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Blood For The Baron!!!
It's been twenty-five years since that battle-cry first leapt from the pages of Battle Picture Weekly and it still makes me smile. Twenty-five years since my friend Roger Wade and I used to combine our Action Force collections and let battle commence. We used to choose our surviving figures and then lay the rest to waste. In the midst of this miniature carnage Roger's dad used to burst into the room and cry "Blood for the Baron!!! Blood for the Baron!!!" and the run out again. A quarter of a century on, and it feels like yesterday to me. I still feel the thrill when I read the comic adventures, I still get excited wieh I receive a parcel, I still beam with pride when I line my figures up on parade. Sure, I'm a grumpy miserable bugger a lot of the time with plenty of vices and bad habits, but my love for these toys has not aged, they still bring me as much joy as they ever did as a child.
It was 2003 when I found Action Force Online AKA http://www.actionforce.org and the Action Force collecting community. I had stumbled across an earlier incarnation of the Space Force site two years previously, at the sma time that I discovered http://www.ebay.com and the treasures within. I remember my first auction very clearly, it was a Space Force Cosmic Cruiser - the only Action Force vehicle that I hadn't been able to find as a child! I remember plaguing the old lady selling the toy with questions about the aeriels and it was in my hunt for a reference picture that I found Steve Bacon. Steve was the owner and creater of Action Force Online and was more than happy to help me in my Cosmic Cruiser quest. I won the auction and over the following months found all of the missing Action Force figures and Battle Action Force comics from my childhood collection too!
So when, in 2003, I joined the online community, I did so wanting to give something back. As soon as I saw the request for help with the comic archive I leapt at the chance. I think I started at the beginning and did not stop until the work was completed three months later! I recall how heartening the encouragement and support I received from the forum members was at the time. Another aspet to my thinking was a strong desire to help the then-struggling 2000AD comic. The ties between Battle and 2000AD are deep-rooted and so I hoped that if I could bring a generation of American fans over to English comics that 2000AD would be able to continue. Luckily, http://www.rebellion.co.uk rescued 2000AD before I had the chance, but I would have done it! And so I had the makings of my website. All I needed was a name. The answer was obvious:
And then, in February 2006, it all fell apart. The Action Force Online forum was hacked and the entire site was taken offline. To my eternal relief the GI Joe community stepped up. Thanks to the forums at http://www.yojoe.com, http://www.devilsdue.net, http://www.gijoe.nl, http://www.smelcer.net, http://www.adctalk.com, http://www.rocuniverse.com, http://www.joecustoms.com, http://www.joesightings.com and at http://www.joebattlelines.com we were able to keep our bereft community together. Eventually I offered to take the reins from Steve and BFTB inherited the Action Force Online toy archive and forum.
Over it's six-year history BFTB has mutated into a monster. The site has grown from a simple comic archive to include a complete toy archive, a vibrant, friendly forum and an impressive array of custom-made figures and vehicles. We have the International Colouring Project and we have the Touring Muton... What used to be a handful of visitors each month is now two thousand strong, and that number is steadily rising. The site has gone from strength to strength and I can hardly wait to see how it develops over the next six years!
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Steve Bacon, Mark Bedingfield, Moose Harris, Imbie, Martin McCanney, Jamar MIller, Clemens Scholl, Chad Smelcer and Dave Tree for helping to make the whole thing possible. I would also like to thank the friends I have made at the forum and to once again show my appreciation to our extended family in the GI Joe communities worldwide. Last of all, I would like to send my best to Roger Wade in Iraq.
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The UMUC Information and Library Services Newsletter
Fall 2011 • Volume 11, Issue 3
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From Stephen Miller
Associate Provost, Information and Library Services
On behalf of everyone in the UMUC Library, I extend best wishes to all new and returning UMUC students, faculty, and staff as the fall 2011 semester gets underway.
I am pleased to announce the implementation of the UMUC Library OneSearch service, which allows for cross searching of most of the Library databases. In our annual user satisfaction surveys, respondents frequently mention the desire for a more comprehensive and easier to use search interface. Academic libraries have begun recently implementing newly-developed "discovery tools" that pull together information from the library research databases to create a unified search experience. Read more about UMUC OneSearch.
Please be sure to read the rest of the newsletter for information on updates to the library's electronic resources, staff publications, and more.
I want to remind everyone that UMUC librarians are available for research assistance through a variety of formats including e-mail and live chat and in-person and telephone assistance during regular business hours at our Largo location. Instant messaging and texting services (standard charges to your phone may apply) are also available during selected hours from the Ask a Librarian page.
Faculty: Please take full advantage of the Library's liaison program and course-related library instruction.
Comments and suggestions are encouraged.
Good luck with the fall semester!
UMUC Library OneSearch Is Here!
Information and Library Services is pleased to announce the launching of UMUC Library OneSearch. This service, made available in conjunction with EBSCO Publishing, allows users to find scholarly articles, books, and/or other research resources via a single search engine. With UMUC Library OneSearch users can simultaneously search most of the databases to which the UMUC Library subscribes, either directly or as additional resources. Because UMUC Library OneSearch is built on the popular EBSCO platform, the search interface will be easily recognizable and popular EBSCO features such as searching limiters, signing in to access personal folders, the ability to save searches and set up alerts are all included in UMUC Library OneSearch.
While the majority of databases the UMUC Library makes available are included in this service, some databases are not currently available due to contractual limitations between individual vendors and EBSCO. These databases must be searched individually. See What databases are included? for details.
For more in-depth, subject-specific research you will still need to search each relevant UMUC library research database individually in order to be more comprehensive in your searching. The Subject Guides provide listings of relevant databases for specific subject areas. Please contact Ask a Librarian for further assistance with any academic research need. Do not hesitate to let us know what you think about UMUC Library OneSearch!
Electronic Resources News
The UMUC Library makes a continued effort to ensure that our patrons have the best research resources possible at their disposal. There have been additions and updates to what we make available since our last newsletter:
- Factiva, a great resource for current news and business topics, has a number of interface enhancements, including a new Simple Search bar, an improved Search Builder for keyword and business searches, and easier to view search results.
- Oxford Scholarship Online, our new resource, which includes e-book titles in history and psychology, has enhanced functionality, including personalization features and user-oriented linking, improved search and browse, and access to even more high quality scholarship.
- RefWorks, the Library's citation management tool, will have a new interface called RefWorks 2.0 this fall. RefWorks 2.0 will offer increased functionality over the current RefWorks interface–RefWorks Classic. You can take a look at the RefWorks 2.0 interface now by clicking on the "RefWorks 2.0" link in the upper-right hand corner when you are logged in to RefWorks Classic. Enhancements available in RefWorks 2.0 include a simpler interface with key functions via new buttons, navigation toolbars, action icons, light boxes, and collapsible menus with one-click features and support resources. A guide to using RefWorks 2.0 will be available soon on the UMUC Library's RefWorks page.
