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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
So you think you want to be a photojournalist?
I have been shooting for a few years now, both as a hobby and as a free-lance food photographer, but I have never had any formal training in photography and it would be a great opportunity to have a professional critique and evaluate my photos. It would also give me some incentives to go out and shoot more. Ever since moving to Singapore, my photographic subjects had dwindled down to food and my dogs only. Don't get me wrong, I love shooting food, and the income that comes with it, but I miss the days when I would just grab my camera and go out and shoot anything that captures my attention. I blame it on the hot and humid weather in Singapore, but I also know that's not the only reason. In short, I needed to be inspired, and what better way than to spend five days with an award winning photographer from National Geographic?
That photographer turned out to be Michael Yamashita. He is every amateur photographer's dream come true, for he, just like you and me, is entirely self-taught, and managed to turn his passion for photography and travel into a successful career. Singapore is actually where it all started, where he did a photo campaign for Singapore Airline in the 1970's. That portfolio led to his first assignment with National Geographic, and the rest, like they say, is history.
Day 1
During the workshop, we were asked to choose a subject and shoot it over the course of several days, until we're satisfied with what we have. I first chose the Botanic Garden because I know the place well and it's easy for me to go back everyday to shoot. After one afternoon of shooting, however, I decided that the subject is too similar to what I've always been doing, namely, landscape and detailed shots of flowers and leaves. I wanted to take this opportunity to push myself, to do something entirely different, but the question is what?
Day 2
We met in Chinatown Complex at 7am to shoot the market scene. I tagged along Michael and got some pointers. He said in a busy market place, a corner stall is always a good place to position yourself, because it's open on two sides, and you get a better view of what's going on. So I chose a fish stall on a corner where the fishmonger is a friendly woman with a pleasant face. I waited, and watched her chopping up fish after fish after fish. Finally, she's done and was ready to hand over the fish to the customer. I clicked away until I got the shot I wanted: transaction at a fish stall. This process is what Michael calls setting up a scene and waiting for the right moment to happen.
Michael says you should always place the person in his/her own environment, so it's important here to show lots of fish in the foreground and also some background of the fish stall.
Later I also took this photo of a man showing me his live fish.
A very important lesson I learned on that day is that you need to have patience and be ready with your camera when the right "moment" occurs. People will be nervous and shy away when they see you with a big camera pointed to their face, but if you just stayed and watched, they'll eventually get used to your presence and go back to doing their own stuff. After a while, they'll forget that you're even there. That's when you can catch them at their most natural and relaxed state.
I changed my subject from the Botanic Gardens to Orchard Rd, so that I can have more opportunities to shoot people. I went to Emerald Hill off Orchard Rd in the afternoon to shoot some shop houses and caught two old men reading newspapers in front of a store and two students walking by. Nothing too spectacular, but I didn't run away when one of the old men started eyeing me suspiciously and instead stayed and kept on clicking.
Day 3
Went to the critique session in the morning but didn't shoot in the afternoon because I had out of town guests.
Day 4
7am We met up again on a group shoot in Little India. There was a religious ceremony taking place in the temple so everyone got down on the floor and clicked away. I was so surprised that hardly anybody paid us any attention at all and carried on with their daily routine. The day before we talked about using fill flash to bring out the details so I tried it out here. Because in food photography you never use flash, it is one of my weakest points, and I don't even own an external strobe, both because I don't need it and because it's added weight, but I'm beginning to see that a little bit of flash can make a huge difference in a photo. Not only can it highlight details it can also freeze certain parts of the photo while allowing other parts to be blurry in a low light situation. I don't have an example of this later use of strobe but another member took some excellent shots using this technique.
Here in Little India, I am again overwhelmed by how friendly people are. Most people smiled and waved at us when they saw our cameras.
Some indulged us in our request and others gave a shy smile when they realized I had stolen a shot of a private moment:
One cheeky old man tried to rip us off though when we gave him some money to take photos of his parrot:
We spent quite some time with the old man and his parrot. I first shot the man sitting with the parrot in the cage. Then when we found out the parrot is the one picking out the fortune I decided to focus on the old man's hand and the parrot when it chooses the fortune. The two best shots are posted above. This is what Michael calls "anticipate to a point, shoot lots, and hope you get it."
In the afternoon I went back to Orchard Rd again, in the pouring rain. When it rains there's a lot of reflection and people running, so potentially it can be very rewarding. Unfortunately for me, I couldn't find anywhere to stand without getting wet and wasn't very good at balancing my umbrella so I didn't get any good shots in the rain.
When the rain stopped, I again found myself in Emerald Hill. This time, I was in the midst of the Hungry Ghost festival. In the back of a row of shop houses, people were burning paper to pay respect to the ghosts. I lurked around for more than half an hour, getting myself and my poor camera covered in soot, and finally got one good shot.
The first time I went to shoot on Orchard Rd, I wanted to get a photo of people walking in front of the Visitor's Center but the light was too bright at that time, resulting in a huge white space behind the UOB building. I had wanted to go back again at a later time and shoot a night scene. As Michael says, when shooting night images, it's better to have some ambient light. That way you don't end up with a huge dead space of blackness. So today the light was right, but I still couldn't get a satisfactory shot. I guess some photos are better in your mind's eye.
On the way back home I passed by Louis Vuitton and visualized a shot of one or two shoppers walking in front of the window display. I wanted a clear silhouette instead of a motion blur because I thought it would go better with the clean LV graphic display. As Michael says, " Choose the light, choose the background, and wait for the moment." This proved to be easier said than done because on a Friday evening, there were way too many people walking past the window so it was almost impossible to isolate just two pedestrians. Also, Michael said that silhouettes should be clean, which means no missing limbs and everything had to be clearly defined. After about 15 minutes of crouching with camera held up, I decided to give myself a break and put it on a tripod. Another 20 minutes later, I gave up and made a mental note to come back another time when the foot traffic is lighter. This is another lesson I learned: it sometimes take a scouting shoot to get the photo you want. Anyway, this is the best out of the more than 30 minutes of shooting. I wanted the people to be in front of the graphic part of the space, instead of in front of the window display, but it just didn't happen on that day.
Day 5 - Final day of the workshop.
Today we're putting together a slide show consisting of photos we took during the five-day workshop. Despite my strong desire to sleep in, I dragged myself out of bed to go back to Orchard Rd one last time to see if I can find any good photo ops. Have you ever been to Orchard Rd at 7 o'clock on a Sunday morning? I've never seen the place so empty. The night before I was complaining about crowds, but now I couldn't find a single person to shoot except for street sweepers and buses, so I settled for that and practiced panning. Here's a bus speeding down Orchard Rd, with Ngee Ann City in the background.
After an hour of non-action, I went to have some coffee and kaya toast in Paragon and when I walked out, I noticed a lit up sign that would make a good background. So I sat myself down on a bench on the sidewalk and waited for someone to walk down the steps in front of the sign. I waited and waited and waited, but nobody walked by. I finally found hope when I saw a cleaner sweeping the steps and got my camera ready, but he kept on missing the steps in front of the sign. After what seemed like ages, he finally came into my frame and started sweeping the steps, but he was done in less than five seconds and I only got two frames. His limbs are visible but it's hard to see what he's doing. There will be another re-shoot at this location, I know.
By now, I was thoroughly exhausted after four days of workshop and shooting, involving getting up at 6am on three of the days and juggling out of town visitors in between. My legs are numb from crouching for so long, my feet are hurting from walking, and my fingers are starting to cramp up from holding the camera. I'm slowly starting to realize that maybe I'm not cut out to be a photojournalist. On top of that there was the issue of food. I had never eaten so much in my life! Somehow, getting up at 6am tricks my body into thinking that I need two breakfasts. So I eat one after the photo shoot and another one when we get back to the American Club. It doesn't help that the club has been plying us with a changing menu of warm baked goods and fresh fruits everyday. In addition to the double breakfasts, I also find myself eating more snacks throughout the day: when I needed a break from the shooting, when I'm waiting for the light to change, etc. All this walking around and holding a heavy DSLR had better be burning up lots of calories or I'll become overweight before I ever have even a glimpse of hope of becoming a photojournalist.
Despite the danger of turning into a whale with severe arthritis and sleep deprivation, I thoroughly enjoyed the workshop. For almost three straight days after the workshop, I found myself looking at my surroundings and seeing potential photos everywhere. Out of all the photos I shot for the workshop, my all time favorite is one that I took on my second day of shooting. The background is something I see everyday: a colorful poster plastered all over Orchard Road to cover up unsightly construction that's taking place. Armed with my newly heightened sense for detecting photo ops, a spark went off when I saw it again that day. I decided to take a photo of someone walking in front of the poster. Preferably that someone would be slightly out of place among the glamorous women of Amazonian proportion depicted in the poster. I was waiting for an auntie or uncle in flip flops, but got something even better:
When I saw him I knew he was my guy: a little bit clueless, in a little bit of a daze, and just a little bit out of place. The only question is, will his stride and position be lined up with the women in the poster, and they did!
So here it is: choose your background, choose your light, wait for a moment that's special, keep on clicking, and hope you have it.
And one last thing: only check your LCD once to make sure you have the right exposure, otherwise, don't look at the photos you've taken until you're home. Because whatever you've taken, you already have it. While you're checking the images that you already have, you could be missing precious images that you could be shooting. If there's one thing I learned and will never forget in this workshop, this is it.
9 comments:
Love the last shot with the guy reading the newspaper
It looks like it belongs in a magazine. The guy with the newspaper adds a little more character.
- Lynn said...
thanks carochan, I was really lucky to have that guy walk by after some waiting around =o)
- kyh said...
Love your pictures... Thanks for the tips! But first off, I need to have a proper digital camera to work with! Still dreaming of a DSLR though. Lucky you for having met the master himself. ;)
- Helen Yuet Ling Pang said...
Thanks, this was really interesting! As I spend most of my time taking food snaps, it was quite hard to adjust when I travelled to China recently to take photos that weren't food-related.
I hope you had a good Chinese New Years.
Hey hey I am a reader of ur blog... are u not adding new post to your blogs? Miss the beautiful food pictures!! ^^
- Lynn said...
Hi Lulu, thanks for reading my blog! I have been really busy with a lot of stuff, so every time I write something I don't get to finish it, then the moment gets lost, and I have tons of half-written posts =o( Hoping to improve the situation ...
Hey glad to hear from u... hope to see you get back at posting soon. ^^
- Cintia said...
Wonderful article Lynn! I'm inspired and want to go out with my camera, RIGHT NOW! Hahaha


