text: Mike Ness Interview: Tattoo Artist Magazine Issue #23 "If you don't have roots, you don't have shit..." -Mike Ness By Crash and Jimmy Perlman. Photos by Rose Riot. Crash: All right Mike- You've been getting tattooed for a long time, so this isn't a fad thing for you…and one thing I've noticed about younger bands is that they tend to just pop up fully tattooed- it's like 'instant street cred' or something… Mike Ness: That's commonly referred to as a "Visa Sleeve." [Laughs] Right. Yeah. It's kind of a strange thing to see. But tattoos have been a real part of your life for a long time, and I'm sure you've documented many important events in your life through them. I think it's more just, you know, things that I like and things that inspire me, more than historic things, I think. For me personally, it's been more like things that are reflections of me, or things that are in my life. Right. Can you tell me about the first tattoo you ever got? And if you remember who did it, and what it was, et cetera? I remember the first tattoo. I don't remember the artist. But it was at Bert Grimm's, at the Pike. I was 17, you know, and I drank five beers before I went in [laughs]…and I got this heart right here, and this banner—which I designed myself—and like a typical teenager, I wrote Heartbreaker across it. [Laughs] Like, yeah, beware girls—I'm a heartbreaker. You know what I mean? And back then it was kind of like, I'm 17, I'm looking at a Stray Cats album, and I'm going, "Okay, I just want four", here, and here, [Mike gestures to both forearms and both biceps] But you can't just get four, you know? Ha-ha. But it was different back then. That's part of the reason I'm reluctant to talk about tattoos anymore- it's that syndrome where, after something cool gets discovered, it can tend to get un-cool. And correct me if I'm wrong, but back then, and throughout history, it seems to that tattooing was for anti-social reasons, an anti-social statement. And now it's become social. So that's kind of where I have a problem with it. It's like, "You mean, because you're sleeved, you and I have something in common?" To me, that's the same as just living in the same city as me. That's not really enough for me to want to bro-down, you know what I mean? Not unless it's the right situation. And "no, I don't really want to see your tats, nor do I really want to show you mine". So, with all that said, I had to take my son, who's 17, I had to take him over to Gold Rush Tattoo, because he called me up, getting ready to get tattooed in a house by I-don't-even-know-who, and I was like "Bro, c'mon; I'll come get you right now." And I took him to Gold Rush, and Eric Jones did a tat on him. I was like, "Trust me, son." Because there is some amount of preparation that I wish I would have done with my tats, of course. So you know, there's a certain aspect to going and getting fresh flash tattoos, and having it all be uniform—like I didn't know that you were supposed to get big pieces first, and all that. Jimmy Perlman: It hurts a lot less when you're younger. Exactly. I'm not looking forward to finishing my chest and stomach. Or my ribcage. Which I saved for last, and which I wish I had done earlier. That's interesting about your son, man. That, even having a father who was so heavily tattooed, he would still approach his first tattoo in that sort of environment. Do you think it was because he was so young? It could have been. But I think, more than anything, it was probably just like me, just that he was impatient. And you know, I've gotten plenty of tats in hotel rooms. Yup. Some of my favorite ones. Yeah, like, "Let's just do it now!" Or homemade, or however. Exactly. Let me ask you this. Was there anything in particular going on at the time of your first tattoo? That was like the final kicker to go get it done? Or was it just a spur-of-the-moment thing? I just finally had the money. [Laughter]- You know? Growing up in Southern California, you saw it on cholos, you saw it on sailors at the Pike. I mean, it was just something that even as a kid, I always thought was cool; so when I was 17 I went to Bert Grimm's shop and I was just like, "Maybe he won't ask for ID. Maybe I can pull this off." Growing up in Southern California, you're inundated by Latino and gang-style tattooing on people that you see everyday. Was that an impetus for you? Did you think, you know, I'd like to get some tattoos like that; I'd like to get some black and gray imagery, some Latino imagery? You have a lot of tattoos that are in that style—was that your intention, when you knew you wanted to get tattooed? Well, you know, I got clean of heroin in '85, and I went and got these spider-webs, and my friends were all like, "Those are prison-tats." And I was like, "Well…" And it was almost like...I still wanted to look like a dope-fiend. You know? Yeah. For sure. And I love black & gray. And not even necessarily only fine-line. I think some of the traditional old outline stuff just looks good with blacks and grays and browns and reds… Living where you live, man, you've got some of the best, fine-line, Latino, black & gray—you've got some of the best of that style of tattooing in the world. And you know, I've gotten work done by some of the best guys. Mike Brown, Mark Mahoney, Eric Maaske, Chris Garver, Oliver Peck and Leo Zulueta. Leo Zulueta did the skellie on me. It was probably my second or third tat. Maybe my 19th birthday, or my 20th. I woke up from the tat out of a nod and it was done. And Leo was the man back then. Yeah. You want black, no one's black is blacker than Leo's. That's right. And I think you hit on something interesting, talking about how in the eighties and nineties, tattooing was an anti-social statement, and now, it's almost just a fashion statement. I have friends that never got a tat, and I can't help but just go, "God…that's so cool dude—you don't have any tats. " Now that seems almost like it's more of a statement. I mean, it's crazy. All these pro athletes are getting tats, going right to the neck...it takes a little bit of the fun out of it. But whatever. You can't spend a lot of time thinking about it. At least in the musical scene, it's true, being tattooed is the standard. Johnny Winter—I remember seeing him and going, "God damn." Oh yeah. He got tattooed by Mike Malone. By Rollo, yeah. He was probably one of the first guys. And then it was the Stray Cats. Or, what's his name, from Levi and the Rockats, Smutty. It was the first time I saw somebody all tattooed-up, to the hands. I was going to say, you know, if Social Distortion hadn't worked out, you might have become a tattoo artist—because that's what happened to a whole lot of us from that era. [Laughs] Yeah, well I've always been into graphic art, so, for sure. Definitely. So I wanted to rap with you, if I could, about the length of time you took between the last record and this new record. Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll came out in 2004. From then until now, what were the changes in the writing, recording and producing process, or were you just taking the right amount of time for the songs, and for the record that you wanted to record? Well, I'll start with the really big gap between White Light, White Heat, White Trash and Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll—which I said would never happen again. You know, I wasn't writing for eight fucking years. But I'd just gotten back together with my oldest son's mom, and started raising a family, and started restoring a house to move into—just a lot of normal, everyday life things. And we were also touring, and then I think I did the Mike Ness solo record first. So I was busy, doing life stuff. But I told myself that I would never let eight years go by again without a record, but before you know it, there were six. But we've just been touring, and we're a hard-touring band. We did some shows overseas with you guys in Europe, which was my first time seeing you guys overseas at a couple of festivals, and in Italy, in Milan in particular, at that festival inside that hangar that we did last year—I couldn't believe the way that fans were so ravenous for you guys over there as well. It's pretty impressive. Yeah, and it's really weird because bands like Bad Religion, and other bands that started around the same time period as us, they've been going over there for a long time, but we just weren't very, I don't know if prolific is the right word, but we just didn't do a whole lot of touring until the late-eighties, really. From '79 to '85 was just a party, and I couldn't really leave the county. And then in '85 I got my shit together, and I started really getting serious, and I started putting the band back together—I mean we'd never really broken up but… Did you do anything on the recording or on the writing for the new record, 'Hard Times & Nursery Rhymes', that was any different than what you'd done in the past? Different producing style, different song-writing approach, anything like that? That was different than the last couple of records? Yeah, I mean, I think a lot hasn't changed, but because I was