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Are some "problems" and "flaws" really with the car? Or, with the buyers?
Are some "problems" and "flaws" really with the car? Or, with the buyers?
When I read your subject line, I thought it sounded a bit goofy. But after reading the post, it now makes good sense. Well-thought out and written.
+1 mcx-sea
+1 well written and I don't miss those other "luxury" features, must be the buyer :)
+1 I am missing nothing
We took home ours yesterday. We were fully aware of what features were and were not in the car - and like you said, we bought it anyway.. willing to live with a few missing luxuries.
The two items that I would have LIKED to have in the car would have been parking sensors and better console storage/cup holders. Both of these seem to be easy to remedy if we find that they're really a nuisance. There are other omissions that seem a bit odd (no rear-seat entertainment option for kids.. no rear-seat power/usb) but none of them are deal-breakers.
After driving it a bit.. the last thing we're thinking about is cup holders.
I think this is a silly thread. People have the right to post their opinions, both for and against the car, without being attacked or suggesting they have a problem.
As for some of your claims, such as 'virtually' all problems have been 'quickly' taken care of by service, this isn't true, and there are lots of threads here suggesting that Tesla's service is, understandably, going through growing pains. I have been waiting for a fix to my sunroof since the day I received it (it broke when the DS showed me how to use it).
Now I agree people shouldn't 'bitch or complain' about missing features, but I'd argue there are more suggestions that bitching. What Tesla could be doing is talking about features in the car that simply aren't activated, like Wifi, parking assist, etc...which would deflect some of the criticism/suggestions on the forums.
The one thing that does bother me is advertised features that are not active - such as saving songs to the hard drive (part of the reason I purchased the upgraded sound system).
let the attacks against me begin...
+1 I get sooo sick of all the nitpicking going on here!! Tesla will improve on everything (including interior) in time. You have to look at the BIG picture. None of these folks have said they would sell their model S and go back to their bmw or mb ect.
+1 mcx-sea
@cfriedberg - boo, hiss, moida da bum, lol
@cfriedberg - where did you ever see anything about parking assist being there, but not activated? This is news to me (I knew about wifi).
Based on the pics of the aftermarket install that someone had done - there doesn't seem to be any sensors on the car. Now, they COULD do something in software to at least have an overlay on the camera - but I've never heard of this as existing.
Sorry to derail.
my local service rep told me when I asked him about whether or not installing a third party park assist system would void the warranty. He also informed me that there are numerous other hardware and wiring features already built into the car, but not 'activated'.
There are aftermarket options for those that want mini-van features. You can find those by using Volkerize.com.
You can also read the previous threads on these topics and post there. Volkerize.com will help you find those discussions.
Pockets, rear cupholders and rear entertainment systems are more like space eating cluttering mini-van features than something you expect to find in a sporty performance sedan. I would be more inclined to expect them in the Model X rather than a Model S.
@Captain_Zap -
people with kids drive cars, too. Strangely, they also drink drinks.
Kids with drinks in the car???
Does not compute!
I CANNOT BELIEVE that a $100k buyer would have such flaws and problems!
Well I would have to say I could not disagree more with you.
Just because Tesla S is drawn, modeled and produced a certain way does not make that way the best way possible.
For Tesla not to listen to what paying customers are voicing Tesla would have to be either more then a little arrogant or plain stupid. I have never owned a car that fitted my every need - I saw that when I bought it but a purchase of a car is always a compromise just as it is with Tesla.
Most manufacturers solve issues like this with a mid-life updated model. Minor issues are ironed out - stuff engineers and designers forgot on the drawing board are added. In return the manufacturer get more satisfied customers. And often those little shortcomings like missing cup holders, no center console or whatever have been voiced over and over suddenly becomes a great selling point. Journalists and testers tends to focus on mid-life updates improvements and those updates generates lots of press and PR.
While you see these flaws as minor problems if problems at all - other have different views on that. And that is fine. After all the car was bought with hard earned cash and we all like to get "our moneys worth". Even a car that shines on so many levels can feel less then premium because of those things you mentioned in OP.
Should Tesla listen. Most definitely. And hopefully Tesla will do more then just listen. Hopefully Tesla will address as many as possible. If feel the need for an upgrade when Tesla have a mid-life update of model S - feel free to rip out, destroy or shorten any or all of these hopefully added features: Adaptive cruise control, AWD, door pockets, parking assist, center console, rear seat cup holders, lighted visor mirrors. - After all you don't need them, you don't like them and you prefer to live without them.
@mcx-sea Love the question!
I've been exceptionally happy with my MS, and the few features it didn't have that I wanted, I added myself. Yes, it's a minor pain to add parking sensors (which I did) or some other add-in, but I think Tesla did a great job at picking the right set of initial features for the price of the car. I've never seen a car that offers every possible feature, and often users hate to have some features, even if included free (for me it's a sunroof in a car, something I never use).
Every purchaser has to decide when they buy a MS (or any car for that matter) does it include the features and functions you require. If not, buy another car or expect to add them yourself!
I built a whole website (http://teslatap.com) to cover add-ons and vote on features anyone wants on the MS or future Tesla cars. It's a bit extreme, but what I thought was needed is asking the question (in many cases) how much EXTRA would you pay for feature X.
If you want a head's up display, BMW has it as an option for $5000. Is that worth it to you? My guess is very few users want it at that price. There's no reason Tesla shouldn't charge the going rate for some feature they add in the future. When put in that perspective, it's not surprising that many users suddenly no longer feel they need a "missing" feature.
+1 mcx-sea
Nice well thought out piece. There's a fine subjective line between annoying griping and constructive criticism but I'm sure the Tesla folks are taking note of the ever expanding wish list for future improvements.
We all know (I hope?) that to build a car such as this was a massive engineering undertaking and some compromises had to be made to get it to market.
The problem lies with some peoples expectations for a car at this price point. Do your homework and if you decide to purchase, you do so knowing that Model S will not come with all the amenities you might have expected. The early adopters have been very forgiving in that respect. Acceptance by the mass market remains to be seen.
I'm with the dissenters. No reason why people can't voice their opinion, although dislikes are better in a private thread.
Geez, how do you think Tesla knows how to prioritize the next feature, software updated, or hardware update? They can measure the buzz from their owners on this forum, among other tools.
The brilliant Steve Jobs said "No app store for the iPhone." But the developer community bitched and moaned about how constrained they were because they were limited to within the browser. A full year after the iPhone launch, and after lots of bitching, Apple reluctantly launched the App Store. How did that work out for Apple, developers, and users?
I agree that nobody should be *surprised* that there are no door pockets, etc. However, that doesn't mean they have to like it, and can't complain about it. Developers loved the iPhone, but wanted more. They complained and prevailed.
The Model S rocks, but it's not perfect. Stop making a car a religion. Allow dissent. Allow free speech.
Great Iphone example - never let arrogance get in the way of great business. After all - a healthy bottom line means more R & D and even better products and happier customers.
I got nothing to do with homework.
Even people who but might feel they would like to have more features. I totally understand TM's need to be conservative in what features are shipping as standard - but really buyers should have even more choices for tailor-made cars even from Tesla.
I can only speak for me and my wishes, but I do see several shortcomings in today's model S. If I could opt to get all those fixed by adding x's in boxes on the order form I would happily do that - even though that means price will go up. As long as I get my needs met I will pay extra as long as I feel the value of the car increases. For me and my everyday needs.
For premium cars we are all used to pay money up the river for cool gadgets, bragging rights and features that we might not actually need but that we feel add an extra value to the car and the ownership of the car. So yes Tesla. Let me by all the extra, I will put my money where my mouth is, and I am sure many others will as well. A big fat option list will mean even more money in for Tesla. I can't see how that can be wrong.
