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I think I have Truckee River Water Rights. Can I use them or sell them?
Truckee Meadows Water Authority (TMWA)
has an excellent website that answers many questions regarding Truckee River water rights
Is a permit required to drill a domestic well within the State of Nevada?
No. Domestic wells are the only type of water well exempt from the State Engineer's permitting process (Nevada Revised Statutes
). Domestic use is defined as uses associated with culinary and household purposes directly related to a single-family dwelling, including, without limitation, the watering of a family garden and lawn and the watering of livestock and any other domestic animals or household pets, if the amount of water drawn does not exceed 2 acre-feet per year.
When is the drilling of a domestic well forbidden?
When the subject parcel of land can be physically and legally supplied water from a public water supply.
Can I have two or more homes served by a single domestic well?
No. Except for the provision described in
, domestic use as defined under
is very specific in that the use is limited to one single-family dwelling. Multiple dwellings are considered a quasi-municipal use and thus, require a permit. A quasi-municipal well is often times referred to as a community well.
When can I file Proof of Beneficial Use?
After completion of the approved permitted manner of use. If a totalizing meter was required in the permit terms, then twelve (12) consecutive months of meter readings must be submitted along with the Proof of Benefical Use.
Example 1:
Permit A is permitted for quasi-municipal purposes for 4 homes and a totalizing meter is required. Twelve months after completion of all 4 homes and landscaping, the Proof of Beneficial Use may be submitted along with 12 months of meter readings.
Example 2:
Permit B is permitted for the irrigation of 10 acres and a totalizing meter is required. After a crop is grown and harvested, the Proof of Beneficial Use may be submitted along with meter readings for the irrigation season during which the crop was grown.
Can I have more than one home on the same parcel of land?
That is a local government decision. There are counties within Nevada that allow more than one livable structure on the same parcel. You should check with the local governing body. However, if more than one structure is allowed on the same parcel, a domestic well can still only serve one dwelling and thus the number of domestic wells needed must match the number of dwellings being served. Septic tank concentration and well separation must be considered and must comply with local or state health laws.
If water service hook-up is available for my house, do I have to connect to the service?
The State Engineer may require the plugging of a domestic well drilled on or after July 1, 1981, at anytime one year after water can be furnished by a political subdivision of the State or a public utility regulated by the public utility commission of Nevada, but only if the connecting fees are less than $200 (
). Exceptions for designated basins are noted in
. However, it has been the Division's policy to not require the hook-up to a water system until such time that the domestic well requires repair work requiring the setting-up of a well rig.
When is an environmental permit required?
Pursuant to
, an environmental permit is required when, under order from the Division of Environmental Protection, it is required to appropriate water for treatment/clean-up and then discharge the clean water to a different source.
How do I make a complaint to the State Engineer when I believe that someone is in violation of water law, regulations, permit terms, orders, or other requirements of the State Engineer?
Complete a
Request to Investigate an Alleged Violation
Request to Investigate an Alleged Violation form and submit it to the Division of Water Resources at 901 S. Stewart St., Suite 2002, Carson City, NV 89701.
Where can I read the statutes and regulations regarding enforcement?
The Nevada legislature website provides links to the the Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS) and Nevada Administrative Code (NAC). Since the "fines and penalties" statutes were signed into law during the 2007 legislature, the language can be found under NRS
, and
. Regulations implementing these statutes are adopted under NAC Chapter 532.
What are the possible penalties for someone found to be in violation of water law, regulations, permit terms, orders, or other requirements of the State Engineer?
Possible penalties after the regulatory process are (per NRS
, and
•Payment of an administrative fine not to exceed $10,000 per day for each violation
•Replacement of not more than 200% of the water used, wasted, or diverted; and/or
•Payment of the costs of the proceeding, including investigative costs and attorney's fees


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Frank Ocean In The Studio
Frank Ocean In The Studio
Almost half a million album sales in the US and a Grammy for Best Urban Contemporary album make Frank Ocean one of the biggest names in urban music at the moment. No fly-by-night, talent show chancer either, Frank had to hold down 11 jobs (including Subway, he makes a mean sandwich) in support of his music making craft. Furthermore 'Channel Orange' is a critical success too, as loved by the Guardian as it is by Spin Magazine.
Writing Channel OrangeThere's some classic synth, drum machine and guitar tones on 'Channel Orange' but it is mixed very contemporaneously with a full, lush and quite dry sound. Frank worked with producer Malay who describes them working as equal partners, rather than putting his own imprint on it.
Frank Ocean's MicrophoneIt's not a big surprise to find a Neumann U47 and Telefunken 251 being used, unfortunately they're out of production and these vintage mics command a hefty price on the second hand market (when they turn up!). Malay does also say that an M149 was used, one of Neumanns flagship microphones, a real work of art and perfect gear for capturing a talent like Frank. Apparently an SM58 was used too, best known as the world's favourite live vocal mic the 58 turns up in the studio more than you might think.
Bono is known for recording using a handheld 58, singing in front of the studio monitors rather than on headphones. Quite possibly the 58 was used at the same time as one of the tube condensers to give a little grit and mid-range punch in the mix. The trick is to get the capsules of the SM58 and the other mic lined up perfectly to avoid any phase issues.
Our guess for where the SM58 was used would be Forrest Gump, with a layered quality to the vocal and mid range bump it may well be blended in there.
Bass Guitar
The bass setup was also pretty consistent over the course of creating the album. When using the DI it was a Trace Elliot run through an Avalon 737 for mild EQ and compressing it with a Universal Audio 1176 compressor. When recording the amp itself an Ampeg B15 was used in combination with an RE-20 microphone. All absolute classic bass tracking gear with rounded Ampeg tones, full range microphone and a nice fast 1176 compressor. The cherry on top is everyone's favourite Fender Precision Bass, the bass heard on more great records than any other (probably).
However it's not all glitzy high end in the Frank Ocean bass sound, on 'Pink Matter' Malay used his old Yamaha bass that he bought when he was in high school for around $100! That might well make it one of Yamaha's early BB300 basses, now discontinued but the RBX170 is made in a very similar style and will no doubt fill in nicely for your smash RnB/Hip Hop album.
Here's Pink Matter, featuring the guest vocals of the one and only André 3000.

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Hi, my name is Paul, and I'm a political addict.
It's the first step to recovery, right? Admitting you need help.
Well, Tuesday is here. But I'm not thinking of it as election day. To me, it's Day 1 on the road to recovery.
Join me, fellow politico-holics. We can do it. Here's how:
Step 1: Stop reading the poll stories. Even the exit poll ones. It's silly. Real votes from real voters will be counted in no time. Except in Ohio. And probably Florida. You know, the states that matter, although not when it comes to raising money. Also known, at least in California, as states we left to come live here in paradise.
Step 2: Stop clicking obsessively on The Times' interactive electoral college map. Why? (See Step 1.)
Step 3: Stop reading the comment boards. No matter how you slice it, all of the country's problems can't be the fault of the media, or the government, or the courts, or Republicans, or Democrats, or your silly Aunt Minnie, who heard from a friend of a friend at her hairdresser's that Mitt Romney was an alien or Barack Obama was a communist Muslim.


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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-n ... 6266066014
Paris is to become one of the first major capital cities in the world to officially allow cyclists to ride through red lights.
The radical measure, which is intended to cut down on accidents, will be studied by city and town planners in numerous other countries outside France, including Britain.
It will allow those on bicycles to turn right or go straight ahead, even when a traffic light is on red.
But they will have to give way to pedestrians, and traffic coming from the left. Crucially, they will also be held responsible if there is an accident.
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We are often told to contribute the maximum to our 401(k). But some advisers are questioning whether blindly following this advice is in a retirement saver's best interest. Depending on tax issues, it may be a bad idea.
By way of background, you typically contribute money to your 401(k) on a pre-tax basis. And, if you think you'll be in a higher tax bracket when it comes time to withdraw your money from your 401(k) or IRA, the experts say it might make more sense to invest in a Roth IRA or Roth 401(k) or taxable account. On the other hand, if you think you'll be in the same or lower tax bracket, then contributing to a 401(k) likely makes more sense.
