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How will screen printers can take a leadership role in improving quality and integrating into a more digital-oriented advertising world?
In the February/March issue of Screen Printing, I talked about what's really driving the relentless contraction of run length. For those that missed it, the quick difference is that the old graphic-communication model was based on mass production of printed units. To get the cost per unit low enough to justify a campaign, the run length was increased to lower the proportional cost of the prepress and set-up.
To remain economically viable, screen has been focusing on reduced setup times and heightened production efficiencies. This has been the way we've always handled it—we simply look for ways to reduce non-billable or non-value-add time within the overall transaction. We aren't alone here. Every other analog printing method has looked to this model as well.
Back in the early 1990s, Total Quality Management (TQM) sought to create flexible manufacturing cells capable of producing very small lots. This was extended in Lean Manufacturing as a method to eliminate all waste. This includes any time that's not directly buidable into the value of the final product.
Like TQM, Lean aims to create an economic value unit of one. This is consistent with the convergence we see with the digital model. So far, so good. We're all on the same page when it comes to getting rid of waste. So why won't this work moving forward for screen printing?
The real issue is the total cost of operation. There are two components here, the first being the material cost of set-up. This includes all the prepress costs: image prep, ripping, film (if not direct), screens, and screen prep labor. It also includes the labor to set up the press and the associated run-up costs of getting the press sheet dialed in for color and fit.
We can't do much about the prepress costs other than skipping the film portion and going direct to screen. The screen and mesh amortization, emulsion, and imaging costs are limited. We might be able to save some exposure time by using pure photopolymers, but this is a relatively low savings.
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This is a scary moment from early in the second half of Friday's Seton Hall game against Lafayette. Gene Teague, who was having a phenomenal game up to that point and already had a double-double, has his feet undercut as he makes his move to the rim and violently lands on his head. He then begins convulsing.
Immediately, a Seton Hall trainer called for the paramedics. Walsh Gym went silent — the only sounds being Teague's guttural groans into the court as his body appeared to go limp.
In trying to draw a charge on a driving Fuquan Edwin, the Lafayette defender's momentum causes him to slide underneath Teague, knocking out his legs as he makes a strong move to the rim. His legs (and therefore head) go completely horizontal and he can't brace himself in time to cushion the blow.
Seton Hall coach Kevin Willard said Teague was diagnosed with a "really bad concussion" and will stay in the hospital for a few days for observation.
Gene Teague carted off on stretcher after suffering 'bad concussion' in Seton Hall's 90-58 win over Lafayette [NJ.com]

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – In its last home match of the regular season, the No. 20 nationally ranked MIT men's tennis team defeated Brandeis University with a score of 8-1. The Engineers, who remain ranked sixth in the Northeast Region, are now 15-1, while the Judges fell to 7-10.
Juniors Curtis Wu (Yorba Linda, Calif.) and Edwin Zhang (Falls Church, Va.) returned to the top in doubles action after not having been paired together in over a month, defeating Steven Milo and Josh Jordan at No. 1 with a score of 8-5. The duo is now 7-3 in the No. 1 position.
At No. 2, seniors Larry Pang (Torrance, Calif.) and Matthew Skalak (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.) won against Mitch Krems and Alec Siegel, 8-3. At No. 3, sophomore Eugene Oh (Alparetta, Ga.) and freshman Kevin Wang (Havertown, Pa.) defeated Danny Lubarsky and Dave Yovanoff with a score of 8-3.
At No. 1 in singles play, Zhang lost the first set in a 5-0 tiebreaker, falling 7-6, but was able to come from behind to take the final two sets, 6-4, 10-6 to win the match. At No. 2, Pang won his first set against Krems, 6-2, but fell in the other two, 6-4, 6-4. Wang walked away with a win against Yovanoff at No. 3, winning a tiebreaker, 5-0 to take the first match with a score of 7-6 and then winning the second set, 6-3.
Oh had little difficulty defeating Siegel at No. 4, winning 6-3, 6-3. Senior Tymor Hamamasy (New York, N.Y.) won his fourth match at No. 5 for the season when he defeated Michael Secular, 6-2, in the first set, dropped the second, 5-7, and came back to win the third one, 10-6. Classmate Brian Oldfield (St. Thomas, Virgin Islands) easily won against Lubarsky at No. 6 with a score of 6-2, 6-3.
MIT will travel to Springfield, Mass. to play its final match of the regular season against New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) rival Springfield College at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 24.


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A healthy diet and getting enough rest is good advice for people of all ages. For two Sun City residents who are beginning their second century of living, they're just part of what keeps them ticking.
Amelia Krapfs Williams and Hazel Burger also include playing the piano, taking tennis and tap dance lessons, working puzzles, painting, dancing and reading.
Williams lives with her daughter and son-in-law, Janet and John Garnjost. She will be 101 in September.
"I don't feel 100," Williams said. "I don't act it."
The former Latin and German language teacher said her mother taught her to do all things in moderation.
"I think I'm still going because of my diet, keeping active, enjoying life. I did play tennis. I would say that's pretty good," she said. She enjoys fruit and milk. "I like variety. I like my sweets."
The daughter of a Lutheran minister who moved his family to serve at different churches, Williams enjoyed living by the seashore when they lived in Atlantic City. By the time she was in high school, the family had moved to Pittston, Pa., not far from Hershey where she was born.
That neighbor boy
The one thing that stood out in her memory was being able to see the home of a neighbor boy outside her back door across the cemetery. Soon they began dating.
"My mother didn't like that so much," Williams said with a twinkle. "He worked at the Vulcan Iron Works. My mother sent me off to Susquehanna College to become a teacher."
The school, now a fully accredited university, was 82 miles from her home and Williams is one of only two surviving members of the Class of 1933. She married that "neighbor boy" Howard Williams in 1942 and they honeymooned very close to home.
"We went to the Poconos. You couldn't go very far because of the war and gas rationing," she said.
The couple eventually moved to Syracuse, N.Y., for Howard to get a job with Williams' brother Russell who worked for General Electric. She lived in the same home for 50 years, surviving her sweetheart who died in 1974. She moved to the Garnjost's Stamford, Conn., home in 2003 and then to Sun City in July 2008.
Williams keeps her mind active reading autobiographies, working jigsaw puzzles that are always in progress on a card table and playing the piano. She gave piano lessons while raising her daughters and the instrument in the Garnjost living room gets a regular workout with classics and hymns.
"Her sight-reading is amazing," said Janet.
Tennis and tap dancing
Williams is the younger of Sun City's centenarians. Burger celebrated her 101st birthday in January. She also has a piano in her home, although it is more for the benefit of her three daughters and in memory of her husband, whom she said was very musical.
"Lewis had a wonderful voice," she said. Burger's talents lean more to fashion and decorating.
"I was always interested in color. I always wanted my clothes to match ever since I was young. I used to help a lot of my friends with advice when they were buying drapes and upholstering chairs," she said. Burger said she rarely bought anything new, preferring to make over pieces found at flea markets and thrift stores. "I used to do my own upholstery and I used to sew a lot."
Burger also went to college to become a teacher, graduating from Manchester College in Indiana, near where she grew up in a large family on a farm. She said she always ate pretty healthy as a child.
"We grew just about everything we ate, my mother canned all summer long and in winter we ate whatever was in the cellar," she said. "I'm not a big eater and I'm not a vegetable lover but I am trying to eat more. I don't eat a lot of meat. I do eat some chicken and fish."
She dramatically changed her eating habits after her youngest daughter left home for college and her husband, an engineer who worked for General Electric, had taken a job that required a great deal of travel.
Holistic health
"I found a doctor who was into holistic medicine and he had me change my whole way of eating: All whole grain, no sugar at all, nothing white — no white flour, no milk products, nothing with preservatives or additives and six or seven glasses of water a day," she said. "I did it. I never could have done it. In two months I was all cleared up without any medication. I have followed that pretty closely, about 80 percent. I use soy milk and I don't mind it. I do eat some cheese but I have given the rest up. I feel like that is one of the reasons I'm still here."
Her other activities might also have something to do with her longevity. Burger is renowned for her past volunteerism, something she and her husband did before moving here from Peoria, Ill., 12 years ago. She's also been active in the Sun City Community Theatre, goes to karaoke, took tennis lessons and played until a balance issue came up a few months ago and plans to return to the courts soon. She does circuit training two to three times a week. She takes beginning tap lessons not with an eye to the stage.
"It's fun and good exercise," Burger said. "An instructor told me that tap dancing is the best thing for my balance."
She also loves to dance and with her beau Fred Zoda, a young 92, is frequently seen tripping the light fantastic wherever there is music.
Burger and Williams keep going strong, although with their various hobbies and different backgrounds, it may be difficult to pinpoint exactly why. Except that they just keep going — staying active and doing things they enjoy — all in moderation.


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Monday, July 21, 2008
Weekend Happenings
I spent much of last night doing some of my first real arena matches of the season. I started a new 2v2 with my Warrior, specced MS, and joined forces with my buddy and Ret pally Muralyon. We ended the evening at 1576 and I got my Brutal Gladiators Leggings. I think im gonna farm some honor today and try to get my season 4 bracers. Next week I should have the rating as well as the arena points to pick up my Season 4 chest. The only thing I really regret about my Warrior is that I picked up the Axe way back in the day instead of the Sword or Mace.
