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In View of Nature
Beth Gaston
In View of Nature includes the work of nine artists who explore a range of ideas about nature as a medium and a subject. The exhibition includes large-scale installations, sculpture, photography, video, and computer-based, multimedia work.
Artifice and the representation of nature is examined in the lurid, color-saturated landscapes of Kim Keever. Dramatic vistas, backlighted mountain ledges, and swirling clouds provide the basic elements of these romantic landscapes which seem to epitomize the 19th century sublime. Keever's Cibachrome photographs of other worldly locations leave one wondering where such places might be found. They are, in fact, manufactured with plaster models, gels, lighting, and dyes inside a 150-gallon fish tank.
In Laura Anderson Barbata's Proyecto de Automarcacion (Self-Demarcation Project), natural materials are employed to explore cultural and social issues metaphorically. In this installation orchid leaves shaped in the outlines of a map of the Ye'Kuana territory in the Venezuelan Amazon are interlaced with torn pieces of the New Testament, alluding to the impact of an outside culture on indigenous people, and visually highlighting the path of access. The map, based on boundaries defined by the Ye'Kuana community, describes topological features as well as locations associated with their origin myths. This work, like others which have grown out of Barbata's projects in the region, deal with loss of identity associated with the loss of language and of culture.
Sitting in a chair upholstered in grass (fed by a hydroponics system) one experiences nature through a number of senses in Michele Brody's large-scale installation, Land-Scaping, 1999including the sensation of sitting on damp ground. The smell of grass is immediately apparent. Scrim-like gauze imbedded with seeds create three-dimensional drawings with blades of grass and root systems. The viewer is aligned within the structure to see the gardens, architecture, and life of the campus through this veiloutside the gallery window. The setting is private and contemplative, but at the same time, focuses the viewer's attention beyond to the outside world.
Beth Galston's basic materials are found in nature. In the gallery, twenty-foot fluted columns of sycamore leaves define a space that is almost architectural. Nearby there is a triangular structure in which ginkgo leaves are suspended. Intervening in the natural process of decay, Galston's installations capture light and materials in a urethane resin. Her media includes acorns, seed pods, sweet gum balls, and leaves in a process that imposes an order to the randomness that is nature.
Nade Haley uses light, reflection, and shadows to create installations based on nature. Her sandblasted images on plate glass are derived from photographs she takessalmon swimming up stream, the granular surface of a rock cliff, or the shimmer of water on a lake. Using projected slides, Haley hand-cuts stencils of the image and sandblasts the glass. An illusory pyramid is created by reflected light bouncing off nine squares of glass in the work Pavritti, 1997. Its title from Sanscrit, alludes to seeing things from a new vantage pointlike standing on one's head. In another work, Water II, 1999, light on water glistens and bleeds out of its rectangular framework. These images are as ephemeral as their mediumprojected light.
Rob de Mar's work offers whimsical, stylized out-takes from the natural world and provides a "Toys R Us" vision of naturefrom hilltop landscapes to curving slopes with highways. His biomorphic land-forms on spindle-like stands contain cryptic messagesscrawled into a Southwestern corral or amid a cluster of Northwest pines. Above eye level a stone wall runs along a felted property and its well plunges below the surface of the ground. These sculptures are landscapes in miniature.
Tom Thulen's photographs offer minimalist compositions suggesting the horizon-dominant landscapes of the Midwest. Printed on transparent film, loosely mounted within a box, the compositions use formal and technical devicesrepeated images, overlapped films, and blurred edgesto reduce the landscape to a bare geometry. Rumples and twists of the film produce shadows as an additional element. In Winter Field rows in a farmer's field converge in a vanishing point. A hedge row of skeletal trees in Land Composition #2, 1999, repeats the image within a grided format.
Jim Toia integrates natural materials with man-made. In his work, Abrupt Conversation, 1996, an entire pine tree is cut into segments, bolted with metal plates and hinged together. Arranged in a spiral, its spiky branches seem vaguely threatening. Configured for the site, the the tree has been put in its place by the imposed hardware but is clearly striking back. In another installation, also configured for the site, slices of ornamental plum branches create patterns inspired by mathematics.
Janet Zweig contributes a computer-based work, Everything in the World, 1997, in which a fragile pastel drawing based on a 17th century Dutch landscape (drawn by Laura Bergman), is gradually eroded and destroyed. As the large wheel of computer paper on which the drawing is executed slowly prints, the natural is replaced with the man-made; and the traditional is replaced with the technological. The sounds of a computer printer punctuate the silence of the gallery as horizon, clouds, distant lakes, and fields are translated into a binary code. The code, permutations of all possible combinations, provides the mathematical equivalent to all possible phenomenoneverything in the world.
- Susan Hoeltzel
Installation view of Jim Toia's Abrupt Compensation, 1996. In the background are Kim Keever's Where l go, 1998, Best of Blue, 1998, and Heart Light, 1999.
Installation view of Beth Gastons' Leaf Dreams (2nd Version), 1997 and Sycamore Log, 1998 as well as Nade Haley's Pavritti, 1997.
Rob De Mar
Michele Brody
Janet Zweig
Laura Anderson Barbata
Exhibition Checklist
Michele Brody
Landscaping, 1999
Laura Anderson Barbata
Proyocto deAutodemarcacion (Self-Demarcation Project), 1996
Rob De Mar
I Wonder, 1998
If I Could, 1998
Mountain II, 1998
Beth Galston
Wall Fragment (The Ginkgos Fell Green Last Year), 1998
Leaf Dreams (2nd Version), 1997
Sycamore Log, 1998
Seed Log, 1999 urethane resin and seed pods
Untitled, 1996
Nade Haley
Pavritti, 1997
Water II, 1999
Kim Keever
Where l go, 1998
Best of Blue, 1998
Heart Light, 1999
Jim Toia
Tree of False Assurances with Two Paintings, 1997
Abrupt Compensation, 1996
Tom Thulen
Winter Field, 1999
Lake Michigan Untitled, 1999
Large Lake Horizon, 1998
Land Composition #2 1999
Janet Zweig (with Laura Bergman)
Everything in the World, 1997


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Why We BrewInspired by the nearby Sierra Nevada Mountains, our beers are designed to be as bold, wild and unwavering as those storied granite peaks. With respect to tradition and an unbridled passion for innovation, Sierra Nevada beers are inspired by the philosophy that anything is possible. We are committed to pushing the boundaries of craft beer and we look forward to the day that flavorful beers are the standard throughout the world.
