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Inspirations: Derek Rabelo
How a blind Brazilian surfer conquered Pipeline
As seen in the May 2013 issue of TransWorld SURF magazine. Subscribe now and get a free gift!
Derek Rabelo isn't your average surfer. In fact, he's as far from that as one may be. Derek was born with congenital glaucoma--in plain English, without sight. But that didn't stop the 20-year-old Brazilian from learning to surf when he was just three years old. "I swim, surf, ride skateboards and bikes," says Rabelo. "With God, everything is possible." Understandably, religion plays a big role in his life. In fact, the church helped take him to Hawaii last winter, where the surf community took Rabelo under its wing. After a video was released with Makua Rothman taking the Brazilian surfing at a small day in Pipeline, his fame spread across the globe. It shows him duckdiving incoming whitewash with perfect timing, as well as paddling into waves all by himself. "I can see the same things as others, except in different ways," he explains.
Rabelo returned to the North Shore this winter to gather footage for his upcoming documentary, Beyond Sight--its teaser even showing big-wave surfer Carlos Burle towing him into well-overhead waves at a Brazilian beachbreak. Relying on four out of five senses, if Derek's example doesn't put trivial complaints like high tides or sideshore winds into perspective, not a lot of other stories will.

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Over the weekend we have been preparing the area for our garden. We had to initially remove many weeds and rooted bushes, pull up the bricks along the back end and place another piece of wood to surround the garden. The next thing we needed to do was to till the area and prepare it for a fence! There are a lot of rabbits around here so we assumed that before the plants went in, we might want to find a way to protect them.
First things first, we had to put the Snow Joe / Sun Joe Tiller together. They were kind enough to send us a TJ600E Tiller/Cultivator to help with our garden! It is very easy to put together and we had it ready the night before within 15 minutes. My little tot was pretty excited watching Daddy put the Tiller together, we told him it was like a mini push tractor.
The Snow Joe / Sun Joe TJ600E is perfect for our garden size, however, it could probably do triple the size easily in the same amount of time. It's a pretty powerful medium sized Tiller with a 6.5 AMP and I love, love, love that it is an Electric Tiller that doesn't use gasoline. They do have a 2.5 and a 9 AMP if you are looking for something a little smaller or larger for your garden.
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The dirt was very nice and smooth once the tiller was finished with it. We let it sit for a few days before applying manure and a top of organic soil to give it some moisture. And for the last few days we've been watering it and I'm been searching for a fence! So instead of breaking our already sore backs with a hoe and a shovel, this took less than 15 min and was readily prepared! Seeing as my husband and I already feel like we're half broken in our age, I have to give many thanks to Snow Joe / Sun Joe for introducing us to the amazing wonders of their electric tillers.
We're extremely happy with it, especially with the results. We weren't sure how it'd do with some of the roots since the garden is near a tree, but we didn't have any problems. What small ones there were were easily taken care of by the large blades and it tills 7in so the larger ones were deeper.
The electrical cord for the electric tiller is very long! So we had no problem reaching our garden as it extends 50fit. It's thermo rubber so it resists oil, grease, moisture and abrasion as well as withstand extreme temperatures. This would be important if you were starting a garden after the first frost, but with the insane weather we didn't even get one of those days!
The Snow Joe / Sun Joe TJ600E Tiller has inspired me to do a lot more with my backyard, my husband too. We've actually decided to tear down our shed and build this entire sitting area with a circular fireplace. Fun! But that also means tilling out areas for bushes and I'm already in process of preparing the side of the house I had in my previous video for flowers. It makes it so easy to prepare the ground that you just get inspired to do more. Consider saving yourself the pain of bending over a hoe and spending hours tilling up the ground by hand; you'll see what I mean.
So while the ground is setting in our garden and I am scoping out fences to keep the rabbits at bay, you can have some fun entering to win a TJ600E Tiller/Cultivator for yourself! Many thanks to Snow Joe / Sun Joe for being a part of my inBloom series!
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GET ready for an emotional rollercoaster as Eastbourne's season of thrillers kicks off with a brand new whodunnit!
Playing Dead comes to the Devonshire Park Theatre from June 5-9.
This new thriller by Brighton-based TV writer Philip Gladwin, best known for TV's Trial and Tribulation, opens the Murder At The Park season this June.
When he was 16, John Dean slammed out of the school gates, glad to be free of the bullies that ruled his school years.
Thirty years later, he goes to a school reunion looking for the chance to show everyone how he's changed.
But when he gets locked in the school gym with a handful of his old enemies, the mood turns dark as they talk about the old days.
The last summer they were at school, John's girlfriend Susannah died in a house fire, an event from which John has never recovered.
Over the course of this one evening it becomes increasingly apparent that the people with John were more involved in the night of her death than he ever suspected.
As he finally works out the terrible truth about how Susannah died, John is forced to answer the horrifying question – what is he going to do about it?
Starring Stephen Beckett (The Bill, Coronation Street), Jenny Funnell (As Time Goes By) and Marcus Hutton (Brookside) this brand new thriller, commissioned by Talking Scarlet, takes a fresh look at this genre.
Set in the present day and dealing with contemporary issues, Playing Dead is a gripping 'modern' thriller that will leave the audience guessing right up until the final curtain.
Evening performances are at 7.45pm, Wednesday and Saturday matinees at 2.30pm. Tickets cost from £13.50-£18, call 412000.


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Ambulance workers are set to go on strike this week.
Unite has today (Tuesday) announced that its members will strike on Friday from 3pm to 9pm and then on Tuesday from 3pm to 9pm because of a dispute with the Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) over shift patterns.
The union has said that elongated shift patters currently in place mean that "it is only a matter of time before someone is seriously injured or killed as a result of staff exhaustion".
Unite regional officer Terry Cunliffe said: "The trust's chief executive David Whiting continues to play hard ball with his employees and has snubbed every genuine attempt by Unite to engage in positive talks for the benefit of the Yorkshire public.
"Our members firmly believe that the public deserve a first-class, fully resourced ambulance service – and, as they have shown on a number of occasions since April 2013, they have been prepared to strike to strongly make that case.
"We have been buoyed up by the support we have received from Yorkshire people – and we thank them for that. Unite's door is open for talks under the auspices of Acas at any time."
Unite said YAS has brought in new detrimental working conditions which see emergency care assistants (ECAs), who have only six weeks training, being the first to respond to a 'red' (emergency) call). The union has called for extra training for ECAs and more flexibility for staff to take meal breaks.
YAS has criticised Unite for taking industrial action "without any concessions for the most seriously ill and injured patients" but said it was confident in its "robust contingency plans".
Ian Brandwood, Executive Director of HR at the Trust, said: "We remain disappointed that Unite the Union has decided to continue with yet more strike action.
"Once again the industrial action will take place without any concessions for the most seriously ill and injured patients and we remain concerned over this type of action.
"We would like to reassure members of the public that we have robust contingency plans in place. We continue to focus on safeguarding patient care and are committed to minimising the level of disruption to our services. Throughout the period of industrial action we will be taking steps to maintain operational cover to sustain effective and safe services for our patients who find themselves needing emergency medical assistance. We will continue to make every effort to get to patients as quickly as possible, whilst maintaining high standards of patient care.
"We would appreciate the co-operation of the general public and would, once again, like to remind people to use our services wisely. Please only call 999 for an ambulance when someone has a life-threatening or serious illness or injury. Anyone requiring advice or treatment for a non-emergency situation or minor ailment should consider options such as self-care, a visit to a local pharmacist, contacting the NHS 111 urgent care service or their GP, visiting a walk-in centre or minor injuries unit."
To find your nearest non-emergency service, visit www.nhs.uk/service-search or call 111.


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Abe Gets Some Personality on His Panels
In politics, change is often accompanied by new panels, committees and work teams. True to form, in an attempt to brush away the odor of the previous government and impress voters that his policies represent a breath of fresh air, new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has created several councils to flesh out his signature policies.
Under the mantra that his economic platform stands on the three pillars of "dynamic" monetary policy, "agile" fiscal spending, and a growth strategy that will "spur private investment," Mr. Abe chaired the first meeting of his new Japan Economic Revitalization Team on Tuesday. In doing so, he launched several sub-panels, including those on industrial competition, deregulation, and science and technology.
To counter criticism that his economic strategy is a return to the Liberal Democratic Party's old ways of turning tax revenue into concrete, the industrial competition panel includes some high-profile proponents of corporate reform and small government.
Most noticeable is Keio University Professor Heizo Takenaka, Japan's most prominent free-market advocate and a former cabinet minister and economic adviser to former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi. Chief government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said Prof. Takenaka's appointment was in response to a "strong request" from Prime Minister Abe.
Another reform-minded business leader on the panel is Yasuchika Hasegawa, president of Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. and chairman of one of Japan's largest business lobbies, Keizai Doyukai, or the Japan Association of Corporate Executives.
Credited with transforming the country's biggest drug maker into a global powerhouse through aggressive cross-border acquisitions–including a $13.7 billion purchase of Swiss drug maker Nycomed in 2011–the outspoken Mr. Hasegawa stands out among Japanese corporate leaders for appointing foreigners and women to his company's board.