On a side note, one of the more progressed guilds Alliance side on our server is folding. It seems that a lot of people got tired of too much time spent raiding. I have a feeling that we may be getting a few of those players due to the fact that our raiding schedule isnt nearly as grueling as many of the others.
Our guild has some amazing players for what they do. We have an abundance of awesome tanks and healers, and our pew pew is starting to catch up as well (still a few laggers). The biggest problem we seem to have is individual people having a brain fart at bad moments. I would imagine that this is the case will all guilds, but it seems that sometimes people are severly lacking focus....like when the main tank goes down on Kaz'Rogal like 30 seconds into the fight.
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- Val said...
The challenges of running a smooth guild are endless, for sure. It's cool that your guild has made it so far, however, as many guilds get stuck in SSC and TK because geared players move on due to slowness in progression.
You know, haven't had a proper raid in two weeks because the GM has some family time and a heavy workload? Folks start whining very shortly into it and then some inevitably leave.
I never really cared about progression, just the opportunity to raid with fun people. But then, there's the fact that I was beating people with +200 more damage than me (fellow Mages) consistently every raid, and I started to get tired of being one of the best.
Nevermind the whole "you must be loyal to us!" BS that most guilds spew - everyone is ready to talk behind your back in a split second if you take a PUG they don't believe you should take, even if the guild is past, or not yet in, the content you're going to PUG.
It's hard to be loyal on a video game that we're all here to have fun with, but at the same time, I still regularly play with people I've known for 2-3 years on the game, and I made some great friends Raiding.
I'm very glad to be in my own non-raiding guild now, but at times I wish it were easier to find groups without 3 jackasses in it ;)
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- July 25, 2008 at 5:11 PM
- Val said...
btw, to me, being "the best" means I'm in the wrong guild. I simply don't have enough time to dedicate to a single raiding character to be the best in anywhere but a low-progressed guild (ie: everything before early SSC)
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Quote from: jmcamerlengo on July 31, 2012, 01:08:44 PMI think everyone needs to sweat out a decoction on a hot summer day Amen to that. I did a triple decoction on a Doppelbock this year in that humid mid-day Virginia heat. I swear I could taste the work put into it!
I'm trying to justify doing decoctions all the time. I love brewing German lagers, but damn it makes for such a long brew day. But TWO triple decoctions in one day?? Holy sh*tballs.
Last year I did a dopplebock and dunkel on the same day, both TRIPLE decocted in the middle of July. I said to myself last fall drinking the beers...Im an idiot, but the beers are good!
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In Joseph Owens' essay in The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas, the author emphasizes that Aquinas (with Aristotle) roots human knowledge in objects in the world impinging on our senses. With a nice turn of phrase, Owens marks how this is rather different from the subjectivism that one finds in Descartes and, generally, in 'postmodern' sensibilities:
[T]he postmodern approach is bound by its own historical antecedents in a way that stretches as far back as Descartes. It cannot take seriously the approach from things in themselves. It is incapable of understanding how things in themselves may be epistemologically prior to thoughts and words. Still conditioned by the Cartesian asceticism of turning one's back upon the immaturity of sense cognition and taking one's ideas as the starting points for philosophical thinking, it finds incomprehensible the stand that the thing signified can be epistemologically prior to the sign (p. 56).
In Bavinck's narrative of this (in RD vol. 1), one finds that our true sense perception of the world serving as the foundation of human knowledge is a staple in the history of catholic Christian theology and philosophical thinking. Intriguingly, on this reading, infatuation with idealism or linguistic constructivism in recent Christian thinkers enamored of (so-called) postmodern thought represents a spurning of the catholic (small 'c') resources and trajectory.
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(New York, N.Y.) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck announced today that EPA has provided more than $130,000 to Syracuse University to fund educational projects in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the eight federally recognized Tribal Nations within New York State. The university will use the funding to award approximately 30 grants of $5,000 or less to schools and community organizations to support projects to reduce the run-off of polluted rain-water and promote municipal waste reduction, recycling and composting. The Syracuse Center of Excellence (SyracuseCoE) Center for Sustainable Community Solutions is seeking proposals for projects that promote partnerships between community groups and school districts serving students from kindergarten to grade 12 in urban and rural communities. Information is available at http://www.syracusecoe.org/coe/sub1.html?skuvar=223.
"Educating students about the importance of environmental protection is one of the most important things we can do to create a generation of students with the tools to improve the health of their communities," said Judith A. Enck, EPA Regional Administrator.
The SyracuseCoE Center for Sustainable Community Solutions will be collaborating on the grant project with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's Division of Materials Management, the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, the Environmental Finance Center at Syracuse University, the Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency, Reuse Alliance and the Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board. The university will provide expertise and technical assistance to the grant recipients and monitor the projects. Webinars and /or podcasts will bring the grantees together to share lessons learned when their projects are completed.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 14, 2013) – There will be plenty of buzz hovering around Thomas Stadium early Friday morning before the ETSU baseball team opens the 2013 season against Penn State.
Prior to first pitch at 2:35 p.m., a ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held inside the ballpark to honor the Thomas family and those who had a hand in building the home of Buccaneer Baseball. The dedication ceremony is open to the public and will begin at 10:30 a.m.
The three-game series continues Saturday and Sunday with game times set for 1:05 p.m., each day.
- Penn State finished third in the Big Ten in 2012 after posting a record of 29-27, 15-9.
- The Nittany Lions return four of their top seven hitters, including junior outfielder Steve Snyder, who was placed on the Big Ten Preseason Watch List. Joining Snyder on the list were senior right-handed pitchers Steven Hill and David Walkling.
- Snyder hit .258 (54-209) with seven doubles, two triples and 31 runs scored in 2012, while senior infielder Luis Montesinos – Penn State's top returning hitter – finished with a .280 batting average (56-200), along with 11 doubles, 16 RBIs and 23 runs scored.
- The Nittany Lions had a pair of players drafted in the 2012 Major League Baseball Draft. Starting pitcher Joe Kurrasch (4-2, 2.05 ERA) was taken in the eighth round by the San Francisco Giants and First Team All-Big Ten selection Jordan Steranka (.363, 20 doubles, 11 home runs, 20 RBI) was drafted in the 21st round by the Pittsburgh Pirates.
- Penn State's roster features 16 upperclassmen (eight seniors and eight juniors) and 19 underclassmen (nine freshmen and 10 sophomores).
- Friday – RHP Kerry Doane (4-5, 4.50 ERA) vs. RHP David Walkling (1-1, 3.74 ERA)
- Saturday – RHP Griffin Krieg (N/A) vs. RHP Steven Hill (5-4, 3.84 ERA)
- Sunday – RHP Jimmy Nesselt (3-5, 3.97 ERA) vs. Patton Taylor (1-0, 6.23 ERA)
- Stats reflect 2012 season
- This weekend marks the first-ever meeting between the two programs.
- The last Big Ten foe ETSU faced was Indiana last season.
- The Bucs won the series with the Hoosiers back on March 4 at Thomas Stadium.
Live stats will be available for all three games via StatBroadcast by visiting ETSUBucs.com. Fans can access live stats on their computers, mobile devices or tablets. Meanwhile, live audio will be offered for Friday's game only as "Voice of the Bucs" Jay Sandos will handle the play-by-play duties on ETSUBucs.com. Live updates will also be posted on Twitter by following @ETSUAthletics.
Below is a list of promotional items for Friday's season opener:
- Free food from FATZ – students only
- First 300 students receive an exclusive "Opening Day" T-Shirt
- First 1,000 fans receive "Opening Day" poster, courtesy of Sir Speedy
- Fans have the chance to win prizes from the Neebo Bookstore, Carnegie Hotel and other Johnson City area businesses
Come out to Thomas Stadium early and tailgate prior to ETSU baseball games this season. A designated tailgating area will be roped off in the parking lot where fans can enjoy a festive environment before the Bucs take the field. Click here for tailgating guidelines.
ETSU fans wanting to receive Buccaneer news, score updates, in-game promotions and much more sent to their mobile device can do so by signing up for "Buc Updates." Click here to sign up today!
- ETSU returns 13 letterwinners from its 2012 roster. The 2013 Buccaneer roster features six seniors, eight juniors, five sophomores, and 13 freshmen.
- Junior Clinton Freeman (Jonesborough, Tenn.) was selected to the preseason all-conference list and named Atlantic Sun Preseason Player of the Year by Baseball America. In 2012, Freeman led the Bucs in batting average (.365), hits (81), doubles (14), and RBIs (50). Freeman was also among Atlantic Sun leaders, as he tied for second in hits, ranked fourth in average and RBI, sixth in slugging percentage (.550), and tied for 10th in home runs (7).
- Senior Andrew Green (Powell, Tenn.) enters the 2013 season 23 stolen bases shy of breaking the all-time ETSU record. Green recorded 22 stolen bases in 2012, which were tied for the fifth-highest in single-season history.
- Opening Day starter Kerry Doane (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) set ETSU single-season records in 2012 for strikeout-to-walk ratio (8:33/1) and fewest walks per 9.0 IP (1.00). Doane struck out 50 batters and only walked six.
