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2015 Winter Warmer Day at SanTan Brewing
Mark your calendar, SanTan Brewing Company presents Winter Warmer Day, an exclusive tapping party. At SanTan, the holiday season is officially marked by the annual tradition of tapping a keg of Winter Warmer. This year, the celebration will kick off at 8 a.m. on Monday, November 23, 2015 at SanTan Brewing Company in downtown Chandler, 8 S. San Marcos Place.
Read the full press release by clicking here.
SanTan Brewing Company | Chandler 100 2015
One of the Chandler Chamber's biggest events of the year!
Chandler 100 showcases the top 100 stakeholder business in the city of Chandler. Chandler Mayor Jay Tibshraeny was there to recognize this year's honorees and share a State of the Business Community address.
3TV: SanTan Oktoberfest Celebration 2015
Thanks to 3TV and AZFamily for having us on air LIVE to talk about Oktoberfest happening tomorrow! Check out the video clip below.
azfamily.com 3TV | Phoenix Breaking News, Weather, Sport
Top Five Fall Beers from Arizona Craft Brewers
Phoenix Magazine announced their top 5 fall beers from Arizona craft brewers and SanTan Oktoberfest made #1! Read the full list by clicking here. (September 2015)
SanTan Brewing Adds New Mexico Distribution with Admiral Beverage
Arizona's second largest brewery, SanTan Brewing, will introduce their uniquely Southwestern Style Ales: Mr. Pineapple Wheat Beer, Devil's Ale, and HopShock IPA to New Mexico in October 2015.
SanTan Brewing Company is pleased to introduce its new partnership with Admiral Beverage. Set to bring SanTan's uniquely Southwestern Style Ales including Mr. Pineapple Wheat Beer, Devil's Ale, HopShock IPA, and Sex Panther Double Chocolate Porter to the New Mexico craft beer scene, Admiral Beverage is excited to add SanTan to its portfolio.
"Admiral Beverage New Mexico is so happy to be partners with SanTan. Anthony Canecchia is a true artist, he is one of the best brewers in America. New Mexicans can't wait for his beer to arrive," said Greg Brown, Admiral Beverage, general manager.
Read the full press release by clicking here.
Report: Arizona beer has an economic kick, too, in terms of jobs, taxes
By Nihal Krishan | Cronkite News | POSTED: Aug 13, 2015
WASHINGTON – When Rob Fullmer, the executive director of the Arizona Craft Brewers Guild, says "everything is improved by the presence of a brewery," he's talking about the economic buzz it brings and not the alcoholic kind.
"Anytime you can put a business between two breweries, you'll see a much more foot traffic in that area, and you'll see a real benefit to your employees," said Fullmer – not to mention "the lunches and happy hours."
New industry-generated numbers appear to back up that claim that beer brings economic growth and prosperity.
A recent report by the National Beer Wholesalers Association said the beer industry in Arizona – from brewers to drivers to bartenders – had an economic output of almost $4.3 billion in 2014, generated more than $800 million in federal and state taxes and was responsible for 38,627 jobs in the state.
"Arizona's beer industry is doing slightly better than most," said the association's chief economist, Lester Jones. "It's marginally above the national average in terms of its economic output, wages, jobs – which is not a bad place to be at all."
With a gross state product in Arizona of just over $279 billion in 2013, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the beer industry accounted for roughly 1.5 percent of the total GSP. Arizona's beer industry had the 21st highest economic output in the country and was 19th among the states in terms of wages and jobs, according to the report.
Nationally, the beer industry generated 1.75 million jobs in a U.S. labor force close to 149 million, and had an economic impact of nearly $252.58 billion on a gross domestic product of $17.3 trillion.
The study looked at the three traditional tiers of brewing, wholesaling and retailing and accounted for everything from the cost of equipping breweries, to the salaries for truck drivers who deliver it and bartenders who serve it.
The report said that for every retail dollar of beer sold in Arizona, the state and federal governments get nearly 36 cents in taxes. In other words, if a consumer pays $2 for a beer, about 71 cents goes to the government. Arizona was slightly below the national average of a 40 percent tax burden.
Despite the bite by the government, industry officials say the business is booming in Arizona, particularly among local craft breweries and craft beers.
Fullmer said Arizona is a "hot" for brewing, in more ways than one.
"I think Arizona's numbers are better than what the NBWA is reporting," Fullmer said. "They underrepresent the craft beer industry which has been particularly strong in the past few years."
That was echoed by Chip Mulala, who goes by the title minister of craft beer at SanTan Brewing.
"There has been a tremendous amount of growth in the Arizona craft beer scene in the past few years," Mulala said in an email.
"Just five years ago there were less than 20 breweries in the state and today there is almost 60," his email said. "I believe most are flourishing and experiencing solid growth."
The beer industry has gotten large enough in Arizona to have its presence felt at the state Capitol: Gov. Doug Ducey in March signed SB 1030, dubbed the Arizona Beer Bill, that raises the production cap for craft brewers above 200,000 barrels of beer a year and lets them operate more retail shops under the same microbrewer license.
"SanTan was very involved in passing SB1030, the Arizona Beer Bill earlier this year. The central tenet to this bill was jobs, jobs, jobs," Mulala said.
"Every drop of beer that is locally produced creates jobs in this market, and a community that can be self-sufficient and rely less on beers imported from other states and countries will be a stronger community as a whole," Mulala said.
And Fullmer sees more opportunity for the state going forward.
"We're going to be known as a beer state because we have similar growth rates as big states and we've done so despite having only one large metropolitan city and having a desert-like geography, which is special," he said.
Unique, flavorful dishes from SanTan Brewing | ABC15 Sonoran Living
Chef Ryan joins the set at ABC15's Sonoran Living to cook up some delicious SanTan food! To see the recipes for our New Mexican Skillet, Green Chile Cheeseburger + more, click here for the full article!
Wrap up summer with SanTan! | Phoenix 3TV
Check out our clip from 3TV on August 6, 2015. Chef Ryan, SanTan's Minister of Craft Beer Chip Mulala and Mr. Pineapple had a lot of fun cooking and talking Luau!
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With this release what do we bring in terms of updates.
Newer updated kernel which helps eliminate bugs and also brings driver support and improved hardware support.
New X.org stack which is the engine which drives the GUI interface and features. With improved support for touch interfaces and input methods, Black Lab Linux can be installed on a variety of machines including first generation 64 bit machines to brand new Intel i7 systems..
We also revamped the UI due to user demand so the OS gets out of the way of whatever task you are trying to accomplish.
XFCE 4.11, with this highly innovative and light user interface it is low power and low memory so more of your system memory is dedicated to your applications than powering the UI.
For the first time ever, we are also releasing a KDE release for users who prefer the KDE desktop and that release ships with KDE 4.12
LibreOffice 4.1.4, this is the de-facto standard of open source office suites. With LibreOffice you have document compatibility with all Microsoft Office formats including the newer XML based formats, as well as other legacy document formats.
Chromium 31. Web browsing and web applications are very important to the average user, and for this we have included the award winning Chromium Web Browser which is the standards based platform to host your web applications, very fast and very simple to use. Chromium being cross platform, its also the same across multiple platforms so you will feel right at home.
Thunderbird 24 with the lightning extension for reading your mail and keeping up with important dates and times. You can also sync your Google calendar events for off-line use.
Audacious 3.4 for listening to streaming music as well as all your mp3, AAC and WMA music files
VLC for watching streaming video as well as video files on your hard drive in all formats. VLC also supports DVD and Blu-Ray playback.
Camorama for taking photos from your webcam
Audacity 3, for audio production
OpenShot Video editor for making your own home videos
Steam Client for accessing all of your Valve Steam games. We are also compatible with the SteamOS.
gMTP for managing files on your Barnes and Noble Nook devices, and Amazon Kindle Fire, Fire HD, and Fire HDX tablets as well as a plethora of other audio and video players.
Calibre ebook management which allows you to read ebooks in all different formats from proprietary to free formats. We also include the LRF Viewer to read Sony's ebook format.
These are only some of the application updates that you get with Black Lab Linux 4.2, they are to numerous to go over here. Overall you get over 200 system and application updates. With Black Lab Linux 4.2 you aren't just upgrading your operating system, its like you are getting a brand new computer.
For more information take a look at our video on Black Lab Linux 4.2.
Black Lab Linux 4.2 is available today for purchase. The Free download will be available January 27, 2014.
You can also download Black Lab Linux 4.2, 64 bit only through digital download for $10.00 USD a download link will be e-mailed to you:
We also have whats called Starter kits for new users and users who are new to Linux which include, a Black Lab Linux t-shirt, Installable USB or SD card, and a new Install guide that will walk you through every step of installing Black Lab Linux.
For user reviews and what people are saying about Black Lab Linux visit this section of our webpage
We are also having our New Years fundraiser, for those of you that wish to donate to this distribution you can do so. The amount of your donation doesn't matter and with the funds raised it helps with maintaining the distribution by:
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Acquisition of ARM hardware for us to port Black Lab Linux to the ARM platform. If you wish to donate hardware as some have elected to do you can contact me directly, email@example.com

