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Walton Creel is the perfect artist for these gun totin?, caribou killin?, post-Jared Lee Loughner times: He doesn’t make art; he shoots it.
Creel — a sort of modern-day George Seurat in hunting gear — creates figurative compositions of wildlife by blasting his .22-caliber rifle at point-blank range into big sheets of aluminum. (Gah, that’s gotta? be dangerous!) The resulting dot matrices of bunnies and deer and squirrels look innocent enough from afar, lik...
Mind you, Creel, who hails from Birmingham, Alabama, says the point here is to “deweaponize” the gun. ‘My main goal was to take the destructive power away from the gun,’ he says on his website, “To manipulate the gun into a tool of creation.” Read that as you will: An ironic protest or a glorification of firearms. All’...
Creel’s work isn’t for sale at the moment, but it will be soon. Check his website for updates… and make sure to get there, before Sarah Palin snaps up the whole lot.
Here's an early dispatch from the PIAA wrestling championships... --------------------------------------------------- HERSHEY -- The novelty of wrestling in the Giant Center has worn off for Kennard-Dale's Chance Marsteller. On Friday it was back to business -- and back to the form that has made the Rams' 152-pound fre...
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 22, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mitek Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:MITK)(www.miteksystems.com), the leading innovator of mobile imaging for financial transactions and identification, today announced that it will release its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2015, ended December 31, 2014, afte...
Mitek management will host a conference call and live webcast for analysts and investors on January 29, 2015 at 2 p.m. Pacific Time (5 p.m. Eastern Time) to discuss the Company's financial results.
To listen to the live conference call, parties in the United States and Canada should dial 888-427-9376, access code 2855818. International parties should call 719-325-2393 using access code 2855818. Please dial in approximately 15 minutes prior to the start of the call.
If you're on the hunt for a new way to enjoy eggs, try this play on the traditional Middle Eastern dish shakshuka that satisfies as a special Spring breakfast or post-workout dinner. With more than 20 grams of protein and nearly 40 percent of your recommended fiber for the day, this 350-calorie meal consists of perfect...
Heat oil in ovenproof skillet over medium heat. Add onion and garlic and sauté for five minutes. Add chickpeas and sauté for another three minutes.
Add diced tomatoes, cumin, cinnamon, paprika, red pepper flakes, and bring to a boil. Turn the heat down to simmer for 10 minutes.
Add Swiss chard and cook down for about one minute.
Make six little wells in the tomato and chard mixture, and add eggs to the skillet slowly.
Move the skillet to the preheated oven, and bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until the whites are set.
Remove from oven, sprinkle with basil, serve, and enjoy.
A primer on the organic food industry.
Just putting food on the table can be a chore for so many. Because of this, farmers have focused on ways to get the cost of putting food on the table as low as possible. Some of the methods used, including chemicals, antibiotics and factory farming, have not always been in the best interest of the consumer nor the envi...
Organic tomatoes. Photo credit: Flickr user epSos.de.
The organic food movement is actually a labeling term. It refers to the way food is grown and processed. Synthetic fertilizers and pesticides as well as sewage sludge and irradiation are not used to grow organic food crops, and seeds cannot be genetically engineered. Instead, organic food uses pesticides and fertilizer...
USDA organic food seal. Source: USDA.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, or USDA, has established an organic certification program that requires all foods desiring to be labeled organic to meet strict standards to be certified. There are actually three different organic labels. Foods that are 100% organic may use that phrase, however, the term "organic" a...
How big is the organic food industry?
According to the USDA, more than 25,000 farmers, ranchers, and other businesses produce products under the USDA organic certification program. Over $35 billion worth of products are sold through the U.S. organic retail market, up from just a billion dollars in sales in 1990. In 2010, about 4% of the U.S. food and bever...
The organic food industry is still an emerging industry in the U.S., and sales are expected to grow by 14% annually from 2013 to 2018. Most organic farms or businesses are small-scale operations or have been acquired and are now just part of a larger company. That limits the options for those seeking to invest directly...
How does the organic food industry work?
Because organic is a labeling term, it is a completely voluntary certification. Therefore, barriers to entry are not all that high. A producer first decides to adopt organic principles and then submits an application to be certified. From there, a certification agent reviews the application and verifies that the practi...
What drives the organic food industry?
