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What's the difference between the company you run now and the one you'll take public?
Imagine for a moment you're Bing Yeh. You've spent six years building up this wildly successful little semiconductor company, Silicon Storage Technology Inc. The products are based largely on your clever engineering ideas, and you're the one who's bringing in the bulk of the business and managing the outsourcing deals in the Far East. It's your show.
But now someone else -- everyone else, it seems -- is telling you how to run your business. Deepen your management team, you're urged. Broaden that board of directors to include outsiders. And do something about that primitive accounting system you're using. You nod as you carry out such commands, because, well, you have to admit that the financial records have not been well organized. But still you have your doubts about where all of this is leading. Catching you gazing distractedly out of the window during yet another marathon meeting, a colleague will later claim, "I could tell he was sensing that his company was becoming a different kind of company."
It was indeed. In mid-1995 Silicon Storage Technology (SST), which had posted all of $4 million in revenues the year before, was on its way to going public.
Bing Yeh, who had come to this country from Taiwan two decades earlier with just $20 in his pocket, had read widely about the process before deciding that SST would take the public plunge. He knew only too well the stories, or at least the part of them that always gets told: the preopening jitters, the swarm of press and analysts, the sudden accumulation of unimaginable paper wealth. But what he didn't know was what exactly SST would have to endure between deciding to go public in July 1995 and that opening bell on November 22. The journey is different for every company, save for one aspect: the invading army of accountants, lawyers, valuation consultants, and underwriters whose mission becomes to excavate every filing cabinet, looking for blunt answers to some very sharp questions.
They act with only one goal in mind, and they will not stop until they've achieved it: the makeover. For some companies, getting ready for prime time can mean dumping treasured members of management, junking juicy perks, and subduing marginal personality traits. (See "Now Let's Talk About You," [Article link].) But for many, like SST, it's just the tremendous pressure of making so many changes so fast -- from improving incoherent record keeping to scripting a solid company biography -- that leaves them wondering, for a time, why they ever wanted to go public in the first place.
At SST, which is based in Sunnyvale, Calif., that unavoidable sense of vertigo was heightened by an intimidating fact: Yeh, who is 44, wanted to go public in about half the time an initial public offering typically takes. He had perfectly good reasons. For one, the market for technology stocks was hotter than July. For another, Yeh worried about the fallout from the company's $5.3-million joint venture with Quantum Corp., a nearby disk-drive maker. By the terms of their deal, Quantum could soon end up owning a 25% chunk of SST at a very cheap price. Furthermore, rival SanDisk Corp. had already begun planning a public offering.
Having made the decision to speed the process up, Yeh worried mainly about what kind of reception SST would get on Wall Street. Nobody had heard of it, after all. And the company's skimpy financial track record wasn't likely to impress that starchy crowd: May was the first month that little snowdrops of earnings had begun to peep through. "The concern," says Yeh, "was whether the third quarter would be a good number." It was worth worrying about, to be sure.
But once the maestros of makeover took their places, Bing Yeh would have more pressing matters to deal with.
If Yeh was unusually concerned about losing control over shaping SST, it may have been because he just about gave away his first product. Back in 1974, when he was a physics graduate student at National Taiwan University, Yeh and some friends, while subcontracting for another company, devised an electronic toll-taking system for the price of $125. Then they watched as the company turned around and sold the technology for about $10,000. Per customer.
Since then, Yeh, who held a series of engineering jobs in Silicon Valley, had wanted to start another business. But he found it was nearly impossible to raise money from anyone but venture capitalists, who demanded harsh terms. In 1989 he finally established SST with a partner, Ching Jenq. Six months later they filed early patents for a technology they called Superflash. But after their first misguided product push -- credit-card-size plug-in cards that added memory to computers -- they parted ways. By 1992 Yeh had decided that SST would devote its 10 employees and risk its $700,000 revenue stream (resulting from technology-licensing deals) to memory components. Two years later, in December 1994, publicity about the new Windows 95 operating system fired the imagination of the industry's engineers: they saw that the Superflash technology had the potential to enable Windows 95 to work smoothly in just about every IBM-compatible personal computer. Yeh then set about selling some of Taiwan's top motherboard makers on the chip.
By early 1995, SST's overseas production lines -- the company contracts out its chip making to facilities in Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore -- were roaring to life. "You could see that SST had a solution. Now the growth was very certain, and the investment risk was substantially reduced," says James Davidson, managing director at Hambrecht & Quist LLC, the San Francisco underwriter that had long been flirting with SST. Years earlier Mel Phelps, Hambrecht & Quist's advising director, had heard about the company and, upon visiting, found himself meeting a former colleague; he had once worked with Yeh. Phelps alerted Hambrecht & Quest's principals. "We were very interested that SST had a technology advantage," says principal Kenneth Hao. "When companies like that start to spike upward, they really go."
Hambrecht & Quist is arguably Silicon Valley's premier high-tech investment house, but Yeh still threw the underwriting job open to four other candidates, all big New York banks with Goliath leverage in public markets. By midsummer Hambrecht & Quist had won what underwriters call the "bake-off" -- the marketing tussle to see who ends up as lead underwriter. Yeh awarded the comanager job to Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp. Most companies going public for the first time take from 60 to 90 days to go from filing registration statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission to closing an IPO, but Yeh decided that SST was to do it in less than 45 days.
The schedule looked doubly intimidating against the backdrop of SST's phenomenal growth. Revenues were notching up by the day. At the start of 1994 there had been about 40 employees on the payroll; by 1996 that number was to top 100. The pressure on SST's flimsy organization worried the underwriters. "Bing was wearing 10 hats instead of the 7 a person normally wears in that situation," says Davidson. Hambrecht & Quist had also spotted SST's dependency on one very narrow revenue source: one part of one kind of motherboard. The underwriter had noticed, too, that there were no big brand-name customers, such as Hewlett-Packard Co. or AT&T Corp. None of that could be fixed quickly, of course. But Hambrecht & Quist did hand Yeh a laundry list of requirements for going public. Among the most pressing: SST had to show plump operating margins, hire a full-time chief financial officer, and find new applications for the Superflash chip.
When Yeh brought his lawyers and accountants in on his IPO plans, early in August 1995, they were stunned -- to say the least. Mark Tanoury, counsel at local law firm Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum, remembers the meeting he attended with Yeh and Charles Noreen Jr., a Coopers & Lybrand partner. "Yeah, but what's the real schedule?" he recalls asking Yeh. This is the real schedule, the CEO replied. From then on, any talk of schedule slippage got dark looks from Yeh. As the makeover took shape, "the question always was, What's that going to do to the day we go effective?" says Tanoury.
The answer, as far as Yeh was concerned, was always the same: nothing at all. There was no time for surprises.
Jan Praisner and Bing Yeh had met only the day before, but when Praisner arrived on September 6, 1995, she was giving orders as if she owned the company. She started off by giving Yeh a clear warning: If you disappoint the Street, she told him, and if your stock price drops, you will get sued by shareholders. And when that happens, she said, you walk over to your desk, get out your checkbook, and write a check for $7 million. "It got his attention," she recalls.
Praisner was one of those surprises that Yeh hadn't counted on in the makeover process. Acceding to Hambrecht & Quist's wishes, he had gone out and taken on makeover job number one: hiring a chief financial officer. The one he eventually chose -- the CFO of Micromodule Systems Inc. and a veteran of the IPO process -- was indeed named Praisner. Michael Praisner, to be precise. But he couldn't start right away, and his concern over SST's drum-tight schedule led him to suggest an unorthodox solution: why not let his wife, Jan, an experienced CFO who had just left her company, step in until he could join the team?
Yeh agreed; not that he had much choice if he wanted to stay on schedule. The so-called all-hands meeting -- when the whole IPO team, including Yeh, the company counsel, the underwriters, and the accountants, assembles to plot the process and assign duties -- was scheduled for September 1. If Yeh couldn't at that time present reasonable prospects for a CFO, the underwriters could bail or at least pull the plug on an IPO in 1995.
