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Comedian LaTice was a guest on The View last week, where she was featured in their "Hilarious Housewives" stand-up competition. You can see her set from the show online.
You can read reviews of night three and five of last week's Philly Sketchfest from Philadelphia Weekly online.
Philadelphia's own Dom Irrera will be headlining at Helium Comedy Club this week. The home-grown comedian is known for his many stand-up specials, television and film work, and is a fixture at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal.
The Laff House's Thanksgiving Weekend line-up will feature headliner Alex Thomas, known for his appearances in films such as Why Do Fools Fall in Love, Just Married, and Don't be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood. The show will feature 2011 Philly's Phunniest Person Contest winner Tommy Pope and will be hosted by TuRae.
The final Hey Everybody! at PHIT will take place one week from today at 10pm at The Philly Improv Theater at The Shubin Theater (407 Bainbridge St. Philadelphia). Host of the show Aaron Hertzog is moving to Los Angeles and will be sending his show off in style with performaces by: Chip Chantry, Brendan Kennedy, Joe Dougherty, Mary Radzinski, Jim Grammond, Christian Alsis, Alison Zeidman, and Rob Baniewicz.
Nominations are now open for the 2013 WitOut Awards for Philadelphia Comedy. Performers may nominate up to three choices in 13 different categories for the awards, which will be held on January 13, 2013 at World Cafe Live. Nominations will be open until November 30.
WitOut is now accepting submissions from performers and comedy fans for our Top Five of 2012 list series. We are encouraging anyone to write about their favorite moments, shows, performers, sketches, quotes, or anything at all to help us recap and remember the past year in Philadelphia comedy. You can pitch your Top Five of 2012 idea to email@example.com


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WHO H5 Reference Laboratories
In 2004, the WHO H5 Reference Laboratory Network was established, as an ad hoc component of the WHO Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS), in response to the public health needs arising from avian influenza A(H5N1) infection in humans and influenza pandemic preparedness.
Avian influenza surveillance, laboratory and virology
Avian influenza viruses, circulating in avian populations, pose a permanent threat to public health, in particular those sporadically infecting human populations, e.g. A(H5N1), A(H9N2) as well as A(H7N7).
The GISRS has been playing a key role in laboratory surveillance, preparedness and response.
Related documents
- H5N1 Genetic Changes Inventory
- Candidate vaccine viruses and potency testing reagents for influenza A(H5N1)
- Antigenic and genetic characteristics of zoonotic influenza viruses and candidate vaccine viruses
- Unified nomenclature system for highly pathogenic A(H5N1) avian influenza viruses
- Cumulative number of confirmed human cases of avian influenza A(H5N1) reported to WHO
Avian influenza A(H5N1) timeline of major events
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We'll come right out and say it: there are a lot of words in the titles of these recipes that make them sound fussy. But we promise, you can do it. The payoff! Oh, the payoff. A creamy carrot soup, golden and comforting. A hearty treat of a sandwich, rich but lightened by vvvanessa's brillant addition of a crunchy kale slaw. Yes, this one takes a bit longer than the usual hour we aim for at Dinner Tonight HQ, but you'll have leftovers galore, and ones that you'll actually want to eat!
The Menu
Click through on the recipe photos or titles to see (and save and print) the full recipes, but we've also written you a handy grocery list and game plan below.
Roasted Carrot Soup by Reeve
Chinese Pulled Pork Sandwiches with Kale and Apple Slaw by vvvanessa
The Grocery List
Serves 4 generously
2 1/2 pounds boneless country-style pork ribs (or boneless pork shoulder/butt, cut into large cubes)Fresh gingerStar aniseDried shiitake mushrooms (pre-sliced)White or yellow miso paste1 bunch Tuscan/dinosaur/lacinato kale8 to 10 carrots4 sturdy, good-quality hamburger buns, Kaiser or potato rolls, or ciabatta rolls
We assume you have soy sauce, white wine or mirin, rice wine vinegar, toasted sesame oil, lemon juice, extra virgin olive oil, onions, garlic, apple, salt, black pepper, white pepper, stock, and thyme in your super well-stocked kitchen. If not, you'll be needing those, too.
The Plan
1. This menu plans itself, really. The pulled pork needs a good two-hour braise, there's just no way around it, and vvvanessa suggests giving the kale slaw at least an hour (ideally more) to sit in its dressing. Long story short, begin with the pork.
2. As soon as the pork is braising, whip up the kale salad. Set aside to become delicious.
3. Focus your attentions on the soup. You'll be using all of your wintriest cooking techniques tonight -- braise the pork! Broil the carrots!
4. After 15 to 20 minutes, pull the carrots and finish the soup. Set aside to be warmed up when the sandwiches are closer to being done. Now you get to rest! Or work on homework, or have a cocktail, or catch up on your beauty sleep.
5. When the pulled pork is done, layer it with the kale slaw into sandwiches, and serve alongside a bowl of that lovely carrot soup. Dig in!
A New Way to Dinner, co-authored by Food52's founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, is an indispensable playbook for stress-free meal-planning (hint: cook foundational dishes on the weekend and mix and match 'em through the week).
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What to Expect
The hours following a heart attack can be scary and confusing. Your medical team may be so busy working to get you better that no one can stop and explain what's going on. So, your first question might be, "What just happened?!"
That's a totally normal response. It's OK to ask lots of questions. Your doctors will have questions, too, as they seek to diagnose the underlying causes of your heart attack.
This page previews the kinds of diagnostic procedures you will likely encounter as your doctors strive to pinpoint the exact health conditions affecting your heart's performance.
We will:
- Explain two basic types of heart attack and some standard diagnostic steps.
- Walk you through common questions and answers.
- Suggest some additional questions you might want to ask your doctor.
Heart Attack Types & Diagnosis
A heart attack is also called a myocardial infarction, sometimes simply referred to as an 'MI'. A heart attack occurs when a blockage in one or more coronary arteries reduces or stops blood flow to the heart, which starves part of the heart muscle of oxygen.
The blockage might be complete or partial.
- A complete blockage of a coronary artery means you suffered a 'STEMI' heart attack — which stands for ST-elevation myocardial infarction.
- A partial blockage would be an 'NSTEMI' heart attack — a non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction.
Diagnostic steps differ for a STEMI versus NSTEMI heart attack, although there can be some overlap.
Some hospitals use a procedure called percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a mechanical means of treating heart attack. About 36% of hospitals in the U.S. are equipped to use PCI.
At a hospital that uses PCI, you would likely be sent to the department that specializes in cardiac catheterization (usually called a cath lab) for a diagnostic angiogram to examine blood flow to your heart and test how well the heart is pumping.
A hospital that does not use PCI might transfer you to one that does. Or, it may decide to administer drugs known as fibrinolytic agents to restore blood flow. You might be given an angiography (an imaging technique used to see inside your arteries, veins and heart chambers).
IMPORTANT: Never try to diagnose yourself! Always dial 911 if you think you might be having a heart attack. The EMS crew in your ambulance will route you to the right hospital based on your location.
Answers to Common Questions
Q: Why do I have to submit to a bunch of tests?
A: Tests help the doctor determine if a heart attack occurred, how much your heart was damaged and what degree of coronary artery disease (CAD) you might have. The tests screen your heart and help the doctor determine what treatment and lifestyle changes will keep your heart healthy and prevent serious future medical events.
Q: What's the difference between "invasive" and "non-invasive" tests?
A: Non-invasive cardiac tests measure your heart's activity through external imaging and electrocardiography. Invasive tests include drawing and testing samples of your blood, and inserting and threading a thin hollow tube called a catheter into a blood vessel to get an inside view.