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ISLAMABAD - Boating in the Rawal Lake has become the most popular recreational activity for the visitors of Lake View Park, but it is a risky affair in the absence of safety measures.
The Lake View Park is the only venue in the Federal Capital where people can enjoy boating. "We are here for boating, but I will not allow my children to have a boat ride without safety gadgets," said Mazhar Chattha, who had come to the park with his family on Thursday.
"We often come here just for boating. There are many parks in the city, but boating makes the Lake View Park special," said Nazir, a visitor.
The boatmen charge Rs 300 for a short trip and Rs 500 for a long trip in the lake.
People from different areas of the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad visit the park, particularly at weekends, to enjoy their free time.
"The Lake View Park is really a place to enjoy. After a hectic day, I rush to the park, where I get refreshed after spending only a few moments," said Muhammad Atif, a visitor. However, boating in the lake is risky as no lifeguards have been deputed, he complained.
Many visitors demanded the Capital Development Authority to delpoy well-trained lifeguards on permanent basis. They claimed many people had drowned in the lake due to the absence of lifeguards and safety equipment.
Instead of banning boating, the authorities concerned should adopt safety measures, they added.
A senior official of the Rawal Lake View Park said the authorities would regulate the boating activities in future and proper safety measures would be ensured.


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The Outstanding Service Project (OSP) awards recognize National Honor Society and National Junior Honor Society chapters that have made significant service contributions at the local level. With more than 25,000 active chapters, it is estimated that millions of hours of service are performed each year by Honor Society members.
The recipients for the 2018 awards have been selected. Each chapter will receive a plaque recognizing this achievement. Review a full list of recipients here.
The application is now open. The deadline for submissions will be November 1, 2018.


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Katie Holmes: Lunch Date with Mom!
Katie Holmes tries to keep warm as she steps out of the Crosby Hotel on Tuesday (March 5) in New York City.
The 34-year-old actress was joined by her mother Kathleen as they grabbed some lunch before heading to the school of Katie's daughter Suri.
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The day before, Katie and Suri were spotted walking hand in hand with tennis racquets while heading to a racquet club for some tennis fun.
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"...Herman Doyle - now of Ormsby County, Nevada - was Wallace's successor. Doyle, in 1857, was a member of the Assembly of California. At that session there was a spirited contest for United States Senator, and Doyle was reported to have been offered, while on his way from Sacramento to Placerville, a large sum of money to vote for a certain candidate. He "blowed" on the parties or it leaked out and much scandal and newspaper comment was the result."So apparently, Heman got by pretty unscathed and from the tone of the article, it was all just a big misunderstanding (???). I'd like to think he was innocent of the charges and it all was just a misunderstanding, but the articles from time don't mesh well with what is being presented above. In any case, Heman wasn't run out of public office because of it.
The article did get two things wrong though which is worth pointing out. For one, it was in 1854 not 1857 and for another, he never (to my knowledge) was a California State Assemblyman. The Wallace mentioned was a Justice of the Peace in Placerville and apparently (according to the article), Heman was his successor.


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Interfaith leaders in Chicago speak out against Islamophobia
SHAFAQNA – Religious leaders in Chicago on Wednesday condemned a wave of anti-Muslim discrimination sweeping across the country after terrorist attacks in Paris.
"We urge everyone in metropolitan Chicago to oppose discriminatory actions and behavior against all members of religious communities, and particularly, at this time in our history, against Muslims," the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago (CRLMC) said on Wednesday.
From its side, the national Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) advocacy group released a report on Tuesday logging instances of "unprecedented backlash and discrimination targeting the nation's Muslim community" since the Paris attacks.
According to the report, the group has received more reports of Islamophobic discrimination and violence targeting American Muslims since the Paris attacks of Nov. 13 than during any limited period since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"It's fairly obvious that the proposed threat of the immigrant, the proposed threat of our Muslim brothers and sisters, the proposed or active threat of violence against members of our black community — all of these add up together to an unacceptable pattern of life for our community," the Rev. Paul Rutgers said on Wednesday.
Rutgers, a Presbyterian minister and council of religious leaders executive, warned that by being complicit with actions of fear and hate, people are moving toward disastrous consequences.
The Council of Religious Leaders' (CRL) statement against Islamophobia called on individuals and political leaders to "desist from inflammatory rhetoric," especially with respect to Muslims.
Republican Presidential Hopeful Donald Trump and Ben Carson have come under fire for making anti-Muslim remarks while on the campaign trail. And more than 30 governors, including Gov. Bruce Rauner, have refused to accept new Syrian refugees. Last week the House of Representatives passed a bill limiting Syrian refugees entering the nation.
Amid ongoing skepticism regarding Syrian refugees and national security, CRL President Michael Balinsky encouraged people to trust in the federal vetting process for Syrian refugees.
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One year ago today, the President announced his Campaign to Cut Government Waste. The executive order outlined a number of actions the administration would take to eliminate government waste, promising to "systematically identify additional reforms necessary to eliminate wasteful, duplicative, or otherwise inefficient programs; and publicize these reforms so that they may serve as a model across the Federal Government."
As part of the announcement, the president outlined a goal to cut the number of federal websites in half within one year, stating:
In a June 2012 memo, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) provided a status update on the action items included in the executive order, as well as the status of their effort to reduce the number of federal websites in half within one year.
CRS noted that one month after the initial announcement, the White House published a list of all websites, citing 1,758 websites with the .gov domain, managed by federal executive branch agencies. "As of the time of this memorandum's writing, the data.gov website indicated a reduction of nearly 300 websites," at least 579 short of reaching their goal of cutting the number of websites in half.
Read the full report from CRS, here.
|Reps. Issa, Gingrey, and Sen. Coburn: GAO Study Finds Government's Data Quality for Official Time is Unreliable
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White House Advisers Defend Obama Criticism of Supreme Court
President Obama was correct on both policy and decorum when he stated his views on a controversial Supreme Court ruling during his State of the Union speech attended by six Supreme Court justices, senior White House officials said Sunday.
Appearing on different Sunday television programs, Obama's senior advisor David Axelrod and press secretary Robert Gibbs defended the president's decision to express his pointed criticism of the campaign finance decision during the joint session of Congress in January.
"You know, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations have a First Amendment right," Gibbs said on "Fox News Sunday." "We believe that the president shares that First Amendment right to express what he believed was quite a bad decision by the Supreme Court."
Last week, Chief Justice John Roberts spoke publicly for the first time on the imbroglio that erupted when Obama criticized the justices for their 5-4 ruling that corporations and labor unions have a constitutional right to directly spend money on political campaigns.
The mostly partisan disagreement centered on the merits of the decision and the propriety of the setting which Obama used to issue his sharp criticism. Traditionally, Supreme Court justices remain quiet and unemotional during the annual address.
Justice Samuel Alito's clear expression of disagreement with the president -- he mouthed, "That's not true" when Obama delivered his controversial line -- flamed the fires of debate.
"The image of having the members of one branch of government standing up, literally surrounding the Supreme Court, cheering and hollering, while the court, according to the requirements of protocol, has to sit there expressionless I think is very troubling," Roberts said while answering questions from students at the University of Alabama Law School.
Axelrod disputed the suggestion that Obama's choice of setting to criticize the ruling was inappropriate. He justified the comments by comparing them to a disagreement President Theodore Roosevelt had with a dissent authored by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
"Things have been said about justices by presidents in the past that were far more personal than anything the president said here," Axelrod said on ABC's "This Week."
Axelrod made specific reference to a somewhat famous observation from Roosevelt that he "could carve out of a banana a justice with more backbone than (Holmes)" who was his first appointment to the high court and had disappointed him with a dissent in a significant 1904 antitrust case.
But the historical comparison is far from on point.
"I don't think it's much of an analogy," said Edward White, author of "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Sage of the Supreme Court."
The dispute Axelrod highlighted occurred before the State of the Union speech -- then known as the president's Annual Message -- was regularly delivered in person. Roosevelt submitted his annual reports to Congress in writing.
Furthermore, Roosevelt's comments about Holmes were made in private letters. "I don't think the average citizen would have known about it at the time," White told Fox News.
Nonetheless, Axelrod said he's curious about whether Roosevelt would have approved of the decision to allow corporations and unions to directly participate in a campaign.
"I wonder what he would think about a bill that essentially allows for a corporate takeover of our elections, or a court decision. And that's what we're dealing with here," he said. "That is a threat to our democracy. It's going to further reduce the voice of the American people, and it's something we have to push back vigorously on."