Other advisers include the heads of companies such as RakutenLawsonKomatsu Toray Industries and Mizuho Financial Group
Something of the oddity in this lineup is Sakie Akiyama, the 50-year-old female founder of Saki Corporation, a small but leading maker of industrial inspection robots. Ms. Akiyama spent the first half of her career in consulting before launching Saki Corporation in 1994. She now participates in a number of government and industrial committees on technology.
Perhaps, however, the biggest change from the past is the absence of representatives from leading manufacturers and electronics companies.


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Admit it. You thought Kim Kardashian was joking when she announced plans to hit the studio to record tracks for debut album. Looks like the reality TV star wasn't kidding. Kim took to the radio airwaves to premiere her first single "Jam" today. We'll let you decide what you think about this one!
Kim didn't let a scandalous sex tape hold her back from eventually becoming a mogul. From reality TV shows to clothing stores to a perfume line, she's pretty much covered all the bases… except for music, of course. She recently revealed plans, via her Twitter account, to record with some of music's biggest hit-makers like Kanye West.
"Feelin' good, feelin' great and they playin' my jam. Turn it up, turn it up, turn it up, turn it up, DJ," repeats Kim on the track's hook. The Dream– produced song made its initial premiere on New Year's Eve at Tao Nightclub in Las Vegas.
The Dream is the mastermind behind hits like Rihanna's "Umbrella" and Justin Bieber's "Baby." So will The Dream's collaboration with Kim put another hit record under his belt? We'll let you decide that one!
"Jam" is available on iTunes today. A portion of the proceeds from the sales of the track will be donated to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
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For years we have received various email ads/promotions/coupons, etc. from Barnes and Noblewhich we wantwe have an established account with them that we use regularly. For some unknown reason, they have stopped. We now get nothing from them, though we still get all other emails from known companies, i.e, Amazon, Best Buy, just to name a couple. All efforts to check with B&N customer service, our ISP provider, examine settings on our email program (Outlook), and ask a friend who is a computer guru check everything that he could think of, still result in the same problem--we cannot seem to get anything from B&N reinstated. Starting new accounts with Gmail and Yahoo still result in getting no info from B&N. Even though we havent changed anything with ZoneAlarm (this problem occurred before renewing our subscription with ZA), it seems that maybe a setting there that could be the issue.
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Jim Alling '83 is Interim CEO of T-Mobile USA
June 27, 2012
Jim Alling, chief operations officer for T-Mobile USA and 1983 graduate of DePauw University, has been appointed interim CEO of the company. He replaces Philipp Humm, who resigned after two years leading the nation's the fourth-largest wireless carrier.
Read more at CNN/Money.com.
Formerly the president of Starbucks Coffee International and Starbucks USA, Jim Alling also served as vice president and general manager of several divisions at Nestlé. He was an economics and Spanish major at DePauw. (photo at left: Alling talks with DePauw students)
Alling returned to the DePauw campus on March 13, 2007 to present the Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture, "Growing Big, Staying Small at Starbucks." A summary of the speech -- complete with photos and video and audio clips -- can be found in this previous article. Also available below is a video montage of his address.Back


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The Tdap vaccine protects against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (whooping cough). All of these are serious, potentially deadly illnesses caused by bacteria.
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Tdap immunization
Tdap is recommended as a booster to the DTaP vaccine in people ages 11 - 64. It is given by a shot (injection), usually into the arm or thigh.
Tdap vaccine should be given to children between ages 11 or 12. Adults ages 19 to 64 should receive one dose of Tdap instead of the Td vaccine, then have Td boosters every 10 years.
If you had the Td vaccine in the last 10 years, ask your doctor if you also need the Tdap vaccine to protect you against whooping cough.
Because this vaccine protects against pertussis, the following people should make sure they are up to date with their Tdap immunization, regardless of age:
Children and adults who have had a severe cut or burn may need Tdap to protect against tetanus infection.
Tdap may cause the following mild side effects, which usually last only a few days:
You should not get the Tdap vaccine if you:
Talk to your health care provider before getting the Tdap vaccine if you or your child:
If you or your child has a moderate or severe illness, you can delay Tdap vaccination until the illness is gone. People with a mild illness can usually still receive the vaccination.
If you cannot take the pertussis vaccine (for example, because of an allergic reaction), you should still receive a vaccine against diphtheria and tetanus (DT for children and Td for adults).
Tdap is not the same as DTaP. They both protect against the same diseases, but are given at different times. For information on DTaP, see: DTaP immunization.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Recommended immunization schedules for persons aged 0-18 years---United States, 2012. MMWR. 2012;61(5).
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Recommendedadult immunization schedule---United States, 2012. MMWR. 2012;61(4).
Committee on Infectious Diseases. Policy StatementRecommended Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedules - United States, 2012. Pediatrics. 2012 Feb;129 (2): 385-386.
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Recommended adult immunization schedule: United States, 2012. Ann Intern Med. 2012;156(3):211-217.
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The Minnesota Association for the Education of Young Children (MnAEYC) and the Minnesota School-Age Care Alliance (MnSACA) are professional associations of more than 700 members each. The members from our organizations are a diverse group of professionals representing early care and education and school age and youth programs across Minnesota. The members are teachers, youth workers, center directors, site coordinators, program managers, trainers, and advocates.
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NCUA Bars Four More
The NCUA said Thursday that it issued prohibition orders in October barring four individuals from working in or being affiliated with credit unions and other federally insured financial institutions. The prohibition orders concern the following:
- Monica Guzman, a former employee of the $3.6 billion Mountain America Federal Credit Union in West Jordan, Utah, pleaded guilty to the charges of second-degree felony theft. Guzman was sentenced to one year in prison, three years of probation and ordered to pay restitution.
- Travis Jenkins, another former Mountain America employee, pleaded guilty to charges of wrongful appropriation, a Class A misdemeanor. Jenkins was sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $27,251.90.
- Michael Swanka, a former manager of the $44 million Remington Federal Credit Union in Richfield Springs, N.Y., pleaded guilty to the charge of fourth-degree grand larceny. Swanka was sentenced to a three-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $12,258.
- Carla Welborn, a former employee of the $7.4 million Credit Union of Leavenworth County in Lansing, Kan., pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzlement, a Class B felony. Between Jan. 2009 and Jan. 2012, Welborn targeted the accounts of 23 members who were ill, near death or lived out of town. She was sentenced to 21 months in prison, five years of supervised release and restitution in the amount of $329,702.55.
Judgments against the four individuals bring to 53 the number prohibitions NCUA has filed through the month of October, the agency said.


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Commissioners were uniformly pleased with the 2013 results. But they agreed with staff that financing food purchases, some of which were a bit extravagant, should be reined in.
The Know Your Neighbors program, the brainchild of former Mayor Yiaway Yeh, launched on April 11, approving 39 grants up to $1,000 each. Of those, 22 events took place, ranging from a big-screen movie night to a multicultural barbecue and yoga day in a park. About 3,175 people participated, and the city spent $19,378.28, or $6.10 per person, Recreation Supervisor Khashayar Alaee said.
"This is very exciting, and I think it's money well-spent," Commissioner Keith Reckdahl said.
Staff has recommended the 2014 grants budget remain at $25,000. But Chairman Ed Lauing said he would favor increasing the budget to $30,000. Some neighborhoods submitted proposals after the allocation deadline, and staff plans to increase advertising and public outreach. The commission didn't vote on the recommendation Tuesday.
Some changes in 2014 could leave past recipients without funding this year. Commissioners said they want under-represented neighborhoods and different people to take part. Events such as block parties, which neighborhoods have routinely funded on their own, might be put on a secondary tier for funding, they suggested.
More than half of the funded proposals in 2013 were for events the neighborhoods had done previously, Alaee said.
"I think you have to be careful about funding repeats," Vice Chairwoman Jennifer Hetterly said.
Only 27 percent were "new and innovative ideas," which was a program goal, Alaee said.
Those events should create a "structure" that residents can build upon, beyond a single-day event, Commissioner Deirdre Crommie said.
"It's a model used in the Girl Scouts. There's a life beyond the project that continues on," she said.
Commissioners were concerned about funding give-away items. Granting $1,000 for an emergency-preparedness event that distributed emergency-supply backpacks to 25 people was considered "a little unsustainable" by Crommie.
Hetterly agreed. An event that helps people build emergency kits might be more appropriate, she said.
Grants for food might also be capped next year.
"We did see significant amounts spent on food. In some cases on very good food," Alaee said.
Grant recipients also would not be reimbursed for expenses that were co-mingled with personal purchases, Alaee said. That practice created a significant administrative burden to go through line by line.
A survey of 2013 participants found the program met three if its stated goals: It increased communication, enhanced pride and identity within neighborhoods and included multiple generations and cultures. But commissioners suggested that staff create a map on which they would plot the neighborhoods receiving grants. In that way, they could better gauge which neighborhoods are under-represented, they said.
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Viciedo content with White Sox outfield platoon
By Scott Merkin / MLB.com
CHICAGO -- After his two-homer Opening Day effort, Alejandro De Aza was back in Wednesday's starting lineup. That move means Dayan Viciedo remained on the bench.
General manager Rick Hahn told MLB.com Monday that the De Aza/Viciedo left-field situation could break down as easily as a lefty/righty platoon. But he also stressed that De Aza had a great Spring Training and that the team and Viciedo are on the same page in terms of what they want from him. Now, they just want to see those talks between Viciedo and hitting coach Todd Steverson executed in games.