There are several drivers of the organic food industry. Early on, it was driven by those seeking a more environmentally responsible solution to food production. However, over time, organic food has won more followers. Americans are becoming increasingly concerned with how their food has been grown and processed, and th...
That being said, the bulk of organic food buying comes from consumers fully dedicated to the process. One survey concluded that 46% of organic food purchases were made by those who were either "true believers" in the process or "enlightened environmentalists." There are two big reasons organic food buyers typically hav...
However, as more producers get certified, and more stores carry organic products, organic food is becoming an easier option for everyday shoppers who want to rid their diets of pesticides and food additives. Because of this trend, in 2010, more than half of organic food sales were sold through mass-market retailers. Th...
Overall, the industry is growing fast as more Americans are choosing to increase their consumption of organic foods. Given that nearly half of all organic food sales are to just a small subset of the population, there is great potential for future growth in the industry as more Americans increase their spending on orga...
Washington, DC - The American economy is strong, and manufacturing jobs are growing steadily.
Jobs in goods-producing industries, which include manufacturing, recently grew at the fastest rate since President Reagan was in office. In Utah, 7,400 manufacturing jobs have been added since November 2016.
Nationally, recent data showed the fewest number of people filing for unemployment in 49 years, and more than 4 million new jobs have been created since President Trump was elected. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P have recently set record highs.
JERUSALEM, Dec. 4 — Israel’s military, which has been accused of abuses in its war against Hezbollah this summer, has declassified photographs, video images and prisoner interrogations to buttress its accusation that Hezbollah systematically fired from civilian neighborhoods in southern Lebanon and took cover in those ...
Lebanon and international human rights groups have accused Israel of war crimes in the 34 days of fighting in July and August, saying that Israel fired into populated areas and that civilians accounted for a vast majority of the more than 1,000 Lebanese killed.
Israel says that it tried to avoid civilians, but that Hezbollah fired from civilian areas, itself a war crime, which made those areas legitimate targets.
In a new report, an Israeli research group says Hezbollah stored weapons in mosques, battled Israelis from inside empty schools, flew white flags while transporting missiles and launched rockets near United Nations monitoring posts.
The detailed report on the war was produced by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Center for Special Studies, a private research group headed by Reuven Erlich, a retired colonel in military intelligence, who worked closely with the Israeli military.
An advance copy was given to The New York Times by the American Jewish Congress, which has itself fought against the use of “human shields,” provided consultation and translated the study.
In Lebanon, a Hezbollah official denied the study’s allegations, saying its military units were based outside towns and villages and had come into populated areas only when circumstances required it. “We tried to avoid having to fight among civilian areas, but when Israeli troops entered villages, we were automatically...
Israel’s critics charge that its military either singled out civilians or was reckless in its pursuit of Hezbollah. The new report is an attempt to rebut such criticism.
The report includes Israeli Air Force video that it says shows several instances of Hezbollah personnel firing rockets next to residential buildings in southern Lebanon and then being bombed by Israel. The adjacent buildings were presumably damaged, but there is no information on whether civilians were inside.
In video from July 23, a truck with a multi-barreled missile launcher, presumably from Hezbollah, is parked in a street, sandwiched between residential buildings. The video was transmitted from an Israeli missile approaching the truck. The screen goes fuzzy as the missile slams into the target.
In another video, from a Lebanese village, rockets are seen being fired from a launcher on the back of a truck. The truck then drives a short distance and disappears inside a building. Seconds later, the building itself disappears under a cloud of smoke from an Israeli bomb.
The report says that there were many such examples, and that Hezbollah has been preparing for such an engagement for years, embedding its fighters and their weapons in the Shiite villages of southern Lebanon. When Hezbollah fired its rockets from those areas, Israel faced a choice of attacking, and possibly causing civ...
During the war, Israel dropped leaflets urging villagers to leave southern Lebanon and also to evacuate from Hezbollah strongholds in southern Beirut. Many did flee, but some remained and among them were hundreds who were killed.
In one highly publicized Israeli strike on July 30, at least 28 Lebanese civilians, including many women and children, were killed when Israel bombed a residential building in the village of Qana. Israel said it struck a Hezbollah rocket cell that had recently fired from near the building.
