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QPR captain Joey Barton has accepted a charge of violent conduct against Manchester City's Sergio Aguero but denied the same charge for his confrontation with Vincent Kompany.
The 29-year-old's future at QPR is in doubt after he elbowed Carlos Tevez, kicked Aguero and appeared to headbutt Kompany during Rangers' 3-2 defeat at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday.
Barton was given extra time to respond to the charges levelled against him and the Football Association revealed on Wednesday evening that he has accepted only one of the violent conduct charges.
"Joey Barton has accepted an FA charge against him for violent conduct against Manchester City's Sergio Aguero," the FA statement read. "The Queens Park Rangers player has denied a second charge of alleged violent conduct against Manchester City's Vincent Kompany."
It continued: "The player has requested a personal hearing, the date of which has yet to be set.
"Both charges against Barton are in relation to Sunday's match against Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium.
"Following the player's dismissal in the 54th minute of the fixture, there followed two incidents involving Aguero and Kompany.
"As Barton had already been dismissed, both of these incidents fell outside of the jurisdiction of the referee."
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Research Highlights
January 2009
Recent Patent Describes a New Method to Separate and Characterize Ions
Scientists' approach employs time-dependent electric field with novel waveform profiles
Results: A new approach to identify ions in gases and separate their mixtures is the subject of a recent patent issued to researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. This method, termed High-Order Differential Ion Mobility Spectrometry (HOD IMS), provides new avenues for more complete separation of complex biological samples and more specific characterization of their components. Its use is envisioned in proteomics, metabolomics and environmental analyses. By reducing or eliminating the need for chromatographic or other liquid-phase separations before mass spectrometry, HOD IMS may accelerate analyses by an order of magnitude.
Why it Matters: Separating and characterizing ions is vital to numerous research areas, including the detection of biomarkers of cancer and other diseases, determination of the health risks of low-level radiation exposure, understanding natural bioremediation processes to enable their control and detection of explosives and chemical warfare agents. HOD IMS can improve and speed the analysis of gas-phase ions, alone and in conjunction with known methods of mass spectrometry, chromatography and ion mobility spectrometry.
Methods: Standard IMS separates ion mixtures based on the mobility of ions in a gas. In contrast, HOD IMS separations are based on their higher order (second or higher) derivative of mobility with respect to the intensity of the electric field through which ions move. A U.S. patent was awarded to PNNL inventors Alexandre Shvartsburg, Richard D. Smith, and Gordon Anderson in November 2008.
Acknowledgments: PNNL is advancing science to achieve predictive understanding of multi-cellular biological systems. Portions of this work were supported by the National Institutes of Health National Center for Research Resources. The HOD IMS method was developed using resources at the U.S. Department of Energy's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a national scientific user facility located at PNNL.
Reference: Shvartsburg AA, RD Smith, and GA Anderson. "Method and Apparatus for High-Order Differential Mobility Separations." U.S. Patent 7,449,683 (2008).

