text: Montreal Art Tattoo Show, On the Road in Canada By Jesse Dolphin Hello fellow tattooer and close followers. TAM just took part in one of the smoothest running conventions this year. Montreal is a beautiful city with its fair share of beautiful tattooed people. The convention was held a the Gare Windsor, a remodeled, beautiful old train station with the natural lighting and its open concept it gave a fresh and inspiring surrounding. Pierre and his wife Val have been doing this convention for a few years now and have an understanding of what makes a good show... The line-up for the show was again impressive, tattooers from all over the globe were in attendance. Filip Leu was going make an appearance this year but sadly had to cancel. Bummer. Lots of other great tattooers made the show, Grime was up, along with Mike Rubendall. Todd Noble was up and a funny story, I called him, "Derek..." He was a little mad. And what can I say, I was rooked into doing so. Funny. Crazy you would never think so, but Canada has a wicked talent pool of tattooers. Steve Moore was out from Nanaimo, displaying mad skill, along with Dave Cummings from PSC in Montreal. Tattoo Mania from Montreal was in full display housing a line of talent... And where did all these great girl tattooers come from? The ladies got skills. Chad Koeplinger, I think he is the hardest working man in tattooing. He was a machine, drawing on everything he tattooed. Sketched on a full Indian chief with full headdress on a guy's back. Then lined it in about two hours. Wicked. I had a old-timer pop over to the booth. He was asking me about old issues. I had a couple of back issues of TAM so I grabbed the Filip Leu issue #7 to show him. It turns out it was Tony D'Anessa... He was interviewed in the issue I had just given him to look at. Crazy when he opened the book to his interview. We laughed about the coincidence and how young he was in the photos. It was cool to hang with Tony, talking about how the industry has moved so fast into a worldwide art form. And now tattooing is recognized as a real art form and not the stigma that has been so long associated with this form of expression and art classification. People joining this movement today don't realize that there was a great deal of effort and sacrifice to get the tattoo community to were it is today. Thanks and "God bless ink." (Jesse Dolphin is a tattooer and contributing blogger for Tattoo Artist Magazine.) For more info on the Montreal convention visit their site: http://www.arttattoomontreal.com.


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The IRS has recently blessed another option for your clients who are competing to maximize guaranteed lifetime income during retirement—the 401(k) to pension plan rollover.
This little-known technique can allow your clients to transform an ordinary 401(k) plan into an old-school pension that provides monthly annuity payments for life. For clients whose greatest fear is running out of money during retirement, this strategy can provide the peace of mind they need at a significantly lower cost than traditional commercial annuity strategies.
401(k) to Pension Plan Rollover: The Basics
For employees who work for an employer that offers both a defined contribution plan (DC), such as a 401(k), and a defined benefit plan (DB), or a traditional pension, a rollover technique allows employees to transfer their 401(k) funds into the pension plan when they leave employment or retire. The employee will then receive lifetime annuity payments based on the actuarial equivalent of the funds that were rolled over.
While we all know that 401(k) funds can be exhausted, the amounts rolled over into the pension will provide additional annuity payments for the remainder of the client's life. The annuity payout is added to whatever payments the employee would receive under the traditional pension plan.
The IRS Provides Certainty
Earlier this year, the IRS issued a series of revenue rulings designed to encourage retirement planning by increasing the available options for achieving guaranteed lifetime income. In Revenue Ruling 2012-4, the IRS provided guidance that clarifies when an employer is permitted to allow employees to roll over their 401(k) funds into traditional pension plans without risking the disqualification of the pension.
The IRS made clear that as long as the annuity payments offered were based on the actuarial equivalent of the funds rolled over from the 401(k), the option will not cause the plan to be disqualified. In determining the actuarial equivalent, the employer must use the interest rates and mortality tables provided in IRC Section 417.
Before the IRS provided this guidance, it was rare to find employers that offered the 401(k)-to-pension plan rollover option because most were unwilling to risk the disqualification of their pension plans. Now that employers have clear guidelines to determine the amount of the annuity payouts, it is likely that the direct rollover option will become much more prevalent among employers offering traditional pension plans.
The Catch
The 401(k)-to-pension plan rollover can be accomplished only if your client's employer offers both a defined contribution plan, such as a 401(k), and a defined benefit plan, or a traditional pension plan. The employer also has to offer the rollover option, but, as mentioned, the certainty provided by the IRS will likely encourage employers to offer the option.
While defined contribution plans are widely offered today, many employers no longer offer traditional pension plans. Because of this, only employees who work for companies that continue to also offer pension plans will be able to take advantage of this rollover technique.
While the 401(k)-to-pension plan rollover strategy isn't for every client, it provides an opportunity for some to increase their guaranteed lifetime income by contributing additional funds to their pension plans. Now that the IRS has provided certainty that the rollovers will not disqualify an employer's pension plan, the opportunity will be seen more frequently.
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The St. Cloud Blue Sox 11AAA team is headed to Aurora, Colorado next week to play in a USSSA Global World Series. This has been in the works for the past 2 months but after the tragedy that happened early Friday morning at a movie theater in Aurora my feelings have changed. We still plan on going but it was all about the baseball and now it will be about more than that.
Eleven players, coaches and families will be walking into a community shook by a single gunman who killed 12 and injured 50 innocent people. Knowing that this type of tragedy could happen anywhere it makes us take a step back and be thankful for our families.
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It's usually not my practice to post things without giving them much thought (at least from what you, the reader can see in my words here… but I'm surely giving it thought "off-paper" or, considering the platform… "off-web"), but… in that this is almost 150 years to the hour since it began, this evening my thoughts are with the fight at the Brawner Farm. I've walked the ground many times, and especially enjoy doing so near dusk. It was in this fight that several of my relatives, wearing gray and counted among the 33rd Virginia Infantry of the Stonewall Brigade, slugged it out with the Iron Brigade. I sincerely doubt that many today can fathom the intensity of the fight, and to walk the ground near dusk, even with the sounds of crickets and passing traffic, it's certainly nearer to a deafening silence than to what it must have sounded like on the evening of August 28, 1862.
You can watch a brief video clip (from Civil War Trust) of Ranger Jim Burgess talking about the fight… here.


