easy to spot pretty girls because they have big earrings, fancy dresses and all the jewelry," he writes in chapter three. "Pretty girls are like cars that need a lot of oil."
He advises, "The best choice for most boys is a regular girl. Remember, some pretty girls are coldhearted when it comes to boys. Don't let them get to you."
Over a few Shirley Temples yesterday at Langan's on West 47 Street, Alec said that he culled his wisdom by peeking at his peers at play. "I saw a lot of boys that had trouble talking to girls," Alec said.
As for his how-to, he concedes, "I never expected people to buy it like a regular book in a bookstore." But with classic plain-spoken advice -- like "comb your hair and don't wear sweats" -- it's no surprise his 46-page book was a hit with boys and girls of all ages.
He believes the best way to approach a girl is to keep it to a simple "hi."
"If I say hi and you say hi back, we're probably off to a good start," he said.
As for his own love life, he said he is not dating anyone at the moment. "I'm a little too young," he confessed. In his book, published by HarperCollins, he suggests holding off on falling in love until at least middle school. Dating -- which he defines as going out to dinner without your parents -- is for "kind of old" people, who are 15 or 16.
Officials at the Soaring Hawk Elementary School said he wrote the book -- which was the runaway bestseller at its book fair -- for kids, but believe anyone can find inspiration in it.
Alec's mother, Erin Greven, credits her son's beyond-his-years insight to his avid reading.
"He reads nonstop. At dinner, I say, 'Put your book down,' " she said.
Alec -- who just finished a children's book on the Watergate scandal -- said he wants to be a full-time writer when he grows up, with a weekend job in archaeology or paleontology.
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The only thing this snot nosed kid could pick up is a cold or fat chicks. They are easy.
Heidi you are way off the mark…what the heck
Wow, Did you read the fukcin article? The kids 9. People have got to relax a bit.
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Dr. Rossetti's clinical expertise is in the area of neuropsychological assessment, with particular interest in working with individuals who have dementia, movement disorders, sports concussion, and brain injury. Dr. Rossetti's research focuses on the relationship between vascular risk factors and development of mild cognitive impairment and dementia, as well as the early detection of mild cognitive impairment via neuropsychological screening measures.
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South Korean rapper Psy just can't ride his imaginary horse to the top of the chart. Maroon 5 continues their domination of the Billboard Hot 100 with "One More Night," which is now spending a fourth week at #1. The song is holding Psy's "Gangnam Style" at #2 for yet another week, but the race is still extremely close.
Meanwhile, One Direction blasts onto the chart at #3 with their new single "Live While We're Young." The track sold more than 341,000 copies in its first week -- that's the biggest opening-week digital sales ever for a single by a non-American act. Not only that, but the #3 debut makes it the highest entry ever by a U.K. group in the history of the Hot 100.
Taylor Swift 's "Red," the title cut from her upcoming album, debuts at #6 on the chart. It's Taylor's 10th single to debut in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. The two previous tracks she's released from the album -- "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and "Begin Again" -- also reached the top 10. Another song from Red, "I Knew You Were Trouble," is expected to debut in the top 10 as well.
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Alessandro Scarlatti (2 May 1660 – 22 October 1725) was an Italian Baroque composer, especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.
Scarlatti was born in Palermo, then part of the Kingdom of Sicily. He is generally said to have been a pupil of Giacomo Carissimi in Rome, and some theorize that he had some connection with northern Italy because his early works seem to show the influence of Stradella and Legrenzi. The production at Rome of his opera Gli Equivoci nell sembiante (1679) gained him the support of Queen Christina of Sweden (who at the time was living in Rome), and he became her Maestro di Cappella. In February 1684 he became Maestro di Cappella to the viceroy of Naples, perhaps through the influence of his sister, an opera singer, who might have been the mistress of an influential Neapolitan noble. Here he produced a long series of operas, remarkable chiefly for their fluency and expressiveness, as well as other music for state occasions.
In 1702 Scarlatti left Naples and did not return until the Spanish domination had been superseded by that of the Austrians. In the interval he enjoyed the patronage of Ferdinando de' Medici, for whose private theatre near Florence he composed operas, and of Cardinal Ottoboni, who made him his maestro di cappella, and procured him a similar post at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome in 1703.
After visiting Venice and Urbino in 1707, Scarlatti took up his duties in Naples again in 1708, and remained there until 1717. By this time Naples seems to have become tired of his music; the Romans, however, appreciated it better, and it was at the Teatro Capranica in Rome that he produced some of his finest operas (Telemaco, 1718; Marco Attilio Regolò, 1719; La Griselda, 1721), as well as some noble specimens of church music, including a mass for chorus and orchestra, composed in honor of Saint Cecilia for Cardinal Acquaviva in 1721. His last work on a large scale appears to have been the unfinished serenata for the marriage of the prince of Stigliano in 1723. He died in Naples in 1725.
Scarlatti's music forms an important link between the early Baroque Italian vocal styles of the 17th century, with their centers in Florence, Venice and Rome, and the classical school of the 18th century. Scarlatti's style, however, is more than a transitional element in Western music; like most of his Naples colleagues he shows an almost modern understanding of the psychology of modulation and also frequently makes use of the ever-changing phrase lengths so typical of the Napoli school. His early operas (Gli equivoci nel sembiante 1679; L'honestà negli amori 1680, containing the famous aria "Già il sole dal Gange"; Il Pompeo 1683, containing the well-known airs "O cessate di piagarmi" and "Toglietemi la vita ancor," and others down to about 1685) retain the older cadences in their recitatives, and a considerable variety of neatly constructed forms in their charming little arias, accompanied sometimes by the string quartet, treated with careful elaboration, sometimes with the continuo alone. By 1686 he had definitely established the "Italian overture" form (second edition of Dal male il bene), and had abandoned the ground bass and the binary form air in two stanzas in favour of the ternary form or da capo type of air. His best operas of this period are La Rosaura (1690, printed by the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung), and Pirro e Demetrio (1694), in which occur the arias "Le Violette", and "Ben ti sta, traditor".
