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Well since it looks like someone else has kind of summed up the anime, I'll just put my little two cents in here. Ok, so this movie kind of messes with your head which most of you might know already from watching it. I got lost alot because it keep jumping back in time, and to different characters, so that really threw me off. I watched this movie twice, with a little bit of explanation help from some people, I enjoyed it better after that. I was also told something else by another person which makes me want to rewatch the whole series over. But I say all in all, in the end it did come together, and... See full review
So this was like another one that will "mindf*ck" you like everyone will say. It's basically just a ending for the series. Man, out of all the animes that I have watched this one is just...I don't even know where to begin. If one person could do this to the entire world, then lets hope that it never comes to this. Hope you enjoy!See full review
Wow, this movie threw me for a loop. It was really good and it made you think alot. My fiancee had to explain it to me because I was getting so confused at one point. Interesting storyline, since I don't want to give away anything to those who haven't watched it. I'd just have to say watch it, because this is one anime that I can't really give a description for. All in all I give it a 10. ^__^See full review
I really enjoyed this anime, can't wait til I can get my hands on it when it comes out on DVD. But nice effects and I really got into the story line. I was geting kind of tired of all the vampire stories that are coming out, it just gets old after a while, but I like this one. I was kind of sad how the first season just ended, but hey second season brought everything to light. I love this show, and all the characters in it. My top three are Zero, Yuki, and Kaname which i'm sure everyone likes.See full review
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Chill name Hamre head coach, GM
LA CROSSE, Wis. - In her first public appearance since purchasing the Coulee Region Chill last week, Michelle Bryant announced the hiring of John Hamre as the team's head coach and general manager.
"His coaching experience is fantastic," Bryant said. "When we were looking over resumes, his stood out."
Hamre most recently served as an assistant coach with the NAHL's Michigan Warriors. He was previously a head coach at a high school in the Twin Cities and has served as an assistant on multiple Division One programs.
"It's very exciting, but I'm taking one step at a time," Hamre said. "We're truly going to do our part to make this a special team that can connect with the community."
AJ Degenhardt, a La Crosse native, will serve as the team's assistant coach. He played on the 2006 Wisconsin Badgers men's hockey team that won the National Championship.
"AJ obviously has some local roots," Hamre said. "I'm really excited that he's willing to join the staff. We're fortunate to have him."15395776
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Showalter breaks Germantown career scoring record
Breaks Averkamp's mark just three seasons later
Zak and Jake Showalter made sure their mother Jill had a wonderful birthday Friday outside of the basketball court.
"Oh yeah, we took care of that," laughed Zak.
But on the court, the pair made it an even nicer day as Zak scored 18 points and Jake scored 16 to lead the way in the Germantown boys basketball team's 79-35 rout of North Shore rival Cedarburg.
However, what made it really perfect, was that on a 3-pointer toward the end of the first quarter, Zak passed old friend and former teammate Ben Averkamp as the Warhawks' all-time leading scorer. It came at the end of a superlative seven-point play by Zak that included a layup, an intentional foul, two free throws and the record-setting 3-pointer.
"Everyone was asking about it," Zak said, "because they knew I was fairly close, but I just really didn't expect it to come up this quickly. Ben even mentioned that I was probably going to get it this year when we talked over the summer. It crossed my mind briefly at the start of the season, but it's still amazing that it's happened so quick."
Zak ended Friday's game with 1,162 career points as Averkamp's final numbers were 1,156. Zak added 30 more on Saturday in a win over Menomonee Falls (see separate story), so he entered this week at 1,192.
In the mind of Zak and Jake's father, Steve, who also happens to be their coach, it marked an amazingly quick progression from the time he sat on the kitchen floor with the then 9-month-old Zak, who had just started to sit up at the time, and Steve began rolling tennis balls toward him.
"And he'd watch the ball come toward him and it would bounce off his belly (and I would eventually pick it up)," Steve said. "After a time, you could start to see his eyes follow the ball and a few days after that, he started trying to grab it."
Much like Zak covets every rebound and loose ball right now.
"I was still playing a lot of ball back then and so friends would bring over little basketballs and things like that," Steve added. "Both boys always had a ball in their cribs."
And, oh yes, according to Steve, both Zak's and Jake's first word was "ball" (lots of laughs follow).
The curious thing about the whole situation is that it was 49 years before Averkamp broke Germantown legend Dick Strack's old career scoring record in the 2008-09 season but it took Zak just three seasons to erase Averkamp's mark.
"Those things are meant to last a long, long time," Steve Showalter said, "but then in this instance, all of a sudden, it's gone. You get a streak of a few really good players in a row and it can happen that way."
Another serendipitous thing about the whole issue is that the whole Averkamp basketball story is not close to being over yet.
Father Rob Averkamp noted on Saturday, that the boys-girls doubleheader represented the family's second and third tilts of the day. Earlier in the afternoon, they observed Ben have a smashing 21-point and 10-rebound game as Loyola (Chicago) recorded its third win of the season over Chicago State.
Just a week before that, the 6-9 Ben recorded his career best with 31 against Toledo.
Driving up from Chicago, the Averkamp family got to Mequon in time, to see senior daughter Ellie contribute well in the Warhawks girls 55-46 loss to border rival Menomonee Falls, and after that, they observed sophomore son Jon have a blast as the Germantown boys rolled over Falls, 99-62.
If they were upset that Zak broke Ben's record, they didn't indicate it.
Zak knows the importance of what he has done and respects the process of how it was achieved.
"It's nice," he said, "and it's a product of all the hard work that I've put in and that we as a team have put in. What we've all done together (as a team). It's a long journey, and it's been a serious blast."
Germantown is 7-0 so far this season and Zak, a four-year letter-winner, has been part of teams that have recorded a combined 70-12 mark over the years.
He's grateful to have been a teammate to Averkamp and he's even happier to have sophomore brother Jake on the current team.
"He (Jake) is a pretty understanding guy," Zak said. "I think we're happy to have each other around."
As is Steve.
"When I took over coaching (around 2000) I wasn't planning on staying around this long," he said. "The boys were 4 and 5 at that time, and they were part of the reason I took the job in the first place.
"Because I thought there's no better way to raise a family. They could run around the gym (while I coach) and they could have role models to look up to (other players), and they could shoot baskets and get rid of all their pent-up energy. Those two have probably put up more shots in this gym than anyone else alive."
"…As a dad, I couldn't be more proud. They know that the game means so much to me and that the boys love it, too, means more than I could ever imagine. … For him (Zak) to do this in a season like this, at home, was just a joy to watch, a joy to coach."
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The primary thing to keep in mind about German and Russian thought since1800 is that it takes for granted that the Cartesian, Lockean or Humean scientific and philosophical conception of man and nature... has been shown by indisputable evidence to be inadequate.
F.S.C. Northrop, The Meeting of East and West
Inquiry does not start unless there is a problem... It is the problem and its characteristics revealed by analysis which guides one first to the relevant facts and then, once the relevant facts are known, to the relevant hypotheses.
