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Before "seeing the light", he was an information systems consultant for Fortune 100 companies, including M&M Mars, JP Morgan Chase Bank and Pfizer. After graduating in 2000 James continued as a research fellow at ITP where he created projects ranging from public electronic canvases to interactive sound sculptures. Following the fellowship, he worked as a Senior Interaction Designer at ESI Design for 6 years. Currently, he works as a Product Manager at a small toy company, Educational Insights, where he's designing and producing toys inspired by his kids.

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Growing up in Tehran, Iran, LTU alumnus Javad Mokhbery, BSME'79, was inspired by the NASA space program and sets his sights on becoming an engineer and one day meeting the NASA astronauts who set foot on the moon.
Most people would have concluded that his boyhood ambition was an impossible dream, but Mohkbery instinctively knew at a young age that the key to success was extensive preparation. "You have to dig the well before you get thirsty" is a saying he continues to live by.
Following that mantra throughout his life led him to create a company in Irvine, CA, that designed and manufactured two sensors that help guide the robotic arm of Curiosity, the NASA rover vehicle currently collecting samples on Mars.
Mokhbery provided insights into building a successful career when he spoke to students, faculty, and staff as the keynote speaker for the Blue Devil Entrepreneurial Venture lecture on Nov. 19.
Getting to the United States was his first challenge. He started out by learning English, striking up conversations with American tourists, and bringing some of them back to his house to meet his family.
Eventually he set the stage for getting his parents' permission to leave Iran to study, first in England and then the United States. He applied to several colleges in the United States, and Detroit became his destination when the Detroit Institute of Technology was the first to accept him. He also studied at Oakland Community College before transferring to Lawrence Tech to complete a degree in mechanical engineering.
His approach was to take full advantage of a golden opportunity. When his peers warned him it was too hard to get a good grade from Professor Richard Lundstrom, Mokhbery saw a worthy challenge to be conquered and even took three courses with Lundstrom in a single semester.
As a result, Lundstrom became a mentor and provided the recommendation Mokhbery needed to land his first job.
"Working with Professor Lundstrom calibrated my expectations to a high level for standards, discipline, determination, and a positive attitude when accepting challenges," he said.
When he arrived in California to take a new job in the sensor industry in 1981, he quickly registered the name of the company that he intended to start, Future Technology, which was later shortened to FUTEK. It was another example of his personal philosophy of doing as much preparation work in advance for achieving the goal he had set for himself.
Shortly after the Challenger disaster in 1986, Mokhbery was tapped to help design a sensor for the Discovery mission that could be immersed in the sub-zero temperatures of liquid oxygen in an external tank. Then he worked on a sensor to be immersed in liquid nitrogen.
The expertise he developed in cryogenic sensors led him to devote all his time to his new company, which he started his company in a bedroom in his house with the help of his wife, Zohreh. His brother, Mohammed, an LTU alumnus who died earlier this year, helped build the company that develops and manufactures load cells, torque sensors, pressure sensors, multi-axial sensors, and related software for low-temperature and vacuum environments, which are used in the aerospace and medical industries.
It is a long way from where he started in Tehran, but he told his audience at LTU that the same approach applied at every step along the way. "The formula is that you have to believe in what you are doing. If you trust in yourself and believe in yourself, people will take you seriously," he said.
According to Mokhbery, an important differentiator for an engineer who wants to start his own business is not IQ but rather EQ, emotional intelligence – the ability to connect with people. A successful business owner must be able to listen to the voice of the customer and work well with employees in order to identify and then develop a product that will be in demand.
Instead of trying to undercut competitors in an existing market, Mokhbery set out to develop new products through innovation in order to create a niche where there was little or no competition. For FUTEK, one such product is a cryogenic sensor that functions flawlessly in extremely cold conditions – such as in space.
Expertise in this field led to a contract with Rockwell and then seven years later with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratories. FUTEK designed two unique sensors to operate in the low temperatures on Mars, which range from 23°F to as low as -124°F: a multi-axial load and torsion sensor responsible for monitoring the Rover's drilling arm and its robotic maneuvers as it retrieves sediments for analysis, and a secondary load cell that supervises the precision and force used to drill directly into the surface of Mars.
One of the FUTEK sensors on the Mars rover has more than 120 miniature soldered joints that all have to be tested, and 1,700 photos were taken to document every connection. FUTEK employees are certified by NASA.
Since failure is not an option when conducting operations on a planet millions of miles away, NASA's quality assurance requirements are very high, something that Mokhbery sees as another challenge he has been preparing for since his days at Lawrence Tech.
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it," he said, quoting Thomas Jefferson.
The Blue Devil Entrepreneurial Venture Series is open to all current and future Lawrence Tech students, as well as alumni, faculty, and friends of the University. The lectures are free of charge and reservations are not required.


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A term used within British political circles, Twenty Percenters is applied to the portion of the population that will accept any lie you decide to tell them, which is roughly around 20%. Twenty Percenters believe in things like global warming and the urgent need to restrict freedom of speech. Twenty Percenters are characterised by lack of imagination and display frequent cognitive dissonance. They also lack any ability to confront authority in a material sense but may compensate for their lack of volition through symbolic action such as: affiliating themselves with an impotent political group, subscribing to eclectic political journals, writing protest poetry/songs, macramé and pressing wild flowers.
We've got the Twenty Percenters on board but what can we do convince the rest of electorate that raising duty on fuel will save the planet?
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A person that has 80% of their head up their ass... Often used on the road to refer to people driving on I476 or I76 in the Philadelphia region because of their lack of ability to merge onto a moving highway. Also used to describe all of New Jersey's drivers... They cause traffic jams because they apply the brakes instead of gas when trying to merge onto a fast moving highway thus causing accidents, or making everyone stop causing a chain reaction traffic jam that doesn't end until sometime around 7:30pm... These roads would otherwise be clear if these people had the ability to access the other 80%.
Also used to describe everyone that drives to the beach on late friday afternoons during rush hour.
Also used to describe everyone that drives to the beach on late friday afternoons during rush hour.
Driver in front: "Hey, look at me. I think I'm a safe driver because I go 35MPH to merge onto a highway that has an average speed of 75MPH!"
Smart Driver stuck behind: "What a fucking twenty percenter. Now none of us can merge smoothly."
Smart Driver stuck behind: "What a fucking twenty percenter. Now none of us can merge smoothly."
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The Springfield Ballet Company proudly presents its 38th annual production of The Nutcracker, proudly sponsored by CEFCU.
Set to Tchaikovsky's enchanting score, The Nutcracker is a timeless holiday classic that follows Clara and her Nutcracker from a lavish Christmas party to a fierce battle with the evil Mouse king, then to a magical journey through the Land of Snow and the Kingdom of Sweets. The production features a cast of 130, including children and adults from the Springfield area, Company members and incredible guest artists.