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The Congress was opened by Master of Ceremony Professor Christoph Zielinski, from Medical University of Vienna, Austria, to a packed auditorium. Professor Zielinski welcomed everyone to his home city, declaring ESMO 2012 officially open. "Vienna is a city at the geographical cross roads of Europe that also bridges the different approaches to both cancer treatment and reimbursements. Our situation uniquely qualifies us to host a conference on cancer with participants from all over the world," said Professor Zielinski.
ESMO President, Professor Martine Piccart, from Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels, Belgium, delivered her Presidential Address, where she explained ESMO's 'unprecedented opportunity' and role in making more rapid advances in cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment. ESMO's vision to accelerate progress against cancer, she said, includes education, clinical and translational research, partnerships and a particular focus on young oncologists.
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Weekly productivity links, the new year's resolution editionPosted: January 5, 2013 Filed under: Lifehackin' Links 1 Comment
Welcome to 2013 everyone! It's the first week of the year, which means it's the week that most of us set some shiny new productivity goals (many of which we will have completely abandoned by mid-February 🙂 ) It's also the week when just about every blogger everywhere has something to say about setting and reaching those shiny new productivity goals. Here's a collection of posts to help you refine your resolutions to be more sustainable, give you some good ideas if you're still trying to decide what to focus on, or in some cases dissuade you from setting any goals at all this year. Enjoy!
The science of new year's resolutions: Why 88% fail and how to make them work
The smart fellas over at Buffer get all science-y and explore why new year's resolutions typically don't work out. Once you're armed with the knowledge about why our brains have a hard time keeping resolutions, you can start to re-frame your commitments into something that's more likely to succeed. Some of the keys: keeping it simple, focusing on habits instead of aspirations, positive feedback, and social accountability.
Quantified New Year's resolutions: Take an information-driven approach to lifestyle changes
We've been doing some thinking of our own about how to stick to your goals. In this post, we examine the use of self-tracking systems to create feedback loops that help you form habits and build up data points that will help you turn your efforts into a game.
New Year's Resolution Tips for Busy People
It's all well and good to set goals, even grandiose ones, but the keys to reaching them are focus and iteration. Both can be really difficult, especially given our increasingly busy lifestyles. Tackling your goals in small chunks, with reviews and deliberate next-steps in short cycles along the way.
New Years Resolutions: 11 ways to increase your productivity in 2013
Here's a list of bite-sized resolutions for entrepreneurs or anyone else who wants to advance their career in 2013. Ideas range from keeping your inbox at zero to reading the Wall St. Journal every day, to pledging to stop bringing your computer to meetings. They're all over the map, so pick and choose a couple that seem interesting to you and see if you can form some new productive habits.
Google takes a nostalgic look back at the major events of 2012, but also takes a look to the future with this neat interactive map that let's you view people's new year's resolutions from around the globe. Play around with it, get inspired, and add your own resolutions to the list. (hint hint, can you find RescueTime's resolution on there?)
5 Reasons Your New Years Resolution is Destined to Fail
File under "resolution tough love", LifeHack gives you five reasons your resolutions are likely to fail. Do you really care about what you're committing to? Are you willing to make the necessary changes to put your self in a situation where you're likely to succeed? Do a little soul-searching, then modify your goals as needed.
What to Do When You Fall Back Into Your Old, Less Productive Ways
You know it's coming. That day when you look up and say "that was a good run, but I totally failed at that resolution attempt". Sometime's our good intentions are much loftier than we can handle. Don't be too hard on yourself, it happens. Read this article for some ideas on how to respond to a 'resolution relapse' and get back on track.
3 reasons to nix those New Year's resolutions
David Allen, of Getting Things Done fame isn't so fond of making new year's resolutions. Here are three reasons why.
Consider Not Setting Goals in 2013
More exploration of the "goals are bad" idea. Instead of goals, just pick some areas that you'd like to focus on, and commit to working at them, without an explicitly defined end-goal. Chances are, you'll get where you were wanting to go anyway, and you'll give yourself the flexibility to make the proper adjustments along the way.
Here's wishing everyone a happy and productive New Year!
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The real Horace, plus a question for readers
I'm a McCoy fan now, with They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye shooting to the top of my TBR pile.
A posting on the Rara-Avis discussion board says that "the Frost series notwithstanding, many regard a non-series story entitled "The Mopper-Up" to be McCoy's best BLACK MASK submission." I like the story for its convincing description of an oil boom town; for its telescoping that town's history into a wonderfully short space (I wonder if Scott Phillips likes McCoy) ; for its no-nonsense hero who, despite being a Good Man, is given a strong hint of menace; for its knowing depiction of fear and uncertainty; and for lines like these:
"When he came back downstairs the lower floor was emptied. Employees had deserted Patton in his hour of need and he stood alone and captured by a taxi driver."Since a comment above mentions Black Mask, today's question for you, readers is: Who is your favorite 1920s, '30s, '40s, or '50s hard-boiled crime writer not named Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler?
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Evening, kittens! We're happy it's the weekend, too. We're brightening it up even more by featuring Kate O'Toole of filia. You can find her on Etsy here, or if you're more of the continual narrative type, her blog here. Check out the before/after picture at the bottom of the page of an ottoman she reupholstered that was featured on the blog! Ooh, ballsy! We loved you and yer work already, Kate, but now we're just jealous!
BT:What does filia make and sell for Big Thaw shoppers to fawn over?
Kate O'Toole: filia is a collection of modern, feminine apparel and small personal accessories that I design and sewn from my home on Munjoy Hill. The collection ranges from casual, brunch- or farmer's market-ready skirts, tops and tunics to flirty, floaty party dresses, and includes many one-of-a-kind items. The filia aesthetic is distinguished by classic, stylish shapes updated with of-the-moment details and vibrant colors. I work mainly with natural fibers like wool, cotton and silk and finish each garment with special detailing, such as grosgrain ribbon facing, hand-stitched hems, and pockets in nearly everything (they're so useful!). Each filia design is produced in limited quantities and custom orders are always welcomed. Accessories include small bags, zipper pouches, envelope wallets, yoga mat bags, and iPod/tablet sleeves.
BT: How has your own mother (or mother figure) influenced your art, craft or endeavor?
