text: "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." — Steve Jobs, at a Stanford University commencement ceremony in 2005. Time and time again, Jobs lived up to these words. He was an innovator, a phenomenon of the personal computing revolution. Jobs was a driving force behind bringing the PC into the home, and became the man to shrink it down and make it portable. A true purist at his core, Jobs endlessly strove for product perfection in order to deliver exactly what consumers wanted. And as he <ahref></ahref>once famously said, "People don't know what they want until you show it to them." To try and understand what made Steve Jobs a visionary, Wired.com takes a look back at the life of Steve Jobs, the man.Jobs was destined to be a tinkerer from the start. Shortly after his birth in 1955, he became the adopted son of Paul and Clara Jobs, the former a machinist by trade and the latter an accountant. He was a bright child, though excitable (one teacher had to "bribe" him with candy to regularly attend her grade school classes). After the family moved to Palo Alto in his adolescence, Jobs enrolled in a high school electronics course. The course led to Jobs landing a summer gig at the Hewlett-Packard factory, and would eventually introduce him to a friend who would soon shape his computing future for years to come.Steve Jobs first met the man who would become his longtime collaborator and business partner, Steve Wozniak, through a mutual friend in Jobs' high school electronics class. Woz and Jobs soon became fast friends, and together began attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club. Eventually, Jobs took a stint as a technician for Atari, and worked with Wozniak on optimizing the circuit board for the game Breakout. "Jobs was a very, very bright young man, but a little bit abrasive," said Atari founder Nolan Bushnell. Woz eventually spun his work with HP into a full-time job. But when Woz found that the Homebrew hacker-types were more interested in his hardware computer designs than HP was, Jobs saw an opportunity. Jobs and Woz founded Apple Computer on April 1, 1976, selling their own systems based on Woz' designs to other computing geeks like themselves. "Steve was very fast-thinking and wanted to do things," Wozniak once said. Jobs "always wanted to be an important person," according to Woz, and he "wanted to do it by having a company." "I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money," Jobs told Fortune.Apple skyrocketed. In the four years between the company's inception in a garage to its 1980 IPO, Jobs went from virtual unknown to being worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Jobs' name soon became a symbol of the up-and-coming, technologically savvy entrepreneur. His face was everywhere Apple's brand could be seen, from Apple's own advertising to the cover of Time magazine. But Jobs was a sometimes controversial leader. During the middle of Jobs' tenure, it was rumored he gave preferential treatment to the Macintosh computer team — a product he considered one of his greatest creations — risking alienating other product teams at Apple. Amid internal political struggles and high tension with board members, in 1985 Jobs was fired from the very company he helped create.While the subsequent years would prove tumultuous for Steve's professional career, his personal life seemed to thrive. After delivering a lecture to a class of Stanford MBAs, Jobs met Laurene Powell, the woman who would eventually become his wife. "'I was in the parking lot [after the lecture], with the key in the car," Jobs said. "I thought to myself, If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman? I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she'd have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town and we've been together ever since.'' Shortly after they were married, Powell was pregnant with the couple's first child, Reed Paul, named after Jobs' alma mater (Reed College, at which he only spent one full semester) and his father."I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life," Jobs has famously said of the time. Jobs used that creative momentum to form NeXT Computer, which despite multiple subsequent failures, Apple eventually acquired. Jobs then became the de facto CEO of the company. And so Jobs was able to return to Apple rejuvenated, re-inspired, and ready to "Think Different," as their marketing campaign of the time professed. Although directed toward consumers, the full text of the campaign seemed to echo Jobs' personal beliefs, almost a toast to who Jobs was. It read: Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. Jobs even foreshadowed Apple's future game-changing directional shift toward mobile computing in a statement to Fortune in 1996. "If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth — and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.""My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be." In 1998, Apple debuted the first iMac, a distinct departure from the "un-innovative beige boxes" of competitors, and the first in a string of innovative products that brought a degree of cool back to computing. Jobs also immediately canned a number of flailing projects such as the Newton and Cyberdog. Instead, Jobs tasked the company to work on software, using NeXTSTEP to develop what would become Mac OS X. Jobs said, "We realized that almost all — maybe all — of future consumer electronics, the primary technology was going to be software. And we were pretty good at software." Steve Jobs was officially made CEO of Apple again in 2000. Jobs accepted a $1 annual salary.Jobs was endlessly dedicated to creating products that were not only functional; they were fun, sexy. Apple's products are well designed, from the user interface, to the industrial design, down to every minuscule detail. "In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service." The flat-screened iMac, pictured above, was touted as one of the most innovative products of the year when it debuted in 2002."We started out to get a computer in the hands of everyday people, and we succeeded beyond our wildest dreams," Jobs told Time in 2007. Steve Jobs has made technology accessible to everyone, not just technophiles, nerds and developers. You don't need to know how to program; you don't have to install extra software or custom ROMs. The products just work, just as they should, straight out of the box. When the iPhone was first announced on Jan. 7, 2007, and was finally available to consumers in June of that year, the world changed. Jobs ushered in the smartphone era for the masses. "It's taken the pain out of personal computing in so many different ways," says Leander Kahney, editor and publisher of Cult of Mac (and a former Wired.com managing editor and news editor). The iPhone, iPod and iPad are so intuitive, children as young as one or two use them easily, swiping to unlock, tapping open their favorite app, and playing a game or their favorite song. The user interface and experience is just straightforward.And one more thing... "This will be the most important thing I've ever done," Steve Jobs said prior to the unveiling of Apple's tablet, the iPad. He admitted to having worked on the device since the early 2000s, before they'd even thought of developing the iPhone. The iPad may be one of Jobs' greatest technical legacies, but it's the transformation in the way we now think about interacting with data, and the way that we think about mobile computing, that is even more significant. Jobs' legacy is post-PC. We can now hold a fully functional computer in our hands, in our pocket, and use it for communication, learning, work, play or creation. Post-PC is what he was always working toward, what he hinted at when he said that Apple should work on "the next big thing" after the Mac when he jumped back on board with the company in 1996. "It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough. That it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us with the results," Jobs said at Apple's iPad 2 event. "And nowhere is that more true than in these post-PC devices." It is Jobs' appreciation for and understanding of the liberal arts and humanities that makes Apple devices stand out from the crowd. From the beginning, with the Macintosh 128K's graphical user interface, mouse, word processor, and paint program, Jobs tried to bring computing to the mainstream, nontechnical crowd. "The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both."Steve Jobs announced that he had been diagnosed with a rare form of treatable pancreatic cancer in 2004. He first found out about the tumor during a routine check-up in October 2003, and after discovering it was curable, tried nine months of alternative methods to treat the cancer. When that failed, he had surgery to remove the tumor, and sent out a company-wide memo, a portion of which is below. "I have some personal news that I need to share with you, and I wanted you to hear it directly from me. I had a very rare form of pancreatic cancer called an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, which represents about 1 percent of the total cases of pancreatic cancer diagnosed each year, and can be cured by surgical removal if diagnosed in time (mine was). I will not require any chemotherapy or radiation treatments.'' In 2008, Bloomberg accidentally published Jobs' obituary, which prompted Jobs to poke a little fun during Apple's September event with a slide that read, "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." But although his surgery was successful, Jobs was beginning to look ill. Jobs cited a hormone imbalance as the reason for his increasingly emaciated appearance. He ended up taking a five-month leave of absence in 2009 shortly after that announcement, saying, "During the past week I have learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought." Jobs took another medical leave of absence starting earlier this year. Both times he left, then-COO Tim Cook took charge of day-to-day operations of the company. In August 2011, Steve Jobs officially stepped down as CEO of Apple and took the position of Chairman of the Board. He wrote to his company in a brief resignation letter: "I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come." Steve Jobs was a singular leader and innovator. And we'll continue to see his legacy live on in his products and the company he started in a Palo Alto garage over 30 years ago.