- Sunday starter Jimmy Nesselt (Plantation, Fla.) also set the school record for fewest hits per 9.0 IP last year. Nesselt allowed 7.71 hits per nine innings during his rookie season.
- Junior right-hander Will Chesney (Knoxville, Tenn.) was one of 75 relief pitches named to the initial watch list for the ninth annual National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Stopper of the Year Award.
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One Box Hunt brings National Champ to town
A world-class shooter is coming to town. Bill McGuire won his first National Sporting Clay Championship this last weekend weekend in San Antonio, Texas, finishing just three targets ahead of runner-up Zachary Kienbaum. This weekend he'll be hunting pheasants as part of the 2011 One Box Pheasant Hunt in Broken Bow. There will be eight teams competing in this year's event for the third time in the event's 51 years, said Thomas McCaslin, event chair. "The momentum is there. There will be lots of good shooters competing." Bill McGuire will be joined this weekend by reknown artist D. Michael Thomas, retired All-Pro defensive tackle for the Washington Redskins Dave Butz, Lt. Governor Rick Sheehy and Jon Kruger, considered to be one of the foremost shooters in the world. Each team consists of five shooters, two guides, a judge and a dog handler. The judge scores the shots fired and keeps track of the birds. Unrecovered birds are counted as a miss. The winning team is the one who brings in the most birds. Each team is given one box of 25 shotgun shells to work with. The hunt ends when the daily bag is reached or the 25th shell has been fired, whichever comes first. In case of a tie, the victor is decided by time. "In addition to the eight teams and their families, there are 70 past shooters who are still involved," said Thomas. "There will be over 500 people served at the Thursday dinner." Thomas emphasized the importance of the community in everything being offered over the weekend, and pointed out that all the moneys the One Box Pheasant Hunt generates goes back into the communities. This year the Foundation will reach the $250,000 mark in moneys returned in scholarships, and community support, since the Foundation's start in 1981. "We sure extend a thanks to the community for all of their work in hosting One Box," he said. This is the 51st year of the One Box Pheasant Hunt. This year's teams and their members include:Nebraska Team Team Captain Todd Anderson of Broken Bow graduated from Sandhills High School in Dunning and Kearney State College. He has been in sales most of his professional career and currently works for Cargill. Brad Schutte is from Hastings. He owns Howard Glass and enjoys all aspects of outdoor activities, including hunting, fishing, camping, boating, hiking, skiing and motocross. Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy was appointed Lieutenant Governor by Gov. Dave Heineman and sworn in Jan. 24, 2005. Sheehy is a member of the Homeland Security Advisors Council for the National Governors Association, and since 2007 has served on the executive committee for the National Lieutenant Governors Association. Jason Anderson was born and raised in the Sandhills of Nebraska and currently lives in Lincoln where he owns Arrow Pest Control. Anderson has been a lifelong outdoorsman and has served as a guide for the Shoot N Shout Dove Hunt in the past. Doug Gallaway grew up near Bassett and currently resides in Grand Island. He has been at Eakes Office Plus for 31 years. Gallaway enjoys hunting and fishing and spends most weekends on the water. NRA Team Team Captain Bill Poole is from Fairfax, Va., and serves as the Director of NRA's Education and Training Division. Raised in a trap shooting family, clay target shooting has been the basis for his love of the shooting sports. He says he enjoys hunting with 'anything that flies." He is the Chairman of BSA Troop 1995s Troop Committee, and has been appointed twice to the Boy Scout's National High Adventure Camp Inspection Team. Dr. Thomas P. Arvas of Albuquerque, N.M., is a current menber of the NRA of America Board of Directors. Taught to hunt at an early age by his father, he currently serves as Vice Chairman of NRAs Hunting and Wildlife Conservation Committee, and Chairman of the Shotgun and Sporting Shooting Committees. Dave Butz from Swansea, Ill., is a retired All-Pro defensive tackle for the Washington Redskins. He has played in three Super Bowls and is a member of the NRA of America Board of Directors. He is an avid shooter and lifelong hunter. He is the former host of the television show Suzuki Great Outdoors. He is a life member of the National Sporting Clays Association, member of Quail Unlimited and is the recipient of the George Allen Leadership and Achievement Award. The Honorable Clel Baudler from Greenfield, Iowa, is a member of the NRA of America Board of Directors, serving on the Legislative Policy, Law Enforcement Assistance and Action Pistol committees. He retired with 32 years in law enforcement with the Iowa State Patrol. He was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1998 and is currently serving his 5th term. Mike Krei is the Director for the NRA Competitive Shooting Division. He has 26 years of service with the NRA. The Competitive Shooting Division sanctions over 11,000 tournaments and conducts 50 National Championships annually. Krei grew up in a hunting family where his dad and granddad built duck boats and carved decoys on the northern California coast. Georgia Boys Team Captain Douglas Bridges is from Duluth, Ga. For 40 years he has been a management consultant to medical professionals and a CPA. His hobbies include watching the Braves and anything outdoors. Stephen Johnston, Sr. is the managing partner of CLR Partners, LLC. Johnston serves on the Board of Zoo Atlanta and is an active member of Business Executives for National Security. He lives in Atlanta, Ga. Bill McGuire from Charleston, Tenn. is a Professional Course Design and Shooting Instructor. McGuire is the 2011 National Sporting Clays Champion, 2009 North American Grand Prix Champion, 2009 Palmetto Cup Champion, 2008 Georgia State Champion and 2008 Texas State 5-Stand Champion. Frank (Woody) Bell, Jr. from Duluth, Ga., founded Woody's Nursery in 1973. He is a Director of Gwinnett Community Bank in Duluth and a Director of the Duluth Historical Society. Shoot to Thrill Team Captain Brandon Johnson from Oklahoma City, Okla., has worked with Courtesy Financial Advisors since 2005. Chris Johnson of Odessa, Texas, is in business with Gene Smith as Chaparral Industries. David Bairrington of Bryan, Texas, is the general manager for ConocoPhillips. He began his career as a petroleum engineer in Odessa, Texas, working in the United States, Norway, the United Kingdom and the Ivory Coast. He has served as president, Russia and Caspian, and has worked on the development of ConocoPhillips Canadian old sands. Mark Bairrington of Moore, Okla., has worked for Ivy Funds since 2006. Winston Kenworthy is president of Kenworthy Tank Rental, Inc. He has served on the boards of several organizations including the YMCA, the Big Brother/Big Sister Program and the United Way of Odessa. VIP Team Team Captain George Land is a Transportation Director and Chief Pilot for Valley Hope Association in Norton, Kan. Land has participated in the SE Colorado Two-Shot Celebrity Goose Hunt, One Box Shoot N Shout, Colorado Invitational Dove Hunt and has served as a One Box Pheasant Hunt Score Keeper. Colonel Sankey was commissioned as an officer with the Nebraska State Patrol Dec. 11, 1987. During his 24 years with the agency, he has had the opportunity to attend a number of law enforcement and command development courses that helped shape his career. He was appointed by Gov. Dave Heineman as Superintendent March 1, 2011. D. Michael Thomas has been sculpting for over 30 years. A native of Wyoming, he grew to love the west and its rich history while growing up working on a cattle ranch. Since 1993, he was worked as an artist full-time. He has stayed busy the last few years sculpting three monuments, including one of his friend Chris Ledoux on the bronc Stormy Weather which was dedicated June 2010 in Kaycee, Wyo. Patrick H. Sullivan grew up in Tecumseh where he was introduced to trap shooting by his dad. He's been participating in competitive clay target shooting ever since. He is the VP of Dealer Affairs for the Nebraska New Car and Truck Dealers Association in Lincoln. He participates in four to five big game hunts each season. Bob Puette is an engineering graduate of Northwestern University where he attended on a football scholarship. His business career included 24 years at Hewlett-Packard where he started the HP Personal Computer Business. He left HP to become the President of Apple Computer, then was the CEO of two technology companies that he sold. Today Puette is the CEO of Puette Capital Management, Inc. and on the boards of several technology companies. He has been an avid hunter all of his life. He is a Benefactor Member of the NRA Ring of Freedom and a Life Member of the NRA for 45 years. A lot of his time is taken as the Grand Prior of the United States for the International Order of St. Hubertus (the oldest hunting organiztion in the world) where he serves as Secretary of the worldwide organization. Plains Equipment Group Team Captian Kent Kirchoff of Lincoln, is a Director of Marketing for Plains Equipment Group. Kirchoff was raised on a farm in south central Nebraska and prior to his position with Plains Equipment Group, he worked for John Deere Company for 12 years. Eric Semin of O'Neill is the Location Leader for Plains Equipment Group at their O'Neill location. Semin is an avid upland bird hunter and a former participant in the One Box Gun Club sporting clay, skeet and trap leagues. He has participated as a scorekeeper in the One Box Hunt as well as the Shoot N Shout. Sam O'Toole from McCook is the Location Leader for the Plains Equipment Group McCook, NE. and Oberlin, KS. locations. He has been with Plains Equipment Group for 12 years. He says he has always been an avid sportsman. He is an NRA certified Instructor for pistol adn rifle. Tom Joyce from Seward is the East Region Manager for Plains Equipment Group. Joyce says he feels fortunate to participate in this year's One Box event and hopes his teammates can carry him through the competition. Chris Davison from Urbandale, Iowa, is the Global Manager of Customer and Product Support for John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group. He is responsible for the worldwide planning and product