"Our production of the Nutcracker has become more beautiful and enchanting every year. Don't miss this spectacular performance. It is the perfect introduction to ballet and the performing arts -- combining culture, fantasy, magic and holiday tradition set to a recognizable and delightful score. We are proud to be part of the holiday tradition for so many families in central Illinois," said SBC Artistic Director Julie Ratz.
Company member, Jocelyn Fuhr, will dance the role of Clara, with Carolina Ballet Theatre (CBT) guest danseur Peter Base as her Nutcracker Prince. Other guest dancers from CBT are Francesca Genovese as the delicate Sugar Plum Fairy; Samuel Chester as her Cavalier; Erica Wesselman (former SBC dancer) and Martin Justo, who will dance the roles Snow Queen and King; and Chicago-based dancer Todd Kiech as the Arabian Coffee.
The Springfield Ballet Company was founded in 1975 as a merger between Copper Coin Ballet and Ballet Concert Group. Grace Luttrell Nanavati and Dorothy Irvine were co-directors of the SBC when it staged it's first production of The Nutcracker; and Julie Ratz, SBC Artistic Director, performed as a soldier in the 1975 production.


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We let them sleep with us on our beds, give them gifts on holidays, and we love to offer them special treats.
Please don't poison your pet this Valentine's Day.
Chocolate is reportedly a healthy treat for humans -- if eaten in moderation, and especially if it's dark chocolate. It's practically a vitamin. A few dark chocolate mini-morsels a day keeps my serotonin and spirits in harmony with the universe.
Not so for your pets: chocolate is a poison for our furry pals.
Here are some foods that are especially dangerous and need to be totally off-limits. Just say no to giving your pet any of the following:
• chocolate (all forms)
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Turn of the 20th century in NYC; a simmering caldron of ethnic groups fighting for their economic survival, their ability to assimilate into a rapidly changing society and the essential need and cause célèbre to maintain their integrity.
America was governed by an entrenched white - and to a large extent, bigoted - political structure; uneasy with minorities demanding their rights and unbowing in their prerogatives for power and position.
Having seen the show a few times, I still cannot fathom why it needs the characters of Henry Ford, Harry Houdini and JP Morgan, real life titans of this late Victorian Age. The central characters sufficiently speak to this Coming of Age of America.
The quintessential American experience represented by 3 quite diverse characters: the black Coalhouse Walker, Jr (Darryl Thompson; the waspish Mother (Barbara Hartzell) and the Jewish immigrant (Patrick Ruegsegger).
Ruegsegger had a consistent Central European accent and brought a strong voice and humility to his character ( while sporting a particularly askew and unshapely beard circa Ellis Island.)
Hartzell is blessed with a beautiful voice and an emphatic demeanor. Her "What Kind of Woman" questions a mother who would abandon her own child, provoking more than a few tears in the opening night audience. The wonder and spirit of the show is that we are soon to find out just what led to this decision.
Thompson has a strong, warm and embracing baritone...and is provided every opportunity to show it off. He exhibits great stage presence and there is palpable chemistry between he and Sarah (Genevieve Van-Catledge), who herself sings a plaintive "Your Daddy's Son", the most well known tune from the show.
The chorus was spirited, energetic if a bit raw. For actors still in school, this is a provocative educational experience; resonating on the bigotry in our land not so very long ago. The most spirited production number was the Act 1 closer, "Till We Reach The Day". In many of the production numbers the harmonies were gorgeous.
The entire production was under rehearsed, showing most evident in the production numbers. Dancers were out of synch as were the arm movements of the singers. Aisle Say was sitting on the right side aisle. Through the entire show, the traveler curtain separating the actors from the back stage live orchestra was open 3 feet. Periodically there would be individuals walking back and forth. I was looking at the keyboardist while Sarah is singing my favorite, "Your Daddy's Son".
This is a first in my theatre experience. This is unacceptable in any theatre and any level.
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Hanna Barbera Fun
I really like the design of these characters when the layout artist and animator have a little time to take advantage of it. That's a cool way to draw closed eyes, isn't it?
Ed Benedict designed the characters. His style is instantly happy and pleasing, which is funny because he was such a loveable curmudgeon! Daws Butler and Don Messick, both wonderful actors, also had the gifts of naturally pleasing vocal timbre. No matter what they said, it sounded pleasant and unique. They were natural born radio and cartoon voices.
Ed's characters are just stylish enough to look "mid-century modern", but not so stylized as to become abstract graphic symbols. I think kids would rather see cartoon characters that seem alive, rather than cartoons that are overly design conscious. Kids aren't art directors. They want to believe in the characters.
These early HB characters still seem like real creatures.
That's a great drawing of Yogi!
This stuff is just so happy.
I think if you don't have a lot of money to make your cartoons with, the least you can do is use pleasing design and great voices. Neither of those things cost a lot of money, and together they make instant living characters. Of course, whoever's in charge has to have enough aesthetic sensory equipment to be able to tell a good designer and voice from mundane ones. We know that's not usually the case.
There is a common belief in animation circles that "It all begins with a good story" and I'd like to challenge that. I personally believe it all starts with a good character. When you have good looking specific characters and dynamite voices, the stories write themselves - well that is, if you take advantage of them, which Hanna Barbera didn't always do. Not when they had to churn out so much product every week.
The animation is pretty good in this bumper too. Wanna see it?
It'll have to be later in the day though....
31 comments:
- Kali Fontecchio said...
HUck and Yogi are so cute in this commercial, pinchable cheeks! Thanks Evan guy!
- Sphyzex_9 said...
Great stuff. Definietly post the clip.
- Lex said...
I'd argue that a good story and good characters can't exist without each other.
Nobody would want to see 10 minutes of a Yogi Bear walk cycle repeating itself over and over without changing. The way Yogi shows off his great character and personality is through the story.
Conversely, if you throw together a bunch of bland characters, you're going to get a bland story no matter what kind of inspirational message you tack onto the end.
- Lex
- Bitter Animator said...
I'm such a HB nut right now. I love this. Thanks for the great work, David! I remember your work from your R&S restoration project (no more word on that Ultimate set, Mr.K?). Companies should be coming to people like you, people who care, to help them put these sets together. Always.
Know that your work is appreciated, even by grumpy old bastards like myself.
The expressions in these shots are just fantastic. Reminds me a little of the Roger Ramjet posts in proving that limited animation doesn't mean dead. Though I guess I'm coming at it from the odd point of view of preferring limited animation more of the time.
I think it's because I don't like bendiness, especially around the mouths. I particularly hate the overcooked mouths in those godawful Bluth films. Give Huckleberry any day.
- David Gale said...
I love the different line weights in these drawings.
- David Germain said...
I believe it was Mark Twain who said "a good novelist is not just someone who comes up with a good plot. It is rather someone who can put two or more characters into a situation and get interesting results."