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Iqholo le Afrika (Her African Pride)
A Centenary Celebration of the Life and Work of Barbara Tyrrell
Iziko South African National Gallery, Rooms 2 and 3
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An exhibition, by curators Vusi Buthelezi and Yvonne Winters of the Campbell Collections at the University of KwaZulu - Natal, celebrates and honours the veteran Durban-born artist and author, Barbara Tyrrell. A selection of over 150 of her highly decorative and accurate visual recordings of southern African costume will be exhibited. Also on display complementing the strong design aspect of her works will be items of adornment and costume from ISANG's own African art collections. Magnificent examples of beadwork, fertility figures, regalia and gala dress reflecting adult ceremonial attire resonate with her work on many levels.

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Soothing Mind Control
In a previous article I mentioned Mind Control, and mentioned its single great weakness is the range. 20 yards, and humanoids only. After a lot of practice, I need to update this with something REALLY important.
Mind Soothe. Never control a mind without it – in PVE, however, because it won't do you any good in PVP. OK, into some nuts and bolts.
First, there are a lot of mobs who can have their minds controlled but who are in groups. And I'm not just talking outside, but in instances. Let's take a look, again, at the tooltip for the mind control:
Mind Control
Rank 3
750 Mana
20 yd range
3 sec cast
Controls a humanoid mind up to level 62, but increases the time between attacks by 25%. Lasts up to 1 min.
First order of business – the level 62 is wrong. It is actually up to four levels above your own. So – provided they're not immune – a level 70 can mind control anything up to level 74. Since bosses are (for now) 73… Sad to say, all the bosses at which I've looked so far have been immune to mind control. On the other hand I've not spent much time looking as at that level healing is taking up a huge amount of my time. Anyway…
The "Big Pain" for mind control in PVE has always been the range – cast time being a strong second that we'll ignore for a moment. In Outland instances – especially heroics – the mobs will aggro on you before you're in casting range. But this is where your "smart priest" comes into play. See, the range of these guys is around 25 yards – you can cast to pull your longer-ranged stuff, it's just that 20 yard hurdle that's too close. Keep that 25 yard distance in mind and let's look at the other spell:
Mind Soothe
Rank 4
120 Mana
40 yd range
Instant cast
Soothes the target, reducing the range at which it will attack you by 10 yards. Only affects Humanoid targets level 85 or lower. Lasts 15 sec.
10 extra yards. In other words, if you've soothed the mind(s) of the mob(s) that can detect you, when you're at 20 yards you have the same aggro pull as a mob at 30 yards. 30 yards, when mind control is 'only' 20 yards.
You can cast four mind soothes in 6 seconds in a perfect world, 8-10 in one that includes fast tab-targeting. That gives you at worst 10 seconds to move up to 20 yards and spend 3 seconds casting Mind Control, at which time three mobs kill your proxy. Oh – at which time you run like mad or hope the rest of your party is on the ball.
By the way, this is the 'trick' for grabbing a mob out of a group if you're a shadowpriest trying to "solo" the first area of shadow labyrinth. Mindsoothe the group, move up, mind control the mob you want to see die first. If his friends kill him, great. If not, you're going to do three spells while running toward the door: Psychic scream, SW:P, and SW:D. Don't leave till your target dies, but make sure you're closer to the door than the feared mobs or you'll play ghost.
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I've had little luck using MC in Heroic instances. The aggro it gens is just too high for even a very good tank to get them off me after I release before I'm dead. If it breaks…almost 100 percent death rate. Any suggestions? I'd like to bring CC to more instances than Seth Halls.
I really only use MC in Shadow Labs in the room after the first boss. Those shadow priests do wicked damage.
It wasn't until doing lvl 70 instances with odd groups (having both a holy priest and holy pally in group) that I started using priests as viable CC classes in instances.
My main is a hunter. While I'd often have a target to trap, it was typically the 1st CCed target killed. (While I was dpsing and keeping my target down, I'd always keep a third eye on the Priest's MCed target and try to toss a concussive shot or wingclip or scatter shot it when needed)
This left me time (as long as I hadn't laid a trap recently) to drop a trap between the priest and his MCed mob. The mobcicle can then be taunted as need be.
Typically I try and use my own panic buttons (scatter shot or intimidation) to use to help out the priest as well.
While you won't always have a hunter in your heroic, if you do, try to reason a bit with them… I'm an old school raider, so I still view one of my roles as "squishy shield". If I can grab agro and kite them mob for a few seconds, or CC it, or let my mail+stamina soak up the one hit that would have killed the clothie, then that's an option I attempt to exercise. 🙂
…Sometimes to the tank's frustration… but that's why god gave hunter's feign death. (It's not JUST for getting you healers killed, that's just a bonus)


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Interval timer
You can add an interval timer to each custom sport mode in Movescount. To add the interval timer to a sport mode, select the sport mode and go to Advanced settings. The next time you connect your Suunto Ambit3 Vertical to your Movescount account, the interval timer is synchronized to the watch.
You can specify the following information in the interval timer:
- interval types (high and low interval)
- duration or distance for both interval types
- number of times the intervals are repeated
If you do not set the number of repetitions for the intervals in Movescount, the interval timer continues until it has been repeated 99 times.
You can set an interval timer for each sport included in a multisport mode (see Using a multisport mode). The interval timer restarts when the sport changes.
To activate/deactivate the interval timer:
- While you are in a sport mode, keep pressed to access the options menu.
- Scroll to activate with and select with .
- Scroll to Interval with and select with .
- Press On/Off and accept with . When the interval timer is active, the interval icon is shown at the top of the display. or to set the interval timer


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Smoke Without Fire: A Look at Influence, Trust and Media-Built Perceptions
In September last year, I ran a rather crude survey inviting readers of my blog on Pakistani news channel, Dawn to take part. The survey was a rather tongue-in-cheek response to the tenth anniversary of George Bush's Axis of Evil Speech, but it has thrown up some points of interest to communications professionals.
Most readers picked up on the fact that in today's connected world, labelling an entire nation as "evil" was not a useful rhetoric. However, I was overwhelmed with hundreds of responses. More people completed the questionnaire than I had money to access on the free online survey and many of the comments certainly didn't shy away from national stereotypes or allegations of evil.