"Basically, being more patient," Viciedo said through translator and White Sox manager of cultural development Lino Diaz, of what the White Sox want. "We talked about being more patient and being more selective as far as the pitches that we pick to hit.
"We worked on that during Spring Training. We had pretty good results. It's a matter of staying consistent."
Viciedo is working in the cage through tee work and soft toss to stay sharp and keep ready for when his name is called. His ultimate goal clearly is to play every day, as is the case for any 25-year-old possessing Viciedo's ability.
"Yes, that's what every player wants. I want to play every day," Viciedo said. "But right now, you have to deal with what you have. You have to stay sharp. So when you get a chance to play, then you are able to do that and be able to help the team."
Danks can't wait to make season debut
CHICAGO -- At least three days stand between John Danks and his first 2014 regular-season start, depending in part on the weather in Chicago on Thursday.
With the cutter back in his arsenal and greater arm strength 20 months removed from season-ending arthroscopic shoulder surgery in August 2012, Danks can't wait to take the baseball. The highly competitive veteran also will be facing Kansas City with a definite feeling of something to prove, even in his eighth Major League season.
"Of course I do," Danks said of having the sense of something to prove. "There were a lot of expectations from people here, fans, media. But none more than what I have on myself, and I've fallen way short the last couple of years.
"I'd be the first to admit that. It has not been easy. It has not been fun. I certainly feel like I have plenty of time to make up for that and to get back to where I know I can be."
Danks, who turns 29 on April 15, could emerge as one of the most important components in the White Sox reshaping program. Adding a pitcher who looks something like the 2008-10 version of Danks, with an ERA in the 3.50-3.75 range and around 200 innings pitched, makes an already solid starting rotation even stronger.
The interesting part for Danks, who is in Year 3 of a five-year, $65 million extension, is that he will help with the current youth movement but might not be around to see the ultimate fruition of this organization-wide makeover. A talented and healthy starter is always attractive to contenders, but Danks isn't worried about such a scenario.
In fact, he hopes that contender is on the South Side of Chicago this season.
"I signed here for five years. I plan on being here for five years, but I have no control over what happens," Danks said. "If something happens, I'll shake everyone's hand and thank them for giving me the opportunity for being here. As of right now, I'm here with the White Sox and plan on being here for another three years.
"Certainly, I took my lumps last year and the year before. You know, put in a lot of work, had a lot of people help me out and I'm ready to go and get back to where I know I need to be and can be."
Jones ready to help bullpen in any capacity
CHICAGO -- Nate Jones wanted to be the White Sox closer.
As he pointed out prior to Wednesday's contest, it's something many White Sox relievers wanted to do, and it's why they had a Spring Training competition of sorts.
"It just so happened Matt Lindstrom got healthy, he did well in the outings he had and he did well Monday as well," said Jones of Lindstrom, who picked up the save in Monday's 5-3 victory. "Our job now is to get the ball to him with the lead."
Jones will serve as a key relief contributor in anywhere from the sixth through the eighth, and possibly even close if Lindstrom needs a break. The hard-throwing right-hander spoke during Spring Training about how every pitcher working in those late innings with a lead basically is working as an unofficial closer.
Jones' 37 appearances of more than one inning over the last two years add to his value outside of the ninth. And he's set to take on any role given to him by manager Robin Ventura.
"The only thing that matters to me is I'm still on the team, still in the bullpen," Jones said. "I'm still excited, still ready to rock and roll, get the season going."
"We were waiting for [Lindstrom] to make sure he was completely healthy coming out of spring to be able to do that, but he's done it before and you have a little familiarity with him last year coming in," Ventura said of the closer call. "That scenario of him coming in with a clean inning, I just like it. I liked it when he did that last year, and I just felt he was the right guy to do it."
Hahn likes pitching talent in 2014 Draft class
CHICAGO -- General manager Rick Hahn knows the White Sox will get a good player with the third selection in the 2014 First-Year Player Draft. He just isn't certain who that player will be at this point.
"[White Sox director of amateur scouting] Doug Laumann and his staff, we had a meeting back in Glendale in the last week of camp where went through a lot of different guys and went through that small universe of players from which we'll ultimately choose," Hahn said. "Now we're starting to work on our cross-checking in the coming weeks.
"Frankly, part of the benefit of the lousy season last year isn't just the player you get at three but the larger signing pool that allows you to get even better players throughout the entire Draft. I don't know the exact number, but it's going to be close to $10 million we'll have to spend on domestic talent this year, which is a tremendous shot in the arm for the organization."
After picking third, the White Sox also have the 44th and 78th picks overall. The organization is looking for the best player available at No. 3, but it should easily be able to narrow that field selecting so high.
"Based on this year's talent pool, it's a strong possibility that's going to be a pitcher," Hahn said of that first-round pick.
Third to first
• Conor Gillaspie was out of Wednesday's lineup due to the flu. Marcus Semien, who started at second on Opening Day, moved to third base and Leury Garcia stepped in at second and hitting ninth.
Ventura likes the flexibility provided by players such as Semien and Garcia.
"Anytime you can move guys around ... if something like this comes up you can slot guys and move them around," Ventura said. "The versatility of Marcus and Leury, you can fill that spot without feeling vulnerable and exposed."
• Chris Sale won his second straight Opening Day start Monday one day after celebrating his 25th birthday.
• De Aza became the fourth player in White Sox history to hit two home runs on Opening Day, joining Jim Thome (2008 at Cleveland), Sammy Sosa (1991 at Baltimore) and Minnie Minoso (1960 vs. Kansas City).
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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If the Arkansas defense had been awarded 7 points each time it stopped the offense during Saturday's Fan Day Scrimmage, it would have come out with a 70-77 victory, including a 28-42 win when the No. 1 defense faced the No. 1 offense in front of an estimated 15,000 fans in Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium.
The No. 1 offense ran 68 plays and put up 372 yards with 4 touchdowns against the starting defense, which was without starting linebackers Tenarius Wright and Alonzo Highsmith and safety Eric Bennett, who are all expected to return on Monday, according to head coach John L. Smith.
In 123 total plays, the Razorback offense put up 753 yards (6.1 yards per play), including 514 through the air and 239 by foot with 10 total touchdowns. That number of plays is approximately 2 games worth of plays, which breaks down to roughly 377 yards for every 61 plays. The No. 1 offense started off 4-for-4 on third down but did not convert the next 4 and ended up just 6-for-13 on the night.
"This scrimmage really started Monday," senior receiver Cobi Hamilton said. "We prepared ourselves early this week to come out here and have a great outing. I think that's what we did."
Starting quarterback Tyler Wilson was 22 of 37 (59.5 percent) for 252 yards and 3 touchdowns while backup Brandon Allen went 16 of 23 (69.6 percent) for 262 yards, 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions. The No. 2 offense would have beaten the No. 2 defense under this fictional scoring system by a score of 35-28.
"We had a lot of opportunities , we just kept stubbing ourselves in the foot," Wilson said. "We had too many receivers on the line-of-scrimmage penalty, we miss a protection here, we miss a protection there. We don't hit the right hole, we don't run the right route, we don't make a good throw - on me. And all that stuff ties together and you don't end up executing like you need to execute."
Jonathan Williams shines
Dennis Johnson was unavailable due to a family matter, and Knile Davis did not take contact as a precaution, but in their absence true freshman Jonathan Williams stole the show, especially in the second half. At the end of the day, Williams carried 18 times for 116 yards and 2 touchdowns, including a 24-yard touchdown against the No. 1 defense to cap the scrimmage on a drive where he had 5 rushes for 48 yards. He also caught 1 pass for a 16-yard score.
"He's a really impressive freshman," senior safety Ross Rasner said. "He knows how to run with low pad level, and he knows how to find the first down. He really doesn't look like a freshman out there. He knows how to find the hole, and he hits it hard."
"He's going to be a real good back, and he can step in and play. He's mature enough as a freshman, physically, and really mentally. Picks the offense up pretty darn quick," Razorback head coach John L. Smith said. "Jonathan Williams is a good football player, and we tried to get him a little bit more. He's got real good vision, and he's getting better all the time. Once in a while he's missing some reads and he's cutting it back when he maybe shouldn't be and things like that, but he's a good football player, and I think you probably noticed that tonight."
Players missing
Others who missed the scrimmage were wide receiver Keante Minor, tight end Brett Weir, linebacker Brad Shearin and wide receiver Scotty Thurman Jr.. Weir is dealing with a second concussion, according to Smith. In related news Smith said Jeremiah Jackson is now on medical hardship, meaning his football career at Arkansas is over but he will remain on scholarship, not affecting the 85 total allowed by the NCAA.
"We're hoping to have [Minor] back, I would guess by Wednesday, so it's probably going to be a couple more days. It's an AC (shoulder ligament)," Smith said.
Senior Ronnie Wingo ran hard, and while he never broke off a long run, he finished with 19 rushes for 77 yards.
Hamilton back to old self
After a disappointing first scrimmage, Hamilton showed up big-time with 11 catches for 166 yards and 2 touchdowns, including a 65-yard catch-and-run where he broke tackle attempts from defensive starters Rohan Gaines, Ross Rasner and Tevin Mitchel.
"Didn't know any three of them were there," Hamilton said. "That's just stuff that comes from the practice field. You do that stuff in practice, so it just kind of comes natural to you in a game. it's the same guys out there in 7-on-7, in team. So, you run those plays over-and-over, and you get that feeling in a game. Really, nothing's changed, it's just they're live tackling."