From about 1697 onwards (La caduta del Decemviri), influenced partly perhaps by the style of Giovanni Bononcini and probably more by the taste of the viceregal court, his opera arias become more conventional and commonplace in rhythm, while his scoring is hasty and crude, yet not without brilliance (L'Eraclea, 1700), the oboes and trumpets being frequently used, and the violins often playing in unison. The operas composed for Ferdinando de' Medici are lost; they might have given a more favourable idea of his style as his correspondence with the prince shows that they were composed with a very sincere sense of inspiration.
Mitridate Eupatore, accounted his masterpiece, composed for Venice in 1707, contains music far in advance of anything that Scarlatti had written for Naples, both in technique and in intellectual power. The later Neapolitan operas (L'amor volubile e tiranno 1709; La principessa fedele 1710; Tigrane, 1714, &c.) are showy and effective rather than profoundly emotional; the instrumentation marks a great advance on previous work, since the main duty of accompanying the voice is thrown upon the string quartet, the harpsichord being reserved exclusively for the noisy instrumental ritornelli. In his opera Teodora (1697) he originated the use of the orchestral ritornello.
His last group of operas, composed for Rome, exhibit a deeper poetic feeling, a broad and dignified style of melody, a strong dramatic sense, especially in accompanied recitatives, a device which he himself had been the first to use as early as 1686 (Olimpia vendicata) and a much more modern style of orchestration, the horns appearing for the first time, and being treated with striking effect.
Besides the operas, oratorios (Agar et Ismaele esiliati, 1684; La Maddalena, 1685; La Giuditta, 1693; Christmas Oratorio, c. 1705; S. Filippo Neri, 1714; and others) and serenatas, which all exhibit a similar style, Scarlatti composed upwards of five hundred chamber-cantatas for solo voice. These represent the most intellectual type of chamber-music of their period, and it is to be regretted that they have remained almost entirely in manuscript, since a careful study of them is indispensable to anyone who wishes to form an adequate idea of Scarlatti's development.
His few remaining Masses (the story of his having composed two hundred is hardly credible) and church music in general are comparatively unimportant, except the great St Cecilia Mass (1721), which is one of the first attempts at the style which reached its height in the great Masses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven. His instrumental music, though not without interest, is curiously antiquated as compared with his vocal works.
7 CONCERTI DI FLAUTO, VIOLINI, VIOLETTA E BASSI (Naples, 1725)
Anthology with music by A. Scarlatti, F. Mancini, R. Valentini, F. Barbella, D. N. Sarro & G. B. Mele
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Concerto for flute, strings and basso continuo in A major
I. Allegro – 0:05
II. Fuga – 1:00
III. Adagio – 2:54
IV. Allegro – 4:48
Concerto for flute, strings and basso continuo in D major
I. Allegro, adagio – 6:12
II. Fuga – 8:21
III. Largo – 10:25
IV. Allegro – 12:14
Concerto for recorder, strings and basso continuo in A minor
I. Allegro – 13:39
II. Largo – 15:39
III. Fuga – 17:17
IV. Piano – 19:23
V. Allegro – 21:11
Concerto for recorder, strings and basso continuo in C minor
I. Moderato – 23:06
II. Fuga – 24:27
III. Largo – 26:20
IV. Allegro – 27:51
V. Andante – 29:21
Concerto for recorder, strings and basso continuo in A minor
I. Andante – 30:15
II. Allegro – 34:27
III. Veloce, lento – 36:20
IV. Allegro – 37:33
Concerto for recorder, strings and basso continuo in C major
I. Adagio – 39:29
II. Fuga – 41:07
III. Largo – 43:26
IV. Allegro – 44:57
Concerto for recorder, strings and basso continuo in G minor
I. Allegro – 46:33
II. Fuga – 47:27
III. Largo – 49:38
IV. Allegro – 51:39
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The genus occurs in temperate to subtropical regions of the world. More widespread in the Northern Hemisphere, its Southern Hemisphere occurrence is restricted to parts of Australasia and South America. Many species are widely cultivated for their ornamental leaves, flowers and fruit.
The leaves are pinnate with 5–9 leaflets (rarely 3 or 11). Each leaf is 5–30 cm (2.0–11.8 in) long, and the leaflets have serrated margins. They bear large clusters of small white or cream-colored flowers in late spring; these are followed by clusters of small black, blue-black, or red berries (rarely yellow or white).
The flowers of Sambucus nigra are used to produce elderflower cordial. The French, Austrians and Central Europeans produce elderflower syrup, commonly made from an extract of elderflower blossoms, which is added to Palatschinken filling instead of blueberries. People throughout much of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe use a similar method to make a syrup which is diluted with water and used as a drink. Based on this syrup, Fanta markets a soft drink variety called "Shokata" which is sold in 15 countries worldwide. In the United States, this French elderflower syrup is used to make elderflower marshmallows. St. Germain, a French liqueur, is made from elderflowers. Hallands Fläder, a Swedish akvavit, is flavoured with elderflowers.
The Italian liqueur Sambuca is flavoured with oil obtained from the elderflower.
In Germany, yoghurt desserts are made with both the berries and the flowers.
Wines, cordials and marmalade have been produced from the berries or flowers. Fruit pies and relishes are produced with berries. In Italy (especially in Piedmont), Germany and Austria, the umbels of the elderberry are batter coated, fried and then served as a dessert or a sweet lunch with a sugar and cinnamon topping, known as "Hollerküchel".
Hollowed elderberry twigs have traditionally been used as spiles to tap maple trees for syrup.
In Romania, a slightly fermented soft beverage (called "socată" or "suc de soc") is traditionally produced by letting the flowers macerate, with water, yeast and lemon for 2–3 days. A similar drink is produced in the UK, but in this case the last stage of fermentation is allowed to proceed in a closed pressure proof bottle to give a fizzy drink called elderflower champagne.