support organizations located in North America, Germany, Brazil and Australia. BD Rooster Busters Team Captain Elmo Anderson, Quality Assurance Manager for the BD Holdrege facility, is an avid upland bird, waterfowl and big game hunter. Al Hohlfeld was born in Broken Bow, but he did not reside there until much later in life. He is an avid hunter, and enjoys hunting waterfowl and game birds, especially the turkeys around Broken Bow. Hohlfeld actively shot at the One Box Shooting Complex while in the Broken Bow area and currently shoots at the Holdrege Gun Club. James J. Sanyi, III comes from Charleston, S.C. He is employed by the public accounting firm of Webster Rogers. Sanyi is an devoted outdoorsman who enjoys fresh and saltwater fishing. He is an avid hunter, often going for deer, hog, turkey and quail. John Wilson was born at Fort Benning, Ga., but grew up in a variety of locations from Georgia to Germany. He currently resides in Kearney. Wilson is a U.S. Army Veteran with tours of duty in Saudi Arabia and Iraq. He is the Plant Manager for the Becton Dickinson facility in Holdrege. W. Scott Gardner is a member of the Great Plains Chapter of Pheasants Forever in Holdrege. Gardner enjoys trap shooting and participating as a Mentor for the Annual Youth Pheasant Hunt. Ramblin Roosters Team Captain Paul Ulmer moved to Broken Bow in 1991. He is the manager of Trotter Fertilizer in Broken Bow and has been with Trotters since 1999. Ulmer is a board member for the One Box Foundation. Allen Strong hails from Broken Bow, but currently calls Holyoke, Colo., home. He owns and operates a crop consulting business. In the fall he guides deer and waterfowl hunters in southwest Nebraska and northeast Colorado. Stong has been a guide for the One Box Hunt since 1995. Jon Kruger is from Franktown, Colo. For over 20 years, Kruger has been an integral part of the game of sporting clays in the United States. He is considered one of the foremost shooters in the world. He is an eight-time NSCA US Open Champion and First Team All-American for 20 consecutive years. He was on Team USA Sporting Clays and FIT ASC International and received Gold, Silver and Bronze medals. Craig Bohannan from Yutan grew up on and around a trap range, where he developed his love for shooting and hunting. He works for the Omaha Public Power District. Jeremy Dierks is from Holyoke, Colo., where he is the Area Manager for Pioneer Hi-Bred for Colorado, western Nebraska and northwest Kansas. He enjoys spending his free time hunting, working on a family farm and volunteering as a youth wrestling coach.


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2012 was a challenging year for Jennie Garth, but she has a lot to be proud about. She got through a divorce with former husband Peter Facinelli and is building a new life with her daughters. Garth also lost 30 pounds -- but that accomplishment wasn't about getting skinny. She got healthier this year.
Jennie spent years yo-yo dieting. In this month's Health magazine, she says, "My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets: Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet. I lost like 18 pounds, but it came right back." Even worse was her "horrifying" three or four days fasting with colonics. In 2012, she tried a very healthy new strategy.
"Every day, I just renew my healthy choices," she says. She's taking her new life one day at a time. And it sounds like this approach is really working for her. "I feel really good about myself now, and I don't want to do anything to change that."
Instead of torturing herself with crazy cleanses, Jennie is eating "clean" and exercising five days a week the fun way -- kickboxing and hiking with her dogs. The fitness routine makes her feel stronger and more confident. I also know that exercise can help an incredible amount in fighting off divorce (or other) depression. Can I say that strongly enough? Exercise! Will fight! Divorce depression!
She also keeps a list of things that make her happy on her iPhone -- don't you love that idea? On the face of it, that doesn't seem directly related to weight loss and getting fit. But I think it fits in well with her overall approach to just plain living better. It's a more holistic approach. I may try it myself.
Do you have any healthy resolutions for this year?
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The last time Sgt. Gene McGowan and Lt. Marc Harris saw each other was in Vietnam in 1970 as members of the 11th Armored Calvary position near the rubber trees along the Ho Chi Minh Trail near the Cambodian border.
The last time Sgt. Gene McGowan and Lt. Marc Harris saw each other was in Vietnam in 1970 as members of the 11th Armored Calvary position near the rubber trees along the Ho Chi Minh Trail near the Cambodian border.
Lt. Harris was being transferred and he handed Sgt. McGowan his K-bar knife and told him to "keep digging up those mines."
Almost 43 years later the two solders saw each other for the first time since that day at Texas Roadhouse in Milton on Wednesday.
McGowan, who later came home and retired from the Okaloosa County School System as a diesel mechanic, was stunned when he heard from his former lieutenant from the three tours he served in Vietnam.
"It amazed me when he called," McGowan, who was called Sgt. Mac in Vietnam. "This is the first time since I was over there I had heard from anybody out of my platoon.
"He was my last platoon leader before I was discharged."
Harris, who is retired and now works out of Mt. Dora north of Orlando, decided to look up his former sergeant following a reunion of the 11th Armored Calvary.
"I went to the squad reunion and there were a lot of wannabes," Harris said. "I thought then and there about looking Gene up.
"He was a real solid soldier and a very solid NCO (non commissioned officers).
Listening to McGowan and Harris recall their past military adventures, it is easy to understand why it was something McGowan has not talked about much since returning to Milton in 1970.
"We were issued bayonets, but they were not very good a digging up mines," Harris said. "I had bought an old K-bar knife and we used that to beat the brush, dig up the North Vietnamese mines and worked along the Ho Chi Minh Trail to set up our own traps with claymore mines.
"As a team we had gotten pretty good at it and instead of sending someone to do it, we would dismount our tanks and do the job ourselves."
McGowan, who quickly recalled being egged and called a baby killer when he was discharged from Ft. Lewis in Washington state on July 4, 1970, said when he got out, he blocked it out.
"One day my granddaughter crawled in my lap and called me a hero," McGowan recalled. "I looked at her and told her all the men who died and gave their lives over in Vietnam were the heroes.
"I have been nervous and happy all day long about seeing the lieutenant; the day he called me to set this up and sat down and I cried."
Harris recalled it was not easy for the members of the 11th Calvary during his time from 1069-1970.
"We got in a lot of fire fights and we would take a lot of hits at first," Harris recalled. "But after a few minutes we would take over the fight as they ran away."
McGowan appeared to open up to his former lieutenant as they chatted before dinner.
"Lt. Harris was my last platoon leader and he was a officer in my unit when we invaded Cambodia (near what they referred to as the fish hook)," said McGowan who was awarded two purple hearts. "After we talked on the phone I found myself thinking back and at times got real sad."
While the war is something McGowan himself has trouble talking about, his lieutenant was pleased about their reunion.
"I am glad this is a good moment for him," Harris said. "He doesn't understand how special of a soldier he was when we served together."


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Keith Richards: A Stone Alone Comes Clean. He discusses his new solo album, 'Talk Is Cheap,' his life as a family man and his oh-so-vain mate Mick.
A drink in one hand and a cigarette in the other, Keith Richards dances around the New York office of his personal manager, Jane Rose, as Talk Is Cheap — his first solo album after a quarter century with the Rolling Stones — blasts out of the stereo. Beyond enjoying the grooves, Keith is also attending to business; he's checking out slides, trying to choose cover art for the record. "Just put it in a brown paper bag," he says jokingly at one point to Steve Jordan, with whom he wrote and produced the album. "I don't give a shit about the goddamn cover. The emphasis on content is characteristic — and it extends to Richards's collaborators.
When Jordan, a hot New York sessionman who used to be the house drummer for Late Night with David Letterman, is complimented on the album, he simply says, "It's a real record. We weren't trying to do anything hip. " Along with guitarist Waddy Wachtel, keyboardist Ivan Neville and bassist Charley Drayton, Jordan is a member of the core band that plays on Talk Is Cheap and will tour with Richards after its release. "In ten days," Richards says, "if you give me the right guys, I'll give you a band that sounds as if they've been together for two or three years. I'll make them sound like a band. Mainly because I need it, and that communicates itself.
Talk Is Cheap serves up a rich sampling of Richards's musical roots — from the Cajun flavor of "Locked Away" to the funk of "Big Enough," from the Memphis soul of "Make No Mistake" to the rockabilly of "I Could Have Stood You Up. " And of course, "Take It So Hard," "How I Wish" and "Whip It Up" rock with a force reminiscent of his classic work with the Stones. Another track, however, "You Don't Move Me," evokes the Stones not only in its slashing guitar sound but in its subject: Mick Jagger.
The song vents the anger and bitterness Richards felt when Jagger decided to pursue his own solo career in 1986 rather than tour with the Stones after they released Dirty Work. Accusing Jagger of greed and selfishness, the song also chides the singer for the commercial failure of his two solo records, She's the Boss and Primitive Cool. "Now you want to throw the dice/You already crapped out twice. Later in the week, Richards turns up for his interview at Rose's office sporting red-tinted shades, gray corduroy slacks, a white jacket and the same T-shirt he wore four days earlier: it bears the legend Obergruppenfueher ("major general of the troops"). After fixing himself a Rebel Yell and ginger ale and lighting a Marlboro, he drapes his jacket on the back of one of the chrome and leather chairs in the office's conference room and goes to work.