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The Preliminary Program for the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History is now available on H-Law. The meeting will be held October 25-28 in Tempe, Arizona. Meeting and registration information is here.
Program highlights include:
A panel on Governing American Sexuality with Chris Capozolla, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Margot Canaday, Princeton; Mary Ann Case, University of Chicago; Colin Robert, Indiana University, Bloomington; and Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University.
A panel on Social Control in Ancient Societies: Norms, Contracts, and Fundamental Law with Adam Chodorow, Arizona State University; Pamela Barmash, Washington University; Adriaan Lanni, Harvard Law School; Geoff Miller, New York University; Steven Johnstone, University of Arizona.
A panel on Episodes in the History of Modern Territorialism with Kal Raustiala, UCLA School of Law; Ralf Michaels, Duke University School of Law; Teemu Ruskola, American University; Clyde Spillenger, UCLA School of Law; and Mathias Riemann, University of Michigan Law School.
A panel on Colonialism in South Asia: Property, Personhood, and the State of Exception with Elizabeth Kolsky, Villanova University; Karuna Mantena, Yale University; Anupama Rao, Barnard College; and Kunal Parker, Cleveland State University.
A panel on Religion and Activism in Twentieth-Century Law with Linda Przybyszewski, University of Notre Dame; Nathan Oman, William & Mary Law School; Victoria Saker Woeste, America Bar Foundation; Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania Law School; and Philip Goff, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.
A Plenary Session with Paul Brand, Oxford University, "Thirteenth-century English Royal Justices: What We Know and Do Not Know About What They Did."
Multiple panels on "The Craft of Legal History," featuring many legal history luminaries.
And much more.

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In case you haven't heard, Santa is now a non-smoker. He did it without even using a patch. Actually, he didn't do it; anti-smoking crusader Pamela McColl did it for him. She took it upon herself to edit the beloved 200-year-old poem, "T'was the Night Before Christmas," removing the line (and accompanying illustration) about Santa drawing on a pipe and smoke encircling his face like a wreath.
McColl, a former smoker, is concerned that children will be encouraged to smoke by visualizing Santa with a pipe.
Who hasn't read the "Night Before Christmas" to small children, only to watch in horror as they race from the room, grab crayons and begin adding cigarettes, pipes and cigars to their Christmas lists?
The first question about the decision to remove Santa's pipe is this: Do we know for a fact that he actually inhaled? Secondly, if someone is going to modernize Santa, why stop with the tobacco?
Consider that Santa wraps himself in fur from head to foot. Why not dress Santa in a polyester red leisure suit? Of course, that's if you can find one to fit. Santa is a man with a broad face and a "round little belly that shakes when he laughs like a bowl full of jelly." The man is heavy. Rotund. Dare we say obese?
The narrative refers to Santa as "chubby and plump — a right jolly old elf." Enough with the stereotypes about fat people being jolly. Let's quit pretending. The man is depressed. That's why he eats. He's isolated and lonely, closes himself off from the rest of the world all but one day a year and stuffs himself with dairy and carbs. It also bears noting that Santa has a nose like a cherry. Can you say drinking problem? Probably throwing a few back before boarding the sleigh, which also means he is quite likely sleighing under the influence.
And let us consider Mrs. Claus. The woman is a virtual prisoner in her own home. How do we know he treats her well? Does she have cable? Cell phone? Reliable internet? Health care? Birth control? Paid vacation?
Furthermore, we cannot overlook the recurring animal abuse. Nine free-range reindeer strapped into harnesses. They work long hours and cross multiple time zones with no down time. Given the highly sensitive times in which we live, it is hard to believe Santa is someone we have encouraged children to invite into our homes.
Meet the new and improved Santa. Small children make him jumpy. He's a little on the nervous side, but tobacco withdrawal does that to a body.
He's considerably thinner. That 1200 calorie-a-day diet has paid off. He traded milk and cookies for carrot sticks and humus.
It didn't hurt that he set the reindeer free in Yellowstone and walks his deliveries now. It takes longer, but if he starts when the store displays go up in September, he can be home by June.
Santa is a new man. A modern man.
Surprisingly, he still has a pipe. But not to worry; he only uses it for medical marijuana.


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By default, EclipseLink persistence provider uses a fetch type of javax.persitence.FetchType.EAGER: this is a requirement on the persistence provider runtime that data must be eagerly fetched.If the default is inappropriate for your application or a particular persistent field, set fetch to FetchType.LAZY: this is a hint to the persistence provider that data should be fetched lazily when it is first accessed (if possible). We recommend using the FetchType.LAZY on all relationships.
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How to Use the @JoinFetch Annotation
You can specify the @JoinFetch annotation for the following mappings:
Using the @JoinFetch annotation, you can enable the joining and reading of the related objects in the same query as the source object.
Note: We recommend setting join fetching at the query level, as not all queries require joining. For more information, see Using Join Reading with ObjectLevelReadQuery.
Alternatively, you can use batch reading, especially for collection relationships. For more information, see Using Batch Reading.
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@Entity public class Employee implements Serializable { ... @OneToMany(cascade=ALL, mappedBy="owner") @JoinFetch(value=OUTER) public Collection<Employee> getManagedEmployees() { return managedEmployees; } ... }


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Perhaps something like this has happened to you. Say it's Tuesday and you are comfortably ensconced in your booth. You have absorbed all the vocabulary you need and the meeting is so routine that most of your mental effort is directed towards using words which are anagrams of the Chairman's name.


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Manatee County school chief Rick Mills copied another's work.
Several years ago, some Lakewood Ranch High School honors English students got into trouble, and into the news, over a tough summer assignment.
They were supposed to read a daunting piece of literature, the Babylonian "Epic of Gilgamesh," and write about its themes and symbols.
Not how I used to spend my high school summers. And some of them didn't, either. They wormed out of the challenge by stealing from Internet sources.
Some failed to mention taking ideas from writers they found online. Others did, but took more than knowledge and ideas. They took vast numbers of exact words and cut and pasted them into their own reports as if their own.
For a while, they may have looked smart and wise and more devoted to the task than they ever were.
Copying the work of others is easy. It is usually equally easy now to catch students at it, by doing Internet searches on suspect paragraphs.
I pleaded for leniency. As teenagers, they needed another chance. But they also needed to be firmly taught that stealing someone's written words is a fundamental sin. They needed to know that transgressions like that later in life could mean far worse consequences than a flunked assignment grade, extra homework and a shaming lecture.
Now, Rick Mills is the embarrassing example. What a way to start his new job as superintendent of the Manatee County School system.
As you may have read in a Herald-Tribune news story, Mills' arrival included his written "entry plan," something he says School Board members had seemed to want from him. In it, he explained his plans for learning about and leading the Manatee County school system.
Mills never claimed every idea in his plan was his own. He openly said, at the bottom, that "the foundation" of the plan came from a plan written by a well-respected educator.
That would be fine, and Mills' had the man's permission.
But did Mills really get two masters degrees without grasping the distinction between crediting someone else's ideas and flat out taking another's words as if they were his own, which is not at all fine?
Of course not. But Mills just told me this is different. Though he wishes he had put the name of the author of all those words at the front instead of as a too-vague credit at the end, he never meant to deceive. And this is a school system plan, not a graduate school thesis, he said.
"It's boilerplate," he said, so the exact words are no big deal. It is a document, a plan, something anyone might use when taking on such a job.
I don't know about that.
If Hemingway said I could use "The Old Man and the Sea" as a basis for a column, I couldn't use a page or a chapter without without naming the original author. And what difference would it make where the work was published?
Anyone who thought, "Hey, Mills explains his ideas so well, and he shows he has really spent time thinking about this," was bamboozled.
After being called out on this by a Herald-Tribune reporter, Mills added more appropriate attribution. But, as with those kids at Lakewood Ranch High, the assignment had already been turned in.
Yes, it was just an entry plan, not a work of art. Mills had not entered it in a writing contest or submitted it to an academic journal.
But the same could be said of those Lakewood Ranch High students. They just saved themselves some summer vacation time by not really writing their own reports. It was just homework, so why reveal that they did not take time to think and learn enough to put things in their own words?
I wish Mills a quick recovery from this stumble on his way in the front door. I hope he does a great job as superintendent, no matter how many of his management ideas are his own or ones learned from reading and listening.
But does Mills really have an entry plan, and a grasp of the leadership ideas implied in the one he turned in? Don't know. That cut and paste job is as revealing to me as Babylonian symbolism.