Ornamental varieties of Sambucus are grown in gardens for their showy flowers, fruits and lacy foliage.
Native species of elderberry are often planted by people wishing to support native butterfly and bird species.
Black elderberry has been used medicinally for hundreds of years. Some preliminary studies demonstrate that elderberry may have a measurable effect in treating the flu, alleviating allergies, and boosting overall respiratory health.
Elder is used in Traditional Chinese Medicine, dissolved in wine, for rheumatism and traumatic injury.
Branches from the elder are also used to make the fujara, koncovka and other uniquely Slovakian flutes. Similar musical instruments (furulya) are made of elderberry (fekete bodza, Sambucus nigra) in Hungary and other parts of Eastern Europe.
The ripe, cooked berries (pulp and skin) of most species of Sambucus are edible. However, most uncooked berries and other parts of plants from this genus are poisonous. Sambucus nigra is the only variety considered to be non-toxic, but it is still recommended that its berries be cooked slightly for culinary purposes. The leaves, twigs, branches, seeds and roots of Sambucus plants can contain a cyanide-inducing glycoside (a glycoside which gives rise to cyanide as the metabolism processes it). Ingesting a sufficient quantity of cyanide-inducing glycosides can cause a toxic build up of cyanide in the body.
In 1984, a group of twenty-five people were sickened, apparently by elderberry juice pressed from fresh, uncooked Sambucus mexicana berries, leaves and stems. However, all twenty-five recovered quickly, including one individual who was hospitalized after drinking five glasses. Such reported incidents are rare.
The berries are a very valuable food resource for many birds. In Northern California elderberries are a favorite food for migrating Band-tailed Pigeons. Flocks can strip an entire bush in less than an hour. Elders are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Brown-tail, Buff Ermine, Dot Moth, Emperor Moth, the Engrailed, Swallow-tailed Moth and the V-pug. The crushed foliage and immature fruit have a strong fetid smell.
Valley elderberry longhorn beetle in California are very often found around red or blue elderberry bushes. Females lay their eggs on the bark. Larvae hatch and burrow into the stems.
Dead elder wood is the preferred habitat of the mushroom Auricularia auricula-judae, also known as "Jew's ear fungus".
The pith of elder has been used by watchmakers for cleaning tools before intricate work.
Folklore is extensive and can be wildly conflicting depending on region.
- In some areas, the "elder tree" was supposed to ward off evil influence and give protection from witches, while other beliefs say that witches often congregate under the plant, especially when it is full of fruit.
- In some regions, superstition, religious belief, or tradition prohibits the cutting of certain trees for bonfires, most notably in witchcraft customs the elderberry tree; "Elder be ye Lady's tree, burn it not or cursed ye'll be" – A rhyme from the Wiccan rede.
- If an elder tree was cut down, a spirit known as the Elder Mother would be released and take her revenge. The tree could only safely be cut while chanting a rhyme to the Elder Mother.
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Elder flower absolute is a dark brown, almost black viscous liquid displaying an deep, rich, sweet,herbaceous, coumarinic, fruity-floral bouquet with a honeyed, balsamic, slightly spicy undertone. Its complexity, richness, and smoothness are a delight to explore.
In natural perfumery can be used in high class florals herbaceous bouquets, sacred perfumes, mythological essences, chypre, fougere, culinary creations, new mown hay, high class florals.
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Steffen Arctander says:
Elderflower Absolute is a solid, waxy mass only
slightly lighter colored than the parent concrete.
The odor varies according to the solvents used
but it is in general intensely sweet-herbaceous,
honey-waxy, faintly anisic-floral or spicy. The
odor of elderflowers does not please many people
and the elderflower absolute presents a very
concentrated edition of the nauseating sweetness
of these flowers.
Elderflower Absolute lends, however, interesting
warm-floral effects in suitable dilution and in the
trace amounts where it is useful at all in perfumes.
It blends well with bergamot, boronia, oakmoss,
ylang-ylang, anisalcohol, ionones, isoeugenol, etc.
in carnation bases, lilac, tabac bases, etc…
Elderflower Absolute is occasionally used in
flavors where it can lend interesting bouquet
notes to honey, blackcurrant and cherry flavor
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Josquin Des Prez: Miserere mei Deus
Josquin des Prez (or Josquin Lebloitte dit Desprez; c. 1450/1455 – 27 August 1521), often referred to simply as Josquin, was a Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance. He is also known as Josquin Desprez and Latinized as Josquinus Pratensis, alternatively Jodocus Pratensis. He himself spelled his name "Josquin des Prez" in an acrostic in his motet Illibata Dei virgo nutrix. He was the most famous European composer between Guillaume Dufay and Palestrina, and is usually considered to be the central figure of the Franco-Flemish School. Josquin is widely considered by music scholars to be the first master of the high Renaissance style of polyphonic vocal music that was emerging during his lifetime.
During the 16th century, Josquin gradually acquired the reputation as the greatest composer of the age, his mastery of technique and expression universally imitated and admired. Writers as diverse as Baldassare Castiglione and Martin Luther wrote about his reputation and fame; theorists such as Heinrich Glarean and Gioseffo Zarlino held his style as that best representing perfection. He was so admired that many anonymous compositions were attributed to him by copyists, probably to increase their sales. More than 370 works are attributed to him; it was only after the advent of modern analytical scholarship that some of these mistaken attributions have been challenged, on the basis of stylistic features and manuscript evidence. Yet in spite of Josquin's colossal reputation, which endured until the beginning of the Baroque era and was revived in the 20th century, his biography is shadowy, and next to nothing is known about his personality. The only surviving work which may be in his own hand is a graffito on the wall of the Sistine Chapel, and only one contemporary mention of his character is known, in a letter to Duke Ercole I of Ferrara. The lives of dozens of minor composers of the Renaissance are better documented than the life of Josquin.