Q: Where can I see the big picture? How does all this fit together for me?
A: See Diagnostic Tests and Procedures At-A-Glance to better understand the tests you may have to undergo to find out if you had a heart attack, how much damage was done and what degree of coronary artery disease (CAD) you have.
Q: What types of treatment will I get after the hospital diagnoses my heart attack?
A: See our Treatment of Heart Attack page. If you've had a heart attack, you may have already had certain procedures to help you survive your heart attack and diagnose your condition.
- Thrombolysis: Many heart attack patients have undergone thrombolysis, a procedure that involves injecting a clot-dissolving agent to restore blood flow in a coronary artery. This procedure is administered within a few (usually three) hours of a heart attack.
- Coronary Angioplasty/Coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG): If thrombolysis treatment isn't done immediately after a heart attack, many patients will need to undergo coronary angioplasty or coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) later to improve blood supply to the heart muscle.
Additional Questions for Your Doctor
Doctors are busy, but they really want to help you. You can help them do so by coming to each appointment prepared with any questions you have—about your diagnosis, your treatment, or other elements of your medical care. Here are some examples of questions heart attack patients often have during the heart attack diagnosis process.
- What kind of heart attack did I have?
- Did it damage my heart permanently?
- Why did this happen to me?
- Am I at risk of having another one soon?
- Could you explain the treatments and medicines I'll need?
- Should I worry about how my medicines will interact or side effects?
- How long will I have to stay in the hospital?
- What physical limitations will I have while recovering?
- Will I be able to return to a normal life?
- What is 'cardiac rehab' — and when can I start?
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Florentin Banu, a former Romanian badminton champion, has built up a business group involved mainly in construction and in the production of plastic parts. His story is an extraordinary example of the sort of initiative that has helped get Timisoara to where it is today.
In 1990, Banu dropped out of university and left for Austria.
"The revolution took place at the end of December 1989. I remained here in Romania for another month, as I participated at a tournament in Bulgaria. Then I returned and immediately emigrated. By train. I got out of the train in Vienna's West station, and in front of the railway station I met my trainer, completely by accident: He literally picked me up off the street, so I didn't have to live in the Traiskirchen refugee camp – I had to sort all my papers in Traiskirchen but, thank God, I didn't have to live there."
In Vienna he worked as a badminton coach, roofer, pizza chef, and taxi driver. Looking back, Florentin Banu explains:
"I drove a taxi in Vienna for almost 3 years. I made all my business plans and calculations in the taxi. Whenever I was waiting for customers, I planned and dreamed … that something would come of it. And something came of it. It's all in motion. It's an awakening, a historic economic period of our country, everything is in movement now. We're really beginning to become a market economy."
But the road to personal success and to Romania's economic boom and EU accession was long.
Shortly after Banu returned to Romania in October 1994, he founded Joe IBC, a small company producing wafers. He started production inside a garage, but developed his small enterprise successfully, eventually employing over 300 workers. In the late 1990s, with a turnover of € 12 million, Joe controlled around 65 percent of the Romanian wafer market. In 2000, Banu sold the business to Nestle for several million dollars. The multi-national retained the brand name. "Joe" wafers can still be found in most Romanian supermarkets.
In 2001 Banu launched a supermarket chain, Artima, which would eventually include 14 stores in the western part of Romania. Business was difficult at first. After two years on the red, Banu, nearly broke, had to ask a friend of his to invest in Artima. As a result, his own share in the company fell to only 27% of Artima's value. He had miscalculated, Banu now admits. He had imagined that Artima could succeed with 5 supermarkets; in reality, he needed 10 stores just to break even. After the initial setbacks, however, business took off. In 2005, Banu sold Artima to the Polish PEF (Polish Enterprise Fund) for € 17 million. Two years later, the chain was bought by Carrefour, reportedly for € 55 million.
After selling the supermarket chain Florentin Banu entered into yet another business: real estate.
"I have two passions: badminton and business & management. If I would only be interested in making money, I would do real estate, that's most profitable".
In 2004 Banu paid tribute to his passion for badminton by building a large sports complex.
In 2005, he opened Banu Construct, a real estate and development company that now employs some 150 workers, including staff from his former businesses. Banu Construct's general manager is Artima's former head of acquisitions.
But Florentin Banu's heart lies with Interpart, a manufacturing plant for plastic parts, also founded in 2005. Interpart workers initially did little more than paint already finished plastic parts. By 2007 Interpart was producing its own moulds. By 2008 it was employing about 100 people, including an Austrian specialist – "by far the company's most expensive employee", says Banu – who commuted every week between Vienna and Timisoara. In 2007 the company was still sustaining annual losses of about € 2 million; Banu aimed to break even in 2008.
Florentin Banu's professional career, the fascinating tale of a self-made man, illustrates a wider trend within the Timisoara business world: that of a gradual move away from trade and construction towards sophisticated production processes and innovative technologies.
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Engineering success: Advanced Manufacturing Institute helps Hutchinson company profit
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For one Hutchinson-based company, getting help from Kansas State University's Advanced Manufacturing Institute has increased its bottom line and added jobs to the community.
Shield Agricultural Equipment, also known as Shield Ag, has been designing, manufacturing and distributing innovative agricultural equipment for more than 50 years. The company approached the Advanced Manufacturing Institute for engineering assistance with a fertilizer coulter assembly. The institute reverse-engineered various parts of the machine, breaking it down to draw, measure and input part information into an engineering program so that the design could be adjusted and improved upon more easily in the future.
The success of this project has resulted in a new business opportunity for Shield Ag, which has generated a large volume of sales. The company also created eight new jobs and an ancillary business since launching the coulter assembly product line six years ago.
"The coulter line project has dramatically increased sales and allowed us to expand our staff," said Mike Bergmeier, president of Shield Agricultural Equipment. "We're not Boeing or Beechcraft, but in this economy, eight full-time jobs against an existing payroll of about 32 people is good job growth. We are extremely pleased with the results and will work with the Advanced Manufacturing Institute on future projects."
In addition to its engineering services, the Advanced Manufacturing Institute helped Shield Ag with entering the product market.
"There was a ready market at the time and Shield Ag could not access it without AMI's engineering," Bergmeier said. "AMI created the opportunity for Shield Ag to enter a new market more quickly and by doing so we started off on the right foot with creating customer relationships."
Find more information about Shield Agricultural Equipment and the coulter assembly at http://www.shieldag.com.
The Advanced Manufacturing Institute is a part of the K-State College of Engineering, a Kansas Department of Commerce Center of Excellence and an Economic Development Administration University Center that provides engineering and business services. More information about the institute is available online at http://www.amisuccess.com.


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Microsoft has released a preview of WebMatrix -- a free, lightweight Web tool for building ASP.NET and PHP apps outside of Visual Studio.
One person familiar with WebMatrix is Telerik's Todd Anglin, who sees the tool as a "bridge" to Visual Studio for traditional open-source developers.
Obviously, there is an upgrade story in WebMatrix and it reaches out to people who are taking the low friction path toward PHP today and gives them a Microsoft ASP.NET-oriented solution. I think it will be interesting to see how it affects the existing Microsoft .NET community. Certainly, as you build tools that are easier and low barrier, reaching out to communities that don't use .NET today, it is bound to have some impact on your existing community."
Hopefully for Microsoft it won't be a bridge to nowhere.
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Girl, 14, finds mother killed, brother hurt
HOUSTON – A teenager found her mother stabbed to death and her brother critically injured in their southwest Houston home.