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Turning a teen's bedroom into a stylish space may The No-Rules Approach to Interior Design" (Clarkson Potter, 2011) about easy ways to design a fun, sophisticated room for teens. Here are some of her suggestions: Look online for unique accessories. Ferrari is known for making the most iconic sports cars.Performance is a given in any Ferrari but the design is the reason why many of us put it on our bedroom walls when we're teenagers. Even though you may not have heard of Pininfarina, but they're an Bold stripes and lots of color combine for a high-impact but low-cost bedroom makeover. The designer: Lisa Ball, Design by Lisa "He loves to be in here, doing his reading." To submit before and after photos of a redecorated or remodeled room for While it seems almost all teens go through this phase, these tips and ideas will help your to help whip your teen's bedroom back into shape and create a personal space they're sure to love. Start with a thorough cleaning, but before you begin, discuss Decorating a teenager's bedroom for teens. One of her favorite sources of inspiration though, is partnering with other creatives. Recently, PBteen worked with Emily Current and Meritt Elliott, designers and stylists out of Los Angeles, to design Photo Credit Comstock/Comstock/Getty Images That boring cork or magnetic bulletin board in your teen's bedroom probably does nothing to add to the ambiance. It can be even more annoying to your teen, especially if she took the time to transform the rest of .
The vision of the blog is to give tweens and teens a place to find design inspiration a chance to win a $500 PBteen gift card. The Stylehouse encompasses a variety of aspects in a typical teen's life – from making your bedroom feel all your own High sleepers are designed for older children and teenagers. Thanks to the generous storage space these are practically whole bedroom units in one. Sturdily built from quality materials these versatile cabin beds are contemporary designs that will appeal Teenagers are notoriously tough to please, and it doesn't get any easier around the holidays. But these gifts should satisfy any kid on your list. As the 2014 holidays approach, be sure to visit our Holiday Gift Ideas & Guide over the coming weeks. The essential design elements for girls' surfer rooms and boys' surfer rooms decorating and painting the walls in your child's surfer bedroom," says DeAnna Radaj, author of Feng Shui for Teens. "Do a paint theme of the sea on the walls, sand color .
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Dr. Lee joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Energy and Environmental Directorate in 2008 after her post doctoral training in PNNL's Fundamental Sciences Directorate. She is currently working on development of catalysts for stabilizing and upgrading bio-oil. Dr. Lee is focusing on syntheses and characterization of homogenous/heterogeneous catalysts. She also prepares noble materials for fuel cell and biosensors.
Education and Credentials
- Ph.D. Inorganic Chemistry, University of Idaho
- M.S. Environmental Science, University of Idaho
- B.A. Interdisciplinary, University of Missouri-Columbia,
PNNL Patents
- U.S. Patent No. 9,517,984, December 13, 2016, "Conversion of 2,3-butanediol to 2-butanol, olefins and fuels ".
- U.S. Patent No. 9,434,659, September 6, 2016, "CONVERSION OF 2,3-BUTANEDIOL TO BUTADIENE".
PNNL Publications
- Wang H, SJ Lee, MV Olarte, and AH Zacher. 2016. "Bio-oil stabilization by hydrogenation over reduced metal catalysts at low temperatures." ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 4(10):5533-5545. doi:10.1021/acssuschemeng.6b01270
- Norton JR, T Spataru, DM Camaioni, SJ Lee, G Li, J Choi, and JA Franz. 2014. "Kinetics and Mechanism of the Hydrogenation of CpCr(CO)3·/[CpCr(CO)3]2 Equilibrium to CpCr(CO)3H." Organometallics 33(10):2496-2502. doi:10.1021/om4012399
- Koech PK, J Zhang, IV Kutnyakov, L Cosimbescu, SJ Lee, ME Bowden, TD Smurthwaite, and DJ Heldebrant. 2013. "Low viscosity alkanolguanidine and alkanolamidine liquids for CO2 capture." RSC Advances 3(2):556 - 572. doi:10.1039/C2RA22801G
- Yan L, DD Laskar, SJ Lee, and B Yang. 2013. "Aqueous phase catalytic conversion of agarose to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural by metal chlorides." RSC Advances 3(46):24090-24098. doi:10.1039/C3RA43293A
- Elliott DC, SJ Lee, and TR Hart. 2012. Stabilization of Fast Pyrolysis Oil: Post Processing Final Report . PNNL-21549, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.
- Koech PK, DJ Heldebrant, SJ Lee, JE Rainbolt, and TD Smurthwaite. 2011. "Synthesis, characterization and application of alkanolamidines and alkanolguanidines in CO(2) capture." In 241st National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society, March 27-31, 2011, Anaheim, California, vol. 241, pp. 48-FUEL. American Chemical Society, Washington, DC.
- Appel AM, SJ Lee, JA Franz, DL DuBois, and M Rakowski DuBois. 2009. "Free Energy Landscapes for S-H Bonds in (Cp2Mo2S4)-Mo-star Complexes." Journal of the American Chemical Society 131(14):5224-5232. doi:10.1021/ja8093179
- Appel AM, SJ Lee, JA Franz, DL DuBois, M Rakowski DuBois, and B Twamley. 2009. "Determination of S-H Bond Strengths in Dimolybdenum Tetrasulfide Complexes." Organometallics 28(3):749-754.
- Franz JA, SJ Lee, TA Bowden, MS Alnajjar, AM Appel, JC Birnbaum, TE Bitterwolf, and M Dupuis. 2009. "Activation of the S-H Group in Fe(µ2-SH)Fe Clusters: S-H Bond Strengths and Free Radical Reactivity of the Fe(µ2-SH)Fe Cluster." Journal of the American Chemical Society 131(42):15212-15224.
- Appel AM, SJ Lee, JA Franz, DL DuBois, M Rakowski DuBois, JC Birnbaum, and B Twamley. 2008. "Formation and Reactivity of a Persistent Radical in a Dinuclear Molybdenum Complex." Journal of the American Chemical Society 130(28):8940-8951. doi:10.1021/ja078115r


text: Damage: A caller Wednesday in the 100 block of South Lincoln Street reported damage to a vehicle. Theft: A caller Wednesday in Groton reported a theft. Theft: A caller Wednesday in rural Aberdeen reported a theft. Forgery: A caller Wednesday in the 2400 block of Sixth Avenue Southeast reported forgery. Alcohol/drugs: A caller Tuesday in the first block of South Main Street reported drunken driving. For the list of registered sex offenders in Brown County, go to www.aberdeen.sd.us/police/offender/offender.html. State law states that anyone who commits a crime as a result of information gained through the sex offender registry, or through public information, is guilty of a felony. This means that anyone who uses information attained to harass, intimidate, threaten or damage property of anyone on the registry may be convicted of a felony punishable by two years in the state penitentiary and/or a $2,000 fine.


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Thousands of people took to the streets of Montreal Saturday braving driving rain to protest planned tuition hikes after talks between students and the Quebec government broke down.
Students, along with parents and their children, marched peacefully, many of them wearing costumes and playing music with trumpets, foghorns and pans.
CLASSE, the largest and most militant of the main student groups, said between 5,000 and 7,000 people were marching by mid-afternoon. It had called for the biggest protest since the start of the tuition crisis in February.
"It's to continue to rally and show that we are still motivated even if summer is on its way," CLASSE leader Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois told reporters before the start of the protest.
A strong police presence, including dozens of vehicles, served to prevent any flare-up in the protest, after previous clashes in recent weeks. About 700 people were arrested in Montreal and Quebec City in a single night late last month after an emergency law was passed to limit the protests.
"I just paid off a Can$15,000 ($14,400) student loan," said Isabelle Farfeuille, 46.
"I am here for my children, so that they don't have to owe as much. I am ready to protest every single day, every night, until the talks lead to an agreement."
Students have rejected a government offer to reduce the tuition hike by Can$35 ($34) per year, which would bring the total increase to Can$1,533 ($1,473) over seven years instead of Can$1,778 ($1,708).
CLASSE warned that the protest's route would not be disclosed in advance to police, contrary to requirements under the emergency law.
Taking to Twitter, Montreal police called the protest "illegal," saying it had not received the route. However, it added: "People can march if no crime is committed."
Special Law 78 requires organizers to give police at least eight hours advance warning of times and locations of protest marches, with fines imposed for failing to do so.
The measure was passed on May 18 in an effort to quell the demonstrations, but so far it has only served to galvanize opposition to the government.
Quebec Education Minister Michelle Courchesne said earlier that the law had ensured "peaceful demonstrations.
"There is a lull," she told La Presse newspaper.
"As long as there is no agreement with the students, it is necessary," the minister said about the measure.
This week's discussions between Courchesne and student leaders were touted as a "last chance" to resolve the conflict before the start of summer festivals and other major tourist draws such as the Montreal Grand Prix.
After four days of negotiations in Quebec City, Courchesne called off the talks on Saturday. No new meeting has been set.