KO: My mum has always been a huge inspiration in my creative endeavors. In the most literal sense she provided the foundation for my business by teaching me to how to sew as a little girl, but more importantly, as I watched her pursuit of several different types of crafts and creative expressions through the years, she instilled in me the fun and satisfaction of making things with your own two hands. When I decided to turn my love of sewing and creating clothing into a business in May of 2011, I named it filia (which echoes the Greek word for family and friendship) to honor the influence my mum all my loved ones have on my work. My mum occasionally helps me with the finish work on some garments if I'm finishing up a big order in a time crunch, is an invaluable consult on fabric choices or working out the construction of a item, and is generally one of my biggest cheerleaders and supporters. If I end up as a vendor at The Big Thaw, she will probably be with me at my table as my right-hand woman!
BT: What new products or finds will you have available for shoppers at The Big Thaw that you would like featured on our blog? Please write a little about them and attach pictures (or links) if you'd like!
KO: I'd hope that at The Big Thaw shoppers would find great gifts for their mothers and the special women in their life among my clothes for women of all ages and fun, stylish accessories. This spring I've got a ton of new fabric in bright spring and summer colors and patterns, ready to be turned into fun, warm-weather fashions! Designs will include drawstring-waist tunics, gathered skirts, blouses, and a variety of dresses in different styles. For accessories, I have useful little linen zipper pouches, embellished with ruffles and geometric designs and lined with patterned cotton. I also have a line of stargazer linen zipper pouches that are hand-embroidered with different constellations – a fun gift to personalize with someone's zodiac sign or for someone that loves looking at the night sky! I also have my popular yoga mat bags in a variety of colorful new patterns. I use a lot of the extra cotton from my yoga mat bags to sew cute little envelope wallets, which are great for holding small gifts like jewelry or gift cards, and iPod/iPad sleeves, which are lightly padded and make fabulous gifts. I'm always working on new items, so more would probably be added to this list!
Come see Kate from filia at The Big Thaw on Saturday, May 12 from 10am to 4pm at the Mayo Street Arts Center at 10 Mayo St. Happy weekend, jellybeans for everyone!


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Question: How can we maintain our own integrity or identity in a relationship, especially a close one, without compromising the integrity of others?
Ram Dass: Which you do you want to preserve?
Let me play with it a little bit. When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which relationship – which means something that exists between two or more people – for the most part, reinforces people's separateness, as individual entities. And it doesn't just honor it; it treats it as the reality of it.
The image I always have when I am performing a wedding is the image of a triangle in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being that emerges out of the interaction of these two. The third one is the one that is the shared awareness that lies behind the two of them. And the two people in the yoga of relationship come together in order to find that shared awareness that exists behind them in order to then dance as two. So that the twoness brings them into one and the oneness dances as two, and that's a kind of a vibrating relationship between the one and the two. So that people are both separate, and yet they are not separate. And they are experiencing that the relationship is feeding both their uniqueness as individuals and their unit of consciousness.
Now, that is extremely delicate because it is so easy to get entrenched in your own "I need this," "I want this," "you are not fulfilling this for me" and seeing the other as object. But the delight, which all of you have experienced, is of being with somebody where you are sharing an awareness of the predicament you are both in. And you are sharing an awareness of the predicament even when you are having an argument with each other – there is an awareness that you are both almost delighting in the horrible beauty of it. We're hating it and enjoying it both – because there are these levels we are playing at all the time. We come into relationship often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship, I need this. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
The problem is that when you identify with those needs, you always stay at the level where the other person is she or he – it is satisfying that need. And it really only gets extraordinarily beautiful when it becomes us, and then when it goes behind us and becomes I. And so when I ask you which person are you saving or protecting or whose integrity you are protecting, I understand that to enter into the yoga of relationship is an extremely difficult thing to do. It's the hardest yoga that I know of actually. Because your ego is so vulnerable when you start to open up to another human being. You feel so tender and so vulnerable. And before that one place gets going strong enough, you get frightened and you pull back and you get entrenched and that happens all the time in relationships. People that come together with the greatest meaning of feeling love and then they get caught in their needs and their frustrations and they separate.
One of the problems is that we tend to place relationships a little bit on the back burner in life. We get a relationship and then we go out to a job and we go out to other things. Now that we have that together, we go do life. And for a relationship to be a yoga of relationship, is like a full time operation for years. For me, one of my examples is Stephen and Ondrea Levine. Stephen and Ondrea used to be really nice, friendly, sociable people – before they met. And then they met – I used to like Stephen – and then they met and they really started to be together and the amount of energy that had to go into staying clear with each other was profound. Because what happens is so much goes down so fast in relationships, it's really hard to process it fast enough to keep clear. So you keep getting this kind of residual of old stuff that isn't quite digested enough and you end up separate from the person because you didn't have time to stop and kind of work it through, clear it, and so on. So what they did was they moved on to land with no telephone. Put up a big sign "No Trespassing". And they just started to work with one another. And after some years, during which you really felt like you were cut off as a friend, and it was hard for me, because I counted on Stephen a lot for sharing consciousness. And then after a while, they began to open up to me and allow me in and then I began to see the effect of that. I began to see what happens when people learn how to really open, trust, meditate together, keep emptying, keep clearing, and work until they are a shared awareness. And if you watch them when they are teaching together, when they are on the platform, or when they are together, they have done some really extraordinary work. They still have a lot of work to do. I mean they aren't cooked by any means. But they have done some really good stuff together. And that's hard and it's rare.
I, on the other hand, have gone into relationships and realized that I can't hear my own truth in the relationship and I've had to stop it. Because I wasn't willing to surrender the life games that I was in for that relationship. It just wasn't worth the effort. I treasured what I was doing in my life too much to invest in that relationship that deeply. So I've heard it both ways. You hear that? It's not fair to say that any relationship that isn't involved in the yoga of relationship is not useful and fulfilling to people. A lot of people come together because it is just really comfortable living with another person and there is a wonderful kind of sweet intimacy. And it's fun to cook with each other and to sleep together and it's fun to just live life together without trying to get too deep in as a spiritual practice. And many of those people have other spiritual practices. They go off and meditate and one does something else – Tai Chi or something else. And that seems fine to me. I don't think you should make believe that a relationship is really yoga unless you are willing to really put the effort into making it such. And if you are, it really fills all the space for a long time.