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"He Flies! He Jumps! He Lurks! Chief Toad Appears!" (飛んだ!跳ねた!潜った!ガマ親分登場!!, Tonda! Haneta! Mogutta! Gama Oyabun Tōjō!!) is episode 57 of the original Naruto anime.
While falling to his death, Naruto manages to summon Gamabunta. Angry that a child summoned him, Gamabunta starts asking where Jiraiya was. In order for Gamabunta to accept Naruto as his underling, he told Naruto that he must stay on his back the whole day without falling off. Meanwhile in Konoha, Temari argues with Baki over breaking the treaty alliance between Konoha and Sunagakure. Later in Suna, Baki reports to the Fourth Kazekage that everything was going according to plan. Gamabunta still tries to shake Naruto off as Jiraiya is doing "research" for his novel by spying on a group of girls. In an attempt to shake Naruto off, Gamabunta lands in a waterfall, scaring off the girls, much to Jiraiya's dismay. This then caused Naruto to fall off the toad's back, but in an effort to stay on the toad's back, he makes a chain of shadow clones to not let Naruto fall off. Tired out, Naruto finally falls off the Chief Toad's back. As a reward for lasting so long, Gamabunta catches Naruto with his tongue, and claimed that no one since the Fourth Hokage had stayed on his back for so long. Knowing that Naruto is depleted of his strength, Gamabunta drops off Naruto at the Konoha Hospital.
- Naruto's efforts to stay atop Gamabunta are unique to the anime.


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For parents of children with ASDs, there are so many lifestyle and attitude adjustments to make. If a child has severe autism and shies away from a parent's touch or is unable to communicate with Mom or Dad, it can be heartbreaking. Then, there's the matter of having to adjust your expectations and desires for your child for now and the future. "For us, the diagnosis was devastating," says David Fong, whose two-year-old son Max was diagnosed with PDD-NOS in September 2009. "All of our hopes and dreams for him seemed to fade away. Then we were filled with questions -- Will he ever have friends? Will he go to public school or require special needs programming? Will he ever date, ever be able to live on his own, go to college, hold a job? There are just so many unknowns. We're learning to take it one day at a time, but it's still hard. With autism, there's no crystal ball."
On top of this, there's the stress of never knowing what to expect from your child in terms of behavior or mood, which can make day-to-day living challenging and going to new places or attending extended-family get-togethers even more so.
- "Jack had dark periods where he was despondent and I didn't know why," says Ursitti. "That's excruciating as a mother -- to know that your child is sad and suffering and to not know why. I couldn't begin to guess what was going on with him because he experiences the world in such a different way. That's one of the toughest parts of having a child with autism."
- "No matter how hard we try to maintain routines and stability, there are days when something will set Hunter off and we will be dealing with a 24-hour meltdown -- and, yes, I do mean 24 hours," says Polkes. "That's when I have to be prepared to calmly and rationally deal with everything, no matter how illogical or impossible it may seem."
Meanwhile, the personal stress and sacrifice that comes from continuously accommodating your child's shifting needs can add up. "You are tired and emotionally drained all the time -- and sometimes it feels like you are stuck in quicksand," says Polkes. "Because your life revolves around helping your child be able to function in the world, your life is no longer your own. It is the hardest job in the world because you never know what your boss is going to throw at you, quite literally." Sometimes, too, marital strain can develop when partners don't see eye-to-eye on how to treat or handle their child.
Logistically speaking, one of the most difficult challenges in raising a child with an ASD is trying to get insurance coverage for all the different therapies that may be warranted. Depending on your state and/or insurance policy, behavioral therapies -- such as applied behavior analysis, the gold standard for ASDs -- may not be covered; the out-of-pocket expenses can run tens of thousands of dollars per year, which can lead to financial hardship. Meanwhile, in some families where both parents work, they may decide it's best if one of them becomes a stay-at-home parent to meet the child's needs and deal with the arrangement and transportation for multiple therapies, which can lead to financial strain, as well. On top of this, you may have to become an advocate for your child at school to make sure he gets the services he needs.
But it's worth the effort and perseverance because with the right therapies, children with ASDs can make a world of progress.
"I don't think a lot of people realize that kids can recover from some of these problems but you have a narrow window for getting treatment -- it's not enough to just try to cope," says Summer McFarland, whose 11-year-old daughter Lauren was diagnosed with PDD-NOS at age six and has spent years getting different treatments. "We're still catching up on some of the developmental delays but at this point, Lauren is pretty indistinguishable from many of her peers. We've come so far."


