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The generalized anti-Americanism that afflicts so much of the contemporary left owes everything to this imperative to identify with the downtrodden. The United States is simply too prosperous and too powerful to win liberal sympathy while suffering nations (no matter how dictatorial their governments, or how dysfunctional their cultures) seem far more worthy of support.
Every important element of the liberal program stems from the one central goal of assisting the unfortunate. Pushing for high taxes, expensive social programs, universal health coverage, lunches and breakfasts in the schools, income redistribution, affirmative action, reparations, a higher minimum wage, more generous foreign aid, multiculturalism, gay marriage, protecting endangered species, animal rights, enhancing entitlements, affirming prison rights, providing generous benefits for illegal immigrants – all these leftist imperatives arise from a common commitment to protect the powerless and uplift the unfortunate.
In fact, the recent hearings about the shabby treatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reade Medical Center represented a concerted effort to transform America's military into a victims group worthy of liberal sympathy. John Kerry's notorious and derisive comments about kids who do poorly in school getting "stuck in Iraq" complemented this ongoing effort to portray active duty personnel as oppressed and hapless losers, rather than formidable and willing warriors.
The persistent preference for the powerless and purportedly oppressed applies only imperfectly to explaining leftist support for legalized abortion. The unborn, after all, plausibly qualify as the ultimate underdogs: innocent, fragile, utterly helpless. Nevertheless, they've never lived outside the womb and so failed to achieve the status of aggrieved victims – suffering from racism, sexism, homophobia, economic oppression. Moreover, the mother seeking the abortion represents a far more visible victim—which helps explain the desperate determination by pro-abortion forces to stop legislation in Georgia and elsewhere that would require abortion providers to offer ultra-sound images of the baby in utero before the woman makes the final decision to terminate her pregnancy. In other words, they don't want anyone or anything to compete with the stressed, unhappily pregnant mother for pity and sympathy.
In fact, favored victim groups can lose their sacred claims on the liberal imagination as evidenced by shifting perspectives on the left concerning the State of Israel. In the wake of the devastation of the Holocaust, and with the Jews fighting for their lives against massive Arab armies in 1949 and '67, liberals naturally gave strong, nearly unanimous support to the Israeli underdogs. After the decisive victory in 1967, however, Israel assumed the role of regional power and began losing leftist support just as more and more conservatives came to appreciate America's redoubtable and reliable ally. Today, the Jewish state counts as far too successful, economically productive and militarily formidable to win much liberal sympathy, while the Palestinians remain so pathetically divided, dysfunctional, impoverished and inept that lefties (even Jewish lefties) react to their radical rhetoric with either applause or apologetics.
That's the problem with liberal sympathy for the downtrodden and underprivileged: if you make too much progress, you'll compromise your claims to advocacy and assistance. The best victim groups are those that reliably maintain their victim status. In this sense, the leftist world view effectively discourages empowerment or the pursuit of prosperity and pushes suffering subgroups to more or less permanent self pity.
Moreover, raising taxes on high earners in order to provide more give-aways to the unproductive clearly punishes success while rewarding failure. All but the most willfully blinded liberal activists understand that punishing success helps to discourage it while rewarding failure and dysfunction encourages much more of the same. The massive failures of the US welfare system, and our ill-starred "War on Poverty," indicate that if you give people money in exchange for idleness you'll get more indolence, and if you take away more money from the most industrious you'll get less productive activity.
On occasion, conservatives criticize liberals for a failure to support standards or to make distinctions, but that's not entirely fair, since leftists do love to emphasize the difference between rich and poor, lucky and unlucky, winners and losers.
Leftists feel virtuous and unselfish for invariably embracing the losers, but with this persistent preference it's society itself that loses most.
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Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold; Hermione Baddeley
1 of 3 portraits of Hermione Baddeley
Angus McBean Photograph. © Harvard Theatre Collection, Harvard University.
Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold; Hermione Baddeley
by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1949
11 3/8 in. x 9 3/8 in. (291 mm x 239 mm)
Purchased, 2001
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According to AdAge.com, Microsoft "quietly tweaked" the advertisement and removed a reference to a $2,000 MacBook Pro. In the modified version, the customer, Lauren, doesn't mention the computer's price.
"We slightly adjusted the ads to reflect the updated pricing of the Mac laptop shown in the TV advertisement," a Microsoft spokeswoman said in a statement. "This does not change the focus of the campaign, which is to showcase the value and choice of the PC."
AdAge.com continues: "There is precedent for marketers being forced to yank outdated comparison ads. In a classic case, Ford pulled commercials for its Freestar minivan in 2004 after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Chrysler's legal department pointing out that claims in the Ford ads were outdated."
Speaking last week at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 in New Orleans, La., COO Kevin Turner insinuated the advertisements, which portray Windows PCs as a better value than Apple products, have proven so effective that he received a phone call from Apple. Turner called it "the greatest single phone call in the history that I've ever taken in business."
"I did cartwheels down the hallway," Turner said. "At first I said, 'Is this a joke? Who are you?' Not understanding what an opportunity. And so we're just going to keep running them and running them and running them."
While Apple didn't comment on the matter, some at the time read into Turner's comments and hypothesized that Apple's problem came with one ad in particular — the one Microsoft eventually changed. In that ad, Microsoft showed a MacBook Pro that cost $2,000. But, since early June, it has been replaced by a newer model that costs just $1,700. The advertisement, with old pricing, continued to run on TV well after the price drop.
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It takes some guts these days to open a steakhouse amid the herd of fine ones along U.S. 41 South. Guts and know-how.
At Manhattan Steakhouse, the know-how comes from Bella Purisic.
