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A's split league games, lose to Jackson
St. James 11, Stark 6
The A's traveled to Stark last Friday to take on the Longhorns in Tomahawk East League action.
The A's offense produced a big inning in the fourth, pushing across seven runs to increase their lead to 9-0. They added two more in the fifth to take a commanding 11-0 lead.
A's starter David Krause blanked Stark through the first four innings but got into some trouble in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings, yielding two runs in each inning to cut the A's lead to 11-6.
Krause was in trouble again in the eighth as the first two runners reached base. He got out of that jam, striking out the last two hitters he faced and keeping the Longhorns from cutting further into the lead.
Matt Dahl put an end to any hopes Stark had of a comeback win as he pitched the ninth, striking out the last three hitters he faced after giving up a leadoff single.
The A's offense was led by Anthony Stordalen who went four for four with a walk. Austin Pinke picked up three hits. Krause (4-0) earned the win. He gave up 11 hits and one walk while striking out five. Five of the six Stark runs were earned.
Leavenworth 6, A's 5
For most of Sunday night, it looked like the A's were going to make it two in a row in League play. In fact, they took a 5-2 lead into the bottom of the ninth on the strong pitching of starter Joe Hager and the bats of Anthony Stordalen, Joe Hager, Dusty Pfeiffer and Nate Ewert who had two hits each.
On the night, Hager pitched eight and two-thirds innings, giving up six hits and six walks while striking out four. Five of the runs were charged to Hager, four of them were earned. Matt Dahl (0-1) was charged with the loss.In addition to his two hits, Ewert collected three RBIs on the night.
With the loss, the A's Tomahawk East League record moved to 5-5.
Jackson 12, A's 2
A very good Jackson Bulls teams came to St. James and defeated the A's 12-2 in an exhibition game on Tuesday. A's starter Anthony Stordalen (0-1) got off to a rough start giving up four runs in each of the first two innings before settling down and blanking the Bulls in innings three, four and five. He was charged with the loss in five innings of work.
Kyle Schroeder finished up on the mound throwing four innings and giving up four runs.
The only A's offensive production came in the fourth when a single for Craig Nelson scored two runs. Joe Hager was the only A's player with more than one hit. He went two for four.
The A's play at Hanska Wednesday before returning home for a 7:30 pm start on Sunday, June 23 versus the Lamberton Long Sox. Stark comes to town on Wednesday, June 26, game time is 8:00 pm.


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The best protection against skin cancer of the scalp is a hat, but it's tricky to wear one without collateral damage to your hairstyle. Caile Noble, hairstylist at Serge Normant at John Frieda Salon, offers tips on how to banish hat hair.
Long and short of it
Those with short hair should avoid wide-brimmed hats that need to be pushed down over the forehead — a sure way to end up with a flat top. Instead, Noble, recommends donning a fedora. Style hair as usual, then gently place the hat toward the back of the head, so it sits on the crown. Those with long locks can wear wider-brimmed styles. To avoid hat hair, Noble says, part hair in the center and smooth it down, tucking strands behind the ears. "Put the hat on at the front of the head first, so it touches down on the forehead then push it back onto the head," he says.
Step up to the plait
Braiding your hair before wearing a hat can keep locks tidy and also leave you with beach-worthy waves for later in the day, Noble says. Start by spritzing hair, from middle through ends, with a volumizing spray such as Serge Normant Meta Lush Volumizer ($23; http://www.shopsergenormant.com). Plait hair into a French braid: Take larger (about 1-inch thick) pieces of hair and loosely braid them together, starting from the crown. If you braid your hair too tightly you'll end up with kinks instead of waves. "Braid it as far down as possible, almost to the tip. Then wrap an elastic band around the braid, not the straight part of hair, so it won't crease," he says. When the hat comes off, simply undo the braid and run fingers through hair.
Smooth as silk
Scarves can also offer protection against the sun and can be integrated into your hairstyle. Noble recommends using a silk scarf because "it will drape better and provide a more chic look," he says. For a bohemian style, fold the scarf into a triangle and wrap it around the crown of the head, tying it at the nape. Another option is to fold it into a long strip and use it as a thick headband. This style looks best on those with shorter hair. For long lengths, pull hair into a ponytail first, Noble says.
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Jaynes Corp. of Albuquerque has been working in the Mesa del Sol development for over a year building the Albuquerque Studios facility. Albuquerque Studios Phase I on 28 acres is now complete and operational as a filmmaking studio, and Jaynes has just broken ground on an adjacent studio for Sony Corp.
Mesa del Sol is a 9,000-acre development southeast of Albuquerque with a master plan for mixed-use development, including 4,400 acres for residential and supporting retail uses; 3,400 acres for open space and recreational use; 800 acres dedicated for schools and universities; and 1,400 acres for industrial, commercial and office development use. The development is a joint venture of Forest City Enterprises and Covington Capital.
Aerial view of the new Albuquerque Studios complex in the Mesa del Sol development southeast of Albuquerque. Three sound stage buildings, a millwork shop and the pad for a fourth sound stage building are in place. Photo by Eagle's Eye Photo Imaging
The site is just south of the Albuquerque International Airport and has convenient access to the airport, Interstate 25 and the city in general. The Journal Pavilion, an open-air concert center, is nearby.
The city of Albuquerque recently completed a major access road into the area from the Rio Bravo Boulevard exit off I-25. This is a beautifully landscaped four-lane roadway. The medians feature giant characterizations of rattlesnakes, providing a dramatic Southwestern touch to the area. A 24-inch city water main has also been completed, bringing water to Albuquerque Studios and other properties.
Albuquerque Studios is owned by outside investors to benefit from the approximately 200 movies per year that are filmed outside of Hollywood. Moviemaking has long been done on location in New Mexico due to its vast areas with beautiful, undeveloped scenery. Though this outside scene filming was beneficial to the state's economy, there were always many weeks of studio scenes being filmed elsewhere. In order to capture this revenue and potential for jobs, the state of New Mexico introduced several incentives to bring the movie industry to the state. The first incentive is a 25-percent film production cost rebate on all production expenditures including New Mexico employee labor, based upon expenditures subject to taxation by the state. This encourages money to be spent in New Mexico and is a refund, not a credit. The rebate applies to more than just feature films, as it includes television productions, commercials, video games, and documentaries as well.
A wide range of expenditures qualify, including stage and location rentals, construction of sets and their operations, lighting and grip, equipment rentals, wages for New Mexico residents, photography, sound synchronization, editing, wardrobe, vehicle rentals, food services, airfare, lodging, and post-production expenses.
In addition, the state offers feature film or television producers a loan of up to $15 million, interest-free, with certain conditions. The conditions include that at least 85 percent of the film must be shot in New Mexico, at least 60 percent of the "below-the-line" payroll must be paid to New Mexico residents, a distribution agreement for the production must be in place, and a guarantor of the principal of the loan must be in place. Production budgets must exceed $1 million for the program to be considered.
While there has been some media publicity about misuse of these programs, the state incentives have been successful and are a major factor in the investment that led to these studios being built in Albuquerque.
Jaynes Corp. was awarded the construction contract in a most unusual circumstance. The usual sequence of events for a construction project is design, bid, build. Barry Tulk, Jaynes estimator and part of the management team for the project, says, "the project sequence was bid, build, design." While that was said in jest, it was not far from the truth. The project was awarded to Jaynes based upon the firm's history and reputation. The project was started in June 2006, and the first facilities were completed and in use during July 2007. One of the interesting obstacles encountered early on the project was that the city of Albuquerque code for fire protection was a problem, with the large square footage of buildings on site and the 24-inch water supply line being inadequate under code. In order to supply necessary water in the event of a major fire, Jaynes installed a dozen 8,000-gallon above-ground storage tanks near the northeast corner of the property, adjacent to the millwork building.
The stage buildings are precast tilt-up panels placed on footings below ground level. The typical panel weighs 110 tons. Each building houses two stages. The buildings for stages 1 and 2, stages 3 and 4, and stages 7 and 8 are in place, and the footings and floor are in place for the building that will house stages 5 and 6. These buildings are designed so that each pair of stages in the building can be joined to combine the areas of both stages. Stages 1, 2, 5 and 6 are 18,000 square feet per stage with 45-foot vertical clearance to the overhead grid; and stages 3, 4, 7 and 8 are 24,000 square feet per stage with 55-foot vertical clearance to the overhead grid. The overhead ceiling grids are designed to support lighting, sound and camera equipment, in addition to the weight of the ceiling of the building.