producing this one myself, there was a little additional pressure. I wasn't crazy about the production of our last record, so this way, there would be no one to blame, except me; y'know, it's all on my shoulders. And by being the producer, it really just gave me a focus. In the past I would just trust that the guy knew what he was doing, you know, like, "You can master it, go ahead," and then all of a sudden you hear it and it's like, "What happened?" It's funny that you say that. I went and had coffee with Jonny [Wickersham] the other night, and he was saying the same thing. That previously, the way you guys would go about it was, you'd go in and do your thing and record, and with this one, there was a lot more direction, and you had a much tighter vision for how you wanted the tones, and the structure… It was everything. Wanting to go to analog, wanting it old school—I wanted it to sound like a seventies LP. I just wanted that warmth. I'm just not someone that subscribes to that whole thing of making a record in the living room. I think it's great for when you got an idea and you want to keep it, for the future, but I mean, it was everything, from that, to tones, to grooves; I played with some new grooves on this, and then lyrically—I didn't want to just write autobiographically, I wanted to write fictionally and non-fictionally; I wanted to write heavy songs and light songs; I didn't want to get pigeon-holed into any one style. And one thing that I've noticed, watching the set, there's a track you guys play live, a track called "Bakersfield," and I talked to you about it on this tour, but it's much more of a slower, kind of a mid-tempo song, but the crowd seems to dig it, and you bring it in at a really good point in the set, where it kind of let's more of like a singer-songwriter style come through, versus just, you know balls-out, rock and roll attack. What other songs in the set are from the new record? We've been playing "Still Alive," and also "Alone And Forsaken," by Hank Williams. We'll probably bring back "Machine Gun Blues" any day now. We've kind of been playing "Bakersfield" for a few years already, and we were playing "Can't Take It With You," which is an album track, for a few years. That kind of always seemed to work for us, and it's really probably not the best marketing, but I get impatient, I get excited when I have a new song—I just want to start playing it. Even if the lyrics aren't done, I'll just make something up, you know? Are any of those newer tracks available on iTunes this early? I think "Machine Gun Blues" is, yeah. And you've got a new label. Epitaph. Yeah... Stoked. Everyone is. I think we feel like you guys are kind of back where you should be. And I wanted to actually talk to you about Epitaph as a label, because some people don't know, but they're kind of a two-part animal. They're a straight-up punk rock label, as well as the Anti header, with guys like Tom Waits and Nick Cave; I'm sure you feel a kinship to those guys as well as to the label. You know, we had a couple of choices to go with on this record, and these guys signed us without hearing one song. I mean, they didn't hear it until the last month. They would call it a no-brainer. [Laughs] That really made me feel validated. Like, "Wow, these guys have a lot of faith in us." And the other thing was, we ran a little late, we were missing some of our deadlines to get it out by Thanksgiving, and I still had some vocals to do, and the vocals and the mixing were gonna get rushed and it was like, man… Yeah, it was supposed to be out for the tour that we're on right now, and I guess technically, at least in the eyes of your fans, this is the record release tour, even though the record isn't out yet. Now, are there plans for a full-on record release tour? Oh yeah, yeah. Once the record comes out, and we've been in circulation, we'll be doing a tour where we'll be highlighting the album, but this is more, I guess, you could call it a set-up, setting it up a little bit, getting people pumped for it. And the official release date is? January 18th. And another thing about this label, when I was getting really stressed about meeting deadlines, I just called Brett right up, and I said, "Look, we don't want to rush this part. We've done everything right up to this point. And now, the vocals and the mixing, which are the most important parts, are getting compromised." And I said, "Brett, you know, I figured I'd just call the boss of the company." And do you know what he said? He said, "Mike, you're the boss of this project. If we have to put this record out next year, we'll put it out next year." And for me, you know, I think we've put out some decent records, but I've always resented that time thing, that's put on you, because you're—just imagine you're doing a custom tattoo. Just drawing it and going along, and you spend four hours, and then the guy's old lady comes in and says, "We gotta leave in thirty minutes—hurry the fuck up!" I mean, what would you fucking do? [Laughs] That tattoo would not be looking good. You'd be like, I'm not gonna rush this now! I'm getting ready to put the best things on it! So I kind of wanted to talk a little bit about the tour we're currently on. I kind of just want to open up a little about this, and get your opinion on it. From what I've seen, this tour has been a slam-dunk. Do you feel that taking the time and hand-picking the bands, the openers, kind of turns the entire night into a show, rather than just a series of bands and people waiting for the headliner? Absolutely. And I've done that. Not intentionally, but I've done it in the past where management has submitted me an artist, and of course it sounds great on the CD. But then you just end up not really caring, or not paying attention, because your mind's on other things, or whatever. And there's a time-crunch in picking those bands, too. Absolutely. And it's like, if I'm busy doing something else, and it's like- "Oh you gotta go to MySpace to hear this band!" Well I don't do that! You know? I don't do that. I don't do MySpace, I don't look at other people's MySpace, and it's just not a part of my life. So that made it really frustrating. But you hear me talk about this tour every night on stage, and I don't just say shit, unless I really mean it. I was not familiar with Lucero, and I was only turned on to Frank Turner last summer. My kid—my younger kid—turned me on to Frank Turner. We were at Epitaph, and they gave us a bunch of stuff, and my younger kid went home and listened to it, and then we were in the car, listening, and I fell in love with his album, and I thought he was a really crafty and very incredible singer-songwriter, with raw talent. And I guess I'd heard a little bit of Lucero before—and it was management, they said it was a great fit—but then I started talking with the fans, on a tour, and I'd say, you know, "We're coming back with Lucero," and they were really stoked. So I thought, maybe there's something to these guys. So now we have three entirely different acts, but there's got to be some similarity—because I love them all. And that's a rare thing. I compare this to that train tour in the sixties that those guys did, Joplin and all of them. [The Festival Express]. It's a rare thing, where there's that chemistry, thirty guys on the road who all just love music and leave the egos at the door. And it will be with me for a long time, as a highlight, or as a milestone in my career. Because it doesn't happen very often. And very rarely will you hear me cheer on my opening acts. If I don't like them, I won't say anything. [Laughs] Let's go back to the record and to Epitaph. We've all seen the pitfalls and follies of certain labels in the way they distribute their records around the world. Epitaph is actually one of the few labels that I've noticed—you go everywhere, anywhere, and there are Epitaph records. You go to Malaysia, China, Japan, they are everywhere. Now, is that something that you haven't had in the past that you think Epitaph is going to provide? Definitely. I mean, it's not stuff that I really pay a lot of attention to, I trust management to do that, but at the same time, you can't help but wonder, when you get to someplace in Europe or South America, and it's like, "What do you mean our records were never released here?" And they're like, "Well, Sony never released your records here." And I'm like, "Why the fuck not?" And maybe it's gotten to that point in my life, where I really need to take more control, and pay more attention to these [laughs] "minor details." Speaking of "minor details" I don't know if we've mentioned the title of the record yet, so I'll yet you take that one… Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes. The main metaphor for that title came from the effect on kids that a nursery rhyme or a book has, how, it not only entertains them, but also allows them to escape, and to use their imaginations, and maybe even get them through something. I felt that music did the same thing. It did it for you. Absolutely. It's the weirdest thing, people come up to me all the time and