Houston police said a teenager was staying with friends, but when she couldn't reach anyone at her house in the 2800 block of Tidewater Drive, she went home at 11:30 p.m. Sunday and made the gruesome discovery. She went to a neighbor's home for help.
"She hadn't heard from her mother or brother in a while, probably since Saturday," Officer W.L. Meeler said. "She got in the house and found her mother stabbed to death and her 13-year-old brother clinging to life."
The mother was identified as 43-year-old Jemal Lockridge Chambers. Detectives said there were signs that she put up a fight.
"You could see stab wounds in her neck," neighbor Robert Chavis said. "Her face was all bloody. Blood was all over the floor."
Chambers' 13-year-old son suffered blunt force trauma and was taken to Texas Children's Hospital for treatment. Police said he was attacked when he tried to save his mother.
Police said that they have taken Chambers' husband, Lawrence, into custody. He is the stepfather of the children. Charges against him were pending.
Detectives have not said if Lawrence Chambers, 40, was in Jemal Chambers' car, which was missing from the home. It was described as a 2013 white Toyota Corolla with Texas license plate BKD 5345.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.
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Do any other Christians wonder what on earth we are doing here? Surely if we just pray and trust God then he will provide our partner?
I have realised over the last fews days (I am doing Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life during Lent) that this period of singledom is in some ways a test, but in other ways a trust.
God is testing me to make sure that I can exist alone and do not need somebody else apart from Him. I have always had this idea, fed to me by parents, friends etc, that to be 'complete' you need to have a partner. I have had people pity me because I am a single parent. For most of my life I have believed that I am not whole unless i have a partner. It's not true. A partner doesn't complete me, he compliments me. God made me complete and until I can exist in that knowledge and stop putting my life on hold until I have my husband then I believe I will remain single. I am slowly getting there.
It is also a trust because I have to trust God that he will give me the right person. Not the person I think because I like their look or they earn enough to support me etc. But the right person. The only thing that I am concerned about is that I am not that observant and I might miss them, but then i figure God will just keep bashing me over the head with Mr Right until I get the hint! And God knows me so he knows that for me to catch on the hints will have to be obvious!!
What do you think? Should we, or those of us who are practicing Christians, just delete ourselves off and put it to God?
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Yes God has given me free will to make my own decisions, and the idea that Christians sit back and let God do all the work is a general misconception. We know that God will provide so there isn't this great striving to obtain things. I don't get up every morning like some people do thinking about how much money I can make or what new 'thing' I can buy etc. I wake up thanking God for the day and setting out to do His business through my daily life. And that's me running my life, not by God but FOR God. Contrary to popular belief being a Christian isn't easy. We often have to make decisions that fly in the face of the norms of our present day society. I have been screen dumped by many people who I have been getting on with very well with until the second they find out that yes, I do follow the Word of God and I am not going to be jumping into bed with them.
And yes He did find me a job!
Hardships are easier to face when you have God to draw on. In the last 3 years I have faced up to childhood sexual abuse and have been sexually assaulted, and I can honestly say that the times I trusted in God were far easier than the times that I walked away.
I don't find anything in life a massive effort to be honest. I serve the best way I can with the tools I have to hand and ask for God to provide. Which is why I question my use of dating sites!
And, although I know there will be someone who can find an exception to the rule, I honestly believe that many relationships go wrong because God's word has not been abided by.
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Savor that glass of chardonnay, and appreciate the price tag while you're at it.
Thanks to a looming grape shortage and higher fuel prices, experts predict prices will rise on domestic wine from the west coast.
"It's manufacturing," said Carolyn Craig, of the Canyon Crest Winery, which supplies the famed Temecula Balloon and Wine Festival. "You run out of one component, you come to a stop."
Silicon Valley Bank, a commercial banker to the wine industry, said in its latest "Annual State of the Wine Industry Report" that it expects vintners to raise prices as the supply of grapes declines.
Prices for California wines will be the first to rise, followed by wine from Oregon and Washington State, according to the report.
But grapes aren't the only factor. Owners have to consider the cost of getting grape juice to the winery.
"A large component of the costs of acquiring that juice is going to be transportation, so we're very aware of fuel costs," Craig said.
So, what's a wine lover to do?
Experts say if you find something you like, at the price you like, consider stocking up as your own hedge against price increases.
Let us know what you think. Comment below, send us your thoughts via Twitter @nbcsandiego or add your comment to our Facebook page.


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Arvest Bank – Oklahoma City is proud to have supported the 2018 American Heart Association's Heart Ball – held Feb. 10 – at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
The event, in its 37th year, was co-chaired by Arvest Bank president Ron Witherspoon and his wife, Nicole. Numerous other Arvest associates volunteered at the event as well.
The entertaining evening included dinner, dancing and an auction, bringing together prominent members of the health, philanthropic and local business communities. Through the support of local sponsors, patrons and "sweetheart" families, more than $5.1 million has been raised within the last 10 years to fund research, education and community programs and services in the metropolitan area.
For more information about the American Heart Association, please visit www.heart.org.
Submitted questions will be answered by an Arvest banker and may appear on the Arvest Blog.
All Arvest banks are Equal Housing Lenders and Member FDIC.
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These burgers are easier to handle if they are chilled for one hour before grilling. They would be great with rice salad and cucumber slices. Grilled pound cake topped with crushed sweetened strawberries and whipped cream makes a luscious finale.
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- Makes 2 servings; can be doubled
- 10 ounces skinless salmon fillet, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 3 tablespoons plus 1/2 cup purchased tartar sauce
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
- 2 sesame-seed rolls, split
- Red onion slices
- 4 Bibb lettuce leaves
- Place salmon fillets, 3 tablespoons tartar sauce, 1 tablespoon dill, salt, and pepper in processor. Blend using on/off turns until coarsely ground. Form into two 1/2-inch-thick patties. (Can be made 6 hours ahead. Cover and refrigerate.)
- Prepare barbecue (medium-high heat). Whisk 1/2 cup tartar sauce, 1 tablespoon dill, and lemon peel in medium bowl to blend. Grill rolls until toasted. Transfer to 2 plates and spread bottom halves generously with sauce. Grill patties until fish is cooked through, about 2 minutes per side. Place burgers atop sauce on rolls. Top each with onion slices, 2 lettuce leaves, and top half of roll. Serve, passing remaining sauce separately.


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NCSE's archives house a unique trove of material on the creationism/evolution controversy, and we regard it as part of our mission to preserve it for posterity — as well as for occasions such as Kitzmiller v. Dover, where NCSE's archives helped to establish the creationist antecedents of the "intelligent design" movement. And we are beginning to amass a similar trove of material on disputes over climate change education. We cordially invite you now to help NCSE's archives keep up-to-date by purchasing books for NCSE through our wish list at Amazon.com.
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Civil rights veteran Helena Hicks had walked much of the route already, many years ago — decades before the nation's capital memorialized the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in stone. Some things have changed dramatically since then, others not so much. So Hicks took to the streets once more.
"We were marching then for jobs and equal pay," said Hicks, of Baltimore, referring to her participation in King's historic demonstration more than 48 years ago, which brought about a quarter of a million people to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to hear the civil rights leader declare his "dream" of equal opportunity.
"That was August 1963 and here we are again," she said Saturday.
Hicks joined a group of about 50 marchers at a rally in downtown Baltimore. They headed to the old Read's drugstore building on the west side — the site of an early sit-in against racial segregation — and some of them proceeded to U.S. 1, on a 41-mile walk to the capital.