True freshman MeKale McKay had 2 big catches for 76 yards and a touchdown. Tight end Austin Tate had a big day with 4 catches for 65 yards and a score. Chris Gragg had 3 catches for 26 yarsd and a touchdown, and Demetrius Wilson had 4 catches for 56 yards.
"You might see him play a lot this year," Smith said. "McKale is a tremendous athlete. He's going to be able to help us. He can go up and catch the ball. Football-wise, he's going to have to continue to develop. He's a little bit green as far as that goes, but he's a tremendous talent and a big target."
Tackling Davis
The question still remains, 'will Heisman hopeful Knile Davis take on live tacklers in practice before the first game?' Davis has not been tackled to the ground since his 2011 season ended before it began last August with a broken ankle. Davis has been impressive in practices and is being held out for no other reason than precautionary measures.
"Before practice, I hit him, knocked him to the ground, so that was enough, "John L. Smith quipped. "We've always had a philosophy...'get the good guys to the game.' So, I don't know."
On the first drive, the No. 1 offense capped a 10-play, 65-yard drive with a 6-yard touchdown run by Small. Wilson was 5 of 6 on the drive for 45 yards, including a 12-yard completion to Gragg on third-and-6 from the 49-yard line.
The No. 2 offense got on the board on their first possession, and it was almost identical to the first team's scoring drive, 11 plays, 65 yards with Allen going 5 of 6 for 55 yards. Allen's first pass was a wide-open drop by Julian Horton for what would have been a 65-yard touchdown. He ended up capping the drive with a 16-yard strike to Williams. Williams converted a third-and-2, and Allen hit Mitchell to convert a third-and-3 on the drive.
Wilson engineered a 9-play, 65-yard drive. On 2nd-and-3, Wilson appeared to be intercepted by defensive end Chris Smith. Smith was then stripped by Wilson, but the coaches told the referees to signal it incomplete. The next play, Wilson hit Gragg for a 4-yard touchdown to make it 21 points in-a-row, including 13 by the No. 1 offense against the No. 1 defense.
"Yes. It was kind of funny because I saw Tyler. He threw it, and I tipped it, and when I tipped it I caught it and came down. I heard the whistle, so I'm kind of looking around and Tyler comes out of nowhere and stripped it," Chris Smith said. "The referee said they were going with the coaches on that one, but I think it was [an interception and fumble], but I stopped because I heard the whistle. I think he could have thrown it a little bit over my head, but I just got lucky."
"I had Morgan Linton wide-open in the end zone. I can't believe I missed him. I told Morgan I need to go buy him dinner now," Wilson said.
Allen then trotted onto the field and picked up 3 first downs in-a-row and finished the 4-play, 65-yard drive with a 30-yard touchdown lob to McKay to make it 28 points, 14 of which came from the No. 2 offense against the No. 2 defense.
Wilson hit Hamilton over the middle on the fourth drive, and Hamilton did the rest as he eluded 3 tackle attempts to get to the end zone for a 65-yard score and the third-straight touchdown by the No. 1 offense and 35 points for the entire offense.
Things got different from there on out. The defense opened it up and started calling more stunts. The result was 6-straight stops by the defense. The next 4 times the first teams faced each other, the defense won out.
"We've just got to keep it up offensively and defensively and challenge each other every day," Chris Smith said. "I think around the fourth or fifth series we started opening up and everything. Everything was a little vanilla when we first came out there, a lot of base stuff and everything like that. I think we started opening up around the fourth series."
Everything started when the 2-defense held Allen's offense to a 3-and-out, and then Wilson's bunch to a 3-and-out. Next walk-on Dakota Baggett intercepted Allen. Then, the No. 1 offense went 3-and-out on an Alan Turner pass-breakup, and Jared Green sacked Allen for a 5-yard loss on fourth-and-3 after 4 plays.
Wilson put together a9-play drive, but Smith sacked Wilson for a 7-yard loss on second-and-10, forcing a third-and-17 pass attempt that fell incomplete. Giving the defense a touchdown for each time it stopped the offense, it's 35-42 in favor of the D.
Allen answered on the next drive to end the 6-drive drought when he found Morgan Linton for a 2-yard touchdown after an 8-play, 65-yard drive. The key play in the drive came on third-and-11 fromt he 49-yard line when Allen found Demetrius Dean for a 12-yard pickup and a critical first down (42-42).
Wilson and the No. 1 offense when 3-and-out after he hit Hamilton for no gain on third-and-6, making it 4 unsuccessful drives, in-a-row (42-49). Allen and the 2s put together a 4-play drive that ended in an Allen-to-Tate 46-yard touchdown (49-49).
Facing a 4-drive drought, Wilson and the No. 1 offense got it together with a 9-play, 65-yard drive. The offense needed a fourth down conversion and got it when Wilson hit Hamilton for 10 yard on fourth-and-10 from the defense's 32-yard line. The next play, Wilson hit Hamilton for a 21-yard touchdown. Wilson went 4 of 5 on the drive for 51 yards and the score (56-49).
The No. 2 offense got on the board for the third time in-a-row when they marched 65 yards in 5 plays. Allen only completed 1 of his 3 pass attempts, but it was a 46-yarder to McKay down to the 9-yard line. The next play, Williams rushed for the touchdown (63-49).
After 2 Wingo runs for 2 yards and a Wilson incompletion, the No. 1 offense went 3-and-out (63-56). The No. 1 offense could not convert a third-and-13 or a fourth-and-7 at the 26-yard line. (63-63). In Brian Buehner's only series, he threw an interception to Ryan Farr on the second play (63-70).
Taylor Reed came in and kept the offense on the field for 12 plays, but he went incomplete on a third-and-7 and had to convert a fourth-and-7 with a questionable 8-yard run (quarterbacks are not tackled). Reed's offense was later held on fourth-and-19 from the 18-yard line of the defense (63-72).
The final drive was the 'Jonathan Williams Drive' as he carried 5 times for 48 yards and capped the 8-play series with a 24-yard touchdown run on second-and-10 (70-77, defense).
By awarding the defense 7 points each time they stopped the offense, the No. 1 defense beat the No. 1 offense 28-42, with stops on 6 of the 10 drives. The No. 2 offense beat the No. 2 defense 35-28, and the reserve defense beat the reserve offense 0-14.
Scrimmage Statistics
Compiled by Danny West
Tyler Wilson - 22 of 37, 252 yards, 3 TDs
Brandon Allen - 16 of 23, 262 yards, 3 TDs, 2 INTs
Brian Buehner - 0 of 1, 1 INT
Taylor Reed - 0 of 4
TEAM: 38 of 65, 514 yards, 6 TDs, 3 INTs
Jonathan Williams - 18 carries, 116 yards, 2 TDs
Ronnie Wingo - 19 carries, 77 yards
Kody Walker - 6 carries, 30 yards
Nate Holmes - 7 carries, 23 yards
Kiero Small - 1 carry, 6 yards, TD
Taylor Reed - 2 carries, 12 yards
Donovan Roberts - 1 carry, 1 yard
Tyler Wilson - 3 carries, -21 yards
Brandon Allen - 1 carry, -5 yards
TEAM: 58 carries, 239 yards, 3 TDs
Cobi Hamilton - 11 rec., 166 yards, 2 TDs
Mekale McKay - 2 rec., 76 yards, 1 TD
Austin Tate - 4 rec., 65 yards, 1 TD
Chris Gragg - 3 rec., 26 yards, 1 TD
Jonathan Williams - 1 rec., 16 yards, TD
Morgan Linton - 2 rec., 9 yards, TD
Brandon Mitchell - 1 rec., 5 yards
Keon Hatcher - 1 rec., 7 yards
Javontee Herndon - 1 rec., 12 yards
Demetrius Dean - 2 rec., 24 yards
Demetrius Wilson - 4 rec., 56 yards
Ronnie Wingo - 4 rec., 33 yards
Kiero Small - 1 rec., 3 yards
Kody Walker - 1 rec., 11 yards
Dakota Bagget - 1
Jerry Mitchell - 1
Daunte Carr - 1
Mekale McKay - 1
Mekale McKay - 1
Trey Flowers - 2
Jared Greene - 1
Chris Smith - 1
Austin Flynn - 1
Horace Arkadie - 1
Alfred Davis - 1
Colton Miles-Nash - 1
Chris Smith - 1
Dequinta Jones - 1
Kaelon Kelleybrew - 1
Will Hines - 1
Dakota Bagget - 1


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text: In November, emails leaked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, which offered what appeared to be damning falsification of data and manipulation of the peer review process. The emails resulted in the center's director, senior climatologist Phil Jones, to step down. Mr. Jones, who was a frequent party in the leaked emails, is currently being investigated by several academic misconduct committees, including Muir Russell, former vice-chancellor of the University of Glasgow, UK. However, he insists he did nothing wrong. While he could not comment on whether he withheld or destroyed data from his critics, he did open up about the validity of his group's studies in an interview with the UK publication The Guardian. Specifically the accuracy of Jones's famous paper on the urban heat island effect (raised temperatures around cities skewing global temperatures), in which he found it to be secondary to global warming was questioned. The paper was published in 1990 and almost two decades later would draw fire from Doug Keenan, an amateur climatologist, in 2007. Unfortunately, at that point Jones's co-author, Wei-Chyung Wang of the University at Albany in New York, had lost the list of climate stations used in the study, so the results could not be validated. Jones admits that the loss was "not acceptable." The weather stations used were in China and reportedly moved during the study's period. Mr. Jones previously wrote, "We chose those with few, if any, changes in instrumentation, location or observation times." Now he acknowledges that the stations did move during the study and that the paper may need a correction. He states, "I will give that some thought. It's worthy of consideration." However, he points out that the conclusions drawn appear to be correct. In a much later paper published in 2008, he verifies the conclusions with a much broader set of Chinese data ranging from 1954 to 1983. That paper, for which the station info is available, indicates that the need for correction in the 1990 work is not necessary on accuracy basis, but rather on a clarity basis. For those who are quick to yell fraud, the standards of publication in 1990 were significantly lower than they are today, especially in the field of climatology. It now appears that Jones did nothing explicitly wrong, merely published with the data he had, inadvertently overlooking that several of the stations had changed location. Today, such a mistake would lead to a rejection, but in that era, such errors were relatively commonplace. He says the flaws were ultimately the result of him trying to get data that wasn't easily available at the time to bolster and verify his conclusions. He states, "I thought it was the right way to get the data. I was specifically trying to get more rural station data that wasn't routinely available in real time from [meteorological] services." He ardently denies his critics claims that he fiddled with the peer review process or downplayed the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), an unseasonably warm stretch that occurred around 1000 A.D., which some suggest could be evidence that current warming is merely a cyclic trend. He says that his critics are "trying to pick out minor things in the data and blow them out of all proportion." He points out that the infamous email in which he wrote "I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow - even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!" was not about a peer reviewed publication, which many have mistaken stated, but rather an IPCC assessment. Assessments typically are more subjective in content and are not subject to the same level of scrutiny. States Jones, "The IPCC is an assessment, it's not a review, so the authors have to know something about the subject to assess which are the important papers." As for the MWP he comments, "We need more reconstructions from different parts of the world to reproduce a better history of the past thousand years. Why don't they do their own reconstructions ... the work that's been published has been through the peer-review process. If they want to criticize that, they should write their own papers." Jones certainly seems to be in a bad spot, following the leak and his temporary resignation, however many of his claims do seem to have feet. Many of his remarks were taken out of context (e.g. mistaking comments on assessment for comments on a peer review). Further, anyone who works in research today is well aware that the standards of publication were much lower in 1990 than they were today. Thus, some of the inaccuracies can be explained by that. Still, more questions do remain and Jones will have to account for them if he wants to restore his good name.