UMUC Library Staff Publications
- I Came, I Saw, I Researched: Students Reflect on Library Life in Six-Word Memoirs
Reference and Instruction Librarian Robert Miller published the article "I Came, I Saw, I Researched: Students Reflect on Library Life in Six-Word Memoirs" in the June 2011 issue of College & Research Libraries News. The article describes an extra-credit exercise Mr. Miller included in LIBS 150, the required undergraduate library skills course at UMUC. In this exercise, students reflect on their library research experiences in six-word "memoirs" that they posted in a discussion thread in the online classroom.
- Electronic Reserves Services in Distance Education Environment
Electronic Services Librarian Yu-Hsiu Wang's article "Electronic Reserves Services in Distance Education Environment" was published in Proceedings of the 4th 21st Century Librarian Seminar US - China Library Forum: Information Services in a Networked Environment.. The Seminar was organized by the Yunnan Library Commission of Higher Education. One hundred and eighty four selected papers were collected in the conference proceedings, including submissions by library professionals from various provinces in China, as well as six team members of librarians from the US and Canada.
UMUC Library to Offer Fall Online Faculty Workshop
Information and Library Services, in conjunction with Faculty Development, will once again offer the popular workshop, Beyond Library Basics: Choosing, Using, but Not Abusing Information Resources (CTLA607). This workshop, facilitated by Reference and Instruction Librarian Neal Pomea, aims to strengthen faculty's own research and help them more effectively design assignments that incorporate information literacy objectives. Topics covered in the workshop include the following:
- Determining and using authoritative resources for conducting initial background research
- Determining and using the library's subject guides and course guides as beginning places for research
- Locating and critically selecting library research databases and appropriate Web resources for specific information needs
- Differentiating among scholarly, professional, trade, and popular resources, and using each type effectively for research
- Critically evaluating information resources
- Complying with legal and ethical standards for copyright protection and academic integrity when retrieving information, making information available to others, or otherwise using information in an academic setting
- Managing references found during research and citing quotes, paraphrases, and summaries according to the most frequently used formats at UMUC, e.g., APA, MLA, and Chicago.
Beyond Library Basics (CTLA607) will run from October 17 through October 28 and will be an asynchronous workshop conducted through Web Tycho. For enrollment information, please see Faculty Development.
For Your Information...
An appointment may be made to meet with a UMUC librarian for research assistance. Appointments are available in a variety of formats, including in-person at the Academic Center in Largo during business hours, as well as by phone, e-mail, and via Web conferencing. Please use the request an appointment form to schedule a time for research assistance.
Need to find us? Please visit Locations and Hours for more information.
Faculty Corner
Library Liaisons
The UMUC Library provides library liaison services to UMUC faculty. We welcome the opportunity to work closely with faculty to provide tailored library services to individual classes, whether it be visiting your online or face-to-face class, assisting in adding information literacy components to specific course assignments or projects, or providing handouts or online resources customized to your discipline or current course topic. Please keep the liaison librarians in mind when you have library related questions, need extra help with research, or need instruction on how to use our resources.
- Julie Arnold Lietzau
GSMT: Information and Technology Systems, Teacher Education
- Clare Miller
GSMT: Management, Accounting, and Finance
- Ryan Shepard
GSMT: Cybersecurity
- Cynthia Thomes
GSMT: Business and Executive Programs
- Rocco DeBonis
SUS: Center for Student Success (CFSS)
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SUS: Department of Communication, Arts, and Humanities (COMM)
- Robert Miller
SUS: Department of Social, Behavioral, Natural, and Mathematical Sciences (SCIP)
- Ed O'Donnell
SUS: Department of Business and Professional Programs (BAPP)
- Ryan Shepard
SUS: Cybersecurity, Department of Computer Information Systems and Technology (CITE)
As the Fall 2011 semester begins, UMUC librarians look forward to working with you and your classes, either via Web Tycho or on-site, in the provision of library resources instruction. The transferable skill building and concept understanding that librarians offer in these sessions provide both a deeper comprehension and comfort level for your students in locating, evaluating, and using information relevant to their studies. This preparation and reinforcement will hold your students in good stead as they deal with the vast amount of available information during their academic careers and as productive employees and citizens. Please complete the Faculty Request for Library Instruction form to schedule one or more sessions for your classes.
Questions? Comments? Need more information? Please contact Barb Mann, Assistant Director for Public Services, or Information and Library Services.
We look forward to working with you!
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Does a bachelor's or master's degree in emergency management sound like something you want to pursue? Learn what it is like to embark on a career in this exciting and worthwhile field by taking a look at these Web sites specially selected by UMUC Librarians.
The Environmental Protection Agency: Emergency Management
EPA programs help ensure that facilities and organizations take steps to prevent oil spills, chemical accidents, and other emergencies, implement planning and preparedness requirements, and respond to environmental emergencies.
FEMA: The Federal Emergency Management Agency
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Its mission is to support United States citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.
The International Association of Emergency Managers
The International Association of Emergency Managers, which has more than 5,000 members worldwide, is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to promoting the "Principles of Emergency Management" and representing those professionals whose goals are saving lives and protecting property and the environment during emergencies and disasters.
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The National Emergency Management Association (NEMA) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit association dedicated to enhancing public safety by improving the nation's ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from all emergencies, disasters, and threats to our nation's security. NEMA is the professional association of and for emergency management directors from all 50 states, eight U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia. NEMA provides national leadership and expertise in comprehensive emergency management; serves as a vital emergency management information and assistance resource; and advances continuous improvement in emergency management through strategic partnerships, innovative programs, and collaborative policy positions.

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Chinese tycoon treats NYC homeless to fancy lunch
A Chinese tycoon served up a fancy lunch Wednesday to hundreds of homeless New Yorkers at a Central Park restaurant.
NEW YORK — A Chinese tycoon served up a fancy lunch Wednesday to hundreds of homeless New Yorkers at a Central Park restaurant.
Recycling magnate Chen Guangbiao selected a menu of sesame-seed-encrusted tuna, beef filet and berries with crème fraiche at The Loeb Boathouse restaurant for the residents of a Manhattan shelter. He also plans to regale his 250 guests by singing "We are the World" and promised to donate $300 per attendee to charity.
Chen is partnering on the event with the New York City Rescue Mission, the oldest shelter in the nation.
About three dozen volunteer waiters sported green uniforms similar to those once worn by soldiers in China's People's Liberation Army, bearing the words "Serve the People." They were dishing up food to a mostly male group of attendees.
"I'm looking forward to a good time and a good meal," said Antone Hills, a Mission resident who was a guest. "I think he's a good guy and he's helping our country."
Chen says he wants to disprove the cliche image of rich Chinese spending money mostly on luxuries.
"I was not born into a rich family or a family of government officials. When I was 4 years old my brother and sister died of hunger, so I achieved my success through confidence, self-motivation and my hard work," Chen said in Chinese in an interview on "CBS This Morning."
He then launched into an a cappella rendition of "We are the World."
His worth is estimated $750 million.