OP ever considered you might be a happier man living in north-korea? As they seem to share many of your outlook on life.
I think the OP has every right to complain about the people who complain.
If you have expectations, run the closest comparator--a Panamera GTS. Starting price around 115k, if you add all the goodies--145 k. Are you willing to pay this amount for a few more bells and whistles?
If I could get ie AWD model S and also those other voids filled I would pay a premium. If it means I need to add 20K $ or even more I still would. Cause that would make the car fill my hopes and dreams. And that is important too.
Sure he does. I was trying to make a joke - sadly I forgot the smily-face.
So I see why you posted your comment. It was a joke - even though it was poorly executed.
Great post. And a long time coming. After reading everyone's petty complaints, I have been so envious of them! Because surely the rest of their lives must be utterly perfect. That or I would really like to read their posts where they complain about their house, spouse and kids.
Life isnt perfect. And neither is your car.
Vin 308
You cannot grow and improve yourself if nobody ever challenges your position on things. But I do agree there does seem to be a lot of pissing-and-moaning. Welcome to the Internet.
I could care less if my Tesla S lacked any of the OP-mentioned, bitched-about features - but it's kind of hard to justify skimpy and/or flimsy sun visors in any car over $20K... (Not saying they're flimsy in the S, but that seems to be the gripe.)
I think at least part of the issue is that those of us who have been around for a while have already hacked these issues to death, but now there's a whole lot of people who are jumping on the bandwagon now and these discussions which are new to them are tired to us.
Deliveries are ramping up quickly, and I'm already seeing lots of people who are now taking delivery of the car that I would not call "enthusiasts" (I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that btw).
So basically you are so unsure about yourself you need validation from the community cause of your purchase decision? You would prefer if we all just pet each others back on congrats each other with a smart buy?
Be real dude. Voicing it is important. That way someone might listen and make your dream come true. And a new and improved version with a longer option list might be a great way to justify a new model later on.
I once got a new model of the same car cause the new one had ventilated leather seats - and my old didn't. In fact I had never seen that before. And here was a brand new model with more features and it even had a cool breeze blowing from the seat. How amazing it that I thought. Cause I was rather fat at that time so I struggled with massive body heat. The moment I read about it in a magazine I called my dealer and put in an order. I was so excited I didn't even remember to haggle on the price. And to be honest the ventilated seats up front did wonder for my well being. I was never sweaty any more walking into the office so for me that justified the change and extra cash out for a new car I really didn't need. The smart solution - not to mention a lot cheaper would be to loose weight to control body temp.
My point is you never really know what is of value to others. Something you don't miss or even think about might be something others would shell out good solid money for. And that means more income for Tesla. We do know manufacturers put on a heavy price tag for add-ons they know will sell well. Try order best sat-nav on cars from Germany. 5.000 - 8.000 $ extra.
And really a 200 $ handheld device will point in correct direction. Yet people spend that extra bacon for the factory look.
Why don't we all play nice?
This is getting ridiculous.
olanmills +1
My car is so fast I gave up caffeine!!! Corners so well there is not a cup holder made that could keep my drink from spilling. Plus since I never go to convience store for gas....no big gulp temptation
If you complain about this car, you seriously need to have your head examined!
Maybe those of you that are unhappy should trade your MS in for technology from last century
Drive your car proudly! We all knew what options it had when you bought it!
Elon once said it best; "The best car in the world -- in all the dimensions that count."
Yours don't.
The "$100K" buys different things with the MS than are possible with any other car.
Model S is not a $100K car. I keep hearing this misconception all the time. The 60KWh version with Tech package and active air suspension is $68,820 and you get 3-in-1 package of a sport car + a family sedan car + mini van with the fuel economy that none of the cars at this price class can offer. With $2,500+$7,500 tax incentive, the car costs $58,820. Average middle class (engineer, small biz owners, etc.) can afford this family car, it's not only a car for the rich people. Rich people can of course afford two fully loaded P85s and one fully loaded Model X and pay in cash. I think.
I agree about the whining. Every car has a few flaws.
I am prepared to overlook:
Thin visors
Thin seats
Lack of storage
This car is really the future. That its also a bonafide thoroughbred
With awesome bones is icing on the cake.
I took delivery Saturday, had some issues, the most serious being a stuck charging cable.
It took several tech support guys assisting and debugging, and at one point I was ready to email georgeB with a bitter email.
Today morning the stuck cable is resolved. (Main screen controls,open charge port, then press button on cable, pull out)
I am happy as can be. I know there will be more issues, but I don't care.
Car is zen. Magical.
Oh BTW planning a 2 hour lunch with quick trip up and down the mountains.
Almost like playing hookie.
Grown little boy, that's me today.
The fact is the MS is fantastic value. But no car could have everything. I admit to at least half-a-dozen items/features I would love to have in my MS. I hope when I trade this MS in for a new one in a few years they have added the rest of my wish list. And it will cost more, and it will still be fantastic value!
+1 mcx-sea
We could not be happier with our MS. On the surface, I have no issue people posting features they'd like to see or discuss issues and possible solutions. But in talking to some "insiders' I've been told that many of the complaints are outright fabrications by the posters to get negative attention. Sadly, that's often been the case. It's those types of posts I have issue with. Sadly, one cannot discern which are tue and which are false.
We've put about 3500 miles on ours now and are still giddy driving this car! We had problems with the charging cable in the beginning, but that was fixed. No issues since. I think I'm pretty picky when it comes to cars, but this car, nothing bugs me. Thin visors? Who cares! I drink in the car all the time. The cup holders have never been an issue to me. I don't get it. I drive the loooong way home whenever I can, and cannot wait to drive it each day! I don't mind people complaining as they have a right to do that, but I also want to voice my love for this car. Honestly, I keep saying we need a his and hers! It is so much fun to drive. We have always had BMWs - still do - but we've never had anything that compares to this.
Well-thought out and written. Said Brian H
I say:Well-thought out an very, very well written.
I'm not a native English speaker, but it is one of the few times that I should not ask for help to "google translate" Thanks
@Brian H
Sometimes this forum gets kind of dark - like now with your post.
It seems that a number of you guys has lost the ability to think for yourself. You act like you are part of a sect or like you have been brainwashed. And from you Brian H I didn't expect this, as you seems like one of the more well read members here. The fact that you also take this path is sad really - not only on your behalf but on the behalf of the community at large and in a much bigger scale the society at large.
You really think and believe that one should not be allowed to voice up if one is not happy with a product? Sure Tesla is good - but this is past the line of redicilous. Why shouldn't the voice of paying customer count? People wake up - you are not living in the peoples republic of china. You live in the free world. Start acting like it.
Really I just feel sad for you people.
torst1, you have the ability to say a lot of things right and meaningful in the most disagreeable way possible.
Is true, there are some comments that go beyond a proper admiration for the S. This can peeve and unnerve, but reading your answers, sometimes I think you've been bitten by a tarantula


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The BBC has a great short video feature looking at Odd Future, the massively popular (and equally controversial) rap collective, and their merchandise-focused approach to the music business. Odd Future has always been an interesting case study in music: their graphic content prevents them from getting much radio play, their career was started and built online, and they give away all their music (20 albums worth, at this point) for free. But they have been making money since the beginning by selling homemade merchandise directly to fans, offering lots of limited edition shirts and one-off products. Now they've combined that approach with their highly successful tours, by launching pop-up merch shops in every city before the show. They do meet-and-greets at the shop where they take photos and sign autographs. The fans love it—they were in Toronto recently, and the line for the pop-up shop stretched several blocks, and according to the BBC they are moving unique hand-made t-shirts at £100 each.
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Calvin D. Croy
posted on Monday, July 27, 2009 - 10:03 am
I'm running a simple regression with a single predictor called X. I want another variable Z included in the modeling, since the probability that X has a missing value is related to Z. By including Z the missing data will satisfy the Missing at Random (MAR) assumption.