F.S.C. Northrop, The Logic of the Sciences and the Humanities
Knowledge begins with a problem.
Christopher Chantrill, after John Dewey
But I saw a man yesterday who knows a fellow who had it from a chappie that said that Urquhart had been dipping himself a bit recklessly off the deep end.
Freddy Arbuthnot in Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
Don Beck/Clare Graves. Don Beck wrote Spiral Dynamics with Christopher Cowan. Their book is a culmination of a century of developmental psychology that begins with the American psychologist James Mark Baldwin and reaches an apogee with the work of Clare Graves. Beck proposes to understand human behavior and motivation with an eight turn spiral of human consciousness, from barely self-conscious to tribal to impulsive, to purposeful, to creative, to communitarian, to integrated, to holistic.
Here are some Spiral Dynamics links: Becks own site here, Cowans own site here, an explanation of Spiral Dynamics here, here and here, and a site devoted to Clare Graves here.
Friedrich Hayek mounted the first great challenge to the welfare state with The Road to Serfdom, arguing that it would lead to the same all-powerful state as that desired by the fascists and the communists, but by easy stages. His Constitution of Liberty was an attempt to imagine a government free from the encroachment of administrative law and rational planning.
Ludwig von Mises was the genius who pointed out in the 1920s that socialism was impossible because it couldnt compute prices. His great Human Action was a mid-twentieth century masterpiece that attempted to extend economics into a general theory of human action.
F.S.C. Northrop was a Yale law professor who went to Germany in the 1920s to get his PhD and learned about modern physics. He learned how the Kantian tradition in Germany regarded the Anglo-American empirical tradition as hopelessly outdated and naive. He also understood, after World War II, how Kant had opened a Pandoras Box that led to the brilliant mistakes of Fichte, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche and the evil of Hitler. His Meeting of East and West written just after World War II was a work of true multiculturalism, showing how the great high cultures of the world were complementary, and that by joining the excessively deductive culture of the West to the excessively inductive culture of the East we could achieve a true meeting of East and West.
Michael Novak wrote The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism to challenge the liberation theology that was popular in the Catholic Church in the 1970s. He proposes a Greater Separation of Powers beyond the practical separation of government branches. He differentiates society into a political sector, an economic sector, and a religious/cultural sector. These jealous centers of power check and balance each other in our modern cosmopolitan society.
Camille Paglia is a feisty Amazon who has interpreted western art in early Nietzschean terms as the struggle between Apollo and Dionysius. Her Sexual Personae reminds us that civilization is just a thin Apollonian veneer that we have constructed to shut out the terror of the Dionysian turmoil just beneath the surface.
Roger Scruton is a British philosopher and conservative. He calls himself both a person of the rational Enlightenment and an old-fashioned Englishman. Son of an atheistic Communist he found that he had to make the choice between reform and revolution in the Paris student riots of May 1968. He describes his turn to conservatism eloquently in Why I Became a Conservative. But his conservatism was scandalous in the left-wing academy of Britain. He was for a time a Professor of Aesthetics at Birkbeck College but had to leave the suffocating left-wing atmosphere. He founded and edited the conservative Salisbury Review for many years and has written several books on philosophy, including Kant and An Intelligent Persons Guide to Philosophy. A cultural and political conservative Scruton has expressed his conservative politics in books like A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism, and his cultural conservatism in titles like Modern Culture. Scruton has written novels and two operas, and rides to hounds (i.e. foxhunting).
Rodney Stark and his merry men are sociologists of religion that have mounted an insurgency against the established notion that western society is in a process of irrevocable secularization and that soon, religion just wont matter much any more. Instead they argue in The Churching of America and many other books that religion evolves in waves of secularization and revival. Anyway, how do you account for the fact that religious adherence in the United States has gone from 17 percent in 1776 to over 60 percent right now? Particularly annoying to his critics is his symbolization of preachers as religious entrepreneurs and churches as religious firms.
Frederick Turner is an English professor in Texas. His Culture of Hope and his Shakespeares Twenty-first Century Economics describe his vision of a society that has vaulted optimistically out of the current elites death spiral into postmodernist despair. He proposes that modern business society is not just a matter of dry contracts and the cash nexus. The Merchant of Venice demonstrated, for anyone who would pay attention, that business requires not just rules and pounds of flesh, but mercy, that falleth like the gentle rain from heaven.
Eric Voegelin belongs to a generation of sadder, wiser Germans that responded to the disaster of 1914-45 by going back to the origins of the Judeo-Hellenistic-Christian tradition. In his monumental Order and History he attempted to refound the western experience as a search for order. Voegelin attacked the universal practice of stigmatizing old ways of thinking as superstition, your Lie that must be destroyed because it stands in the way of my Truth. He proposed that each advance in human understanding was a leap in being that led from compact ways of knowing to more differentiated knowledge.
Ken Wilber attempts to merge the eastern consciousness of Hinduism and Buddhism with western developmental psychology to produce a comprehensive world view in his Sex, Ecology, Spirituality and many other books. Central to his thought is the notion that we transcend and include old ways, rather than replace them, as we evolve. (Note the connection with the Voegelinian leap in being.) Powered with money from the 1990s tech bubble, he is developing Integral Institute into a vehicle for his ideas.
David T. Beito is Associate Professor at the University of Alabama. His books From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State told the story of the fraternal associations that thrived before the advent of the welfare state and The Voluntary City imagines the city freed from the dead hand of liberal compulsion. His books have surfaced important information about the road to the middle class.
John Boyd was a maverick Air Force officer who developed the basis of modern jet fighter tactics. His idea is called E-M theory, relating an aircrafts energy and maneuverability. Then he went on to military strategy, extending the state of military art from the German achievements in infiltration tactics and blitzkrieg to a concept that clearly belongs in the age of cybernetics, the OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act). The idea is to run your OODA loop faster and more effectively than your enemy so that he becomes disoriented and demoralized. You can read a short article about Boyds life here. SeeBoyd's Patterns of Conflict presentation slides here.
David G. Green is Director the Institute for the Study of Civil Society. Dr David Green had been at the Institute of Economic Affairs since 1984, and Director of the IEA Health and Welfare Unit since 1986. He was a Labour councillor in Newcastle upon Tyne from 1976 until 1981, and from 1981 to 1983 was a Research Fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra. See his Reinventing Civil Society.
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The incentive that impels a man to act is always some uneasiness...
But to make a man act [he must have]
the expectation that purposeful behavior has the power to remove
or at least to alleviate the felt uneasiness.
Ludwig von Mises, Human Action
But I saw a man yesterday who knows a fellow who had it from a chappie
that said that Urquhart had been dipping himself a bit recklessly off the deep end.
Freddy Arbuthnot
Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
At first, we thought [the power of the West] was because you had more powerful guns than we had. Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next we focused on your economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity.
David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing
[In the] higher Christian churches... they saunter through the liturgy like Mohawks along a string of scaffolding who have long since forgotten their danger. If God were to blast such a service to bits, the congregation would be, I believe, genuinely shocked. But in the low churches you expect it every minute.
Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm
Civil Societya complex welter of intermediate institutions, including businesses, voluntary associations, educational institutions, clubs, unions, media, charities, and churchesbuilds, in turn, on the family, the primary instrument by which people are socialized into their culture and given the skills that allow them to live in broader society and through which the values and knowledge of that society are transmitted across the generations.
Francis Fukuyama, Trust
In England there were always two sharply opposed middle classes, the academic middle class and the commercial middle class. In the nineteenth century, the academic middle class won the battle for power and status... Then came the triumph of Margaret Thatcher... The academics lost their power and prestige and... have been gloomy ever since.
Freeman Dyson, The Scientist as Rebel
Conservatism is the philosophy of society. Its ethic is fraternity and its characteristic is authority the non-coercive social persuasion which operates in a family or a community. It says we should....
Danny Kruger, On Fraternity
What distinguishes true Conservatism from the rest, and from the Blair project, is the belief in more personal freedom and more market freedom, along with less state intervention... The true Third Way is the Holy Grail of Tory politics today - compassion and community without compulsion.
Minette Marrin, The Daily Telegraph
When we received Christ, Phil added, all of a sudden we now had a rule book to go by, and when we had problems the preacher was right there to give us the answers.
James M. Ault, Jr., Spirit and Flesh
I mean three systems in one: a predominantly market economy; a polity respectful of the rights of the individual to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and a system of cultural institutions moved by ideals of liberty and justice for all.
In short, three dynamic and converging systems functioning as one: a democratic polity, an economy based on markets and incentives, and a moral-cultural system which is plural and, in the largest sense, liberal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
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|In 2009, 5'9" Adele said she was a 14/16, but she has noticeably trimmed down in the past couple of years. The Grammy-winning beauty has said she's never had a problem with the way she looks, adding, "I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym." She recently told Anderson Cooper, "I don't want to be some skinny Minnie with my ***s out. I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about."
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|One more thing to appreciate about Jennifer Lopez (aside from the talent, the honesty and the infectious smile), is that she has said, "I could never be a size zero. I just don't see how I could get down to that size and still be healthy." She says she's been a size 6 for the past decade, and attributes her toned physique to working out with a trainer two to three times per week and not overeating. This multi-hyphenated talent is all about portion control -- those in her entourage swear that Lopez never overindulges.
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|Christina Aguilera has come under scrutiny lately for her weight gain, going from a 00 to a size 4. Hopefully she's taking her own words to heart: "I think that whatever size or shape body you have, it's important to embrace it and get down! I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not dis other women for being proud of theirs." We wonder what Kelly Osbourne has to say about that.
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|Mother-of-three Sarah Jessica Parker is about as tiny as they get, dressing in 0 or 00 sizes. Although she attributes her slim size to genetics and a fast metabolism, she's also been a follower of low-carb, portion control eating plans, including the Hamptons Diet and South Beach. To keep her small frame toned, the actress rarely drinks, is a Pilates devotee and often gets around New York City on foot, whether she's running errands or taking one of her kids to school or the park.
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|Ms. Bootylicious herself is today's curvaceous diva. Beyonce represents the hourglass ladies with a shapely body ratio of 33-26-38, and she's proud of it (hence her "Bootylicious" anthem). The new mom, who was a size 6 pre-pregnancy, told Britain's Daily Mail, "I feel best when I'm not really thin and not really heavy -- when I'm still curvy. I really believe that everyone is supposed to be different, and whatever is a natural weight for you is usually what looks best."
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|Marilyn Monroe owned the hourglass figure in the '60s and has made it the universal symbol of femininity and sexuality. She had an incredible body ratio of 36-23-35. (Even Dolly Parton would be proud!) At 5 feet, 5 inches tall, Marilyn's size 8 figure (not size 16, contrary to popular belief), made her the original curvaceous American icon.
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|Standing next to Christina Hendricks, one wouldn't necessarily be overwhelmed by the "Mad Men" actress's curves. But on television, the size 10 star looks extremely voluptuous. The redhead even acknowledged that she didn't see her frame as particularly noteworthy; "I never thought about it. I know this sounds naïve, but I honestly never expected this kind of attention," she has said. When it comes to dressing her curves, Hendricks told Marie Claire, "Instead of trying to downplay your curves, find a designer or style that glorifies them."
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|Fans of the Khloe Kardashian often find it hard to believe that the 5'10" reality star is a size 6/8. She recently posted on her website: "I'm proud of my body. My body weight will always be something that I'll struggle with for the rest of my life, but I'm finally in a good place and learning to love me for me, and not somebody else's standards." Fans frequently praise Khloe's kurves, acknowledging that it's refreshing to see women with hips and booties embracing fashion like they do.
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|While Mariah Carey was pregnant with twins, she gained more than 60 pounds (doctors advise a 25 to 35 pound weight gain during pregnancy). To drop the weight post-partum, she started the Jenny Craig diet (limiting her calorie intake to 1,500 per day) and worked out three times a week. After six months, the award-winning singer lost 30 pounds and slimmed down to a size 6 and said she was proud of herself. "I had to do this for me," she told US Weekly.
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|Although this slim 5'2" actress and mother is technically a size 0/2, because of her curves Salma Hayek wears up to a 4 (and gets a good tailor, which is key for most of the curvaceous actresses). When Hayek wants to drop a few pounds before a red carpet event, she does a juice cleanse (that rings in at just under 1,200 calories per day) and pairs that with yoga.
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|Jessica Simpson has received a fair amount of criticism over the years for everything from her ditzy comments (Chicken of Sea isn't really chicken?) to wearing unflattering high-waisted jeans. Now the pregnant star says she's found confidence in her body. Her pre-pregnancy size was a 6/8; time will tell if the 5'2" star feels pressure to goes back to that size post-partum.
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|Whatever adorns the first lady's statuesque figure makes headline news. Even after Women's Wear Daily's attempt to find out Michelle Obama's measurements, we're still unsure. Whether in Jason Wu or J. Crew, Mrs. O is 5 feet 9 inches tall and always looks fabulous.
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|Even when Madonna exploded onto the music scene in the '80s, the Material Girl had a small frame. It's only lately that Madge has been showing off her fatless figure and sinewy arms. Some say scary, others say impressive. Although she used to be a Tracy Anderson devotee, the 5'4", size 2/4 Madonna says she now stays fit by dancing and doing Pilates.
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|"The Help" actress Octavia Spencer dominated the award season circuit this year, collecting trophies left and right for her role as Minny Jackson. Along the way, she acknowledged that, "I am not healthy at this weight," though she's managed to keep her dress size a well-guarded secret! Spencer did go on to joke about the discontent thin women must feel: "Let me tell you, I am a lot grumpier when I don't eat!"
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I don't even have to pull up video's of Sarah Palin do I??????????????????
Game, Set & Match.....RK
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House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi promised Wednesday that when her party takes over, the new majority will not attempt to remove President Bush from office, despite earlier pledges to the contrary from others in the caucus.
