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HANSKIN Magic BB Cream
17 reviews
64% would repurchase
Package Quality: 3.8
Price: $$$
Package Quality: 3.8
Price: $$$
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on 4/4/2012 12:39:00 AM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Sensitive, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I have a preference for this over Misha or Lioele Triple the Solution BB Cream. I find that Hanskin was more hydrating and left my skin more supple.
on 5/24/2011 2:54:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
Skin type: Asian fair skin w/ yellow undertones. Combination skin.. oily in the t-zone and dry in the cheeks.
I bought the Hanskin premium magic bb cream in the black bottle. This was my first bb cream purchase and was really excited about it. The coverage is pretty thick for a bb cream. When I first put it on, I noticed immediate that my skin was itchy, by the end of the day, my skin was super oily. A couple of days later I broke out in small bumps all over my forehead. I stopped using immediately and I stopped breaking out. I tried it again a couple of months later and then it happened again. Also, the color was a little too gray for my skin type... made me look too ashy. Very disappointed... back to my perfect bb cream search :(
on 4/27/2011 10:07:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brown, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
MEh.... Too thick for me, good medium to full coverage, but the range of colors is bad (2 I think?), it's a little light for me.
on 3/5/2011 5:44:00 AM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
This review is for Hanskin Premium Magic BB Cream in the black tube. I'm Asian with NC25, combination skin. I look pretty young if I don't wear makeup, but my complexion gets tired out by the end of the day so it needs help. I decided to try a BB cream because foundation -- especially powder foundation -- is aging.
At first I was on the fence about this product because it has an pink/ash tone and is a tad too light (though not unnaturally so). But it has been a couple of weeks, and I've been using this BB cream in lieu of foundation. It is SO easy to blend in, with just a pea size dollop for my whole face. With light coverage, it looks just like my skin, but better -- brighter and more even in tone. It's also the only product of any kind that blends into my under-eye area without accentuating lines and bags. The finish is dewey but I set it with ELF studio HD powder to bring it to semi-matte. The ashiness can be managed with a touch of bronzer across the cheeks and brow. Minimal touch-ups for oil control. No perfume is a plus. Best of all, I look fresher and more youthful now that I've stopped using foundation. However I'm going to test other BB creams for a better color/tone match.
on 10/9/2010 2:54:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Other, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I am a BB cream junkie. I have lots. This one is my favorite bec, I have dehydrated skin. Hanskin has many types of BB cream- this review is for the one that is pictured, the one in the white tube- Hankin Magic BB Cream.
ALL BB creams are 3-in-one or 4-in-one products. Depending on which BB cream you buy, they run the spectrum of providing moisturizing benefts, serving as a base, primer, blemish blocker, blemish treatment, anti-wrinkling, wrinkle treatment, whitening, or UV protection (all different levels) all the while providing differing degrees of foundation coverage. As I said, depends on the product.
The different types of Hankin BB Creams are:
-Magic BB Cream
-Control Skin BB Cream
-Water Action BB Cream
-Magic BB Night Cream
-Perfect Super Magic BB Cream
-Caviar Gold BB Cream
-Glossy Magic BB Cream
-Premium Magic BB Cream.
(There could be more new ones or some might have been discontinued. This is from the box insert).
Not all the BB creams have SPF. This one, the regular Magic, does NOT have SPF. The texture is that of a thicker tinted moisturizer, but it doesn't look dry, cakey or thick on skin like foundation or some TMs. I am also a TM junkie and they are all disappointing. They either have no coverage, make your skin look kinda dry/dehydrated, and quite frankly, on their own without powder or Mineral MU, really have no redeeming value unless you have almost perfect skin to begin with. This product has definitely more coverage, like foundation, and it is moisturizing. It leaves me with a dewy glow and covers pores better than most foundations or TMs I've tried. But unlike foundation/TM wherein the application you've applied is what you get, BB creams are like Mineral Makeup- it needs time to meld into your skin. Ever put MMU on and after an hour or so, you check in the mirror, your skin looks fantastic, glowing and sheer- not like your skin? That's what this BB cream is like- and unlike MMU, it makes your skin look smooth. You put it on like foundation, then later on , when you look at yourself, your skin looks glowing, dewy, and just calm, smooth and perfect. I look really clean and put together. Also, I haven't experienced breakouts.
Like most BB creams, they only come in one shade. For this particular product, if you are over NC 25-30, I wouldn't use it. I am NC 20, with olive undertones, not strong on the yellow, more neutral. And the best application method I have found is dotting BB cream on many spots around face (instead of glopping few spots), and blending with sponge, adding on more layers as I go along. If I use my fingers or glob too much on a spot, I notice I get a white cast, which is very difficult to blend out and it could look like you have mismatched foundation on. Eventually, when you are done, your face will look slightly lighter, but the color will blend into your tone. If you have dark/red blemishes, you still need a concealer for full coverage, but that's the case with all TMs or foundations. This product will also tone down redness. I don't have oil control issues except my t-zone area, and it held up well for about 5-6 hours. Then I blotted. If you are really really dark undereye circles, I don;t think this alone will be enough.
Through the course of time, your skin is supposed to reap the benefits of whatever treatment benefit it provides - ie whitening, anti-blemish, etc.The whole point of a BB cream, which I think is really forgotten on a lot of users, is to make your skin look like your skin (but better!) while providing coverage and added treatment benefits. We are so inundated by foundations and TMs, which quite frankly,don't really do anything for your skin but provide coverage, that we've forgotten that people should look at you, not your makeup. But if you like the foundation/makeup look, then this product is not for you.
on 10/4/2010 11:43:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Medium, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Brown
I've been trying out BB creams for over a year and I honestly think this is the best one I've tried.
- The formula is very gentle; it doesn't break me out. Most bb creams I've tried do.
- It makes my skin look very smooth (minimize the look of my pores)
- It neutralizes redness and even out my skintone
- Makes my skin look dewy
- already contains SPF
- It applies easier compared to other bb creams because it's not as thick
- Coverage is light to medium (which is okay for everyday use since it doesn't look heavy)
- It doesn't provide good oil control, I have to blot a lot during the day
- the shade! it's still too grayish and light for my skintone (NC35)
- I don't see any improvement on my skin after using it for a month
- It's quite pricey for someone who doesn't live in Korea
So all in all, good product but I wish it comes in a wider color selection.
on 7/22/2010 3:37:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brown, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I used this BB cream when I travelled in Korea last year. I was there for about 2 months and this was given to me because apparently its all the rage and it was something that I was told I NEED to try.
Well, I found that this actually improved the look and texture of my skin. I used this for about 2 months while I was in Korea and my skin has never looked better.
in terms of coverage, it was light to medium, I would always set it with a light dusting of MAC studio fix powder foundation (that's all I had with me!).
As a foundation substitute, I would compare this to a thick tinted moisturizer or light- medium coverage foundation.
One thing I didnt like about this was the limited color selection. I think it only came in two different shades. I always used my C3 MAC powder foundation over it but I felt that the color selection was something they would improve on.
But this product was actually amazing. I mean I just started learning about skin care and wearing ss and everything up until last yr I had no idea how to care for my skin and this bb cream protected my skin (bc it had spf ) and really improved my skin.
I live in Toronto and I stopped using this since being back in Toronto (I use MAC f&B or MUFE F&B now with Shiseido extra smooth ss spf 36) but if I can find this bb cream somewhere (I'm not about to pay a ridiculous amount flying this in from Korea on ebay or an online store), i would definately repurchase and also maybe they have come out with more color selection in which case I'll gladly buy a couple!
on 4/11/2010 2:30:00 AM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Brown, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
Been using BB cream in place of foundation.
Hanskin offers the best match in color (I'm about NC20) and this Premium BB cream (black tube) has medium coverage, sunscreen and brightening properties.
It gives a very natural and fresh look; I set it with my Lunasol loose powder and am good to go. But definitely has no oil control power, so you will need to use a good primer or touch up through out the day.
on 1/20/2010 8:48:00 PM
Age: Unknown
Skin: Other, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Other, Other, Other
Eyes: Other
A friend gave me this BB cream after she didn't want it anymore (she is darker than me and couldn't wear it) so I can't complain too much. :P
I really like it, but it's the only BB cream I have tried, so it's hard to compare it to something else.It leaves my skin very fresh and dewy looking. I wish the coverage was better, it's a little hard to spread but it's not terrible. It seems to wear off by the end of the day though. I'll look good for a few hours or sinks into my skin too much.