"Our thought was if someone wants to treat them to an amazing event — something they would never experience on their own, maybe even a kernel of hope that life could be different again, we're in for that reason. That's our motive," said the mission's executive director, Craig Mayes.
But Chen's American ambitions surpass philanthropy.
Earlier this year, the 46-year-old businessman wanted to buy The New York Times. Times chairman Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., said the newspaper was not for sale.
To announce the lunch, Chen placed ads in the Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Saying he wanted to invite 1,000 "poor and destitute Americans" his photo was printed next to an image of Lei Feng, a soldier in Mao Zedong's People's Liberation Army who is characterized as selfless. The caption read "China's Lei Feng for a new era." Some of the waiters' outfits on Wednesday were replicas of Lei's uniform.
Chen has been deemed eccentric from his theatrical antics.
To protest air pollution in Beijing, he stood on a street corner handing out containers marked "Fresh Air." Chen also rushed to the scene of a massive earthquake in Sichuan and handed out cash to victims. On Tuesday in New York City, he was on the street handing out $100 bills to anyone who looked like they needed money. His English language business card reads: "MOST CHARASMATIC PHILANTHROPIST OF CHINA."


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Solange Knowles Covers Lucky Magazine + Talks Elevator Fight [PHOTO]by Thomas Chau | PopCrush
Solange Knowles will appear on the cover of the August issue of Lucky Magazine and needless to say, she was asked about the now infamous elevator fight with Jay Z.
According to Us Weekly, Knowles didn't offer much in the way of new information regarding the fight, and quickly changed the subject during the interview.
"What's important is that my family and I are all good," she said (quotes via Us Weekly). "What we had to say collectively was in the statement that we put out, and we all feel at peace with that."
The statement Knowles references was collectively released by Jay Z, Beyonce and Solange's representatives on May 15 and called the fight an "unfortunate incident."
"As a result of the public release of the elevator security footage from Monday, May 5th, there has been a great deal of speculation about what triggered the unfortunate incident," the statement read. "But the most important thing is that our family has worked through it."
The statement continued: "Jay and Solange each assume their share of responsibility for what has occurred. They both acknowledge their role in this private matter that has played out in the public. They both have apologized to each other and we have moved forward as a united family."
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FLASHBACK - WACO - Who Shot First?
Contrary to the image of a dangerous gun nut put out in the media in an effort to justify the burning of the church, official BATF records prove that David Koresch was rather harmless, so much so that the BATF agents invited him to go shooting with them just 9 days before they raided the church. Koresch supplied the ammunition. The BATF agents allowed Koresch to try out their weapons.
The US Government justifies interventions in countries like Syria with the claim "They are murdering innocent people." Yet the US Government does not have a blemish-free history, having tried to stage a publicity-seeking raid then when that turned into a PR disaster, gassing a church full of innocent women and children to death with a poison gas that is illegal to use on enemy troops, then tried to cover it up by claiming mass suicide, then bulldozing the remains and burying the remains in a secret location. Thus, the US Government lacks the moral right to point fingers at anyone.


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Ioun is the god of knowledge, skill, and prophecy. Sages, seers, and tacticians revere her, as do all who live by their knowledge and mental power. Corellon is the patron of arcane magic, but Ioun is the patron of its study. Libraries and wizard academies are built in her name.
Her commands are also teachings:
- Seek the perfection of your mind by bringing reason, perception, and emotion into balance with one another.
- Accumulate, preserve, and distribute knowledge in all forms. Pursue education, build libraries, and seek out lost and ancient lore.
- Be watchful at all times for the followers of Vecna, who seek to control knowledge and keep secrets. Oppose their schemes, unmask their secrets, and blind them with the light of truth and reason.


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Two Score Hat Tricks as Harvard Holds of Holy Cross
Harvard Knocks off No. 12 Princeton
Jennifer VanderMeulen of the Harvard women's lacrosse team earned her first Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week honors of 2011 after leading Harvard to two wins last weekend, including an upset win over No. 12 Princeton that helped the Crimson secure a bid in the Ivy League Tournament.
The sophomore scored seven goals and assisted on three others to help the Crimson in wins over Holy Cross and the Tigers last week. VanderMeulen scored three goals and two assists in a 10-6 win over Holy Cross Wednesday and put in four goals and an assist against the Tigers. She scooped up two ground balls, won a draw and caused a turnover in the win over the Tigers. She leads the Crimson with 35 goals and 39 points. She extended her scoring streak to 26 games.
VanderMeulen was also named to the weekly honor roll for SynapseSports.com
The Crimson upset an opponent ranked in the top-25 for the third year and a row. Harvard's win over Princeton secured a spot in the Ivy League tournament and gave the Crimson at least four conference wins for the first time since 1993.
Harvard travels to Boston University Wednesday for its final non-conference game of the season before hosting Columbia on Senior Day Saturday.


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The UN Security Council was set yesterday to acknowledge but not formally recognize Iraq's interim government, as a message attributed to ousted dictator Saddam Hussein called on Iraqi Shiites to wage holy war against the US-led occupation.
The US promised to produce proof of Iraq's efforts to develop banned nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, while gunmen claiming links to al-Qaeda left calling cards at the scene of a deadly shootout with US troops.
Security Council members were scheduled to vote on a US resolution that acknowledges but does not formally recognize Iraq's interim administration, diplomats said Wednesday.
The original US draft put to the other four permanent members of the council for consultation had proposed saying that UN members "endorse" the Governing Council of Iraq set up by the US and Britain.
But some diplomats said this gave too much legitimacy to the Baghdad administration. According to a copy of a new draft, the Security Council will only say that it "welcomes" the new administration.
John Negroponte, the US ambassador to the UN, accepted the change and requested a vote, the sources said.
"To say `endorse' would not have been passed," said one senior representative from a Security Council member country.
Iraq has been at the center of more than a year of battles at the UN with Britain siding with the US in deciding that Saddam was a major threat, while the other permanent members -- China, France and Russia -- said military action was not necessary.
Part of the dispute centered around the threat posed by Saddam, with Washington and London insisting his pursuit of banned weapons required immediate action.
In Washington, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said investigators were steadily uncovering evidence that the former Iraqi leader did indeed have weapons of mass destruction and that it would be released to convince a skeptical world.
Powell said David Kay, the CIA official overseeing the search for Iraqi arms, would produce solid evidence proving President George W. Bush and other US officials "knew what we were talking about" when they accused Saddam of possessing banned weapons.
"David Kay, who is in charge of the research effort, has reported to us recently that more and more information is coming forward as he is able to read all the documents that he's captured and as he is able to interview people who were involved in these programs," Powell said.
"And as he assembles this information and is in a position to present it, I think the people of the world will see that the United States and other nations who felt as we did knew what we were talking about."
Meanwhile, Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television aired the tape attributed to Saddam calling on Iraq's top Shiite Muslim religious authority, to "proclaim jihad so that all the Iraqi people are united against the occupation."
It also praised a top Shiite leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani.
