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Why Masters might invite PGA Tour winners in fall
MARANA, Ariz. (AP) — Russell Henley said he couldn't feel his arms or legs on the back nine of the Sony Open. He was trying to win his first PGA Tour event, and Georgia was on his mind.
"I was trying not to think about Augusta out there," Henley said after his win, which earned him a spot in the Masters.
Scott Piercy won the Canadian Open last summer and talked about a promise he made to himself to not go to Augusta National unless he was in the Masters field. Ted Potter Jr. said it was a career goal to play in Masters after he qualified by winning The Greenbrier Classic.
These stories likely are to weigh heavily on Augusta National chairman Billy Payne when he decides whether PGA Tour winners in the fall will be invited to the Masters. Payne could announce changes to the criteria during his Wednesday news conference at the Masters.
Augusta National returned to its practice of inviting PGA Tour winners the year after the FedEx Cup began in 2007. But there was a caveat. The club invited winners only of tour events that offered full FedEx Cup points. The opposite-field events, and the Fall Series held after the FedEx Cup ended, didn't count.
The PGA Tour, however, is going to a wraparound season after this year. That means the six tournaments in the fall will be included in the 2013-14 FedEx Cup season.
The question for Augusta National is whether the winners of those six events will earn a trip down Magnolia Lane.
The club and tour have been talking about it the last several months, and one person involved described the discussions as positive.
The Masters has the smallest field of the majors and wants to keep it that way to enhance the experience of those playing. It has not had more than 100 competitors since 1966, though it has come close it recent years, with 99 in the 2011 tournament.
The most likely scenario is for the Masters to take the winners of the six fall events and eliminate the category of top 30 on the PGA Tour money list.
To follow that model a year ago, there would have been two fewer players at the Masters and three fewer players in 2011 and 2010. And with the U.S. Amateur Public Links soon to go away that would free up another spot.
The Masters got away from inviting PGA Tour winners in 1999. That was the same year the World Golf Championships began, and with the WGCs came opposite-field events the same week. That's a polite way of saying "watered-down fields," and the Masters did not deem those winners worthy of an invitation.
Gabriel Hjertstedt won in Tucson the week of the inaugural Match Play Championship. He remains the only opposite-field winner to get invited to the Masters.
When it stopped inviting winners after 1999, the club said it was interested in the most consistent player throughout the year. That's why the Masters is likely to continue taking the 30 players who qualify for the Tour Championship.
And perhaps it's no coincidence that the tour is looking to tweak its FedEx Cup points system so that one high finish in the playoff events doesn't get a player to East Lake (see Chez Reavie in 2011) and qualify him for three majors, including the Masters.
THE TIGER EFFECT: Butch Harmon first worked with Steve Elkington in the 1980s, and his roster of clients has grown enormously over the years. He coached Greg Norman and Tiger Woods during their rise to No. 1, along with four players in the World Golf Hall of Fame — Ernie Els, Phil Mickelson, Jose Maria Olazabal, Fred Couples.
But when he worked with President Obama at The Floridian, he was referred to only as Woods' former swing coach.
"I haven't been with him for 10 years. It's irritating to be honest," Harmon said. "I guess they were looking for a connection because the president was playing with Tiger. But people think Tiger made me successful. No one remembers I took Greg to No. 1 in the world, or all the work with Elkington, or Davis Love III. It's the press. Anything to sensationalize. And you're dealing with a White House press that doesn't know any of these names."
Hank Haney, on the other hand, expects to be linked with Woods the rest of his life. Then again, Haney didn't have such a long list of top golfers (except for Mark O'Meara) before coaching Woods, and he has said he won't coach another.
"It's a big honor to have coached Tiger," Haney said. "You couldn't have a better feather in your cap, especially with the success that Butch Harmon had with Tiger. In terms of my coaching career, obviously nothing can come close to the opportunity I had to work with Tiger Woods.
"I never hit any shots and Butch didn't, either, he said. "My friend Bill Parcells always says it best. 'You are what your record says you are.' And so how Tiger played while you coached him certainly has a lot to say about you as a coach."
REST VS. RUST: Ian Poulter was never tempted to return to golf earlier than he planned, and it worked out just fine for him. After a six-week break after Kapalua, he returned at the Match Play and reached the semifinals, before losing to Hunter Mahan and then Jason Day in a meaningless consolation match.
His quarterfinal match was a perfect example of how players can be sharp even after a long break. He beat Steve Stricker, who also had not played in six weeks.
"I guess I was glad to beat a part-timer," Poulter said.
Poulter said he did not play a single round over the last four weeks of his break, or even one hole on a golf course. He spent his time on the range, tuning his equipment. It reminded him of the early days working in a golf shop, when his duties left him no time to play on the course.
"I had time to practice, and that's what I do when I have time off," he said.
Some players have had time off, though not by choice.
Rory McIlroy goes into the Honda Classic with three competitive rounds this year, having missed the cut in Abu Dhabi and losing in the first round of Match Play.
OPEN QUALIFIER: Guan Tianglang will find out this week if the 14-year-old from China gets to play in two majors this year.
Guan earned a spot in the Masters when he won the Asia-Pacific Amateur late last year. The win also put him in the International Final Qualifying for the British Open, and the teenager is in the Asia qualifier. It starts Thursday at Amata Spring in Thailand, where he won the Asia-Pacific Amateur.
Four spots are available.
Also in the field are Cheng-tsung Pan of Taiwan, the runner-up to Guan and the highest-ranked Asian amateur at No. 5; and Hideki Matsuyama of Japan, a two-time winner of the Asia-Pacific who made the cut both times he played in the Masters.
DIVOTS: The OHL Classic at Mayakoba, held opposite the Match Play Championship the last six years, moves to November this year. Tournament officials were at Dove Mountain with a clever recruiting tool, and to remind players of the date change. They gave players an iPad with their names engraved, loaded with information about the Mexican beach resort. ... Golf Channel altered its programming last week to show live coverage of the Women's Australian Open, where 15-year-old Lydia Ko was tied for the lead going into the final round. It had an audience of 288,000 viewers for a 0.22 rating. ... Trump Doral has signed on as the host course for the World Golf Championship event through 2023. ... Bo Van Pelt and Mark Wilson were elected co-chairmen of the Player Advisory Council, meaning they will join the policy board next year.
STAT OF THE WEEK: Americans have won the last 11 official PGA Tour events, their longest streak since 11 in a row from 2010 Barclays through the 2011 Sony Open.
FINAL WORD: "If they happen to play poorly at Augusta, those two, I think it's going to be a tough year for them as far as winning majors." — Johnny Miller, on Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy.


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The following article is excerpted from a report of a study done by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with contributions from the Institute for Sustainable Communities and Green for All. The primary audiences for the report are policy makers and program designers—especially those who are relatively new to the field, such as those in the over 2,000 towns, cities, states, and regions that are recipients of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds for clean-energy programs.