The group hoped to arrive Monday, when members expected to hold a rally with the "Occupy" movement.
Along the way, group members hoped to draw attention to their protest against an economic and political system that they say produces too much war, too many jails, too many advantages for the rich and too few jobs.
Hicks, 77, who challenged racial segregation in the 1950s at Read's and at businesses along U.S. 1 south of Baltimore, was among the activists who gathered Saturday afternoon at Union Baptist Church on Druid Hill Avenue. White and black, people in their 20s and some in their retirement years arrived to take up picket signs and banners and head into the cold.
"There's a lot of energy in this room," said Asher Strauss, a 23-year-old man in dreadlocks and camouflage pants who is active in Occupy Baltimore, one of more than a dozen groups involved in the three-day march.
"I have faith in this new era," he told the group. "There's a lot of work to do and I think we can come together."
Participants included active and retired teachers, postal workers, veterans of the civil rights movement, an organized labor official, a former Maryland delegate and at least one homeless man.
"I'm here because I've had enough," said Tom Dodge, a member of the American Postal Workers Union who lives in Westminster. A former employee of Bethlehem Steel, Dodge stood up at the meeting before the march and decried the loss of American jobs to workplaces overseas.
"I'm not going to take it anymore," said Dodge, who carried a blue flag with a slogan in white: "Don't Give Up The Ship."
Fred Mason, president of the Maryland/DC AFL-CIO, said that King "was also about jobs, because jobs and justice go together. You can't have millions of people unemployed and have justice."
The numbers gathered for the march were hardly overwhelming, but former Maryland Del. Walter R. Dean Jr., who took part in sit-ins in the 1960s at the Hecht Co. department store restaurant, said: "This is how movements start — [with] small, dedicated groups. Next thing you know you have an army out there."
Hoisting signs that read "Jobs Not Jails" and chanting: "Martin's dream is under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back," the marchers walked from the church to the old Read's drugstore, now a boarded-up building at the corner of West Lexington and Howard streets that's marked "Discount Center" in orange letters.
In January 1955, a group of students from what was then Morgan State College staged a sit-in at the Read's lunch counter. It was nearly a year before the bus boycott began in Montgomery, Ala., and five years before the more celebrated lunch counter sit-in at an F.W. Woolworth store in Greensboro, N.C.
Hicks was part of the Read's protest, one of a group of seven, as she recalled it. On Saturday she was back at the spot, having been driven down from the church because she couldn't make the walk.
Picking up a microphone, Hicks taunted police officers who were gathering around and trying to get the activists to stay on the sidewalk so they wouldn't block traffic. Members of the group chanted, "No justice, no peace, no racist police."
First there were three police cruisers on West Lexington, then five, seven and finally 11.
"Fifty years ago when I came down here in the middle of segregation, they didn't have all these police down here," said Hicks, a petite woman in eyeglasses walking in the middle of West Lexington. Noting that a number of the officers were black, she said: "They have co-opted all these African-Americans to stop African-Americans from getting justice. You should be out here joining us."
The police waited it out. After about 15 minutes, the activists stepped back onto the sidewalk, the police got back into their cars, the marchers continued on their way.
Decades after the height of the civil rights movement, Hicks said she thought marching was still an effective way to dramatize a grievance.
"We are a visual society," Hicks said in an interview. "People need to see this is something that hasn't been resolved. It's a terrible black mark on this country."


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The City of Austin and AISD partner for AustinCorps, a civic education and leadership development program for Austin high school students.
AustinCorps combines classroom curriculum on local government with a hands-on experience at City Hall. In the fall semester, students meet twice weekly with city policymakers and administrators to become familiar with city government. In the spring, students complete a mentored internship with the city, and work in small groups to plan and execute a community project.
Former Mayor Lee Leffingwell said the main objective of AustinCorps is to promote community engagement among Austin students. "Our most valuable resource as a city is our young people," said Leffingwell. "If we can do more now to educate and engage our students in local government and civic life, the entire community will ultimately reap the reward."
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, March 21, 2008
NCS Luminaries: Al Dorne
"After which," Dorne continues, "I immediately became a high-powered business executive."
Albert Dorne was not only the 1947 president of the Society of Illustrators, he was also a member of the National Cartoonists Society.
His biographical 'sketch' on the NCS website reads in part, "In 1930 I started one of the first advertising strips - Lifebouy's B.O. campaign - turning out three or four a week. I created 'Mr. Coffee Nerves' for Postum and did advertising strips for Post cereals, Camels, and many others."
For those of us who are sometimes overwhelmed by our inner artiste's yearning to get out and express himself, consider these words from Albert Dorne, one of the most prolific, successful and famous illustrators of the 20th century:
"Very early in what I like to refer to as my artistic career, I built up an immunity to complicated techniques that call for (a) reading a lot, (b) experimentation, (c) making a mess of the job because I couldn't handle the medium, and (d) having to do the whole thing over."
"All of this may sound like an attempt to excuse my lack of technical knowledge. It is."
"As far as art is concerned," says the man Halsey, Jr. describes as "a hefty, extrovert, cigar-smoking business man", "I have no training whatsoever. As a matter of fact, the very first time I ever saw an art classroom was when I went into one to deliver a lecture on how to be an artist."
My Albert Dorne Flickr set.
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What Dorne doesn't say here is that even before he quit school in the 7th grade, he went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art every day and drew every piece of art he could see. I suppose that is an art classroom of a different sort!ReplyDelete
Thanks for posting Dorne, Leif. He doesn't get enough attention these days.
Al Dorne did have wonderful drawing ability, good composition,and a painting technique of his own. I enjoy seeing the way he animated the figures he drew.ReplyDelete
That truly is the art classroom of a dirt-poor depression era kid growing up in Hell's Kitchen. Dorne's story never ceases to amaze and inspire me.ReplyDelete
Thanks for your comments, gents! :-)
Dorne's demonstration of drawing hands in the Famous Artists Course still sets the gold standard. He may not have been a philosopher, but he sure could deliver, and his work was a huge inspiration for all the EC Comics and Mad Magazine artists that followed after.ReplyDelete
You know, Jim, I actually do think Dorne was a philosopher in his own right - a very pragmatic one, as a result of having come up so successfully through the "School of Hard Knocks".ReplyDelete
And you are so right about his demonstration of drawing hands in the Famous Artists Course... I had always thought Bridgeman's hand lessons were the tops - until I saw Dorne's. Of course Bridgman "wrote the book" on hands... but Dorne's lessons humanize them.


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Colorado Rapids' potential fifth round U.S. Open Cup foe is familiar
The Colorado Rapids on Tuesday learned they are in line to play host to a fifth-round matchup in the U.S. Open Cup — and the matchup could very well be against a familiar, hated foe.
If the Rapids prevail at home June 17 in the fourth round against third-tier side Orlando City, they will play the following week against the winner of Real Salt Lake and the second-tier Atlanta Silverbacks.
Those teams will play in Atlanta on June 14. Either result would carry a compelling storyline if the Rapids advance. RSL is RSL – the Rapids' Rocky Mountain Cup rival. Rapids left back Chris Klute, meanwhile, is a former Silverhawks player who was on loan to and then transferred to the Rapids.


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As the principal qualification regatta for the 2008 Olympic Sailing Competition, with 75% of all national places to be decided, the 2007 ISAF Worlds is on course to be a record breaking Championships and a highlight of ISAF's Centenary year.