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March 11, 2009
I was asked a question the other day, sort of as one foodie to another. The question was, "Do you know what a ''finishing oil'' is?" The questioner had heard a TV chef use this term. The chef was plattering a steak and told the viewers she was going to put a little finishing oil on top. Hmm ... well, this led me to thinking about where one (me) goes to find out answers to questions in the world of gastronomy. (Note to A.C.: I think she -- the chef -- was full of it and made this up, as I can''t find it used anywhere that Google goes. Making up words is not unusual for chefs.)
I really don''t know much about food when I think of all the years of intense study and work training that real chefs have, so it is important to me to know where to look when my brain won''t supply the answer.
TV is one choice. One thing about these TV chefs (and some not on TV as well) -- it used to just drive me insane to hear Emeril Lagasse mispronounce words and be just an all-around idiot when describing his techniques. "I''m just sort of whisking this sauce, you see."
Well, Emeril, you are either whisking it or you''re not. There is no "sort of whisking."
"This mayonnaise here, well, it''s kind of like an emulsion." No, Emeril, it is an emulsion. After tolerating his ineptness for a few years I realized I could just turn him off (I''m a slow learner). So I did. There are a few others who get my dander up as well, like Rachel Ray or some of the newer stars. On the other hand, there are a few who are stars to me as far as expertise is concerned. The Barefoot Contessa (Ina Garten) can do no wrong on my food planet. Neither could Sara Moulton, who no longer seems to be on. Tyler Florence and Alton Brown both have food cred in my book as well. I listen and learn from them, rather than just being entertained.
When you need to know
So, where do I go when I don''t know the answer? I have one book that is my first go-to tool: "The Food Lover''s Companion" published by Barron''s Educational Series, a dictionary type book that gives the definition and/or history of terms from "abalone" to "zwieback." And the appendix has really useful tables such as "Ingredient Equivalents" and "Substituting Ingredients." I could have used the "Smoke Points of Popular Oils" last week when I set the stove on fire while making homemade matchstick French fries for the grandkids. They were terrified rather than impressed. You may have to go on-line to find this handy guide, but I do encourage any foodie to have a copy.
For Christmas in 1988 my parents gave me a copy of "Larousse Gastronomique," the new American edition. The original French edition was written by Auguste Escoffier in 1938 and became the bible for French cuisine for decades. The American edition was much heralded, and I was thrilled to have a copy, although I didn''t then and don''t now have the time, skill or inclination to prepare a cold ballottine of duck.
The preface to Larousse says the tome is "intended to be a synthesis of the science of nutrition and the art of cooking, but an attractive synthesis, as pleasing to the gourmet, cook and the aesthete as to the historian and the sociologist." I''ll admit it is a little heavy, but it is a great source for classic recipes, definitions, histories and trivia. Complete with photographs, it is written as an encyclopedia, beginning with "abase" (a sheet of rolled-out pastry) and ending with "zuppa inglese" (a Neapolitan dessert). It is l,168 pages long with no helpful appendices. This book would not have helped me when I set the stove on fire.
Fishy affair
I have several books on technique, but the one with the dirtiest pages, filled with dribs and drabs of whatever was on my fingers, is "La Technique" by Jacques Pepin (former sidekick of Julia Child). This one may be out of print, but it is wonderful, filled with step-by-step pictures and easy to understand direction.
Like Larousse, I may not have the need in 2009 to make oeufs en gelee (eggs in aspic), but this wonderful man saved my reputation twice.
Once, I had offered to cater the wedding reception for the daughter of the owner of the nightclub in New York where I worked (story for another time). She wanted poached salmon and beef tenderloin. I had the chef order the salmon for me. No one told me that salmon had skin, and scales, and fins. Yes, they -- all 12 of them -- came in whole. Gutted, but whole. I opened my book, turned to page 138 and started. Oh, and did you know that whole beef tenderloins also come untrimmed? Neither did I. That technique is on Page 268, and to this day you can throw as many of them at me as you like: I''ll trim each and every last one.
I have encyclopedic Chinese and Italian cookbooks that act as references for me as well. They have any dish I need to know. One is "The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook" by Gloria Bey Miller, and the other is Marcella Hazan''s "The Classic Italian Cookbook." Lastly, I implore you all to have a copy of "The Joy of Cooking." I am on my second copy, and I still use it to look up cooking terms as well as good basic recipes.
Of course, there''s always the Internet, but it''s not as much fun as pulling down a book and getting lost in it.
Anne Freeze, a self-professed foodie, was a restaurant general manager and owner of a gourmet food store before moving to Columbus. She is a volunteer for The Hitching Lot Farmers'' Market in Columbus. She can be reached at email@example.com.
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The 12:1 scale table is ready just in time for the cassette tape's 50th anniversary and is made of high-grade Baltic birch plywood with maple veneer, solid American walnut, and features a hand-applied oil finish.
Each coffee table is built upon order and is hand-assembled and finished in Seattle. Just like a real cassette tape, the piece is completely reversible – sides A and B, stamped and numbered on one side. The table sits on a custom platform with hand-bent steel powder coated legs and includes a 3/8-inch polished edge with glass top.
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Female Jockey Of The Year - 2009:
Imagine if Julie Krone were still riding? I would have loved to see her go against some top distaff riders. As it was, she won over 3,700 races. And id you know that Homeister Jr. is going head to head with Daniel Centeno for the riding title at Tampa Bay Downs this winter? You could look it up.
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Elton John said the birth of his newborn son Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John was a dream come true.
"For many years we have talked about fulfilling one of our greatest wishes by becoming parents," John told Usmagazine.com. "And now this wish has been granted to us. We feel so blessed and lucky."
John, 62, and partner David Furnish, 48, became proud parents on Dec. 25 with the help of a surrogate. The pair had previously tried to adopt a 14-month-old boy named Lev and his brother Artyom, who is HIV-positive, from a Ukrainian orphanage but the adoption bid fell through.
"David always wanted to adopt a child, and I always said, 'No' because I am 62 and I think because of the traveling I do and the life I have, maybe it wouldnt be fair for the child," John told reporters last fall. "But having seen Lev today, I would love to adopt him."
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The Green Bay Packers will induct fullback William Henderson into the Packer Hall of Fame. A lot of folks will remember him as Brett Favre's outlet on flares and boots, and his frequent hurdler move as the big man went airborne over a defender coming in low.
Henderson's long career in GB made him a fan favorite, not only for his onfield work, but his community service and high character, which were inspirational to many. Henderson is everything you want in a player. A great role player, teamate, gym rat, leader, in short, a great Pro.
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Google is selling almost one million Nexus 7 tablets per month, according to Asustek CFO David Chang.
Chang tells the Wall Street Journal, "At the beginning, it was, for instance, 500K units a month, then maybe 600, 700K. This latest month, it was close to 1 million."
The Nexus 7 is a $199 seven-inch tablet, Google designed in conjunction with Asustek. It is Google's attempt to slow sales of Amazon's Kindle Fire, and challenge Apple's iPad dominance.
It is also Google's best effort at creating a true tablet computing experience with Android. While Android is the leading smartphone operating system, Apple's iOS is leading in tablets.
Apple sold 14 million iPads last quarter, which is roughly 1 million per week. So, Google is still far behind. But this increasing growth is encouraging, and perhaps one of the reasons Apple decided to release a cheaper iPad mini.
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The MIAA champion Flying Dutchmen are headed to Illinois for a first round game in the 61-team NCAA Division III men's basketball championships.
The MIAA champion Flying Dutchmen are headed to Illinois for a first round game in the 61-team NCAA Division III men's basketball championships.
The first and second round games will be played at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill. On Friday, Hope (22-6) will meet Hanover, Ind. (19-7) at 5:30 p.m. and followed by host Augustana (24-3) against Webster, Mo. (20-6).
The Friday winners will meet Saturday at 7 p.m. for the right to advance to the 16-team Sectional to be held March 11-12. The Final Four will be held in Salem, Va. on March 18-19. * The Flying Dutchmen were the regular season and tournament champions of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA). The team will be appearing in the NCAA Division III championships for the sixth straight year and the 22nd time in school history. Hope finished third in the 2008 tournament and was national runnerup in 1996 and 1998. Friday's game will be Hope's 50th in the NCAA championship. Under first-year coach Matt Neil the Flying Dutchmen have won 20 of their last 22 games after getting off to a 2-4 start. * Appearing in the tournament for the sixth time in school history and the first time since 2005, Hanover is in the tournament as an at-large entry after finishing second in the Heartland Conference. Hope, in its 109-year basketball history, has never played Hanover.
* Augustana is in the tournament for the 12th time in school history and the first time since 2008. Out of the Collegiate Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW), Augustana has made four trips to the final four.
* Webster last appeared in the tournament in 2002 and will be making its third appearance in school history seeking its first-ever NCAA win.


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hi everyone, my name is Pat.
I've had joint pains since I was 12. Was told it was growing pains. It settled to pains in knees by 14 and by 16 I was told I had juvenille arthritis, then patella arthritis by 19. At 23 and almost weekly knee dislocations and pain that had now spread to both hips and ankles I had lateral and medial reallignments of both knees. This eased problems for a few years.
Since then I've had random painful joints and been told everything from "what do you expect if you want to try doing silly things like kayaking, hillwalking and mountain biking", to "loose weight and do some exercise" (I have been around 13/14stone since 1994 and kept trying to do activity every week regardless of the pains ever since).
In 2009 I fell up the stairs at school resulting in a dislocated knee and sprained shoulder (left side). Since then my weight has got closer to 15stone, had the worst sick record for me ever. My GP referred me to an Orthopedic Consultant who said the xrays and scans show there is only a little wear and tear which doesn't match the pain I say I have. He then told me to do some exercise and loose weight as that would make me feel better.
My GP then referred me to a Rheumatolgist who after a whole lot of tests (MRI, CAT Scans, bloods, ultrasound scans, physio) told me last April I had FM mainly due to the fact that the only medication that relieved my symptons was pregabalin.
Now I'm feeling really p*d off today. I have on and off pains in my left shoulder, arm, hand and left hip, knee, shin and ankle; headaches on the right side of my head; irratable eyes with what feels like a changing prescription for my glasses as the best way to deal with these is to keep changing my glasses.
I have pregabalin that I take daily, tramadol and diclofenic which I take as and when my joints swell and I can't cope with the pain and lidocane plasters which I was told to use on the painful knee if it helps.
I am not happy I can't seem to lose weight despite the really boring diet I have of lean chicken, quorn, fish, salad, fruit, vegetables and potatoes (I avoid bread, rice and pasta as much as possible as it really makes me sluggish).
I tried for a GP appointment only to be told there weren't any for 2 weeks unless it was an emergency. After the 4th call I have managed to get an appointment for Thursday as I want to review the medication as I think that is why I feel ratty and unable to cope often and why I can't seem to shift the weight.
Any advice would be great as I'd like to see the GP Thursday with as much information as possible.
Thanks for letting me vent here as I'm not sure what else to do.