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China To Subsidize GA
Transportation authorities in China have pitched general aviation in that country as "the next driving force after the car industry" and the Chinese government will be providing targeted funding to jumpstart GA there. Ma Xin, deputy director of the National Air Traffic Management Committee Office in China, delivered the quote at the Zhuhai Air Show last month. And the Civil Aviation Administration and Ministry of Finance has now reportedly announced temporary measures to regulate the specific fund for China's general aviation development. According to ChinaDaily.com, the "long-awaited subsidy measure" will be applied to support general aviation operations, pilot training and infrastructure development.
According to Ma Xin, general aviation is recognized for its importance as an economic growth engine. It creates "a long industrial chain that can drive the development of various sectors from raw materials in the upstream," said Xin, and has "a much bigger role to play in China's economy." Changes to management of low-altitude airspace are currently being tested in designated areas and are expected to spread through the rest of the country as aviation reforms move ahead. China's cabinet listed general aviation as a strategic industry back in 2010, when it was included in a five-year development plan intended to cover the years 2011-2015. In July, China's State Council estimated that general aviation would increase by roughly 19 percent each year through 2020. The allotment of subsidized funding adds to the country's stated commitment to development of the sector.


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In 1997, the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation
purchased more than 2.500 works on paper, approximately 1.000 photographs and numerous documents by and on Frederick Kiesler. The contents of the Kiesler Archive consist of drawings, sketches and plans, as well as letters and theoretical texts ranging from the Twenties up to the Sixties. The mostly unpublished material provides diverse insights into Kiesler's visionary concepts, into his working methods and above all into his multiple-disciplinary attitude.
Kiesler's importance as a key player in the artistic and architectural avant-garde scene in the first half of the 20th century manifests itself in his extensive correspondence with well-acclaimed artists and personalities of the cultural community such as Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Peggy Guggenheim and many others.
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The Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness
The Department of Defense's Office of Military Community and Family Policy has partnered with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture to bring together the resources of the nation's land grant university system in support of Warfighters and their families. One program that has developed through this partnership is the Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness at Pennsylvania State University. It is an online resource designed to help professionals that focuses on three main objectives:
- Evaluate the evidence behind family support programs. That is, do they accomplish what they are hoping to?
- Help you look for, choose, and implement a program that fits the needs of your community.
- Help you develop an evaluation plan that will increase the amount of evidence behind your program.
The Clearinghouse also provides resources that will:
- Help you develop a needs assessment so you can better understand what your community needs.
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The website includes a list of the programs that the Clearinghouse has evaluated, including a description of each program and its effectiveness rating (from effective, promising, unclear, to ineffective—and why). You can even search by topic, target population, and sector (for example, by community, family, or school). You can see if your program has been evaluated or choose a program that has already been evaluated. Technical assistance specialists are available via live chat, email, or phone to answer your questions.
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Somehow it's fitting that the Friars Club, the venerable brotherhood of shtick men, has chosen to roast Donald Trump at its centennial celebration this month. Few billionaires have provided as many punch lines as the flamboyant real estate developer with the bombproof comb-over and inexcusable tastes. Even with the gold-plated success of The Apprentice, "the hottest reality show in the history of TV," as Trump likes to call it, it's hard not to laugh at the high-camp spectacle that is the Donald's life.
But if the current Trump renaissance has taught us anything, it's that the joke is on the rest of us. Even if you can't stand his pink ties or squinty I'm-so-great delivery, you have to admire Trump for staying on top as long as he has. He nearly went bankrupt during the early-1990s real estate slump, only to fight back with more cash than ever. He sucked it up through tacky marriages and public divorces, only to find romance with Slovenian model Melania Knauss, his fiancée. And in New York City, where Trump bashing had become as common as turbaned cabbies, he now outhits even the Yankees on the hometown popularity scale.
It's hard to say whether The Apprentice made him cool again or whether Trump finally brought cool to the hot-tubbing, spitswapping squalor of "unscripted" television. More than 20 million people watched the original series each week, with twice that many tuning in for at least part of the finale, when Trump hired cigar salesman Bill Rancic to help construct a 90-story Chicago tower. By the end,* The Apprentice *had become more than just a TV show. It was required viewing at such places as Harvard Business School and the Wharton school of business, and more than a million people applied to take part in round two, which airs this fall.
Not that being a Hollywood titan satisfies Trump, who just keeps moving and building, stamping his name in gold wherever he goes. His latest book, How to Get Rich, is his fifth national best-seller, and his latest real estate deals are bringing that special brand of Trump splendor to the Caribbean, Brazil and even Korea.
Born in Queens in 1946, Trump grew up learning to master the universe from his father, Fred, who accumulated millions by selling moderately priced housing to half of Brooklyn and Queens. Not long after Trump the younger crossed the bridge into Manhattan, his behind-the-scenes exploits rivaled the spectacle of his gleaming skyscrapers. His marriages to Ivana and Marla Maples fed a generation of gossip columnists. And even with his current popularity, tabloids love to find chinks in his armor: The casinos are failing! The stockholders are angry! The billions don't exist!
Trump met with journalist* David Hochman over the course of a few days at Trump Tower in Manhattan, midway through the second Apprentice shoot. Hochman reports: "Carving big chunks of time out of his busy schedule isn't easy. During one two-hour interview, his executive assistant, Rhona Graff-Riccio, logged more than 50 phone messages. The only call Trump took was from his son Eric, one of his four children. Trump says he always takes his kids' calls. Despite a harried production schedule and a docket full of meetings, public events and charity functions—as well as various interruptions from Trump Organization honchos such as Carolyn Kepcher and other unwitting stars of* The Apprentice—*Trump was focused, enthusiastic, open and direct. He was even gracious enough to leave me with a lapel pin featuring the catchphrase of the year: 'You're fired!'"
Let's begin with the most fundamental question of all. What's inside your wallet?
[Reaching into his pocket] Not much money, actually. A Platinum American Express card, some golf club cards, other credit cards, pictures of the family, a newspaper write-up on one of my new projects and, let's see, three $1 bills. One has a picture of my father on it. The other two are from bets I won.
But aren't you supposed to be a billionaire?
I guess $5 billion or more is the latest figure.
And you have only $3 in your wallet? What's the deal?
Honestly, I don't spend much during the day. I virtually never have to pay for things with cash. I've never used an ATM. Of course, I always have access to money, and I have hundreds of checking accounts. But I don't handle cash a lot. When I go to restaurants, especially since The Apprentice, I always get free meals—"Oh please, Mr. Trump, there's no charge"—even if I'm there with 10 or 15 people. The sad part is, if I were someone who needed money I'd have to pay.