"Her family has famous restaurants in New York," said her husband and co-owner, Kenny Purisic. "Four in New York City, one in Beverly Hills and Waikiki, and now one in Miami."
It would help more if you move into a location with great U.S. 41 exposure — although Manhattan Steakhouse has a U.S. 41 address, it's anything but easy to find in Burnt Pines Plaza behind Zazou.
But once you're in, the staff makes it easy for you to feel it worthy of an overshoot and subsequent phone call. We started with a Manhattan — of course — straight up and a glass of Columbia Crest Chardonnay. The former arrived icy and nerve-soothing. The wine list is sparse on the by-the-glass selections, but reasonably priced for a generous pour.
The bar, like the dining room, is small, maybe 15 or so tables between burnished orange walls adorned with Manhattan skyline portraits and dark wood chair-railing.
On a Manhattan roll, we ordered the Manhattan chop salad ($10) as we tried not to eat too many of the addicting soft rolls embedded with crunchy bits of cooked onion. Our server had advised us to split the salad, and happily we did because finishing a half-portion was challenge enough. It was multi-textured, fresh-tasting, and sweetly but lightly dressed, with shrimp, thick bacon bits, and blue cheese for character — and obviously portioned for two.
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The aroma and taste of the steaks here settles immediately the reason this independent restaurant has the fortitude to stand among the Flemingses and Ruth Chrises in the battle of beef. Inside a fine crust, created of dry aging and a searing grill, the meat surrendered to the bite without a hint of resistance.
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The surge in murders of polio vaccination workers in Pakistan has made headlines this year, but little attention has been devoted to the ethical issues surrounding the global health impact of current counterterrorism policy and practice. An essay in the Hastings Center Report reviews the range of harms to population health traceable to counterterrorism operations.
It also identifies concerns involving moral agency and responsibility specifically of humanitarian health workers, military medical personnel, and national security officials and operatives and it highlights policy issues.
The authors describe a broad trend in the war on terror: "the militarization of health care," in which medicine is incorporated into warfare. As an example, they cite the covert operation involving a vaccination program that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden, which contributed to fear and distrust among populations in need of health services.
"Counterterrorism frameworks promulgated by the United States and adopted by other countries are also implicated in undermining population health," write the authors, Lisa Eckenwiler, associate professor of philosophy and health administration and policy at George Mason University, and Matthew Hunt, an assistant professor in the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy of McGill University. "Policies that prohibit a wide range of activities regarded as providing material support to terrorists have adversely affected health program and funding."
Counterterrorism-related harms also exacerbate global health inequities. "Populations in places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen already vulnerable by global health standards are more precariously positioned as a result of the war on terror," the authors write.
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Melissa L. "Missy" Morris, 47, of Deltaville died Friday, February 19, 2010. A memorial service will be held Tuesday at 1 p.m. in Zoar Baptist Church, Deltaville. The family will receive friends following the service.
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Mary JoAnne Hensley, 68, of Hartfield died Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at her home with family by her side. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Saturday in Philippi Christian Church, Deltaville. Interment will be in Philippi Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
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The Old Phuket Hotelhttp://www.orbitz.com/hotel/Thailand/Phuket/The_Old_Phuket_Hotel.h332367/
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Our hotel was great! The staff knew it was our honeymoon and decorated our bed with all kinds of...
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RoomsAll air-conditioned guest rooms at Old Phuket Hotel have one king or two double beds with private balconies, refrigerators, in-room safes, coffee-makers and direct-dial telephones in addition to hair-dryers and stocked minibars. Room service is available, as are umbrellas and wireless Internet access (fees apply). Added features include separate bathtubs and showers. Some rooms at Old Phuket Hotel have furnished terraces, outdoor rain showers or hot tubs.
Property featuresOld Phuket Hotel has a breakfast buffet as well as a la carte Thai, seaside seafood and Italian restaurants. It also houses three bars, two of which are at or near the pool. Room service is offered until midnight. Added amenities include a sauna and a swimming pool with an area for children as well as porter, tour, massage and babysitting services. Also, an on-call doctor is available. Meeting facilities and parking are on-site at Old Phuket Hotel.
- A buffet serves complimentary breakfast, plus a waterside seafood, Thai and Italian restaurants
- Swimming pool with area for children and massage services
- Pool and lobby bars
Nearby attractions
- Sunrise Divers (0.6 mi/1 km)
- Andaman Scuba (0.8 mi/1.3 km)
- Phuket ATV Adventure (0.8 mi/1.3 km)
- Largest Buddha statue (1.6 mi/2.6 km)
- Chalong Temple (2.8 mi/4.5 km)
- Meeting and conference facilities for up to 200, theater-style
- Audiovisual equipment
- Phuket International Airport (18.7 mi/30.1 km)
The Old Phuket Hotel Rooms
- Deluxe Pool View Serene Wing
- The room offers twin bed or double bed along with large & elegant modern style with a large balcony & enjoy pool view & hilly.
- Deluxe Pool Access Serene Wing
- The room offers twin bed or double bed along with are large, elegant and modern style rooms with a large terrace also have a private Jacuzzi in front of the room.
- Deluxe- Sino Wing
- The room offers twin bed or double bed along with a very comfortable and quality built in Sino Style, the well-appointed rooms feature a spacious balcony for relaxation.
- Terrace Deluxe Sino wing
- The room offers DOUBLE (KING SIZE BED)which is spacious, tastefully decorated and attractively furnished in a Sino style with private terrace in font and refreshing.Outdoor shower to make the most of life in the tropics.
- Private Jacuzzi
- Private Jacuzzi rooms provide guests with their own outdoor Jacuzzi with rain shower and wide rang of modern facilities. The room can be equipped with a king size bed.