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Three white Los Angeles elementary school teachers are suspended for giving children pictures of O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul to carry in a Black History Month parade last week. The incident happened Friday at the Wadsworth Elementary School where more than 90% of the students are Latino. The parade included children from several classes who carried photos of President Obama, Nelson Mandela and Harriet Tubman and others.
The LA Times: "Some community leaders aren't satisfied with the suspensions and are calling for the dismissal of the instructors, who teach first, second and fourth grades. 'I just can't fathom what these teachers were thinking of except to make a mockery of African American history,' said Leon Jenkins, president of the Los Angeles branch of the NAACP. ... "It is more than questionable -- it is not acceptable, and from my standpoint it's sick," said L.A. Unified School District Superintendent Ramon Cortines."
Obviously Simpson is not considered a role model but to equate him with RuPaul—who is not a convicted felon and has not been accused of murder—is mind boggling. Homophobia apparently reigns supreme. The KABC reporter describes RuPaul a "flamboyant cross-dressing performer" and one parent adds: "I wouldn't want my kids to be having to write about RuPaul."
BTW: One of the quoted black leaders is Rev. Eric Lee, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of greater Los Angeles. You'll recall that Lee gained national attention and faced dismissal after vocally opposing Proposition 8 and slamming anti-gay black pastors. Lee has demonstrated he is an ally to LGBTs. The others, not so much.
Watch KABC's report WHEN YOU JUMP ...
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Look beyond pest species to find beauty in cockroaches
Exotic roaches include an amazing diversity of colors and lifestyles
Nicky Bay Photography
Yes, the shiny purple-green creature above and the sky-blue one below are cockroaches. But they do not at all want to live in your house.
Among the world's more than 4,600 or so roach species, "people have tended to concentrate on just the boring pest species," says George Beccaloni, curator of cockroaches and their relatives at the Natural History Museum in London. That's only about 30 annoying species, roughly the same proportion of pests as found among the 5,500 or so known mammal species. Yet people don't squeal, "Mammals, ewww."
A few bad roaches spoil the image of the whole Blattodea order. Most people, Beccaloni laments, "don't know anything about the other very attractive and interesting cockroaches that are out there."
Some roaches are downright beautiful. One Melyroidea pretends to be a noxious beetle with a cherry-red head and slim metallic green back. Another mimic, a plump


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Eat Yr Heart / Sweetheart
NOTE: The 12" is hand-numbered and limited to 350 worldwide. The vinyl is inserted into black dust sleeves. The record is protected inside a Japanese mylar clear record sleeve instead of shrink-wrapped.
This double A-side single is the first from HTRK's Work (work, work), the London via Berlin via Melbourne duo's second album—and first for Ghostly—of phantasmagorical, slowed-to-a-crawl electro. That the two "A-sides" fall second and third in the tracklist is deceiving—"Eva," built during the album sessions but absent from the final version, is a minute-long collage of noise, crackle, and messed-with snippets from seminal anime epic, The End Of Evangelion. It's an immersing prelude to the stark, gnawing dirge of "Eat Yr Heart," a dip of the toe in the pool of obsidian ink HTRK swim in.
"Eat Yr Heart"'s black and ballooning bass rumble makes it a Work standout, but here all roads lead to a cover of Suicide's "Sweetheart." (Or "Love You," depending on how up to snuff on rare Suicide release details you are. Obviously, it's important to these three.) The original is practically doo-wop, but HTRK's version, while reverent in tone, has only hints of optimism. Chords have been warped, the group's signature, between-consciousness textures have been added, and it ends up feeling like a slow dance on sleeping pills.


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It amazed me when I saw this beautiful foundation. It had generations of rumble, waste and neglect on top of it yet underneath was this beautiful native Oklahoma stone.
We all have a little clean up to do. Underneath all the rumble is a beautiful foundation. Sometimes we just have to dig. Sometimes we have to dig hard.
One time I was working on something for my daughter. She was getting frustrated with my ability. I told her I was doing the best I could, which she responded, "you can always do better". I love it that my kids are smarter than me, well sometimes.
If you don't keep any of your New Year's resolutions that is okay. Just keep working at it. Always remember that underneath all that rumble and down to the native stone is a child who will do incredible things and influence generations. It is your job, our job to keep building the foundation, keep it moving forward.
Territory Mom
P.S. The rebuilding of Woody Guthrie's childhood will be featured on Discover Oklahoma January 18, 2014.
P.S. again: Please forgive me if it sounds like I am rambling. I'm a mom, enough said.


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I quite enjoyed "The God Complex"; it was a perfectly wonderful and a bit scary, a "mad man in a box" type episode that stands alone from the complex confusion of the main. It was a wacky adventure in a strange alien place that is also a lot like home. Something strange is happening and it's killing off the small group of survivors one by one until the Doctor saves them, it's an oft used structure for Who and it works so well.
The reason the "God Complex" was so strong is not only because the weird occurrence story was so compelling, and the supporting characters so interesting, but because it tied in strong character development in a way that wouldn't confuse new viewers and didn't get tied up in the mess of the overarching plot. Continue reading


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UK defence firm BAE Systems has developed a new positioning system that uses existing transmissions such as Wi-Fi, TV, radio and mobile phone signals to calculate the user's location to within a few metres.
The technology is being touted as a replacement for current technologies such as GPS, which relies upon a relatively weak satellite signal that is vulnerable to disruption.
Known as Navigation via Signals of Opportunity (NAVSOP), BAE Systems' new system is resistant to hostile interference such as jamming and spoofing, and can learn from signals that are initially unidentified to build a more accurate and reliable fix on its location.
NAVSOP can function in places where GPS is unable to reach, such as dense urban areas and deep inside buildings, and can work in remote parts of the world, such as the Arctic, by picking up signals that include Low-Earth-Orbit satellites and other civilian signals.
It can also be integrated into existing positioning devices to to improve the performance of GPS, according to BAE Systems.
"The potential applications of this technology are already generating huge excitement in both civilian and military circles," said Dr Ramsey Faragher, a principal scientist from BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre.
Potential military applications include aiding soldiers operating in remote or dense urban areas and providing improved security for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), which could face attempts to disrupt their guidance systems.
It could also have a role to play in civilian domains, where its uses include helping fire and rescue services find their way through smoke filled buildings and enhancing the safety of lone workers and security staff.