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Policy makers and program designers in the United States and abroad are deeply concerned with two interconnected questions. The first is how to scale up energy efficiency to a level that is commensurate with the energy and climate challenges we face. The second is how to realize the potential for energy savings that efficiency advocates have touted for decades. When policy makers ask what energy efficiency can do, the answers usually revolve around the technical and economic potential of energy efficiency. Rarely do they address the factor that matters most for changing energy usage in existing homes. That factor is the consumer. A growing literature is concerned with the behavioral aspects of energy consumption. We examine a narrower, related subject: How can millions of Americans be persuaded to spend time and money upgrading their homes to eliminate energy waste, avoid high utility bills, and spur the economy?
With hundreds of millions of public dollars flowing into incentives, workforce training, and other initiatives to support comprehensive home energy improvements, it makes sense to review the history of these programs and glean the best practices for encouraging homeowners to make these improvements. Looking across 30 years of energy efficiency programs that have targeted the residential market, we find that many of the same issues that confronted past program administrators are relevant today. How do we cost-effectively motivate customers to take action? Whom can we partner with to increase program participation? How do we get residential efficiency programs to increase in scale?
While there is no proven formula—and while energy efficiency advocates have had only limited success to date with motivating large numbers of Americans to invest in comprehensive home energy improvements, especially if they are being asked to pay most of the cost—there is a rich and varied history of the experiences of efficiency program implementers that new programs can draw upon. Here are some of the lessons that the authors of this report have learned from those experiences.
Marketing and Outreach Lessons
It is not enough to provide information; programs must sell something people want. High home energy use is not currently a pressing issue for many people. Find a more appealing draw, such as health, comfort, energy security, competition, or community engagement to attract interest.
Time spent studying the target population is important. A blanket marketing campaign to reach everyone will probably be ineffective and expensive, especially at the start of a program. Find and target early adopters. Tailor messages to this audience. Demographics can help you to segment the market and select the best strategies, but you can also segment the market by personal values, interest in hot issues such as health concerns, or the likelihood of saving energy and money.
Partner with trusted messengers. Larger subsidies and more-voluminous mailings don' t necessarily win over more customers. Programs can and should have a local face, with buy-in from community leaders. Tapping trusted parties, such as local leaders and local organizations, builds upon existing relationships and networks.
Language is powerful. Avoid meaningless or negatively associated words like retrofit and audit. Use words and ways of communicating that tap into customers' existing mental frames. Encourage program staff and contractors to use specific vivid examples, personalize the material wherever possible, frame statements in terms of loss rather than gain, and induce homeowners to make a commitment.
Contractors are program ambassadors. The contractor, more than any other party, is the person sitting across the kitchen table making the final sales pitch to the homeowner. Therefore contractors are often the public face and primary sales force for the program. Most programs that do a lot of energy upgrades have worked closely with contractors. Conversely, contractors who make a poor first impression or do shoddy work reflect poorly on the program.
One touch is not enough. The advertising industry' s three-times convincer concept means that most people need to be exposed to a product message at least three times before they buy into it. Energy efficiency is an especially tough product—it can be expensive, and it can't be readily touched, tasted, or seen—and that calls for a layered marketing and outreach approach that has a repeated impact on potential participants.
Program Design and Implementation Lessons
Make it easy, make it fast. Offer seamless, streamlined services—package incentives, minimize paperwork, and preapprove contractors. Give people fewer reasons to decide against making home improvements by making it simple.
Contractors should be full partners. Contractors are the key point of sale for home energy improvements. They already understand the traditional renovation and home improvement market, and they have access to customers who may initially just want to replace a furnace but may be open to other improvements. It's imperative to design a program that contractors want to sell -— and convince them that the opportunity is worth the time and money it will take to get the appropriate training and equipment.
Rebates, financing, and other incentives do matter. Past energy efficiency program experience shows that incentives do motivate the choice to do home upgrades and can be extremely important in getting a program off the ground.
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A well-qualified workforce and trustworthy work are vital. Promoting a program aggressively before contractors can handle the workload can lead to disgruntled customers. Solid performance builds trust with customers by reliably producing energy savings, and by improving the customer's health, safety, and comfort.
Persistence and consistency are valuable. It takes time for partnerships to take root, for word to reach consumers, and for contractors to respond to an opportunity. Consistent programs that last for more than a year or two can create a more robust market for home energy improvements; ephemeral programs can undermine trust.
Know success and failure by measuring them, and experiment to figure out what works. Designing for data collection and evaluation at the start allows for midstream adjustments, and better selection among strategies. It also enables you to recognize success when it arrives. It is important to test strategies before launching full-scale programs and to test a variety of strategies to learn what works.
In retrospect, many of these lessons seem obvious. Forge strong local partnerships. Find out what people care about. Speak their language. Sell something people want. Be trustworthy. But our case studies, interviews, and literature review also show that energy efficiency program staff and contractors are learning more about how behavioral and marketing insights can be applied to reduce energy use in the residential market. Success will require multifaceted approaches that are based on a deeper understanding of what motivates homeowners and contractors. Effective programs will be tailored to the location, thoughtfully researched and tested, and personalized to the target audience. They will also be more labor intensive than simple incentive programs. Just as there is no single, monolithic customer, there is no one way to drive demand for home energy improvement -- but past experience and research offer policy makers and program designers a strong foundation on which to build.
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The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox were the teams of the 00's
The Atlanta Braves were the team of the 90's.
The St. Louis Cardinals were the team of the 80's.
The New York Yankees were the team of the late 70's
The Cincinnati Reds were the team of the mid 70's
The Oakland A's were the team of the early 70's.
The St. Louis Cardinals were the team of the late 60's
The New York Yankees were the team of the early 60's
The New York Yankees were the team of the 50's
Through out baseball history there have been gaps between the have and have-nots. Didn't the Red Sox SELL Babe Ruth to the rich Yankees? For DYNASTY League Baseball and Fantasy teams the salary cap provides a level playing field. Here are a few history lessons from Baseball's real life counter parts and how they built their dynasties.
Rule #1: Overall top to bottom talent is more important than a star player or two. A single baseball player does not make that much difference to any team.
Larry Bird transformed a bad team and sent new banners to the rafters for the Boston Celtics. Lew Alcindor came to the Milwaukee Bucks and brought the fastest ever championship to an expansion team. Michael Jordan three peated, left to play baseball and what happened? The Bulls completely unraveled. Jordan came back and three peated again. It might be argued that any of these players might be worth as much as 30 wins in a season.
Think of any baseball player who has had that impact?
How many wins did MVP Robin Yount give the Brewers in 1982? 6.6 wins. How about the best defensive shortstop in baseball in 1982, Ozzie Smith? Four wins. Well, he must have saved 100 runs with his defense though? Thirty Four runs saved by the best defensive shortstop of All-Time in 1982.
Whitey Herzog reshuffled the Cards so to speak in a series of trades by trading away Garry Templeton, Rollie Fingers, Ted Simmons and it's top prospect David Green. In return he received Ozzie Smith, Bruce Sutter and Dave LaPoint. What Herzog created, was a much more balanced team. Despite giving away a considerable amount of talent, the team top to bottom was more talented.