Set assembly was observed in stage 4, one of four 24,000-square-foot stages. The "elephant doors," two each per stage, measure 25 feet by 25 feet. With double doors opening 100 feet wide and 43 feet high, prefabricated sets and sundry equipment are easily assembled or disassembled. The stages are each provided electrical power from three 15-KVA transformers per stage supplying massive breaker boxes. In Barry Tulk's words, "Each of these transformers could power a residential subdivision."
A special touch has been added to each of the stages. There are passages through the walls so additional power cords, hoses or other devices can be brought onto the stage without leaving doorways open. These passages have sealed covers and are too small for an adult to crawl through — approximately 12 inches in diameter.
Each of the stages has connected production office spaces attached totaling 78,000 square feet. These offices are fully furnished and provide work areas for screenwriters, wardrobe rooms, hair/makeup salons, copy rooms, and pantries. Included in these areas are 10,000 square feet of bungalows/executive offices, including bedrooms and showers. These offices are beautiful by any standard and offer a good work environment to those who are working on projects at the Albuquerque Studios facilities.
The sets are fabricated in the millwork shop across the main parking area. The mill/construction space is 70,000 square feet of working area and includes a welding shop. This structure is a pre-engineered metal building, unlike the other buildings on the site.
These facilities also house other companies present on the site, including Axium Payroll Services, Clairmont Camera, NES Equipment Rentals, Quixote Expendables, Starwaggons, Studio Concierge (operated by Southwest Suites), and New Mexico Lighting & Grip, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. These separate businesses help provide the users of Albuquerque Studios with the best equipment and services available in the production industry.
Sony Pictures Imageworks Facility
On June 25, 2007, a groundbreaking ceremony was held at the Sony Pictures Imageworks site adjacent to the Albuquerque Studios facility. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez, Sony Pictures Imageworks President Tim Sarnoff, and Hal Katersky, CEO of Pacifica Ventures/Albuquerque Studios, attended this event. Jaynes Corp. is also building the Sony project.
Sony Pictures Imageworks is a leader in the new digital animation that has become so popular in movies today. The company is known for "Polar Express" and the "Spider-Man" series, as well as new movies "Beowulf," "Surf's Up!" and "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs."
Besides investing in the new facilities in New Mexico, Sony Pictures Imageworks is investing in new talent in New Mexico by including the University of New Mexico in an educational program called the Imageworks Professional Academic Excellence (IPAX) program. This educational program is designed to develop the next generation of digital animation artists. UNM joins such major schools as Carnegie Mellon, DePaul University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and the University of Southern California, as well as several special schools for computer graphics, visual effects and animation.
An economic advantage New Mexico and Albuquerque will receive besides additional local employment opportunities will be in relocations to the area. Sony Pictures Imageworks has announced plans to relocate approximately 300 existing employees to the Albuquerque facility.
As with the Albuquerque Studios project, economic incentives were a major factor in selecting New Mexico and Albuquerque as the location for these state-of-the-art facilities.
The 95,000-square-foot building was designed by Albuquerque-based architects Dekker/Perich/Sabatini. It is a 3-1/2-story steel frame with concrete decks and masonry exterior. The most unusual aspect of the building is the 22-foot ceiling on the main floor.
While there has been an official groundbreaking ceremony, construction is not yet underway. Planning and design is continuing, but the project is on a construction hold for reasons not disclosed.
About the Author: Bruce Higgins has been in the New Mexico construction industry for over 39 years, 20 of them as general manager of Tom Growney Equipment Inc. (John Deere Construction Equipment, Bobcat, Dynapac, Sakai and Broce Broom distributor) and 18 years as a manager/officer for two major contracting firms based in Albuquerque. He now resides in Farmington, N.M.


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Pep needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 841 designs submitted by 168 freelance designers.
Logo needed for a new search engine. It's a new concept, where users will be able to preview different types of results and customize their results page (sort of Netvibes meets Google), and even creating their own searchers. I want a great logo for it on which the branding of the website will be based.
The target are above average to expert internet users who usually go to Google for their web searches.It's important that it works well with the current design http://www.uworks.net/header.jpg and http://www.uworks.net/headermain.jpg (the current logo is just a placeholder). I placed a first public version of the website just for this contest, which can be found at http://www.nibbo.com
The tag line ("Search, your way") is optional, as it will be used at the page title.
- I want the focus more on the search component than on the customizable side; it's ok to show it, but I want the logo to transmit that the user will find whatever it's looking for.
- Something eye catching and memorable.
- Uncomplicated, stylish and elegant.
- It should be vector based.
- A good favicon based on the logo will be a plus.
- Something unpolished or overly done.
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My Great Outdoors: Art and Chel's Modern Balcony Kitchen
Name: Art and Chel
Location: Chicago
Type of space: Balcony
Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: My balcony is an extension of my kitchen and home. I have experimented with all kinds of furniture arrangement, surfaces and growing over the past two seasons, and this season I am finally satisfied with the layout and look. Chelsea and I (and Porkchop) enjoy our balcony in the warm months by cooking and relaxing on it as much as we can. When the sliding door is open it as if we have an open air living room and kitchen. It's a great place to share food and drinks with family and friends.
How did you create it?
Chelsea and I envisioned a clean and modern look for the balcony. Most of the plant pots and boxes are from IKEA. We really like the design of the white pots and the way they look all lined up. We are really proud of the floor surface which is a composite landscaping tile that transforms the look of the basic brushed concrete. The plants are a combination of herbs, domestic and wild ornamentals, a Patio tomato, Sweet 100 tomato, lettuce and kale seedlings, piquillo and Padron pepper seedlings.
The ornamental flowers are geraniums and petunias which can stand up to the intense sunlight which hits the western exposed balcony in the afternoon. Other ornamentals are a hanging fuschia and "wild" plants such as milkweed, black-eyed susan, honey suckle and prairie grass.
Herbs consist of anise hysopp, parsley, thyme, chervil, rosemary dill, lavender, spearmint and basil.
For cooking, we have a simple off-brand propane grill. I purchased the grill based on its actual grill surface which is fairly heavy duty and also because of its lack of accessories which I don't need. I chose propane because we are on a balcony but simply throw handfuls of wood chips on the grates while grilling to produce smoke flavor. I also have a small plug-in fryer and an outlet on the balcony to incorporate some deep-fried fun while keeping the greasy mess outside.
The balcony furniture so far is Ikea. I have sawed off the two ends of the table so that it is custom-fit to our balcony.
Recommended store, site, product or resource?
• I would highly recommend VAST for the floor pavers. This product looks really cool, it feels nice under your feet, it's lightweight and drains and it's made out of recycled material.
• IKEA is a great place for cool plant pots — you may have to drill drainage holes though.
• Your local farmer's market is a great source for herbs, vegetable plants and flowers.
• Of course I have to recommend Apartment Therapy for all kinds of inspiration when it comes to getting ideas for creating a great outdoor space!


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The Host WILL Be Made Into A Movie!Sep 23rd, 2009 | By Krystal | Category: Book News, Featured Articles, Movie News
Stephenie Meyer's website and Variety are reporting that "The Host" will be made into a motion picture! Amazing news!
I'm so excited to be working with Nick Weschler, and Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz to bring The Host to a visual format. They've all been a dream to work with, so lovely and collaborative, and I feel like we're in a really good place to make a great movie together. And then to have Andrew Niccol writing and directing? Truly awesome. If you've never seen Gattaca, go watch it now. One of my favorite movies of all time. It's such a great example of character driven science fiction, which is ideal for The Host, no? I'm having an absolute blast imagining different dream casts, which I would post if people didn't take my silly blogs so seriously these days. I'm looking forward to seeing the cast lists you come up with in the fansite forums, and if any of them match mine.
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I don't know if this is the right place posting this.
I don't know if this is the right place posting this.
I wish that cracking down on Internet pet sales was all that Obama has done here. Unfortunately, this is a step toward the animal-rights agenda of destroying purebred breeding by hobby breeders, as well. This change in an existing USDA rule will require every hobby cavalier breeder with four or more intact female animals (not just cavalier breeding bitches) to either obtain a USDA license and build a kennel which meets USDA's specifications, or never ever sell a puppy to anyone who does not show up at the breeder's doorstep to pick up that puppy.
