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        <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:40:38 PDT</pubDate>        
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                <title>Another Auld Lang Syne</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 09:03:34 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Another Auld Lang Syne</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ I wrote this a few years ago and it still rings true today...<br /><br />I learned a long time a go, to try to not burn bridges and to always leave the door open to old friends and lovers. In a lifetime we all make mistakes and there are always more than a few regrets that we tuck away in that hidden spot in our soul that sometimes a sight, a sound, a touch or a taste might allow us to revisit and wonder what if.<br />New Year is a time to reflect back on mistakes made, loves lost, old friends forgotten. A time to resolve to do better in the coming year. To at least try...<br />To all my new friends here at DA, my family, my old friends, my colleagues, custome ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Explore...</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:03:15 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ I got another photo picked by Flickr Explore for the 'Agany' photo I took in Pittsburgh! I love these little surprises! I have no idea how or why they pick the photos they do, but it sure is fun as well as an honor to have people outside my little circle of friends and Flickr contacts see and comment on my photos. http://www.flickr.com/photos/yankeedog57/8030477788/in/photostream<br /><br />Beyond that, my son and I will be working at Eddie Adams Barnstorm this weekend. My son and I were invited by Eddie's widow Alyssa to come up to Jeffersonville, New York to work at Barnstorm. We will be representing the New Kensington Camera Club.<br /><br />For those of you  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>It's been awhile...</title>
                <link>http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/journal/It-s-been-awhile-317086470</link>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 06:03:25 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">It's been awhile...</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ I just realized that I haven't posed a  journal entry since Steve Jobs died. I have to confess, I've been busy. The company I was working for, Prisma Inc. At H.J. Heinz went out of business at the end of last year, but on my last day, I got a job offer from Schawk!  also at H.J. Heinz, but after 4 months, they decided not to renew my contract. I don't think they like old people. :-) No big deal, I didn't like working for them, too many rules and regulations, not enough creativity, I'm not interested in being a production artist, I'd rather be doing design and creative work. It was a good time to close that chapter, I'm actually happ ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Thank God &amp; Cupertino</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:41:51 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Thank God &amp; Cupertino</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ This is a great loss to the creative community. Almost all the artwork I've done since the 1980's is a direct result of Steve Jobs and Apple. Thank God & Copertino. Rest in Peace Steve.<br />Reporting live from Guntown on a Apple iPad<br />-YD ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>The Guntown Project, Just Shoot it!</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:34:25 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">The Guntown Project, Just Shoot it!</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ In case anyone was wondering what I've been up to, I've been out shooting pictures a lot lately and posting them to Flicker and Fluidr http://www.fluidr.com/photos/yankeedog57 as part of a project I'm calling the "Guntown Project", I'm also in the very early stages of starting the "New Kensington Camera Club" with some local shooters and friends. The Guntown Project has been a dream of mine for a while, I'm hoping to parlay this into a photography show and possibly a book and to incorporate it into the New Kensington Camera Club. The New Kensington Camera Club idea was inspired by several things, but primarily I want it to be a educational to ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Supporting the team...</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:03:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ As a fan, we invest a lot of time money and emotion into supporting the team of our choice. Some go to extremes, others take a more stable approach to supporting the team. Being from Pittsburgh automatically puts you into a category of extreme fan that puts the fan in fanatic. Not all of us fit the extremes, but they get all the press and end up being the painted face of Steelers fans. Most of us are a little more moderate in our support, we support the home team for city pride and a sense of belonging. Supporting the team has become an institution even a religion, they eat, drink and sleep the Black & Gold, to them there is nothing else but  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Melancholy</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:16:16 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Melancholy</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Maybe it's the lack of sunshine and the life sustaining Vitamin D, but this time of year I always get a sense of melancholy. Couple that with this urban decay fascination I've been developing and you get where I'm at in this space and time. It's not all bad, I've gained an appreciation for the run down, the rusty, the grim and the abandoned in life. I recently found on Flickr that there are others like me who love the decaying storefronts and the dilapidated buildings of our decaying inner cities and mill towns, while it's sad, it is also inspiring in the way in that people are going out there and photographing every rusty nuance and turning  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>The reason for the season...</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 08:45:49 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">The reason for the season...</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Christmas is a season of giving that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, but in this season we sometimes lose focus, it can be overwhelming in the mad rush. I myself dropped out many years ago due to the commercialization of the holiday, it's not that I don't celebrate the birth of Christ, but I just don't get involved in the shopping and all the craziness that seems to start earlier and earlier every year...