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Like everyone in New York this August, Richards complains about the wilting heat, but he seems in an upbeat mood — after the interview he will race down to Madison Square Garden to catch INXS and Ziggy Marley. Now forty four, Richards describes himself as a family man. In addition to two teenage children from his stormy relationship with Anita Pallenberg, he has two little girls from his marriage to New York model Patti Hansen. He looks weathered but fit, the leathery skin on his arms hugging his well-developed biceps. Pleased and relieved to have completed Talk Is Cheap, Richards nonetheless remembers the frustrations that led him to make the record after years of saying that he had no desire to compete with the Rolling Stones. When he speaks about Jagger — and what he sees as Jagger's betrayal of the Stones — his hurt pride is evident.
As he speaks, affection blends with resentment, and a need for reconciliation battles with an equally strong desire to be proven right about the integrity of the Stones. Richards's manner at such moments recalls nothing more than one of those exhausting conversations with friends whose lovers have left.
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"It's a struggle between love and hate," Richards sings on Talk Is Cheap. Amid such ravaging emotional ambivalence, the Stones are talking about regrouping next year for an album and a tour. "Mick's and my battles are fascinating," Richards says. "When you've known somebody that long, there's so much water under the bridge that it's almost impossible to talk about. And then, for three hours, he talks.
After twenty-five years with the Stones, how does it feel to have completed your first solo record. It sort of goes like this [ sweeps his hand across his brow]: Ph-e-e-e-w. It's kind of strange, because it was never in the cards for me. It was not something I wanted to do. Also, in the back of my mind, doing a solo record meant a slight sense of failure.
The only reason I would do a solo album was because I couldn't keep the Stones together. As far back as 1971, you said that you didn't ever want to be in a situation where you had to decide whether to keep a song for yourself or give it to the Stones. Yeah, there's all those things. To put yourself into a split situation, to have to decide — it's hard. Fortunately or unfortunately, since the Stones have taken this break or whatever — you know, weren't working — I didn't have to worry about that particular problem.
But when it comes to good recall and a story worth telling everything pales when compared with Rolling Stone bassist Bill Wyman's Stone Alone. It is funny. Wyman kept a journal throughout his life, beginning when he was a child, and used it in writing his 1990 autobiography Stone Alone and his 2002 book Rolling.
You see, Dirty Work I built pretty much on the same idea as Some Girls , in that it was made with the absolute idea that it would go on the road. So when we finished the record and then. the powers that be — let's put it like that [ laughs ] — decided suddenly they ain't gonna go on the road behind it, the team was left in the lurch. Because if you didn't follow it up with some roadwork, you'd only done fifty percent of the job. Do you feel that Dirty Work didn't do well because the Stones didn't support it with a tour. Well, there was no promotion behind it.
As it came out, everyone sort of said, "Well, they've broken up," or "They're not gonna work. " So you got a lot of negativity behind it.
It seemed like it was released into a storm of chaos. It was — mainly, I think, to do with the fact that Stu [Ian Stewart, the pianist with the early Stones and the band's longtime road manager] died at that point. The glue fell out of the whole setup. There's not a lot of people who realize quite what a tower of strength he was and how important he was within the band.
The first rehearsal that was ever called for this band that turned out to be the Rolling Stones, at the top of this pub in Soho, in London, I arrived, and the only guy there is Stu. He was already at the piano, waiting for the rest of this collection of weirdos to arrive.
On the surface of it, he was very different from us. He was working — he was a civil servant.
The rest of us were, like, just a bunch of layabouts. Stu was somebody that couldn't tell a lie. I think one of the first things he said to me was "Oh, so you're the Chuck Berry expert, are you?" At the time, Chuck Berry wasn't in Stu's bag of tricks. His thing was, like, Lionel Hampton and Leroy Carr and Big Joe Williams — you know, swing, boogie freaks. And so Chuck Berry to him was frivolous rock & roll, until I got him to listen to the records and he heard Johnnie Johnson [Berry's longtime pianist].
In fact, one of the last things Stu said to me before he died was "Never forget, Keith, Johnnie Johnson is alive and playing in St. Louis. " And the funny thing is within a few months I'd found Johnnie, and he's even on this record. So Stu's death was part of the problem. Then what happened? Was it that Mick didn't want to tour. In all honesty, it was Mick decided that he could do.
I don't know whether "he could do better" is the best phrase, but he felt, actually, that the Rolling Stones were like a millstone around his neck. Which is ludicrous — and I told him so. He said that to you. Yeah. Yeah. He said, "I don't need this bunch of old farts. " Little do you know, Sunny Jim.
I spoke to him about it the other week, because now he wants to put the Stones back together — because there's nowhere else to go. And I don't want to knock the cat. Mick's and my battles are not exactly as perceived through the press or other people. They're far more convoluted, because we've known each other for most of our lives — I mean, since we were four or five.
So they involve a lot more subtleties and ins and outs than can possibly be explained. But I think that there is on Mick's part a little bit of a Peter Pan complex. It's a hard job, being the frontman. In order to do it, you've got to think in a way that you're semidivine. But if it goes a little too far, that feeling, you think you don't need anybody, and Mick kind of lost touch with the fact of how important the Stones were for him. He thought that he could just hire another Rolling Stones, and that way he could control the situation more, rather than battling with me.
My point around Dirty Work was this was the time when the Stones could do something. They could mature and grow this music up and prove that you could take it further. That you don't have to go back and play Peter Pan and try and compete with Prince and Michael Jackson or Wham! and Duran Duran. But it's all a matter, I think, of self-perception. He perceived himself as still having to prove it on that level.
To me, twenty-five years of integrity went down the drain with what he did. How would you explain that. Mick is more involved with what's happening at this moment — and fashion.
I'm trying to grow the thing up, and I'm saying we don't need the lemon-yellow tights and the cherry picker and the spectacle to make a good Rolling Stones show. There's a more mature way of doing it. And Mick, particularly at that time, two or three years ago, couldn't see a way clear to do anything different. So therefore he had to go backwards and compare himself with who's hitting the Top Ten at that moment. The last Stones show I saw was at the Fox Theatre, in Atlanta, in 1981, and it was just the band, without the gimmicks. To me, the interesting thing about Mick is that he could work this table better than anybody in the world.
And the bigger the stages got, to me it was a feeling that he had to use every inch of space on that stage. He would say that you've got to get to as much of the audience as you can when you're playing stadiums. But the bigger the stage, the more stagy it got.
The fact is that Mick didn't appreciate that he had a band that he could rely upon, come hell or high water. I guess he took it for granted eventually and thought that he could hire that. And you can't. You can't hire that kind of thing.
At one point you seemed to feel that Walter Yetnikoff, the president of CBS Records, had encouraged Mick to go solo, that he believed that Mick was the Stones. I think at the beginning, yes. But it's understandable that somebody just walking in on the Rolling Stones.
it's an obvious thought. Mick is going to be talking to them. He's the frontman. Since then, Walter has certainly changed his mind [ laughs ].
It's understandable that you would think that, oh, if you've got it together with Mick, then you've got the Stones, because the next person to talk to is myself, and I've been a junkie, unreliable — in business people's minds I'm the dodgy artistic freak. I'm not the one that's going to be up in your office talking business at ten in the morning. So it's an understandable attitude to take. But it certainly didn't help keeping the Stones together at the time. Didn't Yetnikoff hook you back up with Sarah Dash, who sings with you on the album. She's a friend of Walter's. She happened to be popping by to see him at the time, and I said, "Oh, Sarah, I haven't seen you in donkeys' years.
" I mean, when I first met Sarah, she was fifteen or sixteen. She'd just started working with Patti LaBelle and the Blue Bells. This was in '65. She had a chaperone with her, you know, nobody could get near her.
They used to call her Inch, I think, Sarah. She's still a dinky little thing, but what a girl, what a voice. So by going to see Walter, I found the chick I wanted to sing on the album. The only other girl singing on it is the now infamous Patti Scialfa. Springsteen has managed to tarnish his reputation. Yeah, it was kind of surprising.
In fact, the last overdub that Patti did for this record, she walks in with this guy. "Hi, Patti, how're you doin'?" We're talking. The guy is standing in the doorway, and I turn around, and suddenly I realize it's Bruce [laughs]. Oh, oh, naughty, naughty, naughty. Had you met him before. I've met Bruce two or three times. We've had several good chats, usually at some release party or premiere, and we just end up in the corner talking.
He's a sweet guy, a nice guy. Mind you, I think four-hour shows really are way over the top. To me, a great rock & roll act does twenty minutes [ laughs ].
I remember the Paramount, where you got the Impressions, Jackie Wilson, Joe Tex, and everybody does just their absolute supreme best shot! A lot of the shows you get these days are very self-indulgent. I don't think anybody can be enthralling for four hours onstage playing rock & roll.
You've been recording on your own for years. Had you built up a big backlog of songs.