No longer may these hobby breeders whelp and raised their cavalier puppies in their homes. The only ways to avoid this rule is either to never own more than four intact females (including any co-ownerships), or never sell a puppy to anyone who does not come to the house to pick up the puppy.
Most of the cavaliers my family has acquired over the past 40+ years have been shipped to us by the breeders via reliable passenger aircraft. Our breeders of these dogs are among the very best in the USA (IMHO), and they usually own or co-own more than four intact females. No longer may this type of transaction be possible with these breeders, unless they permanently cut back to owning and co-owning fewer than five intact females at any time, or they build their own USDA-approved kennel and get licensed with this federal bureaucracy and be subject to USDA's stormtrooper inspections. (See, e.g., Obama's EPA stormtroopers who just last week "surged out of the wilderness ... wearing body armor and jackets emblazoned with POLICE in big, bold letters" to test water quality at a gold mine in Alaska. -- http://www.alaskadispatch.com/articl...nded-epa-raids).
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I can only comment on the UK but here the problem is always the possibility that a few 'good breeders' will be affected by rules designed to clamp down on the callous breeders that do not care about the welfare of their dogs. The attempts to tighten up the rules always get shouted down by those 'good breeders' who object to being regulated in any way and so nothing ever improves for the battery bred dogs.
I would think that anything that stops the wholesale cruelty of puppy farming and careless internet sales of living animals would be worth supporting even if it inconvenienced some hobby breeders.
Margaret C
Cavaliers......Faith, The Ginger Tank and Woody.
Japanese Chins.... Dandy, Benny, Bridgette and Hana.
Remembered with love......... Tommy Tuppence and Fonzi
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March 30, 2007
The Lady Bisons didn't waste anytime putting runs on the board in game one of Friday night's conference doubleheader against North Florida.
Lipscomb placed three runs on the board in the first frame en route to a 5-2 win. Kellie Sirus singled driving in Leigh Little and Lauren Dortwegt for the first two Lipscomb runs of the game. Three batters later, pinch runner Samantha Little scored on Christen Campbell's sacrifice fly to left field.
In the bottom of the second, Leigh Little singled to left center to drive in Kristie Sirus extending the Lady Bison's lead to 4-0.
Lipscomb pitcher Christen Campbell didn't allow a ball to reach the outfield until the top of the 5th when Ashley Parenteau hit a home run over the left field fence.
After two North Florida singles and a Lipscomb error in the 6th, North Florida cut the Lady Bison's lead to 4-2 on an RBI single by Parenteau.
Lipscomb added the security run in the bottom of the 6th when Niki Bails doubled to left field, then advance to third when Kristie Sirus reached on an error, and finally scored on a wild pitch.
Campbell was credited with the win after pitching a seven-hit complete game striking out seven. Campbell leads the A-Sun in wins with a record of 11-6.
North Florida's Katie Brosky received the loss to fall to 8-8. She entered the game with a 1.83 earned run average before giving up five runs, two of which were earned.
Lipscomb improved to 17-15 overall and 4-1 in the Atlantic Sun. North Florida fell to 23-15 overall and 1-2 in the Atlantic Sun.


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"When you were a kid what were your wantings?"
asks my little boy
while I cuddle him close in the bottom bunk.
I smile.
His word is unconventional, accurate, and simple.
My wantings were
to be important,
to be loved, and needed,
to mean something to someone,
to change the world in some way,
I say.
"Well, here I am!"
he proclaims, as he props up his curly head
and looks squarely at me.
Yes, there you are.
I have what I was wanting.


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FARMINGTON — Police are investigating the death of a 33-year-old man who collapsed in the Davis County Jail's booking area on Dec. 14, 2017, law enforcement officials say.
Gregory Leigh Hayes died in the jail intake area, where inmates are screened for substance abuse and mental health issues, Sheriff Todd Richardson said.
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Farmington Police Chief Wayne Hansen said his agency is investigating the death. Most often with county jail deaths in Utah, an independent agency, such as a city police department or another sheriff's office, is brought in to investigate because of the county's conflict of interest.
County Attorney Troy Rawlings said he was aware of the death and investigation but had no other information.
Hansen said investigators are waiting for toxicology test results from the Utah Office of the Medical Examiner. The state office has been saddled with a large backlog, resulting in some death investigations being delayed a year or more.
Susan Johnson of Layton, Hayes' mother, said she learned of her son's death when a police officer came to her door. She said she has been able to glean little about the circumstances of Hayes' death.
She has retained an attorney to look into the case.
Records show six people who were in the Davis jail's custody died in 2016. Utah jails had 24 deaths overall, a 17-year high. According to federal statistics in 2015, Utah led the nation in per-capita jail deaths.
Hayes' death apparently was the first one in 2017 related to Davis jail custody.
Utah jails are not required by law to report in-custody deaths. The deaths become public knowledge usually only after a family member of the deceased goes to the news media.
State lawmakers are considering legislation this year on prison and jail transparency.
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According to court records, Hayes had a history of drug-related problems.
He pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft and vehicle burglary charges in Bountiful in November 2016, then was arrested on a felony DUI charge in May 2017, and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor trespass charge in Layton in early October 2017.
After the DUI arrest, Hayes was in and out of the Davis jail the rest of the year, going through the process of applying to participate in drug court. By completing a drug court treatment program of a year to 18 months, a defendant may have the charges dismissed.
On Oct. 18, 2017, Centerville police found Hayes lying against the side of a restaurant. They said he was incoherent. The police report said he had two bottles of prescription medicine, and officers arrested him for intoxication. Officers said they found a bag of methamphetamine when Hayes emptied his pockets.
The day before Hayes' death, 2nd District Judge John R. Morris signed an order allowing Hayes to be released from jail pending a drug court plea hearing scheduled for Dec. 19.
It was not clear when Hayes may have been released from jail and how he came to be picked up again that evening for re-booking.
The jail booking log says he was arrested at 7:20 p.m. Dec. 13 and booked at 10:48 p.m.
Another order signed by Morris and dated Dec. 14 called for Hayes to be held without bail.
Johnson said her son had lived in Layton but was "basically homeless" when he died.
You can reach reporter Mark Shenefelt at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @mshenefelt and like him on Facebook at Facebook.com/SEMarkShenefelt.


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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2004 News Releases > March 2004 > Wayland to host international poetry gathering
Wayland to host international poetry gathering
PLAINVIEW, Texas - Wayland Baptist University will host the 18 th World Congress of Poets on its campus June 21-26, featuring poetry readings, keynote speakers and special events under the theme "Pilgrims for Peace."
Sponsored by the United Poets Laureate International, the Panhandle Plains Writers' Workshop and the university, the event begins on Monday, June 21 with registration in the Mabee Learning Resources Center.
Activities kick off Tuesday, June 22 in Harral Auditorium, with registration at 8 a.m. and opening ceremonies beginning at 9:30 a.m., featuring keynotes by UPLI president Dr. Benjamin Yuzon and Dr. David Smith, chancellor at Texas Tech University. Other highlights of the day include presentations by Dr. Walt McDonald, 2001 Poet Laureate of Texas, reports from Dr. Leonard Bischel, UPLI Regional director, and Peter Carman, president of the Paris American Academy, and afternoon poetry readings. The evening's welcome dinner, titled "Poetry on the Prairie," will feature the music of Texas in the Swing and readings of cowboy poetry.
Wednesday's activities begin with readings by 18 th World Congress President Bettye Hammer Givens of Plainview, a keynote by Dr. Ronald Shafer, UPLI Regional Director, and reports from international and regional groups. A presentation by Dr. Jack Myers, 2003 Poet Laureate of Texas, will precede the buffet lunch, which will be followed by a panel discussion on poetry. The evening's event will be a "Mexican Fiesta on the Prairie," featuring a performance of traditional folklorico dancing and poetry readings from congress guests.
On Thursday, participants will gather for poetry readings and papers, with Dr. Wanda Rider, UPLI Vice President presenting contest winners. A buffet lunch will feature Donald Hall, former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, followed by readings from the Texas Poetry Society, presided over by Peggy Zulieka Lynch. The evening's festivities include a trip to Palo Duro Canyon for a barbecue dinner and the outdoor musical "TEXAS Legends."