Having joined the effort, Jan Praisner pronounced SST's record keeping chaotic. "The accounting records were not in what I'd call a management-reporting format," she says. Line items like cost of sales were segmented by department. Some financials were on disk, some were on spreadsheets, and others had gone AWOL.
But Jan Praisner's most immediate task was to prep executives for a pivotal presentation to the underwriters on September 11, as well as scare up due-diligence documentation for Hambrecht & Quist's law firm, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Her dramatic declaration to Yeh was her way of saying that if she needed to get her hands on, for example, a lease agreement, everyone had best cooperate. Her basic MO was to lay siege. "I was camping outside Bing's door," she says. "I probably drove him crazy. I'd say, 'I've got to have this by noon.' At 12:01, I'd show up. He'd say, 'I need three more hours.' I'd tell him, 'I'll be back in 2 hours, 59 minutes.' " Yeh cooperated, pushing back with questions about things he didn't understand. "We had no experience in this, so we just followed her," he says.
That approach served SST's managers particularly well at the meeting with the underwriters. Hambrecht & Quist needs to feel confident in the management team, Jan Praisner had warned the engineers, outlining points they would need to make -- succinctly -- in their presentations. Yeh was to explain SST's competitive advantage. Yah-Wen Hu, vice-president of technology development, and Isao Nojima, vice-president of memory design, had to describe the products in detail: their evolution, their future, exactly how they were manufactured. "It went very well," recalls Praisner, now CFO at OnStream Networks Inc., in Santa Clara, Calif.
No one could have guessed that SST's managers had barely finished one dry run before show time.
Friday the 13th -- October 13 -- was only hours away, and with it, a deadline of supreme importance. The nine-month audited financials had to be in to the underwriters that day. Without them, the underwriters couldn't ship the required documentation to the SEC on the set date, and the SEC wouldn't be able to reply in time.
So what was SST's controller, Catherine Zerboni, doing, racing in and telling Michael Praisner that the allocation report hadn't been run?
The allocation report is a small but vital link in the paperwork chain. It apportions to different departments the expenses for executives who've been wearing different hats. The employee who ran that computer program had gone home at 9:30 p.m. Michael Praisner and his team -- he was still trying to understand the company and close the August and September books in a week -- plugged in their best guesstimates and got the report cranked out minutes after the programmer walked in the following morning.
The offices where Praisner and crew had settled in for seemingly endless late-nighters were buried in files, folders, and spreadsheets. One or two of the underwriters were practically living at SST; the same story was true for Coopers & Lybrand's auditors. Zerboni, whom Praisner had just hired away from Coopers, remembers phoning the lawyers at Cooley Godward at 11:30 p.m. and having one of them answer.
Praisner had started living out of his car trunk, in which he had set up Pendaflex hanging files. To him had fallen makeover job number two: the reassembly of the company's records, vital for the due-diligence portion of the IPO. "A lot of my job was getting the monthly information into quarterly information," he explains.
There was so much information to be retrieved and sorted: breakdowns of pricing trends, historic and projected; breakdowns by distribution, by customer, by product segment. Jan Praisner had begun playing hunter-gatherer early in September, sending to the underwriters' counsel copies of everything from patent documents to employment agreements and officer-compensation records. Yeh concedes that the company's accounting system could not even calculate quarterly figures, never mind do the obligatory earnings-per-share projections. Not only that, but the books had been closing way late -- in 20 days or longer, not within the week, as Wall Street would demand.
But at least there were professional audits; in fact, they'd been done every year since 1990, albeit months after the close of the fiscal year, when the auditors' rates were cheaper. And there were records. Yeh, a stickler for having everything in writing, had models for everything: Organizational models. New-product-development models. Revenue-projection models. His penchant for reducing everything to a mathematical model gave the underwriters tremendous confidence that he knew his company inside out. There were other plus points: SST's accounting practices were distinctly conservative. And Yeh had personally signed every check for more than $200, a helpful control mechanism.
The harrowing pace had paid off. The registration statement was filed in mid-September, only three weeks after the first all-hands meeting. On October 5, the underwriters had sent the SEC a first filing, containing June numbers -- shaving more than a week off the typical IPO schedule. The nine-month audit was wrapped up on cue on October 13, opening the door for the second filing, using audited September financials to be shipped to the SEC a few days later. On October 17, out went the preliminary prospectus -- known as the red herring -- to start warming up the underwriters' sales forces. SST's records were starting to conform to patterns that the Street would recognize. And the computer system was getting an upgrade.
In the outside world, SanDisk did its IPO on November 13. Its stock was launched at $10 a share and shot above $30 almost immediately. SST's public debut, running about two weeks behind SanDisk's, was meeting a cooling technology market. Employees' expectations ran high, however. Says memory-design director Ping Wang, "We were hoping we'd be like SanDisk."
Unfortunately, nobody had told House Speaker Newt Gingrich (or Bill Clinton, for that matter) that SST was preparing to go public. So when federal government departments shut down for a week during October, hearts in Sunnyvale nearly shut down, too, for fear that the SEC -- the one department SST desperately needed -- would soon close. Cooley Godward lawyers were on the phone almost every day with the agency, whose reviewers must get copies of the preliminary prospectus in enough time to comment on them. SST held up its end of the deal. Now if those reviewers were proclaimed nonessential workers, there wouldn't be enough doors to slam at SST. "If we were delayed, our IPO would have gotten into Thanksgiving," says Yeh. When the holiday season was under way, SST could bet it wouldn't get as much time from fund managers.
The company lucked out: Congress authorized the temporary funding that put federal workers back at their desks. Now all the SEC had to do was respond in time.
At root, a prospectus is a sales document aimed at investors. (In SST's case, the prospectus also helped recruit more engineering talent.) But it has to be faithful to the facts. That leads to tensions between underwriters and lawyers; drafting sessions can end in shouting matches. In SST's case, there were plenty of debates over syntax -- but no donnybrook. The writing of the document embodied makeover job number three: the creating of a company biography that would formally chart SST's history and give it a story to tell. (For more on the importance of having a story, see "Why Every Company Needs a Story," [Article link].)
Prospectus crafting ran well into October. All the major themes were developed in the first three weeks -- the summary, risk factors, use of proceeds, management's discussion and analysis, and so on. Cooley Godward played quarterback, integrating the drafts. Hambrecht & Quist associate Glover Lawrence drafted the introduction and the text on industry background in the business section. Michael Praisner did a first draft of the management discussion and analysis section; David Sweetman, SST's vice-president of quality and customer support, tackled the portion on the advantages of SST's products.
SST's red herring showed two skyrocketing revenue quarters -- reaching $2 million and $7.2 million -- and the only quarter of profitability to date. The final prospectus, distributed about five weeks later, included third-quarter figures too; the $12.5-million revenue number would be just what veteran fund managers would be expecting from a fast-growing chip company. Plus, there was now another fatter net income number to include -- $2.3 million for the quarter ended September 30, up from $733,000 for the previous quarter.
As they worked on the document, the IPO team also began makeover job number four: preparing for the road-show performance designed to persuade fund managers that they'd never seen an investment opportunity like this one. There were more records to be scared up, and there were glitches -- mismatches between Coopers & Lybrand's numbers and Praisner's calculations. Then there was the shtick itself. Yeh was a road-show neophyte; Praisner hadn't been on board for long. The advice from the underwriters: hone your act in front of Europe's kinder, gentler fund managers before hitting New York City and Boston.
Yeh and Praisner needn't have worried about their performance. Or perhaps it's as well that they did, because U.S. investors, for all their reputed rudeness, were receptive. SST opened at its prospectus price of $9 a share on NASDAQ on November 22, 1995, closing that day at $13. All told, the IPO grossed more than $40 million, at the high end of what Yeh had hoped for. SST's out-of-pocket costs, not including underwriters' commissions, ran to nearly $1 million.