But a growing number of advisers are now suggesting that tax rates are likely to go up and the tax advantage of deferring taxes today in exchange for paying less tomorrow will soon vanish. In short, the critics say the benefit of saving for retirement in a 401(k) is nothing but a myth.
The reality, of course, is this: The decision to contribute to a 401(k) turns on your numbers and your circumstances.
If your tax rate stays the same or falls
Basically, if your tax rates remain the same, a regular 401(k)—with or without matching—always beats investing in a taxable account, said Christopher Carosa, the editor of FiduciaryNews and author of "Fact or Fiction? Slaying the Myth of the 401k Tax Advantage Myth." Also read "Who'da thunk it? 401(k) plans really do lead to higher taxes."
Others agree that it makes sense to save for retirement using tax-advantaged accounts such as IRAs and 401(k) if your marginal tax rate stays the same or falls.
"If an investor's marginal tax rates on ordinary income and capital gains do not increase in the future and she does not pay a penalty for early withdrawals, she will benefit from contributing to an IRA and investing in stocks," said Paul Samuleson, the chief investment officer of LifeYield.
Samuleson gave this example:
Suppose her current and future rates for ordinary income and capital gains are 25% and 15% respectively. Further, suppose that she can either invest $100 in an IRA or $75 in taxable account. Assume that the stocks return in appreciation and dividends 10% in the first year. In the IRA, she has $110, which she could distribute, receiving $82.50 and paying $27.50 in taxes.
In the taxable account, she invested $75 after paying $25 in taxes. If she pays $1.13 in taxes on the gain and dividends of 7.50, she is left with $81.38. Although she will pay more in taxes with the IRA ($27.50 instead of $26.12) she will be left with more ($82.50 instead of $81.38). The additional accumulation increases with longer horizons and higher tax rates on assets in the taxable account.
If your tax rate rises
If, however, tax rates go up, the answer for taxable vs. 401(k) depends on the time spent in the 401(k) and the company match, Carosa said. "In general, the more time spent, the more likely the 401(k) will be better," he said. "And for most general types of matching, say, 3%, the 401(k) is almost always the better choice."
The hard question to answer, Carosa said, comes when you have to decide between contributing to Roth IRA or a 401(k). "Again, this is a time-dependent thing," he said. "But, in general, the longer you invest, the more favorable the Roth plan is vs. the 401(k)."
Weighing taxable against tax-advantaged accounts
As for deciding whether to invest in a taxable account vs. a 401(k), Jason Hull, a financial planner with Hull Financial Planning, said, "I'm not a huge fan of choosing taxable investment accounts just because of capital gain tax treatment vs. a 401(k) or other tax-deductible retirement account because the retirement account investments are pre-tax investments."
"If you hold spending constant, then you can invest more in a tax-deductible retirement account than you can in your taxable accounts." Hull gave this example:
Take a family who earns $100,000 per year and gets the standard deduction. If they have no 401(k) investments, then their after-tax income is $82,940, according to TaxAct. Check out TaxAct's tax bracket tool. Assume their annual spending is $70,000. That would leave them with $12,940 to invest.
They could invest $17,253 in a deductible retirement account like a 401(k) and still, after taxes, have $70,000 for their annual spending.
Given that, Hull suggests that you contribute to your retirement accounts in the following general order:
- Contribute to your 401(k) up to the employer match;
- Contribute the maximum allowed, preferably, in a Roth IRA. "I prefer Roths first because of the flexibility and because it's tax-free income after age 59½, assuming other requirements are met," said Hull.
- Contribute up to the maximum allowed in your 401(k).
- And if you have any money left to save, contribute the rest into taxable account.
Other reasons not to invest in a 401(k)
There are some other reasons why you might not want to invest in a 401k (or other ERISA account) as well, according to Hull. Those include:
- When you may need to withdraw some of your investments earlier than the IRS-mandated no-penalty age. In either a Roth 401(k) or a Roth IRA, you can withdraw contributions penalty free. With taxable accounts, you can withdraw contributions and earnings with no impact save capital gains taxes.
- If you want to avoid required minimum distributions (RMDs). The IRS starts requiring minimum distributions of your account when you reach age 70½. You may, for example, wish to self-fund long-term care and will want to keep aside a significant stockpile of assets to fund that potential liability. A Roth IRA prevents you from needing to withdraw incrementally.
- When your employer doesn't match contributions and the fees/fund choices are cost prohibitive. Let's say you have a 401(k) option, the employer doesn't match, and the funds available in the 401(k) plan are all high fee funds, not to mention a hefty account maintenance fee. In this case, you're economically better off putting your money in an IRA because the fees won't eat you alive.
- To optimize taxes when you're receiving Social Security. Because of the taxation rules for Social Security benefits, up to 85% of those benefits could be taxable. Managing taxable, tax-deferred, and tax-free accounts and their withdrawals can keep people within tax brackets and keep effective tax rates down.
So there you have it. Contributing as much as you can to your 401(k) might make sense. But only if your number crunching and circumstances say it's so. If not, contributing the max to your 401(k) could be dangerous to your wealth.
Robert Powell is editor of Retirement Weekly, published by MarketWatch. Find our more about Retirement Weekly.Follow his tweets at RJPIII. Got questions about retirement? Get answers. Send him an email here.


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By: Mark McGrouther, Category: Science, Date: 30 Mar 2012
Despite having a few days off work with a cold, the week turned out to be very exciting on the web front. We added a great new video to the museum's YouTube channel, plus added some stunning new images. Thanks as always to everyone who contributed.
Today we added a fantastic new movie to the Australian Museum YouTube Channel. The footage shows four large moray eel leptocephali swimming in Indonesia. Information about these fish will soon be published in a paper by Dr Michael Miller.
Golden Scorpionfish, Parascorpaena aurita
Golden Scorpionfish at Horseshoe Reef
Krefft's Frillgoby at Marino
Two Krefft's Frillgobies
Crab-eye Goby, Signigobius biocellatus
Orange Anemonefish, Amphiprion sandaracinos
New acquisition in Archives -- Fishing Notes, c1900-1931
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Andy, I found it in black, but it is at the UK adidas site:
Andy, do you know where to get it?
i want this shirt
Murray wore this shirt before the Aussie Open final. I'd say it is a jinxer. lol
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Photos: Pride, passion, music and fireworks at Paralympic...
The Games are over and the athletes and ...
Women ski-cross one step closer to gold
FEBRUARY 23 - Julie Murray from Canada during the women's ski cross qualifications during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Canada at Cypress Mountain in West Vancouver, BC.
Photograph by: Jason Payne , Canwest News Service
Four Canadian women have advanced to the ladies Olympic ski cross final this afternoon at Cypress Mountain.
Ashleigh McIvor and Julia Murray of Whistler, Danielle Poleschuk, of Calgary, Kelsey Serwa, of Kelowna will all race for gold today at 1 p.m . PT.
McIvor the defending world champion placed second in qualifying with a time 1:17:17, — just two hundredths of a second back of the leader, Anna Holmlund, of Sweden.
"I could have gone faster," McIvor said. "I just slowed down way too much before the second to last jump.
"I came in a little bit late."
Serwa placed fourth in qualifying with a time of 1:17:94.
"I toned it down a bit," Serwa said. "I didn't want to get over-excited.
"It was an OK run. Nothing spectacular. I didn't deserve a first place. But in the final, I'll give `er."
Poleschuk placed 10th in qualifying with a time of 1:19.02. Competing with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee, Murray qualified in 14th place in a time of 1:19.54.
Thirty-two out of 35 competitors advanced to the final, and McIvor, for one, didn't want to tip off the competition about her strategy for this afternoon.
"I just skied the line I wanted to ski," she said. In training I'll sort of protect my sneaky lines. I won't make the passes I'm thinking of saving until the race.
I know the coaches are all filming the Canadian girls.
For good reason. McIvor is ranked second in the world followed by Serwa (third) Murray (fourth) and Poleschuk (eighth.)