Well we all know how important it is to have that big closer in the bullpen. Wrong again. Bruce Sutter left the Cardinals for Ted Turner's coffers in 1984. In 1984 the Cards had won 84 games, but many perceived the loss of Sutter would result in the Cards winning only 68 or 70 wins in 1985. Instead, Herzog used a "bullpen by committee" to register 101 wins on what is arguably the best Cardinals team of All-Time.
Rule #2 Evaluate players keeping in mind the most important situations in baseball
DYNASTY League baseball includes the most important situational statistics that lead to runs scored beyond what would normally be expected. These ratings can boost a player's performance beyond his normal "card or file" numbers.
Clutch hitting (clutch rating)
Pitching out of a Jam (jam rating)
Not walking the leadoff man (off rating)
Not giving up HR with runners on base (on rating)
Above: Roy Halladay's 2010 DYNASTY League Baseball card with a perfect trifecta of jam/on/off situational pitching ratings makes him a dominating ace.
If your players have these ratings, keep in mind that these all important situational statistics can turn a pitcher with a average or poor hits per 9 inning (greater than 9.0), walks per 9 innings (greater than 3.0) or HR per 9 innings (greater than 1.0) into an effective pitcher if used properly.One of my favorite examples of a pitcher who benefits by being able to pitch in situations is the 1982 Cy Young winner – Pete Vuckovich.
Vuckovich had an 18-6 W-L record, but gave up 9.4 H/9 and 4.1 BB/9. That's 13.5 baserunners per 9 IP and yet Vuckovich still had a very good ERA of 3.34. How did he do that? Well, if you check the 1982 DYNASTY Vuckovich card or file you'll see he has both a jam and on Situation rating. With runners in scoring position and 2 outs, Vuckovich would pitch differently working the corners and not giving into the hitters and making them hit his pitch. With runners on base you just were not going to get a FAT pitch to hit so the HR's he gave up usually were with no one on or one runner on.
Rule #3: The most efficient offenses win more games.
Tony LaRussa and Walt Jockety should take notes on how Herzog built the team of the 80's. The Cardinals of 1980 were a team of high average hitters. They were capable of large outbursts of offense where they would score 10-12 runs, but would score two runs the next game and three the next. The offense was inconsistent and resulted in losing records. In fact, they scored more runs in 1980 than when the Cards won the Championship in 1982. Herzog reshuffled the Cards so to speak and created a much more consistent offense capable of generating more one-run innings that would win more close ball games. An offense that generates four runs every game (4,4,4,4) will win many more games than an offense that scores the majority of its runs in one game (13,1,1,1)
It's ironic that the LaRussa-Jocketty front office has created a very atypical Cardinals team that resembles an Earl Weaver team built around power and the big inning. So does this mean that the one-run offense is preferred over the big inning offense? Not necessarily. Gene Mauch won 93 games with the 1982 California Angels while leading the league in one run innings. Remember that it takes more runs per game to win with a big inning offense than a one-run offense. The best offenses are those that can play equally effectively at both the one run innings and big innings.
The ultimate proponent of the three run inning, Earl Weaver would rarely use a one-run strategy such, as a bunt or hit and run. Baltimore lead the league in 1982 with 62 three-run innings. Milwaukee's Brew Crew finished second with 53. Mauch's California Angels had 283 one-run innings while Baltimore had 218.
Herzog, while known for using basestealers Lonnie Smith, Vince Coleman, Willie McGee and Ozzie Smith for his one-run strategies, fully understood the importance of a player like George Hendrick or Jack Clark to create the big inning as well. The Cardinals were capable of generating one run when they needed it in close games, but also had the big inning threat to break open a game.
Harvey's Wallbangers of 1982 were second in the AL in one-run innings. While almost every player in the lineup was capable of the long ball, the offense was also capable of generating one-run. In one of the most classic of speed vs. power, one-run inning vs. big inning World Series matchups, it was Herzog's offense that triumphed.
The Big Red Machine had power with Bench, Foster and Perez, but it also had speed and great baserunning with Morgan, Concepcion and Rose. Sparky Anderson's team had an almost perfect balance of power and speed that gave it the capability to play for the big inning, but also the one-run inning when needed.
Rule #4 The best indicator of overall offensive value is OBP plus SLG.
I hear about people who count the hit and walk numbers on each DYNASTY League Baseball card. Save yourself the time. All you need to look at is to add up the OBP and SLG of the player (OPS) to evaluate the player's overall offensive value. Each DYNASTY League Baseball hitter's card can't be looked at on it's own. It needs it's other half — a pitcher's card representing the league average. The DYNASTY League Baseball system needs to be thought of as if each batter vs. pitcher matchup is one card from 0-999.
Rule #5 Understand what it takes to win at home and on the road.
Too often I hear how you need to build your team to fit your ballpark without an equal understanding of what it takes to win on the road.
DYNASTY League Baseball makes over 200 ballpark adjustments so that the player will perform just as he did in the ballpark he played in. If DYNASTY League Baseball didn't adjust for ballpark effects, the player's statistics would be above or below the actual numbers and the simulation's accuracy would be compromised.
Below: Home runs will fly out of Great American Ball park in DYNASTY League Baseball Online
Rule #6 Understand the value of scarcity.
Why is gold valuable? It's scare. Why is pitching valuable in the 90's? It's scarce. In 1997, Roger Clemens is worth his weight in gold. In 1968, Carl Yastrzemski is worth his weight in gold as the only .300 hitter in the AL.
All of the DYNASTY League Baseball player cards and files are normalized for the league average. What this means is that Clemens performance, or DYNASTY League Baseball card or file, would be better in 1997 than if he had pitched in 1967 and had the same stats. So if you are looking at statistically similar players from different years keep in mind the league average for that year.
If you look at cf Paul Blair from the DYNASTY League Baseball 1969 season set, his A+ range is rare. Only the very best players of All-Time receive an A+ range rating. Some years no one receives an A+ rating at a particular position. This full spectrum of range ratings is unique to DYNASTY Baseball. Blair's rare A+ range rating makes him particularly valuable in a key defensive position.
Rule #7 Don't create a platoon weakness. Exploit your opponents platoon weakness.
I heard many instances of Cardinal players saying that having Herzog as manager was worth several wins a season. How many wins is the best manager worth? A random batting order compared to a lineup is known to generate a difference of only about 5% in terms of runs scored. In game strategies can make a critical difference in close games or in keeping games close and giving your team the opportunity to win. It's possible that an outstanding manager can win 5-10 more ball games than a poor one.
Jim Leyland typically runs his lineups left, right, left and he feels the acquisition of LH hitter Darrell Daulton late in the 1997 season as a key to Florida's Championship season. Daulton gave Florida another LH bat that would be effective vs. RH pitching. Leyland's batting order logic minimized the effectiveness of a pitching move against his team beyond the first batter pitched to.
Earl Weaver had a three-headed platoon in left field of Gary Roenicke, John Lowenstein and Benny Ayala. This flexibility gave him firepower to counter moves in the late innings.