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This tiny town, at the end of the Fjaerlandsfjord in Norway, is a particularly enjoyable gateway to the Josteldalsbreen National Park, and is close to two glacial tongues.
If you want a close-up view of a glacier without actually climbing on it, then Fjaerland is the place to go. In addition to this, Fjaerland is Norway's bokbyen - book town. Almost every shop in the town sells a range of new and used books, and there is even an "honesty book shop", not far from the ferry stop, where books are sold from a stand without any staff.
Get in
By boat
In summer, Fjaerland is reachable by ferry from Balestrand, a trip that gives ample photo opportunities - there's an amazing view of the Josteldalsbreen glacier behind the fjord as you approach the town.
By bus
There are a number of buses each day to nearby towns, including Sogndal, Skei and Stryn. Be aware that the bus stop is actually 2km out of the town centre, just across the road from the Josteldalsbreen museum. It's a bit of a walk, so leave ample time to avoid missing what might be your only bus out of there.
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On Ground Hog Day, 1996, a weather observer in Tower, Minn., tallied a new statewide record low temperature: minus 60 degrees Fahrenheit. At our house, about 35 miles west, it was minus 50.
Respectable, certainly, but I was unsatisfied.
Just before sunrise, an event seeming merely ceremonial under the circumstances, I hiked down to a neighboring bog clutching a thermometer. Inhaling the brittle air was uncomfortable, but I happily watched as the mercury dropped to minus 65, then separated into chunks as it crawled toward minus 70. Nothing official, of course, but good enough to establish that Jack London fibbed in one of his Yukon-based stories. He'd written that at minus 50, spittle would freeze before it hit the ground. Tried it. Not so.
Still, there was primitive delight in being outside in such an extreme. Little did I realize it was one of the last true cold snaps I'd experience in northern Minnesota.
Years ago, I worked on a wildland fire crew in Idaho with a tough old grunt nearing 60. He relished spinning yarns to rapt greenhorns about "the old days," gently mocking them with his signature narrative opening, "Once upon a time, when the trees were taller, the mountains were steeper and the winds were swifter ..."
What follows here is not the flawed nostalgia of an old-timer recalling the glories (or terrors) of legendary winters. I keep records; I have the numbers.
Beginning with the winter of 1997-98, a clear warming trend established itself, and continues until now. For example, during the winter I ventured down to the bog to spit, I recorded 74 days when the temperature dipped to zero or below. In 1997-98, there were a mere 23 such days, and the coldest morning was minus 25. Over the years we'd seen afternoons when such a relatively anemic nock was the high.
My data show that from the late 1970s into the late 1990s, a minus 30 reading at our house was routine. But beginning this century, we passed five winters without hitting minus 30, and six without savoring a minus 40, a reading that was always rarer, but not uncommon. That is startling.
Our firewood consumption is reduced by 25 percent. Our northern winters, fabled for their frigidity, once supplied grist for feature news stories. In 1996, I was interviewed by a BBC reporter from London intrigued by our crazy, gee-whiz cold -- the sun-split storm windows and Styrofoam outhouse seats, etc. That's a dated story line. Our winters have become relatively tepid, or as a neighbor put it, "luke-cold."
As a result, they're also shorter. I used to count on four and a half to five months of cross-country skiing that typically began before Thanksgiving and ran to April Fool's Day. For the past decade, three and a half months is the norm, and for snowmobiles, requiring more liberally cushioned trails, the season's even shorter. There is negative impact on tourism when snow that used to accumulate in November now arrives as rain, with the same reversal in mid-March.
Consider, however, a ramification of less snowy winters less obvious but perhaps more telling, and which certainly has impact on those directly involved -- frozen septic system drainfields. For the uninitiated to appreciate this misfortune requires a short primer on rural sewage disposal.
Down the drain
When we flush our toilet, drain a sink or take a shower, the effluent flows to a tank buried outside. The capacity of the tank is usually about 1,000 gallons, and to place that figure in perspective, an American family of four can easily generate 150 gallons of effluent per day. The purpose of the tank is to allow solids to settle out on the bottom as sludge, or float to the surface as scum. Effluent, ideally completely liquid (a baffle prevents scum from exiting), flows from the tank to a drainfield, usually consisting of perforated pipe bedded in gravel.
So far, so good, but here's the key concept relating to snow cover: The drainfield is not deeply buried -- because the effluent must be actively utilized, and therefore effectively treated, by soil bacteria, which mostly thrive near the surface. If the pipes are too deep, the system won't work. But since they are shallow, if there is insufficient snow cover -- less than six to eight inches in my experience -- the drainfield or the pipe that feeds it can freeze, even during our now more benign winters.
The first time this happened at our house was on January 4, 1990, after 12 winters of trouble-free septic bliss. The date is memorable because I used five-gallon buckets to portage about 70 gallons of backed-up raw sewage out of the basement. December 1989 -- still in the "old days" -- had been frigid, with 22 days of subzero temps, including several days when it did not rise above zero, and the month was also nearly snow-free. Such was an anomaly then.
Our drainfield didn't freeze again until 2002, but it's happened five times the past decade -- definitely a noteworthy trend. In February 2007, 80 percent of the septic systems in Itasca County -- including ours -- were locked up.
For most people, their first (and final) clue that this has occurred is when sewage re-enters the house. At that sad juncture, the septic tank must be pumped before it also freezes. In our neck of the woods, a septic hauler charges $185 for the service.
After that, the sewage is out of the house, but you no longer own a system, merely a 1,000-gallon holding tank that four Americans can refill in less than a week. Your options, reflecting general attitudes towards climate change, are:
A) Denial: Continue normal behavior and hope the pipes somehow thaw before your tank refills, or that the tank will magically expand;
B )Pay the piper: Plan on regular pumping for two to three months, until the frost leaves the ground; this could easily cost $1,000; or
C) Extreme conservation (my tactic). Take measures to ensure the modest tank capacity will last the rest of the winter by flushing the toilet only when absolutely necessary (determined by personal olfactory tolerance); by placing plastic tubs in the kitchen sink for dishwashing, then hand-carrying this gray-water out to the garden; by trimming bathing frequency to a minimum public health level, and by stockpiling dirty clothes for a monthly laundromat mission to town.
After the 1990 episode, I fashioned a septic-tank dipstick to monitor the progress of conservation, and more importantly to serve as early warning of freezing if I suspect we are headed for a problem (which I believe we are as I write). We're into that pattern again this season -- early winter rain and mild mornings, but cold enough for a few days (minus 16 for a seasonal low so far) to cause trouble. With only six inches of decomposing snow cover, I deploy the dipstick regularly. I pop the cap off a 3-inch access pipe, insert my stick to the bottom of the tank and measure the "freeboard." I can tell immediately when effluent has stopped flowing and it's time to call the pumper, before sewage backs into the basement.
Overflowing irony
This semiregular drainfield problem is new. You may speak to many old-timers who've been operating septic systems their entire lives who had never heard of such an affliction until the past dozen years. A desperate and dubious technological solution has, of course, appeared: electric septic-system heaters.
It's true. For around $1,400 you can purchase a unit -- "easy to install" -- that will force heated air through your entire septic system. I checked it out and determined that, given our rural electric rates, running the unit the entire winter (which is what you'd have to do) would demand about 3,000 kilowatt hours, the equivalent of seven months of our regular electricity consumption -- not to mention $200-plus out of pocket.
The math didn't work for me, but more crucial was the plain absurdity of heating our poop.
Think of it: In order to prevent a drainfield freeze-up caused by milder winters, we'd increase our carbon footprint and thus accelerate, however modestly, the climatic warming that's the root of the problem in the first place. I'm unsure whether the appropriate response to this is laughter or tears.
Via my own records and experience, I'm convinced our climate is heating up, and the evidence is compelling that human burning of fossil fuels is the chief cause. It's possible this situation may have catastrophic results -- the global analog of sewage in the basement.
If disaster does strike, there'll be more than one proximate cause. But I think our civilization's autopsy will indicate a lethal dose of irony.
Peter M. Leschak, of Side Lake, Minn., is the author of "Ghosts of the Fireground," "Letters from Side Lake" and other books.


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The Tribune Bay Outdoor Education Society is receiving more than $142,000 from the Skills Link program to help youth overcome barriers to employment.
Skills Link is part of the Government of Canada's Youth Employment Strategy (YES), Vancouver Island North MP John Duncan said Tuesday on behalf of Diane Finley, minister of human resources and skills development.
Tribune Bay participants on Hornby Island will receive coaching in a wide range of life and job skills, such as leadership and communication, to help them enter the job market. They will also gain work experience by providing assistance to the organization's outdoor education and recreation programs.
"Tribune Bay Outdoor Education Society is pleased to be partnering with the Government of Canada on the Outdoor Education Leadership Program at our Centre on Hornby Island," said Gord Campbell, executive director of the society. "This program will positively impact the participating youth by providing them the
tools for long-term employment or the self-confidence to return to school."
"Our government's top priorities are creating jobs, economic growth and long-term prosperity," said Duncan. "The Government of Canada's Youth Employment Strategy is helping youth develop the skills and gain the experience they need to get jobs now and prepare for the workforce of tomorrow."
With an annual budget of more than $300 million, YES helps youth, particularly those facing barriers to employment, obtain career information, develop employment skills, find jobs and stay employed.
YES includes the Skills Link and Career Focus programs and the Canada Summer Jobs initiative, which creates thousands of job opportunities for students every summer.
Employers can submit applications for this year's Canada Summer Jobs program until Feb. 28. Applications for employers are available online at servicecanada.gc.ca/csj2013 and at Service Canada Centres.
The Government of Canada is helping youth plan their careers, learn new skills and find jobs through enhanced online services available at youth.gc.ca.
— Human Resources and Skills Development Canada