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What is philosophy?
What is philosophy? An abstract definition of the field is less revealing than a set of questions that philosophers try to answer. Here's one such set:
- Is the human mind just a very complicated machine?
- Can we have free will if the mind is a machine?
- Must we have free will in order for life to be meaningful?
- What makes an act moral or immoral?
- When, if ever, can a government mandate or outlaw certain acts?
- Is it ever permissible to start a war with a pre-emptive strike?
- Is the order seen in the world evidence for the existence of God?
- Does the existence of evil show that a good God cannot exist?
- What is the role of philosophy in answering questions about God?
- What is knowledge - and how exactly does it differ from opinion and from faith?
- What, if anything, can we know with certainty?
- Are warrants for knowledge relative to particular cultures?
We feel the need to confront such questions as we develop a sense of wonder about the world and human destiny. Wonder is provoked by many things, of course, including other university studies: philosophy connects with every discipline.
Will philosophy help you with anything practical?
But will philosophy help you with anything practical? Yes, if only because philosophy provides you with analytical tools of reasoning that prove exceedingly useful in every field. An indication of this is the very impressive record of success philosophy majors have had over the years in tests given by professional schools: the GRE (Graduate Record Exam), the LSAT (Law School Admission Test), the GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test), and the MCAT (Medical College Admission Test). For instance, philosophy majors consistently outperform all other disciplines on the verbal portion of the GRE. And philosophy majors are consistently at the very top with regard to performance on the LSAT. Do an internet search on "philosophy major GRE", or "philosophy major LSAT", etc., for the striking statistics.
Philosophy students build skills that are highly desirable to employers. You will learn to think critically and imaginatively, analyze concepts and problems, develop rigorous arguments, interpret difficult texts, debate about a wide variety of issues, and communicate with clarity -- versatile abilities that will serve you well in a wide range of career paths.
Yet the primary value of philosophy lies less in career preparation than in what it does for the mind. It is no small matter to become familiar with great answers to great questions, to take as one's teachers some of the most illuminating thinkers from the dawn of theorizing to the present moment, and to be furnished thereby with precious materials for the construction of your own worldview.


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"Taste Niagara 2013," an evening celebration of local foods and beverages, will take place at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, March 9, at the new Niagara Falls Culinary Institute, 28 Old Falls St.
Presented by the Niagara County Farm Bureau in association with the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Niagara County, the event is open to the public and will feature a station-style dinner, complimentary glass of wine or beer, a brief presentation and tours of the state-of-the-art culinary institute (home of Niagara County Community College's culinary arts, baking and pastry arts program). A cash bar will also be available.
Tickets are $30 per person. Reservations can be made by calling 716-735-7791 or emailing [email protected]. Free parking will be available in the Rainbow Ramp, located on the north end of the culinary institute.
Sponsors of the event include Tops Markets, Western New York Energy LLC, Bencal Farms, Amy Hope Witryol, Farm Credit East, Crop Production Services, Niagara County Soil & Water Conservation District, Buffalo Hotel Supply and Ross Rental.
For more information regarding the Niagara Falls Culinary Institute, visit www.nfculinary.org. And for more information on the Niagara County Farm Bureau, visit www.niagarafb.org.


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TOWN OF WALLKILL — The manufacturer of PopCorners, a popular new gluten-free snack, is planning an expansion at its plant in a forgotten industrial corridor near the Middletown border.
TOWN OF WALLKILL — The manufacturer of PopCorners, a popular new gluten-free snack, is planning an expansion at its plant in a forgotten industrial corridor near the Middletown border.
Fairbanks Manufacturing plans to buy its existing 70,000-square-foot building on Industrial Place Extension and expand it by about 20,000 square feet. It's the company's second expansion in two years.
Fairbanks will use the extra room to make a new whole-grain sorghum product, said Barry Renow, the president and chief operating officer of Medora Snacks, Fairbanks' parent company based on Long Island.
The new snack, which also is gluten-free, will be hexagonal-shaped and come in sweet cinnamon, twisted salt and Memphis barbecue flavors. Medora recently sold out of 8,000 bags of the new treat at a food show in California, Renow said.
PopCorners' original snack, popcorn fused into a chip shape, started as in-flight munchies on JetBlue flights. The chip took off, and the distribution network ballooned to supermarkets and nearly two dozen countries. The company just inked an agreement that brings the chips to Australia, Renow said.
"I would call it addicting," said Dan Depew, the supervisor of the Town of Wallkill and a fan of the snack.
Zeke Alenick, the owner of Ideal Snacks in Liberty, is a consultant for PopCorners, said his attorney, Ronald Kossar. Kossar also is working with Medora and Fairbanks on their expansion.
Like Ideal, which makes soy chips for major brands across the country, Fairbanks uses specialized, secret puffing and popping machinery to make PopCorners. Both companies keep specific details about their businesses very close to the vest.
A request to get a picture inside the PopCorners factory was declined, and Renow did not answer questions about the product's creation and whether or not there are other manufacturing plants in addition to the one in the Town of Wallkill.
"The industry is very guarded and extremely competitive," he said. "We don't want our competitors to have any sense of some of our technology and what we're doing."
Medora expects its sales to increase to $100 million from $18 million within five years, according to a letter sent to the Town of Wallkill Industrial Development Agency. The number of employees during the same time period is expected to jump to 120 from 84, the letter states. Salaries at Medora range between $25,000 and $250,000.
Fairbanks moved to Industrial Place in 2011 and then expanded its loading docks and warehouse space by about 15,000 square feet the following year. Its location is off the beaten commercial real estate path. The older warehouses, plants and junkyard that line the street seem a world away from more visible and well-known commercial thoroughfares in the Town of Wallkill like Ballard Road and Industrial Drive.
Medora expects to go before the Orange County Industrial Development Agency at its meeting Wednesday seeking a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement, bonding and other tax breaks.
The requested incentives cover both the first expansion and the new one, as well as the purchase of the building. The entire project, including the purchase of the building, is expected to cost $6.5 million.
Depew supports the tax breaks for the project because it's helping boost "a forgotten-about pocket of the town," he said.
Kossar expects Fairbanks will continue to grow quickly and continue to invest in the local community.
"The sky is the limit, and we're way down on the ground," he said.


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NEW YORK, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Steve Martin's wife, Anne Stringfield, has given birth, making the Hollywood actor a first-time dad at age 67, the New York Post said Wednesday.
Stringfield, 41, gave birth to the baby in December.
"They've had a baby, and how they kept it a secret nobody knows," a source told the Post.
"Steve's very private," the insider said. "They are thrilled. They worked hard to have the baby."
The child's gender and name were not reported.
Stringfield and Martin married in 2007. They live in Los Angeles.


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A new school in one of the poorest parts of New Zealand wants government help to keep gangs outside its gates.
Murupara Area School told a parliamentary select committee gang tensions and the wearing of insignia on school grounds disrupted learning and encouraged a culture of bullying.
The committee is hearing submissions on a bill that would ban gang insignia on government-owned premises such as Work and Income offices and state schools.
Murupara Primary School - which will next year combine with a high school to become Murupara Area School - has demanded gang patches be "checked in at the gate" and not worn by parents on school trips.
Establishment Board of Trustees chairman Jacob Te Kurapa said school staff could not use up energy stamping out gang activity, and welcomed a change in the law.
"Gang patches heighten the tensions between the two gangs [Mongrel Mob and Tribesmen]. If we have that in our school, that encourages bullying between the children. It encourages a passive type of recruitment in our schools."
The Murupara community took a stand against these groups after two gang-related killings of teenagers in 2009.
It has placed a rahui, or ban, on gang patches, bandannas and colours on marae, and also inside some public places such as shops.
Mr Te Kurapa said these community-led changes had been successful in lessening the influence of gangs, but law changes were needed.
While the school urged MPs to push the bill through, a lawyer for gang members said the legislation was misguided and could accidentally capture members of the public who were innocently wearing gang colours.


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The Labor Department reported that 365,000 people filed for unemployment benefits last week on a seasonally adjusted basis, down 27,000, which marks the biggest decline in almost a year. This week's number was better than economist were expecting.