Josquin wrote both sacred and secular music, and in all of the significant vocal forms of the age, including masses, motets, chansons and frottole. During the 16th century, he was praised for both his supreme melodic gift and his use of ingenious technical devices. In modern times, scholars have attempted to ascertain the basic details of his biography, and have tried to define the key characteristics of his style to correct misattributions, a task that has proved difficult, as Josquin liked to solve compositional problems in different ways in successive compositions—sometimes he wrote in an austere style devoid of ornamentation, and at other times he wrote music requiring considerable virtuosity. Heinrich Glarean wrote in 1547 that Josquin was not only a "magnificent virtuoso" (the Latin can be translated also as "show-off") but capable of being a "mocker", using satire effectively. While the focus of scholarship in recent years has been to remove music from the "Josquin canon" (including some of his most famous pieces) and to reattribute it to his contemporaries, the remaining music represents some of the most famous and enduring of the Renaissance.
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ATLANTA (AP) - If the Georgia General Assembly approves in the upcoming session a proposed ethics reform measure it could endanger an important fall tradition for lawmakers - free football tickets.
If Georgia and Georgia Tech have good seasons lawmakers could also lose free tickets to bowl games. The proposed ethics reform includes a lobbyist gift ban that could include football tickets.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (http://bit.ly/W7cU ) reports that the games are an important lobbying tool for big state schools since lawmakers vote on a state budget.
Some say lawmakers should get rid of the free tickets all together. But others argue that the tickets are a way to get lawmakers on campus and give them a look at what the schools are doing.
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Blizzard Celebrates April Fools' Day with Dating Service, Blackthorne 2 and New MerchAlways one to get in the spirit of April Fools' Day 2010, esteemed developer Blizzard Entertainment (Diablo, StarCraft, World of Warcraft) has rolled out this year's gags.
First, Battle.net matchmaking to help you "find someone to pwn noobs with."
Next, word that a sequel to Blizzard's cult-classic Blackthorne is due in the form of Blackthorne 2: Thorne Harder, coming to mobile devices in 2010. Also (not really) coming to mobile is Queen's Quest, a text-controlled adventure with old-school DRM.
Moving on to World of Warcraft, Blizzard unveiled the Equipment Potency EquivalencE Number (EPEEN), said to "let World of Warcraft players know exactly where they stand in comparison to other players" thanks to an ever-growing on-screen indicator.
Last, but not least, the company debuted some new merchandise, including the Battle.net Neural Interface ($14,999.00), Diablo III Deckard Cain X-Treme Gamer Blanket, Diablo III Body Pillows and Diablo III Deckard Cain GPS Voice Pack.
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The company, which makes biofuel from a microbes, said it will stay the course, and expects a demo flight with its biofuel soon.
Amyris is set to begin producing chemicals at a large scale through a contract manufacturing deal--a big step for the renewable chemical and biofuels industry, which has struggled to scale up.
Eyeing Brazil, biotech company Amyris plans to raise $100 million to build facilities that convert cane sugar into replacements for petroleum-based fuels.
Biotech start-up has genetically optimized microbes to produce diesel fuel from sugar cane. Its first plant, in California, will be followed by a commercial plant in Brazil.
Sugar cane is mostly used for ethanol today, but Amyris says it will be a feedstock for more powerful fuels by 2010.
In joint venture, Dow Chemical to make plastics from sugar-cane-derived ethanol and plastics to cut its use of fossil fuel feedstocks.
Get to work, microbes.
Hydrogen is good, but biofuel is now, says biofuel exec.
Making industrial chemicals from plants is easier to crack into than the cut-rate world of transportation fuels for young green-tech companies seeking a commercial foothold.
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Lots of family fun at next weekend�s Birch Bay Discovery Days
Dig out your best Halloween costume, buy some candy and get the family together. The Birch Bay Discovery Days Arts, Crafts and Family Fun Festival is almost here.
The 24th annual festival will be July 19 and 20 in Birch Bay. In addition to lots of great food, activities will include a dunk tank and air brushed tattoos, as well as local vendor booths that will be located between the Dry Dock restaurant and the WorldMark Resort.
The costumes and the candy are for Saturday�s parade, which will begin at 11 a.m. at the Bay Center Market. The parade will proceed along Birch Bay Drive down to the C Shop.
Birch Bay chamber of commerce president Nick Jerns said anyone who wants to can march in the parade, and those who do will receive a ribbon for participating. There is no set theme to the parade, and participants can wear anything they want.
�Literally anything goes,� Jerns said. �You name it. I�ve seen people wear it.�
Jerns said he remembered one year when a group dressed as �Roswell,� wearing alien costumes and flying saucers on their heads.
The open participation of the parade is part of what makes Discovery Days such a fun festival, Jerns said. �There�s not too many communities where you can be in a parade and just be who you want,�he said.
Last year�s parade was a phenomenal success and is expecting the same for this year, he said. �The bay was so busy last year that Stephani�s had to turn people away,� Cheryll Ryan, the chamber�s event coordinator, said.
The chamber has been focusing on making the festival more family oriented in the past few years by adding more kid-friendly activities such as a bouncy house, game booths, and air brushed and henna tattoos, Ryan said.
Along with bringing business into Birch Bay, the festival also features activities to raise money for the adopt a family fund. Proceeds from both a 50/50 raffle and the dunk tank, provided by the Boys and Girls Club, will go toward the fund, which sponsors needy families during Christmas.
�You can go over to the beach and then come on over here,� Ryan said. �You can start Christmas shopping in July.�
Ryan said the chamber is still looking for volunteers to be in the dunk tank and to work at some of the booths. Although space is filled for food vendors, she said there was still room for arts and crafts vendors. The fee for a booth is $50 for the weekend, and anyone interested in volunteering or having a booth can call her at 332-9415.
The agenda for Discovery Days 2003 is as follows:
July 19:
Kid�s parade & grand parade. Starts at 11 a.m. and proceeds from Bay Center Market south along Birch Bay Drive to the C Shop. For details, call Karl King at 371-7153.