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And it's been one heck of a thrill ride ever since. So today, in honor of twelve wonderful years with the man of my dreams, here are twelve reasons I think Tony is pretty great. By no means is this an exhaustive list...I'm sure you have other blogs to browse today...
1. He encourages my independence. He has always seen me as an individual person as well as his wife and partner.
2. Tony loves my cooking. He never complains about anything I cook and so we've had to adopt a 1 to 10 rating scale for new recipes so I can figure out whether I should bother to make it again. And the guy LOVES taking leftovers for lunch.
3. Despite challenges, together we have managed to bring three little miracles into our family. I still have trouble believing that God trusts us enough to give us these little ones to raise. Tony is a very hands-on dad and despite all the time I spend with the kids, he is still their favorite parent.
4. Tony has always supported our family so that I could stay home with the kids. There was never another option in his mind.
5. Whenever Tony sees a news alert about a shark attack, he emails it to me. I think he's just trying to assure me that my irrational fear of being eaten by a shark is well-founded.
6. He lets me drive the nice car while he gets the hand-me-down...even if it means driving around in a 14-year-old purple Civic. Excuse me, PLUM Civic.
7. He lets me obsess about Rob Thomas without too much flack.
8. Tony is constantly reminding me that he fully intends for me to get my master's degree when all the kids are in school all day. And he assures me that art history is a VERY worthy career path.
9. He's hot.
10. We have the same dreams for our future.
11. He is the most kind, honest, honorable and righteous man I know. Period.
12. He lets me beat him in Jeopardy.
I love you, Tony. Here's to the next twelve years...and many more.


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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Practically Impossible
As an artist who teaches, this is one of those things that comes up often in conversations with colleagues in both fields. Some of those conversations are pretty funny... like the one where a new high school art teacher was asking me if I thought she should remove her nude self-portraits from her website.
But some of those intersections can be quite gentle and inspiring as well: like the time a very great, but very troubled artist friend of mine living in a far off place made a short video for one of my students -- considering a career in the arts -- telling her quite honestly and powerfully about what it takes to make it in art school and in the art world on your own terms.
It is humbling to be one of the lucky few whose life and work bridges art and education. And so, as I'm just finishing up a new website where for the first time I am trying to bring into full view both aspects of my life, I of course thought to myself that one of the things that would make the site most meaningful to me would be a forum where artists and teachers could share ideas, observations, and stories both humorous and telling of the difficulties of each vocation -- and the links between them.
The new site is called Practically Impossible (it's still in beta form... not that it won't always look like it's in beta form given my challenges with graphic design) and it'll serve sort of as the nerve-center for all of my work in the arts, organization, and education.
TeachPaperless will continue being a daily blog -- you don't have to worry (or do have to worry) about that. But the Practically Impossible forum I see as both a meeting place and a place to post responses to life's most vexing questions as well as a place to take many of the great questions and conversations that pop up here via reader comments as well as in the Friday Chats and continue them in a forum accessible to everybody.
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What is an artist or teacher of the arts?ReplyDelete
As a band director for 15 years, I have taught instrumental music from 4th to 12th grade. When my 4th and 5th grade band played music composed by me because I was dissatisfied with the junk that was available for purchase, were they artists? Was I?
I believe I am an artist who teaches. I respond to life's events (be they global or personal) with passion that is reflected in my medium of expression (music), and my own mood.
The first lesson in instrumental music in 4th grade is how to open the case and assemble the instrument. This is not an art class. It's a mechanics class. The next lesson is how to make a sound- more of a physics lesson. Onward we go learning the mechanics of music, a few notes, later, some notation (only when there is a reason for it), and ultimately how to play in a group. The artist in these students is budding, but at this level, I wouldn't consider my self an art teacher.
The high school level is a little different. There I do consider myself an art teacher, but I would have no students to teach if it weren't for the 4th and 5th grade band teachers bringing the mechanics of music to my future "artists".
I'm sure it's the same in any other field. One can't write a poem if one can't draw all of the letters of the alphabet. Where is the line between mechanics of the arts and the expression of the arts? Great arts teachers should know how to balance these concepts, and make a shift from mechanic heavy lesson in the early years to lessons that included interpretation and composition of great works in later years.
Really great musings. Mechanics, art, knowledge... it's far more complex than we usually tend to let on from the teaching perspective.ReplyDelete
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It just got a little bit easier to consume those periodicals via iTunes, according to Reuters.
Since launching iTunes, Apple has stuck with the "newsstand model" where users bought single issues of published fare, like magazines and newspapers.
Earlier this month, while launching The Daily -- an iPad-only publication -- speakers hinted that Apple may move to this new model.
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
If a user subscribes via iTunes, then Apple gets 30 percent of the revenue. If users go through the publishers' sites, then Apple gets nothing.
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs, ostensibly on medical leave, had this to say via a release:
"Our philosophy is simple - when Apple brings a new subscriber to the app, Apple earns a 30 percent share; when the publisher brings an existing or new subscriber to the app, the publisher keeps 100 percent and Apple earns nothing."