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Moldova Presidential Election Today
Moldova will have presidential elections on Monday. President Vladimir Voronin seeks re-election from the country's parliament. The parliament will choose between Voronin and academic Gheorghii Duca for president.
If no winner is elected, parliament will be disbanded:
The Communists got 56 out of 101 seats in parliament at the election. Sixty-one deputies should vote for a candidate to elect president. Thus, the Communist Party has to seek support of the opposition bloc Democratic Moldova that gained 34 mandates and the Christian Democratic People's Party that has 11 mandates. Under the law, the parliament will be disbanded if it fails to elect president in three rounds of voting.
Authorities on Friday had agreed to allow a protest in front of the parliament building but had changed their mind by early Monday.
The Opposition has given the Voronin government a list of demands:
This main opposition force has presented a list consisting of 22 conditions on which it is ready to support Vladimir Voronin in the presidential elections. Among them Moldova's withdrawal from the CIS, the outlawing of the Russian peace-keepers in the Trans-Dniester Region and their replacement by the UN, NATO or EU forces, the renunciation of the principle of neutrality and the proclamation of the course to integration in the European and North-Atlantic structures, and a number of other demands, many of which have an openly anti-Russian character.
But, the Authorities scoffed at the demands:
People from President Voronin's entourage at first refused to comment on these demands of the opposition. But then an official from the presidential administration called these conditions a provocation and said that nobody would examine them.
A momentous day in this former Soviet Republic!
Update: The 'Great One', Instapundit, has a link to this news.
Update 2: (9:45 AM) Voronin has been re-elected.
Incumbent Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin was re-elected for a new term by the national parliament.
He received 75 votes in the 78-member parliament even though he needed only 61 votes for his election.
His competitor was the president of the Moldovan Academy of Sciences, George Duca.
Both are from the Communist Party because there were no nominees from the opposition, but law requires at least two candidates.
Now,.. we'll have to wait and see how the public reacts.
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English 563
Eighteenth-Century British Novel
Spring 2012
Dr. Morillo
First Paper: Due Friday, Feb. 17 at noon, in the folder on my door, Tompkins 270
4-6 pages of interpretation. The first page will be a verbatim reprint of the complete chosen passage, single-spaced and is not part of the 4-6pp total.
Single-space the verbatim passage; double-space your interpretation.
The assignment helps you practice your skills in close-reading, the foundational skill for all successful literary scholarship. Even though close-reading skills grew out of the
New Criticism
, you are not obliged to find their ideals of harmony or unity in your reading. You may wish to work out a passage that instead reveals some interesting disruption of structure, complication of apparent theme or moral, or contradiction (logical, ideological, etc.) between apparent authorial intent and textual meaning as you understand it.
This paper will be on your choice of one of the first three works,
Robinson Crusoe
, or
Love in Excess
. Choose a brief passage or scene (no longer than several paragraphs) that best captures any critical problem or issue you consider especially relevant to interpreting the whole novel in which the passage appears.
Consider the language of your chosen passage in as much detail as possible, and then write a brief essay explaining what problem or issue is at stake, and how the particular details of language in the passage work to make the passage significant and noteworthy. This will help you to learn to read prose fiction with the close-reading care (and slow pace) sometimes relegated to studies of lyric poetry. Pay particular attention to the sentence-level detail of image, tone, syntax, diction etc. Focus on what is actually in the passage itself, especially what is most interesting in it.
For the chosen passage, you need give only page numbers, no author name, for quotations or paraphrases, and no Works Cited is needed.. If you use any other edition of a novel besides the ones on the syllabus, put the complete information for the edition you used in a Works Cited entry.
You do not have to consult any texts, primary or secondary, beyond your chosen novel. If you do include any other sources keep them to a minimum, cite them in MLA author p style keyed to a Works Cited, and be sure to still
explicate the passage sufficiently in your own terms, keeping other opinions subordinate to your own interpretation.
A Superior NCSU MA close-reading of Behn's
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How to Win the Valuation Game
(See Corrections & Amplifications item below.)
With the market for early-stage capital beginning to bounce back, I'm once again fielding calls from entrepreneurs wanting to know how much of their company to give away to investors to raise the money they need to launch their businesses or take them to the next level.
Unfortunately, there's no easy answer to this question. An established business with sales, profits and cash flow may sell for five to 10 times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. But it's a lot harder to put a price tag on an early-stage venture that consists of a business plan, a web site and the founder's hopes and dreams. As a result, negotiations between start-ups and prospective investors often turn into angry arm-wrestling matches that end with both sides walking away empty-handed.
About the Author
Rosalind Resnick is the founder and CEO and Axxess Business Consulting Inc., a New York consulting firm that develops business plans and financial projections for start-ups and early-stage companies. She is also the author of "The Vest Pocket Consultant's Secrets of Small Business Success."
That's why entrepreneurs and investors often back into valuations based on "give-up," the amount of equity the company is willing to give up in order to raise the money it needs to execute its business plan, says Neil J. Beaton, a partner in charge of valuation services at Grant Thornton LLP in Seattle.
"Typically, you're going to have to give up 20% to 30% of your company to raise your first round," Beaton says. Keep in mind, if you raise all the capital upfront – rather than in rounds, as your company grows in valuation – "you'll end up giving up more than you want," he says.
Recently, a client of mine who had raised capital for her speciality-foods company at a $7 million valuation before the 2008 market crash told me that a new investor group wanted to put in money at a $2.5 million valuation – a major haircut for her and her original investors. Her dilemma: Should she take the cash and dilute her equity or tell the new investors to take a hike?
In the past, I probably would have advised my client to hang tough and keep looking. In today's market, with smaller amounts of early-stage capital available and venture investors looking to scoop up bargains, I'm urging my clients to craft a deal that's palatable to both sides.
More Rosalind Resnick
Here are some tips to bring to the negotiating table:
1.Raise a little money now, a lot more later. Assuming that your business takes off, it will be worth far more once it has a steady stream of sales, earnings, customers and visitors to your site. Raising $500,000 from Series A investors at a $3 million valuation now and $1 million from Series B investors at a $5 million valuation later is less dilutive than raising $1.5 million at a $3 million valuation as a start-up. By doing it this way, you dilute 16.6% on the A round and 16.7% on the B round (20% dilution x 83.4% ownership) for a total of 33.3 % dilution versus diluting 50% during the A round if you raise all the money at the beginning.
2.Consider debt (straight or convertible). Not every early-stage investment has to come in the form of equity. One way to sidestep the valuation game is to borrow the money instead. Early-stage investors are often willing to put in money as debt – provided that you're willing to pay above-market interest rates (anywhere from 8% to 15%) and have a credible plan to generate positive cash flow in a relatively short period of time. Making the debt "convertible" to stock gives the investors a share of the upside if your company gets acquired or goes public, and protects your downside if your company can't generate enough cash flow to service your debt immediately. And, if you decide to raise capital down the road by selling shares to VCs or other investors, you'll be able to do it at a higher valuation than you would have as a start-up.
3.Prove the concept on your own nickel. The best way to gain the upper hand in an investor negotiation is to show that your company has traction – a pilot deal with a Fortune 1000 customer, a hockey-stick-like ramp of users to your site or a contract with a major retailer or distributor to roll out your product nationwide. That's why I've been advising my start-up clients to generate revenue – even a small amount of revenue – to show prospective investors that they've got more than just a business plan and a dream. If you spend as much time pitching customers as you do courting investors, you'll make more money, give up less equity and end up with a far more valuable company at the end of the day.
What if you can't get the valuation you're looking for? Well, you can do what many homeowners are doing these days – take your deal off the market and wait until market conditions improve. Back when I was raising money for my Internet marketing company, NetCreations, in 1998, the Russian debt crisis hit and we started getting calls from VCs looking to get in at a rock-bottom valuation. The following year, after the market recovered and our sales ballooned to $20.7 million, we went public at a $300 million market cap. For us, it was worth the wait.
Write to Rosalind Resnick at email@example.com
Corrections & Amplifications:
Raising $500,000 from Series A investors at a $3 million valuation now and $1 million from Series B investors at a $5 million valuation later is less dilutive than raising $1.5 million at a $3 million valuation as a start-up. An earlier version of this article contained a calculation based on a $1 million initial valuation. The calculation has been changed to $3 million to more accurately express the benefit of raising smaller amounts of money at a company's beginning.