Friday's schedule includes a tour of the area, including a dairy, a vineyard and the historic Wayland president's home. Following lunch, participants will tour the Museum of the Llano Estacado and share poetry papers. A special evening dinner will feature readings by Donald Hall.
On Saturday, congress guests will hear poetry readings and papers and will be treated to performances by the Bar None Drill Team and the Kwahadi Dancers, a group of Eagle Scouts who perform traditional Native American dances in costume. The evening will end with the awards banquet at Plainview Country Club.
Fee for the 18 th World Congress of Poets is $125, which covers the sessions and all special events. After April 1, registration fee is $150. Lodging and meals are separate charges, with limited space available in Wayland dormitories. Those wishing to stay in campus housing and eat all meals in the dining hall will pay $225 for the week in addition to the registration fee. A meal ticket for the week in Wayland's campus dining hall is $150, and guests may opt to stay at local hotels and eat meals on their own. Special per-day rates also apply for persons interested in attending only portions of the congress.
Poets interested in attending may send one poem and a short biographical sketch to be included in the congress anthology. Each conference registrant will receive an anthology.
For information on registering for the congress, contact Bettye Givens at firstname.lastname@example.com or Dr. Otto Schacht at (806) 291-1022.


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Whenever the computer is idle, the hdd makes this weird clicking noise. To stop it, we can use hdparm to turn it off.
kenno@tora:~$ sudo hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda
setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254)
APM_level = 254
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Eagles start fast at Warsaw Sectional
WARSAW — Two weeks ago, the Warsaw Girls Swim Sectional shaped up to be largely a battle between the host Tigers and the Culver Academies with a significant drop-off for the rest of the field.
The boys tourney started out in much the same fashion Thursday, with Culver Military Academy and the Tigers crowding out the top eight with 23 and 22 finals berths, respectively, headed into the final round at the Warsaw Boys Sectional Saturday.
While CMA leads Warsaw in total finals berths, the rivals are dead even in consolation berths with a trio of top 16 swims each at Thursday's preliminaries. But the hosts own one more first-place finish headed into this weekend's finals with six top placements versus five by CMA. Plymouth qualified for the finals in two races, meanwhile, and the Pilgrims clinched four consolation berths at Warsaw.
The prelims played out largely as a contrast between relative team strengths with the Tigers dominating the stroke events and the Eagles showcasing some impressive depth in the freestyle races.
"Our strength is — we have a kind of an opposite set-up than Warsaw does — our strengths are freestyle depth, so we're playing to that depth this year," said longtime CMA head swim coach and current assistant coach Major Tom Duckett. "I also, since we have a lot of depth, diversified what the kids swim, so a lot of these kids are not swimming a full load. They're swimming select events or they're swimming two individual events and no relays, that kind of stuff."
"That is a good luxury," added Duckett. "Whether or not it helps against Warsaw is a totally other question, and I'll be quite honest with you, I'd be shocked if it did. Best-case scenario for them is they're in their home pool with their home crowd."
Warsaw won the medley relay and went one-two in both the individual medley and the breaststroke and one-three in both the butterfly and the backstroke. The Tigers grabbed the top seed in the 50 free for good measure.
Individually for CMA, Bryan DeVries claimed top honors in both the 100 and 200 free races, and Leopoldo Burguete touched first in the 500.
If they avoid a letdown Saturday, the Eagles could put some breathing room between themselves and Warsaw in the relays with top finishes in two of three relays at Thursday's consols. Jiangyuan Liang, Sam Curtis, Javier Bravo and Grant Ralston clocked the fastest time in the 200 free relay, and Burguete, Ralston, Curtis and Peter Brotherton combined to finish fastest in the 400 free relay.
With a drop-off of six points per place compared to three points in other events, championship swims in the relays will go a long way to helping the Eagles dethrone returning sectional champion Warsaw after the Tigers trumped CMA 445-427 last year.
"These are teenagers; you cannot predict what they're going to do," Duckett said. "They may surprise you and do something phenomenal and win, they may blow up and place. We've done everything to avoid the blow up and place scenario, and I think the boys are pretty fired up after the performances tonight."
In addition to CMA's five top finishes, Brotherton, Harris Allen, Ian Bardwell and Leonardo Rodriguez are seeded third in the medley relay; Brotherton and Curtis finished three-four in the 200 free behind DeVries; Burguete, Bardwell and Bravo went three-five-six in the IM; Ralston and Rodriguez finished two-seven in the 50; Bravo tied for fifth in the fly, and Bardwell just made the finals in eighth; Rodriguez was fourth in the 100 free; Pablo Padilla and Allen placed five-six in the 500 behind Burguete's top finish; Brotherton finished seventh in the backstroke; and Santiago Aguirre, Johnny Young and Padilla went four-five-seven in the breaststroke.
Liang was 11th in the 50, Nolan Kolden was 11th in the back, and Cory Andrzejewski was 15th in the back to earn consolation berths there.
"Given what these boys went through this year with three weeks of holidays and the inaugural practices and the inauguration — typically for CMA, the inaugural year is a very down year. I haven't analyzed all the swims, but it looks like we're probably standing at 100 percent lifetime best swims," said Duckett. "That is stunning relative to the training time that they've had."
Senior Brandon Brashere earned Plymouth its best finish of the night with a fifth-place finish in the breaststroke, and Daniel DeLeon, Brady Ruffing, Colin Calvert and Christian Bastardo also made the finals cut in the 400 free relay. The Pilgrims came up less than a second shy of a top eight finish in the medley relay as Jake Martin, Brashere, Matt Pearson and Bastardo placed ninth to qualify for the consols in the first event of the night.
Pearson also claimed 14th in the 500 and 16th in the fly, and he combined with DeLeon, Martin and Brashere for 11th in the 400 free relay to qualify for consolation swims in all four of his events Thursday.
"Matt and Brandon had good swims when they swam," said Plymouth head swim coach Leanne Senter. "Brandon's other event was the 50 free, and he finished 17th. It's hard to get back in that event.
"They're both seeded with people they can race and as long as they come into it ready to race we're good to go."
It wasn't quite the finish Plymouth was hoping for, but all in all, it wasn't a bad showing for the short-handed Pilgrims, either, as seven of the team's eight swimmers earned a spot back to Saturday's races. The only swimmer who didn't was freshman Chris Whitley, and he cut 12 seconds in the IM and nine seconds in the breaststroke to close out his season on a high note Thursday.
"We were slow. We needed to come in and at the very least equal our best times, and we just didn't have it together. Time-wise, the (400 free) relay time was better than our seed time, but it wasn't our season-best time. Our 200 free relay did okay. Medley relay missed making finals by less than a second," said Senter.
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(Updated: It turns out, that F1 reversed course again. Apparently, the vote last week to reinstate the Bahrain race violated FIA rules. Mr. Ecclestone told the BBC today there will be no race in Bahrain this year.)
Bahrain's Sunni monarch may have called in mercenaries and Saudi troops to stamp out calls for democracy in his wealthy kingdom, tortured activists demanding more political freedom, and systematically discriminated against members of the country's Shiite majority.
But the mandarins of auto racing have a message for King Hamad al-Khalifa and his entourage: "Gentlemen, start your engines!"
Syria and Libya may be facing growing international isolation for their own domestic crackdowns, but Bahrain, a close American ally that hosts the US Fifth Fleet and has the full backing of Saudi Arabia, is back in business.
Formula 1, Bernie Ecclestone's global money machine (it turned a $140 million profit last year), was forced to postpone its scheduled race this spring in Bahrain because of the country's democracy protests and the government's violent crackdown. But F1 has put Bahrain back on the calendar for December, and teams like Ferrari, Mercedes, and Red Bull, their cars festooned with advertising for global companies like Vodafone, Total, and Pirelli, are expected to race.
Why the change of heart? A recommendation from a commissioner of FIA, global motor sports' governing body, whose view of recent events in Bahrain and the human rights situation there is starkly at odds with generally accepted reality. (Blake Hounshell at Foreign Policy posted the FIA report and wrote about it yesterday).
FIA commissioner Carlos Gracia helpfully starts his report on his May 30 and 31 visit to Bahrain by recounting his meeting with the minister of tourism where he learned that "from a Cultural (sic) point of view, nothing has changed." He highlights a planned summer tourism promotion dubbed the "Victory of Joy."