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- Photography by Mr Boo George
- Styling by Mr Dan May, Style Director, MR PORTER
- Words by Mr Dan Cairns
For Mr Jared Leto, leading a double life as a Hollywood film star and lead singer of the platinum-selling rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars - whose new album, Love Lust Faith + Dreams, has just been released - is the most natural thing in the world. His peripatetic, "food stamp-poor" upbringing, as the younger son of a mother who surrounded herself and her two boys with artistic influences, instilled in the Louisiana-born 41-year-old a passion for the arts. "I did grow up in a very creative world," Mr Leto says. "It was the 1970s, the age of the artist and the hippy, and my exposure to that shaped me in a really deep way. I was raised among people who made things to make them, and with the idea that if you're a creative person, then of course you're going to do something creative with your life - whether you're an artist, a performance artist, a potter or a photographer. I had no concept of the word 'fame'; or a notion of success or money. We grew up very poor, so our world wasn't anywhere near that kind of stuff. You have to do what is important to you and protect that."
There are always going to be people
who go, 'F*** that guy, he shouldn't
make music, he makes movies'
The history of Tinseltown talent trying its hand at pop is, for the most part, a sorry one. The music turned out by Mr Keanu Reeves and Mr Russell Crowe offers a reminder of why the public tends to like its stars to stay in their allotted boxes. If Mr Leto is an exception to this rule - and the multimillion-strong sales notched up by Thirty Seconds to Mars' albums say he is, his musical forays have nevertheless met with real resistance over the years. "There are always going to be people who don't like you," he says, with a wry chuckle, "who go, 'F*** that guy, he shouldn't make music, he makes movies'. It's a bizarre attitude; it's like saying Julian Schnabel should never have directed films because he's an artist, or Jeff Koons used to work on Wall Street, what's with the art? I'm not saying I'm Schnabel or Koons, but you know what I mean. What I was faced with as well was a line of dilettantes who set a very bad example; there was a precedent set by people who, let's be honest, didn't do a very good job of making good, meaningful work. So that career switch got a bad rep, and it was inevitable that we needed to clean up a lot of crap."
The album artwork for Love Lust Faith + Dreams, featuring
"Isonicotinic Acid Ethyl Ester" by Mr Damien Hirst
"Isonicotinic Acid Ethyl Ester" by Mr Damien Hirst
Mr Leto clearly isn't one to shy away from plain speaking. Yet he has about him a serene air that is positively Zen-like when compared to the needy melodramatics that are a hallmark of so many of his peers in both the film and music worlds. The fact that his elder brother, Shannon, the drummer and occasional actor, has been at his side throughout Thirty Seconds to Mars' career speaks volumes about the importance of family to Mr Leto. As does Love Lust Faith + Dreams' delicate coda: when "Depuis Le Début" draws the album to its close, a music box plays the famous theme from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. "My mother used to put my little brother and me to sleep by playing that exact music box," Mr Leto recalls. "And we wanted to put a little bit of our life on there. The whole record is very personal and I hope it is an album that can be transformative. There are people out there who may think they have an idea of who we are, but I think this record can change some perceptions. It's not just a rock record, it's more expansive. We've been doing this for a long, long time - we first signed a deal in 1998, and we'd been making music for 10 years before that. It's hard to complain: on the tour for our last album we sold out Wembley and the O2 arena, and we started out at the Barfly in Camden in 2001 or 2002. It's a slow, steady climb to the middle, as they say."
Before the band released its debut album in 2002, Mr Leto had already established himself as a Hollywood player. Supporting roles in films such as Fight Club and The Thin Red Line led to acclaimed lead performances, such as his portrayal of a heroin addict in Requiem for a Dream, and Mr John Lennon's killer Mr Mark David Chapman in Chapter 27. The former role required him to starve himself until he achieved a skeletal frame; for the latter, he had to gain 67lbs, which he managed by drinking pints of microwaved ice cream into which he mixed olive oil and soy sauce. You or I may call a halt after such drastic readjustments; Mr Leto, who last autumn resumed acting after a five-year break, chose to mark his return by embarking on yet another regime of speed-dieting. To prepare for his comeback role, playing an HIV-positive transsexual woman in Dallas Buyers Club, Mr Leto again shed a huge amount of weight and, on the day we meet at a London hotel, is only just returning to his normal size. "I lost about 30lbs and waxed my body," he says. "But I'll tell you, gaining weight is much more brutal than losing it. When you lose that much weight, you lose fat, sure, but you start to lose muscle too. And you can't just eat to gain that back, you have to work out, or all you're putting on is fat."
the work
Requiem for a dream
Mr Leto as heroin addict Harry Goldfarb in the acclaimed 2000 movie
Mr Nobody
Mr Leto as Nemo Nobody, who is both 34 and 118 years old, in the 2009 sci-fi drama
Girl, Interrupted
Mr Leto with Ms Winona Ryder in the 1999 film dealing with a girl's 18-month stint in a mental asylum
Mr Leto in Mr Oliver Stone's 2004 epic about Alexander the Great
Mr Leto doesn't look remotely fat today, damn the man. He is instead almost preternaturally handsome, with chiselled features, jet-black hair and piercing blue eyes, as a woman's magazine profile might put it. Maybe his features are a touch skull-like, I suggest to my girlfriend when I return home, only to be remonstrated, "No, babes, he's hot. You just don't understand." A handsome face can be a double-edged sword, of course; concentrating on good looks is both reductive and runs the risk of overshadowing genuine artistic achievement. Mr Leto admits that this has posed a challenge to the ethos with which he grew up with: that art matters, and everything else is essentially froth. But he's the opposite of po-faced on the subject. I ask him how it felt to be included, as he was in 2009, in People magazine's Best Chests category. "Did I really win Best Chest?" he asks, looking both appalled and delighted. (Actually, he was ninth of 11.) "I never knew that. I should have won that when I was in drag for Dallas Buyers Club - I had a great chest then."
Love Lust Faith + Dreams is comfortably Mr Leto and his band's best album to date - episodic, polemical, texturally complex, and balancing contemplation, defiance, recklessness and huge choruses and riffs in a way that classic, pre-iTunes concept albums managed to do. Between music and film, he continues to surround himself with art, making things purely to make them. "If, ultimately, my albatross is getting people to take my music seriously because I happened to be in Requiem for a Dream," he concludes, "that's a pretty good problem to have. Anyway, after selling 20,000 tickets in London the last time we played here, how many people do you need to love you in the world?" That's easy for him to say.
Love Lust Faith + Dreams is out now. thirtysecondstomars.thisisthehive.net


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Wait, Can Anyone Explain Why Google Should Promote Other Search Engines?
from the i'm-confused dept
As per usual, the absolute best response to this investigation comes from Danny Sullivan, who satirically notes that when he searches Google, obviously it had better link to other search engines as the top results:
I did a search at Google today for "cars" and was shocked. Rather than list links allowing me to search for "cars" on Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Voila, Naver and Yandex, Google instead favored its own search results. I'm glad the EU will be investigating whether this favoritism violates anti-trust laws.He goes on from there. It's worth reading the entire piece, because at the end he dismantles the entire argument of Foundem and the EU. It simply makes no sense. The whole thing is based on a basic fallacy that some companies who failed to actually get the market to come to them somehow think Google owes them traffic. Here's a tip: if your business model depends on getting traffic from Google, you are making a poor strategic decision.
And this is more true today than ever before. It wasn't that long ago that the vast majority of our referral traffic came from Google (the majority of our overall traffic comes from direct access/RSS readers). These days, however, while Google is still high up there, there's a wide mix of alternative sources that bring us traffic: StumbleUpon, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and a variety of other sources. Most of these aren't search engines -- but they are massive traffic generators, showing that people find stuff via social means at an increasing rate, and the idea that any business is totally reliant on one company, Google, to survive, simply suggests a poor business strategy. Regulators should never reward poor business strategies, but that appears to be what they're looking to do over in the EU.