That's definitely a rule of thumb more writers, directors, and other creative types should employ.
- Pat said...
Wow...Yogi's drawn so well! I love this version of him.
Thanks for sharing.
- Emmett said...
I love these bumpers (I gotta start placing them on my own blog)! When did HB stop doing them? The appeal and charm in these is outstanding.
And as for the part about good animation beginning with a good story. I am sure it all depends on what comes first for whoever is in charge (artistically that is). It could be vice versa. Unfortunately, the failure of HB's later shows was the reliance on formula and situation, not character.
- Larry Levine said...
I love the early HB thick ink-line designs. I shutter with queezy disgust every time I think about the 1970s Yogi's Gang version of the characters.
- Anthony P. Rizzo said...
Its true John. That's all I hear about from everyone I work with to every thing you hear from Pixar and all the other "animation studios", to all kinds of discussion groups around the net, etc.
I think Brad Bird really emphasized this a lot unfortunately when he did his interviews for the "Incredibles". He must have said the word "story" 45 times rapid fire. A lot of young aspiring "animators" who look up to him saw that movie and listened to him and it was like an overnight thing. Its all I hear now. "Does is have a good story? Gee I hope the story is good." "Yes, but wheres the story?"
But isnt there really only like 5 different types of story themes out there? Comedy, Drama, mystery, adventrue, etc.
I like how you put it in yr interview for Ren and Stimpy. If you create characters that are interesting and have their own well defined personalities you can put them in any situation and the story will write itself and thats when all the fun and magic happens out of nowhere. Quinten Tarantino said something like that too about his characters when he write a script.
So it would seem that well designed characters with strong and defined personalities will make a good story bc they are alive and moody and deal with the situations that are put in front of them. Add in some drama, comedy, adventure and mystery and there you go!
- Booo Tooons Ltd. said...
There's seldom any story to Clampett's cartoons. They're usually just lively fun characters in a setting of some sort. Then gags are strung in according to the character and the setting.
Right? Am I the only one to think there's hardly any story in the best cartoons?
- trevor.
- I.D.R.C. said...
...but not so stylized as to become abstract graphic symbols. I think kids would rather see cartoon characters that seem alive, rather than cartoons that are overly design conscious. Kids aren't art directors. They want to believe in the characters.
Not just kids. Almost anybody would, most of the time. Graphic symbols are intellectual. Characters that seem real are visceral.
- Larry Levine said...
Charles Schulz used to say people don't remember gags, they remember characters.
- pinkboi said...
Even in novels, where the conventional wisdom holds that a good one is so because of the story, it is actually about the characters. Tale of The Genji's stories have no plot. War and Peace is long and has no plot, yet it's very good.
The plot is an art itself, but between it and the characters, the former can be done without.. not ever the latter!
- Mitch L said...
"I personally believe it all starts with a good character."
That's why I love Pulp Fiction and the big Lebowski so much!
Great post.
This bumper is already looking nice and slick, and I haven't even seen the real thing! The nicely inked thick and thins add to the slickness. It would be interesting to see an in-depth post on how David McKenzie does it.
"believe it was Mark Twain who said "a good novelist is not just someone who comes up with a good plot. It is rather someone who can put two or more characters into a situation and get interesting results."
Thanks for sharing that, David. I'm currently reading one of his books, and I find him to be a novelist who can write with great skill and grace.
- David Mackenzie said...
Hey Roberto, I didn't do that much to this bumper - it was already good looking. It was just stored on the disc in a weird way (NTSC 3-2 Pulldown) and I re-interleaved the fields to get the original clean jaggy-free film frames out of it.
- Marc Deckter said...
Stories are for the Birds...
- Jeremy Brooks said...
Everything meshes so well. Pencils, inks, colors and layout. Each aspect seems to compliment the next.
- J Lee said...
What's interesting is how fast the folks at H-B lost it when it came to appealing designs on Yogi. The 70s and 80s stuff were bad, but even in the third season of cartoons done for the 1961 debut of his own show there's just something missing from the work during Seasons 1 and 2 (including the Huck bumpers).
By 1961, the layouts weren't as sharp, as if they seemed to think that Yogi's happy/rhyming dialog alone could carry the stories (which also got weaker). The grumpy side of Yogi seen in the 1958-59 cartoons was completely gone, and the "fully developed" personality was a much less interesting character, even if he was probably better for selling kids Kelogg's OKs cerial.
"Hey Roberto, I didn't do that much to this bumper - it was already good looking. It was just stored on the disc in a weird way (NTSC 3-2 Pulldown) and I re-interleaved the fields to get the original clean jaggy-free film frames out of it."
My humble apologies, David. I am glad you cleared that up, though.
- Raff said...
The characters are the reason you care what happens.
The story is the reason you care what happens next.
The sensations are the reward you get for paying attention in the first place.
That's my theory.
- Kali Fontecchio said...
Hey! THe name is different than who you thanked earlier! I'm confused! Thanks David then???
Hi johnK im JohnB
weird i know.
Im 17 turning "18" in april 2008.
I was always interested in animation before my time and always will.I dislike the new flash animation not the animators or the program itself but the companys that are behind the whole cheaply done crap for melting kids minds. Anyways im creatig a sketchblog,But am worried people will try and copy my art.my email is firstname.lastname@example.com
and my sketchblog is johncb1990.blogspot.com
so if you get time email me cause i may have a future career with you.
- ted said...
That is the best Yogi bear I have ever seen. If he looked like that all the time, I might watch more of his cartoons!
- DonkleDuck said...
I love this blog! Thank you John and all your contributors. I wanted to be an animator since I was like 5 or so, and my first influence was the HB cartoons that aired on "Sheriff John" (you old LA area farts should remember it) and I always loved the simple cheeriness of them. This site is a treasure trove - the Art Lozzi background posts alone are priceless. It's also nice to know that there are so many Clampett fans around.
I've long wondered why modern cartoons don't have the skill and entertainment value of cartoons made 60 years ago; this blog has answered that.
I'm glad now that I was rejected by CalArts so many years ago. If I had to draw Bluth style crap, I would have killed myself long ago.
Keep up the good fight, John, and when I win the lottery I will finance your cartoon studio. Thanks again - A J Hagan
- James N. said...
'I think Brad Bird really emphasized this a lot unfortunately when he did his interviews for the "Incredibles". He must have said the word "story" 45 times rapid fire. A lot of young aspiring "animators" who look up to him saw that movie and listened to him and it was like an overnight thing. Its all I hear now. "Does is have a good story? Gee I hope the story is good." "Yes, but wheres the story?"'
Brad Bird is one of my heros and I think it's good to value story AND characters as well... which is what Brad certainly does.
All of his films, aside from being very very well animated, have great stories and great characters.
There's nothing wrong with concentrating on telling a good story AND concentrate on telling it with interesting characters.