say, "Your music got me through some hard times." And I go, "Me too, man." You know? That actually leads me to something I was going to bring up, which is that there's this weird phenomenon- everywhere I go— and I go all over the world, to see tattooers—there are three bands that are in every tattoo shop: Johnny Cash, Social Distortion, and Tom Waits. Does that surprise you? It's great. [Laughs] It means I made it to the American singer-songwriter storyteller club! I think this record is going to help. It started when I did the solo stuff, where it really cast a different light on me, as not just being Mike Ness, front man of Social Distortion, been together 25 years, it's kind of an old story, et cetera. When I wrote that record, it was a huge leap of faith, and it really did help cast a light on me as an American singer-songwriter too, and to be in the same magazines as Bob Dylan, or Tom Waits, or Wilco, it was really refreshing, and I think that that's only gotten better as time has gone on. And I think this record is really going to establish it even more. Same influences, you know, The Ramones, Hank Williams, Johnny Thunders, and The Rolling Stones, but I pushed it in each direction a little farther, and people are going to be blown away, I think. I mean there's definitely some tricks up my sleeve that nobody expected. And I think you putting out that solo record too, that first record, in the early nineties, when that album came out, a lot of punk rock kids had never heard Hank Williams. Or Dylan. In fact, a lot of punk rock kids were turned off by Dylan, because of the way he sang, or because of his association with hippies, or even their parents. But you came out and did that song in a way that they could say, "All right, here is a song by an artist that I normally wouldn't back at all, but done in a way that I really like." So just to open kids' eyes to artists that opened your eyes, you know, that's a powerful thing to do. I remember when we first covered Ring of Fire, man, we got so much flak—in the, like, punk rock communities. But you can't put rules on punk rock, bro! That's the ONLY rule... Yeah, that's the rule. [Laughs] And if you do, I'm going to be the first one to break it! Because I just hated that, you know. I hated stereotypical boundaries that were just so confining. And in my opinion, that's why all these bands in the mid-eighties, like Pearl Jam, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Jane's Addiction, felt the need to just carve out there own sound and get away from this awful constraining thing. And part of that was, you know, the image, the look. You know, as a kid, I'd look at The Clash, all dressed up as American gangsters, and I'd think, Hey, we're American! I want to dress like that! [Laughs] You know what I mean? And I'm an American! You never followed the rules though anyway. Like, I remember Mommy's Little Monster when it came out; it was great, it was skater-punk, and then when the next Social D album came out, we were like, "What's this sound?" Yeah, Prison Bound...I probably lost about 50 percent of our fans. [Laughs] But think about what you gained, man! Your own thing... Yeah, you know, we got radio, and it was that period of time where, I had already done punk rock, I had grown up with The Beatles and the Stones and Creedence, and then I had like, Lou Reed's Transformer in the seventh grade. I drew a Ziggy Stardust shirt and wore it to school, and all the kids were calling me a fag, and I'm all, "You're wearing an Elton John shirt." [Laughs] You know? If you would have just done a Mommy's part II, you would have continued being only a punk rock band. So it's smarter, what you did. Exactly. I mean I was looking at bands like X, and Jason and the Scorchers, and The Blasters, and bands like The Gears, and you know, just bands that had the attitude and the energy of punk, but—and you gotta go back to the first wave of punk anyways; it was all blues-based rock and roll, punk-style. You know? Johnny Thunders, The Ramones, the Pistols are laced with Chuck Berry, and it was people like that who were making connotations to early Americana, so for me it was very easy to just connect the dots. Johnny Cash too. Johnny Cash. My father had his records around the house. And it probably started for me in 2nd grade, with Rolling Stones, and Creedence records, and my mom had like, the Smithsonian folk set, which had everything, from Leadbelly, to the Carter Family. You know what I mean? And I was hearing Creole, Cajun, French—everything. And that music resonated with me. It was something about the honesty of that music, and the heartfelt-ness. And then yeah, my dad had Johnny Cash, and The Dillards around. So I really feel like it's all connected, and I was so lucky to have had uncles giving me records. And when other kids were doing their thing, that's what I was doing. I was just sitting there absorbing albums. Absorbing and absorbing them. And that's why I think that a lot of bands, especially the tattooed punk rock thing, a lot of bands don't understand that if you don't have roots, if you don't establish a groove, you're just bashing through chords. And I learned that from touring with like, Neil Young. You know, I watched Crazy Horse turn their backs on 15,000 people and just get in there and start playing with the drummer and the bass, just finding that groove, and then they wondered out to the crowd. But you know, it's just so important. And all the music I grew up with, it's all the same, it's: 'If it doesn't have that swing, it doesn't mean a thing'. Let me ask you, Mike, you may or may not want to rap about this, it's not a touchy subject, I don't think, but I was just wondering, as one of the most recognized band tattoo images—where did the skeleton come from? The skeleton was designed by a friend of mine, this girl, this graphic artist, and she had done it for like an invitation to a New Year's Eve party or something. And so it was kind of like on a postcard, red on black, in her house, and I just saw it and I was like, "I want that. Can I have that?" [Laughs] When you got it from her, was your intention that it was going to be Social Distortion's image and logo? Yeah. Because I had one that I wasn't crazy about. I had drawn this happy face with the crossed-out eyes and the fedora, and that was like the drunk punk. There was this club in Hollywood called the Hong Kong Café, and we didn't have ID, so we couldn't get in, but my little brother figured out a way to go around to the alley, scale the building, and there was a vent that you could squeeze through, into the men's room. So we would come out at the end of the night, and this old Chinese guy would go, "Oh, how you get in? Drunk punk, no good!" [Laughs] Drunk Punk, no good! But when I saw the skeleton logo, I thought, that's cool. That's festive. It's kind of life, it's kind of death, it's kind of everything in between. You've definitely been tattooed by a lot of historic as well as fantastic tattooers, and we've talked about Eric Maaske. Eric was an unfortunate loss to the tattoo community, and a lot of us knew him, some more than others. Is there anybody—and I know you probably aren't interested in getting a ton more tattoos—but is there anyone out there that you feel like, Hey, I really would like to get a tattoo from this cat? Yeah. I just don't know their names! It's kind of like, people ask me all the time, "What bands are up-and-coming?" And then I just draw a complete blank, I'm all, "Duhhhhh…" But, you know, there's a lot of them out there. I live in Orange County now, and one of my favorite shops is Gold Rush. Because Let's face it, a lot of these tattoo shops, there's so much ego, and you know, it's like, I've been in some hair salons with little gray-haired old ladies that didn't gossip as much! [Laughter] Got that right! They're like little bitches, you know what I mean? And it's like, "This ain't cool, man." You know? Or I started seeing tattoo artists acting like rock stars, and it was like "Hmmmmm." You know what, you're a great artist, you're a great tattooer, but if you want to do that, just go get into the rock star thing. So I liked Gold Rush because it had a great vibe, with Tim Hendricks, Eric Jones, Lindsey Carmichael and Bucky Crispin… That shop is fantastic. Yeah. And it's right by my pad. And I was telling you, I was trying to finish this shirt before we went out, but I had to wait until the summer was over, because I wanted to jump in the ocean now and then, if I could, but then that was tough because we were making the record. So… I'll be seeing Oliver Peck on our stop in Austin, Texas. A week ago we were in Asbury Park, and you and I had talked about going and getting an Asbury Park-style tattoo, and I think that at least for me I look at tattoos as like the Kansas sticker on the suitcase, when you're traveling and you're on tour, and you have the capability of getting tattooed just on the fly. Do you think that on this upcoming tour, that that might be something you would approach, like, "Hey, I'm in wherever, I think I'm gonna go get tattooed?" Is that a direction you