<br /><br />A friend of mine, Paul Tibbets is a pilot in the USAF, the other day he posted a message about wishing he could be with his family for Christmas and I got to thinking about all our troops that are far from home serving our country and ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Giving Thanks...</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 07:19:30 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Giving Thanks...</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ This time of year (Thanksgiving here in the U.S.A.) we are always asked to reflect upon things we are thankful for. First and foremost I have to say family and friends and this includes people like you if you are reading this. We may only be friends on the internet, but you all are important to me. Your praise, comments and insight of my work means so much to me and inspires me to do more. I also appreciate you sharing your work and your thoughts, I am very grateful. Think about what a wondrous thing this... Yesterday after posting some photos, I got :+fav:'s from Belgium, Canada, Egypt, Pakistan, Portugal and Spain! How cool is that? Think a ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>New Group on Flickr</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:23:18 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">New Group on Flickr</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ I'm not a photographer, but I do like to take pictures. Being an artist, maybe gives me a better than average eye for composition and drama, but at the end of the day, I'm just a graphic designer who likes to take pictures. It appears I'm not alone in my passion for taking pictures of things I think are cool and this new group on Flickr proves it. http://www.flickr.com/groups/graphicdesigners_shooting/ Graphic Designers Moonlighting as Photographers. I would never say that I'm moonlighting as a photographer, there is much more to photography than snapping pictures, but I have been paid to take pictures, nothing high end, mostly just something ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Wish lists...</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 08:18:30 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Wish lists...</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ We all have things we want to do, places to visit, things we would like to possess... If you are a collector like me, you have a wish list. Many of the things on my wish list for some reason are cameras, it drives my wife crazy, but I'm always looking for old cameras, working or paperweights it doesn't matter much to me, I'm not buying them to take pictures with, but to take pictures of. Back in the day when I was a art student at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, I had a photography class, not having much money, I borrowed a old Pentax Spotmatic from my uncle with the instructions to use it till it dies. I really loved that camera. My uncle " ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>The Weight...</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:20:00 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">The Weight...</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ From time to time we come face to face with the burden of life. We've all heard the expression that the Good Lord never gives us more than we can handle, but sometimes I wonder. I recently learned that a photographer I've gotten to know has been given a pretty grim diagnosis. Coupled with some other serious health issues, he is already carrying a pretty substantial weight. The human condition in all its amazement has little more than prayer and spirit to fight the constant barrage of life threatening maladies. Its like the dodge ball game of life, the person next to you takes a hit and the game goes on. You think I'm glad it wasn't me... and  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Time Machines</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:06:17 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Time Machines</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Over the past couple weeks for one reason or another, I've been presented with the opportunity to shot some photos that even though they were taken now, they could have been taken many years ago. Cameras are like time machines in a way. When you have the chance to photograph something in it's natural setting, when there are none of the trappings of a more modern era, you can transport the viewer back in time. I have often said that I wish I could go back in time to say the 1930's with modern cameras and photograph the Pennsylvania Railroad in all its glory. It is possible to achieve some degree of timelessness if the conditions are right and  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Just shoot it...</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:37:14 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Just shoot it...</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ The other day my good friend Chris was on the beach in Cape May New Jersey when a P-51 Mustang came flying down the beach and he told me he wished he had his camera. Walking down the street yesterday, I saw a girl taking a picture of one of the churches across the street from the Heinz 57 Center and it occurred to me that in no other period in time has the world we live in been more documented than it is right now. I don't care where you are or what you are doing, someone is taking a photo. Everybody today has some sort of camera, be it a camera phone or a point and shoot or a DSLR or any number of analogue cameras that are still clicking awa ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Labor Day</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:32:57 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Labor Day</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Wow, what a great weekend! Beautiful weather and lots of things to do in and around Pittsburgh! Saturday we toured a WWII LST in Pittsburgh! My uncle Tommy Henderson served on LST 598 in WWII. Hundreds of LST's were built here in Pittsburgh during WWII at Neville Island and at Ambridge. My grandfather a WWI vet helped build LSTs at DRAVO Corporation on Neville Island on the Ohio River. LST (Landing Ship Tank) or as my uncle called them "Large Slow Target" were mass produced amphibious assault ships and were used during the D-Day invasions and during the island hopping campaign in the Pacific. The one we toured LST 325 out of Evansville, India ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Of Jeeps and things...