Not really. All of the songs on this album were written last year. There's also a whole backlog of songs with the Stones that I didn't touch. I wanted it to be completely separate. Of course, certain ways of doing things hung over. For the Stones I would write for what Mick could sing, what I thought was the best thing that Mick could handle.
On this album, the songs are not that much different in structure or in content, even. I managed to do some of the things that with the Stones I'd say, "Nah, can't do that.
Too complicated. " I realized this writing with Steve Jordan. That was the other great thing: that I found somebody else to work with. To me, teamwork is important. The enthusiasm from the other guys is incredibly important, and these guys gave it to me all the way. They would never let me indulge myself.
For instance, with the Stones, if I'm writing something and they're hitting it in the studio and I'd break down because I'm not quite sure how the bridge would go or something, I'd stop playing, and everybody'd stop playing, go off for a drink and a phone call and an hour later come back and try it again. With this lot, if I stopped, they'd just carry on. They'd look at me: "Pick it up. pick it up. man!" "Why, you goddamn nigger! Nobody's kicked me up the ass like that.
" At the same time I enjoyed it, because they were right. I would just pick it up again and get back in there.
Did you find yourself getting uptight about not wanting a song to sound like a Stones song. No, I didn't In fact, it was the other way. My idea was if I allowed myself to think, "I can't do it like that, because it would be just the way I'd do it with the Stones," that would be phony.
My main hang-up, first off, was "Who the hell am I gonna play with if it ain't Charlie Watts?" If I'm gonna work on my own after twenty-odd years of working with this great drummer, who's going to have, without looking at each other, the same feel, the same contact? The beauty of Steve and myself finding each other at that particular time was that it was a very natural changeover, since Steve and Charlie know each other and respect each other's work very much. Where are Charlie, Bill Wyman and Ron Wood on all of this? Are you in touch with them. Well, yeah. In fact, in the last month or so I've been in touch with them. Mick suddenly called up, and the rest of them: "Let's put the Stones back together. " I'm thinking, " Just as I'm in the middle of an album. Now what are you trying to do, screw me up? Just now you want to talk about putting it back together?" But we talked about it.
I went to London, and we had a meeting. I think you'll find a new album and a tour next year from the Stones. Will you be touring with your band. With this lot, yeah, sure.
I need to get on the road, and the only way you're gonna get on the road is to make a record. Since '86, I've slowly been putting the team together. This basic band, you know, Drayton, Steve, Ivan Neville, Waddy. I don't want to do a big deal, you know, big stadiums and all that.
I want to play some good rooms — theaters. We're just starting to talk about it. Basically I just want to do some class joints, you know, some nice 3000, 4000 seaters. It's startling to hear "Big Enough," which has such a James Brown feel, as the first track on the album.
Was that the first tune you recorded. It's not exactly the first thing, but it was fairly early on. It was just Steve and myself, just drums and guitar. It was incredibly long, almost a jam. But the groove on it was just so strong and, as you say, the James Brown feel of it was so evident that what happened was, during last winter, James played the Apollo. Steve and I went up there, and we saw Maceo [Parker, James Brown's saxman], and we looked at each other, and we went, "Dig it.
Maceo. " So we got in touch with Maceo to give it that horn thing. The bass end was another problem, because the fact that we cut it with just guitar and drums, we had the drums tuned very low down. There was an awful lot of bass on the drums. And every time we tried to put a bass on it, it would just get in the way.
So we thought about it, and once again, Steve, who's got a great ear [ snaps his fingers ]: "Ah, it's got to be Bootsy" — who used to play with James. So Bootsy [Collins] drove from Ohio — because he doesn't fly, Bootsy — for one evening and heard it, grinned and did it. So that's how James Brown the track was — it ended up with James's guys on there. On the other end of the spectrum from "Big Enough," you have "I Could Have Stood You Up. To me that was "a little stroll through the rock & roll alley.
" I actually started to cut these tracks a year ago, just about today, at about this time [laughs] — that's why I'm looking at my watch — up in Montreal. We got about seven tracks in ten days, so I felt already "This thing's going well, this band is cooking. Who was up there with you. Charley Drayton, Steve, Ivan, Waddy and myself.
Since we'd worked with Johnnie Johnson on the Chuck Berry thing, I really wanted to work with him. My next thought was "I don't know if I've got anything in that vein for this album. " So Steve and I worked on it a bit, and I came up with that one thing. We wanted to do some sessions with Johnnie, so we got it together, and Johnnie — who happens to love me, for some reason. Well, your analysis of Chuck Berry's music in Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll. where you point out that it was all based on Johnnie Johnson's piano chords, might have something to do with it. I would have never thought about it, except I went through that process and saw it.
The guy's sixty-eight, sixty-nine years old, and he probably plays more regularly than just about anybody on this planet. He has five or six club gigs a week in St. Louis.
He's one of the hidden masters of American music, to me. Also, given the fact that Stu had said what he said. [ folds his hands in prayer]. "I Could Have Stood You Up" is also a reunion of Stones alumni: Mick Taylor, Bobby Keys, Chuck Leavell.
Had you played with Mick since he left the Stones. When he played the Lone Star last year, I popped up for a number or two. I hadn't seen him for quite a few years. It's sort of a mystery to me — and it's also a mystery to Mick Taylor — as to why he left the Stones [laughs].
I said, "Why did you leave like that?" And he said, "I ask myself that all the time. I don't know why I did that. But being in the Stones is a weird thing.
I guess for Mick, you've been in the Stones for five or six years, and you think you can expand. He wanted to play drums. He wanted to produce and write. Rightly or wrongly — because to me Mick Taylor is just a brilliant guitar player. That's what he is.
And still is. But from the inside, you know, you think, "I've done this. I've got this now.
Now I can go out on my own. I'm a bit bored with this. And Mick Jagger made the same decision — and the same mistake. Whether it's a mistake or not, it didn't work out the way he thought it was going to work out. Maybe it's got something to do with the name Mick [ laughs ]. It seems that the Stones developed a very unsentimental attitude over the years about people who were sucked into their vortex and sometimes did great things but sometimes also damaged themselves.
It made them — and maybe even for the better — come face to face eventually with themselves. Maybe sometimes in the worst possible way.
Maybe that ultimately is one of the most important things about the Stones — that, for some unknown reason, they strike at a person at a point and in a position that they don't even know exists. There was always a sense about the Stones and about your own life, certainly, that this is nothing other than what it looks to you to be. Well, it's certainly for real. The other thing about my life and the Stones' life is that there was nothing phony about it. If anybody was going to take knocks, we were going to take the knocks along with everybody else.
It isn't that we were sitting up on some comfortable faraway paradise and putting out this stuff and saying, "Well, fuck yourselves up. " We got beat up more than anybody.
I've always just tried to avoid doing anything that would make me cringe. Anything I do, I like to be able to live with. No matter how on the surface — you know, "What a bum, what a junkie" — at least it's real. And I can live with it.
If I fuck up, the whole world fucks up with me! [ Laughs. ]. You once said that you never wanted anyone to feel that there was anything they could find out by going through your garbage can that they couldn't find out by just asking you. There's always this thing in show business: you have an "image," and you play it to the hilt, but you're not really like that " in my private life, " et cetera.
In other words, it's an act. And maybe for them that's okay.
But for myself, what I do, I'm too intense about it. Obviously, there are lots of things. I mean, I'm a family man.
I have little two-year-old and three-year-old girls that beat me up. I'm not the guys I see on MTV, who obviously think they are me. There are so many people who think that's all there is to it. It's not that easy to be Keith Richards. But it's not so hard. either.
The main thing is to know yourself. I was kind of forced into the position of honesty because they went through my garbage can and it was all over the front pages. To the point where people think that I'm far more Errol Flynn or notorious than I actually am. But I know what people think: "We'll give them that Keith Richards look " With my friends, the "Keith Richards look" is, like, a great laugh. And it's got nothing to do with the moody bit — it's just the way I look if I don't smile.
And this [ points to his skull ring ] is to remind me that we're all the same under the skin. The skull — it has nothing to do with bravado and surface bullshit. To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and to be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive. The chart I was Number One on longest was the Next One to Kick the Bucket.
I headed that chart longer than I ever did Records! [Laughs. ] But to me, I never had any real doubt, because whatever it was I did, no matter how stupid or flamboyant or irresponsible it may have seemed from the outside — and I can understand it appearing like that — to me it's always been very important to know what I'm made of, and what I'm capable of doing. And making sure that nobody else suffered in the process. And if they did. it would only be from a misconception of themselves, not of me. Obviously a whole mythology has built up around you. You must walk into situations all the time where people expect you to be "Keith Richards.
" How does that affect you. I try and disillusion them, because I don't have an "act. " It's impossible for me.
It's very embarrassing. Charlie Watts, in fact, is a far more honest man than I am. Charlie Watts to me is the most honest man in the world — to himself, to every body. He never even wanted to be a pop star.
It still makes him cringe. But because he liked the music — and loved playing with me and with Mick and knew that it was a great band — he's willing to go along with it. Chicks screaming at Charlie Watts — to him it's ludicrous. He wanted to be Max Roach or Philly Joe Jones — his idea of himself is that. And to have to live with being some teenybop idol for Charlie is very difficult, because he's not like that at all. They're such a weird collection of guys — the most unlikely collection of people to be a good rock & roll band. Hell, half of them hate the idea of being a rock & roll star in the first place.