Meanwhile, the Institute for Supply Management is reporting a slowdown in expansion in the U.S. non-manufacturing sector in April, which fell to 53.5, missing forecasts of a reading of 55.3.
On the earnings front, Whole Foods Market (WFM) posted earnings which beat expectations and the company also raised its full year guidance. General Motors (NYSE:GM) reported better than expected earnings in the first quarter, thanks to higher vehicle prices and lower costs.
Among retailers, Target (NYSE:TGT) and Gap (NYSE:GPS) both reported April same-store sales which fell short of expectations, sending shares lower today. It was a similar story for Macy's (NYSE:M) and Costco (NASDAQ:COST), which also posted disappointing April sales.
Tomorrow, we'll take a look at the government non-farm payrolls, as well as earnings results from Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A).
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The University of Missouri-St. Louis is one of four campuses that constitute the University of Missouri. Established in Columbia in 1839 on the ideals of Thomas Jefferson, the University of Missouri became a land-grant institution upon passage of the Morrill Act by Congress in 1862.
When the University of Missouri System was organized in 1963, the St. Louis campus was the only one that started as an entirely new university. The University of Missouri-St. Louis began as a consequence of the national movement to create public universities in metropolitan centers. UMSL was designed to educate the area's professionals through research, coursework, and hands-on experiences in the region's businesses, schools, hospitals, agencies, and the arts.
According to the campus's history, The Emerging University: The University of Missouri-St Louis, 1963-1983, faculty were hired from prestigious universities with a vision of creating a university where graduates would be able to confront urban issues through research, critical thinking, and creativity. More than traditional workforce development, these leaders' vision for UMSL was to educate students for lifelong learning, which would produce good citizens and effective leaders in the region's organizations. That legacy continues because those early leaders created a culture of faculty excellence that persists today.
Since the doors of the old Administration Building opened on a golf course almost 50 years ago, UMSL has grown to encompass 350 acres of beautifully landscaped rolling hills. The campus is now St. Louis's largest university in the number of students and is the third largest in the state.
Out of pride in the successes of our students, faculty, and staff and our culture of quality improvement, the campus posts on the Web recent highlights on the UMSL home page, detailed information on the About UMSL site, and student achievement data on the College Portrait.
The University Missouri-St. Louis will be known as a premier metropolitan public research university and as a university of choice for undergraduate, graduate and professional students.
The University of Missouri-St. Louis provides excellent learning experiences and leadership opportunities for a diverse student body. Outstanding faculty and staff, innovative research, and creative partnerships foster synergies that advance the welfare of our students and other stakeholders and benefit the global society..
Academic Structure
UMSL's academic units include the following.
College of Arts and Sciences
The College of Arts and Sciences is the largest and most diverse college at UMSL. In its continued efforts to improve and deliver the academic core for the campus, CAS's long-range plans have included various initiatives intended to strengthen the foundational coursework in the liberal arts. Also central to the college's mission is faculty and student collaboration in research and scholarship. Both undergraduate and graduate students participate in a community of scholars that promotes excellence in teaching, critical thinking skills, collaborative learning, and strong research and scholarship across a range of disciplines.
College of Business Administration
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Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, Siegen 1577 - 1640 Antwerp)
Head of an Old Man, ca. 1600-1605
Red chalk and wash, with accents of darker red chalk, brush and red ink, white and yellow heightening
7 7/8 x 6 1/8 in. (20 x 15.6 cm)
R. T. Miller, Jr. Fund, 1943
Head of an Old Man is one of many drawings by Peter Paul Rubens that directly copy, or are indirectly inspired by, the work of earlier artists. In this instance, Leonardo da Vinci's physiognomic studies of old men served as the model for Rubens's objective description of an old man's sagging flesh, grizzled hair, and toothless mouth.
Throughout his career, but particularly during his years in Italy (1600-1608), Rubens avidly copied and drew inspiration from works of art by earlier masters. Far more than slavish imitations, his drawn and painted copies reveal a systematic search for a mastery of form and artistic intent, and a creative reuse of these models in his own work. These copies were, moreover, informed by a well-defined theory of artistic imitation formulated in antiquity, revived by Renaissance theorists, and restated in Rubens's own treatise, De Imitatione Statuarum (On the imitation of statues).1 These treatises define three levels of artistic influence, progressing from meticulous line-for-line copying in order to master forms, to the imitation of a given original, to the creation of independent works that emulate the style or spirit of the original. The process enriched an artist's skill by building a working vocabulary of formal motifs, and developing stylistic and compositional fluency.
Rubens's Head of an Old Man was undoubtedly produced within this context. The drawing is generally thought to date from about 1600-1605, during the artist's early years in Italy, a time when he was studying and copying earlier works of art not only to hone his skills as a draftsman and artist, but to record the works of Italian masters for future reference in the studio.2 The Oberlin sheet bears a close technical and stylistic relationship to at least two other studies of old men's heads from this period: the Profile Head of an Old Man ("Niccolò da Uzzano") in the Pierpont Morgan Library;3 and a Head of an Old Man in the Rubenshuis, Antwerp.4 All three drawings have been connected--directly or indirectly--with Leonardo da Vinci's physiognomic studies of old men. Rubens apparently saw a number of Leonardo's physiognomic and anatomical studies in the collection of the sculptor Pompeo Leoni (ca. 1533-1608) while he was in Rome.5 The objective description of wrinkled flesh, grizzled hair, and toothless mouth in the Oberlin drawing (and in the other sheets cited above) was clearly inspired by Leonardo's probing examinations of aging features and sagging flesh. The Oberlin sheet most closely resembles Leonardo's study of the head of an old man of about 1511, in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle.6 There is some question as to the exact relationship of the Oberlin sheet to sixteenth-century drawings by Leonardo and others. In addition to making copies, Rubens is known to have restored, retouched, and reworked original drawings by other artists.7 For example, a sixteenth-century Italian anatomical study of arms done in red chalk was extensively reworked by Rubens in brush and ink to impose his preference for exaggerated musculature.8 While most authors have identified the Oberlin Head of an Old Man as a work wholly by Rubens's hand, inspired by Leonardo's physiognomic studies (or perhaps a direct copy after a lost work), more recently Anne-Marie Logan has suggested that this sheet demonstrates Rubens's complete reworking of a sixteenth-century Italian drawing.9 She describes both the Oberlin and Morgan drawings as "portrait drawings, which he also reworked with the brush and red ink most likely during his stay in Italy," and terms the former work a "sixteenth-century Italian study of an Old Man which Rubens reworked."10
Although there is little if any specific indication of an earlier artist's hand in this drawing, the complex layering of different media (see Technical Data) does support an equally complex genesis for the image now visible. Regardless of whether Rubens was reworking an existing drawing, or emulating an earlier source, however, the Head of an Old Man synthesizes a thorough understanding of the past with fresh observations from life, resulting in a likeness that is lively, human, and characteristically Rubens.
M. E. Wieseman
One of the most versatile and accomplished figures in the history of art, Peter Paul Rubens was born at Siegen in Germany on 28 June 1577. His father, Jan Rubens, had fled Antwerp to escape persecution because of his Calvinist faith. The Rubens family moved to Cologne in 1578, and returned to Antwerp following Jan's death in 1587. As a youth, Rubens was educated in the classics, and demonstrated a particular talent for languages. He studied painting with the artists Tobias Verhaecht (1561-1631), Adam van Noort (1562-1641), and Otto van Veen (1556-1629), and became a master in the Antwerp guild of St. Luke in 1598. In 1600 Rubens embarked on an extended Italian sojourn to further his artistic education. He was engaged as court painter to Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, from 1601 until 1608, although he spent most of that time in other cities (Rome, Genoa, Madrid) working for other patrons.