</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:22:52 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ The other day I bought a used 2003 Jeep Wrangler TJ. This the 8th Jeep I've owned, still have numbers 5 and 7 as well, you can never have enough Jeeps. The latest one is pretty cool, it's a Limited Edition called a Freedom, it has the tried and true 4.0 liter Inline 6 with a 5 speed, rag top, hard doors, chrome wheels and a few other goodies and it's as stock as stock can be! If you have ever shopped around for a used Jeep Wrangler, you know how rare it is to not only find a stock one, but to find one in showroom condition is next to impossible, but I found one! Learning to drive a Wrangler TJ as opposed to a Wrangler YJ is a learning experie ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Texas, Ted, and Operation Finally Home</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:56:16 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ We're back from our trip Texas with Operation Finally Home. We had a great time, got to see all kinds of cool things and meet some really cool people. Dan Wallrath the founder of Operation Finally Home, Dan Vargas and Cindy Schoening are amazing people doing an amazing job for our wounded troops, I'm really proud to be a part of the cause! Thank you so much for inviting us to Texas and giving us a first hand look at what you guys do.<br /><br />Some details of the trip included a Houston Dynamo professional soccer game that honored our military and spotlighted Dan Wallrath and some of our wounded Veterans! Budwiser provided a great tailgate party and a ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Operation Finally Home</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:08:49 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ For the past couple years, I have been doing artwork for the Bay Area Builders Association, Operation Finally Home and my friend Dan Vargas. Operation Finally Home was started by Dan Wallrath http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/03/11/cnnheroes.wallrath.vets.houses/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_living+%28RSS%3A+Living%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher<br /><br />Next week I'm going to get to meet Dan Wallrath and some of the wounded Vets. I'll also be meeting Ted Nugent and seeing him in concert. I'll also be seeing my friend Dan Vargas again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvMxRA_a3p0<br /><br />To learn how you can h ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>I'm Always Amazed...</title>
                <link>http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/journal/I-m-Always-Amazed-225326873</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:35:29 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ I'm Always Amazed at the incredible amount of talent that I see here on Deviant Art. You would figure in 33 years doing graphic design and illustration and over 7 years here on DA that I've pretty much seen it all. I get so inspired and at the same time I'm in awe of what I see as well as being more than a little frustrated when I think of some of the talentless slobs who are making big bucks. Still I have great hope when I see such amazing work. Check my favorite to see what I mean!<br />Reporting live from the heart of the Golden Triangle...<br />-YD ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Crime in the Big City</title>
                <link>http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/journal/Crime-in-the-Big-City-225437235</link>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:15:14 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Yesterday, I'm walking across Downtown Pittsburgh in a rain storm when I was confronted by a wet and crying woman in front of Oxford Center asking if I had a cell phone she could use to call 911. A young black kid had just stolen her purse! He got her wallet, ID, bus pass, cell phone and $15 as well as all the other things a woman carries in her purse... What do you do? If I had been a few minutes sooner maybe I could have prevented the crime, but the little bastard was long gone. She thanked me for the use of the phone and I continued walking to the Southside, but I only walked a few blocks when I thought what if that was my wife or my daugh ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Over 100,000 Served</title>
                <link>http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/journal/Over-100-000-Served-225446394</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:15:40 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Some time on Father's Day I topped 100,000 page views! Now I know that's not a lot compared to some of the nude photo or anime pages here on DA, but it's a significant milestone to me and I just wanted to say thanks to all of you, I appreciate it! I hope you have enjoyed what you've seen of my work so far. <br />Thanks again and God bless!<br />Reporting live from the heart of the Golden Triangle...<br />-YD<br /><br />Theresa Anderson kicks ass!<br />"Oh Mary" live at Le Petit Theatre <br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJkQvyoWJBk&feature=player_embedded#! ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Bloody Sunday</title>
                <link>http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/journal/Bloody-Sunday-225524834</link>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:02:09 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ At some point you have to question things that are wrong. Civilians being gunned down by elite heavily armed soldiers during a peaceful protest for basic human rights is wrong.<br /><br />It took the British government almost 40 years to admit that the murder of 14 unarmed Irish protesters by British paratroopers was 'unjustified'. It amazes me after all these years that they came to a conclusion that we knew was painfully obvious all along. None of these men and boys were armed, no shots were fired by the protesters, but British Paratroopers gunned them down in cold blood, and then lied in a vain attempt to cover up the murders.<br /><br />Killing Irish men, wo ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Fait accompli</title>