Purest IngredientsPut good in and good will come out. We believe that the best results are born from the best possible ingredients. We insist on the highest quality and freshest ingredients for every beer we brew, with an eye toward the environment, responsible farming and our agricultural future.
Whole-Cone HopsSierra Nevada uses only whole-cone hops for all of our ales and lagers. Whole-cone hops are the flowers of the hop plant in their most natural state, maintaining the precious aromatic oils and resins inside. Whole-cone hops preserve the pure, unique and individual flavors of hops, which creates a clean, bold and pure hop character in the finished beer. Despite our relatively small size, Sierra Nevada uses more whole-cone hops than any brewer in the world!
WaterOf the four main ingredients in beer—water, malt, hops and yeast—water makes up more than 90% of the liquid, but is the most often overlooked. At Sierra Nevada, we're fortunate to have access to some of the greatest water on earth. At both of our brewery sites (California and North Carolina), our principal water source comes from abundant pure mountain water filtered over decades through stone and into deep-well aquifers.
Estate AgricultureAt our brewery in Chico we have a working and vibrant farm. On it we have eight acres of organic hop yards, 30 acres of organic barley, and two acres of vegetables. These estate-grown ingredients provide food for our restaurant and ingredients for a very special handmade beer: Estate® Homegrown Ale.
Traditional TechniquesAs one of the craft brewing pioneers, we stay true to the long and proud history of brewing, but tirelessly push the boundaries of conventional wisdom. We're tinkerers and experimenters, constantly looking for a new spin on traditional techniques. We maintain time-honored, labor-intensive techniques including the use of only whole-cone hops, open fermentation and bottle conditioning, while operating a state-of-the-art, modern brewery. We march toward the future, but our soul stays true to brewing heritage, tradition and the art of making beer.
KettlesOur original 100-barrel brewhouse helped define Sierra Nevada. This solid copper brewhouse was built in the 1960s, and installed in the brewery in 1987. It heats the wort, caramelizing the natural malt-based sugars. Many of our small-batch and limited beers run through this traditional system and, after all these years, the character of those original copper kettles still shines through in our favorite beers.
Open FermentationSome beers just can't be confined to closed-tank fermenters. Beers that feature unique yeast character just won't behave like the others. These beers thrive in traditional open fermenters—steel tanks, open at the top to allow the yeast to breathe, live and be happy. The yeast reacts differently when given this free-range alternative, producing depth, character and flavor in beers like Kellerweis®, Bigfoot® and the Ovila® Abbey Ales series.
Bottle ConditioningPale Ale is a bottle-conditioned beer. This traditional technique of adding yeast and a small amount of sugar to each bottle is used to produce carbonation naturally, enhance shelf life, and create dynamic and complex flavors that change in the bottle. The small swirl of yeast at the bottom of each of our bottles is evidence of this time-honored technique. Other bottle-conditioned beers include: Porter, Stout, Celebration® and Bigfoot®.
Hop TorpedoA new method we created to add hop aroma to beer, the "Hop Torpedo" is a stainless steel device packed with whole-cone hops. Fermenting beer is circulated out of a fermenter, through the column of whole-cone hops, and back into the fermentation tank. This new method has revolutionized how we dry hop our beers, adding intense hop flavor and aroma with no additional bitterness.
On the Wild SideIn 2012, Sierra Nevada took its first cautious steps into working with a yeast called Brettanomyces bruxellensis. Brettanomyces is dangerous because it is a voracious consumer of all things fermentable and imparts a distinctive flavor to beer. To handle this "wild" yeast, we utilized a pharmaceutical grade dosing device to transfer the yeast from airtight kegs directly into the bottle without allowing it to come in contact with any piece of brewing or bottling equipment.
Whole Hops the Whole TimeBecause we use only whole-cone hops and work directly with hop growers, brokers and breeders, we work with hop varietals that are still in development. These unique cutting-edge hops often offer new and interesting aromas and flavors that have never been tested before in beer. We're proud to be at the forefront of this research and excited to see what the next years will bring.
Beer Camp®Our Beer Camp® brewhouse is where our best ideas are born. Here, we develop recipes, try new techniques and turn fun concepts into crazy new beers. At Beer Camp®, nothing is too far out. Nothing is out of bounds. We work with thousands of ingredients from the hop yard and the orchard to the kitchen cupboard to make these beers truly unique.
Pilot BrewhouseOur small, 10-barrel R&D brewery is where new Sierra Nevada beers come to life. From concept to finished product, we taste, trial and test new beers every day that may one day become regular Sierra Nevada brews. The pilot brewery invents a steady stream of new beers that are only available in limited draught, with the occasional bottle available at the brewery.
CollaborationOne of the greatest things about the craft brewing industry is the companionship and camaraderie between brewers. From time to time, we partner up with our colleagues in brewing to work on a new beer together. These unique and often limited edition beers bring something great from each brewery that combine to make a truly one-of-a-kind new beer.
SensoryEvery day, a panel of trained Sierra Nevada sensory experts taste every lot of beer scheduled to go into the market. They evaluate the flavors to ensure that every bottle meets our rigorous standards of quality at every step of the process from ingredient harvest all the way through bottling.
Commitment to EnvironmentIn the early days, there was no such thing as small-scale brewing equipment. Everything we used was built or repurposed for the brewery. Back then, "reduce, reuse, recycle" wasn't a catchphrase, but a business model. This hardscrabble ethos and our roots in Northern California built a deeply felt belief toward stewardship and helped solidify our commitment to the environment.
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PackagingWhenever possible we work with local vendors for our packaging needs. We source packaging containing the highest amount of recyclable content while still meeting our high standards for quality. Kegs are infinitely reusable and refillable without degrading beer quality.
Resource RecoverySierra Nevada works to close the loop wherever possible. This includes resource recovery such as heat and water, but also applies to carbon dioxide. CO2 is a natural byproduct of fermentation. We capture, filter, and compress it for reuse around the brewery in applications such as propelling beer through draught systems, pressurizing tanks and to preparing bottles for filling. We also recycle and compost 99.8% of our total solid waste.