The biggest cost, of course, may well have been the drain on everyone's energies. During the road show, the team routinely gabbed about the well-deserved vacations they ought to take. Yeh, the others decided, should go to Paris with his wife. However, once he got back to his newly public business, Yeh returned to his ambitious goals: there's a billion-dollar business here just begging to be built, he proclaimed. Can he possibly do it? "He's done a very, very good job of delegating real authority, both inside and outside the company, in order to realize the goal he's set for himself," observes James Davidson of Hambrecht & Quist. As Yeh demonstrated during the IPO process, he is willing to listen, to change what needs to be changed, to act swiftly. He understands that SST is no longer a start-up whose survival depends solely on his ability to nurture it.
In the end, he himself may have undergone the most significant makeover of all.
Kenneth Hao
Hambrecht & Quist Principal
THE UNDERWRITER serves as a master of ceremonies. Underwriters set the timetable, ensure that the company has a compelling and consistent story to tell Wall Street, assemble the investment bankers who sell and price the stock, and organize the road show.
Mark Tanoury
THE COMPANY'S attorney serves as chief liaison with the SEC. The lawyer helps the company write its prospectus and scrutinizes all the company's agreements, like stock-option plans and equipment leases. In addition, the lawyer acts as a negotiator with the underwriter, assisting in the valuation process.
Bing Yeh
THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER hires a chief financial officer, selects all the principal players in the offering, makes sure the staff is available for and committed to the IPO process, and participates in everything from writing the prospectus to pricing the deal. The CEO also stars in the road show.
Michael Praisner
THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER's main job is to get disparate monthly financials into quarterly reports. The CFO also makes sure the books close in a timely manner and hires a controller to handle the finances after the IPO. And the CFO develops and defends the financial projections the underwriter wants.
Charles Noreen Jr.
THE ACCOUNTANT audits the financial statements included in the SEC registration statement and works with the CFO to get the company's numbers into shape. The accountant also verifies financial data sent to the underwriters and helps answer questions from the SEC.


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Return Of Clickfraud Lawsuits?
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But perhaps more interesting is that, despite the settlement, Google is now a target again, from a locksmith who claims that the clickthroughs on his ads jumped up, and he didn't get any new leads from them. He insists the clicks must have come from a competitor, though it's not clear he has any additional proof. Of course, it's difficult to see Google getting pinned with any liability in such a case. It clearly tries to eliminate clickfraud, and as a service provider it shouldn't be held liable for actions by third party scammers.


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End Grain: Sandpaper Drawer
The lessons I learned from Dad's crumpled and worn-out abrasives.
By Joe Barnhart
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From the June 2010 issue #183
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Whether you're a professional or hobbyist woodworker, having a keen sense of proper material utilization reduces the cost of projects while extending increasingly hard-to-find resources. Conservation means taking advantage of carefully thought-out plans, cut lists and diagrams, board selection and myriad other techniques – all while avoiding mistakes.
Building Baltic birch plywood drawer boxes the other day, it dawned on me that I'd forgotten to allow space for the full-extension slides. I'm avoiding my accompanying phraseology here; let's just say I threw an immature tantrum, then trimmed the parts. Later, I wondered what childhood woodworking experience would cause such a negative reaction.
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By Tom J Doyle at Craven Cottage
Picture the scene: Manchester United are struggling, they have survived an assault on their questionable back line more than once, time is running out - and up steps their talisman to guide them to a vital victory.
Except, that talisman against Fulham was not the new hero of Old Trafford, Robin van Persie, but in fact Wayne Rooney, whom some fans had deemed superfluous merely months ago.
While the brilliant Dutchman earned the chants of the away fans for long periods of the 1-0 victory at Craven Cottage, the 27-year-old reminded us all of his prodigious talents with a sumptuous finish around Aaron Hughes and into Mark Schwarzer's far corner to send his side 10 points clear of champions Manchester City.
Ten Premier League goals this season is not a bad return for a man supposedly out of form and fitness and it is the ninth campaign in a row in which he has hit double figures, highlighting his consistency for Sir Alex Ferguson's side.
It would be naive to assume that Rooney is a changed man. His fiery temper and impetuousness almost cost United against the Cottagers, as did his poor first-half finishing.
However, it is not that Rooney is a better player than Van Persie or is aiming to replace the mercurial striker; the reason why United will more than likely win the Premier League is that, despite Rooney's perceived woes this season, he was able to stand up and be counted as an individual regardless of earlier missed chances.
His wasteful first-half finishes could have persuaded a lesser striker to wait for help when bearing down on goal in the 79th minute, yet Rooney showed unnerving desire to finish past Schwarzer and give United a huge title boost.
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While the rest of the league may rightfully fawn over Van Persie's gorgeous left foot, Rooney is hitting form at exactly the right time for the Premier League leaders.
It has not been plain sailing for Rooney whatsoever this year; accusations of weight gain and loss of form have dogged him and perhaps, for once, finally seeped into the stands of Old Trafford as Van Persie gave the fans gold-standard performances every week. He has even admitted to handing over penalty-taking duties, such has been his lack of efficiency from the spot.
However, Rooney's recent form - and deft winner at Craven Cottage in particular - highlight the importance of a title-winning side needing to put personal glories aside and share the load in difficult games. As Roberto Mancini casts aside Mario Balotelli, each of United's forwards has had a role to play this year.
It would be foolish to describe Van Persie's recent form as a drought but if many teams' top strikers were not scoring, they would be struggling; not so with United. They certainly rode their luck at Craven Cottage, but Rooney proved just why the Netherlands striker elected to join a "team of champions".
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Regional SLO trainings for administrators to be offered in March and April
The South Dakota Department of Education will be offering administrators regional one-day trainings on student learning objectives (SLOs) in spring 2014. Separate sessions will be held for elementary and secondary administrators. These trainings are intended for superintendents, principals, curriculum directors, SPED directors, and anyone else who will be evaluating teaching staff. Administrators will learn about the SLO process, how SLOs support a culture of data-driven instruction, and much more.
Teacher Effectiveness for the Elementary Administrator and Teacher Effectiveness for the Secondary Administrator are scheduled as follows:
• March 18 in Pierre
• April 1 in Sioux Falls
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• A session in late May will also be scheduled
Registration information will be available soon on the department's Calendar of Events.
Contact Carla Leingang at the South Dakota Department of Education, (605) 773-4638, with any questions.


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NBC has announced the primetime schedule for "The Million Second Quiz," the electrifying new competition that will air live from a gigantic hourglass-shaped structure in the heart of Manhattan.
The show will feature contestants who test the limits of their knowledge, endurance and will to win as they battle each other in intense bouts of trivia for 12 days.
"The Million Second Quiz" premieres Monday, Sept. 9 (8 p.m.), and continues through Saturday, Sept. 14, in that same 8 p.m. hour. It will then resume on Monday, Sept. 16, and will air each night (8 p.m.) until the finale on Thursday, Sept. 19 (8 p.m.), when the winner could claim a cash prize of $1 million or more.
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NBC affiliates will have the opportunity to interact live throughout the day and during the primetime show to be part of the action and showcase local contestants from their area.


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In loving memory of Sarah Jane WATSON (née IRVINE) Age 67 years. It is with heavy hearts her family announces her death on Saturday, the 18th of December, 2004 at the West Nipissing General Hospital.