- WiFi
- Airport shuttle
- Free parking
- Outdoor pool
- No smoking rooms/facilities
- General
- No smoking rooms/facilities
- Elevators
- Activities
- Outdoor pool
- Fitness center or spa
- Fitness Center
- Dining
- Restaurant
- Room service
- Services
- Laundry service
- Childcare Service
- In-Room Safe
- Tour desk
- Meeting/Banquet facilities
- Doctor on call
- Internet
- WiFi
- Transportation
- Airport shuttle
- Parking
- Free parking
- Accessibility
- Audible emergency alarm for sight impaired guest
Hotel Map
- Area served
- Karon Beach,Phuket.
- Nearby airports
- Phuket International Airport.
- Area description
- The Old Phuket at Karon Beach is a Sino-Portuguese-style creation that evokes memories of 19th century Southeast Asia. The Old Phuket provides guests with an historical alternative to the typical hotel holiday. The golden sands of Karon Beach stretch out in front of the hotel to the Andaman Sea.
Nearby points of interest
- Calypso Divers: 1.1 mi
- Hillside: 1.2 mi
- Chalong Big Buddha: 1.6 mi
- Simon Cabaret: 2.5 mi
- Elephant Trekking: 3 mi
- Kata View Point: 3 mi
- Tri Trang Beach: 3.3 mi
- Jungceylon Shopping Mall: 3.3 mi
- Jungceylon: 3.4 mi
- Jungle Bungee Jump: 3.5 mi
- Paradise beach, Phuket: 3.7 mi
- Patong Boxing Stadium, Patong: 4 mi
- Sea Bees Diving: 4 mi
- Ao Sane Beach: 4.6 mi
- Rawai: 4.8 mi
- Calypso Divers: 1.1 mi
- Hillside: 1.2 mi
- Chalong Big Buddha: 1.6 mi
- Simon Cabaret: 2.5 mi
- Elephant Trekking: 3 mi
- Kata View Point: 3 mi
- Tri Trang Beach: 3.3 mi
- Jungceylon Shopping Mall: 3.3 mi
- Jungceylon: 3.4 mi
- Jungle Bungee Jump: 3.5 mi
- Paradise beach, Phuket: 3.7 mi
- Patong Boxing Stadium, Patong: 4 mi
- Sea Bees Diving: 4 mi
- Ao Sane Beach: 4.6 mi
- Rawai: 4.8 mi
- Patong Go Kart Speedway: 5 mi
- Nai Harn Beach: 5 mi
- Phuket Sea Shell Museum: 5.2 mi
- Nakalay Beach: 5.9 mi
- Central Festival Phuket: 6 mi
- Phuket Cable Ski: 6.2 mi
- Loch Palm Golf Club: 6.7 mi
- Ao Yon Beach: 6.7 mi
- Panwa Beach: 6.8 mi
- Two Heroines Monument: 7.2 mi
- Phuket Zoo: 7.3 mi
- Wat Chalong: 7.3 mi
- Phuket Butterfly Garden and Insectarium: 7.3 mi
- Phuket City: 7.6 mi
- Thalang National Museum: 7.8 mi
- Rang Hill: 7.8 mi
- Phuket FantaSea: 7.9 mi
- Phuket Aquarium: 8.1 mi
- Coral Island: 8.7 mi
- Laem Sing Beach: 8.9 mi
- Siray Bay: 9.3 mi
- Surin Beach: 9.4 mi
- Pansea Beach: 9.7 mi
- Cherng Talay: 12.2 mi
- Layan Beach: 12.4 mi
- Wat Phra Nang Sang: 12.9 mi
- Ao Por: 13.2 mi
- Siam Niramit: 13.3 mi
- Wat Phra Thong: 13.5 mi
- Ton Sai Waterfall: 13.6 mi
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Rates quoted in currencies other than the hotel's base currency are subject to the rate of the international exchange. Rate may change throughout stay. Rate may reflect average nightly rate. Extra charges may apply. Incidental charges, such as room service, are not included in the rate.
The amenities and/or facilities may not be located at the hotel, but within a reasonable distance, and additional charges may apply for use.
Guest Reviews (1)
Ratings and reviews for The Old Phuket Hotel
- All travelers (1) 4 / 5
- Couples (1) 4 / 5
Overall score
- Amenities:
- 5
- Cleanliness:
- 4
- Hotel staff:
- 4
- Comfort:
- 4
- Location:
- 5
- Value:
- 5
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Great experience!
Our hotel was great! The staff knew it was our honeymoon and decorated our bed with all kinds of flowers and folding two towels into kissing swans. It was a great way to be welcomed. The staff is extremely friendly and made us feel welcome from the moment the cab dropped us off. The rooms are simple, but set up very nicely. We stayed in a Deluxe room with a pool view and were very happy. We were there in low season, so it was very quiet, but I have a suspicion the walls are pretty thin, so it might be a bit loud during the busy season. The pool was gorgeous. The location was great, because you walk out into a strip of restaurants, massage shops, and stores before you head to the beach, so you have everything at your fingertips. A couple of the restaurants offered free WiFi, which was nice because a WiFi card had to be purchased to get access at the hotel. We HIGHLY recommend Karma Massage right outside the hotel - they are SOOO friendly, do an excellent job, and the price is right. We went back about half a dozen times for oil massages, facials, and foot massages - they are absolutely wonderful. The beach out front is pretty, as are most beaches in Phuket, but the beach was actually quite littered with debris that had washed on shore. I don't know if it was a fluke, timing, or what, but it was a little disappointing. We spent most of our beach days in Kata beach, which was a quick drive away. We would definitely go back to the Old Phuket hotel in a heartbeat.