In the first phase of the entry process each ISAF Member National Authority (MNA) could apply for one Priority Place in each of the eleven Olympic events in Cascais. Seventy-four nations successfully applied for places, adding up to a total of 432 boats and 649 sailors. Amongst the nations who will be competing at their first ISAF Sailing World Championships in Cascais are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, the British Virgin Islands, Kuwait, Luxembourg, the Philippines and Tahiti.
Göran PETERSSON (SWE), ISAF President, commented, 'Seventy-four nations in Cascais and already well over 600 sailors shows that the 2007 Worlds is well on the way to being ISAF's biggest ever event. To beat the 71 nations at Cadiz four years ago is a great achievement, and to see so many smaller, developing sailing nations line up is fantastic news for the sport. In ISAF's Centenary year, the 2007 ISAF Sailing World Championships will provide a perfect platform to showcase our sport to a worldwide audience.'
What Next
The next phase of the entry process is now underway. Additional Places have been assigned to MNAs based on the results of their sailors in the 2005 and 2006 Olympic Class World Championships. Only two nations, Australia and France, have qualified for Additional Places in all eleven events.
In addition to this, 20% of the quota for Additional Places have been designated Commission Places. Applications for Commission Places, which will be assigned by an ISAF Qualification Commission, are also now being accepted.
MNAs have until 15 March 2007 to accept their Additional Places online at the Championships website - www.cascaisworlds2007.com.
To find out more about which nations have qualified for Additional Places and about Commission Places and how to apply, visit the 2007 ISAF Sailing World Championships microsite - www.sailing.org/worlds2007.
To view the full Qualification System CLICK HERE.
About The 2007 ISAF Worlds
The 2007 ISAF Sailing World Championships will take place from 28 June-13 July in Cascais, Portugal. 'The Wind Is Calling' is the official motto for the 2007 Worlds. The Championships are the principal qualification regatta for the 2008 Olympic Sailing Competition, with 75% of all national places to be decided.
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Yup, you are seeing right. I went ahead and made another tutorial on Gir in a different costume. Here is "how to draw Pikachu Gir", step by step. This was a fun drawing to to create because it reminds of of both Gir and Pikachu in one package. What I like most is the coloring. It came out so vivid and bright, it almost makes my eyeballs hurt. I wanted to make sure to draw Pikachu Gir in a full frontal because drawing characters from a 3/4 view all the time get boring, and it's not as much fun. Anyways, here he is all dressed up and ready to go. I guess you could say he is feeling a little "energized" in his new costume. Adios people and enjoy!
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PHOENIX (Monday, July 30, 2012) -- Attorney General Tom Horne announced today that his office has reached an agreement with a Scottsdale-based company in which they will stop soliciting loan services to Arizona consumers.
The company, Double C's, LLC, doing business as Lowrate.com, has agreed to an Assurance of Discontinuance stemming from its operation of the Lowrate.com website that solicited consumers, including Arizona consumers, for loans.
Double C's did not make payday loans to Arizona consumers but used its Lowrate.com website to solicit them for such loans, requesting that consumers provide personal information, including the consumer's name, address, driver's license number, social security number, and bank account and routing numbers on a loan application on the Lowrate.com web site, while representing that Lowrate.com would protect the consumer's information from unauthorized use. Consumers' personal information was transmitted to a third party who operates a "lead marketplace" where various payday lenders or other lead buyers could purchase the information for the purpose of lending the consumer money in the form of a payday loan.
Under the Assurance, Double C's agrees to:
- Comply with the Arizona Consumer Fraud Act
- Not solicit, collect, sell or transmit any consumer's personal information without disclosing to the consumer that it will not control how or to whom the information is used
- Not solicit, collect, sell or transmit any Arizona consumer's information in connection with an application for any type of consumer loan, including payday loans
This case was handled by Assistant Attorney Cherie Howe.
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Choice is seasoned organic professional Laura Batcha
The Organic Trade Association (OTA) today announced the appointment of a new CEO/Executive Director, with Laura Batcha now on board as the fourth executive director in the association's 29-year history. OTA is the North American membership-based trade association whose mission is to promote and protect the growth of organic trade to benefit the environment, farmers, the public and the economy.
Batcha most recently served as OTA's Executive Vice President and Interim Co-Executive Director.
"I am certain that with Laura's executive leadership at OTA, we are well positioned for success in the coming years," said Melody Meyer, President of OTA's Board of Directors. Meyer added, "OTA has achieved many major milestones during the past few years, including establishing a Farmers Advisory Council (FAC), creating a bi-partisan Political Action Committee, and bringing The Organic Center under the OTA umbrella. OTA also has begun the critical conversation of exploring the potential for an Organic Research and Promotion Program."
"Organic food and farming, with their entrepreneurial spirit and proven benefits to public health and the environment, make a real difference in the lives of both farmers and consumers. At the same time, organic commerce is also making an increasingly significant contribution to the economy as a whole," said Batcha, OTA's incoming CEO/Executive Director. She added, "I look forward to working directly with OTA members and its Board to strengthen the integrity of organic, enhance the business climate to support the increasing consumer demand for organic products, and advance the goal of increasing acres under organic production."
Batcha currently serves as the Chair of OTA's Political Action Committee. She has been appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture and has served as a representative of the organic industry on two separate Federal Advisory Committees. The first, AC21, advises on issues related to coexistence of biotechnology and organic and identity-preserved agriculture. The second, APAC, is the agricultural policy advisory committee dedicated to international trade. In her new role as CEO/Executive Director, she also will serve on the Board of Trustees for The Organic Center, an independent non-profit research and education organization operating under the administrative auspices of the Organic Trade Association.
Prior to today's appointment, Batcha served the Organic Trade Association in multiple capacities over the past six years. She was first hired as Marketing and Public Relations Director, became Chief of Policy and External Relations, and lastly, served as Executive Vice President immediately prior to her appointment as CEO and Executive Director. In addition to her work at OTA, Batcha brings 20 years of direct experience as a certified organic producer and handler, and more than 10 years of hands-on experience in the private sector of the organic industry.
Having worked across all parts of the organic sector including organic farming, processing and business development, she looks forward to strengthening OTA's position as a unifying voice for the industry.
"An engaged OTA membership of farmers, ranchers, handlers, manufactures and retailers—large and small—can achieve great things when working together," Batcha said.
OTA headquarters are in Washington, D.C., with offices and staff in Vermont, California, and Oregon.


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Census Records for Arizona
This entry was originally written by Dwight A. Radford and Nell Sachse Woodard for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
Population Schedules
• Indexed'1860 (Arizona County only), 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930
• Soundex'1880, 1900, 1920
Mortality Schedules
• 1870 (Mohave through Yuma counties only), 1880 (index available)
The 1860 federal census contains only that portion of the state below the Gila River (as Arizona County) that was enumerated as part of the New Mexico Territory. People who resided in Pah-Ute County in 1870 were enumerated as part of Pah-Ute County, Nevada, and possibly part of Washington County, Utah.
Territorial and State
Both the 1864 and 1866 territorial censuses are available as well. Original and duplicates of the 1864 territorial census, in addition to being on microfilm, are housed in the Arizona State Archives, which also holds microfilm copies of the 1882 state census available for Cochise, Gila, Graham, Maricopa, Mohave, Pima, Yavapai, and Yuma counties.
Several territorial censuses are indexed at www.ancestry.com in the Arizona Census, 1831-80 database. These include the 1831 census of Santa Cruz County, 1862, 1866, and 1867 censuses. These are on microfilm through the FHL. Also at Ancestry.com is the Arizona and New Mexico Territories Census, Late 1800s database, an Arizona Territory Census, 1864 index and the Navajo County, Arizona Census, 1910. The 1801 Mexican census of Pimeria Alta (the southern pre-territorial portion of Arizona) has been transcribed and published by the Arizona State Genealogical Society (1986). The Mexican census of 1852 of Pimeria Alta in the District of Altar, Sonora has also been transcribed and published by the Arizona State Genealogical Society (1986).