Sistani is viewed by US officials as a crucial force for moderation in postwar Iraq. But he has voiced unease at the occupation and opposed plans for a US-backed interim Governing Council to draw up a new constitution for Iraq.
"Sayyed Sistani has our respect," the message read, using the title for a descendant of the prophet Mohammad.
In Baghdad, calling cards touting a link to al-Qaeda were found at the scene of a deadly shootout with US troops, as an Iraqi boy was killed in the first clash between US forces and Shiite Muslims in the capital.


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Is It Possible To Lose Facial Fat With Lifting Exercises?
Many people have chubby cheeks and fat faces. Even though some of them are fairly thin, their faces are relatively fat. Lots of people are very conscious about their faces and their only aim is to lose fat from face. The only question is how to lose weight in your face?
Facial Exercises
The only way people can lose their face fat is by doing exercises, especially for face. These facial exercises are known for lifting face. These exercises would help you to lift your face, make you look younger, and can also burn fat from face. The question is here is – do facial exercises really help in losing face fat. Well, the answer would probably be a big 'no'. You cannot lose face fat by doing only those exercises, which will target only face. It is like you cannot lose stomach fat by doing only those exercises that target only the stomach.
This does not mean that you are not supposed to do facial exercise. Exercise will help you look better since they increase the muscle tone in the face and make your face appear toned and firm. With this, your face starts looking less fat and chubby. Facial exercise will help your face to get a new appearance.
Full-Body Exercises Are a Must Even to Lose Facial Fat
Facial exercises will also help you look more lively and young. To lose face fat, it is not only important to do facial exercise, but you also have to start full body workouts and a good diet will help your face to get toned.
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- Italian Grand Prix - GP2
Maldonado claims GP2 title
- Race:
- Italian GP2 round 2010
- Championship:
- FIA Formula One World Championship
- Drivers:
- Sam Bird
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- Max Chilton
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- Pastor Maldonado
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- Oliver Turvey
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- Christian Vietoris
- Teams:
- ART Grand Prix
Pastor Maldonado is the 2010 GP2 champion despite his second consecutive retirement as title rival Sergio Perez failed to take the win and fastest lap he needed in order to take the title fight to the final round in Abu Dhabi this November.
"It is an historic moment. Not for many years have we [Venezuela] had a representative in Formula One, but there is a boom of interest now," said Maldonado. "The project of our government to support sport is a success. They have invested six years in me to get to formula one and I am ready for the challenge."
Christian Vietoris also had cause to celebrate after securing his maiden victory in GP2, winning race two from Jerome d'Ambrosio and yesterday's race winner Sam Bird. Bird pressed d'Ambrosio hard for second, while Vietoris was able to leadcruise home after taking the third row of the grid after a fantastic start.
Maldonado's race ended up drifting across the gravel trap and into the barriers after swerving to avoid an incident started by Giedo van derGarde who ran wide at Parabolica. But it will matter little to the Venezuelan, who was still left celebrating at the end of the race after securing the title with one round remaining.
Pole sitter Max Chilton finished fifth after managing to stave off the pressure from fellow Brit Oliver Turvey who finished sixth.


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Jeronim (Chernov) of Detroit
His Eminence, the Most Reverend Jeronim (Chernov) was an archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and the ruling bishop of the Diocese of Detroit (now part of the Diocese of Chicago and Mid-America) from 1946 to 1957.
Ioann (John) Chernov was born in 1878 in the Vladimir district of Russia, into a family of clergy. After attending the local church schools, Ioann attended the seminary in Vladimir from 1895 to 1899. After graduating from the seminary, he taught religion in his home district from 1899 to 1902.
In 1902, Ioann was ordained a priest. After serving in a number of different parishes, Fr. Iaonn entered the Moscow Theological Academy where he studied from 1909 to 1913. In 1914, after graduating from the academy, Fr. Ioann, having taken monastic vows and the name Jeronim, entered the Kursk Monastery of the Sign and joined the Kursk Seminary where he taught Sacred History. In 1915, he was appointed inspector at the seminary, a position he held until the Kursk Seminary was closed by the Bolsheviks in 1919.
He was also appointed abbot of the monastery in which was kept the Holy Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God (Kursk-Korennaya Icon). Archim. Jeronim was also secretary to Bishop Theophan (Gavrilov) of Kursk.
In 1919, the Bolsheviks were actively attacking the Orthodox clergy and destroying church facilities as they came to dominate the country. As the White Army retreated from Kursk, Bp. Theophan, with Archim. Jeronim, took the Holy Kursk Root Icon for safekeeping and left Kursk in September 1919. They traveled through southern Russia, Constantinople, and Thessalonkia to Yugoslavia, arriving there in March 1920. In Yugoslavia, Archim. Jeronim served a number of communities and directed the monastic school at Rakovche.
In 1923, Archim. Jeronim moved to Palestine to administer the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem until 1924, but remained in Palestine until 1933. In 1935, Archim. Jeronim was consecrated to the episcopate. In 1936, during a period of co-operation between the Russian Diocese of North America and Canada and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, Bp. Jeronim was named Bishop of Eastern Canada a position he held until 1937. He returned to ROCOR after the two groups separated following the Seventh All-American Sobor of 1946 in Cleveland, Ohio.
After the sober, Bp. Jeronim was elevated to archbishop and appointed, by the ROCOR Synod of Bishops, the ruling hierarch of the Diocese of Detroit and Flint. Abp. Jeronim reposed on May 14, 1957 in Detroit, Michigan, after which his diocese of four parishes was merged with the Diocese of Chicago and Cleveland.
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Harold Bloom, America's Greatest Living Literary Scholar™, wrote an essay for the New York Times over the weekend titled "Will This Election Be the Mormon Breakthrough?" The title doesn't seem terribly ominous, Bloom has famously written a book on American religion, and he's known for having a fascination with Mormons. What could go wrong? Well, in this case, just about everything. This kind of essay isn't typical GetReligion fodder, but I think it merits discussion in that I can scarcely believe the Times published it. I am going to venture that they did so only because Bloom is seen as an influential figure, and because I fear that Bloom is so influential, other journalists and commentators will take their cues about Mormonism and politics from this piece.
As it is, it's not so much an essay as a series of unsupported and derisive generalizations strung together by a filament of purple prose. To wit, we're only in the second paragraph before we hit this brick wall at 60 miles an hour:
Mr. Romney, earnest and staid, who is deep within the labyrinthine Mormon hierarchy, is directly descended from an early follower of the founding prophet Joseph Smith, whose highly original revelation was as much a departure from historical Christianity as Islam was and is. But then, so in fact are most manifestations of what is now called religion in the United States, including the Southern Baptist Convention, the Assemblies of God Pentecostalists and even our mainline Protestant denominations.