In several other instances, Israel bombed vehicle convoys that were trying to leave the combat zone in southern Lebanon, killing many civilians. Human Rights Watch, a New York-based advocacy group, said shortly before the war ended that it had documented the deaths of 27 Lebanese civilians killed while trying to flee.
Photographs from southern Lebanon include, top, a village where Israel says a rocket launcher was kept, before and after an Israeli airstrike. Above, another village where Israel says a rocket launcher was hidden.
The group also accused Hezbollah of “serious violations of international humanitarian law” for deliberately attacking Israeli civilians with rockets.
The Israeli report included video of what it said were three Hezbollah prisoners being questioned by Israeli military personnel.
Muhammad Srour, a young Hezbollah fighter, said he had initially received training in Iran and was undergoing further training in eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley when the war broke out. He was sent to the front lines.
Like many Hezbollah fighters, he traveled by motorbike, but they were frequently the targets of Israeli forces. While transporting missiles, hidden in cloth, in and around the southern village of Aita al Shaab, “I carried a white flag,” Mr. Srour said.
Hezbollah operated freely from homes in the village, with the permission of residents who had fled. The departing residents either left their doors unlocked or gave their keys to Hezbollah, he said. Mr. Srour acknowledged that homes used by Hezbollah were more likely to draw fire.
Another captured fighter, Hussein Suleiman, explained how he had set up a rocket-firing position on the front porch of a house on the outskirts of Aita al Shaab.
The Israeli report makes frequent references to Hezbollah’s using Lebanese civilians as human shields, though it cites only two villages where it says Hezbollah prevented residents from leaving. Mr. Erlich acknowledged that over all, Hezbollah did not use coercion against Lebanese civilians.
Hezbollah fired some 4,000 rockets into northern Israel, and most Israeli civilians either fled the region or took refuge in bomb shelters.
Over all, more than 1,000 Lebanese were killed, and a vast majority were civilians, according to the Lebanese government. Hezbollah has said that no more than 100 of its fighters were killed.
The Israeli report disputes this, claiming that at least 450 and perhaps as many as 650 of the Lebanese dead were from Hezbollah.
Israel suffered 159 deaths, including 41 civilians and 118 military personnel, according to the report.
Israel withdrew its troops from southern Lebanon in 2000 after a presence of nearly two decades, much of it spent fighting Hezbollah. There was periodic cross-border shelling in the ensuing years.
The war erupted on July 12 when Hezbollah crossed the border and attacked an Israeli jeep patrol, killing three soldiers and capturing two more, who remain held by Hezbollah, according to the group.
The fighting stopped Aug. 14, shortly after the passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which reaffirmed an earlier resolution calling for Lebanese militias to disarm.
Israel says Hezbollah has only hidden its weapons and is being resupplied from its longtime patrons, Syria and Iran. Israel continues to send warplanes on reconnaissance missions over southern Lebanon, despite criticism from the United Nations forces in the region.
Because of an editing error, a front-page article on Tuesday about an Israeli report that accused Hezbollah militants of using Lebanese civilians as human shields during the war this summer referred imprecisely to how Amnesty International handled the issue. While it was not addressed in Amnesty’s Sept. 14 report on th...
An article in Business Day yesterday about a restructuring, including a management shake-up, at Yahoo misstated the year Daniel L. Rosensweig, the departing chief operating officer, assumed his post. It was April 2002, not 2003.
THE troubled Perth Arena's total cost will be $548.7 million after the State Government reached agreement with the builder over contractual claims related to its design.
Significant design changes, construction challenges and delays at the CBD project in recent years have seen the Arena’s cost more than triple its original budget.
The project was first announced in 2005 at a cost of $160 million and was due for completion in 2009.
For months on end, Len Buckeridge’s BGC Construction has remained tight-lipped about the project because of delicate negotiations taking place with the State Government over a raft of design changes which created the significant delays and cost blow-outs.
In July, PerthNow reported that Mr Buckeridge, who was refusing to pay penalties of $45,000 a day after the project failed to meet a completion deadline, was preparing a $53 million counterclaim for the repeated changes impacting construction schedules and project delivery.
Treasurer Christian Porter said the long standing contractual claims, which have now been settled under confidential terms, were directly related to the previous Labor government’s decision to change the contract with BGC which made the State liable for design changes.
Major changes to the design, including the decision to move the arena car park to the basement during the middle of the tender process, were also put in place.
