The scene is from a show titled "Jesus Hopped the A Train" by Stephen Guirgis, and it's part of Woods' "package" that he will perform in Friday night's Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.
The festival culminates in the finals of the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarships, which pit 16 finalists, two each from the nation's eight regions, against each other for two top prizes.
Fresno State's theater department has been well represented over the years at the national finals. Before this year, with theater professor Brad Myers as acting coach, six students in the past 25 years have attended.
But this year is special. Out of 300 students in the western region competing, Fresno State nabbed both top awards, with the honors going to Woods and Myles Bullock. It's quite rare for one university to send two students to the Kennedy Center. (Theater powerhouse Cal State Fullerton managed the feat a few years ago.) But Fresno State went the unprecedented step of winning the two finalist positions, plus the alternate spot, which went to Daniel Rodriguez, who also won the region' s top classical acting award. It was a clean sweep of all four of the region's acting awards.
Myers is obviously doing something right.
Now Woods and Bullock, along with their scene partners, Abels and Molly Kelly, will face the judges Friday night in an exercise that feels like part audition, part opening night. The two winners each will receive a $3,000 scholarship. A number of other prizes will be awarded as well, with both the Irene Ryan finalists and their scene partners eligible.
There's yet another Fresno face in the mix: Mohammad Shehata, a Fresno City College student who won a place in the criticism workshop. He's been attending plays and workshops, writing reviews and getting very little sleep as he competes against other regional finalists.
Woods, a junior who first started acting at Clovis West High School, and Bullock, a senior from Los Angeles who didn't get bitten by the acting bug until he got to Fresno, have been friends since they met while in the cast of the Fresno State production of "A Soldier's Play."
Before the February regional finals in Los Angeles, the pair knew there was a chance they could both go to the Kennedy Center, but it seemed pretty small given the numbers.
"We talked about it," Bullock says, "and I said, 'Look, man, we're friends. Why can't we both do it?' "
When Fresno State competes in an intercollegiate athletic event, one thing matters at the end of the day: the final score. Go Bulldogs and all that. Whether you get cerebral about it and trace the frenzy of fandom to the age-old tribalism of geography and heritage -- or just grunt about how great it feels to stomp an opponent -- the very nature of sports pumps up people's passions.
But can acting -- or any other art form -- really be turned into a contest complete with cheering fans and school spirit?
Gregg Henry, the artistic director of the festival, is adamant that the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarships are not a competition. The finals of the nation's most prestigious adjudicated acting exercise are more a collegial encounter -- a celebration of talent -- in which the 16 finalists come together in camaraderie-building exercises, he says.
Matthew McGee, a Fresno State graduate who competed in 2011 at the Kennedy Center, is in this camp.
"To be honest, I recall nothing but camaraderie and support from the other finalists," he says. "I think the workshops and classes helped build that up between everyone."
But two people will win the Irene Ryans. And 14 won't.
After the regional finals, when Fresno State swept such schools as USC, Stanford, Arizona State, Fullerton and Brigham Young, Myers returned to his hotel that night to hear rival students on a nearby balcony expressing loud and explicit anti-Fresno sentiments.
"I was going to go outside and introduce myself, but I decided against it," he says wryly.
The atmosphere will likely be much more upscale and polite at the Kennedy Center finals than at the tension-filled regionals, but even with all the goodwill going around, there still will be a crisp competitive undercurrent.
Woods might not seem as bluntly competitive as Bullock, but he can power-on the confidence as well.
For Myers, whose prowess as an acting coach has only grown as he has prepped students over the years, acting and athletics do share some similarities. In team sports, players have to compete against each other to make a team. Once they do, however, they have to pull together with the other players for the greater good of the team. Likewise, actors often face bruising competition to get a role. Once they're in a show, they have to think of the good of the overall production.
"It takes a special skill set to be able to navigate the two -- to know when you need to have the competitive claws out and when you have to put that aside," Myers says.
One of his former students, Jennifer Hasty, turned her 1993 experience as an Irene Ryan finalist into a key building block of an impressive acting career.
"I still have it on my résumé, and I don't plan on taking it off," says the Los Angeles-based actress, known for recurring roles on the TV series "True Blood," "Bunheads" and "Raising Hope." (She also played the "creepy doll lady" on an episode of "Criminal Minds," a role that fans of the series seemed to relish.) "It opened doors for me."
She still remembers Myers teaching her to "plant yourself" as if she owned a stage, no matter how large or small. ("Pretty much everything I know as an actor started with him.") That helped when she walked out onto the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theatre stage to perform a scene from Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls." She also remembers a wardrobe malfunction -- her skirt flew open as she moved across the stage -- that was horrific at the time but now makes a good story.
Hasty (known to Fresno State classmates by her maiden name, McGoldrick) went to the Kennedy Center as a sophomore. The next year, she was disqualified at the regionals for going over the allotted time for her package, earning her the nickname "9 Seconds." But though she didn't get to go back to D.C., the lessons learned there stuck with her -- especially when it comes to auditions.
"The name of the game is competition, but there's never any reason or excuse to be catty," she says. "I compete against my friends all the time for roles. That's what the business is all about. But you also end up rooting for each other."
How do you fit more than 30 actors into a small rehearsal hall at the Kennedy Center? Very carefully. It's Thursday afternoon, and renowned acting teacher Kari Margolis, known for her dynamic physical approach to theater, is leading a workshop for the Irene Ryan finalists and their scene partners.
Acting isn't about putting a cardboard cut-out of a character on stage, she tells the students. Acting has volume. There's an outside to any character, but there's also an inside. That's how you can play someone who's laughing on the outside and crying on the inside.
"My head has it, now my chest has it, now my waist has it, now my pelvis has it, now I've lost it. My pelvis has it, now my waist has it, now my chest has it, now my head has it, now it's gone."
The interesting thing is that even crammed as they are in this square room adorned with boring white sound tiles, the actors -- dressed in the sweaty, nondescript T-shirts, shorts, halter tops and tights that make up the universal uniform of rehearsal -- somehow seem to fill the room in a way they weren't just a few minutes before. They have increased in stature, it seems. They've added volume.
Both Woods and Bullock have worked or months on their "packages" for Friday night's competition. Deciding what scenes and monologue to perform, and how to position them with meaningful transitions, is key to a successful showing.
That's where Myers' experience as acting coach comes in. He knows what goes over well with judges.
"Pretty much everything I know as an actor started with him," says Hasty, the "True Blood" actor. "I've worked with a lot of great directors in my time, and I still consider Brad to be in the top five."
Bullock will start with a monologue from Phillip Hayes Dean's "The Sty of the Blind Pig," which Fresno State presented in November. (In a cunning move, Myers is bucking standard convention at the festival by having Bullock present his monologue at the beginning instead of at the end of his package.) He follows that with two scenes with Kelly, one from Shakespeare's "Othello," the other from Stephen Guergis' "The Mother... with the Hat."
Woods will follow a more traditional order: scenes with Abels from Guergis' "Jesus Hopped the A Train" and N. Richard Nash's "The Rainmaker," followed by an "Othello" monologue.
Meanwhile, Shehata's critical writing event involves not one crucial public performance, but rather a series of late-night encounters with his laptop in his hotel room. After seeing a new play titled "Andy and the Shadows" Wednesday night, he stayed up until 2:30 a.m. cranking out his review. (He didn't much care for the show, which went against the general consensus of the other six regional finalists.) Then he bolted upright at 6 to tweak it.
"Not a lot of sleep," he says.
But Shehata, who caught the acting bug in the fifth grade and went on to pursue theater at Clovis West High, won't miss the Irene Ryan finals Friday night, no matter how tired he is.
Neither will Myers, of course, who will be in the audience cheering on Woods and Bullock.
He thinks Fresno State has a good chance.
"I think these are two of the strongest packages we've ever had come from the department," he says.
After Woods and Bullock learned at the regional competition they were both going to D.C., another happy realization sunk in: Two Irene Ryan scholarship winners will be named. Conceivably, the two friends could repeat the same results. As Bullock scoots out of his hotel room to let Woods and Abels rehearse their scene about the deviled eggs, he dares raise the possibility of a Fresno State sweep.
"I don't see why that couldn't happen," Bullock says. "That would be pretty tight."