Sarah Jane had been suffering with cancer for the past year. She leaves to mourn and cherish her memory, her beloved husband and best friend of forty five years, Donald McDOWELL WATSON and their children Donald IRVINE WATSON (wife Helene), Donna Kathleen FOSTER (husband Bob), Gail MONTRIE (husband Bill) and chosen daughter Jackie BURTNYK (fiancee Rick SMITH.) She was predeceased by her oldest son Alexander McDOWELL WATSON (Age 7 years) in 1966 and several brothers and sisters. She is survived by her brothers Bobby and Billy IRVINE both of England. Sister Joan IRWIN of Northern Ireland and sister Sandra McILWRAITH of Scotland. Also survived by her grandhchildren Meagan, Samantha and Steven WATSON, Kathleen and Christine FOSTER, Katlyn MONTRIE and Angela and Tanya BURTNYK. Sarah Jane will be best remembered for her wonderful singing, her quick smile and her sense of humour. She loved to spend time at her camp on Manitoulin Island and especially loved spending time with her children and grandchildren. "Mamma Jane" to many of her children's Friends, her hugs and kisses will be missed. She served in the British Army and was a life member of Branch 225 of the Royal Canadian Legion. She was the Zone Poppy Chairperson and an avid supporter of our veterans. A memorial service was held at the Royal Canadian Legion upstairs hall in Sturgeon Falls on Wednesday the 22nd of December, 2004 at 3 pm.
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X Games 2012: Thursday through Sunday, Staples Center and vicinity, Channel 7, ESPN and ESPN2:
Not sure why, but we haven't been sleeping well lately. There's been this recurring dream — OK, call it one holy nightmare — where the giant Randy's Donuts sign has snapped off its moorings over by the 405 in Inglewood, gained speed as it rolled way over to Staples Center and then somehow morphed into this spinning monster that chases cars all over the place. Add to that some toxic green waterfalls, death-dealing taco trucks and even a mythical kraken, and maybe we should stop watching promos for the latest X Games invasion into downtown L.A. after binge eating foot-long jalapeno dogs at Pink's.
Now that would be a real natural disaster if it ever came alive.
Things are about to get real, the TV spots insist (linked here), but the real news is how early this 18th version of the Gen X never-ending docudrama – slash – "Jackass" free-for-all stunt show has decided to kick off in June for the first time. This thing is old enough to vote now, and many of the top competitors are exercising their right to be part of the U.S. Olympic movement — a residual effect of how far this has come to being accepted as a staple to the "legit" Olympics in London from late July to early August. This is the 10th straight year that ESPN has planted it ramps and crash barriers in our area code, and the kids are still talking about how a year ago, Travis Pastrana fell down bigtime trying to do a rodeo 720 ("the toilet paper roll") in the motocross, Shaun White won a skateboard vert gold to break Pierre Luc Gagnon's three-year winning streak, and Liam Doran drove off in the Rally Car event on his first try. This year, the Moto X Freestyle highlights the first day Thursday (6:30 p.m.) inside Staples Center, with the Skateboard Big Air final on Friday (6 p.m.) on Chick Hearn Court and the Skateboard Vert final on Saturday (7:30 p.m.) at the Nokia Theatre leading up to the final day's highlights: Skateboard Street final on the event deck, the BMX Big Air final (6:30 p.m.) on Chick Heart Court, the Moto X Enduro (8:30 p.m.) in Staples Center, plus RallyCross final at Lindsay Plaza (3:30 p.m.). Here's the complete schedule (linked here).
Yet, the thing that we're anticipating most is the Hot Wheels Double Loop Dare in nearby Gilbert Lindsay Plaza from 11:20 a.m. to noon on Saturday. X Games RallyCross driver Tanner Foust and Hollywood stunt driver Greg Tracy will try to break a world record for racing two vehicles through a six-story double vertical loop. Breaking who's record again? The two will get up to about 52 mph (seems kinda slow), drive into a 66-foot tall loop (seems kinda small) and hit seven times normal gravity as they drive through it (seems kinda stupid). It's just like your Hot Wheels do on a daily basis, without a mini driver, on the new Double Dare Snare track set. We're telling you, it'll be boss.
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Roger Federer (2009), Novak Djokovic (2011) and Rafael Nadal (2008) after winning at Wimbledon.
Tennis: Wimbledon, first round, 3:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., ESPN2:
On the men's side, there's Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer winning 28 of the last 29 majors. The top-seeded Djokovic is the defending champ here, Nadal won it twice and Federer has six Wimbledon titles among his 16. Sorry, but Andy Murray's chance of winning Great Britian's first Grand Slam title on its hallowed grounds since 1936 … can he at least get to the semifinals? Against Andy Roddick?
The women make it much more interesting — six different players have won the last six majors. Maria Sharapova (left) waltzes in as the shiny favorite, having lost the final a year ago to Petra Kvitova, who is ranked No. 4 these days. Venus Williams (five Wimbledon titles) is back and Kim Clijsters will make news in playing in what's likely her last appearance here. ESPN takes over from NBC as carrying this event from start to finish — no more tape delays. Most weekday action will happen on ESPN or ESPN2 from 4 a.m. to 2 p.m. ABC will also have a three-hour review of the first week during the "middle Sunday" off day (noon) and re-air the men's and women's finals on July 7 and 8 at noon after ESPN carries them live. Chris Fowler, Mike Tirico, Cliff Drysdale and Hannah Storm will call matches and host in the studio, with John McEnroe, Patrick McEnroe, Darren Cahill, Cliff Drysdale, Mary Joe Fernandez, Brad Gilbert and Pam Shriver providing commentary.
Swimming: U.S. Olympic trials from Omaha, Neb., 3:30 p.m., NBC Sports Network:
Michael Phelps is scheduled to compete in seven events, with rival Ryan Lochte entered in 11. Whether they actually follow through is another story. "It's safe to say he's entered in more events than he'll actually swim," Bob Bowman, Phelps' coach, told the USA Today. The rivals could go head to head in six events, starting with today's 400 meter IM, a gruelling race that the 27-year-old Phelps set a world record at the 2008 Bejing Games but has vowed not to do again. Over the next eight days, we could see Phelps and Lochte also compete in the 200 IM (Lochte is the current world-record holder), the 100 and 200 freestyle, 100 fly and 200 backstroke. On the womens' side, Natalie Coughlin is entered in five events, including today's 100 fly. She and 45-year-old Dana Torres are in the 50 free (that final isn't until Monday, July 1). The drama of the weekend will be if 40-year-old Janet Evans can be one of the eight qualifiers in the women's 800 free semifinals on Saturday (Channel 4, 8 p.m., delayed) to reach the Sunday finals (Channel 4, 7 p.m., delayed) and finish in the top two. "It's fair to call her a long shot," said her coach, Mark Schubert. Evans was sixth in her final tuneup meet last month, an 8 minute, 49.36 second time that was 15.71 seconds behind the winner. She was sixth at an April meet in 8:46.89.
MLB: Dodgers at San Francisco, 7:15 p.m., Prime:
The Dodgers, who won two of three from the Giants in L.A. back in early May, may come home from this roadie six games up in the NL West, or tied for the lead. The most interesting pitching matchup comes in the finale Wednesday (12:45 p.m., Prime) when San Francisco's Tim Lincecum (2-8, 6.07), who hasn't won since April 28 and gave up four runs in five innings when losing to the Dodgers on May 9, faces Chad Billingsley (4-6, 4.15), who couldn't hold a 5-0 lead against the Angels in his last start.
College World Series final, Omaha, Neb., Game 2: Arizona vs. South Carolina, 5 p.m., ESPN:
If they need one more to decide this thing — which could be the Gamecocks' third straight title — then Game 3 is Tuesday (5 p.m., ESPN).
MLB: Angels at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m., Prime:
The Angels already won two of three against the Orioles back in April, and the capper to this strange two-game set (Wednesday, 4:05 p.m., Prime) puts 7-1 Jered Weaver against 8-2 Jason Hammel.
WNBA: Sparks at Tulsa, 5 p.m.:
Also: Thursday at San Antonio, 9:30 a.m.
(AP Photo/Jon Super)
Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo does an overhead kick by Czech Republic's David Limbersky during the Euro 2012 quarterfinal match between Czech Republic and Portugal in Warsaw lastThursday.