TransportationGetting beer from our brewery onto store shelves is no small feat. We recognize the toll it takes on the environment and we're doing what we can to minimize our impact. The completion of our second brewery in Mills River, NC, will drastically reduce our transportation impact. Sierra Nevada also participates in the voluntary US EPA Smartway Program, which aims to reduce fuel consumption and improve efficiency in truck fleets.
Community"It takes a village to raise a brewery." At Sierra Nevada, we consider the community surrounding our breweries in both California and North Carolina to be extensions of our family. We could never hope to have the success we have today without the generous support of the communities around us. Sierra Nevada is proud to support various agencies and organizations with the goal of bettering our society from sustainable agriculture, clean water and wild-land protection to bicycle-related activities and events and a myriad of other outlets.

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It was 20 years ago. Los Angeles was burning. I could smell the smoke. There were reports that a camera store a few blocks away was on fire. I called my friend who lived in the hills and had a police car in front of her house because her husband was an elected official.
I put my daughter in the car seat, a case of wine in the trunk and all the diapers I had in the back seat, and I crawled across a paralyzed and terrified city.
I had lived in the city for three years. I remembered the �problems� in Boston when I was a kid and the schools were being integrated. I remembered the demonstrations against the Vietnam War. I had seen pictures of the riots in 1968. I had never smelled smoke like this.
In retrospect, it seems like everyone but the Los Angeles police knew that there could be trouble. No Internet, but the tape of Rodney King being beaten by police officers must have been played a thousand times.
Years before, I�d met Daryl Gates, the legendary and notorious police chief, at a conference on policing at Harvard. New data was being discussed that showed that a small percentage of all criminals commit a large percentage of all violent crimes. The question was how you identify the most dangerous offenders early enough in their careers to make a dent in crime, without infringing on the civil liberties of those who might be wrongly identified. The statistics guys were evaluating various criteria that could be applied to those already in prison to determine who should be incapacitated for longer. The room was full of police chiefs, many of them part of the new wave of African-American chiefs. The attorney general was there, along with top Justice Department officials. The discussion was serious.
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There were many memorable things about those days and nights. Learning that the police chief and the mayor were not on speaking terms was one. Realizing that the LAPD had no plan to deal with the possible reaction should the all-white jury in Simi Valley (home to many retired police officers) acquit the officers shown on tape beating King � which they did � was another. Accounts of patrol officers who had been warning for months that a plan was needed and higher officers returning to work to find that no one was in charge were pretty stunning in light of the department�s reputation for almost militaristic discipline and control. Many people, to this day, believe that the absence of a plan was intentional.
When he finally left the party, Gates commented that there would be some people who would be unprotected. There were. Ironically, most of them were among the city�s poorest.
I went home with my diapers and wine after two nights. Even then, there were dusk-to-dawn curfews. My longtime housekeeper�s apartment had burned down. She and her family had been camping at my house even while my daughter and I headed for the hills. We all got pizza before the curfew. We drew the shades. You could hear the sirens, but they were some distance away. There was all kinds of talk about how the rioters might come to Beverly Hills; there were pictures of SWAT teams outside the posh stores. But it never happened. It was not the 1 percent at the top who suffered; it was those at the very bottom.
Much has changed since then. Prop F passed. The LAPD is different, and so are the demographics of the city. Barack Obama is president. Even so, the furor surrounding the killing of Trayvon Martin, the flood of suspicion and distrust it unleashed and the prospect of a racially polarized trial make clear that many things have not changed in 20 years.
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Monthly Archives: August 2012
Beatles Song History: Act Naturally
Thanks to everyone that came out to see Doctor Robert, The Colorado Beatles Tribute band in August. We enjoyed playing a variety of venues around Colorado. We started the month playing a private house party in Aspen, with many Aspen locals including Lance Armstrong in the audience. We had the honor of opening the music entertainment for the first annual Big Denver BBQ Block Party at Skyline Park in downtown Denver. What an amazing event this was, with international acts such as The Felice Brothers and Shaniqua Copeland as headliners. Be sure to catch it next summer when it returns to the Mile High City. We headlined the 40th annual Festival of the Arts in downtown Crested Butte, which included some great acts such as Bonnie and The Clydes from Lyons, Colorado and Bruce Hayes from Howard, Colorado. We finshed our August gigs with a return to The Ritz Grill in downtown Colorado Springs for a performance after the USA Pro Cycling Challenge finish just down the block.
September is going to be a great month for Doctor Robert, The Beatles Tribute band from way up in the mountains in Crested Butte, Colorado. Look for us to return to a few small town venues, starting September 13th at Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village. We're very excited to play the night before Blues and Brews starts, we'll play two 90-minute sets starting at 8:00.
Friday, September 14th brings us back to The Depot Saloon in Lake City, show starts at 8:00. This is the night before the Lake City Wine Festival begins, so it should be quite a memorable night of Beatles music for everyone involved. Last time we played here, the entire room was dancing and/or singing along to every song. We had a hard time saying "good night" as people just wanted more.
On Saturday, September 15th, we are excited to play our second show at Wildwood Sounds in Del Norte, with a showtime of 7:30. Stephen and Konnie have put together such an amazing little music venue, with great acoustics and awesome vintage theater seating. This is still one of the best "shows" we've played, as the audience is there to listen to every note played, melody sung, and story told. This small town in southern Colorado sure knows how to appreciate music, and we are grateful for the chance to play Wildwood again.
The 21st annual Octoberfest party in Gunnison will be held on Friday, September 28th from 3:30 to 6:30. We're delighted to be asked to perform for this party, put on by The Gunnison Bank. Over 1000 people are in attendance each year, and the Gunnison Bank gives away free food and beer to anyone that comes. We love playing our home valley, and Gunnison is always a great town for The Doctor.
Meanwhile, back in the studio, Doc Rob has been busy working on a few new songs during our time off from the road. Look for a few heavy hitters to start appearing in the coming months, such as the #1 all-time Beatles composition "A Day in the Life" from the Sergeant Pepper album, and the hauntingly beautiful "Because" from the Abbey Road album. Though we've played "Act Naturally" a few times now, it is with great pleasure to announce that the lead vocals will be passed on to our drummer, Ben Wright, for his debut singing in Dr. Robert. Be sure to give Ben some encouragement as he may be more nervous than Ringo was when he first sang it on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1965.