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well give me your take my take a live our phone lines are now open so if you want to share an opinion make a comment ask a question live on the air give us a call to a two not a four twenty one thirty four if you're outside the united states add a one before that number for the u.s. country code let's go to our first video comment of the night canyon in syracuse new york. it's on this is keegan at syracuse university our district system is absolutely broken shouldn't we move to a proportional system where every american is equally represented in their ideas if for example three percent of the country is green party shouldn't we have three percent green party representation in congress thanks. yes i think it's a brilliant question kagan and you know most americans don't even know what proportional representation is but the fact of the matter is that you know our form of government was we were very early you know i mean it was like but wait someone
seen hundreds the minutes of of the no seventy seven hundred eighty seven you know in the constitution was written and it really wasn't until as i recall eighteen fifty the maybe eight hundred sixty in the eight hundred fifty s. or eight hundred sixty s. . that anybody came up with the idea of proportional representation and so you know . the democracies that have been created since our civil war essentially have all gone with the john stuart mill was the guy who came up with the idea as i recall in his book on liberty and and in any case the countries that have come along since our civil war have said hey that you know just or i'm not a pretty good idea let's you know whatever put you know if the party gets three percent of the vote they get three percent of the seats of a party has twelve percent of the vote they get twelve percent the seats and you get a whole bunch of different parties they get to form coalitions and and eventually come up with a governing majority and that's pretty much and that's why all these different countries have all these different political parties and why there's room for you know everything from a communist party to a to the you know to
a hard core right wing party and not so much here in the united states we've got a two party system and madison realized that after read written the constitution he freaked out he wrote a warning to us about it in federalist the number ten or number twelve his is screed about faction but he didn't know what to do because you know he died before john stuart mill was writing about. proportional representation there have the problem is there may be a way to do it legislatively i've seen some very creative suggestions over the years but really practically it's going to take a constitutional amendment to make this happen and nobody is seriously focusing on that i think first we have to focus on getting money out of politics so that then we can have these kind of conversations so that. access back to go to move to amend dot org and let's amend the constitution to you know strip money out of politics brett in indiana left us a message on our rant liners press. tom i think you should know something about our
governor of indiana my pants i think he deserves a little air time he has doubled down on marijuana laws in indiana going the other way for the rest of the country making one third of an album now a felony this might have something to do with opening a twenty four hundred bed private prison in new castle in the end in which gov pimps took a nice twenty five thousand dollar campaign contribution from a group called c g who runs these private prisons now we're going to be putting people one. of an ounce to i think this is very very ugly thank you tom. well mike pence started out as a right wing talk show host back i debated him once at a talkers convention years ago and he came quite well prepared let me add.
he's somebody you have to take quite seriously and i don't know the facts of whether he took a campaign contribution from the private prison industry but if that's the case it should be widely publicized in your state and whether it is or nah. you know that the private prison industry in every state is lobbying for tougher laws of all kinds you know they they need more customers we have more people in prison in the united states than any other country in the world both in absolute numbers and on a per capita basis and it's because of this kind of corruption it wasn't always this way but it is now and when the again we need to get money out of politics so that we can get capitalism out of the public out of out of the out of the commons frankly there should be no private prisons or slike that should be no private public schools and you know you've heard that rant before let's pick up our calls judy in upper darby pennsylvania a judy welcome to the program thanks hi i bet if. caves are private it's about time
he starts acting like a cry for him and i could not ask for a proc. i wanted a black berry truman. i got it judy thank you for the call there. number one. i mean you know we have what we have and i think when the president does right we should congratulate him and when he does bad we should call him out i think this whole you know it almost never grows salute everything i think that's you know not all that productive or all that useful president obama though has a. he also has a unique challenge if you want to try to emulate harry truman. give them hell harry you know harry truman would call out republicans by name. franklin roosevelt did to there were three three republicans that he used to use as a montra the last one was
a guy named fish or the other two and you know but the problem is that i remember two years ago or so that president obama did that interview with as i recall it was c.b.s. news they played it in the evening and he said i'm so damn upset about he used the word damn. you know i mean like you know lyndon johnson would do this nobody think twice about it you know but but when the when obama did it drudge runs this headline obama goes street showing the darkened picture of our first african-american president so he has a unique situation when it comes to taking on. you know being playing political hardball on the other hand he has a big bully pulpit any could be speaking out a lot more on a lot of really important issues that you know so i understand your sentiment i'm not sure that the strategy is to imitate harry truman i would like to see a little more lyndon johnson a little more behind the scenes arm twisting and
a little more jack kennedy a little lot more out front saying here's what we want to aspire to although he has been doing a fair amount of that lately i just the media doesn't cover it richard in los angeles hey richard what's up. tom is it true that if the keystone pipeline is ok if given the ok to build it can be an oil company will be given and it don't mean to take away lamb from the american people yeah it's already happened it's already happened the throughout the southern leg was all taken by eminent domain the original keystone northern leg was taken by eminent domain and if they do the keystone extra large the x.l. pipeline you know down the hook up to the southern line rather than to go over to the midwestern refineries that will be taken by a so. is there a follow through follow up on that richard or or you're gone ok sorry kevin in pottstown pennsylvania eminent domain by the way is under the under the fifth
amendment it to fifth amendment gives the federal government or state or county governments for that matter gives government the power to take somebodies property as long as they're reimbursed the fair market value and the supreme court. as a rule that used to be only for public purposes like building a courthouse or a school or road now they can do it even to give it to a private corporation just so long as it it satisfies the public good and that's there's a very large questions in my mind so see keystone pipeline with that regard kavanah pas down pennsylvania avenue on talk about unemployment. i'm one of the one point six million people that are waiting for congress to sign the emergency unemployment benefits haven't you have my sympathy that that's been a yes since this administration i really lost my bedroom house my wife and i now live in a one bedroom apartment and you know with these kind of actions being taken by
congress i'm more likely to lose. because. they don't seem to care about the american people anymore. is there a question there have. and i was one of. just one of you know my opinion. and i don't see much coverage on the news about i don't know one point six million people isn't a lot of people or yeah i'm with you kevin thanks for the call. and you're welcome to blow off some steam here and this is an issue that we've been talking about regularly i mean at least every other day the this this crisis of nearly two million people and is soon going to be too many and that is going to be three million people and that is going to be four million people you know as we go through the year and the next year i mean this recession is not going to come to an end until the republican stop obstructing any attempts by the president or the democrats to actually create jobs to put americans back to work we need to go back
to the policies that we had right up until the one nine hundred fifty s. that the government is the employer of last resort by the way was in the democratic political driven democratic party's platform from one thousand nine hundred sixty four to one thousand nine hundred eighty eight that the government should be the employer of last resort during times of economic crisis the democrats need to put it back in their platform and they need to be actually doing john and clean texas say john you want to talk about america's oil use. very very. the gas that is being pumped into the nearby oil refinery. and that we breathe. the back of. we're right there next to. oil. you know it's a ridge john thank you for the call thanks for watching the show and this is
a real problem and this is the this is the logic behind or the ill logic behind the keystone x.l. pipeline is let's take this incredibly poisonous raw material. i mean you know oil is bad enough but the two minutes coal essentially you can grind into dust and mix with water and call this stuff tar sands oil slurry that you run down the pipes that they want to bring down from canada let's take this incredibly poisonous stuff . basically boil it and you know take out the high fractions the stuff that will will dissolve out of it under two hundred under heat which would be gasoline and diesel fuel and then all the tall yelling and naps the hexane and all those things pull that stuff out take the crap that's left over it's called coke and pet coke and put it in giant piles of poison and we'll keep the poison here and then we'll sell the gasoline in the diesel fuel to other countries through the panama canal and off to europe it's nuts it's turning america into the third world that's it for
your take by take live thanks for all your calls we didn't get to your calls tonight tries back next week keep the video questions coming from really easy just grab your phone early turn on your computer if you've got a camera hold it you know point out your own face and record a question or comment and then e-mail it to us your take my take at gmail dot com. coming up a little bunsen big oil executives alike are saying that construction of the keystone x.l. pipeline is inevitable and sooner or later we will be using dirty toxic dangerous. is that true. or do we really still have a chance to block construction of the keystone x.l. pipeline once and for all more on that internet still.
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so sometimes you know it you know and sometimes you know what you don't know and sometimes as the firesign theater says everything you know it's. going to go wrong if you want to hear your right. to say things that sure of your mind really mean you know is wrong despite being decades removed from the cold war mccarthyism and red scares communism is still a dirty word in american politics and society today as thanks in large part to a total lack of understanding that americans have when it comes to communism and many people who don't understand communism also don't understand the true nature of capitalism so if you think that only communist governments rely on it's where the capitalism is synonymous with individuality then everything you know is wrong joining me now is jesse meyers a journalist and contributor to salon dot com in rolling stone magazine jesse why. back. thanks for me back to your most recent piece for salon which was brilliant
by the way is titled you why you're wrong about communism seven misperceptions about it and capitalism and i think frankly the misperceptions about capitalism are even more important than the misperceptions about communism but you know let's let's just touch on some of this stuff first of all what do you see as the most pertinacious of the misperceptions about both communism and capitalism. well the main thing that i've been getting over the last month since the five economic piece that i had in rolling stone is the simple invocation by right wingers of the name stalin or mao as though that perform some sort of like argumentative work when of course it doesn't because if you want to invoke the human rights atrocities that happened under communist governments then i'm afraid you've also got to account for the human rights atrocities that happen in our capitalist governments and nobody is prepared to do that and the thing that i found out with this piece the one in salon comparing the two is that. you know why people like me who are who are willing to
acknowledge that there were horrors that happened under communist dictatorships the great chinese famine in the gulags and stuff like that we're willing to admit that where is the defenders of capitalism either ignore or deny the atrocities that happen in capitalism and you know when you confront them on it it's like total cognitive dissonance because we've been taught in this country frankly that capitalism is in every case and everywhere in the world libertarian righteous and that communism is the great evil and you know neither of those is really backed up by the history so what are the horrors of capitalism. well i mean there's so many you know that at the very beginning of industrial capitalism when britain really really had its first stirrings of the industrial revolution the great commodity that was really fueling industrialism was textiles and who knows where cotton was coming from in the you know late said. hundreds an early age and hundreds knows that capitalism therefore thrived on the atlantic slave trade not to mention the
extermination of the indigenous population of this country the book by mike davis late victorian holocaust which talk about basically british imperialist starvation and. not just british but european imperial starvation and slaughters in africa southeast asia latin america and then of course the various massacres and coups and you know horrors perpetrated by the us the cia and its allies its proxies all over the world to defeat communism after the second world war including you know the movie that is now nominated for an oscar the documentary the act of killing which details how a million so-called communists in indonesia were killed their names supplied by the cia i mean these are things that you know good patriotic americans are never asked to account for because we are simply told that like like i remember my third grade teacher telling me that communism and democracy were opposites and i can see now how ridiculous that is and we can see the terrible bankruptcy of intellectual
understanding that education like that causes when when a release of bees like this is so good as the backlash from the right what are the components of communism. we should seriously have a conversation about integrating into the american body politic and economic. i would say that the two big things that i really want to struggle for over my lifetime that i consider basically approaches towards communism is commodifying everything you know we see in the united states that everything including like caring for other people and. all of the things that we find essential to our lives our need to be priced in order to be exchanged in markets and i just don't think that that's true i mean i think that slots of things are inherently valuable and ought to be treated that way and should shouldn't be treated like they're just commodities for exchange and then the other thing is work i mean the c.b. over. came out saying that you know two or three million people are going to leave work because like they're not hostage to work anymore because they have health care
that's a good thing in the more that we can free people from the tyranny not just have i mean libertarians have it right that governments can be tyrannical obviously that's true but the other thing that's tyrannical that libertarians won't acknowledge is the tyranny of work you know we live in this democracy but we put ourselves in tyranny for eight hours a day they can fire you and if you don't have a job you're basically cut off from the means of your own subsistence so liberating people from that second tyranny of work and making sure that people can live a full life and produce culture and community without having to work for a boss that's trying to work them harder and pay them less in order to get rich that that's really the essence i think of a socialist or if you prefer a communist vision do you think do you think one way to start moving in that direction is this movement that is the swiss are going to be voting on this in a few months. guaranteed minimum income there's a variation of it actually going on in alaska with the permanent five everybody man woman child baby everybody gets two thousand dollars a year. yeah absolutely i can't see
a step forward from capital meaningful step forward from capitalism to a more liberal tory fulfilling economic system that doesn't include a universal basic income i think that's absolutely crucial i think it's best paired with a job guarantee for several reasons but basically it makes whereas right now what we have is in voluntarily unemployment millions of people who want a job and can't find them and involuntary employment where there's millions of people want to quit their job but can't because they need the pension or they need health care or whatever we want to move to a system that has voluntary employment and voluntary unemployment and i think that's really really crucial universe basic incomes will be necessary for that sort of emancipator a transformation just in larsen thanks so much of the brilliant analysis. thanks to now everything you know about communism is right.
yesterday open the thirty day state department public comment window on the keystone x.l. pipeline and boy is the rhetoric starting to heat up. you know clayton williams the one nine hundred ninety republican gubernatorial candidate in texas once said about rape that quote as long as it's inevitable you might as well lie back and enjoy it. that was an incredibly insane and ignorant comment and it lost him the election to end richards but twenty four years later people are essentially using that exact same insane rationale with regard to the keystone x.l. pipeline they're saying that as long as it's another hole where we should just lay back accept it learn to love it they're also saying that america is going to be fossil fuel dependent far into the future and that the keystone pipeline will help lower gas prices in america and make us more energy independent but the keystone
pipeline is not inevitable and america doesn't have to be a fossil fuel dependent nation and the oil from the keystone pipeline won't do anything to help gas prices in this country big oil supporters and pundits across the media have been saying that the use of tar sands oil from canada and the construction of the keystone x.l. pipeline are inevitable. but that's simply not the case on monday's episode of big picture i spoke with susan casey lefkowitz director of the international program with the national resources defense council about the state department's report on the keystone x.l. pipeline that was released last week i asked her about the report and if a mention that extracting tar sands oil from canada was inevitable here's what she had to say. what's actually in the report is a number of scenarios so it says under some scenarios keystone x.l. might not be the main driver and under others it might be the main driver of tar sands expansion and thus of climate emissions and when we look at reality of what
we really know what we see is other pipelines aren't happening tar sands development is not inevitable there's a lot of opposition to it it's very expensive it's very dirty industry analysts anyway a slice of the use of tar sands oil is not inevitable we don't have to extract that toxic dirty dangerous stuff from under the ground. now or what about the stone talking point that our country is a fossil fuel dependent nation and that we're going to stay that way for a long time we should just accept. well america is actually becoming less and less of a fossil fuel dependent nation literally every day the u.s. solar industry had its second largest quarter ever during the third quarter of twenty thirteen and residential solar power installations were up forty five percent in two thousand and thirteen over just the year before two thousand and twelve in texas alone covering half a roof with solar panels is enough to generate all of the electricity used by an average family in the lone star state and thanks to the boom in solar panel use
last year the u.s. outpaced germany in solar power installations for the first time in fifteen years but solar power isn't the only clean and green form of energy on the rise wind power is also gaining traction when paul are accounted for forty two percent of new energy generating capacity in two thousand and twelve making it the number one source of new energy capacity in that year two thousand and twelve in iowa alone wind power generated nearly twenty five percent of that state's energy. that accounted for nearly ten percent of energy energy generated statewide finally what about that argument from that oil of the from the keystone x.l. pipeline will help reduce gas prices across the nation and make us more energy independent. even trans canada has said that oil from the keystone x.l. pipeline is not guaranteed to stay in the united states back in two thousand and twelve during a congressional hearing on the pipeline project alex poor bay the head of the trans
canada's pipeline division was asked right upfront if he would support legislation requiring canadian tar sands oil and its by products to be sold only in the u.s. he replied no i can't do that. and numerous other studies have found that much of the oil transported through the keystone x.l. pipeline is actually going to be exported from the gulf of mexico after it's been refined we won't see a drop of that toxic dirty and dangerous tar sands oil unless of course we're forced to deal with the tar sands oil spill disaster meanwhile a report by consumer watchdog found that if the keystone x.l. pipeline is approved americans especially in the midwest will see higher gas prices adding up to an additional three to four billion dollars each year that's roughly twenty to forty to forty cents a gallon in the increase. on a gallon of gas in the midwest and a few cents increase everywhere else. we fought hard to make our voices heard about the keystone x.l. pipeline over the past several months and finally our government is beginning to
realize the grave affects that the keystone x.l. pipeline could have on our climate but our fight isn't over we can let those who think that the pipeline is inevitable or that america is going to be a fossil fuel dependent nation forever erase the progress that's been made most important we mean we need to make it clear to big oil the obama administration and their supporters that we are going to just lie back and enjoy the keystone x.l. pipeline and the toxic dirty and dangerous oil that it would be transporting it's time to stop the environmental rape of america and our planet once and for all. that's the way it is to died thursday at the ori six twenty four to democracy begins and you get out there get active tag worth.
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cancer free: The Art to Napping!
I have not learned the art to napping. I haven't been able to nap since I was a very small child and forced to take a nap. At my worst with thee chemo and all I fell asleep all the time, but mostly while sitting upright attempting to read or watch television. Bed to me has always been the end of the day, tired, go to sleep until I wake up kind of thing. In my recovery of this chemo, in the process of healing and oh so slowly getting stronger. this is creating some problems for me. I am "turning the day around".
It is now 2:30 A.M. and I am wide awake! Yesterday was a pretty good day although not perfect. I made a slight (I hope) mistake in an installation art piece that I made and will have to correct today, so there was a little stress there. But I got other things done and on another job did a perfect installation. I am working again and so very thankful.
My problem is at the end of the day I am extremely tired. So I go to bed! I sleep well and have no problem falling asleep. From 5 P.M. until 2 A.M. is NINE hours sleep, and that is what I did. If I start grinding and welding in my shop my neighbors would kill me! I would lose all sympathy immediately!
These are really quiet hours and I have grown to enjoy them, even my dog prefers to sleep. I have taken up reading again, an activity I had abandoned while in years of construction. A friend I went to High School is a very successful author and I began by reading all seven of her books! That was fun! and now I am in the process of reading and in some cases rereading books from my own vast library.
I like turning the pages. I like the slight "old library smell" to them.
Reading again Jerry now can I recommend the amazon kindle for those late nights in bed and buy the cover that has its own light in it.