July 19 & Sunday, July 20:
24th Arts, Crafts and Family Fun Festival Festival. Quality handcrafted items from artisans, musical entertainment, food vendors, dunk tank, several game booths and more. Participants looking to enter in the festival can visit www.birchbaychamber.com or call either Cheryll Ryan at 332-9415 or Shonna Ryan at 325-8211.


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IBM: A Value Buy?
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IBM (NYSE: IBM), the grand old name in technology, is currently trading around $190 per share. So is IBM really worth that price tag in an age when the tech pundits are declaring the PC dead? Not if you take a look at its PE 10 ratio, which is rather high, but falling.
Even though it is falling, IBM's PE 10 ratio is still higher than that of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and Intel (NASDAQ: INTC). Hewlett-Packard's current PE 10 ratio is 7.22, while Intel's came in at 13.6. Like IBM, both Intel and Hewlett-Packard have PE 10 ratios that are falling currently, which seem to indicate speculation that the manufacture and servicing of traditional desktop computers are in decline.
The PE 10 ratios of these companies also seem to indicate that enterprise computing, one of IBM's main businesses, still has a lot of value. Oracle (ORCL) had a much higher PE 10 ratio of 15.09, compared to IBM at 29.22, even though it had a slightly smaller market cap than IBM. Qualcomm (QCOM) also had a higher PE 10 ratio than IBM at 36.21. The big problem for IBM is that its market cap and its business are shrinking. Judging by the market cap shrinkage, it looks like the doomsayers are right in saying that traditional computer service is a shrinking business. But value investors know that you can still make a lot of money in a so-called shrinking or dying business. Is IBM still making money in its core business?
The answer is yes. IBM's revenues have gone way up in the past couple of years, but they have started to fall again. IBM has had a tough time keeping up its revenues in a changing business. The reason for this due to the fact that the explosion of free enterprise software from companies such as Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is starting to eat into some of IBM's profits. IBM is having a tough time selling software; it has decided to kill off the Lotus brand, a sure sign of slowing sales and a growing need to cut costs.
Despite the trouble maintaining its revenues, IBM still has a lot of cash. IBM brought in $20.34 billion in cash from operations (trailing twelve months), a figure that's been virtually unchanged for the past few years. Even though its revenues have been on a roller coaster ride, IBM has been able to keep a fairly steady incoming cash flow and a lot of money in the bank despite declining revenues. As of September 30, IBM had $12.25 billion in cash on hand, a figure that's remained fairly constant for the past few years.
In spite of the poor economy and all the changes in the computer business, IBM has been able to maintain its value. The problem is that it might not be able to maintain that value much longer. It's hard to see how IBM can keep its cash flow high as revenues fall.
IBM is facing aggressive challenges from Google, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) in the enterprise computing sector. Each of those companies is slowly evolving into a diversified computer services company that is similar to IBM. These three companies also have a lot of cash to spend in their efforts to penetrate the corporate sector. Google can afford to give away software, and Microsoft can afford to reinvent itself as a hardware and software company. Google, for example, has $45.72 billion in cash on hand and Microsoft has $66.64 billion in cash on hand. Apple currently holds total cash of $29.13 billion.
According to a report from Forrester Research earlier this year, "The Apple assault on the corporate market has so far taken place without much formal Apple support, and probably without Apple itself understanding its full extent. That's because corporate adoption of Apple products has been largely clandestine."
It's hard to see how IBM can compete directly with these cash cows. A better strategy will be to concentrate on the company's strengths in order to maintain value. That will enable IBM to keep its cash and maintain value. It will also help it avoid the dismal fate that's befallen some other big names in tech, such as Nokia (NOK) and Hewlett-Packard.
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I use already made pesto on this and I love it! I usually chop my tomatoes and let them sit in a strainer for a good amount of time to keep the pizza from being too wet. Great recipe.
Fresh Tomato-Pesto Pizza
Becky Luigart-Stayner; Lydia DeGaris-Pursell
Update pizza night by exchanging the standard jarred tomato sauce for a bright 5-ingredient homemade pesto. Top a store-bought crust with the pesto, then layer on chopped tomatoes, garlic, provolone, and a few sprinkles of basil.
Yield: 8 servings
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 242
- Calories from fat: 33%
- Fat: 9g
- Saturated fat: 3.8g
- Monounsaturated fat: 3.7g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 1g
- Protein: 11g
- Carbohydrate: 29.1g
- Fiber: 1.7g
- Cholesterol: 10mg
- Iron: 2.5mg
- Sodium: 458mg
- Calcium: 307mg
- Pesto:
- 4 cups basil leaves
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1/4 cup fat-free, less-sodium chicken broth
- 1 tablespoon grated fresh Parmesan cheese
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Pizza:
- 1 (1-pound) Italian cheese-flavored pizza crust (such as Boboli)
- 3 cups chopped seeded tomato (about 2 pounds)
- 3 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded provolone cheese
- 1/4 cup thinly sliced basil leaves
- Preheat oven to 475°.
- To prepare pesto, place 4 cups basil leaves and 2 garlic cloves in a food processor, and pulse 5 times or until coarsely chopped. With processor on, add broth, Parmesan, and oil through food chute; process until well-blended.
- To prepare pizza, place pizza crust on a baking sheet. Spread pesto over crust, leaving a 1/2-inch border; top with the tomato, garlic slices, and provolone. Bake at 475° for 12 minutes or until the cheese melts. Sprinkle with 1/4 cup basil. Cut the pizza into 8 wedges.
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Maybe it shouldn't have been a surprise to see Mitt Romney morph from a self-described "severe conservative" into the reasonable, if somewhat aggressive, pro-business moderate who showed up to debate President Obama on Wednesday night. Unswerving fealty to principle has never been Romney's thing. Still, the effect was striking. The New Romney, unlike the old, looked like someone who could plausibly threaten Obama's hold on the White House.
His strongest issue was the one that matters most in this election: jobs and the economy. The Old Romney contemptuously dismissed 47 percent of the country as lazy freeloaders who would never amount to anything. His prescription for growth was built upon tax cuts and lots of them, maintaining the Bush marginal rates, and slashing an additional 20 percent on top of that. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center determined that his plan would cost $5 trillion in forgone revenue over 10 years.