He then moves on to the question of crackdown. He recounts his meeting with Interior Minister and royal family member Rashid bin Abdullah al-Khalifa, from whom he learned that "initially peaceful protests turned quickly into a very aggressive situation ... which saw brutal attacks on the police, resulting in four policemen being killed and 180 were injured." A hospital was "targeted" by protesters and Mr. Gracia relates that the situation "pushed police to act forcibly in order to restore security." No mention is made anywhere in his report of the at least 30 demonstrators who have been killed.
In his conclusion recommending a return for F1, he writes that he found an "atmosphere of total calm and stability" and that "life in Bahrain is completely normal again."
He should tell that to Ayet al-Gormezi, whose story was told by Caryle Murphy yesterday. In March, Ms. Gormezi was arrested, beaten, tortured with electric shocks, and had a toilet brush forced into her mouth. She's currently awaiting trial for participating in democracy protests and publicly criticizing the king or, as Bahrain has it, "breaching public security." Most Bahrainis that Ms. Murphy spoke with for the story asked her not to use their real names, fearing government reprisals.
At the end of May, as F1 was coming to the conclusion that all was well in Bahrain, Human Rights Watch urged the group to consider "whether a successful Formula One event could be held in an environment characterized by large-scale arbitrary arrests, prolonged incommunicado detentions, credible allegations of torture, and mass dismissals of workers."
To be fair, the situation in Bahrain is more stable than in Syria, which is lurching toward civil war, or Libya, which is already there. The arrest of 1,000 demonstrators and the use of Saudi and other foreign troops (Saudi Arabia is deeply afraid of the demonstration effect of a monarch being toppled and also fears Bahrain's Shiite majority calling the shots there) has restored order.
Since the protests, hundreds of Shiites have been fired from government and private jobs, in an apparent warning to the community not to dare raise up their voices again. That's all helped bring the situation to a point where F1 thinks its time to return to business as usual.
To be fair to Mr. Ecclestone, he's not alone. President Obama hosted Bahrain's Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa at the White House yesterday, in which the younger Khalifa promised a "continuance of Bahrain's process of meaningful reform."


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Fortunately, the base no longer relies on a short wave radio to stay in touch, though for a few long days in January, it nearly had to.
Scott Base made headlines over the summer when the Intelsat 804 satellite failed 32,000 miles above the earth. Communications links were cut across much of the South Pacific for several days, disrupting banking, international phone and Eftpos services.
Links were restored using another satellite, but at Scott Base, this was only a temporary measure as the curvature of the earth, coupled with its site in the shadow of Mount Erebus, prevented the replacement Intelsat satellite offering sufficient service each day.
Antarctica New Zealand's communications services are supplied by Telecom New Zealand, which even has three pay phones down on the frozen continent - one at Scott Base and the other two at the nearby McMurdo Base.
Telecom service technician Steve Locke (now replaced by Bede McCormick for the winter season) was on summer duty when the satellite failed at 11.32am on Saturday January 15. Locke used the unaffected satellite link belonging to the Americans at McMurdo and phoned Telecom's network operating centre in Hamilton, where he was fully told the situation.
Intelsat was already working on a replacement satellite that weekend, but Scott Base had "a big white mountain (Mount Erebus) in the way", explains Telecom NZ International project manager John Warriner, who himself summered on the ice 30 years ago and has been back for a few work trips since.
Intelsat, Warriner continues, suggested another satellite covering the Asia-Pacific, but it "wobbled". After a week of trying to use this satellite with limited success, Telecom concluded a deal to use a satellite from another company PanAmSat, which operates several dozen satellites globally.
This meant Steve Locke driving nearly 5 kilometres from Scott Base to an earth station to steer a 9.3m satellite dish into a new position, using its rack-mounted antennae controller.
"You have this controller, 50 centimetres high, you push buttons and electronics swing the dish around. It's just a case of putting in new information and it does it automatically," says Warriner.
In the past six months, Telecom also upgraded various 'firmware' at the station, satellite modems, convertors, and the satellite datalinks between Scott Base and Christchurch, where Antarctica New Zealand is based.
Telecom also carried out maintenance and repaired a few faults, including a major break on the power cable between Scott Base and the Earth station. The 10pm failure meant no lights, power or phone or power until Locke restored links within four hours using a portable generator.
"There was unseasonable warmth this summer - five days where it exceeded 5°C - which caused a lot of water. Moisture gets everywhere and that caused the power cable to go bang," Warriner explains.
Mike Mahon is the IT manager of Antarctica NZ and has spent several winters in Scott Base, in addition to his regular summer visits.
Interviewed in his office close to Christchurch Airport, Mahon says managing the satellite bandwidth is increasingly important.
Thus, last year, the organisation rolled out Allot NetEnforcer to apply more traffic shaping to the datalink. This followed several years' use of Mail Marshall and Web Marshall, which also restricts the size of all email traffic going to and from the ice.
"We all want more bandwidth but our satellite link is only so big. If we want more bandwidth, there is not a huge technical restraint, more a case of paying Telecom NZ for more bandwidth. We are funded entirely by government. Do we spend
an extra $50,000 on a datalink or on helicopter hours for science support?" Mahon explains.
Before 1991, telecommunications at Scott Base consisted of booking a phone call days in advance and then shouting down a HF radio phone-patch when your turn came. Users suffered sore ears as the method involved pushing the telephone handset hard against one ear to try and hear the voice down on the ice and pushing your index finger hard into the other ear, trying to cut out any background noise at your end. Atmospheric conditions would sometimes prevent radio transmission.
Thus, Telecom and the then-named NZ Antarctic Program built a satellite earth station above Scott Base at Arrival Heights, the only place where the Intelsat could be "seen". Telecom engineer Robin McNeill, who headed the 1991 project, adapted a Nortel Meridian PABX as the local switch.
Over the years, Antarctica NZ increased its bandwidth bought from Telecom, gradually from dial-up modems to a dedicated link of 9.6Kbs, to 19.2 and eventually 64Kbs. Last year, Telecom spent $300,000 implementing frame relay data circuits to the ice. Antarctica NZ then upgraded to a 64/128K data circuit and Telecom also installed a separate videoconference circuit using Polycom equipment on trial from Asnet.
TV1 and TV3 used this videoconference facility for live television last year during the launch of the Hillary Field Centre.
Pre-internet days
Before the days of email, FTP, and the internet, there was no way for all scientific data could have left Antarctica over winter when the planes were not flying. Thus, the scientists using various monitoring devices might not know for several months whether the equipment was faulty and produced useless data.
Some results from experiments were relayed back to New Zealand via HF radio with other results depending on the skills of the technicians. Now, the satellite link and internet lets scientists manage their own data and experiments remotely.
"We have scientists in the US accessing their data directly from Arrival Heights (one of the labs) and others downloading experiments while you sleep. That frees up our science technicians, removing them from mundane tasks of transforming data onto disks, CDs or other storage media," Mahon explains.
"Basically, there's no limitation to the datalink speed, it's just a matter of how much we want to spend," he says.
Thus, IT must argue its corner with other sections of Antarctica New Zealand.
"Each year we have a planning session. Requests for IT support come down to the corporate services manager and I. We basically use that as an input into our current and long-term IT strategies. We all generate business cases, which go to the management team for either approval or further discussion. Once the management team, the CEO, or board sign off, it just forms the basis of our capital expenditure program," Mahon explains.
Unlike other countries, Antarctica NZ does not directly employ scientists. Instead, they are funded and employed by universities or the government's Marsden Fund or FORST. Antarctica NZ provides the logistics to approved science and non-science events.
Antarctica New Zealand, which employs 25 in Christchurch and up to 30 on the ice, is a standard Microsoft office. It also uses Navision for a variety of financial and purchasing requirements, along with other packages such as PayGlobal and DBTextworks.
The organization has some 65 desktops and hand-helds, about 30 of each, with two servers on Scott Base and five in Christchurch based on Windows 2000 and HP hardware.
Staff at Scott Base can access part of the Navision system using a Citrix metaframe, to make the most of limited bandwidth. Wellington-based FX Net-works is their ISP, with Datacom Systems in Christchurch supplying extra specialists and hardware when required, both in Christchurch and on the ice.