Although not a census, a source that can be used to document people in a similar fashion as a census or tax list would be the 'great registers' of voters. These can be used to place a person at a particular place at a particular time and are at the Arizona State Archives, with many on microfilm at the FHL. The following counties are represented: Apache (1884'1910); Cochise (1882'1910); Coconino (1894'1910); Gila (1882'1910); Graham (1882'1911); Maricopa (1876'1938); Mohave (1866'82); Navajo (1895'1932); Pima (1876'1913); Pinal (1894'1911); Santa Cruz (1902'35); Yuma (1882'1910); and Yavapai (1882'1906). The Great Registers allowed people to vote who were white, male, and over twenty-one years of age. In 1913, females and African Americans were allowed to vote, and in 1948, Native Americans were allowed. The 1890 Great Register for the entire Arizona Territory has been indexed and published by the Arizona Genealogical Advisory Board, which provides a viable substitute for the lost 1890 federal enumeration.
External Links
- Arizona Census Records - free up-to-date guide to accessing Arizona census records. Identifies federal, state, and territorial censuses, as well as substitute records (FamilySearch Research Wiki).


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Tech Update
Laser-Controlled Tube Bender Compensates for Springback
The Unison tube bender is a multi-stack machine capable of bending tube diameters as large as 4 in. It complements Uber's other equipment including two 4-kW laser-cutting machines with 3D capability, one dedicated to tubing.
Laser-controlled tube bender"Flexibility was a critical goal with this tube-bending installation," says Stephen Brown of Horn Machine Tools, Madera, CA, Unison's U.S. partner. "The machine has to manufacture perfect products even in batch sizes down to one or two. Also critical was the ability to quickly change tools and reconfigure the machine, as was accuracy and repeatability. The large multi-stack system accommodates tools for as many as three different jobs."
Unison's noncontact measurement system measures bend angles by monitoring changes in the reflection distance of two laser beams. In operation, it takes a reference measurement from the straight edge of the tubing. After bending, the system automatically commands the clamping die to move a to allow the material to spring to its natural position. It then takes a second measurement to calculate actual bend angle. Any variation from the programmed angle is displayed, along with a simple selection button that commands the machine to automatically regrip the tube and apply an additional force to achieve the required angle, accounting for the actual springback characteristics of the material based on the first bend.
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The following is an interview between Alexcia Jellum, New Media Producer with the Revolution Hunger Campaign, and Beth Schatz, incoming President of the Junior League of St. Paul. They spoke about hunger in Minnesota, what young people can do to fight hunger, and inspiration.
Why do you enjoy fighting hunger? How long have you been doing this?
The Junior League of Saint Paul (JLSP) has been working in our community for almost ten decades. This year we celebrate our 95th anniversary. I've been a member for seven years. I am proud to be part of a historic organization that has such a strong mission. We promote voluntarism, develop the potential of women as leaders and effect meaningful change through the creation and support of valuable programs.
I don't know that I would say I "enjoy" fighting hunger. It's more of a compulsion. Hunger is a constant reminder of how stratified Saint Paul remains even today. We've been fighting for equality for a long, long time. Yet, many families are still choosing between paying rent or eating. Hunger in Minnesota has doubled over the past five years. And, 40 percent of those people that are hungry are children. That's not equality. As a mother, these statistics break my heart. There's an African proverb that Hillary Clinton helped make famous: "it takes a village." I truly believe that meeting children's basic needs like shelter, food and safety are the responsibility of the entire community. Junior League is a group of like-minded women. And, Saint Paul is our village.
Why do you think teens should fight hunger?
Hunger is something that we can all relate to. We've all at one time or another felt that gnawing in our stomach. Maybe a little dizziness. Headaches. We can understand hunger. But, for most of us, it's temporary. Teens can make a huge difference in the fight against hunger. It's not expensive to provide a meal for a child. It just takes a little dedication and some energy. These are two qualities that teens possess in spades.
Have you seen creative ways to fight hunger?
There are many organizations that are doing wonderful, awesome work in the fight to end hunger. Our current initiative, Healthy Bodies, Healthy Brains is creative and builds on successful models. The goal is to impact children's readiness to learn by addressing the issues of food insecurity and nutrition. One of our projects that support this initiative is Backpack Buddies at John A Johnson Elementary School on the east side of Saint Paul. The free and reduced-lunch rate at the school is almost 98%. These students depend on the school cafeteria for their primary source of food. Backpack Buddies provides nutritious meals and snacks to help bridge the gap from Friday to Monday morning. The backpacks are filled with child-friendly foods that require little to no preparation. The kids are responsible for returning the backpacks and they do this extremely well, which shows how much they appreciate the program. Next year we are adding another grade. Our goal is to provide over 10,000 meals to 100 children and their siblings through the course of the school year.
What' the most rewarding part about fighting hunger?
My favorite part of this work is the kids. It's pretty amazing to see how proud a six year old is when they are bringing food home every week and sharing with their brothers and sisters. They are contributing to the health of the family. I also like hearing from the kids what their favorite foods are in the backpack. Surprisingly, soy milk is a huge favorite. Who knew?
What is hard about fighting hunger?
Hunger is not OK. Hungry children are more likely to experience headaches, stomach aches, ear infections and colds. Hungry teens are twice as likely to suffer from depression and five times more likely to commit suicide. Hungry children are more likely to be anti-social or exhibit isolating behaviors. Hungry children tend to have lower math scores and are twice as likely to repeat a grade and three times as likely to be suspended from school. Hungry individuals report being in poor overall health relative to well-nourished individuals. Minnesota has one of the largest achievement gaps between white students and students of color in our nation. Food seems to be at the base of many of our problems as a community. Yet, people drop a can of beans in the food drive basket and think it's enough. While it's a good start, we all have to do more.
What is something you have seen come out of your work fighting hunger?
Happiness. When you feed a child they smile, they laugh, they play. I love being at events where we serve food to children and their families. There is nothing like sharing a meal to bring joy.
What would you say to someone who hopes to get into your type of work?
Like the ad says: Just do it! Find a place that is easy for you to get to and spend some time volunteering. It will lead to great things. Leadership develops over time. But, it doesn't come from playing video games or watching TV. Get involved. It sounds basic but showing up is really the first step to getting involved.
What's your driving force?
I have two amazing children. Not sure how it happened, but wow, are they special. They are my driving force and my motivation. Since the day my daughter was born, I have wanted to be a better woman, a better citizen, a better partner and the best mom possible. Motherhood really changed me. It has made me want to step up and give back. Being the mother of a daughter has made me really think about how we represent girls and women in our society. My husband and I work hard to raise her with the best self-image that we can foster. We try to give our son the tools he needs to be respectful of women and to be the man he wants to be, not what society tells him to be. I can't change everything. But, I can be a part of an organization that works every day to develop the potential of women as leaders.
Do you have a favorite quote you want to leave us with?
My personal favorite is "don't lean back, lean in." It's simple but powerful.


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Waddington Electronics Inc., Cranston, RI, introduces the True Feed SF roll feed that features direct-drive servo technology to eliminate many of the error-inducing components found in the drive trains of conventional feeds. The units come in four roll diameters from 1.25 to 4 in., in widths from 3 to 36 in. High-resolution feedback devices contribute to the accuracy of the feeds—±0.0005 in. Feed speed peaks at 2400 spm. Also available: servo pilot release, for applications requiring precision roll release at high speed.