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Recollections of Robert "Bob" Foster, Illustrator / Teacher / Friend
Robert Foster was one of many well trained, experienced and very accomplished illustrators working in Manhattan during the 1960s and into the '70's. He wasn't remembered for winning ribbons and awards and his work didn't grace the pages of the leading magazines. He didn't work for a leading art studio with top name illustrators and he was never a candidate for the Society of Illustrator's Hall of Fame. They say, 'timing is everything,' and I think that was partly the reason Robert Foster's name isn't recognized as one of the big names in illustration history.
However, I don't mean to imply that he was unheard of, or didn't leave a noticeable notch in the realm of published illustrations. I am referring to a market that was indeed significant during the 1960's, when illustration styles and directions were beginning to change at a more rapid pace than ever before or since. However, I'm getting ahead of my story, so I digress.
In 1958, I enrolled at the Academy of Art in San Francisco to start my education as an illustrator. I was almost 19, and my very limited knowledge of illustration was rapidly becoming dated. Fortunately the Academy of Art, then a small private art school, allowed us to immediately take all the classes that they offered which related to our major.
One class that caught my attention was listed as 'Editorial Illustration, Instructor: Robert Foster,' which was one of several illustration related classes he was teaching. When our teacher arrived the first morning of class, a student had a question, 'Mr. Foster,' he began... our teacher then interrupted the student, commenting, 'Just call me Bob.' That set the tone for a casual, open and engaging approach Bob had in all his classes.
That isn't to say we could screw around and ignore structure and class discipline. He always had our respect and our attention when he spoke, and we learned quickly that discipline was the key to learning a very difficult craft. Bob would usually start each session with a 'how to' demonstration. He would tell us again and again, 'if we learned to draw and paint the human head and the human body accurately, we could draw and paint anything.' Then he would break down each part of the head and the body, drawing in white chalk on a dark green chalk board, large enough to be seen from the back of the room.
He would explain the anatomical structure and its function for all the features. He would do these demos, usually without a model, just from his vast knowledge of anatomy. They were beautifully simple and easy to translate and understand. Bob would draw with an effortless fluid motion of his entire arm. It was like watching a conductor's rhythmic movements to music. As I quickly learned, drawing for Bob, was like orchestrating classical music for a magnificent concert. I never met anyone that reflected his love for drawing, painting and the process of developing an illustration, as much as he did. It was nothing short of contagious! I was absolutely captivated from the beginning, becoming seduced on the magic of creating an illustration.
For many of us students, Bob's enthusiasm soon inspired us in wanting to become top notch professional illustrators.
Continued tomorrow.
* Tom Watson is a retired West Coast illustrator, art director and educator. He has been a frequent contributor to Today's Inspiration and his storyboard work for film was a subject of a post on my other blog, Storyboard Central.
* Many thanks to Heritage Auctions for allowing me to use the original Bob Foster art scan seen above and to Kyle Katz for allowing me to use the Bob Foster paperback cover scans above.
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What can I say about today's entry except – it's about time! I've not seen more than about 10 images of Foster's art in my life – but what I've seen so far has been stunning. Illustration is like comics – we only ever get to hear of a tiny percentage of the truly great artists and often the biggest names are inferior to the minnows. Cases in point – Bob Foster himself, Andy Virgil, Lynn Buckham even the likes of Mitchell Hooks, Sandy Kossin and Joe Bowler are all far less known than supposedly bigger names like Ben Shahn, Seymour Chwast, Bob Heindel or Bob Peak - but to my mind to my mind they're far better – and I'd add people such as Milton Glaser, Robert Weaver, Ben Stahl, Brad Holland and supposedly bigger Pulp names such as George Petty to the over-praised list. Still, times change – for years in the Pin Up world the 2 biggest names were Petty and Vargas but now Gil Elvgren is universally regarded as the genre's true star, so there's still hope. I can't wait to see the rest of this week's entries.
- David
P.S – talking of obscure and neglected entries here are some more names I'm dying to see more from – Howard Terpning, Vic Livotti, Isa Barnett, George Porter, David Grove, Frank McCarthy, Barye Phillips and Jeffrey Cornell. There, that's a task to fill all those spare hours you have with nothing else to do!
Awesome. I can't get enough of these inspirational stories. I only wish I had a steady enough stream to fuel an artist's career, I get really bad mpg apparently. Thirty four isn't too old right? Even if I have been artistically blocked for 99% of the past 15 years. Oh well, I geuss being a fan is good enough for now. Robert Foster is a god, one of hundreds. Thank you so much for this post. Andy Virgil, Mitchell Hooks, Yeah I worship these guys. it's so nice to find a support group, to support my habit that is. I googled all the names in your post script with hit and miss success, but you guys put together great posts, so I'll look forward to all the rest, thanks.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the comments. I agree with David about the lesser known illustrators. There was a lot of great talent, whose illustrations have been lost, destroyed, warehoused, or hanging in an advertising or publishing VIP's home. I read that a janitor, each night, would fish out preliminary drawings and color sketches from waste baskets in a large ad agency. He accumulated quite a large collection of famous and not so famous drawings, etc. Several were by Norman Rockwell that were appraised at several thousand each, but he had no interest in selling any of his collection.ReplyDelete
Howard Terpning has made such a big name for himself in the Western Art field, that a lot of people today are unaware of his great illustration career. Other lesser known illustrators went into fine arts or teaching, when illustration assignments began thinning out. John Clymer and Ken Riley come to mind.
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Quite simply...where is part two. I have been collecting Foster's paperbacks for a very long time. But it's always a I stumbled upon it game. It's not like he just stuck to one genre and mined that forever. I don't know how many I have in my collection, but it sure isn't the number of McGinnis or FRAZETTA. But not for want of looking. This article was fantastic. The way Foster spoke about drawing is pretty much exactly what I tell people. And my experience has verified it for me. Most definitely we need to see more of his work. I know I look forward to ever new to me piece.ReplyDelete
I tripped over this post purely by accident-- what a pleasure to see my uncle Bob's face again (in the Poseidon Adventure cover art, that second face in the portal is my aunt; she wore a pixie cut then). So nice to read and remember Uncle Bob, thank you!ReplyDelete