When I am in a relationship with somebody else, and what they do upsets me; because I understand that my life experiences are the gift of my Guru in order to bring me to God, if somebody upsets me, that's my problem. This is a hard one. Because we don't usually think these ways in this culture. What I see other people as, I see them as trees in the forest. You go to the woods and you see gnarled trees and live oaks and pines and hemlocks and elms and things like that. And you are not inclined to say, "I don't like you because you are a pine and not an elm." You appreciate trees the way they are. But the minute you get near humans, you notice how quick it changes. It's a way in which you don't allow humans to just manifest the way they are. You take it personally. You keep taking other people personally. All they are are mechanical run-offs of old Karma. Really, it's what they are. I mean they look real and they think they are real, but really what they are is mechanical run-off. So they say, Grrrh! And you karmically go Grrrh! And then one of you says, "We've got to work this out." And the other says, "Yes, we must." And then you start to work it out. It's all mechanical. It's all condition stuff.
So somebody comes along and gets to me. They get me angry or uptight or they awaken some desire in me, wow am I delighted. They got me. And that's my work on myself. If I am angry with you because your behavior doesn't fill my model of how you should be, that's my problem for having models. No expectations, no upset. If you are a liar and a cheat, that's your Karma. If I'm cheated, that's my work on myself.
My attempting to change you, that's a whole other ballgame. What I am saying is if I will only be happy if you are different than you are, you are asking for it. You are really asking for it. Think of how many relationships you say, "I really don't like that person's this or that. If they would only be this. If I could manipulate them to be this, I can be happy." Isn't that weird? Why can't I be happy with them the way they are? You are a liar, a cheat and a scoundrel and I love you. I won't play any games with you, but I love you. It's interesting to move to the level where you can appreciate, love, and allow in the same way you would in the woods. Instead of constantly bringing in that judging component which is really rooted out of your own feelings of lack of power. Judging comes out of your own fear. Now I fall trap to it all the time. But every time I do, I catch myself.


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THE INDIAN PENAL CODE, 1860: What does section 498A of IPC explain? The cruelty which means any wilful conduct which is likely to drive women to commit suicide or to cause grave injury to life. Where women are subjected to cruelty by the husband or any relative of the husband. Marriage means the union of two persons and two families in which husband and in-laws have a responsibility to protect the wife. But the stigma of dowry still exists. Women are ill-treated, harassed and killed just because of the simple reason dowry. To safeguard the interest of women against cruelty the concept of sec 498A is introduced in XXA of IPC. This section protects women from who are being subjected to cruelty and also make them liable for punishment.
THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACT, 2005: Violence in this country is raging and several women encounter violence in many forms almost every day. Till the year 2005, the remedies were limited for the victim. The only remedy given was under sec 498A of IPC. So many women preferred to stay silent and stay out of any court proceeding. Then this act came was introduced, the main aim was to protect women who were subjected to violence, who are abused for the sake of fulfilments of certain wants and provide remedies in short span of time and also to punish the accused.
WHAT WE DO: With the increasing number of dowry deaths in dadra and nagar haveli and the increasing number of violence against women, there is a need to address the matter in an effective way. The world has yet to hear from many other women who are subjected to cruelty, who are still being silenced and ignored, have been less privileged, discriminated and taken for granted. Our country presents a strange paradox. For the betterment of women and providing them justice, avail them with remedies, Lawtendo provides you advocate, who will provide legal services and guidelines regarding your case. You get to choose from many experienced attorneys. We provide you the best legal advice; we work on your interest. We can assure you to have the best experience with us. For hiring an attorney in dadra and nagar haveli specialized in criminal and matrimonial matters contact Lawtendo today.


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Though cat owner Amy Morgan, 32, of Brooklyn, N.Y., follows a strictly vegan diet, her grocery list regularly includes foods that contain ingredients like Atlantic salmon and organic chicken. They're not for her, of course, but for her beloved, eight-year-old calico cats, Mashy and Ruki. "I don't eat animal protein," Morgan says, "but I know my cats need it. I don't want them to have all the hormones and chemicals that are injected into farm animals these days, so I'm really careful about the food I buy them." To make sure her cats get the best food available, she reads ingredient labels closely and has been encouraged by what she's seen lately. Morgan explains, "It seems easier to find healthier commercial foods these days."
Marketplace trends support her observation. As pet owners become more conscious about what they put into their own bodies, they are likewise taking better care of their pets. This is evidenced, in part, by increases in spending on pet food: from $9 billion in 1996 to $16 billion in 2007. Says Duane Ekedahl, president of the Pet Food Institute based in Washington D.C., "Pets have become like every other member of the family, and this is increasingly reflected in how people feed their animals."
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The list is short but telling. Added fillers, as well as artificial colors, flavors and preservatives, have gone the way of trans fats in human food, which is to say they're undesired and out. Today's healthiest commercial cat foods contain little that is not nutritionally necessary, and no cat ever lived a longer, healthier life from consuming Red Dye No. 9. Look for labels that read "No added fillers," or similar statements, to ensure your cat isn't consuming calories and chemicals it doesn't need.
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Since 1969 Bark Frameworks has designed and produced frames for contemporary and modern art with the simple goal of serving the art being presented. From those early years till the present we have pursued innovative design while establishing the highest standard of preservation framing practice. These two commitments, to the aesthetics of frame design, and to the preservation of works we frame, have animated our business throughout our history.
We started out by framing works by our contemporaries, and over time our range has grown to embrace the framing of Western works from Impressionism forward. We have designed and built numerous frames for textiles as well as Asian works, especially scrolls and thangkas. The framing of photographs from the field's earliest days to the present has become a specialty. Our designs for mirror frames are unique.
Bark Frameworks began in Jared Bark's SoHo loft. Now, an employee-owned company, we work from our 27,000 square foot building in Long Island City. Since we make all our frames here in our LIC shop, we can offer an infinite variety of new frame designs as well as our frames that have become classics.
I began working with Bark Frameworks in 2006, when they framed my Fireflies series. These pictures are small, intimate and one-of-a-kind. The frames were elegant and subtle and served to echo the mood of the work perfectly. I have employed Bark to frame every one of my pictures since then, including my series Beneath the Roses- an epic endeavor. The frames that they produced for these pictures are completely exquisite.- Gregory Crewdson
Early Days
In the 1970's we were known for our simple, spare frames for the works of such artists as Donald Judd, Jasper Johns and Brice Marden. Soon we were framing for galleries and then collectors as well as for artists. Artists' concern for the best possible display of their work is a high priority in our designs.