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The biggest names in entertainment clapped hands, swayed to gospel hymns and sang along with the choir at Whitney Houston's hometown funeral Saturday in the church where the future pop star once wowed the congregation as a young girl.
"We are here today, hearts broken but yet with God's strength we celebrate the life of Whitney Houston," the Rev. Joe A. Carter told the packed New Hope Baptist Church after the choir behind him sang "The Lord is My Shepherd."
Mourners including singer Jennifer Hudson and Houston's mother, gospel singer Cissy Houston, stood, swayed and clapped along in the aisles. Gospel singers BeBe and CeCe Winans and the Rev. Kim Burrell joined with pop stars like Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder, and R. Kelly in paying tribute to the 48-year-old pop superstar who first began singing in the Newark church.
"You wait for a voice like that for a lifetime," said music mogul Clive Davis, who shepherded Houston's career for decades.
IN PICTURES: Whitney Houston, in memoriam
The service had lighthearted moments too – Kevin Costner imagining a young Houston using her winning smile to get out of trouble, Houston's cousin Dionne Warwick offering short insights about the singer.
Others were more mournful; singer Ray J., who spent time with Houston during her last days, broke down crying. His sister, singer Brandy, put her arm around him. Cissy Houston and Houston's daughter, 18-year-old Bobbi Kristina, clutched each other in the front of the church. Toward the end of the service, Bobbi Kristina and Ray J. embraced at length and spoke. Others gathered near the front of the church and hugged each other.
The most powerful moment was reserved for the end. As Houston's silver casket was carried out, her hit "I Will Always Love You" played. Bobbi Kristina began crying, and the sobs of Houston's mother rang throughout the church.
"My baby!" she wailed.
Wonder and Oprah Winfrey were among the biggest names gathered to mourn Houston, along with Hudson, Monica, Brandy, and Jordin Sparks – representing a generation of big-voiced young singers who grew up emulating her.
Costner, her co-star in "The Bodyguard," which spawned her greatest hit "I Will Always Love You," remembered a movie star who was uncertain of her own fame, who "still wondered, 'Am I good enough? Am I pretty enough? Will they like me?'"
"It was the burden that made her great and the part that caused her to stumble in the end," Costner said.
Filmmaker Tyler Perry praised Houston's "grace that kept on carrying her all the way through, the same grace led her all the way to the top of the charts. She sang for presidents."
Warwick presided over the funeral, introducing speakers and singers.
Houston's mother was helped by two people on either side of her as she walked in and sat with her granddaughter and other family to begin the service. Houston's ex-husband, Bobby Brown, briefly appeared at her funeral, walking to the casket, touching it and walking out. He later said in a statement that he and his children were asked repeatedly to move and he left rather than risk creating a scene.
Mourners fell quiet as three police officers escorted Houston's casket, draped with white roses and purple lilies. White-robed choir members began to fill the pews on the podium. As the band played softly, the choir sang in a hushed voice, "Whitney, Whitney, Whitney."
A program featuring a picture of Houston looking skyward read "Celebrating the life of Whitney Elizabeth Houston, a child of God." Pictures of Houston as a baby, with her mother and daughter filled the program.
"I never told you that when you were born, the Holy Spirit told me that you would not be with me long," Cissy Houston wrote her daughter in a letter published in the program. "And I thank God for the beautiful flower he allowed me to raise and cherish for 48 years."
"Rest, my baby girl in peace," the letter ends, signed "mommie."
The service marks one week after Houston, one of music's all-time biggest stars, was found dead in a Beverly Hills hotel in California. A cause of death has yet to be determined.
To the world, Houston was the pop queen with the perfect voice, the dazzling diva with regal beauty, a troubled superstar suffering from addiction and, finally, another victim of the dark side of fame.
To her family and friends, she was just "Nippy." A nickname given to Houston when she was a child, it stuck with her through adulthood and, later, would become the name of one of her companies. To them, she was a sister, a friend, a daughter, and a mother.
"She always had the edge," the Rev. Jesse Jackson said outside church Saturday. "You can tell when some kids have what we call a special anointing. Aretha had that when she was 14…. Whitney cultivated that and took it to a very high level."
Over her career, she sold more than 50 million records in the United States alone. Her voice, an ideal blend of power, grace and beauty, made classics out of songs like "Saving All My Love For You," ''I Will Always Love You," ''The Greatest Love of All" and "I'm Every Woman." Her six Grammys were only a fraction of her many awards.
But amid the fame, a turbulent marriage to Brown and her addiction to drugs tarnished her image. She became a woman falling apart in front of the world.
Her last album, "I Look To You," debuted on the top of the charts when it was released in 2009 with strong sales, but didn't have the staying power of her previous records. A tour the next year was doomed by cancellations because of illness and sub-par performances.
Still, a comeback was ahead: She was to star in the remake of the movie "Sparkle" and was working on new music. Her family, friends and hard-core fans were hopeful.
IN PICTURES: Whitney Houston, in memoriam


text: Westran High School (Huntsville) held its Junior-Senior Prom this past Saturday night (April 27), under the theme of "A Night on the Town." Nathaniel Richards, the son of James Richards and Mary James, was crowned prom king by last year's king, Andrew Baxley. Laney Shelby, the daughter of Kelly and Lee Ann Shelby, was crowned prom queen by last year's queen, Kaela Crews. Persons lined the hallways of WHS, to view the students and their dates during the promenade portion of the evening, and to take pictures. After the crowning of Richards and Shelby, the festivities moved into the school's decorated gymnasium, where food, photographs, and dancing ensued (including students "Doin' the Bernie") from 8-11 p.m.


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Stan Van Gundy still exchanges friendly text messages with the player who he once claimed wanted him fired.
Van Gundy will tell Dwight Howard good luck before a game, or inform the star center that he played well after a solid performance for the Lakers.
Howard has sent more than thanks to his former coach. He also passed along some thoughts on his new team's primary shortcoming.
"The only thing he's really gotten into was," Van Gundy said Friday in a phone interview, "he wants their defense to be better."


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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Wordless Wednesday - Helen Ross at ISU
Update: After a web search I found out that this is the same photo that was used in her 1928 college yearbook. Helen apparently was one of only three women to graduate from the UI College of Law in 1928. See this link for the yearbook page. It is captioned...
Helen Elisabeth Ross
Rockwell City
Kappa Beta Pi, Bethany Circle, Interprofessional Sorority Council.
Apparently, Kappa Beta Pi was "the first legal sorority in the U.S., was founded in 1908 at the Chicago-Kent College of Law to promote high professional standards among women law students and lawyers."
I stumbled across this info when I found this page that had a photo mentioning the class of 1928 and Helen E. Ross.
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ALTAMAHAW � R.D. Smith�s climb through the pack became as much about passing the cars in his path as racing the weather in the sky.
The Burlington driver reached the front in time, with the wet stuff looming, to win the rain-shortened Late Models feature Friday night at Ace Speedway.
Eighty-six of the 100 scheduled laps were completed before the rain intervened.
Smith steadily overcame a starting position of 10th in the 13-car field and led the final 19 laps to collect his second victory in a row, third win of the season and the first-place prize of $2,000.
With the wind picking up and a downpour seemingly imminent � not to mention his race team keeping track of the weather � Smith knew go-time was arriving at a sooner-than-expected rate.
�One of my guys, he was watching the radar,� he said. �He told me there was rain in the area. He thought we needed to move a little bit quicker than I had planned to.�
Snow Camp�s Gary Causey, one of the race�s four leaders, placed second. McLeansville�s Dustin Rumley finished third, followed by Burlington�s Dean Fogleman in fourth and Pelham�s Barry Beggarly in fifth.
Rumley and Fogleman rallied after getting swept into an opening-lap mishap that peeled away the right-front fender on Fogleman�s No. 71 Chevrolet and left several other cars damaged.
Smith�s No. 16 Ford needed about 30 laps to crack the top five running order.
Afterward, as the rain pelted crews in the pits, Smith, who sits atop the division points standings, said he tried to maintain a patient mindset while working out of the early hole created by his underwhelming qualifying performance.
�The car was just steady,� he said. �We weren�t dominant fast or anything. But we were able to just pick them off one by one. They kept coming to us, and it just kind of fell our way.�
By the 50th lap, with lighting crackling in the distance, Smith was stalking Pelham�s John Moore for the lead and sensing a shrinking window of opportunity.
His team, technology at their fingertips, relayed growing concerns about the weather. On the 68th lap, he delivered the winning pass on Moore.
�My guys are a little bit savvier than they look,� Smith said, smiling. �We�re on top of things maybe a little bit more than you might think. We were watching all that.
�John Moore was especially tough. For a few laps there, I wasn�t sure if we were going to get him or not.�
Misfortune struck Moore on lap 85, moments before the rain came in full. The right-front tire broke off his No. 4 Chevrolet, shooting sparks and sending the tire bouncing around the track�s fourth turn before eventually dribbling into the pit area.
Moore was in line to be the runner-up until that dose of tough luck dropped him to a 10th-place finish.
Much earlier, Burlington�s Robert Turner had the makings of a promising night turn sour. His No. 13 Chevrolet ran in the top five from the start, led two laps and was operating in second position when a crippling engine problem occurred on the 25th lap.
In qualifying, Fogleman�s run of 15.914 seconds became the quickest lap, ahead of Causey (15.973), Turner (15.994), Rumley (15.998) and Moore (16.028).
Smith�s best lap of 16.160 seconds slotted him deep in the field at the start and required him to navigate traffic while climbing the running order.
�We just were able to keep a lot of grip in the car and just kind of get them one by one,� he said. �The car stayed under me all night and had good forward bite.�
-- In the 30-lap Modifieds race, Speedy Faucette recovered after being swept into one of this bruising event�s many skirmishes and ultimately emerged as the dramatic winner of a wild experience.
A pass of Jerry Scott with less than two laps remaining allowed Mebane�s Faucette secure his first career victory in the Modifieds division. And with six caution periods and subsequent double-file restarts � a rugged four of them were stuffed into the final 10 laps � it required an abundance of resilience.
�I felt like a ping pong ball the way they was bouncing me around,� said Faucette, the former two-time champion of Ace�s Late Models class.
Corbett Ridge�s Jerry Scott, digging for what would have been his third win in a row, placed second. Mebane�s Roy Cook came in third among the nine-car field to pick up his best finish of the season.
Faucette, driving the No. 10 car, led 12 laps until a chain reaction on the 20th lap � Randy Butner�s No. 71 car knocked Scott�s No. 88 into Faucette as the pack stacked up in turn four � dropped Faucette toward the rear of the field.
Scott, the race leader early and then again late, appeared determined to deny all comers.
Walnut Cove�s Burt Myers, the decorated champion from Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, charged on the outside during a restart with 10 laps remaining. Scott�s car steadily squeezed Myers�s No. 4 higher and higher down the straightaway before contact in turn two knocked Myers out of contention.
With five laps left, Pfafftown�s Butner looked poised to work past Scott. But Butner�s pursuit hit a roadblock when the front bumper of his No. 71 car smacked off the rear of Scott�s car. That contact left Butner displaced and immediately spun out by Faucette, who was on the move again and following closely in third position.
Two laps later, Burlington�s Gary Young Jr., apparently irritated by Myers� pass on the outside during another restart, responded by wrecking Myers. That brought the race�s sixth and final restart, which Faucette used to pull off the winning pass on Scott.
Gibsonville�s Brian King, who entered the night with a division-best four victories and two points shy of Butner in the points standings, was absent.
-- Friday night�s other winner at Ace was Mocksville�s A.J. Sanders (25-lap Mini Stocks). Sanders, the Mini Stocks� points leader, started from the pole position, stayed out front and led every lap for his first victory of the season as the eight-car race went without the interruption of a caution flag.
-- The 40-lap Limited Late Models race and 20-lap X-treme Cars race were called off due to the rain.
Here are Friday night�s results from Ace Speedway:
Late Models (86 laps, scheduled for 100): R.D. Smith, Gary Causey, Dustin Rumley, Dean Fogleman, Barry Beggarly, Patrick Coleman, Brad Kurth, Thomas Scott, Coy Hedrick, John Moore, Robert Turner, Ryan Gray, Bobby Griffin.
Limited Late Models (40 laps): rained out.
Modifieds (30 laps): Speedy Faucette, Jerry Scott, Roy Cook, Randy Butner, Burt Myers, Daniel Beeson, John Barilka, Gary Young Jr., Ronnie Austin.
Mini Stocks (25 laps): A.J. Sanders, P-Nut Vernon, Mike Herron, Phillip Walker, Billy Radford Jr., Sharon Botts, Wendy Shook, Buddy East.
X-treme Cars (20 laps): rained out.
X-treme Cars heat race (12 laps): Billy Scoggins, Trey Brame, Brandon Sharpe, David Walker, Brian Hatch, William Jones, Chris Rice, Chad Massey, Phillip Jones.
Late Models qualifying: Dean Fogleman 15.914, Gary Causey 15.973, Robert Turner 15.994, Dustin Rumley 15.998, John Moore 16.028, Patrick Coleman 16.053, Brad Kurth 16.066, Thomas Scott 16.087, Barry Beggarly 16.131, R.D. Smith 16.160, Ryan Gray 16.166, Coy Hedrick 16.464, Bobby Griffin 16.523.