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Her name is Ruby Bridges, but, because her image is better known than her name, she sometimes brings along the world's most unusual nametag to her speaking engagements: A copy of a Norman Rockwell painting commemorating her walk into the school, surrounded by white federal marshals. From her foundation's website, here's a glimspe of what her schooldays were like:
Every morning a group of forty or more women, known as the "cheerleaders", shouted obscene, racist threats at Ruby as she entered Frantz Elementary. Ruby received instruction in isolation from her teacher, Mrs. Barbara Henry. Even to use the restroom, she had to be escorted by the marshals, and Ruby ate lunch alone in the classroom every day.This weekend, Studio 360 looked at Bridges and her story through the eyes of noted child psychiatrist and Harvard professor Robert Coles, who had the unusual opportunity to interview Bridges at the very time she was taking those historic steps. That experience led him to practice field observations of children in their real-life situations, rather than through private therapy, and it's one of the stories recounted in his book Handing One Another Along: Literature and Social Reflection which looks at how stories like Bridges' help develop our moral character. Here's the interview in which Coles describes meeting Bridges and how she reacted--as a 6-year-old--to the bizarre experience:
It's not the first time Coles has helped to tell Bridges' story. He collaborated with Bridges to tell the story he observed in a children's book,The Story Of Ruby Bridges. Later, Bridges wrote another children's book, Ruby Bridges Goes To School: My True Story (Scholastic Reader Level 2) which features historic news photographs of her experience, as well as Through My Eyes, an autobiography for older children.
The Coles-Bridges collaboration helped her to create the Ruby Bridges Foundation, dedicated to stopping the use of children to spread racism. It has propelled Bridges into a career in public speaking, as she addresses school and community organizations, and works to help rebuild schools and services for children in New Orleans, following Hurricane Katrina. This article from the Harvard Divinity School, "Walking the Walk and Talking the Talk," fills in the details of what happened to Bridges and the work of her foundation. You can find out more about Ruby Bridges at her website, or the website of her foundation.
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Diving & Marine Conservation Volunteering in Thailand - Monthly Updates
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Conservation in Thailand - Monthly Update February 2012
As our volunteer numbers grew to over 20 during February, we entered into a new phase of conservation work. We embarked on new surveys, projects and workshops around Southern Thailand and enhanced our existing projects by getting out in the community and spreading our important environmental message. We have really needed all the extra hands as our work moves into the next level of helping to protect and sustain this beautiful piece of our planet.
So here is what we have been working on....
Diving Based Projects
Reef Check Survey
With so many volunteers this month, we have been able to collect a lot of valuable data on the indicator species inhabiting our local reefs.
We surveyed eight separate areas around the local islands and Koh Phi Phi.
We noticed that the fish species in the local islands was low this month. We spotted four Crown of Thorns Sea Stars at Losama Bay which is a problem as they can destroy an area of reef over night.
We were lucky to end our month by swimming with 4 hawksbill turtles, who were not bothered by us at all as they lunched on sponges attached to the reef!
Project AWARE - Dive Against Debris Survey
We carried out six surveys in five different dive sites this month. The weather has been consistently calm and sunny, which makes diving more pleasant, but also has an affect on how the trash collects on the reef.
We found a lot of fishing line, and a number of fishing traps as the fishing boats illegally get close to the islands and coral reef. In choppier weather they are too scared to get so close.
Also, on these days we notice that a lot more plastic bags and food wrappers collect from the day trippers and snorkel boats.
We collected a total 43.2 kg of trash from the reef and surface.
Phuket Marine and Biological Centre Monitoring Surveys
This month we started to officially monitor and collect vital data for the scientists based in Phuket. They approached us and asked us to be involved in two data collecting surveys.
The Coral Disease survey involves a team of up to four volunteers who have been specially trained by our in house marine biologist in identifying different types of disease which are threatening the health of the coral reef.
Photos are also taken as a visual record and will be used to compare the growth and spread of these serious coral destroying diseases in our survey areas.
During February we completed our trial for the recording of Endangered Species Sightings. We were able to complete sightings sheets for turtles and dolphins during. Volunteers helped to create an area-wide monitoring system involving all the local dive shops. We have developed a system which now includes all the dive shops recording their sightings. We will collect and collate this data and then report on a monthly basis back to the scientists who will use this information to help find solutions to protect these most amazing sea creatures.
Land Based Projects
Forest Regeneration
We used our time during this month to get school involvement in our forest restoration work. We went to the local school in Klong Thom and built a recycling station and display boards using bamboo.
We helped to collect seeds and potted a few hundred in readiness for the school nursery which we built on 27th February. With over 30 kids helping us we built a large tree nursery in the Klong Thom school and took our potted seeds there for the kids to care for.
This initiative is vital to educating the children about the importance of protecting the native forests. We aim to teach the children to be 'guardians of the forest.' The children are involved in building the nursery, watering and caring for the seeds and saplings, then they will come with us when we plant the trees back into the deforested areas. This, we hope, will give them a sense of pride and ownership of the forests, keeping them safe from development and plantations.
Beach Clean Ups
We had the opportunity to clean the beaches twice this month.
On 10th February we decided to hold our monthly community outreach project with Ao Nammao School and to clean Nopparat Thara National Park beach.
All the volunteers and staff in Thailand (over 70 people in total!) got together to help educate the local kids on the environmental importance of proper rubbish disposal and recycling.
The volunteers put together a fun and informative power point presentation for the kids, they then played a recycling game which the kids loved!
Heading over to the beach, we had over 40 kids come with us. With such an army of eco-warriors, we collected over 300kg of rubbish in less than an hour! The children loved hanging out with our volunteers, practicing their English. The volunteers proved awesome role models for the kids too!
Its on days like this that you see that we are making a difference!
On 17th February, the volunteers asked if we could clean Ao Nammao beach, where our accommodation is based. They began slowly, then by the time they got to the pier area, they hit the jackpot! In just over an hour they carried 273 kg off the beach! We had to use one of our trucks to take all the bags of rubbish to the dump and recycling station. When we got to the dump, they charged us 100 Baht for the privilege of leaving the rubbish there!
Endangered Species Work
Our Turtle Project is proving to be the most popular of all with our volunteers, as we get up close and personal with the turtles at the Turtle Rehabilitation and Breeding Centre in Phuket.
On 23rd February we helped clean the nursing pools and the six small 'hospital' pools. Volunteers helped the vet with cleaning wounds on the turtles and checked their eyes for infections.
After the work was done, Linnea took the volunteers on an educational tour of the aquarium, where the volunteers got to show off their fish i.d. skills as they walked around the tanks.
Other Stuff...
The volunteers got involved with the national sport of Thailand, Muay Thai (Thai Kick Boxing.) A world title fight was held at the Ao Nang stadium so a number of our volunteers went to watch. Becoming inspired, we organised a Muay Thai training session for the volunteers. Everyone loved it - except for one of the trainers who was accidentally kicked 'below the belt' by Le, one of our female volunteers!
The volunteers took advantage of being in Phuket for the Turtle Project and stayed the night, going bungee jumping and wake boarding the next day.
During the month, Vishal took everyone trekking to the Crystal Cave and up the 1200 steps to see the amazing views from the top of Tiger Cave Temple.
We are now awarding Green Certificates to local businesses who adopt environmentally friendly practices, such as waste disposal, no plastic bags, no stryofoam, attend beach clean ups and so on. We already see over 8 businesses proudly displaying our certificate at their premises. We have an article in the Krabi Magazine letting the tourists and locals know this initiative and asking them to support these businesses. I feel this will be a winning way to create a greener and cleaner place to live and visit.
We are all feeling really excited as our projects gain momentum and our presence here is making a big difference.
So a massive thanks to all the current and past volunteers and I look forward to welcoming all the new volunteers who will be arriving soon.
Ingrid Sprake
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Last week, we asked you where you thought Obama's forthcoming presidential library should be built: Chicago, Hawaii, or (psh) New York? Chicago was the popular winner, and now the first speculative design for a Chicago library has been published online.
Michael Sorkin, a New York architect who has designed masterplans everywhere from Chicago to China, recently posted his studio's conceptual plan on Scribd. The crux of their idea? To use Obama's library as a catalyst for change in the South Side neighborhood of Woodlawn—which you might know as the setting for a Raisin in the Sun, chronicling the experience of a black family moving into the neighborhood during the late 1950s.
Woodlawn today by Eric Allix Rogers.
Before we get to the design, a little backstory about the neighborhood. Woodlawn, like many other South Side neighborhoods, struggled through during the 1970s and 1980s. The nearby University of Chicago, which pursued an aggressive rehabilitation of neighboring Hyde Park, attempted to do the same in Woodlawn in the 1990s.
During that process, the University commissioned Sorkin (an alumnus) to design a plan for its expansion into the neighborhood. The school ended up dumping Sorkin from the project, but he and his team ended up designing a series of "alternative" plans for the expansion anyways, published in 2002 under the title Other Plans.
In the end, a community group called The Woodlawn Organization ended up fighting off the University's expansion plan, and the University agreed to a "hands-off" policy. Today, Woodlawn is working towards its own renewal—though there's a distinct boundary between the neighborhood and its wealthy neighbor.
The University of Chicago campus by Thomas Barrat.
That gap is exactly what Sorkin wants to close—using Obama's library. He envisions the complex as a way to connect the two neighborhoods: Woodlawn, a historic district plagued by urban dilemmas, and the University of Chicago, a center for knowledge that's been criticized for its relationship with the neighborhoods around it.
The Obamas, you see, bridge the two perfectly. Not only did Obama spend three years on the South Side as a community organizer—he also taught at the University of Chicago. He and Michelle are a symbol of the connection between the two once-distinct neighborhoods. It's hard to argue with Sorkin's logic, although it's a bit tenuous to turn the Obamas' personal life stories into a piece of urban architecture.
So, what exactly does the masterplan envision? Not only a "truly urban" library that's more than just a pedestal on a city block, but a living urban fabric that includes mixed-use commercial and community spaces. A neighborhood that draws on Obama's administration—for example, a High School of Public Affairs affiliated with the University, where David Axelrod directs the Institute for Politics. A center for nutrition and preventive medicine spurred by the First Lady's work.
And so on—a kind of "model city" for the future of the South Side:
The library itself is no more than an afterthought—the studio used a stand-in design to represent its location on the renderings:
I called Sorkin's studio today to find out whether they'd been commissioned to create the project—I imagined that an advocacy group in Chicago could've asked them to design a proposal to strengthen the city's claim to the library. In fact, they designed it simply for fun—as an exercise in the kind of urban-scale changes that Sorkin would like to see the library spur.
"A challenge for the ex-president will be to return to his organizer's career, enlarged by the skills and powers of governing he has so abundantly acquired over the past two decades," explains Sorkin. "The thrilling task will be to assist Woodlawn to become a model mix of classes, races, histories, and desires that can serve as an example to cities everywhere."
In other words, he wants Obama to get back into community planning. And it's not a bad idea—this is where POTUS got his start, after all. Could history remember Barack Obama as an urban planner? [Scribd]