Soccer: Euro 2012 semifinals: Portugal vs. Spain, 11:30 a.m., ESPN:
Defending champion Spain, trying to win a third-straight major title, expect a tougher test from Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal in this one than it got in the quarterfinals against France. Winner takes on either Italy or Germany (Thursday, 11:30 a.m., ESPN) in Sunday's final from Kiev, Ukraine (11:30 a.m., ESPN).
MLB: Dodgers vs. N.Y. Mets, Dodger Stadium, 7:10 p.m., Prime:
The Eric Karros bobblehead giveaway –and if only Ross Porter was there to make that announcement — marks the opener of this four-game series that seems to have everyone's attention in the baseball world, because after R.A. Dickey throws his knucleball at the Dodgers on Friday (7:10 p.m., Prime), the series moves to Fox on Saturday (4:15 p.m., Channel 11) and then to ESPN on Sunday (5 p.m.).
MLB: Angels at Toronto, 4:07 p.m., FSW:
The split four games in Anaheim back in May, and that included the Angels' Jerome Williams registering a 4-3 win against the Blue Jays. Williams, on the 15-day DL and unable to return until after the Fourth of July, will throw a simulated game while the team is in Baltimore has he tries to recover from leaving during his last start with shortness of breath and a lot of anxiety. This four-game schedule continues Friday (4:07 p.m., FSW), Saturday (10:07 a.m., FSW) and Sunday (9:07 a.m., FSW).
NBA Draft, in Newark, N.J., 4:30 p.m., ESPN:
After the league-owned New Orleans Hornets take Kentucky's Anthony Davis with the No. 1 overall pick — and that's no reach, even for a 6-foot-11, 19-year-old shotblocker — then it's up to Charlotte to nab Wildcats teammate Michael Kidd-Gilchrist at No. 2. Or not. Or the Bobcats bob and weave and snatch up Kansas' Thomas Robinson. Will the Celtics trade up to get Austin Rivers?
Gymnastics: U.S. Olympic trials from San Jose, 2:30 p.m., NBC Sports Network:
Three members of the women's 2008 Olympic Team have qualified to compete in this one — All-around champion Nastia Liukin (left), who won five medals in Beijing; Alicia Sacramone, the 2010 world vault champion, and Bridget Sloan, the 2009 World all-around champion. The men's field of 15 includes 2012 U.S. all-around champions John Orozco and Jordyn Wieber as the four-day competition concludes on Channel 4 on Saturday (1 p.m.) and Sunday (9 p.m., delayed)
Golf: PGA AT&T National at Bethesda, Md., first round, noon, Golf Channel:
Tiger Woods, K.J. Choi, Jim Furyk and defending champ Nick Watney are in the field at the Congressional Country Club. Channel 2 has the final two rounds Saturday and Sunday.
MLB: Philadelphia at Miami, 4:10 p.m., MLB Network:
Trade rumors around Phillies starter Cole Hamels (10-3, 3.03) will only heat up if he's sharp, as usual, in this anticipated match up against the Marlins' Josh Johnson.
Allyson Felix, right, competes against Carmelita Jeter in the women's 100m semis at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials last Saturday.
Track and field: U.S. Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore., 9 p.m., Channel 4 (delayed):
Allyson Felix can't allow any photo finish to determine whether she'll represent the U.S. again in the women's 200 meters. After that Kodak moment in the women's 100 last week, where she tied for the final spot with Jeneba Tarmoh and they still haven't figured out how to decide it, the former L.A. Baptist and USC star knows there are two Americans quicker than her over 200 this season — but only the first three again here will be running this for the Americans in London later in July. She's won three individual world championship gold medals, but her only Olympic gold is in the 4×400 meter relay in 2008. "Of course I want the individual gold, but I'm at a place right now where I don't let the sport define me," she has said. "I know I'll be OK if it didn't happen…but I want it really bad so I'm going to do everything I can to make it happen." Tarmoha is in the field again. Meanwhile, Channel 4 also has Sunday's final day at 7 p.m. (delayed).
MLS: Galaxy at San Jose, 7 p.m., ESPN2:
It shouldn't be news when the Galaxy (6-8-2) racks up a three-game win streak, piles up nine points in seven days, and climbs into fifth place in the Western Conference. But that's what they've got to grab onto these days heading into the so-called California Classico.
Cycling: Tour de France, Stage 1: 5 a.m., NBC Sports Network; 1 p.m. (delayed), Channel 4:
They've made defending champ a favorite, with Bradley Wiggins a close second. Tour of California champ Robert Gesink is right on their tails.


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Speed. Endurance.
Joy. Disappointment.
Thunder. Lightning.
That was the inaugural Columbia River Conference district track meet in six words.
Here is one number of greater importance to the Hood River Valley track team: Twenty.
That's how many competitors the Eagles are sending to this weekend's state meet in Eugene.
"We were shocked to get 20 people in," HRV coach Donnie Herneisen said. "It's a bit of an adjustment for us."
Those adjustments include not only having to reserve a few more vans to get to Hayward Field, but also a slew of different events from what the Eagles are normally used to.
The Eagles' strength in recent years has been distance races, with a few field stars thrown in. It would be fair to label this season as the year of the sprinter.
The Eagles are sending all four of their relay teams to the state meet, including a 4x100 boys relay team that tied the school record with its time, and a girls 4x100 team which got a heroic anchor performance from Marlee Orgain to qualify second.
Orgain ran down Pendleton's Sara Townsley and erased a dozen meter lead in the final 100 to get the relay team on to state.
Orgain also won the 100 meter race with a time of 13:19, slowed by blasting headwinds down the stretch, but still enough to win.
"I had a good day," said a grinning Orgain Monday.
Ian McNaughton pulled a similar feat in the 400 relay as he passed Colton Rowland in the backstretch to give HRV the win.
McNaughton is also going in the 200 and 400 meter races, and will be joined by teammate Milo Herman in the 200.
The Eagles went 1-2 in two boys sprint events, with Herman and Ryan Bales going in the 100 meter dash and McNaughton and Herman in the 200. They just missed the feat again in the 400, with McNaughton taking first and Keirnan Buddendeck third.
By qualifying in a pair of individual events and a relay, Herman moved from the middle of the pack, where he spent most of the last two years after dealing with injuries, to the state top times list and a chance at the medal stand.
"It was just hard work and keeping at it," the junior said. "Last year I hurt my hamstring and couldn't run."
The sprints even managed to finish in dramatic fashion. With a thunderstorm rolling in Saturday afternoon, the HRV 4x400 relay team won the final race of the day minutes before rain and lightning came rushing down from the sky.
"We had to take down our tents and everything in the pouring rain," Herneisen said.
The sprints were not the only event HRV went 1-2 in. In the pole vault Olivia Campbell won the competition easily and has a good chance to be the top finisher at state.
Meanwhile Zoe Peterson took second place in a jump off at 8-6 to take the second spot -- after returning from the track to help the Eagle 4x100 relay team qualify.
In other field events, Dalton Frazier won the boys long jump while Tracy Mok took second in the javelin to qualify for state.
In keeping with the tradition, the Eagles are also sending a distance runner. Grace Viuhkola qualified in the 3,000 meters for the first time after pulling away down the backstretch to win the event.
The Eagles had hoped to possibly win the event as a team, but Herneisen said their lack of depth in several events wound up costing them points.
Instead the Eagles finished second on the girls side and fourth on the boys side.
Still, considering he had to scramble to find more transportation to get his team to Eugene, Herneisen was not too unhappy.
"The positives far outweigh the negatives," he said.