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Thursday, December 19, 2013
So you really want to do this.....
I thought about new folks wanting to go down the same path as I-folks who saw the whole 'work for yourself and create things' allure without knowing the full reality of being a self employed bike frame builder. While it is not my job to educate every prospective new builder on what a shit circus this job can be it is my job to tell my side of the experience, seeing as I have a great number of years fighting the strong current in my toilet of choice.
I guess I will start at the beginning-folks who know my whole story are welcome to skip this part-me, I didn't get the option on that for better or worse.
Way back in 1987 I was a full-time guitar player in a band ( another so-called dream job that turned out to not be the dream after all....) I was in a casino playing music behind a clear plastic shield on a balcony perched above rows upon rows of slot machines. In front of a few of these machines were my audience-dazed and drunk casino patrons emptying coins into slots hoping for that big payoff. I was a few feet above their heads playing songs that I didn't particularly care for , waiting for my big payoff.....the 5 hour drive home. It was in the middle of the last set that I reached my breaking point-I needed to quit this job of the last several years and do something else-something that didn't involve driving many hours to go play music I cared little about to people who cared even less than I. I knew that the next job would be in my own garage-turning my frame building hobby into my full time livelihood.
January, 1988-I had about 17 frames on order so I told the band to get a replacement guitar player-I was going full time with the torch. I had only a few tools but I had some savings and began getting a few items to make my work more efficient. I was operating out of a one-car garage that had a bike stand, a small mill, a drill press and some bikes on hooks. There was very little room to work so I usually pushed most of the bikes and the stand outside into the driveway. I brazed outside-if it was windy, I couldn't work. Hey, I was just starting out so I had an excuse to be stupid. I had probably built about 50-odd frames as a hobbyist so I was not completely new to the work. I had done a number of lugged and fillet brazed frames.
Not knowing much about business I got the idea to sell the frame unpainted and not charge tax-I figured I could write my sales up as labor, a kind of 'contract labor'. Setback # 1 : nine months later I found out that I had indeed needed to collect sales tax and pay it to the state of California. This was made clear to me in a letter from the state board of equalization-pay the tax or be penalized in numerous nasty ways. I owed about $ 650 after calculations and decided to close shop-I simply did not have the money to pay this bill.
This is where my short career could have ended except for one guy-my former manager at a bike shop where I had worked in 1984-decided to throw a party on my behalf and pass the hat to all my friends to save my business. While they didn't come up with nearly enough money to pay the tax bill I took this as a message from the community that what I was doing had some value and was worth trying to save. I scraped the rest of the money together and have been collecting and paying sales tax ever since.
I continued making dumbshit mistakes and getting really frustrated-all the while trying to improve what I did in the shop. I really never figured out what to charge until many years went by. I lost money a good deal of the time because of this inability to really know the true cost of doing business......life eventually beat the data into my thick skull-I had to learn or I was sure to fail like so many people who try to be full time at this job. I was really determined....almost sickly so-I did not want to fail-I wanted to prove to anyone who cared to know that I was going to weather whatever came my way-any setback.
Setback # 2.June 1993- I got a phone call from my father. Truthfully, I got several call from him on my answering machine but I didn't call back as I was not on very good terms with him and didn't want to be subject to whatever berating he was likely to give me-except that the call had nothing to do with how he felt about me.....he had been diagnosed with cancer. My dad was in hospice with an inoperable tumor and my sister was calling me to come back to L.A. and be with him in his final days. I had to leave my shop and put everything on hold-my dad was dying. I was really broke and I needed the income from the frames I was building but all that had to wait. I had bills that I would not be able to pay when I returned home.
After six weeks my dad passed and I drove back home to face the pile of work and bills.I thought about quitting and getting a job somehwere-anywhere.........I was near the end of my tether. At this point the phone started ringing and orders for about twice as many cyclocross frames as the year before came in. With the deposit money in my hands I was back in business-I could not quit....I was busier than ever. I stayed very busy for the next two years.
Setback # 3. Summer 1995-The phone stopped ringing......it just stopped. I got down to two orders-my dad had left me some money so I was going to go to France to ride Paris-Brest-Paris. I secretly started thinking about looking for work in Europe as a builder-I even left a message on my answering machine saying that I might not be coming back-I had to have a good reason to return. After two months of travel I did return-I didn't find a job that sounded worth leaving my home for-luckily, the phone started ringing again and I got busy enough to keep my doors open.
Setback # 4.March 1997- I woke up one morning with an agonizing sharp pain in my lower back-trips to the chiropracter and acupuncturist did nothing to relieve the pain so I got an MRI. It revealed two ruptured discs and I would need surgery.I did have insurance but this was going to take time to heal and still cost thousands of dollars.My savings were getting eaten up and I had to miss work for awhile . I started thinking that maybe the work I was doing was killing my back and I would have to quit. Weeks went by and I slowly go back to the shop-turned out that bike crashes and an old job with heavy lifting had done the damage-not frame building so I got back to the torch.
Setback # 5 , August 2001-I was riding my mountain bike with a friend after work on the same trails that I had been riding for the last 20-odd years. On this day we were really flying downhill at a rate I had never done before and the predictable thing happened-I wound up crashing at high speed and shattered my hip socket. My leg was dislocated and I laid there helplessly on the ground waiting for the EMT's to pick me up. I wound up spending two weeks in the hospital and could not work for three months. I spent thousands on the deductables and making up for lost income. Things looked dire but my riding buddy passed the hat for me and was able to help me with a surprise influx of cash....I got bailed out by my friends yet again.
Setback # 6, summer 2003-the phone stopped again. I never know why this happens but I got down to two orders on the list and took a part time job at a winery pouring wine in a tasting room for $8.00 an hour. I did this part time for three months to see if a career change was viable. Turns out that building frames definitely pays better than working at a tasting room as a bottom of the tier employee-by September I had a bunch of orders again so I quit the winery and got back to work.
Since 2003 I have remained busy and have not crashed my bike too terribly. I have had two kidney stones and developed a case of hemocritic anemia but for the most part I'm going stronger than ever at the bike building. Folks who read this should know that there are other builders who have faced much graver setbacks than I and are still at it-some who nearly died from getting hit by cars, all number of things but they all carry on with the work-I don't think that any one of us can really say why definitively......I know that it definitely helps heal the wounds of the setbacks to take pieces of metal and make a working bicycle. Maybe we are all into this for theraputic reasons.......like electroshock maybe. If you are thinking of taking up this way of making a living , be sure and know that there will be setbacks. You should really ask yourself if you are the kind of person who can and will carry on , not needing an articulate reason to do so......just the desire.
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PITTSBURGH -- For the third time in four games, Neil Walker was not in the Pirates' starting lineup Wednesday night due to back tightness.
Walker missed the final two games of a weekend series in Arizona with a nagging back, and he was pulled from Tuesday's 6-3 loss to the Marlins after seven innings when the issue was re-aggravated.
"Based on the way he responded last night, that there was some tightening up, we thought we'd give him a full day of treatment," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said of his second baseman.
Hurdle didn't have a definitive answer as to if Walker would be available for Wednesday night's game. But the second baseman did not take batting practice with the team on the field, and it seemed unlikely he would play.
In addition to Walker's back trouble, center fielder Andrew McCutchen remains off the disabled list, but sidelined with a fractured rib on his left side. Already working with a patchwork lineup, Hurdle would have just three position players -- Gaby Sanchez, Jayson Nix and Chris Stewart -- off his bench vs. Miami if Walker was unavailable.