1. If Z is in my dataset, but not listed in the Model statement and not listed as an auxillary variable, will its relation with X be considered so that the MAR assumption can be satisfied? Or must Z be included in the Auxiliary command with the m setting?
2. If I list Z on the Auxiliary command,does Mplus include it per the Model 2 ("extra DV") or Model 3 ("saturated correlates")of Graham 2003 or in some other way? Is the way it's implemented in Mplus superior to Graham's models 2 and 3?
3. Considering SEM models in general, is there ever a need to explicity fit Graham's models 2 or 3 rather than rely on the Auxiliary command with the m setting to bring the auxiliary variables I want considered into the modeling (so as to meet the MAR assumption)?
Thanks for your assistance!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, July 27, 2009 - 10:21 am
See our technical appendix document
In other words,
1. z must included in the aux list with m
2. Mplus uses the saturated correlates approach
3. the Mplus approach with aux m is the saturated correlates - with the needed additional conveniences (see doc).
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, July 27, 2009 - 11:12 am
See also my web talk on this topic at
Calvin D. Croy
posted on Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 8:53 am
Thanks for your reply and the links! The web talk was very clear, and the Monte Carlo simulation in it provided two good demonstrations -- both of the ease of doing simulations in Mplus and of the biases that occur when variables related to missingness are not included as auxiliary variables.
Shawn Bauldry
posted on Sunday, October 24, 2010 - 5:25 pm
I'm trying to conduct a simulation study related to auxiliary variables. For a simple bivariate regression (replicating some of Collins et al. 2001), I get different results when I use the "auxiliary" command versus when I specify the saturated correlates model manually.
The following is my code using the auxiliary command:
VARIABLE: NAMES = x y z;
USEVAR = x y;
AUXILIARY = (m) z;
MODEL: y ON x*0.6;
which returns an average estimate of 0.5389 for the regression weight (note, I obtain an identical estimate when I exclude the auxiliary variable).
The following is my model statement for the saturated correlates version of this model
eta BY y;
xi BY x;
eta ON xi*0.6;
aux BY z;
aux WITH eta;
which returns an average estimate of 0.5945 for the regression weight.
Can you see what I'm doing incorrectly? I should get the same results from the two approaches, right?
Shawn Bauldry
posted on Sunday, October 24, 2010 - 6:18 pm
One additional note on the above post. I realized there's a much more straightforward way to specify the saturated correlates model for the bivariate regression. I ran the following model
y ON x;
z WITH x;
z WITH y;
and obtained the same results as the more complicated version in the previous post (avg. b = 0.5945), but still different results than if I use the "auxiliary" variable command.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, October 25, 2010 - 12:03 pm
These differences are to be expected. This is discussed in the following paper which is on the website:
Clark, S. & Muth�n, B. (2009). Relating latent class analysis results to variables not included in the analysis.
Shawn Bauldry
posted on Monday, October 25, 2010 - 5:30 pm
Thanks for your response. I'm not sure I understand, though, how the paper you mentioned relates to my problem. The paper seems to be about issues with auxiliary variables (i.e., distal outcomes) in a latent class framework rather than auxiliary variables related to missing data. Is there a connection that I'm not seeing?
Also, if the difference in the two approaches is expected, do you have a sense of which approach is to be preferred?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, October 25, 2010 - 6:04 pm
I didn't see that. Why don't you send the two outputs that don't agree that you think should and your license number to
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Here a few hints to simplify processing of mailed patches:
- When writing the message remember that git will use the mail's subject as the first paragraph of the log message, so don't repeat it in the body.
- Keep the log message formatted to at most 75 columns, if possible. This will ensure the output will properly be displayed in the standard 80 column terminal.
- Do not address the receiver, no mail signatures, no PGP signatures. If you follow these rules your email's body can be used without further editing as the log message greatly speeding up patch handling.
- Don't forget to add a Signed-off-by: Your Name <firstname.lastname@example.com> line
The MIME problem
Documentation/SubmittingPatches in the kernel sources asks patch submitters to
6) No MIME, no links, no compression, no attachments. Just plain text. Linus and other kernel developers need to be able to read and comment on the changes you are submitting. It is important for a kernel developer to be able to "quote" your changes, using standard e-mail tools, so that they may comment on specific portions of your code.
But due to brokenness, the most commonly used mail clients generally scramble patches by:
- chopping of trailing whitespace
- converting tab characters to whitespace
- breaking long lines into multiple lines.
which has led to the problem that a very significant fraction of patches had to be rejected simply because they didn't survive email transport. This page is trying to help you to fulfill the apparent contradiction. Keep in mind that the author of this page is a mutt user and would only touch a GUI mail client with a blowtorch.
- Set the formatting to "Preformat"
- Hit Insert/Text File (Alt-I X)
Then at the ghastly gnome dialog hit ^L (secret handshake for the 'developers cant stand it either' shortcut box) and type in the file name.
Modern Thunderbird
- Set the formatting mode button just above the composition pane to Preformat
- Write your log message.
- Use the Insert->Text_File pulldown menu to insert the patch from a file. Do NOT use cut-and-paste to copy the patch, it'll likely corrupt the patch.
Thunderbird recipe #1
Yep, the odd part is not to disable html email. Then when composing a message, there is a drop-down box for a format selection. While the cursor is in the body area, change the format from default "Body text" to Preformat, and then copy-n-paste the patch.
- Before starting to write the email, do Edit->Preferences, Composition tab, change "Wrap plain text messages at __ characters" to 0
- Begin writing your email
- Start up an editor in which you can select the text, for example:
- # gvim patch.diff
- Edit->Select All
- Edit->Copy
Switch back to the open Compose window, then Edit->Paste
Thunderbird recipe #2
If you have Enigmail configured, when sending the email, you might get a box asking if you want to change the line wrapping to 68 characters, so just say No if that happens.
Others have suggested using an external editor which will show up in the compose editor and allow to include the patch file inline. For example see http://mozex.mozdev.org
See also
- http://mbligh.org/linuxdocs/Email/Clients/Thunderbird Martin Bligh's page about survival with Thunderbird
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/27/191 Discussion on linux-kernel on patch submission with Thunderbird.


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Georgia O'Keeffe, (born November 15, 1887, near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, U.S.—died March 6, 1986, Santa Fe, New Mexico), American painter, best known for her large-format paintings of natural forms, especially flowers and bones, and for her depictions of New York City skyscrapers and architectural and landscape forms unique to northern New Mexico.
Early years
O'Keeffe grew up with six siblings on a Wisconsin dairy farm and received art lessons at home as a child. Throughout her school years, teachers recognized and cultivated her ability to draw and paint. Upon graduation from high school, O'Keeffe determined to become a professional artist.
She first attended the Art Institute of Chicago (1905–06); then she went to New York City to study at the Art Students League. O'Keeffe quickly became proficient at imitative realism, the approach to image making that formed the basis of all standard art-school curriculum at the time, and in 1908 she won the league's William Merritt Chase still-life prize for her oil painting Untitled (Dead Rabbit with Copper Pot) (1908). However, because she believed that she would never distinguish herself as a painter within the tradition of imitative realism, she abandoned her commitment to being a painter altogether and took a job in Chicago as a commercial artist.
While with her family in 1912, O'Keeffe attended a summer course for art teachers at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, which was taught by Alon Bement of Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York City. Bement acquainted her with the then-revolutionary thinking of his colleague at Teachers College, artist and art educator Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow believed in the Modernist idea that the subject of artists' work should be their personal ideas and feelings and that these could be visualized most effectively through the harmonious arrangement of line, colour, and notan (the Japanese system of arranging lights and darks).