- deadmanswill said...
I believe you are right in that for animation a good character is a great starting point.
Just yesterday I was trying to drive home the point to a 80 odd animation students whom I was called to address regarding concept development for animation movies.
I was stressing the importance of character for an animated movie. Though a character is important to for live action movie too, but for animation it gains a higher prominence because a character is created from scratch for such content.
As I see there are two kinds of major approaches for content development. One is story through character and the other character through story. And for animation the second seems to work better because once you hit upon a great character, story ideas just seemed to fizz out like bubbles in cola. I had many such personal experiences.
- deadmanswill said...
Actually I came to thank you for your valuable inputs. Like I said I was called for a two day seminar on content development for animation at an Animation University here and I was able to share many of the valuable points that I learned from you.
Especially about character development and the potential of a content developer who is an animator too. I was able to drive home the point how many writers produce crap without taking a minute to atleast visualize the character. I told them in detail how the animators of the golden era created characters and time them to rythm. I told them the importance of planning for sound design that included voice, sfx and music before production. And yeah, I gave them an exercise to gain an ear for voice. I told them to take up older movies and animations that they did not watch earlier and hear the movie with the monitor switched off and try to guess the appearance and role of each character.
I also told them the importance of coming up with new poses and expression sets instead of borrowing from stock archives. With a simple example of anticipation for a run, I made them come up with unique poses for that anticipation. I also guided them in choosing one pose of them for a particular character based on the character's attitude, mood and body type. I do hope to gain more insight from you.
- Timefishblue said...
James, do you really think brad bird has great characters? They all seem really stock to me. But I haven't seen all of the iron giant, so I don't know about the characters in that movie.
- ramapith said...
Great characters still need a well-thought-out story. They can't survive without it.
Look at Fauntleroy Fox and Crawford Crow. I defy you to watch TOLL-BRIDGE TROUBLES or MR MOOCHER, or read the Bob Wickersham or Karp/Davis comics, and not love those characters. But aside from a very few shorts (like the two cited above), the Columbia crew in the 1940s had a generally terrible story sense. The pretentious-but-likeable Fox and crass-but-imaginative Crow seem like great characters trapped in plodding, sometimes nonsensical plots.


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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) _ Water levels in the Ogallala Aquifer, a vast underground reservoir, have dropped significantly in sections of Kansas since last year, according to the Kansas Geological Survey.
Rex Buchanan, interim director of the Kansas Geological Survey, recently completed an annual tour of the 1,400 wells that tap into the Ogallala in western Kansas. He said overall levels dropped about three and a half feet in January 2013 compared to last year. Declines in January 2012 averaged 4.25 feet, he said.
The water level declines were sharper in northwestern Kansas, which was especially dry in 2012. In southwestern Kansas, which saw a little more rain last year than the year before, the decrease wasn't quite as severe, he told the Lawrence Journal-World (http://bit.ly/12nTlT8 ).
The Ogallala, underground water locked inside gravel and sand hundreds of feet below the surface, stretches across several states, from Nebraska to Texas, including about 30,500 square miles in western and central Kansas.
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I love old movies. Old live action movies. I collect 'em on video and watch TCM. I'm no expert on live action. I've had one day's experience in it - maybe I'll tell you about it one day.
But I've noticed how specialized so many jobs in L/A are and in particular - the writing. You sometimes see 4 or 5 credits for writing a movie. One for original novel, if it's based on something already written in another medium. One for "scenario", one for "treatment", one for "screenplay", even one for "dialogue".
I've always wondered about these specialists and who they were so I went to a local second-hand bookstore to see if there was a book on the process of writing classic movies (1920s-1950s).
I couldn't find a book written in that period or even by a writer from the period, so I settled for the one above - written in the 70s - when movies were no longer very cinematic. I didn't hold out much hope for it, until I read the forward while in the store.
The first thing that impressed me was the writer's style. It was crisp and to the point. This alone is an extreme rarity among writers. I love to read, but hardly ever can find a book that flat out gives you what you buy the book for.
I have a modern book about Teddy Roosevelt that is sheer torture to read. It opens every new scene by describing the direction of the wind at that very moment, the atmospheric pressure, the shape of the moon and the feel of the grass between Teddy's toes - and how many bunions he has. It judges all decisions made at the turn of the century by modern ethics. The book is 3 times longer than a book about who Teddy was and what he did needs to be. It's not about him. It's about the writer trying to be fancy, trendy and modern.
There are also too many writers who hide vague thoughts behind florid pose, needless descriptions and all kinds of filler you have to sift through to get to the meat.
It's the difference between musicians who can't play a melody without burying it under a muddy or meandering arrangement and say ...the Beatles. The difference between Frank Sinatra and Barbara Streisand. I'll get back to that in another post. The difference between Bob Jaques' crisp and precisely focused animation timing and Shamus Culhane's evenly spaced actions that make the characters look like they are underwater. The difference between a strong line of action and clear silhouette and a cluttered ambiguous pose. The difference between a Looney Tune and a Terrytoon.
Clarity gives you more control over what you want your audience to understand or feel. Mushiness leaves the message to the viewer or listener's interpretation - if he even bothers to finish paying attention to the mushy message.
I might agree or disagree with something he believes, but his points are so clear that it doesn't even bother me when I do disagree.
What's really surprising to me though, beyond the clarity of his information is how similar live action thinking is to good cartoons when it comes to "writing".
Most modern cartoon writers - the ones that can't draw, believe - or at least pretend to - that they are following live action principles of script writing and this justifies them keeping the artists away from the process until a script is written and every visual element is crassly described by non-visual brains. This book demonstrates that cartoon writers absolutely aren't influenced by the live action process of creation.
Classic screenwriters - according to the book - evolved a common sense approach to writing for visual storytelling that is really similar to the way old cartoons were written - and to the way Spumco cartoons are written.
I will post more of his book paragraph by paragraph and give my comments.


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Today I give you the second of the Project High Heals leveling guides, focusing today on my Holy Priest, Psynister. At the time of my writing this he is currently sitting at level 60, while my Resto Shaman is taking it easy at level 44.
Up to this point Psynister's focus has been to level mostly via dungeons. Each of the Project High Heals toons will be leveled fully in their healing spec(s), with each of the four healing classes having a specific type of leveling that they focus on the most, though they all participate in all of the different experience earning methods. I've done a really good job of keeping Psynister in dungeons, but he can burn through quest mobs with ease as well.
Playing a Holy Priest
The Holy Priest was one that I was both looking forward to and hesitant about at the same time. On the one hand, I recently leveled a Shadow Priest and am well aware of their mana issues at low levels but confident in my ability to overcome them, while on the other hand Holy is pretty well known as the "just for heals" spec of the Priest so I thought questing was going to suck. Boy, was I wrong.