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Yeah, I know pretentious name, however there are hundreds of teams competing and the prizes are substantial.
Last years I did demos Thursday, Friday and Saturday for GMC - amid a fleet of Hummers and Denalis. They bought me the top of the line gas grill for the demos. I'll be doing it again - on gas. (Shudder.) I do demos at 12:00, 2:00, and 4:00 those three days. And they have my cookbooks there for sale and, of course, I'll write any lies people want in them.
This year we're (I'm taking my students with me) doing grilled pizza topped with smoked chicken and roasted poblanos.
If any of you are around, drop by.


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FROSTBURG, MD—The Alfred University football team piled up 259 rushing yards and scored two defensive touchdowns in a 32-7 victory at Empire 8 Conference foe Frostburg State Saturday afternoon.
The Saxons scored the game's first 22 points, holding Frostburg scoreless until 5:24 remained in the third. AU had 398 yards of offense and held Frostburg to 240, including a mere 85 passing, well below its 251-yard per game passing average coming in. With the win, Alfred's second straight, the Saxons improved to 5-2 overall and 3-1 in Empire 8 play.
AU opened the scoring on a 33-yard field goal by freshman Thomas Gioia, then added a pair of touchdowns on a 40-yard interception return by junior free safety Mike Perkins with 4:25 left in the opening frame and a seven-yard TD toss from freshman quarterback Tyler Johnson to senior tailback Austin Dwyer. Both extra points failed and Alfred led 15-0 midway through the second quarter.
Johnson threw his second TD pass of the game, a 29-yarder to senior wideout Josh Phillips five minutes into the third to give Alfred a 22-0 advantage. After Frostburg scored with 5:24 left in the third to make it 22-7, the Saxons closed out the scoring on a 31-yard Gioia field goal with 11:08 left in the fourth and a 25-yard fumble return by freshman nose guard Zack Bacon with 10:25 remaining. Bacon's recovery and return came after AU senior end Justin Collen sacked the Frostburg quarterback and forced the fumble.
Dwyer finished with 101 yards rushing on just 14 carries. Senior fullback Chuck Beckwith had 56 yards rushing and senior tailback Tyler DeRosa added 47. Johnson completed 17 of 31 passes for 139 yards and a pair of scores, and Phillips had six catches for 64 yards.
Frostburg tailback Mike Fourth ran for a game-high 117 yards and a touchdown and also caught three passes for 39 yards.
Sophomore linebacker Peter Diak paced the Saxon defense with a game-high 13 tackles. Collen had seven tackles, including a pair of sacks, and a forced fumble; sophomore strong safety Mike Berardi had six tackles and forced a fumble; and Perkins and senior safety Seiji Hinton each had interceptions.
Marcus Moody had a team-best 13 tackles (one for loss) for Frostburg, while Keith Smith added 11.
AU is in action next on Saturday, Nov. 2, at noon, when the Saxons host Salisbury in a key Empire 8 matchup.


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The Leavenworth County Development Corporation's economic development coordinator has announced she will be leaving the organization next week.
The Leavenworth County Development Corporation's economic development coordinator has announced she will be leaving the organization next week.
Cecilia Harry will leave the position she's had since March 2011 leading, primarily, the business expansion and retention efforts as one of three staff members of LCDC. She will become the executive director for the Greater Fremont Development Council in Fremont, Neb.
"I am excited about the opportunity," she said.
But Harry also said she leaves behind a community that has left an impression on her.
"I've enjoyed the 2 1/2 years that I've had with this community," she said. "Great business people, great place to live, so much potential for this county, so many people passionate about taking Leavenworth County to the next level."
She also praised the county for making her, having grown up in Minnesota and attended college in Indiana and St. Louis, feel at home and for making her feel how much she will be missed.
"You all will be missed just as much," she said.
Harry's last day with LCDC will be Wednesday.
LCDC Executive Director Steve Jack said Harry has represented the organization well, beefing up the number of visits with existing businesses, strengthening social media marketing and heading a trails committee, which recently completed its first printed trails map.
"This is going to be a huge loss for our organization, a huge loss for the communities that Cecilia has invested a lot of time, sweat and passion for over what is now just over two years with our agencies," he said.
Jack said her accomplishments make her shoes hard ones to fill.
"We will miss her enthusiasm, hard work and intellect," he said.
A farewell reception for Harry was held Friday afternoon at the LCDC office. During the reception, she presented Jack with a plaque that reads "best boss ever."
"It's easy to be a good boss when you have an employee and friend like Cecilia," Jack said.