Hotel features (5 = best, 1 = worst):
- Amenities:
- 5
- Cleanliness:
- 4
- Hotel staff:
- 4
- Comfort:
- 4
- Location:
- 5
- Value:
- 5
Trip purpose:
Money-saving tip: Not Applicable
We hired a driver (the manager of the hotel's tour desk) to drive us for ten days during our trip. We paid about 1000 Baht per day, which came out to about $30/day. It was great - the driving in Thailand is quite chaotic, so it took the stress away from renting a car or worrying about finding tuk-tuks everywhere we went, plus it was much cheaper than if we had used tuk-tuks and cabs. Just make sure to negotiate the terms very clearly - price per day, how many days, the hours that the driver will be available for your (ours was 8:30am-8:00pm, with a couple of late night exceptions), etc.


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I bought these for my wife when she wanted to get into clip-less pedals. She was very nervous, especially at road crossings. These did the trick. she used them for a few years and eventually went to double sided SPDs and now road look road pedals. I threw these on my MTB and that lasted for a day. they are easy to get into with touring or road shoes. The cleats on the bottom of my diadoras make it difficult to get into. Going to put them on a hybrid that I am building.
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Very good price and use for a beginner. the fact that it is a one sided latch can make it difficult to lock in the shoe in the pedal while in fast motion but that is normal for a one sided pedal.
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I didn't realize the pedals came with cleats, so i ordered some. now i have two sets of cleats and to send them back costs as much as the cleats themseves.
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A simple application for keeping track of the games in your life.
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Well designed and does exactly what it says! Perfect for keeping long running rivalries burning!
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The classic Acacia bench from Alexander is stained with a natural shade of golden brown which fits nicely into your garden. This wooden bench has been designed for your comfort - perfect for sitting out in the sunshine. As it's water-resistant, the Acacia bench won't feel the effects of the elements. It has been manufactured using FSC hardwood, which is easy to maintain for fuss-free use. This 4' bench comes ready to assemble.
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A pencil portrait project commemorating Mother's day for an entire year, using photos/images provided by YOU!. Read more
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This project's funding goal was not reached on March 19, 2013.
About this project
Hi, my name is Saheed Fawehinmi and I'm a full time Visual Artist based out in the DC Maryland Virginia area. I've been involved in the arts for a very long time and everyday is just as exciting as the first time I ever picked up a pencil to draw.
As an artist, I subconsciously feed off the universe's energy to create that which I feel resonates with the people.I have this fascination with drawing exactly what I see, particularly and noticeably in my portrait work. Though it requires a great deal of time, patience, practice and discipline, the end results are what inspires me to continue in my pursuit of becoming an excellent portrait artist. For me personally, striving to capture the emotion, core, essence of something/someone that already exists is very exciting and I'll keep practicing, as I intend on mastering this particular style of art.
The name of my project is Celebrate Mother's day 365: A Portrait A Day. This series will serve as a token of my appreciation to mothers from all walks of life. The place that a mother holds in a child's life is universal. And even though the words might be written or pronounced differently in other languages, it all means the same everywhere. I'll be drawing a portrait a day for 365 days, celebrating mother's day with pictures/images provided by guess who, YOU!.
The picture can be a picture of YOUR MOTHER, A SOON TO BE MOTHER, YOUR GRANDMOTHER, or A WOMAN YOU SO HIGHLY REGARD AS A MOTHER. Your direct involvement is key and necessary in order to bring this unique project to life. I'd like to use portrait art to celebrate the everyday mothers of the world, as well as document different lives and discover the thread of motherhood that ties us together as one. The primary purpose of this project, besides sharpening and enhancing my skills as an artist, is to celebrate, inspire and connect with everyday people that I share this commonality with, which is practically the world.
I'd like to kickstart this project on Mother's day month in the U.S (May 2013) and have it completed by the Beginning of May 2014. This project is opened to everyone from around the world, so feel free to participate in this exciting year long project.
For those who pledge to be a part of one of the days on the 365 days project, you'll be assigned a specific day for me to create your original graphite pencil sketch and have it featured on my Celebrating Mother's Day 365 blog, that'll be specifically created for this project. Then I mail it out to you to have and keep.
Because I have the daunting task of drawing several portraits within a specific time frame, the portraits will be more of a sketch. Below is an example
Melissa, 9x12 on a bristol drawing paper
All portraits for the CMD 365 days project will be drawn on a 9x12 Bristol drawing paper.
You get cool and awesome rewards. The more you pledge the better and awesome rewards you receive. So please, feel free to pledge however much you can. These rewards include
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Showing you the creative process and the end results for the project. Click the link below to watch an example
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Digital Painting portrait of you or a person of your choice.
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Pencil drawing of you or someone of your choice.
Post card
If successfully funded and I exceed well beyond the proposed amount I' m asking for, I will unlock some more cool rewards!!!
The money raised from kickstarter would be used for
- Art Supplies (Canvases, Bristol Drawing Paper, Thank you cards, Paints, Pencils etc.)
- Printing Costs (Rewards, Calendar of Celebrating Mother's day 365.)
- Shipping Costs (Packages, Postage, Art Pieces, Rewards)
- Scanner ( To produce high quality images that goes on the blog)
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To get funding, I have to reach the project goal set or I get no funding at all, even if I come up $1 short.
Scroll up the page, and on the right side you'll see a button that says "BACK THIS PROJECT". Click it, and follow the instructions.
I can always raise more than the goal, but never less and if I do surpass the requested amount, the better the production of the overall project.
I hope you guys are just as excited as I am to begin this project. I want to thank you all for taking the time to watch this video and I hope the project sells itself and does get successfully funded.
Feel free to share with your friends, family and anyone that might be interested. Thank you in advance and I'll be in touch. Peace.