Rubens returned to Antwerp late in 1608, and less than a year later was named court painter to the Archdukes Albert and Isabella, governors of the Spanish Netherlands. He received prestigious commissions from church, state, and private patrons, and almost single-handedly revitalized the city of Antwerp as a cultural center. To fill the demand for his work, Rubens worked in collaboration with other artists and oversaw an atelier of assistants, the most able of whom was Anthony van Dyck. In addition to his artistic enterprises, Rubens was also active as a diplomat and political agent during the 1620s and early '30s. Rubens was married twice: to Isabella Brant (1591-1626) in 1609, and to Hélène Fourment (1614-1673) in 1630. The artist died in Antwerp on 30 May 1640, and was buried in the St. Jacobskerk.
General References
The Letters of Peter Paul Rubens. Translated and edited by Ruth Saunders Magurn. Cambridge, Mass., 1955; reprint Evanston, Ill., 1991.Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard. Parts 1-26. London, 1968ff.
Held, Julius S. The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens. 2 vols. Princeton, 1981.
Held, Julius S. Rubens: Selected Drawings. 2 vols. New York, 1959; 2d rev. ed., Mt. Kisco, N.Y., 1986.
White, Christopher. Peter Paul Rubens, Man and Artist. New Haven and London, 1987.
Collection Prosper Henry Lankrink (1628-1692), London (Lugt 2090)
Collection Jonathan Richardson, Sr. (1665-1745), London (Lugt 2184)
Collection Paul J. Sachs (1878-1965), Cambridge, Mass.
With Richard Zinser, New York, from whom purchased in 1943
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1946-47. Loan Exhibition of Forty-Three Paintings by Rubens and Twenty-Five by Van Dyck. 19 November - 1 January. Cat. no. 43.
Antwerp, Rubenshuis, 1956. Tekeningen van P. P. Rubens. 16 June - 2 September. Cat. no. 14.
De Goris, Jan, and Julius S. Held. Rubens in America. New York, 1947, p. 44, no. 120, pl. 102.
Burchard, Ludwig, and R. A. d'Hulst. In Tekeningen van P. P. Rubens. Exh. cat., Rubenshuis, Antwerp, 1956, p. 36, no. 14.
Jaffé, Michael. "Rubens's Drawings at Antwerp." The Burlington Magazine 98 (1956), p. 318.
Hamilton, Chloe. "Catalogue of R. T. Miller, Jr. Fund Acquisitions." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 16, no. 2 (Winter 1959), cat. no. 67; no. 3 (Spring 1959), ill. p. 230.
Jaffé, Michael. "Rubens in Italy, Part II: Some Rediscovered Works of the First Phase." The Burlington Magazine 110 (1968), pp. 184-85.
Rubens en zijn tijd, tekeningen uit Belgische verzamelingen. Exh. cat., Rubenshuis, Antwerp, 1971, p. 76, under no. 57.
Stechow, Wolfgang. Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolors in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. Oberlin, 1976, p. 61, fig. 148.
Jaffé, Michael. Rubens and Italy. Ithaca, N.Y., 1977, p. 30.
Bodart, Didier. In Pietro Paolo Rubens (1577-1640). Exh. cat., Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, 1990, pp. 156, under cat. no. 58; and 157, under cat. no. 59.
Limentani Virdis, Caterina. "Il cosidetto Galba di Rubens: visitazioni e rivisitazioni." In Caterina Limentani Virdis and Francesca Bottacin, eds. Rubens, dall'Italia all'Europa. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi Padova. Vincenza, 1992, p. 145.
Logan, Anne-Marie. Flemish Drawings in the Age of Rubens: Selected Works from American Collections. Exh. cat., Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass., 1993, pp. 41, 179.
Technical Data
A varied use of media and some later retouchings add to the complexity of this sheet. The primary medium is red chalk, applied using both dry and wet techniques (the latter producing darker, more continuous strokes). Highlights are drawn with white paint, possibly lead white in an oil medium; the same medium was probably also used along the proper left side of face and head, where it is blended/layered with other media. The sitter's fur collar and the shaded areas along the right side of his face were strengthened by a later hand with hatchings in red chalk.11 Zinc white pigment (first available about 1830) is found above each eyebrow, in the sitter's proper right jowl, and proper left temple. The original support has been cut out around the head and lined overall to another sheet, probably by a later collector and not by Rubens himself, as no lines from the drawing extend onto the second sheet. No watermark is visible on the original sheet. There are surface abrasions and small holes scattered throughout, and a repaired area of damage at left middle.
1. On Rubens and copying, see especially Jeffrey Muller, "Rubens's Theory and Practice of the Imitation of Art," The Art Bulletin 64 (1982), pp. 229-47; and for drawings, Julius S. Held, Rubens: Selected Drawings (2d rev. ed., Mt. Kisco, N.Y., 1986), pp. 42-49; and Egbert Haverkamp Begemann and Carolyn Logan, Creative Copies: Interpretive Drawings from Michelangelo to Picasso (Exh. cat., The Drawing Center, New York, 1988), pp. 70-93.
2. For other drawings by Rubens after Italian masters, see Michael Jaffé, Rubens and Italy (Ithaca, N.Y., 1977), passim.
3. Red chalk, with some point of brush and red chalk wash, corrections both in red chalk and point of brush, over layer of light grey body color; 22.4 x 16 cm; New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, inv. no. I,234. The relationship between this and the Oberlin drawing was noted by Gustav Glück (letter dated 8 December 1943).
4. Dated 1601-2, red chalk, 23.3 x 15.5 cm; Antwerp, Rubenshuis; see Didier Bodart, Pietro Paolo Rubens (1577-1640) (exh. cat., Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, 1990), pp. 156-57. The drawing was previously identified by Michael Jaffé ("Rubens in Italy, Part II: Some Rediscovered Works of the First Phase," The Burlington Magazine 110 [1968], p. 184), as a portrait of the Roman emperor Galba.
5.The visit is recorded by Roger de Piles in his account of Leonardo's art in Abregé de vie des peintres (1699; reprint, Hildesheim, 1969), p. 168.
6. Red chalk on red prepared paper, 17.8 x 13.6 cm; Windsor Castle, Royal Collection, inv. 12-503; Kenneth Clark and Carlo Pedretti, The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, vol. 1 (London, 1969), p. 88. The resemblance was first noted by Jan Goris and Julius S. Held, Rubens in America (New York, 1947), p. 44, and reiterated by Wolfgang Stechow, Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolors in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (Oberlin, 1976), p. 61.
7. For Rubens's practice of reworking drawings by other artists, see Anne-Marie Logan, "Some Early Drawings by Rubens," Gentse Bijdragen tot de Kunstgeschiedenis 24 (1976-78), pp. 105-12; and Julius S. Held, Rubens: Selected Drawings, 2d rev. ed. (Mt. Kisco, N.Y., 1986), pp. 47-48.
8. Red chalk, retouched with brush and red ink and greenish-white body color, 23.8 x 31.2 cm; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, inv. 52.1761. On the Boston drawing, see Hugh Macandrew, Italian Drawings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, 1983), p. 10; and Anne-Marie Logan, in Flemish Drawings in the Age of Rubens: Selected Works from American Collections (exh. cat., Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass., 1993), pp. 178-79 (as by Bartolommeo Passerotti, retouched by Rubens).
9. Anne-Marie Logan, in Flemish Drawings in the Age of Rubens: Selected Works from American Collections (exh. cat., Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass., 1993), p. 179.
10. Anne-Marie Logan, in Flemish Drawings in the Age of Rubens: Selected Works from American Collections (exh. cat., Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass., 1993), pp. 41, 179. In this context, it is worth noting Rubens's practice of silhouetting individual motifs from drawings by other artists and pasting them onto a backing sheet, a physical manipulation fairly common in his early drawings (Anne-Marie Logan, "Some Early Drawings by Rubens," Gentse Bijdragen tot de Kunstgeschiedenis 24 [1976-78], p. 107). The Oberlin drawing has undergone such a process (see Technical Data) but as no lines from the drawing extend onto the backing sheet, it is more likely that this was done by a later owner of the drawing than by Rubens himself.
11. Michael Jaffé ("Rubens's Drawings at Antwerp," The Burlington Magazine 98 [1956], p. 318) suggests the hatching was done by Lankrink (see Provenance).