I have very fair/light skin, so the pale color suits my skin perfectly. I also like that it's a liquid foundations skincare item.
Small bottle though, and expensive. I think my friend got it for $20 or something. But most are expensive, espeically because they have to be ordered online for the US... I was saving it for special occasions, but now I am using it on a more everyday basis and I really like it. :)
Also claims to have anti aging properties which is a plus for me since I want to prevent wrinkles.
I will try the Skinfood line next, but I will probably go for this BB cream again when I get the chance. ;)
on 1/17/2010 6:36:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair, Warm
Hair: Black, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Brown
This is one of the better bb creams in my opinion. It didn't break me out and it was really dewy but not oily. I didn't have to reapply at all throughout the day. Coverage-wise, it doesn't do a good job so you would probably have to wear some concealer if you're trying to hide some spots or something. if you have oily skin, you may have to blot in the middle of the day since this bb cream is VERY dewy and it might make your face look a little shiny.
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March: The test strip at the external facility in Lampoldshausen where DLR is testing laser beams measures 130 metres in length – accurately targeted and precise research under real-life environmental conditions. The new Member of the Executive Board responsible for Energy Research at DLR, Ulrich Wagner, views his new activity as one that starts with the energy sector. His dream is 'an end to energy waste'. Several experiments will launch into space in March on board the Rexus 7 and 8 research rockets, launching from the Esrange Space Centre in Kiruna, Sweden. For a short period of time, the rockets will experience weightlessness. After this successful flight, all payload items will be recovered and returned for evaluation to the six student groups involved. DLR planetary researchers discover that CoRoT-9b, an exoplanet the size of Jupiter transiting the field of view of the CoRoT satellite, is surprisingly 'normal'. "It appears to closely reflect the characteristics of planets in the Solar System," says DLR researcher Heike Rauer.
April: The problems that the Icelandic Eyjafjalla volcano can cause have already become reality. Its latest eruption spreads a giant cloud of ash, paralysing air traffic. In Oberpfaffenhofen, atmospheric researchers prepared their Falcon research aircraft to conduct measurement flights inside the volcanic ash cloud over Germany and Iceland. Also in Oberpfaffenhofen, robots learn to walk, and virtual flights are conducted on the Robot Motion Simulator.
May: DLR scientists demonstrate the success of their research at a test track near Aachen: the innovative RCAS anti-collision system with direct train-to-train communication warns train drivers well in advance of potential collisions on the track. The German Federal State of North-Rhine Westfalia (NRW) presents DLR with a € 27 million financial assistance package to help set up a Solar Research Institute. Scientists are to carry out research into solar thermal power stations — one way of obtaining electricity with zero carbon dioxide emissions.
June: At ILA 2010 in Berlin, DLR's high-tech exhibits from the world of aerospace research include its research aircraft fleet, the hydrogen fuel cell-powered aircraft Antares and a prototype of the Mars Rover. Contracts are signed with Russia, Kazakhstan and ESA. A celebration for the DLR School_Labs: 10 years ago, the DLR_School_Lab in Göttingen came onto the scene and attracted new talent to the fascinating world of scientific research. Now school pupils are able to learn about the work of scientists at a total of nine such laboratories at different DLR locations. With the launch of the TanDEM-X radar satellite, DLR is setting out on a great mission: flying in formation, two satellites are delivering data for a three-dimensional digital elevation model of Earth.
July: The TET satellite undergoes preparations for its mission: as a technology demonstrator platform, it will transport devices into space that are intended for use in satellites of the future. Any device that passes the test has cleared the first hurdle for practical operation at a later date.
August: The traffic tower at Berlin-Adlershof starts using taxis to report on traffic congestion. With the data they supply, DLR researchers can analyse the situation on the roads. DLR's new ground station in Inuvik, in northern Canada, starts receiving data from space - the first such location inside the Arctic Circle - facilitating the reception of TanDEM-X data.
September: Several DLR Institutes cooperate on Shefex II. This sharp-edged spacecraft is scheduled to launch in Australia in 2011 and re-enter Earth's atmosphere safely. The catapult in the Göttingen tunnel simulation facility gets trains moving at top speed by accelerating model trains up to speeds of 400 kilometres an hour. In this unique facility, it is possible to simulate scenarios such as the point where high-speed trains enter a tunnel. DLR scientists in Braunschweig are conducting trials into quieter final approaches for aircraft. This involves measuring noise emissions on the ground. The objective is to find ways to cut the noise emissions of aircraft on final approach.
October: The EOC Service Lab is about to start its operations. Scientists bundle data on atmospheric observation, environment monitoring and crisis-specific information, and use this information to assist disaster relief missions worldwide. These researchers are also developing and testing early-warning systems.
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December: NASA and DLR sign a framework agreement. Cooperation between the agencies is set to intensify in the future. The partners also sign the Lunar Science Institute Agreement for collaboration in lunar research. In Oberhausen, the 'Out of this world' (Sternstunden) exhibition comes to an end. Since it opened in April 2009, 950,000 visitors have been able to view the biggest Moon on Earth, historical instruments and fascinating imagery from outer space.

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air gordon wrote:then point the finger at the people who hired him.
Stoudemire had his best years playing in the "gimmick" system. In fact, this small ball takeover you previously discussed is a by product of success of this alleged gimmick system
D'Antoni's system seems to be doing well in NYK
NovU wrote:How would you rate the problems in Lakers La La land right now?
1) Fat'antoni 30%
2) Kobe the ballhoggy 20%
3) Pau 15%
4) Dwight's freethroow & underacheiving 15%
5) Bench + Role Players 10%
6) Other 10%
air gordon wrote:Howard's magic teams were successful because Rashard lewis, turkoglu, nelson could hit 3's if you chose to double him.
it's easier to defend 2 low post guys. the lack of spacing makes it easier.
NovU wrote:Seems to me bigger problem is the defense.
NovU wrote:Good point, although I don't like how that excuse is repeatedly played these days that the Lakers aren't designed to win without Pau and Nash on the floor.
NovU wrote:Lol. Kobe took 41 shots. I don't think this will sit well with Dwight. I think there's good chance for him to walk this offseason.
Andrew wrote:I still don't know that I'd call them underdogs; they're certainly underachieving, even with the injuries they've endured thus far. In any event, it just stood out to me, but fair enough.
The X wrote:You'd rather see Sacre start over Gasol at the 4?!?
Bruce wrote: gasol just can not chase down most opposing 4s these days. ok maybe it might be to much to stop starting gasol in favor of sacre for a whole season, but in situations where the Lakers are up againt a tram with an athletic pf, the time that dwight and gasol plays together might have to be limited or another way might be that on defense gasol mans the paint and dwight comes out to chase opposing bigs that have range on their shot...
for me gasol has to go, because at this point of his career he should already naturally transition to play more minutes at center like what garnett is doing. most nights the tandem of howard and gasol is too slow.
The X wrote:You'd rather see Sacre start over Gasol at the 4?!?
air gordon wrote:The X wrote:You'd rather see Sacre start over Gasol at the 4?!?
Have World Peace play more minutes at PF
Let's see how an athletic PF like Thaddeus Young does tonite...
"Cause we're old as s---," said the 34-year-old Bryant when asked why a lack of energy has been a problem for the Lakers all season. "What do you want? We just got to figure out how to play when we don't have that energy. We got to change things up a little bit defensively. We got to figure out what we want to do offensively, figure out what we want to do on nights when we don't have those legs or have that energy."
"You just saw an old damn team," Bryant continued. "I don't know how else to put it to you. We're just slow. You saw a team over there that was just younger and just had fresher legs and just played with more energy, and we were just stuck in the mud. I think individually we all have to figure out how to get ourselves ready each and every game to have a high level of energy. That's all that is."
Metta World Peace, 33, refused to accept the age of the Lakers' roster as an excuse for their play, pointing out what the New York Knicks have accomplished so far this season.
"That's no excuse, the Knicks are playing great, so that's no excuse," World Peace said. "You can't use it as an excuse for us. Thank you. Thanks for trying."