Bloom's hardly the first person to make the Mormonism-is-like-Islam comparison. But that's a pretty loaded comparison to toss out there without fleshing it out some. And to say, "most manifestations of what is now called religion in the United States" are as radical departures from historical Christianity as Islam without in any way explaining it? You could try and make sense of this, or you could just accept, like the editors at the Times apparently have, that you are reading Harold Freaking Bloom and as such, you are lucky he deigns to deposit his Solomonic nacre at your porcine trough. Moving on:
The current head of the Mormon Church, Thomas S. Monson, known to his followers as "prophet, seer and revelator," is indistinguishable from the secular plutocratic oligarchs who exercise power in our supposed democracy.
The Salt Lake City empire of corporate greed has little enough in common with the visions of Joseph Smith. The oligarchs of Salt Lake City, who sponsor Mr. Romney, betray what ought to have been their own religious heritage.
Is the Mormon church run by "plutocratic oligarchs" consumed with "corporate greed"? This is profoundly unfair, and he's not going to provide any facts or arguments suggesting that it is. But hey, this Occupy Wall Street thing is hot right now, so why not riff on that for a bit? Sounds relevant. And I think we all know the recent proletarian unpleasantness really cries out for more commentary from ivy-league professors:
Joseph Smith continues to be regarded by many Mormons as a final authority on issues of belief, though so much of his legacy, including plural marriage, had to be compromised in the grand bargain by which the moguls of Salt Lake City became plutocrats defining the Republican party. The hierarchy's vast economic power is founded upon the tithing of the faithful, who yield 10 percent of their income to the church. I am moved by the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations but remain skeptical that you can achieve a lessening of money's influence upon our politics, since money is politics. That dark insight has animated the Mormon hierarchy all through the later 20th and early 21st century. The patriotism of Mormons for some time now has been legendary: they help stock the C.I.A., the F.B.I., the military. Though the powers of the presidency are at this moment somewhat diminished by the Republican House and the atavistic Supreme Court, they remain latent. A Mormon presidency is not quite the same as an ostensibly Catholic or Protestant one, since the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints insists on a religious sanction for its moralistic platitudes.
So aside from Mormonism's supposedly corrupting wealth, at least they're patriotic right? Wrong! Mormon cosmology suggests this is actually a sinister, corrupting patriotism or something:
The 19th-century Mormon theologian Orson Pratt, who was close both to Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, stated a principle the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has never repudiated: "Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God."
Mormons earn godhead though their own efforts, hoping to join the plurality of gods, even as they insist they are not polytheists. No Mormon need fall into the fundamentalist denial of evolution, because the Mormon God is not a creator. Imaginatively liberating as this may be, its political implications are troublesome. The Mormon patriarch, secure in his marriage and large family, is promised by his faith a final ascension to godhead, with a planet all his own separate from the earth and nation where he now dwells. From the perspective of the White House, how would the nation and the world appear to President Romney? How would he represent the other 98 percent of his citizens?
Now one of the Mormon church's 13 articles or faith is: "We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law." Further, if Bloom begins the essay by asserting Mormonism and American Christian religions are the result of radical evolution, why does he insist that the church still reflects the political attitudes of single statement by one Mormon leader from over a century ago offered wholly without context? Even if Orson Pratt's statement did definitively speak for the church at the time, he died in 1881. The church renounced polygamy and Utah became a state in 1896. To suggest that Mormons are somehow suspicious of the democratic process or that the church's relationship with American politics is stuck in the 19th century is pretty slipshod and obvious sophistry.
As for the time Bloom spends on Mormon cosmology (and there's a lot more in the essay than I am excerpting), I'm just kind of gobsmacked. Bloom is basically insinuating that Mormons teach taking care of each other and are biding time until they all get their own planet, so in a political context they might exhibit little desire to look out for their fellow, non-Mormon citizens. This is insulting. As for the actual details of Mormon cosmology, planets and all of that -- it is tricky stuff. One would hope that it would be treated with more care, but Bloom seems to be wielding it cavalierly to paint Mormons as The Other.
But take heart, Latter-Day Saints! In the final paragraph, he does offer you a backhanded compliment at the expense of unfair swipe at another religion:
Mormonism's best inheritance from Joseph Smith was his passion for education, hardly evident in the anti-intellectual and semi-literate Southern Baptist Convention. I wonder though which is more dangerous, a knowledge-hungry religious zealotry or a proudly stupid one? Either way we are condemned to remain a plutocracy and oligarchy. I can be forgiven for dreading a further strengthening of theocracy in that powerful brew.
Ah yes, we need to end on a high note, so hit 'em with the bit about slouching toward the inevitable American theocracy. The faculty lounge in the Yale comparative literature department is in complete agreement that one more election under the banners of flag, cross, fetus, exclusive marriage between men and women and Americans and we'll be trying on the yoke of a Tea Party Charlemagne.
I think I'm still only scratching the surface here, but as a matter of journalistic practice I would hope that even essays and opinion pieces be far less redolent of obvious biases and dubious interpretations of the facts. Because Bloom wrote a book about American religion almost two decades ago, I do not think that makes him qualified for all time to weigh in on these matters. But I worry that the biases might, in fact, be the point. One New Republic writer has already praised the piece as "bluntest warning against electing a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints that I have seen this season." (If that's the case, I look forward to the New Republic's inevitable hand wringing about how Harry Reid is marching us to theocracy any day now.)
Bloom is entitled to vent his spleen. But giving him a prestigious journalistic platform to tar-and-feather an entire religion when he can't tell where his political opinions end and someone else's faith begins does a disservice to the political dialogue.