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We recently learned of a class being offered to the general public by the Canvas Art Studio on the artistry of pottery; what we also learned was that there's a lot more to the Canvas Art Studio than just art classes, and a more noble purpose to their mission. We spoke with Kelly Manning, the Director of the Studio, who elaborated on the topic.
VIDEO: We visit the Canvas Art Studio, and learn that there's a lot more than just artwork being created there. (Image: Rik Pruett)
"The purpose and mission is to create integration for the community, it's to create a space where people of all abilities can do art, be in an art environment, work around the artists, we have community art classes like the one we have going on tonight where community members can come in and work with a master artist and learn how to do a new type of art. We also have classes that are specifically for people who experience disabilities, and then we have classes and events where we try to integrate the two.
We cover a wide range of mediums from pottery which is a very popular medium to painting, drawing, we do glass work we've done fused glass, we've done stained glass, jewelry making.
So tonight we have a beginning pottery wheel throwing class, this is the first in a series that we offer, beginning pottery 1, it's a five week class, you can then follow with beginning pottery 2 and then an intermediate wheel throwing class. It's learning how to throw on the wheel, the basic beginning class is to learn how to center and pull and throw bowls, vases, very simple maybe a mug, some simple techniques just to learn how it works and then through the series of pottery courses you can build on those skills and get to where you can do more complex forms."
The Canvas offers Day classes for people experiencing disabilities as well as community classes for the general public and a mixture of the two. You see it isn't just about creating art, it's about creating an integrated artistic community, and that is truly a thing of beauty.
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I want to begin this week with a note of thanks to Barbara Thorp, the director of our Office for Pastoral Support and Child Protection, who after three decades of extraordinary service to the Archdiocese of Boston is moving on. We are very sad to see her go but very grateful for the work she has done.
I first met Barbara when she was the director of the Pro-Life Office, where she was very effective. And, of course, all of her work in outreach and assistance to victims and their families has been extraordinary. I recall the wonderful help she provided at the time of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the US, facilitating the meeting between the Holy Father and survivors and, more recently, her accompanying me to Ireland during my visitation to the Archdiocese of Dublin. These were extraordinary services and we are very, very grateful for them. Our prayers and gratitude accompany her as she concludes her tenure as director of the office.
The wonderful work that Barbara Thorp has done has provided us with a solid basis and the archdiocese is firmly committed to continuing this vital mission.
Last Thursday, I went to visit the SMA Fathers in Dedham. Each year I have Mass at the SMA house accompanied by many of their young priests from Africa who come and spend the summer in Boston helping out in parishes to gain pastoral experience. I was very pleased that many of the pastors and parishioners of those parishes joined us for the Mass.
The summer visit is part of their formation process, to have an experience of working in a mission-sending country and they will go back to work in different countries in Africa. The SMA was founded for work in Africa, so they have vocations now in the Philippines, Africa, United States but all those who join do so to eventually work in Africa, the continent where the church is growing fastest.
The superior said that the Mass is held in gratitude for our receiving these priests. However, I told him it was the archdiocese that was grateful for their presence, because not only do they provide a great service in our parishes where the priests are often shorthanded and need the help of other priests, but it is also a great opportunity for the Catholics in the archdiocese to experience the catholicity of the Church and our connectedness to the wonderful work of the SMA in Africa. They have had a presence in the archdiocese for many years and Boston has always had a very strong missionary thrust. Their presence has helped to keep that awareness of the missions in people's minds.
On Saturday, I participated in the National Congress of the Secular Order of Carmelites. It was held in Wakefield but attended by people from all over the country.
Loretta Gallagher and the other local organizers did a wonderful job.
Many of the Carmelite Friars were there, including the provincial Father John Sullivan.
Also, among the delegates at the congress was one of my former parishioners from the Virgin Islands, Rita Schuster. I was very surprised and happy to see her there.
Later that day, I joined the many people who came to attended the wake of Johnny Pesky in Lynn.
I was very touched when his son told me, "My father had your picture on the refrigerator door"! (I had forgotten a couple of years ago we had our picture taken together.)
Obviously, he made a great contribution to the community here in Boston, which has such a glorious sports tradition and a love for baseball.
He was a very important figure and a faithful Catholic. We commend him to God's love and mercy.
Much of the rest of the week I spent at the annual summer retreat of the bishops of the New England Region at St. Edmund's Retreat on Enders Island in Connecticut.
The Edmundites do such a great job of maintaining that beautiful oasis of spirituality that is St. Edmund's, particularly Father Tom Hoar. They have made so many improvements there, including the beautiful chapel.
This year, we were very blessed to have Cardinal Thomas Collins lead the retreat for us. He is a Scripture scholar and I consider him to be one of our best preachers. The theme of his retreat was the Psalms, particularly the Psalms of the Divine Office. We are so grateful for his generosity and taking the time to join us. It was a very beautiful retreat and all of the bishops were just thrilled with his presence there.
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Sammy Sosa had to know that showing his face, the lighter one, at a South Beach hot spot was going to leave the slugger open to a little roasting during his 41st birthday bash.
Well, it happened and Sosa and his people were far from amused.
Spanish radio personality Enrique Santos arrived on the red carpet at Club Liv showing off his own new look, one that had Santos transformed from a light-skinned man to a kind of burnt orange Oompa. He calls it the reverse Sosa.
U.S. & World
"I'm currently using a cream which has darkened my complexion," Santos said on his website. "Ironically, Sammy is going through the same process, but the cream he is using is making him white."
Sosa made headlines when he revealed his new rejuvenated skin treatment that made his face as pale as a ghost. Even on his birthday flyer, Sosa's pale skin looks like a make-up artists idea of a bad joke.
While Santos got laughs from photographers and guests outside the Fontainebleau, Sosa's people quickly stopped him at the door, according to several reports. Santos was ejected before he ever got to the plate to show Sosa how he was inspired to be remade.
"I explained to (the publicist) that it was a special cream I was using that darkened my face and then I asked her, 'How many women in here are wearing makeup?" but she wasn't having it," Santos told the Miami Herald. "Was I not white enough for Sammy's party or have the millions gotten to his head . . . I mean skin?"
Maybe Sosa really does need to lighten up.