Mahon describes Scott Base as having "relatively basic" facilities, so unlike the nearby American Crary lab, which is like a mini-university. The US researchers do much more processing work on the ice, while their Kiwi counterparts are encouraged to get their samples out and process these at their home institutions.
Typically, Antarctica NZ puts 400 people through Scott Base over the (October to February) summer. At the base itself, staff and scientists work in a pleasant 20°C, regardless of how cold it is outside, often wearing jeans and t-shirts. But even the controlled temperature environment has its hazards.
"The biggest problem to computers is static because of lack of humidity. All the workstations sit on anti-static mats. People are trained to touch the mats or discharge themselves to something metal before they pick up a phone, touch a computer or any other electronic device.
"The phone system there can lock up from a good static blast through a handset. Static discharges through a keyboard can also occasionally lock up a computer," Mahon explains. Another challenge is finding the right staff, with the isolation enforcing a need for good people/customer service skills, as well as technical competencies.
Current projects this winter include fitting out the new Hillary Centre, running new fibre optics for the computer networks between the centre and the Hatherton labs, 200 metres away, where the servers and communications equipment are.
Mahon visits Scott Base each October to train the new technicians on performing scientific experiments and help with any major upgrades. Such a trip may last four to six weeks in addition to other short summer trips. Otherwise, he is based in Christchurch.
Mahon says he has always wanted to work on the ice since prior to working as a technician at the University of Canterbury. A co-worker had spent winter in Antarctica during the 1960s. "He always spoke of it with a twinkle in his eye and encouraged me to apply."
On the ice
In the 1980s, Mahon worked for Comaint Systems as a senior engineer who served Antarctica New Zealand, and he helped the agency maintain an Apple Mac-based system (now Win2K).
Attracted to the variety and "interesting people" at Scott Base and the neighbouring American McMurdo Base, Mahon first spent winter there in 1992, then in 1996, after which he took up his current full-time role.
He was born in Napier and has been living in Christchurch for more than 20 years. With no wife and children, Mahon says he "just has to organise someone to house sit and feed the cat" when he is in Scott Base.
While some people with partners have gone to Scott Base for four to 12 months, from the staff that are single, "there have been a few marriages as a result of trips to Antarctica," he reveals. "Some people also change their jobs or focus on life on getting back. People have time to reflect on their lives. When I start getting bored with visiting the ice, or regarding this as another job, then it is time to leave. But that could be a while."
On the ice, there is no typical day, with work a mix of maintenance and training, maybe liasing with researchers, keeping an eye on issues in the Christchurch office and talking to subcontractors.
Office hours are typically 8am to 5pm, six days a week, with social activities such as sports, bingo, soccer and bowling, at the US McMurdo Base, which, like a small town, can have up to 1200 people.
Restrictions are imposed on where staff can go. They are also prohibited from travelling alone as the ice and its wildlife can be dangerous.
There are established routes for walking, skiing or taking wildlife photos. Mahon says there is a local tradition for summer and winter swims, wearing just a pair of shoes in water that feels a relatively warm -1.8°C compared with the -30°C plus air temperature.
"We cut a hole through two to five metres of ice. I have done it four times but the novelty has definitely worn off," Mahon adds.
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Jim Thorpe is a borough in Carbon County, near Lehighton, Allentown and Lehigh Valley, in the state of Pennsylvania in the United States of America.
Get in
The closest airport is Lehigh Valley International Airport, near Allentown. It's booking code is ABE. Lehigh Valley International is roughly a thirty-minute drive from Jim Thorpe.
By plane
Domestic flights arrive from Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Charlotte and other Mid-west and East coast hubs. Airlines serving Jim Thorpe inclue US Airways, Delta, Northwest, United, Allegiant, and Pace.
Philadelphia and Newark
If you are more interested in a better fare, you may chose to fly into Philadelphia International Airport (booking code PHL) or Newark Liberty International Airport (booking code EWR). US Airways operates a large hub in Philadelphia and Continental operates a hub in Newark, so there is a good chance you have a direct flight to and from your home airport.
If you are looking for low fares, Southwest flies into Philadelphia as does AirTran. Finding low fares into Newark and Philadelphia is much easier than finding lower fares into Allentown. though Allentown is more closely situated.
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Lehigh Valley, Philadelphia and Newark airports have most major rental car agencies on-site. There is also an Enterprise location in Lehighton.
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I was unpacking in the living room when a crash from what I thought was in the bedroom woke Huckie -- we ran around looking for what had come down/caused the crash. It turned out a box of wrapping paper had slid down another pile of boxes and self-destructed (box collapsed) in the office. No sign of Sligo, any where. At first I thought he was scared and hiding.
I looked all over the office and then the house. Huckie seemed concerned. After a half-an-hour of searching, I was in a panic. Eventually, both Huck and Sligo strolled by wondering why Meowmy was acting like a nut.
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A suntanned traveler from Southern California is currently residing in the Frick Collection, thanks to an exchange program between that august New York institution and the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif. Vincent van Gogh's "Portrait of a Peasant," one of two paintings and several drawings of the rough-hewn Patience Escalier that he produced in 1888 in the southern French city of Arles, attests in astonishingly original form to the Dutch artist's ambition to capture in his portraits of rural types the fortitude and quintessential character of the common people of the countryside. To many in late 19th-century France, these rugged denizens of the provinces represented the moral bedrock of the Third Republic.
Escalier was a former oxherd from the Camargue, a region of salt marshes and miry ranch lands that stretches south from Arles to the sea, who toiled in his old age at a farm in the Crau, a rocky area east of Arles immortalized by van Gogh in his landscapes. In letters to his brother, Theo, the painter described his humble subject as a real-life embodiment of the heroic workers who had figured in the pastoral paintings of Jean-François Millet, and as a continuation of his own sober studies of solitary Dutch laborers executed earlier in the 1880s, before he moved to France. The highly literate Van Gogh also drew on such realist novels as Emile Zola's controversial "La Terre," published the year before, which traced the bitter realities of rural life that wedded its rustic inhabitants to the soil.
The painter feared, however, that Parisian viewers would see in his charged, emotional portraits from Arles ("paintings in clogs," he called them, using Millet's words) only caricature or exaggeration, rather than the collective portrayal of humanity in which he hoped to convey, with radiant light and vibrant color, a sense of the eternal.
Van Gogh left Paris for Provence in February 1888, and left behind the naturalism of the Impressionists' optically oriented painting for a new art of flattened forms, emphatic brushwork and potent, Symbolist palettes. "I use color more arbitrarily," he explained to his fellow painter, the poet Eugène Boch, "in order to express myself forcefully." Although it was the panoramic landscape of the South that first drew van Gogh to Arles, which he envisioned as a sweeping, sun-drenched paradise like the exotic world he knew from Japanese woodblock prints, the rigorous terrain and brilliant light of the Midi would shape his portraits there as well as his plein-air views. His paintings of Escalier offer a case in point.
Van Gogh relished the opportunity to paint his subject late that summer, as he explained to Boch, "in the very furnace of harvest time, deep in the south. Hence the oranges, blazing like red-hot iron, hence the old gold tones, glowing in the darkness." The peasant is pictured as one with his Provençal environs.
Susan Grace Galassi, the Frick senior curator who coordinated the painting's presentation in New York, has beautifully described how thick furrows and ridges of paint model Escalier's craggy, weathered face as if it were a landscape, and how the figure's domed, yellow straw hat serves as a blazing, surrogate sun against a contrasting field of cobalt and darker Prussian blues. Van Gogh's heavily impastoed, basketweave strokes, which defy the delicate touches and decorative stippling of his Impressionist peers, make that dense sky palpable. In contrast, the green smock that defines Escalier's torso is evoked with thinner bands of pale blue, emerald and zinc white. The figure's chin is framed with discrete strokes of green, a touch of yellow paint crusts on his lip. Above, a bold lemon stripe and a lighter one in green that the painter Henri Matisse would appreciate streak down the ridge of his nose. We hardly notice Escalier's impossibly projecting shoulder at left, lightly traced with a squiggly blue line, or the absence of a corresponding limb at right, because our attention is focused on the face at dead-center that stares out at us. Concentric circles of paint that surround Escalier's hollowed eyes and touches of molten red in their inner corners make his gaze inescapable, even hypnotic; it freezes us into place before him. With the bold vermillion outline that van Gogh often used to secure his figures amid a maelstrom of tactile paintstrokes, he renders his subject iconic.