It's a Lab Thing Labrador: Yeah, it's annoying - bit she's so darn cute!!!
My 2 Wags: Dog Owners. A Thing of the Past!
Just as people come in all shapes and sizes, our furry counterparts are just as varied. Large breed dogs such as Labs and others that tip the scales at 50 lbs. plus need a place to crash that's comfy, allows them to relax naturally, and can support their heftier weights. The question is, though, what qualities should a dog bed geared for extra-large breeds possess? Searching for the right dog bed in the past might have been an exercise in frustration for most Lab parents. Cheaply made beds that don't last, potentially unsafe materials, and beds that are just plain ugly are a few of the challenges facing loving Labrador moms and dads.
Quality construction. A large breed dog bed that lasts will be constructed with the best materials and methods of assembly. Avoid beds that have the hallmarks of poor quality – less than perfect stitching, sharp edges, and uneven fill for the bed itself.
Stain, spill, and odor resistant fabric. Let's be real: dogs are lovable, and also messy. Whether it's drool, water, goobers, or any other delightful type of moisture, you want your dog bed to be made with fabric that's up to the challenge. Just as humans need to wash their bedding, the same is true for our four legged friends, perhaps more so. Choose a bed with fabric that is soft, durable, stain-proof and machine washable.
Allergy-free and eco-friendly fill. So many Labradors and people suffer from chemical allergies these days, having a dog bed made with allergen-free fill and materials is a must. Avoid dog beds that do not plainly show what their fill is made from, have any kind of chemical odor, or aren't advertised as being eco-friendly.
Support for weight and joints. Large dog breeds can suffer from joint discomfort and arthritis, especially with advancing age. A bed that can offer comfortable support can sustain your dog's mobility longer, offer better sleep, and keep them healthier.
Attractive design. Okay, this may seem more important to humans than dogs, but really, if your dog bed is an eye-sore that you just want to squirrel away any time company comes over, it's time to rethink this feature. Look for a dog bed in rich, decorative patterns and colors that will blend seamlessly with your décor.
Tested and Dog-Approved. Each bed adheres to strict quality standards, solid construction, and is dog-evaluated on its appeal, safety, and function.
Take a little time, do your research, and we are sure you'll find the perfect bed for your fur babies to curl up in and feel warm, safe, and secure!
What Kind of Dog Bed do You Like for your Lab?
It's a Lab Thing Labrador: Awesome .
It's a Lab Thing Labrador: Have you smiled yet today?!
It's a Lab Thing Labrador: My babies greeting me at the porch!
I found a perfect bed that my dog loves……mine.
Yeah.. why would a labrador need a DOG bed?
Shamrock (the world's best black lab) likes extra-large, orthopedic beds with a bolster. He likes soft fabric, but not sheepskin. It needs to be green, because he's, well, a Shamrock! He has a lame leg, or I'm sure he would get on my bed. But… he needs his own.
Orthopedic foam beds from Orvis, for our 14 yr. old lab who can no longer climb on the bed. They last and the removable covers wash up like a dream. Our younger labs (1 & 2) sleep in bed with us.
English labs are heavier and bigger and sleeping in my bed is impossible. They need a GOOD bed!! I made my donation to this good cause & hope I win one because I had to put my 12 yr old English lab to sleep and am patiently awaiting a new lab puppy!
I just buy a cheapo fleece blanket for $6 from Walmart – and cover the couches with it. He snores and runs and dreams, so I figure the old black lab is comfy enough . . .
when it gets dirty, throw it in the washer – keeps the couches free of lab slime . . . .
I've bought beds for my lab but I can't get him to sleep on them. He prefers the hard floor.