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Thought it was time to give up the old sketchpad and begin a new one. I'll start off by showing this project I was working on for a good portion of time some months ago. I learned a lot from it and plan to revise my work pipeline and get better results. I'll post more pages as soon as I can.
Okay a little bit more time to post then back to work:
almost done here...Actually I am done. The loading attachment system is a bit over done on CA. Shouldn't have to categorize every blasted thing I load on the board.
No more scanner so all my traditional sketches I'm doing are piling up. One fine day I will get another scanner. For now all digital:
Project I'm working on. Just throwing together the concepts:
Quick sketch update:
digital painting done on a drawing I did sometime ago
About damn time you did something with that old pencil drawing
The colors really help everything to pop out clearly...
Now you just need to paint up some more of your drawings
Great framing of the action in those sequential panels. About the
only crit I would have is that there is a strong sense of unreality.
The Figures are to plastic-y and give the sense of posed toys.
(maybe just a different shader or stripping out speculars would help?)
Also, they contrast too much with the backgrounds, making
them seem separate from the world they are in.
Also, in general, give some thought to more variety of color and
value schemes. Most of your scenes are set in pitch blackness with
loads of fully saturated colors popping out. Maybe try some mix of
saturated and muted colors, or some brighter lighting, or just experi-
ment with more variety of 'moods' of light and color.
Have you ever seen work by the artist Sam Kieth? He's probably mostly
known for the old MTV cartoon 'The Maxx' (which was also a long-running
comic book). I only just discovered him recently, but his art kind of makes
me think of you
sketchbook...a kitten dies every time you don't comment
When forced to work within a strict framework,
the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will
produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom,
the work is likely to sprawl.
- TS Eliot
Bludhund - Hey Sam Keith is one of my favorite comic artist. I used to have the Mtv Maxx series on video, but I think I lost it. The 3D comic is very plasticy for sure. I am still in the developing stages for the next round of this graphic novel. I have come a long wy with Zbrush rendering and I hope it shows next time I put it together. Funny thing about the darkness and saturated color style I work with, another artist gave me the same remark. So I think I will do some work with less saturation.
This is in work. Ran into lots of trouble figuring the costume out. The Spiderman pattern in 3D need tons of tinkering because of a blurred effect. If I had more POWER in my computer I probably wouldn't have this problem. C&C
My sketch process when I am not taking my time (pretty common)
Little drill action. Loomis kinda' stuff. The funny thing is the framing setup did not match the uniqueness of the reference. The woman had interesting proportions....so I mixed the guide with the ref
Hard to find a moment to do stuff away from client projects. Able to finish this one up and now back to the grind:
Look at the process in Zbrush....PSD is a crap load of messy layers afterwards
I'll post as soon as I get the time
more storyboards:
a few more
3D and 2D illustration
3D character concept
An Stark Suit digipainting:
Thought it would be a good time to post images in good old CA again. I have taken a step back from 2D art but I am hoping to get back into it. Right now a lot of focus is on 3D artwork.
Alternatve look with all assets with lighting ability on:
Hey man, great to see you still chopping away. I really like that 3D modelling of your
Wolverine/Sabertooth composition.
I think that 3D and 2D really don't have to be seen as in different worlds, the tools and
disciplines of each can be used as they are expedient for image planning and image
creation. I think that 3D especially can help to greatly enhance and speed up the process
for lighting and perspective in 2D work.
Conversely, 2D can be used to very quickly add character and texture and design to a 3D
piece. I don't know if you are familiar with Randis Albion's work? He has a lot of tutorials
and resources out there demonstrating his technique which really efficiently fuses 2D and
3D for stunning effects. I think you should check some of that out if you haven't.
I would love to see more of your 2D drawings/paintings recreated as 3D scenes.
Also I really encourage you to do some regular (weekly or daily) quick studies from life (or ref),
of color, of texture, and light. Focus on one aspect or combine them in some genre like still life
or a simple landscape study. I realy think building up a mental library of these three resources
from life would help your work to explode to the next level.
Keep it up, man!
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sketchbook...a kitten dies every time you don't comment
When forced to work within a strict framework,
the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will
produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom,
the work is likely to sprawl.
- TS Eliot
Thanks Blud!
Ya I know Randis. Really like his work. I have not scene tutorials from him that incorporate 3D. I have used his 2D tutorial in the past. Really helpful stuff. These days I can only make time for certain things. Also it is lack of motivation to get back into 2D art. I will seriously consider your advice though. With the holidays coming up I should be able to make more time to do some 2D work and get myslef motivateds to get back into it.
Head proportion studies. Using Loomis ideas for markers of the face:
Working around the figure....not too much of a fan of this style of doing it but try it out anyway. I'd rather define gesture and anatomy with basic shapes and lines and get right into rendering:
Eh...gripping the tablet pen too tight on these:
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GPS Coalition Plays Offense Against LightSquared
With fresh evidence that LightSquared's proposed wireless broadband network will cause widespread interference to GPS signal reception, principals of the industry Coalition to Save Our GPS went on the offensive today in a media conference call. Jim Kirkland, Trimble vice president and general counsel, said LightSquared's attempts to shift to alternative proposals–the company has submitted a modified spectrum plan to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)–"raise serious issues as to LightSquared's credibility or at a minimum its technical acumen to be able to evaluate the consequences of its proposed operations." Craig Spence, AOPA's vice president of operations and international affairs, said his organization is renewing a call it made during testimony before Congress last week for a congressional investigation of "how we got into a situation where such a national treasure is threatened." The coalition members responded to a report issued Thursday by an FCC Technical Working Group finding that all GPS applications would experience significant interference from LightSquared signals and that no satisfactory fixes currently exist.
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Pat Johnson
Tours Lake Placid
October 6, 2011
It all started innocently
enough with an article by Tim McManus of the Post-Star;
Phantoms tryout player Pat Johnson was interested
in visiting Lake Placid during his stay in the area.