We framed this work by Mel Bochner in 1972. The frame is of basswood. In the 70's we used many species besides basswood: maple, cherry, ash, walnut, red birch, butternut and others. At that time the only finishes we used were oils and waxes—no stains or painted finishes. Early on we modified profiles as needed for each frame, which at the time was a rare capacity. For this frame, at Bochner's request, we ripped down our first milled profile so the proportions and scale suited the work . He appreciated our concern with, as he put it, "what goes on inside the frame, the life of the object, conservation issues."
The sculptor Joel Shapiro is well known for his works on paper. He recently commented on the framing we were doing for him at this time: "The reduced frame was a manifestation of reductivist work. It's not about décor; it's someone's vision….The frame mediates between private and public". Shapiro's drawing above, from 1979, is in a pearwood frame.
Exploring Woods and Finishes
By the beginning of the 1980's we began trying out a wide variety of exotic woods, such as Indian rosewood, padauk, bubinga, purpleheart and others—a number of these are shown at left. We still adhered to the simplicity of natural woods—we still rejected stained and painted finishes. It was Jared Bark's encounter with a Charles Rennie Mackintosh chair at the Museum of Modern Art that sparked a change. The chair was made of oak; the grain was clearly visible, but the chair was an even, deep, black. Bark learned that Mackintosh's furniture was finished with water based stains, which had largely fallen into disuse because they are difficult to handle and more time-consuming to apply than petroleum based stains. Water based stains are still the only stains we use.
After developing a range of stains for wooden frames we began to experiment with painted finishes. Our first sprayed finishes were white and black, and for a time that was the extent of our range. But we quickly began to fine-tune the whites, eventually creating a set of some twenty whites and off-whites. In the late eighties we designed a wide flat floating frame, which became known as the Marden frame when it was associated with his work; it is almost always finished with one of these white sprayed finishes. Marden finds this white frame effective: "The frame is supposed to be like the white of the wall. So you can see the whole physical situation. I didn't want a line around the drawing to separate it from the wall."
Metal Frames
In the early 80's we set up our first metal shop in Warwick, NY. Soon we were testing patinas on brass and aluminum frames. In our early enthusiasm we had copper and bronze extrusions made for us as well, which had a vogue for a short time. As our metal shop matured we became adept at milling an endless variety of metal shapes as we refined our subtle metal finishes. Our metal shop is now in our LIC building, allowing close collaboration between our designers and the artisans in our shop.
In 1990, in his Warwick studio, Jared Bark tried out methods of cladding wooden profiles with copper and brass sheet. Our clad frames were introduced in The Metropolitan Museum's "The Waking Dream" photography exhibition in 1993. Cladding wood mouldings with metal allows us to create metallic forms with great flexibility—far greater than can be achieved with solid metal extrusions. We now clad frames with zinc and aluminum as well—zinc in response to Irving Penn's request for frames that look like Paris rooftops. For photographs, clients often choose metal clad mouldings to evoke the patina of the photograph print itself, especially in framing albumin prints.
Italian and Dutch Influences
From our earliest years through the 1980s, we explored a wide range of frame profiles, materials and finishes within the modern idiom. In the early 90's, prompted by exhibitions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and at the Rijksmuseum, we looked to the Italian Renaissance and Seventeenth century Dutch framing traditions. Our first endeavor was to design variations of the Renaissance cassetta ("little box") frame, starting with some close models of original profiles.
Dutch frame design was even more influential. First, we made exact renderings of a number of 17th century profiles in order to get the essence of the original forms. Some of these we used as they had been first conceived with finishes we developed—we never intended to mimic period frames using ebony, or ebonized finishes. It was their remarkable formal vocabulary that we drew from and worked with—the frame at left is an example: a 17th century Dutch profile in oiled walnut. Often we took sections of these profiles and used them in a new context, making new mouldings. When we collaborated with Maria Hambourg in designing new frames for "The Waking Dream" exhibition, they became a rich design source for us. Of the more than two hundred frames we made for this exhibition, a third made use of Dutch 17th c. elements. Since then, we use them in framing diverse artworks, including contemporary paintings and works on paper. When recently framing a photography exhibition for the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, we referred back to these profiles for the work of the late 19th century Dutch painter, George Breitner.
Degas Frame Designs
Edgar Degas made numerous sketches of frame profile designs, many of startling originality. After encountering them in art historical texts in the early 1990's, Jared Bark made a point of examining the notebooks themselves at the Cabinet des Estampes of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris in 1998. From this first-hand view of the sketches, he recognized that Degas' frame designs represented an important body of work that was virtually unknown and that should be brought forward. A collaboration had begun the year before with Elizabeth Easton, then Curator of European Painting and Sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum, who shared a deep interest in artists' frames. One of our first projects for the museum was the framing of Degas' "Femme au Tub", shown at left. Over several years Bark Frameworks framed for the museum a number of Impressionist works under the direction of Easton, including works by Degas, Monet, Sisley, Morisot and Caillebotte. Bark and Easton collaborated in Degas frame research, publishing the results in the Burlington Magazine.
Most of Degas' remarkable frame conceptions have never been realized, remaining as sketches in his notebooks. It has been a revelation to bring into three dimensions mouldings whose forms are completely unprecedented. His inventive designs remain unique in the history of framing, and we have decided that their forms can be best used in framing mirrors, where the frame can stand on its own as an extraordinary work of art.
Mirror Frames
Though our roots are in framing fine art, we have always applied our design and fabrication capacity to the making of mirror frames. We took this engagement a step further in the early 90's when we cast and silvered our own mirrors, some of which we still stock. The architect Miguel Oks joined us for three years in designing mirror frames for our sister company, Bark New York, which is now integrated into Bark Frameworks. We still make many of the Bark NY mirrors.
Our interest in the creative prospects of designing frames for mirrors continues. Degas' designs, noted above, are one source of inspiration—at left is a Degas frame on a silver leafed mirror. There are also a number of frames from our fine art framing repertoire that we plan to develop for mirrors, and there are new design concepts that we are actively pursuing.