would go in? I've only done that once. I was in Tokyo a couple of years ago, and I don't know why, but I dated it, I wrote, Tokyo 2006, or something like that, and it was really weird, because then all these Japan guys, it was like four of them, and one girl, they were all like "Okay, you tattoo on me now." And I was all, "Noooooo, you don't want me to do that, dude." And they were like, "Yeah, yeah, tattoo your name." And I swear to god, I scratched this fucking thing on them—I didn't know what the fuck I was doing. So you've done tattoos! I have! I think toward the end of this tour we're gonna get you to do some more. We're all just gonna tattoo each other one night. [Laughs] I'll do something on your face. The only other question I had was: What's the next tattoo you're going to get? Well we talked a little bit about that, about my wanting to finish this shirt. And it was pointed out to me that it might be a good idea to finish my center, which I have a great start on, a Jesus that Chris Garver did. And when did he start that? He did it in probably '95, or '96. It started out as just a chest piece, but it was me, recently, looking in the mirror, like, visualizing, because I've got a chopped '50 Merc on my stomach, that Maaske did, and thinking it might be cool to kind of bring the Jesus down into that, so it becomes a chest and a stomach piece, and then that'll dictate what my ribcage does. And then my back is primarily traditional pin-ups, just like a bunch of pin-ups, and I don't only want pin-ups on the back, so I need to put the rear-end of a car on like two corners, or something like that, and then try and blend other things in there, like cars, guitars, bikes, motors, or something—so it's not only pin-up girls. You said it all right there. Cars, guitars, bikes, and motors…around ladies. Right. So one more thing. You guys have touched on it a couple of times, but were you very close with Eric? I was. I met Eric and this other kid, and they were just two little rockabilly kids down on Orange Circle one day, and they recognized me and came over and started talking to me, and Eric said he was from Reno, and I knew people in Reno, and then we started talking about old cars, and then he said he was a tattooer. And it was one of those, "Really? All right, let's go!" kind of things, and he went and did a Sick Boy on my stomach, and it was probably one of the first tats that he'd ever done. And then it was funny, because years later he went over it and made it real refined. But he was a great guy, and we were really close for many years. We collected a lot of the same stuff, we loved the same music, we loved old cars, and customizing them, and you know, I was already clean, and it was just one of those things where, for a couple of years there was some distance between us, and you know, we weren't mad at each other, but we both kind of knew that we needed to give each some distance, for whatever reasons, and we each respected that. And I didn't go to the funeral- because it was turning into a circus. It was like everyone who ever got tattooed by him wanted to go to the service. Probably because he left a good impression on them—he was a sweet guy—but I could see him very easily doing the same thing at my funeral, crumbing on everybody, being like, "I don't want to see that guy," or, "He's going? I'm not going." [Laughs] Something that I think a lot of people in the tattoo community don't know, and I'm sure you're aware of, is, you know for years there's been a giant resurgence of American traditional tattooing, and Eric, man, he was on top of that as a young tattooer, before there were even books of flash out. He hooked up with Leroy Minugh, who worked with Owen Jensen, and so he had a lineage to some of the greatest traditional American tattooing ever done, West Coast or otherwise, and he really should be viewed as a pioneer in American tattooing. And I wonder if, down the road, years after his passing, people will start to revisit Eric's importance in American tattooing. I think Eric really felt the need to explore the soul of tattooing. The old soul history of it, the tradition of it. And once again, "if you don't have roots, you don't have shit!" And what I really liked about what he was doing, when he started drawing his own flash, was taking traditional Sailor Jerry-style flash with a little more of a soul thing added to it. For a good tattoo artist, like Eric Maaske, or Mark Mahoney, or Bob Roberts, or Jack Rudy, or Joe Vegas, or Juan Puente, or those guys—it's not a fad for them. It's not a fashion thing. They really took the time to understand what tattoos meant. And these people today— when I see a guy with fresh flash tattoos, to me that's like a pretty boy, almost. I admire how uniform it is, and how colorful, and how fresh it looks on his white skin, but at the same time it's kind of like, you know, it doesn't have that edge. It seems like some of the danger is gone. I remember, punk rock used to be dangerous! Now it's cute. 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The second varsity race went mostly the same, with Yale taking a six-seat lead off of the start. The Brown second varsity pulled even through the 1000 and went on to victory. The Bears won with a time of 5:38.0, with Yale coming in at 5:43.3.
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Brown Third Varsity – 5:44.8
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Each October, the American Planning Association (APA) celebrates National Community Planning Month as a way to highlight the role of planners and planning in our community. This year's theme "Sustaining Places" celebrates how places can be sustained and how places themselves sustain life and civilizations.
City Council Proclamation: On Tuesday, October 5, 2010, a proclamation was passed during the 1st Council meeting of the month to invite and inform the community of this important celebration.
Recycling Event: On Sunday, October 3, 2010, the Planning Department celebrated National Community Planning Month with the Hispanic community during a recycling event. Around 250 people attended the event and received information related to air quality and recyling. They also signed up to receive a recycling bin provided by the City's Public Services Department.
Local Schools: Our Department visited several local schools to educate future generations on the importance of planning. One of the schools visited was Columbus State University on their Family Fun Day celebrated on October 23. Other schools were also visited such as Clubview Elementary on October 4th and Kendrick High on October 13th.
Columbus State University:
Columbus State University (CSU) hosted their second annual parents weekend "Family Day" on Saturday, October 23rd and Sunday, October 24th. Several CSU students and their families attended this event. The Planning Department helped welcome parents and gave them a brief introduction on the different projects our department is working on. We particularly focused on the Rails-to-Trails project, which passes right next to CSU's main campus. "In Touch" sign up cards were completed so that parents and students can get regular updates. Bags, giveaways and brochures were given to the attendees.
Magic of Recycling:
The Planning Department, Keep Columbus Beautiful, and the City of Columbus' Recycling and Stormwater Division partnered to present "The Magic of Recycling." This 45 minutes school assembled program was presented at various Muscogee County Public Schools, Fort Benning, Private Schools, and other organizations during the week of November 1st. The show was designed to teach children in grades K-4 about the benefits of recycling. It combined educational points with fast-paced fun. Kids learned while being entertained with comedy, magic, and surprises. The Magic of Recycling is a winner of the National Recycling Coalition's prestigious Beth Boettner Award for Outstanding Public Education Program.
National Walk To School Day:
The Planning Department also joined MidTown, Inc and the River Valley Regional Commission at their International Walk to School Day celebration held on October 6th at Hannan Elementary. Approximately 15 students met at Rosehill Baptist Church who walked to their school that day. Kids were excited about this experience and showed a lot of interest on continuing the program. The main purpose of this international celebration is to help build the community and educate children about the benefits of walking.
Libby Warren's Visit:
On November 17, 2010 we received a very special visit as part of the Youth Advisory Council Shadowing Day. Libby Warren, a 6th grade student, visited our department and came to delight us with her charm. Staff had a great time showing her the Planning Department and involving her in our daily work. We discussed a mock planning situation on a piece of property near her school. She was very impressed with our maps and mapping systems. On one aerial map, Libby quickly identified her home and several of her friends homes. She commented "that is so cool!". She said she would definitely like to come back.