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Energy and Global Warming News for May 25: Semiconductor technique holds promise for solar energy; Postal Service inks $28M efficiency deal
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Semiconductor Manufacturing Technique Holds Promise for Solar Energy
Thanks to a new semiconductor manufacturing method pioneered at the University of Illinois, the future of solar energy just got brighter.
Although silicon is the industry standard semiconductor in most electronic devices, including the photovoltaic cells that solar panels use to convert sunlight into energy, it is hardly the most efficient material available. For example, the semiconductor gallium arsenide and related compound semiconductors offer nearly twice the efficiency as silicon in solar devices, yet they are rarely used in utility-scale applications because of their high manufacturing cost.
U. of I. professors John Rogers and Xiuling Li explored lower-cost ways to manufacture thin films of gallium arsenide that also allowed versatility in the types of devices they could be incorporated into. "If you can reduce substantially the cost of gallium arsenide and other compound semiconductors, then you could expand their range of applications," said Rogers, the Lee J. Flory Founder Chair in Engineering Innovation, and a professor of materials science and engineering and of chemistry.
Typically, gallium arsenide is deposited in a single thin layer on a small wafer. Either the desired device is made directly on the wafer, or the semiconductor-coated wafer is cut up into chips of the desired size. The Illinois group decided to deposit multiple layers of the material on a single wafer, creating a layered, "pancake" stack of gallium arsenide thin films.
"If you grow 10 layers in one growth, you only have to load the wafer one time," said Li, a professor of electrical and computer engineering. "If you do this in 10 growths, loading and unloading with temperature ramp-up and ramp-down take a lot of time. If you consider what is required for each growth — the machine, the preparation, the time, the people — the overhead saving our approach offers is a significant cost reduction."
Next the researchers individually peel off the layers and transfer them. To accomplish this, the stacks alternate layers of aluminum arsenide with the gallium arsenide. Bathing the stacks in a solution of acid and an oxidizing agent dissolves the layers of aluminum arsenide, freeing the individual thin sheets of gallium arsenide. A soft stamp-like device picks up the layers, one at a time from the top down, for transfer to another substrate — glass, plastic or silicon, depending on the application. Then the wafer can be reused for another growth.
U.S. Postal Service, GridPoint ink $28M deal
Arlington, Va.-based GridPoint Inc. will supply energy management technology for as many as 2,250 post offices, under a contract designed to help the U.S. Postal Service meet its energy savings targets, the company announced today.
Under the agreement, USPS will install GridPoint's hardware and software in 750 medium-sized facilities in the first year, with options to add that number in each of two additional years to reach 2,250 sites in total. The maximum value of the contract is $28.7 million.
GridPoint Executive Vice President John Clark said the installations would include hardware that allows users to more finely control the operations of heating, cooling and lighting systems, and software that provides visibility into how individual components and the whole system are using energy. "We give our customers both a speedometer and a tachometer for their energy use to see how they're doing, as well as a gas pedal and a brake," he said.
The system is compatible with other vendors' smart grid tools through a compatibility standard called BACnet, which would allow USPS to roll the resultant data in with information collected from other compliant tools for a big-picture view, Clark said.
The system to be used splits control between local users and central planners, Clark added. A key feature allows a central facilities manager to set the default temperature for a number of linked facilities, but lets a local manager temporarily override that setting. If on-site employees want to increase the air conditioning level, for example, they can temporarily cool the facility more, but the setting eventually resets to the central office-approved default.
Clark said a pilot at 16 USPS facilities in North Carolina showed that from a user-acceptance perspective, long-term changes to climate control systems need to be made slowly.
First U.S. freshwater turbine farm proposed for Lake Erie
General Electric Co. and Lake Erie Energy Development Corp. announced plans today to build the nation's first offshore, freshwater wind farm near Cleveland.
GE will provide five wind turbines and maintenance services for the 20-megawatt project, company officials noted at a wind energy industry conference in Dallas.
Lake Erie Energy Development Corp. (LEEDCo), a nonprofit economic development corporation launched last year, is evaluating candidates to build the project. The project, which would cost roughly $90 million to build, would be located about 7 miles north of Cleveland in the waters of Lake Erie.
LEEDCo President Lorry Wagner said his organization is evaluating three teams of companies to build the wind farm and begin producing power by late 2012. He declined to name the companies.
"They're all U.S.-based companies, but each group has different types of international experience, whether it's developing offshore wind or oil and gas," Wagner added.
The developer would be responsible for inking a power-purchase agreement.
GE will build the turbines in Europe, but LEEDCo officials hope the Lake Erie project spurs the industrial conglomerate to eventually build turbines in Ohio. LEEDCo has set a goal of generating 1,000 MW of cost-competitive wind power from Lake Erie by 2020, while leveraging the region's manufacturing base.
"It's not about putting just 20 megawatts in the water, it's about 2020," Wagner said.
LEEDCo's founding partners include the Cleveland Foundation, city of Cleveland, Cuyahoga and Lorain counties, and NorTech.
Climate change threatens the diversity of small mammals
A period of rapid warming that ended roughly 11,700 years ago has had lasting changes on the diversity of small mammals in northern California, according to a new study.
While many ecologists have warned that climate change could eventually drive many species to extinction, the authors of the new study say their work shows that warming can bring about more subtle, but enduring, changes.
Fossils excavated from northern California's Samwell Cave, at the foot of the Cascade Range, show that warming — and the arrival of humans — at the end of the Pleistocene Epoch changed the balance of the area's small mammal populations.
More adaptable, "weedy" species like deer mice became more common, while species that were already less abundant became even rarer.
"If we only focus on extinction, we are not getting the whole story," said lead author Jessica Blois, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in a statement. "There was a 30 percent decline in biodiversity due to other types of changes in the small-mammal community."
The effects are still apparent today, Blois and her co-authors found, based on their examination of the small mammals present near the cave today.
The scientists say their work suggests that future climate change could have unanticipated consequences for the diversity of small mammal species, which perform important functions like aerating soil, dispersing seeds and providing prey for larger animals.
The study was published Sunday in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Gov. Deval Patrick: Cape Wind energy will be worth it
Gov. Deval Patrick yesterday stoutly defended a multibillion-dollar rate agreement for Cape Wind electricity, saying it will provide ratepayers with a stable source of renewable energy.
Patrick's comments came as Cape Wind Associates and Nstar met yesterday about a possible long-term contract for Cape Wind's electricity from its proposed offshore wind farm. The two sides yesterday declined comment on the substance of the talks.
Cape Wind has already signed a long-term agreement with National Grid, which agreed to pay Cape Wind about double the price of today's electricity.
Asked if expensive offshore wind was appropriate when land-based wind is only half the cost, Patrick said "we need a variety" of clean-energy fuels. "We need it all," Patrick told a reporter before a speaking event at the Suffolk University Law School.
Patrick said the Cape Wind-National Grid agreement will cost the average user of 550 kilowatts about $1.59 a month, though critics say the price will be far higher for large users of electricity.
The Department of Public Utilities is reviewing the Cape Wind-National Grid agreement. The agency would also review any pact with Nstar.
China Huaneng Signs $1.2 Billion Wind-Turbine Accord
China Huaneng Group, the country's largest power producer, agreed to buy wind turbines from six domestic suppliers for 8.06 billion yuan ($1.2 billion) in total to meet rising demand for clean energy.
The Beijing-based parent of Hong Kong-listed Huaneng Power International Inc signed a framework agreement yesterday with suppliers including Sinovel Wind Group Co. and Shanghai Electric Group for the purchase of 1,800 megawatts of generating units, China Huaneng said in a statement on its website today.
China wants at least 15 percent of its energy to come from renewable sources including wind by 2020. Investment in renewable energy in the world's biggest polluter reached $6.5 billion in the first quarter, the most for any country, New Energy Finance said on April 12. Huaneng Power posted a 41 percent gain in profit during the period.
The other wind-turbine suppliers include Dongfang Electric Corp., China Shipbuilding Industry Corp., Zhejiang Machinery and Electrical Group and a Guangdong-based manufacturer, according to the statement. The six turbine makers will each supply about 300 megawatts of capacity, China Huaneng said.
China Huaneng plans to have 20,000 megawatts of wind-power capacity by 2020, or about 10 percent of its total estimated generating capacity by then, according to today's statement. The group currently has 2,800 megawatts of wind-power capacity.
The state-run company is seeking to set up wind farms in northern China and in coastal areas in the country's southeast, China Huaneng said. Its unit Huaneng Power plans to spend 1.2 billion yuan on new wind projects this year, Chief Accountant Zhou Hui said on March 25.
Huaneng Power has risen 2.5 percent in Hong Kong trading this year, beating the 12 percent drop in the benchmark Hang Seng Index. The stock was at HK$4.50 at the midday break, down 2.2 percent.
Blair to advise Silicon Valley group on climate
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is joining a Silicon Valley business as a senior adviser on environmental issues.
Khosla Ventures announced the association with Blair on Monday during its limited partner summit in Sausalito.
The firm, started by Sun Microsystems Inc. co-founder Vinod Khosla, has invested in companies pursuing alternative fuel strategies and other environmentally-minded technologies.
Menlo Park's Khosla Ventures has invested companies including Cogenra Solar Inc., which wants to multiply the energy efficiency of solar cells, and Calera, which is converting manmade greenhouse gas emissions into sustainable building products.
Khosla said Blair will advise the companies it invest in on how to meet their business goals.
"He's going to help us in many areas that techie nerds like us here in Silicon Valley don't understand and tend to underestimate the importance of," Khosla said.
Since leaving office three years ago, Blair has urged policy makers and businessmen to work together on environmental problems.
"I'm more and more convinced that unless we connect and align the public policy space with the creativity and ingenuity and innovation of the entrepreneurs, we're not going to resolve this issue," Blair said. "The answer to this has got to lie in science and technology."
It wasn't disclosed how much Blair would be getting paid in this new advisory role. Blair said he would continue to work on his other projects, including his "Breaking the Climate Deadlock Initiative" in support of an international framework on climate change.
Nuclear Reactor Aims for Self-Sustaining Fusion
In a few years, an experimental nuclear fusion reactor near Moscow could be the first to yield a self-sustaining fusion reaction. If the Italian-Russian project is successful, it would be a key milestone for fusion power.
The proposed reactor is based on a design developed by Bruno Coppi, a professor of physics at MIT, and principal investigator on the reactor project with Italy's National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment. Three similar reactors based on the same design have already been built at MIT. Italian and Russian physicists plan to meet on May 24 to chart a course for the new reactor, called Ignitor, in the first such meeting since the two countries agreed to join forces on the project in April.
Ignitor is a tokamak reactor, a doughnut-shaped device that uses powerful magnetic fields to produce fusion by squeezing superheated plasma of hydrogen isotopes. As an electric current and high-frequency radio waves pass through the plasma, heating it to extreme temperatures, the surrounding electromagnetic field confines the plasma under high pressure. The combined pressure and heat causes the hydrogen nuclei to fuse together to form helium in a process that releases tremendous amounts of heat. In a fully functional fusion reactor, this heat would be used to power an electricity-generating turbine.
A much larger, far more complex tokamak fusion reactor — the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) — is planned for construction in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France. ITER, which will be completed in 2019 and ready for full-scale testing in 2026, will be closer to a functioning fusion generator but will not produce a self-sustaining fusion reaction. Ignitor will be a sixth the size of ITER and will test the conditions needed to produce a self-sustaining reaction.
"Ignitor will give us a quick look at how burning plasma behaves, and that could inform how we proceed with ITER and other reactors," says Roscoe White, a distinguished research fellow at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
But Ignitor will only test one key aspect of fusion. "It will give us information that is important, but it won't give us all the information we need and certainly doesn't replace ITER," Steven Cowley, director of the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire, U.K. "It's a demonstration that you can create ignition, but it's not really a pathway to a reactor."
Unlike ITER, Ignitor doesn't include many of the components that a real reactor would require. For example one crucial missing part is the "breeder blanket," which contains lithium and sits inside the reactor's magnetic coils, providing a continuous supply of tritium — one of two isotopes fused in the reaction. Ignitor's design is so compact that there is no room for a test blanket inside its coils.