Having an older roster hasn't stopped the Knicks from starting the season with a 21-10 record, good enough for the second-best mark in the Eastern Conference. The Knicks started the season with an average player age of 32 years and 240 days, the oldest in NBA history, according to STATS, LLC.
"We have to figure that out," Bryant said. "We need to go through him a lot, lot more. A lot, lot more. He needs more touches on the elbow, more touches on the post. He's not a scorer type of a person, he'll be the first to admit that, but he can make plays for others down there. He can control the game from down there, and we got to find a way to get him more activated."
"Bryant said he planned to speak with D'Antoni about Gasol's role at practice Saturday. "Pau is just going to continue to be patient," Bryant said. "He's obviously frustrated and has every right to be. I'm frustrated for him. But, I mean, that's something that we have to solve because we're not going to get where we have to go with him not playing at maximum potential and using his maximum potential."
"I won two championships with [Gasol]. We won two championships playing through him, really. I know what he's capable of doing."
Gasol is the team's second-best passer behind Nash, and he has better fundamental skills in the post than Dwight Howard. But D'Antoni seems hellbent on ignoring those attributes while trying to emphasize the poorest aspect of Gasol's game.
Would it kill D'Antoni to draw up a few plays for Gasol at the rim? Or how about running a few pick-and-roll plays with Nash that begin with Howard on the elbow and Gasol in the paint?
Unfortunately for the Lakers, it may take a Gasol trade to prove that he is really not the problem, and then the Lakers can spend the rest of their spring trying to find D'Antoni's replacement since the playoffs don't seem like a reality while he's roaming the sidelines.
air gordon wrote:Griffin was embarrassing gasol on defense. it was a good decision to keep him on the bench for most of the 4th qtr
JaoSming2KTV wrote:its fun on a bun
Jackal wrote:Who wasn't being embarassed by Griffin? Even Howard got dunked on so that's a bullshit reason, with that logic even he should've been benched.
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Dr. Goodman: Yes, it's what we're calling Human on a Chip. This is an ambitious project to create a tool that could revolutionize toxicology testing and it's something I'm really excited to talk about. Scientists have relied largely on animal studies to determine if a drug is toxic before testing it in humans. And while animal testing is useful, it's also expensive, time consuming, and has drawbacks. For example, it doesn't always detect toxic effects specific to humans and doesn't usually provide information about the role that genetic differences within human populations play in toxicity. It can also generate false alarms, showing an effect in animals that doesn't predict an actual effect in people, which leads us to abandon promising new drugs. FDA is collaborating with DARPA, NIH, and the scientific community to spur innovation in this field by exploring how tools like Human on a Chip can be integrated into our development tool box to improve testing for toxicity and potentially reduce the need for animal testing.
FDA Voice: Can you describe Human on a Chip?
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The Human on a Chip builds on this approach. FDA's collaboration with NIH and DARPA aims to create a 3D representation of 10 different human organ systems that mimic the processes and activities of those systems, potentially linking them to form a system with major features of human biology. For instance, in a living human, the interactions of heart, lung, kidney, and liver are crucial in the functioning of all 4 organs, and all are common targets of toxicity. A tool that creates and links organ-like systems will enable scientists to observe a substance's effects on several interacting systems simultaneously. This can make it possible to test for beneficial effects as well as for toxicity.
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FDA Voice: Why transform toxicology testing?
Dr. Goodman: Toxicity has been a major challenge in medical product development and in assessing environmental hazards. Technologies like Human on a Chip could help shrink the time frame it takes for new treatments to move to human testing and approval. These new tools can help identify toxicity earlier in product development, thus protecting patients, lowering development costs, and speeding new treatments to patients in need.
Human on a Chip could also contribute to developing medical countermeasures because the diseases and conditions we might need to treat in a public health emergency—like anthrax, smallpox, pandemic influenza, and radiation and toxin exposure—rarely occur naturally, often making animal models the only available tools for evaluating a new treatment's effectiveness.
FDA Voice: What makes FDA essential to this collaboration?
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FDA Voice: In what other ways has FDA worked to drive innovation in toxicology testing?
Through the Critical Path and Advancing Regulatory Science initiatives, we are working to harness the use of new science and technology to transform regulatory science and help get needed products to people quickly and safely. FDA identified transforming toxicology as one of the eight priority areas where collaborative regulatory science research is essential and offers huge opportunities. In addition to Human on a Chip, FDA is collaborating with other Federal agencies, academia, and industry to bring new science to toxicology, such as on the cell-based Tox-21 project with EPA and NIH, and on FDA grants to evaluate cell-based approaches to evaluate risks of reproductive and developmental toxicity.
My office has also formed a new FDA-wide council, together with scientists from across the agency, to explore, promote, and coordinate efforts concerning chemical and toxicology-related issues. FDA's partnership throughout the development and evaluation cycle is critical to ensuring that exciting new tools and approaches like Human on a chip speed the delivery of safe and effective new treatments to people who need them.
Jesse L. Goodman, M.D., M.P.H., is FDA's Chief Scientist and Deputy Commissioner for Science and Public Health


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A Noho activist pauses for a moment to reflect
Villager photo by Annie Shaver-Crandell
Keith Crandell in his Bond St. loft
By JERRY TALLMER
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil . . .
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for naught? . . . Put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Job, Chapter 1
In a rambling checkerboarded apartment in Noho, one complete old floor of a long defunct factory, Keith Crandell said: Well, they tell me theres not much they can do for the cancer. I have no pain. I can breathe. People my age who get cancer [hes 77, and its lung cancer] often live a long time.
Or they fall over in a heap, said his tall, good-looking, cheerfully undaunted wife, the painter Annie Shaver-Crandell. Meanwhile, she said, were signed up with the Hospice of New York, and this past Sunday, I think for my aid, we helped organize a Share-the-Care group.
The Keep Keith Kicking Group, I call it, said her even more undaunted husband.
In the next room his motorized wheelchair was parked and waiting. High on a wall in this room, on faded brown paper, was the message: HELLO! DEMOCRATS CHICAGO, a relic of the tumultuous Democratic National Convention of 1968. Crandell laughed as he recollected: All [Eugene] McCarthys kids were stoned. That isnt why they were beaten up in their hotel rooms by Mayor Richard Daleys storm troopers.
Crandell, who has been one of The Villagers most entertaining writers on a wide variety of topics since the 1980s, and for whom that wheelchair is now a total necessity, held out his left hand.
At 70, he said, I began to have no feeling in this hand. It turned out to be caused by something called cavernous hemangioma, a defective blood vessel at C-6, the sixth cervical. It leaks blood and destroys nerve tissue. I didnt even pay attention to it. Now it takes over my life.
I was about to go out to Cleveland last October before the election Ohio was a swing state but I fell apart. Instead I went to the hospital and then a nursing home for six weeks.
This phase of Crandells afflictions, his wife said, had started with a stroke in 1999.
Lets go back a little bit, he said, to 1945. My father was picture editor of the Herald Tribune and we lived in White Plains. I wanted to join the Navy. I was 17. I went down to New York to enlist, and passed out at the enlistment place. An epileptic seizure. First one in my life.
What they call grand mal, said Annie Shaver-Crandell, who was an art historian at The City College of New York for 32 and a half years. Be sure you put in the The, Crandell said. They like it that way.
They wouldnt take him into the Navy, of course, so he went to join the Coast Guard and had another seizure. That brought my military career to a close.
But not a handful of other careers, including public-relations person Can you imagine? for General Electric in Schenectady, Syracuse, and big deal! New York City.
Kurt Vonnegut was also doing lovely P.R. for GE at the time. Once, going by train to Washington for a demonstration, I bumped into Vonnegut. Hey, werent you in Building 27?
Crandell the lifelong community activist and political activist is also the kind of guy who would put his writing talents hard and tirelessly at work in these pages to win parole for a man named James Davis who had spent what Crandell felt was an unjust 17 years in prison at Otisville, N.Y., and elsewhere.
Last May, the self-proclaimed cripple now said, I went down, alone, to see my granddaughter [8-year-old Haley] in Houston. On the way back I stopped for a week in Corsicana, Texas, to take part with 12 or 15 senior citizens in putting into a computer system a collection of Civil War documents, including the remarkable letters of a soldier from New York named James Kelly.