Manager Mike Hargrove and GM John Hart are astute baseball people, but I believe Cleveland lost the World Series in 1997 because it lacked LH reliever bullpen depth. Paul Assenmacher was the only lefty out of the bullpen. In order for your bullpen to match-up vs. batters in the late innings, you need to have at least two and probably three LH pitchers who are effective at getting out LH hitters. You should have at least one lefty whose sole purpose it to pitch to and get our one LH hitter late in the game.
You can manage one of the existing historical Dynasty teams in the new Greatest Team leagues coming to DYNASTY League Baseball Online this month.
This spring current season draft leagues will launch at DYNASTY League Baseball Online with a new integrated live draft room and profile based computer manager.


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Righteousness: An investment with incredible long-term results
Have you thought about what righteousness entails and what its benefits are?
All God's Word and all God's wisdom are permeated with righteousness. "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom." Hebrews 1:8.
Jesus was the happiest man on earth because He loved righteousness. (Hebrews 1:9) Righteousness brings blessing. It brings peace and joy. It is a law of God's kingdom, so learning righteousness is a huge investment opportunity, both for this life and for all eternity. It affects not just us, but the people around us, the society we live in. Righteousness has incredible benefits! Here are some of them:
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A joy and satisfaction in knowing what is coming
Quite simply, to be righteous is to do what is right and good for one's future. That is why being righteous can have an appearance of disadvantage in the moment, because it seems hard to make the right choice. But in the long run, it has the opposite effect.
You could take for example, a hockey player. He knows that he has to do certain exercises and refrain from certain foods in order to become a good hockey player. Even though it seems like it would be fantastic to indulge today, he thinks about his goal, his vision; then the choice to do what is right for his goal actually brings a joy and satisfaction that wouldn't have come with making the wrong choice.
It is the same in every area. Righteousness brings satisfaction that goes much deeper than the satisfaction of having gone along with temporary, fleeting gratification. It is a joy of anticipation, far more interesting than a life of bad choices and waiting for the harvest. Righteous deeds are investments for the future!
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Perfect rest and peace that cannot be shaken
Jesus became the Prince of Peace, and before He left this earth, He said to His disciples, "Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you." John 14:27.
Think about when Jesus stood before Pontius Pilate. How could He stand there in perfect rest when they were all accusing Him? (Matthew 27:11-14) How could He think about His mother and John, even while He was hanging on the cross? (John 19:25-27) How could He do that?
It was because He had gained peace through the sacrifice of His own will – His own preferences, His own advantage. Righteousness, in Jesus' mind, was sacrifice. Righteousness was not taking any honor for Himself, because all honor belongs to God. Jesus suffered as the just for the unjust, and by doing that, He could bring us to God. (1 Peter 3:18)
As disciples, we now have the chance to go the same way that Jesus went, and thereby partake of the same joy and peace that Jesus had, that could not be shaken by anything or anybody in any circumstance! (John 15:11)
For example, I could think, "I'm righteous when it comes to money matters." I have paid my bills; I have kept everything in order. But with that, I could be full of demands, full of expectations that others should be this way or that way. I could be full of unrest with other people's unrighteousness. But the righteousness that Jesus came with is not a human sense of righteousness. That is why the peace and rest that comes from the righteousness which is from God by faith, (Philippians 3:9) can't even be compared to the joy or satisfaction that comes from merely doing what is legally or morally right.
I forego an incredible amount of stress and strain this way, because I no longer have to strive for anything for myself – be it honor, money, or my own self-righteous thoughts. What a liberating benefit! And the long-term reward? "Well done, good and faithful servant." Matthew 25:23. To hear that one day will be far beyond anything we can imagine now.
Righteousness breaks down our destructive human self-will
In essence, righteousness breaks down our self-will and that is the incredible benefit and goal for a disciple; to have the same mindset that Jesus had when He came to this world: "Behold, I have come – in the volume of the book it is written of Me – to do Your will, O God," and: "… not My will, but Yours, be done." Hebrews 10:7; Luke 22:42. We see from this that our self-will and God's will have nothing in common. They don't mix or overlap at all. One must go in order for the other one to be done.
The human self-will is everything that prioritizes my advantage, and quite often this is at the expense of somebody else. That is the will we are born with. Almost all people never grow out of that stage. They refine their expression of unrighteousness, so that it sounds better. But why is there conflict? Why is there unrest? Why are there wars and difficulties?
My will is saturated with unrighteousness, no matter how I dress it. You have your will and I have my will, and then I think, "If you could only just do my will, then we could be good friends." But that isn't true. That's where conflict comes from. (James 4:1-2) The human self-will is a plague; it is a burden. It breaks down society.
When I begin to see how much of an unbelievable handicap the human self-will is, then being able to break it down becomes an incredible benefit both for myself and those around me. If I have a care for people, if I have a desire to build up my home, my local community, the society where I live, then growth in this righteousness – in the sacrifice of my own will – will be an enormous benefit to my family, my neighbors, my friends, my colleagues, humanity in general, and my future.
Perfect unity and harmony with every single person
Earlier it was mentioned about having a vision. What this vision really contains is that from my side, in my life now and in eternity, the conflict and dissension between me and other people can be completely taken away by righteousness. What a way to live! It is perfectly possible to have this attitude: "For my part, everyone can stay exactly the way they are." When you think about the vision to become a person who has no conflict with anybody or anything – no inner conflict – then that vision empowers us to do what is necessary today, to deny ourselves and follow Jesus. (Luke 9:23)
This is the same vision that Jesus had. He had looked down on the earth and saw this immense conflict. Domestic conflict, worldwide conflict. These creatures made in His own image running around killing each other, offending and disrespecting one another. There must be something that can be done! That is why He came to earth and opened a new and living way, showing by His own example that we, through the death of our human self-will, shall become like one body, functioning in harmony. (Ephesians 4:1-6; Ephesians 4:11-16; John 17:20-23; Ephesians 2:14-16; 1 John 1:6-7)
The joy that was set before Him was that He saw brothers dwelling together in perfect unity. (Hebrews 12:2; Psalm 133) For most people, differences dictate conflict. (James 3:16; James 4:1-2) But in God's kingdom differences dictate harmony and productivity that is unheard of on this earth.
The ultimate benefit is the prayer that Jesus prayed in John 17:21-23, that we may be one just as the Father and Son are one. Think about what this perfect unity can accomplish!
Righteousness is an investment
Righteousness is what will rule in eternity. It is the catalyst for growth; it is the key law in God's kingdom. So, you can talk about the investment opportunities of righteousness – it is huge, both for this life and for all eternity. It is everything actually.
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When Microsoft first introduced Internet Explorer 9 at PDC in November 2009, it didn't show much. A few benchmarks, some talk about the technologies that the browser would use, and a little information about the direction that development would take. But it was a significant event nonetheless. After years of playing catch-up—the stopgap Internet Explorer 7 added tab support, and then the solid Internet Explorer 8, which offered little in the way of support for new Web innovations—Microsoft was starting to position its browser not only as good, but able to take on the competition and be best in class.