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The Louisiana Legislature has taken an important step in approving a statewide anti-sexual harassment policy.
Gov. John Bel Edwards is expected to sign the measure, making it law. He should.
Until now, Louisiana has gone without any sort of statewide policy for workplace behavior. Now, each state and local government agency will be required to implement a sexual harassment policy that includes a way to handle complaints, a prohibition on retribution against those who file complaints and training each year for all workers.
Such policies have been commonplace for years or decades in the private sector. It is long past time the state government got onboard.
The issue has picked up awareness and momentum from high-profile cases of alleged sexual harassment, including several within state government. An audit last month showed Louisiana has spent more than $5 million on settlements and legal fees in harassment lawsuits since 2009. Clearly, there is a problem.
It simply is not enough for Louisiana to leave to chance whether our public workers happen to operate in workplaces that have policies in place or not. The requirement is a good one that should be welcomed by workers and state officials alike.
The training portion of the new requirement will likely go a long way toward preventing the sort of behavior that can harm people in the workplace. And if it doesn't, every worker should be well aware of how to go about filing a complaint – without fear of retaliation if they file one.
This won't eliminate the possibility that bad behavior will happen in state offices. But it will equip everyone in those offices to handle that behavior if and when it does take place.
Significantly, too, it will signal to potential abusers or harassers that there is a rising awareness of the issue and a growing willingness to take action to stop it. Similarly, the utter lack of such a policy sent the exact opposite message.
There is no question that this is a great step forward for our state – a step that is overdue but still very much needed.
Now, we have to wait for it to have the desired impact on workplace behavior, resulting in more functional, pleasant environments for our public employees.