Came back, got off the train, and Annie was there. She told me James Davis had been paroled. My oldest friend, Frank Irwin, a commercial artist, cartoonist and voice-over actor, had sent one of my pieces about Davis to every member of the Parole Board. Annie gave me the news and tears ran down my face.
Two days after the interview here, Crandell telephoned the interviewer to throw in what he called factoids that he had traveled to all 50 states through the years, including by bus to Alaska, and that he himself had been jailed three times once for taking part in a squatters movement for poor people who needed apartments (and we won!); once, in Washington, during a protest against the Reagan administrations policies in Central America; once, down at City Hall, to protest the 19 bullets the New York City police had put into the body of Amadou Diallo in a Bronx doorway.
Those plastic handcuffs are always squeezed as tight as possible very unpleasant, says our Noho felon. Then, on February 15, 2004, in my first real outing in a wheelchair, I was nearly ripped up by the police on the Upper East Side during a protest against the war. Mounted police surrounded me. Very brutal.
Howd you get to be this radical-type fellow, Mr. Crandell?
I consider myself to be a moderate, came the reply.
(Some other Crandell factoids: He won the New York Press Associations Best Columnist award in 2000 for his Villager columns, including one on Alberts Garden on E. First St.; he has been a member of Greenwich Villages Community Board 2 since 1981 and was its chairperson for two years in the 1980s though he says he worked hardest when he chaired the boards Social Services and Health Committee, when the AIDS, crack and homelessness epidemics were raging Mostly, we were able to stave off the NIMBY people to get a lot of facilities built. We worked with Bowery Residents Committee, Housing Works. We saved a library for the blind on Sixth Ave. from being developed; today, its still Gods Love We Deliver. he was a Democratic state committeeman for two years; and, in the 1980s, he lost Village Independent Democrats endorsement for Democratic district leader by six votes to Tony Hoffmann.)
Crandell asked his wife to unearth that rooftop photograph that has all the players. She did so. The players, left to right, one sunny day on the rooftop of this building, were Keiths son Nathaniel, daughter Louise, son Zachary, wife Anne, Keith himself, and son Ben.
All the children (all by previous wives) are now grown people. Zachary is an editor of a newspaper in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Nathaniel is dead.
Worst thing ever happened, said the man to whose shattered nerve system, pneumonia, epilepsy, stroke and a heart attack or two has now been added lung cancer. Said it quietly, matter-of-factly.
Nathaniel was damaged in an automobile accident. Make that a wreck, Crandell corrected himself. We shouldnt keep calling it an accident. November 5, 1989. It eventually killed him. He died of tuberculosis he picked up in hospital.
Nat came up from Houston and stayed with us, said Mrs. Crandell. Couldnt decide which to put on first, his socks or his shoes. He said he wanted to go to church.
I was surprised, said Nathaniels father. Hed never gone to church. Id never gone to church. A close family friend, Katherine Wolpe, a parishioner at St. Marks-on-the-Bowery, came to tell Nathaniel about that church.
Annie Shaver-Crandell: Nat said: Sounds fine to me, but he couldnt find his way there.
Keith Crandell: I started to take him to church every Sunday. The [Episcopal] priest was David Garcia. That was three or four priests ago. Then Nat went back to Texas, and St. Marks was stuck with me. So eventually I became a member of the vestry. Its become a large part of my life.
Mrs. Crandell brought forth a picture of Nat and his wife Mona and their daughter Haley. The pneumonia diagnosis came through on the day Haley was born.
Kind of like Keith getting his lung-cancer diagnosis on this past election day. Every time George W. Bush runs for president, Keith winds up in the hospital. The first time it was a heart attack. Until that heart attack, Keith went everywhere by bicycle.
Mr. Crandell, are you a smoker?
I quit 30 years ago.
On my watch, said his wife.
When did you two meet, anyway?
I was his fourth wife. I met him originally in 1968. He was up on a ladder painting PEACE ON EARTH, in Dutch, on a series of buildings on Sixth Avenue between 16th and 17th Streets. To my mind, this happened sometime between the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. I lived only a block away.
And I was being evicted in Chelsea, said Crandell.
And we actually photographed each other, that day, holding paint brushes. Then a New York story he went and married someone else. We got together again when he called me in 1976. The third Mrs. Crandell Vivien, her name was Vivien with an E had taken off to complete her training as a Scientologist.
When Keith called me, it was two days before the final deposit of my Ph.D. in Art History at Columbia, and I was afraid that nobody would want to sleep with me if I got my doctorate.
I had moved here, said Crandall. To this floor in this building. It used to be a factory that made wire racks for drugstores
Badly, Mrs. Crandell threw in.
A number of people and I bought separate floors. We are now what you call a Naturally Occurring Retirement Community.
Except that Keith Crandell has not retired from anything or anywhere in his miraculous powered wheelchair. It came into my life two years ago. Goes everywhere, even on buses. I get tremendous respect from bus drivers.
On airplanes?
No. I dont like to fly. You cant see anything through those portholes. I like looking out the windows of trains.
I think airplanes are famous for destroying power chairs, said Mrs. Crandell.
Hes been, by motorized wheelchair, to a wildlife refuge out in Queens, to the far-north reaches of the Bronx, even, more than once, to ballgames at Yankee Stadium.
As a kid born in New York City on October 7, 1927, he used to be a St. Louis Cardinals fan. The old Gas House Gang: Medwick, Durocher, Enos Slaughter, Paul Dean, Dizzy Dean. Then Jackie Robinson came along, and the Cardinals turned out to be the racist team. Then the Dodgers went out to California, and Ive been a floater ever since.
Annie Shaver-Crandell had her own crisis five years ago. Her first solo painting show, after retiring from The City College of New York, was to be at the Civic Center Synagogue on White Street in Lower Manhattan. As the exhibit was about to open, she was told she had breast cancer.
Hows that coming along, the interviewer asked.
Im good. Cleared the five-year mark. Im still vigilant, but O.K.
She laughed, said: Wait a minute, fished around a corner of the room, and dragged out a street-peddlers sandwich board Crandell had made for a party maybe 25 years ago.
GOOD WRITING DONE CHEAP! it proclaimed across the top, and under that: MANY HARD WORDS SPELLED RIGHT! ASK ABOUT OUR PLAGIARISM SPECIAL . . . UMLAUTS AT YOUR SERVICE.
She turned the board around. On the reverse the headlined offering was FOUR-LETTER FAVORITES. Unlike Job, but a little like Beethoven if Beethoven had only had a sense of humor Keith Crandell, even back then, was shaking his fist at God.
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I. Wherein Is Rehearsed the Unfortunate Adventure Which Happened to Don Quixote, by Encountering with Certain Yanguesian Carriers
Cid Hamet Benengeli recounteth that, as soon as Don Quixote had taken leave of the goatherds, his hosts the night before, and of all those that were present at the burial of the shepherd Chrysostom, he and his squire did presently enter into the same wood into which they had seen the beautiful shepherdess Marcela enter before. And, having travelled in it about the space of two hours without finding of her, they arrived in fine to a pleasant meadow, enriched with abundance of flourishing grass, near unto which runs a delightful and refreshing stream, which did invite, yea, constrain them thereby to pass over the heat of the day, which did then begin to enter with great fervour and vehemency. Don Quixote and Sancho alighted, and, leaving the ass and Rozinante to the spaciousness of these plains to feed on the plenty of grass that was there, they ransacked their wallet, where, without any ceremony, the master and man did eat, with good accord and fellowship, what they found therein. Sancho had neglected to tie Rozinante, sure that he knew him to be so sober and little wanton as all the mares of the pasture of Cordova could not make him to think the least sinister thought. But fortune did ordain, or rather the devil, who sleeps not at all hours, that a troop of Gallician mares, belonging to certain Yanguesian carriers, did feed up and down in the same valley; which carriers are wont, with their beasts, to pass over the heats in places situated near unto grass and water, and that wherein Don Quixote happened to be was very fit for their purpose. It therefore befel that Rozinante took a certain desire to solace himself with the lady mares, and therefore, as soon as he had smelt them, abandoning his natural pace and custom, without taking leave of his master, he began a little swift trot, and went to communicate his necessities to them. But they, who, as it seemed, had more desire to feed than to solace them, entertained him with their heels and teeth in such sort as they broke all this girths, and left him in his naked hair, having overthrown the saddle. But that which surely grieved him most was, that the carriers, perceiving the violence that was offered by him to their mares, repaired presently to their succours, with clubs and truncheons, and did so belabour him as they fairly laid him along. Now, in this season, Don Quixote and Sancho (which beheld the bombasting of Rozinante) approached breathless; and Don Quixote said to Sancho, For as much as I can perceive, friend Sancho, these men are no knights, but base, rascally people of vile quality; I say it, because thou mayst help me to take due revenge for the outrage which they have done before our face to Rozinante. What a devil quoth Sancho, what revenge should we take, if these be more than twenty, and we but two, and peradventure but one and a half? I am worth a hundred, replied Don Quixote; and, without making any longer discourse, he set hand to his sword, and flew upon the Yanguesians; and Sancho Panza, moved by his lords example, did the like; when, with the first blow, Don Quixote piercing a buff coat that one of them wore, wounded him grievously in the shoulder. The Yanguesians, seeing themselves so rudely handled by two men only, they being so many, ran to the stakes and truncheons of their carriage, and, hemming in their adversaries in the midst of them, they laid on them with admirable speed and vehemency. True it is, that at the second peal they struck Sancho down to the ground; and the like happened to Don Quixote, his dexterity and courage being nothing available in that trance, and, his fate so ordaining, he fell just at his coursers feet, who had not yet gotten up; by which we may ponder the fury wherewithal truncheons batter, being placed in wrathful and rustical fists. The carriers perceiving the evil they had committed, trussing up their loading with all possible speed, followed on their way, leaving both the adventures in a bad fashion, and a worse talent.