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Legendary Guitar: The Saga of Eric Clapton's Famous Fool SG
The storage closet in Todd Rundgren's Mink Hollow Road studio was closed. But it wasn't locked. Big difference. If there were anything of value in there, certainly he would have locked it. At least that was keyboard player Jimmy Waldo's reasoning at the time.
[Originally by Steven Rosen | 04.16.2008, Gibson.com] It was November 1980 and Todd was producing Walking Wild, the third album for Waldo's band, New England. The sessions had been rocking and the group had fallen into the most un-rock like routine of showing up early. Start time was noon and that was still 30 minutes away.
Jimmy, running on caffeine and nervous energy, was bouncing off the walls. Todd's 24-track studio was a small, renovated chalet with a big room for recording downstairs and a loft-type arrangement upstairs housing the control room. If you weren't working, there wasn't a whole lot to do and not much space to do it in. It was a bare-bones facility without fancy mikes or iso booths. During the quieter recording moments, you could hear Rundgren's dog Furburger barking in the background.
"I was just being nosy," Waldo explained. "I looked in a closet and there were four or five guitar cases stacked up. I opened one and just saw a little bit of the body. It was the Les Paul SG with the Clapton paint job! I had no idea Todd owned this. I almost had a heart attack!"
The other New England bandmembers¯Gary Shea, Hirsch Gardner, and John Fannon¯heard the gasp and came running.
"Oh my God," they wailed in perfect harmony.
Not an unreasonable response to an unbelievable situation. Any musician in the world would have recognized this Gibson. Even if you weren't a musician, you had a friend who was and he'd told you about this legendary piece, this mythic music maker. He'd regaled you with the psychedelic paintjob and the woman tone.
Watch: Eric Clapton explain sthe subtleties of guitar playing and the famous "woman tone"
Watch: Cream's "Tale Of Brave Ulysses"...Clapton uses his legendary SG
But it was one thing to talk about the guitar from a distance, and quite another to see it up close. To actually touch it.
That is exactly what Jimmy and the band did. The group gently lifted the SG from its form-fitting case, treating it with the reverence and awe they knew it so rightfully deserved. Just to make sure their guitar buddies back home believed them, however, they immortalized the moment.
"We started taking pictures of each guy playing the guitar," Jimmy recalled. "We all took them of each other. I can't believe it but I lost my picture. So did everybody else but Gary. I thought it was so cool. It brought back memories of listening to Cream back in the '60s. I looked out the window and saw Todd coming down the hill from his house to the studio. So we put the guitar away and didn't say anything right away."
Well, at least not for three-and-a-half minutes or so. That's about how long Jimmy was able to contain himself after Todd entered the studio. Amped on caffeine and buzzed on adrenaline, the keyboard player confessed about what he and the guys had done.
Todd was mildly amused.
"We told him we had seen it," Jimmy remembers. "We were asking him how he got the guitar and all that stuff. He didn't go into any details about how he got it and we didn't press the issue. He said that when he got it, it did have a broken neck that his guitar tech fixed. He said it played much better after the neck job. But Todd was really pretty nonchalant about it."
Photo: Gary Shea, bassist for New England, the band Todd Rundgren was producing at the time.
For all his cool posturing, however, Todd was completely blown away the first time he ever saw the guitar. That was back on March 25, 1967, hanging from Eric Clapton's shoulders. Cream were on-stage at the RKO Theater making their American debut as part of disc jockey Murray the K's Music in the Fifth Dimension extravaganza. Rundgren was in the audience and the Gibson mesmerized him. Eric, in fact, had just started using the SG. Part of the mythology insisted that the paint was still tacky during this spectacular musical concert revue that also included the Who, Mitch Ryder, Wilson Pickett, the Blues Project, and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.
That was a little difficult to believe but the fact remained that Clapton had purchased the guitar only a few months earlier at the beginning of 1967. This would become his main axe for the next two years. Eric would use the cherry finish double cutaway for both live and studio work; it would be featured prominently on Disraeli Gears and would also appear on Wheels of Fire, Goodbye, and on the subsequent live albums, Live Cream and Live Cream Volume II.
The legend of the Psychedelic SG¯as it was sometimes referred to¯was oft-told and varied from telling to telling. Clapton's Les Paul Standard had been stolen and replaced with this Gibson. Initially, everyone referred to it as a Les Paul SG. But they were wrong. Les Paul did not like the new SG design and asked that his name be taken off the model. By 1963, the guitars were known simply as SG Standards.
There were no Les Paul SGs in 1964.
Not only was it identified incorrectly model-wise, but everyone also goofed up the year. Originally, everybody thought it was a 1961; a close examination of the body revealed a sixth screw hiding just under the lower left corner of the bridge pickup. Prior to 1964, only four screws were used. That was the giveaway.
Clapton's guitar, then, was a 1964 regular issue SG Standard.
When he first began playing the Gibson, the guitar was still fitted with the original Deluxe Vibrolo tremolo arm; Clapton simply fixed the mechanism in place. The vibrato bar was eventually removed and replaced with two other tailpieces: another Gibson tremolo with a flexible piece of metal instead of springs; and a non-tremolo trapeze-style unit.
The tuning heads were switched out from the standard-issue ivoroid Klusons to Grovers.
And then there was that trippy acid-influenced paint job by the Fool. A Dutch design collective and band (they released one eponymous album produced by Graham Nash), the original members were artists Simon Posthuma and Marijke Koger. The hippie pair had designed clothes and album covers for the Hollies, Procol Harum, the Move, and the Incredible String Band. But it was after seeing what they'd created for the Beatles pals that Eric fell under the influence.
Simon and Marijke had psychedelicized one of George Harrison's Stratocasters and transformed both John Lennon's piano and one of his Gibson acoustics. They'd also illustrated an astonishing three-storey mural on one of the exterior walls of the Beatles' Apple Boutique in London.
Eric saw that and knew immediately he wanted his recently-acquired Gibson SG turned Fool-ishly psychedelic. The original cherry finish was given a coat of white primer and then the oil-based paints were applied on top. Brushed-on enamels. Every inch of the instrument was painted including the back of the neck and even the fretboard.
Maybe not such a great idea at the time.
The psychedelic graphic was as weird as it was beautiful. A winged wood sprite with curls of fire sat astride a cotton candy cloud. His left hand grasped a triangle while his right hand held a spoon-shaped beater about to strike it. The arch of his right foot balanced gently atop a tone control, while the toes on his left pointed delicately downwards towards a pickup's toggle switch. Yellow six-sided stars sprinkled against a sky of azure and aqua orbited him. Swirls, flames and gradient shades of blues, greens, and yellows danced across the instrument's body. An orange orb dipped behind a burnt sienna mountain range that floated across the pickguard.
During live performances, paint chips literally flaked and flecked off the neck while Clapton played. Eventually, all the excess paint was permanently removed. Soon, Clapton began using Gibson ES-335s and Firebirds. One day, he simply left the guitar with George Harrison, who was a friend, and never returned for it.
Around June 1968, the Beatle, in turn, loaned it to Jackie Lomax. The singer was signed at the time to Apple Records and George knew he needed a guitar so he gave Jackie the legendary SG.
In 1971, while in Woodstock, New York, Lomax and Rundgren met at a session and became friends. Rundgren was astonished when he learned that Lomax owned that very same guitar he'd seen hanging from Eric Clapton's neck. He told Jackie about seeing the guitar back in '67 and what an impression it had made on him.
A year later, in 1972, to Rundgren's shock, Lomax offered to sell him the guitar for $500. Lomax's only caveat was that he had the option to buy the guitar back. A year passed and not a word was heard.
Rundgren restored and sealed the body to prevent any further deterioration, replaced the rotting headstock, and retouched the paint. A fixed stop tailpiece was installed along with a Tune-o-matic bridge, Strap Locks, and new knobs. The guitar's guts were left intact and none of the electronics, wiring, or pickups were touched. He named Sunny as a nod towards the instrument's appearance on the Disraeli Gears track, "Sunshine of Your Love." The Fool SG became his main instrument until it was retired in the late '70s.