I did find that low level PvP really sucks as Holy. Sure, I can bubble and I can heal, but my bubbles don't go very far and while my heals aren't too bad it's rare to find a PvP match where I'm not focus fired after the first 3 minutes.
Dungeon healing though was a lot of fun. Bubbles are strong, Renew is a beast, and even at level 60 I get to DPS for some of the fights, healing with nothing more than an occasional bubble/renew or a free, instant Flash of Light when my talents proc. Priests have mana issues at low levels, so that was my main concern about dungeons and also part of why I chose the Priest for the dungeon focus. What I found was that during my 20's the Undead Racial pretty well took care of any mana issues I had. In the 30's I didn't really struggle much at all. In the 40's I only had mana issues while questing and even then only if I pulled multiple mobs with high cost DoT's. From the 50's on – mana issues? What are mana issues?
My biggest challenge in healing dungeons is AoE damage. Before you're able to employ Chakra as an AoE heal your only option is either spamming bubbles, spamming renew, or getting people click on the Lightwell. I've had two dungeons where people actually clicked on it, but both of those went extremely well when they used it.
The hardest thing about healing with a Priest is figuring out which of those eighteen billion healing spells you're supposed to use and which you aren't, and when you should use them and when you shouldn't. But in the 1-29 bracket those many options aren't opened to you yet, so for now your job is easy.
Holy-Specific Tips
The main thing I want to mention about Holy is that it really does play just like the opposite of Shadow. When leveling as Shadow your DoT's are amazing, but when leveling Holy your DoT's are an amazing waste of your mana. Almost all of the Shadow-based spells are a complete waste of both time and mana as a Holy spec, with an exception made for Mind Blast (while leveling) and Shadow Word: Death (which you don't get until your 30's).
Healing a dungeon as Holy is simple. In this bracket, with all of two heirlooms to my name, I healed dungeons with Power Word: Shield and Renew, and that's basically all I needed. I would cast Heal on occasion when I couldn't bubble, and stupid DPS who liked to pull would require an occasional Flash Heal, but most of my tank healing was strictly bubbles and Renew. I didn't cast the two at the same time, I used either one or the other.
Mana can become an issue though, especially if there are problems with threat. If you have to heal multiple people then someone's likely going to die. PW:Shield and Renew are both fairly high on mana cost, so spamming them on the whole party can dry you out quick. I wiped twice in Stockades on my Priest because people were pulling multiple groups and I had no chance of healing them all. Not that I could have done any better at all on my Resto Shaman, but at that level you just don't have the tools to handle damage on several targets at once while having the mana to back it all up.
Mana is the real key to your success at this level, and the key to that is not over healing. The primary example of that is PW:Shield and Renew. Outside of PvP there is no reason to have both of these spells up on the same target at the same time; not in this level bracket, at least. Renew heals for enough by itself to essentially work just like the bubble does. If you do need some extra healing on him, use your slow cast, low cost spells to top him off. If you know that your Renew isn't going to be enough because extra mobs just got pulled, then go ahead and apply your bubble before Renew is done ticking so that the extra healing can build up in the background while the mobs are chewing away at the bubble.
Don't feel like you have to keep your tank, or the rest of the party for that matter, at full health all the time. Pay attention to how much damage he takes and how fast to adjust your healing accordingly. If you have a tank who take almost no damage at all then don't bother healing them until they're near half health, and even then just toss a Renew and let it tick to full. If you have a tank that's just getting demolished who seems like he's going to die every two seconds then you need to be more active on the healing front.
If your party takes a little damage, don't worry about it. Either top them off when someone goes afk, or when loot is being rolled on after a boss, or just let them stay where they are. You're there to keep people alive, not to keep them at full health every step of the way.
The next thing in relation to mana is getting that mana back. I don't hesitate to say that the Undead racial of Cannibalize was the single most helpful thing I could have done. When the tank goes to pull a new group and I'm at or below 60% of my mana I give him a bubble and then use my racial on one of the mobs we just killed. Every two minutes I get 40% of my health and mana back for munching on a dead humanoid/undead mob, and that is fantastic.
I also dealt with some of these mana potions by making my Resto Shaman an alchemist and making a good deal of mana potions, which also come in very handy. Since I had plenty of mats I made at least a stack of each type of mana potion while I was leveling her Alchemy, and then sent them out to the healers. On average I used 3-5 of each potion, total, for the level bracket they're meant for. My Shaman never used one outside of PvP, but my Priest used them now and then in his 20's and 30's.
Important Spells & Abilities
Note that all numeric values are taken from the level 29 version of the spell for the purposes of this post.
Level 1-10
- Smite (1): Smite an enemy for 33 to 37 Holy damage.
- Flash Heal (3): Heals a friendly target for 316 to 366.
- Shadow Word: Pain (4): A word of darkness that causes 1326 Shadow damage over 18 sec.
- Power Word: Shield (5): Draws on the soul of the friendly target to shield them, absorbing damage. Lasts 15 sec. While the shield holds, spellcasting will not be interrupted by damage. Once shielded, the target cannot be shielded again for 15 sec.
- Inner Fire (7): A burst of Holy energy fills the caster, increasing the armor value from items by 60% and spell power by 23.
- Renew (8): Heals the target for 62 every 3 sec for 12 sec.
- Mind Blast (9): Blasts the target for 65 to 67 Shadow damage.
Smite is your spammable attack, the one you'll use most for your questing. Flash Heal is a powerful and fast, but expensive heal that is best used in emergency situations. Shadow Word: Pain is a pretty strong DoT spell, but as Holy it's not very valuable and rarely worth its high mana cost.
Power Word: Shield is your bubble, and one of the main keys to your early dungeon healing success, also great for both questing and PvP, especially since it cancels pushback while casting. Inner Fire is a nice spell power buff which is pretty hard to come by at this level, which also has a nice boost to your armor providing extra survivability. This buff no longer has a duration, so once you put it up it will stay up until you die, cancel it, or change specs.
Renew is the other important heal that you have at this level, often healing the target for even more damage per tick than they're taking. Its mana cost is a little bit on the high side, so make sure you're not needlessly overwriting it or removing the need for its healing by using a bubble on the target at the same time. Last up is Mind Blast which is a Shadow spell, but this one is cheap on mana, has a fast cast time, and deals some pretty decent damage as well. I often use this to pull with.
By choosing Restoration as your specialization at level 10 you receive all of the following:
When you first get Holy Word: Chastise it's a little uncertain whether it's a great spell or a poor spell. The effect is cool, the damage is somewhat low, it's instant cast which is great, but it also has a ridiculous 30 second cooldown. I generally end up using this one as a chance to interrupt spell casters with the disorient effect, or to finish off mobs that run when low on health (until we get Shadow Word: Death in the 30's).