The first that came to himself was Sancho Panza, who, seeing his lord near unto him, said, with a weak and pitiful voice, Sir Don Quixote! oh, sir Don Quixote! What wouldst thou have, brother Sancho? replied the knight, with the like effeminate and doleful tune, I would, quoth Sancho, have of your worship a draught or two of the liquor of Feoblas, if you have any of it at hand; perhaps it is good to cure broken bones as well as it helps wounds. What would we want, unhappy that I am! replied Don Quixote, if I had it here; but I swear unto thee, Sancho Panza, by the faith of a knight-errant, that before two days pass (if fortune dispose not otherwise), I will have it in my power, or it shall hardly escape my hands. I pray you, quoth Sancho, within how many days, think you, shall we be able to stir our feet? I can say of myself, quoth the crushed knight, that I cannot set a certain term to the days of our recovery; but I am in the fault of all, for I should not have drawn my sword against men that are not knights as well as I am; and therefore I believe that the god of battles hath permitted that this punishment should be given unto me, in pain of transgressing the laws of knighthood. Wherefore, brother Sancho, it is requisite that thou beest advertised of that which I shall say unto thee now, for it importeth both our goods very much; and is, that when thou beholdest that the like rascally rabble do us any wrong, do not wait till I set hand to my sword against them, for I will not do it in any sort; but draw thou thine, and chastise them at thy pleasure; and if any knights shall come to their assistance and succour, I shall know then how to defend thee, and offend them with all my force; for thou hast by this perceived, by a thousand signs and experiences, how far the valour of this mine invincible arm extendeth itself:so arrogant remained the poor knight, through the victory he had gotten of the hardy Biscaine. But this advice of his lord seemed not so good to Sancho Panza as that he would omit to answer unto him, saying, Sir, I am a peaceable, quiet, and sober man, and can dissemble any injury, for I have wife and children to maintain and bring up; wherefore, let this likewise be an advice to you (seeing it cannot be a commandment), that I will not set hand to my sword in any wise, be it against clown or knight; and that, from this time forward, I do pardon, before God, all the wrongs that they have done, or shall do unto me, whether they were, be, or shall be done by high or low person, rich or poor, gentleman or churl, without excepting any state or condition. Which being heard by his lord, he said: I could wish to have breath enough that I might answer thee with a little more ease, or that the grief which I feel in this rib were assuaged ever so little, that I might, Panza, make thee understand the error wherein thou art. Come here, poor fool! if the gale of fortune, hitherto so contrary, do turn in our favour, swelling the sails of our desire in such sort as we may securely and without any hindrance arrive at the haven of any of those islands which I have promised unto thee, what would become of thee if I, conquering it, did make thee lord thereof, seeing thou wouldst disable thyself, in respect thou art not a knight, nor desirest to be one, nor wouldst have valour or will to revenge thine injuries, or to defend thy lordships? For thou must understand that, in the kingdoms and provinces newly conquered, the minds of the inhabitants are never so thoroughly appeased or wedded to the affection of their new lord, that it is not to be feared that they will work some novelty to alter things again, and turn, as men say, afresh to try fortune; and it is therefore requisite that the new possessor have understanding to govern, and valour to offend, and defend himself in any adventure whatsoever. In this last that hath befallen us, quoth Sancho, I would I had had that understanding and valour of which you speak; but I vow unto you, by the faith of a poor man, that I am now fitter for plaisters than discourses. I pray you try whether you can arise, and we will help Rozinante, although he deserves it not; for he was the principal cause of all these troubles. I would never have believed the like before of Rozinante, whom I ever held to be as chaste and peaceable a person as myself. In fine, they say well, that one must have a long time to come to the knowledge of bodies, and that theres nothing in this life secure. Who durst affirm that, after those mighty blows which you gave to that unfortunate knight-errant, would succeed so in post, and as it were in your pursuit, this so furious a tempest of staves, that hath discharged itself on our shoulders? Thine, Sancho, replied Don Quixote, are perhaps accustomed to bear the like showers, but mine, nursed between cottons and hollands, it is most evident that they must feel the grief of this disgrace. And were it not that I imagine (but why do I say imagine?) I know certainly that all these incommodities are annexed to the exercise of arms I would here die for very wrath and displeasure. To this the squire answered: Sir seeing these disgraces are of the essence of knighthood I pray you whether they succeed very often, or whether they have certain times limited wherein they befall? For methinks, within two adventures more, we shall wholly remain disenabled for the third if the gods in mercy do not succour us.
Know, friend Sancho, replied Don Quixote, that the life of knights errant is subject to a thousand dangers and misfortunes; and it is also as well, in the next degree and power, to make them kings and emperors, as experience hath shown in sundry knights, of whose histories I have entire notice. And I could recount unto thee now (did the pain I suffer permit me) of some of them which have mounted to those high degrees which I have said only by the valour of their arm; and the very same men found them both before and after, in divers miseries and calamities. For the valorous Amadis of Gaul saw himself in the power of his moral enemy, Arcalaus the enchanter, of whom the opinion runs infallible, that he gave unto him, being his prisoner, more than two hundred stripes with his horse-bridle, after he had tied him to a pillar in his base-court. And there is, moreover, a secret author of no little credit, who says, that the Cavalier del Febo, being taken in a gin, like unto a snatch, that slipped under his feet in a certain castle, after the fall found himself in a deep dungeon under the earth, bound hands and feet; and there they gave unto him a clyster of snow-water and sand, which brought him almost to the end of his life; and were it not that he was succoured in that great distress by a wise man, his very great friend, it had gone ill with the poor knight, So that I may very well pass among so many worthy persons; for the dangers and disgraces they suffered were greater than those which we do now endure. For, Sancho, I would have thee to understand, that these wounds which are given to one with those instruments that are in ones hand, by chance, do not disgrace a man. And it is written in the laws of single combat, in express terms, that if the shoemaker strike another with the last which he hath in his hand, although it be certainly of wood, yet cannot it be said that he who was striken had the bastinado. I say this, to the end thou mayst not think, although we remain bruised in this last conflict, that therefore we be disgraced; for the arms which those men bore, and wherewithal they laboured us, were none other than their pack-staves, and, as far as I can remember, never a one of them had a tuck, sword, or dagger. They gave me no leisure, answered Sancho, to look to them so nearly; for scarce had I laid hand on my truncheon, when they blessed my shoulders with their pins, in such sort as they wholly deprived me of my sight and the force of my feet together, striking me down on the place where I yet lie straight, and where the pain of the disgrace received by our cudgelling doth not so much pinch me as the grief of the blows, which shall remain as deeply imprinted in my memory as they do in my back.