Dow rejected imitative realism and, in espousing the aesthetic of an Asian culture, his ideas most probably struck a familiar chord with O'Keeffe. She seems to have had an intuitive appreciation for this aesthetic, having been introduced to it through the art manuals she used as a student in primary and secondary school. Dow's approach, then, in offering an alternative to imitative realism, rekindled O'Keeffe's desire to be a professional artist. She subsequently worked with these ideas when teaching art in a public school in Amarillo, Texas (1912–14), and when working as Bement's assistant during the summer at the University of Virginia (1913–16).
An emerging Modernist
In the fall of 1915, after a year of studying with Dow in New York, O'Keeffe accepted a teaching job in Columbia, South Carolina, at Columbia College. There, furthering her explorations of Dow's principles, she sought a purely personal means of expression and turned to abstraction to produce works such as No. 3–Special (1915). In doing so, she transcended Dow's teaching and became one of a handful of American and European Modernists who were working with this new and innovative approach to image making.
Late in 1915 she mailed some of these drawings to a former classmate at Teachers College, who received them early in 1916 and immediately took them to New York City's famous avant-garde gallery, 291, operated by photographer and impresario Alfred Stieglitz. Impressed with what he saw, Stieglitz included 10 of her drawings in a group exhibition at 291 in May 1916, and in April 1917 he sponsored a solo show of her work.
In the fall of 1916 O'Keeffe moved to Canyon, Texas, as the head of the art department at West Texas State Normal College. The work she subsequently completed there demonstrates her profound response to the vast plains and open skies of West Texas and particularly to the dramatic landscape configurations of nearby Palo Duro Canyon. Above all, her paintings of the period—most notably her watercolours, such as Sunrise and Little Clouds II (1916), Evening Star No. VII (1917), and No. II Light Coming on the Plains (1917)—reveal her continuing fascination with abstraction as a means of expression.
New York
Because of illness, O'Keeffe took a leave of absence from teaching in February 1918, and she later resigned her position to accept Stieglitz's offer to support her painting activity for a year; she moved to New York that June. Although Stieglitz was married and nearly 24 years O'Keeffe's senior, the two fell in love and began living together. They divided their time between the city and the Stieglitz family estate at Lake George, NewYork, and they were married in 1924 when Stieglitz received a divorce.
From 1916 to his death in 1946, Stieglitz worked assiduously and effectively to promote O'Keeffe and her art. He was alone among his peers in the 1910s in maintaining that American art could equal European art and in asserting that women could create art equal to that produced by men. However, he equated the creative process with sexual energies, and from the beginning he defined O'Keeffe's work primarily in terms of gender, declaring her imagery the visual manifestation of a sexually liberated woman. In 1921 he provided visual equivalents for his ideas by exhibiting a large number of photographs he had made of O'Keeffe. Many presented her in the nude or in various stages of undress, sometimes posed in front of her abstract drawings and paintings while gesturing toward them with her arms and hands.
Stieglitz's association of O'Keeffe's abstractions with her body captured the imagination of the critics, whose reviews of her next exhibition—a retrospective organized by Stieglitz at the Anderson Galleries in 1923—were overwhelmingly Freudian. From then until his death, Stieglitz organized annual exhibitions of O'Keeffe's work at the Anderson Galleries (1924–25), the Intimate Gallery (1925–29), and An American Place (1929–46), the latter two of which he operated himself. By the late 1920s O'Keeffe had become one of New York's most celebrated Modernist artists, and Stieglitz had created a strong-enough market for her work that she enjoyed financial security and independence.
After her arrival in New York in 1918, O'Keeffe continued to produce abstract art, such as Red & Orange Streak / Streak (1919), which ranks among the most imaginative and provocative works of her career. However, in 1919 she also had begun to paint precisely delineated, recognizable forms, perhaps in response to her increasing awareness not only of photographic imagery but also of Stieglitz's ideas about her work. O'Keeffe was a member of the National Woman's Party, the most radical feminist organization of the early 20th century in the United States; as such, she rejected the essentialist notion that women inherently possess a set of particular character traits. Accordingly, she objected strongly to gendered interpretations of her work as well as to the sexualized public image that Stieglitz had created of her. In an attempt to reshape this public image, she began—after the Anderson Galleries exhibit of 1923—to promote herself as a serious, hardworking professional. In published interviews and in the photographs of her made by Stieglitz and other photographers, she began to cultivate a public image that was antithetical to the one Stieglitz had presented of her in his 1921 exhibition of her work.
Believing her abstractions to be the primary source of misreadings of her art, O'Keeffe moreover curtailed her production of such pieces and limited their inclusion in exhibitions of her work that Stieglitz organized after 1923. While she never abandoned Modernist abstraction as the underlying principle in her work, by the mid-1920s she had shifted its emphasis to redefine herself as a painter of recognizable forms, by which she remains best known today. Her subsequent depictions of recognizable subject matter were replete with the abstract shapes that she had earlier identified as her own in the 1910s, including ovals, hooked or V-shapes, and spirals. Her large-format paintings of flowers—precisely rendered and presented as if seen through a magnifying lens—were often declared by critics to be further proof of her female nature as the basis of her art; however, these works usually called attention to the centres of the flowers, which, for the most part, are androgynous and thus not exclusively feminine. As O'Keeffe addressed both natural and human-made forms in the 1920s, she produced some of her most distinctive paintings, such as Black Iris (1926) and Radiator Bldg.—Night, New York (1927). Because all of her paintings speak to the Modernist aesthetic of "less is more," and because many rely on manipulations intrinsic to photography, such as cropping and close-up views, they reveal her ongoing fascination with the photography, Modernist ideas, and the aesthetics of Asian art.
Despite the professional and artistic growth she experienced in New York, O'Keeffe knew by the end of the 1920s that neither the dynamism of the city nor the lushness of the Lake George landscape could sustain her creative efforts. Torn between her need to seek new stimuli for her art and her loyalty to Stieglitz, she decided to spend the summer of 1929 working on her art in New Mexico, which she had first visited briefly in 1917. There she rediscovered a landscape environment as exhilarating to her as the West Texas landscape had been in the 1910s; indeed, it would sustain her creativity for many years.
New Mexico
O'Keeffe was in New Mexico during the summers of 1930 and 1931, but remained at Lake George in 1932, making brief painting trips to Canada and New York City. In the fall of that year, she accepted a mural commission at Radio City Music Hall, which she ultimately abandoned because of technical problems. That disappointment, in combination with Stieglitz's disapproval of her having accepted the commission and his growing infatuation with a wealthy admirer, Dorothy Norman, contributed to O'Keeffe's experiencing a nervous breakdown early in 1933.
She recovered in Bermuda that spring and returned there the following spring. O'Keeffe spent the fall of 1934 in New Mexico, and it was then that she discovered Ghost Ranch, a dude ranch in a spectacular desert setting, some 20 miles (32 km) north of the village of Abiquiu. From then until 1949 when she made New Mexico her permanent home—three years after Stieglitz's death—O'Keeffe painted for part of the year in New Mexico; an exception was 1939, when at the invitation of the Dole Hawaiian Pineapple Company she traveled to Hawaii to paint. In 1940 she purchased the house that she had occupied at Ghost Ranch since 1936, and in 1945 she purchased a second property—a badly deteriorated hacienda in Abiquiu with a large garden. From 1945 to 1949, O'Keeffe's friend Maria Chabot oversaw the restoration of the Abiquiu house and garden.