These “inexplicable and incompetent decisions” made by Labor, Mr Porter said, have resulted in the State being exposed to significant design risk and now contract costs.
“Combined with the other Labor design changes relating to the structural steel design, the result of Labor’s decisions has been to give rise to substantial claims from BGC for extension of time and related delay damages,” Mr Porter said.
“After an exhaustive negotiation process, the State Government has reached agreement on settlement of all delay claims linked to any cause occurring up to the end of July 2011.
“The recent settlement figure for BGC's claims of $27.5 million represents a significantly lower amount than the $65.4 million originally sought by BGC and in all the circumstances represents the best outcome for the State.
Last week, Bloomberg reported that the Justice Department might snuff out the impeding Comcast-TWC merger for violation of antitrust laws. Now, the WSJ has joined the mourning party, with a report saying the FCC will designate the merger for a hearing. That wouldn’t kill it dead, but it would certainly sharpen up the a...
According to the WSJ report, FCC staff have recommended the agency issue a “hearing designation order”. That would put the future of the merger in the hands of an administrative judge, and would put the FCC’s seal of disapproval on the nuptials.
If things do move to a hearing, that wouldn’t be the end of the line — Comcast would still have an opportunity to make its case. But as the WSJ points out, there’s little Comcast can change about the details of the deal at this stage, since both Comcast and TWC already have arrangements in place to sell or spin off sys...
The September issue of Elle Decor arrived in a flourish of silvery hues and starchitect selfies, looking ahead to the future of design with no fear of the past (or of a bold red armchair). At the editorial helm of the Hearst shelter magazine is Michael Boodro, who predicts that over the next quarter century, “the print...
Elle Decor turns 25 this year. How are you celebrating?
We have celebrated throughout the year with special stories looking back, but it all culminates with our big 25th anniversary issue, out now. It is full of projects by quintessential Elle Decor designers, including Steven Gambrel and Darryl Carter, as well as a celebration of silver—the traditional 25th anniversary gif...
How do you describe the editorial mission/philosophy of the magazine?
I actually think our most important mission is to inspire. Sure, we want to keep our readers informed as to the latest projects and trends, but our readers are passionate about design, and they want to know the stories behind the room, behind the product. They are just as interested in design history as in what is new....
What is the most surprising thing you encountered while looking through past issues?
What surprised me was how fresh many of the rooms still look, even 25 years later. Yes some of the fashions and trends have dissipated—French Provençal style, Mission—although that might be coming back—and hard-edged minimalism. But personal style always retains its appeal. What was sobering was realizing how many tale...
What’s the best book you read this summer—or what’s still on your list of books to get to before the summer is out?
I am just finishing Beth Macy’s Factory Man, an amazing story of furniture and family that looks at the radical way furniture production has changed in the U.S. It tells the story of the Bassett family, who went from literally controlling their company town in Virginia to shutting down the majority of their factories i...
I also read an advance copy of Sarah Water’s new novel The Paying Guests, out in September. It starts as the story of a young woman and her mother facing genteel poverty in the aftermath of the First World War and then turns into something totally different. It’s a total page-turner.
What is the most unusual or meaningful object currently on your desk?
A photo of my husband and me in the back of our house in upstate New York. It is very lush and green, and reminds me why I work so hard.
What’s the best creative, business, or life advice you’ve received?
When I worked for Anna Wintour she would often say, “Not every idea works.” A simple truth, but one that is important to remember—no matter how brilliant any idea or concept seems initially. Remembering that keeps you humble. What I also value about that statement is that it is not judgmental. No criticism, no grief, n...
What do you consider your proudest publishing/magazine moment?
Just surviving in this business has been an accomplishment, especially during 2008 and 2009, when the demise of print was considered imminent. I have been lucky enough to have been affiliated with and contributed to some of the best brands in the business—GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Martha Stewart Living, and now Elle ...
In this Tuesday, March 13, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump talks with reporters as he reviews border wall prototypes in San Diego.
A government report Monday warned that the Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, risks blowing through its budget and not meeting key deadlines regarding President Donald Trump's proposed border wall, NBC News reported.
The report by the Government Accountability Office, or GAO, an internal government watchdog agency, found that DHS has not provided a complete analysis required to efficiently build the proposed barrier along the Mexico border — which could result in wasted taxpayer money. It also said the wall may not work as planned.

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