Here's a quick history of the song, as far as The Beatles is concerned. It was actually written by Johnny Russell and Voni Morrison, but made widely popular by The Beatles on the Help! album. This is all according to an amazing website full of Beatles songwriting facts, http://www.BeatlesEBooks.com:
" Country and Western is not usually the genre of music one thinks of whenever the music of The Beatles comes up in a conversation. Nonetheless, this type of music was always very highly respected by the group. "I heard country-and-western music in Liverpool before I heard rock'n'roll," recalled John Lennon. "There were established folk, blues and country-and-western clubs in Liverpool before rock'n'roll…I started imitating Hark Williams when I was fifteen, before I could play the guitar."
One member who especially loved this form of music was Ringo Starr. "I used to love country music and country rock," Ringo relates. As related in his book "Ticket To Ride," Larry Kane asked Ringo in 1965: "What were some of the influences on you as a musician?" Unhesitatingly he replied, "Well, been listening to American country songs since I was a kid, y'know. Think all of us loved the sound. Maybe John and Paul put a little of that in their sound, y'know." In fact, both John and Paul have revealed in interviews that some of their songs were written with country music in mind, these including "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party," "I'm A Loser" and even "All My Loving." Also, of course, The Beatles choice of covering three Carl Perkins songs shows a country leaning as well. "Carl Perkins was really country, just with more backbeat," Lennon stated in 1973.
When asked to choose a song to sing on their fifth British album, it was only natural for Ringo to pick something from this genre. "I sang 'Act Naturally' in 'Help!,'" Ringo explains. "I found it on a Buck Owens record and I said, 'This is the one I am going to be doing,' and they said 'OK.'" This ended up being the very last cover song the Beatles ever officially released, with the exception of the short ad-libbed "Maggie Mae" that was haphazardly thrown onto the "Let It Be" album in 1970."
We hope you'll come and see us at a show nearby, thanks again for all the support!
Ben, Kevin, Karen, Casey
Song History: Doctor Robert
We named our Beatles tribute band, Doctor Robert, after track #11 on the Revolver album. It's a more obscure song and a lot of people don't know the history behind the song, if they know the song at all. There's a funny story behind the idea, as there are with many John Lennon songs. We like to think of our band "Doctor Robert" as medicinal MUSIC, a drug more powerful than all others. Here's the history, according to a great website www.BeatlesEBooks.com:
"So, when was the first time that you suspected from listening to their music that The Beatles were using drugs? Most first generation fans would probably point to songs from the year 1967, such as the lyric "I get high with a little help from my friends," or the imagery used in "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds," not to mention the supposed message hidden in the initials of that song. The year 1968 gave us clues as well, such as the lyrics "I need a fix 'cause I'm going down" from "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" and "the deeper you go, the higher you fly" from "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey."
While there are probably many other examples that can be pointed to, the first obvious indication was on the 1966 "Revolver" album (or "Yesterday…And Today" album in the US). Only the naive would have thought that "Dr. Robert" was a song about John's family 'ear, nose and throat' physician. But then again, young fans may have thought just that! John's longtime friend Pete Shotton remembers, "When John first played me the acetate of 'Dr. Robert,' he seemed beside himself with glee over the prospect of millions of record buyers innocently singing along."
While the group had been drug users for awhile before this time, they had only hinted at this fact in their music up to this point. The lyrics "turns me on" was slyly included in the song "She's A Woman," and the description of a woman as being a "Day Tripper" were two notable examples, but they were included in such a way that not many would suspect anything. "The Word" was admittedly written under the influence of marijuana, as was a lot of the "Rubber Soul" album, but that was also veiled in disguise. It wasn't until 1966 that they threw all caution to the wind and released a song that was blatantly about a drug pusher.
The subject matter may have been clear, but the real curiosity here was with his identity. Who really was "Dr. Robert"?
"It's all about a queer!" This was John Lennon's response when asked about the song during an interview. Keep in mind, however, that when he was asked about the inspiration behind "Eleanor Rigby" his response was "two queers." Also, when a reporter asked what they thought about a Time Magazine article that explained "Day Tripper" as being about a prostitute and "Norwegian Wood" as being about a lesbian, Paul's response was "We were just trying to write songs about prostitutes and lesbians, you know." Obviously they were joking at the expense of those who were trying to interpret their music. Therefore, we can easily rule out "Dr. Robert" being about a "queer."
Another curious quote from John about the song came in 1980. "It was about myself. I was the one that carried all the pills on tour and always have done. Well, in the early days. Later on the roadies did it, and we just kept them in our pockets loose, in case of trouble."
While this appears to be the final word on the matter, there seems to be more to the story. Referring to a New York doctor that they'd heard about, Paul explains: "We'd hear people say, 'You can get anything off him, any pills you want.' It was a big racket. The song was a joke about this fellow who cured everyone of everything with all these pills and tranquilizers. He just kept New York high."
Pete Shotton attempts to add more details to the story: "John paid sardonic tribute to an actual New York doctor. His real name was Charles Roberts, whose unorthodox prescriptions had made him a great favorite of Andy Warhol's entourage and, indeed, of The Beatles themselves, whenever they passed through town."
As for the Beatles actually visiting this doctor, Paul himself puts this to rest, saying, "As far as I know, neither of us ever went to a doctor for those kind of things. But there was a fashion for it and there still is. Change your blood and have a vitamin shot and you'll feel better." Since The Beatles have been very candid about their drug use during those years, the above statement appears to have the ring of truth.
One other detail that needs clarification is the name Charles Roberts. Probably because of Pete Shotton's account, this physicians' name had been well circulated in Beatles lore for a time. However, in Steve Turner's book "A Hard Day's Write," it is explained that a New York doctor by this name "didn't exist. It was an alias used by the biographer of Warhol actress Edie Sedgwick, Jean Stein, to conceal the identity of another 'speed doctor.'"