In Our Community: During the month of October, several activities have been planned to celebrate National Community Planning Month. We participated on the Communities in Motion (METRA) event held on October 7th, the Boots on Broadway Event held on October 16th, the Going Green event held the same date, and Spooktacular Halloween Festival held on October 30th.
Communities In Motion:
The Planning Department was also present at the METRA's Communities in Motion Fair, which is an event designed to highlight the vital role that public transit plays in making a difference in the daily lives of citizens in our community and throughout the country. The event was held at METRA's transfer station on October 7, 2010. Riders and visitors asked questions while staff explained about the importance of planning at the local and regional levels. Free giveaways, brochures and flyers were distributed to all bus riders.
Boots On Broadway:
The military and their families were also involved in our NCPM celebration when we attended Boots on Broadway Military Heritage Celebration. This year's Boots on Broadway was held on Saturday, October 16th between the 900 and 1100 blocks of Broadway. It was a day designed to express gratitude and respect to those soldiers, both past and present, throughout the Chattahoochee Valley and around the world. The afternoon was filled with entertainment, live musical performances, tasty treats, and loads of activities. Free giveaways were provided at the Planning Department table as well as informational brochures and flyers.
Go Green Festival:
The Go Green Festival (Help the Hooch) held on Saturday, October 16, 2010 was a great platform to show Columbus residents and kids, in particular, about the importance of maintaining a healthy environment. Help the Hooch is the single largest river and creek cleanup event in Georgia and the Southeast. This year, over 6,000 volunteers from individuals, organizations, and different grade levels from Muscogee, Fort Benning and private schools work hard over the course of two days cleaning our creeks, lakes and the Chattahoochee River removing various types of debris.
Spooktacular Halloween Festival:
Approximately 3,000 children of all ages and races gathered to celebrate Halloween at the 11th Annual Spooktacular Halloween Festival held between the 1000 and 1100 blocks of Broadway on Saturday, October 30th. The Planning Department offered candies, free giveaways and lots of information intended to educate future generations. Kids showed their appreciation and happily received information about urban planning and energy conservation.
Planning is the process of envisioning, mapping or otherwise conceiving how a community will look, grow, and define itself�its characteristics, attributes, and identity. As our communities continue to change and grow, planners play an important role in ensuring that new developments are designed and built in harmony with existing surroundings. Planners must carefully balance the needs and desires of residents against the challenges presented by growth and change not just in the physical realm, but also economically and socially.
Planning also strives to give residents choices. From the type of home an individual lives in, such as a condominium, apartment, town home or single family, to how an individual gets around, whether taking mass transit, walking, bicycling or driving, planning helps ensure communities address the needs of everyone.
Residents of Columbus were invited to celebrate National Community Planning Month and participating in various events held throughout the month of October. Other communities across the nation also celebrated this important event, to find additional events or to learn more about this celebration, visit: www.planning.org/ncpm.
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Ivory Black is a cool, semi-transparent blue-black with a slight brownish undertone and average tinting strength. It mixes well with any color, and creates a range of dull greens when mixed with yellow. It has good properties for use in oil, can be slow to dry in oil form, and should never be used in underpainting or frescoing. Ivory Black is denser than Lamp Black.
Ivory Black is very lightfast and has good permanence, though it is considered the least permanent of the major black pigments.
Ivory Black has no significant hazards.
Ivory Black is a carbon based black first named as Elephantium, and described in the 4th century BCE as produced by heating ivory scraps in clay pots to reduce the ivory or bone to charcoal. The deviation in names is because the more expensive varieties of this pigment were made by burning ivory, and the less expensive ones by burning animal bone. In the 19th century, the name Ivory Black was finally permitted to be applied to Carbon Black pigments made from bone. True Ivory Black is rare in modern times due to the protection of ivory, and the synthetic variety produced today was discovered in 1929. Bone Black is produced as an industrial pigment.
Animal Black, Blue Black, Bone Black. Paris Black is an inferior grade of Ivory Black. Incorrectly labeled as Frankfort Black.
beta copper phthalocyanine
Phthalo Blue PB15:3 is a structural variant of Phthalo Blue PB15 that produces more greenish tones.
Phthalo Blues are completely lightfast and stable and are permanent for all paint uses. They are currently used in inks, coatings, and many plastics due to their stability and are considered a standard pigment in printing ink and the packaging industry.
Phthalo Blues have no significant hazards, although those made before 1982 contained some PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls).
Developed by chemists using the trade name Monastral Blue, the organic blue dyestuff now known as Phthalo Blue was presented as a pigment in November 1935 in London. Its discovery was accidental. The dark color was observed in a kettle where a dye was being made from a British dyestuff plant. The demand for such a pigment came from commercial printers who wanted a cyan to replace Prussian Blue.
Phthalo Blue Green Shade, Winsor Blue Green Shade
hydrated iron oxide
α-FeO3+(OH) or Fe2O3
Raw Sienna is a moderately dull deep earth yellow with medium tinting strength and excellent transparency. It is one of the basic permanent artists' pigments and is made from a form of limonite clay whose yellow-brown color results from ferric oxides. Raw Sienna is preferable to Yellow Ochre for creating flesh tones, due to its higher subtlety of color when mixed with white. It creates a bright Ochre when mixed with Cadmium Yellow and creates greens and grays when mixed with Ultramarine. Raw Sienna dries quickly.
Raw Sienna has good permanence.
Raw Sienna has no significant hazards.
Raw Sienna has been used as a pigment since prehistoric times, although its current name came about during the Renaissance. It comes from the city of Siena, in Italy, and is short for terra di Siena, meaning earth of Siena. Sienna was famous for the mining and production of earth pigments from the Renaissance until World War II. Due to the depletion of clay deposits in Tuscany, Italian siennas now come from other areas, including Sicily and Sardinia.
Italian Earth, Natural Brown Iron Oxide, Sienna.
earth, synthetic
iron oxides (synthetic), iron oxide, silica, alumina, lime, and magnesia or hydrated iron oxide
Fe2O2 or Fe2O3 • H2O
Red iron oxide varies in hue and transparency, depending on hydration and slight impurities. Indian Red is a slightly duller, deep brick hue with a bluish undertone. It is very dense and opaque, with excellent tinting strength and covering power. It is dependable when mixing with all other permanent pigments and yields good flesh tints when mixed with Zinc White. It is the synthetic version of PR102, which is a pigment made from earth reds, or natural red iron oxides, and the names applied to PR101 and PR102 often overlap. The synthetic red iron oxides have mostly replaced natural red iron oxides and are brighter, stronger, finer, and more permanent. Indian Red is the highest grade bluish shade. Light Red, English Red, and Venetian Red are yellowish shades. Mars Violet is a dull and subdued bluish or purplish oxide.
Red iron oxide is very lightfast with excellent permanence.
Red iron oxide has no significant hazards.
Natural red iron oxide comes from the mineral ore hematite, called bloodstone by the ancient Greeks from the word hema, meaning blood. It is one of the oldest pigments, has been used by every major civilization, and was an important mineral for medieval alchemists. It was not widely used in artists' materials until the 17th century and was not produced in large quantities until the 18th century.
Indian Red, Colcothar, English Red, Light Red, Mars Red, Mars Violet, Morelle Salt, Pompeian Red, Indian Red, Red Oxide, Sinopia, Spanish Red, Terra Rosa, Tuscan Red, Venetian Red, Venice Red.
hydrated aluminum silicate
Slate Gray is a semi-opaque, neutral gray pigment produced from powdered slate.