Millions of people traveling for Thanksgiving will face daunting traffic problems that critics say have been magnified by Washington's inability to move a long-term bill to pay for new highway projects.
With a nor'easter bearing down on the Eastern Seaboard this Thanksgiving, it's expected to be an especially brutal few days on the road.
Congress hasn't approved a long-term highway bill since 2005, and it's become much more difficult to move legislation since then because of a variety of reasons, including the end of earmarks that directed money toward specific lawmaker-backed projects and a financial crisis and recession that made it tougher to move big-budget bills.
"5. Interstate 95 north and south of Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. has become closely associated with congressional inaction in recent years, but there has always also been gridlock on its highways.
Interstate 95 runs along the entire length of the East Coast, from Maine to Florida. But the portion of the heavily-traveled highway that circles around Washington on the perimeter highway that is known as the "Beltway" are always backed up around holidays with drivers who are either leaving town or passing through on their way to destinations that are further north or south.
Despite the fact that the Beltway has been entered in the nation's political lexicon, the highway that allows I-95 to bypass Washington never crosses the cities borders with Maryland or Virginia."


The basement painting is finished! Well, everything but the outside door is anyway.
We felt the need to lighten things up, as basements, even walkout basements like ours, need all the light they can get. I even put a couple of thin coats of grey on the previously black lanterns to lighten things up.
The basement paint before wasn't too dark, but all that brown just made things, well dark. Everything just blended in.
The new paint looks so much lighter and brighter the minute you open the door to go down to the basement. Previously, the stairwell was pretty dark.
The basement has always been difficult to photograph. Here's a photo taken at night.
Since the trim looked good, we just painted the walls the same color as the upstairs bedroom at the Mountain Cottage. The color is Benjamin Moore Balboa Mist, although we had Sherwin Williams mix it. The color looks almost white with a hint of grey at the Mountain Cottage (check it out at the link above), but looks much darker in our basement.
This photo shows that its definitely a grey color. I switched out the dark pillows with these lighter grey pillow covers.
The ceiling is painted the same color, which made cutting in a lot easier.
Our daughter's boyfriend Blake did the cutting in for Mr. DIY, which saved him at least a days worth of work. Thanks Blake!
I still may stage the room with a few more accessories.
Mr. DIY finished the first coat on the outside doors and is off to get more trim paint as I write this.
We'll be able to check this room off the list today and move on to the next project on the "get the house ready to sell list".
Looks great Pam! I can't cut in while doing painting at all. Too unsteady. I can see that the wall color is grey in the one shot. Such a pretty home- I hate to see you sell but I understand.
The new paint color really brightens up your beautiful room Pam!...love it!
For the basement, I personally prefer something simple and clean. This is to prevent the storage area from feeling and looking cluttered especially when there are many items lying around the place.


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Q: Is the Completeness of $X$ really necessary here? From an exercise in Kreyszig's Functional Analysis, it is stated that

Let $X$ be a Banach Space and $(x_n)$ be a sequence in $X$ such that the sequence $(f(x_n))$ is bounded $\forall f\in X'$, show that $(\|x_n\|)$ is bounded.

I attempted to prove it by letting $g_n\in X''$ be the canonical image of $x_n$ and invoked the Uniform Boundedness Theorem to show that the sequence $(\|g_n\|)$ is bounded. Since $\|g_n\|=\|x_n\|$, the sequence $(\|x_n\|)$ is bounded so the theorem is proved.
However, I noticed that nowhere in the proof did I once use the fact that $X$ is complete. The closest thing I used is the completeness of $X'$ but $X'$ is always a Banach Space regardless of $X$ so I am at lose.
So, is my proof correct? If it's not, then how could I use the completeness of $X$ to fix it? Thank you in advance.
Edit: It appears that $X$ being a Banach Space is really not necessary after all. Anyway, can anyone think of a way to prove it using the fact that $X$ is complete?

A: You are right. The result holds in every locally convex space (i.e., a vector space $X$ with a family $\mathcal P$ of semi-norms: $(X,\mathcal P)$ and $(X,\sigma(X,X'))$ have the same bounded sets.

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T'is the season to be spooked!
Of course, summer is usually a rockhound's biggest hunting season, but there's a lot nature does to help us celebrate that night the spooks and goblins break through their vortex and invade us here on earth. If you don't believe it – I have the proof right here.
There are some pretty spooky places attached to where people go to hunt rocks — and they aren't all ghost mining towns and eerie graveyards.
Where else will you find as spooky a place to be close to dark than this location in Succor Creek, a favorite rockhound hangout. You can't look at Screaming rock in the near dark without a chill or two running down your spine.
And exactly who is this that has been sent from the netherworld to protect a great crystal hunting area in California? If you're in the area near dark, you can almost hear the banjo playing.
It's not just places that are ripe for the halloween loving crowds – it's the rocks themselves that lend us such a willing hand at decorating for fright night.
Bat cave, in Oregon, isn't just an apartment complex for the local bats. It's also full of jasper just screaming to be cut and included in the season's decorations.
Where there is someone celebrating Halloween, there's need for a Jack 0′ lantern. This agate nodule takes on that job for Halloween rockhounds very finely.
Along with ghosts and goblins, and spooky places – Halloween isn't complete without some form of zombified remains. What could be more apropo for the savvy Halloween celebration than a diseased, leaky, lesioned brain?
It's so great that nature is so willing to help chill and thrill us on the night we unleash reality and run with the demons. If you have any natural spookers – please feel free to post them in the comments!