The speculation about the identity of "Dr. Robert" is convincingly cleared up in Paul McCartney's book "Many Years From Now." Co-author Barry Miles, reiterating Paul's account, explains as follows: "In fact, the name was based on the New York Dr. Feelgood character Dr. Robert Freymann, whose discreet East 78th Street clinic was conveniently located for Jackie Kennedy and other wealthy Upper East Siders from Fifth Avenue and Park to stroll over for their vitamin B-12 shots, which also happened to contain a massive dose of amphetamine. Dr. Robert's reputation spread and it was not long before visiting Americans told John and Paul about him."
German born Robert Freymann, sometimes known as Dr. Robert or "The Great White Father" (reportedly because of having a tuft of white hair), continued his practice in New York for many years administering legal amphetamines in larger than needed doses to mostly well-to-do clients. "I have a clientele that is remarkable, from every sphere of life," he has stated. "I could tell you in ten minutes probably 100 famous names who come here." He continued his practice until he was expelled from the New York State Medical Society in 1975 for malpractice. His book "What's So Bad About Feeling Good?" was published in 1983. He passed away in 1987.
About the writing of the song, Paul recalls: "John and I thought it was a funny idea: the fantasy doctor who would fix you up by giving you drugs, it was a parody on that idea. It's just a piss-take." As early as 1967, Paul explained the meaning of the song: "That's what 'Doctor Robert' is all about, just a pill doctor who sees you all right. It was a joke between ourselves, but they go in in-jokes and come out out-jokes, because everyone listens and puts their own thing on it, which is great. I mean, when I was young I never knew what 'gilly gilly otsen feffer casta nell a bogen' was all about, but I still enjoyed singing it."
As to who wrote what, John said in his 1972 interview with Hit Parader Magazine that it was mostly written by him, but then stated "I think Paul helped with the middle." The sentiment expressed by Paul in his statements about the song seems to corroborate this point.
With a remarkable four month rest period from nearly anything Beatles related, stretching from the completion of their last British tour on December 12th, 1965 to their first EMI recording session of the year on April 6th, 1966, the song "Dr. Robert" can easily be estimated to have been written during this time. It was undoubtedly another product of a writing session between the two composers at John's Kenwood mansion."
Doctor Robert, The Beatles Tribute
Doctor Robert, The Beatles tribute from Crested Butte, Colorado, has been off for a few weeks due to a family emergency. We look forward to bringing our modern version of Beatles covers to The Ritz Grill in Colorado Springs on Friday, August 24th at 8:30. We appreciate everyone's support around Colorado over the past two years, and love to see familiar faces. We called ourselves Doctor Robert, which is track #11 on Revolver. Some people call us Dr. Robert, some call us Doctor Roberts, some call us Dr. Roberts, some call us DocRob. We think of it as a tribute band from Crested Butte, CO, but some call us a Beatles cover band. We're just happy that so many call us any of the above, so keep the nicknames coming.
Here's a few videos from August 3rd at a private party in Aspen. These songs rarely make an appearance in Doctor Robert's live performances but are just as fun to perform as the rest.


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Hey, man, can you help me out? I beat the game and now I can only replay the levels as young Guts, I cannot choose costumes or anything. Also, how do I unlock Femto? Thanks in advance.
pre-order bonus for buying at EB games in Canada(don't know if its the same at gamestop in the US probably is) six dlc costumes 2 for guts 2 for griffith and 2 for Schierke but no wet clothes casca https://www.ebgames.ca/Platform/Games/726683
Don't suppose there's a way to pre order it for PC yet at all to get those skins? (I'll be checking on Steam religiously but I don't want to miss out on that Pirate Schierke. It's so bad, I need it.)
Hey guys.So, I put together a kind of review/thoughts/impressions video of Berserk Musou ahead of the Western release. Please take a look and let me know what you think:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG5-NTpU7zkI apologize for my terrible recording quality. I was using the PS4 capture and the crappy iMovie record function with no microphone.
Pre-order page is available on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/502280/$59.99 base price, release is Feb 21.
It cracked into the Top 10 Selling games on Steam today.
I've played the prologue and 5 missions. I hate to be the negative nancy, but if this wasn't Berserk there is no way on earth I'd touch this game. I knew going in the formula looked generic, but wow. There is no strategy at all. On hard. Button mash as a ton of ai stands around. This is to video games as the 2016 anime was to Berserk imo.


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Opening tomorrow is director Joe Wright's adaptation of the classic Leo Tolstoy novel Anna Karenina. The film takes place in late 19th century Russian society and stars Keira Knightley as an adulterer who questions her happiness. In true Wright fashion, this isn't exactly a straightforward adaptation; the director has set much of the film in a lush theater that uses over 100 interconnected sets to allow the action to move fluidly through a door and into a separate setting entirely. The film also stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, and Olivia Williams. For more on Anna Karenina, here's Matt's review, five clips, and all our previous coverage.
At the press day, I spoke to Jude Law. We talked about what it was like to collaborate with Joe Wright and his unique camera angles, how he found out Wright wanted to tell the story in an unconventional way, the status of the 3rd Sherlock Holmes movie with Robert Downey Jr., and a lot more. Hit the jump to watch.
Finally, click here if you missed my video interview with Keira Knightley.
Jude Law:
- We talked about Superman and Law mentions he thinks Aaron Johnson looks a bit like Terrenace Stamp in the film
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When traveling, I find it best to blend in with the locals as best you can.
I think I blended:
In fact, I blended so well that locals were all speaking Hebrew to me. When I stopped them and said I was from America, they would always respond, "But you're Jewish, right?" I would tell them, "No, I'm not Jewish." I was told, "You could be!" Uhhh…Thank you?
I was performing as part of a tour called "Comedy for Koby" a foundation that helps families who've lost loved ones to terror attacks. I can't think of a better use for Comedy.
I went once before but that time I brought Mark and Nate. Nate was 2. The only thing I did on that trip was look for diapers and a place to change them. Oh, we climbed Masada…with Nate strapped to my back.
But this time I got to be a tourist. In a nutshell I:
Went to the Souk (Avi lied…it was NOTHING like the mall.)
I bought some:
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I visited the Western Wall:
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I got my watch fixed:
And saw the bald head of the Governor of FL:
I met the most amazing people and made them my friends:
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whats the difference between astronaut and spacewalker?
when we say that "rice has been a staple of Hopi diet for centuries" whats the meaning of staple here? doesnt it mean the important part?
(1) What's the difference between "astronaut" and "spacewalker"?