Slate Gray is absolutely lightfast.
Hydrated aluminum silicate is not considered toxic, however pigment from natural sources may contain impurities.
Mineral sources of Slate Gray have been used as a colorant since prehistoric times.
Powdered Slate.
iron(III)-oxide, hydrated
Fe2O3 • H2O
Yellow Ochre provides artists with earthtones from cream to brown. It has good hiding power, produces a quick drying paint, and can be safely mixed with other pigments. Its transparency varies widely from opaque shades to more transparent ones, which are valued for their use as glazes. If gypsum is present, Yellow Ochre is not suitable for frescoing. (See Brown Ochre, PY43.) PY42 is made from synthetic iron oxides. PY43 is made from natural iron oxide.
Yellow Ochre has excellent permanence because ochres are some of the most permanent pigments available.
Yellow Ochre is non-toxic unless it contains manganese.
Ochre comes from the Greek word ochros, meaning pale yellow. It was one of the first pigments to be used by human beings, and evidence of its use has been found at 300,000 year old sites in France and the former Czechoslovakia.
Chamois, Iron Yellow, Mars Orange, Mars Yellow, Minette, Ochre, Sil, Yellow Earth, Yellow Oxide. Varieties of Yellow Ochre include Brown Ochre, Flesh Ochre, Roman Ochre, Spruce Ochre, and Transparent Gold Ochre.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Following a 30-21, 30-16, 30-22 victory over Mount Ida College on Thursday, the No. 11 MIT men's volleyball team finished the regular season with an overall record of 26-5 and a NECVA New England Division ledger of 11-0. The Engineers' win surpassed the previous mark of 25 which was set during their inaugural season in 1986. For the first time in the program's history, MIT recorded three consecutive 20-win seasons and went undefeated in conference play.
In a balanced scoring attack, Ryan Dean and Scott Pollom each registered nine kills as Pollom added four blocks. Praveen Pamidimukkala and Eric Reuland both earned two aces while Pamidimukkala paced the defense with 12 digs. Philip Rogoz and Caine Jette shared setting responsibilities, dishing out 20 and 13 assists, respectively. Matthew Ng rounded out the Engineers with eight digs.
MIT will resume action next week at the NECVA Tournament that will be hosted by Nazareth College. Last year the Engineers, seeded No. 13, advanced to the semifinals after defeating No. 4 Medaille College (35-37, 30-27, 30-24, 30-27) and No. 5 SUNY New Paltz (30-24, 30-24, 30-18). Despite falling to No. 8 Eastern Mennonite University (30-17, 30-25, 31-29), Tech's 2-1 record in the tournament marked its best showing in its six trips to post-season play.


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Merry Christmas from Charlaine Harris " I really, really, don't want anyone else to ask me if I'm ready for Christmas."
I really, really, don't want anyone else to ask me if I'm ready for Christmas.
I'm never ready for Christmas, at least in the practical sense of having all my arrangements made, groceries bought, house clean, decorations up.
I'm always ready for Christmas in the sense that I'm always delighted to have my children home together under one roof, my husband off work, and the sound of my family stirring around the house.
The past few years, Christmases have been a bit unhappy, a bit jumbled. My mother's failing health meant she couldn't come to us at Christmas, and I had no siblings any longer to be with her, and we travelled up to her place. We wanted to be with her, and we were; but we also wanted to be at home. Now we will be at our own house, but we will miss her. Not a day goes by without my thinking of her, and that's as it should be.
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A show-stopping play and a catchy saying add up to some head-turning shirt sales -- just ask Ray Rice.
Stores report selling hundreds of shirts with Rice's new catchphrase, "Hey diddle diddle, Ray Rice up the middle" -- and the shirts have only been available for several hours.
"Ray Rice has a lot of pull in this town," joked John Conigliaro, who owns Great Moments, a shop selling the shirts.
In Sunday's game against the San Diego Chargers, Rice scored one of the most memorable plays in years. With the Ravens down by three points and facing a fourth-and-29 at their own 37-yard line, less than two minutes left in the game, Rice got the ball and proceeded to plow the needed yardage -- and then some.
In a press conference after the game Rice summed it up as: "Hey diddle diddle, Rice up the middle."
People latched immediately onto the saying and Monday Rice posted on Facebook that people were already hounding him for shirts with his saying. Later that day he said he had one created to benefit his foundation.
"All proceeds to benefit my foundation!" Rice wrote. "This will be the only design approved by me!!"
Perhaps it's no surprise that the shirts are selling almost as fast as Rice ran on Sunday. Thousands of people reacted to news that Rice would be offering them.
"Awesome!" wrote Connie Caudle Morris. "Your 29 yard run on 4th down was the best football play I have ever seen!! Can't wait to get one of these t-shirts!!"
The shirts are initially for sale at Great Moments stores and website. Owner John Conigliaro estimated Tuesday that he'd sold close to 700 in less than 24 hours -- more brisk than anything else he's selling.
He's grabbing one for himself, smitten as anyone with that jaw-dropping play.
"It was incredible, it was unbelievable," he said. "That kind of thing happens not once every 10 years."
A show-stopping play and a catchy saying add up to some head-turning shirt sales -- just ask Ray Rice.


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Tivi Ilisituk
Canadian, b. 1933
Mother and Child, c. 1956
23.9 x 23.2 x 19.1 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; The Swinton Collection; Gift of the Women's Committee
Sculpture has been created in the small Nunavik (Arctic Quebec) community of Salluit since the early 1950s. However, in the period 1952 to 1957, there was an outpouring of high-quality work by both men and women, as encouraged by the Hudson's Bay Company manager at that time. Tivi Ilisituk was one of the most talented carvers to emerge from this period, and he continued to carve in later years. Unlike most of the early Salluit sculptures, those by Tivi Ilisituk are dynamic in form. Heads and bodies turn dramatically, creating a circular movement around the works. Folds in the clothing are accentuated and continue the swinging rhythms. In this sculpture, the monumental form of the mother's body and parka create an idealized image of strength and protection.
Gallery Hours
- Tuesday 11am-5pm
- Wednesday 11am-5pm
- Thursday 11am-5pm
- Friday 11am-9pm
- Saturday 11am-5pm
- Sunday 11am-5pm
- Closed Monday


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- The function of this office is to review all operations of the City government with the intent to streamline operations and cut costs where needed.
- Agency History
- In 1992, Mayor Edward G. Rendell set up the Office of Management and Productivity. Mayor Rendell also established a private-public partnership, known as the Mayor's Private Sector Task Force on Management and Productivity, to assist this office with its tasks.
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For the many NBA players and coaches who have participated in the league's outreach programs through the years, there's a familiar feel to many of their global stops. The players are recognizable to the locals, exotic in some ways, but mostly they're simply famous. There's little to distinguish the oohs and aahs a Kevin Durant might hear from those triggered by a Kardashian.
Except, it seems, in the Philippines.
"When we bring players or legends or coaches over to the Philippines, we often prep them that they're not going to get 'What did you eat for breakfast?' questions," said Scott Levy, senior vice president and managing director of NBA Asia. "They're going to get 'Why did you take out LeBron James in the third quarter with an eight-point lead when momentum was shifting against your team?' It's incredibly detailed, incredibly knowledgeable, and people there follow the entire league."