text: Jay Brown: 28 Machine Builders Part II of IV By Jay Brown As a machine builder these are some of the things I look for in a machine. And I am not saying that this is it, the gospel, this is just the way I look at it. So the other day I thought to myself, "Man, this would make a great article." As I started listing candidates for the article I found that the list got long really fast. Thus, I decided that I would stop at 28, because it's as good of a number as any, and it was enough for a broad spectrum of builders. So here it is, 28 tattoo great machine builders... (If I missed anyone don't be offended, it's nothing personal, I just had to think of space. Maybe there'll be additions in a future article?) So without further ado here they are, starting with historical builders, because they were the pioneers and should be recognized first, (plus I'm a history buff) and then moving to present day. Again this is not a Top 10 list, just a list of great builders, hope you enjoy… PART II on expanded page... Ernie Carafa I was taught machine-building by Paul Rogers in the mid 1960s. In the mid 70s I put out three machines under the name, Guideline Tattoo Supply. One was a pre-fab comprised of three parts, the other two were my Coleman frame and my Waters frame which were both cast. In the late 80s I went in with Paul on another Waters frame which we had cast. I still have some of those left. In 2010 I had sideplates cut for the Coleman and now fabricate it, also I put out another fabricated frame, which is a copy of another old Coleman. You can get in touch with Ernie at www.tattoocity.com email: email@example.com Todd Evans I built my first machine during my apprentiship. It was a "Jonesy," I still have it. Apprenticed on "Court Street" in Jacksonville, NC starting in 1976. I apprenticed for Ted Lee Lucas, he was taught by the Shaws… We made everything by hand…. Running your mouth about the business would and did get people killed and fist-fighting, knife-fights and gunfights were the norm…. I have had the privledge to work for some of the most influencial people in the industry. Without some of these people and many more not mentioned, a lot of you would not be here… It was not common then, and being tattooed was NOT socialy acceptable. Hell, neither were Harleys… I make about 20-30 machines a year, and my favorite machine I was involved in building was with Lyle Tuttle. We used my frame and the patented square coils. That machine is in Mike Skyvers museum on lease. I have machines in several museums and one of my first 10 funky looking C and C machines is in the tattoo archives from what I hear… Some are running and tattooing hard at 4-volts with the proper coil configuration. (At perfect "Ikon sell to anyone" specs for those who can't feel and hear them.) It was a pleasure to be with Lyle, and being one of the last two men to tattoo at #30 on 7th Street in San Francisco. I was in the museum during the 1989 earthquake that closed the shop. That job was problably the icing on my career. I had complete access to the museum, day and night and slept literaly on top of it in the upstairs apartment at the shop. All those machines to handle and study, but that was mostly what I was there for. I have the original patent on square coils, and enlarged head-square coils, and only make a few sets of them a year. I'm only tattooing Saturday and Sunday now, at Sacred Art in Tucson, Arizona: 520-622-7050. See more on my Facebook page. I have sold all my shops and am mostly concentrating on hard-rock mining and writing books that are not about tattooing. I have about 1,000 cores and maybe 50 frames left and that may be it. Except for this new machine design (coil powered) that has really been haunting me... John Black I started tattooing in 1976, well let's back up for a sec... I've been around it pretty much all my life. I got to do my first tattoo in '76, I was raised in an Underground State... So the information we got was guarded and passed down. It wasn't like it is today. But the making of needles and machines was some of the things we were pushed to know and understand, I started building machines off of Modified Supreme frames in the 80s... Making cut-backs. We hardly ever put a price on them we gave them to friends. Machine building was just another part of the job. I get asked about people that have influenced me. I can't name all the old greats because they were already gone. So my basic knowledge or people I gained information from was Leon Miller and Paul Rogers. I never got to spend as much time with these men as I would of liked to. When I was taken to meet Paul as a young man I never realized how fortunate I was until it was much too late. I was able to go to Jacksonville, FL only a few times. I wish now I hadn't of been so young, or at least old enough in tattooing to value the experience. I built with Wild Bill from Maine for a short while, we did some really nice projects. Then in '98 I just quit... I thought there was too many of us doing it, so I focused more on tattooing and the running of shops and building hot-rods. Fast forward to 2005, I was in a shop and the discussion of tuning machines came up with an apprentice. The next day I brought in a toolbox full of machine stuff and dialed in everybody's working line up. The next week the apprentice bought me a raw frame for my birthday and said build a machine with me. Well, I had forgotten how much fun it was. We were doing 3-piece frames the next week, In teaching him I found my love for it again and realized I missed it. I met Doug Leese a few years ago and he lit the fire under my ass. We have been doing all sorts of cool stuff... he got me back out there and has been like a brother to me. And as I get closer to retirement age I enjoy it more, I'm doing my own frame we call a Flashback because it is a blend of three of the timeless classics. But my love affair is with 3-piece pre-fabs, built in a Rogers' style, with an improved version of the "tube crusher," that don't crush tubes. I wake up and build for a few hours, then open the shop and tattoo all day. Then get back in the machine shed 'til the wee hours. I do this seven days a week... Sick or well. It's a passion, if I do have a day when I'm not working on machines I feel like something is missing.... Contact John Black at his e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com, www.firehorsetattoosupply.com or at the shop 843-569-0315. Mike Pike I think that it is agreed amongst the craft of tattooing that Mike Pike is one hell of a machine builder. I have personally used Mike's machines and use it as a daily runner, at the time of this article Mike was too busy to get me bio info and whatnot, cause he was up to his eyeballs in machines. Mike Pike machines are definitely ones that stand the test of time, with excellent geometry, which makes for one smooth running machine. Mike Pike has been a name in the crafts machine circle for quite some time, but the machines speak for themselves. Mike collaborate with many machine builders and is recently best known for his "Teacup," as well as the return of the long shader. You can get in touch with mike at his shop Psycho City Tattoos, he's been there since 1992. To get him thru the Internet try, www.outlawirons.com or his Facebook page. Mike Godfrey Mike Godfrey is another builder who makes some great machines. Mike currently tattoos in Oregon with Jeff Gogue. He learned to tattoo from J.R. Grove, Mike Pike's father. He was a student of Mike Pikes when it came to machine building, and collaborates with Mike regularly, as well as being involved with Outlaw Irons.Mike influences are Amund Dietzel, Paul Rogers, Clay Decker, Dan Dringenberg, Seth Cifferi, and Marv Learning Mike's machines have more lines and movement in them, which is something I have always liked. Mikes machine designs are unique and you tell they are his, they have a distinctive style. You can get in contact with Mike at Gogue Art Grants Pass, OR 541-474-3904 or www.authenticarttattoo.com and www.outlawirons.com. Scott Sterling I have been tattooing for 29 years and have been building or rebuilding machines since I began. I started tattooing in San Francisco with Lyle Tuttle then went to L.A. to work with Cliff Raven at Sunset Strip Tattoo. I met Kevin Brady there and left to work with him in Indiana, but we were closed down shortly afterwards by the State of Indiana because we were not doctors. Then I worked for Sailor Moses in Mississippi for about five years, which afforded me the opportunity to go over to Florida and visit Paul Rogers several times. I left Moses to work with Mike Malone at China Sea where I started making machines on a more consistent basis in that Malone made the liners and I made the shaders. While in Hawaii I worked with Kandi Everett at Black Cat Tattoo, Lance McClean of Dragon Tattoo and I also worked at South Pacific Tattoo. People who have influenced me the most in Machine Building are Lyle Tuttle, Paul Rogers, Henry Goldfield and Mike Malone. The two machines I sent pictures of have been used by me more than any machines in my career. The liner I have used almost exclusively for over 20 years and I have not had to turn a screw on it except to replace a contact point after 19 years. The shader I have sued for 16 years. This machine has been even more reliable than the liner. Contact Scott at, firstname.lastname@example.com. Scott's machines are also available on the TAM Pro Store. Seth Cifferi In 1993 I began tattooing and started messing with my machines shortly thereafter. One thing led to another, and soon I was building and tuning machines for my friends, co-workers and peers. Focusing on the technical aspects of tattooing naturally led me to a thorough exploration of its mechanics. Early in my career, I was fortunate to meet some greatly influential artists and builders, who helped shape my overall approach to tattooing and machine building. Aaron Cain, Clay Decker, Danny Dringenberg, Mike Malone (RIP), Chris "Pee Wee" Levi, Matt Rinks, BJ Johnson, Brady Duncan, and my brother Adam Ciferri were among my earliest influences and continue to be among those I look to for inspiration, on many levels. Tattooing has taken me from my hometown of Baltimore, Maryland, quite literally, across the world and back, to my current home of Portland, Oregon where I continue to build machines, and tattoo on a part-time basis. Contact Seth at the follow websites: www.workhorseirons.com www.sethciferri.com www.rosecitysteel.com [Editor's note: The list complied by Jay Brown will be broken up into four separate blog installments.] (Jay Brown is a tattoo artist, a machine builder and a contributing blogger for TAM. Jay can be found at A Fine Art Tattoo www.gypsy-tattooer.com and Tattoo Machines by "Peg Leg McGee" www.gypsy-tattooer.com/coinshop.) Related Tam Blog Post: Jay Brown: 28 Machine Builders Part I of IV


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My last Early Buzz, super-sized as I go out in a BLAZE OF GLORY!