You came close to bankruptcy during the real estate slump of the early 1990s, and the New York tabloids mocked you for years. What's it like being king of the hill again? It's an amazing thing and a great honor. I had a really high profile before and didn't think it could be higher. I was on the cover of Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Playboy, you name it, long before The Apprentice, but there's even more heat this time. Certainly a businessperson on television has never had anything close to this success. It's like being a rock star. Six people do nothing but sort my mail. People come in and want my secretary Robin's autograph. If a limo pulls up in front of Trump Tower, hundreds of people gather around, even if it's not mine. I ask, "Can this be a normal life?" Maybe it's the power that comes from having the hottest show on television, but people like me much better than they did before The Apprentice. And if you think about it, all I did on the show was fire people, which proves how bad my reputation must have been before this.
You must be so sick of hearing the F word.
Nah, it's actually very cool and fun. Every time I walk outside, somebody says it, and the funny thing is, everybody thinks I'm hearing it for the first time. "You're fired!" I get it literally a hundred times a day. Little kids come up to me and say, "Mr. Trump, you're fired" and then run away laughing. It became a mania. YOU'RE FIRED hats and T-shirts sell like hotcakes. It's a beautiful phrase. It's harsh, it's ugly, it's mean, but it's concise and gets the job done fast, which is why I love it.
More than 20 million people a week watched The Apprentice, making it NBC's most successful new series in five years. But it also had a certain novelty that made it the watercooler show of the year. How will you up the ante this season?
When you have the greatest show on television, you don't want to make too many changes, but we've done some subtle things and, of course, have a new cast. We have 18 people instead of 16, and there's even more brainpower. We wanted sparks and high IQs, and we got the finest applicants from Harvard, Princeton and Wharton. They're also very attractive. Beyond that we had major corporations begging to be involved. Cunard wanted us to show the Queen Mary 2 throughout the show. We'll have access to the greatest restaurants, places we could never have gotten before.
Would you have a shot at winning The Apprentice today if you were 25?
I don't think so. I wouldn't have had the patience these contestants have had. I also don't know that I'd make the tremendous commitment necessary to make it work. I mean, it's possible that winning The Apprentice would have been my dream when I was 25, but these kids go through hell, and I don't know if I'd be willing to do the same.
Why were the most successful people from the first season—well, at least Bill and Kwame, the two finalists—so un-Trump-like, so bland?
They were all great, smart, attractive people, but not one of them is me. That said, all the apprentices will do well. Bill will make a lot of money over his lifetime, and he's going to learn a lot. Kwame has a Harvard MBA and an incredible career ahead of him. They're all articulate and engaging, and you can't beat the kind of publicity they got. Even Omarosa is doing well, if you believe her.
Omarosa became one of the great villains in the history of reality TV. She lied, she backstabbed, she even "misplaced" Jessica Simpson. How much of that was scripted?
Honestly, none of it. We chose her over 215,000 applicants, but I didn't know until midway through the show that she would be such a villain. I got along with her very well, but she was difficult for people to handle. I realized we had something when people like my dear friend Regis Philbin started asking me if she was too good to be true, if we'd concocted her in some way. It was all 100 percent Omarosa. I couldn't believe she was lying on camera like she was. She's got a problem or something.
Would you serve as a job reference if she asked?
It would depend on what kind of job it is.
The chief executive of a small company?
No, I really don't think so. But I might serve as a reference for her to be on a soap opera, because I think she'd be terrific at it. She's wonderful on TV, and she gets ratings. I just wouldn't necessarily want her running my church.
The winner, Bill Rancic, was an online cigar salesman from a lesser-known college who tended to micromanage on The Apprentice. Now you're having him oversee a complicated 90-story building project in Chicago. What if he screws up?
He's working with a tremendously talented group of people who do nothing but put up towers for me. So in all honesty, I don't think there's much room for screwups.
Is that code for "Bill won't be making any decisions"?
Bill will make decisions, and they'll be important ones, but they will always be checked by me and others who've done a lot of this before.
In real life things haven't been so rosy lately. Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, your one publicly traded enterprise, is drowning in billions of dollars of debt, and the stock price has fallen. According to The New York Times, it's because you either neglected the company or don't have the vision or ability to oversee an entertainment conglomerate.
The casinos have done very well from a business standpoint. People agree that they're well run, they look good and customers love them. The only problem is that over the years I've placed a lot of debt on them. Before I took them public I placed debt on the casinos and also took money out. It's like when you put a mortgage on your house and take money out. It's no different, just larger. I took out money and bought a lot of real estate in New York–a smart decision considering what's happened with real estate. But that left the casinos with a lot of debt, which I'm trying to alleviate.
Are you optimistic about the casinos' future?
I think and hope the casino company will be good in the years to come. The Taj Mahal has been the number one casino in Atlantic City history. And truthfully, it's a small portion of my net worth—two percent or less. But because the casinos are heavily leveraged, people go after them, especially The New York Times. Or else people criticize the hair.
Ah, the hair. Can you walk us through your daily routine?
I get up, take a shower and wash my hair. Then I read the newspapers and watch the news on television, and slowly the hair dries. It takes about an hour. I don't use a blow-dryer. Once it's dry I comb it. Once I have it the way I like it—even though nobody else likes it—I spray it and it's good for the day.
Who cuts it?
My girlfriend, Melania.
You must really trust her.
I do. And by the way, she's much more artistic than my hair would indicate. But she believes that if you like something the way it is, you should leave it. She doesn't fool with the hair. She's not trying to reinvent the wheel.
Melania is a very special woman, a good woman. She's been loyal to me, and I'm a big believer in the great woman behind the man.
Can you explain why you're getting married again? You haven't been the poster boy for matrimonial bliss.
That's an interesting question coming from Playboy. Melania is a very special woman, a good woman. She's been loyal to me, and I'm a big believer in the great woman behind the man. I see it with Bob Wright, the chairman of NBC. His wife, Suzanne, is a great positive force, and Bob is an amazingly successful man. I've seen it the other way, too. When Andre Agassi was married to Brooke Shields, he couldn't play tennis. His ranking fell to 200, and he'd get blown off the court. I think Brooke Shields is a wonderful girl; I know her. But then he married Steffi Graf and all of a sudden he was at number one again.
What has Melania added to your life?
I've had a successful career with Melania in it. The last five years have been my most successful. So maybe it's the woman behind the man or the luck of the woman behind the man, but we've had a good run, and she's great.
She's a model. You're a billionaire. But do you ever just sit around in your ratty underwear watching Elimidate together?
We love to watch television together, but we don't get to hang out as much as I'd like. She does cook dinner for me every night, even if we're going out. In fact, her biggest problem is that she's too good of a cook—it's hard not to gain weight when you're with her.
What's your relationship with Ivana like these days?
I would say it's okay. I wouldn't say outstanding, but it's okay.
Do you talk to her?
When necessary. I don't think she's ever properly appreciated what I've done for her, and I've done a lot, much more than she has been willing to admit.
How about Marla?
We have a nice relationship. Marla is a kind woman, but in all fairness she wasn't for me. She's a very spiritual person, perhaps too spiritual for me, and she's given me a great daughter in Tiffany. Marla and I should have been friends, not necessarily married.
You wrote in The Art of the Comeback that women are gold diggers. Do you still believe that?
I think it's hard for women who go out with very wealthy guys not to get seduced by that lifestyle—the apartments at the top of Trump Tower, the helicopters and airplanes. But I don't think all women are gold diggers. There's nothing more beautiful to me than a woman. I love and respect them. I've known a lot of really good women and have had amazing relationships over the years. But as with men, there are good ones and bad ones.
How often are you alone?
Lately not so much, because I live with Melania and we have a nice life together.
Do you miss the alone time? Don't you crave it occasionally?
Listen, Melania really understands me. She gives me tremendous space. She can read me better than anybody I've ever known. She understands when I want to be alone, and she'll just leave me. I've been with other people who would say, "Oh, you're not talking to me. Something's wrong. Why aren't we walking down the street together? Why aren't we doing this together?" But Melania can tell when I'm in the right mood. It makes life a lot easier.
Speaking of being in the mood, are you a fan of Viagra?
No, I'm not. I think Viagra is wonderful if you need it, if you have medical issues, if you've had surgery. I've just never needed it. Frankly, I wouldn't mind if there were an anti-Viagra, something with the opposite effect. I'm not bragging. I'm just lucky. I don't need it. I've always said, "If you need Viagra, you're probably with the wrong girl."
How appropriate is the use of sexuality in today's business world? One of the big criticisms of The Apprentice was that the women on the show shamelessly used their sex appeal to manipulate men and get what they wanted.
The women on the show were beautiful and very sexual, to the point where I actually took them to task for it. They were really out there for a while. But they weren't doing anything that doesn't exist in the business world. One egghead professor criticized us, saying that sort of thing doesn't take place in business. But come on, sexuality has been important since the beginning of time. If people think sex appeal doesn't exist in the boardroom, they're wrong.
The women on the show certainly seemed to be flirting with you. Did you realize that?
I never saw them flirt. Perhaps they were flirting with me in a business sense, but there's nothing wrong with being attractive, young and confident with the opposite sex.
What advice do you give your daughter Ivanka about men?
I just tell her to be careful. She's smart and beautiful, and hopefully she'll learn. But you can tell children only so much. They either get it right or they don't, and often they don't get it right.
How did she feel about your remarks on Howard Stern's radio show that New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is the only man good enough for her?