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Post by Stefan of Tokyo Whisky Hub.
As most of our readers will know, the Japanese word "otaku" refers to people with obsessive interests - bordering on the insane, from the point of view of an outsider - and is usually associated with anime, manga, video games and (pop) idols. "Otaku" will spend an inordinate amount of time and money in pursuing their interest/obsession. The whisky scene has its "otaku" too, of course, although many prefer to use a different nomenclature with slightly more elevated connotations. It's rare for "whisky otaku" to make any sort of impact on the world of whisky - the world outside their bedroom, that is - but every once in a while, somebody comes along whose focus is so intense that they are able to fill a void and jaws start dropping.
Friday, February 8, 2013
Nikka Whisky Reference Guide
3 comments:
- Nikka Whisky EU said...
I want one!!!
I have trouble even keeping track of what we've had in Europe over the past 12 years... can't begin to imagine how many whiskies ther have been in Japan!
- February 8, 2013 at 10:28 PM
- Nonjatta said...
Please contact Stefan for further details: tokyowhiskyhub at-mark gmail dot com
- February 8, 2013 at 10:33 PM
Hi Stefan, how would I go about getting a copy? Nigel Kelly NZ
- February 9, 2013 at 7:22 AM
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* Thu Feb 26 2004 Thierry Vignaud <email@example.com> 1.4.1-2mdk - fix dependancies * Tue Feb 24 2004 Brook Humphrey <firstname.lastname@example.com> 1.4.1-1mdk - updated for bibletime 1.4.1 * Sun Feb 08 2004 Thierry Vignaud <firstname.lastname@example.com> 1.4-2mdk - fix groups and summaries - sanitize license tag - kill wrongly filled vendor/distribution tags (automatically filled) * Fri Nov 14 2003 Brook Humphrey <firstname.lastname@example.com> 1.4-1mdk - updated for bibletime 1.4 * Fri Nov 14 2003 Brook Humphrey <email@example.com> 1.3-1mdk - cleaned up spec some - seperated out packages into individual languages. * Sun Jun 22 2003 Joachim Ansorg <firstname.lastname@example.com> -Cleanup. We require no an Sword RPM file to be installed. -Removed Mandrake menu stuff because there's an own SPEC file for this. * Fri Feb 14 2003 Joachim Ansorg <firstname.lastname@example.com> -Removed locales.d source and management of Sword files because we require a Sword RPM now. * Mon Apr 08 2002 Brook Humphrey <firstname.lastname@example.com> bibletime-1.1 - Added to the spec to better handle mandrake menus during compile. Now should be compatable with all os's. - added locals.d source to build. This removes dependecy on sword being installed. Will make seperate package for this later. * Sun Mar 31 2002 Joachim Ansorg <firstname.lastname@example.com> - Made including the book translations working finally. - Fixed SPEC files to work with SuSE * Thu Feb 07 2002 Brook Humphrey <firstname.lastname@example.com> bibletime-1.0.2 - changed compile time options to mach bibletime spec included with source files - compiled on mandrake 8.2 * Fri Sep 07 2001 Joachim Ansorg <email@example.com> - Added the bookname files in the file list * Tue Jul 10 2001 Brook Humphrey <email@example.com> bibletime-1.0.1-Mandrake8.0.4mdk - Recompile because of dependecy problems. * Tue Jul 10 2001 Brook Humphrey <firstname.lastname@example.com> bibletime-1.0.1-Mandrake8.0.1mdk - bug fix release bibletime-1.0.1 - adda extra compile options to spec file. - Merged in suse changes for compileing on SuSE * Sun May 27 2001 Brook Humphrey <email@example.com> - Trying different variations of static compiles again. - Still using cvs sources while waiting for 1.0 release. * Thu May 24 2001 Brook Humphrey <email@example.com> - Trying for x static and whatever else we can get into it. - No X for today Got libz to compile in but it causes segfault. * Wed May 23 2001 Brook Humphrey <email@example.com> - Yet another try at static qt. - Qt static works now. * Mon May 21 2001 Brook Humphrey <email@example.com> - Static is working for kde and a few other libs but not qt yet. - Testing another patch today to try to get qt compiled static. * Sun May 20 2001 Brook Humphrey <firstname.lastname@example.com> - Cleaned up spec some more(stupid spelling error's) - static compile not working today so added option to compile kde and sword as static seperately * Sat May 19 2001 Brook Humphrey <email@example.com> - Cleaned up spec some more and added a few more comments - Changed spec to automaticly do parts concerning static and Mandrake menus - All info can be set in defines at top of spec file no other changes should need to be made - Fixed patch to compile static should now compile static with kde libs - Test to compile with qt as static also * Sun May 13 2001 Brook Humphrey <email@example.com> - cleaned up spec file and added more comments for easier reading. - changed sword.conf instelation to check for previous versions of sword.conf - If found a new sword.conf is not created - Made a patch to hopefully compile kde and other libs as atatic - static compile didn't work for today. * Tue May 08 2001 Brook Humphrey <firstname.lastname@example.com> - Updated package to be relocatable - added sword directories and sword.conf to install * Mon Apr 30 2001 Brook Humphrey <email@example.com> - Changed to build staticly - added more mandrake macros to spec file * Mon Apr 23 2001 Brook Humphrey <firstname.lastname@example.com> - made changes to enable compile of cvs tree * Wed Mar 14 2001 Brook Humphrey <firstname.lastname@example.com> - updated to use mandrake menu sysem
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A version of GOMS developed by John in the 1980s that explicitly joined GOMS to the model human processor. It included perceptual and motor operators as well as cognitive operators. Perceptual, cognitive, and motor operators could run in parallel, subject to resource and information dependencies. More information can be found in Gray, John, & Atwood, 1993; John 1988, 1990; John & Gray, 1992, 1994, 1995.
critical path
The path through subtasks (operators) in a PERT chart that determines the length of the total task. Used in CPM-GOMS.
See computer-supported cooperative work.
The form of distributed cognition developed by Hutchins in the early 1990s. It is distinguished from other uses of the term distributed cognition by its explicitly computational perspective on goal-based activity systems.
descriptive model
A model that describes how a system or person behaves and that provides a framework or context for thinking about or describing a problem or situation. Usually based on data gained through empirical observation, it is often little more than a verbal or graphic articulation of categories or identifiable features in an interface.
Encompasses activities and actions directed at producing new artifacts. Design work is collective and multidisciplinary. It often includes professional designers, technologists, and future users of the artifacts.
design rationale
Arguments for why (or why not) a feature or set of features should be incorporated into a design.
direct perception
The theory of James J. Gibson that claims that the visual environment is perceived "directly," as opposed to being indirectly inferred from sense data.
ecological interface design
An approach to interface design that uses Rasmussen's abstraction hierarchy and skills-rules-knowledge framework to specify interfaces that support adaptive human operator behavior in the face of events or situations that systems designers did not anticipate.
A computational cognitive architecture introduced by Kieras in the late 1990s. EPIC is known for computationally implementing perceptual and motor processes. More information can be found in Kieras & Meyer, 1997; Meyer & Kieras, 1997a, 1997b.


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4 6-ounce skinless striped bass or other firm white fish fillets (about 1 inch thick)
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
1 lemon
1 bunch parsley, leaves only (about 1 cup)
5 cloves garlic, smashed
4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 baguette, cubed or torn
1 10-ounce package frozen artichoke hearts, thawed
1/2 cup pitted kalamata olives
3 small tomatoes, quartered
Position a rack in the upper third of the oven and preheat to 475 degrees F. Season the fish with salt and pepper and refrigerate until ready to use.
Remove the zest from the lemon using a vegetable peeler (reserve the lemon). Combine the lemon zest, parsley, garlic, 2 tablespoons olive oil and 1 teaspoon salt in a food processor. With the motor running, gradually add the bread and pulse several times to make coarse crumbs. Spread the breadcrumbs evenly in a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. Arrange the artichokes, olives and tomatoes around the edge and bake until the exposed breadcrumbs in the middle are toasted, about 15 minutes.
Remove the baking dish from the oven. Scoop out the toasted breadcrumbs and set aside. Add the fish to the baking dish and top with the toasted breadcrumbs. Bake until the fish is cooked through, about 15 minutes. Drizzle with the remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil. Cut the reserved lemon into wedges and squeeze on top.
Per serving: Calories 472; Fat 22 g (Saturated 3 g); Cholesterol 136 mg; Sodium 1,051 mg; Carbohydrate 31 g; Fiber 6 g; Protein 37 g
Photograph by Antonis Achilleos