For all this, thou shalt understand, brother Panza, replied Don Quixote, that there is no remembrance which time will not end, nor grief which death will not consume, What greater misfortune, quoth Sancho, can there be than that which only expecteth time and death to end and consume it? If this our disgrace were of that kind which might be cured by a pair or two of plaisters, it would not be so evil; but I begin to perceive that all the salves of an hospital will not suffice to bring them to any good terms. Leave off, Sancho, and gather strength out of weakness, said Don Quixote, for so will I likewise do; and let us see how doth Rozinante, for methinks that the least part of this mishap hath not fallen to his lot. You ought not to marvel at that, quoth Sancho, seeing he is likewise a knight-errant; that whereat I wonder is that mine ass remains there without payment, where we are come away without ribs. Fortune leaves always one door open in disasters, quoth Don Quixote, whereby to remedy them. I say it, because that little beast may supply Rozinantes want, by carrying off me from hence unto some castle, wherein I may be cured of my wounds. Nor do I hold this kind of riding dishonourable; for I remember to have read that the good old Silenus, tutor of the merry god of laughter, when he entered into the city of the hundred gates, rode very fairly mounted on a goodly ass. It is like, quoth Sancho, that he rode, as you say, upon an ass; but there is great difference betwixt riding and being cast athwart upon one like a sack of rubbish. To this Don Quixote answered: The wounds that are received in battle do rather give honour than deprive men of it; wherefore, friend Panza, do not reply any more unto me, but, as I have said, arise as well as thou canst, and lay me as thou pleaseth upon thy beast, and let us depart from hence before the night overtake us in these deserts. Yet I have heard you say, quoth Panza, that it was an ordinary custom of knights-errant to sleep in downs and deserts the most of the year, and that so to do they hold for very good hap. That is, said Don Quixote, when they have none other shift, or when they are in love; and this so true as that there hath been a knight that hath dwelth on a rock, exposed to the sun and the shadow, and other annoyances of heaven, for the space of two years, without his ladys knowledge. And Amadis was one of that kind, when calling himself Beltenebros, he dwelt in the Poor Rock, nor do I know punctually eight years or eight months, for I do not remember the history well; let it suffice that there he dwelt doing of penance, for some disgust which I know not, that his lady, Oriana, did him. But, leaving that apart, Sancho, despatch and away before some other disgrace happen, like that of Rozinante, to the ass.
Even there lurks the devil, quoth Sancho; and so, breathing thirty sobs and threescore sighs, and a hundred and twenty discontents and execrations against him that had brought him there, he arose, remaining bent in the midst of the way, like unto a Turkish bow, without being able to address himself; and, notwithstanding all this difficulty, he harnessed his ass (who had been also somewhat distracted by the overmuch liberty of that day), and after he hoisted up Rozinante, who, were he endowed with a tongue to complain, would certainly have borne his lord and Sanco company. In the end Sancho laid Don Quixote on the ass, and tied Rozinante unto him, and, leading the ass by the halter, travelled that way which he deemed might conduct him soonest toward the highway. And fortune, which guided his affairs from good to better, after he had travelled a little league, discovered it unto him, near unto which he saw an inn, which, in despite of him, and for Don Quixotes pleasure, must needs be a castle. Sancho contended that it was an inn, and his lord that it was not; and their controversy endured so long as they had leisure, before they could decide it, to arrive at the lodging; into which Sancho, without further verifying of the dispute, entered with all his loading.
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Australia Day Award winners announced
COMMITMENT to their communities has earned Australia Day Awards for some of the region's most self-sacrificing citizens.
The recipients were the stars of Australia Day ceremonies held from Millmerran to Yarraman and everywhere in between.
Pouring rain forced the last-minute shelving of the original plan to host open-air celebrations for Toowoomba at Picnic Point.
Luckily, a contingency plan was in full swing.
Within the water-tight expanse of Rumours International, host and Empire Theatre board chairman Professor Peter Swannell welcomed Toowoomba Regional Council Mayor Paul Antonio to the stage.
"I think we ought to reflect on how fortunate we are to live in this wonderful country," he said.
"Many of us who are Queenslanders believe we're even a little bit more fortunate to live this side of the border."
Hearts and humours tickled by the patriotic sentiment, the crowd burst into a flag-flourishing fit of applause.
Here are our region's deserving Australia Day award winners.
Congratulations and thank you to them all.
Sharing her story
REGIONAL Citizen of the Year Sharon Boyce has not let her disability stop her from achieving and helping those around her.
As founder of educational disability awareness program Discovering DisAbility and Diversity, Ms Boyce has worked with mroe than 650 schools and universities and work-shopped with more than 100,000 teachers and students.
"I want to create communities that are aware of an individual's needs and communities that value all," she said.
"I believe you have to work together collaboratively to create change."
The full record of Ms Boyce's achievements is too long to list, but the key to her success has been her openness about her own life experience.
She has forged countless partnerships aimed at changing how the community thinks about people with disabilities, most often through education, research and real-life storytelling.
"By sharing my story and struggles and ways I overcame issues in my own life, I open up ways we can look for solutions and be creative within our community," she said.
Her own experience of physical disability and her acceptance of a different type of life to her previous existence has been central to her role as chair of the Regional Disability Council and to all the roles she takes on in supporting disability and inclusion in the community.
Some of her career highlights include winning last year's Rotary's Ron Martin award for her community work, joining the Leaders for Tomorrow program and the approaching release of her new book in February.
Sharon has also received the Disability Action Week Award, the Australian Human Rights Award 2008 and the Queensland Regional Achievement Service Award 2012.
She is also completing a Doctorate of Philosophy at the University of Southern Queensland.
"By educating people, we are creating real change, and because the participants experience the learning for themselves, the change is a heart change that lasts long-term," she said.
Inspiration to his people
REGIONAL Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Citizen of the Year Don Nikkelson has been recognised for his inspirational work to enrich his community with his knowledge of the cultural heritage of his people.
The young advocate has been conducting his business Traditional Aboriginal Cultural Lessons for most of his adult life.
He first started volunteering at the Highfields Pioneer Village during his late-teens, teaching Japanese tourists traditional dance moves and symbolic art lessons.
Mr Nikkelson's virtuosic skills on the didgeridoo allowed him to perform with Aboriginal performers at the opening of the Catholic Indigenous Education Conference in 2010.
He has played for the University of Southern Queensland Multicultural Festival where he taught the didgeridoo to young men.
He also represented his people last year in a trip to Japan where he performed at the 20th anniversary celebrations of the sister city relationship between Toowoomba Regional Council and Takasuki.
Mr Nikkelson has studied Aboriginal culture at the Indigenous Centre for Learning and has trained at Alice Springs with elders from that region. He is familiar with bush medicine and is able to identify native healing plants and flowers.
He is very approachable and always willing to share his knowledge, particularly with younger generations where is often seen to volunteer his time at local schools to teach them the old ways of his people.
Don Nikkelson is an inspiration to his people.
Beyond his years
REGIONAL Young Citizen of the Year James Ryatt is a 16-year-old who has become a recognised face in Clifton community for the work he has done to assist the town.
For several years, Mr Ryatt has earned the respect of the residents of the town.
His commitment has not gone unnoticed, earning him candidacy for the Clifton Lions Club's Youth of the Year Award.
Upon his own initiative and following his desire to further the causes of the Lions Club efforts to help his community, Mr Pratt approached the organisation to suggest forming a Leos Club at the local high school.
The initiative was speedily implemented and the Clifton State High School Leos Club was officially charted on August 24, 2012.
Mr Pratt has demonstrated that he is able to realise his plans with forthright determination and studious efficiency.
"In an age when young people need to devote all their time to develop their own skills and opportunities for their own future, it is encouraging to see a young man who can so easily balance personal growth, family spirit and community responsibility into a limited schedule," a Clifton Lions Club spokesman said.
"We Clifton Lions are in agreement that Jame Ryatt has not only himself and his family but his community in his conscience.
"Evidence such as his traineeship at the Clifton Co-Op Hospital, his traineeship at the Clifton pharmacy, his position as group leader in the SES cadets, the TNT Youth Group, the Presbyterian Music Band and work experience at a Toowoomba Radiology clinic all together allow us to see his initiative and drive.
"All this to date from a 16-year-old."