In New Mexico O'Keeffe produced From the White Place (1940), Pelvis IV (1944), Black Place III (1944), and numerous other paintings of the area's distinctive natural and architectural forms. Such paintings of what she saw allowed her to continue to explore the abstract language she had identified as her own in the 1910s in that its abstract shapes are naturally embedded in these subjects. Moreover, her increasing fascination with the inherently abstract character of the stark and barren hills of a region that she called the Black Place, some 150 miles (240 km) west of Ghost Ranch, led to a series of paintings that epitomize a new resolution with abstraction. That is, these works depict what O'Keeffe actually saw, but read—and are rendered—as abstractions. Moreover, as she painted these and other landscape and architectural subjects either in Abiquiu or at Ghost Ranch, she effectively claimed a piece of the vast American West as her own. Such paintings as Untitled (Red and Yellow Cliffs) (1940) portray aspects of what has come to be known as "O'Keeffe country." Being in the Southwest also made it possible for O'Keeffe to realize herself in yet another way; by allowing widely published journalists and photojournalists into her isolated and exotic world, she increasingly defined herself to the public as she had begun to do in the mid-1920s—as an uncompromising, determined, self-made individualist. This new public image differed dramatically from and effectively replaced the one Stieglitz had constructed.
In 1959 O'Keeffe began traveling the world, and although she saw many astonishing sites, she was most inspired by views from the windows of airplanes. She subsequently furthered her commitment to abstraction, completing a series of paintings of sky, land, and water configurations, as observed from high above the Earth. While these works, such as Blue, Black and Grey (1960), are perceived by their viewers as abstractions, they nonetheless depict what O'Keeffe actually saw. After 1959 she returned to abstraction almost exclusively, using abstract shapes that recall those of her works of the 1910s.
Life after Stieglitz
Although O'Keeffe relied on other agents to sell her work after Stieglitz's death, she had learned from her husband how to manage and control all aspects of her career. Indeed, one measure of her professional success lay in her making a living from the sales of her work, while maintaining ownership of nearly half of her total output (which she owned at the time of her death) as part of an estate then worth more than $70 million. Some of the works she owned—including five of her six Jack-in-the-Pulpit paintings—were among her finest artistic accomplishments. Over the years, she had bought back many of her own works, either at auction or from individual collectors, not only because she considered them important to her overall achievement but also because her active participation in her own market worked to stimulate it and to maintain the high prices Stieglitz had demanded for her work.
Abstractions dating from the 1910s and early 1920s, which had not been in as much demand in these decades as her representational works, represented a substantial percentage of O'Keeffe's own collection of her work. However, she also intentionally kept many of her early abstractions out of the public eye after 1923 as a means of controlling how her work was interpreted. From the mid-1940s to the end of her career, when she began working extensively with abstraction again, she exhibited these early works alongside her later abstractions, and all of them sold well; moreover, critics' responses to them were no longer cast in essentialist terms, as they had been in earlier decades
By the mid-1970s failing eyesight had forced O'Keeffe to abandon oil painting, except with assistance. With the help of her friend and associate, sculptor Juan Hamilton, she completed her autobiography, Georgia O'Keeffe (1976), and participated in a film about her life and art, Georgia O'Keeffe (1977). Hamilton also taught her to work with clay, and, with assistance, she produced objects in this medium and in watercolour, while working independently in charcoal, pastel, and pencil until 1984, when failing health forced her move to Santa Fe, where she died two years later.
O'Keeffe's place in art history
O'Keeffe has remained one of the most important and admired Modernist painters in the United States and one of its most celebrated icons. Through her consistently provocative and distinctively personal approach to image making, she created a body of work that conveys the integrity of her Modernist vision, her independent spirit, and, above all, her profound sensitivity to the vitality of natural forces. Although her career was launched by Alfred Stieglitz, one of the most progressive and influential figures in the then male-dominated art community, his unconsciously sexist ideas about her work precipitated essentialist responses to it. Such readings, to which O'Keeffe objected, dominated the critical reception of her work in the 1920s, and they have continued to appear in various guises in contemporary art literature; all of these interpretations downplay the broader significance of her achievement. Indeed, more than any other artist of the Stieglitz circle, O'Keeffe created a body of work that fulfilled Stieglitz's visionary ideas that an art indigenous to America could be equal in importance to that produced in Europe, and that women could produce art as significant as that produced by men. In largely overcoming many critics' gendered interpretations of her work, O'Keeffe also played a key role in disabusing the art community and the general public of the notion that gender was in any way a determinant of artistic competence or creativity. Thus, she helped to establish a new and significant space for female artists in a realm that has continued to be dominated by men.
Learn More in these related Britannica articles:
Alfred Stieglitz: Later career…1917 he met the painter Georgia O'Keeffe, who would quickly become his lover and finally (in 1924) his wife, after Stieglitz gained a divorce from his first wife, the former Emmeline Obermeyer. His serial portrait of O'Keeffe, made over a period of 20 years, contains more than 300 individual pictures…
Arthur Wesley Dow…summer school, the American painter Georgia O'Keeffe enrolled at Teachers College to study with Dow, who had a profound impact on her direction toward abstraction and on her approach to composition.…
New Mexico
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New disclosures from Edward Snowden show the NSA is massively expanding its computer hacking worldwide. Software that automatically hacks into computers — known as malware "implants," — had previously been kept to just a few hundred targets.
But the news website The Intercept reports that the NSA is spreading the software to millions of computers under an automated system codenamed "Turbine." The Intercept has also revealed the NSA has masqueraded as a fake Facebook server to infect a target's computer and exfiltrate files from a hard drive. We are joined by The Intercept reporter Ryan Gallagher. -democracynow.org
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Rio Bravo: Angie Dickinson, John Wayne on Set with Howard Hawks
In 1970 the publicity machine was knocking itself dead, extolling Howard Hawks's "Rio Lobo" even before it was finished. Much was made of Hawks being reunited with saddle pard John Wayne, with whom he made classics such as "Red River" and "Rio Bravo," among other films.
Journalist George Plimpton (who scored a cameo) did a TV documentary on "Rio Lobo" and Hawks, thus pushing expectations even closer to the stratosphere. Sadly, "Rio Lobo" was a huge disappointment, even to hardcore Wayne and Hawks fans like me. Critics savaged it and the film vanished. The Duke continued working but Hawks retired.
I bought the two-DVD set of Westerns at a bargain basement price, one of the films indeed being "Rio Lobo," the other the far superior "Monte Walsh." Bad memories kept me from screening "Rio Lobo" for more than a month, but I finally gave in — and guess what? I had a pretty good time!
The film's warts are still there, big and bold: Wayne surrounded by attractive youngsters who are wooden and stiff. His hunky co-star, Jorge Rivero, allegedly spoke little English, but learned his lines phonetically, thus making delivery almost robotic. The plan itself was a rehash, yet not warmed nearly enough.
Hawks apparently knew the film was a failure even while shooting it on gorgeous locations in old Mexico. He reportedly was so disgusted he told his editors to cut out as much bad stuff as they could. The parent company, National General, was dying. I think they should have spent their remaining money on Hawks, not PR.
Well, either I've aged or mellowed, but 40 odd years later "Rio Lobo" wasn't quite the disaster I remembered. It's far from perfect and will thus remain far from perfect, but seated on my couch, I enjoyed meeting the film once again, through older eyes.
A huge asset is a very relaxed Wayne being Wayne being directed by Hawks. There are some sterling old-timers: Bill "Kit Carson" Williams, Bob Donner, David Huddleston and two stunt experts, Dean Smith and Chuck Roberson, who's been with Duke since the late 1940s.
Hawks's "Rio Lobo" doesn't begin but explodes, with an astoundingly staged train robbery (they rob the entire train!) done in typical Hawksian manner — taut, tight and breathless. In a Union army uniform, Wayne looked great, and did some really hard riding in pursuit.
With a start so spectacular, "Rio Lobo" left itself with nowhere else to go, although the final gunfight is a barn burner, Wayne armed with the wide-loop 1892 Winchester carbine he'd used in "Stagecoach" and "Rio Bravo," an icon packing an icon.