                <link>http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/journal/Fait-accompli-225866408</link>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 03:23:07 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Fait accompli is a French phrase which means literally "an accomplished fact." It is commonly used to describe an action which is completed before those affected by it are in a position to question or change it.<br /><br />If you are an American, your Freedom is an accomplished fact, what also is an accomplished fact is that the Freedoms you enjoy were paid for by somebody who made the ultimate sacrifice.<br /><br />Our Freedom is a precious gift. It was given to us by those who never lived to enjoy it. We are often talking about young men and boys some drafted, some enlisted before they even knew the joys of life. Some never got to marry, to have children, to h ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Visual Arts Illustrated Magazine</title>
                <link>http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/journal/Visual-Arts-Illustrated-Magazine-214221405</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:38:57 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Back in 2003, I was interviewed by Edward Reed for an 11 page spread in Airbrush Art + Action Magazine. http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/art/Airbrush-Art-plus-Action-1600630<br /><br />Olaf Robrecht who was an assistant editor and editorial editor with AA + A and later Art Scene International and Pin-Up artist and Editorial Advisor Edward Reed have taken the magazine concept to the next level by creating a fully interactive digital magazine! If the first issue is any indication of where this Visual Arts Illustrated Magazine is going, we are all in for a fun ride! Check out Issue No. 1 for free, it's pretty cool!<br /><br />http://emagazine.visualartsillustrated.c ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Visual Arts Illustrated a digital magazine...</title>
                <link>http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/journal/Visual-Arts-Illustrated-a-digital-magazine-227211489</link>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:18:57 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Years ago, 2003, I was interviewed by Edward Reed for an 11 page spread in Airbrush Art + Action Magazine. http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/art/Airbrush-Art-plus-Action-1600630<br /><br />Olaf Robrecht who was an assistant editor and editorial editor with AA + A and later Art Scene International has taken the magazine concept to the next level by creating a fully digital interactive magazine! If the first issue is any indication of where this new digital magazine concept is going, we are all in for a fun ride! Check out Issue 1 for free, it's pretty cool!<br /><br />http://emagazine.visualartsillustrated.com/Index.aspx<br /><br />Reporting live from the heart of the Steel  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Of Irish ways and Irish Pride...</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:58:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ This is mainly directed at people of of Irish descent, but all people who believe in Freedom have a part to play as well. For over 800 years, the Irish have suffered under british rule. After countless rebellions, the Great Hunger, evictions and outright theft of Irish land, mass exodus to all corners of the earth have put us where we are today. No one can dispute the the contributions the Irish have made to the world, but yet in in Ireland, we have failed and failed miserably.<br /><br />This time of year, it's easy to wax philosophically and get all misty eyed about Ireland and being Irish, but remember, there are still british troops in 6 northern c ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Mystery solved...</title>
                <link>http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/journal/Mystery-solved-227560798</link>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:27:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ A while back, I got pulled over by the Harmar Twp. police after taking a few photos of a junk car from the side of the road. The woman police officer obviously thought she had public enemy number one and held me till backup arrived. The male officer was no attitude and friendly as he asked me what I had been up to. I handed him my camera and he looked at the photos I took of the junk car and smiled. He told me they had a report of a trespasser at a junkyard and that people had been stealing catalytic converters. I told him that it was pretty unlikely that this car ever had a catalytic converter on it, it was way too old, he let me go even tho ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Did I ever tell you I've been struck by Lightning?</title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ "We're meant to lose the people we love, How else would we know how much they mean to us?" -The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<br /><br />My son and I watched The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and it really struck a nerve. Life isn't easy under normal circumstances. There are ebbs and flows, the everyday ups and downs, a winding road that make up our lives. If you are lucky enough to have family who love and care about you, it somehow softens the ride. The character Queenie, so brilliantly played by Taraji P. Henson was one of those people who could take the cards life dealt her and play that hand. My mom was one of those people too. She had way mak ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Not serious artists or photographers?</title>
                <link>http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/journal/Not-serious-artists-or-photographers-229324406</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:53:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Some teachers at the Art Institute Pittsburgh are saying that Deviant Art and Flickr are not for serious artists or photographers... Hmmm... not serious?<br /><br />Okay, yes I have seen some less than professional work on both sites, but to paint both sites with a  broad brush like that is a very narrow and parochial view  that insults the great talent on both sites.<br /><br />What defines a "Serious" artist or photographer? Do you do it for a living? Is it something you eat, drink and sleep? Is it the overriding passion in your life? If you answered yes to any of these questions, I'm thinking you are serious.<br /><br />I guess if one is serious about their work, they  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Notes &amp; Sketches</title>