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Growing a technology company isn't only about raising new capital – it's about wisely spending the resources you already have. No company of any size is immune to this principle, not even Google, as evidenced by its hire of all-star, Wall Street vetted CFO Ruth Porat, to rein in the behemoth company's spending.
Porat's hire this year indicates that the technology industry's spending practices are maturing. It's no longer only about funding and the fireworks of innovation. It's time to plan for sustainability and long-term growth, and prepare for the financial needs of the company for decades to come.
As finance re-establishes its role in today's maturing businesses, it's time for the technology team to make some new friends. That friendship relies on learning how to consider projects from the perspective of asset allocation. The conversation starts with the project pitch, but will also rely on the relationship you've built with the department. In this slideshow, Henner Schliebs, vice president, Head of Global Finance Audience Marketing at SAP, has outlined what will be on finance leaders' minds while they review your proposal.
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Checking in on you, how are you doing? Hope you are still taking care of yourself like you comitted to on your post from 10/15? The way I look at it is work will always be there - these are temporary times that we need to focus on ourselves for our own health (mental, emotional, physical, spiritual). I too think its awesome you are pursuing this, unfortunately for us women there is a certain window of opportunity so its good you are taking advantage of it while the window is still open (and you still have time!) I am praying and hoping for you, maybe those lousy feelings (crampy,nauseuous) are going to mean wonderful things!!
One week to go!! Be here before you know it (but I am sure not soon enough), how are you feeling? By the way, you are so right. We are so fortunate to have a child and part of me is anxious to move on past these treatments so I can solely focus on her and enjoying things/life and her more fully without this heartbreak in between. I'd like to move on prerably with a sibling for her, but that's my view maybe not God's. My husband's thought was maybe we were not supposed to have any and God saw fit to send us our daughter as a gift; that thought gives us more gratitude for where we are right now as opposed to putting our hand out saying "God, more please".
I love your blog. You look beautiful by the way - you are carrying well!!! The pictures of the babies are so cool and I love the way you are documenting the process with pictures of the stuff you bought for the babies. I know physically it takes a toll carrying two as I have a friend who had twins that were both around 7lbs!! She described the physical feelings and its not easy on the body, thats for sure. She and babies are healthy and happy!!
I know I should have not torture myself with the hpt. It's that I found it easier to mourn over time then to get hit with the news. Particularily since I will be at work when I get the results. It still not looking good, I've felt this before multiple times and I can tell it's a BFN. Its not over until its over but I am trying to prepare.
I understand the dark thoughts you described too. I think its my way of trying to make sense of something clearly beyond my control, then maybe if I can make sense of it, maybe I can fix it. Which ofcourse is not so beyond doing the right footwork with treatments etc. I am glad your family issues are working out too. Keep us posted on the house hunting!
I go tomorrow for the final word and will let you all know what happens. Then I feel we can start accepting and move on.


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Venerable Simeon Stylites the Younger of Wonderful Mountain - Troparion & Kontakion
Troparion — Tone 1
Dweller of the desert and angel in the body, / you were shown to be a wonder-worker, our God-bearing Father Simeon. / You received heavenly gifts through fasting, vigil, and prayer: / healing the sick and the souls of those drawn to you by faith. / Glory to Him who gave you strength! / Glory to Him who granted you a crown! / Glory to Him who through you grants healing to all!
Kontakion — Tone 2
Podoben: "Seeking the highest..." / You longed for the things on high, / turning away from those below. / You built a pillar on which you lived as if in heaven, / shining with the splendor of miracles, venerable Simeon, / and unceasingly praying for us all to Christ, the God of all.


text: The Farm CPA: Tax-Savvy Crop Insurance Strategies September 13, 2012 08:44 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Paul Neiffer The Farm CPA Blogger Email All of the critical Corn Belt states have been affected by drought this year, leading to a record number of crop insurance claims. Unlike 1988 when insurance policies used yield calculations to determine crop losses, the 2012 crop insurance policies likely comprise revenue and yield protection. Revenue protection sets a "spring" price and then a "harvest" price. The greater price is multiplied by the actual production history to determine the guaranteed revenue amount. The farmer elects the percentage coverage (in some cases up to 85%), and a claim will be paid if the actual yield times the harvest price is less than the guaranteed revenue. This year, in light of the potential for increased taxes, farmers need to be creative to make sure their crop insurance claims are handled in a tax-savvy manner. Higher-income returns face the 0.9% Medicare surtax and the 3.8% net investment income tax, not to mention a possible increase in the top tax brackets to reach 39.6%. In addition, 50% bonus depreciation expires on Dec. 31, 2012. If insurance proceeds include both crop destruction and a revenue-based protection claim, the farmer needs to divide up the two claims. Only the portion attributable to crop destruction can be deferred—but the farmer has to report all of the proceeds in the year of receipt or defer 100% to the following year. If the insurance proceeds aren't received until the year after the loss, the farmer cannot elect to accelerate taxation of the proceeds into the year of loss. Pay Now, Amend Later. The crop insurance deferral election can be made on an amended tax return. We might not know if the Bush tax cuts and Medicare surtax for 2013 have been extended or repealed by the time 2012 taxes are filed. In this case, since the election is binding once made, it makes sense to not defer, but pay the tax, and wait to see if tax changes warrant an amended return to make the election to defer at that time. A refund might be granted. Tax Return Extension. An extension of the 2012 tax return might be warranted so that the farmer has as much time as possible to weigh the benefit of the election. An estimated tax payment by Jan. 15, 2013, will allow a later extension of the tax return without penalties for underestimating. This additional time (to Oct. 15, 2013) allows farmers to evaluate the price and yield of their 2013 crop. If the farmer expects to have a bumper crop and good price protection for 2013, it might make sense to include the crop insurance proceeds in 2012 rather than defer them to 2013. Timing a Claim. If a farmer wants to report the crop insurance proceeds in 2013, he can work with his insurance adjuster and wait until late after harvest to make the final claim, in the hope that the check is delayed until after Dec. 31, 2012. If this works, no additional deferral is available. Many farmers will want the crop insurance proceeds to be reported this year to offset farm expenses and soak up any related bonus depreciation and potential Section 179 deductions. Hedge Crop Insurance Bushels. Assuming a revenue protection policy, consider hedging your estimated insurance bushels to lock in historically high prices. For example, if futures are $8 now and fall to $6 at harvest, your unhedged loss is $2 per bushel times your yield loss. By hedging, you lock in the current $8 price (this strategy applies if you believe prices will fall between now and harvest). With timely use of these revenue protection policies, 2012 might actually provide more net income in a "drought" year than a "normal" year. Paul Neiffer is a tax accountant with CliftonLarsonAllen and author of the blog The Farm CPA. He grew up on a wheat farm in Washington and owns a corn and soybean farm in Missouri. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com. Back to news