Framing Richard Avedon
In 1994, a year after framing the landmark exhibition "The Waking Dream", which focused on the early years of photography, we were immersed in a far different museum photography exhibition, that of Richard Avedon at The Whitney Museum. Avedon had been intensely involved with presentation of his pictures for many years. For this exhibition we designed many different framing solutions and novel technical details, some of which have become part of our regular practice. The Whitney exhibition was followed in 2002 with the major Richard Avedon: Portraits exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. On view in that exhibition was the full range of Avedon's presentation decisions over some forty years, of which those of the most recent decade were made by Bark Frameworks. We continue to be active in framing Avedon's work, especially for the Richard Avedon Foundation. In discussing his work and our framing of it, Avedon said to Jared Bark, "I've always wanted a direct connection between the person I'm photographing—through me and the camera onto the print. And to the person who looks at it. So the person who looks at it is facing the person in the image. I want you to feel you're facing a person. What you have done is to understand that impulse."
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A team of economists developed an excellent way to analyse and understand economic crisis in emerging economies. It is popularly called as the balance sheet approach
The paper lays out an analytical framework for understanding crises in emerging markets based on examination of stock variables in the aggregate balance sheet of a country and the balance sheets of its main sectors (assets and liabilities). It focuses on the risks created by maturity, currency, and capital structure mismatches. This framework draws attention to the vulnerabilities created by debts among residents, particularly those denominated in foreign currency, and it helps to explain how problems in one sector can spill over into other sectors, eventually triggering an external balance of payments crisis.
I am re-reading the paper for more insights.
I came across an excellent paper (which is also much shorter) from Atish Ghosh of IMF that helps understand the approach with some excellent examples. (The paper was presented in this IMF conference. (I covered a paper presented in this conference on Korean 1997-98 crisis; this paper also pointed to mismatches in Korean balance sheet).
It points that causes of emerging market crisis are different:
The financial crises that struck a number of emerging market countries in the 1990s and early twenty-first century were characterized by sudden reversals of capital flows that had pervasive macroeconomic consequences, including abrupt current account adjustment and collapsing real exchange rates and economic activity (Figure 1). But while the consequences of these crises were broadly similar, their causes appear to be bewilderingly different. Turkey (1993), Mexico (1994), and Russia (1998) were public sector funding crises. By contrast, the 1997 East Asian crises were mainly private sector phenomena. In Brazil (1998-99), Turkey (2000-01) and Argentina (2002) public sector debt dynamics played a key role—in the latter two cases, accompanied by a banking crisis. On the other hand, Uruguay (2002) was a banking crisis—caused by withdrawals of Argentine deposits—that spilled into a public sector debt problem and a balance of payments crisis.
Interesting. It also says economies can live with mismatches for quite a few years and what is needed is a crisis trigger which could really be anything:
Much like a bomb that requires both an explosive material and a detonator to cause an explosion, neither the balance sheet weakness nor the crisis trigger on its own is likely to cause (as much) mischief. Thus an economy can live with currency and maturity mismatches in private or public sectoral balance sheets for years if, serendipitously, nothing triggers a crisis. Yet there are many possible crisis triggers, both external—contagion, a terms of trade shock, a deterioration in market conditions—and domestic, such as an inconsistent macroeconomic policy stance (see Table 1 for a summary of vulnerabilities and crisis triggers in selected emerging market countries).
Table 1 is quite interesting as it summarises causes and triggers for each of the crisis.
Further, the paper presents balance sheet approach for three crisis- Thailand (1997), Argentina (2001) and Turkey (2000-01). In each of the crisis we understand though overall picture might look favorable, when we disaggregate the country's balance sheet into say government, banks and non-banks we get some idea of the risks (mismatches to be precise). Each one is an excellent case study and a must read.
I think it will be very useful to do this analysis in each of the economies (atleast main ones) to identify what went wrong in this crisis.


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Part two of the Shahs of Sunset reunion was not nearly as explosive as part one but there were a few moments worth discussing. So my favorites revolve around Lilly Ghalichi and Mercedes "MJ" Javid's crazy mom Vida, but MJ saying that only Persians have to deal with responsibilities like working, caring for pets, cooking, and cleaning definitely deserves a shout out. What. A. Twit.
To kick things off, Andy Cohen revisits Reza Farahan attacking Sasha earlier this season. Reza claims he's sorry then starts in with his "woe is me" excuses. He says Sasha talking about the Iranian Revolution set him off, adding, "None of them can understand how that makes me feel – I am someone who suffered for 40 years because of the crap they did in Iran. My name is Reza and I look like this. My name is not Lilly. My name is not Mike. My name is Reza and I look like this. I am as Persian as Persian gets when you look at me."
Andy is like, how does that justify insulting Sasha? Andy insists FOB (fresh off the boat) is a hateful thing to say to someone. Reza and MJ disagree. MJ calls it mere teasing. Andy reminds them that Reza made fun of Sasha's accent also. Reza says, "Absolutely!" MJ adds, "It's really annoying." Two peas in a pod.


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Forest Service Deal Saves Jesus Statue
The much contested Jesus statue on top of Big Mountain in Whitefish will stay put for at least another 10 years. The Forest Service recently announced that it will extend the lease for the land on which the statue sits.
As early as last October, the Forest Service was set to deny a lease renewal partly in response to complaints that the statue violated the Establishment Clause of the Constitution.
Congressman Denny Rehberg, who has been heavily involved in the case had this to say about the Forest Service's change in direction.
The Forest Service also determined that the statue was eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. If the statue is listed it will most likely stay put, even if the land reverts back to the Forest Service in ten years time.


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By Kay S. Pedrotti
Nobody loves the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays more than I do, and I don't even get toys for Christmas anymore.
Being from a huge extended family, I have always appreciated Thanksgiving for its ability to draw families together -- not just for the food and fellowship but also for traditions, for remembrances, especially a memory of what my one uncle and all of my first cousins are mostly too old for -- the touch football game.
The table will be set soon ... let the memories begin!
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KARIM Benzema scored twice and forced an own goal as France beat 10-man Honduras 3-0 in their World Cup Group E opener in Porto Alegre.
Les Bleus were comfortably the better side throughout the match, but did not score until Wilson Palacios conceded a 43rd-minute penalty that also earned him a second yellow card.