"I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table," Pelosi, D-Calif., said during a news conference.
Pelosi also said Democrats, despite complaining about years of unfair treatment by the majority GOP, "are not about getting even" with Republicans.
She said the GOP, which frequently excluded Democrats from conference committee hearings and often blocked attempts to introduce amendments, would not suffer similar treatment.
"Democrats pledge civility and bipartisanship in the conduct of the work here and we pledge partnerships with Congress and the Republicans in Congress, and the president — not partisanship."
On the other hand----
Thu, 12/10/2009 - 5:38pm — Misty
A new poll released by Public Policy Polling Wednesday introduced some surprising numbers.
Thirty-five percent of Republicans said that they would support impeaching Obama for his actions so far, though there is no indication of what specific "actions" they think could potentially merit impeachment.
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God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
Comparing some issues that matter to me:
2nd Amendment - MB is a strong supporter of the 2nd and member of Congressional Sportsman' Caucus. PBO favors restrictions on firearms such as ratification of the Small Arms Treaty and has appointed a SCOTUS justice that concurred with the dissenting opinions against gun ownership.
Health care reform - MB wants to address lawsuit abuses/ PBO had his chance, did nothing
HSA's - MB wants to expand them/PBO wants to get rid of them via Ocare
Medical expenses & premiums - MB wants 100% deduction/ PBO wants us to pay for others care as well as pay fines or go to prison if you don't.
Advantage = MB
Border control & immigration - MB favors enforcing existing laws & not rewarding those who have broken them/ PBO favors relaxation of borders & amnesty.
Energy independence - MB favors utilizing our resources to reduce monies going to foreign, often hostile interests, does not support Cap & Trade/ PBO has made domestic production more difficult, helped cause prices to go up and favors the huge expansion of the gov through C & T, which by his own admission would cause electricity rates to skyrocket..
Continued advantage = MB
Taxes - MB would do away with the IRS as we know it through the Taxpayers Bill of Rights and other measures for a simpler. fairer tax system such as eliminating the death tax/ PBO has added more agents and expanded the IRS's role to enforce HCR, and has committed us to higher tax levels for generations to come through increased deficit spending & higher debt ceilings, would have added even more taxes through C & T. With the policies continued by, and initiated from this Admin, I am reading from some financial experts, that even if we taxed every American's income at 100%, we still couldn't pay the interest on our debt. We would still have to borrow money to maintain the status quo.
THAT'S some "hope & change" for us!
Privacy - PBO & his Admin has pushed for increased government intrusion/intervention into private lives, from advocating domestic monitoring of cell phones & the Internet, to tracking your movements via GPS without a court ordered warrant, and statements that citizens do NOT have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their public movements. In addition, under Ocare, the gov will monitor & review the decisions made by a patient & their health care provider, & maintain a new database that will be used for only God knows what future purposes, limited by only an appointed secretary/ bureaucrat's twisted logic.
With a resume like that in only 2 years, and enough "stupid statements" of his own on the record, such as "the Constitution doesn't state what the government must do for you" how can one say that Bachmann doesn't have a right to make herself heard?
Jmtc, if it wasn't for the tradition of trying to balance the ticket geographically, I'd say that an "all MN ticket" of Pawlenty/Bachmann wouldn't be outside of the realm of possibility.
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Speaking Event: Fracking in California - Stop the Frack!
Oil companies have quietly begun fracking California for oil -- in the Bay Delta, the hills above Ventura, Kern County and the heart of Los Angeles -- with plans for massive expansion at the expense of our air and water. The intensive process of fracking releases and extracts oil or gas by blasting water, chemicals, and sand at high pressure into deep underground rock formations, polluting water, air and accelerating climate change.
A deposit known as the Monterey Shale may hold 15.4 billion barrels of oil, according to federal estimates, two-thirds of the nation's shale-oil reserves. California -- the third-largest oil producing state last year, behind Texas and North Dakota -- has oil reserves that could produce as much greenhouse gas emissions as all of the tar sands flowing through the Keystone XL pipeline for 40 years.
There is no safe way to frack, so Food & Water Watch, together with our allies, are working throughout California to achieve a statewide ban on fracking, and we need your help . . . California's legislature is considering two bills, AB 1301 introduced by Richard Bloom and AB 1323 introduced by Holly Mitchell, that would put an end to fracking in our state. This legislation is vital to protecting our state's precious water resources and farmland.
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#TheList: Best Dressed: It's In the Details
Pink and sequined are not two words you would usually find on this best-dressed list, but in the deft hands of Riccardo Tisci for Givenchy and modeled by Blanchett, we happily stand corrected.
Nyong'o is absolutely radiant in this sky blue Gucci gown with floral detail—another win for the actress of the moment.
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Nuit des Champions: Bennoui beats Adamandopoulos again
- Written by Rian Scalia
The annual Nuit des Champions event in Marseilles, France just went down today and featured a card full of some of the best French fighters in kickboxing.
In the main event, Karim Bennoui and Thomas Adamandopoulos fought for the second time, after Bennoui defeated Adamandopoulos by way of debated split decision last year, also at Nuit des Champions. Once again, Karim Bennoui walked away with a decision victory over five rounds to capture the WKN title at -62.1kg. This is a very big win for Bennoui, who had not fought since January. The win will move him slightly up the LiverKick rankings once they're updated in the next few days.
At -76kg, Karim Ghajji defeated Dmitry Valent, again by way of decision over five rounds. Valent is a really good name to have now on Ghajji's resume. At -95kg, Stephane Susperregui continued to prove that he's probably the best French fighter at this weight, as he won by KO in the third round against Emmanuel Payet.
Abdallah Mabel offset Bruce Codron's winning streak, as he won by doctor stoppage in the third round. At 67kg, Abdallah Ezbiri continues to rebound from his loss to Yuta Kubo earlier in the year, taking a decision victory over Samir Mohamed.
62.1kg: Karim Bennoui def. Thomas Adamandopoulos by decision.
76kg: Karim Ghajji def. Dmitry Valent by decision.
95kg: Stephane Susperregui def. Emmanuel Payet by KO in Round 3.
70kg: Abdallah Mabel def. Bruce Codron by TKO (Doctor Stoppage) in Round 3.
79kg (Full Contact): Karim Benmansour def. Mehdi Amar by decision.
60kg women: Amel Dehby def. Fatima Adib by decision.
67kg: Abdallah Ezbiri def. Samir Mohamed by decision.
64kg: Charles Francois def. Vang Moua by decision.
80kg: Hicham Medoukali def. Nicolas Atmani by decision.
91kg: Fabian Fouquet def. Jose Moreira by decision.


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In every field, and for every skill and profession, there is an expert — someone whose knowledge and experience makes him the foremost authority on the subject. Investors have Warren Buffet. Architects had Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Florida Wine and Balloon festival has Bill Whidden: the balloon meister.
Whidden began his career in the livestock business and was first introduced to the world of hot-air ballooning in the early 1980s. A friend, who had planned to visit Whidden's farm, wanted to take advantage of the spacious fields, and he asked if he could bring his hot-air balloon.