Finals results highlights:
* Denotes state qualifier
# denotes state alternate
100 meters
1 Milo Herman 11.38*
2 Ryan Bales 11.43*
5 Kelby Broddie 11.93
200 meters
1 Ian McNaughton 22.21*
2 Milo Herman 22.54*
4 Kelby Broddie 23.42
400 Meters
1 Ian McNaughton 50.23*
3 Keirnan Buddendeck 50.23
3 Keirnan Buddendeck 53.05
7 Victor Rodriguez 54.69
800 meters
5 Yonny Castillo 2:09.97 #(4x400 relay)
7 Sage Deenik 2:14.68
9 Brodie Sutherland 2:24.11
1500 meters
5 Yonny Castillo 4:26.31
5 Aaron Baeza 4:26.31
10 Ricardo Castillo 4:37.87
3000 meters
4 Aaron Baeza 9:30.12
6 Ricardo Castillo 10:00.12
8 Ben Dane 10:11.36
4x100 Relay
1 Ryan Bales, Kelby Broddie, Milo Herman, Ian McNaughton 43.84*
4x400 Relay
1 Keirnan Buddendeck, Victor Rodriguez, Erik Gutierrez, Ian McNaughton 3:33.66*
Shot Put
3 Eli Fults 40-10
6 George Jubitz 39-09
7 Seth Fults 39-00.50
7 George Jubitz 103-06
8 Seth Fults 98-08
10 Eli Fults 93-05
10 Kelby Broddie 123-02
11 Eli Fults 117-06
12 Seth Fults 108-11
Long jump
1 Dalton Frazier 19-07.25*
10 Wyatt Webber 17-10
12 Ryan Bales 15-01.25
Triple Jump
7 Wyatt Webber 38-04.50
10 Erik Gutierrez 35-00.25
100 meters
1 Marlee Orgain 13.19*
6 Kenzie Yoshimura 13.96
7 Ashlynn Olmstead 14.04
200 meters
3 Marlee Orgain 27.25
4 Anna Schlosser 27.31
400 meters
4 Danae Burck 1:03.97
6 Georgia Orgain 1:05.50
800 meters
4 Alison Flaming 2:32.42 #(4x400 relay)
5 Lydia Gildehaus 2:37.79
9 Alia Burck 2:53.44
1500 meters
3 Grace Viuhkola 5:07.00
6 Martha Sonato 5:29.28
3000 meters
1 Grace Viuhkola 10:51.16*
8 Claire Merriam 12:32.00
9 Martha Sonato 12:33.23
100m Hurdles
3 Emily Thompson 17.34
300m Hurdles
3 Emily Thompson 48.75
7 Lupe Santillan 52.17
4x100 relay
2 Kenzie Yoshimura, Zoe Peterson, Anna Schlosser, Marlee Orgain 51.44*
4x400 relay
2 Danae Burck, Emily Thompson, Georgia Orgain, Anna Schlosser 4:23.22*
Shot Put
7 Tracy Mok 31-03
11 Rachel Lahti 24-00.50
7 Tracy Mok 87-11
8 Rachel Lahti 87-08
2 Tracy Mok 111-10*
7 Melanie Siegriest 86-10
10 Matine Maeland 78-04
High jump
4 Zoe Peterson 4-10
Pole Vault
1 Olivia Campbell 11-06*
2 Zoe Peterson 8-06*
4 Arleigh Laney 8-00
Long jump
7 Kenzie Yoshimura 14-09
8 Ana Torres 14-07.75
9 Mason Bailey 13-08.50
Triple jump
5 Kenzie Yoshimura 32-01.75
7 Ana Torres 31-07.50
8 Mason Bailey 30.04.75
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Taliban militants wearing suicide vests and firing automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades attacked an army post in northwestern Pakistan before dawn on Saturday, killing 23 people including 10 civilians, officials said. Twelve attackers were also reported killed in the assault.
The raid followed a suicide bombing at a Shiite Muslim mosque elsewhere in the northwest on Friday that killed 24 people, police said. The blast was the latest in a rising number of sectarian attacks in the country.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for both attacks. The group has been waging a bloody insurgency against the government for years and also has sometimes targeted the country's minority Shiites, whom the militants consider to be heretics.
The Taliban and allied militant groups have stepped up the pace of attacks in Pakistan in recent months, an indication of their strength despite numerous army operations against their strongholds in the northwest.
The raid on the army post in Serai Naurang town of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province began around 3:45 a.m. local time and lasted for several hours, said senior police officer Arif Khan Wazir. The militants were armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades, he said.
Nine soldiers and four members of the Frontier Constabulary, a force that polices parts of northwestern Pakistan, were killed in the fighting, two security officials said. They said 12 attackers also died. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
They say militants killed 10 civilians in a nearby house, including three women and three children.
Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan claimed responsibility for the attack in a telephone call to The Associated Press from an undisclosed location. He said four suicide bombers were involved in the attack. He said that three of them were killed and the fourth was still resisting as of his call at around 9:20 a.m. local time.
Ahsan said the attack was retaliation for the recent deaths of two Taliban commanders in U.S. drone strikes. He accused the Pakistani army of helping with the attacks. Pakistani officials often criticize drone operations as a violation of the country's sovereignty, but are known to have assisted some U.S. strikes.
A police official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media, said he saw the bodies of three attackers with their suicide vests intact. Their features suggested they belonged to a group of Uzbek militants allied with the Taliban, he said.
He said other attackers detonated their explosives during the battle with security forces — one inside the house where civilians were killed. He did not say if this caused the civilian deaths.
The attack on the mosque Friday took place in Hangu town, also in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The town has experienced previous clashes between the Sunni and Shiite communities that live there.
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Have you recently experienced a "generational gap" when interacting with someone younger or older? Often times, life experiences and frame of reference can be noticeably different with as few as a 15 or 20 year difference in age. Generation gaps often lead to feelings of disconnect, discomfort, and frustration. For those of us who regularly interact with older adults, having a better understanding of what makes a person 'tick' can change the course of a conversation andthe outcome of a situation.
As health care and social services professionals, we understand that individual perceptions are shaped by history and personal experiences. For professionals working with older adults,recognizing and respecting generational influences may strengthen:
The table below includes a brief overview of certain influences that shaped people's lives and generalized characteristics that have been broadly applied over time in the literature: 1,2
|Generation Time Frame
(a.k.a. 'Matures')
|Generation Xers 1965-1980
|History/Social Influences
|Values, Traits and selected Characteristics
Being generationally savvy reduces the risk of a 'one size fits all' approach when interacting with and serving older adults. Viewing older adults as a homogenous group, as opposed to unique individuals, is dangerous and may cause harm through misunderstanding, and perhaps, lead to misdiagnosis of need.
Savvy entails being...
For example, a lack of "savvy" and age sensitivity may lead a well-intended service provider to perceive that a "traditionalist", who values paternalism, is in complete agreement with what a provider has said because the senior does not question the provider's authority as it may seem disrespectful. Likewise, a "boomer", who values being involved in decision making, may be turned off by paternalistic approach and choose to discontinue needed treatment at his/her own peril. To improve interactions, generational values, beliefs, and attitudes need to be understood, considered and respected.
A savvy member of any one of the four generations currently working with older adults understands that generation gaps are not the problem. In fact, a "savvy" person understands that age diversity adds richness to society and applies generational knowledge to shape his or her practice approaches to better meet the unique needs of older clients/patients. Health care and service professionals who are generationally sensitive agree that:
We share the following 'savvy' mnemonic for use in working with older adults:
1. Baumgardner, C. (2008). Beyond Patient Satisfaction . . What lies ahead?http://www.neshco.org/filestorage/77/Beyond_Patient_Satisfaction.pdf
2. Hosbach, V. (2008). Presentation on Generational Diversity given at the NetWellness.org College of Nursing.
3. Definition of savvy. Available online July 30, 2009 @ dictionary.com
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Some come and go so fast.
You can't remember what you ever saw in them.
I was so excited to see your sketches on a poster for Maison Blanc in London the other day. i recognized your beautiful work right away. (Now why is it Maison Blanc and not Maison Blanche, I wonder?)