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So, like all SharePoint consultants/architects/devs/project managers I've witnessed my fair share of the heartache of failed projects for various reasons, but the one that *really* gets to me is when SharePoint solutions are over engineered - and we overlook the actual business and strategic objectives the solution aims to meet.
I use a phased approach when taking on an intranet project (particularly when the organisation has never made use of an intranet or SharePoint previously).
Phase 1 consists of purely branding and page layouts customisation and perhaps 1 or two content aggregators (for news, etc.). Start getting end users used to the idea of searching for general content and policy documents through the intranet as opposed to emailing/IM'ing/phoning HR to request the information/policy/template they are looking for.
Phase 2 is where we start getting to the fun stuff: collaboration / LOB application integration / document management / etc. And this phase should only start once phase 1 has been live and rolled out to staff for at least 3 months.
This ensures your SharePoint solution is eased into the organisation, and it assists in user adoption, in that users aren't thrown into the deep end and forced to change their mindsets from day 1.
I've found that when an organisation goes the Full Monty with SharePoint from day 1 and embraces document management and collaboration aspects of SharePoint without fully understanding the product and training it's end users efficiently (or even developing effective governance policies and processes) users push back and return to their bad habits.
As consultants and architects it is our duty to sometimes say "no", the customer is not "always right" the customer is king, and WILL return and provide repeat business if their implementation is a success and by implementation I do not mean only technically.


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Credit Card Verification Code
The Verification Code is imprinted on credit cards to help merchants verify transactions when the actual card is not present, such as Internet purchases or donations. The merchant uses this number as part of the authorization process with the card issuer.
Please use the images below to locate the verification code for your card type.
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The league phase of PWL will feature 15 matches followed by two semi-finals on January 17 and 18. The four table toppers will proceed to the finals scheduled on January 19. The second season of the league will witness participation from 54 wrestlers. The matches have been divided in nine categories. The male categories are 57, 65, 70, 74 and 97 kg, while female categories are 48, 53, 58, and 69-75 kg.
All the matches of Pro Wrestling League will be broadcast live on Sony Max in Hindi and Sony ESPN in English. Matches take place between 7 to 9 pm everyday from January 2 onwards.
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My four favourite looks from one of my favourite Danish fashion brands, Rützou. The simplicity and elegance of the navy silk suit is beyond words for me. I am also hoping that the necklace will be put into production and not just a showpiece. (I hate that!)
I may also consider opting for a new coat when this collection hits stores. I really like the flowers applications at the collar.
{Images via CopenhagenFashionWeek}


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Obama Volunteers Share the Power of Personal Stories
Saturday, July 26, 2008
ST. LOUIS -- Sen. Barack Obama's newest recruits gathered in a modern picture gallery to practice the political art of electing a president. For three days, they focused on the low-tech skills of registering voters and identifying community leaders to vouch for the Illinois Democrat and carry his message.
Along the way, they were encouraged to perfect their stories, a short narrative suitable for doorsteps and living rooms about where they came from and why they care about Obama. Their stories would resonate with voters, they were told, and enough personal connections could carry a candidate to the White House.
That is how Missouri college student Matthew Aiken came to say that the murder of his cousin, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, jolted him into political action. It is why James Wallace told of working his heart out for Robert F. Kennedy and, 40 years later, seeing Obama as a prophecy fulfilled.
It is what prompted Illinois student Sean Sanders to stand in front of 110 people and choke back tears as he said the shuttering of steel mills, the rise in teenage pregnancies and the death of a friend who drove drunk made him realize, "I can't run away anymore. I need to come back."
Such scenes played out in 23 formal training sessions in 17 states last month as the Obama campaign labored to bring a blend of rigor, passion and purpose to the unglamorous work of field organizing. More than 3,000 volunteers pledged to spend at least six 30-hour weeks strengthening the grass-roots network.
More than 10,000 people applied for slots as "Obama Organizing Fellows" and about 5,500 were interviewed by telephone, answering such questions as "Why Barack?"
This first batch is now finishing a round of voter-registration drives and a series of one-on-one recruiting efforts. Dozens of the Missouri fellows will be offered full-time jobs, paid to spread the word.
"It's one thing building on the next," said Buffy Wicks, Obama's state director here.
When 97 volunteers arrived in St. Louis, Wicks told them her story: a rural California upbringing followed by political activism that intensified when her closest friend was diagnosed with HIV and had no health insurance.
"When he decided to run," she said of Obama, "I said I have to do this because it's for people like Todd.
"It's going to be very hard," Wicks told the volunteers. "It's a lot of long days, a lot of unhealthy days . . . but it's worth it, because we're going to change the country. This for many of you is going to be a transformative experience in your lives. Are you ready for that?"
Wicks and Missouri field director Peachy Myers introduced the group to an 86-page training manual filled with lessons drawn from Obama's experiences as a community organizer and the first 16 months of the presidential campaign. In a national conference call to the volunteers, Obama recalled that when he called his first meeting on Chicago's South Side in the 1980s, no one showed.


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Discussion in 'iPhone Tips, Help and Troubleshooting' started by joeyz123, Jul 11, 2008.
Anyone getting this error specifically or found a fix? "Network Connection Was Reset"
I've been getting that error for the past 2 hours or so, it just means the servers are flooded and so Apple aren't letting us get on in on the action quite yet.
*thinks happy thoughts*
Yep, ever since 10am