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Risks and challenges
The thought of drawing a lot of portraits, 365+ to be exact, is scary but exciting at the same time lol. The time itself to accomplish this goal is a challenge, but because I've experimented with sketching a portrait a day, well before putting this project together, I like my chances of being successful. I genuinely have a passion for drawing portraits and I think that eliminates any risk or doubt about completing this project. With that said, my only concern would be things I have little or no control over such as being under the weather. but through whatever adveristy, I'm confident I'll presevere. I truly believe this is the ideal project that will help improve and elevate my skills as a pencil portrait artist, as well as connect directly with people who have inspired this project. LET'S GOOOO!!!!Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
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According to Indian media, a 35-year-old man abducted the little boy as he walked home from nursery and killed him in a ritual dedicated to the Hindu Goddess Kali
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|The land, located in Athens, Gallia, Meigs and Muskingum counties, will be offered in 66 tracts ranging from 5 to 175 acres.
ZANESVILLE, Ohio — Approximately 2,500 acres of largely undeveloped Ohio land owned by AEP's Ohio Franklin Realty, LLC, will be offered at auction Saturday, Sept. 26. The land, located in Athens, Gallia, Meigs and Muskingum counties, will be offered in 66 tracts ranging from 5 to 175 acres.
AEP originally purchased the land for mining purposes and as a buffer around the Poston Power Plant and no longer needs the land. The land includes areas with mixed hardwoods, pines, ponds and pasture.
Bidders may make offers on any combination of tracts as well as the entirety.
Schrader Real Estate and Auction Company, in cooperation with Murray Wise Associates, will manage the auction. There is one remaining inspection date: Thursday, Sept. 10, from 3 p.m.-6 p.m. at Tract 31 for tracts 30-38. Another inspection will be held at the Athens Community Center for all other tracts. At that time, potential buyers can talk with an auction representative with questions about the properties and the process.
The auction begins at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, at the Athens Community Center, located in Athens, Ohio. Online bidding is available by prior arrangement.
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|The public safety campaign includes local television, cable television and online media placements through November
(Story by Teresa McWain)
Advertisements began airing across AEP's 11-state service area last week to alert AEP customers to work safely when tackling outside home projects. The public safety campaign includes local television, cable television and online media placements through November.
The ads are produced in English and Spanish for select markets, and are aimed at do-it-yourselfers who may clean gutters, repair roofs or plant trees and shrubs. The campaign also includes messaging aimed at children featuring Safety Spokesbug Louie the Lightening Bug® who shows children how to be safe around electricity.
The campaign reminds customers to call the nationwide, 811 number to have underground wires marked before digging and to be aware of overhead lines during any maintenance or construction projects around the home.
The campaign was branded for all AEP operating companies. View the ads on our external website.
AEP employee/retiree volunteers make a difference; mini-grants available to support community projects
(Story by Barry Schumann)
America celebrates the spirit of volunteerism this year on Make a Difference Day, Saturday, Oct. 24. The 24th annual "national day of doing good" is sponsored by USA TODAY in partnership with Points of Light and is the largest national day of community service.
AEP again is making a difference through a mini-grant program that encourages employees around the System to become involved in community projects in their locales.
AEP's Make a Difference Day grants range up to $300 to help fund local projects that involve at least five AEP active or retired employees in partnership with a school or nonprofit organization.
Each year, around 20 local projects coordinated by AEP employees are funded through the Make a Difference Day grant program.
Projects can be as simple as helping a family in need or may be a coordinated effort serving an entire community. To learn more about the grant program, see the [Community and Education Relations ]website on AEP Now.
To learn more about national Make a Difference Day, including getting started, entering your project online, and past award winners, visit makeadifferenceday.com.
Application deadline for mini-grants is Sept. 24.
|AEP HealthHUB provides you with a way you can Plug In To Learn today.
AEP employees and pre-65 retirees can Plug In To Learn at AEP HealthHUB (http://www.aephealthhub.com), an online source of information and resources to help you prepare for medical benefits enrollment this fall. This mobile-friendly site is designed to help you get the most out of your consumer-directed health care plan.
At AEP HealthHUB, you can find information about what's changing, plan types, contacts and more. You can also learn about Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, AEP's medical plan administrator in 2016. Videos and content are available to help you understand the tools that will assist you in using your new plans, and to help you learn how the plans will work. In the future, the site will provide interactive tools to help you compare and choose a medical plan option.
Also, be looking for a mailing to your home soon that will provide additional information about 2016 medical plan options.
AEP Foundation announces $815,000 grant to help Eastern Kentucky students earn college credit and career certifications
|From left, Dr. Kay Adkins, president and CEO of Ashland Community and Technical College, and Dr. Robbie Fletcher, superintendent of Lawrence County Schools, join Kentucky Power President and COO Greg Pauley as he announces an AEP Foundation Credits Count grant totaling $815,000.
(Story by Allison Barker)
LOUISA, Ky. – Schoolchildren in Lawrence County, Kentucky, are the latest beneficiaries of an AEP Foundation project to boost STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) education and help students earn college credit while still in high school.
The Foundation has awarded an $815,000 Credits CountSM grant to aid the eastern Kentucky school district, the first such grant in Kentucky. The grant, which will be funded over five years in partnership with Ashland Community and Technical College, was announced by Greg Pauley, Kentucky Power president and chief operating officer.
"Far too often, we hear of barriers, such as the cost of tuition, that keep students in eastern Kentucky from moving on to higher education and reaching their career aspirations," Pauley said. "The Foundation's goal with this grant is to help students become fully prepared to graduate from high school ready for a career or with significant college credit hours toward a degree."