"I thought, 'What on earth would a grown man be doing with a balloon?'" says Whidden, who had never heard of the activity. "But, he took me on a flight, and I was hooked. I ordered one from him the next week."
Whidden earned his commercial pilot's license and began flying recreationally. Before long, he was winning competitions, and he managed to turn his hobby into a successful career. Today, Whidden considers himself semi-retired, but his years of competitive experience have earned him a wealth of knowledge, which he brings to the table as a balloon meister, or organizer at hot-air balloon festivals around the world. He travels with his wife, Trish, to attend between 20 and 30 hot-air balloon events annually to lend his expertise.
Whidden's career has taken him on flights with Ted Turner over Niagara Falls and to countless other scenic destinations around the world. Having served as balloon meister at more than 100 events, and with more than 2,600 hours of flight and tether time under his belt, he's more than earned his title of "meister."
For the Florida Wine and Balloon Festival, Whidden recruited pilots to man 22 hot-air balloons at the festival grounds at Premier Sports, in Lakewood Ranch. He'll keep an eye on weather reports, organize the logistics of the balloon portion of the festival and keep things running smoothly.
For $225, attendees can take a 30-minute to an hour-and-a-half balloon ride, depending on weather conditions. The price includes a general admission ticket and a customary champagne breakfast following the ride. Rides are available at 7:15 a.m. Saturday, April 6 and Sunday, April 7, at the balloon festival grounds, and Whidden says it's an experience people won't soon forget.
"I remember my first flight," he says. "It was exhilarating, and I felt free. I still see that look on a lot of the first-timers' faces. It leaves them breathless."


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Too many people would vote for Goofy if he was on their party's ticket.
(Goofy was on the Republican ticket in 2000 & 2004 and won ) well, sort of -- if all the votes in Florida would have been counted he wouldn't have won.
I don't care if the GOP runs Donald Duck against Osama in 12, Donald would get my vote. Newt is my kind of Conservative and would be one of my first choices for the office. No way I vote for Romney unless he is the nominee and then I would be voting against Osama and not necessarily for the former gov of the Peoples Republic of Mass.
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Description The Inshore Lizardfish, Synodus foetens, inhabits the east coast of the Americas. They are a slender fish, growing to no more than 16 inches in length. The mouth is large and wide, the upper jaw extending beyond the eyes. The jaws contain many needle-like teeth, found as well as on the tongue and roof of the mouth. The snout is pointed. The dorsal body color is various shades of brown to olive, while the ventral color is typically yellow to white. Young fish have darkly mottled sides which fade as they mature.
Inshore Lizardfish are bottom-dwellers found over sand and mud in waters as deep as 15 fathoms (90 feet). They also inhabit inlet areas of the Indian River Lagoon.
This Lizardfish ranges from southern Massachusetts to Brazil,including the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, the West Indies, and Bermuda. However, they are rarely seen north of South Carolina.
Dimensions Up to 16" (41 cm).
Habitat Estuaries, tidal flats & salt marshes, Ocean or bay shallows, Tidepools.
Range New England, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Florida, Texas.


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Tarkin looks pretty cool to me.
yeah, but at $7.99 each, not including taxes and shipping, I would wait until youre totally sure youre not going to find them at retail. With this wave, somehow, someway, I just think these figures are going to have to become relatively easy to find. They just dont fit the extremely hard to find figure pattern. Alien characters and non-army building movie characters like Tarkin dont usually become the most extreme figures to find, right? Of course, theres exceptions.


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By Brad Locke/NEMS Daily Journal
STARKVILLE – The mere threat of rain was enough to cause a one-hour, 15-minute rain delay in the first game of the Starkville Regional on Saturday.
Central Arkansas and Mercer were delayed when a line of storms moved into the area, and the path indicated that Dudy Noble Field would get wet. So the grounds crew rolled out the tarp, and the players were called off the field in the fifth inning.
But only a few sprinkles touched down, and so play resumed at 5:01 p.m. Then it went into extra innings.
Per NCAA rule, the next game could not begin until 55 minutes following the conclusion of the first one, so MSU and South Alabama didn't get going until 8:05 p.m., an hour after scheduled first pitch.
The game ended after the Daily Journal went to press.
UCA holds on
Mercer (43-18) rallied from a 5-1 deficit over the final three innings, but UCA pulled it out in the 11th for a 6-5 win. That eliminated Mercer from the regional.
The Bears (40-21) had a man on third when Blake Marchal flew out to shallow right field. The runner, Jonathan Davis, bluffed going home, and right fielder C.J. Reed threw it over the catcher's head, allowing Davis to score.
Visitors at home
Mississippi State was the visiting team against South Alabama on Saturday night, via a coin flip.
The last time MSU was the visitor on its home field was the 2007 super regional. The Bulldogs beat Clemson, 8-5, to clinch their eighth trip to the College World Series.


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By Ben Levisohn
Stocks tumbled today, reversing early morning optimism brought on by a stronger-than-expected U.S. GDP number and a surprise ECB rate cut.
The S&P 500 dropped 1.3% to 1,747.15–its largest fall since August 27–while the Dow Jones Industrials fell 1% to 15,593.89–its biggest drop in almost a month. Among the stocks dragging the market down: Goldman Sachs (GS), which fell 2.4% to $159.64 after it said an investigation into its mortgage-bond business could boost its legal costs, AT&T (T), which dropped 2% to $35.11 after it acknowledged charging the US government for access to customer phone records, and WPX Energy (WPX), which fell 13% to $18.65 after releasing disappointing results. Just two Dow components–International Business Machines (IBM) and EI Du Pont De Nemours (DD)–finished the day in the black.
Why the sudden impulse to sell? Blame the ECB, says CRT Group's David Ader. He writes:
Today's monetary policy surprise was credited for a broader risk-off move across asset classes with domestic equities selling off sharply and Japanese and European stocks taking a hit as well. The yen was solidly bid after breaking to new cheaps in the immediate wake of the ECB. The bulk of the day's price action was consistent with a market caught on the wrong side of the central bank decision, a move resembling September's price action that followed the FOMC's no-taper announcement. All of this suggests attention was focused on overseas events, leaving limited interest or focus on setting up for Friday's employment report.
Tomorrow, the focus should be back on the U.S., where October payrolls will finally be released. Capital Economics' Paul Ashworth tells investors what to expect:
The Federal government shutdown is unlikely to have had a major bearing on payrolls in October. But it will probably have reduced the household measure of employment and pushed the unemployment rate up. The payroll survey counts the number of people paid during the reference week (6th-12th), so because Federal government workers affected by the shutdown (1st-17th) are receiving back pay, they will be counted as employed. Since the knock-on effect on the private sector was probably small, we estimate that payrolls rose by 140,000 last month. But in the household survey, those government workers will be classed as unemployed. As such, a fall in household employment probably pushed the unemployment rate up, perhaps to 7.5% from 7.2%. Since government employees have returned to work, the fall in employment and rise in the unemployment rate should be reversed in November.