Jeff Smith of BONE fame does a special Pop Candy guest logo!
I talk to Jim Carl of the Carolina Theatre of Durham about his amazing collection of classic movie ads!
Shout! Factory DVD Producer Brian Blum talks how they put their DVD sets together and make special features!
Simpsons Writer David Mirkin talks Co-Creating GET A LIFE with Chris Elliott and More!
Super-Sized Post with Patton Oswalt, Jodi Picoult, Brad Meltzer, Kate DiCamillo and more recommending children's books for new mother Whitney Matheson!
And finally, my goodbye with more shilling for my comic THE STARS BELOW!


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SAN DIEGO - Trade Service Corp. has announced a partnership to integrate TRA-SER PRO, its 1.5-million item electronic price book, with Dexter+Chaney's Forefront Construction Management Software program.
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LITTLE NECK, N.Y.- A new study from the Leviton Institute, the educational and training arm of Leviton Manufacturing, has found that a high percentage of ground fault circuit interrupters (GFCIs) installed in homes didn't work when they were tested, and might not protect people from an electrical ground fault.
A ground-fault can occur when current leaks from an electrical circuit, for example, through damaged wiring or a defective appliance. GFCIs are designed to detect ground faults and shut down the circuit if they occur. The GFCI Circuit Breaker Field Study, sponsored by The Leviton Institute, reviewed data from 13,380 building inspections and found that on average, 15% of GFCIs were inoperative when tested. The study found a much higher incidence of failure in areas where lightning is prevalent. In those regions, as many as 58.2% of GFCIs were found to be inoperative.
"GFCIs don't last forever," said Steve Campolo, lead investigator in the study. "Voltage surges from lightning, utility switching and other sources all take their toll on the devices. That's why Underwriters Laboratories requires that GFCIs be tested monthly." The results from the study additionally suggest that many homeowners either aren't testing the devices or are ignoring the results.
Traditional GFCI designs may compound the problem. For example, most GFCIs will continue to deliver power even if ground-fault protection has been compromised. "It's natural for users to assume that all is well if the GFCI is still delivering power," Campolo said. New "lockout-action" GFCI receptacles now coming on the market offer greater protection. If the GFCI is tripped, it can't be reset unless it's working properly.
The study used data collected by home inspectors who met membership requirements of the American Society of Home Inspectors. The Leviton Institute is the educational arm of The Leviton Manufacturing Co., Little Neck, N.Y. Its mission is to educate consumers, specifiers and others about the benefits of today's electrical wiring devices and systems and to promote the safe use of electrical devices in the home. Leviton Manufacturing Co. offers a wide variety of industrial, commercial and residential wiring products and offers its distributor customers a full range of training, education, marketing, merchandising and other customer-driven support programs. Equipped with the latest in R&D and design and testing facilities, Leviton continually introduces high-quality devices that set the pace of progress in the industry.
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Serling: The Rise and Twilight of TV's Last Angry Man
"Serling's complex life was very like an extended episode of The Twilight Zone, and Gordon F. Sander uniquely captures all the twists and ironies of a talented man struggling against the conventions of society and the insecurities of self. Sander's haunting portrait is of a writer indeed caught between light and shadow."—from the Foreword by Ron Simon
Gordon F. Sander's acclaimed biography of Rod Serling is at once a portrait of a prodigiously talented writer and a history of the first-quarter century of television. A former paratrooper in World War II, Serling rose to fame in the 1950s with his hard-hitting plays Patterns and Requiem for a Heavyweight during the "golden age" of live television in New York City. In 1959, excited by the prospect of writing and producing his own dramatic anthology show, the angry young man of television followed his fortune—and the burgeoning video medium—to Hollywood.
Serling's anthology show, of course, was the landmark The Twilight Zone. Still considered one of the greatest television shows ever produced, Serling's surreal video showcase ran for five seasons, adding to Serling's record clutch of Emmys, and continues to be a cult favorite today. Meanwhile Serling also tried his hand at writing for movies, turning out the screenplays for Seven Days in May and Planet of the Apes before his death in 1975 at age fifty.
Sander's historical biography—for which he interviewed more than two hundred of Serling's friends, family members, and colleagues, including Robert Redford, Sydney Pollack, Kim Hunter, and William Shatner—follows the video bard's odyssey from Binghamton, the small upstate city that served as the template for some of the best-remembered episodes of The Twilight Zone to his searing and equally influential wartime experiences in the South Pacific; from his apprenticeship as a Midwestern radio and television writer to his successes in New York and Hollywood, before he himself was consumed by the commercialism of the medium he had helped create.
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I know I haven't been posting about cupcakes lately, but this is somewhat cupcake related...the Ceran family of Eagle Mountain is raising 40,000 to adopt 3 orphans from Ukraine, AND...
on February 12th, at 10 am at Rockwell Charter High School in Eagle Mountain, there will be a giant indoor yard sale with a bake sale! Come buy some cupcakes and support the Cerans.
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If you live in the SLC area, you can also get photos of your own children to support the Cerans. Click here for more details!


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What's Rick Santorum's best chance at the presidential nomination? Having the process drag on until the Republican Party's national convention in Tampa, Fla., in August.
Even Mr. Santorum acknowledges that it's nearly impossible for him to amass enough delegates on his own to get the nomination. He just hopes to be able to keep Mitt Romney from hitting that number – 1,144 – as well.
"If the other people stay in the race, it's going to be hard for anyone to get to that magic number," Mr. Santorum said on CBS's "This Morning" on Monday. "We believe we get to the convention, the convention will nominate a conservative. The convention will not nominate an establishment moderate from Massachusetts."
If he (along with Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul) can perform just well enough to keep Mitt Romney from sewing up the nomination, Santorum suggests, then the party establishment could vote to go with him.
How likely is that?
The short answer: not very.
Despite the fact that the media and political pundits have been salivating about the idea of a brokered convention for several months, it remains a highly unlikely scenario.
At this point, Mr. Romney has – barely – a majority of the nominees in play. According to the Associated Press count (which includes the preferences of superdelegates who can support whomever they choose), Romney currently has 521 delegates, Santorum has 253, Mr. Gingrich has 136, and Mr. Paul has 50. That puts Romney at about 54 percent of the current total.