The film literally drapes itself on The Duke's hefty shoulders, as his young players don't cut the cactus. Jennifer O'Neill would go on to better things, but here, she's just awful! Chris Mitchum plays a cipher who can't keep his Southern accent. He'd be more solid in the thunderous "Big Jake" in '71.
Only that squint-eyed scene stealer Jack Elam is up to Wayne's professionalism, and he's splendid comic relief, though he doesn't show up for nearly a half hour. Victor French plays the villain like a reject from a Mack Sennett silent, all but twisting the ends of his mustache and sneering.
What it comes down to is do you like The Duke or do you not, for he's basically the whole show in "Rio Lobo." Wayne was a trouper, always giving his all. I don't know how he felt about the end result or his treatment from Hawks.
For five bucks I got two Westerns and a second chance at "Rio Lobo." Far from all the ballyhoo of 1970, it again proves that, except John Ford and Henry Hathaway, nobody directed Duke like Hawks. It shows, in the film's best moments!
- Larry Robinson, poughkeepsiejournal.com
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Learn how the company grew from a small job shop to a prospering specialty decorator serving elementary, junior high, and high schools.
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John and Phil Gandy took on any job that came along when the father and son team opened the Gandy Ink screen-printing shop in 1988. The Gandys had one employee besides themselves, some basic equipment, and a 2000-sq-ft building in San Angelo, TX that was attached to a small theater. The small operation did generate revenue, but the Gandys came to the realization that accepting all types of work wasn't always the most effective way to generate profit. So they decided to narrow the focus of their business.
Gandy Ink's first target was the gift market, to which the shop sold collectible reprints. The company focused on gift shops in the Dallas, TX and Atlanta, GA metro areas and found success in that industry. But problems in dealing with smaller gift shops became a huge burden, especially when it came to collections. So Phil Gandy began looking for other markets with untapped potential as an alternative to the gift market. In 1991, after looking into niches for T-shirts and other wearables, he realized that the simple, plain lettering and the one and two-color designs on most high-school apparel were far inferior to the graphics and designs he'd seen on garments for colleges and professional sports. He decided that bringing the look of higher-end collegiate wear to the high-school market was the way forward for Gandy Ink.
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Sales were on the rise, but not to Phil's satisfaction. His solution became known as the Gandy Guarantee. If customers who ordered spirit wear and other printed apparel failed to sell any of the products, Gandy Ink would take the entire order back. The program proved to be successful, as only one school wasn't able to sell in the first spring semester of the program's implementation. The Gandy Guarantee built up the company's name in the school-apparel market and significantly boosted sales.
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The Dodge City Red Demons weren't going to lose their Western Athletic Conference boys basketball crown to the Hays Indians without a fight.
And although the Red Demons played made one final stand to keep the Indians from claiming the title, Hays was able to come away with a 55-47 victory to win the league title outright and end the Dodge City title streak at four.
Unlike the first game at DCHS Field House when the Red Demons charged ahead early only to see the Indians control the rest of the game in a 19-point loss; Dodge City never let the Indians get any huge run and stayed within striking distance the entire game.
"We had taken our lumps, but we were still in this thing," said Dodge City head coach Dennis Hamilton. "In a game like this, you can't cough the ball up 20 times and expect to win it. It's not from the lack of effort. Our kids played exceptionally hard.
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Austin Weiser led the way in scoring for the Red Demons with 19 points (5-of-8 from three-point range) while Noah Williams added nine and Jackson Oldham eight for Dodge City (8-11, 4-3). The Demons made eight of their 15 three-point attempts in the game.
"We had some big stops and people step up and hit some big shots," Hamilton said. "Austin played a heck of a game. It was just one of those that wasn't meant to be."
Jordan Windholz scored 26 points to lead the Indians (19-0, 7-0), while Brady Werth added 13 for the win.
The first quarter was very even with the Indians leading 14-13; before Hays came out in the second quarter by scoring 11 of the first 14 points to build their largest lead at 25-16.
Dodge City whittled the deficit down to three late in the stanza and trailed 32-26 at halftime.
The Demons continued to battle and took the lead in the third quarter, but Hays responded to regain a 42-41 lead going into the final stanza.
The Indians maintained the lead in the final eight minutes, but couldn't shake off the Demons. Dodge City trailed 49-47 with less than two minutes left in regulation, but Hays was able to hit eight free throws to seal the win and the conference title.
Dodge City's final regular season game will be Friday night at DCHS Field House against the Liberal Redskins. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:45 p.m.
DODGE CITY (47) — Dayton McGroarty 2, Bryce Unruh 2, Austin Weiser 19, Jackson Oldham 8, Caden Walters 2, Jace Larson 5, Noah Williams 9. Totals 17 5-7 47.
HAYS (55) — Kyler Niernberer 4, Isaiah Nunnery 3, Clayton Riedel 2, Jordan Windholz 26, Lane Clark 5, Brady Werth 13, Kade Parker 2. Total 17 15-20 55.
Dodge City 13 13 15 6 — 47
Hays 14 18 10 13 — 55
Three-point baskets — Dodge City 8 (Weiser 5, Oldham 2, Larson 1), Hays 6 (Nunnery 1, Windholz 4, Clark 1). Records — Dodge City 8-11, Hays 19-0.
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Homer Smith, who served three stints as a UCLA football assistant coach and may have been college's most intellectually gifted offensive mind, died Sunday in Tuscaloosa, Ala., after a long battle with cancer. He was 79.
Smith, who spent 37 of his 39 coaching seasons at the collegiate level, never received the acclaim of the headliners he served -- UCLA's Pepper Rodgers and Terry Donahue and Alabama's Gene Stallings.
Smith was introverted and nomadic by nature, never spending enough time in one place to establish a school-specific legacy. He was an assistant coach at Stanford, the Air Force Academy, UCLA, Alabama, Arizona and the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs. He was head coach at Davidson, Pacific and Army.
Smith will be remembered as one of football's most creative and meticulous minds. Donahue has called Smith the best teacher of football he has ever known.
Smith was a thinker, philosopher and play-calling tinkerer. No other coach in history, perhaps, brought such mental acumen into a meeting room. Smith had degrees from Princeton, Stanford and Harvard.
Corky Simpson, the longtime Tucson sports columnist who covered Smith in his last two coaching seasons at Arizona in 1996 and '97, wrote: "Homer was grossly overqualified to be a football coach, let alone somebody's assistant ... the man was worthy of a higher calling -- teacher or author or minister. But come to think of it, was all those things rolled into one amazing professor of football."
Smith was an eccentric and innovative coordinator who demanded perfection from his players. He first coached at UCLA in 1972-73 under Rodgers, was rehired by Donahue from 1980 to '86 and again from 1990 to '93.
At UCLA, Smith helped develop future NFL quarterbacks Steve Bono, Tommy Maddox, Rick Neuheisel, David Norrie, Tom Ramsey, Jay Schroeder and Matt Stevens.
Ramsey, the nation's leader in pass efficiency in 1982, said Smith was a stickler for details. "Homer Smith demanded you soak up knowledge," Ramsey told The Times in 2009. "You not only had to know what 11 guys were doing on the field, you had to know what all 22 guys were doing. If you didn't you weren't going to be on the roster."
Smith once invited a surgeon from the university's medical center to speak about the importance of repeating the same thing over and over.
Smith could have excelled in several other professions. He earned an economics degree at Princeton, an MBA at Stanford and a master's in theological studies at Harvard. Yet he was fascinated with the intricacies and possibilities of offensive football.
He wrote several books, including "Handbook for Coaching the Football Passing Attack." He even published, in 1995, a novel, "A Game to Play."