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By David Wheeler/Special to the NEMS Daily Journal
MOOREVILLE – The Itawamba AHS Lady Indians might mot have been as sharp as head coach Amanda Morrow would have liked on Thursday.
Still, chalk up a win for the Lady Indians.
Itawamba overcame some sluggish minutes in the first quarter to claim a 52-38 victory over the Mooreville Lady Troopers as part of the three-day Mooreville Tournament.
"Maybe we were, a little," said Morrow, when asked if her team was rusty from the Christmas holidays. "We missed a lot of opportunities under the goal."
The Lady Troopers (8-8) moved to an early 7-0 lead following a Skylar Gregory basket. But a pair of post field goals by Quay Dunn and Kim Mallory began a 12-0 run by the Lady Indians (9-3).
On the back end of the run, Haley Gates drained a pair of 3-pointers, and Itawamba went from a deficit to a 12-7 lead by the end of the quarter.
Dunn scored five points to begin the second period for Itawamba, and a Gates 3-pointer pushed the IAHS margin to 20-9.
Mooreville made a bit of a push coming out of the halftime break, with a pair of Savannah Webb baskets cutting the Itawamba lead to 26-19. But inside baskets by Constance Dunn and Mallory stopped the Lady Troopers momentum.
Quay Dunn, Mallory, and Gates each tallied 13 to lead IAHS, with Webb scoring 10 for Mooreville.
(B) Mooreville 70, Itawamba AHS 57: The Troopers used a nicely functioning offense to handle the Indians.
"I wasn't disappointed with our offense, but I was disappointed with our defense," Mooreville head coach Jeff Tally said. "We were able to get the ball up and down the court, quick.
"And when they went to a man, we were able to get the ball inside."
Austin Timms and Kelton Kingsley each scored 17 to lead Mooreville, while Andrew McDonald scored 16 to lead IAHS.


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The new Alfresco Stacking chair will help you get everything out of the way when your outdoor dinner party turns into an outdoor dance party. Made with a heavy 1" thick poly frame, these solid and durable chairs will never blow away... or shake-off the deck from all the thumping.
Materials & Measurements
100 post-consumer recycled plastic, reclaimed from plastic milk jugs. High-grade stainless steel fasteners.
Overall: 35" h x 17.5" w x 22" d
Environmental Information
Loll furniture is fabricated in a facility designed to reduce its impact on the local environment. The plastic used in Loll furniture is 100 post-consumer recycled plastic, reclaimed from plastic milk jugs.
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About The Manufacturer
Founded in 2005, Loll is a modern outdoor furniture manufacturer specializing in the use of recycled materials to make affordable long lasting and no maintenance outdoor furniture. Loll strives to improve the relationship between the furniture people use and own and their ability to enjoy it in a healthy environment. Sustainability is at the core of the business. Loll attempts to achieve a product and company balance between the environment, profitability, and employee and community well being. Loll designs and manufactures all products at the Hawks Boots Sustainable Manufacturing Facility in Duluth, Minnesota.
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Standard ground shipping includes package delivery by FedEx to your door or main lobby. Once shipped, items generally arrive within 2-5 business days. Simple, fast and easy service.
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Standard ground shipping includes package delivery by FedEx to your door or main lobby. Once shipped, items generally arrive within 2-5 business days. Simple, fast and easy service.
Standard shipping charges are 7% of your Loll Design item total.
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- All Loll products come with a 7% standard shipping rate for all addresses within the Contiguous United States.
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Natalie Shivers, a Princeton graduate alumna with 20 years of
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associate University architect. Her appointment was effective Oct. 3.
She will work with University Architect Jon Hlafter to oversee the preparation of a long-range campus plan by the firm of Beyer Blinder Belle. She also will help with architect selection and design coordination.
Since 2002, Shivers has been director of campus capital planning at the University of California-Los Angeles. She has overseen the development of strategic master plans and coordinated their implementation in the design and construction of new buildings and renovation projects on the historic 419-acre campus.
A graduate of Yale University, Shivers earned her master's degree in architecture from Princeton in 1984. She worked as a project architect for two Los Angeles-area firms between 1985 and 1990.
For the next decade, she held positions at three entertainment corporations -- Paramount Pictures in Hollywood, the Turner Entertainment Group in Atlanta and 20th Century Fox in Los Angeles -- where she oversaw construction and rehabilitation projects at the studios. She also spent two years as an architect/project director for the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C.
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"I'm no longer concerned with the things I don't have, I'm just living for love and laughs."
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I wish...but people are still going to complain about what happened in the past...5 years ago to be exact. I mean we give hell to Jets fans bringing up their road playoff wins from 3+ years ago (and rightfully so), why can't people get over this? We've got our own first round QB and I'm sure if he had WRs like White and Jones, he'd do pretty damn well.
I do hope that Jake Long's wife figures out where they are going to live. 7.9 unemployment rate, people under employed, college grads cannot find work, but Mrs. Long is stressed because they do not know where they are going to have to live next year.
Give me a damn break, lady.
I would rather deal with the present and the future. No we aren't where the Falcons and 49ers are at this point, but I am excited for the future of this team. I like the young quarterback they do have in place, and I can't wait to see what this team does with so much cap space and so many draft picks.
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By Bobby Harrison/NEMS Daily Journal Jackson Bureau
JACKSON – Two state health officials have stopped short of endorsing for Mississippi a federal proposal to expand Medicaid to cover all residents earning up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level of about $15,000 annually.
During a recent news conference at the Capitol to report on the overall poor health of Mississippi citizens, state Health Officer Mary Currier and Mississippi Medical Association President Steve Demetropoulos said their organizations have not taken a position on the expansion of Medicaid.
Both said they thought it is important for people to have health insurance as a step to improve the state's overall health rankings. In most categories, the state is ranked as the nation's worst, including for obesity, cardiovascular deaths, infant mortality, teen births and physician access.
When asked if the Medical Association, which is comprised of nearly 5,000 physicians across the state, has taken a position on whether to participate in the Medicaid expansion, Demetropoulos said, the issue "is very complicated, very fluid. We feel like everybody deserves to have insurance."
By the same token, he said he understands the issues concerning the cost of the expansion to the state.
He said the Medical Association is committed "to work with the Legislature and the governor to try to find something that makes sense."
Currier said the state Board of Health, which hired her to serve as state health officer and to oversee the Department of Health, has not taken a stance on the issue.
Currier added, "Access to care often depends on whether you have insurance and we support citizens having insurance some way, but again it is very costly trying to do that."
Gov. Phil Bryant has voiced strong opposition to opting into the program, which is part of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Several bills have been filed this session to opt into the expansion, but the Republican leaders of the Legislature have indicated they are not likely to tackle the issue this session.
Many poor adults do not qualify for Mississippi's existing Medicaid program. Currently in Mississippi about 640,000 poor pregnant women, poor children, the disabled and a segment of the elderly population are on the Medicaid program. The federal government provides Mississippi about 74 cents of each dollar spent on Medicaid.