It's already embarrassing to them; they want to be serious artists. And when you're living and working with people like that, it's very difficult, if you're phony or if you go. That's what happened to Brian [Jones]. He really got off on the trip of being a pop star. And it killed him. Suddenly, from being very serious about what he wanted to do, he was willing to take the cheap trip.
And it's a very short trip. Has Mick heard "You Don't Move Me".
Yeah, he's heard it. I played the whole album to him — what? — last week, two weeks ago. Here in New York. Yeah. He talked all the way through it [ laughs ]. But I went to the john and took a pee, and as I was coming out, I saw him dancing in the front room.
So then I went back to the john and slammed the door loud and walked out again: he's sitting back like this [ sits straight in his chair and folds his hands in his lap ]. I don't know what he really thinks about it, because it's all tied up with what happened with his solo stuff.
What he put out, to me, is exactly the reason, as we were talking about before, why we didn't go on the road behind Dirty Work. He wanted to compete on a different level. The sad thing, to me, about it was that I felt it was totally unnecessary in that he had no grasp of the idea of the integrity of the Stones. What does it make you feel like since Mick didn't want to tour behind Dirty Work but now he's done a tour of Japan and he's going to do a tour of Australia. Great. Go to Australia in their midwinter.
Go on. I've got other things to do. Go there.
Go there with your jerk-off band. He knows how I feel about it. Whether he'll ever admit it to himself, I don't know. I mean, I'll be totally honest: I love Mick. Most of my efforts with Mick go to trying to open his eyes: "You don't need to do this. You have no problem.
All you've got to do is just grow up with it. " And that's what he should be doing. I mean, ninety-nine percent of the male population of the Western world — and beyond — would give a limb to live the life of Riley, to live the life of Jagger.
To be Mick Jagger. And he's not happy being Mick Jagger. He's not living a happy life. To me, that's unacceptable.
I've got to make him happy! [ Laughs. ] To me, I've failed if I can't eventually get my mate to feel good about himself. Even though he's very autocratic and he can be a real asshole. But who can't be an asshole at times. The siege mentality kind of worries me about Mick. Nobody can get in there, even me, who's known him longer than anybody.
What bothers me sometimes about him is not being able to get through to him. He's got his own vision about himself, which is not actually who he is. So he has to play a game; he has to act. He's not about to give you anything.
He's not about to give anything away. He'll be flip. And I don't mind him reading this shit, because this is part of, as far as I'm concerned, my attempt to help him along. It's a very sad thing to me to have a friend that. especially when he's in such a privileged position and should be able to live one of the best lives ever. Everybody, as I say, would give limbs to be Mick Jagger, to be able to live like that.
And not to be happy? What's so hard about being Mick Jagger? What's so tough? It's like Bob Dylan 's phrase once: "What's so hard about being one of the Beatles ?" Although, you could say that about Bob, too, you know. Now I'm really gonna get shit, man! [ Laughs.
] I mean, this exaggerated sense of who you are and what you should do and worrying about it so much. Why don't you just get on with it and stop trying to figure all the angles? That to me is a waste of time. Now you're in the situation where your own solo record is coming out.
Do you feel any sense of competition with Mick. Obviously the situation is there for it to be perceived that way. No, I don't feel any sense of competition with Mick. Whether Mick feels a sense of competition with me — that's another question.
Why we didn't go on the road behind Dirty Work. that might be an answer to that. You mean he felt that it was more your record or. Or who runs the deal. I think to Mick that's more important than it is to me.
You see, I tip my hat to Mick a lot. I admire the guy enormously. In the Seventies, when I was on dope and I would do nothing but put the songs together and turn up and not deal with any of the business of the Stones, Mick took all of that work and weight on his shoulders and did it all and covered my ass. And I've always admired him very much for that. I mean, he did exactly what a friend should do. When I cleaned up and Emotional Rescue time came around — "Hey, I'm back, I'm clean, I'm ready; I'm back to help and take some of the weight off your shoulders" — immediately I got a sense of resentment Whereas I felt that he would be happy to unburden himself of some of that shit, he felt that I was horning in and trying to take control. And that's when I first sensed the feeling of discontent, shall we say.
It wasn't intended like that from my point of view, but that's when I first got a feeling that he got so used to running the show that there was no way he was going to give it up. That, to him, it was a power struggle. To turn away from the Stones for a moment, what do you make of the state of rock today? Some have said this is the worst period in the history of rock & roll. My cheap answer to that would be "Yeah, wait until my record comes out!" [ Laughs. ].
I wanted to run the Top Ten singles by you and get your impression of them. All right, run 'em down. Number One is "Roll with It," by Steve Winwood. Steve is great, but the record, eh. He's not pushing anything further. I mean, he's a great musician, but he doesn't seem to me to have a driving desire to really do anything. If he bothers to work, it's fantastic.
I think he's one of the best English musicians that we have. But at the same time, my problem with Stevie — he's gonna fuckin' hate me forever for saying this — is that he's kind of faceless. What's Number Two, George Michael. Number Two is "Hands to Heaven," by Breathe. Never heard it. Don't know nothing about it.
Number Three is "Make Me Lose Control," by Eric Carmen. He had a hit recently from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack.
Number Four is "Sign Your Name," by Terence Trent D'Arby. "1-2-3", by Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine. "I Don't Wanna Go On with You Like That," by Elton John.
I love his attitude. I love what he wants to do. I just think he's gone about it the wrong way. These are just my opinions, and okay, I'll annoy the lot of you. Bruce? Too contrived for me.
Too overblown. I know you haven't liked Prince in the past. Has your opinion of him changed. Prince, I admire his energy, but he's riding on a wave. To me, Prince is like the Monkees. I don't see anything of any depth in there.
I think he's very clever at manipulating the music business and the entertainment business. I think he's more into that than making music. I don't see much substance in anything he does. Too much appealing to. a Pee-wee Herman trip. And I like Pee-wee Herman better than Prince. He's appealing to the same audience.
To me, it's kid stuff. Not much. I admire the fact that they've made it despite certain resistance from the radio biz. I admire their guts. But too much posing. Their look — it's like there's one out of this band, one looks like Jimmy, one looks like Ronnie.
Too much copycat, too much posing for me. I haven't listened to a whole album to be able to talk about the music. I'm a very hard taskmaster.
I know that everybody's gonna say, "Oh, he's putting everybody down. Well, tell me what you like. I don't like much. And I don't want any of these guys to feel like "Oh, he's an old fart, blah-blah-blah. But we're up there, blah-blah-blah.
" I'm not interested in that. My main thing is "What are you trying to do, just be famous? Or have you got something to say?" And if you do, are you forgoing it in order just to be famous. I've always liked AC/DC. all right? I like U2 ; I really do. I think Bono, especially, has something special. INXS I'm quite interested in. I like Tracy Chapman.
Ziggy Marley I find very interesting because he's not just "the son of," He's avoided being, I hate to say this, Julian. He's taken from his father and built on it, but he's not just "the son of Bob Marley. " He's got his own things to say, and he's serious about it.
I wanted to ask you about Chuck Berry. If you take forty-five Chuck Berry songs, fifteen of them will be among the greatest rock songs ever written and thirty will be the most clichéd formulas. And two or three of them just trite. To me, the saddest thing about Chuck Berry is that his biggest-selling record is "My Ding-a-ling. " But that's what he deserves, because of his attitude toward what he does.
He hasn't sussed out his own worth. He has no idea of his impact on popular music. Chuck just wants the bread. And there's nothing wrong with that, because it's the only way a guy from his era, from where he came from, could get out.
And also getting ripped off in the past, that's what he learns. But he's carried it around for thirty years. He's a loner.
That's why I could work with Chuck Berry, because he's very much like Mick. It's a siege mentality: " Nobody's going to get into me. " And "If I give a thing away, I'm a weakling. " To me, the truth is the more you give, the stronger you are. The more of a man you are. Who are you scared of? What's so scary that you've got to lock yourself up. In that scene in the movie where you turn around and give him this look, it looks like you're going to have a fight or something.
A shoot-out? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's pretty true. Yeah, just about.
Most of the band, the guys behind me are going, "Keith in this situation is gonna pull out the blade and just slit the motherfucker's throat. " I'm biting bullets, because I'm trying to show the band that, in order to get this gig together, I am gonna take some shit that I wouldn't take from anybody. I'm not gonna let Chuck get to me that much.
Whereas anybody else, it would be toilet time. You say the Stones may be getting back together. Given all that's happened, couldn't that be seen as just a case of knowing that this is an opportunity to make forty million dollars and. A hundred [ laughs ]. Well, what do you say to that. What can I say about it? However much you make, the same percentage goes toward keeping it together.
The overhead's tremendous. The amount of money — I find it as mind boggling as anybody out there on the street. You say, " Yeah, he's a fucking multimillionaire, and blah-blah-blah.