Great job--they were lucky to have you as their illustrator!
well....I still get flustered when I hold my wire wrapped Italian brushes! I also love the journey it took to find the brushes in some small random shop! Yeah, it is certainly like a love affair!ReplyDelete
Thisis the all-time best simile!!!! In retrospect, I have been extremely faithful. Definitely a monogamist. Or serial monogamist. I started with a motley collection from Michaels. Then a Teacher who had retired from Hallmark convinced me that the world's best brush is the supremely pricy Scharf male Kolinsky sable (or some such sable) . I bought 2 sizes. After a year or two I bought Connoisseur synthetic that was on sale at my local art store. I've been surprisingly content.
No Longer!!!! I feel a deep lust for new brushes!! Off to the internet I go!
Well this post assaulted my virgin eyes! If you don't believe me, just ask my wife. Being constantly broke, I've got cheap brushes that I just looked at and saw are made in China. No wonder my paintings have such a cheap look about them! Oh well. I'm using liquid acrylic and creating multi-media paintings, and by the time I get done, it doesn't matter what kind of brush I use anyway. They are fun to make, though.ReplyDelete
Whoops I had to go look up 'simile' to be sure you didn't mean SMILE Jeannette!
As I was foraging through all these endless brushes this morning it came to be like a flash.
Ah to be true to just one brush..
That would be some kind of miracle.
Then of course you know it will become unavailabe or go out of stock, so it's better to be fickle and play the field IMHO.
I like these paintbrush watercolors, too!
Will you be going to the FIAF Bastille Day celebration on Sunday?
This is so cute Carol...I always talk about perfume as if they were more than just scents....whether I can be faithful to them and whether they will last the test of time.......Your one night stands are all adorable...and so many, you cheeky girl! xvReplyDelete
I much enjoyed reading about your various affairs, fascinating indeed!
My everlasting love is the humble pencil # 2 - I have flirted with the Faber Castell brand, but I mostly am loyal to the common yellow 2HB. I still have a few from Staples in my drawer. My notebooks are filled with pencil scribbles, as is my address book. Marginalia in my books are penciled in as well (I crinch when I see your color marked book!). ;-)
Oh la la! Who would have thought. And you wrap your exes in mothballs?! Eeeek.ReplyDelete
Carol, I think that your post has struck deeply within the soul and materials world of many readers.
I do treasure many of my watercolor brushes, for their particular characteristis. Isabey is a brand I have definitely befriended.
Pencils, via Merisi's comment. I could go on and on and on.
I thank you so much for your comment over at my place, and do hope to try to capture that posy in the tea cup in another medium.
Searching for time, think I am finding some. xo
I love this funny post - you are one of the brightest sparks in the blogosphere! (And I'm also flipping for those Venetian watercolours, btw!)ReplyDelete
OMG Rick!
A WN watercolor brushes from 1973!!
Rarer than hen's teeth.
You could auction that at Christies and walk away a happy man I bet.
Nothing like the old Winsor & Newton sable brushes around these days. Now they were worth hanging on to...sign
Yes Frances, Isabey is a lovely brand for brushes bien sur. The French can other things well besides pastry...
Nikon - it is VERY hot in New York and the brain turns to mush and remembrances of things/dates past...
I practically border on OCD for some things - notebooks used for journals must be just so. I love pens and am very particular about them. Pilot V7 in black - or the great new ink-dropper filled fountain pen from Noodlers Ink (on Amazon, natch), and mechanical pencils for writing but again, must be just so.ReplyDelete
Always am inspired by your posts. I have a love affair with my creative tools too. Right now it's photo apps for my iPhone.ReplyDelete
So happy to see your delightful painting of Mignardises. That's the name of my blog! Isn't it one of the sweetest French words?
Love it - bumped into a LIVE one ;-)
Wonderful colourful array of brushes, Carol. Gosh, your post is making me blush and realise that question is a biggie but think it's there to stay. Have to think...
Love the brushes! Recently I came across a stash of old brushes and dip style ink pens and wondered what I could do with them -- I am definitely not an artist like you are -- BTW I love your watercolors. Anyway, I have decided that there must be more people like you who have love affairs with pens and brushes. They are now displayed in our shop for all to love. Thanks.ReplyDelete


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I'm not a Trademark lawyer, but if another party can show that the mark was used in "commerce" prior to a trademark being granted, isn't that grounds for action?
...You know, like when the Mongols Motorcycle Club used it prior to the US Government holding the trademark (an absurd situation if there ever was one).
Similarly, is there no one in Mongolia who would contest this trademark?
Seriously? Well then Apple can go ahead and sue Home Depot too, 'cause I got my white-iPhone conversion kit there yesterday for $3.99. It came in a bottle. I just had to get one of the kids in the orange aprons to open up the cage for me, because there are very strict anti-graffiti laws in my county.
Go ahead, Steve, tell me how my solution is legally different from a white backing.
Well, Mr. Gannon, I was going to post a snarky comment indicating the number of incoming links that you have to jamesgannon.ca, and suggesting that you couldn't possibly be responding to e-mails from everyone who linked to you.
However, upon closer examination, it appears that you only have about 1500 links coming into that domain, and only about 110 of them are unique. The rest are likely blogs.
So, it appears that not only do you have plenty of time to approve all those links, but your contend doesn't appear to be as in demand as you might want to believe.
In contrast, Techdirt shows upwards of a half a million total incoming links, and well more than a thousand of those are unique (this is difficult to quantify above one thousand). What I think is rude is that you're chastising someone for offing you such exposure. Perhaps you should make a donation to Techdirt.
In fact, the original Techdirt post discussing your work indicates 34 backlinks - roughly 30% of the existing exposure that you've been able to develop on your own. I'm very sorry that fair use prevents you from seeing a 30% increase in revenue from your online efforts.
PW, I think your response was very insightful, and I think it raises a number of good points.
I have the feeling that it's going to take a good amount more of my thinking power than I can bring to bear at the moment, but I might have to disagree on the idea of opt-out being unethical on the basis of it's requiring action from the individual. I can't help but feel uncomfortable when we draw the line in a place where making an observation requires prior restraint.
It may be because of my experience in social science research, but I believe that whenever observations about my behavior are observed, and may serve to make a direct impact upon my life, I would like to be aware of this, and informed as to the intent. Then, much as I can do when my phone asks me if I want to share my location with a software developer, I can choose to opt out. Much as with institutionalized research, it's informed consent that I'm seeking, but observations that do not have a direct impact on my immediate existence are not my biggest concern.
This is the difference.
I questioned the story, and I got flamed for it - and that's the difference. Some people are willing to swallow the line wholesale, and without question. Those folks, and bloggers with lower standards never would have revisited this story. They would have buried it when they discovered the problem. Kudos to Mike for making sure the truth is fairly represented, regardless of the "cost."
...And in this case, at least by my measure, the "cost" is greater respect from yours truly - and I already had a great deal of it.
Wow. So smart.
Actually, no. I don't have that training. I do, however, have a great deal of experience with digital audio. Very much more than enough to know exactly what you're talking about as you try to wow me with jargon. Please review the technology yourself, do some research on speech recognition, and then re-read what I said. Then think about it.
I stand by my comment that the processing power requirement is not insignificant, and when multiplied by several million times, it becomes problematic. If all of this were possible, we wouldn't hear whining from the DHS about how they've got hundreds of thousands of hours of recoded conversations, but no way to vet them for intelligence.
Intercepting traffic? Yeah. On the internet. China can do that. Speech recognition requires a little more effort.
If you read my post, you would also note that I also point out that it would be substantially less useful for China to cut off such conversations that it would be to listen in.
If you want to suggest education, please have the smarts to demonstrate that you understand what you are talking about before dismissing it.
This piece is just part of the new red scare. And you, Mr. or Ms. Coward, are easily wowed.
People are right to be extremely skeptical of this story.
Yes, the technology is readily available to detect specific keywords in speech. It can be done quickly, and very effectively. My phone can do it, and I know someone who helped bring that particular piece of software into being. That person now works for the NSA, presumably doing similar work - though he can't say.