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News & Events
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Discover Mid-America June 2007
Tramp Art remains
by Terri Baumgardner
With myth and mystery, tramp art, as an aged folk art form, lures in experts and novices alike.
That's what happened to Linda Evans when she discovered a wooden antique whittled with a small tool, possibly a pocketknife. Scouting an estate sale near Louisburg, KS, Evans stumbled upon the mantle clock.
"Believe it or not, it was just sitting on the ground," said the owner of Rutlader Antiques and Trading Company. "It just caught my eye. I thought, 'Oh, two bucks, I'll pick that up'. As I was putting it in my car, I went, 'Oh my God, that's tramp art'. I just about lost it, we don't see a lot of this around here."
The walnut mantle clock, which measures about 25 inches long and 12 inches tall, sells for $800 at Evans' shop in Louisburg. In the nine years that she's owned the antique shop, Evans has only come across about five pieces of the aged folk art. Rutlader's dealers didn't even realize the art form existed until she discovered the clock.
"Very few people in the area knew about it," Evans said. "And, very few of my dealers knew what true tramp art was until I got this clock. That's why it was so interesting for all of us. So I looked up the history because they didn't know."
Rick Villa, the assistant manager of Mission Road Antique Mall in Overland Park, KS, echoes Evans' sentiment about the uniqueness of tramp art.
"It's very distinctive," Villa said. "It is unlike anything you've seen, so you'll remember, you'll recognize it."
Crafted from boxes, inspired by
The wood is stacked in layers; and the edges of each layer are carved with a decorative pattern. But the primary characteristic of tramp art is that is always made of wood, most notably the wood of shipping crates and cigar boxes.
"The reason why there were cigar boxes for these projects is America's first tax laws were to pay for the Civil War," said Wallach, who has more than 300 artifacts in his collection.
"In 1865, in regulating the selling of tobacco, the law was mandating all cigars were sold in wood boxes of the same size. This was the time when taxation was a touchy area, but cigars used to be sold in barrels. The cigar manufacturers, knowing the sell ability of their product, tied it to a presentation of cedar and mahogany. Wherever a man went during this time, they sold cigars. Once the box was empty, they couldn't reuse the box for sale of cigars so people made pieces out of unwanted boxes."
Tramp art has an international appeal, with artifacts found in South America, South Africa, Australia and Europe, Wallach said. So, too, tramp art collectors can be found across the world.
"We have over 3,500 people on our email list, we sell around the United States and parts of Europe," Wallach said. "I think it's catching on and has caught on in a big way."
Tramp art can encompass a wide range of utilitarian artifacts.
"Tramp art was an individual thing," Wallach said. "Their only limits were their imagination."
However, the most common forms of tramp art are small boxes.
"A lot of the boxes were jewelry, sewing and document boxes," Wallach said. "Frames were the second most popular, and used for photographs, wedding certificates to put on walls. But just about anything you can imagine, they made. The breadth of the work is very distinct. They made furniture out of cigar boxes."
Typically, tramp art is merely stained with a clear finish to allow the wood grain to show through the piece.
"Most of the artists were content in staining or varnishing the pieces to protect the wood," Wallach said. "Painting, any color, is rare, very rare. Usually, it was a clear varnish or stain. The reason it is so dark today, the patina, it aged being exposed to sunlight. What the collectors like is the dark finish. But it is a distortion of the artists' intent. It would have been a very bright and clear finish."
Because of that Wallach cautions collectors from stripping the wood or disturbing the patina finish of tramp art.
"First of all, anybody that watches The (Antique) Road Show hears it, 'Do not alter the finish,'" Wallach said. "You shouldn't mess with any finishes, leave it best you can. Clean it with an air gun or soft toothbrush with water."
Anonymous untrained artists carved most tramp art. Few pieces are signed or dated.
"The Depression, certainly there was a spike in pieces made in that period," Wallach said. "But just to say it was produced during economic downturns in this country is hard to prove...until my book came out in 1998, it was assumed it was made by tramps and hobos. But when we started our research, we discovered something else. It was a home-based craft, but when we looked at collections across the United States, we saw hearts and namesake — we thought if it was anonymous art, it wouldn't have hearts and names.
"For a man trying to earn a meal, I'd think of simple pieces. So what we found was that it wasn't; we found historical photos of pieces, we connected the dots to makers, their families and it started to flower. We uncovered makers and their histories."
Tramp art can be decorated with carvings of hearts, doves, birds, eagles, flags, stars, sunflowers, leaves and anchors. However, most tramp art is simple with its notched patterns such as triangular edges.
"Most guys were comfortable with layers and notching," Wallach said. "Layers are common. Most notching is 45-degree angles. Scallops would be more unusual, but not that that makes it rare."
But typically, Wallach said, men crafted the folk art as love tokens for women.
"About 30 percent of it has hearts on it," Wallach said. "When we were examining the art form, the hearts made us realize it was made as love tokens rather than pay for a meal situation."
So it is that one mystery of tramp art is that homeless men didn't necessarily whittle the art, but rather, an art passed from one whittler to another.
"I interviewed a man in his 80s, and I asked him, 'What did your father teach you?' Wallach asked. "He said, 'You carve your way out of hard times', and he wasn't talking about economic times. He was talking spiritually, creatively. It's a feel-good thing. It's something from nothing."
Research still evolving
"Research is still evolving," Wallach said. "We're still finding important pieces. Whereas folk art has been collecting since the early 1900s, tramp art wasn't noticed until recently."
According to Wallach, tramp art wasn't discovered until 1959, when a folklorist wrote a story for a folk art magazine.
"She was staying at a friend's house in Pennsylvania," Wallach said. "Tramp art, she had never seen anything like it, so she started to ask about it. The family called it tramp work. Then, a writer in the early '60s called the men who made it artists, so it became tramp art."
Tramp art is thought to have originated in Europe during the Middle Ages.
"Carvers learning to carve in an apprenticeship situation," said Matt Lippa, a tramp art dealer based in Mentone, AL. "As part of the apprenticeship, they would practice different forms. At one point, an apprentice was sent to other places. In the course of that, the word trumpen, in German, refers to walking, tramping around. As far as I know, the word refers to the movement in the apprenticeship. That is where it has its roots, art, the tramp art was a name given to stuff produced as people walked around."
Tramp art is believed to have emerged in the United States in the mid-1800s and was a common folk art form through the 1940s, Wallach said. While there seems to be a peak of tramp art carved during times of economic hardship, the fact the folk art was made by tramps, gypsies and hobos is a myth.
"It's very appealing, there's even lots of articles today that state it is made by tramps and hobos because it reads nice," said Wallach, who has studied more than 8,000 artifacts while researching material for his tramp art book. "It gives people a romantic tie to this. I can't say it didn't exist, but the history we've got is family histories."
Wallach's research reveals that tramp art was found in more than 40 ethnic groups, with 99 percent of the artifacts being indistinct in who crafted the folk art.
Lippa's research also reveals an international flair to the aged folk art form.
"If you follow the migration patterns of people who have a history of carving is where it shows up," Lippa said. "So the Northeast and upper Midwest is primarily where people carve with German and Scandinavian settlements. Tramp art came out of Holland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands."
Although tramp art may have international origins, it is becoming more difficult to find the art form in other countries.
"In the last five to ten years, I've been traveling to Europe and it's harder to find in those countries," Lippa said. "Canada, with people of French origin, you do find a fair amount of tramp art originating in the 1920s through the '50s in eastern Canada, the Quebec area."
Because of the international origins of tramp art, Lippa notes ethnic styles of the art form.
"The German pieces tend to be finer in carving with, generally speaking, darker woods," Lippa said. "They tend to be earlier in age, with less paint on it. Scandinavian pieces tend to be cruder, more likely to find paints of the period on it and less layering."
The art form is likened to women who quilt; it is a talent handed down from father to son.
"When it was discovered, the thought was it was originating in the Pennsylvania area where there was a lot of industry, with a lot of workers making folk art in New England," Wallach said. "It was more prevalent in the northern states with cold winters. It appealed to people that couldn't stay idle; they had to be busy. It was passed down from neighbor to neighbor, and relatives such as a father to son. We've never found written instruction son how to do it, it just seemed to arrive spontaneously."
However, Lippa has discovered patterns of tramp art.
"In terms of the highpoint of tramp art, I think by the 1930s, it had been more accepted as an art form," Lippa said. "During that period, there were articles on how-to."
A fickle market
"It's not where most collectors would come to look to find pieces of tramp art," Villa said. "But, of course, a lot of it finds its way here. There are dealers in Kansas City have some really nice pieces, but its not like what I've seen in the East. The thing about Kansas City, when it comes to antiques, we don't have the same kind of market that you have on the coasts. Which makes it nice to find pieces here because they are more affordable."
Mission Road Antique Mall recently sold a tramp art picture frame for $1,700.
"For people who know, that was a good deal for that piece," Villa said.
Rich Hoffman, a dealer at Mission Road and at the Christopher Filley shop in Kansas City, MO, searches out tramp art wherever he can find it. Currently, he has a number of pieces priced from $1,800 to $275.
"We wait for a specific collector to come by," said Hoffman. "It's so scare people are losing interest. Though highly desirable to collectors, I don't see a lot of new collectors coming on board."
The prices of tramp art, however, are likely to rise as demand outweighs supply. Prices, in general, range from a few dollars to $20,000.
"In terms of dollars spent, people who are making more money are the ones who are spending it," Lippa said. "So, more stuff is coming out of the Midwest, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin, and then it generally moves to the major cities on the coasts and the Northeast. It's getting harder to find good pieces because they are being purchased and go into private collections. It's become more popular, so the stuff is not as plentiful. A piece you could buy for $50 is now selling for $500."
Lippa hosts an online gallery, Artisans Gallery with about 60 pieces of tramp art in his collection. He also serves as a tramp art advisor for Schroeder's Antique Price Guide. Although Lippa is currently based in Alabama, he lived in Davenport, IA in the late 1980s and early 1990s. While in the Midwest, Lippa was an antique dealer and collector.
However, Lippa offers words of caution in collecting tramp art.
"That is tramp art is being made in wood, today,"
Lippa said. "In the last five or ten years, people are making new
tramp art and selling it. New craftsmen have the art form.
Editor's Note: Occasionally, we get stories from antiquers that have to be shared with our readers. The following is one from Craig Rickard, who lives in Olathe, KS.
Rocket book returns
In 1952, a science fiction writer named Phillip St. John wrote a novel titled Rocket Jockey. It was an award-winning novel in its day. It became popular in the children's science fiction arena. My then brother-in-law to be was given this book by his mother in 1953, who inscribed and signed the inside cover.
The book was read a bit by him but in the mid-1960s it became a favorite of his daughter, my niece Victoria. She would read it regularly and when there wasn't time she would look at the pictures. I guess she would fantasize about being an intergalactic explorer or becoming a famous scientist.
Brother-in-law Paul was a policeman in Madison, WI. Having a roving eye and a job that attracted young women, his marriage to my sister eventually was in shambles. They divorced in 1967.
He retired from the police department, remarried and moved to the Los Angeles area taking the book with him. He died a few years later from cancer.
There was always a rift between wife number-two and my sister. My niece and nephews never got any keepsakes relating to their father. Victoria wanted a copy of the old Rocket Jockey book as an aid to remember some good times. She had moved to Colorado and her mom moved to Overland Park, KS.
In the following years, she had come across several copies in old bookstores and flea markets but they were way too expensive. One store was asking for $100 for the "rare" book. Most were in the $40-plus range. She was either in nursing school or on a new job but always on a very tight budget. She couldn't pay that much. Still, she was always on the hunt.
She ended up in Reno, NV working for an oncology department. My sister had remarried and moved to the West Coast. Her second husband of 18 years passed away. His body was shipped back to his hometown area and was to be buried in Kansas City, MO. Victoria took time off and flew in to console her mom. They laughed, cried, went to lunches and slummed in antique shops.
A neighboring community on the Kansas side of the metro area is called Olathe. There were some good little second-hand and antique malls to visit. They ended up at the Sentimental Journey Antique store. This was a large mall-type store with many booths to look at. Victoria still hunting, went to the bookshelves. At one booth, they were having a half price sale on the old books.
There it was! Rocket Jockey by Phillip St. John on the bottom row. She saw the $8 price tag and snatched it up, and held it to herself. She was gloating about the great bargain she had gotten. The book was in good condition. She opened it up and her eyes glazed over and then welled up with tears and emotion.
On the first page of the inside cover, written in familiar cursive was the inscription: "To my son Paul on your birthday in 1953." It was signed by her grandmother.
The entire store was in tears that day and so am I five years later as I write this story.
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Apple has updated the Hot Deals page for Publishing Perfection at the Macintosh Product Guide. The Mac Product Guide is a list of Mac compatible hardware and software products on the market. The Hot Deals section of the Product Guide features several Mac retailers and special offers that one can only get, at least in theory, at the Hot Deals page.
Publishing Perfection is a Mac retailer catering to the publishing and layout markets. The new Hot Deals page for the company has offers for QuarkXPress, a masking software bundle, an offer on Adobe products, a mid-range injket printer, some stock photos, and more. You can find the Publishing Perfection Hot Deals page at Appleis Web site.