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Peter G. Peterson, the self-made billionaire businessman and former Secretary of Commerce under President Richard M. Nixon who went on to become a leading voice warning about the dangers of the growing national debt, died Tuesday. He was 91.
Peterson, the son of Greek immigrants, was born on June 5, 1926 in Kearney, Nebraska. As a child, he said, he worked at the cash register at the 24-hour diner his parents ran in the town. He went on to build an immensely successful career in business and finance, serving as chairman and CEO of Bell & Howell Corporation and Lehman Brothers before co-founding The Blackstone Group, the private equity giant, with Stephen A. Schwarzman in 1985.
Peterson also became a prominent and influential voice in national politics and public policy, with a special emphasis on fiscal issues. In 1992, he co-founded the Concord Coalition, a group "dedicated to educating the public about the causes and consequences of federal budget deficits, the long-term challenges facing America's unsustainable entitlement programs, and how to build a sound economy for future generations."
From 2000 to 2004, Peterson was chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and he served as chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1985 to 2007. In 2008, he launched the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a nonpartisan nonprofit that says its mission is to increase awareness of America's long-term fiscal challenges. Separately, Peterson also founded The Fiscal Times and has funded the publication since its inception.
"Some of Mr. Peterson's proposals — cutting Social Security benefits for the wealthy, for instance, or eliminating the mortgage-interest deduction long cherished by middle-class homeowners — have been seen as political 'third rails,'" David Stout wrote in a Washington Post obituary. "But he was credited with daring to say what others in positions of influence would not."
Peterson's legacy, both in finance and in the policy sphere, is immense. You can read more about him here, here or here.
A Fiscal Hawk, in His Own Words
As we remember Pete, there may be no better way to pay tribute to him than by sharing his own words, from his 2015 book "Steering Clear: How to Avoid a Debt Crisis and Secure Our Economic Future":
"As a nation, we are all too focused on this year, or next, and often ignore and delay important decisions that affect the next generation. While many of my critics have labeled me a deficit scold (or worse) who is singularly obsessed with cutting entitlements and immediate austerity, the truth is that I am not principally concerned with this year's deficit, or next year's or even those over the next ten years. … And I resolutely believe that we must reform vitally important entitlement programs in a way that retains and strengthens their value for our most vulnerable citizens—particularly as we've seen troubling trends in wage stagnation and disturbing facts about income immobility in recent decades. Rather, my primary concern is the longer term unsustainable path of our debt and the threat it poses to the American dream."
"… Now, some people might wonder why I am so persistent in sounding the alarm over America's long-term debt. After all, why should an eight-eight-year-old billionaire—by any measure long on dollars and short on years—care so deeply about an issue that to many people seems both distant and arcane?
"The answer is simple: I am an American Dreamer, and this country has given my family and me—and millions of others—unequaled opportunities to dream and to prosper. And together we have a profound obligation to try to pass on the same opportunity to future generations. This isn't just an economic imperative; it's a moral imperative."


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Located in the Pacific Ocean, Japan is an island which consists of 47 prefectures. It is divided into the 4 main islands of Honshu, Hokkaido to the north, Shikoku to the west and Kyushu to the south. Honshu consists of the following sub-regions: Tohoku, Kanto, Chubu, Kansai and Chugoku. The island of Okinawa is located to the far south.
Japan's capital of Tokyo is located on the main island of Honshu, in the Kanto region.
Each prefecture is known for its unique culture, things to do, regional dishes and local festivals.
Hokkaido is Japan's northernmost island and largest prefecture. Its heavy snowfall in winter attracts tourists to its ski resorts while the cooler summer weather makes it a favourite place for visitors to escape the humidity.
Tohoku is dotted with lakes and mountains, where scenic and natural sights come to life in vibrant autumnal colours.
Kanto offers a mix of the city and countryside, with the bright lights of Tokyo and Yokohama contrasting the rustic hot spring resorts in Japan's most densely-populated region.
Home to Mount Fuji, Chubu has spectacular mountain views and is made for outdoor enthusiasts with a sense of adventure.
Kansai is a cultural and food hub, with Japan's former capital Kyoto and Nara's rich tradition complementing Osaka and Kobe's culinary attractions.
The picturesque Chugoku region is characterised by well-preserved historic towns and Hiroshima's Miyajima.
Warm Shikoku is Japan's smallest, least-populated island and its seclusion provides many hidden treasures to view away from the bustling city life.
Japan's third largest island, Kyushu is lined with hot springs and is where Mount Aso, Japan's most active volcano resides.
Okinawa, Japan's southernmost prefecture, is a subtropical haven for beach and underwater activities with its pristine beaches and beautiful coral reefs.


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Last night, at a fundraiser in LA, the President made a joke about the form his wife Michelle uses when she does pushups. And today, controversy swirls over whether or not his ribbing of his wife was actually a joke about fellatio.
Here's the joke, according to Politico—
Michelle outdoes me in pushups as well," he said, after saying that she's taken some criticism on her technique "because she doesn't go all the way down" – a line that he let hang, naughtily, provoking laughter from the crowd.
Inscrutable? Definitely. But blow job-related? Seems like a stretch. But maybe I'm just saying that because Obama's such a dadnerd that I can't imagine him joking about dicks at a fundraiser.


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Our tools, publications, and other resources can help you as you develop and implement your recruitment and retention strategies so you can provide placement stability and permanency for children and youth in foster care.
General Recruitment Strategies
General recruitment strategies help build public interest and awareness of the need for foster and adoptive parents for children and youth in foster care by broadcasting the need to a general audience. These strategies focus on drawing in a wide variety of families while setting the stage for more targeted recruitment.
Targeted Recruitment Strategies
Targeted recruitment is the process by which States, Tribes, and Territories strategically focus their recruitment efforts in neighborhoods and communities where families can be found that are most likely to be a resource for the children and youth in their care.
Child-Specific/Child-Centered Recruitment Strategies
Child-specific recruitment strategies help recruit foster, adoptive, and kinship families for specific children and youth in foster care. These strategies begin with a comprehensive child assessment and preparation process. Every effort should be made to involve the child as developmentally appropriate.
Interstate Placements
Interstate placements are also commonly referred to as interjurisdictional placements. We have a variety of services and tools to help you embrace interjurisdictional placements as a great option for achieving permanency, demystifying the process, and supporting your efforts in working across jurisdictional boundaries.
Using Social Media in Recruitment
These resources can help you decide if your agency is ready to use social media as a tool for recruiting and retaining families, and which networks you might consider using.
National Recruitment Campaign
Resources for localizing the successful national adoption recruitment campaign. Includes instructions for ordering and placing public service advertisements (PSAs) and recordings of "peer to peer" information-sharing calls.


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- for cars see also Morris Motor Company
|EG. Wrigley and Company
|William Morris
|Birmingham, United Kingdom
Morris Commercial Cars Limited was a United Kingdom manufacturer of commercial vehicles founded by William Morris, who was also the founder of the Morris Motor Company.
The company was founded in 1924 when Morris bought the assets of EG. Wrigley and Company after it went into receivership late in 1923. Wrigley was a manufacturer of Gears, tools and had also built a car. A small number of commercial vehicle variants of Morris cars were built previously at the Morris plant at Cowley, Oxford, but with the newly acquired plant in Foundry lane, Soho, Birmingham serious commercial vehicle production began.
In 1932 the company moved a few miles across Birmingham to Adderley Park.
In 1936 Morris sold the company to Morris Motors Limited[1]. The use of the Morris Commercial brand name continued until 1968[1] when British Motor Holdings (BMC), by then the parent of Austin and Morris, merged with the Leyland Motor Corporation to form the British Leyland Motor Corporation.
- Morris C type
- Morris C4
- Morris C8 - Military
- Morris CDFW - Military 6x4 recovery truck
- Morris CDSW - Military 6x4
- Morris FE - 1955-? (later became BMC 701)
- Morris FH - 196?
- Morris FJ - 196?
- Morris FV - 1950's
- Morris J-type - 1949 – 1961
- Morris J2
- Morris J4 - 1960 – 1974
- Morris JB
- Morris LC series - 1940s/50s
- Morris LD - van
- Morris MRA1 - 4x4 1 ton truck (ex-Military ?)
- Morris NVS
- Morris PV
- Morris Oxford - 1/2 ton van version of the Morris Minor car
- Morris Y series - Ambulances
- Morris Z series
Preserved ModelsEdit
The odd Morris is seen at the various Steam rallies and Steam Fairs that feature commercial vehicle line-ups.
See alsoEdit
Article based on Wikipedia article.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "MSS.226/MC Morris Commercial Cars Ltd. 1924-1968". A Summary Description of the Papers of the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust.
External linksEdit
- Morris Commercial Club UK - Owners group web site
- Classic commercial motor vehicles - Morris - Gallery of photos
|This page uses some content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Morris Commercial Cars. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Tractor & Construction Plant Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons by Attribution License and/or GNU Free Documentation License. Please check page history for when the original article was copied to Wikia