I started making comics seriously a year ago in September 2017. It was an intentional change from exploring the world of filmmaking with the hopes of being able to tell visual stories entirely on my own. I can't believe that a year has flown by. I've been enjoying the process of making comics and growing as an artist. It's been slow going at times but ultimately rewarding.
When making the art for a comic, I do a rough sketch, letter the text and sound effects, ink over the rough sketch, and then add Color.
I've tried skipping the rough sketch to see if I could speed up my process, but then I end up lost when trying to figure out what goes where at the inking stage.
Lunar Space Colony has a pretty limited color palette since I'm still learning color and need to work relatively quickly with the weekly deadline.
That's the evolution of a panel from sketch to ink to color. I'm sure that evolution will only get better and better as I improve as an artist.
On Friday and Saturday I participated in my first 24-Hour Comic Challenge where I made 24 pages of comics in 24 hours. It was a heck of a challenge, and I'm happy to share that I successfully completed it!
I documented my experiences in the video above.
The result of the challenge is an action fantasy comic called Lavender, which can be read free online.
How I'm going to publish the project and a sneak peek at the first episode.
I've been steadily working away at my next project, Lunar Space Colony. It's a slice-of-life sci-fi story about a woman named Bri who leaves Earth to work on the colony. It's a longer story that I'm going to serialize weekly online. My plan is to launch the first few episodes on July 3rd and then release a new episode every Tuesday after.
I've been wanting to do a 24-Hour Comic Challenge for a bit now, and I've got the date all set. I'm going to try to make 24 pages of comics over 24 hours on June 22 and June 23.
It should be a great way to push myself to work faster and hopefully learn a lot.
I'm not doing it on the international day in October because I want to take on the challenge sooner, and I'm also not going to go for 24 consecutive hours. I'm planning on taking 8 hours to sleep. I'm not into staying up all night, and skipping a night of sleep will really throw off my life balance.
My employer, Big Cartel, has an Arts & Service Hours program where we can use some time to work on personal projects, volunteer, or learn new skills. I'm using some of my hours to take on this challenge.
I've got a little over a month to prepare. I'm feeling a little nervous, but also really excited.
Details on the original challenge from Scott McCloud.
A few thoughts on my favorite podcast about making comics.
I enjoy listening to podcasts, so I'm starting a new feature called Podcast Spotlight where I'll be sharing my favorite podcasts.
Process Party is a podcast hosted by two comic creators, Zach Soto and Mike Dawson, about making comics. Each episode typically starts with Zach and Mike talking about what they've been working on (the jibba-jabba segment) and then they interview a comic creator. There have been over 70 episodes as of writing this, with new episodes releasing weekly.


In other words this law suggests that the limited available resources should be invested keeping in view that how much marginal (added) returns we are getting from that enterprise and not how much we are getting average returns. This has been illustrated with the help of following example.
A farmer has Rs.3000 and wants to grow sugarcane, wheat and cotton that are suitable for his farm situation. What amount of money should be spent on each enterprise to obtain highest profit?
From above table it is found that the investment of Rs.3000 yields maximum average returns from sugarcane enterprise. But if a farmer is investing his amount of Rs. 3000 keeping in view the added returns, the profit he can earn as indicated below.
Thus, investment keeping in view the added return would be.
Thus, the total returns and net profits Rs.4200 and Rs.1200 respectively are greater than the returns and net profit Rs.4025 and Rs.1025 respectively. Hence for maximization of returns resource allocation should be done in view of added returns rather that average returns.
Practical Utility: This law guides the farmer to plan his budget for the preparation of his cropping scheme. It also provides guidance to the adoption of diversified or specialized farming. It also enables to determine the enterprise relationship complementary or competitive.


Wrestling match between - Mia and Olga - over white background in studio, both wearing string leotards and shiny fitness pants. This clip features lots of grappling techniques and wrestling holds. Majorly wrestling on the ground and on the knees with lots of "test of strenght", chokeholds and bodyholds, nelson holds, and wrestling action in every imaginable position. Also arm- and leg twisting, pinholds and smotherholds. This is definitely a clip that will be enjoyed by fans of wrestling action with beautiful girls.
Clip Duration - 7 min. 04 sec.