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Well recently, my mum and I had our annual day out together to the ICHF Craft Show at Westpoint in Exeter. Despite both of us feeling a bit under the weather we both had a great day and bought some lovely things. This is what I bought:
A lot of what I buy now at the show are the general things like glue, stamping card, ribbons, adhesive gems/pearls and a few bits for Christmas. This year I bought a few things from the DoCrafts Bellissima range. I love the colours and the papers in the pack.
The most exciting thing I bought was some little stamps by Card-io. My mum has been using these for years especially at Christmas, but this is the first sets I have bought. They always have a fab stand at the show too, with a lady doing demonstrating and loads of gorgeous samples.
I was keen to have a go with these, so here is the first card that I made using them:
Thanks for looking and I'll be back again soon with some Christmas cards I have been making using these stamps.


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You are cordially invited to celebrate the wedding of Rebecca Holbrook and Gunther Wald on the winter solstice this December on Holm Island, Massachusetts.
In accordance with family tradition, Rebecca and Gunther will exchange vows at sunset before the black pine.
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In an effort to push the sustainable building envelope, the Living Future Conference last week included a design contest. Perkins + Will's State Office Building and Mithun's design for the Center for Urban Agriculture walked away with dual best in show prizes for their concepts.
Perkins + Will won the "most realizable" project award while Mithun won the "most visionary" award.
The competition challenged locals in the design and construction industries to create a structure that could produce all the energy and water it needs. It was open to architects, engineers, design professionals, students and green builders. Nineteen proposals were submitted.
All entries were designed to meet the standards of the Living Building Challenge, a new green design standard written by Jason McLennan of the Cascadia Region U.S. Green Building Council and published last December. The challenge has 16 requirements that range from producing all the energy a building needs to being located on a site that won't negatively affect wetlands, wildlife habitat or farmland.
The judges were McLennan, Tom Paladino of Paladino & Co. and Susan Jones of atelierjones. The entries were divided into two categories: realizable projects and visionary projects.
Jones said realizable projects, especially the work of Perkins + Will, were impressive because groups were working with living building ideas but were on a budget. The visionary projects are intended to "more radically change how we think about buildings."
Perkins + Will's entry for the State Office Building is a modification of a building the firm pre-designed in Bellevue. The project's design goals were natural ventilation, daylighting, views from all workstations and energy conservation. The building has two sides: a highway side where the building acts as a billboard for sustainability and a forest side where the goal is to help restore the ecology of the site.
Here are some of its sustainable features:
Double-skin facade. The facade acts as a freeway buffer, blocking heat, noise and pollution.
Energy production
Water treatment and reuse. The building treats and reuses water through a rooftop rainwater collector, blackwater tank, green roof, filtration tubes, bioswales and a constructed wetland.
Natural ventilation. Operable windows bring in moist air from the forest while a void in the facade draws out hot air.
Jones said Mithun's project was outstanding in its beauty, which is one requirement of the living building challenge. "As one of the goals was to create something of beauty, for us it was very alluring."
Mithun's project was for the Center for Urban Agriculture, and could be located at Ninth Avenue and Denny Way in Seattle.
Here are some of its sustainable features:
Energy and water. The building would have about 35,000 square feet of photovoltaic cells. Rainwater is captured, filtered and stored through multiple levels of planters, terraces and gardens.
Food and knowledge. The building would use "farm fields" that combine classroom and lab space to create a learning center. A chicken farm would be located on a lower terrace. Greenhouses and rooftop gardens would offer additional food production space.
Plants and ideas. The building would create habitat, farmland and community gathering space on the site.
People and community. The Greenhouse Restaurant and Sidewalk Cafe offer the public a chance to taste food grown in an urban environment. There would be 318 housing units.
Cash prizes for various award winners range between $500 and $3,500.
The Living Future Competition was sponsored by the Cascadia Region Green Building Council and Paladino & Co.
Katie Zemtseff can be reached by email or by phone at (206) 622-8272.