Spiritual Healing is pretty straight forward, you become 15% better at keeping people alive. Meditation is similarly simple, giving you 50% better mana regeneration during combat, and it's one of the reasons why Spirit is an important stat for us. Absolution is pretty cool, it makes Dispel magic remove 2 Magic debuffs from your target instead of 1.
Level 11-20
- Psychic Scream (11): The caster lets out a psychic scream, causing 5 enemies within 8 yards to flee for 8 sec. Damage caused may interrupt the effect.
- Power Word: Fortitude (14): Power infuses all party and raid members, increasing their Stamina for 1 hour. If the target is in your party or raid, all party and raid members will be affected.
- Resurrection (14): Brings a dead ally back to life with 35% health and mana. Cannot be cast when in combat.
- Heal (16): Heal your target for 159 to 183.
- Holy Fire (18): Consumes the enemy in Holy flames that cause 46 to 58 Holy damage and an additional 21 Holy damage over 7 sec.
Psychic Scream is an ability you want to get familiar with using, yet you need to be really careful of using it when in groups unless you have the glyph for it. It's an AoE fear that hits up to 5 targets, and I really love this spell. When you're in dungeons though, generally people hate you for casting this. Using the glyph removes the running away part and instead makes them cower in place for its duration.
Power Word: Fortitude is the Priest's signature buff, providing the whole party/raid with an increase to their Stamina. Resurrection is your rez, pretty much the same as every other non-combat rez in the game. Heal is your cheap, cost effect heal that has a long cast time. This is your filler heal, used to keep people up or topped off when there's no reason to bother with other heals. Apply this liberally to tanks in low level LFG.
Holy Fire is last up on the list, it's a great spell that deals both direct damage as well as damage over time. When using the right glyphs you also get an increase in damage to your Smite if the target has your Holy Fire DoT active on them.
Level 21-29
- Cure Disease (22): Removes 1 disease from the friendly target.
- Fade (24): Fade out, temporarily reducing all your threat for 10 sec.
- Dispel Magic (26): Dispels magic on the target, removing 2 harmful spell from yourself or 1 beneficial spell from an enemy.
- Devouring Plague (28): Afflicts the target with a disease that causes 1240 Shadow damage over 24 sec. 15% of damage caused by the Devouring Plague heals the caster. This spell can only affect one target at a time.
Cure Disease does just that, removes a disease from your target. There aren't a ton of diseases early on, and most of those aren't very important anyway, but it's best for you to get used to it now so that when it does matter you know how to use it. Fade isn't all that important to us unless you're dealing with a tank with poor threat. I get the most use out of this, as Holy, but using it in PvP to make pets leave me alone.
Dispel Magic is a nice, versatile dispel. It can be used on both friendly targets and enemies, either clearing harmful debuffs from your team or removing beneficial buffs from your enemies. Devouring Plague is last up on the list. It's a strong DoT that also heals you for a portion of the damage that it deals. Unfortunately, it too has a high mana cost and is best used by Shadow Priests.
Leveling a Holy Priest
- Questing Single Mob: Mind Blast, Holy Fire, Smite spam
- Questing Multi-Mob: [target 1] Shadow Word: Pain, Devouring Plague, [target 2] Mind Blast, Holy Fire, Smite spam
Questing Single Mob
For single mobs it's a simple matter of just burning them down with Smite spam. I like to pull with Mind Blast, personally, mostly because I like to get extra damage out of Smite by using Holy Fire's debuff. Normally I would suggest pulling with a spell like Smite because of its longer cast time, but I don't feel it's necessary and found that I prefer pulling with Mind Blast so that's what I do.
Questing Multi-Mob
When I'm facing multiple mobs as Holy I do go ahead and use my DoT's, but only on a single target. DoT the first target, burn the second one down, and then finish off the first with Smite spam. If you pull more than two, then still just DoT the first target and then leave him alone while you focus on the others so that your DoT's can actually deal their damage and be worth the mana it costs to cast them.
How to Heal: 29 Holy Priest
When you're actually filling your healing role rather than questing it's probably a good idea for you to have a clue how to actually, you know, heal. The numbers in the next section are based on the level 29 version of the spell, unmodified by talents or gear.
Healing Spells
Flash Heal: 28% base mana, 1.5 second cast, heals for 316-366
Power Word: Shield: 34% base mana, instant cast, absorbs damage
Renew: 17% base mana, instant cast, heals 62 every 3 sec for 12 sec.
Heal: 9% base mana, 3 second cast, heals for 159-183
Resurrect: 60% base mana, 10 second cast, non-combat resurrection
Cure Disease: 16% base mana, instant cast, removes 1 disease
Dispel Magic: 16% base mana, instant cast, removes 2 harmful magic effects
As you can see here, PW:Shield is your most expensive spell that you'll cast during combat. It's a great spell, fantastic for healing, but it's expensive and it doesn't actually heal anything by default (you can glyph it to do so). Next up is Flash Heal, which is also expensive but it's your single largest heal in this level range. Again, you don't want to cast it any more than you have to, but when you have to it's there for you and it pack a decent punch.
Renew is next up on the list, and even with no haste at all you can see that it heals for (62 x (12/3=4) = 248) 248 over 12 seconds. The drawback of course is that you have to wait the full 12 seconds before you get that healing. Finally we have Heal which is your cheapest and least effect per-cast heal. Don't dismiss this one for the low healing value though, because that cheap mana cost makes it one of the best healing options available to you. If you don't need a big heal right away then Heal is much better than Flash Heal for its low mana cost alone.
Talent Spec: 29 Holy Priest
- Improved Renew 2/2: Increases the amount healed by your Renew by 10%.
- Divine Fury 3/3: Reduces the casting time of your Smite, Holy Fire, Heal and Greater Heal spells by 0.5 sec.
- Surge of Light 2/2: You have a 6% chance when you Smite, Heal, Flash Heal, Binding Heal or Greater Heal to cause your next Flash Heal to be instant cast and cost no mana.
- Desperate Prayer 1/1: Instantly heals the caster for 30% of their total health.
- Empowered Healing 2/3: Increases the healing done by your Flash Heal, Heal, Binding Heal and Greater Heal by 10%.
- Holy Concentration 1/2: Increases the amount of mana regeneration from Spirit while in combat by an additional 15%.
I started off with Improved Renew mostly so that I could combat those low level mana problems. If Renew heals for more then that means you have fewer heals that you have to cast, so more mana you get to save. This is one of your best investments early on. Divine Fury is another great spell, reducing the cast time on two of your primary questing attacks as well as two of your heals (you don't get Greater Heal in this level range, though). If you're going to quest as Holy at all, you want this talent.
Surge of Light is a really great spell, giving some of your spells (see above) a chance to proc a free, instant Flash of Light. I love this both for questing since it can proc from my Smite spam, as well as dungeon healing (especially when multiple people are taking damage), and it's fantastic for PvP. I especially love it in PvP when it procs off of a Flash Heal and then procs another Flash Heal, giving me three of this bad boy in a row for the price of one.