" The one thing you find out when you make a lot of money — and it always sounds trite when you say it, but it isn't — is that that's not the important thing. It doesn't add one iota to your happiness in life. It just means you have different problems to deal with. And it brings its own problems. Like "Who are you going to put on retainer?". It's much better to be rich than poor, but not for the reasons that you would automatically think.
I grew up with no bread at all. In fact, I was talking to Steve Jordan and Charley Drayton — black cats, you know, fairly well-off middle-class cats. I grew up poorer than they did. We just about made the rent. The luxuries were very, very few. I know what it's like down there. I remember it.
There wasn't a lot of chances for someone, the way I grew up. My dad worked his butt off in order to just keep the rent paid and food for the family.
To me, people are more important than anything else. Rock & roll, anything else, people are more important. I know you and your father were reconciled a few years ago. Are you still on good terms. Oh yeah. Dominoes every Friday night. In fact, I'm late for the game right now.
Does he live in New York. He lives about forty-five minutes out of town.
Oh yeah, now that we're together, we're very tight. You described yourself earlier as a "family man. " What about your marriage and your kids? Obviously your wife, Patti Hansen, has her own business to do, and you have what you do.
Patti's a mother now. She doesn't do much. She does one job, two jobs a year. I mean, this is my second time around with families. I have a son — Marlon's nineteen. Angela's sixteen, and she's just left school. I have this new family.
I live in a houseload of women, which sometimes can drive me totally round the bend, which is why I need to work and get on the road. I love 'em all, but it's weird to be living with a load of chicks — it doesn't matter what age they are. For a guy, the only guy in the house, you gotta call up another cat and say, "Hey, come over, or I'll just drop over there!". And my old lady knows this, bless her heart. I mean, that's why I married her, because I'll only get married once.
But Patti and I, we have a good thing going. And it's just kept going.
I'm a lucky guy. With you and Patti, is it the sort of arrangement where somebody is taking care of the kids all the time. No, I hate that. I'd never have that. It's only Patti and me and the kids. There's other people who clean up the house, but it's not like there's a nanny and she brings the kids down once a day to play with for tea-time and then fuck off. No way.
You live all together. I mean, sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, and there's both my kids in the bed. They've managed to find their way, and we're all in the same bed together [ laughs ].
You get more out of it like that, and so do the kids. Family is a special thing.
It's almost. you can't really talk about it, except to say that if you get a chance at it, try it out, because it's one of the most special things that you'll ever get on the face of this earth. It gives you that final missing link of what life's about. While they're looking upon you as the most wonderful person in the world because you're "Daddy," they do more for you than you do for them. How is your health.
You look good. You sound great. I've lived my life in my own way, and I'm here today because I have taken the trouble to find out who I am. The problem, however, is people who think they can live like Keith Richards.
That's what I mean. The biggest mistake in the world is to think that you have to emulate somebody else. That is fatal.
It's got nothing to do with me. If people want to be like Keith Richards, then they better have the same physical makeup. I come from a very sturdy stock — otherwise I wouldn't be here. At this point, to what degree is your identity tied into being a Rolling Stone. Well, I've always been one, from the start of.
if you want to call it my professional career. And I never wanted to be anything else. For the last couple of years I've had to deal with not being one. At first it almost broke my heart. What I've learned from not being a Rolling Stone for two years probably will help me be, if the Stones come back together, which they will, will help me be. what can I say — "a better Rolling Stone"? [ Laughs. ] Or make the Rolling Stones better.
I have a little more confidence in myself, by myself. I found that I can, if I have to, live without the Rolling Stones. And that my only job isn't desperately trying to keep a band together that maybe needed a break. The last question I want to ask you is about legacy.
All the bluesmen you admire — there's a legacy of theirs that you've carried on. Do you have a vision of how you'd like yourself, the Stones, your music, to move forward. Well, then we get back to the break around Dirty Work. My vision of the Rolling Stones was that this was the perfect point and opportunity, at our state and our age, to carry on and mature and prove it. I played with Muddy Waters six months before he died, and the cat was just as vital as he was in his youth.
And he did it until the day he died. To me, that is the important thing. I mean, what am I gonna do now, go for job retraining and learn to be a welder? I'll do this until I drop. I'm committed to it and that's it. I want to try and make this thing grow up. Elvis couldn't do it. A lot of them didn't do it.
To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' shit and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it. That's not necessary. This is a job.
It's a man's job, and it's a lifelong job. And if there's a sucker to ever prove it, I hope to be the sucker. This story is from the October 6, 1988 issue of Rolling Stone.


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HELENA, Mont. (AP) Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf has been moved from a drug treatment center to the Montana State Prison for threatening a staff member and other unspecified behavioral problems at the center, a corrections official said Thursday.
The former San Diego Chargers and Washington State Cougars quarterback was charged last spring with breaking into two houses and stealing prescription painkillers near his hometown of Great Falls. He pleaded guilty in May to reduced charges, and his five-year sentence called for spending nine months in a locked drug treatment facility as an alternative to prison.
Leaf said then that he was looking forward to the treatment at Nexus Treatment Center in Lewistown. But on Thursday, the Montana Department of Corrections released a statement by Great Falls regional probation and parole administrator Dawn Handa that said Leaf will now serve his sentence in the Deer Lodge prison.
"The Montana Department of Corrections terminated Leaf from the treatment program and placed him in prison after he was found guilty of behavior that violated conditions of his drug treatment program. The violations included threatening a program staff member," Handa said in the statement.
Corrections officials did not immediately respond to a request for details of the violations or the threats.
Leaf's attorney, Kenneth Olson, did not immediately return a call for comment.
It was unclear when the threats or other behavior issues occurred. The Department of Corrections' website listing offenders says Leaf has been an inmate since Jan. 10.
The Great Falls Tribune first reported Leaf's imprisonment Thursday.
It was not immediately clear how the change would affect a probation violation he is facing in Texas for 2010 drug charges. Olson said in July that Randall County prosecutors had canceled their outstanding warrants so Leaf could serve his Montana sentence before facing possible penalties in Texas.
Leaf was charged with stealing prescription pain medicine from a player's home while he was a coach at West Texas A&M. An investigation also found he obtained nearly 1,000 pain pills from area pharmacies in an eight-month span. His Montana conviction is a violation of his probation, prosecutors said.
Leaf was the No. 2 pick in the 1998 NFL draft, but his short-lived pro career earned him the reputation as one of the biggest busts in NFL history.
An investigation began in March 2011, after Great Falls postal workers reported they were suspicious of frequent packages Leaf received by paying COD charges of $500.
Central Montana Drug Task Force officers and Leaf's parole officer confronted the former quarterback and found a container with 28 oxycodone pills inside and another container with a prescription made out to an acquaintance.
The acquaintance said Leaf had entered his home without permission, and Leaf was arrested.
Shortly after his release, two Cascade County residents told authorities they found Leaf inside their home.
The couple reported three different prescription medications missing.


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Kaufman, Sundiata to talk on black-Jewish relations
Forum Monday cosponsored by Black student Organization and Hillel
The Brandeis Black Student Organization and Hillel will cosponsor "Common Ground: Exploring Black and Jewish Relations," a conversation between Professor Ibrahim Sundiata and Jonathan Kaufman, education editor at Bloomberg News.
This discussion, which will occur in the context of the impending national election, will be held in Alumni lounge from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Kaufman and Sundiata previously appeared together at a Brandeis program titled "Blacks, Jews, and Obama" during the 2008 presidential campaign. Monday's discussion may refer to the current campaign, but is focused more on the overall state of African-American and Jewish relationships today.
"Blacks and Jews have a very long and complicated history," Kaufman said in a recent interview. "We often have a lot to talk about – some of it good, some of it unpleasant – and there are often a lot of issues. It feels to me like this kind of a discussion is always relevant."
Kaufman won the National Jewish Book Award for "Broken Alliance: The Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America," published in 1988.
The book showed "the trajectory of the relationship between Blacks and Jews in America," said Hillel Executive Director Larry Sternberg, who suggested Kaufman as a speaker. "He is a wise observer of contemporary American and I always enjoy bringing him on to campus."
History shows that Jews and blacks alike vote overwhelmingly Democratic in national elections "notwithstanding differences and breakdowns in relationships," Sternberg said. "The historical experience Jews have of being discriminated against makes them naturally sympathetic and very much wanting to be sensitive to the needs of the African-American population in the United States."
"President Obama has very high approval among Jewish voters and normally Jewish voters have supported the Democratic candidate," Sundiata said. "It'll be interesting to see how the President addresses African-American issues that are pressing alongside economic issues and other groups' issues, like those of Jewish Americans and the LGBTQ."
Preceding the discussion, Kaufman, a member of the Boston Globe team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of racism and job discrimination in Boston, will have an informal dinner at 6 p.m. at the Hiatt Career Center with a small group of students who are actively interested interested in journalism.
"There's a revolution going on in journalism," Sternberg said. "He's in the middle of it, he's an experienced journalist who still has the craft, works for Bloomberg and manages other people who write. I thought it would be interesting for him to share what he sees."
"Journalism is simply the platform on which people get their news," says Kaufman. "I think news is more important than ever because of the problem of how it's delivered, from Twitter to the New York Times. The other challenge is the skepticism that people have for the media and the belief that reporters are not objective."
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