Many of the upcoming state contests – especially the few that are at least in part winner-take-all states like New Jersey and California – seem to favor Romney.
Gingrich's momentum also seems to have stalled, and Santorum alone – especially given the relatively small portion of delegates he currently has – seems unlikely to be able to keep Romney from getting to the magic number.
While Santorum at one time seemed to have a chance at taking Illinois on Tuesday, that possibility now seems distant, as Romney has moved well ahead in polls there. And Romney would likely need to lose in Illinois and other key states for a brokered convention to become a reality.
In a blog Monday, New York Times polling expert Nate Silver posted his predictions for Illinois – and why it makes any hope of Santorum blocking Romney's nomination unlikely:
"Say that Mr. Romney wins the 16th Congressional District, which includes some areas on the far outskirts of the Chicago metro area, but Mr. Romney holds the other four," Mr. Silver wrote. "That would make the delegate count for the night Romney 40, Santorum 14, and put Mr. Romney ahead by almost 300 delegates – 561 to 267 – in the national total.
"That isn't a close race, nor is it one that it is likely to require a brokered convention to resolve. If that is the count after Illinois votes, Mr. Romney would require only 46 percent of the remaining delegates to clinch a majority (he was won about 55 percent so far), and only 39 percent to clinch a plurality."
Brokered conventions are predicted fairly often, but seldom come to pass.
The last one was in 1952, when Democrats chose Adlai Stevenson as their candidate on the third ballot. In 1976, the GOP nominating process did go all the way to the convention – President Ford had a lead going into the convention but hadn't yet secured the nomination – but Ford managed to get the support he needed to win the nomination on the first ballot.
The New York Times reported over the weekend that the GOP is girding for the possibility of a brokered convention this year. It quoted Robert Duncan, a former Republican national chairman who presides over the council that hears disputes over delegates, as saying that "It's more likely than anything since '76."
But Mr. Duncan also said he doesn't really believe that it will happen, because momentum "is going to certainly push Romney – or somebody else – to the forefront."
On Sunday, the head of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, denied The New York Times report, telling CBS's "Face the Nation" that "we're not making plans for a brokered convention."
If Santorum pulls a major upset and wins Illinois on Tuesday, expect talk of a brokered convention to increase.
But otherwise, it's likely that Santorum and others who don't want Romney will keep talking about it, but that Romney will eventually reach 1,144 – even though it may take him until June to get there.


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|July 21st, 2015, 04:16 PM
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Rug window blind
This project started with an east-facing window in my recording studio that, because we are pretty far north (Washington State, US), gets a significant blast of morning sun around 4am in summer. I have nice accordion blinds in the windows but the light that comes through, though diffuse, is still strong enough to wake you right up, and this room doubles as a guest room. Nothing messes up a recording session more than working with a musician who was awakened at 4am.
So I had an idea to hang a rug in front of the window that could be easily taken on and off, and this Dokhtori Qazi was the perfect size. Not only that, but this wall already has a couple of nice old Baluchi-group prayer rugs already hanging on either side of the window, and the little chanteh face over the window, so I liked the look, too.
I pitched this idea to Rich Larkin, and he wisely counseled me that it would be extremely bad form to end up light-fading the back of a fine rug with the light that came through the accordion blind, so the first step was to get a piece of opaque black cotton fabric the size of the rug and a hem stitched on all sides (this is lighter than regular canvas, but still pretty heavy). My wife is skilled in the ways of needle and thread, and she did hemming duties as well as stitching the velcro on this rug for hanging...
I made three wooden hooks and glued the loop part of the velcro to a slat of trim. The hooks have to curl around like a question mark, I discovered, because otherwise they hold the rug out too far from the window and the apparatus too easily falls off.
A wood screw goes through the slat-with-velcro, through the black fabric and into the hooks.
...and then the rug is attached to the velcro...The whole thing pops right off the window and is easily rolled up in a few seconds.
|July 21st, 2015, 05:14 PM
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Blind, but good-looking...
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|July 22nd, 2015, 02:33 AM
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Hi Paul,
Neat idea! I have a candidate for that treatment. Only thing is, I would have to add something to the top of the window. My window trim would never hold any kind of hook. But that should be manageable.
And I still love that rug ;-).
|July 22nd, 2015, 03:51 AM
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Hi Paul,
Excellent! I take no credit, but the whole business looks great. No doubt, the D-i-Q PR establishes an atmosphere in the studio conducive to superb performances.
|July 22nd, 2015, 05:49 PM
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Actually, Rich, I am intrigued with the sonic dampening effect here. The accordion blind that fits inside the window already had a significant effect--there are three windows in the room and if all the blinds are up it is significantly brighter in both light and sound. I often manipulate these blinds, depending on what sort of recording I'm doing. I didn't expect this rug apparatus to change things much (there are already two large main carpets and three other Baluchi-group prayer rugs on the walls, two rugs on the floor, and others draped on furniture and musical instruments), but the resulting surface is significantly more absorbent to my ears--the accordion blind, and the canvas, and the rug seem to have a cumulative effect. I have a singer coming in this weekend, and I am going to record in front of this, instead of my usual spots, because it really seems to cancel out any reflections, which ought to make a clearer vocal. Let's do science!
|July 22nd, 2015, 06:34 PM
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Whatever the effect on the acoustics, that Baluch line-up can't fail to heighten the inspiration of your vocalist.
|July 22nd, 2015, 10:46 PM
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Very clever of you! As a cabinetmaker, I appreciate simple devices that do the job intended. And I agree with Joel that those three are good for the eyes and they couldn't fit your window better. I will probabably manage to find a way to fit a couple of windows easily before winter.
|July 26th, 2015, 11:33 PM
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Great idea!
Just what the Doktor ordered!
Will your guest be singing the Balues?
Patrick Weiler
|July 28th, 2015, 07:46 PM
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Well, the trial recordings with the blind have come and gone. To be honest, it doesn't sound any different on the recordings. There was already enough textile sound absorption going on in that room, I suppose, but it looks cool and that matters. And musicians were not awakened at 4am, so everyone had a much better time. And, yeah, ba-lues were sung, as a matter of fact... More surmey than sky blue...
Of course, now that I've proven the utility of covering windows with rug blinds, I can make the case to my patient wife that we need to substantially expand the collection to cover all these windows (I just pitched this theory and the response was laughter, so I guess that means that she is giddy with delight, right?).
|August 12th, 2015, 09:29 PM
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Rug Blind #2
I finished my second rug blind today, for an odd little mat (Ersari? Chaudor?). This one was simpler, lacking the velcro. So the rug and black fabric backing are held together and nailed with T-pins (heads nipped off) to the wooden strip.
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"It's been on the drawing board since day one," SeeClickFix creator Ben Berkowitz told the New Haven Register.
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Berkowitz and two others created SeeClickFix in 2007 in New Haven to bring attention to graffiti on Berkowitz's neighbor's building.
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