text: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Consensus Lacking on COPD Classification, Say Researchers Competing standards for evaluating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) could lead to errors in both diagnosis and treatment, according to a Medscape Medical News article reporting from CHEST 2011: American College of Chest Physicians Annual Meeting. Important differences exist in the way patients are classified by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) and the American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society (ATS/ERS), said Ameer Rasheed, MD, in presenting the results of a study on the issue. To see how different the standards are, Rasheed and his colleagues retrospectively reviewed the records of 217 patients with a COPD diagnosis and applied the 2 different standards to them. They found that there was a discordance in diagnosis in 24 (11%) of the patients. Twenty patients, with a median age of 64 years, met the GOLD criteria for COPD but not the ATS/ERS criteria, whereas 4, with a median age of 41 years, met the ATS/ERS criteria but not the GOLD criteria. Based on the results, researchers concluded that older patients might be overdiagnosed and younger patients underdiagnosed, says the article. An additional 39 patients were categorized as mild by ATS/ERS but moderate by GOLD. Under GOLD, a patient should be diagnosed with COPD if the patient's forced vital capacity divided by forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1/FVC%) is below 70. Under ATS/ERS, COPD is diagnosed when FEV1/FVC% is less than the lower limit of normal established by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. A patient is classified as "mild" if the FEV1/FVC is over 80% under GOLD, but 70% under ATS/ERS. A patient is "severe" if that measurement is 50%-80% under GOLD, but 50%-70% under ATS/ERS. "Severe" is 30%-49% under GOLD but 35% -49% under ATS. "Very severe" is less than 30% under GOLD and less than 35% under ATS/ERS. Brian W. Carlin, who co-moderated the session, said that the discrepancies are particularly important for mild to moderate patients. GOLD is expected to introduce revised standards in a few months, but he acknowledged that it might be too early to forge a consensus on guidelines, the article says.


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I learned at a young age not to prank airlines. When asked to fill out a form on a flight back from Hawaii as a kid, I checked the box that said I was carrying "live oysters". I thought it was hilarious, the guys in the badges didn't. This was pre-9/11.
It seems 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith and a 14-year-old Dutch girl didn't get the memo. They opted to take it up a few notches from merely imaginary shellfish. Both were arrested for making fake bomb threats over the weekend.
Smith's was made when he became belligerent during a secondary screening at airport security in Los Angeles. The Dutch teen turned herself in on Monday after tweeting out her threat to American Airlines a day earlier.
Here's a video of Smith, a known troublemaker, being uncooperative:
As for the girl, her tweets went viral when she wrote "Hello my name's Ibrahim and I'm from Afghanistan. I'm part of Al Qaida and on June 1st I'm gonna do something really big bye." The airline responded by tweeting that these threats are taken "very seriously" and that her IP address and details would be sent to the FBI.
She, of course, freaked out in a series of panicky tweets blaming her friend, saying it was an accident and apologizing. The drama netted her tens of thousands of extra followers. Her account has since been shut down.
The fun almost ended Monday when she turned herself in to Rotterdam police. But the 2014 social-media twist to the story is still taking shape. Behold, the copycats. Since this went down, others have decided to get in on the gag with similar threats.
Here's a quick tour of these geniuses:
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Battle of Santa Cruz 1657
At Santa Cruz in the Canary Islands in April 1657, General-at-Sea Robert Blake won the most devastating victory over the Spanish since the Armada of 1588 . Sixteen Spanish ships were destroyed at a cost of only 200 British casualties and Spain's finances were left in ruins forcing her to shelve plans for the reconquest of Portugal.
Britain and Spain had been at war since 1654. Oliver Cromwell aimed to capture Spanish colonies in the West Indies. A key part of Cromwell's plan was to seize the heavily guarded Spanish silver bullion fleet, the flota, which sailed every year from the Americas across the Atlantic. Not only would this cripple the Spanish war effort, but also stabilise the finances of Cromwell's republican regime.
Blake's fleet was deployed off the coast of Spain in the spring of 1656 and for much of the next year he was frustrated as the Spanish simply refused to give battle. The only success was the capture of two ships by Sir Richard Stayner, Blake's second-in-command. Blake responded to the Spanish inactivity by instituting a blockade of the Spanish coast during the winter of 1656-57. At the time it was a most unusual tactic, although it set a precedent for the close blockades of French and Spanish ports conducted until the end of the Napoleonic era.
Since the ships of the 1657 flota could not enter the main Spanish port of Cadiz, because of Blake's fleet, they were ordered to the Canary Islands to await an opportune time to complete the voyage. However, Blake soon learned of their presence and arrived off the island of Tenerife on 18 April. Despite serious differences between Blake and his Captains over the plan of attack, it was agreed that twelve ships under Stayner's command should move inshore to engage the flota whilst Blake's force remained further out to sea.
Blake's forces faced a formidable task. An extensive network of gun batteries covered the Spanish ships and the larger vessels were deployed in an outer line to fire broadsides at the English vessels as they approached. The variable direction of the wind was also an uncertain factor. Nevertheless, Stayner's ships managed to enter the harbour and position themselves between the two rows of Spanish ships with little loss. The Spanish made a serious error by placing their inner line of ships between the batteries and the advancing English. Resistance from the smaller vessels near the shore was swiftly eliminated and Blake arrived with the remainder of the fleet to take on the seven larger galleons. All the Spanish ships were soon destroyed or captured and most of the batteries ashore abandoned.
Five Spanish ships were taken in tow as prizes, but the wind direction meant the English ships had severe difficulty in leaving the harbour. Blake ordered the prizes be set on fire and abandoned, a highly unpopular move since the Prize Money to be shared by the crews would have been considerable. Eventually all the English ships got clear and only Stayner's ship, the Speaker, suffered heavy damage from the reinvigorated shore batteries. The major disappointment in an otherwise successful operation was the failure to find the silver bullion, which the Spanish had hidden ashore.
Blake was hailed as a national hero for his great triumph, but became ill while returning to England and died when his ship was in sight of Plymouth. He was buried with full state honours in Westminster Abbey. With no means of transporting the bullion from Tenerife, Spain's position in Flanders and Portugal was fatally undermined by the lack of finance and the military reputation of the Commonwealth regime much enhanced.
Further reading:
- J.D. Davies "A Permanent Maritime Fighting Force, 1642-1689" in J.R. Hill (Ed.),
- The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy (Oxford, 1995). J.D. Davies, "Blake: Santa Cruz, 1657" in E.J. Grove (Ed.) Great Battles of the Royal Navy (London, 1994).