For the Medicaid expansion, the first three years, starting in 2014, the federal government will provide 100 percent of the costs. After that, the federal share will stair-step down each year to 90 percent in 2020 where it will remain.
It is estimated that more than 300,000 people would be added to the Medicaid rolls under the expansion. Various conflicting studies have been done on how much the expansion would cost the state.
While the Medical Association has yet to take a stance, the Mississippi Hospital Association has joined the Mississippi Health Access Coalition, which promotes the Medicaid expansion.
Demetropoulos concedes that the Medical Association is concerned about the impact on hospitals if the state does not participate in the expansion.
Mississippi hospitals currently receive more than $210 million annually in federal funds that cover the cost of about 40 percent of the uncompensated care they deliver. Under the federal law, those payments are supposed to be phased out under the assumption people would have coverage through the Affordable Care Act and hospitals would be treating far fewer people with no insurance.
But if Mississippi does not participate in the Medicaid expansion and the payments for uncompensated care are lost, Demetropoulos, a Pascagoula physician, said it could have a devastating impact on many of the state's hospitals and communities where hospitals are the largest employer.
House Appropriations Chair Herb Frierson, R-Poplarville, who has been an outspoken opponent of the federal health care law, said he would be watching the hospital issue.
"I am refining my position," said Frierson, who said he wanted to see what the final federal rules are and how they will impact Mississippi hospitals.
In the meantime, Rep. Steve Holland, D-Plantersville, said if the Legislature does not act this year the state stands to miss participating in the expansion in 2014 when the federal government will pay all the costs.
"If the state does not expand Medicaid, those taxes paid by Mississippians will be used to expand Medicaid in Arkansas, California, Minnesota and any other state wise enough to embrace it," Holland wrote recently.


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Welcome to the Water Planet
Paperworks by James Rosenquist
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10 June – 12 September 2006
All I have to be now is brilliant.
The American artist James Rosenquist was pleased he was now exhibiting with the prestigious New York Gallery, Acquavella. 'All I have to be now is brilliant', he recently mused in conversation. In his career the elusive 'need to be brilliant' is something the artist has constantly searched for. Sometimes it seemed he was successful, sometimes he wasn't, and he could never quite work out why, other than it sold.1 Rosenquist has an unusual modus operandi to achieve his goal. Art historian Judith Goldman calls it a 'taste for a convoluted idea'.2 He likes to draw together visual elements or notions that fascinate or intrigue, which he then places together to form a complex composition. With this process, whether the artist is brilliant or not can only be judged on completion.
In the mid 1980s, when Rosenquist agreed to work at the print studio at Tyler Graphics Ltd at Mount Kisco, in New York State, he was required to be 'brilliant'. The artist had been invited by Ken Tyler, printer and publisher, to explore the idea of making some paper pulp works. These came to form the series Welcome to the water planet and the works House of fire and Time dust, which were produced in 1988 and 1989. Rosenquist had been a long-time admirer of Tyler and his working methods. 'Ken liked to get his hands dirty' and he was 'voracious' in the studio in his enthusiasm for new ideas about printmaking, new techniques and new materials.
James Rosenquist Where the water goes 1989, colour pressed paper pulp, lithographic collage, National Gallery of Australia © James Rosenquist. Licensed by VAGA & Viscopy, Australia
Tyler's approach was in stark contrast to Rosenquist's early experience in printmaking, when he made his first lithographs in 1965 and 1966 with publisher Tatanya Grosman at Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, New York. He found the atmosphere of the studio 'old fashioned' with more traditional technical methods used, leisurely lunches and no sense of urgency.
As a young man Rosenquist had long desired to become an artist. Born in provincial Grand Forks in North Dakota in 1933, he studied at the University of Minnesota, supporting himself by painting Phillips 66 Gasoline signs as he travelled to the border of the State of Iowa. Rosenquist then graduated to painting billboards, including the billboards advertising Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, the film first released in 1954. He painted two versions of this up and down the highways leading to Minneapolis. The following year he left the Midwest for New York to pursue an artistic career, winning a scholarship to attend the Art Students League in New York. There he continued painting billboards to support himself. His work now graced the skyline of New York's Times Square and Brooklyn and Rosenquist gained a certain notoriety when he was featured in an article published on 6 June 1960 and dubbed 'Broadway's biggest artist'. In this article, not noted for its understatement, the overly enthusiastic UPI journalist commented further that while 'bigness isn't always greatness, his creations nonetheless dwarf the most grandiose artistic accomplishments of Rivera and Michelangelo'.3
By the 1960s, the experience of painting on a large scale influenced his own art. Rosenquist began working on huge canvases and incorporating figures from the mass media. Because of their very size, the individual forms became abstracted when viewed close-up. The effect that scale changed figures from realistic images to abstract ones was something Rosenquist delighted in.
Rosenquist's growing popularity as an artist had him regularly showing at Pop Art's mecca, the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York. The Castelli stable of artists included Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. All were in some way associated with Pop Art. This was a movement that evolved in the late 1950s, and embraced ideas, subjects and techniques of popular culture. Pop saw the adoption of forms, colours and methods of mass culture drawn from advertising, television, film, music, comics, pulp novels and magazines. Rosenquist was one of the central artists who drew inspiration from such sources. However, unlike other Pop artists, Rosenquist's art method of the convoluted idea made his imagery not immediately clear. It was an art of fragments juxtaposed in often apparently bizarre, but at the time oddly pleasing, sequences.
Rosenquist's association with Ken Tyler goes back many years to the time when he was keen to be further involved in printmaking to reach a wider audience through using new media. The artist and printer had planned to work at Gemini GEL in Los Angeles decades earlier. However, as fate would have it, Rosenquist had a car accident in 1971 in which the artist, his wife and child were seriously injured and so nothing came of their first attempt to work together in the early 1970s. In 1974 they met in Bedford New York when Tyler had moved to the east coast of the USA, but again nothing eventuated.4 The 1970s were a testing time for Rosenquist, both personally and as an artist, and he said of these years that they were 'not a very good time in my art work at all'.5
As Rosenquist's career advanced both as a painter and maker of prints, his progress in each medium was decidedly uneven. In fact, the artist had become disillusioned with printmaking. He found painting more immediate, on a larger scale, and a more inventive way of making art. In contrast, he came to consider that prints were too small, too rigid in technique and lacked spontaneity. When, in 1987, Tyler wrote to Rosenquist inviting him to work at his new purpose-built workshop at Mount Kisco in upstate New York, he needed to be convinced the experience would be worthwhile – that making paper works and lithography with Tyler would be different from his earlier experiences. In response, Tyler promised Rosenquist that he would provide handmade paper as big as the artist could imagine and then sent him sketches of his premises and equipment. By the next year, Rosenquist had agreed to work at Tyler's studio.