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Intramural sports are organized recreational sports leagues that allow students, faculty and staff to participate in team, dual and individual events and activities. Intramurals promotes wellness, fellowship, sportsmanship, and provides the opportunity for physical activity. Participating in the intramural program is a great opportunity to develop the essential qualities of leadership, cooperation, communication, planning, self-reliance, and a sense of fair play, while having a good time.
Currently enrolled students, and faculty and staff members who purchase membership to the SRWC, may participate in as many activities as they wish, on teams or as individuals.
Intramural schedules
For a complete overview of our program use the links to the left. Schedules for all of our intramural activities can be found at IMLeagues.com


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The show provides an opportunity to travel through the outer regions of the galaxy—voyage past the Pillars of Creation and other colourful clouds of dust
and gas where stars are forming or left behind as they erupt in supernovas. The 50 seat digital planetarium will provide more educative and entertaining
experiences to the audience of all age in an immersive environment.
Goa Science Centre has a unique facility of 3D theatre with High definition projection system and Dolby digital sound. Exciting 3-D Film Shows are conducted daily in this theater for the visiting public. Visitors can see thrilling 3-D effects and out of the
world immersive experience in which the near realistic objects appear to come out of the screen right in front of their eyes. Presently the film titled Solar System & Pre- historia adventure is screened and everyday 4 shows are conducted.


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JPMorgan Chase sued over Bear Stearns securities
NEW YORK The New York attorney general's office has hit JPMorgan Chase (JPM) with a civil lawsuit, alleging that Bear Stearns perpetrated massive fraud related to billions in residential mortgage-backed securities that it sold prior to its 2008 collapse and subsequent sale to the New York bank.
The lawsuit is the first to be filed under the auspices of the RMBS Working Group, which was set up by President Barack Obama to investigate and prosecute alleged misconduct that contributed to the financial crisis.
Subprime mortgages were sold to people with less-than-ideal credit. Many of them began defaulting on their loans when the housing bubble burst and their introductory "teaser" interest rates shot up, making their payments unaffordable. Because many of those mortgages were sliced and repackaged as securities that could be bought and sold - known as RMBS - the mass defaults led to huge losses at large U.S. banks and other financial firms, helping fuel the global economic meltdown.
- Ex-Citigroup CEO: Break up big banks
- Wells Fargo to pay $6.58M to settle SEC charges
- Goldman dodges SEC bullet over bum mortgage deal
New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman is alleging that Bear Stearns led its investors to believe that the loans in its RMBS portfolio had been carefully evaluated and would be continuously monitored. Schneiderman alleges that Bear Stearns failed to do either, resulting in investors buying securities backed by mortgages that borrowers couldn't repay and defaulted on in huge numbers.
The complaint further alleges that even when Bear Stearns executives were made aware of these problems, the firm failed to correct its practices or disclose material information to investors. The executives routinely overlooked negative findings and continued to package the loans into securities for sale to investors, it says.
Investors have so far lost $22.5 billion on more than 100 subprime securities that Bear Stearns issued in 2006 and 2007, according to the complaint. That's over one-quarter of the original principal balance of $87 billion. The lawsuit seeks injunctive relief, damages and payment of restitution to investors for "fraudulent and deceptive acts."
"We're disappointed that the NYAG decided to pursue its civil action without ever offering us an opportunity to rebut the claims and without developing a full record - instead relying on recycled claims already made by private plaintiffs," JPMorgan Chase & Co. spokesman Joseph Evangelisti said in a statement. He said the bank intends to contest the charges, noting that they relate solely to alleged actions by Bear Stearns prior to its takeover by JPMorgan in May 2008.
"We will nonetheless continue to work with members of the President's RMBS Working Group and are fully cooperating with their inquiries," Evangelisti said in a statement.
Bear Stearns teetered on the verge of bankruptcy in early 2008 after its two hedge funds imploded, costing investors $1.8 billion and kicking off the domino effect that led to the 85-year-old bank's demise. With the backing of the New York Federal Reserve, JPMorgan bought the ailing investment bank for about $2.3 billion.


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drug resistance
drug resistance, condition in which infecting bacteria can resist the destructive effects of drugs such as antibiotics and sulfa drugs. Drug resistance has become a serious public health problem, since many disease-causing bacteria are no longer susceptible to previously effective drug therapies. For nearly 50 years after the first antibiotic, penicillin, became available in the 1940s, people took antibiotics' effectiveness against bacterial infections for granted. By the 1960s some doctors were predicting the end of infectious diseases. By the 1990s, however, a
"post-antibiotic era,"
characterized by the proliferation of untreatable bacterial strains, was considered inevitable, and the rate at which bacteria were becoming resistant to antibiotics was catching up with the rate at which new antibiotics were being produced.
The number of drug-resistant bacterial strains has increased in part because of the indiscriminate use of antibiotics, which have sometimes been overprescribed. Such misuse speeds the process by destroying bacteria that would compete with resistant strains. In addition, patients sometimes stop treatment when they start to feel better, leaving a residual population of bacteria that is likely to be more resistant to drug treatment. Another source of resistance is the routine use of antibiotics in animal feed to enhance growth, a practice that has led to resistant strains of Escherichia coli and Salmonella that have been passed on to consumers. The presence of drugs in the water supply, due at least in part to human and animal excretion and the disposal of unused drugs, is also believed to contribute to drug resistance in bacteria.
Resistance is due to random genetic mutations in the bacterial cell that alter its sensitivity to a single drug or to chemically similar drugs through a variety of mechanisms. Many bacteria can transfer their resistance to other bacteria of the same or different species. Resistance has occurred in common infectious bacteria such as pneumococcus (a cause of pneumonia, meningitis, and childhood ear infections) and enterococcus (a cause of wound infections). It has also occurred in such diseases as malaria, tuberculosis, and gonorrhea. Concerns are increasing as strains develop resistance to multiple drugs, including even the most powerful antibiotics (e.g., vancomycin). Although drug companies are again concentrating on antibiotic research, such research does not necessarily proceed swiftly and the testing required to ensure drug safety also slows the introduction of new antibiotics. Many infectious-disease experts have urged that doctors consider the public health risk before prescribing antibiotics and that the government regulate the use of antibiotics in agriculture. Beginning in 2017, the Food and Drug Administration ended over-the-counter agricultural use of antimicrobial drugs deemed medically important; it also has moved to phase out voluntarily the use of such drugs for enhancing livestock growth.
See S. Levy, The Antibiotic Paradox (1992).