Having never been to the historic location where
his dad, Mark Johnson, was a top scorer on the 1980
Miracle on Ice team, he figured this stretch with
the Adirondack Phantoms would be the perfect time.
That article was quickly noticed by State Senator
Betty Little, who called the Phantoms office and
suggested to Phantoms Executive Vice President Chris
Porreca that she would happy to arrange a more personalized
tour. Johnson quickly accepted the offer and away
he went with one of Senator Little's assistants
for his first-ever trip to Herb Brooks Arena.
He will play for the Wheeling (W.V.) Nailers of
the ECHL this year but got the opportunity during
training camp to try to impress Coach Paterson with
his hustle on the ice for a potential call-up later
in the season if the Phantoms have a need.
Pat's father is now the Head Coach of the
University of Wisconsin Women's team and also
was Head Coach of the USA Olympic Women's
Team that won the silver medal at the 2010 games
in Vancouver. But it was his legacy with the 1980
USA team for which he remains most famous. Wearing
number 10 (which is the jersey number they gave
Pat for his tour of Lake Placid) he scored the game-tying
goal in the third period of the team's upset comeback
against the Soviet Union.
His grandfather is Hockey Hall of Famer "Badger
Bob" Johnson who led Wisconsin to three national
titles and also guided Pittsburgh to the Stanley
Cup in 1991, before passing away to brain cancer
mere months later.
Johnson has learned to embrace his family's
history and shake off the pressure of being part
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"I used to feel a lot of pressure just because
of the numbers he (Mark) put up, the 1980 Gold Medal
game. Everybody's talking about it. Used to
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on me about it. He told me 'You're not
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or anything like that so the pressure ended about
after high school."
It was a great opportunity for Pat to get his
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MONTGOMERY, Texas (Jan. 26, 2011) – Girl Scout Ambassador Katy B. held a camp to teach elementary school children tennis to earn the Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council Gold Award, the highest award a Girl Scout can achieve. Less than five percent of girls who join Girl Scouts earn this recognition.
"I learned that putting on a tennis camp is a lot of hard work," says Katy, a junior at Montgomery High School. "It requires advance approval and heavy time management to get everything done. Great volunteers, adults and teens are what make your project successful."
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"I chose this project because I play varsity tennis for Montgomery High School as well as compete in USTA (United States Tennis Association) Texas 18 S. Championship Level Major Zones," explains Katy. "Tennis is my passion. I love the sport and wanted to share tennis with younger children."
During the eight-hour camp, Katy instructed children on basic tennis moves such as forehands, backhands and serving and introduced them to high school players and coaches who have beginner's programs. At the end of the camp, the children ate watermelon and ran through the water works sprinklers to cool off.
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The future of your money (and your bank)
It may not involve a lot of paperwork or face-to-face interactions, but rest assured, the appeal of cold hard cash is proving hard to dull.
In at least one Texas bank and one Ohio credit union, 3D video banking is currently undergoing testing, according to TheFinancialBrand.com, a website for bank and credit union marketing executives. Three-dimensional video banking is similar to a consumer video conference with a bank representative -- only in this case, the executive looks like a living, breathing person sitting across from you.
Thanks to theater surround sound, the representative also sounds as if they're in the same room. And since the consumer is interacting with a real person and not an automated hologram, the experience apparently isn't much different than the real thing.
Banking and managing money isn't what it used to be. The 1970s and 1980s brought us the rise of the ATM. Consumers became acquainted with online banking during the 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s. The 2010s are shaping up as the era of mobile banking.
That was underscored Sept. 10-11 in New York City when Mitek Systems Inc., a San Diego-based technology company, debuted its Mobile Photo Account Opening product at Finovate, a trade show where banking tech products are often unveiled. The product allows consumers to open a bank account within 60 seconds. If you have your bank's app, you can use your smartphone's camera to take a photo of the front and back of your driver's license, and presto, your new checking, savings or credit card account is open.
Here's a look at other financial products and services personal financial experts think we'll be using in the future.
Within 10 years. "The economic payments system will begin to 'know us,' either through biometrics, optical sensor or facial recognition," says Joshua Siegel, managing principal of StoneCastle Partners, a New York-based asset management firm that invests in banks.
That's already happening to some extent with smartphones -- the new iPhone 5S, for example, uses fingerprint scanning to unlock the phone. Meanwhile, some financial services companies, such as Barclays, are testing and using voice recognition programs in customer service calls. (Why? It makes it much more difficult for a thief, who just stole your driver's license, to pose as you over the phone.) So it isn't a leap to believe that within a decade, the public will become accustomed to automated bank tellers and smartphones recognizing consumers by a touch or a glance.
Smartphones and fast cash
And for all the talk about digital currency overtaking cash, ATMs won't be going away anytime soon. Diebold, Inc., a $3 billion software and technology firm in North Canton, Ohio, unveiled an ATM at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show that is designed to work with smartphones. You start the transaction from your smartphone, where you're then given a one-time code that you type onto the ATM, and your cash is released.
As Diebold points out, there's no more worrying about someone looking over your shoulder as you type in your PIN number -- and no possibility of a criminal capturing your debit card information with a skimmer.
But not all banking changes will be of the gee-whiz-isn't-that-cool variety. "The banking industry will likely undergo significant changes over the next few decades," says Jeff Varisco, vice president of insurance services at American Equity Investment Life Insurance Company, headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa. He believes that in industrialized nations, there will be more regulation focusing on solvency and the "too big to fail" problem.
Will we even notice? Varisco thinks so. "These efforts will cause the industry to move toward consolidation to a handful of large, national and international banking institutions thereby limiting the ability for banks to develop and offer products specific to regional and local needs," he says.
No more tellers
Within 20 years, nobody will use a teller for something as simple as a deposit or withdrawal, says Maclyn Clouse, professor of finance at the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business. "There will be no teller lines at banks, but loan requests and paperwork for the loans will still exist because of all the regulation. Banks may still have some face-to-face activity for investment products," Clouse says, adding that it will probably become as commonplace to do banking through a TV as it is now through a PC, tablet or phone.