Benzema converted from the spot and rifled home a second after 72 minutes, his goals split by his part in the World Cup's first ever affirmative use of goalline technology.
The Real Madrid striker's first-time shot had clattered the woodwork only to be fumbled on the rebound by keeper Noel Valladares, with the GoalControl system awarding the goal amid some initial confusion.
As well as the three points, France will be just as happy to have departed without serious injury after 90 minutes of late tackles and physical intimidation from their limited opponents.
France wasted no time setting the pace, with Antoine Griezemann and Mathieu Valbuena both impressive.
Griezemann, making his first competitive start, had a fine chance to open the scoring in the sixth minute when he took a poor clearance on the chest and saw his goalbound effort blocked.
Valbuena and Mathieu Debuchy were enjoying plenty of joy down the right and the former's cross caused Valladares to fumble.
Honduras invited pressure with a series of fouls that allowed Valbuena to send a series of testing free-kicks into the danger area.
Blaise Matuidi nearly scored from a half-cleared Valbuena delivery, controlling with his thigh then seeing a powerful shot brilliantly pushed against the bar by Valladares.
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France went closer yet in the 23rd minute, Griezemann beating Maynor Figueroa to a Patrice Evra cross and heading against the crossbar.
The game could have changed moments later when Palacios tussled with Paul Pogba, the Honduran guilty of a couple of kicks at his opponent and Pogba retaliating by rashly flicking a leg out.
Both saw yellow cards, with Pogba particularly relieved.
After play resumed France's flow had deserted them, with Benzema beginning to show frustration at his lack of clear opportunities.
Palacios rectified that just before half-time when he barged through the back of Pogba as he shaped to shoot, earning a second yellow card and conceding a penalty.
Benzema fired home to make it 1-0.
Honduras reshuffled with two changes at the break but shipped a second inside three minutes.
It went down as an own-goal, Valladares palming fractionally over the line after Benzema's powerful shot bounced back across goal off the inside of the post.
Honduras boss Luis Suarez seemed unhappy with the verdict but without good reason.
Amid repeated nasty challenges a third seemed inevitable, but Matuidi spurned a glorious chance shortly after the hour when slotting Evra's pinpoint cross into the side netting.
Benzema then provided it with 18 minutes left.
Debuchy's long-range drive did not make it through a crowd of bodies but fell kindly for the forward, who hammered home an unstoppable shot at the near post.


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"Boba Fett? BOBA Fett?? Where?"
Yesterday, Disney's CEO confirmed that in addition to the upcoming Star Wars trilogy, there will be all kinds of single-character spin-off films.
Today, Entertainment Weekly is reporting that one of those films will feature young Han Solo, and another will star Boba Fett. According to EW, the Han story will occur between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, and the Fett film will take place either between New Hope and Empire or Empire and Return of the Jedi. (Since, you know, it'd be tough to do it after Return of the Jedi. Update: Or not! Because apparently he survived, thanks to his awesome armor. Update 2: Or maybe he actually died! I don't even know. Anyway...)
This sound good? Or like a disaster? I've always had a suspicion that the thing that made Boba Fett cool was the fact that he was this infamous badass in a mask with a jetpack, and that he was mysterious. The more I learn about him, the less cool he seems. That said, you know, Star Wars bounty hunter movie. Could be good.
'Star Wars' spin-offs: A young Han Solo movie, and a Boba Fett film — EXCLUSIVE [Entertainment Weekly]


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We oppose Islam, not Muslims. We are against hate, not faith
sum wrote:why do you think that this is so if they are the same god?
sum wrote:Islam is based on hatred and enmity
sum wrote:Hello Garudaman
Your quote -
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Islam is based on hatred and enmity
thats been debunked on your other thread : viewtopic.php?f=22&t=18223#p238423
Debunked? Nonsense.
The rest of your last post does not come close to answering the question of why this one god delivers two totally different sets of guidance.
sum wrote:They are so different that they can not come from one god and so one god must be true and one god false.
sum wrote:Please tell me why you believe the Islamic god to be true and not the Christian god.
sum wrote:Although I am an atheist I totally support the Christian theme of being based on the Golden Rule rather than the Islamic guidance based on hatred, enmity and warfare. Why do you choose the latter?
manfred wrote:If there is only one God, and the god of Islam on one hand and the God of Christianity and Judaism on the other are fundamentally different from each other, then you must conclude one or the the other is a FAKE. (or, if you are an atheist, you conclude BOTH are fakes)
And is this figure/person also the same as the Greeks' Zeus?Garudaman wrote:yes, the figure/person is same, the difference is in description/depiction.
manfred wrote:So you agree that either the CONCEPT of God in Islam or in Christianity must be entirely false, as they contradict each other.
sum wrote:Hello Garudaman
Your quote -
even with only one scripture, due to the difference of humans intelligence, it will become "different scriptures" anyway.
This is absolute nonsense. The scripture from one god will remain the same!
sum wrote:If Allah was as good as his word and made his guidance clear then there would be no ambiguity and everyone would have guidance that they all agree upon.
sum wrote:Please do not bring up this "test" excuse to excuse Allah`s failings - it is as clear as the nose on your face that this is Muhammad`s way of covering both his own and his creation`s - Allah`s - errors. We can see them but Allah and Muhammad could not. What a failure.
sum wrote:The written words of the New Testament and the Koran are totally different and have nothing to do with interpretation
sum wrote:If Allah didnt want to give clear advice as part of a test then how would muslims know what was the correct way?
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The roots of the Anglo-Saxon name Hopgold come from when the family resided in the settlement of Hopwood in the county of Lancashire. The surname Hopgold belongs to the large category of Anglo-Saxon habitation names.
The surname Hopgold was first found in Lancashire at Hopwood, a township, in the parish of Middleton, union of Bury, hundred of Salford. "A family of the local name was seated here for many centuries, probably from Saxon times. In 1359, Adam de Hopwood was one of the inquisition at Preston held before Thomas de Seton and others, justices, to determine a dispute between Henry, Duke of Lancaster, and Roger de la Warre. On the death of Dr. Robert Hopwood, in the early part of the eighteenth century, when the family became extinct, the estates passed to the Gregges, who assumed the additional name of Hopwood. Hopwood Hall is an old-fashioned house, pleasing in aspect and agreeable in situation, with tolerably extensive pleasure-grounds, tastefully laid out." [1]
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Hopgold research. Another 54 words (4 lines of text) covering the years 129 and 1298 are included under the topic Early Hopgold History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
The English language only became standardized in the last few centuries; therefore, spelling variations are common among early Anglo-Saxon names. As the form of the English language changed, even the spelling of literate people's names evolved. Hopgold has been recorded under many different variations, including Hopwood, Hopwoods, Hipwood, Hapwood, Hobwoods and many more.