And with the release today of Internet Explorer 9, the company has gone on to deliver just that—IE9 is the most modern browser there is.
Microsoft set out to do four things with IE9. The browser had to be fast, it had to be standards-compliant, it had to be trustworthy, and it had to put the focus on sites and Web content, rather than the browser. Ars has been following the browser's development since the first public preview in March 2010, with extensive coverage of the beta and release candidate, but those major points are still worth looking at.
Focus on sites
Internet Explorer 7, and then Chrome, have ushered in a trend for stripped-down browser interfaces. Internet Explorer 7 ditched the menu bar by default (though this default was later changed), and Chrome took this design a step further by putting its tabs on top and all but abandoning the toolbar concept. Internet Explorer 9 builds on—or rather, subtracts from—the work done in previous Internet Explorer versions. Its interface is stripped down, clean, and simple. The intent is that the site should be the focus, not the browser frame. So tabs have moved alongside the address bar—though they can be moved below it if desired—the status and menu bars are gone by default, the toolbars are gone by default, and the icons on the buttons use new artwork.
The new pinned sites feature—allowing sites to be docked to the taskbar and for site developers to give those taskbar icons custom jump lists and overlays—extends this concept further. For example, if you pin Facebook to your taskbar, you get instant access to Facebook itself by clicking the icon, direct access to your news, messages, events, and your friend list through the jump list, and an icon overlay to show when you have new messages. Together, these make using Facebook more streamlined, and make it feel much more like a real application.
Notifications within the browser have also been made substantially less intrusive, again with the intention of preventing them from interfering with the site experience.
Overall, it's a good look that does what it's supposed to—it keeps out of your way. While I think it will work well for many, it does still fall some way short for those placing more extreme demands, however. It lacks any direct equivalent to the "pinned tabs" found in Firefox and Chrome; these tabs occupy less space than regular tabs, making them convenient for persistently-open sites. The new tab management facilities in Firefox 4 also have no analog in Internet Explorer.
And oh yeah. There's a download manager included. At last.
High performance
Mozilla and Google are both developing similar hardware acceleration for Firefox and Chrome, respectively. Chris Blizzard, director of Web Platform at Mozilla, even tweeted that he bet Firefox would ship GPU acceleration first. He bet wrong; Internet Explorer 9 is the first stable browser to reach the market with extensive, broad-based hardware acceleration. Firefox 4 (due in a few days or weeks) will add GPU acceleration support too, and Chrome 11 (currently in beta) should provide broad GPU acceleration too—but as things stand, Microsoft is going to be first to market with a widely accelerated browser. The company has raised the bar on what's expected in a browser, and it's no great surprise to see Mozilla and Google go down a similar path.
We're going to perform in-depth browser benchmarking once Firefox 4 is final, but regardless of benchmarks, Internet Explorer 9 feels very fast. In the end, that's perhaps what matters most: even scripting-heavy Web applications render quickly, animate smoothly, and perform well.
The hardware acceleration also makes pages look good. For drawing text on screen, Microsoft is using its new DirectWrite subsystem. DirectWrite strives to reproduce fonts more faithfully than the system used in older versions of the browser; it tries to create something closer to the font designer's intent, rather than shoe-horning the letter shapes into the pixel grid used on-screen. Mac OS X (and Safari on Windows) also takes this faithful approach, though Apple seems to take it even further than Microsoft has. This has divided opinions during the beta process, with some finding the browser makes certain text look very fuzzy, especially for text that isn't black-on-white. With the video card and monitor I use, and the sites I visit, it looks fantastic.
Standard support
Microsoft's mantra throughout IE9's development has been "the same markup." As anyone who's written a webpage will attest to, the normal approach to Web development is: write the page once, check it out in a bunch of browsers, then tweak it endlessly so that it actually looks the same—or at least, passably similar—in every browser you care about. Standards compliance is the best weapon Web developers have against this kind of proliferation. To that end, Microsoft has taken great strides in making IE9 a standards-conformant browser. This means not only making its behavior match against the specification; it also means working to ensure that the specifications themselves are clear, bug-free, and have proper tests to go with them.
To that end, Internet Explorer 9 contains broad support for a range of new standards that have been lumped under the HTML5 banner; plug-in-free video and audio, bitmap graphics using canvas, vector graphics using SVG, embedded fonts using WOFF, and so on. This work has made the browser a far more attractive platform for developers that's far closer to the state of the art.
In many ways just as important as the browser's support are the many hundreds of tests that Microsoft has submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the group that creates Web standards. These tests allow easy comparison of individual features in different browsers, to verify that they do all implement the specification, and more to the point, implement it with the same, predictable behavior. Over the long term, these test suites will help browser vendors minimize the differences found in their browsers, allowing developers to spend more time creating exciting websites, and less time trying to get their pages to look correct.
In contrast to the other browser developers, Microsoft's approach to standards support has been conservative. The company doesn't want to ever have to remove or fundamentally modify a feature that it has implemented due to changes in specifications. As such, it has taken a policy of only implementing those specifications that are unlikely to undergo any further changes. As a result, Internet Explorer 9 will compare unfavorably on sites like HTML5 Test, but Microsoft views this as far preferable to making developers have to alter their real-world applications just because a specification has changed.


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Graduation Season? More like Disinvitation Season.
As students across the country prepare for pomp and circumstance, college and university administrators are grappling with a series of commencement speech boondoggles.
This year alone, nearly a dozen big-name commencement speakers — including the head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — have been invited to speak at graduation ceremonies, only to withdraw or have their invitations rescinded in the wake of campus protests.
"It's not necessarily that all that many people get disinvited, but students and faculty get together and demand that speakers get disinvited," says Greg Lukianoff, the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
This kind of commencement controversy has picked up steam since 2009, Lukianoff says, with campus protests hitting a new peak in the last year.
The latest target was Robert Birgeneau, a former chancellor at University of California, Berkeley. Birgeneau was slated to speak this weekend to graduates of Haverford College outside Philadelphia, but students and some faculty protested his selection. Birgeneau was chancellor at Berkeley when University of California police used force to break up an Occupy protest in 2011. The move drew widespread criticism. Birgeneau first voiced support for campus police but later apologized.
Students and faculty members who objected to Birgeneau's planned speech argued that Haverford has a "history of supporting activism, pacifism and anti-violence work" and that the "use of force" is not among the principles of the school's honor code.
In a letter to Birgeneau, his opponents put forward a list of demands, calling on Birgeneau to "support reparations" for those injured by police, to "state that linking arms is not a form of violent protest" and to pen a letter to Haverford students outlining his position on the 2011 incident and what he learned from it.
Birgeneau refused, telling Haverford's student paper that, as a longtime proponent of civil rights and nonviolent protest, he wouldn't respond "to untruthful, violent verbal attacks."