Desperate Prayer was a personal choice and one that a lot of Holy Priests don't bother taking, especially while leveling. I took this first and foremost because I enjoy PvP while I'm leveling and a free, instant heal for 30% of my health is nothing to sneeze at in PvP. I also took it because there had been several times that I was healing a dungeon where a single heal on me would have prevented a wipe. If you don't want to put a point here then I suggest you finish off Empowered Healing instead.
Empowered Healing is a great boost to your healing efficiency, plain and simple. Holy Concentration I took for the mana regen alone. Mana is what it's all about at this level, and more regeneration was more important to me than Lightwell or even getting some instant healing out of Renew.
Prime Glyphs
- Glyph of Power Word: Shield: Your Power Word: Shield also heals the target for 20% of the absorption amount.
- Glyph of Renew: Increases the amount healed by your Renew by an additional 10%.
My preference for your first glyph is Power Word: Shield because I think at an early level that it provides the most overall benefit and one of the few forms of instant healing you can get. I kept low level tanks alive by alternating casts of PW:Shield and Renew, and this was one of the more beneficial effects for doing that.
Renew would be my second option for additional healing from it. I do like using Renew and it is really powerful, but I did't feel that it needed to be any more powerful at that level. Not that more healing is ever a bad thing, but that it wasn't necessary.
Major Glyphs
- Glyph of Smite: Your Smite spell inflicts an additional 20% damage against targets afflicted by Holy Fire.
- Glyph of Psychic Scream: Targets of your Psychic Scream spell now tremble in place instead of fleeing in fear, but the cooldown of Psychic Scream is increased by 3 sec.
You have two great choices for your first Major glyph. Smite is the big winner if you're going to do a lot of questing. It's one of the very few things you can do to increase your damage output as Holy. Psychic Scream though is also great, especially if you're leaning more towards dungeons. I started off with Scream and eventually switched it over to Smite at which point I did a little questing with my wife's mage and completely pissed her off when I used Scream and sent her target running behind her while she was trying to cast.
For those of you who don't know my wife, pissing her off means you better duck because there's going to be a heavy object flying at your head in a matter of seconds. Don't worry, the stapler just barely grazed me this time.
Minor Glyphs
- Glyph of Fortitude: Reduces the mana cost of your Power Word: Fortitude spell by 50%.
- Glyph of Fading: Reduces the mana cost of your Fade spell by 30%.
Our options for minors is pretty much crap at this level. I prefer Fortitude since I'm a healer and have almost no problem with threat in the first place, though Fading isn't bad if you're more into PvP and want to avoid those hunter and warlock pets. Personally, I just skipped the minor glyph until 34 and used Levitate instead, then added Fortitude at level 50.
Gearing Up Your Priest
For Holy you're looking first and foremost at Intellect on your gear. Intellect provides Spell Power, Mana, and Spell Crit, all of which you're interested in. Next up is going to have to be Spirit because Priests will do struggle with mana at low levels. Haste comes next as it makes your Renew tick faster and it also allows your heals to cast faster which is really useful when your best filler heal has a base cast time of three seconds.
Cloth is your only option for gear of course, and lucky for us all cloth gear is caster gear, so it shouldn't be too hard to find. Weapons can be kind of hit and miss, though there are quite a few good staves that drop in dungeons. You can find some decent off-hand weapons from dungeons these days as well, but one-handed caster weapons are pretty rare at low levels.
Even though I have access to some of my Hand Me Down gear, a mace with +22 Intellect being one of them, I didn't use them on the Priest because I wanted to be as pure as I could to what another player might be since Priests are well known for their mana issues right now.
/cast Smite
/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
I use this type of macro for all of my attacks (Smite, Holy Fire, Mind Blast, SW:Pain, Devouring Plague) mostly so that I have an auto-target and auto-attack built into the spell cast.
/cast [@focus] Power Word: Shield
This is my "heal with sammich" macro, it allows me to cast my bubble directly on my focus without having to bother with targeting and such. I set the tank as my focus as soon as the group is created and hit this button when the spell wears off. I use a variation of this for Renew, Heal, and Flash Heal as well so that I can easily heal an instance with one hand while eating a sammich with the other and watching YouTube on the second monitor.


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Six young men from Saranac and Ionia have earned the prestigious rank of Eagle Scout, thanks to hard work, service and dedication.
The scouts belong to Troop 71, which is chartered by Saranac Community Church and is the troop to more than 45 members.
Scout leader Richard Dashkovitz said the rank of Eagle Scout is important because less than 5 percent of scouts receive the honor. To become an Eagle Scout, the teens have experiences including camping in every season and in all conditions, backpacking, leadership, service projects and teaching.
"These experience teach these young men to overcome and solve problems, to serve others, to work with other people, to make great friendships and to lead others," said Dashkovitz.
Eagle Scout Wyatt Haner created a "hometown heroes" memorial board at Saranac Cemetery to honor veterans. It includes short biographies of a number of veterans, which states if they returned home and/or received a medal for their service.
"I wanted to make it known to the community that they aren't just headstones. They're people who fought and died for our country," said Haner.
Blake Hopkins also completed a project in Saranac by revitalizing and landscaping around the village entry signs at David Highway, Riverside Drive, North Bridge Street and South Bridge Street.
"The paint was faded and the wood chips were faded and the plants were dying," said Hopkins. "It needed to be done."
He said he worked with members of the Saranac Community Club to complete the project and believes he showed commitment throughout the task.
Zachary Bevington's project took him into the Ionia State Recreation Area's equestrian campground, where he built an informational kiosk. Shaped like a barn, he said it can be used for park officials to post notices, place pamphlets and provide maps of the grounds.
"I wanted something I could put my name on," said Bevington. "That one stuck out to me."
The boys said they felt proud of the work they have accomplished and are glad to know they have helped the community. In addition, they said the Eagle Scout rank will help them with college and job applications.
Dashkovitz has been the teens' leader through Cub Scouts and into Boy Scouts. He said seeing them become Eagle Scouts means a lot because he watched them grow up.
"I am proud of the young men reaching the rank that exemplifies what is means to be a young leader in our community," he said.
To be an Eagle Scout means the boys' actions and beliefs follow the scout oath of duty to God, country and others. It also shows the boys are trustworthy, helpful, friendly, kind, courteous, loyal, cheerful, thrifty, brave, obedient and reverent, Dashkovitz added.
Following the Eagle Scout achievement, the boys can earn additional merit badges that equal pins to put on the eagle badge. They can also help with younger scouts and continue to attend camps and other excursions.
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Following the May 2007 tornado that destroyed nearly 90 percent of homes in the center of town, a number of organizations flocked to Greensburg to offer hope and assistance. The New York Says Thank You Organization (NYSTY), a national 9/11 memorial group, came to assist in the clean up and community rebuilding and founded "Stars of Hope."