The rabid interest in basketball and the NBA in particular spilled over earlier this week with the news that the Houston Rockets and Indiana Pacers will play a preseason game Oct. 10 at the SM Mall of Asia Arena in Manila. Announced by commissioner David Stern on the arena's Jumbotron, the event will be one of eight October games staged in six different countries, none with a more intense NBA following than this nation of 92 million in the western Pacific Ocean.
The Rockets-Pacers visit will be the first sanctioned NBA game in the Philippines since 1979, when the Washington Bullets traveled there to face a team of national All-Stars. But the Philippines Basketball Association predated that event by several years and the sport, Levy said, has roots there dating to the late 19th Century.
The NBA's popularity rivals that of native boxing champion Manny Pacquiao. More Facebook "likes "and Twitter "follows" of the league and its participants come from the Philippines than from any other nation outside the U.S. Thirty games are available on free and cable TV each week there, with League Pass and an NBA.com Web site specific to that country both available. Billboards and buses tout the game.
"You really get a feel for it when you go into the country," said Levy, who has worked with the NBA's international division since 1996 and been based in Hong Kong since 2009. "I mean, there's a basketball hoop in every corner, everywhere throughout the country. And often those hoops are made of plywood and wire rims.
"There are some great photos of kids playing during the floods and they're waist-deep in water. They're playing in flip-flops, they're playing on dirt courts. There's no community that I've seen — and I've traveled extensively around the country — that doesn't have a court. And I've never seen a court unused."
Through its Basketball Without Borders program and other outreach efforts, the NBA is familiar with the sort of poverty and deprivation that make attendance at one of its games — including the upcoming one — strictly a dream for many Filipinos. The league hadn't returned to stage a game in 34 years because, until the MOA Arena opened in May, the facilities were inadequate.
But Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, who is half-Filipino (his mother is frpom San Pablo, Laguna), has traveled to his homeland in each of the past four offseasons. Last summer, he brough the Larry O'Brien trophy with him, celebrating Miami's championship with the fans, many of whom now are fans of the Heat.
"It staggers our players how popular the NBA is here, 10,000 miles away," Spoelstra said during his 2012 visit.
And last week, of the October exhibition, the Heat coach said: "It's awesome. The country will probably celebrate every single month until that game. The two teams that will be going there I think will have a great experience because the fans are incredible."
Numerous NBA players past and present have visited the country and, Levy said, been stunned by the reception. Among them: Brook Lopez, Gary Payton, Chris Webber, Mitch Richmond, Robert Horry, Glen Rice, Dominique Wilkins and Luc Longley. "They all have the same reaction," Levy said. "They never understood the awareness. They come over and expect they'll be known, but they never anticipated how well they'd be known, how they'd be recognized on the street, how long the lines would be to get an autograph or take a photo."
The best-known NBA export to play in the PBA probably was Billy Ray Bates, a 6-foot-4 guard best remembered for his three seasons with the Portland Trail Blazers in the early 1980s. "He's an incredible hero there," Levy said. "There are guys like Donnell Harvey, guys who had a cup of coffee in the NBA and are there now. They [allow] imports in the PBA, so there are guys who played in the D League."
As far as players there coming to play in the NBA? No one yet. But Japeth Aguilar, a 6-foot-9 forward, attracted the attention of some NBA scouts and got a training camp invite for the Santa Cruz Warriors. And even without getting into the basketball analytics of Filipino basketball, Levy said the math looks favorable.
"With the number of people who play the game in the country," he said, "in a country of nearly 100 million people, you would think there would be some talent coming out of there that would be NBA-ready."


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I've been using Mozilla Thunderbird for the last two years because, frankly, I got fed up with my inability to get Poco's anti-spam system to work.
Now I've seen the light and decided I'd like to return to Poco. Some issues I don't know how to handle:
1. I'd like to remove the 2-year-old mailbox structure and emails still in my Pocomail install.
2. I'd like to import and use the current email and mailbox structure I have in TB.
Anyone suggest how I can do that with less than 2 weeks of hard labor?
No, I doubt it would really take me that long, but I don't really know.
Is there a way to archive or store my present pocomail email so that I can get to it if I wish -- then replace my pocomail setup with the structure I have currently in TB?
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With all the new fine dining options in Vegas, what's a starving student (or resident or visitor) to do?
Though it may be true that buffets are no longer as dominant in Vegas as they once were, there are plenty of options that will stave off hunger and even leave some change for the slot machines.
Pink's Hot Dogs
The original Pink's Hot Dogs opened in 1939 in Los Angeles, and so the pink-and-white striped fence is right at home at the Planet Hollywood Hotel on Las Vegas Blvd.
Fine dining it is not (though some might argue that the variety of unique toppings makes it so), but the price and location are right. Most hot dogs are between $3 and $6, and include creative concotions like the guacomole dog, bacon chili cheese dog, a Three Dog Night (hot dogs wrapped in tortillas, with cheese, bacon and onions), and the popular "Planet Hollywood" Dog -- a polish with grilled onions, mushrooms, bacon and cheese.
Pink's is open until midnight on weekdays, and 2 am on weekends.
Feast Buffet at Green Valley Ranch
So this is a buffet, but Vegas wouldn't be Vegas without them. Green Valley Ranch Resort's Feast Buffet in Henderson was recently voted "Best Brunch" buffet in Las Vegas by readers of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and the buffet offers more than just brunch.
Residents and visitors alike enjoy the six cooking stations that serve Italian, American, Mongolian, Chinese and other international foods. Prices differ depending on whether you have a Station Casino "boarding pass" from the resort. Breakfast with the pass is just $5, and without, it's $8. Brunch, lunch and dinner range in cost for non-pass users from $10 to $17.
The buffet is open from 8am to 10pm.
Bougainvillea Café
This diner in the unfortunately named Terrible's Casino offers unfancy food at unfancy prices. Customers enjoy the $10 prime rib, the $5 country fried steak and eggs, and the breakfast deals served all day. Bougainvillea is open 24 hours, and so attracts truckers, late-night partiers, and early morning travelers.
The buffet at Terrible's casino gets lousy reviews, but the Bougainvillea Café in the mezzanine level gets high marks for its deals and service.
And last but not least, and a complete secret...
Pizza at the Cosmopolitan
We couldn't find a name for this counter at the new, hip Cosmopolitan Hotel, but perhaps there is no need. Maybe "pizza" is the only name necessary. They don't advertise, so you'll need to ask around once you're in the hotel.
The counter serves up slices of freshly made pizza (and we mean fresh -- the dough, the sausage, even the cheese is grated fresh daily). The price is right, too. A slice of plain costs just $3.00, with $0.50 for each topping, making it possibly the best cheapest food on the Strip, and certainly at the Cosmopolitan.
If you want to work at any of these places or open your own restaurant, learn more about culinary arts schools in Las Vegas.
Searching for restaurants in other cities? Check out our "Cheap Eats" guides in Chicago, New York, Denver, Atlanta, Boston, Orange County, Seattle, and San Francisco.


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The President is the chief executive officer of the College. Offices reporting directly to the President include the Vice President of Academic Affairs and Student Learning, the Vice President of Business Services, the Vice President of Student Development, the Community Development/Institutional Advancement Specialist and the Institutional Researcher. The President also shares responsibility in overseeing the Oxnard College Foundation with the Foundation's Board.