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SKF to demonstrate cost-effective solutions at marine tradeshow Posidonia 2014 in Athens, Greece
2014 May 26, 14:00 CEST
SKF will show customers how to improve sustainability, safety and efficiency with cost-effective solutions for the marine industry at Posidonia 2-6 June 2014
Gothenburg, Sweden, 26 May 2014: SKF will be showing marine customers how to increase efficiency at Posidonia 2014, one of the world's most prestigious maritime events, which takes place in Athens, Greece. SKF's solutions can help users to future proof their vessels and businesses by enabling cost-effective, environmentally-conscious operations that fulfill regulations.
Among the solutions on show will be a new innovation, an environmental monitoring system from SKF Blohm + Voss Industries called TURBULO BlueMon supporting a visualized environmental mapping of vessel emissions.
SKF will also be showcasing coupling solutions exhibits to demonstrate effective condition monitoring and products like SKF Vibracon, the universal, adjustable steel chock that simplifies shaft alignment and machine installation.
SKF experts will be on the stand to discuss these and many other solutions available for the marine industry, offering visitors the opportunity to learn more and discuss their own specific issues.
SKF will also be hosting seminars on Thursday 5th of June covering topics such as how to get condition monitoring right during the new building phase. More information about the seminars, can be found on: http://www.skf.com/group/news-and-media/in-focus/2014-05-20-posidonia.html
Visitors to Posidonia 2014 will find SKF in hall 2 at stand number 2.409.
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Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Release 6.1 -- Problems Replicating Video Terminals
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Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Release 6.1 > Web Conferencing > Configuring > Troubleshooting
When the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Video Integration is deployed on the external web server or cluster of servers in a Segmented Meeting Access configuration, all internal Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing servers must also have the Video Integration installed but not activated. This allows you to utilize the Update All Terminals command of the Replication Service on these servers to manually refresh the list of video terminals from Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Video Administration.
However, in some cases, the internal server online administrative interface will not display the Update All Terminals command even though the Video Integration has been installed on the server. To fix this problem, perform the following procedure.
To Activate the Update All Terminals Replication Service Command
- Verify the Host Video Conferences setting on each Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing server. (The setting should be checked on one DMZ (external) server and unchecked on all other internal and external servers.)
- In the Windows Control Panel, double-click MeetingPlace Gateways .
- Click the Video tab.
- Verify that the Host Video Conferences check box is checked or unchecked as appropriate.
- Note: If you need to change the Host Video Conferences setting, you must stop the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing service, change the value, and then restart the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing service.
- From the internal web server on which the problem occurs, sign in to Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing by using a System Manager-level user profile.
- From the Welcome page, click Admin > Web Server .
- In the View section, click the name of the DMZ web server. The configuration data for the DMZ server appears on the upper section of the page.
- Click Submit without changing any configuration fields.
- Click Back .
- Click Replication Service .
- Verify whether the Update All Terminals field appears in the Replication Service Command drop-down menu.


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Judy Bottler Photography
Exhibited in May, 2008
Trained as a circus aerialist back in the 70s, landscape photographer Judy Bottler still enjoys a touch of "working without a net" through her art. While most photographers have moved from film to digital format, Bottler proudly hauls along the heavier weight of her medium format camera, and prefers its solid, reliable inner mechanics. The Mesa artist was our featured guest in the gallery during May, 2008.
"I carry 26-pounds of gear everywhere I go, and it's worth it! My camera
has no electronics -- just gears and cogs -- so when other photographers are
protecting their batteries from the cold, I'm out there getting the pictures
they're missing! Most of my work now is scenic landscapes and Western-themed.
And I really prefer my medium format film camera over digital because of the
higher quality images."
"It became so boring doing the same show 600 times a year, I had to do something to stay interested, so I got into photography. After a few years, if anyone on the show wanted pictures, they came to me."
"I moved to Arizona in 1975 and freelanced, working for the Mesa Tribune and also Mesa Magazine, and I was the gymnastics team photographer at Arizona State University for 17 years," says Bottler.
Galleries which have represented her photography include Picture Perfect Gallery in Scottsdale and the DeGrazia Museum; Bottler has sold her photography in 12 countries, and been published in a variety of magazines including GQ, Bicycling, PSA, International Gymnast. One personal favorite came with her photo on the cover of the Annual Circus and Carnival Booking Guide. Bottler has won fine art competition best-of-show awards twice at the Lost Dutchman Days event in Apache Junction, and exhibits her work there and at the Gold Canyon Arts Festival.
Bottler belongs to the Mesa Art League and is a juried member of the Arizona
Art Alliance, a statewide organization uniting approximately 20 art leagues.
And she remains an adventurer.
"My nine-to-five job is housecleaning, and every year or two I take a
couple weeks off to go on my "C" trip: Car, Camera, Camping gear,
Cash, Credit Cards, Classical CDs, Clothes, Canned Food, etc.... but my Cat
stays home. I just wander and go wherever the road takes me. I seldom have
a fixed schedule or destination in mind... that way I'm never lost, just exploring.
In 2008 I guess I'm kind of a cultural anachronism: definitely not a computer
person! No website, no cellphone, no pager, no watch. But I do have an answering
machine if anyone would like to see more of my work or contact me about a
shoot or commissioned photography.
Contact the artist by phone at 480-380-2805, or by writing to Judy Bottler, 524 South 89th Place, Mesa, AZ, 85208-2314.
Boyce Thompson Arboretum is located at Highway 60 milepost #223, just three miles west of the town of Superior - a drive of about one hour east of Phoenix or two hours from Tucson (take Oracle Road North to Highway 79 past Florence to Highway 60, then East for another 12 miles). Monthly exhibits may be seen in our Visitor Center gallery daily from 6:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. during May, June, July and August. Fall/winter hours 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The Arboretum is an Arizona State Park and daily admission must be paid to enter the Visitor Center where the gallery is found. Admission is $7.50 for adults and $3 for ages 5-12. Annual memberships at the Arboretum begin at $45, and include a year's access, guest passes for your friends and family, along with many other benefits. A membership may be purchased in the gift shop on the day of your visit. Review other recent gallery shows by ...
Bob Estrin Photography April 2008
Mary Isham Watercolors March 2008
Susan Strom and Cathy Franklin Lightning Photography February, 2008
Arizona State Parks Plein Air Paintings January, 2008
Carolyn Gray & Connie Thomas December, 2007
Jean Sullivan November, 2007
Sue Cullumber October, 2007
Adriane Grimaldi September, 2007
Pima College print-making students July-August, 2007
Mesa Arts League June-July, 2007
Fred Charlton May, 2007
Paul Mudersbach March-April, 2007
Linda Kaiser February, 2007
Edith Kreueger-Nye December, 2006 - January, 2007
Cindy Carrillo October-November, 2006
Bob Rice September, 2006
Bud Heiss July-August, 2006
Mesa Arts League June-July, 2006
Sandy Tracey April-May, 2006
CJ Rider March, 2006
Jessica Green February, 2006
Steve Davidson January, 2006
Don & Carole Schupp December, 2005
Carolyn Gray November, 2005
Martha Burgess October, 2005
Boeing Photographers September, 2005
Lightning Lady Susan Strom July/August, 2005
Mesa Arts League June/July, 2005
Jeanette Bronson May, 2005
Tom Stanley April, 2005
Kathy McClure February-March, 2005
Pam Smyth January, 2005
Tina Faust December, 2004
To return to the main Boyce Thompson Arboretum website CLICK HERE


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Science has claimed that dogs are, in fact, smarter than cats, but it has also suggested that cat owners are smarter than dog owners, so the cat vs. dog debate is really at an impasse. No longer! This video offers indisputable (read: very easily disputed) proof that cats are master chess players and enjoy gourmet meals, while dogs eat used tampons and drive drunk.
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Feb 09, 2006
Feb. 9, 2006
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Behind 25 kills from Praveen Pamidimukkala, the MIT men's volleyball team won its fifth consecutive NECVA New England match by defeating Newbury College, 30-26, 30-26, 30-22 on Wednesday night. The Engineers' record improved to 7-2 on the year and 5-0 in conference play.
Pamidimukkala also tallied 12 digs for his third double-double of the season. Ryan Dean posted 15 digs, becoming a member of the AVCA 15 Dig Club for the fourth time this year. Along with nine kills, Michelangelo Raimondi notched Tech's lone ace. Jordan Wan distributed 47 assists while Scott Pollom recorded two total blocks.