Following the May 2007 tornado that destroyed nearly 90 percent of homes in the center of town, a number of organizations flocked to Greensburg to offer hope and assistance. The New York Says Thank You Organization (NYSTY), a national 9/11 memorial group, came to assist in the clean up and community rebuilding and founded "Stars of Hope."
The Stars of Hope, which began as an inspirational community activity placing hand painted stars on street corners in Greensburg, has brought the program to other disaster areas. Greensburg has been an integral part of the project, making and painting stars for other communities since its inception in 2008.
Last Saturday area volunteers spent all day painting nearly 1,000 stars in the community building.
The stars were destined for hard-hit areas of New York and New Jersey, still recovering from Hurricane Sandy.
"When we were hit in 2007 we were amazed that people from New York would help us," said Kiowa County Freshman McKenzie Heft. "Now it's kind of flip-flopped and we're able to help them. There might be a perception that a small town in western Kansas wouldn't worry about people in New York, but we do. They helped us, so it's our duty to help them."
Heft, who helped organize the event, has been involved with the "Stars" project since 2008 when she, along with all of the other Greensburg school students, painted a star to place on a street corner in town.
"The first star I made was yellow. It was hard to decide what to put on it at first. I was really young then but I wrote, "inspire" on it in purple. That word meant a lot to me because it was inspiration that got people to rebuild."
The stars were placed randomly amongst the damaged houses, but Heft said she put her star on a corner of a very special lot.
"My star went on the corner of Bay Street and Lincoln Street and that was the corner where my great-grandmother lived. That was kind of cool."
Heft was also interviewed for a NYSTY film and spent time this year volunteering for "Annie's House," a ski lodge built in Bottineau, Nd.
Annie's House is a ski-lodge built to accommodate military veterans and disabled children. It was built in memorial to Annie Nelson, a North Dakota native and bond trader who died on Sept. 11, 2000 at the World Trade Center in New York.
"It's changed my life," said Heft. "It's made me a better person and it's really changed my life."
Volunteers painted inspirational messages on about 50 of the 1,000 stars made from wood donated by Lloyd Goossen of Goossen Woodwork. The remaining stars will be painted by children and families in effected areas.
Many of the stars are still destined for neighborhoods in New York and New Jersey, but some stars may be diverted and sent to families in Newtown, Conn. in light of the tragic school shooting last Friday, said NYSTY Chairman Jeff Parness.
"Some of the communities that were hit by Hurricane Sandy, many which were part of Stars of Hope, have already gone up to Newtown to lend support," he said on Tuesday. "I am certain that some of the Greensburg stars will end up there."
This first appeared in the Dec. 19, 2012 print edition of The Kiowa County Signal.


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Don and Sherry Brown are the owners of Kansas Country Store, 728 Cherokee St., Leavenworth.
Don and Sherry Brown are the owners of Kansas Country Store, 728 Cherokee St., Leavenworth.
1. Don, can you tell us about your new business Every Era Uptown Showroom, where it is, when it is open, and how you got the idea for it?
Every Era Uptown Showroom is located at 101 N. Broadway, on the corner of Shawnee and Broadway. Open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday- 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday. My wife and I felt there was a need in our community for slightly used and new items at affordable prices and we were looking for a way to help with the costs of operating the spay and neuter clinic. Darlene Klaus has been invaluable in organizing, remodeling, and stocking the store. We are very fortunate to have her as the manager of the store.
2. All the profits from the new business will go to the HOPE spay/neuter clinic that you opened inside your business, Kansas Country Store. Can anyone in the community bring an animal in to be spayed or neutered and how much does this cost?
Yes. Everyone is welcome to bring dogs and cats to our facility. Our prices are consistent with the low cost clinics in the K C area. In cases where the pet owner needs financial assistance, that can usually be arranged as well.
3. Every Era Uptown Showroom carries a variety of items from furniture, to tools. How can community residents help out with the store?
We have a very wide selection of items in the store. The greatest help that we ask from the community is to consider donating gently used items that they no longer need from their garage, kitchen, household, etc.. We have had donations from people that are moving, from an estate, and some that just want to help the animals. All donations are tax deductable.
4. About how many people have utilized the spay/neuter clinic since you have opened it? What were the main motivations that made you want to help reduce the number of homeless and struggling animals in our area?
Help Overpopulation of Pets Economically (HOPE, Inc.) has sterilized approximately 2,100 animals since September, 2011, when we began. I was motivated to build & open a clinic in Leavenworth after serving on the Board of Directors of Leavenworth Animal Welfare Society, Inc (LAWS) for several years. I am proud to be associated with LAWS. They have helped financially to sterilize nearly 1,000 animals per year. That is an impressive accomplishment! However, the closest low-cost clinic was nearly 20 miles away, so having a clinic in our own town seemed to be a win-win situation for our pets, their owners and the community.
5. You are making a real difference in our community by helping to reduce the number of strays. What's your best advice for area residents about caring for animals by controlling overpopulation?
Being a responsible pet owner is not only proper food and health care. Many health issues and aggressive behavior can be avoided with sterilization, and it is so very important to have pets sterilized before there is an unplanned litter, instead of having to cope with puppies and kittens that may not find GOOD homes, be proactive. Solve the problem before it happens.
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I don't know anything about it except it has French credits. But the look and feel is all Cal Arts.
It's well done in many ways (some of the ape runs are very clever, it's composed and planned well, etc.), but the pose-to-pose timing is that formula you see in modern disney-esque "comedies". Like "Cats Don't Dance" "Emperor's New Groove" "Incredibles" "Madagascar" etc.
It's a style of timing that draws attention to itself, rather than drawing attention to the characters or story.
The actions have short anticipations and then BANG! - they snap past the final pose and settle in a couple frames. Hardly any inbetweens. It's as if the characters' limbs and features are all spring-loaded. Pull the trigger and the action fires.
I see this all the time in modern cartoons. The zip, zip, zip style.
*NOTE: I'm not talking about the editing or quick cuts. I'm strictly talking about the character animation-the way it moves from one pose to the next.
I'm wondering if the computer is programmed now to automatically apply these stock timing moves to get from one key pose to the next. Anybody know?
I would like to see animation get back to a more humanized custom tailored timing. Of course you would need characters and stories that reflect some kind of humanity to inspire the animators.
When I watch modern full-animation, I feel like I'm watching student exercises. (Actually, I think that's what this short is, but it looks just like the professional animated features being made today). I don't get drawn into the characters, stories or gags because I've seen them all so many times before.
Some studios are slicker than others at doing the formulas, but formulas they remain.
Another commenter sent me another short film that has all the stock modern Cal Arts acting triggers in it and I will show you that in another post and compare it to a classic cartoon that I think has more varied and natural acting in it.