In a letter to the college community announcing Birgeneau's decision to withdraw, Haverford President Daniel Weiss praised Birgeneau as a "longtime advocate for LGBT rights, faculty diversity, and access and affordability for the middle class as well as undocumented students."
"The Board of Managers, campus colleagues, and I express our appreciation for the views of those who were opposed to Dr. Birgeneau's selection," Weiss wrote. "It is nonetheless deeply regrettable that we have lost an opportunity to recognize and hear from one of the most consequential leaders in American higher education."
While Birgeneau is the latest commencement speaker to bow under the pressure of campus protests, he is not alone. Earlier this week, Lagarde withdrew as commencement speaker for Smith College.
"I was surprised by her decision and disappointed. It was a small minority of students concerned about her presence at commencement," Smith President Kathleen McCartney says. "The vast majority of students and faculty were looking forward to hearing what she had to say, especially because she has spoken so eloquently about women and leadership."
Then there's Rice, a lightning rod since her days in the George W. Bush administration. She withdrew as speaker at Rutgers University in New Jersey amid protest over her role in the Iraq War. Some Rutgers students and faculty accused Rice of condoning torture, lying about weapons of mass destruction, and helping drag the U.S. into a foreign policy debacle.
Rice released a statement saying that the invitation had become "a distraction for the university community" and that the school should instead be focused on graduation festivities.
Rutgers history professor Rudy Bell, who helped lead the protests, says that a commencement speech and the honorary degree that comes with it signal the school's endorsement of the speaker's life work.
"Starting needless wars that lead to 100,000 deaths and a million displacements are not the kind of accomplishments that we consider something Rutgers University should valorize with an honorary degree," he says.
Picking a commencement speaker is no easy task, as explained recently by Chancellor Marty Meehan of the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The speaker there this year is Bill Nye the Science Guy, a nod to the school's strength in the field.
"We have a committee of folks on our campus and from there it goes to the UMass board of trustees and they vote on them," he said. "We usually decide from there who's going to be our commencement speaker."
There are lots of reasons schools turn to controversial, big names at graduation: They often bring publicity with them to campus and can inspire a flood of donations from new alumni and their families.
"You want to raise money, you want notoriety, but you also want to inspire the graduate," Meehan said.
But with headline-making speakers comes the risk of student backlash and university leaders being put in the uncomfortable position of having to reverse course.
That's what happened at Pasadena City College in California this year where officials invited screenwriter Dustin Lance Black to speak, disinvited him, then re-invited him.
While controversy over commencement speakers has made headlines, it's not entirely new. Back in 1990, some Wellesley College students protested their school's decision to invite Barbara Bush to speak at commencement. And, in 1998, Ted Turner backed out of speaking at Macalester College's graduation after students protested the use of an Indian mascot by the Atlanta Braves.
"I think we are seeing a disturbing trend," says McCartney of Smith College. "I've been describing it as a lack of tolerance for a wide variety of views."
Lawrence Bacow, the former president of Tufts College, says the uptick in back-outs is worrying. Universities are meant to be environments that promote free speech and open-mindedness, but, he argues, by protesting, students are self-selecting speakers who only reinforce what they believe.
"The role of a speaker — any speaker — who seeks to educate the audience that they're speaking to is to challenge their beliefs and not necessarily to reinforce them," Bacow says. "And so if the test for giving a speech on campus or commencement speech is that one has never offended anyone by virtue of anything ever one has done in public life, there are going to be very few people who can give commencement speeches."
Commencement speaker shakeups have been another source of controversy on campuses. Several prominent public servants have pulled out of speeches this spring in response to student and faculty protests over their politics. Protesters say they're frustrated by schools' growing obsession with big name speakers. But some higher education leaders worry an intolerant minority is hijacking graduation.
Eric Westervelt, with the NPR Ed Team, has more.
ERIC WESTERVELT, BYLINE: Christine Lagarde has been an outspoken proponent of women's rights. She has a seat at the global table as the first woman to lead the International Monetary Fund. Smith College leaders saw her as a good choice to speak at one of America's top women's liberal arts colleges. But the fund's global policies have made the IMF a protest lightening rod. Smith students started an online petition calling on the school to withdraw Lagarde's graduation invitation. One Smith student wrote that she was quote, "utterly disgusted Smith has chosen to host someone from the IMF, an organization that has proven itself to be nothing but imperialistic, ineffective, and oppressive."
This week, Lagarde withdrew, saying she didn't want to distract from the graduation celebration. Kathleen McCartney is the president of Smith College.
KATHLEEN MCCARTNEY: I think we are seeing a disturbing trend and I've been describing it as a lack of tolerance for a wide variety of views.
WESTERVELT: McCartney says she'll defend and promote her student's right to protest anything they want to. But she's troubled by a creeping new form of political correctness she's seeing on some campuses, including hers, where some students on the left don't seem to want to hear from or engage with public servants whose policies or beliefs they might disagree with. Now, McCartney plans to push back.
MCCARTNEY: So in this case, you know, I am going to speak about and write about my dismay over the narrowing of views that are deemed acceptable by some groups of students on some campuses.
WESTERVELT: Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently backed out of a Rutgers graduation speech after campus protests over her role in the Iraq War. Rutgers history professor Rudy Bell helped lead those protests. He says this isn't about free speech. Rice, Bell says, is welcome to speak on campus anytime except graduation weekend, where a speech and honorary degree signal the school's endorsement of the life work of the speaker.
RUDY BELL: Starting needless wars that lead to 100,000 deaths and a million displacements are not the kind of accomplishments that we consider something Rutgers University should valorize with an honorary degree. It has nothing to do with academic freedom. I mean, she's welcome to speak on Monday.
WESTERVELT: Protesting campus speakers is not new. But Lawrence Bacow, the former president of Tufts University, calls this year's string of back-outs troubling. He worries the incidents show that too many students are living in a kind of intellectual echo chamber and self-selecting people who will reinforce their world view.
LAWRENCE BACOW: And I think that's sad. The role of a speaker - any speaker - who seeks to educate the audience that they're speaking to is to challenge their beliefs, not necessarily simply to reinforce them.
WESTERVELT: Bacow, a respected voice in higher education now at Harvard, says more students seem to want a celebrity to entertain them. He notes that those pressured to withdraw have devoted their lives to public service, which means they've inevitably made controversial decisions.
BACOW: And so if the test to giving a commencement speech is that one has never offended anyone by virtue of anything ever one has done in public life, they're going to be very few people who can give commencement speeches.
WESTERVELT: Meantime, Smith College president Kathleen McCartney is dealing with angry alumni and students as graduation weekend approaches. She says she'll use this year's dust up as a chance for campus dialogue.
MCCARTNEY: I actually think this has been a tipping point. And I think that's a good thing. It will spark much needed debate about who has a voice to speak on campus.
WESTERVELT: McCartney says, come fall, she'll organize forums on academic freedom and she vows that they will have a diversity of views.
Eric Westervelt, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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More than a million Bild copies are published every day in spite of much criticism. I got closer to the reason of this success when I met the chief reporter of Germany's best-selling tabloid in Berlin.