The major components of Credit Counts include providing:
- Middle school STEM experiences to engage students as early as possible in college exploration for STEM-related careers;
- College course readiness assessments to identify gaps in writing, math and reading that may need tutoring support;
- A summer bridge program to provide any needed English and math remediation prior to students entering the dual enrollment program; and
- Dual enrollment in high school and at Ashland Community and Technical College (ACTC), allowing students to graduate high school with at least 12 college credits in STEM-related fields, including information technology and energy.
"We thank the AEP Foundation for the opportunity to expand educational services for Lawrence County," said Dr. Kay Adkins, ACTC's president and chief executive officer. "AEP has supported the college for many years, and we are grateful for their commitment to quality education. We know the importance of postsecondary education and STEM achievement to the future of our region. This partnership will help many students prepare for college success."
Lawrence County Schools Superintendent Dr. Robbie Fletcher said Credit Counts illustrates that the AEP Foundation has a clear focus of helping students overcome academic and financial barriers to college and career achievement.
"AEP's generosity has the potential to allow our students to graduate from high school with 12 or more college credits through dual credit classes with ACTC as well as be exposed to STEM-related fields of study," Fletcher said. "We are very grateful for the opportunity. Most importantly, I believe that AEP's investment will have a huge return. When our students are given an opportunity for success, they will not fail."
(Story by Kenneth J. Walker)
Lisa Barton, executive vice president – AEP Transmission, was interviewed for a story on CNBC-TV's "Power Lunch" show Aug. 18 that used video of the new Breakthrough Overhead Line Design or BOLDTM.
|Lisa Barton, executive vice president – AEP Transmission, discussed transmission issues Aug. 18 during CNBC's "Power Lunch" show.
The story, a part of CNBC's "The Race to Rebuild America's Infrastructure" series, reviewed what is driving the growth of the transmission business, from aging infrastructure to coal plant retirements, and the fact that AEP will be spending $4 billion dollars over the next five years to build new lines and upgrade parts of its existing 40,000 mile transmission system.
With the Fort Wayne Sorenson Station project behind her and video of the nearby BOLD line construction, Barton said, "Projects like this do a lot to improve reliability, they do a lot to ensure that we can withstand the loss of any components in the transmission system. That's important to large customers."
The reporter, Jackie DeAngelis, tagged Barton's soundbite with, "because when it comes to turning the lights on, reliability is the name of the game."
The story also used video of contractors building a new 765-kV line from Sorenson Station south to the Dumont-Marysville 765-kV line.
The first application of BOLD's unique design (shown at right) is the rebuild of a 138-kV line with a hybrid 345/138- kV line near Fort Wayne, Indiana. The first double-circuit 345-kV application of BOLD will be a line rebuild between AEP's Meadow Lake and Reynolds stations in northern Indiana with an in-service date of June 2018. The BOLD website has more on its unique design and engineering advantages, including greater capacity, less line loss and 33 percent less structure height. The commercialization of BOLD's patented technology is currently under development.
AEP Transmission retiree Dale Krummen (above) takes aim with a caulk gun while rehabbing a home in Columbus, Ohio. Krummen, an engineer who held several leadership positions during his AEP Transmission career, now helps other AEP volunteers refurbish homes for Habitat for Humanity.
Krummen has restored many Habitat for Humanity homes in Ohio and abroad. This summer, two dozen AEP Transmission volunteers have been assisting an AEP effort to restore a small family home in Columbus' south side. In July, Bill Turns (below left), a technician in Transmission Planning, affixed "blueboard" insulation while others framed windows and installed plumbing. Below at right, Lisa Barton, executive vice president of AEP Transmission and wielder of a nail gun that Saturday, briefs Bob Wagner, vice president of Transmission Field Services, on his tasks for the day. AEP has sponsored the restoration of a Central Ohio home for more than 17 years. AEP employees who wish to participate in the restoration effort can contact George Sharp at firstname.lastname@example.com or audinet 8-200-6933. Story by Stephen J. Ostrander and photos by George Sharp.
|Todd Rickman, an Amherst Madison tugboat captain, looks along the Kanawha River at the John E. Amos Power Plant. In June, Rickman and his crew helped rescue a couple from the river after their small catamaran boat capsized. Photos by Matthew Thompson.
(Story by Matthew W. Thompson)
WINFIELD, W.Va – It was about 4:20 p.m. when Chris Carroll heard the screams.
Carroll, a heavy duty lift operator at the John E. Amos Power Plant, works on the Kanawha River. His job duties include using an equilibrium crane, known more commonly as an E-Crane. He maneuvers the crane's large capacity bucket to move coal from barges to the plant´s coal yard.
On June 18, Carroll was in the operating booth of his crane, unloading a stone barge. After a brief power outage at the plant, Carroll restarted his computer and decided to step out of the booth for some fresh air.
That's when he heard the sounds of screams emanating from the Kanawha River.
"At first I thought it was kids," Carroll said. "Then I saw two people – a man and a woman – floating down the river."
What Carroll spotted was a couple in the water after their catamaran boat had capsized. Without life jackets or anything to grasp for safety, the couple was adrift and shouting for help.
|The remnants of a catamaran boat as it was found in the Kanawha River by crews stationed at the John E. Amos Power Plant in June.
"Luckily, it was a light traffic day on the river," Carroll said.
Carroll lept into action and telephoned the M/V Shirley, a Amherst Madison tugboat that provides barge movement, construction assistance and harbor management for the Amos Plant.
Todd Rickman, the boat's captain, sounded the general alarm and got his crew on the deck to proceed to the scene. Rickman directed the boat as close to the couple as they safely could and began the rescue process.
"We got the woman out pretty quick. We threw her a life ring and just yanked her out," Rickman said. "It took a couple extra minutes to get her husband out. He couldn't swim and was a little panicked."