In such emotive paintings of rural types that are threaded through Van Gogh's brief but prolific career, the intensity of his empathy and enthusiasm for these remnants of a preindustrial world is captured with unmatched power. The unmodulated, saturated tones and vehement handling of paint that characterize the Pasadena painting seem to reflect in raw pictorial terms what drew van Gogh repeatedly to his subject: In a letter about Escalier written that same August to the artist Emile Bernard, he marveled at "how much of the wild animal there is when you come across someone pure-bred." Yet, as conservators at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles have recently shown, the painting's emotional impact was carefully calculated, its composition built up over a charcoal underdrawing in repeated studio sessions that allowed each sequential layer of pigment to dry. And in a letter to Theo written once the canvas was completed, van Gogh included a meticulous drawing after the portrait that underscored his deliberate process and composition, and even suggested that the painting could hold its own in an exhibition of more stylish Parisian types.
Although landscapes and still lifes still emanated from his studio in the South, van Gogh resolved, as he wrote to Theo, to become to figure painting what Claude Monet was to landscape: It "is the only thing that moves me deeply, and that gives me a sense of the infinite."


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Sriracha may have a target on its back in Irwindale, but it's the spice of choice for season 12 "Hell's Kitchen" contestant Bev Lazo-Gonzalez.
The up and coming YouTube and radio chef will use her love for Sriracha and "Mexipino" (a collaboration of Mexican and Filipino food) infusion dishes to impress "Hell's Kitchen" host and judge Gordon Ramsay.
Viewers can watch Lazo-Gonzalez compete in her first reality show as she toils in Ramsay's kitchen with 19 other contests at 8 p.m. Thursdays on FOX.
"I'm a big fan of Chef Ramsay, and I've watched the show from season one and am a person who likes to take on challenges,I figured I'd go and try out for 'Hell's Kitchen,' " Lazo-Gonzalez said.
"It was exciting to interact with Ramsay and I'm humbled to be able to work side-by-side with him. It's a learning experience for me and was fun."
Lazo-Gonzalez, 43, said the experience helped her to create friendships with the other chefs. "It's like every other day interacting with workmates; at the same time we're friends."
Her resume includes a degree from Long Beach City College's culinary program and jobs cooking at the Queen Mary and for the Walt Disney Company.
As a child, Lazo-Gonzalez was inspired by watching the cooking of Julia Childs on PBS and her grandmother and mother who normally cooked for her. It wasn't until she was 25 that she started to seriously consider a cooking career.
"(Julia Childs) influenced me and, of course, my family," she said. "I come from a Filipino family and we always have something going on every weekend."
Lazo-Gonzalez attributes her love for Mexican food to growing up in predominately Latino neighborhoods and her passion for Filipino food to her family.
Her eclectic list of speciality dishes includes Coca Cola braised porkadobo, which she will possibly use to stand out to the show's judges; and Asian-style fish tacos — all doused with spices, including Sriracha.
Her love for Sriracha even drove her to have a bottle of the product tattooed on her arm.
"I like taking on big challenges and ("Hell's Kitchen") is another step in my life to add onto my resume," Lazo-Gonzalez said. "Someone also dared me to try out."
Lazo-Gonzalez currently works at Border Grill in Los Angeles and said her co-workers encouraged her to try out for the show.
The chef also hosts and produces a cooking demonstration instructional video through Monster Marketing Group based out of Whittier.
"With this show, I want to teach everybody that cooking is not as intimidating as we think it is," she said. "I try to use simple ingredients to make it easy for homecooks and future cooks like kids, especially bachelors and college students. I try to market the show to them."
In the past, Lazo-Gonzalez has had guests on her show attempt to eat a half-fertilized balut egg, a Filipino duck egg from Southeast Asia.
She also hosts a web radio show on www.rantradionetwork.com which normally airs 8 p.m. Thursdays. Due to her appearance on "Hell's Kitchen," show times have changed and can be found on a weekly basis by visiting https://www.facebook.com/TheCoolinaryTrendsShow or @Coolinarytrends on Twitter.
Lazo-Gonzalez, formerly of Carson and Long Beach, has lived in Whittier since 1999. She is married to her husband, Jose, and has two sons, Jakob, 9, and Josef, 12.
She dreams of opening a small cafe bistro by the beach where she will feature daily specials and seasonal products made in California.
"If I win the lotto this week, I want to move to Sunset Beach… I want my kids to be little surfers and they have to work at the cafe and go to school," she said.
"My life is not based only on my family, friends and children, but revolves around food; it's just my passion," she said. "Right now I'm focusing on whatever comes to me. I'm blessed, whatever happens, happens, as long as I have my family."
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Call it an obsession of sorts, but Keith Canisius seems to have a predilection for all things associated with the sea, whether they be living or otherwise. Last year's compilation of recordings amassed between 2006 and 2009 - itself entitled The Oceanic Voyage - included ditties by the name of 'Boat Ride' and 'Ocean Colors'. Second long player Waves meanwhile (you can see where this is going...) included the likes of 'Diving Day', 'Ocean Ocean', 'We Used To Live On An Island' and 'Remember The Lake' among its number. Go back even further to Canisius' first long player Ferris Wheel Makeout and you'll find an ambient number called 'The Sea Me Feel Me' opens proceedings. Little wonder then that his fourth long player and first for Texan independent label Saint Marie Records takes the form of a concept album centered around one of the most dangerous, sea-dwelling creatures known to man.
Inspired by the film 'Sharkwater', a Canadian documentary made in 2006 whereby the Washington-based Sea Shark Conservation Society confront shark hunters in Central and Southern America. Beautiful Sharks is Canisius' personal ode to the great white shark and its numerous counterparts. Having put out a five-track EP The Great White Shark at the end of 2011, it was only natural that its successor would be a fully-fledged album further documenting the shark's harrowing fight against extinction.
Consisting of 13 pieces in total, Beautiful Sharks is a dreamy, occasionally uplifting collection that defies classification from the tedious perspective of musical genres. While not a million miles away from his past recordings or indeed those of former suitors Rumskib, there's enough variation here to ensure Canisius avoids falling into any trap designed purely for the purpose of pigeonholing his wares. Sometimes veering off into electronic pastures Antony Gonzalez and Ulrich Schnauss call home, every now and then offering a pop sheen not that dissimilar to Howard Jones or Thomas Dolby before ending up back at the reverb-heavy guitar bursts which characterized his earliest works, Canisius isn't so much a solo artist, but more a one-man orchestra capable of bedazzling even the most seasoned of listeners.
Opener 'Interesting Corners' harks back to the wondrous chamber pop of old school Scandinavian bands like The Wannadies. Introducing itself by way of a celebratory fanfare before Canisius takes centre stage vocally, it sets the scene for what follows in dramatic fashion. Meanwhile 'LSD', one of three songs included from aforementioned The Great White Shark takes euphoric electronica to levels of Before The Dawn Heals Us dizziness. 'Juno' follows a similar trajectory, as does chilled out lament 'Save The Sharks'.
It's when Canisius releases the shackles and aims for the pop jugular that Beautiful Sharks really stands out from the crowd. 'Eddy Merckx' mixes radio-friendly hooks with a psychedelic twist while 'The Great White Shark' could be The Cure as fronted by Carly Simon, Canisius' vocal flirting between ambiguous falsetto and menacing growl at the flick of a switch. 'Beach On My Mind', the third cut from last year's EP melts a distorted keyboard melody into swooning statements of laconic intent ("Nothing is wrong" swears its creator at one point).
Granted, some of its 13 tracks may seem a little overcooked in places, but overall, Beautiful Sharks takes a fastidiously controversial subject and turns it into an aurally pleasurable exercise without dwelling too much on sentimentality.
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Are Herbicides the Right Way to Remove Non-Native Plants? Letter Writer Argues Against Park Service Plan
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The National Park Service wants to use herbicides to destroy non-native plants. Uri Driscoll, who wrote the following letter, wants those against the use of poisons should go to a public comment meeting hosted by the Park Service and express their opposition.
Here's his letter:
The National Park Service has come out with a draft plan in an attempt to address non-native invasive plant species. The proposal largely stems around the intention to add 10 new herbicides to its chemical arsenal in its war against established forest, beach and wetland plants. What is most disturbing is this proposal is trying to fly under the banner of "restoration". Before we even try to understand what "native" actually is, lets first look at why plants and animals thrive or invade where they had not previously.