Smith, who was born Oct. 9, 1931, and grew up in Omaha, played fullback at Princeton, earning All-East and All-Ivy League honors. He rushed for 273 yards in a 1952 game against Harvard.
Smith began coaching in 1958 at Stanford before a four-year stint at Air Force. He spent seven years -- five at Davidson and two at Pacific -- as a head coach before joining Rodgers' UCLA staff in 1972.
Running the wishbone offense, Smith's 1973 UCLA offense set school records for total yards (470.6 per game) and rushing yards (400.3 per game).
He left UCLA in 1974 to become head coach at Army, where he spent five years before a bitter firing in 1978 coincided with the auto accident death of his brother Dean. Smith left coaching to pursue his theology degree at Harvard.
Donahue coaxed him back to UCLA in 1980, with Smith accepting the job in part, he said, because he needed the money.
Smith stayed through 1986 before taking a job with the Kansas City Chiefs. Two years later, he was back in college, at Alabama.
The highlight of that stay came in 1989 when the Crimson Tide, after spotting Mississippi a 21-point lead, scored 62 unanswered points.
Recalling that game this week in a tribute column, Tuscaloosa News writer Cecil Hurt said he asked Smith after the game what he was thinking during the comeback.
Smith responded with two words, in Latin: " Deo Gratis." (Thanks be to God.)
Smith returned to UCLA in 1990. He gravitated back to Alabama in 1994 and 1995, where he worked under Stallings.
He spent his last two years as a coach at Arizona before retiring in 1997.
Simpson, the Arizona columnist, wrote that Smith "had the burning curiosity of a child and it drove him to scientific methods of investigation, critical thought and common sense."
Smith is survived by his wife, Kathy; two daughters, Cari Carpenter and Kim Hall; and four grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held in Tuscaloosa. UCLA will hold a memorial service on campus June 12.


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Wiz Khalifa's Fiancee Amber Rose Shows Off Baby Bump On Twitter
Wiz Khalifa's boo Amber Rose is glowing and getting big... in a good way! The couple are expecting their first child together. After announcing her pregnancy at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, Rose has been giving fans updates via Twitter on her journey to motherhood.
On Monday morning (Sept. 17), Wizzy's fiancée posted a photo of her growing stomach to her followers. "Good morning Rosebuds & Rosestuds Our lil wizbud Is growing so fast ;-)," Rose tweeted. The blonde-haired model looked beautiful in her floral camisole and bright pink panties. We also noticed that she has a tattoo circling her underbelly and paws prints on her upper thigh.
At the VMAs, the proud daddy and mommy said they were excited to become parents. "We found out this summer, and it was more of a celebration than anything," said Wiz. "I did a backflip; she was doing this little dance that we made up." Rose adds, "It's called the monkey butt dance!"
Wiz stated that Rose was three months pregnant, so the little wizbud is due in February or March. In the meantime, Wiz will hit the road on his 2050 Tour in October in support of his second album 'O.N.I.F.C.' "I've been pretty focused my entire life, and now that I have a family, I'm just going to keep that focus, but it's going to be a family focus," says Wiz about juggling fatherhood and his touring schedule.
We would like to send our best wishes to the couple on their future wizbud. Keep looking fabulous, Amber!
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President John F. Kennedy had this to say about Thomas Jefferson in 1962, when welcoming 49 Nobel Prize winners: "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent and of human knowledge that has ever been gathered together at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." (Wikipedia-Thomas Jefferson).
Born in Shadwell, VA, in 1743, Jefferson was an avid student of many arts, graduating from the College of William and Mary in 1762 and being admitted to the Virginia bar in 1767. In 1772, he married Martha Wayles Skelton, a young widow. Six children and a decade later, she died and he never remarried.
Jefferson practiced law and was in the Virginia House of Burgesses. In 1774, he wrote a powerful pamphlet that, while intended to be instructions for the Virginia delegates to a national congress, actually argued American terms for a settlement with Britain. In the spring and summer of 1776, Jefferson was a delegate from Virginia to the Continental Congress. As one of the members of the five-man committee to rewrite the Lee Resolution for independence, he was persuaded by John Adams to take the task of actually writing the Declaration of Independence, which he accomplished (with suggestions from the others on the committee) in about 3 weeks.
The Declaration was passed by Congress on 2 July 1776 and 12 of the 13 colonies approved it on the 4th. New York signed it later that summer. You can see Thomas Jefferson's signature on the image to the right - it is the 7th name down from John Hancock's.
In September of 1776, Jefferson returned to the plantation in Virginia that he had inherited (along with dozens of slaves) from his father, which he called Monticello. He served as governor of Virginia until 1781, and was responsible for moving the state capital from Williamsburg to Richmond in 1780. From 1785 to 1789, Jefferson was a minister to France (you can see a copy of letters written in the attached images) and then was the first Secretary of State under George Washington until 1793. For the next four years he was embroiled in opposition to Washington and Hamilton, and supported Madison. In 1796 he gained enough votes to become Vice President to John Adams, and was elected President in 1800. By the time he took office in 1801, his relations with John Adams had disintegrated and they remained on bad terms until their reconciliation in 1812.
After leaving the Presidency, Jefferson founded the University of Virginia in 1819, and died on the same day as John Adams (although earlier in the day) - 4 July 1826 (the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration on Independence).


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2011 Continued her march through the record books with another year as the Beacons top option at number one singles and doubles … Set the career mark for career wins with 48 behind her second straight 18+ win season … Continued her steady play at number one singles finishing with an 8-7 record to finish one shy of the Beacons career mark of 21 singles wins … Defeated her opponents in straight sets in each of her eight wins … Went through a strong stretch where she defeated three consecutive opponents while winning all six sets and 36 of 45 games played between September 3-17 … Set the Beacons program mark for combined career wins October 12 at Salem State with a 7-6, 6-1 win in singles action … Teamed up with MaKenna Arrigo for most of the season at number one doubles to finish with 10 wins (10-5) … Tied her own record set in 2010 for most doubles wins in a single season with 10 … Set the all-time career mark for doubles career wins at UMass Boston with 27 … Started off the doubles season strong, winning eight of her first 10, including six in a row … Defeated four opponents by scores of 8-2 or better … Earned the Beacons sole point of the their Little East Conference Tournament loss to Plymouth State on October 18 with an 8-6 victory at number one doubles ... Set the career standard for wins in doubles matches on October 11 with an 8-2 victory over Worcester State.
2010 Starred for the Beacons in number one singles action, finishing the year 10-6... Dominated on several occasions, shutting her opponents out in straight sets on three separate occasions... Finished the year red hot, winning five of her final six singles matches, including a closely contested matchup against Southern Maine on October 16 that saw her take straight sets, 7-6, 6-4... Had an identical doubles record in number one action, finishing 10-6...Went through an unstoppable stretch in double play from September 11-16, notching an 8-2 win over Lyndon State on September 11, an 8-0 win over Pine Manor on September 14 and another 8-0 victory over Eastern Nazarene on September 16 ... Ended the season on a high note, capturing victories in both singles and doubles actions in her final two matches vs. Newbury College on October 14 and vs. Southern Maine on October 16.
2009 Enjoyed a productive rookie campaign playing very tough competition every match out of the number one singles and doubles slot ... Named to the Little East Conference First Team in number one doubles with teammate Carolina Gonzalez after the pair registered a 6-5 overall mark at number one doubles, including 6-3 in dual match play ... Notched a 5-2 record in LEC doubles play, including wins in four of their first five conference matches ... Overall, went 7-4 in doubles dual match play, going 1-0 at number two doubles play and 6-4 in the number one slot ... Had three, two-match win streaks throughout the campaign ... Posted a 3-10 overall singles record ... Went 3-7 in singles dual match play including back-to-back, straight set wins on September 10 vs. Newbury and September 17 vs. Eastern Nazarene.