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Fort Worth loses a guiding spirit: Ruth Carter Stevenson dies at 89
FORT WORTH -- Ruth Carter Stevenson, who stepped out of the shadow of her legendary Fort Worth father, Amon Carter Sr., to create a world-class museum and become a national figure in the American art world, died Sunday night after a long illness.
She was 89.
Under Mrs. Stevenson's long leadership, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art went through major expansions and acquired a collection considered one of the finest anywhere.
"It was her commitment, her vision, her desire to see the Amon Carter as something more than just a small museum in a Texas town, to be an institution with national stature," said Michael Conforti, the director of the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., who sits on the board of the Amon Carter Museum. "She did that and it was an amazing achievement. She was certainly one of the great museum founders and museum overseers that we can identify in the last half of the century in the United States."
Kay Fortson, who founded the Kimbell Art Museum just down the hill from the Amon Carter in the Fort Worth Cultural District, said she and her daughter visited Mrs. Stevenson the day before she died. Fortson said Mrs. Stevenson mentored her when both young women were cultural pioneers, and the two remained close friends.
"We felt the necessity to go say goodbye," Fortson said of Mrs. Stevenson, who had been in failing health for several months. "We grieved and knew it wouldn't be long.
"She took me under her wing and really taught me about museums," Fortson said. "I will forever be grateful. We never had a disagreement over museums. We understood each other and we never had anything that came up that divided us. That's most unusual."
Friends, family and civic leaders mourned a person known for her strength of will, capacity for friendship, love of gardening and flowers, generosity and philanthropy.
"Fort Worth has lost a great friend," said Bobby Brown, vice president of the Amon G. Carter Foundation, one of Texas' top philanthropic organizations. "Ruth used her intelligence and determination to advance so many causes which have made her communities better places to live. Her leadership and experience are irreplaceable and the love felt for her by so many will be enduring."
Mrs. Stevenson was the youngest and only surviving child of Amon Carter Sr. She was born on Oct. 19, 1923, the same year her father became publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Carter was also an oilman, philanthropist, friend to American presidents and national celebrities, and a voracious collector of Western paintings and sculptures, mostly by Charles Russell and Frederic Remington.
By the time of Carter's death in 1955, his collection had grown to about 400 pieces. It was left to Mrs. Stevenson by her older brother, Amon Carter Jr., to carry out a key provision of her father's will, building a Fort Worth art museum to house the collection. Collaborating with famed architect Philip Johnson, Mrs. Stevenson presided over the opening of the Amon Carter Museum in 1961.
In the years that followed, Mrs. Stevenson, as president of the museum's board, demonstrated her father's fierce will and insistence on quality. She also discovered and refined her own eye for great art. Within a few years of the museum's opening, Stevenson and the Fort Worth museum had pushed far beyond Amon Carter Sr.'s Western aesthetic, buying paintings and art objects across a broad spectrum.
"Mrs. Stevenson dedicated her life to fulfilling her father's wishes by seeing that a museum housing his art collection was built," said Andrew J. Walker, the Amon Carter Museum's director. "We will miss Ruth's tenacious spirit, thoughtful guidance and loyal friendship. Her legacy will enhance the lives of generations to come."
Mrs. Stevenson also became a fixture on the American art scene. She was a close friend of Georgia O'Keeffe until the legendary artist's death in 1986. In 1979, she became the first female board member of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and later the first woman to become the board's chairman.
"It's a great institution because of her," Earl A. Powell III, director of the National Gallery and a longtime friend, said of the Amon Carter Museum. "Over its history, the Carter has put together one of the great collections of American art. ... It's a great, great place she has created for Fort Worth and the nation.
"Ruth was beloved by all and indefatigable in her support of the Gallery over several decades," Powell said.
Fort Worth investor Sid Bass said Mrs. Stevenson was one of the giants of Fort Worth history.
"Like the death of her father, Ruth's passing marks the end of an era," Bass said. "Her contributions to Fort Worth and influence over its life cannot be overstated. She was a world figure in the arts, and we were lucky to have been her local stage."
Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price said the city "suffered a huge loss with the passing of Ruth Carter Stevenson."
"She was a charming, elegant leader driven to make Fort Worth a better place than when she found it," Price said.
Despite her passing, her legacy and that of her famous father will endure through the museum and foundation, said Sheila Johnson, the oldest of Mrs. Carter's five children.
"The dynasty is far from over," Johnson said on Monday. "We will continue the legacies that he left her and she left us. There is no expectation that will change. There will just be different faces and different names."
Amon Carter Sr. was 45 when Ruth was born to Carter and his second wife, Nenetta. (The couple divorced in 1941). The tycoon's immediate and lasting devotion to his daughter was such that it strained the relationship between Ruth and her brother, Amon Jr., who was four years older. (Amon Carter Jr. died of a heart attack in 1982).
"I was his baby girl," Stevenson once said. "Amon Jr. and I didn't really get to be friends until we were grown because I got $5 to take a dose of castor oil, and he got a whipping if he didn't. That doesn't make for friendships. And I adored Amon [Jr.]."
Among Stevenson's childhood memories was a morning at the family home in Fort Worth, when entertainer Will Rogers and aviator Charles Lindbergh showed up at the back door. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was a visitor at the family farm, Shady Oak, among other luminaries. Amon Carter Sr. credited Rogers with inspiring his interest in the work of Russell and Remington.
His collecting intensified when he struck oil. In the mid-1940s, Carter paid what was reported to be a record price for Remington's classic A Dash for the Timber, which had been part of the collection at Washington University in St. Louis.
Carter's daughter, meanwhile, was sent to an Eastern boarding school and then to Sarah Lawrence College in New York. In college, she dabbled in art history classes but was a chemistry major. She traces her true passion for art to a day in the 1940s, when her first husband, J. Lee Johnson III, was studying law at Notre Dame University. On a day trip, Stevenson took the train to Chicago.
"When I got to Chicago, I walked up the steps of the Art Institute, where the impressionist pictures were, and, bingo, that was it," she said. "I looked at one painting and I thought it was the most beautiful thing. It was by Monet, so I fell in love with the French impressionists."
With her first Star-Telegram dividend check, she bought an 1888 landscape by Vincent van Gogh. She hung it in her Fort Worth home, where her father first saw it.
"What in the name of God is that?" Amon Carter Sr. asked.
"It's a van Gogh," Stevenson said.
"I can read," Amon Carter Sr. said. "What did you pay for it?"
"I paid the same amount for it that you paid for A Dash for the Timber," his daughter said.
"To think your mother and I would entrust you with money and you would go do a damn fool thing like that," Carter said.
Stevenson had paid $25,000 for her masterpiece. Decades later, it was sold for $14 million.
"Unfortunately, he wasn't there for me to tell him," Stevenson said of her father, whose health began to fail in the early 1950s.
It was art that provided father and daughter with their strongest and most enduring bond. Despite his humble upbringing and lack of formal education, her father was a "born connoisseur" with an instinctive eye for fine art, Mrs. Stevenson said.
She would always remember post-war years in the 1940s when women were still not allowed in the 11th-floor library of the Fort Worth Club, the place where Amon G. Carter Sr. kept most of his beloved art collection at the time. But every so often, Carter and his daughter, then in her 20s, visited the room with the Western paintings and sculptures of Remington and Russell, masterpieces Carter had been collecting since the 1920s.