More information is included under the topic Early Hopgold Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
For many English families, the political and religious disarray that shrouded England made the far away New World an attractive prospect. On cramped disease-ridden ships, thousands migrated to those British colonies that would eventually become Canada and the United States. Those hardy settlers that survived the journey often went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations in which they landed. Analysis of immigration records indicates that some of the first North American immigrants bore the name Hopgold or a variant listed above: Edward Hopwood was one of the founders of Salem Massachusetts in 1630; Joe Hopwood settled in Barbados in 1635; Mathew Hopwood settled in Virginia in 1663..


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Meade Ave. resident offers $1,000 reward for cinder-blocker
Though Charlottesville's a long way from the O.K. Corral, Meade Avenue got a dose of frontier justice this morning when flyers began appearing offering a reward for the body of a local outlaw "dead or alive." No, the crime wasn't train-robbin' or horse-rustlin', but cinderblockin'.
Last night, Meade resident John McCabe was driving back home when he saw a line of about six cinderblocks in the middle of the road near Meade Park.
"When I came up on them, I just stopped, got out of my car, and moved them out of the way," McCabe says.
But hours later, the varmint(s) had struck again, and this time McCabe wasn't so lucky.
"I came back, and most of them had been put back," he says, "and I hit them with my car."
While McCabe says his car sustained no noticeable damage, he did say he was "really pissed off," called the police, and this morning put up flyers advertising his reward for photos of the "location and suspect." He admits "dead or alive" was just an attention-grabbing "tagline," but he's dead serious about the $1,000.
"It can't just be some neighbor you don't like," says McCabe, "but if you bring him to my door, or bring me pictures, I'll give you the $1,000."
Charlottesville Police spokesman Lt. Ronnie Roberts says that the police got a call at 2:15am last night about the cinderblocks.
"An officer went by there, saw the cinderblocks, and moved them out of the road," says Roberts.
For now, McCabe lacks hard evidence, but he has his suspicions of who the bad hombres are.
"I don't think these are malevolent teenagers," says McCabe. "I think it's someone who doesn't want someone going 45 in a 25[mph] zone. But I'm afraid someone will not see them in time and swerve."
Roberts says police aren't investigating at this point, as whoever made the call last night neglected to leave a name.
"It ends there," says Roberts. "How can we investigate a crime if there's no victim? There's nothing here."
Still, Roberts says McCabe is free to offer all the bounties he wants.
"I would hope he would turn over any information to us," says Roberts, "but he's fine as long as he's not putting up flyers in inappropriate places, whether you interpret 'dead or alive' as a comical approach or something else."
For all of McCabe's hang-'em-high publicity, he says nobody else in his neighborhood has voiced any concern about the potential road hazard. According to McCabe, that says more about his neighbors than the lack of information.
"They're a bunch of p***ies," says McCabe. "They wouldn't complain if you started dropping bombs on them."
McCabe encourages anyone with any information to contact him via e-mail at email@example.com. Charlottesville police can be reached at 970-3280
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Speeding really is out of control on Meade Avenue once again. I can't recall the last time I saw police radar being worked on the street. People who are already speeding accelerate even more when the traffic light at East Market annd Meade Avenue turns yellow for the Meade Avenue traffic. It's probably just a matter of time before somebody is killed in this intersection.
And, yes, I have a solution. Just like other departments hire their retired employees back on a part time basis.... the police can hire Phil Waufle back to work radar. He'll break up this foolishness on Meade Avenue, Locust Avenue, Park Street, etc...
Waufle's gone? He was a legend. Back in my motorcyle days he tried to catch me a few times. He never got close but he always tried!
Yes, he's recently retired. End of 2007, beginning of 2008 maybe. I saw Waufle working radar and keeping our streets safe every day he was out there. I guess these new youngsters on the police force just don't seem to find the time to pull over and park to work radar any longer. They're too busy sending 3 officers to serve a simple misdemeanor warrant (In all fairness to Longo and the 3 officers, a 4th next to useless officer filled their head with a bunch of foolishness).
I like abusive driver fees.
they'd rather ticket railroad track trespassers....
It's not a crime if there's no victim??
What about impeding traffic, endangerment, and probably more?
Dan1101, I strongly disagree with Lt. Ronnie Roberts here. It's about the craziest thinng I have ever heard a police officer say. Endangering the public is a crime whether anybody is actually hurt or not. In other words, intent rules where a successful conclusion to a crime hasn't even taken place. Obstacles placed in a public highway obviously have the intent of causing harm.
If you want a second opinion, I can give you that too. If I plant a bomb in City Hall and it's discovered and disarmed before detonation, it's still a crime. Nobody has to be injured, just the intent to injure, maim or kill.


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The pink Stetson Melmac bowl has been a part of our Thanksgiving tradition as far back as I can remember. It belonged to my maternal grandmother, and only on special occasions did she take it from its designated spot in the buffet. We would sit around the large oak pedestal table, all the leaves having been added to accommodate the four generations. Grandpa was seated at the head of the table, and the three kids would fight over the two chairs on either side of him. I vividly remember staring at the bowl from my place at the table, being too short to see inside, and wondering what deliciously wonderful surprise Grandma had put in it, as it was passed from person to person. Sometimes it was mashed potatoes, sometimes a vegetable dish, sometimes it was fruit salad. Didn't matter. Anything she cooked was especially tasty, but there was something about that pink bowl... the sight of it still makes my mouth water in anticipation.
After Grandma passed away in 1991, my sister and I were sharing our precious memories of dinner around her holiday tables, when Grandpa surprised us by telling us to take the bowl home. I like to think I would have insisted my sister take it, but thankfully, it was not an issue. We were delighted to discover there were actually *two* pink bowls, as pictured in the photo above, side by side. Now, at each "pink bowl occasion", we compare notes about what will be served in them, hundreds of miles apart.


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