The new premises at Mount Kisco were established to further Tyler's desire to provide the utmost assistance for artists who worked with him on print projects. In discussion it became apparent that the intention was that Rosenquist and the printer would develop a project – perhaps to make some paper pulp works. Tyler had a long held an interest in handmade papers. He had worked on collaboration in 1973–74 with Robert Rauschenberg at the Richard de Bas paper mill in France, where the artist made 12 paper works. Tyler then continued with paper pulp projects in the 1970s with artists Elsworth Kelly, Keith Noland and later, in 1979, David Hockney. Hockney produced spectacular paper pulp works, notably in his Paper Pools series, which brought paper works to new heights in terms of scale, colour and textures.
When he arrived, Rosenquist had an idea, a convoluted one, which he hoped would develop as an image – slow heating popcorn taking its time – and tying this notion together with his growing concern about the state of planet earth – the only water planet known in existence in the universe at this time. Arriving at the workshop, Rosenquist had the same need 'to be brilliant'. He mulled over such disparate thoughts. Telling Tyler of his initial idea, the printer joked, 'Well, that was one idea, where are the rest of your ideas?'. As an artist Rosenquist liked to work with fluid concepts initially, that would then take shape during his time at the Tyler studio, which is what happened for the project that became Water planet: 'So then we're getting into this print called The bird of paradise approaches the hot water planet. He says, "What's the next idea?" So I brought them the next idea. He says, "Oh great! That's fabulous. Where's the next one?" I said, "I don't have any idea yet".'6
James Rosenquist Space dust 1989, paper pulp, planographic, collage, National Gallery of Australia, purchased with the assistance of the Orde Poynton Fund 2002 © James Rosenquist. Licensed by VAGA & Viscopy, Australia
In fact, Rosenquist wished to remain as spontaneous as he could, untrammelled by long-held or preconceived ideas. 'I wanted them to come right out of the air'.7 To work in this manner required a print workshop that could be innovative and on the spot. Rosenquist was pleased to be working with Tyler on such a momentous project because he considered him 'probably the best printing technician in the world'. Unlike other printers who, when faced with a difficult task put to them by the artist, would shake their heads and say sorry they couldn't deal with the new ideas, 'with Ken – he'd look at you, walk away and the next day he would have devised something to make the new idea work. Nothing would stop him … he would go to any length … He would never say no.' For the project Tyler devised a huge deckle box to make hand-made papers about 150 x 305 cm, and a giant printing press for lithography and etching (305 x 610 cm).
Over the months as the pair worked together a series of large-scale paper pulp works evolved, using huge sheets of handmade paper made on the TGL premises. The project was inspired by the exotic vegetation of Florida (Rosenquist's studio was in Aripeka on the Gulf of Mexico), and reflected his disquiet with what was happening to the earth. All this combined to project Rosenquist's concern, 'We all live on the water planet', the artist discussed at an interview. 'John Glenn [the first American astronaut to orbit the earth] said when he went into space he turned around and looked at Earth, and he wondered why so many people were spending so much money on blowing it up, and they actually lived on it. It seems very bizarre'.8 Rosenquist's series of paper works were intended to act both as a celebration and a warning to what might happen to the water planet.
Rosenquist included imagery that evoked the colourful and sensual riches of the earth and brilliant flora from Florida, set within a wondrous star-lit universe. This he combined with contrasting ideas about the mistreatment and destruction of the earth represented by detritus, pots and pans, rocket ships, fighter planes or missiles of destruction with the addition of torpedos in the form of ruby red lipsticks or jet engines as acid green pencils. 'The water planet is earth. A visitor from another universe comes by, and we say, "hey, welcome to this mess! It's hell, it's burning up, but come on in!"'9
James Rosenquist Sky hole 1989, colour pressed paper pulp with lithographic collage, National Gallery of Australia, purchased with the assistance of the Orde Poynton Fund 2002 © James Rosenquist. Licensed by VAGA & Viscopy, Australia
The first idea that came to form was The bird of paradise approaches the hot water planet. From his early days as a billboard artist it was Rosenquist's habit to work from a small drawing, often a collage of various images, and upscale the composition and develop this to be a gargantuan size. Deconstructing the image into its component parts, artist and printer decided to make the curved lines of cross-hatching, so characteristic of Rosenquist's work in general at this time, and it would then be printed in colour lithography. These lithographic elements would then form a collage that would be laid for a brilliantly coloured paper pulp sheet. The separate colours were made by filling different moulds with paper pulp placed on top of the large sheets of handmade paper, which were cut out in metal according to Rosenquist's design.
At the initial stages of the project the method of using metal moulds, or 'cookie cutters', was clumsy, time-consuming, and the paper pulp lacked consistency – it was just 'so awful', he remembered. The paper pulp was messy and not easy to control. Rosenquist was also frustrated by the lack of spontaneity in the whole procedure. He was losing momentum. To counteract these problems, Tyler worked on the consistency of the pulp and the shapes of the moulds, but still there were problems in translating Rosenquist's designs into paper form. The artist developed a group of templates that took a great deal of time to make, based on his drawings and cut for each form he wanted. Tyler drew on his own technical expertise and the constant desire for experimentation and innovation to solve problems in the workshop. For the large areas of graded colour, impossible to achieve using mould shapes, Tyler proposed to use a spray gun, used for applying stucco to walls in houses, which could spray the gradations of brilliant and unusual colour across the pulp on which the lithographic elements were collaged. The technique was a success and the results were glorious with a look of apparent spontaneity and effortlessness, which belied the hours of preparation and a technique born of experimentation.
Rosenquist was delighted with his paper pulp works. 'The wonderful thing about paper pulp is the colour. If you take a magnifying glass, you'll see a little fuzz rising like smoke off the surface of this handmade paper – like doing giant watercolours and letting this watercolour seep together at the perfect moment … '10
Jane Kinsman
Senior Curator, International Prints, Drawings and Illustrated Books
1 James Rosenquist in conversation with Jane Kinsman, 9 March 2006. All quotes refer to this interview unless otherwise indicated.
2 Judith Goldman, 'Whenever you're ready, let me know', in James Rosenquist: Welcome to the water planet and house of fire 1988–1989, Mount Kisco, United States: Tyler Graphics Ltd, 1989, p 13. For further reading see Constance W Glenn, Complete Graphic Works 1962–1992, New York: Rizzoli, 1993, cats 214–23, Time dust, illustrated, pp 160–68.
3 United Press International, 6 June 1960, quoted in Judith Goldman, James Rosenquist, New York: Viking Penguin, 1985, p 25.
4 Ken Tyler in correspondence with Jane Kinsman, 18 April 2006.
5 James Rosenquist referring to the years 1971 to 1977, quoted in Constance W Glenn, Time dust: James Rosenquist, Complete Graphics: 1962–1992, New York: Rizzoli, 1993, p 51.
6 James Rosenquist in Welcome to the water planet (Documentary film)
(New York: Seven Hills Production, 1989).
7 James Rosenquist (Documentary film) 1989.
8 James Rosenquist (Documentary film) 1989.
9James Rosenquist quoted in Walter Hopps and Sarah Bancroft, James Rosenquist: A retrospective, New York: Guggenheim, c 2003, pp 126–27.
10 James Rosenquist (Documentary film) 1989.