                <link>http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/journal/Notes-amp-Sketches-230069584</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:16:39 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Back when I was an aspiring art student at the Carnegie's Tam O'Shanter art classes, each week we would fill out a paper titled Notes & Sketches, on the paper, we would jot down things we did during the past week, our thoughts, our hopes, the all important quotes from Mr Fitzpatrick http://www.geocities.com/mchenderson57/fitz.html, "Look to See to Remember to Enjoy!", thumbnail sketches, a color wheel, a perspective diagram, shading exercises, etc... important stuff!<br /><br />All of this was to get us in the habit of keeping a sketchbook/journal. Over the years I filled up more than a few sketchbooks with drawing, sketches, notes, poems, prayers, eve ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Pittsburgh Welcomes the World!</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:04:34 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Pittsburgh Welcomes the world! Well maybe some of it... I personally wasn't invited. Were you? I wouldn't have gone anyway, but some uninvited guests who did try to come to Pittsburgh got a rude welcome yesterday from the Pittsburgh Police all dressed up in their Darth Vader riot gear costumes. Luke Ravenstahl, the boy mayor of Pittsburgh wished more people had come to Pittsburgh and that more businesses had stayed open. Are you kidding me? Who in their right mind would want to come to Pittsburgh during the G-20? Pittsburgh politicians, you gotta love 'em, they are dumber than a bag of hammers, the city itself is bankrupt due to bad deals wit ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Shaw Gallery</title>
                <link>http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/journal/Shaw-Gallery-230554166</link>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:43:25 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Last week I had the opportunity to visit Shaw Gallery on Liberty Avenue in Downtown Pittsburgh. Shaw Gallery is owned by Kurt Shaw, the Art Critic for the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. I've known Kurt for a short time on Face Book and from his Art Reviews in the Trib. His knowledge and expertise is top notch and his gallery is full of some amazing treasures, including ancient maps, drawing, paintings and sculpture, he even has a Picasso!<br /><br />The gallery is in the heart of the Cultural District in Downtown Pittsburgh at 805 Liberty Avenue, between Crazy Mocha and the Harris Theater, Dozens Bakery is right nearby too. It's just a short walk from the  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>The Twisted Minds</title>
                <link>http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/journal/The-Twisted-Minds-230666173</link>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:21:39 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">The Twisted Minds</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ I don't know how they find me, they just do, but if there is a whack job, nut case on DA with a axe to grind against the US Govermnet, the US military or just America in general, they find me. The lastest is a neo nazi wanabee who thinks he knows the truth. The last one was a neo Jap and before that a Turk and before that a National Socialist what ever that is?<br /><br />There are some twisted minds out there, like the dumb slob here in Pittsburgh who killed 3 Pittsburgh Police officers because the thought Obama was going to take away his guns! HELLO, this is the type of person who shouldn't have guns in the first place, for the lack of a better word  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Affluent Artist Blog</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:07:02 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ I'm featured on the Affluent Artist Blog http://affluentartist.wordpress.com/ ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Taking things for granted...</title>
                <link>http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/journal/Taking-things-for-granted-231352403</link>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:47:04 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Taking things for granted...</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Having worked as a graphic designer and illustrator for over 30 years allows me to have a unique perspective on the business. When I look back at how far we've come in that time and how amazing these machines we work on have become, not to mention the software... Being creative today offers us endless tools and variety, it's incredible, but the business tends to sometimes take the single most important element in graphic design and illustration for granted. Businesses spend billions on computers, software, printers and other endless peripherals and tools... It's all a part of the business today allows the creation of more and more amazing thi ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>How liberating it would be not to be an artist</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:53:39 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">How liberating it would be not to be an artist</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ I've often thought how liberating it would be not to be an artist. You wouldn't have to worry about if something was centered or straight or if something was rendered perfectly, or if it looked good or looked right or any number of the things we worry about when creating our art...<br /><br />What got me thinking of this is every time I drive up through Oakmont, PA on Rt. 909 near Oakmont Country Club where they sometimes play the US Open, I pass a large crudely done sign that says "Cat Crossing" and there is this primitive rendering of a cat. I really like the sign, it's fun, it's playful, it's simple and to the point, easily conveying the message. I  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>PENS WIN!!!</title>