"Todd never played the guitar after we told him we found it," Waldo said.
In 2000, Rundgren sold the Psychedelic Fool Gibson SG at a Sotheby's silent auction, where it brought $150,000. This anonymous buyer re-sold the instrument several years later for an estimated $500,000.
The Vintage Eric Clapton "Fool" SG Copy:
Thankfully, Eric Clapton fans don't need to spend thousands of pounds for a little taste of the "Fool". Vintage make a very credible and high-quality copy of Clapton's guitar, the VS6 ICON Series Fool" SG (view page) Each hand made Vintage® Icon Series™"Fool" guitar is a true, 'one of a kind' instrument, with unique artwork exquisitely and individually hand painted, in oils, in a faithful re-creation of the iconic guitar. They seem to have done a great job, just compare the original Fool SG (left) with the Vintage copy (Right)
The original Fool SG
Vintage copy. Fooled? (click to enlarge)
Vintage Fool SG Features:
- Body: Mahogany
- Neck: Mahogany – Set Neck
- Fingerboard: Rosewood
- Scale: 24.75"/628mm
- Frets: 22
- Neck Inlays: Pearloid Crown
- Tuners: Wilkinson® Deluxe WJ44
- Bridge: Tune-O-Matic with Stop Bar Tailpiece
- Pickups: Wilkinson® Double Coil x 2 (N)MWVC (B)MWVC
- Hardware: Chrome (VS6/ VS6B/ LVS6) Gold (VS6CG)
- Controls: 2 x Volume/ 2 x Tone/ 3-Way Toggle


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Completely unprepared for the harsh winter, Jane first has to borrow warm clothing from Cory, who never cleaned out his daughter's closet. Out of her depth in the wilderness, she enlists Cory to help her unravel the mystery behind the woman's death.
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Veterans of the War of 1812 - Mathias Kline and Chester Barber - were honored with a plaque at the Kline Road Cemetery in a ceremony earlier this month by the Town of Lewiston.
In March, the town approached Downriver VFW Post 7487, asking if they would be interested in donating money toward the cost of a plaque for the veterans. Much to the town's surprise, not only was the post willing to pay for the plaque, but it also donated money toward the cost of installing a flagpole at the cemetery.
The cemetery is nestled in between two residential homes on Kline Road, just south of Saunders Settlement Road. It was established in the early 1800s by Mathias Kline as a family cemetery.
There are about 30 graves in the cemetery and some are not of the Kline family. One notable is that of Francis Saunders, for whom Saunders Settlement Road is named. The first burial on record in the cemetery was a young child in 1812, and the last was that of Mathias Kline himself in 1874.
The cemetery has long since been abandoned. Over the years, portions of it had become overgrown with brush, and Mother Nature and people damaged some of the headstones that still remain. A six-foot high Kline family monument was tilting and in danger of toppling over.
Last year, under the direction of Town Historian Robert Martinez, town crews removed brush and other vegetation, trimmed some trees, and cleaned up the grounds.
The town hired Niagara Monument Works to straighten the tilting Kline monument. In order to do this, the monument had to be dismantled, set aside, a new concrete foundation installed, and the monument reassembled. In addition to this, two granite grave markers for the two war veterans were fabricated and installed.
The cemetery sign and veterans plaque were designed and installed by town employees. A 16-foot flagpole was also installed and is equipped with a solar light to illuminate the flag in the evening.
"This project was just one of the many endeavors of historical significance that I and the town have planned to pursue in the near future," Martinez said.
All funding for the work done at the cemetery was acquired from the sale of plots at the town-owned Dickersonville Cemetery located on Ridge Road in Lewiston.
Town Supervisor Steven Reiter said he was very pleased with the outcome of the project. "This is a fine example of what can be accomplished when everyone works together for the good of the community. I'm honored to be here to commemorate these two veterans, and it's fitting that Memorial Day is this coming weekend.
"As you know, Memorial Day is when we honor and remember the veterans that paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country. And it reminds us that they are the real heroes, and the reality that freedom isn't free. There are Americans putting themselves in harm's way every day to keep our country safe and free. May God bless them and their families and God bless America."


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We produce software to scan computers to uncover critical information used by first responders.
Our clients are law enforcement, Intel, and military agencies.
This is an update of our existing logo so a few attributes of our current logo need to be maintained. The new logo needs to keep the font and layout of our existing logo (see it here: http://www.adfsolutions.com - top left corner).
The color theme is red (RGB: 139, 24, 27) and black.
The font used is BankGothic Lt BT.
The ADF and Solutions, Inc. has to maintain the same layout and proportions with ADF on top and Solutions, Inc. under with the same width.
The concept of the new logo revolves around a portable transparent digital scanner that shows the content of any objects, similar to what an x-ray scanner can do. Whatever is displayed behind the transparent digital scanner needs to appear differently to illustrate that the scanner is seeing inside the object. The look of the scanner is important and must be simple with just one or two buttons to convey ease of use.
We created a very simple example (http://www.adfsolutions.com/ADFlogo2.png) to show how the scanner could interact with the font. In this example, the font behind the scanner has not been modified but it should appear differently to show maybe the vectorial structure of the font, or binary text strings, or anything else you think might convey a similar message ("seeing inside").
Please remember that you can create something completely different as long as you maintain the color scheme, the font, and the idea of the portable transparent digital scanner.
We are looking forward to reviewing the first designs!
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Socal - Los Angeles County - Los Angeles NickNames: #DirtMulholland mulli
Take the 405 freeway into the Sepulveda pass and get off on Mulholland. Take this west a mile or so and the pavement will suddenly turn to dirt. This road runs the spine of the southern Santa Monica mountains with views of the San Fernando valley on one side, and the beachfront westside on the other. This is a major connector to many fire roads and trails in the area like Kenter, Westridge, Sullivan, Cabellero, Reseda, and Temescal. Thomas Guide page: 631
The ride down is great. Its a little washed out from all the rain this winter and spring. Great views of the entire valley (from trail) and Downtown (from Nike Missile) site.
I will definitely come back there are a lot of other trails branching off from what is essentially a fire road.
a 31 year old Weekend Warrior riding a Specialized Rockhopper from Sherman Oaks
I recommend coming from the west starting at the Reseda Blvd trailhead. From Ventura and Reseda blvd, go south on Reseda until it ends. Park the car and climb up the short pain in the a$$ hill then go east on the fireroad. You'll be at Nike in a little over 3 miles. It's mostly uphill but a great workout. Once at Nike read the signs for a little education or hit another trail from there that starts at the south tip of the Nike site. I haven't done it yet. Otherwise, go back down the trail for a great moderate downhill. Be good to the hikers!
The 3+ mile ride from Reseda Blvd has less gravel and more packed dirt than the 1+ mile ride from Mulholland.
Dirt Road=100%
Manacsa a 29 year old Weekend Warrior riding a Schwinn s.96 Hardtail
There are some sections of trail that are loose and gravel filled, so be careful.
If you want to commute from West LA/Brentwood to the Valley, this is your ticket. From W. LA, you can just ride up Mandeville Canyon and take the streets that lead to the trails. Then ride up the trails to D. Mulholland and cut Eastward. You can then exit at any of the trailheads that lead you out to Tarzana and Reseda and you are now in the Valley.
Ride rating: Novice
This is a good ride if you want to just hop on the
bike and ride for leisure. There are no major climbs
or fast descents. The views are nice of the mountains
to the south and the Valley to the north.
It's mostly dry fire roads for the most part.
There about 2 sections that are gravel infested and
traction is sketchy. So beginners may want to walk
their bikes through if your handling skills are still
There are equal amounts of short easy climbs are their
are short easy descents. It's a very "rolling" trail
for that reason and easy to do if you of moderate
There is a clean rest room and water source at the old
nike missile radar site, a must for any Cold War
This is a popular trail, yet it doesn't feel crowded.