North Druid Hills, GA has a population of 18,331 people with a median age of 35 and a median household income of $55,694. Between 2015 and 2016 the population of North Druid Hills, GA declined from 18,385 to 18,331, a 0.29% decrease and its median household income grew from $53,769 to $55,694, a 3.58% increase.
The population of North Druid Hills, GA is 61.7% White, 12.9% Black, and 10.5% Asian. 23.7% of the people in North Druid Hills, GA speak a non-English language, and 85.3% are U.S. citizens.
The largest universities in North Druid Hills, GA are Georgia State University, with 7,518 graduates, Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus, with 5,682 graduates, and Kennesaw State University, with 5,603 graduates.
The median property value in North Druid Hills, GA is $311,000, and the homeownership rate is 38%. Most people in North Druid Hills, GA commute by Drove Alone, and the average commute time is 21.4 minutes. The average car ownership in North Druid Hills, GA is 2 cars per household.
North Druid Hills, GA is a census place located in DeKalb County, GA. It borders Atlanta, GA; Brookhaven City, GA; Druid Hills, GA; and North Decatur, GA.
The economy of North Druid Hills, GA employs 10,846 people. The economy of North Druid Hills, GA is specialized in Information; Professional, Scientific, Tech Services; and Educational Services, which employ respectively 2.14; 1.85; and 1.68 times more people than what would be expected in a location of this size. The largest industries in North Druid Hills, GA are Educational Services (1,699), Healthcare & Social Assistance (1,576), and Professional, Scientific, Tech Services (1,427), and the highest paying industries are Professional, Scientific, Tech Services ($58,750), Healthcare & Social Assistance ($52,228), and Transportation & Warehousing ($47,028).
Median household income in North Druid Hills, GA is $55,694. Males in North Druid Hills, GA have an average income that is 1.35 times higher than the average income of females, which is $46,215. The income inequality of North Druid Hills, GA (measured using the Gini index) is 0.484 which is lower than the national average.
Households in North Druid Hills, GA have a median annual income of $55,694, which is more than the median annual income in the United States. Look at the chart to see how the median household income in North Druid Hills, GA compares to that in it's parent locations.
The closest comparable data for the census place of North Druid Hills, GA is from the state of Georgia.
The closest comparable wage GINI for North Druid Hills, GA is from Georgia.
In 2016, the census tract with the highest Median Household Income in North Druid Hills, GA was Census Tract 201 with a value of $162,500, followed by Census Tract 215.02 and Census Tract 215.04, with respective values of $63,462 and $60,000.
The following map shows all of the census tracts in North Druid Hills, GA colored by their Median Household Income.
15.7% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in North Druid Hills, GA (2,816 out of 17,949 people) live below the poverty line, a number that is higher than the national average of 14%. The largest demographic living in poverty is Female 18-24, followed by Female 25-34 and then Male 18-24.
The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in North Druid Hills, GA is White, followed by Hispanic or Latino and Black or African American.
From 2015 to 2016, employment in North Druid Hills, GA grew at a rate of 0.21%, from 10,823 employees to 10,846 employees.
The most common job groups, by number of people living in North Druid Hills, GA, are Management, Business, Science, & Arts, Sales & Office, and Service. This chart illustrates the share breakdown of the primary jobs held by residents of North Druid Hills, GA.
The most common jobs held by residents of North Druid Hills, GA, by number of employees, are Sales; Health Practitioners; and Education, Training, & Library.
Compared to other census places, North Druid Hills, GA has an unusually high number of residents working in Life, Physical, & Social Science; Health Practitioners; and Legal.
The highest paid jobs held by residents of North Druid Hills, GA, by median earnings, are Health Practitioners; Computer & Mathematical; and Legal.
The most common employment sectors for those who live in North Druid Hills, GA, are Educational Services, Healthcare & Social Assistance, and Professional, Scientific, Tech Services. This chart shows the share breakdown of the primary industries for residents of North Druid Hills, GA, though some of these residents may live in North Druid Hills, GA and work somewhere else. Census data is tagged to a residential address, not a work address.
The most common industries in North Druid Hills, GA by number of employees are Educational Services; Healthcare & Social Assistance; and Professional, Scientific, Tech Services.
Compared to other census places, North Druid Hills, GA has an unusually high number of Information; Professional, Scientific, Tech Services; and Educational Services.
The highest paying industries in North Druid Hills, GA, by median earnings, are Professional, Scientific, Tech Services; Healthcare & Social Assistance; and Transportation & Warehousing.
Insurance and Medicare coverage combined with state and county level health and safety statistics for North Druid Hills, GA. In DeKalb County, GA the age groups most likely to have health care coverage are 6-17 and 25-34, men and women, respectively. The location has a 1 to 106 primary care clinician to patient ratio and a Medicare reimbursement average per patient per year of $8,400. Richmond County, GA has the highest prevalence of homicides of any county in Georgia.
The closest comparable data for the census place of North Druid Hills, GA is from the county of DeKalb County, GA.
Medicare is a Federal program which provides health benefits to older Americans. This chart shows how per enrollee amounts have changed in North Druid Hills, GA compared to national reimburesments.
Medicare enrollees between the ages of 65 and 75 that have had treatment related to their diabetes and been categorized with the racial labels, either Black or non-Black, from the Dartmouth Atlas. The closest comparable data for the census place of North Druid Hills, GA is from the county of DeKalb County, GA.
Female Medicare enrollees between the ages of 67 and 69 that have been classified with the racial labels, either Black or non-Black, from the Dartmouth Atlas. The closest comparable data for the census place of North Druid Hills, GA is from the county of DeKalb County, GA.
North Druid Hills, GA is home to a population of 18,331 people, from which 85.3% are citizens. The ethnic composition of the population of North Druid Hills, GA is composed of 11,312 White residents (61.7%), 2,362 Black residents (12.9%), 1,924 Asian residents (10.5%), 1,839 Hispanic residents (10%), and 817 Two+ residents (4.46%). The most common foreign languages in North Druid Hills, GA are Spanish (1,468 speakers), Chinese (286 speakers), and Hindi (277 speakers), but compared to other places, North Druid Hills, GA has a relative high number of Hebrew (199 speakers), Urdu (173 speakers), and Scandinavian (48 speakers).
In 2016, the median age of all people in North Druid Hills, GA was 35. Native-born citizens, with a median age of 34.9, were generally younger than foreign-born citizens, with a median age of 35.2. But people in North Druid Hills, GA are getting getting younger. In 2015, the average age of all North Druid Hills, GA residents was 36.2.
As of 2016, 85.3% of North Druid Hills, GA residents were US citizens, which is lower than the national average of 93%. In 2015, the percentage of US citizens in North Druid Hills, GA was 85.3%, meaning that the rate of citizenship has been maintaining in that location.
The following chart shows US citizenship percentages in North Druid Hills, GA compared to it's parent geographies.
In 2016, there were 4.79 times more White residents (11,312 people) in North Druid Hills, GA than any other race or ethnicity. There were 2,362 Black and 1,924 Asian residents, the second and third most common racial or ethnic groups.
The following bar chart shows the 8 races and ethnicities represented in North Druid Hills, GA as a share of the total population.
4,061 of North Druid Hills, GA citizens are speakers of a non-English language, which is higher than the national average of 21.1%. In 2015, the most common non-English language spoken in North Druid Hills, GA was Spanish. 8.01% of the overall population of North Druid Hills, GA are native Spanish speakers. 1.56% speak Chinese and 1.51% speak Hindi, the next two most common languages.
When compared to other census places, North Druid Hills, GA has a relatively high number of residents that are native Hebrew speakers. In 2015, there were 199 native Hebrew speakers living in North Druid Hills, GA, approximately 13.32 times more than would be expected based on the language's frequency in the US more broadly.
North Druid Hills, GA has a large population of military personnel who served in Vietnam, 1.14 times greater than any other conflict.
In 2015 universities in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area awarded 61,199 degrees. The student population of Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area is skewed towards females, with 25,577 male students and 35,622 female students. Most students in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area are White (24,189 and 39.5%), followed by Black or African American (22,799 and 37.3%), Asian (3,735 and 6.1%), and Hispanic or Latino (3,428 and 5.6%). The largest universities in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area by number of graduates are Georgia State University (7,518 and 12.3%), Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus (5,682 and 9.3%), and Kennesaw State University (5,603 and 9.2%). The most popular majors in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area are General Business Administration & Management (2,071 and 3.38%), General Psychology (1,353 and 2.21%), and General Biological Sciences (1,213 and 1.98%). The median tuition costs in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area are $35,000 for private four year colleges, and $4,256 and $15,021 respectively, for public four year colleges for in-state students and out-of-state students.
The closest comparable data for the census place of North Druid Hills, GA is from the metropolitan statistical area of Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area.
In 2015, the most common concentation for Bachelor's Degree recipients in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area was General Business Administration & Management with 2,071 graduates.
When compared to other metropolitan statistical areas, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area has a relatively high number of students obtaining a Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Science. In 2015, there were 8 graduates, which is approximately 2.49 times more than would be expected based on the national percentage of students who graduate with a Environmental Science degree.
This visualization illustrates the percentage of students graduating with a Bachelor's Degree from schools in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area according to their major.
In 2015, the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area institution with the largest number of graduating students was Georgia State University with 7,518 graduates.
In 2015, 25,577 men graduated from institutions in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area, which is 0.72 times less than than the 35,622 female graduates.
This chart displays the gender disparity between the top 5 institutions in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area by degrees awarded.
In 2015 the majority of students graduating from institutions in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area were White. These 24,189 graduates mean that there were 1.06 times more White graduates than the next closest race/ethnicity group, Black or African American, with 22,799 graduates.
The median property value in North Druid Hills, GA is $311,000, which is 1.52 times larger than the national average of $205,000. Between 2015 and 2016 the median property value increased from $302,500 to $311,000, a 2.81% increase. The homeownership rate of North Druid Hills, GA is 38%, which is lower than the national average of 63.6%. People in North Druid Hills, GA have an average commute time of 21.4 minutes, and they commute by Drove Alone. Car ownership in North Druid Hills, GA is approximately the same as the national average, with an average of 2 cars per household.
In 2016, the median household income of the 8,977 households in North Druid Hills, GA grew to $55,694 from the previous year's value of $53,769.
The following chart displays the households in North Druid Hills, GA distributed between a series of income buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households have an income in the $200k+ range.
In 2016, the median property value in North Druid Hills, GA grew to $311,000 from the previous year's value of $302,500.
The following charts display, first, the property values in North Druid Hills, GA compared to other geographies and, second, owner-occupied housing units distributed between a series of property value buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In North Druid Hills, GA the largest share of households have a property value in the $300k-$400k range.
This chart shows the households in North Druid Hills, GA distributed between a series of property tax buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In North Druid Hills, GA the largest share of households pay taxes in the $3k+ range.
In 2016, 38% of the housing units in North Druid Hills, GA were occupied by their owner. This percentage declined from the previous year's rate of 40.1%.
This percentage of owner-occupation is lower than the national average of 63.6%. This chart shows the ownership percentage in North Druid Hills, GA compared to its parent geographies.
The following chart displays the households in North Druid Hills, GA distributed between a series of car ownership buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households in North Druid Hills, GA have 2 cars, followed by 1 car.
Using averages, employees in North Druid Hills, GA have a shorter commute time (21.4 minutes) than the normal US worker (25 minutes). Additionally, 0.67% of the workforce in North Druid Hills, GA have "super commutes" in excess of 90 minutes.
The chart below shows the average travel time in North Druid Hills, GA compared to its parent geographies.
In 2016, the most common method of travel for workers in North Druid Hills, GA was Drove Alone, followed by those who Work at Home and those who Carpooled.


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using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

internal partial class Interop
{
    internal partial class Kernel32
    {
        [DllImport(Libraries.Kernel32)]
        internal static extern bool TzSpecificLocalTimeToSystemTime(
                                        IntPtr lpTimeZoneInformation,
                                        in Interop.Kernel32.SYSTEMTIME lpLocalTime,
                                        out Interop.Kernel32.SYSTEMTIME lpUniversalTime);
    }
}

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