                <link>http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/journal/PENS-WIN-231794552</link>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:02:19 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">PENS WIN!!!</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ I've been a hockey fan since I was a little kid, the first game I ever saw was a Pittsburgh Hornets game at the Civic Arena. That first game I saw was played in the arena that the Pittsburgh Penguins play in today, the Igloo as it's affectionately known here in the 'Burgh. It has seen a lot of history, the Beatles and hundreds of other bands played there, movies have been made there, but most of all NHL Hockey history has been made there. Having been here through all the Mario Lemieux years and the two previous Stanley Cup championships that the Penguins won, I have to say that this win is the sweetest. This Penguin team played their hearts o ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Over Eighty Thousand Served!</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 10:21:02 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ I guess in pornographic web site numbers 80,000 is no big deal, just another day on the information super highway, but to me, it's something significant and I have to say to all of you how much I appreciate all the comments and support! For and artist to be able to share his vision with that many people from all over the world is amazing to me and granted many of those page views were racked up by multiple visits from all the folks who watch my art, it still means a lot to me, THANKS!<br /><br />Reporting live from beautiful Downtown Pittburgh, Pennsylvania...<br />-YD ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Bands for Brothers &amp; Sisters</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 07:10:31 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ As many of you know, I'm a volunteer for the Coalition to Salute America's Heroes. For the past couple month I've been working with my friend Dan Vargas to create posters, T-Shirt, newspaper & magazine ads, stage backdrops & stage scrims, challenge coins, concert passes, wine labels and other items for the Bands for Brothers & Sisters Concert that will take place this Memorial Day weekend. A tremendous amount of work has gone into this project as well as an offshoot project that took place May 9th in Iowa with USMC and wounded Veteran Donny Daughenbaugh that raised $19,000 for our wounded troops! Ooh Rah Donny!!! Let's hope that the concert i ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Bands for Brothers &amp; Sisters Concert</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 06:05:29 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ As many of you know, I'm a volunteer for the Coalition to Salute America's Heroes. For the past couple month I've been working with my friend Dan Vargas to create posters, T-Shirt, newspaper & magazine ads, stage backdrops & Stage Scrims, Challenge Coins, concert passes, wine labels and other items for the Bands for Brothers & Sisters Concert that will take place this Memorial Day weekend. A tremendous amount of work has gone into this project as well as an offshoot project that took place May 9th in Iowa with USMC and wounded Veteran Donny Daughenbaugh that raised $19,000 for our wounded troops! Ooh Rah Donny!!! Let's hope that the concert i ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>The thin blue line...</title>
                <link>http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/journal/The-thin-blue-line-232576693</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:12:38 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">The thin blue line...</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ It's easy enough to see them as something different from the rest of us, I guess it's the uniform and sometimes the attitude, an attitude harden by the reality of their jobs, but at the end of day they are just fathers or mothers, sons or daughters, brothers or sisters, friends or neighbors, they have families, homes and bills, they have hopes and dreams and heartaches like the rest of us. Their work helps to make the American dream possible for the rest of us, they serve and protect and in my opinion aren't paid nearly enough for the danger of their job. That danger hit close to home here in Pittsburgh recently when 3 Pittsburgh Police offic ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>The Mistake on the Lake?</title>
                <link>http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/journal/The-Mistake-on-the-Lake-232727035</link>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:25:23 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">The Mistake on the Lake?</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Everybody who knows me, knows that I'm a Pittsburgh artist, there's no mistake that I'm a "Yinzer" and n@t, I love Pittsburgh and I'm proud of the city where I was born, but yesterday I fell in love with "The Mistake on the Lake" (as Steeler fans call it). Cleveland, Ohio! What a great town!<br /><br />Our day started at Valley High School in New Kensington Pennsylvania with Mrs P, our driver Kevin and 17 art students. After an hour and a half bus trip that took us over "Old Bumpy", the Pennsylvania Turnpike and the much smoother Ohio Turnpike, we arrived at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on the foggy shores of Lake Erie in beautiful downtown Cleveland,  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>I'm from here...</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:48:47 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ I was born at St. Francis Hospital in the Lawrenceville section of Pittsburgh. St. Francis Hospital sat on top of the hill next to St. Mary's Cemetery where many of my ancestors are buried, the Wallace, the McGing and the Walsh families all have plots there. My Grandmother Mercedes Wallace McGing was the latest family member to be interred there. I was baptized at St. Lawrence O'Toole's in the neighboring section Garfield. As a child I spent many happy days with my cousins playing in my grandparents yard at 5432 Carnegie Street. The neighbors used to refer to my grandfather as the mayor of Lawrenceville even though it didn't have a mayor. Bac ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>The Wearing Of The Green</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:11:42 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">The Wearing Of The Green</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ The Wearing Of The Green<br /><br />"O Paddy dear, and did ye hear the news that's going round?<br />The shamrock is by law forbid to grow on Irish ground!<br />No more Saint Patrick's Day we'll keep, his color can't be seen<br />For there's a cruel law against the Wearing of the Green."<br /><br />I met with Napper Tandy, and he took me by the hand,<br />And he said, "How's poor old Ireland, and how does she stand?"<br />"She's the most distressful country that ever yet was seen,<br />For they're hanging men and women there for Wearing of the Green."<br /><br />"So if the color we must wear be England's cruel red<br />Let it remind us of the blood that Irishmen have shed;<br />And pull the shamrock fro ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>A matter of trust...</title>