There are many dog walkers and hikers, so please
If you want to mtn bike commute from the Valley to
West LA, or vice a versa, you can use Dirt Mulholland
and the off-shooting trails. Off of Dirt Mulholland,
you can take Sullivan Fire Road south and it can
eventually dump you onto Sunset Blvd.
Ride rating: Novice
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A grat ride for a beginner or novice rider.
Ride rating: Novice
Ride distance: 15 miles Elevation change: 900'
Dirt Road=100%
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We might not be getting much as new parents, but we can sure dream. Which means having the right bed sorted for our newborns and then hoping against hope that they'll sleep in it! Considering that newborn babies tend to snooze somewhere between eight and 18 hours a day, finding the right bed for them is one of the most crucial purchases you'll be making before D-day.
Figuring out which bed to buy for your baby can be a confusing process since there are so many options on offer, from Moses baskets to swinging cribs to cot beds you can even put them to bed in a swinging hammock if you like.
However, many parents choose a Moses basket, crib, or carrycot for the first few months, or have their babies in the same bed as them. The best decision we made was to get a cot bumper as this stopped her banging her head when she moved around and gave her a feeling of cosiness again.
The truth is, first-time parents just want to ensure their baby's bedding is snug and safe and it doesn't hurt for it to look stylish, too. While it's lovely that there are endless options out there to suit every interior's style and budget, figuring out which baby beds will work for you and which ones will be the best value can be tricky — and that's before you've even started to think about what goes inside the bed.
Moses basket or crib in the early days, a cot up to 18 months to two years or a cot bed to approximately five years years," explains Kiddicare product expert Linda Holmes. Moses baskets Typically made from palm or wicker, Moses baskets are suitable from birth and feature a cosy-looking design with sturdy handles and linings available in a variety of prints and colours to suit any space or set-up.
Alternatively, once your little one begins to move around, it's time to move them into another bed. According to Caroline Bettis, nursery buyer at John Lewis , the main advantage of investing in a Moses basket is that "it can be moved from room to room so your baby has its own sleeping place which is fully portable.
When moving your Moses basket from room to room, Kiddicare's Holmes advises putting your hand beneath it in addition to holding the handles for additional support. If you've already invested in a pushchair that comes with a carrycot, you may be tempted to use this as baby's first bed.
Bettis urges against it: If you're desperate — and you've checked that your pram or carrycot has been tested for overnight sleeping and is suitably ventilated — you can use it as a Moses basket alternative, but it's likely to be less convenient and heavier to move than a typical Moses basket. If you like the idea of a Moses basket but not the traditional look, there are other, more contemporary options available, namely the brightly hued Moba Moses basket, available at John Lewis, which is made from an eco-friendly recyclable material with anti-microbial and hypoallergenic properties.
Unlike wicker or palm versions, the Moba won't fray, split, or potentially become contaminated in storage and it's vivid colour options means baby's first bed can be neon orange as opposed to tame pastels for a change!
When your baby has outgrown the Moses basket, it also doubles as a stylish piece of nursery furniture that can be used to house and display cuddly animals and toys. The swinging crib An alternative to the Moses basket that can also be used from birth, a swinging crib can be placed beside the bed and creates a gentle rocking motion that can help the baby drift off to sleep.
The bedside crib Another option for new parents who want to keep their babies close is the bedside crib.
It either attaches directly to the parents' bed with one adjustable, drop-down side or is designed to be placed alongside your bed. These cribs give babies their own space while keeping them within easy reach and offer the closest alternative to creating a co-sleeping scenario with your tot without actually having them in bed with you.
They are also a convenient choice if your movements are restricted, for example after a C-section. If you're unsure about committing but curious to try one of these, they're also available to rent from six weeks upwards from the NCT. They are more expensive than Moses baskets and not as portable.
In case you're tempted to co-sleep Mums who struggle to get their baby to sleep in Moses baskets or cribs may feel like co-sleeping presents the simplest option, especially if they're breastfeeding through the night. Cot or cot bed? While some parents choose a smaller bed for their baby to start out in, others put their little ones into a cot from day one — it's all a matter of personal preference, as long as the bed you choose meets the safety recommendations and conforms to British safety standards BSEN While cots may be more suitable for smaller spaces, cot beds are a longer-lasting option, so give you better value for money.
No matter what you end up choosing, be sure to pick a firm, flat, waterproof mattress in good condition to reduce the risk of SIDS, advises safer sleep charity, The Lullaby Trust. Even if you've got a second-hand cot or cot bed, it's probably worth investing in a new mattress to feel safest.
Most importantly, always remember to put baby down to sleep on their back, in the feet-to-foot position with their feet at the bottom of the bed. Another reason to invest in a cot bed is the longevity — it is a piece of furniture that changes and grows with your family and some styles can turn into day beds that last beyond early childhood.
If pressed for space, look out for cot bed units with removable changing table attachments or underneath storage compartments to maximise your room.
There's also the Sleepyhead — a favourite of John Lewis' Bettis - a multi-functional, portable baby bed that you can use from birth and that has a longer shelf life than your average Moses basket. It can be used around the house — put baby in it while lounging on the sofa or keep it in a cot or travel cot. Bumper to bumper While cot bumpers can help your nursery to look very sweet, you're better off skipping them invest in an eye-catching wall print if you're looking to add some pattern and colour to your space.
Bumpers are a protective padding that fit the mattress base and are designed to prevent babies from bumping their heads on the sides of the bed and their limbs from escaping through the cot bars. They are best avoided since they can pose a risk to babies as soon as they can sit themselves up. Other bedding If your baby is under 12 months old, do not use pillows or duvets in the bed to avoid any possibility of suffocation. Instead, opt for minimal and lightweight bedding like a sheet or blanket and don't place anything above shoulder height.
If your baby loves nothing more than to kick off their hand-crocheted blankets, keep them warm and safe at bedtime with a sleeping bag. Here's our guide to buying a baby sleeping bag. NCT's guide to choosing a bed safely: The recommendation for the Bednest has been removed following the NCT withdrawing it from sale.
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We learn about the world by slicing it up into smaller pieces. We study history, geography, math, art, music, science, and lots of other subjects. But to really understand our world, we must reconnect the pieces to see how they all work together.
This is a story about connections. This is a story about how events on the Sun 300 years ago may have affected some of the beautiful music we still hear today.
In the 17th century (1644 to 1737) lived a violin maker named Antonio Stradivari. His workshop was in Cremona, Italy. He made hundreds of violins, many of which are still played today. They are prized for their rich and beautiful sound, especially in the hands of master violinists.
No one has since been able to make a violin that sounds quite like a Stradivarius (a violin made by Stradivari). Just how did Stradivari make such wonderful violins? No one knows for sure, but one new idea makes a lot of sense.
Violins are made from wood. The best violins are made from very hard, dense wood. The best wood comes from trees that have grown very slowly, laying down a thin ring of dense new growth each year. Long winters and cool summers make for slow tree growth.
During about 1560-1850, which included the time Stradivari made his violins, Europe (including Italy) experienced a "Little Ice Age." It was so cold that normally free-flowing rivers and canals froze over.
Stradivari used the hard, dense wood from the spruce trees growing during this time in a nearby forest to make his violins.
Why so cold?
But why did Europe get so much colder than normal during these years? Only recently did scientists make the connection and figure out the most likely answer.
Astronomers have been studying the Sun for hundreds of years.
Of course, astronomers never look at the sun directly and neither should you!
Using very special dark filters and lenses, they have studied the most obvious feature on the Sun: Sunspots.
Sunspots are areas of particularly strong magnetic forces on the Sun's surface. They appear darker than their surroundings because they are cooler. Even so, scientists have discovered that when there are lots of sunspots, the Sun is actually putting out MORE energy than when there are fewer sunspots. Sunspot activity occurs in cycles of about 11 years. But during about 1645 to 1715, hardly any sunspots were seen! From the time sunspot records were first kept until now, such a "solar rest period" has not been seen. It was during this period that Europe experienced the "Little Ice Age." It was during this time that Stradivari came along and made possibly the best violins ever from the slow-growing trees of his chilly era.
So, that is how the Sun of 300 years ago made beautiful music that we can still hear today!