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My dog, a four months old German Shepherd was diagnose with a skin disease called Demodectic Mange a few days ago. It causes my dog's fur to shed. I was told by my vet that this illness was inherited. My dog is now given an oral medication called Ivermectin. However, this medication could cause neurologic side effect and deppresion if my dog is ellergic to the medicine. And, there is no way I could find out whether my dog is ellergic to it. Also, if those side effect occurs on my dog, it would be permanent. So, my vet decided to start with a low dosage of Ivermectin first and observe how my dog reacts. But what if my dog is ellergic to Ivermectin, will it attain its side effects after the first medication? This medication seems dangerous to me. Is there any other better treatment method? Please do not suggest the Amitraz dipping method because the skin disease occurs around my dog's eyes. Should I have to worry if I were to use the above method? Will this disease go off by itself without medication? Is Demodectic Mange a common disease in dogs and how often does dogs with this disease being cured? Thank you.
Did your vet do scrapings to confirm the presence of demodex mites? These are the organisms that cause demodectic mange. Pups 'catch' the mites from their moms (if the mothers don't have them, the pups never get them). Most dogs have them, but it's only when their immune systems are compromised that they develop mange. So in a way, it's 'inherited', but it's not a direct genetic inheritance.
Depending on why the immune system is compromised, the mange is often successfully treated. Our dog, Macie, came with demodectic mange. Her first year was spent neglected in a kennel, then she was rescued and found herself in a place with lots of other dogs. She was totally unprepared for the change. By the time she came to us, she had been stressed enough to depress her immune system and she developed the mange.
We were in the process of improving her diet (switching her to a good quality kibble) and we added a supplement of omega-3 and -6 fatty acids (fish oils). A good diet can help boost the immune system and allow it to eliminate the mange.
She was also started on a topical treatment, Goodwinol. Goodwinol worked well for us, but Macie's mange was only in 4 or 5 fairly small spots on her face. If the mange spreads to too wide an area, the topical spot treatments don't work as well. You would have to keep it out of your dog's eyes, but Macie had a spot on her eyelid and we had no trouble applying the cream and avoiding the eye itself. It took a number of months for the areas to finally start hairing in.
Ivermectin is a common treatment for mange. However, since we didn't need to use Ivermectin, I have no experience with possible side-effects from it. It sounds like your vet is a cautious approach, which is good. I do know that certain breeds are more prone to ivermectin's side effects. If the mange is widespread enough, I'd still be inclined to give it a try, as long as my dog was monitored well.
Demodectic mange can get bad enough to result in death, so treatment is advisable. It can resolve by itself if the the immune system finally gets a handle on it, but nontreatment is a big risk to take, especially if your dog's mange is widespread.
Hope that helps! Good luck with your dog. Please keep us posted, Doha. And welcome to the board.
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Ivermectin injections were given to one of our dogs. It seems to be the drug of choice now for the treatment of mange. The only breeds that it should not be given to are Collies, Shelties, Australian Shepherds, Old English Sheepdogs and any other herding breed.
This website has a good article on Demodectic Mange....
Welcome to pets.ca .....good luck and please keep us updated.
also take a good hard look at what you are feeding her. make sure it is a VERY HIGH QUALITY FOOD, preferably homemade or raw. please take every measure to boost her immune system (zink, vit-c, vit-e etc, talk to your vet) as that is likely the cause of it in the first place. dark meat chicken is a great source for zinc, lots of good sources for vit-c, just do some research!!
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My vet did scrapped and checked for the presence of demodex mites. I could see the adult mites moving under the microscope. After listening to many advises, I decided to try Ivermectin. I gave my dog the medication last night and my dog seems to be his active and normal self. I really hope Ivermectin is suitable for my dog. I'll keep observing him.
I think Goodwinol might not be suitable for my dog as he keeps moving and this refrain us from applying things on him. He might even lick the substance. Besides, the mange also occurs at many places such as elbow, leg and his body.
Thank you for all your kind and sincere advice. Also, thank you for the information on the website. They really do help me and give me confident to try Ivermectin. I would try to supply my dog a good and balance diet too.
My vet said that there is a chance with Ivermectin but it is very rare for side affects. In stead of paying the full amount at the vet you can buy it over the counter at most feed stores. It is the same stuff they sell at the vet. My pitt lab Dixie has it and hers is reoccuring. But when she gets an out break she gets a yeast infection along with it. I have to give her Cefolexan 2x a day. My vet is good about helping out with costs. She has called the medicine in for me at Walmart where it only cost me 4 dollars in stead on 51! Also, there is no problem giving benadryl to a dog. I give it to both of mine. Expecially, during spring because of allergies. Unfortunately for Dixie she will never be cured. I will have to continually medicate her. But they have a med that should help prevent her from getting an outbreak. I wish there was an easier way to help her but I'm doing what I can.
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A city man wanted on a forgery charge was charged with assaulting a police officer on Thursday after the two ended up wrestling on a bank floor, Hagerstown City Police said.
Randall M. Long, 34, of 631 W. Franklin St., Apartment 1, was arrested at Municipal Stadium after police chased him from Farmers & Merchants Bank and Trust at 201 S. Cleveland Ave. around 12:30 p.m., said Patrolman Steve Cromer.
Cromer alleged that Long resisted when he tried to place him under arrest.
Cromer said he had Long in a headlock from behind when they fell to the floor, wrestling, as Cromer yelled for tellers to call 911 for backup.
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How Your Shitty Tattoos Would Look In Real LifeBy Stephen Rascinsky
Some GENIUS on Reddit found the most horrendous portrait tattoos and placed them on real life images to show how much of a fail they are!
Bad tattoos have become a favorite of the Internet. Just type in "Tattoo Fails" on Google and we guarantee you'll spend the next hour looking at pieces that will make you say "what the HELL were you thinking?!?". At this moment though, we have reached a new level of epicness for epic tattoo fails. You're gonna see the WORST rendition of kids, parents, celebrities, singers, movie stars, and many, many animals...all compared with real life! We promise these terrible tattoos in real life will give you a long, WTF-filled laugh! :D
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The card generating the most buzz on eBay is this 1966/67 Topps Bobby Orr RC graded KSA 9. With 251 watchers, it is the most watched card across all sports.
Earlier this month we tracked the price of a PSA 7 66/67 Topps Bobby Orr RC that saw the bidding end at $4,519.99. It will be interesting to see the price difference between the PSA 7 and KSA 9, because let's face it, KSA graded cards do not garner as much respect as ones graded by PSA.
1966-67 Topps Bobby Orr #35 RC Grade 9
Watchers: 251
Current Price: $4,250.00
Final Price: $5,350.00
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1966/67 Topps Bobby Orr Rookie Card KSA 9
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- AnonymousJune 16, 2010 at 8:26 AM
What would be the value of the entire set keep in excellent conditions?ReplyDelete
If all of the cards were in excellent condition - that set would be worth several thousand dollars.ReplyDelete
There is a complete set currently for sale on eBay. The condition of the cards are in poor - good condition. Price is $1,750.00 or best offer.
- AnonymousAugust 7, 2010 at 4:27 PM
if an entire set is in mint condition (including the orr rookie card), it would be worth more than the book value, it'll be a "name your price"!ReplyDelete
I'm talking $20,000+
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Is there a better way to get a set graded? Seems like getting a set graded could cost a fair bit and not really be worth it depending on the end value?ReplyDelete
The last Orr rookie in a PSA 9 sold for $50,000ReplyDelete
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Mavis LaVonne Burgart dies at 91
Mavis LaVonne Burgart age 91 of New Hampton died Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017, at Linnhaven Rehab and Healthcare in New Hampton.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017, at Holy Family Catholic Church, New Hampton, with Rev. Brian Dellaert celebrating the Mass. Interment will be in the Wayne Township Cemetery, rural McIntire.
Friends may greet the family 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, at the Hugeback-Johnson Funeral Home, New Hampton. Visitation continues an hour prior to the Mass at the church on Wednesday. Online condolences for Mavis' family may be left at hugebackfuneralhome.com
Mavis LaVonne Burgart was born March 20, 1926, on the family farm in Gillette Grove, Iowa, the daughter of Arthur and Georgia (Logan) Hamrick. Mavis received her elementary education in Gillette Grove and started her freshman year at the Spencer High School where she graduated in 1943.
On April 19, 1945, she married Arthur Krukow in Jackson, Minn. To this union a son, Arnold was born. The couple farmed in the Spencer area from 1945 – 1950 when the family moved to a farm by Riceville. Due to health concerns for her husband, the couple sold the farm and purchased a general store in McIntire. The couple worked side-by-side in the store for many years. Her husband Arthur died on Feb. 20, 1979, at the age of 56 and Mavis continued operating the business until 1986.
While at a local dance, Mavis met Clayton Burgart of New Hampton and on April 8, 1989, at the former St. Mary's Catholic Church in New Hampton, they were united in marriage. Mavis and Clayton enjoyed many years together and loved dancing and listening to old-time music. Mavis was known for working outdoors caring for her flowers and her yard. She loved to go fishing and playing cards with anyone up for a game. Clayton died January 4, 2012 at the age of 94. Mavis loved spending time with her large and extended family and the many friends throughout her last years.
Mavis is survived by one son, Arnold (Bonnie) Krukow of Riceville; grandchildren, Jamie Krukow of Riceville, Joe (Sarah) Krukow of Osage, Jake (Tara) Krukow of Des Moines and Sarah (Shaun) Jordon of Osage; nine great-grandchildren; one brother, LaVern "Joe" Hamrick of Spencer; step-children, Dianne Dann of Fredericksburg, Barbara (Dennis) Folkers of Oelwein, Cheryl (Kenneth) Lechtenberg, Richard (Janet) Burgart all of New Hampton, Roger (Mary) Burgart of Sumner, Randy (Linda) Burgart, Dixie (Jim) Joebgen, Rocky (Sue) Burgart, all of New Hampton, Dawn (John) Eichenberger of Lawler, thirty-one step grandchildren, numerous step great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews; sisters-in-law, Velma Hamrick of Spencer and Francella Burgart of New Hampton.
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I recently viewed a PBS program that focused on ways to mitigate the impacts of climate change. Whether you live in a high-rise or in the desert the changes underway will affect everyone. No this is not a post about doom and gloom, but it is one about how marketing can be a part of the solution. I am speaking about the concept of social marketing and specifically how market research can help to drive effective strategies to change behavior.
At its core, marketing is about impacting behavior. In both B2B and consumer marketing we focus on creating brand awareness, purchase, and ultimately re-purchase. Research and analytics help us to better understand the buying process, flush out unmet needs, and create messaging that cuts through the clutter. In conjunction with other departments, product market research assists in the process of creating offerings that effectively meet the needs of the market.
The structured process of marketing, along with its creative touch can be effectively applied to addressing critical social issues as well. It is this ability that led to marketing's adoption by electric and other utilities when they realized that reducing demand was in their best interest. Government and non-profit organizations have used social marketing, based upon qualitative and quantitative market research, to successfully alter behaviors relating to AIDS and other health issues. This same approach, in my humble opinion, can be applied toward modifying behaviors which in the end can help to reduce carbon emissions.
If your organization is involved in social issues, or if your company wants to take a leadership position in the social arena, then effective use of market research can provide the foundational knowledge necessary to help achieve those goals. Survey research, coupled with the tried and true practice of market experimentation, can yield 'consumer insight' into the attitudes which drive behaviors. It is this combination (attitudes and behaviors) that marketing seeks to modify. Some examples include:
Understanding the perception of cleanliness as it relates to length of time in the shower
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Market research can go well beyond simply measuring customer satisfaction. It can be used to drive a change in behaviors that impact society both locally and globally. For more information about social marketing see:


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