Nevertheless, doing this takes processing power, and not an insignificant amount. Multiply that my several million (or whatever the number of phone calls active in China at any given time) and you get a pretty hard nut to crack. I notice that the article from the Times talks a lot about internet censorship, but very little about the technology to engage in active, real-time censorship of phone calls.
Besides, even if this were limited to watchlists, what would be the purpose of cutting off a phone call? Wouldn't it be in the state's interest to allow the call to continue, and gather intelligence? If it were foreigners being monitored, wouldn't the government want to know what they were discussing, instead of cutting off the call, and potentially alerting the target that they were being observed?
No, I think it's far more likely that people are simply flying off the handle again. How hard is it to look like a competent journalist by "uncovering" some sort of government crackdown. I'm sure it'll get the NYT many links.
>Is it the study of sociology that encourages this?
No. Quantitative studies in sociology are nothing like this, and sociologists are quite capable of creating a study which is significantly more objective. This "survey" is junk science, and no professional sociologist would ever draw the conclusions about behavior from the indicated results. All one could reasonably do would be to draw conclusions about people's *impressions* of behavior. There is a big difference - obviously.
Unfortunately, roughly 2% of the news media is able to make that differentiation, and as a result, we're constantly bombarded by horribly misleading and inflammatory information. Good for ratings. Bad for everyone.
Kudos for calling BS on this, and for all of the right reasons.
It's easy to be wistful for a time when you were rich because you were one of ten artists actually getting airplay, and your record was one of the ten conveniently displayed in your local record store.
About a year ago he did an interview on NPR's Fresh Air. A coworker was a big fan of his, and I referred her to the website so she could listen to the archived audio. There was a message there saying that the audio could not be archived due to "contractual obligations" or some such crap. I've never, ever seen that with any other interview.
He's a fossil. Good riddance. If that's music, I hope Steve Jobs feels well enough to dance on its grave.
I love that I can post a comment that is *critical of the TSA* and be called an "apologist." I make no apologies for the TSA, but it's inappropriate to make assumptions about dangerous doses of anything, when there are absolutely no numbers being discussed. We all receive measurable doses of radiation every day. We also consume toxins and harmful bacteria.
The TSA needs to come clean with the numbers. I too, suspect that it won't, and more alarmingly, I suspect that the reason that it's not doing so is that it would have to admit some pretty serious mistakes, and no arm of our government readily does that.
So yes, anonymously argue on the internet, but my point (had you bothered actually thinking about it) is that when we throw up our hands and panic about a number that is ten times another number, we are being hysterical until such time as we know both what the numbers are, and what they mean. Expressing concern over a safety issue is one thing. Acting as if we know that there is a cover-up of eminent danger is another. Show me that the TSA is knowingly hiding evidence of harmful radiation exposure, and I'll be the first one at the barricades.
Tobacco companies, as with everyone else, knew for decades that their products were harming and killing. We don't know that about these machines, but hell, I'll opt for the pat down anyway, because I *don't* know - not because I *do.*
I very proudly pulled the lever for President Obama, but in doing so, I assumed that I was casting my vote for someone who understood that telling the truth, and doing the moral thing might have consequences, but that those consequences would never be worse than doing the easy-but-unethical thing in secret.
It seems that I may have gotten the wrong impression. I only wish there were a candidate who wouldn't send us down a vortex of mendacity that could provide a viable alternative. I've never heard a Republican candidate for anything who wouldn't have subjected Manning to the same treatment.
I share the concern over the scanners, and over the TSA's less-than-forthcoming tendencies, but I feel compelled to point out that without solid numbers, we really can't conclude that ten times the normal radiation emission from the machines comes anywhere close to harmful. As the current ongoing nulear power crisis in Japan illustrates, the emission of radioactive materials into the atmosphere at a rate many times that of normal can still be nowhere near a harmful dose - the US Navy has been reporting levels akin to a month of living on earth and being exposed to the sun every day.
...Of course, like in Japan, the issue could rapidly become much worse, and I hope to hell that it doesn't. I just want to be sure that we don't jump to conclusions on this. Yes, the TSA needs to be more transparent about these things, but if someone said they were giving me one daily dose of Vitimin d, and gave me ten, I'd still be in no danger. It's only toxic at much, much higher levels. Gotta have the numbers to know.
I'll assume that was aimed at me, and I'll point out that "a few bad apples that steal" is hardly an indictment of anything. Everyone has a few bad apples who steal. This does not contribute to an argument against say, the public school system. If I were to argue against public schools, I wouldn't bother adding "...and some teachers steal" because it doesn't really strengthen my case. It only makes me look somewhat petty and bitter.
While I recognize that the piece is presented without a specific statement that the TSA is inherently useless or should be abolished *because of these incidents,* I do recognize (and agree with) the theme on this blog of criticism of the TSA and it's "security theater." Typically, Techdirt will publish much more relevant reasons for this criticism, which involve violations of civil rights, misrepresentation of fact, and safety concerns. This post does not fall into those categories.
When a journalist or blogger chooses to report on a story, he or she has already made a judgment call that the story is relevant. Because of the established theme of Techdirt, and because of its normally high standards when issues of the TSA's policies and procedures are discussed, I feel strongly that the inference is clear: a couple of underpaid TSA agents stealing from passengers is evidence sufficient quality and relevance to include with the more substantial arguments.
I simply feel differently. I feel that we should hold ourselves to higher standards of debate. These stealing incidents are isolated, and unless someone is going to make a claim that they represent the consequences of TSA policy, they are not worth including in what is otherwise a very solid and intellectually honest debate.


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March 18. 2013 10:21PM
Bad heels still holding Red Sox' Ortiz back
By SCOTT LAUBER and STEVE BUCKLEY
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BRADENTON, Fla. - For the past few days, David Ortiz and the Red Sox hoped the slugger would feel good enough to resume taking batting practice Monday in Fort Myers with Red Sox players who didn't make the trip here to play the Pirates.
But that isn't happening.
"He's still not feeling like he's ready to begin that next phase. That's where we're at right now," Farrell said. "There's a concern from the standpoint that it's been a couple more days than we thought or projected."
Ortiz expressed a similar sentiment of frustration back in Fort Myers, where he spoke to a couple of reporters.
"Not being able to play and do what I'm supposed to do by this time is not fun," Ortiz said. "I'm just trying to deal with it and the setback is pretty much frustrating the most. You think you're doing the right thing to get better and next thing you know it's like walking backwards. That's the part of this game that I hate playing.
"That's the one thing we're pretty much trying to avoid, just coming back and not being able to stay in the lineup the way everybody is expecting me to be. That's why I'm going to approach this depending on how I feel. I'm going try to be smart about it. When I go back in, I don't want to any setbacks."
Ortiz referenced last August, when he attempted to return before shutting it down for the season, and his most recent attempt to come back a couple of weeks ago.
On March 9, Ortiz was diagnosed with inflammation in both heels and shut down from physical activity for a period of at least a week, a development that all but ruled him out of being ready for Opening Day. But it has been nine days and he hasn't been able to do much more than run on an underwater treadmill.
"The season is not Opening Day. The season is six months long," Ortiz said. "If I can be there for the next five-and-a-half months or five months of the season I think we'll cover more ground than being there just for Opening Day and missing the next five-and-a-half months. We want to be there for the right time, hopefully."
As always, the truest test of Ortiz' heels will come when he tries to run the bases, a stage that he won't reach until after he resumes hitting.
Meanwhile, shortstop Stephen Drew is exhibiting "similar symptoms," Farrell said, to what he has been dealing with since suffering a concussion on March 7. If those symptoms persist for another 24 hours, Farrell said Drew will visit with Dr. Michael Collins, director of the sports concussion program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Until now, Drew has been in touch with Collins via phone.
As expected, Farrell confirmed that Jose Iglesias would be the Opening Day shortstop in the event Drew isn't ready. The Red Sox are more comfortable with Pedro Ciriaco in a utility role.


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