(2) When we say that "rice has been a staple of Hopi diet for centuries", what's the meaning of "staple" here? Doesn't it mean the important part?
Please put questions that are not related to each other in separate posts.
You should try to write in correct English, especially if you are a teacher.
(1) An astronaut is somebody trained to travel in outer space. Some astronauts are required to walk in space, some are not. So not all astronauts are spacewalkers.
(2) Yes, here "staple" means the main part or a very important part of the diet.
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Underride crashes can be catastrophic for people in passenger vehicles that run into the backs of heavy trucks. The steel guards on the backs of big rigs are supposed to stop smaller vehicles from sliding underneath trailers, but a new Institute analysis of real-world crashes indicates that too often rear guards intended to prevent underride buckle or break away from their trailers — with deadly consequences. To understand how this happens, the Institute ran a series of crash tests and discovered that guards meeting federal safety standards can fail in relatively low-speed crashes. Based on this research, the Institute is petitioning the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to require underride guards that are strong enough to remain in place during a crash and to broaden rules to mandate guards for more large trucks and trailers.
Underride and injury severityin 115 real-world crashes
Any crash between a large truck and a passenger vehicle is a risky event. In 2009, 70 percent of the 3,163 people who died in large truck crashes were occupants of cars or other passenger vehicles. Underride makes death or serious injury more likely since the upper part of the passenger vehicle's occupant compartment typically crushes as the truck body intrudes into the vehicle safety cage. Rear guards are the main countermeasure for reducing underride deaths and injuries.
A 2009 Institute study and a similar one by NHTSA examined why people still die in crashes despite tremendous advances in passenger vehicle occupant protection. Underride crashes with large trucks were identified as among the most deadly (see "Crash data of good-rated vehicles could be used to develop new tests," March 7, 2009, and "NHTSA examines fatal crash factors," Feb. 6, 2010).
"Cars' front-end structures are designed to manage a tremendous amount of crash energy in a way that minimizes injuries for their occupants," says Adrian Lund, Institute president. "Hitting the back of a large truck is a game changer. You might be riding in a vehicle that earns top marks in frontal crash tests, but if the truck's underride guard fails — or isn't there at all — your chances of walking away from even a relatively low-speed crash aren't good."
NHTSA has estimated that about 423 people in passenger vehicles die each year when their vehicles strike the backs of large trucks. More than 5,000 passenger vehicle occupants are injured.
Pinpointing precisely how many large truck underride deaths occur each year is difficult because federal databases that track crashes are known to underestimate the incidence of underride. A 1997 Institute study estimated that underride occurred in half of fatal crashes between large trucks and passenger vehicles (see "FARS undercounts fatal large truck-car underride crashes," Feb. 15, 1997).
To identify crash patterns leading to rear underride of heavy trucks and semi-trailers with and without guards, Institute researchers analyzed case files from the Large Truck Crash Causation Study, a federal database of roughly 1,000 real-world crashes in 2001-03. Underride was a common outcome of the 115 crashes involving a passenger vehicle striking the back of a heavy truck or semi-trailer. Only 22 percent of the crashes didn't involve underride or had only negligible underride, a finding in line with prior studies.
Nearly half of the passenger vehicles had underride damage classified as severe or catastrophic, meaning the entire front end or more of the vehicle slid beneath the truck, resulting in loss of survival space in the occupant compartment due to intrusion. These vehicles accounted for 23 of the 28 crashes in which someone in the passenger vehicle died.
Many of the cases of severe underride involved trucks and trailers exempt from underride-related safety standards. More than half of the trucks in the study weren't required to have guards, although many had them anyway. The two largest exempt groups were trailers with rear wheels set very close to the back of the trailer and straight trucks (single-unit trucks with a cab and cargo body on one chassis). Dump trucks represented a particularly hazardous category of straight truck. They accounted for about one-third of the straight trucks but half of all the straight truck crashes involving severe or catastrophic underride.
When trailers did have regulation guards, researchers identified 3 main failure modes. The most common reason was simply that the attachment between the guard and trailer was weak. This was the case in wide overlap crashes (involving the center of the guard) when the attachment between the guard's vertical supports and trailer chassis broke where the guard was bolted or welded to the trailer. Weakness also was a problem in narrow overlap crashes where a passenger vehicle struck one outboard end of a guard's main horizontal beam, causing it to bend forward or shear off completely. In the third type of failure, an underride guard remained attached to its trailer, but the trailer chassis itself buckled, causing the guard to rotate up and forward.
The Institute didn't attempt to compare the performance of underride guards built before and after the 1996 release of upgraded federal standards regarding guard size, strength testing, and energy absorption. NHTSA recently did try to see if guards complying with the rules that took effect in 1998 reduce death and injury risk for people in passenger vehicles. In a technical report published in late 2010, the agency said it couldn't identify a decline in underride deaths, mainly because the Fatality Analysis Reporting System doesn't record trailer model years and other details needed to determine whether a particular trailer was covered by the current rule. Databases from North Carolina and Florida that contained model year information suggested there may have been an improvement, but the number of crashes was small and other details were missing so the estimates were inconclusive.
The Institute's study raised questions about how and why guards failed, so researchers followed up with a series of 6 crash tests evaluating 3 semi-trailer rear guards complying with U.S. rules. Two of the trailers also are certified to Canadian requirements, which are more stringent than the United States when it comes to strength and energy absorption. The tests involved crashing a 2010 Chevrolet Malibu into the rear of parked trailers.
The goal wasn't to evaluate the Malibu's crashworthiness. The midsize sedan is an Institute Top Safety Pick and earns a 5-star safety rating in NHTSA's New Car Assessment Program.
"The aim was to see if some underride guards perform better than others and to identify what crash speeds and configurations produce different types of failure," Lund says. "Damage to the cars in some of these tests was so devastating that it's hard to watch the footage without wincing. If these had been real-world crashes there would be no survivors."
Decapitation is a threat in underride crashes. In 3 of the crash tests the heads of the dummies in the underriding car made contact with either the intruding trailer or the car's hood after it tore free and pushed into the occupant compartment. One such test involved a Hyundai trailer whose underride guard bent forward, sheared its attachment bolts, and broke after the Malibu hit it in the center rear at 35 mph. This was the weakest guard tested. The trailer was manufactured by Hyundai Translead, a San Diego, Calif.-based subsidiary of South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co.