Once on the boat, Rickman said the female passenger sprawled out on the vessel from exhaustion. Her husband sat on the boat, clutching his knees into his chest.
"We didn't see any apparent injuries on the individuals," Rickman said.
After making sure they weren't looking for a third individual, the crew proceeded back to the Amos boat ramp. Local fire and rescue officials from nearby Poca were awaiting their arrival. Emergency services personnel checked out the couple for injuries and took them away in ambulances.
At the request of the state's Division of Natural Resources, Rickman and his crew then retrieved the couple's sinking vessel. It was spotted bobbing in and out of the water. The crew then towed the remnants of the boat back to the ramp.
Both Carroll and Rickman have not heard from the couple since the incident. Although it was a chaotic experience, Rickman said it was all in a day's work for him.
"We hope that this incident will remind people to use caution when having fun on the water," Rickman said. "It could have turned out worse than it did. We're just happy that it didn't."
|Tidd Plant is the shorter, yellow brick facility seen to the right of Cardinal Units 1 and 2. AEP Projects photo taken from Cardinal Unit 3.
(Story by Rachel Hammer)
AEP's long-retired Tidd Plant is coming down.
Tidd, which has not been in use for about two decades, is surrounded by the Cardinal Plant. For years, Cardinal employees have walked through and worked around the facility as they pursued their daily activities operating and maintaining Cardinal.
[Watch video taken July 16 of the Tidd PFBC combustor building being torn down.]
"We're pretty excited to see it come down," commented Chuck George, Cardinal plant manager. George noted two primary reasons for dismantling Tidd.
|George N. Tidd joined Electric Company of America prior to 1904 when he was assigned to run operations in Marion, Ind.The AEP System concept got its start under Tidd, who envisioned an interconnected system. As general manager of American Gas & Electric, he built a 30-mile, 33,000-volt line between power plants in Muncie and Marion.
Perhaps Tidd was AEP's original "lean" thinker. He was on a continual quest to improve operating efficiency. Tidd had a role in building power generating units in a series with greater efficiency, reducing engineering expenses by using a common, shared design and having the ability to share spare parts to reduce inventory costs.
Tidd began publication of the company's first employee magazine in August 1909, AGE Bulletin.
Tidd became president of AGE in 1923 and served as chairman from 1947 to 1949. He was AEP's longest-serving president. It's interesting to note that Tidd never completed high school.
In 1929, Tidd gave a lengthy interview to Electrical World. He later condensed that interview into a simple vision statement. That statement was published in 1934 as "[Our Job]," which employees know today as the company creed.
"It's an old facility and the structure was deteriorating. It was right in the middle of our site and in the route a lot of employees took daily from their cars to their job sites.
"Also, with all of the changes coming at us from many different directions, having that real estate available – if we need additional equipment or some other type of expansion – is really key," George explained. Near term, the site will become a parking lot.
The project kicked off in March. Activities completed to date include assessment, bidding, contracting and permitting. Environmental abatement and remediation work is ongoing and demolition began in June.
AEP's prime contractor for this project is North American Dismantling Corporation.
Subcontractor Precision Environmental began environmental abatement and remediation work in mid-April. Precision completes its work in one section of the facility and then moves on to another section. North American Dismantling then can begin demolition in that first section.
Before demolition began, plant staff isolated some of the utility feeds that ran through the Tidd facilities. Cardinal employees also had to make some logistical changes, such as parking in different locations, using temporary locker rooms or taking an alternate route to their work site. But overall, the work does not affect unit operations.
The PFBC building (see PFBC Demonstration project below) and the Tidd office building required the least amount of environmental work, so they were the first facilities to be dismantled. That work began in June. Unit 1 demolition will take place August 26 through October 20. Unit 2 demolition will begin at that time and will continue through December 26.
A large excavator/shearer machine, one of the largest of its type in the world, is tearing down the structure.
AEP's Project Controls & Construction organization is supporting Cardinal staff with contracting, scheduling, tracking, safety oversight and management.
Bob Follmer, project manager, Generation Project Controls & Construction, explained that because active plant operations continue in such close proximity, demolition work is very controlled.
|Tidd office building demolition July 13 (upper) and July 14 (lower). AEP Projects photos.
Reuse, recycle
As part of its contract, North American Dismantling is removing material from the site and will salvage and sell as scrap any marketable material. This reduces overall costs to AEP and provides additional benefits to the project.
In addition, AEP is recycling concrete and brick from Tidd, as well as concrete and brick from the [project to lower Unit 3's stack]. Workers will grind up the material and will use it to backfill the facility's basement. This will save AEP the expense of hauling and disposing of this material, and of having to bring in other backfill material.
Project schedule is for the site to be cleared by the end of the year. The parking facility will be completed in the spring when weather permits asphalt work to be done.
Tidd Plant
Located at Brilliant, Ohio, Tidd Plant's two generating units began operation in 1945 and 1948. It was the first AEP power plant with a central control room and may have been the first AEP plant to be named after a person.
Tidd Plant distinguished itself as AEP's most efficient plant in 1949, at 11,201 Btu/kwh. The facility was mothballed in 1976.
The plant was tied to two significant research and development projects: the Tidd EHV Test Project and the Tidd PFBC Demonstration Project.
|Historic photos of the Tidd EHV test facility. Photo courtesy of Walt Raub.
Tidd EHV Test Project
The objective of the Tidd Test Project was to collect and analyze technical data on electrical phenomena associated with extra-high voltages (EHV). Engineers proposed to use this data to determine the appropriate voltage and design for the system´s new backbone transmission grid.
The company constructed an outdoor transmission laboratory — the Tidd Test Project — at the southern end of the plant site. Eight electrical equipment manufacturers participated in the project.