PERSONAL/HIGH SCHOOL Three-year letterwinner in tennis and alpine skiing and won two letters in soccer at Newton North High School ... Two-time Bay State All-Star for the Tigers' tennis and alpine skiing teams ... Named a Daily News Tribune All-Star following her senior season of tennis ... Selected the NNHS tennis Captain as a senior and captained the alpine skiing squad in her final two seasons ... Tabbed a Boston Globe All-Star in alpine skiing ... Named to the Bay State Honorable Mention Soccer Team as a senior ... Born March 5, 1991 ... Daughter of Marek Kloczewiak ... Undecided on major.


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If you're a remote worker, freelancer, or travel a lot for business then I bet you're sick of having to log your time and expenses the whole time. Fear not, because there are a whole bunch of cloud-based expenses and time tracking apps for Android that can make your life a whole lot easier.
Today on AppStorm I'm going to round up seven of the best Android time tracking and expense applications. Through these applications users can ensure that themselves or their employees are paid for the work they do and the process of creating timesheets is made an awful lot easier. These expenses and time tracking apps are subscription-based, though most come with free trials so you can figure out which one is right for you.
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Did you know there are presently 220 retired priests ordained for the Archdiocese of Chicago? Of that number over 100 priests are over 80; 18 are over 90; and come October our first priest will reach 100 years old. Taken together these priests represent over 11,800 years of service as priests to the Archdiocese. Collectively these men have celebrated the Eucharist over three and a half million times. They have been a crucial part of sustaining and enriching the Church of Chicago in the last half of the past century and beginning of this century.
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The picture above is the toilet of my new office. I took the picture because I think the signage is unique. Where else in the world could you get a signage forbidding you to put your feet into the washbasin (which is quite a normal practice here, since people need to wash their feet for praying)
I am sure nobody misses my blogging but the creator of this website. The truth is: I forgot my login password to our blog entry system. Lame excuse, eh?
I don't work for Vopak Asia in Jakarta. Starting April 2009, I have been taking care of two start-up companies under Ancora Group, which is a new breed of Indonesian organization established by Indonesian entrepreneur Gita Wirjawan.
"Career doesn't define me. What I do in my life defines me. I am a mother first. A career is one of the many things I do in my life" Michelle Obama
Lately we are really slow in updating our website. My last entry was 2 months ago, while Indi's was six months ago. Our main excuses are twofold: First our family goes through a series of change (both the kids and the parents), and secondly, we're busy taking care our growing child. With one preschooler and one toddler, one can't afford to sit down in front of the PC and concentrate on writing something.


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It's not often that I get to give the Virginia ABC credit for doing something right, so I'm happy to pass this along:
Peter Pflug says he should be able to charge more for mixed drinks at his restaurant and bar in Clarendon, but a long-standing food-to-liquor ratio has hindered his wishes.
The owner of Clarendon Grill was busted by the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) a few years ago for failing to maintain the required food-to-liquor ratio — the same time he noticed the nighttime crowd in Arlington County was acquiring a taste for pricier liquor. […]
But that has caused the food-to-liquor ratio to get out of whack in more affluent places such as Arlington because "you can get away with selling $12 martinis as opposed to other parts of the state where you can't," Pflug said.
To better balance the 45-to-55 food-to-liquor ratio, Pflug and 11 other Virginia restaurant operators have joined ABC's two-year pilot project to test an alternative way to calculate the ratio for mixed beverage licensees.
Rather than comparing the percentage of food sales to mixed-beverage sales, the pilot is based on alcohol volume. Participating licensees can sell $350 of food per one gallon of alcohol bought from ABC. Beer and wine aren't included in either equation.
It's nice to see that Arlington is trending toward more liquor sales and an appreciation for better spirits and cocktails. However having to tailor one's menu to result in a ratio of $350 food/one gallon of alcohol is still an absurd way to run a restaurant; this kind of regulation is one reason among many that I can't imagine ever opening a bar in Virginia. It would be much smarter to eliminate ratios entirely and simply require that food is available to patrons who want it.
[Thanks to Brandon Arnold for the link!]
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Trade show season is well underway for the lighting and design industries! There seem to be industry events and home show exhibitions almost every week. With exhibits to construct, new products to "display" and awards to be won, this is a very busy time for lighting designers and manufacturers. Here at Lightology, we have the delightful job of taking it all in and finding the very best of what's on offer.
We'd like to extend our sincerest congratulations to the winners and finalists of the 2013 LFI Innovation Awards, held April 21 – 25 at the Lightfair International Trade Show & Conference in Philadelphia, PN. A special congratulations to Philips, Pure Edge Lighting, Tech Lighting, Juno Lighting, Osram Sylvania, Lighting Science Group and WAC Lighting.
Philips took home the "Most Innovative Product of the Year" title for its new Boldplay linear architectural LED, which also won the 'Commercial Indoor Product' category. The Philips Hue personal lighting system won the Judge's Citation Award and also won the 'Dynamic Color, Theatrical, Cove, Strips and Tape' category. Philips was also a finalist in the 'Controls, Building Integration, Site Automation and Distribution Systems' category for the Color Kinetics IntelliPower. Congratulations, Philips, for such a fantastic year at Lightfair!
Category Winners: Highlights
Indoor Decorative (Chandeliers, Pendants, Sconces, Task Lights)
Finalist: Pure Edge Lighting – Truline 1.6, Plaster-In LED System
Combining minimalist design with state-of-the-art technology, Pure Lighting produces unparalleled, innovative lighting that blends seamlessly into drywall or plaster to become part of the architecture. Pure Lighting's Truly Trimless recessed fixtures feature advanced LED and LED RGB technology within concealed lighting components to provide a clean, glare-free look ideal for commercial or residential applications.
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Finalist: Juno Lighting – Indy Architectural LED Advanced Technology, Color Tuning and Black Body Dimming
Founded in 1976, Juno Lighting Inc. is one of the largest designers and manufacturers of recessed lighting and track lighting. Their high quality, well-engineered and attractive fixtures are easy to install and suited for a wide range of residential, commercial and retail applications.
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Winner: Osram Sylvania – OCTRON® 800 XP® XL SUPERSAVER® T8 Fluorescent Lamps
Finalist: Osram Sylvania – LUMALUX PLUS® XL ECOLOGIC® HPS Lamps
Osram Sylvania offers light bulbs, transformers, power supplies and other lighting products in its commitment to make our world more comfortable, more productive and more imaginative. Osram Sylvania's lifestyle solutions are suited to homes, businesses and institutions, automobiles and a broad range of specialty applications.
Controls, Building Integration, Site Automation and Distribution Systems
Finalist: Lutron Electronics – Lutron's Embedded Ecosystem Technology
Finalist: Philips – Philips Color Kinetics IntelliPower
Dynamic Color, Theatrical, Cove, Strips and Tape
Winner: Philips – Hue personal wireless lighting system
Finalist: Tech Lighting (Generation Brands) – Unilume LED Micro Channel
Originally established as a leading designer of architectural lighting, the Tech Lighting brand has since evolved to offer an expansive selection of lighting solutions for both residential and commercial applications, including low- and line-voltage decorative pendants, chandeliers, wall sconces, bath bars and bath lighting, directional track heads, ceiling fixtures and picture lights.
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Finalist: WAC Lighting – LINE Edge-Lit LED Barlight
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Finalist: Lighting Science Group – VividGro™ LED Grow Light
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Winner: Philips – BoldPlay
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Lightfair is co-owned by the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) and the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD). AMC, Inc. produces and manages the annual event.
Lightfair 2014: June 1-5, 2014 – Las Vegas, NV
For more information and a forcomplete list of this year's LFI Award winners and finalists, visit Lightfair International online.


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