That said, "The biggest threat to all of these changes is the lack of security. If hackers can access accounts, there will be significant consumer pressure against the technological changes," Clouse says. "Unfortunately, our current evidence suggests that the hackers are one step ahead. They seem to come up with new ways to hack."
The end of paper
You don't have to be Nostradamus to know that by 2033, paper statements, receipts and mail from your bank will probably be close to nonexistent. But we'll still probably get paper money from banks, says Eric Karson, associate professor of marketing at the Villanova School of Business in Villanova, Penn.
"There are huge cost savings to be realized with digital currency," Karson says, "but countering all this is consumer resistance to change. The act, not the coin," he adds.
But Karson does believe that 20 years from now, paper money and coins may be closer to extinction than ever, in part because the cost of producing currency will continue to climb, and customer resistance is bound to eventually weaken.
"As time passes, more and more consumers will be more comfortable with all things digital. Today's kids will grow up. There will be less and less separation between their digital life and their life in general," Karson says.
The end of cash?
Within 30 years. "People will pay for goods and services by sending wireless signals to sellers through wearable computers. The payments will be authenticated through the DNA signatures of all parties to a transaction," says Peter Cohan, who teaches business strategy at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., and has his own eponymous management and venture capital firm.
And by this point, he believes, "Cash and credit and debit cards will be history."
Which could have an interesting ripple effect, Clouse says. "If cash does go away, an interesting question is what happens to what are now illegal activities involving cash; for example, drug deals on the street corner, prostitution, et cetera," he observes.
Of course, it's possible that in 2043, some reader may stumble upon this article, look at his or her wallet full of paper dollars or renminbi (China's official currency) and snicker. After all, 34 years ago, in 1979, a task force appointed by President Jimmy Carter suggested the country get rid of paper currency and coins and replace everything with plastic. While that partially did happen, hard currency is still going strong: According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's website, as of July 2013, the currency in circulation totaled about $1.2 trillion.
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It was Christmas Eve of 1910 and Jennie Knowlten's girls were five miles away in their little town home in Rolla. But as the monster laughed and spat at Jennie; the rolling hills of Vida fell victim to the fiercest storm central Missouri had seen. And five miles between a mother and her daughters on Christmas Eve felt like a black endless pit of nowhere.
Jennie turned her face away from the window and her husband George took notice of the shifting of his wife's eyes. Recognizing the glimmer in her stare, George immediately sprung from the sofa, shaking his head as he spoke:
"No you don't Jennie. You can not get out in this storm to ride to Rolla"
"Its Christmas Eve, George. My girls have never been away from home on Christmas and as long as I'm living, it won't happen! It just won't happen."
Dudley jumped up from the sofa like a soldier ready to take arms. "Let's do it, momma. Let's take the sleigh to Rolla. I know we can make it. We have to have Christmas with Bertha and Hazel."
George Knowlten slumped and shook his head. There was a hellish snowstorm hovering its dark silhouette over their farm but the willful determination of his wife could outmatch any creature, especially if it stood between her and her children. And George soon became resolved to the reality of their evening fate.
George and Dudley fought the snowy sting of the wind as they edged out of the house and into the barn. George gave a quick look-over of the blades of the sleigh while Dudley bridled the horses to the yoke. The barn door swiftly swung open and the monster's forceful wind whipped it from side-to-side like a pancake. And in stomped Jennie, looking like Santa, holding bags overflowing with presents for her girls.
Santa Knowlten and her two elves cajoled the horses out of the barn and onto the whitened road while the monster glared its teeth and spit at their forward move. Fighting to hold onto the reins, Dudley was willful and steady. But the strength of the storm was ferocious and suddenly; the tale of the monster wind snapped a rein in two.
"We can't go on Jennie. We need to turn back," George insisted to his wife. The horses raised high on their back legs, twisting and turning and Jennie finally reasoned that her husband was right.
Slowly turning to look straight into the eyes of her husband and son, Jennie calmly remarked:
"Your right. Take the horses and head home."
Jennie grabbed her bundled presents and jumped from the sleigh.
"But you can't walk to Rolla, momma," Dudley cried.
"I will walk. And then if I can't walk any longer, I'll crawl."
And so the men grudgingly turned their horses back toward the farm. The strong willed Jennie Knowlten walked the rest of the way to her daughter's little town home in Rolla, Missouri; surprising two achingly lonely girls on Christmas Eve. Looking like a big white momma bear; tossing out gifts and showering hugs.
And the mad, vicious storm of 1910?
It sputtered and whimpered; tucking its tail between its legs, as it realized it had been tamed by a much fiercer foe: a determined mother on Christmas Eve.
What's your family Christmas story? Tell it so it will be told to the next generation. Even if you twist it ever so creatively; it will be your family's own.
Have a Merry Christmas. And if this momma bear could ride her sleigh to Afghanistan, I would.
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16 U.S. Code § 3149 - Oil and gas lease applications
(a) Lands within National Wildlife Refuge System but not part of National Wilderness Preservation System
Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, whenever the Secretary receives an application for an oil and gas lease pursuant to the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 [30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.] for lands in Alaska within a unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System which are not also part of the national Wilderness Preservation System he shall, in addition to any other requirements of applicable law, follow the procedures set forth in this section.
(b) Statement of reasons for decision to issue or not to issue lease
Any decision to issue or not to issue a lease shall be accompanied by a statement setting forth the reasons for the decision, including the reasons why oil and gas leasing would be compatible or incompatible with the purposes of the refuge.
(c) Environmental impact statement
If the Secretary determines that the requirements of section 4332 (2)(C) of title 42 do not apply to his decision, the Secretary shall render his decision within six months after receipt of a lease application. If such requirements are applicable to the Secretary's decision, he shall render his decision within three months after publication of the final environmental impact statement.
Source(Pub. L. 96–487, title X, § 1009,Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2456.)
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