After much debate, company engineers selected 330,000 volts as the optimum voltage for AGE's backbone transmission grid. Engineering and design began by 1950.
Moving to real world application was more difficult than expected and specialized testing continued. By 1956, AG&E raised its backbone EHV voltage to 345,000 volts
Tidd PFBC Demonstration Facility
In 1991, AEP began a demonstration at Tidd Plant of pressurized fluidized bed combustion (PFBC), a clean-coal technology. The 70,000-kilowatt facility was a cooperative effort of AEP, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Ohio Coal Development Office.
PFBC used dolomite, a type of limestone, to capture 90 percent of sulfur dioxide emissions during the combustion process. The technology also reduced nitrogen oxide emissions and its byproduct had potential reuse applications. Cleaned combustion gases also could be used for combined-cycle process.
The four-year project demonstrated technology viability. Commercialization was another story. PFBC was built in in several plants in Europe and Japan, but never in the United States.
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Candace Bywaters, 67, HPL Metro Building, died May 28.
Douglas Callihan, 46, AEP Headquarters, died June 19.
Albert Kuhens, 81, retired, Central Operations Center, died May 28.
Mark Matthews, 60, AEP Headquarters, died May 18.
John Rodrian, 91, retired, AEP Headquarters, died May 4.
Appalachian Power Company
James Ball, 91, retired, Sporn Plant, died May 27.
Jack Bishop, 78, retired, Amos Plant, died May 25.
Charley Hefner, 98, retired, Abingdon Service Center, died May 29.
Ivy Layman Jr., 80, retired, Roanoke Main Office, died May 23.
Lloyd Linkous, 95, retired, Bluefield (W.Va.) Office, died May 2.
Josephine Puckett, 98, retired, Lebanon Service Center, died June 23.
John Randall Jr., 89, retired, Kingsport Office, died May 6.
Edward Smith Jr., 67, Kammer Plant, died June 10.
Theodore Stevens, 83, retired, Bluefield (W.Va.) Office, died May 29.
Gary Stoots, 68, Glade Spring Service Center, died June 16.
E.L. Whitley, 104, retired, Bluefield (W.Va.) Office, died April 30.
Columbus Southern Power Company
Clement Bateman, 86, retired, Athens Service Center, died May 7.
Thomas Bozman, 87, retired, Picway Plant, died May 22.
Thomas Brubaker, 86, retired, 850 Tech Center, died June 16.
Lewis Laird, 82, retired, 850 Tech Center, died May 16.
Charles Miller, 86, retired, Seaman Service Center, died June 5.
Thomas Ochs, 82, retired, 850 Tech Center, died June 20.
Leo Voit, 96, retired, 850 Tech Center, died June 23.
Turney Williamson Jr., 92, retired, 850 Tech Center, died May 5.
Indiana Michigan Power Company
Christopher Fry, 27, St. Joseph Service Center, died June 24.
Maxwell Harrell, 89, retired, Marion Office, died May 31.
Donald Hawkins, 90, retired, Muncie Service Center, died June 3.
Charles Ruple, 83, retired, Three Rivers Service Center, died June 15.
Homer Sovine, 83, retired, South Bend Service Center, died May 9.
Floyd Wambaugh, 91, retired, St. Joseph Service Center, died May 18.
Kentucky Power Company
Jerry Stewart, 84, retired, Big Sandy Plant, died May 15.
Ohio Power Company
Lewis Bowman, 86, retired, Portsmouth Service Center, died May 26.
John Buckley, 83, retired, Portsmouth Service Center, died May 19.
Ronald Butcher, 72, retired, Central Ohio Coal Company, died June 21.
Earl Dabney, 86, retired, Gavin Plant, died June 6.
Patricia Denkhaus, 81, retired, Canton Computer Center, died May 29.
Carl Evans, 85, retired, Van Wert Service Center, died May 5.
James Gunn, 92, retired, Canton Eastern Regional Office, died June 19.
Robert Heaton, 78, retired, Steubenville Office, died June 10.
Charles King, 86, retired, Mitchell Plant, died June 15.
Larry Koontz, 71, Mitchell Plant, died May 8.
Richard Linn, 88, retired, Canton Eastern Regional Office, died May 4.
Donald Malster, 79, retired, Muskingum River Plant, died June 11.
James McNear, 88, retired, East Liverpool Office, died May 11.
Carl Neiss Jr., 91, retired, Cambridge Office Building, died May 26.
Gerald Scott, 85, retired, Canton Eastern Regional Office, died June 9.
James Simms, 86, retired, Canton Eastern Regional Office, died June 20.
Gerald Sommer, 80, retired, Zanesville Office, died June 9.
Ivan Wood, 82, retired, Portsmouth Service Center, died May 3.
Public Service Company of Oklahoma
George Blackman, 90, retired, Tulsa General Office, died June 22.
Robert Cole, 77, retired, Tulsa General Office, died June 5.
Cleo McWhorter, 90, retired, Tulsa General Office, died June 2.
Ellen Millard, 71, retired, Tulsa General Office, died May 13.
Harvey Money, 84, retired, Tulsa General Office, died May 2.
William Ryan Jr., 86, retired, Tulsa General Office, died May 11.
Dale Sexton, 72, retired, Tulsa General Office, died June 2.
Southwestern Electric Power Company
D.J. Huffman, 85, retired, Shreveport General Office, died May 12.
Texas Central
Manuel Lopez, 93, retired, Corpus Christi Office, died June 12.
John Willoughby, 70, retired, Corpus Christi Office, died May 13.
Texas North
James Merrell, 69, Munday Office, died June 5.
J.B. Teters, 73, Ballinger Office, died June 9.


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