The herd was heard
CREATING a nation-spanning herd of corflute cattle was an innovative and effective way to get the true message of the Year of the Farmer where it was needed - and it all started with one man.
Darling Downs farmer Paul Blinco's brainchild, Cow Art 2012, was named Regional Cultural Event and Community Spirit Award at Toowoomba's Australia Day ceremony on Saturday.
His idea was to draw focus on a "new endangered species" - the farmer.
It certainly did that, starting at Clifford Gardens Shopping Centre and going as far afield as Perth.
Mr Blinco's pet project received a huge amount of media spotlight all over Australia through his invitation to schools across the country to decorate one of 1200 corflute cut-out cows.
More than 35,000 people had contributed to the herd's embellishment by the event's end.
The event culminated in a two-week display of almost 1200 painted and decorated cow shapes in a vacant paddock adjacent to the Drayton Cemetery beside the New England Highway.
Mr Blinco was humble in his acceptance of the award, accepting it behalf of the "thousands of children" who had made it possible.
"It's what we do, not who we are that defines us," he said. "You have made a difference."
Town crier receives his dues
THE man with the bell, the voice and the kilt to match has entered Toowoomba's history books by being chosen the city's Citizen of the Year.
Few people would not have heard Ralph Cockle's signature "Oy yay, Oy yay, Oy yay!" at some event throughout the region, but his lifelong commitment to community participation is less widely known.
Whether in kindergarten groups, school committees, Scouts or Rotary, Mr Cockle has always been willing to put up his hand to help anyone who asks.
"Then there's his 15 years as Town Crier in Glen Innes, Broken Hill and his beloved Toowoomba," Professor Peter Swannell said.
"You know he's around when you hear that bell."
Ralph's community service has been acknowledged many organisations, with his acceptance of the Paul Harris Fellow for Service Above Self to the Community being one of his proudest moments.
Mr Cockle slowly made his way to the stage at Rumours International - "One step at a time," he said - while Prof Swannell conferred his utmost praise.
"I know that Ralph wouldn't want to receive this award without acknowledging the dedicated and loving support of his dear wife Shirley," he said.
"For behind every good man is a great woman!
"In spite of recent 'not-so-good' health, Ralph has continued to help community groups when he is able, and as we all know, it's very difficult for Ralph to say 'no' to anyone who asks for his help in promoting a worthy cause.
"Despite starting another course of treatment, Ralph's desire to help people keeps him positive and active.
"Ralph is a man with an absolute passion for his community - a man who gives 100 per cent commitment to what he does and who he does it for.
"Here is a man who knows that you can only build a community to be proud of, if you're part of the building process.
"The citizens of Toowoomba probably know how much it means for Ralph to receive an Australia Day Award, when we all know how passionate he is about Australia."
Theatre program earns recognition
THE Toowoomba Choral Society Youth Choir has long been an important platform for young people to make their debut into the world of public performance.
Convenor Sandy Robertson was joined on stage by treasurer Gabrielle Elliott and conductor Vicki Bravery to accept Toowoomba's community group/event award for Australia Day 2013.
The choir has held its annual school holiday theatre program since 1993, providing talented young people with the opportunity to experience the skill and art involved in presenting a major musical production.
It is a place of training and discovery where, during the two weeks of activities, the production team focuses on all the elements involved in presenting a major theatrical production.
It also provides an artistic outlet for the many generous and talented volunteers involved in the programme from set design to music, costumes and makeup.
Last year's production, Beauty and the Beast, involved 80 volunteers and 100 performers and drew 1400 members of the public to the Empire Theatre.
Many members who graduate from the Youth Choir return as volunteers to assist with choreography, props, drama and vocal coaching of young members, costume production, orchestra, set design and construction.
Many also go on to be involved in Senior Choral Society productions as well as other productions staged at the Empire Theatre.
Role model in the arts community
VETERAN Toowoomba artist and critic Sandy Pottinger's passion for creativity has earned her Toowoomba's Australia Day Cultural Award.
Ms Pottinger's weekly Darling Downs arts review has been popular for more than 14 years, providing insightful comment on art exhibitions around the galleries.
She spent more than 20 years lecturing in visual arts at the University of Southern Queensland, but in recent years has focused on assisting local art groups in a voluntary capacity.
She is a well-known artist in her own right, as well as a curator at the John Mullins Gallery in Miles, the Rosalie Gallery in 2012, Patron of the Darling Downs Potters Club and a great supporter of many different genres of art practice.
For many years, Sandy has given lengthy illustrated art lectures to the volunteers from the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Rosalie Gallery and Crows Nest Gallery.
Her eagerly anticipated talks cover topics as diverse as sculpture, painting, Italian masters and contemporary American art. She is an inspirational role model in the arts community.
Ms Pottinger was nominated for the award by members of the Darling Downs Textile Group who consider themselves lucky to have her as their guide, motivator and friend.
Her generous spirit and wisdom has enabled the group to set a high standard for both individual and group artistic practices.
The cultural life of Toowoomba is richer for having Ms Pottinger's contribution and voluntary time.
Abilities, not disabilities
MICHAEL Pratt's inspiring work as co-ordinator of the weekly All Abilities Program at Toowoomba's PCYC has earned him the city's Australia Day Sports Award.
The physical education teacher and has spent the vast majority of his career teaching students with disabilities.
His All Abilities Program features disability-specific sports aimed at improving the confidence and skills of some of the region's most marginalised citizens.
Michelle Watson, mother of one of Mr Pratt's program members, nominated him for the award. "Michael has the gift of only seeing each individual's abilities, and these are what he focuses on," she said.
"Michael is ably assisted by a number of volunteers and they are fortunate enough to experience in Michael an exceptional role model.
"A particular magical energy envelops the hall at the PCYC as Michael urges the students on, challenges them, encourages them and lavishes praise on the seemingly smallest improvement or achievement.
"I have witnessed nothing short of miracles occur as the students grow in ability and confidence and radiate pride.
"For those two hours, they are part of something special, part of a team reaching beyond their wildest expectations and finding, to their joy, that they can get there."
Mr Pratt wanted to share the honour with his team of helpers and seemed reluctant to receive all the attention. "This award is definitely not about me," he said.
"This is for all the parents of kids with disabilities out there.
"Please take a share of this award."
Sharing music with Toowoomba
TOOWOOMBA'S Young Citizen of the Year lives, breathes and dreams music. Nancy Webb's generosity with her talents was founded in a home-life of active and joyful participation.
Being one of 12 children provided a lot of opportunity for Miss Webb to help out at home with a variety of tasks as vast as training younger siblings with piano and violin to caring for the family's animals and substantial vegetable patch.
The 16-year-old's parents have taught their children about the importance of caring for their neighbours, and that members of the wider community are their "neighbours".
With this family grounding of helping one another, Miss Webb has moved out into the community to help in a variety of ways.
She is an active member of her local parish, singing in the choir and playing the organ or violin at weekly masses or at funerals.
She has also assisted in raising donations for disaster relief by busking in local shopping centres.
Her lounge room concerts and nursing home performances bring respite and joy to many members of the community. On average, she performs at two concerts per month with audiences ranging from 10 to 100 people.
Miss Webb's weekly volunteer work at a local nursing home allows a small group of elderly people to enjoy time with young people usually playing games of their choice such as Scrabble or Uno.
She is a member of the Toowoomba Choral Society Youth Choir and is involved in all practice sessions and performances.
In the 2012 production of Beauty and the Beast, Nancy played the piano and also undertook a number of tasks in the preparation period, not least of which was the role of repetiteur which required hours of practice prior to the intense holiday program practice schedule.
Her work to provide introductory training in piano and violin has helped a number of children and their parents to begin music training in a relaxed and safe environment.
A major highlight for Nancy in 2012 was being chosen as the recipient of the Norman Miller Violin Award.
The award is aimed at aspiring violinists to enhance their musical career prospects through use of the hand-crafted violin for a year.
Judges chose Nancy to receive the award because of her commitment to the violin and her future potential with the instrument.
It is obvious that she enjoys her music and is happiest when the music can be shared with others.


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In the mood for a tablet? Got a few hundred dollars and $30 to $50 bucks a month to spend on a Verizon 4G LTE connection? This may be the tablet for you. Samsung's Android tablets are definitely not cheap, but they have consistently been the best.