The Oxnard College President is Dr. Cynthia Azari and her Executive Assistant is Karla Banks. The President's Office is located on the second floor of the Administration Building. The phone number is (805) 678-5809.


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Upgrade Your Stroller With the Best Accessories For Spring
It's almost time (we think, we hope!) to shed a few layers; put away those buntings, mittens, and gloves; and start thinking Spring. Since warmer weather is likely to mean a lot more time spent strolling outside with your little ones, it's also time to upgrade your baby's ride with the latest and greatest accessories. Here's our guide to enhancing your stroller — just in time for the sunny days ahead.
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U.S. banks and other financial firms won a three-month delay for as much as half of the interest-rate swap market to meet a federal requirement to trade on platforms designed to increase competition and transparency.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced in a letter released yesterday that trades consisting of multiple components won't need to be transacted on swap-execution facilities, or SEFs, until May 15. The agency said it hadn't ruled out further extending the new deadline in the Dodd-Frank Act requirement originally set to start Feb. 15.
The delay, which estimates have shown will affect between a quarter and half of of the interest-rate swaps market, "allows us more time to figure out what to do," with the packaged trades, Mark Wetjen, acting chairman of the CFTC, said at a meeting in Washington. "It certainly doesn't foreclose additional action," he said, adding that "we have some flexibility with that date."
The delay comes days before the start of a government mandate to require many types of interest-rate and credit-default trades to occur on the facilities. The 2010 Dodd-Frank overhaul of U.S. financial regulation sought to have most swaps traded on SEFs or other exchanges to increase price competition and transparency in the market after credit-default swaps helped fuel the 2008 credit crisis.
Banks, trading platforms, and asset managers have told the CFTC that the industry lacks the infrastructure necessary to have packaged trades occur by this week on the new platforms. The industry is not yet able to assess the risk of the packages as one unit, Sunil Hirani, chief executive officer of trueEX LLC trading platform, said in an email.
'Much-Needed Relief'
"There is some additional infrastructure that needs to be built out," Hirani said. "This no-action allows for that much-needed relief."
Platforms owned by Tradeweb Markets LLC, ICAP Plc, MarketAxess Holdings Inc., trueEX LLC, GFI Group Inc., and Bloomberg LP, parent of Bloomberg News, have temporarily registered with the CFTC. The SEFs facilitate transactions among banks and also between banks and asset managers or other clients.
The Managed Funds Association, a lobbying group for hedge funds, estimated in November that packaged trades represented a quarter of interest-rate transactions on platforms last year. The CFTC's economist office estimated that packaged transactions comprise 50 percent of the notional volume of the interest-rates market, according to a Jan. 16 statement by Scott O'Malia, a Republican commissioner.
"It's a sizable chunk of this market that's getting a three-month delay," Marcus Stanley, policy director of Americans for Financial Reform, a group including the AFL-CIO labor federation, said in a telephone interview. "There is this pattern that whenever you approach a deadline there is a special exception or delay and you push it back further."


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EnglishCentral was a recent sponsor of the JALT (Japanese Association of Language Teachers) 2011 CALL conference.
Charles Browne in this video lecture highlights how students learn words and gain "word knowledge" – not just remembering but also knowing about the context in which words appear, the spelling, the sounding and many other things. He offers lots of ideas, EnglishCentral among them, for helping students to power up their vocabulary.


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Netpulse Is Giving It Away
Surfing the Internet can ward off boredom for people working out on cardio equipment. But if you thought you couldn't wire your cardio machines to the web, this is your lucky day. If you can ensure that 15 to 20 people will use each Internet station daily, Netpulse will deliver and install its Netpulse Z-Series free of charge.
Yes, you read it right. Free of charge.
Sound too good to be true? It's not. Netpulse recently announced that it is switching to an advertising-supported business model to grow the company fast and leverage the multiple revenue streams it has already established from advertising, content sponsorships, e-commerce and subscription fees. "The thing that has limited our rate of penetration is that you have to wait around for clubs' budget cycles," states Thomas Proulx, Netpulse's CEO. "By eliminating that entirely, it's going to boost the rate that we are able to blanket the clubs."
Since 1997, Netpulse has been selling its touch-screen, Internet-access devices, which replace the control panel on exercise bikes, steppers and elliptical motion machines for around $2,500. With this offer, Netpulse plans to take a commanding lead in the market by growing its network by more than 10,000 free Netpulse Z-Series stations this year alone, with the potential to add 5 to 10 million more new consumers to its network footprint.
Consumers spend billions of minutes on exercise machines each year," emphasizes Proulx. "Our portal provides entertainment, information, motivation and multitasking to help make workout time more fun and productive. It also gives sponsors a powerful tool to reach an upscale and captive audience."
While this is a very effective means of advertising, it is also a very expensive one since it is a highly specified captive audience. When users get on a machine with a Netpulse station attached, they log on into a personal account that, based on answers to a demographic survey, delivers highly targeted advertising to the screen while keeping track of workout sessions. Users can surf the web, read e-mail, listen to music, watch television, shop, measure workout results and even earn frequent flier miles while exercising.
More than half of our advertisers have nothing to do with fitness and health," notes Proulx. "They care about the fact that they have an upscale audience."
Some of the advertisers that have run successful ad campaigns, according to Netpulse, are Toyota, Proctor & Gamble, General Motors, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, iVillage, Web MD, Hyatt and more. "Netpulse provides Toyota with a unique opportunity to target and effectively impact a young, upscale, active-minded and difficult-to-reach audience," comments Jon Bucci, national manager of Interactive Communications at Toyota. "We are very pleased that our results so far have well exceeded our performance benchmarks."
Netpulse plans to invest $100 million over the next three years by providing the devices and wiring clubs with broad-band Internet connections. But don't feel left out if you recently bought Netpulse stations. Netpulse has promised to reimburse clients who have paid for Netpulse stations in the past year.
In the future, this is going to be something that all of the clubs have," states Proulx. "This will be a minimum ante for being in the fitness industry, just as having a web site is a must for being a credible business today.
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This piece by Z. Byron Wolf, who was in the backstage with Ron Paul for his appearance on "The View," is quite compelling and incredible.
Here's an excerpt from ABC News:
Told that a "View" co-host would ask him about China, Paul said, "China? Did something happen overnight in China? I would have guessed they would ask about Iran and the intelligence report," he said.
Paul has long been a critic of the Bush administration's foreign policy. At that moment the president was giving a news conference at which, despite evidence that Iran has abandoned its nuclear weapons program, he would not rule out a military strike against the Islamic country.
Paul considered China and what "The View" women could be preparing to ask him. Something about the dollar and how its weakening? His support for trade relationships? His aversion to economic sanctions? Lead in toys?


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Below Normal Temps Provide Few Days for Fieldwork
SIOUX FALLS - Below normal temperatures have limited the ability for snow to melt and kept soil temperatures at or below freezing across South Dakota.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says in its weekly crop report that farmers and ranchers had 1.7 days suitable for fieldwork. Activities included applying fertilizer to wheat, alfalfa and pastures.
Winter wheat conditions were rated 20 percent very poor, 56 percent poor, 22 percent fair, 2 percent good and 0 percent excellent.
Calving was 39 percent, while lambing was 64 percent complete. Two percent of cattle have been reported as moved to pasture.
Cattle and calf conditions were rated 4 percent poor, 26 percent fair, 64 percent good and 6 percent excellent.
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