In contrast, a Wabash trailer outfitted with a guard certified to Canadian specifications successfully prevented underride of the Malibu's passenger compartment in a center-rear test at 35 mph. The trailer was manufactured by Lafayette, Ind.-based Wabash National Corp. Its guard was the strongest of the 3 evaluated.
"It's clear to our engineers that Wabash understands how underride guards and trailers work together as a unit instead of treating them as separate components," Lund says. "Strong attachments kept the Wabash guard in place so it could engage the Malibu, allowing the car's structure to absorb and manage the crash energy. In the real world, this would be a survivable crash."
To find out what happens when a car hits the trailer with only part of its front instead of head-on, the Institute ran offset tests with overlaps of 50 percent and 30 percent. When the Institute evaluates passenger vehicles in its frontal crashworthiness program, it uses a 40 percent overlap test at 40 mph.
In a 25 mph test with a 50 percent overlap, the guard on a Vanguard trailer tore away, allowing moderate underride. At 35 mph with the same overlap the underride was severe. The trailer was manufactured by Vanguard National Trailer Corp., a Monon, Ind.-based subsidiary of China International Marine Containers Ltd. The guard is certified to U.S. and Canadian standards.
Vanguard trailer, 35 mph test, 50 percent overlap; SEVERE UNDERRIDE due to failed attachments connecting the underride guard to the trailer.
Wabash trailer, 35 mph test, 50 percent overlap; NO UNDERRIDE even though the struck end of the guard bent forward.
Wabash trailer, 35 mph test, 30 percent overlap; SEVERE UNDERRIDE as the struck end bent forward.
After the Wabash's good performance in the full-width test, engineers had high hopes for the offset tests. The guard successfully prevented underride in the test where the Vanguard failed (50 percent overlap at 35 mph), even though the struck end started to bend forward. The outcome for the Wabash was different when the overlap was reduced to 30 percent. The struck end of the guard again bent forward, and this time there was severe underride.
This test shows that even the strongest guard left as much as half of the rear of the trailer vulnerable to severe underride. The guard only worked as intended when the striking car engaged the center.
"The best underride guard was a big improvement over the weakest one, but it still failed when hit near the outermost end of the guard," Lund says. "Failures like this were among the most common in our analysis of real-world crashes. Canada's underride standard is tougher than U.S. requirements but still not strong enough or comprehensive enough to prevent underride in crash configurations that cause many severe injuries."
Offset tests stress guards' unsupported outboard ends. The vertical frame supports that attach guards to their trailer chassis are located closer to guards' centers than ends. Preventing underride in narrow overlap crashes like these might mean devising a new way of attaching guards to trailers to utilize the side rails, in addition to requiring manufacturers to conduct compliance tests with guards on trailers.
"Under current certification standards, the trailer, underride guard, bolts, and welding don't have to be tested as a whole system," Lund points out. "That's a big part of the problem. Some manufacturers do test guards on the trailer. We think all guards should be evaluated this way. At the least, all rear guards should be as strong as the best one we tested."
Another problem is that regulatory gaps allow many heavy trucks to forgo guards altogether. When they are present on exempt trucks, guards don't have to meet 1996 rules for strength or energy absorption.
"Underride standards haven't kept pace with improvements in passenger vehicle crashworthiness," Lund says. "Absent regulation, there's little incentive for manufacturers to improve underride countermeasures, so we hope NHTSA will move quickly on our petition."
IIHS has been studying the underride problem for decades, but federal standards have been slow to change.
This is how a Malibu looks after a 40 mph frontal crash with another car. The front structure managed the crash energy to preserve survival space in the occupant compartment. The Malibu is a TOP SAFETY PICK.
This is how a Malibu looks after a 35 mph crash into a trailer with a weak underride guard. The car's front crumple zone never got the chance to do its job because the guard failed. In a real crash, people could have been decapitated.
When a Chevrolet Malibu, a TOP SAFETY PICK, struck the back of a Hyundai trailer in the full-width test at 35 mph, damage was so severe that people in a real crash like this test would have died. The underride guard bent forward, shearing its attachment bolts and pulling away from the trailer. This was the weakest underride guard the Institute evaluated.
In contrast, the Wabash trailer's guard successfully stopped the car from underriding the trailer. The Wabash was the strongest of the 3 underride guards the Institute evaluated.
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At Sabre Yachts our goal has always been to fulfill the dreams and wishes of our boat owners by listening carefully to their requests and blending their ideas into exciting designs. We consider our owners and potential owners to be valued members of the Sabre Design Team. The Sabre 40 is the result of our observation that our clients want to enjoy the same levels of personal luxury and comfort that they have come to expect in their homes and in their automobiles. To that end we have developed a style of sedan, available with or without fly bridge, that permits boaters to operate from the comfort of the yacht's interior or from the openness of an optional fly bridge. Technology is advancing rapidly and our owners have come to expect that if there is a new technology available, we will employ it in our designs. We have dramatically changed the way we build our yachts and the way in which they are propelled. Traditional values such as fine craftsmanship and great looks remain, as our owners have come to expect, but below the surface things are state-of-the-art.In our fiberglass shop we have changed infusion molding. It is greener in the sense that it uses considerably less resin and cleaner in that the emissions levels are much lower. It's lighter because we use less resin and that allows the hull to run faster and use less fuel. Infusion differs from traditional hand lay-up in that all materials are loaded dry into the mold in a stack, the stack is then covered with a plastic bag and resin is infused into the stack. This creates a stronger part with higher glass to resin ratios. With Zeus Pod everything has changed and nothing remains the same. The smaller engines using vectored thrust propel the boat at higher speeds using less fuel. And when maneuvering in tight spaces a joy stick makes child's play of docking.
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Specialty gifts retailer UncommonGoods LLC was able to increase the number of items it recommends on each of its product pages from four to 20 with software from vendor Baynote Inc. Not only do the recommendations expose customers to more of the thousands of items in UncommonGoods' catalog than before, but the software shows them a more diverse array of products, too, says director of marketing Brian Hashemi.