I kid Tom, but he's a friend of mine. I think he's a great character. I got to know him when he was a judge at a jitterbug contest I entered after the Patriots won the Super Bowl. He's a winner, and by that I mean every time he needs to make the pass he makes it. You have other guys in the NFL and in life who have all the equipment but don't make the pass. I think Tom's a great guy, and I think he and Ivanka would make a great combination.
What does Ivanka think?
My daughter has a boyfriend and she's happy with him, but Tom Brady would make any father-in-law proud.
I once gave one of my teachers a black eye.
It must be difficult being Donald Trump's child. Your four children have security and undoubtedly all the material possessions they could ask for, but now some of them, such as Donald Jr., a Wharton graduate, are going into the family business. What's your sense of the pressure that's on them to out-Trump you?
I think there's pressure on them but not too much, I hope. It's not easy for them. When their father does a television show and it becomes the number one program, when their father is by far the biggest developer in New York, it's tough to beat. It's also tough to have children grow up in this crazy limelight. They've adjusted well—they're smart, they've been good students, they went to good schools—but maybe the toughest thing is to find private time with my children. Even when I take them out to a restaurant, people come up and go crazy. I've never been the kind of guy who takes his son out to Central Park to play catch, but I think I'm a good father.
What kind of son were you? Were you rebellious?
I was very bad. That's why my parents sent me to a military academy. I was rebellious. Not violent or anything, but I wasn't exactly well behaved. I once gave one of my teachers a black eye. I talked back to my parents and to people in general. Perhaps it was more like bratty behavior, but I certainly wasn't the perfect child.
Yet you went into the family business the minute you graduated from Wharton. And that was in 1968, when other people your age were heading to either Haight-Ashbury or Vietnam. Did you for a moment consider packing up a Volkswagen van and cruising to Woodstock?
No. When I graduated, it was all about work. I loved working as much as my father did, right from the start.
A psychiatrist once commented that you have an "overmastering need to escape the shadow of your father."
I wouldn't dispute that. I'm a competitive person. It's not an overly complex theory; I've heard it with respect to many successful sons. I totally loved my father, but I would say that in the beginning especially I was competitive with my father, yes.
How were you two different?
That's a tough question to answer. We had a lot of the same qualities in terms of negotiation, in terms of certain aspects of running a business. My father understood how to build, and I learned a lot from him. I learned about construction, about building. But if I had an edge over my father, it might have been in concepts—the concept of a building. It also might have been in scope. I would rather sell apartments to billionaires who want to live on Fifth Avenue and 57th Street than sell apartments to people in Brooklyn who are wonderful people but are going to chisel me down because every penny is important. My father never really got away from Brooklyn and Queens. He was very successful there, but he was more comfortable selling a piece of land in Brooklyn for $1 a foot than in Manhattan for $1,000 a foot. You have to be comfortable with what you're doing or you won't be successful. I used to stand on the other side of the East River and look at Manhattan. I'd always admired the great buildings, and now I own many of them. I own the land under the Empire State Building. I own 40 Wall Street, which for a time was the tallest building in the world and now, sadly, is the tallest building in downtown Manhattan.
What gave you the idea that you could do more?
A combination of my mother and my father, I think. My mother was a great homemaker. She also had good promotional skills and was a great storyteller. She came from Scotland, and she would sit and read about the English royal family any chance she could. If there was a royal wedding on TV, she could watch it for 24 straight hours. She loved pomp and pageantry. My father wasn't into pomp and pageantry. That's why he loved Brooklyn and Queens and why he was so good at what he did there. Pomp and pageantry and a love of business—if you put the two of them together, perhaps you have Donald Trump.
Are you someone who talks out your parent issues with a psychiatrist?
Because I'm too busy and because I enjoy my life. A lot of people see psychiatrists because they don't have enough on their mind. I spend so much time thinking about buildings and deals and clubs and doing what I do that I don't have time to get into trouble mentally. I don't knock psychiatry. I have friends who can't live without it. They look forward to it and go five, six, seven times a week. But I don't like that. It's a crutch.
We always read about your famous fear of germs. A psychiatrist would have a field day with that one. Is it still an issue?
The concept of shaking hands is absolutely terrible, and statistically I've been proven right. Many studies have found that you catch colds and who knows what else from shaking hands. A guy walked into my office two weeks ago. He shook my hand, hugged me, sat down and said, "I have the worst flu I've ever had." The guy looked like he was dying, and he'd just shaken my hand. I said, "Why did you shake my hand?" People don't have a clue. It's disgusting. Then he wanted to shake my hand when I left. I said, "Look, you just told me you're dying of the flu and I'm supposed to shake your hand?" But honestly, I don't feel crippled by it. I just wash my hands.
What about your temper? In the book Trumped!, an unauthorized biography, your former employee John O'Donnell describes your ripping upholstery out of a limo, ramming your fist through tile in a casino, yelling at pilots for rough landings. How's that Donald doing these days, and why didn't we see him on The Apprentice?
O'Donnell is a loser. He totally made that up. I hardly even knew this guy. He wasn't very good at what he did. I've had many books written about me, and in almost all instances they just make things up and say whatever they want, even if it's total nonsense. I ripped the interior out of limousines? Give me a break.
When was the last time you screamed at an employee?
It might have been two days ago, but it wasn't out of anger; it was a method of getting them to do a better job. Sometimes that works better than honey. I don't actually have a bad temper. I call it controlled violence. I get angry at people for incompetence. I get angry at people who are getting paid a lot of money and don't look sharp when they work for me. That's one reason I do better than everybody else. That's one reason I get more per square foot than other real estate people. That's part of why I'm so successful.
Does one project stand out?
I've always loved Trump Tower. It's not my most successful building because of the size. It's a big building, 68 stories. Many of my jobs are more financially successful. A perfect example is Manhattan's west side rail yards, where I built Trump Place, which has almost 6,000 units and 10 million square feet. It's actually the most successful job in New York, but nobody knows about it because it's along the Hudson River. By comparison, the new Time-Warner Center in Columbus Circle is only 2 million square feet. Trump Place is at a location where it's not so evident, yet it's five times the size of Time-Warner.
And the road to building it was a long one. It took you 10 years to get that job done. Practically everybody on Manhattan's Upper West Side hated you because they thought it would cast shadows and change the culture of a beloved neighborhood.
They hated me. There were riots on the west side when I was building it. To be honest, the near collapse of New York during the 1990s is what got it done. If New York had been doing well, we would never have gotten the zoning for that job. It's always good to get zoning in bad times and build in good times. It took 10 years, and now it's paying off, which says everything about sticking to it. Never give up. It was a tough job, but it was an amazing experience. I think I'm somebody with a great imagination who understands people and understands quality, and when I put it all together I do some interesting things.
Because I think a gay man would feel really comfortable buying lemonade from another man.
It would have been great to hear your ideas for some of the team projects on The Apprentice. For instance, how would you have sold lemonade on the streets of New York?
The women did an amazing job. They were dressed beautifully, and a lot of guys wanted to buy lemonade from them. So naturally, the women blew the men out of the water. As for the men, I certainly wouldn't have been at the Fulton Fish Market—that was a terrible idea. And I wouldn't have dressed in a suit and tie, because who buys lemonade from a man in a suit and tie? No way. I would have gone immediately to a gay section of Manhattan.
Because I think a gay man would feel really comfortable buying lemonade from another man. Or else I would have hired beautiful women to sell the lemonade. The men picked the worst location. Kwame picked the Fulton Fish Market, and it was a disappointing choice. He was lucky to have survived that one.
Do you ever worry about losing it all?
I try not to. In the early 1990s I was highly leveraged when the real estate market collapsed. I'd borrowed a lot and had lots of debt. Many of my friends and enemies in the real estate business filed for bankruptcy, but I never had to. I got it all back. Actually, the Guinness Book of World Records lists me as having made the greatest personal financial comeback in history. Through it all, I had great relationships with banks. The ones I used then I still use today. The hardest I've ever worked in my life was the period from 1990 to 1994, but my business is now bigger and stronger than ever before. I wouldn't want to do it again, but I learned that the world can change on the head of a dime, and that keeps things in perspective.
Now that you've achieved so much, why not give it all away, as Bill Gates and David Geffen have done?
I do give millions of dollars a year, but I do it personally. I just write checks and give it away.
But the Donald J. Trump Foundation contributed only $287,000, according to its most recent report.
I'm surprised it's even that high, because it's not what you'd call a living foundation. It's set up for after I… when it's no longer my time. The foundation will become very active at that point. But my business is a little different from Bill Gates's business. Bricks and mortar—buildings—don't necessarily divide as easily as stock in a public company. I also have my son in the business. My daughter will be coming in, and I have another son coming up. They all like the real estate business, and as long as that's the situation, I'd be more inclined to leave it to the children than give it all to charity.
I've never had drugs and never had alcohol and never had a cup of coffee.
Is it true that you've never had a glass of alcohol?
I've never had drugs and never had alcohol and never had a cup of coffee. I have had other things that perhaps people wouldn't like. I certainly love women in abundance. And I enjoy my work to the point that I don't even consider it work.
Yet you were always showing up at places where drugs were being used. You must have been the only multimillionaire during the heyday of Studio 54 who wasn't snorting cocaine in the bathroom.
Yeah, I guess I probably was one of the few people there not doing drugs.
What was your wildest memory from those days?