                <link>http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/journal/A-matter-of-trust-233087395</link>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:38:25 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">A matter of trust...</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Life is a matter of trust, trust is as important as love, they go hand in hand. From the time we take our first breath till we exhale our final breath it is all about trust. Trust is something that exists right from the start, it is expected, it's almost a right, in fact it should be. Trust is not something that is given, but it is something that can easily be taken away and once it's gone, there is almost nothing you can do to regain that trust again. Only a deeply forgiving and spiritual person can allow for some semblance of trust to be restored, but it's never the same. We trust a lot of people, our family, our loved ones, our friends, th ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Fitz n'@</title>
                <link>http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/journal/Fitz-n-233396834</link>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:10:53 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Fitz n'@</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Yesterday I had a most interesting talk with Nancy Harris Rouemy, an art director at the New York Times  Magazine, but her roots are right here in Pittsburgh and she can trace her artistic spark back to the same catalyst that inspired me to become an artist. When we were children we were selected to attend the Tam O'Shanter Art Classes at the Carnegie in the Oakland Section of Pittsburgh. For those of you who don't know Pittsburgh, Oakland is the cultural and educational heart of Pittsburgh, it's home to several major universities and hospitals as well as the Carnegie Museum & Library.<br /><br />Every Saturday morning our parents would get us up early ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>U2</title>
                <link>http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/journal/U2-233482803</link>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:16:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ I'm as Irish as Paddy's pig, the descendant of Scots Irish Presbyterians and Famine Irish Catholics. I grew up with a great love for freedom and a great love for my heritage as well as a strong belief in right over wrong. I've always been one to not stand idly by while things were going down. When the troubles started in Ireland in the 1960's I was just a child, but as I came of age in the 1970's and 80's I took a stand and join many of my fellow Irish Americans and joined the Irish Republican movement, it was the right thing to do. I used my artwork to support the cause, I think what I did made a difference and I was proud to do it. As they  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>It's just Football</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:12:14 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Well, the big game is over, all except for the whining coming from Arizona... Let's face it, the better team won, they usually do, but sometimes luck and bad officials play a part. Bad calls, missed calls, blown calls are all part of the game of football, even with instant replay, it's not perfect. Now some folks in Arizona feel the need to take it down a notch and get personal, calling Steeler fans rude, ignorant WHITE TRASH! Okay, we are talking football not tennis here? Football is a brutal nasty game, it attracts a certain animalistic type of person and I have to admit that some Steeler fans take it to extremes, but to label us all "White ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>An emptiness in Chadds Ford Pennsylvania</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:56:43 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">An emptiness in Chadds Ford Pennsylvania</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Christina's world is a little lonlier today, the canvases will remain blank, the paints will dry on their pallet never to feel his skillful brush and dazzle our eyes. Andrew Wyeth of Chadds Ford Pennsylvania is dead.<br /><br />Andrew Wyeth was one of the the most recognized, prolific and popular artists of the 20th Century. He was the perfect blend of artist and illustrator, painter and story teller. While some critics wrote him off as an illustrator and not a "real" artist, Andrew Wyeth refused to be labeled one or the other and was far deeper that.<br /><br />The depth of Andrew Wyeth's work goes back to before his birth. He was destined to be an artist, his  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Pages turning...</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:03:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ In over 5 decades of life you see a lot of things, some good some bad. High tides and low tides, the ebb and flow of life. New Years always has me thinking philosophically, trying to see the big picture and the wonder of it all. This world can be so good at times and it can be so sad at other times. There doesn't seem to be a balance to it either, or is there? We lose friends and family and things can never be the same with that. My dad always says that when a family member dies, that's one less person in this world that loves you. I know losing my mother earlier in the year sure proved that true, but does it take that love to a new or higher ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Multiculturalism in America</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:20:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Needless to say, America is a melting pot of many diverse cultures and national identities all mixed up into one big happy mess. Hyphenated Americans abound in every part of the nation. We are not one culture, but many, so it's not impossible to be exposed to almost any culture under the sun in America. That being said, as many of you know, I have been taking some heat from a person in Japan about Japan's role in WWII, the Atomic Bomb and my lack of understanding of other cultures and people. He told me this is why I have no friends in other countries and even went as far as to say I was like George Bush! I loath George Bush. Rather than cont ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>The Road to Recovery...</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:35:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Next week a group of amazing Americans will gather in Florida for the The Road to Recovery Conference for wounded Veterans of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They will come from all over the United States for a few days of fun in the sun with their families and their comrades. The conference is organized by the Coalition to Salute America's Heroes http://www.saluteheroes.org and tries to address many of the issues facing our wounded warriors as well as giving them a break from their daily struggles.