The story of Kai Feldhaus
Kai Feldhaus looks a little bit young for his position, but he quickly convinced me and my colleagues from 16 countries in Asia and Africa of his professionalism. For almost two hours in Bild's headquarters in the German capital, Feldhaus showed us the way editors and reporters do their jobs. It was a great experience for all of us.
But that is only a part of the story, because the chief reporter even showed us more things, especially about himself, when he discussed with us in a conference room. Firstly, he answered all our questions about the tabloid paper. I was impressed with the way he answered the questions that related to moral issues of Bild. I was even impressed more when I learned that the publications have taken images of naked women from the front page in order to attract more female readers. It showed that Bild not only cares about circulation but also listen to the public.
Secondly, Feldhaus talked more about himself and that was the reason why I want to write this story. He started working for Bild 7 years ago. It was difficult for his parents to understand his decision. "Are you serious?" they asked after knowing about this job offer.
In spite of his parents' doubts, Feldhaus still became a reporter of Bild. He has done his job well and travelled to 42 counties in 5 continents in 7 years. It's a good job for him, and the most important thing is he had his own choice for his own life. That should be the way everyone should do for his own life.
My story
In Vietnam where I come from, most of children don't choose their own road. Their parents often force them to choose a university and then a job which they (the children) really don't want to. For example, I chose to get in an external economy department of a business university, which I don't fit. During the time in university, I truly recognized that it was not my life and I had to find my own career. I like writing, reading news and travelling a lot, so I myself chose journalism as my job.
I started searching information and studying to become a journalist. I did it on my own. In the second year in university, I set up a news site. It was very simple but it helped me to think of my job in the future. And then a good chance came to me.
Only five days after passing the final exam in university, I got the first job in my life. I worked as a collaborator for a sport daily newspaper which was especially published during the World Cup 2006. After that, I became a reporter of sport section in an online newspaper and then I get the same job for another sport daily newspaper. After over three years working as a sport reporter, I spent one year and a half to travel a lot and work as a freelancer. Finally, I joined the world news section of a leading online newspaper in Vietnam. It's my current job.
The problem was my parents didn't like journalism and they didn't want me to become a journalist, however there's no one but me can choose a job for myself. I chose to do as a journalist despite my parents' hard reaction. I tried my best to convince them that it's a right choice for me. Fortunately, my parents changed the way they think of journalism and now I'm working as a journalist. I think they're proud of what I decided and what I will do. They believe me. That's the most important thing for me.
Story of Bild
Bild is not the most creditable newspaper in Germany like Der Spiegel magazine or other publications. It is the biggest tabloid and more than a million people open their pocket everyday to buy copies of Bild.
What is the success of Bild? In my point of view, it always does the right thing in its own style. Bild has its own way and always sticks to it. It would be nonsense if Bild wanted to become a magazine like Der Spiegel. In spite of much criticism, this paper still goes on its track because it believes that it always has its own readers. They buy, they read and they support Bild.
Story of Bild is also the story of everyone. Every person should choose his own way and believe in this decision. Feldhaus and I did that, what's about you?


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HARTFORD, Conn. --Facebook has agreed to remove some so-called tribute pages related to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting over concerns they're being used to exploit the tragedy, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said today.
Echoing complaints already brought by some Sandy Hook families, Blumenthal and fellow Connecticut Democrats U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy and U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty requested the removal of offending pages in a letter to Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.
The lawmakers said some pages purportedly set up to honor the victims of the Dec. 14 shooting in Newtown have been used to exploit or harass the victims' families and could be used as vehicles for financial fraud.
The lawmakers also said the pages also appear to violate Facebook's own terms of use, which prohibit users from creating accounts for anyone other than themselves.
In the letter, the lawmakers said they know of more than 100 pages dedicated just one of the victims, slain teacher Victoria Soto.
Some of those contain postings from conspiracy theorists who claim the shootings were staged, and that Soto and others were actors.
"Certainly there have been many, too many, of these pages that are intimidating or harassing or exploitive," Blumenthal said. "I'm pleased that Facebook has responded positively."
The lawmakers said Facebook also had received complaints from Soto's family and the family of Kaitlin Roig, a first-grade teacher who survived the shooting and has been credited with saving the lives of her students by locking the class in a small bathroom and barricading the door.
A Facebook page titled "Kaitlin Roig is a Hero" contains numerous well-wishes but also prompted abusive posts, such as one that reads, "Congratulations Kaitlin or whatever your name is.. Now you're famous and got to meet the 'President.' You ought to be ashamed of yourself."
Blumenthal said his office received a phone call today from Facebook officials saying they had already begun removing abusive pages.
Facebook did not immediately reply to an email request for comment.
There has been one fraud arrest already connected to a Sandy Hook Facebook posting.
Nouel Alba, a 37-year-old New York City woman, is accused of using her Facebook account, telephone calls and text messages to seek donations for what she called a "funeral fund." She allegedly told one donor that she had to enter the scene of the mass shooting in Newtown to identify her nephew, according to the criminal complaint. Jury selection in her trial has been scheduled for March.
Blumenthal said they are not asking that all Sandy Hook-related tribute or donation pages be removed, just the ones that are not authorized by the families.
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The men attempted to take his vehicle but were unsuccessful. They were last seen fleeing the area on foot southbound and then eastbound on Harding Street.
Both subjects were described as black men in their 20s, about 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing about 140 pounds. One man had a goatee and was wearing a black T-shirt and dark shorts, and the other was wearing a white shirt, dark shorts and a white mask covering his face.
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Image: Triploid rainbow trout produced at the San Joaquin Hatchery. Credit: David Hunter via California Department of Fish and Wildlife


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Blog reader Haylee, an art student, recently wrote me to ask about how an artist balances work with the demands of family life.
First, a couple of slightly depressing quotes:
"Here is a piece of advice worth having. Never let your daughter marry an artist. You will bring her to sorrow if you do…An artist cannot be hampered by family cares. He must be free, able to devote himself entirely to his work." ---Ernest Meissonier
"If you must economize, be stingy with your wife, your clothes, your food, but never on what will make your pictures better. This may sound almost immoral but in the end if you make better pictures you will make more money and then you can enjoy the food and the clothes and buy your wife a mink coat." --Norman Rockwell
Shucks, guys, say it ain't so!
I would agree with the general statement that you have to pull out all the stops and do your best work, and both Meissonier's and Rockwell's legacies are proof of the value of their incredible effort.
Where I would disagree is the idea that the art life has to damage your personal life. Here are some things I would recommend to a young artist who is thinking about balancing the two:
1. Either stay single (like Frederick Lord Leighton or John Singer Sargent) or marry another artist (like Stanhope Forbes) or figure out an unconventional arrangement with fellow artists (The Red Rose Girls). An artist-spouse actually helps deepen your commitment to your work.
Let me hasten to add that there are plenty of happy marriages with sympathetic non-artists. And there are successful relationships where the couple function as a dissimilar team: an artist and a business manager, for example (Frank Frazetta or Andrew Wyeth). Hopefully the partner is someone who is OK with a wildly fluctuating income.