Plants and animals have migrated into and out of geographic locations since the earth was made. They must move to find the climate conditions to which they are adapted. Habitats once suitable to individual and co-existent species become less so after relevant resources are used up or climate conditions change. Species either die off, evolve, or migrate into new areas once vital nutrients diminish. Until rather recently, there really was no distinction between a non-native or native species. The exact definition of "native" to this day remains rather elusive in regard to the actual time required for that distinction in a particular geographic location.
Take the horse for instance. Fossil records indicate that the horse's initial evolution occurred in what is now North America. Then there became an unexplained gap of fossil records before the Spanish people reintroduced them. Once they re-arrived the horse once again thrived on the open plains. As we know the horse became a critical part of Native American culture.
If we believe the common understanding that Native Americans had crossed over the Bering straight into lands once unknown to human beings, are they indeed more native than those that came in ships a few thousand years later? Are they more native than the horse that by all accounts had been here first? I don't have an answer to those questions.
Back to National Parks proposal to up the chemical ante to rid our public lands of non-native plants. When and where exactly does a plant become "native"? There is not an answer to that question in this document. Are we supposed to give our blessing to assault those tagged with that label (as well as the surrounding plants and animals) with indiscriminate poisons before that question is answered? Often targeted species are tougher and more resistant to herbicides and require higher concentrations to kill. In other words, there is usually a lot of collateral damage.
Species of all types can hitchhike not only on wind and ocean currents but also on hiking boots and airplanes. Are we naive enough to think we can stop the tides or the winds or the migrations of birds, animals and humans with toxic cocktails? Have we reached a point where we actually believe naturalized plants and animals are more harmful to habitats than poisons?
Monsanto seems to think so. At least that is what they are banking on with this proposal. Make no mistake, they have worked very hard to develop this market. It is unfortunate they seem to have already convinced our public land managers we once thought and hoped, were more environmentally aware.
A public meeting will be held at the Humboldt Area Foundation 363 Indianola Rd, Bayside on Wednesday, November 8 at 6:30- 8:30 pm.
https://www.nps.gov/redw/learn/news/invasiveplantpublicreview2017.htm You can also call Stassia Samuels, (707) 465-7784.
Uri Driscoll
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The MIAA has announced its All-Conference football teams:
A Conference
Archbishop Spalding
Zach Abey, QB, Jr.
Mike Williams, T, Sr.
Matt Petrik, G, Sr.
Zach Hill, C, Sr.
Avery Simmons, RB, Jr.
Ronnie Beswick, WR, Jr.
Melvin Gowl, DE, Jr.
Brendan Simpkins, DE, Jr.
Calvert Hall
Kyle Levere, WR, Sr.
Robbie Jones, RB, Sr.
JP McManus, OL, Sr.
Erik Evans, TE, Jr.
Jake Soriano, K, Jr.
Delando Johnson, S, Sr.
Kennedy Frazier, CB, Sr.
Cole Atkinson, LB, Sr.
Stephen Kelly, CB, Sr.
Garrett Epple, LB, Sr.
Shane Cockerille, QB, Sr.
Ned Emala, OG, Sr.
Quinn Flaks, C, Sr.
Jibri McLean, WR, Sr.
Henry Poggi, DT, Sr.
Micah Kiser, LB, Sr.
Miles Norris, LB, Sr.
Wyatt Dickerson, LB, Sr.
Matt Tilley, FS, Sr.
Nick Fertitta, DE, Sr.
Cole Boozer, TE, Sr.
Sam Evans, LT, Sr.
Jake Clise, QB, Sr.
Trevor Janoskie, WR, Jr.
Alex Hunt, MLB, Sr.
Danny Cameron, FS, Jr.
Jordan Jenkins, LB, Sr.
Jared Cohen, T, Jr.
Syl Brown, RB, Jr.
Taysean Scott, WR, Sr.
Jabari Weems, DB, Sr.
Wyatt Cook, LB, So.
Connor Young, LB, So.
Mt. St. Joseph
Nevone McCrimmon, RB, So.
Kyree Calli, WR, Fr.
Pat O'Connell, OL, Sr.
Shane Lowman, OL, Jr.
Carey Wells-Jowers, LB, Sr.
Danny Shea, DL, Sr.
B Conference
Annapolis Area Christian
Taylor Leabhart, QB/WR, Sr.
Jack Hanratty, WR, Sr
Josh Bryan, OG, Sr.
Elvis Dennah, DE/OLB, Sr.
Demetrius Johnson, DB, Jr.
Perez Mackell, LB, Sr
Archbishop Curley
James Logan, OT. Sr.
Ian Scott, TE, Sr.
Kenny Thomas, RB, Sr.
Nik D'Avanzo, DT, Sr.
Jake Harant, LB, Sr.
Boys' Latin
Jamal Perkins, OG/DE, Sr.
Christian Knight, TE, Sr.
Chris Rubin, RB, Sr.
Tally Bruno, CB, Jr.
Greg Sheetz, LB, Sr.
John Carroll
Brandon Lewis, QB, Sr.
Austin Markley, WR, Sr.
Paul Lorick, FB, Jr.
Alex Gambrell , K/P, Sr.
Devon Ruane, OG, Sr.
Montell Martin, DB, Sr.
Luke Rinehart, LB/SS, So.
Julian Meares, DE, So.
St. Mary's
Spencer Coyle, QB, Sr.
Walter Smoloski, OG, Sr.
Mac Godlewski, TE, Sr.
Liam Kelly, WR, Jr.
Bryce Carrasco, RB, So.
Ben Hummer, LB, Sr.
Tommy Cavanaugh, LB, Sr.
St. Paul's
Dale Harris, RB, Sr.
Teddie Martinez, DB, Sr.
Alec Auwaerter, OG, Sr.
Travis Wood, LB, Sr.
Kaylon Johnson, RB, Jr.
Garrett Mullin, OC, So.
Jonus Price, P/K, Sr.
Kiefer Rawlings, LB, Jr.
Anthony Pino, QB, So.
Connor Keenan, OG, Jr.
St. Vincent Pallotti
Fiyan Makinde, T, Sr.
Aaron Collins, G
John Bowser, S, Sr.
Travis Harrison, DE, Sr.
Allen Hall, S, Sr.
C Conference
Baltimore Lutheran
Stephen Bachmann, RB, Sr.
Zakk Davis, WR, Jr.
Brandon Kosmicky, T, Sr.
Nick Barmoy, C, Sr.
Patrick Curtis, G/FB, Sr.
Charlie Dyjak, G, Jr.
Taylor Roethle, FB, Sr.
Donavin Tilley, RB, So.
Mike Carter, C, Sr.
Avery Daniels, RB, Sr.
Will Davis, DE, Sr.
Bruk Kisi, DT, Sr.
Mt. Carmel
Corey Groom, WR, Sr
Corey Brown, RB, Sr
Jerome Cosby, OL, Sr
Nolan Bennett, OL, So
Keon Featherstone, DB, Sr
Jack Thomas, DL, Jr
St. Frances
Tim Brady, QB, Sr.
Mark Valesquez, RB, Jr.
Maurice Williams, RB/Slot, So.
Nate Racks, WR, So.
Mike Bell, RB, Jr.
George Swanner, OL, Sr.
Jared Jackson, DL, Sr.
Nnamdi Egbuaba, LB, Jr.
Joseph Gamble, LB, Jr.
Khalil Stanfield, LB, Jr.
Dexter Monk, DB, Jr.
St. John's CP
Grier Wilson, WR/RB/S, Jr.
Anthony Florimbio, C/OL, So.
Trevor Lecuona, CB/WR, So.
Anthony Barzey, DL/OL, So.
Cody Fabiszak, LB/OL, Sr.
Chase Washington, LB/RB, So.
Ben Priddy, QB, Sr.
Jason Utz, RB, Sr.
Mike Dennin, TE, Sr.
David Jones, WR, Sr.
Jack Treanor, OL, Sr.
Cortez Wilson, DB, Sr.
Brett Bedard, LB, Sr.
Ryan Lamon, DB, Sr.
Jarid Ryan, DB, Jr.
Conor Sheehan, DE, Sr.