Always experimenting with new screen sizes, Samsung is releasing a 7.7-inch tablet in the US. Yesterday, the Galaxy Tab 7.7 LTE was announced at Samsung's pre-CES press conference and earlier today I managed to push my way through the booth until I found one to try out myself. My first impressions are below.
The AMOLED screen
The Galaxy Tab 7.7 has a screen worthy of oggling. I've been a fan of Samsung's displays all year, but this one blows them all away. As the first tablet (that I know of) to be released with a bright Super AMOLED screen, the Tab 7.7 LTE was vivid and gorgeous even under the harsh trade show lights at CES. The 7.7-inch screen has a standard resolution of 1280×800 pixels.
The Tab 7.7 LTE will come with Google's Android 3.2 (Honeycomb) operating system, which is technically outdated since Google released Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) about a month ago, but Ice Cream Sandwich is more of an upgrade to Android phone users than it is for tablet owners. Since Samsung modifies the look of Android Honeycomb, it's unlikely that users will even notice a visual difference when the Android 4.0 update rolls in, and Samsung promises it will arrive at some point. Either way, Samsung's modified UI, called TouchWiz, really improves the look of Android and is among our favorite modifications. It's designed to take full advantage of the bright colors possible with an AMOLED screen.
Specs and Impressions
Samsung claims that the Tab 7.7 is the thinnest and lightest tablet on the market. There are three or four major companies claiming they hold world records for thinness and weight at the Consumer Electronics Show this year, but the Galaxy Tab is certainly quite thin and quite lightweight. Its design is almost identical to the Galaxy Tab 8.9 and Galaxy Tab 10.1.
On the inside are pretty typical specs. The Tab 7.7 LTE can connect up to Verizon's fast 4G LTE network, has a 1.4GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB or 32GB of internal storage, a 3MP rear camera, a 2MP front camera, Wi-Fi, and all the other common features like an accelerometer, Bluetooth, and GPS. Most Android Honeycomb tablets run on similar hardware.
The price is high, but if you have the money…
Verizon's data prices are steep and to get the Tab 7.7 LTE, you have to sign up for a data plan. For a lot of you (and me) this sounds awesome, but it's difficult to justify paying another $30-$50 a month to connect another device, especially if you have a $90-$120 monthly Verizon bill for your smartphone. Still, with the compact size of the 7.7 LTE, it's great to have a constant connection and not have to worry about finding a Wi-Fi hotspot wherever you go.
The Galaxy Tab 7.7 LTE feels great, has an amazingly vivid screen, and even comes with a few bonus features like infrared (for using the tablet as a TV remote) and a Micro SD card slot. Samsung's tablets are some of the most pleasant to use. Unfortunately, though we know it's coming "soon," Samsung and Verizon aren't willing to tell us how much the Galaxy Tab 7.7 LTE will cost or exactly when it will hit shelves. Until then, we wait…
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The newest commercials touting "The Feel of Cotton" are right on target. On target, that is, if you are a female consumer between the ages of 18 and 34.
"If you feel like the new commercials aren't really targeted to you, you'd be right," says J. Berrye Worsham, president and CEO of Cotton Incorporated in Cary, N.C. "We want the commercials to appeal to men and women of all ages, but we need to maximize the marketable impact with the budget available to us. We must target our best consumers to sell our cotton products, and those are female consumers between the ages of 18 and 34."
An in-depth study of consumers' purchasing behavior, their attitudes toward fashions and cottons, and their feelings about advertising told the cotton promotion organization to target women between the ages of 18 and 34.
"Women buy over 80 percent of all apparel and home furnishings, and many of life's firsts happen to women between the ages of 18 and 34. They often get their first job and their first apartment, get married, have their first baby and buy their first house during this period," Worsham says. "Each of these major events involves a heightened interest in learning new things and in purchasing textile products."
The two new "Feel of Cotton" commercials, which premiered Presidents' Day weekend during the Olympics, feature people at work, and at play in a hotel setting, dressed in fashionable, dressy casual cotton clothing.
Using a real office and hotel, instead of a studio set, allows Cotton Incorporated to showcase a wide variety of different people all in the same kind of dressy casual cotton wear, and all dancing. Because clothing is a form of self-expression, the creators of the commercials pushed that idea of self-expression through dance.
The commercials feature the currently popular dj-remixed dance music. "We have kept the core cotton music but we are just expressing it in a new and different way that will hopefully get your foot tapping," says Michael Kelley, western regional manager for Cotton Incorporated.
In keeping with the feel of the new commercials, the taglines for the still-running familiar commercials have been changed to "Red, white and blue jeans," for the denim spots, and "It's cotton or nothing," for the underwear promos.
The commercials are being run predominantly on the WB and UPN networks during those shows that traditionally attract young female viewers, such as Charmed, Dawson's Creek, Felicity, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Friends.
Worsham says, "We're running our television commercials predominantly on shows that appeal to women 18 to 34, and our network of choice is the WB. We want to reach women younger than 34 whenever possible and the WB's viewers are a median age of 29. Also important to our schedule is the UPN network, which has an audience with an average age of 33."
"Another layer of our strategic usage of television is the soap opera," he says. "The developing female viewers of these "The developing female viewers of these dramas shop for themselves, their spouses and their children on a regular basis. You will also see cotton commercials showing up on a variety of entertainment and lifestyle networks during primetime to showcase cotton advertising for bigger audiences."
Build demand
"The focus of these commercials is to build consumer demand and sell the story of American upland cotton," says Kelley.
According to Kelley, cotton's share of the total retail and home furnishings market was 66 percent in the 1960s, but by 1975, that number had fallen to a record low 34 percent.
If this trend had continued, he says, cotton's market share could have fallen to well under 20 percent by the 1990s. "In response to the declining market, Congress passed the Cotton Research and Promotion Act, and things began turning around quickly with the advent of a commercial advertising program."
Despite this apparent turn-around, Kelley says he's concerned that the emerging youth market won't have any preference for cotton products without continued efforts to shape the preferences of women and youth.
A recent Texas A & M study found that for every dollar that is spent on cotton promotion, producers get a $6 return in sales of American products. Another study found that every dollar put into cotton promotion returns a $4.60 benefit to cotton producers.
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The Energy Department today announced that the General Services Administration's (GSA) United States Court House in Wichita, Kansas is the winner of the 2013 Better Buildings Federal Award. The Better Buildings Federal Award challenges agencies to achieve the greatest reduction in annual energy intensity, or energy consumed per gross square foot. This year's winner cut its energy intensity by 20% and saved over $40,000 in utility costs in the 12 month competition period.
Building on past energy efficiency improvements funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, GSA Region 6 implemented energy efficiency upgrades, including a cost-effective re-tuning of building control systems and equipment, to boost energy efficiency in the 80-year-old Wichita Court House in Wichita, Kansas. GSA also provided training and technical support to the building staff on how best to manage and sustain the energy efficiency improvements and also encouraged Court House tenants to reduce energy waste within their work areas. Despite the summer's heat waves and the winter's cold snaps, GSA cut energy use by 20% in the building while maintaining a satisfaction rate among tenants of more than 90%, according to a GSA Tenant Satisfaction Survey.
Finalists from the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, and the Departments of State and Energy also competed in this year's race to reduce their buildings' energy intensity. When selecting finalists, the Energy Department's Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) considered energy efficiency measures deployed in each facility; best practices in energy management; and building operations undertaken by facility personnel, as well as organizational programs and tools to encourage broad sustainability efforts.
Beginning in 2014, the Better Buildings Federal Award will be presented to the federal facility that achieves the highest ranking in the Environmental Protection Agency's National Building Competition, Battle of the Buildings, which challenges federal, commercial, and industrial buildings to achieve the greatest reduction in annual energy use intensity. Participants will measure, track, and report their monthly 2014 energy consumption using EPA's online energy tracking tool, Portfolio Manager, and compare it to calendar year 2013 usage.
The Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy accelerates development and facilitates deployment of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies and market-based solutions that strengthen U.S. energy security, environmental quality, and economic vitality. Learn more about how the Energy Department works with key individuals to enable Federal agencies to meet energy-related goals on the FEMP website. Visit the Better Buildings Federal Award website for more information on the GSA project.


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