"His eyes would just light up, to share it with somebody, somebody he loved and who understood his passion," Mrs. Stevenson once said. "While we would look, he would reminisce about his friendship with Will Rogers. There was a twinkle in his eye and a lovely sense of, 'I did this, and I'm proud of it.' It was just the two of us. It is a very tender memory."
When Amon Carter Sr. died, Mrs. Stevenson took on the challenge of building a museum in his honor. Amon Carter, Jr. had settled in as Star-Telegram publisher and preferred to focus on that part of his father's legacy.
"Amon said, 'I'm running the newspaper. I don't have time to do it. You do it,'" Stevenson recalled.
By then, Stevenson had strong interest in art, but no clue about how to build a museum. She was a self-described housewife whose chief public pursuits had been projects with the Junior League.
"She was left out of many events and important things that occurred in her father's life," her daughter, Sheila Johnson, once said. "My grandfather didn't believe she needed to do that. She was a girl. ... When Amon Jr. said, 'You go ahead and take this project. I don't want to have to deal with it,' that was probably the best day of her life."
A crucial early step was hiring the internationally acclaimed architect, Philip Johnson, to design the museum. "I didn't have any idea of how to build one," Stevenson remembered. "But I did know that Philip Johnson was the greatest architect around, so I thought, 'Why not start with him?'"
Stevenson met Johnson for the first time in Houston in the late 1950s, at the dedication of a Johnson-designed building at the University of St. Thomas.
"I got down there and saw what he had done for the university," Stevenson recalled. "It was gorgeous, elegant. Well, Philip came up and we had a number of martinis. It was a big affair and all the people from the museum world were there. We chatted back and forth and I said, 'Why don't you come to Fort Worth and build us a museum?' He said, 'I'd be glad to talk to you.' He came about two months later and he signed a contract.
"So luckily I had Philip," Stevenson said. "I said, 'Philip, I don't know how to do this.' He said, 'No problem. I'll be on your board.'"
Johnson designed an east-facing shellstone edifice in Fort Worth's Cultural District, with pillars and walls of dark glass that allowed a singular view of the downtown skyline. The famous architect also provided entrée to some of the most eminent personalities in American art, including several who agreed to serve as trustees for the fledging institution.
They included Richard Brown, then director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (and later the Kimbell's first director); Harry Grier, director of the Frick Collection in New York; John de Menil, one of the nation's most prominent philanthropists and collectors; and Rene d'Harnoncourt, director of New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Through Brown, the Carter hired its first director, the highly regarded Mitchell Wilder. Wilder was friendly with Georgia O'Keeffe, which helped the museum land a major O'Keeffe retrospective in 1966. Stevenson and the legendary artist quickly became close friends. Stevenson once spent a week with O'Keeffe at her home in New Mexico, and they frequently dined together in New York.
"She was an extraordinary person, beautiful," Mrs. Stevenson remembered. "Of course, her art was just fabulous. We got along very well. I close my eyes and see her. Everything was adobe. She was always dressed in black. She would lean back against the wall and reminisce about the people she had known. All the great artists had been there. She talked about what fun they all were, and how smart."
On a visit to New Mexico, Stevenson first saw O'Keeffe's 1925 painting White Birch. Immediately smitten, Stevenson eventually persuaded the artist to sell it. But that was just one purchase in a period of broad acquisition -- paintings that had little in common with the mythological pictures of the West that made up the core of her father's collection.
"Once you started going to New York and seeing American art as there was, at the Whitney [Museum] and all of it, I realized what we could do to enhance the collection with great works of American painting," Stevenson remembered. "I knew we had to [go beyond Western art]."
Two years after the Amon Carter Museum opened, Mrs. Stevenson was part of a wrenching day in American history. In November 1963, she was among a small group of Fort Worth residents that assembled locally owned masterpieces and had them installed in a suite at the Texas Hotel for President John Kennedy.
On Nov. 22, 1963, she expected to meet the president at the hotel.
"I was supposed to go down there and say good morning to him," Mrs. Stevenson remembered. "I called the Secret Service about four in the morning and said, 'I've got a sick child. I'm not coming.'" We were watching [Kennedy's Fort Worth visit] on the television and the phone rang."
It was the President.
"I just wanted to call and thank you for your generosity," President Kennedy said in what might have been his final telephone call.
A few hours later, he was dead.
"It just shook her to the core," said her daughter, Sheila Johnson. "She literally had hung up the phone and 30 minutes later he was dead."
In the early 1970s, Mrs. Stevenson's influence in the art world greatly expanded. In 1972, Paul Mellon came to Fort Worth for the opening of the Kimbell Art Museum. Mellon was a major philanthropist and art collector whose family had helped found the National Gallery of Art in the 1930s. Stevenson, a close friend of Kimbell owners Kay and Ben Fortson, was assigned to drive Mellon in from the airport.
"I met Mr. Mellon under very pleasant circumstances," Stevenson remembered of that day. "So he drove into town with me in a pickup, just a delightful gentleman."
Three years later, Mellon and the gallery's director, Carter Brown, asked Mrs. Stevenson, who had divorced in the 1970s, to head up a new collectors committee for that institution. That led to her position on the board and an introduction to the board's chairman, prominent New York attorney John Stevenson.
"I can still remember the first time I saw him at a 'do at the gallery," Mrs. Stevenson remembered. "I can remember what I had on. I still have the dress."
In 1983, as Mrs. Stevenson said, "I married the boss." It was a happy union until John Stevenson's death in 1997.
Philip Johnson died in 2005, but one of his last projects was a major expansion of the Carter that was completed in 2001. The new space was large enough to display the Western works so beloved by Amon Carter Sr., and the dozens of masterpieces acquired under his daughter's leadership.
"In the 1950s and '60s, when Ruth began, Texas was a youthful part of the country, culturally, but it certainly isn't now," said Conforti of the Clark Art Institute. "You have to look at who changed that reality ... as opposed to it being central to the art world, as it is now. You certainly come up with Ruth, someone who took her father's legacy and went far beyond anybody's expectation."
Mrs. Stevenson is survived by her five children: Sheila Broderick Johnson; J. Lee Johnson IV; Karen Johnson Hixon; Catherine L. "Kate" Johnson and Mark L. Johnson; 10 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday at Thompson's Harveson & Cole Funeral Home, 702 8th Ave., Fort Worth. After a private burial, a memorial and prayer service is tentatively scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday at St. Patrick's Cathedral, 1206 Throckmorton St., Fort Worth.
Tim Madigan, 817-390-7544


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Captain D.L.C. Evans born 1884 at sea, died 1947 in Penzance, England Seeking living descendants
David L.C. Evans was born 1884 at sea. His family was from Wales. He married Winifred Anning from Plymouth, England in 1918 and they had three children David, Myron, and Eira. The son David B. married Barbara Rogers of Polwithen, Penzance in 1943. Would like background information on the captain as a man, father, grandfather.
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David B. Evans born July-Sept. 1919, possibly in Plymouth, England, birth certificate in Vol. 5b, pg. 281. Married Barbara Rogers in 1941, marriage certificate in Vol. 5c pg. 673.
His father was Captain D.L.C. Evans, the Master on the SS Phemius in 1932 when it was caught in a horrific storm in the Caribbean. His mother was Winifred Anning of Plymouth.
David had worked for the National Provincial Bank of Penzance, England prior to WWII and possibly afterwards. He was a Capt. in the Royal Armoured Corps and received the medal of Honor from the Republic of China for his service. He was wounded in WWII in 1943.
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The pancreas is a long, flat organ located behind the stomach. It creates enzymes that help digest food as well as hormones, like insulin, that help control blood sugar.
Acute pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas that occurs suddenly.
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The most common cause of pancreatitis in children is trauma to the abdomen.
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