2. Put your studio in your home if it suits your work and temperament. If you have kids, make the studio a place that they're welcome. Then they can be a part of your work life. We used to have a box of Legos next to the painting table.
3. Try to keep normal hours and schedule regular family time off and time for inspiration. This just makes quality and productivity better anyway.
One of the most inspiring examples of an art life wedded to a family life is the Swedish artist Carl Larsson. In his memoirs he reflects that the paintings of his home and family "became the most immediate and lasting part of my life's work. For these pictures are of course a very genuine expression of my personality, of my deepest feelings, of all my limitless love for my wife and children."
I welcome any thoughts you might have, or better yet, comments from your spouse.
Thanks to Francis Vallejo, who brought this topic up, link.
Thanks, Haylee!, and may you have a happy life, whatever you choose.
And thanks to Jeanette, and love of my life and my sketching buddy.


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The Race for an alternative energy source
Four trips a day ferrying workmen and other passengers between Noank and Fishers Island aboard his charter boat "Popeye" has earned George Peabody the distinction of being one of the region's experts on The Race, the bottleneck channel at the eastern end of Long Island Sound.
"It does have a tendency to get treacherous," Peabody said as he turned his 42-foot vessel away from the docks at Spicer's Marina for the 20-minute trip to the spot between Race Point at the southwestern tip of Fishers Island and Valiant Rock off the east end of Long Island. "In the summer, there are a lot of boats in there. The currents are so strong it holds the lobster buoys down, so the lobstermen have to go out on slack tide."
Sculpted from boulder piles left by retreating glaciers some 19,000 years ago, The Race funnels millions of gallons of seawater between the Atlantic Ocean and the Sound with the daily tides, like a narrow doorway ushering the contents of a crowded room in and out very quickly.
Because of the strong tidal force - ranging from about 4.4 to 6.7 mph - The Race is among three dozen locations nationwide cited in a 2011 Georgia Tech-U.S. Department of Energy report as having the potential to generate more than 100 megawatts of power from underwater turbines.
Since 2009, Roger Bason and his company, Natural Currents Energy of New Paltz, N.Y., have eyed The Race as a possible site for a network of tidal energy turbines that would convert the power of moving water into electricity. His early interest in the The Race didn't materialize, but now, thanks to financial incentives New York state began offering in 2012 for renewable energy projects, Bason and his company are back.
"This is one of our priority sites," said Bason, whose company was chosen by the Department of Energy and New York City to build a wind-tidal-solar energy "theme park" on Wards Island off Manhattan, and also is looking to develop tidal energy sites in Alaska. "The technology is ready. There's enormous potential for a world-class tidal site" in The Race.
New York funding critical
In December, Bason obtained a preliminary permit from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for The Race. An application for a New York renewable energy grant is pending.
The FERC permit enables him to conduct detailed studies of the composition of the sea floor, current speeds of the tidal surges, and the existing marine life to help pinpoint the best location for turbines. He is also making contact with nearby municipalities, commercial and recreational fishermen, and boaters and agencies ranging from the Fish & Wildlife Service to the Coast Guard. Support from all would be key for his project eventually to win the approvals needed to build.
The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has weighed in, notifying FERC that although the project would be in New York waters, Connecticut has an interest because of its close proximity and possible impacts on wildlife, water quality and boaters.
With the three-year license, Bason has the exclusive right to do the studies and preparation work - all of which require a substantial investment without a guarantee of return - without worry about a rival company swooping in. According to his FERC application, about $650,000 would be spent on the various studies and tests on the site, with the goal of ultimately installing 50 of Natural Currents' Sea Dragon turbines to generate 5 megawatts of electricity. That's far less than the total capacity of The Race if it were to be fully developed, but still enough to power about 4,000 homes. The cost of installing the 50 turbines is estimated at $24 million.
"Due to the economics of renewable energy in New York state, it is necessary to have additional support to make a tidal energy project workable from an investment point of view," Bason said. "The (New York) governor's Energy Highway program provides a possible approach to provide that support."
A component new to his project since the earlier version would be the creation of "living reefs" in areas offshore of Fishers Island and Long Island that would buffer coastal communities from tidal surges such as those seen in Superstorm Sandy. These underwater structures would serve as habitat for mussel and oyster colonies. By pairing the underwater turbines with the reef structures, Bason said, he would not only be producing energy free of greenhouse gas emissions, but he also would be improving the biodiversity of the surrounding environment and protecting shoreline.
Local impact
Bason introduced his plan to a community group at a meeting on Fishers Island a few months ago, and also to the Fishers Island Utility Co., utility President Robert Wall said.
The utility currently receives its power from Groton Utilities via a 1.2-mile undersea cable. Since customers pay the third-highest rates in the country, Wall said, projects that could reduce costs are always of interest.
"I hope it comes around, but it's a long way down the road," he said.
Some discussions took place between Bason and Groton Utilities a few years ago, but none since the new permit was issued in December, said Paul Yatco, director of utilities at Groton Utilities. Bason's plan calls for tying his turbines into the existing cable, sending the power produced to Fishers Island and selling the excess to the utility, meaning some of the power generated by the turbines would come to Connecticut.
The project's potential impact on southeastern Connecticut extends further, owing to the prospective location of the turbines between Race Point on Fishers Island and Race Rock, a lighthouse that the New London Maritime Society is hoping to acquire from the federal government. Susan Tamulevich, director of the Maritime Society, said that if her group is awarded the lighthouse, it may be willing to provide a platform on Race Rock for Natural Currents to monitor the turbines. At her request, Bason wrote a letter to the government agency choosing the lighthouse's future owner, describing a possible cooperative arrangement between Natural Currents and the Maritime Society.
"We see it as a possible source of revenue to help us rehabilitate the lighthouse," she said. "If it turns out there is no environmental damage (from the turbines), we would be agreeable to working together in whatever mutually beneficial capacity."
In a letter to FERC, the Long Island-based Shinnecock Indian Nation raised several objections to Natural Currents' preliminary permit application, and said it may seek a competing license for a tidal energy project in The Race. The 1,000-member group Concerned Citizens of Montauk also submitted a letter to FERC opposing the placement of tidal turbines in The Race, citing concerns about possible harm to important fishing grounds and disruption of submarine traffic to and from the Naval Submarine Base in Groton.
The group also characterized the turbines, which can resemble airplane propellers or old-fashioned lawn mowers, depending on the design, as devices that would shred passing fish like a "Cuisinart of the sea." Developers of tidal projects off Roosevelt Island in New York City and in Maine, however, say their in-water experience with turbines shows that's not the case.
"The small fish swim through them, and the large fish avoid them," said Christopher Sauer, president and chief executive officer of Ocean Renewable Power Co., which began generating power in September for Bangor Hydro Electric from a turbine in Cobscook Bay, and plans to install two more. "We've had a long-standing partnership for fish studies with the University of Maine, and there has never been a single fish impact."


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