You saw things at Studio 54 that you had never seen before. You would see not one superstar but 30 of them, and you'd suddenly realize how many so-called superstars there are. Or you'd see the top models in the world getting screwed on tables in the middle of the dance floor. You would see things you just don't see today primarily because of AIDS and other diseases. But it was incredible. You'd see the most beautiful women in the world, the most beautiful people in the world. Then, an hour later, you'd see them making love right in front of you. And I'm there saying, "Excuse me?"
And what were you up to?
I was there having a good time. You don't need drugs and alcohol to have a good time. You can get high on life. That's what I do.
Were you dating a million models at the time?
A million. I was dating lots and lots of women. I just had a great time. They were great years, but that was pre-AIDS, and you could do things in those days that today you're at risk doing. AIDS has changed a lot.
Was there a time when you worried about AIDS because of all you'd done?
There was, but I got tested. I think it's hard for young kids today. It's a whole different thing. I tell my sons just to get a nice girlfriend and be happy, because it's dangerous out there. It's Vietnam. I guess now we can say it's Iraq—same deal, right?
Let's talk about that. You were considering a run for the presidency in 2000. How would a Trump candidacy have been different in 2004?
First let me say that although I got ridiculously high poll numbers, ultimately I decided I didn't want to run primarily because I would have had to do it on the Reform Party ticket, and I thought the Reform Party was a total disaster. You would go to a meeting, there would be fistfights, and it was ridiculous. So that wasn't for me. But things would be a lot different today, from what I've been witnessing. If I were president, I would call Saudi Arabia in right now and say, "You get those fuel prices down or you're going to pay a heavy price," because they're ripping us off left and right. Fuel is at an all-time high. I would get Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in line. We saved Kuwait. These guys were sitting in London in the most beautiful hotels when Saddam Hussein took their country away from them. We put them back into power and now they're ripping us off for oil. I'll tell you one thing: If I were president, a whole different negotiation would be going on right now.
You've said the first Gulf war contributed to your financial problems in the 1990s. What will this war do?
The Persian Gulf war was a different thing. You couldn't get gasoline—that was a big difference—and interest rates got up to 21, 22 percent. But this war is a total catastrophe. We never should have gone there. You could have done spot hits instead of sending in the troops. In all fairness, it's horrible on both sides. I see beautiful Iraqi children being killed and maimed, walking around with no legs and no arms. Then I see soldiers coming home with one arm and one leg, and they're going to have to live that way—and for what? Say anything you want, but Iraq wasn't heavily into terrorism. Saddam didn't allow terrorists, because he didn't want people blowing the hell out of his country. And of course, it turns out there were no weapons of mass destruction.
What do you think should be done now?
It's a catastrophic situation because there's no way to get out without losing face. As soon as we leave, the country will be taken over by the next dictator and then the next one. If we leave Iraq with a wonderful new government in place, it will be overthrown in about 15 seconds, just as the Saudi government would be overthrown in about 15 seconds if we weren't protecting Saudi Arabia.
How do you think all this will affect the presidential election?
I think it's going to be hard for Bush to be reelected because of the war. The first Bush lost because of Iraq, and the second Bush has a big chance of losing because of Iraq too. No way will there be a normal democratic government in that country, in my opinion. The same with Afghanistan. If anybody thinks Afghanistan will become a normal, wonderful democratic country where everybody walks in on a Tuesday and votes, it's not going to happen.
Do you think John Kerry is the man for the job?
Well, I know him. He's a great guy. He's a very smart guy. I think he's highly underestimated, and I think he's going to run an amazingly successful campaign. Look at what he did in the primaries. It appeared as if he was off the radar, and all of a sudden he made this great comeback. I have a feeling he's going to do very well.
Let's shift gears for a moment. It was surprising to read in How to Get Rich that you and Mark Burnett, the executive producer of The Apprentice, share a passion for Neil Young's music. Any other musical skeletons in your closet?
I think Neil Young is a great storyteller, and certainly Mark Burnett is a great storyteller. I took him down to the Taj Mahal to see Neil Young perform, and Mark fell in love with him as an entertainer. I've always been a fan. I like others, too. I think Eminem is fantastic, and most people think I wouldn't like Eminem. And did you know my name is in more black songs than any other name in hip-hop? Black entertainers love Donald Trump. Russell Simmons told me that. Russell said, "You're in more hip-hop songs than any other person," like five of them lately. That's a great honor for me.
Why does everything come back to self-promotion for you? What's the value in constantly telling people how great you are?
Because if you don't, probably nobody else will. Whether I'm building the best buildings in Chicago, New York, California or wherever I happen to be building, I think I get credit for being a great promoter. Actually, what I am is a great builder. I build great things and become successful, and everybody talks about them. I'd like to be remembered as somebody with a high standard of taste who got the job done and also put lots of people to work, made lots of money for the poor and fed a lot of families.
Do you think Trump Tower and your other buildings will bear your name a hundred years from now?
No, I don't think so.
I don't think any building will be here—and unless we have some very smart people ruling it, the world will not be the same place in a hundred years. The weapons are too powerful, too strong. Access to the weapons is getting too easy, so I think the landscape we're looking at will not be the same unless we get smart people in office quickly.
That's frightening.
You don't agree?
It's just surprising coming from you. Your whole world is bricks and mortar.
I had an uncle who was a great professor and a brilliant man—Dr. John Trump, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His whole life was devoted to the study and eradication of cancer, and sadly, he died of cancer. But he was a brilliant scientist, and he would tell me weapons are getting so powerful today that humanity is in tremendous trouble. This was 25 years ago, but he was right. The world is rocky, and some terrible things are going to happen. That's why I lead the life I do. I enjoy it. I know life is fragile, and if the world looks like this a hundred years from now, we'll either be very lucky or have found unbelievably good leaders somewhere down the line.
One last question. You make acquiring wealth look so easy. Why isn't everyone rich?
Some people aren't meant to be rich. It's like when Babe Ruth was the greatest home run hitter. There had never been anybody like him, and his teammates would ask, "Babe, Babe, how do you hit the long ball?" And he'd say, "I don't know, man. I just swing at it." I see it like that. It's just something you have, something you're born with. Many people don't have the ability to be rich because they're too lazy or they don't have the desire or the stick-to-itiveness. It's a talent. Some people have a talent for piano. Some people have a talent for raising a family. Some people have a talent for golf. I just happen to have a talent for making money.


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Inner Workings: Inside a Front Projector
|Click the image to see how a front projector is put together
With the prices of flat-panel HDTVs falling faster than the World Series hopes of a Kansas City Royals fan, it's not surprising that front projectors haven't been getting their fair share of attention.
But prices for high-def front projectors have also been in a freefall and might be the best big-screen bargain available. With models now selling for less than $1,000 and with some 1080p models heading down toward the $3,000 mark, a projector paired with a screen measured in feet instead of inches packs some serious, hard-to-beat home theater wallop.
Although front projectors aren't ideal as everyday TVs - for one thing, their costly lamps can burn out quickly with frequent use - models using the same DLP, LCoS, and LCD technologies found in rear-projection TVs are a big improvement over bulky, finicky CRT projectors. And digital projectors aren't just cheaper - they're also lighter and easier to set up and use, and they don't need the constant calibration that older tube-based models required.


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This python plug-in strokes or fills the current selection and creates a 3D glossy effect with a dropped shadow. The color, brush, lighting, and shadow are adjustable through the initial dialog. Use the Filters/Light and Shadow/GlossyStroke 3D menu.
Note: Depending on the color, adjusting the opacity of the "volume" layers can give better results.
It is my first GIMP plugin, so any comment, criticism or improvement is appreciated. The 3D effect parameter could certainly be improved.
12/16/10 - Version 1.2.0
- The light direction is now opposite to the shadow.
- Make the light and shadow colors selectable.
- Make the light height adjustable.
12/15/10 - Version 1.1.0
- Add the option to stroke or fill the selection.
12/15/10 - Version 1.0.0:
- Initial release.
I love this plug-in and would love to be able to swap lighting and highlights to be either left or right facing. Is it possible to add this option to the plug-in? TIA.
Hi! I'm new to python plug-ins. Where do I put this file after downloading as this is a .txt file? Appreciate your assistance.
Files with .py extensions go in the .gimp-2.6/plug-ins folder. Depending on what operating system you are using:
Win 7 and Vista = C:\Users\Username\.gimp-2.6\plug-ins
This requires Python being installed and recognized by your GIMP installation. Read more here:
I clicked on the file and it leads me to all texts, what am I suppose to do?
Save it in your UserFolder/.gimp-2.6/plug-ins directory as a PY extension.
In other words remove the .txt part of the file name.
After you have placed the plugin in the plug-ins folder -
Restart Gimp
You will find it under Filters>Light and Shadow>Glossy Stroke 3-D
Sorry, did as you suggested i.e. changed extension to .py and placed in C:\Users\Username\.gimp-2.6\plug-ins but still appearing as text file and not as python file. I am using Win 7.
Update: Ok. It's appearing under Filters. Now, to play around with it. Thanks.
Very nice plugin.
You might want to add the ability to soften (blur) the 3D effect. Also, if selection lines intersect one another, it will create transparent areas in the stroke or fill. Is there a way to offset this? It occurs with both stroke and fill. (Similar to two compound paths overlapping creating a transparency ). Otherwise a great plug-in, kelk1! Thanks.
Just finished playing with it. Do like the result. Thanks. :)