With Pedro Alvarez on the bereavement list, Wednesday marked the first time McCutchen, Walker and Alvarez were all out of the Bucs' lineup since the trio was on the roster (June 16, 2010).


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An adventure about boys ... Eldot presents a fresh new series for adults. The coming of age story is embedded in an episodic two-week summer camp full of variety and fun.
Julian kept two scrapbooks; this special one has not been shared until now. The nostalgic pull is strong—especially appealing is a story that recalls the happy days of youth. Perhaps you'd like to relive some memories, or discover ones that were missed. This is a peek back at the world of 1962, before the Internet and cell phones—when boys learned by discovering things on their own and interacted with real people.
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Former Royal Ballet Soloist David Howard has died.
David danced at Covent Garden for seven years before joining the National Ballet of Canada in 1963. In 1966 he moved to New York where he taught at a new dance school set up by Rebekah Harkness. There he coached Gelsey Kirkland and Mikhail Baryshnikov, and in 1977 he set up his own dance school in Manhattan, which he ran for 18 years.
He returned to Covent Garden as a guest teacher, and also coached at American Ballet Theatre, Joffrey Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada.
Director of The Royal Ballet Kevin O'Hare said:
'It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the death of David Howard. David was a highly respected and popular guest teacher and will be remembered by myself and the current generation of Royal Ballet dancers. He first came to teach for the Company in 1997 and returned annually until 2011 when his decreasing mobility prevented him from continuing to do so. David was a highly knowledgeable teacher who continually inspired the dancers and always brought us up to date with what was happening in the New York dance world. He will be sadly missed by the enormous number of dancers he has helped and encouraged over several decades.'
Read a 2012 interview with David about his four decades in New York
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alphaj necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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The goal is to create an attractive logo that conveys a professional and solid image. Submissions must be received before August 20th.
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The next article in the series is very short so I'll be doing two in this post.
|The Bismarck Daily Tribune, November 29, 1897
"Staff News
The son and daughter of the prisoner Villers were at the Stutsman county jail Thanksgiving day to meet their father, who is waiting his trial for murder"
Just a side note...Martin Joseph and Octavia Villers nee Waguener had 5 children (that I am currently aware of): Florence, Mary Ann Mina Octavia, Louis, Alta Ellen Ella, and Agnes. So apparently only two of them visited (Louis being one as his only son).
|The Bismarck Daily Tribune, December 29, 1897
"The Villers Trial
The Jamestown Alert says of the coming trial of the man Villers, who was taken from the state penitentiary here to be tried for murder: The trial of M.J. Villers for the alleged murder of August Tromer, It is believed, will be the first murder trial ever to have been held in Stutsman county and for this reason, outside of the local interest in the case, will attract a great deal of attention. Attorney S. E. Ellsworth has been designated by the prisoner and appointed by the court as counsel for the defendant and, it is understood, Judge Glaspell has called in Judge Fisk of Grand Forks to try the case because of his ineligibility, having assisted in the prosecution of Villers at his trial and conviction of assault with intent to kill upon Mrs. Tromer. The state will be ably represented in the prosecution by County Attorney F. Baldwin. The case will be the first on the calendar and it is expected will be taken up and the trial begun Thursday, January 6. Both the prosecution and defense are expected to make a strong fight and the case will probably occupy the greater part of the term."
Well, I don't know how long a "term" was, but the trial didn't take too terribly long...I'm running out of articles! One subtle thing I noticed in the 2nd article was how the prosecution is referred to as the "state will be ably represented"...as if the state's attorney is more important. The law is (theoretically) the law and the defendant deserves to be ably represented as well. I'm biased, I know, but still. Gives an overall feeling of, "don't worry, we'll be winning this thing". Just sayin'...


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The popular micro-blogging site Twitter has partnered with Russia's biggest search engine company, Yandex, in a move that will help boost the site's real-time search and eventually help it compete with rivals, including Google and Bing search.
The partnership gives Yandex access to Twitter's public tweets, and enables real-time searching at twitter.yandex.ru, giving its users access to the huge amount of data streaming off the messaging service. However, this deal does not include any of the private tweets, which the user has specifically chosen to "protect" them from being accessed by search engines and other Twitter users.
This will enable Yandex users to see the latest tweets on any subject, by using Yandex's specific 'Blogs' search engine. The results will also include tweets of those users tweeting from Russia, Ukraine, Belarusian or Kazakh, as well as top feeds in other languages.
Anton Pavlov, Yandex's blog Search Manager, said that it will also allow the Russian based company "to improve the quality of the search," and users will be able to find tweets "just moments after they have appeared."
Both companies have declined to disclose the financial details of the deal, however, a similar partnership between Twitter and Microsoft was closed at $30 million.
Twitter currently has more than 100 million active users, nearly 400 million visitors per month, and more than 250 million tweets are posted every day. The total valuation of Twitter is estimated to be $8 billion, although the company has not yet established a proper revenue generating model.
On the other hand, Yandex has about 60 percent market share in Russia, and this deal will perhaps open several doors for the company to come up with new strategies to do more in social networking. The company currently offers features similar to that of Google to share news and other information.
Yandex also mentioned in a press release that the company is currently focused on social networking search and trying to enhance its features. Anton Pavlov adds, "People share news, exchange opinions and discuss all sorts of matters in real time all the time. This kind of information will help us enhance our search results."
Yandex also states that it has updated its Blog Search API, a tool for webmasters for creating services based on micro-blogging content.


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IE7 to be distributed via Automatic Updates!
As we get close to the final availability of Internet Explorer 7, I want to provide an update on our distribution plans. To help our customers become more secure and up-to-date, we will distribute IE7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates (AU) shortly after the final version is released for Windows XP, planned for the fourth quarter of this year.
During the past year, we've discussed many of the advanced security features in IE7 that will help make our users more secure, including ActiveX Opt-in, the Phishing Filter and Fix My Settings features . These are just some of the security enhancements we've designed to help protect users from malicious software and fraudulent websites, and Microsoft recommends that all genuine Windows customers install IE7. To ensure users are prepared to upgrade, AU will notify users when IE7 is ready to install and show a welcome screen that presents key features and choices to "Install", "Don't Install", or "Ask Me Later" (screenshots below).
We are also providing a Blocker Toolkit for our enterprise customers who may want to block automatic delivery of IE7 in their organizations; this blocker has no expiration date. Enterprise customers can download the free Blocker Toolkit from the Microsoft Download Center today. We've also made additional information for IT administrators available at the Windows Update/Microsoft Update site on TechNet.
Now back to how the process will work for the rest of us…
How the Automatic Updates installation process works
As I said earlier, AU will notify you when IE7 is ready to install. Alternately, you will be able to visit the Windows Update or Microsoft Update sites and obtain IE7 by performing an "Express" scan for high-priority updates. Either way, you will see the welcome screen that allows you to choose whether to install it. (Users will also be able to download IE7 from the Microsoft Download Center.)
If you decide to install IE7, it will preserve your current toolbars, home page, search settings, and favorites and installing will not change your choice of default browser. You will also be able to roll back to IE6 at any point by using Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel. Finally, users who have AU turned off will not be notified.
(To learn more about Automatic Updates please visit the Microsoft Security site)
I think this approach strikes a good balance across a couple of dimensions - helping customers become more secure, giving them control, and providing options for enterprises.
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Below are example screenshots of the notification experience:
Note: Final Welcome screen is in draft form and still subject to change