Since first testing the technology three years ago, the retailer has rolled it out beyond product pages into e-mail messages as well, he says. Customers who click on one of Baynote's recommendations in e-mails convert 19.9% more often than when they click on other e-mail links, he says. "They add a good amount of revenue we wouldn't have seen otherwise," he says, without giving specifics.
Recommendation engines to promote cross-selling and up-selling on a web site are critical for e-retailers to help shoppers discover products that they might not find using site navigation guides, says Forrester Research Inc. analyst Sucharita Mulpuru-Kodali. While she says recommendations generally account for less than 10% of items shoppers put in their carts, she adds, "the more that recommendations are exposed throughout the site experience, the higher that percent is."
Previously, UncommonGoods' buyers had to manually create product recommendations for each of the thousands of items they collectively purchased, Hashemi says. At about five to 10 minutes per item, that process added up to a lot of time, he says. Moreover, with that many items for sale on the site, picking the best pieces to display together wasn't always easy for the retailer's buyers. "Our products are so diverse that it's actually a really complex problem to try and make relevant recommendations," Hashemi says.
In contrast, Baynote's algorithms can quickly search through all the options and find items that may not be an obvious match but that share characteristics that might appeal to a particular shopper, Hashemi says. For example, Baynote might suggest a brightly colored beach bag to someone who was looking at a brightly colored vase, even though those two items are otherwise unrelated.
The recommendation engine then goes one step further and tracks customer behavior and interactions with the products it displays. That data include how long customers view particular product pages, how far down they scroll, what they purchase and what other items they click on, among other attributes, Hashemi says. "It's more than just a binary 'did they look at this or not,'" he says.
Through Baynote's web-based dashboard, UncommonGoods can also set up tests for new recommendation algorithms. For instance, the retailer spent about two months testing recommendations within the shopping cart and whether the prices of those items—such as suggesting nothing above $30—would influence a customer's likelihood of adding an impulse purchase to her order, Hashemi says. The results weren't astounding enough for UncommonGoods to add the new recommendations to the shopping cart permanently, but it didn't cost extra or take much time to conduct the test, Hashemi says.
The technology has paid for itself already in the time saved creating recommendations by hand, he says. The retailer pays a monthly fee for the Internet-hosted software, which includes support and service, he says, declining to share exact costs. Baynote pricing begins at $3,000 per month and scales up to $10,000 or more per month for its largest clients, depending on their web site traffic and the services they use, the company says.
UncommonGoods is No. 562 in the Internet Retailer Second 500 Guide.


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One meeting after approving pay raises for themselves, the Yellow Medicine County Board of Commissioners voted for a six percent raise to salaries for both the YMC Attorney and YMC Sheriff.
In a unanimous vote the board approved the six percent pay raises for County Attorney Keith Helgeson and Sheriff Bill Flaten in 2013, which broke down to a five percent pay increase and a one percent cost of living adjustment.
One meeting after approving pay raises for themselves, the Yellow Medicine County Board of Commissioners voted for a six percent raise to salaries for both the YMC Attorney and YMC Sheriff.
In a unanimous vote the board approved the six percent pay raises for County Attorney Keith Helgeson and Sheriff Bill Flaten in 2013, which broke down to a five percent pay increase and a one percent cost of living adjustment.
For Helgeson, this means a bump in pay of about $5,571.96, which will bring his annual salary up to $98,437.96 from $92,866. Flaten, meanwhile, will make $4,813.26 more in annual salary; bringing his pay up to $85,034.26.
Comparatively, County Attorneys, who work full time in the state of Minnesota, like Helgeson, make anywhere between $68,000-$156,000, according to an annual salary survey. Meanwhile, the nationwide average for County Sheriffs and Police Chief salaries is roughly $96,665.
"I don't like doing this. I don't want to do this," said Sheriff Bill Flaten when discussing his salary with the board. "It's uncomfortable, but we need to maintain the position as an attractive job so we can attract the most qualified personnel in the future. We all chose these jobs that operate in the public eye—and I'm betting we all chose them in part for that reason."
The discussion gave all the board members an opportunity to detail the criticism received from constituents over the past couple of weeks after they voted 3-2 in favor of a 10.6 percent pay raise for themselves that brought their own compensation package up to roughly $38,500.
All commissioners said they heard from several constituents concerning the pay increase and defended their positions. Freshman commissioner John Berends, a dissenting vote against the commissioners pay increase, said his discussions on the matter usually ended with him asking the question "What is fair?"
"No one seemed able to answer that," said Berends.
For Flaten's sake, Berends' requested that he enumerate some of his duties that are not typically part of a county sheriff's responsibilities. In addition to the sheriff's office Flaten also oversees a county jail, is system administrator of the ARMER emergency radio system and oversees emergency management for the county in addition to his statutory duties.
Tax abatement in Canby
The board refused to have a public hearing on a request for a tax abatement by owners of the Subway Restaurant in Canby, ending any possibility of an abatement for 4Lancers, Inc., which built the restaurant in 2011.
"Unless you can show me a financial statement that shows you're going to fold without an abatement, I'm not in favor of it," Commissioner Gary Johnson said.
The company was requesting a 10-year tax abatement of $1,100 per year. The city of Canby has already granted the company an abatement.
"I'm in the restaurant business," said Commissioner John Berends, owner of Bootleggers Supper Club, "and if the county granted any other restaurant in town an abatement, I'd be upset. I've had bad years, and I've had to dip into my savings, but a thousand dollars doesn't make that much difference for a restaurant."
In the end, only Commissioner Louis Sherlin, representing the Canby area, voted to schedule a public hearing.
Hagelstrom to retire
County Parks Director Myron Hagelstrom announced his retirement to the YMC board of commissioners Thursday.
Hagelstrom has been a part-time summer employee of the county for the past 33 years.
"My wife retired a few years ago, and she keeps going back to work," Hagelstrom said. "It's about time we really retired."
By "really retire", Hagelstrom means he'll officially retire at the end of the year and donate his services gratis to help break in a new park director when the board hires one.
Hagelstrom's impact on the county was displayed in the meeting when County Attorney Keith Helgeson added a personal note of appreciation for Hagelstrom as Hagelstrom detailed the number of youth he's employed in the summers saying, "I worked for Myron on the parks 30 years ago."
Hagelstrom was also a long time educator for Lakeview Schools.


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