<br /><br />Last year I attended as a guest and was given a Hometown Hero Award for my volunteer work. It was one of the most humbling experiences in my l ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>When Thanks Doesn't Cover It...</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:57:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ With yesterday being Veteran's Day, the 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month, we are given the opportunity to say thank you to those who served our nation. Many of these men and women, especially the newest Veterans have a lot of issues that aren't being addressed. They deserve our thanks, they deserve or respect, they deserve our sympathy, but most of all they deserve to be treated as good as they possibly can be treated by us and our government. They should have the best care anywhere. They should the opportunity to live out their lives with dignity. It's up to us to do something about it when our government falls short in their care ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>A New America</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:34:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Today we awaken to a new America. 55% of my fellow Pennsylvanians agreed with me, it is long over due for a change!<br /><br />Congratulations to Barack Obama our first African American president! The long national nightmare of the Bush and Cheney years is over.<br /><br />To our friends a stronger handshake and to our enemies a stronger fist. <br />God Bless America!<br /><br />Reporting from deep in the heart of Guntown<br />-YD ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Pittsburgh 250</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:01:52 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Recently the City of Pittsburgh celebrated it's 250th anniversary and I got to thinking about all that the city has seen in those 250 years. In the year  1758, during the French & Indian War, a French fort at the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela & Ohio Rivers called Fort Dusquesne (Do-Kane) is captured by the British and renamed Fort Pitt. <br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Duquesne<br /><br />Four years earlier, a young British Army officer from Virginia named George Washington had nearly drown while crossing the Allegheny River near present day Lawrenceville at 40th Street. There is a bridge there today called Washington's Crossing ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Fools</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:29:00 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Anybody that knows me, knows that I don't suffer fools for very long, but recently this fool from Japan http://dersheltie.deviantart.com/ has been harassing me about an illustration I did of the B-29 "The Great Artiste" http://yankeedog.deviantart.com/art/The-Great-Artiste-19595999 . He has been trying to somehow put the blame on America for WWII. He seems to believe that the United States of America was the aggressor in WWII, he wants me to believe that Pearl Harbor was a mistake, not the cold calculated and cowardly attack that it was. He blames Harry Truman for making the difficult decision to drop the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Ghost Ads</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:03:33 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ For those of you who don't know, Ghost Ads are hand painted advertisements and signs. They can cover the sides of whole buildings or parts of walls. They are primarily found in cities or small town, but even rural areas are not immune, who hasn't seen a Mail Pouch barn?<br /><br />As an illustrator and graphic designer, these old ads are of special interest to me since most combine both illustration, logos, graphic design, typography and history. These ads were before the billboard and paid a long term return on the initial investment, most outlived the products they advertised, leaving a layer of nostalgia to their beauty and leaving us with a tangabl ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>PENN STATION REVISITED</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:12:38 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ On Friday, I had to work at the Heinz 57 Center in Downtown Pittsburgh. Making the best of a bad situation, I decided to park up in the "Strip District" behind the old Pennsylvania Railroad Fruit & Produce terminal. The Terminal is still a very active place, but no longer serviced by rail. The parking lot I parked in for $4.00 was actually part of the PRR Produce Terminal yard at 16th Street. There are many remnants of the yard and you can visualize what it must have been like back in the 1920s, 30s, 40s and 50s. After parking the Jeep, I headed over to Liberty Avenue, passing Wholey's Fish Market, a massive Cold storage structure and a popul ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Waiting at Penn Station</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:15:54 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Last week my daughter and I went down to Penn Station in Pittsburgh to meet family that were coming to Pittsburgh via Amtrak from Philadelphia. Penn Station in it's glory days was a transportation palace, with named trains like the Broadway Limited arriving along with lesser named trains and commuter trains. It was a busy place and the main hub and porthole into the city. Those days are gone. Penn Station is now luxury apartments and office space. The Pennsylvania Railroad is only a memory to a few. Rail travel is no longer a first class means of transportation. The Amtrak station attached to the back of the old station is a grim substitute f ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Rust'n n@</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:53:46 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ In every part of the world and in every language there are different dialects that identify where a person is from and Pittsburgh is no different. Pittsburgh being a massive melting pot of nationalities has developed a dialect all it own. It's kind of fun to listen to, but even for a native like myself it's sometimes hard to understand. For example, I lived in a neighborhood called East Liberty, in Pittsburghese, it sounds like "Sliberty". Even the local football team has become the victim of Pittsburghese, the Steelers end up sounding like "Stillers". My own name, Don in Pittburghese sounds "Daawn".<br /><br />What got me thinking about this was an ar ]]></media:text>            
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